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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
FACTS MUST BE KNOWN

IF a member of President Roosevelt's Off
Il cial family actually is working toward a
Communist state in America, and is pulling
the wool over the Presidents eyes so that the
nation can be Unanswered to the edge of
Marxism without realizing it, the fact needs
to be established definitely and the mans
name should be published.
And then the man needs to be thrown out
of Washington so fast that he won't know
what hit him.
But, on the other hand if none of this is
true-if some one has just been indulging in
a lot of loose talk, creating a bogey-man out
of nothing to scare us out of adopting a law
or set of laws which certain important
gentlemen do not like-then the man who
started all the talk needs to be shown up as
an irresponsible rumor- monger and discredited
forever
The charges spread before the house COM
merce committee in the letter read by James
Henry Rand Jr., must be investigated quickly
and thoroughly. The public has a right to
know the exact facts in the matter.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
ECONOMIC FREEDOM

A GREAT shift in the popular idea of free
dom, which ultimately will have very
great effect on our political thought, has
been taking place in this country during the
last few years.
This shift has been moving us away from
our traditional notions at a rapid pace. 1t is
giving new twist to the things we demand
from our government, and it steadily is
changing our concept of the relation of the
individual to the society Of which he is a
part.
Briefly, the shift can be explained by say
ing that We are beginning to demand eco
nomic freedom rather than political free
dom.
Once we demanded freedom from the OPP
preston of rulers-freedom to talk, write,
and worship as we pleased, abolition of in
herted caste distinctions, formal recogni-
ton of the fact that, as far as rights are con-
cerned, all men are created equal
Now we are beginning to demand freedom
from economic disabilities; freedom from
poverty, for instance, and from the fear of
poverty
we are beginning 10 lnSlSC CnaG pOutlcdl
equality be balanced with economic security.
1t is this demand which is back of such
pending bills in congress as the Wagner
Lewis unemployment insurance law and the
Connery thirty-hour week bill
Now the thing to notice is that never be-
fore. in all the worlds history, could a de-
mand for economic security have been made
Sensibly.
In all former times it was inevitable that
insecurity be the lot of the average man,
There simply wasn't enough of everything to
60 around. Somebody had to be left out.
Population, Nautilus pointed out, tended
to increase faster than the means of sub.
sistence. Poverty was inescapable.
But today our troubles come because there
is too much of everything. For the first time
since this old planet started spinning, every
man can get fair whack of things.
Insecurity is no longer necessary The
abolition of poverty is perfectly possible.
The ordinary man has come to realize
this. He knows there is enough Of everything
to go around and he wants his share; and
which is a point worth remembering-he
doesn't care very much how hs gets it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
LITTLE TAMMANIES

NTHILE New York City is resping rich
W rewards for its clean-out of Tam
many, Kansas City permitted Tom Fender.
CASTS Little Tammany' to crush fusionst
reform opposition in Tuesdays city election.
The victory for spoils, waste and graft was
won to the tune of gun-pay, slugging and
terrorism. The casualties were four dead and
many wounded.
Kansas City apparently has not learned the
depression's hard lesson that machine poll
tics is too expensive. This sort of rule has
left more than 1900 cities broke. They form
a new federal problem, and are asking con-
gres5 for bankruptcy relief and the RFC for
loans to permit them to carry on their simple
functions Of police, fire protection, schools.
Hundreds of American cities have cleaned
their municipal houses. Many have adopted
city manager systems, others have gone into
business as proprietors Of profitable power and
other services, others are cutting expenses to
to the bone. Too many cities and towns still
allow their parasitcal bosses to bleed them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
WHO Is THE WOLF?

A HERETOFORE obscure Hooser educator
"A named DR.. Writ of the steel town of
Gary, has become unduly prominent as the
result of his attack on the so-called brain
trust in Washington. These unnamed aids
to the President appear, from DR.. Wirt's
alarms, to be a band of red wolves dressed
in the sheepskins of harmless reformers, One
of them (unnamed) let it out, according to
DR.. Writ, that they look upon Franklin Roose-
welt as only the Kerensky of their revolution.
with a Stain to come later.
The good doctors fever at first was dag
nosed as an ordinary rash of the familiar
star-Spangled filters, such as breaks out pc
riodcally among the patrioteers. Certain
congressmen-NGr. Bulwinkle, Mr.. Fish, the
rabble-rousing Indiana senator, Robinson
have seized the occasion to call for a traitor
hunt and are pushing IAN investigation"
Nobody minds such an investigation ex-
cept that it takes time from the serious work
to be done before adjournment. But, since
the affair has gone so far, the people should
be reminded of what's behind it.
DR.. Wirt's letter first was read by one
James H. Rand Jr., in a hearing on the
Fletcher-Rayburn bill regulating the stock
market. Mr.. Rand's committee of the nation
is fighting against the exchange reform bill
In an interview DR.. Writ showed his animuS
when he attacked the pure food bill, called
the Wagner labor bill "a moose for labor" and
generally asSailed the NRA and codes.
The real target, then, is not the brain
trust, but the White House. The big bad
luton at which we're supposed to shudder, is
the new deal Patriotism remains the last re-
fuge of reactisn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
BEAK AND TALONS

A T time when the great majority Of the
n people are making sacrifices, in their
businesses and in their individual affairs, to
lift the country out of the rut Of depression,
and actually are accomplishing something
along that line. it is no time in which to add
millions Of idlers to the millions already out
OF employment by so-called tabor war;"
1t is time for the blue eagle to use beak
and talons on the obstructionists, the chiseers
and the recalcitrants, if present efforts to beat
off such war by persuasion, compromise and
mutual sacrifice fail. To renege on such
methods to prevent war in which the efforts
the sacrifices and progress Of the whole coun-
try would be involved no organization, wage
Garner or wage-payer, has a right, and in in
stances where greed and selhshness assume
such right the new deal eagle should perform
as predatory bird.
The rights and policies of elements, or
gained men or organized money, end where
the policy that is best for the whole country
begins, and there is no doubt but Mr. Roose-
velt's policies are producing uplift of the gen.
eral welfare. Every one of us with any stand
ard of living worth while is sacrificing, in the
form Of increased taxation or in form of re-
duced profits from business.
Dull is the economist and observer of hui
man nature who does not realize that we must
have still more of such sacrifice. The indi-
viduals or elements which would obstruct or
drag the national policy back into the sticky
mud of depression and do-nothingness should
feel the power of the new deal eagle
There must be no industrial war. Else the
NRA emblem is a crow, no eagle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
q
RID WORLD OF EVIL,
is WRITER'S PLEA

BY Charles Hooper, Occur dAlene. Idaho.
Birth control and sterilization
bills are before federal and state
legislatures.
Advocates of these measures
either are those who are jealous Of
persons who have big families, or
they are those who regard man as
only an animal, to be bred as other
animals are bred.
They fail to realize that the
power of God can so change the
soul and body Of man that the
worst criminal can become the
greatest saint, the dullest man a
genius. and the feeblest a Samson.
Laws of heredity are so little I'M
derstood that no man can predict
what kind of children or descend
ants will proceed from parents.
Real idiots beget few or no of
spring. Nature, herself, who is the
best judge, takes care that only the
fit will survive. We rightly blame
those who try to censor the press.
No man and no body Of men can
say absolutely that this idea is true,
and that idea is false. But it is
even more impossible for any man
or any body Of men to censor hu-
man life, and to say that this man
is fit to beget offspring, and that
man is not.
Even the sterling virtue of hu-
mility may make man seem
feeble minded and a subject for
sterilization. The idiosyncrasies of
adolescence also counterfeit feeble
mindedness and insanity. Many a
man is not so green as he looks.
Man Iooketh on the outward APP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
NEGLECTED INSURANCE

ONCE President Roosevelt has made the
~ Wagner-LewiS unemployment insurance
bill a part of his program to build a more
ample and secure life" for America, congress
should waste no time in adopting it. For three
reasons delay in setting up national security
scheme would be social folly.
First, as the President says, this measure
will act as a "Stabilizing device in our eco
nomic structure and help industry to reach
its goal Of planned production. Under the
bill employers who regularize plant output
and employment will pay less into the reserve
funds than employers who do not.
Second, the time to start building unem-
ployrnent reserves against future depressions is
as we emerge from the present one. Business
and politics are inclined to initiate the farmer
who wouldn't build a roof over his house. be-
cause when it rains I can't, and when 1t
stops rainin I don't need no roof"
How little business has thought of the well
fare of its workers is shown by the record of
five years preceding 1929. when it increased
the volume of wages 13 per cent and corporate
dividends 265 per cent.
Third. the states await federal leadership.
Wagner-Lewis bill contemplates a system OF
forty-nine separate unemployment insurance
systems administered by states and the Dis
trict Of Columbia. BY collecting a pay roll
tax from all but few exempted employers,
the government would encourage universal
state action by allowing offsets in these federal
taxes of the amount paid into state funds.
Certain minimum standards and prohibitions
are set up, and the states can not act until
they know what these standards are to be-
II congress acts now this country could
have a nationwide system in full swing in
two years.
OF all industrial nations, ours alone leaves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
THURsDAY. MARcH %. la8a.
OUR NONPARTISAN SENATOR

GO far as I am concerned" said Senator
~ Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana. there
is not a scintlla of partisan politics in this
matter . This matter should be too sacred
for politics"
Our senator Of course, was taking part in
the debate centering on the senates action
on the Presidents veto Of the independent Of
fees bill.
Needless to add, the senate colleagues Of
Senator Robinson and the spectators in the
gallery burst into roars of laughter.
Senator Robinson then went step farther.
He spoke derisively of Mr.. Roosevelt's trip to
Florida.
Then he added Don't forget, gentlemen,
we may have to call upon these despised vet
Grams for another war"
It was Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi
upon whom the burden fell of cautioning In
dianas senator.
"As bad as have been his previous speeches
in provoking preiudices, this is the worst"
said Harrison. Referring to Robinsons re-
marks about the Presidents trip, Harrison
added this:
There is no other senator here who would
1t is too bad that Indiana has no way Of
making formal apology to the nation for
sending Arthur Robinson to the United States
senate, Senators from lesser states feel it
below them to even exchange greetings with
Indiana's Republican senator.
The veterans issue is not an issue for In
diana's voters when it comes to considering
Arthur Robinson. He could have been one of
the most respected members of the senate.
Many of those who fight for the same issue
are respected and admired. But Senator
Robinson, throughout his senate career, has
stopped to degrading levels to prove his points.
He is not even size number one in size
thirteen shoes.
Indianas only way of apologizing is to send
a man to the senate-not an intellectual
midget.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
POLITICAL GALLANTRY

Nov, Postmaster General James Farley,
spoils distributor who is convinced he
is the boss of the Democratic party, is up
against it, as the man said who went circling
around a tree grasping bears paws.
Mr.. Farley daringly told the world that it
looks to him as If Wisconsin Democrats want
Charlie Broughton for United States senator
and Mrs. Gertrude Bowler, Wisconsin's DEM
ocratic national committeewoman, has had
her bonnet in the ring for just that job for
weeks past, making a fierce fight for the Sena-
torial nomination that delights multitudes of
fighter has got to successfully combat young
Bob La Toilette on election day, or it surely
will be six years more of Bob, bless his efforts!
Does Mrs. Gertrude Bowler fear powerful
Mr.. Farley? Does any woman, nowadays, fear
any masculine wearing pants and vest? Mrs
Bowler's reaction or repartee to Mr.. Farley's
interference in Wisconsin takes the form of
an intimation that Mr.. Farley's sticking his
nose into Wisconsin Democratic affairs is I'M
seemly and likely to much impair the beauty
of his probosis.
The Mr.. Broughton concerned is reported
to be newspaper man and "a good mixer"
If we were given to placing Odds we should
put some on Mrs. Bowlers mixing of both
Mr.. Farley and that newspaper man. Mr.
Farley's endeavor to make a wallfower of
Mrs. Bowler should arouse the gallantry of
Wisconsin Democrats. They have some of it,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
Then Are 'TdUer11S'

collect a cover charge twice from
a party of eight people by telling
two Of the male members Sepa-
rately that the charge had not
been paid.
The victims, not wishing to
start a brawl, accepted their fate
and went to a place where the
management could be trusted.
A majority of the beer taverns
are operated by honest, respecta-
able people and are places which
no one need fear to enter. But
their bushes is threatened with
ruination by the Joints" oper-
ated by persons who never have
and never will be qualified to
obtain a license.
The object of this communica-
ton is not to have the beer
taverns abolished-they are too
much fun-but to save them from
adjustment.
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UPHOLDS M'NUTT IN
REWARD REFUSAL

By Steady Customer of The Times.
read your paper every day. I
like to read what different people
have to say about John Dillinger.
I really get a big kick out Of it,
He sure has nerve and isn't a bad
sort, if you really know him.
I was reared in Morgan county
and lived in Martinsville about ten
years. Johnny used to come there
lot, and as We were around the
same age, we knew each other. I
also know Governor McNutt's fam
lily. I knew his father very well,
but I never knew of any relation
between the Governor and Johnny.
I think Governor McNutt did the
right thing to refuse to offer a re-
ward for Dillinger.
If we're the ones trying to Gust
ths woman sheriff from Crown
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
DISHONESTY HAS EDGE
ON HONESTY NOW

By Reader.
To business men of the city who
refuse to employ men who have
reached the age Of 49, can you ex-
pect anything else but rising tide
OF crime and robbery? I'm Just
dropping a line of praise for The
Times as one paper, which. in my
opinion, is trying to give the COM
mon people a fair deal.
I, for one, am opposed to the
methods Of living such as are car
ried on by Dillinger, but let me say
l have slept in the attic of my home
all winter. Yes, some nights we're
far below zero, but we had to rent
out rooms so I could keep my rent
paid. I walked the streets trying
to sell a few articles in an effort
to obtain something to eat, and if
honesty counts for anything 1 feel
entitled to work.
1 have made repeated efforts to
obtain CWA work. but always have
met with Nothing open" Now if
the old saying that honesty is the
best policy, why all this army of
unemployed? 1t begins to look as
If dishonesty had gotten far in the
lead.
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BY Times Reader.
Unless some of the beer "joints"
in indianapolis stop trying to
emulate the most vicious of the
old-time saloons, it will not be
surprising if repeal fails.
Last Saturday night, accom-
panied by my wife and an
other couple, I witnessed two
fights in two beer taverns within
half an hour. In one case a
waitress was knocked cold by a
customer. In the other case two
lads had removed their coats and
were battling with great vigor.
A week ago we were in a place
which advertises itself as a beer
tavern" Young women of ques-
tionable character held forth in
the basement while upstairs at
the bar, the hostess seemed intent
on "gyping" as many beer Gus
toners in as short time as pos
Sible. In one instance, we saw her
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
ARE THE PEOPLE
LOOKING FOR WAR?
Rv a Soldiers Wife.

BY a Soldiers Wife.
When the boys joined in the
World war, they were considered
heroes. Nothing was too good for
them. While they received little
more than 81 a day, fighting for
their country, men and women at
home made So to $40 a day in SOL
diers' places. Surely the boys are
entitled to some consideration now.
Is it fair to withhold the boys
bonuses? At the least, they should
get their disability allowance back.
They have pensioned soldiers in
every war except the World war.
The boys are nothing now, only
dogs under the big mems feet. Why
not pay the bonus and help relieve
us of this depression? They can't
possibly forget the boys fought for
their country so that you and I
might live and prosper.
What do the people want, an
other war?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
DILLINGER, CORTEz AND
PIZARRO-WHAT A GANG!

BY C. A. Lott.
Let's forget modern progress and
look back. Pizarro and Cortez, with
less than 10000 soldiers, conquered
Peru and Mexico with millions of
people, back in the early days of
the Sixteenth century. That was
400 years ago and without airplaneS,
machine guns, or poison gas. Let's
stop and think of men who were
men.
Today, in 1884, it takes a small
army to watch three Hoosier boys
in Lima (O) Jail to keep a fourth
one John Dillinger) from making
their escape, "and that's something, .
as Amos and Andy say.
Three cheers for the Spanish of
1535-five guns for John Dillinger-
and a groan for the state militia
of Ohio.
Well-well, without doubt, if John
D. should arrive in Lima he could
chase the entire bunch with his
wooden gunI The entire outfit of
"cake eaters" and soda jerkers"
would beat it for safer places crying
for home and feather bed. Uncle
Sam knew what they were, and sent
the Eighty-third division to Italy
instead Of Germany back in 1918.
That's cold truth! Look up the
facts and details.
If such a thing was possible, Cor
tez, Pizzaro and John Dillinger
would get the boys Of the Lima bean
soup and put an end to the depres-
sion within thirty days. Those three
lads knew how to get gold and how
to spend it for the sake of pros
peritY.
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ANOTHER READER SAYS
CAR co. WAGES SLICED
Bx an EmpIoYe.

By an EmpIoye.
Here is a question 7 would ap-
preciate having some one answer.
Maybe the person who has been
conducting the explanations of the
recent improvements in the trans
portation lines of the Indianapolis
street car company can answer the
question.
Can any one explain to me how
they figure that no employe re-
ceived a cut in wages or salary
during the depression since the
NRA code has been in effect. Maybe
they haven't, but they have cut
their bonus and have made each
man employed on the street cars
take day of. If that is not cutting
their wages and salary what is it
doing?
And here is another thing. All of
ibis neg equipment the men have
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
STREET CAR co.
is CRITICISED
By a Times Reader.

BY a Times Reader.
In regard to the street car COM
uany, controlled by city residents
which was in the March 10 issue Of
The Times. it states during the de
preston no enploye received a cut
in wages. Well, they were not pay
ing much to begin with at % cents
an hour for laborers. Mr.. Chase
didn't happen to be here with the
company then.
Since the NRA certain wages have
increased. Negro sweepers were
raised and now are getting the
same as the car washers and fire.
man, which is $1440 a week. The
foreman and officials also were
raised. They are the ones who
reap most Of the bonus.
The bonus is a joke if you ask
me. The same applies to the credit
union. It's easier to put in than to
borrow because there is so much red
tape.
I'm in a position to know these
facts, as I have a relative who
works there. The men are afraid tc
open their mouths, knowing they
will lose the $1440 a week.
There is too much advertising OF
the new cars. Any one could have
gone in debt or leased $50 new cars
as Mr.. Chase has done. He won't
have to pay for them or worry
about the expense, Why boast
about it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-29
CWA JOB PREFERENCE
DRAWS ATTACK
By One Who Knows.

BY One Who Knows.
This is in answer to a letter in
Mondays paper by a. person who
signed himself, "By a Friend"
You are not the only one who
thinks and knows there is some
thing wrong in the way CWA work.
ers have been handled.
wonder how Roosevelt, McNutt
or Fred Hoke hope to end I'M
employment?
For instance, I personally know
a widow. the mother of two chill
dren, who was discharged at one
of the Indiana university hospitals
and eva women did her work. It
was a saving of about $50 month
to the hospital. This is just one
case of many. No doubt the CWA
women need the work, but why
throw others out of employment to
make room for them?
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l achoIJy disapproUe of qOhat you sag and q0U
defend to the death yonr right to sag it-Votaire.

pearance. but the Lord looketh on
the heart" The essence of religion
is contained in the words, when
I am weak, then am I strong" and
i believe because it is impossible. 3"
Easter gives point to this.
Let us stop this damnable and
m-American censoring. prohibiting.
prosecuting, and Furnishing of per-
sons and ideas. God knows we
shall have enough to do to brandish
the swords of justice and punish
ment against crime and criminals
and against evil and evil-doers in
high and low places.
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ECONOMY ACT is
BRAND ed DISGRACE
Rr 4 Non Rnader

By New Reader.
think G. Brook is narrow
minded. Let him, and all rest. who
think like him, read article " of
the Constitution and there won't
be any national economy act in this
country Of ours for it is a disgrace
to the people. All mems names on
pension and compensation rolls of
United States are heroes. Is G.
Brooks name on the roll? The
V. F. w. is in the front line. Let
veterans wake up such people as
Mr.. G. Brooks.
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to costly humiliating and random handouts
the relief Of industry's casuals. AS President
Roosevelt says. This is practice that neces-
sity will compel lis to change to very SUBJ
stantial degree"
The time to start changing 10 is now.