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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-18
M. E.TracySays

GONE things never change. One of them is
~ the value which men attach to gold. Gov
ernments may stay on or go off the gold stand
ard, but as long as the precious metal remains
as scarce as it is, it will be sought after and
boarded.
Nor should the love of gold be attributed en-
tirely to scarceneSs. The peculiar properties of
this metal have had quite a bit to do with its
general acceptance as a standard of value. 1t
~glitterS, won't corrode, is comparatively in
destructible and heavy.
A cubic foot of gold weighs nearly one ton
and is worth much more, but you can't work or
handle diamonds the way you can gold.
The value of diamonds depends on size and
shape. Break a big one in pieces, and you lose
a fortune. Gold dust, however, is worth as
much as a gold nugget of the same weight.
ONCE civilization began, gold has been good
for meat and drink, with or without a gov
eminent stamp. AS far as we can see, it will
continue 20 be good. Even if men have to give
it up to the government, they will get money or
bonds in exchange.
Considering all that has been said about
making such natural resources as oil, gas, and
timber public property, it is surprising that no
one has suggested a similar rule with regard to
gold.
The fact that finders are recognized as keep
ers goes far toward accounting for the eagerness
with which men seek it, on one hand, and the
little that has been done in a public way to
promote its discovery or regulate its exploita-
ton, on the other.
While the handling of gold has become a
matter of worldwide organization and govern
mental control, searching it out still is left to
that rugged 1ndiYidualiSm which we regard as
outmoded in most other fields.
THE other day, an old Negro prospector
Il struck pay dirt on a Colorado mountain
side near the Royal Gorge. 1t was a bleak.
isolated locality, thirty-five miles from the
nearest railroad station and without SO much
as a good wagon road. In the space of weeks.
however, it swarmed with miners, prospectors.
promoters and tenderfeet.
Some came to stake out claims and dig.
Others came to make money by feeding and
entertaining them. Still others came to trick
them out of their spoils.
C~uriously enough, the first row occurred
over naming the new town. One faction was
for calling it "Hoardville," in honor of its dis
coverer, Robert Hoard. Another advocated
New Deal in honor Of the Roosevelt admin
~istration. After more or less argument, they
compromised on Copper Gulch."
Copper Gulch" may be descriptive of the
region, but it seems rather inappropriate for a
gold mining town. Like many a more impor-
tant compromise, it was accepted because it
was sufficiently colorless not to offend any
one.
That reveals another very old trait of hui
man nature. From time immemorable men
have found it necessary to agree on some in
nocuous name or scheme to keep peace, which
explains why so many of their agreements
mean so little.
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nobleman from an obscure sheep country In
southern Russia. with only an empty title and
no funds, VINO married the rich American girl
and received a large settlement.
All on the basis of nickels and dimes.
A ND now the scene shifts to Pittsburgh,
L Awhere the second story developed.
Girl employees of the 5-and-1O-cent stores
from which the Woolworth fortune was built
appeared before the legislative committee In
vestigating sweatshops, and charged that they
were paid $3.50 for a forty-hour week and
$3.50 for a sixty-hour week.
On the following day, H. L. johnson, as
sistant manager Of the Woolworth stores of
that district, appeared and denied the testi-
mony.
Sales girls are paid an average Of SO to
$40 weekly, he said, and the minimum pay in
Pittsburgh is $3.50.
We pay our employees a SIS bonus every
Christmas, and each gets two weeks vacation
without pay" Mr.. johnson testified. A n the
company pays the hospital bills of needy en-
ployes, if they can not pay themselves"
A ND so, out of these two stories, there is
n exemplified the vast inequality in the dis
tribution of wealth. One girl, with millions,
contracting a marriage with a prince" of nom
existing estates; thousands of girls working
for a few dollars a week to keep the fortune
going.
And yet the Woolworth company, as
brought out in the testimony, was not a par
ticularly fragrant violator of pay standards.
Many companies paying far less were brought
into the testimony.
Woolworth pays, as do other companies,
according to accepted standards. And &C
cepted standards in such businesses rapidly
have sunk to the stage where they mean
mere subsistence.
The country in which one girl gets un-
earned millions and millions of girls get hard
earned p~ittances never can have real pros
perity.
There can be no sound business in the
United States until unemployed millions get
jobs, and jobs pay enough money so that their
holders can purchase the products OF in
dustry.
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TUESDAY. JULY 10. 1898.

q sCRIPPs-HoWARD NEWsPAPE.

THE appeal of Joseph Eastman, federal
Il co-ordinator Of transportation, urging the
rail bosses to cut their high salaries should be
taken to heart by all overpriced American
pushes executives.
This country" he said. has been and still
is suffering to a degree that it never has suf-
fered before. Millions are out of work. Still
more millions are living on a pittance.
Thousands of railroad employees have no
jobs at all and thousands more are working
on part time. Thousands of investors in rail
securities are receiving no return"
A few railroad presidents like Daniel VIII
lard of the B. 81 o. voluntarily have reduced
their salaries. Others still draw annually
100000 and more. In the meantime, rail labor
continues to accept the 10 per cent wage cut
for another year.
The truism that American recovery de-
ponds on greatly increasing mass buying power
can not be repeated too often. This means
much higher wages for those at work and
shorter hours to absorb the jobless.
Workers incomes increased only 7 per cent
between March and May, while factory pro-
duction increased 1856 per cent, an unhealthy
and dangerous gap. Workers buying power
still is SGT per cent below that of 1929.
Yet many executives in utility, insurance
and industrial fields are getting salaries even
larger than in 1929. Some get salaries of
more than 100000 a year, plus bonuses.
Wise executives will forego these fancy
salaries and help to .redistribute wealth down
ward among the masses, where it will increase
the sale of goods and services.
AS Mr.. Eastman told the rail chiefs: 1.-The
executives will have much more to gain by
such an adjustment than they possibly can
lose"
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war is not worth its cost, nor does
it result in victory"
If enough women with ner cour-
age could say that and stick to their
conviction. we could eliminate war.
Think Of it! Think of the power
we hold! Think of what we could
do if we put our minds to it and
keep our determination frm.
The intelligent people of the earth
must rebel again war. To permit
themselves TO be driven to that level
of savagery is to submit 10 the ulti-
mate tyranny. Then, if the stub
born and stupid will battle, let them
have at each other, and the SOON
er they eliminate themselves, the
better.
If n must be shot, it is better
and nobler TO die for nigh prin-
ciples than TO kill others and your
self, for a cause in which you do
not believe, and because somebody
orders you to do so.
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WANTED: INSPIRATION

OVER in Washington, Republican Chairman
~ Everett Sanders, House Republican Lead
err Bertrand Smell, and other more or less dis
tinguished professional politicians are throw
ing cold water on President RooSevelts plans
and endeavors, in hope of putting life into the
Republican party. Accordingly, Senator David
A. Reed of Pennsylvania, the most partisanly
corrupt state on earth, will foregather in
California, two weeks hence, with Herbert
Hoover Later, evidently, something will go to
boiling in the party pot.
Obviously, the injection of new vim, vigor,
and vitality into the Republican party requires
super-brain work and invention, so few are the
perquisites and principles which that party
can appropriate to itself in particular; and, it
really has had very little experience as the
party merely against"
There are no spoils for the Republican
hungry, and. unless there is a cataclysmic de-
bacle in Roosevelt's plans, there aren't likely
to be any Republican spoils for almost eight
years to come.
AT Chicago, in 1860, the Republican party
gave to American political history, as one of
its birthday presents, a strong declaration for
protection, which" it said, secures to the
working men liberal wages, to agriculture re-
munerative prices, to mechanics and manu-
f~acturers an adequate reward for their skill,
labor, and enterprise and to the nation COM
mercial prosperity and independence"
1t surely will strain Messrs. Reed and Hoo
yer to work up inspiration to %revivify virility
in their party with a joke like that.
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No Vacancies

T THINK that Mr. Kipling might
l. have drawn a map for his lis
tenerS and have indicated the boun-
diaries of that great middle kingdom
of which most of us are subject.
We do not lie much, and yet we
never tell the truth.
We tell the truth as We see it.
And that. of course, is not precisely
the real thing.
Rudyard Kipling himself seems to
me an excellent case in point. He
is one of the most honest observers
living in the world today, and he
has celebrated the pomp and glory
of many things which are tragically
false. He believed these things.
That is why it is tragic.
Upon several occasions I have
hazarded the guess that Kipling Will
penetrate further into posterity than
many of his contemporaries who are
wiser. The mind of Kipling is no
more than a grain of wheat if YOU
set it beside the brain of Bernard
Shaw.
But it is distinctly possible that
your Observation-Disclosures and nv
own will be more interested in The
Man Who Would Be King" than in
Man and Superman." Shaw has
dealt with ideas which are fragile
things and transient. Kipling has
built his literary fame upon the solid
rock of episode.
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A Woman's Viewpoint :

VXTHEN I read the sincere opin-
w ion Of high-minded men and
women who saw the World var at
first hand-and only the residents
of other nations really did that
I feel a Towering of hope and joy
in my heart, because not one of
them but has learned to speak the
truth about it.
I wish, therefore, that all Ameri-
can women could read the last lit
tie book by Storm Jameson, Eng
Hshwoman, called mo Time Like
the Present"
This woman had her life shorn
Of hope and dreams by the catas-
trophe Of 1914. And the war be-
came FOR her a ruthless monster,
swallowing her schoolmates, her
friends, her relatives, and left her
world stripped bare of all noble,
worthwhile things-a drab, bare,
bankrupt world-with victory no
E.sre.
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State M0n00erS?

BY D. Yaver.
THERE r campaign pledges
Il and there also are campaign
pledges, but there are those weak
kneed babies who raved and rant
ed about Roosevelt's inability to
keep any of his campaign prom
Uses?
1t occurred to me that The
Times was of very liberal eXtrac-
ton. What a splendid opportunity
to exploit our Presidents accom-
plishmentS! Do you think Nor
man Thomas could have gone fur
ther or done even as we'll?
What a blessing on the people
OF Indiana if we had as capable
and efficient a state administra-
ton as we are receiving from
Washington. Is it possible that
u Governor hasn't as many pro-
fessional associates in the Legion
as he deems fit to rally round his
cabinet? Take a poll of the state
today and you will find that. Paul
McNutt has driven more voters
back into the Republican fold
than can be credited to any in
genuity of the greedy Republicans.
1 make the prediction that as
quickly as President Roosevelt has
his industrial recovery program
working to his entire satisfaction,
the next step he will take will be
a recommendation of complete re-
organization of state units. Indi-
vidual initiative and state rights
be hanged. They have been sorely
abused and used merely as a ruse
to cover greed, selfishness, and
political ra%cketeering.
Revamp the Constitution and
allow Roosevelt to appoint bust
ness managers for every state,
whether Democrat, Republican.
Socialist or Communist is of no
concern. In one year or less the
poor public would be relieved of
our political racketeers and real,
lasting prosperity would be so
simple that it would be humorous
to compare with the administra-
ton as we now r getting.
I wonder if it ever occurred to
the internal revenue office to
check up on politicians the
same as they did Al Capone?
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BY DR.. MORRIS .FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

cient to send his children to college.
Typhoid fever is an acute infec-
ton caused by a germ known as
the typhoid bacillus. The germ can
be found in the blood of a per-
son seriously i'll with the disease,
and in 80 per cent of the cases is
found in the excretions.
The germ is spread by means of
the eXcretions, by soiled food and
clothing, particularly by contami-
mated water and milk, and to a
large extent by people who carry
the disease; that is to say, they
themselves have been sick and have
recovered, but they still carry in
their bodies germs which may in
feet other people.
Formerly typhoid fever occurred
from the use of ice made from water
in polluted streams. Today nearly
all ice is made a~rtificially from
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clean water and there is no danger
of typhoid.
Milk used to be a common source
of typhoid germs; and milk prod
ucts were also known on occasions
to carry the germs.
Once the eating of infected oys-
tiers was a prominent cause, because
the oysters we're developed in con-
taminated water. Now the control
of oyster breeding largely has elm
mated this source of contagion.
Formerly it was thought flies were
more responsible for spreading ty-
phoid fever than any other cause,
but today it is not believed that
transmission by flies is an i'm
portant item.
However, the fly does feed flthily
and may transmit any condition as
ISOLATED with the filth on which it
feeds.
Next-The symptoms of typhoid
fever.
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Typhoid Curbed by Preven tive Medicine

This is the first of three articles on
typhoid fever.
IF the case rates and death rates
Il for typhoid fever that existed in
1890 prevailed today, che city of
Chicago would have this year Co.
900 cases of typhoid fever and ap-
proximately 5000 deaths. Instead,
Chicago has had in recent years
fewer than 200 cases and seldom as
many as ten deaths.
Thus it is shown what a tremen-
dous benefit modern preventive
medicine has come to be for man
kind.
In an earlier day the family doc
tor claimed that he could smell"
typhoid fever. His guess was likely
to be accurate, since one cut Of five
seriously sick people was likely to
have typhoid.
There was a time when any doc
tor definitely could calculate on his
financial returns from typhoid
fever, and they usually were suf1-
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subnormal or abnormal, many con-
genital detectives, vicious, lawless.
and irresponsible because they can
not be anything else. Drunken auto
drivers, chicken thieves, purse
snatchers, shoplifters, annoyers of
children and other such violators
of the law can not help showing
their characteristics any more than
a decent, moral, intelligent, law
abiding citizen can help showing his
characteristics.
1t is a matter of innateness-an
Unborn quality, not measured or
even concerned with material things.
Shakespeare knew these differen-
ces in people when he said in eff
feet: You can't make a silk purse
out Of a sow's ear. That is why So
called reform" institutions are fail
ures. The mine run" of persons
sent to these institutions can not
be reformed.
On the other hand, normal per-
sons never have to be reformed in
the usual accepted sense of the
word. Not one out of ten thousand
is reformed by prisons. Many are
deferred from further crime indul-
gance by fear of punishment or loss
of liberty-but you can't make a
silk purse out of a SoW's ear.
Prison farm routine should be
made rigorous and the inmates
made to feel the heavy hand at all
times. That does not mean cruel
or inhuman treatment, but it should
mean life without any of its feath-
ers or furbelows, and even chastise-
ment when necessary.
~Figuratively speaking, the prison
rod has been spared too much and
too long. The Times has done we'll
to point out penal farm abuses,
usually from the hands of guards
who are not much higher in the
scale than those under them.
My protest, however, is against
creating any mushy sentiment for
the usual jetsam washed up at these
institutions. Outside of abnormal
cruelty, these birds deserve all they
get.
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PrOcraStinatOr
BY MARGARET E. BRUNER

BY MARGARET E. BRUNER
He always meant to write a book
some day,
But many things conspired to cause
delay.
"a story written in his college days
Had brought words of encourage
ment and praise.)
He wore the look of one whose mind
was cast
With specters of unwritten tales
that passed
Like haunting demons surging
through his brain,
But he lacked time; this fact he
made quite plain.
And yet Of evenings with the lights
turned low
He sat till midnight at the radio,
And seldom did he miss a football
game,
But still he coveted a writer's fame.
He liked baseball, was something of
a fan;
On pleasure, it appeared, he placed
no ban.
But there were times when he
seemed sore peEplexed-
Was irritable, cross, and easily
VeXed.
Perhaps it angered him to know
that he
Had listened to representations
plea.
A kindly man, and yet a thwarted
soul,
Who saw. but failed to reach the
final goal.
The book remains unwritten at this
date,
For, somehow, time could not be
coaxed to wait
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by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON:

Her fear and indignation, her sor-
row and pain, are real. For ink she
has used some of the blood from
her own heart. I quote one para
graph only.
IT FEEL bitter anger against wom-
Il en- who accept war. I wonder
that it has taken so many thousands
Of years to realize that war is not
more an historical necessity than
witch burnings. We have outgrown
one, and could, if so minded, out
grow the other.
Il am as helpless as any other
common woman. But I Tan assert
my individual will. And SO 1 do.
If this country, I say, is got into
another great war, l shall take every
means in my power to keep my
son out of it. I shall tell him that
it is nastier and more shameful to
volunteer for gas bombing than to
run from it. I shall teach him that
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It Seems
to Me
BIZ BRoUN=

NEW YORK. July 1s-Rudyard
~ Kipling touched upon an in
tereSting point in his recent lunch
con address to the Canadian Au-
thors' Association. I wish he had
developed it a little more fully.
we who use words enjoy a pc
culiar privilege over our fellows. "
he said. We can not tell a lie.
however much We may wish to do
so. We only. OF educated men and
women. can not tell a lie-in our
working hours-but the more as
poets We pick, the more certainly
do We betray any truth concerning
u w age"
I think that what Mr.. Kipling
said can no. be accepted without
the support of a few footnoteS. It
seems to me that his major con-
tention as to the fundamental
truthfulneSS of any sort Of self-ex-
preston is accurate. Writers do not
lie. but they may report many
things which are not so.
Truth resides in a little cottage
in West Infinity. just next door to
the house occupied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Parallel Line. None Of us ever has
known or ever will know the truth
in its entirety
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TWO STORIES

TN New York there is a skyscraper which
Il was once the show place of Misunderstanding
Woolworth building.
At the time it was built many a moral was
drawn about the homely old virtue of saving
your pennies and nickels and dimes.
Look at that building, Rollo; it was built
from nickels and dimes'-and Rollo, of course,
was presumed to be strongly impressed and
imbued with the old fashioned ambition to
make little things count.
TINE founder of the Woolworth business
X is dead. The building no longer is the
tallest in New York. But the great fortune
which it exempliied and the business which
created it go on.
And within the last few weeks, there have
been two stories about this buSiness-one in
far-off Paris, and one in Pittsburgh.
The stories are interesting, because-like
the Woolworth b~uilding-they exemplify some
thing. Just as the building was once a symbol
of the power of nickels and dimes, so are
these two stories a symbol of conditions from
(which the United States has been suffering.
%THE first story has to do with the mar
= Il riage, in Paris, of Miss Barbara Hutton,
one of the two richest young women in the
United States. Her fortune has been ~variously
estimated: twenty millions is presumably a
safe minimum.
She inherited it from the founder of the
Woolworth business. And recently she at
traeted worldwide attention by marrying
Prince Alexis Mdivani, one of the disposSessed
heirs to certain estates in Georgia.
Georgia, even before the Russian revolution.
was one of the poorest spots of that vast en-
pire-a barren, sheep-raising territory. The
Mdivani p~rinces-there are three of them
distinguished themselves, however, by con-
tracing marriages with rich women.
There was comment over the fact that Miss
Hutton took precautions to insure the con-
tinued control Of her fortune, although she
was reported to have made a handsome mar
rage settlement on the bridegroom.
And so goes the story of the impoverished
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Engineers have developed air conditioning
to the point where it now cools thousands of
homes and business places. However, it prob
ably is too much to expect that science ever
can eliminate hot air from political speeches.
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Daily ThOnpht

Ye eat the fat, and We clothe you
with the wool, We kill them that are
fed: But ye feed not the flock. -
Ezekiel 34:4.
TINE virtues r lost in seIf-inter-
Il est, as rivers in the sea.-Roche-
foucauld.
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Sales of beer in Oklahoma, legal now for
the first time in twenty-six years of state
hood, are said to be exceeding all expecta-
tions. Apparently, the Sooner State fast
is becoming the Schooner State"
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United States weather bureau reports that.
midwest has been dryer this summer than at
any time in last three years. But you'd never
guess it from reading the reports of the vote
on prohibition repeal.
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We haven't yet heard the details of that
strike called by microphone technicians at a
Hollywood studio, but doubtless there were
sound reasons behind it.
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will lie as quickly in an affidavit
as he will in general conversation.
Perhaps ninety-nine out Of 100
of these farm inmates are either