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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
RADICAL CASE VS.. LIBERALS

COAKING the liberals seems to be leading
~ all the fall sports of the radicals The
latter may, perhaps. have been lashed into
special fury because liberalism seems to be
bearing some practical and desirable fruit in
the form of the New Deal.
The charges made by the various knights
of the radical cavalcade may be summarized
as follows:
The liberals really are old-fashioned folk
whose intellectual perspective is that of the
period from 1850 to 1885,
They are mere tempori1ers who fail to
recognize the vital defects in our present social
and economic system.
Hence, they never go far enough in their
recommendations and are mainly content to
concentrate upon preserving certain quaint
civil liberties which date from the Bill Of
Rights and the ratification of the first ten
amendments to our Constitution.
Through their lack of insight, their half
hearted measures and their incredible opti-
mism over trivial reforms, the liberals help to
make an intolerable system seem passable and
workable.
Therefore, the liberal is really much more
dangerous obstacle to real progress than the
conservative who does his best, albeit uncon-
sciously, to make the present system seem as
repugnant as possible
There is some ground for this radical COM
plant. 1t certainly is true that there are
very prominent so-called liberals who try to
sanctify and purify what are actually intol-
cradle elements and figures in our present
order This must be admitted whether we can
say that the system as whole is impossible
and unworthy of salvation. The radical charge
that such writer's are kept men" of financial
capitalism is essentially true and deserved.
1t may be said in answer, however, that
these men may not fairly be regarded as
liberals, even though they work under this
label Formal labels mean little. One can
remind the radicals that John Spargo, Gus
tavus Myers and w. j. Client still call them
selves Socialists" though Spargo is, perhaps,
the most outspoken apologist for the private
electrical utilities and Myers recently has
implied in his book on THE History Of
American Idealisrn" that the American system
which eliminated under Andrew Mellon
leaves little to be desired as an earthly
paradise. Client has for years been sniping
at reforms and reforrners.
Indeed, perhaps the first and most i'm
portant thing to be noted in analyzing this
radical rampage against the liberals is that
the labels and terms used are unsatisfactory
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and are often meaningless and misleading.

and are often meaningless and misleading
A liberal tent which covers Nicholas Murray
Butler, Walter Lippman. Al Smith, Clarence
Darrow, Stuart Chase, Bruce Bliven, George
Soule and Amos Pinchot is obviously too ex-
pansive for any single-track assault on the
occupants
Similarly, with the radical label. when We
see Mary Van Kleek put arm in arm with
Benjamin Stolberg, Norman Thomas lined I'D
with w. 2. Foster, and Roger Baldwin paired
with " F. Calverton, we may be pardoned for
some confusion as to what really constitutes a
radical
There is nothing out of which the radical
gets more pleasure than charging that the
liberals are feeding upon ideas which were
terminated between the age of Cromwell and
that Of Victoria. But no allegation could be
more misleading or more easily turned into
boomerang to be used against the radicals
themselves
1t is true that the civil liberties priced by
the liberals were systematized in eighteenth
century England. 1t also is true that liberal
ism was first prominently identified with the
great r1id-nineteenth century 1ndividualists
like Golden, Bright and Spencer.
But it also must be remembered that So
cialsm is as old as Plato, Sir Thomas More
and Robert Owen. Nothing would make an
up-to-date Communist more furious than to
be told that he is 100 years out of date be-
cause Owen was founding communistic COM
munities century ago. Even more cogent is
the fact that the arch prophet of contempt
rary radicalism was Karl Marx, who wrote his
Communist Manifesto" at exactly the period
in which Golden and Bright were leading their
crusade against the English corn laws.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
PATIENCE TOWARD CUBA

THE accidental killing Of an American and
- the bombing Of the American-owned Ma
tional hotel in Havana should not, and doubt
less will not affect the state departments pol
icy of patience toward Cuba and her revolu-
ton. These were in no way unfriendly acts
toward the United States and are not so be-
ing interpreted by Secretary Hull, A stray
bullet killed Mr. Lotspiech. The hotel was
bombed by government troops to evacuate
rebel officers.
Too much praise can not be given the
Roosevelt administration for refusing to be
stampeded into intervention. The landing of
marines on Cuban soil would open pandora S
box of calamities 1t would destroy the fine
structure of inter American understanding
that our recent policies have created. 1t would
wreck the December an-Annerican congress at
Montevideo and set back pending negotiations
for mutual trade agreements. 1t might draw
us into a long and costly war, such as fol-
lowed our intervention in Nicaragua. 1t would
not only turn back the clock in our foreign
policy but would jeopardize the Roosevelt
domestic program.
Whatever help America can render un-
happy Cuba by way of debt relief, sugar sta
bilzation, the feeding of the hungry or other
aid should be rendered. In the meantime,
President Roosevelts good neighbor policy
calls for hands-off in Cuba
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
PRESIDENT AND LEGION

DRESTDENT ROOSEVELTS friends" were
Il reported to have warned him against ad-
dressing the American Legion convention in
Chicago.
That was political advice. The President
ignored it, He went to Chicago yesterday and
talked to the veterans. He left politics with
his friends" at home. He had something to
talk about which politics always seems to soil,
namely. the governments obligation to the
men who fight its wars. Politicians generally
g, are unable to divorce patriotism and moral
obligations from their own personal aspira-
lions.
President Roosevelt yesterday lifted this
subject from the morass into which politics
had dragged it, and discussed it in terms of
simple justice.
Of the veteran as a class, he said: THE
fact of wearing uniform does not mean that
he can demand and receive from his govern
ment benefit which other citizen re-
ceives"
He then presented in three simple princi-
pies, his policy toward the former soldiers.
They are: Government care for those disabled
or incapacitated in the war; no special class
of benef1ciaries over and above all other citi
Gems; federal aid for non-connected service
disability. but only when all other agencies,
such as state or municipal fail.
Service in defense of ones country, he said,
is basic obligation Of citizenship. So long
as governments settle their disputes by physi
cal combat this can not be denied
1t being a basic obligation, the President
said. then no special consideration is due the
soldier who returns from the combat I'M
harmed in any way.
The President asked for the support Of the
legion in continuing the economies which he
has instituted in the government. At the same
time he admitted that serious mistakes have
been made in administering veterans affairs
during the last fifteen years and to this he
added with welcome candor:
"I personally know what mistakes in indi-
vidual cases and inequalities affecting various
groups occurred in the last six months" Many
of these have been rectiied, he said, and all
will be as soon as possible But, said the Presi-
dent, the government can not go on If the
attempt is made to meet irresponsible demands
for ever greater benefits.
There was in this speech no maudlin bid
for votes, no political maneuvering. Such
healthy attitude toward the veteran is not
sufficiently common among men in public
office. 1t should be encouraged, particularly
by the American Legion.
Let the friends" back home worry about
the political consequences Of honest thinking
honestly expressed
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A Few Words IN Replu

EARL CARROLL is saying in
IL effect that critic should have
only one bite at a show. He objects
to the "follow-up system" But
obviously no producer will complain
II this follow-up system is a process
OF continuing to heap laurels on
shows already cited for merit. If
a critic is privileged to say more
than once that in his opinion a show
Is good it stands to reason that he
should also be permitted a second
or third small slam.
But feel that a second notice
suggests a second visit. Particularly
in the musical field, the show which
was not so much on a Monday may
suddenly find itself on the following
evening. Since Earl Carroll has
somehow been reminded of Murder
at the Vanities," I might myself be
specific and say that Joe Cooks
Hold Your Horses" which opened
in rather sluggish fashion, took on
life and gayety as soon as the critics
had departed. Young John Shubert's
enterprise is now a lively entertain
ment.
I think the rule should read, as
far as critics are concerned, mo
second bite without a second look"
1 am not wholly dispassionate
about this. There was a show called
Shoot the Works" 1t never was a
whirlwind, but by my hope Of
heaven, I swear that never did it
seem such a sorry thing as at it's
first night. And yet after the days
and weeks went by some Sunday
commentators continued to write
about the show wholly IN terms Of
its one worst manifestation. I think
that even the least likely show
should have the right to take an
appeal from any judgment founded
wholly on the jittery evidence Of a
Broadway first night.
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03

THE blood is the most vital sub
l. stance in the human body. BY
its circulation it brings nutrition to
the cells in various parts of the body
and takes away waste matter.
New methods Of measurement and
Standardization demand new studies
as to what constitutes the normal
for blood in the human body in or
der that variations from the normal
may be detected and controlled.
For this reason, DR.. M. M. Win
trobe of Johns Hopkins university
recently reinvestigated the blood Of
eighty-six male medical students
and 101 nurses and compared their
blood with that of forty-two other
persons taken at random from the
community.
His studies indicated that the
blood of man contains from 1900 900
red blood cells up to 6,050000,
whereas women have from 4,440, 900
red cells up to 5,3500OO. The body
of the woman is smaller and OBJ
viously demands less in the way of
red cells in the circulation than does
that of the male.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
A Woman's Viewpoint :

tience Of youth and its ardent, ever
living, desire for excitement, we are
confronted with the tragedy in our
situation. The fault lies not alto
gether with the young. There are
entirely too many adult Americans
who can't stand to spend a day
with themselves. They are so bored
with their own company that they
will flee from their thoughts to any
shallow refuge.
It's nothing to laugh over, but I
suppose we may as well laugh as cry.
Anyway, it's rather amusing to re-
alize that even though we can't en-
JOY ourselves for an hour. we're al
ways perfectly sure we are delight
full and entertaining companions
for other people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
GET RID OF JAILS

TIMELY contribution to the current
"A drive against crime now is available in
the report Of the National Crime Commission
on "Propagating Crime Through Jails and
Other Institutions for Short-Term Offenders"
The material was gathered by subcom1nit-
tee of which the Honorable Frank o. Lowden
was chairman and DR.. Louis N. Robinson the
secretary.
The question Of whether prisons should be
retained still is open to debate, though the
trend Of expert opinion is toward their aban-
donment in favor Of specialized institutions
manned by experts and Of . wider use Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
To q Fell0lU Producer

THE blue eagle is screaming out
Il the new deal, and. with all
industries in the process Of read
justment, I hope your cooperative
commonwealth is on its way. The
theater, too, has its code. A new
season has started with a strong
bid of being one of the best in
years except for one thing-the sin
lister shadow of a Man with Type
writer. I refer to what is known in
dramatic criticism as the follow-up
system. And I think that this
method of commenting on plays and
musical shows is sabotage and vul-
ture-swooping in the fullest sense
of those ugly words.
"You used to be a theatrical pro-
Queer yourself, Mr.. Broun. Let MS
stage this from its beginning A
man decides to produce a show.
Well make it a musical show-that's
right up your alley, He goes through
weeks of selecting girls, principals.
music and material RehearSals
start. (TThis argument is to be pro-
duced without benefit of emotion,
as We will not attempt to describe
the weeks of heartbreak and hard
work. The show goes out of town
for a tryout. Changes are made,
and the producer decides it is ready
for Broadway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
M.

THE most significant point about this cpl
Il denic Of strikes is that NFSA is able to
bring about quick settlement in so many cases.
Since he took Office, Grover A. Whalen, local
chairman for New York City, successfully has
arbitrated four walkoutS involving a total of
10000 workers.
Similarly encouraging results are reported
from all parts of the country.
Without minimizing the difficulties still to
be met it is fair to say that the new order has
worked we'll thus far.
No plan or project should be judged by the
obstacles confronting it. the all-important ques-
ton is whether it can overcome them
~
THOSE who imagined that such sweeping re-
l. adjustments as NRA implied could be
brought about without misunderstanding merely
conjured UP a fanciful stage for their own dis
appointment
There was bound to be politics, chiseling and
StubbornneSS. The opportunity for racketeers and
radicals was too inviting to be missed, while
some Of the changes imposed were too drastic
for conservative employers to indorse except
with lip music.
Frequent use Of the word revolution" has
scared some people and excited others.
AS matter of common sense, NFA merely
codif1es certain principles which have dominated
our industrial system for a generation.
The right of collective bargaining has been
/
been ignored though theoretically in force, and
outside of the lunatic fringe Of cut-throat COM
petition, manufacturers have been able to fix
and hold the price of many commodities.
| Speculation has raised cain with stocks and
agricultural products, but not with steel or alum
mum. Steel and aluminium showed what could
be done through highly developed organization.
So did such unions as that of the printers and
plumbers.
NRA is not an original scheme but built
around certain ideas which have been tested BY
experience and which the government borrowed
from private enterprise.
! THAT is characteristic of statecraft There
Il we're private schools before there were pub
lie. schools and roads paid for with tolls before
people got the idea Of paying for them with
taxes.
All constructive phases of government are
socialiStic. The only question that should bother
us in connection with that aspect of the situa-
ton is whether an activity has become too vast
to be left in private hands or sufficiently essen
tial to warrant public control
Trusts and trade unions had reached point
In this country where they could not be handled
| by methods designed for individual business and
| individual bargaining. At the same time they
stood for principles Of production, distribution
and economic relations which were manifestly
sound. NRA simply is an adaptation of those
principles IN a general way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
:: The Message Center ::

(Ti1nes readers are invited to cypress
their rieps in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or leSs)
By Forrest Rogers.
Abraham Lincoln once said Of an
opponent that che had the faculty
of entangling a subject so that
neither himself nor any other man
could find head nor tail Of it" Now
E.. F. Maddox presents us with a jig
saw puzzle with several pieces miss
ing.
In discussing the controversy OF
military training at De PAW he al
leges that a fight is being waged
secretly against our established in
stitutions. 1t is no secret that many
of our banks and other institutions
were wrecked by our "big patriots"
Bad securities unloaded on an I'M
suspecting public wrecked ambitions
and homes and savings for old age.
Could an invading enemy be more
ruthless? How many of these men
have received punishment equal to
that given some workman who steals
bread to satisfy hunger?
In England where the Socialist led
Labor party has been powerful these
things do not happen. The people
here could not have been led to be-
lieve that they were living in coun-
try where diamonds were lying
around in their back yards, while 4
per cent of the people schemed to
get 90 per cent of wealth, had they
listened to the Socialists. Those who
love their country should love it with
their hearts, and not with their lips.
Socialists have been tortured to
death in Italy and Germany, fight
ing for democracy and against
Fascism. which is capitalism gone
nudist. They have been jailed in
Russia and threaten resistance in
Austria against a dictatorship. They
insist on democracy in this country,
but warn that we only will achieve
political democracy when we
achieve industrial democracy. This
can not be attained until the
oligarchy of the money powers is
broken.
AS to the subject Of military
training in schools, the waning
popularity of the R. o. T. G. may
be due to the reading of realistic
war books now current which de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
By Dir, MUhhIS FISf1bEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygela,
the Health Magazine.

Similarly the red coloring mat
ter or hemoglobin in the blood Of
man varies from 1873 grams for
every 100 cubic centimeters Of blood
to 1877, whereas that of women
varies from II to 1876 grams per
100 cubic centimeters. This very
accurate measurement Of hemo-
globin or red coloring matter is i'm
portant, since it is the hemoglobin
that is responsible for carrying
oxygen in the blood.
From these examinations aver
ages were calculated which give
man an average of 100000 red
cells and women 1880 900, and man
16 grams Of hemoglobin as con-
trasted with 1879 for women. The
old-time standard for measuring
hemoglobin used to calculate it in
percentages of 100. 1t now may be
taken that 1892 grams of hemo-
globin per 100 cubic centimeters
of blood constitute 100 per cent.
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scribe what actual military service
is like. If the students were put
through the hard grind to make
them really effective for war, the
course never would be popular.
Both during and after the war,
commissions from the National
Education Association and the
states of New York, Massachusetts,
and New Jersey arrived at the con-
clusion that military drill is in
ferior education and has no place
in the school system.
General Robert E. Lee, a great
soldier, refused to institute mill
tary training in Washington and
Lee university while he presided
over it, on the ground that he did
not propose to train men for the
army but for civil life, and that
in view the discipline fitted to
make soldiers was not best suited
to qualify young men for the actual
duties Of the citizen. Theodore
Roosevelt, in 1904, advised his son,
Teddy Jr., against military or
naval career on practically the same
grounds.
Herbert Hoover, when President,
stated that 70 per cent of the fed
eral funds were going for past wars
and future wars. This should in
terest the harassed taxpayer. 1t
should interest those unemployed
who do not receive adequate relief.
Who can say that military expen-
ditures have decreased in this ad-
ministration? Is the army and its
1000 polo ponies more important
than the schools whose efficiency
is threatened because Of lack of
funds? Congressman Ross A. Collins
stated that the appropriation for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
Storm

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLTNICK
Outside the storm plays havoc with
the earth.
Trees bend their long green
length in frenzied pain.
Lightning rips the sky, and gives
sharp birth
To noisy thunders raucous wax
and wane.
Streets are winding rivers Of pale
grey;
Dank grass lies beaten to tha
ground.
A strange green-yellow light per-
vades the day.
Thunder disappears with faint,
last sounds.
Now children, barefoot, haunt the
cutters.
Peace and dim dusk envelop all.
Up in the sky a rain-moon mutters.
In the twilight black birds call.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03

GONE idea of the magnitude Of
- our recovery job is limited by
news that hundreds of boys, weary
Of reforestation work, now are be-
ing demobilized at various United
States army camps and will soon
be seen again on our city streets.
It's something more than putting
men back to work that faces Ameri-
cans. We've also got to put back
into ourselves some of the charac-
ter we have lost.
The truth is obvious. City life
has bred into our bones desire for
the easy life, for quick money. for
haphazard existence. Responsibility
for this can rest upon no individual.
None of us welcomes the thought OF
grubbing for our living. And 1t en-
ttrely is possible for us to achieve a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-03
Comes the Opening Night

"THEN the opening night in New
Il York. The critics, as repre-
sentatives of their employers, the
newspapers, are invited to the show
by the producer, for the purpose of
submitting to the public an honest
report of what they felt about it. 1
shall pass up entirely the case
against the critics, their right to
judge what a public shall have,
their particular mood or condition
the night they pass judgment. I am
concerned with them only as per-
picking economic problem in gasp
ing industry.
Let us get back to the day after
the opening night. The papers print
the reviews of the show as written
by the critics. This, again, am not
concerned about. I am a veteran
receiver of bad notices. I also hold
the modern championship for long
run shows But what I think is
rotten to the very core is the ma
licious practice of critics who, when
they personally dislike a show, de-
liberately damn it in their papers
week after week. Who are these
men who take it upon themselves
to attempt to damage property?
Why are they permitted to fling
odious phrases at a business, If you
will, that employs several hundred
men and women whose livelihood is
dependent upon its continuance?
Can one man sit down before a
typewriter and, for lack of some
thing to write about, deliberately
pick out show he happened to dis
like the opening night and ar
rogantly snipe at it from a we'll
camoufaged position of safety2 In
what other industry does such
condition exist? Would I be allowed
to run an advertisement mentioning
the name Of critic and stating
that he was doddering old fool
with bad liver? I think not!"