Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1937 — Page 2

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NEW LINEUP IN GAS C0. LEGAL ACTION ASKE

. Plaintiffs Now Are Suing Themselves, Is Belief; Dismissal Sought.

The City of Indianapolis, Munici- |

pal Board of Trustees and Board of Directors for Utilities today filed a motion asking dismissal of a Federal Court suit seeking payment to Indianapolis Gas Co. bondholders of $500.000 in interest held In escrow. In the motion to dismiss the, suit brought by the Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. the New England Life Insurance Co. and the Savings Bank of Baltimore, representing bondholders, the City and Board members contended the plaintiffs were, in effect, suing themselves. It was contended that the Incianapolis Gas Co. should be named a plaintiff instead of a defendant, vhich then would align the Indianapolis Gas Co. against the City. In such action, according to the motion, the Federal Court would not have jurisdiction. It was further contended that the issue in the case is whether the Indianapolis Gas Co. lease of its mains for 99 vears to the Citizens Gas Co. signed in 1613, is valid. The municipaily owned Citizens Gas & Coke Utility since has acquired the properties. Other defendants in the suit are the Indianapolis Gas Co. and the Indiana National Bank. which is

holding in escrow $500,000 in inter-

est on $6,881,000 in bonds. Replies to the suit made by these defend-

ants a week ago also asked dis- |

missal.

MORLEY LAUDS STRICKEN POET

Don Marquis’ Work Will Be Immortal, Noted Writer Says Here.

While Don Marquis, the man, lay

near death in New York, Christo- |

pher Morley paid tribute to him and told an Indianapolis audience last night that Don Marquis, the author, is immortal. Discarding the prepared speech

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

| WASHINGTON, Nov. 15

| (U. P.).—The following is the text of President Roosevelt's ‘radio address on unemployment census delivered here

last night: 1 I am appealing to the people of | America tonight to help in carryling out a task that is important to [them and to their government. It is a part, but an essential part, of the greater task of finding | jobs for willing workers who are | idle through no fault of their own; who are insufficiently employed and of surveying the needs of workers and industry to see if we can find | the basis of a better long-range plan | of re-employment than we have | now. Enforced idleness, embracing any considerable portion of our people, [in a nation of such wealth and natural opportunity, is a paradox that challenges our ingenuity. Unem- { ployment is one of the bitter and | galling problems that now afflicts (mankind. It has been with us, in la measure, since the beginning of | our industrial era. It has been ac- | centuated by the increasing com- [ plexity of business and industry, and it has been made more acute by the depression. It has made] necessary the expenditure of bil- | lions of dollars for relief and for publicly created work; it has de- | layed the balancing of our national | Budget, and increased the tax bur[den of all our people. In addition

| to the problem faced by the nation- |

| al Government our states and local governments have been sorely pressed to meet the increased load | resulting from unemployment.

| PROBLEM OF WORLD

It is a problem of every civilized | nation—not ours alone. It has been solved in some countries by starting

huge armament programs, but we | make this census complete, honest

| Americans do not want to solve it

theo way.

| Nevertheless, as a nation we | adopted the policy that no unem- | ployed man or woman can be permitted to starve for lack of aid. That is still our policy. But the | situation calls for a permanent cure | and not just a temporary one.

Unemployment relief is, of course, not the permanent cure. The permanent cure lies in finding suitable | jobs in industry and agriculture for | all willing workers. It involves cooperative effort and planning which will lead to the absorption of this | unused manpower in private indus- | try. Such planning calls for facts | which we do not now possess. Such planning applies not only to

employed and we are going to con- | duct it in the genuinely eto 5 cratic American way. This is to be a wholly voluntary | census. We are going to hold the mirror up to ourselves and try to get, not only a true and honest reflection of our present unemployment conditions, but facts which | will help us to plan constructively | for the future. Only in a nation whose people are alert to their own self-interest and alive to their responsibilities of citizenship could such a voluntary plan succeed. I am confident that this great American undertaking will succeed. Every effort is being put forth to make all of our people understand and appreciate fully its significance and I am sure you will all give it your helpful aid as you have in previous efforts aimed at national improvement, and through which our people have shown their capacity for self-government. On next Tuesday, Nov. 16, the Post Office Department, through its farflung and highly efficient organization, will undertake to deliver to every abode in the United States an unemployment report card containing 14 simple questions.

DOUBLE POSTCARD

The report card which the postman will leave at your door on Tuesday is a double postcard, larger than the customary card. It is addressed especially to those who are unemployed or partly unemployed, and who are able to work and are seeking work. This card contains a message to you from me carrving the assurance that if you will give me all the facts, it will help us in planning for the benefit of those who need and want work and do not now have it. This message |calls upon the unemployed and everyone else in this land to help

and accurate. If all unemployed and partly un- | employed persons, who are able to | work and who are seeking work, will | conscientiously fill out these cards |and mail them just as they are, | without stamp or envelope, by or before midnighi Nov. 20, our nation | will have real facts upon which to base a sound re-employment pro- | gram, It is important for every unem- | ployed person to understand that Ns report card is not an application for relief, nor registration for

a job. This is purely and simply a fact-seeking census. When yon | receive this card you will note that the 14 questions are designed to | | give this nation a wider basis of | knowledge of its unemployment

Text of Roosevelt Census Address

the unemployed and the partly un- | partial unemploymnet, but we will| have less of the needs of modern

know the geographical location of unemployment by states and communities. We will likewise be able to tell what age groups are most severely affected. But most important of all, we will know the work qualifications of the unemployed; we will know in what industries they are suited to function. and we will be equipped to determine what future industrial trends are most likely to absorb these idle workers. ’

‘BE GOOD NEIGHBORS’

phasize that only ployed, who are able to work, and who are seeking work, should fill out these cards. All others may disregard them.

But I appeal to all of you who are employed today to enlist as good neighbors to those who are unemployed in your communities and who may need help in filling out their cards properly and promptly. They may need the

stimulus of your co-operation, to | recognize the importance of this | field of ig when ‘we have

national effort to help them.

I think this neighborly co-opera-tion will be very helpful in dispelling from the minds of the unemployed all fear that the information sought in this census is to be used for any purpose other than helpfulness. I repeat the assurance to the unemployed that the information which you give on these report cards will in no sense be used against you, but so far as lies within my power will be employed for

your own good and for the welfare |

of the nation.

When we have ascertained the full facts of unemployment, we can extend the voluntary and neighborly character of this effort to the task of finding the solution to the perplexing problem. Its importance

justifies a national approach, free

from prejudices or partisanship and warrants the co-operative endeavors of business, of labor, of agriculture and of government. I am confident that this nation of ours has the genius to reorder its affairs and possesses the physical resources to make it possible for everyone, young or old, to enjoy the opportunity to work and earn. There is neither logic nor necessity for one-third of our population to

tial share of corporate earnings must I think it is necessary to em- | those unem- |

life than make for decent living.

BASIS OF PROSPERITY

Our national purchasing power is the soil from which comes all our prosperity. The steady flow of wages to our millions of workers is essential if the products of our in-

dustry and of our farmers are to be consumed,

Our far-sighted industrial leaders now recognize that a very substan-

be paid out in wages, or the soil from which these industries grow will soon become impoverished. Our farmers recognize that their largest customers are the workers for wages, and that farm markets cannot be maintained except through widespread purchasing power.

This unemployment problem is, therefore, one in which every individual and every economic group has a direct interest. It is a problem whose discussion must be removed from the field of prejudice to the We shall find the the facts, and having the facts, accept our mutual responsibilities. The inherent right to work is one of the elemental privileges of a free people. Continued failure to achieve that right and privilege by anyone who wants to work and needs work is a challenge to our civilization and to our security. Endowed, as our nation is, with abundant physical resources, and inspired as it should

STATE SERVICE PLACES 910 IN PRIVATE JOBS

Skilled Workers Needed in Commerce, Bureau Head Says.

A total of 910 persons were placed in private jobs by the Indiana State Employment Service during October, George J. Smith, manager, reported today. Commercial and professional fields absorbed 25 per cent of the total, another 25 per cent by industry and the remainder in miscellaneous einployment,

Mr. Smith reported a continued shortage of skilled workers in the commercial and professional fields. Male stenographers, office machine operators, salesmen, and secretaries are in demand he said.

be with the high purpose to make those resources and opportunities available for the enjoyment of all, we approach this problem of re-em-ployment with the real hope of finding a better answer than we have now. “The unemployment census, as a sensible first step to a constructive re-employment program, ought to be a successful bit of national teamwork from which will come again the feeling of national solidarity which is the strength and the glory of the American people.”

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COLLEGE PRESIDENT | TO SPEAK SUNDAY

BUTLER GROUP HOLDS DEVOTIONAL SERVICE

The first of a series of morning devotional services conducted by the | Butler University Student Volun= teers, campus missionary organiza tion, was held today, Charlotte Cox, | executive secretary, announced. The |

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with which he had been scheduled to open the 12th forum season at | ) the Kirshbaum Community Center, |8¢t rid of what we call the peaks Mr. Morley characterized Mr. Mar- | and valleys of employment and unquis as “one of the most moving | employment—trying with the help |; so mation poets of our time.” | of industry to plan against produc- | questions we will know not only He traced the career of Mr. Mar- | ing more goods one year than the |{1e extent of unemployment and quis, who came from the Midwest | people can or will consume, and | _ and whose books have retained its |cutting production drastically the | flavor. - Mr. Marquis’ wife was a |following year with the resulting | former Indianapolis resident, Mar- [layoff of hundreds of thousands of

| workers but to the employers in in- | dustry because it involves trying to |

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employed wholeheartedly give the § sought in these 14

jorie Potts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Potts. Known on the stage as Marjorie Vonnegut, she died in 1936. Before her marriage to Mr. Marquis, she was the wife of Walter Vonnegut, Indianapolis, from whom she was divorced in 1925. Compared With Mark Twain Adding personal reminiscences to his talk, Mr. Morley eulogized the creator of such literary characters as Archy Mehitabel. Pointing out that much of Mr. Marquis’ work was hammered out as six-day-week hack writing, Mr. Morley drew parallels between his career and that of Mark Twain. The influence of Twain, Joel Chandler Harris and O. Henry was apparent in Marquis’ early work, Mr. Morley said. But Mr. Marquis went on later to strike out beyond those influences, he declared. “It astounds me to find that Don Marquis is known better in New York and Boston, and even in London, than in his native empire, the Middle West,” Mr. Morley said. “It should be the duty of every Middle Westerner to become better acquainted with this great character who is so close to them.”

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