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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-06
REPEAL'S BIG MONTH

THIS is the big month in the drive for
repeal of the eighteenth amendment.
Between now and Sept. 19, six states vote on
prohibition. Maine ballots Sept IL; Colorado,
Minnesota, and Maryland on Sept. II; and
New Mexico and Idaho on Sept. 10.
The chances are bright that Sept 20 will
find all these states in the repeal column,
along with their twenty-five sister states that
have voted to date. That will bring the total
up to thirty -one-with five to go.
That is a happy prospect to contemplate.
Six months ago even the most ardent repealists
were skeptical of the chances for abolishing
prohibition by Christmas
They felt that, regardless of how strong
national sentiment was against the eighteenth
amendment, it was impossible to speed up the
cumbersome machinery of state ratification to
achieve the goal in such a short time.
Today that skepticism has passed. 1t seems
almost certain that repeal will be an actual
fact no later than Dec. 7. Two states vote in
October and five on Nov. 7. That makes
thirty-eight in aIl-two more than the
necessary thirty-six.
This does not mean, of course, that the
repealists can afford to let down. Some of the
drys' resistance has vanished, due perhaps to
the realization that they face hopeless task
in trying to block repeal.
But enough remains to insure real trouble
in the event the anti-prohibition forces become
over-confident
Therefore, the fight should be carried on
with undiminished vigor With the long
awaited goal finally in sight, this is no time
to start counting chickens before they're
Matched.
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TN survey of the present status
l. of our control of tuberculosis, DR..
Donald B. Armstrong emphasizes
the fact that the biggest problem
today, as it was twenty years ago,
is to find the cases early in the
course of the disease.
However, one change has occurred
in the medical point of view that
is of great significance.
Twenty years ago medical atten-
ton was concentrated primarily on
the adult in an attempt to get him
early into the hands of doctor and
under proper treatment.
Today the chief interest in the
prevention of tuberculosis concen-
trateS on the child
In the child appear the early
signs of invasion by the germ of
this disease. Apparently the course
on the condition now is: 1--Infec-
ton; 2-Mild forms of the disease
in childhood; 3-Complete or par
tial healing of this condition; a
Possible reinfection; 5-The dis
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|M.E.TracySays:

IKE most other people, I believe that there
IL is a definite alliance between crime ana
politics. not only in some Of our large cities, put
in many small ones. How else explain the
brazen effrontery with which racketeers oper-
ate. the chronic failure to catch and punish
them, the nonchalant dismissal of indictments,
the frequency of suspended sentences, and all
the other shadow-b boxing which leaves them I'M
mune?
Backstage turks the skulking figure of rotten
politics the ward boss and district captain man
handling the police force, the prosecutor, and
even the court.
In the name of direct government, with the
people electing all important officials and pass
ing on all important questions, We have built up
a mechanism which responds to nothing so
quickly as the wire pulling Of crooked politicians
| Through party organization, these politicians
have been able to develop an invisible power,
which stultihes the legitimate functions of gov
eminent.
THE organization is held together largely by
i favors. by a job for the faithful worker, or
helping hand to the voter in trouble. The voter
can be thug as well as an honest citizen.
Gangdom lends itself to politics 1t can herd
voters in the same way that it can browbeat
little tradesmen, cam march frightened people to
the polls in the same way that it collects tribute
from them
Gangdom is of value to the party leader who
sees nothing in government or pontlcs except
victory at the polls and who cares little ABOUT
justice, decency, or the price he must pay.
To an obvious extent the idea Of politics as
medium of good government has given place TO
the idea of politics as medium OF power. What
leaders can get out of the public treasury or the
public service for themselves and their friends
has developed into the chief source OF interest,
and is responsible for the alliance which exists
between machine politics and crime
In all communities over which machine poll
tics has gained control elective officials are ex-
posed definitely to the power Of political Bosses
TT is no more than human for men to fear
l. those who can hire or fire them. That is
exactly the position occupied by police chiefs.
district attorneys, judges, and other elective
officials in a machine-rued town. city, or state.
theoretically, they are chosen by free citl-
zens, but actually they are named by COM
paratively small group of politicians. who have
developed an effective organization through use
of public funds and prostitution of the public
service.
1t is high time that we broke up this element
OF Generalization. Our officials must be
liverated from political interference In no other
wav can they perform with that honesty OF pur-
pose which is essential to good government.
In no other way can the public obtain from
them the efficient, conscientious service which
it has right to expect and which most Of them
would be glad to give under normal conditions
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The Legends TarniSh

TODAY some of the myths have
l. been swept away. When a good
full-sized depression came, it hit
Ford plants just as it did all the
others. 1t was discovered that the
patriarchal little white father who
was intent on keeping his children
from liquor and cigaretS was some
what less concerned with the prob
lem of whether they starved or went
homeless.
1t may be that labor has by now
conned and learned the proverb
Put not your trust in benevolent
princes of industry" Under the
economic system which produced
this man, there is no God, and
Henry Ford is his prophet.
1t would be stressing the situation
far too much to contend that if
Henry Ford can be made to knuckle
down to the demands of Washing
ton a new day of complete indus
trial equality has dawned. And yet
any such happening will have dis
tinctly revolutionary tinge. The
costs which the code would impose
upon Mr.. Ford are not very great.
The strain upon his soul and temper
would be far more Weighty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-06
Handful of Pennies

DUT if even cents an hour
- can be added to a wage scale
by legislative and executive action
on the part of the government
something very new in our eco
nomic setup already has happened.
1t will be a precedent for far more
drastic action later on.
I say it will be, for I certainly feel
inclined to bet on the blue eagle
against the lone wolf. A victory
for Ford in the encounter will be
material of the finest sort for all
who contend that political action
never can bring about significant
change in economic relationships.
If 40 cents can not be changed
into 43 cents by public pressure
operating through its duly elected
representatives it will be extremely
difficult for anybody to debate
against those who say that neces-
sary change can come only through
bloody and violent revolution.
This present fight isn't Armaged-
don. But it looks to me something
like one of its suburbs. Armageddon
Manor or East Armageddon-on-
Hudson, let us say. Henry will have
his supporters. The big boys and
the barricade boys as well will both
be cheering back of his corner.
I'm going to be on the other side
shouting: Hit him in the bread
basket, eagle! He can't take it
down there"
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
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Archaic Idea

BY C. S. G.
INDIANAPOLIS Merchants As
= ISOLATION stores, I note, are
going back to the $50 closing
hours, minus the Saturday half
holiday. The notion that stores
must remain open until $50 is
as archaic as an OK cart. 1t is a
relic brought along from the an
Gent days when stores kept open
every night until 9 o'clock and
midnight on Saturday.
In these days of perfected re-
frigeration, perfection in can and
package goods, good roads and
fast transportation, etc, $50 clos
ing is as obsolete as 9 o'clock
closing used to be.
Take a look at downtown traf-
fic, any day, around 5 o'clock,
and you see thousands of women
shoppers homeward bound to pre-
pare or supervise the evening
meal. Most shoppers are edu-
Gated to do their buying before
5 o'clock.
In fact, most of them would
not even attempt to DO any real
shopping after that hour, except
perhaps in an e0lergency-and
shopping emergency scarcely exists
today.
An analysis of the business
done by department store be-
tween the hours of and $50
doubtless would show an actual
loss, in comparison of sales and
expenses, for that particular
period. 1t is just as easy for
people to buy before 5 o'clock as
it is after 5.
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Tuberculosis Control Starts With Child

Doctor Armstrong is convinced
that the discovery of the child with
early tuberculosis is one of the
most important contributions to the
problem of the control Of tubercu-
loSis.
The use of new devices, such as
the Horoscope, the tuberculin test,
and the X-ray, represent the means
by which cases now are discovered
at an early period.
One of the most important dis
coveries has been the portable rapid
X-ray camera, which uses paper
films, and which makes it possible to
make as many as thousand chest
plates in one day at a cost OF about
rs cents a person.
In some cases this expense has
been reduced to as low as 40 cents
a person. Obviously. this cost is an
important factor when one attempts
to examine thousands of children, a
considerable number Of eXamina-
lions being made without charge to
the INDECENT.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

ease actively as it affects the adult.
In studies made recently IN
Pennsylvania, go per cent of school
children were found to have posi-
tive tuberculin tests, which meant
either they we're infected or had
been infected and recovered.
In Massachusetts,, including both
rural and city communities, exam
nations made among children be-
tween and Is years Of age indi-
Gated % per cent with positive
tuberculin tests.
When these cases we're checked
over by X-ray examination, it was
found that 5 per cent showed some
damage to the lungs and in l per
cent the damage was sufficiently
serious to require medical attention.
The figures vary in different parts
of the country as, for example, one
out of $50 in Minnecota and 4 per
cent in North Carolina were posi-
tive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-06
DRY ROT, RED TAPE, SOLID IVORY

THERE is a slashing indictment of the pol
u icies. methods, and finances Of our war
department in the North American Review 1t
is contained in an article entitled Our $780,
100000 Skeleton" by Robert Wohlforth, West
Point graduate, former army officer and an
expert on questions Of national defense There
fore. 1t is no bilious squawk by a professional
pacifst
In the first place, our military policy today
is based almost wholly on the assumption that
we are going to fight the World war over again
In our next hostilities The plan is to main
tain a vast skeleton army which is practically
useless as a coherent and integrated defense
unit It could serve only as the basis for
mobilizng nation in arms" to be shipped
overseas by the millions
As a matter of sober fact, however, the one
type of war we are not likely to fight again
is one like unto the World war. 1t is not prob
able that this generation will be played for
suckers to pull chestnutS out of the fire for
some European coalition.
If we are engaged in another war, it is
likely to be war of defense. so far as land
ability to man our coast and harbor defenses
and military airplanes and small and we'll
trained army that can be moved rapidly to
any pivotal area.
We are overstaffed tremendously with Off
GERS. "Only per cent of the colonies
and lieutenant colonels of infantry on active
duty and less than 5 per cent of the majors
ever can hope to command a number of men
commensurate with their rank"
The war department is an expensive branch
of the government-costing about a million
dollars a day to operate. 1t successfully OPP
poses all efforts at economy and curtailment
of its budget In spite of grotesque over
stocking with officers, the cost of producing
an army officer is staggering.
1t costs $4,000 70 get one via the c. NJ T.
c.; $4,000 by the way of West Point; and
$1,000 through the r. O. T. c. Believe it or
not, it costs us about $500 a year for each
effective soldier 1t costs us the amazing sum
of 100000 year for each fighting plane We
maintain in operation.
Then there are any number of absurdly
wasteful expenditures, such as SIS 900 for lady
hostesses for the army: 100000 for horses
and mules and $4,000 for encouragement of
horse breeding" at time when all up-to-date
armies are using motors almost exclusively:
s10,0O0,OOO a year for the R. o. T. c.. which
even high army officers admit to be about
worthless as a military venture; s2,500,OOO for
citizens military training camps conceded by
a former chief-of-staff to be completely worth
less from military point of view and 1862
600 for promoting civilian practice with
weapons of type unlikely to be used ex-
tensively in another war.
To keep the public congenial to its archaic
and dangerous policies. the war department
keeps about 100000 citizens with their friends
and relatives, on its rolls. Here Is larFs and
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:: The Message Center ::


It would have been a good job and
I looked forward to it with pleasure
and anticipation, because it meant
much to me and mine. In the
meantime came trouble. Somebody
decided for me, and rightly I think.
Today 1 stood on the bank and saw
nonunion men doing my work. Men
trying to provide for their families.
Self-preservatiOn again.
And across the street in a Win
dow. one of these large, artificial,
dumb blue eagles looked at the
scene. Anyhow, this one looked
without seeing, knowing or caring.
A soulless thing, a Pigment OF. mag
ination, as cold as a corporation.
But he said something personal.
I'VE do our part.
A poor carpenter on the bank, a
poor carpenter in the hole. His
part to do my work without a card,
my part to walk away and wait for
another day, as many a good man
has done before me.
And so it seems to me that in
this cockeyed world, where SO many
larger evils flourish, that it is hard
~ worth your while to kick us in
passing. Not that we care, only 1t
should be a criminal offenSe under
the status quo to hit anything you
can't eat.
And, by the way, how do you like
the new beer?
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WEDNESDAY. SEPT. 6. 1898.
NO INTERVENTION

COMPROMISE governments thrown up TO
~ stop revolution rarely last long. When
the De Cespedes regime followed the Machado
dictatorship in Cuba less than month ego,
we pointed out that the new provisional presi-
dent was a conservative land owner and
former Nachado cabinet member, closely
identified with the old ruling class, against
which the revolt was directed.
He was more acceptable to the American
building interests dominating the island than
to the Cuban people Now he has fallen.
That Senior De Cespedes gave his con-
sentative best is not questioned But that best
was not good enough. He did not proceed
quickly enough against his old Machado as
sociates. He did not hasten a constituent
assembly. He did not move toward a solu-'
ton of the land problems.
His sympathies were not with labor, though
left wing influences in his cabinet prevented
positive action against the workers. His re-
gime planned for property interests. instead of
hearing the cries Of the people in their misery.
The revolutionary leader De La Tore put
the case against the De Cespedes government
in a sentence: ut does not represent the
workers. the women or other national ele-
ments."
And in any revolution that is the deter
mining issue The government may make
mistakes it may fail for time to improve
the lot of the people, but it must represent
the revolutionary masses and hold their con-
fdence.
President De Cespedes never had that
popular confidence. Therefore, he was over
thrown for failure to achieve in three weeks
that which might require several years for
revolutionary government to accomplish.
Considering the long reign Of terror to
which the Cuban people have been subjected,
it is noteworthy that the overthrow of Ma
chado was accompanied by a minimum of
violence and that the revolt against De Ces-
pedes has been bloodless-at least according
to early reports
With this record Of restraint in the face of
provocation which easily might have led to
widespread violence, the Cuban people in
their revolution deserve the sympathetic re-
spect of the United States Both the Hoover
from military Intervention under the Platt
amendment against the Machado Dictator
ship, even though American property and
lives were endangered
Therefore, it is all the more necessary that
the United States now refrain from military
Intervention against a revolutionary govern
ment-except under the most extreme provo
cation.
Because it would cause more unrest than
it would quiet, because it would interfere with
the inalienable right of the Cuban people to
work out their own problems in their own
way, because it would create an enemy at our
door and make Latin-America hate us. United
States military Intervention now would be a
tragedy for all concerned.
There are too many war clouds In Europe
and the Pacific for us to fool with the friend
ship Of our American neighbors.
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There Is q Reason

A CCORDINGLY, some may ask
N what all the shooting is about.
General Johnson has made num-
Der of serious mistakes, but 1t seems
to me that he has been spiritedly
right in insisting on the code, the
whole code, and nothing but the
code in the case of Henry Ford.
The general has tackled no setup
From one point of view Mr.. Ford is
an industrial genius. From another
he is an archaic feudal baron. AL
though he is one of "the rulers Of
America" he doesn't even fit very
neatly into the modes and manners
of big business.
But when you begin to talk Of
rugged individualism" Henry Ford
certainly is that rugged individual.
I suppose more than any other per-
son in America he speaks with the
deepest intensity when he says in
effect, Nobody is going to tell me
how to run my businesS!"
For a time this attitude brought
Mr.. Ford good deal of national
popularity. In the public mind he
was pictured as one fighting "the
interests" and big business" He
was not even wholly under the con-
troll of the law of supply and de-
mand. At least, so he thought and
so it seemed.
He was willing to pay little more
for labor than the harshest market
scale afforded. To be sure, it may
be said that this was a little less
than pure benevolence or reckless
extravaganza. 1t gave him the priv
ilege of poking around into the per-
sonal affairs of his employees, and it
was safeguard against the growth
of unionism.
Moreover, Mr.. Ford and his lieu
tenants were adopts in the develop
ment of the art Of speeding up the
workers.
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and persuasive tongues - the Ma
poleons. the Mussolinis, the Hitlers,
the Arakis, the ROosevelts Of the
world - great leaders with their
small lotteries of statesmen and
politicians-these are the men who
make war, or who. if they will, can
make peace.
And when national male leader
ship incites to war. women, alas for
civilization, always back up their
men. 1t is bad habit We have. be-
ing loyal.
When in any country, we are
transformed from creatures of peace
into vixens who scream battle cries,
you may be sure that men have
wrought such havoc to our senses.
For in every age, in every cline, in
every land. women are whatatheir
men make them.
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their UielCS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze q chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or Eess.)
BY Tom Berling.
In the issue Of Aug Is, under the
heading of ATTACKS Unions"
gentleman, evidently scholar and
a good taxpayer, threw few we'll
timed verbal brickbats at myself
and some other fellows.
I always am interested in your
Message Center, which does not
mean that I take everything read
there seriously. AS none of my fell
low craftsmen have answered this
communication, and as feel that
it would be very uIlkind to ignore
it, may I take the liberty to answer
the same in a personal way?
The question is, why should any
man get $1121a an hour when men
will work for 40 cents
Answer: The average earnings of
carpenters belonging to the union
in the last two years will not eX-
coed $500 per annum. We assumed
obligations in the past that requires
minimum wage of $35 week to
meet. We can not pay taxes, mort
cages, doctor bills and send our
children to school on less. We have
lost our shirts and unless we get a
break soon will have to seek en-
ployment in nudist colony
We do not ask this wage for our
union. We fight for our families
that they may enjoy some of the
comforts of life. And we are net
interested in a So-called living wage.
That means bread and water three
times day.
We demand a wage that will en-
able us to enjoy life as well as
exist. We are loyal to the bosses
for whom we work and like to see
them prosper. Very few contractors
retire rich. Now you yourself never
heard of a carpenter retiring Of his
own free will.
In this the contractors and men
have. something in common. Why
should our families sacrifice and
skinp along so some other indi-
vidual or corporation can hoard a
lot of money for his next genera
ton to spend foolishly or wisely and
look down on the class that pro-
vided the coin of the realm that
they are so free with for their own
selfish luxuries?
So you see, my friend, you have
missed the psychological angle OF
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A FTER a trip to Germany the
n editor of the Chicago Tribune
is quoted as saying, When bigger
and better wars are made, women
will make them, as usual"
No doubt nine of every ten per-
sons hearing the statement will
agree. and with the pleasing feeling
that a hidden truth has been ex-
pressed.
Yet the spirit of that utterance
is wholly false. Women who are
more highly emotional than men,
more easily stirred TO hysterical
excitements. and perhaps, more in
nately cruel than their passions are
aroused, are, nevertheless, pawns in
the hands of men SO far as war
making is concerned.
History. Of course, recalls in
stances whlp expresses. queens,
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the union man. It is not a matter
of cards, or dues, or business agents,
but of flesh and blood, of happiness
or miserable poverty that spurs
us on.
And we never stay whipped. Sep
arated at times, but in the crisis we
must stay together. The man or
group who will take time from le-
ultimate business to make a serious
or prolonged fight against labor will
lose sleep, appetite, and money
More psychology.
We use the Coue method. By
united thought, plus a guilty con-
science at the receiving end, we get
our message across. How the ears
must burn at times.
After a long and strenuous vaca-
ton, I recently was promised a job.