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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
The Alternative
An Editorial

left wing Socialists or Communists have in this
country.
Such an employer simply is driving his en-
ployes and the unemployed to the ballot box
or to even more direct means of using political
power, not merely to control, but to destroy
the economic power with which they are be-
ing depressed"
Brain Truster A. A. Berle Jr., in a current
article presents complete government control
of all production, all consumption, and all
labor the one possible alternative If the
present recovery program fails. He adds that
the men in charge of formulating that pro-
gram are not afraid of names or tags, but
only determined to evolve an economic system
that actually will work-thar will satisfy the
Legitimate needs of huge mass of people all
of whom are entitled to their right to live"
The alternative TO NRA has far more
ominous implication for business men devoted
TO the old order than anything President
Roosevelt has ever suggested doing.
NRA is a sane, intelligent attempt to form
a fair working partnership of capital, labor
and government; to find as Mr.. Richberg puts
it, "a halfway house of Democratic co-opera-
ton and self-discipline between the anarchy
of irresponsible indiNdualism and the TYRANNY
Of state socialism"
If this effort fails the business men with
most to lose will be largely responsible.
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So They Say

Hospitals are on their last legs,
with free care increasing Arch
Mandel, executive secretary, Dayton
Community Chest.
I would define a saloon to be a
place where neither meals nor lodg-
ingS are served, but a place where
intoxicating liquor is sold and is
drunk perpendicularly - Unit d
States Senator Henry F. Ashurst.
I can not further the plan of
certain big business Fascist to re-
duce labor to a sort of serfdom by
means of overwhelming power of
governmental. S. Senator Henry
D. Hatfield.
A girls best friend is a plate glass
MISUNDERSTANDING Colbert.
No nation can live under ridicule.
1t can stand criticism, it can meet
it and answer it, but it is impossible
for it to survive for any length of
time against well-directed ridicule.
Alfred E. Smith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
Films Affect Adolescent Children

WHEN your boy rides an mag
w mary broncho around tbs
house, and your girl tries to swing
her hips in Mae West fashion, you
have before you two examples of
the effect psychologists say the
movies have on growing children.
In fact, recent investigation
shows the sexual emotions OF chill
dren are stirred up by movies, par
ticularly during the adolescent
years.
This investigation was made by
w. S. Dysinger and Christian A.
Ruckmick of the University Of Iowa.
Children from years to adults over
so were tested as to their response
to certain types of motion pictures.
One picture was a slapstick COM
edy; the other, a passionate oriental
love drama containing about twelve
love scenes, including some ribaldry
and debauchery. The children were
tested also on tragedies, pictures
with danger, detective dramas, and
similar scenes.
Apparently children under 9 years
of age are affected little, if at all,
by erotic factors in motion pictures.
However, as children reach Adde'S
cence, they unquestionably are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

stimulated by love scenes in thu
movies.
Most authorities on child be-
havior are convinced that stimula-
ton of the sexual emotions during
adolescence is not particularly de-
sired. Scenes Of danger and con-
flict stir emotions among children
of all age levels
These studies seem to prove that
it is not for the best health of the
child to have its emotions over
stimulated by certain types of mo-
ton pictures, and it seems also to
be well established that there must
be some restriction on the witness
ing of certain pictures by children
of various ages.
There are great individual diff
ferences in emotional reactions to
most pictures and many of these
are traceable to differences in the
type Of material shown in the pic
lures. Moreover, it is not the pic
ture as a whole which arouses def
mite responses in those who see
them, but rather certain types of
scenes in the pictures.
The investigators mention this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
FRIDAY. NOV. 10. 1893.
CLOSE downtown" OFFICE

THE issue at Butler university does not lie
between DR.. Walter Scott Athearn, dis
missed president and the committee of local
trustees. Nor does it hinge upon whether or
not Or. Athearn was all that he should have
been as titular head of the institution.
The focal point in the whole controversy
is whether or not the taxpayers should be
asked to continue to support an institution
whose actual administrators have shown
genius for involving it in difficulties.
No educational institution can be run from
two places at the same time That is what
Butler trustees are asking when they put
president on the campus and a downtown"
office in the business district.
1t is not surprising that the North Central
Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools
has looked askance at an institution thus ad-
ministered If, as a result of this last row,
the association withdraws its approval from
Butler the university will be branded through
out the educational world as shoddy and Sec
ond rate
on the basis of their record alone, the local
board of directors should resign. The down
town" Office should close forever and sole adj
ninistration should be vested in a first-class
educator
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
TEXAS GUINAN

TEXAS GUINAN. foremost female expo
Il nent of the night club era, gaudy if you
please and rampant, now dead helps date an
important American period.
The whole period was freakish. But its
flashy characters were leaders in a practical
rebellion against the bigotry of the Volstead
era.
Texas Cuinan helped make prohibition
seem not only ridiculous but futile, even as
she elevated to public view a great crowd Of
shallow and brazen citizenry grouped by her
self in one of her most typical categories-
big Butter and Egg Men from the West"
She glorified the brazen and the mediocre,
the inebrate and the strident. She contrib
uted to current language and affected the
trend of American manners or lack of man
ners
Give the little girl a big hand!" Hello,
sucker!" tawdry now with usage, the Guinan
iargon and manner expresses a large element
of our noble population under the stress of
great social hysteria. And the physician who
attended Texas Guinan in her last hours re-
laved this to the wearers of the white ribbon:
"She told me that she had never touched
alcohol in her life" And to readers at large
he added, Miss Guinan was one of the finest
and most grateful patients I have ever at
tended"
An epitaph for a woman. An epitaph for
an era.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
THE MAYOR OF GORNJE sELO

ME antithesis of Hugos story of Jean
Valjean who went to the gaIleys for
stealing loaf of bread and, escaping, became
revered town mayor, has been sent from
Belgrade.
A mayor of go in the town of Gornje
Selo has just been exposed as head of a
dangerous band of robbers which for years
has been eluding police sent by the same
mayor in pursuit of them.
For seventeen years respected Janjo Korac,
father of six children, had been mayor of
Gornje Selo. For many years he had accu-
mulated wealth as leader of the band of rob-
bers question on politeness undid him.
He ceased to raise his hat in answer to greet
ings.
Inquisitiveness penetrated the barrier of
honor and reverence, and the toWnSpeople
discovered that their mayor was keeping his
hat on to conceal a wound inflicted in a
night time encounter with his own police.
To say the least, Mayor Korac presents
an agreeable variation of the politician who
at no personal risk of cash in the head
gets his palm creased richly by sly and in
direct processes.
Mayor Korac may yet become the central
figure in an operetta, novel or short story,
whereas about the best the tin-box variety of
political brigand can hope for is immortaliza-
ton in the report of some graft-fnding in
quiry.
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ment he must remain a resident
and pay taxes within the corpora
ton limits.
The policeman works eight hours
day, seven days each week and
must during all occasions carry his
credentials and act as a peace Off
GER while off duty. They also get
special details that make them work
as much as twelve to fourteen hours
day.
The fireman works eighty four
hours each week, or an average of
twelve hours a day, seven days a
week, and is subject to call at all
times. Theater and other details
are on his time off.
I might state that much is said
by people about their rights as tax
payers. The police and f1remen get
this slam almost every day. The
truth of the matter is that they are
100 per cent taxpayers and chances
are 10 to z pay on more honest
assessments than the man who
broadcasts his tax obligation.
If the real estate companies and
the employers of this city would
get together possibly the empty
houses could be filled and they
could pay their taxes. Also the pres
ent out-of- town employe would pay
taxes and do his shopping here.
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DEAD cats flying at NFsA are worrying the
~ country's smarter business men more
than any one else
1t is their first duty to keep in touch with
what the people Of the country are thinking
and they have not failed to notice that the
'leftward swing started a year ago is becom-
ing more pronounced each week Except for
the duler industrialists who neither learn nor
forget they realize that if any change &C.
ours at this time it will not be a change back
toward the good old days" of unrestrained
indiUduaism.
Walter Teage. president of the Standard
Oil Company Of New Jersey addressing the
Academy Of Political Science this week. warned
that industry is on a one-way street and can
not turn back. He said it must find Way to
distribute its rewards more justly and regulate
its own affairs more efficiently if it is to keep
government interference to a minimum.
Henry Hartman, president of the United
States Chamber of Commerce, speaking on the
same program. likewise urged business men to
stop thinking and saying that the recovery
program is going to blow up.
Donald R. Richberg, NRAs general counsel
put it badly when he said, THE employer who
is still devoting his best energies to preventing
his employees from exercising the right of COL
lective bargaining is the best ally whom the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
WHERE IS OUR SPIRIT?

A MAN who listens attentively to the heat
of some of the arguments for and against
the recovery program hardly can help Won
dering, now and then, if anything has hap
pened to the traditional American spirit of
courage and determination.
According to some arguments, the NRA
and its allied measures are the law and the
prophets, and We shall go down to chaos and
confusion if we depart from them for an in
slant.
According to others, the NRA is a tragic
mistake and all our cherished institutions are
doomed unless We speedily renounce it and
get back to something else.
There is a growing tendency. in other
words. to see the whole recovery program in
straight blacks and whites; a tendency to
look on the mechanics of the effort, instead
Of on the spirit back of it, as the aIl-important
thing.
Americans we're not that way in the past.
For generations this country was famous
throughout the world for thing referred to
as the American spirit Probably no two
people meant precisely the same thing when
they referred to this spirit; but in the main
they meant that indomitable air of determi-
nation and optimism which made the nation
ready TO try anything once-the spirit which,
If one program failed, had no hesitation in
trying a second, a third. or a fourth until it
hit on the winning combination.
That was the spirit that conquered con-
tinent and erected a society which, for all
its faults, remains one of the fine achieve
ments Of the race. And It's little hard to
see why it can't be invoked again today.
Suppose the NRA should prove a flop.
Suppose the farm program fails; suppose the
currency sterilization scheme won't work, or
the public works scheme, or the other expert
rnents now being made. What of it?
We have the determination to succeed We
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
An Expert at Rep0rtee

A THOUGH never very success
L n full as a stage performer, Texas
was an expert as night club mon
ologist. Naturally, she was not quite
as skilled in impromptu as the cas-
ual visitor might assume.
If somebody went to sleep and fell
Off his chair Texas was ready with
a remark. But she did not have to
make one up. The situation had oc-
CURED before.
Yet when pressed by anything
brand new she was equal to the oc-
casion. Texas has been called brazen,
but it was more than that. She had
superb courage. Once I saw her
walk straight between two very dam
gerous guests who were Just about
to shoot it out.
Lltvinof is in Washington. The
new world of equal opportunity and
the redistribution of wealth draws
closer. I am for it heart and soul.
The jazz age was wicked and mon
strous and silly.
Unfortunately, had a good time.
Copyright, 1888 by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
M. Tracy Says:

r HARDLY think that Gram" Durham, who
Il died in Norway, Me, the other day. would
thank me or any one else to write an obituary.
She was not that kind, as is plainly proved by
the rather heroic way in which she lived down
fame and withstood disaster during the last few
years of her life.
Though brought into prominence by the re-
f1ected glory of her husband Nellie" she was
by far the stronger of the two.
You remember Nellie of course, and how
he won the patronage of Henry Ford by first
winning the old f1ddlers championship of Maine.
That was eight years ago, and Nellie" already
had passed the three score and ten mark. He
had enough vitality left, however to carry out
a vaudeville contract in which Gram" danced
some old steps to his f1ddling and which Melted
the couple S25 900.
A FTER this short whirl with the bright lights,
N the Dunhams went back to enjoy peace
full old age in Norway, but the same capricious
fate which had brought them such good fortune
suddenly turned sour.
First they took up some mortgages for rela
tiveS and friends, which would have been all
right if a cold-blooded acquaintance hadn't dis
posed of the rest of their competence by the
simple art of forging checks
Then their old home burned and Nellie"
who was sick with cold at the time, would nave
lost his life, had not old Gram" walked him up
and hustled him out in time.
AS it was, he survived the experience only
few months, dying practically Pennies within
five years after becoming well off,"
A LESS sturdy soul would have broken under
N the strain of such diversified and rapid
experiences in the twilight of life but not
Gram" Durham
With the philosophical observation that ct
could be worse" and we can go visiting now, like
we always wanted TO-" she began all over again
at the age of 70, saving enough out Of the scrap
heap to build a new little house and reSuning
the tasks of taking care of it.
When she got little time and the weather
was right, she would go fishing or unsling the
old rife to try for a deer.
That's about all there is to tell except as one
has enough imagination to sense the grit between
the lines, to feel the presence of a character
which would not be beat II, or alibi itself with
the thought that society had failed.
One can only speculate on the proposition
of whether this country would be in such pickle
if it contained a larger percentage of Gram"
Dunhanls.
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:: The Message Center ::


By Times Reader
Just a few words about our Won
derful police force. I think this man
they call Chief MorriSSey made a
wonderful mistake recently when he
sent only twenty policemen out to
the home of John Dillinger'5 father,
to see if John Dillinger was there.
He should have sent the entire
force.
Twenty police isn't enough to cap
ture one man. I have noticed that
the indianapolis policemen are very
brave after they have a pair of
handouts on fellow. 1 firmly be-
lieve if John Dillinger had been
at his fathers home the day those
policemen were there, he should
have walked out on the porch with
a gun.
I believe that today the biggest
part Of those police would be living
out in the city hospital from in
jurieS received from running over
one another trying to get away.
Editors NOte-Newspaper reports of
the raid reveal that state police were
sent to the Dillinger residence
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Questions and
Answers :.

(Which states lead in the
production Of corn, cotton and to-
bacco?
A-IoWa, Illinois and Nebraska
lead in corn; Texas, Arkansas and
Mississippi lead in cotton, and
North Carolina, Kentucky and
Virginia lead in tobacco.
Q-What is the average winter
and summer temperature Of Los
Angeles?
A-Winter, $50 degrees. and
summer, 69.7 degrees.
Q-Are there more Protestants
than Catholics in Germany?
A-According to the latest avail
able figures there were 40,014,677
Protestants and 20.193, 1874 Roman
Catholics.
Q-Was the word "speakeasy"
coined after the national prohiol-
ton law went into effect?
Alt was in use in dry states
and in states that had Sunday
closing laws before the advent OF
national prohibition.
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succumb to hate and holy causes.
Our dead today are dead indeed,
since we seem TO have forgotten
what it was they gave their lives
for In many lands where the drums
are muff1ed for heroes, peace has
become only the dream Of idealsts.
The -Four Horsemen appear again
on the world horizon and unless
common men and women prepare
to resist we shall be swept once
more down the precipice Of disaster
by their ruthless feet.
To pray God to send peace on
earth, if We have not the courage to
gain and promote it, is to discredit
the intelligence Of the Almighty
and prove ourselves not only fools
but hypocrites.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
EMBARRASSING

BY Hartwell Forrest Baker
This hullabaloo that has been
raised by many newspapers over the
recent crime wave shows nothing
but a very fragrant example Of pass
ing the buck. 1t is reminiscent of
an old story which will bear repeat
ing here.
A meager- faced gentleman was
being shaved by an Irish barber.
The barber thrust his finger into
the gentleman's mouth to push out
and make accessible his sunken
cheek. The BARRIERS hand slipped
and he made a generous incision in
the old fellows face.
Showing his finger, dripping
blood, he cried: Damn, Murphy,
look here! You've made me cut my
finger"
Is it not just possible that
crime wave or prison break could
have happened under an admins
tration Of the G. o. P?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

have shown that our vast and HETEROGENEOUS
people can achieve unity in time of crisis.
We have shown that our democratic system
can provide swift and forceful action when it
is needed. We have shown that we have the
stomach to make drastic experiments
Why must we assume that our salvation
stands or falls on the success Cor on the
abandonmenD Of one particular plan? We
have reafirmed our common purpose, our
strength, and our loyalty.
If the old spirit lives, we can be confident
of ultimate victory-if not on one road. then
on another
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BROUN=

NEW YORK. Nov. 10. - Texas
~ Guinan died in Vancouver
forty-eight hours before Litvinof
arrived in Washington.
I do not want TO strain in reach
ing for symbols. but these chance
happenings carry to me some sug-
gestion Of the passing Of an era and
the beginning Of another. Surely
Texas typified the boom times Of
the Coolidge gold rush.
In the days of her glory she made
New York a sort of mining town.
The little New Highlander in Wash
ington issued comforting statements
that loans were not overextended,
and Guinan cried from the top of
her high stool to the arriving Gus
toner, Hello, Sucker!"
In slightly different form both
were saying the same thing. This
was the land Of easy riches for the
lucky The vein was deep and wide
and handsome. Whoopee would
never end.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10

THAT a nation of any conse-
Il quence should this year cele-
brate Arnistoce day seems to me a
travesty In each instance it will be
a tribute to war instead of peace.
The gestures men make mean
nothing when their hearts are filled
with duplicity. And is it not du-
plicity for us to pray for peace when
all our preparations are directed
toward conflict and all our
thoughts are filed with rancor?
While We occupy ourselves with the
business Of war, wesinsult those who
died for the greatest Of all lost
causes, if we pretend to long for
amity.
To many young people born since
1914. the World war was an excit-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
A Woman Viewpoint :
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

ing event which has been made the
background for many thrilling
movies. But on the other hand,
there are still millions Of older
earth inhabitants, who can recall
the feeling that the foundations OF
our universe were sinking, and life
was a nightmare. They know what
war can be.
Yet knowing that, they have
failed to make it inglorious TO their
children. The distractions Of the
last mad orgy were so terrible that
they took away even the old mean
ing Of the word peace, which was
once synonymous with plenty. For
since that time men everywhere
have starved and suffered. They
are therefore the more ready to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-10
HOMES WORSE THAN JAILS

ONE of the most shocking disclosures of
~ recent weeks is the story of the women
textile workers in Alabama who refused to
leave the jail where they had been confined
because it was more comfortable than their
own homes.
These women-arrested after an outburst
of violence in connection with a cotton mill
strike at Mobile-were offered their freedom
on bond and turned it down.
I'VE have running hot water in jail for
baths, which beats heating water in tin pail
and washing in laundry tub all hollow"
one of them explained.
When you reflect on what a dismal place
the ordinary county Jail is, and then reflect
further on the fact that even such acconmo-
dations seemed to these women preferable to
their own homes you get an appalling glimpse
at the living conditions with which some
American citizens must put up.