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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
Craftsmanship

Governor Roosevelts declaration in regard to
state-controlled insurance against unemployment at
the meeting Of the New York State Federation of
Labor was a statesmanlike utterance. He refused to
be sidetracked by half-hearted proposals.
He did not accept the current optimistic blah, to
the effect that we car trust to the savings in the
sock or to soup kitchens to tide lis over. Nor did
he believe that voluntary insurance plans will suffice.
He sized up the problem in its true proportions
and endeavored to suggest a remedy adequate to the
evil. He insisted that steps be taken to establish a
system of state-supervised social insurance, to which
employer. employee and the public Through the state)
would contribute.
This is the most fair and logical system and the
one which has worked best in those European cour-
tries that are trying to meet their social RESPONSE
bilities.
Governor Roosevelt is right in thinking chat bread
lines are not only an evidence of misery, but a proof
of sociological barbarisn. What the worker needs is
deserved income, not bread tickets or a dole. Let him
contribute, along with his employer and the state,
to a reserve fund against the days of misfortune.
Then he can claim what is his, with head erect.
What Governor Roosevelt suggests would insure
security, dignity and economy. The present anarchy
and charity would decline. We would no longer be
relying on methods that Europe discarded shortly
after the Civil war. We may hope that the Cover
nor's program will not remain merely splendid words
delivered to a sympathetic audience.
Let it become a major legislative issue in all states.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
Government bv Fraud

Months have passed since the primary
election in this county was conducted with
the aid Of far spread frauds.
Indications are that the frauds were not
confined to one party, but that results in sew
eral candidates. on both tickets were de-
termined by stub pencils rather than the
number of voters.
One grand jury declared that the corrup-
ton was such as to demand further inquiry,
its own activities being handicapped by a lack
of funds denied by the county council.
There was, however, one case bound over
to that jury where the participants were
caught red handed and arrested on the eve
of the primary.
The law provides that prosecutors may
file direct charges and need not wait for
grand jury inquiries.
Once again the county council has refused
to grant any funds to the grand jury to pay
any necessary expense of obtaining evidence.
1t should require little money. But it prob
ably would take some, especially if officials
whose duty it is to investigate and prosecute
crimes are not especially interested in detect
ing Lne perpetrators OIL Cne lTduu. Inc eACId
funds rather %presupposes that there has been
a lack of cooperation on the part of some
officials.
Frauds at elections constitute the high
est peace time crime. 1t is the overthrow
Of self-government. 1t means anarchy in
our institutions. 1t makes the basis of gov
eminent not the will of the people, but the
will Of the crook.
1t should be rather unfortunate for a
number of candidates if no prosecutions oc-
cur before the fall election. Perhaps the vot-
ers who were defrauded in the spring will
be indignant enough to protect themselves in
the fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
The Prohibition Training School

Amos w. w. Woodcock, put in charged prohl-
bition enforcement when it was transferred to the
department of Justice, has made numerous pronounce
ments on what he conceived his job to be. He has
admonished agents against the promiScuouS use OF
firearms, against illegal searches and seizures, and
other tactics which have brought enforcement into
such widespread disrepute. There has been hope for
a new regime of sane enforcement of the law.
But this hope seemed to have vanished when
Woodcock set up a school for prohibition agents in
the capital and thirty-four selected agents we're
brought in from throughout the country to be lee
tured. Presumably they were to carry the gospel
back to their brethren in the volstead army.
Harry M. Dengler, supervisor of the dry univer-
sity, in a lecture on shadowing urged agents to en-
ploy small boys to get information about bootleggers
and liquor establishments. If a suspect is very
suspicious, boys can be used to advantage" said his
lecture.
1.-TWO boys can engage in games near the home
of the subject without attracting attention, whereas
a man lettering in the neighborhood soon would
arouse suspicion"
And if such advise will be regarded as little short
of tragic by some-it needs no comment-the gro
tesque was added by the teachers advice to his pupils
to read Sherlock Holmes and other mystery thrillers
for the tips they might furnish on the methods of
great detectives.
Woodcock wisely moved with promptness to order
this particular piece of teaching taken from the
curriculum when it came to his attention, and Or
that he deserves credit. But, we wonder, can much
be hoped for from an organization in which it was
possible for such ideas to be tolerated in the first
place?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
ANYTHING Can Happen

Whatever the cause may be, there seems to be a
revolution coming in American attitude toward dlplo-
matte recognition of Soviet Russia. Business concerns,
anti-red propagandists and politicians who have held
out against the recognition idea for these many years
are getting on the bandwagon.
If any one had told us that S. Stanwood Menken,
chairman of the National Security League, would have
a change of mind, we should have numbled some
platitude about the leopard's spots. For he and his
organization have led the anti-Russian propaganda
in this country.
But now he returns from Europe talking just like
the hundreds of other American ravelers-business
men. labor leaders, bankers, engineers, teachers and
publicists-who demand Russian recognition. Says
Menken:
THE American people have no true conception Of
what is going on in Russia. Nobody realizes the extent
of the internal program that Russia is carrying out.
was opposed bitterly to recognition, but nov be-
lieve we should take the step. We have been hiding
our heads in the sand. l now definitely favor recog-
milton, although I am opposed to communism, as 1
was before"
Landing in New York from the same ship IS Men
ken were three senators who had been motoring for
two months through the interior of Russia-Wheeler,
Montana: Norheck, South Dakota, and Barley, Ken
lucky.
According to the ship reporters, Barley gave the
1mDleSSlOl lLhdL Iho PACfAOuo fASNo AAN HNSA
somewhat" Norbeck urged recognition. Wheeler con-
frmed his position ~ saying:
Russia is the greatest potential market for Amer
lean goods in tha world, and we are just a bunch Of
suckers if we do not recognize her. When We recog-
nize the Soviet government it does not mean that
We approve of the government or that we are giving
it our moral support"
The same point is made by an anonymous writer
In the Current History magazine. Rumor has it that
the author is one of the highest officials in the state
department.
We don't like to use the word revolution loosely.
But it is either a revolution or a miracle when the
National Security League or the state department be-
gins to think sanely on the subject of Russian recog-
milton.
They will have to think fast, however, for Russia
is getting tired of the absurd anti-RusSian campaign
here and the nonsensical obstacles to trading without
necessary consular and diplomatic machinery.
Though Russia bought $155,O0e,OO0 worth II of goods
here last year, she now is going to our foreign comz
petitors. Her American purchases fell from nearly
s~l2,5Oo,Ooo in January to 100000 in May.
AS President Hoover has remarked more than
once. American prosperity depends on export trade.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
A City Handles Unemployment

It generally is conceded that Cincinnati is one of
the most competently governed of American cities.
It operates under the city manager plan, the adop-
ton of which was due in no small part to years Of
agitation by the Cincinnati Post.
In the National Municipal Review is an article by
CITY Manager Sheriff. and Director of Public Welfare
Hoehler describing The manner in which Cincinnati
met the unemployment crisis. This shows conclu-
siyely that a city well governed politically viii take
enlightened and effective action toward its social and
economic obligations.
How did Cincinnati approach the problem?
In the hrst place, it was taken as automatic that
periodic unemployment crises are inevitable under our
present economic system. Therefore. permanent
machinery for dealing with the problem already had
been set up before any emergency arose.
A standing committee on stcoilizing employment
was created to deal with general and special phases
Of the problem. subcommittee were created to
handle particular phases. one Of these was a fact
nnding committee, which took frequent employment
censuses Of Cincinnati.
As early as May. 1929. it found that only So per
cent Of the employable citizens we're employed
regularly.
This permanent committee on unemployment
Reks1 Hlth the employers Of the city. endeagoring
- shs LATER . adopt statesmanlike polic&s IN
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
AN6A AoO4N Lands

IF ever a grateful world makes up its mind to pass
4 the hat and erect a memorial in our honor, we
hope it gives us a beacon, such as has just been dedi-
Gated to L~indbergh in Chicago, for it's the most at
tractive memorial since Columbus discovered us.
n =
it scars high in the air, far above the dust
and turmoil, serenely casting its beams to the sur
rounding country for hundreds of miles.
AS Daniel Webster said of Massachusetts,, there
she shall stand forever" or at least for a century
or So
n y n
CINCE he skinned the cream off the Atlantic
Indy has accumulated an attic full of testi-
monials; he has cups, globes, scepters, statues and
other stun, all OF it utterly worthless unless he can
use it IN making a miniature golf course for little
Charles, but this beacon, perched high above Lake
Michigan, is good for something.
1t would be. a fine idea if when future generations
they should hand him something useful instead OF
just another prodtless pile Of bronze and stone.
Nothing is so futile as a marble needle or a
marble mountain; they accommodate bird life alone
and in a few years are streaked and striped; the let
ters become edaced and the stranger pauses. be-
~wildered, to ask the policeman what it is all about.
OUR national capital has many equestrian statues
~ which cause the. tourist to consult his guide
book, for the bronze riders have retired to obscurity
or relatively so, and tho presence of them on every
hand gives Washington the appearance of a riding
academy.
With the advent Of the automobile, the eques-
TRAN statue has been pushed out Of the plans and
specifications, and it never would do to immortalize
PerShing, ror instance, sitting in a bronze limousine.
Either he and his associates must be perpetuated
"a to9s or THEY must have 3 heacouNpr something.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
THE r CONGRESS
September 5

NN Sept. 5, 1774, the first con.
" tinental congress met in Car
penters' hall, Philadelphia.
Fifty-fve delegates, representing
all the colonies but Georgia, at
tended the first assembly. They
represented a population of 100000.
Resolutions from various sections
Of the country, stating their wrongs,
were presented to the congressman
Also, a petition to the British king
the declaration of rights and griev-
ances), was ordered.
That document stated that by the
radiance of the system Of laws and
regulations of which the colonistS
complained, harmony would be re-
stored.
Eve ask but for peace, liberty and
safety" the petition declared. I'VE
wish not a diminution of the pre-
rogative, nor 90 we solicit the grant
Of any new right in our favor.
Your royal authority over us and
our connection with Great Britain
we always carefully and zealously
shall endeavor to support and
maintain"
The delegates agreed that another
congress should be held within a
month unless the redress of -griev-
ances which they desired was OBJ
tanned before that time. The first
continental congress adjourned Oct.
III after a secret session of ffty-One
dtys
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
Typhoid Generally Under Control
DAILY HEALTH SERVICE

has been almost eliminated. The
death rate from typhoid fever has
fallen from 35.9 per 100000 popu-
lation in 1900 to 7.8 in 1920, and to
even lower figure for 1880. The
death rate in large cities Of the
United States is less than 3 per
100000.
OF typhoid fever the cause is now
known. It is understood that the
disease is transmitted by infection
of food and water and by carriers
of typhoid germs. A method of di-
agnoSis exists in the form of a test
of the blood which indicates fairly
certain whether the individual is
subject to the disease.
There is not for typhoid fever,
however, as yet any specific meth
cd of treatment thai overcomes the
disease Immediately. It has not been
possible to prepare by incubation
of animals any serum OF. vaccine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
The Depth of Snooping

TT goes without saying that tricks,
Il wiles, DISCUSSES, housekeeping.
and other peculiar, if not question
able, methods of gaining informa-
ton should play no small part in
a dry agents education.
But the idea of employing small
boys as shoppers is a little shock
ing.
Irresistibly. ones memory revertS
to "Old Fagin and the kinchen lay"
as described by Charles Dickens in
Oliver Twist, and it becomes diff
cult not to wonder whether the
Professor" did not borrow a page
from that immortal book.
1.-TWO boys can engage in games
near the home Of the subject with
out attracting much attention,
whereas a man lettering in the
neighborhood soon would arouse
suspicion" reads a paragraph from
the text on 'shadowing" as prepared
by Harry M. Dengler, director Of
the dry agents school.
For pe~rfection's sake. the kind Of
game should have been designated,
If the boys were playing some
thing innocent or harmless, there
still would be a chance Of arousing
suspicion, but if they went in for
craps, or stud poker. the hardest
hooch hound would have no cause
to suppose that he was being
watched.
One only can marvel at this pal
uable oversight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05

that will overcome the organisms
in the body.
True, the vaccine will build in a
normal individual resistance against
the disease, and it is advised, par
ticularly when one is going to travel
abroad or in the country or in any
place of uncertain water supply,
that he be inoculated against ty-
phoid fever. After the disease once
is established in the body, the vac
cine does not cure it any quicker
than the patient al be cured by
the usual methods of treatment.
Neither is there for typhoid fever,
as for malaria OF for syphilis, q
drug which has a specific effect on
the germ. Research is tending to-
ward the attempt to discover such
drugs or specific Nbiologic methods of
treatment, but the answer is not in
sight.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
A Living Life

A ND yet there r practical dlt-
IN fculties in presenting any true
and live picture within the con-
fines of limited newspaper space.
once there was written a COM
plete portrait of my father, but by
a man who never knew him. And
this adequate portrait required the
full generosity of a two-Volune
novel.
If you play the game of identity
inc your friends with famous tolK
| of fiction, I can explain my father
to you by saying that he was to the
life Thackeray's Colonel Newcomer
with Just a dash Of Major Pen
dennis.
The reporter at the other end OF
the telephone would have been sur
prised if, instead of saying that
Haywood Cox .Broun was the
founder of a printing business and
a member Of the Racquet and Ten
mis- Club, I had said, The most i'm
portant thing to mention is that
Mr.. Broun was just about the most
charming man anybody has ever
known"
And yet this report would have
been more accurate and vital.
I always have been interested ir
problems Of heredity and the curl
Gus manner in which people are
conditioned by ricochet rather thar
direct fire.
For instance, there is-the fact
that my father was an ardent ma.
tional guardsman and-at one timI
among the four or five crack rife
shots in the entire country. Wher
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05

to 10 cents, as just was done in
Ft. Wayne?
Or are the people of the city 60
ing to let the outside interests ac-
quire the city railway and then tie
the line up with the city's ex-
chequer in such way that any run
ming deficits may be made up by
funds from the city's treasury, as
has been done elsewhere.
If the manufacturers Of the city
want more satisfied help in their
factories, why do not they get be-
hind a movement to acquire the
city railway and keep the fares
down to where they are at present,
or make them lower?
If the CHAMBER of Commerce
wants to attract outside interests,
why not get back of a movement
to aquire the city railway for the
city and have low fares for workers
as an added inducement to attract
industry to Indianapolis?
Or did the new school head hit
the nail on the head when he said
at a recent meeting, What we want
to do is to train men and women
to be good followers" and stihe
initiative among the people, so they
will not assert themselves and rise
above their common lot and try to
better their circumstances?
In other words, if the accepted
way is to have the city railway
owned by outside interests which
will raise the fares, then a man is
an Eccentric who proposes that
the people of the city own and
operate their own city railway sys-
tenn.
Be that as it may, I offer this
suggestion anonymously, because ]
frankly admit I do not want the
power trust riding my neck for
proposing this. The trouble is that
more and more men are getting to
feel the same way about these
things. Fewer and fewer men care
to advocate anything opposed to
the accepted way Of doing things,
which in most instances IS for profit
and not for the people.
Herein lies a suggestion laden
with opportunity for benefiting the
city of indianapolis. Why not TAXI
the bull by the horns and smoke
out these gentry, who no doubt viii
be opposed bitterly to this thing2
Yours,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
France Yields Lash

TINE French government certainly
4 is doing things up brown when
it comes to penalizing those who
fail to AT its ideas of righteousness.
rectitude, or regularity. :
It not only has dismissed Will
liam Randolph Hearst because one
Of his reporters was unfortunate
enough to purchase or purloin the
copy Of a proposed secret pact but
has refused to grant a visa to
Maurice Dornier, brother of the
German aircraft designer, and has
made it impossible for General Won
Moltke to visit his sons grave in
northern France.
Maurice Dornier, though born in
Germany, had a French father, and
that, according to French law. made
him liable to military service.
Since he did not recognize his
liability, and did not answer the
French call to arms in 1914, he is
rated as . deserter.
General Won Moltke, or at least
an officer of the. same name, is on
the French blacklist of German
military officers, charged with mis-.
conduct during the war.
When he asked for permission to
visit his sons grave, he was told
that he could SO so by proving that
he was not in command of such and
such a regiment on such and such
a day.
He said he was not, but must re-
fuse to visit a land which MANI
tanned a blacklist twelve years after
the war fever had died down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
Times Readers Voice ViezgS.

Editor Times-If any one is. going
to buy the city railway at junk
prices, why does not the city buy it?
If the city ever is going to ac-
quire its own transportations sys-
tenn, when is the best time to do
so, if not when the price is a junk
price?
Is the city going to stand by and
allow outside interests to acquire
the city railway and boost the fare
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05

, business activities he was affiliated,
the list of his clubs and the names
of surviving relatives.
OF this one it is said that for
forty years he was engaged in the
cotton market. OF another it may
be related that he helped to found
an athletic club or was a dignitary
in some f~raternal organization. And
through any such wide-meshed set
of facts the real man must slip
through.
Every individual is more than his
job, his social activities, and his
span of = years. 1t is a pity that
when each one of us dies the es-
sence may not survive, whether the
person be notable or not.
In the heart of every n there is
the desire to know what will be
said about him in the papers. l
remember a story of two years ago
about a dying newspaper man who
called his wife to his bedside when
his end was near and with his re-
naming store of strength and voice
dictated to her what he would like
to have printed about himself.
AS he wrote it the paragraphs
appeared humble and modest
enough. But at least the dying
man was assured that the facts
were straight.
What-,I. have in mind are things
less tangible. Somebody called me
on the telephone the afternoon OF
my fathers death to ask for some
little information about him.
I failed, because there was much
forgot in the matter of mere ma
terial detail, and even more. 1 left
out because it hardly fell within the
tradition of what constitutes a con-
ventional obituary.
Later it seemed to me unsatlstac-
tory that a man of long life should
have his existence summed up TO
some extent as "the father Of the
newspaper columnist." Such a re-
port shifts the emphasis. 1t makes
the wrong man seem the debtor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-09-05
There Is Consistency

WET there is consistency in this.
l. We we're always told, as chill.
dren, never to point a gun at any
body-not even a cap pistol-and
it is not altogether strange that /
grew up with a feeling that there is
something almost inherently evil in
firearms.
When i. went to tell him that I
was running for congress on the
Socialist ticket he was a little sur
prised and yet not ~displeased,
though I was turning on a road
which a almost at right angles
from the highway.
episodes in which 1 followed philos-
ophies quite foreign to his own. We
kept close because of his wisdom.
All he ever wanted to know was
whether I believed honestly and sim
cerely in the path which I had
chosen.
If 1 could convince him Of that
the thing I did was all right,
whether or not ne grasped the de-
tail of my emotion or my reason
ing.
And in some respects I have tried
to follow more closely the tradition
which he set. I take pride in the
fact that my father was a gay man,
that he liked to give and receive
parties.
For many years after he was we'll
past 10 we kept, with all the .ardor
of a religious rite, a cocktail hour.
1 always have felt that truly
kindly people, like my father, must
be men who have themselves a flair
for fun. Only from the e~xuberant
is it possible to get an ~enlivening
return in the execution of the com
mandment, Love thy neighbor as
myself" Nor could his tombstone
have a better inscription than this:
HE took and gave much joy in
life"