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HAND SET PHONES
“HE reduction in rates on hand set. telephones by the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and associate companies in other states followed further disclosures by the telephone division of the Federal Communications Commission. The new Indiana schedule is 15 cents a month for 24 months, a total of $3.60. has been paid, extra fees will stop at once. The rate has been 25 cents a month for three years, or 15 cents a month for five years, either of which totals $9. The hand set charges are under jurisdiction of the state public service commissions. But while the Bell companies in the various states are owned by A. T. & T., these surcharges have varied from state to state. The Indiana Public Service Commission in 1927 permitted a 50-cent monthly hand set charge, with no maximum. This was cut to 25 cents a month in 1928, but the $9 maximum was not estab-
lished until 1933. In neighboring Michigan, the maximum
for hand sets is $2.70. Hoosiers in the Calumet District, served by the lllinois Bell, have had a $3.60 maximum, the FCC reports. From 1928 to 1936, the user of a hand phone in Mississippi paid $42.75; in Alabama, $40.75; in Tennessee, $39.65; Kentucky, $37.75; California, $29.79; Texas, $22.24; Oklahoma, $21.90; New York, $21.30; Ohio, $16.50. The number of hand sets increased from 38600 in the State and 1800.in Indianapolis in 1928, to 75,000 in the State and 31,800 in Indianapolis in 1936. : From all hand phone users of all states, from 1927 to 1936, the A. T. & T. companies collected $53,240,933 in surcharges. Since the FCC investigation started, major long-dis-tance rate reductions have been made, either ‘voluntarily by the telephone companies or by negotiation. 'The saving resulting is estimated at $22,000,000 a year. State regulatory commissions for mahy years have been required largely to take the telephone dompanies’ own estimate of the value of their properties. The Indiana and other utility commissigns will be able -to form a better judgment as to true value and fair rates, -as a result of the FCC's efficient handling of the public’s business. : :
CAUSE—AND EFFECT
For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle the kingdom was lost— All for the want of a horseshoe nail. :
O runs one of Ben Franklin's proverbs. The train of cause and effect it so aptly describes comes to mind today in connection with the spread of industrial strife in the automotive industry. The big factories that turn out the safety glass for automobiles are closed by strikes. Sitdowns and walkouts have stopped production of automobile bodies in several plants. Paralysis is creeping into other assembly lines. Some 45,000 men in the industry already have stopped - work. And disemployment is spreading fanwise from the Flint-Cleveland-Toledo area. With their own operations shut down, the auto plants are canceling orders for carburetors, steering wheals, tires, upholstery and the dozens of other parts and gadgets that go into the makeup of the modern motor vehicle. The rubber plants in Akron have to adjust their production schedules and employment downward. So do the steel mills in Pittsburgh and Youngstown. The head of General Motors and the managers of the various other concerns affected call it “labor trouble.” Labor’s chieftain, John L. Lewis, calls it “employer trouble.” : : To the rest of us, outsiders not directly involved, it is simply an absence of a workable relationship between employers and employes. And to the “kingdom” of economic
recovery, in which we ail have a stake, it may prove the lost “horseshoe nail.”
- HOOSIER SCIENTIST HON ORED
32-year-old Hoosier has just been awarded one of the major honors in the world of science. It is the $1000 annual prize of the American Association for the Advancement of*Science, and it was won by Dr. W. M. Stanley of the Rockefeller Institute. : The young scientist, born at Ridgeville, Ind., and educated at Earlham College and the University of Illinois, won the recognition for his discovery of. a new disease-producing agency. He established that in the case of the plant disease known as tobacco mosaic, the virus is a chemical—a protein molecule, larger than any known protein molecule. Thus Dr. Stanley’s work adds these giant protein molecules to the list of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and parasites previously known as the causes of disease. The vast implications of Dr. Stanley’s discovery may be realized when it is explained that the protein molecules may prove a link between nonliving chemical molecules and the living cells which form the bodies of plants and animals. The giant molecules grow by appropriating chemical material just as living cells grow by taking in food. Dr. Stanley’s work already has started a new chain of scientific speculation about the origin of life.
FINES FOR NONVOTERS
IN Brazil, where it is estimated that a million qualified electors failed to vote at the last election, charges have i been filed against a number of alleged “vote slackers.” i Under a new law, if they can’t give good excuses for not ; voting, they may be. fined as much as one conto, or about $80. . Even in our own recent record-breaking election we, ¥ had many more than a million nonvoters. But we don’t
yearn for a law like Brazil's. Why force a voice in running’
the government upon people who, having no intelligent ini terest in the issues, would go to the polls for no reason i, except to avoid being fined? ~~ v y
If this amount or more already .
anything wrong.
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES How Much Justification?—By Kirby ~~
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Fair Enough By Westbrook Pegler
You Will Be Glad to Learn That Mr. Al Wiggin Is Enjoying Life In Royalist Colony Near Charleston.
EW YORK, Jan. 4.—For a long time your correspondent has been vaguely worried about Mr. Al Wiggin, the great New York banker of the era of beautiful nonsense, and wondering whether anything had happened to him, because if anything should happen to Mr. Wiggin your correspondent would be deeply distressed not to hear all about it. Now comes an acquaintance from Charleston, S. C., however, who reports that nothing has happened to ‘Mr. Wiggin which would justify a national holiday or even mild individual rejoicing by persons whose savings were invested in the stock of his bank at the time that Mr. Wiggin him- # selt was selling short about 60,000 shares for a profit of four and a half million dollars. Mr. Wiggin has built a home for himself in a colony of economic royalists near Charleston known as the Yeamans Hall Club and, not to put a fair face on the news of him, he looks all right and seems to be his old self. He has plenty of money left from his short. sales of the stock of his bank and the unloading of his B. M. T. when his position gave him to know that the subway was going to pass its dividend. “Do you mean to say Mr. Wiggin is well and happy?” your correspondent asked.
” Bn n “ JUST fine,” said the gentleman from Charleston. “He doesn’t seem to have a thing on his conscience.” “His what?” “His conscience,” said the gentleman. “You know, the thing that tells you that you have done a dirty trick and makes you feel like a heel. He doesn’t seem to think he ever played the heel in all his life.” “What about friefds?” “Hasn’t he even had trouble with his teeth?”
“No,” said the gentleman from Charleston. “You want the truth and I am giving it to you. Al Wiggin looks just dandy, and he doesn’t seem to have a worry in the world. If you can’t take it why do you bring up the subject?”
“Oh, I don’t know whether they are friends or not,” said the gentleman, “but people speak to him just
the same as to anybody else. After all, you must remember that Mr. Wiggin is a very rich man who never did anything unlawful. Whether he did anything wrong is another question, but he wasn’t even indicted, much less convicted, and the only comfort I can give you is to refer you to the record of the Senate investigation, where you can refresh your memory and decide for yourself whether he ever did And you can recall that they grabbed back the bank pension of $100,000 a year that he awarded himself, if that is any pleasure.”
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HAT about the people of Charleston? Aren't they supposed to be very aloof, socially?” “Well,” said the gentleman,” “there isn’t much money around there these days and these economic royalists in their little colony are big spenders. One day they ordered the caterer to get several dozes lobsters for dinner the next night, and he telephoned Bar Harbor and had them Hown down in a special plane. All along the coast economic royalists are settling down in mansions and clubs on ground so poor that even the poorest people nally were starved out. That kind of money makes for tolerance.”
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I wholly disagree with what you sy, but will defend to the death your right to say i: —Voltaire.
DEFENDS GROSS INCOME TAX By Hiram Lackey «+o Mrs. K,, Greenwood, with the modesty that is an excellent thing in a woman, admits that she “knows very little about law.” Her honest confession is important because it explains her next statement: “I know that it (gross income tax) is an unfair law.” In no dogmatic way, the fairness of the law was explained by Gov. McNutt and his co-workers during
the campaign. Gov. McNutt knows law. There is no question about that. The fact that Gov. McNutt supported President Roosevelt in his fight against injustice indicates that he is more to be trusted than are those who joined the forces of injustice and inspired the fight against the gross income tax. Republican politicians and independent merchants have much to learn from"a closer study of Roosevelt’s or McNutt’s politics—or chain store management. Plenty of soap and water and an open mind are essential to modernization and its success, In Mrs. K's stabs at adequate education, she asks if we are not known as the nation which has the highest education for the masses. No, Mrs. K., not among the most highly civilized peoples of the world. By civilized, we refer to the material, intellectual and spiritual well being of all people. The masses in Switzerland, Holland and Sweden are sfar more highly educated than we are. As a result, these nations are without poverty as we know it. As a result of the Swiss and Dutch educational systems, the masses are so highly educated that, during the World War, when war was raging almost at their very borders, their officials were able to keep them out of the conflict. : Such are the values of education and the gross income tax that supports education. ... In a democracy, the problems about which you ask can only be solved in. the slow, painful expensive process of education, including religious education. We must support education by paying taxes and fighting the instrument of propaganda that practices the old strategy of tyrants who delude their victims into fighting the tyrant's own battles. . :
2 2 ” QUIT FOOLING WITH MONEY PROFIT, WRITER SAYS By H. L. S. : We are rejoicing that the drought cut the corn crop to the lowest level in 60 years, and that prices for this small crop have brought the farmer a much higher income
{in dollars than in previous years.
We like. our. food on short rations, and we are conteht if we get lots of dollars, regardless of their value in supplying our wants in abundance. * Just so we farmers don’t get together and have our
General Hugh Johnson Says—
Commerce Department Should Have Called Safety Conference to End Airplane Tragedies Before Annual Holocaust of Ships and Passengers.
N& the assistant to Danny Roper, Secretary of 'N' Commerce, where official responsibility résides,
OBCAW, 8S. C., Jan, 4—~The winter holocaust of -
ships and passengers in the air lines is on again —not only among big commercial ships, but to an astonishing extent among big Army bombers. A winter before this witnessed a great slaughter of inexperienced reserve Army pilots suddenly and unnecessarily drafted into the perilous job of piloting the mails over unknown wintry topography designed by nature to wreck ships. : Sometimes it may not be possible to find out exactly what cracks up a great ship. But there has not been one important smash-up about which airmen did not seem to be pretty well agreed among themselves—unofficially—on the cause. Few such
opinions ever found utterance in official reports. The Copeland Committee seemed to start , with blood in its eye over the death of Bronson Cutting. It went in like a lion and came out like a lamb, It made some yes-and-no findings and soft spoken recmendations, fone of these seems to have resulted any action effective enough to prevent a new and fiercer epidemic of disaster /and de: bh fa
(Times readers are invited | ; express their views in these co: umns, religious controversics e; cluded. Make your leiter shor . so all can have a chance. Lettei : must be signed, but names will I withheld on request.)
own crop drought, after tasting t ie juicy rewards for short crops. T ie Department of Agriculture co d help us get an annual shortage iy propagating boll weevils, corn bc - ers or barberry plants. We are a queer sort of people. Ve are happy when we are poor in t ie things that enrich life. We prosp r through creating shortages, becat e shortages represent money prof 's and surpluses represent money los .- es. We need to have our heads e¢ - emined by an expert psychoanaly Ff. Kagawa told us that a 10 per ce it: deficit in normal rice producti n forced the-price up 20 per cent, 1 2G per cent deficit created a 40 p''r cent rise and a 40 per cent defi it nearly doubled the price. He sai that a 10 per cent surplus in pr - duction forced the price down 1) per cent and further drops in pri : in the above ratio. Wealth is not determined by dc - lar bills, but by commodities. © wealth were money, then we wou i! be rich if we printed wealth to. tl! » tune of billions. Can we ever have universal pro - perity if we do not correlate far 1 production and industrial produ - tion on a basis of full capacity i : both industry and agriculture? Ho © can this be done if we keep foolir : ourselves with money profits, whi : we enjoy production on a scarcii basis? 2 ” o GERMAN UNITY MYTH, YOUNG MAN SAYS
By “A young man now living in Americ. who spent the first 18 years of his li : in Germany” | I've been waiting for just suc | Signs as are now appearing on tk German horizon. Starvation. TI | people are actually having to lit on less food than at any time afte
IMPOTENCY
BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICE I say, “She must not die!” I beat bewildered hands Against the greying wing Of cold despair.
My prayers attempt to fly. They fall to gritty sands. ‘I cry against the thing. I touch the air.
| we have the same picture. | folks, nearly all of them, used to
the war, or during the first two years of the war. Now there’s a reason for that. While the markets of the world were open to Germany, trading proceeded in an orderly enough manner. Trade balances were very favorable to Germany, and what additional food she~needed could easily be absorbed within the im‘port quota. Of course no European nation liked to import food, but geographic conditions and population demands forced it upon them. Because of such a large population as Germany now has, quartered within the confines of as small a country as it is, a it can naturally produce only a certain amount of farm products, and of that certain amount can only count on another certain amount for its people. You see, the farmer keeps his share of whatever he grows, because he doesn’t want to go hungry. After he's taken care of, then come his relatives, and so on down the line. You would have to have a gendarme on each acre of land were you to prevent such little frauds as reporting ‘the exact amount of bushels of potatoes, wheat, and what not. Since that is physically impossible, the farmer naturally prefers to sell what he can afford to sell. to the highest bidder. In this instance it is the Government. and the Government has fixed the prices for foodstuffs. That in turn means that the farmer doesn’t care whether he raises a whole lot of wheat or potatoes, or barley, or any other foodstuffs. The chances are that under the price-fixing arrangement he works for practically nothing at all. What interests me most is the contention that Hitler has Ger‘many in the palm of his hand. But take it from me that there is unrest in them thar hills. You see, Berlin is not the real headquarters of the Third Rei¢h. They happen to be in the Ruhridistrict. You will find that people from that district discount 100 per cent whatever comes out of Berlin. There is an almost unbelievable hatred of anything that smells Berlin. . , . Next comes the Rhine Valley, a strictly dominant Catholic population here. Working people, farmers, all of them. They till their soil from morning till night, live frugally, and
| want to be left alone. ,
The Moselle Valley is next. Here
| hard work and poor pay.
DAILY THOUGHT
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.— James 2:17,
Faith without works is like a bir without wings; though she may ho about on earth, she will never fly t heaven. But when both are joiner together, then doth the soul moun up to her eternal rest.—Beaumont..
ASHINGT! |
These three valleys comprise the
mainspring of the population. I | seriously doubt whether the farmer
{ or the miner, or the industrial | worker, who has to get along on very little a week, can work up any | kind of enthusiasm for a govern- | ment that has sold him down the | river—a government that cries for { closer unity, and more cheerful | starving than heretofore.
Poor |.
It Seems to Me
By Heywood Broun Archbishop's Tips on Love Found Difficult to Follow; Short-Short Play Is. Offered as a Proof.
(CORAL GABLES, Jan. 4.—Love, I believe, is appraised more accurately by poets than by prelates. When an English archbishop undertakes to formulate general rules as to the cause and course of love he runs the risk of speaking through his miter. And so it was with York. At any rate, the advice he gave to those about to stumble into illicit romance is pretty difficult to fol low. In speaking of lovers of this sort he said, “The right decision is that they should cease to meet before the passion is so developed as to create an agonizing conflict between love and duty.” But the good cleric is not suf= ficiently specific in describing the manner in which fancy may be bred. We will all agree it is monstrous for John Smith to fall in love with Mrs. Jones., John Smith has 4 wife and five children of his own. For that matter, Mrs, Jones has seven. Also her own. On a Thursday, John and Mrs. Jones were nothing more than good friends 'and bridge partners. Friday was rainy, but the moon shone out in all its glory Saturday night ~at country club. Being dummy, John happened to stroll into the rose garden. Mrs. Jones solved the problem of little slam in diamonds more quickly than he had expected.
Mr. Broun
Not wishing to hold their opponents up, she went!
- to the edge of the garden to call Mr. Smith. : * 9 =
E turned and saw her framed in the Colonial | doorway. His own wife could not get through | Suddenly Mr. Smith realized that he no |. longer loved his wife and that he did love Mrs. Jones. |
that door.
And yet, in spite of the sad fate of Smith (he and
Mrs. Jones found no joy in their elopement), there is. |
something to be said against the cautious counsel of the Archbishop of York. lowing short-short play. : : He—Would you mind so awfully much if I cut this next waltz with you? Lady Bidley—Not in the least, but it is my whim tw know why you are ditching me.
He—It so happens, Your Ladyship, that IT am a |
devout member of the Church of England. Lady Bidley—I'm a Unitarian myself, so what?
He—In my Church we are warned to cease meeting | before passion develops into a brawl between love and
duty.
Lady Bidley—Do you mean to stand there and tell | We have danced just one |
me that you love me? dance. Did it mean so much to you? He—Frankly, no, Your Ladyship, it wasn't the dance. Don’t you remember you had a sprained ankle and we sat it out? Lady Bidley—But that still doesn’t explain why you want to ditch me. Why?
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E—Beecause you are the lawful wedded wife of Lord Chauncey and I am engaged to the sweetest little girl in the world in Brockton, Mass. If this acquaintanceship should ripen into love it would be immoral.
Lady Bidley—You are too austere, and I think
you have the mental condition. I am not the wife of Lord Chauncey but the widow of Lord Ridley, He—There is still the sweetest little girl in the world in Brockton, Mass. (He exits in mild confusion.) Lady Bidley (in a soft-voiced monologue)—He is austere, and.yet I find him charming. I will have the austere man to dinner. (But then she frowns. She doesn’t know his name.) Tush! (Quick curtain.)
The V/ashington Merry- Go-Round |
F. D. R. to Tackle Easier Issues First, Then Ride Momentum on Tough Ones: Pressure Brought to Repeal Capital Tax, Revise. Corporation Levy.
By Drew | earson and Robert S. Allen
N, Jan. 4—The President's strategy
announces that he is going to hold a “safety conference at an early date.” i Early hell! Why didn’t he hold it 10 months ago, when it was just as apparent as it is now that something was rotten? > 3 “We are confident,” he writes to Eddie Rickenbacker, “that as’funds and facilities are made available for the improvements we already have in mind for our navigation facilities it will be possible to eliminate at least 75 per cent of the type of accidents we have experienced in the past.” Can you beat it? Major air disasters occurring at a recent rate of more than one a week, and an admission of the Department of Commerce that it could have eliminated 75 per cent of them—*“if funds and facilities had been available.” ! :
C = ” 2 : Mes recent air accidents have resulted from flying in bad weather relying on facilities for blind flying now admitted to be insufficient. The preventive of that was departmental regulation of such flying. Like Cato’s invariable peroration demanding that Rome get rid of a ine. the conclusion from many
for this se He first will issues; then, his and prestige ge tories on these where the going The Nation is aloof from Euro; Supreme Court 1935 Neutrality President has f foreign affairs. So, taking a ment, the Court Spanish situatio:
lative ball’ rollir |
law giving him ¢
seems
ion of Congress is simple but canny. ‘0 to bat on the least controversial and strengthened by the momentum ned from anticipated decisive vicijuestions, he will swing into those will be heavy. ywverwhelmingly for peace, for keeping ?’s boiling caldron of war. Also the uled in its decision upholding the
«ct that under the Constitution the r-reaching powers in dealing with
vantage of favorable public senti5 pronouncement and the explosive | the President will start the legisby pressing for a new neutrality ttensive discretionary powers to im-
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agree to repeal, |
NET on his program are the deficiency relief appropriation and wage and hour legislation. These subjects will come up in separate bills, but they will be tied together as inter-related problems, Congress will be told that there can be no hope of a solution of unemployment as long as employers are free to pay.sweat-shop wages and work labor for sweat-shop hours. | The bill to establish a minimum wage and maximum hour law will unrelated to plans or proposals for a new NRA. Any NRA legislation may come later in the session. x - Probably the most controversial of the heavy-going issues will be the question of tax legislation.
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HERE is a tremendous drive, both in and out of the Administration, for repeal of the Capital Gains Tax. This is| the provision that taxes profits made from the sale of securities. : The President, so far, has made no decision on
the question. But he is’ under strong pressure to
; pressed to revise ¢ firms in debt
- Likewise, he is b vigorous the Corporation & Tax s
I offer in proof the fols !
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