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Evening star., 1933-10-21

The Recreation Room, a de-
lightful, spacious room with fire.
place; easy stairway; asphalt tile
floor; sanded walls. Flooded with
sunshine and air. A play room
for the whole family and their
guests. This is an interesting and
charming feature of modern plan
ming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
STEEL RAILS AND DEPRESSION

CENATORS the interstate commerce COM
~ mission and the department of justice, to
say nothing of economists and railroad men,
have been plagued for years by the price-peg-
ging of steel rails.
While all other commodities have come
down in price, the steelmasters steadily have
maintained rail prices at prosperity levels
All those who have been concerned with this
problem have been unable to do anything
about it, although rails did drop So year ago.
an unappreciable decrease.
But now President Roosevelt is exerting
his great influence against maintenance of
rail prices, proposing with the public works
administrator and the federal co-ordinator of
railroads loan to the carriers for mainte-
nance work, dependent upon a decrease in rail
prices.
The steelmasters just have raised their own
salaries, or at least some of them have. while
giving their workers the statutory increase
provided under NRA. Having helped them
selves, they now should be prepared to help
the railroads and, through them, the workers
The steel rail price pegging issue is not
far removed, concerning only steel makers and
railroad executives. 1t is vital to consumers
Railroads must buy rails and their purchase
price is counted in the rates paid for trans
portation of goods and persons
The railroads, in this new Roosevelt pro-
poSal, are willing to borrow public works
money to buy rails Joseph Eastman, railroad
co-ordinator, and Harold Ickes, public works
administrator, are cooperating.
If the steelmasters now will cooperate. the
railroads can furnish employment to railroad
workers and steel workers, and long deferred
railroad maintenance will be brought I'D TO
date.
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system which brought Europe into the abyss

system which brought Europe into the abyss
in 1914
Greys perspective in European politics was
blurred from childhood. He confesses that he
was taught by his father and grandfather
sentimental devotion to France and was given
a most unhistorical picture Of the Franco
Prussian war
AS early as 1895, long before Germany had
taken any Of the steps which Grey criticises,
he had developed an invincible anti-German
complex, which later was inflamed constantly
by his undersecretary. Sir Eyre Grove.
Hence, when Grey came to be foreign min
lister. it is not surprising that he speedily
announced in 1906 that cordial cooperation
with France in all parts of the world would be
the corner stone of his foreign policy.
In 1911 he lined England up with France
against Germany in the Morocco crisis. In 1912,
he bound England to aid France in the event
the latter was attacked-or seemed TO be at
tacked-by Germany When he sent Lord Hal
dane on a pacific mission to Germany about
this time, he allowed Poincare to destroy all
constructive results of Haldanes visit.
The French succeeded admirably in better
ing relations between their ally Russia, and
the latter's traditional enemy, England. BY
1914, Grey did not even consider restraining
Russian policy in the Balkans
When the crisis came, Grey made many
gracious diplomatic gestures, but they were of
no avail, because he stubbornly refused to re-
strain France or Russia. His policy flew in the
faces of the advice and opinions of his more
important ambassadors in the European CAP
itals.
Grey sought to represent the German in
vasion of Belgium as the reason for throwing
England into the war. But the documents and
Lord Morley's memorandum on cabinet meet
ings in 1914 prove completely that Grey formu-
lated his bellicose policy before the invasion
and without once mentioning the latter in
cabinet.
He even refused to discuss German neu-
trality relative to Belgium with the German
ambassador.
More than any other man alive in 1914,
Grey might have checked the war.
Sir Edward was the classic proof that alb
stract benevolence is not enough to save man
kind from disaster
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so GOES THE NATION

ID EPEAL was not the issue in Maine.
N Clearly that state, like all the others
that had voted, was wet. But the drys, by
fixing the election so the rural districts would
have an unfair balance of power, and by cb
tanning blind ballots which gave no indication
of the repeal views of the candidate, hoped to
win
The issue was whether, even with all those
handicaps, the wet majority would be suf-
ficiently large to defeat that trickery
The answer was to l.
And Tuesday Maryland. Colorado and Min
nesota voted. An apparently have Joined the
repeal parade. The count by states thus, al
most certainly, is % to 0.
Idaho and New Mexico probably will fol-
low next week. The necessary thirty-six states
for ratification are expected to vote by Nov. 7.
And formal ratification of repeal is in sight
before Christmas.
Meanwhile, the states have the job of
working out effective liquor control systems
in preparation for the. end of national pro-
hibition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
A "NEW WORLD" IS WELCOME

PROFESSOR PHILIP CABOT of Harvard
told the state convention of the Pennsyl-
vania Electric Association that the powers be-
slowed on the United States government I'M
der the NRA program must be terminated at
the earliest possible moment if the American
people wish to continue the governmental
forms to which they have been accustomed.
AS temporary measures, Professor Cabot
says, the various emergency acts have much
to commend them. But, he continues, "if we
allow ourselves to be luled to sleep by radio
addresses of the President about the new deal
and appeals for cooperation by the national
administrator, we may wake up some morning
in a new world"
All this may be as true as gospel. But
some one ought to remind the professor that
a great many citizens of this country are not
really frightened about the prospect of waking
up in a new world.
The old world with its recurring periods of
man-killing depression, doesn't look as fresh
and rosy as it used to. If we find, some bright
day, that we have been left behind, it isn't
likely that any great torrent of tears will be
shed.
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:: The Message Center ::
you say your say vOtaire

of the scarcity. the farmer will
be tempted to sell his hogs rather
than keep them for breeding, and
it will take three or four years
to get back to a normal produc-
ton.
Cutting down production to
meet the present low level of con-
sumption is but to stabilize pow
erty 1t is becoming plainly evil
dent that NRA is only a plan to
enable the rich to make more
profits and the forgotten man is
entirely forgotten.
Socialism, the social ownership
of industry, so that all our vast
resources of nature and the ma
chinery that we have been clever
enough to invent may be used to
produce for the needs of the
whole people, is the only clear
way out and millions are now
awakening to that fact.
1t must come To that, either by
a sensible planned system, or by
a violent revolution, with dyna-
mite and blood. With the seats
of power occupied by prof1teerS
Who have no other aim but the
accumulation of profits, there is
small chance Of getting any re-
lief The workers must unite at
the polls and by force of numbers
take the power of government in
to their hands.
Socialism, Yes, it is the only
hope.
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Mddn1dn's Wdy

BY w. H. Richards
r HAVE talked with more than
Il a hundred persons regarding
the destruction Of cotton, wheat,
wool and hogs, and have not yet
found one who does not regard
it as the act of a mailman rather
than a sane suggestion.
Killing off millions of pigs to
put the price up when tWo-thirds
of our people already can not buy
pork is nothing short Of criminal
insanity. If the brain trust can
not Go better, it would better re-
sign and let the places be filled
from inmates of some asylum.
We are suffering from a famine
of plenty, starving because we
have too much. Now they would
bring on a famine of scarcity.
There is also grave danger that
Roosevelt is starting something
he can not stop and that farmers
will sell off their pigs at a good
price that the poor are to be
taxed to pay. and pork will go up
to the level Of unobtainable lux
uries.
A scarcity Of pork can not be
remedied in day. Pigs would
have to be born and grow up be-
fore they can breed and their
offspring will have to grow into
hogs to furnish meat. At the
high price prevailing on account
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And it would be rather childish to
expect the wives of such men to
accept with JOY return to the do
mestic methods of grandma, unless
we are consistent and ask their hus-
bands to till the soil with a forked
stick.
The state of industry now re-
quires that many more individuals
raise their own food, and the move
ment countryward already has
taken on the aspects of a migration.
But we may be sure that the soil
will not hold them permanently
unless something is done to beautify
the home as well as enrich the
earth.
A part Of the money formerly in
vested in huge barns for horses and
COWS must be2put into pretty houses
for women and children. When this
is done, it will be time enough to
criticise us for our lack of enthu-
siasm for country living.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
STILL A GREAT CHARITY NEED

A THOUGH the federal government has
broken all precedent in the extent of its
campaign to relieve unemployment, it still is
true that private charity occupies the front
trenches in the war on hunger and privation
This is made inescapably clear by the re-
marks of President Roosevelt and Relief
Director Harry Hopkins at the recent relief
conference at Washington
No matter what the federal government
may do, as the President pointed out in the
end the whole thing comes back to the re-
sponSibility of individual citizens and organi-
cations.
And as a supplement to this there is Di-
rector Hopkins blunt assertion that Il don't
know place in the United States where re-
lief is adequate"
All of this. of course, simply means that
Community Chest campaigns this fall must
be supported as never before
The federal government can help provide
unemployed people with shelter and with
food. But that, after all, is only part of the
fight.
You may keep a man from freezing to
death or starving to death, but he still can
be everlastingly miserable If the job doesn't
go any farther than that
His children must have normal educational
and recreational facilities. The health of his
entire family must not be allowed to suffer
The deadly empty hours which come to
man who has no job must be filed somehow
and if the community doesn't provide some
way in which they can be filled advantageous
ly. the man is very likely to go to pieces.
These are fields which the federal gov
eminent hardly can touch. They are up to
local agencies; and since most city and coun-
ty treasures are pretty empty. the burden
must be carried very largely by private charity
And that. in turn, can be translated into
very simple words: We must dig down in
our own pockets again this fall and winter
and We must dig down pretty deeply.
1t won't be easy, of course. None Of lis
will enjoy it much. But unless We do it in
a most whole-hearted way, the depression
will leave scars which will be a generation
in healing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
1t Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Sept. 13.-When I
~ was in Boston at the baseball
game going through the pretense Of
being a sports writer was subjected
to whitening humiliation.
Although armed with proper Gre
dentials. I felt self-conscious as I
moved slowly toward the gate
marked Press" The feeling was
not wholly psychic. After all. had
to fight my way through some ten
or fifteen thousand fans who could
not get into the park.
think that when you f1nd it
necessary to put your elbow into the
back of an innocent bystander you
owe him some explanation. Accord
ingly, as 1 knocked down women
and children and small adult Boston
males. I kept shouting at the top Of
my voice, Member of the working
preSsl'
I thought that my goal and my
salvation were in sight in the pres
ence of a large policeman by the
gate He would, I felt. be sympa-
thetic to my version of The Charge
of the Heavy Brigade" Indeed. at
a distance 1 almost fancied that I
caught a CLEAN of admiration in his
eye as I swept little old lady out
of the path with my right hand and
simultaneously slugged a chubby
toddler with my left.
This blow was so swift and neatly
placed that it all but drove the little
fellows lollipop through his wind
nine
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4 Little Better

A ND yet it isn't good enough.
L N Certainly the public doesn't
trust the newspaper man. Ask any
householder whether the greates<
affection is to have doctor, a law
yer, a plumber, or a reporter in the
house, and I am pretty sure the
newspaper man would win the pest
prize hands down.
Of course, some of this feeling
may be blamed on the plays, the
motion pictures, and the short sto-
ries which profess to deal with
Newspaper life. There are exceptions,
but when a play includes Jim Swift
Reporter of the Times Telegram"
you can be pretty sure that pres
emily there will appear a character
compounded out of Iago and the
protagonist in Ten Nights in a Bar
room"
1 remember that within a few
seasons a dramatist was hailed as
a great realist because the reporter
in the play was shown with a COPY
OF the American Mercury in one
pocket and a quart of whisky in
the other.
Life might be simpler and sweeter
If this were true. never have met
a reporter who had a quart of
whisky with him. And 1 could count
the half-pint TASKS on the fingers
of one hand.
We are, if the truth must be
known, a pretty fine lot Of fellows.
1t is too bad the public doesn't
know it. 1t might be an even bet
ter idea if we realized it ourselves.
copyright. 1888. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
NOSTALGIA

IN Chicago, where the men of general science
Il lately held forth and announced new
atomic mysteries to the world, the psycholo-
gists now are assembled, exposing man more
and more to himself-taking him to pieces
and showing how he works
Dr. Boards Ruml of the University of
Chicago, in an address declared that feelings
or nationality and patriotism arise out of nos
talgia. Men go away to foreign lands to
grapple in death contests because they like
so we'll to be on their own soil.
Nostalgia operates in population dStribu-
ton through the allegiance to and dependency
of people upon the soil where they were born
or underwent binding experiences.
This nostalgia, according to Psychologist
Ruml is the cohesive influence which keeps
families together, more even than the sex
instinct. 1t increases vocational and class
stability and promotes conservatism in all it's
forms.
Is man good, is a man bad, is he loyal
or indifferent-more and more his actions
impulses, qualities, and sentiments are being
traced to the physiological equipment he was
born with or acquired in the process of living
This analysis of causes and effects prom
ises to lead toward human Improvement
There seems to be need for increasing CO.
operation between psychologist and medical
men, and for the union of psychologist and
medical research expert in one and the same
person.
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eminent, as to fishing along the
banks?
A-Non-navigable rivers are not
under federal control. The federal
government has no control what
soever over fishing along banks
of such rivers.
Q-Are any jewelers. in the
United States authorized to sell,
legally, smuggled diamonds?
A-No. Struggled diamonds are
confScated by the government,
then auctioned. After a jeweler
has purchased diamonds from the
government by auction, they no
longer bear the faint of smuggling
and can be sold legally and with
out restriction.
Q-Give the area of Cocos is
land.
A-Sixteen square miles.
Q-Who played opposite William
Haines in 1.-THE Duke Steps Out?"
A-Joan Crawford.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
THE HE'LL OF GOOD INTENTIONS

TINE old adage that hell is paved with good
i intentions never more thoroughly or
cogentlv was illustrated than by the life and
deeds of Sir Edward Grey, British foreign
minister in 1914. who died last week.
In private life Sir Edward was high type
Of English gentleman and an unusually at
tractive personality. He was sportsman,
a very talented tennis player, an enthusiastic
trout fisherman. and devoted student OF
nature birds. and bees. No man personally
could have hated more the bioodshed' SUI
fering. and sorrow of 1914-191S.
Few men who have lied for their country
ever have had higher standards of personal
integrity. There rarely has been a European
statesman of high repute who excelled Grey
in his love for peace in the abstract
In public life Grey must be assigned
leading responsibility for the calamity of
1914 and the critical condition in which the
western world has found itself since 1918. If
Poincare. more than any other single man. is
RESPONSIBLE for Hitler and Hitlerism, Grey
must assume major responsibility for the reign
of Poincare in French politics. with all the
manifold QlSdSIeTS naNC AONCO
from
Now that We have learned that the main
urge to a European war in 1914 came from
France and Russia, Grey's direct responsibility
for encouraging bellicosity in these countries
for years before the war stands out in bold
relief
Many bitterly have attacked Grey for his
falsehoods in parliament in April and June.
1914. when he denied the bond TO France
which threw England into the war, and for
his omission of the crucial passage when he
read to the house of commons the British
agreements with France.
But these matters are relatively trivial.
diplomat in 1914 still remained AN honest
man who lied in the interest of his country"
Far more important is Greys relation TO the
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THAT men, more than women,
Il look forward with pleasure and
a sense of adventure toward re-
turn to farm life is the opinion of
Ralph Borsodi, a writer who has
many sane convictions about our
sex and its responsibilities.
I find myself, however, in violent
DISAGREEMENT with his contention
that the reason for our reluctance
is because we love tea rooms and
interior decorating and think that
club meetings are nobler than the
spinning and baking and child
training to which the women Of a
hundred years ago dedicated them
selves.
This, as I understand it, is a far
fetched conclusion. 1t indeed is
true that most women dread, even
fear. farm life-and they have good
reason to do so. More than any
other single factor. the farm has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
Man Can Live to Certain Altitude

TINE attempts of Picard and
Il others to climb in a balloon to
immense attitudes are, of course,
wholly dependent on the ability Of
science to provide them with suit
able atmosphere in which to live
while ascending.
For instance, it is we'll known
that the oxygen tension at the top
Of Mt. Everest is so great that pro-
longed exposure to it is likely to
result in changes in the heart and
other organs. This has been estab-
lished definitely by experiments on
animals.
In a review of this topic, Leonard
Hill, famous British psychologist,
points out that Captain Twins, with
the aid of oxygen-breathing appa-
ratus and electrically heated cloth
ing, recently climbed in an airplane
to height of almost $4,000 feet.
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The question has arisen as to how
high an aviator can fly when
breathing oxygen Leonard Hill de-
termined to find out by making
some tests on animals.
Judging from a test made on a
monkey, the safe altitude for an
aviator who has to control his ma
chine is equivalent to a tension of
100 nm. of mercury. 1t has been
calculated that 95 nm. of mercury
corresponds to height of more
than $1,000 feet.
Picard, who assembled to the
stratosphere, says that the barome-
ter at the top Of his ascent to nearly
$4,000 feet indicated only IS nm. Of
mercury.
Therefore, it is judged that an
aviator breathing oxygen safely
could climb to $4,000 feet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-13
Sun Shadows
BY CHRISTIE RTTDOTPU

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
Most glorious sun-god that races
cross the submits of the sky.
That firts with dawn and warns
the breeze among the trees,
You tenderly kiss the flowers where
ardorous colors lie.
watch your rapturous light re-
treating at MONDAY,
You give birth to calm and wistful
afternoon,
I see the blue of morning, ghost-like
and silent, creep away,
Beam forth in all your glorious
splendor, for death is soon
Where peacefulness and beauty lie,
Foregoing with the fall of night,
My embittered heart does almost
cry,
When the moon sends forth en-
trancing light
What will you do, oh, sun. when
rain and darkness. Gomez
Alas, most powerful one, the day is
done.
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(I1W6S f6UUeTS uT6 fnDtteU ~ 6JPI COS
their rietcS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ 1oords or lesS.)
BY Working Wife
If any one will tell me how to
support my mother, a baby, myself,
and my husband on his job, which
averages $40 a week, when and if
he works, without accepting char
ity, I will be glad to quit working
during the day, washing and IRON
ing at night and competing with
the fashionable young ladies who
have to worry only about dates, fin
ger waves, and new clothes, and get
down to an eight-hour working day
at home.
There are plenty who don't have
to work, but there are plenty OF us
who put in a siXteen-hour day eX-
listing, and wouldn't it be poor
wife who can't help out rather than
sit down and await and submit?
am sick of working away from
home, but I'm sticking by the ship.
When my husband makes living
wage I'll quit gladly, but in the
meantime who needs it most?
There are two sides. We make $40
between us, with good luck.
BY o. L. Webb
AS a taxpayer of Marion county,
and having given many years OF my
time to remodeling old buildings,
making them modern, wish to eX-
press myself through your columns
regarding the movement for the
$46O,O00 outlay in remodeling old,
run down properties. Such a move
ment should have the support of
every person in Marion county.
have list of property submitted
to me at this time, quoting prices at
one-third their actual value in vari-
Gus parts of Indianapolis. If the
properties were taken over from the
various building and loan associa-
tions and other mortgage institu-
lions. which practically would clean
up the slumS, think what that alone
would mean to the community.
It would put the loan companies
in a condition that those who own
stock would not be compelled to take
go and IS per cent of their paid-up
stock. Our building and loan groups
made these loans when everything
was going good. At the time the
loans were not excessive, but at
present the buildings are in a run
down condition and wholly unfit for
tenants.
The loan companies are loaded up
on such properties. Parties who held
title to them quit claimed them to
the said building and loan COM