Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 205, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 January 1933 — Page 2

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HIGH BARRIERS FACE CAMPAIGN FOR ECONOMY Interest on Public Debt, War Expenditures Two Big Items. Fnllowinr i* another in th* erie* of • rticltft uhirh de*rrib where the taxpayer'* dollar *or RV RAYMOND CLAPPER I'nltfd Prm staff ( orrrsitondrnt • Coovrieht. 1933. bv United Prrrsi WASHINGTON. Jan. 5 —Economy rfforts which President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt and his j Democratic congressional leaders are attempting to shape, face two high barriers. One is the fact, that of ever? dollar in taxes collected. 33 cents goes toward paying .nterrst on the public debt, and toward retiring this debt. This practically is a fixed charge. The other is the fact that 43 ; rents of the tax dollar goes, accord- ! ing to federal budget figures, to national defense, military pensions.! life insurance and such. It covers all veterans' allowances. This group of expenditures is protected by strong patriotic feeling and the work of well-organized spe- j rial groups. Congress thus far has been unable to resist the pressure which protects this expenditure. On tho contrary, it has been inclined to increase the outlay. National Defense Cost High More fundamentally, many in congress oppose reducing national j defense appropriations materially so long as the international situation remains as it is. It may develop that for the great,- j est economy in national defense, the i administration will be obliged to take an oblique course and first devote itself toward bringing about real disarmament and adjustment of irritating international situations. Meantime, however, some leaders in congress believe that minor econ- j omics could be effected in the na- j tional defense if members would abandon pork barrel ideas. Economy Faces Fight The army general staff drew up a list of fifty obsolete interior posts which it said could be abandoned without injury to the military defenses of the country. But congressmen, in whose districts these forts are located, generally abjected so that actually only a dozen have been closed. The war department is just now closing out Ft. D. A. Russell at Marfa, Tex., but it had to undergo a severe tongue-lashing from Texans in and out of congress in so doing. The same situation obtains with j regard to navy yards and other naval establishments. The fact that each abandonment works real hardship and loss on the communities involved causes hesitation. War Department’s Share Ten cents of the tax dollar goes to the war department, though a portion of this is for non-military activities such as river and harbor work. Eight and a half cents goes to the navy. Almost 26 cents goes to the veterans bureau. This is the target of mast large scale bombardment. Expenditures of this bureau are now practically $1,000,000,000 a year. That is almost one dollar out of every four collected. It is more than the combined cost of the army and navy. A running battle is now going on in congress over the merits of this expenditure. General Hines, director of the bureau, views the mounting cost with concern. Fought on Veterans’ Fay Economy groups this week urged a joint congressional committee ,o cut the veterans outlay by more than $400,000,060. Veterans retort that some leaders in this hostile crusade themselves draw fancy retired pay. men such as Admiral Byrd and General Harbord. now' head of the radio corporation of America. The fight over Veterans relief promises to be a long pull. Seven persons still are drawing pensions of SSO a month as a result of the j war of 1812 which was 117 years t ago—six widows and one daughter. ! The rolls carry 478 beneficiaries of the Mexican war. FUNERAL RITES HELD FOR W. P. SHERWOOD Long Illness Takes Lifelong Resident: Buried at Crown Hill. Funeral services for William P. Sherwood. 76. of 1252 Standard avenue, lifelong resident of Indianapolis. who died at city hospital Monday after a long illness, were held in Tyner's mortuary. 328 West Thirtieth street at 10:30 this morning. Burial was in Crown Hill. Mr. Sherwood was a charter member of Capital City lodge. No. 97, Knights of Pythias. HEART ATTACK FATAL Edward Goss Dies at Home, Despite Resuscitation Efforts. Edward Gass. 616 East New York street, died at his home Wednesday night of a heart attack, despite efforts of a fire department rescue squad who tried to revive him. Mrs. Carrie Goss, the wife, said that he had been ill since Dec 8, and had suffered several severe attacks lately. PICCARD SAILS FOR U. S. Conqueror of Stratosphere Leaves for First Trip to America. I! it J niff ‘I I'ri h ■* LE HAVRE. France. Jan. s.—Professor August Piccard, conqueror of the stratosphere, who has become i one of the world's besi-knoaui scientists in the last two years, embarked Wednesday on the French liner Champlain for his first visit in America.

Gone, but Not Forgotten

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SURPRISE ATTACK ROUTS WETS

I)i y Law Foes Asleep at Switch When Crash Comes

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Forrest Davis presents todar the third of six articles on the amazing; twelveyear \olstead era and the factors leading up to it—a subject of increased interest with the opening of the tame duck session of rong;refis. BY FORREST DAVIS Times Staff WriteConvright. 1031. bv New York WorldTclcgram Corporation) I-'HE talk along Jake Pfaffs neighborhood bar in 1916 the year the Anti-Saloon League elected a congress overwhelmingly pledged to a bone dry amendment —was quite likely to run in this wise: "Well, if they make it nationwide. I guess it might be a good thing. I can do without the stuff if everybody else has to. I guess liquor never clone anybody much good." At, the commercial club in small cities, at Rotary luncheons, all places where employers gathered socially, the argument followed this approximate course: "I’m for it, if it will keep the hands sober. I guess if w : e did away with booze altogether we wouldn't have any more ‘blue Mondays’ at the factory. “Anyway, we need sober hands for all this modern machinery, the automobile and everything, and it ought to help business to take all that money away from the saloonkeepers and brewers and put it in the pockets of legitimate business men." So skillfully had the Anti-Saloon League, plentifully endowed with money—s2,soo,ooo a year—and offiofTed by single-minded experts in propaganda, elaborated the economic argument, the appeal to the pocket nerve, that by the time the United States entered the World war the business community generally—from the Rockefellers, Frick and Judge Gary to village shopkeepers—favored, if it did not actually indorse, the eighteenth amendment. No sensible observer of the prohibition phenomenon from 1916 to 1932 can doubt that the selfinterest of business men proved the compelling factor in the adoption of Volsteadism; just as. we may assume, the panicky demand of the commercial interests for relief from federal taxation and a balanced budget put the decisive spoke into ihc recent political revolt against prohibition. nan IN the first phase, the maudlin humanitarianism of "Ten Nights in a Barroom” probably would not have prevailed against the billion-dollar investment of the "liquor interests;” in the second. moral revulsion against bootlegging and gangsterism might have gone hang except for the depression. The Anti-Saloon League played Its ace when it convinced the commercial middle-class that death to the Denton Rum would lengthen profits by sobering up the workers and diverting buying power from Tim’s place to the department store and the savings bank; the prohibition reform forces made genuine headway only when they dangled the bait of a half billion in excise taxes before the worried business man.

RAILROAD POLICE ELECT Captain E. B. Rood, Indiananoils, Is Chosen State President. The Indiana Railroad Police Association at a meeting Wednesday in the Several elected Captain E. B. Reed. Indianapolis member of the Pennsylvania railroad police, president of the body. He succeeds Captain E. F. Cline of the Big Four railroad. Other officers are: Inspector John A. Hayes of Lafayette, vice-presi-dent; patrolman George Randall Indianapolis, secretary-treasurer. Falls on Bottle; Injured Failing on a bottle, after being knocked to the floor by her husband during an argument, Mrs. Hattie Smith, 39, of 1108 - South West street, was sent to city hospital by police Wednesday night. Although twelve stitches were required to close the wound in her arm, her condition is not senous. Does Your Mirror Reflect Rough, Pimply Skin ? Thpn I’ae Culicura and have a clear skin Anoint the affected parts with Cutirtirn Ointment. Wash off after a short time with Clltlcura Soap and hot water and continue bathing for several minutes. Pimples, rashes and all forms of skin troubles quickly yield to this treatment. Soap 25c. Ointment 25 and 50c. Sample each free. Address: "Cuticura,” Dept. 5 TANARUS, Malden, Mass.

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The American people have a livey, if unpredictable, moral sensibility; yet their instinct for profit is demonstrably more acute. To gain perspective on the rise and fall of prohibition, and especially the revolution against Volsteadism, the economic factor must be emphasized. It was not the World war—as so many believe—as much as a form of business cupidity that finally ushered this country into the socially jarring, ethically perverse nightmare that began in 1920. a an THE absence of 2.000.000 to 4.000.000 soldiers in Europe or in camp during the days when the eighteenth amendment was being scantily debated in congress no longer is considered a factor in the decision. The plain fact is that the congress that handed down the amendment to the state legislatures had been elected in 1916 when the soldiers either were voting at home or too young to exercise that privilege. Th" legislatures which so promptly ratified the amendment, and with a majority of roughly 80 per cent of their memberships, were elected, it is true, while most of the soldiers were away from home in the fall of 1917 but the question of nation-wide prohibition appears not to have been an issue in that election. What docs appear bluntly on the record is that the wet forces, unlcd and indifferent, put up no actual fight whatever in congress. in tire legislatures or in the popular elections from 1916 to 1919, when the damage had been done. The wets began to fight only after the stampede had flattened them, imbedding the obnoxious amendment so firmly into the Constitution that many leaders despaired until 1932 of tis removal. Speaking strictly from the record, it is manifest that the wets, caught flatfooted by the strength and fur?' of the dry crusade, did not begin to fight until long after they were licked soundly. * tt tt 'T'WENTY-SIX states were dry 1 by statute or constitutional amendment before April 1, 1917 on the eve of adoption by congress of the eighteenth amendment—by a vote of 65 to 20 in the senate; 282 to 128 in the house. Nine others, a total of thirtyfive. adopted some sort of prohibition measure, two by statute, seven by amendment, between April 1. 1917, and the passage of the Volstead act in 1919. Large areas in the thirteen wet states were dry by local option of one sort and another. Won Consent of Majority Viewing the spread of prohibition and its final flowering in the Vclstead act from all sides, it Is certain that the dry crusade swept all before it. If, as wet champions repeatedly assert, prohibition did not command a majority of the people in 1917 et seq., their putative wet majority was quieter, less assertive, and influential, than majorities normally are.

CANNON ON COMMITTEE Indianapolis Banker to Aid in Observance of Thrift Week. Appointment of Fermor S. Cannon. president of the Railroadmen's Building and Savings Association, on the 1933 Thrift Week committee was received today in a letter from the United States Building and Loan League. Thrift Week will be observed Jan. 17 to 23.

While FLU is around Be Doubly Careful of COUGHS

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES '.

William Jennings Bryan enjoying a quiet glass of water.

Where stood the wet majority when from Jan. 8, 1918, to Jan. 16, 1919. thirty-six state legislatures tumbled over themselves to ratify the amendment? All but two of the states eventually ratified. Granted that ratification came about through legislative action in all except Ohio, practical experience teaches that members of legislatures are not often so giddily unresponsive to majority opinion. No, the latterly developed doctrine that prohibition w'as "put over” on a latent majority does not hold water. It would be just as sensible to say that the vote in the eleven states that in one way and another expressed disapproval last Nov. 8 with prohibition did not represent the will of the people. an a \ fairer way of stating the prior revolution that saddled us with Volsteadism would be that a determined, vocal, highly organized minority won the consent if not the active indorsement of the majority. All of which makes the subsequent revolution the more melodramatic. In 1918-19 forty-six states enthusiastically accepted, through their popular legislatures, a drastically bone-dry amendment to the Constitution; in 1932 fortyfour states, through their electorates. elected a wet President and a wet congress on a plank calling for repeal of that constitutional ordinance. Few democracies have reversed themselves on a significant policy so swiftly and utterly.

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The first revolution in legalized national habits was brought about after eighty years of ceaseless agitation. It succeeded only, we may believe, after its zealous advocates had aligned good business with a pseudo-moral argument; only after the Wayne Wheelers, the William Jennings Bryans, William H. Andersons et at. had made it appear to be both thrifty and righteous to be for prohibition. The defeat of prohibition required only about six years of effectual agitation, x But the groundwork had been laid in the widespread and personal nullification by millions of freeborn citizens who exercised a citizen’s privilege—by no means novel nor unprecedented—to set aside in practice a distasteful law. And the depression, shifting the self-interest of the mercantile classes, finished the job. The first flush of prohibition victory abated, how did the country react to the Constitutional strait-jacket? . In the next article the beginnings of the passive rebellion against Volsteadism will be reviewed.

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RELIEF FUNDS i ON ‘DISASTER’ BASIS URGED More Money Than Even Most Liberal Bills Provide Held Needed. BY RUTH FINNEY Time* Mart Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. s.—The federal government must provide more relief for destitution in 1933 than even the most liberal bills pending . in congress have proposed, in the ! opinion of social workers from New | York, Chicago and Philadelphia, summoned here by the senate manufacturers committee. Dr. Sidney E. Goldstein, chairman of the joint committee on unemploy- j i ment, told the committee that $750-, I ! 000.000 must be made available by the federal government "in order to save a large part of our population j from disaster.” He estimates that the state of New York, which so far has made no application for federal funds, must get $75,000,000 from this source for 1933. Swiftly Mounting Burdens Samuel A. Goldsmith, executive director of Jewish Charities of Chicago, testified that Illinois must have $92,000,000 for 1933, based on disaster standards of relief, and that only $31,510,000 is in sight, including the maximum which the state may borrow from the R. F. C., and possible funds from a state bond issue which so far has not sold. Jacob A. Billikopf of the Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia told the committee that its $500,000,000 relief bill, sponsored by Senators Edward P. Costigan and : Robert La Follette, probably would be inadequate. All the witnesses heard so far have told stories of swiftly mounting relief burdens and of depleted funds, resulting in distribution by social agencies of just enough food to keep needy applicants alive. Assail Policy of R. F. C. New' Y'ork has 30.000 families known to need relief, but receive nothing at the present time, according to William Hodson, executive director of the welfare council of New York City. All witnesses, likewise, have agreed that the R. F. C. federal policy of doling out relief funds for a few weeks at a time, has resulted in uncertainty which has meant extreme suffering in some cases, a desperate fear among all the needy, and wasteful disorganization of administrative relief efforts. TRAVIS IN LAW FIRM Former Supreme Court Judge Joins Holtzman and Coleman. Julius C. Travis, Indiana supreme court judge, whose term expired Jan. 3, has announced plans for associating in law practice with j John W. Holtzman, former mayor, i and Robert D. Coleman, with ofi flees at 1542 Consolidated building. Prior to his twelve-year term on I the bench, Travis practiced law in i Laporte, Ind., from his graduation I in 1394 until 1921.

-Greed Fatal Mule Tries to Eat ‘Live’ Wire: Found Dead by Master. /?/ T'nitcd Prr jm PERU, Ind., Jan. s.—Lee Long. a farmer living north of here, reported today that his mule was electrocuted when it tried to eat an electric wire carrying 110 volts. More than a foot of wire was in the animal's mouth when it was found on the barn floor. Canada has more railroad mileage in proportion to the population than any other country, or one mile of track for every twenty-three persons.

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GLENN FRANK TO TALK HERE AT TOWN HALL U. of Wisconsin President Will Speak Friday at English's. One of the high spots of the Town Hall series of lectures will be j the appearance here Friday morn--1 mg of Glenn Frank, distinguished president of Wisconsin university. Mr. Frank, author of "Thunder and Dawn" and other books, is con- ■ sidered one of the country's clearest 'and most progressive thinkers.