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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-20
IM. E. Tracy Says:

4 NE easily could be facetiouS over the Brit
~ ISM attitude toward agreements, but to what
purpose? When Stanley Baldwin assures Ger
many That England can be depended upon TO
keep whatever contracts she signs, he merely
Is setting the stage for horse trade. and when
a British delegation comes over here to get the
war debt agreement revised, it is doing the
same thing
Britons are human like the rest of lis. ant
10 bite OH more than they can chew when ex-
clted, sure to be affected by any change that
may occur in general conditions and wholly
incapable of foreseeing the future
1t is quite true that they hired the money"
as the late President Coolidge was so fond of
reminding them, but they were not thinking
about pay day when they did. They were in
Jam and grabbed the first thing at hand They
were concerned with victory at any price, While
we were concerned with trade at any risk
1t was not commercial transaction in the
true meaning of the phrase, but deal rugged UP
under desperate circumstances
THE sanctity of any contract Is measlrablv
contingent on the situation out of which it
grew, and that goes for the treaty of Versailles
and the Locarno pact as we'll as war debt agree
mentS. There is no sense in making fish ont of
one blunder and flesh out of another Not or1Iv
England but lot of other countries signed
contracts that they will be glad to eat before
civilization emerges from its present trouble
Inc war debt agreements are going to he
revised for one very simple reason-the debtors
can't or won't pay what they owe, and we are
not going to take such measures as collection
would require. But, and this seems To he an
important point, the revision should be brought
ABOUT IN such way as will square the record
with the facts. In other words. the business
should be so conducted that posterity will have
no difficulty in recognizing it as a clear case of
default -
Nothing would do more to discourage future
wars than plain unvarnished statement that
vlctorS failed to pay up in this case
MYTH bad debts added to all the otber
w losses, later generations should be able IN
see the folly Of it all. If We are really interaste6
in promoting peace We will spare no pains to
make them see it.
The war plunged civilization into virtual
bankruptcy, which is its most important lesson
Not even the money lenders made a profit out
OF it. The lopSided twist it forced on industry
definitely was responsible for the depression
with which we have been struggling for four
years and which a she'll shocked society was
IN no condition to withstand
II We have any sense of moral responsibility
left, We will see to it that unborn generations
blasted hopes, smashed ideals, wrecked govern
mentS and unpaid debts That is about the only
worth while service which the stupid waste of
life and property makes it possible for us to
,ender.
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A WOman's Viewpoint :

because the masculine character is
the stronger Of the two. Vanity.
love of gossip, bacR-biting, malicious
determination to get even." cruel.
deceitful and petty reyenges. The
men are not free from these un-
pleasant traits.
We are altogether pretty 20 r
lot, men and women alike. Both
sexes could stand improvement.
An excellent way to start that i'm
provement would be for us to ii
ourselves of such utterly absurd and
entirely false traditions that have
crowded common sense out Of our
minds. 1t is not woman's cruelty to
woman, nor mans cruelty to man
that constitutes our problem. It is
the dreadful fact that human beings
are cruel to human beings.
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note of the hammer and other tools
Of labor. We will see happiness in
homes that have been dull for three
years, and we will see our streets
filled again with contented, happy
home loving people.
BY a Reader
The crusade of Samuel S. Wyer,
capitalist, the account of which APP
peared in The Times, is interesting
to a group of Indianapolis men and
women who, although not engaged
in a crusade, are impressed with the
age in which they now are living
and are endeavoring to find them
selves into some sort of philosophy
of life.
This unique organization is called
the FO-RI-FS, and it was organized
few months ago to study current
events and their relation to mans
evolution in society. The insignia
is the acroStic of the name, Fellow
ship of Research in Fundamental
Sociology.
The FO-RI-FS now numbers
twenty men and women, with a
waiting list of many more who, too.
are tired of the superficial and the
Pollyannic in life's wanderings and
are anxious to meet with fellow
beings who crave the companionship
OF thoughtful discussion.
Sociology is not the Only interest
absorbing the dicusSions, for the
group also is interested in the ap-
probation of good music and litera-
ture all of which has its part in a
thorough cultural and scientific de-
velopment.
The basis for membership is a ma
tive intelligence above the mediocre
stage and realization that in spite
OF technical and mechanical skill the
worker of hand and brain is but a
small cog in a gigantic wheel which
IS driving men to degradation.
In other words, the FO-RI-FS is
trying to accomplish with lecture
discussions and good fellowship the
same thing which The Times is
seeking to accomplish and is sue
cessful in pursuing, that is:
To give light and the people will
find their way"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-20
A Suggestion
BY Mrs. Frank Walton

BY Mrs. Frank Walton
Union miners scorn a wage of
$457 a day. Many men would be
glad to work for 81 day. Farm
ers with several thousand dollars
invested in land, stock and tools
do not average anywhere near
$4.57 day. In fact, many are
not making expenses. Taxes are
unpaid.
The labor union chiefs are pre-
sumably intelligent and think they
know how to manage all great
industries. If so, why don't they
buy the factories, coal mines, ETC.,
which they want to unionize and
allow other people who are not
interested in union labor carry on
in our own way?
The unions, in that way, could
do their collective bargaining
among themselves and there would
be healthy competition between
union and non-union business, but
no strikes, no bloodshed, no i'll
feeling involved. I do not believe
our business world should be
turned over to the rule of labor
unions.
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Considering the Causes

A ND that is very silly thing for
L n the Worker to say, because I
peg leave to remind the MARKHAM
scholars that there is such a thing
as economic determiniSrn. Atrocities
are the fruit Of Fascism. When Hit
Ter lays down a set of principles
about the position of Jews in the
state 1t is inevitable that all kinds
OF bloody and sadistic persecution
will follow. But certainly any war
against evil must be chiefly con-
cerned with the root. In fighting a
hydra one should aim not at the
recurring heads but straight at the
spine of the monster.
Indeed, I might cite TO the
Worker its own wise philosophy that
IN dealing with lynchings in Amer
lea it is well never to suggest that
any episode was complete in itself
but that each individual episode
came out Of an underlying and
fundamental economic background
l think III go on as I have been
going
Copyright. 1888. by The rtmss
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XXTHERE do you suppose we ever
w picked up the idea that women
hate women, and that they are al
ways unfair to each other?
It's another one of those silly
hand me downs" that we have &C
cepted as a matter Of course without
examining it intellligently. 1t
hasn't an ounce of truth in it, ex-
cept on the human side.
The statement can just as hon
estly be applied to men. Men, too,
are hard on each other. Men are
unfair to men. Men hate men.
So far as I ever have been able to
see, men are cruel, unjust, mean,
despicable and often utterly vi
cious to one another. Theirs is no
beautiful sex solidarity. They be-
tray each other; they lie to each
ether; they xzzia each ether when
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-20

tnorltles upon Latin America, talented OBJ
server and Journalist and relentless opponent
OF economic imperialism. He sees in our i'm
perlaliStic venture in Cuba little of benefit to
either state and much of disaster and expense
to both. If anybody has profted notably. it
has been the few American capitalists with
lucrative investments in Cuba and the corrupt
Cuban politicians who have fattened on their
subsidies
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BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ever they can; they kill each other
without reason or cause.
In spite of all this, however, they
do love to chant roudelays about
their strong affection and their
stern loyalty to their kind. And
they love even more to call attention
to the way women knife each other
in the back, steal each others hus-
bands and generally misbehave.
q
THEY have talked so much dur
Il ing the course of several thou
sand years about our pernicious
qualities, they haven't had half
enough time to contemplate their
own. They're way behind on their
home work in this subject.
The truth is obvious. Every fault
woman possesses is slightly exag-
geFased in the naaseuklne character,
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Picking Upon the Weak

WITHIN the borders of the
w Reich force has been used to
the uttermost upon the weak and
the defenSeless, but this is no true
show of authentic power. 1t is the
wild rage of the backyard bully.
1t has been said by some, includ-
ing many to whom Hitlers name is
an abominatiOn, that the rigorous
suppression of free speech is an
earnest of governmental sincerity
and keenness of purpose. 1 hold
precisely the opposite view. When
state says that those within its
borders must march and think and
speak in unison I suspect that all
the palaces or other places of au-
thor1ty are haunted by accusing
ghosts. Stability has never come
until the head men have the nerve
to say: Il recognize the gentleman
OF the opposition. He has the floor.
Speak your damn fool head off"
1 find that here in America these
are going to be tough days for any,
body unless he is prepared to say
that everything about the German
case Is all wrong or everything that
Hitler argues is just swell.
What right has a runt like YOU
to speak i'll of Hitler, you dirty
Bolshevik?' writes gentleman who
signs himself "One of Many"
On the other hand, the Com
munlst DAILY Worker accuses me of
trying to drug the popular mind
with Hitler poison because I have
stated that the case against Hitler
rests upon his own words and deeds
rather than on atrocity stories, how
ever well authenticated.
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By Just Taxpayer
Your page of comics is exception
ally good but there is one thing you
could add to it that would cause
many additional laughs by the
readers. Call it Daily doings of the
indianapolis Police Force" Boy,
what farce instead of a force.
1t seems that all the police force
can do is arrest some one who has
parked in front of fire plug; some
Spooners parked on a dark street or
some one stealing garbage. It would
be interesting to see list of real
criminals who have evaded the
police and crimes unsolved in this
city.
Why can't we have real police
force? We pay for it. The position
is not one for public sympathy, they
take the job knowing the risk of
life goes with it. If men do not want
the job with that in mind then they
should leave it for men who are
willing to take this risk.
Remember a few years ago when
a bull was running wild through
downtown and policeman tried to
shoot it with a rifle and failed. At
holdup of the Broad Ripple bank a
policeman appeared in time and shot
everything but the bandits. Any
number of things like these have
happened to show the caliber of men
We have labeled as police.
We need real police protection
against crime instead of having four
or five police on each corner to
direct traffic where there is an
electric stop and go sign, and there
is no good reason why we can not
have whole new force to replace
the farce.
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Daily Thought

In the multitude of counselors,
there is safety.-Proverbs, 11:14.
COUNSEL and conversation is a
~ good second education, that
improves all the virtues and cor
reefs all the Clarendon.
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BY Theo Hewes
So many ways are being sug-
gested to bring money intoe circu-
lation and furnish employment to
labor that one gets lost in the maze
of suggestions. Some of the schemes
are so visionary that one can not
but wonder how they ever were con-
ceived.
Indianapolis does not need help
if we who live here could only use
our own money. There is enough
money tied up in building and loan
stock in Marion county to put every
idle man to work. 7 am only one
of thousands in this city who want
to spend money-my own money.
1t is money that I have saved for
just such emergency as the present.
If the stock we hold in these COM
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-20

We are in Geneva solely for disarmament
purposes says United States Ambassador
Davis. So Germany disarmed the other ma
tons by quitting.
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opportunity knocks at many mans door,
out the trouble is there's nobody home at the
time.
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1t Seems
to Me
HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Oct. 2O.-When a
~ columnist gets a dozen pro-
Hitler letters in a single mail and
finds that three are signed "One Of
the American People" and two "A
Lover of the Truth. I think he has
q right to suspect that perhaps
there is a Nazi in the woodpile.
As far as my own experience goes,
there has been a vast increase in
misSiveS favoring the cause of the
National Socialists. incidentally. 1
might have made a very striking
collection of obscene epithetS by
saving and culling the more blatant
bits from letters and from post
cards.
Not only is there at least circum-
stantial Evidence of the existence of
Hitler propaganda bureau in this
country, but there is now a definite
effort, which seems TO be organized.
to heighten anti-Semetio feeling
here in America.
1t is apparent" writes a CORE
spondent, that the Jews tremble for
their safety IN America. because
sooner or later there will be a re-
ligious war. 1t is inevitable. In any
country where the Jew takes the
upper hand there is disaster, if
you'll recall your history"
Myth or Legend?
UNFORTUNATELY. verse and
~ chapter are not cited. recall
no such disaster recorded in history.
On the contrary, the persecution Of
the Jews almost always has marked
the last dying ga6p of a political
system When a leader feels that
the fury of his followers Is Begin
ming to curdle against him he al
most invariably attempts to divert
them into religious riots. An un-
easy ruler who can not or will not
effect reforms offers a pogrom in
place Of a program
But the difficulty Of the German
situation is that the personality. the
prejudiceS and the outrageS of Hit
Ter have obScured many elements in
the German case which are worthy
of the serious consideration of the
world. Hitler is a bad advocate for
his people. He comes into court
with an excellent case which has
been all mucked up by his bloody
hands.
But no matter what Hitler says or
does, the fact still remains that the
Treaty of Versailles did a great
wrong to the German people and
that there is no possibility of peace
in Europe if Germany is to be kept
defenseless while the ring of coun-
tries round about remain armed to
the death. Nor will the peace or
welfare of the world be augmented
by any moves to make Germany
economically PROSTATE.
Germany constitutes a grave dan
ger to the world today, not because
Germany is strong but because Ger
many is weak. 1 do not care how
Hitler shouts or how many Nazi
fists are raised to the sky; the sound
and the fury of it all offer loud
testimony to the fundamental weak
ness Of the regime. The tyranny
which marches through the Ger
man towns, the beating and the
brutalities all argue the fear which
fills the land.
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The Washington times., 1933-08-03
j. 8. To CHECK
FOOD PRICES
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
The Government is going to
make weekly checks on the costs
of foods and textiles, the neces-
sites Of life, so the consumers
can know what is happening to
prices.
DR.. Fred C. Howe, Consumers
Counsel of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration, said
today:
eve are going to do what
we can to see that consumers
are protected at a time when
the Administration is trying to
pull the farmers and workers
out of what President ROOse-
welt calls the economic hell
they have been living in for
four years.
Conditions are changing so
rapidly that mOnth-Old figures
are of little use to consumers
so we plan to report these
data every week."
The weekly lists, compiled by
representatives of the Agriculture
and Labor departments who will
make checks in SO cities and in
over 1000 stores, will show:
/. Retail prices of bread,
milk, meat and other neceS-
sites.
2. The money the farmer gets
for producing the raw mate
rials that go into these foods.
8. Increase in labor costs of
a result of the raises in wages
and new employment.
4. What the farmers are hav-
ing to pay for the goods they
buy.
Howe said consumers in many
sections are beginning to organ
iSe to ensure fair dealing.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
FLOOD RACES
IN DENVER
STREETS
Huge Wall of Water Hits City;
Homes Are Washed Away,
Bridges Demolished

DENVER, Aug. 8 G.N.S.).
A raging torrent Of water
roared through Cherry Creek,
in the heart of Denver, early
today, the worst flood in the
city's history.
Several houses in the lowlands
on the outskirts of the city were
swept away; trees and telephone
poles were uprooted; scores Of
wholesale houses in lower Denver
were flooded; the city market was
destroyed, and half a dozen
bridges along the stream within
the city limits were demolished
before the waters began to re-
cede.
Follows CIoudburSt
No loss Of life was reported
and it was believed fatalities in
Denver would be few, if any, be-
cause the broad bed of the creek
permitted the flooded stream to
spread for several blocks without
reaching city homes.
The raging flood came in the
wake of IL hours drenching rain
and a cloudburst that caused
collapse of Castlewood Dam, a
huge irrigation reservoir at the
headwaters of Cherry Greek, 25
miles southeast of Denver.
Denver police, warned that the
dam had broken, sped along
Cherry Creek in radio cars, sirens
shrieking, ordering residents IN
the fashionable country club dis
trict to seek higher ground. Hun
dreds fled from their homes. .
Electric lights, telephones and
the fire department alarm system
were put out of operation for sew
eral hours, and the water supply
in some sections was cut oil.
It was feared an unknown num-
ber of farmers and prospectors
may have been trapped by the
waters and swept to death.
Farm houses in the area were
reported to have crumbled like
card houses before the rushing
water.
Prisoners Evacuated
Bridges were swept away before
the flood which came down IN a
great wall of water 80 feet high
and nearly a mile wide.
Ordinarily dry, Cherry Greek
with it's 20-foot concrete floodWaIlS
was filled to overflowing.
Prisoners in the county jail,
on the banks of the creek, were
hastily moved to higher ground.
The city garage, also on the creek
bank, was flooded.
Truck gardeners who had ar
rived at the municipal market
on Cherry Greek with their pro-
duce were evacuated.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Bankers Daughter Elopes
With Gas Station Boss

Authenticity of the message was
proved when Mrs. Salter talked
with friends of her daughter, who
told her that they had understood
the girl intended marrying Kirk
in the near future.
Kirk is "a and a native Of
Havre de Grace. He is at present
employed as manager of the Sun
Oil Company filling station at
Bethesda.
Daughter of Banker
His bride is the daughter Of
Mrs. Macie Salter and the late
William Salter, vice president and
cashier of the Sixth National
Bank, of Philadelphia.
The couple obtained their
license at Ellicott City, Md,
yesterday and motored to Elk
ridge where they were married
by the Rev. John E. Stacks, pas
tor of the Melville Methodist
Church.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
NRA Launches Nationwide Buying Drive
$5OO,OOO Offered
Washington Heir
To $2,5OO,OOO

If you were offered $4,000 tc
reliquish your claim to $2,500,00O
would you take it or would you
risk losing all in a court battle
for the larger sum?
That's the dilemma that con-
fronts Capt. Henry H. Wood
house, 1900 block I st. N. w.,
nephew of the late Harry H.
Tammen, Denver publisher and
capitalist. who died in 1929.
Since his uncle's death, Cap
tain Woodhouse has been battling
to get his one-fifth share of the
$12,000,O00 residuary estate.
See Success
Yesterday he had his first
inkling of success when his Den
yer attorneys wired that the
were willing to com.
promise for $500,00O.
Immediately afterwards, Cap
tain Woodhouse went into a hud-
die with his local attorney, Frank
j. Hogan, and was expected to
confer further today, after which
some decision may be reached.
Captain Woodhouse said:
II was my uncle'S favOrite
nephew. I met him at Balti-
more, where he had been
treated at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital just before his death in
Denver, and he told me not to
worry, that he had provided in
his will that I be taken care of
for life.
Will Is Found
"FOr a time the will could
not be found, and when it was
the provision for me was in it.
However, so far I have received
not one cent from the estate.
"My uncle left an estate Of
S13,OOO,OOO and beQueathed only
The Washington times., 1933-08-03

Miss Dorothy Genevieve Salter,
10, Drexel Park, Pa, heiress,
whose absence from her home yes
terday led her relatives to fear
she had been kidnapped, had eloped
to Elkridge, Md, and was mar
ried to James Y. Kirk, "a, man
ager of a Bethesda gasoline sta
ton, last night.
The heiress disappeared from
her home Tuesday night after
visiting her sister, Mrs. Joseph
Braun, in the Delaware County
Hospital. Upper Darby, Pa, police
were called by the girls mother
and a search was begun.
Wires They're Married
Shortly before last midnight,
after Miss Salter had been absent
more than "a hours, Mrs. Salter
received a telegram from New
York saying her daughter had
been married to Jimmy" and
promising a letter would follow.
The Washington times., 1933-08-03
Rail Line Employees
ShOU jump for May

BY International News Service
Coincident with the meeting
in Cleveland today of represen-
tatives of 81 railroad labor or
ganizations to discuss a code for
railway workers, the Interstate
Commerce Commission released
figures showing that class l
railroads had 93S,4O6 employees
on thei- payrolls as of the middle
of May. This was an increase
of 1921 over the number report
ed for April. The number OF
employees in May a year ago was
1,O65,159.