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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01

CIGNIFICANT of the changing spirit of
~ America is the labor conference in Wash
ington called by Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins.
Through such representatives as Sidney
Hlllman, Donald Richberg, William Green,
A. F. Whitney, John P. Frey and others con-
suited by the administration, 100000 wage
earners have become vocal Out of these of
fetal conferences should evolve a vital Amer
lean labor program, not only for emergency
relief, but for basic reform
Here union labor speaks to its government
not as an outside pleader, but as friend and
co-Worker. So far, President Roosevelt's pro-
gram except in minor details, has been labors.
He backed direct federal relief grants and won
the forestation project.
Now he is studying the practical aspects of
united labors demand for a great public
works program coupled with the shorter week
plan to absorb the millions of unemployed
and prime the pump of industry through re-
sumption of buying.
Agreed are both labor and the administra-
ton that emergency measures will not suffice.
The time has passed" Secretary Perkins
told the sixty-f1ve labor men, for the gov
eminent to sponsor negative and static labor
policies. What is needed is positive and
dynamic program"
The spokesman for some 100000 workers
have agreed on the general lines of this dy-
manic program.
The rail brotherhoods and the American
Federation of Labor proposed: Federal hunger
sentation on all relief boards; public works
program of possibly $5OOOOOOoOO, to be sup
plemented by federal loans to localities for
self hquidating projects, like slum clearance;
minimum wage laws for women and minors
and general wage increases; unemployment
insurance by states and Wagner federal aid
bill for such insurance; child labor abatement;
mortgage relief for workers homes, 80 per
cent of which are mortgaged; immigration re-
striction; federal bank control; protection of
education; Black Connery thirty-hour week
bill; national economic planning.
Particularly significant is the Hilman
plan. 1T is necessary, as a measure serving
the interests of the whole public in this
emergency" in the Judgment of his group,
ito establish control over wages. hours and
labor conditions on a nationwide scale.
we therefore, recommend that the Presi-
dent, as an essential part of his emergency
program call upon congress for immediate
enactment of legislation which shall require
the secretary of labor to establish a labor
board in any industry in which he shall deem
it necessary to do So"
The advantage of this plan is that it would
restore mass purchasing power, which now is
desired by enlightened employers, but blocked
by sweat shop competition.
Restoration Of buying power is the issue
for labor, the farmer. the professional man,
The business man, for everybody.
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M. Says:

a CCORDING to Mr. Matsuoka, "the territorial
n integrity of China" as assumed by the nine
power pact is a fiction.
Well, we guess it is and we guess that the in
dependence of Machukuo, as advertised by Japan,
also is fiction,
Indeed there would appear to be quite few
1ctions with regard to the Far Eastern situation,
for some of which neither China nor Japan is
responsible
How else for instance, can the idea that the
western world ever intended to do anything about
it be described?
No doubt, men always have dwelt in an at
mosphere of dreams, but they seem to have lived
in it with peculiar tensenesS and gulllblllty dur
ing the last fifteen years
There is the German republic going to smash
in spite of all the high hopes, and the Russian
republic going right on in spite Of all the de-
pressing prophecies
THERE is the League of Nations, an admit
l. ted reality, but apparently doomed to loose
member every time it attempts to settle hot
argument
There is the Monroe Doctrine which we
Americans regard as sacred for the western
hemisphere, but insist that no other government
or section of the world has right to copy.
There is the notion that trade be slim
ulated by tariffs and that as long as we refuse
to call it maintain peace matter
how many people we kill or how much property
we destroy.
There is the belief that outsiders can make
a government do what they want if they express
themselves vociferously enough.
But why go on? We have Speculated and
failed, the trouble being that we started out
to prove certain theories instead of making ex-
perments.
Fiction or reality, we have assumed certain
things to be SO, regardless of what human ex-
perence seemed to indicate
China was to be loved, coddled, and protected
amuck
upon as the bad kid, largely because of her
brightness and ambition.
4 LII nations we're willing to uphold" the in
L n tegrity of China provided it did not cost
them too much but there was selfishness, as well
as dumbness, in their attitude.
To begin WITH each was afraid that some
of the others might get too big slice of China
if she fell apart, while all were intrigued by the
ease with which she could be brow-beaten and
exploited as long as she remained intact.
When China became a republic the western
world calmly closed its eyes to reality and joined
IN glad chorus OF Jubilatlon around the fiction
of word.
China would be able to throw off a pre-
Christian form of government and become just
like the most modern democracy over night, be-
cause she was lovable and accommodating.
Common sense suggested that several genera
tons of chaos would not see the transition COM
pleted, but We are not particularly long on COM
mon sense IN this scientific age.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
A Woman's Viewpoint

GONE prohibitionists let their ar
~ dor run away with their charity.
So when a Memphis woman writes
that because this column has ia
vored repeal she hopes that my
best beloved will go down in the
booze gutter" I only can believe
that she hates whisky more than
she loves her neighbor.
Probably she does not actually
wish me or any one else such sor-
row. She is carried away by her
displeasure at the return of beer.
What she apparently does not know
is that there also is such sin
as intemperateneSs of the tongue.
It is disconcerting to find that
people who call themselves good"
can harbor such maIgnity and en-
terrain wishes that certainly do not
originate in Christian charity.
Such individuals have done the
cause Of prohibition immeasurable
harm. They have allowed them
selves to become prosecutors of those
who do not believe as they believe.
The downfall of their movement,
which undoubtedly began in sin
certify. can be laid at the door of
bigotTy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
w ait for Me

BY MARGUERITE V. YOUNG
Wait for me, oh, wait for me,
Towns of France and Germany
I'll be coming by and by,
Do not let your beauty diel
Cobbled, winding, climbing street,
Wait for me, I still entreat;
Churchly spires and colored roof
Gathering small donkey's hoofsn
Goethe's sweethe4rts round and
Washing linen in the square:
Do not 60 please stay awhile,
I must travel many a mile. -
Book Of beer to look upon,
Sitting, doing in the sun;
Francois Villon, let me be
OF thine ancient company!
Wait for me, oh, wait for me, 81.
Towns of France and Germanyf
I'll be coming by and by,
Do no let your beauty die!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
STORIES OF ATROCITIES

THESE stories of anti-Jewish atrocities on
4 the part Of the Hitler government in
Germany are dreadful-if they are true; but
it might be the part of wisdom for us to re-
serve decision on them for little while until
We get better idea which tales are based on
substantial facts and which ones are pure
rumor
little more than fifteen years ago we had
another crop of atrocity stories from Germany.
We went for them hook, line, and sinker at
that time-and have been ashamed of our
credulity ever since. We don't want to make
the same mistake twice.
That the American people sharply will con-
denim any government which persecutes help
less minorities goes without saying But we
might do well to defer the condemnation until
all the returns are in.
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=: The Message Center {:

fellows would get cut off. They will
not cut one of them off.
The overseas veterans thought the
war was over in France, but no.
body seems to care. AS Senator
Robinson says, rob the veterans
who need the money and give to
some other class of people. The
Times knows better than to say
that the big fellows on the ball team
with big jobs get cat off. It's the
veterans like myself, $12 and $18
men, who gets his pension cut. I
know camp man who never went
overseas who admits he still gets
his $50 a month.
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strong must be deprived of all
rights so that the weak may be
protected. Consequently, we have
reared a pretty large majority Of
moral ineffectuals.
The sooner the mothers of Amer
lea get to their proper jobs Of rails
ing boys and girls strong enough
to face and resist temptations, in
stead of agitating the passage of a
thousand and one measures that
forbid this, that, and the other,
the sooner we shall be a nation of
men who will not be afraid to look
scuttle OF beer or anything else
in the face.
We have done frightful harm
breeding fear into the natures of
our children. Instead of teaching
them moderation in all things, We
have frightened them with the bogy-
man of booze.
The result is that they are lured
inevitably in its direction. Fear has
conquered them. Weakness has be-
come their chief vice. And to my
notion it's a far worse one than
taking a glass of 3 per cent beer
ever VIII be.
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(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their riewS in these columns Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 aoords or le8s.)
BY Old Settler
We want beer, but not at the eX-
pense of the repeal of the eight
zenith amendment. That, fear, is
where we are headed unless our
politicians see the light.
The fight seems to be the same
all over the country. New York and
Pennsylvania seem to be in the
same boat as Indiana, as far as
mixing politics and beer goes.
But the situation in Indiana and
the two big eastern states is not the
same. Repeal should win easily in
both New York and Pennsylvania,
but this is not a prepcnderantly
wet state. 1t is state which nor
mally would be far more likely to
vote dry Especially is this true in
the rural sections, and they repre-
sent about half the population of
Indiana.
Farmers may vote for repeal for
economic reasons, but it would not
take much t oswing them to the
dry column.
Besides, the drys are exerting
every effort to beat repeal. They
are we'll organized all over the state
and hope, with good reason, for
victory in Indiana.
1t behooveres the vets to get
into action, with every resource at
their command. The Democrats
should bend every effort to line up
votes for repeal, or they will en-
counter defeat.
One of the surest ways to swing
big block of votes against repeal
is to play politics with beer. If the
distribution is to be only a matter
of fattening the purse of some poll
tician, as a reward for supporting
the Democratic party, the people
will not stand for it, and will reg
lister disapproval at the polls.
Divorce beer and politics, or all
you will have will be prohibition,
with its horrors doubled.
BY Overseas Veteran
I would like to say few words in
your paper, as have been a reader
of The Times for about sixteen
years. served about year in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01

1t is pointed out that experts in
rowing, such as is required in deep
sea fishing, have great difficulty in
learning the type Of rowing required
in racing shells.
In considering the question of
training for special forms of dex-
terity, the investigators found that
eighty minutes of training a day
yields about as much improvement
as three hours Of training day.
Hence, where rapid training was
required, the man could be trained
at one process in the morning and
at another in the afternoon with
out either interfering with the
other.
Some college athletes are known
to train for basketball in the morn
ing and for running events in the
afternoon, with considerable eff
cheney in both.
Once fatigue has come on, how
ever, all types of training are in
terfered with.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Skill in One Line May Not Aid in Another

THERE is a general impression
n that a person who has acquired
special skill in one type of work
quickly will acquire skill in similar
efforts; for example, the idea that
an athlete particularly efficient in
rowing or baseball also will have
great ability in golf or tennis.
All sorts of evidence may be de-
veloped for and against this point
of view.
1t is known that Babe Ruth,
while not a second Bobby Jones,
still is able to play good game of
golf, and it has been asserted that
Babe Didrikson, famous woman
athlete, played her fifth or sixth
round Of golf in "a.
There are records of great ten
mis- players who took up golf rather
late in life and did we'll at it.
On the other hand, there is no
evidence that football players and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
CLEARING THE AIR
a BRIEF dispatch from New York the other
4 n day read as follows:

a BRIEF dispatch from New York the other
4 day read as follows:
Major w. E. Gladstone Murray of the
British Broadcasting Corporation arrived
today aboard the liner Majestic en- route to
Canada, where he will aid in recognizing
Canadian broadcasting along the lines of the
British system which bars advertising"
The average American radio fan, reading
this, is likely to murmur, Lucky Britishers-
and Lucky Canada" and to wonder, idly and
wishfully, if it wouldn't be possible to bring
Major Murray south of the international line
for while, after he gets through with his job
in the Dominion, which, after April l, will
limit advertising to per cent Of the broad
casting period.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.
oarsmen necessarily are exception

oarsmen necessarily are exception
ally proficient in other games.
Recently in Great Britain the in
dustrial health research board has
made some controlled tests to find
out whether one kind of manual
skill or dexterity can be transferred
to another type of effort.
AS a part of the method of test
ing, special prizes were offered for
deXterity in either of two manual
performances
However, it was found that there
was no transfer of dexterity, and in
not once case was training in one
process found to be Of special value
when taking up different process.
In fact, there are some instances
in which habits formed in one type
of deXterity have interfered with
good work in another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Side Street Honor

our return to independence and
~ individualism has not been con-
Quoted over the most honorable of
all highways On the contrary, it
has been a sort of hitch-hike jour-
ney down a side street, with the fel-
low who knocked us fat-the de-
pression-giving us the lift We
needed.
Prohibition began to stagger- and
reel seriously for the first time when
some of our leading citizens came
out boldly against it. Men like AL
Smith and the late Dwight Morrew.
And women like Mrs. Sabin. Up to
that time a 'person of prominence
who indicated a tolerant view
point became a ready target for the
Bishop Cannonaders.
1t was a page-one story when
John D. Rockefeller Jr., came gal
Looping out on the field to run with
the ball. Junior was little bit late.
The game was almost over. With
less than a minute to go, the vets
already led by some thirty-f1ye
states.
1t was q nice gesture, though, even
if it did leave some of the skeptics
wondering whether Juniors newly
acquired enthusiasm for repeal could
in any way be associated with its
possible effect on the ticker.
1 think one of the reasons why the
nation has recaptured some of its
old respect (say, boy, how are those
Yankees coming alongO is due to
the recent willingness of the big
shots to speak their minds publicly
on controversial subjects. This
hasn't always been so, as any vet
eran news reporter can tell you.
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It Seems
to Me
BY JOE WILLIAMS
Batting for Haywood Broun)


NEW YORK, April Certain
Y ly no one can argue with Gret-
ia Palmer. Times Special Writer,
when she writes that Mrs Charles
Sabin has charm. Or that some of
Mrs. Sabins girl friends in the
Prohibition Reform Organization
have charm. But
Well, when our Gretta goes fur
Their and broadly implies that the
ladies. plus their charm, made re-
peal the probability it is today, I'm
afraid she is putting on a little too
much rouge, and some imprudent
gaffer should tell her so.
Admittedly. the ladies. charm or
no charm, have made vital contribu-
tons, but this drive against the saw
dust souls and the narrow minds Of
the nation has not been confind to
any limited era; it has been a some
what general drive. Ofhand, I can
name at least two or three men who
volunteered at the first roll of the
drums.
When the history Of the ultimate
death of prohibition is written I
have a notion that the coroner will
lay the homicide at the weary feet
of the depression. More than any
one other factor it was this pinch
faced specter of want that gave the
nation a new grip on its manliness.
There has been more liberal legis-
lation enacted in this country in The
last twelve months than in the last
fifteen years combined, and in prac-
tically every instance the need Of
revenue influenced the result. It is
much more simple. for instance, to
get beer for taxs than for tonsils.
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tence In jail for any one convicted Of turning
in false alarm.
The maximum penalty should be imposed
by any court before which the offender ap-
pears. Every citizen should consider it his
duty to report any suspicion to the police.
The man who turns in false alarm ranks
near the No. berth among the citys public
enemies. He should be scotched merciIessly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Que stiOns and
Answers /.

Q-What is the largest interior
body of water in the world?
A-The Caspian sea.
Q-Was crucifixion the regular
method Of capital punishment
in the ancient Roman state?
Ayes.
Q-How much wheat was pro-
duced in the United States in
1881?
A-S92 ,271 900 bushels.
Q-Where is the paper money
of the United States made?
A-Bureau Of engraving and
printing. Washington D. C.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
The Ball Changes Hands

HERETOFORE, prohibition has
Il 4 had all the better of it in this
respect. Some very nice old lady,
like Mrs. Ella Boole, would spray
the town hall with lot of sanity
Sophistries, and because she es-
poused a quasi-religious cause no
body would dare give her stiff talk
back
If some ordinary bird who worked
for a living and had a family we're
TO get up and crack, Il guess what
you say about Satan and Demon
Rum is right, lady, but what's the
harm in man having glass Of
beer once in q. while?"-if this hap
pened he would be Kissed out Of the
place amid cries Of Drunken sot!"
But it is somewhat different when
the Al Smiths and the Mrs. Sabins
ana their kind start talking back to
the white ribboners. It's different
because it has a splendid effect on
a large percentage of the citizenry'
who might otherwise remain UNI
concerned or unpersuaded about the
principle involved
No one questions for an instant
that there are many sincere and
intelligent opponents of liquor in
this country, and I suppose it is
just one Of those unfortunate things
that so many spokesmne of prohi-
bition happen to be a cross between
Huey Long and a chronic case of
govt.
I dislike to appear rude or ungal-
liant, but Garry Nation was the only
woman ever saw who caused me TO
shake with fear. AS a child I lis
tened to her start a speech in
public square in the south. She
looked so formidable and fierce in
her sullen black dress that 1 turned
and fed.
l Fundamentally believe Mrs. Ma
ton made of me an early patron
Of the beverage parlors. Instinc-
lively I must have concluded that
if such unpleasantness accompanied
abstinence I wanted no part of it.
I think I succumbed at the age Of
10. But for that blighting exper-
fence I am sure I would have held6
out resolutely until I was 10, anyN
how
Copyright. 1888. by The Tines
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France and drew an $19 pension
until they got to balancing the bud
get and they balanced me off like
they are doing to lots of other over
seas veterans.
I have had disabilities as far
back as 1919, due to sleeping on the
ground in mud and rain, but it
seems to make no difference where
you we're, as long as they don't have
the right kind of proof, or record
that you still have the disabilities.
But the camp soldier gets the big
$50 and 500 pensions, while over
seas veterans get the slash. The
Times led the people to believe
that these big pay jobs and pension
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Daily Thought

For he that is called in the Lord,
being servant, is the Lords free
man; likewise also he that is
called, being free, is Christ's serv-
anti Corinthians 1922.
q
THERE is no moment without
Il some duty-Cicero.
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BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DUT let me state here that if
- this good woman's wish came
true I still would believe that men
are not made good or sober by laws.
This country has been run long
enough upon the theory that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-01
Watch Your Trash

BY Charles Hooper
read in the paper of a man
who while crossing street slipped
on a banana peel and was run
over and killed No doubt many
are killed in this way.
Every city and town in the
country should have strict ordi-
nances against throwing banana
peels, orange skins and apple
ceres on the streets.
Policemen should arrest, on
sight, persons they see throwing
such things on the streets. Pc
destrianS should warn such per-
sons, and also should kick into the
cutters any fruit refuse that they
see lying on streets and highways.
Proper receptacles should be
placed on street corners for such
refuse, and teachers should in
struct their pupils not to throw
such dangerous things on the
streets and highways.
Occur d'Alene, Idaho.
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Bernard Shaw said the other day he'd al
ways known the American people were deaf
and dumb. We were dumb enough to read
more of Shaw's books than any other coun-
try, but we'd be glad to have him give our
ears good rest now.
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So They Say

For the welfare of the people
of the state (Minnesota) it would
be best to put the legislators in
the asylum for the insane.-Wil-
liam McAndrew, educator.
People are saying now, God
help America" but I say, God
help any nation that thinks the
spirit of America is broken
Beverly Baxter, editor of he Lon
don Express.
Failures in the last congress
have been due to the fact that
the determination of policies has
come entirely from the Speakers
chair; it now will come from the
party.-Speaker Henry T. Rainey
OF the house Of representatives
We may as well determine right
here and now that we are going to
wage relentless war until we abol-
ish involuntary idleness as surely
as we abolished involuntary serv-
itude.-Senator Robert F. Wag-
ner of New York.
I am afraid I will have to get
me a new wife. This one thinks
that because I am manager of a CO.
operative store, she should have all
The butter meat, perfume, soap, c.ad
silk stockings she wants. She yips
about it all night long.-Victor
of Russia.