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CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

A MOTHER killing of a parent by a child in the
N same neighborhood where the Edith Maxwell
case took place makes wonder about the extent
of family cruelty that does not come to light.
This father, the story goes was beating his Is
year-od son. The son got shotgun. Returning, he
saw his father had a pistol. The son shot first.
Since the dawn of time there has been vague
right" of parent to punish child by whipping 1t
was just one of those ideas that people accepted.
But that did not make it good idea And many
parents have to believe that even mild spank
ings dangerous both to the parent and the child
This is because people know more about mental
processes and the peril of early psychological upsets
than they did
These two Virginia cases are placing the case of
corporal punishment before the nation. That is
good thing People need to do some thinking about
cruelty to children
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FLAYS RADIO PRIEST
FOR ATTITUDE

By c. E. White. Bloomington
He who is able through oratory to
make black appear white, or to make
mountain out of a mole hill, is
capable by means of radio and press
of doing much harm internationally
and locally.
If we are to be neutral in the
matter of European war, such ora
lions as given over the radio by the
Rev. Father Coughlin Nov and 10
should be suppressed because these
talks were heard in England, France
Italy and other countries when the
matter of sanctions was being con-
sidered by the League and may have
caused an unjust resentment against
the League and especially against
England. The day after it was
broadcast that naval experts in the
United States had decided that the
Italian air force would have a $3.50
chance of defeating the English
navy, MuSsolini turned down the
peace proposals of the League.
In these orations, England was
represented as being very selfish in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04
FOR BETTER ADMINISTRATION

I Unless person is incurably devoted to the
political Spoils system he is bound to agree
with strong opinion expressed at the meeting of
state tax administrators here
The convention said in effect that tax admin
istration is q career. Preparation for it should
take place in the universities.
Most of the larger universities already have
courses in economics and political science which
point graduates to careers i'll government In the
taxing division perhaps lies the greatest need for
men and women trained economies, history and
finance.
Today large number of college teachers are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1895.
THE CORN KING
PAGE II
a SCRIPTS NEWSPAPER

THERE should be a championship belt for the
u international Corn King. Call it the Corn
Belt And this year it would go right around
Hoosier, William Carr Lentz of Jeffersonville.
Thirteen years in seventeen the prize for the
best corn has come to Indiana This year three
other corn titles were by Indiana farmers at
the International Livestock and Grain Show.
These farm contests of men, women boys and
girls do good that can not be estimated 1t is too
bad that workers in other industries can not compete
publicly with their products. AS it stands the farm
er and stockman is the most able to point with
pride to what he himself did with his own hands
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her motives when she asked the
League to apply sanctions. Selfish,
because she wished to perform her
duty as a League member. Selfish,
because she wished to meet her OBJ
legation to Ethiopia and not make a
scrap of paper out of an international
agreement. Selfish, because she
wished to prevent the murder of
hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian
men, women and children. Selfish,
because she wished to preserve the
peace of the world now and here
after by showing that the League
has teeth. Selfish, because she risked
a war with Italy for the sake of
Ethiopia and the League. I would
call such action very unselfish.
He who tries to justify Musso-
lini's efforts at colonization or to
discredit England, France and other
League members because of the eff
fort that is being made to stop hos
tilities ought to be stigmatized by
American citizens.
AL ullCC1 dJQlOhS vi dUOl 1dll, ny
misrepresenting the facts of history,
make his arguments appear strong.
The Catholic politician, in his SER
mon Nov. 10, tried to make us be-
lieve that England has no right to
complain of Italy's invasion of
Ethiopia because she pushed her
armies into Afghanistan in con-
quest.
These are the facts: In 1917
Afghanistan rebelled against Soviet
control in regard to foreign relations
and accepted English control. In
1882 Afghanistan declared her indie
pendence and sent an army into
India. This army was driven back
into Afghanistan by English and
Indian troops. The Abyssinian army
disbanded and the government asked
for peace. Magnanimous England
gave her more than peace, she gave
her independence.
The question as to whether Eng
land or Ireland is to blame for not
being good bedfellowS and for not
having strong central government
is debatable, but patient England
hasn't shed much blood in Ireland
According to Father Coughlin, Eng
land has treated Ireland worse than
Italy proposes to treat Ethiopia.
What English army ever invaded
Ireland and killed men, women and
children? What hellish bombing
squadron ever dropped over 200
bombs from the air killing 1000
Irish men and women? Ireland
voted in favor of sanctions, so why
should the Irish question be men
toned even by an Irishman?
There is no case in modern his
tory where the method of acquiring
colonies is the same as the method
that now is used by Italy except the
conquest of Mexico and other lands
roamed over by savage tribes in
America. The Abyssinians are not
savages and their country is not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04
TWO YEARS OF REPEAL

TWO years ago, with appropriate ceremonies we
J. buried Old Bluenose and resurrected John Bar
leycorn
How have We Jared in the atters company? Has
he proved to be hearty honest faced gentleman or
a bleary-eyed debaucher of our morals?
The answer seems to be both and neither.
The vets have one set of statistics and arguments
and the drys another. On one point perhaps all can
agree-repea has not taken the liquor question out
of politics. and the unhealthy monopolistic trend
in the liquor industry may make it still more of
political issue.
Repeal has not ended bootlegging. It has, how
ever, abated the evil diverting into lawful trade
channels portion of the commerce and profits
which had flowed altogether through unlawful chan
nels and promoted lush of crime syndicates during
the prohibition era.
Even with moderate taxation there was little
likelihood that entrenched bootlegging interests could
have been uprooted overnight But with high Fed
eral and local taxes and license fees and higher
tariffs, bootlegging has enjoyed comfortable in
come in competition with the egalized industry.
Our legislators made the mistake of welcoming
repeal not as an opportunity to solve social prob
lem, but as opportunity to collect all the revenue
the traffic would bear.
The Federal government collects nearly half
billion dollars annually in alcoholic beverage taxes.
Some optimistic repealers predicted yield twice as
high. Government tax figures indicate that less
liquor is being consumed today than before prohib-
ton. But these statistics have to do only with legal
liquor There are no statistics of bootleg consump-
ton, never have been and never can be.
The 40 states in which liquor traffic is legal have
40 separate systems of control Their experimental
laws range from state monopoies to practically free
license. And as these states learn by experience,
better systems doubtless will be evolved But while
the Harvesting of this potentially vicious industry
a problem of lawmakng and law enforcement tenn
perance remains problem that can be worked out
only by the slower processes of education
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04

THIS week FERA passes off the stage and WPA
takes for time of the spotlight in the ma
tional theater of relief affairs
FERA's exit, like that of CWA, will be moIrned
by the states for it means that these must take over
the feeding of fully million and half unemploy-
ables.
Federal emergency work -relef-WPA CWA CCC
and FERA-has cost since 1888 more than seven bill
lion dollars Almost all of it has been translated into
mass buying power, and much of it spent in such en-
richng projects roads, schools power houses city
and rural rehousing aviation fields erosion control
forest conservation and cultural undertakings
1t is to the honor of those who did the spending
that this huge sum has been dsbursed without faint
of major scandal The great bulk of new wPA and
PWA projects have been selected and safeguarded
with care. They should be free for the most part,
from the criticism that they are useless or mperma-
rent Certainly there is nothing to warrant Col.
Knoxs plea that the unspent portion Of the four
billion dollar fund be diverted to the veterans on the
used for partisan purposes"
1t is high time, however that we evolve contin-
ung plan and technique for public work relief
To his credit, former President Hoover strongly
advocated long-range planning of Federal works to
help iron out the peaks and valleys of good and bad
years. Back in November, 1928, Gov. Brewster of
Maine proposed to a Governor S conference "at the
request of Herbert Hoover" a construction reserve
against the lean years" Mr. Hoover actually created
a sterilization board of cabinet members and
named Col Donald Sawyer as its director. But moth
ing came of it.
For years far-sghted men like Senators Wagner,
Costigan and La Toilette have urged longr pub
lie works planning. In the splendid reports of the
National Resources Board this idea is carried into
measure of execution.
America is committed to work-relief All but
few realize that jobs cheaper in the long run
than demoralizng doles. But unless prepared
to pay the price of unpreparedness in COSTLY make
shift schemes we must plan for the future.
Before asking Congress for more funds the Adj
minstration should lay down such long-range plan.
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sparsely populated. There was very
little resistance offered by the In
dams to oppose colonization in
America. If Germany should at
tack Italy for the purpose of MAX
ing Italy a German colony, We
would have a like case of colonial
ton. During the last century
colonies have been transferred after
war by the peace treaty from one
nation to another Even if there
were parallel, Italys action should
be condemned severely and Eng
lands action should be applauded.
To try to justify Italy's action is
to fail to observe that the interna-
tional atmosphere relative to war is
quite different to what it was 20
years ago and that this has given
rise to new methods of settling
trouble between nations and that
war for conquest has been tabooed.
Italy has subscribed to these
methods and to the tabooing by
joining the League of Nations and
signing the Kellogg Peace Pact, She
now is making a scrap of paper out
of an international agreement. A
century ago duelling was a frequent
occurrence, but duelling has been
tabooed and the duellist that gets
his man is treated as a murderer
and may be executed. Should Mus
so1ini be so treated?
When the 20 large bombing planes
SWooped down like immense eagles
over their prey and dropped bomb
after bomb, killing 1000, according to
Italian estimate, murder was being
committed on large scale. Who
should be held responsible?
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OTHER OPINION
On New Deal Spending
rDr. Rexford TugweilI

THE prophets of fiscal doom
l. say the Government is waste
full. I say it could more easily be
convicted of being niggardly. This
Administration has kept some ten
million families alive, at least. dur
ing these last few years. Was it
extravagant to do this9 They say
so. But I say that it would have
been wiser to have kept them in
health and comfort and to have
provided a generous system of re-
tanning and even of new economic
opportunities. And I say it on the
theory that poverty is in large part
like disease. falling as it does on
the just as well as on the unjust.
on the innocent dependent as well
as on the responsible father.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04
DECEMBER
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

December days are here again.
You come with cold and snow
And usher Christmas in your train
For inward cheer and glow.
The stores are decked with treas
ures bright
And throngS crowd through the
street.
Both cars and mouths puff breath
clouds white.
Cold winds make dancing feet.
You harbor beauty, charm and
grace
In your short span of days,
And yet, you turn a cruel face
On those in hard put ways.
Perhaps it was because of this
In ages long ago
A King was born for those who miss
Lies ease and sumptuous glow.
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Questions and Answers

Der, 1917, revolution, before the close
of war.
Q-What is the rarest stamp In
the world, and what is its value?
A-The 1-cent magenta stamp of
British Guiana, issued in 1856,
valued at $4,000
Q-What does the bronze statue
which crowns the dome of the U. S.
Capitol Building at Washington,
D. c., represent, and when was it
erected.
Alt is the Goddess of Freedom,
erected Dec. 2, 1868.
Q-What is the difference between
evaporated milk and condensed milk
in preparation and content?
A-Evaporated milk is the product
resulting from the evaporation of
considerable portion of the water
from milk, or from milk with adjust
ment, if necessary, of the ratio of
fat to non-fat solids by the addition
or by the abstraction of cream. 1t
contains not less than 78 per cent Of
milk fat, and not less than 25,5 per
cent of total milk solids; provided,
however, that the sum of the per-
centages of milk fat and total milk
solids must not be less than 1871.
Sweetened condensed milk is the
product resulting from the evapora-
ton of considerable portion of the
water from milk to. which sugar
tsucrose) has been added. 1t con-
tains not less than % per cent of
total milk solids. and not less than
s per cent of milk fat.
Q-Name the mayor of Baltimore.
Nd.
A-<Ezoward W. Jackson.
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Washington, d. C..
Odd Gen. Pershing have the
rank of full general in the Army
before Gen. March?
A-Peyton C. March was appoint
ed General and Chief of Staff of
the United States Army on May 20,
1918. John j. Pershing was ap-
pointed General emergency on
Oct. 6, 1917, and was confirmed by
the Senate as General of Armies of
the United States, Sept. 4, 1919.
Q-Can the salary of a Federal
government employe be attached
for debt?
A-No.
Q-Are the Xerus and the Tupaia
species of squirrels?
A-Xerus is a genus of coarse
haired long-tailed African ground
squirrel. The Tupaia is an animal
which outwardly has almost exactly
the appearance of ordinary squirrels
except for the long. flexible, shrew-
like nose.
Q-Was Russia an ally Of Ger
many during the World War?
A-No. She was a member Of the
Allied Powers but made peace with
the Central flowers after the Octo-
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assisting various state governments in their tax
problems. What We need is the opening up of state
and municipal opportunities to persons of education.
The haphazard method of political appointment
without regard to the applicants training is waste
ful to the taxpayers and it also deprves specialists
of opportunities.
It is not to be expected that the change will come
quickly but it is obvious that taxation questions and
tax laws going to be put into the hands more
and more Of persons who have spent years studying
them
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THE TRAMP PRINTER
Mrs Walter Ferguson, Reminiscing in Editor and
PubliSher.)


Publisher)
THAT delightful personality, the Tramp Printer.
- we shall probably never see again Like the
ancient minneSinger he fulfilled certain function.
peculiar to his time and does not fit into the mod
ern scene.
The typical Tramp Printer was a combination
of eccentric mystic and hobo with strong dash of
that quality which made Marco Polo stand out from
the medieval throngs Apparently blessed with .
sixth sense he usually arrived when rush order for
500 envelopes had upset the ordinary schedule of
press day and it looked as if THE Esteemed Com
petltor" might beat to the mails
remember Jim best He was master workman,
as well something of troubadour, bringing lis
gossip from scores of small shops and tall tales from
far-off cities. His conversation was spced with
metropolitan phrases and the latest thing in slang
and his juicy anecdotes, from which was rigdly ex-
Guided, kept the men doubled up with laughter They
welcomed Jim those bored by living in isolated
castles must have welcomed the wandering minstres
of long ago.
magician at the cases. wizard at makeup, Jim
could do anything even to writing good copv when
necessary, and although he never failed to get drunk
on Saturday night, you could count on him Monday
morning; that is, if he remained in town.
Something of the poets dreamness enveloped
him; he the air of a deposed prnceling vet
steadfasty refusing to speak of his past Even I'M
der the influence of the most potent corn whisky,
his tongue never betrayed him.
Nights, the light would glow late in the back Of
flee 1t would be Jim with bottle and pencil turn
ing out verses, and very good verses they were too
which the editor printed the front page Indeed,
in our town Jim great favorte, partly I sup
pose because he was mysterious figure and mystery
always spells romance. He had sad eyes, half
Sneerirg, half tender mouth and weary way of walk
ing, as it, having been everywhere there was no need
to take concern about future destinations.
Sometimes he would stay with us for months
But it was unwise to think of him as fixture for
one morning you would go down and there would be
note. He had gone Only the old man who kept
the peanut stand the corner had told him good
by as he stroed toward the railway station at dawn
1t the way Jim left for good. I often wonder
what became of him. and of all the other tramp
printers who used to be SO numerous in the land.
Wherever they are, may God rest them!
When the public sees new form of art which It
fails to understand the public reserts that art ,St
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The HOOsier Forum
0hoUy disopprove of a0hat you say-and acW
defend to the death you right to sag it-Voltaire.

(TimeS rcdderS are mUitei to cypress
their rieacS in these columns, religious
controversies eTcluded. Make u0ur letters
short. so all can hare chance. Limit
them to ESQ aCOrds or less Your letter
must be Sj0ned. bat names aciEI be
1oithheld on re0ueSt.)
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Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT s. ALLEN.

"ASHINGTON, Dec. 4.-There
w are several A B Cs to be kept
in mind in gauging the ups and
downs of the European barometer.
Probably the most essential Of
these is the fact that almost every
thing the United States does in
Europe is direct result of develop
ments in the Far East.
Among these the most important
is the unprecedented liaison between
the United States State Department
and the British foreign office. This
began some time ago in dealing With
China's currency problem.
Long before that the determine
ton of small group of Senators
from bloc of Far Western states
to force up the price of silver had
resulted in a policy of silver pur-
chase by the United States Treas
ury. This, in turn. forced up the
cost OF living in China, eventually
caused the abandonment of the
silver standard by the Chinese gov
eminent.
Japan's military march into the
northern provinces of China was
partially an outgrowth of this silver
policy. japanese invasion would
have come anyway. especially be-
cause OF the preoccupation Of the
British fleet in the Mediterranean
But the silver policy fastened it.
THE abandonment of silver and
Il depreciation of the Chinese
dollar made it more difficult for
japanese goods to find a Chinese
market. japanese merchants found
their wares piling up on the docks
Of Kobe and Osaka. japanese fac
tories began to close down.
This gave the japanese military
clique their excuse. They raised a
hue and cry for the occupation of
North China. And despite the pro-
tests of Great Britain and the hesi-
fancy of the japanese foreign
Office, eventually they got their way.
Meanwhile the British foreign
Office and the American State De-
partment continue to play a close
game. Occasionally there are Slight
signs of disharmony
One of these came when Sir
Frederick Leith-Ross, British adviser
to China on its new currency policy 4
passed through Canada. He telZ
graphed Henry Morgenthau to meet
him in Ottawa.
Henry, who felt that any Britisher
who wanted to come to see him
should come to Washington. wired
back telling Sir Frederick, in effect,
where he could get off.
But aside from this. Anglo
American policy in the Far East ia
almost hand-in- glove.
TIP to his ears in work recently,
~ Colonel Horatio B. Hackett. as
siStant administrator of Public
Works, gave strict orders he was
not to be interrupted "by any one"
A few hours after laying down
this edict, Secretary Ickes, Admin
istrator of Public Works, came into
Hackett's outer office, started into
the inner sanctum beyond.
Here, here" snapped a reception
ist, new to her job, what are you
doing? You can't go in there"
"Oh, the Colonel will see me-" said
Ickes mildly.
He is seeing no one!" reprimand-
ed the young lady.
mot even the Secretary?"
well, perhaps the Secretary, but
not you!" 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04
GOLD FOR BULLETS

D1RANDELLO, the Italian playwright, has sent in
his Nobel Prize gold medal for literature to be
melted down for Mussonis war chest Who'll chip
in a Nobel Peace prize?
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DAILY THOUGHTS

Although affliction cometh not
forth of the dust, neither doth trou-
BILE spring out of the ground
Job V, 6.
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When the public sees new form of art which It
fails to understand the public resents that art just
as a horse resents wind-blown newspaper-Homer
Saint-caudens. art director, Carnegie Institute.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-04

MEN are born to trouble at first,
1V1 and are exercised in it all their
days. There is a cry at the Begin
ming Of life and a groan at the end
of it-Arnot.
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MAYHEM the Securities Exchange
w Commission tested out tie
legality of the Holding Corporation
Act, it sued Electric Bond and
Share, of which the most important
subsidiary is American and Foreign
Power.
Director and one of the most i'm
portant stockholders of American
and Foreign Power is Owen D.
Young, prominent Democrat.
Member of the Securities-Ex-
change Commission, which is suing
his fathers firm, is Philip Young.
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