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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
Gen. johnson Saws

WAsHINGToN, April Tt is astonishing how
W the ghost Of NFA still fits More astonish-
Ing still are the people selected to keep it fitting
The Secretaries of Commerce Labor and Agri-
culture are the Amounted ghost dancers DR. Leon
marshall has some obscure function Mr. Richberp
quoted as saying that the Sugar Institute decision
"Opens the way" No other five persons did more
to kill NRA N-N -'i0io
secretary Wallace wanted to increase farm mr.
chasing power He thought that better labor condi-
lions should wait on that. His department OH
structed NFA from the day of its birth If it did
not organize agriculture against NRA It did moth
ing to prevent that deadly rural opposition
Uncle Danny Roper always regarded NRA as a
sort OF rival Department of Commerce Failing tn
control it, he sat "in cold obstruction" all the davz
of its life-and after it's death The Roberts re-
port, which he suppressed and then submitted is
with his covering letter. the most ridiculously con-
Trajectory public document on record
ME Perkins-R ichberg combination to scuttle
Il NFA is too well known to require recounting
Dr. Marshall was planted on it's pay roll to
help write book which condemned it. root and
branch, and was carefully timed to prevent extern
sion of NEsA by Congress.
George Berry was loyal MIRA leader He also
mas separate commission to keep the ghost
visible Personally. no is better fitted But if
ever that phantom takes on flesh and blood it will
be in impartial and non poltical form and George
one OF the ablest labor and Democratic partisans
in the country
1t just doesn't add up to make sense-none of it,
Copyright, 1886, by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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serving farmers throughout the
county. Just recently it invaded
the county seat and set up a SUI
perservice station that is going
strong.
A LMOST next door, in Roches-
n ter, Mimi, is a group that
started in 1880 with a small gas
station. Today it operates II
small stations, four bulk plants
and a warehouse handling tires,
batteries and accessories. 1t OPP
crates a fleet of IS tank trucks.
It's 1884 business amounted to
$330,000. 1t handled total gall
lonage of 100000. Standard of
Indiana, with a lot more money
invested, came in second with a
total of 100000 gallons.
Heading the set-up of which
these co-ops are members is the
Midland Cooperative Wholesale.
It started in business in 1925, with
few hundred dollars capital
which was promptly tied up in a
closed bank.
In 1881 this wholesale had adj
vanced to the point where it
owned it's own oil-blending plant,
turning out coop brands of oil.
Last year it did business close
to 100000.
TINE story of the Consumers
l. Cooperative Association in
Kansas City is even more dra-
matte. Here a few scattered re-
tailers started a wholesale to con-
centrate their purchasing power.
From 1922 to 1929 the wholesale
struggled along It's business was
so small that the big oil company
from which it bought lubricating
oils decided in 1929 that the coop
business was too trifing and
dropped it.
The co-ops went steadily ahead.
Their little plant with it's 5000
gallon tank and tiny Office and
warehouse didn't amount to much
on paper, compared to the big Oil
company proudly installed in it's
new $250,000 plant, with 100000
gallon storage capacity.
But the co-ops came along. This
year the wholesale moved into the
plant of the big oil company, buy
ing it for cash at a bankruptcy
sale.
It's business last year ran around
the 100000 mark. From gas and
oil the coop went into tires and
batteries, binder Irvine and build
ing materials.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
Washington Merry-Go-Round

XXTAsHINGTON, April

XXTASHINGTON, April T.
w Three years ago William
Edgar Borah was at the bottom
of a personal and political depres-
sion.
President Hoover, whom he had
been so instrumental in electing,
was to him a bitter disappoint-
ment. The party which he had
served throughout lifetime had
been overwhelmingly defeated. The
state which had sent him to the
Senate for 30 years threatened, for
the first time to desert him for a
Democrat. His political power was
nil.
Furthermore, Borah was in bad
health. Two or three times a day
he was forced to lie down on his
Office couch. The old fire was
gone-the passion in his voice, the
crusading fervor in his eye.
But they did not know their
Borah. Today, after an operation
and several months rest, Borah is
back with all the vigor and en-
thusiaSm of a dozen years ago.
= =
TN fact it is new, and probably
Il better, Borah than the Senate
ever has seen before who is max
ing his present fight for the Re-
publican nomination. For this is
Borah's biggest, probably his last
fight.
In the opinion of some critics,
1t is also his first fight. For the
chief criticism of Borah in the
past was that he was not go
through guy"
He began hundreds of things,
his critics said, never finished
them.
He was lazy, his critics said. He
preferred haranguing the multi
tudeS in the Senate arena to wag-
ing unspectacular, tedious, but
more effective fights in commit
tee and cloak-room. Never would
he have the perseverance, they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
One VieW of 1t

THE whole problem of speed and deaths in trans
portstion raises the question of why men like to
go from place to place more quickly and continually
invent devices for accomplishing this purpose.
Bunty the question may be asked, What is the
good of all the present-day speed?"
DR. H. G. Dickinson of the National Bureau of
Standards in Washington has made an unusual
analysis of this problem which is confirmed in part
by the figures above.
Time, says DR.. Dickinson is the common heritage
of all men. 1t is the only thing which all people
have to do with as they will large amount of time
is used in getting from one place to another for
pleasure business. In primitive days, by walking
a persons lifetime probably equivalent to about
100000 miles. If man spent his lifetime travelling
on horseback or in horse drawn carriage he might
travel 100000 miles in his entire life.
Man invented, however, the motorcar, the air.
plane and the railroad train to enable him to travel
farther and faster; and in the process some people
killed just as people occasionally are killed in
walking or by riding horseback.
Compare the wasting of an entire life in cover
ing from 100000 to 100000 miles by primitive modes
of transportation" asks DR.. Dickinson with the life
cost of modern travel by automobile where sacri-
flee what is left of ones life for each 100000
passenger miles travelled"
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III viz Ht'OOE11NH1Vf WITT
assigned an assistant to help the
newspaper reporters wrestle with
the legal documents.
q q
Still there was complaint be-
cause the court did not provide
printed copies of its opinions I'M
til after they had been delivered
orally. That created no end of
trouble for newspaper reporters
who were compelled to catch
enough of the opinion by ear to
get off an instant news flash. 1t
sounds easy, but you don't know
what poor public speakers some
of the ilSticeS are Chief ,JuS-
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responses. But as you know mine
is a one-man campaign. We have
no money and no organization. My
leading opponents have both. We
will be better able to tell how we
stand after some of the prima-
rieS."
In the first contest in New York
state last week the Borah candi-
dates for the national convention
were showed under, even in dis
tricts where they had been ex-
pected to make strong showing.
But it was not in the cards for
Borah to show strength in New
York, in spite of his personal in
vasion of this Old Guard terri
tory. A more revealing test will
come today in the Wisconsin pri-
marieS.
THERE was a day in 1924 when
u Borah could have had all the
money he wanted from his friend
Jim CouzenS, in order to oppose
Coolidge for the nomination. But
Borah turned it down. Since then
he and Couzens have become
frigidly aloof, having quarreled
over the Mcleod closed bank pay
off bill.
The sore subject did not arise
here. The reporter asked:
What if money and organiza-
ton lick you in the primaries,
Senator?"
There was deep silence for mo-
ment. Then the Senator said:
win or lose, I shall be in the
presidential fight to the end. And
by the end, I mean November.
That is one thing I can tell you
definitely. The choice before the
Republican Party is clear-liberal-
ism or certain disaster.
IF the old repudiated bosses
control the nomination, I shall
know what to do. I have my
mind made up on that"
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IlIlg 100 cnummy With Japan.
The Administration hopes that
a non-aggression treaty, if not a
mutual assistance pact, with pro-
vision for economic sanctions
against aggressor nations will be
one result. In other words, it
wants the good old Monroe doc
trine to flourish more healthily
than ever on a cooperative basis.
The japanese have been max
ing commercial advances in South
America, notably in Chile, Peru,
and Ecuador. They have been
playing up to the politicians of
those three republics in manner
which long ago lifted State De-
Dartment evehrOwS of laoct hole
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
High Court Tries
to Be Progressive
BY RAYMOND CLIPPER

VXTASHINGTON, April 7.-One might .iot guess
w it from the majority opinions but the Supreme
Court doing its best to keep abreast of the wheels
of progress At least in the mechanics of the court
ROOM
When the Court moved into its new marble
palace, pneumatic tubes were installed from the
press desks so that news bulletins important
opinions might be shot downstairs to the telegraph
wires quickly. Press working rooms were equipped
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investment represented by the old
line company setups.
Advance of the farmer into the
oil business has been marked by
unqualified success. And he is
making enough money out of gas
and Oil to set him up in business
in OTHER lines.
The idea is spreading into towns
and cities throughout the West.
And as the co-ops grow, they lay
new plans. Already they are talk
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
BY BERTRAM B. FOWLER

BY BERTRAM b. FOWLER
Copyright, 1896. NEA Service, 1nc)
MOST spectacular of the
coop accomplishments
has been their amazing adj
vance in the gas and oil
business, building trade
that mounts annually into
the millions, centering
largely in the Midwest, but
expanding in all directions.
Six years ago there were
only a few small coop gas
stations, farmer owned,
buying their gas and oil
wherever they could get it.
Then these small societies be-
gan to organize their own whole
sale houses to pool purchasing
power and make sure of their
supply of gas and oil. The whole
salers have now made great
progress in the oil business, run
ming of total gasoline consump-
ton in some states to such ex-
tent that the big distributors are
trying to figure out a way to
beat them.
But they are hard bunch to
beat, simply because the co-opera-
tives have discovered there is
money in the Oil business.
Coop filling station business
works out about like this: II you
are an average user of gasoline,
you burn 1000 gallons, for which
you pay about $3.50. If you belong
to coop, you'd have a check for
SIS coming to you for Christmas.
For this is what most of the gas
and oil co-ops pay.
Few of them pay less. Some
of them pay as high as 20 per
cent. But this is frowned upon
as unsound. A good share of the
profits should go back into the
business to allow for expansion.
TINE story of the Isanti County
l. Coop Association in Cam
bridge, Mimi, is typical. There
coop was organized in 1882. The
original capital raised amounted
to $17OO.
Since that time the coop has
paid back to its members $4,000
in patronage dividends and built
a business valued at $4,000. In
the first six months of 1885 it did
a business of $4,000.
At the same time, encouraged
by their success in the oil bust
ness, the members opened a gro
Gerry that had a turnover of $24,-
500 in it's first five months of OPP
Grafton.
Albert Lea, Mimi, presents an
other example of coop growth.
An oil and gas group started there
in 1925 with capital of $500. In
the 10 years of its existence it
has returned to the community
more than $250,0O0 in patronage
dividends.
1t operates seven bulk plants,
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This group us now planning a
wholesale grocery to save 10
struggling coop stores in it's ter
ritory Next spring it plans to
come out with a line of coop
farm machinery.
TN indianapolis is another oil
l. plant with a blending capacity
of 1880 gallons a day. This group
handles all kinds of farm mach
inery and supplies. 1t is linked
with the Ohio Farm Bureau in
the gasoline, oil and fertilizer
business.
Together they are blanketing
Indiana, Ohio, northern Ken
lucky, and Pennsylvania with a
system of rural gas distribution.
This group did a business of
$9,500,000 in 1884.
At the same time a wholesaler
down in Amarillo, Tex, piled up a
total of $1,5O0,000, while another
S1Ohp, uA1C dA1AlC1 . OA1AO1l OClAO1 OIL
Exchange in st. Paul, did we'll
over $2,500,000.
Together, these groups have set
up National Co-Ops, Inc, as ma
tional purchasing agency. Through
this agency they make their gas
contracts with the refiners and
build up coop brands. They are
bringing out their own coop
tractor in the spring. They al
ready have contract with one of
the big Akron tire makers, who is
turning out coop tire accord
ing to specifications laid down by
the co-ops.
TINE Farmers Union Central
Il Exchange has moved into sec
ond place as a distributor of gas
in North Dakota. It leads in the
rural area.
Here some interesting figures
are presented. In every commun-
ity in which these big wholesal-
e1s have retail unit going, they
lead in gas and oil distribution.
1t is these figures that have the
big oil companies worried.
In each case the coop is doing
this business on a fraction of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07

ing of their own refineries and
oil fields.
They have the money to buy.
1t will take only a little pressure
by the big companies to drive
them to that step.
Next-Fertilizer and stock feed
business fall into the coop fold
as farmers take over their own
mills to make products according
to their own formulas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
ShrelCd "GOOd Neighbors"

THE good neighbor policy" of Roosevelt which
seems to have charmed Latin America is re-
garded by insiders here as shrewd from several
angles Not only trade but also military-naval
strategy involved
Inc way 1t works is seen in the case of the new
Panama treaty. After wranglng for years over the
issue OF Panamanian sovereignty, this governments
mas negotiated a treaty which recognizes Panama as
an equal and makes protection of the canal and it's
zone theoretically matter of joint defense.
On paper this country has given I'D its right to
intervene IN Panama at its discretion, although &C
tualy any intelligent person knows it will intervene
in case of emergency.
Inc Panamanians are pleased as Punch The
united States generals and admras baked with
more or less customary stupidity but Secretary Hull
beat them off. From the standpoint of defense of
the canal. it seems much better to have the Pana-
manians pleased than aggrieved
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CO-OPS-CONSUMERS IN BUSINESS


Spreading rapidly across the nation,
the coop movement has shown an
amazing growth in recent years, bust
ness being transacted by the more than
5000 consumer groups now totaiing
hundreds Of millions Of dollars annually.
Bertram B. Fowler, noted magazine
writer, who has made an intensive
study of the cooperative program, tells
the story of the rapid rise of the move
ment in a series of six stories, Of which
this is the second.
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BY VIM. E. M,KENNEY

by VIM. T.. M'kENNEY
Secretary American Bridge League
VOU may recall the interesting
l. series of articles on the
smother play" which was pre-
pared for me by Sam Mailman of
New York City, eastern tourna-
ment director of the American
Bridge League.
I am indebted to Mailman for
today's hand, which, he points out,
contains strategy that is very
unusual, although similar in
great many respects to the
smother play"
Against the four heart contract,
West opened the king of dia-
monds. This was won with dunn
my's ace. The ace of hearts was
cashed, west showing out.
The seven of hearts was played
and East, realizing that the
dummy was then void of entries,
played the ten, which South was
forced to cover with the jack.
West won South's play of the
king of spades with the ace. He
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07

WASHINGTON, April THAT Pam
American peace conference we are GO
ing to have late next summer in Buenos
Aires is no empty gesture
To be quite frank about it-as nobody
else is being-the main idea is to Undue the
Latin American republics with prohibited States
psychology and to dissuade any of them from get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
Startling Opinion

AMES MONTGOMERY BECK, Philadelphia ex-
congressman, who now carries the Constitution
around under his wing and keeps clucking over it.
made speech the other night to the Rhode Island
Bar Association, from which New Dealers are mime
ographing excerpts.
becK ventured the startling opinion that the
spirit OF the Supreme Courts decision in the iva
case was due to enlightened expediency" The
court he said can not be ignorant of the fact that
tnere is rising storm in Congress" to curb its
powers. Mr. Beck himself had declared IVA I'M
constitutional.
The admission by Mr. Beck that the court was
susceptible to outside pressure is considered astonis
ing Antl-Beck lawyers have felt that majority or
the Justices were susceptible to the pressure of their
pacKgrounds as corporation lawyers or economic
preJudces, but they never expected Mr. Beck to adj
t tne court to be susceptible to such pressures or
any other.
Copyright, 1885, NEA Service Incl
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an men. The nitrates and copper of Chile appear
10 possess an especial appeal for Nippon and heal
pohtK suggests to our statesmen that we should be
III position to have influence on that business should
certain eventualities arise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-07
Washington
BY
RODNEY BUTCHER

Westbrook Pegler is route TO the United
States from Europe. His column will be resumed in
few days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-02
Keith Services Set

Funeral services are to be held at
10 tomorrow for Joseph Lewis Keith,
81, at the home of his son, Wilbert
w. Keith. 333 Burgess-av. Burial
is to be in Memorial Park Gene
terry.
Mr.. Keith, for IS years an employee
of .Kingan & Co., died yesterday at
City Hospital as the result of hip
and shoulder injuries received in a
fall on the ice.
Surviving Mr.. Keith, in addition to
his son, are three daughters, Miss
Anna G. Keith, Indianapolis; Mrs. D.
S. Miller, indianapolis, and Mrs.
Charles Gibson, Lyons, Ind, and a
sister, Miss Margaret Keith, May
wood, Ill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-02
Civil War Veteran Dies

Funeral services for Lew Nicoli,
80, who died yesterday in his home,
BIS E. 36th-st, are TO be held in
Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary to-
morrow at 1:30. DR.. j. Ambrose
Dunkel, pastor of the Tabernacle
Presbyterian Church, is to oficiate.
Burial is to be in Grown Hill Gem
etery.
Mr.. Nicoli, Civil War veteran,
was engaged in the real estate and
insurance business As years. He
retired in 1881. Born in Cincinnati,
Mr.. Nicoli came to Indianapolis
with his parents at the age of Z.
He attended the old Seventh Ward
School and Bryant Commercial
College
He served under Gen. George st.
Thomas in the Army of the Cum
berland, having enlisted in the
Union Army at the age of 10. His
corps, the Fourteenth, participated
in the battle of Lookout Mountain,
the Atlanta campaign and Sher-
mans march to the sea, and
marched in the review in Washing
ton at the end of the war.
Survivors are son, Harry Nicoli,
Indianapolis. and two brothers, Jay
Nicoli, Los Angeles, and Charles
Nicoli, Chicago.
MIR. Nicoli was a charter member
of the Tabernacle Church. which
he served as a deacon for Is years
and as an elder "a years. He was a
member of Capitol Lodge, I. o. O.
F.. and George H. Thomas Post II,
G.. A. r.
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Music
BY JAMES THRASHER

CTUDENTS of the radio
~ school at Drake Univer-
sity, Des Moines, Ia, are to
present a condensed version
of Won Flotow's comic opera,
Martha" over an NBC-WJZ
(WIRE) network from $3.50 10
4:30 tomorrow.
More famous than the opera
is its ballad, The Last Rose of
Summer" which Martha sings
preceding her love scene with
Lionel. Although hardly of
grand" opera caliber, Mar
tina" long has been popular
favorite, and it's title role fire.
quently has been sung by such
prima donnas as Patti, Eames
and Marie Van Zandt.
On Grace Moore's weekly
NBC (WIRE) broadcast at
$3.50 tonight, she is to have
Joseph Bentonelli as guest So
list. Bentonelli formerly Joe
Benton Of Arkansas, generally
is considered the best of this
years freshman class" of male
singers of the Metropolitan.
Nelson Eddy's selections to-
night are to include familiar
folk sangs, "Songs of the Volga
Boatmen" and 'Loch Lomond,"
as well as Clark's Blind
PlOughman," and Song of the
Bow" by Aylward. The broad
cast, at 1880 via NBC-WEAF
(WIRE), again is to present
Margaret Speaks, soprano, in
several duets with Mr.. Eddy.
MUSIC by the prolific but now
N1 almost forgotten German,
Georg Phillip Telemann, is to
be included on a program by
the Boston Sinfonietta Orches-
ira, Arthur Fielder conducting,
in the Library of Congress Sc
ries over CHS (WFBN) at 2::30
tomorrow.
Telemann was a contempor-
airy of Bach, and equally es-
teemed by musicians of that
day. In fact, Bach's position
as cantor at the Thomasschule
in Leipzig, was offered first to
Telemann. The latter'S works
include 40 operas, almost 600
overtures, 100 minutes for harp
sichord and other instruments,
and great mass, of church
and instrumental music, The
Telemann composition to be
heard tomorrow is the "Tafel-
musk" Suite for Chamber
Orchestra.
The rest of the broadcast Is
to be taken with music by
modern composers, including
the Historic du Soldat." by
Stravinsky, Arthur Honegger's
"PaStorale d'Ete" and the
advertisement for Chamber
Orchestra" by Jacques Ibert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-03-02
Roy Henry Alfred Watson
Dies Following Long
Illness.

Funeral arrangements are being
made today for Roy Henry Alfred
Watson, classified advertising man.
ager of the Indianapolis Star, who
died yesterday afternoon of heart
disease at his home, 2614 Gull
ford-av.
Mr. Watson, who was SO, had been
i'll several years. He had been CLASH
fed manager since 1884. Previously,
he had worked on newspapers in
Detroit, Omaha and Columbia, S. G.
He was born in Milwaukee and
reared in MooresYille and Martins
Vile. III 1924 he married Miss Olive
Bailey who survives. A 3-year-old
son and two aunts, Miss Maude and
Miss Minnie Brown, both of Brook
Ign, Ind, also survive.
Mr., Watson was a member of the
Brooklyn Christian Church, the
Murat Temple Shrine and the In
dianapolis Real Estate Board.