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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-11

ing handful from The dish and
cram it down his throat.
OF course, this inculcated bad
table manners, but it did manage
to put a good deal of the necessary
vitamins into the growing lad.
l am wondering whether Will
liam Green, the president of the
American Federation of Labor, got
his spinach in the same way when
he was a youth. This wonder arises
because Of the manner in which he
met the issue Of an independent Ia.
Dor party in his speech at the At
lantiC City convention.
The address was not carried
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Concerning q La6Or Party

Il ARLY in the Roosevelt Administration talked to
n some prominent A. F. of L leaders We got into
argument about labor party. The president of
a powerful international said "Broun, you amateurs
make me a little tired. Why should we go to all the
bother Of building up a labor party when it is so
much easier for to capture Of the existing
major parties? Right now the Roosevelt Administra
ton is much more nearly a labor party than the
English had in their days of a labor ministry"
I remarked that I had occasionally heard the
opinion that Ramsay Macdonald had betrayed that
movement.
That's the very point I going to make" in
sisted the A. F. of l.. leader "Of course, he did
That's why we don't want labor party. It's certain
to betray best expectations and then the fedora
ton would have to take the rap and it would require
years for us to get back into power"
But" l asked, don't the Republicans and the
Democrats sometimes disappoint you?"
"Of course" he answered. They always do but
then we can say to our members that it wasn't our
fault. We can blame the poor results on the Repub-
lican Democratic politicians as the case may be-
and at the next election rebuke the people who
have betrayed us by putting the other party back in
power
/ went away solroWful and unconvinced because
If were powerful A. F. of l.. leader wouldn't have
the patience to wait for the Republicans and the
Democrats to get tired I'd get tired myself-tired of
being betrayed.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BR0UN

7 KNEW parent once who had little son who
Il hated spinach That, will admit. does not rank
the greatest lead Of all time The parent man
in very curious way. He did it by encouraging dis
obedience. The successful formula which he adopted
to say in stern voice, Don't you dare eat any
Of that spinach Then the father would look away
for moment and the boy would take great heap
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BLACK SHIRT y 1 s::. BLACK SKIN
The Story Behind the Ethiobiau War
Continued From Page One

is hot, the suns rays reflect with
a binding glare from its streets,
and it is undressing.
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which l saw, but in the extracts Mr. Green's argu-
ment seemed very simple one. He said in effect
that since the Communists for dependent
labor party, therefore he against it. AS far
the reports went, he advanced no other reasons.
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But the Danakils have swooped
down more often into Italian Fri
trea than anywhere else. And it
has been these raids which Mus
solini has used for a convenient
excuse to say that SelaSsie has no
control over his subjects-that
Italian nationals are being 5hreat-
ened and therefore Italy must
take over Ethiopia and run it for
the emperor.
TOmOrrOW-Addis Ababa.
Copyright. 1885, Telegraph Press.
Harrisburg Pal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-13
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

OPINIONS of the great and near great are COM
~ monpace in papers. The ordinary citizen
is not so often heard. With that thought in mind
I set out some time ago to talk to certain obscure
women I know who having little, seem to be happy,
From time to time hope to report those interviews.
They will be confined not wholly to educated people,
but certainly to intelligent ones. The one today is
from the wife of professor in a small college.
In the first place" she began, L like being
ried to a teacher. We've had hard struggle, but
no harder than millions of other people. My hus-
band loves to teach realized from the beginning
of our marriage that he would be miserable mis-
fit at anything else. What there to do, then,
but make up my mind to get everything fine I could
from way of life?
The depression, of course. was period of great
fear even of torture, but when feel discouraged
now make myself sit down with pencil and paper
to balance up the good things with the bad in my
existence The latter list probably everybody knows.
Mostly they all read the same, think, but perhaps
my good may help you to see why, even in moments
of Encouragement, I know l am fortunate. For
instance
we have access to a splendid library. We hear
good music and each year one or two fine lecturers
come this way Our friends include scholars and
students-people interested in knowledge for its
sake wouldn't trade our social group for the
richest in the country.
We are giving our son and daughter good edu-
cation at very little expense. Our home is small,
but it's paid for and being always hard run we've
never lived beyond our means,
I'VE had car but sold it at the second salary
cut. The children grumble but they're alive, which
is something in this day of motor accidents. Per-
haps-and think about this many times-it is
poverty which has given greatest happiness.
Forced to create most of our recreation spend
many evenings at home together, reading and talk
ing.
Yes We believe in America and the greatness
of her future. We feel sure social security in
measure will come to pass. And know this: When
we've finished with living, will have furnished
two good citizens to our nation"
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"ENFORCE THE LAW." GIVE us JORSr'

NOWHERE IN Americas modern economic pic
ture Is the struggle between property rights
ana human rights so intensely dramazed as in three
northeastern counties of the Pennsylvania hard-coal
region.
More than $4,000 men are making livines for
themselves and their families by mining transport
ing and selling anthracite which belongs to great
absentee landlords. They are taking millions of
revenue each north away from the legitimate in
dustry.
Western cattle and water conflicts and the
southern LOUISIANA trapperS' war offer comparisons
but do not have the hard application of this spec
tacle in tie densely populated heart of industrial
America
Law enforcement there has broken down, so far
AS it concerns protection of the company lands
Local sentiment appears to be almost unanimously
back of the coal tootleggers. Their unlawful traf-
c, conducted openly, is the main prop of local COM
merce. The county officers apparently believe it
would be political suicide tor them to step in and
some sympathize with the booteggers anyway The
state authorities also have refused to interfere say
ing that primary responsibility rests with the coun-
ties and thar the companies themselves brought on
the present situation by closing their hgh-cost COL
lieres and concentrating work in new ones largely
mechanical
This has been going on for years. Now there are
disturbing developments, less wholesome than
the spectacle of keeping off public relief through
the only kind Of work they know. Middlemen are
springng up at both ends of the Observation-Disclosures
between the bootleg miner and the bootleg trucker
and between tie trucker and the consumer. Little
bootleg tarons" have appeared-men who hire other
men to work for them in bootleg holes, and who fol-
low the 2apltastic example of paying no more than
necessary fol the service.
In some cases woman labor and child labor are
being used There charges of growing disregard
for properly laws other than those supposed to guard
company coal
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and individuals also is reported. The tree nursery
business in the Midwest is said to be booming.
In the meantime the United States Forest Service
has gone ahead with tree-planting programs such
as Hough never dreamed of so years ago Since Jan.
about go million young trees have been set out in
the national forests. The CCC had big hand in
this and other explaining programs.
Such program takes nurseries to produce the
seedlings One Of the largest of these is the Chit
tenden Nursery in the Manistee National Forest in
Michigan. According to the Forestry News Digest
the seedlings there include Al million jack pine 43
million Norway pine 10 million white pine, three
million white spruce 10000 hemlock, 10000 white
cedar. and 500 900 of mixed varieties.
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A LAW WITH TEETH

A CURIOUS, pathetic and enlightening liquor
y case was reported from st, Joseph County this
week, A 53-year-old man. father of three, was SEN
fenced to the State Farm for 80 days for having in
his possession a half-pnt bottle of moonshine.
The newspaper reports said he had been
in trouble before and that his attorney was going
to appeal However the fact remains that pos
session of liquor on which the tax has not been paid
is an offense on which excise officers are bearing
down
This mans offense does not seem serious enough
for 30-day sentence and fine of $500. but it does
call to attention the stringency of the Indiana law
The laws intention to end bootlegging. If per-
son can be sent up for having a half pint of I'M
taxed liquor it certainly has teeth
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ATTITUDE OF BUSINESS
BRINGS REBUKE

BY Oscar Houston, EEettsviIe
The National Association Of Manu-
facturers in it's convention last week
did just what was expected of it. It
condemned the New Deal in whole,
pledged its members to use every
means to defeat President Roosevelt,
and demanded repeal Of all laws
that govern big business. The lead
ers demanded that the old system
that plunged this country into pow
erty and grief, amid plenty, be re-
stored. They call it rugged indi-
ivdualism.' I think a better name
would be rugged selfshness."
Let us see what really is the New
Deal. First, the Triple A, which
has brought prosperity to the ma
tons farmers. Second, Congress
enacted law compelling all banks
to create a fund to guarantee their
depositors. Third, the CCC camps
were established, giving employment
to 100000 young men in useful work
that not only maintains them but
helps their families. Fourth, the
Home Loan law that has saved
thousands of farms and small homes
for the owners, was enacted. Fifth,
an old-age pension that guarantees
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A WELCOME PEACE

CETTLEMENT Of the year-old building trades row
~ within the American Federation of Labor is
timely good news in view Of hopes for great con-
struction boom in the near future.
This settlement, credited to the peace-maker
President George M. Harrison of the railway clerks
goes further than patching a schism between two
factions Of the 10 building crafts that broke apart in
San Francisco last year. 1t paves the way for orderly
settlement of all jurisdictonal disputes among the
workers in the long suffering construction industry
Under terms Of the peace Federal judge within
the district will arbitrate disputes of Jurisdiction
For years jurisdictiona wrangles between this
and that craft nave plagued both workers. contrac-
tors and the public. Years of labor and wages have
been lost to the workers in strikes and other e-ups
for which the employers have not been to blame Not
infrequenty labor racketeers have stirred and ex-
plotted disputes to mulct honest employers and
workers
Several things blocking a resumption of
large-scae building operations-debts inflated land
values, high material costs and of course, the low
buying power of the masses. BY adopting peace
full mode of settling their own disputes the building
trades workers are helping clear the tracks for
action
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SHUDDERS FOR FUTURE
OF AMERICA

BY Fl. II. Kmmering, ElwoOd
Unbelievable even in the Dark
Ages. That vas the verdict of the
National Council Of Teachers of
English, one of the greatest gather
irgs of intellectuals ever to grace the
city of Indianapolis; yet it came as
a voice crying out from the wilder
ness of misery despair and dense
ignorance. That was the verdict
pronounced against the Hearst Pub
fishing Co., which now is waging a
campaign of Infamous and false
propaganda.
It is inconceivable in this, the
twentieth century, that intellect
should be fighting a losing battle
against the degrading influences of
a subsidized press, radio and pulpit.
What more could you expect CT
a nation of people who would allow
the Declaration of independence TO
be eliminated from our school his
tories in order to destroy the very
principles upon which this country
was founded?
What more could you expect when
representatives of the press would
shoot craps on the judges stand in
Pennington, NJ j., when mans life
was at stake?
I shudder to think of the future
of a nation that would stand idly
by and allow itself to be dominated
by the banefuI influences of the
press and radio that seek to deprive
us of every vestige of liberty,
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WANTS TO KICK SELF FOR
VOTING FOR PRESIDENT

BY John Nipp sr., Rushyile
The Constitution of the United
States is, simply contract between
the government and the people. It
is written in very plain English.
Hence, it is so plain that any
changes in the wording can be seen
readily. 1 suppose you know that
any act that the American Congress
might pass could not nor would not
change the meaning of the Consti-
tuition. 1t is simply impossible for it
to delegate its power to somebody
else. The Constitution doesn't say
that Congress can delegate its power
to some other body; therefore, all
powers given to any corporation by
our congressman are invalid. Con-
gress simply can't do it. All powers
given to the Federal Reserve Bank
were wrongly granted and unconsti-
tutional.
When the Constitution says that
Congress shall make the money ana
regulate its value, it did not mean
that the President of the United
States should do it. Now the value
Of money is determined by the
amount that Congress makes for
the country. If it makes money IS
it did under Abraham Lincoln's Ad-
ministration, it can put Rush County
land up to $500 an acre Or the
Congress can make such a small
amount of money that the land Of
Rush County would not bring $50
an acre. All values can be deter
mined, and always were deter
mined, by the policy of Congress of
the United States, directly or indi
rectly, if Congress makes and dis
tributes the money. But when Con-
gress delegates that power to the
Reserve Bank, look out This is
supposed to be the New Deal
Another New Deal occurred when
252 Democrats went up to President
Roosevelt and told him as one body
that he could cast their votes on
the money question. My opinion of
such work is as follows: 1t was the
same as stolen goods that the Presi-
dent received. I do think that every
one Of those congressman should be
indicted for such behavior as for a
crime committed. And they should
have been expelled bodily from Con-
greSs. The President himself should
have been impeached for accepting
stolen goods. Now. it is we'll that I
make a confession of the wrongs I
have done, for the sake of the future.
and I shall have to admit that
voted for this man, Franklin D.
Roosevelt. in 1882 I will say by
way of coincidence and shame that !
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10. !


THE National Economy League deserves credit
- for proposing specific method of balancing the
Federal budget. Prom too many politicians and
other organizations critical of New Deal spending
have come only generalties on this subject.
Instead Of arguing with the customary emotion
alism, the league simply says, in effect, that the
budget should be balanced, and can be, and how.
This gives the public chance to pass on the
merits of a definite alternative to the Roosevelt
program.
The leagues plan contempatcs no increase in
taxes but drastic cut in expenditures for the fiscal
year 1887 to be achieved for the most part by dis
continuing the Civilian Conservation Corps and all
work relief and AAA crop benefit payments half
billion would be given to the states for payment of
doles and another half-billion would be used to
complete unfinished public works
So the question presented is whether the people
want to balance their Federal governments budget
Immediately
By unbalancing the budget of some 600 young
mon who have been taken off the street corners and
employed in useful forestry development and soil
erosion prevention and who are sending home to
their families on relief s25 out of their $50 a month
wages;
BY ending all Federal efforts to provide jobs for
the brcadwinners of relief families, and passing
the problem of supporting those families back to the
state and local governments and thereby probably
uAbaancing the budgets of those state and local
governments and
BY abandoning the economic handspring which
has made the farm program work, and thereby risk
ing disastrous reversal to unbalanced budget
for American agriculture.
Republican Party leaders who condemn the New
Deals unbalanced budget, have not said whether
they approve the Economy Leagues plan. Nor have
they proposed plan of their own Neither has the
American Liberty League nor the United States
Chamber Of Commerce. nor the National Association
OF Manufacturers
The public, believe, would also like TO see
their planS-lf any.
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THE COLLEGE PRESS AGENTS

MORE than so college and university press
agents are meeting here today and tomorrow
to sten to each other and to newspaper men Their
ect is to learn how to get their respective nstitu-
tons a better showing in the newspapers
These gentlemen and ladies are called directors
of publicity, They charged with getting good
stories about their colleges in the papers and keep
ing bad stories out.
What they should realize is that each and every
one is a reporter for every newspaper, obligated to
furnish the of their colleges it happens
when it happens. Where they go wrong is when they
become suppress agents, when they attempt to
conceal genuine news.
Fortunately, through the ethics developed by their
ASSOCIATION, they give the newspapers break. They
give the papers the facts. The alumni of these col
leges should think rather highly of their publicity
people
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THE SHELTER BELT

THE biggest tree-planting program America ever
has undertaken will mark 1886 the siXteth
year since the nations first feeble step toward for
est conservation.
In 1876 the first forest agent" Franklin B.
Hough armed with a $4,000 appropriation from Con-
gresS, began his first inquiry into forest conditions.
Charles Lathrop Pack president of the American
Tree Association is dedicating the forty-thrd edi
ton of his free Forestry Primer bringing its circu
lation to 100000 in 10 years. to this tree consev
zionist.
The Midwest Shelter Belt will get the great bulk
OF paintings in 1886 Nursery paintings this fall
assure rs million seedlings for this program. OF the
6347O 900 seedlings set out in the spring of 1885 Paul
Roberts, the Shelter Belt director at Lincoln Neb
says 10 per cent survived. Some species show 80
per cent.
Here is the Shelter Belt program for next spring
in miles to be planted as compared with what was
done in 1885:
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Questions and Answers

Inclose Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question Of fact
or inform ton to The indianapolis
Times Washington Information Bureau.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given, nor can extended research be
undertaken Be sure all mail is adj
dressed to The Indiana polls Times Wash
ington Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby.
Director. 1913 Thirteenth-st, n. W.,
Washingto d. c.
O-Who was United States Sec
rotary Of the Treasury in 1915?
A-William Gibbs McAdoo.
Q-Should the long or short pad
die be used in the stern of canoe?
A-The longer paddle.
Estate the difference between
Communism and Socialism.
A-Communism is theory or sys-
tenn of social organization involving
common ownership of the agencies
of production, and some approach
to equal distribution Of the products
of industry. Socialism is political
and economic theory of social organ
ization based on collective or gov
ernmental ownership and demo-
cratic management of the essential
means for the production and dis
tribution Of goods.
Glow are short wave aerials
constructed?
A-The National Radio Institute
says that a short wave aerial may
be constructed OF two horizontal
wires separated by an insulator ano
connected to-sa transmission line
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The transmission line may be
twisted pair Of wires leading to the
radio receiver. This type of antenna
is usually known as a doublet 1t
may be employed as a noise reduc-
ing antenna inasmuch as it is pos
sible to place the antenna itself we'll
above surrounding buildings and OBJ
jects. By doing this, minimum
pickup is experienced near the
ground, and maximum signal pick
up is obtained and the ratio be-
tween the signal and noise is in
creased All-wave and short-wave
aerial kits may be purchased and
easily installed by radio tech
nician.
Q-What are pariah dogs?
A mongrel race of half-wild
dogs which act as scavengers in
India.
O-What does the expression,
much water has passed under the
bridge" mean?
A-That much time has passed
and many things have happened.
O--Is Reno, New, farther west
than Los Angeles, Cal.
Ayes.
Q-Can Americans enlist in the
British army and navy?
A-Only British subjects are &C
copied for service.
Q-Is H. G. Wells, the author, a
Jew?
! A-No.
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OTHER OPINION
Medal for Jurors
IMuncie, Ind. Start

1t might not be out of place to
award medals. or erect a tablet to
members of Hoosier jury which
spent two weeks on a will case.
These good men and true returned
verdict in favor of the defendants,
holding that the will was valid and
that the testator was not of unsound
mind as alleged by those seeking to
break its provisions.
The ease with which wills are set
aside has become almost a national
scandal, aided and abetted by de-
signing lawyers searching for such
opportunities.
Whenever relatives, sometimes
scarcely entitled to that designation.
fail to receive what they expected,
hoped or schemed, they rush into
court with allegations that the one
who drew the will was of unsound
mind. Persons without the Slight
est valid claim make a practice
of preying on rightful bene1ciaries.
Because of the laws well-known
delay and the opportunity of tying
up an estate in litigation definitely.
attorneys frequently advise a client
to compromise as the more expedi-
ent method of averting a protracted
/ suit.
This amounts to little more than
banditry under collision of the law,
! yet it is by no means uncommon.