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Evening star., 1933-11-02
Finds Gold Cave.

After sinking a 50-foot shaft at
Wannaway, Australia. a miner has
found cave - and floor Oh
which sparkles with gold.
Evening star., 1933-11-02
MRS. PICKETT TO SPEAK

Society Editor.
Mrs. Sallie v. H. Pickett, society edi-
tor Of The Star, will be guest speaker
at a meeting Of the Society of Free
Lance Writers at the Ambassador Hotel
tonight.
lone Lee Money will read one Of her
recent short stories and katherine Ken
nedy will speak on the marketing of
fiction manuscripts. Felix Conrad
SchWarz will preside.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
THE FOREST ARMY AIDS

GONE of the actual accomplishments of the
~ reforestation camp program are cited in
a recent report by Robert Fechner director
of emergency conservation work. According
to this report the project already has justi-
fled itself
Already says Mr.. Fechner, the 100000 men
enrolled have arranged for the payment of
cash allotments to more than 100000 families,
involving altogether close to a million persons.
The arrival of this allowance money, he
remarks, will bolster family budgets so that
local relief organizations will find their load
substantially lighter
Nor is that all Millions of dollars are
being spent on the forest army-$9O,OOO a
day is being spent for food alone, for in
stance: more than s46oOOOO is being spent
for clothing, tents and other equipment and
fully $185 900 is being spent for athletic
equipment.
All in ALL, these expenditures should pro-
vide very valuable stimulus for business
generally.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
THE GRADUATES PROBLEM

nut from our schools and colleges pour the
~ annual army of graduates two million
strong at least. 1t is an army no longer, how
ever, but just an unorganized multitude of
badly bewildered boys and girls.
Planned life has come to an end They
now must strike out, each for himself or her
self. Through the help of relatives or their
own initiative, some have places already pro-
Wded, but more have not few have in
herited sufficient wealth to feel secure but
the great majority must pay their way. How
to do this is difficult question.
In the first place these graduates find
themselves confronted by situation in which
indivduaIsm is at low ebb. They have been
trained to believe that boy or girl has little
chance except through Job with some big
outfit. When they ask for such Job, they
usually are told that only experienced workers
are wanted
Unless they have been graduated from
some technical or professional school they can
not qualify. Their first and greatest shock is
the discovery that a general education. no
matter how complete, does not fit them for
into which modern life has been divided That
is disappointment which many never will get
over.
The tragedy of our educational system is it's
lack of connection with the work-a-day world
There is a definite gap between graduation
from the average high school or college and a
job.
Eight of ten boys and girls have to begin
all over again. Though the education they
have received enables them to make faster
progress, they must start from scratch.
The question is whether the high schools
and colleges could not do more for vocational
training without sacrificing the cultural back
ground.
Admitting that a cultural background is
necessary, 1t still is background and con-
Stantly changes in obedience to demands of
progress
Art, literature, music, and even democracy
are not regarded in the same way they were
fifty years ago.
Meanwhile, there is steadily increased call
for trained workers.
Our educational system must find a way
not only to reconcile culture with vocational
skill, but to shorten the course 1t is wrong to
keep youth back SO long, particularly in an age
which demands experts on the one hand and
vitality on the other.
1t is wrong to force such vast number of
boys and girls to learn so much that they
can't use and so little that they can, to set
them adrift with such discouraging example
of inef1ciency.
They have been prepared poorly for the
drive and discipline of world at work. They
have little idea of what it means to lay brick.
pound typewriter, stand behind counter.
hoe corn, or do anything else day in and day
out unless their parents have taught them.
In most cases. their parents can not do this
because OF the way present-day life is
organized.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

attacks on individuals, this wave of disapproval
eventually will waste itself. If it turns-on the
Wall Street system as a whole, however it
can be made one of the most useful bits of
public sentiment the country ever displayed
And in speaking of the Wall Street
system" it is worth while to quote from a
recent article in Harpers Magazine by John
T. Flynn noted financial writer.
Flynn declares bluntly that the stock
exchanges nowadays chiefly devices for
creating excessive debts and he goes on to
explain just how the job is done.
AS a sample, he cites the organization of
the United States and Foreign Securities Co.,
an investment trust organized by Wall Street
banking firm.
The concern was capitalized at $4,000 900.
Bonds worth s25, 900 900 were sold to the
public. Preferred stock worth 100000 was
issued and sold to the bankers themselves.
In addition, 100000 shares of common stock
were issued and assigned to the bankers as a
bonus for buying the preferred.
Thus the corporation got its S30,OOOOO0
But that was only half the story. The
bankers took their common stock, which had
cost them nothing, and had is litsed on the
exchange. Very soon it was valued at $50
share.
How much of this common stock issue
was sold it is not possible to say" remarks
Flynn. 1T is conceivable that $50 900
worth was sold before the market break in
which it is clear that this enterprise
would draw $8O,OO00OO from the public in
weston, though only $3oOOO,OOo actually went
into the business"
This little anecdote speaks volumes. And
no one who is familiar with the Wall Street
system will say that it is an isolated or I'M
usual case.
1t represents normal way of floating Sc
curities-and it also, as Flynn says, represents
a sure-fire way of creating excessive debts.
No one would deny that Wall Street has
an important and useful function to per-
form in the economic life of the country.
But it is pretty clear that some way must be
found of curbing its debt-creating proclivi-
ties.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
JUSTICE FOR VETERANS

ID EPUBLICAN members of congress who
IN tried to make political capital out of
opposition to the Roosevelt reduction of
veteran payments during the closing days of
the session. doubtless will be surprised and
gi1eved by the latest statement of the
American Legion.
After careful analysis of the complex legis-
lation, the legion finds that it restores $685.
100000 of veteran payments and that it keeps
many thousands of worthy cases on the COM
pensaton list, compared with the original
economy program.
On the major issue of justice to the war
wounded, the legion states that the law, if
properly administered, assures the service
connected disabled and their widows, orphans,
and dependent parents reasonable protection
for the present, and at the same time increases
the compensation of totally permanently dis
abled veterans whose affhction was not of
service origin"
In other words, the Roosevelt compromise
measure is fair to the veterans, as the Presi
dent said it was. Those Republicans who
plan to make this campaign issue in 1884
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probably will have to look for better issue
when the time comes
There really is nothing in the Roosevelt
record to cause any one to believe that this
administration Willingly will deal mjustly
with the veterans. OF course there always is
the danger in any administration danger
multiplied during depression and budget
defctts-that red tape will cause unnecessary
hardship.
That, apparently, is what happened two
months ago when this newspaper criticised the
harsh manner in which the economy program
was being applied to the service connected
disability cases
The President and Budget Director Lewis
Douglas should make clear to the veterans
administration that red tape is not to interfere
with adequate care of the war wounded and
that channels of personal appeal for such
cases are to remain open always.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
IN CIRCLES

HE American delegation at the world
monetary and economic conferences says
the United States government favors reduc-
ton of tariff and other trade barriers "as
quickly as possible" When is that?
Nobody knows. 1t is the sort of pious
statement which politicians make during
campaigns, large generalization to which
all can agree without action of any kind.
When delegation to an international
conference resorts to such platitudes it
usually is to cover up a lack of definite
policy or an unwillingness to enter serious
negotiations
In fairness to the American delegation.
1t can not be blamed for its own uncertain
ties
When the American delegation originally
favored monetary sterilization, 1t was car
rying out the Roosevelt policy How was
it to know that the President suddenly would
reverse his policy?
When Secretary of State Cordell Hull,
chairman of the delegation. and the Amer
lean experts proposed for discussion a 10
per cent horizontal tariff cut, they were car
rying out Roosevelt policy How were they to
know that Mr.. Baruchs nationalstic eco
Monies Unexpectedly had converted the
PreSident-if such is the case?.
When the President favored an interna-
tional settlement of war debt. tariff. and
monetary conflicts, and a consequent re-
sumption Of world trade as a necessary step
toward American business recovery, he
seemed to have sound program.
1t still seems such, for surely it is i'm
possible for the United States to isolate it
self economically from the rest of the world,
either in prosperity or depression.
If the President has become an isola-
zionist, as reports now state, and as some of
the administrations acts seem to indicate.
We believe it can not be for long. The pres
sure Of facts is apt to bring the President
back to policy of international cooper
alton.
Meanwhile, it is unfortunate that this
travelling in circles should occur in the Lon
don goldfish bowl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
:: The Message Center ::


(Times readers are inUtted to cypress
their VietcS in these columns. Make yomr
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 qcordS or less.J
BY B. P. Brown.
Through your paper I wish to
congratulate Will Craig for his ar
ticle in Mondays issue of the Star.
In my opinion he is right about
high salaries and high wages. We
never can break this panic by high
prices, brought on by the war, when
everything went up to the break
ing point.
Now let us go back to the panic
in 1873 brought on by the Civil war.
In 1869 and 1870 everything was
high, but when the soldiers got to
work and planting, everything
came down. Wages got very low
Men were working for $3.50 to So
day and we're well satisfied al
ways had plenty to eat, working
eight hours day and six days a
week, but no luXuries.
Now let us start all over again
by making just living wages for
every man who wants to work,
starting at the iron mines, then
transportation and steel mills and
lumber camps. All could be re-
duced down to 25 cents an hour.
making cheaper goods of all kinds.
The farmer could by on the basis
of what he received for his
produce.
Let us show the world we can
produce goods as cheaply and as
good as any country in the world.
I know the labor unions will say
sweatshop wages. Walking the
streets is worse than sweatshops.
Let's put two men to work at IS
cents an hour where one man is
working at so cents. Are not two
men better customers than one.
Let's all go to work at $12 week
and make things that we can sell.
BY Volunteer Soldier.
In a recent issue of The Times in
the Center, Walter F. Smith, con-
demning the pensions of the Span
ish war veterans, like hundreds who
have spoken their part in criticism
of all soldier favors, prevaricates a
plenty in his hatred of ex-soldierS.
He states that he knows a soldier
who was in the Spanish American
conflict and Who was advised that
if he sent in his discharge he would
be granted pension of $50; that
he did not send it in, but that his
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
LOW COST FARM RELIEF

MIR. AVERAGE CITIZEN doubtless will
AVA hope that Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace was right when he said that the maximum
processing taxes on wheat called for under the
government current acreage reduction plans
should not increase the retail price of bread
by more than half cent loaf.
Secretary Wallace is quite right in pointing
out that bread costs do not always follow the
price of grain. A loaf of bread, as he remarks,
often costs more when wheat prices are low
than it does when they are high.
If the government is able to increase the
price received by the farmer for his wheat
without at the same time making the ordi-
nary citizen pay more for his bread it would
seem that the biggest single obstacle in the
way of the new farm relief plan will have been
removed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
M. E.TracySays:

DEOPLE understand the language they speak.
l. In gangdom, that means the gun. Society
has little choice in the medium of communica-
tion if it wishes to make itself perfectly clear.
When a gangster has something really i'm
portant to say to an associate, victim, or the
law, he shoots. Neither is he bothered much by
the possibility of bystanders getting hurt.
The Kansas City affair, in which four officers
were killed, is one of the many illustrations of
the methods by which gangdom seeks to impress
people with its ruthlesSness and power.
The object of the scrimmage was to rescue
captured convict 1t is doubtful if the fact
that he persisted in the barrage caused the
least sigh of regret.
Gangdom kills for propaganda purposes. The
life of an unlucky comrade, whether taken by
friend or foe, is just charged to overhead.
Frank Nash was saved from going back to
Leavenworth by losing his life. No doubt his
would-be rescuers would have preferred it other
wise. Still, it was effective broadcast Of fear
EEAR is the chief stock in trade of organized
Il terrorism 1t makes the holdup a little
easier the prosecuting witness a little more
hesitant, the racket safer. Also, it is an effec-
tive method by which to control industry and
enforce a code of ethics.
Gangdom calculates the value of a first-clasS
shooting scrape in much the same way the
ordinary business man calculates that of a full
page adj 1t is institutional publicity in which the
successful getaway counts for more than the
damage; an open challenge to constituted
authority.
The desire to sustain bootlegging at any cost
has caused millions of people to regard this
particular form of violence indiferently
Many an otherwise reasonable citizen has
fooled himself into thinking that most of the
gang killings were caused by quarrels for
monopoly of the liquor trade III some particular
place.
Time and again, it has been asserted that
gangsters would presently kill one another off, if
let alone.
OUCH notion rests on two assumptions both
- false. Gangdom is just as willing to run
racket in milk as liquor, and is interested pri-
marily in holding the law at arms length, no
matter what the excuse or issue.
While bootlegging furnished the inspiration
and the necessary revenue with which to start,
gangdom since has long ceased to regard it as
the exclusive or even the most profitable field
of operations.
Gangdom is dedicated to profit in every law
less way, and for that reason, is bound to pro-
tect and support every lawleSs activity. 1t has
no object, except to prey on people.
child kidnapped for ransom, prison break
for recruits, poultry dealer paying for protec-
ton, witness scared into silence a politician
bought with the promise of votes all go into the
hopper as part of the great game, with death
threats as the most persuasive argument
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
A WOman's Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON:

capable of making other valuable
contributions to society.
The fault of our educational sys-
tenn, as I see it, is that We put forth
SO little effort to discover what the
individual is best fitted for, by
nature. From time immemorial there
have been soft, gracious, homestead
ly inclined women, but each era has
also produced its managerial types.
I long have suspected that the
reason the early Catholic nunneries
were so popular was because they
were the only places at that time
where women could exercise any
executive ability unhindered. And
the manner in which some of the
lady abesses ran their converts is
ample proof Of their natural bust
ness capacity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
SATURDAY. JUNE %. 1879
COMPROMISES NEEDED

A FEW weeks ago the leading world states
men were discussing the London confer
ence in terms of the Macdonald Roosevelt re-
mark-"We have got to make it succeed"
Today this fine sentence seems to have
been forgotten, and the various delegates at
London, our own included evidently are will
ing to come to an international agreement
only if they can do so without receding an
inch from their respective national policies.
short time ago they were telling us that
agreement at London was a matter of the
highest Importance. Today they are acting
as II the conference were some vast sort of
poker game, in which the big idea was to get
all you could from the other fellow without
giving up a thing yourself
America talks of general tariff reductions
that will stimulate world trade but refuses
even to discuss war debts, and grows suddenly
deaf when currency sterilization is mentioned
England also talks of reviving international
trade but clings to trade agreements like the
Ottawa pact and the recent agreement with
Denmark, Argentina and the Scandinavian
countries
France likewise INDUCES in pious talk but
clings to her gold standard, refuses to pay
dime on the war debts and hints at the estab-
lishment of a self-contained economic unit by
France and her colonies.
Japan prepares to discuss armament reduc-
tions by insisting that she be permitted to
build navy as strong as any on earth
And so it goes, until one wonders whether
the people of the world today have reached
state of mind in which any important inter
national agreement is possible.
But it may be that the pessimism created
by early activities at London is not justified
entirely.
After ALL the reasons for the calling of the
conference are still as potent as they ever
were. The spokesman for the several coun-
tries know that a complete failure of the
present discussions would be nothing short of
a catastrophe.
An attitude of complete intransigeance may
go very we'll at the beginning, but it is quite
possible that general notifications of it will
be seen before the discussions are ended
That, at any rate, is the way most of us
prefer to look at 1t. The issues at stake at
London are too important to be allowed to fall
just because the various delegates are afraid
of compromise.
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Platitude
BY EUGENE RICHART

BY EUGENE RICHART
Surely" I thought, such fires of
faith as these
That burn in me will leave a mark
forever.
Surely" I thought, times cruel
WiZardries
That break so many ties will touch
ours never"
Surely" you said, through sor-
row and want and fasting,
Through trials that eat loves
heart like fatal acid,
Our love-ours, ours, alone!-is
lasting,
Stanch as a rock, like a calm lake
deep and placid"
All that was long ago. 1t has been
so long
That hardly remember the fran
tic foolishness
Fainter than faint last echoes of a
song,
Worn quite as threadbare as your
favorite dress.
Even the memory's almost faded
now.
Loves pink petal fallen from the
Dough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24
Spanker is Selfish

THE truth of the matter is that
Il father or a mother Furnishes
his or her children just for his or
her own convenience-to make them
something less Of a nuisance around
the house.
Even the system Of putting Willie
to bed at 7 o'clock in the evening
isn't just for Willie's health and
well being. 1t represents an attempt
to get him out of the way and
keep him quiet, if possible, so that
the bridge game can begin right
after dinner.
This notion that there is a special
kind of morality in early hours
runs all through society Many
mayors and police commissioners
fall for it. Even in New York we
have a 3 o'clock curfew law for all
night clubs and cabarets.
H. I. Phillips Of the Sun once ex-
planned that this is based on the
theory that if a gunman can't make
up his mind whom he's going to
shoot before 3 a. m. he deserves to
be put out.
Copyright 1888. BY The Tfmesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

IN her excellent column on child
i culture, Olive Roberts Barton
points out that whereas 85 per cent
of our girls marry, We educate them
strenuously and persistently for ev-
erything but marriage.
1t is stupid this insistence that
each girl shall have solid geometry
and physics and botany and Latin,
while We give her no practical in
Struction in the homemaking arts
and the difficult job of managing a
husband and family.
But it seems to me it might be
almost as fatal to assume that every
maid would profit from the domestic
education. After all, girls are not
alike. Some of them are entirely
united for household roles, but are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-24

ON the other hand, when We i'm
" agine that every girl can be
developed into a trade genius, we
go to the opposite and equally fool
ish extreme. Most Of them have
no qualifications for professional
life. I have no doubt that hundreds
of excellent housekeepers are max
ing grand business fopS.
And as an encouraging point Of
Mrs. Bartons argument, let us con-
slider that the girl who is educated
and trained to be queen Of the home
might find it much easier to grab
fairy prince-which would be some
thing.
The whole mistake was made. 1
suppose, when we began TO talk as
if marriage was NOT a career for
women.
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I'm not unfriendly to children I'm
l. much more friendly than the
inquiring psychologist, who seems
disposed to put the fault entirely on
one side If 1 sit down to read a
a murder mystery melodrama and
small son of mine wants to beat
a drum around the house at the
same time there is a clash.
I am let's say right in the middle
of the chapter where the radio an
nouncer is found in the middle of
Studio 6, lying on the floor with
an ivory paper knife through his
heart. It's a good story. I can't
tell how it's going to turn out. There
are so many persons to suspect. Al
most anybody would like to kill q
radio broadcaster if he got a good
chance
And just at that moment there
comes to my ears the raucOus sound
Of Junior beating his drum.
Don't beat that blame drum!"
shout at him. He comes back with
the wholly illogical query of, why
not?"
Now, in such circumstances the
average parent is stumped for an
answer. He's inclined to give one
which isn't wholly truthful He may
say that it's wrong to beat drum.
And that God doesn't like little bows
who make too much noise. That's
stretching the imagination.
The parent ought to be wise
enough to put morals out of the
question. I think his proper reply
should run like this: L want 20
read a book, and you want to beat
a drum. I'm a great deal bigger
and stronger than you are. can
lick the life out Of you And so I'm
going to read the book, and you're
not going to beat the drum
That's fair and square answer.
1t represents the parent as bully
which he usually is. But it doesn't
make him a hypocrite at the same
time
Lots of children don't mind spank
lngs so much What they resent
is the moral overlay.