Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1936 — Page 12

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TUEBDAY. JANUARY 14. 1936.

AND PAYS AND PAYS thing stands out clearly in the confusion resulting from the Supreme Court decision on processing taxes—the man in the street will pay. Processors, manufacturers and retailers apparently will soon get back the $200,000,000 of taxes impounded by the courts—at least that part which their lawyers don’t get. The man who paid the tax—the ultimate consumer—will not get any. Instead, he will have to dig down in his pocket and pay it over aga:n, because the money is already obligated in contracts with farmers. And if the government is ordered to refund the billion dollars it collected and spent for AAA benefits, he will pay even more. The government has no source of revenue but the taxpayer. The tax was collected originally from processors. They will lay claim to the refund. Wholesalers say they were billed for the extra amount of the tax. They will claim it. Retailers insist it was passed on to them. They are organizing to fight for it. There the “process” stops—but not the tax. The consumer has no way of entering a claim. He may have his own ideas as to who actually paid, but he has little proof. The cotton pillow slips he bought for his bed had no tag with them saying what part of the prices was for processing taxes. Neither did the pork chops from the corner grocery. Yet he was assured again and again when he winced at the prices that the fault was the government’s. Paying the first time was not so bad. The consumer knew that what he put up was going to the farmer and was definitely helping to make his own job in the city secure. Paying the second time will be different, and bitter. It v/ill seem like a fine imposed for having dared to dream of a world in which all men might be secure in the right to earn a fair living. ROXY "O OXY Is dead but his name will live. The midlander who created the motion picture theater as we know it was in eclipse when he died but the word Roxy will be on a theater in New York for years, unless the people who have written about him are wrong. Samuel Rothafel was a born showman. His ideas of ornate theaters, spectacular productions to embellish films, of symphony orchestras and model Ushering not only revolutionzied Broadway. They reached out and changed a thousand Main Streets . into little Rialtos. WHAT’S IN A NAME/ “TJOPGUN license law” is the derisive name given * to the Indiana drivers’ license law under which anybody who has 50 cents may obtain a permit io drive. Suppose a holder of one of these licenses removed to one of a number of other states. Is his license good? Not at all. He must report to the state police within a specified time, have his sight, hearing, knowledge of the state law and driving ability tested. There are many cases on record in which the holder of an Indiana operator’s license was told to come again after he had mastered the essentials. The operator’s permit system can be sensibly modified by granting a learner’s license. With that a beginner—a young person for example—may drive while accompanied by a regularly licensed operator. Then comes the examination for the permanent permit. The next General Assembly should reconsider the whole question of drivers’ licenses and the desirability of compulsory car inspection. The latter would mean hardship to a large number of owners for the time being, but it would mean a reduction in the number of highway deaths. And main thing. BEQUEATHING THE EARTH /’"Conserving the soil to safeguard future generations now appears to be the central objective around which the Roosevelt Administration will build anew farm program to take place of the outlawed AAA. Soil conservation was only a by-product of the AAA, which concerned itself primarily with curtailing acreage of cash crops to cut down surpluses, establish profitable price levels, and promote the immediate welfare of this generation. But to our way of thinking it was a very important by-product. For the acres taken out of the growing of soil-depleting cash crops were turned over to the growing of soil-building legumes, soil-binding grasses, soil-protecting wood lots—which, together with improved technique in crop rotation and erosion control, have husbanded our priceless resource against that future when a maximum efficiency in tilling every inch of it will be necessary to feed and clothe the people. Os course, no one can guarantee that the soil conservation approach to the farm problem will be any’ mere constitutional than the production control approach. But it is not unreasonable to hope that even Supreme Court justices will recognize that a dust bowl can not be kept within the confines of state lines. Indeed, if we have repetition of the dust storms of summer before last, some of the poWdery topsoil of Kansas may sift through the eaves of the sll,000.000 Temple of Justice in Washington, D. C., and become grit in the processes of states’ rights judicial logic. And it is not, we trust, too much to hope that, in considering the natural, or rather anti-natural, phenomenon of the soil of Indiana washing down the Wabash to silt in the bed of the Mississippi and cause overflow in Tennessee and Arkansas, the Supreme Court justices will consider it a contingency coming properly within the scope of the Founding Fathers’ general welfare clause. If they don't, then archeologists a few centuries hence may dig through the sand that once grew wheat in Kansas and the Dakotas to excavate the ruins of what once was an $11,000,000 building in the capital of an “indestructible union” of .“indestructible states.” If that happens, one wonders, will the excavators also find a bundle of parchment which our civilization called “The Constitution,” and will they say that document was the cause of it all. No! Our pessimism is not that exaggerated. * Reasonable men alt on our highest tribunal. And

they will not, we believe, deny to the people the right to save their civilization, the right to utilize th 2 national power to check the march of deserts which halt not At county lines or state boundaries. Already Federal funds are being used to re-sod that potential desert In the western Mississippi basin, to graft back on that range a skin of buffalo grass. They are being used to reforest the hillsides in the Tennessee Valley region. They are being used to turn back to pasture lands never suited for cultivation. Surely Federal funds can also be used throughout the country to encourage farmers to till their soil in ways that will hold Its substance and fertility intact for future generations. And perhaps a by-product of this long-range undertaking may be stability of farm production and prices- -the immediate economic and political concern of this Administration, as it will be of succeeding administrations. PRIVATION AND PROGRESS SOMEBODY got his name printed in the newspapers the other day by observing that government relief was sociologically unsound because It removes from the minds of the needy the fear of privation—which fear, he said, has always been a man’s prime motivation to work and produce wealth. We recall that statement, but strangely not the name of the author—sic transit gloria—as we read the story of Gauley Bridge, W. Va., the stbry of a village of men condemned to die. Some 2000 men, the story relates, worked at digging a tunnel through a mountain to divert water from a river on the other side for the purpose of generating cheap electricity for the plants of the Union Carbide and Carbon Cos. Some 400 or 500 of these died from a disease called silicosis. Several hundred more men residing in this village, once burly laborers, are today mere walking skeletons with the death sentence imprinted on their emaciated bodies. The affliction derives its name from the quartz dust which the men inhaled as they drilled their way with pneumatic hammers through a rich silica deposit in the heart of the mountain. And it seems that the primal motive .force to which the aforementioned unnamed philosopher referred—the fear of privation—was what drove those men back to work in the tunnel even after they had learned it meant certain death. We quote from a story written by Gilbert Love, special correspondent of this newspaper: “Men began to develop lung trouble about a year after the tunnel was started. Their trouble was variously diagnosed as pneumonia, bronchitis and tuberculosis. When the malady became widespread the men began calling it ‘tunnelitis.’ About 70 died that first winter, Dr. Harless (the village doctor) saia. “He warned many of the men that to go back into the tunnel meant death, but few paid heed. Work was scarce. “Common laborers were paid as low as 20 to 25 cents an hour, for a 10-hour day.” This quotation seems a pertinent comment on fear as a contributor to the welfare and happiness of the human family. WE ITCH BUT CAN’T SCRATCH \ CHANGING the name of the oldest existing settlement of white men in the New World from Santo Domingo to Ciudad Trujillo after the latest puny dictator is one of those things that irritate us no end. Santo Domingo was founded only four years after Columbus discovered America. It is probably the most nearly perfect example of a sixteenth century Spanish colonial town in this or any other hemisphere. Its name means something. It has a sound. It rings of romance and deeds of dare and do. There is no more reason to change its name to Trujillo City than there is to call London Georgetown, Paris Laval, or Washington Franklinville. Imagine calling Rome Mussoliniton, Athens Knodyliopolis, or New York Walkersburg. True, Russia has changed the name of St. Petersburg to Petrograd during the World War and, after the Bolshevik revolution, to Leningrad. China has renamed Peking to Peiping, Turkey Constantinople to Istanbul, Norway Christiania to Oslo, Ireland Queenstown to Cobh, and so on. But we still disapprove. They’d never have done so had they asked our consent. Names are precious things. They are history’s landmarks. Names steeped in the storied past do not belong to this generation, let alone to a single individual. To change them at the whim of some upstart or ambitious leader of the moment is sheer effrontery. They don’t even belong to a single nation. In a very real sense they belong to the world, to the future and to civilization. It gives us a pain not to be able to do something about “Trujillo City.” A WOMAN’S VIEWPOINT By Mrs. Walter Ferguson “no many things seem wrong with our social order,” writes the mother of three daughters. “I often wonder how to educate my girls. Everybody puts such stress on brilliance, these days, yet a great many brilliant people I have known seem to have had very shabby moral standards. Can all my codes be wrong, and shall I make no effort to teach my daughters the precepts in which I believe? I confess I am stumped over the question.” * She isn't the only one who’s stumped, if that is any consolation. New codes are always taking the place of the old, so that each generation of parents faces the same baffling problems. There is no doubt about the wisdom of our keeping pace with some of these changes. But there is one fact we should never forget. There do exist certain verities which are eternal. Everything else in the universe may alter, but truth, honor and virtue are changeless. Probably you, too, have laughed, as I once did, at Charles Kingsley’s verse which begins “Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.” It seemed pious, piffling stuff once. Now, having lived through a period which sets cleverness so far above goodness, I am almost ready to reverse my opinion. Over-emphasis on that sort of “smartness” which passes for brilliance in many groups is on. of the sins of our generation. It will take a long time to undo the evil the habit has wrought. Girls should be trained, first of all, to have the right emotional attitudes toward life, and to cultivate sound morals and wholesome habits. There are no sophistries or wisecracks to refute the truth of that statement. For neither wisdom, nor brilliance, nor cleverness can take the place of simple goodness as a rule to live by. I have known very many bright women who were miserable. I have yet to meet a really good one who is entirely unhappy. We can't go back to horse-and-buggy days in these times of speedy motor cars and expect to drive efficiently.—Judge T. V. Holland, Kansas City, Mo., as he fined a one-arm driver. Every element necessary for national recovery, save one, exists. Long range confidence in the future is lacking.—Charles R. Hoof., Middletown, 0., steel executive. i

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Squaring The Circle With McCREADY HUSTON

A MONO the most interesting phenomena of the depression has been the birth of new magazines with new ideas. Literary men out of work have put on their thinking caps to try to duplicate the feat of a couple of college boys who, with a little borrowed capital, founded “Time." So many digests of magazine articles have sprung up that it is almost impossible to keep up with them. A visit to the magazine racks of the large dealers in Indianapolis is bewildering. It is hard to believe there are enough irsomniacs, who buy magazines for their wakeful hours, to keep them all going. 9 9 9 QOME smart fellows have started a little magazine exploiting an idea that should appeal to many. It is called “Current Controversy.” The editorial policy is this: A number of subjects in dispute are selected and both sides are given, in separate articles, facing each other from opposite pages. For example, leftist playright Clifford Odets wries on the modem propaganda play and against him is conservative Walter Pritchard Eaton, head of Yale’s school of drama. A New York police officer defends beating up prisoners; a professional writer deplores the practice. The opposing sides of birth control are presented. 9 9 9 '’2">HIS editorial plan of giving both sides of a debatable question, is not, of course, new.fPor many years the Literary Digest has followed it by quoting from newspapers the varying opinion on public questions. But always in the same article. This extension of the idea giving two writers a fling at the same subject in separate articles—is a marked improvement. If the publishers have enough capital to enable them to hang on for a while I see no reason why their venture should not succeed. 9 9 9 T4yf ANY new enterprises are de- ■*■*■*■ pression-berri. An Eastern collegian, on being graduated from a swank university, had nothing to do. Visiting his sister, he volunteered to do her baby’s laundry work, as a college boy might easily do. While so doing he saw a great light. He thought of a laundry service exclusively for infants. With some borrowed cash he set up in a small way and now his trucks are darting from house to house picking up and delivering the essentials of a baby’s wearables. 9 9 ANOTHER college graduate, looking about, saw there was a need for simplifying dog feeding in the home. He knew that dog owners would go to some expense and trouble to see that their blooded and registered pets were properly fed. So he rented a room, bought a sec-ond-hand truck, and became a canine caterer, delivering a model diet to a dog owner every day at so much a week. I know a man who lost a string of gasoline stations by bankruptcy. He rented a loft and let it be known that he would broker the sale oi puppies for wealthy owners of dogs The problem of disposing of a litter of valuable pups is often bothersome to families. He would take the litter, feed and sell the pups for from $25 to SIOC each, depending on the pedigree and kind. He retains 10 per cent commission and is doing well. 9 9 9 When you buy a dog from this man he will "service” it every month for a small fee. That means clipping, washing, defleaing. worming and otherwise doing* all the necessary things the householder finds a chore.

OTHER OPINION Permanent Improvements [Richmond Palladium] Many Indiana cities and towns seemingly have proposed public improvements of a permanent type for the WPA projects which the Federal government is partly financing. The State WPA office reports 90 per cent of the program consisted of the following four types: Roads and streets; public buildings; parks and playgrounds; water systems, drainage, sewage, conservation and flood control. The statement of the WPA office says the actual proportions of these projects to the total was 91.79 per cent, in comparison with a national j average of 82.1 per cent. These projects will call for expenditures amounting to $37,337,021. Os the 960 projects listed under these four classifications, 287 are for water supply, sanitation, and sewer systems, drainage and flood control, and the amount allotted is $8,845,848. This sum is about 21 per cent oC the funds allotted for Indiana.

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(Timet readers are invited to express their views in these columns, reli(jiouq controversies excluded. Make vour letter i short, so alt can have a chance. Limit them to ZSO words or less. Your letter must be sinned, but names will be withheld on reauest.l 9 9 9 BELIEVES THAT ONLY NEEDY WOMEN SHOULD WORK By a Widow The Hoosler Forum and Jane Jordan’s column on married women working need to be enlarged upon. On the editorial page recently we found a few hundred words on “Women in Industry.” The point of view of the persons lambasting married workers has not been reached yet by writers of editorials, Jane Jordan, Harry L. Hopkins, right-hand relief man of President Roosevelt, nor Dr. Isador Lubin, the Labor Department’s commissioner of statistics. Women who work and do not do so to pay rent, buy food and fuel, contribute largely to the American problem of unemployment. This is true at factories where women are employed. It is a big and expensive job to have government bureaus weed out women workers who do not work from necessity. It is lamentable that for even one employer to lay off a single or widowed woman while a married one is kept on her job. 9 9 9 SAYS NEW DEAL FOES MADE MISTAKE By Alike Ritchey, Delphi Exposing their arrogance an> foljy, enemies of the New Deal, by opposing the President in his constitutional sight to deliver his message at a chosen time to the assembled Congress, only succeeded in having hundreds of thousands of the President’s constituency listen in. Otherwise, so many would not have known of the time or event. Thus by their own foolishness his foes have been put to rout. 9 9 9 GRATEFUL FOR TIMES’ HOLIDAY WORK By Mrs. Helen Ferree, Family Welfare Society Worker. We are grateful to you for your generous gift during the holiday season. The contributions of The Indianapolis Times in the past several years have given our families a much happier Christmas than we should otherwise have been able to plan for them. We thank you again for your gift and for your assistance in making Christmas a happier time for our families. 9 9 9 OUTLINES OBJECTION TO OARP By Herman Hagemier In answer to Raymond Mote, Kokomo, I would like to say a few words regarding the Townsend Plan. About SBO a month is the average wage of those among us lucky* enough to have a job, and that sum would support our fathers and grandfathers in the usual American standard of living. If we can figure a way to give

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them more I am in favor of it, but another way will have to be found to raise the money—the proposed 2 per cent turnover tax would make the S2O-a-week worker :ay more than half of the 25 bil.;on of dollars for the pension. Every tax would be passed on to the next buyer by means of increased prices until it reached the consumer. He would be the goat and have to pay the tax for everybody else. And there is no way to keep the middleman from passing the tax on. If his margin of profit was less than 2 per cent he would have to raise his price so as to pay the tax and still make his profit The average person v/ould find his living expenses raised about 25 per cent and would have, to wait months before he could get his wages raised. 9 K *; TIMES MADE CHILDREN HAPPY WITH GIFTS By Mrs. Leoti T. Trook Executive Officer, Board of Children’s Guaid'ans The children you clothed were not only made happier but their mothers were relieved of a great anxiety because their children were not warmly and respectably clothed. We wish to speak particularly of one boy who is in a special class for the deaf. You did more for this boy, as he is very sensitive about his affliction and the fact that he was not as well dressed as the other boys in the class. Your selection of clothing was wisely done and you were very generous in the amount. We trust the New Year will bring you added joys because of your interest in the unfortunate children of the city. 9 9 9 FLAYS RAIL UNIONS FOR ATTITUDE By Reader I am an unemployed Beech Grove man who was laid off in July, 1934. As I have already stated, in the 14 years I worked at the Big Four shops, I belonged to Union Local 51, paid my $3.50 a month. In the eight years before I got laid off I averaged only five to eight days a month. I paid my dues just the same and I went without things I needed for myself and my family. In July, 1934, the union called a meeting for a reduction in force and never notified us who were laid off. We fellows were satisfied with part time. We wanted everybody to have a living. Now I understand they are working six days a week. What I want to know is, since when did Union Local 51 change its agreement? It calls for five days a week. What a union! We want the public to see what a dirty deal we got. Another thing W(? want to know is: What did the union do with the dues collected from us in the last 14 years? Now Union Local 51 you have not helped us in any way since July, 1934. We want to know if you can not divide up the work so we can exist? We want an answer and don’t say the union is not running the shop. You v/ere in July, 1934, and also in November, 1934, when she com-

rifle, having an accurate shooting range of from 1000 to 1200 yards. Q—Give the names for female, male and young swans. A—Females are pens, males are cobs, and the young are called cygnets, Q —When did Alice Roosevelt marry Nicholas Longworth? A—Feb. 17, 1906. Q—What is congou. A—A grade of black tea from China, the third picking. ft—What government department in China corresponds to the United States Department of State? A—The Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Q—What is an aphorism? A—A brief, sententious statement of principle of truth, especially one relating to speculative rather than practical matters. Loosely the word is used as synonymous with proverb, maxim, or precept.

pany was going to call us back. You voted against us a second time. You have hurt us men who were loyal to you. 9 9 9 VETERANS’ FRIEND COMES TO THEIR SUPPORT By Veterans’ Friend I am writing in regard to our World War veterans and I would like to hear from .more people regarding their views on the matter. I am a citizen of Indiana and feel it my duty to say just how I feel about these veterans. I think they are the forgotten men of today. As for the statements that these men are better off than other men, I can truthfully say that I do not agree. The majority of these fellows have lost their jobs through no fault of their own. Some are disabled and can't do hard labor and are not fortunate enough to get a pension. Others hold good jobs in high offices and get all the breaks. \ A friend from another city paid me a visit recently, and I showed her the War Memorial Building. She thought it the most beautiful building she ever saw and wondered what it cost. I wonder if we couldn’t turn this beautiful building into something for these poor despondent veterans and their families which would do more good than make our city more beautiful. The majority of these men are in rags through no fault of their own. They defended us once. Let’s defend them now. Some were getting small pensions, as low as sl2 a month when this was taken away from them. They lost their little homes. Those getting large pensions didn’t notice the cut as did the little fellows. Remember we needed them once; no one knows when we may need them again. TRUE POET BY DANiEL FRANCIS CLANCY Blessed is the bard who sings his song. Not for praise or coin or fame, But to bring warmth to the hearts of the throng— And peace to a soul of flame. DAILY THOUGHTS And he would not; but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.—St. Matthew xviii, 30. I HAVE discovered the philosopher’s stone, that turns everything into gold: it is, “Pay as you go.”—John Randolph.

SIDE GLANCES By George Clark

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JAN. 14, 1936

Your::: Health By DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN

A BOUT the end of the nineteenth century, a Dutch doctor noticed that persons who ate polished rice became paralyzed and suffered from inflammation of the nerves. At the same time, those who ate the whole rice did not develop these symptoms. From this discovery came the first' knowledge of vitamins and facts about the original vitamin, now termed B-l. The form of neuritis and paralysis called beriberi, which results from lack of vitamin B-l, was the first to come to the attention of the medical profession. Vitamin B-l is essential to growth, health and appetite. It seems to be quite definitely associated with functioning of the bowel. When we are deprived of vitamin B-l, we lose our appetites. With infants, this is a serious matter, because it interferes with their growth. Beriberi, or polyneuritis, does not turn up frequently in the United States, but cases do occur, for instance among alcoholics, who. while they are drinking heavily, fail to partake of food. Neuritis will occur also in persons with excessive action of the thyroid, because in their cases the vitamin B-l seems to be damaged or destroyed. 9 9 9 IN the United States consumption of sugar has risen from 15 pounds a year a person in 1825 to more than 100 pounds a year a person now. Where much .sophisticated food is eaten, and particuarly much sugar, there is a lo*er consumption of vitamin B-l. ; It has been found that babies gain more rapidly in weight when the mother’s milk is supplemented with vitamin B-l. Babies who are fed artificially, and given adequate amounts of orange juice and cod liver oil, will gain more rapidly when a little extra vitamin B-l is added to their diets. The largest natural source of vitamin B-l is ordinary dried brewer's yeast. This vitamin also is found in large amounts in the germ of cereals. Vegetables such as cabbage, carrots, spinach, lettuce and watercress are excellent sources of vitamin B-l, Fruits in general are not as rich in this vitamin as are vegetables. Some vitamin B-l also is found in the yolk of egg, and in liver, heart, and kidney among the meats.

TODAY’S SCIENCE —BY SCIENCE SERVICE

A CAMPAIGN to reduce mortality from pneumonia is being launched in New York State. Its success undoubtedly will lead to similar movements elsewhere. Five organizations are taking in the campaign, according to Dr, Thomas P. Farmer of Syracuse, chairman of the public health and. medical education committee of the Medical Society of the State of New York. The five organizations are, the society just named, the New York State Department of Health, the State Association of Public Health Laboratories, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Cos. and the Commonwealth Fund. “Pneumonia kills about 12,000 persons in New York State every year,” Dr. Farmer says. “A considerable proportion of these persons suffer from types of the disease for which serum is available. The early use of serum in these cases will save many lives.” The campaign will be under the chairmanship of Dr. Russell L. Cecil of New York City. 9 9 9 DR. CECIL emphasizes the fact that almost every case of pneumonia starts with a cold, accompanied by fever. Early diagnosis is necessary for proper medical care. He points out that while serum is not available for every type of pneumonia, it is for some of the most prevalent forms. Dr. Cecil says that the campaign committee plans also to emphasize the need for skilled nursing care in the case of pneumonia. Advice to the public might, perhaps, be summarized in some such fashion as this: Do not neglect a cold. If it is severe or accompanied by fever, go to bed and send at once for your physician. If the diagnosis is pneumonia, follow his instruction with the utmost care, for it is a matter of life and death. While much remains yet to be discovered about pneumonia, it is entirely reasonable that application of knowledge at hand can reduce the death rate.