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THPRSDA Y. NO*. EMBER 1. 153*. TO THE VOTERS night Cadle tabernacle and Tomllnson hall were packed by Interested Indianapolis and Marion county voters who heard Senator Robert F. Wagner (Dem., New York; make his declaration on the principles ol the Democratic party. Indianapolis, in many years, has not seen uch an enormous and such an interested group of persons who attended this session which had to be centered in two places. Never before lr. the recent political history of this county has the city of Indianapolis seen such a parade as was staged before the meeting. A few days ago Senator Millard Tydings (Dem., Maryland! addressed an outstanding gathering of veterans here. That the Democratic party has made a mark for itself in bringing to Indianapolis and the state distinguished speakers in this political campaign goes without saying. The support of a Democratic party which actually is Interested in Indiana's welfare has been recorded. What have the Republicans done? What have they done for the state of Indiana in this campaign and what have they done for their favorite son, Arthur R. Robinson? Probably now should come the question as to whether Arthur R. Robinson is the favorite son of the Republican party? Surely the members of that political party have done nothing for Lll Arthur. As far as can be determined this late in .the campaign, Li'l Arthur has been battling •lone. And his battle has been one of the poorest ever to be witnessed in this politicallyminded state. The Democrats have supported their men. Why did the Republican party run out? THE CITY’S FUTURE 170 R the last five years the city of Indianapolis has been operated on a conservative, economical and efficient basis and now the voters are directing their attention to the future that will be based on the results of next -Tuesday's election. The city has been forced to curtail expeases during the last few years but the city has profited, not lost, by the necessity. John W. Kern, Democratic candidate for mayor, without doubt, will continue this policy of good management and judgment if he Ls elected. For many, many months to come the national government will continue its role as. aerator of relief work throughout the nation, .necessity will force this and the city of Indianapolis will have to do its part in carrying out the program. The people of this city have the right to expect continuation of policies that will guarantee the future of Indianapolis.

CAMPAIGN AMENITIES WHATEVER happens Tuesday, the election campaign's more personal moments have taken our minds off our troubles. Nearly all our politicians are astute enough to put on entertaining shows to attract attention. Os course, some of them also represent real ideas and present issues for the voters to decide upon at the polls. But a country which demands entertainment can be thankful for: 1 Farley's rubber-stamp letters, particularly the one proposing election of three senators in Montana. 2. Huey s football *rip and his proposed invasion of Mexico. 3. Accusations that Bronson Cutting and Kenneth McKellar are unfit to be senators because of bachelorhood. 4. The radio villain whq buzzed Pinchot off the air. 5. Some excellent examples of invective, notably Farley's epithet for Robert Moses. New York gubernatorial candidate—a political ghoul"—and Moses* comebacks—"ineffable sand, mail and bag man" who "elevated dirty ward politics into a national institution." THE TV A DECISION A HANDFUL of preferred stockholders in the Electric Bond and Share's subsidiary’ power company at Knoxville Tenn.. in league with disgruntled ice and coal interests, have succeeded temporarily in thwarting the development of the Tennessee Valley Authority. They have wrung from the courts a decision that will for the time being keep TV A out of the big urban market a? Knoxville that it must have adequately to mark off its national yardstick. But they will lose in the end. TV A means too much to the Tennessee valley and the country for selfish private interests to triumph. Electric Bond ar.d Share, seeing that Knoxville had the authority and money to build a competing plant to give consumers electricity at the low TVA rates, finally agreed to sell Its subsidiary to TVA for approximately $4000.900. TVA was willing to buy to save the investments of the security holders. Leading institutional holders of TPS bonds, and preferred stockholders, approved the purchase contract. But a widow who holds about 120 shares of TPS preferred and who fears TVA competition finally got a Tennessee court to stay the effectiveness of the recent order of the Tennessee public utilities commission permitting the sale. Earlier the objectors had been refused a temporary injunction against the same sale in a Tennessee federal court. When it became apparent that the sale would be killed. Knoxville moved immediately to build a competing system. Before long the country will see a city government, buying power from a federal agency, going after power consumers in Knoxville. It will get those consumers, too, because the low TVA

rates will mean a collective saving to them of *2.500 daily. The widow, who would have received $35 to *45 a share for her stock and other benefits under the sale contract, may see It decline below this In value. And the ice and coal companies will have to meet the inevitable competition. For twelve years the plan of Senator Norris and other progressives to set up a power ’ ardstick In the Tennessee valley, using Muscie Shoals as a basis, has been fought by private interests. Two Presidents —Coolidge and Hoover—thwarted the plan temporarily. Finally, .Senator Norris tuccceded when President Roosevelt took office; and the TV A was created. The new fight it Knoxville is but another step in the long controversy. But now congress and the President have given their mandate for the development. The general public supports their decision that the Tennessee Valley shall be a laboratory where cheap government generated power shall be tested. Selfish and disgruntled objectors may throw obstacles in the path of this development, they may halt it temporarily, but the record shows they will fail In the end. ONE BUSINESS LEAP AHEAD \ FTER many weeks of reading dreary prophecies of doom by political “outs” and easy promises of better days by political Ins,” it is a relief to turn to a report, of actual business progress made by a business man in an industry hard hit by the depression. In the sixty days following Aug. 10, when the housing act became effective, the volume of his business increased 40 per cent over the same period of last year, says Clarence M. Woolley, chairman of the American Radiator and Standard Sanitary’ Corporation. During the first fourteen days of October, his business leaped ahead 75 per cent. That this company is no exception in home equipment and improvement industries is indicated by the latest bureau of labor statistics report. In September, the number of city permits for building additions, alterations and repairs increased 14 per cent in number and 26.5 per cent in value, compared to September, 1933. The total of modernization loans reported to date to the Federal Housing Administration indicate that the housing act itself, is not entirely responsible, but the FHA campaign for home improvements seems to have started the ball rolling. . There is, however, a sour note in the building statistics. September permits for new buildings were lower by 2.5 per cent in number and 17.4 per cent in value, compared to last y’ear. But, fortunately, stimulation of new building is definitely the next major objective of the administration’s recovery program. Title 2 of the housing act, providing insured loans for new houses, becomes effective next month. The building of low-cost farm homes for families on relief is being multiplied. And the administration is said to have plans to spend directly approximately $2,000,000,000 in a gigantic housing program next year. These things encourage optimism.

HELP HEALTH DRIVES T’VESPITE outcries against state medicine, the truth is that cities, states and even the federal agencies are doing less to protect the public health today than in those individualistic years preceding 1D29. This is because decreased tax revenues have caused the various governmental units to tighten their belts. When forced to choose between providing food and shelter for many or medical care for a few, they picked the former. Thus, more and more, the destitute have been forced to turn to private welfare organizations for health services. Through visiting nurse services, child welfare clinics, infant feeding stations and special clinic services, these charitable organizations have reduced infant mortality rates, saved the lives of mothers, checked the spread of diseases and curtailed the toll of tuberculosis. In many cities these organizations are financed through the Community Chest drives, and their very existence depends upon the success of this year's campaign for the mobilization of human needs. No community can afford to risk the loss of health services to those people who have suffered most from the depression.

A CHEERING BANK NOTE A MONO the multiplying signs that economic recovery actually is in progress is the fact that accounts in New York state savings banks were, at the beginning of October, 145,000 greater in number than they were a year ago. These figures come from the Savings Banks Association of the State of New York. They show a total of 5.861.000 savings accounts as of Oct. 1, with deposits of more than $5,000,000,000 an increase of $65,000,000 in the past vear. The significant thing about them is not so muen the rise in the total sum on deposit as it is in the increase in number of depositors. That increase is definite proof that New York state, at least, has more citizens able to put money in the bank now than it had a year ago. Despite all the talk of poor business, things must have made a pretty strong improvement somewhere. SOCIAL INSURANCE DECISION 'T'HERE need be nothing fatal about the District of Columbia court decision that the Railroad Retirement Act is unconstitutional. Compulsory social insurance of this general type, extending as well to workers in many other industries, is sure to come, probably from the work of the next congress. It is sure to come because the American people are convinced from the experience of other countries that it offers the most economical and socially satisfactory method for protecting workers from the economic hazards of unemployment and old age. And eventually there will be nation-wide health and accident Insurance to round out the protection. Nor are there many fears that the United States supreme court will turn down carefully drafted laws of this type. Even friends of the invalidated railroad pensions act admitted that it was crudely drawn. President Roosevelt called attention to its flaws when he signed it. Justice Wheat's decision may prove a boon rather than a setback to social security. It comes as a timely warning to the President's committee now working on unemployment and

old age insurance legislation to present to the next congTess. Its effect Is to point out s^cific legal mistakes that should not be repeated and to remind the draftsmen to do their job with great care. GIVE THEM PUBLICITY nnHE national crime conference, sponsored by Attorney-General Cummings, will discuss giving publicity to the names of all pre'sons who seek clemency for gangsters or convicted criminals. Little discussion seems necessary. Few moves have been suggested which would help more effectively to put an end not only to thoughtless signing of pardon and parole petitions, but to alliances between politicians and gangsters. A politician who expects to run for public office would be hesitant to espouse openly the cause of gangsters, where he now can ‘‘pull the wires” immunity. And those who thoughtlessly sign applications for clemency, knowing their action never will be made public, will stop and consider their responsibility before lending their names publicly to such a cause. The names not only of those who sign applications for clemency, but also of those who interview public officials on behalf of criminals, should be a public record. THIS MAY HALT ABUSE ONE’ of the best suggestions as to w’ays of stopping the abuse of pardons and paroles seems to hjive been the one proffered recently by Attorney-General Homer Cummings—that the names of all politicians who ask clemency or lenient treatment for criminals be made public. It is very hard to think of any good reason why this policy should not be adoptedwhy, as a matter of fact, it should not be written into state and federal laws. A man who asks a parole or a pardon for a criminal ought to be perfectly willing to have the fact published, if he has anything resembling a legitimate reason for making the request. If he hasn’t, of course, he will shy away from the -publicity; and that might well result in a vast shrinkage in the number of criminals improperly released from prison.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

CLAD in an English topcoat and black fedora, Senor Don Luis Martinez de Yrujo, counselor of the Spanish embassy, has returned to the' capital after a round of fiestas in Toledo, O. Don Luis received a tremendous ovation in Toledo when he arrived there to receive that city’s formal acknowledgement of the honors conferred upon it last summer by the ancient city of Toledo, Spain, and the Spanish people. Greeted by an early rising civic committee at Union station, headed by Mayor Klotz of Toledo, Don Luis was whisked away to a series of receptions and inspections. “Toledo,” he informed an audience which gathered to hear him in the Toledo Museum of Art, “is truly the jewel case of Spain. There one feels the inner sentiments of the Spanish soul.” After the hospitality accorded him in Toledo, 0., Counselor Yrujo declares he believes that the American city is a “jewel case of cordiality and good will.” NOTE—Toward the region of the ancient Toledo now' voyages another Spaniard from the embassy—Senor Don Luis de Olivares, who has returned to Spain for a brief vacation. tt tt tt AMBASSADOR CALDERON of Spain, incidentally, is keeping up the practice of his predecessor, the able Ambassador Cardenas, of maintaining close relations with Pan-American countries. This Sunday the Spanish envoy has invited the Pan American Medical Association to meet at his embassy for a buffet supper and Andalusian sherry. There will be speeches about floating kidneys and a minute's silent tribute to the late Dr. S. Ramon Cajal, “grand old man of Spanish medicine,” who died recently in Madrid. Also there will be pastries, truffles, some delicious Smithfield ham and possibly a piano solo. Word that a huge 46-pound catfish has just been brought to Washington may result in a few new’ goldfish and crocodiles for the embassy patio pool. Spanish attaches suddenly recalled the fact that since their crocodile died, there has been no replacement. The visiting doctors, they feel, may be interested in fish problems. tt tt tt WASHINGTON'S most perfectly turned out diplomat—to wit, Mr. Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state for Latin American affairs, is resting in Boston after a particularly arduous speech. The speech w r as delivered before the Ass >- ciated Industries of Massachusetts, an organization reputedly more devoted to tariffs than Messrs. Smoot and Hawley. What was the surprise of members to hear Mr. Welles discourse eloquently on the plans of Secretary of State Hull and himself to reduce tariffs. Slightly fatigued after his address, Sumner eschewed politics and visited his son, Ben, a classmate of young John Roosevelt at Harvard. He also went to see another son, Arnold at Groton. NOTE—Sumner is expected to return this evening to Washington. Prolonged absences of assistant secretaries in charge of Latin American affairs are eloquently fraught with danger. Once Francis White, former assistant secretary, went to Baltimore to have a fish bone extracted from his throat. In his absence a war broke out in South America. Latin American diplomats here have been taking a few days off during the Wellesian holiday.

We used to go out and bring home the bacon. Nowadays we expect to have it delivered. Abbe Dimnet says America is coming to realize the value of repose and meditation. But of course the good Abbe never has been to a Broadway night club. Texas cowboys now attending Sunday school classes in Midland, Tex. Probably hoping for somebody to give them the right steer. “Pretty Boy” Floyd bought his burial lot a year ago. Some enterprising salesman wants to be looking up "Baby-Face” Nelson and John Hamilton right away. Baltimore man robbed of SIOO bought a watchdog. Which promptly chewed up S4OO worth of fur coats. It’s not the first cost, it’s the upkeep. Peaches Browning was cut off in “Daddy's” will. Sort of canned peaches, you might say. Mayor La Guardia vetoes city lottery bill. New Yorkers will have to get all their gambling thrills now by trying to cross Fifth avenue at the rush hours.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TDIES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 850 words or less.) it tt tt URGES WORKERS TO VOTE DEMOCRATIC By O. E. I have been reading a lot about the election campaign of the Republican party. One of its stands is liberty. I want to describe the liberty I had under the Hoover Republican administration. I had the liberty of begging the trustee for a little $2 order to feed a family of five. I had the liberty of letting my children wear cast-off clothing of richer persons or going in rags. I also had the liberty of taking my oldest girl out of school because she didn’t have decent clothes. The liberty, we want is work so we can go to the clothing or groceries and buy what our families need and send our children to school with respectable clothes. We want our self-respect back, and President Roosevelt is giving it back to us. So why not stick to him and his principles and put some more good Democratic candidates in office to help him? My plea to the working class is to vote a straight Democratic ticket and help Roosevelt.

DESCRIBES CHANGES IN ECONOMIC SITUATION By Woulfl-Be Worker. Twelve million more to pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” The only perfect man who ever existed on earth was destroyed. We must have faith in Him. Picture Him in a voting booth. How would He vote? If He was to take the stump this election, would He say, “Balance the budget,” or “Live and let live?” He also, would give His views of the money changers in the temple. I have worked eighteen years in a well-known steel mill. In 1900 it was capitalized at $1,000,000. Twenty years later, to be exact, 1921, it had a surplus of $400,000,000 and put a bill through congress whereby watered stock became nontaxable. This was put out in watered stock. This company, between 1900 to 1921, employed 17.000 men with a pay roll of $20,000,000 yearly. Machines reduced the labor to less than 7,000 men and have tripled production. Now the company says it is in the red. It is too bad! The answer is greed. A statement which appeared in a leaflet that they publish every month, stated that money should be stabilized. England's money is not stabilized and it has only union workmen who receive living wages and they have no bank failures. The working man is to blame. United we stand and divided we fall. That was the code of the founders of this country, and we still should live up to that code. We have faith in our country and we are a Christian nation. We have hope. In Akron. 0., there are 36.000 citizens who have not paid their taxes. Twenty years ago, there were 50,000 employed in the rubber factories in that city and their slogan was. “A tire a day by each man.” Their earnings were $lO a day. Today they build 80,000 tires a day with 14.000 man who do not average $5 a day. Thev have better homes paid for than they can afford to pay taxes upon with their earnings. Labor today just can't balance the budget! We can't buy the things that we need with the starvation wages of this day. The money powers in the east lent alien countries four billion dollars when they went into the war, and ' Jh

The Message Center

LET THEM IN!

A Story of a Tragedy

By Robert Waller. To the Man Who Killed My Dog: I would like to meet you some time. I wouldn't address you as I do. I don’t know if I would say anything. I’d just start to work on you. You remember Monday morning about 8 o’clock? You were driving in the 3100 block on Ruckle street. You were traveling fast and saw my dog in the street. You didn't try to stop until you were right on him. You expected him to get out of the way. He didn’t because he was bewildered and scared and you killed him. What would you have* done if it had been a 3 or 4-year-old baby? Could you, would you have been able to stop or avoided hitting it? You may say, “Yes, but it was just a dog.” That dog meant more to me than anything on this earth. A mother couldn't love her baby more than I loved Max. I cared for him since he was a pup and

when Germany was fast driving them back, Uncle Sam had to step in and save the day for them with our men and twenty-six billion dollars to protect our money interests. Nothing was said then about “balancing the budget.” All we can do as good citizens is grin and bear it, but don’t fail to picture Christ in the voting booth and pray, “Give us this day our daily bread.” tt a tt ROBINSON SHARES IN DEPRESSION BLAME By G. R. Balzar, Frankfort. The most hasty reader of Senator Arthur Robinson's arguments in behalf of his candidacy for re-election to the United States senate can not fail to note his very significant failure to dwell upon the vital fact that the prolonged depression from which we are slowly emerging, albeit to the political dismay of Senator Robinson, originated during the administrations of Presidents Coolidge and Hoover and during the period when Senator Robinson himself was an active member of the majority party. That the senator’s personal responsibility for the legislative causes of the economic disaster is undeniable is clearly evidenced by his eloquent silence upon his complete agreement and support of 'he legislative and financial measures of the two preceding Republican national administrations, measures which directly brought about the greatest economic ruin which our nation has ever had brought upon it. These measures were: The Andrew Mellon system of lowering the income taxes in the high brackets and thus shifting a very large per cent of our national taxation from the shoulders of those by far the best able to pay them to the shoulders of the mass of the citizenship. Permitting international bankers to make enormous foreign loans at very profitable commissions to themselves and market doubtful securities in this nation through the governmental encouragement of national banks to invest in and hold these foreign securities as part of their lawful reserve capital. When these bonds were defaulted, as was quite possible from the start, it resulted in the closing of hundreds of banks and the ruining of hundreds of thousands of depositors. Passage of the Grundy tariff bill against the earnest warning of nearly 2.000 of the leading economists of the nation, the bill directly and inevitably resulted in retaliatory tariffs walls by the other nations of the world and which directly, as

[ 1 wholly disapprove of ivhat you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

sat up half the night with him when he was sick. I taught him tricks and in the morning when mother let him in the house, he would come upstairs to my bedroom and push his cold -nose against my face and wake me up. At night when I came home from school, he would meet me with his tail beating a tattoo against the door. When I sat down to read, he'd come up and put his head on my knee and look up at me and I’d pat him and he would lay down with his head resting on my feet. I felt a thrill, knowing that Max loved and trusted me. Never again will I wake up and find him with his nose in my neck. Never again will Max put out a burning cigaret with little growls of anger. And why? Because of you and your disregard of other's feelings. Some day you will lase a loved one and you’ll know the grief and anguish I feel and I hope you suffer as I suffer.

was predicted, resulted in depriving American agriculture of the greatest part of its essential foreign market—and has been the principal factor in bringing agriculture to the desperate plight it was found in when the present national administration assumed office. Were any other government to commit these different acts of inexcusable economic folly each and every American citizen would now be more than justified in voicing his strongest cirticism. And yet in the present Indiana senatorial campaign it is being actually proposed to reelect Senator Robinson who in his stupid, unreasoning political partisanship supported each of these destructive legislative measures. No possible public good can arise from Senator Robinson’s re-election, but all the evil which may and will arise from intemperate partisanship at a most critical period in our national welfare will be abetted and encouraged by his re-election. This is no time for intense partisanship and divided counsels. The next presidential election is the only suitable time to make a political change, if a change be advisable. a tt a VETERANS SHOU LD ADMIRE DEMOCRATIC TARTY ACTION By James F. Walker. I have been brushing up on the political situation for forty years and all knowledge available proves that this country has taken better care of its soldiers than any on this globe. . The most significant fact that is disclosed is that a few —not all of the veterans —after they were tracked down and hurdled into a training camp and put to peeling potatoes until the war was over, came out great patriots and want a dole the rest of their life. What I call a patriot is a soldier who willingly did the duty he owes to his country, and if he were not wounded. not to expect a dole for the rest of his life. The injured veteran always has been well cared for and always will be, and no party ever has been willing, and never will be. to turn over the United States treasury to un-

Daily Thought

Glory ye in His holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord.—l Chronicles 16:10. HE who can conceal his joys is greater than he who can hide his griefs.—Lavater.

:nov. 1934

injured soldiers when our entire population is in such distress. Don't you let Li'l Arthur fool you. He voted for the New Deal, and now he is damning it. He is only kidding the veterans. There is not a single United States senator, Republican or Democrat, foolish enough to bankrupt this country when millions are starving to satisfy a few potato peelers who served in the army. The worthy veteran is treated fairly and will continue to be treated that way. You refer to the friend of the veteran. Did the Democrats turn machine guns on you when you marched to Washington? Think of that for a moment. The Democrats will treat you right, like they always have done, and no other way. tt tt tt LOTTERY WOULD BE AID TO WORTHY CAUSE, HE SAYS By Harrv C. Smith. We are striving to raise funds for the Community Fund and it seems that an opportunity to raise additional funds is knocking at our door, with the stage all set for a good wholesome game of chance which we all love. The federal housing committee is remodeling a house which in a short time will be completed. The Chamber of Commerce and others are debating on the disposition to be made of this house after completion. Why not form a gigantic lottery, the proceeds to go to the Community Fund? Why not have the winner receive this house absolutely clear of expense, moved and placed on a lot purchased from the proceeds of the lottery? This would stimulate interest in the remodeling project and I am sure would meet with the approval of every one including all church and benevolent organizations because of the worthy cause, the Community Fund. a tt a LESS CONVERSATION, MORE ACCOMPLISHMENTS URGED By Practical Voter. I have been a voter for twentyseven years and how well do I remember from a time before I voted and since, hearing the candidates and spellbinders of both parties viewing with alarm the ever-mount-ing taxes. We were told by all of them that if they were elected there would surely be an equitable distribution of taxes and lower taxes. I have voted for both parties about equally and have always lived to see taxes go higher and higher until our present Democratic administration came along and actually accomplished tax reduction and equitable distribution with real telling effect. A real for sure reduction, I say. Voters have been crying forjhis for years. Now, "'what do we care whether Governor McNutt is handsome, conceited and what-not, or whether he made a few bad appointments of Democrats where Republicans might have done better. If, in spite of some mistakes we actually have had real tax reduction, I say “Hurrah for McNutt" and “Vote Democratic.”

Strange Tempo

BY ELLEN BETTY All day my heart had whirled itself With rhythm mad and gay; All day my feet made pirouettes In such a daft way— But suddenly at moonlight time. There came a thought of you, And breathless for a moment, in your spell, I listened to a heart song, exquisite and new. But heavy with a grief I could not telU