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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06

MISSIONS use OF depression price-indexes in rate
calculations
In that case Justice Stone for the three liberals
pointed out that In prosperous times courts and
missions used rising prices persuasive evidence
of fair value" and added: 81 see no reason for
cludng that they are of less weight in times of de-
Ginning prices"
Lawyers believe the railroad decision, cutting 10
million dollars off the roads assessment eventually
may react adversely to the carriers because the
rently rising stock ard bond prices will give state
commissions reason to increase tax assessments.
TN the same session this week the court struck
down Louisiana depression law of 1892 providing
for distribution of funds among building
and loan shareholders who sought to withdraw their
money all at once Justice Roberts, author of the
ruling which knocked out AAA as an invasion of
states rights held that the state here had sought
under it's police power to impair contract.
In a third important decision the court upheld
the power of a state to tax the Reconstruction
Finance Corporations holdings of national bank
STOCK bought up in the bank crash save the banks
This ruling by Justice Cardozo expressly stated that
the court not ruling on the validity of the RIG
itself
The Great Northern decision upheld the state on
all but points failure to heed the reduced
earning power of the road shown by stock market
quotations. Justice Butler told of the calamitous
fall in stock prices reported by Dow-Jones, and
concluded that the assessment grossly Excess
sive" and violation of the due process provision
of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Justice Butler one of the four judges who dis
sented three years ago from the courts fve-man
decisions that Mnnesotas mortgage moratorium law
and New York's milk control act both depression
laws were valid attempts to mend some of the raw
ages of economic diSlocation.
Yesterdays Stone Brandes- Cardozo dissent cited
dozens of decisions by the court that the Constitution
protects against too-hgh taxes, and said
fatty that differentiation could be made between
an assessment that too high and tax that was
too high. 1t argued that state has much right
to maintain high valuation it has to increase the
rate of tax, if it desires the revenue.
The decision accentuates the schism in the court,
which is expected to be again apparent in the de-
layed IVA decision. The first half-term of court
has seen half-score of these divided decisions,
an abnormally large number.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
WELCOME TO THE QUEENFISH!

T>HANKs to the chivalry of the old South the
United States Senate is to have two lady men,
bers instead of one. Mrs Rose Long, widow of Huey,
has been appointed to his unexpired term and soon
will join Mrs. Hattie Caraway in that formerly
elusive mems club.
We not particularly impressed with the senti-
mentality that proffers the widows of Representa-
tives and Senators their husbands seats as law
makers. Some times it works well, as in the cases
of Congresswomen Kahn and Rogers, both OF whom
have carried ably that their constituents have
sent them back again and again. The widow Cara
way though not given to speech making, also has
fine voting record In other cases it hasn't done SO
well. There should be many more women lawmakers
than there are. But they should be selected because
of their own records, not those of their husbands.
Mrs. Long, however, promises to be popular. She
is described as pretty, amiable motherly type of
young woman endowed with tact and intelligence.
1t is said she will carry the Share the Wealth
crusade but doubtless in voice such Shakespeare
described "soft gentle and low, excellent thing
in a woman" And we might add, in man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

II HITTING, once again the vogue should never
IN be done except by very old women. They alone
seem able to bring to it that air of detachment
which raises it from an occupation to an art.
Is there anything more soothing than to see
a sweet-faced elderly lady beside open fire. re-
garding her family with tolerant affection while her
fingers eisurely manipulate the slender needles amid
bright-colored yarn?
Her very serenity ennobles her task. She pro-
ceeds so casually that she does not seem to work
at ALL but to enjoy pleasant pastime to which she
brings the same devotion that the artist who labors
for love rather than money bestows his craft. 1t
is the way all knitting should be done.
But these younger women-how ruthless they are,
and with what passionate intensity they attack the
job
Obviously they are at it for one reason only. to
get the garment finished. Their energy reminds you
of days. Perhaps for that very reason it has
all the earmarks of an emotional orgy.
No lady of the old regime would have done that.
And truly the sight OF half a dozen knitters with
grim mouths and downcast eyes, in any audience,
must be absolutely repellant to the speaker We
can imagine lac might feel the tumbril prisoner
did when he caught sight of Madame La Fargo and
her revolutionary companions theoretically knitting
as they made ready to count his head as next on
the list of the guillotines victims.
Surely the sin of thoughtlessness Is grevous one
land with it we must charge the Knitting Brigade.
Or perhaps they only need lessSp in good man
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
BORAH IN OHIO
(From the Cleveland Press)

TINE announcement that Senator William E.
n Borah and Col. Frank Knox will be candidates
for President in the Republican primary in Ohio
should be welcomed by all who believe the presi-
dental primary should be genuinely effective in
strument of government.
The Idaho Senator's candidacy in Ohio state
will present a direct and positive challenge to the
Brown Schorr program to elect an uninstructed
delegation to the national convention at Cleveland.
1t means that the Republican voters of this state
will be permitted choice at the polls between a
hand picked boss dominated delegation and dele
cation openly and honestly pledged to serious
candidate for the presidency
The issue will be clean-cut. Delegates pledged
to Senator Borah for example will vote for Borah
so long as he is before the convention with chance
to win the nomination. The uninstructed delegates
now slated to go on the ticket will vote they are
told to vote by the political clique in temporary con-
troll of the Republican State Central Committee
after these politicians have decided how to cast
Ohios vote to serve best their individual interests
and viewpoint.
If majority of the delegates to the national
convention are pledged to actual presidential candi-
dates there will be reasonable prospect that the
party nominee will be the eventual popular choice
OF the convention. If majority of the delegates
are unnstructed and under the control of hand
1ul OF pontlcal traoers eleii Iile Aoulee Will NC Sc
lected in a smoke-fled room in the wee hours of
the morning. with the convention itself resolving
into a rubber stamp ratification proceeding.
Thus Senator Borah promises to be more than a
candidate in his own right, at least in Ohio. BY
throwing down the gauntlet to the picked slate
he will become the champion of free expression at
the polls
We should likewise be pleased to see Gov. ALT
Landon Senator vandenberg and other Republican
asprants make open fight for votes in this state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
THE COURT DIVIDES

TINE Supreme Court has extended its sway over
4 state taxing powers by reducing a North Dakota
levy on the Great Northern Railroad, in beated
recognition Of the 1929 stock market collapse
Justice Pierce Butler, ex-railroad lawyer from ST.
Paul and a Harding appontee read the majority
opinion in a six-three decision which again
cemented the Brandeis- StoneC ardozo liberal bloc
Justice Harlan Fiske Stone in the minority opin-
ion condemned the court majority for setting aside
state tax for the first time under the due process
clause merely because the assessment was considered
too high, and not because 1t was discriminatory or
unfair.
springs majority decision by the same six justices in
the Baltimore Telephone case rejecting state COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
BRONSON CUTTING LA TOILETTE

RoRN to Senator and Mrs. Robert M La Toilette
~ seven pound son, Bronson Cutting La Toilette
We hope to live long enough to hear from this
young man.
He will achieve greatness if he does credit to his
given name-if he follows in the path of the gentle
manly scholarly late Senator from New Mexico. Or
If he proves to be as much of his father Rob-
ert NJ has proved to be chip of the older Bob And
should he, by some miracle, combine the intellect
vgor, integrity and craftsmanship of all three, he
will be such man as few generations have offered
to our country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
DENIES ASSERTION HE
is COMMUNIST

By Roger N. Baldwin. director. American
Civil Liberties Union, New York.
My attention has been called to
statement given wide currency in
the Indiana press to the effect that
the League Against War and Fas-
cism is Communist-contro
agency. To prove the point, the
membership of number of Com
munists on it's controlling board is
cited, and among them am listed.
am not and have not been a
Communist. The characterization of
certain others is equally inaccurate.
It is true that the Communist Party
is a member of the League, and that
number of Communists are mem
bers of its committees, though in a
minority.
1t is equally true that a pacifist
organization like the Women's In
ternational League for Peace and
Freedom, headed by the late Jane
Adams, is member, and that the
Cleveland conference was Endorsed
by the central labor unions of
Cleveland, Toledo and other cities
md by scores of local unions.
The Communists did not fool
them. They know that an organ
ization working against war and
Fascisn must include Communists,
though it must be equally true that
to be effective, Communists should
not dominate it.
I make this explanation of facts
personally, not for the Civil Liber-
ties Union, which is not part of the
League, though a large number of
its members are actively interested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
The HOOsier Forum
avhouy disopprove of a0hat you soy-and aoE
defend to- the death your right to sag it.-Volaire.

why our economic system does not
deliver a decent standard of living
for every one willing to work. We
take it for granted that something
will happen-we do not know what
that will restore the tabled pros
perity of 1923.
Our boast of private initiative as
the only method for meeting our
economic needs is forcefully con-
tradicted when we see forced unem-
ployment for many millions of our
people.
To meet our social needs, we have
largely substituted public control of
those agencies which furnish our
social needs.
We do not yet regard some of our
most urgent social needs as equally
important for social control, as we
do such matters as schools, libraries,
roads, fire protection, parks. postal
service, sanitary service, police pro-
lection, lighthouses, public hospi.
tails, asylums, veterans homes anc
other such items.
Social intelligence has not yet
caught up with social need in all the
avenues which supply our goods and
services.
Private initiative based upon per-
sonal gain is not responsible for the
greatest achievements of the race.
Our scientists are responsible fol-
the advance of civilization, by seek
ing and giving knowledge without
regard to personal gain. One Louis
Pasteur is worth more than 1000
men who grow financially rich, while
their fellow men are reduced to pov.
erty at their expense. We have the
power, knowledge and machinery to
abolish poverty now. The only thing
We lack is the will to do so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
Questions and Answers

| pointed an architectural commission
to investigate the state of Pisa's
leaning tower and to find means
of arresting it's incline and render
ing it safe. The commission made a
report in August, 1880, and recon-
mended the injection of cement into
| the subsoil of clay and sand to fill
holes and assures and provide a firm
foundation which the structure has
lacked from the beginning.
Q-How old is Amelia Earhart
Putnam, and how long has she been
flying?
| A-She is 81 years old and has
been flying since 1925.
Q-What altitude was attained by
the ballon flight sponsored by the
United States Army Air Corps and
the National Geographic Society on
Nov. IL, 1885? Where did the bal
loon land?
A-The altitude was 1895 feet.
The ascension started in the Black
Hills near Rapid City, S. D., and the
landing was near White Lake, S. D.
The balloon was in the air eight
hours and nine minutes.
Q-Can the dates of snow storms
be forecast from the date and moons
age at the time of the first storm
of the season?
| A-Competent authorizes place no
credence in long range weather
forecasts based on such formalae.
| Q-WhaC is the value of a United
States nickel Scent piece dated
1867?
| A-They are valued at 5 to q
cents
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETZ-

nut of the depression has come
Onew understanding of the role
which American forests can play in
the economic life of the nation, &C
cording to F. A. SilcoX, chief of the
United States forest service.
The forest service this month is
celebrating its thirty-first birthday.
He points out, however, that the
governments first step in forestry
was taken go years ago.
During the depression, the forests
were called upon as vast reservoir
of relief work, he says. On April
II, 1888, the first Civilian Conserva-
ton Corps camp was established.
with the man-power and the
funds made available through the
CCC program and through emer-
gency allotments, the iong-term
program of the forest service for
the protection and improvement OF
the nations forests has been adj
vanced by many years. he contin-
ueS.
y Il
"THROUGH the past years
l. manifestation of the capacity
of the forests for absorbing labor
on productive and non competitive
projects, we are materially helped
along our way toward that time
when the forest, managed for con-
tinuous yield of their resources,
can be counted upon to protect
and sustain their share of the eco
nomic and social life and the hap
piness of millions of Americans.
America is a forest nation, says
Chief Forester SilcoX, reminding us
that the first emblem chosen for
the nation was the famous Pine
Tree flag.
The government stepped into the
field of forestry on Aug. Is, 1876,
when Congress authorized the APP
pointment of a man of approved
attainments with a view of ascer-
tanning the annual amount of con-
sumption, importation and ex-
portation of timber and other for
est products, the probable supply
for future wants, the means best
adapted to their preservation and
renewal, the influence of forests
upon climate and the measures
that have been successfully applied
in foreign countries, or that may
be deemed applicable to this coun-
try, for the preservation and res
toration or planting Of forests"
The job was given to Or. F. B.
Hough, one of the pioneers in urg-
ing forest conservation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
SAYS WILL TO ABOLISH
POVERTY is LACKING

BY Reader
Shall we have pensions or social
capitalism?
The next six months will witness
repetition of the prosperity round
the-corner propaganda IN the public
press.
The Townsend OARP groups do
not seem to share the views of our
prosperity propagandists. Neither do
the financial and industrial moguls
have visions of another boom, I'M
less Federal expenditures are cut
and the country is insulated for the
benefit of Tories.
Prosperity propaganda may satisfy
those who are not suffering from
low income, but those who are must
be shown.
So far we have not discovered
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06

Washington Service Bureau, 1913 18th
st, N. W.. Washington, d. G. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-How many Philippians are
there in the United States?
A-The number OF Philippians is
not separately enumerated in the
census reports.
Q-Eoes Bedloe's Island, on which
the Statue of Liberty is located, be-
long to New York State?
Alt is Federal property, and
jurisdiction over the island, exclus-
i've of the Statue of Liberty, situated
thereon, is vested in the War De-
partment.
Q-Under what title was 1.-THE Ad-
mirable Crichton," by James M
Barrie, produced on the screen, ano
who played the leading roles?
Att was produced in 1919 under
the title of Male and Female
Gloria Swanson, Thomas, Meighan
and Lila Lee played the leading
roles.
Q--Was the travel allowance fol
members of Congress increased II
the last session of Cangress?
A-No. Representative Mitchell
of Tennessee offered an amendment
to abolish the mileage allowance
but it was voted down.
Q-Has anything been done IL
prevent eventual tipping Of tn,
Leaning Tower Of Pisa?
A-Premier Mussolini, in 1927. ap
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
BY MARY WARD

Love, you f1ippantly tossed a
valentine
Over the barricade built with such
art
A golden shaft you tossed, with a
gay design,
Love, and it found heart, it found
a heart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
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THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1895.
ROBERT A. BUTLER

NHE death of Robert A. Butler, president of the
Columbia Club, is distinct loss to Indianapolis
More than most men, he part of the heart of
the city, His life and his work we're important to it,
If there is any one who can take his place, it is
only because he wise enough to train another
generation to it. This great city has been nourished
on such wisdom
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
OTHER OPINION
Budget Politics
tSouth Bend Tribune1

|
IT the Presidents demand for
taxes to finance the veterans bonus
shocked any individuals or inter
eStS the shock can be attributed onlv
to the individuals or interests lack
OF perception of reasonably plain
facts.
In the budget message early last
month Mr.. Roosevelt's promise" of
no new taxation was qualified. When
conditions then operative were taken
into consideration by readers of the
message the necessity of additional
taxation in the near future was
plain.
One condition WIS the impending
adverse Supreme Court decision on
AAA processing taxes. Another was
the certainty of immediate bonus
payment legislation.
In that message, Mr.. Roosevelt
told Congress that biased on ex-
listing laws it is my belief that no
new taxes, over and above present
taxes, are either advisable or recess
sary" That biased on existing
laws" was significant.
Elsewhere in the same message
the President referred indirectly to
the possibility that the Supreme
Court would kill the AAA processing
taxes, an event that would seriously
unbalance the budget.
He chose to ignore the bonus GER
tainty. 1t was a political budget.
Those who interpreted it as any,
thing else were deceiving themselves.
On Prosperity
tAubrey williams. National Youth Admin
istration director. in speech at BuTalo.)
Even in 1929, that false-faced
Nirvana toward which the Bourbons
still yearn, the Brookings Institu-
ton has revealed not more than 10
per cent of all our people we're
financially able to enjoy q liberal
diet,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
Your
Health
By
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
who have to feed ba-

NTOTHERS who have to feed ba-
IVA bies artihcially will find, on
the market, many prepared mixtures
Of milk and sugar.
Many of these-malted milk and
sweetened condensed milk. for in
stance-have very high sugar con-
tent, but insufficient protein. If you
feed such preparations to your baby.
it is likely to grow rapidly and be
fat, but will not be as healthy as
the infant fed with proper amounts
of protein.
In most instances, artificial mix
lures initiate human milk, but some
of them provide, in addition, neces-
sary vitamins and mineral salts
which may be deficient in human
milk.
With most artificial mixtures, it
is merely necessary to add water in
specified amounts. Artificial mix
lures, incidentally, are slightly more
expensive than formulas prepared at
home.
u
TN artificial milk mixtures. at
least two ounces of milk are re-
quired for each pound of body
weight in "a hours.
Artificial feeding may begin when
your baby is quite young, or at the
end of weaving.
BY the time the baby is taking
a quart of milk a day, other foods
should be added gradually, so that
more milk is unnecessary.
Here are some simple suggestions
in artificial feeding which mothers
and nurses generally should follow:
The baby should have plenty of
water.
At each feeding, it should take
two or three ounces Of material
more than its age in months. 1t is
seldom desirable, however, to give
the little one more than seven
ounces of the mixture at feeding,
at any age.
A baby months old weighs
about II pounds. Therefore, its for
mula will include "a ounces of milk,
IL ounces of sugar. and enough
water to make five feelings of 6lA
ounces each, or six feelings Of 6
ounces each.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
DONE YARD!

~ Maybe you think butchers
have a good time at their work
Some of them might. But they
have a considerable thorn in their
side all the time. It's bones.
Up north every one wants bones.
The butcher can't get enough of
them. They bring "a penny a
pound. And every one who has a
dog or more wants them. Butchers
have made rule that it's first
come first served.
In Irvington, the problem is more
complicated. There are more dogs
and fewer bones. Moreover there
IS an 1ndisposition on the part OF
dog owners to pay for the bones
Thus, Mr.. Whoosis, who has pet
dogs A, B and G, and puppy D, will
be seen by MIR. Whatsis CARVING q
bag of bones out of the store Mr.
Whatsis has pet dogs E and F, him
self. so he goes to the butcher conn
ter and asks for bones.
WE have none right now, sir
W the butcher says, "but II
save some for you"
MIR. Whatsis gets surly.
WELL" he says, ct just saw. hin
meaning Mr.. Whosis) leave with
enough to build museum exhibit
Why give him all of them?"
The butcher says he's sorry.
| That's what happens, whether VOL
believe it or not.
I think the best way to do woule
be to turn all the dogs loose arounc
the bone box and let them settl,
the matter in their own way. II
pet fewer feelings would be hurt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06
URGES FORMATION OF NEW
COMMUNITY CLUBS

By Times Reader
I wonder why writer's to the
Hoosier Forum stick to the same
old Subjects-politics, utilities or
some bill sponsored by some far-off
Senator? Why can't this fine writ
ing be used to further compan-
ionship and to make new friends?
In this city there are hundreds
of men who don't know what is
going on right in their neighbour
hood; don't even know who lives in
the house few doors down the
street. Men will gather by the
dozens to hear some soap-box
speaker, regardless of what he is
saying; but the chances are they
don't know the man who stands
next to them.
There are many fine community
houses in Indianapolis that furnish
ideal spots for men to gather and
do the things necessary to make a
better community.
For example, in West Indian
apolis the Mems Club of Rhodius
Park has done a lot of good.
1t would be a fine thing for the
city of indianapolis if every COM
munity would make an effort to
sponsor such club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-06

Lindbergh Sr. announced himself
a candidate for Governor and died
while campaigning.