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duction and Of employment, coordination Of
production and consumption on a broad
basis, establishment of a series Of trade as
sociations to make such steps possible, and
widepread system Of unemployment and
old-age insurance
Miss Perkins calls for very much the same
thing except that her plan lays more empha-
Sis on hours of labor and rates Of pay and
so far, at least-pays little attention to the
insurance feature. But her plan; in the main
is similar to Mr. Swopes
The chief differences between the two arise
from the fact that Mr.. Swopes program was
to be initiated voluntarily by industry while
Miss Perkins is to be forced on industry by
the government.
And to those industrialists who are OBJ
jecting to Miss Perkins plan, it need only be
said that they let Mr.. Swopes plan collect
dust for year and a half without making
the slightest effort to give it trial.
They were warned at the time that some
thing Of that kind was inevitable, but the
warning went unheeded. They refused to take
Mr.. Swope as leader; now they can take
Miss Perkins-and like her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-25
PERSISTENCE WINS
From Current History


Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior,
has been for years the chief ferret of Chicago.
He lay at the entrance of the local ratholes of
corruption and could wait for decades till the
rats came out to be devoured and destroyed
He was among the first Chicagoans-per-
haps altogether the first to declare Garth
aginian war of determination upon Samuel
insult He waS-and is-a Republican
He never was able to gather behind him
more than the tiniest fraction of the Illinois
Republican party. In 1892, he wanted Hiram
Johnson for President. Then he wanted Gift
ford Pinchot. Only afterward did he want
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In supporting Mr.. Roosevelt he supported
his first big winner in his whole uncorreIated
maverick political life. The reward was
cabinet appointment
1t is explained by the desire of Mr.. Roose
welt to please Hiram johnson. There is
much deeper reason, a psychological reason
Mr.. IckeS simply captivated Mr.. Roosevelt's
fancy
Mrs. Ickes protracted quixotic assaults
upon all the most towering strongholds of Chs
cago and Illinois iniquity qualified him. in Mr.
Roosevelt's mind, as being protagonist of
some sort Of new DEAL of some sort of upset
ting of the stodgy Philistines, of some sort of
passing of a Jordan into some sort of promised
land
So Mr.. Ickes, moral hero, and totally I'M
successful Republican politician, now is
Democratic cabinet officer and a collaboration
of Mr.. Roosevelts in the search for whatever
the new deal ultimately may turn out to be.
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THE GOLD STANDARD

EOR more than year dreadful specter
i has been held up before our eyes-the I'M
speakable danger that we might, if we we're
not careful, some day be forced off of the gold
standard.
We shuddered when told that at one time,
q year ago, we actually were within a few
days of such developments We gave devoted
lip service to the plea that this dreadful Gala
nifty must at all costs be prevented.
Well now it has happened-and every one
seems to be happier. A new atmosphere of
confidence has arisen. Commodity prices seem
to be about ready to swing back upward
The action which once was dreaded as a
catastrophe now is being hailed as a master
stroke.
What brought about the change? Bitter
experience. largely, which taught us that the
price we were paying for our gold dollar was
too high.
A good many things look quite different to-
day than they looked year ago. One of them
is the gold standard.
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OUR NEWEST DIRIGIBLE

TINE airship Macon has gone aloft at last
and every one who watched her as she
slid effortlessly along the sky must have felt
a sharp pang of regret at the thought that
these exciting and magnificent dirigbes are
not, after all, quite as practical as we had
supposed.
What the Macons future is going to be
only time can tell. She hardly was launched
under suspicious circumstances. The Akron
was destroyed in a gale just as the Macon was
made ready; then the Macon herself had to
wait in her hangar for more than a week
until mild weather came.
The net result seemed to be just SO much
added proof that the big dirigible must be
fairweather bird
But she is a beautiful sight to watch. for
all that-beautiful and thrilling A lot of
people will continue to hope, for more reasons
than one, that this ship will be able to re-
assert the reliability of the giant airship.
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NOW UNCLE SAM DOES IT

TT is nearly two years since Gerard Swope
l. told an industrial audience of a far
reaching plan he had devised by which in
dustry might try to stabilize employment and
production and remove the fear of restitution
from the workers horizon.
When he made that speech Mr.. Swope
was introduced by Owen D. Young and Mr.
Young warned his hearers that unless bust
ness found way to solve the problems arts
ing from overproduction and unemployment
1t could expect to see the federal government
tackling the job.
MIR. Young's warning was praised widely
and Mr. Swope's plan was commented on ex-
tensively; but nothing very definite in the
way of results was obtained by either man.
And today Mr.. Youngs prophecy is COM
ing true while Mr.. Swope'S notion that unre-
strained competition blghts highly de-
yeloped society has been abundantly justified.
The parallels between Mr.. Swopes plan
and the program being devised by Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins are striking
Mr.. Swope demanded sterilization of Eyo-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-25
MATERNITY DEATHS

A the time draws near for the annual
observation of Mothers day, the Ma
ternity Center Association of New York points
out that the best way to celebrate the day
would be to crystalline public opinion on the
vital need of improving maternity care
Every year some $4,000 American women
die in childbirth record that is disgracefully
worse than the records of many other coun-
tries which some of us like to feel are not as
far advanced as our own.
Experts assert that at least half of the
10000 deaths could and should be prevented
There is biting irony" says a statement
from the association, In the fact that in
several countries where Mothers day is I'M
known, motherhood is twice as safe as in
America
There is indeed. Our Mothers day cele-
bration ought to include a new drive to reduce
the maternity death rate.
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M.E.TracySays:

NOTHING has revealed the shrewdness of
' Russian leaders like the trial just finished
at Moscow, in which six British subjects we're
charged with espionage, sabotage and spying
The British governments extravagant protest
falls fiat, not only because of what was proved
but because of the mild punishment imposed on
those found guilty
The British government seems to have as
sumed that there was no ground for the accusa-
ton to begin with, and that, if there were, for
elgnerS could not hope for fair trial in Russia
AT all events, the British government opened
proceedings by demanding the unconditional re-
lease of its six subjects, going so far as to
adopt bill by which trade with Russia could
be terminated
Russian authorities paid no attention to this
threat, but went calmly forward with prepara-
tions for the trial.
The British government issued a paper in
which 1t was insinuated that the Russian police
had used pressure" to obtain testimony against
the Englishmen who were about to be tried and
that they would be ra1roaded regardless.
THIS argument went to pieces when one of
l. the Englishmen pleaded guilty and con-
fessed two others made damaging admissions.
and all acknowledged that they had not been
tortured or treated with undue violence.
1t is possible that they were framed" but
one can not believe it without disregarding the
evidence brought out in court, a good deal Of
which came from their own mouths.
Whether any of them deliberately tried to
wreck electrical equipment, as charged, or COL
ected secret information for the British intelli-
gence service, some of them were shown to
nave ceen guilty Of lot of meddling with things
which were none of their business.
Some Of them were inexplcably liberal in
hanolng out money to Russian associates, and
some OF them admitted making miSstatements.
The likelihood of a frameup is diminished
further by the fact that most important wit
nesSes against these EngliShmen were promised
ana gained nothing, as the verdict proves
TT is well-nigh incredible that English engi-
Il neers working for great English electrical
concern would wreck the machinery which it
had sold and which they had been elected to
install.
1t is well-nigh incredible that they would
associate themselves with anti-Soviet activities
or buy and transmit secret information.
But what are we to think when one confesses
and two more make damaging admissions. with
a dozen witnesses corroborating the charges?
To cap it all, what is one to think when
Russia winds up the business, not bv imposing
the severest penalty, but giving the accused little
more than slap on the wrist?
Russia has had her way and proved her point.
but without leaving much of a sting or much
ground for England to prove the controversy.
England can persist in crying "frame-up,"
but she can not prove that it resulted in grave
injury TO any EngliShman, which is the most
humiliating part OF it.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

part in mass meeting sponsored by Repre-
sentative Ham Fish to oppose Russian recog-
milton.
They listened to Amelia Earhart tell them
they should not fight for ornaments unless
they are willing to bear arms themselves. They
heard Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins tell
them that "out of the welfare of the workers
flows the welfare of the country"
OF course the Daughters have not gone
radical But apparently they are willing to
concede that their organization does not hold
a monopoly of the national patriotism.
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Sure Veg to Pass

THIS suggests great possibilities
Il for the future of smart Ger
man scholars. The scene is a final
examination in Anatomy 30 A. and
the first question on the list reads.
please name the three principal
bones of the human arm" The pu-
pill looks at it aghaSt. He has not
the slightest idea as to the an
Swer
In fact, he has no ideas at all.
having spent the entire semester at
tending patriotic meetings and beer
nights. But suddenly inspiration
seizes him.
The three principal bones" he
writes in his little blue book. are
Hitler. Adolf Hitler, and Herr Hit
Ter" And then. just to be on the
safe side, he writes, "Hurrah for
Hitler" across the cover and calls it
day, secure in the knowledge that
he can't escape graduation summa
cum laude.
In other words, from now on X
equals Hitler. He is the shortest
distance between two points. the
square of the hypotenuse of a right
angle triangle, the future tense of
all irregular German verbs, and the
date Of the Pilgrims landing at
| Plymouth Rock.
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manufacturers into smaller indie
pendent segments. creating employ
ment for managers, purchasing
agents, clerks, statesmen, as we'll as
prevent chains from debating prices
Legislate in favor of shorter work.
ing days (and hours with a full
weeks pay, creating more jobs.
Establish minimum wage law.
Set prices on not only farm and
food products, but also on manu-
! featured articles.
Regulate production, not only to
establish higher prices, but to pro-
vide steady employment.
Prohibit receiver sales Con new
articles at less than 10 per cent
above cost, protecting the merchant
next door.
If necessary, conscript capital.
Place trucks and buses under same
rulings as railroads.
1t might be necessary to declare
a moratorium on patents for a Spe-
Gifted period This suggestion is for
the purpose of protecting our pres
ent manufacturers, who might be
fearful of entering into manufac-
ture of an article because of the
possibility of an improved invention
which might put him out of bust
ness.
Reforestation and other construc-
tive forces recently put into opera
ton will help the return of prosper
ity materially.
Result-More employment, higher
wages, higher prices, more paid-in
taxes, contentment.
Initiate currency.
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BEER AND YOUR FIGURE

ONE of the minor issues of the day seems to
~ be the question of whether the consump-
ton of beer will add unwanted pounds to the
figures of women who want to be slender.
Professor Lafayette B. MendeI of Yale pre-
diets that it will.
A quart Of beer he points out, contains 545
calories-only los less than a quart of milk.
Consequently, if you add a quart of beer to
your regular daily diet, and don't cut down
on anything else, you are pretty certain to take
on weight, just as you would if you drank an
extra quart Of milk every day.
OF course, you can get around that by
leaving off the menu sufficient quantity of
some other food to balance the diet And if
you are feminine beer drinker, and you want
to keep your figure, it looks as if that is about
what you'll have. to do.
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THE suicide rate among men dur
Il ing the last three years is ap-
palling. And probably no estimate
ever can be made of the numbers
who have died from worry.
Women are less eager to escape
present troubles in death. Perhaps
they are incapable of grasping the
extent of disaster, but they seem
armed with an indomitableness of
spirit that supports them in all
grave crises.
I think this is because women al
ways have been concerned with life
and death instead of dollars and
cents. The traditions behind them
are traditions of human rather than
economic worth.
They have been busy with the
fundamentals of living. They have
given birth. They have closed the
eyes of the dead.
She who looks upon the cold still
form of a child to whom she gave
breath and nourishment knows what
it is to be vanquiShed. She sees her
work, that she has so loved doing.
ruined utterly. Her job, her accom-
plishment, her security for the fu-
ture, her happiness today, is gone,
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THE NEW D. A. r.

DOW the winds of Americas new liberalism
have swept away some old mental cob
webs is shown by what happened at the Wash
lngton convention of the Daughters of the
American Revolution.
Up TO now the Daughters have been heavy
joiners. Red baiters. heresy hunters, black
listers, Star-spangled patrioteers with or with
out axes to grind never bugled the charge
without finding the Daughters eager to follow.
This time they determined to do their own
fighting They voted to back their president
generals policy of cutting loose from propa-
ganda organizations. They declined 10 take
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On the Lone Prairie

HAVE read a good many letters
l. and editorials in the press which
have tried to move the American
mind to be little mOurnful over
Herbert Hoover. And I have not
been much moved. But met a man
the other day who did make me feel
sorry for our eX-PreSident.
He had visited Mr.. Hoover in his
home in California, and ne told me:
After lunch we went to the library.
and we sat there talking for almost
two hours. Several times I started
to leave, saying, I know you must
be busy and each time Mr.. Hoover
said: Sit down. There's no hurry.
I'm not doing anything
And suddenly I realized that he
was speaking literally. I knew it.
and SO did he. L began to wish that
his secretary would come in to an
nounce, London is calling Or, for
that matter, New York or even
San Francisco
1 thought what a godsend it
would be to this terribly tired man
IL troop OF boy Scouts dropped
around at the front door asking for
autographs and the opportunity to
pose on the lawn. But there weren't
any Boy Scouts. No Gene Tunney
No Mary Pickford or Cherokee In
dams.
There wasn't so much as a con-
gresham within hundred miles Of
the house.
And realized why Mr.. Hoover
looked SO tired. found that myth
cal figure at last. Here was the for
gotten man"
Copyright. 1893. by The rinesl
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Limit Is Off on Prescribing of LIQUOR

that its main value is in emergency
and as a temporary remedy for sti-
mutation, and occasionally to induce
sleep.
DR.. Roger I. Lee has spoken of
its chief use as the creation of a
state Of artificial euphoria, or feel
ing of well-being.
An elderly person, for example, is
convalescing from a mild cold, or
perhaps influenza. He is old and
tired. Where the person in good
health is unaware of, his bodily
functions, the old person who is re-
covering from a minor illness is
conscious of many mild disturbances
He is likely to be depressed and
miserable in mind and body; he has
no appetite and does not care about
things.
True, such a person may be i'm
proved greatly by taking vitamins
and iron, and suitable diet, but a
small dose Of alcohol in some agree
able form gives him a different out
look on life.
His miSeries concern him less. He
is likely to be improved in appetite
and to have in his body the will to-
ward recovery, rather than the
lackadaisical attitude mentioned.
Next: More about the use of al
cOhOl in treating disease.
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XX7OMAN is the creator of hui
w manity-death its destroyer
and we who wage a perpetual battle
with that foe, can not ever be
daunted by any sudden fall of paper
fortunes.
Men are ONLY little boys still, but
women are as old as the everlasting
hills, old in tribulations, old in sor-
rows, old in defeats.
Therefore, when troubles come
little boys, though they may have
been speaking in pompous voices
and Showing off" before each other
in the usual little boy fashion, do
not always know what to do.
They are apt to run crying to
their mothers. And so, a good many
Of late have been running away into
oblivion, hiding their frightened eyes
from the sight of accumulated
havOcS.
But women. being givers of life,
know that the only conqueror OF
man is the grave. We have builded
through the ages upon the graves OF
dead children and dead hopes.
Thus we can face material ruin
with comparative unconcern, and
furnish encouragement and inspira-
ton for the task Of rebuilding.
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BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia.
the Health Magazine.

The object is to prevent abuses
that might arise if physicians should
prescribe quantities of liquor suf-
f1cient for long periods. Any one
who misrepresents to obtain a
greater supply than is needed is
subject to fine and Imprisonment.
Physicians will not be required to
file in any government office records
Of the ailments from which their
patients are suffering, as at present,
but will be required to keep such
records in their offices.
The prescription of alcoholic Ii
quors still is not permitted in sew
eral states, and numerous physicians
in other states have refused to take
out permits. Many physicians find
the prescription privilege an annoy
ance. There are indications that the
right to prescribe liquor never has
been an unnixed blessing.
Alcohol in the treatment of disease
may be beneficial, useless, or harm
full, according to the manner in
which it is used, and according to
the type of case in which it is pre-
sented.
Sir Humphrey Rolleston has said
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By A Travelling Salesman.

BY A Travelling Salesman.
GONE weeks ago the police of
~ your city made a drive on
street walkers, but I notice they
again are taking charge of GER
tain parts of the downtown streets,
especially most of Illinois between
Washington and Ohio and the
mezzanine floor of a downtown
hotel.
make regular business trips to
Indianapolis and often have occa-
sion to meet some of my women
buyers. Since I always stop at
the hotel in question, it is only
natural that I should meet them
there when taking them to dinner
or show in the line of business.
Again, last night two of my
customers while waiting for me
on the mezzanine floor of the no.
tel found themselves sitting next
to girls of the street." openly So
Letting. You may imagine the
embarrassment, not only to my
self, but to these ladies.
Why can't the police. or the ho-
tel, or both, do something to stop
this outrage? 1t is shameful to
think that a good hotel must
swarm every night with this class
of people.
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It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, April 25.-Adolf
y Hitler just has had a birth
day, and I was surprised to read
that it was his 44th. He's stiu
wearing l0-year-old sizes.
I'm Al myself, and I don't want
to split birthday with Adolf. one
of us is backward.
The cables say that the Germans
heaped honors and gifts on the little
corporal. He received a thorough
bred horse, a portrait in oils, a silver
Statuet and other presents cele-
brating his likeness.
The schools had a holiday. and
the minister of education went be-
yond that in the distribution of
favors. He announced that pupils
who fiunked their examinations
would be promoted to higher classes,
just. the same, if they happened to
be young Nazis who had fallen be-
hind because of devotion to the ma
tional cause.
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This is the first of three articles by
DR.. Fishbein on the new law which
makes it possible for physicians to pre-
scribe as much liquor as they think wise
He also discusses the value of alcohol in
treating disease
A,TOW that the Celler-Copeland
1 Y medicinal liquor bill is effec-
tive, physicians soon will be free to
prescribe for their patients what
ever amount of alcoholic liquor is
necessary.
Former arbitrary limits on guam
tity, on the alcoholic content of
vinous liquors, and the number of
prescriptions that, might be issued,
are replaced by the stipulation that
no more liquor shall be prescribed
to any person than Is necessary to
supply his medicinal reeds"
The Judgment of the attending
physician is to be supreme, within
the limits of sound professional
practice, and subject only to certain
regulations now being drawn under
terms of the law by the attorney
general and the secretary of the
treasury.
These regulations will set forth
the maximum quantity Of liquor
that may be prescribed at any one
time, as well as the normal fire.
quency of prescribing.
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Lost in Night
BY CHRISTIE RITDOI

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
Scattered crost the hills
A silent web of moon-dust.
To my lone heart thrills.
A symphony of the stars.
Walking upon the fall of night.
Listening for words -unspoken-
uncrost,
Rising comes a lanquid light.
A rhapsody in which my soul is
lost.
Searching for loneliness, some vague
thought,
I've whispered and grasped, no
sound lives,
The meaning of beauty I've vainly
sought,
Undying mortality nothingness
gives.
The earth is solid-but space is
there,
I'm dangling bewildered-my
hearts in the air.
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panics whenever they desire to pro-
fit thereby.
Consolidate oil companies and sta
tions. Discharge employees.
Consolidate everything.
Result-About 10 per cent of the
people in the U. S. will be employed
The other 90 per cent will be de-
pendent on the government dole or
charity. The merging of ten COM
panies into one a few years ago cut
off thousands of employees, including
5000 statesmen, 5000 autos, 5000
hotel bills, etc.
The Way Out of the Depression:
Guarantee bank deposits.
Break up chain stores and large