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Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
WANTS Job IN
BIC LEAGUES

LOS ANGELES, July 13. UP,
Oscar Eckharde, well on his way
to his third consecutive Pacific
Coast league batting championship
will quit baseball next year unless
he can wear a major league uni
form
The hard-hitting Mission out
fielder served this warning today
as his team resumed its series with
Hollywood at Wrigley Field.
I've had two trips to the ma
iors but never had a chance to play
full game,' Eckhardt lamented.
I'm not boasting but I'm positive
I can hit as well as a lot of fell
lows in the big time if just given
chance. If something doesn't hap
pen this year. I'm going to throw
my bat away and go to coaching
football"
Eckhardts plant seems we'll
founded. After leading the circuit
in hitting the last two years, he
has continued his slugging this sea-
son, leading the campaign to date.
At present his average is we'll above
the coveted 400 mark.
His two trials with major league
clubs barely. passed the spring ex-
hibition game stage. Bucky Harris
shipped him to Missions from De-
troit after a brief tryout in 1880,
and the Boston Braves treated him
in the same perfunctory manner
last year.
Eckhardt said the complaint
against him had been that he was
too awkward
But awkward or not, he has man.
aged to pound out more than ITO
hits so far this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
BY JACK CUDDY
United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, July 13.-Although
the Chicago Cubs have clicked off
seven straight victories in 10 days
to rise from fourth to second place
in the National League standings,
it will take more than that to con-
vince most baseball fans that Char
ley Grim S outfit offers a serious
threat to repeat for the pennant.
Five of the triumphs were hol-
low. The Cubs took four "gift -
games from the New York Giants
when a good high school team
could have beaten the New York
ers, operating with collapsed in
field. In yesterdays game with
Brooklyn, Manager Max Carey
should have clothed his Dodger
fields with Cubs uniforms; they
played so well for Chicago.
The arrival Of Jim Mosolf from
Kansas City unquestionably bolster
ed the Cubs somewhat by plugging
their left field gap. But no other
improvement is Immediately dis
cernable. OF course, if New York,
st. Louis ana Pittsburgh eliminate
themselves like the Pirates and
Dodgers Gid on the last lap in 1882,
the Cubs might stumble into the
pennant again.
Rotund Wilbert Robinson was not
near Chicago yesterday. But the
Dodgers played like the dizziness
bows of his regime and clowned
away the game to Chicago, to 3.
Meanwhile New York snapped out
Of its seven game losing streak,
with Bryne James replacing Travi/
jackson at shortstop, and blanked
st. Louis. 3 to 0, behind Hal Schu-
nlacher S six hit pitching as he reg
istered his sixth shutout of the sea-
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
COAST LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Missions 4, Hollywood 2.
San Francisco 4, Los Angeles /
Oakland 10, Portland 4.
Sacramento 4, Seattle 3.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
MARRIED 50 YEARS

COATS, Kan. (U.D = Mr.. and
Mrs. A. M. Smith recently cele-
brated their 59th wedding ami
versary here. Smith, Civil War
veteran and buffalo hunter, hunt
ed on the plains of the present
site of Goats before the town was
laid out,
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
CHICAGO CUBS Squirt FAILS
TO IMPRESS SPORTS WRITER

son. This left the Giants three
games ahead of the Cubs and
dropped the Cards to third place.
Senators Keep Lead
Floyd Vaughan IS 10th inning tri-
pie drove in the winning run as
Pittsburgh beat Boston, 8 to 8;
Vaughan drove in five runs with
two triples, a double and a single
in six tries. Cincinnati rose to
seventh place and dropped the Phil
lies back into the cellar by beat
ing them 4 to /. aided by Roettger s
triple in the third with the bases
loaded.
washington maintained its two
game American League lead over
New York by trouncing the Chicago
White Sox. 4 to l. Whitehill and
McAfee held the Chisox to five hits.
The Yanks registered their fifth
consecutive win by downing st.
Louis. to 2. Ben Chapman led
the New York attack with four
singles in four tries. Two st. Louis
errors helped.
Philadelphia beat Cleveland, to
4. after Jimmy FoXX started a
three run rally in the sixth with
his 25th homer. Pitcher Rube Wal
berg's triple in the sixth account
ed for two more runs. Pitcher
Hudlin made a Cleveland homer in
the fifth. Boston blanked Detroit,
l to 0. by combining two walks,
sacrafice, a fly and Roy Johnson IS
single for the game lone tally in
the 18th inning. This enabled
Lloyd Brown to best Vic Sorrell in
a mound duel
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13

Two-baSe hits = Wakefield, P.
Williams, Head, Wyatt; home runs
--Jepway, Hamnerslaugh;i struck
out-by O'Brien 7, by Beechey /;
bases on balls-off O'Brien 6, off
Beechey A; double plays-Humphrey
to Price to Holcomb; T. Williams
to Musante to Jepway; P. Williams
to Musante to Jepway.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
Baseball Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Washington 4, Chicago l.
New York 4, st. Louis 2.
Philadelphia 6, Cleveland 4.
Boston /, Detroit 0.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
WITNESS WAS ALLOWED WIG

STON, U.P) - T he court
wouldn't let Hyman Bergstein
wear his hat while on the wit
ness stand. But a kindly judge
did adjourn court to give Berg
stein time to go out and get wig.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
New York 3, st. Louis 0.
Pittsburgh 9, Boston 8.
Chicago 5, Brooklyn 8.
Cincinnati a, Philadelphia l.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-07-13

Cows at Oregon state institu-
tions near Salem are being fed on
lawn clippings from the state capi-
tol grounds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
INDUSTRY, THE SAVIOR

TT commonly is said these days that we are
Il in the midst of bloodless revolution in
the United States
The statement either is pleasing or terri
flying, depending on your mental attitude
and, perhaps, on the number of high-p pow
cred securities you have in your safety de-
post box. But it is not quite accurate.
That there has been a revolution in the
realm of ideas is too obvious to need COM
nent Both the boom time psychology of
the Coolidge era and the what's-the- at
titude of more recent years are gone for
good. But whether we are to have an actual
revolution in political and economic life
a full transfer of power from one class to
another-stin is matter for the future to
determine
We haven't had it yet Whether we are
to have it depends largely how we'll the
owners of the means of production, trans
portation, and distribution are willing to play
ball under the new rules that have been
devised.
Willis Thornton pointed out recently in
dispatch from Washington that there are two
1t can go ahead to a more or less complete
Specialization of industry, under full control
of Uncle Sam: or it can become referee in
the competitive struggle, standing by to
enforce the rules of fair play and to see that
every contestant gets all the breaks that are
coming to him.
That the capitalist would prefer the Sec
ond alternative goes without saying. Whether
the second alternative is what he gets de-
ponds almost entirely on him. If he plays
ball, we'll and good; if not, he is likely to
wake up some morning and find that this
bloodless revolution which people are talking
about already has taken place.
What does all this mean, in actual prac-
tice? Simply this: Industry must adapt
itself to the new rules as they are drawn up
in Washington. The industrialist who shuts
down a plant rather than deal with strikers,
who chisels at his NFA code, sabotages the
new deal and tries to continue in industrial
relations the attitude of a steel baron of
1919 simply is persuading people that the
evils of capitalism can't be abolished with
out abolition of capitalism as well.
Given the present temper of the Ameri-
can people generally, it is certain that fail
ure of the NRA will be followed by measures
immeasurably more stringent And success or
failure Of the NRA depends, in the last
analysis, on the intelligence and good will of
the rulers of industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
CONTROL

After studying the liquor control report
turned in by his personally selected commits
sion of expert investigators, John D. Rookie
feller Jr. announces his conviction that two
primary considerations should guide liquor
control Standardization of lawlessness and
promotion of temperance-and that the one
certain way to stamp out bootlegging and
other evils of illicit traffic is to eliminate the
profits therein.
Mr.. Rockefeller might have put the mat
ter in fewer words by stating that control of
lawleSsness depends upon control of the profits
from selling liquors, control of intemperance
being beyond the reach of law.
Upon the voting of repeal more than half
of the forty-eight states will still have statu-
tory or constitutional prohibition. Some of
these states WILL undoubtedly attempt to con-
troll through more or less dry legislation.
At any rate, it will require long time for
discovery and adoption of anything like gen.
eral plan of control Meanwhile, harvest time
for the bootlegger-unless the federal govern
ment controls the profits of the legitimate
traffic, and profits always depend upon the
prices of the goods dealt in.
IN the case OF uquOr, tnere is involved IN
control of prices and profits control of the
quality of the goods With good liquors at
reasonable price. none save the foolish, men
tally and morally defective will risk death
blindness paralysis and general degeneracy
on cheap rotgut; and, at heart, the common
attitude of society toward such consumers
would be merely to wish them well on their
road to some sort of mundane hell. Reform of
reckless, hard drinkers is at a low ebb, save
in dubious reforming instances when we Jail
them.
The field for the Illicit traffic, with all that
we've endured under alleged prohibition, is
highly promising. That traffic as any other,
is to be controlled by eliminating its poten-
TALLY for profits. The ordinary temperance
promotion is right but hopeless as to control
Of liquor lawleSSness We've had, in the past
thirteen years, enough of alcoholic deaths.
poisonings, blindness, fatal auto accidents"
and organized crime to vaccinate temperance
considerations into people ten times our size,
Aim at the profits! And, right here, as
usual, enters the difficult matter of taxation.
Tax too high and numerous and happy are
those in the Illicit traffic, policy somewhat
resembling that, in possible final effects. of
pegging the pork market by prematurelv
butchering our pregnant sows
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Supplement to Repe1I

A ND yet, like Mr.. Rockefeller, I
L n can not quite abstain from
making suggestions. I think prohi-
bition and other moral questions
might be solved by a sort Of
regional plan. I would have in
twenty-five focal points throughout
the United States twenty-five un-
inhibited areas established. In other
words, a circuit of cities Of sin.
do not wish to criticize Mr.. Rookie
Teller or others, but I think it was
mistake to destroy those two
towns of the plain from which Lot
ran for his life. I think that the
surrounding countryside was less
content and happy thereafter.
In these cities Of sin here in the
United States there would be gin
and roulette and other evil things.
But nobody except the depraved in
habitantS would be allowed to stay
more than two weeks. AS a result,
in small towns and tiny hamlets
men and women would face their
daily toll and tasks quite cheerfully
as they said to themselves: only
315 days more and get my fort.
night in the city of sinl"
And, of course, hope and expect
that if there is any justice in the
world I would be sitting even more
prettily under the new dispensation.
I plan to be a charter member.
Copyright 1888. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
SIMPLE, BUT EFFECTIVE

THE foreman of a grand jury in mid
u western city recently startled the law en-
forcement officials Of his town by initiating
his own investigation into the activities of
racketeers and gangsters. Among the things
he sought to find out was why the police were
not reader to move against criminals for
possession of firearms.
1.-The police chief" he pointed out, must
know fifty racketeers and criminals who go
about the city carrying guns, or accompanied
by bodyguards who carry guns Why can't
these men be arrested and prosecuted for
carrying concealed weapons?"
Why, indeed? That's question a vast
number of citizens would like to have an
swered The laws of practically every state
provide penalties for carrying concealed
weapons.
1t is a trif1e hard for the ordinary citizen
to understand why an alert administration
could not use this law to put very material
crimp in the activities of an underworld
which habitually goes armed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
A CHARMING GENERAL

IJOW can one possibly hesitate about clasp
"A ing to ones bosom, metaphorically
speaking, that splendid fellow, General john
son, general of NRA? In order to promote his
Buy Now" campaign, the general kindly offers
some gospel to merchants which same this
paper is strongly tempted to accept as divinely
inspired.
In order to increase sales" advises the
general, 1.-TWO courses of action are absolutely
essential. First, give the public attractive,
fairly priced merchandise. Secondly, agrees
sively promote your products to the public.
The modern method is Advertising
Good bargains aggressively advertised
Solomon himself couldn't have thought up a
better plan for bringing down two birds with
one stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
RAE THE SLUMS

CECRETARY HAROLD ICKES plans to or
- ganize federal SUM abatement corpora
ton, with power to condemn land, rae crime
breeding slum tenements and erect homes for
rent or sale at reasonable rates.
Nothing. economists agree. will help more
quickly to pull America out of depression than
a nationwide rehousing movement. At least
100000 homes" are unfit for human habita-
ton, many million more should be modernized
and fitted to 1884 needs. For months the fed
eral government has stood ready to aid cities.
Long-te loans at per cent have gone beg
ging Only sixteen projects, costing in all
some s4O,OO0,000, have been accepted by the
housing board. The public works adn1inistra-
ton was ready to loan 5000 100000 or more.
But owners of available land have been
clnging to 1929 values and refusing to take
losses on speculative prices. Two cities have
been held back by debt or inhibited by state
laws from undertaking rehousing work them
selves. only Ohio Of all the states allows
cities to build and own tenements. While
other states hold back in lberalizing their
laws the government has been deluged with
doubtful private housing schemes, some
amounting to little more than confidence
games.
When private and state initiative fail in a
national crisis the federal government must
act
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
M. E.Tracy Says:

TTITLER'S ministry of justice announces that
L L it will permit doctors to put incurables out
of the way under certain conditions. One con-
dition is that the patient request it if mentally
capable of doing SO, or ii not, that it be sane
toned by near relatives. Another condition is
that the diagnosis of incurability be confirmed
by at least two doctors representing the state.
EuthanaSia. they call it-good death-and
the problem it involves has set all Germany
by the ears. Roman Catholics, contending that
God alone has the right to take life voice as
much opposition as they dare under Nazl rule.
Orthodox Lutherans, committed to a similar
view, are equally unfavorable Both Catholics
and Lutherans, however, have more than once
condoned that form of wholesale murder known
as war; which weakens their argument
AS most people readily perceive, the ques-
ton is not one of governmental rights, but of
social justice and good sense. Few quarrel with
the idea of preventing useless suffering, but
many slliver at the doors it opens when carried
to the point Of Sanctioning death.
TTOW many people have expressed willing
1 l. mes to die when undergoing the pain of
some long drawn out disease only to get we'll and
enjoy life afterward? How many cases have
been pronounced incurable only to prove that
doctors were too pessimistic or had made mis-
take?
Twenty years ago the civilized world looked
upon leprosy as incurable, but now it is ready
to concede an element of hope. The same thing
is true of tuberculosis lockjaw and even cancer.
Sometimes, a patients doom is self-evident,
but generally it is so near the end as to make
intervention unnecessary.
The hopeIessly insane furnish the best ground
for removing incurableS, but who knows what we
may gain by continuing to study and experiment
with them?
The idea of permitting human beings to
oYoI OBJ So
is very unpleasant. but where would we be today
without it?
TAKING the cold-blood Nad view of this
i question, how can the medical profession
learn to overcome incurable diseases by putting
patients out of the way?
Very little has been learned by treating people
who were destined to get well. If a policy of
killing of consumptiyes had been instituted 100
years ago when they were regarded as incur
able, civilization would have been robbed of a
splendid triumph.
Well, what we regard as incurable today
may prove otherwise tomorrow, but how are we
going to know if we destroy the best possible
source of knowledge?
OF course. there are many other angles to
the problem, such as the opportunity for COM
pounded crime, the denial of an individuals
right TO fight for life and the inhumanity of de-
Gliding that he has no chance on the imperfect
knowledge we now possess.
We have to tolerate pain and bear burdens
in order to grow. The promise of a foolproof
world invariably includes the prospect of a
world full of fools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
It Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Oct. 14-John D.
L Rockefeller Jr.. the gentleman
who built Radio City, has been ac-
tive during the last few days in
issuing charts. regulations and pros
pectuSes about what to do with pro-
hibition after it has disappeared.
We are not amused. We are not
even much impressed.
I think Mr.. Rockefeller disquah-
fed himself as an expert on the
very day he gave out an interview
which began with the not very ex-
citing statement that neither he nor
his father had ever touched a drop
of intoXicant in any form.
1t seems to me that the obvious
answer to any adviser from such
quarter must be: Better luck next
time, old fellow, and now would you
mind stepping down and giving a
chance to somebody who knows
what he's talking about?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Autumn Love

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
We held rapture in our hands,
Love in our hearts as sharp as
autumn stars,
And the same hushed foreboding
That haunts all Autumn's hours.
We held music in our hearts,
Music drawn from muted stringi
And We spoke softly to each other
Lest we break the lovely thing.
Love was life; there existed nothing
That could separate we two.
Our love was as eternal as the coral
moon
And the sky's autumn blue.
But Autumn slipped away one night
And a cold moon held the sky;
And it seemed easy in the sad stills
ness [
Of leaves falling, for azi Autumo
love TO die.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Science Learns Effect of Climate on Health

Moreover, Hippocrates contrasted
such people with the inhabitants OF
hot, undrained regions and said:
IF there be no rivers and the water
that the people drink be marshy and
stagnant, the physique of the peo-
pie must show protruding bellies
and enlarged spleens."
The famous Greek, father Of mod
ern medicine, recognized the malaria
which affects people who live in
low, marshy areas, without having
any clear understanding, as we have
today, about the nature of malarial
disease.
Thus, since the earliest periods,
men have attempted to relate eli
mate to various disease conditions.
The climate includes temperature,
humidity, altitude and similar fac
tors.
But there still is little, if any,
exact knowledge. Experiments nat
urally must be extended over long
period of time and include vast
numbers of people. 1t is very easy
to mistinterpret statistics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14

(Times readers are invited to cypress
their Uiei0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or Iess.J
More than $50 years ago our fore
fathers proclaimed in the Declara-
ton of independence that the SUI
preme function Of government is to
make secure for men their inalien-
able right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Moreover, the
fathers declared that whenever any
form of government becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or abol-
ish such and to institute a new
government, laying its foundations
on such principles, organizing its
powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness. Such are the
two basic principles of human lib
erty and genuine Americanism laid
down by the founders Of this re-
public.
1t now has come to pass that there
has grown up in this nation Sys-
tenn of business industry and finance
which has enthroned economic kings
and financial barons over our lives
vastly more powerful, more ire
sponsible and more dangerous to hu-
man rights than the political kings
whom the fathers overthrow in our
American revolution in 1776.
These economic rulers now have
such absolute control over the eco
nomic life of the people as to
threaten the very foundation of this
republic.
Under this system Of production
for private profit, these rulers have
created conditions that are intoler-
able. They have drawn billions in
profit, rent and interest, and they
have slashed our wages and the
prices of our farm products to moth
ing short Of peonage. They have
used the marvels of the machine
age not to lift the burden OF toll
from our shoulders, but to speed up
beyond human endurance anu W
throw jobless millions upon the
streets.
They have taken the products OF
our labor and not paid us enough
to buy back the goods we have pro-
duced, causing overproduction and
underconsumption. They have
wasted our natural technical and
human resources and led us into
more tragic periods Of industrial
chaos. They have mortgaged our
farms and sold them from under
us. AhS@ia
They have lived in mansions and
evicted us from shacks, led us to
trust in their banks and stolen our
savings. They have invaded our