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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23

structive to think over the warning issued by
one OF the nations prominent educators.
AT the present rate more public school
children will go to hospitals for the insane
than will go to colleges" declares Professor
C. E Turner, of the department of biology
and public health, Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology.
In his report to the American Physical Edu-
cation Association, Professor Turner pleads
that budgets for health and physical education
be not reduced too drastically
ut might be absurd to say that physical
education is a preventive of insanity" he as
serts, but it is not far-fetched to say that
teaching our people to play is one of the few
important agencies through which we can
combat that increasing pressure upon emotion
al and mental life
"Our people need play and relaxation now
more than ever before" he continues. In the
hospitals of the United States today are more
patients suffering from mental diseases than
from all other diseases combined"
Professor Turner ends with q warning
against curtailing the regular health programs
now holding an important place among school
activities.
eff we should abandon our health program,
our city and consolidated schools would find
themselves faced with an epidemic of COM
municable diseases at the beginning of each
new term such as confronted city schools
prior to $780,"
And in this connection the city Fairgrounds
should not be forgotten. great work has
been accomplished in past years at the recrea-
ton centers of Indianapolis and they are
needed this year as never before, during the
vacation season:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
TENSION IN EUROPE

ONE of the frontier incidents recently ag-
~ itating Polish patriots along the Polish
German border in Upper Silesia, according to
current news dispatches, was the fact that a
German flag, hoisted just two yards inside the
German boundary persisted in blowing out
across the line, SO that most of tit evidently
was very big flag-hoated over Polish soil.
Polish residents protested, and the Polish
border patrol wired headquarters to find out
what they could do about this German flag
which, hoisted on German soil, nevertheless
was flying over Polish territory.
1t would be hard to imagine more piffIing
cause for hard feelings. Yet the mere fact
that an incident of this Kind actually can
arouse resentment give a graphic picture of the
extreme tension prevailing along the frontier.
If a people can be stirred to indignation
because the end of flag is blown across an
international boundary it is no wonder that
Europe lives in deadly fear of another war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
MORE THAN MR.. MITCHELL

liver since Charles E. Mitchell admitted to
Il the senate investigating committee that he
turned a 1929 net income of almost three mil
lion dollars into a paper loss, by a temporary
sale" of stock to his wife, the public has
asked when he would be prosecuted for income
tax evasion
President Roosevelt apparently got tired of
waiting for an answer to that question, and
personally ordered Mr.. Mitchells arrest and
trial.
The public effect has been good. There is
less talk on the streets about one law for the
poor, and another for the rich"
Mr.. Mitchell, of course, deserves fair trial
A man of his wealth, with high powered law
yers looking for loopholes in the law and
means of delay, usually has little difficulty in
getting all the legal breaks coming to him
and more.
The irony of this case is that Mr. Mitchell
is to be tried for the relatively unimportant
offense Of tax evasion and not for the larger
offense of high finance racketeering as head
of the National City bank.
1t is reminiscent of the legal action against
Alphonse Capone. The two-thirds of a mil
lion dollars which Mr.. Mitchell failed to pay
the government in taxes seems like lot of
money but it is small change measured by
the losses to the public from the Mitchell
brand of banking and security promotion.
1t is important that Mr.. Mitchell be pun
ished under any law that can be found which
he was not clever enough to evade technically.
1t is also important that Mr.. Mitchell not be-
come the scapegoat by which others escape
their share of the responsibility. A.
But far more important than the punish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
Vote! Vote! Vote!

INDEED, the most fundamental
l. cornerstone in a democracy is
the provision that a show of hands
rather than show Of lungs must
decide the fate of each pressing
problem.
And so neither the senate nor the
house sacrificed anything vital in
agreeing to boil down debate upon
emergency measures. Let it not be
forgotten that there was debate,
some Of it sharp and acrimonious,
on every bill which was passed.
And it seems to me that dissent
can be just as powerful if expressed
IN a f1fteen-minute speech instead
Of an address of fifteen hours. In
deed, [ think that the reasons adj
vanced against some of the legis-
lation desired by the President are
more clearly understood from the
very fact that they were uttered
concisely.
The right of congressman to vote
has not been abridged. It is true
that the house passed the banking
bill without taking very much trou-
Die to study its provisions. But it
hardly can be said that dictatorship
has been established when a large
legislative body yields unanimous
consent.
In so doing the house did not set
a precedent which it was bound to
follow from that time forth. It broke
away to furnish some decidedly stiff
opposition in the matter of the
economy bill
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ment Of any guilty person is basic reform Of
the banking system which not only protected,
but encouraged, financial racketeering. An
emotional campaign Of personal villifcation
against the Mitchells and the insults may
make US feel better for the moment, but it
will not get us anywhere
Until we actually change the banking and
corporation setup in such way as to protect
the public instead Of the pirate, there always
will be plenty of Mitchells and insults in pow
er. SO long as we want the luxury of shouting
for rugged individualism" and no govern
ment interference with business we should
take the disastrous consequences without
whining and without cursing those who played
us for suckers at our own invitation.
The new deal in finance involves far more
than the arrest or conviction of Mr.. Mitchell
or any ether individual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
SWEATSHOPS

TINE official organ of the United States
\ labor department warns that even in
communities where sweatshops had been
driven out by law and public opinion, they
now are Sinking back, under cover of hard
times
The five industrial states of Connecticut,
Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Massachusetts, are the blacklist spots. The
clothing industry is the worst offender.
The working of children Is and II years
old under sweatshop conditions has in
creased So per cent in Massachusetts, and
283 per cent in Rhode Island. Some Con-
necticut factories were found to be working
children eighty hours week.
Illegally long hours, low pay, insanitary
working conditions. violation of protective
labor legislation and direct cheating of en-
ployes are among the conditions reported in
certain industries which employ large num-
bers of children and other young workers."
the Monthly Labor Review says. mo locality
has monopoly on such conditions"
Factory owners who work children under
sweatshop conditions should be Scourged from
industry by strict laws strictly enforced. Child
labor should be abolished outright by consti-
tutional amendment.
Minimum wage and work hour limitation
laws should be passed by the states. con-
ference Of Governors called at Boston last
January by Governor Ely went on record for
mandatory minimum wage laws for women
and minors.
And Governor Lehman, New York's banker
manufacturer Governor, has demanded state
measure to halt the evils of reckless wage
reductions below the decent levels of subsist-
ence"
minimum wage legislation would be
most stabilizng move says Miss Frances
Perkins, the new United States labor secre-
tary 1T would eliminate to a great extent
the present situation in which fair-minded
employers. willing to pay fair wages, are
forced to compete with those who take ad-
vantage of the hunger of job-seekers to es-
tablsh the lowest possible rates
Progressive labor laws never cause loss
to industry"
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|M.E.TracySays:

a MEXICAN life has been characterized by a
4 strange admiXture of brutality, loose think
ing and idealism since 1914
Gang rule has sprung into being amid the
cries for world peace, grooming has emerged from
jazz, and art has fled to the Jungle while mu-
Seums parade old masters.
Gambling for pennies in the back alIey has
been punished, while gambling in Wall Street
Tor millions was allowed to exhaust the national
credit.
Men who never would think of cheating a
aeighbor have grated on the public without
qualm or scruple
Honesty has come to be regarded mat
ter of technique, rather than principle
philanthropy, as we call it, has led to vio-
lent outbreak of the "gi'mes" and organized
generosity has led to a curious belief that life
is good only because of what the individual can
get from society.
System has taken the place of personalitv.
With mass emotionalism mistaken for mass
thinking.
| 0NdE development of commercialzed sport and
l. recreation has made people hopelessly de-
pendent on the pay check for their pleasure,
While the passion for merger and combine has
coagulated wealth into great pools.
Through some ineXplicable weakness; the
most expensive educational system ever devised
has brought on a perceptible lowering of self
| confidence and Self-reliance
/
oughly on the desirability of seeking expert adj
vice with regard to every little detail The more
they study the more they seem to feel the need
of it.
You almost can trace this depression to the
simple fact that the vast majority Of men and
women in this country had ceased to think for
themselves. though perfectly willing to admit
that they represented the highest level OF ntelh-
gence ever attained.
| Review international politics. and you will
find that the American people have been mind
| ing everybody's business but their own since
the war broke OUT that they have been ready
with plans for the world in general, as well as
vast number of nations in particular
n EVIEW domestic politics. and you will find
| N similar attitude prevailing.
We have spent deal of time shouting at
one another whether across seas, or merely
| across the street.
The result is that we have had too little time
| left for putting our own affairs in order and
that the inclination to do so gradually has given
way to the easier Job of watching and criticising
some one else.
Such a condition has made it possible for
small well-organized minorities to run the show
and take the gate receipts
During the last twenty years, We have de-
veloped an amazing amount Of machinery
through which to express public opinion, but all
/ the while our country has come to be dominated
more and more by olgarchies, which function
| effectively through their supposed power TO con-
| troll money, or votes.
| The secret of it all is lack of personal inter
est. lack of that old-time courage and resource
fulness which inspired men to think for them
| selves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
The Case of Borch

"A ND in the matter of democracy
L N 1 call to your attention to the
case OF Senator Borah, long an
advocate of strict constitutionalitv.
Senator Borah at the moment of
writing has voted against every
measure introduced during the
Roosevelt administration. And he
has spoken against most of them.
If this were actually a dictator
ship file of police or soldiers would
nave removed the eminent states
men by now and sent them to
death or exile.
10 be sure, Senator Borah has
spoken eloquently against the beer
bill, on the ground that it consti-
tutes notification of the Consti-
tuition.
Many excellent constitutional law
yers are Of the opinion that it is
perfectly legal, and surely there is
precedent for congress taking the
attitude that its function Is legis-
lative and not judicial AS in many
other instances the supreme court
will have its chance to decide.
1t may uphold Senator Borah or
reverse him, but in either case he
will have to admit that the due
processes of our particular kind of
democracy have been complied with.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
Smallpox Still Rates as Menace

nent, Mexico is the most important
focus of virulent smallpox. There
were 9,971 deaths in Mexico from
this disease in 1881.
In Canada and in the United
States the incidence of smallpox is
falling and the number Of deaths
increasingly lower
There are certain states in the
United States in which the small
pox rates are much higher than in
others. Much depends on the ex-
tent to which the population has
been educated as to the value Of
smallpox vaccination.
Much depends also on the extent
to which vaccination is opposed by
various groups in the community.
California continues to have ap-
parently the highest rate for small
pox, both in the number of cases
and in the number of deaths, Of any
state in the United States.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
GIVE THE SCHOOLS A CHANCE

GRAVITY of the crisis facing the nations
~ educational system was brought home
forcefully to every parent in the city by the
address of Paul c. Stetson, city schools super
intendent, before the Kiwanis club Wednesday.
Solid facts, backed by the countrys lead
ing educators, uphold his contention that
many officials have gone far beyond the limit
in their craze for economy. Waste in ad-
ministration of many schools undoubtedly pre-
vailed in the countrys lush days, back in
1928 and 1929, but not to such extent that on
the rebound it should be necessary to cut
funds and facilities far below the quick.
Teachers salaries have been cut heavily
in many states. Services which the educa-
tional system i'll could spare have been elm
mated Night schools, the only hope of many
young men and women in their quest for
education, have been closed.
In this city, during the conflict over the
school budget, one faction even went so far
as to advocate the elimination of health serv-
ices in indianapolis schools, dropping doctors
and nurses from the pay roll and cutting out
health inspection.
~ this connection, it is interesting and in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23
THURSDAY. MARCH q. 1913.
SCIENCES QUEST FOR TRUTH"

SCIENCES QUEST FOR TRUTH"
IF you ever have felt that modern science
= has a cocksure and seIf-satisfed air about
the body of knowledge it has amassed, you
might heed the words Of DR.. Harlow Shapley
director Of the Harvard Astronomical observa-
tory.
Dr. Shapley predicts that practically all cur
rent theories" are going to prove mortal be-
fore so very long The axioms of today will be
the abandoned and outgrown theories Of to-
morrow; and Dr. Shapley adds;
The only eternal yerties at present are
the enthusiasm back of hypothesis, the will to
know, and the willingness to tumble as we
learn to know
This viewpoint, to be sure, is the general
rule among scientists. But laymen often mis-
understand it, and because they misunder-
stand it they sometimes resent what they feel
is a too dogmatic and in1exible attitude on
the part of science.
A proper understanding of it might save us
from good deal of our creepy dread of the
rising Of scientific knowledge. For it seems,
now and then as if the scientists were ban
ishng mystery from the world.
1t seems as If science were about to say:
Thus and was the world made, and you
can make your religion and your poetry and
all your dreams fit this framework or else you
can discard them-it makes no difference for
this is the way things are"
Now that kind of talk is calculated to put
cold shivers down the back of any thought
full man. But it is precisely the kind of talk
that the real scientist does not indulge in He
is more likely to keep in mind Plato's great
picture
dim cave with man chained facing the
inner wall, specializing fruitessly on the shad-
ows cast on the wall by beings who walk
against the sun in the open air.
The highest scientific truths" the greatest
discoveries, are simply shadows. Today's YER
tiles are tomorrow's discarded theories; there
remains, as DR.. Shapley says, only ''the will to
know and the willingness to tumble as we
learn to know
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A WOman's Viewpoint

And when men took up the pro-
fession of neutrality-suspicious. once
was exclusively feminine-they be-
came obstetricians.
In short, without any sort of
by-your-leave, men have helped
themselves to all Of our jobs-save
one: Having babies.
Presently, too, We find them
busily occupied in transferring home
industries into the business areas.
Not, mind you, because women were
too lazy to work, but because men
decided more money could be made
that way.
So bread was made in bakeries
and washing was done in laundries
and fruits and vegetables were
canned downtown and dresses.
shirts and underwear were pro-
duced in factories.
Even the making Of baby
clothes became a big business en-
terprise. These are a few of the
reasons why men should think
twice before they crouch about
women in offices.
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So They Say

I have been Enthusiastically mis-
understood-Former Mayor Wal
ker, discussing wife's suit for di-
vorce.
Unless the poorer farming dis
trictS Of this country have aid
soon, by means Of a federal tax
or otherwise, from the richer ur-
ban and industrial centers, our
rural school system will collapse.
William j. Cooper, United
States commissioner of education.
There is one gesture we can
make. In that way France could
show she did not refuse, but only
deferred, the debt payment last
December and at the same
time prove her desire to help the
Americans.-Former Premier Ed
Guard Herriott of France.
And all it "a new dress) cost
let me see, about $3.50 for the
material and SO to make.-Mrs.
John Garner, wife of the Vice
President.
1t is important to open the
banks, but it is more important
to keep them open after they're
opened.-SenatoF Connally Of
Texas.
We have a leadership whose
face is lifted toward the sky
Representative Seagall of Ala
bama.
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the mighty wherefrom the wealth
Of the country has been diSsipated,
just because we are loath to see
the wealth which the worker has
made possible thrown recklessly to
the four winds, then we lack con-
fldence. Why has it been destroyed
and for what purpose would it be
used if regarded as a means where
by they could produce wealth with
it?
1t is true that confidence is nee
essary that this great financial sys-
tenn built up by the master minds
be maintained, but it is also true
that confidence will not relieve the
suffering and unemployment that
now exists and has existed for
three years.
Employment for all at a living
wage will create confidence just as
sure as morning comes, but we can
have no feeling OF confidence on
an empty stomach. Creation of un-
necessary employment at a low
wage will not solve our difficulty.
With mass production and i'm
proved machinery, allowing for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23

4 THOUGH we'll over Kindred
L n years have passed since the
efficacy of smallpox vaccination in
preventing that disease was DEM
onstrated, there continue to be con-
siderable numbers of such cases in
various parts Of the world to which
the information either has not
penetrated or else not been recog-
nized and practically established.
During 1881 and the first half of
1882, certain countries of the
world were without a case of
smallpox; namely, Austria, Bel
GUM, Bulgaria, Danzig, Denmark,
Switzerland, Ireland, Latvia, Lith-
uania, Malta, Scotland, and ,Yugo-
Slavia.
Apparently there still are three
important foci of smallpox in Flu
rope. l. Soviet Russia, in which
the disease in it's unusually severe
form seems to be on the increase,
although there was a considerable
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:: The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their riet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all car hate q chance.
Limit them to ESQ Words or. leSS.)
BY Dan Newhart.
I am a reader Of everything that
has ideas and views regarding the
condition with which this country
at present is harsSSed 1t is deplor-
able that in this land OF. plenty we
are in the midst of starvation. The
theories and plans of these who
would. better conditions invariably
evade the fact that the purchasing
power Of the masses produces and
maintains all lasting wealth.
To my way Of thinking, any form
of government will work if the
people themselves work. The mea-
sure of prosperity is entirely con-
trolled by the measure of wages. 1t
also is true that no government,
if its subjects are not creating
some form Of wealth. can endure.
Confidence, the restoration of
which seems to be the cure-all pre-
scribed by the ruling bodies to
break up the depression, has never,
in the sixty years of my life, Great
ed, in itself, any honest wealth.
In my opinion, honest wealth has
not been created by interest on
money, either paid or received. All
wealth created in such manner is
usury and therefore becomes a
social liability. 1t should be treat
ed as usury and abolished.
Only the wealth created by labor
can endure if a country will pro-
gress. It should not and does not
require such rare intellect as con-
stituteS our congress to understand
and realize this fact.
Why does our congress have to
consult with our bankers and fin
anciers to tell them the best way
out, inferring that the whole sad
mess is the fault of the financial
institutions themselves, when con-
gress is responsible for the condi-
tons that now exist.
They tell us now that lack of
confidence is the germ responsible
for our financial illness and you
and I know just what destroyed
that confidence, just because we
are not willing meekIy to sit back
and gaze with awe at the seats of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-23

TINE masculine memory is so
Il short that it ofen needs prod
ding. So let me remind the first
gentleman who rises to assert that
women have stolen mems jobs that
he is telling but one-half Of the
story.
For long before we emerged from
our kitchens, in search of occupa-
ton, the men had invaded our realm
and grabbed most of our work.
The things that girls learned at
home and did at home used to be
spoken of as "women's work" It
was considered undigni1ed for men
to participate in them. And at the
same time it was thought unwoman-
anly for a girl to aspire to a mas
culine trade or profession.
But let us see what happened.
Whenever a man felt a hankering
to busy himself with a domest C
task, he always could avoid I'M
pleasant gossip and titterings by
giving it new name and moving it
away from the home environment.