Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 251, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 February 1935 — Page 6

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ORGANIZING OF FARM WOMEN IS ADVOCATED Bureau Social Conference Being Conducted at Claypool. The fifth annual social and educational conference of the Indiana Farm Bureau. Inc., continued today at the Claypool with a aeries of addresses on problems of rural life. In a principal address yesterday Dr. W P. Deanng. Oakland City College president, said that the depression has taught people the difference between necessities and '•frills." Mrs Charles W. Sewell. Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau Federation director, urged women in rural communities to organize into groups. This sentiment wus echoed by Frank Am, Montezuma. Indiana Farm Bureau legislative committee chairman. Mayor Kem Speaks The need of trained leaders in rural communties to socialize education and stimulate thought was stressed by Prof. O. F. Hall, Purdue University. Major John W. Kem opened the program with an address of welcome. Lewis Taylor, farm bureau president, responded. Another principal speaker was Dave Thompson. Indiana editor, the Prairie Fa rmer. The afternoon session was taken up with talks by county leaders. An address by Albert Stump. Indianapolis attorney, commencement exercises and a musical program featured by the banquet program held in the Murat Temple. Session to End Today Speakers today were to include Hassil E. Schenk, farm bureau vicepresident; Miss Leila Gaddis, Purdue University; W. C. Haynes, Madison County agent; Kenneth Mvers, Future Farmers Association; Miss Mildred Flentke, 4-H Clubs; F L. Mcßeynolds. superintendent, Tipton County schools; H. A. Gettinger. Federal Housing Administration farm representative. Donald Kirkpatrick. American Farm Buerau Federation advisory counsel; L. L. Needier, insurance and organization director of the bureau; M. G. Briggs, assistant manager, Indiana Farm Bureau Co-operative Association; Prof. John J. Haramy, Indiana Central College; Lieut. Gov. M. Clifford Townsend and Mrs. Lillie D. Scott. The two-day meeting will be concluded this afternoon. 6 NAMED AT BUTLER FOR lOWA U. DEBATE Prof. Walters Makes Selections for Annual Contest. Names of six Butler University students who will represent the local school at the annual invitational debate tournament of the University of lowa in lowa City tomorrow and Saturday were anzwnmeed today by Prof. C. H. Walters. Butler debate coach. They are Karl Stipher, Joseph Calderon, Franklin Seidensticker, who will comprise the negative squad, and Frank Demmerly. Edgar Baum and Miss Evelyn Willsey, members of the affirmative squad. Eugene Fife Jr. will accompany the debaters on the trip and will represent Butler in the invitational oratorical contest held simultaneously.

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Two Roosevelt Years —Progress, Frustration, Hopes —The Future

(Continued From Page One) the recovery program and waiting for proouncements of vital importance from the Supreme Court. In such circumstances, Roosevelt was bound to lose something of his glamorous reputation for aggressive, fearless leadership. But the failure of the Administration to collect on its admitted chief bets for the year was much more responsible for the recent increase of dissatisfaction and doubt. Those bets were: 1. That a vast outlajr of Federal funds would give business a big push. 2. That private business would put most of the unemployed back to work. It didn’t happen. Federal funds and Federal credit merely kept the economic structure from sagging. Thus Roosevelt's hope for a 1935-36 balanced budget gave way to an anticipated 1935-36 gross deficit of $4,528,000,000. u n n THE second Roosevelt year started with a great exhortation to industry to cut hours 10 per cent and boost wages 10 per cent. That was almost as enormous a flop as the subsequent Federal housing program, which was to be the great Administration effort of the fall and winter and which Administrator James MorTett promised would reemploy 5,')00,000 men. Last spi ing began the Administration's so-cailed "swing to the right," which meant giving a relatively free rein to bankers, industrialists, and business men to bring about recovery with no more than co-opera-tion from the government. An example of this policy was appo.ntment of Clay Williams, a cigaret manufacturer whose firm makes enormous profits, but who fought bitterly to preserve low wages, to be chairman of the National Industrial Recovery Board. nun DONALD RICHBERCt and Raymond Moley became White House ambassadors to industry. But bankers and industrialists thus far have largely disappointed the Administration and there is ample evidence that Roosevelt is not tying his wagon to their star. Labor bulked large in the year's history, but gained little by its attempted demonstrations of economic power. The big textile strike of September achieved a large walkout and a face-saving settlement. The Administration's lack of sympathy for the low grade A. F. of L. leadership was demonstrated in the automobile code revision and refusal to let the National Labor Relations Board enter into automobile disputes. All the President’s labor boards have had trouble, due to defiance by big industries, A. F. of L. incapacity to strengthen the labor position or F. D.’s failure to back them up. As against evidence that the Administration has “turned right,” some significant developments came in the other direction. nun AMONG them were: Roosevelt’s order cutting hours in the cotton garment industry from 40 to 36, with proportionate wage increase—a very important precedent. Reorganization of NRA, new emphasis on code enforcement and

Roosevelt's decision to make NRA a permanent body, with power to impose codes. A Federal report on the automobile industry, revealing hellish conditions of employment. Federal law for railroad retirement pensions affecting 1,000,000 employes, along with bills for general old age and unemployment pensions. Also introduction for bills providing close Federal control of banking and credit policies and for dissolution of holding companies, Federal control of telegraph, telephone and radio—with an investigation of American Telephone and Telegraph, world’s largest corporation. Appointment of Marrner S. Eccles, liberal, as Federal Reserve Board governor. Departure of Lew Douglas as budget director and continued disregard of banker-business demand for balanced budget and relief cut. Decision to give all employables jobs—of some kind. n n n CURRENT Roosevelt troubles are of varying importance. Millions of wage and salary earners are restless in the face of mounting prices and living costs. If their earnings arc- no higher than a year ago, they’re worse off. The A. F. of L. says the average weekly wage increased 6.7 per cent last year while the price of food rose 11.3 per cent and that of clothing and house furnishings 15.3 per cent. Industrial profits increased 50 per cent or more while real wages were declining about 2 per cent. Snags in Congress, especially the Senate, are fretting Roosevelt. They are important chiefly as they represent a change in popular enthusiasm. The work relief bill has aroused fears in many quarters. Confusion has been caused by Roosevelt’s failure to take advice from NIRB, National Labor Relations Board, Federal Aviation Commission, social security experts, and others. The fire on Jim Farley, Roosevelt’s political boss, grows hotter. Small scandals crop up and Senate munitions revelations indicate the White House and its personnel have not kept free of contact with lobbyists for battleship builders. n n n LIBERALS are Incensed because ’ of the AAA “purge,” Roosevelt’s attitude toward labor, failure to back up Section 7-A, the IckesMoses incident, Farley’s continuance in power, and many other items. Roosevelt's efforts to play a middle course between right and left, placating first one and then the other, has become increasingly difficult. Summing up, three bright spots seem to stand out in the second year: Farmers as a whole are much better off. Their income rose in every state except Oklahoma—where the drouth hit cotton hard—increasing ?d per cent in South Atlantic states, and 26 per cent in western states. More than a third of the total increase from five to six billion dollars was ir benefit payments and a tenth came from payments for drought livestock. Although most of the grain represented merely a shift of national purchasing power from consumer to farmer, mail order houses and many factories benefited greatly. The most unfortunate thing that

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happened to the farmer was that cotton exports fell lower than any year since s he war. nun THE Treasury had no trouble selling its bonds and the trend of interest rates was downward. This was an answer to critics who had warned that further deficits and unbalanced budgets would impair national credit and boost interest rates on government obligations. The fall elections gave Roosevelt the greatest mid-term party victory any President ever had and left him with unprecedented Democratic majorities in Congress. Weakness of Republicans and the strong showing of “radical” candidates everywhere they ran indicated this wasn’t entirely a personal victory. But nearly all the winners had indorsed the New Deal. And it’s worth noting that the year brought forth no semblance of clamor for the return of Herbert Hoover. Or for the election to the presidency of any one but Roosevelt. NEXT—Roosevelt’s first two years as a whole and where they have carried us.

RADIO HEALTH TALKS HAPPED BY DOCTORS Misleading, Says Bulletin of Local Society. The Indianapolis Medical Society Bulletin for March, issued today, editorially characterizes radio health advice as largely spurious. The editorial says in full: “ ‘Are we our brother’s keeper?’ The public is being mis-led and deceived by the health advice given over the radio in advertising talks. The radio advertisement gives a lot of health instruction built around some food, cosmetic or patent medicine. Only the medical profession knows just how false, how harmful, how worthless such advice and the product really are. The purpose of paid advertising is to £ell the product and the appeal to health is only to attract attention. Everyone wants to be healthy or beautiful. Correct health instruction could well be given by radio programs arranged through the co-operation of the city and state health departments and the Indianapolis Medical Society. Why allow such deception to go unchallenged?" K. OF P. TO LAUNCH MEMBERSHIP DRIVE 5000 to Attend State Meeting Here in April. A state-wide meeting of approximately 5000 members of the Knights of Pythias will be held here in April, it was announced at a dinner for the grand lodge officers at the Lincoln last night. A membership drive will be inaugurated at the April meeting and the campaign for $400,000 to refinance the organization’s home for orphans and old people at Lafayette will be closed. G. E. Lundy, New York, who is conducting the drive, reported last night that $225,000 has already been subscribed toward the goal. Raymond R. Tash, Salem, grand chancellor, presided.

COUNTY BOARD DEADLOCKED ON TAX ADJIEFUND Commissioners Unable to Fix Sum Legal Publication Should Return. BY DICK MILLER Times Staff Writer County Commissioners appeared hopelessly deadlocked today in their efforts to arrive at an amicable decision over what they consider a fair amount The Indianapolis Commercial, daily legal publication, should refund the county for overpayment for delinquent tax notices never published. Commissioner John Newhouse declares that he never will vote to accept the refund of SIO6O offered by Mark Gray, editor of The Commercial. Mr. Newhouse signed the voucher approving the payment of $4261.80 to The Commercial on Jan. 14 because he said he was led to believe by persons connected with the auditor’s office and others that the advertising had been published in December before he took office, Jan. 1. Commissioner Ernest Marker was ill at the time and has since stated he would not have approved the claim had he been present. Overcharge Is Claimed Dow Vorhies, the other commissioner who signed and approved the payment, said at first he believed the payment legal, since publication of the tax notices was stopped by a state emergency moratorium law started in the present Legislature Jan. 11 and signed as a law Jan. 17, one day after the payment was made. Mr. Vorhies since has joined with Mr. Newhouse in investigating, but refuses to express an opinion on how much he thinks should be refunded. The bill presented the county by Mr. Gray called for payment of 14,172 items at 30 cents each and did not have attached any proof of publication. On Feb. 7, after the investigation was under way, he submitted to the commissioners a roll of galley proofs, which, on count by Mr. Newhouse, contained 10,670 items, instead of 14,172. Biemer Not Questioned Commissioners were unable to question Auditor Charles Grossart, who in his three years as auditor has paid out $15,932.10 for delinquent tax notice advertising, although no sales have been held and not 1 cent’s worth of property has been sold. Os this amount paid, records show The Commercial received $11,790.40. The commissioners did question Fabian W. Biemer, chief deputy auditor, and he said he personally ordered the issuance of the check to Mr. Gray Jan. 16. Mr. Gray went to New York and on his return was informed by John Linder, county attorney, of the discrepancy between his statement of 14,172 and the commissioner’s count of 10,670. Mr. Gray quickly offered to return SIO6O representing the difference and said the error was

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After judging almost 700 entries in the Indiana Artists’ Exhibition scheduled to open at John Herron Museum Sunday, in about five hours time, Henry George Keller, Cleveland, said he wished “there had been more figure paintings,” and Grant Wood, Cedar Rapids, joyfully announced that “there is a notable trend toward accenting the significant in the incoming group of Indiana artists.”

BARBERS TO CELEBRATE Quartets to Compete at Dance in Casino Tonight. A contest to determine the best barber shop quartet version of “Sweet Adeline” will feature the celebration dance of barbers and beauty culturists tonight at Falls City Casino. Local barber and beauty culturists unions are holding the dance in celebration of the beauty shop license bill signed last week by Gov. Paul V. McNutt. made by a clerk w!io was not familiar with NRA rules. Attaches of the NRA offices here said they were not interested, since no publication of the items had been made and since there certainly was no evidence that Mr. Gray was undercharging for anything. Mr. Newhouse said the SIO6O offer only represents what might be considered as a false claim, whereas he felt much more should be returned. , He further said that he would never agree to such an arrangement and will insist that the county attorney demand a reasonable settlement that might be considered fair to the taxpayers.

Mayor to Give Address The problems of a Mayor will be discussed by Mayor John W. Kem at the Broadway Methodist Episcopal Church community meeting tonight after a church supper.

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INJURY CLAIMS RAILROADER, 65, TROLLEYVICTIM Theodore G. Johnson Dies After Being Struck by Street Car. The total of traffic fatalities this year in Marion County had reached 21 today with the death of Theodore G. Johnson, of 217 '2 N. Illinois-st, an employe of the Pennsylvania Railroad, late yesterday at City

Hospital. Mr. Johnson was 65. He received a fractured skull when he was struck by a street car operated by J. A. Wegner, 51, of

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