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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
A RARE TRIBUTE

A N interesting footnote to the operation
n of the NRA is supplied in the report filed
the other day by the National Coal Associa-
ton, which finds-after two months of code
operation in the soft coal flelds-that things
are a whole lot better than they were, and
which pledges its members to cooperate fully
in the code program.
This cooling business is no longer the
DRY" says c. B. HuntreSs, executive secretary
of the association. THE name-calling stage
is past. We face a condition, and it is up to
the coal operators to cooperate or close up"
And he adds:
TITS easy to have hot fits and cold chills
about this whole code business, but while hav-
ing the latter, one should not forget the chils
that travelled up and down the spine last
spring"
This testimonial, from an industry which
did not find it easy to accept all the admin
istrations suggestions about codiication. is
pretty good tribute to the effectiveness of the
blue eagle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
GAINING MOMENTUM

THE public works program, which got under
Il way slowly, is picking up speed; as it does,
it's ultimate object seems to grow nightly in
size.
Washington correspondents are reporting
that NRA economists are working on a plan
under which the federal government might
spend more than s13oOOoOO0OO in the next
couple Of years on slum clearance, rehousing,
grade crossing elimination, and similar devices.
The major part Of this work, it is claimed,
ultimately would pay for itself. Meanwhile,
enormous sunas would be poured into the
channels Of trade, and then approximately
100000 men would get steady jobs.
The magnitude Of this proposal would have
dazed us a year ago. Now it doesn't. We are
in deep hole and we must make stupendous
efforts to get out of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
SUCCESS OF REPEAL

ME eighteenth amendment is history: the
obituary has been read; the mourners
have done about all the reminiscing that the
situation permits.
Now we are facing ahead, and most of us.
probably, are wondering Just what the wet
era is likely to bring us.
Like practically all human devices, it will
bring us just about what we make it bring
Prohibition, which was to have cleared up
century-Old problems of crime, crookedness,
and misery, failed because we thought we
could take cut of it more than we put in.
Its failure was tragic and expensive; look
ing back at it. We might as well resolve right
now not to make the same failure with the
post-prohibition regime.
A lot of factors went into decision to do
away with prohibition. None however, was
quite as important as the nations desire to
get out from under the Speakeasy and beer
runner. They were load too heavy to be
carried any farther. We have dropped them.
But when We dropped them, they didn't
break into little pieces. They still are lying
there, waiting to be picked up again. And
if we do pick them up again, we shall find
that the expected gains of prohibition repeal
are ulusory.
That is to say that, just as we couldn't
create perfect temperance by passing a law,
we likewise shall be unable to abolish speak
easy and beer baron by statute.
The job requires widespread cooperation.
The man in the street.-the ordinary citizen,
who likes his drink now and then and is
willing to pay for it-must help.
If he buys what he desires from legal
sources, and from legal sources only. he will
be giving the illegal booze traffic blow from
which it never will recover.
That trade, like any other, can't exist with
out customers. Its customers now have the
chance to get what they want in legal man
ner. If they do so. the speakeasy dies and
the beer baron goes and hunts for job.
And right there is where the big test of
the new regime will come. VIII the people
who protested against prohibition support the
new laws with their pocketbooks? Or. to put
it more exactly. will they stop supporting the
speakeasy?
If they 90, the new regime will work If
they don't, it will fail very miserably.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
THEY LIKE NRA
ONE more industry trying out operation
~ under an NRA code has found it good.

ONE more industry trying out operation
~ under an NRA code has found it good.
Boot and shoe manufacturers reported at
their annual convention that for the first time
in history the industry is able to operate on
stable basis. For one thing, all the factories
are paying the same minimum wage for the
same working week. None Of them needs fear
competition in this respect
For another thing unfair competition in
branding products, in misleading by advertis-
ing and in initiating trade marks has been
wiped out. The shoe men are enthusiastic
about what this means to their business.
With so much gained it is Disappointing to
find them complaining that NRA also has
meant unionization of their workers and an
increase in the number of strikes They have
forgotten, apparently, that the primary reason
for NFA was not TO give manufacturers larger
percentages of profit but to make it possible
for them to pay living wages to their workers
and by so doing to guarantee themselves a
market for their shoes.
Enthusiasm for its NF2A code on the part of
an industry is a most hopeful augury for the
economic future but this is true only if that
enthusiasm springs from something besides de-
sire for quick profits at the expense of stable
profits.
The man whose plant manufactures ma
chinery sees little immediate return from pay
ment Of higher wages to his employees. The
man who manufactures shoes can only sell
shoes if workers can afford to buy them, and
he should be the first to grasp the essence of
the administrations recovery plan.
But it takes time to learn the lessons of a
new economy. Industries are realizing first
the immediate benefits that come to them
from curbing unfair competition. AS more of
them try out the principle of adequate pay
rolls as an investment in prosperity they will
become enthusiastic about that, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
NOT so BAD

A ND now what will the prophets of Amer
4 n lean doom say? The United States treas
ury bond issue of q billion dollars was over
subscribed three-fold within the first day.
Of course this sort of thing has happened
before. But always within few weeks the
opponents have been shouting that govern
ment credit was on the rocks. So, doubtless.
within fortnight the same old fear campaign
will be in full swing again.
The curious aspects of this is that it is the
same bankers behind the doom propaganda
who rush to overSubScribe government secur-
tiles every time they get chance. If Presi-
dent Roosevelt is half as irresponsible and
dangerous as the banker propaganda would
have us believe, why do they bet their money
on him so heavily?
The answer is not hard to find.
The bankers know that the President far
from being an extreme currency inflationist,
actually sidetracked mandatory currency infla-
ton by the last congress. Thanks to Mr.. Roose-
welt, the printing press provisions of the law
were left discretionary with the President. All
of these months he has had that power and
never used it. Now the fact that in govern
ment refinancing he chooses to get money in
the usual way instead of manufacturing it, is
additional evidence that the President is not
riding any pet monetary theory off the deep
end.
If extreme currency initiation comeS-and
that is possibility after congress meets-it
will be because blind bankers and NRA
chiselers succeed in undermining the moderate
Roosevelt monetary experiment and the gen.
eral recovery program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
X. X. K. AGAIN!

CAAIUEL UNTERMEYER, New York attor-
~ ney, charges that the old Ku-Klux Khan
has been revived to aid in the spread of Na1
propaganda in this nation.
Whether it be true or false, this charge
at least is not surprising Fascism and Ku-
Kluxery are spirited brothers, whether or not
they have an actual material connection.
Each walks abroad with intolerance as one
crutch and ignorance as another. Their ideals
and their methods are similar
And, by the same token, that gives us
chance to appraise the extent of Germany's
present miSfortunes. Imagine this country
turned over lock, stock and barrel to an out
fit like the khan, and you get a notion Of
what the people Of Germany are up against.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
SATURDAY. DEC. 0. 1888.
BISHOP CHARTRAND

LIE could have been an archbishop He
might have been a cardinal. He chose to
remain in indianapolis among the people he
lived. To him the highest honor his church
could give was the privilege of aiding and
comforting his fellow men. That is why mem
bers of all faiths invariably referred to Bishop
Joseph Chartrand as sanity"
At any period during the Christian Era,
Bishop Chartrands life would have been an
inspiration 1t was fortunate that he lived in
these times when his great spirit could shine
like beacon in a city often troubled with
greed and intolerance.
In his latter years he saw a perplexed and
confused world about him But he never was
perpleXed. He held before him the flaming
example Of the early misunderstanding
self-abnegation, belief in the fundamental
goodness of people.
He was the type Of man who would have
been acutely embarrassed at such an editorial
as this. He never paraded his good works. No
hungry man Of any creed ever was turned
empty from his door. No one ever will know
the number Of boys and girls he sent through
college. He never talked about such matters
because he considered this side of his life as
merely his Christian duty unworthy of special
note.
Bishop Chartrand was known throughout
Christendom for his devotion to the Eucharist
Only two or three churches in the world have
as many daily communicates as the cathedral
OF SIS. Peter and Paul in Indianapolis. For
this he earned the highest recognition, fro,,,
Rome
His pastoral work is his greatest nonu-
ment. Though his reputation grew greater
with the passing of the years he never lost the
human touch. The people of this city will
always hold him close in their hearts. He
baptized their babies He married their young
people. He closed the eyes of their dead.
The knights Of the Middle Ages gave their
lives to journeying the world seeking the Holy
Grail, symbol of the Christian ideal. Bishop
Chartrand found it here in his own diocese
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

stone was reached when two such
opposite productions made an equal
appeal to the public. I consider the
filming of Little Women's an i'm
portant event in moving picture
history.
And the virtues at which we
laugh so often, do they not appear
in some vague manner more yalu-
able than a good many Of the vices
We have taken such pains to ac-
quire?
sincerity, unselhshness. simplicity
and family ffection-these are ex-
cellent characteristics whenever or
wherever one may live. I wonder
whether a few Of the tears shed by
audiences over Little Women" may
not be expressions Of an uncon-
scious regret that with all our get
ting, we have lost so much that is
truly precious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
INTERRUPTED RECOVERY

CREDIT picturesque description to Mark
- Sullivan, star writer for the Republican
Herald-Tribune, which generally views with
alarm the methods Of the Roosevelt admins
tration
Writing from trip into the west, and re-
porting yes answer as universal to the
question Are things any better?" Mr.. Sullivan
says: From time to time, recuperative activ-
ity on the part of business is interrupted by
economists and the otherwise erudite and
owlish to poke thermometers in the patients
mouth"
That says volume as to the Spragues, the
Smiths and the Warburgs the Republican
national committee and the like.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

When Sir William Osler called tu-
bercuIosis Captain Of the Men Of
Death" he defined the condition
which, while gradually yielding to
attack, still is responsible for a con-
siderable number Of deaths and for
a vast amount of disability among
the American people.
The White House conference in
child welfare reported that there are
$4,000 tuberculosis children and
possibly $4,000 additional suspected
cases in the United States. This
represents a situation far more Sc
riouS than any epidemic that con-
fronts us.
Furthermore, surveys made in
various parts Of the country indicate
that the death rate from tubercu-
losis in the teen age has not de-
clined as rapidly in the last decade
as at other periods, nor has it de-
clined as rapidly in girls as in boys
of this age.
In the face of these figures come
other studies which prove the
problem is not insurmountable, that,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
M. E.. Tracy Says:

n FAINE will have state lottery if Senator
w Frank Robey of Westbrook has his way.
The bill is all ready and will be placed before
the next session of the legislature. 1t provides
for a commission of from three to five members,
grants cities and towns the right to say whether
they will participate, offers them a share in Is
per cent of the profits if they do, and stipulates
safeguards and conditions.
At first thought this seems a wide and radical
departure from Staid Old New England methods,
especially as Illustrated by the mother state of
prohibition, but time was when lotteries were
not only tolerated in that part of the country
but played conspicuous part in providing
public improvements.
Mid-Victorian moraliSts have trained us to
look upon the lottery, as we'll as other forms of
gambling, with horror. Even in this day of sup
posed liberality and enlightenment many
sheriff and constable is striving to ingratiate
himself with certain groups by raiding slot ma
chimes.
n MEANWHILE the gambling goes right on.
1V1 There hardly is town or city in these
United States without its pools People are
taking a chance on everything from the last
three figures of the clearing house balance to
has accomplished is to make the game little
easier for crooks and little less convenient for
other folks.
Gambling belongs to about the same category
Of human activities as drinking. 1t goes back to
an age-old habit if not an irrepressible instinct
Suppression of its legitimate and comparatively
harmless forms has done much to turn it into
vicious channels.
Lotteries pools and even roulette wheels, If
properly conducted, would help take the
gambling element out of business Furthermore,
they would switch the revenue from racketeers
and grafters to the public treasury
The question is not whether the government
would be justified in feeding on what some peo-
pie regard as immoral practices but whether
these practices should be driven into the dark
and converted into allies of organized crime.
WE have proved our inability to stop
w gambling just as We have proved it to stop
drinking Our anti-slot machines anti-poker
and anti-lottery laws have led us up the same
blind alley as did the eighteenth amendment
and the VolStead act. Instead Of wholesome re-
forms, We merely have succeeded in enlarging
the field Of undercover crookedness. The
realities of the situation speak for themselves
We merely have closed our minds to them pre-
ferring to follow a theory. or hope wilfully
arguing that a little mechanical knowledge en-
ables us to change human nature and that we
are about to replace religion with mechanical
Righteousness.
The gambling instinct goes far toward ex-
planning human progress. If men had not
dared to take a chance, We would not be where
We are today Through education, we are able
to guide this instinct along constructive lines
but the idea Of Suppressing it is just one more
dumb dream.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

This is the first of three articles by
|, DR.. Morris FiShbein on tuberculosis and
measures taken to combat this disease.
TINE year 1880 was one Of the
l. most healthful that the United
States ever has had.
Gradually since the time when
the germ conception Of disease first
was established, death rates and the
number of people who are i'll have
been steadily lowered. This grad
uaI improvement in the public
health has been marred only by the
occasional appearance of an cpl
demic of unusual virulence, affect
ing a vast number of people.
Such an epidemic occurred in 1913,
when influenza swept the world. Oc-
' casionally other epidemics, such as
that Of encephalitis, which occurred
recently in st. Louis, and the re-
cent epidemic of amebic dysentery,
arouse CONSERVATION.
Nevertheless, these epidemics af-
feet hundreds, occasionally thou
sand people, whereas continually
for the last century, another dis
ease, tuberculosis. has been taking
regularly its toll Of childhood and
of adult life in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

MAE WEST rang the cash reg
WI lister bell-but so do Meg, 10,
Beth and Amy. The screen version
Of Little Women" is as popular as
that of I'm No Angel"
Now you may prove whatever you
wish by this fact, but it will, hope,
definitely demonstrate to producers
that American audiences appreciate
a change from sensationalism and
sex.
There is a vast and as yet al
most untapped reservoir of income
for those who make the movies
from cultivated, intelligent, edu-
Gated people who are now preJu-
diced against screen entertainment
because so much Of it is bad.
Such people will be won partially
over by the idea that time, trouble
and expense were used TO film a
classic and they will be further won
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
It Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN=
NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The mis-
~ was On Mammalian

NEW YORK, Dec. 9.-The mist
~ was on Manhattan.
I had thought to put into my
treasury of memories the recouec-
ton Of the manner in which pro-
hibition died on Broadway. But
the head waiter said. I'm very
sorry We can not serve you with
drink. The flash had just come
through. Repeal is passed by Utah"
1t is, ladies and gentlemen. a
strange land in which we live. Per-
haps you have observed as much.
Far off in the foothills Of the Rock
les bearded delegates assemble to
say that John Barleycorn was
buried by mistake and that a mir
ror held up to his lips is most dis
tinctly cloudy And the net result
of all that turns out to be that
can not get cocktail on Fifty-hrst
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
DYING GANG RULE

IT is heartening to read the report of the
4 Illinois states attorney Thomas j. Court
ney, that organized gangs have been wiped
out Of Chicago, and that gang killings this
year have been kept down to two.
Chicago, for so many years. has been the
center of racketeering and other gangster
activities that it has acquired an unenviable
reputation among American cities Thanks
to its aroused citizenry. and to the help of the
federal government, Chicago has succeeded
finally in clearing itself of this stigma.
There are gangsters. yet. in Chicago: there
may be gang murders, too. But, with Chi
Cages law-abiding people in active control Of
the city, these gangsters soon should find their
activities as unhealthy here as elsewhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09

(TfmeS readers are fnIfted to cypress
their rietCs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ q0ords or less.J
BY Harold F. Hutchinson.
1t is amusing and also somewhat
depressing to read the letters of
controversy that come from the pens
of certain Hoosiers, Kentuckians
and Tennesseeans over the respec-
tive rights and privileges of their
citizens when they cross their re-
spective state lines to seek employ
ment in other states. These letters
gradually are becoming more rabid
in their tone and might result in
harm.
I have had the pleasurs of
employment in all these states and
in many others. When worked in
Tennessee I became, as far as posi-
BILE, a Tennesseean and tried to
conduct myself as became a good
TenneSseean. And the same for
Kentucky and Indiana. I have
been a Hoosier for twelve years, but
my hand and heart and help will
go, as far as I am able, to any
transient from Tennessee or Ken
lucky. And I feel sure that, if once
again 7 looked for work in either Of
these two states, the friendly hands
of their citizens would be extended
to me as before.
This great nation is divided into
forty-eight states or common
wealths, but we all live under one
banner. A citizen of Tennessee,
Kentucky or Indiana should reflect
the spirit of the state in which he
resides, and I am sure the tradi-
tons of these three fine states, sepa-
rated only by imaginary boundary
lines, can not look with favor on
intolerant and inhoSpitable treat
ment of visitors within their boun-
diaries, even though they come
looking for work. I never could see
much difference between a Ten
nesseean, Kentuckian or a Hoosier
when it came to looking at good men
and women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
Why
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
I don't know why your kisses are so
different from the rest,
Nor why feel like crying when
I'm held against your breast,
I don't know why I tremble when
you praise me or admire,
Nor why it's bliss to hear your voice
come slow along the wire.
terrible for me
To have my hope Of happiness de-
pending utterly
Upon your slightest wish or whinl-
upon yols highest mood,
It's terrible-and yet, would not
change it if could
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
:: The Message Center ::


The sound money" group would
like to have the dollar continue to
pick our pockets in reduced income
and debt paying power. The dollar
must be stable as a measure of value,
which is not the case when it be-
comes a robber of true commodity
and labor value. The President
knows his onions" as well as his
dollars.
BY Out-of- Town Girl.
I have read your little message
Asking us to move to town
If we use your healthy pay checks
For a new hat. coat or gown.
I'll admit your plan has merit
And if you will bear with us
I believe twill work out nicely
Without malice or fuss.
We should all be very anxious
To make the town worth while,
And if we can help little
We should do SO with a smile.
The city does have vacant houses,
Could use roomers galore,
Clerks in storerooms should be
buster,
Factories should do more and
more.
If all employers of the city
Would voice their approval
That the working man must live
here
Or there'd be a prompt removal
This old town would start boomin'
And we'd step out feeling fine,
Knowing we had done our duty
By falling into line.
I am for it, where's my suitcase?
1t is going to town to stay,
Get my buds and crank my flivver,
I mean business and no play.
All you other small-town girlies,
Boys, men and women, too,
Who have jobs in Indianapolis
Show me that you are true blue,
Let's move over and get settled
So that when our bosses start
To confront us with the question
We can say We've done our
part"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-09
Patronage

BY a Good Democrat.
BY the papers we note that
Governor McNutt and Senator
Van Mugs do not like the way fed
eral patronage has been handled
because it is not going through
the organization and by receiving
the Endorsement Of the state
chairman. That is the way all
Democrats of Clay county feel,
nothing has been done in the reg
ular in this county. Not a major
nor state appointment has the in
dorsement Of the county organi-
cation or state chairman, the way
in which our Governor and sena-
tor advocate, one man debating
everything.
Why not have things done the
way they should be done?