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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

assets, turning the money over to the suspense
account
The reserve account would invest its funds in
state bonds while the assets of the suspense account
would be kept in more liquid FORM so that there
would be no necessity in lean years for the reserve
account to dump its long-term securities on the
market in hurry. Pointing out that "the usual
thing to expect is that prices Of the highestgrade
bonds will rise during depression and fall during
prosperity" the commission maintained that the
serve account would seldom lose money on its bond
sales
GONE students of public finance believe the COM
~ missions tax-reserve plan to be unavoidable
The problem Of surplus financing, they say, is be-
devied by both legal and administrative difficulties
In the first place governmental units in most states
are allowed to tax only for specific purposes. More
over, it is believed that taxpayers seeing part OF
their taxes being put aside for use in some distant
future would create pressure for tax reductions that
would be hard for legislators to resist.
Ever if a reserve could be built up some ex-
perts maintain, legislators would raid the fund by
changing the law when the reserve mounted to a
tempting height Opponents of the reserve plan
point to similar experiences with various other types
of surpluses in recent years. Hard pressed for re-
to meet current expenses and rigdly restricted
by tax limitations, many cities in Ohio and other
states looted their sinking funds during the de-
preston.
The least complicated method of saving up in
rich years for the vicssitudes of poor ones, many
believe, is to operate on a pay-as-yougo basis. re-
serving borrowing power for depressions.
States and cities have been hit so hard financially
in recent years that they should make use of the
lesson to build business-ike bulwark against the
possibility of recurring depressions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Watch Your Health

COMETIMES a child of 3 years
~ may wet his clothes during the
day because he is too interested in
play and fails to go to the bath
room. Little is to be gained by
Furnishing such child. 1t is much
better to instruct him intelligently
and to praise him for keeping dry
In training her child, mother
should consider the following points:
l.. Do not give him any water,
milk or other fluid to drink after 5
p. m. See that the baby drinks
water freely during the day.
2. If the child complains of thirst
at bedtime, give him a piece of
orange or apple.
8. Pick up the child at 10 o'clock
every night. Wake him Thoroughly
and have him care for himself Just
as he does during the day.
4. Protect the bed well, but do
not put on diapers at night after
the baby has begun to go without
them during the day.
5. Take the baby up just as soon
as he awakes. Many children wet
the bed few minutes after waking
in the morning.
6. In preparing dry suppers, omit
milk for drinking or for use on ce-
reals or buildings, and water or
cocoa for drinking Use milk when
possible in cooking foods. Breads
and cereals of whole grain are
preferable.
Sometimes it is necessary to take
the baby up second time during
the night. If so, the mother should
notice the time at which the baby
vets the bed and awaken him Just
before. Then the period between
the first awakening and the sec
ond may gradually be heightened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
NEED FOR UNIFIED POLICE
FORCE IN STATE CITED
By Jimmy Cafouros

By Jimmy Cafouros
Once upon a time the county was
the unit of applied government
Technically speaking, the county
still is the unit of government. But
time doth wreak great change.
A unit of government is the
neighborhood. A neighborhood is a
region where the people residing
therein know each other rather we'll.
There used to be so few pople in a
county that all that was necessary
was to say you were Mr.. Whoozis
from Marion County or Morgan
County. Today the neighborhood is
the precinct-that is, in most cities.
In sparSely settled sections the coun-
ty is still the only handlebar by
which the government-Federal or
state-can contact the people.
Originally, the sheriff was the cop
on the beat. Most of the time he
was the only cop on the beat. When
it got to be too much for one man
he hired deputies.
What originally was a sort of con-
centration of houses, a general store,
a. postoff1ce, and a corner saloon,
became Main-st, Spruce-st, Cedar
and Walnut. This grew to be the
dominant point Of the county.
BY easy stages there evolved what
is known as the city police depart
ments. The past conduct of both
easily indicates the friction due to
their co-jurisdiction and insane jeal-
ousy of one another.
The police of every city are law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
FINDS CARTOON is
AMUSING

By G. l.. Fish, Rushville
1t is amusing to one who reads the
writings of the philosophers of the
Near East, Indian, Far East and
Roman civilization to Sc a cartoon
like the one that appeared in the
May issue of The Indianapolis
Times. Those philosophers con-
stantly were arguing the crime
question. The disciplinarian upheld
the prevailing social, political, and
economic order; thus, they con-
tended that The nature of man is
evil, and institutions are necessary
in the process OF Specialization. The
free thinker upheld the opposite
school of thought.
Four times, as history records it,
the primitive instinct of man has
overpoWered the strait jacketing of
institutions and education. The
governments favored a select few;
thereby creating poverty and scho-
lastic ignorance. When such a
condition existed, the unfavored
group had to resort to crime and
other unsocial methods in order
that it might be in a position to
obey the paramount human urges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
FOR A RAINY DAY

NTOST state and local governments emerged from
AVA the depression financially crippled and facing
increased tax loads to get on even keel The
is thai, unlike most private enterprises, many
Of them failed to provide for the accumulation dur
ing prosperity of reserves upon which to draw for
running expenses during depressions
No state or local government has provided an ade-
quate rainy day" reserve, although the use of tax
revenues to retire bonds accompshes the same pur-
pose to some extent.
A plan for the creation of reserve funds to cush-
ion state and local governments against the effects
of reduced tax yields in lean years unanimously
recommended to the state Legislature in 1882 by the
New York State Commission for the Revision OF
Tax Laws but no legislative action has been taken
on the recommendation.
The commission estimated that if personal in
come taxes the rates it recommended had been in
force in New York state throughout the period 1920
1881, the annual revenue would have fiuctuated from
low point of s51 0G000o in 1922 to high of S179-
100000 in 1929 and to another low of S51 900 900 in
1881. These fluctuations in revenue accompanying
the business cycle the commission contended we're
great enough seriously to embarrass both the state
and the localities in their attempts to match their
expenditures with their income"
ME plan advanced by the commission contem-
plated the creation for each of the taxes whose
yield was excessively variahe"-the personal in
come tax the corporate franchise tax death taxes
and the stock transfer tax-of reserve fund into
which certain amount of the proceeds of each
tax would be poured in years of high yield and from
which money would be withdrawn to supplement the
current yield when collections declined
Reserve funds under the commissions plan would
be segregated into reserve account and suspense"
account. In prosperous years predetermined share
OF tax revenues would be utilized for current state
expenditures, another predetermined part would 90
into the reserve account, and the balance would 60
into the suspense account In lean years all current
tax revenue would be used TO cover expenditures and
in addition the suspense account would liouidate
part OF its assets, the resulting cash being made
available for current expenditures. At the same
time. the reserve account would lQuidae part Of its
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
BUYING BABY BONDS

DABY BONDS are being bought by banks and
~ trust companies we'll individuals.
The Treasury reports that such institutions have
purchased about per cent of the savings bonds sold
thus far, most of them taking the legal limit of
$4,000 worth
In 10 months the Treasury sold 1,O22759 bonds
ranging in denomination from $25 to $1,000 and
totaling in maturity value $271 ,842 525
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

to themselves. Every town and ham
let in the state has its own rules for
civilized social conduct. In this day
of wide range operations and un-
ceasing movement about the state it
is evident that something is amiss.
Maybe this year, maybe next,
maybe in the next generation it will
come. 1t is inevitable.
There will be one police force in
Indiana. The Indiana State Police.
They will have offices in every coun-
ty. There will be one head, one law,
one offenSe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
DEFINITION

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLrNICE
My life is clear glass bowl
Filed with still water.
You are slim goldfish,
That plurnbs the green depths.
Stirring the surface.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

A SURVEY of local living con-
n ditions last week confirms a
suspicion that something is hap
pening to Indianapolis gardens and
especially to the flowers in them.
For one thing, there was more
evidence this year of shady walks
and sun-fecked parterres, of grass
and hedges, of pools and foun-
tains and the trickle of water and
it all had the effect of pushing the
flowers into the background.
Indeed, in more than one place
there were signs of a deliberate at
tempt to make the garden indie
pendent of howers-not necessarily
free of flowers, you understand, but
independent of them.
Tt was bound to come Gardeners
around here are tired of fooling
with climate as fitful as ours and
to get even have developed a type
of garden that looks as well with
out flowers as it does with them.
The fact of the matter is that
the indianapolis garden no longer
exists solely for its flowers. It's
flowers exist for it. It was the only
way left to achieve a charm indie
pendent of the seasons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Il
SECRETARY ICKES ON PROPER
COURSE, WRITER THINKS

By L. S. J.
Secretary Ickes has renewed his
appeal to Congress to change the
name of his department from that
of Interior" to Conservation" The
secretary, an ardent conservationist,
argues that it is time to reverse the
intimation of exploitation" here
tofore associated with his Office.
After all these years, it is doubt
full if Congress will break tradition
to change the title of the cabinet
post, and that doesn't seem to be
important, SO long as the depart
ment remains on the right track.
Mr.. IckeS is directing a vast per-
sonnet toward protection of Ameri-
can resources. If that duty is per-
formed well, the Department of the
Interior can lay claim to a great
contribution. The name of the de-
partment doesn't mean much-the
vital thing is the spirit of conser-
walton" that prevails there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

Q-Do hogs have thyroid glands.
A-They have two thyroid glands.
Glow long did President Roose-
welt speak at the 1886 Jackson Day
dinner at the Mayfiower Hotel in
Washington?
A-From 10 to about 1898 D. m.
(Which is correct, somebody's
else" or somebody else's'?
A-Else is an adverb. The pos
sessive of indefinite pronouns COM
bined witl8slse is formed By adding
S. as somebody else's." No other
form IS sanctioued.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
The Hoosier Forum
diSapproUe of a0hat yom say-dnd aOit defend
to the death your right to sag it.-VoItaire

Times reGders are united to cypress
their vte10s In these columns. religious
controversies excluded. Make uour letters
short so all can hare chance Limit
them to ESQ tcords or less. Your letter
must be si0ned. but names toU be
lcithheld on reGneSt,I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

THIS column unlike others,
measures time and progress by
what happens from one Mothers
Day to the next, Measured that
way, it shows what the women. not
the men, were up to last year. For
instance:
Last Sunday rocking chairs were
in style again and, like as not, the
rocking chair tidy" is right around
the corner.
Black bean soup has superseded
cream of mushroom, whether you
like it or not.
Baby carriages are now stream
lined for good. Last Mothers Day
manufacturers were just making up
their minds about it.
A split skirt is now culotte. 1t
looks the same, though.
The angle OF womens hats this
Mothers Day vas As degrees-a
drop of Is degrees in a year. Well
probably have to wait until next
Mothers Day to see what happens
because goodness knows they can't
stay on at this rate.
The holes in mothers doughnuts
last Sunday were smaller than ever
before.
And last Sunday mothers wore
mems suspenders. Up It'll now,
they've depended on moral support.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
DAILY THOUGHT

If any man serve Me, let him fol-
low Me; and where I am, there shall
also My servant be: if any man
serve Me, him will My Father
honour.-St. John 1926.
A LII I have seen teaches me to
n trust the Creator for all have
not Seen.-EmerSon
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES.

Inciose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The indianapolis Times
Washington Service Bureau. 1913 18th
st. n. W.. Washington. d. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

IT'S nice to think that the 200
= year old Chardin-p painted Still
Life" recently purchased by the
Heron Art people, will spend the
rest of its days in Indianapolis.
1t is a rarely beautiful picture and
the only thing like it IN this world
is fruit cake, mellowed by time
and treatment. At any rate, that's
what the little lady within our hear
ing said it was like
The comparison is fair enough
even if it does dip into collateral
art for words A Chardin- painted
picture, come to think of it. is ex-
actly like fruit cake, especially the
kind We used to keep for years
wrapped in following brandy soaked
cloths. It has the same richness.
the same body and exactly the same
haunting fragrance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
Our
Town
By
ANTON SCHERRER

CALLY METZ, the prize girl in the
~ state All Club Roundup at
Purdue, was pronounced 976 per-
feet. Her mother was too indignant
to be interviewed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16
HARBORERS REAL PUBLIC
ENEMIES, is CLAIM
By r. z.

By r. r.
Having rounded up the most no.
torious of the nations public enc
mics, j. Edgar Hoover now seeks
the persons who harbored and
abetted these criminals.
That includes doctors, lawyers,
and police of various American
cities who are suspected of having
aided Karpis, Campbell, Mahan and
other dangerous racketeers. In
Cleveland, for instance, certain 10
cal politicians with police connec-
lions are suspected by Hoover of
having aided in the 1884 escape of
the Karpis- Barker Campbell gang.
only hope that Mr.. Hoover is
100 per cent successful in catching
up with these nefarious undercover
operators. Were it not for their
aid, the racketeers could never have
gone as far as they did. These I'M
scrupulous aids of the underworld
are, in fact, the real public enc
mics
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

It all SINNERS down to this; The
eagerness to solve the crime problem
is always in the ear (or) and eye of
he who hears (or) and reads it: but
not in the tongue (or) and pen of
he who speaks (or) and writes it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-05-16

EDITORS NoTE-ThiS rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he piesses.
when he pIeases. in search Of odd stories
shout this and that.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-09

for the trolloyS came as . result of the contemplation Of the new highway to be constructed along the route by the State Highway Depart ment.
 The Connecticut company owns tho trolley line from Grove street in New Haven to Mount Carmel in Hamden, while the Connecticut Railway & Lighting O., own the line from Mount Carmel through Cheshire to Milldale and leases 1t to the Connecticut Go. To substitute bus service for trolley cars on the entire line ig estimated to cost 9i64,- 900 of which amount approxis Tnately 922,D00 will Dc expended for the account Of the Connecticut Railway & Lighting company.
 Award Road Contract
 Commissioner John A. Macdonald of the state highway department stated that the contracts for the construction of the proposed rein- forced concrete road between Mill- dale and Cheshire center were awarded today to the L. Suzio Con. struction company of this city and the New Haven Road Construction company, which were the lowest bidders. The commissioner further said that the state highway de- partment plans to construct Q new highway between Milldale and New did not know just when the con. tracts for the construction of the road between Milldale center and Haven city line but added that he the New Haven line would be awarded as that action would dee pend entirely on the funds avail able. There had been talk that the work on the latter section would start in the fall but the commis. sioner remarked that was not deh- nite as 1t was not known now whether the necessary funds would be available.
 Federal Funds
 The commissioner explained that the new highway would be con- structed under the federal bureau of public roads and the state high way department. He said that the federal government would pay most of the cost with the state highway department bearing the balance of the expense and there would be no cost for the work on the towns through which the highway passes.
 He said the road contractors would start work on the new high- way as soon as the Connecticut company has the tracks, ties, poles and wires removed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-09
State Employment Records Indicate
 Favorable Trend
Total Number of Ciys Idle Registered For Work Now Placed at 2,495 Scores Return to Private
 Work, WPA, PWA Employment

pWA projects in neighborlng towns, with about 60 per cent of these men having been transferred. Only Q placements were made on the WPA during the past month, thus indicate ing that tfie local WPA personnel is stll undergoing 6 steady curtaii- Snet1t.
 During the month of June the lo- eel cfiice made i08 private place. Inents, on increase ifl this phase of the departments work. Of those who received private placements 60 were men, with 50 getting regular jobs and 6 getting temporary jobs 12e women were placed privately, with B0 receiving regular employ Fnent and 70 being listed as tenn porartly employed.
 TOEFingtOm Report
 Prom the Torrington branch of- flee, which Is under the supervision of the local offlce, the report for the month of June states that . rec ductlon of 002 was listed on the ace tive files. There were 2 privase place. ments made out of the Torrington ofslce, 177 men placed on PWA pro- jects and 4e men placed on WPA jobs. The Torrington offlce had . new registration of 77, with 6i men and 10 women,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-09

A decrease of well over 600 names on the active flles for tho city of Waterbury, bringing the total of the city'S unemployed down to 2,4ee, is shown in . list of figures released this morning ct the Connecticut State employment office by Mana- ager Thomas I. Shea. The decrease of GOO hes taken place since May 90, to which time the approximate number of Waterbury unemployed was given as approximately 9,i00. The present total of 2,4D0 for the city is not an approximate figure, but one which has been checked from the lists.
 District Figures
 For the entire district covered by the Waterbury ofiice, c district which includes fourteen smaller towns, the report shows that there are now 2,o00 men and women regs istered ct the Waterbury ofiice. For the month Of May there were g.. 026 names listed, the present figures noting Q decrease Of e60 for the entfe uibtrjcL
 The active files, which have been cleared during the past two months of the names of persons who have failed to report within 6 sixty day period and of WPA work CTS who are employed now and whose names will probably not be put back on the list, are listed for the entire district by towns as fol- lows: Beacon Falls, %; Bethlehem, g; Middiebury, q; Naugatuck, i6e; New Milford, 10; oxford, 6; South. bury, 6; Prospect, 1; Plymouth and Terryville, e4; ThomaSton, 34; Washington, Q: Watertown, e3; Wolcott, i7: Woodbury, Q; and Wa. terbury, 2,40O. This gives . total Vf 2,D60 for the entire district.
 Four Cisssielcetl0ns
 out of this total of names reg. istered on tho active files for the entire district, the local manager has built ID four divisions, which are classified As follows. In c group listed as self.gustaining unemployed men and women, persons who are not on relief roles, the local ofiice has Q total of i,4S6, with O06 men and 4s0 women.. There is also total of 340 non gelf.gustaining uF1- ployed men and women, with i00 men end i0p women.
 gelf-sustaining men and women temporarily employed total only 4 with 2 men and two women. Under unemployed non-self. f.Sugtaining thu local manager has LIST men enc 126 women on the files. This total | l,276. All in oil, the four divisioni comprise the 2,000 for the entire district.
 Tn addition to the names listed or active files, the monthly report alsc shows that the new registration foE u city during the month of June was S72. with 240 of these being men and 120 women.
 Placements
 A total of i00 men were placed on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-09
PROMINENT YOUNG
 MAN DIES, TODAY
George BegnaI, Supt. of Cemeteries Succumbs
 to Long Illness ~

George E. Begnal, g, Supcrinten- dent of Old and New St. joseph's cemeteries and c member of one Of Waterbury'B best known families, died today ct his home, 6 Charles street after Q lingering illness. Fun eral arrangements will be ar- flounced later.
 The deceased was the son Of the late Henry Hegnal, who was guperin- tendent of the Riverside cemetery for many years. The latter succeed. cd his father in the position and t ig more than c coincidence that on his death, Henry Begnal, JSv hi son, succeeded him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-09


 Work started today on the tearing up of the tracks and ties and when this is completed the poieS and pow. Or lines will be removed. PermiS. sion was granted the Connecticut O., and Conn. Railway & Light. ing O., yesterday by the Public Utilities Commission to abandon the trolley line from New Haven to MilIdale, Q distance of 1914 miles and covering 27.82 miles of track, but ag only the contract for the MilIdale- Cheshire route has been awarded buses will not be subSti. tuted on the ChcshiresNcw Haven until Q later date. This announce ment was made by Richard J. Ben. nett, general manager of the Con- necticut Go.
 Buses for Service
 This SubStitution of the busSeD