Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1941 — Page 19

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FRIDAY, FEB. 14, 1941

Hoosier Vagabond

YORK, Yorkshire, England, (By Wireless) —Yester‘day I received notice that if I didn’t get a move on pretty quickly I was to be expelled in disgrace from the Guild of Perpetual Travelers. So after six weeks of gathering moss in London I packed my old sugar sack, shouldered my tin hat and gas mask, and hopped a northbound rattler to see how the war was getting on in the hinterland. I took a 4 p.’m. train out of London on the 160-mile ride to York. Being an old grandma about traveling, I got to the station half an hour early, and a good thing, too, for within a minute after the train backed into the station there was hardly a seat left. Easily two-thirds of the people : on trains these days are in uniform. There are very few women. . Soldiers on leave travel with full kit, including rifle. And a soldier with his full kit resembles a packhorse starting on a 10-day camping trip. They carry all this stuff because they must be ready at any moment. If the invasion comes while they're at home they simply report to the nearest Army post and start shooting,

A Visit to York

You might think that with a war on, half the hotels in England /would have to close. But it’s just the. opposite. The hotels have waiting lists, and if you don’t make reservations ahead you are liable to find yourself homeless. That nearly happened to me in ¥ork when I arrived at 8 o'clock in the evening. If it hadn't been for a beautiful switchboard girl who called every hotel and boarding house in town I would have had to sit in the lobby all night. I fed her chocolates while

she phoned, so we both profited.

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Finally she found a place, a funny little semi-hotel that turned out to be grand. The owner was also the ‘bellboy, and he built me a coal fire in the grate, put a

- hot-water bottle in the bed, and then stood and talked

for half an hour, . There are many good-sized cities in England that haven't been blitzed yet. York has had only a few ‘raids; and only a small number of people have been killed by bombs in this city of 85,000. As we stood in my room talking, J said to the owner: : “What shall I do about ventilation tonight? I can’t

IT'S A MATTER mentioned here before, but the fact is the phonograph record business is amazing even to those who are running it. Frank Pickett, manager of one of the downtown “platter” shops, doesn’t know what it’s all leading to. . In his sleep he can see hordes of people - swooping down on him, screaming for the latest in rhythm. The recent Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra recording is outselling the rest of the classical offerings put together for a whole year. In the way of jazz, the Xavier Cught arrangement of ‘“Perfidia” is going almost faster than they can keep it stocked. And “Frenesi” is right behind. In a couple of weeks, he thinks, Tommy Dorsey’s, Fame and Fortune radio : program winner, “Oh! Look at Me Now,” will be heading the list. Toscha Seidel’s violin rendition of “Intermezzo” also is a leading item, and some like Wayne King’s “Souvenir de Vienne,” which is the same melody as “Intermezzo” and hy the same composer, Heinz Provost. This is a matter Mr. Pickett is unable to explain.

The ASCAP-BMI Wrangle

As for the ASCAP-BMI wrangle, Mr. Pickett says the radio ban so far hasn’t hurt the ASCAP record tunes. But when the hepcats get tired of the ASCAP songs they heard on the radio, then the BMI numbers will surge ahead, says Mr. Pickett. ASCAP simply is going to have to find a way to popularize its output,

for most customers buy recordings they have heard

"previouslyfon the radio. But the ASCAP-BMI war has had its healthy ‘aspects, says Mr. Pickett. Speaking as an old guitar strummer of long experience, Mr. Pickett says the BMI numbers have a fresh, original appeal which

Washington

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Lincoln’s birthday, as the principal saint’s day of the Republican Party, was observed this year under the shadow of disturbing question marks. ia I'm not talking about the war, but about the very real internal question of whether we are to maintain our two-party system or sink by default into a one-party future. That is not a theoretical possibility. It is an actual one that stares us in the face.

The Republican Party still lives in name, but in little more than nante only. For eight years it nas been effective only sporadically and in a minor way. As a check on the New Deal, the Republicans have been mostly futile. When the ; New Deal has been really checked, as in the Supreme Court fight, the checking has been done by the Democrats themselves. Through eight years down to this day, that has been so. The Republicans, with a few exceptions, wanted to oppose the Lend-Lease Bill, or else rewrite it drastically. Yet they got only one superficial and probably meaningless amendment into the House bill. The amending was done by the Democrats. And in the Senate fight, the Republican opponents of the bill will have as their only real leader the Democrat, Senator - Burton K. Wheeler. We have, in reality, had one-party government during the last eight years. The check has come from within the governing party, until on this very day the Republican’ Party lives feebly under a third-term Democratic President.

A Few Warning Voices

Republicans, at least some of the thinking ones, are aware of the deathly pallor that has come over their party. Some are trying to break the tragic facts to the party generally. Governor Landon is warning Jehow leaders that the party cannot continue to ignore Tabor to the extent that it has in the past.

WASHINGTON, Thursday.—I always get a thrill when I stand at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial and watch the flags waving and see the flowers being plated on his shrine on Feb. 12. So many terrible things were said of him while he was alive; if by chance, he was the person that those who said them, described. On the other hand, there were people, many of them, all over this country, who did not wait for his death to give him their love and devotion. And when his death occurred, they felt they had lost a personal friend. : One can not live in the White House without feeling the infiuence of the Lincoln tradition, because so many rooms are marked ; with his name. Aside from that, : time has aliowed us to get away from the bitterness of his day and to evaluate his services to mankind. His passion for justice and freedom for all, his great kindliness, which made him at times put mercy above justice; seem to be driven home as you look at his portraits and live in this hoyse. He was never petty. There is no record that he ever made people suffer for things said of him. His patignce seems to have been phenomenal, and his sense of humor allowed him to rebuke with on amusing story what some people might have called

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By Ernie Pyle

open the blackout eurtain with this fire going in the grate.” : : : He said, “Oh, this terrible old building is full of drafts. Youll get| plenty of air without opening a window.” And he was right. Until nearly midnight I sat before my fireplace reading the newspapers. I felt very strange, way up here in York. The city, covered with snow and very quiet, seemed terribly old and nice in a Dickenslike way. Although it was February, you somehow expected to see Santa Claus coming down the chimney. The papers had grave editorials warning about the coming invasion attempt. I read and thought, and read and thought, hers alone in my ancient room in old Yorkshire, and a funny thing happened.

His Fears Are Quieted

I suddenly realized that I ha@ been in London so long I had acquired the London outlook, the London casualness, the London assurance that no matter what happens we cian stand it. The Londoner’s psychology is like that of the aviator—somebody willl get killed tonight, but it'll always be somebody else, never me. But now, away from my eight million friends in London, this psychological cloak of safety fell away. Here in these strange surroundings, among people not yet hardened to bombs, here where the warning siren is an event, here the whole horrible meaning of invasion shone clear before me Jike a picture, The frightful slaughter that even an unsuccessful invasion would bring grew stark and real to me for the first time. And I tell you I became absolutely petrified with fear for myself. I would have given everything I had last night to be back in ‘America. : I probably wouldn't have slept a wink if it hadn’t been for the bathroom. I discovered it after midnight, when everybody else had gone to bed. The bathrcom was about 20 feet square, and it had twin bathtubs! Yes sir, two big old-fashioned bathtubs sitting side by side with nothing between, just like twin beds. Twin bathtubs (Had never occurred to me before. But having actually seen them, my astonishment grew into approval, I said to myself, Why not? Think what you could do with twin bathtubs. You could give a party. You could invite the Lord Mayor in for tea and a tub. You could have a national slogan, “Two tubs in every bathroom.” The potentialities of twin bathtubs assumed gigantic proportions in my disturbed mind, and I finally fell asleep on the ides, all my fears forgotten.

Inside Indianapolis (4nd “Our Town”)

ASCAP didn’t have, For instance (and this is for old geetar experts exclusively) in “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” the chord change was C, E7, A7, D7, G17 back to C. Lots of tunes had the same arrangement and a guitarist could depend on it. But now, says Mr. Pickett with a twinkle, you don’t know exactly what's coming, : Son, hand us that mandolin and roll up those rugs.

How We Do Get Around!

On Jan. 30 “Inside” told the story of a woman who came into the Business Branch of the Library and asked Miss Frances Foote for some-book she thought was called “Mein Kampf.” She didn’t know who wrote it. 1 LR Well, since thef [the story has been told on the press association wires, WLW, anda local radio station. And that’s not all. Two clipping bureaus have sent Miss Foote the story, one at Cleveland and another at Santa Barbara, Cal. Then it was in the magazine, News-Week. Miss Ethel Cleland, Business Branch librarian, hopes Hitler hears about this.

Authentic, Old Chappies! DIRECTOR RICHARD HOOVER of the Civic

Theater believes fri a@ithenticity. For the next Civie

offering—Noel Coward’s “Private Lives” March 7—he has cast two real British accents. Leading parts will be taken by Dorothy Robinson, a musical comedy performer in the London of World War I, and Ronald Skyrme, who, although a Welshman, talks much like his English cousins. He was in the British Navy when it was the Kaiser instead of Hitler they were after, Mrs. Skyrme, incidentally, i= at the Lakewood Ohig Little Theater, rehearsing the world premiere of “Leighton Limited.” the work of Muriel Brown, an Indianapolis playwright. ?

By Raymond Clapper

Thomas E. Dewey, in a Lincoln Day speech here, told his fellow Republicans that we are passing through a period of deep social and economic changes which have only been intensified ‘by the emergency, that we must face the prospect of Government intervention in econofnic, life indefinitely and that our peaceful evolution #hust not only continue but accelerate, 5 Clare Boothe, af the Republican Club dinner in New York, made probably the frankest and most brutal speech thit ever shook a Republican Party occasion, Not being a candidate for office, she could say the things thit needed saying. She said the! party must face the fact that, as presently constituted, the Republican Party may never again elect another President.

The Fight Against Willkie

“Historically,” Miss Boothe continued, “ours has always been an a¢tive and dynamic two-party system, and the inescapable logic of the situation is, that if the Republican’ Party can never again elect another President, the chances are, sooner or later, there will be no more Presidents elected in America.”

She said the Republican Party could continue for a long time in its present condition, as a sort of chronic vermiform appendix in the body politic, but that if the totalitarian fever which has swept out democratic institiitions in many other countries continued, the Republican appendix would be removed in time. ; All this talk is given meaning because of the fact that the dominant organization leaders in the party are at this very moment conspiring to rid the party

of Wendell Willkie, although he is the strongest|

leader that has appeared in years. The controlligg leaders of the party, differing with some of Mr. Willkie’s views, are unable to find a place for him anywhere short of the ashcan. His talent as a popular leader is something the Republican Party has! not had in years. Yet the party leaders wauld blandly throw away this rare asset, and settle back in solitary complacency to enjoy their political halitosis. -

By Eleanor Roosevelt

the virtues that made life better for us all in the long run. :

Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Luxemburg,

‘and some of hef party, went with me to Mt. Vernon

yesterday afterrigon. Charles C. Wall, the resident superintendent it Mt. Vernon, took us to the tomb and house whers Mrs. Horace M. Towner, regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies Association, met us and accompanied us through the house. Her Royal Highness was very appreciative of the beautiful situation and this country piace built in colonial days. I never cease to marvel at the ability with which women of that period must have run their numerous businesses in orcler to provide their very large families, which included all their dependents, with shelter, food and clothing, and recreation. Education, judged by the size of the school house, did not require much space in those cays, After the dinner given here Jast night, Sigmund Spaeth, known on the air as “the tune detective,” entertained lis all for a half hour or more” with “music for fun. I was delighted to see many of the busy tired men around us relax and laugh. I think it meant more fo the Americans perhaps than to our foreign guests, but even they seemed to Ife entertained and amused. 9. : : This morning, my press conference ladies met the Grand Duchess ‘and then we held a short conference. Today our guests are busy, but I think on the whole

they are not being put through as close a schedule

as usual, so I hope they may have more time to enjoy themselves. © o' ;

SCHRICKER AX TO FALL ON 3 MORE RIPPERS

Vetoes Await Highway, Finance and Keystone DecentralizationsBills.

Witn Govarnor Henry F. Schricker preparing to veto three major G. O. P. “decentralization” measures, the

more bills to his desk today. The “big ripper,” keystone of the G. O. P. program to revise the structure of state government, along with the bills to shake up the State Highway and Financial Institutions Departments, were passed earlier this wee. Governor Schricker was expected to send: them back to the Legislature with his veto today.

More Vetoes Expected

At least four of the House bills given final passage by the Senate yesterday are expected to be vetoed by the Governor. These are: 1. The Institutions Bill, which would place each of the 21 State penal, benevolent and reformatory institutions under separate bj-parti-san boards. 2. The G. O. P. bill which creates a State Board of Public Works and Property composed of the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor and the Treasurer. This is one of the four boards set up to “decentralize” State governmental control. 3. The G. O. P. bill setting up a State Board of Finance composed of the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer 4. The “repealer” which throws out a number of laws, most of them passed during the 1933 re-organiza-tion which conflict with the “decentralization” program.

Senate Amends Bill

Several minor amendments were made in the Senate with which the House will have to concur before the bill can be sent to the Senate. THe House passed the Senate anti-nepotism bill yesterday to prohibit relatives from being employed by State officials. The Democratic House minority made a last attempt to have it amended to include brothers-in-law or sisters-in-law but they were voted down by the Republicans. A House bill passed by the Senate would clarify the State Securities LaW and permit the Secretary of State to appoint the Securities Commission. This measure, although introduced by Republican leaders in the House, is expected to be signed by Governor Schricker. Confusion prevailed among members of the Marion County House delegation when the Senate bill to abolish the filing of signed petitions by candidates for primary nominatibns came up for final passage.

Votes Are Changed

Local representatives did not realize the bill exempted Indianapolis until the roll call was half over. Then most of them changed their votes from “aye” to “no.” After the roll call was announced, a motion was adopted to reconsider the House action today. A bill 'was passed by a 60 to 30 “vote along party lines which would amend the present law providing for co-operation of the State with the Federal Government in receiving Federal funds. Other bills passed and sent to the Governor would: 1. Exempt special representatives of the State Department of Financial Institutions from payments of court costs in liquidation proceedings. ; 2. Eliminate the necessity of having gross income tax statements notarized. 3. Provide that no judgment against the county shall constitute a lien against the county's real or personal property. ; x

Restricts Tag Deadline

4. Prohibit the Governor, or any official from extending the auto license deadline beyond the legal date. 5. Legalize the payment of additional salaries to city clerkstreasurers for handling the business of municipal utilities. 6. Authorize city councils and town boards to appropriate funds for salary payments under provisions of the previous bill. . 7. Provide for the reinstatement of city firemen after discharge from military service. 8. Amend the cemetery law to provide -that towns having a population of 1900 or less may invest their funds derived from municipally owned cemeteries.

Reduce Liability

9. Raise to 160,000 the population limit for counties which may have a purchasing agent.

hear petitions for the issuance of birth records. : The House Labor Committee voted to recommend for passage a bill

to liberalize the Workmen's Com- |

pensation Law after reducing the liability from $10,000 to $6500. The present law provides $5000.

REPEAL SCORE POINT

Opponents of the bill to repeal the full-crew law won their first round in the Senate today. They carried, 27 to 20, a motion to table a compromise amendment introduced by the bill's authors, Senators, Claude McBride (D. Jeffersonville) and Orville T. Stout (R. Vincennes). ; The amendment would have left the present law in effect, increasing from 70 to 85 cars on a freight train the number mecessary to require the addition of one brakeman. Senator William H. ‘Lee (D. Princeton) led the ‘fight against the amendment, ‘declaring “this would take safety aff the railroads.” He said that experience had shown that an extra brakeman was needed on trains hauling more. than 70 cars. Opponents of the repeal measure

| when it comes up

predicted that it would be defi

10. Authorize circuit courts to

FOES OF FULL-CREW|

Ma rines ‘Chute to Earthas Corps Practices

A string of five parachutes, bearing members of the U. S. Marine Corps’ first parachute troops, drift from a huge twin-motored - Marine: Corps plane, high above the Naval Air Base, as Marine parachutists practice mass jumping.

Senate and House weré to send 18] F

SECOND SECTION

MILK CONTROL

‘Unfair,’ Says One Group at Hearing; ‘Essential,’ Says Another.

By TIM TIPPETT The milk control law, denounced by one faction and applauded by another since its enactment six years ago, once again has brought dairymen from throughout, Indiana

many farmer-producers three-hour verbal battle over the: law’s merits in the jammed Senate chamber last night.

to the State House.

distributors and held a

Civic leaders,

The hearing originally was sched= -

uled on an amendment which would allow farmers to sell milk at their farms without complying with price regulations fixed by the law. But it soon developed into a freee for-all discussion of the act itself.

Consumers Represented Indianapolis consumers -were reps

resented hy a delegation headed by

= Paul C. Wetter, Indianapolis Fed=

ASK HOME RULE IN ASSESSMENT

Bill Gives State Tax Board The Power to Prescribe Uniform Appraisals.

A “home rule” bill leaving the reassessment of real estate up to each county or township was introduced in the Senate yesterday by Senator Lawrence E. Carlson (R. Huntington). : The bill would give the State Tax Board the power to adopt a manual prescribing a uniform system of appraising property throughout the State and would create three types of local committees to work with the assessors. The reassessment proposal will be

discussed tonight at 8 p. m. at a meeting of the Indianapolis Taxpayers Association in the World War Memorial, according to C. A. McKamey, association president.

Seven to Explain

A committee of seven men, representatives of the organization which drafted the bill, will explain the proposal and answer questions. They are Frank Murray, Taxpayers Association; Frank Moore, Indiana Real Estate Bodrd; Fred Schmidt, Building and Managers Association; Howard Friend, State Chamber of Commerce; L. B. Cooperider, Savings and Loan League; Hall Cochrane, Indiana Manufacturers Association, and Anson Thomas, the Indiana Farm Bureau. The three types of committees to be formed by the bill to work with the assessors are the county building: committees, which will study local ‘building costs and establish “equalization factors” to apply to state-wide basic building cost figures; the township land committees to work with the assessors in fixing land valuations and the county land committees, to equalize within the county the land valuations fixed in each township. .

.. Called a Local Job

Senator Carlson pointed out that under this system real estate assessing remains essentially a local job. Each of the county committees are to be composed of four freeholders named by the county assessor while the township committee will consist of four freeholders named by the township ‘assessor. Deputies are ‘to use the manual prescribed by the State Tax Board in making assessments. The Board already has such a manual ready for use. ; The bill does not touch upon the matter of a state-wide reassessment. Senator Carlson egplained that that matter was left out of the hill because there was too much opposition to it. . “The-bill will provide a scientific appraisal’ for those that want it,” he said.

HOLD EVERYTHING

o Mr.Welch Nips [] I eo . Plot’ in Bud THINGS got pretty racy at the Works Board meeting today, but Vice President Lgo F, Welch calmed them down. Board members, needing gravel for streets, recalled seeing a pile of it south of City Hospital. But it belongs to the Health Board. So they toyed with the idea of sending out a Works Board truck crew, loading - on three cubic yards and racing away before the doctors woke up to what went on. But Vice President Welch suggested they write a letter asking for the gravel. “It always pays to be polite,” he said.

‘COMPROMISE’ RESTS WITH GOP

Schricker Tells Dawson and Knapp Way Is Open ‘For Discussion.

Governor Henry F. Schricker today had placed the compromise issue in his “jurisdictional” dispute with the Legislature back. in the hands of Republican leaders. Mr. Schricker said he had sent

written invitations to Lieut. Gov. Charles M. Dawson and House Speaker James. M. Knapp “reminding them again that I am still open to discussion of suggestions for a sensible agreement.” The Governor explained that his action had been prompted by stdtements of several Republican leaders last week-end that the Governor’s veto of two “decentralization” measures had wiped out all hope for a compromise. These G. O. P. statements have followed unanimous support of the “ripper” program by county chairmen and Republican editors at a statewide conference. Lieut. Gov. Dawson was absent from the Senate yesterday dye to illness. Speaker Knapp said he had conferred with Governor Schricker yes-. terday, but that no party matters were discussed. He said they had talked over budggt and other legislative matters, Reports of a.possible compromise have been heard frequently in the last several weeks. Republican legislative leaders called on the Governor almost two weeks ago and, after a lengthy conference, said that other meetings might be held later. Several business and other organizations have been demanding that the Legislature and the Govenor settle their “jurisdictional” dispute “out of court”. Although a few of the Republican “ripper” bills have been passed, many of the major ones still are awaiting final legislative’ action.

. 1941 BY NEA INC. T. M.

U. S. PAT. OFF. and see if you can find me a rush deal

late action on House Bill 14, which

{not been able to submerge his tax

.| net income, he must do an annual

_| more than 40 times as much as the

| William Jenner (R. Shoals) is ap-

DEMAND SLASH IN GROSS LEVY

Retailers Ask Senate to Approve Cut Provided In House Bill.

The Legislature is “committed beyond all question” to granting Indiana retail merchants immediate relief from their “inequitable and wholly unfair” Gross Income Tax burden, the Associated Retailers of Indiana asserted in a bulletin issued today. The bulletin urges favorable Sen-

reduces the present 1 per cent tax on retailers to one-half per cent. The bill was passed by the House Tuesday, In 1933, when the Gross Income tax law was passed, according to the bulletin, legislators assessed the retailer four times as much as the manufacturer and wholesaler and “many times higher than the salarijed man” in the belief the. retaller could pass his tax along in the sale price of merchandise, - The retailer, is was added, has

in the sale price of merchandise for several reasons. : One of the reasons listed is competition. . “If all retailers without exception included the tax in their mark-ups, then the competitive underselling that results when one merchant raises his price ‘to include the tax and another doesn’t would be eliminated,” the bulletin stated. “Such Policy Impossible” “However, such uniformity of policy on the part of 40,000 individual businesses is not possible in this free country; and when one merchant pays the tax out of pocket in order to lower his prices.and undersell his competitors (expecting to get extra ‘ volume to help ‘absorb his tax loss) he forces his competitors to do likewise—they must compete in price to stay in business. . . , “The second reason is nationally advertised or standard prices. When the price of an article is widely established “through advertising or custom, any effort to raise the price to include the tax naturally incurs resentment and loss in business. “The third reason relates to lowpriced merchandise where the amount of the tax on each separate item is less than 1 cent and so cannot be added accurately without the addition of mills to our financial system. : Customers Object

“The fourth reason is customer objection. Any suspicion by the customer that the tax is being included P prices. is resented and, of course, the tax cannot be collected forcibly’ by law when it is shown openly as a separate item.” The bulletin asserts that the retailer pays 1 per.cent on his gross income whereas the salaried man pays this rate only on his net income. ‘ ; . As an example, it was stated, “the salaried person receiving an annual net income of $5000.pays $40 gross income tax. For the average successful merchant to produce $5000

gross sales volume of $200,000, and pay a Gross Income Tax of $1970—

salaried man pays. on the same amount of net income.” The Association commented that while the merchants of Indiana are not’ trying to push this burden on to any other group, they are “insisting that this 8-year-old wrong must be adjusted.” In answer to the argument that the State can’t afford to do anything for the retailers at this time, because of the loss of revenue, the Association said the “exigencies of the current budget problem are not a satisfactory reason:for ducking this obligation.” . H. B. 14 now is in the Senate Finance Committee awaiting committee action.

JENNER PROPOSES 5-MINUTE DEBATES

Senate debate will be speeded up after- Monday -if a resolution introduced today by Majority Leader

proved. The motion would limit debate to five minutes and would give the sponsor of the motion or bill an additional two minutes to close debate. : *

Senator Jenner declared that “this| .

eration of Community Civic Clubs

president. ‘ Mr. Wetter, long a foe of the Milk

Control Act, called the law “per= nicious and unfair.”

The Federation insists the act works for the benefit of the dis« tributors and is unfair to the mae jority of farmer-producers. Mr, Wetter asserted that “we are against so-called health inspectors whose only duty is to inspect some pro ducers out of business.” Charles Strauss, Speedway Civie League president, and Albert Neuer burg, vice president of the Fed«' eration, also denounced the bill, Other city clubs have joined the

Federation before other legislative

“large ce spread between what the farmer receives for the milk and what the consumer pays for the bottled product.” . Oscar. Swank, secretary of the Midwest Producers Creamery Association of Columbus, Ind. also attacked the act on the grounds that ‘it worked for “the benefit of a few.” He charged that control

one small group. : Far in the majority of those pres ent were those in favor of the reenactment of the law. Paper lapel tags proclaimed their sentiment and arguments against the law were often greeted with and interrupted by hisses, boos and shouts.

Claim Quality Improved

Glenn Morgan, an Illinois milks producer and former member of the Indiana Milk Control Board, said that “it is imperative that our Legislature re-enact this law. : “We farmers were in competition with each other before the act was passed and now under regulation, that is almost a thing of the past.” He declared “agriculture is in a precarious position. Six inonths ago we could hire men to work on our farms for $40 a month, Today those same men are making 8 to 12 dollars a day in munitions.” Others agreed that more milk has - been consumed since the law went into effect, the quality has improved, the farmer has received more for his product and the retail price has been lowered. Delegates favoring the act came to the meeting from Evansville, Kokomo, Ft. Wayne, Richmond, Lae Porte, Logansport, South Bend, Crown Point and many cther, milk sheds.

WHITE RIVER BLVD. ALMOST FINISHED

The opening of a new section of White River Boulevard, East Drive, will be announced soon by the Park and Flood Boards. Now nearing completion, the new roadway would link W. 38th St. and W. 30th St., running atop a newly built levy on the river's east bank. The opening of the boulevard

to the west side of the river at 16th St. The new. section is-part of a long-term plan to provide boule vards:on both sides of the river for rapid: transportation downtown.

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—Is the kingfish & fish, bird uadruped ? 2—E)\ Caudillo is the title of the dictator of Spain, Russia or Greece? 3—Which of these officers ranks highest in the U, 8. Major, Lieutenant ‘Colonel or Colonel? : 4—What city employees are called “white wings” . 5—Are mechanical inventions proe tected by the Copyright Laws? 6—In which ¢ity of the United States is the famous street named | Pennsylvania Ave.?

ciate Queen Liliuokalani?

8—For what was the team of Gile bert and Sullivan famous?

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