Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1934 — Page 2

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.(I‘NUTT FLAYS PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD CRITICS Methods ‘Least Expensive’ to Taxpayers, He Says in Statement. Governor Paul V. McNutt today “struck back” at what he terms the “unfair critics of the public service commission.” Giving a detailed account of accomplishments under the present commissioners. Governor McNutt voiced high praise both for them and Sherman Minton, public counselor. Outlining the “short method” of Inaugurating rate cases, instituted by Mr Minton, he cited reductions obtained, particularly in the Indianapolis Power and Light Company case, as being “the largest sum of utility rate reductions ever gained at one sweep in the history of the public service commission of Indiana, and the least expensive to the taxpayers.” “The rut in revenues in the Indianapolis Power and Light Company case was §525,000 on an annual basis,’ Governor McNutt declared. “It cost but $2,381 for salaries of investigators and the whole irrevocable result was accomplished in less than two months’ time.” Data Given by Times Much of the data used by Mr Minton in urging Indianapolis Power and Light Company rates be reduced was presented in a series of articles in The Indianapolis Times, material for which was uncovered by The Times investigators. Other cases, including the orders on hand-set telephones and delinquent charges on bill collections, were cited by the Governor in defense of commission action. “At the end of eleven months, marked by Feb 8, this new commission, with its policy of fair play and sympathy for the ratepayer, had w ritten orders'which have carried into effect the sum of $2,125,937.23 of rate cuts and relief throughout the state," he asserted. “More than this, the commission has said in each case that it does not stand prejudiced against any effort citizens and cities may care to make to gain further reductions But will work as diligently as possible to make the essential investigations requested. Charges Misrepresentation “In other words, the commission and public counselor are there in the statehouse to serve the consumers as long as they have grievances and as long as their usefulness may be effective through cooperation with citizens and with j cities and towns. "I charge that any person, organ I or party who says this commission in any particular lias been neglecting its duty or the fulfillment ol our promises to the people, willfully misrepresents facts. “Any one who, in vain attempts to criticise for politico 1 or prejudicial reasons, does so by misstating the truth. Fair play and justice are be accorded to all men and to the security of their rights and possessions. To this end, the new deal public service commission will continue to serve.” VOTERS' REGISTRATION EQUIPMENT BIDS IN County Commissioners Receive Offers From Six Firms. Bids for furnishing equipment, installation and supplies tor the permanent registration of Marion county voters today were in the hands of the county commissioners. The six firms presenting offers were the Indianapolis Office Furniture Company, the Hiller Office Supply Company, the Indianapolis Printing Company, the ReminetonRand Company, the H. H Craig Company and the William B. Burford Printing Company. The bids ranged in price from $19,975 to $28,494 58. The former offer. however, was not according to specifications, county officials said. BUILDING CONTRACTORS TO MEET HERE IN 1935 H. II- Herbert Elected Head of Indiana Association. By L'nitni Vr< .* MICHIGAN CITY. Ind.. Feb. 20. —H. H Herbert. Michigan City headed the Associated Building Contractors of Indiana today following his election at the sixteenth annual convention here. W. J Kronmiller. Ft. Wayne, was named first vice-president, and Frank Hall, Gary, was elected third vice-president. The 1935 convention will be held in Indianapolis. Skin-Itch Torture Ends; Millions Praise Zemo The first application of soothing, healing Zcmo quickly relieves the torture of Itching Rashes. Eczema. Ringworm and similar skin troubles. For 25 years Zemo has been used and praised by millions as a clean, safe, dependable remedy for family use to relieve and clear away skin Irritations. A trial will convince you of it* great merit. Insist on genuine Zemo: it's worth the price because you ret relief. 3.V. K\ $1 All druggists'.

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Judge John F. Geckler Announces His Candidacy

Democratic Juvenile Court Jurist Will Seek ReElection. Pointing to his record as judge of the juvenile court. John F. Geckler. today announced his candidacy for re-election on the Democratic ticket. Judge Geckler reviews his administration thus: ‘ln the matter of economy the records show that the average cost of administration per year for the last three years was $38813 as compared with $40,759 for 1930. Business of the court increased approximately 40 per ceht during the current depression.” More than 4.000 adult cases and more than 3.500 children's cases have been handled in the court in the past three years, not including informal or Riley hospital eases. Approximately $175,000 was collected for the support of dependent children, Judge Geckler claims. More than 2.000 cases were adjusted satisfactorily informally by the court and its probation officers and investigators, the judge says. Critics of his administration, at-

America Must Choose Basic Production of U.S. Must Be Adjusted It Is a Reflection on Our Leadership That Not Until 1033 Have We Done Effective Thinking.

Second of a series of articles written for the Foreign Policy Association and the World Peace Foundation. BY HENRY A. WALLACE Secretary of Agriculture OUR APPROACH TO ISOLATION AS a foundation and framework of the new American design, we have undertaken to put our farmland into better order We are out to subdue competitive overproduction. In consequence we are forced to think of what we ought to do with the forty-three million marginal acres of plowland we are going to take out of cultivation in 1934 because the world no longer will pay us for the extra wheat, cotton and corn we have been growing there. We are not going to have a random expansion and exploitation conducted without regard to human values, as we have in the past.

Theoretically, we recognize that this bringing of order out of chaos should extend as rapidly as passible into world agreements. But until such agreements can be made we must work to set our own land in order. To do so is not incompatible with plans for world co-operation. It might even be argued that we must learn to co-operate at home before we are fit to practice world co-operation in agriculture, trade and the arts of peace. a a a AS things are now. our millions of surplus acres breed nothing but confusion, poverty and waste. As long as we remain a creditor nation with high tariff policies, refusing to accept foreign goods in payment, those acres should not be tilled. Until our people have the vision to adopt a long-time world trading policy which is in keeping with our position as creditors, we must engage in the delicate processes of adjusting basic production downward. At the opening of the World war. our farm production chanced to be pretty well in hand. There was no glaring disparity between the prices that farmers received for their crops and the prices they paid for things they had to buy. It is that condition of balance, or parity, between our major producing groups, attained more or less by chance in the years 19091914. which the Agricultural Adjustment Act is designed to restore. The war rushed us out headlong to world markets. Fifty million acres of Europe, not counting Russia, were out of cultivation. Food prices rose. Anew surge of pioneers strode forth upon those high and dusty plains, once called the Great American Desert, and found that they could grow wheat there. Throughout the country, sod was broken. Before the surge was over, we had put to the plow a vast new area. To replace the 50 million lost acres of Europe, America had added forty million acres to its tilled domain and thrown its whole farm plant into high gear. nan 11 THEN the war ended. Europe VV no longer needed those extra forty million hard-tilled acres of curs, or for only a little longer, at best. We did not realize it at the time or for some years thereafter: some of us shrink from the realization even now: but at least forty million acres of land, scattered all over the country, became surplus acreage very rapidly. We went on producing for the world market just as if that market were still there. Worse than that, instead of putting fewer acres we actually put more acres into crops for export. With an empire of our own to possess and conquer. America has never as yet displayed a consistently imperialist temper, in the broadly expansive sense of that term. After the World war, the Allies divided the world up. with a shrewd, contending eye for the deficit acres: and the United States said it didn’t want any. Disillusioned and confused by terrific adventures in our first war beyond the water and by the dog-fight at Versailles afterwards. we yearned only to come home quietiy, expand some more in our own way within our own borders, and contend thereafter only among ourselves for the old Quickly Relieves Pain and Caused by Arthritis "During our twentv-flve years in the drug business, nothing has approached the success gained bv RENTON S HYDROCIN TABLETS in the" elimination of the pam and distress caused bv Arthritis and Chronic Rheumatism. The results reported have been marvelous and in seme Instances would be hard to believe if one were not familiar with the actual conditions Bo writes a prominent Sait Lake City Druggist In tellingof his exoerience with RENTON S HYDROCIN TABLETS for Arthritis. Neuritis, Lumbago. Gout. Sciatica ar.d associated forms cl Rheumatism. RENTON'S HYDROCIN TABLETS is probably the most reliable and auccessful prescription for restoring motion to stiff Joints due to excessive uric aela. Thev are prescribed by many physicians and endorsed by leading druggists. No matter •what other preparations you hare taken or how badly you hare suffered, you should five RFNTOM2. HYDROCIN TABLETS a rial, yo'’'iruggist, or write Reaton, YuaifuA Ci _Do this today.

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spacious, separate spoils of “normalcy.” That couldn’t be. The marvel is not that we are now moving so fast, but that we were able to delay so long facing the realities of the postwar situation. It is a tribute to our great resources and our technical productive ability that our fields and factories from 1914 to 1930 were able to send to the outside world twentyfive billion dollars more in goods than we received. It is a reflection on our leadership that not until 1933 have we done any effective thinking as to ! the steps the United States may ! have to take because it is : simultaneously a great exporting J nation and a great creditor nation. Tomorrow— Facing Distasteful Facts. MORE INDUSTRY BOARD MEMBERS ARE NAMED Clearing and Zoning and Grievance j Groups Selected. Members of the clearance and j zoning board and grievance board for the exhibition and distribution | divisions of the motion picture in- • dustry, for the Indianapolis district, have been appointed. On the zoning and clearance board are George Landis, Fox Films; Marty Solomon, Columbia Pictures; K. T. Collins, Apollo theater; Jack Flex, Loew’s Palace theater; A. C. Zaring, Zaring theater, and Manny Marcus, Ambassador theater. The grievance board includes J. Harold Stevens, Paramount Pictures; Floyd Brown, Universal Pictures; Charles Olsen, Lyric theater, and I. M. Halperin, Indiana theater. WIFE OF H. L. PURDY BRINGS DIVORCE ACTION SIOO,OOO Alimony Sought from Capitalist. Accused of Cruelty, A divorce suit charging cruel and j j inhuman treatment was filed yes- | terday in superior court, room four, by Mrs. Sarah Eileen Purdy against j ! Hal L. Purdy, Indianapolis capital- j i ist. The complaint sets out that Mr. i | Purdy is a former treasurer of the Marmon Motor Company, and asks j SIOO,OOO in alimony. Mrs. Purdy asks custody of a son, Don H. Purdy, j 17. The action was filed by Paul , G. Davis. •Y’ SWIMMING SCHOOL FOR GRADE BOYS SET Instruction of Youngsters Will Start Wednesday. Indianapolis Y. M. C. A. will open a swimming school for city grade ; school boys tomorrow in connection with its twenty-fifth anniversary. Any grade school boy more than 9 years of age who does not know how to swim will be eligible Registration, which must include a written request by parents, may be made with school principals. Fred W. Dickens, physical educa- ! tion director, will have charge of I the classes, assisted by James Clark. At least four thirty-minute lessons | will be given to each boy. COLUMBIA CLUB SETS WASHINGTON BANQUET Henry M. Dowling, Attorney, Is Scheduled as Speaker. The Universal Club will hold its Washington day celebration and ! luncheon at the Columbia Club to- ■ day noon. Henry M. Dowling. Indianapolis attorney, will be the honor guest and speaker. SOCIAL WORKERS MEET Three City Residents Attend Conference in Washington. Three Indianapolis residents. Miss Estelle Fisk, 3370 North New Jersey j street; Eugene C. Foster. 5305 Julian avenue, and Miss Helen Pearson, 3735 Salem street, are in Washington attending the conference of the i American Association of Social Workers at the Mayflower hotel.

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DRAFT PETITION ON INTERSTATE COMMERCE TAX State Administration Plan Meets Approval of Governor. A petition to congress to pass a law which would permit states to tax sales in interstate commerce was to be drafted today at the closing session of the gross income and sales tax administrators of the suites being held at the Indianapolis Athletic Club. Approval of the plan was given by Governor Paul V. McNutt in addressing the gathering last night. The Governor pointed out that two things are essential in all governmental consideration of taxation today. (1) Reduce the cost of government. (2) Make an equitable distribution of the tax burden. There should be a division of field in taxation between state and na-

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