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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
THE SUPERCABINET

TINE chief weakness of the Roosevelt ad-
Il ministration has been lack of co-ordina-
ton. Too often its right hand does not know
what its left hand is doing. That is apt to
occur in any new administration with mex
perienced personnel, especially during the
formative period.
But the condition has become worse during
the last few months, because of the large
number of emergency agencies established.
Despite a desire for teamwork, cabinet Off
GERS have found themselves humping into one
another and into a dozen new administrators
and directors There has been neither time
nor machinery for apportoning work Some
of the new agencies have thrown up temporary
bureaus which duplicate work being done
better in the old departments.
So long as the President was in Washington
laboring sixteen hours day and in touch with
new and old departmental chiefs, there was
a degree of spontaneous coordination. But
when the President went on vacation, chaos
grew. When he returned to Washington, only
a few days observation was required to con-
vince him of the need of reform.
Now he is trying to solve the problem IN a
very intelligent fashion He has created an
executive council, consisting of the cabinet
the budget director, and nine of the new adj
illustrators one of the two cabinet meetings
week will be transformed into an executive
council meeting.
This system under weak President easily
might result In more confusion and delay.
But under President Roosevelt it probably will
produce more unity of command and quicker
execution of G. H. c. orders.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
HOUSING PRINCIPLES

THE resolutions adopted by the National
Il Conference on Stun Clearance, meeting
in Cleveland, demonstrates the hard-headed
enlightenment of the men who participated
in it.
They did not dodge the question Of land
prices which has been giving concern to a
lot Of people.
Here are some paragraphs from the report
separated in the text, illustrating the fact that
the members of the conference were fully
aware Of some Of the questions raised by
opponents of certain specified plans:
Speculative profit should not be counte-
nanced in any housing project. No extortionate
prices should be paid for land, keeping in mind
that the more money that is spent for land,
the less is available for labor and materials
While the power OF eminent domain is
highly desirable for low-cost housing, We real
ize that recourse to such procedure may in
volve such delay that may be fatal to a project.
In this emergency it is our belief that pub
lie opinion can be and should be aroused to
impress owners of and with their duty to
accept fair prices for their land as fixed by
disinterested and qualified appraisers. &C..
When Stun clearance and sufficiently low
cost housing can not be obtained otherwise,
this conference recommends formation Of non
political state or local public housing authori-
ties eligible to receive grants as well as loans
for such purpose, and that in states where
local governments do not now have the power
to establish such public housing authorities
legislatures of such states should as soon as
possible, pass the necessary enabling act. "a.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
OLD STUFF?

XXTHILE most folks see in the New Deal
W some novel changes, to DIR. H. Parker
Willis of Columbia it's just hash of antique
and discarded theories" a dragging from the
lumber room of broken down mental furniture
of the past generations"
"Our internationalsm is extreme pro-
lection" he told the Institute of Public Affairs
at the University of Virginia Our industrial
recovery is subsidy to special groups of in
terestS our labor policy is the craft guild
monopoly of the later Middle Ages; our gold
embargo is recommendation"
Maybe SO. But why condemn the New
Deal for being old? There's nothing new under
the sun, saith the Old Testament preacher.
University of Chicago scientists recently de-
ciphered clay tablets to learn that the AS
syrianS more than 1000 years ago adopted the
f1ve-day week to take up the slack of idleness
Records show that the Egyptians of the
Nile valley some 700 years B. c., had 10 per
cent inheritance tax The ancient Jews for
gave all debtors every seven years and estab-
lished city of refuge for debt-rdden families
And now our debutantes are riding bicycles
for fun.
President Roosevelt's trial-and-error me-
thod is as old as the tactics of the Roman
general Fabius Maximus
But we shall not mind if the New Deal be
as old as antiquity so long as it works.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
THURSDAY. JULY ID. 1893.
GET THE HIGHER-UPS

II ME kidnapping Of young John O'Connell
- at Albany and Of the aged banker Luer
in Illinois has aroused the nation as at no
time since the Lindbergh tragedy
kidnapping and its twin terror, racketeer-
ing, are growing. They are coming to be
among the most prosperous of Americas
young industries. Month by month the gang
sters grow bolder In eight kidnapings in the
last five months, the criminals have demanded
sums aggregating s65OO0O.
Racketeering constantly is spreading to
new fields permeating industries that deal in
the necessities Of life. costing many millions
annually in tribute from consumers. EXtor-
ton has become big business.
1t was prohibition, Of course, that nurtured
these crimes. But by ending prohibition we
shall not end it's offspring. The extortion
terror must be dealt with now and after repeal.
The federal government appears eager to
act. The department of justice promises to
lead a war on gangsterism. A senate COM
mittee headed by Senator Royal S. Cope
land of New York, is investigating The
President is incensed over the recent outrages
against tne lie, HDerIy, ana property VI peace
full citizens
Since the business of eXtortion frequently
is an interstate enterprise, the government
and the states should act in concert. They
should outlaw the private possession Of ma
chine guns and regulate machine gun fac
tories.
They effectively should control importation
and interstate traffic in other weapons. And
they should not stop with the arrest and con-
viction Of small criminals
Organized crime can not grow to such
power without the connivance of business
interests and intrenched political rings The
traficker in machine guns should be punished
along with the user The political fiXer who
protects racketeer mobs is also a public
enemy The business man who enters a con-
spiracy for the purposes of extortion is Grim
inal. no matter how respectable the circle in
which he moves.
To jail few Capones for income tax eva
sion while ignoring those who profit from
their deeds is to make mockery of law.
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PROHIBITIONS RECORD

ID ECORDS of the United States prohibition
Az bureau at Washington show that the
federal government, in its thirteen-year effort
to enforce prohibition, has imposed a total of
more than 100000 days in jail sentences and
fines which add up to around ST. 100000
Those figures look pretty impressive; and
yet, when you stop to analyze them, and take
into consideration the tremendous extent of
the illegal liquor traffic since 1920 it is easy
to see that they are not, really as large as they
should have peen.
They are, that is to say, a record Of failure
and not a record of success. A very large part
of the present revulsion against the prohb-
ton law unquestionably arises from the fact
that it has not been we'll enforced, as evil
denced by the success of Al Capone and other
underworld leaders.
Those prohibition bureau figures, high as
they are, should have been great deal high
er. That they are not is one of the reasons
why the movement to repeal the eighteenth
amendment has met, so far, with so much
success.
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a FEW years ago great many Americans
( n would have been disturbed seriously by
announcement that their navy was to be built
up forthwith to treaty strength and made lit
orally second to none.
Today the news that this is to be done
hothers hardly any one: and this change of
attitude measures the failure of American eff
forts to get the other nations of the world to
agree on an effective disarmament program.
No peace-loving American need be ashamed
OF his countrys record in respect to disarma-
ment.
Shortly after the close of the World war,
the United States fleet, counting vessels al
ready built vessels laid down, and vessels def
ritely appropriated for. was by far the most
powerful fleet ever dreamed of.
If the program then in effect had been
completed. no other navy on earth could have
hoped to cope with American sea strength.
The Washington conference saw this country
voluntarily throwing away the finest fighting
ships ever built.
OF our own free will We Scrapped our new
est and strongest warships, accepted parity
With England and pledged ourselves not to
seek naval superiority.
That was a magnificent beginning But it
was not followed up; and the fault for that
failure does not rest on the American govern
Inent.
Repeatedly during the next decade Wash
ineton sought to extend the arms reduction
treaty and scale down world navies, and re-
peatediy other powers refused to go along
Some times it was England that stood In
the way. some times France, some times Japan.
As . result it has been made very appar-
ent that world sentiment has not reached the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13

point at which any genuine, far-reaching ma
val disarmament program is possible.
We have tried, we have made sacrifices, but
it is no go. We have what is left Of the Wash
ington treaty. but there is no likelihood that
anything better can be obtained for years to
come.
That being the case, what is there left to do
but build up to treaty strength? The time has
not come in which We can discard our de-
lenses
If we continue to maintain any navy at ALL
it has to be a good one; and since no one else
is willing to go with us on a new reduction
program, we hardly can do anything else than
make our navy the best that the existing treaty
permits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13

pad of gauze If this does not
work satisfactorily, a tight band
may be put around the forehead to
compress the blood vessels.
1t is well to remember that
tourniquets applied or kept on too
long may do much more harm than
good.
Almost anyone can wrap a piece
of gauze from a roller bandage
around an arm or leg or the fore
head. To put on a bandage that
will stay in place, that will remain
sterile and will serve the purpose
satisfactorily is a job really for an
expert.
The average person should not at
tempt to learn bandaging. 1t is as
much an artistic performance as
playing the piano and probably
more artistic than playing the
saXophone.
NEXT: What to do to save a
person from drowning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
M.

brushing aside the smoke screen Of details
ID and technicalties which obscures the real
issue, it becomes apparent that the kind of
sterilization advocated by European govern
ments was utterly irreconcilable with the Roose-
welt recovery program.
The Roosevelt recovery program was and still
is dependent on depreciation of the dollar.
BY reducing the gold content of their coin, or
by going off the gold standard, European gov
ernments had succeeded in putting American
business on the spot.
When he took office last March, President
Roosevelt found this country strangled by high
money on the one hand and low prices and
wages on the other
In large measure this condition was the result
of European economic policy.
The President had no choice, but to pro-
pose such measures and adopt such plans as
were necessary to put the dollar back in line.
In no other way could prices be advanced, wages
increased, and American business rejuvenated.
OUCH progress as we have made toward re-
- covery during the last four months is due
entirely to depreciation of the dollar in COM
parison with other currencies, but, as the Presi-
dent points out, there must be more.
1t is obvious that We could not go on lowering
the dollar under such a scheme of sterilization
as was proposed in London.
President Roosevelt was confronted with the
alternative Of jeopardizng his program or block
ing the scheme.
The fact that he chose the latter course, even
though it seemed to imply change of mind on
his part, should be regarded as an example Of
wisdom and courage
1t would have been stupid, if not reasonable,
to bind this country to an agreement that re-
stored the greatest handicap under which it has
labored during the last two years.
If the President had accepted sterilization as
proposed by the gold bloc, the dollar not only
would have begun to rise, but would have been
pegged as it rose, while stocks prices, and wages
in this country would have suffered an imme-
date decline.
+" A LII right" say some of the Presidents
L n critics. but why did he fail to foresee
and forestau such an embarrassing situation?"
The chances are that he foresaw it, but realized
how gravely he would have been misunderstood
and misrepresented had he tried to forestan it.
The President could not have refused to join
or indorse the London conference without
jeoparoizing his recovery program as well as
his administration.
No matter what he foresaw, he had to go
through with the proposition up to certain
point, had to let the weaknesses and defects Of
sterilization reveal themselves, had TO give peo-
pie, not only here but abroad, time and oppor-
tunity to understand the basic issue.
President Roosevelt has announced the doc
trine that recovery within nations is the only
way to bring about recovery among nations The
doctrine is shocking only because it interfereS
with certain fantastic theories. In time, every
body VIII recognize it as sound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
Kings and COmmOnerS

ID AGING is the sport of kings,
IN and a conmoner is lucky to be
allowed to watch. When the revo-
luton comes, there won't be any
more racing, and I will save a lot
of money, even if have to dig
bitches or get shot Yet I think
that any ardent radical ought to
approve of gambling in all its forms.
Gambling serves to teach us that
money isn't everything. It shows
up the profit motive by illustrating
the fact that success has little to do
with honest effort and is dependent
simply upon blind chance. On the
turf and under it We are all equal
know no surer way in which a
man can undertake to share his for
tune with all the world than to
play the selections with which I
have been favord recently. But am
I downheartened? You can bet
your life I am. If I don't win so
much as one bet the next time out,
the breed can go back into its
primitive pygmy state as far as I'm
concerned.
I'm good loser. In fact, I'm
fine loser, but I'm afraid if I
can't manage to break training I
may go a little stale.
(Copvright 1888 by The Times)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
A Woman's Viewpoint

THE subject of gold-digging
l. women has been brought up by
a Knoxville (Tenn) gentleman. He
wants to know why sensible people
promote it and if it is so deplorable,
how it can be abolished?
I dislike to disappoint the man,
but my opinion is that gold-digging
as a feminine occupation never will
disappear entirely. Since it always
has proved the easiest method for
lovely ladies to obtain a livelihood,
why should it?
It became fashionable in the first
place during those centuries when
women were forced to get their Sc
curity and their bread as best they
could. Lacking any more noble
means, they used their wits to pro-
mote their charms.
And being neither blind nor COM
pletely dumb, they soon noticed that
the gold-diggers Jared rather better
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
To You

BY JOHN ROSE
Ger the hills Of dream you are
calling me,
Heart Of my heart, through the
silver mist
Of the rain Of a world of splintered
stars
On the breast of a sea Of
amethyst.
On the harp Of the night strange
rhythm plays.
A star like a woman's face in mist
Embroiders the velvet Of dusk with
light
And sink in the sight of a broken
tryst.
But I know. though I wait a
thousand years.
The star will return and music
that blew,
Will fly through luminous clouds
of desire
On the destined wings Of the soul
Of you.
knowl For though strings Of the
harp be stilled
And sun and moon never rise
again,
The souls which in loves beginning
are one
Can never in life or death be
twain.
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ROUND ONE

OKLAHOMA, for twenty-six years of its
~ statehood as dry as neighbor Kansas,
goes two to one for three point two, and
Governor Alfalfa Bill" Murray calls off his
national guardsmen from the freight sheds to
let the beer wagons load the kegs.
1T looks as if this were the end of the
first round and that we've suffered a knock
out" unclerically spoke the Rev. A. M. Jayne,
head of Oklahomas prohibition Thousands"
Round two comes when the Sooner state
votes on repeal That will be whenever the
legislature DEGREES an election, probably this
year The ringside dope is that this also will
result in a knockout.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
First Aid to Control Bleeding Outlined

This is the third article in a series
on first-aid.
ONCE the loss of blood is weak
~ ening, people who have lost
large amounts should be kept in bed
and all possible movements avoided
They should be given plenty of nu-
tritiOus foods and plenty of fluids.
A physician will prescribe suitable
drugs and medical preparations for
building up the blood after a
hemorrhage.
A few more suggestions along the
line of first-aid measures to control
bleeding are in order
Sometimes there is bleeding from
a varicose vein of the leg. Under
such circumstances, the person
should lie down, the foot be we'll
elevated, a clean pad Of gauze ap-
piled and compressed lightly with a
bandage.
Such a condition, however, is ona
that calls for good medical atten-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association of Hygeia. the
Health Magazine.

ton and a physician should be sum-
moned.
In very severe wounds, packing
may be attempted, sufficient
amount of sterile gauze being put
into the wound and held in place,
but obviously medical attention is
demanded Immediately
Very serious is a sudden hemor-
rhage from the lungs which occurs
occasionally in tuberculosis. The
person so affected should be put to
bed Immediately, kept absolutely
quiet and an ice bag applied to the
chest.
Obviously, such hemorrhages de-
mand careful and immediate study
as to the presence of tuberculosis.
Whenever there is bleeding from
the scalp, an attempt should be
made to stop the blood by applying
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13

Let me ask question in my turn
Why should we malign the women
who get their living by their wits
and in the easiest fashion? Thou
sands of men do likewise and are
not discredited for it. To sell fake
affection is really no worse than to
sell fake bonds.
So far as giving value for what
one receives, the women are per-
haps more admirable than those
gentlemen who get their living by
sundry shady transactions. For the
former at least offer something -
their charm, their beauty, their at
tention, themselves.
But I've known men oil promoters
to exchange shares in a dry hole for
large cash payments. When all men
get their living by industry and
honesty, 1t will be time for them
to SANDER any form of feminine &C.
cupation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-13
Taking 1t Calmly

MYTH the onrush of age, I take
w my racing much more casu-
ally than once was my wont. In
younger days I walked between each
contest to the paddock and studied
the entries with an unknOWing eye.
used to fancy that every now and
then I could get a nod from one of
the nags. In fact, think 1 did
But I never was adept in the Ian
guage. Some times the passing bow
of recognition meant no more than,
Il who am about to run last salute
you" I never have been able to dis
tinguish between a horses Yea"
and Nay"
But, after all, it is the spectacle
which interests me. My ear is at
tracted by the roar of the crowd. AS
the colors flash down the stretch
what do care whether my selection
is eleventh or sixteenth? AS some
body or other has said a good many
times, 1T isn't whether you win or
lose, but how you play the game"
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BY an Observer
I read the letter signed Swim
mer" in your columns of July 7,
speaking of conditions at public
bathing beaches. What he said is
true, but it seems that any public
spirited citizen could remedy mat
tiers by staying at home and using
the old family bathtub to keep cool
during the hot summer days.
A can Of cleanup powder would
remove the rings from the tub and
make it safe from contamination.
Our fathers did so back in the days
before 1900, and they got along very
well, at that. Every one had a bath
and the city was saved the expense
of providing baths to any one with
car fare and a bathing suit.
Why should Indianapolis spend
thousands of dollars for public
bathing beaches when a bathtuh
can be purchased from $3.50 to 500?
Funds are short in the city treas
ury, even more so than some of tbs
bathing suits to be seen on the
beaches.
People are in the soup lines, need
ing soup A bowl of soup does more
good to suffering humanity than a
hundred gallons of river water or
well-fed body. Conditions, f1nan-
cially may be worse in the future
for the city The police, the fire.
men, the school teachers earn theil
money and deserve to be paid, sc
why worry about public baths?
Let the public stay away from the
beaches till the depression is over
in 1945 and give the frogs a chance
to make whoopee. They have only
the summer time to swim, for they
sleep all winter.
BY Mary Mcleod
wish to thank The Times fol
its interest in the welfare of the
residents Of Hazelhatch drive.
The people who live on this road
taken over by the county last spring
endured many hardships because
the road was in impossible condi-
ton after every hard rain.
The children, when in school, hac
to wade through nire to go to the
bus.
I asked the county commissioners
and Mr.. Short, county surveyor fol
fifteen months, to fix up the road
for we had great expense with re-
pairs to cars so we could get in anc
out.
The county commissioners ano
Mr. Short promised, but did nothing
till The Times got after them They
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by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

in many ways than those who de-
pended solely upon their cooking
and dishwashing abilities.
Men, we must remember, ever
have lavished their money most
generously upon the charming
women, while the working and
unitarian sort went unpaid and
unSung.
IF we ever are able to set up a So
l. cial order in which women are
actually as economically indepen-
dent as men-and that is perhaps
just another Utopian dream-and
if we ever can develop men who will
appreciate women, not for their
looks and pretty ways, but for their
contribution to civilization - then
gold digging may disappear. I do
not anticipate living to see that
day dawn