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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
OLD-AGE SECURITY

THE national scene has been such a fast
u moving affair since last March that most
Of US haven't been able to follow affairs even
IN our own states
We've felt that we did well to keep track
Of even the general lines Of what the national
government was driving at. 1t has been bewn-
dering
That Is why certain very definite social
gains have been made among the states with
out the public realizing the fact at all. let
alone approaching their significance.
For instance: Ten states have passed old
age pension bills since the beginning OF this
year. Twenty-Five states now have such laws
the American Association for Social Security
reports. OF the ten laws passed this year, that
Of Arkansas has been declared unconstitu-
tional, because Of its financial provisions.
But the winning Of nine states during
times Of financial stringency, to modern old
age security provision is a social triumph
which ought not to be passed over in the fast
moving journey We are taking today
These old-age pension laws in twenty-five
states cover a population Of 55,472, 900, or ASH
per cent of the nations people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

By y. w. Z.
Are the daily papers patriotic
or not? With our President do
ing his best for national recovery,
it seems to me they especially
should stand by him, even if they
are not Democratic.
The individual pocketbooks
should give place to the greater
needs of the nation. And when
an organization discharges a man
two years before his pension is due
after a lifetime of service, be-
cause he does not happen 10 get
all the number of subscribers they
ask, it is plain what the real
trouble is. They make sure TO
ask the impossible.
I do not know the man per-
sonally, but I do know of him
and his years of work and a good
many Of us think he has received
a dirty deal. A queer start on
the NRA. Excuses will not white
wash it.
1t is those sort of deals that
have helped to bring our country
to its present condition, and still
they are keeping it UP. They
should be made to pay the pen
sion. 1t was not The Times that
did it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
Heat Stroke Requires Quick Treatment

A MONG the most important
N problems in first aid is the
handling of heat stroke. This &C
ours not only in extremely hot
weather, but also at any time in
factories, engine rooms, laundries,
and kitchens where people work in
extreme heat associated with con-
siderable moisture.
The symptoms of heat stroke may
come on suddenly, but most fire.
ouently come on gradually. The
person who is about to become af-
fected feels weak and tired. gets
dizzy and drowSy.
The digestion may be disturbed
and there may even be pain in the
abdomen. The temperature rises, the
fever increases, the pulse becomes
rapid, the skin dry, burning and
flushed, the pupils Of the eyes usu-
ally are contracted, and the breath
ing fast and noisy.
Just before death the pupils may
dilate. II is important to be certain
Of a diagnosis Of heat stroke and
to make positive that the uncon-
seriousness is not due TO drugs,
hemorrhage, epilepsy, or diabetes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
A HERALD OF BETTER TIMES

AN editorial in The Rail a magazine
published by the Chesapeake & Ohio and
Pere Marquette railway companies, points out
that however much anti-inflationists may dis
count the current upward trend Of prices, there
remains the very solid fact that freight car
loadngs steadily are increasing.
Generally speaking" remarks this mag
azine, when a freight car is loaded it means
that some one has been put to work to make
an article that some one else has purchased,
and the article has been shipped. AL down
the line it means that the wheels OF industry
are turning with increasing tempo"
True enough. There are few better signs
on the horizon today than those displayed in
the car loading figures. If the railroads are
getting buster all of us are going TO be buster
along with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
BUSINESS IMPROVES

INQUIRIES from Washington tell reassur-
L ing story Of the extent Of the pickup in
business.
Activity in June and early July was go per
cent of the 1925 average, an increase Of
IL per cent over May. and SO per cent over
July Of last year. Output Of steel, automo-
biles. shoes, textiles and many other products
increased.
The American Federation Of Labor esti-
mates that 100000 persons have found jobs
since March. This is a distinct gain, but
labor officials point out that 1850 900 persons
still are without work. Success Of present ef-
forts Of NRA would mean that 100000 or
5000, 900 Of these would be employed by Sep
TENDER.
There are indications that production is
running ahead Of consumption. since depart
ment store sales in June receded l per cent.
An appreciate increase in employment would
stimulate mass buying power.
Conditions still remain far from normal
and the country is by no means out of the
woods But the curve is swinging upward.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
FAME FOR 1 IN 5000

HERE'S a better chance for immortality!
Columbia University Press announces a
volume for this fall containing 100000 thumb
nail biographies, which means that one in
every 5000 persons who have died in CONT
rental America since its discovery will have
special sketch of his life in the book.
From up in the towns Of New England,
the villages of the far west, the cotton planta-
tons of Dixie the ranges-the big" men of
their time and the characters" are to be
enshrined.
Many local celebrity Of past American
centuries no doubt would be surprised to look
down from his celestial retreat and see that
he made the "team"-the immortal Ameri-
can 100000.
The book will contain three times as many
names as any other book in American biog-
raphy. three times better chance to make
the all-time all-America team. But the try
outs are pretty stiff yet
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
PROTECTING HOME OWNERS

THE Home Owners Loan Corporation has
acted with commendable promptness to
nip a racket" through which it was said I'M
scrupulous persons planned to profit at the
expense OF mortgage burdened home owners
Prospective borrowers, the board stated. do
not need paid agents to negotiate their loans
Preliminary appraisals of property will be made
without cost, and if the loan is granted the
subsequent appraisal and examination of title
will be made at a nominal cost
And the board warned of provisions in
the law under which persons making unjusti-
fable and unnecessary charges in connection
with loans can be punished by a maximum
fine of $4,000 and five years in prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
WHAT PRICE LAND GAMBLERS?

professional, real estate subdividers Of
4 the late purple period added mirth, color
and pageantry to the suburban life of many
American cities. Now that their pennants
are unfurled and their lyrical exhortations
stilled. the costs of their flamboyant schemes
are being tabulated. Some of the subdividers
were helpful to their cities, but many of them
were not.
The tall grass that almost hides the check
erboards of streets and sidewalks on the cities
outskirts tells eloquent tales of heartaches
among eager home seekers.
A group Of city officials and college experts
meeting as the municipal finance council in
Chicago this week, told of the grief these land
gamblers have loaded on city governments in
tax delinquencies tax strikes and mounting
public debts
Land spectators. these officials and experts
said, operated in three ways TO shake the SOL
vency of cities They drew funds from NUM-
cipal treasures for needless sidewalks sewers
lights. streets and schools. They drained the
banks of liquid funds through huge borrow
ings. They enticed people from substantial
city sections into sparsely settled subdivisions
leaving two poor neighborhoods where one
solvent one grew before.
The cure for suburban land gambling lies
in controlled city planning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
PROGRESS IN AVIATION

THE flight of Mussolini's twenty-four sea-
Il planes from Italy to Chicago may not
prove that Uncle Sans dominion would be
in any great danger of being bombed by hos
tile fliers in the event of war with Euro
pean power. but it certainly does testify to
the remarkable advance that has been made
in aviation
One plane can get across the ocean by a
fluke, or by virtue of its pilots exceptional
skill. That was done as long ago as 1919. But
a whole squadron of two dozen planes can
not get across as a unit unless the allied
arts of building and flying airplanes have adj
vanced TO a remarkably high level.
These Italian filters prove that big strides
still are being made in the progress of flying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
M. E.TracyS Says:

A DEMONSTRATION authorities do not need
L n TO be told that they have a wildcat by the
tail The difficulty of stabilizing business by
means of system which regulates wages and
hours of labor. but ignores prices is sef-evident
In this connection, we should remember that
buying power is measured by what man can
get in exchange for what he earns, rather than
BY the amount he earns 1t would do no good
to raise wages 10 or Is per cent, if the cost of
living went up 25 or 30 per cent.
1t goes without saying that business must be
allowed to earn reasonable profits We can not
expect individuals or corporations to provide en-
poyment at a loss. BY the same token, we can
not expect the consuming public to provide mar
kets at a loss
Industry has a legitimate right to protect
itself against wage increases and tax increases
imposed on it by the government, but it has no
legitimate right to presume on the excuse which
this furnishes to boost prices arbitrarily.
If it does. it will destroy the buying power
and the buying disposition on which recovery
depends.
The average worker not only needs steady
employment, but margin between what he re-
ceives and what he must pay for the necessities
OF life II such margin fails TO materialize as
a result of the various codes and plans now being
adopted, we shall have accomplished nothing
WE have been telling ourselves that ma
w chinery enables us to produce more and
more for less and less, and that the real road
TO recovery lies in a fairer distribution Of work
and profit
We also have been telling ourselves that
mass buying power determines production and
that business improvement rests almost wholly
on what average people can afford.
What average people can afford is merely
what they have left after they have provided
themselves with sheer necessities, plus the de-
sire to spend it.
Business leaders can take advantage of the
existing situation. jump prices. and collect un-
reasonable profits for short time. The adop-
ton of such policy. however. by even a con-
siderable minority. would wreck the whole
program.
Capital must forego the idea Of making big
returns Immediately, if ever. Restoration and
maintenance Of buying power precludes the COL
lection of such enormous profits as have char
acterized our industrial set-up. The idea OF
making 80. 20. or even Is per cent might just
as well be laid aside
II has little place in q program which rests
primarily on mass buying power.
THE only way to put more money in the
pockets Of the many is to put less in the
pockets of the few
The present situation challenges our CONNER
cial and industrial interests to be fair, not only
as matter Of common justice, but for their own
sake.
The warnings of President Roosevelt. General
johnson. and their associates are not TO be dis
regarded lightly.
The only way 10 preserve our form OF gov
eminent. our economic system, and the liberties
which both represent is through such practical
cooperation for the sake Of the common good
as viii prove that those in charge Of our indus
trial and business enterprises can be relied upon
| to do the right thing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
Smaller, but HdrShcr

Nov. that is perfectly true. but
~ if Mr. Lippmann wants 10 go
on to the logical end Of the rights of
small business he will have TO de-
fend many things which 7 am sure
he does not want TO defend. The
very fact that labor costs are often
decisive for them" makes the small
capitalists the most grinding bosses
in the world.
Child labor. for instance. Is not
the creature and the creation Of the
huge corporations. II is the ace
in the hole for the men who must
find economies of that sort 70 COM
pete with their larger rivals.
Now, surely Mr.. Lippmann IS not
going TO extend the hand Of fellow
ship to the small manufacturer who
finds it eXpedient to use Children in
his mill And yet mis- man, in de-
Tense Of his practices. could quote
Lippmann back to Lippmann and
say, With me, labor costs are de-
cisive"
I not only believe, but hope.
that the national recovery act will
put a number Of small manufac-
turers completely out of business. Big
corporations have much to answer
for, but the most precarious Job
holder. the most exploited laborer
and the most violently sweated
worker is the employe Of the minor
boss.
The small shop is the first to feel
a depression and the last to benefit
by a turn. If it is impossible for
these men to meet the meager min
imums set by the new codes. then
it is much better that they be forced
out of business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

Cities may be good places for
men, but they are hell for horses.
No Dante, walking the aisled ways
Of Purgatory, could feel more ADAM
doned, more forlorn, than a horse
appears on a city street that has
been invaded by automobiles.
Machine civilization abandns the
horse, animal that has done so
much for man.
II has drawn his burdens, sweated
to produce his bread, labored for
his security and died in his wars.
Faithful servant. true friend. pur-
veyor Of good tidingsa Century Of
Progress finds the echo Of his gall
LIANT hoof beats growing fainter.
There is no horse in the Trans
portation building. And on State
street. the sight Of him standing
majestically alone and lonely, gave
me a pang Of which I am not
ashamed. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

as he should be, is the fact that he
was born in this country.
ALI Williams, was a no-good
guard.
The sum-up is this: If any one
goes to the farm and acts like a
man, he is treated like one, but if
he doesn't, he gets what he deserves
Remember, the state farm is not
summer resort. but a place to pay
off a debt to society that each one
Of these men has contracted for
himself.
All have violated some law. ! did
and paid for it and I will defend
every one of those guards, with, of
course. the exception of two men,
who feel their authority, bet this
occurs every place.
Anything I have said here I
would say under oath, but, remem-
Der. this is prisoner talking about
the men who were placed over him
to see that the right thing is done,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

Times readers are inUited TO cypress
their rie,cs in these columns. nakc yorr
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them TO $50 cords or less.J
BY Carl Z. Hatch
1 read your series Of stories on
the state penal farm, and want to
say that they are we'll written, but
a little far-fetched. I understand
these stories are based on sworn
statements Of these different men,
but this does not mean that they
are the truth. This letter is sent
to you as my defense for Captain
Arment and John Mathews, the
guard of No. 10 labor line.
I served a sentence of six months
and a fine of $40 and costs, total
of 202 days. made my good time, and
was released in 1913 days. Was
there from Jan. 10 until June 90,
and want to say this, was treated
fine.
could run down the line and
name all the guards there and tell
you of many kind services 1 have
seen them do for men who deserved
it. and I also know that each in
stance that you have written about
is lie.
I know that Mr.. Mathews, his and
my own guard, coaxed and pleaded
with Dan Shipper to work so he
would not have to send him to the
captain. I helped to carry Dan
Shipper out of the quarry on a
supposed faint, and know it was a
fake.
I was sixteen months overseas in
service and, believe me, I know
when a man is out. Dan Shipper
has asked me for different methods
to run his fever up so he could make
the hospital He was too lazy to
work. He told me himself he could
play sick any time that he wanted
to. and used this way to get easier
treatment and less work. He is no
good.
I know the case of the Mexican
going to the hole. He ought to
stay there year He was a trouble
maker of the first grade.
As to Theodore Luesse, I helped
to build the wall around the quarry
with him and I know him pretty
well. He is a red agitator and moth
ing else. The only thing that keeps
the government from deporting him,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
Doing Very Best

NNE large telephone company
~ may. in its casual and AFRO
CANT way, give poor and expensive
service TO 4 community. But it can
be made to conform. It can be
taken over Ten little organizations
doing their very best would still be
much worse.
Some Of my most MARKHAM friends
continue to stand by beliefs which
seem even 10 free thinker like
myself decidedly heretical. They do
not seem to grasp the fact that
Socialism is not the antithesis Of
capitalism but its logical conse-
quent. II you dream Of CO.
operative community, you must
think Of it in terms of big units.
Mr.. Rockefeller and Mr.. Ford have
both done their bit toward ad-
vancing the day Of the classics
society. They have built up organ
izations 50 large and so well organ
lied that they are worth taking
over.
ANY radical is gross hypocrite If
he mourns about the wedding out
Of the small employer. He will have
to go. sooner or later. Why not
now?
fConvrfvht fqaa tr, The 7-f-,reA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

THE lonesomest living thing I
l. saw in Chicago-opulent Gree
among cities-was the horse that
stood where Washington crosses
State street.
The policeman who rode him had
dismounted and traffic swirled
crafty, like the cyclonic winds Of
some mighty aerial disturbance.
There ne stood. that horse, lonely
figure in an alien world. Cars
scraped his ribs. pedestrians jabbed
his nose, horns beloved about him.
Womens garments swished against
his tail. He was mobbed by ma
chimes and threatened by human
floods.
Yet his fine head made a noble
ness in that place Of sordid self
seeking. He was a thing OF calm in
a monstrous Niagara OF haste. peace
surrounded by chaos. His eyes,
liquid, created for rejecting the dis
tances Of green and lovely world.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29

ONE YEAR AGO TODAY

A year ago today United States infantry
cavalry and artillery advanced down Penn
sylvania avenue With drawn bayonets, gas
and flaming torches against unemployed
American veterans.
The first anniversary Of that black and
tragic day marked the start OF another great
movement. this time a mobilization Of the
entire country FOR unemployment, under
President who believes that the economic
hell" Of the last four years must end.
On that other hot July %, when late aft
ernoon crowds watched with incredulous hor-
TOR the march Of Americans in uniform
against Americans in distress. when they
watched through the night the Redeemed
skies that signaled destruction Of the unem-
ployment camps, fear gripped the country.
ANY extreme Of violence seemed possible on
a day when the President Of the United
States could think OF no way'to deal with the
Unemployment except WITH bayonets and
tanks
Today hope pervades a land in which every
citizen TO the humblest man and woman has
been enlisted to end the depression. Under
courageous and bold leadership of another
President, bayonets and despair have been
forgotten A plan built on the soundest
theory known to modern men has been de-
visod to put millions back to work and raise
their pay.
The army has been detailed to supervise
constructive work for unemployed boys in
forest conservation camps. In Washington a
great government building past which TIE
tanks rolled last July, is humming with the
task of organizing the peace-time drive in be-
half of others without jobs. Officers of this
peace-time army are busy in every city and
town in the country.
year ago a President stood in the east
room of the White House and watched the
midnight glare that told him his army orders
for destruction were being carried out
Another President may look today from
the east room toward the building which
houses his recovery general staff and know
that he has brought to life again the real
America and given her her chance to avoid
destruction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
A Woman's Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

gazed on pavements shimmering
with heat, and stone walls that
reared themselves about him like a
gigantic prison.
He was as strange and out of
place in that spot as a dinosaur
would be in pigpen.
PATIENTLY, like men who
l. are caught and held in the
grasp Of some external circum-
stance that deprives them Of free
dom, and who do not realize their
own power, the horse on State
street. with bride hanging loosely
over the arm Of a master uncon-
scious Of his existence. remained
untroubled as a statue, resigned as
a stone.
The pride that had been his heri-
tage long since had become slave 10
those who are physical weaklings
beside him. u
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-29
WHEAT GAMBLING TO END

THE recent orgy Of gambling in wheat and
the following spectacular crash of the
market will have served a useful purpose if
they bring about elimination OF some OF the
evils that have so long characterized grain
trading.
And there is evidence that they may
George n. Peck, administrator OF the farm
adjustment act. minced no words when he
told grain dealers that they must set their
own house in order or the government would
do it for them He added that this was not
just another warning of the sort issued SO
often in recent years.
Abuses exist in the grain trades and they
acting as the marketing medium for the
farmers. should correct these abuses said
Peck If they do not succeed then the gov
eminent will act =. =. know of no industry
other than farming which has nothing TO say
about the price received for its product"
The Chicago Board of Trade and other
grain exchanges have necessary and useful
functions for producers. professors and con-
sumers.
But unbridled speculation and violent
price fluctuations such as the country has re-
Gently witnessed are no part OF these useful
functions.
Farmers consumers and business gener-
ally must have orderly marketing based on
laws OF supply and demand. Prices must not
be inflated or unduly depressed for the profit
of men who never produce or process wheat.
and whose transactions exist only on paper
Nor can the government afford to leopard
- ;,e r,-oS,ictio, control rrocrsnn or, which
it is spending slOOOOoOoO for the benefit of
wheat growers by letting spectators reap
the benefit
Fortunately. Peek has ample authority
under new legislation TO enforce the govern
rnents will He can license grain exchanges
and al other handlers Of farm commodities.
and he can revoke those licenses, and put the