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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
PREPARE FOR CHANGE

ONE of the most perplexing things about
~ living in 1888 is that the worlds leading
thinkers seem quite unable to make up their
minds whether We are approaching a sunset or
a dawn.
If you nose through the books, magazine
articles and interviews in which thoughtful
men try to appraise the present situation you
Will find two schools of thought represented.
According to one school, the end of all
things is at hand and a great darkness is
about to settle down over the waters Capt.
talism is done for, western civilization is about
to collapse and the world is about to enter a
new dark age
According to the other school, our woes are
just the birth pangs of a new order of life We
are going through great change, and paying
for it in misery and confusion, but when the
change is finished things will be almost inf
nitely better than they were before. There will
be more freedom and less poverty, more peace
and less war, more happiness and less desper-
ate uncertainty
Each crew of prognosticators can assemble
e multitude Of facts and a whole string of
clever arguments to prove its case. You can
get damnation with your morning coffee and
salvation with your after dinner cigaret if you
like, and each forecast will seem to be abso-
lutely foolproof.
Now all of this. however conflicting it may
be. seems to indicate one thing indisputaby;
that we have reached one of history's great
turning points. and that no matter what the
future brings us it is going to be something
different than what we have had before. For
better or for worse. We have come upon time
of change, and those of us who don't like
change seem to be very much out of luck.
Yet it also is quite possible that the seers
are mostly wrong The disasters they foreSee
may not be quite as bad as they expect; the
improvements may leave us only little bit
better of than We we're. The important thing
is that we accept the fact that some sort OF
change is coming and prepare our minds for it.
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THURSDAY. SEPT. 81. 1888.
DE PAW STUDENTS SPEAK

THE following editorial appeared yesterday
in The De Paw, student publica-
ton at De Paw university:
TT. Wayne and indianapolis newspa pers
and even publication in Columbus, o., have
worked themselves into heat over a supposed
military crisis at De Pauw. Nothing seems
really to have happened except that a corps
area officer gave letter to the press severely
criticisng President OMAN for the R. o. T. C.
situation at De PAW Otherwise the situa-
ton is the same as it has been for over four
years.
Consistent with the attitude Of his own
churchs general conference and that of or
gained Professionalism as reflected in the fed
eral council, President OMAN has taken the
only stand that is possible Bigotry in regard
to the military situation has never been pres
ent on the campus, but the student body has
expressed its support of the unversity's pro-
gram by the almost negligible enrolment in
the r. Q. T. c. courses. With less than one
tenth of the students enrolled this year, there
can be no doubt of the campus sentiment on
the situation.
Students here are only curiously interested
I'm the situation that has developed, and Won
der what all the noise is about On this
question they are willing to back President
Oman and refute the charges that have been
lodged against him.
And, among the students there are APP
psrently only 1O2 men who would be sorry to
see the department abolished. The rest of us
are rather Indifferent about the whole thing"
As an indication of just how much freedom
of the press there is among the De Paw
student newspaper it is interesting to recall
that Thoburn Want, 1882 editor of The De
Pauw, was disciplined severely by President
Oman for an editorial commenting unfavor-
ably upon a member of the faculty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
HOT TIME

THE reopening of the disarmament confer
l. ence at Geneva promises to produce fine
exhibition of pyrotechnics with giant fire
crackers, roman candles, sky rockets, pin
wheels n everything.
France, Italy and Great Britain are posi-
tive that Germany is secretly arming, and
France and Great Britain propose to give
the conference dossers in detail to prove it.
Of course, confession by his near neighbors
that they have been shopping around in his
proceedings will suffice to ignite all the
powder, or gas, that Hitler has in him.
Incidentally, but apropoS, France and
Britain expect their dossers to have much
effect upon the attitude of Norman Davis, by
grace of Roosevelt ambassador -at-large to
Europe of our United States. Maybe two
effects-one to remind Davis that Germany
can not borrow war money; and, that the
very nations most fearful of Htler's warlike
disposition are those that propose to settle
his war obligations to them at 10 cents on
the dollar provided that Davis nation treats
its war dues likewise.
Yes, big prospects of fireworks at that
Geneva conference! Come to think over It,
that's about all that international conference
ever produces.
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have no need for an additional
amount of taxes to carry us through.
We might also state that the con-
struction of buildings, such as we
spoke Of, and for which this fund
has been set aside, would furnish a
lot of employment for idle citizens
this winter.
The Old Hickory Democratic Club,
reasoning along the same lines, is
making an effort to secure an ap-
preparation from this fund for In
dianapolis. The club has set about
this matter along the lines of the
New Deal, taking for granted that
the common citizen will receive rec
ignition in Washington, if enough
of them make a request for a GER
tain ppropriation. The club now
is circulating petitions among its
neighbors and friends to request the
Hon. Louis Ludlow, the Hon. DR..
Larrabee, our two representatives
from this city, the Hon. Frederick
Van Mugs, our senator from Indiana,
to assist us in securing this appro-
priation.
The club has nothing to sell in
the way of real estate; it has no
top-heavy mortgages which it de-
sires to wish on liberal govern
ment, but they have taken for their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
Scarlet Fever Complications Dangerous

lighting and for magnifying the ear
drum.
He can tell from the appearance
of the membrane whether or not
there is pressure, and he can tell
from it's color the severity of the
inflammation. OF course, any patient
with scarlet fever should be prompt
ly put to bed.
The throat may be treated by
suitable measures including the use
of antiseptic washes and the ap-
plication of ice bags. When the in
lection occurs in the ear it is high
ly important to permit the infected
material to escape as soon as pos
Sible.
There should be an opening of
the membrane under such circum-
stances, for the simple reason that
it heals rapidly without any detri-
mental effects to the ear. Further
more, it has been shown in millions
of cases in which it has been done
that the measure actually serves to
benefit the condition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

HISTORY does not repeat itself.
l. i Movements in history may do
so, but the sources and results Of
such movements are always differ
ent. In his slow progress toward
perfection, man does not travel in a
circle. He makes definite advances.
We proceed by sort of trial by
error" method, but we do proceed.
And out of our errors, infinitely re-
peated, there spring new thoughts
that take root and form within the
sluggish understanding Of men.
This is why it never is foolish to
dream of and work for better social
justice, fuller earthly happiness or
world peace and the brotherhood Of
nations.
In New York City the last Of this
month will be held another congress
against war. Representatives from
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

CCARLET fever is ordinarily a
~ mild disease for most children.
There are occasional epidemics in
which the cases that occur are much
more severe. There are, moreover,
instances in which the complications
are so serious as to be more danger
Gus to life and health than the dis
ease itself.
The most frequent complication
of scarlet fever is infection Of the
ear or sometimes of the maStoid,
with the production of the condi-
ton called mastoiditis. About 10
per cent of children who get scarlet
fever also have an Inflammation of
the internal ear, but the number OF
cases varies in different epidemics
from 4 per cent of all of those
getting scarlet fever to Is per cent.
Probably one of the reasons why
so many children with scarlet fever
have trouble with the ear is the
fact that the throat invariably is in
fected. The condition begins with
Inflammation of the throat and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
PRESIDENT GREEN'S CHARGES

DRESIDENT GREEN Of the American Fed
u Grafton of Labor has laid before Recovery
Administrator Hugh johnson what he says is
"the definite, documentary evidence Of aston
ishing evasions by great employers" Of the la
Dor section of the recovery act.
The evasions, he claims, are setups Of
works councils" company unions and other
spurious pretenses at the free labor organiza-
ton provided for under Section IA of the
law Some of the evasons are, says Green
80 bold and so hostile to the letter and the
spirit of the law that I am certain the ad-
ministrator must take immediate and very
drastic action"
Green's charges are not the first indica-
tons that few large employers still are build
ing on the old methods in their relationship
with the workers. The Journal of Electrical
Workers declares that the National Manufac-
turers Association maintains a highly paid
lobby at Washington that seeks to stir oppo-
sition to the labor sections of the codes and
connives ito defeat NRAs aim of increasing
buying power
Others, it would seem, have been speeding
pfOQuctlon unQer the pTe-cOOe 1OHg-HO
cheap-wage conditions. This is indicated by
the fact that since March production has
jumped 20 per cent, employment only 10 per
cent But Green's accusations are the first of
actual law evasion.
Section IA of the law is very specific in
declaring that employees shall have the right
to organize and bargain collectively through
representatives Of their own choosing" that
mo employe -. shall be required as a con-
dition of employment to join any company
union, or to refrain from joining, organizing
or assisting labor organization of his own
choosing"
If corporations are preventing free union
zation, or if they are coercing workers into
company unions they are violating the law,
no matter whether they give employee repre-
sentation on councils or otherwise make
friendly gestures. General Johnsons record
of fairness and liberality toward labor is such
that there Is little doubt he will give serious
attention to President Green's charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

Times readers are united to cypress
their rietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hate a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or Eess.}
BY Ben wilhelm.
We would request a little space
in your Message Center" column
to explain the paragraph in the
national recovery act in which
certain sum was set aside, known
as the Subsistence Homestead Fund,
to provide financing of modest
priced cottages on three to flve-acre
lots in place not too far from in
dustrial centers. These are to be
sold on easy terms to middle-aged
people who are without trades and
had been thrown out of employ
ment by labor saving machinery and
| thereby giving them an opportunity
to raise what they eat and in that
way reduce the number in the bread
lines and reduce the strain on the
tax payer who is obliged to assist
in carrying the burden of caring
for these less fortunate neighbors.
The writer often has remarked,
after returning from days trip
over the farm lands of Indiana,
and noticing the thousands of acres
of idle land growing up, and the
weeds and bushes growing on them,
which would produce food for a
multitude. Returning to Indian
apolis I see a long line of unfortu-
nate citizens awaiting their turn at
the soup kettle. 1 know that those
responsible, if there were any one
responsible, had not made any great
effort in allowing these men an OPP
portunity to leave the soup line and
get to place where they could help
themselves.
Center township has spent 81 ,300,-
600 for the poor, landlords have
lost a corresponding amount of rent,
and are unable to pay their taxes,
and private charity and the COM
munity fund has spent a like
amount, and in all we have spent
about 100000 in Center town
ship alone.
I have thought that even if the
Community Fund or township trus-
tee or other charitable Institutions
had assisted needy citizens in plow-
ing their land, furnishing seed and
COW, couple of shote and a few
hens, that in one year they would
be self-supporting, and we would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
Black Dancer
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
Light she swayed with rhythmic
thighs,
The music crude,
The sensual strains
OF low refrains
That merged up to the skies
And fell with the depths OF con-
Stunning fires
Luted keenly on silvery Tyres.
The black girl shrieks
Her dress aswirl.
Wild hair flying,
Fingers atwirl.
A body aquiver,
The lights burn low
Along a muddy river,
Wild fire-wind aglow.
An obnoxious scream,
A vibrant shout,
A hilarious dreaT,
The light burns out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
Rear of Much and Little

MIR. LAMONT, the former steel
1V1 baron, remarked sadly upon
resigning his post in at least implied
protest against MIRA:
mo one knows how far It may
60" Some Of the boys who feel that
the whole experiment is designed to
forge new chains for industrial
slaves ought to sit down and try to
cheer up Mr.. Lamont And he, in
turn, could give comfort to these
radical pep men by assuring them
that here is the first step toward the
end of the capitalist system. Then
they would do well to throw dice in
an effort to determine which is the
sound and true theory.
1t would be bold man who would
endeavor to predict just what will
come out Of the experiment. All l
can say is that from where I stand
it seems to be moving. And after
four years of stagnation count that
as triumph. AS the gentleman
said about his friend who lay in the
gutter: oh, no, he isn't ossifed;
just saw him wiggle one finger"
tCopyright. 1888. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
A WOman'S View point : {:

also in the midst of a peace move
ment that hasn't been equalled in a
much longer time than fifty years.
We are sitting on dynamite. But
we know it's there. And for perhaps
the very first time in the whole his
tory of mankind we're not sitting in
comfortable ignorance. And what
progress that is!
More people are talking about
peace, working for peace, believing
in the ultimate possibility of peace,
than have done so since war ceased
TO be continuous performance,
and man became partially civilized.
Our cry as yet is only heard faint
ly. But it will swell in volume until
it eventually will drown out the
clash Of arms and resound in the
spaces of the universe, when war
shall be no more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
THEN WHAT?

NORMAL, ratification of repeal is in sight
L before Christmas. Meanwhile the states
have the Job of working out effective liquor
control systems, in preparation for the end OF
national prohibition thus says Washing
ton editorial.
It would seem so. We are about to engage
IN the noble experiment Of states rights as
applied TO liquor control. as in such matters
as divorce. marriage. child labor. education
and other matters in which is involved the
welfare OF the country as whole.
We tried prohibition as federal measure
and it brought crime. death, blindness, re-
bellion against the United States Constitu-
ton and widespread corruption Of all sorts.
enforcement became a ridiculous travesty
largely because the states. including a con-
siderable portion Of their police forces, went
10 drinking harder than ever and Of worse
stuff.
But. now the federal government promises
TO aid each state in enforcing its particular
system Of control. the governments very own
system having resulted in a miserable
failure Prohibition is futile and undesirable,
but 1t meant definite aim and definite sys-
tenn. We now will trade it of for forty-eight
different systems.
THAT meanwhile" Of the washington edi
torial is a large step-brother of that terribly
trying word If" and certainly indicates a
period Of chaos. so far as liquor control is
concerned. It is safe to say that there are
not dozen states that can decide upon their
control system between now and Christmas,
: In the majority Of states 1t win require
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

this and several other countries will
be present and the list of influential
and famous names is impressive.
More than fifty organizations are
participating in the event.
q
"DUT," expostulated the husband
- of the woman next door,
that looks like wasted effort. Why,
we're right in the midst of a mill
tant movement that hasn't been
equalled in fifty years. We're sit
ting on dynamite Yet, in spite of
that, lot of fool women, backed by
more fool men - writer's, poets,
economists and dreamers, with no
practical experience, run around fu-
tileIy crying up their pale pacif1sm. /"
That is true, you probably will
say. But what the neighbours hus-
band forgets. / think, Is that we are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
BY DIR. MORRIS FTsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

spread of the infected material from
the throat to the ear. The spread
takes place through the eustachian
tube which passes from the back of
the nose to the ear.
Frequently the inflammation of
the ear is so sudden and the organ
ism responsible so virulent, that the
first sign of the infection is the sud-
den discharge Of material from the
ear. Thus less than tWenty-four
hours may elapse between the first
infection and the beginning Of the
discharge of the pus.
However, there are other cases in
which the condition comes on more
slowly. In such cases high fever,
severe pain in the ear and ringing
in the ear are reactions.
The diagnosis of this condition
can be made certain only by a COM
petent physician who will look into
the ear with a proper device for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
So They Say

Our goal is an industry operated
for service to the nation and its
people, guided through the processes
of organized labor.-William Green,
president, American Federation Of
Labor.
A blue eagle on the window can
not hide a black heart in the office.
Rev. Wesley Megaw, New York.
We have been inclined to disre-
gard the tendencies of a changing
world and vainly hope for a day
that is gone.-Arthur Hopkins, the
atrical producer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

months to determine and institute the details
Of the system.
Legislatures move slowly and congress
will be no faster in deciding upon what aid
the federal government shall give to enforce
ment of the various systems Meanwhile"
liquor, in most parts Of the country, will be
as free from control as rainfall upon the
parched desert
out of the eighteenth amendment by Dec.
Is and into chaos by Dec %.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
Let's Think

By For the People"
Let US all stop and think over
this new thing under the sun, -
that is, the destruction of wheat,
corn and hogs. Who provided this
bountiful harvest for the starving
people but God? Was it not God
who sent the sunshine and the
rain, causing the earth to bring
forth food for man?
Has any mere man the moral
right to destroy that which God
has given us? Are we all crazy?
It looks that way. Let us all get
down on our knees and thank
Him, the giver of every good gift
and use these necessities of life in
feeding the starving, instead of
destroying it.
Suppose there is a failure of
crops next year? 1t would be no
more than we deserve if we spon-
sor such a God dishonoring COM
mand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
It Seems
to Me
= BY HEYwoon BRoUN :

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-Maybs
~ I'm not very logical myself.
Possibly that is why I can not fol-
low closely the reasoning Of certain
clients who take acidulous exception
to columns about NRA.
Somebody sends a clipping from
1T Seem to Me- which expressed
emotion about the parade and at
tached is a news note concerning
a woman found in the wake Of the
procession who dropped to the side
walk faint from starvation. The in
ference seems to be that her hunger
was in some way caused by the
marchers.
And yet that. can not be So for
others stumbled and fell long be-
fore this scheme came into being.
Another reader tells me that on the
very day 100000 sought to trample
down the grass which Mr. Hoover
said would grow in the streets
Credit Morris Watson, of the A. P.)
her father was evicted from his
farm in northern New York.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21
LEGAL BOOTLEGGING

THE pending end of the prohibition era
- seems likely to bring few surprises for
some of us who aren't entirely familiar with
the ways of the liquor trade
For example: James M Doran, United
States commissioner of industrial alcohol,
points out that the nations stock of properly
aged whisky is today about 100000 gallons;
but he adds that as soon as repeal is in effect
this can be increased to 100000 gallons
through process Of rectihcation.
And rectifcation, it seems. is just bust
ness of mixing good liquor with grain alco-
hol to make half dozen gallons grow where
one grew before. 1t is, In fact, scientific
word for the bootleggers old stunt of cut
ting his whisky.
In our innocence We always had supposed
that this cutting was a villainous and rep
rehensible stunt. Now it seems that it is a
fine scientific achievement. It is all very
confusing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

Columbia university professor says science
has added seven years to life Of man. Let's
hope the other four won't be as bad as the
last three.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

The world is having an awful time proving
to Wilbur Glenn Voliva that it really isn't fiat
broke.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

The Democrats may yet pay up the debt
they owe John j. Raskob. But they can never
pay Herbert Hoover what they owe him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

BY Harry Clark.
In reply to your question printed
in The Times as to what is jack
salmon, I was in the fish business
several years and can tell you about
this variety.
To begin with, there is no such
fish as a jack salmon. This name
was given to Sanger pike, blue pike
and No. walleye pike by restaurant
owners a few years ago. Tons of
these fish are shipped from all fish
ing points along Lake Erie each
spring and fall, fresh caught and the
surplus is frozen and sold during
the hot months in summer and the
cold months in winter.
The jack salmon, or pike, are
caught in traps and gill nets. They
are a nice order size for restaurant
use, about six to seven ounces,
dressed ready to serve. The larger
ones are sorted out and sold at
higher prices and called No l pick
erel, jumbo blues and gill net San
gers. These three species are alike
in every way except in color. These
fish are plentiful in southern
streams. They call them yellow and
blue salmon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-09-21

Isn't it funny when sister and brother
twins grow up, by the time the boy is 80 the
girl is still only %.