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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

"VOU'RE continually exhorting the mothers of
sons to regard the horrors of war;" said friend
of mine the other day why not speak oftener to the
mothers of daughters?"
Whats your idea?" asked her, and as it is
very sensible one, am passing it on to you.
Il have sons, as you know" she said. when
the carnage of battlefields is pictured to me- am
moved as a humanitarian but my maternal heart is
untouched
But I'd be a fool to take no maternal interest in
the question that account, for do have two ado
leScent daughters who will be wanting husbands one
of these days, hope. Every boy from my commu-
nifty who went to and did not return might be
potential son-in-aw the husband my daughter was
meant to have but never got.
The mothers of girls have desperate reason for
opposing war, though it is more prosaic than most
For we shall even have the satisfaction of being
heroineS in the ext conflict-well be plain chumps
who didn't have sense to realize that by our inertia
we may have doomed our daughters to a life lack
ing both security and love. That happens to women
in countries where there is dearth of mon
They may even be the mothers of our future war
babies. Surely haven't forgotten that unpleasant
result of the late Holy Crusade when thousands of
girls came back to their parents bearing childthe
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 home. 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
ENTER DR.. TOWNSEND

TINE Townsend Movement" claims a congress
Il sonal hostage in the person of one Werner W.
Main of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr.. Main relatively
unknown in a field of five contestants in the Re-
publican primary. Yet, for the apparently suf
ficient reason that Dr. Townsend stumped for him,
he topped the list by safe margin of 5000 votes
the runner-up.
Whether this one of those "straws' that mark
the blowing up of popular winds or just local up
set no one knows But it should give pause, par
ticularly 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 a Townsend rally and his
probable opponent for the Senate, Gov. Ross openly
Endorsed the scheme. The Townsendites say $500
clubs are out cunning for seats in the next Con-
gress. Their methods like those of the Anti
Saloon League, are to punish their enemies and
ward their friends, matter of what party-an
tremely effective POLITICAL technique.
Say what you will of this scheme to impose a null
tipe sales tax transactions to retire all elders
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 yeaning for security is as
authentic life itself.
Let those who oppose the governments conserva-
tive Social Security Act and seek to destroy it with
amendments take warning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

who had worked the old town board
for a liquor ordinance.
The substantial property owners
and better citizens of Hope have
asked the local town board to pro-
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-
tons 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
CAN'T SEE MUCH SENSE
IN RELIEF DIGGING
BY Jimmie Cafouros

by Jimmie Ca1OurOS
Daily there is mad activity along
the river front. Gigantic holes are
eXcavated one day, and promptly
filled 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 SWarns of men put to use
full toll could lift the face of Indian
apolis in a 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-
mlnlstrators 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-
mlttlng sale of hard liquor by the
drink, as required by law. Better
class citizens promised 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 petition, signed by 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 a 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
a 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 a 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
The Security Act
Marion ChronicleI

IMarlon ChronlcleI
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 $4,000 100000 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 a 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
sac, 000, 100000 would be accumulated
by the government by 1880.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
OTHER OPINION
Ida NJ. TarbellJ

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 aid solved.
A slower process was needed.
People don't seem to realize it, but
1 can look back long way and see
that every 10 years we get kind
of natural New Deal. But the
American people find it hard to take
one step at 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
= =
DIFFERS WITH PEGLER
ON GENEVA

By 4. ]. Unruh
From the tone of Westbrook Peg
Ter today, he must feel himself slip
ping as feature writer. Other
wise, I 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 miscelan-
eous, and especially governmental units. obtained
increasing shares-refecting of course, the rgidity
of these charges including taxes. Farming, mining.
manufacturing construction and trade-aI with feX
ible prices and demands-dropped off
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
The HOOSier Forum
| a0holty dlsopprove of aOhat yom say-and qOW
detend to the death your right to sag it.-Voltare

(Times redders are tnDited to cypress
their Uie1oS in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short. so all can hare a chance. Limit
them to ESQ 10ords or less. Your letter
must be SiQned. but names t0iH be
10ithheld on re0ueSt.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
THE NATIONAL INCOME

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 the shares of finance and
manufacturing taking the biggest proportional re-
auctions, is shown in the Commerce Departments
latest compilations OF the national income.
Governmental income mounted from 84 per cent
of the total in 1929 to a peak found surprisingly in
Hoovers last year. 1882 of 1871 per Its relative
proportion dropped in 1888 and in 1884 to 173, al
though it is explained that if the work-relef
penditures are eliminated the 1884 income for var
Gus government units amounts to only IA per cent.
The great proportion of governmental income in
1882 is 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 a
Il smaller proportion of national income from 1929
to 1884 are listed as follows:
Mining, from % to II per cent; manufacturing,
from 236 to 202; construction, from to is; trans
portation, from SO to 50; trade, from 1875 to 1911
finance from 1912 to TO- and miscellaneous, from
So 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 1.6 to l9; communication,
from 13 to Ia government, from S.4 to 49, and
service from ia TO l19.
The changes from 1882 to 1884 which along with
1885 figures may prove 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 81 in 1884 Mining in
this two-year period increased from ID to IT.
comparison OF 1929 and 1882 statistics shows
graphically where the depression hit hardest and
lghtest in terms of percentages of the national in
come Utilities with fixed rates increased their share
spectacuarly from 16 to 2.5 per cent Transporta-
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-
dent of the University Of Florida, in
his remarks concerning the impossi-
b1lity Of a Rose Bowl football team
IN Florida. His reference to unpro-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

Many of our politicians who are endeavoring to
plan 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

If the government persists in paying money for
what dom grow. should eventually get quite an
income for not farming-F. B Fancher, Ex-Governor
OF North Dakota who received Federal cotton control
checks in error
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

Corruption in government is a direct result o
corruption in business-Eugene Warner. Buffalo So
cial agency director
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23
Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON

L n made good in very important
/ profession is the Rev. William
Havey. He is a young priest whom
his friends may call Bill when ne is
not on duty. A member of mission
/ band, he is on duty here and there
and one must catch him, as it were,
on the wing. He came to town the
other day to visit his mother and to
pick up an old muzzle loading gun
which he wished to present 10 a
| friend.
This gun was brought to Indiana
from Mississippi by Father Havey's
grandfather and is said to be more
than hundred years old. 1t has
long barrel. When loaded in the old
style with powder, wadS and bullets,
it was capable of knocking young
duck hunters clear out of the boat.
Modern arms makers have pretty
we'll removed the kick from shot
guns but there was time when the
hunter as we'll as the game could
expect to be wounded.
NNE of the genial Indiana poll
" ticians who holds down a seat
in the amen corner of one of the
downtown hotels was saying that if
a man wanted to see somebody from
out of town, that is, somebody in
the great Hoosier profession of poll
tics, all he had to do was to take
chair in a hotei lobby.
He said Indianians are great cap
ital-goers The important men
arrive so frequently that it is hard
ly necessary to write letters and
make appointments. You gather
from him that the next Governor
or even the next President-may be
sitting in an indianapolis lobby at
this minute.
The same is true of other state
capitals A few hotels are the
meSSage-centers of Albany, Harris
burg, Trenton, Lincoln and the rest.
A lobbyist is actually not one who
operates in the lobby of the State
house, but in the lobby of a state
capital hotel.
TINE dairy industry of Indiana
= might we'll get next to the fact
that large number of Hoosiers
have great faith in milk as a re-
storative to be taken after the night
before. Instead OF the hair of the
dog that bit YOU" the cure for these
canny persons is a quart of milk.
Those who have to minister to such
needy ones say that the morning
consumption of milk is on the in
crease. The idea is passed along
to those who may do something
profitable about it.
Speaking, as l was moment ago
about hotels, I heard a nice bit of
unconscious humor from a man who
had had an appointment for 9
O'Clock and did not wake up until II,
He called his appointment on the
telephone as soon as he came to
and explained his failure by saying
that he had one of these inside
court rooms in which, when one
peers out the window, it always
seems like o'clock in the morning.
a MONG Hoosiers who are taking
y joy in the return of Dart
mouth to a place of dignity in ma
| Jor 1OOCpau competition is Edward
Healy, once all-America there. Like
most men of achievement in ath-
letics, Ed is as gentle as a child
in everyday contacts.
=
Nominated for one of the finest
pieces of news writing of the year:
The story of Edith Maxwell, con-
victed of killing her father, as writ
ten by Harry Ferguson. And for
the most apt tag, the headline iden-
LITIGATION of Edith as the "Curfew
Girl" Sometimes in journalism
things just naturally fit together.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-23

TTNBLESSED 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

The New Deal is as old as 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

free economy is the only one that has ever
produced abundance. 1t is on the fruits of that
abundance that living in these depression
days The New Deal is subsiStins on the savings OF
the old order.-Ogden Mills.
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
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT ;. ALLEN.

NTASHINGTON. Nov. 23.-Sen-
W ator Bill Borah's recently
published letter to Young Teddy
Roosevelt, in which he denounced
"reactionary" Republican leaders.
was lot hotter in its original form.
AS first written. the letter con-
tanned the names of a number of
G. 0. P. chiefs who. BOrah said.
should be thrown out of the partyS
councils. Among those he listed were
Charles HilleS, New York National
committeeman; j. Henry Roraback,
Connecticut National Committee
man; National Chairman Henry
Fletcher and Vice Chairman John
Hamilton. Political advisers per-
suaded Borah to eliminate this
portion Of the letter. The Ca
madam reciprocal trade agreement
was a stroke Of luck for Senator
Pat McCarran. Last session the
hefty Nevadan, backed by the late
Huey Long, attempted to repeal
the law under which the Hull trade
treaties are negotiated. He got no
where. But now, with the Canadian
agreement as a talking point. he
plans to renew his fight. Probably
he won't get much further. but he
will have lot to talk about.
Attacks on AAA Administrator CheS-
ter Davis from within and without
the Administration are not bother
ing him. Saws Mr.. Davis. THE AAA
is now so efficiently organized that
1t can function regardless of who Is
running it. 1t is my firm belief
that in this agency we have the
most efficient and honest staff in
the government service" The
American Guide, now being written
by jobless newspapermen and au-
thors for the WPA, will consist of
six volumes with a total of 2750,000
words. Each volume will contain
1900 pages of thin India paper.
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Q-When is st. Agnes eve?
A-The night of Jan. 20.
Q-What is the middle name OF
William S. Hart?
A-Surrey
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

TNDIANA'S ex-senator Jim Wat
Il son, for years a powerful Repub-
!ican leader, has been trying to sell
his memoirs to magazines. =. Sen
ator," asked newspaper man Of
William E. Borah, "do you think
Gov. ALT Landon is a candidate for
the Republican nomination." Re-
piled Mr. Borah. We'll, it certainly
looks rather suspicious" Irked
at PWA chiefs for squelching sur
vey projects fayol ed by the Nation
al Resources Board. of which he is
vice chairman, Frederick A. Delano,
the Presidents uncle, has gone di-
rectly to his nephew for help Many
New Dealers are accusing the PWA
executives of trying to hog the show
by rejecting all projects over which
they have no control.
Friends Of AIabama's Senator John
H. Bankhead say that he was Of
fered the Federal judgeship recent
~ made vacant by the death Of
Judge William I. Grub, arch New
Deal foe, but turned it down. He
prefers his seat in Congress.
The Official Records of the War
of the Rebellion" Civil War have
at last been printed by the Govern
ment Printing Office.
Copyright. 1885. by United Feature
Syndicate. Inct
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