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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
An Old Memory

T CAN'T sincerely pretend that I'm
Il slave to toll, bound to wheel
Of industry. I don't get up early in
the morning, and I don't work very
late in the evening. But I'm not
entirely outside Of knowing and un-
Outstanding something of that
grind.
I had job once where had to
get to work at 6 in the morning,
and I used to get there around s.
1t lasted only three months. But
that was enough to give me some
inkling of what it would be like if
it were steady.
Mine was morning paper, and
so I was expected at 7:3O in the
evening, and I got through at $3.50
in the morning. I liked that.
I saved a lot of daylight. I had
all my afternoons free for golf and
tennis and watching baseball
games and other healthful fecrea-
tons. ~
1t wasn't possible to get into de-
pravity and poker games. except
of course, the poker games we had
every night at the Office.
That was one Of the beauties of
doing your newspaper work in the
small hours Of the morning. Even
a big town like New York pretty
wen Quiets down along about !
a. N.
Most murders happen earlier In
the evensag. Lots Of burglars 60
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

covered by the social scientists who carry on their
researches into the nature Of and his relation
ships with his felow-men
1.-THE successful solution Of the problem viii de-
mand synthess Of the wisdom Of the social sciences
collaboration of the specialists in the use of the
scientific method in every Of social facts"
Professor Hayden goes the whole way He does not
hesitate to declare the old religious dependence upon
supernatural aid to be menace to the mental ma
turty of the individual and to the social progress of
the race:
For children to continue the infantile status into
later age by the transfer of parental protection and
security to supernatural guarantor is to run the
risk of checking free moral development to make
possible an escape from social responsibility to open
the door to fight from the realities of the actual
world
Then the individual either fails to mature re-
ligiously citizen of the new age or makes the
adjustment only after sorrowful period of emotional
storm and stress"
Here is religious prospectus without any lingering
aroma Of the medicine man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Real Benefit IN Travel

IT'S worth year in college to
4 travel across this country and
see for ones self what is going on,
and it's worth a year of life, if not
more, to get the broadening effect,
yet it calls for the sacrifice of
neither.
The privilege Of travelling hasn't
deprived us of any other privilege.
We have everything we had be-
fore. The only difference is that
We now can see and do whole lot
more.
There are those who drift, OF
course, but there always were. The
tramp on wheels is only a modern
edition Of the tramp on foot.
The ability to get about, to ex-
change goods and ideas on an ever
widening scale, hasn't wrought any
change in our nature, but it has ex-
banded all our powers, and enabled
us to accomplish things by working
together that We never could have
accomplished under the old order.
How else could we have tanned q
continent, much less made it fit for
civilized people to occupy, in Sc
short a time? How else could we
have built all the great cities and
supplied them with the necessities
Of life? How else could we have
made it possible for these far-awav
areas to prosper?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
A Gag Rule

Rushing into ways where angels, politically speak
ing well might fear to tread the new 1eoeral power
commission has decided bar the public from speak
ing before it in opposition to power company CLAIMS
IT takes the position that the commission itself rep
resents the interests Of the people at all hearings ana
that nothing further is necessary.
1t has made this ruling in connection with the new
river minor part license" case, the most important
single case ever to come before federal power COM
mission If the Appalachian Electric Power Company
Joins this case there will be little left Of the power
act. in the opinion of men who wrote the act.
Maybe the commission does intend to protect the
nubic interest It gave no evidence Of this when 1t
began its ocal life by dismissng the chief accountant
and the solicitor who had been aboring for enforce
ment of this law.
The senate has given considered judgment that
the commissions chairman is unsuited for his ONCE
But even if the commission has the best OF intentions
it las taken dangerous and indefensibe position in
refusing to hear citizens.
The commissioners have no right to suppose that
with their six weeks knowledge of the power act they
are capable alone of protecting the public interest as
it should be protected.
In the second place, the people have much bigger
stake in this power fight than any company has The
streams the public lands at issue, are theirs Iney
have consented that these may be used for private
power Developments but only under certain condi-
tons
ON the question of whether these conditions shall
he set aside and the companies allowed unrestricted
rights on one class of streams the people certainly
should be allowed to speak,
Representative government has placed in the
hands of the commission the right to decide this mat
ter for the people, but the ethics and practice of repre-
sentative government declare that the decision must
not be made until all sides, instead of one only, have
been heard, and particularly until the parties with
most at stake shall present their case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

SOMEWHERE WEST OF THE
~ HUDSON.--I get quite a few
letters in the course Of year from
young men and women out Of town.
Sometimes their letters come from
as far away as the Dakotas or Min
nesota.
They all sing the same song, ask
The same thing: How can get to
Neg York? This little town or this
farm where live is tiresome and
dull. I want to see Broadway and
the lights and the gayety.''
Many people get their picture of
New York entirely over the radio,
and they are entitled to think that
it's just a nest of night clubs entire
ly surrounded by love dance oretes-
traS.
They must think that we are all
waltzing and grooming the hours
away. They don't hear very much
about our breadlines or the mu-
nicipal lodging house, and I don't
think that the girl or the boy in Da-
kota has enough said to him about
the way most of us ive-about get
ting up early in the morning and
going to work and coming home in
the evening and going to bed.
In program like that it doesn't
make a great deal Of difference
whether your home Is in Fargo or
the Bronx.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

music, improved houses and more
readily available medical attention
are only items in the enlarged Wis
ia, which, on its face, it would seem
that this age of science aIld easy
manufacture should make possible
for the last of us.
How is it, then, that in the midst
of all our progress, in times not
only of plenty, but Of declining pop
ulation growth, we came to-and not
for the first time in the century
a blind alley, that drives us back,
like the ancient Romans, to the
feeble expedient of free bread and
soup?
May it not be that, having ar
ranged for ample production not
only of necessities, but Of luxuries,
and having invented countless de-
sirable examples of the latter, we
have not thought of so balancing
distribution of income as to make
possible luxury consumption on an
adequate scale?
IT is true an demonstrable that
i to confine the discussion to
America-the number and size of
large fortunes is increasing, even
relatively to the total population;
and that extravagant consumption
by the few rich IS increasing.
The number of large houses,
yachts, luxury hotels, ETC., is at its
peak, and even the most expensive
coach-and- -four Of the middle of the
last century could not compete in
cost with today's fairly common
Rolls-Royce with body by Brooks.
Insofar as this keeps money NOV
ing, it is all to the good. Butt
has failed to keep enough money
moving fast enough to provide what
some economists have termed the
waste which, in the absence Of
almost continuous war, is necessary
to provide all hands with steady
Jobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
The Editors Gather

Today the editors Of Democratic papers
gather to listen to the leaders and carry
home the latest Interpretation of party
policy.
There was time when party labels on
newspapers meant much. The voters took
their partisanship seriously. Today the in
fuence of newspapers is in direct proportion
70 their disregard for party organizations
and their zeal for public causes.
A newspaper editor who always supports
the same party, no matter what may be its
platforms or who may be it's candidates,
merely advertises himself as lacking in lead
ership or in ability to think.
The party which stands for the common
good today may tomorrow be the fence be-
hind which every privileged interest and
crook finds sanctuary.
Partisanship, in government or in news
papers, has produced many of the evils which
have lowered in the wreckage of common
prosperity.
It was because newspapers and voters &C
cepted labels that Stephensonism and Cof-
fnism gained stranglehold upon the state.
It SO happens that the Democratic party
has obtained partial power because that
party was the only agency through which
the people could revolt against bad govern
ment.
These Democratic editors have wonder
full opportunity. They can be diligent in
keeping the influences that disgraced the OPP
position party out of their own organization.
A party in power faces temptations that are
not presented to party of protest. Will these
editors plan to keep their party faithful to it's
pledges, or will they fall into the editorial
errors of the faithful organs of Stephen
sonism?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
1919 ANIL Lands

IF Chicago wants ony Of us to coma to her fair she
4 should unload Big Bill Thompson and put an
skull and crossbones Big Bill is preeminent among
American mayors
A lot Of people think and with some degree Of
justification, that to go to the worlds fair in 1888
would be about the same as going to war; Even if
this apprehension be exaggerated the result viii be
the same, for is going to pack his grip and 90
to Chicago if he thinks he'll be perforated
IF Chicago wishes to do little good win advertis-
ing, the time fer her to do it is in the spring pr-
mary, and the way to do it is to nominate Judge
Lyle who has made at least some overtures toward
winding the alarm clock for the drowsy goddess OF
justice.
We know not whether Big Bill has any tunnels
which connect him with the underworld but the
whole world does know that an executive of character
and vigor could put end to the long, red war that
has made Chicago the outstanding failure of Ameri-
can government
THOMPSON has played to the prejudices Of race
and nationality, and the politician who does this
should be beaten, no matter what ticket he disgraces
But you never TELL and the result in Chicago NAV
be notice to the world that the majority wants four
years more Of bunk and crime
If so, call of the fairl
Kansas now wheels into line as a candidate for
the nations divorce business by passing law which
makes 1t necessary to live there only ninety days to
NC 4SN eAASuSA ZIG HidtI4Hlonlal separator
Arkansas is to be given some allowance however
for she has been terribly hard up shce the drought
CHoULD this extending of thg latch string prove
- to be irritating to the great sovereign common
wealth of Nevada, her teemns thousands probably
viii reply by mandating her Legislature to rescue Reno
from cactus finish and pre- erve her place in the
sun by cutting down the reyidence requirement. in
a fashion that viii knock the socks of the Arkansas
Traveller.
= =#Nu
The whole world shock hands in spirit with
Thomas A. Edison his eighty-fourth birthday an
nversary for he has abored not for country or for
latitude but for humanity
His genius has made life richer; his victories have
been the victories Of the world.
And now. long after the time most men quit he
is laborng enthusiastically to make the sunower fur
nsh us with automobile tires and the goldenrod give
us galoshes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
BY ROBERT P. sCRIPPs

A RECENT newspaper editorial
"A picturesquely phrases the idea
that rapid application of science to
industry is the underlying cause of
the American and world situation
of unemployment and business de-
preston.
The statement is to this effect:
That whereas behind every producer
we have placed a corps of invis-
ible assistants Ii. e., mechanical
gadgets), we have not been able to
produce such invisible assistants to
stand behind the consumers.
Of course this statement is not
true, but it is sufficiently challeng-
ing to produce thought and debate.
The fact is that cheap cars, radios,
moving pictures, etc., or rather the
money to make possible the enjoy
nent of such luxuries, ought to be,
and well might become quite suffi-
Gent, II not invisible, assistants for
any run-of mine consumer.
The fact is that, so far as the
bulk of people in our own and other
industralized countries is concerned,
production and employment of as
sistant producers far has outrun
The employment, if not the produc-
ton, of assistant consumers.
TITO stop talking in figures, there
L is no reason to believe that we
are even in sight Of practical
limit to the potential per capita
luxury consumption of our own or
any other civilized citizenry. In
this connection it must be remem-
bered, too, that not only are Fords
and radios and such to be classed as
luxuries consumable by the masses.
Better roads and more slightly
countryside in any Of our states
would be appreciated by millions, as
would also more up-to-date rapid
transit system in any city. Smarter
clothes, improved dwellings, better
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Actual Modernism

Reimbursement of religion to modern knowledge
proceeds at pace which makes the proverbal snail
seem Captain Hawks by comparison.
Even most of our modernists are disappointing.
They insist upon putting wine in old bottles and
hope to have their cake and eat it too They verbally
repudiate the Orthodox conceptions of Jehovah Jesus
and the Bible but retain essentially the practical
attitude toward all three as the fundamentals.
They bring us new words, but they still are laden
with old meanings.
Therefore. 1t is a gratifying surprise to be able
to run across modernist who lives up to reasonable
expectations Such is Professor A Eustace Hayden
of the University of Chicago. In an article on Re
1ieon and Mental Health" in the Survey Graphic, he
discusses the reconstruction of religion which present
day science has made necessary, with sanity and
thoroughness which should placate the most re-
lentless religon-baer. He puts the whole situation
in nutshell in the following paragraphs
HOur modern age is witnessing the greatest trans
formation of the world religions that they ever have
experienced in all their long history. Man has
gained confidence in his own powers. The ancient
distrust of human nature is vanishing.
"The quest of the good life which has sought full
flnaent in the supernatural. other world or IN the
beyond-life now turns earthward again. Response
bilitv for the creation Of good world in which the
good life may be realized which the frustrated ages
of the past loaded upon the gods now is being as
suned by man.
Modern science has undermined all the ancient
theologies and religious PHILOSOPHERS built on the
foundation OF the naive thinking of primitive man.
Applied science has put into the hands Of modern
man the tools for the mastery Of nature lacking in all
the eras Of antiquity.
The social and psychological sciences offer at last
the long-needed understanding OF human nature and
make it possible to hope for technique of guidance
and control.
The realization Of the good life viii not come
from revealed theological dogmas It must be dis
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
7doA1F Bf7
BIRTH OF COPERNICUs
February IS

0N Feb. 19, l473, Nicolas Copper
~ nicus, mathematician, and
founder Of modern astronomy, was
born at Thorn, Poland.
At the age Of q, after he had
been graduated from the Jniver-
sity of Krakow, Copernicus was APP
pointed professor of mathematics
in Rome.
About 1880 he wrote his 1.-THE
Revolutions of the Celestial
Spheres" upon which his fame
rests.
Before Copernicus it generally
was believed that the earth occu-
pied the center Of the universe;
that the changes Of day and night
are produced by a rapid revolu-
ton of the heavens; that the Sc
quence Of the seasons and the ap-
parent motions Of the planetary
bodies are caused by the revolu-
ton Of the sun and planets In or
bits Of various completely, subject
to the common daily motion Of all
from east to west.
But the Copernican system re-
presents the sun to be at rest in
the center Of the solar system, and
the earth and planets to move
around it in elliptical orbs.
The explanations given by Soper-
nicus for variation Of the seasons,
etc, are, on the whole, correct.
He laid the foundation upon
which KepIer, Calico, Newton and
other scientists built the structure
Of modern astronoiS ical science.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19

Highways Haze Done More
to Build This Nation Than
Any Other Single Factor.

" - c1Uto 4 ITO ~ UCtOfS ! nun
Any Other Single Factor.
lT oRDsBURG, N. NJ, Feb. 49,
IL This is one more biggest little
town in the world" surrounded by
desert. sustained by hidden wealth,
and male possible, if not necessary,
/ by modern transportation.
The railroad needs a division
point every 100 miles or so, the auto
a filling station, and the airplane
landing field.
Even if there were nothing else
to back them up, our rolling stock
and its human freight would pro-
vide a good living for many such
places.
To a measurable extent, civiliza-
ton has become the slave of its
highways. Travel, whether for
business or pleasure, demands COM
fort and convenience. Not only
that, but it means the same kind
of comfort and convenience to
which the travellers are accustomed
A mining camp can go broke and
an irrigation project can f1atten
out, but the town located at an adj
vantageous point on the highway
has something about as permanent
as the nations business on which
to depend.
Admitting that such a town never
may become a second New York, it
is pretty sure Of getting three square
meals a day, provided it does not
bust itself trying to grow.
Also, it is pretty sure of one
other thing, and that is a liberal
education in all the latest styles,
| fadS and freaks,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
The Presidents Comnrom;so

President Hoover has opened the way for a fair
compromise on veterans loans He appears ready
to give special aid to those who need aid But he is
unwilling to jeopardize federal finances and prolong
the depression by making special grant to the many
veterans not in need. The veterans themselves and
the country would suffer from the latter course.
THE one appealing argument for this legislation is
Tor veterans in distress, the President says rightly
THE welfare Of the veterans as a class is INSOFAR
able from that of the country
Placing strain on the savings needed for reha-
Utilization Of employment by measure which calls
upon the government for vast sum beyond the call
OF distress, and so adversely affecting our general
situation, will in my view not only nulfy the bene-
fits to the veteran but inict injury to the country
as a whole"
This has been our position from the beginning
help those who need help We believe also that is the
desire of the rank and file of the veterans them
selves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Questions and
Answers

Did Charles A. Lindbergh make
the first crossing Of the Atlantic by
airplane?
The first crossing was made by
Lieutenant Commander A. G. Read
and a crew composed of Lieuten-
ants E. F. Stone and Walter Hin
ton, Ensign II. c. .Rodd and E. S,
Rhodes, in the NC-4, a navy sea-
plane. 1t was not a nonstop fight
The first nonstop fight was made
by Captain John Alcock and A. w
Brown, who few to Ireland from
st. Johns, Newfoundland. Both
flights were made in 1919. Colonel
Lindbergh was the first person to
fly direct from New York to Paris,
and the first to cross the ocean
alone.
What does the word soviet mean?
It Is a Russian word meaning
council
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
They Build the Nation

TOO many people still regard
l. the highway as luxury, as
without, as burden for the tax
payers which should be lightened
or avoided whenever possible.
AS a matter Of common sense,
highways have done more to build
this nation, to create the prosper
ity it now enjoys, to make it the
greatest economic institution ever
established by human intelligence,
than any other single factor.
Take away our transportation
system, which is based on the high
ways, and what would there bt
left?
The entire structure Of modern
industry rests on transportation
If you doubt it, visit any country
which lacks roads, railroads and
fast-naoving vehicles.
Mobility is the eral basis Of
progress. Herbert Spencer had il
right when he said that, other
things being equal, a long-leggeo
race could be depended on to out
last, outlive and Guido a short
legged race.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-19
Can't Leave Highway
DEOPLE may leave the farm, bu

DEOPLE may leave the farm, but
l. they can't leave the highway
Civilization can't afford to let them
The train, truck, and pleasure cal
must not only go through, but must
go through smoothly and with the
least possible discomfort.
Those who worry about the 6is-
appearance of our small towns have
missed the effect of travel. Many
small towns will wither up and blow
away, because they have no valid
excuse for existence, but the high
way will preserve most of them and
bring others into being, because the
highway has become essential to our
economic and social life.
The world always has had high
ways, but never any like ours; never
any that were designed for such
speed, that demanded such careful
and continuous maintenance, or
that called for such a wide variety
of accommodation to travellers.
You have heard about the great
roads Of antiquity-the Appian way,
the royal concourse Of the Incas, the
military arteries with which Spain
threaded her American possessions
but on which of them would it
have been safe to pass cars at fifty
miles an hour?
But our highways must include
more than that. They must include
the railroad and the airShip, as well
as the automotive vehicle, and they
must be supplemented by every pos
sible means of communication.
A government stable every ten
miles, with a supply Of fresh horses
and shelter where travellers could
pass the night on straw, might be
sufficient for the Roman road, but
ours call for vastly more.