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

THO be plucked out of workaday life, his
Il sedan with him. and carried to sea upon
a four months journey to ports with such
names as Curacao London, Rio was the fate
of Ole w. Nelson Kolberg, civil engineer.
Leaving his wife and family at home, Mr.
Kolberg drove away one morning last March
to Fall River, Mass, to visit his brother master
of freighter, who was in port with his ship
and whom Kolberg had not seen for thirty
five years.
After many pleasant SHOALS" in Boston The
brothers returned to the captains cabin for
more SHOALS" where Ole dropped into such
deep slumber that when he awakened he heard
the sound of the sea and the throb of the
ship moving and learned that his sedan was
tucked away in the hold below him.
His wife responded to his radiogram, Have
a good time" He did-in one port after an
other, seeing strange sights, satisfying that
old wanderlust.
A special advantage in such a sudden turn
of affairs as this is that Mrs Kolberg no doubt
got a kick out of the adventure also. Ole
became the embodiment and ambassador of
the adventurous warnings of BOTH and when
he came home he would bring a bunch of
vicarious fellow travellers with him, the latter
in person meeting him, as Mrs. Kolberg did
at the pier, where all got in taxi and drove
home to one fine reunion and great tale
telling.
A days jaunt on land stretching into four
months at sea
Who said adventure is dead?
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A SQUARE DEAL?
Who said adventul

TT sounds strange to hear the drys COM
planning about the lack of a square deal"
on prohibition
OF all groups, they should be the last to
complain on this score. For the last fourteen
years, they consistently have denied the Amer
lean people the very thing they now profess to
favor-a square deal" on prohibition
They have countenanced shameful tactics in
effort to enforce an unpopular and I'M
wanted law They have Endorsed the gum
shoeing, overlapping, gun-toting methods of
dry agents, regardless of constitutional rights
and the unfairness of such methods.
They have used every weapon at their COM
mand to block a showdown vote on prohibition
in congress.
And even now, with repeal assured these
same organized drys are trying at all costs
to prevent the states from holding ratifca-
ton elections In other words, they are trying
to deny the people the right to vote on a
vital public question.
Yet, they talk about the need for Square
DEAL on prohibition.
They complain that President Roosevelts
efforts to speed a showdown vote in every
state are unfair to the churches, the schools
and the homes
We demand a square deal in the new
DEAL DR.. w. c. Crooke, new Anti-Saloon
League superintendent for western Pennsyl-
vania' said at a dry rally the other night
AS a matter of fact, the American people.
and that includes the drys, are getting a
square deal on prohibition for the first time
in fourteen years.
For the first time since its enactment this
vital question is being tested in the fire of
public opinion. For the first time. repealists
and drys alike have an equal voice in deciding
the fate of the eighteenth amendment.
No deal could be squarer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

let no one raise the hue and cry Of political
incompetence and graft
You safely can defy any one to point to
session of congress-even in the administra-
tons Of John Quincy Adams, Andrew john
son. Rutherford 3. Hayes or Grover Cleveland
which exhibited lower order Of intelligence
and enlightenment than American business
has shown in the last twenty years.
Likewise. mutitudes of official investiga
tions and reports have shown that when it
comes to waste and graft the politicians are
but pikers squabbling over pin money COM
pared to the moguls of speculative finance.
II American business has not learned its
lesson it must be taught the truth; namely,
that the old floundering piracy is through for
ever We must have sane and comprehensive
industrial planning, adequate purchasing pow
or for the masses, and real assurance of in
dustrial democracy and social justice Nothing
less can save the tottering wreck of capitalism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
WOMEN BREADWINNERS

ME silly notion that in hard times married
women ought to be deprived of their Jobs
so that fathers of families could get work is
long time dying. Perhaps a recent study of
the situation, printed in Harpers magazine,
will help to kill it.
This article quotes a survey made in a New
England factory to see whether displacing the
married women employees would be socially
desirable.
1t was found that 40 per cent of the mar
ried women were the sole breadwinners in
their families. Their husbands we're out of
work, or sick, or dead; their earnings were all
their families had to live on
Similarly, study of $4,000 Pennsylvania
families in which married women had full or
part-time Jobs showed that % per cent de-
pended on the woman for support. And in
fully so per cent of the $4,000 families. the
wifes salary was an indispensable part of the
family income.
The married woman usually works because
she must and not because she likes to- It's
time We recognized the fact
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Lefth0pded P0cifsts

or course, disciples of prepared
" ness will insist that they are
the real pacifists. They tell US that
they are not for a big navy No.
indeed. All they want is an ade-
quate navy. But what is the de1ni-
ton of that tricky adjective? Some
say that if we have a navy second
TO none our defense is ADEQUATE.
But when that point is reached
some admiral comes along and sug-
gests the possibility Of our being
compelled to face attack by a COM
bination Of powers. And after that
scare has bitten IN. adequate" be-
comes a navy big enough to fight
all the world
There is no such thing as an
adequate" navy. because no one
country, no matter how rich and
powerful. can outstrip all the rest
when it comes to competitive build
ing
l think the genuine blown-in-the-
bottle pacif1st has a fair answer
to those critics who say, But YOUR
way hasn't worked yet He can
reply in all honesty, But yours
never has
Copyright. 1888 BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
SATURDAY. JULY IS. 1888,
COTTON CONTROL

TINE south has agreed to plow under more
Il than 100000 acres Of cotton. No de-
yelopment in the new deal actually is more
astounding.
Sixteen states have contracted to destroy
about $500 600 bales Of cotton They will, Of
course. get in return a lump sum of sl20 000,-
600. divided in cash rental fees among grow
ers who signed acreage reduction contracts.
But the implication Of the agreement is much
broader It means that the southern cotton
farmer, that highly individualistic being who
has been planting his land for decades and
reaping the snowy fields come good markets
or bad hell or high water, voluntarily is now
taking part in vast experiment of agricul-
tural planning
His is but part in this program; the
wheat farmer of the midwest is with him, the
dairying interests, the tobacco growers, the
cattle raisers and the packers, the fruit men
of Florida and California. All, eventually, will
come into this plan to prevent SURPRISES that
clog the markets and ruin prices.
The cotton program is distinctive because
of two things: Cotton is about to be destroyed
while there are millions who need cotton prod
ucts There is justification for this destruc-
ton if the cotton south and the whole nation
that pays the big bil-beneht. Time will
tell.
In the second place the plan is unique be-
cause the largest cotton growing nation is
cutting down output of a crop the price of
which is fixed in the world markets
In this latter connection America must
watch her foreign cotton markets. Of these
Russia could be the largest. An intelligent
decision of the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration to lend money on a sale of cotton to
the Soviet union always has been made That
whole vast country would become a much
better customer for our cotton if formally
recognized by the state department.
The south's whole-hearted acceptance of
the acreage reduction plan is more unassaiI-
able evidence of the confidence in the Roose-
welt administration And out of confidence
prosperity is born
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It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, July 15.-When de-
L v vices to promote world peace.
such as leagues and treaties. prove
to be less than 100 per cent efficient,
people grow impatient and exclaim:
Let's go back to the old way. The
best way to insure peace is to be
prepared for war.
I do not blame anybody for grow
ing discouraged over the manifold
shortcomings of the various abortive
efforts to achieve internationalism
Most Of the seed Sown has fallen
upon the rock or into very shallow
soil.
But I am surprised at the exceed
ing patience which many bestow
upon the old way" The machin-
cry for peace is new and i'll con-
trived and creaky in its joints. But
what can be said for the old way?
Why is disapproval cast upon an
effort which still is in its infancy
and approval given to a method
which has failed a thousand times
in every century?
The theory that nations which
are ready to fight need never take
up arms has been blasted in the
lifetime of every generation since
man first found flint and made him
self war club.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
NO STOPGAP

BEFORE the national industrial recovery
act and other aspects of President Roose.
velt's positive program for control of Ameri-
can business have been put into operation we
begin to hear suggestions that those are only
orlef and temporary measures - a sort of
crutch to business until its sprained ankle is
we'll again.
just as soon as prosperity returns the whole
machinery will be strapped and we shall re-
vert to the rugged individualism of frontier
times. Even Al Smith veered little toward
this attitude in his editorial in the last num-
Der of the New Outlook
All this reminds one of DR. Tueyell's oh
servation that the old slogan of no govern
ment in business" apparently is meant To spnlv
only in good times, when private industry is
sitting pretty, with large profits and no trou-
bles
When hard times come, even the most
piratical of the individualists come falling over
one another TO seek a handout from the gov
eminent lunch counter 1t is only an illustra-
ton of the old adage about the devils deter
mination to become a monk when i'll and his
nonmonkish antics as soon as he RECEIVERS.
Just so far as we hear any talk about the
New Deal being only brief and tranSitory
experiment, we can know that American bust
ness has learned nothing from the depression.
If there is anything which the depression
proved, 1t was the failure of old-line indi-
vidualism and the inability of business to set
and keep its own house in order
No sane person would desire governmental
interference in business If it were not neces-
sary. The economic history of the last CEN
fury amply has proved that it is necessary
and today Indispensable
From now on. American industrial life must
remain firmly under the thumb of Uncle Sam.
Otherwise it Will be fiat on its back again in
a few years and once more holding out a tin
cup plaintiyely to the federal treasury And
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15

Among the emergencies demand
ing flrst-aid is the presence Of for
eign bodies in the eye, ear, nose
throat or esOphagus.
Regardless Of how careful moth
ers may be, children occasionally
push foreign substances into various
body cavities.
Wheen a child chokes, there is no
time to call a doctor. The mother
must act promptly The mother
should remember that the attempt
to remove any object in the throat
by rough methods may do more
harm than good
If the baby is small. it should be
put face downward and given op-
portunity to cough the object out. A
very large object can, of course, be
pulled out with the fingers.
A physician removes objects from
the throat by the use of special
devices developed for this purpose.
Next: Treatment of burns.
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:: The Message Center ::


(Times readers are tnvited to empress
their rieics in these columns. Make yowr
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or leSs.)
BY R. F. Paine.
Permit me to opine that the
truths stated in your editorial based
upon Roy Howard's report on con-
ditions ard native sentiment in the
Orient should suffice to inaugurate
a radical change in our govern
ment's attitude toward and dealings
with the whole foreign world.
Just as for more than decade
we have been most disaStrously
monkeying with unenforceable pro-
hibition, so for more than the past
decade we have been posing futilely
as the worlds super peacemaker,
amongst other things filling our
newspapers with near prospects of
another Worlds war, cutting down
our own preparedness for any sort of
war, while the foreign nations were
increasing their ornaments with
outlay of funds owing us. Pacif1sm
gone crazy.
Suasion failed ANONYMOUSLY as to
prohibition 1t must fail as to our
up-to-date endeavors as the worlds
peacemaker. Both failures for the
same reason; the human animal is
naturally selfish and nationalistic.
We went to the great, glorious
job of persuading the foreign hu-
man animals to be good, peaceful.
and self denying; and they answer
that they have their own estimates
of moral obligations, thier own war
projects and are positively out for
all they can get in trade and acqui-
sition of territory.
What of great consequence have
all the conferences and treaties in
ternationally participated in during
the last fifteen years amounted to,
so far as any satisfaction to
America is concerned? Our Presi-
dent was repudiated in signing that
abortive Versailles treaty.
We have been rather habitually
down upon our bellies as official
observers" peeping under the doors
of foreign conference rooms and
returned home with q few sick mice
that the mountains gave birth to.
We have stood outside of league
doors while Japan safely has robbed
her neighbors of vast territories.
Our disarmament conference is
shot to a fragile. And we are now
hobnobbing in a so-called economic
conference in London at which we
vision agreements with nations,
someof them frankly defaulters, and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-15
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
RESPONSIBILITY PLACED

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

DIG navy people in America are
- fond of citing incidents in our
own history to justify their attitude.
One of the favorite contentious is
that in 1912 the British burned the
Capitol in Washington because We
had neglected to arm ourselves ade-
quately
That is a long time ago. and it
never has seemed to me a vital cpl
sode. Even the most partisan in
terpreter of history hardly could
maintain that the CONFEDERATION had
any lasting effect on the progress
and prosperity of the United
States
From 1912 the preparedness people
are very likely to leap more than a
century and assert that if we had
been better armed in 1917, we never
would have been drawn into the
World war.
/ do not think the argument is a.
sound one. Had we been more ready.
we might have had the good sense
10 stay out entirely First of all. it
simply isn't true that we were i'll
prepared when we entered the con-
f1ict in 1917. We did not have \
large army in being, and our navy
was no more than fair to middling.
But we stood as the great arsenal Of
the world. All the necessary 81
news Of war were in our hands.
1t Is quite true that Germany in
the later stages of the conflict made
no great efforts to keep us out. Their
eyes were open when they took a.
desperate gamble. Whether our
army was big or little was of no
particular consequence to the Ger
man strategists
They proceeded upon the theory
that the submarine campaign would
suffice to make it impossible for us
to send reinforcements. Our navy.
although useful to the allies, was
not vital factor, since the English
already had the German fleet bot
tied up.
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A Woman's Viewpoint {:

SO, out of the general scramble,
they usually sent out half a dozen
or so very worthy citizens and they
did not expect any medals for hav-
ing done so. Life TO them was its
own reward.
Contrast them, if you please, with
the modern mother who has but
one precious baby to her name. Is
it strange that she should worry 100
much over her solitary treasure?
I think not. Her problem is a seri-
Gus, sometimes a tragic one. For
she must always be saying mo" to
her own heart, crushing the desire
to serve and spoil the child.
Her maternal instinct, strong and
desperate, wars ever with her in
telligence. and the battle leaves her
spent. Instead of condemnation,
she deserves heartfelt sympathy.
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generally he does not vote, except
in case of a tie. When he par
ticularly wishes to have his vote
recorded he directs the clerk to
call his name, and votes.
Q-Is it true that human beings
can not sink in Great Salt Lake,
Utah?
A-The specific gravity Of the
water in the lake is so great that
a swimmer can not sink.
Q-Can one who holds first u. S.
citizenship papers issued in 1890,
use them now in applying for
final citizenship?
A-No, they have expired.
Q-When did former Mayor
James j. Walker of New York
marry his first wife?
A-April II, 1912.
Q-Is George Barr McCutcheon,
the author of Graustark, still liv-
ing?
Ale died October %, 1928.
Q-Is there an account of an
intoxicated man in the Bible?
A-The first account of intoxi-
cation is the story of Noahs
drunkenness after the flood, in the
book Of Genesis.
GLOW many years constitute
a generation?
Att is commonly estimated as
one-third of a century.
Q-How many motion picture
theaters in the United States
cater exclusively to Negroes?
A-The Film Daily Year Book
lists 300.
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TO PRIME RECOVERY

THE administration is worried about the
Il short memories of certain industrialists
VINO supported the recovery law until the
stock market rise, but who now think pros
perity has arrived under its own steam. AL
lowing them to lapse back into the old cut
throat methods
Despite the example of these unwise en-
ployers, some administration officials have
been wavering in loyalty to the Roosevelt
public works program. which from the begin
ming was advertised as the cornerstone of new
purchasing power and business recovery.
For several weeks Mr. Douglas, the budget
director. has been reported trying to make
wholesale cuts in the $33OOOOOOoo program
Secretary Ickes has been standing by the orig
inal policy.
The President has refused 10 be Influenced
by the vornout arguments which prevented
Mr. Hoover from undertaking public works.
with such disastrous consequences. The need
Tor increased mass purchasing power to sus
tain business revival is as great as ever.
The question of waste or extravaganza need
not arise. There are plenty of useful projects
which are sound financial and social invest
ments-such reforestation, Identification
and Stun clearance-without souanderino
money on pork barrel pursuits and white Gle
plant public buildings.
Fortunately, the administration has in Sec
rotary 1ckes public works administrator alive
to the twin dangers of waste and graft in
the spending of such a huge construction
fund.
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A S I recall my childhood, :"
IA writes Pittsburgh cor
respondent. 1T seems to me that
mother had an easier time bringing
up her six children than I do with
my one"
There can be no doubt of it. No
task is so difficult as the rearing
of one child
Nevertheless, We often are asked
to credit our parents with extra
ordinary powers, for their excellent
management of families that appear
to us alarmingly large. Yet. often
think. they were more fortunate
than we.
In the first place they were kept
so busy with the innumerable affairs
of their household and the physical
care of their families that they had
little time for sentimental intro
Spection. There were few spare
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NEWSPAPER PULLING POWER

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