Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 January 1939 — Page 2

i'HE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939.

Signs Of The Times • « « Comments, Politically and Otherwise, on Present-Day Topics

In the last few weeks the Securities and Exchange Commission has taken action against two huge firms: McKesson fe Robbins, the drug company with vanishing warehouses, and the Fidelity Investment Association, which has sold $600,00Q,000 of investment certificates to the public. Both stories are “shockers”. McKesson & Robbins is an $80,000,000 firm with listed stock. It turns out the $18,OOO.OOO of these assets represented as several “warehouses” and “stocks of crude drugs”, are fictitious; the warehouses were mailing addresses. And in the case of Fidelity Investment Association, it is charged that “window dressing” practices have been used to deceive 60,000 investors.

What we are most interested in at the moment—and this is one good why of judging the usefulness of SEC—is the public reaction. It is one of interest, hut also of calm. There is no hint pf general fright among investors. The stock market is actually up several points. There is the feeling that the situation is well in hand. To weight the meaning of this, contrast the results when one giant firm, Krueger & Toll, get into trouble in pre-SEC days. That was something. If you remember the first indication (to the general public) was the suicide of Ivar Kreuger, head of the Swedish match trust. On March 12, 1932, he killed himself in Paris. Early that day, for no apparent cause, there was tremendous activity in Kreuger & Toll stock on the New fork Exchange. One-fourth of all the day’s trading was in this one issue. Everybody wondered why; no one knew. The price stayed around 5. Somebody unloaded, probably. A lot of the selling came from Stockholm. Two days later, othpr stocks began to be affected. Wild rumors floated around. American Telephone and Telegraph dropped 4 points. Steel more than 2, New York Central 2. Kreuger & Toll dropped from a price of 5 to about 2; those who had bought two dr~- , before were left holdin~ the bag. On March 15, next day, tb" papers had statements from financiers saying that Kreuger company was “solid” and in good shape. There was no SEC to say “yes” or “no”; the public had nowhere to turn. You remember the rest—how the whole rotten Kreuger empire collapsed.

ways to remedy this situation. They could abolish the fees and put justices on straight salaries, eliminate the constables and rely entirely upcn the sheriff and the state police to make arrests, serve papers, etc. And they could impose a criminal penalty upon any public official found guilty of imposing fines or fees illegal Under state or federal laws, and mandating the public prosecutor to prosecute such complaints diligently. SECOND ANNIVERSARY OFtHE FEDERAL OLD-AGE INSURANCE PROGRAM OBSERVED BY U. S. WORKERS

Is SEC useful? Do we need it?

"What do its opponents have to say now Is SEC “New Deal interference” as has been windily charged, or is it common sense protection, not only for investors, but for all the corporations on the stock list? To its great credit, the New York Stock Exchange has been since made peace with SEC and has learned to live amiably with it. But there are still a few die-hards, as at the last National Association of Manufacturers convention who fight its stringent registration requirements. Let them contrast to-

day’s calm with March 12.

One of the most hopeful indications that we have definitely emerged from what one might term the great Depression lies in the present investment policies of our insurance companies. When times are bad and business insecure, more and more insurance investment flows into government bonds, which offer high safety despite low yield. T. A. Phillips, president of Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co., has analyzed 49 insurance companies holding $2 per cent of the assets of all legal reserve life in surance companies in the country. He disclosed that holdings of government bonds this year showed the lowest increase since 1932, while commitments in the corporate and mortgage bond markets were larger than in any year since 1928. Since life insurance company investments are restricted by law and made with great caution, the figures demonstrate faith in recovery on the part of some of our most conservative and shrewdest

investment managers.

More than 40 million workers are entitled to join this month in celebrating the second anniversary of the establishment of the Federal old-age insurance system, according to a recent statement issued by H. L. McCarthy, Regional Director of the Social Security Board. In summarizing progress since the program went into effect on January 1, 1937, Mr. McCarthy said that approximately 42 million wage earners have applied for old-age insurance accounts and that the Board’s Bureau of Old-Age Insurance is now geared to handle millions of additional accounts. Mr. McCarthy, whose headquarters are at Chicago, Illinois, has supervision over 31 Social Security Board field offices in the states of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. He also acts as the Board’s liaison officer with state unemployment compensation and public assistance agencies in his region. The regional director stated that during the last two years the volume of work involved in establishing and maintaining millions of wage records has increased monthly until now it represents the greatest insurance bookkeeping system in the world. The first importaUt step in deyelojUng this national program was the initial application for account numbers undertaken about a month before the program was to become effective. By the start of the program in January, 1937, more than 17,000,000 applications for account numbers had already been received. At the cjose of the first year, on December 31, 1937, account numbel's had beeh assigned to more than 36,700,000 persons. During 1938 applications for account numbers have averaged nearly half a million a month. Of the total number of wage accounts set uf), Mr. McCarthy said 4,896,288 have been issued to workers in this region as follow's: Illinois, 2,922,540; Indiana, 1,123,800; Wisconsin, 649,948. The second important step in developing the system was the setting up and maintenance of wage records. This has been carried on by the Bureau of Old-Age Insurance with maximum .efficiency through the use of highly mechanized procedures and equipment. Along with this phase of its work, the Bureau has also been developing its system for the payment of claims. Mr. McCarthy explained that although the payment of monthly annuities is scheduled to begin in 1942, single cash payments are already being made in certain cases. These payments are provided for workers who reach the age of 65 without having had the opportunity to qualify for monthly benefits and for the estates of workers who die. Such single cash payments represent 3 1-2 per cent of the total taxable wages the worker has received. “This feature of the program,” Mr. McCarthy said, “is supplementary to the major provision for

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J. P. FEE SYSTEM SAID TO VIOLATE U. S. CONSTITUTION

“Any system under vdiich a judge or other officer of the law has a direct or substantial pecuniary interest in the result of the trial is utterly indefensible and violative of the United States Constitution." So stated Chief Justice Weygandt of the Ohio Supreme Court recently before the American Automobile Association convention, according to a recent news story A decision along this line was handed down by Chief Justice Taft of the United States Supreme Court in 1927 in the case of Tamey v. Ohio. In other words, any person fined by a justice of the peace could probably spend several hundred dollars and several years and get a reversal by the U. S. Supreme

Court.

But the J. P.’s and their constables who operate speed traps in Indiana know that their victims will not go to that trouble to recover a five or ten dollar assessment, especially when they ai’e careful to arrest only those from other states. Hence this form of

extortion goes merrily on.

\Vhich postings have been completed. Since last June, informdicn on 1937 postings has been available. After about June 30, 1939, workers will be able to obtain from the Brueau the exact amount of wages reported by thejr employers up to the close of 1938. In discusishg other phases of the Social Security program under the Board’s supervision, Mr. McCarthy said: “We have at least one FederalSlate program of Public Assistance to tile iieedy iii etfery State and Territory of the United States. The Federal Government, by grants of money, helps the participating states to provide cash payments monthly to needy old people, the needy blind, and for dependent children. All the states are taking part in the program for needy old pcopie. Forty-two states are taking part in the program for the needy blind, and the same nUniber jn that for dependent children. All told, about 2 1-2 million men, women and children are being directly aided through these monthly cash allowances, from Federal, state and local funds. A total, from all these sources, of ohe billioii dollars has been paid to beneficiaries under these assistance programs since the Social Security Act went into opefatibn. / “In Region VI Indiana and Wisconsin hai-e approved plans for all three types of Public Assistance programs — Illinois has approved plans foir aid to the needy aged 65 voars of age oy more, but does not have approved Federal-State plans for providing aid to the needy blind and to needy dependent children. “We now have 31 states paying unemployment insurance benefits. In all the remaining states but two, benefits will be payable in January, and after next July all the states will have reached this state of full cooperation. Up to November 30, 1938, 3 1-2 million unemployed workers in 29 states had received benefits amounting to about $368,000,000. “We have more than 42 million old-age insurance accounts on our books—representing an average £ain of nearly half a million a month during 1938. Every worker covered by the old-age insurance plan is now building up his rights to a regular monthly retirement benefit. Meanwhile, we are paying lump-sum claims at the rate of more than 15,000 a month to iiir sured workers who have reached 65 years of age, and to the families of those who have died— claims amounting so far to about 11 million dollars.” “As Arthur J. Alttneyer, Chairman of the Social Security Board pointed out recently,” said McCarthy, “the New Year will bring, no doubt, changes in the Social Security Act and in the State laws which tie into the act. This, of Course, ii? as it Shodld be, for we now have experience upon which we can build in extending and strengthening these laws. “With our hopes for the broadening of the social security programs—hopes which depend, of course, iipoh the action of Congress and the State legislatures which are soon to convene—we feel that both the need for and the effectiveness of the Social Security Act have already been demonstrated beyond question. In terms of people served and future want forestalled, its record to date is one of real and enduring progress.” o SURVEY SHOWS SMALL MAJORITY FAVORING STATE SPEED LIMIT

regular retirement annuities. Though in comparison it may seem relatively insignificant in size, more than 265,000 claims for single cash payments have already been certified. These benefits amount to more than $11,000,000. The first claims paid—and claims were filed in behalf of workers who died or reached the age of 65 on the first day the system went into effect— naturally amounted to only a few cents. But as more time has passed for the accumulation of wages, every month has seen an increase in the national average. In November, this average came to $64.36. Claims paid in the states comprising this region,” Mr. McCarthy said, “averaged $67.11 in November. Since January, 1937, a total of 30,918 claims pertaining to this region, have been certified for payment representing $1,393,201.91, as

follows:

State Tot. Claims Tot. Amt. Illinois 17,195 $826,289.16 Indiana 7,686 304,528.39 Wisconsin ___ 6,037 •262,384.36 Mr. McCarthy pointed out that claims for single cash payments have been considerably speeded up during the past year. Reports from Washington give 22 days as the average time now required for the Federal Government to handle the entire claim process, from the dgy the claim is filed in the field offibe to that bn which the United Stdtes Treasury mails the benefit check to the applicant. As a result of the participation of millions of workers and their employers in this program, th£ regional director said, approximately 75,000,000 wage items for 1937 Have been entered on the records maintained by the Bureau of Old-Age Insurance. In taxable wages this represents nearly $29,000,000,000 received by these workers during that year. The .exact number of wage items which will be placed on the books for. jjjjM cannot be determined for Several weeks, since employers have a leeway of a month after the close of each quarter in which to make their tax returns. . , Mr. McCarthy added that any wage earner may, at any time, ask the Bureau for a statement of his

struction of roads and bridges, additional grade separations and flasher signals at railroad crossings, improved marking, and the elimination of hazardous curves, grades and deep side ditches. o OVER THREE MILLION GAME FISH PRODUCED

More than three million game fish were produced in the stgte fish hatcheries for restocking lndihna lakes and streams during 1938, Vii;gil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. This production record, the highest in four years, does not include fish produced in club hatcheries nor the more than fifteen million perch, trout and wall-eyes planted by the state hatcheries in Indiana waters during the year. The 1938 production of black bass, rock bass, bluegills, red-eared sunfish. crappies and channel catfish, was more than 60,000 above the 1937 figures. Hairing 1938, the state hatcheries produced and planted l4l,609 largemouth black bass, 206,098 smallmouth black bass, 2,071,7^6 bluegills, 263,749 rock bass, 385,412 redeared sunfish, 27,779 crappies. and 17,630 chahnel catfish,- In addition, but not counted in the total above, were 30,000 gambusia and 10,000 fiSh of other species which serve as a food supply for bass and other fish of the game species. Earlier during the year the state hatcheries propagated and planted 13,860,000 wall-eyes and 1,050,000 perch, and planted 400,000 trout which were secured from federal hatcheries. Total plantings by the state hatcheries for the year were approximately eighteen and onehalf million fish.

GROSS INCOME TAX DIVISION

GROSS INCOME TAX DUE

The legislature has at least two [account covering the period for

J abulation of nearly four thousand questionnaires distributed by the Bureau -of Traffic among motorists in all parts of Indiana shows only a slight majority in favor of a state-wide speed limit, T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State Highway Coriimission, said today. The vote on the question: Should we have a speed limit on Indiana highways? was 2,219 for a speed limit and j,647 against such a regulation. Of the persons favoring a speed limit. 756 proposed a limit of 50-miles-per-hour; 134 suggested a 55-mile-per-hour maximum and 701 voted for a speed limit of 60 miles

an hour.

On the other questions, the persons filling out the questionnaires voted 3,786 to 149 for requiring pedestrians to observe stop-arid-go signals; 3;484 to 378 for compulsory inspection of inotpr vehicles, and only 190 indicated that they would be opposed to free clinics to discover physical weaknesses affecting operation of motor vehicles. Establishment of such clinics was favored by 3,671 persons answering the questionnaire. Education was voted the major factor in causing increased thinking about highway safety, with accidents to relatives or friends a secondary factor. Slow moving vehicles on the highways were classified, jiy 20 per cent of the questionnaires the most annoying thing on the highways, glaring lights were listed by 13 percent of the answers with “road hogs" nariied ten per cent of the persons filling out the

blanks.

While the number of blanks filled put and returned in the survey cenducted by the State Highway Commissien through its Bu : reau of Traffic, represents only a smdll percentage of the motorists iii Iridifind, traffic, officials feel that it rioes provide a ferisonable icciirite basis upori which to continue their studies. Resqlts of the survey are being checked as a possible source of recommendations for changes in existing traffic regulations. _ . , The Highway Commission will use this , data in continuing its broad program of increasing highway safety, through modern • cou-

TridThndpolis, Jan. 6.—Nearly 18,000 persons living in other states and employed in Indiana will pay more than $150,000.00 for 1938 under the withholding provisions of the Indiana Gross Income Tax Act, thus exceeding by more than $10,000.00 the $139,000.00 paid for 1937, Clarence A. Jackson, director of the state Gross Income Tax Division, estimated today as pfeparations for the annual taxpaying period opening January 1 were well

under way.

Approximately 15,000 non-resi-dents were reached by the withholding section of the Amended Act in 1937. However, 2,279 additional out-of-state taxpayers, principally large non-resident business corporations with income from within Indiana, and so required to pay tax ori the same basis as resident Hoosiers, brought the 1937 total paid by out-of-state taxpayers near the three million dollar mark with $2,359,429.67. or 12.28 per cent of the totdl tax cbllfeeted by the Di; vision in 1937, Mr. Jackson pointed

out.

A large portion of the tax collected under the witholding provisions of the Amended Act represerits tax which the state would not have been able to collect prior to its enactment. The original Act as it was passed in 1933 provided for payment of taxes by any person earning money in Indiana, but, because of legal restrictions, the Division w r as unable to collect from a non-resident if he refused to file a return and had no property in the state Upon which to levy, it was. explained. The Amerided Gross Income Tax Act provides that any person haying the payment, control, receipt, or custody of monies to others shall make information returns of all amounts paid in excess of $1,000 per year and shall, on non-resi-dents, withhold tax of 1 per cent on the excess of such amount and pay such tax to the Division, unless there is filed with the withholding agent a certificate under oath to the effect that the person receiv- ! ng such compensation is a resident of the State of Indiana. The withholding agents on or before January 31 of the yeah succeeding the year in which the payments of $1,000 or more are made, rehiit the total of all such ainounts withheld to the Gross Income Tax Division on forms prescribed arid furnished the Division. Such forms, foi-ms on which withholding employers will report and pay the tax to the state, were to be mailed this week to rnore than 1,100 employers who had filed initial reports indicating that they had non-residents in their employ iri the state. Withholding provisions do not apply to Indiana residents, Mr. Jackson emhhasized, pointing out that Hoosier citizens who receive more than $1,000 in the year will continue to file returns and pay their own tax as in the past. Non-residenjs will also file returns, but will take credit for the amount of tax withheld by their employers. Annual returns for 1938, both from residents and non-residents, will be delinquent after January 31, 1939. Return forms are available at all the auto license branches.

Indianapolis, Jan. 6. — Approximately five hundred thousand informatiqn returns and supporting affidavits to be filed reporting payments of $1000 or more to employees are being mailed to employers and other payers by the state Gross Income Tax Division, Clarence A. Jackson, director of the division, announced. “As a, service to their employees and to fulfill their requirements under the Gross Income Tax Act, employers should fill in the report forms and return them to the Diyisiori as rapidly as possible,” Mr. Jackson said. “The majority of employees in the state are furnished with copies of the inforniation returns filed with the Division by their employers in time so that they can Use them in connection with filing their annual returris, which aye due January 1. By so doing they insure themselves against the annoyance of investigatin by the Division of any discrepancies between the amounts reported on their returns and the amounts reported by their employers as having been paid to them.” The 1938 annual gross incomp tax returns may be filed without being delinquent any time during the period January 1 to January 31. However, Mr. Jackson pointed out that nearly a half million gross income tax returns will be filed during January and urged all taxpayers to file their returns early and avoid those last-minute jams which make" it impossible for the Division to be of real service in the way of making it convenient to

file.

To non-resident employees the tax division extended a reminder that the Indiana Gross Income Tax Law, as amended by the 1937 Legislature, provides that Indiana employers shall deduct one per cent for gross income tax from the earnings of employees who are working in Indiana but who are NOT residents of Indiana. The one per cent deduction is required on all amounts paid to such employees after payments to the employee reach $1,000 in the calendar year. $1,000 is the exemption permitted taxpayers under the gross income tax law, The amounts deducted are serif, to the state Gross Incoriie Tax Division and are credited to the non-resident employees.’ accounts there, the bulletin said. It was a l so pointed out that nonresident employees at the close of the year (by January 31, 1939) should file a regular individual gross income tax return, if they have received any income during 1938 from an Indiana source other than that which has been subjected to withholding, and report thereon all amounts received from within the state, including that upon which tax has been withejd. and take credit thereon for deductions made by their employers and paid to the state.

CAN GOVERNORS MILK COWS?

San Francisco, Jari. 6.—What the Goverrior of North Carolina said to the GoverrioF of South Carolina is one Stoi-y. But what the Governor of Idaho said to the Governor of Texas as he milked a cow, will be another stdj-y. And it ought to be an even better onri, Golden Gate International Exposition officials said as they anno*

the cooperation of various federal and state agencies, the American Autoniobile Association and the Autoiriobiie Manufacturers Association.

NEED ’39

LICENSES ON JANUARY FIRST

Hoosier sportsmen—hunters, anglers and trappers—must have 1939 licenses on and aftet New Year’s Day as all licerises issued by the Division of Fish and Game expired December 31. Vtrgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, pointed out today. Indiana’s combination resident hunting, fishing and trapping licenses went on sale two weeks ago and can be obtained from country clerks and agents in all counties. Other licenses, including those for fur or mussel buying, for commercial fishing, for game breeders, taxidermists, arid for possession of a cisco gill net or a ferret, must be secured from the office of the Division of Fish and Game, 406 State Library Building, Indiariapolis.

SKIING PRACTICE AT POKAGON STATE PARK

Cow Milking Contest” to be held on Treasure Island in October, 1939. Plans for the cow milking contest were discussed here by Lloyd Burlingharri, managing director of the National Dairy Show, arid Ezra J. Fieldsted, chief of the Exposition Division of Livestock. “The National Dairy Show will be held at the Exposition Qctober 21 to 30 next year,” said Burlingham. “Governors of every dairy state will be invited to come and sit on a milking stool and do their stuff.”

HIGHWAY DETOURS AT MINIMUM

NOW

Arrival of winter with its sno>v and freezing temperatures transforms the Indiana strife parks into winter sports centers' whefe hundreds of outdoor enthusiasts participate in skiing, coasting, skating, sleighing and hiking. Park inns at Pokaon, Turkey Run, Clifty Falls arid McCormick’s Creek are open throughout the holiday season and the winter months. Pokagon state park, bordering Lake James and located on Road 27 north of Angola, is Indiana’s major winter sports ceriter. The lake is utilized for skating and ice-boating, while there is a long toboggan slide and four well-marked ski trails— two for beginners and two for the more venturesome devotees of this increasingly populrir sport. There ate sleigh and bobsled rides for the visitors who prefer less activity, , At Turkey Run state park, on Road 47, north of Rockville, winter activities include hiking, horseback riding, and when the Weather is favorable—criastjng, skating and skiing. This park lias long been a frivorite winter resort, widely known for its natural beauty, the hospitality of the inn and the varied activities in which tbe visitor caif participate. Less fortunate as far as extended periods of snow or ice are coricerned but just as attractive for hiking, riding, nature study and other outdpor activities in trie winter as at other seasons of the year, McCormick’s Creek state park—on Road 46 near Spencer—-has a continuing appeal to the visitor. Canyon Inn is always popular during the holiday season and provides comfbrtable quarters for the visitor. Clifty Falls state park—on Roads 7 and 56, near Madison—is favored by temperate weather during the winter months, making possible lorig hikes through the wooded hills and rides over the bridle paths to the points of scenic and historic interest. The winding Ohio river with its steamboat traffic, the nearby city of Madison arid the historic Lariier Marision add variety arid charm to the park and the hospitality of Clifty Inn. Other state parks are always open to visitors for hiking, picnicking in the shelter houses or outdoors and for other seasonal activities.

STUDIES REVEAL NEWS FACTS ABOUT DEATH FROM GAS

THE MEXICAN PROBLEM

During the winter season there are between 500 and 700 Americans marked for death—a useless, avoidable death. Most of them will die in their garages while warming UP the motors of their autos with the garage doors closed. Some will die while sitting in their cars with the windows closed and the motors running. Several may die while working the engines of their machines to the utmost.in attempts to °:et out of snowdrifts in which they have become stuck. Some will die while driving their autos along the road. A few will die huddled around foul-smelling and poorly adjristed room heaters., We know this not only because of past experience, but also begajise studies have revealed new facts—hitherto unknown ways carbon monoxide has of snuffing out a tnrin’s life. Mrich has been written about carbon monoxide, but most cf it has been by way of locking tbe barn after the horse is stolen. Here are some of the facts of which we are now certain. 1. Frequently there is no warning headache or dizziness. Unconsciousness and death can hit you '.ike a blackjack in the hands of a rririg. 2. Carbon monoxide is not heavier than air, but very slightly lighter. 3. Automobile exhaust pipes are riot the only source of carbon monoxide. It is a product of incomplete combustion and may be given off by improperly vented oil heaters, coal burners, and oil stoves. 4. No person is immune, nor can anyone build up an immunity. 5. Acute poisoning as well as chronic poisoriing caused by repeated exposures may leave serious after effects. 6. You don’t have to be inside a garage with the doors fclosed to be endangered; if you have a leaky exhaust pipe or a leaky manifold heater, your closed car will do as well. 7. You are in danger if your exhaust isn’t able to escape freely. There have been many cases iri which cars and trucks have backed up against a hard snow bank which obstructed the exhaust pipe; the exhaust has escaped iri some manner, perhaps around a gasket, arid persons in the car have been asphyxiated. 8. It does not take a concentrated amiourit but only one fifth of the one per cent crirbon morioxide in the air to put you to sleep. THEREFORE: 1. See that the doors of your garage are open when the motor of your car is running. 2. Provide ventilation if you ate using an oil or coal heater in the room or any combustion heater without a flue. 3. Have your car tested, both when it is in motion and when it is parked, for the presence ’of”"carbon tiionoxide. 4. Have your car inspected for a leaky exhaust system. 5. Remember that when you park •'

with the motor running the exhaust has a tendency, especially when the exhaust pipe is partially obstructed, to curl up under the car and gather there. See that a car window is open when you park with the motor running.

WEATHER MAN PAINTS IN OILS

Sandusky, O. — James Mitchell has a combination career as assistant U. S. weaiher observer, in the Sandusky bureau, and creator of religious priihhngs. Before “Jim” Mitchell began predicting the weather, he did freehand drawing in ri Columbus, O., newspaper’s promotiori department. Now he hgs turned to painting in oil on 16- by 24-inch canvases and specializing in religious themes. “About 20 hours of work are needed to complete each, of my paintings,” the weather observe*' artist said. “I’m now completing a crihvris cf the “Three Wise Men.” My inten pretation of the three wise men is different from mosi as I’ve shown them, astride their camels, from a front view. He said that one of his favorite works is his pairitirig of Christ and a lamb. “I spend most of my tirne assisting the weather bureau observer, hut I riianage to find tirrie every day to work on my pairitingr,” Mitchell said. “Some day I hope I criri exhibit my work. Until then, I’m going ahead pairitirig accordlrig to riiy own ideas arid without the did of a teacher.” / Mitchell has completed 30 paintings and a latger number of drawings since he started painting and drawing about, five, years ago. As an art sidelirie, he dries peri-ririd-ink work and water colors. Q , v TIED AND UNTIED BY SIGNS San Francisco—In Debember, 1934, Hdna Edwards, public relations counsel for the deaf, served as a “sign interpreter” for thri marriage of Esther and Arthur R. Gage. Almost to the day, four years later, she served in the same capacity for their divorce.

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Motorists traveling the Indiana state highway system will find only three detours, the smallest number at this time of year in the past five years, T. A. Dicus, chairmari of the Strite Highway Cppimission, pointed out. today. The three detours are on Road 2h, east of Fairmount; dri Road 33, west and north of Road 6, arid on Road 145 betweeri New Bristoh arid Fulda. Absence of detours at this season is due to the action of the commission in placing the 1938 construction arid maintenance programs under contract early in the year and the favorable weather during the summer and the late fall.

FLYING BOOMS IN AUSTRALIA

Melbourne, Australia—Australia is growing air-couscipus faster than iri. any other direction. During 1038, commercial companies irifcreased their flights 6y 6|6 per centuthe number of bassengers increased by more than 100 per cent and freight was almost doubled.

The Greeks n are said to have used coal more thari 2,000 years ago. .. , . M -. .,, Balsa wood is the world's lightest wood, while quebracho wood is the heaviest. :

INDIANA THIRTEENTH IN TOURIST REVENUE

Indiana rariked thirteenth amririg the states in the amount of revenue derived froni tourists in 1937. Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Hepartment of Conservation, said today. With the expenditure of $110,250,000 riy tourists, the value per capita to Hoosiers was

$31.87.

| As reported by the U. .S Travel Bureau, tourist expenditures ill Indiana during 1937 were only exceded by those in New York. Ohio, California, Feririsylvariia, lllipois, Massachusetts, Michigan. Texas. New Jersey, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin. The estimates by the Travel Bureau include only commodities which travelers purchase daily, such as gasoline, oil, food and accommodations. The survey on recreational travelers’ i ; e-tail'-expenditures was made with. T - V; ^ _ ; f - .

Apparently what is happening in Mexico follows about the same course as that which happened in Germany. It is of recent history that Germany was bankrupt, and was financed and built up by Brit-

ish loans.

Mexico is being built up on silver purchases. Meanwhile she is Using American oils that she confiscated last March in bartering with Germany ;she is playing fast and loose in commerce and political smypathies with Communists and Nazis, and cultivating trade and friendly relations with Japan. Those being the facts what’s to prevent Mexico from developing into a formidable enemy in the advancement of European isms throughout Latin America while geing financed by the United States—jUst as Germany has become a military menace to England after having been financed by the

British?

The United States is being forced into a position where either it must stop Mexico or suffer irreparable damages in prestige. It would riot be surprising if we heard more about this problem from Secretary of State Hull when he returns with the delegation that accompanied him to Lima. The news leaked ript on the opening day of the Pan-Americhn conference that Mexico had concluded a vast new deal with Germany whereby oil seized by the Mexican governrhent was to be bartered to Germany in return for goods forrrlerly supplied by American manufacturers. Washington dispatches indicate that officials in charge, of the State Department during Mr. Hull’s absence are also seriously concerned over Mexico’s action of fostering Nazi control of raw materials ,Jn direct , contradiction of the whole purpose of the Lima Conference, which IS to build a wall against totalitarian penetration of Latin-America.

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