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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
CHILDLABOR STRIKERS

TN America, where 130000 900 adults plead for
i Jobs. children are on strike to win less than
living wages.
Each one a thunderous argument for anti
child labor and minimum wage laws, several
hundred boy and girl workers have walked out
of shirt and pajama sweatshop factories in
Allentown and Northampton. Pa. The ranks
of the baby strikers" are filled with many IA
year-ods majority of the pickets are 16 or
under
Their strike is for 10 per cent increase in
piecework schedules restoration of recent pay
cut. and recognition of "a union" These mild
demands are resisted by the sweatshop owners,
who are charged with paying the children as
low as 80 cents a week. Child garment work.
ers in Shanghai get twice that much.
Typical of the stories of these sweatShop
children as told by the Pennsylvania depart
ment of labor, is that of 15-year-old girl
Her father is dead and she is the only member
of a family of seven to have found work.
Since October 1881 she has worked at an
average wage of IS cents week Investigators
describe factory and sanitary conditions as
. shocking. DuIlIlg W1llNeI, WIlSIl lIlS 4AlllS
workers complained of the cold they were told
to work faster and keep warm"
5 The United States labor department re-
ports that there are forty sweatshops in the
vicinity. employing some 5000 boys and girls,
one-fourth of whom are between Il and l6.
The sweatshop evil is spreading rapidly
throughout the industrial east and south.
before the states and congress in behalf of the
child labor amendment and the pending short
work week and minimum wage bill than this
shameful picture of American children on
strike against economic slavery?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
DANGER OF FORECLOSURES

COLONEL LEONARD P. AYRES. economist
sounds rather timely warning in connec-
ton with the current inflationary program
At present, he says innumerable farm
mortgages are being carried by investors even
though payments on interest and principal are
IN default. They are being carried, not because
the investors are big-hearted, but beca use
there is no market for farm land.
Let farm prices and the price of the farm
rise" remarks Colonel Ayres land the man
who holds the mortgage may have the tempta-
ton to foreclose.",
We aren't sure yet, of course. just what this
new program is going to do to farm land
prices. If it does put them up, the danger that
Colonel AyreS mentions might become verv
real.
Some sort of provision may have to be made
to protect the debtor from measure designed
to help him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
GIVE 1T A PUSH!
W7HAT is wrong with the Reconstruction

WHEAT is wrong with the Reconstruction
w Finance Corporation?
With lofty aims it was founded, but with
less vigor and less money.
The hundreds of thousands who looked
hopefully to it for jobs are for the most part
still looking, but not hopefully
Thousands are going without work because
of the corporations delay in providing money
for self-liquidating projects already approved
by states and some of them also by the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation
Treasury Secretary Woodin says there is
no money Or he says the government has
not had enough time to consider the projects
Meantime what of the voorhees, men and their
families? Why the promise unless fulfllment
was honestly intended?
1t is beginning to look as though the most
urgent job of reconstruction involved the Re
construction Finance Corporation itself.
Won't President Roosevelt give it a push,
to start it going?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

taking in its breadth and scope. To date the
possibilities have hardly been tapped
But they are there, waiting to be exploit
ed; and when the exploitation comes We are
quite likely to present the world with a new
richness Of artistic creation that will be moth
ing less than dazzling.
So far the arts in America have not taken
very deep root in the life of the ordinary man
They have a way of resembling shoots grated
onto the main stem.
The movie offers a chance for an art that
springs up from the grass roots: an art that
could express and transfgure the lusty, many
sided, turbulent, and eternally vital life of a
great nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
One Kind of Initiation
r SUPPOSE few economists We

0OHPOOE lew economists would
Il agree with me if I said that an
excellent way to initiate would be to
run off couple of billions in paper
and then distribute it in $40 bills at
street corners to homeless and
hungry men. And yet that wouldn't
be silly by any means.
1 can see certain advantages in
Probationary program, but they will
work only if some method is used to
get this increase in the currency
into the hands of mass members of
the buying public
Surely no particular good will be
obtained if you wave a wand and
say to the man with a million Nov
you've got a million and a half"
All economists admit that lag
which lies between the rise in COM
modify prices and the rise in wages,
and unless the Roosevelt program
spurs salaries upward it will not
avail very much to have heat, cop
per and cotton leap ahead. Even
the farmer may be disappointed in
the result of higher prices for grain
unless a greater consumptive capac-
ity comes along with it,
Higher prices for wheat will, of
course, be attended with higher
prices for agricultural machinery,
fertilizers, and all that the farmer
needs for his industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
THURSDAY. APRIL 81. 1888.
FOR LABOR

nNE of the chief virtues of the admin
istrations short hour and minimum
wage bill is that it would stimulate union or
ganization throughout industry, by providing
for labor representation on wage boards.
Just why Mr. Green of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor objects to measure which
might achieve labor organization among the
great mass Of workers is not altogether clear.
He says a minimum wage would become
the maximum wage, and that living stand
ards would be pulled down instead of lifted up.
Mr.. Green does not apply his argument to
women and children. He admits that min
imum wage benefits thenl-because they are
80 weak and helpless"
Mr.. Green is right in saying that the weak
and helpless need the minimum wage. And
is not the A. F. Of L. male member who can
not get job weak and helpless? Are not the
100000 American workers who are unem-
ployed weak and helpless? Are not American
workers who have suffered depression wage
cuts weak and helpless?
The maximum wage is achieved only when
labor has a maximum of organization and
maximum Of bargaining power. This bill,
with its system of mandatory labor representa-
ton on hour and-wage boards would give
American labor as a whole more organization
and more bargaining power than it ever
has had
Labor is lucky to have President Roose-
welt and Secretary Perkins fighting its battle
for living wage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
1t Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK, April 27.-Two cur
L rent policies Of the Roosevelt
administration seem to me to be in
sharp opposition. I don't see how
certain portions of the economy
program can be reconciled with the
policy of imitation.
have been entirely in favor of
slaShes in appropriations for pay
mentS to veterans when such slashes
hit the vast graft which has grown
into this particular pension system.
I think that in this instance Pres
ident Roosevelt showed wisdom.
courage, and great capacity for
leadership. But I never was en-
thusiaStic about the curtailment Of
the salaries of clerks. letter carriers.
and other federal employees.
The plain fact of the matter is
that Uncle Sam never has been a
particularly generous employer. Ger
tam OF his servants and specifically
the substitutes in the postoffice de-
partment have been called upon to
work under conditions and a wage
scale which is little short of dis
graceful.
1 have talked to subs" who as
sured me that the best they could
do was about So a week for a dav
which averaged twelve hours. 1t is
quite true that in a certain sense
they were not working all this time
but they were compelled to hang
around waiting for something to
turn upA
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A CORRESPONDENT who is
IN irked at the sight of women
in business writes: Men are far
more practical and much less SEN
timental than women and we made
tremendous mistake when we let
you NEEDLE with affairs outside the
home"
Now, I wonder about that. Per-
haps this, too, is just one of those
things we have repeated to our
selves until we have come to believe
1t. Because women have been ro-
mantle about love, men are misled
into thinking they are impractical
about life. Which is far from being
the case
I know that men always have
congratulated themselves upon their
lack of sentimentality, although
they often behave more foolisnly
than a bunch of schoolgirls.
Take the recent depression, for
example. Did they face the issue
squarely? Did they admit that by
extravagant spending and gambling
and emotional susceptibility to
propaganda we had brought It on
ourselves? And did they set them
selves seriously, to cure it? Not at
all,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
M. E.TracySays:

hight months ago James j. Walker was
T. not only mayor of New York, but a power
in Democratic politics with which many lead
ers felt it necessary to reckon Now he is Betty
Comptons husband.
Whether he has gained or lost by the change,
it upset lot of well-laid plans and spoiled an
even greater amount of propheSying.
The end of last July found political forecast
ers leaning heavily on the Walker case. Some
doubted whether the man who now is Presi-
dent had the hardwood to go through with it,
or whether he would not lose the election If he
did.
Mr.. Roosevelt not only went through, but
came out with flying colors. 1t was his first
real test as national figure, and it made him
many votes.
Still, and in spite of the fact that Mayor
Walker resigned rather than stay for the finish,
local prophets would not abandon him as a
pivotal influence in the Tammany horoscope.
He could and would be reelected they said,
and he himself seems to have had little doubt
of it, At any rate, he made strenuous efforts to
reach home in time for the hastily called con-
vention.
WHAT happened during the eleventh hour
w parleying remains a mystery, but there
was no stampede in behalf of Jimmy. Maybe
headquarters decided that the thing had gone
far enough and that it would be wiser to aban-
President.
The crowd stood ready to perform its duty,
but the leaders concluded that discretion was
the better part of valor.
Like many another super-man Mr.. Walker
was abruptly and completely Debated. New York
discovered that he was not essential to its happi
ness and, though badly shaken for moment,
Tammany proved able to pull through without
him
All this involved a tremendous alteration of
viewpoint all along the line.
1.-THE bad guessing inaccurate appraisals and
groundlesS fears which characterized the whole
performance furnish vivid Illustration of how
little most of us really know about politics
Under normal conditions the play-boy and
machine-rule can be counted on to bring home
the bacon, but when things get serious they are
not so dependable
THOSE who heard Mayor Walker examined
l. by Governor Roosevelt were amazed by his
sorry showing. That is because they had over
estimated his intelligence has mistaken wit for
wisdom.
If anything, Franklin D. Roosevelt is bet
natured and kindlier disposed man than James
j. Walker, but he never trades on it. In that
lies fundamental difference
Like every other talent. a sense of humor
can be cultivated and commercialized Hun
dreds Of people have exchanged it for real
money, while as many more have employed it
But that is not the same thing as keeping
to get votes.
it in reserve as a leaven 70 rhuman sympathy
and letting it go natural
Those honestly devoted to the interests of
their fellow men have no sense of humor to
spare. They need it all as lubricant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
No Sound Money Bug

I AM no fanatic for sound money.
Il I believe that there are certain
virtues in initiation at the present
time. I even am willing to concede
that certain of the schemes of
President Roosevelt do take in the
necessity of spreading the new
money around more generally.
l merely wish to stress the fact
that direct relief, a vast program
of public works, the Muscle Shoals
development and other phases of
the so-called radica measures of
the administration are vital ana
integral part of the relation
scheme.
OF course the government is 60
ing to be in a jam when it comes
to floating bond issues. Even a
controlled initiation will mean
higher rate of interest on these fed
eral bonds. I'd like to see an au-
dacious experiment tried in this re-
spect.
Certain foreign governments have
established the practice of using a
semi-gambling feature such as
drawing certain bonds at ten points
above par. I'd like to see an expert
ment in making the rewards for the
lucky even larger.
If bonds can be drawn ten points
above par why not a few at a thou
sand points above, or even ten thou
sand?
We are far too moral to sanction
a federal lottery which would, as a.
matter of fact, be one of the least
onerouS of all ways to raise money.
What 1 am thinking of is a bond
issue and lottery retaining the
best features Of each.
Initiation is in itself a gamble.
Why not admit it and shoot the
works?
Copyright. 1898. by The Tines
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
:: The Message Center : :

why 1t is now necessary for a new
deal to come to the rescue.
Taxpayers" ignorance of
causes and conditions is betrayed
by nothing so completely as by
his sneering reference to the
great unwashed horde" This
is not only an insult to millions
of good citizens indispensable to
the nation, but actually an incite-
ment to bloody revolution.
If Taxpayer" ever becomes the
victim of Bolshevik brutality in
this country, he can blame moth
ing except the selfishness, Snob-
berry and ignorance of his own
kind.
The "unSkilled lower classes" he
so despises will have a better
deal or they will perish, and with
them will go SNUG, un-Christian
people like Taxpayer"
Either he is an exploiter or
dumb and misguided tool of ex-
ploiters. His is the traditional
cry of special privilege, now
grown faint against rising
chorus Of more than 100000, 900
booS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

alcohol in the treatment of disease,
many of them external and others
internal.
In prescribing beer, physician
naturally is guided by its content.
Beer made according to the new law
contains 80 per cent alcohol. This
has the caloric value of 7 per gram.
There also is 10 per cent of nitro
genous and carbohydrate eXtractive
materials, having a caloric value
about like that of sugar and pro-
tein namely, per gram.
Thus, a quart of beer will provide
about 500 calories, or about five
sixths Of the amount Of calories to
be had in a quart of milk.
If therefore quart of beer daily
is added to the regular diet of a Sc
dentary persons, it is likely to make
him fat.
If the quart Of beer replaces some
essential elements in the diet, such
as milk it is likely to interfere to
some extent with the supply of nee
essary food substances.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

(Times readers are invited to cypress
their vietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 CORDS or Iess)
BY Forrest Rogers.
If the Governor of Minnesota re-
sorts to confiscation to provide for
poor relief, he only would be taking
a purely retaliatory measure for the
benefit of an outraged people. No
class yet has so bold an example
as our American Bourbons."
Homes, farms, and personal pos
sessions have been confiscated be-
cause people have been denied the
right to work or were denied decent
compensation for their work. Only
the great unwashed horde" and
the aristocrats of mind ever have
justified their existence or made
our country great. Otherwise, this
still would be great wilderness.
These people never have refused
honest work. The manipulators and
Shysters have confiscated the life's
savings and possessions of a Useful
people. Too many have been eX-
posed to need mentioning.
Labor is prior to, and independ-
ent, of capital" Capital is only
the fruits of labor, even if the cum
ming do succeed in confiscating
most of it. The blind" who insist
on taking all benefits of improved
machinery and scientific knowledge,
which only labor conceived, making
the unemployed suffer and the tax
payers pay for their folly, do not
realize that the Socialism they en-
joy in schools, libraries. streets.
bridges, fire protection and many
other advantages Call operated for
use and not profit) inevitably will
be extended, regardless of those who
would dam the stream of evolution
The lists of first-class minds of
yesterday and today among writer's,
clergy, historians, and economists.
who have advocated Socialism are
too formidable to be enumerated.
Such people are the aristocrats and
do not cover behind money bags.
Capital and interest are not IN,
violate-only the rights Of man for
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of
Happiness" Should the Taxpayer
recall the Sermon on the Mount,
the fifth chapter of st. James, of
any Of the other teachings of Christ
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and Of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

conclusions on the inadequate in
formation available.
They argue that alcohol is not a
real brain stimulant, but that it
overcomes higher brain elements,
releasing the activities of the lower
ones and resulting in lack of Judg-
ment and common sense, as shown
by those under the influence Of al
cohol.
Evidence shows that under mod
crate doses, muscular efficiency is
first increased and then lowered.
1t is practically impossible, how
ever, to separate their scientific
opinions from their views as to
the effects of alcoholic liquors from
social and moral point Of view.
BY contrast, DR.. H. Beckman, in
his book on Treatment in General
Practice" lists some forty uses for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
Up to Uncle Sam
THE present administrator.

THE present administration. of
Il course, did not devise this svs-
tenn, but it is thoroughly vicious. and
if we are to restore the purchasing
power of the consuming public of
the United States the federal gov
eminent ought to take the lead in
setting an example.
Washington is in no position in
any area to call upon private en-
ployers to maintain the wage scale
if at the same time it is going to cut
the pay for very necessary work
down to the minimum.
But it seems to me that the Roose-
velt program has been even more
severe than that. After the cut has
come initiation. The result is that
federal employees will receive not
only fewer dollars, but cheaper
ones. This in effect amounts to a
second cut.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
Dumb InsOlence'

BY Another Taxpayer.
TINE most idiotic thing yet
u written since the depression
began is the contribution of
Taxpayer" in The Times of April
"a. Such inSolence is a curse to
the country and an infinitely
greater menace to it than all the
Socialism, Communism, and rad
icalism of a thousand Governor
Olsens of Minnesota.
1t is true, as Taxpayer" says,
that we have had peasant class
to perform the mental tasks and
an aristocracy that rules over the
peaSantry, but that is the only
truth he has uttered in a letter
that contains one or more alb
Surdities in every line.
He has been asleep longer than
Rip Van Wrinkle and has awak-
ened in a new world. This vicious
Tory philosophy had it's day I'M
der the regime of Hoover, Mel
Ion and Mills, and it just about
destroyed the country. That is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
A Faded Love
BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

BY CHRISTIE RUDOLPH
BY the stream Of ripples
Crystal clear and green,
Tinted by the fading sun
Dwells in my soul.
A stream of thoughts
Running wild with the wind,
Scanning cold, gray rocks
And bleak tall trees.
think of you, my love
Thou art as beautiful
AS the sea-gulls
Soaring in distant clouds.
All, even more lovely
Than the moonlight
That shines on silver streams,
Your voice, as music low in &
night.
I shall bury my hands
Meath fragrant pine needles,
Prlckly and cruel,
Soft and tender.
You have gone with the night,
Long vanished with the sun,
Your kisses still poignant
Burn meath arched brows.
My love, thou art dazzling,
Your memory bitter-sweet-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
So They Say

The need of the reform of our
system of electing the President
long has been recognized.-Repre-
sentative Clarence F. Lea of Cali
fornia.
The physician today too otter is
welded to science. - Professor
Howard Haggard of Yale university.
What we seek is a return to a
clearer understanding of the an
cient truth that those who manage
banks, corporations or other agen-
cies handling other peoples money
are trustees acting for the others.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27

he would realize that greed is not
sacred
When society finds itself and all
men are given equal opportunity of
development and education, we will
find out who are the peasants or
menials, but may God grant that
they enjoy life and the fullness
thereof.
There is but one true aristocracy
and that is the aristocracy of heart
and mind, and not the insane
money-mad class which periodical
ly has wrecked our entire economic
system and spat upon those whom
they wronged.
By Another Self -StyIed Travelling Salesman
Travelling Salesman says he was
embarrassed greatly in this city,
when he dated two ladies to meet
him at hotel and found them sit
ting beside two girls he claSsed as
StreetwalkerS.
Perhaps these girls were gazing
at him through curiosity more than
admiration, his being from some re-
mote locality giving cause for the
remarks they made. A girls friend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-27
SOWING SCIENCE SEEDS

NO matter how hard pressed for money, the
In farmer never sells his seed. He must
keep enough of one years crop to allow a
sowing in the spring for another harvest
Uncle Sam is hard pressed for money and
he looks upon federal government activities
with a saving eye. In these days of economy
he must not sell his science seeds. He must
continue to plant in the fertile soil of our
~0---
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VARIOUS points of view in re-
Y lationship to alcohol are held

VARIOUS points of view in re-
' lationship to alcohol are held
by hygieniSts. 1t must be under
stood that our hygiene of the past
was moral rather than scientific hy-
giene.
In the textbooks on hygiene useo
in the schools in a previous quarter
century, this moral attitude was
emphasized and resulted in Vol
Steadism.
Today a more scientific view pre-
walls, and there is beginning to be
reaction to the extremiSm of the
past. Since most people indulge in
what is called pendulum thinking,
there is danger of swinging now to
the opposite extreme.
In their book, entitled How to
Live" Fisher and Fiske assembled
data from the statistics of life in
surance companies, which reveal
the difficulty of gaining any definite