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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

that this prodigy, like most others OF his kind,
viii have a fairly thin kind Of childhood.
One Of the incest things about being child
is the fact that you don't know very much and
can't understand very much You move IN an
incomprehensive world, in which the strangest
things happen for no reason that you can dis
cover but it is a world of wonder. even if it
occasionally is a bit terrifying, and since you
have no particular mental responsibility you
can devote yourself to the Joy Of simply being
alive in way that is never afterward quite
possible.
Children in other words, is an enchanted
sort of time. There are a great many things
to learn and a great many things to under
stand; and the contemplation of them brings
the dreaming of dreams and the seeing OF
visions, so that the world takes on a light that
ii will never hold again.
Now a youngster who has almost an Elm
steinian intellect at the age of is going to
miss all of that. Ahead of his time, he is
going to be pumped up against the perplex-
tiles and riddles Of adult life, which range all
the way from worry over the political situation
to a solemn contemplation of those profound
mysteries which can never be solved this side
of the grave.
When life does that to child, it cheats
him. This lad may go on to do great things
when he is grown meanwhile, he is apt to be
robbed of his normal childhood.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
MISSING YOUTHS JOYS

IF We can believe all We are told, We seem to
have new infant prodigy in our midst
that 7-year-old New York lad who has been
found by psychologists to be boy in million
because of his exceptional brain development.
This child has an intelligence quorient OF
196-a bare nine points below the mark set by
the great Einstein himself. He can discuss
astronomy intelligently. his father hesitates to
talk politics with him because the youngster
usually gets so far ahead of him, and he uses
four-bit words in the most casual conversation.
Nature apparently has performed another
of her freakish stunts here; and while it is fas-
cinating to speculate on the things that such
a precocious child might accomplish, if he
could be shown how to make the best use of
his powers. ones chief emotion on reading the
story is feeling of pity for the youngster
For no matter what the possession of such
an abnormally developed brain may augur for
the future. the one immediate probability is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
SHRINKING COTTON

ID EdOVAL of all Bankhead Act restric-
IN tions on cotton growers producing two
bales or less, promised by President Roosevelt.
Will simplify administration of the cotton pro-
gram. 1t probably will not affect materially
the troublesome surplus.
BY vigorous acreage curtailment and high
loans. the Administration has arrested tempo
rsrily the paralyzing effect of the cotton cur
plus. But our cotton industry, which normally
markets more than half of its crop abr d.
must soon either recapture vanishing for I
markets or shrink to half its normal size
Foreign markets can not be recapture6 so
long as our cotton prices are kept artificially
above the world level. Some form of export
bounty TO help American cotton compete in
foreign markets has been suggested. But
bounty, alone probably would not suffice, since
other cotton producing countries could play
the same game.
Normally our best cotton customers are such
countries as Great Britain. Germany France
Italy and Japan. which are now turning to
other sources or to substitutes. They could
buy more of our cotton if they could sell us
their goods. But this exchange is hampered
by our tariffs
This brings us back TO the need of speed
ing up trade treaty negotiations. It is not a
simple nor an easy solution. but it is the only
alternative TO finding other crops Or other
means Of livelihood for millions Of cotton
farmers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
GUILTY

A FEDERAL COURT jury in Pennsylvania
"A yesterday found Fred c. Perkins guilty
of 10 violations of wage provisions of the NRA
code for the storage battery industry
Mr. Perkins admitted that he paid the
employees in his small plant only 20 to Is cents
an hour The code minimum is 40 cents. Mr.
Perkins said he could not pay higher wages
and remain in business.
The Supreme Court eventually will decide
whether Mr.. Perkins right to stay in the bat
terry business is superior to the code rights Of
his business competitors and of labor. II
larger sense. it is a test of the Governments
power to enforce protective minimum wage
in the national interest.
This question is fundamental. In all parts
of the country are manufacturers. large and
small who operate on a subsistence wage
basis. Many can not survive if they pay high
er wages. Others can pay higher wages, but
will not All subsistence-wage plants are
alike in one respect: they take business away
from the livingwage plants. form of COM
petition which undermines wages and jobs
and profits in all units of their respective in
dustrieS.
Because cut-throat competition threatened
to wreck the industrial system industries
under NRA drew up new rules, one of which
put a bottom on wages. When the Supreme
Coust comes to decide. we do not doubt that
it will find this Constitutional.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Believes insult Fairly Tried

been influenced by the legend that
was built up around him, we might
have seen him sentenced.
Shortly after he was acquitted,
a young man in indianapolis was
sentenced to 10 to 25 years for the
theft of $25.
If there is ever II time when all
men should stand equal, it is be-
fore a court. And the only way to
give them all the same opportun-
ity is for them to have lawyers as
nearly equal as can be found. The
best lawyers should not be re-
served for the wealthy men, and
the worst ones for the poor.
think that lawyers should be paid
by the state, and appointed to a
case without any choice of the de-
PENDANT. In such a manner, all
trials would have the same impair
TALLY. And there is something
vastly absurd in a man having to
pay money to prove that he is
innocent of an accusation. Let
the guilty pay the expense Of
trials, but let the innocent go free
of expense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
HOLDS RELIEF COST
! CURTAILS AID

By W. G. I.
Please accept this letter TO voice
little sentiment or perhaps a
grudge, whatever the term may be.
I read a recent letter by Leo Smith,
on which I wish to comment. I
presume he holds down some posi-
ton with the township trustee.
May 1 also recall a recent state
ment of the Governor about ram
ming it down our Threats" which
undoubtedly has been done, and we,
the unfortunate, made to like it, -
in respect to our relief situation,
which greatly needs reform, as the
overhead is more than the actual
relief.
According to information, why
should any one seeking relief be
downtrodden by investigators de-
handing and requesting automobile
licenses and also insurance policies
so as to receive the meager relief
offered by our technically known
Governors Unemployment Relief
Commission.
Why should any one be subjected
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
SATURDAY. DEcEliBER .. 1884.
THE EUROPEAN CRISIS

THERE would be war in Europe today but
for the League Of Nations, the Czecho-
sIovaksn foreign minister sold the league yes
terday. Dr. Benes may or may not axagger-
ate the power Of the league in the H ngarian-
Yugoslav dispute. But most observers think
that Europe is still too close to war for COM
fort
Much will depend upon the skill and cour-
age Of Great Britain and France today at
Geneva when they try to quiet the disputants.
If only Hungary and Yugoslavia we're involved,
the task would be easier But rallying to
Yugoslavia's support. in addition to her Little
Entente allies, Czechoslovakia and Rumania,
is the Balkan bloc of Bulgaria, Greece and
Turkey
While Italy supports Hungary and France
supports Yugosavia. Germany waits in the
background And there is the rub. France
might take firmer peace tone with Yugo-
slavia if Hitler were not trying to grab off a
Yugoslava alliance
The issues, as usual. are intricate with
right and wrong on both sides. Both Hun
gary and Yugoslavia are ruled by dictator
ships. which have dealt ruthlessly with minor
tiles. The Croats, who obtained freedom from
Hungary in the war. have since been mis-
treated by their brother Serbs, who failed to
grant them the promised equality in the new
Yugoslavia kingdom. Whether or not they
assassinated King Alexander, Croatian ter
orists have lived freely and plotted in Hun
gary. Yugoslavia. while bringing charges
against Hungary before the league, is driving
thousands of innocent Hungarians from their
homes in the Hungarian territory which Yugo-
slavia gained from the World War.
More important than the surface issues is
the deeper struggle for balance of power in
Europe between the HAYES and the have-nots.
Because of this every serious dispute between
two small nations becomes a real threat of
general European war.
Tragic though this situation is, there is
nothing the United States can do about it.
If we NEEDLE We shall get our fingers burned
and maybe worse.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Il Il 4
EQUAL RIGHTS FOR
ALL" is PLEA

BY A Times Reader.
In my opinion, the unemploy-
ment insurance or other relief pro-
grams won't prevent starvation until
the right program is adopted.
We we're made to share the fruits
of earth. The laborer and farmer
are our benefactors with God, by
cooperating with God and making
possible the fruits. But the world
treats them poorly.
The wealth of any nation should
be distributed to all in the right
way. This can't be done unless we
all realize the situation and fight
for the Chambers of Commerce to
change their philosophy. And for
rights of representation In Congress,
with human rights above property
rights.
The capitalists and the manufac-
turers have caused the suffering and
put the poor on the level of beasts.
1t is high time for the laborer to be
given what he has been denied. We
must make possible a more abund-
ant life for all. We demand that
humans fight for humans rights.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

BY a Reader.
Although I was as disappointed
as any one at the acquittal of
Samuel insult, I think that his
trial was as fair as it could be.
Naturally, wealthy man can pay
a publicity agent to build up a
legend about him and a lawyer to
ease him out of Jail. He has adj
vantages in court that are denied
to poor. But he is tried in ac-
cOrdance with laws that are laid
down for every one, and if it can
not be proved that he broke those
laws, he goes free.
Although it set a precedent to
acquit insult, it is better that he
go free on the slightest shred of
innocence than go to Jail on the
slightest one of guilt. We can not
blame the judge or the jury. What
we can blame in all such trials is
legal system that permits I'M
equal power to the rich and to
the poor defendants.
If insult had a lawyer selected
by the court the way SO many poor
men have, if the jury had not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
ORGANIZED POLICE FORCES
SOLUTION TO CRIME WAVE

BY L. n.
The plan for a centralized police
force that is being advocated in In
diana was urged for Massachusetts,
a year or so ago. AS I recall, the
opposition of the local forces was so
great that the plan failed. The only
reason for its failure was that the
local police were afraid to be shorn
of their power, and of other ad-
vantages that are held by the police
in that state. Sometimes it is very
profitable to be policeman.
If the people are to be protected
fully from the forces of organized
crime, there should be no expense
too large. With a centralized police
force, a criminal Immediately would
be caught in a statewide net in
stead of being pursued by inefficient
and badly co-ordinated local men.
With the greatly needed teletype
machines and increase Of radio cars,
the State Police could act, as one
unit, and give to the towns more
protection than any local force
could give. The greatest deterrent
to criminals is not the number Of
policemen on hand in town, but
the probability of their being traced
nd punished.
If the American Colonies had a
national army at the start Of the
Revolution instead Of small bands OF
unorganized men, historians agree
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

payments and do not do so should be dealt
with strictly on a business basis.
The $4,000 home owners fortunate enough
to have HOLC loans are the debtors of
benehcent government, which refinanced
their obligations on long-term basis and at
very low rate of interest-terzhs gladly &C
cepted by the mortgagors
Chairman Fahey properly has served fore
closure notice on deliberate defaulters. He
could not do otherwise, in fairness to the 10
per cent of borrowers who are keeping faith
and to the taxpayers who have guaranteed
both the pr1ncipa! and interest of Hole bonds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
STREET CAR EXTENSION
ASKED ON EAST SIDE
By H. S. Osgood.

BY H. S. OsgOod.
Your valuable paper formerly
maintained an important feature
that might have been and probably
was oVerworked at times. It was
known as Mr.. FiXit.
Nevertheless Mr.. FiXit should be
invoked when public convenience
and municipal welfare are involved.
The extension Of certain lines of
indianapolis Railways service is not
meeting the demand of the citys
growth, although the bus system
at an advanced passenger rate is
supposed to offset the trolley, not
Withstanding the known advantage
of the rail system.
1t would be very desirable for
citizens in that portion of Irvington
north of Pleasant Run between E.
Washington and E. Tenth-Sts if the
street car company would change
it's terminal on it's E. Michigan-st
line from the present end of the
line of E. Michlgan-St and N Emer-
SO11-dN W E1CdSdl1O 1OQ14-O4FO anu IN
Arlington-av, II or IA squares
farther east.
Such an extension would Stlmu-
late the building of homes on all
the intervening streets and would
attract hundreds of families de-
string suburban homes in the newer
portions of this city, especially in
an area SO attractive as to invite
permanent residence for thousands
of people DESTROYS of locations en-
tirely separate from any possible
contact with manufacturing inter-
ests, smoke nuisance Of inferior
residential conditions.
Your valuable paper should en-
courage this improvement at an
early date as a real move in the
right direction to encourage better
times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

and will continue to do so until the
capital debt structure will fall of
it's own weight from the force of
diminishing returns. Recovery lies
in the direction of increasing con-
sumers' demand through giving
more for the money, and cutting
down of distribution costs.
Capitalism's salvation lies in a
realization that consumers rule the
market value of all goods and
capital.
The pretty bubbles represented by
stock certificates, bonds, mortgages
and bank credits, are made of soft
soap floating in the air. They will
sink to meet the consumers APP
praisal of them, through steady de-
cline of consumption, the sooner
the better. The consumer will re-
value capital and debt structures.
We are on our way out of dream
land.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
ANOTHER SHUTTLE IN
NEW DEAL DESIRED

By Times Reader.
I beg the privilege of little space
in your excellent paper to speak a
little of my mind.
Why is it that some persons on
relief work get all the breaks? 1
know some who get four and five
days work a week and also get sup
plies, food, blankets, mattresses and
clothing, with only four, five and six
in families, while there are quite a
number of six, seven and eight who
don't get any of those extras. Why
is it?
1t seems this New Deal is a raw
deal for some. Come on, you fellows
at the head of this relief admins
tration, shuttle the cards again and
give a chance to cut them and turn
this raw deal into a square deal, re-
CARELESS of race, creed, color or
politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
PRESENTS PICTURE OF
ECONOMIC STATE
BY a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
The national medicine show has
sold the country such packages as
tariffs. gold revaluation, beer barrel
employment, subsidy taxes on farm
products, Government loans to boil
ster bad investments and petrifed
debt, public work financing based on
hand labor instead of machine, re-
building of forests devastated by
private initiative, price fixing above
the consumers buying power, reduc-
ton Of production far below the
needs Of a normal consumption
level, public borrowing to pay inter-
est on public debt, abolition Of re-
straint on price fixing agreements,
rising cost of distribution Of goods,
and feeding empty stomachs on
confidence ballyhoo.
All this was done to detract from
the work of the confidence men who
built UP a constantly rising overhead
on distribution, which has con-
tracted producer consumers buying
power to disastrously low levels.
MAKEUP in distribution has risen
from IS per cent in 1850. to "a per
cent III 1880 and NRA has added to
this, so We have now a constantly
rising relief line.
We are buying with a 16-cent
dollar as consumers, while distribu-
ton takes 81 cents of the dollar OF
production. These costs of distribu-
ton are based on credit consump-
ton; lIncollectable export balances
excess capital goods, mountain
ranges Of skyscrapers, staggering
mortgage debt, bonds both public
and private, inflated capitalization
and obsolete equipment on which
earnings are demanded.
The attempt to salvage book
values is killing OF consumption.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

that the war would have been over
in less than year. The Federal
Government has done more to track
down criminals in the last year than
ever was done before. Organization
is the only means by which we can
end the war against crime.
1t is time to cease pickering about
the rights OF the municipalities and
even of the states, and to act to-
gether for a common cause. No one
would object to surrendering a few
OF his rights in order to protect his
home against theft. No one should
protest against giving the state the
right to protect him more ably than
bis village can
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
| COMPETITION IN BUSINESS
| CAN NOT BE FAIR

By Socialist.
I notice in The Times Dec. 3, o. L.
Dawson asks for fair competition"
in the trucking business. What I
want to know is how can COMPETE
ton ever be fair? Of course there
is such a thing as fair competi-
tion"-on the football field, where
the ground is measured, the oppon-
ents equally watched, the umpire
impartial and the rules specified.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
JUST FORECLOSURES

TITLE sympathy will be wasted on those
IL who lose their homes through foreclosure
by the Home Owners Loan Corp.
Ieniency toward borrowers in actual dis
tres Ia an announced policy of the corpora
ton. which was created to save home owners
from the despair of being turned into the
street. But borrowers who are able to make
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
LOOKING
FORWARD
BY Nj. @. w.

BY NJ. c. w.
I am cold with stark fear and lonely
dread
Of becoming one of the living dead.
I view the lonely one across the
way
And try prepare for that sad. weary
day.
I seek for more knowledge to keep
in store
Beauty cherished, friends I may
never bore,
But help and adore, always seek
more love
Love. greater faith and hope from
Him above
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
Daily Thought

And he shall go before him in the
spirit and power of Elias, TO turn
the hearts Of the fathers to the
children, and the disobedient to the
wisdom Of the just; to make ready
a people prepared for the Lord
st. Luke, lit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
The Message Center

(Iimes readers are tnVtted to cypress
their Uiet0S in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or tess.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

to such discrimination? Were not
our trustees elected by the people,
not by the Governor?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

He would be a good fiddler, If he
would only practice.-Mrs. Fritz
Kreisler, referring to her famous
husband.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

LIE is to be educated, not be-
IL cause he is to make shoes,
na.ls and pins, bit because he is a
man.-William Ellery Charming.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

Women will throw themselves at
a sports hero. But they are in love
with the man, not his athletic Prov
ess.-Profesor Clarence A. Neymann,
of Northwestern University.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

The trouble in America is that
everything that comes out of Wash
ington is considered authentic, with
out regard to who did the writing
Eugene R. Black, former chairman
Of the Federal Reserve Board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08
So They Say

Manchukuo must build an ocean
fleet when her finances are better.
Vice Admiral Nobur1asa Suetsu-
gu, commander of japanese Com
bined Fleet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

There is not enough money in
the world to persuade me to stand
up before horde Of curious people
who are interested in my personality
rather than my work-Gertude
Stein, famous novelist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-08

General Johnson said his job at
NRA was like mounting the guilo-
tine and betting the ak wouldn't
drop. I'm betting it will drop, but my
official head will go with a smile,
Donald Richberg.
Milford chronicle., 1934-11-02
RELIGION PAGES THE
BOARDWALK

Persons who have been so "sure'
that the churches are losing their
grip would have had the pleasure ol
changing their, minds If they had
been at Atlantic City during the re-
cent General Convention Of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church. Adrian w.
Phillips in his accounts of events
and hotel news as seen from his
lookout at Chalfonte-Haddon Hall
furnished some very interesting
sidelights of the church convention.
There was a record attendance of
men and women. 1.-The resort has
taken on a summer aspect, crowds
throng the boardwalk between the
sessions to window shop and visit
the interesting exhibits of national
advertising" he wrote, and he re-
lated that one of the principal ma
tional industry's- devoted an entire
window on the boardwalk to a dis
play of Holy Bibles. Haddon Hall
erected a special Chapel for the
House of Bishops during their stay
at the hotel. From all accounts At
lantic City is leading all the old
time resorts in the country in popu-
larity and ii is most interesting to
note the progress of religion at the
recent gathering.