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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
Kind to Pr0Ietdriat

NTOW, all that could be superb
L ' English prose. wouldn't
know about that. But who says it
is a story of workers? If that is
proletarian literature, then Marcel
Proust was the best lad who ever
wrote a serial for the Youths Com
panion.
In America, at any rate the
trouble with proletarian literature
has been the fact that the proletar.
ians don't write it, haven't read it,
and never heard anything about it.
And if they did, I'm not at all sure
they would be for it.
A young man may be superb in
his sincere and passionate belief
that our economic system is all
wrong. He even may be extremely
clear-headed as to how the change
can be brought about. But these
qualifications do not inevitably fit
him to set up as an interpreter Of
the new world to the American
working man.
There is, of course, no such thing
as complete unity of literary taste
among all American workers. I
easily can find a steamfitter who is
intent on getting hold Of everything
Gorky ever wrote. And I can find
another steam1tter, or maybe a
couple of steamftters, who would
have a lot more fun with the Sat-
urday Evening Post.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
THE PLAN FOR RECOVERY

THE President has proposed to congress
Il the greatest economic experiment ever
oharted in this country--a plan for breaking
the maddening circle of falling prices, clos
ing factories, unemployment and dearth OF
purchasing power, which has brought us near
to destruction.
The Roosevelt plan for the first time con-
templates the problem as whole, comes to
grips with fundamentals, and gives evidence,
in every ringing phrase, of purpose to light
through to the objective of economic recovery
and unemployment
The plan includes quick stimulant-pub-
lie works-and an equally necessary tonic for
permanent Observation-Disclosures co-opera-
ton under the eye of the government.
Specifically it substitutes sane, planned
economy for economic anarchy; cooperation
for unfair competition; decent treatment OF
labor for a national trend toward uncivilized
Sweatshop standards,
The administration bill makes possible
short work week and minimum wage bet
ter labor organization a curb on excess pro-
ducton and unfair competition, and quick
employment of men on public construction
projects.
1t permits trade associations to agree on
codes of competition if the President finds
such codes fully protect consumers COM
petitors. and employees, if the right OF enl-
poves TO organize and name representatives
of their own choosing has been observed and
if maximum hours of labor, minimum rates
of nav and other working conditions APP
proved or prescribed by the President are
complied with.
The phrase other working conditions, is
broad enough to cover child labor and host
of other abuses which now exist, in the
opinion of those who helped frame the bill
In industries where no agreement IS
offered for approval, the President may ia
vestipate for himself prescribe code OF talr
competition" and fix maximum hours ana
minimum wages He may license business
enterprises if he sees fit, as an aid to en-
forcemert.
He NAV use the unfair competition pro-
visions of the federal trade commission act
The restraining powers of the federal district
courts and the whole machinery of the de-
partment of Justice and the courts to punish
voators
AS further evidence of good faith binding
provision for short hours and fair wages IN
the government construction program are
included.
The country has waited for plan IKE
this for too many years Now that it is ready
there should be no delay in putting it into
operation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
DOUBTFUL ECONOMY

Z ECONOMY experts of the administration
- might take a second look at the plan to
save money by putting $500 regular army
officer on furlough and to spend money by
calling $500 reserve officers into service at
the new forestation camps
If the regular officers are to receive half
pay in retirement and the reserve officers to
get full pay on duty, the net result will be a
considerable increase in government expendi-
ture.
There are other considerations which might
induce officials to reconsider this policy. The
regular officers have made economic commit
ments on the assumption that their jobs and
salaries would continue; if government jobs
are available they should have first call
Presumably also some of the reserve officers
now have civilian jobs which they can i'll af-
ford to lose for temporary forestry service.
This seems to be another case in which
economy moves should be controlled by a CO.
ordinator otherwise, the loss may be greater
than the gain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. May 18.-I have
y pretty nearly decided not to
make my new book a proletauan
novel. In this decision I have been
very largely influenced by reading a
magazine called the Anvil, which
carries the descriptive subhead.
Stories for Workers"
DO you mind if I quote just the
first two sentences from little
whirlwind of tale called Might
Piece? Anyhow, here goes:
All the week stealthily through
dark alleys and somber side streets
and proud Sneering vacant lots
Nrms interlOcked. thinking how
t'ack'y in the room the shuddering
crCsccndo Of it had palpitated"
But perhaps you want to get on
WITH the story. so we will skip a lit
. DON 70.
'C0-o',~ inc down empty streets.
-ncerirg - fat Yellow lamps ard
can, vrite curtains. We sat on
re G~c'-s, the days yammering
mOurlfully within us
And by now you viii want to know
how it all turned out:
Our feet hit the pavement sharp
ly: surefoOted, we strobe on: firmly,
we marched. It soon would be morn
ing!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
Alger In Red

THINK the radical movement
l. needs its Harold Bell Wriehts
and its Horatio Algers. You could
take Mr.. Ayers Ragged Dick and
leave him at the end Somewhat
More Ragged Dick" after his en-
counter with the UNEMPLOYMENT
problem.
And certainly there is no reason
why young American radicals
should go in for being precious. All
the proletarian literature out of
Union Square which 1 have seen
has too much crepe hair on its
chest. 1 once knew a female i'm
personator who used to curse very
loudly beckstage in the fear that on
account Of his occupation somebody
might suspect he wasn't manly.
And 1 have known a lot of pro-
letarian literature in this country
which losses about an excessive
number of the shorter and ugljer
words with the same sort Of forced
virility.
Curlously enough, the radicals in
the graphic arts have done verv
much better. There are half dozen
men who can slap you in the eye
with cartoons which are forceful,
direct, simple, and effective.
But the novelsts, the essayists.
and the poets-the poets most Of all
still are paving their little revoIu-
tionary reviews with the sponge
cake Of good intentions.
Copyright. 1888. bv The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
Salt Solution Used to Fight Heat Cramp

ing, SO that there is rapid loss
of salt in the perspiratior that is
not replaced.
When the blood is examined,
there is found to be a lessened
amount of the chloride material in
the blood.
It is possible to prevent heat
cramps by providing daily sup
ply of salt that is greater than
the amount lost in the sweat.
There are various ways in which
additional amounts of salt may be
gotten into the body. In some in
dustries means are now provided
for giving the men slightly sailed
water to drink, something like l
per cent of salt being used success
fully in preventing heat cramps
among soldiers in the United States
army.
Among certain miners in Great
Britain it has been customary to
supply sailed beer, and it is recon-
mended to the men that the food
taken daily be sailed literally.
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in supporting a man in Jail or even
in collecting from him by keeping
the sheriffs hot upon his trail.
MORE foolish than this are our
1V1 reform schools They send
forth a frank stencil of barbarism.
We take youngsters who have been
unfortunate in their parentage r
their environment and lock them
up, so that they feel like social pa
riahs, and then profess to feel ag-
grieved when they return to us full
f1edged criminals.
Our jails are running madly at full
capacity, and we build ever larger
prisons. while slowly but inevitably
our schools are closing. If we took
only half the money we spend on
prosecuting for petty offenses and
used it for the good of the chill
dren, We might mend our morals.
AS they are now, the whole sys-
tenn reeks with rottenness. We
must face the fact.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
ARTISTS AND THEIR BOSSES

THE firing of Artist Diego Rivera by the
Il Rockefellers simply emphasizes very an
cient truth-artists and their employers do not
very often see eye to eye.
In the very nature of things, they can't.
The artist is at bottom a rebel If he weren't,
he wouldn't be an artist. He paints things as
he sees them, and because he is an artist he
sees them in a manner entirely different from
the manner of the rich man.
That the wealthy patron who hires him gets
shocked in squelching him now and then isn't
surprising.
But it is deeply regrettable, just the same.
Artists of Riveras calber do not grow on
every bush.
The ultimate loser in the present row is not
Mr. Rivera, but the Rockefeller Center.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
Claims ETtOrtiO71

BY C. NJ. Jacoby.
no you know what is going on
~ within the walls of the city
hall? Do you know that the poul-
try dealers have got up an ordi
nance and Endorsed it and sent
it to the city board and had it
ratified and made a city law, that
forces the little dealer to buy his
chickens of the city poultry deal
ers' organization at its prices,
which the organization fixes?
Under the ordinance, a farmer
is arrested and fined for selling
chickens, eggs, butter, rabbits and
game of all kinds to any one en-
gagged in resale unless he has paid
a 5000 license fee. The small
dealer can buy his chickens for
from l to 3 cents pound cheaper
from the producer than he can
from licensed dealer.
He can buy his eggs from the
farmer l to 3 cents cheaper on the
dozen and can save the public
money on anything he sells by
buying it irst-hand. Why should
the farmer be forced to pay 5000
for a city license before he can
sell his poultry, eggs and game
where he pleases? Why should
any one be forced to pay an eX-
tortionate license on anything
that goes with everyday living?
Here's the way it will work: The
farmer and producer will get less
for the articles mentioned and
the consuming public will pay
more. Go to the city hall and get
a copy of the ordinance and see
who got it up.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
So They Say

If repeal is not procured, the
SpeakeaSy will remain as a per-
manent fixed institution, and pub
lie officials will wink at it while
the public will patronize it.-Frank
A. K. Boland, general counsel,
American Hotel Association.
1 think the principal duty of the
Republicans today is to help make
good the Democratic promises Of a
return of prosperity and of employ
ment.-Will Hays, former post
master general.
Beer will unlock the pianos of
the nation-Gene Buck, of the
American Society of Composers.
During our last few months to-
gether there were many arguments
lasting far into the night.-Joan
Crawford, suing Doug Fairbanks
Jr., for divorce.
The federal government is with
out legal means to safeguard the
American investor-Senator Peter
Norbeck of South Dakota.
The child of today is spared many
fears by the influence Of mental
hygiene upon parents and school
teachers.-Dr. Haven Emerson of
Columbia University.
Writers are all dumb.-Sinclair
Lewis, novelist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
AIR MAIL GROWS UP

THE air mail was fifteen years old Mon
Il day. President Woodrow Wilson looked
on while an old army Jenny" with cruis-
ing speed of seventy-five miles an hour on
May Is, 1913 took off from Washington with
100 pounds of mail for New York.
Over this route Eastern Air Transport now
flies hourly service in giant planes which
make from 118 to 145 miles an hour.
And today the mail flies from New York
to San Francisco via United Air Lines in
three-m minute planes in less than
twenty hours, only a few times more hours
than the original Washington-New York route
consumed and half the time required for the
cross country flight ten years ago.
Air mail lines now cobweb the nation.
Last year the mail-passenger transport planes
carried 28OOO0,OO0 letters and half million
passengers, together with hundreds of tons of
express
On the earth things may be stagnant, but
in the air is life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1893
REPEAL AND REVENUE

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, with a fine
sense Of time, has pointed out in his latest
message to congress a single reason, out of
many reasons which demands quick repeal of
the eighteenth amendment.
The heavy taxes now necessary to carry
public works bond issue, he says, can be
eliminated when repeal is completed
The President, in his first utterance since
March on the subject of repeal thus brings
home to the states, and, we hope to their
Governors and legislatures, the need of early
action to set up ratifying conventions.
The Democratic and Republican national
platforms attest The undesirability of national
prohibition from the standpoint Of it's effect
upon morals and law enforcement as well as
tax revenues.
Voters of five states-Mchigan, Wisconsin,
Rhode Island Wyoming and New JERSEY
have cast overwhelming maJorities in the first
refe,enda held under the repeal plan. Twen-
ty-eight legislatures have set up election pro-
cedlre and dates have been fixed for cleo
lions, all but two of them this year
In fifteen other states however action is
necessary In six states-Arzona, Florida,
Idaho, Missouri, Montana and Utah-legisa-
ton has been passed, but dates for election
have not been set, according TO latest reports
TO Washington.
In two states, Colorado and Oklahoma,
Democratic Governors vetoed bills for repeal
elections In three states-Georgia, Kansas
and North Observation-Disclosures which met
this year failed to pass laws for this purpose.
In four Kentucky, Louisiana, Mis-
sissippi and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. did not
meet this year and the Governors have not
called them together on this vital question.
Even eventual repeal-in eighteen months
or two years-is not yet assured. But if the
citizens of the states, and particularly of the
fifteen states which have been holding back,
demand action now, and get it, there is a bare
chance of ratification by the necessary thirty
six states in 1893.
For repeal and revenue, the time to act
is now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
M.

TINE world needs dreamers, not to write
l. poetry, paint pictures, or produce plays, but
to translate human knowledge into adventures
enterprises, and achievements in keeping with
its scope.
Most Of the plans and programs being put
forward rest on little but the idea of doing
the same thing in a different way
War is about the only activity which gives
men a chance to mobilize effectively and put
forth their utmost strength in truly co-opera-
tive manner. That is why it continues to in
tirgue the human imagination.
Like individual psychology, that of the mass
is dominated by desire to do bigger things
Modern civilization actually is itching for an
opportunity to show what can be accomplished
through pooled wealth and pooled energy.
Polishing off the old machinery or even chang
ing the management will not and can not
satisfy this itch
Outside of Russia, there is not one nation
on earth committed to a project worthy of its
strength its ability its appetite for adventure
and Russia is doing little but install devices and
Improvements which other nations long have
possessed.
COMPARED to men of the Elizabethan period
~ who risked their all for discovery and con-
quest we of the present generation are acting
like children.
1t is quite true that the earth's surface has
been fairly well explored and that the quarreling
Of countries for territory must be stopped but
that does not mean that the field OF romance
and adventure has been exhausted
Scientific knowledge and mechanical power
have opened thousand and one doors We
could with the proper vision and leadership
change the climate of vast regions or provide a
new and permanent source of heat light and
energy Wind. sunshine. and the earths internal
fire only wait to be harnessed for mans benefit.
At Boulder dam we expect to produce one
million-horse power at a cost of S165E90, 600.
How much horse power could be produced if the
same amount of money were spent on sinking
shafts through the earths crust?
TEN fifteen or twenty miles under our feet
l. not in one place. but all over the world, is
permanent and exhaustless supply of heat
Why not tap it?
Why not flood the Sahara desert, or turn
the cold current away from New England? Why
not dig a tunnel under the English channel or
the Straits of Gibraltar? Why not make our
great rivers not only usable but good to look at?
Seventy-hve per cent of human work always
has been provided by the appetite for pleasure,
novelty, or experiment and always will be.
The trouble with modern life is that it has
permitted its pleasures. novelties and expert
mentS to become rutty In the larger aspects
of human progress, it is playing the part of a
parlor pink mistaking commonplace changes
for revolution and trying to make itself believe
that street disturbances are real movements.
1t has gone far in this direction as 70 be
afraid of its own strength, tools and capacity
as seriously to consider the idea of restraining
itself by law in order not to do too much
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leading citizens named to work with the Better
Business Bureau for this reform.
A half million year is the estimate here
Of the money which has poured into the cof-
fers of promoters of shady schemes cloaked
under charity pleas. This sum would have fed
and clothed thousands Of needy persons in that
period Of time.
If you do not know absolutely that your
none is going for variety purpose, to assist
some one in dire need. say mo" to the glib
tongued statesmen who fatten on misfortune.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
A Woman's Viewpoint +:

HUMAN beings, if given half a
l. l. chance, are likely to be fairly
decent creatures. We are as prone
to good as We are to evil. Most Of
our so-called criminals are only
victims of circumstance. And how
futile are our present methods of
reforming them
1t requires so much more intelli-
gence and Christian charity to I'M
derstand a man than to punish him.
1t is easier to prosecute than to
prevent, to reduce than to teach.
And our entire system Of penal
ogy, it seems, has grown to depend
largely upon prosecution. We'd
rather send a man to jail with all
the expense that entails than to
try to make him an upright citizen
by humane and sensible means.
Each state spends large sums
yearly for running down, capturing,
and trying husbands who fail to
support wives and children. In
times like these, especially, such
cases are increased tremendously on
every court docket. In numerous
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
:: The Message Center ::

vets for many of the nations finan-
cial ills, while it is given no credit
for the contribution toward ten
years of prosperity.
In the face of these facts, are you
willing to do your part to help pre-
serve the prohibition law?
But do any rightthinking men
or women voters want the repeal?
All laws are violated. The difficulty
of enforcing it is no argument what
ever for its repeal.
Let us continue to impart respect
for the Constitution of the United
States and for all its various amend
ments. We urge the continued, Wig
orous and impartial enforcement of
the entire Constitution of the
United States as the supreme law
Of the, land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
HELP THIS RACKET FIGHT

TTHE city at last has awakened to the need
of halting the activities of the lowest form
of racketeers-the promoter who conducts
high-powered campaign ostensibly for some
charity and then pockets most OF the pro-
ceeds.
Fake missions" phony armies" and other
bogus bands of mercy have reaped harvests
OF thousands Of dollars from kind-hearted and
gullible citizens since the depression started
Grafters operating under the gpise of charity
have grown rich on the nickels and dimes do
mated by persons almost as needy as those they
sought to help
To stamp out this evil there should be full
cooperation on the part of every respectable
resident Of indianapolis with the committee Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

instances, because we like to believe
We are sympathetic with the decent
members Of the family, we spend
all our money on the derelict in
diyidual.
Imagine for instance what good
might be done if the same amounts
were applied to helping the helpless.
The state better could afford to pay
q mother a small sum to keep her
child at home than to utilize it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18

INABILITY of the human body to
Il adjust itself satisfactorily to con-
slant high temperature is a we'll
recognized phenomenon, manifesting
itself usually by symptoms of sun
stroke, heatStroke, or heat eX-
haustion.
Another condition commonly seen
in men who work long periods of
time at a high temperature is what
is known as heat cramps.
Frequently miners and firemen
are unable to work because of severe
muscle cramps that come on when
they are working at a high tenn
perature.
In study of this condition made
by Talbot and Nicholson from
Harvard university in Boston and
also in the hospital of a mining
company in Boulder City, New, it is
suggested that these heat cramps e
associated with disturbance of
the regulation Of the interchange
of water and salt in the body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-18
Fiction and Facts

1T is true, of course, that our
popular fiction magazines,
through both conscious and uncon-
Scious selection, celebrate for the
most part the triumph of rugged
individualism. The boy in the short
story or the novel who works hard
and behaves himself has a very good
chance in the last paragraph to
marry the daughter of the boss. He
even may come to own the factory
and belong to a good golf club.
American fiction. and even more
extensively the American talking
picture, is just as much propaganda
as anything written by the most
ardent young Communist here or
abroad. And it has been a very
persuasive kind of propaganda.
The much-apDlauded patience of
the unemployed millions is to some
extent founded upon their long con-
tact with the success story type of
novel and movie. And even the ar
ticles lean to the formula of How
1 Started With Two ShoeIaces and
Now Own the Largest Retail Boot
Shoppe in HaverhilI, Mass"
1t is entirely reasonable that
many writing men should feel the
necessity of an antidote or even an
emetic. People who don't think
THAT industrial life in America goes
exactly like that ought to set down
IN their own words their version of
the world about us.
But 1 think that, for the sake
OF propaganda effectiveness. thew
make a great mistake in trying to
alter both the mood and the man
her at the same time.