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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ing to school in temporary shacks that ESQ.,
900 more are getting only psrt-time school,
ing. More than 1900 rural schools are
closed.
Some one hundred city systems and 4,50o
rural schools have reduced their terms by a
month or more Some 10000 teachers are
jobless, 10000 are on relief. School capital
outlays fell from SAIL 900 900 in 1926 to $751;
100000 in 1888.
The demands on this crippled system are
heavier than ever The total public school
enrolment has risen from 24741, 468 in 1926
to 26,526,7O0 in $685. yet total expenditures
have fallen. The codes have released 100, 900
new pupils from wage-labor. Many jobless
graduates are back knocking at classroom
doors for more education
We hope this crisis will force communities
to clean their civic houses, to throw out para
site politicians, reduce duplicating subdivi-
sions of government, revamp their tax sys-
TENS 1t may result in a better type of edu-
cation, higher teaching standards, more mod
ern plants, wider use of the expensive
school plant by adults.
Meantime emergency aid is needed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
HELPING HEAVY INDUSTRY

nOLLARS go places and buy things 1t is
the governments chief aim now that
dollars should do this very thing. So the gov
eminent has agreed to lend $4,000 900 to the
Pennsylvania railroad to complete electrical
ton of its line from New York to Washington.
The railroad will spend out of this sum
about S16,000,00O for 1872 locomotives. This
means that coal will have to be mined in
Pennsylvania and West Virginia, copper in
Arizona, timber from Texas and Tennessee
will be needed. The road will spend a SINH
lar sum for 1000 freight cars Here again,
dozens of localities will benefit, thousands will
be employed.
This loan, accompanied by the $51 100000
allocated for the purchase of steel rails, is the
governments first big boost for the heavy in
dustries Railroad purchasing power, normally
one of the greatest factors in our economy,
is being restored.
The public works administration is to be
congratulated on taking this important step.
Following expenditures for slum clearance and
model housing by the federal housing cor
poration, this marks an advance toward
recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
UNREST, OLD AND NEW

FIGURES made public by Labor Secretary
= Frances Perkins throw light on another
of the new deals services to industrial peace
and progress in America.
The depression Immediately following the
World war was mild compared with that from
which we seem to be emerging. Yet strikes
and lockouts from April to September of 1921
numbered 1853 as against 900 for the same
period this year.
Disputes in that period we're long and bit
ter and involved 895,048 men, those of this
year have been short-lived and have involved
only 584,O06 men. At one time in 1922 more
than 100000 men were out 100000 in the coal
fields alone
Today two benign forces are operating that
is a strike abating mechanism, the national
labor board and it's regional branches
According to Senator Robert Wagner, the
boards chairman, more than 100000 wage
earners have been returned to work as a re-
suit of the boards operations. The board has
taken jurisdiction over ITO cases. of which
seventy-f1ve we're strikes and three were lock-
outs. It is interesting that Senator Wagner
holds 70 per cent of these strikes traceable to
difficulties over the simple and lawful right
of workers to bargain collectively
The other force is what Secretary Perkins
calls ''the will to agree" will common to a
great bulk Of blue eagle employers
eff employers had in all cases accepted
without struggle" said Miss Perkins, "the re-
quirement of the law that collective bargain
ing is permitted and required where desired.
there would have been a reduction from so
to rs per cent in the number of disputes in
the last few months"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

outsider. 1t may be that Indiana's
best is not good enough.
If this is true we can expect to see
furry of Indiana art pouring
forth from many Hoosier windows.
Many of our past patrons Of our
wares will begin to feel a tinge of
regret in harboring something that
is not up to snuff, something that
the state turns its nose up at.
What prestige could have been
Donald Mattisons if the award had
been given to him. 1t is under Mat
tisons guidance that aspiring youth
here now turns it's head for formal
instruction in the fine art of paint
ing. But alas-the gods waxed lazy
and Mattison did not receive the
award
am still a member of the group
that labels itself Indiana Artists"
l still have confidence in Indiana
artists-maybe more so now than be-
fore the creation Of the murals de-
plotting the history of Indiana.
Wouldn't it be fun to see what a
group of Indiana artists would select
for the people of Indiana to look at,
probably enjoy, and incidentally pay
for?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
Children Must Get Rest

if it sleeps soundly, it is trying to
get sleep that it actually needs.
Training in periods Of sleep must
begin early, because sleep is dis
tinctly a matter that can be con-
trolled by habit.
The child who once has formed
the habit of wakefulness, or the
child who rouses at the slightest
noise during the night, is difficult
to control in matters of sleep.
Mothers must learn to disregard
slight wakefulness and not to rush
into the child's bedroom every time
it turns over. For this reason, it
is inadvisable for you to sleep in
the same room with your child,
where you would hear every sound
and movement.
And don't assume your children
will sleep better if they are allowed
to stay up at night until they prac-
tically fall asleep on their feet. If
a child becomes too tired before it
goes to sleep, it will be irritable and
excitable.
1t is much better to develop a
routine and to make certain that
the child goes to sleep at a set hour
every night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
Half q BOlU to O'Brien

TN spite Of the fact that the de-
4 feat of Tammany and the tri-
unph OF fusion seem to me of vital
Importance I can not help admit
ting that John P. O'Brien will go
out Of office with a good deal of
grace. Naturally, I may be wrong
in my estimates, but it will surprise
me very much if the order at the
finish is not La Guardia, Mckee,
O'Brien and Solomon.
John P. OBrien is not in any way
the type of man who should be the
chief executive Of the city of New
York. And even though he were
far more admirably equipped for
the task, I would still be against
him as the pawn and symbol of an
organization which should be, must
be and will be expelled.
And yet 1 want to testify to the
good taste and courtesy of Mayor
O'Brien in the present fight, To my
amazement l have suddenly come
to the realization that the man has
authentic charm.
He has been placed upon the rack
of ridicule and, on the whole, taken
it gamely. His talent for picking
the wrong phrase is legitimate
matter Of satirical attack. but 1
don't honestly think that the cleo
ton ought to be decided on pictorial
propaganda.
Every camera man in town seems
to have made it his business to snap
Mayor O'Brien with his mouth open.
Mayor O'Brien doesn't look like
much when his mouth is open. Who
does?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

NEXT to seeing that your chill
~ dren eat we'll, be sure they get
plenty of rest.
Remember that the child requires
both food and rest not only for
maintaining the energy of its body,
but also for growth and for repair
of tissue. Sleep is the most salts
factory way of resting,
Even when we are asleep, how
ever, the heart, lungs, and other
organs are carrying on their func-
tons.
Moreover, sleep is not, as we now
know, complete quietude. The aver
age child makes some decided mus
cular movements once every nine
minutes even during its most in
tense sleep, which occurs during the
first hour after it goes to bed at
night.
This varies, of course, as some
children lie especially quiet for as
long as one-half hour after falling
asleep-but these are rare.
Children between and 10 are
likely to be intensely active during
every wakeful moment Any mother
who has herself taken care of her
child for an afternoon will confirm
this fact.
AS a result, the child demands
many hours of sleep during its
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ Words or less.)
BY r. w. Rockafellar.
In an editorial on Oct. 80 you
state that nothing has happened
in this country recently to indicate
that any revival of religious intol-
erance is to be feared"
You certainly are very much I'M
informed, or are trying to hide the
facts from your readers In one
city in New Jersey in one day fifty
seven men and women were arrested
for preaching the Gospel as they see
it and nineteen women were held,
all in one cell built for one pris-
oner.
Fifty-six we're convicted and sent
to Jail for ten days each without a
just or lawful trial, even being COM
PEELED against the law to witness
against themselves.
This is only one of many SIM
liar cases, some even in our own fair
Indiana. Am sending under sepa-
rate cover a magazine that covers
some of these and the cause. Hope
you will read it.
1 have been a subscriber of your
paper since it was first printed and
am an admirer of the bold and fear
less stand you take on many evils
that Cypress the people.
By Taxpayer (Not Bragging),
wish to reply to Another Tax
payer" who seems to have plenty of
comment, but evidently does not
know much about the subject
chosen. Hep or She? raps our po-
lice chief for looking after matters
of the 14-year-old boy type" and
would probably be the first to COM
plain the loudest if the police did
not watch the crossings for the
school children.
GAS the twig is bent so grows the
tree and our petty offenders of
juvenile court today will be the
bandits and gunner of tomorrow.
1t is a fact well known by the
underworld of this country that In
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBE
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

early years of life, the number
being reduced gradually as the
child grows older.
The average routine is twelve
hours in bed for the child of 6
years of age, and fifteen minutes less
each year after that until it ma
lures.
That means, child years of
age should go to bed at O'Clock,
10 years of age o'clock, ID years
of age 9 o'clock, and 18 years of
age 10 o'clock.
Some children require even more
sleep than do others. These are
the youngsters who like to sleep
late in the morning.
If you let any of your growing
children stay up late at night,
merely because they are large and
seem grown up, don't accuse them
of being lazy when they oversleep
in the morning.
If child lies in bed awake for
a few minutes after being aroused
in the morning, it may be lazy; but
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
EDUCATION WEEK

liver since the wartime draft uncovered
~ widespread illiteracy American educators
have set aside a week in which to magnify
free schooling and to educate America on
education. American Education week, be-
ginning today finds the schools, from kinder
garten to college, in their most alarming
crisis. This weeks theme is Meeting the
Emergency in Education"
Emergency it is. Debt-ridden towns,
counties, cities and states. loaded down with
new relief burdens have slashed school budgets
to the quick.
The National Education Association re-
ports that 10000 children of school age are
being denied education, that 10000 ara go
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
A Woman's Viewpoint ::

marriage affairs. What's worse,
while engaged in this naive, even
childish quest, we talk about what
hard-boiled relatives we've turned
out to be, and how well we know
life.
Our behavior in short, does not
reflect any particular discredit on
grandma, as We fooishly think.
Sometimes it leaves us with our
faces red. Grandma. poor deluded
soul, believed in the sanctity Of the
home and willingly sacrificed the
individual for the group.
We believe in the sanctity of the
individual and often sacrifice both
for our opinion. Grandma accepted
the bittec with the sweeter Of life.
whereas We refuse TO swallow our
doses. She may have been less wise,
but 1t sounds a little silly to go on
calling her sentimentalist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

dianapolis is bad place to land and
that they are due for "knockof"
if they come here. It must be more
than idle gossip, for we do not have
the organized gangs of racketeers
that other cities in 300-mile radius
have.
You can take the police depart
ment as a whole and find men that
not only can fight, but will if the
occasion presents.
They are the sort of men who if
they knew where bandits are
hiding in our city" would at
least divulge the information
to some one who would go get
them. I might add that any citizen
has the legal right to arrest any
one wanted for a felony, so let US
see some results from these chronic
cranks who are always ready with
the old hammer.
BY Leonardo.
Indiana artists still do not rate
First, the contract for murals at
Chicago goes to an outsider; then,
the contract for murals in the new
Indiana state library goes to an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
MONDAY WOW. 6. 1893.
F. D. R. AND THE FARMERS

IT took political courage for the White House
to turn down the appeal of midwestern
Governors for agricultural price-1xing. Mr..
Roosevelt has no taste for attempting eco
nomic miracles" he told the nation a week
ago. His own plan, the agricultural adjust
ment plan. is an outright experiment.
Under it a sum approaching half billion
dollars is being paid by consumers in process
ing taxes for direct payment to farmers who
reduce their crops this year and next.
Thus far the experiment has been helpful.
Cotton prices, for instance, are about double
what they were year ago; wheat prices are
up. None Of these new and higher prices is
yet high enough to restore prosperity to agri-
culture, our basic industry. And no one knows
this better, nor states it more frankly than
the President
It was undoubtedly a bitter pill the farm
state Governors were given in the White House
refusal Of their miracle" plan
But such a statement as that made by one
of the Governors on the White House steps
is ridiculous. The farmer is the forgotten
man." he said. Everybody else has been
here before him. the banker, the insurance
man, the railroad man, and got all the money.
There is nothing left for the farmer"
This Governor seems to nave the idea that
farming is an industry set apart, wholly I'M
related to the recovery of other industries. If
the iron and steel industry were PROSTATE,
does he think Pittsburgh for instance. could
be normal consumer of agricultural products?
The recovery program is so mapped as to
affect each section. AS public works. for in
stance, lends $135 100000 to railroads. these
and the iron and steel and other industries
will benefit; employment will be increased and
stabilized; workers will have money with
which to buy-buy the products of the farm;
the farmer will have more money with which
to buy the products of other industries.
President Roosevelt has said that he in
tends to raise commodity prices one way or
another. The farming sections, peopled by
reasonable, sensible Americans, can afford to
go along with the President
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

OUR gay young sophisticates
" rather like making jokes about
the romantic attitudes of the past
generation. Grandma remains the
butt of many wisecracks. The chief
thing against her is that she was
sentimental, and being sentimental
with us is the one objectionable sin.
1t needs, however, only the most
cursory study of history, biography
and fiction to make us realize, once
and for all, that we and not they
are the true sentimentalists.
In marriage for example the old
fashioned wife can hardly be said
to have been a "softie" She was in
very truth the sternest of realists.
When she took her VOW she con-
sidered herself bound and would no
more have thought of abandoning
her job than would good soldier
Of deserving This post.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
THE PERQUISITES OF PATIENCE

THE Hon. Lewis Douglas, director OF the
budget, counseled patience with the new
deal in a recent speech. He maintained that
we can expect no haSty return of recovery.
The country was in such desperate economic
plight on March 1. 1888, that RAPID recovery
is not to be expected
It may be conceded readily that Mr.. Roose-
welt has accomplished more in seven months
than any other President has ever achieved
in four or eight years. 1t may also be granted
that he has probably done much more than
would have been accomplished by any other
prominent candidate for the presidential
nomination in either major party in 1882
The sad fact is however, that the President
is in a position where he must not only do
more than any predecessor, but also accom-
plish enough to put us back unquestionably
upon the road to recovery. He must certainly
have realized the desperate condition of the
country before he actively sought the nominal
ton for President. Therefore. he requested
the responsibility which is now his and he can
hardly complain when he finds it resting upon
his shoulders.
We can afford to be patient at fire if
water is pouring upon it from all the available
hydrants, if all the available extinguishing
chemicals are being played upon the flame,
and if every available fireman is straining to
the uttermoSt to end the conhagration and to
rescue life and property from its ravages. But
we can hardly be expected to be patient if the
fremen are casually throwing buckets of
water on the fire and the fire chief is solemnly
reading aloud, however engagingly, a splendid
set of rules regarding fire prevention.
In his excellent book. Money for Every
body" Mr.. w. E. Woodward aptly compares
overcoming the depression to pushing man
out of deep ditch. If we do not get the
victim safely out and on solid land, all our
efforts are worse than vain At the end both
the would-be rescuer and the victim are in
the ditch together. suffering. exhausted and
helpless.
1t is exactly the same with business. I'm
less We give a sufficient impetus to business
activity 50 as to speed up the factories. in
!. crease employment and make possible the sale
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
So They Say

I can not see any vision, any
imagination and enterprise in our
policies. We have not even any brain
trust.-David Lloyd George, M. P.
It isn't a matter of how many
words you speak, but how well you
speak them-Marie Dressler, actress.
Herr Hitler has done what no
one else has-Ex- Kaiser Wilhelm of
Germany.
I'm an old man and if I smiled
people would think I were pretend
ing.-John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Her words was even better than
her bond. Sorrows and tribulations
may have battered her down and
cruelties may have crushed her, but
she remained true to her code, how
ever foolish that code may appear
to us.
TODAY, alas, we have no codes
Il to which to be true. We are
utter sentimentahsts, theatrical in
our approaches to life, artificial in
our attitudes, pantomimists, making
fine gestures OF sincerity and wis
dom. Why? Because we continue
to act as if love were something to
be caught in ones hand like a bird.
We chase it in and out of divorce
courts, through fornications and
adulteries, and seek = before many
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06

BY Perry Rule.
The deliberations by state sena-
tors on Oct. %, on state admins
tration affairs was not serious,
calm and searching, but was shall
low and petty The accusations
were Sinking, garrulous and de-
signing.
The damage to their own po-
litical fortunes was intractable.
They were boring holes in their
own compartments while attempt
ing to sink McNutt's boat. They
lost sight of the fact that their
political fortunes all were in the
same boat.
1t would have been better had
they licked their own wounds than
to bark at the heels of the Gov
ernor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Nov. 6.-By now,
~ imagine, almost everybody
has made up his mind. We vote
tomorrow
This has been one of the most in
teresting municipal campaigns ever
carried on in New York. For the
first time in almost. a decade the
candidates actually got excited. At
least some of them did.
am not much concerned with
the charge that there was too much
bitterness. That is five-and-a-haf
times as good as apathy.
There has been an enormous
amount of irrelevance. regret that.
but there has never yet been a poll
eician who could resist the oppor-
,unity Of embarking on a detour.
Bob Minor of the Communists wins
the silver shaving mug offered an
nually for the politician who man.
aged to get farthest away from the
point.
At a hearing in city hall on the
question of the use of an armory
for German meeting, Mr.. Minor
devoted 80 per cent of his time to a
savage attack upon NRA. You can't
tie that.
Still there we're excursions by
other candidates into lanes leading
we'll away from the main road.
never could understand just why
Mr.. McKee's felicity, or lack of it,
as an essayist eighteen years ago
should have bulked large in the
camnaipn
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-06
Warming to His Task

IN the beginning was very much
4 disappointed in the campaign
carried on by Fiorello H. La Guar
dia, but in the last two weeks he
has amplified and broadened the
base of his appeal, OF the three
major candidates it seems to me
that he is the only one who has
shown a sense of social conscious
ness.
The biggest laugh Of the cam
paign has been McKee's charge that
La Guardia is at heart Commu-
mist. The major might very readily
have answered that by reading some
Of the editorial references to him
self in the Daily Worker. The party
organ has ranked him as Public
Enemy No g. Only Hitler and j. P.
Morgan outrank him. He seems
sure of seat in the first tumbril
when the revolution comes.
Charles Solomon, running as can
didate on the Socialist ticket, has
made an excellent campaign. I
might as we'll confess that his plat
form and program are closer to my
heart than anything which La
Guardia has offered.
But l can not honestly see my
way clear to voting for candidate
who has no chance in a year when
it is distinctly possible to twist the
Tigers tail.
Only yesterday afternoon I ran
into man whose name comes back
to memory wildly under the present
situation. William TraverS Jerome
proved to skeptical city that it was
possible to down the organization.
1t can and will be done again. The
minute La Guardia is elected plans
must be made to keep the victory
won.
But it is a necessary part of the
technique of bringing freedom back
to New York to kill your tiger first
before you begin to discuss the best
manner in which to nail the skin
against the door as permanent
exhibit.
A few people say that La Guardia
has been too violent. And when I
saw Jerome yesterday that seemed
to me little ironic Fiorellos most
fiery utterances would seem some
what tame if placed beside the talks
which Jerome made when he was
running for district attorney.