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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13

producing aluminium, It fabricates aluminium
products. In this field independent companies
are trying to compete, though badly handi-
capped by having to buy their materials from
the producing monopoly and having to pay
more for them than the production units of
the monopoly.
The Aluminium Company Of America is
trying to perpetuate this condition through
the code it has offered the NRA. The indie
pendents are protesting and asking either
separate code Tor fabrication apart from pro-
duction Of aluminium, or else safeguard in
the form Of requirement that the Aluminium
Company, in estimating its cost Of manufac-
ture, include as an item whatever price 1t
charges for the same materials.
No code should be approved for aluminium
without this provision. For years the Alum
mum Company has been able to evade the
consent decree entered to restrain it, by vari-
Gus bookkeeping devices. requirement as
plain and unequivocal as this is necessary I'M
less every purchaser of aluminium household
utensils and important industrial materials is
to pay a monopoly price dictated by Andrew
w. MELONS business leviathan.
The recovery act contains plain injunc-
ton against monopoly or monopolistic prac-
tice. If the MIRA can not recognize monopoly
when it comes face to face with the biggest
most obvious combination of all, whose ex-
istence is no longer disputed even by its own
ers; if NFA shows itself impotent in conflict
with this antagonist, then we shall have rea-
son to fear growing monopolistic power in
other industries.
Wages as well as prices are an issue, and
recent aluminium code hearings offered a
shocking example Of the overbearing tyranny
of powerful monopoly on this question. The
Aluminium Company demanded the right to
pay wages far below even the minimum set
in the blue eagle agreement. 1t did this in
the face Of declaration by the independents
that they can afford to pay just twice the
monopoly's proposed wage rate if they can get
aluminium at an equal cost.
If the Aluminium Company should grant
every concession asked by the Independents
it still could consider itself unusually and
unduly lucky that it has not been dissolved
as monopoly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
THE STEEL-COAL AGREEMENT

CTEEL companies operating so-called cap
~ tive mines have notified the President
that they will recognize the union check-off
system of dues payment as requested by him.
The companies have been criticized sharply
and properly, we think-for their DELAY which
held up the recovery program. But now that
they have accepted, they should be given full
credit for putting the new deal and the ma
tional welfare above their personal opinions
in this dispute.
The only qualification in their letter of &C
ceptance is that "au of our employees shall
be free to join or not to join any union as
they please" In reply, the President notes
that it is not his understanding that this or
any other company qualification is intended
to modify the law or statutory administrative
discretion.
The qualification appears, on the contrary,
to be both within the letter and the spirit of
the law and within the rights of the COM
panies.
Of course the test will be whether on this
basis, the company and union representatives
now trying to negotiate contract, are able
to reach Just agreement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
A FORWARD STEP

THE American Federation of Labors &C
- ton in taking into its fold the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers union signifies more
than a patching of a twenty-year- dispute
between two union groups. 1t means a
strengthening of the American labor move
ment in numbers, in power and in vitality.
Amalgamateds membership totals about
$4,000. Its achievements have been larger
1t had until the depression practically wiped
out sweatshops in one of the country'S most
competitive industries. 1t owns and runs two
banks, model apartment houses for 1900 work.
ers' families, co-operatives for insurance
against sickness and unemployment.
Under its president, Sidney Hillman, the
Amalgamated has pioneered in a new labor
craftsmanship that is the central idea of the
National Recovery Administration.
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:: The Message Center ::
ne death your right to say it.-voltaire

BY Harvey P. McAIlen.
You, VINO are working, have a
heart. You who are unemployed,
just be patient. The fellow who
rings your door bell and greetS you
with, Good morning, madam" is
only man trying to earn some
thing for his family. No doubt you
feel like chastising every salesman
who calls at your door. Give man
credit for trying to earn a living.
We hope that some day he will
have other means of livelihood.
We house toulouse statesmen are
only human. Some of you folks do
not answer the door. Some of you
are very pleasing to meet. No doubt
we get on your nerves, but we can
not help it. Some day we all will
have jobs. Give President Roose-
welt time. Have faith in him. Be
with him, and not against him. He
can not create jobs for all of us in
a few months. We statesmen work
solely on commission.
We are outside statesmen. Our
merchandise has won it's standard,
through the merits of the products,
and fair and square dealings with
the public. There are some COM
panies you feel give you a real gyp-
ing. You claim you pay for some
thing you don't get. Please do not
judge all companies by one or two.
Any brand of products your mother
used to use must be good, so you
are not risking your money by US
ing them. Give your felloWman
break. If you can not buy, or have
your pantry we'll supplied, please
answer the door just the same. Tell
the salesman, in a polite way, there
is nothing you wish to buy.
He may seem disappointed, but
that is second nature to him. Every
salesman has his off days, but the
least you can do, is to cheer him
up, and don't slam the door in his
face. Suppose your husband, son,
or brother was a salesman, and the
same thing happened to him. We
are all human. We are born, but
we are not dead. So spread a lit
tie kindness, and help Roosevelt
pull us through this depression. My
family and are for him 100 per
cent.
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the cabs all displayed the pretty
blue eagles on their windshields?
Do you suppose the people in this
town all believe that when they en-
ter a cab they are riding behind a
$14.50 a week man or even a $40
week man? I'll bet that they do
not know they are riding behind
ST a week man.
A drivers commission is 80 per
cent on the dollar. He takes in an
average of So a day, which nets
him 80 cents. He may get one or two
dime tips all day. He puts in an
average of eleven hours a day, seven
days a week, seventy-seven hours
a week at about g cents an hour. He
has the responsibility of his pas
sengers' lives, listens to especially
prepared Rawlings out from the
traffic cops and catches holy fire
from ill-tempered passengers who
think he is taking them for a ride
if he makes a mistake on an adj
dress.
I'm not singing the blues for SYM
pathy. I'm merely making public
what is in the heart and mind of
every cab driver. The majority of
us have wives and children and feel
that we are human and that we
have been given nice raw deal,
as far as the new deal is concerned.
Editors NOte-Taxi drivers have
been classified as outside statesmen
and do not come under minimum
wage scales.
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PLAIN FACTS

A GOOD many people have toyed lately with
n the idea that the news-hungry citizen
ought to be able to sit at home in his arm
chair and have the news of the day waited
to his receptive ears from the loud speaker of
his radio.
In theory, it's not bad idea. In practice,
it seems to be a completely nonexploSive dud.
Not long ago a gang of convicts escaped
from the Indiana state prison.
An Indiana radio station Immediately set
to work to broadcast the story of the man
hunt.
The man hunt wasn't having great deal
official decided that the listeners-in deserved
more excitement than the plain facts we're
likely to provide. So that part of the public
which tried to get its news out of the loud
speaker began to hear a wild and woolly
tale of a running gun battle, with a juicy
slice of trumped-up melodrama substituted for
facts.
AS a result, the liSteners-in were hoaxed
and the enforcement officers who We're try
ing to catch the convicts found the work
seriously hampered
sion. Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana
state police asserted:
This broadcast seriously interfered with
the work of the sixty-f1ve state police under
my command and a considerable number of
other enforcement officers. We wasted sew
eral hours of precious time. Telephone
wires of the state police at their barracks in
Chesterton, Ind. tied up for several
hours by persons who apparently had heard
the broadcast and were calling for informa-
ton"
So the net result of all this was that the
attempt to catch the convicts was hampered.
some scores of citizens were frightened badly
and nobody knew Just what was happening
until the daily papers came around with the
real facts in the case.
This is just the sort of thing that has hap
pened over and over again in radio news
broadcaSts The Los Angeles earthquake some
time ago took on the proportions of one of
the great disasters of all time-until the news
papers come out with the truth.
Wild-eyed announcers have told us of
frenzied and sensational prize fights-which
next day turned out to be affairs so spiritless
and slow that the participants were almost
tossed out of the ring for failing to try.
The Indiana man hunt was a desperate gun
battle-untn the newspaper reporters turned
in their reports
So it goes. The loud speaker may be a fine
medium for hearing feminine voiced tenors
and third-rate vaudeville. For accounts of
the days news, it seems to be a good deal
less than reliable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE

THE famous lame duck amendment to the
- Constitution takes effect this fall-and
very good amendment it is, too. Now it is
reported that certain statesmen, including
Senator Norris, who sponsored this amend
ment, are preparing to submit another one
which would abolish the electoral college
and substitute fairer method of counting
electoral votes in presidential election.
At present, if a candidate gets a majority
of the popular vote in any state, he gets all
that states electoral votes. Under the pro-
posed amendment, he would get a percent
age of them equal to his percentage of the
popular vote AS sample: In 1923 Mr..
Hoover carried New York by narrow mar
gin over Mr.. Smith and got all New Yorks
As electoral votes; under the new system, he
would have got % and Mr.. Smith %
That this would make the electoral vote
much closer reflection of the popular will is
indisputable There is only one question that
occurs to u.s. Why not, while we're about it,
abolish the electoral-vote business entirely and
make the presidential election straight-out
matter of popular votes?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
Cough Is Warning of Inflammation

swelling and inflammation of the
adenoidS and the tonsils.
The enlarged and inflamed ade-
noids cause the throat to become
dry and cause the dropping of Sc
erection from the back of the nose
into the throat. This results, in
most instances, in an almost con-
slant cough, which can be controlled
only by removal of the infected and
swollen tissues.
The operation for the removal OF
adenoids is very simple, requiring
but brief time, and it is practically
without danger when done by a
competent doctor.
Another way you can control a
cough temporarily is to take soda
tiveS Of various types which lessen
the threshold of irritability of
the nervous system, so that cough
ing is not so frequent. Under these
circumstances, however, you should
remember again that the real cause
of the cough is not being reached.
Sedatives should not be used per-
manently, but only long enough to
permit sufficient rest for the swell
ing to subSide and for proper at
tention to the causative condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
M. E. Tracy Says:

TOSEPH v. MKEES eleventh. hour plunge
y into the New York mayoralty race has up
set most everybodyS calculations chiefly because
of his supposed backing by the Roosevelt ad-
mniStration.
While President Roosevelt has said nothing
to indicate that he wants Mr.. Mckee elected
Postmaster General Farley has done more than
enough to make many people think so.
Hearst's New York American expresses the
view of pro-Roosevelt leaders when it thanks
Mr. Farley for saving the situation in New
York city for the Democratic party and for
the citizenship
The citizenship was getting along quite we'll
before Mr.. Farley INTERVIEWED but the Demo-
cratic party was not. The Democratic party
stood to lose not only the Forthcoming election,
but perfectly good machine
Without casting any reflection on the post
master generals interest in good government
for New York city, it is just justifable to as
sumo that his chief concern was for the Demo-
cratic machine
THIS assumption is borne out by the fact
l. that about all the leaders, captains and
even office holders who can break away. are
deserving Tammany and climbing aboard the
Mckee bandwagon.
To a humble observer, it looks as though Mr.
Farley were slipping into Boss Currys place
with virtually the same old crew to run things
but with greatly enlarged pie-counter in pros
pect.
II the postmaster eneralShip of the United
States and the Democratic boSs-ship of New
York city could be combined in one person. that
person could come pretty near Tammanyizing
the country
Wouldn't it be good idea to get this lob
of planned economy in better shape before 60
ing too far with planned politics. or is one in
separable from the other?
Still speaking from the standpoint of
humble observer it strikes me that the ma
tional administration were going out of it's wav
or permitting Postmaster General Farley to 90
out OF his way in search Of unnecessary trouble
and that, excellent as the scheme may appear
from political angle, it represents mighty
poor way OF promoting that cooperation which
is essential to the success of NRA.
+ DO not believe that this or any other admin
istration can entrench political party and
promote national recovery at the same time
Mussolini has done it in Italy and Hitler is
apparently doing it in Germany, but the United
States is not exactly like either not yet at least
President Roosevelt calls on capital and labor
to forego special privileges at this time Well
why not include politicians? Why not let people
alone, especially in their constitutional right to
manage local affairs? Or are We about to set
up a political CODE with Postmaster General
Farley as administrator and ex-Tammany
henchmen as his Ieutenants?
Whether they realize it, the people of New
York face the issue of home rule in this cleo
ton, which is something that should interest
the entire country.
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at isn't the cough that carries
you off,
It's the coffin they carry you
off in"

no you remember this old med
- ical jingle? There's truth in
it, to the extent that a cough is not
in itself a disease. A cough is rather
a symptom of changes that have
taken place in the tissues Of nose,
throat or lungs.
The chief purpose of the cough
is to get some undesirable substance
out of the breathing passages. This
undesirable substance may be a
feather, a fiShbone, or chicken bone
that you might have swallowed.
But in the vast majority of cases it
is a collection of dust or broken
down tissue and of secretions that
have come from the cells which line
the breathing passages.
Whenever these cells are irritated
by any cause, principally by germs
which get into the tissue and cause
Inflammation, they respond with the
pouring out of a secretion whose
chief purpose is removal of the dan
gerous germ.
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ALUMINIUM TRUST VS.. NRA

THE NRA aluminium code has tendency
= to slip into the background because the
group opposing it is exceedingly small. 1t
should not be allowed to do so. 1t presents an
issue which is vital TO the recovery program
and the country's economic life
The Aluminium Company of America is the
worlds outstanding example of a monopoly.
It is the sole producer of virgin aluminium in
the western hemisphere. and it owns such a
large interest in European producing COM
panies that it is able to control prices on that
continent as well as on this. In addition to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
O1Zo

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
All men may be important to a few.
But mostly to themselves are king:
Wishing always their own thoughts
to sing,
And prating of every noble act
they do;
They the mighty in their own
narrow view,
And claiming more happiness and
the greatest of sorrows sting,
But always to themselves emo
bling,
Mocking with their enlarged ego
even the sky's ironic blue.
Man is so infnitesimal in the
great march Of years,
His tiny reign so puny, himself so
small;
With his round Of youth and laugh
ter, age and tears,
Upon this terrestrial ball.
The mountains know the meaning
of eternity,
And yet they hold their heads in
all simplicity.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

The cough serves the double pur-
pose of removing the secretion and
of removing some of the germs at
the same time. 1t is for this reason
that the public health rhyme was
promoted
"Cover up each cough and
SneeZe-
If you don't, you'll spread
disease"
All sort Of soothing syrups have
been promoted for relief of coughs.
These soothing syrups, including
those formed in the mouth by
sucking on cough drops, have the
advantage of soothing. You must
understand, however, that none Of
them really will cure your cough.
The only thing that will cure a
cough is reaction by your body to
the germs, 1essening the inf1amma-
ton and stopping the pouring out
of irritating substances. Sometimes
the irritation of the germs, particu-
larly in the back Of the nose or in
the throat, brings about sudden
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13
A Woman's Viewpoint
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

like Walt Disney's two careless
little pigs. We build our mansions
with straw and wood, so that it is
only our good luck that the big bad
wolf doesn't get us before the end.
First of all, a girl should make
up her mind definitely about mar
riage or a career. Certain outstand-
ing women have been able to man
age both, but it is safe to say that
the rank and file can not do so.
It's asking too much of a person to
demand that she shall be good
home maker and a good business
man at the same time.
= q
EEMININE incompetence hinges
Il a good deal on this fact. We
want too much. We aren't satisfied
with the good things that are ours.
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Those Water Mains

By Times Reader.
There appears from accounts
appearing in The Times, that the
time has come for something to
be done about the expenditure of
city funds for maintenance of
water mains that apparently are
useless as far as public welfare
is concerned.
I notice that the South Side
Civic Clubs adopted a resolution
lauding The Times for it's expose
of certain facts about the situa-
ton.
Rather than pass resolutions in
praise, would it not be an ideal
time for the citizenry, which gen.
orally lets such things pass until
too late, start a move to stop these
activities for all time?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13

DOYS always have been taught to
- make some sort of plan for
their lives. And I daresay this alone
constitutes the strongest reason for
what success they may have. Not
that their plans are invariably
good, or that they do not make
bitter mistakes in formulating their
codes for living. But the point is,
they do get somewhere, mainly be-
cause they know where they are TO
go. They do not try to do too many
things at once.
1t seems to me that girls csuld
profit by the same kind Of instruc-
ton. 1t is sensible, even necessary,
that woman, too. should draw up
blueprint before she sets about
the mighty task OF building her
house of life.
At present We behave good deal
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-13

If we are married happily we dream
of the careers we might have had.
If we are getting along reasonably
well in business. we torture our
selves with the thought of the home
life we have missed.
There is no doubt that women,
like men, are born with certain
aptitudes. In our present world,
where there are neither enough
homes nor enough jobs to go
around, it is more than ever neces-
sary that We should not leave our
lives entirely to chance.
For I still believe that whatever
We want most, we can nearly always
get, if We set about it in any deter
mined fashion. The trouble with
women is, that they can't make up
their minds what it is they want.
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FRIDAY. OCT. 10. 1898.
THOSE EXTRA MIGRANTS

THE best laugh Of the week is on the local
i real estate men. They have been wag
ing noisy battle for reduction of the city
budget without, however, making any specific
suggestions They lave preferred to cry for
the enforcement of the $3.50 tax law. The
city administration and the county adjustment
board replied with more oratory. The budget
was not cut
Now an interesting fact has appeared from
this cave of the winds. 1t was dragged into
the light by Howard S. Morse, water company
manager He pointed out that.one reason the
citys public utility bills are so high is because
in recent years real estate interests have
forced the laying Of unnecessary water mains
and the installation Of useless MIGRANTS
The purpose, of course, was to make it
possible for realtors to sell lots in speculative
improvements" One of these Improvements"
is laced with water mains and studded with
hydrants for the servicing of two housesl No
doubt it has plenty of street lights too.
Mr.. Morse says the water company pro-
tested against all this useless piping and the
facts bear him out. The real estate interests
were strong enough to override him. There
is no evidence that Mayor Reginald sullivans
predecessors did anything to protect the tax
payers They apparently approved the scheme
and left the bill to the Sullivan administra-
ton
This is merely a miniature Of the tax situa-
ton in the country at large. Selfish business
interests have succeeded in getting enormous
subsidies from local. state and national gov
ernments. These same interests are now roar
ing for tax reduction. Each one wants the
other fellows subsidy reduced, but squeals like
a pig under a gate when his own OK is gored.
Did we say the laugh was on the real es-
tate men? Perhaps it is at the moment, but
it is really on the taxpayer. In fact, it is per-
petually on that harassed individual
Unless the state tax board reduces the city
budget Mr.. Taxpayer may have the last laugh
because he already has demonstrated his in
ability to pay his taxes. And you can't run
a city, a political machine or have expensive
real estate improvements without taxes.