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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
THE COMPANY UNION

INDUSTRIAL feudalism as represented in the
Il company union is fighting hard for life.
This institution which had survived three
decades of labor attack and recruited an
estimated 100000 membership was crippled
BY NIRAs Section 7-a-"employes shall have
the right to bargain collectively through
representation of their own choosing" 1t was
given a second blow when President Roosevelt
ordered steel companies to allow 10000 miners
in the captive coal pits Of Pennsylvania TO
choose their own unions by secret ballot.
It was given third setback when Colorado
miners voted to / to affiliate with the United
Mine Workers rather than with the Colorado
Fuel and Iron Companys twenty-year-old
Rockefeller plan" company union.
In other contests also the workers have won
over those new plant unions hurriedly organ
lied since last June and dubbed by Labor
Secretary Perkins war babies"
1t is too early, however, to sing requiems
over the company unions grave In the coal
fields of western Kentucky and Alabama, shoe
factories of Massachusetts,, auto works Of
Detroit, Pennsylvania steel plants and hosiery,
textile and needle industries the company
union still is an issue.
At its best the company union is benevolent
paternalism. At it's worst it is weapon for
collective bargaining provided by the law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14

while appraisal of the reconstruction now
being attempted in Washington without TAX
ing this into consideration.
The profound dissatisfaction which blew
the lid of year sgo has not cred down.
People are tired of empty promises and
mediocre performances. They are serving
notice anew that no officeholder who fails to
take the demand for a new day into account
can hope to survive.
That all this puts the national administra-
ton to severe test goes without saying.
It has promised much and it has started
mueh These promises and these actions must
run the gauntlet of a nation that is tired of
fooling. They have got, in plain English, to
be good. The promises must be sincere and the
actions must be effective.
For the municipal elections simply reaffirm
temper that was made evident year ago.
There is grim earnestness to this temper
that no one can fail to notice
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
STILL IN THE MOOD

WHATEVER else the voters may have on
w their minds, they at least sent roll of
thunder cracking along the horizon in the
recent municipal elections, and no weather
prophet worth his salt can fail to read warn
ing in it.
No one party and no one issue triumphed.
Instead. it seems that the electorate arose
once more with blood in its eye and swung
Q heavy club.
New York gave Tammany Hall terrific
defeat Pittsburgh elected a Democratic
mayor and Cleveland elected a Republican.
A Socialist sailed into office in Bridgeport,
Conn, the Ware machine took licking in
Philadelphia. and Detroit elected the son Of
Senator Couzens
What does il all mean?
Chiefly. it means that the voters still are on
the warpath. They still are in the mood that
possessed them a year ago-which is to say
that they are anxious to vote against" that
they are exceedingly critical of the 'ins"
Everywhere.
1t would be impossible to make a worth
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
PROBLEM OF REPEAL

THE confusion that some people expected to
u follow repeal of the eighteenth amendment
already seems TO have begun.
In most big cities the speakeasieS have
thrown of almost all pretense at concealment.
Drug stores display packaged whisky openly on
their counters, certain hotels and restaurants
serve dinners with everything from cocktails
to champagne and in some places bars are
running wide open on downtown streets.
This sort of thing, probably was inevitable.
There was bound to be a rebound from
restraint, and the peculiar interim period
between the death Of the eighteenth amend
ment and the institution Of new regulatory
laws makes any very effective control of the
traffic extremely difficult.
But most of all this reflects the confusion
which is in the mind of the public as whole
regarding the next step.
We got rid Of prohibition without ever
getting any very clear idea about the set-up
that we would adopt in its place 1t may be
that success in the repeal fight was too easy
The campaign could have been an educational
affair, in which the public seriously devoted
AHoC4A W oONOy dAlN NlSOuooAOll VI IIl6 dlU6T-
natives to prohibition. Instead, it resolved
itself into band wagon movement, in which a
huge majority agreed that it wanted federal
prohibition ended-but went no further than
that.
So now we get-what? Chains of govern
ment liquor stores, selling in packages for Off
premises consumption? A return to the old
license system, modified in the light of the
lessons that have been learned? Restriction
on sale to hotels and restaurants?
We hardly have begun to make up our
minds on these issues, and the time is just
about at hand when one or another of them
has to be put into effect We have plenty of
chances to make mistakes, and we probably
shall accept good many of them
What we need to remember is, first, that we
want to find some way of avoiding both the
evils of prohibition and the evils of the old
license Systenl-which were many and glaring;
and, second, that whatever course we adopt
now will be in the nature of an experiment.
We probably shant hit on the right solution
at once 1t may be years before we find the
best way out. Meanwhile, it is high time we
did some very earnest and serious thinking.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
THE BLUE EAGLE IS HEARD

1T rather looks as if the American people
L are perfectly willing to go out of their
way to trade only with dealers who fly the
blue eagle.
Theodore RahutiS, dine-and-dance place
proprietor of Gary, Ind, lost his blue eagle
on Oct g. after it was charged that his wage
scales and working schedules did not con-
form to the NRA standard.
Rahutis went to the compliance board.
demonstrated finally that he was paying
more than the minimum and working his en-
ployes less than the maximum allowed, and got
his blue eagle back.
He had operated without it for just one
month And during that month, he says, his
business fell off so per cent. AS he put up
anew the six blue eagles that decorate his
windows he said. "Oh, boy am I glad to have
'em back"
A neat little demonstration, this, that the
NRA insignia have a very good cash value for
the business man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
TUESDAY. NOV. a. 1888.
RIVERS OR SEWERS?

CIT is a question Of the first magnitude
whether the destiny Of the great rivers is
to be the sewers Of the cities along their banks
or to be protected against everything which
threatens their punty'-Justice Oliver Wen
dell Holmes of the United States supreme
court in a majority opinion written in 1905.
Michigan City Nov. 8.--Opponents Of the
plan to build sewage disposal plant won in
Tuesdays referendum. light vote was cast"
"A recent news dispatch.
Compare these two sentences. Twenty EIGHT
years ago one Of the worlds most distinguished
jurists pointed to the gravity of the stream
pollution problem. A few days ago the voters
of an Indiana community casually rejected the
idea of civilized disposal of sewage. Only
handful of citizens were interested enough
even to 90 to the polls.
Evidently thought on public sanitation in
Michigan City is still the same as it was in
the days when automobiles were "horseless
carriages"
Indiana has foul record on stream pollu-
ton. It's once lovely waters have been changed
into n1alodorous bitches which only a back
ward Asiatic society would tolerate. They are
a menace to public health, an offense to COM
mon decency, an ugly evidence of public and
private greed.
Even from a narrowly selfish point of view
the action of the Michigan City voters is I'M
justifable. The proposed disposal plant would
have cost s45O,OOO, of which the federal govern
ment would have paid about one-third.
AS a part of its unemployment program the
Roosevelt administration has offered financial
assistance to cities constructing public works.
Application for federal aid must be made
before Jan l. Michigan City has lost its
chance for such aid.
In addition to this advantage to be gained
by building disposal plants now there is an
other. Building costs are on the increase,
but prices of labor and material still are lower
than they may be for many years.
If any city, industry or individual thinks
that the citizens of Indiana Indefinitely will
permit the befouling of streams, he is mis-
taken. People are alive to this menace. They
are thoroughly disguised with it. Nor are they
helpless to remedy it.
Recalctrant polluters may be forced now
by court action to clean up their barbaric
sanitary systems.
The legislature in its next session can pro-
nulgate laws which will bring pollution to an
abrupt end.
A city should think twice before rejecting
the present opportunity. Remember, JAN
is the deadline for federal aid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
THE HITLER RACKET

lust what purpose Herr Hitler hopes to
- serve by his fake election is not clear. Ger
tainly no one in Germany thinks it was free
election. And the Naz dictator has only to
read the foreign press to discover that the rest
of the world is not deceived by his bayonet
ballots.
The remarkable thing is not that 80 per
cent of those allowed to vote did So but that
almost 10 per cent had the great courage to
stay away from the gOose-step polls The
aged Duke Albrecht, World war general, was
expelled from the steel helmet organization
and sent to Jail for failure to vote. What will
happen to less famous and powerful persons?
Three factory directors were imprisoned in one
of Che terrorist concentration camps for the
'crme" of walking away from loud-speaker
while the wee of Hitler was issuing there
from
Considering that most of Hitler's opponents
had either been murdered. imprisoned or dis
qualified. the fact that more than three mill
lion citizens dared to vote against the die
tatorship is astounding.
Until Hitler and his terroriStS conquered
Germany. the world was rapidly coming to
support that nations just demands for revi-
sion of the unfair peace treaty of Versailles
and for equality of disarmament Under that
public pressure France and Great Britain were
being driven to lift the German yoke.
But Hitler has changed all of that Ger
many today has fewer friends than at any
time since the kaiser's day. Judged by results,
Hitler is Germanys worst enemy because he
has turned the world against her.
Unfortunately. the havoc does not stop
there Not only Germany, but the other ma
tons also are victims of Hitlers madness.
For he has wrecked the hopes of world dis
armament and stronger peace machinery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia.
the Health Magazine

pendicitis or peritonitis or for other
abdominal infection may be per-
formed.
Until rather recent times, this
disease was associated universally
with the tropics. More recently it
has been found that it can be
transmitted by food handlers in any
part of the world.
1t was by this method that the
epidemic arose in Chicago.
In 1927, seven or eight cases were
traced to large hotel there. APP
parently person still carrying the
germ in the spring of 1888 obtained
a position in another hotel
Cases of amebic dysentery are not
usually reported in Chicago; in fact,
the average is one or two a month.
However, about the middle of
August, 1893, two cases were re-
ported, and by the end of August
thirteen cases had been reported,
all traced to the same hotel.
Therefore, examinations were
made Of all food handlers in this
hotel, and by Oct. 1 it was found
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
Blue Begins
BY ARCHER SHIRLEY

BY ARCHER SHIRLEY
where does the blue begin2' I
cried.
For I saw days Of summer pass
And nights that all too quickly hide
The happiness I longed to clasp.
I grew impatient with my lot
And longed to seek place afar;
A place where happiness is got,
A land beyond some flaming star.
I searched the world for that bright
place
Where blue horizons meet the
earth,
For Paradise, though, was space
Wherein new joys would find
their birth.
But soon I found that peace and
light
And joy within each mortal
dwells;
That flee or journey though we
might
We can ne'er hope to escape our
selves.
Within each heart do horizons
loom,
In homes and loves, in hopes and
friends,
In sunny smiles that dispel all
gloom,
I know that's where the blue be-
gins.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
"HANDOUTs" FOR TEACHERS

CHICAGO'S school teachers haven't been
~ paid in heaven knows when, but at least
they aren't going to starve this winter. The
Illinois emergency relief commission has
announced that it will provide them with food,
fuel and clothing throughout the winter,
accepting salary assignments in payment.
Right here there is an ironic commentary
on the breakdown of our public school system.
Suppose you were teacher, and had worked
hard to get the education necessary for your
Job, and had toiled for years in your chosen
profession-and then, in the end, found that
your reward was TO get packages of groceries
and bundles of coal precisely as if you were
down-and-outer subSisting on charity.
Wouldn't you, in that case begin to feel
that there was something tremendously wrong
with the profession You had chosen?
The plight of our school system really is
one of the most shocking features of the entire
depression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
I wholly disapprove Of what You SAY and win defen

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their uietcs in these columns, Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0ords or less.)
BY G. B. G.
Sound economics in operation is
the parent of liberty. Unfair dis
tribution will deprive many Of
natural rights and enslave them.
Proper proportions in opportunity
and products are only just. The
administration of justice is a gov
ernmental function. Injustice to
the many is an unsafe policy. Times
of economic and social injustice
have existed when one class ruled
over another to their own destruc-
ton
Employees have natural rights in
natural resources and industry.
When they are denied, it tends to
slavery; and to even worse-banish-
ment, no place, unemployment.
Lincoln feared, through monopoly
VI dl lEOOQ1CCS dl1SA Vic NAO-
tatorShip of capitalists, the result
ant wage slavery would be more
difficult and horrible than chattel
slavery. Better to be in bondage to
an individual who is interested in
you than an unfeeling industrial
system that turns you out every
time the captains accumulate sea-
sons supply.
Are we on our way to better
things? Perhaps, but what
rough, uncharted and unnecessary
detour. Destroying in order to
have, when in need, will not do it.
A high processing tax that, under
present conditions, will make the
article almost a luxury for the
masses, will not make good markets.
Taxing the overburdened tax VIC
tim is no relief. finally. A 60-cent
dole for each person each week
solves nothing fundamentally. But
let us hope we are learning impor-
tant lessons that finally will liber-
ate all. The super capitalist should
bear the price of reconstruction.
Sooner or later they must, and
thereafter be satisfied with less, or
get out of the way in the construc-
ton of system in which he, as
such, will have no part.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14

Now all this might have been
very well, provided the unattached
woman could have been given the
same amount of respectful approval.
But that, alas, was not the case.
She, poor thing, was held in utter
scorn for long periods of time.
Something was supposed to be wrong
with her if she could not by hook
or crook, by lure or lie, succeed in
getting a husband. In spite of our
bravado, this idea has not disap-
peared entirely from the public
mind.
American bachelors have been
wont to speak boastfully Of their
cleverness in evading matrimony
The income tax gave them their
first nudge in the ribs, and now
comes this discouraging Italian news.
1t behooves them to lay down and
keep quiet. No more strutting. gen.
tlemen, no more strutting.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
Amebic Dysentery Is Slow-Acting

that Of ALI food handlers examined
ninety-two were infested.
The figures indicate that the out
breaw was at its height during
June, July and August. In the
meantime, cases we're reported from
other cities. Eight persons in In
dianapolis who had been patrons
in the Chicago hotel we're infect
ed, and one died.
A convention of 125 delegateSrn
held in this hotel in the end of
June developed large number of
cases. Six have died of intestinal
diseases, three certainly from
amebic dysentery.
The examination for the pres
ence Of the organism is a highly
technical procedure which can be
carried out only by a competent
laboratory investigator.
There is an incubation period of
from nine to ninety-four days after
the invasion of the body before Sc
we're SYMPTOMS appear. In fact, the
cases investigated by one group Of
authorities indicated that the aver
afe time the infestation by the or
gaonism TO the first appearance of
the intestinal SYMPTOMS was sixty
five days.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
POLITICS TO ECONOMICS

THERE is something deeply interesting
l. about the reorganization of the govern
mental structure which Mussolini is reported
to be preparing for Italy
Instead of a chamber of deputies, it is
said, Italy will have a sort of parliament con-
tanning delegates representing commerce, agri-
culture and industry throughout the country,
grouped in some fifty guilds" Political repre-
sentation practically will cease, to be replaced
by economic representation.
1t is worth remembering that some one
ironically suggested this for the United States
a generation ago, urging that We have senators
representing coal, iron, corn, wheat, oil, and
so on. And the idea really isn't altogether
silly. 1t will be interesting to see what Musso-
lini does with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14

TITO the girls Of Italy, Mussolini
l. no doubt appears a benevolent
being.
Since the right to have a husband
should be considered one of the
fundamental privileges of the fe-
male in any society where marriage
is the custom, these young ladies
are justified in their high opinion
of II Duce.
The great wedding party in Rome
is proof that he means business.
Seven hundred SWANS were per-
suaded by national edict that mar
riage was the goodly state for them
and if a few may have popped the
question half-heartedly, they prob
ably will not make any the worse
husbands for that.
In any country where it's cheaper
to be married than to live alone,
men will marry. And the bachelor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
SLABS WdLkdtbOn

By Subscriber.
I have been spectator at the
Walkathon contest a few times
and wish to call your attention to
something. The Indianapolis
Times has been fearless so far in
dealing with certain things, so I
wonder if you would give this your
attention. The police department
is barred by an injunction and
the sheriff's force seem not to care
and it seems to me a fraud is
being committed.
If the contestant does not COM
plete certain number of laps, he
is put out of the contest. Yet
Sunday night Nov. 81 Tim Muir
ply did not make the required
number of laps but is still in the
contest. On this evening, he also
slapped two other contestants and
was not disqualified as is done in
real sporting affairs.
Now it is rumored that Tim
Murphy is to be the winner by
pre-arrangement, and it looks to
be true after seeing what I did.
If this contest is fixed, then it is
not a contest at all but is a fraud
put over on the people and some
thing should be done about it.
Who will do it, if not your paper?
Of course, it probably is silly
but lots of people attend this con-
test I suppose because it is some
thing different and affords an
evening of amusement, but it
should be conducted fairly and on
good craftsmanship. So, will you
give this your attention, as we
cannot depend on anyone else do
ing so?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14

By J. A. Perkins.
In previous letters I have pointed
out a gross injustice done the vet
Grams of all wars. Time takes its
toll. We find today thousands of
honorably discharged soldiers job
less, hungry, physically disabled,
and without funds. Why? Because
of an act of a cowardly congress
to appease the whims of the Ma
tional Economy League, United
States Chamber of Congress, Wall
Street and big business. This is the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-14
M. Tracy Says:

MO lack of sympathy for farmers is needed
to realize that President Roosevelt adopted
the only possible course in turning down the
program laid before him last week by five west
ern Governors.
Roughly stated, that program was based on
licensing system by which the government
would take virtual control of the production and
distribution of farm products in this country.
AS the President pointed out, it would neces-
state supervision of every field.
Even in this era of fantastic schemes. such
an attempt sounds ridiculous especially when
coupled with the declared object of boosting
farm prices by 70 per cent.
Even II the government could make such a
scheme work, where would the hard-pressed con-
sumerS get the money to pay for it? Where
would the overburdened cities and states find
the funds with which to pay the added cost of
relieving the hungry?
ME five Governors showed President Roose-
Il welt nothing so plainly as a good place to
halt and he halted
The nation has gone far enough toward
prlce-hXlng, RECOMMENDATION and bureaucracy.
The beautiful dream that we could legisate
organize or strike ourselves into prosperity has
about run its course.
There are services which the government can
render to help industry and agriculture but they
are only services.
LIE SOVO1LLlSHG possesses no magic wand
with which to conjure wealth out of the atmos-
phere, and while systematic planning can CO.
ordinate work, it is virtually poweress to make
work
The idea of shortening hours of labor in or
der to put more people on the pay roll and less
on the bread line is sound, but it should not be
taken to mean more than it obviously does It
opens no road to an effortless millennium
-
GO, too the idea of establishing minimum
~ wages, especially for those at the foot of the
line. presents effective way of stopping cut
throat competition, but offers no proof that we
have discovered way to boost the price and
wage level by law.
To sum it up, the American people can not
work themselves out of depression by leaning on
the government, borrowing money or increas-
ing taxes and most of them know it. Most Of
them are against permanent expansion of the
bureaucratic idea or permanent enlargement
of the regulatory powers When they voted to
change the administration last year. they did
not vote for revolution, but for a new kind of
leadership.
A certain type of ballyhoo has caused large
numbers of susceptible souls to imagine that this
country was headed for Fascism, Communism or
some other kind of ism" That simply is not
true, as some of our dreamers are going to find
out before long.
Down deep the people of this country have
lost faith in its essential traditions,