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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
THE SPIRIT OF '93

THE first American revolution, born in
Philadelphia 157 years ago, was not more
significant than the bloodless American revo-
luton now taking place.
The revolution of rs was fought to secure
for the colonists the inalienable rights Of life,
liberty. and the pursuit Of happiness Through
wars and laws this country has to some de-
gree established for its people the rights Of life
and liberty. Now it is setting out to make
the pursuit of happiness something more than
a barren quest for millions of unhappy Arneri-
cans
Thomas Jeferson's majestic words were no
more prophetic Of essential change than Sen
ator Wagners in describing the object of the
new recovery act as one intended ito give
every deserving person permanent oppor-
tunity to earn a comfortable living"
The men toiling in shirt sleeves in Wash
ington this summer do not resemble the ragged
Continentals of Valley Forge, yet their work
is quite as revolutionary
These Rooseveltian experts are out to bring
order to industry and security to the masses.
to free from wage labor 100000 American
children, to restore to decent living 500OO,-
900 workers Of city and farm, to redistribute
the vast machine-made wealth by means of
higher wages and shorter hours to fit the
wage system into the power age.
Compare to this task the work of the
revolutionary fathers in cutting thirteen colo
MES free from the old world would seem to be
child's play. Yet until it is accomplished men
and women can not begin to pursue happiness.
Revolutions become bloody affairs only
when stupid rulers deny inahenable rights to
their people. This country has it's industrial
Bourbons, who never learn and never forget
anything; it's Tories. who are too blind and
greedy to accept peaceful change. These can
turn the present revolution from orderly paths
of law into those Of havoc and chaos.
Fortunately however, they are minority
If the majority Of employers will continue to
cooperate with labor and government in the
new partnership, this revolution will remain
peaceful
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04

1T is the best sort of good tidings that the
cotton textile code provides for the end of
child labor in that industry
Before we rejoice too much, though, we
might look at some statistics.
In the United States more than $4,000
children between the ages of 10 and Is are
listed by the census as "ganfully employed"
Only some 10000 of these are employed in the
textile industry.
This code, excellent as it is. touches only a
small fraction of the children who ought to be
classed as school pupils instead of wage
earners.
Furthermore, all these industrial codes are
designed as emergency measures only. We
have no guarantee they will be in effect four
years from now
We might as well do the job right and
ratify the child labor amendment. That would
affect all industries-and it would be per-
manent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
$ the factories produce-that's self-eN-

things the factories produce-thats self-ev-
dent.
Yet its obvious truth has failed so far, to
prevent wage reductions in this country,
because there is little catch in it.
If it is to work, it has to be applied all
along the line. No individual employer can
afford to follow it unless all his competitors
do; and in an unregulated society there is not
the slightest chance that all of them will do so.
The measures that are being taken now do
not, as some suppose, restrict the freedom Of
the industrialist in any very genuine sense.
They are intended to provide for him a
fairly rigid basic code Of the wages he must
pay and the hours he must operate; but be-
yond that they actually set him free in way
that he never has been set free before.
He is made free, that is, to reap the ad-
vantage Of this simple and important little
equation of Mr.. Ford's-that higher wages. in
the long run, equal higher profits.
He is freed from the competition of the
sweatshop, the fy-by-night operator, the in
dustrial pirate.
The economic enfranchisement of the
worker is going to mean a brighter day for
the workman's boss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
RUSSIAN TRADE AWAITS

CENATOR GEORGE w NORRIS of Ne
~ braska issued little statement ON trade
with Russia the other day which is worth
close attention
L have learned. on reliable authority"
says the senator, that the Russian govern
ment desires to buy in the American mar
ket 100000 of metal products, 100000
bales of cotton and $4OOO0OOOO worth of ma
chinery.
She can make payment partly in kind and
partly in money, but must have several years
in which to complete the transaction.
she proposes to ship us products of which
we import large proportion OF what we
use. She proposes to ship these products and
apply the proceeds upon her debt"
To country which for years has been
looking frantically for customers this sounds
like important news. If Senator Norris in
formation is correct somebody down at
Washington ought to see to it that this deal
is conSummated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
M. Says:

TINE figure one, followed by fifteen million
L zeros, represents the number of telephone
lines in the human brain, according to the latest
scientific estimate. You can get vague idea Of
What that means by remembering that the figure
two, followed by only seven zeros, represents
the number of telephone lines in the United
States.
We think we have very elaborate and COM
pick telephone system. We have been more
than fifty years developing it and hundreds of
thousands of people are required to keep it
going. 1t bears about the same relation to the
brains telephone system, however, that speck
of dust bears to the earth
The brains telephone system develops auto
maticaIy from a minute germ cell in a few
years. We do not know how or why and we
probably never will.
Those laws which govern individual growth
and development are far too complicated and
exact for us to understand except in a frag-
mentary way. About all we have learned, after
10000 years of study, is that they work
The mechanical contraptionS we have devised
seem hopelessly simple when compared to that
OF the human body, much less the human mind.
MYTH all our skill, we can not produce an
w exact model of the brain let alone a
single brain cell, but whenever a baby is born,
we know that, under favorable conditions, the
whole structure soon will appear complete
Our absolute inability to understand the WHY'S
and wherefores of this common phenomenon
makes speculation with regard to the universe
creation or even humanity, seem rather futile
especially in the sense that we ever shall be able
to control them.
1t is our obvious destiny to go on learning
but the purpose should be to get in step with
natural law, not to alter it.
Whether one approaches life through the
telescope or microscope, it appears to be gov
erned by imnutable principles
We have been able to discover few of those
principles in the field Of physical force, but only
few. In the field of conscious or psychological
force we still are hopelessly bewildered.
| ME ind it very difficult to separate intelH-
w gence from training, the power to think
and imagine from the power to initiate
We do not know what faculty issues orders
Tor the brains telephone system, or how far IL
is wise TO suppress that faculty through broad
casting OF stereotyped rules and information
Rules and information are necessary to give
each generation better start in life, but they
can not be employed profitably unless the power
20 think and imagine is encouraged.
Men have not climbed out of the Jungle
merely learning what their fathers knew. II
each generation had not added a little some
tning on its own account, the human race
would be right where it was at the beginning.
The desire to add little something is there
fore, an all-important factor of human progress
Nothing that we possess. nothing that we have
| accomplished, nothing that We believe, can be
compared to the Importance of that desire as
basis OF future advancement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
Beyond Realms of Art

7 HEAR that some Of the wise
Il guys around the ring felt that
Sharkey might have risen before
the count of ten. If Jack was not
completely out of time and space
and rolling in the SHOWS of yester-
year, then he wasted great talent
upon the mental art Of fsticuffs. II
the involuntary muscle witch which
ran along his spine at the toll of
eight was piece Of acting, then all
the Barrymores should be set to
digging bitches.
And yet Sharkey was defeated not
so much by PrimO's promethean
sledge as by a fine punch of his
own. Late in the first round Jack
swung his right and gave it every
thing he had He leaped from the
floor to get it up to Cameras Jaw.
and there he hung it.
The vast Venetian did not even
lean so.much as Pisa's tower. Shar-
key was carrying lUcifers to Vesu-
vius. He must have realized then
that he had no proper smooth stones
for his sling, and yet he went on
wading in and throwing punches.
raise my glass high. Here's to
you, Jack Sharkey! I hope YOU
have luck with your tulips.
(Copyright 1888. BY The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, July Am glad
~ I'm not a prizefghter would
not like the Bullets of the ring. but
I would fear still more the machine
guns of the sporting writer's.
Nothing has made me feel quits
so ancient and Victorian as a pc
rusal Of the newspaper accounts Of
the bout between Jack Sharkey and
Camera. In my day we wrote or
tried to write in the tradition OF
Alexandra Dumas. In our stories
the men were muSketeerS and he
roes-every one. Football teams
held on the f1ve-yard line like the
SpartanS in the past, and Matty
was Galahad plus a change of pace.
I belonged to the school of the
"Ah, look" reporters. and they have
given way to the academicians Of
the ooh. hell" manner. In the
days when Runyon and Rice were
very young. I did my best to imi-
tate their technique, and so it may
be that all three of us were on oc-
casion rather silly and ridiculously
sentimental.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
THE BREAD TAX

A NEW and extraordinary tax Is to be
n levied, starting July g. tax unique in
its purpose. On that day and thereafter.
until the secretary of agriculture proclaims
otherwise, the federal government will collect
30 cents on the milling of each bushel of
wheat
The United States treasury pools other tax
money-revenue from the income tax, from
the nuisance and stamp taxes-and spends 1t
for hundred different purposes providing
national defense, law enforcement salaries for
congress and the judiciary, work for the job
less, regulation Of transportation, and all the
rest.
But the treasury is only collection agency
for this new tax. 1t collects the 30 cents on
the processing of each bushel of wheat and
pays it over to the wheat farmers. If as many
as 500000000 bushels Of wheat are milled In
the coming year, the treasury will collect
$15O,oOOOOO, the sum the agriculture depart
ment expects to pay the growers.
For this money the growers must contract
to reduce their wheat acreage next year and
year after
This is all part Of the Roosevelt farm relief
experiment. The test is whether, by levy1ng
upon the city mans bread and planning the
wheat farmers production, farm prosperity
will return. No one knows whether it will;
everybody hopes it will.
This experiment alone will cost consumers
of wheat products about $150,OOO,0O0, con-
siderable tax bill from any source, but all
will be glad to pay if it means better times
in the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
Simple Cause May Make Child Nervous

! In an earlier era, parents decided
and children obeyed. In the mod
ern era the behavior of the child is
cooperative arrangement with
the parents, in which most of the
material for bargaining is in pos
session of the child.
DR.. Cameron finds the small
family partially responsible for
some Of the modern difficulties. The
child who is the only child is most
difficult to train to social behavior.
In developing self confidence in
the child, because confidence is
largely associated with freedom
from fear, one must not too greatly
stress his failures and must par
ticipate with delight in his sue
cesseS.
Try to build up the reputation
of the child in the qualities that you
desire him to possess. If you would
have him be strong, take delight IN
his growing strength.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
A Woman's Viewpoint ::

The boy who conforms to his
mama and his teacher from kinder
garten to college is doomed to be
ordinary, because he will emerge
nodded into the mental shape cur
rently popular.
And it seems such a waste, the
time we use filling our children's
heads with stuff, most Of which
they will forget or discard by the
time they are 30.
It smacks of cruelty-that their
glorious youth should be spent with
geometry problems and the conjuga-
lions of Latin verbs.
Therefore, I do not despair Of the
sometimes disobedient child. I
sympathize with him. After all
so far as We know, We have but one
life on earth.
Why, then, must we always be
doing something we deSpise and so
seldom be permitted to interest our
selves in what We like best2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04

A PATHETIC being is the am
4 n bilious mama who is de-
termined that her child shall be an
A student, How she hustles and
bustles: how she urges and
encourages; how she works and
Sweats.
And the pity Of it is that she be-
lieves he is getting educated. In
many respects she is more tragic
figure than her son. She sits down
in the evening and hears" his
lessons; she watches his daily aver
ages; she hounds his heels to see
that he observes sll the rules.
She plans where he shall go to
college; and what his courses are
to be. And having by that time de-
veloped the bossing habit, she maps
out his life, his marriage, his career.
In short, she regulates him
generally into obscurity and misery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
HIGHER WAGES, HIGHER PROFITS

THE encouraging part about the hearings
on the industrial recovery act now under
way at Washington is that practically every
BODY seems to recognize the Importance of
giving the laboring man better break
Those minimum wage scales may sound
extremely low, and there is no sense in pre-
tending that they are as high as we would
like to see them; but the trend they represent
is healthy one, and the fact that their pro-
visions are being written into law stands for
protection Of kind that American working
men have not had before
What we are doing. in a slow and round
about manner, is to adopt the viewpoint first
popularized by Henry Ford-that industry can
prosper only in a direct ratio to the amount
of money it pays out in wages
That proposition always has been exceed
ingly simple. The more money the working
man earns. the more he can spend on the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
All the Sad Young Men

A ND yet hate to see the work.
L N ing press section entirely filed
by young Faulkners and dour Drei-
sers. 1t may be that the much adj
vertiSed revolution is closer than
most Of us assume, for the Ameri-
can temper is mirrored more accu-
rately in the sporting pages than in
the work of any of the novelists or
political commentators.
I am inclined to suspect that the
scribes carry over the depression
blues into their fight and baseball
stories, and that Jack Sharkey be-
comes vicariously a whipping boy
for j. P. Morgan, Otto Kahn and
all the taXleSs crew.
But even if the tumbrils are watt
ing just around the corner, must
say that Sharkey did his very gall
liant damnedest in defense not only
OF his title, but of all the old Olym-
plan tradition. If the beanstalk
bites Jack, that constitutes not only
news, but very thrilling drama.
was stirred to my toes by the
encounter between Camera and
Sharkey, or, if you must have it in
the modern and more simple man.
ner, the meeting of the voluminous
Venetian and the lethargic Lithu-
anian.
Sharkey, with his poor, puny 200
pounds, stood up to Everest and
seemed almost to cry aloud, Bring
| on VOur aValancheS IF thera u-era
sophisticates and intellectuals pres
ent, they should have risen in their
seats to cheer and shout for the
brave try Of human aspiration
against elemental forces. I never
happened to see Shelley plain, but
somehow Jack Sharkey reminded
me of the poet most distinctly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04

EXACTLY as the speed of mod
II ern life has affected adults who
show in the very lines of their faces
the stress and strain under which
they labor, so also are there found
today in most schools, camps and
homes considerable numbers of
children who are described best by
the single word nervous.
In discussing nervousness in chill
dren, the British specialist, DR.. Hec-
tor G. Cameron, points out that
sometimes serious mental reactions
develop from relatively simple
sources.
All children occasionally refuse
food; most children at sometime
will be wakeful and refuse sleep. An
occasional occurrence of this char
acter may not be serious.
If, however, it is repeated day
after day, the eventual result is the
development of disorders which
may take long and careful treat
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
Aspiration Counted out

ITO be sure, human aspiration
Il took a sock on the chin, which
appears to be the way to bet, and
yet they do pay off for place in
battles Of this sort and the resin
OF the ring at times may be car
peted thickly with laurels. Apollo
on his nose has always seemed to
me more impressive than Vulcan
with his glOved fist held in token
Of the victory.
Poor Camera won nothing but a
title, while the old rose fancier
from Chestnut Hill can go home to
look his flowers in the face and say,
Il was still coming in when he
caught me-
One Of my sport page friends
limited broadly that the whole thing
seemed to him suspicious, and an
other remarked that he didn't want
to pass judgment, but he never saw
the punch which cut down the
champion. In that case he and
Sharkey were the only ones who
failed to note that march of doom
| az ~ SoAAAp up Int IuuIIueT.
Still, it wasn't what you would
call a fast punch. There was no
snap in it. Only demolition. Primo
Camera pulled it up from the floor.
and it seemed almost to have had
its origin in the primevaI ooze. An
lcvthyosaurus was permitted to
come out from extinction long
enough to take one severe swipe
at Mr.. Darwin's well-ordered theory
about the survival of the fittest.
Arthur Brisane once dismissed a
famous prize fight with the terse
comment, "a gorilla could lick them
both" But now he may have to
revise that adage I'm not saving
that maybe the gorilla couldn't out
box Camera at long range, but in
close Primo would tear him to
| pieces.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
Questions and Answers

Q-How many beauty and bar
Der shops are there in the United
States?
About 100000 barber shops
and about $1,000 beauty shops.
(Which country has the
largest air force?
A-France has the largest fight
ing air force and the United
States leads in commercial avia-
ton.
Q-Are mushrooms raised from
seeds? Is the edible part of the
plant the fruit?
A-They develop from stores,
which are equivalent to seeds Of
the higher plants. The mush-
room is the fruiting body.
Q-Name the second leader of
the United States Marine band.
ARTHUR S. Witcomb.
Q-Where are the streets called
"Unter den Linden" and "Bois de
Boulogne?"
A-The first is in Berlin, Ger
many, and the second is in Paris,
France.
GLOW many adjusted service
certificates have been issued by
the veterans bureau and what is
their total value?
A--As of March 1, 1888, thu
United States veterans bureau had
issued 3,707,64 adjusted service
certificates with a face value of
1866 ,343,0 99.
Q-For whom was William and
Mary college in Virginia named?
A-King William and Queen
Mary 70 Great Britain, from
whom it's charter was obtained in
1893, by the Rev. James Blair, the
first president Of the college.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia, the
Health Magazine.

The mental habits of the child
may reflect the attitude of the par
ents. Parents who have children
who constantly cry are not infre-
quently parents who can not tolerate
the crying of children. In such in
stances, the child finds in its crying
opportunity to develop extraordi-
nary interest on the part Of its
parents.
Again, DR.. Cameron points out,
parents who have children at
school and who constantly receive
letters from the child saying that
it is unhappy and asking to be
taken out of school, are parents
who are themselves made unhappy
and miserable by the receipt OF
such letters, and who have not sue
.ceeded in hiding this fact from
the child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
:: The Message Center ::
Id will defend to the death your right say it-voIta

from the packing house of a pack
ing company surely would nauseate
any healthy person. The natives
of this street may stand this odor
o. K, but it surely is tough on
the newcomer. Go out and get a
Whit of this and see if you like
it. If you do go, take a clothes
pin with you for your own protec-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
'BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

He is not likely to be either educated
or happy.
Between parents and the ed
ucational systems, it's a wonder our
youngsters have ordinary sense.
Certainly it should not surprise us
that so few have distinctive per-
Sonalities, and so many settle down
into the rut of mediocrity. For only
the strongest ever can survive the
strenuous and often foolish ed
ucational processes we drag them
through.
Z
THEIR growing years are spent
Il in resisting some form Of
examining. And, unfortunately the
A students, those who never resist,
are likely to reach obScurity first.
It is the rebel, the being who fights
Standardization with his whole be-
ing, who becomes the outstanding
man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04

can of green beans, and it always is
green beans, never baking powder.
They bring us flour, but nothing
to put in it to make biscuits but
salt, and if we make protest, they
tell us that we can bring the green
beans back and exchange them for
baking powder after they have Ia
ken the bill to the trustees office
with green So. charged on it.
There must be more profit IN the
green beans than in the baking
powder.
Oh, say, green beans, green beans,
I'll vote the Democratic ticket, the
Socialist ticket, yes, I'll even vote
the Republican ticket, if they'll just
eliminate the green beans from the
trustee order. I planted some beans
of the green variety in my garden,
but after sitting at the table and
looking at the green bean dish every
day for twenty months and trying
to eat a spoonful with no biscuits
and then to walk out in the garden
and see green beans growing, just
couldn't stand it. Had to dig them
up to keep from being a nervous
wreck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-04
Elusive
By AUSTIN JAMES

BY AUSTIN JAMES
A gorgeous thought once came to
me;
1t popped into my brain.
I recall that it was musical,
A quite delightful strain.
But I can't remember whether
It was poetry or prose,
Or a melody or drama.
Where it's gone nobody knows.
A question now I ask myself,
The answer I would know.
Whence do thoughts come,
And whittier do they go2
DAILY THOUGHT
II God be for us, who can be
against us?-Romans 8:31.
EAITH makes US, and not we it,
II Emerson