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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
RAE THE SLUMS

CECRETARY HAROLD ICKES plans to or
- ganize federal slum abatement corpora
tion with power to condemn land, raze crime
breeding Stun tenements and erect homes for
rent or sale at reasonable rates.
Nothing, economists agree. will help more
quickly to pull America out Of depression than
a nationwide rehousing movement. At least
100000 homes" are unfit for human ,habita-
tiop many million more should be modernized
and fitted to 1884 needs. For months the fed
eral government has stood ready to aid cities.
Long-term loans at per cent have gone beg
ging. Only sixteen projects, costing in all
some 100000, have been accepted by the
housing board The public works adninistra-
ton was ready to loan $500, 100000 or more.
But owners of available land have been
clinging to 1929 values and refusing to take
losses on speculative prices. Two cities have
been held back by debt or inhibited by state
laws from undertaking rehousing work them
selves. Only Ohio, of all the states, allows
cities to build and own tenements. While
other states hold back in lberalizi1g their
laws the government has been deluged with
doubtful private housing schemes, some
amounting to little more than confidence
games.
When private and state initiative fail in
national crisis, the federal government must
act.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
A CHARMING GENERAL

TIOW can one possibly hesitate about clasp
Il ing to ones bosom, metaphorically
speaking, that splendid fellow, General john
son, general of NRA? In order to promote his
Buy Now campaign, the general kindly offers
some gospel to merchants which same this
paper is strongly tempted to accept as divinely
inspired.
In order to increase sales" advises the
general, 1.-TWO courses Of action are absolutely
essential. First, give the public attractive
fairly priced merchandise. Secondly, agrees
sively promote your products to the public.
The modern method is advertising"
Good bargains aggressively advertised!
Solomon himself couldn't have thought up a
better plan for bringing down two birds with
one stone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
SIMPLE, BUT EFFECTIVE

THE foreman Of grand jury in a mid
u western city recently startled the law en-
forcement officials of his town by initiating
his own investigation into the activities of
racketeers and gangsters. Among the things
he sought to find out was why the police were
not reader to move against criminals for
possession of firearms
THE police chief" he pointed out, must
know fifty racketeers and criminals who go
about the city carrying guns, or accompanied
by bodyguards who carry guns. Why can't
these men be arrested and prosecuted for
carrying concealed weapons?"
Why, indeed? That's question a vast
number of citizens would like to have an
swered The laws Of practically every state
provide penalties for carrying concealed
weapons.
It is trife hard for the ordinary citizen
to understand why an alert administration
could not use this law to put very material
crimp in the activities of an underworld
which habitually goes armed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
SATURDAY. OCT. II. 1898.
THE GREAT GARBAGE BATTLE

COME people are getting laugh out Of the
~ citys campaign against garbage hijack-
ers The idea that man can be arrested
for stealing anything so worthless is rather
amusing.
Yet garbage Is not worthless to the city
and hence 1t has genuine value to the tax
payer. Indianapolis has spent a large sum
of money to construct a processing plant
which extracts valuable by-products from the
things the ordinary citizen wastes. Grease
for soap manufacturing and feed for live
stock are made from garbage and sold by the
municipality
II the garbage plant can not get enough
raw material 1t becomes Just that much more
costly to the taxpayers.
Have as much fun as you like over the
sanitary boards insistence on getting all the
available garbage in the city, but while you
are chucking remember that the board is
trying to save you money.
The sanitary commissioners are showing
comendable zeal in attempting to plug this
small leak in the city's revenues. If the same
spirit we're shown by every other city depart
ment the taxpayer could hope for some relief
next year.
That city budget must be reduced The
city's income must be increased.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Supplement to Repeal

4 ND yet, like Mr.. Rockefeller, I
"A can not quite abstain from
making suggestions. think prohi-
bition and other moral questions
might be solved by a sort Of
regional plan. I would have in
twenty-five focal points throughout
the United States twenty-five I'M
inhibited areas established. In other
words, circuit of cities Of sin. I
do not wish to criticize Mr.. Rookie
Teller or others, but I think 1t was
a mistake to destroy those two
towns Of the plain from which Lot
ran for his life I think that the
surrounding countryside was less
content and happy thereafter.
In these cities Of sin here in the
United States there would be gin
and roulette and other evil things.
But nobody except the depraved in
habitants would be allowed to stay
more than two weeks. AS a result,
in small towns and tiny hamlets
men and women would face their
daily toll and tasks quite cheerfully
as they said to themselves: only
315 days more and get my fort
night in the city Of SIM"
And, Of course, hope and expect
that If there is any justice in the
world I would be sitting even more
prettily under the new dispensation.
I plan to be a charter member.
Copyright. 1888. by The Times
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Oct. 14.-John D.
L Rockefeller Jr.. the gentleman
who built Radio City, has been &C
tive during the last few days in
issuing charts, regulations and pros
pectuses about what to do with pro-
hibition after it has disappeared.
We are not amused. We are not
even much impressed.
I think Mr.. Rockefeller diSquah-
fed himself as an expert on the
very day he gave out an interview
which began with the not very ex-
citing statement that neither he nor
his father had ever touched a drop
Of intoxicant in any form.
1t seems TO me that the obvious
answer to any adviser from such a
quarter must be: Better luck next
time, old fellow, and now would you
mind stepping down and giving a
chance to somebody who knows
what he's talking about?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
M. E. TracyS Says:

TTITLER'S ministry of justice announces that
l. l. it will permit doctors to put incurableS out
of the way under certain conditions. one con-
dition is that the patient request it If mentally
capable of doing SO, or if not, that 1t be sane
toned by near relatives. Another condition IS
that the diagnosis Of incurability be confirmed
by at least two doctors representing the state
Euthanasia. they call it-good death--and
the problem it involves has set all Germany
by the ears Roman Catholics, contend1ng that
God alone has the right to take life, voice as
much opposition as they dare under Nazi rule
Orthodox Lutherans, committed to similar
view, are equally unfavorable. Both Catholics
and Lutherans, however, have more than once
condoned that form of wholesale murder known
as war, which weakens their argument.
AS most people readily perceive, the ques-
ton is not one of governmental rights, but of
social justice and good sense Few quarrel with
the idea of preventing useless suffering but
many sfliver at the doors it opens when carried
to the point of sanctioning death
ITOW many people have expressed willing
L l. ness to die when undergoing the pain OF
some long drawn out disease only to get well and
enjoy life afterwards How many cases have
been pronounced incurable only to prove that
doctors were too pessinlistic or had made mis-
take?
Twenty years ago the civilized world looked
upon IeprOSy as 1nCuTdUl6, DuI uOW IL ID IedOy
to concede an element of hope The same thing
is true of tuberculosis lockjaw and even cancer.
Sometimes, a patients doom is self-evident,
but generally it is so near the end as to make
intervention unnecessary.
The hopelesSly insane furnish the best ground
for removing incurables, but who knows what we
may gain by continuing to study and experiment
with them?
The idea Of permitting human beings to
linger on and suffer for the sake Of knowledge
is very unpleasant but where would we be today
without it?
TAKING the cold-blood Nad view of this
Il question, how can the medical profession
learn to overcome incurable diseases by putting
patients out of the way?
Very little has been learned by treating people
who were destined to get well. If policy Of
killing off consumptives had been instituted 100
years ago when they were regarded as incur
able, civilization would have been robbed OF a
splendid triumph.
Well, what we regard as incurabe today
may prove otherwise tomorrow but how are we
going to know If We destroy the best possible
source of knowledge?
OF course, there are many other angles to
the problem, such as the opportunity for COM
pounded crime, the denial of an individuals
right TO fight for life and the inhumanity Of de-
Gliding that he has no chance on the imperfect
knowledge we now possess.
We have to tolerate pain and bear burdens
in order to grow. The promise of a foolproof
world invariably includes the prospect Of a
world full of fools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
CONTROL

After studying the liquor control report
turned in by his personally selected commits
sion of expert Investigators, John D. Rookie
Teller Jr. announces his conviction that two
primary considerations should guide liquor
control legislation-abolition OF lawlessness ana
promotion of temperance-and that the one
certain way to stamp out bootlegging and
other evils Of Illicit traffic Is to eliminate the
profits therein.
Mr. Rockefeller might have put the mat
ter in fewer words by stating that control OF
Iawlessness depends upon control Of the profits
from selling liquors, control Of intemperance
being beyond the reach of law.
Upon the voting of repeal, more than half
of the forty-eight states will still have Statu-
tory or constitutional prohibition. Some Of
these states will, undoubtedly, attempt to con-
troll through more or less dry" legislation.
At any rate, 1t will require long time for
discovery and adoption of anything like gen.
eral plan of control Meanwhile, harvest time
for the bootlegger-unless the federal govern
ment controls the profits of the legitimate
traffic, and profits always depend upon the
prices of the goods dealt in.
In the case Of liquor, there is involved in
control of prices and profits control of the
quality of the goods With good liquors at
reasonable price, none save the foolish, men
tally and morally defective, will risk death,
blindness, paralysis and general degeneracy
on cheap rotgut; and, at heart, the common
attitude of society toward such consumers
would be merely to wish them well on their
road to some sort of mundane hell. Reform of
reckless hard drinkers is at a low ebb, save
in dubious reforming instances when we Jail
them.
The field for the illicit traffic, with all that
we've endured under alleged prohibition, IS
highly promising. That traffic as any other
is to be controlled by eliminating its poten-
TALLY for profits. The ordinary temperance
promotion is right but hopeless as to control
of liquor lawlessnesS. We've had, in the past
thirteen years, enough of alcoholic deaths
poiSonings. blindness, fatal auto accidents"
and organized crime to vaccinate temperance
considerations into people ten times our size
Aim at the profitsl And, right here, as
usual, enters the difficult matter of taxation.
Tax too high and numerous and happy are
those in the Illicit traffic, policy somewhat
resembling that. in possible final effects, of
pegging the pork market by prematurely
butchering our pregnant sowS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Autumn Love
BY JARRETT SCOTT OLINICH

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
We held rapture in our hands,
Love in our hearts as sharp as
autumn stars,
And the same hushed foreboding
That haunts all Autumn's hours.
We held music in our hearts.
Music drawn from a muted string;
And we spoke softly to each other
Lest we break the lovely thing.
Love was life; there existed nothing
That could separate we two.
Our love was as eternal as the coral
moon
And the sky's autumn blue.
But autumn slipped away one night
And a cold moon held the sky;
And it seemed easy in the sad still
ness
OF leaves falling, for an Autumn
love 70 die.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
Science Learns Effect of Climate on Health

Moreover, Hippocrates contrasted
such people with the inhabitants OF
hot, undrained regions and said:
IF there be no rivers and the water
that the people drink be marshy and
stagnant, the physique of the peo-
pie must show protruding bellies
and enlarged spleens."
The famous Greek, father Of mod
ern medicine, recognized the malaria
which affects people who live in
low, marshy areas, without having
any clear understanding, as we have
today, about the nature Of malarial
disease.
Thus, since the earliest periods,
men have attempted to relate cli-
mate to various disease conditions.
The climate includes temperature,
humidity, altitude and similar fac
tors.
But there still is little, If any,
exact knowledge. Experiments nat
urally must be extended over a long
period of time and include vast
numbers Of people. 1t is very easy
to mistinterpret statistics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
NEW DEAL RELIEF

4 15-year-old boy has been supporting his
widowed mother and sister by working
after school for dairy He is going to lose
his job because NRA codes forbid employment
OF children under 16. But what will he and
his mother and sister do for food and shelter?
The children's bureau of the department
Of labor heard of this case and hundreds Of
others like it soon after the NRA began It's
child labor crusade and realized something
must be done. 1t appealed to Relief Admin
istrator Harry Hopkins and orders went out
at once to all state relief bodies directing them
to find out from public schools what children
with work permits are being deprived of
chance to earn.
Where investigation shows that such chill
dren are the sole support of dependents an
attempt will be made to find work for an adult
in the family, or, falling this relief will be
given. The government is not going to wait
until these families have gone through the
suffering of restitution and have finally been
forced to appeal for help 1t Is going to help
now.
This Is one of the brilliant stars in the
crown of the new deal relief administration.
There are many others-for to the full extent
of the means at hand it is trying to end the
hideouS conditions that have disgraced the
United States for the last few years 1t is
trying to end slow starvation on insufficient
relief and also degradation of spirit.
Americans may feel just pride in this new
policy of their government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14

work to the people, to supply the
needs of the country and not to
support a parasite class? He states
that Socialism is our worst enemy.
Whose enemy2 Greed, of course.
Socialism teaches no man shall
have luxuries until all men are clad
and fed decently.
Our roads, schools, bridges, police
and fire protection, the Panama
canal, parks, public health serves
and hospitals, streets, ETC., are So
cialized. Too bad that speculative
finance can not build pyramids of
holding companies on these. Does
this kind of Americanism oppose
this kind of Socialism? If SO. his
patriotism is the last refuge of the
Scoundrel.
When did Socialists ever oppose
democratic government? Never,
of course. The Socialists meetings
always are open to the public. They
are glad to give information.
He alleges that Socialism is anti
Christian. Why then, has Catholic
Milwaukee reelected a Socialist
mayor for the last seventeen years?
Why does Reinbold Niebhur of the
Theological Seminary, Halford Luc-
cock of Yale Divinity school, Sher-
wood Eddy and Bishop John Hayes
Holmes serve on the editorial staff
of the World Tomorrow, Social
ist magazine? Why did Norman
Thomas Of the Presbyterian clergy
choose to join the Socialists? Be-
cause it applied Christianity.
Mr.. Maddox has reached the
height of audacity in serving up
pure nonsense, in stringing to-
gether senseless and extravagant
mazes of words, such as has pre-
viously been known only in mad
houses. But we agree with Mr..
Maddox in one thing, that he is an
expert in subversive propaganda.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14

(Times readers are nvited to cypress
their. Uiea0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare q chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or lesS.)
BY Charles Burton.
More than $50 years ago our FORE
fathers proclaimed in the Declara-
ton of independence that the su-
preme function of government is to
make secure for men their inalien-
able right to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. Moreover, the
fathers declared that whenever any
form of government becomes de-
structive of these ends, it is the
right of the people to alter or abol-
ish such and to institute a new
government, laying its foundations
on such principles, organizing its
powers in such form as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their
safety and happiness. Such are the
two basic principles Of human lib
erty and genuine AmericaniSm laid
down by the founders of this re-
public.
It now has come to pass that there
has grown up in this nation a Sys-
tenn of business industry and finance
which has enthroned economic kings
and financial barons over our lives
vastly more powerful, more ire
sponsible and more dangerous to hu-
man rights than the political kings
whom the fathers overthrow in our
American revolution in 1776.
These economic rulers now have
such absolute control over the eco
nomic life Of the people as to
threaten the very foundation OF this
republic.
Under this system Of production
for private profit, these rulers have
created conditions that are intoler-
able. They have drawn billions in
profit, rent and interest, and they
have slashed our wages and the
prices of our farm products to moth
ing short of peonage. They have
used the rnarvels Of the machine
age not to lift the burden Of toll
from our shoulders, but to speed up
beyond human endurance and to
throw jobless millions upon the
streets.
They have taken the products Of
our labor and not paid us enough
to buy back the goods We have pro-
duced, causing overproduction and
underconsumption. They have
wasted our natural technical and
human resources and led us into
more tragic periods Of industrial
chaos. They have mortgaged our
farms and sold them from under
us.
They have lived in mansions and
evicted us from shacks, led us to
trust in their banks and stolen our
savings. They have invaded our
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

50 great that he has been forced to this step
he says, and he adds significantly:
IF the government goes into business, It
has got to go into it In business-like way"
Right there DR.. Morgan has put his finger
on one Of the most important elements in the
whole case Much Of the fear Of "the govern
ment in business" arises from the tl1stilable
belief that big government jobs are apt to
become happy hunting grounds for the patron
age boys.
If Uncle Sam is going into business on
large scale-as, apparently, he is-it is highly
important that politics be divorced from the
passing out of jobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
ONLY SEVEN WEEKS LEFT

ME first concern now of friends of tenn
perance and advocates of repeal is to
avoid chaos after Dec. 5.
Florida'S overwhelming rejection of the
eighteenth amendment brings to thirty three
the unbroken phalanx of states whose voters
have decided for reform. Six more states vot-
ing Nov. are certain to bring the total past
the necessary minimum OF thirty-six and the
total of ratifying conventions already sched-
uled will bring final annulment on Dec. 5.
The tremendous wave has moved much
faster than any one believed possible. Prohi-
bitions strongest opponents thought six
months ago they would have at least two years
to prepare for the problems of repeal-chiefy
control and taxation.
Ten of the nineteen states where liquor sale
will be permitted as soon as repeal is COM
pleted already have acted, by setting up state
control and either tax or license systems. In
other states, where state prohibition is being
forced out by popular sentiment. leaders are
planning control systems to prevent disas-
trous and ansrchic hiatus.
But in the nine so-called wet" states
which have not yet acted. something must be
done within the next seven weeks. These
states are Illinois, Indiana Louisiana, Mary
land, New Jersey, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Washington and Wisconsin. Preprohibition
local licensing regulations will be effective in
many of the communities involved, but the
vicious old-time system of free-flowing liquor
and huge profits fouriShed under them That
system should not return, even in few states.
The cost is too great. There should be ade-
cuate control.
The Association Against the Prohibition
Amendment has asked the Governors Of these
states to call special legislative sessions at once
to meet this critical situation. This is not too
much or too expensive. to ask
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14

IF you have a touch of rheuma-
1 tism in your bones you probably
have amused your friends with your
infallible prediction of the coming
of bad weather.
And you, as we'll as they, have
wondered why.
Physicians, too, have wondered
why the weather has had so much
to do not only with rheumatism,
bnt with many other ills Of the
human body. They only have be-
gun to discover the reasons.
In the case of your rheumatism,
for instance, the doctors have found
that the blood changes with baro-
metric pressure, and therefore with
the weather.
Similar peculiarities Of the body
have been discovered with regard
to ricketts,, goiter, and other all
ments.
1t long has been known that
ricketts, is more frequent in poverty
stricken slums. But it is only re-
Gently that doctors have learned
that ricketts, is due to failure Of the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-14
A Woman's Viewpoint !:

might there unlearn about two
thirds of everything they memorized
at high school and college.
Education, being continuous
process, consists as much in the art
of discarding useless mental trash
as it does in accommodating valuable
knowledge. The truly educated man
is an able forgotten He can un-
learn, as well as learn.
Some Of our devotees Of handball
and golf could stand good deal
more mental gymnastics than they
get. The American adult will go to
any lengths to keep his arteries
soft, which now and then, tends to
make his head hard.
I wish we could give the kids a
general holiday for about three
years and do some intensive edaca-
tionaI work with the middle-aged.