Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 2, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 May 1932 — Page 13

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5,000 Inventions , Many of Them Freak Gadgets , Displayed at N. Y. Patent Show

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HARMONY SOUGHT ON RELIEF PLANS

G. 0. P. and Democrats Try to Adjust Differences in Congress. BY KI TH FINNF.T Tlmn Stuff Car respondent WASHINGTON. May 13—Republican and Democratic leaders who now agree that, federal relief'must be enacted quickly, tried today to reconcile differences in their rival plans for aiding the 8.000,000 un- j employed. Following President Hernert Hoover's conference Thursday night , with Republican members of the senate banking and currency com- j mittee. the Democratic steering j committee and policy committee ; members met again today with j their leader, Senator Joseph T. • Robinson. The White House conference , look, up plans to use the recon- , struction finance corporation to j carry out the President's relief ; plan. The Democratic conference weighed the relative merits of the Hoover and Robinson relief programs, and also those proposed by Senators Robert F. Wagner and Royal Copeland. Plans Not in Harmony Apparently neither entirely was harmonious. President Hoovers announcement of a federal relief plan of his l own. after steadfast rejection of all I earlier proposals that the federal government aid in relieving hunger, followed closely on Robinson's declaration to the senate that con- ; gress must act to aid the distressed before adjournment. Hoover proposes to extend the , borrowing power of the Reeonstruc- i tion Finance Corporation by SI,OOO.- | 000.0C0. He then proposes that the j corporation shall underwrite or j make loans for “income-producing and self-sustaining enterprises which will increase employment, whether undertaken by public , bodies or by private enterprises." He proposes also to allow the corporation to assist states in relieving the needy bv underwriting state bonds or making loans to the extent of $250,000,000 or $300,000,000. Still in Doubt Robinson, on the other hand, pro- j posed a $2,000,000,000 bond issue to j finance state or municipal projects of a "self-liquidating nature." such 1 as toll bridges, traffic tunnels, and j tenement replacement. In addition, he proposed a $300,000,000 bond Issue to make funds available to states unable to care for their needy. After a two-hour conference with j senate Democrats Thursday, Robin-! son said he had not been able to \ determine whether the purposes he had in mind could be attained through Reconstruction Finance Corporation action. Liberals of both parties, though expressing gratification that the leaders who opposed them when they j fgught for hunger relief earlier in' ♦he sesison had decided to support j legislation for this purpose, were not satisfied with either oi the plans. CITY DOCTOR'S FATHER IS CLAIMED BY DEATH I Oscar Sputh. "3. Physical Education Expert. Succumbs In Chicago. Oscar Sputh. 73. former director of physical education for the Indianapolis police and fire departments and father of Dr. Carl B. Sputh. 5735 Central avenue, died today at his home in Chicago, atv cording to word received here. Mr. Sputh, founder of physical education in Chicago schools, lived here for many years He served m the city post from 1887 to 1899. He retired three years ago. Funeral services will be held Saturday In the Illinois city. Survivors in addition to Dr. Sputh are three daughters. Mrs. Bertha Klaff, Mrs. Dorlene Meyer and Mlaa Flora Sputh. all of Chi- j eaga

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‘Duel’ Fatal By l, nilrd Prr** CHAMPAIGN. HL, May 13 Richard A. Ruehle, university of Illinois student, was dead today, victim of a wound received in a fencing duel with a fellow student. The unusual accident occurred in a practice duel with S. A. Glueck. Chicago, sophomorp in the Liberal arts college. A rubber guard on Glueck s foil came off. and the sharp blade penetrated Ruehle’s chest, puncturing an artery in the lung. Ruehle, an engineering student from Chicago, died before aid could be summoned.

MARBLE STARS WILL COMPETE First Tourney to Be Held on Saturday. Boys and girls who aspire to become marble champions of Indianapolis and enjoy a trip to Ocean City, N. J., in June to compete in the national marble championship with all expenses paid by The Indianapolis Times, should note that action toward choosing a local champion begins Saturday morning. Marble shooters who attend schools Nos. 76. 45. 66 and 70. and St. Joan of Arc. or any other boy or girl in that district who might have attended school, but who will not be 15 years of age until alter July 1, 1932. are eligible to compete. Play will be on the tennis courts across the boulevard from School 76. at Thirtieth street. Any boy or girl who plays marbles is invited by The Times to enter. There is no entry fee. no expense, even the marbles are furnished. Be at Fall creek and Thirtieth Saturday morning. Action will start at. 11 a. m. If you don’t live in that, neighborhood, watch The Times daily for announcements about when play will be held in your neighborhood later on. Contract for Paving Let Contract for paving near the junction of Roads 2 and 27 in Allen county, was awarded today by the state highway commission to Ray L. Harris, Ft. Wayne, on a bid of $53,418.69.

FINGER OF CHILD MURDER GUILT POINTS TOWARD HILL FOLK OF BLEAK SOURLAND

By Vnitrd Presn Hopewell, n. j.. May is.— Guttural mutterings of “the pig woman of the Sourlands.'’ and bv natives here, predicted a few davs after the Lindbergh baby was stolen that “hill people are mixed up in it,” and that “if they look, they’ll find the child right here in these hills.” Their reluctant, but prophetic utterances found fulfillment here Thursday, only four and a half miles from the Lindbergh home, while state police and investigators were looking almost everywhere else for the child —in Europe, near Norfolk, off Long Island. everywhere. One native woman. Mrs. Rebecca Bush, sister of the trapper who helped Colonel Lindbergh follow a trail the day after the baby was taken, said: • This neighborhood should have been searched more carefully a week ago. But the way things are now, we re afraid to go searching through places alone. People hereabouts are willing \guide and help if the police ’a.”

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NEW YORK, May 13.—More than 5.000 inventions went on display Thursday at the Fourth International Patent Exposition, at Grand Central Palace—inventions ranging from a cake of nonskid soap to a “Scotch” mouse trap that retrieves the bait. Other exhibits include a fishing rod that bangs a gong when a fish bites, a linoleum necktie with a sponge tip for spaghetti eaters, hundreds of radio and television gadgets, automatic baby feeders, a perfume atomizer attached to a fork used in pitching limburger cheese, a reversible hat for women (the product of a husky cattleman) and a combination dirigible and airplane (the creation of a retired traveling salesman with miles of Pullman experience). man THIRTY of the exhibits on display are the products of children's minds and convicts have supplied thirty more. The ingenuity of women has provided 400. New York state was the mo6t inventive, with California the runner-up. The inventor of the non-skid soap. 9-year-old Kathryn Feibusch of Brooklyn, was introduced by Dudley Field Malone, who delivered a brief address at the opening ceremonies on the value of inventions in the world of business. DEMOCRATIC LEADERS GIRD FOR PARTY FIGHT Factions Building Fences on Eve of Reorganization Meeting. Leaders of all Democratic factions were here today building fences for the state reorganization meeting Saturday. Ed Eisner of Seymour, announced candidate against R. Earl Peters for the senate chairmanship, was reported as claiming the necessary thirteen votes for election as against claims of the Peters faction that fifteen votes had been pledged to it. Chester Montgomery, former mayor of South Bend, and Fady Ackerman. former controller, who are leading the anti-Peters group, conferred with Frank Mayr Jr., secretary of state, and Sam Clelland, Allen county chairman, also an antiPeters backer. There seemed to be little change in the situation on the eve of the worst factional fight in the Democratic party in twenty-five years.. INVITED TO CONFERENCE Van Camp Official Asked to Attend Television Parley. Invitation to attend a conference of distributors for the products of the United States Radio and Television Corporation at Marion, May 21, has been extended to S. E. McNeely of the Van Camp Hardware and Iron Company. Following the meeting the distributors will go to Chicago for the annual Radio Manufacturers' Association convention and show.

That was on March 10. The baby was kidnaped the night of March 1. At the time Mrs. Bush offered her comfort, search of cabins. shacks, and tumbledown homes in the hills just had go under way, directed by state police. commanded by Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf. a a a NEWSPAPERS and private individuals had suggested prior to that day that the troopers call on legionnaires and others to help them “beat the bush” over the •ntire territory. They meant that men should spread over every bit of the land, tramp their way over a sector at a time, and search thoroughly, even as pioneer infantry in the World war “cleaned up” evacuated territory to remove dangerous ammunition left behind. Troopers did search from cabin to cabin over a certain area. They did search thoroughly patches of land and timber within two or three miles of the Lindbergh hnw livUrlng Jog naw.m • W

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, MAY 13,1932

M’ADOO WILL FORSAKE ORYS, FRIENDS SAY Defection of Californian Would Be Severe Blow to Prohibition, By Rcrippt-Hotcarrl S'eictpaper Alliance WASHINGTON, May 13—William Gibbs McAdoo, who has headed the extreme dry faction of the Democratic party for a decade, soon will declare for resubmission of the eighteenth amendment, friends here said today. McAdoo recently visited the capital in connection with the presidential candidacy of Speaker John N. Gamer, which the former secretary of the treasury successfully sponsored in California, and he told confidants he would make known his new attitude at the opportune moment. He probably will proclaim his anti-prohibition views when he announces his candidacy for the Democratic senatorial nomination in California within a low weeks. McAdoo’s reported defection marks the most serious blow to the dry cause that has been struck. As a natitve of Georgia, son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson, and former dry champion, it is expected to influence public as well as political sentiment. Drys and wets recall the dramatic prohibition clash between him and A1 Smith at Madison Square Garden in 1924. His desertion will mean that the drys will have no real leader in their fight to prevent the Democrats from adopting a moist platform at Chicago. It leaves the prohibitionists bereft of an influential figure in either major party, as most of the Democratic candidates are wet or moist, and almost every worth-while Republican leader has declared for resubmission. McAdoos switch also will be accepted as evidence that Garner, who has remained silent on prohibition, will seek the nomination either as a wet or moist candidate. 5-YEAR-OLD RIVALRY BLAMED FOR KNIFING William Print Charged With Assault With Intent to KilL Rivalry between two young men for a place on the Woodside basketball team which started five years ago. led to one of them being held to the grand jury today by Municipal Judge William H. Sheaffer. The man is William Prinz, 246 Leeds avenue, i charged with assault and, battery with intent to kill William Black. 236 South Temple avenue. Black was chosen for the place on the team. Shortly afterward he and Prinz engaged in a fist fight as a result of their rivalry. They fought again on April 24 after a quarrel in a poolroom at English and Keystone avenues. Prinz is alleged to have used a knife during the fight. Medical testimony today stated that one of four cuts in Black's back extended to the lung cavity.

graves, or any trace of the child. They did not search thoroughly over the section in which the baby’s skeleton was found Thursday. They caused to be placed through that section, however, private telephone lines, the wires of which lay within seventy-five feet of the mutilated body of the son of the Lindberghs. Lindbergh's very first thought following his discovery that the child was missing was to search around his home. He spent a half hour wandering with a flashlight around his estate, before even calling the police into the case. a m a AND the natives, those who would talk, held the same idea. As an example of their sentiment, these quotations from interviews published at that time are submitted here: Red-Bearded E. 8. Whitehead said: ’‘There are hundreds of shacks and trappers’ shelters in these mountains. Any one knowing the region could h*d weeks

'SWEDEN FINDS REAL KEY TO TEMPERANCE ' Bratt Plan of Government Liquor Control Exiles ‘Hard’ Drinks. CRIME FIGURES FALL Bootlegger Is Abolished and Nation Turns to Light Beer. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrippa-How&rd Foreicn Editor WASHINGTON, May 13—The Bratt system of liquor control—now being studied by a senate manufactures subcommittee for possible adoption in this country has turned Sweden, once a world champion booze consumer, into one of the most temperate and lawabiding nations on earth, i Into this system—proposed to | the subcommittee by John M. Morehead, United States minister to Stockholm —the plan of Senator Hiram Bingham to raise between $350,000,000 and $500,000,000 desperately needed new revenue by the legislation of beer admittedly would fit like a glove. | Under the Swedish system, they ; have abolished the saloon, the blind pig. the bootlegger, and the moonshiner. They have reduced j liquor consumption 50 per cent. They ! have cut crime figures in two. They I have lessened drinking among the ! youth of the land from an index ! figure of 100 to a bare 17. State Takes Control This change was brought about by the state taking over the control of liquor, abolishing private profit from the trade and rationing the citizens. They can have so much hard liquor and no more, but light beer, non-Intoxicating in fact, may be had more or less at will. Until recent times, the "national drink” of Sweden was aqua vit, one of the most potent concoctions ever devised by man. It was liquid fire and sizzled on its way down. It was distilled from potato mash, or grain, or a mixture. Today the most popular drink in! Sweden is a light beer, about 3.2 alcohol by weight. The demand for the stronger drink has been dwindling steadily. Whiskies, brandies, aqua vit and i other spirits are obtainable only on cards, or passbooks. You can obtain only so much a month. If you are too poor to send your children to school, or pay for the clothes you or your family wear, you can't obtain a passbook. Drunken Driver* Punished If you are arrested for driving while drunk, your card is taken from you. The system not only pays for itself, but one-fifth of Sweden's total revenues come from this source. Taxes are materially lower than they otherwise would be. Dr. Ivan Bratt, a practicing physician, invented the system. At first he was a prohibitionist. But, he told the writer in the course of an interview, “you can’t change human nature by passing a law. I observed that where we tried prohibition. conditions became worse instead of better. We added vastly to crime and still had as much or more drinking than ever. “Laws,” he said, “can be educational, but they can’t dictate human customs and habits. They can lead in such matters, but they can’t drive. So I sought another plan. After all, what I was after was temperance, a minimum of drinking and I believe we have found a way to achieve it.” Finland Is Reformed Finland, across the Baltic, had prohibition like the United States. I found it easier to buy liquor there than in Sweden. Bootlegging and crime generally was rampant. New I Finland has gone ‘Swedish.’ “Drunkenness and what goes with I it,” Stockholm's acting chief of police. Erik Hallgren told me. “is declining steadily and so is crime generally. Asa policeman. I say in all candor that I would not go back to the old regime under the saloon, or to prohibition, for anything in the world.” TEST FOR INDICTMENT : Hearing Slated on Coast for City Swindle Suspect Hearing to test validity of an indictment. against George Black. Indianapolis manufacturer held in Sei attic. Wash., charged with theft of SIO,OOO by swindle from an Indianapolis woman, will be held Saturday in the Washington city, detectives were informed toady. The test was ordered despite exI tradition approval by Governor Rol- ! and H. Hartley of Washington.

without being found. Whoever took that baby is right close by.” Oscar Bush. 26, and James Wyckoff, 48, his uncle, Sourland trappers, who know every foot of the hills, gave their aid to state police the day following the kidnaping. The backswoodsmen followed the faint trail left by the abductors, and at the end, concluded: "The baby’s not far off. He's somewhere right around. All one would need to do is stumble on it.” An official of the New Jersey state department of institutions and agencies, connected with the state asylum for epileptics at par Him n. n a few miles from Hopewell, said there was a possibility the babv had been kidnaped by some of the hillfolk or moonshiners. a a a “'-pKESE people." he pointed 1 out. “have little contact with the outside world, nor do they want any. Furthermore, they do not welcome strangers. The establishment of Colonel Lindbergh’s horn* in the Sourlands has broken

DIETING SECRETS TO BE AIRED IN TIMES COOKING INSTITUTE

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While two-thirds of the population of the country is trying the eighteen-day diet, as well a* other weight reducing tricks, and the other one-third is trying with equal enthusiasm to gain in avoirdupois, this provocative question of dieting soon is to be answered for the satisfaction of Indianapolis. One of the outstanding features of The Times cooking school, which is to open here next Tuesday in the Engilsh theater, is anew. safe and sane solution of the entire problem of diets for both overweights and underweights. Mrs. Dorothy Ayres Loudon, home economics expert who is to conduct the school, has discovered a pleasant and effective method which she will reveal to home-makers here. This widely known authority condemns the erratic dieting which has become the vogue. Danger in Dieting “The prevalence of wrong methods of dieting is becoming a serious menace to health,” warns the blond, attractive Mrs. Loudon. “I can sympathize with any man or woman who wants to retain or regain a lithe, youthful figure, but the erratic dieting which is so popular is dangerous. “There is a perfectly safe method of reducing weight which does not starve nor endanger the health of anyone, and the simple principles on which it is based are to be part of my lecture and demonstrations at the cooking school.” Not only is Mrs. Louion bringing first aid to the overweight, but she also is bringing comfort to those who are trying vainly to make the scale Indicator ascend. “The method of gaining in weight is as simple v that for losing,” Mrs. Loudon assured the underweights. “There is no more need for the too slender man or woman to stuff than there is for the too stout to starve. Problem Easily Adjusted “By a readily understood process, which I have developed, this whole problem of diets may be easily and simply adjusted.” Not only will Mrs. Loudon reveai diet secrets to the hundreds of home makers who invariably crowd the English theater to hear her speak and watch her demonstrate modem cooking methods on a model stage kitchen, but she discusses with them reasons why popular diets in use today are harmful. What not to do, as well as what to do, forms part of her program. Diet problems are but a part of the comprehensive survey of home makers’ problems which Mrs. Loudon has prepared. The latest shorti cut methods of cookery which make i the woman today as up-to-date in her business of home making as is her husband in his vocation, are to be presented by this experienced authority. The Better Housekeeping Institute will be held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, starting at. 2 and Thursday night I at 7.

down the Isolation they enjoyed heretofore, for It has sightseers of various sorts. “The hill dwellers are similar to the ‘poor whites’ of the Cumberlands and the mountain ranges of the south. They live in shacks, and have a certain cunning that is greater than that of the average person.” Dr. George Van Neste, 70-vear-old doctor of Hopewell, said six days after the kidnaping, "I believe the child is alive and I don't think he is far away. In fact he might be only a mile or so away. Mrs. Matilda Morrison, widow of a doctor mysteriously murdered in the same Sourland hills twenty years ago. said. “The child's In these hills. If they look, they'll find it right here.” Antonio Crowlewsky, “pig woman” and journeyman butcher of Zion, a small hamlet two miles from the Lindbergh home, told a fantastic story a week after the kidnaping to the effect that ‘hill people are mixed up in the kidnaping.” m

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VAST SOM IS SPENTIN HUNT Lindy Baby Search Placed in ‘Million-Dollar’ Class. By United Prr* * HOPEWELL. N. J.. May 13 Hopewell'# “million dollar manhunt” for the kidnapers of the Lindbergh baby cost at least $154.000 in cash, paid in the hope of ransoming the baby. Mrs. E. B. McLean, wife of the Washington newspaper publisher, paid Gaston B. Means, detective involved in several sensational investigations, $104,000 in expense and ransom money. Dr. John F. Condon, aged Fordham university instructor, the famous “Jafsie of the want ads.” tossed $50,000 over a Bronx cemetery wall to men he believed would return the kidnaped baby to him. Mrs. McLean's payment was on her own initiative; the Condon payment was arranged through Colonel Lindbergh. Doubtless others have paid privately in the hope of obtaining information concerning the baby. Hundreds of thousands of dollars has been spent in police investigations and checkups that extended from Hopewell to European cities. New Jersey state police department appropriations were used up within a few weeks after March 1. Other thousands were spent in airplane cruises, yacht cruises, motor trips, maintenance of special investigators all over the world. EPWORTH LEAGUES TO HOLD ANNUAL PARLEY District Groups Convene Tonight for Three-Day Meeting. Epworth Leagues of the Indianapolis district will convene tonight at the North Methodist church for a three-day annual meeting. Speaker tonight will be Dr. John G. Benson, superintendent of the Methodist hospital. Music will be provided by the Irvington girls’ choir. Wales Smith, president of the senior class at Butler university, will lead devotions. A welcoming address will be made by Miss Lura Briggs, and A1 Robbins, district president, will respond. A business session will be held Saturday afternoon. At night a banquet will be served. A devotional service will be held at sunrise Sunday and in the afternoon new district officers will be installed. Captain Dollar Still Very 111 SAN RAFAEL. Cal., May 13. Captain Robert Dollar, 88, steamship magnate, today was reported still “very sick” by his physician. Dr. R. G. Dufflcy. Dollar, founder of the Dollar Steamship Line, has been critically ill for several weeks

THE actual ones what stole the baby are right here in these here hills” the woman butcher said. “There are four of them, two women and two men. They tried to get me into the kidnaping ring.” Forrest Davis, veteran reporter of the New York World-Tele-gram. assigned to the case from the start, said: “I should not be surprised If the baby were found or produced from a dwelling within ten miles of the Lindbergh home The theft of the Lindbergh baby, it seems to me, must have been executed by a countryman—possibly a resident of the bleak Sourland mountain country of New Jersey.” They are searching the woods again today, these hill-folk, as Captain Charles Williamson, police chief at Hopewell, announced that “We have three very excellent clews to the perpetrators of this dastardly crime. While they lead in three distinct directions, we hope to have something definite within the next day £r so."

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TAXES DEVOUR 31 PER CENT OF INCOMES Every Man Pays Heavily, Even If Collector Never Calls at Door. STEADY RISE IS SHOWN Wages for 100 Days of Every 300 Go for Cost of Government. BY RAY TUCKER • Time* Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 13— Need for federal, state and local economy was shown vividly today in a compilation of reliable statistics which reveal that more than 31 per cent of the national income is eaten up in paying the cost of government, through taxation of one form or another. This means that almost one-third of every man’s income is taken out of his weekly pay envelope simply to sustain the various kinds of government which provide him with safety and conveniences. If he earns SIOO a week, he pays out about s3l a week. If he makes only S3O. he pays out a little more than sl9. Not even a staggered system of taxation exempts him from payment. for he must pay, directly cr Indirectly. Although the tax collector may not await him at the office or factory door, nor ever send him a tax blank, every man and woman engaged in gainful employment contributes almost one-third of his working time to working for the government Contributes 100 Day* It amounts to nearly two days a week, or about 100 days out of every 300 working days in a year. President Hoover, governors of various states, and other officials often have referred to these figures in seeking to impress the need for cutting down public expenditures on the country. Among the agencies which have compiled them are the National Industrial Conference board, the National Bureau of Economic Research, and the Guaranty Trust Company, all of New York. They present elaborate studies of national income and outgo. The national income represents the total of wages, salaries, profits, interest., and dividends paid to individuals and corporations. The cost of government embraces every service which the federal government, the states, the cities, the counties, and even smaller subdlvislans perform for the citizen. Over Wide Range They range from building and maintaining a navy for defense to repaving a rut in the road outside the taxpayer’s driveway. The cost of government, so far as it affects the citizen in this computation, consists of taxes: he pays them whether or not he makes an income tax return, owns real estate, or has stock in his bureau drawer. Even if there were no depression, the startling increase in the cost of government is regarded by economists as a grave threat to national solvency. The slump, which has brought lower tax receipts and new demands on the public treasury, has accentuated the spending proclivities which rose sharply with the World war. Figures Are Given The relationship between national income and national outgo graphically is reflected in the following figures for typical years: 1913—National income, $34,400,000,000; cost of government, $2,900,000,000. The expenditures were 8 per cent of the income. In other words, 8 cents out of every dollar, or $8 out of every SIOO-a-wcek pay envelope went to the government. 1929 National income. $85,000,000,000; cost of government, $13,000,000,000. The expenditures amounted to 15 per cent of income. 1930 National income. $71,000000,000; cost of government, $13,000.000.000. Expenditures ate up 18 per cent of income. •1931 —National income, $52,000.000,000; cost of government, $14,000.000.000. Outgo was 27 per cent of income. 1932 (estimated)—National income, $45,000,000,000; cost of government, $14,000,000,000. or 31 per cent of the total tax receipts. Higher Taxes in Future Increasing expenditures have been met partly by increased taxes and partly by larger borrowing, i which means higher taxes in the future. Total public expenditures in recent years steadily have exceeded tax receipts, until the average annual increase of all government indebtedness has been $1,500,000,000. Reduction in the national debt kept this figure down until a few years ago, but now even the federal 1 government is deep in the red. The debt accumulating for pres- : ent and future citizens to discharge j through taxes almost equals the i money cost of the World war from the United States. The federal debt at the end of the current fiscal year ; will amount to $19,300,000,000. The states have a net debt of $1,832,000,000. and the 1930 debt for all cities with more than 30.000 populrtion was around $7,000,000,000. URGES BUDGET SLASH Greenfield Man Declares State Can Cut Expenses. Reduction of budgets so governmental units will operate within ; the tax income was urged Thursday by William A. Hough, Greenfield. former state tax board memj ber, in an address before the In- , dianapolls Real Estate Board at the i Washington. ' Governmental expenses of Indiana could be cut $50,000,000 without destroying efficiency.” Hough declared. Farmers of the state can better pay taxes than many merchants, manufacturers and city real estate ‘ owners, he asserted.