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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13


their UietoS in these columns. Make pour
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Limit them to ESQ toords or less.J
BY NJ. M. Miller.
Much has been said for and
against the proposed housing prof.
ect in Indianapolis. 1t is my opin-
ion that this project has been gross
ly misrepreSented to the public by
the opponents.
In the first place as a part of the
government program of recovery
the slum clearance was conceived as
national project. If it is good for
other American cities it is good for
indianapolis, and all patriotic citi-
zens should cooperate.
The spending of 100000 here
would be great stimulating force
in business. 1t is estimated that
this money will turn over at least
ten times in the next year, as a re-
suit, Indianapolis will enjoy $50,000,-
600 in business. Can we afford to
turn this vast amount of business
from our city?
The only argument I have heard
against this project is from selfish
interests. The popular argument is
it will increase housing and work a
hardship on present rentals. This
program is designed to destroy al
most as many houses as it creates,
tear down shacks and novels and
build in their places livable, fire
proof homes. If any one doubts the
need of this project, let him visit
the district east of the city hos
pital to Blake street, go through
the side streets and alleys and see
if after his visit he is of the
same opinion. BY destroying this
blighted area owners of other prop
critics will benefit if they put their
property in good condition for rem
tai. The indianapolis Real Estate
Board has just come forward with
statistics to show that Indianapolis
is facing a housing shortage. If
this is true this project can not
hurt but only help conditions.
The unemployed of Indianapolis
are entitled to the work. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 men in the build
ing trade will be employed for one
year, as we'll as hundreds of others
employed in the business of furnish
ing the building materials and the
owners of these businesses who have
their investments on which they
have not been able to make profit
for the past four years.
Let me suggest that every work
ing man, building material dealer,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
Water Drinking Important to Health

TINE water you drink makes up
Il go per cent of the fluid part of
your blood. 1t carries through your
body the essential food substances,
the salts and the waste material
that is to be eliminated.
Water is absolutely necessary to
life. Although you may be able to
go forty days or more without food
you can live only four or five days
without water.
Practically all Psychologists agree
that six glasses Of water daily is q
minimum for health and that eight
glasses should be the average. But
it is also important to bear in mind
that you should not overdo the
drinking of water and that too
much may be as bad as too little.
You even may get drunk on water.
There is known to be a condition
called water intoXication.
If you are normal person, you
may drink one or two glasses of
water at meal. Water, therefore,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

mind that even a woman can't I'M
derstand.
It's perfectly silly, isn't it, for a
man to uncover before a woman
who. is trying to drink him under
the table? But how much more
silly for the same woman who downs
beverages and brews like Barbary
Coast pirate to be all dolled up in
a sweetly feminine bonnet!
1 have no doubt, however, that we
soon shall see specially designed
millinery for the smart debutante TO
wear at the bar. "Miladys newest
mode for saloon wear"-and won't
that be chic
Which reminds me that there's
one thing I like about nudism. The
ladies never appear anywhere in
hats.
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power and riches-and left the rest Of the
country holding the bag.

power and riches-and left the rest Of the
country holding the bag
It would hardly have room for a Wiggin,
who contrived to put his own interests ahead
Of the interests of his stockholders; or for a
Mitchell, who introduced pressure sales
manship to the world of banking or for any
one Of half dozen other f1nanciers. who
easily might be named. who collected enor-
nous sums by peddling worthless bonds to
their countrymen.
It certainly would have very little room for
system which placed the farmer at the
mercy Of the money lender, and kept de-
pressing his income at the same time that it
boosted the price of his necessities.
1t might not have much room for an in
dustrial leadership which was responsible for
some Of the coal-and-iron towns of the
eastern mountains; it is very hard to see how
it would tolerate some of the deeds of the
coal-and-iron police.
Nor, by the same token, would it be able to
use a labor leader who had been graduated
to his job from, the ranks of the racketeers.
You easily can go on for yourself and think
of other things that hardly would fit in an
era Of social control for the common good. And
when you get through you will realize that
this new yardstick could cause lot Of changes
if it we're applied strictly.
So the big question now is: How are we
going to use it?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia.
the Health Magazine.

may be taken in moderation be-
tween meals and at meals for the
good of your health.
Because of the necessity for ade-
quate amounts of pure water to be
consumed by every human being
daily, it is desirable that good
water supply be easily available,
both at work and at home.
Good drinking water is prefera-
bly, cool, but not ice cold. 1t should
be available in a clean, well-lighted
place. Possibility of contamina-
ton must be avoided.
Nowadays, paper cups are pro-
vided freely in most places, and
where the paper cup is not avail
able, the drinking fountain should
be SO. constructed as to make it pos
sible to drink in comfort and with
out communicating the faucet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

Fair
Enough
-BY wEsTBROOK PFGLER'

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-As ons
~ member of the rabble I will adj
NIT that I said Fine, that Is swell
when the papers came up that re-
cent day, telling of the lynching Of
the two men who killed the young
fellow in California.
I haven't changed my mind yet
for all the storm Of right-minded-
ness which has blown up since. I
know how storms of right-minded-
ness are made.
The city editor calls fellow over
and tells him to call up a lot OF
names on the office right minded
ness list and get about a column Of
expressions of horror and indigna-
ton.
There are various standard lists
in all shops. One is the list TO
be called up when some police cap
tain In Boston bars some dirty book
from public sale. This one includes
a lot of one-book noveliSts who will
say that the Boston police captain
undoubtedly is just an ignorant COP
who ought to be out shooting hood
lums.
There is another group to be
called up for expressions on ths rest
leSsneSs Of modern youth when
some young girl falls out the win
dow of penthouse. There are a
feminism list, a nudism list, an is
1azz-music? list and so forth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

T CAN'T work up a mite of en-
l. thusiasm about the new drink
ing conventions. I don't care
whether the women stand or sit or
whether they are all thrown out
of the whisky parlors. Alcoholic
equality simply doesn't interest me
at the moment. I live in a dry
state, anyway.
But I do wish We could share
equal rights with men on the hat
question. The restrictions we en-
dure-or on-this head are intol-
cradle.
I never have very good time at
public gatherings because 1 am so
occupied with envying men who
automatically take off their Fedoras
the minute they step inside the
room. We women. on the other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
A Corpse Is a CORPSE

XTELL, the city editor tells the
w fellow to get about a column
OF horror and indignation over the
lynching and he sits down at
phone and comes up half an hour
later with mess Of copy paper all
scratched up with chicken-track
notes.
He has mailed. the president Of
the university, the head of the local
bar association, couple of public
ity-crazed judges, the Governor, the
head of the local crime committee
and several prominent ladies who 60
in for right in a grim
way.
Now the storm of right minded
ness is gathered together in the
forms and a little while later it
begins breaking over the comn1u-
nifty.
But all the time the two men who
kidnapped the young fellow and took
him out on a bridge, where they
Knocked him on the head with.
concrete block and threw him into
the water, are permanently dead.
They did it and they got theirs
and however hard the storm of
right mindednesS may blow one GER
tain thing is that no lawyer is ever
going to get them loose on a habeas
corpus or a writ or error based on
the fact that some stenographer, in
tipping the indictment hit comma
instead Of semi-colon.
Neither is any Len Small, come to
the Governors office ten or fifteen
years later, going to turn them
loose in payment for some service
which some hoodlum politician per-
formed for him in the last election
or might perform in the next. Not
even Ma Ferguson can pardon a
cOrpSe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
LEGAL ORPHANS

ONE of the minor problems accompanying
~ repeal is that Of deciding what to do with
the people who now are in prison for violat-
ing the eighteenth amendment. According to
official records, there are at present S765 per-
sons In federal prisons for violating q law
which no longer exists. What are we to do
with them2
It is pretty obvious that no blanket rule can
be adopted. Many Of these people, probably,
ought to be released forthwith. They are men
who were law-abiding in all respects but one,
and they are not apt to violate any other laws
If they are released.
But there are also many who ought to
serve every day of their sentences. Some of
our prohibition law violators were fairly tough
babies.
A general amnesty which turned them loose
to find some other way of preying on society
would be q very expensive mistake.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

BY Mrs. May Vow.
AS friend of our beloved Bishop
Chartrand for thirty-eight years,
I wish to thank you for your edi-
torial in Saturdays Times. 1t was
beautifully worded picture of his
life, from the first word to the
fast, every word an honest state
ment, and I feel you deserve the
lasting gratitude of his people
for whom he lived and died.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
Last Night
BY ANONYMOUS

BY ANONYMOUS
Have you ever seen
In a lonely church
A taper, burning clear,
In a rush Of wind
From a far-off door
Suddenly dip and veer
Then leap into lovelier
Dancing flame?
Somehow 1 felt
A little the same
Last night at your touch
When close to my ear
A low voice whispered,
I'm . realist, dear"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
:: A Woman's Viewpoint ::
. BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

hand, have to sit for hours with a
tiny pancake affair sliding about
on our heads, or with one eye blind
ed, or with our ears clamped down,
according to whatever the fashion
happens to be at the moment. Yet
we fatuously imagine ourselves free
and liberated citizens.
=
A HAT is always a nuisance, but
L n hat in the house is a pest, a
torment. a burden, a curse. Why
on earth sex that is clamoring for
the privilege Of putting its feet on
the brass rail should endure the
misery of a head covering all day
long-outdoors indoors, at shows, at
teas, at church, eyerywhere-is one
Of the mysteries of the feminine
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

Smithsonian scientist says he can predict
weather twentythree years ahead. But weu
bet he's still caught out in the rain without
his rubhers and umbrella.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

Grit, not whisky. makes our navy fight, says
Secretary Of the Navy Swanson. 1t would
make us fight, too, If We found 1t in our drinks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

SO many interests are against it that the
governments new pure food bill may prove
to be just another poor fool bill for the con-
SumerS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

BY Clarence B. Lynch.
In reading the article in regard
to the thirty-five pound turkey for
the Presidents dinner and knowing
of the great things he has &C
complished, I could not help but
think that through the drastic ac-
ton Of the economy law, 1t has been
realized how many homes it made
impossible to have even a chicken
dinner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

merchant and small shop owner in
terested in seeing employment in
creased, pay rolls increased and bust
ness stimulated in Indianapolis write
to Harold L. Ickes, Department of
Interior, Washington, D. c., and tell
him you are for the national project
for recovery and that the $5,000,000
allocated for Indianapolis housing
urgently is needed and desired.
There is one other feature of this
project that has been overlooked
The shacks and novels in this dis
trict pay very little taxes owing to
their low value, but according to
statistics gathered by the Chamber
of Commerce, the greatest drain on
tax money comes from this district
for social service, disqualification, po-
lice and court cost, etc. This project
not only will clear up this condi-
ton but will yield taxes year after
year to help tighten the load of the
already overburdened tax payer.
BY W. williams.
In Russia, the government gives
prizes to farmers who raise large
crops and any one caught destroy
ing farm products Is dealt with Sc
verely. In the United States of
America the government pays the
farmers to destroy crops and to let
their land lay idle. In Russia, there
are no unemployed and McAdoo
says the people seem well fed ana
well dressed" In the U. IS. A, mil
lions beg for work while going hun
cry and in rags. In Russia, things
are produced for use, not profit. In
the U. S. A, things are produced
for profit, not for use, and there
must be scarcity in order that there
may be profit. In Russia, the
standard of living constantly is
rising so production increases, while
in the U. S. A. destruction of farm
products and curtailing production
must necessarily lower the standard
of living. This is the difference
between Communism and capital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
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This Lawyer Business
THE fine theory of all express

THE fine theory of all expressions
Il of horror and indignation is
that punishment is not supposed to
be vengeance, but a protective bust
ness, whereas the rabble which con-
stitutes by far the greatest element
of the population wants to make
the murderer suffer as the victim
or his family did.
And, though they would be willing
to let the law do it for them if the
law could be relied upon, they know
too well what lawyers will do when
they get a chance to invoke lot of
legal technicalities which were writ
ten and passed by lawyers to pro-
vide lawyers with opportunities to
make money.
claim authority to speak for the
rabble because 1 am member of
the rabble in good standing and
claim to know how lawyers work be-
cause I have worked around the
courts in the newspaper business
long enough to observe that there
never is criminal so vile but that
his lawyer, under the pretext of
obedience to his duty and by virtue
of lawyers law enacted to help
lawyers cheat other laws, will try to
get him loose.
I have talked this over with
several men who took part in the
preparation of the recent storm of
right-mindedness over the Califor-
mia lynching and every one of them
said that he, and his wife, both, said
Fine, that's swell or words to that
effect when they first heard the
news.
But they distinguish between
their private, personal feelings and
opinions in the matter, as spiritual
members of the rabble, and their
public actions and utterances as
members Of the right minded els-
ment. Having no public position,
myself, can be consistent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
Get Those Lawyers!

T AM aware, too, that the purity
l. of the California lynching was
fouled up by the Endorsement Of a
low-grade politician who happened
to occupy the Governors Office and
who should have kept still.
am told, also, that there have
been four other lynchings since
those and that the statement of the
Governor Of California probably
acted as an incitation In these cases.
These lynchings will be matters Of
horror to the right-minded group,
the more so If there happened to
be an innocent man among them.
But, in the same period of time
since the California case there prob
ably will have been fifty murders
IN the country and the victims Will
include quite a few innocent men
and women, too.
I would pay more attention 10
storms Of right-mindedness If they
ever blew against the attorneys at
law who argue and plead that one
totem years is a fair price for
good mans life and play dirty tricks
on the law to cheat the rabble~of
even that little if they can.
Copyright, 1888. BY United Features
Syndicate. Inc)
Haywood BrOun's column here
after will appear on the first page
Of the second section.
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ism, cooperation and competition
common sense and greatness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13
By Paul Greer.

By Paul Greer.
In the last few years, indianapolis
and all other cities have had an
enormous crime wave. One-half of
these criminal acts are commit
teed by young America And why?
The younger generation, just out of
school, has a grave situation to face.
Unemployed young people have to
cope with idleness and there is a
feeling of unrest. The seed of crime
is planted in this idleness and I'M
rest.
AS look upon the younger set
holding down the street corners,
think of flrst-year classmen who
will enter Michigan City. If work is
not secured for us. the country soon
will be flooded with harened GRIMM
ais instead of smiling youths.
If this is published, it will con-
vince me that the Message Center
is not a racket.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

BY Reader.
I have just read the message by
Patience" upholding the new adj
ministration and shifting the blame
of a $4,000 theft to our ex-Gov-
ernors regime.
1t is too early to be convinced in
the matter of who is guilty of this
theft, so that Patience" should be
patient a bit.
None of us readers knows who is
guilty in this instance and even
though the old lady school teacher
is tried and sentenced it easily could
be possible that during these cruel
times when our officials easily may
be covered up by some defective
legal ENHANCEMENT, and the guilt
shifted to the shoulders of one who
has no proof of innocence) she is
taking the rap" for an educated
fool of which the world is full.
If she really did take these funds,
I want her punished to the full ex-
tent of the law for there are too
many crooks nowadays, on both
political sides.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-13

(Tjmes readers are inUited to cypress
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Limit them to ESQ 40ords or leSs.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

their forces and began to build anew.
BY 1929, the left wing elements had
been driven from dozens Of unions
the country over by the same kind Of
trickery and gangsterism employed
against the furriers. The result was
the formation of the Trade Union
Unity League. Ben Gold assumed
leadership of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union and the
left wing furriers finally found solid
footing from which to wage their
battle for organization.
During 1880 and 1881, Colds friends
and associates became aware that the
strain Of ten years fighting with no
time out between fights was begin
ming to tell on him. They urged him
to take lay-off. Ben scoffed until
someone proposed that he visit the
Soviet Union, not for vacation but
to study Socialism in the making.
That appeal to Ben and he went. He
stayed there nine months, observing
and studying. Early in 1882 he was
recalled by the furriers and got back
into harness. He's still at it. His
candidacy for president of the Board
of Aldermen is only part Of the load
he is pulling.
(THE ENID
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
BY CHARLOTTE TODEs

The October "Steel and Metal
Worker" continues to be cramned
with news Of the big steel struggles
taking place in every important steel
and metal center, and especially OF
strike victories won by the Steel and
Metal Workers Union. Rounding out
the picture of the steel workers in
motion, perhaps the most significant
development in the present strike
movement. there is an excellent batch
of workers correspondence rejecting
the live interest taken by the steel
workers in their union paper.
Every steel and metal worker will
want to give his shopmate copy OF
this issue, if only to read the short
article by James NJ. Egan on now the
Steel and Metal Workers Union
functions and how it differs from the
American Federation of Labor. The
article tells about these differences
and shows how they have worked to
the advantage of the workers in ac-
tual practice as a means Of organic
ing workers for their economic inter-
eSts. Such features should continue
in the paper, and will enhance its
interest and its purpose as a weapon
for organizing the workers. Especially
important would be the publication Of
short articles by those who have been
in the leadership of recent strikes,
drawing the lessons of these struggles.
An interesting section of the steel
and Metal Worker" entitled "Our
Union at Work" is devoted to dis
cussion of the life of the local unions.
The "Steel and Metal Worker is
lacking in political material for the
education of new membership. The
issue Of the red scare discussed in the
editorial does not come to grips with
the question, nor does it explain with
sufficient clarity the role of the Com
munists in the union. More political
discussion to clarity this issue is
necessary.
Steel and metal workers may OBJ
tain copies of the paper to read and
distribute at the Offices of the Steel
and Metal Worker" Room 233. 80 E.
18th St., New York, N. Y.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05
No Apologies Needed

NOW to poets organizers
adjustment the revolutionary movement
gotten
themselves
the few writers have also
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Express
read books You sissy read book
that about the
question of studying
study
revolutionary the cultural problems
feeling that than quite
BATTLE
casualties wartime there psychological
every general
is necessary
lifting the morale of the working
tired Of speeches
will testify then that the prole
with his 1t then
proleaan chants sings his is then the artist
his cartoons.
ENN think said that Bydeny worth
gun regiment
tactics
health, sport esthetic
strikes led
They
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millions
amateur that nobody
to teach the striking workers something about
Army a corps
and actors attached to each regiment When taken,
cultural workers the theatres first night
Revolution
It sounds foolish to you Pat, but 1t works