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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
SCHOOL PUPILS AND WAR

TT is not surprising that school children who
= were examined in q survey by two profess
scrs OF Columbia university, should have re-
vealed a tendency to glorify everything con-
nected with war Martial things-roll Of
drums. blare of trumpets, men in uniform
and all the fanfare and trumpery of war
have a well nigh irresistible appeal to young
minds, and to many old ones.
School children in the very nature Of
things can have little appreciation of the hor-
rors and cruelty of war; they see only its
glories Their text book heroes are great
soldiers. and they learn that the destinies OF
their own country have revolved about war
Was not America born In blood? Was not
Lincoln a hero to be emulated even though he
led nation in war?
Nor is there airy wonder that children have
little grasp of the machinery of peace. Even
adults might be found woefully lacking In
knowledge of the Kellogg pact. the World
court. the League Of Nations. and the intri-
cacies surrounding these agencies.
But while the professors survey reveals
little that is surprising it does tall attention
to the need for bringing forcibly home to fu-
ture citizens the fact that war is a national
catastrophe and that as such it is to be
avoided If that is possible; and that good has
seldom come from any war Probably the
greatest need is to destroy the belief that war
is inevitable. unluestioning acceptance Of
which is perhaps the chief reason that peace
measures have been so Intellectual
World ornaments are far larger now than
they were in 1914, and the world now as then
is filed with international jeaiousies and sus-
pcions, and rumors of war. Progress toward
universal peace has been disappointingly slow
and has had many setbacks. Peace machin-
cry is imperfect and not very effective.
These facts, however, only make 1t more
desirable to put forth every effort to avoid
a new war, which would be infinitely more
terrible than the last and which many
world leaders believe would bring the de-
struction of civilization.
It is not necessary to breed nation of
milksop pacifists. An understanding of what
war really is, how wars are made, and what
Is being done to minimize the chances for
war. can be combined with healthy pa
triotism.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
NEW DEAL CHALLENGED

THERE is perhaps, a touch of irony in the
- fact that the first court attack on the
New Deal should be made before a Judge who
was appointed by President Harding at the
suggestion of Attorney General Daugherty
and who was center of a bitter senate strug-
gle when his promotion was asked by Presi-
dent Hoover
The Judge is James H Wilkerson OF fed
eral district court of Chicago.
When Hoover proposed to elevate Wilker-
son to the circuit bench after he had sem
fenced AL Capone to Atlanta, labor raised
such rumpus that Wilkerson himself asked
Hoover to withdraw the nomination. Labor
contended that Wilkerson had used his power
to issue injunctions to deprive organized
workers OF their constitutional rights
Independent distributors Of milk have now
challenged the constitutionality of the farm
relief act in proceedings started before VIII
kersons court.
The milk code applied to the Chicago area,
which is the basis for the legal proceedings
is interesting for other reasons as well. 1t
is the first food marketing code approved by
the agricultural adjustment administration,
and will serve as pattern for other codes.
Legality OF the Administrations efforts to
raise farm prices doubtless ultimately will be
determined by the supreme court. The
present attack, based on the contention of
the Independent distributors that they should
not be required to sell milk at the minimum
OF 10 cents quart, apparently is broad
enough to cover most questions likely to be
raised.
The milk code is designed to assure pro-
ducers a greater share Of the final selling
price than they now receive and to stabilize
that chaotic business. The government has
tackled difficult job in a difficult spot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
1t Seems
to Me
By HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. Aug. Sit well
1 Y may fe that when these few
lines appear local showers or other
disturbances will have checked the
heat wave Nevertheless. viii
chance 1t and give few hot wealth
er hints which ! generally offer
about this time OF year.
Doctors and other learned mon
are fond Of furnishing August
"donts. and I would keep my own
trap shut but for feeling that all
the others tragioally are wrong in
the advice which they offer.
The gist OF most Of the programs
which have seen is TO do nothing
eat little lettuce and drink some
lukewarm water. Even II that is.
by any chance. physiologically sound
1t Is more than the human spirit
should be called upon TO bear.
Man has outlived many animals
which could lick the life out OF him
in fair combat, and he has done il
by his ability to thumb his nose AZ
the weather. When the glaciers
slipped down from the polar cans
the saber-toothed tiger sneezed and
died. But primitive man found
himself some minstrel corresponding
to Whittier or Robert w. Service
and kidded himself along into the
notion that 1t was fun to have your
ears frozen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05

powerful influence on the national psychol-
ogy. An artifcially high market followed by
an inevitable gambling collapse could play
havoc with Industrial recovery. which Is being
purchased by the cooperation and tempo
rary sacrifices Of the legitimate industries Of
the country.
The administration owes It to the indus
trial recovery plan-and to the l25 900 900
Americans who ara trying as employers,
workers and consumers TO make the recovery
plan a success-to protect recovery from the
gambling sharks. There Is every reason TO
believe that the President will act on this re-
sponsibility II necessary. But the Job can be
done better and quicker by the New York
Stock Exchange itself II. under the stimulus
Of a great emergency, it has the capacity for
self-reform.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
WANDERING WOMEN

A PECULIAR development OF the relief Sit
n uation in New York City, and presum-
ably elsewhere is that while the number of
homeless men is decreasing as business picks
up, the number of homeless women is increas-
fng
The Welfare council of New York reports
that Is per cent fewer men sought shelter in
June than in May, while the number of won1-
en- was II per cent greater.
The increase in the number of destitute
women was attributed to the fact that each
day additional women and girls are reaching
the end of their resources and are obliged
to appeal TO charity. And they are not the
type regarded "derelicts,' but are former
white collar workers unskilled for the most
part, but heretofore self-supporting.
1t has been estimated that the number of
homeless women adrift In the United States
has reached a total of 250,00O Many of them
have taken to the open road in their search
for work
We have been accustomed in the past to
large numbers Of unemployed and wander
ing men, transient labor has in fact been
useful in many ways. But the addition of
women to the ranks of this unfortunate arny
constitutes new and disturbing problem in
our social readjustment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05

acidosis or the fact that the person
has taken a large dose Of alcohol
or of ether.
Associated with the onset Of faint
ing there may be dizziness or light
medicines. The average human
walks erect and pays no attention
TO his sense of balance because that
is controlled by number of reflex
sensations coming to the brain from
various places.
The semi-circular canals OF the
internal ear give the human being
a sense Of his position in space.
There is alsU a feeling associated
with the muscles which aids the
determination Of presence in space.
II the body tends to accumulate
acid, dizziness is a prominent symp-
tom. Anything that interferes with
the coordination between the sense
Of vision, the muscle sense and the
sensation coming from the semi
circular canals will produce dizzi-
ness.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BLUE EAGLE WOMAN
Woman the delivererl

Correct Is President Roosevelt in his opin-
ion that the buying power lies largely in the
hands of Americas women. You will, II mar
Red. and you'll say that power" is the right
word for it.
BY no means does the fate Of the NRA
depend wholly. or even principally. upon get
ting more money into the possession Of the
masses. That money must be spent Judi
ciously. and there is no disputing the PROPOSE
ton that It will take judicious. confident
spending by the women to make the wheels
Of factories. railroad equipment and mills go
round and round again, normally.
This Is not written to urge plunge into
Injuries. 1t is safe to say that there are.
comparatively mighty few wardrobes In the
country that are not full Of worn-outs or
last-season habiliments: that there are mil
lions Of households that have been denied
common necessities and the little luxuries
which have contributed to making the Ameri-
can standard Of living the highest on earth.
Anything like general boarding or SELFISH
ness born of fear for ones individual inter-
ests and theren be no national industrial re-
IoscAy. lie blue Eagle Will nabCn no chicks
ever able to stand on their own legs. Active
and urgent in the mind OF every American
woman with newly-acquired money power
must be the certainty that boarding or con-
tinuance OF the pinching policy will mean
defeat of perhaps the last great effort to save
the country from a period of human misery
such as America has never before expert
enced.
To simply possess more money than in
the last four years OF fear, pinching and self
denial will not save. 1t will not save even the
possessor. The difference between possessing
and judiciously spending is like that between
the muddy stagnant, scum-covered mill pond
and the clear, flowing stream whose irrigation
means food for man and beast
Woman, you have great power Use it to
make the wheels of industry go round Don't
pawn it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
So They Say

The first thing to do once YOU
arrive in any place IS to sit down
and catch your breath and take a
nap if YOU feel so inclined.-Hendrik
w. Van Loon, author.
What the world really wants Is
liberalism. But what is going on
in the world really is the reverse to
liberalism.-Lord Grey of Fallodon.
Jesus had no interest In a religion
that divorced itself from righteous
ness.-Dr. william Pearson Tolley.
president of Allegheny college.
There are many sincere people
who regard warships as not only a
superluous luxury, but actually con-
slider them an incentive to war
Claude A. Swanson, secretary of the
navy.
do not think Mr.. Roosevelt can
reduce to order by legislation a
world of which chaos is the basic
principle.-Professor Harold j. Laski
of oxford university.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
:: The Message Center ::
wholly diapprOve you say you

Times readers are fnrited to cypress
their rietcs in these columns. Make Jour
Limit them 10 go cords or less. J
letters short, so al can hare chance.
A Reader
Haywood Broun, in his column
PUBLISHED in The Times, July "a,
makes one of the most pungent
comments upon the current scene
that I have read. He says:
Il am all for planned production
and for codes. but when I read that
some generous industry has gone
into huddle, only to come out with
the announcement that nobody is to
be paid less than S12 a week, 1
tremble for this purchasing power
which have seen mentioned so re-
Gently in the headlines of our news
papers.
Il don't see how anybody can keep
body and soul apart for S12 a week"
I suspect that a great many peo-
pie are beginning to wonder if the
MIRA is at best not just another
colossal blunder Of a colossal fat
head. From my seat in the upper
gallery, it has an even more sinister
aspect. Here is how the NRA will
affect one American family-that is,
American at present:
My father works fifty-six hours
week for S28. With that sum, we
have contrived an existence for four
persons. I call it merely an ex-
istence-not a life-because it has
meant cancellation of all social con-
facts. We do not accept hospitality
which we can not return. 1t has
meant that when we needed medi-
cal attention, we have been unable
to afford it. It has meant that
higher education is a luxury with
which we have dispensed. 1t has
meant-an existence.
A thirty-fve hour week for sl4
will mean that We must vacate the
rental property we occupy, for the
reason that current taxes viii not
permit further lowering of rental
rates. With S14 salaries the general
rule, will our landlord be able to let
his property? If not, how will he
be able to pay his taxes? But that
is something over which our bril-
liant statesmen may worry.
A thirty-five hour week for Sl4
will mean that our insurance must
lapse-that we can no longer meet
utility bills-that our food and
clothing will be scanty and meager
that We can not pay personal
property taxes-that my father will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
Diet for Hot Weather

.THERE is also the matter of hot
IL weather diet to which I have
referred in passing. The doctors
tell us to toy with lettuce, a mouth
full Of cold soup and perhaps a
radish. This is not the fare for
brave men. Although I never have
advocated tho use of spirits or any
other beverages which steal away
the brain and reduce man to the
level of the beasts, I must admit
that the last two or three days have
offered splendid opportunities for
drinking.
1 am not arguing that mint tuleps,
gin rickeys. highballs and old
fashioned cocktails actually reduce
the bodily temperature. AS Mrs.
Boole and other dry partiSans long
have contended. ten or twelve Of
these drinks likely are to make you
feel terrible. But In very hot
weather you are going to feel
terrible, anyway All say Is, What
have you got to lose?"
And then there is beer. II the
hot wave only continues I do not
see how the Democratic party.
which brought about the modifi-
cation Of the Volstead act. ever
can be defeated In winter. spring
and early autumn beer seems to me
more or less negative beverage. II
is merely tossup between even the
best of brews and good we'll water.
But in summer water Just won't do.
On hot days I advise all my clients
to shun it with fortitude. In order
TO turn a brave and bold face to
the sun you must have some slim
ulation. You must feel the drink as
1t pours into your ego Primitive
man drank beer. The saber- toothed
tiger did not. Where Is that tiger
today? Where is man? But per-
haps that Is an argument into
which we had better not go too
deeply.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
CONFIDENCE IN UNCLE SAM

CONFIDENCE in the government and be-
- lief that economic conditions are def
nitely on the mend are reflected in the quick
oversubscription OF the governments new Is
sue OF bonds and notes.
While the offering was for $3.50 900 900, 1t
Is now probable that more than billion in
obligations will be issued. Short-term loans
OF $500 900 900 will fall due this month and
next, and proceeds OF the loan will 90 for
their retirement. Conversion Of the So
called floating debt into long-term bonds
and notes Is regarded as desirable by the
government, since it does away with the ne
cessity for constant refnancing.
Success Of this issue-the first since 1881
-augurs well for the future borrowing that
will be necessary in connection with the re-
covery program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
BETTER BUSINESS CHART

THE President has created a new federal
statistical agency. statistical chart is
dry affair. So is a compass or a fever Their
mometer. But life sometimes depends on
them. Just as an inaccurate fever chart may
cost patients life. so an unreliable eco
nomic chart may close banks, bankrupt BUSH
neSSes and throw workers on the streets to
starve.
Indeed that Is more or less what happened
for two years. when officials Of the Hoover
administration were pulling figures out Of
around the corner
Despite our boosted American business
efficiency. 1t is little known fact that we
have no complete and authoritative govern
ment statistics on business and labor condi-
tiors. On a great many questions where pre-
else statistics are essential. we have been
operating by guesswork. or by misleading gen.
ordinations on inadequate figures
Therefore the Hoover administration was
not altogether to blame for its wish-fulfll-
ment flgures-the charts were so incomplete
often they could be read either way.
With the advent OF the Roosevelt admin
istration and the recognized need for definite
economic planning on national scale, the old
hit-or-miss government statistics were more
inadequate than ever.
The first reform was achieved when Sec
rotary Frances Perkins named Dr. Isidor
Lubin. an outstanding expert, to head and
reorganize the bureau of labor statistics.
Meanwhile. other cabinet officers were i'm
proving their statistical organization, and
many OF the emergency bodies, such as the
agricultural adjustment agency and the in
duStrial recovery administration, were setting
up new chart agencies.
That Is the purpose OF the new central
statistical board. On that board It Is said
there will be such men as Dr. Lubin for labor.
DR.. Mordecai Ezekiel for agriculture and DR..
Winfield Rieffler for the federal reserve
Given free hand they will gather statistics
that can be trusted
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05

TINE increase Of crime does some
Il thing more than terrorize a
people. It let's loose an emotional
rage for revenge that demoralizes
character and destroys all sober
judgment.
Kidnapings - Alpha and Omega
OF crime-lately have stirred the
beast within the national soul.
And so. everywhere there arises
the cry Let US kill Let us kill"
And by the time one or two or half
dozen. criminals have been exc
cuted, we shall probably say TO our
selves. Revenge, death, that does
the business"
But 1t will not be true. The only
thing that ever can put an end to
crime is the earnestness and speed
with which we apprehend and pun
ish the malefactor. Il Is national
determination that counts-not an
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
CURLING SPECULATION

THE housekeeping rules issued by the
Il New York Stock Exchange probably are
the wisest move ever made by Wall Street
The profesSed object OF the new rules is to
curb speculation. To that end margin require
mentS are increased and weekly reports to the
exchange committee are required on pool and
syndicate operations.
Whether these rules will prove adequate re-
mains TO be seen. Obviously the new system
will not even have chance Of success unless
the exchange members cooperate completely
and in good faith.
There are many who believe that half
way measures are not enough TO prevent the
worst speculative evils Especially there is 8
demand IN some responsible quarters for en-
forced publicity on pool operations as the
sureSt way TO produce results.
It is an open secret that the Roosevelt
administration Is studying the problem In
preparation for rigid regulation OF the Stock
Exchange II that expedient becomes neces-
sary. The administration would much prefer,
it Is said. for the Stock Exchange to regulate
itself, provided voluntary action gets under
way quickly.
Doubtless the knowledge that effective
voluntary regulation is the only alternative
to a strict government licensing system has
encouraged the board OF governors OF the
Stock Exchange to hasten the new rules.
In the midst OF the crucial national re-
covery plan, neither the administration nor the
nation can be indifferent TO the effects OF
unrestrained stock market speculation. II the
effect were merely to wipe out a few gamblers
the government would not be concerned.
But, unfortunately. stock quotations. no
matter how inaccurate they may be IN re-
fiecting actual business conditions. have .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
Inconsistencies Laid to Numerous Causes

EEW people have the slightest
l. idea of what is to be done
when another person suddenly
becomes unconscious. There are
numerous causes for this condi-
ton, but practically all Of them
are related in some manner to
the brain, since the brain is the
seat of consciousness.
A blow on the head: pressure
on the brain from a large blood
clot: lack of blood supply to the
brain; the effects of such drugs as
opium, ether, chloroform or alcohol;
or carbon monoxide gas may pro-
duce Inconsistencies.
A physician who is called to see
a person who suddenly has become
unconscious makes his decision as
to the cause Of inconsistencies
from a number of factors. He feels
the pulse TO determine whether. by
its rate and strength, the difficulty
is affecting the circulation Of the
blood.
He watches the breathing rate If
it is between IS and 80 and fairly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05

SATURDAY. AUG. 5. lass.

"a eCRIPPs-HoWARp NEWsPAPFRl

A COMPLETE solution for the KIDNAPPING
racket can be designed. ION paper" by
penalizing those who pay rewards to kid
napers Such a solution accords perfectly
with the theory that If you take the profit out
of crime there will be no crime.
But no law ever has been strong enough
to 90 against human nature.
That penalizing the reward payer does go
against human nature Is our fear in con-
nection with the recommendation made by
the Governor OF New York and others.
We only have to recall the recent waves
OF public emotion which have risen instinc-
lively in behalf Of the father and the
mother OF a kidnapped child or the wife OF a
kidnapped husband to give us pause on the
question OF whether a jury would ever convict
under statute penalizing those who pay
the reward
Failure Of such a statute to stand up
widespread refusal OF juries to convict--would
add one more chapter to the already long
story Of laws that are unenforceable.
To strengthen the law against the
NAANN4ePOA AAAAAoSAAt " NACalc oSotidllO
Yard" to set up any super-intelligence serv-
ice, no matter what the cost. in order to
stamp out this most vicious and heartrend-
ing Of all racket%yes.
But to prosecute the relative who has
gone through the torture and who has re-
sponded as you and would respond might
have the effect Of not retarding and stamping
out the crime. but Of demonstrating to the
racketeers themselves that one more law has
merely proved It's impotency.
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be spared the pleasant duty of pay
ing S4.56 gross income tax to In
diana.
A thirty-five hour week for s14
will mean that we can no longer
support my grandmother, who is one
Of fathers three dependents. Next
January, she will be a candidate for
an old-age pension. providing such
pensions can be paid from irevi-
tably curtailed tax returns.
My belief that all of these things
are deliberate attempt to wipe out
the middle class is founded on the
unvarnished truth that it is the
middle and lower classes that are
being forced to bear the brunt, the
major portion, OF the expense of at
tempted recovery retrogressive
recovery. If all this fanfare of
sharing work were accompanied by
agitation for capital levy against
those VINO well can afford it,
might believe differently. But on
this point there is discreet silence.
Let the forgotten man pay for the
capitalists forgotten mistakes. We
dare not cut Mellon"
And so when I see the spread
eagle OF the NRA, I shall know that
there operates a merchant who be-
lieves what the controlled Press of
this country with its usual pro-
clivity for presenting one side of a
case) Is stampeding him into con-
sldering right-who believes that
sl4 a week is a living wage-who
believes that he himself should be
spared the expense of rebuilding
what he is responsible for wrecking
who believes that what the United