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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
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think their rackets are strong
enough to control next years cleo
ton?
Will their battle cry or college yell
be Coffinism? Or will they realize
the fact that they have put plenty
of iSms in their own party?
We have also a petty larceny
gambling racket in our fair city that
seems to flourish under Democratic
administration.
If know these things, as dumb
as I am, evidently the more intel
ligent voters are wise, also, and
won't this make good ammunition
when the Republicans turn their Big
Berthas on the Democrats a year
from now?
No wonder the Communists are
making converts every day. Next
May the ballot will be filled up with
one-horse politicians, striving for
the POT of Gold"
MIR. Taxpayer has been a pretty
good boy but I notice he is think
ing about running away from home
lately. So you political birds don't
forget that pig barbecue may not
turn the trick, for the last one you
gave on North West street is for
gotten, and has been replaced with
wormy beans and tough old fat jowl
But will stick with you I still am
a rubber-headed Democrat.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14

A FTER several months of smodering the
patronage revolt now is breaking out
against the President. Democratic senators
and representatives are signing a round-robin,
protesting the appointments Of Republicans,
Progressives. and other non-Democrats. They
also are indignant over the naming of GER
tain Roosevelt or new Democrats whose con-
version did not occur until shortly before the
election
Some of the criticism is directed at the
three unorthOdox cabinet officers, Secretary
of Labor Perkins, Secretary of Interior Ickes,
and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
There is. of course. little danger that this
movement will result in cabinet changes.
Doubtless the President knows better than
any one else that these three members are
among the most popular and efficient in the
cabinet, and certainly much more in sympathy
with the new deal than certain of their con-
sentative colleagues.
But there is danger that congressional
pressure may put more deadwood into other
key positions. The case of Emil Hurja, right
hand man of the Democratic patronage chief,
Postmaster General Farley, is in point. Huria
recently was named assistant public works ad-
ministrator where he will have a hand close
20 the $500 100000 construction melon-the
biggest of all time.
Secretary Ickes, who also is public works
administrator started out to keep that vital
work free from the evils of the spoils system.
Now there is fear that political pressure on
the administration has succeeded at the in
terror department at least as far as getting
foot into the door.
Because Secretary Perkins and Secretary
Wallace are not members of the Democratic
party machine, they naturally have been freer
in making appointments on merit than have
the party wheel-horses in the cabinet. such as
Attorney General Cummings For that reason
they are suspected by the party leaders and
may have to give hostages.
Meanwhile the President is much too busy
with larger foreign and domestic affairs of
the recovery program to pay much attention
to the campaign of the patronage raiders Mr..
Roosevelt has made so many major appoint
ments without regard to party considerations
that his own attitude seems to be clear.
The menace, rather, is that party hacks
will slip into important government posts
while the President is not looking, or while
he is so intent on other issues that he does not
see the full patronage danger.
one thing is certain, the country still is
too close to the rocks to intrust the ship of
state to a laundering crew-regardless of how
they wear their hair or their party label.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
ECONOMY OR SAFETY?

THE last month has brought number of
serious accidents to passenger trains on
American railroads, and good many citizens
are apt to wonder if any Of these accidents
are due TO the stringent economies the roads
have had TO make in the last year.
Has economy, in other words, been carried
past the safety mark in certain cases7 Have
expenditures on equipment. on personnel. on
maintenance of way and the like been cut Just
a little bit too much?
II goes without saying. of course that the
railroads economical because they had to and
not because they wanted to. They have had
a tremendously hard row to hoe this last year
or so.
1t is very hard to see how the cuts they
made could have been avoided.
Nevertheless. the questions raised here
need answering - # only to reaSsure the trav-
cling public.
And if government funds should be needed
to enable hard-pressed roads to ease up bit
on their economy program, they should be
forthcoming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
HITLERISM HERE

A MERICANS, shocked at the excuses of
Germany's brown-shirted DULLES should
remember that Hitlersm is a social disease
whose germs are everywhere.
Bureaucracy and gang-rule under cloak Of
patriotism also threaten Americas democratic
and peaceful traditions. For instance:
In East st. Louis, William Sentner was
found guilty of distressing the peace by CON
spring to incite to riot" because he criticised
the government for spending money on arma-
ments Judge Hindenberger told him that in
view of the depression, no one should criticise
the government. particularly the NRA.
In Akron. the Rev William Denton was
barred from broadcasting his sermons and
threatend with eviction from his tabernacle"
because. he alleges, he criticised the boycott of
NRA enemies as Christian"
In New Mexico. Governor Seligman called
out state militia to suppress civil rights in the
Gallup coal fields because of peaceful strike
by a radical miners union.
In Washington, Attorney General Homer
Cummings clamps a strict censorship on his
subordinates, instructing them to give no in
formation to the press and to submit all news
to him personally.
Such incidents can impede the way toward
orderly change and, if allowed to spread, poi
son democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
M. E.TracySays:

IIAVE you read about the trapped deer of
l. l. Watkins Glen and how after a week or so
of nationwide suspense, he switched his tail in
the faces of would-be reScuers and slid to
safety?
That animal should be immortalized in mar
BILE, paint, and poetry. He has shown up our
nosiness and nonsense in a most vivid light
Think of all the excitement that was squandered
on him for nothing, of all the genius that went
to waste, Of all the exporting that failed to
count
First, somebody saw the deer, wandering back
and forth on a narrow ledge some thirtyf1ve
feet above the bottom of narrow gorge. With
out pausing to consider how he got there, or
that he might get out the same way, the dis
coverer raised great hue and cry.
Here was something new for us susceptible
Americans to weep over, challenge to our
idealism That deer simply must be rescued.
The man who suggested that he probably
could take care of himself and that human med
ding might be superhuous was howled down as
hard-hearted
THERE was sobbing in print from Maine to
Il California and a call for experts to mo-
billie Among others came an Indian chief, but
only to be shunted aside as belonging to an obso-
lete age. We were going to do the job according
to twentieth century principles.
A bridge was built across the gorge, our best
minds have deduced that civilized deer would
walk out on it, He refused to be so naively
trustfu of man-made contraptions, and the
bridge was camoudaged with brush, leaves, and
moss.
Still he refused to take an artificial road to
liberty, and two noble guards were lowered from
the brow of the cliff above to coerce him into
the path of salvation.
Then it was that Old Buck switched his tail.
braced his feet, slid down the steep bank, scram-
bled up the other side, and scooted for the tall
timber. What a farce
Trouble is, We made no allowance for the
deers common sense, which typifles our attitude
toward all animals, men included
WE have fallen for the notion that nobody
w is able to look out for him or herself and
that our one hope lies in minding each others
business regardless of what happens to our
own.
What is Cuba and what was Nicaragua but
another trapped deer?
Machado was kicked out as president Of the
former chiefly to prevent interference on our
part We were saving the island from its own
folly, just as we saved Mexico when Huerta was
ousted.
But the ships are gathering and the marines
are ready.
Some people look on it as just one more
futile mess. Others see the fine Italian hand Of
the sugar trust in it, Very interesting, but what's
the difference?
After all, it is Cuba's problem and if let
alone, she probably would solve it a la Old
Buck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
SAFER FOOTBALL
DR. MARVIN A. STEVENS, Yale FIRE:

DR MARVIN A. STEVENS, Yale fresh
~ man coach speaking at the meeting Of
the Eastern Intercollegiate Association in New
York last Saturday, predicted thirty or forty
football deaths this season, and proposed
revolutionary rule change designed to make
the game safer.
He advocated an end to the practice of
hitting them low in favor of a rule re-
quiring high tackles The knee, he declared,
is responsible for most injuries to tacklers.
High tackling, he said, would be safer and
equally effective
Football can not be turned into pink tea
and hold it's grip upon players or public.
But further steps, we believe, can be taken
toward safety without harning the game.
The problem would be simpler if the rules,
made primarily by and for college football,
were not the same rules that apply to foot
ball as it is played on the sandlots and on
every isolated school football ground. The
injuries mainly occur not on college football
gridirons but in places where the play is not
supervised.
1t would do no harm to the game, we be-
heve, to do more experimenting with rules, in
an effort to increase safety
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
ECONOMIC PLANNING

THE national industrial recovery act and
l. associated legislation will be compelled to
run two gantlets during the next few months
One will be the hard test of practical appli-
cation in the face of greed and tradition. The
other will be the opinion of the supreme court
as to constitutionality of the new deal.
Some attention already has been given to
the latter issue We may examine with in
tereSt the opinion of Louis Boudin on rs
Economic Planning Constitutional" in the
Georgetown Law Journal. Boudin is the au-
thor Of Government by Judiciary" the most
voluminous study ever made of the policies
and practices of the supreme court in setting
aside legislation as unconstitutional.
He is therefore. one of our chief experts
upon the question of what will happen to the
new deal when it gets before our highest
tribunal.
In recent years some experts on constitu-
tional law have taken an optimistic view and
have held that our constitutional law has of
late grown so flexible that there will be no
trouble in adapting it to economic planning
and price-hxing.
Boudin quotes passage from an address
BY Professor E S. Corwin in 1881 which ad-
mirably illustrates this attitude:
AS to the difficulties which face the social
planner. the peculiarly American institutions
of judicial review and constitutional limita-
tions do not today assume the obstructive
proportions that on first consideration might
be expected This is so for three reasons:
First. because constitutional law today is
more flexible. more free from autonomous con-
cents. than it has been at any time within
forty years.
Second. because the court itself is more
realistically aware than ever before Of the
essentially legislative character of its task
more aware of its real freedom of choice
in the presence Of the vast variety of juristic
materials which century and half of dis
cussion and decision have made available
s to it.
Third. because wider public is also aware
Of these things. and so not disposed to be
unduly impressed by mystifying talk about
the nature of the judicial process"
But the court. almost as il were TO rebuke
Professor Corv1n. came right back the next
wear in the Oklahoma ice case and fatty re-
jected this optimistic and enlightened outlook;
These optimistic predictions were shat
tered TO pieces within less than two months
from the delivery of this address by the de-
cision of the United States supreme court in
the Oklahoma ice case, and it is one OF the
ironies of the situation that Professor Corwin's
, address was cited by Justice Brandeis in his
dissenting opinion.
For the present. at least, Professor Cor
wins views have been rejected decisively by
a majority Of the supreme court. Professor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
Take Any Card at All"

OR, to change the figure, Uncle
" Sam is playing the part of a
preStidigitator who says to his VIC
tim: Pick a card Any one at all.
I wouldn't fool you for the world.
But the pack is held in such way
that the volunteer from the
audience who is seduced into be-
lieving himself a free will agent
can't very well select anything but
the seven of hearts. If the Cubans
select anybody but De Cespedes,
they are likely to find that the
choice just doesn't count.
There is an argument to be made
in favor of our playing the role of
roundSman in Central and South
America and among the Caribbean
islands. 1t is not an argument
which appeals to me. I think any
such policy is wrong, from both an
ethical and a practical point of
view. And yet think it is prefer
able to be frankly imperialistic
rather than to sneak up on the
smaller nations.
I think that our high-handedneSs
in conduct in regard to our
southern neighborS has created
rather less antagOnism than our
hypocrisy. AS far as our diplomacy
goes, I can find in it no hint of a
new deal. And the various letter
and editorial writer's who have pro-
tested against my low opinion of
Secretary Cordell Hull, of the state
department, are invited to contrib
ute all over again and point out in
just what way the old gentleman
has departed from the standard
practices of we'll established Amer
lean dollar diplomacy.
And if 1 am told that Mr.. Hull
has no voice in the matter and
never knew what was going on,
will be inclined to answer that this
was precisely what said in the
first place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
Muscle Spasms Cause Ringing in Ears

large blood vessels of the throat
going to the head is itself rela-
lively serious operation, affecting to
some extent the circulation within
the skull as well as that going by
the ear.
There are, Of course, other cases
in which ringing in the ears is
heard only by the patient. Some
times the ringing is due to a slight
Inflammation in the middle ear.
In such cases the attention Of
competent specialist in diseases Of
the ear may permit release Of the
material In other instances, the
use of sedatives results in relief.
Sometimes, it is possible, by the
use Of a blowing device, to cause
fluid that has accumulated to move
into. position which does not cause
ringing.
Most patients we'll advanced in
years become accustomed in time
to the annoyance that is associated
with ringing in the ear, particularly
when the patient has a high blood
pressure or some condition which
can not be controlled readily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14

Times readers are inVited to cypress
their rie10S in these columns. Make yOur
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or less.)
BY H. L. seeger
The national deficit was caused
by a drop in the money income OF
those who paid the taxes and until
the money income is increased, the
deficit will continue. Prices for
goods and services are controlled by
expanding or shrinking the volume
of money and credit, and this is en-
tirely within the power of our pri-
vately owned banking system.
Defation became a policy of the
banking system, which means that
money was to have more value than
goods and services than had been
the case prior to 1928.
Money obligations, as bonds,
mortgages, and other debts created
while money was cheaper, becomes
very much heavier as income in
money shrinks due to decreasing
value Of goods and services.
That condition makes the pay
ment of taxes more difficult for all
whose income in money is reduced,
and this is responsible for the 16
per cent delinquency in Marion
county.
Delinquency in tax payment is a
sign of distress, as is the heavy de-
linquency on mortgages. Our feudal
system of foreclosure and sale robS
the victim of his savings.
Changing of the value of the
money unit not in face value, but
in purchase power value, is respon-
sible for stagnation of our economic
machinery Of production.
When we have learned that our
goods and services are the only real
values, and that all the money in
the world is only a medium of eX-
change, we will see to it that money
has some honest relation in trans
ferring those things we produce.
BY w. Ell.
Marion county was to receive its
portion of money from the federal
government for widening roads,
building bridges, and general i'm
provement of all county units, and
1900 men were to be employed
Aug. l, then Aug. Is, then Sept. l,
but now these men are notified that
this has been turned over to the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
A WOman's Viewpoint

Every employe is behind the new
deal because he wants a job and
security and would like to feel that
his job had the blessed quality of
permanence.
The housewife, likewise, may be
concerned about national progress
but most of all she wants a safe
and secure home, education for her
children, and a chance for them to
grow up in a land as free as pos
sible from poverty. crime, and other
evils.
If We always had thought in
terms Of our brothers welfare, eco
nomic security for all now would be
fact. Since we did not do so, each
must think of himself.
With the NRA the individual now
stands or falls. Selfshness got us
into this mess. Perhaps it will help
us to get out Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14

MOST times when people hear
Infringing in their ears, the sounds
are heard only by them. There are
occasional cases, however, in which
ringing in the ears may be so posi-
tive that it can be heard also by
the doctor.
Recently, DR.. Samuel Iglauer de-
scribed four cases in which ringing
of the ears could be heard by the
physician when he put Stethoscope
on the side of the affected patients
head.
The ringing is due to spasmodic
rhythmical contractions Of the mus
cles around the tube that leads from
the back of the nose to the ear, the
eustachian tube. In other cases, the
sounds are due to the blood within
the large blood vessel that pass near
the ear
The sounds are due to muscles
having a clicking or swapping sound,
and sometimes are so loud that they
may be heard several feet away
from the patient. Usually, the
sounds are heard at times when the
palate contracts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14

A FTER one has lived for two
N score years, one becomes dub
ious about ballyhoo, more dubious at
least than one was at 20 And the
Youngsters, already having been
subjected to some rigorous hard
knocks in this respect, do not seem
to be so susceptible as We once
were. They are not impressed by
fair words, exclamation points and
slogans
And so I think it might be well
for the publicity directors of the
NRA to assume a somewhat more
selfish tone. Not that I believe the
people of the United States are
more self-centered than those Of
other countries or that We can not
be moved by magnanimous appeals.
We long since have proved our
selves generous to the point Of fool
hardness. But a dash of common
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
Fantasy

BY ALICE E. DYSON
Night rests her dusky, jaded feet
Upon the silver cushioned stars,
No shadow slight her pillow mars,
No breath disturbs her slumber
sweet,
Her face with calmness is replete.
Her brow is diademed with bars
OF gold-resplendent scimitars
From Luna's cool retreat.
Night sleeps, but through her slum-
berS staid
Hope-long ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
The phantom that I thought forever
laid,
That like hooking echo seems
My souls tranquility to invade
With Vanity. the ghost of dreams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
SEPT. IL, 1893
1t Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Sept 14.-At the
IN moment this column is written,
the marines have not landed The
latest news is that everything in
Cuba will be readjusted in a salts
factory manner without necessity
for intervention.
But if we smile in a bland way
over this arrangement. it will be a
SNUG smile and a shabby one. It is
fragrant nonsense to talk of allowing
Cuba to settle its problems in its
own way just so long as its harbors
are crowded with our destroyers and
oattleships.
When you thrust a gun into the
side of nation or an individual. it
S not essential to add, Stick EN-
up!' The man or republic at the
wrong end Of the weapon can get
the idea even if no word is spoken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
So Much for So Much

HOW things went on under the
l. l. rulership of Spain I do not
know
There seems to be little doubt
that cruelties were practiced by
the Spaniards in the years i'm
mediately preceding the war Of 1898.
But in the long run the guardian
ship Of the United States has not
been an unmixed blessing.
We put in plumbing for the cities
and we conquered yellow fever. But
in return we introduced large-scale
capitalism and absentee landlord
ism. If the homeless Cuban has
no place to lay his head, it is large
ly because some one of our great
corporations has bought up all the
land.
The present situation is impor-
tant as a symbol and a test. On
March 4 it was said that the money
changers were to be driven out Of
the temple. wonder whether any,
body has remembered to tell that
to the marines.
Downright. 1893 BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-14
Backs FiYem1en

By Mrs. Agnes Baker.
THOROUGH your column, I
N want to mention a few facts
and ask a few questions of Be-
lever in Fairness of Aug. 81.
You hit the fireman when his
back was turned. Why didn't you
sign your name? I'll tell you why,
You're plain yellow. I wonder just
how. much nerve you would have
if your living depended on your
carrying a line of hose up a sixty
five or eighty-f1ve foot ladder and
getting your lungs and stomach
full of smoke. I am afraid you
would starve.
You talk about the overburdened
taxpayer. Can you show your tax
receipt for last year? The police
and f1remen are taxpayers, too.
They can't slip by, like your type.
I always have found that the
loudest squawker was the least
hurt.
You say, take their kitchens
and beds away from them. What
do you want them to do? Stand
up in a corner all night and wait
until they get their twenty-four
hours off to eat enough for the
twenty-fou hours while on duty?
Get this straight. If you were
the biggest tax payer in the city,
not one cent of your money goes
to those kitchens. They are fur
nished by the fremen. They also
pay for their meals and the gas to
cook with.
, They pay for their telephone,
too. You say they get better than
$40 day. They only wish it were
true. In case you don't know it,
they have accepted IS per cent
cut and didn't squawk either.