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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
Politics Not Sufficient

VXTH-LE democracy Visualizes
w politics, especially of a parti-
san character, as essential to good
government, occasions contantly are
arising where something more is
required.
First, the Dawes plan and then
the Young plan were needed to
clear the reparations tangle.
Partisan politics is largely defen-
sive-the chief usefulness of one
party being to check another.
Further than that, the present
day problems of government are
economic, as well as political, and
demand the expert knowledge of
those who know trade, industry and
/ finance.
In this connection it is Well to
remember that statecraft is a fol-
low-up, that the official side of life
largely reflects its unofficial activ-
tiles and ideals. and that politics al
ways is borrowing on society for its
inspiration.
In Greece, the government was
largely speculative and experimental
because that represented the Greek
mind.
In Rome, after the empire was
established. the government be-
came cats-paw OF the army, be-
cause conquest and defense were re-
garded as all-important.
During the middle ages, the va
rious governments of western Eu-
rope yielded largely to religious in
fuence, and in this age Of commerce
and industry, governments are dane
ing to the economic tune.
Politics never has been, and
never will be, separable from those
social forces which grow out of ne
cesssity on the one hand, and prog
ress on the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
Russia Still at Fault

ID USSIA foreStalls such action as
N high heaven might have taker
in response to worldwide prayers by
ordering less violence. not only to-
ward the church, but toward the
peasants.
At the same time Russia has q
long way to go to square the sit
uation with those principles and
ideals which prevail in most other
countries
Under the latest proclamation
churches can be closed by a majority
vote of a village, town or district
provided the central authority ap-
proves.
While that represents a vast i'm
provement over previous conditions
it still fails to safeguard minority
rights, which, of course, constitute
the basis of religious liberty.
AS matter of common sense, re-
ligious liberty is impossible where
a community can shut up churches
synagogues or other religious insti-
tuions by the mere process of show
ing that more than one-half the
people oppose them.
q +
Apparently the Hoover commits
sion has found a way out of the
Haitian muddle, with all factions
ready to accept Eugene Roy as pro-
visionaI president when Borno's
term expires May Is.
The joke of it is that M. Roy finds
favor in all eyes, not because he has
been leader, or has evidenced any
peculiar capacity for politics, but be-
cause he has made success of his
own business, by minding it.
In other words, we are wiggling
out of another political mixup by
the time-honored method of turning
to some one who is not politician
for guidance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
Annie Barrel

TINE other contribution for the
l. day is from myself. No one
need complain that he has read this
bit before.
I admit that possibility, but ]
doubt il anybody will remember. Tor
it is more than six years old. 1t is
about Humpty Dumpty, and maybe,
in my sub-conscious mind, Whalen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
BrandeiS VS., Whalen


TTERE is what Judge Brandels
II said in an opinion he gave on
the case of Charlotte Whitney
convicted in California for member
ship in the Communist labor party
"Those who won our independence
by revolution were not towards
They did not fear political change
They did not exalt order at the cost
of liberty.
To courageous, self-reliant men
with confidence in the power OF free
and fearless reasoning applied
through the processes Of popular
government, no danger flowing from
speech can be deemed clear and
present unless the incidence OF the
evil apprehended is so imminent
that it may befall before there is OPP
portunity for full discussion.
"If there be time to expose
through discussion the falsehood and
fallacies to avert the evil by the
process of education, the remedy tc
be applied is more speech, not en-
at therefore IS always open 70
Americans to challenge a law
abridging free speech and assembly
by showing that there was no emer-
gency justifying it.
st am unable to assent to the
suggestion in the opinion OF the
court that assembling with a pol1ti-
cal party, forming to advocate the
desirability of proletarian reVolu-
ton by mass action at some date
necessarily far in the future, IS not
a right within the protection OF
the fourteenth amendment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17

"rrHE STORY OF a LEAF" a

1.-THE STORY OF a LEAF, as
L DR.. Merriem calls this partic-
ular chapter in his book, will serve
as a sample of his charming and
delightful style and his ability to
transfer to the reader the enthus-
iasm and truly poetic feeling Of the
real scientist.
ut happens often that the greater
things of nature, as in human lte'
DR.. Merriam writes, ARE only inn
perfectly appreciated until in the
light of a single circumstance sud
denly they arise to overshadowing
Importance.
$50 we read that when Elijah
stood upon the mount before the
Lord, it was not in the strong wind.
nor vet in the earthquake or the
fire. but through the still, small
voice that the Almighty was rec
ognized.
"On a recent journey to Columbia
River gorge I had the pleasure OF
revisiting a region familiar from
many years of interest in the
meaning of its history.
LAS on other occasions the Dor
dering cliffs. with SUBMITS disap-
pearing in mist and the river NOV
ing majestically below, made me see
the canyon in all it strength d
beauty.
I'm the biologists language l read
again the record Of ancient floods
of lava piled up to build noun
tain in which later the river cut
this gorge.
But it remained for fragment
of a leaf, f1utUering from its burial
place in the foundations Of the val
ley wall, to give through compell-
ing vividness of it's own reality the
clearest expression of this story OF
creation.
THE finding of the leaf continues
Away fresh in memory as one OF
those occasions when the past seems
to open, and for the moment we
look through to see the Builder at
work"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
n tglIor,s shin, d 4
B II
Z Daily y
Lenten Devotion
Monday, March IL
BELIEF IN OURSELVES

BELIEF IN OURSELVES
Read John 17:1-8-Memory verse
Having accomplished the work
which Thou hast given me to do"
John 17:D.
MEDITATION
Accepting ourselves does not
mean a sad resignation to the limi-
tations of our life, but a happy and
joyous belief in ourselves. It is faith
that we can make out of ourselves
something that is eminently worth
while. 1t ought to be matter Of
pride that there is only one of our
kind. A high regard for ones self
is a part of the Christian point
of view. For the Christian believes
that there is some work to do, some
place to fill, for which God sends
him or can use him. Great, happy
souls feel that life is a divine ap-
pointment. This was Jesus expert
ence.
PRAYER
We rejoice, our Father. in thy
summons to become fellow work
ers with thee. Help us with clear
eye to see the tasks that thou has
set before us, and with sincere
heart to pursue them. Forbid chat
we should miss our opportunity
through unwillingness to do our
own work. Amen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
Daily Thought

But in every nation he that fear
eth him, and worketh righteous
ness. is accepted with him.-The
Acts 1875.
We must be afraid Of neither pow
erty nor exile nor imprisonment; Of
fear itself only should We be afraid
Epictetus-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.


Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
IN a recent consideration of the
Il influence of life in the city or in
the country on health, Drs. Haven
Emerson and Earle B. Phelps en-
phasize the fact that man originally
was not adapted to city life and
that only recently has city life be-
gun to be made safe for him.
The largest cities of the middle
ages contained little more than 30
900 people. Today cities Of more
than a million inhabitants are not
infrequent. In 1890, about 80 per
cent of the people lived in the cities,
but today more people live in the
cities than in the country.
OF course, conditions vary in diff
ferent portions OF the United States
In New York, IS per cent Of the
people live in the country.
Cities have grown because Scient1-
fic preventive medicine has made it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17

ideals and opinions expressed
IN this column are those Of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude OF
this DaDer.--The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
SCIENCE
One Fragment of a Leaf
Pressed Into Rock Layer
Tells Scientist Story MI
hons of Years Old.
BY DAVID DIETZ
A Ii well-meaning but misguided

A Ii well-meaning but misguided
IA souls who fear that the advance
of science is taking the poetry and
romance out Of the universe. are
earnestly urged to read THE Liv-
ing Past" by Or. John c. Merriam.
1T has just been published by
Scribners at so.
DR.. Merriam. one of Americas
most distinguished scientists, a
famous geologist and president of
the great Carnegie Institution OF
Washington, proves that science has
discovered romance and poetry In
the earth all the more wonderful,
because they have their foundation
in reality.
The book is a series Of chapters
out of DR.. Merriam'S own scientific
adventures. There is the story OF
the investigation of a cave in Cali
fornia, reputed by Indians to have
contained a magic pool. The magic
DR.. Merriam and his associates
found in it was a page out OF the
earths past history.
There is the story Of the finding
of a fragment of leaf in rock layers
of the Columbia gorge q leaf which
once fluttered in the brHeze in the
sunlight of a 100000 years ago.
then fell to the ground, where 1t
was buried. with the passage OF
time, first under layers of sediment,
then under tons Of lava, leaf
which remained hidden from view
for 100 100000 years until the river
had worn down through the rocks
and exposed it on the edge OF the
canyon. where the biologists keen
eve might find it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-17
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

Governments Must Think Of
the Future as Well as the
Present, and Must Court
Public Good VIII as q Most
Important Factor.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
ALI. RICHMOND
PLANTS LAYING
Off WORKERS
Correspondent Urg es
All to Join TUUL
lBn q Worker Corespondentl

(By a Worker Correspondent
RICHMOND Va.--Well now. I
want to bring some facts before
the workers on the suffering of
the ever growing number of unem-
ployed workers in Richmond.
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
had has laid off 100 yard workers,
engineers, machinists, etc.
Many Plants Lay-off
The Albermarle Paper Mfg. Co.
browns Island Plant) is now only
employing 140-150 workers. Those
still working w1rl; only 3 or 4 days
a week.
O'Brien's Fertilizer Plant en-
ploying now but As to SO workers.
American Tobacco Co. No. 4
branch laid off more than 300
workers. Every morning numbers of
workers still employed are sent
home for the day.
Standard Paper Mfg. Co., Num-
her 1, 2, and mills are now work.
ing at the most days weel. and
many were laid off here also.
Railroad Lays off 100
Richmond Foundry Co. works but
( days week.
Many of them were working as
long as 20 to p years and nov
they've lost every chance of getting
even the little pension they would
get because of seniority.
No Jobs 20 Be Got
As much chance of getting iob
here as a SNOWFALL has in she'll"
So Richmond workers, unem-
rloyed and employed because lat
ter are being forced to do unem-
ployed mems work and may be
laid off any time) must organize
into the class struggle Trade Union
Unity league which believes in
clear-out fight Of workers against
bosses.
RICHMOND WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
MEN Wise TO
OTIS SHOPPERS
Conditions Get Worse
in Harrison Plant
(Bv a Worker Correspondent

(By Worker Correspondent
HARRISON, N. il read last
week in the Daily Worker a letter
sent by a fellow worker from the
Otis Elevator Co. in Harrison and
he is right.
Conditions and wages in the ma
chine shop are getting terrible.
The bosses must have lot of stool
pigeons that come shopping around
and trying to find out if you are
satisfied or "kicker."
Get Wise to Rats
They talk to you against the
company or the government but
we are wise TO them and we can
pose as good, 100 percent loyal,
that we love out our boss.
The few members that belong to
the Machinists' Union are afraid to
declare themselves. What we feel
is the need of a militant organi-
cation and more nuclei in our
shop, and spite of the vigilance Of
the boss Campbell the 100 percent
patriot we car pass our literature
and newspapers along. Now then.
] am with you all the way and
we are only waiting for the proper
time to strike. Long live the Com
munist Party. OTIS SLAVE.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
A. F. L. Union Racket
Gyps Unemployed

(By q Worker Correspondent
CHICAGO.-Having no money to
buy job I turned to distribution
of circulars, as papers advertised
for distributors each morning
The distributors have to be at the
headquarters before 6 o'clock every
morning to wait for their chance,
the laces has no benches and the men
sit on the floor, when they get
tired of standing providing there is
more than standing room.
The regular distributors seldom
get more than three or four days
week, and often half a day. The
maximum pay was $3.50 day, some
places they only paid $3.50 day.
The union charges 81 month and
% cents a day from members and
60 cents a day from non-members
as graft money to officials, this is
another racket same as the Coal
Yards Union.
Rackets, that's what the ALL.
officials are in business for. In
this case they gyp the unemployed.
Let's organize under the fighting,
square and honest Trade Union
Unity League. mean employed
and unemployed workers. Ell.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01

7 ing 70 cents an hour.
We have some Filipino bosses,
who, under the screen of country
men," mislead US and exploit us
in some instances even worse than
i the American bosses. In Idaho
Falls, for instance, 500 Filipino
understanding under a Filipino
contractor in the beet fields-are
shaving IL hours a day for from
| $3.50 to $4.
Fight Against Discrimination
We Filipino workers, who are
brought to this country under false
promises of good conditions" and
equality as American citizens, find
that all this propaganda is only
way to mislead US. For example,
the recent riots in jacksonville and
Stockton show up American I'M
perialism and "Good WILL" These
riots were organized by the Cham
Der of Commerce together with the
American Legion and misleaders of
the A. F. of L.
Another example is the recent
happening in Los Angeles, where a
Filipino worker and white working
girl went to the city hall for mar
riage license, and being refused this
license under the excuse that Fill
pinos are considered as belonging to
the monaghan race-and, there
fore, cannot associate with white
girls.
We realize today, more than ever
before, that the only way to gain our
independence is through united
front with the American workers
all fighting together for the defeat
of American imperialism. Thus
will we be able to establish 6
Workers and Farmers Government
in the Philippines.
Organize Into the c. P. and
T. U. U. L.
We Filipino workers realize to.
day, more than ever, that the way
to better our conditions is through
organization. The last strike in the
Imperial Valley proves that the
Filipino workers are willing to fight
for better conditions. A few hun.
dreds of US are already members Of
the Agricultural Workers Industrial
League-and this is only a start.
NJ ,.:;---
Filipino Agricultural Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
MANY J0bLESS
INLOCAN FIELDS
These Miners Never
Were Organized

LOREDO, w. Val am send
ing So for Daily Worker. They
ley off the miners fierce here. We
work Only 2 or 8 days week here
in Western West Virginia We
have never had any organization
in this part of w. Virginia OF
Kentucky.
Conditions Terrible
We work here at low wages.
Ne load 4 tons of coal for 81 cents
a car and some places for 70 cents
car.
It is awful here. IF you only
say just one word to the boss
he says pick IN your tools and
get away from hers, if not we viii
put you out Of here.
Bosses paner To Fool Miners
On Dec. 80, 1929 the bosses is
sued a paper in Logan, by name
the "Logan Banner" one full page
from all the coal operators IN the
Logan fields.
1t said I'VE keep our workers
safe from union organization We
pay our workers good wages. We
don't need any organization here
We pay up to $1.50 for a ton oil
coal. We pay the best and we will
give our best protection to the
miners"
I've been in the Logan fields fol
z years and it's q lie, what the
bosses say, for I never saw any
thing good for the workingclass
out here. This is a real scab field
All were uporgani2ed in this field
and many Ku Kluxers. But the
National Miners Union has to come
here anyway, Ku Klux or no Ku
Klux.
LOGAN MINER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
Poisonous Food
TO Workers on
Ellis Island

(By a Worker Correspondent
Recently | talked TO fellow
worker, u class war prisoner
who was at Ellis Island to be
deported to land of BRUTAL
fascism and our conversation
went like this:
Q.--Have you got enough to
eat here?
.A.-Plenty, but the kind of
food we got would ruin an
horses stomach.
Q.-What did you have for
supper last?
"A kind of sausages.
Q.-Were they any good?
A.-Those that / ate, some
vomitcd and some had 10 be
taken to the hospital.
And just to remind you, You
are not permitted to bring in
any food or fruit whatsoever.
Perhaps this is a lesson in
Americanism.
Class conscious workers are
being deportcd while more and
more white guardists are being
admitted in daily.
| Passports are not required by
those parasites and bloodhounds
while workers are being de-
ported TO bloody lands Of fas-
cism.
Soon the workers will all
learn their bitter lesson and will
organize and have something TO
say about whether the bosses
can deport any workers they
want N. Y. WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
AYoUNG And old,
join The UNION
So Says Chattanooga
Worker, 68 Years Old
Oh q Worker CORRESPONDENT

(BY q WorHef correspondent
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. = I'm 6S
Years old and have shaved all my
days, I have given the best part of
my life to the bosses. I wonder If
there is any way out for the work
ers, and yes, there is.
I am a carpenter by trade | had
to go to the bank the other day
and borrow $50. | had to mort
gage all of my furniture and be-
sides. my wife had to mortgage her
wages which is SO and SO a week
Tin the milD and the bank charged
me 6 percent interest and $3.50
every month, they said to cover the
bookkeeping which makes me pay
S148 in one year for 500. And the
Tennessee law allows this. That is
enough to make one hot
Will fight with Young Workers
If there is a Revolution | would
shoulder my gun with the young
ones. The only way can see for
the worker is to organize into this
National Textile Union, an6 all
unions like it that takes in all the
workers. If it is good enough for
us old ones, it is good enough for
you young ones. so young and old
fet's join the union.
CHATTANOOGA SLAVE FOR
GO YEARS.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
WESTINGHOUSE
LAYS OFF 1900
IN FEW Weeks
T hese and Workers
Must Get Together!
(Bn q Worker Correspondentl

by a Worker Correspondent
BLOOMFIELD, N. J.-Four thou
sand workers were laid off here in
the last few weeks from the West
inghouse Electric company's works.
These were making light bulbs and
radio materials.
Among these are many skilled
machinists, and, of course, a great
number of girls who work at assem-
bling and special operations.
Don't take your tool box home"
say the bosses to the mechanics.
leave them here until things get
better" And when asked "When
are things going to get better?" the
bosses reply, "Oh, we expect things
will pick up in March. But there's
no use of you sticking around mere
when we have nothing for you to
do. The Westinghouse company
can't o. pay you"
Co, Made Millions in Spec dup
But the workers know that they
have been working up to IA hours a
day until they were laid off, and
that the company has been piling up
millions in profits while they speed
ed up the workers at long hours and
low wages.
| 1t is just at this time that the
workers thrown out of their job must
not accept the bosses word as final
on the liability" of the company to
pay wages. They should organize
a committee, from all the workers
of the plant, getting the ell and ad-
vice of the Trade Union Unity
League.
Get T0getheri
They should go altogether to the
factory gate and say;
"You say that things will be bet
ter in March. You want US to come
back in March, do you? Well, n
order to come back, we must live.
pay rent, buy clothes and food. II
you are so confident that it will
be only such a short time out OF
work, then you should be willing
since you tell us to stick around and
wait-to pay US wages Will we are
waiting" And they should demand
of the city, state and national gov
eminent, relief at once, and insur-
ance against unemployment.
The committee should represent
also the workers left on the job
and should also demand that the
speed-up be abolished--so no more
workers be fired while those left
are overworked. They should demand
the seven-hour day and the five-day
| week with no reductions in wage
TO; ais.
Demonstrate March 6.
And under the guidance of the
Trade Union Unity League with
which their committee should affili-
ate, they should rally all h, uner,~
ployed on March 6, together will,
the employed who all should stop
work on that day, the whole mass
should demonstrate for the demands
of both unemployed and employed.
| WESTINGHOUSE WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
rs Years a SLAVE
IN Mil IN Tenn.
SO a Week Wage
(By a Worker Correspondent

(By a Worker Correspondent
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.--I am
a woman who has worked in the
Chickamauga underwear factory
for 26 years. The bosses have
told me manv times that am
tho best finisher they ever did
have. And now. what thanks do
! get for serving them for the
best part of my life.
.a~re IS the thanks ! get. ]
slave IL hours a day for the
small sum Of SO a week. can't
see how we are going to live,
anybody knows you cant support
Z family on them wages and
7 SIRE do hope we get us union
here. The National Textile Work.
ers' Union is staying here l hope.
CHICK AMAUGA WORKER.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-01
TUT. TO Lead
UNE:MPL- dyed In
CHATTANOOGA
Jobless Worker Knows
It's the Real Thing
(By a Worker Correspondent

tBJ o. WORKER CO1TeSpOHdehtJ
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn.-I am a
carpenter. / came to Chattanooga
October, 1922. l started work at 85
cents an hour, then l was cut to IS
cents, then again to so, then to 40,
and then the last job was 35.
l can't even get that now. | am
out of job. l can't get job any
place now. | am not the only one
that is out of job. There is thou
sands out of work in Chattanooga.
What we need and have needed Tor
a long time is real workers union,
and since I've talked to the organ
izers of the Trade Union Unity
League and heard the speaking at
the mass meetings l am sure we
have real workers union in the
Trade Union Unity League that will
lead us unemployed and the men
that's working alike.
CHATTANOOGA WORKER.