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SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 1935 INDIANA FARM TAXES TNDIANA farmers who were warned in their convention here that some day they might have to help pay the tax bill resulting from the Roosevelt expenditures might have been reminded of a wise saying by the late Senator Penrose. It was at a time when the Republican high command was thinking of campaigning against Woodrow Wilson because he had forced through legislation favorable to railroad workers. By getting them n shorter day for the same amount of money he put a great deal of overtime money in their pockets. Senator Penrose advised against attacking Wilson on that score, saving that the railroad workers now had the money and the attack would be construed a; an effort to take it from them. There were few wiser politicians than Penrose. So if advisers to the farmers mean that they should help cheek the Roosevelt recovery efforts for fear of taxes, they should reflect on the rise in farm prices. Certainly the farmer will help pay. He will help pay in the prices of the things he buys. Yet lie now is getting more money lor his gram, corn, rattle and hogs. That is a tangible benefit, of Roosevelt policies. Human nature being what it is, he certainly would rather have that cash than not have it. Indiana farmers are less troubled by future Federal taxes than they are by local taxes on their land. Their problem is what it is in many states—to have the number of local taxing units reduced by consolidations and thus make it possible to reduce ♦ axes on land. The same problem confronts the home owner. IN DEFENSE OF EDITH IN yesterday's Times, Helen Lindsay reported rep- -*• resentative citizens against the Virginia verdict which convicted Edith Maxwell, the curfew girl, of the murder of her father. Both former Judge James A. Collins and Miss Jessie Levy, attorney, agreed that the mountaineer jury had convicted Edith because she had acquired city clothes and city manners. Resentment against her may have sprung from the fact that she tried to improve herself. Aside from the interesting symposium, we have a number of letters which declare that a great injustice was done by that jury. They assert that the girl struck her father in self-defense when he attempted to whip her in a drunken rage. Judge Collins raised an arresting point. Had he been defending Edith he would have demanded that the state prove the cause of death. The drunken father might have died from the result of a fall and not from the blows struck him with a shoe by his daughter. Happily, the public reaction to this case may help to establish the rights of children and wives to defend themselves from brutish husbands and fathers who succumb to drink and thereby lose their reason. WELL DONE lOUIS ECKSTEIN, who just died in Chicago, is known to many Indiana music lovers as the originator and supporter of Havana, opera out-of-doors. The depression ended it. Even a man as wealthy as Mr. Eckstein could not meet the deficits forever. Beginning as a messenger boy for a railroads he rose to high positions by industry and imagination. It was he who started a group of popular magazines in Chicago when the publishing center was New York, and put them across. The Red Book was the leader, the Blue Book and Green Book followed. Mr. Eckstein's Ravinia undertaking in suburban Chicago was really a philanthropy. He provided grand opera in the summer and when he quit he had lost half a million. But he wasn't sorry. He said it was worth it. just to do something for a city which had given him an opportunity. THE NATIONAL INCOME T TTILITIES, service trades and communications during the depression and 1934's partial recovery increased their share of the national income, along with Federal and local government and. farmers. How the last six years have divided up the pie in different slices, with ne shares of finance and manufacturing taking the biggest proportional reductions, is shown in the Commerce Department's latest compilations of the national income. Governmental income mounted from 8.4 per cent of the total in 1929 to a peak found surprisingly in Hoover's last year, 1932, of 18.1 per cent. Its relative proportion dropped in 1933 and in 934 to 17.3, although it is explained that il the work-relief expenditures are eliminated, the 1934 income for various government units amounts to only 14 per cent. The great proportion of governmental income in 1932 is due to the fact that the entire national income dropped from 81 billion dollars in 1929 to 39 billions in 1933. National income mounted to 41 billions in 1933, and to 48'- in 1934. a a a nnHE “grand divisions” of industry which took a A smaller proportion of national income from 1929 to 1934 are listed as follows: Mining, from 2.3 to 1.7 per cent; manufacturing, from 23.8 to 20.2; construction, from 4 to 1.5; transportation. from 8.9 to 8.2; trade, from 13.5 to 13.1; finance, from 10 2 to 7.9; and miscellaneous, from 5.8 to 5.7. The five increases in the same six years are: Agriculture, from 8.8 to 9.2 per cent; electric light and power and gas, from 1.6 to 1.9; communication, from 1.3 to 1.4: government, from 8.4 to 17.3, and service, from 11.4 to 11.9. The changes from 1932 to 1934, which along with 1935 figures may prove an important election issue next fall, present a widely different picture. Manufacturing, for instance, which dropped to only 14 2 per cent of the national income in Hoover's last year, increased its share to 20.2 last year. Farmers, whose income dropped in 1932 to only 5.9 per cent of the total. increased to 9.2 in 1934. Mining in this two-year period increased from 1.2 to 1.7. A comparison of 1929 and 1932 statistics shows graphically where the depression hit hardest and lightest In terms of percentages of the national income. Utilities with fixed rates increased their share spectacularly from 1.6 to 2.5 per cent. Tryisporta-

tion, communication, finance, service and miscellaneous, and especially governmental units, obtained increasing shares—reflecting, of course, the rigidity of these charges, including taxes. Farming, mining, manufacturing, construction and trade —all with flexible prices and demands—dropped off. NAILING ANOTHER ONE SENATOR DICKINSON cf lowa, who keynoted the Republicans to defeat in 1932. indulged in some more keynoting Thursday night--at the annual dinner of the New York State Chamber of Commerce. His caustic criticism of the New' Deal, according to press reports, was applauded to the echo by an audience comprising "high executives of the country's largest banks, railroads, public utilities and industrial corporations.” (The newspaper accounts fail to mention how many of the applauding listeners owe their escape from bankruptcy to the government, but it is a safe guess that many of the faces at the feast were recognizable to Mr. Jesse Jones of the RFC.) Much of what Senator Dickinson said was selfrefuting. So we won’t bother here to comment except on oi.e confusing use of imaginary statistics. More than 2,000,000 persons, he said, are unemployed in textile related trades "becausfe of cotton acreage reduction alone." How could acreage reduction do that? Even with acreage reduction, more cotton is being grown than the textile industry will buy. There is no shortage. Cotton warehouses bulge wuth a surplus 'amounting to about a year’s supply. Furthermore, what 2,000,000 persons was the Senator talking about? In the peak Republican year of 1929, according to the records of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, ’he average number of employes in the manufacture of textile and textile products w'as only 1.707.900. In 1932 the number was 1.250.300. Last month, the number exceeded 1.500,000. What did the Senator subtract from what —to get his 2.000.000 figure? And we ll be more specific than the Senator was when he spoke of textile and related trades. The figures we cite include the number employed in the manufacture of all textile fabrics—not cotton alone, but also silk and wool and rayon—and all textile products, ranging from felt hats to carpets and rugs, and all wearing apparel and all knit goods and dyeing and finishing operations (not even omitting the starched bosom and red flannels of the Senator from Iowa). ENTER DR. TOWNSEND npHE "Townsend Movement” claims a congressional hostage ;n the person of one Verner W. Main of Kalamazoo, Mich. Mr. Main was relatively unknown in a field of five contestants in the Republican primary. Yet, for the apparently sufficient reason that Dr. Townsend stumped for him. he topped the list by a safe margin of BSOO votes over the runner-up. Whether this one of those "straws” that mark i the blowing up of popular winds or just a local up- ! set no one knows. But it should give pause, particularly when taken with other manifestations. The I Oregon, California, Arizona, Washington and Mon- | tana Legislatures have passed resolutions indorsing the Townsend Plan. In Idaho the doughty Borah | sat on the platform at a Townsend rally and his probable opponent for the Senate, Gov. Ross, openly indorsed the scheme. The Townsendites say 4500 clubs are out gunning for seats in the next Con- ; gress. Their methods, like those of the Anti- | Saloon League, are to punish their enemies and re- ! ward their friends, no matter of what party—an extremely effective political technique. Say what you will of this scheme to impose a multiple sales tax on transactions to retire all elders on fat pensions. Call it crack-brained and inflationary and Utopian. Wc agree that it is economically unsound and dangerous. But the millions of I aged and acting Americans in the movement are j terribly sincere, and their yearning for security is as | authentic as life itself. Let those who oppose the government’s conservative Social Security Act and seek to destroy it with amendments take warning. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson ‘■'\7'OU'RE continually exhorting the mothers of ■*- sons to regard the horrors of war,” said a friend of mine the other day. "Why not speak oftener to the | mothers of daughters?” "What’s your idea?” I asked her, and as it is a j very sensible one, I am passing it on to you. *’l have no sons, as you know,” she said. "When the carnage of battlefields is pictured to me, I am moved as a humanitarian but my maternal heart is | untouched. "But I'd be a fool to take no maternal interest in ! the question on that account, for I do have two adolescent daughters who will be wanting husbands one of these days, I hope. Every boy from my community who went to war and did not return might be a potential son-in-law, the husband my daughter was meant to nave but never got. "The mothers of girls have a desperate reason for opposing war. though it is more prosaic than most. For we shall not even have the satisfaction of being heroines in the next conflict—we’ll be plain chumps who didn't have sense to realize that by our inertia we may have doomed our daughters to a life lacking both security and love. That happens to women in countries where there is a dearth of men. "They may even be the mothers of our future war babies. Surely we haven’t forgotten that unpleasant result of the late Holy Crusade when thousands of girls came back to their parents bearing a child—the fruit of some casual passionate encounter, or of a broken love. "I don't want any such fate for my daughters. Like every other mother. I want a good life for them, which means a life in which they can look forward with reasonable expectancy to a home, a husband and a stable economic order. They will not have that, I know, if another war comes.” If the government persists in paying money for what I don't grow, I should eventually get quite an income for not farming.—F. B. Fancher. ex-Governor of North Dakota, who received Federal cotton control checks in error. Many of our politicians who are endeavoring to plan our laws and our design for living would be wearing satin breeches of a bygone age if their dress was no further advanced than their thoughts.— Cornelia Stratton Parker, novelist. Corruption in government is a direct result of corruption in business.—Eugene Warner. Buffalo social agency director. The New Deal is as old as the Great Wall of China and the Pyramids of Egypt. Work relief . . . was one of the causes of the fall of Rome. —G. U. Harvey, borough president. Queens, New York City. A free economy is the only one that has ever produced abundance. It is on the fruits of that abundance that we are living in these depression days. The New Deal is subsisting on the savings of the ot(4 order. —Ogden Mills. {

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

A N Indianapolis boy who has - *• made good ir a very important profession is the Rev, William Havey. He is a young priest whom his friends may call Bill when he is not on duty. A member of a mission band, he is on duty here and there and one must catch him, as it were, on the wing. He came to town the other day to visit his mother and to pick up an old muzzle-loading gun which he wished to present to a friend. This gun was brought to Indiana from Mississippi by Father Havey’s grandfather and is said to be more than a hundred years old. It has a long barrel. When loaded in the old style with powder, wads and bullets, it was capable of knocking young duck hunters clear out of the boat. Modern arms makers have pretty well removed the kick from shotguns but there was a time when the hunter as well as the game could expect to be wounded. a a a i'YNE of the genial Indiana politicians who holds down a seat in the amen corner of one of the ; downtown hotels was saying that if ; a man wanted to see somebody from out of town, that is, somebody in the great Hoosicr profession of politics, all he had to do was to take a chair in a hotel lobby. He said Indianians are great cap-ital-goers. The important men arrive so frequently that it is hardly necessary to write letters and make appointments. .You gather from him that the next Governor—or even the next President—may be sitting in an Indianapolis lobby at this minute. a u a The same is true of other state capitals. A few hotels are the message-centers of Albany, Harrisburg, Trenton, Lincoln and the rest. A lobbyist is actually not one who operates in the lobby of the Statehouse, but in the lobby of a state capital hotel. n tt tt r T''HE dairy industry of Indiana might well get next to the fact that a large number of Hoosiers have great faith in milk as a restorative to be taken after the night before. Instead of the "hair of the dog that bit you.” the cure for these j canny persons is a quart of milk. Those who have to minister to such needy ones say that the morning i consumption of milk is on the increase. The idea is passed along to those who may do something profitable about it. tt tt tt Speaking, as I was a moment ago about hotels, I heard a nice bit of unconscious humor from a man who had had an appointment for 9 o’clock and did not wake up until 11 He called his appointment on the telephone as soon as he came to and explained his failure by saying that he had one of these inside court rooms in which, when one peers out the window, it always seems like 5 o'clock in the morning. tt a a A MONG Hoosiers who are taking joy in the return of Dartmouth to a place of dignity in major football competition is Edward Healy, once all-America there. Like most men of achievement in athletics, Ed is as gentle as a child in everyday contacts. a a a Nominated for one of the finest pieces of news writing of the year: The story of Edith Maxwell, convicted of killing her father, as written by Harry Ferguson. And for the most apt tag, the headline identification of Edith as the "Curfew Girl.” Sometimes in journalism things just naturally fit together. • OTHER OPINION llda M. Tarbcll] We rush ahead too fast in matters we don’t know enough about. Consider the NR A. which started off confidently. Everything it wanted to ao was good, but the system didn't give itself time. The proper relation of the elements involved was not analyzed and solved. A slower process was needed. People don't seem to realize it, but I can look back a long way and see that every 10 years we get a kind of natural New Deal. But the American people find it hard to take one step at a time. They want to leap all the way at once. We try to force things along too fast. The Security Act [Marion Chroniclel "Twenty-five million people will come under the scope of the Social Securities Act by the time it reaches maturity in 1960 at the staggering cost of nearly $6.000,000.000 per year,” asserted Edward J. Green, Indianapolis, an official of the McCrady Pension Engineers, Inc., before the Marion Kiwanis Club today at Hotel Spencer. "The Federal government is to be commended for its objective in aiding people, but its technique in administering such a huge fund is fraught with danger." Green warned his listeners. Conservative estimates of the number of people it will take to administer the Social Securities Act in 1960 has been placed at 125,000 by private estimators, the speaker said, and declared that $46,000,000,000 would be accumulated by the government by 1980.

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The Hoosier Forum 1 wholly disapprove of what you say—and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reli</ious controversies excluded. Make vour letters short so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less. Your letter must be sinned,, but names will be withheld on reoucst.) a tt a DIFFERS WITH PEGLER ON GENEVA By E. J. Unruh From the tone of Westbrook Pegler today, he must feel himself slipping as a feature writer. Otherwise, I can not account for his unbalanced portrait of Geneva. He forgets that Switzerland abstained from participation in. the last war, in consequence of which that country still is enjoying prosperity. Mr. Pegler’s facetious reference to the League is an affront to the informed American who also has been in Geneva recently. a o a CAN’T SEE MUCH SENSE IN RELIEF DIGGING By Jimmie Cafouros Daily there is mad activity along the river front. Gigantic holes are excavated one day, and promptly filled the next. Os course, the administrators have the workers doing other kinds of digging, but in general most of the digging is done down by the river. Seen from one of the bridges the workers look a lot like army ants. Such Herculean activity and precision for what? To dig terrific holes and haul the dirt away. Such swarms of men put to useful toil could lift the face of Indianapolis in a very short time. Think of the streets that could be reconditioned, the public building that could be modernized and beautified, thousands of trees and shrubs that could be planted. Think of the fire hazards that could be adjusted, the dumps that could be cleaned up. Imagine what could be done toward controlling traffic, putting up lights, signs and clearing up bad places. It seems to be an obsession with the local relief administrators to see how much digging and hauling can be done. Go south; there are dump trucks. Go west; you meet them coming back. Those who work on these socalled projects have the same story. There is no inspiration to their work, no purpose no results. Just digging. They just wait for their pay checks, which they don't always get on time. It would seem that a lot of the money seeps out the side. One thing is evident. Roosevelt intended some sort of constructive relief. The imagination of the local administrators seems to stop at digging. # a a RESENTS EDUCATOR'S SLURS ON "FOREIGNERS” By Agnes Szymorowski Shame on intolerance and prejudice such as was recently displayed by Dr. John J. Tigert, president of the University of Florida, in his remarks concerning the impossibility of a Rose Bowl football team in Florida. His reference to unpro-

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nounceable names on winning football teams and labeling the boys as "foreigners” because of their names is unpardonable and unfair. What difference does the name make, if a fine type of manhood or womanhood is represented? We Americans who admit our foreign extraction by using the good names our fathers gave us, even though not always pronounceable, feel doubly wealthy in having in addition to the wealth of our American traditions and culture, the inheritance of the traditions and culture of our parents’ fatherland as well. T do hope that Dr. Tigert will draw the lines of his intolerance at football, because otherwise he will have to deny himself the beauty of the compositions of Chopin and Paderewski, the translated works of Sienkiewicz, Mickiewicz and Konopnicka. He will have to avert his eye from the works of art of Matejko and Batowski. He will have to quit believing the fact that the earth revolves around the sun, because Mikolaj Kopernik. a "foreigner,” first advocated that. a a o CHARGES LIQUOR BOARD FAILED IN PROMISE By the Rev. Ernest Drebert, Hope The case of liquor against the people in Hope is food for thought. In April an attempt was made by a local liquor dispenser to have the town board pass an ordinance permitting sale of hard liquor by the drink, as required by law. Better class citizens promised a petition opposing such an ordinance. There followed two Democrat resignations, and both were replaced with wet Democrats, the Republicans on the board favoring dry Democrats. In August the liquor ordinance was passed by three Democrats in spite of vigorous opposition by the two Republicans. Dry citizens presented a petition, signed by a large majority of voters, against the ordinance. The Democrat chairman did not receive it formally; it was not examined; it was not considered. When the undersigned requested privilege to speak on the matter in an open meeting a dripping wet yelled, “You are out of order.” The unwarranted and unethical procedure was recounted before the county liquor board and the state liquor board and the state liquor commission. Certified copies of the petition were placed in their hands. We took the issue to the local town board election Nov. 5. Democrats appealed to the wets and Republicans to the dry element. We asked a member of the state board if it is true it would issue liquor licenses in Hope no matter how the election turned out. The answer: "It would not be good policy politically, or otherwise, to grant a license where there is an overwhelming dry sentiment. Send a newspaper account of the results of your election and we will act accordingly.” The account of an almost two-to-one dry election was sent as requested. State papers, in bold type, carried news of the dry election in Hope, as did the county paper. Three days later the state liquor board issued the hard liquor license to the local liquor dispenser

acquainted with the European fitchet weasel, and they applied its common name polecat to the skunk because of the similarity of odors. Pole in polecat is derived from the French poule, meaning pullet or chicken, on account of the habit of fitchet weasels of eating chickens. Q —What does Nazi mean? A—lt is a contraction of the German name for National Socialist German Labor Party (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter Partei), Q—What percentage of the population of Italy are Roman Catholics? A—About 99 per cent. Q—On what date did the 1934 %orld baseball series end? A—Oct. 9. Q —Give the names and altitudes of the Seven Hills of Rome. A—Quirinal, 171 feet; Viminal, 183 feet; Capitoline, 164 feet; Palatine, 164 feet; Aventine, 151 feet; Esquiline, 171-194 feet and Caelius, 164 feet.

who had worked the old town board for a liquor ordinance. The substantial property owners and better citizens of Hope have asked the local town board to protect their boys and girls, husbands and wives, against the damning influence of liquor. The Democrat majority denied us that right. We appeared before the county board. It recommended a license. We took our case before the state board. It promised to abide by the election results, then deliberately betrayed us by granting liquor licenses even though every dry man on the dry ticket was elected two-to-one. We now turn to the Hoosier Forum. The party in power has only one goal—to force liquor on small towns so that it can collect license fees and make cash donations to said towns. Do not forget that about sls must go over the counter for every dollar coming back to your town or city. Well, the election is not far off. THE MIDNIGHT SUN BY BERTRAM DAY O sun-kissed Norway, warmed by tepid streams From torrid zones' remote for many miles, These waters change you much like lovers’ dreams, And seem to wreath your coast in sculptured smiles. Your fjords, which shield the land from winter’s blast, Are just as deep as mountains rise above; They give a beauty which will ever last And fill the soul of man with Na-ture-love While looking toward the rounding of the sphere, I see the midday sun and midnight sun Merge past and present minus time or year. Transcendent glory! Midnight doomed and done! O Sun, at solstice you change yesterday Without an interval, in one today. DAILY THOUGHTS For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and. Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death.—St. Mark 7:10. UNBLESSED is the son who does not honor his parents; but if reverent and obedient to them, he will receive the same from his own children. —Euripides.

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NOV. 23, 1935

Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. TTTASHINGTON. Nov. 23.—Sen- * * ator Bill Borah's recently published letter to "Young Teddy” Roosevelt, in which h? denounced "reactionary” Republican leaders, was a lot hotter in its original form. As first written, the letter contained the names of a number of G. O. P. chiefs who, Borah said, should be thrown out of the party’s councils. Among those he listed were Charles Hilles. New Y'ork National Committeeman; J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut National Committeeman: National Chairman Henry Fletcher and Vice Chairman John Hamilton. Political advisers persuaded Borah to eliminate this portion of the letter. . . . The Canadian reciprocal trade agreement was a stroke of luck for Senator Pat McCarran. Last session the hefty Nevadan, backed by the late Huey Long, attempted to repeal the law under which the Hull trade treaties are negotiated. He got nowhere. But now, with the Canadian agreement as a talking point,, he plans to renew his fight. Probably he won't get much further, but he will have a lot to talk about. . . , Attacks on AAA Administrator Chester Davis from within and without the Administration are not bothering him. Says Mr. Davis: "The AAA is now so efficiently organized that it can function regardless of who is running it. It is my firm belief that in this agency we have the most efficient and honest staff in the government service.” . . . The American Guide, now being written by jobless newspapermen and authors for the WPA. will consist of six volumes with a total of 2,750.000 words. Each volume will contain 1200 pages of thin India paper. a a NEW Dealers haven’t discovered the fact yet. but. Bon Allen, ace publicity man for Herbert Hoover, has a government job. His title is: "Supervising conciliation commissioner for the United States District Court for the northern district of California." Mr. Allen gets $25 a case for acting as referee between farmers and mortgage holders in negotiating agreements under the Federal bankruptcy act. . . . Ordinarily Secretary Cordell Hull is deliberate and slow of motion, but he can act fast when necessary. The other day he walked briskly into the White House press conference, grabbed a portfolio of papers on the President's desk and walked ! out. He had forgotten his prized j Canadian treaty after it was signed. ... Press Intelligence, the govern- | ment clipping bureau, peruses over j 400 newspapers every day, clips | every item relating to Federal ac- | tivity. . . . Sales at auto shows have i been so heavy that the motor in- ; dustry has revised its estimates for i this month’s production to 300,000 cars. . . . The recent re-election of Mrs. Herbert Hoover as head of the Girl Scouts of America insures one president in the family even if her husband does not make the grade t next year. . . . Senator Pat Harri- [ son is taking no chances on his reelection next year, even though the ; menace of Huey Long has been removed. Pat has been touring the t interior regions of Mississippi—■ j where the late Kingfish had great strength—assuring the voters that ' state interests are his first concern. I Mr. Long had accused Pat of "go- | ing national.” a a o INDIANA'S ex-Senator Jim Watson. for years a powerful Repubj lican leader, has been trying to sell I his memoirs to magazines. . . . ’ Sen- ! ator,” asked a newspaper man of | William E. Borah, "do you think ; Gov. Alf Landon is a candidate for j the Republican nomination?” Replied Mr. Borah, "Well, it certainlv looks rather suspicious.” . . . Irked at PWA chiefs for squelching survey projects favored by the National Resources Board, of which he is vice chairman, Frederick A. Delano, the President's uncle, has gone directly to his nephew for help. Many New Dealers are accusing the PWA executives of trying to hog the show by rejecting all projects over which they have no control. Friends of Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead say that he was offered the Federal judgeship recently made vacant by the death of Judge William I. Grubb, arch New Deal foe, but turned it down. He prefers his seat in Congress. . . . “The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion” (Civil War) have at last been printed by the Government Printing Office. • Copyright- 1935. bv United Featur# Syndicate. Inc i

By George Clark