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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER II, 1895.
UNCLE SANS WARD
a scRIPPs.HowARp NEWSPAPER

CUPPosE you we're to take little girl out of an
~ other mans house adopt her as your own
daughter against her will provide for her according
to your own comparatively comfortable standard of
living and otherwise rear her in such way as to
make her completely dependent upon you.
And suppose on coming of age, she should de-
eide to make her own way in the world, and should
fail and should come back asking readmission to the
security of your home
Would you shut the door in her face?
The relations between the United States and the
Philippines do not yet offer complete parallel. But
they may day.
The United States wrested the Philippines from
Spain and forced them against their will and over
the dead bodies of many Filipino citizens to submit
to more benehcient but none the less paternals-
tic guardianship.
For IS years the United States made the rules I'M
der which the F1lipnos lived, and by employing
American capital to develop the Philippines and
opening the rich American market to the products
of the Filipnos labor raised their standard of lv-
ing above that enjoyed by harder oriental neighbours
On coming of age the Philippines asked to be set
free and granted permission to start on their
Journey toward freedom under terms which gradu-
ally raise barriers against their access to American
markets and which must inevitably contract their
trade and their standards of living If those stand
ards drop to the level of other oriental peoples
domestic disorder and foreign intervention may re-
suit.
The United States al first counted on treaty safe
guards to protect the eventual independence of the
commonwealth. But so the political and terri
torial integrity of China thus mutually guaranteed
by powerful members of the family of nations-and
we see what is happening to her.
The Philippines have only started on the road to
independence, and though the first flush of conf
dence has begun to fade into doubt, they may make
the grade. They may never be seriously threatened
with the type of conquest which is now raging in the
Far East and devouring Chna's independence.
But if the threat comes Uncle Sam probably may
hear his adopted daughter once more knocking at
his door Like it not he will then have to decide
whether to shut the door in her face or take her
back into the fold. And nations no more than indi-
viduas, can shed their moral responsibilities
The United States, if such circumstances occur,
will have to work out some new plan to safeguard
the Philippine commonwealth from new dangers in
the western Pacific.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
THE PUBLIC PAYS

TINE utility holding companies have said repeat
edly that they wanted clear-cut test of the
Federal holding company regulatory law.
One would have expected them to welcome the
governments suit against the big Electric Bond and
Share Co., providing an opportunity to carry all
questions of the laws constitutonality quickly up to
the Supreme Court for final ruling
One would have expected them to be pleased at
the chance to keep down their legal expenses by
pooling their interests and pleading their cause in
this one test case
But apparently the companies do not want what
they asked for They are continuing to file every
day in different courts almost identical injunction
suits to prevent enforcement of the law.
All this litigation may prosperity for law
yers, but it is pertinent to ask who will pay the bills
So far as defense of these suits is concerned the
answer is simple. The taxpayers will pay for that.
Already the SEC has had to borrow lawyers from
several other government establishments. But there
is limit to such borrowing So the various district
attorneys offices, few of which boast staff attorney
versed in utility law will have to hire outside talent
and at fees matching the bids of the utilities them
selves
And who will pay the legal bills of the utilities
themselves? Not the executives of the holding COM
panes who hire the lawyers and order the suits
filed, but the customers who pay the electric light
bills and the investors who own utility stocks.
A lawyer friend of ours, who knows about such
things, estimates that the lawyers whose ap-
peared the first six injunction suits filed by jor
holding companies will collect not less than $7500
on each before it gets out of the lower court.
Six times SIS 900 would buy lot of kowatt hours,
but it is only the beginning
And out beyond these expensive legal skrmshes
lies still expensive battle. If the companies
win the courts the battle will be resumed in legis
lative halls. In their last legislative battle-ther
unsuccessful fight the Wheeler Rayburn law in
the last Congress-utity witnesses admitted spend
ing an aggregate of than s2000000 We suspect,
from the number of kilograms and the amount of
excitement stirred up the country the total was
closer to 10 times that amount. The officials of one
company alone, Mr. Hopson's Associated Gas and
Electric, admitted spending 100000.
The important thing about all this for all of US
to keep constantly in mind is that the general public
which is made up of the rate payer the utility in
weston, the taxpayer. the ultimate consumer-pays
and pays, and pays.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
EQUAL AND EXACT

r Asst week Superior Court judge in Georgia
- did what the United States Supreme Court
majority refused to do last May He cut through
technicalities and declared the conviction of the
Negro Angelo Herndon to be unconstitutional, lille
gal, void and of no effect"
The Herndon is the Souths celebrated cause
Accused under an old and almost forgotten 1866
anti-insurrecton law of trying to establish Negro
republic and of charging the Communist Party in
Atlanta Herndon sentenced to 18 to 20 years
in prison. The arrest followed his action in organiz
ing relief appeal of about 1000 Georgia families
of whom 900 were white.
Judge Hugh M. Dorsey found that application
of this statute to Herndons activities in
flict with the Fourteenth Amendment and also the
Georgia Constitution. The United States Supreme
Court majority had refused on techncality to
consider the case.
Judge Dorsey has sustained law and enrobed his
court with dignity He has said that regardless
of the color of defendants skin political doc
trne he is entitled to the shelter of the Constitu
ton. He has upheld what Jefferson called equal
and exact justice to all men of whatever state
persuasion"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
MAJOR BERRY'S PARTY

TT was almost inevitable that Mai George L.
Berrys get-together party for capital and labor
IN Washington would be a failure
Too many OF the invited industrialists had the
idea that its purpose was to proong the costly wake
the Administration holding over the carcass of a.
very dead eagle. Others felt that the motives be-
hind it were political Others that, in view of pend
ing Supreme Court tests attempts at industrial
planning out of season.
No one, however, expected the suen and savage
rebuffs that greeted the governments friendly ges-
ture Here was industry's opportunity to resume
man-to-man talks with the government and with
labor spokesman There plenty to talk about
that must interest ndustry-the new A. F. of L. esti-
mate of 11,650O0O jobless; the alarming fact that
while factory production is back within points of
the 192325 average FACTORY employment is is points
below and pay rolls are Is points below; long hours
sweatshops child labor ruinous trade practices that
MIRA tried to eliminate; public works and taxation;
the Berry proposal for industrial council to adj
wise with government
Instead most of the big employer groups boy
cotted the gathering, and another group that did
come tried to gang the meeting and handy undig-
nified epthets with it's chairman.
Thus big business again cold-shoulders the gov
eminent Like a convalescent who thinks he's cured
about the BILL 1t is pertinent to ask industry
just what it proposes to do about it all.
There are" says Maj Berry, "only two alterna-
tives. Either industry must find jobs for these mil
lions or submit to taxation to provide funds with
which they are to be fed. 1t is industry's Job to
formulate program. 1t is just as simple that"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
OTHER OPINION
On Neutrality
Henry L. Stimson in The ForumI

Henry L. Stimson in The ForumJ
The world has been tied together,
and the sooner we face that fact
and stop talking about self-suffi-
cheney, the sooner we shall be ready
to make intelligent progress upon
this question of war.
The result of this is to indicate
that it is more important to pre-
vent war anywhere than to steer
our own course after war has come.
When serious war breaks out in
the world, we are likely to be grave
ly hurt, whatever we do.
Whether we shall allow ourselves
to be drawn into the actual fighting
or not is then of comparatively
minor Importance. All we can do
is consider whether the additional
injury which will be done us by
entering the war will offset the evils
which will be done to us by some
of the combatants if we do not
step forward and defend ourselves
against them.
The theory that We can save our
selves entirely by isolation is today
an economic fantasy worthy of an
ostrich.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

IT'S IT possible to disguise ove?" asks 3o-year-old
business woman who believes she has met her
fate "I am told it is mistake to show the object
of your affections the true state of your feelings but
for the life of me- Mrs Ferguson, don't how
any one who is in love pretend not to be-
For the life of me, Annabelle I can't either.
worldlings People who have reputation for
knowledge on the subject are always telling that
women must not show concern over the men they
love. Nothing so irritates husband, fear, as the
wife who displays too much curiosity about his
affairs or worry over his welfare. The modern
eligible of any age can apparently be scared off by
the pinkest of passion
In short then the best way to love men accord
ing to these modern advisers is not to love thea.
For it is impossible to disguise love to hide it. If
your tongue does not speak, your eyes will What your
words conceal your expression will reveal candle
which lights the face and shines through the body
and electrifies every gesture of the hands-such is
love.
That's why the only person who can follow the
rules to success is the cold-hearted gal who never
has and probably will love any but herself
Most of the formulas for Turing men by disdain
designed for the unpopular girl who wants date.
or for the god-dgger who would like to deepen
actually victims of the Grand Passion, there will
come the moment when the deception be kept
up no longer. In some manner the truth will escape
And I'm just the kind Of simpleton, Annabelle, who
believes that the men who are worth loving prefer
truth to pretense. The warm heart is still more
winning that the cold shoulder.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
MIR. PERKS DISSENT

GEORGE N. Peeks appraisal of the United States
~ Canadian trade agreement deserves analysis
because it is representative of the viewpoint of
considerable and vocal faction in public affairs That
faction contends that the United States can live and
prosper within Chinese wall. opening and closing
at will the gates Of trade, making our foreign Gus
toners buy from us what We want to sell, and per-
hitting them to sell TO us only what we choose to
buy
Mr.. Peek is farm champion. So he objects with
special vigor that 1913 per cent of the Canadian IN
ports affected by the treaty agricultural products
We presume he would not have objected had we
confined our concessions to Panama hats, Hawaiian
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guitars and japanese lanterns. But Canada might

guitars and japanese lanterns. But Canada might
not have been interested in such proposition.
He objects that the lower tariffs granted to
Canadian imports also are extended to the same
products from other countries which do discrim-
nate against Ignoring the fact that no other
country except Canada is in position to sell us any
appreciate quantity of the goods affected by our
Canadian treaty concessions an adequate answer to
Mr.. Peek should be to ask how long if we did other
wise he thinks other countries would continue their
policy of non-discrimination toward us.
Mr.. Peek objects-this is political and not an
economic objecton-that the treaty is in violation
of President Roosevelt's prediction campaign
promise not to reduce any farm tariffs He points
out that in speech at Baltimore in October 1882,
Mr.. Roosevelt said:
II know of no effective excessive high duties on
farm products. I do not intend that such duties
shall be lowered"
We direct Mr.. Peek's attention to the word
effective, and suggest that he consult the market
quotations as of october, 1892 and Judge for him
self how effective" were the high tariffs applying
to cattle, cream, poultry, lumber, ETC.
Those who adhere to the Peek school of Thought
would divide both trade and customers into two
categories-good and bad-and indulge in type of
willful discrimination which inevitably would bring
on retaliation and descriptions in what little remains
of our share of world commerce
1t is fortunate for the country we believe. that
the views of Secretaries Hull and Wallace have pre-
vailed over those of Mr.. Peek, and that the Admin
istraton has embarked on a program of reciprocity
rather than reprisal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11

of when the first sets were marketed
but among the first were those ex-
hibited at the Worlds Radio Fair in
1926 in New York.
Q-What ship brought the first
Negro slaves to North America?
A-The Treasurer, commanded by
Capt. Daniel Elfrith, which landed
at Jamestown, Va, in 1919.
Q-What does the name Lyder
mean?
A-Dweller on a slope middle
English.
Q-Where is Picardy?
Alt was an old province in
northern France on the English
Channel, which now is divided
among the departments of Aisne,
Somme, Disc, Pas-de-Calais and
Yonne.
Q-When, where and by whom
was the bicycle invented?
A-The forerunner of the bicycle
was the "draisine," invented by
Baron Won Drais, a German, about
the year 1916. II was composed of
two tandem wheels of equal size,
connected by perch, and was pro-
PEELED by rider thrusting with his
feet on the ground and guided by a
bar connected with the front wheel.
Q-What are the areas of Italy
and Ethiopia?
A-Italy, including Sicily and Sar-
DINA, 1878 square miles; Ethiopia
CSC, 900 square miles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11

apolis eye-sore for Is years and are
hauling the dirt on those trucks he
complained about to 21st-st and
filling an old dump with that dirt
he complained about.
He says those who work on these
projects have no purpose, no re-
suits, no inspiration to their work
just digging.
MIR. CafouroS, have you ever hao
experience as foreman of building
street and flood prevention prof.
ectS? Your talk in the Forum does
not indicate such experience, but
your article does indicate that you
are of different political faith
from the Administration conducting
these projects. If you will go out
to one of these projects you will
find these men quite different from
what you imagine. You will find
most of them well satisfied with
what you call digging and you will
find they are in favor of retaining
the present Administration.
Come out, Mr.. Jimmie Cafouros,
and visit this project and let some
one explain to you the condition this
territory just north of Michigan-st
was in before the present Admins
tration went in power. I work on
this project and as I come home in
the evening along White River just
south of Westinghouse, I don't
have to look over the bank at Hoo
verville and Curtisville. I saw as I
came along there one evening a
great smoke ascending. I found
that the WPA workers had abol-
iShed both of those cities and like
Sodom and Gomorrah they will be
remembered, but not exist again as
long as the present Administration
remains in power. I believe it will
remain in power for many moons,
regardless of few useless kickers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
SEES DISASTER FOR
S. MERIDIAN-ST.
By Jimmy Cafouros

By Jimmy Cafouros
Cities, like men and women, have
faces. just as respectable men and
women like to keep their faces clean
so respectable cities like to keep up
decent front.
To cite a specific instance: Out on
S. Meridian-st a junk dealer is
hanging out his shingle in one of
the fairest parts of this highroad
If the precedent is established it
will be only a matter of time until
Meridian-st will be another louise
row or boneyard.
A city impresses a visitor by its
approaches, its avenues and it's high
ways. When the day comes that a
man can be so bold as to cause a
fine class of property to depreciate
merely because he wants to do bust
ness it is high time for the citizenry
to protest. I invite all you South
Siders to come to the rescue.
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that unemployment is a very bad
thing during depression. Now here
is my plan:
We will not kill off nor destroy
a single laborer, but every laborer,
whether employed or not, must sub
nit to the amputation of his left
arm. Thus two laborers must stand
where one stood before-the course
of unemployment is solved. Then
we will put a 5 per cent tax on
all incomes for the process of train
ing the young for the military, thus
solving the problem of national de-
fense. If any one in the ranks of
labor attempts to raise his voice
against the government, just re-
member that his left arm is miss
ing. Pay no heed to him. He will
lean to the right. Communism is
whipped.
Truly there is nothing as brainy
as brains.
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Q-What does the name Bittler
mean?
Alt is German surname mean
ing one who waits or stays behind
as the reserves in a battle.
Q-When did the Boston terrier
breed of dog originate?
A-The strain originated in Bos-
ton about 1870, being developed
from the English bulldog and the
bull terrier.
Q-What kind of fur is polo wolf
Att is wolf fur dyed to initiate
badger.
(Which cards are removed from
the regular deck in playing solo?
A-Deuces, treys, fours and fives.
Glow much longer is the Nor
mandie than the Queen Mary?
A-The overall length of the Nor
mandie is 1929 feet, and that of the
Queen Mary is 1918 feet.
Gin what year were all-electric
radio receiving sets first marketed
A-There is no established record
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
TAXI RIDER BOOSTS
MEN AND SERVICE

By a Constant Reader
Here is boost for the takes and
drivers
Having occasion frequently to
patronize taxi I must say the driv-
ers always have been kind and
courteous to me and are always on
time. My work keeps me out late
at night, until a. m.-and I'm in
favor of keeping the number of
takes we now have. If any change
is made, put more on.
1 rode the street cars many times
and had to stand up all the way. I
am for the takes first, last and all
the time, and for the drivers vino
would be thrown out of work if the
force was reduced.
I am voicing the sentiment Of
many people to whom l have talked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
APPRECIATES COVERAGE
OF CONVENTION

By Mrs. May Beaver
On behalf of the Indiana Fra
ternal Congress. I desire to take this
opportunity of expressing our ap-
probation and thanks for the splen-
did newspaper publicity given to our
congress by your paper during our
thirty-seventh annual session, Nov
25 and 26. Our national officers
from over the United States and
our visitors from the state of In
diana were more than pleased with
your paper.
I also want to compliment you for
your selection of reporters. They
were very capable in taking conven-
ton notes, courteous at all times
and their news items were more
than pleasing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
THIS MIGHT HANDICAP
LEFT-HANDED MEN

BY w. V. Hunter, Worthington
Until recently I have scofed at
our Brain Trusters' ideas on crop
limitation and destruction. Now I
have entered the spirit of the thing
and believe it is a good policy. When
there is an overproduction of any
one thing that is all there is to do
about it. SO I have formed a plan
that will lead our country out of
this awful depression and bring
prosperity back to stay.
In propagating this plan I real
lze that I will slide into the good
graces of the Administration sew
eral yards ahead of Raymond Moley
and others, including Frances Per-
kins, as this deals mostly with la
Dor and unemployment. We all
know that we have an overpro-
duction of unemployed laborers. and
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COMES TO DEFENSE OF
WPA PROJECT
BY Haze Hurd

ny maze duro
I see where Jimmie Cafouros
broke into print in the Hoosier
Forum Nov. % concerning WPA
project No. 5000.
First I wish to say from his article
one might think he was from
Breathitt County, Kentucky, or
Brown County, Indiana, where
the people are not accustomed
to seeing streets, boulevards and
parks built. He said those workers
dig holes one day and fill them the
next. He saw these workers put
ting in sewer, I suppose, and did
not know the difference. Or they
might have been digging holes to
set out trees. They haul soil and
fill those holes around the trees.
He said, think of the streets
that could be reconditioned; the
dumps that could be cleaned up"
Those fellows that are digging south
OF Michigan-st are doing just what
he advises. They are removing an
old dump that has been an Indian
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-11
HOUSES
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
Houses are dark aches when yelled
in misty rain,
Surrounded by sharp cedars-arrows
of green pain;
Houses are deep sorrow when they're
WaXy white
Like cool magnolia blossoms caress-
ing purple night;
And oh, what poignant suffering
when the hours are spun,
Are tiny homes all joyfully lit when
one hasn't one!
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The HOOsier Forum
1ohoHy disoppToue of achat you say-and 1UM
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Voltaire

Times readers are nuttcd to cypress
their TteUS in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make Uour letters
short. so all can hare chance Limit
them to ESQ 1o0rds or less. Your letter
must be stQned. but names 4ciU be
10tthheld on re0uest)
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1t Is gross calumny against the Constitution to
represent it only the protector of property 1t is
protector of rights and the rights of the least and
the lGwiiest among US quite as much as any one
Banbridge Colby, fcsszsr Secretary Of State.