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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Need Holes in the Wall

1T commonly is believed that ma
4 chinery, mass production. and
organized wealth have driven us
to point where the vast ma ority
can be only cogs in the system, and
where a comparatively few must
take all the initiative.
Our educational system has be-
come so infected with this belief
that boys and girls are being trained
to regard their principal problem in
life as getting jobs.
The idea that they can do very
much by, or for, themselves; that
they have any considerable part in
the fulf1llmenA of their am
billions or desires; or that there is
much Of a prospect for them EXCEPT
as they can connect with some
large institution and grow up in it
as older people die OF, is con-
spicuous for its absence.
The result is that we have verv
little initiative left, not only when
it comes to meeting emergencies like
this, but in the conception of new
enterprises and undertakings, which
is just as essential to the main
tenance of human progress as it
ever was.
We seem to have forgotten that
every business in this country, no
matter how big or impressive, was
begun as a hole in the wall, and
that the only way we can be sure
Of continued progress is to keep on
making just such holes in the wall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
A State Complains

One naturally would expect the Hoover-Doak plan
for recognizing the federal employment service to
find favor in Virginia. if anywhere.
Virginia not only is Secretary Doak's home state.
but it is one Of that group to which preservation of
states rights is most dear Having departed from
the Democratic loyalties of years to give Herbert
Hoover its electoral vote hardly be accused Of
undue bias toward Al Smiths friend. Senator Robert
F. Wagner and his employment agency bill
Yet virginia's commissioner Of labor and industry
is complaining bitterly Of the Hooyer-Doak program
In vetoing the Wagner employment service bill
the President and Secretary Doak gave the desruc-
tDn Of states rights as one of the main reans for
90
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

necessary to state that the major
ity Of the chains operate on a
money back if you are not satisfied
basis" and any time the customer
feels that he has been Skinned"
it is only necessary for him to re-
port the matter to the manager to
receive satisfaction. If the man.
ager refuses to adjust the matter,
the customer has only to call head
quarters and receive prompt adj
justnent.
A blind man is the only person
that could possibly be Justified in
crying that he had been Skinned"
IN a chain store. The rest Of us
have our sight, ana II we allow our
selves to be skinned it is our own
fault.
Mr.. Stafford accuses The Times
OF being part Of the chain gang"
I wonder if Mr.. Stafford ever has
given any thought to the type of
daily newspaper he would be read
ing if 1t we're not for the chain"
system Of distribution Of the daily
news events.
II 1t were not for the Associated
Press, United Press and other news
distributing chains" the modern
daily newspaper would provide very
dull reading to those who are inter-
ected In other than local" news
items.
If Mr.. Stafford were to investigate
the matter thoroughly. he would
find that practically every statement
which has been made against the
chains, and which are based on
facts would apply to the average
independent merchant as well as
the chains.
It would be as fair to condemn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Get What They Want

DEMOCRACY plays major part
~ in all forms of progress. If it
did not, it would be useless in pol
itics. What a large percentage of
the people want, what they are in
terested in, and what they strive to
attain, counts for a great deal.
Given people who like to sing, and
you are bound to get good singers.
Given people accustomed to deal
with emergencies, who have been
trained to depend on themselves,
and who do not wait for some one
else to pull them out when they
land in the mire, and you have a
phase of psychology which is worth
far more than some of the phases
we have been talking about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Times Readers Voice Their Views

Editor Time-In your Peoples
Voice" column, M. F. Stafford en-
tiers into a general denunciation of
what he has seen fit to call "the
chain gang"
In his letter he deals mostly in
generalities, making no specific
charges against the chains, with the
exception of starvation wages" and
drawing the public into their stores
to Skin them alive"
Mr. Stafford seems to have q
'one-way mind as far as the chain
stores are concerned, but I would
ike to ask him if he really ever has
given the chain store question any
serious thought. Evidently he has
not: because if he had, he would
not be so strong in his denunciation
of the chain store systems.
We first will consider Mr.. Stat
ford's charges that the chain stores
pay starvation" wages. This
charge, which often has been made
against the chain stores, is without
tOunQat1on. Mr.. stanford can not
produce any statistics, based on
facts, which show that the average
wages paid to employees in chain
stores, are less than the chain store
employees would receive if they were
engaged in the same kind of work
in the average independent store in
this city.
The fact that employees remain
with the chain, or go to another
chain, is sufficient proof that the
wages which they receive from the
chains are equal to, or better than
they would receive elsewhere for the
same kind OF work.
AS for his statement that the
chains draws people into their stores
and skin them alive" it is only
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Backbone Is Broken

THERE is one aspect Of the stu
L alton which few have men
toned, but which appeals to this
writer as very important.
For the same reason that we have
a larger percentage Of people de-
pending on pay rolls, we have a
smaller percentage trying to pro-
vide pay rolls.
There probably never was a time
when so few people were thinking
along creative and constructive
lines.
That is where small independent
business used to render its greatest
service.
When we had setup where f1f-
teen or twenty employees Consti-
tuted the average establishment, we
had thousands upon thousands of
people whose very life depended
upon keeping up production and
selling goods.
With a system which masses
$4,000 or even 100000 under single
management, that element has
shrunk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

tration on any single type of food is
likely to be injurious to health.
If the human being is starving.
as occurs not only under conditions
Of famine, but when people follow
unwise reducing formulas, the body
tries to live on the fat that has been
stored up in times Of plenty.
Under such circumstances, more
fat will be found in the blood, which
is carrying it from one part of the
body to another.
When fat in the form Of butter
or beef fat or nutritive oil is taken
into the body, it is split up in the
intestines and changed into fatty
acids or soaps, then, through the
action Of the cells in the walls of
the intestines, the fat is developed
into a new form in which it is car
ried by the blood and deposited in
the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
D U 4 CON nv FREDERICK
ANA1 AOO4 lands

1T took long time to get Hoover and Coolidge to
consent to dedicate Hardings tomb at Marion O.,
but that they have been captured for the event
their speeches are to be broadcast from coast to
coast
We do not know whether Hoover and Coolidge
who are Republicans and Governor White. who is a
Democrat ever played the pipe organ but if they did
the experience will come in handy at the dedication
Of this tomb for there are lot of things that will
have to be soft pedaled.
Aside from the money the workmen get out of it,
such tombs Harding's which cost something like
100000, total loss and than this, they
the last word in vanity and vulgarity.
We doubt whether Harding would have wanted it,
for he was rather weary Of the hmelight when he
passed over the Great Divide.
DUT that's the way people are. Let prominent
ID man die, particularly under tragic circumstances
and Immediately after the funeral they make break
blanks made and they then proceed to comb the
country for contributions to pile lot of stone in
alleged honor of the deceased.
The truth is that the only real memorial any man
can have is the one he builds with his own hands
1t is the he builds through all the days and all
the trials that he knew.
The only real memorial is the record one leaves
The people are quite familiar with this memorial
for they have read it in the making they know it by
heart
UOU can't fool anybody by Misrepresentation in
Il marble or bronze. All the sculptors from dorado
Taft down TO the stone cutter round the corner
chipping the plain inscription John Jones'" can not
put anything the community or the world at
large.
Some day this post-mortem splurging will be ended
by a sense of eternal fitness
After the simple tomb given the Father of his
Country on the banks of the Potomac the most i'm
pressive spot in all this world to the lover of liberty
our jealous perpetrators of the great and the near
great should have been subdued.
All the real giants are sleeping peacefully beneath
simple slabs or in simple tohs but their names live
in place TO which tickets Of adnittance can not be
purchased-the heart of grateful humanity.
And so we pity the silent yictitss Of misdirected
and exaggerated zeal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
ZEtEx%SS
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}ANNIVERSMRYl
.4,.:sz..I,:'!...:!.......:38.,.
GOAPERS'. APPEAL
May Z

I'm May 7, 1917, Samuel Gompers,
" president Of the American
Federation Of Labor, sent an APP
peal by cable to the executive COM
nittee of the Council Of Workmen's
and Soldiers Delegates at Petrograd
after the car had been overthrown.
The appeal said in part:
HThe gravest- crisis in the worlds
history now is hanging in the bal
ance and the course which Russia
will pursue may have z determine
ing influence whether democracy or
autocracy shall prevail
Nov that Russian autocracy is
overthrow, neither the American
government nor the American peo-
pie apprehend that the wisdom and
experience of Russia in the coming
constitutional assembly will adopt
any form Of government other than
the one best suited to your needs.
The American government, the
American people, the American la
Dor movement. are fundamentally
with the Russian workers, the Rus
sian masses, in the great effort to
maintain the freedom you already
have achieved and to solve the
grave problems yet before you.
We earnestly appeal to YOU to
make common cause with US TO
abolish all forms Of autocracy and
aespotlsm, and to establish and
maintain for generations yet I'M
born, the priceless treasures of JUS
t1ce, freedom. democracy. and
humanity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Dr.. Robert A. Millikdn Is a
Famous Scientist Who Has
the Organizing Genius of a
Captain of Industry.
BY DAYIp DTETZ-

LIE looked the very personikca-
i l. ton of twentieth century eff
cheney. The smooth orGer Of his
steel-gray hair, the quick CLINT OF
his keen eyes, the squareness Of his
shoulders, the decisiveness of his
voice and the robust spring Of his
stride all radiate efficiency.
You would not be surprised IL
any one told you that he was the
president Of a powerful bank, the
guiding genius OF a nation wide
chain of stores or the directing
head Of a great railroad.
You naturally would associate him
with directors meetings and con-
ferences.
You might find 1t more difficult
10 associate him with long hours in
scientific laboratory. Perhaps you
would not picture him bending over
a microscope, reading delicate
measuring instruments to the hun
dredth-thouSandth Of a degree, and
making long and laborious tabula-
tons and calculations.
But the second picture would be
quite correct. For the man Of
whom We are writing is DR.. Robert
Andrews Millikan, world famous
scientist, the man who first isolated
the electron, and the man who con-
ArIned the existence Of cosmic rays.
Millikan once said that he drift
ed into a scientific career purely by
chance.
No one who knows him can doubt
that if circumstances had taken
him into the business world, he
would have been as famous a cap
tain of industry as he is today a
captain Of science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Not a Steady Diet

A ND SO I would not recommend
L n a philosophers seat just be-
low the mooring mast to anybody
as regular point of vantage. It
might induce in him the greatest of
all defeatist heresies that nothing
matters very much.
Instead Of eating at an apple,
one may ascend a quarter mile if
he would lose the sense Of distinc-
ton between good and evil.
And this is not in any sense a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Organizing Genius
NHILLIKAN has shown the or,

.MILLIKAN has shown the or
4V1 ganizing genius of a captain
Of industry in the performance Of
his duties as chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the California
Institute of Technology and as di-
rector of the Norman Bridge physics
laboratory, one Of the laboratories
making up the institute.
When 1 visited the laboratory a
few years ago, had the impress
sion of being in a great factory
during boom times. There was the
hum of industry about the building.
Millikan, himself a great scientist,
has surrounded himself with great
scientists at the institute. He has
made it one Of the worlds chief
centers for research into the do
main of atomic physics.
Within the last decade, he has
brought the worlds most renowned
authorities in this field to Pasadena
as visiting professors, among them
the late Dr.. H. A. Lorentz, one Of
the founders of the electron the
ory; DR.. Arnold Sommerheld of
Munich, Professor Rnlan of India
and Professor Ehrenfest of Holland.
All Of thenl-like Aillikan him~
self-are holders Of the Nobel prize.
The most recent distinguished visi-
tor to his laboratory was Professor
Albert Einstein.
Millikan shows another side Of
his character upon the speaking
platform. He is entirely at ease be-
fore an audience, lecturing in a
voice that is audible in the largest
hall.
He never hesitates for a word.
He has the knack of addressing
layrnen and has performed VAL
liable service to science as an in
terpreter of the scientific point Of
view
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

In a speech the other night DR.. William j Schef-
felin, president of the Citizens union and organizer
of the Committee of One Thousand in New York City
held that rackets and organized crimes are due
chiefly to the dry act and the possibilities which pro-
hibition gives for huge profits in defiance of the law
There is doubt that DR.. Schieffelin is right.
But one not safely reason that the way out of
the mess merely is to get rid Of prohibition. The
crime situation is bound to become far more serious
after repeal.
Those who have been making billions out Of
organized bootegging and high lacking not going
to rest satisfied with putting themselves az the service
of the Gideon society or the Lords Day Alliance once
prohibition passes.
They will pass over from the liquor pastures into
organized bank and security robbery wholesale thefs
bucket shop artistry and racketeerng in lines other
than alcoholic.
All the organization and experience thus far de-
veloped in the liquor game will be applied to more
serious forms of delinquency
This fact is no sufficient ground for retaining the
dry law But it should make understand the
sponsibilty which is if propose to repeal it.
We must get ready, not only with shopping bags
to carry home our booze from government reposi
tories but also with a system of crime repression
equal to the probable emergency. Otherwise, the
restored wet viii be a deluge indeed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Before the Deal

HERE in Manhattan island,
L Il which must have been a glori-
Gus garden spot before man came to
civilize it.
In the days Of the Dutch it knew
rivers, lakes and even a spread
OF jungle foliage. And now, looking
down upon it, this land of natural
luxury has become a record of squat
squalor, with a few exciting towers.
If we are to plan another sort of
city with due regard for earth and
trees and space to turn around we
must lift from their foundations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

the entire legislature and judicial
system Of our country because of
the individual acts of dishonesty
and corruption as it is to condemn
the chain systems because of indi-
vidual instances Of dishonesty on
the part Of a small number Of chain
employees.
Though it displeases Mr.. Stafford
and others, the chains are here to
stay, as the public is not going TO
let sentiment for the independent
merchant overcome the dollars and
cents saving Of chain store trading.
No, Mr.. Stafford, I am not con-
nected in any way with any chain
organization, but 7 have given con-
siderable thought to both sides of
the Chain menace" and although
I also have few pet prejudices
against the chains I will have TO
admit that in so far as the chains
relations with the consumers are
concerned, I am just about 100 per
cent proclaim. P E. R.
Editor Times-As q reader Of The
Times, 1 viii say in regard to that
fellow who said the soldier depended
on the government too much, that
bonus rightly belongs TO the soldier.
He risked his life IL an effort to
save his country.
II it hadn't been for those who
fought and suffered and died, where
would we all be today? Living
under old Kaiser Bill.
AS for eating slop, don't suppose
this man ate any more than the rest
of US, unless he made hog OF him
self. think he would better think
twice before he speaks once.
MRS q. 3 A.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
BIZ DE-. MORRIS FTSHBEIN

BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEN
Editor. Journal of the American Medical
Association and Of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
lat is utilized by the human be-
L ing largely as a source of en-
ergy. It contributes many Galleries
in relationship to the amount that
may be taken.
BY contributing energy, it relieves
the inteStires from the digestion,
assimilation, and absorption of a
large amount Of carbohydrate or
sugar.
To a certain extent also fats are
valuable in sparing protein, which
is used for building tissue.
However, the human being can
not be supported by fat alone; in
deed, it is well to emphasize again
that the human body demands
widely varied diet, and that concen-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
TT CEENTC TN MI ~ HAYWOOD
l l. OA11V1O L ~ 1N1L d. BROUN

whole blocks Of stodgy dwellings,
We have become too close, and
one shoulder rubs against another.
1t is an anthill in which we may
have left a little scope for elbow
movement, but nothing for the soul
of man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those OF
one Of Americas most inter
esting writers and are pre-
sented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this paper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Members of the British house of commons have
been denied free matches Now you know what the
burning issue is before the house.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

boy who tried to wreck a railroad train has
been ordered to have his tonsils removed. Maybe
this will put him on the right track
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

The unemployment problem, says q news item,
hasn't affected chemists It's probably because aley
had their own solutions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Should tea be boiled?

Tea contains the astringent tan
min, deleterious element. Boiling
tea extracts the tannin and is,
therefore, bad. An equally bad eff
feet is had by adding to fresh tea
leaves those once stepped, or by
sleeping too long, even below the
boiling point. Boiling tea also
evaporateS the essential oil. thus
losing flavor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

A seven-foot man has been elected mayor Of Ber-
lin to succeed mayor lately involved in scandal
On the assumption perhaps, that he's too big to
stoop to petty politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

A New York woman is suing her husband for di-
vorce because of his habit OF pretending to be dead
That's how a man gets sometimes who plays dummy
at bridge too long.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Where in the Bible is the verse.
thee effectual prayer of righteous
man ayaileth n1uch?"
James, Chapter 5, verse l6.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Is there any rule in boxing which
bars a Negro from holding the
worlds heavyweight championship?
No.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07
Daily Thought

o give thanks unto the Lord;
for He is good; for his mercy en-
dureth forever.-psaln 136: L
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

You've got to have plenty of pull to make the
college crew.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Ball players who pull boners seldom pull bonus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

Our whole life should speak forth
our thankfulness.-R- Iibbes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

1T took a long time to get Hoover and Coolidge to
consent to dedicate Hardng's tomb at Marion, O.,
but that they have been captured for the event,
their speeches are to be broadcast from coast to
coast
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

All the real giants are sleeping peacefully beneath
simple slabs or in simple o-nhs but their names live
in place to which tickets Of admittance can not be
purchased-the heart of grateful humanity
And so we pity the silent victitss Of misdirected
and exaggerated zeal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-05-07

After the simple tomb given the Father of his
Country on the banks of the Potomac the most i'm
pressive spot in all this world to the lover of liberty
our jealous perpetrators of the great and the near
great should have been subdued