Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1932 — Page 4
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HOUSE CANVASS RACKETS NET GOOD PROFITS Solicitors Often Thrive on Money Donated to 'Charity.’ <Thl It the third of a series on house-to-house selling rarkett, now practiced in Indianapollt.) BY LOWELL NUSSBAUM Without any regulation, numerous frauds are being worked on the public in solicitation of funds for alleged charitable purposes, many of which are more or less fraudulent. or not wisqiy planned, managed, or controlled. Frequently, the funds arc not used for the intended purpose but rather for the benefit of the collector. Housewives and business men alike often are approached with requests to buy tickets or contribute to funds being raised for churches, lodges, missions, doubtful poor relief organizations and other charity purposes. Undoubtedly some of these solicitations are meritorious and funds collected actually are used for worth-while purposes, but in many cases this is not so. Numerous solicitors have sought funds here in the name of charity and religion, spending usually from one-half to all their income for their own personal welfare and en- ; Joyment. Tublic Is Fooled By use of titles, pseudo uniforms, and general appearance, they are able to fool the public, as the average giver, being unfamiliar with such organizations, does not distinguish them from the workers in real and worthy charity organizations whose missions and welfare stations render an admirable service to humanity in the community. Investigation of such appeals always is wise before giving. Practically every housewife in the city has been visited by a well-dressed salesman who begins his conversation by saying "Good morning. Madam, I am calling this morning from an organization supporting a children’s home—an orphanage for little children. I am not begging or asking donations, and wll not accept charity.” Trobed by Business Bureau After dwelling upon the sad state of children who have lost their mothers, he explains he is selling extracts and other kitchen supplies, profits from which go to support an orphanage in an eastern city caring for 100 to 150 orphans. The salesman represents a firm j maintaining, an Indianapolis office j and having a number of salesmen j making house-to-house solicitations ] here. Similar branch offices are j maintained in many other cities. This matter has been the subject : of extensive investigation by the Better Business Bureau. These salesmen often obtain nearly double, the ordinary grocery prices for many of their articles, according to T. M. Overley, bureau manager. "If pressed for details, these salesmen will admit only 10 per cent of the profits go to the orphanage,” he. said, "and we can not learn by what method the company computes the profits. Decision in Doubt "We estimate that out of a Si sale, only 2 or 3 cents goes to the orphanage, while the salesman gets probably 45 cents and the company makes an estimated profit of 25 or 30 cents. "We are unable to learn either from the company or from the orphanage how much money the orphanage receives each year.” Overley said it is questionable whether the articles sold in thismanner arc as good as can be obtained for much less money at a local store, and suggested much more good could be done by an outright donation to a Ipcal charitable organization. Another annoying practice fought by the bureau over the entire country is the mail order racket. Racket Through Mail Nearly every one in the city, at one time or another, has received neckties, initialed handkerchiefs, perfume or other unordered merchandise through the mail with a plea that it be accepted and payment (in most cases an exorbitant price) be remitted. Sometimes the merchandise comes from an alleged war veteran, or a blind man “seeking an honest living,” so the literature says. Large profits are made by unscrupulous firms operating in this manner, the bureau asserts. It advises that recipients of such unordered merchandise are not required to send money in payment oi' return the merchandise. Way to Kill Evil Recipients should give the merchandise reasonable care for a reasonable length of time, to absolve themselves of responsibility for it. In addition, the bureau advises, those receiving the merchandise may, if they wish, write the company, notifying its officials the goods are being stored in the recipenrs heme at a specified daily storage charge, and that if not called for within a specified time, it will be sold to pay the storage charges General observance of this practice by the public soon would kill the unordered merchandise evil, officials say.
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DRYS CREEP UP ON WETS IN BIG POLL
Prohibition Foes Slip From 80 to 77 Per Cent of Total Digest Vote. The drys again gain an increase over the wets from 19.28 per cent to 22.61 per cent of the total vote, in the third week's returns of the Literary Digest’s nation-wide prohibition poll, with 1,323,284 ballots tabulated, as announced in the current issue of the magazine. The drys polled 15.85 per cent in the first returns of this "straw” referendum. The addition of 500,000 more votes from twenty-four states in the current tally shows 299,207 ballots, 22.61 per cent for continuance of the LAUNCH WET DRIVE Republican Group Demands Stand Against Dry Law. liy L’nilcd Press CHICAGO, March 4. —A drive to force the Republican party to go on record at its June convention in favor of the repeal of the eighteenth amendment started here today. Wet Republican leaders met under the auspices of the Republican citizens’ committe against national prohibition to draft a program which includes an appeal to contributors to give no more money to finance a dry Republican party. Raymond Pitcairn, Philadelphia, temporary chairman of the group, announced a poll of 10,000 former campaign contributors and leading business men, supporters of the party, showed 7,844 opposed to giving more funds, if the organization continued support of the dry cause. LAWRENCE IS TO SPEAK Nationally-Known Political Writer Will Speak to Columbia Club. David Lawrence, nationally known political writer, will be the speaker at the forty-second annual beefsteak dinner of the Columbia Club March 29, at 6:30. More than 500 men are expected to attend the dinner.
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Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Mrs. Dorraldeen Tolson. 3418 West Sixteenth street. De. Soto coupe. 37-395 (1932). from 3418 West Sixteenth street. Jones Motor Corporation. Capitol avenue and Vermont street, Chrysler sedan. M-1806. from 935 Udell street. Fred White. 939 North Pennsylvania street. Ford roadster. 769-925 (1931), from 939 North Pennsylvania street. Charles Bivens. 2409 Northwestern avenue. Ford coupe. 128-634 1 1932 1 . from Vermont and California streets. Lorcne Self. Mooresville. Ind.. Ford Tudor. one-half mile west of Lvndhurst drive.
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Stolen automobiles recovered bv police i belong to: i H. R. Meeker. 340 East Fiftv-sixth street. Packard sedan, found at 17 West North street. John Fahev. 541 North Dearborn street. ! Chrysler sedan, found at Alabama and | Washincton streets.
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j eighteenth amendment and 1,024,077, or 77.39 per cent, for repeal, i The seven additional states re- , porting initial returns this week include: Arkansas. lowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Missisippi, South Carolina and Tennessee. Kansas Drys Have Edge Kansas is the first state to report a dry majority, but Tennessee wavers between continuance and repeal with 48.68 per cent of its first tabulated ballots for prohibition. The initial figures from Massachusetts show a vote of approximately three and one-half to one wet. New York still is the wettest state so far reported, showing 86.88 per cent of the ballots received for repeal, but registering the second consecutive decrease in its wet sentiment over previous returns. I’hird and fourth in the dry rating are Arkansas and North CaroI hna, which shows respective dry percentages of 47.30 and 41.85 for prohibition. No returns have been reported yet from the Rocky Mountain district, the southwest or the Pacific coast. 1930 Totals Recalled "Kansas is the first state in the tally whose dry percentage passes the 50 per cent mark,” the Literary Digest states editorially. "Nor is Kansas the only encouragement for the drys in this third report. The total figures show a small but steady increase of relative dry strength in the voting. “The dry percentage has climbed from 15.85 in the first report to 19.28 in the second and now to 22.61 in the third.” The third report of the 1930 Literary Digest prohibition poll, asking three questions instead of two, showed a total tabulation of 1,244,483 votes, of which 333,978 were for enforcement, 383,117 for modification and 527,388 for repeal. Tabulation Announced The third report: Favor * Favor Continuance Repeal „ . of 18th of 18th State Amendment Amendment Arkansas 2.134 2,377 Connecticut 4.597 24,182 Georgia 4.528 9.250 Illinois 10,649 39.733 Indiana 24.901 52.823 lowa 7,012 11.899 Kansas 8.590 8.167 Maine 2.437 5,077 Maryland 6.033 22.710 Massachusetts 20.745 70,787 Michigan 11.332 39,977 Mississippi 1.054 2.006 New Hampshire ... 2.501 4,954 New Jersey 17.776 105.325 New York 40.139 265.676 North Carolina .... 8.388 10.739 Ohio 43,284 112.026 Pennsylvania 58.777 190.379 Rhode Island 1.070. 5.634 South Carolina 941 1.671 Tennessee 6,567 6.922 Vermont 1.726 4.308 Virginia 8.290 16.724 West Virginia 5.738 10.731 Totals 299.207 1.024.077
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PARACHUTE USE ! ON PASSENGER PLANESARGUEDj U. S. Officials Deny Value; of Safety Device for National Lines. This is the fourth and concluding article of the aeries on safety In aviation. BY ERNIE PYLE Scripps-Howard Aviation Editor WASHINGTON, March 4.—What about providing all passengers on airlines with parachutes? When Knute Rockne and seven others died last year in a crash in 1 Kansas, there was considerable discussion over whether the occupants could have been saved with chutes. Will Rogers, an aviation enthusiast, declared all passenger planes should carry parachutes. More recently, an article in the magazine Forum has aroused intense interest. It virtually accuses airline operators of being murderers, for their opposition to chutes. A few days ago a bill was introduced in congress making it compulsory for all airlines to provide each pilot and passenger with a parachute. Deny Chute Value Government officials have made a close study of airline accidents. They have found not a single case in the history of passenger air transport in this country in which a parachute would have saved anyone. They deny that chutes would have done any good in the Rockne accident. In nearly every case of fatal crashes on the airlines, the planes have got into trouble at low altitudes, too low to jump. There are only three conceivablecircumstances under which passengers would have to jump from a scheduled airline plane: 1. Fire in the air. There never has yet been a serious fire in the air on the airlines, and the possi- ! bilities are exceedingly remote. ! 2. Structural failure, such as hap--1 pened in the Rockne accident, when | a wing came off. When this hap- : pens, the plane is instantly and violently thrown over on its back, scrambling the passengers up into such a heap they could not disentangle themselves in time to jump. Experiment Is Cited 3. Encountering bad weather, which would force the plane to stay up until it ran out of gas. This never has happened to an airplane, and considering the regulations under which airlines operate, would * be almost impossible. An interesting experience with parachutes is recorded by the Boeing Air Transport, which for years carried passengers along with the air mail between Chicago and San Francisco. Pilot and passengers always were provided with chutes. But the passengers didn’t want to wear them. Many absolutely refused. Finally the passengers had their way, and the chutes were merely kept available if any one wanted them. Nobody did. At last the chutes hung idle on the walls Neither pilot nor passengers were them, and don’t td this day. That started back in the days when passengers went with the night mail, and flying was much more dangerous than it is today. Good for Tests No one denies the value of a parachute for certain types of fly-ing-military and naval aviation, test work, exhibition stunting, the air mail and even on any open cockpit plane. Chutes have saved more i than 700 lives in this type of flying. But the same conditions would not apply to a large cabin plane, carrying from ten to twenty passengers. Those informed on airline operation as it is today feel that the compulsory wearing of parachutes by all passengers would take more lives than it would save.
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