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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
BALANCING THE FORCES

FRANCES PERKINS tells the New York
Merchants Association that the NRA pro-
vides "a good technique for balance" among
finance, industry, agriculture and labor, and
that, she adds is perhaps the most significant
fact in the whole recovery program.
This remark, while it says nothing that has
not been said before, nevertheless helps to
clear up one of the most common reasons for
criticism of NRA activity.
Getting a proper balance among the forces
mentioned by Miss Perkins simply means fix
ing things so that each shall get its fair share
of whatever degree of prosperity happens to
be available, and devising method whereby
no one group can throw the whole works out
Of line by taking a greater profit proportion
ately than the economic setup can stand
Now she getting of such balance might
not necessarily, of itself restore full prosperity
What it would do would make it certain that
such prosperity, when it did return, would be
a sef-acceIerating thing, that it would be dis
tributed evenly, and that it would not, as in
the past, create the contradictions that lead
TO new depressions.
The N3A framework, in other words, is
not so much measure to restore prosperity
as a conduit through which returning pros
perity can flow more smoothly and rapidly.
It is Just as well that we keep that fact in
mind. Otherwise we are apt to gaze about U.s.
see that the depression is lingering, and con-
clude that the NRA is worthless and should
be junked.
Restoration of good business, as Miss
Perkins points out depends on the inrerlock-
ing of a number of factors The NRA is one of
them, the agricultural adjustment act is an
other, the public works program is another,
the present manipulation of the currency
seems to be still another. And Miss Perkins
properly warns us:
Restoration will be a comparatively slow
process, with possible checks from time to
time. No great cooperative effort such as this
has ever been carried to a successful conclu-
sion without some setbacks."
We can stand the setbacks, so long as we
don't let them persuade us that the NRA is
flop because it isn't doing something it never
was designed to do.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
CHEAPER RATES PAY

THE Atlanta speech of Director Lllienthal
of the. Tennessee Valley Authority should
encourage the great electrical equipment in
dustry to join in the campaign for generally
cheaper electric rates That industry always
has been regarded by the public as more or
less allied with the private utilities But as
matter. of fact its interest should point in a
diametrically opposite direction from the po-
sition taken by those utilities which constantly
fight to retain existent rates or to raise them.
Every substantial rate reduction should
show up in increased sales of electrical equip
ment.
If the surplus of electricity to which Di-
rector Lilienthal refers-'the pool of electricity
lying idle could be tapped, the possibilities
for equipment sales in terms both of equip
ment now commonly used, such as electric
lights. fans refrigeratoT5, vacuum cleaners,
and the like. and OF equipment not commonly
used. such as heaters and cooking stoves and
cooling systems, would be enormously in
creased.
If the equipment industry could be added
to those forces which are pressing for lower
rates, the influence would be tremendous.
Furthermore, Director Lilienthals speech
suggests an argument that should appeal to
the selfish interests of the utilities them
selves He emphasizes that the electric in
dustry, both privately and publicly owned is
running into financial blind alley unless the
use of electricity can be increased very sub
stantialy, and he adds that drastic revision
downward of electric rates would not result in
a decrease in either gross or net revenue.
Some of the more far-sighted of the private
utility interests have been leaning toward
that thought for some time.
The surplus pool TO which Director Lilien-
thai refers, representing as it does conserva-
lively estimated Is per cent idle investment in
powerhouses and transmission lines, consti-
tutes powerful appeal to go out and find a
market.
One way to find it, of course, is to lower
rates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
IN THE LABORATORY

ONE of the advantages of turning the
~ liquor problem over to the states for So
luton is the fact that number of different
ways of handling the traffic will be tried We
thus shall have sort of laboratory in which
many experiments are being attempted stimuli
taneously.
AS a result in q couple of years or So we
shall be able to get a pretty good line on the
methods of liquor control which work out the
best in actual practice
At present our discussion of the different
courses that have been suggested is%purely
theoretical. We think we know how such and
such a plan would work out, but we can't be
sure.
After half a dozen different states actually
have tried out a half dozen different liquor
control systems, we shall be in a much better
position to judge the comparative effectiveness
of the various schemes that have been sug-
gested.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
MONDAY. NOV 20 la33
PLEAS GREENLEE

DLEAS GREENLEE must go He has had
an extremely difficult task to do as the
Governors patronage secretary. Perhaps he
has performed it as well as any one not an
archangel could. Yet his want of tact. his
brusqueness and his lack of diplomacy have
brought more criticism upon Governor McNutt
than any other one thing except the beer law.
No one can deny that Mr.. Greenlee is
straightforward He is so fortnight that he
is naive His mental processes are perfectly
simple: If a man is a DemOcrat-a McNutt
Dsmocrat-he should receive every benefit
from the state administrations if he is not, he
is not even entitled to ordinary courtesy.
Governor NIcNutt has a modern liberal,
constructive program for the state Of Indiana
There is no place in it for such primitive po-
Il zeal thinking as that Of Mr. Greenlee. In
diana wants no Tammany, will tolerate moth
ing that smells Of Tammany methods.
The patronage secretary's latest blunder
was to lay the administration open to the
charge of playing politics with the unempoy-
ment relief program in Shelbyville That is
a serious accusation. 1t was precisely this sort
CT conduct that caused the voters to dump the
1lO-year-old Democratic organization in New
York City few weeks ago
A Republican stomach gets just as empty
rs a Democratic one, Mr.. Greenlee The chill
dren of a Socialist suffer precisely as much
from cold and hunger as those of a McNutt
adherent Money for poor relief comes equally
from the pockets Of all taxpayers.
This complex for political organization has
become a dangerous obsession in MI. Green
lees mind. He must go.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
ATTRIBUTES OF AN EDITOR

THE editor in Mansfield o., whose plant
= was bombed after he had carried on
spirited crusade against his city's under
world has joined the honorable list of edt-
tors who have braved danger and violence to
serve their subscribers.
The list is a long one, and in the telling of
it there are some bright stories of human
integrity and courage. The Mansfield Incl
dent emphasizes anew the fact that those two
enthusiastically and courage-are, in the
last analysis, the most important ones an
editor can possess
To be sure, he has to be good craftsman
He has to be enough of a business man to
keep his paper from going bankrupt He has
to be diplomat; sometimes he has to be a
sort of detective; he has to be a salesman
and a counselor and a historian.
But, first of all, he must be straight and
he must have nerve-so that he can per-
form his duty to his town, like this Mans
field man, even in the face of violence and
personal danger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
EDUCATION AND THE LEGION

NEVER in the history of the world has the
need for public education been so great
as it is today. America is confronted with the
most complex economic problems, which are
difficult of understanding even to experts The
people of this country have never been want
ing in ingenuity and courage, but they can not
use these valuable qualities unless they also
have understanding
When the depression began pinching tax
budgets politicians foolshly slashed teachers
salaries and made other heavy cuts in educa-
ton costs. This was silly and dangerous. The
two principal functions of government are
protection and public schools. officials should
have economical in the nonessential features
Of government instead of tinkering with the
very fundamentals of society.
It is extremely encouraging to thinking
people that the powerful American Legion is
keenly aware of this dangerous situation. The
organizations Americanization committee is
going to roll up its sleeves and go to work to
save the schools from further gripping.
The public should give this work of the le-
gion every cooperation. If the United States
is to recover from the depression WITHOUT
going over to some ism" it must have more,
not less, public education.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
THE FOUR MILLION

TINE governments splendid project for
L transferring 100000 American heads of
families from charity rolls to quick public
works Jobs will succeed or fail in proportion
to the enterprise and selhshness of the men
and women who administer the civil works
fund.
The principles laid down by President
Roosevelt and Relief Administrator Hopkins
are sound. Some 100000 family heads, both
men and women are to be taken from relief
at once and 100000 others are to be hired
from public employment bureaus as soon as
possible. The remaining 100000 are to be
put to work as they are capable Of Job holding.
All are to work as federal employees at
prevailing wages for thirty hours week
until mid-February, when new plans viii be
formed workmen's compensation viii care
for those injured. No creditor may garnishse
CWA workers wages. The work must start
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
M. TracySays:

II CONOMIC skies have frightened measur-
II ably during the last few days. For one
thing repeal of the eighteenth amendment
promises more revenue for the government and
and more jobs for the people. For another the
prospect of increased Russian trade means
healthier outlook and improved business. For
still another, the substitution of work for char
itv represents a needed change in our attitude
toward relief.
This is going to be tough winter for many
people, but not so tough as last winter in one
vital respect. We entered last winter with every
reason to believe that spring would find us
worse off. We enter this winter with every
reason to believe that spring will find us better
of.
One year ago we saw no way out except
through breadlines. Now we recognize the
necessity of providing jobs. That in itself is
a great step forward
ONCE we settle down to the idea that work
~ must be made. we shall make it. The
whole problem of recovery hinges and has
always hinged on the proposition of giving peo-
pie a chance to pay their way.
While charity is great virtue in the face
of immediate disaster, it becmoes vicious when
imposed on people who want to work.
In my judgment, the plan Of putting four
million men to work on various public projects
and enterprises this winter is the finest and
Roosevelt administration. 1t means restoration
of faith in action, and rebirth of independence
for millions of families
It means a return to those ideals and stand
ards which have made this country what it is,
and without which anything approximating per-
manent recovery is impossible.
VOU can't put nation on its feet by letting
i large numbers Of willing workers stand with
hats in hand to catch crumbs from the table
Of expert charity. You can't keep up their morale
as long as they are forced to beg or to submit
to the spying and shopping which go with ex-
pert relief.
When you appropriate SO to put man at
work he gets the money and that's that. But
when you appropriate, $40 to buy food or pay
rent. he may get IS, though not without hu-
initiating himself in ways that make one
shudder.
The worst 70 it is that the $40 appropriated
for this so-called charity, except as it may have
been made necessary by sickness or accident,
leaves little hope In the end there is nothing
left to show for it save bunch of reports and
statistics In the end society would be better
OF if it spent $1,000 to provide jobs than if it
spent ouly 500 for handouts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
NRA, OR

IN his Savannah speech the President an
swered the modern Tories who object to
experiment in government today just as the
Tories of 1916 attacked the changes out of
which our nation grew. He proudly pleaded
guilty to the charge of the doubling Thomases
that he is an experimenter who has faith III
the pioneering spirit.
Admitting that there are no easy and quick
remedies for our economic ills, he added:
My friends, we are on the way to re-
covery"
1t is understandable that the business man
who continues to believe in rugged indi-
viduausm' finds it hard to adjust himself to
the new philosophy embodied in NRA for in
stance. Permit us to suggest. however, that
before he devotes himself to the task of
wrecking the Presidents program he consider
these facts:
The electorate smashed the powerful Ware
machine in Philadelphia the other day. 1t
beat the Mellon Coyne machine in Pittsburgh.
1t cracked Tammany in New York
And while this was going on, prohibition
started its funeral march.
All Of this means that a spirit Of change is
abroad in this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt is a keen politician
and particularly is apt in reading the public
mind. Sensing public sentiment, it is al
together likely that if he swerves from the
path he now is treading his course viii be to
the left.
So it seems to us that the rugged indivi-
dualist" is called upon to decide whether he
will accept NRA, a thing which he does not
like. or whether he prefers tc accept some
thing which he likes less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20

at once, and should be Of the sort that re-
quires little equipment uses white collar men
and women as well as day laborers, and adds
the greatest social benefits to the community.
Wherever possible localities must chip in to
help finance the projects.
Speed is the first criterion. The Ickes pub
lie works program has moved too slowly. This
one should get under way at once. Commu-
mites which daily run the risk Of being left
out of the s4O0 900 900 benefit.
When people are on the dole something
happens sbshem mentally" President Roose-
velt said. sThe sooner we can take them of
the dole the better of we will be-"
Public-spirtedness is the other test Of the
administrators
We would like to have rule" said the
President, that every one associated with re-
lief work will never ask whether persons
needing assistance are Democrats, Republic
ans, Socialists or anything else"
Governors, supervisors, mayors and relief
administrators who spend this money for
selfish or political ends defraud the taxpayers
and commit treason against helpless and suf-
fering humanity
The task ahead is not easy, particularly
in the winter-bound states Of the north. 1t
will take courage initiative and resourceful-
ness, qualities that we like to call American
But in this fourth winter Of misery, it comes
as challenge that no public official worthy
the name will treat lightly
The federal government is furnishing the
money, the standards and the leadership. But
j0b-making like the charity it supplants, must
begin at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
Aluminium Scare Is Without Basis

VOU needn't be disturbed over
l. the cries of some alarmists that
the aluminium pots and pans you
use in the kitchen are harmful to
your health, or that the alum in
baking powder makes the use Of
that ingredient dangerous.
AS "a matter of fact, there is
hardly enough harmful material
cooked out Of aluminium utensils, or
contained in baking powder, to
harm even fly.
Because of the commercial inter
ests involved, and the cry that has
been raised by misguided or preju-
diced persons. chemists have given
increasing study to aluminium and
it's effects upon the human system.
Lately, new methods have been
devised for detecting the amount of
this substance in foods and other
materials.
Investigators have found that
when neutral foods, that is, foods
having no acid or alkaline reaction,
are cooked in aluminium utensils.
hardly any Of the metal is removed
or dissolved in the food.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20

You can get an idea of how tiny
this amount is when I tell you that
there are 28,571 milligrams in an
ounce. Yet five Of the twelve MILL
grams you eat daily are a natural
constituent of the foods.
The college students, on the other
hand, ate 200 milligrams-about
15Oth of an ounce-of aluminium
daily for a considerab Bile period with
out experiencing any bad results.
And they took more than twenty
times as much aluminium daily as
the average person gets.
These investigations show the fol-
ly of the attacks that have been
made on aluminium by misguided
chemists and promoters, some Of
whom make their claims on the
basis of health appeal
Remember that no such state
ment is of value unless it is sup
ported by adequate evidence and
unless it comes from a person who
may be considered an unbiased au-
thority in the field concerned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
Old Age AID
BY Guy L. Woodruff.

By Guy L. woodruff.
By majority Of nearly 3 to l,
Ohio citizens have voted for the
adoption of an old-age pension
law, making the twenty-siXth
state to leave the poorhouse ranks.
Those opposed to the Just, hui
name pension system whose chief
advocate is the FraternaI Order
of Eagles, can get no comfort
from the Ohio vote. In some pre-
cincts the vote in favor of pen
Sions ran as high as 10 to l. Even
the prohibition repeal issue re-
ceived a smaller total vote.
1t is interesting to note that
the Ohio law provides a maximum
of $25 a month, starting at age
IS, as compared with the Indiana
law paying a maximum of SIS
monthly, starting at age 70.
No consideration of the pension
issue is complete without giving
thought to poorhouse condition.
The forty-thi annual report Of
Indianas board of state charities
described thirteen poorhouses as
follows:
In such institutions the fire
hazard is a constant menace to
the lives of the aged and Grip
pied men and women
The report shows that only GIT
of the 1888 inmates Of Indiana
poorhouses are able bodied, but
only ten of the institutions have
hospital facilities.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
THE POOLER'S SNAP

A RTHUR w. CUTTEN, among the most ia
n NOUS Of exchange operators and classiest
Of Wall Streets pool manipulators, speaking:
when the market goes off little bit we
buy and then the market goes up and the
public comes in. Then, we sell"
Very simple and easy. The wonder of it
is that, in civilized country advanced be-
yond the status of the anthropoids, tens Of
thousands of the population hurry into the
come in" and get stripped by the manipu-
lation. However, as Poet Lowell advises:
The right to be cussed fool
Is safe from all devices human,
It's common (ez a ginrl rule)
To every critter born of woman.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
:: The Message Center ::

5eath your right to say it.-Voltaire :

like a car out of gas. We use money
in trade, because it is simpler than
barter of goods for goods or labor.
The control of money, whether it
be coin or credit, amounts to con-
troll over all the people and their
life, liberty and happiness. If a
king or car welded such power
over the people, we would recognize
the implications. Credit and money
control must be exercised for the
good of all citizens, and from eX-
perience, we are having the only
agency, for it is the government
through our representatives. Short
change money is not sound money.
BY Edwin A. Hunt
I wish to compliment you on the
stand you have and are taking on
the Butler college matter and hope
that you will keep this good work
up and -Jordanize" Butler. You
are headed in the right direction
and hope you success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20

women, and that's pity. Because, If
they were. new kind Of existence
could be built, a bright and splendid
civilization created from the ruins
Of the old.
Men always have used rather than
considered US. And if today that
use is turned into other than mere
physical channels, the word never
theless carries its ancient implica-
lions.
In too many instances We not
only are used. we are exploited. And
we still are apart from men in their
thoughts. We are for them a
strange and alien people. Though
life has showed us into their faces
and though we shout to them, they
are not conscious of our essential
reality, but dreamily contemplate
the ideal creature Of their magma
tons, a being who never did and
never will exist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

However, acid juices may remove
up to thirteen parts in a million
from new aluminium pans and up
to three times as much from old,
dark pans.
If you ate a large amount, say
four pounds, of stewed fruits and
nothing else, you would have con-
sumed something less than one two
thousandth of an ounce of alumni
mum.
Experiments on university stu
dents have shown that they might
eat as much as one two-hundredth
of an ounce of aluminium every day
for a long time without revealing
any disturbance.
Moreover, further experiments
show that some aluminium is pres
ent as a natural constituent of a
good many cereals, vegetables and
fruits.
The average person eats about
twelve milligrams of aluminium daily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-20
Souvenir

BY FRANCESCA
You played melody that softly
spoke
Of hopes long dead and dreams
that were in vain;
Your violin did poignantly invoke
Illusions lost-that they might
fade again.
One moment brief, I faced the dor
mant past
To be repealed by all the misspent
years
Your playing ended, and you looked
at last
Into my eyes and found them
filed with tears.
I laughed. 1t was a poor attempt
to hide
The thoughts my eyes we're willing
to oetray-
Twas when you smiled at me that
I recalled
Vows are inviolate-I turned away.
DAILY THOUGHT
1 cried unto the Lord with my
voice, and he heard me out OF MS
holy hill, Selah.-Psalms, "a.
TN mans most dark extremity.
i Oft succor draws from Heaven .
Scott.