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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
DOOMED FOREST

& A CONGRESSIONAL inquiry into Federal policy
= that is alegedly booming the nations greatest
remaining forest, in western Oregon is demanded by
ovid Butler. executive secretary of the American
Forestry Association
Unless Congress investigates, and then drafts an
intelligent plan of management more timber than
Is TO be found in all the states north of the Mason
Dixon Line and from the Atlantic Coast to the
prairies may be devastated.
The area involved embraces 2,50O00 acres of tim
berland which the Federal government regained 20
years ago from old land grant to the Oregon g.
California Railroad Co. 1t is known today as the
20 and lands" 1t checkerboards wide strip of
mountain ranges that step the Cascades down to the
Pacific in western Oregon, forming alternate blocks
: In giant causeway running north and south
Through Americas greatest forest an area contain
ing 10000 100000 board feet OF timber and valued
1 at $5oOOOoyOoo.
The and lands MFR. Butler says, are hot
acres"-so politically hot that Congress much less
s the Oregon Legislature has not dared touch them.
Through five Administrations six Secretaries of the
Interior have failed to correct the policy that is
disspating them. Even Secretary Ickes while claim
ing to champion the of conservation apparent
" has failed TO stop the policy OF destruction,
This policy. which began in the late sxtieSkwith
series Of acts Of Congress TO promote the building by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
GOING UP

business is booming for the Addressograph- Null
81 tigraph Corp, which means that lot of other
businesses are booming too
In 1895 the companys net profits increased 70
per cent, according to President Joseph E. Rogers,
and improvement has continued into the early
months of 1886.
Equipment orders from customers in the United
States and Canada increased % per cent over 1884
1O2 per cent over 1888 and SO per cent over 1882.
Rogers reports that the increases came from
practically every type of business and territory"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
SAYS LABOR OWNERSHIP
OF INDUSTRY is NEED

By H. L. S.
Mr.. Raymond Clapper in his ar
ticle March 20 referred to the Presi-
dents appeal to American indus
trialists to help solve the growing
problem of unemployment. Mr.
Clapper pointed out the various
types of cooperation that exist in
our industrial organization and that
the President asks that this CO.
operation extend to the serious
problem of finding employment for
the IL million idle persons.
Does this not appear fantastic to
presume that private industry can
or would be able to absorb this
group of idle persons?
The motivation for industry is
profit, and employment of men is
not from duty to society, but as a
means to profits. When profits dis
appear, reduction of personnel is
the first recourse to expense reduc-
ton. When machines will produce
with reduced manpower, it becomes
against self interest to employ men
at work machines can do better.
The employer can not and will
not play Santa Claus to labor. The
business belongs to the stockholders.
not to the men who work for them.
If the men want business to work
for their interest thew must own the
business. Labor never has accepted
ownership responsibility; it has
merely played the role of job beggar
It's method of redress for grievances
has been sabotage on production
through strikes, to raise group or
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
FRIDAY. APRIL 3. 1898.
RELIEF-A SUGGESTION

NHlNkING Americans coming to realize that
relief is more than emergency problem of
this year or next
They are convinced that regardless of recoyery,s
tempo the depression will leave many to be cared for
by Federal, state, local and private authorities
Yet our present hurriedly devised relief machin-
cry Is not geared to longrange needs We are work.
ing in the dark. We have only hand-to-mouth
policy This spring Congress is being asked to vote
sSioOO000000 to fill out $4,000 100000 Federal pro-
gram for the fiscal year 1897 Congress may try to
earmark these sums in broad categories But the
new moneys will be spent much after the fashion of
the present WPA and state relief agencies routine
BY its very nature this routine is often marred by
waste, politics. red-tape and great personal democrat
ization.
What seems to be needed is the development OF
just, scientific, long-range policy and program-a
chart to guide all the agencies of aid.
Just as suggestion, the President might ask
Congress for authority in the relief act to name
non-partisan national relief policy board
Such board could be charged with finding the
facts of the present situation and recommending to
the next Congress broad, national policy It would
not have to be large but would have to be manned
by men and women of such outstanding regulations
and caliber that its voice would carry the authority
1T must command. 1t should not be "just another
commission" of the type with which Washington is
all too familiar. 1t would need to be well financed
and equipped to hold hearings in the states as well
as in Washington. 1t would require corps of ex-
perts and director.
d An advisory board of this nature would not re-
fleet upon interfere with the work of the Federal
administrators those of the states These are too
busy too moved to the need of quick succor too
scerned with the mutitudnous daily tasks to evolve
q long-range policy. So is the President himself
#7CODAY hear much by way of criticism of the
relief chaos. The fact is no one knows enough
about the problem either to dogmatize or denounce
An authoritative board such, for instance as the
sWickersham Commission might shed light instead of
heat. Through it we might learn what We must
know If we to handle the question intelligently
and humanely. We need TO know the place of pri-
vate giving in the picture the proper relationship
and the assessment of costs between local. state and
Federal governments; types of non-compettive
work-relief that both enrich the country and pro-
vide maximum of benefit to the relief workers. the
proper of tying relief into the social security
program, the natural resources board program, the
state-Federal employment exchanges. We might
learn. through nationwide census just how many
unemployed there are. We might learn by what
means private industry best can help to re-employ
them
DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is right in saying that
- this business of helping the jobless needy is
national concern. The handling of the problem
should transcend parties, states and interdepart-
mental lines in Washington
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

individual pay, but with a total dis
regard to price increases in the
goods, made necessary by the in
crease in pay.
If labor owned the industries
there would be no unemployment or
necessity for strikes and low wages.
The total amount of production
would determine the wages in goods
for labor given. There would be no
opportunity for speculation; the
conflict of interest between producer
and labor as consumer would
vanish
If the President wants to solve
unemployment and forever abolish
it, he must look to labor ownership
of industry, rather than appeal to
stockholders and directors. The in
terest of labor must be in job own
ership, through stock ownership.
AS labor develops the machines
for production, it can release men
for greater production in lines in
which scarcity still may exist. When
the private stakeholder corporation
is near bankruptcy it may salvage
some OF the wreckage by Offering
the plant to the workers where con-
sumner and producer interests merge
The chief obstacle to relief from
unemployment is the carefree indif-
ference of labor, in abstaining from
ownership responsibility, not to
mention its opportunity for bound
less production and consumption.
Edward Filene sees the hand
writing on the wall for industry
that creates conflict between pro-
Queer and consumer. He has set up
a million dollar fund for the chang
ing of competitive system to one
of cooperation. Slave min d e d
labor spells our doom. It produces
FaSciSn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
TCDAY's SCIENCE
by DAVID DIETz

TINE tremendous advances which
Il chemistry has made in the last
few years constitute one of the
brightest chapters in modern his
tory. But the fact remains that
Mother Nature still has us beat
when it comes to the practice of
chemistry.
The late DR.. Erwin e. Slosson
once commented upon how fortu-
nate we would be if we knew as
much chemistry as tree. A tree
takes the carbon dioxide of the air
and the water of the soil and with
the aid of sunlight turns them into
sugars and starches. If we knew
as much chemistry as a tree, we
could duplicate this process, known
technically as photosynthesis, and
manufacture our foodStuffs in fac
tories instead of growing them on
the farm.
The tiny organisms of the ocean
know more chemistry than We do.
Certain chemical elements are pres
ent in sea water in concentrations
of less than a fraction of part in
a million. Yet these tiny creatures
of the sea, requiring these chemical
elements for their growth, are able
to absorb them from the sea water
and to concentrate them within
their own bodies.
We use cod liver oil for its vita
min content. The cod gets it's vita
Minis by eating smaller fish who in
turn have eaten still smaller fish
who have eaten the tiny plant life
IN which those vitamins were orig
inally manufactured by natures
chemistry.
1t is true that man has begun to
catch up with nature. Thus, for
example. it is well known that pho
tosynthesis is only possible in plants
which contain a green coloring or
pigment known as chlorophyl. Many
studies are going on into the nature
of this complex chemical substance.
With respect to the ocean and is
chemical content, mankind is also
making progress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
IF YOU CAN'T ANSWER, ASK THE TIMES!

Inclose Scent stamp for reply when
addressing any question of fact or in
formation to The Indianapolis Times
Washington Service Bureau. 1913 18th
st. NJ W.. Washington, d. c. Legal and
medical advice can net be given. nor
can extended research be undertaken.
Q-Is the United States govern
ment under any treaty obligation or
allegiance of any kind to come to
the aid of England should that
country engage in war with a for
eign power?
A-There is no such treaty or al
lance.
How many American soldiers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
THINKS HAM FISH CAN FIND
TERMITES NEAR HOME

By r. Springer
If Ham Fish is looking for ter.
mites or parasites may make some
suggestions where there is quite an
army? For instance, he will find
them on well-known street in
New York City and other places, in
certain groups that block decent
social and labor legislation and cor
rupt public officials.
If Labor will cease it's Rip Van
Wrinkle attitude it will learn that
Labor can save itself through a
political party of it's own. The
source of all wealth comes from
labor power applied to natural re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

of the A. E. F. actually reached
France during the World War?
A-The total was 100000, of
whom 1,39o.o0O saw active service at
the front.
Glow many counties are there
in the state of New York?
A-Sixty-two.
Q-Where is the winter home of
John D. Rockefeller ST.?
A-Ormond Beach, Fla.
Q-What is the religious afilia-
ton Of Vice PresidentYohn n. Gar
ner?
n Methodist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
DENIES STRAW VOTE"
ON INITIATION
BY David Horn

By David Horn
Recently a full page account ap-
peared in a leading newspaper re-
citing a straw vote" on imitation
which was taken by a certain pub
Usher, and laying particular stress
on the alleged fact that the vast
majority of the public" is opposed
to imitation. Why not take a vote
On the question whether the inhabi-
tants of the planet Mars should
adopt the Chinese or Scotch Ian
guage?
If there is a single person any
where in these United States or in
the whole wide world who knows
any more about imitation, +" money, -
social : consciousness, Society
government" ''law," commerce, :"
and similar words and phrases than
about the planet of Mars, I chal-
lenge him to write a public article
giving an accurate, sane and logical
definition of it, explaining it's ma
ture, origin and significance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

sources. We have solved the pro-
dUction problem with machinery
but we have failed to solve distri-
button.
Collective ownership of the tools
of production and distribution con-
trolled by Labor would rid us of
many evils. Now, Labor, are you
strong enough to demand it and
get your just dues or are you a
weakling and expect some one to
give them to you?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
UNWRITTEN DREAMS
BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY

BY DANIEL FRANCIS CLANCY
Many poems of the world I've read,
Both by bards living and dead.
And many verses Of beauty among
them there are,
But know of a volume that ex-
ceeds them by far.
IT'S the book of rhymes that in the
minds of men
Has its home-neer to be released
by pen.
The subjects of these rhymes are
of such beauty supreme
That is only to be found IN cap
tured dream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
DAILY THOUGHT

Let us work honestly, as in the
day; not in rioting and drunken
ness, not in chambering and wan
tonness, not in strife and envying.
LIE who Is evil, is also in the
l. L punishment Of evil-SWeden-
Romans xiii, 10.
borg.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
Squaring
the Circle
With
THE HOOSIER EDITOR

THERE is something about shoot
N ing galleries that reminds you
of the mumbo jumbo carnival mu-
sic and the raucous believing of
bankers, even when they are located
in the centers of large cities.
It's the appearance of the things
that Geceives. They always look
like they just had been moved into
building day before yesterday, and
were going to be hauled away day
after tomorrow.
This isn't always the case. They
are operated by two distinct classes
Of proprietors. One kind travels
with carnivals and lives life of
high adventure, and the other, some
times called "the home guard" stays
at one pitch.
TAKE o. F. Milliser and his son
l. j. F. They have operated a
shooting gallery on Illinois-st for
the last rs years, and probably will
be there for another quarter Of a
century. No one is exactly sure what
their first names are, because a
shooting gallery owner is always
known as Doc, for the same reason
probably that Pullman porters are
called George.
A friend of theirs, E. E. Tilson,
runs the place when they get tired
sitting, and go for a walk around
the block. He also is called Doc by
the customers, and has been in this
business since 1904.
Il. It e
EOR the last 10 years he has been
= operating at Riverside Park.
"Our business is all right, especial
ly when the soldiers at Fort Har-
rison get paid. That is funny thing
about soldiers. They shoot guns all
day and then spend two-thirds of
their wages in shooting galleries
when on leave he said.
Sometimes they do it to show off
IN front of girls, and sometimes
just to win bets from their friends. .
NTHEN meek Mr.. K clambered
" onto an E. 10th-st car the
other night, tired from his labors.
he probably had no idea he was
about to start a movement. He did
though.
There were a lot Of people on
that particular trackless trolley, and
Mr.. x just did shove his way in
before the doors closed.
The motorman, blithe sort of
fellow, started the car with a Jerk
that threw people against each
other, and proceeded on his way.
Although it was obvious to one
and all that the vehicle was full,
he halted the trolley at the next
corner, shouted get back in the car"
and prepared to take on more
passengers. That is how this move
ment was born.
MIR. x, who had been bumped
A'A around even more than the
others, shouted back, What are you
trying to do? You have Lut 70 peo-
pie in this car now. I am tax
payer and citizen and have rights.
These others might not say any,
thing, but they are sheep. I'm no
sheep. I'm taxpayer"
The sound of his own voice
seemed to startle Mr.. x, but when
the other passengers let out a feeble
cheer, he took courage. Then he
turned to the people trying to get
on and told them he was no sheep.
Alarmed no end by this insubordi-
nation, the motorman closed the
doors and drove on.
The movement was started all
right, but Mr.. KS position hasn't
been consolidated. They still pack
'em in on the E. 10th-st line, but
always under n1urmured protest.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

EDITORS NoTE-This rowing reporter
for The Times goes where he pleases,
when he pleases. in search of odd stories
about this and that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03
The HOOsier Forum

dlscpproUe of Wh0t you say-and aoiU defend
to the death your right to sag it.-Voltoire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-03

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is right in saying that
- this business of helping the jobess needy is a
national concern. The handling of the problem
ashoud transcend parties, states and interdepart-
mental lines in Washington.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-05-21
Rockville Club Hears
VOllten On Fingerprinting

At meeting of the Rockville
Woman's Club at the home of Mrs
Ohio H. w. Talbot, with Mrs. Tai
bolt, Mrs. Allison Chaplin and Mrs. w.
E. Berry hostesses, the president,
Mrs. Donald A. DeLashmutt appointed
Mrs. Raleigh S. Chinn, Mrs. J. Son.
ervell Dawson, Mrs. Ohio H. w. Tai
bott and Miss Daisy Magruder, dele
gates, and Mrs. Thomas D. Griffith,
Mrs. j. Frank Wilson, Mrs. Hughes
Monday and Miss Violet Magruder,
alternates, to represent the club at the
annual meeting of the Montgomery
County Federation of Women's Clubs
at Kensington on May %.
The meeting was featured by talk
on fngerprinting by Theodore Vollten
detective sergeant, assigned to the
Office of the States attorney for the
county, ard vocal solos by Mrs
Eugene w. Scott added to the pleas
ure Of the occasion.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-05-21
Three Appointed To
ZOning Appeals Job
For Montgomery Co.
Bachrach, Gravelle And
McKeever Named; Lane Gets
Police Vacancy

Three members of the board of zon-
ing appeals were named this week by
the Montgomery County commission
ers, effective May rs. Walter Bach
ard, of Bethesda, was reappointed to
the board, while Louis A. Gravelle, of
Bethesda, and Robert L. McKeever, Of
Silver Spring, were appointed to sue
coed George P. Sacks and Howard
Griffith.
The board also approved the rec
ommendation of C. F. Winslow, Dis
trict forester, to appoint Harry E.
Miller, Jr., member of the Glen
Echo Volunteer Fire Department, as
forest warden in the Glen Echo-C Cabin
John area.
In still another appointment the
commissioners named Frank Lane, Of
Takoma Park, to fill vacancy on the
county police force, effective June 1
Lane now is member of the Takoms
Park town police force.
The board was informed by the
State roads commission that an en-
gineer has been assigned to make a
survey incident to the reconstruction
of a Emile section of the road from
Damascus to Ridgeville, which was
requested by the commissioners last
week.
The sum of $2,143.16 was ordered
paid over to the Social Service
League for the care of needy children
during the month of April, and a let
ter to Maj. Ernest w. Brown and
Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen thank
ing them for assistance rendered by
Washington detectives in the solution
of the Allen B. Wilson mistaken
identity" murder.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-05-21
Grade Crossing Is
Assured AS State
Announces Contract
Rockville Project Will Cost
$SO,6S2; Solves Dangerous
Situation

A contract to eliminate the grade
crossing at Rockville where Id Viii
Transport high school students were
killed more than year ago-was,
awarded Tuesday by the Maryland
State roads commission.
Offering the lowest of seven bids,
p. Reddington & Sons, Baltimore,
won the contract. They agreed to re-
move the hazardous crossing for
$80,682.70. Within three days after
the Rockville tragedy President
Roosevelt ordered $2OO,OOO,OOO set
aside for Nationwide campaign to
eliminate grade crossings. In Novem-
Der, 1885, an allotment of $3.50, 900
was granted for the Rockville project.
This was taken from a $1,89S, 900
program of grade-crossing elimina-
tions in Maryland under the Public
Works Administration
At that time Nathan L. Smith
chief engineer of the State roads
commission, announced that bids
would be opened before December L..
No date has been set for beginning
work under Tuesdays contract. The.
crossing will be eliminated with an
overpass, single steel arch, to be-
erected short distance south of tho
present crossing.
Three days before the Rockville
accident, President Roosevelt signed
Ia bill appropriating $4,s8O, 900, 900 for
work relief. A month later the Bureau
|of Public Roads received the $780,
100000 grant for crossing elimination
projects.
Innumerable delays followed. 1t was
learned that because Montgomery
County didn't have a particularly
pressing unemployment problem, thu
crossing removal would be postponed
indefinitely.
State WPA officials notified Mayor
Douglas M. Blandford of Rockville
that elimination of the crossing must
be held up until county authorities
could satisfy Federal officials that the
county was carrying greater burden
of unemployment than previously
certified.
A determined campaign on the part
of the Town Council, the Rockville
Chamber of Commerce and local indi-
viduals resulted in the State Roads
Commission seeking bids.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-05-21
Donkey Baseball Game
Next Monday Evening
Will Draw Hundreds

When the patient fishermen be-
longing to the Rockville tribe of the
nomadic disciples of Izaak Walton
meet the earth-enshrivened future
farmers of Montgomery County in
baseball game Monday night, fur viii
fy-from the backs of their mounts,
that humble specie of animal servants
made famous in many climes.
The Right Honorable DR.. Darcy
Magee, vice tycoon of all ye Izaak
Waltonites Of America, will toss out
the first ball. Chief Of Police William
Garrett will toss out the first obnox-
ious spectator. The lineup viii be
chosen from the following list Of
names and no ringers will be allowed
welsh Field, the place; 8 o'clock tina
hour, let's go).
Fisherman-Joe Dawson, Bush Bob
Cooney, Joe Fisher, Brooke Edmons-
ton, George Allnutt, Toney Darby,
Three AS Ady, Pope Knight, Jack
Clagett, John Clagett, Brad Van
Hoesen, Spuds Higgins, Dunbar Stone.
John Mcdonald, DR.. Russell Cook, Jim
Berrier, Allan and Pete Simmons
brothers of famous ALL.
Fourth Club - Russell Umstead,
Richard Vetter, Frank Wilson, Jrp
Allie Messer, Harold Young, Frank
Stiles, Thos. 0wings, Mason Butler,
Clark Nicholson, Stanley Umstead,
Warren Kilby, Otis Butt, Geo. Viers,
Chas. oursler, Randolph Cissel, Maur-
ice A. FraIey, Jr, Ulysses Grifnth.
4th, Jacob Leaman, VIM. Snyder,
Harry Rhodes, John Bonifant, Alvin
Finchman, Lawrence Fritz, Irwin Nc
Intyre, David Lawrie, Richard Chaplin,
Michael Becker, MehryI Mayne, TarIe-
ton Bean Raymond Mallory,