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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
WITH HUMBLE APOLOGIES

NNE of the oldest mistakes in nomencla-
~ ture made in recent history is the affix-
ing of tax the rich" placard to the new
tax bill
The bill makes no changes on the normal
taxes in the present law. The Senate voted
to retain the present surtax schedules up to
ST 100000 and to increase them thereafter.
The House sought to boost inheritance taxes,
but the Senate boosted the estate tax sched-
ules instead, with a levy beginning at 2 per
cent on an estate of $4,000 scaling up to rs
per cent on S5OOO0OOO.
Corporation income taxes are boosted
mildly
All told, the bill will probably raise about
$3.50 100000 year.
If this is a taX-the-rich bill, then such
country as England is living under outright
Communism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
PUNCTURING SOME LIES

TINE battle has been lost, and therefore
i what we are going to say here is large
IL academic. SO far as the present Congress
Is concerned. But we believe 1t Is our duty
70 puncture the lies which defeated the La
Toilette income tax amendments.
Demagogs. playing guileiully with tories
who want TO fasten a general sales tax on 10
the country. denounced the La Toilette amend
ments as plan to add to the tax burdens
of the little fellows"
They implied that it was scheme 10 re-
duce the taxes of the big fellows"
To show how utterly false was the i'm
pression created. We have taken the trouble 10
compare in the various income classes the
amount OF the tax 10 be collected under the
bill which the Senate passed with the amount
that would have been due under La FolletteS
plan No. / That was the Wisconsin Senator's
amendment, the one which would have taken
more than any other from the taxpayers in
the so-called lower income brackets.
II would have added nearly a million and
a half income tax PAYERS TO the roll. and
would have stiffened rates from the bottom
to the top. Because it would have broad
enad the base and stiffened the surtax rates
in the lower and intermediate brackets it
would have taken progressively more from the
t-'~her incomes. Instead Of lessening the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
War! Will Congress Keep Us Out?
An Editorial

protect the weak from the strong We shall have
to fight ali of the great powers-including our
selves
There was time not so long ago when we
had gamblers chance to save the world
peace machinery The United States-wisely.
we believe-took that chance. But we lost.
We lost when the British Tories broke up the
Coolidge Geneva Arms Conference. We lost in
the Manchurian crisis when the British Tories
sided with the japanese militarists against us
and prevented a united front Of world powers
to save the world peace machinery. And we
lost few weeks ago when these same British
Tories deserted France and Italy and made
separate naval deal with Hitler, which reverses
the naval situation in which We are so vitality
interested.
NTOW this same British Tory government
wants our help against italy. Why? Not
because of some poor black seml-savage in
Ethiopia, whose lot is about the same as sim
liar natives under the Italian and British rule.
The real issue is between British Tory imperi-
alism and Italian Fascist imperialism. Musso-
lini challenges British naval dominance of the
and Egypt are the keys to India and the whole
British Empire.
If Britain goes to war, it will not be to pro-
tact the Ethiopian or the League OF Nations,
but to save her own skin. Certainly we do
not blame her for that. Nor do we blame her
for trying to draw us in on her side. We doubt
less would do the same if we were in her place
Far from being ant-Britsh, all of our
natural sympathies are with the British peo-
pie But our sympathy does not extend to the
point of wanting to fight a war to curb
Fascist imperialism and to protect British i'm
perialism
WE learned in the World War and at the
w Paris Peace Conference and at the
Geneva Arms Conference, and during the
Manchurian desertion, and through the re-
cent Baldwin Hitler naval deal, that we simply
can not make the world safe for peace with
the present setup that we can only endanger
our own peace in the effort.
That explains American public sentiment
today in favor of neutrality in this crisis. The
most dangerous thing we can do is drift. The
only direction we can drift is toward war, if
not today then tomorrow.
If we escape, it will be because the PreSi-
dent and Congress put us in position of strict
neutrality now and do everything in their
power to maintain that difficult position. The
first and by far the most essential, step is
passage of the pending neutrality bills now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
GONE ARE THE FRIENDS

A IBERT B. FALL, i'll and broke, faces evic-
n ton from that famous ranch Of his down
in the Southwest
something like IA years ago Fall was Sec
retarv Of the Interior, and had the disposal
Of incomprehensibly valuable oil rights.
When financial distress overlook him his
kindly old friend. E. L. Doheny. came to bat
with a loan Of 100000 Mr.. Doheny was an
OIL man.
Today Mi Fall is a private citizen, with
out any influence whatever in the matter OF
Federal oil rights. Once more he is in sore
financial straits Mr.. Doheny, still his good
friend acquired the Fall ranch through fore
closure proceedings and sold it to an outside
party. The letter ordering the Falls of the
place. according TO Mr.. Fall, was signed by
Mrs DOheny.
The picture seems to have changed pro-
foundly since the early twenues one thing re-
mains unchanged. Mr.. Doheny is still an oil
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
HEAVY TRUCK TRAFFIC

THE proposed ordinance prohibiting heavy
y truck traffic on six busy indianapolis
thoroughfaros is a particularly commendable
measure.
1t is a dlsgraceful proceeding to permit
heavy trucks to lumber through residential
sections of indianapolis over streets built pri-
nariIy for passenger car travel. The shame
full condition of many of our arterial high
WAYS. with their log-road appearance, is the
direct result of heavy traffic.
The ordinance banning heavy trucks from
Thirtv-eighth-st Washington-blvd N. Illinois,
ST \. Meridian-st and a portion of N. Penn
svlvania-st merits approval if only because
those streets are strictly residential roads
where streets were paved for passenger travel,
not truck highways.
The clause forbidding truck traffic on
Union-st from Merrill-st to Adler-st Is good
one because Union-st happens to be not-too-
wide road and one on which many accidents
have occurred.
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jured person to the hospital in his
car but was restrained from doing
so by the police with an explana-
ton that the ambulance would ar
rive any moment.
Consequently the injured did not
get to the hospital until 80 minutes
had elapsed from the time of the
crash. There are in some incidents,
perhaps, an excuse for such delay,
hut there is always going to be a
delay and a seemingly unnecessary
one when the City Hospital must
wait to make run until author
lied by police investigating the par
ticular accident.
The police are apt to be delayed
in arriving on the scene and also
the ambulance. but it doubles the
possibility of a long wait on the part
OF an injured person when the
authority for calling for medical
care is contingent on the police
solely.
Why is it that no one at the
scene of an accident can ask for an
ambulance except the police who
must see the need for one? If there
are not enough ambulances to take
care of our city, can't we get some
more?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
OUR OWN ENEMIES

THERE is a great deal of talk about the
enemies of democracy. 1t usually CEN
tiers on the Communists, or the Fascists, or
some other sort of organized effort to set up
new forms of government.
But those are pot the real enemies of de-
mocracy. They are not the real danger to
the free form of government that we love.
The real danger is in ourselves, in those of
us who profess to be devoted to democratic and
free government, and yet who won't beStir
ourselves to do anything about it. No form
of popular government can succeed unless the
average man will take an active and conscious
part in it.
Put yourself under the microscope for a
minute. What have you done to make de-
mocracy work? Did you take any part in
the last primaries to see that decent candi-
dates were nominated? Did you talk to your
neighbors and friends about the candidates?
You needn't be a professional political
worker to take an active, intelligent, and i'm
portant interest in these things.
Did you vote in the election? Did you dis
cuSs the election with friends and neighbors,
using your influence for the man you believed
Did you take the trouble to look up the
record of your congressman? And did you
talk and work against him if it didn't suit
you; did you help him if it did? Do you follow
the papers carefully and watch the records
of your local judges?
Are you the kind of person who likes to
get parking tickets fixed? small matter,
true. But people who demand this sort of
special privilege" should be the last to COM
plain of police corruption brought on by the
same sort of special privileges sought on a
large scale by people less reputable than you
know you are.
The next time We get discouraged with
the working of democracy. let's each ask our
selves this question: What have I done, this
last year. to make it work better?
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who do work can scarcely buy the
bare necessities of life.
Thus the intelligence of the voters
and the fairness of the employing
classes are failing us. In the Chi
cago Tribune of Aug. 10 the editor
declared, in substance, that nothing
but the Republican Party can save
us from Communism or a dictator.
OF course the Republican Party will
not save us from anything with the
possible exception of prosperity.
Then, Mr. Employer, just remem-
Der that according TO the Chicago
Tribune we have a rendezvous with
the firing squad. The firing squad
will not fail its rendezvous. And
remember that the man who Yields
more power than any living man,
the man who controls the firing
squads of Russia and rules the des-
tiny of 100 million people, although
long since dead, is a soul who was
once bitter, hungry man with
pen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
FOLLOWERS OF LEADERS
ARE BEING MISLED

By Subscriber
Why do we not hear the old ex-
preston back to normally" any
more? DO our leaders finally rea-
lie that normally" is a fictitious
term of the past, used to denote the
time when our capitalist system was
only in prime? Do they realize
any system has never been in a
state of normalcy-always in state
of development?
1t seems they have come to rea-
lie this much which is an improve
ment, but can't they realize there
is something drastically wrong with
a system Of government that is so
inadequate as to permit undernour-
ishment and starvation amidst TOO
much" of everything? Can't they
realize the lack of medical atten-
ton with doctors in breadlineS,
others on scanty rations?
I believe all these questions can
be answered in the affirmative That
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
BEMOANS INJUSTICE OF
PRESENT ERA
By Hiram Lackey

BY Hiram Lackey
In Indianapolis. the injustice Of
relief and unemployment is the
great topic of the day. The. Re
publican paupers praise Mr.. Hoo
yer and condemn Mr.. Roosevelt.
Mr.. Republican Pauper when you
receive anything more tran slavery
and starvation, you receive more
than you deserve. You should be
thankful for mercy and ashamed
to mention justice.
In 1914 the Russian rulers had
a chance to establish justice for
the poor. They saw fit to leave that
task for the firing squad.
Today the American voters and
employing classes have the same
opportunity.
Consider the great waste Of
wealth and human values resulting
from unemployment just among the
rec ers of The Indianapolis Times.
During the last week l have
watched them for hours. 1 have
seen the employer hire groups OF
men from outside Of this state while
indianapolis men leave the office
hungry. I have sat for hours with
out meals with the hope of gaining
work so that I could pay some OF
my debts.
Most of the Indianapolis people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21

A IRPLANE tragedies have taken five lives
i that have been dear 10 US in the last few
days
Each Of the tragedies has been a burden
to this nation and to indianapolis especially.
When VIII Rogers and Wiley Post crashed
to their deaths IN Alaska last week. every
man. woman and child IN Indianapolis was
stunned by the news.
We had not been intimate friends Of VIII
Rogers and Wiley Post We had not been
their companions on journeys or flying trips
But ve had seen them. heard them and fol-
lowed Them
Mr.. Rogers was our great hero He was
our nero because he made us feel that there
was something worthwhile in the simple,
daily deeds that We perform He took the
drab effect Of a Job well done and embenished
1t with a straightforward honesty that made
1t dIadem IN our careers.
Mr. Post was a hero because he dared the
uneharted seas Of the air and pushed for
ward to achieve a new goal that some day
would have changed aviation. Every time
that he attempted his swift stratosphere
brought back TO US useful knowledge that
would have served us in the aviation era to
come.
Dick Arnett was young man who would
have been one of the first to come to the
fore to put Mr.. Posts pioneer knowledge into
the books of aviation for the layman.
We knew Dick Arnett, his bride and Mr..
Smith. We knew them as the type of people
you and I meet daily on the street-each
striving to bring to most of us, who hadn't
the time or desire to @ oft in the air. the
facts and means of maAing air travel an or
binary occurrence.
1t is tragedy to us that these five lives
have been sacrificed. Each of these deaths
leaves its imprint upon us.
But we know, and you know, that if VIII
Rogers. Wiley Post Dick Arnett, Mrs. Arnett
and Burnside Smith still we're alive, their cry
TO MS would be:
Ply on"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
So They Say

Why, I preached to 10000 persons
in one day at the San Diego Worlds
Fair last week. The nudiSt show
there had no crowds like that
Aimee Semple Mcpherson.
Since man is the object of wom-
ans affections, why shouldn't he
take thorough care of his appear
ance?-Gail, New York beauty spe-
cialist, explaining why men patron
ize beauty shops.
Fifteen years ago I had nothing
but faith and will Yet today this
Nazi movement is Germany. Would
that have been possible without the
Almighty's blessing adolf Hitler.
If things keep on the way they
are, it looks like I'll have TO rum
Huey Long.
1t seems that the spell Of the Arc
tic will lure men who little realize .
the danger in the end.-Charles
Brewer, Whaling King of the Arc
tic," whom Will Rogers few north
to see.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
RESENTS PEGLER'S ATTACKS
ON AGED POOR


BY a Reader
1 have been a reader Of The
Times for about six years. I like
it because it gives a square deal
to all. The writer's are all good
except Pegler 1 really think he is
doing your paper great harm. He
is always making light Of the work.
ing people and every one who stands
up for them.
He seems to think every one who
needs the old-age pension has been
a lazy, shiftless t1oater IN his youth.
1t seems strange, but have never
met up with the class he speaks Of
the kindly old gent and sweet
faced old lady who never worked
but who are looking for an old-age
pension.
1 have worked hard all my life
and am, still working. I am
widow with no children. The little
nest egg put by for rainy day was
all used up in the seven years my
husband was bedridden. 1 have
never been on the county-never
been on direct relief, but have
gone without the comforts of life
to keep from being a pauper
1 am now facing winter with no
work in sight and with my home
mortgaged. 1 do not even have
money to advertise for work. 1t
would be some years before I could
get a pension at the 65-year limit.
I was just wondering if Mr.. Pegler
could tell me just how an honor
able widow OF middle age with no
work, no one to look to for aid,
could keep out of the old-age pen
sion class.
Mr. Editor, I wish you would re-
print an editorial which appeared
in The Times after Gov. Leslie's
veto of old-age pension. In it The
Times pointed out that Mr.. Leslie
had missed a chance of doing some
thing great; something that folk
would always remember him for,
but because he turned it down his
name would sink into oblivion. How
true. Who remembers or cares any
thing about Mr.. Leslie? Let us
hope Gov. McNutt will not follow
in his steps.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
Municipal Opera for Indianapolis

BY a Music Lover
After witnessing two recent per-
formances of municipal opera in
st. Louis, it came to my mind
that a similar venture in Indian
apolis, on a smaller scale, would
be an excellent thing.
From what 1 know of the must
cal situation in Indianapolis, I
believe there are as many persons
here who like good music as in
st. Louis, in proportion to popu-
lation. Even if there are fewer
lovers Of good music here, 1 feel
sure that presentation of a short
season Of light opera would add
to the number.
The municipal theatar in which
the st. Louis programs are given
is in the city's largest park. There
are parks in Indianapolis as we'll
suited to venture in light opera
production.
Properly enough, city parks here
have swimming pools, Fairgrounds
and facilities for outings. An open
air theater would not in any way
interfere with any of these forms
of recreation, and would be
means Of further utilization of the
parks.
Hundreds of thousands of per-
sons attend the st. Louis produc-
lions each year. They come from
points as distant as Indiana, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
SUGGESTS POLICE OFFICER
BE CALM, COLLECTED
BY a Reader

BY a Reader
Perhaps if the policeman father
of 16-year- old fugitive had
pledged as much allegiance to the
rearing of his son as he claims ne
does to his oath as cop, he would
not have needed to make his rash
statement in regard to shooting the
boy.
Even though his prisoner were not
his son and did run from the law,
was the crime great enough for
shooting?
am sure his fellow patrolmen
think no more of him for it and I
doubt whether promotion is any
nearer because of his claims.
Officers of the law are or should
be calm and collected at all times
and it is apparent this man is not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21
COURAGE
BY EUGENE RICHART

I would not bare my bright desire
To your young eyes-so young, it
seems,
You can not know the secret
night
Is fraught with hercer things than
dreams.
You can not know this fatal fire,
Nor have you felt the STRINGS of
This living creature in the breast.
These beating wings. this bird Of
love.
Body and mind though I would give,
I shall not let you know of this.
l shall not touch you, hair nor
hand,
Nor seek your lean, cool lips to kiss.
I would not drag your splendor
down
To loves PROSTATE humility.
Even my voice will not betray
What pain it was to set you Free.
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many from much more distant
places.
A season of light opera prOduc-
ton would acqu9int many per-
sons with the city. 1t would help
Ind annapolis along the publicity
line and doubtless would be of
direct financial benefit to various
lines Of business.
Aside from the few excellent
artists brought to the city each
winter by MRS. Nancy Martens
and the indianapolis Maenner-
Choir, indianapolis is almost bereft
of good music. Who remembers
how many years it has been since
grand opera, or light opera, for
that matter, has been presented in
indianapolis?
To me it seems rather futile to
spend thousands of dollars annu-
ally for music teaching and super
vision in indianapolis schools, and
at the same time provide no OPP
portunty for young folk to hear
the kind of music they have been
taught to appreciate.
I would like to read some let
tiers from other music lovers on
this subject.
The Times tomorrow will be-
gin the publication of a series of
articles on the st. Louis Municipal
Opera in relation to the musical
situation in Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-21

ID RITAIN to ask U. S. to help curb war.
II Diplomats already moving to get Wash
ngton to line up against Italy"
This is the news from Europe 1t may
prove the most fateful news for us since the
World War. It means that We are close to the
edge. Powerful forces are pulling us toward
the swift and treacherous current of Old World
conflict once we are in none can predict the
disaster which may engulf us.
fit is true that the United States govern
ment is discussing economic action against
Italy. as the cables state. our neutrality and
safety already are jeopardized Anyway the
British pressure is strong. We have succumbed
before VIII We succumb again?
Congress must answer The gravest re-
sponsibility laid on Congress by the Constitu-
ton is the power over peace and war. That
does not mean merely the power to make or
to withhold a declaration of war. after events
have made the decision for Congress. 1t means
the power so to mold events and to make pol
icies in advance that will keep us free from
such war entanglements.
The domestic legislation engaging Congress
in its closing week is important but only in
fnitesimal beside the colossal question of
American neutrality in the threatened Afri-
can-European war. This is its first and SUI
preme Job now. If Congress adjourns with
out passing the pending neutrality bills it will
betray its trust.
If Congress and the Administration avoid
nassnp the neutrality laws it will be for the
specific purpose OF permitting possible Amer
lean Intervention We believe that is the road
of destruction We believe the American pub
lic-whch pays the price-is overwhelmingly
opposed to such action, regardless of the ex-
cuse
TNHERE are plenty of impressive reasons
given. of course We should help the
Ethiopian underdog, it is said. We should join
with other powers in protecting the peace
machinery from the Italian aggressor, it is
said.
All we would have to do would be to give
oIr moral. diplomatic and economic support to
Britain or the League; there is no thought
of military intervention by us, it is said
Not one of these arguments can stand be-
fore the facts We can not save the Ethiopian
for democracy, because Ethiopia already IS
country of slavery. Much as we deplore the
domination of the weak by the strong in the
Ethiopian case, it is less Hateful to the
world than Japanese conquest in China, Brit
ish domination in India, and other lmperlallSt
domination elsewhere. If we are going out to
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them, destroy their savings and leave them
utterly helpless.
1t is that change which the new social Sc
curity bill reflects; the greatest change, by all
odds, which has ever come upon our people.
Our greatest problems Of today all derive from
it. The social security bill is only first step
in the necessary effort to cope with them.