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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
Just Every Day Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

11HOUSANDS of young wives face the reality that
| confronts a San Francisco correspondent. she
lost her lob when she married and her husband now
earns less than she did Although she Is happy WIN
him and enjoys home life, she is ashamed TO meet
her friends because her standard of living has been
reduced
Her dresses are out of style and she fincheS at the
sympathetic glances from the well-groomed conpan-
ions of her more affluent days. What shall she 90!
The sensible thing would be to keep on staring colo
facts in the face Thus she may hit upon the con-
clusion that it would be wise for her to move TO
different neghborhood and make new acqualntanceS'
And she may be surprised to find that one or tWc
old pals will stick to her. and oshe VIII taste one OF
lfe's Supremest rewards.
It takes courage to fling aside the old STANDARDS
when the purse is fattened out But it always pays
to do
"A 6ULTITUDES of people Scraping bottom
wi these DAYS And the woman who recognizes it
as such and refuses to allow herself to be deluded by
false hopes is the one who will make the quickest
comeback.
Friends who abandon you when your clothes are
Shabby are poor creatures to worry over Every ell
fort you make on them is sheer waste OF good IN
Tentons after ALL 1t is best to be freed completely
from their demands.
And it is mistake to believe that your set is the
only one in which fine and interesting people can be
found. They are to be met with everywhere. Each
community contains some splendid soul who
worth the knowing. To find this out is a beautiful
adventure.
The girl who is young and in love with her hus-
band need ask God for but thing more The
courage hold fast to those possessions that are
worth preserving
Our former prosperity has deified many mean
ingless things Perhaps depression will restore tc
us the old gods OF love, home ana simplicity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
We Need a Shakeup

THERE is not city in America
Il but should be as we'll off as
Milwaukee. Many of them had much
more to begin with. What most of
them lacked was a faction of in
telligent discomfort, a faction with
something more serious on it's mind
than merely winning an election.
You can't have such a faction
without more or less radicalism.
This cry for orthodox partisan
ship which one hears on every hand
has done more to rot and corrupt
the American government, especial
ly in its local branches, than any
other single factor.
We need the stimulating force of
fundamental disagreement. With
out it we soon forget why we have
a government or whether it is func-
tioning as it should. That causes a
let-down in morale all along the
line, opening the door for all sorts
of unofficial influence and invisible
control.
Probably nothing would do this
whole country so much good as a
real moral shakeup-a shakeup that
would mend it of a few of the sim
pie old-faShioned virtues.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
Spirit of Adventure

TINE contributions of science and
a engineering, notably the steel
skeleton and the elevator, have rev.
olutionized architecture, Ludlow
says.
They have made the age-old ne
cessity of horizontal building
thing of the past" he says. They
give verticality new and I'M
limited dimension"
Ludlow also believes that America
has the spirit of adventure which
dareS to go new places and do new
things"
Granted, them he continues,
that we have everything else to
make this one of the worlds great
periods of progress in architecture,
have we the artistic soul to round
out the requirements. or, as a ma
ton, are We like German, which in
pursuance of the robot ideal is said
to be fast becoming a nation Of
brains without temperament'2
Something more than tools and
temperament is needed for great
architecture, something more than
a sense of beauty.
''The creators of lasting art must
have a sense of something of which
beauty is only the flower, something
that stirs not only the emotions, but
the very soul, that may be called
| romance"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
HEALTH SERVICE
Measles Not to Be Treated Lightly

Measles seldom occur in child
under 6 months of age, because ap-
parently the mother transmits to
the child some of her own immu-
nifty, provided she has had the dis
ease and recovered.
The disease occurs most COM
monty in children from to and
from 10 to IA years of age.
All races are attacked by the dis
ease, but apparently Negroes and
Indians die more frequently than
whites, perhaps because of their
living conditions and perhaps be-
case the medical and nursing care
given to them is not as adequate
as that administered to most white
children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
ALLY HEALTH SERVICE

white spots on the lining men,
brane of the mouth.
Because many children seem to
recover easily from measles, parents
have been inclined to treat the
condition lightly.
Indeed, there are some who think
that every child has to have the dis
ease and that, therefore, careful
control is unnecessary. This opin-
ion certainly is not warranted by the
facts.
The child who has been in con-
tact with other children having
measles is likely to develop the dis
ease from eight to ten days after
exposure and may, as a result, have
complications which lead to serious
injury if not to death.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
M. E. Tracy
SAYS:

The LdW May Feel Relieved
By the Death of One Mr..
Legs Diamond, but 1t Ger
tainIy Can Claim No Credit.
NEW YORK, Dec. 19.-Jaok
~ Oegs) Diamond, gangster par
excellence, hard cider king of the
Catskills, and victor in twenty-five
out of twenty-four rounds with the
law, goes the way of his kind.
1t was right after a wild party
staged to celebrate his latest &C
quittal-three bullets in the head
and hysterical women screaming a
weird finale to the drama.
Got what was coming to him."
runs the popular verdict, giving lit
tie heed to the far more important
question of how.
The law may feel relieved, but it
can claim no credit. Save for the
implacable code of gangland, Mr..
Diamond would be strutting as of
yore, not only a free, but much
admired individual.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
A VISITOR FROM
CLEVELAND, o.

Editor Times-I have been a
Times reader for the last nine
years ana think it is the best and
only real newspaper in the city.
You surely can hand it to those dol
lar-loving hypocrites. There is one
thing I would like to tell some of
these wage-cutting manufacturers
who cut their forces to nothing so
they still can make large profits.
If they will take FIVE minutes of
their time and go to South Meridian
street and see the poor children with
ragged clothes, yet clean, With their
loaf of bread and bucket of soup.
II these men had any hearts at all
they would cut their profits a lit
tie and keep larger forces of men.
Every one knows that they took
the benefit of this so-called depres-
sion, and to think that men with a
real helping hand, like our loyal
city f1remen are feeding these little
ones. Let me tell you there will
be a day when you can not take
these dollars with you. You know
the other fellow has to live as well
as you, so don't pile those dollars
up, but keep them rolling.
Every man knows the cause of
the depression, but he won't say for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
And What HaDDenS2
"VXTE expected it." say the au.

WE expected it." say the au-
w thorities, as though their
policy Of waiting for gangsters to
kill each other off had been justi-
fed.
"Retribution!" cry the moralists,
as though the thugs who disposed of
Diamond were special messengers
Of the blind goddess.
you've got to play straight with
the mob, Buddy" proclaims the
would-be leader of a juvenile gang,
and every kid in the neighborhood
is impressed.
AS for average people, they are
just little more afraid than they
were, just little more likely to for
get when asked to identify some
professional killer, just little more
apt to join those conspiracies of
silence which already have done SO
much to balk law enforcement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

Of the bank showing that the municipal bond market
is in a more or less demoralized" condition
1t would be gratifying if the cities were able to
carry the load of unemployment relief with no out
side aid Only 30 per cent of relief funds is coming
from private charity Local governments are unable
to give the remaining 10 per cent as they did last
year.
With tax collections down. municipalities generally
are forced to turn to the open money markets for
funds to carry them over the depression But the
slump, abetted in many by financial rismanage-
ment of cities, has demoralized the market for their
paper
The New York federal reserve bank realizes this.
and Mills has assured Connally that the treasury de-
partment will do all it properly to improve the
municipal bond market This is gratifying, but of
course, the improvement depends in part on return
OF normal business conditions and in part on renova-
ton of the financial administration of manv cities
These two improvements will take place eventually
Meantime these cities should be given help to meet
their unemployment problems over the winter. And
this help should come from the federal government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Scientific Triumphs Need
Only the Spirit of Romance
to Produce q Great Era in
Architecture.
TINE bold use Of romantic imagi-
Il nation will produce one of the
greatest eras in the history of ar
chitecture. 50 says william Orr
Ludlow, chairman of the committee
on industrial relations of the Ameri-
can Institute of Architects.
America stands on the threshold
of that era now, Ludlow thinks,
but. will not enter it until builders
begin to dominate the new materi-
ais which science has put at their
command instead OF permitting the
materials to dominate them.
Among the gifts of science to
architecture, Ludlow lists structural
steel, non-corrodible sheet metal,
asbestos products and reinforced
concrete.
Ludlow urges America to begin
1882 "by burying absurd catch
words, stopping the mechanizing of
the home and the 'factory-izing' of
school buildings and by producing
art in natures way"
First of ALL he says, "1et us put
away that absurd modernistic
phrase whatever is useful is beau
tiful.' Let us also bury as quickly
as possible meaningless lightning
strokes and uncomfortable geomet-
rio patterns. Let us instead follow
natures way-everything useful and
everything beautiful"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

MaPaZlne.
NOTWITHSTANDING the fact
4 that many thousands of dol
lars have been spent in research for
the causative organism of measles,
this has not been discovered yet.
The general impression prevails
that it is so small that it will pass
through the pores of clay filter,
therefore belonging to the class of
f1lterable viruSes.
The symptoms of measles are
known to practically every one. They
include fever, running of the nose
and throat, reddening of the eyes,
a cough and the appearance of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
FRENCH SOCIALISTS PLEA
December 10

OcCCHLUGr 10
IN Dec. 10 1917 the Socialist
~ group of the French chamber
of deputies sent a long open letter
to fellow Socialists in Russia in
which a plea was made that Rus
sian revolutioniSts refrain from
making separate peace with Ger
many.
1t was pointed out that such peace
would revive autocracy and bring
about a moral disaster for which
socialism would be to blame.
General Sarrail who had been in
command of the allied armies at
Saloniki was recalled and General
Guillaumat was sent to the front
to relieve him.
Heavy fighting broke out on the
Italian front with the Teutons
storming Monte Asolone. Italians
waging a concentrated attack east
of Monte Solarolo were repulsed by
a determined German stand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
Daily Thought

But we know the law is good,
if a man use it lawfully.-Tim-
Othy 1925.
Where law ends, there tyranny
begins. -Earl of Chatham.
How did Sing Sing prison get its
name?
It was named for the town in
which it is located, which was for
merly called Sing Sing but has since
been changed to Ossining. The
name is said to have originated
from the name of a friendly Indian,
John Sing Sing, who lived in the
vicinity.
Is Marie Dressler the real name
of the movie star?
Her real name was Leila Koerber,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

al ]nAA"duhGe, Iley nave no
deficit.
While other cities are obliged to
let school teachers, clerks, police
men and flremen go unpaid for lack
Of cash, Milwaukee puts money in
the bank.
It's strange situation, espe-
cially to those who have thought of
Milwaukee as given over to beer
and socialism.
Not pausing to discuss the beer
angle, the socialistic angle fur
nishes part of the explanation. It
has kept Milwaukee citizens in
terested in politics, has trained
them not only to argue, but to
think.
Milwaukee has some civic con-
seriousness left. Her political ideals
have not been killed by that kind
.of boss rule and partisan spirit
which visualize municipal govern
ment as a source of jobs for bench
men and the law-enforcing machine
with which to take care Of
faithful crooks
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
Are They Right2

MODERN criminologists - some
4VA of them at least-tell us that
fear plays little part in determining
human conduct.
They would do well to study the
white-faced, stammering witnesses
called to testify about a gang kill
ing, or the complete dumbness of a
locality which harbors some racket
eering outfit.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
Questions and
Answers

Has the University of Notre Dame
an unbrOken record of victories for
its football team in the last five or
six years?
Up to Nov. l, 1881, the football
team of Notre Dame has not been
defeated since 1923, when it lost to
Southern California, Carnegie Tech,
Georgia Tech and Wisconsin.
Did Thomas Edison discover
plants in the United States that
yield rubber?
Edison told newspaper CORE
sopndents on his eighty-Second
birthday, in February, 1929, that he
had found more than 1900 Ameri-
can plants yielding rubber in some
form or other, and forty of them
were worth while cultivating on
large scale.
Can girls enlist in the navy or
the Marine corps?
No.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

fear of being called Red. NO ono
can call a man a Red because he
tells the truth.
A. TIMES READER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the Health
MapaZine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19

Editor TimeS-Article 4 of the
Constitution of the United States
sets cut that the right of the peo-
pie to be secure in their persons,
homes, papers and effects against
unreasonable searches and seizures
shall not be violated. And no war
rants shall issue but upon prob
able cause. supported by oath or af-
frmation, and particularly describ-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
A Snecial Session

SeRfPSJ-HowARI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-19
A Strange Situation

NUT in Milwaukee, they have no
~ gangs. Also, they have no
deficit.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20
WORKERS RESIST
FASCIST ATTACK
In GER NJ AN Y
Police Aid Fascists;
Take No Action to
Protect Workers
Gable BY Inprecorr.l

BERLIN, Oct. 1e.--Fascist parades
occurred at Braunschweig on Sun
day. Hitler and other fascist lead
ers spoke and thousands of uni
formed fascistS established q reign
Of terror against the working popu-
latior. Beginning Saturday night
numerous collisions occurred between
workers and armed fascists. The
fascists sent punitive columns into
the workers quarters, smashing doors
and windows, using revolvers. i
An attempt to storm the offices Of
the Workers International Relief was
repulsed. The attacks continued
throughout Sunday. During the
struggle two workers were killed and
seventy injured. The dead are Helm
rich Fischer. father OF three children,
and a Communist. Endelke, father OF
six children. The police made only
six arrests. The police were shame
fully lax This fascist terror Is i'm
possible without the silent toleration
OF the police.
Many fascists were also injured by
workers desperately defending them
selves.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20

starving, my daughter said.
Il am going to do the best can
for the Club I am trying to start"
Blank forms have been sent out for
greetings by workers of America, TO
the 14th Anniversary OF the Bolsheyik
Revolution. These greetings will be
published in the special edition OF
November 7th Of the Daily Worker.
The same page OF this special edition
Will contain articles by Russian work
ers describing their conditions under
the Soviet Union.
The double canpaig1l-to get greet
tngs for the November It'll edition
and to get orders for this special
ISSUES now in full swing. Greetinse
are 25 cents and up for each indi-
vidual and 500 and up for organic
atoms. Bundles of the special edition
can be ordered for one cent a copy
for each bundle over five, and for
So thousand. We are now taking
orders for this edition.
Send in the money for the greetings
and the money for the orders as soon
as you can. If you don't get blank
form for selling greetings you can use
the form that you will find on this
page. AS to bundle orders you can
use the order blank below:
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20
STATE OFFICIALS
TORTURE AGED
NEGRO FARMER
Boss Law and Order
Denies Him Right
Of Counsel

BALTIMORE, Oct. 19.-The muir
derous third degree torture to which
state and Worcester County officials
subjected Orphan Jones, 60-year-old
Negro farm hand, surpassed in hor-
ror and savagery even the Spanish
Inquisition, according to the admis-
sion Of a reporter Of the Philadelphia
Daily News. This reporter, himself
an eyewitness to the revolving tor
ture Of the 60-year-old worker, de-
clares in his dispatch to his paper:
Throughout the long hours, as
grim Eastern Shore prosecutors.
constables and deputy sheriffs
worked on him, the mans screams
Of pain could be heard clearly
through the open windows Of the
county jail"
The third degree torture was APP
piled in the county jail at Snow Hill
before Jones was removed to the city
Jail at Baltimore. When he left the
Snow Hill county jail "his face was
pulled and bruised, with hyid scars
offering a contrasting background
for strips OF adhesive tape"
Jones has since been held incom-
iiiunicado in the city jail here, where
he has been denied permission to see
the counsel engaged to defend him
by the International Labor Defense.
The LID. has sued out a writ OF
habeas corpus to force the represen-
tatives of capitalist law and order
to produce him in court today that
he may consult with counsel.
In the meantime, the state attor-
ney is rushing through an indictment
In preparation for another legal
Iynching of Negro worker. White
and Negro workers throughout the
country must raise their voices ir
vigorous denunciation against this
dastardIy effort to frame up TINS
worker on the basis Of a confession
extorted from him by the most brutal
and revolving torture. Wire protests
to Governor Richie Of Maryland and
to States Attorney Godfrey Child OF
Worcester County. Stop the legal
lynching OF Negro workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20
Furniture Workers
Get 1919 Per Cent
Cut In Wages

NEWARK, N. J.-Oct. 16.--The
Inter State Store Fixture Co., of
Newark has announced a 1910 cut
in the wages of the workers en-
ployed to take effect Oct. 81. This
means a five dollar decrease when the
worker works full time. None Of the
workers work full time, which means
that this cut will bring the workers
in this shop to much worse condi-
tons. Although only small shop
of IS workers, one-third Of them
young, nevertheless this cut is fore
runner of further cuts in the other
store fixture shops in the city Of
Newark where hundreds of carpen-
tiers are employed.
These carpenters are organized in
the A. F. l.. Carpenters locals Of
Newark. The scale calls for $1,17h
per hour for all workers. Six months
ago when wage cut took place
bringing the wage down to 81 an
hour and although the carpenters
appealed to the district council Of
the carpenters, nothing was done by
the officialdom. The young workers
in the shop are paid only CSC to 75c
per hour for the same kind and type
Of work as the adults do and will
now get the same 1914 per cent cut.
The AFL carpenter locals here have
never defended the interests of the
young carpenters.
The T. U. U. L. has already ar
ranged a meeting Of some of the
workers and young workers in this
shop where a plan for organizing the
shop to resist the wage-cut will be
worked out.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20
Demonstrate for
Place On Ballot
Telegram to the Daily worker)

Telegram to the Daily Worker)
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. ia
big demonstration against ruling of
the ballot Communist Party candi-
dates for councllmen will be held
Tuesday at $50 pm. before City Hall
on the City Hall Plaza.
The County Commissioners arbi-
trarily ruled off the Communist can
didates in the first, fourth, fifth,
seventh and eighth councilmanic dis
tricts when the necessary number OF
signatures were filed with the county
The Communist Party here has or
ganized campaign to demand the
placement of the Communist candi-
dates on the city ballot. To date
many working-class organizations
have passed resolutions condemniris
the action Of the Ware machine COM
missioners and scoring it as an at
tempt Of the banker-ruled politicians
to deprive the workers Of their can
dldates. --~--- - --''---'--
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-20

With the pictures is this letter from
Comrade A. M. B.:
Il am an ex-world war veteran
but starvation stared me in the face
on account Of my age. am not going
to starve for Hooey Hoover or Wall
Street. Here is photo Of some Of
the ways I am beating this rotten
system we are living in today"
And here is letter from comrade
B. c. in Chicago that also shows the
spirit of the workers that keeps the
Daily going. II am not working" the
conrade writes, "and I can't promise
you a steady donation every month,
but I send you Is cents this time, and
I'm sorry I can't give you more. I
was at the shop where I worked and
they promised to call me to work next
month. worked there for fourteen
years. When work will donate
money every month.
mo one is working in the neigh
borhood, but it is 100 percent Amer
lean fascist. There are two subscribers
here and they're foreign born. asked
one of the neighbors to subscribe
to the Daily and he said, 7 am not a
Bolsheyik.' He is not working and
he lost his money in the bank.
Il am going to the unit meeting
and I am going TO ask for speakers
for a meeting in my house.
eve have a dick here and his wife
asked my daughter If I was a Com
munist. She said, T don't know, but
what's wrong with the Communists?
I'm one myself The dicks wife said
Communism was good for Russia but
not for America. In America there
are 100000 starving but in Russia
everybody is happy and nobody is