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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
What Sort of q Book?

.NNE of the difficulties is that the
~ publisher didn't tell me Just
what sort of novel he expected.
believe I said that it would be COM
pounded out of sex, Socialism and
Shoot the Works" But I don't
think the time is quite right for a
reminiscent novel. Besides, the title
Memories of My Dead Life" al
ready has been used
Recently I've heard a great deal
Of talk about the proletarian novel.
I've never seen one face to face. but
they tell me this is the literature
Of the future. But even for that
1 need definition. And I suppose
you can't write a proletarian novel
unless you are a proletarian.
And who is the proletarian? I
always supposed that it was Mike
Gold, but several critics insisted
that Jews Without Money really
wasn't proletarian at all.
wonder whether anybody pos
sibly would stand for a mixture.
Couldn't I be, maybe, just a little
bourgeois, a little proletariat, lit
tie strict and some myself?
don't know, but I must write
that novel-for wolf, for $500 and
for publisher
Copyright 1888 by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
M.

president ROOSEVELT is being clothed
l. with adequate power to make such read
i1stments in this country's foreign policy as a
general international accord may require, or to
make such Establishments of it's domestic policy
as may be required to safeguard American IN
terests in case of failure.
That squares the governments ability to
function quickly and effectively Win tne eHl-
gencies of an uncertain SITUATION
= While every one hopes that a way can be
found to remove trade barriers, reduce arma-
ments, and stabilize money on Worldwide
basis, the prospect of success is bound up Win
many ifs and ands.
Under existing conditions, we have no right
to assume what can or will be accomplished or
to disregard measures that would be necessary
to safeguard our rights in case of complete
collapse.
The satisfactory outcome of recent converse
tons at the White House should not be over
estimated They merely have paved the way
for conferences, in which multitude OF con-
hicting interests must be lroned out.
TT was comparatively easy for Premier Mac
l. Donald, former Premier Herriot, or Hans
Luther to sit down with President Roosevelt and
reach an agreement as to what should be done
regarding various problems bus only in a ten
tative and personal way.
Even if these men spoke the language of the
political parties in control of their respective
governments, they still would not be in po-
sition to make binding combinations, but they
hardly can claim that degree of authority.
Macdonald is premier of England, not as a
member of the dominant party, but by suffer-
ance of an overwhelming majority with many
of whose principles and traditions he has little
sympathy.
Herriots ability to speak the French mind
is even more doubtful, since he recently was
forced out of the premiership.
tions he may have made seem stultified largely
by the attitude of Hitlers delegation at Geneva
These conditions make it desirable, if not
imperative, for the President to be in position
where he can cooperate or act Independently
with the fullest freedom.
THAT is why he has asked for such broad
granting them.
dent or congress had permitted respect for ira
dition to handicap them in preparing to meet
what is obviously a grave emergency.
The fundamental mistake of American pol
icy during the last three years lies in a stub
born refusal to admit that conditions were alb
normal and that little progress could be hoped
for without drastic changes.
The problem is not to work out improve
| ments on an assured basis of procedure, but tc
| find means of overcoming immediate difficult
ties. in cooperation with other governments il
| possible. but by independent action if not.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ments of our times. 1t will unleash the ready
waters behind Wilson dam, send them tuin-
bling over it to generate cheap electric power
for farms and city homes, for manufacturing
plants and the governments own nitrate
plants, where chemists and engineers will ex-
pertinent to cheaper the cost of fertilizer to
farmers
1t will undertake the building of Cove
Greek dam to hold back foods at the head
waters of the Tennessee river, that will save
large areas from damage by high water and
improve the navigability of the stream
1t will begin program of reforestation.
1t will in short, revolutionize the life and
trade in that valley, if the dream of the prof.
ect finally is fulfilled.
Of even more Importance is the fact that
the Tennessee valley project will be the pat
tern for development of similar basins else
where.
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unemployed, on part time, or getting only
sweated wages, industrial labor would join to-
day with bankers, merchants, and middlemen
TO defeat farmers trying to starve them
D. Never strike for a concession which
would destroy you if granted. If the N F.
H. A. demand for a guaranteed profit we're
granted, farm products would glut the mar
ket until they were valueless. Meanwhile, in
dustry would ask and probably receive the
same guarantee on the price of goods the
farmer buys thus leaving .the farmer poorer
for winning his strike.
Because of the individualistic nature of our
agricultural system, it is the one industry in
the country which can not be organized eff
fectively for a strike. Fortunately, however,
the farmers do not need this economic weapon
to the degree that labor needs it.
Unlike industrial labor, farmers have vast
political power. Farmers control many state
governments, and have more political power
in Washington than any other class.
But they don't know what they want. They
can't agree. There are three national farm
organizations disagreeing among themselves,
and all in turn different from the National
Farmers Holiday Association. When they do
agree they usually wrong.
AS long as they want high tariffs, they will
get gold bricks instead of relief
AS long as they try to force full payment
of foreign debts, they will destroy the foreign
market for their own products.
AS long as they demand cash payment of
the soldiers bonus-as the N. F. H. A. just
has done-they will tend to increase the tax
burden which now is breaking them.
AS long as they block centralized national
banking under adequate government control
they will continue to be the victims of bank
rupt banks and of loan sharks.
The farmers deserve sympathy for they
have suffered longest and worst in this de-
preston. But they never will get real relief
until they rise above their sectional, indi-
vdualistic, and reactionary prejudices, and
join with organized labor in an intelligent
mass movement for the common welfare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
HOT WEATHER PRECAUTIONS

ME general arrival of warm weather brings
- new rush of business to the old swim
ming hole again; and this, very shortly, will
bring the usual number of drownings, unless
the swimmers juvenile and otherwise, pay at
tention to few simple rules of safety.
1t isn't wise, for example, to go suddenly
into cold water when you are overheated, or
when you have just finished meal 1t isn't
wise to swim alone in a spot where no one
can help you if you need help.
1t isn't wise to dive into a strange pool
without first satisfying yourself that you aren't
apt to land on a hidden rock or snag
1t isn't wise to go in the water when
you're under par physically, or to keep on
swimming after you have got cold or tired.
Those rules are perfectly obvious, of course
But every year lot of people who forget to
heed them get drowned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
WHITE COLLAR JOBLESS

NAsHINGTON has seen some strange
w sights since this worst Of all depres-
sons began The strangest is the trek of a
alf-hundred college alumni from twenty-one
colleges to the White House to parade the
woeful neglect of the nations jobless white
collar men.
Unlike the protesting farmers, veterans and
Communists they come pleading, not demand
ing. The red flag they carried was Harvard's
crimson banner.
Possibly sixth of Americas unemployed
are white collar men and women. More than
$4,000 teachers are out of work. Some 10000
engineers are unemployed. Their lot is not a
happy one. Many have spent big sums for
diplomas that now are no more negotiable
than an insult bond.
In the south, doctors of laws are grateful
to be appointed rural mail carriers In New
England, college alumni act as golf caddies.
In the west they have been found living in
hobo jungles.
One ex-professor confessed in magazine
article to have turned moonshiner and boot
logger In a small midwest college city The
less resourceful have joined the breadlnes,
a pride-killing ordeal
Specialized to their fingertips, or fired with
faith in the holy crusades Of bond salesman
ship, most college grads have looked upon
theirs as the best possible of worlds. Reforms
they have left to labor or the long hairs.
Suddenly they have been showed, along with
hand workers. into the ranks of the dispos-
sessed
President Roosevelt can do little for them
as class That he values them is shown by
his selection of more college faculty men as
his advisers than any previous President. He
will do what he can but essential relief must
await the results of farm aid, the short work
week and minimum wage, industrial remedies
and the general upturn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
THE FARM STRIKE

IRON every point of view, most OF all its
l. own, the decision of the National Farmers
Holiday Association for a nationwide farm
strike beginning May Is is blunder
Among other considerations, its friends will
commend the following to the associations
attention:
Never strike unless you have fighting
chance to win lost strike strengthens your
enemy and destroys the morale and treasury
of your own forces.
q successful farm strike would require
effective organization in most agricultural
states which the N. F. H A. does not have
not one -hundredth of such organization.
3. A successful farm strike would require
a sympathetic strike by transportation unions
and ability to limit overland ke-bearing
trucks. The N. F. H. A. has not and can not
make such preparations.
4 A farm strike could not succeed without
public support. With most city workers either
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06

NTHILE it is inevitable that We
w should be assailed by sorrows
and that life should batter us, it
is by no means true that we must
grow ugly because We grow old
Tears are, they say, the heritage
of mortals, and our bodies drpop
with the load Of cares.
But even though our faces sag,
they need not be masks that hide
loneliness and bitter thinking. They
can be, instead, windows through
which the glow of fine ideals and
half divine understandings may
shine
No amount of face lifting can
give us again the appearance of
immaturity. But with some effort
we could control our thinking so
that the sustained inner harmony
of our natures would reflect its
loneliness in our outward form.
Thus, the essence of true beauty
is to be found only in the faces
of the old who have kept their faith
in the purpose of life and have cul-
tivated sympathy for their enemies
las well as for their friends.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK, May 6.-within the
L next three or four weeks I must
write a novel. I'm not exactly siz-
zling with eagerneSs and ideas, but
way back in the early spring OF 1882
I drew an advance from a publisher.
According to the contract, it was to
be delivered July l.
The leaves of all the trees turned
scarlet and brown. Frost came and
winter laid its icy hand upon the
brooks and little ponds. Spring
came again, as is its custom, and the
publisher still hasn't received his
book, and no longer have the $500
which I drew as a stimulus to in
spiration. And so I must write a
novel.
The publisher, up to the moment
this edition goes to press, has been
very patient. 1t is not his voice but
that of the wolf at the door which
growls out occasionally. Where's
that novel?" But if that wolf only
would quit his yapping, I think I
could explain everything to him in
satisfactory manner.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06

A GE is a mirror that reflects the
L N true self. When the bright
garments of youth have been
stripped away, there is disclosed the
real man, the real woman. All
beauty that then remains is beauty
of character and spirit that does
not fade and is the very essence of
personality.
Have you ever sat in group of
middle-aged people and found your
self wondering what each must have
looked like when young? The eff
fort to imagine grim mouths, soft
and smiling, and set faces tender,
mobile and hopeful, is hard.
But more difficult still is the task
CT visualizing what the smooth
young countenance of children, I'M
stamped by Times cruel seal, will
be on some remote tomorrow.
Women are gallant fighters
against age. But they do not al
ways choose the proper weapons.
They put their trust in careful
creamings and eternal vigilance for
wrinkles and gray hairs. Occupied
thus. they often leave undefended
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
ROOSEVELT'S RAILWAY PLAN

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his emergency
l.. railroad program, proposes appointment of
federal co-ordinator of transportation, who
will be able to encourage, promote, or re-
quire action on the part of the carriers, to
avoid duplication of services, prevent waste,
and encourage financial reorganizations
In doing this, congress should consider one
extremely important sentence from Mr.. Roose-
velts message. Such a co-ordinator," he said
Should also, in carrying out this policy, rem
der useful service in maintaining railroad en-
ployment at fair wage"
Here appears ample opportunity for con-
gress to add to the bill some such provision
as organized railway labor suggests for bring
ing about rehabilitation of the railroad plant
and equipment to provide more jobs.
The administration bills provisions for
suspending the antitrust laws even for year
should be considered with care; and if there
are weaknesses in the language intended to
bring about financial reorganizations, they
should be eliminated
Labor suggests that this new bill be used
as the basis for co-ordinating all our trans
portation facilities Mr.. Roosevelt also recog
nizes this need. The only difference between
them is that labor wants this done now, and
the President wants to postpone it until after
he sees how the new coordination plan
works.
With adequate protection for labor the
Roosevelt one-year experiment should give
more definite answer to the question of
whether the government eventually must take
over the railroads
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
Sprain Is Tearing Of Tissues of Joints

A SPRAINED ankle is one of the
4 n most common injuries. A slight
failure of complete support throws
the weight of the body unneces-
sarily on a group Of tendons, and
sprain frequently follows.
A sprain represents stretching or
tearing of the tissues of the joints.
1t must not be confused with frac-
ture, which is a breaking of bone.
In many instances, fracture is
overlooked and the condition dag
nosed simply as sprain, with the
result that healing takes place
slowly, if at all.
It is, therefore, exceedingly i'm
portant to have an X-ray picture
taken in every doubtful case, and
sometimes several pictures will be
necessary to determine the presence
of very small fractures into the sur
face Of bones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06

A simple outline for the treat
ment of sprained ankle follows:
l. Put the patient at rest prompt
ly, assuring freedom from bearing
weight on the feet.
2. Elevate the leg and ankle.
8. Apply ice-bags
4. Call physician.
When the physician arrives, he
probably will arrange to have x
ray pictures made, if necessary. He
will arrange for strapping the
ankle with adhesive, or, if the
sprain is severe, put on plaster
of-paris cast.
In less severe cases, he is like
ly merely to apply snug bandage
Of gauze or cotton.
Under no circumstances should
the feet be allowed to hang for long
periods, since this will tend to ac-
cumulate fluid and produce inf1am-
nation with more pain and swell
ing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
Promptly at 1870

DUT it takes time even to think
- about musical show. You
have conferences. Now, if I had
devoted one-fifth of the time I've
spent on conferences during the
last two years to bellleS-lettreS,
could have written the Waverley
novels. And I understand that Wal
ter Scott also was broke Perhaps
that's a good way to start.
And when I wasn't writing the
novel, I was comforting on politics
and economics and Hitler and left
deviationS. 1t seems to me that
1 have been not writing that novel
almost all my life. 1t takes time to
write a book, but nothing like as
much as it does to keep avoiding it.
I have peripatetic typewriter,
and that much more agile than a
portable. 1t dogs your footsteps
around the apartment. 1t speaks
without being spoken to.
did you ever stop to think that
you've practically stolen that $500
from the poor publisher?" says the
typewriter. To which 1 reply bitter
ly: And if I did write the novel,
that might be obtaining money I'M
der false pretenses."
I rush outdoors because I hate to
bicker with keyboard. Even in
speakeasies there is no refuge. I'm
friend of Broun's," says the men,
dacious machine to the doorman
and slips in behind me. And there
it perches on the bar, leering at me
across the tables. We never have
been friends. Acquaintance, yes,
but there has been no joy in our
contacts.
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satisfied with what it has accom-
plished, even though the people
have found out it's selfish purpose
and have, as a whole, about as
much use for the E. L. now as they
have for a copperhead snake.
1t is true that people realized
there we're unreasonable things in
the veterans laws as they were and
were hoping they would be adjust
ed, but for the government to throw
thousands of veterans who had
service connected disabilities on
starvation allowances July l seems
a terrible thing to do. Many gave
the best of their lives to protect
this country, and through so doing
now are unable to work.
Who should take care of these
veterans but the government? If
the government is going to relieve
itself of it's obligations in caring for
these unfortunates, it would seem
a more humane thing to do to have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
Things Get IN Way

CEVERAL things delayed me. For
~ a little while had radio Job.
Nobody can do much writing on a
novel or anything else while he has
radio job. A radio job is an occu-
patton entirely surrounded by con-
ferenceS. 1t takes half an hour to
get a comma in and at least twice
as long to get it removed.
Somebody once said that plays
are not written, but rewritten. But
the gentleman who coined that say
ing knew his luck. When you start
to alter a radio script for the sixth
time in two days, you begin to say to
yourself: This is getting to be a
nuisance. Even if Eddie Cantor gets
all the money they say he does, L
guess I don't want to be a broad
caster and grow up with the busi-
ness
And about that time you get fired,
anyway, and so the whole thing be-
comes academic. I'm beginning to
amass very full collection of "Aw-
fully sorry, old fellow" letters. I
have been fired by everything from
fruit salt to a journal of liberal
opinion.
Still, Hard to get, easy goes" has
always been my motto. And, after
all, my motives were of the best. I
didn't want this money for any good
reason. I merely planned to put it
into musical show.
Everybody says that what this
country needs is better distribution.
And when put money in musical
show, it must be that somebody gets
it. 1 believe that's all attended to
by the law of supply and demand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

Sometimes authorities treat
sprains by putting a plaster cast on
for a few days, elevating the foot
and leg, and then applying suitable
adhesive straps to give the foot
complete rest.
After some seven to fourteen days,
when Inflammation has subsidized
and healing has begun, an elastic
anklet may be worn.
These anklets may be removed
morning and evening for contrast
bath, that is, alternating baths of one
minute each in hot and cold water,
until the feet have been in the wa
ter ten minutes.
A recent development is the ap-
plication of heat through the pass
ing of electric current through the
tissues. This tends to hasten sub
sidization of Inflammation and re-
covery.
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=: The Message Center :

(Times readers are invited to cypress
their Viet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 cords or less.)
By Cheerful Taxpayer
The unholy rawlings of Taxpayer
of April "a" are the most horrible
examples of unmitigated bunk and
unprecedented hogwash that long
suffering public ever has had to en-
dure. Who is the lofty worm, that
he should take it upon himself to
criticise the long and almost hope
less struggle of humanity to find its
proper place in the sun of industrial
peace and plenty?
Of what use is this never ending
battle for the uplift of humanity II
such reptiles as this are to be al
lowed to stink along the horizon,
blighting everything in their wake?
Does he not realize that the trained
guns of the brains of the universe
are centeredupon him and that ig-
noble defeat eventually will crown
his Internal blasts against the up
lift of humanity?
So let him begone to his caverns
OF inquiry and cease ranting about
the helpless proletariat which Graves
small increase in the pay en-
velope or the betrayed soldier who
desires small pittance in exchange
for the many sleeplesss nights spent
in mud and rain amid the deafening
inferno of momb and shrapnel.
And let him beware, for false gods
are his leading lights and he must
get right with the real God and his
fellow-men. Otherwise, melancholy
days shall come upon him and he
will be alone like the immortal Job,
who bewaled the fact that all ills of
the universe were being heaped
upon him.
BY Observer.
It now seems that there is no
awakening the rich to the serious
ness of things as they are today.
Money seems to be the only thing
that matters any more. Why can't
people realize they are just people,
whether rich or poor, and when the
end comes, one is not going to be
shown any precedence over the
other.
The Economy League should be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
A Woman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

their most vulnerable weakness
the disposition,
Age and ugliness invade us, not
from without but from within. We
carry inside ourselves the destroy
ers of our youth and charm-mean
thoughts, hatreds, evil broodings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-06
Poor Pollen

BY Reader
I just have read an article in
The Times, Turning G. o. P. Out
of State Jobs Defended" and fail
to find any defense argument ex-
cept that the McNutt administra-
ton is discharging Republicans to
retaliate for the things Jim"
Goodrich did when he was elected
Governor.
Jim Goodrich has been Just
about as unpopular with his own
party since his days as Governor
as he has ever been with his OPP
ponents.
For the McNutt administration
to try to get even with the Re-
publicans for what Jim Goodrich
did in 1917 shows exactly their
caliper, and I predict that Gov
ernor Paul v. McNutt will go out
of Office as the most unpopular
man who ever held the position as
Governor of Indiana.