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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-01-25
Mrs. McCue Hostess

Mrs. Dagmer McCue, 1925 Koehne.
will be hostess at a luncheon meet
ing of the Gamma Beta Sigma So
rority at 1890 Friday at her home.
Bridge will be PLAYED.
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Mrs. SeUerus Hostess

Mrs. Edward P. Severns, Marott
hotel, was hostess for a l o'clock
luncheon meeting of the Twentieth
Century Club today. Current events
were discussed by the group.
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Council of State Clubs
Federation Presented
to Governor, Assembly
Reports of Various Departments Are Given
to Board at Luncheon Preceding
Legislature Visit.

of pre-
the
V. McNutt today, following luncheon in the Caypool.
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Mr.. and Mrs. w. E. Phelps, 1884
Broadway, are visiting at the Edge
water Beach in Chicago.
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AMERICAN VS.. MEXICAN DESERTS

THE new public works law says nothing
about cultivating desert acres in Mexico
Yet the public works board must decide i'll a
few days whether TO do just that or to spend
money on the American side of the border for
a canal from Boulder Dam to Imperial Valley.
Five years ago when the Boulder Dam act
passed congress. one of the important prov-
sions attached TO it called for construction Of
this canal as the only means of saving water
TO be impounded at the dam for American
use
The canal was opposed by the same forces
that fought Boulder Dam notably Los Angeles
owners Of land on the Mexican side of the line
Throughout the Hoover administration. they
we're successful in blocking canal construction.
Now the time has come when final deci-
sion must be made quickly The dam will be
finished in two years. and if the canal is not
ready at that time. the stored water will run
into an existing canal. which traverses Mexi-
can land before il turns back on to American
soil.
Once the water is put to beneficial use on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
PROTECTING CONSUMERS

CONSUMERS who have been somewhat
~ disturbed by the rapid rise in prices of
food and other necessaries will welcome pub
lication by the government of a weekly fair
price" list for the protection. The list will
show what farmers get for raw commodities
what labor gets in increased wages under the
industrial program, and what farmers must
pay for the things they buy
1t is logical that the government, having
stimulated prices. should take measures to
keep them within bounds Wages inevitably
lag behind price increases. even when these
increases do not have the stimulation of
bounties and production control
And while mass purchasing power unques-
tionably will be greater under the recovery
program, there are millions of individuals who
have not yet felt its benefits and will not for
long time to come.
fair price list will provide measuring
stick for the buying public. and the opera
ton Of public opinion will discourage gouging.
In the long run public opinion will be the
most effective means of control, although
other measures are available if they are
required
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
STOCK GAMBLING RESTRICTED

GOVERNORS of the New York Stock Elk
~ change wisely have imposed new and
drastic rules designed to curb the unbridled
stock speculation against which there has
been so much protest
Margins. heretofore left for determination
by individual brokerage houses hereafter
must be at least so per cent for accounts of
$1,000 and 30 per cent for larger accounts.
Complete information on pools and syndi-
Gates must be furnished weekly. Customers
men may not solicit business at customers
homes without written permission.
The margin requirement. of course, will
not save investors or spectators from losses.
They WILL however. discourage outright gam
bling with capital which represents only
small portion of the value of stocks bought;
they will check the tendency to overtrade;
and they will tend to prevent the pyramid
ing of paper profits
Regulation OF pools and syndicates will
make Juggling more difficult since operations
will be disapproved if they tend to create "un-
sound values"
And pool operators will not find it so
easy to unload on guilible public which has
been lured into the market.
Taken together. the rules should make
less probable such spectacular collapses as
the one recently wNessed. There seems to
be little doubt that this incipient panic was
brought on by pure gambling
Adoption of the rules marks change in
front by the men who control the worlds big
gest security market. Heretofore they have
resisted agitation for changes designed TO
Go the very things now being attempted.
The exchange. which is not incorporated.
consistently has held that it was not unlike
private club. and that congress was with
out power to regulate it Congress has re-
Trained from enacting many proposed meas
ures to minimize stock gambling, although
the Glass-Steagall BILL passed at the last
session. strengthened the power of the fed
eral reserve board to keep funds out OF spec
ulative channels.
Time will tell whether the new method Of
operation Will eliminate the practices against
which so many complaints have been made.
If voluntary action does not succeed in elini-
mating them. it seems safe prediction that
the government will step in.
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change in freight rates and wage scales viii
only hurt its own coal business and throw
thousands Of employed miners out Of Jobs
So far as the NRA Is concerned. its main
JOB is 10 Increase wages and put idle men back
TO work But in achieving these goals alone,
It faces hard task
Government figures showed working miners
last spring averaged less than sll week.
True. their working hours Appropriated only
twenty-four a week. but II is obviously impos-
sible for the miner and his family to buy ade-
quate food clothing and shelter for this sum.
Small wonder the question is asked, Who
ever saw rich miner?"
The problem of finding jobs FOR idle miners
Is equally difficult The American Institute
OF Mining and Metallurgical Engineers esti-
mated that in nine years $500 miners have
been replaced by machines 5000 by improved
methods. and that l49,5O0 have been thrown
out Of work by decreased demand
Miners in 1880 numbered $4,000, of whom
almost 20 per cent worked in the western
Pennsylvania b!tuminous fields
The NRA. therefore not only must boost
wage scales to the point that the miner can
become a purchaser Of goods again, but it must
scale down working hours sufficiently to per-
nit the unemployment of thousands Of idle
miners.
And with that done. the NRA must turn its
attention to the quarrels between miners and
operators and between rival operators. 1t must
settle these disputes and settle them perma-
nently
Some. perhaps, will question the possibility
of remedyng all of these conditions. Of re-
storing the sick coal industry to permanent
good health. But it can be done
The medicine of recovery seems to lie with
in the code drafted jointly by the United
Mine Workers and operators representing
Is per cent of the nations tonnage
Needless to say. that code gives labor adj
vantages that are denied it in other codes. It
guarantees collective bargaining. union check
weighmen and the right to refrain from buy
ing at company stores and living in company
towns
The codes wage scale of IS a day for inside
labor and its short working week-to be lin
tied to thirty-six kours-lkewise means re-
employment of idle miners and wages suffi-
cient to restore the miners buying power
But the operators also benefit greatly
perhaps as mitch as does labor-under this
code Every unethical and questionable trade
practice is strictly banned.
And to make the ban effective board of
control for the entire industry is set up, its
members to be named by the NRA.
With all its advantages. of course, there
is no guarantee that this code will be a
cure-aI for all the woes of the bituminous
coal industry. Perhaps it will not turn that
chaotic giant into an industrial Utopia.
But at least it provides firm foundation
upon which the coal industry can fight its way
back to recovery. And that is more than any
of the other codes offer.
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A Woman's Viewpoint ::

TIRESOMELY vociferous as this
i column has been about rights
for women, it must give one more
cheer for Inez Haynes Irwin, who
in her recent book. Angels and
Amazons." says:
Men have failed utterly, shame
fully. ridiculously in the business OF
government. In the housekeeping
of government their failure is even
more abject They know nothing
about system. efficiency or economy.
They pay the biggest price for
neutrality-suspicious. and material
and then never get anything done"
Not being intolerant. however,
Mrs. Irwin believes that men are
the inventive. creative, intellectual
sex and should be left in peace to
perform the great feats OF the earth
and universe. 10 devote themselves
TO science, literature. music. art and
thought. She calls them the genius
sex.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

those Mexican acres. it probably can not be
reclaimed at any time by the United States
For that reason the public works board is
being asked TO make funds available quickly
for construction Of the canal ordered so long
ago BY congress
ALLEGATION OF Colorado river water was so
complicated a question TO all communities Of
the southwest. that congress took eight years
TO master the subject and iron out the diff
culties
The Hoover administration ignored con-
gress' fair and considered decision and fol-
lowed a policy which. if pursued, condemns
many acres Of fertile farm land on the Amer
lean side Of the border TO go back to the
desert while Mexican acres bloom with the
lfe-giving water. The new deal certainly will
not continue this unwise and unjust policy.
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8, 1893
1t Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN :

NEW YORK. Aug. s.-The best
= thing about NRA is the point
which is raised most frequently
against It I refer to the emotional
background which has been built
around it.
Sage commentators have warned
us against the wrongs which may be
perpetrated in the name OF the new
patriotism. I haven't The slightest
doubt that such things will occur.
I am aware OF the loopholes. the
inconsistencies and the inadequacies
Of the diSpensation. And I am for
IT, am for the excitement and the
hoopla
II does not deter me to - told
that We are going through the old
Liberty Loan days All over again.
I made some speeches for that drive
and the only excuse which I can
offer now is that they were singu-
larry ineffective My proudest boast
is that I succeeded in selling Moth
ing But I am not bitter about the
pattern.
A good cause may require the
same technique as one not in the
least admirable. Yesterday came
down from the country after a long
absence from the city'S strife. and il
seemed to me festive to note The va
riouS blue eagles in the windows Of
the stores
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thing more muddled and messed
than our present economic condi-
ton. or nation more inexpertly
or extravagantly run, can you?
Now, if women have been blessed
by heaven with any special capacity
for housekesping-and we're told
often this is our only divine endow-
ment-why in the name OF common
sense aren't We allowed TO exercise
IL for the national good?
And let's not be fatuous enough
to imagine that BY sticking a few
women here and there among sew
eral hundred thousand men, i'm
provement will be marked.
Why not turn one department of
government over 70 women for a
certain period Of time and find out
what they can do? That's the only
square, sensible way of testing their
ability. And they deserve to have
q test. .
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NRA'S BIG TEST

DROBABLY the stiffest test the National
a Recovery Administration must face comes
Wednesday. with the opening of hearings on
the bituminous coal code.
The woes and griefs of other industries
fade in comparison to the many vital and per-
picking problems of the coal business. It's
difficulties make it easily Americas No
industry-so far as chaos and Reorganization
are concerned.
Yet all these problems must be settled be-
fore coal properly can take an integral part
in any national recovery movement. And the
NRA must do the Job It alone has the power
to replace chaos with order.
Perhaps a settlement Of some basic causes
of friction between miners and operators has
been made easier by the Roosevelt coal strike
truce. which is expected TO send $4,000 west
ern PENNSYLVANIA miners back to their jobs.
But there still will be plenty of difficulty
before satisfactory agreement on company
towns and company stores. on collective bar
gaining. on union checkweghmen. on a half
dozen other vital issues concerning labor is
reached.
Furthermore. there are the disputes be-
tween operators Observation-Disclosures which
have led 10 the presentation OF half dozen
different codes to the NRA.
Mine owners disagree over such things as
secret rebates to customers, unconsigned coal
shipments and host of other disputed trade
practices These too. must be settled
Then there is the bitter quarrel between
northern and southern coal operators over
freight rates. wage scales and coal prices.
The north charges the south. with its favored
freight rates and cheaper labor, has under
sold its competitor in the open market. It
wants this stopped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

tea, which are antagonistic TO many
poiSons. In order to get the poison
out OF the system as rapidly as pos
sible one should provoke vomiting,
either by tickling the back of the
throat. by giving a cup of warm
water mixed with salt. or BY wash
ing out the stomach with a stom-
ach tube if one understands how
this is done.
If one Puts heaping teaspoonful
Of salt in cupful of luke-warm
water. stirs until dissolved. and has
the patient drink the mixture, re-
peating the dose every ten minutes
until three or four cupfuls have been
taken, vomiting takes place prompt
ly, serving TO wash out the stom-
ach.
Thereafter the person must be
treated as in any case of fainting.
dizziness or shock. the symptoms
being treated according to the ma
ture of the case. If the patient is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
Aid of Physician Needed in Poison Cases

TINE human being is subject to
l. various kinds OF possible poi
soning from foods and drugs,
from mushrooms and all sorts of
similar toxic substances. There are
poisons constantly used in indus
try which may get into the body and
thereby produce severe illness.
In any case of poisoning, GER
tain procedures are Immediately
desirable. First, try to ascertain
the nature OF the poison taken. An
empty bottle in the vicinity, the
presence of some Of the substance in
a cup or utensil. or the presence Of
the poison on the tablecloth or floor
or clothing may be valuable sign.
BY smelling the breath and ex-
amining the mouth Of the patient,
the physician may determine poi
sons. If the patient has taken the
poison accidentally, ne probably
will be willing 70 tell the physi-
clan if he is conscious.
If poisoning is suspected. physi-
clan should be called Immediately
Before the doctor comes. it is well
to give white Of eggs. milk or strong
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-08
So They Say

We don't want to listen to ha-
rangues. You must submit facts to
back up your assertions General
Hugh S. Johnson, recovery admin
iStrator.
I think that today we rather feel
that people have too many ideas
DR.. Simon Flexner Of the Rookie
Teller institute for Merical Re-
search.
BY strength and stupidity youth
sometimes elbows experience out of
the way. but experience wins finally.
Henry Ford, automobile manufac-
turer.
We have discovered by hard ex-
perience that life does not consist of
the abundance Of the things we may
possess and that we can not feed our
souls on corn and wine or on bread
and circuSes.-Bishop John Newton
Mccormick of Michigan.
Any dead dog can float with the
stream. - Dean Inge, London'S
gloomy dean"
America, with all her genius
for production. has not learned the
art of distributing according to her
capacity to produce. - Edward A.
Filene. Boston merchant.
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By a Disgruntled HoOsier.

By Disgruntled Hoosier.
When you get through with
women's employment, let the men
have chance. Men with families
still are looking for work but if
you are past 35 don't look, as the
insurance companies and compen-
sation cobra vii! get you. If you
are past that age take dog
button We have been promised
street and highway work. Do we
get it? No. just another couple of
weeks. So tighten up your belt. I
have run out of holes.
Go and ask for work where they
display the emblem, find some guy
in charge and hear him bark.
They all know they are going 10
get by with their camouflage.
Turn some Of the bosses out and
let them go on half rations six
or eight months and then X-ray
them. and see if the insurance
companies will turn them down
for being underweight and see
how they like it.
was born here but there are
times YOU have to be ashamed of
it. am delivery man with
clean record but would do any
thing to be able to live again and
see my family well fed. I can
take you places and show you the
truth.
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"Pm an Old Softie"

I HAVE been all my life a senti-
4 mental radical. and I am not
likly 70 rid myself of the notion
that the brotherhood Of man is
much more than a figure Of speech
with which 10 end an address. 7
have complete sympathy for Rus
STA in its extraordinary effort. which
is essentially Utopian. no matter
how hard-boiled its partisans may
pretend to be.
But the difficulties Of Russia to-
day lie less in the economic field
than in a failure to grasp the fact
that paying off old scores is tedious
BUSINESS.
The easiest way to find a clas-
les society is TO wipe the slate
clean at the very outset and 10
forget whose father was Just what.
And certainly grandfathers should
not count.
l am for a world of complete in
dustrial equality. And If ANYBODY
tells me, You don't mean II. In
the present system you are sitting
pretty l can answer truthfully. I
know more about the lower part Of
my spine than you do, and where
1t rests now isn't good enough"
Copyright. 1893. By The Tines
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:: The Message Center ::


pany, making financial statement.
shows 1t is in better liquidating con-
dition than ever. yet officials are
paying less for results than any
company ever did stating to their
men that they could not afford to
adjust their commission scale.
1t also is stated other companies
who did make 1t possible for their
men to draw just return COR labor
could not afford it, that It would
draw into their reserve and they
would not be able to pay their loans.
cash surrenders and death claims.
One of the companies which has
come through has debts around
$500, and the agents average s24
for collecting same Another COM
pany five times as large having
debts around 5000 their agents re-
ceive about $50 for collecting.
Why can't insurance men come
to an agreement and have a liv-
ing wage and put from 1000 to | 500
more men to work in Indianapolis?
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weakened greatly or Frustrated. he
must be kept warm. recumbent and
his general strength sustained.
For many Of the common poisons
there are special antidotes. How
ever, few, people have time to con-
suit tables of antidotes or know
where the antidote is to be found.
For poisoning with carbolic acid
it is customary to wash out the
mouth with whisky or alcohol and
water, to have the patient swallow
three or four tablespoonsfuls of di-
luted whisky or alcohol and water.
and 70 give heaping tablespoonful
Of epson salts dissolved in water.
In case Of poisoning by various
narcotic drugs it is customary to
provoke vomiting and then to give
strong black coffee. at the same
time doing everything possible TO
keep the patient awake. Some
times it is necessary to walk him
about forcefully AS long as he is
awake he will continue TO breathe,
but if he is permitted to sleep.
breathing may stop.
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|M.E.TracySays

president ROOSEVELT has been in Office
l. five months During that brief period, he
has shown what q man could do by thinking
purposefully keeping his temper and accepting
obstacles as things to be overcome. His great
est contribution to America and the world is the
example he has set Though confronted by some
of the most perpleXing problems ever put up to
a human being, he has found 1t unnecessary TO
get mad or even stage scene.
The way he has gone at his job has changed
the psychological attitude of this nation. From
Maine to California. men and women find new
source of inspiration in his calm, forceful, I'M
ostentG tious methods. The whole country is be-
ginning to initiate him. to abandon its heated
chatter and approach the task of recovery in
more self confident frame of mind. This simple
fact has done quite as much toward restoring
business as the technical plans which are being
carried out.
AS a matter of fact. most of the technical
plans proposed by President Roosevelt bark back
to a common sense view of our problems They
are not so revolutionary as some of the boosters
and critics profess TO believe. They rest on
little more than a sane application of big bust
ness principles TO business in general Instead
of eliminating competition. they are designed TO
put it on a sane coherent basis. safeguarding our
economic liberties through an articulate pro-
gram. rather than suffering them to lapse
through anarchy.
TINE idea that those engaged in the same in
Il dustry trade or enterprise should pay
about the same wages merely expresses funda-
mental principle OF democracy. giving men a
fair break The idea OF a code to regulate
wages. hours and practices merely substitutes
system for unplanned unreasonable and often
unjustifed practices
In other words. President Roosevelt has I'M
dertaken to provide rules for the industrial
game. The amazing part OF it is that no one
thought of doing so before 1t is the greatest
game humanity ever undertook 10 play
Yet We have permitted it TO go on without a
semblance Of rules for several generations have
depended on the conflict between labor and
capital 10 promote the ends Of justice have
fought problems instead of trying to solve them
Bad temper and bad results have characterized
our futile efforts. and when a real depression
broke. We found ourselves lacking not only the
agencies. but the ideas with which TO meet it.
much less 70 prevent another like it,
THE bewilderment which marked this coun-
l. try's progress. or lack OF progress. in 1890
81 and 80 stands forth as disgrace TO human
intelligence We were so befuddsd. indeed that
il took us three years to identify the depression
as SUCH or realize what ii was doing 90 our
economic structure
This largely was because our industrial sys-
tenn lacked conference. because IL had been de-
veloped in such a promiscuous haphazard way
that no one understood IT, because our psychol-
ogy had been warped and misguided by false
sense OF value because. with all our strenu-
osity. had lost sight of those human detectives
which are necessary to make al undertakings
worthwhile.