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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
MARS DUFFEL

ITO fight and win" war requires all sorts of
- things as j. P. Morgan & Co revealed at SEN
ate Munitions Committee hearings.
AS commercial agents of the Allies this firm
spent sSOoOoooOoo in this country for war materials
Nearly half billion went to the House of du Pont
for gas chemicals and other things needful for the
grim business But to lend an air of gayety $751;
100000 was spent on musical instruments. chewing
gum, whisky TASKS and other things to tighten the
doughboy's moments.
Then there was an item small enough but neces-
sary for complete equipment. This was $4,000 for
artificial limbs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
AGREES WITH ROOSEVELT
ON PEACE THREAT

By G. E. White, Bloomington
The President spoke so plainly
that Hitler, Mussolini and the Rev.
Father Coughlin pricked their ears
when he spoke of autocrats being
internal machines threatening the
peace Of the world.
Any person not a propaganda
for these internal machines ought
to be able to see that these autoc-
racies and not the League of Ma
tons are threatening the peace of
the world.
Mussolini must have felt insulted
when Pearson and Allen said Halle
Selassie was the most outstanding
man of the year. Probably he has
inherited some Of the wisdom of
Solomon and is much more capable
of ruling Ethiopia than Mussolini
would be and probably Ethiopia is
much more highly civilized than
many think.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
TWENTY LYNCHINGs

TusKEGEE INSTITUTE reports that there were
20 lynchings in the United States in 1885, That
Is five more than in 1884
The states that contributed to this grewsome rec
ord were California, one; North Carolina one: Ten
nessee one; Georgia two; Texas. two; Florida, two
Louisiana four; Mississippi seven.
One man was lynched for an alteration with
white man. another for share-cropper union agita-
ton, one for slapping woman. A total of "a per-
sons were saved from death at the hands OF mobs.
Does Congress need any more argument to prove
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15

with constitutional authority that
irfringes on the right of the Fed
eral government to enact welfare
legislation is obsolete and is him
drance to progress and a menace to
the general welfare of the citizenry
of all the states.
Decisions on states rights have
not been asked for, but now that
the court has given back to the
states something that was so OBJ
solete that they did not know they
had it and were not seeking for it,
they will probably not know what
to do with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
DEPLORES ACTION OF
COURT ON AAA

By C. M. F.
The decision of the Supreme
Court smashing the agricultural re-
lief act is arrived at by vote of
six to three. Three of Americas
greatest legal minds hold that this
act of Congress is constitutional
Six judges, including the able mind
of Justice Hughes, take the con-
trary view.
In a democratic government,
some one must have the binding
word. The word of the majority
of the court is, for the time being,
the law and will by all law-abiding
Americans be accepted as such.
The form of agricultural relief
which in the past two and half
years has rescued American agri-
culture from the depths of despair
and has brought huge benefits to
industry and commerce in general,
is now dead.
Congress voted two to one that
it was good law. The justices
voted two to one that it was bad
law. The justices have the last
word.
The decision is not, Of course, the
voice Of God. Judges are human,
fallible. They can also make mis-
takes. They divide what is consti-
tutional according to their political
temperament, political bias and
philosophy.
The AAA had saved American ag-
riculture. Agriculture, on the rocks
for years, had been lifted by this
effort from a starvation income of
five billions to seven billions in
1884 and a yet better showing in
1885. For the last IL years it had
been the menace of the Harding,
Coolidge and Hoover Administra-
lions, year by year it was slowly dis
tntegrating, until by March, 1888, it
had all but collapsed.
All plans in trying to aid agri-
culture during the last three Adj
ministrations had utterly failed,
thus the AAA was the lifeline of a
great industry. This lifeline has
now been cut, and by a disagreeing
court.
For the moment probably this de-
cision will not be felt, because it will
take time for production to
again be with us. To agriculture
this decision is as it would be to
manufacturing, if protective tariffs
behind which it operates, were af-
fected. The farm law was, in truth,
nothing more in effect than a pro-
tective tariff for agriculture.
The farmers now lose their tariff
They have nothing to guide them
as to over production. This threat
ems a return to the bankruptcy
prices of cotton, wheat, hogs and
other agricultural products which
prevailed before the law was passed.
This does not concern the farm
ers alone. The buying power which
the AAA brought to the farmers has
accounted for 633 per cent of the
increase, since 1882, in the nations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
Your
Health.
DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

HERES a cooking and health
IL hint. combined: If you want
to get the most out of your vege-
tables, and still have the vitamins
in them, cook them slowly in a fire.
less cooker. That saves both the
juice of the vegetables and the vita
minis, vitamin B-1 especially.
Vitamin B-1 is soluble in water.
Therefore. when vegetables are
cooked and the water in which they
are boiled is thrown away, as much
as half of the vitamin is lost.
Very high temperatures, also, viii
destroy vitamin B-1: therefore,
vegetables should not be cooked in
boiling water, if that vitamin is to
be retained.
Many housewives add soda to the
vegetables to preserve their color.
But soda acts to destroy vitamin
B-1.
Drying, however, does not inter-
fere with the presence of vitamin
B-1. Experiments prove that yeast,
tomatoes, spinach, milk, cabbages.
and turnips may be dried without
any loss of the vitan1in.
If, therefore, you eat diet con-
tanning fruits. vegetables, milk and
eggs, and if half of whatever bread
and cereals you use are taken in the
form Of whole grain rather than
refined cereal and bread, you will
get an ample supply of vitamin B-1.
.DOCTORS have to be careful
II about vitamin B. with
patients who are on a diet. A
patient with typhoid fever or un-
dulant fever. eating a diet that is
greatly modified, will fail to get the
vitamin B-1 that he requires. There
are instances of neuritis developing
in such patients, after they have re-
covered from the. fever, simply be-
cause they did not get the necessary
vitamin B-1.
Persons who have been everdosing
themselves with thyroid extract to
reduce weight may get the Symp-
toms Of neuritis, and people who
overindulge in alcohol, and thereby
avoid food, may also develop these
symptoms. Those who are on re-
stricted diets, therefore, should get
extra amounts of B-1. Various con-
centrates have been developed for
this purpose.
The prospective mother and the
nursing mother, who do not wish to
eat extremely large amounts of food,
and thereby to gain excess weight,
may well find out from the doctor
whether they ought to take extra
vitamin B-1.
Yeast and yeast extracts are
among the richest substances in
B-1. However, many manufacture
ers are not satisfied with furnish
ing vitamin B-1 alone, but they add
mineral salts and other vitaminS,
with the hope of making some
thing resembling a perfect food. e,
There is no warrant for shotgun
mixtures Of this type.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
ADMITS OARP PUZZLES
HIM GREATLY

HIM GKEAILY
BY Charles C. Bender. Bloomington
Writing about the Townsend
plan, John T. Flynn illustrates
something like this: Each of 10
persons has a monthly income of
500 and an eleventh has no in
come, combined income $1,000. Then
these incomes are taxed 10 per cent
for the benefit of the eleventh, re-
sulting in each of the 10 receiving
a net monthly income of 500 and
the eleventh 500, combined net in
come still $1,000. I use this illus
tration for my purpose.
With $50 net income instead of
$100, the 10 might hoard less, be-
cause they have less, so business
might increase to that extent. But
if in both cases all the income is
spent Immediately, it surely is true
that pensioning the one, while adj
mittedly temporarily benefiting
him, would not be of general bene-
fit, because the same amount is
OpCllG Ill UOCIl 1llSbdIlCGS.
So far the reasoning must be
sound. Is this transaction tax con-
fusing us? I suppose all will agree
that the 2 per cent tax would be
added to the cost of things as the1
pass from seller to seller, and that,
as part of the articles cost, the I'LL
innate buyer would pay all of the
accumulated transaction taxes just
as certainly as if he paid directly
from his income, even though less
painfully.
This would not be a soak-the-
rich tax for everybody would pay.
For the plan to succeed, business,
cash and goods turnover must be
increased greatly and result in
better wages, increase of small in
comes and more employment
(merely replacing old persons with
young persons would not make more
employment). Otherwise the non
pensioner could not carry the load.
Would this happen? The base
for the spending is in the primary
income, and surely I may say that
sharing the income of ten million
with one million who have no in
come would not increase the total
net income. Has this perplexing
transaction tax a Midas touch that
creates values where no values ex-
ist? I am puzzled.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
TODAY'S SCIENCE
by SCIENCE SERVICE

IF a giant star like Antares, the
l. largest known star, is put at one
end of the scale, and an electron.
the smallest known entity, at the
other end Of the scale, man comes
close to it's center. Man is about is
much larger than the electron as
he is smaller than Antares.
Similarly, if we put Antares at one
end of scale, and the new dwarf
star discovered by DR.. Kuiper at
the other end, our sun is somewhere
near the center of the scale. ~,
The sun, with a diameter of
1854, 100 miles, is about 400 times
smaller than Antares. 1t is about
200 times larger than Kuiper's dwarf
star which has a diameter half that
of the earth, about 1000 miles.
Our own sun may be put down
as an average star. Yellow in color,
it is neither SO cool as the red
stars nor as warm as the white
ones.
NTE can get fair idea Of what
w stars are like in general by
looking at the Is stars which are
closest to our own sun. We get, a
fairer sample of the galaxy that
way than we do by studying more
distant stars. For at greater dis
tances we see only the brighter
stars and begin to miss the faint
ones.
Sir James Jeans has tabulated
these 26 nearest stars and SO we can
follow his tabulation.
Nearest is Alpha Centauri, really
double star, consisting of two
components, both yellow in color
and slightly larger than our own
sun.
Next is the star known as Proxf-
mus Centaurus, red dwarf far
smaller than the sun.
The next three stars in order are
all red dwarfs. Following these, we
come to Sirius, the dog-star, the
brightest star in the heavens.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
CONCERNING CONGRESS

A S was expected Congress has drawn another
voley of brickbats for it's surrender to the vet
erans' new putsch.
1t deserves criticism. If the Senate bonus vote
compares with the House landslide, Congress will
add another estimated billion dollars of debt burden
to the nations aching back In view of the general
relief demands and losses resulting from the
AAA decision, such handsome handout right now
is poor business But while criticisng and warning
against further yielding to pressure groups we pro-
pose also to defend Congress, even in its sacred
right to make fool of itself.
The need for this goes far deeper than the bonus
any other particular bill 1t goes to the heart of
democracy now on the defensive as never before in
our day.
Parliamentary government is fighting for sur
Nval, not only in Europe but in the United States.
1t has lost in Italy Russia. Japan, Germany Spain
and some smallec countries. Here a strong and
aggressive economic group seems bent on stripping
the peoples national Legislature of all power to
modernize and reform institutions of finance in
dustry and agriculture through effective Federal
laws While in Europe this group has the
parliaments by force here it fights legalstic
The issue is not new 1t first broke when Wash
ington, Randolph, Madison and other Vrginians
went to the Constitutional Convention in Philadel
phia and forced through the Virginia Plan for
endowing Congress with power to legislate for the
general welfare. 1t continued through the famous
Hamilton jefferson feud. Enemies Of Congress won
their first big victory when Chief Justice Marshall
in 1903 assumed the right to nullfy congressional
acts Jeffersons rebuke for that usurpation was so
singing that the issue slept for half century.
IT KNOW of no safe repository in the ultimate
powers of the society, but the people themselves"
jefferson said, land if we think them unenlightened
enough to exercise their control with wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them
but to inform their discretion by education"
The issue became acute again in 1857 when a
divided Supreme Court in its fateful bred Scott
decision voided Congress right to pass the Missouri
Compromise Act.
why should we not have patient confidence
in the ultimate justice of the people?" asked Lin
coin then. "Is there any better, is there any equal
hope in the world?"
Today the issue is once more with us cit must
be remembered" said Justice Stone in his minority
opinion on AAA that legislators are the ultimate
guardians Of the liberties and welfare of the people
in quite great degree the courts"
Whether prefers judicial government or
legislative and executive government is another uues-
tion," said Prof. Thomas Reed Powell of Harvard
Law School. THE judiciary is certainly incompetent
to repair the ravages it may commit. Legislatures
not powerless"
Parliamentary government often is costly and in
efficient Often it works injustice against the masses
In behalf of noisy and potent minorties Let us as
citizens and voters admit its faults and help cor
rect its mistakes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
river AND RAIN"
sY MAUD COURTNEY WADDELI


Winding ribbon of dulled lights
Grasping myriad drops from far
heights,
Heavy they fall on surface dis
turbed
Circling eddies spread like pebbles
hurled,
Dark rains dash on the river and
pound
While ominous grows their tireless
sound
Together swift river, dashing rain
Race on to the sea an eager twain,
There to be caught by suns glaring
heat
And carried back on clouds long
retreat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
QUID PRO QUO?

WE don't owe dollar to any one," said George
F. Getz. Republican National Committee
treasurer, announcing payment of the final $4,000
of the recent s225.oOo party debt
We trust that in raising the money to liquidate
that debt, the Republicans haven't incurred any
more orerous obligations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15

fTimes readers are inuited to erpf ess
their OteaOs in these columns, religious
controversies excluded. Make Hour letters
short. so all can have chance. Limit
them to ESQ cords or less. Your letter
must be stoned. but names 1oiH be
soithheld on re0uest.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
DAILY THOUGHTS

Many days and years shall We be
troubled, We careless women; for
the vintage shall fail, the gathering
shall not come.-Isaiah xxi, 10.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15

MEN at most differ as heaven
N1 and earth; but women, worst
and best, as heaven and hell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15

that lynchings, Ike kidnapings. are its AFFAIR?
pending.
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retail trade, Our general structure
of recovery is shaken by the thing
that has happened now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
OTHER OPINION
On the Supreme Court
fThe New Republic.)


The court has never been averse
from enlarging its own scope; the
prerogative that it has assumed of
vetoing legislation is certainly not
one explicitly to be found in the
words of the Constitution.
Why not appeal to it on the basis
of the well-recognized and I'M
assailable principle that he who ex-
ercises power ought to be respon-
sible?
Why does not Congress pass
joint resolution to the effect that
since its incompetence has been so
clearly demonstrated by the court,
it has no self-respecting alternative
but to resign in body, leaving the
court to govern the nation?
On Neutrality
IGen. SmedIey d. ButlerJ
We must not permit ourselves to
become more than passively inter-
ested and must not take sides in
any war outside the limits of the
United States. If we do so we shall
become involved.
We must remain strictly neutral
in thought, sympathy and in fact.
II necessary, in order to make GER
tain that We stay out Of this con-
fiict, we must even close our doors
to all foreign trade until the storm
blows over. Don't lend money or
give any credits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15
The HOOsier Forum

wholly dasapprove of a0hat you say-and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-Votaire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-15

TT would be lot simpler if one
= could just carry the frayed wal
let over to the Statehouse and let
the treasurer take out whatever he
thought was right and brand one
on the forehead as tax-paid. know
l shall need two secretaries, an &C
countant and perhaps Rube Gold
berg to make out this form, even
though I have only one quite simple
source of income.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18
ALLEN FARM HAS
 GONE TO OTHERS

Medfleld, Mass, Dec. 18-(UPo- A farm settled 287 years ago by James Allen finally has passed out of the hands of his descendants.
 It was sold by Miss Lucy Ellis Allen, head of the Misses Allen School for Girls at West Newton, to MT. and Mrs. Thomas Whiteside of Boston because she had no further use for tn eproperty.
 Still resentful at the sale was her cousin. Gray-bearded Alphonso AL len, at 82 the oldest local descend ant of the original settler. He lives down the road a piece in farm house with his 76-year-old wife Martha, who for 55 years has sew ed womens hats in nearby factory from December to June.
 From his farmolise Allen can see the 150-year-old Allen homestead in which he was born.
 T plowed purity near all of that farm myself" he said. T hired 1t of her Miss Lucy Ellis Allen) until got hurt and had to give 1p my milk route in 1925. I've tried to have the Allen family but 1t, but there's so many of them in 50 many places.
 For old times sake, Allen often visits the Whitesides. Gazing lov- ingly at hand-hewn rafters in the ancient living room, he murmurs:
 .Manys the time ate turkey here. And my grandfather. he had his golden wedding anniversary here. His brother came from all the way out west"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18
POPE PLUS SPENT
 VERY QUIET NIGHT

Vatican City, Dec. 18.-(UP)- Pope Plus spent quiet night and his general condition was satisfac- tory, Vatican ofilcials said today.
 His doctors evinced concern, how ever, over the pontiff's weakness and abnormally poor circulation in his right leg. The.' were said to fear development of varicoge veins in the right leg.
 The pope was said not to be able to walk alone, even for short dis tances. He has Q new full-length wheel chair, replacing the ordinary wheel chair he has been using in recent weeks since the development of uremia.
 Despite his illness, the holy father proceeded with plans for his Christ mas eve traditional meeting with the College of Cardinals in the throne room of the Vatican. One unique difference in protocol for the Yuletide meeting was expected, how ever--the pope will be seated on the throne when the cardinals arrive. In other years he walked in to de- liver his Christmas greeting message after they assembled.
 He is seeking. it was said. to clear up the more important Vatican mat ters pending papal offlciai action. realizing the vast handicap he would be under If he is unable to walk ct all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18
MONTREAL PAPER
 PUBLISHER DIES

Montreal, Dec. 18-(UP)-Sen- ator Richard Smeaton White, for 25 years president and publisher of the Montreal Gazette. died last night. He was Il.
 Senator White had been in poor health for some time. On Monday he took turn for the worse and failed rapidly.
 Long a prominent figure in pub fishing, parliamentary and financial circles, he was widely known throughout Canada.
 Senator White was born at Ham, iltop, Ont, March IT, 1865. Five years later his father purchased the Gazette and the family moved to Montreal. Senator White succeeded to the presidency of the company on his fathers death.
 He was appointed to the senate in 1917 by Sir Robert Borden.
 Funeral services will be held at St. Georges church tomorrow at 2:30 D. m. Interment will follow at Mount Royal cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18
Rumor Of Deals Stirring Local Realty Circles

Realty circles today buzzed with various reports of deals "in the works" deals completed and deals closing. Within the past week the Democrat has carried exclusive stories of the negotiations for the sale of the Hotchkiss building on South Main street and the Mul- lings' building on Bank street. Both deals were officially con- firmed within the past A hours. Negotiations for the purchase or a a long time lease on the Water- bury Savings Bank building is pending.
 Today, 1t was also reported that negotiations have started for the purchase of the Miller building at l23--131 Bank street, the former location of the Wooster bowling alleys, the present quarters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and sev- eral well known stores on the ground floor. A definite statement Is anticipated within the next A hours as to the completion of the deal or the progress of the Over- tures rum0red underway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18
MILK DELIVERIES
 KEEP RIGHT ON

Boston, Dec. Is.-(UP). .--Milk de- iiveries continued uninterrupted to- day as producers split over the strike called by New England Dairies. Inc, against H. F. Hood &f Sons, Inc.
 Latest ally of the Hood company was President Marvel Turner of the Massachusetts Dairymen,s Coopera- tive association, which claims a membership of 5000. lie described the company's refusal to deal only with members of New England Dairies, Inc. as "the best thing that ever happened for the Boston mar ket."
 The stand of the Dairies' corpora subsidiary of the New England Milk Producers association. was in- dorsed yesterday by the Federated Dairv Association of Massachusetts, claiming c membership of $500.
 "Unless dairymen combined to fight to the limit the move in the Boston market. price -fixing will be entirely in the hands of large milk dealers" said President Cecil Ford of the New Bedford Dajrymen's Co., operative association at the fed- cratcd groups meeting.