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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
MERCHANTS OF DEATH"

IN A few brief hours. witnesses at the OPEN
Il ing hearing OF the senate committee told
enough probably 10 convince most people
that the manufacture OF munitions is one line
OF private business that has had too little
government regulation. Also enough TO
demonstrate that munitions control is world
problem. too big for any one government to
handle alone.
In one day the commute learned from off,
GERS Of one cmopsny:
That Sir Basil Zaharoff, the Greek-born
Spanish duke and British knight, Europes
car Of wars. collected more than 50 100000 in
commissions from one American firm.
That American manufacturers Of the dead
II submarine have a long-established cartel
agreement abroad by which patents and
profits are interchanged and world markets
are divided.
What & model OF cooperation: No de-
structive price cutting. trade secrets shared:
a communion banded together 10 promote
proats and efficiency in mass murder
II takes a wild imagination 10 guess what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
FRIDAY. SEPT. ?. 1884.
BOTH SIDES WIN

A NEW tvo-way stream Of trade Is flowing
= between the United States and Cuba as
a result Of the reciprocity tariff treaty.
The Pearl Of the Antilles, her luster
dimmed by poverty. is beginning 20 CLEAN
anew. largely because her diplomats and ours
got together on a trade agreement.
A million pounds Of American lard is
clearing the customs at Havana. Another
million pounds have been ordered. and also a
million pounds Of picked meats and SAT- pork.
That is good news for our corn-hOg farmers.
Good news to our cotton farmers are or
ders for 100000 pounds Of cottonseed oil. and
good news to Akron are the orders for 5000
automobile tires.
Cubans have placed substantial orders for
American automobiles, trucks, paper, card
board. potatoes. wheat, rayon fabrics, feed
stufs. cigarets and onions. There is scarcely
an American state that will not benefit di-
rectly.
Secretary Henry A Wallace estimates that
a million acres Of American farm land will be
needed to produce the expected Cuban orders
for 100000 worth Of farm products.
What have all these blessings of trade cost
US? Very little! Cuba will sell us no more
sugar than if the treaty had not been signed.
Her sugar quota was not changed. But Cuba
Will make more profit on her sugar sales, be-
cause of our lower tarif. And apparently she
is buying from America in anticipation of that
greater profit. and profit on other Cuban
products such as rum and tobacco.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
MISREPRESENTATION

THOSE who assume that business is de-
pressed because our farms and factories
glutted the markets with coo much goods
should study the report today by the Brook
ings Institution IN Washington on Americas
Capacity to Consume"
The cause Of our plight. say the BrOokings
experts. was not Overproduction but under
consumption. The root Of our trouble is the
maldistribution Of the national income. max
ing it impossible for the people to buy back
what they produce.
An income of about $1,000 in 1929 was the
minimum needed to support a family. Yet in
that top year Of sO-called prosperity more
than 100000 families. or 90 per cent Of the
total. had incomes below that minimum
standard
IN that year the aggregate income Of the
nations 27,OOOOOO families, total of s77,OOO-
100000. was distributed so badly that $4,000
families at the top. about one-tenth of l per
cent of the total received practically as much
as 115OOOOO families. or AZ per cent of the
total, at the bottom of the social scale.
It is something to ponder that in 1929 near
~ 100000 families or more than 81 per cent
of the total, we're getting incomes of less than
$1,000 year: that 100000 families, or more
than AZ per cent. had incomes of less than
81 500; that nearly 100000 families or "a
per cent. had incomes of less than s25OO And
what can be said Of system that allows 16,-
100000 families to spend only sl8,3OOlOOO while
100000 families receive s5S.9OOO 900, most
Of which they can not spend on useful goods2
If the incomes of all families under the
$500 level were raised to the $500 level, or
If $1,000 year we're added to the incomes of
all families in the class under $4,000, we read,
America then could sell all it produced in 1929
In light of these facts 1t appears that
Americas basic economic problem is a more
Just and efficient distribution Of wealth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
whoIIy djSapprove of 1OhGt you sag and wiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Votaire

Dupont, it would be very inappro-
pirate to designate them as the
Know Nothing League, as most
every one comedies they know too
much.
Nothing but the absolute necessity
of a national government gave us
our present. federal Constitution.
Hamilton emphasized the implied
powers. Even jefferson, the strict
conStructionist, yielded in the Lou
isiana Purchase, and characterized
it as extra constitutional.
From the result of the Sinclair
campaign, it looks as if the men,
bers of the Liberty League need
President Roosevelt and his NRA
more than they do a paralytic con-
structiOn of the Constitution. If
it becomes evident that it is impos-
Sible to regulate and control in
dustry, and capitalistic enterprises
under the Constitution, suitable for
the existing state of society, then
the usefuln IS and necessity of the
Constitution ends.
Is Mayor Sullivan declaring Sept.
II Constitution day in order to razz
his Republican opponents? Certain
ly, we Democrats who date our ALE
glance back to the days of the
Democratic society in Philadelphia
during Washington's administra-
ton need no reminder of its signif-
canoe.
Never before has labor been law
fully engaged in strikes. If labor
is dissatisfied with wages, they
should organize under the NRA and
demand more wages, and if refused,
strike.
President Roosevelt has given YOU
a gun and hunting license; do Won
expect him to go out and shoot the
game for you?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
DEFENDS INDIANA
PENAL SET-UP

BY Fair Play Reader.
I am writing this in reply to Ed
Featheringill's article blaming in
competency for Jail breaks.
He speaks as if no man hired I'M
der the New Deal is capable of hold
ing any position at penal insti-
tuition. I wonder if he knows that
more than so per cent of these en-
ployes are hang-overs, and has 1t
ever occurred to Ed that he should
go over the records carefully for the
last six years before he comes to any
such conclusions. Does he know
that federal institutions have their
escapes also?
Two of our three penal institu-
tons are headed by some of the
best penologists in the central states,
having had years of experience. One
of these men, Mr.. Miles, practically
built the Indiana reformatory, and
is the superintendent there now.
Mr.. Howard, a Republican, is super
intendent of the state farm, and
is entirely capable of holding the
position.
am of the opinion that Mr..
Featheringill isn't very we'll in
formed or ne wouldn't ask why APP
preparations should be increased.
Doesn't he know that federal re-
strictions have been imposed on
prison made goods, and the instl-
tutions no longer are self supporting
in as large a measure as heretofore
Please consider the escapes at
Michigan City and count the New
Deal officers involved in these
breaks. and then tell those you are
associated with, who these whit
tiers" really were, and after observ-
ing the score you will be assured
that Governor Paul McNutt hasn't
made a failure in choosing new
men, neither does the New Deal pa
role system include train-vrecked
football players.
Perhaps previous administrations
did let the inmates run these insti-
tutions to please themselves, but
he should know that there is more
discipline today under these so
called political plum pickers than in
years past, while the "whittlers"
held full sway.
am sorry to know that you think
this administration has no right to
employ taxpaying Democrats who
for the past twenty years maintained
95 per cent Republicans, the same
ones who reformed the Dillinger
gang.
Now when you speak of removing
the governor, 1 wonder where you
we're when the horse choked on a
corncob, or for instance, when the
statehouse was washed. am
mighty proud of our governor when
I recall twelve years of the black
est pages in history of Indiana, pre-
vious to 1892.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
taminated, repulsive organization
VIC over have seen

taminated, repulsive organization
we ever have seen.
Any and all mistakes and corrup-
ton, collectively reviewed, that the
Republican party ever has found
tackled on its door can in no way
compare with existing conditions.
The regiments of PIP political
plum pickers) must be disbanded
and action taken to prevent selfish,
nearsighted, overzealous politicians
from ever again being able to ex-
plot efficient public employees.
AS to eX-convict's complaints
against lack of education, acquiring
trades on the inside and that pun
ishment is the rule where infrac-
lions are made of prison regulations,
and that the warden don't mind
melting out this punishment, have
this to say:
Let us try to appreciate what the
wardenS and superintendent of Pc
nal institutions have to contend with
They must receive any one sem
fenced. They have no choice but to
consider them guilty of the Of
Tense against society for which they
have been committed. They must
put them to the task to which con-
ditions and information available
make a round peg in a round hole
It would be almost impossible and
rather expensive to have education
in a prison. 1t would be necessary
to employ masters of half a dozen
different languages to instruct the
large numbers of foreign illiterates
in the English language and have
teachers capable of conducting
classes which would pick up" the
prisoners at the proper place to
continue their education; classes
ranging from the first grade Of COM
mon school to the last degree Of col
leges.
If, as his truck drivers and me-
chanics are released, the superin-
tendent of an institution immedi-
ately could send notices to the va
rious judges to sentence him some
truck drivers and mechanics; if as
his gardeners are released, he could
advertise for gardeners; or, vice
versa, he could refuse to accept any
more carpenters and plumbers as his
institution has an oversupply-per-
haps he would then find it possible
to apprentice his charges to the vo-
cation to which a prisoner had sud-
denly chosen for his life's work.
With hundreds Of men in insti-
tutions, it is an obvious fact that
the most important rule to be en-
forced in a prison is the observance
of all rules. The rule disobeyed
may seem an unnecessary rule, but
any and all rules and regulations
must be adhered to, and strict en-
forcement is the foundation Of all
successful prison management. So,
after all, it is the violation that
must be corrected and punished, as
we'll as punishment for the partic-
ular rule violated.
The prisoner already has demon
Strated by his presence at the in
stitution that he does not consider
with any degree of seriousness the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
SEPTEMBER
BY MAZDA L. srECKEInfAN

BY MAZDA L. STECKELMAN
What is more inspiring
Than the soft sweet tang
OF blue September air?
1t thrills with energy untiring
And makes a thistle puff of care.
A child plucks at a brilliant leaf
To top a curly head
Feet dipped and dancing
In a golden sheaf.
Golden-rod in a golden bed.
All this September brings to me-
Chimes and rhymes and melodies
Golden hearts and golden thoughts.
Golden dreams and memories.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
LIBERTY LEAGUE LIKENED
TO KNOW NOTHINGS"
By George w. Curtis.

BY George w. Curtis.
The Liberty League occupies a
position like that of the Liberty
Party formed in 1860. No one could
ascertain the real intention or pur-
pose of its formation, consequently
it was called the Know Nothing"
party and which finally materialized
to be America must be ruled by
Americans"
With the Darrow report on the
NRA and the entire Republican
party's most sincere watchfulness,
the citizen should be we'll informed.
Considering the capabilities Of
Davis, Smith, Wadsworth and Irene
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Defends RELIGION AS
HEALING POWER

BY Christian Worker.
1 notice you expose religious per-
sons for trusting in God for their
chlldren's healing, but if these same
persons would trust the doctors and
their children would die, there
wouldn't be anything said about it.
II these persons trust God and
their children die they are indicted
for murder.
In a certain Indianapolis hospital
the other day, doctor killed a lit
tie girl by giving her an overdose
of chloroform. Can you tell me why
he wasn't indicted for murder. No.
don't suppose you can. It only
goes. to show that the world still
hates Jesus and his works as it did
in the beginning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Dissertation ON Strike Protection

obligation to employ labor if it
does not wish to.
What duty rests on the govern
ment? IN general, governments
duty is TO protect life and prop
erty. 1t long has been the prac-
tice of government during strikes
to protect property by the police
or military forces. Is it not equal
ly its duty to protect labor during
the dispute? And how can pro-
lection be afforded, if it is not to
give labor necessary subsistence
while the strike lasts?
Protection of capital demands
the corresponding duty of protec-
ton to labor. Under this view,
it is not even necessary to de-
clare, mo man shall starve."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

appointed By a Len Small or Huey Long,
it will run your parole system in the Len
Small or Huey Long manner, no matter how
intelligently the system itself was devised.
Men like DR.. Thayer do us a great service
by pointing out ways in which we can meet
the problem Of crime and punishment more
efficiently and justly. But they are helpless
until we ourselves insist on putting public
Office in the hands Of men who will bring real
devotion to duty to their jobs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

BY a Reader.
1t is difficult for those who are
prejudiced either for or against
labor or capital to assume an i'm
partial attitude toward strikes.
Impartiality requires, however,
that no assumption be made as
to whether capital or labor is
justified in the particular dispute,
but the position should be taken
that an honest dispute has arisen
which has disrupted temporarily
the normal and proper relation
ship between capital and labor.
Further, as regards private in
duStrial disputes, labor's right to
quit work must be freely conceded
as long as capital rests under no
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
PRISON CONDITIONS FROM
WARDEN'S VIEWPOINT
By 8. r. OHaver.

BY S. R. O'Haver.
Why ex-convict saw fit to even
mention Mr.. Featheringills recent
statement of facts regarding the
present politically responsible Grim
inal incompetency Of Indiana's in
situations is rather vague.
Mr.. Featheringill only made an
intelligent resume of front page
headlines Of the last few months.
When a political system is so
corrupt that the bereaved parents
Of an officer who was killed in line
of duty, finds his last pay check,
received after his burial, has 2
per cent deduction for the present
New Deal in Indiana, then that
system is the most corrupt, con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

laws of society, so if the punish
ment inside prison seems harsh
and extreme, it is likely because OF
being looked at in the wrong per-
spective.
This is not approval of brutality OF
abuse of power which could occur IN
penal institutions, but it certainly is
a suggestion that the people of In
diana should appreciate and openly
demonstrate that appreciation when
they have an honest, efficient and
conscientious prison head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
Daily Thought

One man of you shall chase a
thousand: for the Lord your God,
he it IS that fghteth for you, as he
hath promised you-Joshua, 23:10.
TINE virtue of paganism was
i strength; the virtue Of Chris
tianity is obedience.-Hare.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Chicago people are looking ahead to a
pleasant winter. They can sit around in the
evenings and count up all the relatives they're
going to get even with next summer for just
dropping in on them while at the worlds fair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

A grandmother has been found in Ten
nessee who didn't take her first air ride on
her Tooth birthday, has no opinions on the
younger generation, and needs glasses to read
her newspaper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

There seems to be no limit to American en-
durance. Many people who read the Life and
Loves of Max Baer" are said to be looking for
ward to a new life story of Iron Man Dave
Hutton.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
The Message Center

(Times readers arc invited to express
their Vietos In these columns. Make your
letters short, go al con hare chance.
Limit them to $50 Words or less.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Some court stenographers take down as
many as $4,000 words day, more than an
ordinary stenographer takes in a month, and
almost as many as some husbands take in an
entire evering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Maybe you've noticed that the person who
always talks about the depression as past
never has taken any pay cuts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Harvard is conducting series Of tests to
study fatigue. 1t should include the Harvard
accent, which fatigues many people
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

We're still waiting to hear if General
johnson lost his Blue Eagle for trying to fire
his NRA union chief and failing to get away
with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Huey Long doesn't mind every other man
being king, if Huey only can be the ace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Herbert Hoover is writing book, but it
probably lacks the suspense that will make a
mystery best seller.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Goat gland specialist lost in governor race
which shows tnat you still can't break the
monkeys hold in politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Wonder what the rattlesnakes will do for
thrills now that biting evangelists is going
out of style?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Judging from the fate of other Dillinger
gangsterS, Baby Face" Nelson should stay
out of alleys if he wants to keep on being
Public Enemy No 1.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Several burlesque troupes have dropped
louisiana from their routes. The competition
from free home talent acts is too heavy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Great Britain now has only one woman
town crier. but that's overlooking all the
women who talk over the back fence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
DECLARES SEATS LACKING
AT PLAYGROUND

BY J. C. w.
Please learn why seats are not
placed, as in the past, at the state
Playground. One old woman gave 10
cents for place to sit down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

1t looks like a hard autumn for midwest
poets. The pumpkin crop is short and they
have no place to put their frost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07
POLITICAL ATTITUDE OF
THE TIMES DEFINED

BY a Reader.
I would like to be informed if the
editor of The Times is a Republican,
a Democrat, or a Socialist. After
reading the rank partisanship of
the other papers of indianapolis, j.
would be such a relief to the Dem
ocrats to have an evening paper
defend their national or state ad-
ministration, especially through the
congressional campaign.
However, your criticism of NRA
policies, and your antagonism to
Governor McNutt are most dis
heartening. 1t is just too bad the
President did not appoint the editor
his confidential adviser.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-07

Editors Note-The Times is not
the personal political organ of
the editor, who, like the news
paper, is politically independent.
His votes in presidential elections
were as follows: Coolidge, Smith,
Roosevelt. Since 1880 he has
registered as a Democrat, before
that as Republican. Although The
Times is back of the policies of
Roosevelt, including NRA, and
McNutt, it reserves its indepen-
dent right to criticise both.
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Phone Riley SSH
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-20
WEATHER SYNOPSIS

reported this Washington the northern portion the the Seward fair weather prevailed
  where Alaska temperatures above the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-20
SENATOR BORAH KEEPS TALKING
 EZRA EXPENSES
Spokesman Declares Idaho Man Has Offered No
 Evidence of Proof

WASHINGTON, Nov 20.-Senatol Borah continues to press his cam paign for a Congressional inyesti- gation into his charges of large wastes of relief funds. To his charges he added the allegation that in one State, one million dol lars vanished.
 In radio address the Senator stood pat on his criticism despite FERA's assertion he has offered no evidence and the cost of admin istering relief amounts to only 11.6 per cent.
 Senator Borah declared that 11.6 per cent of the. relief expenditures during August went to pay it's ad- ministration and this was compar- ed with 11.3 per cent for July and 108 for May and June.
 The spokesman at EZRA head quarters said anything below IA per cent was considered good ad- ministration.~
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-11-20
Commercial AirIines E in US. Top World in
 Mileage, Passenger,
!continusa frosl Page one,

a@--s e-@-- e&& --,
 The longest single air route is that of the Royal Danish Air Lines weekly from Amsterdam to Java, nearly 10000 miles. Great Britain's Imperial Airlines routes of $500 miles to Singapore and 5000 miles to Cape Town, Africa,
 are close seconds. The projected
 Australian route would extend the
 singapore route to 13,OO0 miles.
 Best available figures for 1888, gathered by the Department of Commerce, show 54,p00,O 900 miles ! flown in scheduled air service in
 the United States, compared with 6QO3, ,00Q flown in Russia, the next in rank. Germany flew 6,552,OOO
 France s6,2ol 900. Italy 2,s5O,oOO
 and Great Britain 2,628,0OO. The
 Netherlands flew 1,9f9,00o miles in
 1882. M < Tn number of passengers carried the United States led the world with 5sB, poo. Next in rank was EGsr1nany with 13,oO0.
 n pounds of mall carried the United States likewise led, with |7,S16,0o pounds compared with E4,378, poo in Russia, next in order. Germany led the world in pounds of express carried, with 5,554, 4,444
 pounds. France and Russia were next in order. Only 1863 ,0o0 |, pounds were carried in the Unit | ed States. ''N