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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03
HOOVER TO BOULDER

LOR a decade or so, the worlds greatest
Z dam-to-be was known as Boulder DAM
Two years Ago ex-Secretary of the Interior
Wilbur stood on the brink of the roaring Colo
RADIO and rechristened it, Henceforth he de-
clared, it would be called Hoover dam, after
a gerat engineer, who really started this, the
greatest project of all time"
Dr. Wilbur's successor Mr. Ickes, lets it
be known that to him it still is Boulder And
the eX-Presidents friends fill the air with
mutterings; calling this a petty act of politics.
The teapot tempest isn't serious With
Romeo we say: What's in a name? But, I'M
like the good DR.. Wilbur, who after all is not
an historian, we believe in history. So just
to keep the record right, it should be recorded
that the great engineer who really started"
this project was Arthur Powell Davis, also of
California
Inspired by the feat of his famous uncle,
the first white man to navigate the Colorado
rapids, Mr.. Davis started years ago to plan
and urge a high dam at Boulder canyon.
So Jealous was he for a high and power
making dam that his chief Secretary Fall,
under pressure OF power companies, OuSted
him from his job as reclamation engineer.
After that the fight was carried on by Los
Angeles public ownership people and in Wash
ington by ex-Representative Swing and Sena-
tor Johnson.
Mr.. Coolidge signed the authorization bill
as the Boulder dam act. 1t is not of record
that Mr. Hoover took leading role
Since it is not to be called the Davis dam.
why not Boulder dam?
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SATURDAY. JUNE 3. 1893
STARVATION WAGES

THERE is good news in the American
Federation Of Labor report revealing a
wholesale price rise Of 40 per cent since April
l. an increase in employment Of 100000 in
April, 100 per cent rise in auto and steel
production since April l.
But buying power of the American masses
still is perilously low
The federation announces that u 73O 900
were iobless on May l. and adds that Mays
gains are less than Aprils. The workers in
cones the stuff that must start and keep the
wheels of business going is 439 per cent of
the 1929 average a deficiency of So 500 900 900
a month On May 20 the workers incomes
were 4.3 per cent below January.
Buying power is depleted not only by I'M
employment but also by starvation wages
Federation reports from widely scattered re-
gions reveal:
Alabama cotton mill hands working for
sl44 on twelve-hour day.
Arkansas lumber workers getting Sc for a
sixty-hour week, or 10 cents an hour
Georgia road workers being paid 10 to 30
cents an hour.
ii4O"6O PdOheIS SeIIlHB DIS low as rs
Z weekly; Peoria brass and aluminium workers
as low as SO a week.
Sweatshop women and children getting as
low as So and SO a week in Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and other states
The Roosevelt administration offers the
only cure in sight. BY means of the industrial
recovery bill, hours will be shortened to absorb
the joblesS wages will be increased through
wage boards, child labor and other unfair
practices can be called off, and So, 300 900 900
worth of government credit can be pumped
into the nation through public works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03
GANDHI COULD TEACH US

MAHATMA GANDH1, reported near death
A'A as result of his recent fast, or hunger
strike, could teach us Americans a great deal.
His weapon of nonresistance. of course. was
used long ago by the American Thoreau and
others who followed Jesus of Nazareth. 1t
might be revived in this country with good
effect
But that is not all we have to learn from
Gandhi. There is also the matter of fighting
the enemy within the gates before battling the
enemy outside.
Gandhis recent fast was not aimed at the
British enemy, but at the hideous Hindu
system of untouchability. This expression of
the caste system at its lowest reveals the inner
weakness and hypocrisy of an India which
demands justice from others while herself
denying justice to her own children.
With some success Gandhi is irving IN
purge and strengthen his own people for their
fight against British exploitation.
Obviously a leader with sufficient sincerity
intelligence, and courage to start his house.
cleaning at home is a dangerous man to his
enemies.
If Czarism could have wrought Internal
reforms, it still might be alive in Russia instead
of Communism.
II the German Socialists had been less stiff
necked, Hitler could not have climbed to power
with their mistakes as stepping stones.
II J. P. Morgan and his kind had eradicated
some OF the rottenness of the American
financial system, they might have ESCAPED
more sweeping reforms now in prospect.
If the American pacifsts could overcome
their own reactionary compromises, they might
defeat the munition makers for change.
If the American Federation of Labor
devoted one-tenth of the energy to self
criticism which it spends in attacking radicals
on the left and open shop employers on the
right most Of American labor might not be
unorganized and leaderless as now.
If the G. o. P. had any capacity for self
reform, it might come back
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

s23 100000. On March l. 1892 the railroad
paid its chairman Of the executive committee
s135,OO0 year; its vice-chairman, s76 500. and
its president, 100000.
These amounts represented 10 per cent
reductions from the salary levels of 1929.
Perhaps anticipating congressional action,
the R. F. c. ordered general reduction of
these salaries, prior to approving the loan.
1t cut salaries of 100000 or more so per cent
and ordered 50 per cent slashes for salaries of
$4,000 to 100000 Most important of all. it
extended these reductions to affect all future
would-be borrowers
That is a welcome decision. We only regret
that it was not done sooner. For two years
corporations have obtained huge loans from
the R. F. c. on the grounds that such loans
were necessary to avert bankruptcy.
Yet, most of these corporations and rail-
roads have continued to pay excessive salaries
to the men at the top" while the rank and
file employees have been reduced ruthlessly.
report to the Interstate Commerce
commission discloses some interesting facts
about the salaries of railroad presidents The
report as Of March l, 1892, reveals that Presi-
dent Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad
whose company has helped itself generously to
R. F. G. loan money, is paid $4,000 year
President Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio
gets $4,000 year and presidents of other
roads receive similar high amounts
Since last March there have been further
reductions in these salaries, but they still are
badly out of proportion to the amounts paid
the rank and file of railroad employees
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THE RAILROADS HIT BACK

ONE OF the most interesting bits of railroad
- news of recent years is the announcement
that the Union Pacific road is about to put into
service new stream-lined, motor driven train
that can clip off an average speed of ninety
miles an hour on long cross-country runs
This is interesting not only because of the
new transportation convenience it promises
but because it shows large American railroad
preparing to strike back at the competitors
who have been putting all railroads in the hole
lately.
Instead of sitting back and weeping about
the competition of bus, automobile, and
airplane, directors Of the Union Pacific are
getting ready to give those agencies a little
competition on their own account.
1t is pretty safe bet that other roads will
be following suit shortly Then we shall see
whether the prophets of doom have not been
bit premature in chanting the swan song of the
American railroad.
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does not send signals on only one
frequency, but on many frequencies,
called harmonicS. These may be re-
ceived accidentally, even should the
receiving set be not tuned to the
main frequency but what does a
dumb lawyer know about har-
monies?
Third, I think that the United
States department Of commerce has
jurisdiction Of all interstate radio
reception and transmission. In fact,
I am pretty sure that if I should
be listening to a foreign station
transmitting on the same frequency
as your police station, and the sta
ton started to transmit, no court in
the country legally could fine me.
Fourth, if the police want secrecy,
let them use code or some other sys-
tenn, but do not let some phony at
torney try to tell us that we can't
operate a radio receiving set that
can use any frequency but one par
ticular one that happens to be util-
lied by the police broadcasting sta
ton and remember that I may want
to listen to station in Australia
that uses similar frequency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03
A WELCOME EDICT

John CITIZEN, who has seen his none-too-
large salary reduced 20. 80 and even 40 per
cent, is looking on the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation with friendlier eye these days.
That government agency just has won
public applause by ordering all corporations
seeking Federal loans to make drastic reduc-
tons in the excessive salaries of executives
Unless they comply no federal funds will
be forthcoming the R. F. c. warns.
The ruling followed the request of the
Southern Pacific railroad for a loan Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03
AN OLYMPIAN OF THE ROAD

IAN OLEARY, famed as walker and
~ known to hundreds in Indianapolis from
his occasional visits here, failed to achieve the
11o-year-old record he had set for himself
But he had made gallant bid when prema-
ture illness defeated him. He died Monday in
California hospital. He was nearing 81.
In this era, when men are considered aged
at so, Dan OLeary was just one of the almost
forgotten" More than half a century ago he
won fame and comparative fortune as
walker. In 1875 he wrested the championship
from the great Edward Payson Weston.
He had walked, for pleasure and profit,
some 100000 mies-twelve times around the
earth-when his fatal illness overlook him.
OLeary, Irish born, but an American from
his 10Th year, was philosopher as we'll as
WalEer-perhaps as a consequence.
If your mind is depressed" he said. "vour
feet stay behind" He believed in symmetry
and o-ordination-"a foot too small is as bad
as little head"
The heel-and-toe art is not wholly lost.
Last year little 39-year- old Englishman
did the 500OO-meter walk at the Los Angeles
Olympic games-about thirty-one miles-in
less than five hours.
OLearys greatest feat was 100 miles in 18
hours, SIS minutes and 40 seconds. Until re-
Gently he took daily jaunt of twenty miles
or So"
AT going on 81 twenty mile exercise stunt
may be considered at least testimonial.
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:: The Message Center :

Times readers are inrited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance
By Joe Kelly.
The thanks Of all fairminded
Hoosiers should 60 to Judge Treanor
of the supreme court, who saved the
job on the staff of the Indiana state
library for Miss Poucher of the ref
erence department. In long serv-
ice of many years, Miss Poucher has
been of great assistance to thou
sands Of persons over the state in
her work as a library reference
worker.
Miss Poucher was we'll trained,
efficient and loyal, but a Repub-
lican. Being a Republican to Gov
ernor McNutt, he of the retoucheo
photographs, the perfect exhibition
list, the pure showoff, that was
crime, even though the Indiana
state library never had been in its
years of service in what we shall
call politics; even though it had
been ceary written in the stat
uteS governing it's operation that any
part in politics by members of the
library staff was illegal.
Others Of good training and serv-
ice have been discharged since and
replaced by others, who, on the
strength of their training and serv-
ice, would not have been hired by
any competent library director. It
may be good Democratic politics,
which I doubt. But it is bad public
service. Even modest McNutt should
have known better from pure pol
iticS.
Miss Poucher was fortunate in
having friend in Judge Treanor.
He had told her something like this:
IF anything happens, let me know
She, or some of her friends, let him
know.
Judge Treanor went to the Gov
ernors Office and declared, accord
ing to those who heard: Put her
back quickly or I'll raise plenty of
noise. And put her back quickly"
And she was put back quickly.
Which shows what the judiciary
can do in unofficial decisions; also,
which shows how the executive can
be altered in political decisions.
1t IS sacriegious that the state
library should be put in the world
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WE MISS MUCH IN LEE

THE spaH-town lad who thinks that life
- would be just fine if he only could get to
the bright lights of Broadway ought to have
a little talk with Captain Amander O. Hayes.
who just has retired after spending a num-
Der of years in charge of the West Forty
seventh street police station in New York
City.
In that job, Captain Hayes was more or
less the overseer of Broadway. The bright
lights section was his bailwick and every
thing that happened in the busiest and most
famous play spot in America was his business.
and when he retired he remarked that moth
ing much ever happened to me"
His job, in fact had been rather dull. and
all things considered Captain Hayes was
rather glad to get out of its monotonous
routine
Nothing much happens to any policeman.
when you think it over" he added They
just have tough hours and do what they're
told"
And right there, it would seem, there is an
ironic little commentary on the nature of ro-
nance and adventure.
Nothing much ever happened to me" is
the complaint of every restless lad who is
tied down by a prosaic job which he would
like to swap for a bit of real adventure.
The lad who follows a plow or drives
bakery wagon or files invoices in a freight
Office or hammers a typewriter nine hours
day generally has the notion that romance is
something he could get hold of very nicely if
only he could slip into the right kind of Job.
But romance and adventure are, after all
the commonest things in the world. The
only trouble is that most of us fail to recognize
them when we see them.
Captain Hayes, supervising Broadway's
bright lights for year upon year, finds his job
boring and monotonous; nothing ever hap
pened to him. or to any other cop, he says,
and he's glad to be out of it.
And SO it goes An especially daring air.
mail pilot who pioneered in the early days of
night flying over the Alleghenies, when that
particular job was about the riskiest and most
adyentresome thing aviation had to offer.
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M. E.TracySays:

| A an academic proposition, there is very
little to be said about the publicity Of in
come tax returns, but people will do wrong if
they accept it as a cure for defects in the law
Absence of publicity has had very little to do
with the matters by which large operators have
avoided paying an income tax.
In majority of cases, they have done neither
more nor less than the law permitted, and they
would have done the same thing in the face of
general broadcast.
We are dealing with a very badly drawn sta
tute, rather than with dark and deep-Iaid plots
made possible by the inability of Tom, Dick and
Harry to read the returns.
In boom times, it looked like very bright
idea to collect an income tax on capital gains
Shallow thinkers jumped at it as good way
| to soak the rich
When the tide turned, giving the rich oppor-
tunity to take advantage of capital losses it did
not look so bright
7. P. MORGAN went right on paying an income
y tax in England. regardless of his capital
| losses. 1t was not publicity that made him do so
but the law.
As he frankly told the senate committee. he
would have done the same thing in this country,
if our income tax law were like that of England
but he would have paid much less than he did in
boom times.
Mr.. Morgan has not been caught doing any,
/
| similar circumstances, or was not entitled TO do
under the income tax law
Nothing has been developed with regard to
that law, or its Interpretation which those fami-
liar with it did not know
Like many other laws, it was designed to fit
one situation.
We assumed that prosperity, as measured BY
constantly increasing amount of capital had
come to stay and that we were tapping a reliable
source Of revenue when we classified capital
gains as income.
Simple justice, of course called for deduction
OF capital losses if capital gains were to be taxed
but we paid very little attention to that side of
the picture, because We closed our eyes to the
possibility Of losses exceeding gains.
IN other words, We assumed that depressions
Il had become obsolete and that we could de-
pend on continuous, uninterrupted rise in the
business tide
We still are chasing the same rainbow in
| theory, II not in fact betting on our ability to
invent system that will produce eternal sun
shine and rigging up schemes to borrow on the
the prospect.
That is and always has been our great weak
ness, especially in the field of legislation We
are not content with planning but want to be-
neve that our plans are foolproof It was on
that basis that We rushed into prohibition and
IL is on that basis that We are rushing out of it,
President Roosevelt has set a much needed
example in candidly admitting that he doesn't
know whether some of the things he is trying
will work as well as he expects.
II we had been less cocksure we would have
| thought twice before jamming the eighteenth
aemndment into the Constitution, or taxing
capital gains as income.
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First-Aid Packet Needed in Medicine Chest

This is the fourth article in a series
OF six on the family medicine cabinet
TN these days when everybody
l. takes the chance of needing
emergency flrSt-aid treatment be-
cause of the use of the automobile
and wide indulgence in sports and
gardening, it is we'll to have first
aid supplies in the family medicine
chest.
Among the materials needed are
adhesive tape of various widths,
sterile cotton, sterile gauze ban
dages, sterile gauze pads, and a
scissors which should be kept in
the medicine chest exclusively for
such purposes.
You also should have the ready
made combinations of a piece of
adhesive tape with tiny piece of
sterilized bandage that can be used
to cover small wounds after they
have been treated with iodine or
necurochrome.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-03

The greatest preachers and doc
tors, the finest lawyers and states
men, must maintain the dignity and
honor Of their professions in their
daily living. When they fail to do
this, the professions suffers and
confidence is lost for the indi-
vidual.
Fortunately, the wives of our
Presidents usually are women Of the
highest character and intelligence.
But We can not avoid the conclu-
sion that they are on exhibition,
much as we may dislike the idea.
The eyes Of millions of girls and
young women are upon them in eX-
pectation and trust.
So, today, Mrs. Franklin Roose-
welt, whether she may like it or no
is something more than a woman.
She is type, and, for this reason,
hers is grave responsibility.
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1t Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. June 3.-~Tbav,
~ was invariably the word whicb
was used. They can't let the mar
ket go any lower" They have de-
clded to peg Steel" THEY'VE cot m
do something now"
But they didn't And vet even
today the little fellows who had
their brief dream of affIuence and
success through rugged individual
ism and good tips can't quite be-
lieve that the old gods are fallible
Back in 1929 I was a big odd-lot
trader. I sat in serious discus
sion about the fate of the utilities.
We all agreed that even at $50 the
future of this or that concern had
not been discounted fully.
l would gaze at the board and
remark; The earnings of a COM
pany are a matter of indifference to
me. All 1 care about is its market
action" 1850 NV
And then I would call across the
room in a low vibrant voice
George. buy me another ten of
American and Foreign Power"
market"
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A Woman's Viewpoint /:

T DARE disagree with the first
i lady of the land in an opinion
recently expressed to certain Of her
critics. Il am sorry to offend" said
Mrs. Roosevelt in effect, but I
must live my own life"
The general sound Of the state
ment is agreeable, but for a person
in her position it is untenable.
Those who lead never can 'live
their own lives in any true sense
Of the word. Destiny holds them
in rigid grasp and it is only the
obscure individual who really
dares do as he pleases.
That, to all appearance, is right
and just. The individuals whom we
choose to occupy positions of great
ness owe a debt to the public. They
must walk uprightly and furnish
inspiration for sane and good living
that will become the standards Of
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r ALWAYS bouol

I ALWAYS bought or sold "at the
market" There seemed q Ger
tain bravado in not hagpling about
the eighth and quarters. After all
this was 1929, and what did I care
about an extra SIPS?
1 sat up with the crash and hung
upon the laggard tape Nv aronies
were, perhaps, a little less than
those Of others who stood about
with drawn faces watching the end
OF the world. l had put myself into
an extremely liquid position. I was
long ten shares Of a copper and
short twenty of a motor.
When the last missing district
struggling in with its belated re-
turns, 1 found that I had made
Sl2.35 out of complete debacle.
And yet I never fancied myself
as trader. "Gallipoli Brouno thew
used to call me around the branch
where had my account. Invari-
ably 1 gave up just one day too
soon. Ever so many stocks have
risen from IS to 30 points the mo-
ment L tossed my holdings over
board. Even in a boiling market
was just so much ballast.
But weren't we all? What did
they ever do for us when the
pinch came? I speak without I'M
que bitterness. The market never
did more to me than break the skin
All my llvid scars came out of the
poker game.
And yet, though I brought to Wall
Street no more than a counle of
Whlte chips, even this meager par
tlcipation was enough to let me into
some share of the psychology Of
the Mystic Order of the Shorn
Sheep Even Mr.. Morgan's bland
contentment with things as thew
are hardly could match the agrees
SlVe conservatism of the little fell
low with 4 points profit.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

Most people should know that
the proper way to stop bleeding of
small wounds is simply to press
upon them with a sterile piece OF
gauze.
In case of very serious wounds
affecting arteries, and thereby diff
cult to control, it may be neces-
sary to put tourniquet around the
limb.
The tourniquet should be fastened
just tight enough to stop the bleed
ing. An ordinary piece of rubber
tubing or narrow towel tied and
twisted with a stick will serve most
purposes satisfactorily.
The family medicine chest may
also contain aromatic spirits of am
monia, which sometimes is given
when a prompt stimulant is needed
following fainting.