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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
RESPONSIBILITY PLACED

ONE Of the fortunate developments Of the
~ last few years is that we are able now
adays to look an extremely radical idea in the
face without getting the filters.
case in point is the suggestion which
Donald Richberg dropped before the Mer-
chants Association Of New York in his recent
speech there-the suggestion that unless the
director and executive of big business recog-
nize their social responsibilities, and act on
them, they presently will be elected by the
public and not by the stockholders.
Here is notion which would have earned
man the indelible label of "bolshevik" if it
had been voiced as recently as six months ago.
Today we are able to look at it calmly and to
see that there is lot of good sense in it.
1t comes down, that is to say, to this: We
are awakening to the fact that the man who
directs a large industry occupies position of
public trust just as much as does the politician
who has been elected senator, judge, or
governor.
Accepting that simple fact carries us far
ther, perhaps, away from the philosophy of
rugged individualism than any other thing
that has happened to US.
The business executive Is answerable first
Of all, to his stockholders. Their money is in
his keeping; it's up to him to give them a.
return on it, and if he fails they quite properly
will remove him.
He is answerable, too in a. less direct way
to his employees. To be sure, they can't get at
him if he fails them. But their jobs, their
bread and butter their chances to do some
thing with their lives, rest entirely on him.
To these allied responsibilities we now are
seeing the necessity of adding third-respon-
sibiiity to the public at large
What the industrial executive does affects
the whole country, sooner or later. We are in
his hands, and if he is fumbling incompetent
we are apt to get dropped
Is it, after all, so far-fetched to suggest
that we ought to be able to exercise some con-
troll over him?
The incompetent business man is lust as
much a parasite on society as the incompetent
politician, and society ought to have the power
to dispose of him.
1t would have been the height of radicalism
to say that year or so ago; today it is moth
ing but plain common sense.
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SATURDAY. JULY is. 1893
COTTON. CONTROL

THE south has agreed to plow under more
Il than 100000 acres of cotton. No de-
velopment in the new deal actually is more
astounding.
Sixteen states have contracted to destroy
about 100000 bales Of cotton. They will, Of
course get in return lump sum of 100000
000 divided in cash rental fees among grow
ers who signed acreage reduction contracts.
But the implication Of the agreement is much
broader. It means that the southern cotton
farmer that highly individualistic being who
has been planting his land for decades and
reaping the snowy fields, come good markets
or bad, hell or high water voluntarily is now
taking part in a vast experiment of agricul-
turaI planning.
His is but a part in this program; the
wheat farmer Of the midwest is with him, the
dairying interests, the tobacco growers, the
cattle raisers and the packers, the fruit men
Of Florida and California. All, eventually, will
come into this plan to prevent SURPRISES that
clog the markets and ruin prices.
The cotton program is distinctive because
Of two things: Cotton is about to be destroyed
while there are millions who need cotton prod
ucts. There is justification for this destruc-
ton If the cotton south and the whole nation
that pays the big bill-beneft. Time will
tell
In the second place the plan is unique be-
cause the largest cotton growing nation is
cutting down output of a crop the price of
which is fixed in the world markets
In this latter connection America must
watch her foreign cotton markets. Of these
Russia could be the largest An intelligent
decision of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to lend money on a sale of cotton to
the Soviet union always has been made That
Whole vast country would become a much
better customer for our cotton if formally
recognized by the state department.
The south's whole hearted acceptance of
the acreage reduction plan is more unassail-
able evidence of the confidence in the Roose-
welt administration. And out of confidence
prosperity is born
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NO STOPGAP

before the national industrial recovery
~ act and other aspects of President Roose-
velt's positive program for control of Ameri-
can business have been put into operation we
begin to hear suggestions that those are only
brief and temporary measures a sort of
crutch to business until its sprained ankle is
we'll again.
Just as soon as prosperity returns the whole
machinery will be scrapped and we shall re-
vert to the rugged indvidualiSm of frontier
times. Even Al Smith veered a little toward
this attitude in his editorial in the last num-
Der of the New Outlook
All this reminds one of DR.. Tugwells OBJ
servation that the old slogan of no govern
ment in business apparently is meant to apply
only in good times when private industry is
sitting pretty, with large profits and no trou-
bles
When hard times come, even the most
piratical of the individualists come falling over
one another to seek handout from the gov
eminent lunch counter. 1t is only an illustra-
ton of the old adage about the devils deter
mination to become a monk when i'll and his
nonmonkish antics as soon as he RECEIVERS
Just so far as we hear any talk about the
New Deal being only a brief and transitory
experiment we can know that American bust
ness has learned nothing from the depression.
If there is anything which the depression
proved, it was the failure of old-line indi-
vidualism and the inability Of business to set
and keep its own house in order.
No sane person would desire governmental
interference in business if it were not neces-
sary The economic history of the last GEN.
fury amply has proved that it is necessary
and today Indispensable
From now on, American industrial life must
remain firmly under the thumb of Uncle Sam.
Otherwise it will be fiat on its back again in
few years and once more holding out a tin
cup plaintively to the federal treasury And
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1t Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, July 15.-When de-
4 = vices to promote world peace,
such as leagues and treaties. prove
to be less than 100 per cent efficient,
people grow impatient and exclaim:
Let's go back to the old way. The
best way to insure peace is to be
prepared for war"
do not blame anybody for grow
ing discouraged over the manifold
shortcomings Of the various abortive
efforts to achieve internationalism.
Most Of the seed sown has fallen
upon the rock or into very shallow
soil.
But I am surprised at the exceed
ing patience which many bestow
upon the old way" The machin-
cry for peace is new and i'll con-
trived and creaky IN its Joints. But
what can be said for the old Way2
Why is disapproval cast upon an
effort which still is in its infancy
and approval given to a method
which has failed a thousand times
in every century?
The theory that nations which
are ready to fight need never take
up arms has been blasted in the
lifetime of every generation since
man first found flint and made him
self g war club.
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Turning Back Pages

Dig navy people in America are
~ fond of citing incidents in our
own history to justify their attitude.
One of the favorite contentious il
that in 1872 the British burned the
Capitol in Washington because we
had neglected to arm ourselves ade-
quately.
That is a long time ago, and IL
never has seemed to me a vital epi-
sode. Even the most partisan in
! terpreter of history hardly could
maintain that the conflagration had
any lasting effect on the progress
and prosperity of the United
States.
From 1912 the preparedness people
are very likely to leap more than
century and assert that if we had
been better armed in 1917, we never
would have been drawn into the
World war.
do not think the argument is a
sound one. Had we been more ready
we might have had the good sense
to stay out entirely First of all. it
simply isn't true that we were i'll
| ~ OboACQ W1lC1l we entered the con-
tlict in 1917. We did not have a
large army in being, and our navy
was no more than fair to middling.
But we stood as the great arsenal Of
the world. All the necessary ST.
news Of war were in our hands.
1t is quite true that Germany in
the later stages of the conflict made
no great efforts to keep us out. Their
eyes were open when they took a
desperate gamble. Whether our
army was big or little was of no
particular consequence to the Ger
man strategists.
They proceeded upon the theoryl
that the submarine campaign would
suffice to make it impossible for us
to send reinforcements. Our navy,
although useful to the allies, was
not vital factor, since the English
already had the German fleet bot
tied up.
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Times readers are inrited to cypress
their Utetrs il, these columns. Make your
letters short, 50 all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or IessJ
BY R. F. Paine.
Permit me to opine that the
truths stated in your editorial based
upon Roy Towards report on con-
ditions and native sentiment in the
Orient should suffice to inaugurate
radical change in our govern
ment's attitude toward and dealings
with the whole foreign world.
Just as for more than decade
we have been most disastrously
monkeying with unenforceable pro-
hibition, so for more than the last
decade we have been posing futilely
as the worlds super peacemsker,
amongst other things filling our
newspapers with near prospects of
another Worlds war, cutting down
our own preparedness for any sort of
war, while the foreign nations were
|
outlay of funds owing us. Pacif1sm
gone crazy.
Suasion failed ANONYMOUSLY as to
prohibition. 1t must fail as to our
up-tO-date endeavors as the worlds
peacemaker. Both failures for the
same reason; the human animal is
naturally selfish and nationa;istic.
We went to the great, glorious
job of persuading the foreign hu-
man animals to be good, peaceful,
and self-denying; and they answer
that they have their own estimates
of moral obligations, their own war
projects and are positively out for
all they can get in trade and acqui-
Sition of territory.
What of great consequence have
all the conferences and treaties in
terAationally participated in during
the last fifteen years amounted to,
so far as any satisfaction to
America is concerned? Our Presi-
dent was repudiated in signing that
! abortive Versailles treaty.
We have been rather habitually
down upon our bellies as official
observers" peeping under the doors
Of foreign conference rooms and
returned home with a few sick mice
that the mountains gave birth to.
We have stood outside of league
doors while Japan safely has robbed
her neighbors of vast territories.
Our disarmament conference is
shot to a FRAGILE. And we are now
hobnobbing in a so-called economic
conference in London at which we
vision agreements with nations,
some of them frankly defaulters, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
TO PRIME RECOVERY

THE administration is worried about the
short memories of certain industrialists
who supported the recovery law until the
stock market rise, but who now think pros
perity has arrived under its own steam al
lowing them to lapse back into the old cut
throat methods
Despite the example of these unwise en-
ployers, some administration officials have
been wavering in loyalty to the Roosevelt
public works program, which from the begin
ming was advertised as the cornerstone Of new
purchasing power and business recovery.
For several weeks Mr.. Douglas the budget
director, has been reported trying to make
wholesale cuts in the SO, 10000 900 program.
Secretary Ickes has been standing by the orig
inal policy
The President has refused to be influenced
by the wornout arguments which prevented
Mr.. Hoover from undertaking public works
with such disastrous consequences. The need
for increased mass purchasing power to sus-
tain business revival is as great as ever
The question of waste or extravaganza need
not arise. There are plenty of useful projects
which are sound financial and social invest
ments-such as reforestation identification
and slum clearance-without souandering
money on pork-barrel pursuits and white ele-
plant public buildings.
Fortunately, the administration has in Sec
rotary Ickes public works administrator alive
to the twin dangers of waste and graft in
the spending of such a huge construction
fund.
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Lefthonded Pacifsts

or course, disciples Of prepared
~ ness will insist that they are
the real pacifistS. They tell us that
they are not for big navy No.
indeed. All they want is an ade-
quate navy. But what is the de7ni-
ton Of that tricky adjective? Some
say that if we have navy second
to none our defense is ADEQUATE
But when that point is reached
some admiral comes along and sug-
geSts the possibility of our being
compelled to face attack by a COM
bination Of powers. And after that
scare has bitten IN. adequate" be-
comes a navy big enough to fight
all the world.
There is no such thing as an
adequate" navy, because no one
country, no matter how rich and
powerful, can outstrip all the rest
when it comes to competitive build
ing.
l think the genuine blown-in-the-
bottle pacif1st has a fair answer
to those critics who say, But your
way hasn't worked yet" He can
reply in all honesty, But yours
never has"
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
NEWSPAPER PULLING POWER

ONE of the things the depression years seem
~ to have taught American business men
is that the newspaper advertisement is the
surest and most effective means of reaching
the consuming public
Figures just made public by the Bureau of
Advertising of the American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association show that newspapers re-
ceived SO per cent of the total advertising
appropriations of 432 national advertisers in
1882 and constituted the preferred advertising
medium of nineteen OF the principal trade
groups in the United States.
Newspapers, for example, got 50 per cent
of the automobile advertisements, "a per cent
of the gasoline ads. 90 per cent of the rail-
roads ads, and 81 per cent of the shoe and
clothing advertisements.
The figures are remarkable tribute to the
pulling power" of the newspaper advertise
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

Among the emergencies demand
ing first-aid is the presence Of for
eign bodies in the eye, ear, nose
throat or esophagus.
Regardless of how careful moth
ers may be, children occasionally
push foreign substances into various
body cavities
Wheen a child chokes, there is no
time to call a doctor. The mother
must act promptly. The mother
should remember that the attempt
to remove any object in the throat
by rough methods may do more
harm than good.
If the baby is small, it should be
put face downward and given op-
portunity to cough the object out. A
very large object can, of course, be
pulled out with the fingers.
A physician removes objects from
the throat by the use of special
devices developed for this purpose.
Next: Treatment of burns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBErN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

iced congresses to the eye will stop
the pain and perhaps, to some ex-
tent, prevent diScoloration.
After the blackness appears, the
application of hot congresses, kept
on for half an hour three times a
day, will hasten disappearance of
swelling and discoloration.
Among things that are not to be
done to a black eye are the applica-
ton Of slice of raw beefsteak, pres
sure with the handle of knife, or
the application of any kind of strong
medicinal lotion or solution.
The danger of injury to the eye
ball is far more serious than either
the mental or physical pain asso-
ciated with the ordinary black eye.
1t is we'll to have the eye exam
ined promptly, to make certain that
the eyeball has not been injured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
A Woman's Viewpoint

4 S recall my childhood"
IA writes Pittsburgh cor
respondent, sit seems to me that
mother had an easier time bringing
up her six children than I do with
my one"
There can be no doubt Of it. No
task is so difficult as the rearing
of one child.
Nevertheless, We often are asked
to credit our parents with extra
ordinary powers, for their excellent
management of families that appear
to us alarmingly large. Yet. often
think, they were more fortunate
than we.
In the first place they were kept
so busy with the innumerable affairs
of their household and the physical
care Of their families that they had
little time for sentimental intro
Spection. There were few spare
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generally he does not vote, except
in case. of a tie. When he par
ticularly wishes to have his vote
recorded he directs the clerk to
call his name, and votes.
Q-Is it true that human beings
can not sink in Great Salt Lake,
Utah?
A-The specific gravity of the
water in the lake is so great that
a swimmer can not sink.
Q-Can one who holds first U. S.
citizenship papers issued in 1890,
use them now in applying for
final citizenship?
A-No, they have expired.
Q-When did former Mayor
James J. Walker of New York
marry his first wife?
A--April II, 1912.
Q-Is George Barr McCutcheon,
the author of Graustark, still Iiv-
ing?
Ale died October %, 1928.
Q-Is there an account of an
intoxicated man in the Bible2
A-The first account of intoxi-
cation is the story of Noah's
drunkenness after the flood, in the
book of Genesis.
.Q-How many years constitute
a generation?
Alt is commonly estimated as
one-third of a century.
GLOW many motion picture
theaters in the United States
cater exclusively to Negroes?
A-The Film Daily Year Book
lists 300.
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by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON:

moments for feeling sorry for them
selves, or for fretting over the queer
characteristics exhibited by their
children.
Each moment Of every day was
chuck full of living. When crises
arrived mothers did not become
hysterical or repair to sanitoriums;
they accepted them as a matter Of
course. They died young, but they
did not become neurotics.
THEY wasted no energy over the
u mother-in-law problem or the
frailty Of a husbands love. They
neither sighed nor sobbed over fan
cied wrongs. And, because their
children were many, they we're
obliged to set them early upon their
own two feet. A. very good thing
for the youngsters.
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What Is the Answer?

I HAVE yet to hear satisfactory
Il answer from the preparedness
partiSans which will explain away
the classic case of Germany. In
the day of the kaiser, Germany
moulded the finest military machine
the world ever has known. There
was an army which could have OBJ
liberated Caesar, Alexander, Ham
nibal and Napoleon before break
fast on any bright morning.
It was so fine an instrument that
it sufficed to stand off the combined
forces of half a dozen great powers
for the span of more than four
years. And yet Germany drank
the bitter dregs of defeat and
misery, for all the fact that its pre-
paredness was adequate up to the
dreams of the most visionary field
marshal
How did it happen2 Two schools
OF thought still are in being. AL
though it dwindles, the 1914 ex-
PLANTATION survives. PartisanS of this
point of view contend that the kai-
ser wantonly fomented a world
conflict because he was confident
OF the might and majesty of his
mailed fist.
The more recent theory is that
Germany simply was drawn into
the vortex, along with other ma
tons, because imperialiStic rivalries
made a world war inevitable. But
preparedness receives a black eye
which ever notion you support. The
auperb military machine was in the
long run a tragic possession for
either a guilty or an innocent Ger
MANY.
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Questions and Answers

Q-Does any state prohibit di-
vorces?
A-South Carolina has not had
a divorce law since 1878. The
court of common pleas in the
state may annul marriages, I'M
der very restricted conditions.
Q-Translate the Spanish phrase
"Por I'll Muero."
Al die for thee"
Q-What is the value of a
United States half dime dated
1858?
Alive to ten cents.
Q-What is the meaning of sub
deb and coed.
A-The former refers to a young
girl just under the age for being
introduced into society The latter
refers to female student at
college or university.
Q-Who gave the money for the
swimming pool that is being built
for President Roosevelt, and how
much will it cost?
A-The funds for the swimming
pool were raised through thirty
two newspapers in a campaign in
New York state. The estimated
cost is $4,000 to $4,000.
Q-Can an electric motor oper-
ate in a vacuum?
Ayes.
Q-Does the speaker Of the U. S.
house of representatives vote on
legislation in that body2
Ale has the same right to
vote as any other member, but
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So, out Of the general scramble,
they usually sent out half a dozen
or so very worthy citizens and they
did not expect any medals for hav-
ing done so. Life to them was its
own reward.
Contrast them, # you please, with
the modern mother who has but
one precious baby to her name. Is
it strange that she should worry 100
much over her solitary treasure?
7 think not. Her problem is seri-
Gus, sometimes a tragic one. For
she must always be saying mo" to
her own heart, crushing the desire
to serve and spoil the child.
Her maternal instinct, strong and
desperate, wars ever with her in
telligence, and the battle leaves her
spent. Instead of condemnation,
she deserves heartfelt sympathy.
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I'm Alone
BY AUSTIN LANES


I'm sitting alone in my study to-
night;
Just me and my books and nv lit
tie brass light.
The silence is eloquent, now I am
free
To talk to nyself-have a confer
ference with me.
When the others are here I'm too
busy for thought;
I'm concerned with impressions
that I may have wrought.
And 1t seems that I live in a stolid
reserve,
My mind occupied with the things
observe.
But now I'm alone with the books
on the shelf,
And I'm taking this chance to s2-
anime myself. -
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many of them violators of our KEEL
logg treaty and all other peace
pacts.
We have been peddling doves of
peace for consumption by super
nationalism, and super nationalism
naturally rules human animals in
this period of universal chaos.
OF course, the japanese masses
hate America, and with justiflca-
ton, because of the Shortridge ex-
clusion act, an insult put upon a
great nation. We have sentiment
enough in our makeup to feel out
rageously insulted should any other
nation pick us out especially as too
low by breed to be admitted to its
citizenry or boundaries.
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This Is the fifth article in a series on
first-aid.
WHENEVER the tissues of the
w body are struck with suff-
cient force there is likely to be
bruising This may come from a
blow or from a fall.
The first symptom of bruise is
pain; usually this is followed by
redness and swelling. Later, due to
the blood that has poured out from
the blood vessels into the skin, the
tissues become black and blue.
AS the blood gradually is absorbed
this changes from brown to yellow
and gradually disappears.
For most bruises little immedi-
ate treatment is necessary. Appli-
cation of pads wrung out of ice
water will lessen pain.
Z
4 BLACK eye is a form of bruise
IA especially unsightly and likely
to arouse risibilities. Application of