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The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

Holcombe of Houston. city manager
DykStra of Cincinnati. and Paul V.
Betters of Chicago. congratulated
Mr.. Hopkins last night. then went
into Sess'on with Treasury Chief
Henry Morgenthau, director OF the
budget Lewis Douglas, and officials
Of the Federal Reserve and R. F. C..
TO turn back the 100000 per-
sons to the relief rolls would be dis
astrouS." i" they said in a statement.
Congress should, therefore, make
available funds to carry on tenn
porarily."
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

by President Roosevelt to have been
re-employed as a result Of the ma
tional recovery and public works
programs.
The President announced the
CWA program on Nov. 8. Public
Works Administrator Harold Ickes
allotted $500, 900 900 from his fund
to finance the drive the same day.
Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief ad-
ministrator, pledged the President
the program would be completed by
Dec. 16.
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

until those given employment can
find work in other channels.
1T is unthinkable," the mayors
declared in a statement after con-
ferring with high federal officials,
that this great attempt to give
work and wages instead Of direct
relief should be discontinued on
Feb. IS. when the present funds will
have been depleted
The 100000 workers receiving
blue CWA pay vouchers are in ad-
dition to 1000. 900 recently estimated
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

On Nov. Is, Mr.. Hopkins held
conference with 1,019 senators, con-
gressmen, mayors, Governors and
state relief administrators here. The
meeting lasted all day and far into
the night.
The officials sped back to their
homes.
Two days later first returns Of
the worlds greatest battle against
unemployment trickled in. Chicago
reported 10000 at work. Thousands
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state administrator late yesterday
Some had exceeded their quotas. A
few had Jagged. But the battle was
won. The 100000 are at work.
That means approximately $40 10000
is being paid out in salaries every
week.
The mayors committee, consist
ing of Mayor elect Fiorello H. La
Guardia of New York, James A.
Curley Of Boston, Daniel Hoan of
Milwaukee, S. H. Walmsley of New
Orleans, Meyer Ellenstein of New
ark, r. G. Sparks of Akron, Henry
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

received jobs in Texas. The drive
was on.
The pressure here was terrific.
Mr.. Hopkins drove himself and his
staff almost to the limits of human
endurance. Thousands of problems
were decided as fast as they could
be brought to the attention of the
proper officials. Red tape took
holiday.
Like a field marshall checking up
on the results of a campaign, Ad-
miniStrator Hopkins called each
The Indianapolis times., 1933-12-15

BW tHitfd BTCGe
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The
civil works administrations drive
to provide jobs for 100000 Of the
nations unemployed in a month
was over the top" today and re-
ceived the Endorsement of the ex-
ecutive committee of the United
States conference Of mayors as tine
most important and successful Of
all the recovery steps taken by con-
gress and the President"
Tie mayors urged its continuation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21

in place Of them just and amicabJe feelings toward
all should be cultivated"
I submit that it would take an ingenious exegete
to prove that Washington had isolation in mind He
obviously recommended close and cordial relations
with the outside world
If Washington believed this to be wise for the
period in which he speaking, when cultural
conditions forced relative isolation due to slow sail
ing vessels, the absence Of telegraph cable, and
wireless facilities and the general ignorance of the
masses, how much more would he be likely to in
sist on intelligent participation in world affairs in
our complex, urban, industrial civilization when
time and space in matters of communication have
been we'll nigh eliminated on this planet and when
the failure of foreign debtors would threaten our
financial structure?
The militarists will not get much more salts
faction than the isolatonists from Washington.
Listen to some of his observations on war as an
institution:
my first wish is to see this plague to man
kind banished from the earth My first wish is.
although it is against the profession of arms and
would clip the wings Of some of your young soldiers
who are soaring after glory to see the whole world
IN peace. 1t really is strange thing that there
should not be room enough in the world for men
to live without cutting one another's threats 1t
is high time for the age of knight errantry and mad
heroiSm to be at an end"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21
Just Plain Sense
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

nNE OF the saddeSt things we have to face is a
realization of the futility of most of our re-
forms. One may admire the ardor of the worker,
but at the same time one must be aware Of the
tragic useessness of most of his efforts.
BY my side lies small paper backed volume en-
titled THE Use and Need of the Life of Carrie A.
Nation" written by herself, illustrated price so
cents. Opening it at random read:
On the whole, tobacco has done more harm
than intoxicating drink. The face of the smoker
has lost the scintilations of intellect and soul The
odor of his person vile his blood poisoned his
brain dull. smoker is never healthy man.
Prussc acid is the only poison than nicotine.
THE smoker transmits nervous diseases, epilep-
sy weakened constitution, depraved appetites and
deformities of all kinds to his children tobacco
user never can be the father of healthy child"
And so on. Pages of assertions that never have
had any foundation in truth.
AT the time they were written, in the early 1905
the most intelligent men of the country did smoke
and their wives bore healthy children
DOOR Carrie Natonl So energetic so noisy. so
sure that she was right and so inevitably marked
to be the laughing stock Of future generations
wish more women might read her little autobi-
ograpny ana lnen take long Squnt at their
buSy-ness. Because a good many Of them, like Car
RE are too serious-minded ever to accomplish very
much that is permanently good.
They lack the ability to achieve a perspective on
themselves and the age in which they live In the
heat and ardor Of reform, they lose sight of the
fact that may be possible that all the things we
consider so excellent will have no value whatever to
those who come after them
And certainly it is little funny when you con-
slider that in trying to make all mankind like them
selves they do perpetual obeisance to their own ego
which is an attitude that is neither sensible nor
wise.
And how much more pleasant life would be if we
stopped trying to reform everybody and only tried to
be little kndl y
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TUESDAY. FEB. 81. 1893.
COPYING FASCISM

Now comes the proposal that a matter Of law
township trustees other official distributors of
public charity, may refuse any food if he
fuses to work
If jobs in private industry were plentiful or even
available there would be no criticism In such days,
idleness was a crime and punished as such.
But the work offered in return for sustenance is
to be public work, of the kind formerly performed
by paid workers if done at all Most of it, perhaps
would not be performed except in this manner, al
though in this and other cities there is tendency to
replace men on the public pay rolls with those who
work for food
There is nothing new in the proposal. 1t has
been in operation in Italy for decade; since in fact
Mussoini seized the reins of power with his black
shirts and castor oil and proceeded to govern that
nation in behalf Of business.
The burden of relief grows menacingly and there
should be no surprise that taxpayers would look to
the jobless for public work as a means of reducing
taxation.
But whenever this is done, some man on the pay
roll is discharged to join the long lines of voorhees,
and himself to become worker for food
In the end such system can result only in re-
ducing all to the lowest level of living standards
Probably most men out of work would prefer to
give some return for whatever succor is given to
them They would prefer to earn for themselves and
have by countless thousands, volunteered to work
But such law would toss away any claim that
relief for the needy comes from sympathetic hearts
and is inspired by feeling of human brotherhood
1t means that the relief is given because it dare
not be refused and that the owning class demands
as much as it can obtain in return for however little
it is forced to spend.
But the plan worked well in Italy It may here.
Above all it will provide discipline and respect for
government that can be obtained in no other way
If it should fail leadership in government and in
industry may discover that the only profitable way
Tor government or industry is to provide work for
wages and recognize the fact that men are divinelv
endowed with the inalenabe right to earn their own
livelihood.
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CALL FOR ACTION

quick decision by the states on prohibition re-
peal is essential. There has been too much de1av
already Last summer the two political parties acted
Last November the electorate acted. Now congress
even in a lame duck session-has acted. The
sooner the state conventions act, the better
Speed is necessary to demonstrate that our DO
htlcal system is responsive to the public villa
much-needed demonstration in these days of sagging
and derided democracy
Speaking from the standpoint of those who op-
pose prohibition, speed is necessary to end system
whose racketeers sapping business and deprivng
the public treasury of large revenues during de-
preston when every dollar counts
Speed is necessary to restore respect for law.
Now that congress has passed repeal so-called en-
forcement will be of farce than ever The
grain of moral sanction which sustained the un-
popular law is gone.
To go on tapping wires, buying evidence filling
prisons, and shooting at suspects in the name of
a law partially repealed will be as dangerous as it
is silly. The only way to minimize that chaos is
for the states to complete the repeal process in
short order
State conventions composed of very small num-
Der of delegates elected by the state at large and
on the single issue of ratifyng or not ratfyng the
repeal amendment, would seem to provide the quick
est machinery for action.
At the same time, this would be most completely
in line with the purpose of the convention method
as provided in the Constitution 1t would be the
closest approximation of direct vote of the whole
people that is possible under the Constitution.
Fearing delay by some states Representative
La Guarda, former Attorney General Mitchell
Palmer and others propose that congress itself pro-
vide the state convention machinery for ratification
rather than wait for struggling Governors and egs-
latures to call the conventions.
strong legal and constitutional case in our
Judgment, can be made for this proposal-in theory
But there are overwhelming practical objections
To mention only one, the senate judiciary committee
which would have to pass on the questions considers
such method unconstitutional
There is little, if any, immediate chance of get
ting the senate to act this question contrary to
the views of its constitutional experts-Senators
Norris and Borah on the Republican side and Sem
ator Thomas Walsh, the prospective attorney gen.
eral of the Democratic administration.
Since the object is to avoid delay, fair and in
telgent is to give the states chance to call
their conventions If an appreciate number of
Governors or legislatures hold up the procession
congress then might step in. But that occasion
seems unlikely to arise
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21

to a district in which the popula-
ton previously has been relative
ly free from tuberculosis.
THERE semes to be evidence
l. that the coming of the in
dustrial era, with crowding and
long hours Of labor, produced a
higher death rate for this disease.
Then came the protection of la
Dor, particularly of child labor,
social hygiene, improved nutri-
ton and improved housing, with
a lowering of the rates for tu-
berculosis.
There seems to be no doubt that
the diet, particularly the diet Of
invalids, long has been important
in the treatment Of tuberculosis.
Some people simply do not get
enough food.
Many people are fed badly be-
cause they do not know how to
select the right foods and to
make the best use Of what they
have.
There seems to be not the
slightest question that malnutri-
ton has an extremely unfavoraole
effect on the death rate from
tuberculosis.
NEXT: Precautions against
tuberculosis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21
WHAT WASHINGTON REALLY SAID
AND THOUGHT
tBy Harry Elmer BArnes)

The patroteers and isolationists will seize upon
Washington's birthday to remind that the
Father of our Country counseled strict isolation
from other nations and firm support of military
preparedness.
They will quote passages from the Farewell Adj
dress out of context as confirmation of their thesis
They hardly will cite the cogent section of this ad-
dress which specifically states Washingtons views
on the future of foreign relations. Here he said:
observe good faith and justice toward all ma
tions; cultivate peace and harmony with all. Re-
ligion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can
it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it9
I'm the execution of such plan, nothing is more
essential than that permanent. inveterate antipa-
thies against particular nations and passionate
attachments for others should be excluded and that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21
HOOVER'S MESSAGE

PRESIDENT HooVer's special message, calling for
adoption Of an eight-point legislative program be-
lore adjournment, comes at an opportune moment.
After many wasted and futile weeks, the expiring
lame duck session seems to have undergone an IN
expected death-bed revival
The Hoover proposal for ratification of the Great
LaKes-St Lawrence treaty is doubtful more study is
required on this very controversial ISSUE
But there appears no good reason WHY congress
should not act favorably and quickly on the following
measures, as requested by the President
Glass banking bill, bankruptcy bill, and an en-
Dargo on arms to warning nations
Farm relief and mortgage relief can not he
passed except III piecemeal fashion by this session
ana therefore should be left to the Roosevelt admin
Straton to fit into its larger reconstruction program
fortunately, the President has come around To
seeing the need for added federal hunger relief He
apparently faVors the Wagner loan plan as adopted
Monday by the senate. The house. however. would
be wise to consider the larger La Toilette Costigan
direct grant PLAN
In any event, adequate hunger relief now is the
biggest emergency issue before congress. DELAY
means more starvation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21
Matter of Few Errors

II BEHAVED pretty we'll myself.
IL Once I dozed. 1t was during
the concerto, and GabriloWitSch,
according to assignment of course,
was enmeshed in the treble. I
was beginning to wonder if there
couldn't be some rule whereby you
lift out of the upper register with
the loss of stroke and distance
when 1 dropped off.
Fortunately, I inclined toward
the man on my left, who also had
been up late the night before.
Then up rose the brasses and up
rose Haywood Broun.
Bruno Walter could not have
been pointing at me, for his back
was turned, and, anyhow, he did
1t several times later on. Maybe
1t was just what Brahms meant,
but 1 had Slight feeling that
the conductor was swooping into
some of the musical sections with
a certain suddenness.
Nobody should attempt to read
too much into the mere move
ment of a visiting maestro's right
shoulder blade, but I thought
almost caught him saying: "Ir-
wing Berlin, phooey! George
Gershwin, bah! Come on, Brahms;
get hot!"
To deport myself is such a way
was not to bring shame upon the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21

THEY took me to hear Brahms
Il the Concerto No. 1 in D
minor and the Symphony in E
minor No. 4.
That's quite lot of Brahms,
particularly for a musician who
up to now always has rated as his
favorite tunes Hot Moonlight"
and I'm Just a Poor Little Door
step Baby"
I can't quite say that I came
out of Carnegie hall whistling all
the hit numbers from the Con-
certo, but still I think very well of
Brahms. I have a decided notion
to become just an old music lover.
For one thing, I find there's
prestige in it. At several distin-
guished dinner parties I have at
tracted more attention than is my
wont by casually remarking, Did
you happen to catch Ossip Gabril-
owitsch at the hall in the Brahms
festival the other night?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21

shining with that weird splendor
which amazes us in Alexar der and
dazzleS us in Napoleon. Their
genius, if it may be so named, like
the genius Of King Alfred was
moral, and their greateness lay in
the noble symmetry of those SIM
pie, dependable qualities which
make nations great.
They were uncommon men with
common principles, uniting purity
of personality with strength of
character-qualities more precious
and more useful than the glitter
ing gifts of other men-mountain
men against whom the storms of
time beat in vain.
Washington came up from Vir-
ginia; Lincoln came down from
Illinois. They came with one
honor, one purpose, one high dis
interested dedication; providential
men providentially trained and
tempered to do the work ap-
pointed; and the republic is at
once their monument and their
enduring memorial.
So long as the blood of our race
and the soil of our nation can
grow such men-modest, quiet,
gentle, wise, who reveal spirit
proof to place and gold, "a man
hood neither bought nor Sold
our laws will be just and our fu-
ture secure.
May the God who gave us such
men to guide us in days agone,
give us men Of like make and mold
to lead us in the days that lie
ahead!
Copyright, 1888, by United Features
Syndicate Iuc
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Birthday of Brahms
ut was bruited about, 7 believe

1T was bruited about, I believe,
Il that the show was a celebra-
ton of the one hundredth birth
day of Brahms. This, of course.
is slightly inaccurate, since the
master, although precocious, was
not actually born until May Z,
1893.
suppose 7 hardly need state
that he was "b. Hamburg; an
austere classicist, it has only been
since his death that B. has taken
a foremost place among COM
posers."
Johannes Brahms died in 1897
and missed by one year the thrill
which swept the world when
Dewey sailed into Manila bay. The
celebration of those brave days
was left to John Philip Sousa,
which only goes to show how the
passing tides of history may affect
the life of even the most austere
classicist.
I have no wish to carp, and I
see no reason why the Philhar-
monte should be criticised for
beating the gun in the matter of
Brahms nativity. It would be
quite silly to call a festival cele-
bration of the ninety-ninth year
and few odd months. And I
am told that even at that age
Johannes Brahms took a hun
dred-year-old size.
Nor have I any desire to be
fippant. I really was moved. In
deed, I might almost say, Lord,
now lettest thou thy servant de-
part in peace" for al last I saw
a well-mannered audience. After
racketing around at first nights
and the better motion picture
houses, it comes as something of
a surprise and revelation to find
5000 people actually intent upon
the stage itself.
Few came late. None read the
program notes aloud or remarked
audibly. Il always say, There's
nothing like Brahms to buck you
up" Only two coughed.
The 300 actually had gone to
hear music and not to find out
how Stella's aunt was getting
along without her gall bladder.
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two music lovers who lured me
into the hall, had to pay strict
attention. Long ago I learned that
in the more serious temples of art
one does not slap his palms to-
gether and cry bis" the moment
the music stops. Sometimes it is
only a rest.
But I was perturbed in making
quite sure not to confuse the end
of the maestoso with the intermis-
sion. When the pause came, I
was waiting for the friendly audi
ence to give the performer a hand.
However, I will have no difficulty
the next time. I know now that
when the lights go up the allegro
is over and it is all right to go
to the lounge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-02-21

CCIENCE plays the major role in
~ a number of the most i'm
portant divisions of the United
States department Of the interior.
DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, secretary
of the department, calls particular
attention to the United States ge-
illogical survey, the Indian serv-
ice, the federal Office of educa-
ton, the national park service,
the general land Office, the bureau
of reclamation.
Each of these bureaus is carry
ing on important work with which
the citizens of the nation should
be familiar.
THE United States geological
survey is an example of the serv-
ice which science can render to
government" DR.. Wilbur says.
1.-The geologist with his trained
mind has made a study of that
part Of this great continent which
is in our possession.
Through years of endeavor and
the work of thousands of trained
men, we possess a fund of infor-
nation regarding our mineral,
water, and soil resources which
guides much of our national pol
icy in various fields.
ct is obvious that without the
help of the expert we would have
in our conquest of the
natural resources of the country.
open the imaginative mind OF
the geologist and his capacity to
visualize the treasures stored be-
low the surface of the earth de-
ponds much of our future national
welfare.
I'm the geological survey we
have much that was practical but
also much that was fundamental"
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SCIENCE
Science Aids Indians
BY DAVID DIETz

We have relieved it of these adj
miniStratiVe functions.
Education of the Alaskan ma
tives was transferred to the Office
OF Indian affairs and other Alas
kan responsibilities given to the
local government. Consequently,
the office of education doubled it's
reSeach activities.
"A division of special problems
was created to study educa alton of
exceptional children, of native peo-
pies, Of Negroes, and Of children
in sparsely settled regions. A new
division Of research and investiga-
tons was created.
"A third new division of major
surveys was organized to super
wise work under special appropria-
tons by outside specialists.
These include nationwide
survey Of Immigrant colleges. a
national survey Of secondary edu-
cation, one on the professional
education Of teachers and so on"
Next: Scientific work of the
other divisions of the department
of the interior.