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MONDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1035. building and loan progress T> UILDING and loan shareholders and depositors, reading the description ol the work of the State Department of Financial Institutions in The Times Saturday, must have realized that the department has made much progress in liquidating associations which came to grief during the depression. In the golden decade which ended in 1929 many building and loan associations in Indiana lent too heavily on second mortgages. A family could buy a $15,000 house with SSOOO cash. The balance would be in two mortgages. It was widely known that some buyers intentionally did not reduce their debts because they wished to use their surpluses for stock market operations. So when the crash came the banks and the loan associations could not collect. Receiverships too often meant a harvest for receivers and their attorneys. It was partly to end the receivership abuses that the new Department of Financial Institutions was created. It is in a position to do business with Federal agencies set up to relieve home owners and also with insurance companies and other creditor interests. While shareholders and depositors in the building and loans from time to time have shown impatience at the slowness of liquidation, their interests doubtless have been cared lor better by the state department than they would have been by receivers and local liquidating committees. And supervision by the department will prevent many of the audacious loans which got the people of Indiana into trouble during flush times. EDUCATION MOVES FORWARD PROGRESS in education in Indiana is marked as the year closes by two important announcements. One was anew building to house the Indiana University School of Medicine. The other was that the Chemical Foundation of New York will support ten Notre Dame graduates through to their doctorates In chemistry. Both are in harmony with modern thought. The sciences look forward to exploring new fields. It is mandatory on a medical school to move forward. When it lags it loses standing almost immediately. The American Medical Association in the last few years has been pressing all medical schools to reduce the number of entrants and raise the quality. Fewer and better doctors is the aim of the overcrowded profession. The Chemical Foundation’s gift is another recognition by industry that it must help financially if the supply of expert chemists, capable of research and the solution of industrial problems, is to meet the demand. CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN CAPT. ANTHONY EDEN, 38, youngest foreign minister Great Britain has had in nearly a century, has gone to Sandringham where the English Court is spending the holidays. There is something wholesome about this event, coming as it does in the middle of a season dedicated to peace on earth and good will to men. The world peace movement has gained at least some ground in the last four discouraging years. Back in 1931, Sir John Simon was foreign minister. He was not greatly upset over Japan’s invasion of China, the seizure of Manchuria and the bombardment of Shanghai. Nor, apparently, was the British public. Last week, however, his successor, Sir Samuel Hoare, had to resign because public opinion so bitterly opposed an Italo-Ethiopian peace plan which would have permitted Italy to retain some Ethiopian territory. Sir Samuel was literally forced out and Capt. Eden promoted because world opposition to aggression is making such headway. For it really is a long step from the cold, timid Simon to Eden, whiteplumed Knight of the League. HERE’S HOPING r 1 ''HE Supreme Court has stripped Uncle Sam of Ins NRA, and next month may take away his AAA and TVA. In view of the weather here’s hoping he'll be allowed to keep his BVD. YOU’LL STAY AWAKE IT is a bold prophet who at this stage of the presidential campaign would attempt to fit into the changing picture the events and personalities and issues that will determine the result next November. A few weeks ago the campaign seemed to have jelled into a somewhat simple conflict between President Roosevelt and the Democratic New Deal on one side and big business and the Republicans on the other. But A1 Smith's acceptance of an invitation to address an anti-New Deal banquet of the Liberty League in Washington next month and his refusal of an invitation to spend the same night with the Roosevelts at the White House indicate that there will be strife aplenty within the Democratic party before the platform is written upon which Mr. Roosevelt will run for re-election. Meanwhile Republican afTairs are becoming even more confused. A few weeks ago big business, as symbolized by the National Association of Manufacturers, was openly announcing its adoption of the Republican Party. But Senator Borah suddenly decided to contest the adoption papers. And now all through the Republican ranks big business and the old guard are finding their leadership challenged by zealous Boralntes. a b b T? VEN in that citadel of the old order. New York Republicanism, Borah lieutenants Macy and Fish are making things mighty uncomfortable for such as Boss HUles and Ogden Mills. And in Ohio, where old guard strategists long since patented the trick of binding convention delegates to a favorite son for bartering purposes, Borah fans are demanding that the Idaho Senator's name be placed on the primary ballots so that rank and iile Ohio Republicans can have a hand in picking a nominee. What heresy to din in old guard ears? With these intra-party rows merging into one big Inter-party row, marked by more than a normal quota of bolters on both sides, excitement and confusion aplenty are promised for 1936. And indiscernible in the picture are the uncertainties as to what the Supreme Court will do in the way of shap-

ing new issues, as to what Dr. Townsend’s followers will do in the way of shaking down the congressional seniority lists, as to what Pierre Laval and Anthony Eden and Benito Mussolini and Haille Selassie will do in the way of turning our thoughts from peace troubles to war worries. So we feel safe in but one prediction as to the campaign: It will afford opportunity for few yawns. FURTIVE TAXATION TYEFORE a gathering of Republican editors :n Ohio recently, Col. Frank Knox touched on a theme which we .are always glad to see explored by any presidential candidate of any party—the theme of invisible taxation. The Federal government's deficit billions of the depression will have to be paid back. Col. Knox said, “Most of it collected in the tax pennies, nickels, dimes and dollars hidden away in the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the fuel that brings us warmth, the homes that give us shelter—in everything we buy.’’ We do not concede that the deficits necessarily have tc be paid off with hidden taxes, but like Col. Knox, we fear that is the way they will be paid. About two-thirds of the revenue the Federal government now raises is obtained from taxes that are invisible and have no relation whatever to the ability of the taxpayers to share the burden. “Every business man, in labeling his own product.” Col. Knox suggested, “might put on the label the amount of taxes the consumer pays when the product is bought. ... It would make the people tax conscious and would halt definitely wasteful spending of their money.” tt U U r is much merit, we believe, to that suggestion. For instance, the average cigaret smoker buys a pack of cigarets a day, paying about 13 cents for the pack. But unless the cigaret smoker is more than an average tax-conscious citizen he probably is not aware that 6 cents out of his 13 goes to pay for that blue Federal excise stamp which seals the cigaret package. The only information on that stamp is that 20 cigaretes are contained in the pack. If “six cents” were printed boldly across the face of each of those stamps, a great many cigaret smokers in this country, we believe, would think a whole lot more about how the government spends their money. Several months ago in these columns we worked out the Federal tax budget of a typical middle-class American family whom we called the Joneses. And we showed that this family, living on an income of $3,600 a year, paid a Federal income tax of only $13.60, but paid hidden Federal taxes aggregating $49.13. Would not the attitude of the Joneses toward their government’s spending be entirely different if they paid their total Federal tax bill of $62.73 in one visible, painful assessment on their income, instead of dribbling out the bulk of it in pennies and nickels and dimes in hidden taxes on gasoline, motor oil and tires, on liquor and cigarets, on amusements, cosmetics and toilet articles, on their mechanical refrigerator and radio and telephone calls? We hope that Col. Knox continues to stress the evils of invisible taxation, and that if he is elected President he does something about it. But we are not over-optimistic. It will take more courage than any Administration has yet shown to bring all taxes out into the open.

EVERY MAN A MUSSOLINI TI7HEN Anne O'Hare McCormick of The New * York Times interviewed Mussolini recently and in somewhat less trite language asked II Duce “To what do you attribute your success?” the Italian dictator gave entire credit to a bowl of fruit. “I am a man," he said, “just a man.” Then he went on to tell how he got that way by eating fruit and vegetables. Now comes the Department of Agriculture with glad tidings for 1936. During the new year, the officials predict, meat rations will be short, but fruits and vegetables will be “more than ample for all requirements.” What an opportunity. No longer need we merely admire Napoleon. With such ample supplies of fruits and vegetables, surely we can munch our way to power. ADD IRONY HPO the long and ever-growing list of election-year ironies add the following: One of the members of the Committee for Economic Recovery, which has just called on President Roosevelt to sponsor a great home-building program with government backing for cheap financing and actual government construction of lowest cost homes, is Edward F. Hutton, who recently called on all industry to “gang up” on the President. A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT Mrs. Walter Ferguson IT'S alarming to- read figures on the increase of women patients in Keeley cure institutions. Here is another example of the folly of basing our behavior cn that of men. Heaven grant we shall never become so befuddled as to offer the same reasons for our bad behavior. No man confesses that he drinks only to arrive at a state of stupor. Dear me, no! He thinks up any number of alibis. When he's had bad luck he drinks to drown his sorrows; when he’s had good luck he drinks to celebrate. The point is that he drinks. And nowadays, so do his wife, his son, his daughter and most of his in-laws. Nor do I believe the country is going to the devil for all of that. I know plenty of fine people who do not drink, either because of their family 'training, or because they do not like its taste and effect, or simply because they are what certain smart alecs charge* —afraid of it. Well, drink is a mighty good thing to be afraid of. Ycu argue, when young, that it’s all in knowing how; that it’s a grand thing for pepping up a party, and that a cocktail or two drives away timidity and makes you confident. The argument is not so often followed to its logical conclusion, which would be that three or four cocktails slow down the mental processes and turn a bright man into a maudlin fool. When you are older you understand that no arguments can stand up against the facts, and the facts are that drink creeps up on the individual unawares. It is, as Shakespeare said, “an enemy which man puts into his mouth to steal away his brain.” The fellow who once handled half a dozen potions, by and by goes under the table after the third. The older you get, the quicker liquor saps your resistance and reason. That’s why. although I disbelieve profoundly in prohibition as we experimented with it, I wish the decent people would destroy the iaea that it is smart to drink. And why do the beauty experts fail to send out warnings to their women patrons? Nothing etches lines into your face, nothing so utterly destroys the nerves and breaks down the moral fiber as a steady swigging of whisky and gin. There are signs that our western civilization, after all its ingenious efforts to drive goodliness and gain in double harness, has come to a fork in the road. —Dr. W. P. Merrill, New York.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

T SEE by the papers that the State -*• Banking Department, has set 2 per cent as the maximum that Indiana banks may pay on time deposits lasting 12 months or more. It is to laugh, out of the corner of one’s mouth. Remember when the standard rate was 4 per cent and when some building and loan associations accepted deposits and paid 6 per cent? Those were the unhappy days. People had more money than they knew what to do with. a tt a TIT HEN the bank doors were clos- ’ ’ ing with explosive bangs ali over the state, one building and lean ran a page advertisement in the newspapers saying it had never refused a demand withdrawal in its whole history. This was an invitation for depositors to “come and get it.” They did exactly that. The result was the freezing of that institution. a a a TIEFORE the crash one deposited at 4 per cent and borrowed at 7. It was a nice arrangement. Ail was sweetness and light. If a fellow had on a clean collar and was known to have a job he could make a small or medium loan on his own signature. I have known many salaried Hoosiers who, needing a hundred or so, would rather borrow than get into their savings and thus interrupt the flow of interest. It was a fairyland of finance. You could buy a car, sign 12 notes at 6 per cent, and ride around like a prince. You could buy a house, lay 25 per cent on the line, and sign first and second mortgages for the ether 75 per cent, the whole price being perhaps twice what the property was worth. And so it went. Coolidge or Hoover was President and all was right with the world. a a a T TOWEVER, 2h: per cent does not sound like a fair return to the thrifty who leave their money a year or more. It seems to me it encourages putting the surplus in the mattress or in the postal savings. Maybe I am wrong, but considering what one must pay for a loan the return on savings sounds rather low. a tt tt T HAVE been to see Lily Pons in her first moving picture ~,nd came away charmed. Lily is the first grand opera prima donna to come down to earth. She is not only a great singer, she is an actress with a gift for comedy. I should not be surprised if Lily abandoned the Met for the silver screen. In opera she reaches a few, not all of whom know anything about music. In the films she touches millions with her undoubted art. tt tt tt A SCANNING of the state news- -*■*- papers proves that Mark Twain was right when he said that people do a lot of talking about the weather but nobody does anything about it. According to most reports, the holiday temperature was the lowest since 1924. What interests me most about the cold is how people react to it differently. Where one man goes around in woolen underwear, two pairs of sox, overshoes, muffler j and great coat, another strolls around like Clark Gable without an undershirt and sans overcoat. tt tt a Tj'ATHER O'HARA, president of Notre Dame, was in town for the holidays, visiting his family. One of his staff says that every time ne gets on a train the trustees know he will be back with a generous gift from some friend of the institution.

OTHER OPINION Hard to Understand [Newcastle Courier-Times] There seems to be some fascination about travel by automobile that other modes of travel do not possess. This was demonstrated Christmas day when hundreds of people went from Indianapolis to Muncie, Richmond. and elsewhere in their automobiles when they could have had their choice of traction, steam trains or bus at halt the price of driving their cars and much more comfort. But they were willing, to pay the extra price, endure tljie discomforts of a blizzard and risk 1 the ever present danger to themselves and families on the highway on days like Christmas, all in order to ride in an automobile, which they can do any other day in the year. It is estimated that the garages and repair shops of Henry County profited to the extent of several thousand dollars in damaged cars. It is hard to understand. Ort the Silver Policy [Winthrop \V. Aldrich] We have introduced the fantastic notion that silver has a proper place in our currency beyond that of convenient small change. We have purchased silver in large amounts raising the price of silver throughout the world, demoralizing the currencies of the silver using countries, particularly China, and forcing widespread bankruptcies in that unfortunate country, pretending. as we did it that it was to help the trade of the Orient! We have accumulated great stocks of useless silver to decorate the vaults of our Treasury, silver which can never be useful as a reserve, because if we tried to protect our currency we should forthwith break the price of silver drastically.

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<Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reunions controversies excluded. Make uour letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 icords or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.) tt tt tt SEES TRAFFIC TOLL DISGRACE TO NATION By Hailey I. Newton In the year 1485, “Mother Shipton” made a prophecy, and in that prophecy she said, “Carriages without horses shall go, and accidents fill the world with woe,” and today that prophecy is being fulfilled, and we have the maimed, dying and dead all over the United States. The slaughter upon our streets and highways is so great that it is worse than a battlefield. Think of it! Over 36,090 people killed and over 1,000,000 injured in automobile accidents last year in this country. Such conditions are a shame and disgrace to any civilized nation. Any man, woman or child who ventures a single step upon our streets and highways momentarily is risking life and limb, and these intolerable conditions can and should be stopped. It has been said, “Place a man in authority and he will quickly show the world what kind of a man he is.” There is another sure way to find out what a man is, and that is to place him behind a steering wheel. He will quickly show just what he is. tt tt tt STRIKES AT SAVINGS UNDER SECURITY ACT By H. L. Seeger Your articles on the Social Security Act are illuminating. The proposal to tax pay rolls to build up a reservoir of funds that may possibly reach up to $50,000,000 000, not only is ridiculous, but dangerous to our future. The savings of 1929 amounted to $15,000,000,000, but only $5,000,000,000 found its way into new productive enterprise in that year. Ten billion dollars of savings found no outlet in the creation of “labor spending” power, the purchasers of consumer goods had been deprived of these savings through inadequate wages and capital had no use for the savings. Now that security law proposes to reduce labor’s spending power by retarding its consumption through more savings. If the dollar flow in our capitalistic economy is retarded in its cour.-e from income to outgo, we always get into trouble. If income is not spent for consumer goods it must be spent to create new capital investment goods. These Sjp-called savings must produce work for labor engaged in

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creating new machinery or buildings. The call for additional or new types of consumer goods make the market for capital goods. If the capital goods market is flooded by overcapacity as the Brookings Institution report showed our present situation, then savings must be thrown into consumer ranks, as now is being done by government borrowing and releasing to relief workers. We are now cursed with excessive savings, and propose to build greater savings, instead of greater wages. As if our insecurity now were not enough! tt tt tt AGREES WITH COLLINS ON LIQUOR PROBLEM By “I Have Learned” Your publicity in the paper giving two men’s opinion of women in whisky dispensaries is very timely, and Martin Collins is right. If all liquor dealers were of his type we would be assured of having legal liquor for many years to come. When whisky dealers throw aside all morals and decency because of their greed for money, they are causing the public to have to go without decent whisky eventually. They do not give a tinker’s dam though. When it is illegal again, they will go back to bootlegging and make the public pay dearly for their poison. They can make more money that way than they can selling legal liquor. I have heard many of them say they will be glad when it is “dry” again. I take and enjoy my drink, but I try to drink with men. When repeal came I was successful getting on the sales force with a reputable house, and they did business strictly on the level. But I gave it up, as the chiselers would not allow a man who tried to do business honestly to make anything out of it. I finally got enough of it and got out of the business, for it was getting too rotten for me. If all drinkers will visit places like Mr. Collins’ seems to be, we will have legal whisky many years. I only visit places like Mr. Collins wants and I try to confine my whisky purchases to the products of two Kentucky distilleries that I know are ethical, learning it from doing business with them. More power to Mr. Collins. tt a a EXPLAINS REASONS FOR BEECH GROVE MOVE By Bert Wilhelm Franklin said "The road to wealth is as plain as the road to the mill. Spend less than you earn. ” He might have added “The road to poverty is also as plain. Spend more than you earn.” Home building has been inactive for the last several years, while I during that time some seven million

Q —What is the derivation of the name Delaware? A—lt was first applied to the bay which Lord de la Warr entered in 161 L Q—When was the first English Christmas celebration? A—According to tradition, it was that held by King Arthur in the city of York” in 521 A. D. Q —Who painted “The Harrow Gypsy”? A—George Romney, an English portrait painter. Q—Where is the myocardium in the human body? A—The name is given to the muscular part of the wall of the heart. Q-rOf what religious faith is the King of Italy? A—Roman Catholic. Q —What horse won the Cambridgeshire stakes race at Newmarket, England. Oct. 30. 1935, and which horses ran second, third fourth and fifth? A—Commander ill won, with Man’s Pal, second; Finalist, third; Wynchwcod Abbott, fourth, and Law Court, fifth. Q—What are the three states of matter? A—Solid, liquid, and gaseous. Q —ls Kate Smith the real name of the radio singer? A—Yes.

families have started on the sea of matrimony. Economic conditions have made it impossible in the majority of cases for these new beginners to save enough to make even a 20 per cent down payment on a home. Private capital is not available, the FHA’s insured loan does not cover property that the man of moderate means can pay for, for their income will not allow them to assume a high monthly payment or a high rate of interest. If they ever intend to own a home it will be necessary for them through Federal aid, to secure a loan over a long period, at a .ate of interest not to exceed 3 per cent or 3Va per cent. Several efforts have been made by the government to take care of the class of people mentioned during the last two years. The laws passed, in themselves, seem to cover the plan, but through inefficiency on the part of those appointed to put the work in practice, they have turned out to be in most cases a dismal failure. However, it is reported that an effort is to be made during the coming session of Congress to correct the errors of the past and make the laws workable for .ihis type of movement. It is for this reason that some 600 families have indorsed these ideas, and have organized to sponsor a movement of this kind in the vicinity of Beech Grove. Os the 2000 men employed by the Big Four in Beech Grove, less than 25 per cent live within walking distance of the factory. Nearly 200 of those employed live in Cleveland, 0., and the remainder are transported to and from the shop on a free train. This is caused by the lack of houses near the Big Four shop. The writer has taken this means of acquainting the public with our activity and giving those interested the opportunity to study and pass on the logic of such a move. WHY? BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY Why should I tread the safer paths of life When my whole heart to wild adventure clings? W’hy should I steel myself to humble strife When I so long to do artistic things? I find the answer on each city street Where ruins of bright hopes merge and’ concur In harassed faces and in stumbling feet Tombstones of romance in dulled eyes that blur.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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“Don’t go off this sidewalk—don’t throw snowballs—don’t step in the drifts—don’t—”

DEC. 30, 1935

Your.., Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIX

(The Washington Merry-Go-Round column will be found hereafter on Page One of the Second Section.) MENTION of fat in the daily diet seems to scare many persons, carrying the thought that it means developing overweight. But it isn't so bad as it sounds, because very few of us can eat enough fat alone to take care of the fuel or energy that we need. Half an ounce, or a tablespoonful. of fat provides 100 calories, ; which is just a smail part of the \ aaily food intake. You could get all the fuel value you needed for ! a whole day from three-fourths of a pound of fat. if you could eat | and digest that amount of fat mai terial. Fat is concentrated energy. It would take nearly eight pounds of cooked rice to give the same number of calories as are obtainable from three-quarters of a pound of fat. People in the Orient, who live i largely on rice and have to eat | great quantities of food to derive | enough iuel energy for their daily , needs, develop distended stomachs because they do not have the concentrated energy provided by fats. t: a tt IT'AT also gives the diet staying qualities, because it leaves the stomach more slowly and delays digestion of other foods with which it is mixed. Butter spread cold on bread, however, digests more easily than butter fried into potatoes. When a child takes a lablespoonful of cod liver oil, it is getting 10 times as much vitamin A as it could get in the same amount of butter. For this reason families with I limited amounts of money to spend I for food have to determine whether i it is better household economy to j buy milk and butter substitutes than to spend the same amount of money for cream and butter. at: tt TN such cases the use of small amounts of cod liver oil provides i all the necessary materials obtain- ■ able from butter. j The butter substitutes, as oleomavgarine and various coconut oil, cottonseed oil and peanut oil products. as well as the oils from beef ; and lard, are combined and treated, : to pronounce a substance which resemble butter and feels like letter when it is eaten. 'L When this substance is taken inti) I the diet, instead of butter, the addi- ! tion of milk, green vegetables and i eggs takes care of providing other ‘ diet essentials.

TODAY’S SCIENCE BY DAVID DIETZ

buried cities, existing one beneath the other, have been uncovered upon the site of ancient Troy. Since 1894, savants have believed that it was the sixth of these which the Greeks under King Agamemnon wrested away from Prian m the war of which Homer sang. But University of Cincinnati archeologists, just completing their fourth year of research upon the site of Troy now are convinced that it was the seventh city which figured in the Trojan War. This new view, upsetting what archeologists have believed for nearly half a century, was announced today by Dr. Carl W. Blegen, field director of the Cincinnati expedition to Troy. a tt a AMONG the party at Troy this last year was Prof. Wilhelm Dooipfeld, the noted German scientist. “Last season we concluded from a study of the architectural and ceramic evidence that the sixth Troy came to its end, probably in a severe earthquake not long after 1300 B. C.,” Dr. Blegen said. “We concluded that .he early seventh Troy, which immediately succeeded and was constructed to a great extent of fallen material from the buildings of the sixth settlement, maintained its existence for approximately a century until it was destroyed. doubtless in a great fire in the early years of the Twelfth Century, B. C., and that it in turn was followed by a later settlement.” DAILY THOUGHTS Wherefore do the wicked live, become old. yea, are mighty in power? —Job 21:7. THE happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent.— Racine.