Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 August 1936 — Page 19

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PRIDAY, AUGUST 14, 1936.

MODEL HOUSE EXPERIMENT

T= Marion County Council ‘deserves the , community's thanks ‘for voting the $350 “masked by County Commissioners for, materials for a low-cost housing experiment in an: effort i» help solve Indianapolis’ sium problem.

~The ‘well-equipped Purdue Housing Research Project is searching for durable, cheap and weather-proof materials for the experiment here. The test house is to be built on county. property, replacing one of many un‘inhabitable dwellings, with WPA labor. Since the project also will indicate what can be done in the low-rent housing field by private capital, it should be followed With interest.

AND THE BIGGEST GET AWAY!

E don’t like to be skeptical, but it does seem as if the fish are coming extra pig this season, A photograph backed up County Commis-. | sioner Clarence Wheatley's story about catching av'32-pound catfish in White River. Mr, Wheatley said the catfish swallowed a crappie which had just swallowed a craw tail on his Jine. The fish was so big it pulled Mr. Wheatley into the river. : Witnesses corroborate the story of two young harpooners from. Newburyport, Mass, who told of a fight they had with a white whale off Plum Island. The beggar must have | been a direct descendant of Moby Dick for he | sounded and plunged and thrashed the waves : | into a foam and dragged the boat for miles | before finally diving into the deep With three _ harpoons in his hide. Then came a story from Fisherman Lin Thomas of Rock Hall, Md., who caught in his net a shark measuring seven feet and weighing 400 pounds, Honolulu reports that James Harvey, Ha‘walian sportsman caught a 620-pound swordfish—the world's record. This monster .was 12 feet, 8 inches long, and had to be fowed ashore. "After these it 1s a relief to read about Vice President Garner's catch, While Mrs.’ Garner was home cann peaches our: hero went fishing up river ina rowboat. He came home proudly with a four-pound channel cate fish. Not. as exciting, but easier to believe

than some.

PIN BALL GAMES

Se cities outlaw pin ball, or marble games: AJ as a vice. Others license them on the theory they are “games of skill.” Indianapolis does neither. | Police. estimate that approximately 2000 of | devices here take in small change at a ate that will run into hundreds of thousands ‘of dollars a year. Police . Chief Morrissey is. quoted as saying the marble games have replaced the outlawed slot machihes, but are owned and operated by the same syndicates. No effective way of dealing with this new craze has been developed ‘here, ‘although police are promising action. ‘License fees in other cities range from $3 to $50 a year for each pin ball machine. Detroit and Los Angeles exact a fee of $3 a year. Dallas licenses 5-cent pin boards at $5 a year. Salt Lake City takes a $10 fee, Madigon, Wis, imposed a $50 registration fee on each machine. The number operating dropped from several hundred to about 40. Complaints that chlidren spent their school lunch money on pin boards, frequent before the new law was passed, ceased. . | Buffalo, in a new ordinance, prohibits the use of a coin-controlled amusement device on any. premises without a license, and license requirements are rigid. The better licensing ordinances prohibit pin ball games near schools . and ban their use by persons under . long Beach last year outlawed all marble games and gave -operators three months to get the. machities out of the city. Like slot machines in former days, the dndreds of marble machines here constitute eavy | ‘economic drain on the community. ously, their success is due to the gambling - ct. If it be the policy of city officials

to sanction this pastime, taxpayers are en-

titled to the consideration of adequate license fees, and the community is entitled to a control of the machines’ operation that will prewent school children spending lunch money

INSTALLMENT TAXES

ALLMENT plans for tax payments, made popular by the depression, have dein at least one city until the taxpaybuy his tax receipt on the installment he same as his radio or washing mapay for it in advance. #

ham, N. C, ‘worked out this novel sys--

fem with. such. effectiveness that 90 per cent . 1035 taxes were collected before the

itself in the rights of its most humble citizens. But much ‘more beneficial will be the focusing of public attention ori the malignant growth of farm tenancy, which saps the social and economic vitality of the South. Farm tenancy is all too widespread in other sections ‘of the country, but nowhere is it more deeply imbedded than in the cotton belt. There onecrop farming has grown apace, with both

be to no avail, uriless accompanied by an intelligent effort to aid them in overcoming their economic handicaps. } Fa

PROBLEM N oT SO SIMPLE

is an appealing picture which the Administration’s no-tax-increase statement conjures—economic recovery coming so fast that mounting revenues will cover all the costs of the government, and borrowing, and leave a surplus to apply against the public debt. But it is hard to believe that the solution of our fiscal and taxation problems can be as simple as that. Coupled with any prophecy that the acceleration of our economic recov ery will enable us to coast on uphill to a balanced budget should be some assurance that the high plateau of expenditures will be graded down. There is no disputing the remarkable increase in government revenues. Income tax’ receipts for the first six weeks of this fiscal year, from July 1 to the'middle of August, were up 68.4 per cent, while sales and nuisance taxes yielded 22.6 per cent more, and customs - 8.2 per cent more. But the other side of the

partmental expenditures were slightly higher ‘the first six weeks of this year, and relief and public works outlays approximately the same. Hence there would seem to be more promise than proof in this premature announcement of “abating” taxes. The government can ill afford to give up any of its revenue until the budget is actually balanced. / 8 8 ”

congressional and treasury tax experts at work on a plan to revise our tax laws. It is essential only that they devote their atten. tion-t6 removing inequities, not to subtracting’ ~tevenue.. There is plenty of room for amendment of both the - undistributed corporation - income tax of - last session, and the tax-the= rich law’ “of’. the _précéding’ ‘session. Both’

railroaded. through "Congress. Both departed: radically. ‘from the principle. of ability to pay,

business outlook. As to “abating or modifying taxes that create unfairness to consumers or to trade,” there is no end to the amount of revision needed. While practically all of the sales and

herited from previous administrations, this is the first time that the Roosevelt Administra-

ness. ” A family of three persons with an earned income of $3600 a year pays a federal income tax of $13.60. ‘But this same family, living within its means, owning a small automobile, a radio and an electric refrigerator, going occasionally to the movies and ball games, using & normal amount of cosmetics, toilet articles, cigarets, matches and liquor, will, according to the most ‘conservative estimates we can make, pay the government $49.13 in invisible sales and nuisance taxes. . These invisible taxes burden ‘the family budget, increase the cost of living, restrict trade. They should be reduced, We should like to see them entirely eliminated. And to the extent that the government has to have substitute revenue, lt it be raised by visible taxes proportioned to &bility tq pay.

FRANK M. DILLING

HIRTY-SIX years ago, when old-fash-ular, Frank M. Dilling won a gold medal award for his candy exhibit at. the Paris World Fair. This; acclaim: for his product continued until, when he died at his home here yesterday at 67, he had not only a large central candy factory in Indianapolis, but branches in nearly a dozen Midwestern’ cities. Mr. Dilling’s career was typickl of many Hoosiers who have risen through their own efforts to positions of business prominence. Born and schooled: at Hagerstown, he worked as a railroad section hand, helped in his father’s drug. store, then openéd a small candy kitchen from ‘which he peddled butterscotch candy from door to door in Kis home town. A larger plant at Marion in 1886, the central factdry here in 1905 and the branches followed. His many friends will mourn his Pessing. .

MORE COTTON MERICA'S cotton crop this year will be

year's, That means more wages for picking the 2,000,000 more bales, and greater earnings and “more jobs in the ginning and compressing plants, It means greater rail, highway and.

of Dropertyless Wage and share farmiérs will |

ledger is not so encouraging. Ordinary ‘de- .

OWEVER, it is none too early to put the

measures. weré hastily ¢oncocted, both were J]

both introduced Re uncertainties into the |

nuisance taxes now-.on. the books were in-

tion has publicly recognized. their “unfair. -

joned stick candy and hardtack were pop- |

nearly 2,000,000 bales larger than last |

water freight revenue for the hauling of thasé i

will not show Miss Anthony in: ‘gives me all the more reason fo tell w; about Miss Anthony in bloomers, not before I'm through, I'll get around to

the whole story—and apparen allow me to tell you that it was in 1852 that ‘Susan Anthony joined her friend, Amelia Bloom-

Stmd Miss ‘Anthony abandoned it ‘the next year,

a mental crucifixion.” That didn’t keep Lucy Stone from going on.

vember of 1853 and lectured three times in Masoni¢ Hall on the subject of women’s rights. She was billed to appear in bloomers and it was enough to bring out the crowd. She came out, looked at her watch: and rebuked the audience for calling her out before the scheduled time. “You have no right to do it,” she said. After which she went back-stage and waited there until she got good and ready to come out. It got Page Chapman, _editor of the .Chanticleer, so sore that he called her “an imperti1 nent minx” in the next issue of his paper. Miss Stone was out of town by that time. all that came of that.

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. wasn’t long after Miss Stone's departure that Susan Anthony came to town, but it was past her bloomer period. She came to Indianapolis a number of times after that—the last time-on Dec. 6, 1889, when she was 79 years old. It was a big occasion and Mrs. May

| Wright Sewall threw any number of parties for

her. Mrs. Ovid Butler Jameson and Mrs. Grace Julian Clarke went to every one:of them. The only other thing I know about bloomers is that Henry Ward Beecher fell for them, though he was circumspect enough to recommend their use only for walking in the country. “A woman in a long dress and multitudinous Bec” is a ridiculous abomination,” said Mr. echer.

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IN INDIANA HISTORY Y J. H. J.

\N- Aug. 14, 1786, there was born in Sevier County, Tehnessee, a man who was to have ‘much to do with shaping the destinies of the new state of Indiana, whose birth still was 30 years in the future. ‘John Tipton his name was, later to be.known

quiet, tireless public-spirited citizens who, although they are seldom mentioned in ‘history; play an important part in building the community, state and nation in which they live. In 1807 the Tipton family moved. to Indiana where John joined the Yellow Jackets, a military troop formed to take -part in the Indian. campaign of 1809. John Tipton fought at the baitle of of Tippecanoe and was promoted to cap-

After Indiana became a ‘state in 1816 he was the first sheriff of Harrison County. He served in the Legislature in 1819-20 and was a member of the committee which selected Indianapolis as the site for the state Capitol. He also was on the commission which determined the IndianaIllinois boundary line. President Monroe appointed him . general |. agent to handle the Miami and Pottawatomie "I Indians. Tipton was adept .at managing ‘the Indians, particularly in land ‘deals where the Indians, often with reason, felt themselves cheated by the land-hungry white settlers.’ His appointment as general agent necessitated Tipton’s living at Logansport, where he was noted as a supporter of free schools. : ‘In 1831 the Legislature elected Tipton to an out a term of a Senator who had died. ‘He was re-elected for a six-year term. In 1838 he

‘| rounded out his public career by managing the

removal of certain Indians from the stdte. Active in Free Masonry, Tipton became the grand master of the state lodge before his death. A simple, unaffected man with little formal education, he served his state and country well.

A Woman's Viewpoint

ah BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON nei 3 A PERNICIOUS cult of modern philosophy is that which praises discontent. It is, they say, a sign of growth, evidence of progress, and sometimes proof of greatness. . Now insofar as discontent applies to the inner .man all this may be true; but how many people | do you know who are unhappy only because they are dissatisfied with themselves? Not many, "I'll be bound. For we become upset chiefly over our surroundings. Most. of us live in a perpetual state of misery—which pesudo-philosophers contend is the proper state for the soul—without making an effort to discover its cause. I dare say out of the millions of Jovani

unhappy people in the country nowadays, only a handful could be found who suffered from a pas-

“I found it a physical comfort,” she said, “but

Miss Stone appeared in Indianapolis in No-|

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as Gen. John Tipton. He was one of those|

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~The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you~ say, but -will - defend to.the death your right to say it—Voltaire. =

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on Youuens)

DECLARES ROOSEVELT. SOCIALIST PRESIDENT By Robert Gaylor Gx The national platform of the 1932 Socialist Party proposed “a Federal

| appropriation of $5,000,000,000 "for

public works and roads, ‘reforestation, slum clearance and decent homes for the ‘workers’ (Socialist ‘class. hatred’ term) - by Federal government, states and cities.” Socialism is extremely deceptive and exceedingly destructive and 1s always highly dangerous. The purpose of the above Socialist plank is to destroy our American government by taxation and use the moneys appropriated -to build. up. the Socialist’ Party political machine in order to seize absolute power by which to accomplish their “hidden” purposes The Socialists stole "the Democratic Party by electing a Socialist President on the Democratic ticket, The Socialist New Deal carried out this Socialist Party plank . and handed Mr. Roosevelt a check for $4,880, 0000,000 with ‘which "he: has. built up a’ modern Socialist Party of “regimented” voters! ‘ oo.» . ih £3" «JEFFERSONIANS” JUST A ‘NAME, WRITER SAYS By D. F. Claney, Logansport Dash it all, idealism’ in: American politics? The Jeffersonians—ostensibly: coming forth with a plat- | form ‘which sounds * as if it. were written by upstanding, righteous, Public-spiried upholders of de_moer But white lilies do not spring

; up from a garden of weeds o’ernight.

In my estimation they are just climbing on that greatly overloaded vehicle, the Republican bandwagon. (Possibly because Farley refused to assure them of commissariates after election?) fee # NO “DISGUSTED PEMOCEATS,”

WRITER STATES By A. ©. Hindsley : - A communication was published. " these columns by “Disgusted Democrat” Frankly speaking there “ain't” no such animal. :

The so-called “disgusted’ took a shot at Gov. McNutt for his recent speech on the Landon setup, saying “I am & OE a 10s “so-called shot” was strictly of Re-|

Agr

& Repablican trick of attempting to

publican variety and peritage jst: :

could have been straightened out and then lettin’ the country go to rack and ruin the wey it did around 1932, Of course, Roosevelt came along and only done the best he could.

| He guaranteed us poor fellers’ bank

deposits; 'n he fixed up millions’ of Jobs to keep people from starvin’ to

‘death; 'n he loaned money to-farm-

ers who ‘was about to lose every acre they owned; 'n he lent money: to people who was about to lose their homes; ’n he took a lot of

young fellows who was startin’ out ‘to be- tramps and hoboes and even-

tually jailbirds and started ’em. out on the right track; urs: this money eirculatin’ around helped

-the stores and automobile people (by the way, you don’t hardly ever

‘even see a car older than .a "34 model" any more—just try and: find one) and factories are a boomin’

‘and dividends jumpin’ higher than; ‘altitude records every day. But toggone it, accordin’ to Knox; it's all

wrong. Why the way he stood up there at) ‘Connersville Saturday -and told ‘em off—jest ‘like that — exactly how everthing that had been done was all wrong and how he and Landon was a goin’ SHOULD. a been done, well sir, it

‘made me down right sorry for pore :

ole Roosevelt. . . And it made me feel even sorrier |

for. Mr. Hoover havin’ a handy man |. who knew all the answers like that: and him: not even comin’ forward] # with them. Maybe this man Knox|’ : is a shy, timid, unspokenly sort of * feller who ' just naturally : doesn’t |’:

take to talkin’ in public mucH. Anyway 3 seems mighty. strange to me. # » ” f BELIEVES VETERANS DESERVE | SUPPORT OF VOTER : By Arthur G. Gresham I think in placing men in’ public office we should give our first consideration to men who we absolutely

‘know can be trusted—men who have

proved their truthfulness and their loyalty to the country—any man who has served his country and who has made a sacrifice for it loves it.

| the more for having made that sac-

| rifice and can be trusted with’ mak-

{ing its laws—Democrat, Republican

or Shdependent. Insending a man to Congress our ‘whole consideration should or he he qualified, what service he had and what sacrifice has he made to deserve - our -confidence? Now take the ex-service man, the man] who has been disabled in action de-

n: of course all|

‘to do it—how IT]

fending our 'country—when these men. aspire to office, if. they have the ability: and are otherwise qualified, we should give them our support and ‘our’ votes regardless of any political belief. Let me here call the attention of every voter irr the Eleventh district

.Republican candidate for Congress, is a veteran, a disabled veteran. He is an. American citizen who has served and sacrificed for our.country. He is avman of good ‘education :and. is qualified in every = way to serve us again, but this time as a congressman. Mr. Roberts should, I ‘think, have -the support of every real American who gives first consideration to the Intire of our country.

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AN OLD FLAME

‘BY VIRGINIA POTTER I.met an old flame— : While .you were away, - Who sald he cared,. The .same as yesterday. x

+ He sighed ‘and wished, me ugk When. I. refused a. kiss, + And ‘told, him you alone ‘Gould bring me. bliss. .

"Yet, it is nice to know, He said again, that I Could count on him, Just like in days gone by.

- He said he'd wait—perhaps "Td change my mind— And if I did, he'd say, That fate was kind!

DAILY THOUGHT

Let me: be weighed in an even ‘balance, that God may know my Aintegrity—Job 31:6.

WE ask God to forgive us for our evil. thoughts and evil ‘temper, but rarely, if ever, ask Him

si WV Dale.

‘COMMON ERRORS

. Never say, “Most generally I go to church on. Sunday”; 1eave - “out “mest. gi A

SIDE CLAN

George Clarke

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‘to the fact that Mr. Don Roberts,

| to forgive us for .our sadness. \

Indiana

eo oo ay enn was iron ore er it, T.guess they just didn't’ think. It furned out to be thé underground Garden of Eden of the whole Iron Range. So Hibbing had to go. The ore | was under the notth hailf.of So The huge ore pit had aiready been driven right up to the. town Then the Oliver Min B.C. Steel) bought u Hp the 4 | Hibbing, tore and continued Gown ae. ¥ In 1921 they" started 8 pw town. § They went a mile south and. out a town. “The new Hibbing have to be moved. There is no’ under here,

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2 8 = EY built well when they built new Hibbing. In 15 years it ° has grown to a city of 18, the old Hibbing was merely 10,000, The new city is a model com- " munity. It is all heated from a‘central plant. Its. stores are modern, ” its parks green and expansive, its ~~ homes liveable, its saloons modern=~+ istic, its yards fresh and ‘soft, its ~ a tress thick and growing. 1 ‘The new city has already achieved fi a double-edged fame for itself. Tours +, ists know of it as the town with the" magnificent high school, and the “glass schoolhouse,” and the elaborate. war memorial. ‘ On the other hand, these very \ things have been used as examplesof ‘the squandering of tax money by"

"en

'| these. rich iron towns,

The high school cost $4,500,000, - covers two blocks, and. ha$ every- <% thing .in it except a place for the - Graf Zeppelin to land. It schools 2500 pupils. Students a ‘can go two years beyond high school’ right here, and enter college ‘as °’* juniors, : a ® 8 = 3 HE war memorial. was finished * , T last year. It’s the city's recrea-.. i There: are club rooms, for ex-service men, dining rooms, and reading rooms, and a . little theater with seats. that cost $11 apiece, and a curling rink (that’s. 3 sort of like shuffleboard on ice) with the biggest membership of any curls ., ing club in America (260), and a. huge’ Sanpe floor ‘that is used for ., hockey in the winter, and 8 meeting room for 1a} unions. ; oy The “gl schoolhouse” is small. igi About half’ the wall space is of glass: bricks. You can’t see through them. but they let in the light. Even some of the liberals think v ‘maybe everything is: a- litile. too 4 ‘elaborate... But I talked with one man who sees what caused it—and a understands.

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N the old days, the mining com, i I panies were the haughty lords, . and masters. The mining compa=... nies éontrolled the town governments, of the Iron Range, hence they cone. trolled the expenditure of tax money. The towns were ‘miserable places. Just mining camps. The people finally threw off . the — political control ‘of the companies and took charge themselves. There on | was all that money® The iron mines were the vaults, the tax rate was the a key. They twisted the key, and the” money came rolling in. : So the people spent the money.’ They spent it in huge and extravagant gobs. They made their new ! city beautiful. , This man’ who’ sees through 3 a all says it was only ndtural, 298: tia it won't’ hut anything, ‘an aur - the people will soon settle down in..~

: ft their new freedom, and spend ore ia

leniently,

Your Health

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor of the Journal of the Ametioan Medical Association. OU can catch cold in summer" as easily as you can in winter, © so it is well to remember that the best thing you can do for a cold is to go right to bed. 5 Then you should try to restore --. normal action of the bowels, Slag, ne alkaline drinks, and thus help na-

actions ny will covery. Recently some Otrietinafi t= | cians’ decided, to. test sc a fess hr recovery from ‘come: mon cold. They wanted to 2 out whether people. who: went to. bed promptly got well quicker, and : also whether they: had more, or’ fewer complications ‘from the com-.-tun’ sola lien did, those Whio “de, not % go to bed promptly. As experimental subjects, the doe= | os

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