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_ MONDAY, JAN. 8. 1934. A DAMNING REC ORD r | 'EN days ago The Times printed an exelusive story revealing that the public service commission had taken formal action to reduce power and light rates in Indianapolis. The commission took this step after a protracted joint investigation of rates by Sherman Minton, public counselor, and this newspaper. Each day since then we have published the facts, as Mr. Minton and the commission have found them, regarding the conduct of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company since it was formed in 1927. These facts indicate strongly that the corporation deliberately has written up its valuation by $24,000,000 for rate-making purposes. The-, apparently show that the shining promises of lower expenses, which caused the public to allow the power and light company a complete monopoly, were nothing but tinsel. Since 1927 revenues have increased only 19.5 per cent as against an expense increase of 22.66 per cent. Today The Times shows that there is reason to believe that the company’s Kentucky avenue and West Washington street plants are unnecessary, that they simply add $6,500,000 of old equipment on which the consumers must pay a return, and that they are sending operating expenses skyrocketing. The Indianapolis Power and Light Company could buy electricity for occasional emergencies more cheaply from the Insull Dresser plant that ,t can manufacture it in these two old generating stations. No dissenting voice has been raised in the community to refute The Times’ facts. The Indianapolis News, which fought the formation of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company in 1927, once more has entered the lists, joining The Times in its battle. So has the Indianapolis Star. Public opinion is squarely behind the fight for lower rates. This is a damning* record for the local light company. It not only indicates that the public is entitled to cheaper power, but it also shows poor management of the company itself. It is a severe rebuke to those that operate the company that six years after its formation it ■ has not a friend in Indianapolis. The Indianapolis Power and Light Com- ! panv is owned by the Utilities Power and Light Company of Chicago, which, in turn, j is directed by Harley Clarke, an outstanding • business man. Mr. Clarke has many far-flung ! interests. It is possible that he has not kept j as close an eye as he might on his Indianapolis interests. If Mr. Clarke is clever, and we think he is, he promptly would step into this local situation. grant sweeping rate reductions without | waiting official action and reorganize the company so that the consumers might be assured of fair and honest treatment in the future. The alternative will be a series of long court battles in which the Indianapolis Power and Light Company surely must suffer defeat in the end. The ’’New Deal” has served notice that recalcitrant and rapacious utilities no longer will be tolerated. POWER OF THE UNIVERSE ' I ’'HERE is a dark and shivery fascination about those infinite empty spaces out beyond the stars. A full understanding of the science of astronomy is too much for most of us, but we can listen to the things the astronomers say, and now and then we discover that these scientific gentlemen are playing with the raw materials of great poetry. Consider, for instance, the Chicago astronomer's recent discovery of the high winds that sweep the stars—winds that reach a velocity of 144.000 miles an hour, howling and swirling through everlasting emptiness above the lifeless plains of far-off planets. Or listen to the Harvard astronomer, who has gone exploring (via the telescope! in that incomprehensibly distant patch of light known as the Magellanic Clouds. These clouds, first reported by Ferdinand Magellan, are so far away that it takes their light 90.000 years to reach the earth; yet they are so large that the ring-like formation of one of them is clearly visible in the telescope, and it is estimated that they give off more light than all the naked-eye stars put together. Meditating on things like these—cosmic hurricanes of unimaginable force, and gasrings so vast and so distant that the mind staggers trying to comprehend them—is probably a very impractical pursuit. Our lives will go along just about as they would if these eerie phenomena never existed. We are apt to have trouble enough lifting our eyes to earthly horizons; it may seem exceedingly profitless to think twice of these other worldly bits of magic. Yet there is something unspeakably fascinating about the thought of these things. It Is the stuff of which poetry is made; wild, gale-swept poetry, of the kind that blows small considerations clear out of a man’s heart and leaves him blinking at the immensity and the mystery of the forces which surround human life. Far away from us. on desolate landscapes where no life is or has been since the world was made, there blows an eternal hurricane. A ring of flame big enough to incircle our sun and all our planets burns alone, so distant that we see it only as a faint light cloud on the blackness of the sky. And what of that? Nothing, perhaps; except that these facts haunt our minds, and stand as symbols of the titanic miracles amid which our lives are cradled. FOUR-BIT CIGARS * | "HE Black Diamond Steamship Corporation is reported to have sent a wagon load of holiday 50-cent cigars to officials and employes of the United States department of

] commerce’s shipping bureau, formerly the shipping board. Ewing y, Mitchell, assistant secretary of commerce, ordered their return. “It is not good practice." he wrote the donors, “for a government official or employe | to accept gifts, even of small value, from those with whom he may have business relations.” Too bad. of course, to nip the holiday spirit and dampen the expansive mood of this concern. Certainly the Black Diamond company had a right to its warmth of feeling toward the government. Recent testimony before a senatorial committee showed that in 1931 it bought eleven vessels for $1,343,000 that cost the government $18,000,000 to build. It was shown to be benefiting from mail subsidies of $1,300,000 a year. It was in arrears in pay- ; ments to the government. The most cordial relations existed between the Black Diamond and former government officials. It is not suggested that the United States government can be bribed with even a car load of 50-cent cigars, subtly persuasive as their aroma is to be a discriminating smoker; nor that the company’s motives were improper. But. as Mr. Mitchell said, “it is not good practice.” WOMEN AT WORK 'T'HERE was an old idea running around the horse hair sofas of people's parlors at the turn of the twentieth century, which had something to do with the fact that women, having borne children, were to put away their personalities and be merely mothers. Their complexions could fade. The hair could be scraggly. Their heels could tilt and their skirts could drag. Such things didn’t matter. They had borne children and because they had, they must sublimate their perscnalities to the needs cf the youngest members of the family clan. The man who sought to divorce his wife the i other day on the grounds that she had a job ! as well as a child, would have loved the dear ; old days. He would have enjoyed the cockle shells , and the hair of departed relatives that was | kept under glass on the walnut stand. Most of all he would have been breathless at the sight 1 of a wife with a jelly-stained apron and a smudge on her nose. Anyway, he objected because his wife held a position in the economic world instead of ' slaving for their child. Yet there was no need cf her personal drudgery. The family had money. It could supply nurses' and professional service. Had the mother been carrying | on a job, to the neglect of her child, the story would have been different. Her conduct would have been inexcusable. But she wasn’t. In fact, if the dear young man only knew it, his child is much better off because it has a mother with outside interests. Women themselves are rejoicing because they are permitted to be people as well as mothers. After all, it is pretty lonely when one discovers that the days of mothering are over, t and there aren’t any new interests to occupy one’s time. The children themselves appreciate mothers who keep their own personalities. Oh, it is easy enough to love your father and mother and brothers and sisters. Most people do it because the Bible commands it and the neighbors expect it. But to genuinely like the members of one's own family is a different matter. Frequently children turn away from their mother because some other woman wears prettier clothes, tells nicer stories, has softer hands, laughs more gayly. When they do, these same little boys and girls feel twinges of guilt. They know they should prefer their mother's company. But staying with her becomes a duty when fascinating strangers are around. A mother who wants to keep her children’s liking, who wants them to respect her and confide in her long after they have gone to their first proms or taken their first brides, must keep herself interesting. She must take time to develop a personality. If she wants to be a doormat, of course people will step on her. The mother, to whom the mistaken young father objected as the other parent for his child, was being kind to her small son. He would grow up realizing that she was a capable, entertaining person. Then, too, he wouldn’t see too much of her. She would retain that element of exciting newness. Her widened contacts would enable her to enrich her child’s life. There is one more argument, too. A little lost child whose mother has died is a strange derelict among its aunts and cousins if the mother has absorbed the child's life by tooconstant care. If it has learned to divide its dependence it is better able to adapt itself. Os course, if a mother is needed at home, she should stay there. That is different. She can build up her own glamour then. But when she isn’t, if she wants to work, there is no reason why she shouldn’t. That is. unless her husband gets to acting foolish about it. POOR OLD PARTY T* THAT has become of Indiana's Repub- ’ * lican party? For more than a year nothing has been heard from it except a few sleepy and feeble protests whenever something happens to disturb its profound slumber. This fatty degeneration is unfortunate and, we hope, purely temporary. As an independent newspaper. The Times believes in vigorous bipartisan government. While we squarely are behind the constructive principles of the McNutt administration and the new deal, we realize that the public can be protected only by the checks and balances of vigorous party conflict. Ever since its inception Indiana Republicanism has been in the hands of the ultraconservatives. Its old leadership is suspect. Men like Jim Watson, are outmoded. The principle of property rights above human rights no longer is popular since the depression has proved that property can be as fleeting as the snows of yesteryear. It is high time that the younger, progressive Republicans of this state take the helm from the senile hands that now are allowing the party to drift. The mayor of Long Beach, L. 1., gave his interest in the local paper to a former employe. who doesn't know whether to thank i the mayor or sue him. Automotive engineers have done much to overcome wind resistance, but what the salesmen would like to have them do is find a way to overcome sales resistance. Assistant Secretary of Commerce Mitchell returned a SSO box of cigars to a shipping firm that had sent the smokes to him as a gift, the pikers!

THE WHOLE STORY ROOSEVELT in his message paid high tribute to the banking and stock market investigation of the Fletcher senate committee by his blistering condemnation of the financial racketeering thus far disclosed. They call, the President declared, “on the strong arm of government for their immediate suppression: they also call on the country for an aroused public opinion.” He asked for "stringent preventive or regulatory measures.” The country has been aroused. So has congress. They should be kept aroused until congress has legislated wisely, effectively and thoroughly. To accomplish these objectives the Fletcher committee should continue until the whole story is laid on the record. Much has been told. But much remains to be told. President Roosevelt’s denunciation of “reckless speculators” was even stronger In his message to congress than in his inauguration address when he stirred the country by his pledge to “drive the money changers from the temple.” That is easy to understand. He and the country have learned many bitter facts since—how Albert H. Wiggin attempted to use the world’s largest bank for his own speculations; how Wiggin and other so-called giants of the boom era alternately puffed and deflated the market at their will to reap fortunes at the expense of the unwary and uninitiated; how Clarence Dillon got control of millions of other people’s money by shoe-string investments; how a group of banks in Detroit was ruined by fancy promotion and thus set off the explosion which rocked the nation; hew the House of Morgan extends its financial control into the lives cf nearly every citizen. This is not the whole story. Chairman Fletcher, who has promised to “go the limit,” is prepared to get it all. The veteran legislator resisted successfully those who sought to stop the inquiry a few months ago. He deserves the support of the country for his faithful public service and his determination to complete the job. The lamb in the 1929 crash wants to know how the New York Stock Exchange operated in those high-flying days—and why. The senate committee next fall will address itself to this task. The Fletcher committee’s inquiry perhaps has shocked none more than honest bankers. As evidence of guilty consciences in high financial circles they have seen shake-ups in command of the nation’s big banking institutions. Most recently they have seen forced from the treasury department a man who promoted those foreign and domestic bonds which stuffed bankers’ portfolios, gave them sleepless nights and helped contribute to the general collapse. These honest bankers want the whole story, too, for it affects their business. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana says he doesn’t agree with Roosevelt in certain parts cf tne President s address to congress, which assures the administration support of at least all the Democratic congressmen but one. There’s no truth in the report that Hitler warned Max Schmeling not to fight Levinsky. Several sport critics do. Mrs. Roosevelt advises the American people to “keep a fluid state of mind” in 1934. What does she think prohibition was repealed for?

Liberal Viewpoint By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES * | a HE outstanding bit of folly in the program A of Chancellor Hitler to date has been his savage repression of the Jews. Many of his other policies, such as his demand for the revision of the Treaty of Versailles and his attack upon the old vested economic interests in Germany, have been commendable. Other debatable items in his program certainly are no worse than policies which are being pursued in other countries. Hence, much of the Hitler propaganda in this country centers around an apology for the anti-Semitic crusades carried on by the Nazi. In this, by all odds the most usual and popular allegation is that the Jew hd all but gained control over Gentile Germany. This statement has been made by no less distinguished a German than former Chancellor Von Papen. The latter alleged that people living in England could in no way appreciate the menace of Jewish dominion as it existed in Germany. Such an assertion is somewhat humorous when one reflects that' Germany never had a Jewish chancellor and that there has been only one Jewish cabinet minister in Germany in the last eleven years. tt a tt IN Disraeli, England had a Jewish prime minister many years ago. When the World war broke out Sir Edgar Spyer was a member of the privy council and the chief financial adviser of the British government. More recently Lord Reading has been governor-general of India, lord chancellor and secretary for foreign affairs. In an article in Opinion, the distinguished European correspondent, Robert Dell, puts the following questions up to those who maintain the thesis that the Jews all but dominated Gernanv before March, 1933: “1. Has there since 1918 or before 1914 ever been a single German ambassador or diplomatic minister, or a single officer in the German army or navy, who was a Jew? “2. Has there been more than one Jew in the cabinet of the reich since Rathenau was assassinated eleven years ago? (What about the cabinets of the states? ”3. Has there ever been a single head of a province, or of an administrative district, or even of a country who was a Jew? “4. Have there been since 1919 more than half a dozen Jews in the non-Socialist parties or groups in the reichstag, which have always formed the majority of the reichstag? ”5. Has there been a single Jew among the trade union leaders? “6. Did the fact that about one-third of the lawyers were “non-Aryan” and that many physicians and surgeons were Jews bring Germany under the control of the Jews and. if so, why was she not under their control before the war when those conditions were the same?” a o a THE bankruptcy of the Nazi contention that they moved against the Jews to prevent them from perfecting their control over Germany can be further illustrated by reference to the attitude of the Hitler government toward the Jewish bankers. Banking was the one field in which the Jews did have something approaching ascendency. In spite of this, however, the Hitler government has left the Jewish bankers almost entirely unmolested. They have only been compelled to dismiss their Jewish employes. It is only in the professions—science, medicine, literature and art—that the Jews have distinguished themselves out of all proportion to their numerical percentage in the German population. This certainly did not give the Jews control over German society or government. Indeed, Jewish pre-eminence in the professions has been due in large part to the fact that they were restricted severely in their capacity to make headway in military and governmental circles. In short, Jewish professional distinction has been mainly a compensatory product of anti-Semitian in the days before Hitler. *

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(Times readers are invited to express their vietcs in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) By Gunner's Mate. Buddies of ’34: You’re in the army now, you’re not behind the plow—Now, these wheelbarrows and shovels constitute a different kind of an army, but the old spirit of 1917 still prevails among the boys and a buddy is o. k„ whether he is in the river bottoms, on top of the lveee, behind the shafts of a wheelbarrow, on the business end of a shovel or lowering away one of those land-anchors in the shape of a fine pick. In the course of the days pushing dirt to the top of the levee, conversation never lags, and there has been many a bloody battle fought and many a submarine sunk right cut here on the Warfleigh levee in the two weeks. Even the marines are well represented and come in handy for land water duty. One leather-neck we have has been especially proficient in getting across the river to dry wood with which to build a fire. “What outfit was you with, Buddy?” “Me, aw I was wit’ de Rainbow Div. S’matter with you? Get a shot of gas? Naw, not much, but this wheelbarrow gets me in the legs; I gotto a machine-gun bullet. Well, why don’t cha squawk to the pusher and have him put you on a shovel? He’s swell guy, and they don’t want you guys to overdo yourself if you're not able You know how it is, if I squeak to him, he’ll think I’m stallin’ for an easy job. and I got a wife and two kids depending on this job.” The word passes around and soon a few of the buddies get together and give the foreman a twist about this poor guy, and he is all set with an easy job with a shovel. “Hay, Bo! wasn’t you in the navy? Sure was, buddy, but never thought I would end up as coxswain of one of these end wheelers with the seat of the guy’s pants ahead of me for a compass. What was your rate?— gunner's mate, wdiat was you? Boatswain’s mate, say,” and so another conversation cements a bond of comradeship as they pass each other going up and down the steep runways. A big Irish lad who has missed his calling on the police department makes a wise crack—“they say these things (wheelbarrows) are what taught the Irish to tvalk on their hind legs, and I would have a foine beat myself today if that ward heeler in my ward hadn’t been asleep.” A short Negro with a leather coat with the insignia of some fraternity! faintly legible on the back, shoveling alongside a short Jewish fellow in army uniform and a pair of No. 12 red rubber galoshes—“ Say, boy, didn’t you all used to run a joint down on Washington street close to West street —sort of a donkey joint and home brew. Who me, well, me brudder had a place down there and I used to woik for him." We have bricklayers, plumbers, plasterers, electricians, steam-fitters office workers, salesmen, hod-car-riers, sheet-metal workers, carpenters. contractors, auto mechanics, honky-tonks, bar flies—all on the heavy end of a wheelbarrow and shovel—with never a hard word or an argument, all trying hard to get in their hours so they will have a full pay day and happy to be working again, regardless of the weather. Their daily philosophy is an interesting and gay repartee, along with a little drama. Bv ff. A, Benedict Jr. Regarding your editorial on auto licenses, maybe Jan. 1 is the deadline, but the overbearing, bullying attitude of the state in ordering arrests immediately for violations isn’t going to help matters. And in view

SPEAKING OF BLENDS

An Old Friend Speaks

By An Old Friend of A1 Feeney’s Who is this man Feeney, at present a Democrat, in the past most anything? It seems quite a pity that the middle class taxpayer who helps to pay the salary of a man such as the one mentioned above should be treated as worms. A statement was issued in today’s paper by the honorable Mr. Feeney to arrest any motorist without 1934 license plates. For five consecutive days I have been turned away rrom a central substation at 4:30 p. m. and told to come back the next day because it was closing time. I suppose the married. women employed had to be given time to

of previous extensions, it certainly couldn’t do much harm to extend the deadline until the middle of the month, when those paid semimonthly will have been paid, and southern Indiana farmers will have had a chance to sell their tobacco on markets that have been closed until the first of the year. Maybe the state police force will make a bold, impressive show of arresting those with old license plates, but they’ll probably play safe, and make sure they’re not escaped convicts first. Asa matter of fact, if no license fees were paid the motorist still would be overtaxed grossly, with the personal property tax, drivers’ license, state gas tax, sales tax (now generally added to repair bills), not to mention the federal gas and oil taxes. And surely the state doesn’t stand to suffer seriously from lack of law respect by extending the deadline until thousands have received their next pay check. By C. S. G. Two lowbrows, a semi-highbrow and a highbrow met in the market place. They fell to discussing this, that and the other and disagreed. The highbrow had little to say and looked on in amused silence. At last he was appealed to by the semihighbrow. “You’re a man of influence—a prominent citizen, a real splash in this not so mean city; right out in front as it were. I don’t know you, but I easily can tell you’re a big deg. if you’ll forgive the slang. That’s why we want your opinion.” ' The prominent citizen expanded as he should. As he did so there was a peculiar noise, and all except

A Woman’s Viewpoint

STRANGE portents appear in our ■world. And the longer you regard them the more you are convinced that man is a peculiar animal. In Italy, Dictator Mussolini pins a medal upon the woman who has borne twenty children and carries on an enthusiastic campaign for more and worse babies. In Germany, Dictator Hitler is getting ready for widespread sterilization, when individuals with incurable physical and mental ills will be deprived of the power to have any children at all. At first glance Hitler’s policy seems to be actuated by cold common sense, but longer cogitation will cause you to question the wisdom of his course. a a a IF, for instance, the Nazis intend to go in for war in any big way they’re going to need an oversupply

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get home to prepare dinner for the powerful political husband. Yesterday at 4 o’clock I was turned away from the city hall and told to come back tomorrow. Os course, we couldn't expect any one employed by the city or state to work a minute overtime. They couldn’t afford to on the salary they make. Will you tell me what chance a working man has who possibly can’t get away from his work before 3 p. m.? I wonder if the said A1 Feeney recalls several years ago when he still recognized a few of us as his old friends? When we had our license plates and had forgotten about them, he was wondering where he could get enough money to get his for his old Ford before February?

the prominent citizen listened momentarily. He was still expanding. “What was that?” one lowbrow said. “Truck or a street car,” the semilowbrow said. The second lowbrow smiled. He knew it was the nine gods on Mt. Olympus all laughing at once, but he said nothing. The prominent citizen ceased expanding and gave his opinion as asked and departed. “Why,” inquired one lowbrow of the semi-highbrow,” did you want that guy’s opinion?” “Why? Why indeed!” the semilowbrow answered. “Don’t you know he has a two-digit auto license number? Doesn't that mean anything to you? Don’t be a sili” And the two lowbrows with sixdigit auto license numbers slunk away embarrassed and hid their | faces in steins of beer, three- ! fourths foam. I By 11. L. Seeder Professor Irving Fisher pointed ! out that only nineteen men know the function of money, leaving out practically all of our bankers and business men, to say nothing of our congressmen, editors and plain folks. There are plenty of “money sharks” who knew how to manipulate the “filthy lucre.” The gentlemen who operate our banking system know how to make money scarce or plentiful. Money created by the government on the strength of its taxing power is dubbed fiat money. Money created by bank deposit bookkeeping is sound, according to Hoyle. Our federal reserve banks are owned privately, they are not government owned, yet those banks own nearly three-fourths of all the gold in the country, on which our currency is

of citizens with a low grade mentality, since these are so much more easily persuaded to bear arms in a dictator's cause. Only the very young and very foolish are eager to go to war and fight. The first are inspired by the fine speeches of their elders, and the others, not possessing the capacity to think for themselves, continue to do and say what the higher-ups tell them. They are. before long, dead heroes, failing gallantly to the sound of loud applause from back home where the smart guys are occupied in making money for themselves. This is the reason why Hitler’s plan seems to me to be shortsighted for a doughty warrior—or have we misjudged the man? Can it be he really is working for world peace? One fact is apparent: When the earth is peopled only with sensible and intelligent individuals no one will be dumb enough to start a war.

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! based. The government owns about I one-fourth of the total of less than five billion. ! On this total, our banking system had fifty billion dollars in bank deposits created, and this money which was credit and not currency moved the wheels of industry. There has been a shrinkage of eighteen billion in four years in deposits or bookkeeping money, more than four times the total amount of currency gold in the country. This blood letting is part of the game. Mr. Fisher is wrong. The i joker in this game is not played by I ignorant players. The euchreing is done by deflation, through the simple method of money credit restriction. The creation of fifty billion of credit deposits and the shrinkage of eighteen billion in four years have a significant bearing on the opera- | tion of industry, or its nonoperation. The patient has been patient | while he is being bled to death. Our privately-owned “federal reserve” | stands to profit by their gold holdings, to the tune of nearly four bil- [ lions by the gold price raising of the i government. | The Constitution gives congress j absolute control over money, the | value and volume thereof. Please ' page congress: We need a blood transfusion, not a blood letting. We may be deaf and dumb, but not ! blind.

So They Say

The members of the American Legion are good soldiers.—National Commander Edward A. Hayes. Don’t worry—football will still be a major college sport, probably the leading sport.—Chancellor Charles W .Hint of Syracuse university. My marriage was just another noble experiment gone wrong.— Mary McCormic. The thing I admire about the American is his feeling of selection. If you ask him about a certain composition, he will admit it if he is unfamiliar with it.—Jose Iturbi, Spanish pianist. I am one of those radicals who believe that the right to work will be recognized as the right to live is today; we are on that road.— Senator Wagner of New York.

Variety

BY AUSTIN JAMES Seems to me that iron chains bind me, And I’m living in a rut, Do the same things over, over Never change my habits—but I am thinking, thinking, thinking Os the things Id like to do, Jump the traces and go trapesing Down a different avenue. Saturday may come a bouncing. Let it run a merry pace, Take a bath the day comes Tuesday With a smile upon my face, Turn the week ends wrong side out sir. Make the middle be the end, Get my Fridays mixed with Tuesdays, Joy, O joy on me descend. In a rut I've grown deep rooted, Get a team and pull me out, Sure, I've got the nerve and courage To be different, there's no doubt. Year on year I’ve list’ to reason, Head' the bonds that hold me straight To the true and truthful narrow, Now I’d like to extricate Just a bit of joyful sunshine, Do just what I’d like to do. Break the links that hold me solid, Be myself now, wouldn’t you?