Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 September 1932 — Page 8

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CLUB BOYS AND GIRLS ARRANGE FAIR EXHIBITS Judging of 4-H Entries to Begin Saturday, First Day of Exhibition. Aristocrats of Hoosier cattle began arriving at the state fairground today. First entries were by a group of 4-H Club boys and girls. Judging will begin Saturday morning, first day of the fair. Most of the arrivals came from Hamilton. Boone. Fountain, Warren, Henry, Rush, Tipton, Howard, Miami. Tippecanoe, Montgomery and Clinton counties. There are forty-three heifers and ten bulls in the group. All are of the Jersey and Guernsey breeds. The 4-H clubs of Tippecanoe county began setting up their 185 exhibits Wednesday. Os the total number of exhibits, 122 are home economics displays by the girls. Baking, sewing, canning, and food preparation displays are featured by the girls. The boys have entered pigs, calves, lambs, apples, poultry and potatoes. Tippecanoe county was among the leaders last year in 4-H Club membership, with a total enrollment of more than 1,000 in thirty clubs. The value of properly fitted shoes to posture and health will be emphasized in the exhibit of the Clinton County Home Economics Club. Mrs. Edward Hodge, president; Mrs. Irene Marshall, vice-president, and Mrs. Cnarles Smith, secretaryIrrasurer, together with V. J. Mann, county agent, are co-operating in preparing the exhibit for the home economics contest to be held in the agricultural building. They won in iono. Instruction will be given persons of impaired hearing at the fair by the Indiana League for the Hard of Hearing, according to present plans. The league will conduct an exhibit. in booth 4 of the grandstand exhibit, room. Classes in lip reading will be held each night next week by Mrs. Ruth O. Kat.zenberger. lip reading instructor for the league.

PIONEER FORTITUDE NEEDED, SAYS M'NUTT Problems Can Be Met by Bravery, Nominee Tells Kiwanians. If Americans face the problems of the present with the same fortitude which characterized the founders of the republic, this natio- will not succumb to the 'ire predictions, declared Paul V. McNutt, Democratic Governor nominee, in an address at the Kiwanis Club Wednesday at the Columbia Club. Referring to the predictions ot prominent economists and historians that the world is facing chaos and the American civilization will go into oblivion, McNutt asserted: "These predictions are possible of fulfillment unless the people awaken from their lethargy and assume their responsibilities and duties as citizens. "Hunger and lack of shelter have been the starting cause of revolutions. Had it not been for these factors there would not have been a Flench revolution. For that reason the welfare work of the country must be maintained. "When people awaken to their riut‘?s and combine them with a realization that the hardships of today are no worse than they were in other trying times the nation has fared, then the first step will bo taken toward a solution of our rnfficulties.’' HIGHWAY COMMISSION SALARY CUTS STUDIED Reductions Are to Placed in F.ffect on Oct. 1. Salary reductions for all employes of the state highway commission were considered today by the commission. The reductions, which would be effective Oct. 1 under the new general salary i eduction law may be cut even more in some instances, the commission indicated. Under the law cuts would range from 5 to 26 per cent. tMder this schedule John J. Brown,- chairman of the commission, would receive an annual salary of $6,018.75 instead of the present 97.500 salary. Garrett Withers, member of the state highway commission, conferred with the commission Wednesday on the proposed Roekport, Ind.. to' Owensboro, Ky.. bridge across the Ohio river. Committees of Owensboro and Roekport citizens also appeared.

RAILWAYS WILL FIGHT TO KEEP WAGES DOWN 20 Prr Cent Slash Plan Merely “Club” to Retain Present Cut. ft n Scrlpp*-Hoicar<i y ctrspnpcr Alliance WASHINGTON. Sept. I.—Reported plans of railway managers to demand a 20 per cent wage reduction were believed by labor officials today to be only preliminary moves toward renewing the 10 per cent cut whitrailroad workers accepted for tl * year ending next January. The stories, emanating from New York, where railroad officials recently have been in conference, served. uJso. to * 'trow into strong relief the demands of railway labor for better treatment, and their renewed protest agains, wage reductionThe burden of this protest is that the government has lent its immense reso'sces to assist those who have the‘c money invested in railway securities, while little is being done to assist the hundreds of thousands who have invested their lives in railroad work. Gunman Steals Hamburgers After eating 40 cents worth of sandwiches in a While Castle lunchroom at 302 Virginia avenue. Wednesday night, a bandit pointed a revolver at J. G Downhover. 510 East Tenth street, the clerk, and backed into the street to escape.

HUNGER FEAR GRIPS FARMERS

Soil Tillers Call Strike as Specter of Want Stalks

Thi* is the fourth story in ■ serifs of live by Bruce Catton. staff writer for Nr A Service and The Time who u *eru *o th mid-west corn belt to find out what tr.e farm strike" is all about. BY BRUCECATTON NEA Service Writer tCopyright. 1932, NEA Service. Inc.) SIOUX CITY, la., Sept. 1 —The conservative farmer of the northwestern corn belt—where the soil is both rich and heavily mortgaged—is beginning, for the first time, to think about the danger of going hungry. That explains the surprising “farmers' strike.” This is the opinion of Wallace Short of Sioux City. Short has been closely in touch with the strike from its beginning—indeed, he helped pave the way for it by a decade of preaching the farmer’s needs for unity—and he probably knows as much about the problems of the farmer as any man in northwestern lowa. ‘The conservative farmer," Short says, ‘is beginning for the first time to think about hunger. These farmers know that 60 per cent of them may be dispossessed of their farms at any day. That puts them face to face with the of actual hunger.” 6hort was mayor of Sioux City tar six years. He has been a member of the state legislature for an equal period, and still is a member. He is publisher of a weekly newspaper, Unionist and Public Farmer, and he holds the odd distinction of being, at one and the same time, an ordained minister of the Congregational church and a recognized member of the bartenders’ union. tt tt tt ”T WAS talking only yesterday 1 with the leaders of this group,” he says. ‘ They told me this: ‘We want to be so completely right that no right-minded group can condemn us. ‘“We don't want any irresponsible fellows who just are looking for excitement to join us.’ So far they have lived up to that aim very well. “Another conservative farmer told me this: 'I never have seen anything like this in all my life. These farmers are making their appeal from what is legal to w'hat is right. “ ‘They may have forgotten what is legal, but they do know w'hat is right, and they mean to get it.’ “There was a case here just the other day in which a farm landlord forced a sale of his renter’s crop to pay a claim on last year's rent. Get that—last year’s rent, not this year’s. “A day or so ago I met a man who just had sold five 200-pound hogs. After expenses incident to the sale and transportation of the animals had been met, he got a check for about S2O. “That man is deeply in debt. If he had sold those five hogs at the time that he incurred his debts, his price would have been around $75, instead of w'hat he actually got. Can you see what he’s up against in trying to pay off his debt? tt n n ”T KNOW another man whose JL mortgage was foreclosed just recently. His entire year’s crop wouldn’t even pay the interest on his indebtedness.” Short believes that the legislature eventually will have to recognize the lowa farmer's plight and enact legislation to meet it. Such legislation, he believes, should include a provision for a moratorium on debts until the dollar regains the value it had before the depression; a sharp reduction of interest rates on all agricultural loans; a very drastic reduction in taxes and some provision for getting foreclosed loans back into the hands of the bona fide property owners. The revealing characterization of the movement, perhaps, comes from Henry A. Wallace of Des Moines. editor of “Wallace's Homestead,” famous corn belt magazine, and son of the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace, who served in Harding s cabinet. “There is a certain amount of the same s ,of dynamite in this affair that there was in the Boston tea party,” Wallace told me. n n tt THEY talked the whole thing over at a meeting here in July. At that time I told them that it would be a weak gesture. "In the first place, they won't be able to get enough farmers in on it to affect prices very much, and in the second place, even if they did, they'd just be holding an umbrella over the heads of farmers who aren't co-operating with them. - And then, of course, w'hen they finally started selling, they'd inevitably put the prices down just as far as they previously had put them up.” But Wallace admitted that there is no way of telling just how far this "strike” may go. “The trouble here.” he said, “is that we have the best land in the

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strikers had threatened to storm the jail. At Sioux City, center of the first picketing, strikers were arrested by the truck load as county authorities began a campaign to smash the blockade set up against the hauling of farm products to market.

"IfVEN the union officials say it is hard to tell just how far the movement will go. “This strike may go over and it may not,” one union representative explains. “But one thing is certain: If this one fails there’ll be another one a little bit later, and it will be absolutely certain to succeed. “The other day, in a county seat in the middle of lowa, the sheriff got up on the courthouse steps and

sold 6,000 acres of fine farm land for taxes, and on mortgage foreclosures. “What’s going tq happen to the wives and children of the men who used to farm those 6,000 acres? Why, unless the farmers find some way of getting themselves out of the depression, they’ll have to move into the cities —and add their numbers to the unemployed already there.

CURRENT THEFT | CHARGE BRINGS LIGHT CO. SUITj Widow Sues for $25,000: Housebreaking Alleged in Damage Plea.

Charges that employes of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company accused her of “stealing current” and threatened her with prosecution were made Wednesday by Mrs. Flora Kretsch, a widow. 3203 Park avenue, in a $25,000 damage suit filed in superior court four. The suit alleges employes of the company broke into her home May 13 and removed the light meter and destroyed a quantity of wiring Damage to the weatherboarding and interior of the house is given in the suit as amounting to SSO. When Mrs. Kretsch protested against removal of the meter, the complaint alleges the workmen told her “We are doing what we were told to do. If you want to know anything about it call the office.” The complaint states that when Mrs. Kretsch visited the light company offices, Stanley G. Myers, employed in the collection department, accused her of “stealing current.” She was told, the complaint alleges. that the meter would not be reinstated without payment of sls. According to Mrs. Kretsch, the sls was described to her as "fine” imposed by the company for alleged theft of current. Unless the “fine” was paid, she would be sent to prison, the complaint alleges Myers told Mrs. Kretsch. Denial of the accusation by Mrs. Kretsch brought the retort, “I have heard that sterv before,” according to the complaint. Myers said today the meter was removed after officials of the company had assured themselves that current was being stolen.”

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Here’s anew speed king—not of the air. but of the dairy—for Cathryn Baltz, residing near Joliet. 111., performed the feat of milking 18.4 pounds in three minutes. And thereby she won the title of three midwestern states in a contest just held. The distance around the equator is said to have shrunk one and a half miles in the last 100 years.

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FESTIVAL SPONSORED Illinois Widening Completion to Be Held. The Sixteenth and North Illinois Street Merchants Association wll’ sponsor a festival at th° intersection the night of Sept. 17, celebra*ing completion of widening Illinois street. Prizes donated by the association will be awarded. Program will include concerts bv bands and orchestras. Special lighting equipment, will be installed on Illinon street between Fourteenth end Seventeenth streets and on Sxteenth street between Meridian street and Capitol avenue. Speakers will be Mayor Regina’d H. Sullivan and Louis J. Borinstcin f> Chamber of Commerce presiden*.

LOW COACH FARES OYER LABOR DV SEPT. s*i! mm H|W of th One Way a Fare for Entire • w /V Round Trip Good on train* leaving alter 3:00 a. m. SEPTEMBER 2nd and train* leaving up to 1:00 p m SEPTEMBER sth Return limit September 6th Ticket* will al*o be *old to Weeh- , in gto n, Baltimore, Philad el phi a, Atlantic City, New York, at very low fare*. For train* leaving after 3:00 a. m. Friday. September 2nd, and train* of Saturday, September 3rd: except the National Limited and the Capitol Limited): returning on train* leaving de*ttnation prior to midnight, September 6th. Passenger and Ticket Office 114 Monument Circle aa Phone Lincoln 6404 wm*^% UYujiAr-TmaM