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Evening star., 1934-05-06
GIVE ALTERNATE PLAN
Mid-City Citizens Oppose Bill to
Widen Thirteenth Street.

M. E. Salisbury, secretary of the Mid
city Citizens Association, has notified
Chairman Norton of the House Dis
trict committee that his organization
opposes the bill authorizing widening
Thirteenth street from Monroe street
to Spring road and proposes instead
the widening of the same street from
Logan Circle. north to Florida avenue.
The Association also Opposes the bill
authorizing the appropriation of $780,
900 to refund payments made for il
legally assessed taxes for paving road
ways or laying curbs or cutters to the
Paving Tax Refund Corporation.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

broadcast will be provided by Jimmie
Grier's Orchestra.
Fay Wray, another Hollywood star,
will be featured on the "Forty-five
Minutes in Hollywood" program over
WJSV at $50.
WRC will broadcast at $50 am. q
special program from Moscow, Russia.
Modern Russian music will be fea.
tured.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
u. s. AND BRITISH
RADIO COMPARED
English Director Sees Both
Nations Aiming at
Same Goal.

The director of entertainment of
the British Broadcasting Co. is in
the United States to study Ameri-
cdn broddcdsting methods. In the
follotuing article he draUs inter-
esttng comparisons between the
British and the American radio
systems.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Summer Broadcasting
To Bring Few Changes
Sponsors Generally Who Heretofore Left Air
During Warm Months Will Continue
With Their Programs.

THIs will very little change in the routine Of
broadcastng programs both network and station With
few exceptions favor features are staying on the air
tracing their hour half hour quarter hour periods
throughout the Summer in order hold them against others
would like to take their radio time.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
GIBBONS TO RETURN

"Headline Hunter" Will Be on
Air Again.
Floyd Gibbons, the Headline Hunt
err is coming back to the air to
discuss outstanding events and per-
sonalities of the week in a new series
OF broadcasts over N. B. c., begin
ming May II.
The famous air commentator will
be heard with Nathaniel Shilkret's
Orchestra supplying a background of
martial music in a weekly series of
half-hour broadcasts.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CAPITALS RADIO PROGRAMS

Eastern Standard Time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
DEPRESSION AND MISERY

IT IS easy to glib about the victims of the
- depression; easy to say airily that jobless
men can live on their savings if they have
been prudent, can get help from relatives, and
can, all in all, get along somehow"
But it is a little different when you take
closeup look at things.
Such look is provided in a study Just
completed by the United States department
OF labor. The departments experts investi-
gated the cases of 1000 representative railway
employees to see what happens to a wage earn
er when hard times come.
These workers took a general 10 per cent
wage cut in February, 1882; but short time
and loss of overtime work already had re-
duced their pay very materially, so that dur
ing the four years of the depression half of
them had lost as much as 80 per cent of their
incomes.
In 1882, for instance, two-thirds of these
1000 men earned less than S1,5OO; only Is
per cent got as much as S175O.
Meanwhile, many family burdens in
creased. Fully 200 of the 1000 workers took
jobless friends or relatives into their homes.
Many other made regular gifts of cash or
groceries to needy families in their neighbour
hoods.
So what happened? To begin with, saw
ings had vanished. Nearly all these 1000 fam
lies used up their bank accounts; half of
them had to sacrifice their insurance policies.
In lis families, all with small children,
the daily supply of milk was reduced.
Thirty-two families cut off their milk entirely.
Nearly all the families cut down draStically
on their purchases Of butter, meat. fresh
fruits and vegetables.
Health was neglected In nearly third of
the 1000 families one or more members re-
CURED medical attention, but could not afford
1t. Teeth were neglected. Requests from
school authorities for dental or medical at
tention were ignored repeatedly
Lodge, club, and church memberships were
dropped In 135 families all subscriptions to
newspapers and magazines had been can
celed Many Of these people reported that
they had not even seen movie for years.
As one man put it, when Sunday comes, we
just sit"
This. then, is a picture of the human cost
of the depression. 1t is worth remembering
that these 1000 families were far better pre-
pared than most to meet the depression, and
suffered much less than the average.
But the picture is. nevertheless, an appall-
ing one 1t is, as the labor department ex-
perts remark. a picture of "a slow retreat
from relative security toward restitution"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01

governments labor Cancellation machinery has
been slow in moving in, or has moved in only
perfunctorily.
Now the labor department has delicate
and dangerous situation on It's hands
The onion fields are desolated and harvest
probably Will mean little. A strike leader
has been kidnapped, beaten severely, and
threatened with death If he returned to the
onion marshes The home OF the mayor OF
McGufey has been bombed. There have been
sluggings and other violence. Armed "vigilan-
tes lean toward mob rule.
There is even more ready belligerence now
Than at any other time during the dispute,
which has gone on for three months. Where
once the issue was between two sides, the
strikers and the employers, now strike breakers
represent still another front with which con-
ciliators must reckon.
It's time for the government to act, and the
action must be decisive. Agrarian warfare in
the fields of Hardin county threatens to be-
come as bitter as anything that has been seen
IN industrialized cities.
The governments immediate problem is to
stop violence. and if possible to place re-
sponsibility for the disturbance which has
gone on all summer. But it must 60 further
Il must study the whole industry to determine
whether it ever can be an economically sound
industry, as it IS operated today.
Child labor wages of 8 cents an hour can
not be reconciled with what we have come to
know as the New Deal In theory, at least,
mere shacks for homes, and overalls for Sun
day-best clothes are supposed to be anachron-
isms.
And yet they are found at McGufey. And
because strikers have asked for more, there
has been trouble. Perhaps the owners can not
pay more, as they say and still stay in business.
Perhaps it may be found that, in onions at
least, Americas garden spot" is unecononic,
and may have to be turned to something else.
This is the problem the government faces.
Its study must go deep, if it is to count for
anything. The difficulty has become too ag-
gravated, and feeling too bitter, to make any
cursory action effective.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
ABOUT ROBINSON'S
MILITARY RECORD
Bv lanes z. Walker.

BY James F. Walker.
Replying to The Fighting Soldier
and Carl G. Reeves, will state that
Lii Arthur's war record is some
what like his record as a senator,
a rear admiral, always in the rear
out of notice, and admirably de-
spised by every one.
He must have been in the signal
corps also, for his performance on
the platform, waving his arms and
hands believing about the Consti-
tuition is evidence that the perfec-
ton was gained wig wagging sig
mails in the army signal corps. His
veterans bunk is an idea to prepare
for a raise in pay, because after next
January it will be his only source
Of income.
You state you was once a Demo-
crat. If you ever was, you should
be one now, for we have for the first
time in history, men in state and
national Offices, men who have tried
to do something for the under dog.
This is evidence conclusive that
neither Of you ever voted the Demo-
cratic ticket in your life, for any
normal 5-year old child could un-
derstand, or examine the records of
the two parties and determine
which one has represented the
masses, and I suggest that you look
this up and you will find no Demo-
cratic Governors in the prisons and
none that stood on the statute OF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
WHAT WILL RESULT?

THE national air races, where the fastest
planes and the most daring fliers in the
land are put through their PAGES before vast
crowd of spectators, remind one, somehow, OF
the jubilance of a child playing with fine
new toy whose full use he has not quite dis
covered.
That. as a matter of fact, what modern
aviation itself is like. The air races simply
bring its chief characteristics into focus.
These planes are masterpieces of skillful
design and construction. The short, stubby
racers. the graceful gliders, the sturdy broad
winged transport planes. the grimly beautiful
machines of the military services-these are
artistic creations. in a very real sense, su-
preInely fitted for what they are supposed
to co
The men who fly them, likewise, are artists.
They have taken a brand-new craft, made
their own precedents, and developed their own
skill. In so far as an incalculable element like
the air can be mastered. they have mastered it.
And yet. when all this is admitted, there
remains the fact that We are still little bit
foggy about the uses to which We shall put
these fine planes and the men who fly them.
We have here an instrument which is
completing the job Of shrinking the world
down to pocket size-a job that began when
men discovered the principles Of clipper ship
construction continued with the steamship
and railroad train, went still further with the
telegraph and telephone. and came down to
date with the automobile and the wireless.
But while We have set up far-fung trans
port lines and used the airplane to bring re-
mote spots in the arctic and the tropic closer
to civilization. We spend too much Of our
energy in developing the plane as a war ma
chine.
An invention which brings all nations
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01

It is ironical that this Labor day viii find
the nation scared by widespread unem-
p.oymen, and industrial strife
Prom 100000 70 100000 workers are
iobless. The cotton textile strike beginning to-
night and involving some 10000 men and
women in thlrty-one states. the wooden strike
Of approximately 10000 more. swell the total
Of strikes % a figure Tar in excess OF any in
recent years.
Beside these major walkOuts there are up
ward Of 100 smaller ones.
Behind this unhappy picture. Of course. lie
grave evils IN our economic system. But more
to the point is the fact that the vast New
Deal mechanism the government developed TO
establish industrial justice and maintain peace
seems 70 have failed SO far to do either.
The administration and congress have taken
a year and a half to build this elaborate bull
wark against industrial chaos They did il
not out OF a sense Of justice only. but because
1t was automatic that recovery could not be
won or sustained without high mass purchas-
ing power. They were backed not only by the
workers and general public, but also BY most
employers.
WHY ~ tA4tA4s Ll4dL at LAAG LAAle Wien us
services for prevention. for adjustment for en-
fOrcement are most needed. the NRA is en-
gagged IN chickering's and personal politics? Why
is 1t that the National Labor Relations Board.
with its otherwise spendid record and its great
decision today in the Houde collective bar
gaining case. should have delayed in meeting
this larger crisis? Why. with all its powers,
has the government been so futile in enforce
ment2
Labor Gay 1884 is a challenge to the gov
eminent and TO Americans generally to make
our New Deal work. We have the laws. But
We need wise and courageous men to enforce
them.
With fortnight compliance and enforce
ment. Labor day next year can be a happier
occasion than today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
CONFLICTING POWERS

NNE Of the oldest conflicts within the ma
~ chinery of the New Deal is coming up for
settlement just now The administration is
bordering the overlapping fields presided ever
by the NRA and the federal trade commission,
and it is limited in Washington that these two
bodies eventually may be combined.
The federal trade commission is body set
up to see that industry be kept from making
large-scale combinations that might be against
public policy It's theory dates straight back
to the old antitrust days. The NRA, on the
other hand, holds that a large degree of in
dustriaI combination is both necessary and
wise.
Thus naturally, there has been a good deal
Of conflict. 1t is high time that it be straight
ened out. The government can hardly fight
combination with one hand and help it with
the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES

closer together has served chiefly to make
war far more horrible than it ever was before.
Instead Of increasing our neighborlineSs, it
has increased our fears and suspicious.
It has even made US accept the fact that in
future wars we shall visit death on women and
children, and not just on fighting men.
All this, Of course, is in no sense the fault
of the men who build and fly the planes. 1t
is the fault Of humanity everywhere-human-
ity, which solves the secret Of fight and then
uses its new knowledge to make the world
more dangerous place than it was.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
CAPITALISTIC BRANDED
AS REAL DEVIL

BY Charles Burton.
Capital punishment should
not be administered, if at all, except
to a murderer whose guilt has been
established to the satisfaction of the
great majority of the persons in the
community of which the accused is
a part.
If William II really was the devil
behind the European war in which
100000 young men lost their lives
and if Thomas Mooney really was
the devil behind the San Francisco
explosion in which ten citizens lost
their lives, a punishment Of death
might be urged with much show Of
reason as a special necessity, but If
both were hung on the same gal
lows, the world would go on suffer-
ing by the ever recurring and closely
related misfortuneS of war and riot
as if nothing had happened.
The real devil behind all war and
riot is the capitalistic system. There
never will be an end OF war and
riots until this devil is overthrown.
Just now the human part Of the
world is especially afflicted by un
necessary and therefore unjustlfla-
BILE deaths. The Governor Of Cali
fornia, should save Thomas
Mooney, the revolutionist, as Plate
the governor of Judea, according to
the verdict of all right thinking
men and women, should have saved
Jesus. the reYolutionist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
JOINS ATTACK ON
COURT BROADCAST
By Disguised.

BY Disguised.
I listened to the broadcast of the
traffic court proceedings this week.
and heartily agree with the letters
that have appeared in your paper
recently.
I was surprised to learn that the
courts could use so little judgment
in dispOSing of minor traffic cases.
1t was an easy matter to predict,
when each case was called, what the
verdict and fine would be.
Three dollars and costs and I'll
suspend the cost for va" was the
usual hasty decision.
Regardless Of the type Of viola
ton, the fine was the same. While
the cab drivers usually are accused
VI reckless driving, which l believe
is often unjust, one can not help
feeling sorry for the way they are
treated in traffic court. know
their incomes must be very meager,
and still fines are melted out to them
without any consideration.
It is unfortunate that Indian
apolis must take the blunt end Of
such a publicity stunt. And still. as
long as such proceedings are taking
place. the general public should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
HIGHWAY WARNINGS

NEW JERSEY authorities, aroused by the
rising toll of traffic Deaths are trying to
impress the dangers of reckless driving on the
minds OF motorists by painting white crosses
on the highways at spots where accidents have
occurred.
This is similar to the stunt Ohio once tried
putting up a wooden cross by the roadside
at the scene of every traffic fatality. 1t was
sound and logical scheme, although for some
reason Ohio has since given it up
A little reminder like that is bound to have
a SOLDERING effect on the not-too-careful driver.
When you have passed three or four little
warnings, like that, in the course of an after
Moons drive, you automatically pay a little
more attention to your driving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
TaMeS and Old Age Pensions

Ofiials cry for high salaries in
times like these when thousands
of men are only making a small
amount of money for food and
rent each month. These officers
are getting high and steady SAL
aries the year around. They
should consider the poor men that
voted for them who are now
struggling to get by.
Helpless old age seems to be
unnoticed by politicians in max
ing speeches. I have heard none
mention it.
Thousands of voting old pension
applicants with their relatives and
friends, aggregating thousands Of
Indiana voters, have their eyes
open to see if there will be any
cutting in the old age pension
budget
The old age pension law should
have first attention.
The eyes of real estate men are
watching the budget adjusterS
and so are the eyes of thousands
of the voting friends Of pension
applicants. The days are ending
when the words of political boss
like D. c. STEPHENSON can be law IN
Indiana.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
SOME CONSIDERATIONS
OF PRISON CONDITIONS

BY Mrs. William Myers.
I have read so much in The Times
of prison conditions. I have keen
interest in this great work and read
every bit of it. My heart goes out
to imprisoned men and women. In
so many cases, they are young men
who have risked their lives to get
money to keep up with fast SET
After all, sin is to blame.
I don't know anything about
prisons, but I do know this-these
men are restless. They never can
be reformed unto peace. They will
have to be regenerated.
so often have wondered how
much room is given to Gods work
in our prisons and who brings Gods
message to these men. Is it a spirit
filled soul who has a love and pas
sion for the souls of men, or is it
some one who is paid to do his lit
tie part?
I think the prison question is one
which the nation should be in
interested in. I am in favor OF bet
ter and bigger prisons, with plenty
of room for churches which preach
repentance and let these men find
rest in Jesus. Gods forbearance
must never be mistaken for laXness
in government. There can be no
love of God and no forbearance Of
God that is not also just.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01

current consumed in six months was
sixty-nine kiloWatt hours; the
charge each month was the mini
mum; discounts off, Of S2.14, max
ing a total of $12.84 paid to the
company, or at the rate Of 1873 cents
a kilowatt hour.
In justice to the public, the mini
mum charge should not be allowed
and the company should be required
to collect only for the current actu-
ally used. Even then, the rate OF 7
cents for the first fifty kiloWatt
hours is enough to yield big profit
according to reports Of costs Of cleo
trio service in many places where
the plant is publicly owned and OPP
Grated for the good of the COM
munity.
1t is time the public awoke to the
practice that is being carried on by
public utilities and demanded So
cial ownership for service to the
people without private profit to a
lot of idle owners who do nothing
useful A wave Of enlightenment is
sweeping over the country and next
fall there will be a mighty vote cast
for Socialism, the only thing that
can get us out of the mess that the
greed of profteers have plunged
us in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
FAULTY FIGURES

ID EPUBLICAN and other critics have at
~ tackled the two Richberg recovery reports
on the ground that the statistics quoted are
inadequate and unco-ordinated and therefore
of little value
The point is exceedingly we'll taken. But
contrary to what the critics infer, the fault
is not Mr.. Richbergs. 1t is a standing evil
in our governmental methods The Roosevelt
administration has improved government sta
tistics somewhat, but they still are so incon-
plete and unreliable as to be almost worse
than useless because they often are so mis-
leading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01

BY ]. Wilson White.
Agitation for reduced taxes be-
gin again with consideration of
budgets. Farmers are owners of
land and the land is worth more
than he will need during life.
Any man who pays high taxes
has something worth great deal
more than he needs to live on,
and any good farmer does not
need to suffer for food if he is
industrious and Thoughtful to plant
the seed that makes all kinds Of
food, as well as corn for hogs
and cattle. But IN calculating
profits he does not count in what
he eats.
AS to the man who has moth
ing but his hands to labor with
and poor as Jobs turkey with
only one feather left in its tail,
it takes all that he can make to
get by. How much have wealthy
farmers ever helped the poor?
How many farmers and real es-
tate men are willing to suffer
with a little emergency tax to get
the old age pensions started to
help the old and helpless men
and women that have no way to
live, and no one to help them
live?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
ADAM, EVE AND
mo MEAN CITY"
Rv Mrs. Clara Mick.

BY Mrs. Clara Mick.
am very much interested in the
Message Center. From it one can
Judge what people think about.
One man writes that he thinks
the Chamber OF Commerce is to
blame because Indianapolis doesn't
grow. I say if every one would
sweep before their own doors first,
and do unto others as they wish
others to do unto them, this might
be IAN all right place" to live. But
Adam blamed Eve and Eve blamed
the snake, so that makes Indian
apolis a bad place to live.
Yes. in Chicago everything is
cheaper than here-not only beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
TO EVE
BY EUGENE RICHERT


You, like the older Eve,
Coming to grief,
Have not refuge left,
No shielding leaf.
Mourn that lost innocence,
Splendor so brief.
Startled, young. aimless feet,
All the world lies
Ready to roam in.
What's Paradise?
Even bland apples may
Hold a surprise.
Under a tree at night,
You will find rest
When you forget again
Love is not best;
When you recall
Adams head at your breast.
Eve. there are places yet
Sweet for reposing.
Find them, and then forget
Heavens gates closing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-01
PUTS SOME QUESTIONS
ABOUT SLOT MACHINES

By H. C.
This blow-up about slot machine
operation in and around Indian
apoliS and elsewhere in Marion
county is Sickening. The Times
goes along for few ssues and
starts to tell all about things of this
sort and claims that reporters make
Investigations and find nothing.
If the above is true concerning
The Times reporters Investigations,
then let me advise you that your
reporters are blind men or they
make false reports to the paper
Seventy-five per cent of the peo-
pie of Marion county can state
truthfully that there are slot mach
ines in SO per cent of the beer joints
and barbecue stands. The police do
nothing about it. Why? Because
they are instructed not to modest
certain places where slot machines
are in operation. Why? viii The
Times tell? They know.
Ask Buck Sumner and Chief Nor
riSsey.