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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
OUR LANDS IN 1860

THE fundamentals of our land problem are
Il outlined in a report of the National Re-
sources Board.
The United States has 1908, 100000 acres of
land
In 1860, when our population nears stable
figure. that land must support approximately
100000 persons
Their food requirements and the land to
supply range, pasturage and cultivated crops
to meet those requirements, have been calcu-
lated.
Their lumber requirements, and the forest
lands needed to produce it on a permanent
crop basis. have been ascertained.
When these needs are met. there will be lit
tie land to spare. Indeed. six million acres
of land probably will have to be irrigated or
drained to supply adequate cultivable acreage.
The land planning committee of the re-
sources board proposes 30-year program to
bring the Nations lands into proper uses. rec
ommending erosion control, retirement of sub
marginal lands, drainage. irrigation, reserva-
ton and proper management of forest lands,
and development of adequate recreational and
game refuge areas.
While this plan will require large acquisi-
tons by Government agencies, much can be
accomplished by states at little expense. Rural
coming, already adopted in Wisconsin, can
help prevent settlement of sub-marginal lands.
Blue sky" real estate laws will aid. State
laws to insure the reversion of tax-delinquent
areas TO the state in a reasonable time are
recommended. and state land boards to CO.
operate in the national program.
This plan like Others will be attacked.
There Will be a cry that the cost will be great
burden on coming generatons-an argument
not necessarily true. since there are possibili-
ties of great revenues from range rentals, sale
of reclaimed cultivable lands and sale of for
est products.
But even passing some debts along to COM
If generations might be better than passing
Il a land of denuded forest areas, quilted
hi des and wind-swept prairies of sand and
dust.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL

IN INAOSHI"-"Neos Rythmos" IN ovy
1V1 Potchyn" ateruppbeyggnadsprogr
met"-"den nye politik"-'Yeni Yoi"-"Sale
eghtesadi djadid"-
These are Washington diplomats talking and
trying-oh, so hard-to translate the. New DEAL
into their own tongue. AS to interpreting the
New Deal that's something else again.
The English words New Deal" are recognized
in all languages as the label for the Roosevelt
Administration and its policies. Usually foreign
about it or in preparing their dispatches to
foreign offices. But sometimes they translate.
CPANISH AMBASSADOR CALDERON calls it
- "nuevo regimen" but Mexico, Bolivia and
Peru refer to it as ''nuevo trato."
Eel nuevo juego," smiles Minister Alfaro Of
Panama.
"Nueva era" say the Cubans.
Minister Ofaro of Ecuador Ca distant cousin
of Alfaro of Panama) explains:
In our country we say la neuva politica
economical"
In Colombia, it's simply ''la neuva politica."
JAPANESE AMBASSADOR HIROsI sAITo
y occasionally uses "makinaoshi" but prefers
terming it New Deal" as a general rule. Some
of the embassy staff call it "nu 1iru" since the
literal translation to wind up again" does not
convey the real meaning.
1T is the neoS rythmoS with u.s. says Greek
Minister CharalamboS Simopoulos.
THAT means new style" adds Monsieur Lely,
the Greek counselor, an authority on languages
Austrian Minister Procnnic terms it both
"neu orientierung" (new orientation) and 'neu
teilen" (new dealing).
To Italian Ambassador Augusta Rosso, how
ever, it is "novo mano" (new hand), while the
Germans call it der neuer kurs."
ERENCH, the language of diplomacy, stumbles
Il against real difficulty when it attempts the
New Deal"
Here is the way the French explain it:
Expression difficilement traduisibe literale-
ment ct qui sgnife lie nouvel esprit qui preside
aux nouvelles lois ct aux measures adoptees par
lie gouvernement american depuis lentree en-
fonctions du President Roosevelt"
Which means, roughly, that President Roose-
welt is trying something new.
d USSIANS translate New Deal" by "novy
IN potchyn" (new start) or "novaya era"
Polish Ambassador Patek has "nowy lad"
Lithuanians speak of 'navjoji dailyba, while
the Turks call it "yeni tarz" (new form) or
'yeni vol" (new way.
Danish Minister Otto Wadsted simply says
the New Deal"
To the Persian Legation it's sale eghteSadi
djadid," which means new economical year.
The Chinese and Siamese have given up try
ing to translate it.
But the Swedes have found the best Cor
worsD word yet. Try to pronounce this one. 1t
means recovery program" and goes "aterupp-
ggnadsprogrammet.'
There's New Deal for you.
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of them dare suggest, or advocate,
the one and only effective remedy
for the solution of the unemploy-
ment problem. I wonder why?
Maybe they are afraid of being suS-
petted of being a Communist"
viii old-age pensions and unem-
Dloyment insurance solve it? I
answer no. For to pension the I'M
employed is to acknowledge that
they are unemployed. If we are
doomed to continue to try to live
under the profit system, then, say
yes, pension the aged poor and the
unemployed and compel the CAPT.
talist robbers to refund to the Gov
eminent enough of their ill-gotten
gains to pay the bill.
Grant that we pension the I'M
employed they couldn't buy half as
much with their pension money as
they could produce and have, under
a social order, that would elimin-
ate interest, profit and rent. Only
a short time ago I contributed an
article to The Message Center in
which I briefly set forth and adj
vccated the only remedy-and, up
to this time, not a single one of
you ventured to either indorse or
criticize my position. Have we red
blood in our veins, or have We de-
generated into a nation of dumb
towards? Good old Patrick Henry
said: Give me liberty or give me
death" Can we have liberty with
out the privilege of entering the
field of labor and earn and have an
honest, decent living? I think not
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War had gone on another year. you'd probably
owe more than you do now.

War had gone on another year. you'd probably
owe more than you do now.
Treasury figures reducing these debts to
terms Of the individual citizen are fortunate,
because they bring home thing that people
are apt to forget about public debts.
Really there isn't any such thing as
public debt. public debt is simply COL
lective debt Of all of US, and as long as it
exists. no man is debt-free
Do you own home? 1t isn't debt-free,
even though you've paid for it in full Have
you money in the bank? 1t isn't solely yours
the public treasury has potential claim for
1885 against it.
Do you draw wages or a salary? 1t isn't
all yours for certain until these public debts
are paid.
We're too apt to think Of the public treas
ury as some sort of inexhaustible fountain
pouring out gold from a mysterious source.
There's nothing mysterious about it. 1t all
comes out of your pocket, and the pockets of
your neighbors.
And that's true quite regardless of what
kind of taxes is used to raise the money In
come taxes, tariff levies, production taxes,
sales taxes, gas taxes, cigaret taxes, amuse-
ment taxes, liquor taxes-they all come from
one source in the long run, the only source
there is-the pockets of the people who work
to produce either goods or services.
All that is not saying the money shouldn't
be spent The best authorities agree that the
country collectively can carry far heavier
debt than We are now carrying. Probably it
must.
But every man. woman and child has
direct interest in seeing that the money is
we'll spent and that we get something of per-
manent value for the money.
That is one of the principal thoughts be-
hind the Presidents plan to spend it for pro-
ductive work rather than just dishing it out.
It's not how much you spend-it's what you
get for your money.
So the next time you hear of billion
dollar appropriation, think to yourself, That's
So out of my trousers pocket. Is it worth it?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
RATIFICATION NEAR

A GROUP of prominent Americans, headed
IA by Charles c. Birmingham of the New
York bar, have begun a drive among the con-
vening state legislatures to complete ratiflca-
ton of the Child Labor Amendment in 1885.
This can and should be done
So far 20 states have ratified. Only 16 more
are needed. Showing the surge of sentiment
behind this just and sane proposal is indorse-
ment of the Amendment by q Governors, IL
of whom head states that have not ratified
Here are the states that have not acted:
Alabama, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida,
Georgia, Idaho, Indiana. Kansas, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts,, Mssis-
sippi Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mex
ico New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island,
South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, Vermont. Virginia and Wyoming.
Strange that this simple reform should
have been accepted by industry quickly under
NRA, yet has dragged through the states
for decade. Child labor is outlawed in more
than 500 codes, of which only Is contain ex-
ceptions. If industry agrees that working
children while adults are idle is stupid and
cruel, why do legislators hesitate?
The codes have freed from toll in factories,
mines and mills some $1,000 children under 16,
a few in hazardous industries under Is. 1t is
safe to assume that Congress will apply reason
in perpetuating these gains.
In the child labor field" President Roose-
welt has said the obvious method of main
tanning the present gains is through ratifca-
ton of the Child Labor Amendment. hope
this may be achieved"
1t can be achieved in 1885.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
HACKERS OF TOWNSEND
PLAN MAY SCORE
BY Clarence Ringer

BY Clarence Ringer.
The New Deal is still rearing and
plunging at the barrier, first toward
the clubhouse where the property
owners sit, and then toward the
stands from which the masses
watch. Progress has been made a
few feet past the starting point, but
you could not call it steeplechaSe,
so far. The way is wide open down
the Townsend plan straightaWay
where no one will be trampled down.
Congress passed a bill doing away
with lame duck legislation, but if
this Townsend plan does not go
through this session, it looks as if
the whole Congress will be a regu-
lar lame duck pond, drawing their
salaries and going through the mo-
tons without a chance of majority
support in 1886.
The New Deal alphabets are now
ahead, but the playing is getting
fast under our goal and it's going
to be easier than ABC for the
Townsend planners to score.
A word to Mr.. Roosevelt. When
the wind blows strongly, yield to the
wind, especially when every little
pufflet has votelet all its own.
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eminent to more than offset the
taxes they now pay.
The chief argument put forward
for continuance of private owner
ship of public utilities is that they
pay enormous taxes. 1t is proba-
BILE that the taxes paid by the In
dianapolis Power and Light Co. do
not amount to more than one mill
per kilowatt hour. A publicly owned
plant could turn over to the state
whole cent and then sell service at
one-half the rates we now pay. The
tax argument is mighty weak, but
as it is the one that is put forward
as the corporations best it is an
admission that there is no great
reason why few absent owners
should continue to own and operate
these necessities and grow fabu-
lousy rich at the expense of the
masses.
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Congress Should Act

produce and would have produced
a steady stream of wealth for every
one, if the magicianS had not
stopped manufacturing their play
money. We quit producing wealth
and fought for greenbacks to pay
with, because the magicians now
you see it, now you don't money"
shriveled to go per cent of its for
mer size.
The President says we must
continue borrowing and using
phantom money so that our
bank magicians can collect in
terest toll money from citizens
and government. Better pension
them.
If the bonds of the Government
are worth a red sou, then money
created by the Government, by
the same printing press that
prints bonds, must be better than
magician'S phantom money.
Since the Government owns the
gold and silver for money back
ing, which is now valued at nine
billion dollars, we could print
% billion gold and silver Govern
ment currency notes, based on the
40 per cent legal reserve notes.
If instead of tinkering with
doles, public works, Reconstruct
ton Finance Corporation loans,
home and farm loans and
crop destruction subsidies, this
Congress would provide America
with Government real money"
instead of pensioning the pay
money bookkeepers, we would
have such prosperity in go days
as we have never seen. Congress
has this power under the Con-
stitution. Do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
HOARDERS OF WEALTH
AROUSE HIS IRE

BY H. X. C
The Message Center has certainly
been a source for we poor people
to express our feelings toward
boarded wealth. We have elected
a Congress that should be for the
people, along with a good President.
If this 18th Congress does not pass
the bonus, the Townsend Plan, es-
tablish a central bank or vote for
so-called imitation, then I think
it ripe for a few of our courageous
readers to each take one or du
Points guns and do away with a
few of the du Points, Morgans,
Rockefellers, Vanderbilts and Fords.
We are not making enough money
to live and little enough to keep
from starving Let's wake up few
of the hoarders of wealth and call
each one Public Enemy No. l until
the ball starts rolling for the poor
man. I still am not Communist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
LIBERTY NOT POSSIBLE
WITHOUT DECENT LIVING

By James H. Job.
I have read where DR.. Elmer
Barnes in one of his articles says,
must Americans be denied their
reasonable needs because we are
unable to produce what we re-
quire?" The answer is ringing
negative. DR.. Polakov points out
that we can turn out 100000
mems suits instead Of 100000
q 100000 overcoats instead of
100000 besides many other ar
ticles that we necessarily must have
that fall short of being produced
in like proportion.
am glad to see such articles by
men who come out and tell the
truth. DR.. Barnes reminds me Of
a physician who calls on a sick
patient, and, after having dag
nosed his case, packs his grip and
departs without prescribing any
remedy. He doesn't tell us how to
balance consumption to production.
I have read many other articles OF
like sort. But not a mothers son
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
So They Say

The greatest trouble with the
world is that it should never have
been made.-Clarence Darrow.
1t has been a great privilege to
serve my country.-JesSe H. Jones,
RFC chairman.
o well, heads are not everything.
Mae West, contributing to COM
ment on DR.. Karnosh's claim that
f1at-headed men are the best lovers.
Some coaches lose sight of the
fact that the game belongs to the
boys, not the coaches.-Coach Do
rails of the University Of Detroit.
The investor is still the forgotten
man of the New Deal.-Dr. George
W. Edwards of the College of the
City of New York.
Dramatic critics write about a
play as if it we're either a gift from
heaven or personal insult. B.
Priestley.
Critics of NRA are of three classes
purely political, artful self-seek-
ers and chiselers, and sincere op-
ponents of monopoly. - Senator
James P. Pope, Democrat, Idaho.
There will be no more mauso-
leums built. - Treasury Secretary
Henry Morgenthau Jr., barring
trimmings on United States build
ings.
It looks very strange to see work.
ing girls dressed like ladies, to go
with them to restaurants where
they are waited on like ladies. 1t
is not so in my country.-Sophie
Voist, noted Amsterdam (HollanO
clothing designer, in New York.
If we do not want another infa-
tionary boom, then, in the name Of
common sense, let us take those
steps which will make such a boom
impossible.-Odgen L. Mills, former
Secretary Of the Treaf ury.
1t is like hunting birds in a coun-
try where there are very few birds,
and in pitch darkness.-Prof. Elm
stein, commenting on scientific eff
forts to harness the energy Of the
atom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
PUBLICLY OPERATED UTILITY
COMPANIES ARE URGED
By W. H. Richards.

BY w. H. Richards.
An editorial Of Jan. 7, under the
caption Can United States Be
Taxed?" speaks of the Govern
ment having taken over the own
ership of Moffat Railroad, ana
raises the question whether the
Colorado State Tax Commission can
tax Uncle Sam the same as it dio
the railroad corporation.
1t seems to be looked upon as a
serious question. If Uncle Sam is
going to run railroads, electric
plants and the like, can the states
tax him? If not, how are they
going to replace the income for
merly derived from taxation of
those industries when they were
privately owned and operated?
The answer is perfectly clear to
any thinker. The public utilities
not only pay taxes, but on top Of
that charge enough for service SO
that the insiders get enormous SAL
aries and the stockholders profits
that they have not earned by any
act of theirs. If the Government
owned and operated all the indus
tries for use, eliminating private
profit, service could be given to
the people for probably one-half
what the corporations now charge
and leave enough profit to the Gov
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14

Back of the prosperity "daze"
prior to 1929, we might discover
the magician banker who created
credit dollars to loan to producers
of goods so that they could sell"
those goods on credit to people
who had no money with which to
pay. If our bank money -magi-
clans would finance the buyers to-
day with bank checkbook money,
as they did indirectly during the
credit money imitation "daze,"
our industrial equipment now
would be operating at full capac-
ity.
Banking does rot depend upon
depositors bringing in money to
be loaned to borrowers. Deposits
are created by making loans. That
is the rabbit in the banker
magician's hat.
Out of nothing comes some
thing. Out of promissory notes
flows a stream of money credits
written upon the books of the
bank money factory While these
magicians kept up the process, the
books of the banks showed con-
stantly rising deposits of credits.
While Uncle Sam, as partner of
the magicians, held the volume of
real money to the small sum of
five and .one-half billion, the
banker magicians had multiplied
it to SIS billion in industrial
play money deposits.
Now in 1885, this play money in
the magician's hat is 20 billion
short of its 1929 level. Why? We
still have the same machinery and
buildings that the magician bank
ers bet on in 1928, and we could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
w. w. COOK RESTATES
HIS IDEAS ON PENSION
By W. W. Cook.

By W. W. Cook.
In my statement to The Times
Message Center in regard to the
5000 month pension, I wish to say
a few more words.
Now. am Sc and I am working
two and three days a week, and if 1
had a mother and a father who
were 10 and 80 and had a steady
Job I would not ask a pension to
keep my old parents. I would do
my best to keep them, although
am in favor of a pension for the
old people.
I have feeling for every old man
who has worked as hard as I have
to try to live in this world and make
an honest living.
There are many people like this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
YOUR DEBT
VOU owe $685..

VUO owe 5000
Il You don't? Oh. yes you do
That. Indiana residents. is your share
of the $4,000, 900 debt of the federal state,
and local governments of the country.
You may think you're square with the
world and owe no man anything, but you're
not-so long as these public debts continue to
mount It's a claim against everything you
own or ever hope to own.
The Federal Government debt is now about
$4,000 100000 lit will soon be $4,000 900 OOO)
and local governments owe some $4,000 0o0,-
600. Nobody else is ever going to pay it but
you
But Il isn't so bad. If you we're Britisher.
you'd owe 1891 in the same way. If the World
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
Moon Madness
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Pale moonbeam ripple Of body;
Pale water-lily face
Lifted to the white moonl
Dark sluggish water moving slowly;
You shall not have her.
I claim my love.
The pool lay quiet after the wonder
Of sucking a moon-mad mortal
under.
They dredged the pool and they
found him there
Mud on his hands and fish In his
hair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
SUGGESTS AGED POOR
BE AWARDED $50
BY Willis Howard.

BY Willis Howard.
A man came forward and said,
1--WE will give the old and poor SIS"
Today, the old and poor receive SIS.
A man came forward and said,
1--WE will give the old and poor
5000" We shout, Impossible"
Why doesn't some one say, Give
the old and poor $500"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14
Daily Thought

And if thy brother be waxen
poor, and fallen in decay with thee:
then thou shalt relieve him; yea,
though he be a stranger, or a So
journer; that he may live with
thee.-Leviticus XIV, IS.
IND universal charity prevail,
IL earth would be a heaven and
he'll a fable.-Colton.
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man who answered my letter. They
want everything their own way.
Yes, I would be tickled to death
if only could draw $50 a month.
But I am notSbegging for anything
and don't expect anything only what
I work for.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14

If Postmaster General Farley finds it so
easy to get profit out of his departments
operations in 1884, wouldn't it be a good idea
to make him Secretary of the Treasury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-14

Germany's steel output has increased more
than 100 per cent in the last year, hardly
enough to satisfy children's growing demand
for toys
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The Message Center

(Times readers are fnUtted to cypress
their viet0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to ESQ a1ords or less.J
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Cincinnati reports such success with its
manager plan that perhaps that's just what
its ball team needs.
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INSULAR

MoNDAY. JANUARY Ia Is.
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The investor is still the forgotten
man of the New Deal-Dr George
w. Edwards of the College of the
City of New York.
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