The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-08-05
PRAISES Times
POLLUTION WAR
IN RADIO TALK
SportSmen Leagues Head
Sees Public Rising
to End Menace.

Praise for The Times for rs
series % stories calling attention 20
India@A lake and stream pollution
was yg7cad BY Howard NJ. Never.
presidegs Of United Sportsmen
Inc Of Indiana. in an address Fri
day night over WKBF.
Public interest in the war
against polluters Of the streams and
lakes has been increased magnf-
icently by the series he said.
In substance. The Times articles
absolutely were right, for the health
and happiness Of every man. Wom-
an and child in the state is in grave
peril because Of the germ infested
waters Of the state.
Few are the streams that are not
polluted by industrial and municipal
waste poured into the streams
through sewers and bitches Hunt
ers and fishermen going out from
the congested district we're the first
to see the disaster threatening the
state from pollution.
HurIs Brand of Tin God"
"A puny little saTron-colored
sheet down in Scott county said OF
the fishermen who complained OF
the big white-clothed tin-god'
destruction of the MuScatatuck:
They are the class who toll not.
neither do they spin
The little periodical referred 10
represents warped viewpoint, II
any, all too common among the
spineless class Of publishers and
others who are under the thumb OF
some one or more industrial rack
eteers who can prosper only so long
as they can loot community OF
its human and other natural re-
sources.
"SportSmen. conservationists and
all other decent people welcome this
day when metropolitan daily
newspaper chooses to tell the truth
about a vicious state OF affairs that
has existed too long already"
State Is Handicapped
Meyer pointed out that the con-
Servation department is handi-
capped in enforcing the law, which
makes stream polluting only a mis-
demeanor. by the fact prosecutions
must BE- brought IN the county
where the offense is committed,
wherein the industrial "racketeer"
operates and Yields his powerful
influence, through campaign con-
tributions to each OF the major
parties.
This makes it apparent he said,
when a polluter, by chance, is con-
victed that he is fined only SIS,
the minimum
Rails at State Board
THE state board of health has
been. and we have no proof that it
is not now. creature OF politics,
and We welcome the day, if it ever
comes, when the health board at
tempts to do what We are told 1t
can do-stop pollutions.
I'm any such attempt, the board
may depend on undivided support
Of every genuine sportsman in the
state"
Meyer said that while an effort
is being made by the state to end
pollution, its employees relatively are
inexperienced in this work, adding
that promises now being made by
some of the worst industrial Offend
ers sound like the same promises
made in years gone by.
Industries Threats Absurd
Threats of industries that they
will leave a community if their in
human practices are not meekly toll
Grated, are utterly absurd"
Meyer cited as proof Of his charges
that the state government is play
ing too much partisan politics.
the discharge Of one Of the best
known sportsmen in the state-Gary
Winders. whom. he said, two men
were hired TO replace.