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MONDAY. NOVEMBER 4, 1935. THE ROGERS MEMORIAL TODAY— the day on which he would be celebrating his fifty-sixth birthday had he lived—Will Rogers will be in the minds of many million Americans. For today a drive is being launched for funds for a Will Rogers memorial. Money will not be lacking. This lovable cowboy philosopher and humorist counted millionaires, diplomats, Presidents and ex-Presidents among his intimate friends. But chiefly it was the plain people whom he loved and who loved him. He was one of them in fact, and in spirit. The small contributions rather than the big ones should be of greater concern to the Will Rogers Memorial Commission. From Sarasota, Fla., came this message to the commission: "At the time of his (Rogers’) death when contributions of pennies were suggested, several children In this city contributed a total of $1.95. We have the money here, and will send it along.” The more of such mites the more truly the memorial will express the man. We hope that when the campaign closes on Thanksgiving Day the hat will overflow with pennies.

THE GIFT AND THE GIVER 'TpHE proper applause of Josiah K. Lilly, as he goes about finding final resting places for portions of his Stephen C. Foster collection, has either missed or minimized a factor of importance. That is in effect on character. Mr. Lilly's life avocation of rescuing Foster material from oblivion and decay was the repayment of a spiritual debt which should be an Inspiration to many. Foster’s songs touched the boy Lilly. They moved him in high and noble directions. Mr. Lilly believes he became a better man because Stephen Foster wrote songs. As he grew older he determined to recognize his obligation in a public way. Hence Foster Hall and the collections in the University of Cincinnati and in Pittsburgh. Thus Mr. Lilly added to his happiness. Few things do as much for a man as collecting and becoming expert in great things from the great past. They enrich the gatherer and the giver in ways not to be measured in dollars. FEDERAL BUILDING AND LOAN LEGALITY of the $478,000,000 system of Federal building and loan associations may be safeguarded no matter what the Supreme Court decides In three cases arising out of efforts to prevent Wisconsin institutions from converting to Federal charters. Forty Legislatures have passed laws permitting state-chartered associations to join the Federal system, and the converted institutions in these states are not involved by issues raised in the Wisconsin cases, according to Horace Russell, general counsel for the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The Supreme Court has set the week of Nov. 11 for arguments in the Wisconsin cases, in which the state banking department has challenged the right of the Reliance, the Northern and the Hopkins Building and Loan Associations of Milwaukee to convert to Federal charters without the department's consent. In two of the cases, a state circuit court affirmed Congress’ authority to incorporate Federal associations and to authorize the voluntary conversion of a state association. In the third case, the Wisconsin Supreme Court upheld the banking department’s contention that the conversion was invalid under the state law. The cases are the first arising out of the Administration's several-sided mortgage relief program to reach the high court. n an NEARLY all of the converted associations are in states where enabling legislation has been passed. The state laws were advocated as a legal precaution, although the Home Loan legal division contends that conversions are valid in the absence of such laws. The Federal system now embraces 394 institutions which have converted from state to Federal charters, besides 590 new institutions. Assets of the converted associations total $440,700.000. Tne largest of these, the Railroad Federal Savings and Loan of New York, has $41,000,000. The new institutions have assets of $38,000,000. Many associations have been led to conversion because they are then eligible for Treasury subscriptions to their shares, thus increasing their loanable resources. The lower house of the Wisconsin assembly voted 67 to 6 against a bill which would ha\e permitted conversions. Carl Taylor, Milwaukee Building and Lain League secretary, accused government agents of "making desperate efforts to federalize the associations before they get back to normal” and Peter A. Cleary, state bank commissioner, charged that agitation for conversion was led by Federal employes "who are anxious to make their jobs permanent.”

POLITICS AND PEACE BRITISH municipal elections Saturday showed surprising Conservative gains. They indicated the possibility of another Tory landslide in the general elections a week from Thursday. If such proves to be the case, it is highly important to the United Stales and to the world. Peace in Africa, perhaps peace in Europe, will be more than a little affected by the outcome. Also whether or not there is to be a naval race leading nobody knows where. In 1931 the Conservatives swept the country winning. together with supporting “National" Liberals, Laborites, and Independents, no less than 555 seats in the House of Commons. The opposition won a bare 60. Today few, if any, expect a Conservative defeat. But it was widely hoped that the opposition would score sufficiently large gains to make them a real check to the party in power. Events, however, plus the political astuteness of the Tory leaders, have combined somewhat to dim the prospect. Rome’s march on Addis Ababa was a Tory godsend, politically speaking, paving the way for gaining them perhaps millions of votes on the strength of their stand at Geneva. T Then, according to the opposition, by croting

a war scare in the Mediterranean and rallying all hands to the flag, they made a strong bid for those who traditionally fear for Empire security. Thus, when the two tremendously important dates which immediately follow Nov. 14 roll around, the Tories almost certainly will be safely in the saddle for another five years with a huge majority behind them. This fact is not particularly encouraging, either for Ethiopia or the United States. Rumors are already thick in the international atmosphere that, once the election is out of the way, peace will follow in Africa on a basis somewhat costly to the Ethiopians. That, British Labor leaders charge, is why the British government has delayed sanctions until Nov. 18. As for the United States, a huge Tory majority on Nov. 14 may cost the Ymerican people millions. Premier Stanley Baldwin is not known as a “big navy” advocate. But his party has always stood for Britannia ruling the waves. At the naval conference, beginning Dec. 2, Britain will demand a vastly increased navy. It is said a billion dollars or more is to be spent on British rearmament, mostly on sea and in the air, as fast as British industry can turn out the work. FOOTBALL REVENUES THIS country is so thickly peppered with colleges and universities and with their alumni that the apparent financial resurgence of intercollegiate football is good news. Because inter-school competition usually can not be supported by the university treasury, but must rely on gate receipts, this year’s isolated examples of the return of football enthusiasm must be welcomed by alumni and athletic people who have seen income unpleasantly reduced. Patrons of the universities should not be deceived by those isolated examples. During the hard times, spectators became highly selective. They chose games certain to be close and shunned the others. They quit going merely for an afternoon of fresh air and band music. Several years will be required to break the habit, if, indeed, it can be broken. When some team of national reputation plays Lovers’ Lane College as a breather, it is foolish to expect many in the stadium except the players and the officials. Even this year university auditors are finding receipts from some of the so-called big games disappointing. AFTER HALLOWEEN FOR young children, the days after Halloween are bright with the feeling of anew security. Gray witches that rode the night astride their broomsticks did not steal them and leave changelings in their beds. The day’s sunshine reveals jack-o’-lanterns not as demons of the dark but as yellow pumpkins from a hillside patch. The eerie sights and unearthly noises that chilled the blood now are recognized as the work of little brothers and sisters out for an evening of mischief and merrymaking. Something of the same feeling stirs the hearts of us older folks after the long night of the depression s terrors. How many of us thought through those dark years that the end had come, that we were entering the twilight of civilization, that the ghosts of ancient Greece and Assyria and Rome and all the dead civilizations had come out of their graves to steal our era and bury it away with their own? Now we know, or we think we do, that even the worst of depressions will come to an end. Many of our fears have been of the stuff of children’s dreams on Halloween. A POINT OF VIEW On Technology TTERE are some of the latest “marvels” for the destruction of labor: Anew device which will do all the hand-picking of cotton with machines and thus destroy employment for 4,000,000 cotton pickers. Perhaps 1000 people will be employed to make these machines, but 4,000,000 poor Negroes may be added to the relief rolls. It is going to open up the great cotton growing country of Arizona and New Mexico where cotton can be grown cheaper and better, but what benefit will we get from cheaper cotton goods when people haven’t any money with which to buy them because they have no jobs? Anew way of building ready-made “canned” homes in a factory so cheaply that everybody can own their own home, w T ith little or no upkeep. Eut where are people going to earn money to buy these homes? Chemistry is growing crops on trays in the kitchen, and raising sheep on synthetic food. The worshipers of science, invention, progress and civilization claim those thrown out of work find employment elrewhere. Where is this “elsewhere?” Another name for this “elsewhere” is relief rolls. Thre are 11,500,000 suffering souls seeking jobs in this “elsev. here” today. There are 22,000,000 hungry mouths searching for food in this “elsewhere” today. (From a letter written by Harry Calkins, public relations counsel for international labor unions, and Frank Finney, New York advertising man.)

A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson _______

A FTER months of investigation, a professor in California announces that men are happier than their wives. A good many of us had already guessed it, just from hearing the women talk. Two-thirds of their conversation is lamentation. The man who is a chronic complainer is looked upon by his acquaintances as a pessimist and shunned accordingly. Everybody thinks he’s a little queer in the head, or is having trouble with his glands. At any rate, he isn’t normal. Men are happier than women because they are more satisfied with themselves. Tire homelier a father is, the more delighted he will be to have his child the exact replica of himself. Always confident of his power, always content with his appearance, always sure of his opinions, the male manages by the time he reaches maturity to attain a self-confidence which carries him triumphantly through life. He is unconcerned about what other people think of him, especially people be cares nothing about. How differently we are made. Sisters! I know few women who are entirely satisfied with their looks. The one who is tall wants to be short; the blond pines because she isn’t a brunet; the maid longs to look like her mistress, the mistress is miserable because she's no Jean Harlow. And so it goes. Although we have acquired a reputation for vanity, few women are really vain. Most of us are timid, always needing approval and easily crushed beneath criticism. Being dissatisfied with ourselves, we are dissatisfied with our husbands, and are always trying to make them over after some impossible pattern, which adds to the general state of misery. The thing we need for happiness is more selfconfidence, but there seems to be a shortage, the men having declared a monopoly on that.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Hake vour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 2!,0 words or less. Your letter must be sioned. but names will be withheld on reauest.) BUB LAW MAKES NO PROVISIONS FOR PENSIONS By One of the Many Poor Will you tell me what you have to do to get children’s pensions? I have five children. Their own father is dead. I have remarried but my husband is in poor health and under the doctor’s care. Can I apply for a pension for my children? Editor’s Note: Indiana’s laws do not make provision for pensions in such cases. The children, if in want, could be turned over to the Board of Children’s Guardians, but your inquiry indicates you want to keep your children at home. There is a section in the Federal Social Security act, operative in January, which provides aid in cases such as yours. At the present time, however, no pension can be paid. BUB HE DOESN’T APPROVE OF CORN-HOG PROGRAM By Harry Clay, Brightwood Os all the New Deal's Insane programs, I think the farmers’ vote on the corn-hog reduction is the most hypocritical feature yet. In your editorials and cartoons you seem to approve of it. Think of it: While millions were starving, Mr. Roosevelt had about eight million pigs and hogs killed. Think of it: While millions were in need of clothes, Roosevelt had II million acres of cotton destroyed. He told us we had an over-produc-tion of these necessities, and the surplus should be destroyed. Now, Mr. Editor, Roosevelt knows, and you know, that there is no over-production as long as there are millions in the bread lines or on charity. After this destruction, Mr. Farmer was paid to reduce his hogs, wheat and corn crops. A process tax was placed on these articles and we city people were made to pay it; as a result, millions soon will have to do without pork. The government gave the process tax to Mr. Farmer for not raising corn, wheat, hogs and cotton —paid him for doing nothing with money squeezed from the workers. For each hog he agreed not to raise Mr. Farmer was given sls. He was paid so much a bushel for corn and wheat which he does not raise. Then an election was held. The farmer votes on whether he still

Leaves BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY I like to see the autumn leaves go flitting through the air; They're like a strange array of people crowding to a fair; In variegated colors, all bright and vivid, gay, They swarm the streets and countryside in sprightly flamed array. But when the day is over, and the fun begins to wane, Fair people look quite dowdy as they scamper home again. The leaves lose their complexions, too, the same as folks at play And rest in homely crevices, drab ghosts of past array.

CRYSTAL GAZING FOR NEXT YEAR

By Arthur I agree 100 per cent with “An American,” who took the reader who defended British “honor” to task. The British government has done nothing honorable during the whole Italian - Ethiopian scramble. All it has done is try to find some way to protect Britain’s interests. The British carved up the world to suit their own interests and have posed for generations as sportsmen of the first water and God's noblemen.

wanted Roosevelt to hand him the hard-earned money from the poor city worker. If Roosevelt wants to be square with everybody, why not let every-

Questions and Answers

Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis limes Washington Information Bureau. Legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can Extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mall is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby, Director. 1013 Thirteenth-st, N. W., Washington. D. C. THE EDITOR. Q —Are there fewer horses and mules on farms in the United States now than there w’ere 20 years ago? Q—Was the Treaty of Versailles that ended the World War, written in English? A—lt was written in French and English. Q—What is the official name of Persia? A—lran. The change became effective on their New Year, March 22, 1935. Q—Give the number of fatal automobile accidents, sucides, and murders in the United States in 1934. A—Automobile accidents caused 33,980 deaths; railroad and auto accidents, 1457; suicides, 18,828; and murders, 12,055. Q —Name the author of the novel “Bordertown.” A—Carroll Graham. Q—How many lives were lost in the Morro Castle disaster? A—ll 4. Q—What is the minimum age provided for the President of the United States? A—3s. Q—Has the Labor Party of Great Britain ever had an absolute majority in the House of Commons? A—The most they ever had was 287 members, after the general election of May, 1929. They never had an absolute majority. Q— Can aliens own property in New York State? A—Yes. Q —When was the Roman Empire at its greatest territorial extent, and how large was it? A—From A. D. 98 to 117 it covered the territory now included in the following countries: England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Italy, Rumania, Yugo-Slavia, Bulgaria, Czecho - Slovakia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Austria, Hungary, Albania, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Irag, Palestine, Egypt, Italian Libia, Tunis, the hhfterlands of Algeria

Thinks British Have No Honor

The English, instead of being anything near that ideal, are crafty, cunning and self-centered. They won’t fight Italy unless they are sure they can involve the United States. Unless we’re smart we wont be able to escape their wily propaganda. I am not anti-British. I am merely pro-America. We’ve got to keep out of this scramble and all the other scrambles that will come up. This one has arisen and others will arise as a direct result of British greed.

body vote? We poor city workers have to foot the bill, so why not let us vote on whether we still want to dig up the money for Roosevelt to hand over to the farmer? It is

and Morocco, Spcin, Portugal, and all the islands dotting the Mediterranean Sea, the Adriatic, the Aegean, the lonian, and the Black Seas. Q—What is a monocle? A—A single eye glass sometimes worn to correct a defect in vision, but more frequently as a mere affection. A—ln 1910 there were 24,043,000, and in 1930 there were 19,050,000. Q —How long is the term of United States Senators? A—Six years. Q —How many members compose the Soviet Union Council of People’s Commissars? A—l 9. ,Q—What is the population of Fairbanks, Alaska? A—The 1930 Census enumerated 2101. Q—What does the name Gwyn mean? A—lt is a feminine first name, derived from the Celtic and means white or fair. Q—ls the author, Mrs. E. D. E. N. South worth, living? A—She died in 1899. Q—How many daily and weekly newspapers are published in the United States? A—Daily newspapers, 2084 in the United States and outlying territories; weekly newspapers, 10,675. Q—Who is President of the Assembly of the League of Nations? A—Dr. Edward Benes, Czechoslovakia. Q—What does the name Cairn Brae mean? A—A cairn is a pile of rocks or a rocky place. Brae means a hillside or brow of a hill. The rocky brow of a hill is implied in the name of Cairn Brae. Q —Who wrote the verse, the closing line of which is: “But civilized man can not live without cooks"? A—lt is from “Lucile” by Owen Meredith, Part 1, Canto 11, Stanza 19, and reads: We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience and live without heart; We m*y live without friends, we may live without books, But civilized man can not live without cooks. Q —On what date did Yom Kippur fall in 1906? A.— Saturday* Sept. 2P.

said that taxation without representation is unjust. This process tax is not only unjust but is robbery. Now I would like to ask: Why so much concern about the farmer? We are told that he has been hit hard by the panic, that he is not getting enough for his crops and that millions have lost their farms. Is that any worse than for millions of city workers to lose their homes after working almost a lifetime to pay for them? The farmers at least have had what they wanted to eat. Very few ever had to get in the bread line like the poor city worker. Why so much unfair discrimination? Did you say votes? Well, we city workers also have votes. # tt ADDS HIS PLEA FOR SAFER DRIVING By B. S. Let me add my voice to those urging safety on our city streets. We have too many drivers who are not concerned with anybody but themselves. If we can educate drivers to give the other fellow a break instead of squeezing ahead of him all the time our streets will be much safer. What difference does 30 seconds o a minute make? Let’s slow down, let’s be courteous and let’s think of others. Then our streets will be safe.

Daily Thought But behold, the hand of him that betrayeth me is with me on the table.—St. Luke 22:21. TREASON doth never prosper; for if it prosper, none dare call it treason. —Sir John Harrington.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I don’t care whether she likes it or not. She remembered my last birthday, didn’t she?”

NOV. 4, 1930

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. TTTASHINGTON, Nov. 4.— An in- * ” side tip has reached the eari of the New Deal's legal shocktroopers that utility interests have decided secretly to abandon the Baltimore test of the Holding Corporation Act. Instead, tney will throw their weight behind the new suit just filed in Wilmington. Del. This action also attacks the constitutionality of the law, without the government being a party to the suit. It was instituted by the bankruptcy trustees of the Central West Public Service Cos., a Halsey-Stuart concern. Reason for the reported decision to smother the Baltimore suit is legal tactics. During the court hearings, government attorneys brought out the amazing fact that John W. Davis, chief utility counsel, did not know personally the client on whose behalf he was supposed to be act mg. Utility men have voiced the fear that this revelation might prejudice their case in the eyes of the court. The Administration has made no secret of its intention to exploit the matter to the utmost. a a a that the bitter congressional fight on the holding corporation bill is over, members of the President's family are chuckling over a letter he got while the battle was hottest. Roosevelt is “remainderman” for a trust fund held by the Bank cf New York and Trust Cos. In other words, Mrs. James Roosevelt Sr., his mother, holds a trust in this bank, and upon her death the President inherits the remainder. During the fight on the holding corporation bill, the Bank of New York and Trust Cos. sent letters to all beneficiaries of trusts in which it was requested that they start a barrage against the President and his holding corporation bill. The President received one of these letters asking that he oppose himself.

'T'HE reported gubernatorial am- ■■■ bitions of William M. Jardine, Secretary of Agriculture in the Coolidge Administration and now head of Wichita (Kas.) University, may be thwarted at the start. The American Association of University Professors is about to explode a bomb under him. Recently Mr. jardine dismissed several members of his fee ilty on various charges. Friends of the educators claimed they were really fired because of their liberal views and that their ouster was a breach of academic freedom. Asa result the Professors’ Association sent a special committee to Wichita to investigate. The report of the committee —shortly to be published in the monthly bulletin of the association—will contain a blistering condemnation of Mr. Jardine. Note—Under Kansas law, which bars a third consecutive term, Gov. Alf Landon could not succeed himself if he wanted to. To friends. Mr. Jardine has confided his intention of entering the gubernatorial race next year. B B B A MILD-MANNERED Yale professor of law’ is creating a lather of excitement in inner government circles. He is Dr. Walton Hale Hamilton, head of the recently rejuvenated Consumer Division. Cause of the be-hind-the-scene squawks is a series of reports he has made to the President on the milk, ice, whisky and gasoline industries. What is particularly burning up government experts is that Professor Hamilton and his Consumer Division ignored similar studies made by them at great expense. Their reports now are gathering dust. One of them is the exhaustive survey of milk distribution in the Philadelphia and Connecticut milk-sheds made by the Federal Trade Commission. It took nearly a year and cost the government about $120,000. Yet only a portion has been made public. Why the rest has not been released has not been explained, but here may be one reason: It contains sharp criticism of the AAA’s marketing plan for the Philadelphia milk-shed. (Copyright. 1935, bv United Featur* Syndicate. Inc.)