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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

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BY Unemployed Musician.
1 am taking the liberty to call
your attention to the situation Of
the professional musician in our
Presidents NRA plan. All the codes
and laws are of no benefit TO us, as
the talking pictures with their
canned music displace the profess
sional musician two years before
other people felt the effect of the
depression, which we also had to
feel.
NRA will be no relief to us as
long as our city and state officials
allow police and firemen bands,
state university, mail employees
bands and children's organizations
to compete with us for what little
work there is left.
For example, in former years we
played twenty concerts in the parks
in the summer, and this year they
cut it TO three, with reduction in
wages. The remainder of the con-
certs are being played by the police
and firemen's band and a children's
orchestra.
The Governor and the state agri-
culture board employed the Indiana
university band for a weeks en-
gagement at the state fair, cutting
the professional band to three days.
with a reduction in wages
Any fair-minded person can see
the injustice in such unfair compe-
tition. even though the bonus they
receive is put in pension fund. or
some promoters pocket The pro-
fessional musician must pay taxes
to pay the salaries of the police and
firemen and to help support our
state universities.
Ninety per cent of the parents of
boys in the I. U. band are f1nan-
cially able to send them to I. U,
or else they wouldn't be there The
I. U. band saves the state no money,
for it costs the state more than a
professional band.
The Indiana Symphony orchestra
tried to get to play for the state on
Indiana day at the Century of Prog
ress. but had as competition the In
dianapolis News boys band, which
received the contract to play this
concert.
This sort of thing is only not most
unjust and unfair competition, but
is a direct violation of the Presi-
dents program. 1t gives some state
and government employees two jobs
and violates the child labor law
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
MAKING DRIVING SAFER

VXTISDOM of a state law requiring biennial
w inspection of autos is shown by the
latest statistics of the Pennsylvania revenue
department
Last week, 1890 autos we're inspected for
the Oct. period. And more than 70 per cent
of them we're found to be in need of mechanical
adjustments
Presumably most of the adjustments were
minor and of little consequence. But in many
cars. serious defects weres found-defects I'M
known to the driver and that might have led
to fatal accidents at some future time.
And under the states regulations, these
defects have to be corrected before compul-
sorry inspection stickers are granted
Undoubtedly, these requirements have pre-
vented hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of
accidents. While many motorists have
grumbled over the idea of having their autos
inspected twice a year, they admit that it
makes driving safer for them and their fam
lilies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
BE lust OR DIE

A COURT Of equity will not lend its aid TO
u protect a business which can survive
only by depressing its workers"
These words, part Of decision by Judge
Harry Fisher of Chicago in case arising from
a dispute between garment factory and its
workers. sum up one OF the most important
phases of the recovery campaign about as well
as any one sentence could
It's worth looking for moment at their
background.
The workers in this Chicago plant we're out
on strike Their weekly wages we're somewhere
by the MIRA.
Their hours Of work we're said to be from
ffty-hve to sixty hours a week The factory
owners. seeking an injunction to stop the
strikers from picketing explained that keen
competition forced them to pay low wages and
impose long hours
But the judge, after laying down the
principle quoted above. denied the plea for an
injunction, ordered NRA hours and wage
scales TO be installed at once. and ruled that
may be dopted for the garment industry.
Now there is more in this than lust the
settlement OF another strike. Judge Fishers
oiunt statement expresses a truth that ought
to have been selfevident long time ago but
which seldom previously has won approval
from the bench.
The pressure of competition is the most
frequently used of all excuses for unsatis-
factory working conditions. From lumber
camps to textile mills. from sugar beet fold.
to coal towns, it has been cited over and over
again when workers have protested intolerable
conditions.
sometimes it has been just an alb and
sometimes it has been justified by facts. Now
al iastr 1t gets judicially knocked on the head
unless you can pay your workers decent
wage and make it possible for them to live like
human beings, you've got no right to be in
business at all-that, in substance, is what it
says. 1t makes pretty good rule.
And that is why these various codes are 60
important. They not only seek to improve the
workers lot; they aim to curb reckless
competition so that it no longer will no nsces-
Sary Tor an employer to pay starvation wages
and impose sweatshop hours.
They offer protection to the emolover uho
wants to do the right thing. To the otbor
KIND they offer a one-way exit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
On the Upside

IN one sense 1 do not think the
Il present publicity and the
promised publicity for the Blue
Eagle have been altogether shrewd-
ly contrived. We have heard too
much about economic death" and
the terrible fate which waits for
chisellers and recalcitrants.
I'd like to see a survey made
without the names Of the individ-
uals or the concerns) in which some
report is made as to the actual
effect Of the new provisions upon
the individual.
On the same morning that I saw
the picture Of the little restaurant
keeper who had been mobbed I ran
into an elevator man who is a friend
of mine. How is the code working
for you, Joe?" I asked
Well, he said, Il used to work
twelve hours day, six days week.
That makes seventy-two hours. Now
l work forty and get the same pay.
1 guess l can't complain"
I'm aware of the fact that one ele-
vator operator doesn't make a new
deal, but I am impressed by the fact
that something can happen in
Washington which at one fell swoop
cuts a workers day almost in two.
When 1t happens TO enough people
I'd be willing 10 call it a revolution.
And I'll say that long before my
working hours are cut in two. After
all. that would require very steady
hand and sharp instrument.
Copyright. 1893. BIZ The T.mesI
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
Infant Death Rate Steadily Decreases

with 81, and Philadelphia and De-
troit with 50. But even the remain
ing six of the largest cities in the
United States all show decreases
from 1881 rates.
The figures for these cities. in
GLIDING Cleveland, Los Angeles, St.
Louis, Boston, Baltimore, and
Pittsburgh, range from So to 81.
Low infant mortality rates are the
results of many forces, including
the social and economic status.
climatic factors and similar in
fiuences, as well as public health
effort.
It is clear that the number of
babies under / year Of age dying in
the United States steadily is de-
creasing and that the effects Of
modern, scientific, preventive med
icine are directly measurable by
these records.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

TT generally is recognized that the
l. number of death of infants I'M
der l year of age in any COM
munity is fairly good test Of the
sanitary conditions in that COM
munity.
For some years the American
Child Health Association has made
available the report of infant deaths
in almost a thousand cities.
The records for 1882 are striking
and afford valuable information
concerning health conditions in va
rioys parts of the country.
The total rate for 943 cities was
56.S, the lowest ever attained in
this country and approximately
half what the rate was twenty
years ago.
The lowest rate in cities with
populations of more than 100000
was for Portland, Ore. with thirty
four deaths for each 1000 babies.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
Lost in Night
BY CHRISTIE RTDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
Scattered cross the hills
A silent web Of moon dust,
To my lone heart thrills,
A symphony of the stars.
Walking upon the fall at night.
Listening for words unspoken-un-
croSt,
Rising comes languid light.
A rhapsody in which my soul is lost
Searching for loneliness, some vague
thought,
I've whispered and grasped. no
sound lives,
The meaning Of beauty I've vainly
sought.
Undying mortality nothingness gives.
The earth is solid-but space is
there,
I'm dangling bewildered-my hearts
In the air.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
On Buying Steel Rails
60 far. Henry Ford seems to hs

GO far, Henry Ford seems to have
~ manifested no enthusiasm for
any sort of automobile code. I Won
der if the American public would
justly be called punitive and in
tolerant If it failed to fall all over
itself in the matter of buying Ford
cars in case Henry stands out.
I don't think so. My attitude
would be to abstain, and If Myron
Taylor maintains his present atti-
tude I'm going to be pretty pernick-
ETY. about where I got my steel rails.
There is possibly apocryphal
story about General Johnson which
expresses my feeling in this matter
TO the dot. In an unofficial news
paper conference a reporter spoke
up for the little fellow" and the
hardships which the Blue Eagle
might impose on him.
You mean the employer who
won't pay as much as a minimum
wage of S12 week for forty hours?"
Eyes" said the newspaper man.
why, that three-dash, two-dash,
one-dash, four-dashl" replied john
son. I'm just going to weep my eyes
out for him"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

resent you understand that they
must account to you for their &C
tons and their policies.
The indianapolis Times has
fought many a battle for the people
of this state. and the people of In
diana are asking you, the editor of
The Indianapolis Times. to lead us
in our fight for honest government.
Help lis clean our house, before we
fall into the slough of Communistic
despair.
BY a Subscriber TO The Times.
I have read code after code ana
have wondered where the girl work.
ing in a private home comes in.
Who puts in more hours than We?
Ten, twelve, fourteen hours a day
and Sunday is the hardest day we
have. A man who gives his wife the
luxury of maid comes home tired
cross and hungry. Who takes care
of all his needs? Not his wife. She
has been out all afternoon driving
her own car and spending his money
on bridge or poker
II is the maid who actually takes
care of him. If we ask for a Sun
day off, they look at us like we had
horns, and if we do get off. we have
to hire some one in our place and
pay them more than we get our
selves.
Give us a break. I don't say our
hours could be shortened much. Ten
dollars a week is fair enough for
the service one girl gives. But let
us have Sunday off. If they can af-
ford everything that comes along.
they surely can eat their Sunday
dinner out and let the madam get
breakfast one day week. 1t will do
her good and no harm.
Wish 1 could sign this, but have
my mother and three children de-
pending on me. l have to take
what l can get and like it.
Give this thought, even though
we don't get a break.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

TINE Buffalo Times, through Sy-
l. bill Reppert, staff writer, is
featuring social and municipal i'm
provements now being made by GER
tain women of that city-and the
series is inspirational as well as
informative.
We meet. for instance. Mrs.
George Garfield. who once convinced
that many moving pictures the chill
dren Of the neighborhood attended
were harmful. started a quiet re-
form of her own, which is working
There was no ballyhoo and no
charges of immortality. Mrs. Can
field merely persuaded members Of
her club to call upon the managers
Of the moving picture theaters and
the woman talked TO them as one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
1t Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN :

NEW YORK. Aug. "A few
y persons have asked me, Are
you In favor Of NRA?" and when
I've answered. Yes. 1 am" they
have cited for me cases which no
code has touched as yet-instances
where codes have wrought prac-
tically no good at all and episodes
of cruel and bloody intolerance.
OF course. I'm not for these
things. note in the Daily News
the picture Of a man all cut and
bleeding. with the caption. BE
cause Max Komen's little st. Louis
restaurant didn't display NfSA sign.
a mob seized and beat him and
forced him 10 kiss the Blue Eagle
And naturally I'm not for that.
l think it's monstrous. But l can
not share at all in the indigna-
ton of those who are shocked at
the suggestion that consumers
should follow the Eagles trail when
they make their purchases.
The nation, for instance. raises
its hands in holy horror because
General Hugh s. Johnson said in
his St. Louis address, If you see
a place where there is none mo Blue
Eagle-Ed) and you do any KIND
of business there you have a right
TO ask. Brother. where is your Blue
Eagle?' and If the answer does not
seem fair TO take your business else
where"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

upon the part Of the opposition are
no earthly good
Understanding is what counts.
just as cooperation and not strife
is the way for men and women to
move forward in any endeavor.
We often hear it said that only
fanatics can bring on reformations
but the trouble is that their re-
forms never stick. They last only
long enough to mess things up worse
than ever.
If We wish to better the world in
which our children must live, we've
simply got 10 stop shouting at one
another and learn the merits of
compromise.
The thing to work for is the
greatest good for the greatest num-
Der. We can't al be right. you know.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal OF the American Medi-
cal Association of HyKeia, the
Health Magazine.

st. Paul, San Francisco and Oak
land (Cal) follow closely after
Portland, with rates of thirty-nine
and forty.
In cities from 100000 to 25o.ooo
population, Long Beach, Cal, is
first with thirty-six; Grand Rapids,
Mich, second with thirty seven, and
Spokane, Wash, third with forty.
Cleveland Heights, o., suburban
city in the $4,000 to 100000 pop
ulation class, had no infant deaths
of this type ard thus leads all the
cities Of the country. 1t is followed
by Cicero, Ill, and Berkeley, Cal,
each with rate of IS.
Among the ten largest cities in
the United States, Chicago led with
a rate of 49,, followed by New York
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
For the Public Interest

II SEE no reason to object to this
Il counsel. If William Green.
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor. made a speech in
which he said. When you buy
goods. look for the union label" I
would agree thoroughly. and I doubt
that the nation would care TO dis
sent.
If you believe that the national
recovery act is an earnest effort to
shorten hours. to increase wages and
to decrease unemployment. l see
no reason why you should not alb
stain from dealing with people who
refuse to help.
Some of those who are trying very
hard to sabotage the act are great
industrialiSts. Others are petty
merchants. In either case the an
swer is the same. They contend that
to comply with the provisions Of the
code would cost them money.
Well, of course. that's the idea
If the purchasing power of the ma
ton is to be raised. it won't be pos
sible to allow certain employers to
sit on the sun deck and reap poten-
tial benefits without having made
even the slightest contribution.
I am told Myron Taylor can make
a most eloquent address with charts
and statistical tables in which he
undertakes to show that a forty
hour week or anything less is wholly
impossible in the steel industry. I
hear it is quite convincing.
I am just wondering whether it is
any more convincing than the argu-
rlent which Mr. Gary used to make
that the eight-hour day never could
be introduced into United States
Steel. and that two twelve-hour
shifts were vitality necessary. Not
very long after the eight hour day
was introduced. big Steel earned
more than $50 a share in a single
year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
So They Say

The rewards of specialization
shorter hours of work, more in
terest in the work, greater oppor-
tunlty for research and better fees
have attracted into specialization
far more physicians than the need
of the situation demands.-Dr.
Morris Fishbein. editor of Journal of
the American Medical Association.
We annihilate other parties. II
they do not dissolve voluntarily, we
dissolve them.-Dr. Paul j. Goeb-
bells, Nazi minister Of propaganda.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
A Woman'S Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON,

parent to another-for the managers
usually are parents. like the rest of
use, remember. and none of them
has any desire to ruin the morals OF
children.
A truce was declared and a pact
made. The managers promised to
get the kind Of pictures the par
ents thought at least harmful and
the parents promised to drum up
trade for these pictures; and so
everybody is happy.
=
A S this aptly illustrates. the first
"A step in intelligent change is to
sit down calmly andaconsider the
other fellows side of Vie case. Ac-
cusstions and charges Of evil intent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

when they employ bands and or
chestras where so per cent Of the
members are under age.
These statements may all be veri-
fed by calling r. Shusler, secre-
tary Musicians local, No 3, Riley
1881, 143 East Ohio street, Room
214, Indianapolis.
BY Times Reader.
How much longer are the people
of Indiana going to stand for the
corruption. graft and wastefulness
that has characterized Indiana gov
eminent for the last twenty-five
years? The fact that the men who
have sought and gained the offices
of power in this state have done so
merely for personal enrichment and
gain at the expense of the trusting
masses always has been and now is
apparent to the Indiana citizen.
We used to be able to laugh it off,
but now. with the very existence Of
our political entity and the sur
vival of our economic structure
hanging in the balance, We no long
er can do so. am not laying the
blame on the present administra-
toni am laying it at the door Of
our party politics system.
Republicans and Democrats alike
have violated the trust and conf
dence placed in them by the people
of Indiana. I am not a radical, but
say that the time has come for
the citizens to stamp oIt once and
forever the rotten, corrupt, profit
making that has become the all i'm
portaQt element in our state gov
eminent.
People of Indiana, rise and fight
for clean and honest government
before it is too late to save our be-
] loved state. Let the men who rep
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22
Debts and Debts

Bv 6. l..
l have rendezvous with DEBT.
It's years ago when first we met.
The dollars then were small, the
DEBT was tall.
He was so nice, did not mind at
all.
This DEBT has PRINCIPAL, has
he,
And has an INTEREST in me;
Had worked and worked by night
and day.
While I, at rest in a perforce way.
Now in this rendezvous with
DEBT,
I have to go with him to bat.
And when the final score is called,
will be broke, have nothing at
all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

Midsummer sales have reduced the prices
Of bathing suits. says an advertisement. Yes.
we've noticed that . lot Of folks are be5ing
them fer ridiculous figure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

We read that Mary Pickford and Douglas
Fairbanks may forget their differences and go
back together. That shouldn't be difficult
for two persons who have had so much ex-
perience in the art of makeup.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

In his newest drives, Uncle Sam seems to
be determined to take the profit" out of
profiteers' and put the tears" in "racketeers."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

What will come after repeal?" asks an
editorial writer. Nobody knows, but many
folks doubtless hope that it will be lot better
than the stuff they are getting now
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

British bridge players lost that inter
national game to Americans. London bridge,
it appears, is falling down
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

outcome of the plot of the average movie
mystery story.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

Sooner or later, the daredevil stunt aviator
finds that flying is exactly what it is cracked
up to be.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

The farmer gets his relief from the fed
eral government. Amateur gardeners get
theirs from sunburn lotion
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

It's just as well to look at these things
enthusiastically At least those big bankers
who paid no income tax didn't get rebates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-22

Nowadays nothing is certain but death and
higher taxes.
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Evening star., 1933-12-17
6S Broadcasting
Stations Are NO,U
Listed in Canada
All But Fire in Dominion
Are Privately O,Oned
and Operated.

Sixty-eight broadcasting stations, all
but five of them privately owned and
operated, are listed in the new official
log of Canadian stations just issued by
the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Com
mission. The log has been compiled
since the recent radical shifts in wave
and power assignments ordered by the
commission, which caused Canadians
generally-and American listeners to
Canadian stations-to dial to new
settings for their favorite stations
The commission itself owns and
operates five stations, namely. CRCM
Montreal; CRCO, Ottawa; CRCT, To-
ronto; CRCS, Chicoutimi, and CRVC,
Vancouver
Most significant in the list is the fact
that the Canadians have wedged out
ward the broadcast band, widening it
to embrace not only the 540-kilocycle
frequency at the lower end, but the
1,510-kilocycle frequency at the upper
end. On $40 kilocycles. the channel
formerly occupied by CKLW, Windsor,
Ontario. just opposite Detroit, is CJRM,
a l.oOO-watt station at Belleplaine
Saskatchewan, where the Canadians
propose later to establish a $4,000
waiter.
On 1910 kilocycles are the 100-watt
CKCR, Waterloo, Ontario, and CFRC
Kingston. Ontario The Canadians
thus definitely indicate their intention
of using the 1.500-1 800 kilocycle band
for broadcasting band of channels
recently designated by the American
Radio Commission as being reserved
for general communications, but which
the American commission may shortly
open also to limited power stations In
this country.