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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

party strife was revived by the breakup of the
Wing party and the formation Of the Repub-
hcan party. The party divisions thereafter
were deep and bitter enough to help along
the Civil war.
From the close Of the Civil war to 1900 the
Republicans and the Democrats fought fairly
consistently over such matters as the recon-
struction of the south, money and currency,
the tariff and the new imperialism This
came to head in the bitter campaign of 1896.
Since the opening of the twentieth century,
party government has degenerated into mere
burlesque and farce, rescued only temporarily
by such unusual crises as 1912 and 1882. Both
Republicans and the Democrats have accepted
the "bellhop" system of government and have
become the willing servants of the plutocratS
and pirates The Democrats have been little
more sensitive to the existence of misery and
graft, but this probably may be attributed to
the fact that they were out of Office most
of the time.
BY giving the Democratic party a pro-
gressive slant Mr.. Roosevelt has opened the
way for a sensible realignment Of the tradi-
tional American parties. To the progressive
Democrats he might be able to add liberal
Republicans and many moderate Socialists,
were he to make decisive and outspoken bid
for the progressive leadership of the nation.
The Republican party then could make
clear and logical appeal to rugged individual
lists" American Fascists, the plutocratic
moguls of speculative finance and all others
to whom Coolidge, Mellon and Hoover appear
the political trinity. It is obvious that not
few members of President 'Roosevelt's present
cabinet would belong in this new reactionary
Republican party.
Such a setup in our party life would give
Americans some plausible basis for choice at
the polls, though not unless the Democratic
party became really liberal. There would be
no place in it for Woodin, a Douglas, or a
Cummings. And there would still be a need
for John Dewey's radical party.
Sensible though this political shift might
be, such proposal would provoke violent OPP
position and would meet many potent
obstacles.
First and foremost, we would encounter the
vested interests of the party machines which
would be disrupted by any such logical merger
of reactionarieS and progressives. The party
organization and the men who run it are
lacking in any longtime vision or in any deep
interest in the welfare Of the nation.
In the second place, the plutocrats would
do what they could to wreck any such enter
prise because a real division Of American
parties on the question of conservatism versus
progressivism would place finance capitalism
in Jeopardy. Owning both parties today, the
finance capitalists have nothing to fear as a
result of the outcome of any presidential
election. If they could expect protection only
by reactionary Republicans, their position in
American life would become much more
precarious.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

creases with the temperature.
Therefore, humidity is measured as
relative humidity, which is the
amount of moisture in the air COM
pared with the amount that the
air could hold if it were saturated.
Persons who are in a poorly vent
Hated room do not feel as we'll as
those in room properly ventilat-
ed. They are likely to be dull, tired,
sometimes irritable, and on other
occasions weak and faint. As the
supply of good air is cut down, you
become uncomfortable and dis
turbed.
Air may, of course, become so
bad by the crowding of a large
number Of persons in a very small
space, without any ventilation,
that eventually some Of them will
die.
The bad effects OF bad air are
due to the high temperature, the
high relative humidity, and the lack
of motion. The change of any one
Of these factors may influence the
air favorably or unfavorably. If the
temperature is lowered, the hu-
Nudity naturally will increase in
relationship to the temperature and
when the humidity is high, the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
Release DepOSits

BY John B. Reed.
Mr. HeWeS' suggestion of releas-
ing savings in building and loan as
sociations is one of the best means
of business recovery. Give the peo-
pie their own savings and they will
put the necessary money in circula-
ton.
The biggest force, though, is for
release of the appraised assets of the
closed banks and give depositors
their own savings, and that will be
all the imitation the country needs.
The people, as rule, do not ask
for loans, doles, poor relief or bond
issues to get money into circulation.
Bonds do not pay wages, buy food
or clothing, but rest quietly, draw
ing interest, and when sold the
money is loaned at another interest
burden.
Forget bonds and get busy releas-
ing building and loan and bank
deposits and good times will not be
around the corner, but right here.
That is my suggestion to the MIRA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
WEDNESDAY. OCT. rs. 1898.
STRIKE ABATEMENT

THE national labor board is getting into
its stride as a force for industrial peace
and justice.
In four recent disturbances the board has
won important agreements 1t has halted
strife between the Weirton steel and Westing-
house workers, the Paterson silk dyers and
New York bricklayers and their employers.
After some weeks Of delay, the boards
chairman. Senator Wagner, now is speeding
the organization Of regional boards to decen-
tralize the mediating mechanism Out Of six
teen such boards being organized for the pres
ent Senator Wagner has manned twelve. The
sort of men he has chosen as impartial chair
men will add prestige to this young project
and make its tasks easier. Men like George
w. Alger of New York, President Robert
Hutchins of Chicago university. Jacob Bill
kopf of Philadelphia George Creel of San
Francisco and others have proved their de-
votion to the public interest, and, doubtless,
will bring patience and wisdom to the COM
plicated issues now troubling industry.
The records show that both management
and workers are eager to lay their differences
before fair minded men and abide by their
rulings. AS Senator Wagner has just informed
the regional boards:
THE very brief experience of the national
labor board already has demonstrated that
practically all Of the recent industrial con-
ficts can be settled amicably when the parties
have been brought together to discuss their
differences in an atmosphere Of calrlneSs and
disinterestedness and with a clearer knowl-
edge of their respective rights and duties"
The country will welcome the good offices
of these good men. Noel Sargent Of the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers says that
in July, August and September no less than
6,5OOOOO working days and at least $22,OOO,OOO
in badly needed wages were lost in more than
1000 disputes
An effective national system of labor boards
can reduce greatly this strike and waste dur
ing the next three months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

A IR is most necessary of all sub
IA stances upon which you depend
for life.
You can live about forty days
without food and about four days
without water, but only about four
minutes without air.
Air is a mixture of about q per
cent oxygen, 70 per cent nitrogen,
and fractions Of per cent Of lot
of other gases. Some of these get
into the air by contaminations from
men and from industry and others
from the mere presence of any liv-
ing matter.
Air in our large cities also con-
tains particles of dust and bacteria
of various kinds.
You may be able to live in bad
air for a long time, but if you
value your health you should be
surrounded as much of the time as
possible by good air of the best
quality.
The air about us is used first
for breathing and second as a
partial control of our body tenn
perature. 1t is the surrounding
blanket Of air that keeps your
body temperature at about 986 de-
grees. The temperature may be
raised b. changing the character of
the air in which We live.
All air contains a certain amount
of moisture. This moisture in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
THE MIDDLE WEST

ONE of the commonest misconceptions OF
" American history is the notion that the
middle west has past historically speak
ing that goes back only about a century.
Just to show how faulty that idea is, the
city of Fond du Lac Wis, is going to hold
a tercentenary celebration next year. 1t will
celebrate the 300th anniversary of the landing
in Green Bay of Jean Nicolet. one of those
amazing Frenchmen who pushed into the
heart of the American continent at time
when anything west of the Alleghenies was
more remote and unknown than the center of
Asia is today.
AS far back as 1884, then, the recorded his
tory of the middle west was getting under way.
You could have assembled all its white in
habtantS into good-sized auto bus, if you
had had one handy and its signs of civiliza-
ton were few and far between. But it is
worth remembering that the pedigree Of the
interior goes back nearly as far back as that OF
the eastern seaboard.
Furthermore, it's a pedigree worth reading
There are few stories Of romantic adventure
more truly satisfying than the one which tells
about french peneudClOn OF Tie S1edG Adh0S
region Those old names like Nicolet, Mar
quette La Sale, Joliet, Hennepin, Cadillac
and so on have a glamour about them that
time can not dim.
Those men were empire builders, whose
efforts-in the strangest way imaginable
paved the way for the building of a society
that they never anticipated.
They dotted the land with their names and
with words from their language. Today'S
middle west still uses thenl-nameS like Fond
du Lace, and Prairie du Chen and Marquette,
and Detroit and Vincennes, and Navarro;
you could fill page with them.
The land that now is the granary and
workshop of a nation once was part of the
dominions of the Grand Monarque of France;
the fleur-de-liS waved over it generations be-
fore Betsy Ross sewed together the first stars
and stripes.
1t is an exceedingly wise thing that these
folk at Fond du Lac are doing, with their ter
centenary celebration. The life of any region
grows richer when its inhabitants take the
trouble to study their background.
The French subStratum under the founda-
lions of the middle west has been neglected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
IN. E. Tracy Says:

ME important thing for Americans to re-
l. member is that their government is in no
wise responsible for this latest European muddle
The United States steadfaStly has refused to
sign the treaty of Versailles or join the League
of Nations.
This country is under no obligations to uphold
the one or preserve the other except as it may
volunteer its services as catspaw.
President Roosevelt does exactly right in
withdrawing our observers from the disarma-
ment conference. 1t is a busted show for the
time being and that through no fault of ours.
1t is all right to scream that Hitler should be
held accountable, but who should be held ac-
countable for Hitler?
When the allies forced Germany to disarm
they justified 1t on the ground of preparation for
general disarmament. In other words they led
people throughout the world to believe that if
Germany were diSarmed, other European nations
would have little excuse for keeping ub their
great military establishments
Fifteen years have exposed this attitude as a
monumental piece of hypocrisy.
II ME allies have not made one honest move
- toward disarmament. Outside of Germany.
Europe has more trained men in uniform. more
guns available. more poison gas in storage. more
military planes ready to take off, than in 1914
How would we Americans feel if in Germanv's
place? Would we forego our right to maintain
a defense force indefinitely, while every border
ing land continued to drill armies and build
forts?
If we asked for equality, either through per-
mission to rearm or through disarmament by
our neighbors and were refused, would we smile
sweet acquieScence or quit the palaver?
Well, we are not in Germany's place. and by
the same token, we are not in Englands place
or Frances place. We are just ourselves and
our logical course is to be ourselves
Dangerous and discouraging as the present
situation may be, it is not of our making. That
is one thing we should keep clearly in mind
IF Germany withdrawS from the League Of
l. Nations, she is right where we are-out If
she asks for equality in the right to arm she
asks nothing more than we have insisted on
all along. If it is a question of maintaining
the treaty of Versailles, We are not interested
All the issues raised are distinctively Euro
pean. and it is our business to let them re-
main so.
No doubt, France and England would like
to wrangle us into a position where We would
be compelled to participate if another European
war occurred. No doubt they would feel good
deal safer if they could All that goes back to
sentiment. however, and to a kind Of sentiment
which originates in nationaliSm.
If nationalstic sentiment is to play a doni-
nant part in the march of events, it is our cue
TO be guided by our own and not one provided
Tor US by other countries.
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tile, has enough intelligence to make it worth
saving, nothing will discredit Hitler more
effectively than the widest possible reading of
his vacuous rawlings.
Opinion also carries an elaborate SYM
postum on the boycott against Germany. Most
of the contributors are heartily in favor Of it.
1t seems to me that the boycott, like the pro-
posed ban on Hitler's book is rather doubtful
strategy. 1t constitutes a declaration of in
tellectual and economic war upon Germany.
Nothing is likely to rally the German people
behind Hitler more surely and more Solidly
than the feeling that chancellor and people
must stand together in a campaign of mutual
defense.
Indeed while the Hitler menace is an ex-
tremely serious and important matter it is
mistaken policy TO attack it in too solemn a
strain. The proper men to lead the Jewish
onslaught against Hitler are not Ludwig
Lewisohn and Samuel Untermeyer or Rabbi
Wise, but Eddie Cantor, Lou Holtz, Jimmie
Durante and others capable of the most
effective use Of ridicule and burlesque AL
Smith sounded the right note in his speech at
the Untermeyer dinner when he insisted that
the appropriate mode Of attack upon Hitler is
ridicule.
IT, on one hand, Hitler is the most savage
and dangerous figure in the history of anti
Semitism, he is also the most comic and
ridiculous parsonage who ever has led an i'm
portant movement against the Jews. In posi-
bilities of ridicule he opens up not only the
chance of a lifetime but the greatest oppor-
tunity in the whole history of the persecution
of the Jews.
Let the Jews make Of his autobiography Il
great burlesque-the Believe 1t Or Not"
volume of all history. Let them commission
the authors "Of Thee I Sing" and of Face
the Music" to do a similar job on Hitler and
the Nazis.
Hitler can withstand indefinitely the most
vehement anti-Nazi onslaught, provided it
maintains sufficiently high level of solemnity.
But he can not stand up for long if he comes
to be regarded generally as the most colossal
comic opera brigand and clown in the whole
history of western civilization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
Police and Politics
An Editorial

A FEW rat-faced plug uglies are terrorizng
L Indiana. They are not master mind
criminals, but merely dim witted guerillas
whose only mental equipment is animal saw
agery They have not even exhibited crafti-
ness, and, as for real courage, any one can
be brave with a submachine gun in his hands.
Yet the law enforcement agencies Of
great and sovereign state are helpless in the
presence Of these vicious norons. Our police
are impotent to protect themselves from being
robbed of their weapons and even kidnapped
in broad daylight on well travelled high
way. Only one convict has met his nemesis
and that was at the hands of an irate farmer.
That is the reason that The Times yester-
day informed the department of justice in
Washington of the situation. This newspaper
sought the aid Of federal authorities because
it realized that if the present forays continue,
contempt for Indiana law will become so wide
spread that criminals from all over the coun-
try will move into the state.
The people of Indiana themselves are partly
responsible for the low degree to which their
politics their meat drink and recreation. They
have permitted politicians to tinker with
agencies of law enforcement and now they
are reaping the result in their utter demorali-
zation.
In Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York
the criminal element has a deadly fear Of
the state troopers. Over a period of years
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

(Times readers are united to cypress
their vieaos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze q chance.
Limit them to ESQ 10ords or lesS.)
By Charles E. Wyman.
We still have a few old timers
with us who want to build leveeS
to control floods, after they are
raging torrents, although a mint of
money has been spent repeatedly
for a hundred years and people
(who live on the best soil in the
world are taxed in to poverty, to
build levees that always failed when
most needed, leaving death and de-
Struction below the breaks.
Flood control never can be local
affair and succeed. At Dayton, o.,
where they built dams up stream
for protection with vents in the
dams to allow no more water to
pass the dam than the channel
cold pass without overflow, when
they released the water by open
vents, millions in power was lost
that shey should have generated
electric current that should have
furnished light and power for many
miles in all directions.
Proper thoughts on flood control
mean considering all that has been
done from the delta Of the Missis-
sippi to the beginning springs of its
tributaries.
The swamps are all drained by
ditching, streams are Strengthened,
ponds are drained and farms tiled
to hurry the water off the land in
great wave to the sea in great
uncomfortable torrent.
I naturally feel most interested in
controlling floods on the Wabash
and White rivers. A few dams could
be built on the smaller tributaries
at points where the resulting reser-
voirs will hold all the rainfall up
stream for whole year, saving the
enormous present waste of great
power to generate electric current
to furnish lights and power for the
people and keep the big overflows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

these peace officers, freed from politics, have
built up a hard-hitting, efficient check on the
underworld These troopers have learned
well the lesson that they must protect, with
their own lives if necessary, law and order in
their respective states
There is no reason, except politics why
Indiana can not have a similar force. Al
Feeney, state public safety director, is right in
asking for radios and other modern equipment
He should have everything that is necessary.
But the only way to build a police depart
ment is with men-trained men. The most
expensive equipment obtainable will not make
a boob into a policeman. Police work is a
highly specialized business and Mr.. Feeney,
honest and upright though he is, has not had
the necessary experience to qualify as state
police head
He should at once either borrow or perma-
nently employ police officer from some other
state having force of proved efficiency to
select and train Indiana troopers.
The Indiana state police should be ap-
pointed solely on merit by competing civil
service examination.
Preference should be given to war vet
Grams with records of .gallantry in action.
Then we should have police who do not reach
for the moon at the first sight of gun
pointed in their direction.
Take politics out of police work and keep
it out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

thing more than Presidents wife.
She established in that famed spot a
living, vital feminine personality, a
personality that means to the OBJ
Scure women Of the nation far more
than the elegant grand danes so
beloved Of our tea drinking dow
ayers.
The pulsing Of Eleanor Roosevelt's
enthusiasts for real life rather
than social sham is felt in the
farthermoss hamlets of the land.
Business as usual is her motto
and her business is concerned with
doing, serving and living. The Presi-
dent is her husband, but the indi-
vidual that is Eleanor Roosevelt
stands proudly upon her own two
feet. Her family is the mu titude
that dwells within the boundaries
Of the United States. her home
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
It Hos Been Done

A S a matter Of fact, if any adj
N miniStration wanted to go
Fascist and censor the press it could
do so in any number of ways far
more simple than the use of the
licensing provision in NRA. Mark
Sullivan in a well considered article
upon the question admits that the
subject is more fancied than real.
He attributes the nervousness OF
those publishers who are sincerely
worried about the freedom OF the
press to the recent instances OF
suppression on the part of Adolf
Hitler in Germany.
But it is hardly necessary Tor
newspapej, owners to look across the
waters to find instances OF abridg-
ment of the freedom of the press.
During the years of the war many
editors and owners who are now
weeping salty tears about the
possibility of censorship accepted,
fomented and carried on all sorts Of
news suppression in order, as they
explained, TO win the war"
And even after victory was
achieved it was a very minor portion
of the press which made any fight
at all to remove Immediately the
penalties set down for sedition.
Within the last few days Colonel
Mccormick of the Chicago Tribune
made a long learned and passionate
address on the subject Of the free
dom of the press. During the course
Of his remarks it leaked out that the
Colonel was just about ready to live
and die for this principle. And yet
the Chicago Tribune under Colonel
McCormick's editorial direction has
frequently called a campaign to end
radical thought and expression in
America.
1 do not think I am overstating
the matter when I assert that some
Of the gentlemen most vociferous
in their denunciation of NRA as a
threat to free press would welcome
with extreme eagerness and ap-
plause penalties visited upon Com
munist publications. I have found
a very small amount of true
Voltaireanism among the spokesman
OF the publishers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25
:: A Woman's Viewpoint ::
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

she was goddess behind the White
House portals. AS a public figure
she represented to us those lovely
words, Mother, Home and Heaven, "
while she also functioned as a
glorified Emily Post for the party.
y
THEN along came Eleanor. And
Il somehow these former qualities
seem rather tawdry beside her in
tense humanness. With one mag
nidcent gesture she sweeps aside the
conventions Of century and good
riddance of bad rubbish it is!
The American aristocrat becomes
the chief feminine Democrat of her
age, and for the first time the bor-
geois woman feels that Washington
is her capital.
When Mrs. Roosevelt moved into
the White House she moved some
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-25

TOR the first time in history we
Z have an individual instead of
just wife and hostess in the
White House.
I think the fact is significant and
it is interesting to speculate upon
the effect it will have upon the
character of American women. My
guess is that it will be tremendous
and reaching.
The custom during the past has
been to speak enthusiastically even
reverently Of the First Lady's social
graces. She was always a fine draw
ing-room property and never less
than a paragon Of wife.
In every case, according to re-
ports, she furnished the morale for
the administration and kept diplo-
matte relations on a sound basis by
her tact with place cards. She was
not exactly a power behind a throne;