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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
M. TracySays:

THE Roosevelt administration has done a
IL good job in readjusting our industrial situa-
ton. Through the adoption of codes the short
ening of hours, and the increase of wages it has
placed the country in a position TO provide more
work at better pay.
In spite of a few diSagreements business
both big and small, has accepted the plan with
reassuring enthusiasm. The real test however.
remains to be met
When all is said and done, the success of this
program depends on what average people are
willing TO spend, not only for necessities, but for
improvements and Injuries Increased buying
power will accomplish little unless it is utilized
and that Is a matter of inspiration.
Increased consumption, especially in the field
OF convenience and pleasure can not be brought
about by chronological control yet increased
consumption in that field is absolutely essential
to recovery.
Modern industry is by-product of the desire
for improvements If people only bought what
they needed half of our commercial and manu-
featuring enterprises would go out Of existence
TT takes a mountain of chewing gum. cos
Il metics, candy, sporting goods and other
decorative or recreational accessories to keep
this country going. Also it takes oceans of beer
and bellywash. Probably two-thrds of our
automobiles are operated exclusively for pleas
ure
The movies furnish employment for hundreds
of thousands of people Golf baseball football
prize fights. and wrestling matches are all neces-
sary to keep people at work But-and this is
the point to keep in mind-we could curtal such
activities if We had to and they will be cur
tailed if the increased buying power made posi-
bic through the recovery plan is not employed
effectively and Fundamentally
In this respect the problem of recovery is
largely psychological It goes right back to the
attitude of average people. TO such simple uues-
tons as whether they will buy new shoes when
they can afford to or get old ones half-soled
whether they will put their surplus earnings
uries and amusements: whether they will buy
when prices go up, or wait for bargains
NTE face the task of overcoming not only the
w economic effects OF depression, but the
habit OF thought which it has cultivated the
fear, the disposition to skimp. the blighting in
fiuence of having to live from hand 10 mouth
That phase of recovery is beyond regulation
We can persuade or coerce employers into
adoption of codes. reduction of working time
and increase of wages We can obge them to
put blue eagles in their windows, or suffer the
consequence.
But it won't do any good unless the public
does its full share in purchasing goods at ad-
vanced prices. unless the old spirit of progress
hope. and ambition returns. The government
has formulated workable plan but the people
must carry il out.
The only way to restore and maintain mass
buying power is through mass spending. This
does not mean that we should be foolishly ex-
travagant or improvidently wasteful. but that
We must put aside the thought of boarding or
playing safe while other people take risks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
Van It WI Work

NTHETHER it was within the
w intent Of the measure I do
not profess to know, but NRA is a
weapon to use as a means of uni
versal unioniZation. Some of the
labor leaders, particularly the more
radical ones. have been very slow
TO realize this. They have been too
busy fighting individual iniustices
under the act to realize its enor-
nous potentialisies FOR growth of
the labor movement.
As far as l can see. the man who
has grasped the true inwardness of
the Eagle most completely is John
L. Lewis His leadership often has
been assailed I am not in a posi-
ton to pass upon the Justice of the
many criticisms aimed against him.
always have Jumped him in with
other A F of l.. chiefs as reaction
airy and inactive But within the
last few months ne has added some
thing like 100000 members TO his
union
I think that any person with two
feet six inches worth Of vision can
realize that the National Recovery
Act is not an emergency measure.
II will be renewed and in more
drastic form. Industries with weak
unions or none at all will get very
little under any code
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
Labor Has It's Chance

L ABOR, If 1t has the gumption.
IL can profit far more under the
Eagle than the employing class.
And yet the employing class has
something TO save If Z ONLY had
the imagination to comprehend il
One of the most encouraging signs
that the United States is still yfable
is the coming Of strikes and the
promise of strikes.
An absence of labor disputes does
not indicate good times. It Is the
sign and symbol of death and stsg-
nation.
There were very few strikes dur
ing the depth Of the depression.
Labor unions were licked. Leaders
realized that in many industries
1t was quite impossible to win
strike, because the employer in all
too many cases would lose a little
less by shutting up shop and sus-
pending operations.
Now there is something 10 fight
for. But, paradoxical as It NAV
seem. the employing class can not
afford TO win strikes at the present
time. Every time a strike is broken
purchasing power gees down
II generally is assumed that the
steel magnates are hard. cruel. and
rapscious but that they know their
business. They are hard. cruel and
rapacious. and they don't know the
first thing about their business.
The only thing that can save
them and their industry from ruin
alton is 10 have some agent OF the
Eagle get them in a room ard knock
their heads together. And the
harder. the better.
fCopvright 1898 By The Times
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END SWEATSHOPS

TINE strike of $4,000 New York dress and
u waist workers is not strike IN the usual
sense of that word but walkout shared in by
many manufacturers to test whether the
barbarous system of sweatshops shall longer
endure.
It is not surprising, therefore, that federal
recovery administration officials are agreeing
with the union leaders and with the reputable
manufacturers supporting the movement that
the sweatshops are doomed
The sweatShop system of driving human
labor endless hours in nsanitary work places
at pay insufficient to keep body and soul
together is abhorent to virtually every human
being, even to all those who. generally
unknowingly, buy the sweatShop products at
bargain prices.
Swestshops. the enemy of thousands ground
down in them, are the enemy of prosperity
They are the hideavays of industrial suicide
The strike of the 10000 in particular is
directed against the middleman of the
industry, the iobber the grand abettor of the
sweatshop evil The merchant wanting the
lowest priced garment. arranges with the
lobber to supply him a certain number at
certain price
The ioober goes shopping among the $500
manufacturers. II the manufacturers sickle
for good price the iobber puts on the clamps.
saving. Yes know about your labor contract.
but do YOU want the orderP'
II he does not. the jobber tries others and
ultimately may so to the sweatshops where
there are no labor contracts and where the
ogre of starvation drives people to work for
any price they can get
In this way. under the murderous
competition of the depression, wages have been
cut to the lowest possible minimum. The dress
industry has been almost demoralized.
Union leaders say that the workers
receive as low as 80 cents for making a dress
that retails for Sc. The jobbers do not emplov
the labor and so escape responsibility. thus
serving as a buffer to the conscience of the
dealers. who do not dicker with the con-
tractors
In this process every one except the iobber
suffers in the end even the people who buv
the dresses.
The unions are out TO obtain shorter hours
and better pay. But they mainly seek IN
compel the jobbers to assume responsibiIitv
for the pay and conditions in the shops that
do their work
The recovery administration. We believe. is
In position if not to put an end to the evil
then TO reduce its prevalence to a high degree
Fortunately, General Johnson, in Wash
ington. and Grover Whalen. New York
recovery chief are showing vigorous interest
m the main object of the strike-the perpetual
doom Of the sweatshop
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dren hailed into court are from
broken homes.
Divorce, I believe. should be made
as easy, as simple. as honest as
possible, but We sooff must begin
some sort of educational campaign
to instruct adults in the evil re-
suits Of their behavior, which often
is so actuaied by nothing more no
bic than sordid selhshness.
If We do rot begin widespread
and intelligent efforts to keep homes
intact. We shall be obliged 10 adopt
the Soviet plan-make the govern
ment instead of the parent respon-
sib'e for the child.
We dare not so on much longer
with our slipshod methods- The
children must be saved at all costs
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
Cyanosis Due to Oxygen Lack in Blood

People who are severely anemic
and who have a small amount of
hemoglobin in the blood, may de-
velop the blueness of the skin.
The blueness is in itself an ex-
ceedingly important symptom and
always is looked for by the physi-
clan. If it is found, he attempts
TO explain it by studying various
tissues and organs
First the patient is examined for
the presence Of abscess of the lung.
diphtheria. foreign bodies which
have gotten into the breathing tube
obstructing it. and disturbances Of
the larynx. such as Inflammation or
paralysis.
Whenever these conditions are
present and associated with blue
ness and asphyxiation, the physi-
clan will endeavor TO relieve the
cyanosis by at once removing the
obstruction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
MIRA is CONSTITUTIONAL.

nURiNG the last FIVE months, the Amer
lean people have learned that the legis-
lstive branches of their government can func-
ton swiftly and adequately in time of dire
need
This week they have reason to hope that
perhaps the judicial branch can do equally
we'll
The District of Columbia supreme court
on Wednesday heard oil men argue for an
injunction against Secretary of Interior
Ickes hot oil" orders on the ground that
the recovery act is unconstitutional
On the same day. Justice Joseph W. Cox
denied the request. He said. Congress has
declared that there is a national emergency
and has granted the President broad povFrs
TO meet this emergency. In times Of enlr-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19
BY II. 8. Bonsih.

BY II. 8. BOnsih.
AS to the liquor question, I am for
all suasions: moral suasion for the
drinker;. mental suasion for the
thinker. because, if he would use
his thinker, he wouldn't be a
drinker: legal suasion for the law
forsaker and prison suaSion for the
statute breaker. But here is one
thing all should unite on-that is
the pledge Total abstinence"
Here is A PLEDGE-God being
my helper, I, the undersigned,
pledge myself to abstain from using
intoxicating drinks as a beverage,
wine and beer included, and to en-
courage others to do the same.
Name ..... Address .........
Odte .............
If all would be induced to sign
such a pledge and keep it, there
would be no further need of any
legislation on this question. Since
the vets say they believe in tenn
perance. but not in prohibition,
ask them TO come across if they are
sincere.
What say you in signing and
keeping such a. pledge. Vets, let's
hear from you All the trouble is
caused by the drinker, and not the
sober man.
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TINE most evil thing in our ap-
l. preach to the divorce problem
is the levity with which We re-
gard It.
1t may. as some believe. be an
achievement TO have freed ourselves
from hidebound concepts of mar
rage, but il is a worse slavery to
have sold ourselves the idea that
divorce is an enterprise in hap
pineSs
AS usual thing. men and women
better their conditions very little by
travelling the Reno route. They
actually do not obtain peace and
contentment or ecstasy by breaking
up their homes. although there
often are exceptions TO the rule.
So far as the husband and wife
themselves ARE concerned, one or
several divorces can make little diff
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-19

Their duties can not be compared
to those or a laboring man or an
office man. The latter will not en-
counter the risk of the former.
Who was it that contributed the
greater part of the relief to I'M
fortunates in the past? 1t was the
police and firemen and they were
not reimbursed in money for it
either. They should be reimbursed
in expressions of gratitude and reso-
lutions of confidence. they should
be assured by the citizens of this
great city that We will do our ut
most to prohibit any further reduc-
ton in salary and that We will sup
port any issue that will tend to
restore past salary reductions.
You, Mr.. Fairness" no doubt.
some day will see the time when
these police or firemen or both Will
be ready at your call. to preserve
your property or life, or rather TO
save the same from injury or total
destruction and ii probably will not
be until then that you will realize
your error and gross injustice to
these servants, whom I call gentle
men.
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(Times readers are mrited 10 erprsss
their rietCs in these columns. Make your
Limit them to 25O tcords or less
letters short. so oil can hare a chance
BY Arnold Johnson.
In reply to the communication of
William Alexander in the Message
Center a few days ago, I want to
say that / have enjoyed the privi-
lege of hunting and fishing along
many Indiana streams and have a
flsherman's acquaintance with some
of the streams mentioned in your
articles, Stream Pollution in Indi-
ana
read them with must interest
and thought them timely and fair
1t has been great pleasure for me
to entertain in my home many Of
my upstate and downstate friends
who had given me the freedom of
their creek banks and farms and in
many cases these new acquaintance
developed into personal and conf
Dental friendships and not in a
single case was it ever insinuated
that I was nuisance, property
destroyer or bowler.
1 have such friends in Scott
county, from which place 1 just
have returned from a hunting trip
and where I have been a frequent
visitor for the last ten years, and
from observation and contact with
persons in that vicinity I can say
that the article on pollution of
Muscatatuck river west of Austin is
so mild that one wonders how the
writer held himself in such restraint.
AleXanders letter provoked both
frivolous and indignant comment
among the sufferers of this fragrant
violation of human sensibilities. He
states that he lived on that ditch at
one time, well, just one time is
enough" Let him tell us when he
lived on that stink ditch how long
and why he moved l would also
ike TO know the name of that neigh
Dor who now lives along that ditch
one in some manner made complaint
against either the condition of the
water or the offensive odor coming
from that ditch.
But to satisfy yourself, just turn
west off State Road 81 in Austin
and take the Royce Bridge road for
a two or three minute drive. You
need not stop to locate this ditch
you will not have to, neiraer will
you want to. One whiff will con-
vince you that The Times did not
tell half
Farmers west of Austin have been
crying for relief for years, but all in
vain and when paper like The
Times has the courage to assist in
righting this abuse of civic toler-
ance against that patient commu-
nifty the full and absolute facts
should be had to discredit such let
tiers as Alexander's.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of che American Medi-
cal Association Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

are the cases Of people who live at
high attitudes and who do not get
enough oxygen into the blood by
way of the lungs. people who have
disturbances OF the lungs which
prevent circulation of the blood in
the small air spaces and conditions
in which the flow of blood in the
lungs is very rapid.
In some cases of congenital heart
disease. the blood passes directly
from the veins to the arteries with
out circulating through the lungs
and fails to be oxygenated by pro-
per passage through the lungs.
There are other cases iii which
the tissues of the body demand ex-
cess amounts of oxygen, as in the
presence of severe over-exercise, in
which blueness may result.
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Unfair Practice

BY Times Reader.
1T does not seem fair that drug
l. gistS should require their soda
boys and errand boys to take out
applications for apprentice phar-
macists. thereby making them
professional help and not subject
to NRA regulations.
My son is one of such and his
application fee will cost him 81
and he never intends to be a
druggist in any sense of the word
He is a senior in Shortridge this
term end has worked for this one
man since October. 1881.
He was getting 81 a. week and
last week got a big raise to $3.50,
and now. TO evade the issue. he
is going to be ciassed as profess
sional' help. when. as a matter
of fact. he is a soda clerk, JAM
tor, delivery boy, and what have
you.
It seems to me that something
ought to be done about the mat
ter.
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The Great War

BY KENNETH r. SKATER
Yes. 1 remember the Great War.
I must have been six years old then,
Or younger, perhaps.
I remember the huge drums,
The glittering swords the
mufied tread Of marching men.
The officers
Galioping and siding on their
horses.
The Khaki.
The trumpets.
The endless magnificence OF the
artillery parade.
The endless olive drab and polishesai
brass. -s
Oh, ii was n fine warl
remember 1t clearly.
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A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ference. We can afford to overlook
the results upon their characters.
But We no longer can afford to
think about those results in the lives
Of American children. We soothe
ourselves with the opinion that
quarreling. bitter adults living to-
gether are worse influence upon
the young than having been reared
in half a home.
This. in fact. is our strongest
sales talk for divorce. But I am be-
ginning 10 doubt its truth. May it
not be another of those palliatives
We ike 10 apply TO sore con-
science?
A T any rate. a recent survey Of
IL juvenile delinquency shows
that very large PER cent Of chill
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Plain and Simple

THAT should be plain enough.
l. and yet there is confusion.
The New York Evening Pos IN
commenting on the steel mems re-
fusal TO sit in conference with VII
liam Green. representative Of the
labor advisory board saws
1T registered the refusal of the
employer to let organized labor
cloak itself with the Blue Eagle as
a weapon 10 use the emergency as
a means toward universal uniOniza-
ton We question Mr.. Green's tact
or fairness in trying TO play the
double role of government Official
and union chief The steel men
were we'll within their rights IN de-
Ginning to deal with him"
The Post may like or dislike
the National Recovery Act. but 1t is
nonsense TO say that the steel men
are within their rights i'm refusing
to talk with a representative APP
pointed by the President Of the
United States. The employers I'M
this industry are IN open revolt
against our government They are
seeking to carry the same lawless-
ness which has obtained in COM
pany towns into the corridors Of
the capitol of the nation.
I hate violence. and I am not
always in favor of coercion. bur
would like TO see the militia called
out to tell the steel barons to move
on. The recovery act will amount
to very little if key industry is
allowed to throw a monkey wrench
into the machinery.
Under the Eagle the closed. or
union. shop is not guaranteed In
deed. if it were the administrators
would have to go out in some cases
and organize a union themselves.
There is, to cite one instance. no
union of any consequence for news
paper reporters But the law dis
tinctly says that the right of work
ers to form unions for the purpose
Of collective bargaining shall not
be abridged in any code.
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SATURDAY. AUG. 10. 1891.
POLITICS BEHIND RACKETS

IOLlllCS BEHIND kAChElO
THE most important development in the
senate racketsering hearings far is
the charge made by District Attorney
Medalie and Justice Kernochan of New York
that the persistence of gangsters is due large
" to their protection by corrupt politicians.
Mr. Medale said: In almost every large
city. racketeers and gangsters are part of the
machinery of municipal control. Not until
politics is divorced from municipal control
Will you get rid of the gangster and the
racketeer"
Judge Kernochan said: "Racketeers would
be given tremendous blow if in some way
the protection of the district leaders could be
taken from them They contribute to CAM
paign funds and sometimes solicit funds for
district leaders"
These facts have been well known to
students Of crime and municipal politics for
years II is fortunate that Senator Cope
lands investigation has enabled them to
make the headlines
It is futile to pass the buck to city police
and attack them for inefficiency and venality.
Granted that they are guilty at times, police
hardly can be expected to rise superior to their
overlords in the city organization. AS James
? Kirby of the Cleveland Press explained to
the Princeton conference on politics:
1t is the politicians on the bench. in the
prosecutors Office, and in the council cham
bers in our great cities-to their shame-who
have set the pace which the policeman follows.
The most insidious influence existing today is
the political influence which ties the hands of
the honest policeman
To the protection given gangsters by
crooked politicians is added that offered by
INSCRIPTIONS but clever lawyers. Politicians
and lawyers are not responsible for the ex-
istence of the majority of these anti-socisl
types, but they do provide major obstacle to
Kidding the country of criminals and racketeers
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WHENEVER the skin and mu-
w cous membrane of the body

WHENEVER the skin and mu-
w cous membrane of the body
turn blue, due 10 an insufficient
amount of oxygen in the blood, the
condition is called cyanosis.
In severe cases it may affect the
entire body. but in mild cases it
will be seen particularly on the skin
over the cheek bones, under the
fingernails and in the mucous men,
branes of the lips.
There are other cases in which
merely the circulation of one part
of the body is affected and in which
only that part will have the pecu-
liar blue color.
The blue color is due to the fact
the hemoglobin. or red coloring
matter of the blood. can not be TOM
bined with a sufficient amount of
oxygen.
Conditions in which a sufficient
amount of oxygen will not be found