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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

CENATOR DICKINSON Of Iowa who keynoted the
~ Republicans to defeat in 1882, INDUCED in some
more keynotng Thursday night--at the annual
dinner of the New York State Chamber of Commerce
His caustc criticism Of the New Deal according
to press reports. was appauded to the echo by an
audience comprising high executives of the coun-
trys largest banks, railroads, public utilities and in
dustrial corporations" (The newspaper accounts
fail to mention how many of the applaudng listeners
owe their escape from bankruptcy to the govern
ment, but it safe guess that many of the faces
at the feast were recognizable to Mr.. Jesse Jones
Of the RFC)
Much of what Senator Dickinson said was self
refuting. SO won't bother here to comment ex-
cept confusing of imaginary statistics.
More than 100000 persons he said, are
employed in textile and related trades because of
cotton acreage reduction ache.
How could acreage reduction do that? Even
with acreage reduction more cotton is being grown
than the textile industry will buy. There is
shortage. Cotton warehouses bulge with surplus
amounting TO about years supply
Furthermore, what 100000 persons was the SEN
ator talking about? In the peak Republican year
of 1929 according to the records of the Bureau of
Labor Statistics the average number of employees in
the manufacture of textile and textile products
only 100000.
In 1882 the number was 1250300 Last month,
the number exceeded 100000, What did the Sena-
tor subtract from what-to get his 100000 figure?
And we'll be specific than the Senator was
when he spoke of textile and related trades. The
figures we cite include the number employed in the
manufacture of ali textile fabrcs-not cotton alone,
but also silk and wool and rayon-and all textile
products ranging from felt hats to carpets and rugs
and all wearing apparel and all knit goods and
dyeng and finishing operations mot even emitting
the starched bosom and red fannels of the Senator
from Iowa.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER %. 1885
INDIANA FARM TAXES

INDIANA farmers who warned in their con-
vention here that some day they might have to
help pay the tax bill resulting from the Roosevelt
expenditures might have been reminded of a
saying by the late Senator Penrose
1t was at a time when the Republican high COM
mand was thinking of campaigning against Wood
row Wilson because he had forced through legisla-
ton favorable to railroad workers. BY getting them
n shorter day for the amount Of money he put
a great deal Of overtime money in their pockets.
Senator Penrose advised against attacking Wilson
had the money and the attack would be construed
effort to take it from them. There were few
wiser politicians than Penrose.
So if advisers to the farmers mean that they
should help check the Roosevelt recovery efforts for
fear of taxes they should reflect the rise in farm
prices. Certainly the farmer will help pay. He will
he now is getting more money for his grain corn,
cattle and hogs. That is tangible benefit of Roose-
welt policies Human nature being what it is, he GER
anly would rather have that cash than not have it,
Indiana farmers are less troubled by future Fed
eral taxes than they by local taxes on their
land. Their problem is what it is in many states
consultations and thus make it possible to reduce
taxes land. The same problem confrontS the
home owner
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
IN DEFENSE OF EDITH

TN yesterdays Times, Helen Lindsay reported rep
resentative citizens against the Virginia verdict
which convicted Edith Maxwell the curfew girl of
the murder of her father.
Both former Judge James A. Collins and Miss
Jessie Levy, attorney, agreed that the mountaineer
jury had convicted Edith because she had acquired
city clothes and city manners. Resentment against
her may have sprung from the fact that she tried
to improve herself.
Aside from the interesting symposium, we have
a number Of letters which declare that great in
justice done by that jury. They assert that the
girl struck her father in self-defense when he at
tempted to whip her in drunken rage.
Judge Collins raised arresting point, Had he
been defending Edith he would have demanded that
the state prove the cause of death. The drunken
father might have died from the result of a fall
and not from the blows struck him with shoe by
his daughter.
Happily the public reaction to this case may
help to establish the rights of children and wives
to defend themselves from british husbands and
fathers who succumb drink and thereby lose their
reason.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
ENTER DIR. TOWNSEND

TINE Townsend Movement" claims a congress
sona hostage in the person of one Werner W.
Main of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr.. Main was relatively
unknown in field of five contestants in the Re-
publican primary. Yet, for the apparently suf-
ficient reason that Dr. Townsend stumped for him,
over the runner-up.
Whether this one of those "straWs' that mark
the blowing up Of popular winds just local up
set one knows. But it should give pause, par
tcularly when taken with other manifestations. The
Oregon, California, Arizona, Washington and Mon
tana Legislatures have passed resolutions ndorsng
the Townsend Plan In Idaho the doughty Borah
sat the platform at Townsend rally and his
probable opponent for the Senate, Gov Ross openly
Endorsed the scheme The Townsendites say $500
gress Their methods, like those of the Anti
Saloon League, are to punish their enemies and
ward their friends, no matter of what party-an
tremely effective political technique.
Say what you will of this scheme to impose null
tipe sales tax transactions to retire all elders
fat pensions. Call it crack Drained and infla-
tionary and Utopian. We agree that it is economic
ally unsound and dangerous. But the millions of
aged and acting Americans in the movement
terribly sincere and their yearnng for security is
authentic as life itself.
Let those who oppose the governments conserva-
tive Social Security Act and seek to destroy with
amendments take warning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
WELL DONE

I OUIS ECKSTEIN, who just died in Chicago, is
~ known to many Indiana music lovers as the
originator and supporter of Eavinia opera out-of-
doors. The depression ended it, Even man as
wealthy as Mr., Eckstein could not meet the deficits
forever.
Beginning as messenger boy for railroad he
rose to high positions by industry and imagination
1t was he who started group of popular magazines
in Chicago when the publishing center was New
York and put them across The Red Book was the
leader, the Blue Book and Green Book followed.
Mr.. Eckstein's Ravnia undertaking in suburban
Chicago was really philanthropy. He provided
grand opera in the summer and when he quit he
had lost half million. But he wasn't sorry. He
said it was worth it, just to do something for city
which had given him opportunity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
THE MIDNIGHT SUN
BY BERTRAM DAY

o sun-kissed Norway, warmed by
tepid streams
From torrid zones remote for
many miles,
These waters change you much like
lovers dreams,
And seem to wreath your coast in
sculptured smiles.
Your fjords, which shield the land
from winters blast,
Are just as deep as mountains
rise above;
They give beauty which will ever
last
And fill the soul of man with Ma
ture-love.
While looking toward the rounding
of the sphere,
I see the midday sun and mid
night sun
Merge past and present minus time
or year
Transcendent glory Midnight
doomed and done!
o Sun, at solstice you change yes
terday
Without an interval, in one to-
day
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
The HOOsier Forum
o0holly disopprove Of avhat yoW say-and aUiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Voltare

who had worked the old town board
for liquor ordinance.
The substantial property owners
and better citizens of Hope have
asked the local town board to pre-
tect their boys and girls, husbands
and wives, against the damning in
f1uence of liquor. The Democrat
majority denied us that right. We
appeared before the county board
1t recommended a license. We took
our case before the state board. 1t
promised to abide by the election
results, then deliberately betrayed
us by granting liquor licenses even
though every dry man on the dry
ticket was elected tWo-to-one.
We now turn to the HooSier
Forum. The party in power has
only one goal-to force liquor on
small towns SO that it can collect
license fees and make cash dona-
tions to said towns. Do not forget
that about SIS must go over the
counter for every dollar coming back
to your town or city.
Well, the election is not far off.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

nounceable names on winning foot
ball teams and labelling the boys as
foreigners because of their names
is objectionable and unfair What
difference does the name make, if
a fine type of manhood or woman
hood is represented?
We Americans who admit our
foreign extraction by using the good
names our fathers gave us, even
though not always pronounceable,
feel doubly wealthy in having in
addition to the wealth of our Ameri-
can, traditions and culture, the in
heritance of the traditions and
culture of our parents fatherland
as well.
do hope that DR.. Tigert will
draw the lines of his intolerance at
football, because otherwise he will
have to deny himself the beauty of
the compositions of Chopin and
Paderewski, the translated works Of
Sienkiewicz, Mickiewicz and Konop-
nicka. He will have to avert his eye
from the works of art of Mattel o
and Batowski. He will have to quit
believing the fact that the earth
revolves around the sun, because
Mikolaj Kopernik, a foreigner, :"
first advocated that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

7 UTILITIES service trades and communications
~ during the depression and 1934s partial recovery
Increased their share of the national income along
with Federal and local government and farmers.
How the last six years have divided up the pie
in different slices, with shares of finance and
manufacturing taking the biggest proportional re-
ductionS is shown in the Commerce Departments
latest compilations of the national income.
Governmental income mounted from "a per cent
of the total in 1929 to peak found surprisingly in
Hoovers last year 1882 of 81 per cent Its relative
proportion dropped in 1888 and in 1874 to 49, al
though it is explained that if the work-relief
pendtwes eliminated, the 1884 income for vari-
GUS government units amounts to only IA per cent.
The great proportion OF governmental income in
1882 due to the fact that the entire national
come dropped from 81 billion dollars in 1929 to 80
billions in 1888. National income mounted to Al bill
lions in 1888, and to 49, in 1884
THE grand divisions" of industry which took
smaller proportion of national income from 1929
to 1884 listed follows
Mining. from % to IT per cent; manufacturing
from 238 to 2O2; construction. from to Is; trans
portaon, from SO TO 50; trade, from 1875 to 1911;
finance, from 1912 to 10; and miscellaneous, from
58 to ST.
The five increases in the same six years are:
Agriculture, from SS to 90 per cent; electric light
and power and gas, from 16 to 1s; communication
from 1.3 to IA government, from ga to l73, and
service, from ia to 119.
The changes from 1882 to 1884 which along with
1885 figures may prove an important election issue
next fall, present widely different picture.
Manufacturing for instance, which dropped to
only ZAP per cent OF the national income in Hoovers
last year. increased its share to 202 last year Farm
ers, whose income dropped in 1882 to only SO per
cent of the total increased to 90 in 1884 Mining in
this two-year period increased from IL to IT.
comparison of 1929 and 1882 statistics shows
graphically where the depression hit hardest and
highest in terms of percentages of the national in
come Utilities with fixed rates increased their share
spectacuarly from l6 to 25 per cent Transporta-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
: OTHER OPINION
Ida NJ. TarbellI

We rush ahead too fast in mat
tiers we don't know enough about.
Consider the NRA, which started off
confidently. Everything it wanted
to do was good, but the system didn't
give itself time. The proper rela-
ton of the elements involved was
not analysed and solved.
A slower process was needed.
People don't seem to realize it, but
I can look back a long way and see
that every 10 years we get a kind
of natural New Deal. But the
American people find it hard to take
one step at a time. They want to
leap all the way at once. We try to
force things along too fast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

acquainted with the European
fitchet weasel, and they applied its
common name polecat to the skunk
because of the similarity of odors.
Pole in polecat is derived from the
French poule, meaning pullet or
chicken, on account of the habit of
fitchet weasels of eating chickens.
Q-What does Nazi mean?
Alt is a contraction of the Ger
man name for National Socialist
German Labor Party National-
sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter
ParteD.
Q-What percentage of the popu-
lation of Italy are Roman Catholics?
About 90 per cent.
Q-On what date did the 1884
world baseball series end?
Acct. 9.
Q-Give the names and attitudes
of the Seven Hills of Rome
A-Quirinal, I'll feet; Viminal, 1873
feet; Capitoline, 1874 feet; Palatine,
164 feet; Aventine, ISL feet: Esqui-
line, 17l-194 feet and Caelius, 1874
feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
The Security Act
Marion ChronicleI

tMarlon CnronlcleI
twenty-five million people will
come under the scope of the Social
Securities Act by the time it reach
es maturity in 1860 at the staggering
cost of nearly s6,OoO,OO0OOO per
year." asserted Edward j. Green,
indianapolis, an official of the Nc
Grady Pension Engineers, Inc, be-
fore the Marion Kiwanis Club to-
day at Hotel Spencer.
THE Federal government is to be
commended for its objective in aid
ing people, but its technique in ad-
ministering such huge fund is
fraught with danger" Green warned
his listeners. Conservative estimates
of the number Of people it will take
to administer the Social Securities
Act in 1860 has been placed at
l25, 900 by private estimators, the
speaker said, and declared that
s46. 600, 100000 would be accumulated
by the government by 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
CAN'T SEE MUCH SENSE
IN RELIEF DIGGING
BY Jimmie Cafouros

BY Jimmie Cafouros
Daily there is mad activity along
the river front. Gigantic holes are
eXcavated one day, and promptly
filed the next.
Of course, the administrators
have the workers doing other kinds
CT digging, but in general most of
the digging is done down by the
river.
Seen from one of the bridges the
workers look a lot like army ants.
Such Herculean activity and pre-
cision for what? To dig terrific
holes and haul the dirt away.
Such swarms of men put to use
full toll could lift the face of Indian
apolis in very short time. Think
of the streets that could be recondi-
toned, the public building that
could be modernized and beautifed,
thousands of trees and shrubs that
could be planted Think of the fire
hazards that could be adjusted, the
dumps that could be cleaned up.
Imagine what could be done toward
controlling traffic, putting up lights,
signs and clearing up bad places.
1t seems to be an obsession with
the local relief administrators to
see how much digging and hauling
can be done. Go south; there are
dump trucks. Go west; you meet
them coming back.
Those who work on these So
called projects have the same story.
There is no inspiration to their
work, no purpose no results. Just
digging. They just wait for their
pay checks, which they don't always
get on time. 1t would seem that a
lot of the money seeps out the side.
One thing is evident. Roosevelt
intended some sort of constructive
relief.
The imagination of the local ad-
ministrators seems to stop at dig
ging.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
CHARGES LIQUOR BOARD
FAILED IN PROMISE

BY the Rev. Ernest Drebert, Hope
The case of liquor against the
people in Hope is food for thought.
In April an attempt was made by
a local liquor dispenser to have the
town board pass an ordinance per-
hitting sale of hard liquor by the
drink, as required by law. Better
class citizens promised a petition
opposing such an ordinance. There
followed two Democrat designations,
and both were replaced with wet
Democrats, the Republicans on the
board favoring dry Democrats.
In August the liquor ordinance
was passed by three Democrats in
spite of vigorous opposition by the
two Republicans. Dry citizens pre-
sented a petition, signed by a large
majority of voters, against the
ordinance. The Democrat chairman
did not receive it formally; it was
not examined; it was not considered.
When the undersigned requested
privilege to speak on the matter in
an open meeting dripping wet
yelled, You are out of order"
The unWarranted and unethical
procedure was recounted before the
county liquor board and the state
liquor board and the state liquor
commission. Certified copies of the
petition were placed in their hands.
We took the issue to the local town
board election Nov. 5. Democrats
appealed to the vets and Repub-
licans to the dry element. We asked
member of the state board if it is
true it would issue liquor licenses in
Hope no matter how the election
turned out. The answer: ct would
not be good policy politically, or
otherwise, to grant license where
there is an overwhelming dry senti-
ment. Send newspaper account of
the results of your election and we
will act accordingly"
The account of an almost two
to-one dry election was sent as
requested. State papers, in bold
type, carried news of the dry cleo
ton in Hope. as did the county
paper. Three days later the state
liquor board issued the hard liquor
license to the local liquor dispenser
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
RESENTS EDUCATORS SLURS
ON FOREIGNERS"

BY Agnes Szymorowski
Shame on intolerance and
prejudice such as was recently dis
played by DR.. John j. Tigert, presi-
cent of the University of Florida, in
his remarks concerning the impossi-
blllty of a Rose Bowl football team
in Florida. His reference to unpro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

"VOURE continually exhorting the mothers of
n sons to regard the horrors of war" said friend
of mine the other day why not speak ofener to the
mothers of daughters?"
Whats your dea?" asked her, and as it is
very sensible one, I am passing it on to you.
II have no sons, as you know" she said when
the carnage of battlefields is pictured to me- am
moved as humanitarian but my maternal heart is
untouched
But I'd be fool to take no maternal interest in
the question that account, for do have two ado
escent daughters who will be wanting husbands
of these days, hope. Every boy from my comrnu-
nifty who went to and did not return might be a
potential son -in-aw the husband my daughter
meant to nave but never got.
The mothers of girls have desperate reason for
opposing war though it is more prosaic than most
For we shall not even have the satisfaction of being
heroines in the next conflict-wen be plain chumps
who didn't have sense to realize that by our inertia
we may have doomed our daughters to life lack
ing both security and love. That happens to women
in countries where there is dearth of men.
They may even be the mothers of our future
babies Surely we haven't forgotten that unpleasant
result of the late Holy Crusade when thousands of
girls came back to their parents bearing child-the
fruit of some casual passionate encounter, or of
broken love
Il don't want any such fate for my daughters
Like every other mother want good life for them
which means life in which they look forward
with reasonable expectancy to a home, a husband
and stable economic order They will not have that
l know if another war comes"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
y
DIFFERS WITH PEGLER
ON GENEVA

BY Z. J, Unruh
From the tone of Westbrook Peg
Ter today, he must feel himself Slip
ping as feature writer. Other
wise, can not account for his I'M
balanced portrait of Geneva.
He forgets that Switzerland alb
stained from participation in the
last war, in consequence OF which
that country still is enjoying pros
perity.
Mr.. Pegler's facetious reference to
the League is an affront to the in
formed American who also has been
in Geneva recently.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

ton communication, finance service and miscellan-
eous, and especially governmental units, obtained
increasing shares-refectng of course the rigidity
of these charges, including taxes Farming mining,
manufacturing. construction and trade-a with fex-
ible prices and demands-dropped of.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
Q-When is st. Agnes eve?
A-The night of Jan. 20.

Q-what is odd Mans Beard?"
A local name for usnea,
Q-Was Alexander Hamilton the
first Secretary of the United States
Treasury or the first Treasurer of
the United States?
Ale was the first Secretary of
the Treasury. Samuel Meredith
served under him as treasurer.
Q-Is a polecat another name for
skunk? What is the derivation of
the name?
A-Polecat as used in the United
States is a popular name for skunk
The early settlers of America were
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

Y TNBLESSED is the son who does
~ not honor his parents; but if
reverent and obedient to them, he
will receive the same from his own
children-EuripideS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
DAILY THOUGHTS

For Moses said, Honour thy father
and thy mother: and. Whose curSeth
father or mother, let him die the
death.-St. Mark ITO.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

The New Deal is old the Great Wall Of
China and the Pyramids of Egypt. Work relief
was one of the causes of the fall of Romeo. U.
Harvey. borough president Queens, New York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

Many of our politicians who are endeavoring to
plan our laws and our design for living would be
wearing satin breeches of bygone age if their dress
no further advanced than their thoughts
Cornelia Stratton Parker. novelist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

free economy is the only one that has ever
produced abundance. 1t is on the fruits of that
abundance that living in these depre ssion
days The New Deal is subsisting on the savings of
the old order.-Ogden Mills.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

If the government persists in paying money for
what don't grow, should eventually get quite an
income for not farming-F. B. Fancher, Ex-Governor
North Dakota who received Federal cotton control
checks in error