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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10

THIS nation is engaged in the most right
eous war in its history II is a war against
greed. That is all that the Presidents re-
covery program is He has declared and con-
gress has backed him, that capital shall re-
ceive reasonable return on its investment.
He has decreed that labor IS entitled 70 a
fair wage for It's efforts
He has written into the countrys law the
principle that society must make II possible
for the humble to exchange their services
for a decent living for their families This is
Just program II is in step with the Amer
lean ideal distilled into the Constitution from
the bloody SHOWS of Valley Forge.
There is considerable evidence that a mi
noriiy OF business firms in Indianapolis look
upon all this as horseplay. Mr.. Roosevelt has
set September ! as the date when every in
dustry is to be in line. Until then. except in
the most fragrant cases. it would be unfair to
pillory volators in public.
Yet an advance warning obviously is
needed at this time. The fundamental thing
in the recovery code is the increase of mini
mum wages of those now employed and the
employment of additional people.
This is an abrupt reversal of the recent
policy of American business, TO keep down
costs No matter how business twists and
squirms to meet the technical requirements of
its code, if its pay roll has not increased it
is not meeting its obligation to society. 1t
is a renegade and Stacker 1t must be
treated as such.
Mr. Recalcitrant Industralist you no
longer can say, I'm running this business and
I shall do as please" You may not know it,
but you have been reduced 10 a junior partner
for incompetence. Your new partner is the
people of the United States If your en-
ployes wish TO organize for collective bargain
ing and orderly arbitration, they may do pre-
cisely that And you are going to take it and
like it.
Mr. Greedy Labor Leader, the time has
passed when you can feather your own nest
with absurd and technical disputes designed
to keep you in a soft job. There are two sides
to this recovery plan. The labor union which
is silly enough to go before the public with an
unjust cause will find itself torpedoed by mass
opinion This is not the time for chiseling
and racketeering by either capital or labor.
This newspaper has received many spe-
cific complaints about the conduct of certain
local businesses which are operating under
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
UNITED UNDER NRA

THE encouraging thing about the program
now being attempted by the National
Recovery Administration is not so much that
it is helping to beat the depression as that
it is providing rallying point for the emo
tional forces OF the American people.
It is sometimes said that our country has
grown TOO big-that its population is so
large and its distances so vast that its people
find it almost impossible TO unite in a COM
mon cause.
AT times. perhaps. this is quite true. What
arouses the Pacific coast often leaves the
middlewest cold: what stirs the middlewest is
apt to be OF small interest along the At
lantic We are a people of diverse interests
and. occasionally of divided loyalties.
But here is something that is taking hold
everywhere. The blue eagle looks out from
store and Office windows along thousands
upon thousands of miles of highways. Every
where II stands for a mass awakening, COM
mon cause which is appealing to Americans
of every section and every class.
It is. in fact, unifying force Of kind
that we have not known since the war; and
in its ultimate effects it may be a much more
profound thing than any emotion the war
brought us.
FOR the unilcatior of 1917 was a cruel
thing in spots. and 1t was followed by dis
Illusion. We felt ourselves lifted up but in
the letdown that followed we could not help
seeing that there had been something just
a little spurious about it all
Our ideals got lost sight of too rapidly.
We had been brought together. but no one had
applied cement to make our new union stick.
What We are getting now is something
different. We are getting at last, new
vision of what united America could mean:
q new realization Of the mountains that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
Warning
IAN EDITORIAL

the Blue Eagle. Fortunately they do not
seem TO be characteristic of Indianapolis
business men as whole
The strange conduct Of the taxicab COM
panies is a case in point They all adjusted
their rates upward TO a uniformly high level
Piously patriotic posters explaining that this
was due to the Presidents recovery plan ap-
peared in the cabs Some even displayed the
Blue Eagle. which later mysteriously was re-
moved although the new rates we're not
No one minds paying rate that will give
taxi drivers a decent wage. but has this in
crease meant reduced hours and a guarantee
Of the sl450-a-week minimum to the drivers?
Il has not.
The taxicab companies have the cart before
the horse They should have raised wages and
reduced hours before and not after. asking
the public to foot the bill. They stand before
Indianapolis in a very peculiar position.
Still another case is that Of the nlanufac-
turer threatening employees who attempt to
join the American Federation of Labor with
removal of the group insurance benefits and
other 'perquisites" Of his company union.
There is no ambiguity about the stand of
the administration on such matter. This
rugged individualist may find his statesmen in
the field at a distinct disadvantage with his
competitors who are cooperating with the
President
Nor can few restaurants which have been
paying their mattresses 81 a week get away
with raising them each to sl45o and then
charging every one of them $3.50 weekly for
meals
The automobile washing and service sta
ton which has been paying washers S. week
~ raised them to s14.50, then decided to
furnish them with three squares day at
$3.50 week, certainly is not playing the game.
These are a few examples. Fortunately,
it would take this entire page and more to
list the instances of Indianapolis businesses
which fairly and squarely are fulfilling the
spirit OF the Presidents plan without cheap
equivocation. They richly deserve the patron
age of the public and they are going to get it,
The wise guy" of the nineteen twenties
is as serious a menace today as the man who
shot a comrade in the back in the Argonne
Only by unanimous action can the nation be
lifted out of the slough of economic depression.
The business man in these times must
adopt the slogan of the French Foreign Le-
gion March or Die"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
THURSDAY AUG 10 less
LET,S co
PAGE 10


THE great federal public works program is
tagging. The process Of organizing staff
is dragging out. Valuable time is being lost
in the race to restore purchasing power before
the severe test Of winter is on us again.
No one is to blame for this condition. on
the contrary. IL has resulted in part from the
very virtue Of Secretary OF Interior Harold L.
Ickes and his associates. They are determined
that the $1,000 100000 melon in the cutting
shall not produce political scandals and graft
The country can not be too thankful that
this vast fund is IN the hands Of men with
integrity and awareness OF the graft danger.
That is adequate excuse for the delay to
date But it can not excuse much more delay.
After all this is an emergency program.
This is the big element.
II is not enough that the building get
under way next spring and summer The
Jobs and the government orders for materials
are needed at once, or at the latest within a
few weeks
This fits into the NRA program Industrial
codes for higher wages and shorter hours will
not be worth the paper they are written on
If the manufacturer has no orders. if the mer-
chant can not moYe goods from his shelves.
The NRA program is keyed to the promise
that government purchases and Jobs under the
public works plan will prime the industrial
pump. will function during the crucial interim
period before private purchasing power is ade-
quate to sustain the economic new deal.
The time has come for the public works
administration to show some of the energy
and drive of General Hugh Johnson and the
MIRA The MIRA makes mistakes. but those
errors incident to speed are small price to
pay for NRAs rapid achievement.
Secretary Ickes can cut red tape and get
going He should do so.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
1T SOUNDS FAMILIAR
Editorial in Akron Times-Press)

editorial in Akron Times-Press)
EDITORS are chronic hoarders of press
IL releases clippings, and letters. When
one cleans out his desk-about once a year
he often has the feeling that history is being
made little too fast to keep up with it.
year ago a group of Akron Socialists
brought to the editor press release prepared
by the party headquarters staff in Chicago.
1t dealt with the party platform as it was to
be expounded by Norman Thomas at the
Akron armory on the night of Sept. g.
Yesterday in cleaning out a desk it came
to light.
Here are some of the things Mr.. Thomas
promised
That he would repeal" unemployment.
That he would ask five billion dollars for
direct relief of the unemployed.
That he would ask another five billions for
financing public works program.
That he would introduce compulsory six
hour day and fiye-day week without reduction
in wages.
That he would reorganize industry on
planned basis
That he would push the principle of public
ownership.
All of which has Stte value except to re-
mind us of wise-crack made by some I'M
known wit after listening to an impressive
speech by Socialist. Asked what he thought
Of it he replied:
Its all right. but when We are ready for
Socialism the Republicans and Democrats will
give 1t to us"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
A Woman's Viewpoint

TITO obtain information upon any
L. other basis than this is to fail
before We start. The American pub
lie, as well as the department OF
labor, can endure some authentic
news about the steel business that
does not emanate from the luxuri-
GUS Offices Of Charles M. Schwab.
who looks always into a roseate fu-
ture and admonishes us not to sell
America short
Presidents, directors, highly paid
officials of all our gigantic corpora
tons may be wholly sincere in their
points of view But We already are
familiar with everything they have
10 say. We want now the opinion
Of another individual-the man who
produces the goods we buy and
enjoy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
Asphyxia Takes Heavy Toll of Life

been developed in fire departments,
in the electrical industry, in the
gas industry. and similar groups TO
administer fre-aid measures in
case of aphyxia, and also to sup
ply oxygen with a special appara-
tus, which gives SO per cent oxy-
gen and per cent carbon dioxide.
Approximately 10000 people die
every year in the United States
from drowning. gas poisoning, and
electrical shock. and ii has been
estimated that between 10000 and
$4,000 people are saved each year
by the prompt application OF re-
suscitation and inhalation of oxy-
gen and carbon dioxide, as men
toned
It is Of the greatest importance
in all such cases 10 obtain medical
advice a soon as possible so life
saving measure. involving stimuia-
ton of the heart. which only ply
ician can administer, may be under
taken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
Forgetting
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
Along these idle roads and pleasure
spent,
Among this carefree lot both far
and wide
The worthless chatter, thy true self
hide
Amid the eyes Of others keen pre-
sent.
In frivolous mood. your broodings
chide.
Al godly thoughts are thus denied.
But this. tortured one, does not
prevent
Your love for beauty. All this you
need.
Poor dolorous one forget that lust
ful greed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
1t Seems
to Me
By HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. Aug. Io.-Sharp.
~ pointed. specific criticism of
various factors in MIRA IS one
thing and hiding behind a hedge
and throwing rocks is quite another.
Two classes OF persons have a
logical right to oppose the general
scheme Of the national industrial
recovery act II offers nothing 70
those who believe so much in rug
ged indiyiduaiism that they sooner
would so down with the ship than
take a chance on any llfeboat.
And probably the legislation
hardly would be hailed enthusiast
tically by those who feel that there
IS no possible way station between
the present depot and the outlying
terminal called the dictatorship OF
the prolstariat.
But find that some o. the gem
eral and uncodified grumbleS come
from the camps Of those labeled lib
eral. ! don't understand it. Why
don't they kick and scream and
yell their heads of about individual
abuses, instead Of aiming a round
house swing at the entire system?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10

A TREMENDOUS number Of per-
n sons die each year in the
United States from asphyxla or
strangulation as a result of poison
ing bv carbon monoxide gas, by
strangulation during birth, by
strangulation under anesthesia ana
bv loss of breath from innumeraole
other causes.
Asphyxia means deficiency OF
the supply of oxygen to the tissues
of the body.
In this condition. there is a ten
dencv 10 develop an acid condition
of the body or so-called acidosis.
The human body can not live in an
acid condition Normally, the
blood is slightly alkaline.
The living body has many COM
petent mechanisms for self-regula-
ton. AS the body tends to become
acid. there is a definite effect on the
breathing system. Indeed. one be-
comes breathless promptly on ex-
ertion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10

CWEATY, shirt men crowd
~ ing around a slight woman at
the Pittsburgh steel plants-and we
see written a new chapter in the
history Of American government.
When Frances Perkins, secretary
Of labor travelled down to Pitts
burgh and talked over industrial
problems like a friend with the men
who work there. the country wit
messed momentous move in hu
manitariaaism and industry.
It was. in the first place, the only
intelligent way OF getting informa-
ton. No red tape. no secretarial in
termediaries. none Of the stand
ofish methods usually employed.
but a simple. sensible way Of find-
ing out what must be known II any,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
M. ySays:

EOR some years Captain Thomas Jefferson
l. Davis has had lot of fun Fostering Lieut.
John B. Sherman about two pigs which were
stolen from the Jefferson Davis estate during
General William T. Shermans march to the sea.
Last week Lieutenant Sherman contributed
his part to the joke by shipping two pigs to
Captain Davis. Captain Davis. however. is not
satisfied On the theory that, pigs is pigs"
he claims that he is entitled to such herd of
porkers as this old world never saw, and threat
ems to employ scientists to determine the right
number.
1t sounds logical enough, but first Captain
Davis should file bill of particulars with re-
gard to the two stolen pigs. Were they male
or female, or did they have the misfortune of
belonging 10 the same sex?
If male and female, were they brother and
sister and likely to run out because of inbreed-
ing? Were they healthy pigs. and could they
have been depended on to reproduce at a nor
NAL ratio? Was their environment such as
would have guarded them against hog cholera
and other diseases?
A RTHUR BRISBANE'S suggestion that the
\ problem is one of interest can not be &C
cepted without qualifications. Interest is man.
MADE contraption, and can be computed if not
collected according TO mathematical rule.
The reproducing power of pigs can not be
calculated so easily Theoretically. a pair of
enty years. but they don't. Nature has a way
of making the world safe for other animals by
interfering with pig prolifcacy
In the same way, nature protects people
against money by interfering with the collec-
ton of interest. According TO arithmetic. one
dollar placed at per cent compound interest
when Columbus discovered America now would
amount 10 more than the wealth of the United
States.
Thanks to the vagaries of human nature no
one thought Of putting dollar aside for that
purpose or Of making arrangements to pay the
interest.
When Benjamin Franklin died he left two
requests of 1000 pounds each to accumulate
for 100 years and he computed what they should
amount TO at the end OF that time. While they
increased a great deal. they failed to meet his
computation.
MANY man has made his fortune on paper
wi by figuring what a few dollars or a few
pigs would bring if left to themselves for a
period of years but nature or other people re-
fuse to support the racket.
You can't get very much out of life whether
through pigs or dollars save as other people CO.
operate. Interest doesn't mean a thing unless
it is paid, and pigs don't mean thing unless
somebody provides pasturage or eats PORK
The value of possessions in the form OF land.
buildings. machinery, stocks or anything else
goes right back to what other people are willing
70 contribute, to just and sensible distribution
Of profit and, above all else, TO those natural
laws which maintain an economic balance in
spite of human schemes and dreams to the
contrary.
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while they are being driven at a
ten to twelve-hour day, which will
get most of their warerooms full OF
furniture by the dead line of Sept. /.
Labor in this city never will go
under any code until Sept. l and.
not then, unless by government
action
Manufacturers of furniture or Of
any other goods for sale who have
shown their support should put
printed stickers on their goods
telling the public that it was made
under a NRA code. and the public
will take care of these kind of in
dustries that are trying to do every
thing to keep from going on code
and who are at the same time
making a lot of noise about their
support of 1t. A boycott of Shelby
vile furniture or any other city is
what is needed TO get the President S
program at work.
We are thankful that the most of
our other industry is made up of
different type men and that they
have shown their support to this
program by working their men forty
hours on a living wage.
We must tell the world about the
Stacker as we did in the time of
war. and if success and a new future
is to come. it must come by a 100
per cent program of cooperation
to this great program of the Pres
ident.
A man who has given thirty years
of service to the factories of Shelby
Vile, at which his highest hour wage
was 40 cents. and who now is work
ing for Is cents an hour and who
knows these conditions exist, writes
this letter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association Of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

Control of the amount of alkaline
substance in use in the blood ap-
parently is regulated by the amount
of carbon dioxide present. This is
the most important sub
stance in regulating the relation
ships Of acid and alkali in the
human body.
For that reason. the newer meth
DDS Of resuscitation in cases OF
asphyxia involve the giving Of car
bon dioxide to stimulate the breath
ing system and to aid the return
of the normal relationships of oxy-
gen. carbon dioxide, and alkai in
the blood.
SO important has asphyxia be-
come as a cause of death, that lead
ing physicians recently have formed
a special society for the preven-
ton Of death through this method.
IN most large cities teams have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

thing is TO be accomplished by the
labor department or any one else
for that matter.
SO Miss Perkins, woman before
she is secretary. packed her bag and
journeyed to Pennsylvania and
there she saw men in their every
day surroundings. She looked at
the kind of shops they worked in
and felt the heat and saw the sights
they are so accustomed TO.
She went TO their homes and
heard from their own lips the re-
cital of their fears and hopes. She
was, in short. human being talk
ing with other human beings-not
just an official listening to COM
planning disconnected citizens
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
Strange BcdfcH0lcs
HAVE been susnicil

/ HAVE been suspicious for some
Il time that many liberals and
radicals are suckers for the reac-
tionary interests. IL would be non
sense 70 contend that MIRA has
abolished the profit motive and
turned the means Of production over
TO the workers. And yet it seems
10 me a significant leftward step in
the economic history of America.
The people with the greatest stake
IN the preservation of the old order
have praised it with the faintest of
damns. All those who speak au-
thorltatlvely for tho vested interests
have condemned the new expert
ment as sheer Socialism. And the
radicals have complained that 1t has
nothing TO do with their notions
and that NRA simply is big business
Sneaking up on US with an Ameri-
can form of Fascism.
Now, it can not be that both
schools of critics can be right 7
believe that NRA establishes a me-
chanism which offers great possibil-
$500 ~ ~ haAAA@Nd 4dO0I. 4 iillDk III
drops a very meager betterment into
the lap OF existing unions. but it is
a plan which well-organized indus
trial groups can use to their own
advantage if they have the gump-
ton and the spirit to recruit power
tul cooperative units.
/ can think OF no situation in
which the right to strike should be
denied to any one as a potential
weapon. But it is a wasteful use Of
energy all around. A strike should
be silver bullet drawn from the
belt only when it can be used eff
fectively
The more powerful organized la
Dor becomes. the less it will need to
use It's armies and its banners in
trench warfare Why should any
body fight battle when a coed
swinging review will suffice to do
the trick?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-10
So They Say

J do not believe there ever will
be an opportunity for women in fly
ing the mails.-Mrs. Phoebe Omie,
aviatrix.
1t is we'll to keep your feet on
the ground, but it is equally leces-
sary to keep your head in the clouds
if you want to accomplish more
than the routine drudgery Of life
DR.. Paul Jones, Antioch college.
The eighteenth amendment has
not accomplished anything that was
predicted for it when it was adopt
elk Senator John K. Shields,
Tennessee.
I never was a good actress: l
quit before the public found me out.
Olga Petrova
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because of an overgrown materialistic phi
losophy which did not have the vision to see
that you can not sell unless people can afford
to buy; that wealth can not expand and at
the same time be improving; can not live of
its own fat; can not have health without
balance; and can not have balance without
paving as much attention to the other fellows
capacity to purchase as it does to its own
capacity to produce.