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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
L. S. WARS ON CRIME

L lDNAPERS racketeers and gangsters
have been declared in on the new deal
by President Roosevelt. And they will be the
only ones who will rot like it,
TIE President has instructed the depart
mcnt Of justice to use all its resources in
helping local authorities stamp out lawless-
ness
This action will be welcomed not only by
a public which has at last become alarmed
over the succession of sensational kidnapings
and the growing depredations OF gangsters
but It will be welcomed also by local author
titles, Tor organized crime has been conducted
on scale with which city and county police
have been unable successfully to cope
The United States government can not,
under the Constitution set up a central de
tec.ive agency like Britain's famous Scotland
Yard But the federal government can per-
form many similar functions
It can bring to the aid of local police the
services of a corps of highly trained and eff
hcient agents who are not hampered by
questions Of jurisdiction and who can CO.
ordinate local efforts to bring criminals to
book
There is no desire on the part of the fed
eral government 10 uSurp local police func-
tons in the preservation of the peace. but
intervention has been made inevitable and
is now desirable because criminal operations
have become national in character and a
national problem. Joseph B. keenan,, in
charge of the governments anti-racketeer-
ING campaign, called the situation "a veritable
revolt against orderly government"
The federal government in recent years
has demonstrated its power by putting in
prison a number of gangsters who had been
able to operate in large cities virtually with
our molestation.
Lately. the government has done effective
work in arreSting several persons in million
aire kidnapping cases soon after the victims
were released These men will be prosecuted
in federal courts under the So-called Lind
bergh law. Federal agents assisted in obtain
ing the death penalty for the hdnaper OF
Mary NicFlrov in Kansas City.
The department of justice viii build up
its force and increase its activities IN CO.
oDeration with the states to crush the bands
Of kicnapers and racketeers, promised Attor-
nev-General Cummings.
i seems safe to predict that gangsters are
Witnessing the beginning of the end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
THE MDANAPOr3IS TIMES
BABY BONDS

INVEST in your government" might well
be the slogan to accompany the United
States treasury's official announcement that
it will float $500 100000 bond issue in de-
nominations as low as $50
Here are the so-called baby bonds, to run
for eight years and pay 81 per cent interest.
They may pressage the refinancing Of other
long term government wartime issues on
which larger interest rates are being paid.
Treasury Secretary Woodin announcing
the issue. stressed President Roosevelts ap-
peal for national cooperation. pointed 70 the
economies instituted by the President, 10 the
special taxes levied to assure that extraordi-
nary expenses would be definitely met.
The new bonds are attractive securities for
persons of small means
Invest in your government
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

Edward Berwick
Can it really be true that some
thing of permanent value is being
taught us by four dreary years Of
depression and disaster?
Has rugged individualism" not
proved the best OF medicines for
the ills of the body polite? Granted
millionaires have multiplied but at
the shameful cost of want and mis-
cry for those millions classed as
the masses"
Was the game worth the candle?
Our new President utters a deci-
sive Mo-" He reverses Solomon's
dictum That which hath been it
is that which shall be-" and tells
us that which hath been il Is that
which shall not be- That over long
hours of toll. over short rates Of
pay, and killing child labor shall
cease if any power resides in our
government to make them cease.
That government it has long been
our boast is a government "of the
people. for the people and by the
people" and he appeals personally
through the radio TO you and me,
dear reader, to stand back of him
in the efforts he and his picked as
sociates are making to insure a
square deal for those real creators
of wealth, the men and women who
do the actual work of toe nation.
be they farmers, mechanics, white
collar" men, or laborers.
But his task is not likely to be
an easy one, for vested interests"
have long been in the saddle and
will not willingly be endorsed. Our
courts and our American Constitu-
ton will be invoked to delay or de-
feat those certain new measures
now most necessary if We are real
ly to emerge from our period of de-
preston and disaster. Necessity
knows no law" and if anything
constitutes Necessity" surely it is
the starvation of suffering millions
Man is more than constitution"
No need TO await any economic
conferences decisions before set
ting our own house in order. So
here's success to the new dealt
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
Parable
BY AUSTIN JAMES

BY AUSTIN JAMES
A house was builded on the sands,
And there il stood in grand array.
Respondent in its Colds and silks.
And many came from far away
To view its splendor-but. alasi
A storm approached-and with the
dawn
Threw all its fury at the sands
And washed away-the house was
gone.
A house was builded on the rocks,
And there it stood in homely dress
OF rough hewn logs-but no one
came
To view II in its homeliness.
And as before. a storm approached,
The elements in angry mood
Released their fury at the rocks.
But went away-the house still
stood.
o. lesson in this parable.
I fam would take thee TO my
heart
And ever know thee word for word.
That l might tell these two apart.
And say unto the Lord this prayer.
AS in holy reverence stand,
Pray help me build upon a rock
My hfe-and not upon the sand"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
M.

WHILE some men use their wits to go
w around the world faster and faster, others
try to figure out how it is and what the climate
was like ten, fifteen, or even forty thousand
years ago.
According to biologists and astronomists
we of the northern hemisphere are in season
of cool summers which has lasted some 4,500
years and which still has $500 years to run.
Previous to that, there was a warm season
of 1000 years, and previous to that, another
cool season of similar duration.
There are those who believe that civilization
has the same kind of variations. Some go so
far, indeed, as to imagine that long extinct
races of men knew all about airpanes auto
mobiles electricity radio and other devices
which we consider new
This is an interesting theory but there is
little to back it up, save the apparent rhythm
which characterizes the processes of evolutionary
development.
THE brief space covered by written history
Il leaves no doubt that mass movement. organ
lied society, political progress and the tech
nique of civilized life are all subject to ups and
downs The fall of Rome resulted in a we'll
defined collapse with little advance in material
knowledge for 1000 years China made little
progress from the fifth to the seventeenth CEN
fury A D. Not only the Babylonian empire,
out Babylonian civilization were extinguished
about 400 B c.
Men appear disinciined if not incapable Of
maintaining continuous efforts in one direction
very long, which is neither illogical, nor in
consistent.
Civilization grows complicated. if it grows at
all with one branch forever affecting another,
and with new ideas constantly replacing old
ones Besides, there always is a tendency TO
everyday ideas, TO abuse power, 10 exaggerate the
value OF discoveries and inventions. Most sys-
TENS enterprises and activities have broken
down because they we're carried too far and
created a natural opposition.
THE human mind will tolerate a certain
Il amount of organization and discipline,
especially when it is in trouble, or seeks the
accomplishment of some definite purpose. but
the human mind primarily is imaginative. and
it will not tolerate such degree Of organiza-
ton or discipline as permanently interferes
with that function.
TIE urge 10 rove mentally, as well as physical
" is irrepressible. Human nature demands the
right 10 dream explore and experiment Il
will abide by fixed conditions only long enough
TO develop regions, complete projects. make
discoveries and perfect systems.
Then il insists on the privilege Of going for
ward once more. Change is and always has
been the basis of mans progress and change
rests on freedom Of the imagination Many
of the changes We have made are so big and
important as 10 call for long periods of CO.
operative action. but what those periods call
for is temporary.
The all-inlportant factor Of progress is
change. and no system can last very long with
out recognizing and accommodating itself to
that factor. Any form of government or So
cial order which presumes TO stop. change or
suppress the imaginative instinct Is doomed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
It Seems
to Me
; By HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, Aug. lit has been
~ said that when President
Roosevelt addresses the nation he
becomes the evangelist rather than
the economist.
I am not az al sure that this is
true. but in any case i IS hardly a
grlevouS fault. Men who are minded
10 change anything IN America must
accept the fact that We are a peo-
pie brought up for generations upon
preaching. The leaders OF Populism.
Prohibition and ProgreSSiyiSm all
have had something OF the pulpit
quality
OF course, the swing Of infectious
sentimentalism has been used to
promote notions which seemed 10
me unfortunate.
The K. K K. for instance. tolled
its followers into line with tam
BOURNE talk rather than logic. And
yet when a man has become in
tellectually convinced OF the right
eousnesS and necessity OF a cause
think he is foolish If he does not
attempt 10 capture something Of the
revival spirit in his harangues.
Certainly a great many vital en-
terprises have languished because
they have not been made exciting
enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

when other houses were darkened,
noisy when quiet brooded elsewhere,
and peopled. at least in her imagi-
nation, with abandoned hours, eter-
nal enemies of the virtuous.
Therefore, quite as much for the
probing Of forbidden mysteries as
for the destruction of evils, the
American woman took up the
Ratchet Of Carrie Nation. Subcon-
sciously she longed 10 rae walls
that kept her from secret places. TO
obliterate that which she could not
penetrate.
Perhaps if the saloon had had
doors that stood wide TO the public
gaze 1t might never have been abol-
ished. At any rate it's healthier
thing that beer now should be sold
and drunk openly. So long as It
stands in grocery stores alongside
bacon and eggs and soda pop, it will
be comparatively harmless.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
Prejudiced About Ariation

THERE seems TO be a current
Il belief that the world may find
an airway to salvation. Orators urge
us to become plane conscious. Fer
vent appeals are made to the wom-
en- Of the land 10 take up flying.
People who refuse to avail them
selves of the new means of trans
portation are looked upon as not
only craven. but in some way sedi-
tious
Possibly l am merely echoing the
old prejudice which went down
fighting under the wheels of the
locomotives, but 1 think that avia-
ton must still prove itself a boon
TO man. At the moment the score
stands against the new invention.
There is blood upon the fuselage.
At present the airplane's chief
potential Importance is that OF a
new engine of war It was the plane
which carried death and destruction
behind the lines to the noncom-
Blatant. This. to be sure. NAV prove
a factor in the establishment of
peace.
Possibly nations will kindle less
quickly under the realization that
neutral zones have been abolished
and that another conflict would find
even the most secluded hamlet a
city of the front. But it seems 10
me that time must wipe out the
memory Of the young dead in shat
tered cities before We all begin TO
worship the flying machine as a
benefcent thing.
And there must be considered.
too, the toll of those swallowed I'D
IN the sea and broken in lonely
forests. These men and women have
given their lives that the airplane
might survive and flourish. What
price aviation? No one can fairly
answer that question unless he is
able TO foretell the kind Of world
IN which he Will be living fifty years
hence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
A Note About Moses

Communities are ungrateful but
probably sound in their disposition
TO depoSe the leaders of a struggle
as soon as that struggle is won.
Those who came at the eleventh
hour have a clearer vision Of i'm
mediate necessities than the pio-
neers who blazed the trail.
Maybe it was a reward and not p
punishment when Moses was barred
from ever seeing with his own eyes
the goodly promised land. In its
actually ii could never have
matched the dream which led him
night and day as he guided his
people out of the house Of bondage
and through the wilderness.
l can imagine Moses standing
upon high mountain aud gazing
over the pleasant valley. He would
have sighed. I think. and said. WAS
II for no more than this that left
the Red Sea?"
Copyright 1888. bv The rimen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
TUESDAY. AUG. !. 1898
ONE CHILD IN FIVE
"a scRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

WHEN the war with unemployment
NFanauy is over. ptiful human casualties
will remain with us as they did after the
World war The veterans Of this later war
are children
Babies only a few months old and schocl
children VIII bear the marks of this war Al
ready one-dfth Of all the pre-school and school
children III the country are showing the ef-
fects Of poor nutrition. inadequate housing
lack Of medical care and the sense Of inse-
cUrity brought by unemployment, the United
States childrens bureau reports
II our understanding Of what this means
TO The next generation and to the future of
America mad been great enough We could
have prevented the tragedy Tor there was
food enough in the country for all The food
was at hand the children might have had it.
Because they did not, these children will
90 through life with less than normal strength
and energy They Will be subject to disease.
Their minds will be less active They will be
less capable Of graphing with the unsolved
problems We shall hand them The national
bin for public health services. hospitals and
prisons probably will mount
With the help Of a national administration
not afraid to look squarely at this problem
now. We have begun to realize that we have
done less than our duty in the past This win
ter when need and restitution still will be
with us no matter how fast the re-employ-
mcnt program moves, we must do more for
the children
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

TN spite Of certain reverential
l. praise given it by sundry bibu-
lous gentlemen, the old-fashioned
saloon is hated thoroughly and
feared by women. They nov must
be constantly treasured as to its
extinction and its name is a hiss
ing upon their lips.
For the saloon keeper Of yore was
a man who knew nothing az all
about feminine psychology. else he
would have used different tactics
for preserving his business.
7 am convinced it was rot the
evils. so much as the mystery sur
rounding II. that caused the down
fall OF the once invincible saloon.
Those swinging doors. through
which no respectable wife could
pass-they we're the sparks that
lighted prohibitions torch.
Mystery. lure. wonder, imagina-
ton. infianed by the unknown -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
A Woman's Viewpoint ::
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

these typified the saloon in every
community. Something went on
there in which women could not
participate. Thus what may have
been, and undoubtedly was. a drab
and sordid spot became 70 their
minds a veritable brothel in which
strange, unimaginable sins took
place.
THE old-fashioned woman skirted
Il physically clear of the saloon
but it was her chief mental pre-
occupation. Her life too was stale
and monotonous, as drear and
empty of excitements as that of her
Woodworking husband - and she
had no equivalent OF the saloon TO
which she could go searching for
glamor.
She watched her men hurry to
those hidden retreats that for her
were fearsome holes Of evil, anght
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

Sylvia Brummett
People every where are at a loss
to account for the rebellious atti-
tude OF the younger generation.
Gone are the obedient, mannerlv.
modest youngsters of the past and.
in their stead, We have a rebellious
disrespectful, head strong set Of
young people.
This deplorable condition is
ecauSed by want of religious train
ing in the home and school. The
Bible is the foundation OF all edu-
cation.
All truth, every good principle.
every virtue, every good habit and
everything that is decent. honest
and true, is founded on the word of
God.
All the money and time and talent
spent on education is in vain. all
wasted unless it's founded on the
Bible.
I rather would have my boy or
6AAA AAtNtl " set AIlt lIlSlQe OI a
schoolhouse, never know one letter
from another. than TO turn out an
infidel like so many Of our college
students today.
When the Bible was removed from
the schools, we took away the foun-
dation of all truth, all wisdom, all
knowledge. There is no truth but
what is based on Gods truth. There
is no knowledge except it be founded
or the word of God.
What horrible wrong We have
done our children by taking away
the foundation from under their
very feet, and leave them founder
ing helplessly TO make the best of
things.
We dare not think of the outcome
Of this state OF things. unless We
get some understanding. and put
the Bible where it belongs in every
school in America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

(Times readers are iHriied TO express
their riclcs in these columns. Make pour
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or Iess.J
BY G. 5. VI. "a DemoeraD
With reference to the letter OF
A. J. H., wish TO state that he is
all wet and Mrs. B. w. c. is right
regarding the reformatory at Pen
dleton.
I spent three years and five
months in that institution while
it was under the supervision Of A.
F. Miles, and I know what I am
talking about. wonder if A j. H.
knows why Miles was requested to
resign by Governor Leslie? I know
that his reasons were not ground
less.
If the food you saw was plentiful,
it certainly was not we'll cooked,
nor was it a fit repast for the hogs.
They take much better care of their
dumb animals.
The penalty for smoking while ut
work is ninety days, if you are
seen by an officer. I have seen
men smoking while at work in the
kitchen throw their cigaret butt
in the stew at the approach of an
officer.
I have seen men beaten so badly
with blackjacks by the officers that
they hardly could stand. their heads
cut. Have known officers TO knock
men down. kick them to their feet
and repeat until the unfortunate
man no longer could feel the blows
or kicks, then he was thrown in the
hole" to think it over The doc
tor would be called over to patch
the fellow up and hurry him on the
way to recovery SO no one would
know how badly he had been beaten.
The hole is a small concrete cell
with one small window high in the
back wall. You are given a pair OF
overalls and a pair of sneaks to
wear while in there. Your bed con-
sistS of a board two feet wide, six
feet long and one blanket, which is
put in the hole about 8 when you
are given your second quart of
water The hole is plenty hot in
the summer and plenty cold in the
winter.
If A. j. H. is so certain that the
reformatory is such fine place, the
only way for him to find out what
it really is like, is to go there as
an inmate. They are the only ones
who know just what goes on, and
how much is covered up. The Of
ficers couldn't be expected to tell the
truth and condemn themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

that TO be the only way out Of the hellish
chaos that has prevailed for four years.
There will be minority Of employing con-
Germs who will not see that present sacrifices
mean final return 10 normal prosperity. If not
actual salvation Of their own businesses
Such and there will be comparatively few Of
them left when NRA shows that it successfully
carries on, will be as buzzards eating at second
table after the eagle
Be Blue Eagle Indigo bluel
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association Of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

Among the best of antiseptics is
alcohol. Tincture of iodine is used
widely as a first AID dressing, as are
also mercurochrome, saturated so
luton of boric acid and hydrogen
peroxide.
When wound has been contain
mated with dirt, this should be
washed out with suitable solution.
1t is not we'll TO apply hydrogen per-
oxide 70 a fresh wound, because il
may cause pain and unnecessary
crusting.
After the wound has been dis
infected by the application of
suitable antiseptic, it should be COW
cred with a clean sterile cauze and
suitably bound. No one should at
tempt 10 sew a wound unless he has
had medical training.
Whenever pus or infection occurs,
it should have prompt medical at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
LAND OF THE FREE

A WOMAN went TO Homestead Pa, TO tell
L the steel workers about their rights under
the national recovery law. That was COM
munism TO the mayor He refused TO let her
speak on the town square
Her name was Frances Perkins secretary
of labor.
Must some steel or coal town official Jail
the President as red before America awakens
TO the fact that free speech is dead in many
parts of this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01
WHENEVER the skin is opened.
Wv torn or nunctllred the injury

w torn. or punctured the injury
is called a wound.
The greatest danger from wounds,
after the immediate danger of
hemorrhage. lies in infection There
fore the first step Of importance is
to prevent infection by disinfection.
In taking care Of a wound one
must be certain that his own hands
are clean. Surgeons wash the hands
thoroughly with soap and water and
then wash them in antiseptics. and
thereafter wear sterilized rubber
gloves.
AL materials applied to the
wound should be sterilized. If
sterile package of material ordinar-
lily bought at drug store is not
available. it may be made by boiling
thoroughly materials available in the
home.
Also. a freshly laundered hand
kerchief or towel is likely TO be re-
latively free from germs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

Girl Employe.
We are a few faithful employees
trying TO earn a living wage,
working under a slave manager,
at TO u cents an hour, rating less
than 81 day.
Can't some one with authority
investigate these conditions? Why
do these conditions have TO exist
in this no mean city of Indian
apolis?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

About 1000 persons could be accommodated
in the Baths of Diocletian in ancient Rome;
six of these establishments were constructed
during the days of the Empire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

F1eece-bearing dogs were once domesticated
by the Indian tribes along the North Pacific
coast: few dog-hair blankets are still in
existence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-01

From 100 to 200 earthquakes perceptible to
the human senses occur in the United States
every year, the number observed by instru-
ments is far greater.