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The daily worker., 1930-05-06
The Office Workers Are Hit By
New Speed-up

ment among office workers has increased by
30 per cent since the winter of 1929
While the dictaphone displaces stenograph-
ers, other office machines throw out other
clerical workers. A machine to do what six
office workers did formerly is now used by the
Pennsylvania Railroad. Dividend checks are
fed to machine in blank and come out COM
pletely prepared and ready for envelopes and
mailing. Office workers formerly needed two
weeks to get the dividend checks ready for
mailing. The machine prints 5000 checks and
stubs an hour and is capable of completing
the entire dividend payment in two days of
continuous running. Sixty checks a minute is
its capacity.
Even the lunch hour is now included in the
speed-up plans of some larger companies An
advertisement of the Sanford-Day Iron Works
to boost moving belts tells how it is done un-
der the hedaline: "A Cafeteria Speeded Up
Output Why Not You?"
In large cafeteria maintained for the "wel-
fare" of employees, the workers could not
serve themselves quickly enough in the limited
time allowed, explains the ad. "The manage
ment employed an efficiency engineer to speed
up the output.
To meet such speed-up and the growing un-
employment among clerical workers, the Of
flee Workers Union affiliated with the Trade
Union Unity League, demands the 7-hour day,
5-day week and the elimination Of overtime
and pecework Other demands include n mini
mum of $40 "A we~'- cu aving OF the joh shark
and founded of free employment agencies
The daily worker., 1930-05-06

public works. the suppression of the fighting
activity of the workers in town and country
show how serious is the situation in Italy.
The latest events: Naturalization in the
Miami and Slvestri factory; Turin, agitation
in the Fiat Works; Faenza-armed attack of
the land workers against the fascsts; attacks
on the houses of the Burgomaster and the fas-
cst organizations in some districts in the pro-
vince of Apulia-all this plainly shows that the
situation is changing and that the masses are
bernnng to stir.
The big class struggles which are develop
ing in all countries are also to be seen approach
ing in Italy. In the years of its rule
fascsm has plunged the working class into the
deepest misery, without, however, having found
anv possibility of achieving certain stability.
The Italian bourgeoisie finds 1t necessary to
organize all the forces of reaction against the
working class both in town and country. On
the First of May next-which is the day of
FIGHT of the workers of the whole word-the
Italian working class, in spite of the thousands
of victims who have been condemned to hard
labor and banishrent, in spite of the emigra-
ton Of thousands and thousands. will know
how to continue its adva~"e v"d"r the leader
shin of the Communist p~-'-' ~~~'-~+ fascist
reaction. apsi~~t war a. : onsa of
tho Soviet JTr ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
But Hold On

TT was well enough for him to
4 poke extravagant fun at the
British empire, at doctors, at hell
and heaven, but when he mocks the
teachings of George Bernard Shaw
he goes too far.
I would appeal from Bernard,
antic, to Bernard, passionate. What
right has this old and prosperous
Britisher to sheer at the young
Irishman who fought the brave fight
through preface and through rain!
He's sneering at his better. There
was a day when Shaw would go tc
any street corner, even II only one
or two were gathered together, tc
preach the gospel Of salvation
through the emergence OF a labor
party. He meant it.
They were fools who took this
dedicated fanatic for a clown. But
now with victory just around the
corner he snatches off his hair shirt
and whirls it roguiShly around his
head with a shout of 'Whoops, my
dear!"
If 1.-THE Applicant" means any
thing at all, it says that Leadership
inevitably must rest in the hands Of
the lone and inspired aristocrat
The democracy Of labor government
is a delusion, because people in the
mass are fools and always will be
King Magnus can twist them round
his little finger because in him flow:
the best blood in the land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
REASON By Ff RzRBfs

THE intimate friendship which exists between Ruth
n Hanna Mccormick and Alice Roosevelt Long
worth Is vastly different proposition than the old
relationship between their respective and lusrious
fathers. Mark Hanna and Teddy were emphatic op-
pos1teS in everything except bluntness.
Hanna opposed bitterly to Roosevelt's nomi.
nation for VcePresident at Philadelphia in 1900 re-
garding that the of all calamties and SO was
Mckinley opposed to it, partly because he thought
roosevelt could do the party more good a candidate
Tor reelection as Governor of New York.
But Thomas c. Platt boss of the empire state. was
weary of having his plans thrown upon the scrap
pile by the youthful Governor and seeing no other
way out of It, scfemed to shelve Teddy in the vice
presidential BERTH being aided in this endeavor by
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania, who was willing al
ways to aid neighboring machine in distress.
TEDDY didn't want to be nominated for Vice
Il President, regarding it as rusty side track but
when he reached Philadelphia he found that Plat
and Quay, aided by his explosive admirers had de-
termined to turn the trick and he acquiesced much
to the evaporation Of Marx Hanna.
When Mckinley fell at Buffalo and Roosevelt
rushed from the Adirondacks to take the oath of
Office in the home of Wilcox, Hanna looked upon
the youthful successor with undisguised misgivings
his fears being somewhat lifted by Roosevelts pledge
to carry out the program of Mckinley.
They got along well could be expected
Roosevelt in the White House and Hanna in the SEN
ate, their relations being apparently very cordial
but along toward the approach of the 1904 conven-
ton Hanna found to be collecting delegates, and
it this not in the interest of Roosevelt
NTHEN the latter prepared for battle he was ably
assisted in Ohio by Hannas senatorial colleague
Joseph B. Foraker.
When the state convention met at Columbus, For
aker insisted that Roosevelt be Endorsed for nominal
ton, while Hanna wished to prevent it.
Then Roosevelt sent wire to Foraker, saying
that his real friends would favor a declaration for
his nomination and Hanna bowed to the situation,
the convention indorsng Teddy which ended Hanna
possible contender and insured Roosevelts nom
ination in Chicago.
Had the Presidents daughter married gentleman
not in politics, she might have entered the arena
has Ruth Mccormick and had she done so, our poll
tics would have very coorfu figure for Alice Roose
velt Longworth is more like her father than are any
Of her brothers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Your Own Slate

Write your own slate in the primaries and then
vote.
This is the only safe way for the citizen who hopes
that his government will not rob but protect him,
and who resents the idea Of politics debating de-
cisions Of courts giving privileges in administra-
tive Office and supporting pay rolls filed with the
inefficient
The politicians hope to destroy the primary They
want to go back to the convention system where a
few leaders who in victory become bosses select both
tickets
They rely upon the Indifference Of the people to
help them in this plan. They argue that the pri-
mary has given poorer officials than the conventions
The facts of course, do not support that conten-
ton. The results Of the convention system can be
seen at the statehouse where every official now in
power was selected in that manner No one could
argue that this system is ideal.
In the coming state conventions there is little hope
Of relief especially from the Republican convention.
There is small hope that the voters, unless they
awaken to the importance of selecting decent dele
gates, will have any new names on that ticket And
new names are needed badly.
It is unthnkable that Endorsement will be given to
the theory that truth is no defense to a contempt
charge or that approval will be given to delay in de-
cisions in cases which have political aspect. But
the unthinkable is likely to be a reality
Nor can the convention system claim nlucn When
1t is practically certain that the present secretary OF
state will be given denomination largely because Of
the political tradition which forces party leaders to
give every incumbent second chance, matter what
the record.
The primary is the hope Of any pretense at
self-government and it becomes useless weapon
unless the voter who wants nothing but square deal
goes to the polls and casts vote for those who repre-
sent his viewpoint.
The large number of candidates makes the task
perplexing. The candidates trust to slate making
largely. They hope to win by enlisting the support
Of the active hustler in politics.
Look over the lists carefully especially of the dele
gates to state conventions from your yards and pre-
cincts They will be important in June. Pick few
who have no rings in their noses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21

a DMIRERS and idolators Of
N Bernard Shaw should join to
defend his name and fame by
staying away from ''The Apple
Cart" in huge numbers.
Many have said that this is sec
ond-rate Shaw and the fact that
the Guild production is intensely
dull has not altogether escaped
public notice. But the chief count
against the play is Of a far more
serious nature.
A genius must have his second
rate interludes. Upon occasions In
the past Shaw has been dull.
would hold him now not for such
minor things, but for the sin OF
blaSphemy.
Through the long years he has
rallied against established instltu-
lions, against current morals and
conventional economics. He has
spared neither church nor state
Not even medicine.
But through it all has run a
fierce consistency and fidelity. Until
today Shaw has been true to the
one thing worthy of any good
mans allegiance. He has respected
himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
SCIENCE
Famous Society of Scientists
to Observe Anniversary of
It's Founding This Month.
BY DAVID DIETZ

THE American Philosophical So
i ciety, Americas oldest scien-
tific society, will celebrate the
203d anniversary Of its founding
with a three-day meeting this
month.
Benjamin Franklin, a great sci
enlist as well as a great statesman
and patriot, founded the society.
The meeting will be held April
%, IS and 26. Famous American
Observation-Disclosures of the society
will present a series of papers on
the latest advances in many fields.
An important part of the meet
ing will be supplied by two SYM
posiums, one on the subject of
education, the other on the new
developments of astronomy and
aStrophysics.
Another feature Of the meeting
will be an address by Professor VIII
liam F. Albright, professor Of
Semitic languages at Johns Hop
kins university and former director
of the American School of Oriental
Research in Jerusalem. He is to
speak on "a Millennium of Bib
lical History in the Light of Recent
Excavations.
The symposium on education Is
being organized by President Frank
Aydelotte of Swarthmore college.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Lying Game Spoiled

CHARMING deceit and agreeable
~ lying explain how people have
been led into war so many times
against their will.
Whatever else these international
conference may be accomplishing
they at least are spelling that game.
Slowly, but surely, nations are &C
curing the habit Of talking things
over.
Chances are that If a situation were
to arise like that which existed in
July, 49, i, the governments con-
cerned )uld call a council before
leaping INTO strife, and the chances
are that strife would be avoided in
at least one Of two cases.
If the palavering Of the last dec
ade promises that much, and none
but paciflstS will deny that it does,
civilization has achieved something
worth while.
It all goes back to Woodrow Will
sons idea that men who know each
other generally can find ways to
agree"
It also goes back to the idea that
publicity, free speech, and open dis
cussion are the best guarantees
against strife and discord.
Backbiting has led more people
into trouble than face to face argu-
ments, and nations react to it the
same way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
TT SEEMS TO ME By HB BTCS%

rlckety children. Let him be cheap
and drag his fellows down to his
price by selling himself to do their
work."
That is the stuff to rouse and
touch even the heart of an arrived
and successful fashionable play
wright, who in his later years has
endeavored to take on the archness
OF a Barrie and the flip smartness
OF an Oscar Wilde. That we should
have lived to see the dav when
George Bernard Shaw would turn
cute on us!
AS I remember, Bernard Shaw did
not even fail to take note and re-
peat that old one about Mussolini
making the Italian trains run on
time.
Perhaps Shaw himself expert
enced this thrill while recently resi-
dent in Italy. Even so, it seems to
me an event Of singularly small
Importance.
What does it matter whether the
Shaw OF today arrives at his desti-
nation punctually? 1t seems to me
he has no destination. I have seen
The Apple Cart" and I can testify
that George Bernard Shaw Isn't GO
ing anywhere.
Copyright. 1880. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
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FROEBEL'S BIRTH

AHAA
nN April 81, 1882, Friedrich
OFroebel, a German educator
who originated the kindergarten
movement, was born in Thuringia.
Germany.
After his training at the uni
versities, Froebel decided he
would become an architect, but his
professor urged him to become a
teacher. F'roebel agreed and studied
Tor two years under Pestalozzi, the
great educational reforrner.
Convinced that the education of
the nursery must be reformed Froe-
bel in 1916 founded a school at
Greisheim in which he proceeded
to develop his plans.
More than twenty years later he
established himself at Blankenburg
where he first introduced the name
kindergarten" for his school.
Froebel's influence upon modern
education has been notably effective
in the United States, where it has
led to the kindergarten system, the
manual training movement and
other radical changes in the ele-
mentary school methods.
One educator has said of the
kindergarten that it is the most
important, far-reaching educational
reform Of the nineteenth century. /"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
. DAILY HEALTH SERVICE :
HEALTH SERVICE
Trichina Cases Show Need of Caution

He made part Of the meat into
green sausage and part into sum-
mer sausage. He marketed about
sixty pounds of sausage in st. Louis,
peddling it from door to door.
A list of his customers was OBJ
tanned and it was found that all
those who purchased and ate the
sausage on a certain day had de-
yeloped symptoms of trichina.
Of the twenty cases, one died.
Thirteen of the cases were due to
eating improperly cooked summer
sausage and the remainder due to
eating raw pork sausages
The first cases were diagnosed
twenty days after the beginning of
the outbreak. In the meantime,
those who we're sick had had no
indication as to the cause of their
illness.
It is an interesting fact that
among those who might have eaten
the raw pork sausage was one high
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Wigmore and the World Court

Should Colonel John H. Wigmore represent the
United States on the world court? memorial
signed by many prominent Americans says that he
should. We believe he should not We think that
such an appointment would be unfortunate as the
selection of Judge Parker for the supreme court
Colonel wigmore is especially expert In the fields
Of evidence and torts. He also has a respectable
knowledge Of international law. though he would not
rank as one Of our leading specialists.
Unfortunately while scholar and tireless worker,
Colonel Wgmore does not possess judicial mind to-
day. In this sense he IS casualty. Since he was
colonel in the judge advocate-generals office, his
bearing has been more military thar judicial
he has shown violent prejudices He came out
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21

school girl who had been taught
at school that it was unsafe to eat
raw pork and who therefore re-
fused to eat any Of the sausage.
OF the group she was the only
one who escaped the disease.
It is difficult for the average per-
son to tell by looking at meat
whether 1t is infested. It is safe to
eat meat after it Is refrigerated
properly for a long enough period of
time or if it is thoroughly cooked
before eating.
Trichinosis is a painful condition,
sometimes sufficiently serious to
cause death, manifested by fever,
profuse sweating, swelling of the
eyes and face, Inflammation of the
muscles and sometimes complica-
tons affecting the kidneys and
lungs.
1t is a pity that any cases at all
should occur when the disease is so
certainly preventable.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Talk Out in Meeting
XXTHILE the naval conferen

XXTHILE the naval conference
wv has been in session, we have
heard some rather unpleasant things
said about us by their represent
tatives Of other countries, and the
people of those other countries have
suffered in exactly the same way.
The last three months probably
have brought out more straight
forward criticism than occurred dur
ing a similar period preceding the
great war.
AS a matter of fact, there was
very little straightforward criticism
preceding the great war-so little,
indeed, that few people had any
idea that it was imminent.
The diplomats at Moscow, Berlin,
Paris and London could afford to
be exceedingly courteous, because
the system did not call for them to
show their hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Can1paign

TINE society is engaged in cam
l. paign to raise $2,250,000 for
erection and endowment of a new
home. Half the money is in The
old building, despite its magnificent
historical connections, is not ade-
quate. 1t is too small and not fire
proof.
The new building is to stand on
the Parkway, within site of the
museum of art and the free library,
adding another structure to great
civic center
Among other activities planned by
the society is the establishment of
a knowledge Bureau" organized to
furnish information to research
workers, newspaper and magazine
editors, radio speakers and others
who wish accurate and dependable
data upon various branches OF
science.
The society also plans to enlarge
its own publications, the Proceed
ings" and the Transactions" of the
society.
The library in the new building
will make the society's collection of
more than 100000 volumes accessible
to the public. It also will enable
research workers to make use of
the many priceless documents in
possession of the society.
These documents, because of lack
OF space and fireproofing in the
present building, are stored away
in bank vaults.
DR.. Francis x. Dercum, a world
wide authority upon nervous and
mental diseases, is president of the
society, President w. w. Campbell
OF the University of California.
famous astronomer: DR.. James H,
Breasted, one of the worlds greatest
Egyptian scholars, and Elihu Thorn
son, engineering genius, are the vice
presidents.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
We Remember

DUT if Shaw has forgotten what
ID he said in the old days, we have
not. He is not good enough to tear
down the things he built up with
young and eager hands.
The scheme of society he outlined
will outlive him, no matter how
many years Of playwriting lie be-
fore him. He may draw cheap
cackle from the rest, but you can't
reconvert a true Shavian.
The Grass vulgsrity Of the present
exhibition will be palpable to those
who know their Shaw.
1t might not be aniss to advise
the sage to sit down through long
afternoon and re-read his own col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Franklin

ONCE 1889, the American Philo-
~ sophicaI Society has been meet
ing in its own quarters, building
adjoining independence hall in
State House Square, Philadelphia.
Here in a room with walls COW
cred with priceless relics-paintings
of early statesmen and scientists,
medals and scientific instruments
which belonged to the pioneer
scientists of the American colonies
the foremost scientists of America
have gathered each year for an an
nual meeting.
Like so many important things in
American life, this society had its
origin in the genius of Benjamin
Franklin.
In 1927, Franklin, who had just
come Of age, organized his friends
into a society which he called the
Junto. At first the membership was
limited to twelve.
But Franklin felt that ''virtuoSi or
ingenious men residing in the sew
eral colonies" ought to be invited to
meetings at Philadelphia. On May
IA, 1743, he wrote a letter to these
men in which he said:
1.-THE first drudgery of settling new
colonies, which confines the people
to mere necessities, now is pretty
well over and there are many in
every province in circumstances
that set them at ease and afford
leisure to cultivate the finer arts
and improve the common stock of
knowledge"
From this letter grew the Ameri-
can Philosophical Society, into
which the Junto was merged.
Early members included George
Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton
Lafayette and Talleyrand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21

TT looks now as though the naval
l. conference would come to far
happier ending than some people
thought.
Barring accidents, q treaty will
be signed tuesday, flve-power
treaty if both France and Italy
ratify; a three-power treaty If either
refuses.
Most any one could find some
thing to quarrel about in the vari-
Gus provisions Of this treaty as they
have been reported, but that Is OF
far less consequence than Is the
fact that comparatively few men
sitting around a table have found
it possible to arrive at an agreement
with regard to so vast a subject.
Whatever else may be said about
1t, this represents real improvement
over the old order.
The old order could be polite in
public, because it was able to do so
much dirty work in private. The
newer way calls for more brutality
in speech, even though it aims at
less in action.
A dozen diplomats plotting war
on the part of their representative
governments need never employ an
unkind expression toward one an
other when they meet.
A dozen delegates formulating an
international agreement must talk
straight, not only in the interest
of common understanding, but
for the benefit of their constituents
back home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-21
Must Break Heads
A N international conference per-

n N international conference per-
L N nits no such smoke screen.
Delegates to it can not say one
thing and mean another. with a
hundred cameras clicking and
hundred wires carrying the news.
Whether they like it or not, they
must talk in such way as will stand
the scrutiny of their colleagues and
the folks back home.
If they disagree, they are COM
PEELED to do SO openly. They can
not show one face to those with
whom they are negotiating and an
Their to those whom they repre-
sent.
If the SenSibilities Of some people
are wounded in the process, that is
the p1'ce we pay.
1t is nc price at all, however,
compared to that we have paid for
the charming deceit and agreeable
lying on which the diplomatic struc-
ture so largely rested.