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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
Covering Too Much Area

THERE can no question that in
Il the past North America has en-
deavored to control the deStinies of
the other hemisphere as if it were
some VasSal state. We have tried
to reap in places where we have
not even gone to the trouble to SOW
dragons teeth.
And in such places as the ma
rineS have landed to restore tram
quillity we have complained that
after our electives departed no
great amount of good will remained
upon our ledger. Why can't we I'M
derstand that all Americans, Latin
or otherwise, are proud peoples hop
ing and wishing to go along on their
own?
Whether we approve or disap-
prove is minor matter. Even if
our nudge or suggestion is con-
ceived in wisdom and wholly dis
interested, the person tapped upon
the shoulder is not going to like it.
And in spite of the brave and
f1orid words used by American ora
tors upon suspicious occasions, 1t
would be ridiculous for us to pre-
tend that no self-interest had en-
tered into our policies regarding
those nations which lie below the
belt.
I think, in spite of everything,
that a certain amount Of romantic
idealism was incorporated in our
wholly unjustified and half insane
expedition into Cuba. 1t was after
the event that the money changers
mixed in and decided that possibly
dividends might be found in the
blood and toll of the young men
who volunteered.
would not have again any such
sentimental and crazy adventure.
But isn't it possible to keep the best
and throw away the rest?
I was not very old during the
days of Richard Harding Davis, "A
Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
and Remember the Maine" but
am certain the notion was not one
of American advantage and added
dividends for the United States. 1t
is undoubtedly true that if Cuba
goes into a complete and thorough
going upheaval, American business
interests will not get along so well.
Let us remember that we are the
people who originally struck the
match. Perhaps it was slow fuse.
All kinds of things may happen,
Socialistic, Communistic, national
istic, and even so we should sit back
and say, "Ah" or "Oh," according
to our own political philosophy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
MACCoRMICK. PRISON REFoRMER

NEODERNIZATION Of the Federal Indus
WI trial reformatory at Chillicothe. o. and
amendment Of Austin H AIacCormick as sup
erintendent mark another milestone in Amer
ica's slow progress in the treatment Of GRIM
inalS.
The new institution IS the best Of its kind
in America. Like the new federal Northeastern
penitentiary in Pennsylvania. it goes on the
theory that il is better business 70 make con-
victs into good citizens than 10 turn them
loose as hardened crooks on society.
It viii take some LOO first offenders, segre-
gate, treat. educate. and train them Doctors
will sure the bodily sick. psychiatrists the men
tally sick. BY means Of the merit system the
young offenders viii be graduated from
harsher TO milder punishment and. when ftled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
M.

NOTHING of consequence works smoothly
IN Vigor means friction especially if exerted
in the direction of change Instead OF being dis
couraged by the commotion that has arisen we
should accept it as proving the vitality OF MIA
Such revolutionary program was bound to
involve differences of opinion, even among those
selected to carry it out. Don't forget that con-
fusion and bewilderment made it necessary, that
it was conceived to save an industrial system
threatened with disaster for lack OF leadership.
Don't forget that it had to be formulated
quickly and that there was no time to work out
every little detail.
It is easy enough to find fault with details
or envision obstacles which appear difficult to
hurdle but we must not get too excited about
that The important things is to get nation
back on its feet, psychologically as well as
financially, to bring the application of age-old
principles up to date, to square machine age With
democratic standards, to rescue personal liberty
from spider web Of private and unofficial tyr
annies.
TT is quite true that the new deal viSualizes
l. greater degree of governmental supervision,
but only as a substitute for the more malicious
forms of commercial and social supervision
which have grown up as a by-product of
massed wealth and massed crusading on vol
untary basis.
Modern industry has led up up to a new
kind of feudalsn, in which great business en-
terprises play the same part with reference to
government that great mobiles of the twelfth and
thirteenth centuries formerly played.
The average citizen of these United States
has not been free for a generation and more
to express his opinion. He constantly has been
confronted with the choice of supporting some
kind of organization, or the state has been
torn by a ceaseless conflict of Royalties.
More often than not his job and his duty
have pulled in opposite directions More often
than not he has found it necessary to obey
some private interest or obligation because it
meant bread and meat
Republican government could not long sur
vive under such conditions, nor the industrial
system which they made possible.
A far as this country is concerned, the trou-
n bic in which we find ourselves was due
largely to usurpation of power by private in
terests, organized minorities and voluntary as
sociatons devoted to the idea of putting some
thing over regardless of whether is was goe%
from the standpoint of public policy.
The great objective of the new deal is to
restore the government to its rightful place of
supremacy and to emancipate the average citi-
zen from those obligations and associations by
which he could be and has been coerced.
The so-called laissez-faire regime had devel-
oped enterprises. activities, and organizations
which dominated great blocs of citizens and
which. in many instances, represented a more
dreaded power than that of the state.
| We are not going to rectify such condition
overnight or without disagreeable experiences
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
Aren't We All?

nERFECTLY ridiculous people
Il have been elevated into Of
flee and even so I do not think that
we are in a position to say, Such
things must not be-" The land of
Harding, Coolidge and Hoover can
not afford to be peculiarly snooty
concerning the island of Machado.
Let us grant that the late and
unlamented dictator Of the Pearl
of the Antilles was a little worse
than our pick of the puppies, and
still it is true that on an average
Cuba has kept abreast of us.
Surely it would be a little silly
for a country bearing around its
shoulders the depression of 1929 and
all its attendant consequences to bob
up beyond its borders and an
nounce, Just watch us and notice
how a proper show ought to be run"
1t is obvious that many of Cubas
difficulties are of our own making
1t is nonsense for us to beat this
people on the head with tariff club
and then inquire, why is it that
you seem so restive?"
But a problem more broad than
Cuba's narrow strand confrontS us
Here is an opportunity for the
United States to display to all Cen
trail and South America the New
Deal and the new diplomacy. The
time has come to demonstrate that
Mr.. Monroe, once President of the
United States and now dead for
many years, did not precisely recog-
nize the future of our neighbors
down toward the equator and far
ther south.
Mr.. Monroe being dead, think
he meant to say that we would not
tolerate land grabs or infiltration
by foreign powers. But we have
gone far beyond the original in
tent of any presidential proclama-
ton. We have constituted ourselves
the cop of Latin America No
body loves a policeman. Still less
does anybody like a roundsman who
serves the self-intereSt of some alien
QrOlln
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
SATURDAY. SEPT. 2. 1898.
SCHOOLS DEMAND THOUGHT

a s some millions Of school children all over
the United States are getting themselves
squared away for the coming year. their
fathers and mothers proftably might spend
q little time in meditation about the present
plight Of the entire school system.
Few public services have felt the depres-
sion more than the schools. Teachers have
gone unpaid, school activities have been cut.
some schools have been forced to extend their
holiday periods. others have had TO close en-
tirely nearly all have had to drop certain
courses and consolidate number Of activities.
Nor is that the worst While all this has
been happening. there has been developing
an influential and vocal group which has in
sisted that the schools have been getting more
than their share OF tax revenues, even in good
times.
We are being told that our school system
is far more elaborate and more expensive
than it need be. It is being argued not only
that the school budget must be reduced
drastically during the depression but that the
reductions must be permanent.
Any one who ever has paid taxes will adj
nit that the schools have been costly. 1t
probably is true that many school executives
have become a bit self-important in their
claims for tax support.
Some towns have built school buildings on
a tOO-elaborate scale. Some schools have
tried to include too many things in their cur
ricula
Nevertheless admitting that there has
been extravaganza and lack Of judgment in
many school boards one far more important
fact remains unchanged II is simply this:
Our whole society is built around the public
school system. and any drastic change in
the school system must have far-reaching eff
fects on the entire nation.
We are committed TO a political democ-
racy. and We now are trying to broaden it to
make it an industrial democracy as well. To
make a 90 of it. We must have a body Of
citizens whose minds have been given all the
training. all the enlightenment. which they
can aSsimilate. The system simply can not
work otherwise.
Before We consent to permanent reduc-
tons IN our public school services, We must
do some very careful thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

TINE woman who lives in the neat
l. cottage down my street is
plunged into inlmeasurable sorrow.
Yesterday her husband was brought
home dead.
Suddenly without warning she
who was a bright happy wife be-
comes that most pathetic Of all
beings, a widow-a widow with five
small children to care for and
neither funds nor adequate quail
fcations for the job.
She always has been a good house
keeper, a person fitted by nature and
training for the making of a home
and for mothering children. Her
husbands salary, due to her capable
management, has been enough for
their needs.
But now-what will she do? She
has no business training. but has
followed her natural -inclinations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
SLOWING UP THE PARADE

CPEED is the essence of MIRA. Anything
- that holds it up is properly suspect.
Despite the wide hutter of blue eagle wings
under the temporary presidential agreement
many Of the individual codes are being de-
layed. This holds off business recovery.
Surprisingly enough most of the argument,
and consequent delay is not over the wage
and hour scales-the main factors in boosting
purchasing power and achieving the purpose
of MIRA. Most of the fuss, rather, is over
individual clauses, which, in turn, brings in
some form of price-fxing.
The statement has been made that Of the
more than 600 codes all but four or five pro-
vide for some form of direct or indirect price
fixing. This means that the country, without
warning and for the most part without even
being aware of the fact, is being plunged into
something it never bargained for.
The dangers involved are clear enough. 1t
entails in effect. a government guarantee Of
operating costs, which in many cases can
mean a government guarantee for ineficiency.
Instead of creating a condition of fair COM
petition. as provided by the law, it would in
many cases virtually eliminate competition.
And experience shows that this is bad not
only Tor the average industry, but disastrous
for the consumer.
There may be exceptional cases, involving
nonreproducing natural resources. such as oil,
in which some form Of government-controlled
price fixing is essential to national welfare.
But that is far different from the method of
Slipping unguarded price-fxing clauses into
most Of the codes.
The danger is especially acute in retail
codes Fortunately. the cabinet recovery board.
General johnson. and the consumers advisory
hoard of NRA see that danger. The con-
sumers' board takes the position that the codes
should be held up. pending very thorough
study BY government statisticians and econom-
lists of the cost-plus and invoioe--plus figures
presented by private groups, and of the entire
prioe-fxing policy.
But the rub is that the codes can not be
held I'D without sidetracking the recovery
parade.
Under the circumstances. in justice both to
consumers and TO the larger interests Of the
recovery program, the codes should be signed
without the price control clauses. which can
be considered on their own merits and added
to the codes later. if justified by facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
Working Wives

BY B. X.
TUST a word in answer to Fair
~ Play" about married women
working and keeping single girls
from jobs. Much is written on
that subject, but one never sees
anything about families of three,
four Or even five with all members
working but the mother. Most
children who do work and live at
home pay board, so why is it any
worse for man and his wife to
work than a father and two or
three children, who help at home?
No doubt Fair Play is a mar
ried man whose wife can not get
job and he thinks that no other
married woman is entitled to
work.
I am a married woman who
works and at the end of the week
we do not have any more than
most families with only one men,
Der working and I don't doubt
that we spend just as much as
any one family can afford to.
So Why not let the subject rest
for while and find something
else to 'crab" about?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
So They Say

The time is past for jailbirds be-
ing treated to lectures, games and
the cinema, making them better off
than jobless or laborers.-Hans
KERR, Prussian cabinet member.
In the long run those in author
ity in democracy are best of
when their acts are subjected to
constant and impartial analysis and
criticism.-Alfred E Smith.
If there must be economic war
let the nations across the seas take
heed. The American nations will be
ready-Plutarco Elias Gales OF
Mexico.
State borders must to an extent
be disregarded and the United
States must be taken as one eco
nomic area.-Secretary of War
Dern.
The present crime situation is an
irresistible growth produced by the
laxity of officials.-Judge Kavanagh
of Chicago.
It is very difficult to determine
what is the limit or where the
beautiful ends and the vulgar begins.
Rufus G. Dawes, president Of the
Century of Progress Exposition.
History will show that my work
has been good.-Ex-Presid Ma
chado Of Cuba.
The national recovery act is
more than a war on the depression;
it starts us on course which, if
followed wisely, will guard us
against a tragic recurrence of what
has happened to us in the last few
years.-Secretary of War Dern.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

The meager savings, the small in
surance hardly will be sufficient to
see her through the period Of her
deepest mourning.
There is something terribly wrong
with world in which that kind Of
woman is forced by economic neces-
sity to give UP the task for which
nature meant her, abandon her chill
dren and home to compete in the
business world against those so
much more powerful and educated
than herself
Frankly. do not understand why
We deem it necessary to give pens
ions to men who wear nations
uniform, while its mothers, whose
work is so much more important, go
neglected and unprotected. And the
unprotected mother always means
the unprotected child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

for the world, will be turned loose under the
parole system
Mr. MacCormick now assistant director Of
federal prisons. is a pioneer in prison reform
His new position gives him opportunity to
demonstrate that the new methods are sounder
than the brutalizing routine common to most
county and state prisons.
The Wickersham commission two years ago
exposed the common practices Of prison tor
ture; overcrowding, political control, and in
humanity.
To the credit of the Hoover and Roose-
welt administrations, the federal bureau Of
prisons is leading the way toward fundamental
reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
THE NEW VIGILANTES

NATIONAL COMMANDER LOUIS JOHN
L SONS advice to the New York conven-
ton Of the American Legion. urging the or
ganization to fight necessarily to drive graft,
corruption. fraud and extravaganza out of
the national government, points the way to
a new field in which the legion can be very
useful.
The qualities mentioned by Commander
johnson happen to be far less prexaJsnt In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
A Woman's Viewpoint {:
: BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

and the advice of all our best au-
thorities. and fashioned herself into
what we are told is the noblest of
creatures-a good wife, a loving
mother. How many times have We
heard that this is the most excel
lent task to which woman may set
her hand and heart?
II
WELL, now, ask you in all
w seriousness, what is society
prepared to do to help this woman?
Briefly. nothing.
She has made a good home; she
has given encouragement and love
to a good man; she has borne and
was prepared to devote her life to
the proper training of her children.
Now, all inexperienced as she is, she
must fare forth, and leave her
babies, so that they may have bread.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

one else can take advantage of the
buy now slogan when we scarcely
can buy hat we need each week.
Unless we soon get more for what
we sell, we will not be able to even
buy necessities.
Besides bare necessities, we still
enjoy a good show now and ther&
although that has been out of the
question for a year or more. And
we still have an appetite for a lux
ury for our table once in while.
Do you think we ever will see
that time again?
BY Reader For Years.
Congratulations on your article,
Get 1t Circulating" that appeared
in the Aug. % issue of your paper.
You hit the nail right on the head.
Since your paper has taken the
stand for a fair and square deal for
every one, how about putting your
shoulder to the wheel and helping
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

the national government than in most state
and city governments.
But they always have existed in greater or
less degree, and the legion very proftably
could make determined drive on them.
Such things can be eliminated from public
life only if the citizenry is alert, vigilant and
wel-informed. The legion could do a great
service by seeing to it that the necessary
vigilance and knowledge are kept in existence
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-Americans
~ are in danger in Cuba. That
is too bad. I would not have the
lives of any of our citizens sacri-
feed in a cause in which we have no
direct concern.
And yet it seems to me that the
most important point to remem-
Der is that this is a private fight in
which we have not been Invited to
participate. If it is Cuba's within
to swing to the right or left, or
north south, west, I can not see
that this is properly subject for
our soldiers or marines.
Many preposterous and evil things
may be done in this new dawn. We
may not approve. But who asked us
to assume sovereignty over this ell
liptical empire? We came in first
of all to rid the islanders of the
rule of Spain. In 1898 we an
nounced that here was a people ca
pable of self-rule. I think that
nothing has happened which rea-
sonably should change our mind.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
Remember the Maine

WE said in the beginning, Here
w is people capable Of ruling
on its own" and now we ought to
make up our mind whether we
meant precisely that or whether it
was a sham and a lie.
1t may be that the Cubans, un-
impeded, may produce a government
which seems to us poorly founded
and disastrous in its consequences.
And still I think that all we have
a right to say is, That is a poor
thing, but their own"
If we had any other idea, then
somebody should have shouted to
Theodore Roosevelt, halfway up
Kettle hill, Whoa, Theodore, come
back down again and let Butcher
Weyler rule the country"
Cuba never wanted any alien meat
chopper to control its destinies and
I think there is small reason why
it should applaud the substitution
of some soft-spoken pa.wnbroker as
a substitute.
Copyright. 1888 by The Tfmesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09
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the cause of the depositors who lost
their savings in the Belmont State
bank?
A good strong article published in
your paper might go a long. ways
to help us secure our money.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-09

Daily Thought
Pray that We enter not into
temptation-St Luke, 22:40,
MANY a dangerous temptation
WI comes to US in fine, gay colorS.
Matthew Henry.
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Imperial Valley press., 1933-03-31
FUR FLIES AS RIVAL LEADERS
ARGUE DURING CENTER MEET

EnliVened by arguments between
Mark Rose, irrigation district di-
rector, and Scott B. Foulds, secre-
tary-manager of the farm bureau,
and between c. B. Collins, county
superintendent of schools and T.
D. Mccall of the Taxpayers associ-
alton, Eastside- farm center
enjoyed a controversial evening at
its meeting held last night in the
Eastside school.
Scott B. Foulds spoke on pend
ing legislation as affecting agrieul-
ture and on various bills which the
farm bureau favors among them
being the present bill in the legis-
lature which provides for an emer-
gency cut of 20 per cent in the
rates of power companies. The
farm bureau advocates this meas
ure.
At this point Mark Rose got up
and advocated an increase in power
company taxes whereupon Foulds
pointed out that a decrease in rates
and an increase in taxes was too
much of a good thing and that a
decrease in rates would affect the
consumer beneficially where an in
crease in taxes would eventually be
paid by the consumer. The point
was argued at length.
G. B. Collins talked on school
trends pointing out that the schools
should show progress in their meth
ods as other activities have done,
illustrating his remarks by point