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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
PLACING THE PROFIT

A NY intelligent conception of modern
IA governmental functions" said Dr. Tug
well. the assistant secretary Of agriculture,
must embrace the idea Of effective con-
sumner protection
This is the basis upon which DR.. Howe,
consumers counsel with the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, has begun the issu-
ance Of his bimonthly bulletins called The
Consumers Guide. IN this, to assist retail
purchasers and make them aware Of the huc-
tuations in the prices Of processed farm
products he is listing average costs of four
teen leading articles Of food over the nation
and in some fifty individual cities
Through this guide, consumers will learn
more about the spread between the prices they
pay and the prices farmers receive and in
this particular DR.. Howes publication is of
especial significance.
If prices are unreasonable it frequently is
not the fault of the retail merchants; the
blame may lie upon the distribution system
over which they, as a rule have little control.
The consumers counsel has pointed out in
the first issue Of The Guide:
a.. the professors and distributors por-
ton of the consumers dollar was often rela-
lively greater during the depression thar it
was during the years we are apt to look upon
as prosperous"
Consumers and farmers have vital in
terest, DR.. Howe explains, in what happens to
these margins under the new farm deal Thus
far he finds the program fair in this respect
The Guide will show whether this fair rela-
tionship is maintained.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
ECONOMICAL PARADOX

7 TNCLE SANS effort to help the farmer by
- piowing under cotton, limiting wheat
acreage and killing several million hogs is
economically unsound and morally wrong.
That. at any rate. is the verdict reached in a
resolution adopted by the Ohio Methodists' re-
cent state conference.
1t is a verdict that a whole lot of people
will accept No part of the recovery program
seems more contradictory than this destruction
OF the raw materials for food and clothing at
a time when millions Of people have neither
enough TO eat nor enough to wear.
Yet it is a contradiction that is not pc
culiar TO the farm program. 1t lies at The
very heart Of the capitalist system and it in
wolves the fundamental conflict between pro-
duction for use and production for profit.
The whole recovery program is simply an at
tempt TO settle that conflict.
1t does not take much thought to enable
one 10 see that destroying cotton, wheat and
pork when millions are in need of clothing
and food is precisely similar to letting great
factories lie idle when millions need the things
that those factories can make If it is absurd
to reduce agricultural production it is equally
absurd 10 reduce industrial production.
The farmer is as much q capitalist as the
factory owner. If the factory owner can not
be expected 70 produce more than people viii
buy at a price which yields a profit. neither
can the farmer.
But stating the parallel in this way does
not really get US anywhere. 1t simply shows
how fundamental these objections to the farm
program are; how far they reach into the very
essence Of the structure OF capitalism.
For II the farmer ought to keep on raising
wheat and cotton and corn and pork even
though he can not 90 it proitably. so long as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
TO FOLLOW REPEAL

MO organization deserves more credit for
L the repeal now impending than the As
ISOLATION Against the Prohibition Amendment.
Under the leadership of Jouett Shouse it
was furnished the facts which within year
have turned the tide of public opinion against
national prohibition and all of its attendant
evils.
This has been possible because Shouse and
his association have not been wet fanatically.
They have pursued common sense attitude
toward the whole problem, stunning at every
turn the tactics of the Anti-Saloon League.
Now that repeal definitely is in sight, the
Association Against the Prohibition Amend
ment is working just as hard for liquor con-
troll by the individual states; and it IS meeting
this problem with a reasonable mind, a COM
nonsense point of view.
Repeal of the eighteenth amendment"
said Shouse in an article written for The
Times. will not constitute a panacea for all
the ills to which mankind is heir. The con-
troll of liquor has constituted serious prob
lem since history began. 1t will continue to
constitute a serious problem But brought into
the open where it can be dealt with rs an i'm
portant economic question. where it is sub
ject to the most stringent inspection and reg
ulatiOn, it Will embody far less of menace to
social institutions and to the body of our
citizenship than in the hands of the under
world which has reaped from it during these
trying years Of the immediate past such
enormous profit
On this intelligent basis, the liquor ques-
ton. after repeal, can be met successfully.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
M. E.TracySays:

THOSE Cuban paraders who celebrated Mex
Il ico's independence day with banners and
shouts denouncing American imperialism" do
not misunderstood us as grossly as we would
like to believe. They may put false construc-
ton on our intentions but their very attitude
proves the irritation caused by our meddlesome
policy.
People simply do not like to be bossed by
outsiders, and they find it hard to accept SYM
pathy as an excuse. Those who interfere forever
are patting themselves on the back as altruists,
but those interfered with seldom see it that way.
AS general proposition, people feel that
nobody goes out of his way to NEEDLE with
another's business unless he has something to
gain thereby or thinks he has
To put it bluntly, Latin Americans refuse to
take our patronizing policy toward them as gen.
timely disinterested and we would do the same
if conditions were reversed.
GRADUAL modification of the Monroe doc
" trine has led us into very undesirable
role What was designed originally to block the
interference of Old World powers with New
World politics has been the basis of an arbitrary
claim to superior rights on our part.
The Monroe doctrine is obsolete, because the
conditions out of which it sprung have disap-
peared. There is no longer a Holy Alliance to
threaten the independence Of Latin American
countries. or upset the balance of power de-
sired by England.
We can admit that Charming gave Adams
good advice without assuming that the inter
national structure of 1925 still exists. We can
claim that the Monroe doctrine served an excel
cent purpose when it was made use of to drive
Macmillan out of Mexico without imagining
that it confers on us the eternal right to
threaten intervention every time Cuba, Mica
ragua, Santo Domingo or. some other Latin
American country runs contrary to our approved
methods.
MOT only the Monroe doctrine but every
1 Y treaty born of its more recent interpreted
ton should be scrapped.
This so-called right on our part to super
wise elections, collect customs and preserve con-
meaning of that phrase should be abandoned
whether it is specified by agreement, or comes
to use as the by-product of tradition.
In no other way can we believe the Latin
American mind from the suspicious which now
beset it and which make whole-hearted con-
fdence well-nigh impossible.
We are justified in demanding security for
our nationals and their interests. We wal
ranted in acting for their full protection, if con-
WINGED that action is needed. All of that is our
legitimate business and comes well within the
usage of international law. But it is not our
legitimate business to tell other people what kind
OF a government they shall have or how they
shall change if they want another kind We
can not make it our business without in riting
their dlstrust and resentment. 4
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

THE brewers board of trade of New York.
me- took a three-quarter page advertise
ment in the newspapers the other day to ap-
peal to the public for cooperation to check
the operations of the beer racketeers
1t pointed out that the racketeers we're
trying to keep their control over the beer dis
trihution business in New York. and cited an
instance in which beer garden proprietor
had been beaten up for refusing to handle ex-
clusively the products of a certain brewery
To cope with such situations the brewers
association urged all citizens having knowledge
of such outrages to call on the police for
help and TO notify the brewers themselves;
and it pledged the aid of all reputable brew
cries in the city to stamp out the evil.
Here is a healthy sign. The beer business,
now as legal as any other, but must be kept
as law-abiding as any other 1t IS good to
see that the leading brewers are fully con-
scious of the fact
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
INIMICAL FRIENDS

TTERBERT HOOVER must have deep fell
l. = lew feeling for the man who remarked
that he could take care of his enemies if only
some one would protect him from his friends.
There is, for example, that friendly Boston
hotel man who says that Mr.. Hoover while
President, privately favored repeal of the
eighteenth amendment, although publicly he
did not.
The Bostonian evidently said this with the
notion that he was coming to Mr.. Hoovers
defense Actually he was doing just the re-
verse.
The politician who goes counter to his pri-
vate convictions because he believes he will
get votes that way is not pretty creature.
It is ironical that this accusation should be
laid against Mr.. Hoover, not by an enemy, but
by a friend. And the mass of Americans will
probably want something more in the way of
proof before they believe it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

pean affairs. And when they do
travel they are likely to see only the
scenery or the tall buildings.
Yet the blind eye and the closed
mind may travel until the crack of
doom and see Or learn nothing.
Therefore, the intelligent housewife
who is too poor to visit, may con-
sole herself with the thought that
by staying at home and reading to
a purpose she can inform herself
on all important questions as fully
as those who dash hither and yon
over the earth dragging their pref
udices with them.
Happily, the mind and heart can
go travelling though the body stays
home. I agree, nevertheless, with
DR.. Wolfe, that the housewife must
shed her provincialism in one way
or another, else the state Of the
world viii remain unstable and per-
uous.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
SATURDAY. SEPT. %. 1898.
SHORT CUTS

WE may need a modern Joseph to smash
w the great American paradox of destitu-
ton in land Of plenty. We need only men Of
commonsense 10 achieve temporary relief.
President Roosevelt's order for the pur-
chase Of s75O0O.O0O worth Of surplus beef, milk.
cotton and other products to be distributed to
the states for supplementary relief is a stroke
that loses none of It's force because Of its sim
plicity In the cities are 3,5OO,OOO families on
totally inadequate relief doles On the farms
the distress IS so great that the A. A. A is try
ing to retire 100000 acres Of wheat, 15OOO,-
900 acres Of cotton and 100000 hogs. The
Presidents order will help both.
Such short cuts have characterized the
federal emergency relief administration under
President Roosevelt and his youthful agent.
Harry Hopkins. since its organization last May.
Finding the A. A. A with lot Of pork on it's
hands Mr.. Hopkins arranged to send 100 mil
lion pounds to the states for families lacking
meat.
Finding families being evicted for non-pay-
ment Of rent he ruled that federal funds could
be used to save their humble shelters, but
hdlLtQ llldb llc was lou ptLSlOIlIB any 1dIlO-
lords Finding 10000 teachers jobless and fac
ing the breadlines, ne called a conference to
arrange for putting them on pay rolls to teach
Iliterate adults in night schools. Finding
Mississippi children going to school without
books. he announced this week that he sees no
reason why the government should not supply
text books in communities too poor to buy
them. Finding family relief doles in the south
running as low as "a a month and less he set
SIS as the absolute minimum.
There's no use letting people starve to
death slowly" he said.
Stubborn in denying federal aid to Stacker
states and communities, he seems just as de-
termined to carry out President Roosevelt's
will that no American shall go hungry this
winter. The winters relief tasks are so stagger-
ing that no time or effort can be wasted. The
Presidents and Mr.. Hopkins commonsense
methods should inspire sta5es cities; private
charity and social workers to cut through red
tape entanglements and drive toward the ma
tons goal without cavil or delay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

there are people who need these things, then
by the same token the industrialist ought to
keep his factory wheels humming so long as
there are people who need the things he
makes, whether they can pay his price for
them or not And about the time you begin
admitting that, you find yourself wading in
very deep waters.
The best thing about the whole farm pro-
gram. perhaps, is that it makes this moral
clear to US. 1t may work or it may not; while
we are finding out We are going to get an edu-
cation, and our future steps may well be taken
in the light Of the lessons we are learning
right now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

they ask for none; they demand
work and good wages.
2. Let's look around in our respec-
tive communities for needy families,
helping them, if necessary. Let's
forget our color, race, creed and po-
litical beliefs. We all are children
of God. God will help us, but we
must help others.
8. To you, wholesalers and retail
ers of all business, refrain to take
advantage of the present situation.
Regulate, your prices according to
the present value of our dollar, lest
you bring about suffering, and, per-
haps, a severe disaster.
4. Let's be loyal Americans at
heart-mere words do not count
and let's not comnercialize the first
duty we owe to our country, loyal
ty!
5. Our school teachers deserve
appreciation of the highest degree,
and good pay. Their work is valu-
able, and they prepared us for our
respective trades, professions and
businesses. They now are prepar-
ing our children.
6. Our ex-soldiers should not be
forgotten. They deserve the best
of treatment. They have defended
our country, our homes during a
dark hour. They have protected our
business, our liberty,
7. Let's get back on the "Ameri-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

TITO most people a goiter is SIM
L ply an enlargement of swelling
of the thyroid gland causing a
bullying appearance in the throat.
This gland is composed of two
parts connected by short bridge
of tissue which passes over the
windpipe. There was, perhaps,
time in the development of man
when the gland used to pour its Sc
erection directly into the throat and
the digestive tract, but it is now
known as a gland of internal Sc
erection since the material that it
developed is poured directly into
the blood.
When the thyroid gland Is nor
nal, it is not visible. There is no
bullying of the skin; in fact, it is
felt with great difficulty However,
in abnormal cases, it changes in
consistency so that it may both be
easily seen and felt.
According to DR.. Robert G. Coch-
rane, the thyroid is the chief organ
of the body containing iodine. To-
dine is an essential substance for
health and growth. 1t is perhaps
the most important function of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
Ex-SOldier
BY JOHN ROSE

BY JOHN ROSE
War called me once. It calls me
not again.
Its thunder deafened me. NV
unbound eyes
Have seen such visions on the
stormy skies
OF smoke and flame, that never
more shall pain
OF killing scar my soul and never
rain
OF women's tears rebuke the hope
that lies,
Though broken, pinioned, at my
door, while dies
Forever, hope. in breasts where sons
have lain.
see their young reproachful faces
look
Toward worlds they might have
conquered-had they stayedl
Toward stars uncharted in their
vastly space -
of love-of fame. No! Glorified
war that shook
Mad thrones of kings is stripped OF
masquerade
For men like me who saw 1t face :
to face.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

thyroid gland to store this sub
stance and to supply it to the body
as needed for the control of various
processes.
The thyroid gland is very sensi-
tive to stimuli of various sorts. In
response to these stimuli the gland
enlarges. For example, if there is
a deficiency of iodine in the food
and water taken by the body, the
thyroid gland enlarges, perhaps due
to the effort Of trying to meet the
demand of the body for this sub
stance.
It is also we'll established that
infections elsewhere in the body
may stimulate the gland to enlarge
ment and there may be other causes
not yet known.
Physicians recognize various types
of goiter dependent on the nature
of the changes that take place in
the thyroid gland The most COM
mon type of goiter is that which
occurs in young girls around the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

INTERNATIONAL affairs would
i assume proper importance in the
public mind, thinks DR.. Beran
Wolfe, well-known psychiatrist, If
more housewives could manage a
trip or two to Europe.
This is an obvious truth. In
deed I would go further and say
that the American business man
,and his wife would profit immeas-
urably and the nation with them,
if they did more travelling in their
own country. Provincialism is not
altogether a rural shortcoming. The
city man is as full Of it as his
country cousin. and Americans Of
all classes are infected with the
virus.
Economic and social justice will
not become a reality in the United
States until the individual ceases
to imagine that his locality is the
hub Of the universe.
The fastener, surrounded as he
x by factories. Is naturally vitality
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
A Woman's Viewpoint ::
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON


interested in manufacturing. But
he sometimes is ignorant entirely Of
conditions through the middle west,
although this is the wheat bin from
whence comes the bread with which
he sustains himself. The farmer,
often surly and bitter, seldom tries
to find out what the poor city in
habitant is doing, how he lives, or
what he suffers.
.
A ND the average politician. what
L \ shall we say of him, how find
words to condemn his attitude? He
who, instead of concerning himself
with the welfare of all citizens, is
interested only in those in his mar
row district. This is provincialism
carried to criminal extremes.
A great number Of Americans are
as ignorant Of what goes on in their
own country as they are Of Euro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
Stencil Supporter

BY Joseph Moran.
AS an employe of Kingan Com
pany, I protest against the ed
itorial appearing in The Times,
Sept. 20.
This company has provided me
with pay check and a living for
the last three years.
On the stink question, let peo-
pie exercise a little more will
power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

Aimee senple Mcpherson Hutton is getting
SIS 900 a week to save souls in New York. She
ought to save some money at least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23

By Times Reader.
I would like to express my
thoughts and feeling in regard to
accidents that are caused by police
and fire trucks running red blocks
and wig wag lights and bells at
railroad crossings. !
The fire department makes a fast
run to some $40 or SIS fire in a
garage or woodshed, running red
lights at street crossings, endan-
gering lives of the f1remen and
pedestrians.
The police cars make calls run
ming all lights, and if for some rea-
son a man would not hear them
coming they would have him ar
rested Chat is if they didn't kill
him) and the call they were going
to would be some fellow that was
stealing a loaf Of bread, or some
sort Of petty thief.
Let the police and the firemen
practice what they teach (safety).
Who tells these men to run red
lights and danger signals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
Where Blame VIII Lie

0SV'fNO ~ tJt Luz
FELT that in spite of the awful
Il situation I must remain calm.
II follow this corridor it is bound
to lead somewhere, - said to nv
self. did, and found nothing but
an Office occupied by a technical
adviser. Turning due south. I walked
for two miles more and ended IN
the cul-de-sac of a code ANALYST.
1 was brought back to civilization
again by the happy accident of
running into little group of Wash
ington correspondents who were
proceeding through one of the cor
rldors roped together for safety.
So, if anybody points out to YOU
that this or that is wrong in the
administration of MIRA, do not
blame It on the statute itself or
upon the personality of any of the
administrators. Remember only that
when a situation comes in which a
tired official gravely needs the adj
vice Of some fellow expert he may
be pardoned if he says: "Oh, well.
let 1t go. I'm afraid it's too far to
walk"
(CoDyright. 1888. by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
WIN Lamont Withdrem

Wbg Lamont Withdrew
THERE has been some specula-
Il ton as to the reason for the
resignation of Robert Lamont from
the Steel Institute. 1t has been
said that he quit in holy terror over
the provisions of MIRA. But there
is another explanation. He was
himself an inmate Of the Commerce
building for several years during
his term as secretary. While at
tending the recent hearing on the
steel code he tried to leave the
building and found himself lost in a
maze.
For hours he wandered around,
and it finally was suggested that
bloodhounds be employed to extri-
cate him. BY strict party vote Of
265 to 264 it was decided to hire
the dogs and Mr.. ex-Secretary La
mont was rescued.
But he has not been quite the
same. Hundreds Of less notable in
dlvldualS are probably lost forever
in the vast corridors Of the edifice
designed by Herbert Hoover. During
the two hours that I was without
orientation I becameapretty panicky.
l wondered just who would send for
me and provide searchers. I listened
for friendly patter of st. Bernards
bearing small kegs Of rum, but there
were no dogs, nor any alcohol.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-23
:: The Message Center ::

Inf to saw it.-VoItaire :

, can scale of living wages" the good
old wages which put plenty of money
in circulation. The latter, eventu-
ally, will benefit every one, includ-
ing the employers, the manufacture
ers, as more money in circulation
means more buying power.
8. Let's reduce taxes by eliminat-
ing the waste of government. Re
ducing salaries and wages merely
is a stopgap. Eliminating waSteful
methods and Anticipated machinery
is constructive. The one is super
fetal and temporary, and the other
is far reaching and permanent.
MY fellow countrymen: Let's be
mindful of the present responsible
ity We are facing. Let's face it
bravely, and like good soldiers Let's
continue to be law-abiding, indus
trious, loyal citizens. Let's have a
unity of action.