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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
1T MUST BE TOLD

THE nationwide contest for plans to end
l. crime and racketeering, held by the
United States Flag Association, has been won
by a gentleman who suggests strict censor
ship of criminal charges, criminal news and
reports of criminal trials.
Thus once again we meet the familiar old
theory that everything will be all right if
only we ignore the existence of evil; the theory
which mistakes the symptom for the disease
and tries to fight typhoid fever with an
aspirin tablet.
1t is dreary business to see wealth of
crime news in the papers Granted But the
solution does not and never can lie in sup
pressing the crime news. 1t goes right to the
fundamentals of our social organizations
Until the causes of crime are removed from
the bedrock of American society, we shall
continue to have gangs and racketeers; and we
shan't know how menacing they are unless
our newspapers tell us about them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
WITHOUT SUCH FREEDOM

NHILE Scotland Yard guarded his per-
w son, DR.. Albert Einstein. fugitive from
the Nazi terror, spoke to an English audience
on the subject of freedom, the individual
freedom which our ancestors won for us after
hard struggle"
Without such freedom" he said in voice
lacking passion, or -ancor, there would have
been no Shakespeare, no Goethe. Newton.
Faraday, PaSteur or Lister. There would be
no comfortable houses for the mass of the
people, no railways or wireless, no protec-
ton against epidenlics no cheap books, no
culture, no enjoyment of art for all.
There would be no machines to relieve
people from the arduous labor needed for
the production of the necessities of life Most
people would lead dull life of slavery, Just
as under the ancient despotisns Of Asia. 1t
is only men who are free who create the
inventions and intellectual works which to us
moderns make life worth while"
The worlds greatest scientist did not men
ton the little strutting men of his fatherland
who sought to kill him for being Jew. But
what a rebuke to them and their brother
fanatics all over the verdi
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
A BOOK

GTUDENTS of international high finance
before, during and after the war. par
ticularly those interested in war debts. should
obtain sustenance in Democracy. Debts and
Disarmament" by Walton Newbold Dutton
& Coz.
The author. now in the United States
studying the American financial structure.
seems well fitted to attack the problem from
his particular slant. and this he does from
every angle.
Educated at Buxton college. AMI at the
University of Manchester where in 1912 he
took his NJ. A. in economics and Roman his
tory he has spent his time ever since in
further study research, field work and poll
tics of left wing variety
Once Labor party pamphleteer. he was
the first Communist member of parliament in
England. Later Philip Snowden appointed
him TO the Macmillan committee to examine
the workings Of the gold standard sort of
protege of Sidney and Beatrice Webb. he was
treasurer Of the Manchester university Fa-
bian Society. And so forth and so on
Described as sort of orthodox Marxist. it
is said that. after all. he seems very much the
conservative Britisher when it comes to his
ideas about money and the gold standard.
Democracy, Debts and Disarmament" Is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
THE BLUE EAGLE

THOSE who expected to see the heavens
open and to hear a chorus of trumpets
announcing the millennium as soon as the
last blue eagle emblem was f1oated over an
American factory are going about these days
acting as if they had been deceived cruelty.
Codes beyond number have been signed.
and you couldn't throw a stone without
breaking a blue-eagled window; but still the
depression continues. men remain out of
work, strikes break out across the industrial
belt like rash, and the prestidigitators down
at Washington prepare to pull new rabbits out
of the hat
So you hear some people asking plaintive-
ly, What is the matter with the NRA?" And
others, less plaintive, assert bluntly that the
whole program is flop.
1t is easy to point out that we expected too
much of the MIRA. Reducing working hours,
setting minimum pay scales, and grouping
whole industries under fair competition agree
ments could not possibly restore prosperity I'M
aided. All these things simply provide the
channel through which the recovery current
is to flow. Raising that current to flood
strength is something else again.
And because flood strength has not been
reached, it would be easy for us to assume
that the blue eagle is a less potent bird than
we thought 1t was.
We could not make a greater mistake in
judgment.
Through one device or another we eventu-
ally shall set all the wheels spinning again;
and when that time comes then the value of
the blue eagle agreements will be fully appar-
ent
We shall find. then, that we have leaped
ahead to universal acceptance of the theory
that the nation can not prosper unless its
lowliest wage-earner also is prospecting; that
We have given the common man new in
dependence, fairer share of industrys earn
ings, more certain protection in his lob:
that we have given ourselves the reins by
which we seriously can attempt to control
the mysterious economic processes that gov
ern our national life
In fact, we shall find that we have put
through something very like a revolution
peaceful, CLASHES revolution that gives our
traditional democracy a splendid new sig
nificance.
The blue eagle hasn't Topped yet. 1t hard
ly has begun to fly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
M. Says:

EOR sixteen years we have stubbornly refused
Il to recognize Russia, and little good has it
done us, the Russians, or any one else.
The policy was born of temper, which eX-
plains why it hasn't worked. Our war leaders
were mad because Russia failed to stick with
the allies and our bushes SleaderS were scared
OF Communism.
Between these two groups, we were per-
suaded to turn our backs on a great and legiti~
mate experiment. What the Russians did was
none Of our affair, yet we tried to make it SO
by childish reasoning.
First we told ourselves that it could not last,
and then we told ourselves that it could not
be relied on to meet its obligations. In each
case, we closed our eyes to facts and let imagi-
nation form our beliefs. We ignored the self
evident truth that no such revolution as &C.
Cured could accomplish what it did without
faith, enthusiasm and sincerity. Because We
did not agree with the doctrines on which it
was based, We assumed that it was sham.
NUR mistaken ideas originated in the habit
" of trying to visualize all occurrences and
all problems in the light of American tradition.
The car was just another George Third and
independence just another Fourth of July We
could not conceive of political or economic
progress for any people, save along the road
which our forefathers took.
Even NRA has not shaken us out of this
mood as yet. Cheering for the new deal, we
wonder if it is quite constitutional. That is our
business. Whether we like it or not, we must
move forward with definite considerations as to
our background, training and experience Rus
slams are bound by similar limitations and en-
titled to the same privileges.
Just now we would be ready to recognize
Russia, but for the rejuvenated nonsense that
we can take care of ourselves that recovery is
domestic problem and that we don't need
foreign trade.
we can take care Of ourselves as far as sheer
existence goes, but not in the sense OF growth
and development. The whole wide world con-
tains none too many markets, materials and
ideas for people who wish to advance. Our
Industrial system was born of this philosophy
orr political institutions and foreign policy
were originally designed to give it free reign
NAILURE to recognize Russia long ere this
Il contradcts the principles and standards on
which the United States was founded and which
have guided her course for IA years. Outside
of that, it contradicts good sense.
We accomplish nothing of political value by
failing to send an ambassador to Moscow, or to
receive a Russian ambassador at Washington.
On the other hand, we lose lot OF perfectly
good business and that, too, at a time when
we can i'll afford it.
AS William Allen White points out Russia
would rather buy from us than any European
nation, because our products are better while
we are far enough away for her not to fear
rivalry or intrigue.
We could put thousands of people at work in
this country by merely selling Russia what she
wants to buy, and if her bill paying record
means anything we could depend on getting
our money for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
Bo0tm0n GroaOS AnqrV

-" A ND I, too, have a song" con-
4 n tinued the boatman as his
anger mounted at the effrontery of
Holy 10. "It runs something like
this
In a husky baritone, for he had
been sore beset, the boatman piped
up, You say you'll love me in No
vember, out I amt had no loving
from you since April, January, June
or July
And in final burst of rage the
boatman shook his fist in the face
OF the maker of willow wands and
cried aloud to the high heavens:
Holy Joe may once have been your
name, but from this time forth
you'll be Jumping Joe to me. You
are no better than bank walker.
and you leap only when net has
been spread and soft cushions con-
veniently disposed to catch YOU
gently if you land upon your plat
form! Take with you your willow
Wands and dispose of them as YOU
Will, for I have no urge to see your
face again!"
And from that day forth Holy Joe
was known to all the folk of Tur-
kestan as Jumping Joe, and his
prestige with the citizens was dimin-
ished greatly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
SATURDAY. OCT. 7, 1888.
BUY 1T NOW

NOV is the time to buy" is the slogan
of a drive beginning Monday and gen.
eraled by Recovery Administrator Hugh John
son.
Behind this campaign is faith in this
countrys future faith that the recovery pro-
gram not only will raise prices substantially in
the near future, but also will increase buying
power proportionately.
So far the midsummer boom has shot pro-
duction far ahead of buying power, but the
gap is narrowing. From March to July pro-
duction rose IS per cent, the workers buying
power only IL per cent. But by September
production had dropped to "A per cent above
Marchs and and by August the workers buy
ing power had advanced to II per cent above
Marchs
Further such healthy gain in pay rolls oc-
CURED in September.
To make the Buy Now campaign a con-
tinuing performance, the gap must be closed.
This will be done if industry holds prices down
to reasonable levels and shares its profits with
the workers in better pay and shorter hours.
In the meantime the shelves are grooming
with goods produced cheaply under pre-code
conditions. The governments credit expansion
plans are almost certain to raise prices
Buying now will move these goods for the
producers and distributors, save money for the
consumers and give the recovery program the
push that it seems to need right now
To American business, General johnson
says: In order to increase sales at the pres
ent moment, we believe that two courses of
action are absolutely essential They are:
First give the public attractive up-to-date
merchandise, fairly priced, and, second, ag-
gressively promote your products to the public
The modern method is advertising"
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the hands of bootleggers and gang
Sters, as there is no industry which
can survive without profit and a
legal, well regulated business will
not try to do so. A condition of
this kind will just throw the matter
right into the hands of the people
that the population of our country
have been trying for sixteen years
to eliminate.
The liquor industry does not want
an excessive profit, and will not
stand for prohibitive taxes, so let's
use some common sense in taxation
so that the laboring man can pur-
chase his supplies and get the same
materials at the same price as the
millionaire.
Let us forget the political ring
setup, such as they have in Can
ada, and such as they apply here
In Indiana on beer regulations,
eliminate the so-called importer or
distributor, the designated whole
Saler, and let the business flow
through regular business-like indus
trial channels, in order that the
political grab bag dealers can look
around and find some actual con-
structive work to do, in place of liv-
ing off Of the taxpayers of the state.
Fair and square taxes, common
sense license fees are welcome, but
the present grating system is not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
Full Recovery Needed After Illness

TN its survey of the physical con-
l. ditions of athletes with a view
to prevention Of many athletic in
juries, the committee of the Ma
tional Collegiate Association en-
phasizeS particularly the desirability
for a coach who must combine with
his functions those of trainer, to
watch carefully over every one of
his men,
Special care must be taken to
prevent a boy who has been i'll
from returning to athletics until
he has made a complete recovery.
The committee stresses the fact
that any player who has been i'll
enough to keep him out of practice
should be given at least simple
test of the heart functioning, pref
erably by a doctorH before being
permitted to practice again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
:: The Message Center =:
say will the your right say t-voae
By House and Building wreckers

" House and Building Wreckers
The wrecking companies of In
dianapolis form an integral part of
the industrial and civic life of this
city. The companies are long eS-
tablished, have large investments
in their business, and steadily en-
ploy large numbers of persons.
The owners of these companies
help support the local newspapers,
churches, utilities and other indus
trial and commercial enterprises.
Their record of their treatment of
their. employees and of protecting
them against injury is remarkably
commendable.
When the NRA movement was
initiated, a substantial majority of
the wrecking companies were among
the first to sign the Presidents re-
employment agreement, and formed
the Association of House and Build
ing Wreckers of Indianapolis. These
actions deserve appreciation and
reciprocation by the citizens of this
city, even to the extent of grant
ing concessions in favor of these
companies as against companies
from other cities.
But what is the response? The
Denison hotel building was to be
wrecked and RACED by it's owners,
and it was probably the largest
building to be wrecked for long
period of time. Many of the local
wrecking companies placed bids for
the contract. But this prize job and
contract was awarded to an out-of-
town concern, the Cuyahoga Wreck
ing Company of Cleveland, o.
Certainly this is not an expression
by the owners of this property of
an interest in the civic and indus
trial welfare of the city of Indian
apolis. For it will be impossible
for the indianapolis wrecking COM
panies to prosper, if on the large
wrecking jobs are Haunted signs to
the effect that the contract has
been awarded to an out-of-town
concern.
Furthermore, this Cleveland con-
Germ now is using the site of the
old baseball park to store the lum-
Der and materials obtained from
the wrecking, and it does not re-
quire stretch of the imagination
to observe that the money and prof
its obtained from their sale will go
to Cleveland.
This Is a direct challenge to the
Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce
and to the civic clubs and all other
organizations and citizens who have
in mind the prosperity and devel-
opment of the city of Indianapolis,
and it is hoped it will not go unan-
swered.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
Riley
BY MINTA DAVIS

BY MINTA DAVIS
Poet OF cheer-who Wiled our grief
and care,
Helped us forget the proddinq
lance of fate,
And lightened burdens every soul
must bear
Who eer has been like thee. so
good and great?
Brimming with beauty, thy verses
rarely quaint
Have touched the heart of nature
close and true,
Beguiling both the sinner and the
saint
To tend'rest joys and far and
finer view.
To thee who gave us much. we
only can
Enshrine thy name while years
on years arise,
Full sure our love the gulf Of death
will span
And gladden. thy blest soul in
Paradise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07

TINE smartest thing the modern
Il business woman does is to fib
about her age. And the way she
gets by with it is a joy to see.
1t is safe to say that two-thirds
of all professional and business
women are from seven to ten years
older than they write themselves.
And let a 35-year-old woman re-
peat often enough that she is q
and she will become 81 in her mind,
which is all that matters.
She will assume the mannerisms
of youth, acquire more elastic men
tai attitudes and will fight harder to
keep herself looking, acting and
thinking young. Thus she will be
young. And will remain SO for
years, although she may get wrinkles
and gray hairs like every one else.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07

A 5 Joseph Whitfield he hummed a
L n little tune which ran, "Whatll
1 Do-oo-oo-oo?" And all the while
the boatman f1oundered and re-
manned in great peril of his life
from the rushing waters. Help!
Help! Help" he cried thrice and
yet again, but Joseph only answered,
In good time and in my own way"
Upon the other bank there APP
peared suddenly a Samaritan who
plunged into the river and by dint
of courage and great effort drew the
half-drowned boatman to the shore.
No sooner had the victim clambered
up the bank and set both feet on
solid ground than Joseph dropped
his willow wands and his little tune
and came up intent upon encum-
bering the boatman with assistance,
Quite rudely he pushed the Sa-
marian to one side and said to the
ooatman: Il have been watching
your plight for some time with great
sympathy. And what I can do for
you, that I will do with all nv
hearC. How about a pair Of water
wings or possibly a life preserver?
I can provide these goods, and you
may be assured that they will be of
the better sort. Surely you have
heard OF me and of my fame for
rectltude. My name is Holy joe"
But the boatman fell into a great
rage and answered Holy Joe with
Scorn.
BE gone, fellow, from my sight,"
he cried. while I struggled in the
stream you whitfield willow wands
and whistled 'Whatu IDo-oo-oo-oo?'
Where, then, were these water
wings and this life preserver which
you mention SO belatedly? But for
the help of yon Samaritan I should
most certainly have persisted, and
now you push him to one side and
cry your wares of locks for stable
DOORS"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
It Seems
to Me
=BY HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK. Oct. Tn far-off
IN Turkestan there runs a tale
about a certain boatman. Proceed
ing down a river in his frail craft
Of skin and hides. he had the mis-
fortune to encounter whirlpool and
was straightway thrown into the
stream.
The waters being cold and the
eddy tumultuous, the boatman cried
aloud for help. To his great joy
he spied upon the bank, not many
feet away. a likely looking fellow
who happened to be called Joseph.
And this Joseph was known to all
the citizens as a holy man.
Yet Joseph paid no heed at all
to the cries of the sorely distressed
boatman. Instead he stood stock
still and continued about his occu-
patton. His task was whiting will
low branches. which he cut down
to a great fineness and a miraculous
fexibility. These he disposed Of
to the caliphs of the town, who
priced the wandS of indecision and
found them vital instruments in
dealing with the voters.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07

fats, carbohydrates, mineral salts,
and enough fresh fruits and vege-
tables to provide all necessary vita
Minis for a good diet.
A low protein and a high carbo-
hydrate diet tends TO be most de-
sirable, containing always, however,
a reasonable quantity of fresh fruits
and vegetables. Any food taken just
before game or practice should be
easily digestible. Athletes prefer
ably never should take food less
than two hours before engaging in
any sport.
Certain foods which tend to re-
main long in the stomach, such as
pork, veal and certain kinds of fish,
should be avoided before engaging
in any athletic competition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07

they repel the demands, even the
lures, of domestic life.
Say what you will in our kind Of
a world, where women have to be
young to get jobs, where they must
play the maid though they are
wives, where their livelihood often
depends upon their ability to look
younger than they are, you are sure
to have many who will repudiate
marriage with its rubber stamps.
I grant you it's silly. Just the
same, something wonderful hap
pened to women when they found
they could live as independent spin
sters, or even as wives without chill
dren, and making life stand still,
remain a comfortable IS for fifteen
years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07

an analysis Of the financial and political set
up of the world of today. It tells the why's
and wherefores of war debts and reparations
and the part bankers, armament makers and
industrialists play in national and interna-
tional policy It is a valuable volume for the
serious-minded, particularly now that the war
debts are once more on the tapis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

If player has been compelled
to be away from sports for any
considerable length of time, due to
illness or from any other cause,
he should take calisthenics and
graded drills of pre-seasonal period
before joining squad for regular
competitive athletics.
In the old days the training table
was quite a fetish with athletic
coaches. Much emphasis was placed
on certain articles of food which
were supposed to have special vir-
tues in certain sports.
Today it is recognized that the
Well-balanced diet contains proteins,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-07
A Woman's Viewpoint ::
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Upon this fact hinges the Ill fate
of many homes. 1t is responsible
for the disintegration of households
and for the vanishing Of many
dream menage. Because the home
woman is so irrevocably dated, espe-
cially if she has children.
q q
Unlike her professional sister,
~ she can't escape the conscious
ness Of her years. If she has been
a home-maker for ten years, her
household goods will shout the fact
to every conner, and her children
mark her as a matron, no matter
how glibly she may lie about her
birthdays.
Plenty of girls realize this. Sub
consciously they fight against it.
Desiring to remain 3 perpetual %,
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A Local Application

TT is quite a coincidence that there
4 should be a legend in far-off
Turkestan, which corresponds so
neatly with the present situation in
New York City's municipal CAM
palgn. Joseph v. Mckee happens
himself to be a holy man and a val-
liant knight in battles with dead
dragons.
Perhaps he is following that
Scriptural parable which sets forth
the fact that those who arrived at
the eleventh hour, every man re-
celved penny" But the Bible
does not say that any of these late
corners claimed a right to the entire
jackpot.
Copyright. 1888. by The Tirnes)