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Evening star., 1933-10-17
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Fair, colder to-
night; tomorrow partly cloudy. mod
crate west winds.
Maryland and Virginia cloudy
and colder tonight; tomorrow partly
cloudy.
West Virginia-Fair tonight; tomor-
row partly cloudy and warmer, followed
by occasional Iain.
River Report
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers clear
tbs morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
A MIGHTY TASK FACED

THE era that is beginning these days is to
be great time for young men, believes
Dean Christian Gauss of Princeton Getting
us out OF the mess we are in now will be,
ultimately, the job of the younger generation,
he says.
Dean Gauss expressed this viewpoint at
Cincinnati the other day
The impression of men over 40 can not
be changed" he said. They have built their
lives on a plan evolved when they were in
their 2Os When they come face to face with
changing social order, such as we are facing
today, they are helpless. They must lean
upon the younger generation.
The men of my generation received their
training in the '9Os. Success in those days
meant following the example of certain great
men. The great men were millionaires
Where have our examples gone today?
Many of them have lost their fortunes their
positions. They are powerless to adapt them
selves to the new order, in which the million
aire has vanished as an ideal"
That a new viewpoint and a new set of
ideals are required urgently in the present
time Of change is indisputable We shall have
to evolve them as we go along, for the most
part, and before we get through good many
of us of the older generation are likely to find
ourselves pretty badly confused; but all in
all it should be time of great hope and great
opportunity
For we are not simply engaged in getting
the wheels moving again and starting people
back to work. To do those things it is neces-
sary for us to re-orient ourselves completely,
to find, as Dean Gauss says, new leaders and
new standards.
The job will take a generation or more
but it will prove one of the most worthwhile
jobs we ever have tackled
That is why the young man who is just
ready to begin his career today is to be
envied. To be sure, he faces a perplexed and
blinded world; jobs are pitifully scarce; it will
not be easy for him to find chance to exer-
else his talents.
But in the long run he will have reason
to bless the fate that brought him to manhood
just at this time.
The world will call on him for the very
best he has to give. If he is man enough to
grasp it, it will offer him an opportunity daz-
zling in its size.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
INTERNATIONAL OUTLAWS

TINE New Deal in foreign affairs can not be
effective unless the senate gives the Presi-
dent the power he has requested to prevent
arms shipments to treaty violators. The policy
of American cooperation with other nations
to protect the worlds peace machinery, as
laid down by the President in his non-aggres-
sion message to all nations and as amplified
by Ambassador Davis at the Geneva dsarma
ment conference. will remain only high-sound-
ing words unless backed by this power.
This authority already is held by most
government executives in Europe In this
country it repeatedly has been granted by con-
gress to the President in relation to revolution
in China and Latin American countries The
time is long overdue for extending that power
to apply to war between nations.
During the last two years treaties have been
violated in Latin American and Far Eastern
wars The munitions for those wars have come
from Europe and the United States We have
been in the position of making profit from the
illegal aggression of others, aggression which
destroys treaties and thus threatens our own
future peace
The fact that muniton makers foment wars
has been attested by the League of Nations in
vestigating committee and has been proved too
often to dispute.
For the United States to sign treaties out
having war, as it has done, and then continue
to furnish weapons to the outlaws is as stupid
as it is hypocritical If only our own bad
faith were at issue, it would not be so bad.
But the actual result is that we also pre-
vent other neutral nations from outlawing the
aggressor. The European nations say, and
rightly, that it would be useless for them to
embargo arms shipments if the treaty breakers
continued to get all the war materials needed
from us.
The embargo power requested by President
Roosevelt and by President Hoover before him,
is not an authority to declare war. but rather
to prevent war or at least to localize it.
The senate foreign relations committee is
trying to destroy the purpose and meaning of
the embargo resolution. 1t has amended the
resolution so that an embargo could be applied
only against all nations in conf1ict-against
the victim of invasion as we'll as against the
bully. The net result would be to make it
easier for the aggressor
If American public opinion understands the
issue, it will insist on passage of the original
embargo resolution.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
Phone-RIley 555l
MONDAY. JUNE 5. 1919.
WHAT'S AROUND THE CORNER?

TINE spirit Of the Hoover administration
4 threatens the country once more.
The idea that prosperity may be Gust
around the corner" and that nothing needs
to be done about it has reappeared in Wash
ington. This state Of mind found expression
in the vote of the senate finance committee
whereby the chief enforcing clause of the ma
tional recovery bill was stricken out.
Seven members of Roosevelts party turned
Hoovercrats for the moment, seven of the
twelve votes to emasculate this all-important
legislation were cast by Democratic senators.
Seven Of the statesmen who blistered Hoover
for hoping and not acting have fallen in with
that same futile philosophy.
The country has turned many corners since
Hoover painted his first glowing picture of
the unseen future Around each it has found
more misery. 1t has found more and more
men and women denied the right to work,
more fact~ les dark and forced to go to the
wall or meet the competition of labor ex-
ploiters
There are more corners to be turned And
1t is the congress of the United States which
will determine what the country finds there
President Roosevelt has offered plan for
industrial recovery which scarcely can fail If
permitted 20 operate. He has charted the way
toward restoration of purchasing power, the
ocly finn ground in the bog Of despond into
which we have been sinking.
Intelligent business men have hailed the
plan their one chance. Labor has seen in
it recognition of its fundamental needs. Only
the National Manufacturers Association has
failed to understand that timidity at time
like this may mean disaster.
Congress will determine what lies around
the next corner.
One turning means work, food, profit,
progress.
Around the other corner greed waits to de-
stroy us Along this latter route employers may
combine, unchecked, to exploit labor, to force
up profits, to practice all the evils of monopoly
and despotism. And to jeer at a President
who seeks to stop them.
The choice must be made now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
ACTING TOGETHER

NEVER in the country's history has so
much been said as now is being said
about the end of rugged individualiSm and
the necessity of thinking and acting in the
interest of all Gods chillun.
1t is a hopeful sign. 1t seems to indicate
the imminence Of new era, or at least the
necessity of a new era of cooperation, if
that part of the human race comprised in
the boundaries of the U. S. A. is not to con-
tinue to be ground between the millstones Of
an ever more efficient technology and ever
greater concentration of wealth.
Two examples of the preachments occurred
last week The Presidents wife, Mrs Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, said to the graduating class
of the Washington College of Law that new
"socal-minded code of ethics" was coming
into this country.
She described her code: do not wish for
special privileges; wish for privileges for all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
FREEDOM AND UNITY

NERMONT'S state motto is Freedom and
Unity" yet Governor Stanley Wilson ap-
pears unwilling to grant either to Vermont
workers.
In report by the Rev. Charles c. Weber
of Union Theological school to the American
Civil Liberties Union story is told that will
provide text for the ironically inclined and
a warning to America against the dangers of
corporate tyranny
The Rock of Ages Corporation cut it's
granite quarry workers wages from SO cents
to 80 cents an hour. The quarrymen I'M
willing to take another 10 per cent cut, called
an industrial holiday" The Rock of Ages
Corporation issued a statement that mo power
on earth ever will compel us to operate our
quarries or plants on any kind of union basis"
AS the strikers peacefully picketed, Gov
ernor Wilson called out two companies of
state militia. To quote an American Legion
statement, the guardsmen, without warning,
threw tear gas bombs among crowd of men,
women and children"
Next day they threw gas bombs among a
group of strikers children returning from
school. And the next day they charged
peaceful onlookers, cutting, wounding and
tearing the clothing of men, women, and
children alike.
The open query to Governor Wilson: rs
it true, as charged, that you are directly or
indirectly an investor in the Rock of Ages
Corporation?" remains unanswered
Intolerable as this sort of thing is in
normal times, it is unthinkable in these ex-
plosive days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
DANGEROUS OLD AUTOS

THE report of automobile accidents during
i the first four months of 1888, just issued
by statiSticians for leading insurance COM
pany, contains one rather significant little
disclosure
While the total number of deaths decreased
about 10 per cent from the number for the
same period in 1882 the number of defective
cars involved in fatal accidents increased by
nearly 40 per cent.
This, of course. is a consequence of the de-
preston. Cars that ought to be retired to the
junkyard still are in service; others which have
defective brakes lights, tires. or steering me-
chanism are going without the repairs they
need because their owners are pressed for cash.
The man who drives such a car is under
heavy responsibility. If he keeps his cars de-
fects in mind and makes allowance for them
in his driving everything is all right; but if he
tries to handle an aging and defective machine
as he would brand-new one, he Immediately
makes public menace of himself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05

Q-Was Jimmy Durante born in
this country?
Ayes, in New York.
Q-Is zangara, who attempted
to shoot President Roosevelt, an
American citizen?
Ale emigrated from Italy and
became a naturalized citizen in
1929.
.Q-Does the Panama canal
cross the isthmus from east to
west?
Alt runs due south from its
entrance in Limon bay, through
the Gatun locks to a point in the
widest portion of Gatun lake. a
distance of eleven and one-half
miles; it then turns sharply to-
ward the east and follows a course
generally southeast to the Bay of
Panama, on the Pacific side.
Q-Where and when did James
j. Jeffries have his first prize
fight?
AIT San Francisco, July 2,
1896. Jeffries won by a knockout
in two rounds against Dan Long.
Q-What is a "tael'?
A Chinese unit of weight.
Q-Is the salary of the mayor
of New York greater than that of
the Governor of the state?
A-The mayors salary is $4,000
a year, and the Governors salary
is $4,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
Questions and Answers.

Q-Were the war and the navy
departments ever combined in one
department.?
A-When the war department
was established in 1889 it had
charge of all the instruments of
national defense and offense, in
Guiding the army and the navy.
In 1898, the control of the navy
was segregated and the navy de-
partment was established.
Q-What is professor?
"A public teacher of the high
est grade in a university, college
or institution where professional
or technical studies are pursued;
usually an officer holding a chair
and in special charge of some par
ticular branch Of higher instruc-
ton.
Q-Can owls be kept as cage
pets?
A-Owls will thrive in captivity
if given a diet consisting of animal
food, an occasional rat or mouse,
raw meat, gristle, bone, etc. Cap
tive owls become fairly tame. They
should be kept in a cage large
enough to permit them to fly and
obtain exercise.
Q-Does a resolution for an
amendment to the Constitution
have to be submitted to the Pres
ident of the United States at any
time?
A-No.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
OTHERS HAVE BEER TROUBLES

TND1ANA'S beer control law has not proved
- an unqualified success. Political prefer
ment, of course, has been glaringly apparent
The public has complained bitterly of profits
of brew. There have been murmurs about
graft. In many ways, the workings of the law
have proved unsatisfactory.
In view of all this, it is interesting to note
that other states have their problems in con-
trolling the sale of beer and that they, too, are
not meeting them to the satisfaction of every
one.
The following editorial from the Pittsburgh
Press, Scripps-Howard newspaper, details
faults found in the new Pennsylvania beer law:
Pennsylvania makeshift beer law went
into effect at midnight, but its arrival did not
cause any widespread rejoicing.
Few measures have emerged from Harris
burg more confusing in meaning. During the
last month retailers and Wholesalers county
treasurers and lawyers alike struggled to inter-
pref the laws meaning, with little success.
For example, there was that little matter of
what is and isn't a bar" The law provides
that counters may be used so long as these
counters are provided with stools of perma-
nent nature.
But it fails to say how many stools are
necessary, how they are to be placed, and what
There were other clauses equally confusing.
In fact, there is even talk of a court fight to
iron out the difficulties that have arisen to
date.
To us, however, there was even a greater
objection to the law and its confusing provi
sions. That was the excessive high fees which
retailers had to pay.
druggist or grocer in Pittsburgh had to
pay $500 for license and post a ST. 900 bond
besides. In addition, the laws confusion made
it necessary in many cases to obtain legal aid
to prepare the application.
In some counties attorneys charged flat
fee of 500 for this service.
Naturally this handicap of high fees forced
many retailers to discontinue handling the bev-
erage Many small merchants who had hoped
to use 80 beer as the lever to pry their business
out of the red" could not scrape enough
money together to pay the license fees
Therefore, we can not rejoice over the ar
rival of the beer law. We believe regulation of
beer is necessary, but we also believe a simpl-
fed law could have been drafted with fees
low enough that all who wished could have
profited from the sale of beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
|M. E.

HERE is nothing in the Constitution which
u limits the power of congress over money.
The Constitution merely says that congress
snail nave power TO coin money, regulate the
value thereof, and of foreign coins, and fix the
standard of weights and measures"
States are prohibited from making anything
legal tender for the payment of debt, except gold
and silver, but that has no bearing on the power
of congress.
Congress is at liberty to strike coin from any
metal it sees fit and fix the value
Inc gold standard is not constitutional but
traditional, established as a matter of custom
and law.
Congress authorized it to begin with, by de-
claring how much the government would pay in
dollars for an ounce of gold, and congress can
change or abrogate it at any time
whether it would be wise for congress to do
SO IN an abrupt or radical manner is another
question, the point being that it has the power
MANY people have jumped at erroneous con-
4vA illusions, because of the gold bonds and
gold contracts that have been written, assuming
that somehow or other the government of the
United States was bound by them
Like all other governments that of the
united States represents absolute sovereignty.
and 1t represents this in no field more thor
oughly than in that of coinage and legal tender
There is no power inherent in the people to
demand gold. They are given that power bv
the supreme lawmaking body of the land, not
by the Constitution. They are given it, more
over, with the knowledge that it can be altered
or withdrawn at any time
The supreme court went deeply into all these
matters IN the case of Julliard vs. Greenman.
This case grew out of dispute over payment
Tor 100 bales Of cotton which Julliard sold
Greenman for S5122.9O c. O. d Greenman
offered to pay with $3.50 in gold 40 cents in
silver and $500 in United States notes Julliard
accepted the coin, but turned down the notes
and brought suit for $780, which he claimed
to be due
M HEN the case came up for trial, Greenman
w rendered the notes in open court as EVIL
denclng his Willingness to pay, but Julliard de-
INJURED and appealed to the circuit court, which
overruled his demurrer. He then carried the
case to the supreme court, which also decided
against MN, IN very exhaustive opinion writ
ten by Justice Gray
ms opinion canvassed the entire subject
OF congressional power to regulate the currency
and establish legal tender, referring to about
every previous decision and quoting extensively
from John Marshall
The sum and substance of the courts finding
was that If congress said that notes were legal
tender, they were
OF course, this case did not originate in
contract specifying gold Of a stated weight and
hneneSS, but since the decision would seem to
confirm the power of congress to regulate the
value OF money and say what constituted legal
tender that question appears to have been an
swered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05

Attain all you can attain in developing your
own gifts and use them for the good of the
whole of society You never will get the
greatest Joy out Of living until you feel you
are one with a great many people, whole
country, perhaps"
And in New York Or. Dixon Ryan Fox,
professor of history at Columbia university,
told l6l graduates of the New York chapter
of the American Institute Of Banking that the
new America" was emerging, and admon-
ished, If you bring to this new age the indi-
vidual materialism of the past, you will not
fit"
He urged his hearers to accustom them
selves to regulation and to the service of the
public interest rather than of personal am
bition
In most cases advice of this tenor comes
from the more idealistic class-colege profess
sors, ministers, members of the new govern
ment at Washington. And yet it comes out
strongly from many other sources.
After three years Of depression unique in
American or world history-a depression due
in great part to prodigious economic advance
the instincts of people, and also their despera-
ton, are seeking new outlets of hope
1t is becoming prima facie evident that
under the modern large scale industrial econ
omy, organization and cooperation must be
effected universally as well as in the great in
diyidual units of human endeavor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
The Message Center

facts or else is not careful to speak
the truth. Liquor never has been
law-abiding. We think we have
bootlegging problems today Ask
the Canadian government what it
faces under liquor control.
BY the way, how long ago did men
wear boots anyway? Well, bootleg
ging is older than boots.
In these days of depression, when
we are trying hard to get along
without the things our fathers never
heard of, we are told by the vets
that we could put many men to
work in breweries and distilleries.
Is that so?
Depression began in, spread from,
and continues worse, in the drinking
nations of Europe! Who are the
people who are trying to repudiate
their debts to Uncle Sam? Who are
begging us to cancel our bills against
them? The drinking nations of
Europe!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
A Woman's Viewpoint

T ARGE groups Of children are for
- me a most moving sight. I
feel like blubbering as I watch and
get hard heavy feeling in my
chest.
I did not exactly enjoy the open
air school fiesta I saw the other
day. Hundreds of boys and girls
of the same age going through
dances and drills are just too
pathetic to be endured. Colored
bunting, the music of bands, and
thin bare little legs flashing, while
all about. parents sit wrapt in
worshipful adoration-I think life
does not offer a sadder sight.
The contrast between the limo
cent happiness of the juveniles and
the rather anguished affection i'm
printed upon the faces of their
audience is so great. And behind
the adult masks one can read the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05

failure instead Of success-a.s the
world judges both. The flags we
adjure them to salute and honor
and love, so many times beckon
them to injuStices and death.
The education we beg them to
strive for has left a bitter taste in
our mouths. The prayer We ask
them to repeat have become mostly
meaningless words in our ears.
1t has been long time since par
ents faced such tragic truths about
their own shortcomings as we face
together in 1898. Perhaps that is
a portent Of good.
We do not know which way to
turn, We who would teach little
children. We are lost in a maze Of
doubts. We only know that we still
love and we still hope.
Six thousand children singing to-
gether! Oh, Life, be not too cruel
to theml
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05

steam to be medicated with small
amounts of tincture of benzoin for
relief in various forms of hoarse-
ness or other conditions affecting
the larynx and the lungs.
There are certain "don'ts" which
well may be repeated in closing this
series on the contents of the fam
lily medicine chest.
They are:
Do not save poisonous prepara-
lions of any kind, including par
ticularly bichloride of mercury, pills
containing strychnine, or solutions
containing wood alcohol.
Do not keep samples of patent
medicines of unknown composition
recommended beyond their actual
virtues.
Never permit any preparation of
opium or morphine in the family
medicine chest.
Never save any prepared pre-
scription after the specific use for
which it was ordered by the ply
sician has disappeared
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-05
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

awful question-that eternal query
fathers and mothers put to need
less universe and their own hearts.
Are we failing them? What of
their tomorrows?"
Yes, we'll fail them probably AS
grownups nearly always have failed
children, and our generation will
be no exception to the general role,
suppose. Well fail them in
ten thousand ways, though we love
them so much.
- o
1T seems to be the peculiar fate
l. of our kind to set our off,
spring tasks which we know are be-
yond all human performing. The
stars to which We urge them to
hitch their little wagons are so very
far away.
Honesty, which we tell them is the
best policy. so often turns them to