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REMEMBER DECEMBER, 1915?

TODAY the wise ones of the earth, the realsts
the great statesmen, the hard-headed editors
and men of affairs who engaged in saving civil
lization with bayonets 20 years ago. may with pro-
priety don the motley, daub their faces with paint
and turn solemn somersault in conlmemoration of
extraordinary event.
Two decades ago this month these great practical
minds were laughing loudly and publicly at an Ill
assorted handful of fools who had just set sail from
New York aboard the Oscar II Remember? All ex-
penses paid by a newly made millionaire named
Henry Ford. They called their boat the Peace Ship.
They on their way to end, of all things the
They to get the boys out of the trenches
by Christmas
They were laughed out of the Old World, snubbed
and sent home. They didn't end the war. They
accomplished nothing.
The great practical minds continued running the
war and when it finally did end, 100000 men had
been made less than men. Some millions of them
out of the trenches only to be buried some
to face life with their capacity for living destroyed
All so that the world could stagger on to the
present moment of grace and enlightenment under
debts, loans defalcations, bankruptcies de-
preston, revolution-and more wars.
Probably venture was ever so badly needed as
the Peace Ship nor any i-equipped to accom-
pish its end. But probably no venture was ever
started with greater unselfishness with greater
nobility of purpose, and none so little merted the
scorn and derision it received.
There could hardly be better time than the
twentieth anniversary of the Oscar IFS sailing to
observe that the best intentions and impulses come
to and tragic end, if greed and lust for power
left free to order the affairs of men,
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1885.
FIXING AND TOWING

a motor sticker can be fixed" if it can not be
mace to stick, it is waste Of time and mockery
OF traffic law to stickers City Council is on the
right track when considers ending the evil under
which persons Of influence may ignore illegal park
ing notices.
The part of the traffic proposal that deserves more
careful thought is that concerning cars parked in
hazardous manner. That private garages should not
do the towing and get the profit may be right, and
the fee for recovering impounded machine should
be low and should go to the city treasury
Towing, however, is unpopular where it is in USE
In one Eastern city the charge $3.50 and the police
are active in dragging away from restricted
zones The inconvenience to the citizen the cost
and the danger of a towed car being damaged by the
police, are factors which suggest that if we have
towing law it should be safeguarded
The authority to take car to the pound should
be used with discretion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
Hole COLLECTORS FLAYED
AS LOW RASCALS"
BY G.. III. Thomas

by C. ii. IhOmaS
About two years ago there was
much ado about the government
saving "the home" The other day
I heard Mr.. Roosevelt reiterate this
gesture as having been done. With
salaries little improved, food prices
trebled, taxes higher, it is now more
difficult to meet payments than be-
fore. And what is this same gov
eminent doing to these same home
owners? To my knowledge private
loan companies were never guilty of
the low rascality being practicec
by the HOLC collectors.
Recently I found a woman crying
She told me the HOLC had gone to
her husbands employer with threats
to get deficiency Judgment if this
employe did not pay on his house
They were told to foreclose. Thi;
they refused to do,
Jobs are premiums now. The
HOLC knew starvation faced the
family and aged parents without
this job. I know many employers
will recognize this as the work OF
subtle collectors and never mention
it to their men, but there are many
of a different type
wonder if this is the genera,
method of procedure throughout the
states. I would like to know, through
these columns, if this is true. II
might be well for Mr.. and Mrs
Public to know what really happens
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OTHER OPINION
The Case Against Liquor
tSullivan Daily TimesI

The drys say that many people
who never drank before have been
persuaded to take it up, especially
women, whose presence at bars and
whose serving of liquor and beer at
home is a distinct step backward.
Gain of IA per cent in number of
feminine patients at famous
cure" is cited.
Drunken driving has increased
alarmingly, and figures from many
states and communities show it is
increasing faster than are the num-
Der of cars on the road. Increased
mechanization of life makes any
drinking of liquor an increasing
menace.
Signs of resurrection of whisky
trust" are again seen. Senator Clark
estimates that 80 per cent of the
liquor distilling business already has
fallen into the hands of nine con-
Germs.
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DREAMS COME TRUE

nREANdS Of many years will come true for the
- blind of Indiana in January when the Board
of Industrial Aid for the Blind will issue the first
monthly pension checks.
The bill is not perfect from the standpoint of all
the blind. 1t eliminates all who have not been in
the state five years and in the United States fifteen
1t excludes minors. And the pensioners must be in
digents without relatives able to provide for them
They also must be in sound physical condition aside
from their blindness. Inmates of institutions are
barred.
However the law is a boon to the many who can
comply with its terms. 1t is of the best social
laws enacted at the last session of the Legislature
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

HUMANITY is divided into two great groups-the
savers and the spenders. The virtues of both
are being rected so loudly in the press that any
young man may well be confused about casting his
lot with either, as is correspondent of mine aged
only 20.
Everybody favors moderation of course We tell
children to be liberal but not spendth1ifts eco
noncal but not niggardly. How fine it would be if
all could follow the rules!
The trouble is, Jim that besides being natural
tendencies inherited by the individual, saving and
spending are also habits, like smoking drugs and
drink INDUCED to excess both may become vices
The man who and saves and saves inevitably
develops into nliSer, while the fellow who spends
everything he can lay hands in his youth usually
dies penniless.
Yet am moved to advise you to lean toward gen.
crosby For generous people, you see open their
thusaSnlS their emotions, and their hearts as well
as their pocketbooks. BY the same logic, the mig
CARDS are just stingy with their cooperation as
they are with their gold.
Have you known msery man who was
willing to work for any public enterprise, who gave
his time any cause poured out either praise or
laughter upon his fellows? No. for such work is in
variably done by those who hoard neither money
nor mercy.
The truth is that while each of should save
enough to keep from becoming burden others
when sick and old, it is the open-handed men
and women who get the most from life. They get
because they also give Reckless spending, wastefu
living, to be deplored, especially when realize
they habits which ruin But re-
member this, JIM
The closed fist makes the closed heart, and no
man has ever been useful or happy with his heart
tight shut against the wants of world.
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CALLS WPA TRUCK POLICY
EXPENSIVE RACKET
BY E'Clairt

BY E'Claire
On Sept. Is I wrote you a letter
on the Insurance Racket" being
operated on the people on relief
You did not print it. 7 wish to call
your attention to another racket
and hope this letter doesn't go the
same route.
Many men on relief have trucks
they would like to put to work
Some have bought tires and even
changed bodies to comply with
specifications. Still they are told
there is no place for them.
Contract trucks are being used,
and these men with trucks are told
contract trucks come first by the
dispatcher.
One man has more than $50
trucks on projects. He paid his
drivers Csc hourly until recently
when he was forced to raise their
pay to 35c hourly.
Contract truckers get SITS an
hour and relief men get $105 an
hour.
In other words, the taxpayers of
Marion County are giving the con-
tractors new trucks free. Men on
relief should be first, as this is sup
posed to be for those who need it.
Now would you call this a racket,
politics, graft or pay back system?
You name it. Anyway it's an in
justice to us all.
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Questions and Answers

IncIose a 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 he
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Washington, D. C.
Odd the youngest son of King
George v OF England die?
A-Prince John, the youngest sor
of King George ", died at the age
of 13. From infancy he had beer
in i'll health and on Jan. 18, 1919
he sucurnbed in his sleep.
Q-What is the name of the fe-
male orchestra leader in The Big
Broadcast of 1885,?
Alma Ray Hutton.
Q-What is the official definition
of a touchdown in football?
A-The Football Guide for 1885
says: This touchdown, the princi-
pal score of the game, is made by
carrying the ball on, above or across
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
A LAUGH

VNTHEN his laugh bmst out in theater, Herbert
w Ohrenberger was given life pass because the
manager thought his outlaws were the most infec-
tious he had ever heard.
We don't wish to start anything like the tree
sitting contests of few years ago but we do think
there is an idea concealed in this incident Tie
country been short of good laughs for some
Might it not be well to practice little to see
who, in given group. can laugh best?
The country has an excellent example The Presi-
dent has an infectious laugh and has been able to
retain it much longer than some persons predicted
in March, 1898.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
PREDICTS BITTER PILL
FOR REPUBLICANS

By Times Reader
I see you published the indorse-
ment of Roosevelt and his farm pro-
gram by the farmers convention
held last week in Chicago. You try
to be fair.
Some of the newspaper mouth
pieces of the defunct G.. o. P. did
not give that fact any space. Had
the convention condemned Roose-
welt they would have displayed the
news on the front page and harped
about it for the next two months.
1t is distressing to note the alb
sence of fairness in the Republican
sheets of recent months. They all
will have to swallow a bitter pill
next year, when the votes are count
ed for four more years of Roose-
welt.
They have no more chance to beat
him than Hoover had to put two
chickens III every pot. People are
too Intelligent to go back to the
gang" who very nearly wrecked
this country. Hearst, Landon, Mills,
Knox and all the rest might Just as
well become reconciled to the fact
that they are to have five more
years of Roosevelt. Hoover is impos-
slble and so are the rest.
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the opponents goal line, or by COM
plotting forward pass in the oppon-
ents' end zone, or by legally recover
ing the ball on the goal line or in
the end zone of the opponents"
Q-Is the sentence mot only does
it look good, but it tastes good,
grammatical?
Ayes. but a better way to ex-
press the idea, IS: ut not only looks
good, but tastes good"
Q-When was the last fight be-
tween Ernie Schaaf and Primo Car
nera?
A-Feb. 10, 1888.
Q-What flag was flown by the
Pilgrims ship "Mayflower" on its
voyage to America?
A-The flag of Cabot, the royal
standard of England, with the red
cross of st. George on a white
ground.
Q-What do the initials j. C. D.
stand for?
A-The degree of Juris Civilis
Doctor or Doctor OF Civil Law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
THINKS RELIEF FOOD
POLICY UNFAIR
By Paul Chadwick

BY raul CHADWICK
1 would like to give an example of
what people on relief have to con-
tend with. These people are given
an amount of money according to
the size of the family. If these peo-
pie receive as much as SO or 81 extra
each week from some other source,
their allotment for groceries is TAX
en- away.
For example - three people are
given $500 a week for food. They
must not have more than that Now
any one who has tried it knows that
it is impossible to give three people
three meals a day for seven days
on $3.50 at the present price of gro
ceries. The amount would be ID
cents meal for three people. Less
than 5 cent a person for food. Just
what would one buy for that
amount?
How many Of the people with good
jobs could spend cents for meal
and get up from the table feeling
satisfied? The answer is-not one.
Yet, if these three people received
little extra money each week, their
help would be discontinued. Why
is this?
| Any relief fund managers who feel
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. On the Tax Goose

Finance Committee Z. S. C. of CT
At the present time, a substantial
portion of income tax collections &C
crues from the earnings of accumu-
lated wealth. With the dissipation
through excessive estate taxes of
existing accunulations and the
elimination of the incentive to re-
build, this prolific source Of reve-
hue will be largely destroyed. In
view of the present large and per-
sistently increasing national debt
which will have TO be liquidated
from future taxation, this factor
becomes Of particular Importance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-18
FOURTEEN
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

Sleeping, you are so like a dream
Picture of innocence you seem,
PICKERING lips with a smile sweet
and mild
Bodied, touseled hair-just beau
tiful child.
Once you're awake, a storm has
burst,
Rainbows and tantrums, unquenched
thirst
For frolie and fun-a clown and a
queen,
Bidding for life at the brink of
Fourteen"
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COLLEAGUES

HKLAHOMAS Senator Elmer Thomas doesn't
- like the unaninity which with economists con-
denim the Administrators silver purchase opera
tons.
Far from being proved failure he says the
silver law which he sponsored chiefly responsible
for the current swelling of trade employment stock
market prices and confidence.
Instead of abandoning it he further declares the
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that they can produce budget for
the three for the $3.50 should try
it for one week. I venture to say
that the three white collars will be
sadly wilted.
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(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their vie10s in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short so all can haze chance. Limit
them to $50 qoordS or less. Your letter
must be SiQned. but names S0iII be
1Cithheld on re0UeSt)
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VXTE ought not to look back IN
w less it is to derive useful les
sons from past errors, and for the
purpose of profiting by dear-bought
Observation-Disclosures.
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CONTRADICTS STATEMENTS
ARnTTT PpJTATN

By William B. Schoenrogg
take issue with G. E. White of
Bloomington when he contradicts
statements made by Father Cough
lin about England's land grabbing
policies.
am not a Catholic, no enemy OF
England, no enemy of Italy nor OF
Ethiopia write only because
wish my statement appearing here
to be correct for educational rea-
sons. Let's keep this column clean
and correct
Mr.. White cites only one acquisi-
ton of England and attempts to
defend its conquest in contradiction
to statements of Father Coughlin
that England was and is the great
est land grabber on earth.
The following English colonies
were obtained by either conquest,
cessions by the conquered, annexa-
tons or treaties with weaker ma
tions: Gibraltar, Malta, India, Cey-
lon, Cyprus, Alden, Sacotra, Straits
Settlements, Hong Kong, Labuan,
Borneo, Saranak, Cape Colony, Ma
tai, Transvaal (Boer Republic)
Orange Free State Boer Republic)
st. Helena, Ascension, Gold Coast,
Mauritius, Nigeria, Rhodesia, Brit
ish East Africa, Ontario, Quebec,
Nova Scotia, British Columbia,
Northwest Territories, Alberta, Sas-
katcheWan, Prince Edward Island,
Newfoundland, Fiji Islands, Papua,
German Southwest Africa, German
Tanganyika, German CAMERON,
German Togo Districts, the last four
since the World War.
If any one can explain away any
of the above, for the sake of truth
and correctness, let's have it.
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DAILY THOUGHTS

Remember We not the former
things, neither consider the things
of old.-Isaiah xiii, ID.
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Squaring
The Circle
With
McCREADY HUSTON
McCREADY HUSTON


the State Historical Bureau, has
been offered the position of State
Librarian. He must be good man
for the job, for under his direction
the bureau has just issued in two
volumes the debates of the Indiana
Constitutional Convention of 1850
81. They have long been out of
print and are very rare.
BY using the Photographic offset
printing process, the bureau has
produced the pages Of the old books
just as they were.
THIS is quite a contribution, not
l. only to history, but to law. In
these books one can read every
syllable of what was said by the
men who wrote this queer old Con-
stitution which is so hard to amend
I understand the bureau is coming
along with a publication of the
journal of the same convention.
CRAY-HAIRED, mustached jim
~ Greene has been here attending
the meeting of the National Re-
tail Federation. Jin1-his formal
name is DR.. James H. Greene-has
been quite a figure in Indiana af-
fairs for a number of years. Just
now he is acting for the retail
merchants of Pittsburgh. His In
diana experience grew out of his
position as personnel director for
Studebakers'. But he has such a
gift of getting along with people,
is such straight thinker, that he
got into everything from Commun-
ity Chest work to attending the
Legislature.
Jim and I have been friends for
years. His Son-in-law, before his
marriage, used to beau my daughter
around. His daughter Joan mar
ried Dee Scherman, whose dad sells
Studebakers. Mrs. Greene is a noted
director of choirs. She had a
factory chorus at Studebakers', and
when things were at their darkest
she took it out to serenade Presi-
dent Albert R. Erskine at his estate.
They say the event touched Mr..
Erskine about as much as anything
before his unfortunate death.
THE research expert with the
n Retail F'ederation-the man who
can marshal the many facts on the
art of selling across the counter
is Dave Craig. He has formal
name too-Dr. David r. Craig. Dave
isn't a Hoosier but he has all the
charm and the smartness of one.
Dave is an amateur photographer
in his spare time and has been
known to pull hundred prints from
a negative before being satisfied He
is well known among the larger re-
tail merchants of Indiana for hay
ing trained a lot of personnel when
he was at the University of Pitts
burgh. And he has the softest voice
in the world. Like liquid velvet.
THIS column tends to have a sad
u note today, but dramatic things
have happened in this state and
some day, when the mopup Of the
depression comes, they may be writ
ten about extensively. Certainly the
people on the Federal writer's prof.
ect in the state can not ignore the
sacrifice and grandeur of some of
our men.
Il =
One trouble with trackless trolleys
is that they come on you so sud-
denly when you are crossing street.
They don't make any noise. One
almost longs for the old-time fiat
wheeled street car that always gave
a warning.
= Il
A local newspaper man who must
be nameless has got himself
country place chow do they do it?)
in Owen County. On account Of the
mortgage he has christened it
OWN Acres"
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when too much authority is given
government.
1t is well to think many times be-
for we cast vote for a dictatorship
or any semblance of one.
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The HOOsier Forum

l aoholly disapprove of achot you say-and will
defend to the death your right to say it-Voltaire
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One trouble with trackless trolleys
is that they come on you so sud-
denly when you are crossing a street.
They don't make any noise. One
almost longs for the old-time fiat
wheeled street car that always gave
a warning.
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A local newspaper man who must
be nameless has got himself a
country place Chow do they do it?)
in Owen County. On account Of the
mortgage he has christened it
OWN Acres"
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government efficiency
One large firm instructs its sales
men to steer clear Of the Securities
Exchange Commission completely.
Its employees are so busy that an
attempt to interview them is a
waste of salesman's time.
Our best bet" conf1des one ex-
perienced book peddler ''is the Post
Office Department. There people
have ample time to talk"
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Syndicate. Inc)
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THIS column tends to have a sad
u note today, but dramatic things
have happened in this state and
some day, when the mopup Of the
depression comes, they may be writ
ten about extensively. Certainly the
people on the Federal writer's prof.
ect in the state can not ignore the
sacrifice and grandeur of some of
our men.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1935-12-05
SEVEN

Cooper and children, of Oakland, have
returned to their homes after weeks
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Lee.
Mrs. bessie Wolfe and daughter
Miss Pauline, Of Oakland; Mr.. and
Mrs. Elmer Shaffer, of Hauser, and
Willie Dodge and family, of near Nor
gantown, were home for the Thanks
giving period.
Recent visitors at S. w. Slabach's
were Mr.. and Mrs. I. f. Metzler, of
Glade; P. F. and Alvin Breuninger,
Misses Merle Flint, Mary Martin, Mr..
and Mrs. Harold Hughes and son of
Aurora.
The Lutheran sewing circle will
meet on December II at the home of
Mrs. Ray Mosser at Red House.
The Union sewing circle will meet
on January 7th at the home of Miss
Mary Lichty.
Melvin Keim, CCC camp, spent the
weekend at Simon Burkholder's.
W. E. and Earl Spoerlein and Clar-
ence Fulk are among the folks in this
community who are feasting on veni-
son.
Members of the Lichty family, men,
bers of the Beachy family at Aurora,
Jacob Swartzentruber and family
were among those who spent Thurs
day at the D. l.. Swartzentruber home.
W. E. Spoerlein has purchased at
Etam, w. Va, some dwellings which he
is razing and will move the lumber
here to rebuild for tenant houses.