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REAL ESTATE COMING BACK ID EAL estate, which suffered enormous losses in Indiana since 1929, is beginning to show symptoms of recovery. The Home Owners’ Loan Corp. finds private lenders interested in taking over mortgages and that is a certain sign of rising values. E. Kirk McKinney, head of the Indiana corporation. adds the significant comment that since last April collections on the government loans have steadily improved. The November percentage of collections was around 90. The rebirth of investor confidence is expected to decrease the work of the government in the real estate field. NOT TOO EARLY YEAR resolutions may be premature, but the news that 1935’s motor deaths have already exceeded those of 1934 should cause residents of the city and county to make one now. If the insane pace is not checked, driving in the state will be a national scandal. There is no justification for the recklessness observable on the streets and highways. The Mayor is getting to work on the peril and out of his safety conference much good may come. But the people themselves have the remedy in their own hands. That remedy is the safe, conservative driving of which anybody able to handle a car is capable. At the risk cf monotony the newspapers are doing everything they can to convince their readers that the toll must be reduced. How about an early New Year resolution to drive safely and respect the rights of others? FANCY THAT! OIR AUSTIN CHAMBERLAIN, who was a British cabinet member during the war, now says “the United States is a very difficult government to get on with.” But the easiest creditor any one ever had, eh what, old fellow? THE BASKETBALL SEASON TNDIANA basketball starts off with a bang. Having an over-supply of material, Notre Dame introduces the double-header. All signs point to the most interesting college and high school season in years. This state is the basketball capital. Its high school tournament has won national fame. It has excited so much public interest that it has been copied by many states. Coaches such as Dean of Indiana, Lambert of Purdue, Hinkle of Butler and Keogan of Notre Dame have given color to the sport. They have also set an example for keen competition which, inspiring the high school coaches, tends to bring out the best in boys. Hoosier basketball is one of the wholesome influences on the youth of the state which should be encouraged with generous treatment by school boards. BAIT FOtf MONEY LENDERS TTUTHEN taxation of government securities is sug- ’ * gested, the money lenders arise to predict disaster. The government, they would have us believe, could not sell an issue that did not carry the taxexempt provision. While the $900,000,000 issue this week by the Treasury was snapped up the day it was offered, it is the view of the bankers that without the taxexempt clause there could be no sale. We commend to their attention the refunding operations of the British government the day following our own. The British offered roughly $1,500,000,000. The securities pay less interest than ours and are taxable. But reports rrom London the day of the offering said: “The feature of trading on the stock market was the strength and activity in British funds following the treasury’s announcement of the new financing issues.’ It is well to remember in this connection that the national debt of the United Kingdom stands today at about nine billion dollars more than our own. The per capita public debt is nearly four times ours. Yet the British government apparently has not found it necessary to bait its money lenders with tax-exompts. AH THERE. MR. SULZBERGER worthy to know the history of his country can be ignorant of the name and fame of Lee J. Dickinson," remarks the New York Times in an ironical editorial on lowa's senior Senator, whom it identified more fully in another sentence as "Lee Jefferson Dickinson.” Nobody, that is, except the New York Times—since the statesman from the corn-hog paradise has been known all these years as Lester Jesse Dickinson. INTERN ATIONAL HI - J ACKING '| S W O significant and revealing new stories, which came out of Berlin recently, referred to Germany’s ambitious plans for "colonial expansion” under the leadership of Der Fuehrer. Reporting an exclusive interview, Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, told of Reichsfuehrer Hitler defending his policy of ruthless suppression against German Jews as a necessary part of his fight against "Bolshevism,” and declaring to the world that Germany would never give up its "colonial policy.” , To most of us. "colonial policy” pertains to territory in Africa; islands in the far Pacific; mandates on some coral shore. But in a special dispatch. Frazier Hunt, noted correspondent of NEA. went in greater detail into this question of the "colonial expansion" of Germany. "Colonial expansion” in the mind of Der Fuehrer, he reported, meant not territory on some distant surf-drenched strand. Not at all. "Colonial expansion” in the mind of the German dictator and the group about him, Mr. Hunt cabled, envisages an invasion of Soviet Russia; the forcible detachment of the Ukraine from Russia, and its absorption by Germany and Germany’s possible allies in a great international hi-jacking adventure. In ripping the Ukraine from the Bpviet, Der

Fuehrer, it is said, feels that he would be ‘‘saving the world from Bolshevism” and creating anew and greater Germany on the richest and most productive grain-producing sector in Europe. No doubt Jesse James had dreams like this. As he and his gang careened into little towns in the Southwest, unquestionably he thought of himself—if he thought at all—as a brilliant and romantic modern Robin Hood. Holding up a train, looting a bank, or lifting a province, stripped of the polite phrases of diplomacy and relieved of the covering of crooked thinking, have the same fundamental relationship to common honesty. And in the consideration of these somewhat sordid activities of various and sundry "defenders of civilization” in Europe, Africa and Asia, we can be heartily glad that we are well out of it to date. NEEDED—A SALESMAN QOME times we think government is the poorest | of all salesmen. Anyway, it is a fact that the I average citizen hates to pay taxes, and looks upon 1 money so paid as something that just went down the j rat hole. That state of mind finds expression in such words as those from as enlightened an industrial leader as Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors, speaking before the National Association of manufacturers: “Government as such creates nothing . . . there must be brought home to the consciousness of all that the more government takes, the less each one has—no one can possiuly escape.” Far be it from us to defend government against its inefficiencies, or to be unmindful of the dangers cf bureaucracy. We have seen in our time our share of public waste through patronage and pork, nepotism and grait, just as we have seen waste and incompetency and water and crookedness, blue-sky and failure and lost savings in private business. And that’s where the salesmanship angle comes .in. Certainly private business scores in that regard as against government. For, if government were a salesman it would constantly be saying to its customer, the taxpayer: “Is the money we spend on delivering your mail a total loss? Or is your fire protection worth while? Or police? Or soil and forest conservation? Or weather reporting? Or garbage collection? Is not a park or a playground wealth, as well as a factory? And is there nothing for the asset column in the education that comes from our school system? Does money that goes to such an endeavor as the CCC not list as capital investment? Is a forest ranger less valuable than a night watchman in a mill?” And so on down the long, long list of services performed and good conserved by what we call government. And particularly with reference to Mr. Sloan himself, this question would be pertinent. "Where would the motor industry be today if your cars had to run through the mud and the ruts of yesterday? And who built the roads?” VACUUM CLEANER VS. BUZZ SAW TTARVARD, hitherto unchallenged custodian of A the mother tongue, has stirred the scorn of the Corn Belt’s illuminati by some sneering remarks on the question of accent. A Boston linguist "photographed” the voice of a mid-continent professor to find the “S” registering a “random noise,” something like the sound of a vacuum cleaner in action. A vacuum cleaner indeed, stormed Prof. H. Miles Heberer of Kansas State College. "If our ‘s’ sounds like a vacuum cleaner,” he snorted, “some of the nasal tricks they do in New England with an T’ liken it to a buzz saw.” These sectional strictures on the “treasures of our tongue” will pain the true patriot. The Boston Brahmans and the Midwest hog callers should sing a more harmonious chorus, and leave cavil to the outlanders. That great melting pot, the White House, has had its lowan Hoover (not the vacuum cleaner man) and the Harvardian Roosevelt. If Herbert sounds off his “s” like a vacuum cleaner and Franklin drones his "ahs” after the manner of a buzz what does it matter? Perhaps some day the radio will iron out our local accents and “set the imprisoned wranglers free.” Meantime the folks who live off the campus will be more interested in what is said than in how. PENANCE T)UBLISHER Paul Block, repenting the sins of his editorial quill, entreats a presumably partisan providence to forgive his past support of Franklin D. Roosevelt, in whom he is now horrified to discover “communistic i ” Cheer up, Mr. b iv .. The celestial bookkeepers can Just cancel off those wayward utterances against the pious contribution ■with which you helped out a worthier American, one whom his worst enemies wouldn't even accuse of Socialian Jimmy Walker himself. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson CAN you remsm'oer how desperately you wanted to investigate the forbidden when you were young? I wonder the folks who want no discussion of Communism in American classrooms never think of that. They seem to believe the child mind does not work as it used to. ' Sex was a magnificent taboo in the eighties. Today it s Communism. Heaven grant we do not get the same results from our method of attack. * I daresay this foolish attitude is responsible for much of the radicalism which is now said to be running through our educational system. It’s a perfectly natural reaction, isn't it? Boys and girls always have wanted to find out everything they can about the forbidden and the dangerous, and they always will. The adolescent who once sneaked out behind the barn to whisper with his companions about the mysteries of anatemy may now conceivably hide behind the garage to investigate that ominous menace named Communism. Pamphlets on the power of the proletariat will perhaps replace Nick Carter under his mattress. For the simplest way of making anything popular is to dress it up in bogey-man clothes. It can hardly be denied that the very worst way to teach our children patriotism is to approach the job as Mr. Squeers of Doetheboys Hall did, and smack it into them. One who has been forced to salute the flag and reverence the Constitution by threats is not likely to develop into an agreeable democrat. All these defenses and counter-defenses for the empty gestures of patriotism—oaths, salutes and genuflections—have a sinister meaning. They suggest a love of persecution on the part of the teachers rather than a love of country. Perhaps it is true that nations as well as men 1 suffer most from the attention of their friends. \ Glory and riches don’t mean a thing when your mother is ill.—Mary Braman, operatic star who rushed to her mother’s bedside in Cleveland, O, from concert tour in Italy.

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\ Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

SANDBURG dropped in to see the boss man and I happened to j blunder Into the office and the boss I man asked me if I would sit down and visit a spell. The trouble with Carl is that you can t get hold of him long enough to have a real visit. He had been here talking to the teachers of English and was on his way to De Pauw and spoke vaguely about being around this way again and we would get together. Before I am gathered to my fathers I have to play a round of golf with Carl. A few years ago he challenged me to a match when he was going around in about a hundred and forty strokes and I was just a bit better. But he wanted the match to take place on his home lot, near Harbart, Mich., where he was finally settled. I held out for neutral territory and so the colossal contest has never come off. a * Probably the gentlest man of letters. And I mean letters. But to understand Carl Sandburg you have to know his wife, who is a sister of the great photographer, Steichen. She said to Carl, some years ago, “Let’s leave this hurly-burly of Chicago and go out on the Lake Michigan dunes and build us a house.” Well, you can imagine Carl building a house or even taking title to a piece of ground. He was too much absorbed in his work on Abraham Lincoln. But he consented, which was the best thing he ever did; and Mrs. Sandburg provided him and herself and the children with a resting place overlooking the lake. tt tt u | r T''HE region is near enough to Chicago for people to have summer homes there, and as Carl is away most of the time lecturing and playing his guitar, Mrs. Sandburg said to herself, “I’d better build a few cottages around here and sell them to the big butter-and-egg men jyho want to get their families out of Chicago in the summer.” So she did. n tt Carl has a sort of shanty out behind their own house to which he can retire and woo the gentle muse. I have always thought he was one of the best muse wooers extant. He is possessed of a tremendous pity for the common folk, growing, no doubt, out of his own early experiences. It is something like that of Sherwood Anderson, and if Sandburg had been a novelist instead of a poet and a historian we probably would have had something more lasting than Dreiser. I thought when Carl was in town this week his manager had been working on him. His gray forelock did not fall nearly so far down his face and he was groomed to the point that makes even a newspaper man nervous. I trust that they are not thinking of making Carl turn out in a shadbelly coat, striped trousers and spats. u a tt you recall that when “The Prairie Years” came out about the same time as Beveridge’s life of Lincoln, people used to get together before the fireside and argue as to which was the better biography? I recall an Indiana woman wit who used to call these profound Sunday evening meetings “Twilight Sleeps.” Both men at the time were my dear friends and I regretted that any argument should come up. For each of these writers approached Lincoln from a different angle. You have to give Beveridge credit. He was thorough. He said once that he rewrote a chapter of his Lincoln seventeen times and then submitted it to some of the ablest historians in the universities of America. He was not more thorough than Carl. What I am saying is that the two works must be judged separately, according to the temperament of the author. * OTHER OPINION Business Finds Substance [Anderson Bulletin] How was Indiana business in the first nine months of 1935 compared to the first nine months of 1934? The magazine Business Week gives this report: Passenger auto sales, up 72 per cent; commercial auto sales, up 83 per cent; household refrigerator sales, up 11 per cent; ordinary life insurance -.ales, up 6 per cent; value of checks drawn, up 18 per cent; farm income, up 41 per cent; electric power output, up 6 per cent; heavy building construction, down 3 per cent. The 41 per cent improvement in farm income is the best for any state in the nation. Wisconsin and Kentucky alone aproach it with a 30 per cent improvement for the nine months. The national average for farm income improvement in all states is 6 per cent. Very few states approached the auto sales record of Indiana in the nine months, and only Wisconsin. lowa. Minnesota and Montana gained an edge in that field. Clearly, the auto manufacturers are profiting most in the states where farmers have been most prosperous. That’s What He Says [Gov. Talmidfe of Georfia] The NRA, the AAA, the TV A are all in the Russian primer.

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The Hoosier Forum I 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, reliaious controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt CHURCH DRIVE PUBLICITY CALLED GOOD INFLUENCE By Rev. Jean S. Milner Just a line to tell you how deeply I do appreciate the very fine cooperation which your newspaper has given to the Go-to-Church campaign directed by the Christian Laymen’s League. Publicity of the type you have given is most wholesome in its effect and I am sure our city has been effectively influenced by what you have done. tt tt a FEARS OF DICTATORSHIP ARE CALLED ILLUSIONS By Reader, Frankfort To all that are distressed over the belief that we are headed for a dictatorship, hearken; It is purely an illusion. Isn’t that good news for you? You know nothing about a dictator. You merely imagine you do. It had been so long, prior to Frankii i D. Roosevelt’s incumbency, since we had a President that really lunctioned as such (they being mere figure-heads) that when we come under one who functions as President according to intent we do not recognize it as such, hence we imagine it is all wrong. It’s a matter of relativity. After the slaves of the South were freed, many preferred to remain in their former state and continued with their masters. Thus, today, many, through long custom with the old order, become frightened by the new and seek to restore the old figurehead President. Let them calm themselves. Time will eradicate that fear. Another four years of Roosevelt will bring them to a full realization of what it is all about and by that time, I am sure, nothing could persuade them to turn back. tt tt tt “JITNEY” ORDINANCE BROKEN DAILY, CHARGES WRITER By Harry Gillis A recent letter in the Hoosier Forum complained about a proposed taxicab ordinance to prohibit cruising taxicabs and the solicitation of street car and bus passengers on established car lines. As A1 Smith would say, let’s look at the record. I believe it was about 1920 when the city of Indianapolis first adopted an ordinance which outlawed the “jitneys.’ The city fathers realized that if they wanted an efficient, reliable transportation system which would provide good service at all times of the day and night, in good weather and bad, they would have to legislate against unfair competition. In 1933, when cab companies

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Inclose a 3-cent stamp for reply when addressing any question of fact or information to The Indianapolis Times Washington Information Bureau, legal and medical advice can not be given, nor can extended research be undertaken. Be sure all mail is addressed to The Indianapolis Times Washington Bureau, Frederick M. Kerby, Director, 1013 Thirieenth-st, N. W., Washington, D. C. Q —What is the difference between a fraternity and a sorority? A—Fraternity is derived from the Latin ‘ noun “frater” meaning brother. Sorority is derived from the Latin noun “soror” meaning sister. A fraternity is an organization of men and a sorority is an I organization of women. Q—Who has the power to coin money in the United States? A—Under Article 1, Section 8, Paragraph 5 of the Constitution, i the Congress has power to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coins and fix the standard of weights and measures. Q —Give the correct pronunciations of bouillon and consomme. A—Bouillon is pronounced boo’yon and consomme is con'-som-ay’. Q—How many children are en-

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could get men to work for them for next to nothing and cab rates were cut until taxicabs had degenerated into mere “jitneys,” an ordinance was adopted to regulate them. The cruising of cabs, and solicitation of business on established transportation lines was definitely prohibited. Again, the city fathers were being consistent in their attitude of protecting a legitimate business from depression-born cut-rate competition. We street car men are paid fair wages. Ask any cab driver how much he earns on the average per week, and then ask him how many hours he must work to get even that small sum. My point is this: The anti-cruis-ing, anti-soliciting provision is nothing new. It’s the same thing as the 1920 “jitney” ordinance and the 1933 taxicab ordinance. Furthermore, it is entirely fair and just. If one of our large department stores had a big sale, the city would not permit peddlers to stand outside and offer cheap sweat-shop merchandise to customers who intended to enter the store. In the same way, it is not fair for low-wage cab "companies to solicit patronage from those people who came to a car or bus line for the obvious purpose of catching a street car or bus. I drive a trackless trolley regularly on Pennsylvania-st, and I can testify that both the “jitney” ordinance and the present taxicab ordinance are being violated 6n that street many times a day. a a SEES G. O. P. LEADERS AS HYPOCRITES By E. S. Brown Republican Party leaders seem bewildered by the question* of what catch phrases to wave over the heads of American voters that they may be placed under ever-subtle but meaningless G. O. P. promises. The Republican Party, from the day of its birth, has been paraded before the American people as the only party with any safeguards for the people. Broadminded and unselfish people can not be fooled by such propaganda. It is a fact that big business supports the Republican Party in order to control those elected. They serve big business at the expense of the small business man, the farmer and wage earner. Big business is howling dictatorship, constitutionalism and every other ism. The leaders now are planning how they may deceive the public in 1936, to gain official recognition and tear down all that has been done by the greatest President and humanitarian that this nation ever has produced. They are mad because President Roosevelt will not accept their dictates. The money chiselers claim that it is their sole right to control the nation’s finances. Then and there they ignore the Constitution; but what do they care? Produce and stock market dicta-

rolled in public schools of the United States, and what is the average attendance? A—The latest official figures from the United States Office of Education are for 1932, when 26,275,441 children between the ages of 5 and 17 were enrolled, and the average attendance was 22,245,344. Q—When should wedding announcements be sent out? A—lmmediately after the wedding. Q—What is the title of the theme music in the picture, “I Cover the Waterfront,” and who composed it? A—" Tell Me Tonight,” by Ziehrer and Alfred Newman. Q —Give a short biography of Boake Carter. A —He was born in Baku, South Russia, in 1900; son of Irish-English parents, and was taken to England at the age of 4 and educated there. He served with the Royal Air Force during the World War and entered newspaper work shortly thereafter. Q—What is the weight of mature male lions? A—From 250 to 450 pounds according to age and other conditions.

tors are others who tell the farmer what he must accept for his farm produce, and what the consumer must pay for it. When any one wishes to buy stocks or bonds inflationary values are placed on them. At the opportune time the prices are sent down unftl there is no value left. Then comes the prearranged market crash. Money, to hear these leaders tell it, is worth only a fraction of a dollar compared to what they made it by fictitious and inflationary values. And Republican Party bosses demand laws in their favor. When others seek to learn how the laws may be made applicable to all these, money leaders want the laws set aside as useless. Legislation that will benefit the small business man and farmer must be avoided at all costs; and if it is enacted must be declared unconstitutional. There is no authority vested by the Constitution of the United States granting any court the right to throw out a law. Let the law as it reads decide the issue; then dictatorship will cease to exist. Big business and the Republican Party bosses, along with a gang of useless and so-called Democrats, viz: Alfred E. Smith, Jouett Shouse, John Davis, James Reed, ex-Senator; Gov. Talmadge of Georgia, Carter Glass of Virginia, and a host of others, do not care a whit for the farmer or wage earner after they get political support at the polls. REASONING BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I say to myself: Self, be so strong, So gallant, so brimming with silent song, You never will need a mortal’s sham touch, And nothing need hurt you overmuch. I say these brave words: Lean not on life, But make it your weapon, your shining knife. But love pierces through this armor and shield. Losing this safety, I clamor, I yield. DAILY THOUGHTS Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.—Proverbs viii, 10. ACCURATE knowledge is the basis of correct opinions; the want of it makes the opinions of most people of little v alue.—Charles Simmons.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“I told mama not to send apples this year. We’ll have to find some place to hide .them before the party tonight.”

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Washington Merry-Go-Round

BY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN. TTT ASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—The * ’ big oil companies have given private intimations that they will respect Secretary Hull's request not to sell oil to Italy. Reason: They do an international business; need State Department support in Latin America, the Far East, Europe. But the independent oil compares do not need that support. They operate only in the United States. And they have indicated to the Italian embassy that they will sell Mussolini all the pil he wants as long as he has the cash to pay for it. a a a ONE of the bitterest pills government attorneys have had to swallow was the decision of the Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago releasing Arthur W. Cutten, bigtime grain operator. He had been suspended by the government from trading. What made the verdict hard to take was that the court agreed with the government in its contention that Cutten had violated the Grain Futures Act. In fact, the court used language almost as strong as the government’s in condemning his activities. It said; “. . . evidence points persuasively to the conclusion that Cutten, knowingly and intentionally, during the deep depression years of 1930 and 1931, when agriculture was waging a losing battle for existence, on account of low and ever lower prices, violated and flouted that provision . . . which requires him as a dealer to report the fact that he was short more than 500,000 bushels.” Despite this violation, the court said it had to rule against the government’s ban. Reason for this paradox: The twoletter word “is.” The court held that this word, hidden in the section relating to individual traders, barred suspensions from the wheat pit in cases of past violations of the law. As the irregularities charged against Cutten occurred several years ago, he could not be punished. The Grain Futures Act, incidentally, was passed in 1922 and has been upheld by the Supreme Court. The Circuit Court’s decision served to reveal that the presenttense requirement applies only to traders. It does not operate for grain exchanges. Any exchange is subject to punishment for past offenses. How and why the loophole came to be inserted in the law is unknown. But indignant government lawyers say that under the court’s interpretation a “district attorney would have to catch a man actually committing murder before he could be prosecuted.” Note—The Department of Agriculture plans to remedy the joker in the act by an amendment at the coming Congress. a a a THE French government has made secret but emphatic protests to Hitler regarding large and ominous structures of brick being erected by Germany in the Rhineland. Hitler has replied that they are only brick factories. The French, however, are convinced they are forts. Note— The Versailles Treaty Specifies that Germany shall erect no fortifications in the Rhineland. tt a a SENATOR BILL BORAH has received more than 50 invitations to make speeches. The requests come from all parts of the country Many from Southern states. Friends of New Jersey's potent Democratic political boss, Mayor Frank Hague of Newark, are touting him as a successor to Attorney General Homer Cummings—if and. when he departs the Cabinet. Hague’s chances of getting the post are so remote as to be nil. Major George Berry has no illusions about his role as a New Deal co-ordinator. Says Berry: “As I understand it, a co-ordinator is something like the innocent bystander who tried to settle a family quarrel. He was the first man shot.” Acting under the authority of the resolution put through by Senator Burton Wheeler directing it to make a national survey of food costs, the Federal Trade Commission has decided to begin its inquiries by study* ing the following six staple products: Wheat, tobacco, cotton, beef, pork and milk. (Copyright. 1935. by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)