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government long ago If American citizens had
desired.
For at least twenty years since the Pujo
expose, the public has known that the House
of Morgan, through interlocking business and
bank directorates, and spider web Of patron
age dominates American life.
But the public has not cared. Mr.. Morgan
will remain an emperor just so long as the
public wishes to pay tribute TO him, but no
longer.
The extent of Morgan control was shown
in part by the statement of the senate COM
n1ittee Monday. Morgan partners are drec-
tors Of eighty-nine corporations and banks,
with assets of more than s20,O00000 000
These eighty-nine Morgan corporations
and banks also have SGT nonpartner directors,
who in turn, serve on the boards of 2305
other companies. Many of these nonpartner
directors are on the Morgan list of industrial
and political leaders for special favors in bar
gain stocksSand loans
Faced by this complicated and far-reach-
ing financial empire, the senate committee
has recessed its hearings for a few weeks to
permit further preparation and investigation
The committee proposes, before it finishes, to
give the American public a fairly complete
picture Of the Morgan machine and the way
it operates
Then the public, which is responsible for
the present lack of effective laws and regula-
ton, can decide whether this country is to
remain half free and half Morgan.
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SQUARE DEAL FOR THE TOILER

lust why any one should fear that the new
q industrial control bill will give organized
labor too much of a break is something hard
to understand.
To be sure. it has been asserted that I'M
der certain Interpretation of the law every
factory in the land could be made into a
closed shop. But it ought to be obvious that
closed shop of the kind contemplated here
is quite unlike the closed shop as we have
known it in the past.
Besides, if American employers can be
frightened by the specter of a closed shop
after all the other terrors they have faced in
the last three years, their nerves must have
suffered more than any one has supposed
The American laboring man needs break
of some kind very badly.
During the depression he has been most
amazingly patient. 1t used to be said. back
in the old boom days, that he would get ram
functions and start breaking things if the
industrial machine ever slowed down.
Ever since the 1929 stock market crash,
he has been disproving this prediction.
In the face of swiftly contracting wage
scales and frightening breadlines he has sat
tight, willing to wait for the turning, ignoring
the Neutrality-suspicious. who would have turned
his predicament to their own advantage, dis
playing a quiet endurance and an inherent
conservatism that have been nothing less
than amazing.
BY so doing he has given us every reason
to expect that he will not abuse the privilege
which the industrial control bill is going to
bring him.
But aside from those considerations, there
is another ground on which labor's new
charter Of power can be defended.
At this moment shift in our whole form
Of government seems to be taking place; a
shift which carries over into the industrial
and financial fields those standards of free
dom and democracy which we have always
cherished in the political realm.
An industrial law which sets up a series
of labor-controlled organizations to share in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-13
Don't Rush Through Your Luncheon

A FRENCHMAN, discussing the
L A luncheon habits of people in
various parts Of the world, recently
characterized Americans as tachy-
phages, or rapid eaters, because he
had noticed that they seldom take
the time for properly chewing and
swallowing their food, particularly
at the luncheon period.
The newspapers have carried
items relative to the speed with
which President Roosevelt eats
his luncheon, often at his desk, and
editorial writer's have warned
against the risk of physical indi-
gestion and mental exhaustion for
the sake of saving few paltry min
utes at midday. In this they proba-
bly, are right.
One statement says Mr.. Roose-
velt's luncheon usually requires
forty-five minutes.
If he takes forty-f1ve minutes to
eat luncheon. he probably is taking
more time than most Americans.
Most offices and plants allow a to-
tai of forty-five minutes for the
luncheon period, during which en-
ployes have to go to a restaurant
or restroom and eat the luncheon,
and then come back.
Of late, there has been a ten
dency to cut down on the size Of
luncheon and to make the evening
dinner the main meal of the day.
Most American men eat fairly
hearty breakfast, including fruit,
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The WOrmIesS Bird

DUT there were other issues
- which seem to me to have been
much more clearly drawn in the
personalities Of the two contenders.
1t was the butterfly versus the ant,
the poetic concept of Edna St. Vim
cent Millay against the philosophy
of Alfred Lord Tennyson, the worm
less bird against the early riser.
There is no newspaper report that
Max Baer went into any poetic
statement following his triumph. but
he might very well have put out a
paraphrase about as follows:
Il burn my candle at both ends
1t will not last the night;
But, oh, my foes, and, oh, nv
friends,
I certainly put up lovely fight"
1t has been the custom of the
sporting commentators to refer to
Make Baer as Young Apollo" I
have no reason to set up as an au-
thority on Apollos, but to me the re-
semblance is not striking. However,
1 have seen Mr.. Baer in some of his
lighter moments, and there is a dis
tinct touch of Bacchus.
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PULLING THOSE RUSSIANS

THAT cablegram sent to Jimmy Mattern
in Russia by friends in his home town of
San Angelo, Tex, seems to have caused So
Wet officials at Moscow a good deal of per-
fectly natural bewilderment.
In itself the message was simple enough
1t said, "Attaboy, Jimmy" and it was signed
San Angelo" But it puzzled the serious
commiSsars.
"Attaboy'-in what Russian English die
tionary will you find definition of that
cryptic word? And the signature, San An
gelo"; what could that mean and why?
Obviously, che whole thing might be a
code message involving deeply hidden plot.
"Attaboy Jimmy-San Angelo; international
secrets have been given away in words less
mysterious than those.
Soviet Russas introduction to American
slang is probably thing that the Moscow
officials will shake their heads over for a
long time.
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WHY HALF AND HALF?

IF the public will get as excited about the
l. Morgan control OF industry as the Morgan
escape from income tax payments, the coun-
try can throw off the Morgan dictatorship.
The income tax story told in the senate
hearings naturally Infatuated the little tax
payers. but it hardly was a surprise to those
familiar with the many loopholes in the tax
laws. Clearly the fault is not so much with
the Morgans as with congress and the coun-
try. which so long have been satisfied with a
tax system which scratches the back of the
rich man and brushes the poor man.
The significant fact is not that the Nor
gans exploited the tax set up for their own
profit but that we were dubs enough to let
thcsl do it.
The same is true of Morgan control Of in
dustry. 1t is silly to blame Mr.. Morgan for
welding economic power greater than that of
any king. Mr.. Morgan and the private banks
would have been regulated and restrained by
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1t Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN-

NEW YORK, June 13. - The
~ meeting Of the Makes served to
furnish many moral lessons. Every
prizeflght turns into a Greek trag-
edy, since the spectators always 60
bearing symbols.
You may remember that a good
many years ago Nordic civilization
was at stake when Jeffries fought
Jack johnson. To be sure. in spite
Of the somewhat ignominious de-
feat Of the Caucasian hope. the
Nordic race still is in there swing
ing.
I forget Just what the issue was
when Tunney knocked out Tom
Heney, but Carpenter represented
the spirit of the Marine when Demp-
sey tumbled him, and the Manassa
Mauler in turn gave way to the in
spiration of Billy Phelps and the
Athenian ideal when Gene saw the
Acropolis by moonlight, but shook it
out OF his head at the count of nine
teen.
1 am told that Thursday nights
encounter was envisaged by the
crowd as a trial by combat between
Rabbi Wise and Adolf Hitler. Al
though Schmeling is managed by a
gentleman named Joe Jacobs, he
had to serve, for the purposes of the
evenings motional values, as the
arch type of Nazi. And, naturally
enough, Max Baer was the little
David who aimed between the eyes
and achieved a technical Knockout.
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.M.E.TracySays:

ONCE more we find congress at loggerheads
~ with the President. Patronage is the secret.
Legislators are vastly more interested in making
themselves solid with the party than in support
ing sound public policy.
First, they want distribution of jobs to re-
ward their henchmen. Second, they want meas
ures by which they can prove that they are able
to serve groups and cliques of constituents.
Having clothed the President with emer-
gency powers, senators and representatives feel
that the time has come to repenish the feed
bag. 1t is the same old spoils system at work
in the same old way, and the spoils system
simply does not click with efficient government.
The average citizen is not impressed with the
scramble for jobs that ensues after every change
of administration. He does not believe that it
helps him in any way or that it tends to i'm
prove public service
On the other hand he is inclined to suspect
that it has a great deal to do with the con-
stantly increasing expense of government and
the growing inability of public officials to main
tain order.
THE average citizen associates graft, racke-
Il teering, and Incompetence with the fact that
public service has become subordinate to politics
and that many officials far more interested in
Strengthening their party than in doing what is
best for nation, state. or city.
This condition exists not only with regard to
the federal government but to every form of
local government States cities and towns are
handicapped by the persistent efforts of leaders
to build up political machines and maintain or
CARNATIONS through a clever distribution of
patronage, regardless of its effect on the tax
payer.
In New York City, for instance a Tammany-
controlled administration is levying unjust and
unprecedented taxes rather than put its hench-
men off the pay roll. The issue is not one of
adequate service to the city, but of hired help
for the party
THOUGH the country's outstanding example
l. New York is not exceptional in this re-
spect. BY willfully perverting the privileges Of
democracy, we Americans have succeeded in de-
veloping loyalty to the party. the machine, the
crowd in control which overshadows civic con-
sciousness and have reached point where any,
thing like thorough-going economy or honest
law enforcement is well nigh impossible.
Such attitude explains the power exercised
by organized minorities, b. small blocs Of voters
that can be depended on, by large contributors
to the campaign fund, by ward heelers and local
bosses.
The resultant confusion, Incompetence and
discomfort constitute our gravest peril. For the
first time in American history, large numbers of
people openly are wondering whether radical
changes in our form of government are not de-
sirable, and while economic conditions furnish
the excuse. an obvious breakdown of civic con-
seriousness is the real cause.
The demand for what commonly is called
"a business administration as illustrated by
city managers, commissions, and more executive
power, is rooted in a belief that politics has
grown too cheap to be trusted
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BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

sometimes cereal, eggs, toast and
coffee, and not infrequently bacon
or sausages.
With such a breakfast and with a
dinner including soup. meat, two
vegetables, salad, coffee or tea, and
dessert, the luncheon need merely
include something light as a sand
wich, fruit, and a beverage.
Many a competent business man
takes only glass of milk and a
biscuit for his MONDAY luncheon.
This does not mean, however, that
the time for luncheon should be
limited to the time necessary for
consumption of a glass of milk and
biscuit.
The extra time at luncheon should
be spent in a complete rest from the
usual activities of the day; that is to
say, either in lying fiat with the eyes
closed, or in some recreation, such
as a walk in the outdoors, unim-
portant conversation, or any similar
diversion.
Unfortunately, with the majority
Of Americans, luncheon has become
a time for attending to business not
attended to in the office.
Before the chief course comes on
one lays down psychologically a
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tleships and drown all the armies
the world ever has seen. Oceans
and oceans, consumed by man and
his beasts.
How the COW has multiplied mani
And yet so battened upon, she is
calm, faithful and fruitful. AS COM
panion, she endures all-eYen in
difference-contentedly.
Where her tribe hourishes, there
is the earth green and the fields
fertile. Man in well being and
abundance.
she is Hosanna TO the Lord! For
where she is, at destruction and
famine laughs, while he salts her,
folders her, beds her, milks her,
breeds her. And thus tended, she
eats her way from calfhood clear
through to the digestive tract of
humanity-her destiny. Her humble
last farewell to mantle shoes up
on his feet"
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So They Say

Certainly, I'll marry again when
and if ever meet another man
with whom I can share love, COM
partnership and understandings
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, many times
wed.
Every treaty is holy, but no treaty
IS eternal.-Prime Minister Mac
Donald of Great Britain.
Count that day lost whose descend
ing sun
Views no message from the Presi-
dent come.
Congressman U. S. Guyer of KAN
sas, in lyrical mood.
May the seven plaques of Egypt
fall upon whoever revolts against
the country-General Augusta San
dino, former Nicaraguan rebel.
Life is an end in itself and the
only question as to whether it is
worth living is whether you have
had enough of it.-Oliver Wendell
Holmes, former supreme court
justice.
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Leave It to u. S.

BY r. F. Paine.
"TF the handful of New York
i men who control the vast net
work of power lines and power
plants linked together through
United Corporation should decide
to shut down their motors-stop
service suddenly-the entire ma
ton would be demoralized. Manu-
featuring plants would close,
trains would stop running, food
supplies would run short, city
jewellers would be left helpless.
It would be interesting to see what
the government could do about
situation like this" So says your
interesting Washington CORE
spondent, Ruth Finney.
Well, governments action in
such crisis would be not only
interesting, but mighty reforma-
tory. There would be nothing for
government to do but conscript
that vast network" just as it
conscripts our best young men in
war crisis.
1t would kick out the obstrepe-
rous management, without dis
turbance of the body of workers
of the power lines and plants.
Such action surely would suggest
radical reform to other mighty,
monopoliStic corporations.
Indeed, some of the propositions
before the present congress aim
at exactly such action. Public ex-
pose of invisible government"
by the Morgan crowd gives light
and the people (the government
will find their own way"
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A Woman's Viewpoint

WE had talked about the differ
Wv ent sorts of things that
shocked different sorts of people,
each trying to recall what had
startled her most in recent wears.
We had recited the lists, from the
invasion of Manchuria, through the
Lindbergh kidnapping to the bank
moratorium, when the mother Of
the hostess spoke up:
THE most shocking thing I ever
have read" she said, was an item
appearing more than a year ago,
which said that because school chill
dren in Los Angeles never had seen
COW, one was being brought to the
schools for exhibition purposes"
Come to think of it, that was a
bit of news to shock, as it shows us
how many leagues away from nat
uralness our urban civilization has
taken us.
We have had multitudes of trib-
utes both to the dog and the horse,
who are called mans best friends.
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Prophecy
BY EUGENE RICHART

The tie that binds us never can be
broken,
Or the last song sung, or the last
word spoken.
I could stay here and you could be
On some strange island in some
far sea,
But the things we've worshipped to-
gether will
Cast their magic over us still.
And nothing that you or I can do
Can keep this truth from being true.
Remember, my dearest, our strange
delight
In searching for ghosts together az
night?
Remember your futile questions why
A man should live when he longed
to die?
You will recall what we've shared,
and then
1t will be as if We had met again
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BY william E. Henry,

BY William z. Henry,
Seattle Librarian Emeritus.
Dear Governor McNutt-I am
sure you are busy with the affairs
of the state in d very perplexing
period, but may I have a minute
of your time?
I am a Hoosier by birth and edu-
cation, and I devoted more than
twenty years to Indiana educational
institutions. I was connected with
the state university, Franklin COL
lege and the state library in which
I served as head librarian from
1897 to 1906, when I was called to
position in the University of
Washington, but I have kept fairly
in touch with the Indiana library
since I left the state.
had the honor of being the first
state librarian elected without con-
sideration of partisan political
affiliations. From 1897 to date,
that library has been conducted by
persons educationally fitted for
library service until the Indiana
state library has become one of the
most efficient and noted in the
United States.
Just yesterday a report came to
me, not from the state library itself,
but from friends in Indiana inter-
ested in the state library as a great
educational institution, that: Gov
ernor Paul McNutt is discharging
staff members with library training
and experience and replacing them
with persons chosen because of
party affiliations"
From what I have heard of the
admirable and efficient service
which you have rendered to the peo-
pie of the state in your work in the
university and elsewhere, it seems to
me impossible that man with such
capacity as you have exhibited
should advise such plans as here
above indicated, which practically
will undo the work and the spirit CT
all that has been accomplished in
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-z'. IN

their force is almost zero in any
political controversy. We can not
afford to injure good institution
for all the force these few could
exert in political vote.
I speak strongly and plainly be-
cause of my interest in educational
work in the state which I served I'M
til I was beyond my 10th year At
the State Teachers college, the State
university, and Franklin college, and
nine years in the State Library.
If the report that came to me as
to changes being made in the State
Library of Indiana is true, I most
positively protest, and I sincerely
trust that intelligent light may
break upon the situation and the
library may be preserved from par
tisan politics.
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by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Humanity, however, could give up
both easier than it could do without
the humblest and most useful beast
the COW.
because it would be impossible
- to improve upon the appreci-
alton to her by Frank Lloyd Wright,
which appears in his superb auto
biography. copy it here.
Has any one sung the song of
the collaborating milk-f1owing, cud-
chewing, tail-switching, slow-moving
COW, with the fragrant breath and
the beautiful eyes, the ll-behaved,
the necessary COW?
She is the dairy farm, the wealth
of states, the health of nations.
How many TRUSTEES and lusties
besides her lawful calf have pulled
away at her teats these thousands
of years, until the streams flowing
from them would float fleets of bat
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

the government Of industry is no more than
a logical part Of that shift
We have today very fair chance to make
our democracy more truly effective than it
has been in a century. We can not do it if
we follow the lead Of tories to whom organ
lied labor is anathema
The industrial control law is a good thing.
not in spite of its concessions to organized
labor, but because of them.
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the state library in the last thirty
six years.
Such a calamity not only will
undo the efficient work of thirty-six
years, but it will be condemned by
the educated and Thoughtful people
of Indiana and the entire library
world.
The number of staff in any one
library is so extremely small that
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Strangely enough, the governments penal
terring the gold diggers one Bit
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London economic conference is going to
have bar seventy feet long, serving drinks of
sixty-six nations to thirsty delegates. That at
least, should keep the delegates in good
spirits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-13

King George is reported to have lost weight
during his recent illness. Another case of the
declining British pound?
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Unemployed st. Louis shoemaker is writing
an opera which, probably will contain some
very sole-ful music.
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University professor says it's dangerous for
man to marry after 30. How about before?
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Movie couple married in Havana last
January will be married all over again in
Hollywood in near future. Probably the news
paper photographers weren't on hand at the
first ceremony
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Secretary Woodin says Americans need
music to give them courage. Well, haven't
we been whistling for three years to keep it up?
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