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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
The State Farm
AN EDITORIAL

1t is shocking enough that small offenders
have been chained by the legs, manacled for
hours to the bars like stalled cattle, beaten
with clubs and blackiacks by dim-witted
guards.
But, vastly more shocking is the effect Of
such treatment upon the victims. man may
recover from the physical consequences Of such
abuse, but his point of view toward the society
which infiicts it becomes forever embittered.
1t transforms a petty malefactor into a
hardened criminal. He becomes not only a
real menace to his community, but the work
Of policing him lays constant and mounting
expense upon the taxpayers.
The story which The Times will tell in the
next few days about the state farm is not
pleasant one. Yet it is the duty of a news
paper to lay the facts, however revolving, be-
fore the public.
With these facts before them, the people
then can decide whether they want public
funds dissipaCed in an inefficient, cruel in
stitution, an incubator of more crime, or
whether they want state farm operated on
enlightened principles, which really will check
crime and be credit to the state.
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tigation of these charges substantiates their
validity, such statement shows that the de-
preston has been good for the mental life Of
the American teachers. Such defiant pro-
years ago would have been unthinkable.
Another related and very important charge
now being made by schoolmen is that the drive
for reductions in the pay of teachers and for
the curtailing of educational activities is being
directed behind the scenes by agents of the
public utilities and by their bankers.
The allegation is that the utilities were
alarmed lest drive be made for lower rates
for electric light and power. To distract at
tention from this and to concentrate public
interest on economy elsewhere, they launched
a general movement to attack the school sys-
tenn as extravagant, to demand a retrench-
ment in educational expenditures and to make
the public feel that all that can be done. to
effect public economy is being carried out
This certainly is a matter which demands
investigation If the charge is untrue, then
its falsity should be exposed and the utilities
relieved from unjust suspicion. If the allega-
tons are supportable, then the widest publicity
should be given to them.
Whatever the source of the propaganda
against our schools, it is high time that a
counter-barrage should be laid down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
jogging ON A BROKEN LEG

TIGGING on a broken leg that hasn't
healed is foolish thing to do. There
can be only one reSult-collapSe
That is why the giddy condition of indus
try and agriculture at the present moment is
causing the administration to worry. Because
these two are able to crawl out of bed after
their long siege of sickness, they think they
are cured. The administration knows they
aren't and won't be for long time, unless
they take the medicine prescribed for them.
Automobile sales have increased 80 per
cent and the automobile industry no longer
sees why it should join others in the move for
shorter working hours and higher wages.
So it goes, most of the way down the line.
The farmer, with wheat at dollar has for
gotten what he knew two months ago-that
controlled production is the only cure for his
recurrent malady
The new business boom was conceived in
the human trait of thrift. The country saw
that President Roosevelt could and would in
crease prices. Every one with an extra dol
lar in his pocket commenced buying the things
he would need in the immediate future.
Manufacturing plants have ordered materials
for six months ahead Stores have stocked
their shelves.
But this is not prosperity. The 100000
unemployed are not buying. Nor are the men
and the women whose incomes have been
Debated until they are barely large enough to
cover necessities of life. The new rush of
orders has not meant rush of employment.
1t has meant chiefly longer hours for those
already employed.
A few weeks ago We all knew that it was
necessary to increase the purchasing power of
wage earners to achieve real prosperity. We
knew that permanent economic recovery de-
pended on jobs and adequate wages for every
able-bodied person. We know it today, if
We stop to think.
The Presidents industrial recovery pro-
gram is just as sound as it was when an en-
thusiastic congress approved it, with business
men and labor leaders applauding. If every
important industry had been ready with a
short week. minimum wage code as soon as
the law was signed we today would be in the
midst of less spectacular but more depend
able rise toward recovery.
AS it is the medicine has proved so power
full that it started working before it was ap-
piled and a corrective is needed at once-such
a one as is found in the temporary plan for
an immediate thirty -five-hour work week and
s14 minimum wage for industry. proposed by
the recovery administration.
A temporary universal wage and hour scale
will put men and women back into the shops
and mills without delay and will increase their
wages to the point where they can buy the
stocks on the store shelves, SO that store
keepers may buy again, so that mills may
keep on running, so that workers may keep
on having jobs and decent wages.
It's hard to take medicine when you're feel
ing frisky. but it is harder to have to start the
cure over again after a bad collapse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
ADVICE TO BUSINESS MEN

Z VERY business man in America ought to
~ ponder over the remarks made recently
before the Merchants Association of New
York by Donald R. Richberg, general coun-
sci for the governments administration.
There is no choice presented to American
business between intelligently planned and
controlled industrial operations and return
to the gold-plated anarchy that was masked
as rugged individualism',' said Mr.. Richberg.
There is only the choice presented between
private and public election of the directors
of industry.
IF the privately elected boards of direc-
tors and the privately chosen managers Of
industry undertake their task and fulfill their
responsibility. they will end all talk of die
tatorships and government control of business.
But if they hold back and waste these
precious hours, if they take counsel with
prejudice and doubt, if they tumble their
great opportunity, they suddenly may find
that it has gone forever
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
But Who Is He?

TINE marvel of Hubbell's eighteen
l. inning shutout without sin
gle base on balls is an essay by
Aldous Huxley cast before crowds
which want sheer melodrama. The
well-played game is almost as much
a drug on the market as the closely
knit psychological drama. I'd have
somebody bat for Ibsen and let
Charming Pollock finish the game.
you can't tell the players with
out a score card" runs the familiar
slogan as you enter the park. I
think it gives insufficient informa-
ton. Mr.. Hubbell's great feat would
interest me far more if I knew
whether he plays the mandolin, his
favorite novel and his attitude on
the recognition Of Soviet Russia.
Sooner or later the magnates
must realize that baseball players
are actors and must be handled in
the same way.
The modesty and reticence Of the
Ryans and the OTIS must be swept
away. They must sacrifice their
privacy for the sake of the public
veal
And if some Vergez or Terry COM
plains that it embarraSses him to
stand thus in the white glare Of
publicity, would say, Grin and
bear it, just like Mrs. Roosevelt"
(Copyright 1888 BY The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
A DOGS LIFE-AND OURS

a CITIZEN set out the other day to buy a
dog; and he remarked that mankind
loves dogs because dogs have so many human
virtues.
That is the way we commonly look at it;
but it is quite possible that the real reason
we love dogs is because they have so many
human frailtieS.
Every one who ever has owned a dog knows
that dog can win his masters affections
most surely by displaying qualities that
aren't ordinarily classed as virtues.
A dog can be a braggart, buffer, FaI-
staft1an kind of coward afraid of his own
shadow, but hiding it by great shew Of loud
voiced valor; he can be jealous, deceitful, ar
rogant, designing, and stupid; and in most
cases we love him all the more for it.
To be sure, he also wins us by his fidelity.
To what really wraps our heartstrings about
him usually is our realization that he is like
ourselves, a frail vessel filled with the minor
vices of an imperfect world.
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The Personal Touch

ATOW, it should be obvious that
L Y fans do not live on home runs
or dazzling defense alone. Jimmy
Foxx may in a season hit twice as
many home runs as Babe Ruth and
yet attract less attention. The trou-
bic is that FoXx is a substantial
farmer lad, with no Whims or foibles
which have been publicized.
Ruth's success has been only
partly due to the fact that he is
great ball player He is fortunate
enough for his own sake and the
sake of the Yankees to be a fabu-
lous personality.
Ruth owes much to the sporting
writer's, who have aided and abetted
the myths which make him glamor-
Gus. But he is a good press agent
for himself, even without outside
assistance. Every baseball club
needs some old circus advance man
to ballyhoo its attraction to the
public. 1t need not always be a
midget who gets dropped in Nor
gan'S lap With a little better press
work, it might have been a south
paw pitcher.
The truth of the matter is that
only a very small percentage of
American fans know the game
which we call national in any
technical sense. Some of it's mani
festations are obvious. When Babe
hits the ball into the bleachers.
even the dullest know that this is
an accomplishment. But the glory
Of tight pitchers battle eludes the
vast majority. Highbrow baseball
can command only its hundreds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN +.

NEW YORK, July 12.-I do not.
~ know whether the industry act
intends to include big league base
ball within its scope. but if the fed
eral government plans to offer aid
and comfort to the magnates. I
have one or two suggestions which
might promote the recovery Of our
national sport.
Club owners, like theatrical man.
ayers, are too intent upon the ar
tiStic side Of their racket TO heed
sound business considerations. A
Stoneham or a Shubert can be so
carried away by a technical tri-
umph that he forgets utterly the
need OF the dollars and the nickelS.
Carl Hubbell, of the New York
Giants, pitches an eighteen-inning
shutOut, which is something for the
book, or Miss Peggy Hopkins joyce
brings sheer loneliness before the
footlightS. and the entrepreneur IS
satisfied, even if the customers are
not.
AS a veteran baseball commenta-
tor, I go back to days when the
sport was taken so seriously that
Giant and Cub fans never inter-
married, even though they happened
to be of the opposite sex. Person.
ally, I believed all the atrocity stor-
les which I heard about the Chi
cago players. and, though I never
threw a pop bottle, I could under
stand the motives which lay behind
such direct action.
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OUR S12.50O-A-YEAR BOSS

1T is rather interesting to learn that General
Hugh S. Johnson, administrator OF the in
dustrial recovery act, is being paid just s12,5oO
year for his services to Uncle sam.
In his official position, General Johnson
will be giving orders to some very high-priced
executives Men to whom sl2500 a year
would be mere cigar money will be coming
to him with their hats in their hands, and
If he chooses TO get hard boiled-and he
seems to have a certain capacity for that
kind of thing-they will be doing just about
what he tells them to do
And somehow all this impresses upon one
the utter absurdity of the common method of
guaging a mans ability and success by the
size OF the salary check he draws
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
MiNed Emotion.

T DON'T think that baseball was
l. any better twenty years ago, but
it did include a note of passion
which is gone. Today players are
fined for nudging umpires, fighting
opponents, and jumping into the
stands after hecklerS. Indeed, every
sort of conduct which commands
interest at the box Office is under
the ban.
Officials of the leagues are fond
of saying at every public appear
ance that they are intent upon
roofing out rowdy baseball. May 1
rise to ask, What other kind is
worthy workers hard-earned pen
MES?
Although have been, from child
hood up Yankee roOter, I did APP
preciate the talent for Snowman
ship possessed by John J. McGraw.
am speaking of the old John j.
McGraw who was way uptown.
Mr.. McGraw gave the fans bal
anced ration. There always was an
Indian on his team, a Cuban, a
couple of college boys and one or
two half-Wits who might or might
not be regulars. And naturally there
was inevitably a pitcher called
Bugs" or DUSTY"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
:: The Message Center ::


dungeon and the torture chamber
were common.
Later, public executions were
made much of by the people. Hang
ing, torturing and burning victims
were kept until a sufficient num-
Der had been collected and a gala
day was had by hangman and spec
tator alike; a horrible picnic
Rome allowed some of her Grim
inalS the alternative of becoming
professional gladiators to perform
for the pleasure of the public.
France once publicly tortured
moron to death for slight hand in
jury to the king in an attempted as
sassination England hanged men
for theft of sheep
We have advanced from the hang
ing of petty thieves in patches to
the Intelligent handling of criminals
of today, as in Sing Sing. 1t does
honor to our sense Of the humane.
1t even smacks of the sentimental.
We rather would do our terms I'M
der Warden Laws than to be
rocked" to death in some third
degree police room secretly, know
ing the rocker would be excused
for his enthusiasm and zest for his
duty by the law.
Modern thought has taken we'll to
the idea of curling rather than in
juriously Furnishing evil-doers. Edu-
eating the youth today to shun evil
and learn to do well has come up
and up.
Then we must go farther We
must make crime less tempting and
valuable. More having and sheriffing
are not enough. Too much ado is
made of the possessing Of material
things, money, valuables and lands
Ones class and social rating now
is placed on the amount of his sal
airy or the size of his car, and re-
ally these valuables are only the
lesser and poorer ones when COM
pared to morals and appropriations
and real live needs Of man.
How we can disabuse our minds
Of these old material values is food
for deep thought. There have been
crimeless, happy and almost money
less ArcadiaS in the past. God for
bid that we never could arrive at
such a paradise again
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
WEDNESDAY, JULY u. 1898.
SUNSHINE AND CLOUDS

XXTHEN you look at the figures in the cur
w rent business revival, you get picture
Of nice bright sunrise which has an omi-
nous fringe of black, thunderous- looking
clouds all around it.
The monthly report from the department
of commerce begins by listing the encour-
aging factors.
Textile production is higher than at any
time since November, 1929. Steel production
is the highest in two years. Auto production
likewise is above any figure recorded since
July, 1881
Electric power production reflects extensive
gains in manufacturing activity; lumber pro-
duction is improving; the major lines Of con-
sumers goods are steadily booming.
So much for the sunrise. Now for the
clouds
Employment and pay roll gains are tagging
behind Both factory employment and pay
rolls increased during the last two months,
but the May indexes still were below the low
level of year ago. The American Federation
of Labor estimates the number of unemployed
in June at 100000.
Furthermore, production is getting ahead
of consumption. Many Of these industries
that are experiencing booms are making more
than they are selling. The grisly ghost of
overproduction still is lurking in the dark
clouds
We get here a set of facts which shows in
the most decisive way imaginable that our
recovery from the depression is not going to
be an automatic affair
The time has not come for us to let we'll
enough alone Things are picking up, but the
revival contains the seeds of a new collapse
and some of the seeds already have begun to
sprout
When production outruns consumption
when prices rise faster than wages, when
registers of factory activity show greater
gains than employment figures, storm signals
are flying in no uncertain manner.
All of which. of course puts everything up
to the great experiments now under way at
Washington. These schemes for raising wages
keeping retail prices from advancing too fast
increasing employment and regulating pro-
duction are as vitality necessary now as they
were in March.
If we assume that the recent business pick
up has made them unimportant we are rid
ing for the worst fall we ever have had.
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

socket following an extraction, it
usually can be controlled by plug
ging the socket with sterile cotton
or by the application of hot water.
Care must be taken to avoid burn
ing or Scalding.
Bleeding from the nose is fairly
frequent condition, due either to a
purposeful sock or to an accident,
such as running into a door.
The simplest way to stop such
bleeding is to place the bleeder in a
recumbent position, preferably with
the face down.
The application of ice water, or
hot water, to the nose, or temper
arily packing with sterile clean
gauze will help.
1t will not help particularly, ex-
cept to distract attention, to hang
a key down the back, to inhale
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
The Wind
BY MARGARET z. z

BY MARGARET E. BRUNER
All day the wind has seemed a
thwarted thing
That travelled in the throes Of
some old pain;
Kissing with vengeance, rising
higher to fling
Its fierce invectives with a wild
disdain;
And it has much to say, but in it's
haste
1t plumbers on and leaves the words
unsaid;
And aeons Of beauty has its power
laid waste,
While from its presence lovely songs
have fed.
But at the twilight hour will come
a hush
This writhing. restless spirit will
grow mute,
And quiet peace will rest on tree
and bush
That Aeolus frightened in his mad
pursuit,
And stars and moon viii smile, for
they know well
The story that the wind had tried
to tell.
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Bleeding Is Stopped in Variety of Ways

smoke, to apply ice to the back Of
the neck or to collect cobwebs and
stuff them into the nose.
If bleeding from the nose is fire.
quent or continuous, a physician
should make a careful examination
of the blood to determine whether
clothing, or coagulation, Of the blood
is delayed because of some def
cheney.
There is no way to strengthen
blood vessels to prevent hem
orrhage from the nose. A competent
specialist in diseases Of the nose
will be able to look directly into
it and to find out whether a dilated
blood vessel or an ulcer Of any kind
is responsible.
He can control such condition by
cauterizing the bleeding point, or
otherwise modifying the conditions
responsible.
Next-Treatment of bleeding due
to wounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12
FROM CHARITY TO JOBS

EOR graphic picture Of what an industrial
l. revival really means to the people mostly
directly commemorative unemployed working
men-you might cast an eye at recent events
in Youngstown, o.
Youngstown is a steel town, and until
very short time ago the depression was almost
crushing the life out of it, But the mills are
operating almost at normal levels now, and
business is beginning to hum; and during June
the Youngstown charities released a total of
5000 persons from their rolls.
Furthermore, good many of the people
who were subsisting on charity month or so
ago now are driving about town in new auto
mobiles. Their bills are paid they have new
clothes, they can look any man in the eye
again.
On top of that the things they are buying
are creating new employment in dozen other
cities.
It makes a tremendously cheering picture
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This is the second article in a series
on first aid.
IN case of bleeding, there are Ger
Il tain f1rst-aid measures which
may be undertaken at once.
Ordinary wounds can be con-
trolled by pressure with pad made
from a clean piece of sterile gauze.
Sometimes the application of hydro
gen peroxide will stop such oozing.
Hot water may be tried, but
merely washing with lukewarm wa
ter often will increase the bleeding
In case Of very severe hemor-
rhages, it is possible to wrap cloth
tightly around the arm or leg above
the hemorrhage. However, tourni
quets are so little needed in ordi-
nary accidents about the home that
it hardly is worth while to keep a
supply on hand.
A tourniquet is improvised easily
merely by tying loop and twisting
with a rod of any kind.
If there is bleeding from a tooth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-12

(Times readers are MUited to cypress
their vielcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to $50 CORDS or leSs.J
By. H. C. A.
I am not a brigadier general,
neither am professional
economist, but still am hot entire
ly without reasoning power
General Hugh S. Johnson, in his
radio address Of June 25, sets forth
a statement which, in an amazing
ly honest and direct way, decides
that capitalism is down and out for
ever. The Socialists, who as every
body knows are dangerous radicals,
because they want all Americans
to make $4,000 year or better,
have for decades been trying to tell
this, but nobody believed them.
Since the general however, is of
the same opinion, I hope that
people at last will stop, look, and
listen.
I have before me a reprint of his
radio address. Johnson says: THAT
happy something that starts things
up again also takes many forms,
but it also comes down to this
that the ability of the people to buy
is greater than the total cost of
what there is to sell. When that con-
dition gets to working, then de-
preston begins to end
He is modest. After an i'm
possibility has taken place, it only
begins" to end. Would it not be
nice if the new car of industry
could be persuaded to use his brain
little better?
May I, in all modeSty, ask how
peoples ability to buy can be made
greater than the total cost of what
there is to sell? Will the general
be so kind to explain how peoples
ability to pay can be made even to
equalize the total cost of what there
is to sell?
Now, folks, forget your troubles
for a moment and try to do some
thinking together with me. How do
we get to the total cost of what
there is to sell?" 1t is composed Of
the following, added together:
Workers earnings, farmers earn
ings, middlemen's earnings, and last
but not least-profits. Never for
get that these items added together
equal the selling prices Of the goods.
In other words, provided nobody
saves a nickel, provided the profit
GERS spend all they make, then and
only then can what there is to sell
be bought back in full.
We know, that this is not being
done, thus leaving a surplus of
manufactured goods and farm prod
ucts. Here you have a perfect right