Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 283, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 April 1932 — Page 4

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CAPITALISM IS SUBJUGATED BY FIVE-YEAR PLAN Moneyed Middle Class Only a Memory After Soviet Completes Work. Riiml* stand* at the rrornad of it* flrtt and second Five-Year riant. The accomplishments of the flrat and the prospect* of the second mutt hare farreaehln A efforts noon the world. This I* the aerond of a aerlea describing Russia's nlana. BY EUGENE LYONS United Preaa Staff Correanondent MOSCOW, April s.—The chief results of the five-year plan, now nearing its end. are not to be found in tables of production figures. From the vantage point of those who direct the effort, the real triumph lies deeper—in the altered social relations between different groups. For them the supreme satisfaction, as they look back upon years crowded with exhausting work and bitter strife, is that they have beaten and reduced to impotence the remnants of capitalist, near-capi-talist and would-be capitalist classes. The “‘would-be’’ class was perhaps the most numerous and the hardest to conquer. It included those who remembered the past and harbored private economic ambitions, the old intelligentsia, the peasants with a stubborn appetite for private, property; those, in a word, who were not yet acclimatized to Soviet political atmosphere and retained “bourgeois mentalities.” End Is in Sight Their final “liquidation” is scheduled for the second five, year plan, and liquidation, as the better-to-do peasants have learned, is not a gentle process. When the original plan first was disclosed, Joseph Stalin's remorseless attack on the so-called bourgeois element already was under way. But those elements still wielded enormous social power. So much so, that a strong faction of the Communist party itself, the Right Opposition, thought it hopeless to fight them and urged slower but more peaceful tactics. A considerable portion of industry and an even larger slice of trade were in the hands of private owners. When I arrived here four years ago, privately owned stores, restaurants, small manufacturing units still were plentiful. In the villages, where some 80 per cent of the population lives, there was a distinct and widening gulf between rich and poor. The more able or less scrupulous peasants gradually had gathered more and more of the village property. Violent Changes Made History moves so fast here that the state of mind which prevailed four years ago, just before the "Piatiletka” was begun, seems incredible today. There were still many in all walks of life who looked for a gradual transition to capitalism. Not, of course, the unrestrained individualism of the American type, but a compromise between state control and private economy. There were others, especially technicians and ex-business men, who waited impatiently for the collapse of collectivist nonsense and were not averse to hurrying the collapse by a little pushing from within through sabotage and from without through intervention. That question has been answered by this time. The answer is written in blood and pain, but written indelibly. In the cities there no longer is a single private shop and the few private booths exist by sufferance only; they soon will be snuffed out. Middle Classes Surrender The “kustar,” or handicraft places which still are alive are under rigid surveillance and are becoming co-operative cartels as fast as they can. The former middle classes, in parparticular the technically trained and educated portion, have capitulated. Their defeat was marked by a series of sensational trials which dramatized the fight for all the world to see and to shudder. Above all, the rising little capitalists in the villages, the so-called “kulaks,” with their hangers-on and political supporters, have been wiped out. The worst of them (or the best, depending on one’s viewpoint) are chopping wood in the frozen north, or digging ditches in Central Asia. Fear of Capitalism Ended Over 60 per cent of the peasants are in collectives and over 75 per cent of the farm products for urban consumption and export are derived from “socialized” farms, that is, collectives or state-owned agricultural "factories." The Communist fear of a compromise with capitalism and the anti-Communist’s hope of a capitalist restoration are ended definitely. This most significant result of the first “Piatiletka” was bought dearly. It involved a sort of second revolution, which is not yet concluded. In tire internal class war there will be no rest until the last “bour-geois-minded” Russian is dead or “liquidated.” DOUBLE-HEADER HEMS Ohioan Breeds Flock That Lays Only Twin-Yolk Eggs. By United Press CROOKSVILLE. 0., April 5. Horticulturists attempt to make two blades of grass grow where there was but one; poultrymen set their goal at an egg a hen a day, but Fred Printz has gone deeper into the problem of forcing nature's hand. Printz has, by careful breeding, produced a fllock of eleven Plymouth Rock pullets, which lay nothing but double-yolk eggs.

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BY BEN STERN AH. this great old game of politics! When it isn't one thing, it’s another. And it’s all bad. Asa case in point, look at the situation in the Democratic party regarding the county treasurer nomination. The setup Is for William Clauer, j one time city chairman, t,o beat the incumbent, Timothy P. Sexton. The I city hall boys hope by that to obtain the circuit judge nomination for ; James E. Deery. Now Sexton is supposed to have ! sufficient pulling power among members of the Catholic faith to i give him a winning chance. I To split this vote, the Clauer men are said to have sponsored the entrance into the treasurer race of John E. Flaherty. The last named filed a couple of weeks ago and the Sexton adherents finally got wise to what was in the wind. a a a At three minutes to midnight Saturday—the deadline for filing and withdrawing—Curtis Patton, one of Sexton's deputies, came into the clerk's office with a withdrawal blank signed by Flaherty. As soon as this was handed in,

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TONY HUSTON was one of the star performers at the ritzy New York finishing school. She got along all right, until, playing hookey one day she renewed an acquaintance with a romantic-looking civil engineer whom she had met on a ranch. From that point on it was just was too bad. Tony did manage to graduate, but she started kicking up her heels immediately thereafter. Her best

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she finally decided to go on the stage. This is just a hint of wliat is contained in “The Aspiring Age,” a gusty and rather startling novel by Tiah Devitt. Flaming youth, apparently, hasn’t cooled off a bit, and the young buds in the finishing schools nourish strange and alarming ideas. If this author has described things correctly, the world just isn’t safe for girls —or with them; I’m not sure which. The book is published by Covici, Fricde, Inc., and costs $2. KITE FLIER IS KILLED Wire Line Hits High Tension Circuit, Causing Lad’s Death. BROWNSTOWN, Ind.. April 5. A copper wire kite line which Elmer Hunnaker, 14, was using, touched a high tension circuit and caused his death near his home here. The boy had been warned a few moments before, and was attempting to steer the kite away from the wire, when a gust of wind darted it downward, bringing the line into contact with the wire. James Jaap. 15, was killed in a similar accident at Ft. Wayne last week.

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Bob Cunningham, who plays close to Clauer and Hendricks Kenworthy, the Ninth ward chairman, rushed out to the courthouse corridor and told Tom Kenworthy. From some mysterious place out popped another entry blank signed by Flaherty and he was filed again before midnight stopped the show. And, peculiarly, although Flaherty was not seen around, all the signatures are said to be authentic. Just as an outsider, the column perhaps would suggest that the Clauer forces were just a trifle too smart for Sexton and Flaherty and when they got the latter to file, they had him sign two entry blanks. So they were all set for emergencies.

MRS. ETHEL HENLEY FILES DIVORCE SUIT Asks Absolute Decree Against Former Adjutant General. Manford B. Henley, former Indiana adjutant-general, is defendant in a divorce suit filed in superior court one Mrs. Ethel Henley, after -she dismissed a suit seeking a limited separation, which was on file in superior court two. In the* new suit, Mrs. Henley asks an absolute divorce. There is no request for alimony. She alleges Henley was cruel and inhuman, charging that he kicked her, threatened her life while he held a revolver, knocked her out of an automobile and did not provide support. Efforts of Mrs. Henley to obtain support money during pendency of the suit for limited divorce ended in failure. Henley has denied he was married to her. The case has been in county courts two years.

■■ II A Guess That Has Cost II $185,000,000 I / Some bad guessing in 191 3 has since \ cost the people of the United States Y approximately $185,000,000. The A guessing was embodied in the RailI \ way Valuation Act of that year. The principal guesses were: (1) ( I the railroads could be valued in two \| •, years; (2) the total cost would be Y less than $3,000,000; (3) the raila roads would be shown to be greatly \J over-capitalized; (4) the government f\ would be enabled to regulate rates so \| as to yield the railroads a fair return; I (5) the users of transportation would save around $1,000,000 a day. Here are the corresponding facts: (1) the valuation, in progress eighteen years, is still incomplete; (2) the cost f j( to the taxpayers has been more than I $40,000,000 and to the railroads \ and, through them, to their patrons —more than $145,000,000; (3) the vOßjggD value of the railroads has been proved /ra^fjH§ to be substantially greater than their capitalization; (4) the railroads have not been flowed to earn a fair return; no public saving has resulted. aJi Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited. NO BURDEN President , SAVE NEGLECT Illinois Central System. CAN RUIN OUR RAILROADS

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‘SMALLEST BABY EVER BORN' MAY WIN LIFE FIGHT One-Pound Boy, Perfectly Formed, Is Less Than 14 Inches Long. By United Press KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5. perfectly' formed, a one-pound baby boy, believed to be the smallest child ever born alive, carried forward a stout fight for life here today. Doctors gave the tiny boy—less than fourteen inches long and his doubled fists about as large as his 6-foot father’s thumbnail—an excellent chance to win. The baby, the physicians said, is only premature and undernourished. He fully is developed. Mr. ahd Mrs. William St. John, the parents, had not expected che arrival for two and one-half months more. The father is 18, the mother 17. They have been married about a year. Monday night, soon after the baby’s birth, reporters found three strapping uncles and the grandfather, a large man, sitting in the front room of the couple’s home, gazing wonderingly at the cardboard box and its tiny occupant. “How much does he weigh?” the grandfather was asked. “I don't know. Not much I guess.” “One pound, to be exact,” said a six-foot uncle, sheepishly. “All our children were born big,” said grandfather. “Say, he’s going to give them battle, all right, said an unclf. “He'll probably live to lick any of us ”

■ >1 i ■ ILVPKSS33SI THE NEW YORK STORE I AUCTION Held By Order of The United States Bankruptcy Court! Drastic Savings! C| J Entire Stock of Furniture MIME Rugs, Floor Coverings, Carpets OH Lamps, Radios, Washers Stoves and Refrigerators! mVHB Select Items You Want Auctioned From the '■--■■v Above Departments Any Time During the Day! 3© 1 * Two Auctions Daily-2 P. M. and 7:30 P. M. —THIRD FLOOR—AMPLE SEATING SPACE! COLONEL R. A. SIDNEY, AUCTIONEER | | Star Values Throughout I | the Store in This Great I BANKRUPT SALE I The Time Is Getting Short —Better I I Hurry and Get Your Share of Savings! I Jk Sueded Fabric Large Turkish * 79c Franklin GLOVES TOWELS SHEETS Slipon mousquetaires. 50c Quality. Double Mfe Size 72x90 and 81x Jgj WSHBI Some are double ■JB ■* thread Towels with ■* "J 90 inches. Torn to M woven. Tan, brown, JF W|| M size. Splendid qual- SB f* I mode, grey. A| v colored borders V ity. ff M I PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor ' PETTlS’—street floor. Jt Sale Sample Stevens “P** Children’s JEWELRY TOWELING DRESSES Rhinestones*, crys- HI A 25c Value. Very ab- gM mm SI, $1.95 and $2.95 HRM AV*. 1 jrtrt'roT'tm';R|| c ’£s£££ 15c v, "~• /he I gP Jewelry. “Simulated. w yard | W cloth and batistes. ■tj V PETTlS'—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor, 4j ' $3.50 and $5.00 Sunnyland Men’s Broadcloth GIRDLES * PRINTS SHIRTS Stepin and side fast- 29c Quality. 36 Inch- JM ■■ Perfect quality, eol- A H ening styles. 12, 14 and S"J “ New S £ ri “* 1U A Jar attached Shirty "1 g 1 M patterns, new bolts. ■ "lP plain colors and pat- HNH 16-inch lengths. Yard f| ** terns. I# PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. Jk Fine Curtains Swiss Lace All Better MATERIALS PANELS SHOES 29c to 49c Values. Jk $2.98 to 53.98 values. Dorothy Dodd and Marquisette. Also ST g Imported, beautiful QQ Sorority Shoes re- <j? *1 AQ valancing of rayon I I If 1 lace. Come early. *P ■ duced. All styles and V and voile. Yard jjfj SUy Each I-■ sizes. HI PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. PE’^TIS’ —second floor. $1 Ruffled J* Imported Picture Lisle Mesh CURTAINS TAPESTRIES * HOSIERY $1 Value. Pastel mar- Size 18x50 inches for $1 Value. Some fr.ll Hj M ana *J U watl . hangings or *J gS ■ fashioned, all perfect JH g qmsette and colored <lCa scarfs. Attractive. l%lp quality. Sizes 3% to #■ #ft ruffle voile. Pair ... N# Each 10. ■ W PETTlS'—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. PETTlS’—street floor. Be Here When the Doors Open Wednesday at 9 A. M. In our store are some leased departments, which are not in bankruptcy. They are enthusiastically helping to make this bankrupt sale interesting to our patrons by slashing their prices way below normal.

-APRIL 5, 1932