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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
THE GUARANTEE MISNOMER

ME nation should learn from the expert
ence of the states in the matter of So
called bank guarantee.
In the early years OF the century, group of
western and southwestern states tried the
guarantee" In each case the trial failed.
The failure was due to false labelling and
false advertising of the plan. The public was
+. led to heliere that the state, with all its re-
sources and all its power of taxation, was be-
hind the guarantee AS a matter of fact, there
was no guarantee, in the common understand
ing of the term.
There was protective fund. subscribed to
by the banks. 1t represented only portion of
the total deposits. The state did not contribute
and was in no way responsible as an admin
istrator.
But because the fund was advertised as
state guarantee the public ceased to discrimi-
nate in the matter of where it made its de-
posts. One bank looked as good as another so
long as the state seemed to be back of it. Re-
suit, any banker, skilled or unskilled, honest or
crooked could g@t his share of the public's
deposits.
A bank charter was much to be priced. Pol
itics entered into that. Too many banks re-
sulted-and loose banking practices thrived.
i The first failure was "bailed out" by the
fund. And the second and the third Each of
the early failures therefore favorably adver-
tised the guarantee" 1t worked But the
fund was shrinking Finally there wasn't any
more.
: And the whole thing blew up, along with
the banks.
Had the system not sailed under false col
ors, had the general assumption that the state
was the guarantor not been allowed to grow up.
had the plan been called what it was,
bankers protective fund, instead of a state
bank guarantee, the vicious misrepresentation
and the loose banking which grew out of it
would have been avoided
Now most of the present national proposals
involve the same general formula that was
tried by the states-a fund subscribed to by
the banks to protect depostors in banks that
fail, but only up to the amount of the fund
The responsibility for the guarantee would
run to that fund.- not to the government
Insofar as such a plan is put forth and
described and labeled for what it is it might be
, helpful But if it is allowed to masquerade
under the misnomer of government guaran-
tee. it will be as dangerous as was the state
system and will come to the same pathetic
end
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Old Fabian BObs In

TOR a little while we had again
l. the Shaw who was making
Shaw and not the old gentleman
who merely chung to his coattails.
The first real fervency came in his
reference to Soviet Russia.
1t was far from orthodox Com
munism, for the galleries did not
applaud when he stressed and over
stressed Stains devotion to isola-
ton and nationaliSm.
But for good or i'll the white
beard once more had CLINT of its
Old flaming red The man was done
with his notes, and for fifteen min
utes he forgot that he was a per-
sonage. had not caught until
then the enormous charm of George
Bernard Shaw. Perhaps that &C
counts Tor much in his career.
1t may be that he never was as
wise as he and the rest of us
thought. am prepared to believe
now that he belongs distinctly to
the Irish succession. It isn't so
much what he says as the way he
says it.
AND even now he could charm the
pros of the trees if only he'd take
on his epaulets and service ribbons.
copyright. 1888. BY The TimesD
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in home which, in the words of the associa-
tons brief, Offered no normal amusements or
wholesome opportunities for happiness"
The modern world, furthermore, has evolved
commercialized pleasures so rapidly that to
many minds pleasure is Identical with pur-
chasing" The only way, then, in which a lad
like McWilliams can get pleasure is by getting
money.
In other words, an abnormal temptation to
steal Is put in front of him; and the state,
instead of counterbalancing such temptation,
"tolerates an antiquated and socially inimical
tax system that directly contributes to the dis
satisfaction and delinquency of youth through
its degrading influences upon housing and
home life"
This plea is something new in American
criminal procedure The state, always ready
to take the responsibility for ending a muir
derers life-on those rare occasions when it
can catch and convict him has not yet
thought of assuming partial responsibility for
his crime.
1t always is ready with Gains plea-"Am
I my brothers keeper"
But the responsibility is there. The least
sentimental of men, walking through a city
slun, can not escape realizing that children
brought up in such place start life with the
cards stacked against them.
Society, in the last analysis, creates all of
the evils that afflict it. Gangster, murderer,
harlot, thief, dope smuggIer-we provide the
forcing ground that produces them; and when
they are brought to book we belong in the
dock with them.
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either on land or sea, is, believe,
not one of them.
It owes first duty to make
America a safe and pleasant abid-
ing place for common men to rear
their families 1t owes several du-
ties to it's children. To provide
them with good if plain food, with
comfortable homes and school
houses, and to give them a chance
to work when they reach maturity.
1t owes to its old safe and
peaceful period Of age. 1t owes to
its workingnen security for the end
of life. 1t owes to every citizen
the opportunity Of living in land
that is at peace with It's neighbors
because it does the honorable
thing by men.
Battleships, walls of ornaments,
and focks Of soaring argosies never
will bring peace or plenty to any
nation. The first requisite always
is contented men and women and
happy, well-fed children.
When We possess these. America
will be the most powerful patton
upon the earth-for in then true
J power consists.
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SATURDAY. APRIL IS. 1888.
AMERICA VS.. CHAOS

THE swift devastation of American mass
buying power must be curbed at once.
IL this Is not done misery will multiply. The
danger is seen by labor and by every thinking
employer. And the Roosevelt administration
is moving up for an offensive along the whole
front
Having provided for emergency hunger re-
lief the administration proposes to attack the
deflation which is sapping American trade
commerce and industry. Through Secretary
of Labor Perkins it is learned that the ad-
mnistration will support three measures for
Immediate relief: "a A big public works pro-
gram; % The thirty-hour week, with certain
+ flexible amendments to the Black bill; 80
minimum wages to put bottom to the sinking
American living standard
Labor has asked for a $4,000 100000 public
works program Secretary Perkins thinks this
not excessive for spending project for federal.
state, and local communities But more i'm
portant even than the amount is the type of
work to be undertaken.
This is to be work that Will not further
depress wages. Also, it will be the type of
construction that will add permanent wealth
to the nation Modern homes Tor working men
to supplant the dingy, germ breeding tene-
ments of the cities, rural and village SANTA
ton works, schoolhouses, parks, grade cross
ing elimination and similar works are urged
by Miss Perkins.
She thinks upward of $4,000, 900 900 worth
of such projects could be put under way by
this summer. Surely, with commodity prices
low, public credit in fine shape, and labor and
business in desperate straits, this is the time
for such program.
The Black thirty hour-week bill, recently
passed by the senate, furnishes opportunity
for absorption of possibly 100000 industrial
workers now iobess. With administration
amendments, it can be made less rigid and
more enforceable.
The third proposal is most important of all,
since it would bulwark the shorter work week
against efforts of blind employers in many in
dustries to spread misery by shortening wages
along with hours.
The administration is considering a pro-
posal for joint capital-labor- government boards
to regulate hours, wages, and production.
The purpose is to prevent Wholesale pauper-
ization of American workers and restore pur-
chasing power
The offensive can not begin too soon. It
is fight between the United States and chaos
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN :

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW is a
~ nice old gentleman who has
been at sea a long time.
He lectured for almost two hours
at the Metropolitan opera house this
week, and had an uneasy feeling
that was sitting in a dentists
office reading a copy Of the Nation
from last July
Constantly one wanted to pluck
him by the sleeve and say: Man.
why don't you brush up OF current
thought? Have you ever read the
works of Mr.. Shave"
Particularly in the beginning
there was constant evidence that
the speaker was muted and en-
barraSSed by the fact that he was
standing in the shadow of a great
reputation. His Shavian idolatrv
blocked off the emergency of the
living Shaw.
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In other instances, boiling water
may be injected into the vessels,
causing them to heal together; or
some of the substances used for the
injection method of treating vari-
cose veins may be injected into these
birthmarks and cause them to dis
appear.
Sometimes it is possible, by use
of ultraviolet rays, to bring about
a sufficient amount of burning or
irritation to aid disappearance.
In very severe cases in adults and
depending on the location of the
growth, surgeons may decide to cut
away the tissue involved. This sell
dom is done, however, because of
the possibility Of soaring.
Radium is also used and has been
followed in many instances by quite
satisfactory results.
Radium never should be used.
however, except by people expert in
its employment, because Of the pos
sibility Of doing harm.
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:: The Message Center

(Times readers are inrited to cypress
their Cietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 CORDS or less.)
BY Reader.
I just have read, for the third
time, the article that appeared in
the pink edition of The Times on
Monday and headed Husband In
tervenes, Wins Freedom for Love
Rival" and the more I think of it,
the greater sap I think the hus-
band is.
This man was supposed to be a
great friend of the husband, ana
then behind his back tries to steal
his wife. I haven't any use for
this type of two-faced friend, and
an example should have been made
of him.
I know the husband the wife and
the man in the case.
The husband is hard worker and
has provided home and comforts
for his wife that any woman should
be proud of.
The man in the case has nothing
to offer her compared to what her
husband can do for her.
The couple have been married
eleven years and were, I think, very
happy until this man showed up.
When the husband has the man ar
rested, she sides with the man.
There should be some sort of law
to protect mans home under con-
ditions like these, for happy homes
and couples are the backbone and
prosperity of the nation.
I would greatly appreciate it if
you would publish this letter in your
paper, invite opinion on what other
people would have done in this case,
as this is something that would in
terest the entire nation and serve
as warning to other men of this
type.
There is a great field for educa-
tional work in this respect. In my
opinion there is too much modern
ism and not enough religion in the
modern marriage ideas.
This letter is written to you by a
woman who would give several years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
A WOman's Viewpoint

DO not believe that it is good COR
l. men or nations to think of power
for themselves in superlative terms
So never can agree with a GER
tain famous newspaper man who
says, 1T is the business of our gov
eminent to make this nation the
most powerful in the air.
Men and countries have been
drunk too many times upon the
thought of power. It is more heady
and more potent for evil than any
physical intoxicant And it's hang
over always has been the same
downfall and destruction.
Surely the last brief chapter in
our national history, penned by fate
since 1929, damns unbridled am
bition. We are Writings indeed to
leave it unread and .unheeded.
The end of the great f1nanciers,
not only of our country, but of the
world, can be traced TO this one su-
preme folly-the belief that their
power should be lilnitless. that they
should be - richest among their
countrymenl and that they should
have for themselves the wealth that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
EvOlvenent
BY VERNE MOORE

BY VERNE MOORE
Across the fragile crust of brooding
earth
The fossiled tracks of primal hordes
are laid,
And living men who tread II now
may find
Remote ancestral forms Of racial
kind
Immerged in yielding stone to lapse
and fade
Within the cons long that gave
them birth.
The vast parade of life moves ever
on
AS each fulfills his place and then
is gone.
The earth spins hungry cheeks to
blazing sun
whose rays aroused the urge TO move
and live
In pristine mud where germs Of life
began
The trend which molds the plastic
brain of man
And onward lures the fieeging race
TO give
Progression till ideal state be won.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
Alarm Seldom Justified Over Birthmarks

MOT infrequently children, when
~ born, have on their skins
stains or marks which seem to the
parents distinctly unsightly and
from which they are anxious to Sc
cure prompt relief.
Such developmental defects in
clude strawberry marks, which are
slightly raised, irregular in shape
and have bright red surface; or
else fiat patches known as port wine
stains, in which the depth of color
depends on the amount of blood
vessels included.
Sometimes the growths represent
collections of larger blood vessels
which may be pressed upon, causing
the blod to disappear from the YES
sells and the color to disappear SIM
ultaneouSly.
In the first place, there is no rea-
son to be alarmed relative to a
birthmark of this character. Usually
these birthmarks are found in the
younger child Immediately after
birth and, for time, seem to grow
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
Sh0dOlO of Great Man

A S one OF the many worshippers
L n at the shrine of Shaw. the ora
tor felt under obligation to live up
to the established tradition. There
must be shock impact. There must
be the flash of wit.
But these are not things readily
on tap. They slide away from any
one who feels constrained and lust
a touch of stagefright. Mr.. Shaw
was stiff and formal. He could not
seem to relax. He pressed. He
dropped his right shoulder and took
his eye off the ball.
A New York audience hardly can
be expected to go into gales of
laughter over the resemblance of
the word Mormon" to moron"
The visiting Irish playwright is
hardly the first public speaker
hereabout to play upon the humor-
Gus possibilities of using some potter
synonym for quits"
Indeed, if my .neighbor to the right
had turned to me suddenly to ex-
claim, MY names Bill. What's
yours?" 1 would have been quite
ready to accept the fact that 1 was
a guest at the monthly luncheon
Of the Kokomo Kiwanis Club.
In other words, it seemed to me
that George Bernard Shaw was
stale, improbable, and dull. Al
most I regretted the enterprise by
which I obtained ringside seat five
minutes before the event through
the good Offices of my friend. Mr..
Joey Keith.
1 asked Mr.. Keith whether it was
likely to be an inspiring address.
and he said, Il don't know, Hey
wood, but it's a tough ticket" I
got it only because one of Mr..
Keith's customers remembered at
the last minute that Mr.. Shaw con-
f1icted with Passover. She chose. I
think, the better part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medical
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

even more rapidly than the child
itself.
In many instances they gradually
disappear, leaving no trace of their
former presence.
Not infrequently these marks ap..
pear as the result of defects Of birth
Unless such marks are growing
rapidly or happen to be present in
an awkward place, such as on the
eyelid or the lip around the ex-
ternal ear, they probably are best
let alone.
Physicians have developed con-
siderable number of methods for
taking care of such marks. They
may be frozen with carbon dioxide
snow, causing enough Inflammation
and irritation to bring about heal
ing with obliteration of the blood
vessels.
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Laughter bA CoMrtesA

EOR at least an hour I wished
l. that l had not come. It was
a rambling, badly organized and
often ill-informed address. Some
thing enormously important in my
own life slowly was crumbling to
pieces before my gaze. A polite
audience was giving the visitor that
mild and forced laughter which is
almost more damning than thun-
derS of silence.
1t shocked me to see the first wit
OF his age looking down at his scrib-
bled notes and coming up with
joke about mOronS and Mormons.
But in the last fifteen minutes. a.
change came over Shaw. He drew
the refreshment of fervent round
OF applause. 1t came when he de-
clared that the capitalist system had
collapsed. That is hardly news. I've
heard it said even before the COM
ing of Mr.. Shaw. But, for all that.
it's good doctrine.
The round of sustained applause
came from the galleries, and for the
first time George Bernard Shaw
looked up above the ermined rows
to which he had been talking so
gingerly. Perhaps he realized for
the first time that he was talking to
a curiously stratified audience.
Above the golden horseshoe there
we're those who had come filled with
an eagerness for something more
than the mild persiflage of a some
what weary wit. He looked 10 the
hills, and from them he drew
strength
Something of the old Fabian
fighter who took his message to
every London street corner broke
through for the first time.
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So They Say

I like the Cubs to win the Ma
tional League championship, and I'll
take the Pirates for second place
and the Cardinals for the show
money-John J. McGraw, baseball
magnate.
A considerable percentage of
youth in urban America are at this
moment potential racketeers.- Pro
lessor Harold Rugg of Columbia
university.
The modernization of Turkish
women was effected peacefully,
except, of course, for private fam
lily quarrels.-President Mustapha
Renal of Turkey.
No public officer worth his salt
wants to be free from criticism
Henry L. Stirnson, retiring secre-
tary of state.
What we really need is peace for
the soul-Professor Adolph A.
Berle, Columbia university.
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ENVIRONMENT AND CRIME

NTHEN the Illinois Tax Service Association
W went before that states board of pardons
and paroles to plead for the life OF Russell Nc
Williams l6-year-old condemned murderer, 1t
advanced an argument that every citizen in
the land prof1tably might have listened to.
This argument was a bold assertion that
the state OF Illinois itself has share in the
responsibility for this lads crime and that,
having such share, it properly can not put him
to death.
McWiliamA lived in bli2htad Stun area.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
RETURNING OPTIMISM

THERE is no question that America today
Il holds more optimism than at any time
since the depression began. People at last are
beginning to believe that the end of their
troubles is. if not actually at hand, at least in
plain sight
The administration is acting with speed and
determination, and the people are giving it a
support such as few administrations have ever
even hoped to receive.
That much of this optimism is justihFd
seems pretty certain. The only danger is that
we carry it too far. so that We forget that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

rightfully belonged to a hundred
million people.
And in their fall they have carried
many a less ambitious but more
worthy man with them.
THE government of the United
l. States owes several duties to
its people. The ambition to be the
most powerful nation in ornaments,
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of both God and nature for them
to be working
A universal thirty-hour week may
make enough work for everybody,
but what have you gained when
both husband and wife have to
work to earn what the husband
could earn by himself in normal
times?
There is no use arguing. We SIM
ply have too many workers for the
number of jobs we have on hand.
Therefore, the sooner we take some
steps to reduce the numbers of our
workers the sooner we will be on
our way to true prosperity, not rid
ing on false idea which is likely
to fall down and go boom.
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many weighty problems still remain to be
solved.
The upward climb has begun, but it is prob
ably going to be long one and hard one,
and we shall probably be asked to make fur
ther sacrifices before it is accomplished. We
need now TO guard against overconfdence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15
Ride Is Painful

By a Reader.
Why, oh why, did they take al
these back-breaking, impossible
street cars off all the other lines
in this city, and wish them on us
who have to ride the Washington
street car lire? Surely, the patrons
of this line are entitled to just as
much comfort after a hard days
work as the people who ride other
cars, are we not?
1 am a faithful reader of The
Times, and hope you can help us.
have heard many complaints on
this.
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of her life to have a husband and
comforts that this wife gave up, for
what?
DIR. r. E. d.
AS one of your constant readers,
would like to express my view of
the present employment situation,
also the much discussed thirty-hour
week
To begin with, I think Roosevelt's
ideas, which he seems to think will
cure our present troubles, will turn
out just as did those of his prede-
cessors-one grand flop How much
buying power will his 100000 ST a
day men have, and how many men
can the government employ in it's
public works campaign?
These huge public works cam
paigns can not go on forever, if for
no other reason than lack of money.
These ideas scratch only the sur
face of our troubles, so why not try
some idea which will give results,
not to a few, but to every one?
My idea is to eliminate the wom-
an from industry. One reason for
this is that there never was or
never will be enough work for both
men and women in normal times.
Then why eliminate the women?
Because it is against all the rules
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Questions and
Answers

Q-What is the estimated
wealth of Indiana?
A-Unofficial estimates of the
national industrial conference
board for 1880 place The wealth of
Indiana at s9,045, 000,0 900.
Q-How old is Ted Lewis and
where may he be addressed?
Ale is about 80 years old and
his address is 255 West Eighty
eighth street. New York, N. Y.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-15

Man reports his canary, silent thirteen
years began to sing the day Roosevelt was in
augurated. Sure it wasn't buebird?
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struction Finance Corporation. Now they
mean Rising Flood of Conservators
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The Italian who invented the post card
just has gone to his reward. While we hope he
is having fine time, we are glad we are not
there.