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A Liberal Trend A review nf the actions of the special session of the legislature shows an advance in the direction of liberal thought, and policies, even though the practical results leave much to be desired. For the first time, a majority of the members of both houses voted for measures which attempt to curb the greed of public utilities and to make public ownership easier. The next regular session can complete this work and provide the necessary weapons to win freedom from these extortions. The protest against the Wright bone dry law is an Indication that the state has thrown off the shackles of bigotry and fanaticism and intends to return to common sense and sanity in its efforts to make men good by law. The one backward step is the setting up of appointive boards as the final arbiters of tax matters. That question was settled by the Revolution which was based upon the protest against taxation without representation. The appointive boards, whether they be the state tax board or the county boards provided for in the new laws, take on the character of autocracy. The members are not responsible to the people. Any move to take the governing power away from the voter and place it in the hands of those who can not be overthrown by ballots is a return to the theory of thr divine right of kings and brings discrimination and unfairness. Possibly the best result of the special session will be an object lesson for the next regular session. It may indicate what not to do and suggest strongly what, must be done. That the special session came just before the election should turn attention of the voter to the actions of members who are again asking office. There are seme who made records which should give them strength. Others have advertised themselves as being unworthy. A Breathing: Spell Under anew law, bills for poor relief can be paid with borrowed money with ten years to pay. That gives the property owner a breathing spell. It does not, solve the problem. Under the old law, all bills for the aid of the hungry were paid the following year. That means huge tax levies in most counties next year. Unfortunately the special session did nothing to provide work for the workless. And it is only by giving work that the problem of poor relief can be settled on a basis that does not mean bankruptcy for the taxpayer. The one solution in sight is offered by the bill introduced in congress by Representative Louis Ludlow. called the Eagles-Ludlow bill, which provides for stabilization of employment and is based upon the theory that "it is the inalienable right of every American adult citizen to work continuously at a saving wage." Strong public sentiment behind this measure which will again be up in congress in December might make ten-year loans for charity unnecessary. The Farmers’ Strike Out in conservative lowa a farmers' strike has been under way for a TOjek. It is called a "holiday" and is fostered by the National Farmers’ Holiday Association. which'proposes* to carry into other states the movement to halt all crop shipments for thirty days, until better prices are paid for them. Picketing, blockading of trucks, and other strike methods are used. Dramatic as is this demonstration. It can not achieve prosperity for America's hard-pressed farmers. Their problems are national and international. So must the remedies be. These same midwest farmers have permitted special interests to sell them the high tariff gold brick, the anti-Russian phobia, and other isolationist fakes. To start produce flowing fiom “overproduced" farms, the farmers must join with city labor to loose the international log jams now tying up commerce. This means lowering the Hawley-Smoot tariff rates; settling foreign debts on the basis of trade and disarmament agreements; recognizing Russia. Certain internal reforms go hand in* hand with these external ones. Among these are the gearing of production to need through some such measure as the La FolloUe national planning council; shifting the tax load; fostering farm co-operatives that may control plantings; a national land utilization program that will put sub-marginal land into the tree-growing business; industrial changes aimed at restoring the nation's home-buying power. No strike can solve the farm problem. Not-So-Radical .lack John Garner, the Democratic vice-presidential candidate, has knocked down another straw man. This straw man was patched together by Republicans and others in the likeness of Garner, and named "radical.’' Whispers went about; We cant afford to have radicals in this government; be careful of him! Sh-h-h-h-h! There always was something funny about that ‘Tadital" scarecrow. Garner, a banker and party regular, has been in congress almost thirty years. His record is there to show that, the Speaker is a very astute conservative. His Republican colleagues In the house know that. Now Speaker Garner, telling New York that he is safe, says: • I began voting early, at 19 years of age, and I want to say that I never have scratched a Democratic ticket. ... I have been accused in Texas of being more of a conservative than a progressive, and have been attacked by the progressives of my state. - ’ No one who knows him would call Garner a progressive. much less a radical. This is just another humorous episode in the dog days of the presidential campaign. Hoover’s Boomerang The President is having wretched luck with his red •care. His specially ordered grand jury investigation of the bonus battle cfl Pennsylvania avenue has ended without finding a single red scapegoat. Coming on top of the earlier investigation of fortyseven alleged Communists and radicals, all of whom had to be released by the Washington authorities for lack of evidence, this completely discredits Hoover's charge. It will be recalled that the President issued various statements to defend his unpopular action in using troops against unarmed citizens. He said that 50 per cent of the bonus marchers were not veterans. He tried to make the public believe that the whole thing was inspired by Communists, that the safety of the government was threatened. Os course very few persons believed these absurd White House tales. Doubtless the President believed

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them the mere fact that he called out the army, instead of talking with the bonus leaders, shows he was nervous enough to believe anything. If Hoover had not lost his head, he would have remembered that Brigadier-General Frank T. Hines, director of veterans’ administration, had reported officially that the percentage of veterans in the group was not 50 but 90 per cent, and that two-thirds of them had served overseas. If Hoover had not lost his head, he would have remembered that General Glassford. in charge of Washington police, had the situation under control and opposed Uie use of troops. If Hoover had not lost his head, he would not have toid the public that the troops acted humanely, when the.public had read many press accounts by eyewitnesses and had seen news pictures disproving the statement. After all those errors, Hoover might have realized that his red bugaboo was silly, But, with an amazing capacity for seU-punishment. he asked for a grand jury investigation. Playing into the President’s hands, the judge told the jury he hoped it would find that the bonus marchers were not veterans, but violent radicals. The proceedings were one-sided; testimony was taken against the veterans, but not for them. A veterans’ affidavit that federal secret agents provoked the riot was Ignored. Even so, the worst the grand jury could find in this alleged revolutionary attempt to overthrow the government. was that anti-Communist veterans were guilty of violence. And all three of these men were wounded overseas, according to official army and navy records. One holds the Distinguished Service Cross. Now that the legal proceedings, which were to have supported his action, have shown no cause for his misuse of the army and for misinforming (he public what is the President going to do about it? Europe is perfectly willing to admit that the United States is the chief creditor nation of the world. Asa matter of fact, there seems to be a move on foot over there to award us that honor permanently. With all the publicity about Hoover’s acceptance speech, it is going to be mighty hard to keep Charlie Curtis in the dark much longer. An Ameriqan worker who has been in Russia for lour years says he wishes he was back in Chicago. If he had been a Russian in Chicago for four years, he would prooably be wishing he was back .in Moscow. A professor spends four hours telling steel men that, they need more initiative, more accurate forecasting, more backbone, and more distribution of productivity. But if we were in the steel business, wed give all these for more orders. Einstein might as well start working on anew theory. A science journal reports that the eighth man who understands his old theory has been found. The fourth Mrs. John Gilbert dressed for her wedding in fifteen minutes/ which is go;ng to -make it mighty tough on the wives who take two hours to get ready for a show. It’s the upkeep of an airplane which makes it a bother, a flier says. For our part, the principal bother is the keep-up, George Bernard Shaw says he has been very much overworked. So far as we are concerned, he has our permission to take a long and extended rest, beginning now. Warnings have been issued that counterfeit S2O bills are being circulated. The average man is so excited over getting a S2O bill these days that he is in no condition to judge whether it's real. A Chicago bootlegger was killed for cutting prices. The only thing you are allowed to cut in the racket is the liquor. So far there has been little doubt that all the Davis cup tennis players were simon-pure amateurs, and, from reports, it would seem that the referees were, too. One complaint made by Mrs. Keaton was that Buster didn't keep his engagements. And just to prove her point, he-didn't even show up for his divorce! Kissing is less dangerous than shaking hands, a French physician says. Maybe we never have realized fully how dangerous it is to shake hands.

Just Every Day Sense By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ONE of America's wealthiest women, a woman whose family has piled up a vast fortune in the west, announces that she will leave the United States because she is tired of being “lawed and taxed to death." It is true that many things are wrong with our country. But the plutocrats should be the last to complain, since they are in a very large measure responsible for our present woes. For generations the natural resources of the nation have been used to build private fortunes. Individuals have been given a free hand and graciously permitted to help themselves to every ounce of wealth this continent possesses. When it is possible for one man, over a couple of decades, to accumulate fifty millions or more dollars neither he nor his heirs have cause for recriminations or complaints. Yet sometimes these are the first to bewail their lot—the fortunate, the rich, the comfortable cry aloud when their securities lose value and their incomes are cut to half. Halted in their pleasant occupation of getting far more money than they ever can spend, they have nothing but anathemas to heap upon their government. a a a THE rich people of the United States dare not shirk their enormous responsibilities now. Gracious, generous, opulent America- has opened her arms to men and women from all places of the earth. She has heaped honor and money and happiness upon them. She has encouraged and protected them. Is she. therefore, to be cursed and deserted in. her hour of need, when the first faint dawn of evil fortune appears? This indeed would be basest ingratitude. It would constitute treachery such as no honorable American could tolerate. One fact must not be overlooked. The thing that has wrecked civilizations has been the unconcern of the prosperous class to the fate of the populace. With all the examples of history staring them in the face, it is not conceivable that the rich of America will permit their selfishness to overcome their good sense.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

M. E. Tracy Says:

What Any Conference Can Do at This Time to Boom Business Is Sot Quite Clear. NEW YORK. Aug. 17.—A conference by all means, if President Hoover wants one. and let no one be crass, or unkind in assigning the motive. It is possible, of course, that he called it for political reasons. On the other hand, it is possible that he acted from force of habit, His fondness for yconferences is well known. He has gone quite a while without one. Maybe the old urge got beyond his control. What a conference can do to boom business at this piecise moment it not so clear. Probably not much, but in that lies the assurance that no great harm will come of it. The one in 1929 scarcely made a riffle, except on paper. Business kept right on going down in spite of it. That warrants the hope that business will keep right on going up in spite of another. If the President wants to hear some cheering words from those on the firing line, few will begrudge him the privileges, and if they should happen to result in a campaign contribution or two, why, that's the way we do things. % tt u tt What of Tariff, Russia? ACCORDING to the President's call, this conference will serve "the purpose of organizing a concerted program of action along the whole economic front.” It sounds military, but just where is the economic front, not in toto, but in respect to ids more important sectors? Does it happen to include the tariff wall, for instance, or the barriers to Russian trade, or a tax on beer through modification of the Volstead act? To put the thing bluntly, what will this "concerted program of action" contain, outside of blurbs about the living standard, enforced furloughs instead of pay cuts, the necessity of credit expansion without real money, and the desirability of credit expansion without real money, and the desirability of retrenchment without reducing expenses? nun It's to Be Nice Parley IF we were selling Russia the steel she now is buying from Germany, or getting our rightful share of European trade, or collecting $400,000.000 on beer annually, instead of handing it over to bootleggers, things would not be as bad as they are, but does any one expect the conference to take up such matters? Certainly not. That would be touching politics, and politics is barred. The conference will be nice, especially with regard to all questions affecting the administration. It carefully will refrain from expressing opinions that might hurt, or from making sugestions that might imply mistakes. It will be idealistic, chiefly for the object of avoiding disagreeable realities. It will function as conferences are expected to function—daring little, doing little, and accomplishing little, through fear of creating a disturbance. e tt ft We Get Nowhere HOW many conferences have we had since the war, not only here, but abroad, and in what great achievement have they resulted? Those on reparations have led to a moratorium, which promises to become permanent. Those on naval limitation have led nowhere, and those on disarmament have led to the same place. A conference is like any other group of men and women. If blessed with leadership which knows what it is doing and how to do it, all right. Wisdom is not the spontaneous by-product of crowd psychology. If President Hoover has something definite in mind, and if he can put it over, the conference called for Aug. 26 may result in some good. If it's just one more gathering to see whether somebody present has a bright idea, we might as well forget it. Meanwhile, business is showing a disposition to recovery without conferences. Such action as might offer it real aid is beyond the power of unofficial groups. What it needs most is liberation from excessive taxes. This could be had by lowering the tariff, legalizing beer, and opening the door to Russian trade. A conference could do no more than suggest such measures, and it couldn't do that much without displaying greater courage than is common to conferences.

Questions and Answers

What is the world running rec- ! ord for four miles? Nineteen minutes. 15.6 seconds. I What is the address of Helen Wills Moody? 1130 Sacramento street, San Fran- | cisco. Cal. Which factories manufacture cellophane? It is an exclusive product of the Du Pont Cellophane Company of New,York City. M TODAY -'7 IS THE- %Sp ' WORLD WAR \ ANNIVERSARV of*#* FRENCH MAKE GAINS August 17 ON Aug. 17. 1918, French troops penetrated German positions north of Autreches to a depth of more than a mile in a three-mile front in bitter fighting. Americans in Lorraine stormed the village of Frapolle after heavy artillery preparation. British and Canadian forces continued their smashing tactics m Picardy and made several important gains. Pressure on the German army on the western front was extremely heavy and the German high command was hard put to find reserves to replace the troops worn out by weeks of continuous battle. Allied commanders were in better position, replacing tired units wth fresh American divisions.

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Vitamin E Affects Reproduction

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia. the Health Magazine. THE vitamins proceed from A to E. Sometimes vitamin B is divided into two vitamins, called vitamin F and vitamin G. Most people know something about the results of the deficiency oof vitamins A, B, C and D, in the form of blindness, polyneuritis and pellagra, scurvy and rickets, according to which of the vitamins happen to be absent. Few people realize what has been learned regarding vitamin E. In case this vitamin is kept absent from the diets of animals, they develop an incapability to reproduce. In the male the germinal cells degenerate completely.

IT SEEMS TO ME

“TF I am not going to have witA nesses here,” said James J. Walker, "it means that I am going to be removed from office—public office in which I have invested the better part of my life. I must not have it all snuffed out.” At the very beginning of the hearing in Albany, it seems to me that Mayor Walker has put the emphasis on a phase of the situation where it does not belong. He has tried to suggest that the drive against him is part of some personal feud. But in all fairness, it must be said that the case is not one of Samuel against Jimmy, but of the people of New' York against the Honorable lames J. Walker, mayor of New York City. "I have invested the better part of m.v life,” he says, but has the man any complete conception of the fact that in this investment he has stood as the trustee of millions of men and women? a a a We Have a Right to Know THERE is evidence, heaped up and running over, which proves that the mayor of New York has regarded his official job as a sort of license granting him privileges not shared by other citizens. He seems to resent even the fact that he has been called upon to give an accounting. No matter what the ultimate decision may be. I think it is the right of any community to call upon its mayor, its governor, or its President to stand up and explain how and where and why. For instance. President Hoover sent word that he was not in to a group which wished to question him as to his reasons for calling out the troops against the bonus army. I do not think it is within the rights of a President to refuse contact with sincere citizens bent upon getting information upon a vital subject. I think it, is particularly open to criticism, since all recent American Presidents, including Herbert Hoover. have been all too ready to grant an audience to this motion picture star or that amateur golf champion. It seemed to me singularly unfortunate some months ago that

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At the Little End of the Horn

DAILY HEALTIi SERVICE -

In the female, the change docs not affect the tissues, but does afw feet the developing embryo or the new progeny. Apparently this vitamin can be stored in the body for considerable periods of time. If this were not the case, there would be serious interference with the continued reproductions of various animal species. While the absence of any vitamin entirely from the diet may result in appearance of specific processes of degeneration and changes of importance in certain tissues, there also are charges that affect the tissues generally and which may thus lead to illness. Animals kept on a general' deficiency of vitamin E for long periods of time after birth were

President Hoover could not find time to receive the mother of Tom Mooney. Only a week or so before he had chatted with Mary Pickford. Maybe it wasn't Mary Pickford. Perhaps it was Greta Garbo, but the point remains the same. tt tt tt Even After Election VERY many American executives take the wholly erroneous idea that when a majority vote has put them into office, their direct public responsibility ends until next election day rolls around. This idea of a sort of elected dictatorship has no sanction in American precedent, even in those communities which have failed to establish machinery providing 'for recall. Once in a plaintive ditty, James J. Walker inquired: "Will you love me in December as you did in May?" I think he ought to be reminded of the philosophic concept which underlies this wistful inquiry. It is quite irrelevant for him to point, as he has often done, to the huge majority which he rolled up in 1929. By calendar count, alone, that is almost three years ago. And in the march of events it is much longer. It is true that the cr?.sh had begun when Jimmy swept into office, but it still was a day and age when people felt that the storm was no more than a passing shower. Prosperity had done no more than go around the corner to telephone. Jimmy was part of that jazz age. a p a Easy Mayor to Follow HIS charm was a pleasant relief alter the crabapple personality of John F. Hylan. Back in the days of the Walker election, there was a feeling that the great metropolitan amusement center of America should have a glib and cheerful greeter. After all. this was the port to which aviators, explorers, and channel swimmers came. In those days nobody thought for a moment of asking firemen and judges to sacrifice a month's pay to ease the tribulation of city executives. Many felt that we could afford a playboy mayor.

found to present a pior appearance. Their hair showed a 'ack of normal health. Vitamin E is found in relative abundance in lettuce, spinach, alfalfa and watercress, in the embryo of cereal and particularly in wheat germ oil. It is not found in cod liver oil, which is. in general, a fairly rich source of vitamins A and D. While much has been learned as to the nature of Vitamin E, it has not been isolated in pure form. There have been a few instances in which women who have seemed unable to carry a child through to birth apparently have been relieved of their difficulties by administration of this vitamin in large amounts during the period between conception and birth.

_ v HEYWOOD bi BROUN

In sober truthfulness, we were not, even in those days, opulent enough to afford so high priced an afterdinner speaker. We found that out much later. James J. Walker is not without friends today. His charm is authentic, but I feel that in the last two years it has worn a little threadbare in some spots. And even among those faithful ones to whom Jimmy still is the eternal good fellow. I doubt that many would contend that he is quite the type to cope with the pressing problems of unemployment, evictions, starvation and muddled city finance, The quips may be as good as they ever were, but we laugh less readily. James J. Walker says that he has “invested the better part of his life in public office.” And we have a right to ask, '‘Who got the dividends?” fCoDvrieht. 1932. bv The Times!

People’s Voice

Editor Times—l am a law-abiding citizen. I parked my car properly on Sixty-second street near Allisonville road at 6 a. m. Aug. 4, and when I returned for it at 11 a. m. it was gone. I came home and reported to the police, as I thought It was stolen. A friend took me back out to look for the car and we examined the road where it had stood. We found that the car had been jacked up and pulled away. I went to Broad Ripple and called Gus Gatto, deputy sheriff, who said he had a phone call that the car had stood there for two days and he ordered it towed into the C. & L. Auto Service, Sixty-fourth street and State road 31. Gatto and the C. & L. man said they did not know who phoned It cost me $3.50 before they would let me have my car. which was parked properly just two hours and cne-half. as they took it at 8:30 The car was locked, door and all, and any one would have known it was not a stolen car. abandoned. I inquired of persons who lived near and they said they did not report it. It is terrible when you can’t park your car without such an outrage happening. C. P. JOHNSON. Editor Times —There seems to be some question in the minds of the public as to aims of the B. E. F. Every’ one must realize that should these men draw their bonus it only would be a short time until the majority of them would be broke again. The unpaid bills accumulated during the unemployment period would eat up w’hat most of us have coming. What we really are driving at is to obtain work, not only for the ex-soldier, but for all unemployed. Payment of the bonus might start the ball rolling. Where could this amount of money be put into circulation to better advantage to all trades? The banks and the railroads got theirs; what about the other trades? Capt. Doak Carter, chief of staff of the B. E F„ will be in Indianapolis in the near future to enlighten the people on just what the B. E. F. stands for, and what they intend to do. Quartered at 931 Virginia avenue are about fifty B. E. F. veterans who went/ through the campaign at Washington. About half these men got a taste of the gas thrown by the regular soldiers and had all Iheir belongings burned. These men

Ideals and opinion* expressed in this column are (hose ol one of America’s most interesting writers and are presented without regard to their agreement or disagreement with the editorial attitude of this paper.—The Editor.

_'AUG. 17, 1932

SCIENCE BY DAYII) DIETZ

Millions to See Sun Eclipse Any. 31: Next One in 1943. MILLIONS of people will see the eclipse of the sun which takes place on Aug. 31. The eclipse will be total in a traek extending across the province of Quebec and New England. The coming of this eclipse has i given rise to a discussion as to when j another total eclipse of the sun will be visible in the United States. Early I reports fixed the date of the next i eclipse variously as 1970. 2017 and i 2024 A more careful study of the situation has revealed, however, that the United States will not have to wait quite that long for another eclipse. Dr. Charles H. Smiley of Brown university points out that the next four total eclipses of the sun which will be visible in the United States will occur on July 9. 1945. June 30, 1954. Oct. 2. 1959 and July 20. 1963. Unfortunately, however, the first three eclipses all take place in the United States either at or near sunrise. Consequently, they will not be as spectacular as the eclipse of the present month, nor will thev furnish astronomers with anything like the same opportunity for scientific observation. This means, therefore, that the next solar eclipse of scientific value does not occur until July 20, 1963, a wait of thirty-one years, u a a The Eclipse Tracks IN 1887. Dr. Theodore Ritter Von Oppolzer published at Vienna a book titled "Canon der Finsternisse." that is, 'Canon of Eclipses.” It gave the approximate data for 8.000 eclipses of the sun and 5,200 of the moon between 1207 B. C. and 2162 A. D. The book also contained maps showing the approximate tracks of the solar eclipses in the northern hemisphere. Dr. Smiley points out that it is the approximate character of the maps that have given rise to the erroneous statements concerning coming eclipses. He says that Oppoizer's calculations are much more accurate than his maps. From Oppolzer's calculations. Dr. Smiley has traced the approximate paths of the four eclipses which will be visible in the United States after the present month. "For the eclipse of July 9, 1945.” he says, "the moon's shadow will strike the earth at sunrise just north of Boise, Idaho. It will sweep across the northwestern section of Ontario, over Hudson bay and across the northern part of Quebec. For a point just south of Hudson strait, the duration of totality will be about a minute. The sun will be about 24 degrees above the horizon there. "For the eclipse of June 30, 1954, the moon's shadow' will strike the earth at sunrise in north central Nebraska. It will pass over Lake Superior, going near the southern end of James bay and on out near the southern tip of Greenland. "For a point in northern Quebec the duration of totality will be about two minutes. The sun will then be about 27 degrees above the horizon.” a ft tt The 1963 Eclipse "17'OR the eclipse of Oct. 2, 1959," X 1 Dr. Smiley continues, "the moon's shadow will strike the earth at sunrise in southern New England, and will move at once out over the Atlantic ocean.” This brings us to the eclipse of 1963, the next important one. "For the eclipse of July 29. 1963.” he says. "Oppolzer's elements indicate that the moon's shadow will come down out of the northwest, passing near the southwestern edge of Hudson bay and James bay, crossing Maine near Belfast. "The accurate computations made at the nautical almanac office were based on modern elements, and consequently their determination of the path of totality of this eclipse will be much more accurate than this. "It is interesting to note that though the maximum duration of totality for the eclipse as given by Dr. Robertson is 100 seconds, the duration of totality for points in Maine will be in the neighborhood of 70 seconds. "For points in Maine, totality in the 1963 eclipse will begin about 5:40 p. m., daylight saving time, but because it will be near the middle of the summer, the sun will be almost as high above the horizon as it will be at Fryeburg, Me., at this year's eclipse.” Oppolzer's book on eclipses now is out of print, and copies are regarded not only as useful reference books, but as rare trasures as well.

Daily Thoughts

Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son Is mine; the soul that sinneth, it shall die.—Ezekiel 18:4. Sins write histories; goodness is silent.—Goethe. will form the nucleus of a state organization. with headquarters in Indianapolis. We were called tramps and bums by the newspapers, but let us go on record to say that the citizens of Washington were for us 100 per cent. Could we have lived there as long as we did. be tramps and bums, and still, at the end. have the public esteem and sympathy that we did? When we arrived in Washington after from three days to two weeks' travel in freight cars, we might have looked like tramps, but at heart we are just red-blooded, two-fisted American ex-soldiers, fighting for something belonging to us that will help keep the wolf away from the door. What ex-soldier wants to be a pan-handler when he knows he has money coming to him he can't collect? Approximately 75 per cent of these men have no homes and no one to turn to for help. They look to the B. E. F. for help. What a blessing it would be if we only could wake somebody up and start the ball rolling toward employment and help, not only for the ex-soldier, but for all unemployed. E. E. CAMPBELL. Do employes of state and city governments pay income taxes on their salaries? They are exempt from federal income tax on their salaries, except those whose duties are not of a strictly governmental nature, such as employes of publicly owned utilities, etc.