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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
HIGHER AND HIGHER

IF 1T is the Office of good judge to enlarge his
Jurisdiction" as Thomas Jefferson once mockingy
said then the six majority justices of the United
States Supreme Court appear to be making good.
For now, protest of Justices Stone Cardozo and
Brandeis, they have rendered another opinion vastly
extending the high courts jurisdiction this time
the fiscal powers of a state
The case was that of the Great Northern Rail-
road against the State of North Dakota The opinion
was read by Justice Pierce Butler ex-ralroad law
yer from ST. Paul, Harding appointee It held that
the state tax commission overassessed the railroad
in 1888 by $1O0OOOOO by not giving due weight to
the sudden, progressive and enormous declines of
value" through that year.
This decision contrasts with one by the same
majority of six about year ago-the Baltimore
telephone case in which they rejected state COM
missions use of depression price induces to reduce
rates to consumers
1t also conflicts with former decisions giving the
states great leeway in their rights to levy and collect
taxes. For instance in 1881 the Supreme Court up
held Indiana's authority to levy special tax on
chain stores Then Justice Roberts said; THE
power of taxation is fundamental to the very exis-
tence of the states it is not the function Of this
court in cases like the present to consider the pro-
priety or justice of the tax to seek for motives or
to criticise the public policy which prompted the
adoption of the legislation"
On Monday Justice Stone, for the minority,
charged that for "the first time this court is setting
aside tax violation of the Fourteenth Amendment
on the ground that the assessment on which it is
computed is too high without showing that the
assessment is discriminatory that the petitioner
is in any way bearing undue share of the tax
burden imposed on all property owners in the state
The present majority has zealously upheld
Estates rights" in vetoing such acts as MIRA and
AAA Now it turns on states rights in matter
hitherto sacred to the statesthe right to tax. Does
it propose to add to it's recently broadened powers
new Jurisdiction, and sit henceforth supreme
board of tax appeals?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07

years Tep1ncy also has contributed to despolation
Of our basic resource the land because the primary
interest of both land.ird and tenant is a quick
cash return Tenancy" says Secretary Wallace, lis
largely responsible for the serious and progressive
depletion of soil fertility" No takes much
care of what another owns as of his own property.
For the first time since the Western lands were
thrown open for homesteadng the government at
Washington tackling the land crisis with vgor and
intelligence. The AAA sought to apply domestic
tariff" for the benefit of farmers The Resettlement
Administration is retiring wornout lands and moving
farmers to good lands. The Soil Erosion Service is
encouraging planting of soil-enriching crops The
Rural Electrhcation Administration is bringing cleo
tricity to relieve the tedum of farm life The Farm
Credit Administration is helping landowners hold
their land The National Resources Board in gen.
eral and IVA in particular are opening the doors
to the national planning of land-use
Whether these measures can halt the dangerous
trend toward landess American peasantry we do
not know. We hope and believe they will retard it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs, Walter Ferguson

THE next best thing to soaring over the Andes
in an air clipper is to soar over them in
book You can take such journey with Claudia
Cranston in Sky Gypsy" and you'll find the ex-
perience as thrilling any you have ever had on
paper. For $4,000 miles we travel, seeing strange
countries eating at unusual places pokng our noses
into South Americas junges and sailing over its
peaks. Pell-nell the story rushes you along You
feel as if you tearing through the air with its
writer.
Miss Cranston has a flair for going places. She
thinks nothing of finding herself the only woman
in group of men. none of whom she has seen be-
fore. She is stuck with them in the thick mud of
Haiti and trudges along up the dangerous mountain
leading to King Christophe's crumbling citadel
Reading one is conscious of the tremendous
progress science has made in transportation. But
the amazing thing is the change which has come
about in the minos of men, who accept a
woman person This change has not kept pace
with that of the mechanics of civilization but it
will catch up if give it a little more time.
Less than half century ago no nice girl would
have ventured anywhere without chaperon; she
would have tainted with fright at the idea
In Sky Gypsy" you conscious that something
miraculous has taken place. The cobwebs of false
prudery and acute sex consciousness are swept away
as men and women mount into the upper reaches of
serene blue heavens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
LIoUIDATING OUR "KULAKS"

WHEN in 1928 Soviet Russia began liauidatins
wv her kuaks, or prosperous farm-owners. and
sending them into her collective FARMS a cry went
up that this was harsh thing to do. 1t was hardly
more harsh than the liquidation of pros
porous freehodegs that has been going on steadily
for so years.
Private land ownership is the key to the American
economy BY the Homestead Act Reclamation Law
and other measures we subsidized and nursed it
through the years. Yet today. according to Secre-
tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace not less than
As per cent OF our American farmers are tenants
A number of things have brought this about Chiefly
It has been the land speculation. farm mechanical
ton the tariff and the lack of national planning
to prevent bankrupting price fluctuations.
Next to the growth of poverty among wage
workers farm tenancy is Americas most tragic
problem. The forcing of millions of people from
their own land to become share-croppers, renters
and tenants means the weakening of what Colo
smith called "a bold peasantry-ther couns.yct
pride"
Tenancy has created an unstable farm popula-
ton. More than 80 per cent Of farm tenants stay
on the same farm less than years and third
move every year. Average occupancy Is about four
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07

CLAIMS INEQUALITIES
IN TAX SYSTEM

BY w. B. S.. a Parke County Reader
There are grave inequalities in our
present tax system that the first in
telligent State Legislature that
meets under an intelligent Governor
should correct.
To give a concrete illustration ]
will cite true case of which I was
the victim. Until four years ago ]
was employed by an industrial con-
Germ at a good salary. No tax what
ever was paid by me except on such
items as cigaretS and on the auto
mobile 1 drove.
Now l am farmer and for the
last four years actually lost money
IN the operation of the farm. But
the tax units demanded a payment
of more than $40O per year on pen
atty of losing my farm and home.
Is this justice to tax a farmer
losing money at a rate of So to 50
for everything that he owns? Is il
justice to tax laborer who owns
a small home and is out of employ
ment until he loses that home and
becomes a wanderer? Is it Justice
to tax a widow with only home
and no income until she loses her
only haven against want?
Do we want to put a tax against
nome and farm ownership SO high
that only the rich can own homes
and the rest of us. live in shiftless
or movable shacks?
Why not make the $3.50 law a
fact so that greedy tax-spending
units can not confiscate our homes?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
ASTHMA RELIEF

A STHMA patients. vitality interested in a new
= and expensive heliurn-oxygen treatment for
certain respiratory diseases may expect substantial
benefit from recent action of the House in author
izing the U. S. Bureau of Mines to sell helum gas
to hospitals and physicians at cost
The authority conferred in the Lanham-
Bacon amendment to the Interior Department
appropriation bill. The Senate is expected to retain
the amendment.
Information placed before the House indicated
that the cost of heum and oxygen to accredited
institutions and members of the medical profession
would be cut from $40 tank to SIS.
The Bureau of Mines controls large portion vi
the supply of Texas helum, owing to the fact that
it is noninfammabe gas essential to safety in the
development of lighter-than-air craft.
Evidence read into the House record indicated
that mixture of helium gas and oxygen has been
found in some instances life-saving measure as
well as form of relief in other cases.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
LET II THE LIGHT

A HOUSE Labor subcommittee, headed by Rep.
Griswold of Indiana is trying to get the facts
about reports that 476 workers in the Hawks Nest
Power Tunnel at Gauley Bridge, w. Va, died OF
silicosis and that 1900 others threatened with
slow death from the same disease.
This subcommittee needs power to subpoena wit
nesses officials of the contracting firm Issue
general denial of the report yet they decline all in
vitation to come before the committee to testify.
The committee also needs funds to make thorough
investigation of this story and of other stories about
the spread of industrial diseases generally.
The grisly charges against this tunnel of death
can not lie in their present stage of doubt. If they
are untrue the contractors it to themselves to
have them officially denied If true, it is the ma
tons concern that the future be protected against
recurrence.
Any attempt in Congress to hamstring this COM
nittee by withholding subpoena powers or to starve
it by denying funds will be widely resented And
Justly so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY Z. 1898.
FOLLY AT PEKIN

THE general strike at Pekin, H., has ended as
- q general strikes must with precious little VIC
tori -gr any one
For "a hours IN subzero weather the strike COM
mittee held the little manufacturing city under a
dictatorship, closing all places of business, issuing
permits to few essential trades and causing gen
eral fear and suffering among the 10000 souls OF the
Gown.
The general strike is two-edged sword-a cruel
and dangerous weapon 1t Furnishes whole COM
munites for the sins of few 1t forces non-strking
workmen to break their agreements with employers.
1t invites martial law, employer reprisas popular
resentment against labor AS in San Francisco in
1894 this smaller general strike will leave wake of
bitterness throughout the community.
In happy contrast to warfare in Pekin-where
police use of tear at isolated picketing brought
on the general strike-was what happened in New
York City at the time. There Mayor La
Guardia the National Labor Board and other ele-
ments worked to prevent serious threatened strike
Of building service trades and succeeded in winning
40-hour week, better wages and three-year con-
tract Another strike, involving 10000 milliners was
nipoed in the bud by creation of an impartial COM
mission to supervise the workers labor contracts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
GLAD PROCESSING TAXES
GO To PACKERS.

BY One Who Has Always Voted a Straight
Democratic Ticket, Medora
We farmers are overjoyed down
here in the southern part of the
state to know that several million
dollars in processing tax go back to
the packers. We were afraid in some
way that it would be brought out
in court who rightfully owned the
tax and force us by some New Deal
law to take it back.
We knew in this case we were
ruined for if we should have been
forced to receive this processing tax
it would have broken the packers
and the heart of big business and
you can see what the result would
have been: No packers-no sale for
our hogs.
We are willing to go the limit,
providing the processing tax is not
enough to tide you packers over until
Franklin D. and Gen. johnson or
some other friend can slip another
one in your favor.
We propose to sell you our hogs on
time, cent down pound and
! cent pound a year until cents
pound is paid. Of course we
expect to pay you for the han
ding of our money over the
period of years you are paying us
for our hogs, and we have decided
in order to benefit our neghbors who
have been living off relief for the
last three years to donate So a
hundredweight of hog to the Fed
eral government to feed more of
our righteous brethren for wearing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07

Coffee usually contains less than
per cent, while amounts varying be-
tween 2 and 4 per cent have been
found in different samples of tea.
Glow large is Wake Island?
Alt is about one square mile.
els Una Merkel the real name
Of the actress?
Ayes.
Q-Do diamonds used in engrav-
Ing on glass ever wear out?
A-They wear out in about six or
eight weeks of constant use.
Q-What percentage of the popu-
lation of Italy is Roman Catholic?
About 99.6 per cent.
Q-Who wrote the poem, THE
City of Dreadful Night?
A-James Thomson.
Odd aliens who entered the
United States Army in the World
War automatically become Ameri-
can citizens?
A-No.
Q-what is the Everywhere
Lea gue"?
A correspondence club for the
hard of hearing, conducted under
the auspices of the American Fed
Grafton of Organizations for the
Hard Of Hearing in Washington, ID
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
OTHER OPINION
Factors Refardinc Racoyorx
IRichmond Palladium

|
Without aiming to criticise tn,
Roosevelt Administration, Prof. H
H. Beneke, of Miami University, in
an address here drew a clear nom
partisan picture of the factors which
are retarding economic recovery in
this country.
Failure of the Administration tc
gain the confidence of business was
cited by the speaker as one of the
chief reasons for the delay in climb
ing out of the depression. This con-
ddence is lacking, the professor de-
clared, because of the Adlninistra
tons patenalistic attitude, its falla-
cious monetary policy and its at
tempt to restore buying power by
pegging prices.
Collapse of the Administration
theories has left the nation greatly
in debt and with its unemployment
problems unsolved. the speaker said.
The way out. he declared, was to be
found in government regulation in
stead of control; restoration of a
true balance of the branches of gov
eminent and a stabilized currency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07

of Mr.. Flynn. He would qualify as
good bedtime story writer.
But let us forget these 10 men
getting 500 month, and consider
10 others. Two are engaged in pro-
duction, producing $4,000 in mer-
chandise but receiving only $1,000
one engaged in banking getting
$4,000, two merchants getting $500
five men on relief getting $500, total
$4,000.
The Townsend plan would open ur
way to place the five men on re-
lief back to work in industry ano
produce $4,000 in addition to the
$4,000, making a total of $4,000
With our population of 100 million
we should have national income
of 300 billion instead of 90 billion
Then the producers could discard
the old hand-tool method of grand
pas time and use modern equip
ment that would make life a plea
sure. The share troopers could then
substitute shoes and clothes for the
gunny sacks they are now wearing
live in houses instead of sheep sheds
eat bread and meat instead of liv-
ing on roots and herbs.
Lest we forget, Mr.. Flynn, there
is one more example I would have
you explain: What system do the
100 families at the top use to re-
ceive more income than one mil
lion families at the bottom?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
I our {.
Health
BY
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
yETHEN adding foods to the babys

VETHEN adding foods to the baby's
W diet, add one new food at a
time. In this way. you can learn
how the baby reacts to it.
Usually, it takes two or three days
to determine whether a change in
food is helpful.
Various methods of modifying
milk for babies have been intro
duced, including use of Tactic acid
or citric acid, and of various speciaI
types of sugar.
To determine which mixture is
preferable. you should always ask
the doctor in charge Of the baby.
AS I have said previously, orange
juice may be given during the first
month-two tablespoonfuls mixed
with an equal quantity of water.
given once or twice daily. BY the
time the baby is months old, it
should be receiving the juice of one
half orange; and after that 1t may
have the juice of an entire orange
each day.
Tomato juice and other fruit
juices occasionally are substituted
for orange juice.
nod LIVER OIL should be start
~ ed early in infancy, beginning
with a half teaspoonfui twice
day, the dose gradually increasing
until the baby is getting one tea
spoonful three times a day. This
will be well beyond the amount
necessary to prevent most babies
from getting ricketts,.
Many doctors believe that the
baby should have extra iron, even
early in infancy. 1t is customary
to begin various cereals when the
baby is or months old.
The new strained and sieved veg
etables and fruits make it possible
now to give egg yolk, vegetables
and fruits to babies at increasingly
early ages, and thus provide them
with substances necessary to pre-
vent the appearance of deficiency
diseases.
Do not change food every time
the baby has symptom. This does
not apply to the reduction of the
amount of food, or to the stopping
of all food, when the baby has di-
gestive troubles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
Questions and Answers

IncIose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The anapolis Times
Washington Service BureaS, 1913 18th
st. N. w.. Washington, d. C. Legal and
medical advice can not be given, nor
can extended research be undertaken.
@. Where can one obtain copy
of the Constitution of Indiana?
A. Office of the Secretary of State.
@. Where can one obtain a copy
of the oath King Edward VIII took?
A. Encyclopedia Britannica.
@. What is the religion of En-
peror Hirohito of Japan and his EN-
press?
A. Shintoism.
@. What is the name of the sec
rotary of the state Board of Char
tiles of Indiana?
A. Wayne Coy.
Q-Have Lincoln one-cent pieces
been minted every year since 1909?
Ayes.
Q-on what day of the week did
Dec. 18. 1885, fall?
A-Friday.
Q-Does tea contain more caffeine
than coffee?
A-The amount OF caffeine In tea
and coffee varies with the product
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
PLEADS FOR PROGRESSIVE
ACTION AT EDINBUF

ACTION AT EDINBURG
BY Property Owner
1t is quite evident that our little
town of Edinburg is going to be
granted Federal help toward a
sewer project started here by Carl
F'reyn a year ago.
1t is a matter of public record that
U. S. Highway /, originally going
through Edinburg, was permitted
to go one-half mile west of Edin-
burg when reconstructed several
years ago. A little work by our
business men would have kept the
road going through our town. How
ever, we sat idly by and lost all that
transient business.
Several years ago shoe factory
was planning to open a branch here,
but received so little encourage
ment that it located in Seymour
During this time the business men
were dominated by the same old do
nothing group.
Now the opportunity for a sewage
system is at hand, and the property
owners will be asked to vote APP
proval or rejection of the program.
If the town wishes to continue being
dominated by few old heads, then
the project will be rejected.
If the town is tired of being Just
another town; if we are disguised
with open toilets, dry wells and Ken
lucky shacks, then we will vote for
sewage system and include paved
streets with curbs in our project.
Why let all this business go to
Columbus and Indianapolis when
this could really be good town?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ.

A GROUP of American scientists
a are going to Siberia next June
in the hopes of solving one of the
major mysteries of science. They
hope to establish the nature of the
mysterious "coronium" which exists
in the sun.
They are going to Russia in the
spring because an eclipse of the sun
occurs on June 10, which is visible
only in a narrow track across
Siberia. Surrounding the sun is a
great silvery halo known as the
corona, which becomes visible only
at the time of an eclipse. 1t Is in
this corona that the mysterious
substance exists.
The American sayants hope to
establish whether coronium is &C
tually chemical element unknown
on earth or whether it is really some
chemical element already known
which exists under unusual condi-
lions in the suns corona.
To solve the mystery they are to
take along spectrographs and other
scientific instruments of the latest
design. In order to make the
expeditions delicate instruments
suitable for the eXacting conditions
under which they are to be used in
the field, many of them are being
built of dowmetal, an extremely light
and TiOi6 a11Ou Thcco inStrIIroertc
and their mountings are being made
and given to the expedition by the
Dow Chemical Co. of Midland. Mich.
HEADING the expedition is Or.
u = Donald H. Mcneil of the Har-
ward College Observatory. Other
members include DR.. Joseph @.
Boyce of Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Mr.. Henry Hemn1en-
dinger of Harvard, and others.
Two dowmetal spectrographs are
to be used by the expedition to fol-
low the course of the changing spec
trum of the sun throughout the
progress Of the eclipse. They are to
record the appearance of the spec
trum on a moving plate.
Other instruments, of both low
and high magnifying power, are to
photograph the entire range of the
suns spectrum from the extreme
infra-red to the farthest ultra
violet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
OFFERS EVIDENCE FOR
TOWNSEND PLAN
BY Jack Dolan, ShelbyviIle

BY Jack Dolan, Shelbyville
John T. Flynn in his articles for
and against the Townsend plan
comes along with his customary
supposition, like all the past masters
in deception, who realize just eco
nonic system would spell their
doom.
He supposes 10 persons who have
wages of 500 a month each. That
makes $1,000 month. That is their
purchasing power. Now these 10
people are taxed $40 each in order
to pay pension of 500 a month to
an eleventh person.
1t is clear that the eleventh per-
son now has 500 to spend which
he didn't have before. After each
has paid tax of $40, each has but
$50 to spend. The 10 have 5000, the
eleventh has 500, total $1,000. There
is no increase in purchasing power.
Morgan & Co. should be proud
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07
On the New Deal

Norman Thomas, Socialist
Not only it is (the New DeaD not
socialism, but in large degree this
state capitalism, this use of bread
and circuses to keep the people
quiet, is so much necessary de-
velopment of a dying social order
that neither Mr.. Smith nor Mr..
Hoover in office in 1897 can SUBJ
stantially change the present pic
ture or bring back the days of An
drew jackson. Grover Cleveland or
Calvin Coolidge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-07

the seats out of their pants while
we slave to keep the Federal gov
eminent from taking our land.
Now if there are any more
schemes we can help you in let's
have them before the election, not
after.