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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
IN FULL RETREAT!

T EFT us find only words of hndliness and
- forbearance for the host of dry agents who
have gone on indefinite furlough' in the in
terest of national economy.
Reduction of the federal enforcement
stats will be hailed as a welcome general
sign of the approaching end Of all the snoop-
ing hypocrisy. corruption and police de-
moralization inseparable from pretenses of
enforcing an uncomfortable law. Repeal is on
the way Forgive and forget.
In the same days news that told Of the
furloughs appeared the following dispatch:
"ST. PAUL, June 28.-Andrew J. Vol
stead, co-author of the prohibition en-
forcement act bearing his name, lost his
Job today as legal adviser to the Eighth
district dry administrator He was in
definitely furloughed, effective July l,
along with the district administrator,
Robert D. Ford, and six state deputy adj
ministrators"
Brief but significant, inconspicuous but
appropriate.
How are the mighty fallen! Behold the
great warriors of prohibition despoiled of
their armor, the illustrious names already
fading, the tents struck, the banners furled!
To many people even the great repeal pro-
cession of the states will seem hardly more
striking than the trumpeting fact that Andy
Volstead himself has been fired from his pro-
hibition job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
SAVING THE PUBLIC'S MONEY

NTHEN public official rolls up his sleeves
and does battle to protect the public
interest he deserves a cheer or two; and lit
tie demonstration for Interior Secretary Har-
old Ickes seems to be in order just now
When the cement makers offered their first
bids for Boulder Dam, Mr. Ickes threw out all
bids, on the ground that they were too high
and looked remarkably like the product of
combination in restraint of trade
So new bids were submitted, and again the
secretary threw them out.
Then the cement makers limited that if he
expected to get any cement for Boulder Dam
he would better speak little more softly Mr..
Ickes, however countered by threatening to
have the government build its own cement
mills and produce its own cement
So at last he got some satisfactory bids
and, as result, Uncle Sam has saved 100000
on its bill for Boulder Dam cement
Mr.. Ickes seems to have pretty good con-
ception of the duties of public Official
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Of the capitol pillars, buttonholes congressman
on the quiet, and talks softly in the privacy
of a bureaucrats ofice-he has stepped out
into the open, now and all that he says and
does takes place in the brightness of the spot
light.
That, anyhow is the theory. But some
Of the big boys don't seem to have heard
about it yet.
Washington correspondents reported that
old-style lobbyists swarmed all over the capt.
tol during the last session Of congress. A
stable army Of them remains there.
They are trying to work in the traditional
manner: Making deals, putting on the fix
applying pressure, trading favors, exerting
pull, exercising all the old tricks.
If anything is obvious, it is that the time
for this sort of thing is past
What the big business man, the fnancier
and the company director do nowadays is
strictly the public's business.
The country is embarking on vast new
experiment in economics, and it has a right
to know which Of its business leaders are 60
ing to play ball and which are trying to drop
monkey wrench in the machinery.
General Johnscn's goldfish bowl is the only
place in which lobbying can be tolerated now.
Any business group that objects to what is
being done is entitled to state its case there.
1t has every right to voice its objections
and to argue for special consideration-so
long as it does it openly where all of us can
hear.
1t has no right whatever to do it under
cover, in the privacy of some ones inner Office.
The group that continues to maintain the
old-style lobby now convicts itself automa-
tically, of a complete misunderstanding of the
spirit and purpose of the new deal"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
TURNING LOSS INTO PROFIT

a N article in the American Bankers As
ISOLATION Journal points out that it isn't
always necessary for the man who is stuck
with what looks like bad real estate invest
ment to take an unpleasant loss.
New York savings bank, the article re-
lates, issued a $4,000 mortgage several years
ago on group of East Side tenements. Hard
times came, the owner began to let his prop
erty deteriorate, tenants began to move out
and presently the owner couldn't pay. The
bank had to foreclose
So the bank found itself the owner of
$4,000 tenement block which looked as if it
would be steady loser for years to come.
But instead of taking the loss, the bank
put $4,000 more into its investment. 1t mod
ernized the tenements completely, installed
new heating system incinerators and the like.
did lot of remodeling-and now has rented
every suite and is drawing in $4,000 year
in rents. An apparent loss has been turned
into flrst-rate money maker
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
Indian Summer
BY MARCELLA MOORE

BY MARCELLA MOORE
Now. the west wind treading the
thirsty prairie,
Lashing the fields that are heavy
with leaning corn,
Even to city deafened ears can carry
Summers exiting drums to the
prairie-born -.
Tom of Indian summertime
hoof beats thunder
On white, brittle road where tha
dust swirls thick;
Scent Of pollen f1ying-the wild
bees plumber
Twitches the nostrils, turning the
heart homeSick.
For acres of tufted plain, low sandy
reaches
With wind making hollow moan
through stalks Of maize,
Where even the silence quails when
boot owl screeches,
And crickets vibrate the dusk, and
a lone dog bays.
Now, ghosts Of vanished Indian
tepees rise on
The red. sweltering moor, whence
their smoke curls high,
Spinning a blue haze over the
parched horizon
Where the sun gapes like a wound
on the open sky.
Swift from that blue mirage as a
redskins arrow,
Travels mile across mile a bolt OF
unrest,
Piercing the wayfarer clean to his
native marrow,
Lodging its point Of desire in his
recreant breast.
To return to the land where phan~
tom campfires kindle,
Clap knees again to horses
steaming sides,
And plunge toward the western rim
till the smoke wreaths dwindle.
And the moor is a wide loan waste,
and the mist divides -.
But the prairie the red man haunts,
like a field of battle,
Is empty and SCARED after the peat
stacks burn;
And the wind through dry husks
OF maize is a thin death rattle.
Who has laid there ghosts Of his
own-he viii not return.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
WEDNESDAY. JULY 5. 1898.
THE SECURITIES SNAG
THERE are ugly rumors concerning admin

THERE are ugly rumors concerning admin
istration of the new securities act.
The federal trade commission is en-
gagged in writing regulations which will govern
it in enforcing the act. Experience in the
past has shown that no matter how excellent
" law may be drawn, the regulations de-
termine whether enforcement is effective
or lax.
Thirteen years ago congress passed the
federal water power act, piece of legislation
which still stands as a model for carefully
thought out regulatory measures. The power
companies we're not able to defeat it, But
once it was enacted they sent their best
LOBBYISTS to washington to watch the franz
ing Of regulations.
The story of what was done at that time
was told few years ago by two employees OF
the commission william " King, chief &C
countant, and Charles A. Russell, solicitor,
who were dismissed summary from office.
On the strength of regulations formulated
in those early days, plus policy of keeping
appropriations to starvation point, the
power companies were able to evade most OF
the important provisions of the act until a
few years ago.
This story must not be repeated with the
securities act The people still are too in
dignant over sharp corporation practices
which have fleeced them of millions of dol
lars, their life savings in many cases.
They will not again invest money until
they are reasonably sure they can know
what they are buying. Only strict and hon
orable enforcement of the securities act can
assure business the flow of money it will need
in coming years.
The federal trade commission should be
particularly scrupulous about calling in or
consulting with the investment bankers whose
practices recently disclosed by the senate
committee, so have shocked the American
people.
The new law is designed not for the con-
venience of these people, but to direct
stern and suspicious eye at them. 1t is their
fault that confidence is shaken and confidence
will not return while the public suspects that
they are influencing the means by which
they are to be regulated.
The President of the United States who
promised the people new deal in securities
should take a searching look at what is hap
pening in the trade commission and take
whatever steps may be necessary to save his
excellent legislation from bureaucratic OBJ
livion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
Beyond Magic

HAVE" he told her, mo drugs
Il to recreate love which is dead.
That is power beyond my poor
equipment"
But as he spoke to her to took
this and that and ground the in
gradients together in a crucible, and
presently he called for a beaker of
pure water and poured the mixture
into it, slowly muttering incanta-
tons. The water turned ruby red
and dubbed furiouSly along the rim
of the glass. And from it there came
tang not unlike country meadows
in late autumn, when dead leaves
are burning.
And he said to the Princess Alicia,
mot a love potion is this, but have
prepared for you the draught OF
forgetfulneSS. Drink this and it
will be as if no such person as
Prince Charming ever had lived. The
sight Of him will be no more than
that of a stranger. And if he is
named, there will not be so much as
a vague uneasinesS that somehow
and somewhere the sound was once
familiar to your ears"
And" cried the princess, will I
sleep once more untroubled Slumber
and be done with my agonies OF
longing?"
Nothing of memory will remain"
said Merlin.
"The memory of past joy and
present pain?"
Gone" said Merlin, "all gone,
blotted out and into the limbo of
complete forgetfulneSs"
And the Princess Alicia held out
her hand toward the foaming beaker
and to this day visitors to the castle
may see a deep crimson stain on the
royal carpet, for they tell us that
she cried out to Merlin, You fool"
and dashed the goblet on the floor
and shattered it into one hundred
and five pieces.
Copyright. 1898. by United Press)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
BREAD PROFITEERS

CECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WAL
~ LACES sharp rebuke to Iowa bakers for
announcing go per cent increase in bread
prices should serve as national warning that
profiteers are entitled to no cards from the
new deal.
1t is evident from the schemes of these
bakers that congressman who saw danger
to the consumers under the new recovery
laws were not just seeing goblinS The Iowa
bakers, at most, were entitled to raise their
bread prices 1-3 cents a pound loaf
Their costs might be increased by that
amount through the rise in wheat prices and
the new 30-cent processing tax that goes into
effect July g. Instead of raising a loaf of
bread from cents to 61-3 cents, they pro-
posed to increase it to cents and pocket the
difference.
Secretary Wallace told them that the
antitrust laws still are in effect" and that
both the agricultural adjustment and indus
trial recovery laws are supplemented ito pre-
vent unreasonable advances in retail prices"
Power to check profteering rests partly
with the administrators of the farm and in
dustries relief acts. If these carry out con-
gress' will, they will protect consumers against
the pyramiding of profits quite as zealously
as they protect the producers and workers
against unSocial competitive practices
Power rests also with the attorney general.
Bakers and law enforcement officers
should realize that the public is particularly
sensitive about proflteering in the staff of life
A long line of government investigations have
shown that a large fall or rise in the price
of wheat usually results in injustice to the
bread-buying public.
The public is not given the full benefit of
a falling market, and it carries more than
its share of a rising market.
For instance, United States bureau of labor
statistics show that while the price of wheat
in 1882 averaged As per cent less bakers cut
the price of bread only % per cent. A senate
investigation in 1881 also disclosed that baker
les generally do not pass on to consumers
decrease in wheat prices.
The baking industry has justified this with
the explanation that wheat is only a small
part OF the cost of a loaf of bread.
BY the same logic, a rise in wheat prices
should not materially increase the price of
bread.
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deluding themselves into a belief
that they are writing about life.
There are approximately 113 mil
lion people living outside the con-
fines Of New York City. Unfortu-
nate as it may be, it is impossible
for the entire American population
to be accommodated there, even
with all the skyscrapers filed.
Hence most of the lib million are
getting along very happily, strange
as that may seem, and engaged at
any number Of interesting projects.
I, for one, hope the time is not far
distant when the people in books
will do something else besides drink
and go to bed.
According to certain critics, this
may be literature. but it is not life.
Or, If it is, the life is not worth
living
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
:: The Message Center =:
you say death your right to say voae

(TimeS readers are ihuited to empress
their vietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze chance.
By MOtcrist.
It is hard to emit any cheers over
the recent heat waves and destruc-
tive, storms, but they seem to have
brought one benefit to the city.
That benefit is the havoc which has
been wrought in the city's wood
block pavements.
1t is hard to understand, even
with a shortage of funds in the
city treasury, why this archaic type
of street covering is permitted to
remain on our thoroughfareS
1t is rough, perilous when slip
perry, and generally out of date. If
the city can't remove it, it is a good
thing that the elements can.
BY Ex-DepOsitor.
The grand jury has done just as
thousands of us expected-given a
clear bill of health to former Of
ficials of the State and Washington
banks. 1t appears that Judge Cox
is the only person in the county
willing to do anything about this
situation, and he can not do it all
alone
If the prosecutor has been lax in
his duty in pushing these cases, it
will not surprise the public. 1t does
not seem that we have had a prose-
cutor with any backbone in this
county in the last ten years or more.
Why is it that the prosecutor al
ways is the weakest man on the
ticket of any party? To just poor
bystander, it looks as though that
would be the most important job
of ali, as far as public welfare is
concerned.
Of course, it's great for the big
boys to have some spineless indi-
vidual in that Office who'll shut an
eye when the important" folks
commit transgressions and build up
a record by convicting small Of
tenders.
Let's have Judge Cox and Judge
Baker get together and go to the
bottom of this whole sorry mess. 1t
looks as though we can't depend
on the prosecutor and grand jury
to do anything that might offend
any one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
Questions and Answers

Q-Do nuts contain more pro-
TEN than milk?
Ayes.
Q-What is meant by the state
ment that a horse is fifteen hands
high?
"A hand is four inches and
the measurement is taken at the
shoulder.
Q-Where is Catahoula lake?
Ain La Sale parish, Louisi-
ana, about twenty miles northeast
of Alexandria.
Q-What are precanceled
stamps?
A-Stamps Cancelled by the
postofflce department before they
are sold. They are used by bust
ness houses under special permits
from the postmaster.
Q-Where will the 1886 Olympic
games be held?
A-Berlin, Germany.
GLOW large is the Jewish pop
ulation of New York state and
city?
Anew York state has 1908, 800
Jews, of whom 1,765,000 live in
New York City.
Q-Does the size of the head
bear any relation to human in
telligence?
A-No.
estate the title of the nation
al anthem of Czecho- Slovakia.
A-"Kde Domov Muj?" ("where
Is My Fireplace?")
Estate the amount of silver
and gold in the world at the end
of 1881.
A-Monetary stocks of silver
amounted to $4,110,046,000, and
gold monetary stocks aggregated
$11,940, 100000.
Q-Is Prussia an independent
country?
Alt is the largest and most
influential component state of
Germany.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
Ilways would rest In

their investment value always would rest In
the future"
Here. it seems, is a slight misconception
of the case. Certainly no committee could
be wise enough to say that any given security
issue will always be worth 100 cents on
the dollar. The investor always must face
certain element Of risk.
What such a committee could do is make
certain that securities were issued in the
proper manner, based on sound assets and
put on the market with all essential facts
made public.
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A Slight Di4ression

THIS is a disconnected column,
l. and the following paragraphs
have nothing to do with Mayor
O'Brien. We will leap from him to
a fantasy about a kingdom in the
long ago.
Once upon a time there lived a
prince and a princess. Thew loved
devotedly, but after a year and a
day the love of the prince grew cold.
He went back to his castle and left
no farewell behind him.
The Princess Alicia pinned and
could not sleep. because of the
agony of her devotion. Messages she
sent by swift courier, but they were
returned unread, and at last she
herself rode alone to the distant
castle of Prince Charming. Rudely
he rebuffed her by giving out an
order that the castle gate should be
barred against her.
Back came the princess to cry her
eyes out and to toss through the
hours and the white nights until
dawn. The king, her father, des-
paired for the health and even the
life of his daughter, since there
seemed to be no cessation of her
grief, and he sent, secretly, the
greatest sorcerer in the land to her
apartment.
Give me, oh, Merlin" she prayed.
"a potion with which I may win
once more the love of my Prince
Charming"
The old man was sad as he looked
through his herbs and shook his
head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
A Woman's Viewpoint ::

A WELL-KNOWN literary critic
IA announces that he has grown
tired of novels of the soil-the good
earth type.
I can assure MIN, however, that
his WEAKNESS does not compare with
the dreadful boredom the reader in
the provinces feels when he is
greeted by another of those smart
alecky urban books. and realizes
that he once more is to be RECALLED
with the inanities of silly people
who speed gaily from dark until
dawn and live only from one sex
affair to another.
The Transformation of the coun-
try jake into the city sicker, or the
crossroads maid into the chorus girl,
has occupied too much of the time
of American writer's. We're sick
Of hearing about people whose chief
accomplishment is wise-cracking
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
SAFEGUARDING THE INVESTOR

A A. BERLE JR.. a member of the Roose-
veltian brain trust" writes in the cur
rent issue of the American Bankers Associa-
ton Journal that investment bankers should
form sort of committee of public safety
to scrutinize all investment banking proposals
from the standpoint of public interest and
to oppose all such transactions of which it did
not approve.
In the same issue, Massachusetts, banker
objects to the plan. on the ground that while
such committee would have little trouble in
passing on really high-grade issues or in re-
jecting issues of a frankly suspicious charac-
ter, 1T would have great difficulty in passing
on the mass of securities between these ex-
tremes. because the final determination Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-07-05
Little Danger Found in Face Powder

Otherwise, there are little, if any,
dangers in the common face pow
ders now sold.
The use of cosmetics is some
times attacked by puritanical peo-
pie as an unnatural practice. On
the other hand, it is also unnatural
to wash off the natural oils of the
skin with soap and water.
Furthermore, modern conditions
of civilization expose the skin to all
sorts of irritations which are in
themselves unnatural, hence the use
Of face powder for protective pur-
poses is legitimate from any point
of view.
In fact, the use of powder no
longer is confined to women, be-
cause practically all men powder
the face after shaving, to protect
the irritated surface.
Next: The use of cold creams.
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TURNING ON THE LIGHT

GENERAL HUGH S JOHNSON, admins
- traitor of the governments industrial re-
covery machinery, promises that this tremend-
ously important new experiment is going to
take place in a goldfish bowl
Industrialists who devise a code for their
plants must get up where everybody can see
and hear them, to explain just what they be-
lieve about working hours, wages, profits,
prices and the like
This is perhaps the most wholesome part
of all the new deal"
It means that the hush-hush DAYS .at
Washington are over. The lobbyist who tip
toes about the corridors. turks in the shadows
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Q-Is there much nutriment in
the skin of an apple?
A-Chemists say that many
vitamins are close to the skin,
and some dietitians recommend
that it be eaten on account of the
roughage. There is, however, no
more nutriment in the skin than
in the rest of the apple.
Q-Is it proper to have a serv-
ice of finger bowls at dinners and
banquets?
A-They should be placed be-
fore each guest on the service
plate for dessert.
Q-What proportion of white
blood does a mulatto have?
A-One- half white and one-haIf
Negro.
Q-How long was Edwin M.
Stanton U. S. secretary of war?
A-From 1862 to 1867.
(Which president first re-
ceived an allowance Of $685. 900 a
year for travel?
A-Congress instituted the an
nual travel allowance during the
administration of Theodore Roose-
welt.
Q-How much salary does the
President receive.
A-The regular salary is $4,000
a year, subject to Is per cent re-
duction under the economy act.
Q-Are japanese immigrants
admitted to this country?
A-Japanese immigration to the
United States is prohibited by the
act of 1924 Only japanese gov
eminent officials, tourists, mer-
chants and students may enter.
Q-When did Japan annex Ko-
rea?
A-AnneXation was accomplished
by the treaty of August %, 1910.
Q-What is sterling silver?
Am alloy containing 92.5 per
cent silver and rs per cent cop
per.
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BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON.

and whose ultimate goal is the bed
room of the wife or husband of a
best friend.
And, God knows. we are more
than tired Of that million times told
tale-the young hopeful who HES
himself to the city and turns out
books in which all the heroes and
heroines also are struggling to write
books. Indeed, the literary hero
has become a frightful bore. He
wants to write-heaven and the
rest of us know that-onIy he has
nothing to say. And we wish he'd
refrain from saying it.
.
JAMES NORMAN HALL expressed
- it when he explained that entire
ly too many writer's hurry to Man
haitian. get into a literary set. and
proceed to write books about the
activities Of their narrow circle,