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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
STUDY IN CONTRASTS

DREs1DENT ROOSEVELT caters to the
cause of official peace in naming former
Rep. Charles West of Ohio, Undersecretary of
the Interior.
DR.. West is just the sort Of man Mr.. 1ckes
needs to have around. He appears to be every
thing that Mr.. Ickes Is not. The new Under
secretary has tactful way of doing things.
Mr. Ickes approach is like that of govern
ment mules heels AS President Roosevelt's
No. contact man on Capitol Hill, DR.. West
drew his salary from the Farm Credit Admin
istration
When Mr.. Ickes acted as his own contact
man in the recent brush with Senator Tydings
tire reverberations were felt all the way to the
Virgin Islands. He was, in fact, an impact
man. Mr.. Ickes ability to get himself in
wrong with deserving and other Democrats in
Washington amounts to more than talent. 1t
approaches genius.
If Fighting Harold will Just let his new
assistant handle departmental diplomacy. in
stead Of making him punch the clock along
with the other help. he'll save himself no end
OF sinners and shinplasterS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
MISGUIDED CONSCIENCE

THE cables from Berlin bear some peculiar
l. news. these days. One dispatch the other
day announced that some 500 Jewish children
in Berlin were told by social welfare workers
that they could no longer go with other chill
dren of the poor to the public Fairgrounds this
summer.
On the same day the notorious Jew-baiter.
Julius Streicher, announced that "the con-
science of the German people must be awak-
ened to realization of the existence of the
Jewish problem"
That the conscience of any people which
vents an insane race prejudice on some hun
dreds of small slum children is sadly in need
of weakening goes without saying. But that
the awakening needs to be along the lines
suggested by Streicher is open to considerable
doubt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
COOPERATION

THE move by employees of the Chapman
Il Price Steel Co. to bring business to the
company and wages to themselves sets a new
mark in business cooperation in this COM
munity
The idea lends itself 20 great potentialities
of such companies the steel firm. When
ever any company, faced with the problem of
finding business, suddenly learns that each and
every one Of its employees is working in the
best interests of the firm, then the way should
be easy.
Other industrialists of the city and nation
should watch closely the booster experiment
at the steel mills 1t sounds as though it
would be worthwhile.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
ON WHOM LIVES REST

THERE died in Los Angeles the other day
l. William P Mulholland, veteran hydraulic
engineer, and the accounts of his death said
that he never recovered from the shock caused
by the collapse of the ST. Francis Dam, seven
years ago.
Mr.. Mulholland, recognized as one of the
country's greatest engineers, built the ST..
Francis Dam in San Francisquito Valley, Cali
fornia 1t gave way under the pressure of
water loosing flood which wiped out several
towns, caused s3O,OOOOOO in property damage
and killed 400 persons For the rest of his
life Mr.. Milholland moved under the shadow
of that catastrophe. It was something he
never got over.
Does any man move under such load Of
responsibility as an engineer? Every living
mortal makes mistakes in calculating or per-
Torrance at one time or another-but does
any one see his mistakes bring such terrible
consequences? In the tragedy that dark
ened this distinguished engineers life there
is a poignant testimonial to the fearful re-
sponsibility that rests on the shoulders of the
man who builds things.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
ANOTHER LEADER PLEADS
FOR LABOR PARTY
BY R. S.

BY r. S.
Many people wonder why We are
still in the grip of the depression
and still sliding down. The answer
is easy. The owning class pays
labor a fraction of what it pro-
duces and when warehouses are
filled labor is laid of with the re-
suit that labor can not buy back
all it produced because the owners
demanded their profit.
To combat this, the proat system
with its starvation and want
amidst plenty must be abolished.
This could be replaced with a
cooperative system whereby We
would manufacture for use and not
for profit.
The source of wealth comes from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
NEW WAR THREATENS

ONCE in while, reading casually in the
- days news a man gets dim Fremont
tory sense that he is watching one of the
great events of history taking shape under
his eyes - watching it, and lacking the
knowledge to say just what it may mean, or
how it may be going to develop.
You get that eerie feeling now and then
while reading about the preparation for war
between Italy and Ethiopia.
On the surface. this is just one more in the
long series of imperialistic wars by which
white nations have imposed their will, their
civilization" and their manufactured goods
on the colored races. Every great white nation
has had such wars in its history-England,
France Germany, Russia and for that mat
ter, the United States.
And yet this new war will take place under
different circumstances than its predecessors.
The world has changed. A cycle has come
to an end, somehow.
There was a time when no one questioned
the dominance of the white nations The
world took it for granted that the great Euro
%pean powers would continue to extend their
sway all across Asia and Africa. The only
question was which nation would dominate
what territory
Then things began to happen Japan
fought Russia and won-and the colored races
began to discover that European civilization
was not invincible, after all. The European
powers then got into a great war between
themselves, and proved to their subject races
that they were not united after all, and that
their boasted peace and order were illusory.
So ferment began, all across the globe.
midas teening masses became restless. A
confused tremor went through China Even
the blacks of Africa began to find submission
to the white mans yoke oppressive. And
Japan continued to defy the white mans
world-and got away with it.
Look at the approaching war against that
background . and then imagine what
might happen if Italy, through some mis-
chance, should lose this war that she is hur-
rying into so blthely.
There is just the outside chance that this
might be the beginning of the end of the
long period of white dominance; a spark to
set off blaze that would become one of the
great beacon lights of history.
This is all gueSs-work, to be sure. But the
possibility is there. 1t lends to dispatches
about the approaching war deep and omin-
Gus significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

sands who actually draw wages for
their work and who are not laid
off for a month or two while the
fiddling goes on. These help to
fiddle on the chorus.
BY the time this money sits
down through this elaborate sys-
tenn, there is none left for the
man VINO actually needs the work.
He is given a grocery order or
kicked off relief entirely, so he can
go to soup line or StarYe.
1t has been said that FERA
men were lazy and will not work.
That's the biggest propaganda ever
put out. Ninety per cent of the
men have come in contact with
do mans work among men, even
though they are not properly
fed or clothed, and 1 venture to
say that the very one putting out
the lie would not do as much work
as the 10 per cent.
1t will not make me mad if any
one takes me up on this and
works side by side with the men
and myself, with a pick and shovel
and does do more work just to
prove am wrong. OF course,
you will have to wait a few weeks
or months before you can do this
because we are all laid off now.
but it won't be long until we all
will jump into Washington's
merry go-round and ride to pros
perity-maybe.
During this period now no pay
mentS for anything can be met
so three months layoff means six
months or more work to catch up.
Gen. Hugh S. johnson says one
person out Of six in the United
States is now on the dole. At
the rate We are going, how long
before these figures change to two
out of six or even three out of
six. or more.
Surely, taxpayers are interested
in this situation as we'll as the
unemployed. Why doesn't your
Taxpayers League intercede and
see that this money is used as in
tended? Don't blame the poor devil
who is unemployed. He can not
help it if no jobs are available and
likewise he is not to blame if the
S4.800,000,000 is spent to make
fat salaries for those who do not
need work while those who actual
ly are in need and suffer receive
none of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

by the so-called high-class bar
tender
In 1918 I made a visit to New
Orleans and made several trips to
the Ramos Hotel, to learn the Sec
ret of a Ramos flzz Being in the
business myself since 1908, I was
anxious to know how to properly
concoct one.
made the acquaintance of the
bar master. and took him to the
race track with me, and there he
divulged the correct recipe.
While I hate to admit it. Huey
Long is right for once in his life,
and would back him from soup to
nuts on his recipe for a genuine
Ramos fizz.
Being a head bartender at the
Waldorf doesn't mean a thing. The
boys down South and out on the
West Coast could give the Waldorf
bartenders a few lessons when it
comes to concocting real mixed
drinks.
The gentlemen from New Orleans
who denied Hueys recipe are either
from a younger generation or they
hold a grudge against the Senator.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
Where Is That MOneu?
By W. c. Gulick

BY W. c. Gulick
For weeks 1 have been attempt
ing to ascertain when we unem-
ployed could hope for the four bill
lion-dollar work-relief program to
get under way. No one seemed to
know and as far as 1 can learn
do not know at this date. How
ever, it is gratifying to the 100000
or more families to learn that the
cause of delay has been due to
fight between Mr.. Hopkins and
Mr.. Ickes. These gentlemen have
gone Nero one better. Nero only
fiddled while Rome burned.
These gentlemen not only fiddle
around but also fight while mil
lions go hungry.
Newspapers tell us that these
men were so busy with their per-
sonal grudges that they even for
got the necessity of having
projects, an absolute essential. to
put people to work. Think this
over and try to imagine the
significance of this, if possible.
Two men who hold the destiny of
millions in the palms of their
hands, having but one thing to
do and then forgetting to do that.
w. F. Main, of Cedar Rapids,
Ia, wrote me two years ago that
he feared for the success of Presi-
dent Roosevelt's schemes and
plans because he was employing
lawyers and professors to run the
governments business who we're
not even capable of running their
own successfully. Mr.. Main is
just one in thousands who has
succeeded in selling by mail and
therefore a pretty capable judge.
From recent developments, l
wonder if he was far wrong.
Will the time ever arrive when
those that actually need work can
obtain it?
Taxpayers kick because they
must pay the huge S4,3O0.OOo 900
appropriation for relief work. Re-
lief workers holler because they
do not get the work. Why before
this bill was passed, they even for
got to figure what this would
amount to for each person. Some
months later, some one had a
bright idea and did this for them.
However, even this person forgot
to figure in the salaries of thou
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

TINE. government always has obtained the
Il bulk Of its revenue from the lower and
middle classes. 1t does now. 1t would con-
tinue TO 90 so should such measure as the
pending tax bill be enacted. That bill boosts
taxes on incomes over $4,000. but fails to
touch incomes below that level.
There is a very simple reason. 1t is that
the great preponderance of the fluid and taxa
able wealth is in the hands Of the lower and
middle classes.
Income tax returns for 1888 illustrate the
point. In that year. 3660.1O5 citizens filed re-
turns. showing an aggregate net income OF
nearly II billion dollars. OF that total nearly
seven billions were reported by the 55596o2
persons who had incomes of less than $4,000
year. The 1914 persons with incomes of more
than $4,000 reported an aggregate of less
than one billion dollars. SO if the government
had conhscated the entire incomes of all Of
the persons above the $4,000 level. it would
not have obtained thereby much more than
enough to pay the interest on the national debt.
Since 1888 was bad year, let's examine
1929 The Brookings Institution study for that
wear shows that incomes above $4,000 ac-
counted for 1896 per cent of the total national
income: and incomes of less than s5000 593
per cent So it is inevitable that those with
incomes Of less than $4,000 and less than
$4,000 will be called upon to pay most Of the
bills of this depression.
The only question is whether the taxes will
be taken from them openly or otherwise. About
IS per cert Of the governments current rev.
enues is now obtained from invisible sales and
nuisance taxes. And the so-called lower and
middle classes pay practically al Of this So
per cent. i
But when a suggestion Is made that tt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
SUGGESTS LIGHT FIRM
DEMAND CHARGE BE DROPPED
By P. ]. ATinck

BY p. j. Minck
Knowing your paper is interested
in giving both sides of any utility
question 1 would like to give your
readers some information regarding
a comparison of electric rates.
A building in Indianapolis using
BOOST XVIII a month paid S760 .85;
building in Logansport consuming
30,067 XVIII a month pays S481 /;
Logansport consumers monthly saw
ing would be S279.85.
The indianapolis consumer with
this consumption would pay S3358.20
more than the Logansport consumer
in one year. Both bills are COM
ruted on the G rate.
I believe the civic organizations of
indianapolis should sponsor a move
ment to compel the local electric
company to eliminate the demand
charge. It is a known fact that
factories will not locate in Indian
apolis if they have TO pay from $1,000
to $4,000 a year for demand charges
This charge is the same as a cover
charge" and should be eliminated
It does not exist in all other cities
When New York City grew tired
OF high rates and the high-handed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
So They Say

The League (of Nations) was not
called into session just for a pleas
ant gathering. = Norman Davis.
United States ambassador at large.
Youth today finds the barbed
wire of restrictive laws between it
and opportunity-Melvin G. Eaton,
New York Republican state chair
man.
Why don't they hold the Demo-
cratic convention and the Com
munist convention together. and
save money?-Senator Huey Long.
Students properly wish to under
stand the ideals and theories on
which other governments are based:
and they are ill-educated unless
they do.-Dr. James R. Angel,
president of Yale.
This government England has
been run by Laurel and Hardy
Laborite Jock McGovern.
The distressed masses who do not
quite realize what are the causes
of our suffering must be better in
formed.-William E. Dodd, y. S.
ambassador to Germany.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
RAPS PROSPECT OF
"UPSIDE-DOWN" TAX
BY Forrest Rogers, Secretary,
Indiana Socialist Party

BY Forrest Rogers. Secretary.
Indiana Socialist Party
Despite the fact that Gov. Paul
V. McNutt has denied that there
will be a special session of the state
Legislature, the Socialist Party of
Indiana will carry on campaign
Of education and circulate petitions
throughout the state against
consumers sales tax in any of its
forms.
The spearhead of the agitation
for consumers sales taxes IS the
COMMITTEE Of Americans" directed
by Charles H. Sabin Jr., a Wall
Street broker.
The consumers sales tax will be
an issue in every legislative session
until the public becomes aware that
it is class legislation designed to
shift the burden of taxation from
those best able to pay to those least
able to pay.
1t is an undeniable fact that the
consumers sales tax compels the
lowest income family to pay a tax
on each dollar of income so times
as large as do the highest income
families" (Studies Of the Kansas
Legislative Council, and the Bust
ness Week in 1922
Thousands of signatures were Sc
cured on petitions against the
sales tax last spring when there was
talk of a special session of .Legis-
lature, and when the danger of
special session apparently passed,
the petition campaign was allowed
to lag.
Now the campaign will be resumed
with increased vigor, in order to
combat the idea of an upside-down
income tax. The cry of soaking
the thrifty is merely comouhage to
divert the idea Of taxing unearned
incomes which their recipients can
neither waste nor invest.
The Socialist Party will campaign
for a graduated net income tax such
as the state of Wisconsin has Al
though we believe that the Roose-
welt Social Securities Act is entirely
| inadequate, we will not oppose it
but will insist that the act be
greatly improved in order 20 meet
the needs Of the people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
SUNLIGHT
BY FRANCIS H. INsLEY

BY FRANCIS H. INSLEY
Singly. with delicate and careful
feet,
Let day dreams dance in gardens,
tread the neat,
Green, narrow paths through loved
things lost and sweet.
And let them rest in dim, pool
bordered places,
Finding among the lilies ancient
faces
Mirored with soft, familiar, friend
ly graces.
Then, where the gayer blossoms
drink the sun,
Let them walk quietly as any nun
Who tells her beads all over, one
by one.
Slowly. with delicate and weary
feet,
Day dreams that danced in gardens
tread the neat,
Green pathway back to all things
lost and sweet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

labor and the real value of a rod
uct is in its use and not money
value as some believe. A carpenter
does not build a house without a
plan and the same thing should
apply to economics. Generally the
cry Of Socialism is raised when this
is mentioned, but what of it?
Labor should back a party of It's
own and abandon the two old
parties with their politicians who
squeeze the life out of the masses
for their own selfish gain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

manner of the electric company the
city made arrangements to install a
municipal light and power plant.
The private electric company, which
had consistently refused to reduce
rates, begged to the permitted to re-
duce the rate IS per cent if the city
would not install the plant. This 35
per cent was in addition to 8 per
cent tax it pays the city on gross
receipts from the sale of electricity
each month, with no additional in
crease in rates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are tnutted to cypress
their utetoS in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names 1tH
be t0tthheld at request of tho letter
10riteT.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
DANGEROUS DAYS

president ROOSEVELT has announced
the cardinal principles of his peace pol
icy. They are first, to be the good neigh
Dor" and second TO keep out of specific con-
troveries that 90 not directly concern us.
Seldom have saner principles been enunci-
ated by an occupant of the White House. Such
enunciation has never been more needed than
now. Not in our day have the two billion
human beings who occupy this planet been
more restless. or more in a mood to start
something"
Nation is garing at nation Coalition is
forming against coalition Within, faction
snarls at faction while here and there ma
tional naiorities are seeking to stamp out
mirorities
The whole world has been Balkanized.
And, as if that we're not enough, across seas
and across frontiers, blood cries out to blood,
creed to creed and sect to sect.
For the world ana for ourselves, these are
perilous times. There is always tremendous
mptation-particularly for a nation of sem
timentaiists, mixed races and assorted creeds
like ours-to take up the cudgel for the op-
pressed of other lands
Wherever man Expresses man
Beneath Thy liberal sun,
o Lord, be there, Thine arm made bare,
Thy righteous will be done!"
John Hay, Rough-Rider Theodore Roose-
velts Secretary of State penned those lines.
He did it about the time the Christians of
Armenia, the Jews of Russia and Rumania,
and other downtrodden minorities of other
lands, were being given the treatment Hitler
ian Germany is melting out to his minorties
today
Impulsive as ct r." was in matters of SEN
timent and outraged humanity, he never al
lowed his valor to get the better of his discre-
ton. when he knew Americans. as a whole,
were not ready to back up sentiment with mus
kets. He maintained that it was one thing
for citizens to protest in any reasonable way
they wanted to, but quite another to involve
the government.
The massacre of the Armenians sent wave
of horror throughout America Yet the Pres
ident wrote Hay saying that Ito send warships
to take away the fugitives (as he was pressed
to do would strike me as a spectacular bit of
folly"
Into a similar category of the futile and
provocative falls the Communist demonstra-
ton aboard the Bremen last Friday night as
she was about to sail for Germany. The Ger
man flag was torn from her bow and thrown
into the North River. All of which helped
nothing whatsoever Yet insults to flags"
have started wars.
Let us remember these are dangerous
days. Open powder kegs are Strewn around
on all sides. And surely this generation should
not have to be reminded that all it takes to
set them off is a little spark.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31
HUEY'S FIZZ RECIPE
is CORRECT, HE SAYS

BY Fl. R. Weiss
In last nights Times, there ap-
peared an article about Huey
Longs recipe for a Ramos gin hzz,
for which he was roundly scofed at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-31

Scientists have discovered that cod liver oil
is harmful to some animals. Your children
might have told you ibis already.
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Daily Thought

And when He was at the place, He
said unto them, Pray that ye enter
not into temptation.-St. Luke
xii, 40.
livery moment of resistance TO
- temptation is a victory.-Faber.
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Some Of The Things
We Sell

Folding Card Tables, Black embossed
fibre top. Black enameled legs. Nickel
plated corners with sturdy center Brace.
Screw drivers highly polished Cocobola
handle.
Food Choppers, heavy retained. feur
cutting Knives. cut coarse, medium and
extra fine. Extra large bowls. Height
over ~ inches.
Attractive Electric Lamps assorted
colors, colored silk cords to match.
Spe claI Paint Brushes Nickel ferrules