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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
NOT TOO FAST!
TOR the first time in many months there
l. are real signs of business recovery.

TOR the first time in many months there
Il are real signs of business recovery.
Wage increases are beginning. Dividend
payments are going up Retailers are placing
larger orders Industrial production is climb
ing steadily.
The steel industry is operating at Sc per
cent of capacity compared with 10 per cent
two months ago. The trade associations re-
port to the federal government a marked
business improvement in most lines and in
most parts of the country.
Commodity prices are rising. Since March
textile product prices have increased more
than 9 per cent and farm products more than
25 per cent.
With anticipated enactment next week OF
the au-important industrial recovery bill to
increase purchasing power of the mass market,
and with tariff reduction authority for the
President, there is good chance of holding
present gains and making more business
progress during the summer.
But there is a dark side to the picture also.
That is the revival of the speculative mania.
Already some stocks are being doomed beyond
their earning capacity. Gamblers are playing
for big killing.
There is too much trouble in the world to-
day to worry much about the lambs who run
to Wall Street and beg to be feeced again.
But every person who has stake in legitimate
and solid business recovery, which means
10000 900 Americans, must fear the results OF
an artifcially high stock market, followed by
collapse.
The government has large powers in this
situation. Misuse Of its credit machinery,
permitting the flow of money into speculative
instead of productive channels, would be dis
astrous. Excessive use of its infationary au-
thority to speed up a rise which already is
the fastest in our history easily might result
in a wreck.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
NO CUTS, NO LOANS

ME Reconstruction Finance CORPORATION
- now formally rules that hereafter CORPORA
tons seeking loans either must reduce ex-
ceSsive salaries paid to their executives or
prove that such salaries are not excessive.
The cuts required are drastic and specific.
Executive salaries heretofore above 100000
must be reduced not less than so per cent,
including previous reductions; salaries from
$4,000 to 100000 must be cut at least so per
cent; and SO on down to former salaries and
wages between $4,000 and $4,000, which must
be shown to have been reduced at least 10 per
cent
The fairness Of this hardly can be ques-
toned even though congress has not yet got
around to passing law on the subject The
incongruity of r. F. C. aid to railroads or other
corporations that could afford to keep up
100000 executive salaries during depression
and even, in some cases, to increase salaries in
the $4,000 to 100000 brackets has been
pointed out
Justice to stockholders is, of course, also
involved. Present action ordered by the federal
supreme court to determine the propriety and
N4"44VS Va VIC PoSAleA1U VI huge bonuses 10
American Tobacco Company officials calls
public attention anew to the broader question
of inordinate and disproportionate rewards for
executive services at time when many of the
ablest men in the country are prepared to
accept lower scale of compensation for their
best work and effort.
This larger phase Of the matter must be
dealt with more slowly. But meanwhile the r.
F. G. has every reason and right to refuse to
lend public money to private corporations that
maintain "sky" salaries despite their protested
needs.
If charity begins at home" so should
economy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02

| women are continuing to be happy
and sober, besides doing a little bit
more for the government.
AS for the unfortunate drys, it is
for them to cool their parchad lips
with a portion of holy (wholly)
water. The immaculate, steadfast
drys will display wisdom by being
content with their undefiled deport-
ment.
They will rank higher in public
esteem whenever they can be per-
suaded to cease their worry over the
other fellow. With evidence against
them, these diSturbers of the peace
would do we'll to concede a cessa-
ton of hostilities.
The people at large, though they
may not register their votes in ac-
cordance, have shown clearly that
they do not approve of the brand of
prohibition We have been blessed
with for term of years.
The time is ripe for a regulated
traffic in alcoholic beverage. To this
measure for the public good, the
opponents of a lost cause should
lend their acquiescence, and grace
fully, at that.
A conclusion is being arrived at,
a decisive averment is in order, sad
to relate ca. The foamy nectar and
the beaded elixir that glows red
in the glass never will be banished.
The dream of humiliation that the
drys so long have cherished never
will come true.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
FRIDAY. JUNE 2. 1898.
ONE RIGHT WAY TO VOTE


XNHETHER reign of sanity will replace
w regime of fanatical tyranny will be
decided by Indiana voters next Tuesday, when
they ballot on the most momentous question
confronting them in the last half century
repeal of the eighteenth amendment, breeder
OF graft, corruption, gang rule, and murder
They will decide whether they will dethrone
hypocrisy and live once more under the rule
of temperance and moderation, or whether
they wish to perpetuate the theory that morals
can be legislated into free people.
They will decide whether they will help
business recovery and attain economic prog
ress, or whether they will continue policy
that has resulted in the waste of millions of
dollars and a moral loss that can not be
estimated in money.
Every disproved and exploded argument OF
the drys is being shouted today from the
housetops, in a despairing effort to swing the
sentiment against repeal.
We hear again that the sanctity OF the
home is in peril. But how, pray has the
sanctity of the home been protected under
prohibition? Certainly not by driving the
every city of America.
The best answer to this cry of the drys Is
the fact that thousands Of home-loying
mothers are enrolled in the battle for repeal,
thinking mothers who know the road that their
children are likely to travel under prohibition
Before us is spread the grisly picture OF
automobile drivers, stupefied by liquor
rIye and
shattered bodies, if repeal comes. But there is
a strange silence concerning the motor death
lists which have mounted steadily under the
benefcent reign of prohibition.
out of the propaganda mills come dire
prophecies of the fate awaiting the youth of
the nation If prohibition falls. But the drys
conveniently overlook the fact that today
condition exists that never even was imagined
twenty years ago - boys and girls staggering
into their classrooms, dying in automobile
wrecks into which they were plunged by hip
TASKS, filling hospitals as the result OF
indulgence in bootleg liquor.
Prohibition has been an economic failure,
a moral failure, miserable travesty on JUS
tice. spur to crime. Its continuance In In
diana, it is true, is backed by thousands OF
good people, sincere in their belief.
But it is backed, too, by the shattered
forces of a CHASTITY trinity-the Anti-Saloon
League, the Ku-Klux Khan, and the Horse
thief Detectives Association, two NANCY lions
and fetid jackal, responsible for more mis-
government in this state in the last decade
than had disgraced Indiana for the previous
sixty years.
vote for repeal is vote to bury them
and everything they represent so deeply that
they never again will be resurrected.
No intelligent person can believe that In
diana will do otherwise next Tuesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
An American Ap0loqy

THE lot Of the Jews in Germany
Il is in some respects similar to
that Of the Negroes in the south.
Hitler himself pointed to the SINH
larity by indirection in the course
Of his speech before the reichstag.
Here is what happened in Ger
tain town in the south after
particularly atrocious lynching Il
is reported in The Tragedy Of
Lynching,' by DR. Arthur j. Raper.
The Negroes I quote from the
book, in the Emelle community
(where the lynching took place. are
using the boycott as a weapon Of
revenge. Silently but certainly they
do practically all their cash trading
in Livingston and York.
Very likely the storekeepers af-
fected had no hand in the lynching.
since the townspeople did not par
ticipate actively in it. More than
likely employees, even Negro en-
ployes, Of these storekeepers suffered
because of the boycott.
And yet I think it was as Just az
it was effective for the Negroes to
have put it through. I am confident
that in the Enelle community there
will not be another lynching in q
long while. Nor will the wholesale
lynching in Germany continue If
any effective boycott is imposed
against Hitler"
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tinesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
JOBLESS EXCHANGES

DASSAGE by the senate of the Wagner I'M
employment exchange bill gives assurance
of early victory for this wise and essential
measure.
The plan provided under the bill would have
been in effect before had not President Hoover
vetoed similar measure two years ago and
substituted his own unavoidable system. The
Wagner bill appropriates $1,50O,0oO this year
and $4,000000 annually until 1888 to build a
nationwide system of free exchanges.
Three-quarters of this goes to the states on
$3.50 basis The federal director, aided by an
advisory council sets the rules.
Without an effective and expertIy manned
placement system, the pending s3,3OO,OOO 900
public works program will start under handi-
cap of a disordered labor market Without it.
unemployment insurance systems can not
operate successfully.
Without it, heartaches, costly maIadiust-
ments, and wasted human effort will strew the
path to recovery.
This measure is Glass emergency Iegisla-
ton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
|M.E.TracySays:

A FRENCH businessman with whom was
n talking the other day made what struck me
as some rather pertinent observations regard
ing our credit system.
You Americans expect too much of banks
and bankers he said THAT is one reason why
so many of them fail. They can't do the job
you have imposed on them 1t is beyond the
capacity of average human beings"
Credit" he went on, sis primarily a matter
of business, not in the general sense, as you
appear to think, but in a very particular sense,
with each line of trade or industry having pc
culiar needs and requiring peculiar knowledge.
mo banker on earth can make himself suff1-
GENTLY familiar with more than few lines to
be an expert credit man. The result is that he
depends on cut and dried statements, or liquid
collateral
You have come to point where your credit
system turns largely on listed securities and a
highly speculative market, to the exclusion of
real estate goods and character"
TN FRANCE he explained, "there is no such
i running to the bank by every Ton Dick
and Harry, either with deposits or for loans.
AS a general proposition each line of business
provides its own credit, except at the top. The
grocer, for instance, buys on time from the
jobber the jobber does the same from the man
ufacturer and the manufacturer takes care of
it all through banks.
THAT leaves the credit situation up to people
who know their line, who understand its pc
cuiarities and technique, and whose personal
contacts enable them to form accurate judg-
ments'
Realizing that one mans opinion is not al
ways as good as anothers, believe there is
something in this idea.
do not see how credit can be separated from
the special knowledge which is required in each
line of business and be sound. That, however,
is exactly what we have done, or attempted to
do in this country. We expect the banker to
make safe loans in every line, to be an expert on
the needs and condition of a thousand and one
activities, to provide for their requirements and
never lose a nickel.
Naturally enough, the banker falls back on
stereotyped statements, liquid collateral, Or per-
sonal influence, finding himself victimized by
exaggerated reports speculation and gullibility.
l. particular industry, producing the goods or
performing the routine services it demands, must
OF necessity be more familiar with its state than
banker and better able to judge Of its credit
requirements
The prevailing method of forcing retailers to
run to the bank to pay jobbers and jobbers to
run to the bank to pay manufacturers and
everybody to run to the bank whenever some
body else wants money, is palpably asking too
much Of mortal man.
Such system is bound to involve an IN
healthy proportion of failures, or an equally
unwholesome restriction of credit. During the
last three years, we have had both, and bankers
are less TO blame than is public which has
demanded the impossible.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
TOY BUSINESS BOOMS

T OOKING for results of imitation in Amer
- lean business is hardly paying PROPOSE
ton yet, since few really inflationary steps
have actually been taken; nevertheless, the
director of the Toy Manufacturers of the
United States reports that imitation already
has caused boom in the toy business.
Not long ago toy makers held ''Toy Fair, u
attended by buyers from all over the country;
and sales recorded at this fair were rs per cent
over those sold at a similar fair.
James L. Fri. director of the manufacturers
association, attributes this largely to the infla-
ton program.
Buyers, he said, sought to get their orders
in now in advance of rising prices. AS a result,
800 American toy factories will have increased
production schedules and larger pay rolls this
summer. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
UIARDEN KIRK PRATHER of the Kansa

TXTARDEN KIRK PRATHER of the Kansas
W state penitentiary had gun at his head
and wire moose around his throat.
The rebeIious convicts who had seized him
told him to order the guards to give up their
keys and throw away their guns.
He did what he was told to do, the guards
complied, and the convicts escaped, with re-
suits that make interesting current history.
What would have happened if Warden Pra-
Their had refused to carry out the orders Of
the rebels?
He probably would have been killed
But that probability is no justification for
the course he followed. man who accepts
a position like his does so with knowledge that
his duty may cost him his life.
Only the conviction that the safety of
many others than himself was involved could
justify the wardens conduct.
We can never know what would have hap
pened if Warden Prather had told the convicts
to shoot and be damned. We can go back and
imagine different sequence of events from
the one that actually happened.
But there is no turning back in actual life.
We never have the chance to play it over again
a different way
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02

battle and threatening to throw them and their
families into the breadlines on July l.
Every congressman has been flooded by
appeals. Some are spurious. Some are from
non-service sufferers But many are authentic.
1t should not be necessary for congress TO
pass restrictive laws to protect actual sufferers
from war service President Roosevelts prom
ise TO appoint an independent investigating
committee to see that justice is done should
suffice.
To throw wounded veterans into the streets
to beg is not economy nor is it the new deal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
NOT A NEW DEAL.

THE determination voiced by both White
l. House and congress that the economy act
shall not carry injustices to wounded veterans
will be cheered widely.
When in March the President sought to
save s4Oo, 100000 from the costly veterans bud
get no one, not even the Economy league, con-
templated that these savings would be made
at the expense of sufferers from combat dis
abilities.
Now bureaucrats at Washington are
charged by senators, veterans organizations,
and others with having distorted that law.
They have, it is charged, sent out arbitrary
rerating orders that have in hundreds OF cases
resulted in pauperizing veterans woundedfin
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
The Message Center :

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their Uietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or Iess.)
! BY William Lee Evans.
We have with us again the old,
old matted beverage, beer. The
brewing of beer in America dates
back to the Pilgrims. A supply came
to this country aboard the May
flower. The housewives in almost
every home brewed beer for their
families. Such is the tavern story.
So Indiana goes back to the very
beginning of the nation to find that
the common sense of the Pilgrims
on this matter may be applicable
today.
Already, with beer legalized but
short time, one writer, woman,
tells us drunkenness has increased,
consequently automobile wrecks"
This was, and is now, all in her
Imagination. The wish is father to
the thought. The die-hardS grab at
every straw, hoping to save prohibi-
ton from the flood of dampness.
Throughout the prohibition agita-
ton with which we have been
cursed for the last decade, more
than one blatherskite has given
vent to this rhetoric, This nation
can't exist half drunk and half
sober" Ridiculous! Thousands upon
thousands of men and women in
our much eulogized America regale
themselves on alcoholic beverages as
they we're intended to be used, in
a sane, decent manner.
These, realizing their accounta-
bility, constitute, as a body, the
handspring of society. AS for the
rable, creatures not anenable to
guidance, these act the part of a
maladjUstment, the friction in the
worlds movement that is relieved
best by the oil of a no-worry policy
with no-accountS.
The exhilaration of drinking
comes and goes; there are lax in
tervals. To imperil, to engulf our
civilization, there must be wide
spread, prolonged debauchery, a
perpetual carnival.
If the alarmiSts, the reformerS,
ever have any justification in say
ing, "the country is riding to a
fall" it will be consistent for them
to indict, not the liquor traffic, but
a coalition of other evils, political
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
Rapture'S End
By CHRISTIE RUDOLPH

Your eyes, dear,
Those tortured eyes that searched
the darkened corners of my
soul
I fingered near,
Our bodies remained sacred part
of long ago.
We stood apart,
Just one thought remained, that
you must leave,
My breaking heart
Like some crushed bird within, tut
could not grieve.
There were kisses but a few,
Too sad We were for passion, or
words Of love,
A stranger different you,
That came to me in spirit from
above,
Your memory the death song Of 3
mourning dove.
1 felt your fingers,
Your smile like tears upon vilted
tiger flowers,
Your low voice fingers,
Amidst the air that ascends with
feeting hours.
Upon the empty ground,
Your soul dear. will come 70 me
again soon,
My love shall rebound,
Within the darkness Of each pass
ing moon.
My eyes are tired, my aching BODY
burns, hush, FOOL
I shall place it in the stream, wners
it is cool.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
A WOman'S Viewpoint ::

termination and pain. The sweat
pours down their faces, they wrestle
with their monstrous machinery,
they suffer untold hardship, but all
they can calculate IS a puny Gee
whillikins."
am not able to determine what
the reaction of the nlilitarist will
be to this order, but as a plain paci-
first I am moved to protest. It may
destroy navy morale, quell courage
and lessen patriotism.
More than that, it can cause these
hardy seafaring fighters to banker
after the peaceful bucolic life and
set them to envying the husband
man who, if it please him, can shout
profanity at his COW.
Swearing belongs to the sea. The
only way man can retain his self
esteem there is to curse the ele-
ments and die. And when our war
makers-but goshl What's the use2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
Doctors Hold Aspirin Relatively Harmless

terial is held in direct contact with
the localized infection, it may have
some definite use.
Among antiseptics approved by
the council on pharmacy and chem
istry are preparations of hexylresor-
cinol and preparations of metaphor,
also neutral solution of chlorinated
soda and hydrogen peroxide.
The council has not approved an
tiseptics commonly represented as
being useful in the relief of all
sorts of infections Of the throat and
also for the prevention Of various
types of infectious diseases, includ-
ing colds.
One of the best ld-fashioned an
tiseptic solutions for common use
around the home is boric acid So
luton.
Most people prefer to have pack
ages Of crystals Of boric acid or Of
the powder, and to make up the
solution fresh just before use.
Next-First-aid materials for the
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
The Gas Tao

BY Max L. Wickersham.
OFFICERS and directors Of the
~ Indiana Petroleum Associa-
ton wish to present some peril
nent facts regarding the proposed
three fourths cent federal gaso-
line tax. The following figures are
based on the net gallonage in In
diana taxed in 1882.
Motorists in Indiana will be
subjected to a total state and
federal gasoline tax of 594 cents
a gallon. This will be a sales tax
of more than 100 per cent on the
net wholesale price of gasoline.
Estimated additional cost to mo-
florists in Indiana Of three-fourthS
of one cent increase will be $3,138,-
668 annually.
Total cost of federal gasoline
tax of IA cents will amount to
$7,323,558 annually in Indiana.
Estimated total cost of three
fourths OF one cent increase to
motorists in Indiana for the en-
tire fifteen years amortization pc
Rod will be SAT 100000, while I'M
der the bill as amended in the
house our state will receive only
$10,287,752 for highways.
The motorist will pay approx
mately ~ per cent of the total tax
and only IL per cent will revert to
highway construction.
This information is given the
motoring public with the request
that they urge Senators Van
Mugs and Robinson to oppose any
further burden on the motorist.
Taxing of gasoline should be a
state right whereby the motorist
will receive a return on his tax in
the way of highway construction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-06-02
BY DR.. MORRIS FIsHBETN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia.
the Health Magazine.

these people should keep their
syringe outfit separate from the ma
terials in the family medicine chest
There are all sorts of antisep-
tics available for use on the skin,
in first aid and also for gar
Cling and for washing various por-
tons Of the body.
The most widely known skin anti
septics are tincture of iodine and 2
per cent mercWochrome. The coun-
Gil on pharmacy and chemistry Of
the American Medical Association
permits advertising of recognized
antiseptics for first aid, and tincture
Of iodine and mercurochrome are
included among such preparations
This same council has concluded
that no antiseptic substance is of
value when used as a gargle for
destruction Of germs in the mouth
and throat.
If the antiseptic is applied d.
rectly on a swab so that the ma