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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
INDEPENDENCE DAYS TOLL

IN the morning of July 5, unless this year
- differs from all previous ones, American
newspapers will tell their readers of several
scores of fatal accidents which took place on
the Independence day holiday.
A certain number of people will be killed
by fireworks; more will be accidentally
drowned: a very large number will die under
the wheels Of automobiles.
Today each of those persons is alive, well
and unsuspecting Of his fate Each one
knows, if he thinks about it at all, that July
Fourth will bring a number of fatalities to
the country; but not one has the slightest
notion that his own death will be on the list
And because none Of us can imagine that
these accidents can touch us personally, there
isn't much hope that this years toll will be
smaller than usual.
That extra bit Of caution that prevents
accidents won't get used, in a certain number
of cases; and a certain number Of us, as
result, will not see the sun rise on the fifth
of july
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
JAPAN'S COURSE IN CHINA

IT has been the custom in this country for
u some time to hold up pious hands in horror
over the things Japan has been doing to
China. But Nathaniel PETER, in a recent
issue of the New Republic points out that as
nation we have slight reason to be shocked
about it all.
Ever since the war, as he points out, China
has been struggling to regain independence of
foreign domination She has tried to clear
her soil Of foreign troops. to get equal repre-
sentation in the toreign-concession ports. to
abolish the rights of extra terrtorialitv.
We, along with European nations. refused
to give her these thlngs-on the ground that
China was in turmoil and had no unified
government.
BY SO dong, as Mr.. PETER points out. we
provided Japan with perfect excuse for
aggression in Manchuria, JehoI and elsewhere
When we enunciated the principle that
disorder in weak country justifies strong
one in invading it," he remarks, I'VE laid the
foundations of JapanS defense"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
THURSDAY. JUNE %. 1888.
NO RAIL WAGE CUT

L FFORTS Of the railroads to buck the new
- deal by demanding another and greater
wage sacrifice Of their workers whose ranks
have been reduced disastrously in the depres-
sion apparently has been scotched.
Joseph Eastman, federal co-ordinator Of
railways, acting upon the request of President
Roosevelt, made clear to railroad capital that
the government can not countenance the pro-
posed quarter billion dollar gouge of railroad
workers while it is endeaVoring to raise mass
purchasing power in industry and agriculture
Whether organized railway labor agrees to
continuance Of the existing 10 per cent wage
reduction still is in doubt But whether it does
or not Co-ordinator Eastman should use some
of his new powers to try to employ more men
IN the railroad industry
Upon his own word, bolstered by that of
labors spokesman, the amount of deferred
railroad maintenance is immense. The method
of financing this work so more men can be put
to work is provided expressly IN the public
works law.
If labor is to continue giving up 10 per cent
OF its wages, it well might ask arrangements to
put back to work some of those discharged dur
ing the depression. That is a very sure way of
raising mass purchasing power in the railroad
industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
FORGOTTEN BANKS

TINE Forgotten Man seems to have been
Il replaced by the Forgotten Banks.
For instance take the case of the Union
National OF Carnegie, Pa. as told in The
Pittsburgh Press
On May 90, a depositors committee sub
mitted to the comptroller of the United States
a plan for reopening the bank. through repair
ment of its capital structure by a $4,000 pre-
ferred stock issue, which had been entirely
subscribed Yet to date the committee has
not been able to get a reply.
Inquiry at the bank reorganization division
of the treasury department revealed that the
plan is still being studied The Press Wash
ington correspondent was informed that after
adjustment of details, including further con-
ferences with the conservator. the proposal
probably will be approved.
There is no defense for such delays. With
the nation starting a tremendous drive to fur
niSh employment and raise wages, no single
move could contribute more to prosperity than
release of the billions Of dollars tied up in
closed and restricted banks
For instance the Carnegie bank in question
contains % per cent of the towns total de-
posts Hundreds of businesses and individuals
have been crippled financially by the closing
OF its doors.
Yet, when depositors' committee took
{ essential steps to reopen the bank and sub
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

voted, Delaware and Indiana. Superintendent
F. Scott Mcbride Of the Anti Saloon League
had admitted that Iowa was crucial. The
Hawkeye state has been a wet-dry battle
ground for 100 years and until now had been
regarded as the drys' shining western star.
An au-Iowa emergency prohibition council
sent scores Of speakers into the corn towns.
On Sunday hundreds Of preachers turned their
pu!pits into political platforms Repeal bill
boards were burned by dry fanatics
Tuesdays victories should hearten the re-
peal campaigners in next months tests The
dry5 are making their last stand in the south,
and hope to check the repeal arrnys march
in Alabama and Arkansas in July
Repealists should be Oh guard against such
desperate eXpedients as are being resorted to
in Missouri and Ohio, where the drys arc try
ing to hold up elections by invoking the ref
erendum laws against convention bills passed
by big majorties in legislature
The United States can repeal this year.
Any hesitant state should recall that repeal
by Jan. l viii save the country the burden of
carrying for twelve months more the emer-
gency gas corporation stock, dividend and
excess profit taxes Just voted for the public
works projects.
Repeal will permit replenlshment of the
United States treasury by upward of a half
billion dollars in revenue now going into the
pockets Of boOtleggers and racketeerS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
COTTON CONTROL

THE federal government next week will
campaign throughout the cotton south for
the destruction of planted cotton, for aban-
donment OF 100000 acres that will yield
100000 bales of this basic commodity needed
by the naked here and abroad to clothe them
selves
This is the seemingly wasteful phase Of the
second great farm experiment to be conducted
as part of the New Deal to put buying power
into the hands of the masses. There is some
thing socially wrong in the wilfuI destruction
of a basic product of the earth.
But over and above this there is the pos
sbHty that this amazing program will result
in higher prices for the cotton growers of the
south; the possibility that they again will
become big buyers of the products manufac-
twed by their brothers in the cities. There is,
economically, the chance that great good will
come of this destruction.
For the individual farmer who promises to
pillow under or otherwise not harvest from Is
TO 40 per cent of his cotton, certain definite
bounties are promised. He may take an OPP
ton on government pooled cotton to the ex-
tent of the potential cotton yield from his
abandoned acres and get this option at the
present favorable price of cents a pound.
Then, in addition to receiving from Sc to
SO for each abandoned acre depending upon
its probable yield, he will receive the expected
profit on his part of the pool cotton If he
does not want to join the pool, he will receive
from 81 to $40 for each acre abandoned, again
depending upon probable yield
If 100000 acres are abandoned. from
100000 to $12OOOO,OOO will be distributed
among these farmers, the money to be raised
by levying upon the first processing of cotton a
special tax of about cents pound
If the south accepts this plan, and all the
rest of the country helps pay the expenses of
it, something approaching prosperity may re-
turn to the cotton belt
But planning of cotton production can not
be imposed for a single season, and then be
forgotten. Hence. from the outset the farm
relief administration should make clear to
growers that this is not just a flash in the
pan, to be discarded next season.
Both the administration and the cotton
south should know that henceforth cotton
production must be adjusted to cotton de-
mand, the lean years to be offset against the
fat. Otherwise, the heroic methods now pro-
posed probably will not be successful and not
be justified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

HAVE you noticed the decrease in
H nervous breakdowns among
the ladies? The general health of
the American woman has improved
tremendously during the great de-
preston, and it is interesting 10 see
how stout We remain through it all
The doctors and buffers have suf-
fered. but the grande danes I'M
doubtedly are profiting by a return
to the dishpan and the floor mop.
The truth is that woman's worst
enemy is the social wtirligig. I've
seen strong and stunning ones
crushed in a few years. Keeping up
with the innumerable fads Of a
narrow social circle is twice as hard
on the constitution as raising babies.
The bridge luncheon in its heydey
killed off more women than the
WaShtub ever did. Cocktails are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

change of goods and services, as
normally that is the function Of
stock where the person saving
money loans it through the asso-
citation to the person paying for
created value in labor and ma
teriaIS.
This easily could be accomplished
if the associations would make their
stock now represented by share Ger
tificates Of 500 each, to be issued
in 100 81 certificates that would be
transferable by Endorsement IN eX-
change for goods and services. This
type Of transaction would not affect
the value of the stock, because the
borrowers who need currency to pay
back their loans could use the stock
in payment for their loans after Civ
ing goods or services to the stock
holder for face value, just as if
currency had paid for the goods
and services transferred.
Confidence would be restored, bust
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN-

NEW YORK, June 81 have
~ not been asked in this year. or
any other, TO talk at a college COM
mencement, but if I ever had the
opportunity I think I would like to
make an address about as follows.
Seniors Of Ooffus university. YOU
are about to be graduated into an
extremely lukewarm world. The
chances are that not one OF YOU
will get any decent sort of job for
the next two or three years. Now.
what are YOU going TO do about it?
Two tragic things can happen 10
a young college graduate. He may
come TO utter failure before he is
able to endure it or by some miracle
ne may strike sudden and I'M
expected success.
Possibly I Will be regarded as a
little whimsical if I maintain that
the latter is perhaps the greater
tragedy. In support of my position
I will seek solace in Scripture.
which has been often quoted at
commandments.
L think it is true that it does not
avail man very much 10 gain the
whole world and lose his own soul.
And, after all. when I spoke of I'M
expected success I did not quite in
tend to include all that territory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
Red Clover
BY MARY B. MOUNTAIN

BY MARY 3. MOYNAHAN
There's a call to my heart through
the bright. summer day,
From the cool green Of fields where
the red blossoms sway;
And I'd go as child-with my face
TO the breeze;
Even sip Of their nectar along with
the bees.
While quail whistles low, in the
height Of his pride,
To the tilnid companion, not far
from his side;
Midst the red clover blossoms, and
ghosts Of lost years,
Until dewdrops are mingled az dusk
with the tears.
Hearing-ever-the call from the
fern bordered way,
Leading out to the meadow where
red blossoms sTayl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
Thyroid Gland May Overtax Heart

of the thyroid gland to bring about
a rest both of the thyroid and of
the heart.
In making his decision as to
whether an operation should be
done on such patients, and also the
nature and extent Of the operation,
the physician takes into account
many important factors.
These include, for example, the
weight of the patient, the patients
age, duration Of the condition, the
extent to which the patient is
overstimulated, and similar symp-
toms.
Overaction of the thyroid gland
tends to oYerburden most of the
organs and tissues Of the body.
The person who is Of hyperthy-
roid constitution is active, driv-
ing, dynamic, irritable, and alto
gether one who is living life too fast.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
Praying IN Private

DO not spend very much time in
~ searching your own soul, but
try instead to understand the psy-
chology of the group or class in which
you belong. BY the help Of this
process you will probably find that
the thing which you mistook for
personal weakness or ineptitude IS
characteristic of most of your fell
lows in like circumstances.
college itself is a token of a new
order Of society Though individual
worth is recognized and encouraged,
the rewards are not in terms Of
financial preferment. Every college
or university is to a large extent a
communal enterprise. In any edu-
cational institution worthy of its
name and fame, an effort is made to
apply the rule of From each &C
cording to his ability; to each ac-
cOrding to his needs
1T is right and very logical that
the colleges Of the world should be
the places of inspiration for radicals
and Missionaries. In a rough and in
exact way the fellowship of college
is a working experiment in the prac-
teal possibilities Of brotherhood.
There are few places where the stu
dent who faunts wealth and special
privileges is highly regarded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

mltted them in approved fashion to the proper
authorities they had to go approximately three
weeks without even the courtesy of reply.
The people of the United States were told
by the government to stand by their banks.
The government owes to them the duty of re-
opening those banks with all possible speed;
or II they can not be reopened of Iiquidating
them with the utmost expedition.
Meanwhile, under plans adopted by the re-
cently-formed national depositors' committee
substantial part of these frozen deposits
could De made Immediately available.
1t is high time that the Forgotten Banks be
given attention.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

MYTH development of new
w methods of investigation,
physicians are beginning to learn
more about relationship of the
glands of the body to the functions
of the various organs.
1t now is recognized that it is
possible for the thyroid gland, by
over-secretion, to drive the heart
beyond necessity and, in that way,
to influence most unfavorably cases
of heart disease.
DR.. L. NJ. Hurxthal has pointed
out that many persons with heart
disease could be restored to normal
activities if the excess driving Of an
overactive thyroid gland were rec
ognized and contoued.
Sometimes the disturbance of the
heart is so prominent that the re-
lation Of the heart condition to the
thyroid gland is entirely overlooked.
In such cases there is, of course,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
So They Say

Mr.. President, we are back of you
96.8 per cent-but we can't go the
other 80 per cent.-Rev. Charles
Oscar Johnson of Northern Baptist
church and DR.. Monroe Elmon Dodd
of Southern Baptist church on visit
to White House.
There is no such thing as the
present; all is either past or future.
DIR. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi-
dent of Columbia university.
Vibrations of fine music put mys-
FERROUS initiative, resolution and
courage into the normal individual.
Treasury Secretary Woodin. who
is also a composer.
Silly as a goose? A goose isn't
silly. 1t is one Of the most in
telligent of fowls.-Dr. RAYMOND
Ditmars, curator of Bronx Zoo.
I'm a southern gentleman, vout
honor, and southern gentlemen never
hit a woman.-George P. Beck, fors
merly of Georgia, in defending him
self in his divorce suit at Brock
ton, Mass.
The medical investigator today
takes all animated nature as his
legitimate field of exploration. There
are no closed compartments in
nature into which man, animals
and plants can be separately placed
All are related organically and, as
we may say united physiologically
and pathologically-Dr. Simon FIex-
ner, director Of Rockefeller Institute
for Medical Research.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
Looking Backward at McNutt
An Editorial

OK months have elapsed since Governor
- Paul V. McNutt and his young Democ-
racy" began to rule Indiana
In that time nearly all Hoosiers have be-
come state government conscious" If there
are some who have not. they will before July
IS when they must pay the income or sales
tax for the first time
Friend and foe will agree that the new
regime has made the statehouse something
more than rest room or school for scandal.
In his inaugural address on Jan A.
Governor NIcNutt promised action. Since then
he has been delivering with speed that has
given many persons a headache
Mores, if not morals, have been revolution
lied under his leadership. Indiana has pro-
gressed from the most puritanical state north
of the Mason-DiXon line to one of the most
liberal
Beer is here and the eighteenth amendment
repeal was voted two to one.
Credit for this belongs entirely to the Dem
ocratic party and largely to AIcNutts branch
Of that party.
The Governor was the first to urge re-
peal while the state committee never did
come out openly and -heartedIy.
The few remaining Republicans in the
senate at the 1893 session continued to SWIVEL
and follow the Anti-Saloon League dictator
ship as assiduously as their party at one time
followed the Ku-KIuA Khan
MUCH hue and cry against the Governor
A'A has come from old guard Democrats.
This group for years was content with being
a minority and picking up with loud thank
yous" the few patronage crumbs which fell
from the c. O. P table
It is the young Democrats" under Cover
nor McNutt who have seized power and put
across the liberal program.
Criticism has come to them regarding the
technique Of their beer law. 1t doesn't per-
NIT draught beer and creates monopolies,
through Importers chosen on a basis of poll
teal patronage.
McNutt opposed draught beer on the ground
that it would bring back barrooms and han
dicap chances for repeal.
He defended the beer importers as mex
pensive tax collectors, and grew irate when it
was exposed that the state excise office also
was engaged in bond steering" That is, he
grew irate at the expose, not at the bond steer
ing business.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal Of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

the characteristic increase in the
speed of the pulse.
If the treatment is directed pri-
marily toward controlling or reduc-
ing the excess action of the thyroid
gland, the heart condition may clear
up simultaneously.
In certain cases the only way in
which thyroid overactivity can be
controlled is by partial removal of
the thyroid gland surgically.
In other instances it is possible.
through cutting down the amount
Of fluids taken by the patient and
by the giving of suitable drugs
Including, on occasion, digitalis,
which controls the rate and volume
Of the heart beat, and iodine, which
controls to some extent the activity
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22

Then bonds deprecated, and so
did egos. Swelled heads went out
with swelled profits. The boudoir
and the stuffed shirt made their
exits together. Now while papa
scrapes the cash drawer, mama
scrapes the pots and pans, and both
have better appetites.
At least, we've seen big turn
over in feminine neuroSes. The
things we fear now are the real
things. And as We scratch around
for bread and butter, We can I'M
derstand how empty of meaning or
sense most of our efforts used to be.
1t looks as if the breakdown in
the family pocketbooks is the best
antidote for the breakdown in fem
mime nerves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-22
IA TO O
IA 10 0
MYTH three more states added /

MYTH three more states added to their
W mounting total the repealists today
stand unbeaten in single wet-dry contest so
far. Fourteen states have voted on repeal,
fourteen states have turned thumbs down on
the experiment which failed.
In Connecticut the vets won by to l.
In New Hampshire their margin was to l.
And significantly. in Iowa, they beat the drys
by a majority of to 2 The total popular vote
SO far stands about to l for repeal.
The Iowa battle was truer test than even
the other two doubtful states which have