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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
Tan1mdny'S Worst Crime
THE graveSt crime of the Tam

THE graveSt crime of the Tam
u many administration is the fact
that it has administered relief funds
so incompetently and OBVIOUSLY and
dishonesty. This sort of manage
ment has made funds which we're
inadequate in themselves even more
insufficient to meet the needs.
And SO l think it isa't enough for
a fusion candidate to saw. I will
give you honest government" He
must go far beyond that ard pledge
himself to generous government and
government of great vision
The name of Samuel Seaburv has
been presented as one which the
citizens would delight to nonor. It
is held in Mr.. Seabury's favor that
his investigation led to the resigna-
ton of James J. Walker, the play
boy mayor. But many persons on
breadlineS or close to them NAV be
excused if they complain that the
shift from Walker to OBrien has
not altered their status in any way
which was perceptible.
1t may be that Mr.. Seabllrv has a
plan and program for the fight
against poverty, but until it has been
spread before us I do not think that
his highly successful Investigation
is quite sufficient to make him the
proper knight in The adequate shin
ing armor. So far, Mr.. Seabury has
refused to make tie race.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
WHAT PRICE EDUCATION?

A WESTERN gentleman recently estab-
lished a new worlds record when he
skipped the rope for 2O.010 consecutive times.
Immediately thereafter he suffered a nervous
collapse, upon his recovery from which he got
married; and in all this swift succession of
events the most interesting part is the fact
that, according to telegraphed dispatches from
the scene of the action, the new champion
is graduate Of the University of Chicago"
We live in uncertain times, to be sure, and
a great many university graduates being un-
employed, doubtless have to look for odd and
unusual jobs.
But one still is impelled to wonder just
what supposedly educated man, man with
diploma from one of Americas greatest uni
versities, is doing skipping the rope 10000
times in a row.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
WHEN LUCK is KIND

ME big ambition of the small investor
always has been to get in on the ground
floor" Too often, especially in recent years,
the investor who tried to do that has stepped
into an open elevator shaft and dropped into
a sub-basement; but the goal is reached once
in great while and when it does happen
the results are spectacular.
The late Horace H. Rackham, who died in
Detroit recently at the age of 49, was one of
that small, fabulously fortunate group who
got in on the ground floor with Henry Ford.
In 1903 he invested $1,000 in the Ford Motor
Co. In 1919 he sold out for $12,5OOoCo.
That is the sort of turn to fortunes wheel
that the optimistic investor always remembers.
To be sure, it doesn't happen very often.
But it happens occasionally, and the memory
OF 1t Will be green, probably as long as there
are investors-and stock statesmen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19

dent to continue instruction in sociology, on
the ground that "the need for sane social
knowledge and adequate social leadership is
increasingly evident in every field"
1t is to be hoped that President Atwood will
discern the wisdom and cogency of this plea.
In any event, it is gratifying to learn that
social consciousness and a spirit of rebellion
still linger on at Clark.
The predominantly conservative cast Of the
academic mind, and especially of the mind of
university executives and trustees, is borne out
once more by the character of those who have
received honorary degrees from our leading
universities.
scores Of reactionaries, including even
high priest Of obscurantism and intellectual
reaction, T. S. Eliot, thus have been honored.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
LEARNING LESSON FROM NAVY

p EAR ADMIRAL BRADLEY A. FISKE, U.
S. N, who retired some years ago after
long and distinguished service in the navy
believes that the republic as whole right now
is going through the same difficult sort of
transition period that the navy went through
in Admiral Fishes youth
When Admiral Fiske was stripping officer
PACK IN 1880, the American navy was COM
posed largely of ships in which old-time sailors
like Nelson could have felt quite at home:
wooden sailing ships firing muzzle-loading
smooth bores by broadside, manned by men to
whom steam power was anathema.
Within decade all that was changed and
with what difficulty" says the admiral. THE
officers had to learn or invent, rather a new
profession. The ships and guns had to be
built, they had to be handled, and a STRATEGY
for them had to be devised whole new
method of thought had to be created. Do VOL,
see the analogy?
That was our material improvement.
we've gone from the little wooden ships to the
steel monsters, literally and fgurativelv"
The parallel is a good one; and the wav in
which the navy accommodated itself to radi4
caIly changed conditions may. as Admiral
F1SKe believes, point a moral for the nation
as a whole
Those old-time navy officers who in Al.
mlral Fishes words loved their beautiful
white sails and spotless decks, and could not
pear the thought of smoke and machinery"
are not unlike the modern politicians and
business men who look back to the social and
economic order of a by-gone day and wish To
bring it back again.
MECHANICAL developments made a change
IN the navy as inevitable as the sunrise The
problem wasn't solved until the navy officers
stopped wringng their hands over the decline
OF the old ways and set to work to bring the
service into line with modern inventions
In the same way, modern DEVELOPMENTS in
manufacturing in transportation, in distribu-
ton, and in finance have changed the picture
for the nation itself
1t will do us no good to look back regret.
tully to the day of unchecked indivdualsm
small businesses and keep-the-governmen
out-of- business.
we can solve our problem only as the navv
men solved theirs-by pitching in .wholeheart-
eoly calling on the technicians for helm and
resolving to accommodate our institutions to
changed conditions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
MONDAY. JUNE 10. 1893.
FARM AND FACTORY

TINE administrations great farm relief ex-
4 pertinent the corollary of the industrial
recovery plan has begun. In a sweeping
gesture expected to include the nearly 1900
COO wheat farmers, the government is pre-
pared to levy a new tax upon consumers that
will be paid over to producers who cooper
ate toward planned agriculture.
The audacity of the attempt is clearer now
than when first proposed in formal legal
language before congress; its simplicity prob
ably will be its saving grace.
Wheat farmers produce too much wheat
If they contract with the government to
reduce acreage in 1884 and 1885, they will re-
ceive bounties or adjustment payments that
viii approximate the difference between the
world price of their product and the pre-war
price.
To raise this subsidy that will total $780,
OOOOOO, the government will levy upon the
miers and other professors of wheat a tax
of about 80 cents a bushel Consumers will
pay this in one way or another the retail
price of bread, for instance, easily might go
Up one-half to one cent a loaf.
Thus, with the wheat plan launched, the
cotton relief program about to be launched,
the industrial recovery machinery being put
into operation the vast implications of the
new deal, heretofore obscured in conflicting
opinions and congressional debate, become
apparent.
Out on the farms the Roosevelt admins
tration is beginning the experiment that is
intended to raise farm prices, while at the
same time it is providing means for lifting
the terrific burden of farm mortgage debt.
In the cities it is cooperating with in
dustry to put more men to work, to pay
them better wages, to cut down hours of
labor When the farmers get more for what
they raise they will have more to spend for
the products produced in city shops and fac
tories; and when these industries run unen-
numbered by cut-throat competition, the in
dustrial worker will be bigger buyer of farm
products.
These two vast fields, for the first time
under this new DEAL are operating under a
plan-all enc great plan intended to restore
prosperity.
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| material, and the perspiration from
the skin. Such bath also is con-
ducive to restful sleep.
After the bath the skin may be
powdered. 1t is particularly i'm
portant to place the powder in
areas where two skin surfaces come
togther, such as the inner sides of
the thighs, under the breasts, I'M
der the arms and between the toes
Avoidance of rubbing and irrita-
ton will do more than anything
else to save the surface of the skin
and to avoid breaking of the sur
face, with ready access TO infec-
ton by germs and parasites
1t is not advisable to Use lotions
and toilet Wates of unknown COM
position. 1t has been shown that
some Of these contain ingredients
which tend to deposit in the skin
on exposure to the sun, producing
all sorts of streaks and markings.
Soaps used during the summer
should be mild, because Of the pos
sibility Of irritation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, June 19.-The or
y ganization Of a successful
fight against Tammany in the COM
ing election has made small prog
ress. I do not think that the
present mood and temper OF the op-
position deserves any great amount
Of success.
So far it seems to me that the
necessarily fundamental issues
largely have beer neglected. AS I
understand. the purposes OF the
fusionists, they are seeking some
nice, clean. young man Who viii re-
duce taxes and give US what is
called "a good business mans adj
ministration."
l can imagine Few things less cal
culated to stir lac masses of the
city. The chief concern Of the next
mayor OF New York ought o be Jobs,
homes and food
1t IS OF course, entirely reasonable
that every taxpayer should object
to having his money spent upon
useless officials and wasted in any
crooked way, but 7 do not think
that this is quite he time in which
to promise the taxpayer sweeping
reductions in rates.
AS long as so many are in utter
want, those who have must be called
upon and compelled to the limit to
support relief. And, frankly. I think
that limit can not be set one penny
this side of decent care for ali who
are held against their Will in the
grip Of joblesSness.
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It grips your heart because it
recounts, in the simplest terms, the
bewilderment of harmless, kindly,
if mediocre individual who slowly
is crushed by an economic catas-
trophe which he neither under
stands nor has helped to create.
Only to keep his humble job, only
to earn food and shelter for his
brave wife, mis- baby and himself
these are all that Pinneberg asks
Of his government or his God. But
push, strive, struggle. hope, dream,
pray as he Willie is defeated!
Cast aside, beaten, done for. one
of the worlds innumerable little
men, who, when their number grows
great enough, make revolutions.
Pinneberg and Bunny live today in
every land 1t is about them most
Of the books are written.
1t would be well for the big men
to begin reading the books.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
But What Neat?

T THINK it is fair to ask, After
n you have beaten Tammany what
are you going to do next?" I think
the man who can and will win the
election must be enc who viii not
rest upon the conquest Of the Tiger,
| but go on to a sweeping victory
against the tenements and novels in
which New Workers are forced to
burroW.
AS a matter of fact, I think that
Tammany is symptom rather than
a cause. There are gentlemen in the
Citizens Union and kindred associa-
tions who seem to me just as dan
gerous to the general welfare as
anybody in the Wigwam.
Certain respecte BILE elements are
pious in their horror of Tammany
corruption, but willing to fight tooth
and nail against any building pro-
posals which will nick into their
profits.
The familiar notion of the Tiger
as sort of Robin Hood who robs
the rich to support the poor is fan
tastic. Tammany has not SCRUBBED
to take its nickels as well as larger
stakes. 1t has been distinctly i'm
partial in its leveling of tribute.
And yet, from the point Ct view of
political realism, IL must be admitted
that the depression has not done
very much to undermine the power
OF the organization. 1t is clever
enough to use hard times as a back
ground for small favors greatly pub
licized.
The Christmas turkey and the
summer steamboat ride have been
employed to good effect IS gestures
indicating a great concern for the
needy.
But Tammany is not powerful
enough or clever enough actually to
create the poverty and the ignor-
ance on which it thrives These
advantages in the New York pollti-
cal scene are handed to tie organ
ization on silver platter by gentle
men far more highly regarded in the
community.
And from this group It is sug-
gested that we select some clean
young man to tackle the Jungle of
Joblessness with a lawn mower. The
lawn mower, of course, will be in
scribed with the motto Reform"
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:: The Message Center ::
a and will defend tyotaire

(TimeS readers are inUited to cypress
their Vielos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 qoords or less. J
Another Pedestrian
Although it has been traditional
in indianapolis for the board of
public works to order repairs to the
streets at the time of the Speedway
race and the state fair, I notice that
now even Saturdays are not safe
from inconvenience.
The writer passed the southwest
corner of Meridian and Washington
streets shortly after noon on a re-
cent Saturday and Immediately ran
into congested traffic caused by a
street repair crew.
The crew just TaS starting work
on tearing up the pavement at the
corner, despite the fact that Satur-
day noon probably is the busiest
time Of any day in the week at that
! particular corner.
| The temperature was flirting in
the COS. Pedestrians were forced to
make wide detours half way down
the block in each direction to avoid
the workers
Couldn't these men have been put
to work at night, when it not only
would have been cooler for them,
but also more convenient for citi-
zens?
Or is there a rule that rosurfacing
must be done at a time to work the
greatest hardship on all concerned?
BY Defrauded Deposition
What has happened to Che grand
jury investigation of the closed
banks in Indianapolis?
DepOsitoIS are grateful to Judge
Cox for his work in uncoyering the
manner in which our money was
used.
Prosecutor Wilson has sent two
bank cases to the grand jury after
so-called personal Investigations,
but nothing has happened.
Unless somebody made an awful
lot of careless statements in circuit
court, there must be some ground
for indictments, now that the grand
jury has the evidence.
Like hundreds of others who
financed the mistakes" of the men
in charge of these closed banks, I
would like to hear more about the
facts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
Questions and Answers

GLOW tall is President Frank
lin D. Roosevelt?
A-Slightly under six feet tall.
Q-Name the tallest building in
the world.
A-Empire State building, New
York, which is 102 stories above
the street level
Q-What is "the Vinegar BIZ
ble"?
A-One of the curious editions
Of the English Bible which ap-
peared in TIT. 1t is so named
from the heading of the twentieth
chapter of st. Luke, which reads
the parable of the vinegar" in
stead of the parable of the vine
yard"
GLOW large was the American
army in the war with Spain, and
how much did the war cost?
A-The army numbered 280. 564.
and the cost was $1,901 $4,000.
Q-Does the river Jordan flow
into the Dead sea?
Ayes.
Q-Is General Pershing a Ma
son?
Ale is a thirty-third-degree
Mason.
Q-Give the number Of deaths
and injuries resulting from coils
ions between trains and other
vehicles in the United States in
1882.
A-There were 4,029 such acct
dents, causing LAO deaths and
4,710 injuries.
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WE GAIN SOME WRONG IDEAS

'ON1RARY to the prevailing opinion This
is a nation of independent homes ona
small enterprises.
OF its 100000 families, three of every
Tour occupy single houses, while fewer than
one out of eight lives in any kind of an
apartment house
Inc 2ll,OOO manufacturing establishments
as reported in 1929, employed 8.837743 ner-
sons, or fewer than an average of fortv-two
for each.
recent survey made bv the regional
plan commission of New York CITY shows tbot
the average height of buildings on Manhat-
tan island is less than five stories.
Such figures are enough to indicate that
the American people have not altered their
habits OF life and work so completely as some
modern theories and schemes would suggest
The independent home owner, small
tradesman, unorganzed laborer, farmer and
professional man still play very important
part in our affairs
Like political conceptions, the social view
point has been nodded to large extent bv
organized propaganda
We have come to accept certain assertions
or assumptions as fact. This is Just another
example of the power of reteration.
1t commonly is believed, especially by CITY
dwellerS that the hotel apartment house. or
large tenement we'll nigh has disestablished
the single dwelling that chain stores handle
most of the retail grocery trade; and that
the bulk of manufacturing is done by great
corporations.
1t commonly is also believed that most peo-
pie work for great corporations and that if
they don't now, they soon will Such belief
constitutes the basis of the majority of plans
for social and economic reconstruction
The idea that small, independent business
has about disappeared and that family life
is going the same way has become veritable
obSeSsion. Some social workers even go as far
as to say that it might be good thing if the
home were eliminated, while many economists
seem to think that the problem of organizing
industry into few major units requires little
but the passage of IAN act entitled an act"
1t is to be conceded that organization has
come to exercise a profound influence on bust
ness and that what formerly was left to in
dividual or local charities has evolved into
quasi-public service. We have long way to
go, however, to complete the job.
Not only the traditions on which this coun-
try was founded, but the inventiveness by
which it has been developed and improved.
serve to keep alive the spirit of independence
and initiative.
No sooner do We get a great industry
merged, consolidated, and unified, than some
genius, or group of geniuses, trots out an in
vention to spoil it all
The automobile furnishes a vivid illustra-
ton of how this works. Forty years ago,
transportation virtually was locked up in the
railroad business and the whole country was
alarmed because of the influence railroading
had come to exercise in its social and eco
nom.c life. Right now, We are trying to rescue
the railroads from bankruptcy.
Unless something occurs actually to stihe
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
A Woman's Viewpoint a:

THOSE of us who keep up, how
l. ever badly, with current fic-
ton, can not but sense the fright
ening significance of the more re-
cent output. And it would be worse
than folly to ignore the message
that is cried to us. For it is a mes
: e, warning, a threat, if you
W..
All over the earth, in every corner
where books are written, one ire
mendous motif runs through the
novel-man's hard, hopeless struggle
for bread
In earlier days, when I was a girl,
for instance, We anguished over the
Civil wars romantic poverty and
enjoyed each vicarious victory of the
pioneer over the wilderness. For
books, then as now, mirrored life,
social problems, industrial move
ments. the dreams of men, and
showed their endeavors to realize
those dreams and to conquer fate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

plants. brushwood, and other mate
rails in the woods or in camps, to
wear gloves and, by all means, to
keep the hands away from the face,
the eyes and other portions of the
body. Otherwise, the hands may
serve to spread the poison.
1t should be realized that, more
than any other part of the body,
the skin is likely to be affected
by heat and sunlight.
The constant secretion of the
sweat, with the accumulation of
dust and other materials on the
skin, aids development of germs of
various types.
Bathing therefore is essential at
frequent intervals in the summer.
The skin constantly is shedding
dead cells A lukewarm bath and
the use Of a bland soap will remove
all dead material, the infectious
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19

Q-Do congressman receive an
allowance for travel between their
homes and Washington?
A-They are allowed 20 cents a
mile for each session.
Q-Are there any religious or
marital restrictions on the office of
dentists are in the United States?
A-No.
Q-What is the densest sub
stance?
A-Osmium.
Q-Who played the leading fe-
male role in the motion picture
Memory Lane?"
A-Eleanor Boardman.
Q-Name the first picture in
which Will Rogers appeared.
A-'Laughing Bill Hyde" pro-
duced about fourteen years ago.
Q-Where was the late Mayor
Anthony Cermak of Chicago born?
A-Prague, Bohemia.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
LEPROSY

EPROSY is one of the most hopeless of
world scourges. A short step toward it's
conquest, even though the goal still is far dis
tant, is important.
The germ that causes 1eproSy was dis
covered early in the history OF bacteriologv.
IN 1872 Now group OF American scientists.
working under the Leonard Wood memorial
for eradication of leprosy, has persuaded
leproSy germs to grow on artificial FOODS and
on tissue cultures made of embryonic chick
and human material
SO far, clear-cut cases Of experimental pro-
duction of leprosy through infection with the
tube grown germs have not been obtained.
although local LESSONS have been caused in
monkeys inoculated with the germs.
Even this is progress because if the dis
ease can be produced by experimental infec-
ton with the germs the case against the ac-
cused leprosy germ will be clnched.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-19
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON =

But then there always was the
high note of hope. Bitter though
the fighting may have been, it ended
with peace and plenty. There was
no feeling of universal despair. The
slope Of human endeavor was up
ward. Our horizons were bright.
y
TODAY the trend is in the con-
Il trary direction definitely
downward. In France, in China, in
Germany, in England, in America,
the books speak of Illustration, Of
hopelessness, Of decadence. And let
us make no mistake; what the books
say, the nations are.
Little Man, What Now?" a novel
by the German author, Hans
Fallada, published in this country
by Simon & Schuster, is one of the
finest of the many bitter stories of
the ordinary decent middle class
worker.
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Our World
BY JOHN THOMPSON.

BY JOHN THOMPSON.
Strange, this world of ours,
Yes, ours because We made it so,
We bore the steaming turbined
powers,
Which churn to make it go.
We gave birth TO the infant stars
To fern a guarding lace,
We fashioned deep the awful scars
Which stretch across its face.
We laid the paths in patterned
white
Beneath its lofty towers,
We've tried to reach to heaven
From this cold, strange world OF
ours.