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sALE-AUToMOBILEs.

PLYMOUTH 1885 de luxe 2-door sedan.
touring model; with built trunk; gun
metal Duco original; car driven only ), 900
actual miles; car is Q months old. perfect
in every detail; practically new car, You
nsn csn save sZSo az az ou5 prcf o. ors nav oosS SS,
Is fully guaranteed by our warranty.
Standard Motor Sales. 1908 14th st. NV.
Phone North l479.
sTUDEBAKER 1881 Commander 4-passen-
ger coupe; oyerhauled from stem to stern,
black. with green wire wheels and pin
stripe: clean upholstery: S57 down. bal
Motor Corp. Pontiac Dealer. Champlain
At Kalorama I'd. NV. dust north Of ".
lust east of 1Stn).
exceptionally fine condition. Owner must
sel at once: sos. Phone Cleveland 1923.
TERRAPLANE 1885 4-door sedan. demon-
balance 500 per mo. Jack Pry. 1870 i4tii
g. NV. and 4441 Connecticut ave.
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CASH FOR YOUR CAR
HIGHEST PRICES PAID
Whether Car is Paid For or Not.
SEE MIR. BARNES, 1929 14th st.
CASH FOR YOUR CAR. Highest
prices paid. Superior Motor Cars,
Inc, 1920 14th st. NV. De. 1900.
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sALr-AuToMoBILEs.

FORD 1888 Tudor. ssapi On tiptop copdl.
English. 1401 Pa, ave. Sc. Phone Lincoln
0303. Open eyenings and SUNDAYS.
FORD 1884 Fordor sedan, like new, used
very little. carefully driven; hot-yatsr
heater. clock. ETC.; $366. Can Col. 207o.
FORD 1886 touring Tudor sedan: gun
metal fnish built nu,ls.in TYPE siisnssy sviinss ansa
FORD 1884 de luxe coach; locks new. very
carefully driven run about 5000 miles. 7
CO Gsss ums.a iss.tpSss o7ss. slSi I7th q. NV. w
FORD 1929 sport coupe; tan tnish, fine
ss9s m1sss ss.n onK s'sa sssdSn
FORD 1882 coupe: rumble seat. excellent
mechanical condition; S166; terms. 1Sl2
14th st. NV Phone Decatur 1881.
FORD 1884 VS. de luxe Fordor sedan;
original black finish carmine wheels. trunk,
white side wall tires. Immaculate interior;
$50 down: $28 per month. Nolan. 1lll
PoRp 1928 roeds.sr; black ,ns y5th VIZ eEs.m So.n
s5i'Ii per month. Keep Roiiin' with
Nolan" iii 18TH st. NV.
FORD 1881 de luxe roadster: looks and
nuns month. hAi Nolan. % iii 18TH q. NV. -
FORD 1924 eabriolst. late model; ds16 AK
the clesnest cars in the city for sale and
the price will be much hisher in Q month
or So Take ADVANTAGE and huy. early and
save money. Car cost new only 10 months
ssS oysr s0, Sso Our psse pas oss
sales. saH 20 1ne'; ."s 1906 izth St. E.S. Phone
North 1479.
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PARTS-PARTS

For AL Cars and Trucks.
Auto Glasl Installed and Repair Work
ROBERT HER6OE AUTO EXCHANGE mo.
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Gen. johnson Saws

NIASHINGTON, Feb. 28.-News dispatches head
w line the retirement of Gen. Hagood as the
personal act of the President in retributon for the
generals recent criticism of WPA
The official order read by direction of the Pres-
oent put that Is the customary wording of all such
orders This was the individual action of Malin
Craig, recently appointed chief of staff. This isn't
the flrSt OF Hagoods excursions "off the reserva-
ton OF military amenities. From schoolboys to
private soldiers, and lit seems to generals the
obStreperous always seek to try out the new boss"
This is Craigs answer
Freedom of speech, like trial by Jury, is a con-
stitutional right-but not for Army officers They
have to be tried by court-martial and they are
expressly excepted from the jury right in the Con-
Stitution.
AS for the right of free speech the Army is for
defense and not for diaectic The minute it becomes
debating association in the public press it is no
good for fighting.
II NHEIRS not to reason why" may sound harsh
l. but it is absolute necessity to prevent milf
tary degeneration to the garruty of an Old Ladies
Knitting Society,"
That doesn't mean that any officer is deprived Of
his freedom of opinion Of adequate channels for
Its expreSsion-always excepting throwing public
mud-bals at the boss.
have seen both industrial and military discipline
1t is my experience that fighting positions can be
taken in the inner councils of the general staff with
lot more freedom from persecution than in the
inner councils Of industry But the rule Is that il
you have made your fight and lost it, you accept
the decision OF the umpire and go on playing ball.
Anyway, Hagood Is sitting pretty He will retire
on tnree-quarter pay, and under the law he would
have had to do that anyway in two years.
Copyright 1896. by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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lions noted for their scientific progress only dictates
how far behind other arts the art of government
has Jagged. Mans inventive genius has been applied
to everything but government. Politics is the back
ward child of civilization.
TT~HAT we have not found it necessary in the
i United States to settle political differences
with a gun is undoubtedly tribute to our form
of government rather than to the Selfrestralnt or
our people who have shown no lack of ingenuity in
using homicide for non-political purposes. That we
could have come through the strain OF the depres-
SIGN thus far without violence is the best evidence
of the nexibility and the human temper OF our
institutions.
stand the unreasoning rage against the President
which exists among better citizens. In private
conversation they have said things no different from
what the young japanese army officers must have
muttered to themselves they called their victims
out into the snowstorm the other night. 1t is
disturbing state of mind and one too closely allied
with what has happened in other countries Tor
comfort The ironical thing about 1t is that it exists
most unreasonngly among the very capitalist class
whose system Roosevelt is saving for them.
WE hear SO much about the waste and inefici-
w ency of government that it is a relief to see
the latest report of Hole. This government cor
poration has made loans to $4,000 borrowers
whose homes were about to be taken from them
by mortgage foreclosures during the depression
Many thought that it would be a costly operation
that borrowers would gyp the government, and defy
Uncle Sam to come in and collect on his mortgage.
But last month, Hole collected all except 9.9
per cent of the January payments due on interest
and principal Total foreclosure proceedings TO date
involve only one of every 172 of these home owners
who borrowed from the government.
Hole began under bad auspices. Cheap politi-
clans were installed AT the start and the whole
venture barely escaped becoming scandal But
business man, John II. Fahey, was placed in charge
and he has brought the agency through thus far
as a business operation of which any private exec
utive might be proud indicating the governments
wisdom in stepping in to stop an agpnizing deda-
tionary crisis which private lenders were helpless
10 check.
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and serial bonds, and the cost is
estimated as follows:
Terms bonds for a. 100000
building. to mature in 20 years,
would cost $425,OOO in interest, or
a total cost of $685. 900.
Serial bonds on 100000 build
ing, 20 years maturity, would take
100000 interest, a total cost of
$7O8,OOO.
Direct taxation, levy of 10
cents, which means that the own
er of. $4,000 home would pay SO
more taxes next year, would bring
100000 and pay for the construc-
ton of an Irvington high school
and purchase equipment for it
without debt service charges in
interest as would the other two
methods.
CCHOOL boards in 1919-1920 is
~ sued a total of $4,865,0O0 in
term bonds and the major portion
of these bonds, of 20-year issue,
fall due in the two big debt years,
1889 and 1910.
Interest on these bonds have
totaled $3,471 900 and, put in sim
pie words, it means that II per
cent of the total amount issued
has been paid in interest while
$4,476,000 of the principal bonds
remain unpaid. An estimated
100000 in interest may be paid
before the bonds are retired in
1939-1940.
The major bond issue of 1919
1920, their amounts and interest
paid with the principal, in most
cases, still unpaid, follow:
Arsenal Technical High School
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Crispus Attucks at an estimated
total cost of $4,000.
The direct tax levy may mean
the inclusion in next years bud
get, which will be made up by
July /, levy of approximately 10
cents to construct the Irvington
high school.
The additional levy would in
crease the present School City tax
rate from 80 to SO cents, but
would pay for the Irvington school
the year it is built without letting
posterity or the children who go
to the school pay the bill when
they grow up and become pos
terity.
Take it back to the family of
MI. and Mrs. Jonathan Public and
it means that the Publics are 60
ing to quit the practice of their
parents and grandparents which
left big mortgages on the home
place for the children to pay off
after reaching maturity.
1T means that Mr.. and Mrs.
Il Public desire to give their
children as much of an unfettered
financial start in life as possible,
advocates of the plan declare.
In buying on the "installment-
plan," Mr.. and Mrs. Public know
they have had to pay interest
charges on their automobile and
on household goods.
They know that when they pay
cash interest charges are erased.
School boards since Oct. l, 1872,
have borrowed money by issuing
bonds to the extent of an esti-
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mated $16,OO0,O0O and up to today
have paid $3,492,0O0 interest.
Before the $16,000,000 in bor-
rowed dollars is paid off, an addi..
tional $4,600,0OO in interest will
have been paid.
In other words $13,000,000 in in
terest will have been paid for
$16,000,000, which brings the total
cost of school buildings and prop
critics to $29,00O,00O.
The assessed property valuation
of the school city is an estimated
$20,O00,O00 or 100000 less than
the money spent.
It is the same ratio as if the
Public family paid $13 to borrow
SIG and the total cost of the Dor
rowed money is 500.
THE debt service lava-interest
Il that has deluged the school
city since 1872 is due in the main
to the issuance of term bonds.
A term bond is a bond issued
and sold which falls due at the
end of 20, 30 or 40 years, according
to the maturing date of the issue.
Interest is paid yearly to investors
on bonds and this interest, as it
accumulates in payments, will
equal the unpaid principal of the
total issue of the bonds.
Term bonds are not issued in
present days of financing. Serial
bonds, or money borrowed and
paid back in yearly installments,
cut the interest.
Place the three ways of building
an Irvington high school side by
side: Direct taxation, term bonds
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shop, powerhouse and Schools %
and 26-Bond issue OF $1,645 900.
Interest paid totals $1,141, $50.
Arsenal Technical main build
ing-$7O0,305 bond issue; $499, 143
interest.
Manual Training High School
auditorium and site for new
Shortridge High School $4,000
bond issue; interest, $286,728
Arsenal Technical shop build
ing-$555,O00 bond issue; $4O4,431
interest.
Manual Training new building
-$225,000 bond issue; $165,761
interest.
nNE example of costly financ-
~ ing by term bonds is cited by
the school boards finance COM
mittee as the main building Of
Indianapolis Public Library, st.
Clair and Meridian-sts.
The building, when the final
payment on it is made in 1855,
will have cost taxpayers more
than twice as much as its as
sessed valuation OF $732,000.
The Central Library's bill, be-
cause of financing in 1911 and
1915 through the issuance of long
term bonds, is shown as follows:
The term bonds issued in 1911
comprised a $125,000 issue at 4
per cent interest. The interest
paid to date on this issue totals
$119, 11625. The bonds issued in
1915 comprised 100000 issue at
Az per cent interest and the in
terest paid to date on that sum
totals 424,36250.
The total interest paid thus far
is $543, 528.75. The interest to &C
crue is listed at $470, 633.75, a
grand overall total of 81 ola, 1920.
The bond issue YVES for $625,000
and so the total cost of the build
ing rises to the amazing sum of
$1,639, 1920.
=
TERM bonds have not been
l. issued since 1925. The school
boards of 1919-1920, which created
the huge debt load in term bonds,
induced the Legislature, through
their attorney, Albert Baker, to
pass a sinking fund law for school
cities.
The law, although it did not
become effective until 1925, is the
sole life-saver for the present
school boards in hoping to retire
one-half of the $4,901 900 debt
mountain that falls due in 1882
1910.
The sinking fund places per
cent of the annual bonded indebt-
ednesS aside for the retiring or
taking up of bonds issued FOR new
construction.
In other words the sinking fund
is a savings account ordered by
law to force the school city to
apportion its debt-load over the
years and have funds on hand to
pay the debt principal when it is
due.
Committees of the Indianapolis
School Board in attempting to
end overcrowded conditions in
schools, and remove fire and
health hazards, see in the pay
as-you-go" plan a final method of
extinguishing school city's debt
load to cash-and-carry basis.
NEXT-What citizens say of
the pay-as-you-go plan.
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fleet an unusual need or a praise
worthy struggle.
II have nothing to eat and no
table to eat it off Of"
ut is simple thing to die, but
a fearful thing to live"
'We have Is chickens and a lit
tie COW helping u.s."
81 believe I owe five months
rent, but I will know for sure
when the landlord calls
MY children are also sticking
out of their shees."
In the last eight years we have
had five operations in our family,
and all of them dry years."
NTHITEHURST'S division
W boasts that every letter
gets an answer. There is a stock
answer ready for almost every
type of request. Tie commonest
reply is, "See your local relief
administrator"
But there was no stock answer
ready for this one: 81 am the
father of Is children and am and
have been on relief for some time.
Will you kindly send me all avail
able information on birth control.
Thank you"
Democratic politicos point out
that these letters are from people
who have never before felt privi-
legged even to write to a Presi-
dent, and that they represent a
great throng who will go to the
polls in November to mark "X"
beside the name Of the Buddy"
they have been corresponding with.
Copyright. 1886. by United Featur
Syndicate Inc
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France has had her political as
saSsinaticns. Germany, both be-
fore and under the Nazis, has
resorted to political murder. In
Russia, Communists have used
the rifle as freely as the cars
against those who vote NO.
Assassination, the most prim-
tive form of political persuasion,
seems generally to go with die
tatorship, the most primitive
form of political organization,
resting on violence and terror
now as in the most primitive
tribes. That dictatorship and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-28
Washington Merry-Go-Round

VXTASHINGTON, Feb. %. -
w There is something intrigu-
ing about the tenor of White
House mail. Roosevelt's mail is
different from the mail of any
preceding President, not only in
its greater volume, but because it
it largely from people who can
hardly spell.
Here is a typical letter written
in painful scrawl:
81 never saw president would
write to until you've got in your
place. But I have always felt
like you and your wife and your
children were just as common as
we are"
Letters like this pour in at the
rate CT 5000 a day. Most of them
are merely plants about made
quate relief. But enough are COL
ored with praise OF the President
and his works to have some poll
tical significance. Like this one:
THE reason I have delayed
writing is that I consider you the
most busy man of all the presi-
dents we have had, and have did
more for the massasSes of the
people"
MANY indicate that the writer
IV1 expects personal and direct
aid from the President.
II have tryed all I could pos
sibly do-first God and then you.
and you are the only one that I
trust that can help me-"
Roosevelt has planted this idea
by his radio talks, and by one or
two dramatic, widely publicized
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Times Books

WILL IRWIN, veteran reporter and author IN
w book Propaganda and the News CWhittle-
sey House,, expresses the fear that truth crushed
to earth may some day be counted out instead Of
rising again.
Mr.. Irwin is friend of truth and our liberties
He thinks truth makes democracy work. His study
of propaganda down the ages to the era of Charles
Nicholson winds up with plea for the avoidance of
any repressive measures upon the dissemination Of
unbiased information His story is the reporters
story of the things that have happened. many Of
themSunder his own eyes, to dstort what reporters
eyes have seen.
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acts in which he did personally
bestow favor.
The mail is so heavy that it re-
quires a special staff to handle
it. Practically all mail addressed
to the President in long-hand
goes not to the White House, but
to a wartime shack on Constitu-
tion-av, where in a large barn
like room known as bay 3" there
sit so clerks who poi.nd type
writer's all day answering mail.
THEY are the Correspondence
- Division of WPA, under Ben
Whitehurst. Every day they turn
up letters like this:
Dear Honored Mr.. Roosevelt,
dear sir. take pleasure in hands
to drop you a few lines of very
Importance or:
my Dear President: You are
my Dig man, you are my puQQy,
and 7 am your buddy. I am very
glad that you are smarter than
President Hoover"
A plea came from 12-year-old
girl: In the name of the Lord or
the Democratic Party send the
money. I am r. I am small to
my age, but my mother is dead so
I an. the Oldest girl. Will you
please send about two thousand
dollars and don't send a check,
send it in money already coined
out"
T ETTERS addressed to Mrs.
- Roosevelt are sent to the
White House for her attention.
She wants to see letters that re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-28
Assassination Goes
With Dictatorship
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON, Feb 28.-You don't have to
wv scratch civilized man very hard to find
savage Political murder still is practiced widely
among nations which bow at the shrine of scientific
progress much it in the brutal days of the
Caesars Weapons have improved. But we use the
modern gun for the same purpose that Brutus drew
his lagger.
We find political murder in the Orient and Occi-
dent Fascist, Communist Socialist MiitarSt, use It,
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EIZnouNh
BY
WESIbROOK

DRATlA, Czechoslovakia Feb. 28-The most pa
thetic victims of Adolf Htlers slow massacre OF
the Jews in Germany are the children of the Jews
who too young to know what it is all about.
These children subjected to method of torture
far worse than the baby killing which was charged
against the German infantry in the early days of
wrggling on the bayonets of the marching armies.
It will be impossible for the Nazi Germans of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-28
Pity Brings Beatings

A LONE Jewish child in small community must
\ play alone for the true Nazi children of
course will not admit him to their company and a
GENTLE child with pity in its heart would be afraid
TO oHer the victim any sympathy. They might both
be beaten up.
And then, of course it is fair sport for the Nazi
cnl!dren TO KICK and beat and throw rocks at the
little Jews because that is preliminary training for
one OF the highest functions of Naz citizenship in
days to come.
All children have trusting attitude toward
grown people, and harsh word may leave an in
eHaceable scar on the soul of the young one The
souls of the children of the Jews in Germany will
be cross-hacked with thousand cuts, for they
never Will know anything in childhood but insults
TO themselves and the foulest aspersons on the only
ADULTS to whom they can turn for comfort-their
parents and other relatives
1t is absolutely certain that their childhood the
lew hours OF innocence which are given to all of
us and which civilized people try to invest with
beauty and JOY. has been destroyed by man with
mustache adopted from the makeup of a famous
comedlan) who has been seriously nominated by
some of his followers not for king not merely for
ruler but for God the redeemer of the German race
It would be mistake to call him babykiller Yol,
can't torture dead child
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slow as yet in taking on momen-
tum.
1t is not impossible that I may
be among the Presidents sever
est critics before election Day,
but 1t is very hard to get away
from the fact that anybody who
throws rocks at Roosevelt just
now can not escape embarrass-
ment at the company he must
keep.
No radical can very well hand
Roosevelt much, and yet for a
Roosevelt he really is remarkable.
Certainly he has gone farther left
than any other member of his set
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present time to deny the atrocities
which are being perpetrated on
Jewish children under the orders
of Adolf Hitler as policy CT the
German government today.
The Chinese have a method of
torture known as the death of a
thousand cuts. in which the ex-
ecutioner is rated according to his
ability to hack and mutilate the
victim without permitting him to
die until the maximum of suffer-
ing has been inflicted. They have
very good photograph of an ex-
ecution by this method in the
chamber of horrors in Madam
TuSsauds Museum in London, but
most people coming upon it ur
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University of Contrasts

A ND have in mind this annual pilgrimage of the
IN Presidents to Ca nbridge when speak of what
seems to me a growt-4 in stature. Harvard, of
course is not Justly termed Tory college in spite
of tie group which administers its endowments.
suppose no university in the country has produced
such extraordinary contrasts. Locking back little
more than 26 Years, one might have witnessed the
strange spectacle of John Reed acting cheer leader
for the football team captained by Ham Fish. Only
at Harvard could such thing have happened
But it must be remembered in talking of Franklin
hood up Harvard graduates are fond of saying that
their alma mater unlike others which might be mem
toned, does not produce a standardized type That
is a partial truth The whole rule does not hold
good in the of a lad who goes to Groton, lives
most of his formative years in college with his prep
school friends, moves through set RECOMMENDATION Of
a caste system Of clubs eliminating in his selection
for tle Fly and is graduated.
I maintain that the who has gone through
this particular conditioning is signed, sealed and
delivered into set holding precisely the views
all political, economic and social questions They
even like the same jokes. This section OF Harvard
does turn out a more highly standardized product
than any other educational mill in the country
When Roosevelt went to the Fly Club last week to
witness the initiation of his he went to the house
of his enemies OF the adults there present not one
will vote for him. And say of my own knowledge
that some of the men who were there eligible to
be there have been among the lveest of the whis-
perers about the Presidents health"
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WHAT'S WRONG IN OUR SCHOOLS?
Pa,-as YouGo Plan only Way Ont of Iapge Says Board

This is the fifth of a series of articles
by Arch SteineI. following a comprehen-
sive survey of the Indianapolis schools
system.
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Haywood BR0UN

II HOPE it is no secreG that this column does not
il regard Roosevelt radical, even as a
liberal with a well-6efned plan for immediate re-
forms. Indeed, want to have chance to support
a Farmer-Labor candidate for President in 1885,