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Evening star., 1935-12-05

Meeting, Firefighters' Association
La Fayette Hotel, 8:15 pm.
Evening star., 1935-12-05
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Evening star., 1935-12-05

Dinner, Kiwanis Club, Mayfower
Hotel, 6 pm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
GARDENS OF EDEN

THE Irak government is about to spend
some 100000 raising a dam across the
TigriS to irrigate desert where the Garden
of Eden is supposed once to have grown. The
paradise where the legendary Adam and Eve
delved, spun and begat the human race has
been a sandy waste for more than 5000 years.
Now water viii turn it green again, this time
with date palms, wheat, maize and cotton.
Making useful Edens is not new industry
to our own enterprising country. Since pas
sage Of the Reclamation Act IN 1902 the
government has covered with yerdure nearly
2O.OOO,OO0 acres Of once barren wilderness. 1t
has made possible $4,000 fertile farms and pa
cities and towns on its 27 federal reclamation
projects. wherein dwell 100000 sons Of Adam
and daughters of Eve. Their toll has created
81 OO0 100000 worth of taxable property. They
buy s12OOOOOOO worth Of goods in the Ameri-
can markets.
While these little cases cover only l per
cent of the nations cropped region and their
output negligible and largely non-competitive
mite their part in the national economy is
important They form what Reclamation
Commissioner Mead calls seeds of civiliza-
ton" in an otherwise unpeopled no mans
land To the West they are indispensable.
While We have been creating Edens from
the deserts. we also have been destroying nat
ural Edens. Many OF Americas wastes are
man-made-ruins of once magnificent forests
and prairie pastures.
The work of the Administration in sound
reclamation projects and in checking de-
forestation and soil erosion is vital to the
country's future, if not to its very survival.
Nations before have destroyed their own
Edens. Through folly and greed We can de-
stroy ours
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
WORK is FIRST REQUIREMENT

CECRETARY ICKES makes a good point
~ by informing the Senate munitions COM
mittee that PWA funds spent on naval con-
struction produce less employment than a
good many other public works undertakings.
This statement has some significance in
view of the fact that the PWA has allotted
some $3.50. 10000 to naval construction.
The issue here is not whether we need more
warshps. Considering the uncertain state Of
international relations, a great many citizens
will feel more comfortable when our fleet S
built up to treaty strength.
But if we are to do that, why should we
not make straightforward appropriations OF
the money needed, in the customary fashion?
Money for public works is supposed, pri-
marily, to increase employment! If naval con-
stucton is not an especially good way Of at
tanning that goal, it might be wise to allot the
money somewhere else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01

carriages, finding the traffic in hot autos too
dangerous
The Pr 3e of Wales is mobbed on the
streets of Vienna by the biggest crowd of
women seen in one spot since the days of
Vienna's great Socialist mass meeting, and
800 people jam the concourse Of Cleveland's
Union Terminal to say hello to Kate Smith.
A Hungarian count has challenged 13 resi-
dents of Budapest to duols, on the ground
that they insulted his wife by throwing her
out of their club when they caught her cheat
ing at cards.
And then, to cap the Climax New York
woman goes to a hospital with a stomach
ache, attributing it to something she ate. A
doctor operates on her and removes from her
stomach 224 pins, pieces of bed springs links
of auto tire chains, a set of rubber bands and
bits of broken glass
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
STILL UNSOLVED

II ME unemployment problem becomes more
= serious when we consider business statis-
tics just compiled by the Federal Reserve
Board.
Industrial production last month was go
per cent of the 1923-25 average, the board
reports. Yet employment was only 80.4 per
cent of the normal" and pay rolls were only
GAL per cent.
We can hardly look for any quick COM
bination of circumstances to push production
abov enormal And therefore we can hardly
look for any easy material reduction of the
unemployed by absorption into existing in
dustries Machines have taken on the work
of men and will continue to do it.
The probable result will be continued
Federal responsibility for millions Of jobless
men and women.
If this responsibility is to continue, the
dole becomes less desirable than ever. Work
relief is a start in the right direction, but no
one, from President Roosevelt down, wants to
contemplate continuing that expense even for
a few years.
A more fundamental solution than any yet
proposed by the Administration for this prob
lem must be found if the United States is to
escape the dangers that come with the pres
ence of permanently idle group of people.
That is Why recovery without reform is i'm
possible in the long run.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
COURT MUDSLINGING

MISS BETTY Cow, the unlucky young
WI woman whose position IN the Lindbergh
household caused her TO make a trip all the
way across the Atlantic to testify at the Bruno
Hauptmann trial. has got back TO England
by this time. and it is going to be long time
before she forgives Edward J. Reilly, Haupt-
manns lawyer.
Il was hurt more by the suspicion Reilly
endeavored to cast on me than by any other
thing during the trial." Miss Cow said when
she reached England. That is something L
viii never forget or forgive"
Now this little remark calls attention to
one of the queerest angles Of our judicial pro-
cedure-the seemingly lmitless freedom which
is given to an attorney to attack persons
reputation without introducing a single shred
OF evidence to support his charges.
Miss Cow. for instance. still enjoys the con-
hdence Of her former employer. At the time
Of the KIDNAPPING. the New Jersey authorities
went over her record with hnetooth comb
and found nothing wrong.
she was not under the slightest shadow Of
suspicion on the part Of those who were most
interested IN finding some one on whom the
crime could be blamed.
Then she returned to America to testify at
the trial-returned Of her own free WILL in
cidentally. since there was no way of making
her come back
And Immediately the Hauptmann defense
began TO shower her with insinuatiOnS yelled
accusations, suggestive hints. until it almost
looked as if she, and not Hauptmanr, were
the one on trial
This sort OF thing Is common IN our courts
Perhaps there is no way Of completely ending
It. A lawyer entrusted with q mans defense
must be given a certain amount Of latitude; he
must be allowed to suggest that his own client
was not the only possible suspect IN the crime
and he must be permitted TO impugn the mo-
tves and the character Of the witness against
him.
But-need the thing go far as it did in
this case? Has an upright. law-abiding citizen
who Is called on TO testify in a criminal case
10 protection whatever?
Can We properly permit defense to be
based on the old theory that If you throw
enough mud some OF II is bound 10 stick?
our criminal court procedure is crying for
revision IN several ways. one Of the most
important Of them seems TO be indicated by
this complaint Of Miss Gov.
There ought to be some pretty definite
limit 10 the amount Of free and easy mud
Singing that can be INDUCED in during cross
examination and argument.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01

HARLAN Of Ohio has in
500 r1.-h would require
rr sgu'arly on the
fr 81. re House a-f 57-s q answer
qu, sre r,.t.r
such step
closer to the Ll7 stem,
under which cabinet ely in
volred In the legislative p.-
It is not clear. OF course. tt.- should
60 all the way in copying the good points Of
this system. but 20 subject federal depart
ment heads TO congressional quizzing at regu-
lar intervals might be an exceedingly whole
some reform
Under Req. Harlans plan. cabinet MEM
Der would appear on the Senate floor each
Tuesday and on the House floor each Thurs
dav. He would be entitled TO participate IN
the debates. and he would be required to
answer such questions as the members might
put to hum.
AS means Of keeping the legislative
branch in closer touch with the plans and
actions of the executive. there is much TO
recommend this proposal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
FORECASTS REVIVAL OF
FOREIGN TRADE


Disappearing foreign trade has
been one of the most difficult of
problems during late years. Last
year an effort to solve it was made
by passing legislation whereby the
President was empowered to enter
into reciprocal trade agreements
with foreign powers, under which
each country should agree to grant
the other favors.
Secretary of State Hull is heart
and soul in favor Of these treaties
he wants all foreign nations not dis
eliminating against American prod
uctS-to have equal advantages in
trading with US. He is opposed to
trade quotas, augmentation and
similar barriers to the free flow Of
products.
Opposed to this is George Peek,
special White House adviser on for
eign trade-and the clash between
the views of Messrs. Peek and Hull
has, according to Business Week,
blocked the whole progress of ex-
port recovery" Mr.. Peek stands for
government barter, with IRON
handed RECOMMENDATION of both i'm
ports and exports.
A short time ago business men
were elated at an authoritative re-
port that the President has finally
decided against Mr.. Peek, and for
Mr.. Hull. He will throw his weight
behind reciprocal trade agreements,
not barter.
Thus, the chances ara that strong
efforts will soon be made TO bring
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM
TREATED SARCASTICALLY
BY VI. L. Billings

BY VI. l.. Billings.
Congratulations TO The Times for
printing both sides of the question
Generalization to Charles l..
Blume, whose timely letter, "Individ-
ualism Must Stay" will do much TO
create opposition to the radicals
who believe that there should be a
more equal distribution Of wealth.
We need no new and dangerous
generation Of thinkers, a generation
of people VINO will not care to think
for themselves but depend upon a
group of men to do it for them"
Today the majority of the Ameri-
cans form an admirable group Of
thinkers. They are not so short
sighted as some few who think that
it wasn't right Of Andrew Mellon TO
make S72. 900 by selling stock short "
While secretary Of the Treasury, or
at any other time.
There are accounts Of hungry,
homeless Southern "share-croppers
who are so dissa tisfed with The
rugged individuahsm" that they are
actually thinking Of using force 10
obtain food and Shelter.
Our own State Assembly, Mr.
Blume. has lowered itself TO ratify
the child labor amendment. This
will rob we rugged individualists OF
many hard-earned dollars, for no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01

again several days later by dying
of pneumonia.
The Polar Bears are the winter
counterpart Of the nudists who on
the hottest days of the summer
caper about with no clothes on in
the interests Of health, and there
after spend several painful days in
bed nursing sunburn bIisterS.
1t seems to me these eXhibitionists
offer a diversion that the public at
large is entitled to. Physicians
usually are professionally indignant
over the antics of the Polar Bears,
and semi professional moralists
moan out loud at the actions Of the
nudists. =
In the absence Of the Polar Bears
we have on view only those mild
eXhibitionistS who occasionally don
gaudy and impractical uniforms and
march the streets, more or less in
step, to the complete confusion OF
traffic and for no demonstrable log
ical purpose.
This winter, of course, the Legis-
lature has filled the gap admirably,
and I should be thankful. But what
about next year?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
PROGRAM OF RELIEF
CALLED SENSELESS

BY S. L. Hand.
No more senseless program for re-
covery could be devised than the
present relief program. Every
penny of the money now being spent
is not only wasted, but worse than
that, it absolutely prevents our in
dustries from getting an increase in
orders, through which the persons
on relief might be returned to pri-
vate employment.
Stopping the production of So
called farm surplus, and then say
ing to our unemployed industrial
workers, You boys just tighten your
belt little more so we can recover
prosperity" is the product of fiat
head thinking
Let us hope the program is not
made to include tearing down or
burning our homes.
Providing relief at such low levels
as now prevail, prevents the relief
consumers from absorbing the prod
ucts of industries in such quantities
as will assure these industries the
opportunity for increasing produc-
ton volume, to provide additional
employment
The low relief standard therefore
becomes a subsidy to consumers for
preventing the recovery of industry.
1t becomes a guarantee for forcing
industrial bankruptcy.
Tax money is being spent to re-
tard recovery; it will kill the goose
that lays the golden eggs.
Dribbling this money out means
an amending drain upon the tax
payer, while a sensible spending Of
it in larger volume would provide
the needed additional consumption
power, for a revival of production
on higher level.
Such spending would eliminate
continuation of relief, because the
relief victims would then be called
back to their former jobs to pro-
duce the additional volume of goods
Any further squandering of the
relief money by dribbling it out is
ineXcuSable. The relief victims never
will get jobs unless the state pro-
vides the '.ecessary additional con-
sumption power. There is no other
way OUT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
1ohoHy diSapprove of a0hat you sag and a0M
defend to the death your right to sag H.-Votaire.

doubt we'll have to pay little more
for adult labor
An editorial in The Times Of Feb.
% plays up the fact in a recent
peace poll go per cent of the stu
dents who voted favor government
control of munition plants. That is
to be expected, for Mr.. Powell is ex-
tremely opposed to individualism.
But don't be alarmed-students
opinions mean nothing when Uncle
Sam needs boys to make the world
safe for DuPontracy."
Despite your insight, Mr.. Blume,
you made a mistake in criticising
the New Deal.
Unknowingly CD President Roose-
welt is truly aiding we individualiSts.
The latest government bond issues
will yield an interest Of 90 per cent.
This is a boon to we individualists.
The bonds are nontaxable. Our idle
funds can be invested in them and
we can realize a return of 20 per
cent. and the sweet part is no taxes.
Nov, Charlie, I feel that our COM
mon interest permits me to address
you so-you say, 1T takes suffer-
ing to make great men" Readily do
I agree with you. Lincoln owes much
to his ability and greatness to the
sufferings he endured Yet it is
hard indeed. Charlie, to convince the
hungry hordes that clamOr for work
and food that they are fortunate in
their hardships.
If we can only persuade them to
see the folly of not desiring to suf-
fer we shall soon have nation OF
people superior to Lincoln, for I'M
fortunately Mr. Lincoln usually had
a roof over his head and something
to eat. Too bad for Abe!
Let us delay no longer, Charlie.
We individualists, the crusaders Of
1885, must don the ruggedest arn1or
of individualism mount the steed
of selfshness, and girding ourselves
with the sacred sword Of excessive
profits defeat the foes Of starvation
and serfdom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
Why the Pink Slip Won't Work
An Editorial

mourn It's passing. Now it is back in slight but
not essentially different guise.
Publicity to have any chance of being et-
fective would have to go the whole way. And
whether such whole-way policy would have
public support is debatable.
IT would mean that every citizen who files
an income tax report would have to dis
play before the world every one Of those init
mate details so carefully conceived in the
creation Of the individual tax return ranging
from whether you we're married and living
with your husband or wife during the year
just past, on through profits Cor losses Of
partnerships, syndicates pools and fduciaries;
obsolescence, bad debts, rents, royalties, taxes
and repairs; contributions, depletion and
other expenses; Items 10 CA, Schedules c,
B and F, Instruction "a, Paragraph D; cor
porauons organized under the China Trade
Act Of 1922; and dependents incapable of self
support.
1t is conceivable that the citizenry as a
whole might object to such public going
over as calls for everything except sticking
out the tongue and saying ah-h. But, even
assuming for the sake of argument that such
clinic might be effective, that's not the issue
in this pink-slip matter. For the pink slip
calls only for small part of the story-in-
come, deductions and tax payable If there
has been an evasion, it won't show from that.
And the public, to which that much is re-
vealed, is forbidden by law to proceed further.
So only inquisitiveness is satisfied and it's still
up to the Internal Revenue Bureau to find
the cheater
Hence we believe the pink-slp law will do
no good in the direction for which it was in
tended ara will do much harm in the manner
expressed by that writer of the letter to the
editor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
STRANGE EVENTS

HELPING the winter long toward spring.
folks in Sudbury. Ont have found an
apple tree IN blossom at the bottom Of 600
foot mine. Meanwhile. city authorities in
Cleveland. O. announce that they can't collect
the taxpayers ashes because they are too busy
removing snow from the streets. and sinful
taneousy q dust storm hits Kansas.
H L. Mencken invites Commonwealth Col
lece 10 move from Mena. Ark, TO Baltimore,
Nd. to preserve academic freedom freshman
al Brown University wins an intercollegiate
championship by eating 20 doughnuts IN Is
minutes and 80 seconds and a Wabash College
honor student is arrested on charges OF kid
nauine himself and holding himself for ransom.
Senator Bilbo Of Mississippi turns up IN
the Senate with black eye and Huey Long
appears with a bandaged finger on his left
hand. thus leading 10 Official denials that The
two mishaps were in any way connected.
The bandmaster Of the Kansas state peni-
Tertiary. himself a convict. persuades the war
den TO send him TO town TO get some new
music and forgets 10 come back, leaving the
band MUSCLES and leaderleSs.
An Indiana manufacturer Of bows and ar
rows SAYS that the American Indian was really
an extraordinarily poor archer, and Andy Mel
Ions confidential secretary teStifes that Mr..
Mellon lost nearly 100000 selling stocks to
himself in 1881 and 1882.
Meanwhile. the citizens OF Jasper, Alberta,
cali meeting to discuss the towns needs Of
an ambulance. and one Of the moving spirits
falls down on the way 10 the gathering. breaks
an arm and has to be lugged of to the hospi-
tai OF a stretcher.
Crime raises its head in Chicago anew. A
canary bird IS kidnapped from Holy Cross hos
pital. and a detective discovers that erstwhle
auto thieves have turned TO stealing baby.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
Senator McB1Tde'S Views ASSdiled

Director, he had only the greatest
contempt, apparently because Mr..
Feeney believed that state police
men should be appointed, pro-
NOTED and fired on a basis of
ability and fitness rather than on
a basis Of party politics. He
seemed, too, to resent Mr.. Feeney's
honesty.
You will hardly believe it, but
he made then his now famous re-
mark about putting out every Re
publican if he we're Governor.
Even in the noisy chatter of the
grill room, several persons looked
up from their drinks and their
food to see who could be Yoicing
these sentiments from pre-Civil
War days.
I found one interesting thing in
my slight investigation as to how
such a phenomenon as Senator
Mcbride occurred. 1t seems that
he represents Switzerland County.
And, Switzerland is the only
county in the state without a mile
of railroad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01

A READER in medium-sized city writes:
"A I don't object TO this pink slip order
or the ground that it opens the way to a lot
Of kidnapers and racketeers. That, to my mind,
Is a lot Of silly hokum.
My objection is comparable to the objec-
ton I have to my doctors broadcast Of the
details Of all the petty sicknesses and ailments
and defects in the family and to the best Of
nv knowledge there is nothing that I need
be ashamed Of in them. However, I still don't
think it is anybody's business but my own
and my Doctors unless the family becomes
menace to the public health.
Cant some plan be worked out that would
permit inspection Of income tax reports by
those who have any legitimate business max
ing such an inspection, without throwing them
open TO all the busy-bodies, gossips, and bridge
table hatchet-Nayers that thrive in a smaller
community?
The wholesale publicity provision has in
it so much dynamite. 1t can cause so much
strife. bitterness and Jealousy among neigh
bors in a town such as this"
WE think that expresses in very human
w way why the pink slip income tax puba
Lefty Jaw should be repealed.
If publicity actually served the purpose for
which the law was intended-if income tax
cheating were cured thereby-the law might
be defended on the ground Of general welfare.
But publicity in the pink slip form, like
publicity as tried in the middle twenties,
won't do the Job. The reason is that the pub
hcity is only partial Such partial publicity
was brought to bear in the revenue act Of
1924. II generated a lot of curiosity, produced
plenty Of gossip, created no little envy and
spitefulness and reprisal among neighbors and
competitors, but it didn't accomplish the end
that It had been hoped it would accomplish.
Hence, its repeal in 1926 with few if any to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-01
RELIEF RECIPIENT
LAUDS ROOSEVELT
BY Geneva Bogdon.

BY GENEVA bogoOn'
In answer to Brother Carricks
letter i'll The Times of Feb. Is. 1t
seems to me he doesn't see clearly
Aren't you ashamed, Brother Car
rick, to call this He'll in the paper
where children can read it?
thought preachers we're to preach
from the Bible and tell the people
what He'll really is.
Yes. Roosevelt is sincere. When
he told you no one would starge
he meant 1t. Only lazy persons
starve or freeze. Why pick on Roose-
welt? Do you expect him to undo
in two years what it took four years
or longer to do up? Any fool can
drop a stone in the river. 1t takes
Just a second to sink, but it takes
a man with brains to fish it out
and he needs plenty of time to do 1t
My husband is a relief worker
my grocer doesn't charge me more
than he does the public, either. We
have five in the family, and by our
good management we have a good
living which we could not have il
we were wasteful.
Mr.. Roosevelt doesn't want the
churches to support him; he wants
the people who see and think clear
ly to support HIM.
Why not try resigning yourself
reverend. Come on now, think il
over. I myself sometimes read a
letter twice before I understand ii
clearly.
Maybe the plate in the church
is getting a bit empty I can teach
my children right from wrong with
less trips to church. God didn't
say to cover up the light OF youl
candle, either, but to let it shine
wherever you go.