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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
PUBLIC SHIRKERS

CUPPOSE you hired a man to do a job.
~ Suppose you came along one day and
found that without consulting you or any
one else, he had decided to take a vacation.
And then suppose that when you asked
about it, he answered 1t was too hot to work,
or he thought the work wasn't very interest
ing or worth while, and anyway he was tired
What would you do? So would We.
Several congressman have put themselves
in just about that position. Hired by the
voters to do job, they have decided to leave
Washington right in the midst of some of the
most important legislative matters in many
years. One is giving a course of lectures in a
university. Another just went home, tired.
And so on.
It's been long. tiresome session. Every
body's tired of it, in Congress and out But
the work must be done. 1t is vital, and none
the less so because the thrill of year ago
is gone.
Members who take their pay and don't do
their work ought to have mighty good
story to tell the voters later whell they come
up for reelection.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
RELATIVES ON TOUR

ME Kansas City (Kas) doctor who round
- ed up 25 OF his wife's relatives, loaded them
into big green school bus, and set out for two
weeks of sightseeing has shown the world
something new in the way of vacations.
The doctor is so pleased with his expert
ment that he is recommending it to others.
Probably there will be few to follow his ex-
ample. To a great many people. two weeks
spent with 25 relatives is not precisely the pic
ture of rest and recreation vacation should
bring.
But the doctor who devised the scheme
liked it and, after all, that is what vacation
time is fora break in the routine chance
to indulge hobbies ruled out by the usual
workaday round. two weeks out of 50 in which
to do as one wishes.
Whether it's travelling about the country
with relatives, fishing for trout, or lolling on a
beach doesn't matter so long as the outing is
the vacationers own idea of good time. If it
is. he will return to work refreshed and rested.
The vacation season is certainly time for
every man to his taste"-even to bus riding
with relatives.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
Maybe |, Too

BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM
The wanderlust Of Summers in my
veins.
The singing, Iushing sweetness Of
her rains.
The blue of Summer skies is call
ing me.
must shake of these bonds and
be set free.
I want to follow where the wild
brooks run.
I want to catch the spirit Of the
sun,
That breaks the darkness Of the
gruesome night.
And floods the gloomy earth with
glowing light.
want the spirit Of her freshened
smile.
want to rise and walk long
free mile.
Where sweet-toned tints have
dropped from azure skies
And melted cold dull grays to har-
monte.
Oh let me, as I watch this Sum-
mer fling
Herself into this rhythmic, laugh
ing swing,
Just be as free as size herself does
seem;
II NAV be that 7 foo NAV find
my dream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
REMOVE THE OBSTACLES

4 Indianapolis and Marion County concen-
n trate efforts TO prevent automobile trag-
edies, the city refuses to go ahead with
project to place warning gates at Irvington
crossings after city officials charge the Penn
sylvania Railroad with lobbying against the
measure.
Lobbying. at this time, is one of the IA
nous indoor sports and if it is true that the
railroad company did lobby then their ef-
forts seem TO have been successful.
The Times yesterday carried stories setting
out the City Councils action and also state
ment by officials Of the railroad that they did
not see any reason why the railroad should
share in the cost Of grade crossing elimination.
There are two sides to this story.
Naturally no firm with millions invested
wishes TO spend more than necessary in MAIN
tenance. To throw money away is not good
business. and the railroad also points to the
fact that more automobiles than trains use
the crossings.
On the other side of the story is the toll OF
life. Annually hundreds Of persons lose their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
A CITY ON WHEELS

INDIANAPOLIS, we learn from the Automo-
l. bile Manufacturers Association, has more
automobiles than any other city its size in the
world.
That is an excellent sign. 1t shows that
Indianapolis is moving fast and moving ahead.
One Of the statements of the association
merits passing attention. There appeared"
says the organization, "a not inconsiderable
number of buyers who bought car for the
first time in 1884"
That would be an indication that business
is getting better and that the automobile
manufacturers are building cars to come with
in the budget Of the average man and woman.
indianapolis, we would gather from study
ing the associations record, is fguratively
city on Wheels Just rolling along.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
The Book World

JAMES HANLEY, the 34-year-old Irish realist
y who shocked readers with his Men in Dark
ness and Boy" has subdued his violence and
has turned out in The Furys" (Macmillan
$3.50 novel Of such power and emotion that it
will not easily be forgotten by any one who picks
it up.
With bitter labor strife the background Mr..
Hanley weaves a gripping story around the whole
Fury family. 1t is hardly summer reading, this
novel Of English dock life, but it does stand head
and shoulders above contemporary fiction.
Fanny Fury mother and wife. dominates the
whole scene, sacrifices every member of her fam
lily in her relentless and ruthless determination
to make her youngest (and worsO child priest.
But after sacrificing and alternating almost every
member OF the family, her son Peter shows him.
self up in his true colors dismissed from school,
and then staging an affair with Fanny FuryS
scarlet woman" the Protestant wife Of his
brother Desmond.
Mr. Hanley has made his book so terrifyingly
true Of life that the reader can not help but feel
the tensity of the whole drama that is being un-
folded before his eyes. The Furys" is a big
work. far from sweet, perhaps not easy to read
with glib understanding, but always powerful. 1t
is life in the raw. That is the finest compliment
one could pay any book.
IA by Joseph NJ Velter CHarper & Bros; So
the tale of three men in a "farthest North" out
post of the Soviet Russian government.
Translated (excellently) from the German by
P. NJ and w j. BrathWaite, the story is a psy-
Geological tale about lame scientist, a gentle
man radio operator, and the simple but power
full huntsman.
1t is around this huntsman, Kurakn that
the story centers. The author has created in this
supplemented man a flesh-and-blood char
acter, figure fit to step from between the pages
Of the book
Power and excitement dominate the book.
A NY one who has read any of Elizabeth
L A jenkins work will be more than a little
disappointed in her latest book Doubtful Joy"
Doubleday Doran; So. The title is more than
appropriate.
1t is a novel of English love, but somehow
none Of Miss Jenkins characters seem real
enough and about none of them does there hang
even the slightest air of action
There is plot enough to the story, but it
hasn't been handled with the ability Miss Jenk-
ms is capable of. Just mark it down as fair"
The Macmillan Co., 90 Fifth-av, New York
City.
Harper & Bros, 40 E. 33rd-st, New York City.
Doubleday Doran & Co., Inc, Garden City,
N. Y.
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caveat emptor was repealed by the
well-intentioned, the gullible have
lost, 1 will venture to say, to the
new crop of slickers $1,000 bills
where once they lost dimes.
The blue sky laws have had the
effect of lulling the non-profes-
sional investors-and some of the
professional OneS-into relaxing
their vigilance. The assumption
is prevalent that the government
men have infallible sleuths forever
on the lookout for the sharpecs.
The one-time universal practice
of personal investigation of invest
ments prior to investing long ago
fell into desuetude because of
that.
The sharpsters moved off the
curb and into the banks and the
stock exchanges.
But now, of course, we have our
nice new national blue sky laws,
all bright and shiny and obvi-
ously perfect. No man would dare
risk prison by violating them.
OF course no man would darel
When did any man ever risk
prison for a few dollars? Or for
a few million?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
WEDNESDAY,. AUG. :. 1898.
STILL BAD

TI'HE tax bill. born in politics. still bears its
5rthmark.
OF all its faults the worst is It won't
produce reyenue-not enough to make dent
In the annual Federal deficit: not enough to
D. run the government 20 days. From that angle,
the bill passed by the House and now before
the Senate is s2O0O0OOO weaker than when
first drafted by the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
II is a bad BILL not because it "soaks the
rich" but because it fails TO exact higher
tributes in visible taxation from all others
who have the means to contribute more to
their government. To produce substantial
revenue in proportion to ability to pay, it
would have TO do just that 1t would have to
tax not only inhertances above $4,000, but
also smaller inheritances. It would have to
increase taxes not only on all incomes above
$4,000. but also on all other incomes now
taxed, and then broaden the base to include
income not now taxed.
I. would have to do that for the very sim
pie reason that great preponderance of the
nations fluid and taxable wealth is in the
persons getting less than $4,000 a year re-
ported 80 per cent Of the total of all incomes
in 1889.
The fact that this bill does not levy visible
taxes on those in the middle and lower classes
does not mean that these same people will es-
cape paying the bulk Of the governments bills.
They pay now most of the invisible consump-
the governments total revenues. And if they
are not included in this visible taxation bill,
they viii be tapped later when the government
actually goes after revenue. The danger is
that they will not be tapped gently by visible
taxes related to ability to pay. but will be
slugged with additional invisible levies-such,
for example. as general sales tax that will
make them pay proportionally much more
than their share; or even worse, if the govern
ment seeks an easier" way out their sub
stance will be devoured by the monetary
printing press.
Taxes should be levied in proportion to the
bills to be paid. and according to ability to
pay
Taxes should be visible and should be levied
against LIe maximum uuIIloSI OI ldApdySLS
because visible taxation makes for better citi-
zenship.
The tax policy of this nation should be to-
ward not away from, visibility it should work
for the eventual elimination of hidden and
the substitution of taxes that can be seen. BY
such a process will every citizen be made to
feel the tax collector, and do ms bit toward
putting the brake on wasteful government eX-
penditufe.
The net effect of the bill the House has
passed and the Senate now has . to work
not along such line, but away from it: to
play a both-ends-against middle game of
politics. to confine visible taxation where the
votes are not, and then later to soak those in
the middle lower and poor brackets with the
blackjack of more invisible taxation.
The bill was bad at the start. 1t still is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
OMEN, WHAT HO?

TN recent months the public Of Indianapolis
L has been fed a good deal of propaganda
about the almost infallible ability of the gov
ernment's Omen in capturing desperate
criminals
However true these statements may be, In
diana, for one state, misses deeply the stellar
services of these sleuths since they polished
off our home town boy who made bad
Dillinger.
However, since the myth carries on that
the Omen never sleep md in fact, only have
been caught in the act of winking now and
then, indianapolis and Indiana wonders what
has become of two infamous characters
Thomas H. Robinson Jr. and John Hamilton,
the latter the last of the Dillinger mob.
Robinson is carrying the remains of $780,
900 with him. He got it for permitting Mrs
Alice Speed Stoll of Louisville to go free after
holding her captive for several days in
North Side indianapolis apartment. True,
there have been many runors that Robinson
was here and that the G-men would get him,
but so far Robinson hasn't had curtain call
as far as the audience is concerned.
John Hamilton has been the victim of one
of those farces so often played these days with
the mob shouting-"he's dead; he's alive; he's
up; he's down." and so on
Perhaps greater things occupy the eXecu-
tives behind the G-force Frankly. it would
be blessing if Hamilton and Robinson were
nabbed and out of the way before that 1886
election muses. things up and prevents these
desperadoes and their captors from getting
their full share of publicity.
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his pal decided that crime was a
pretty good career on which to en-
bark. They also sought to prove
that no mere sheriff was going to
interfere with the progress they had
so far made in their chosen pro-
fesSion.
I hope Bascom Ray Jr. is con-
WINGED by now that honesty is the
best policy. The ironical fact re-
mains, however, that he has prac-
tically escaped punishment and has
a job while other boys and men of
a more timid nature and who lack
the initiative to steal and kidnap
are walking the streets and stand
ing in line in the sweltering heat in
an effort to obtain employment. It's
a queer world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
THE POET PROBLEM

ZONE now the poets laureate, pleading for
~ their fellow bards, the unsung singers
of the land Why. they ask, should the gov
eminent substitute bankers, farmers and other
grubby humans while poets starve in garrets
and Easements?
California; poet laureate, John Steven Nc
Groarty, the poets bloc of one in Congress-
had a noble vision. 1t was the Townsend plan,
by which all of us-poets, peasants and others
past 6O-would be retired on 5000 a month
The McGroarty bill is a crushed blossom, and
NIcGroarty has left his seat in disgust for his
rose-embowered cabin in the Verdugo hills of
Los Angeles County.
Less altruistic is the new poets lobby. Earl
A. Cuevas is poet laureate of Mississippi" and
president of the Poet Laureate League, Inc,
a one-man organization. He urges the Public
Works Administration to set aside 100000 to
hire poets at SIS to $40 a week and Otherwise
make America poetry conscious. Poet Cuevas,
quite properly puts his application in verse.
In 49-stanza poem entitled THE Dying
Muse" he serenades hard-hearted govern
ment with
We don't expect a rose to bear us fruit,
Nor would we seek an ass to play the lutte;
Yet, why, o Muse, should social form demand
That those who sing should also till the land?
Oh, what a loss this worn process entails
No land is titled no worthy song prevails,
A soul is lost, wretched life ensueS
For him who dared TO court his cherished Muse.
Surely the poets are worthy of their hire
But how is the government to know which of
our millions of rhymesters should be fed, and
which ought to starve?
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Just Looking Around
Bv A Carrier Glass nemocrat

By a Carter Glass Democrat
This New Deal world is so full
of reforms that any peering back
ward to see how things got along
in the older and more peaceful
days is regarded as little short of
treason.
Which paragraph will introduce
the suggestion that we might do
we'll to inspect more infinitely the
results of some of our reforms of
the present and past. Gil admit
that all these reform movements
and laws are well-intentioned, if
that will make any one richer0
I don't know how long ago the
first blue sky laws were passed.
Lately they have been renovated
and polished up until they fairly
glisten.
Once upon time in the golden
days when every man was allowed
to share in whatever wealth he
could get by his own efforts and
ingenuity, the old Roman law OF
caveat emptor-let the buyer be-
ware-ruled the business world.
The SharperS and the confidence
men reaped a VIGOROUSLY rich
harvest.
In the years since the law of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
THEY ALL WANT ON
THAT G. o. P. PAY ROLL
Rv a Reader

BY Reader
1t does not take much persuasion
to have the spirit move the grass
root members of the Republican
Party into a clamor for front row
seats on the pay roll band wagon.
The twisting of the eagles tail
as bait for votes has given way to
footing for looting under the Con-
stitution. The confidence crusaders
would like to get back to selling the
country more Insullana paper. The
presumption is that the last victims
have forgotten and more have come
to the scene, anxious to be plum
dered. They cry for more confidence,
but the confidence game is over. It
turned out to be a bunco steering
game with 20 million strip poker
victims.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
AIR SHOW WILL GIVE
GENERAL PUBLIC CHANCE

BY w. C.
see that The Times is giving an
air show Sunday. Thank goodness.
It's about time some one around
this town relaxed a bit during the
summer and put on a demonstra-
ton that the poor people could en-
JOY without having to borrow money
to go.
This city is sadly lacking in the
entertainment field for the general
public. True, there are shows and
amusement parks and swimming
pools, but those cost money. Now
we'll have a chance for an after
noon of real pleasure and know that
it is offered to us in the spirit Of
good will. Thanks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
BERATES TIMES FOR
ATTACK ON COPS
n II VI ID

By W. W. R.
I have written you in the past
and at one time I stood up for the
police officers who we're ragged be-
cause of their activities at the Mo-
tor Speedway.
Well, I'm back again and this
time it's to take a crack at you for
that editorial the other day when
you suggested that officers try eight
hours work daily not only to keep
them out Of mischief but also to
curb the present crime wave.
OF course. you're right. Any one
should work conscientiously each
day as long as he's paid for the
hours he works. But, on the other
hand, how long could you stand the
hot paYementS and the routine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07

He will never get back one cent of
that $1,000 Yet this bank owns
5000 acres Of rich Illinois land.
would make this bank give up
this $500 acres to those who lost
their deposits. Every such bank
should be made to give up all their
real estate, personal property and
all belongings to satisfy those de-
positors who lost. Make it 10 to Is
years imprisonment for parents,
children, relatives or friends in any
way to accept or receive any such
property of such bank. This is only
the preface to what all should be
done. All must go to satisfy deposit
tors who lest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
HE'S REACHED DECISION
IT'S COCKEYED WORLD

By NJ. NJ. X.
Talk about mountain peak words!
In a recent contribution to the
Message Center from David Yaver
were these: St" The Constitu-
ton has never meant anything to
the powerful interests" words so
deeply and bitterly true.
Our financial buccaneers them
selves made the Constitution a scrap
of paper when they seized the power
the trainers Of cur once great char
ter intended for Congress alone, to
expand and contract credit at will.
Now they screech at us through
their double-crosNing allies, the two
major parties and the metropolitan
press, to keep alive something they
cut the heart out Of generations ago.
What a cockeyed world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07

grind of a policeman's job without
a cool drink or a cigar? Do you
go through the day without any
such relief on your job? No. you
don't.
Until you reach the stage where
you can take it these hot days. why
make it hotter by picking on fellows
who are doing their best2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
Daily Thought

And Jesus saith unto him, The
foxes have holes, and the birds Of
the air have nests; but the Son of
Man hath not where to lay His
head-St. Matthew 800.
A MAN who in the struggles Of
"A life has no home to retire TO,
in fact or in memory, is without
life's best rewards and lifes best
defenSes.-J. G.. Holland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
BANKS SHOULD PROTECT
DEPOSITORS WHO LOSE

BY Charles Franklin Howard
In Elwood, town Of 10000 peo-
pie, bank depositors lost $4,000, I
am told.
A man and his wife lost $4,000.
They will never get back one cent.
Each one is past 10 and no means
to go on.
A young man, 81, in Detroit lost
$1,000 in an Illinois bank He is a
hard working. saving mechanic. He
never inherited a dollar in his life.
Today he is penniless and hopeless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
BELIEVES OFFICIAL SALARIES
ARE TOO HIGH
BY Another Reader

BY Another Reader
I read in The Times where the
president of the Park Board Mr..
Joseph, says taxes will be too high
to build any swimming pools.
Now Mr. Taxpayer, let's take the
salaries of officials, including Mr.
Joseph. Publish the salaries and
wages paid. Then I feel sure the
people of the city will see why the
children can not have a place to
swim, instead of wading in PogUe' 5
Run. 1t is only fair that the SAL
aries are published for the benefit
of the people.
have lived in Indianapolis 80
years. and my entire family have
always voted the straight Demo-
cratic ticket and I worked hard to
see it win. Now I am losing all
for the sake Of tax money. I DO
not want charity. Just give me work
so I may support my family. We
have property which will soon be
sold for taxes in land Of plenty.
Just think Of losing all for some to
make high salaries and then get
work done by transient men and
women.
hope some one will answer this
as I have plenty more to say. Let
us join hands and say, III help
those who are down" I have been
out of work for eight months, since
after the election.
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SOME OTHER ANGLES
ON KIDNAPPING

BY J. K.
It is indeed gratifying to learn
that Bascom Ray Jr. has a good
job and is to become a useful citi-
zen. The 99-year sentence was I'M
reasonable, Of course. However, it
might have been we'll to consider
what might have happened had the
sheriff resisted being kidnapped and
been injured, perhaps fatally.
A Times editorial in the July 80
issue states that it all started be-
cause of a disagreement between
the prosecutor and the judge.
It started when young Ray and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-07
SUGGESTS SCENIC IMPROVE
NIENTS FOR NEW AUGUSTA
BY R. H. Stone

BY r. H. Stone
New Augusta is between TWO main
highways. 1t has through rail-
road and also its own postof1ce. A
natural thoroughfare for its fu-
ture business district is along the
highway (71St-St) between High
ways % and 81
This is an historic old village. At
present its business section is in a
shady nook off the highway, a re-
minder of days gone by. Where the
center of trade now stands in olden
times many happy exchange Of
farm products for town goods was
made. The old Odd Fellows build
ing and the ancient general store
could be torn down. AS a monu-
ment to the happy days of long ago
the site of these buildings could be
turned into village green. Posi-
bly, an attractive small building to
house the postoffice could be placed
in the center with walks leading in
different directions.
The setting for such a scene is
there. 1t is village that will in
tereSt any stranger. The folk who
live there have enjoyed many happy
hours under the shade of it's pro-
tecting trees.