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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
A LITTLE URGING FOR
MUNICIPAL POWER

By Walter Smith, Cambridge City
New York state has a law that
any county, city, town or village
can own its own light or telephone
plants. We need a law like that in
Indiana. If the Mayor or other
authorized official as the Mayor of
Huntington, in our state, is too per-
Sistent in his demands for munich
pal ownership, we put him IN jail.
Indiana's present light and power
law, dated March 8, 1888, says in
case a city should lose its fight for
municipal ownership, two years
must pass before they can have an
other election. And if this act is re-
pealed or annulled, the plant stays
with the utility interests for at least
five years. You will find this on
Page 945 of the 1888 acts.
All municipality owned plants in
Indiana make their electricity for
less than l cent per kilowatt hour.
Last year Richmond paid 100000
into the city treasury to help light
en- taxes. The budget for 1886 calls
for a rate of cents and $4,000
to go to the city treasury. This is
strong SO per capita.
If the Governor of Indiana will
call a special session he can save
the people of this state between 40
and so million dollars a year, and
great deal of crime in the way of
grating officials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
THE TEACHERS FEAR

T TTTERANCES against enemies OF the New Deal
~ which were heard by the National Council of
Teachers of English here yesterday were echoes of
similar statements made by professors in all parts of
the country Teachers are afraid of fascism nazsnl
communism and all forms of dictatorship which
are enemies of academic freedom
At the same time number of teachers in leading
universities have been accused of teaching COM
munism. That brought a counter attack from the
forces whom the teachers consider reactionary.
The professors are not the only ones involved
The same warfare goes on among students many
campuses and number of college presidents do not
know what to do about it.
There is one point involved upon which all Arneri-
should agree. That is the right of free speech
The friends of the New Deal among the teachers
have right to say what they think at public meet
ingS. It's enemies have like right.
Whether teachers have right to impose their
opinions on the students is debatable. Their chief
business is to teach facts and opinions not facts
To mature students they might discuss any number
of political theories without oense as long as they
did not become dogmatlc
Teachers should be disturbed by reactionaries
They rightly fear that reaction might be fol-
lowed by dictatorship
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
GOOD FOR YOUNG MEN

WE nave been attracted by the interest in and
the large attendance at the games Of Tho
Guys two amateur football leagues Plavino on
grounoS furnished by the Park Board and fnarced
Tor equipment by collections taken among the snec
tators the IA teams of the leagues have had s,c-
cessful season.
The Em-Roe championship was won by the Eng
liSh Avenue Boys Club while Fort Harrison is lead
ing the Capital City League.
Here are nearly 500 hundred young men with
wholesome organized outdoor recreation which makes
it necessary for them to keep in condition nv
avoiding dissipation. Interested in them are their
families and friends. Looking up to them are
legion of small boys in their neghborhoods. No
wonder the games draw we'll in spite of the lack of
seating.
The more a city has of this sort of thing the
farther along 1t will be in reducing DELINQUENCY. We
were reading comment of New York investigator
OF delinquent boys recently which said that the chief
cause OF them being what they were was the alb
sence OF Fairgrounds and equipment
Development of parks and Fairgrounds is part
OF youth salvage. The many baseball diamonds and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
DISTURBING FIGURES

ME Kelley Institute reports a IA per cent in
crease in women patients this year 80 per cent
of whom married
Prohibition removed drinking from the bar
room to the living room, where the wives learned
to drink Now that liquor is easy to get the ladies
are at the bar along with the men,
We are not suggesting remedy-simply de-
porable TACT that is ominous The remedy may be
suggested by the people. Much of the heavy drink
ing by women is done in public places To cut
woman customer off when she visiby has had too
much will not cure alcoholism but at least it will
show that the trade desires to adhere to what has
always been good practice in respectable places
1t is observable that many drinking men encour-
age their wives to drink. They think the fun of the
evening is increased if the wife joins in. Besides if
the wife drinks she has excuse for rebuking
her husband. Many husbands doubt, rue the
day when they taught their wives to take liquor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
Questions and Answers

A--Webster's dictionary defines it
as United States slang, meaning a
partner or assistant.
Q-What is the speed of the air.
craft carriers Lexington" and
"Saratoga?"
A-Thirty- three to thirty-flve
knots per hour.
Q-Is there any difference between
fish flesh and meat?
A-There is no characteristic diff
ference. The bulk Of both is protein
and water, and pound for pound
there is nearly, if not quite, as much
protein in fish meat as in beefsteak.
Q-What is a Novena?
A nine days devotion to any
religious object.
O-What is the area of Philadel-
phia?
Alt covers 1897 square miles
and extends about p miles north
and south, and from 6 to 10 miles
east and west.
Q-Is there maximum and mini
mum limit for salaries Of major
league baseball players?
A-No. Each player is under con-
tract which names the amount OF his
salary.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
ACTS TO HELP CONVICTED
"CURFEW GIRL"

BY Josephine Fenberg
I wish to compliment Mrs. Helen
Lindsay on the article in The Times
of Nov. % regarding the "curfew
girl" I have been very much in
terested in this particular case;
have sympathy for the girl and the
life she led. She evidently is a
good girl in many ways or she could
not have been a school teacher.
I think the Governor of that
state should act, and feel if all Fed
Grafton Clubs of America would act
at once they could bring a square
deal for her.
AS a business woman, feel I have
a right to write the Governor, which
I am doing today, asking him to
take a little interest in this case. I
hope others will do the same, for I
really think the whole United States
is interested.
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The HOOsier Forum
l UhoLly dlsapprove of aOhat you say-and aUiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire

which you represent. You certainly
are failing in this.
Some of you perhaps might do
better in the political arena.
would vote for you just to get rid
of you and have team work and
harmony on the job.
1 can not approve of jurisdic-
tional disputes tying up government
work and ruthlessly Snatching the
comforts of life from the hands of
men, women and children. I resent
it when your bull-headed disputes
mar the good fellowship of crafts
men.
Certainly any man who, from the
refuge of his power and position,
refuses to submit these disputed
questions to a disinterested and fair
board of arbitration is an enemy of
organized labor and the craft he
represents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
OTHER OPINION
Fort Wayne News Sentinel

IFort Wayne News Sentinel
Florida and California may tenn
porary benefit from an enlargement
of the Canadian market for citrus
fruits. But what is going to be the
final effect upon California and
Florida when the markets for citrus
fruits dwindle in a number Of
American states?
The imports of Canadian potatoes
will injure Idaho growers. The i'm
ports of Canadian lumber and tim
Der will seriously damage a great
industry in Washington and Oregon.
Wisconsin will lose through lowered
duties on Canadian cheese and
cream. And so on.
Various American industries de-
pendent upon tariff protection for
their very existence have very much
more at stake in this matter than
the Canadian market. If they &C
quiesce in reductions for other
products, they must remember that
it may be their turn next to take
cut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
A LOOK INTO THE FAR
DISTANT FUTURE?

BY Richmond Reader
The air torpedoing of the big
Pan-American Always liner early
Monday recalls a warning 1 gave SO
years ago. I was just entering high
school and what knew of the
World War I had learned from my
father. He wrote the article, and
I mailed it in away back in 1885.
I have other copies of The Times
of those days in which appeared
similar articles from my fathers
pen. If Times readers will visit the
library they can see for themselves
that what was foretold away back
there in 1885 has come to pass in
this year of grace, 1874
At that time the Ethiopian War
was kicking up little dust. Franklin
D. Roosevelt was President. One
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, con-
victed of numbering the baby of
Charles Lindbergh, the noted air
pilot of those days, was still alive,
waiting to be electrocuted.
But I'm getting away from my
story. And yet I'm not. In the
year mention the President
started new kind of neutrality"
policy. He was widely applauded
for it. AS my father explained it to
me, the United States had been
taken for a ride" in 1917. The
European nations did everything
possible to get the United States
into their League of Nations" but
Congress refused to bite.
AS soon as the Italian Ethiopian
League scrap started, the President
announced new neutrality
Americans were warned that they
would travel at their own risk" 1t
was travelling at the risk of mil
lion lives" that got the United States
into the World War of 1914-1918.
So the people got the idea that
everything was we'll and swell.
But my father had taken a deep
interest in new and rather strange
development in the Pacific. He
wrote article after article to The
Times in which he asked why the
United States was going 2400 miles
out of its way to look for trouble.
All sorts Of stunt flights and naval
maneuvers and air. armada flights
were staged to make the nation
Pacific conscious" A private COM
mercial airline to China was put
through. A subtle campaign was
waged to make Hawaii the forty
ninth state in the Union" and look
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

where we have our "forty-ninth
state" today! A British-Japanese
war is on. and 24OO miles of free
salt water lies between California
and the forty-ninth state. Didn't
my father warn about this way
back there in 1885?
He warned about the gang plank
into the British empire"-one
branch to China and the other to
Australia. He was for private in
itiative all right, but he warned
about Uncle Sans buying a lot go
miles out in the swamps and put
ting his nice 200-acre farm down
on mortgage. Now that it is too
late, I ask, why did the people of
those days allow that? To quote
my father, They didn't give a
damn"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

(Ttmes redders are tnrfted to empress
their uietcs in these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make Hour letters
short so all cdn have a chance. Limit
them to ESQ 10ordS or less. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names CiLt De
1Oithheld on reUueSt.j
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
THE SONG OF ALL POETS
BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

AS long as I manage to live,
My humble songs I will give,
And all that 1 hope, is when I die
One remembering heart-will sigh
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football grounds which Cleveland has scattered along
its lake front are good example. SO the public
golf links and game grounds in Chicago. First the
place. then the public interest supporting city youth
at play. Then we shall begin to see drop in crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 80. 1885.
ROOSEVELT AT ATLANTA
a sCRIrPs.HOwARD NEwsPApEKl

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IT is an interesting coincidence that Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivered his go-ahead message on the
day that the National Association of Manufac-
turers cried cease and desist The two declarations
fairly we'll lay the lines for the contest of 1888.
The net effect Of the IA points presented by the
everything differently than it is being done. The
tone Of the document is dolorous Jeremiah might
have prepared it-or that other great prophet who
predicted grass for the asphalt.
The tone Of the Roosevelt declaration is on the
other hand buovant cheerful fun of the zest of
vicoriec accooon1isbed and moro victories to come
So it will be up to the reader and the voter about
a year from now to pay his money and take his
choice And one thing is certain-heU pay his
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citizenship lives today on what would be called by
the medical fraternity thirdclass diet If the coun-
uy HVeo OH d Secolo-caSS oeC we Woulo heeo 10 put
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this particular illustration, are we living third
class diet? For the very simple reason that masses
OF the American people have not got the purchasing
power to eat more and better food" And this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
DAILY THOUGHTS

Seeing there be many things that
increase vanity, what is man the
RIGHTEOUSNESS Gil.
NOTHING is so credulous is
~ vanity, or SO ignorant of what
becomes itself .-Shakespeare.
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THANKS, MIR. FOUST.
1T WAS A PLEASURE

BY Edmond c. Foust. Editor The Hoosier
Farmer
This is to acknowledge the splen-
did cooperation given by your
paper in publicizing the Annual
Convention of the Indiana Farm
Bureau, Inc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
Washington
Merry-Go-
Round
BY DREW PEARSON and
ROBERT ). ALLEN.

UTASHINGTON, Nov. 30.-Ital-
w ian women. both native and
foreign born, are receiving pleas
/ from relatives in the homeland TO
send their gold wedding rings to II
Duce TO help finance his African
war. Postal authorities admit
privately that their efforts TO ex-
clude Irish sweepStake tickets from
the United States are not proving
successful. Although the inflow of
tickets through the mails has been
| checked, they are pouring into the
country through other channels in
| larger volume than before. A
spirit OF whlmSy seems to have de-
| scended on the press section of the
Department of Agriculture. A re-
| cent release telling about an Iowa
manufacturer, fined 5000 for vio-
lation of the Food and Drug Act,
bore the following caption: Poets
| Protection Powder Didn't Protect
Peet." Busiest office in the gov
eminent at present is the Solicitor
Generals division, which handles
preparation for all the cases testing
New Deal measures before the SUI
preme Court. So overwhelmed with
work is Solicitor General Stanley
Reed and his assistants that lunch
is served at their desks. The Sc
curitieS- Exchange Commi sion, now
girding its loinS for the epochal
battle over the Holding Company
Act. is having trouble finding top
notch lawyers for its legal staff. q.
Senate liberals plan TO make the
most of the recent refusal of ship
builders to construct a merchant
vessel on the ground they were over
loaded with Navy contracts. The
incident probably will result in a
drive to expand government Ship
yard facilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30
GOOD CHRISTMAS NEWS

THE number of men employed by private indus
try in the Pittsburgh district is the greatest
since May 1881. This cheering report is the result
of careful survey just concluded
1t is of Importance Indiana because it indicates
better times in the heavy industries where the turn
for the better has been sowest to come. Operation
of the heavy industries creates orders for the light
er ones.
Recently similar news came from the Calumet
region of Indiana the seat of heavy industries in this
state. Together the reports give the approaching
Christmas glow like old times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

The process of trial should be search for truth
rather than battle of wits in which the COM
pleX of the law too often used to free the
guilty I'd trap the innocent-A H. Mccormick,
commissioner of correction, New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

They have been saying that opera should take of
the high hat. We have done it, and We are going to
try to give the public what it wants in opera Opera
is not dead; it is being reborn.-Edward johnson,
general manager, Metropolitan Opera
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

There is no danger of dictatorship from the
Left; the Right is too strong; it is from the Right
that the dictatorship is comng.-Oswald Garrison
Willard noted liberal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

know the working classes do not need big
naves. 1t is their rulers who want them to protect
their lives, their money and their pockets-Oliver
Baldwin, son of Britans prime minister.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Inclose Scent stamp for reply
when addressing any question of
fact or information to The Indianapolis
Times Washington Information Bureau.
Legal and medical advice can not be
given. nor can extended research be
undertaken. Be sure all mail is ad-
dressed to The Indiana polls Times Wash
ington Bureau. Frederick NJ. Kerby.
Director. 1913 Thirteenth-st. N. W..
Washington. d. c.
Q-What does the name Napier
mean?
Alt is British family name de-
rived from the French and Latin
languages, and means a custodian
of the table-linen in a palace OF
feudal mansion.
Q-What is the source of the
verse that begins Give me men tc
match my mountains"
Alt is from The Coming Amer.
lean" by Sam Walter Foss. The verse
reads:
Bring me men to match my noun
tainS,
Bring me men to match my
plains,
Men with empires in their purpose
And new eras in their brains"
Q-Is side-kick legitimate words
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

"Low-brow arts" are genuine arts. They satisfy
ns i've needs in human nature.f fohn Dewey philos-
opher and educator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

DRESIDENT BILL GREENS
l. threat of expulsion from the
A F. of L. has had no effect on
the militancy of the industrial union
group. At a secret meeting in Wash
ington this week, leaders of the
eight unions constituting the bloc
miners, printers, smelters, textile.
millinery, gas field, and garment
Workers-raised an initial war chest
of $4,000 to finance an aggressive
drive to organize industrial unions
in the auto, rubber and steel in
dustrieS. They also decided to pool
their stats Of organizers, number
ing around 1000, for the campaign.
Because of his fleetness of foot,
College Boy ALI Landon was known
as Fox" Asked what had be-
come of the crime reports written
by Prof. Raymond Moley, Atty. Gen.
Homer Cummings replied cryptic
ally: "You know there is such a
thing as a statute of limitations"
. A study by the Bureau Of
Labor Statistics revealed that there
are 17500O units of government in
the United States. These units,
comprising Federal, state, county
and local governments, collected a
total of ,000,O00,000 in taxes last
year, an increase of ia per cent
over 1913. The total absence of
any mention of the AAA in the
resolutions adopted by the New York
State Farm Bureau Federation at its
recent convention, has caused a lot
of private eyebrow raising among
ADMINISTRATORS.
T Attest bulletin from the De-
IL partment of Agriculture is
far cry from pigs and processing
taxes. 1t advises mothers to dress
their children in bright colors to
prevent accidents on the highways.
/" Latest bulletin from the De-
partment of Justice hangs three
medals on the Middle Atlantic
states. For the first nine months
of the year, these states had lowest
scores in burglary, larceny and auto
theft. Both New York and Phil
adelphia fall in this area. Earle
j. Christenberry, secretary to the
late Huey Long, will be seen in the
corridors of the Capitol again next
session. Reports have it that he
will serve Old-Age Townsend as
head of the Washington office. -.
Bitter Nazi foe is Secretary Ropers
son-in-laW, Frank Bohn. Son of
German parents, Bohn is national
chairman of the Emergency Com
mittee to aid Nazi refugees. :. Me-
gro leaders are elated that Wash
ingtons Federation of Churches at
last has admitted Negro churches to
membership. A prominent cot
ton expert from Argentina, return
ing to Washington from tour
through nine United States cotton
states, privately expresses the opin-
ion that machine picking of cotton
is inevitable 1T will throw 100000
Negroes out of work, but it will
come inevitably" he says He is
Jose Castells, Governor of the Ar
gentine Chaco.
Copyright, 1885. by United Feature
Syndicate. me-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

Rugs make me think of the test
for compatibility betwiXt husband
and wife propounded by an old
Indianapolis friend. If the twain
can set up bedstead without COM
ing to blows they are happily
married. In the times that I have
moved I have found it prudent to
place in the contract a clause re-
quiring the moving men to set up
the beds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

lust why the government could
~ not have telephoned downtown
to one of the qualified rug mer-
chants and had the job done in an
hour is oen of those secrets which
will be revealed only by historians
Of this cock-eyed age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

One of my friends turned up at
the office after Thanksgiving all
dressed up in his best clothes. The
explanation was simple. The
morning after holiday the natural
thing for a man to do is to reach
for the nearest clothes, which usual
" are the ones he tossed off the
night before. Then there is the
thrifty fashion of wanting to get
two wearings out of a collar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

r OOKING about us we are constrained to remark
~ as he did once, that the report of Mark Twains
death is greatly exaggerated.