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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
THE FARMERS SPEAK

THOUSANDS of bronzed-faced farmers
went to Washington to let the govern
ment know that they are enjoying their
"regmented' incomes. Then they departed
for home and spring blowing.
For some of them, this is the first year in
many that they have had the means to enjoy
Pullman travel to the capital city and oppor-
tunity to present their views at the seat of gov
eminent. Hence. it is not strange that they
should declare their opposition to a return to
a system under which they produced an over
abundant harvest-at a loss
With the help of the government, farmers
have helped themselves. Through the AAA
and processing taxes, they have organized to
control their production and market it al a
profit. They have mastered a technique long
employed by industrialists-the technique of
balancing their production with the market
able demand for their goods.
Here are statistics to show why most
farmers seem to consider the AAA co-opera-
tive plan blessing:
In 1882. before the AAA the total national
farm income was S4,328 900. In 1884 it was
5000 100000.
istration, farmers were selling their products
at S. per cent Of the pre-war prices, and buy
ing goods at 1O1 per cent of pre-war prices
Today, farmers are selling products for III per
cent of pre-war prices, and buying goods for
1913 per cent of pre-war prices. Farm purchas-
ing power, which stood at 54 per cent of pre-
war parity at the end of the Hoover Admins
tration now stands at 81 per cent of parity"
In 1882, Of the consumers dollar spent for
farm goods only $40 cents went into the
farmers pocket. In February, 1885. the
farmer got 45.6 cents of the dollar
Last month, sales of general merchandise in
small towns and rural areas we're 81 per cent
higher in dollar volume than in April, 1884
and 81 per cent higher than in the same
month of 1888
Democrats can not claim all of the credit
for the balanced production plan that is work.
ing so we'll. For years, Republican spokesman
sponsored controlled production President
Hoovers Secretary Of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine
favored it. The Republican platform Of 1882
advocated it.
Strangely. those who today are loudeSt in
their opposition to balanced farm production
are the same interests that have always
plugged for the higher industrial tariffs, which
robbed American farmers of their foreign mar
kets and made farm production control in
escapable. Tariffs no less than processing
taxes are levies against consumers. Farmers
are also consumers. And after years Of ex-
ploitation, they have again become cash Gus
timers of industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
AS SURE As

THE good old custom of tearing uP the city
i streets and highways before the Speedway
race is being observed again this year.
With the race only few days away, sec
tons OF streets in various parts of the city
and county now are leaving their foundations
with alarming rapidity.
Westinghouse in the center OF the shop
ping area is having its face lifted; a road near
the entrance Of the Speedway is being re-
modelled: Road 81 at 3Oth-st is a mass Of holes
and piled dirt and on the South Side today
one autoist took dive into a street hole, re-
Gently created.
But Indianapolis and Marion County Off
Gals never have been known to think much
about the timelneSs Of street repairs.
There's only one silver lining in this cloud
OF dirt and concrete. It's this
That we can all sit back and not worry
about street repairs interfering with our driv-
ing until about 10 days before the Indiana
state Fair opens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
sArrRnAY NY u. 1875.
A BANK SUPREME COURT

CREDIT controls business but who is to
- control credt2 That is the big banking
issue today. as it has always been. Secre-
tary Morgenthau yesterday told Senate sub
committee that control should be vested in
a government board similar to the supreme
court. This is a fine idea. But, Ike other
ideals. it is not easy 20 achieve.
That was the original idea behind the Fed
craI Reserve system. T. accomplished part Of
the reform Of taking control out Of the hands
Of few powerful private banks. But We
sim have a long way 70 90. The privately
owned regional Federal Reserve banks, as dis
tnct from the governmental Federal Reserve
Board. still have large measure Of credit
control Hence tho Roosevelt-Eccles reform
b.I which the House distorted somewhat and
which is now IN Senate committee. The pur-
pose Of this bin is transfer Of that ncreas-
inclv powerful instrument Of credit control
open market operations. from the private re-
serve banks 10 the reserve board.
Opponents argue that bankers know their
own business better than the government. His
tor. especially recent events, supplies the an
swcr The bankers nearly led us over the
cliff So by the trial and error method which
determines progress. it is natural that the
nation now turns 20 the government to do
the lob Logically, control over the peoples
money and credit should be in the hands OF
the peoples representatives. At least they
can not do much worse than the private bank
crs have done. and they NAV do better.
But il would be foolish to ignore the bank
crs argument that there are grave dangers
in political control of credit. ANY admistra-
ton in washington might be tempted to use
this power OF life and death over business
for partisan purposes-especially in a cam
paign year. such reform" might be even
worse than the evil it was to eliminate.
Secretary Morgenthau touched the heart of
the matter when he said that the Federal
Reserve Board should be like the supreme
court That means not only strong, but in
dependent Of political infuence-or as indie
pendent as humanity possible. The only presi-
dental connection should be the power to ap-
point. The board members should have sufh-
Gent salaries and retirement pay to make
them independent Of personal business con-
siderations. And or course the Secretary OF
the Treasury. a political official, could no
longer be an ex-oficio member Of the board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
THREATS TO WAGES

IN standing for a stronger NRA and against
4 the Patman printing press bill. President
Roosevelt fights two serious threats to Amer
lean purchasing power. He unconstitutional
some OF his congressional leaders seem TO
nave forsotten-that restored purchasing
power is the key to recovery.
Imperfect though 1t IS. NRA has curoed
certain wage-cutting practices under which
sveatshop and child-labor eXploiters reaped
profits by underseling and bankrupting more
honorable competitors. strengthened NRA
could hold and improve these gains IN wage
standards But lapse Of NRA would open
the gates to a food OF cheap labor and cause
e calamitous sag in wages.
The Patman plan TO initiate currency by
congressional fat. on the other hand. after
an artificial boom would gnaw out the sub
stance Of workers wages by decreasing the
buying power Of the dollars they earn. It
would decrease real wages, living standards
and purchasing power
Rob the people Of their purchasing power
and hopes Of recovery vanish.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
GYPPING THE FILIPINOS

THE Filipino people voted % TO TO adopt
Il the constitution under which the United
states decreed they might be governed for
10 years preceding their independence.
on the same day, the House Agriculture
Committee began consideration Of a proposal
TO violate for the second time Congress ex-
piicit compact with the Fihpinos.
The KleberE bill 10 impose tax Of 10 cents
a pound on margarine produced from foreign
oils would destroy much Of what is left OF the
American market for Philippine ooooanut oil.
Our import tax OF 3 cents pound on cocoa
nut oil levied BY Congress last year-one week
after the Philippine legislature had approved
the Tydings-McDufhe independence terms
was cur first violation OF our agreement II
has already cut American imports OF Philippine
cocosnut OIL and eoprs by 80 per cent. and
brought economic distress TO one-fourth Of
the Philippine population. This distress pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
Where Are the Answers?
An Editorial.

Is clear that the only thing that could be
done was TO commit him?
T. T. the original "disobeyed" process had
no relation to the proceeding in which Barker
was convicted in 1925 why did the case num-
Der C6O466) appear on the jacket Of the at
tachment?
s. When Barker was released Nov. 26, 1884,
was he ever brought to court to try the issue
whether or not he "disobeyed' the process for
disobedience Of which he was attached?
6. Was he ever brought to court to answer
the original disobeyed process?
T. Why was Barker released without hav-
ing been called into court to answer either
the original disobeyed process or the contempt?
g. Why was Barker released on his own
recognizance?
g. Did you give Joel A. Baker authority to
sign the release paper upon which Lee Barker
was released Nov. 26, 1884.
For seven days, the questions have remained
unanswered.
How about the answers, judge?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
STILL FAR TO GO

THE cost Of living seems 10 &c going up
again. This is especially true of food
prices, and much OK the rise is unquestion-
ably due to the processing taxes by which
The AAA is boosting farm incomes
Before We get too glum about it. however,
We might remember that these costs are still
far below the 1929 level
Figures just compiled by the National In
duStrial Conference Board show that food
prices rose IS per cent from March to April,
and now stand 80 per cent higher than they
stood in April, 1888. But it is important to
notice that they are still 1T per cent below
the level of April 1929.
II is the same with the prices Of clothing
and house rent. The former are "a pei. cent
above tEe level Of two years ago, the latter
per cent above; but clothing costs % per
cent less than it did in April, 1929, and rents
are IS per cent below the 1929 mark
These increases. in other words can 90 a
good deal farther before they reach any
thing like real boou-time levels
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
SANE COLLEGE GRADUATES

THE. college graduate of tradition is sup
posed to be know-it-all young man who
leaves the campus for the outside world full
of confidence that people are just going to fall
all over themselves to give him jobs and get
the benefit of his wisdom and energy.
The college graduate Of real life in the year
1885 is not a bit like that. So at least, says
Vera Christie manager of the Bureau of Occu-
pations at the University of California, which
is about to turn 5000 young graduates out into
the cold world
The old-time cockiness, she says, has van
ished The collegians have been doing some
thinking in these trying years, and they know
what they're up against.
Having greater awareness of reality, they
have also more determination; they have
ceased to look for soft snaps and are looking
for chance to be of service, instead.
The change is about as wholesome thing
for the country as a whole as could be
IMAGINED
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

cipitated the recent Filipino revolt which cen
tered in the cocoanut belt.
aside from the dishonor Of breaking
solemn pledge with subject people and dis
rupting their economic life at a time when
they are trying to take on the responsibilities
Of elf-government, and aside from risking
loss Of prestige and friendship in the Orient,
the taxation Of cocoanut oil is unwise from
selfish materialistic viewpoint.
The purpose Of the Kleberg bill is to dis
place the cocoanut oil now used in margarine
with cottonseed oil and other domestic fats.
It's object primarily is 10 benefit our farm
ers. Yet its effect viii be the opposite. It
will cut down the purchasing power of the
Filipinos who in 1888 bought more than eight
million dollars worth Of American cotton and
cotton goods, and more than five million dol
lars worth Of other American farm products.
Accepting unfair handicaps of trade quotas
which the United States imposed the Fill
ipinos wagered they could take their place in
the family of nations. We should not further
stack the cards against them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

ONE week ago today. The indianapolis
~ Tines asked Criminal Judge Frank P.
Baker nine questions concerning the Barker
case.
One week has passed and the questions still
arc. not answered. The Times attempted TO ask
the question verbally and week ago TODAY
presented them TO Judge Baker in written
form.
The Barker case and the facts surrounding
it arc Of more interest to the people Of this
community than they are to one indianapolis
newspaper.
Consequently The Times suggested that if
Judge Baker did not desire to answer them in
The Times that he could answer them in the
News, Star or Commercial.
Those questions are:
l. What was the Criminal Court process
which Lee Barker disobeyed that he was
attached for such disobedience?
2-Did it relate 70 the original proceedings
in which Lee Barker was convicted in 1925?
3. II so, why was he released when the law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

something for nothing, affects so
many people that a real leader,
Democrat or Republican, can
never get full cooperation to carry
out his plans.
Father Coughlin's fits Of anger
at those who dare disagree with
his notions is ample proof that
this man has double-crossed his
religion.
1t is to be regretted that such
venom as he spat forth recently
in speech in answer to Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson is permitted TO
be broadcast over a radio network.
You could just about see venge-
ance and hate emerge from the
loudspeaker and if that's religion
then my idea of religion is all
wrong. In my opinion it is the
churchs duty to promote clean
government and civic affairs, but
not to indorse rabble- trousers such
as Father Coughlin has plainly
proved himself to be.
If he we're to gain great power
God forbid his lowly followers
would Immediately have a sad
awakening in that they would be
forgotten by their great one. There
are still a lot of us who refuse to
let others do our thinking and we
don't send kilograms and letters
to Washington to demand the will
of a Father Coughlin be carried
out unless we first convince our
selves that it is sensible. We will
string along with our great leader
President Roosevelt until he falls
down on the job and some one
better comes along.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18


BY Charles W. Peters.
I congratulate you on your edi-
torial The Intolerant Coughlin"
and 1 also would like to answer
some of those idol-worshipping
contributors to this column who
attacked the editorial.
There is so much to be said
against Father Coughlin and his
tactics that it is difficult to find a
starting or stopping point.
I was very much interested in
Father Coughlin's Sunday radio
talks until people went crazy and
started idolizing and calling him
the peoples hope or something like
that which, in turn, caused his
demagogic mind to soar so high
that he became drunk with his
imaginary Importance.
He dreams of great political
power and no clear-thinking in
djvidual who will pause moment
and do his own thinking can
deny it. I do my own thinking and
decided long ago that Father
Coughlin is on the same plane
with the Huey Long, DR.. Town
send and other "demagogic de-
liverers," who are quite certain
that their own particular plans or
panaceas are a solution to our
economic problems.
Most of the American people are
like sheep. Let one start and the
Whole herd falls in line and fol-
lows any direction the leader
chooses if they think he has some
thing mysterious up his sleeve.
This disease, a combination of
ignorance, laziness and a desire of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
A POOR EXAMPLE

a sidelight on the efficacy of capital
N punishment IN the matter of crime pre-
yention, consider the recent attempt at jail
delivery at the Eastman Prison Farm in
Texas.
Early one morning the outlaw Raymond
Hamilton was electrocuted at that prison.
His crime was the murder Of prison guard;
a year ago or so earlier he had escaped from
the prison. killing a guard in his getaway
Something less than 4S hours after his
electrocuton three prisoners in this same in
stitution made a break for freedom. There
was gunfre, and one convict, one guard, and
a trusty were killed.
If the electrocution of Hamilton was de-
terrent to others contemplating a crime like
this, how was it that similar crime took
place in that same prison within two days
Of the date of his own execution?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

know woman who has 81 letter
and if she got $50 she would hire
carpenter to fix her porch and
painter to paint her house. Again.
that's putting men TO work and put
ting the money into circulation.
Good times and work could be here
if everybody played the chain let
ter game in an honest way. Not
only that, but figure it out yourself.
The letter shops and stationers
wouldn't they sell more?
The government says don't hoard
your money and now when we are
passing it around, it's against the
law.
I'm working and am only making
enough to get by, and can't buy
any clothes, but I could if I got a
bunch of chain letters.
So, what's the answer, folk? Do
we go on the way we have, trying
to pay our bills and taxes, or do
you want to play straight on this
chain letter and geC yours as your
names reach the top?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

desire to throttle the truth each time
it raises its head.
But the people have awakened. A
new day in politics has dawned The
voices of the majority must sooner
or later be heard and respected.
Minorities can no longer expect to
put these subsidized preachers in
public office with the hopes Of
silencing the millions who want the
bare faced truth, and are backing
a man who knows whereof he
speaks. The cry of wolf. wolf" no
longer sways the minds Of the mil
lions who have been long yoked up
with the burdens of lies and deep
ton Of these political JudaSes who
have constantly been betraying
those who have had faith in them!
for their own advantage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
CHAIN LETTER SYSTEM
WOULD AID DEBT PAYMENTS
Nv Jimmy Hagen.

nv Jimmy Hagen.
Why all this big noise and fuss
over the chain letters the govern
ment is putting up? don't see any
gambling in it. If want to give q
dollar to anybody, that's my bust
ness. Didn't the post office put
more men to work; hasn't the gov
eminent sold more stamps?
I'm going to tell you folk what I
would do if I receive any chain let
tiers. Il have 81 letter.. If I get
S35 or $50, I'd go down and buy a
new suit. hat ana shoes. That would
be spreading out the money, making
more work for others. I would pay
my bills and everybody else would
90 the same who gets any money. I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
PEAR TREES
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

Today I saw a pageant
Against a gray church wall.
I stood so very silently
1 heard their every call.
A group of slim young virgins
Arrayed in creamy white
Were singing pagan litanisS
In accents clear and light.
Their feet we're bound IN sandals
OF plant bark. pale brown;
And there we're lovely flowers
Sewn into every gown.
Their voices we're the echo
That love leaves when It passes
And they sang their chanting music
Dancing lightly on the grasses.
The gray church wall stood somoers
But the maidens CARRIED in white
Ceased not thu l'2vely pageantry,
For I staysd and Watched all night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
Daily Thought

Nor thieves. nor covetous. nor
drunkards, nor revilers, nor extor-
TONERS. shall inherit the kingdom
Of God Corinthians Vi. 10.
NEAN-LIKE il IS. TO fall into sin;
WI fend-like it is, TO dwell there
in: Chris1ike it is, for sin TO grieve,
God-lke it >is, all sin to leave
Longfellow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

Keep the Home Fires Burning" was pop
ular wartime song. Maybe that's why people
are up in arms when they hear it during these
late springs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

Explaining why she refused TO speak before
an Arkansas sorority. Jean Harlow said, I
don't know anybody in Arkansas" But the
state must contain at least one Of her ex-
husbands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

The trouble with Congressman who main
tain they are carrying on the traditions Of
their predecessors is that usually they are just
carrying on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

To conserve our remaining pedestrians,
how about hning any driver who bags an un-
dersized specimen9
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18
So They Say

The criterion Of decency is fixed
by time, place, geography, and all
the elements that make for a con-
stantly changing world. A practice
regarded as decent in one period
may be indecent in another
Magistrate J. J. Goldstein Of New
York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-18

Go is to prove any one of the Is
points Of social justice to be False
Doctrine" indianapolis has a large
following in the Social Justice
League and we are quite capable Of
handling any attack on same at
home mere. The league has a ma
jority Of Protestants who stand by
it tooth and nail ard we are on the
outlook for that man who says It is
false doctrine.
In regard TO the other attacks
this man made on our head repre-
sentative IN Detroit, I cast aside
as being pickup words from Gen.
Hugh Johnson and others of his
ilk. that add nothing to the pic
ture.
Mr.. Coers would do we'll to re-
member a few things: That the most
dangerous man in America is the
man who is not posted and able TO
prove the statements he makes.
In conclusion, let me say that il
Morris Coers has any constructive
criticism to produce, let him do so
before he condemns others.
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BY J. L. Moore.

By J. L. Moore.
We note that a certain local po-
utical parson assals the truth and
veracitv Of the modern crusader foc
truth ard right, Father Coughlin.
But naturally these things can be
expected since this particular
preacher is one Of the old school
of politicians who still believes in
leading the masses around by the
nose blind folded, soft pedaling and
pussyfooting with vital issues that
Father Coughlin has put the spot
light of truth on in a grand true
American fashion.
Millions Of our good people nov
can see the way clearly since radio
plus the courage of this great
Moses to disseminate the actual
truth and light TO the millions Of
underprivileged so that now the path
ahead has been made clear.
The rantings Of the particular po-
nticaI preacher are not only mott
waited bv his own class association
with the disciples of greed and spe-
cial privileges. but also by the fact
that he is holding political Office
now with the backing Of those yso
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