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Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-07-15
By Miss Beatrice Gentry


Last week was observed at Good
Hope Church. as Obedience Week
for the youngsters Each child who
was obedient and did a good deed
each day. was TO write paper on
any subject fitting for the occa-
sion. There were IL entrants and
only two presevered to the end.
namely, the Misses Pearly Ghol-
ston and Magnolia Blount. Mrs.
Williams, who sponsored the
group, was so well pleased with
their writings. that she desired 10
have them published.
Last Sunday was an active day
at Good Hope. The services began
with the 5. S. contest. The pe.son
bringing the largest lumber OF
visitors was to receive a prize. Mr.
John Higgins, having the largest
number, was the recipient of
nicely bound Bible
A musical program was render
ed al p. IN. by the union choirs
OF Macomb County. There were
many person of talent on program
including Mr.. and Mrs. Anderson
, If Mt. Olive. and Mr.. Farrell. The
days services We're brought TO a
happy close by a program spon-
sohed by Rev. Macklittle and mem
bers OF the Morehouse Theological
Institute. Young people from the
s Mile Road. swayed The audience
with their musical selections and
readings. A sermonettc was deliv-
cred by Rev. Macklittle and the
Silver T0ngued Quartet rendered
charming numbers.
~. Luke 4. VI. T.. Church
The morning services at 81
Luke have been changed from II
\. NJ. to $50 a. NJ. and $. S. at 10
A. NJ. These hours will continue
during the summer months.
The Willing Workers club Is
sponsoring moonlight lawn SO
cial on Belle Isle July 10. Tickets
may be purchased from Rev. !. S.
Smelling and the Missess Blount.
Kelsey. Thompson. Patterson and
the two Misses Powell. Everybody
is invited All cars leave the
church at G =. NJ
Sports
The Rosevile Giants defeated
the Mohawks. in doubleheadcr.
July 4. by the skillful pitching Of
Powell and Raleigh. Powell pitch
ed the first game and held the Mo-
hawks for . innings The score
was Is TO Z.
| the second game. Raleigh held
the opponents to scattered runs.
Thompson, the catcher: Powell
the short stop; and Jones starred
during the games. The club Is do
ing excellent work. See the Rose
Vile Giants for engagements.
al II. A. Strambier. manager.
East Lake Church
East Lake Baptist SIS was WI
attended last Sunday. Vat $50
M. It Is doing hne work. under N
direction of Mr.. j. Goss. A drfv
was launched to raise funds 70
the S. s. children I'm August.
The morning services were held
at IL o'clock. Rev. McDuffie deliv-
cred a splendid sermon on What
God Is About To Do"-text. Gen.
41:25. The Zion Hill Harmony
Five were very impressive in their
black and white uniforms. and the
music was uplifting. A duet was
rendered by Mr.. VIM. Farmer and
Mrs. II. l.. Vallient.
Deacon Il. L. Marshall. formerly
member of East Lake. Worship
ped with us Sunday A. NJ. much
10 the delight OF his many friends
Detroit tribune. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1933-1933, 1933-07-15

On
Lots, Home Sites. Little Farms
See Owners-At Quinn Road Or
1904 BROADWAY-R0OM 212
Cad. 7472 - Detroit
NOTICE

All reporters for the Tribune are
requested 10 send In their news
typed or written In ink. with wide
spacing between lines. and writing
on one side Of paper only. All
names written In Iong-hand should
he printed. so ms to enable the Of
flee 10 reproduce them correctly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
The New Bank-an Editorial

clesnest slate of any community in the coun-
try He is Governor Paul v. McNutt.
He has worked tirelessly, night and day,
travelling back and forth to washington al
most weekly, reasoning with financial experts
and arguing with politicians to save those de-
posters.
He has not talked about it nor has he
sought to make political capital of it. No
matter how long he remains in Office, he can
not perform finer public service.
In the last analysis, however, neither Gov
ernor McNutt nor the federal government can
make this reorganization effective. They have
made 1t possible for the depositors to get the
use of half their money and the other half
stands an excellent chance of coming back to
them through gradual and sensible liquidation.
There even may be something left over for the
stockholders.
1t is up to the depositors and the stock
holders of the Fletcher American bank to de-
eide whether they want this plan Or the al
Tentative of disastrous liquidation, with possi-
bic double assessment OF shareholders and
consequent heavy damage to the whole COM
munfy. There is little doubt of the course
that they will choose.
The Fletcher American for years nurtured
INDUSTRY IN this state. It's policy was a con-
structive one
1t has earned the gratitude of the COM
munity. The people, by repaying this obliga,-
0on now Will earn rich rewards in the end
for themselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
CITIES SERVICE

THE federal trade commission is perform
\ ing splendid public service in revealing
the huge high-flnance, high pressure methods
by which the Henry L. Doherty interests ran
up the value of Cities Service stocks to unjus-
titled and ridiculous heights from which ii
crashed with consequent injury to hundreds of
thousands of investors
Cities Service was particularly the poor
mans investment. 1t was largely made such
by colorful selling campaign which was car
ried on throughout the nation.
Particularly in those cities and states where
Cities Service industries and utilities were
located was this campaign to sell stock to
small investors carried on most vigorously.
Employees were assigned quotas of stock to
sell. Specialists hammered away at the buy
ing public.
Hundreds Of statesmen III more than fifty
cities bombarded the public with cities Serv-
ice propaganda, until upward Of million per-
sons held the stock.
Meanwhile. there was another side to the
story.
While these statesmen and employees were
sweeping the country in their drive to peddle
stock, Doherty interests were artihcially sup
porting the market by buying huge quantities
on the New York Curb.
Affiliated concerns, under Doherty control,
the trade commission investigator charges.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
THURSDAY. MAY II. 1888.
AMBULANCE CHASERS'
a soRIPPs-HowARp NEwsPAPER

THE ambulance chaser" has been with us
u for a long time, and efforts to rid the
legal profession of his presence have never
been entirely successful.
However, a note of hope is to be found in
a recent warning from the Minnesota supreme
court that lawyers found guilty of ambulance
chasing hereafter will be subject to dsbar-
ment
The court issued this warning after hear
ing the case of a Minneapolis lawyer accused
of maintaining an aggressive organization for
procuring personal injury actions.
Sometimes this man even made contact
with victims through relatives while the VIC
TINS still were unconscious.
The ambulance chaser blights society in
several ways He clogs the courts with need
less lawsuits, he harnesses people who are not
at fault and he brings his whole profession
into disrepute.
1t is to be hoped that Indiana courts as
well as those of Minnesota, will see their way
clear to hamper his operations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11

4 THOUGH we still are some
L y what furtive about such 60
ings-on, we are making steady
progress in the essential decencies.
We no longer look with suspicion
and distrust at the Legitimate
child. Instead, we take it into our
homes and shower it with love.
We are more tender, sympathetic.
and kind to its mother also. She
does not yet have what we can call
a square deal from society, but her
situation is improved vastly over
what it used to be.
And where shall one find words
forceful enough to express approval
of this changed attitude? Foster
parents now are the rule and not
the exception and often prove
themselves as good if not better
than the real article.
Thus, many other old-fashioned
theories about the physical tie that
binds parent and child must be dis
carded. 1t is easy to love any baby
that you are willing to take unto
yourself and regard as your own.
If you doubt it, ask any foster
parent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
It Seems;
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, May 1.-THE press
IN reports that the Rev. DR.
Harry Emerson Fosdick recently re-
told the sad plight of an impress
sionable friend of his who straved
into theater.
"a highly intelligent friend OF
mine told me last week" the clergv-
man informed his congregation
that a month ago he saw a drama
from whose demoralizing, diSinte-
grating, disheartening consequences
he had not yet recovered his spiritu-
al equilibrium.
Unfortunately, DR.. Fosdick failed
to mention the play. I would like
very much to see it, for it sounds
like an extremely powerful drama.
My own complaint against the
local season along Broadway would
De quite unlike that of DR.. FoSdick's
1lnlcky friend. I neither have been
demoralized nor disheartened. In
TACT, l would find it very hard TO
recall more than a fragment of
any entertainment which I wit
messed as much as a month ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
.: The Message Center ::

(Tines readers are inUited to cypress
their UieUS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 11ords or Iess.)
By HabituaI Reader of The Times.
In view Of your recent meritorious
work on the bonus situation and
second, but of greater consequence,
your policy of fair dealing, open
warfare, and uncamouflaged state
ments of truth, I wish to discuss
this unbalanced, unjust method of
segregating heroes from the COM
mon run, the ordinary soldiers who
had the good fortune and the help
of God to go to war and come back
untouched.
Here, first, I wish to voice my ut
most respect, as have thousands of
times, to those who have made the
supreme sacrifice and to no way
lessen the seriousness and suffering
of battle wounds.
But here is the point. 1t was my
good fortune or bad to go through.
without scratch. Enlisted June 6,
1917, attacked by submarine and
thrown in the water going across,
participated in five major drives,
buried in dugout nine hours, ex-
posed, loused, and deloused.
Returned without a single scratch,
for which I am grateful and truly
thankful of God.
I now am 43 years of age, with
four children. am unemployed,
pronounced physically fit by insur-
ance doctor. My service record
shows no ailment or injury. have
never applied for compensation or a
pension. I-know no one 'in the
know and never have tried to get
acquainted. Had I a scar, might
draw from $12 to $50 a month.
Mr.. editor, don't flare up here.
I say those who still suffer deserve
everything. I have no record, no
evidence of hardships. I seek no
honor, no special privileges. If you
had marched, slept, milled and
fought with thousands at your side,
how could you expect to grab a soap
box and shout, Here am I, selected
from the many" No, there can be
no difference.
Help those who are helpless and
as for the remaining, treat every one
alike from trench to camp. The
bravest heart may have been push
ing a pencil and the worst coward,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11

spent SS0S'OOO'OOo within year to buy their
own stock and resell it. and during the same
period the price ran from s176e to s61 * &.
share.
What ultimately happened is demonstrated
by the fact that the so-called value" of the
company's stock eventually crashed, until the
loss exceeded two billion dollars.
Every agency of the government should
lena a hand in getting to the bottom of the
activities of this greatest of all stock-selIinp
organization. For, more than in any other
case we know of, poor people were the victims
of the def1ation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
All pointments

A LWAYS I went to sleep while in
L n the middle of the story or a
little earlier. None of the books was
up to the advertisement which MIR.
Sumner bestowed upon it by his
attentions.
And so I do not purpose to be
duped again. I fear that Mr.. Sum
ner's boiling point is much too low.
I envy him his youthful enthusiasm
and his illusions. 1 think he should
be listed among the seven wonders
of the world. After a quarter of a
century in job which has obligated
him to search and study porno-
graphy, he still has the capacity to
get stirred up about it.
He and DR.. Fosdicks friend are
living refutations of the familiar
theory that New York is jaded and
blase. To them it remains a Bag
dad of adventure and allure. These
are the happy men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
LABOR MENACED

A MEXICAN labor today presents one of the
oldest jumbles the American people
ever had to tackle.
At each end there exists an evil so serious
that the whole labor field eventually will be
demoralized if a corrective is not soon applied.
And in the middle is a vast burden of unem-
ployment which has Jared society almost to
its foundations.
Strangely enough, this burden of unem-
ploynent is in some ways the least menacng
of the three evils. Everybody recognizes it as
an evil and the strongest forces of govern
ment, private industry and organized labor are
uniting to meet it. Sooner or later it will be
lifted.
At one end there is the sweatshop evil-a
thing which has its roots in human greed,
which helps to demoralize labor and industry
alike and which is paid for by those least able
to pay-women, children and the aged.
At the other end is an evil equally disturb
ing-the racketeer. He has been most active
in New York and Chicago, but many other
cities have felt his heavy hand.
In some instances he has taken over whole
his way in from the outside; but wherever he
operates, he has sold out the workingman,
taken tribute from industry and helped to
raise problems that will take years to settle.
Pennsylvania, so far has figured most
prominently in the stories of sweatshops. 1t
Is in Pennsylvania that children have gone on
strike against wages of 81 to IS for sixty
hour week.
But there are plenty of other states that
contain conditions about as bad as anything
to be found in Pennsylvania.
Two potent remedies for the sweatshop evil
lie at hand-the minimum wage law and the
child labor amendment. Get these two adopted
and have them enforced energetically and one
of labor's-and the nation's-greatest handi-
caps would vanish.
Against the racketeer the procedure is not
so clear. Federal officials in Chicago are try
ing to operate via the income tax evasion law;
Attorney General Homer Cummings is in
vestigating to find out if the federal govern
ment might not pass new laws to make posi-
BILE determined federal drive against racket
GERS on all fronts
It is to be hoped that definite action will
come out of this.
American labor is under three curses. IN
employment is only one of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
PROPAGANDA AND THE PUBLIC

NEWS that the French chamber of depu-
ties had been asked to authorize fund
for French propaganda in this country brings
up once more the whole question of propa-
ganda as a factor in modern world opinion
This has been reinforced also by the con-
troversy over the truth or falsity of the
charges leveled against Chancellor Hitler.
1t is, therefore, highly suitable that there
simultaneously should come from the press
several excellent books dealing with the prop
uganda problem in its various aspects.
Professor Lumley of Ohio State university
has written the most extended general study
of propaganda thus far published in this
country, 1.-The Propaganda Menace" For
tunately, its thoroughness has not lessened its
readable character. It is as interesting as it
is instructive.
After study of the use Of propaganda in
the past from ancient oriental times to our
own. Professor Lunlley deals with the methods
and character of propaganda and the manner
in which it is applied in the field OF industry,
politics. education, religion and the like.
If the successful operation of democratic
government requires clear perception of the
truth on the part of citizens, reading Of
Professor Lumley's book Will cause one to
wonder that we have succeeded so well as we
have.
The problem of propaganda is especially
important and menacing in our age. The COM
plexity of our civilization requires an unusual
fund Of wisdom and knowledge, but the COM
plicated character of our problems makes it
hard for the ordinary citizen to know the
truth and to be able to distinguish between it
and the vast tissue of propaganda which pours
IN upon him in ceaseless flood in every field
of his life interests.
Propaganda is, naturally, most fruitful if
brought to bear upon the formative mind Of
youth Professor Bessie L. Pierce, who already
has distinguished herself by studies Of props-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
F0UOrs Repeal

BY A. R. wilkinson. Veedersburg. Ind.
CINCE the time for us to vote
~ on repeal of the eighteenth
amendment is near; since I am
SO years old and joined the church
when I was Is and since have
lived the life of the average
Christian, never having INDUCED
in the racketeering game in poll
tics, or for the vets or the dries;
and since. seeing where some such
racketeers now are working under
the cloak of the church against
repeal, therefore + would like to
tell, through the columns of your
great paper, why I am for repeal.
AS I see it the juscivile side of
the question doesn't correspond
with the jusdivinum side, yet of
course, to exploit the people, the
racketeers first joined the latter,
then got their plan legalized I'M
der the former, so they could do
it under the sanction of both.
Now for more than thirteen
years the racketeering game has
gone on, millions upon millions
of dollars in the way of taxes,
fines, costs, and collections have
been taken from the people, while
the soul-stealing, damnable speak
easies have been slipping up
closer and closer to our doors,
running the souls of our young boys
and girls.
Then, to put the finishing polish
on them, ready for hell, prohibi-
ton sends them to prison.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
WINS bu q LeNqth

I AM glad to find that Both Your
4 Homes" by Maxwell Anderson,
received the Pulitzer prize. like
the play, and it seemed to me to
have had far less than its proper
share of critical acclaim. It came
late in a slender season and caught
the reviewers in a mood of melan-
choly They accepted it as worthy.
but there was no dancing in the
streets.
And yet Both Your Houses
seems to me by all odds the best
play ever written about American
politics. 1t is also one of a small
handful Of entertainments which is
both good propaganda and interest
ing drama.
In fact, it should serve as a model
to young men who wish to express
some theory of economic or political
betterment in terms of acting
drama.
Tie great virtue was the fact
that Mr.. Anderson did not try to
cover too much ground. Moreover.
ne improved upon the efforts -of
some Of his competitors by making
the villains believable, even though
none Of them was an admirable
character.
incidentally, there was aImost-no
comment on the saltineSs Of the d;a-
logue in certain sections. There are
words in Both Your Houses" which
would have created a public con
troversy only five or six years ago.
Now people do not notice.
1 remember all the way back-to
Clyde Fitch's play THE Citvo snd
the horror which swept the town
because the second act ended linon
profane epithet. The particrfar
phrase hardly would have been
enough for Anderson to animate a
single scene.
I'm for the new dispensation-
do not think that we ought to-be
afraid Of ideas. Neither do 7 think
That we should cringe before words.
Copyright. 1888. By The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11
Avoid Shower Baths in Ringworm Cases

CHOWER baths should not be
- taken by people with ringworm
of the feet, unless the feet are COW
cred with cotton stockings.
The use of paper towels, running
water, and liquid soap should be. en-
couraged. Such people should not
walk barefoot in locker rooms, gym
nasium rooms or golf clubs.
Indeed, they should never walk
barefoot on the floor at any time
or place. Neither should they wear
any shoes, slippers, or stockings
except their own. Paper slippers
worn once should be thrown away.
One authority suggests that pow
dered sulphur be sprinkled twice
weekly in the shoes at bed time,
and that this be busted thoroughly
out the next morning.
Since heat on the feet aids de-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-11

be eliminated by the repeated use
of tincture of iodine, sulphur ONT
ments, salicylic acid ointments, and
the use of all sorts Of antiseptic sub
stances.
Specialists in diseases Of the skin
control such cases by applying the
X-ray and by applying potent
chemical substances which one
should not use without medical ad-
vice.
In many gymnasiums and SWIM
ming pools it now is customary to
keep a tray containing solution Of
sodium thiosulphate of 10 or Is per
cent, in which the feet are bathed
regularly before going into the pool
and after coming out, also before
and after using the showers.
This tends to inhibit the spread
Of this infection.