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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
Some Still Believe

after five years asking questions Deep
"A burning questions But not all Of still think that
hungry poor they're good enough
not smart enough not sewd enough They think the boss
he is and shrwdr and worked harder think
the richest America do nothing at ALL Nothing Because
mills for them All they do gamble with stocks
stocks which represent the backbreakng doing the
mill
Others think they history They climb into hole
pull the hole in after them little
misery little job and hard and be honest and history
capitalism will be kind them cruelty
poverty capitalism
full in the face They trying play with and hunger
and ascsm. But they can't
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19
The Others

DUT there still others These have to realize that nothing
all good for themselves
while continue the mills the
lions of workers
said to themselves that the government not their
the of the BOSSES
them and their tools it is their Office boy
that the that hangs their
of the womb that
their hunger poverty
They their class divided in thousand
intense terrible Their divided
racial hatred foreigner hatred sectional hareds But
illusions carefully fostered
the the mills and their lives
They that between worker and worker there deep in
unity this false walls
They will fall.
they that when their class when those who
will the mills and the land and the
worth living They that
workers this They know that the workers
and courts And when they
that lies and despoed
brigands America they know that day i'll America
all walls will fall and their ruins will
of the working class Then there will be
and plenty. Only then
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-19

UNEMPLOYMENT AND RELIEF,
by Robert C. Ebert, Farrar and
Rinehart, 1876 PIP, 81.
Reviewed by
HOWARD BOLDT
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
THE PALE PROCESSION

THE other day New York state did to death
u in it's electric chair four men for the pun
ishment of one murder. Massachusetts, is
about to electrocute three youthful and prob
ably weak-minded murderers of a policeman.
In every state, except eight that have abol-
ished the death penalty, the pale procession
continues its march toward gallows chair or
gas house under Justices strange illusion that
it can stamp out private by public killings.
Science knows it can not Recently DR..
John A. Larson of Chicago's institute for juve-
nile research, told members of the American
Psychiatric Association that he has found
capital punishment unavoidable as a crime
deterrent. He studied the minds of eighty
murderers in Illinois prisons Almost one
half of these were unstable emotionally, as
compared with IA per cent instability in the
general prison population. DR.. Larson also
found marked increase in acute mental
disease and breakdown. More than one-half
of this, he said, occurs in the group of first
and accidental murder offenders He added
that the causes behind many cases of men
turned murderers can be found in deteriorated
neighborhoods, disorganization of the home,
similar social factors. He urged psychiatric
treatment and re-education as well as better
environment.
You can sing HoSanna when some poor
devil is sent to Kingdom Come" said Clarence
Darrow, 'but you can't understand without
thought and study" If society applied thought
and study to its criminals there would be less
crime
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
THE SLENDER THREAD

! IN Marking hapless japanese vice-consul.
8 - for reasons unknown or for no reason at
all, disappears
/: Japan decides the chip has been knocked
.oH her shoulder. The cables hum with per-
semptory japanese demands that China re-
turn the vice-consul unframed.
: Japanese tanks rumble menacinglv in the
streets OF Shanghai. Japanese warships steam
up, the Yangtze. japanese diplomats discuss
s1ndemnitieS and apologies.
= Then, On hillside near Marking. a Chi
snese coolie discovers the unfortunate Japanese
! viee-consul wandering between the tombs of
I. the Ming emperors and the mausoIeum of Sun
/. Yat-Sen, contemplating suicide.
Thus great International crisis ends
+. abruptly, and the sun of peace shines again
! on the Orient.
: What would have happened if the vice.
consul had not been found? What would have
+, happened had he cut his own throat?
: Would Japan then have moved in?
Peace in the Orient hangs by a slender
!, thread
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
YOUTH AND PARENTS

A REVIEW of reports from all over the
country, covering the views of boys and
girls being graduated from high schools,
should be more embarrassing than surprising
to the generation that is passing.
For although these reports reveal a serious
ness toward life which we older persons used
to feel in our teens they also point to the fact
that youth today is much more frank and
liberal and sophisticated than their parents
cared to be- And it is in the matter of the
relationship between the sexes that this free
dom of thought and expression is most preva
lent.
Only recently prominent lecturer before
high school pupils and parent teacher asso-
Citations finished a speaking tour of the coun-
try, in which she collected number of highly
illuminating questions that the girls and boys
put to her-in writing, of course-after each
of her talks
The questions revealed frankness. a Sc
robustness, an endeavor to know what life is all
about, that opened the eyes of even this ex-
perienced lecturer.
For instance, she found that the great ma
jority of girls asked her about the mysteries
of marriage and childbirth.
And the boys asked why they must not pet,
Why girls can't be as good sports as their boy
friends and why parents must always know
what their children do when they're out late.
In other words, the general run of ques-
lions seemed to direct both challenge and an
Indictment toward the older generation. The
challenge-that youth today stands as ready
to face the problems of life as their parents
did in their day. The mathematician fathers
and mothers have failed, as did their own
parents in the proper mental and physical
development of their children.
1t is most embarrassing to find youngsters
of high school age revealing the fact that
they have been thinking of things that their
parents had planned to tell them some years
hence. 1t is embarrassing, too, that these
youngsters should go to stranger for in
formation that their parents should have
given them.
But it is encouraging and stimulating to
know that youth does think seriously along
line that promises much better generation
to come.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
HE'D LIKE SOME
SOUND MONEY"
BY a Sucker From Missouri

BY Sucker From Missouri
We soon will hear the ballyhoo
of the sound money" group. Not
a word came from that group to
provide the farmer and wage Garner
with enough of this Sound money"
for goods and services, to prevent
both farmers and laborers from los
ing their farms, homes and Sound
money savings" deposited in banks
or mortgage lending outfits.
The only crop that is regulated
to order is the money crop" Bank
credit money is not even evidenced
by greenbacks; it is just a book
keeping process of creating and de-
Stroying the medium of exchange,
and the tragedy is that go per cent
of all our business is done without
real money; the I. o. US in bank
checks move the wheels and the
bank system tells us when we can
use these bank greenbacks" or do
without.
With 100000 persons on some
sort of dole, we have a right to
question the soundness of this de-
generated economic system of money
controlled production.
If the old ''lizzie" doesn't perco-
late better. and that very soon, no
balyhoo artists are going to per-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
THE GOLD RUSH

THE rush is on in Indiana. This time it's
- not for beer or a bargain day but for
the most precious of all metals-gold
According to dispatches coming from the
hills of Brown county, some one has found
enough gold in new deposits to make the trip
worthwhile.
Like most other Hoosiers, we have hunted
gold down in them thar hills"
In fact if memory serves us right we've
covered many acres of ups and downs in
Brown and Morgan counties chasing the elu-
sive metal on screened pan. About all we
ever got out of it was torn clothes and a rabbit
or two if the season was right.
Indianapolis actually would welcome gold
rush in Brown county. There is no doubt but
what this city would benefit from the oncom-
ing hordes.
But, frankly, don't become too elated over
the prospects. There are plenty of hills to
climb and brambles to battle to reach those
little streams where, no doubt, the gold rTsh-
Rrs will converge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
FRIDAY. JUNE IS, 1884.
A NECESSARY RETREAT

THE President has prepared and asked
l. congress to pass a joint resolution en-
towering him to appoint boards to hold col
Elective bargaining elections where there are
disputes over labor representation under the
recovery act.
As William Green of the A. F. of L. points
out. this is a long retreat from an adequate
labor disputes law which the President has
been advocating for several months. But it is
"a necessary retreat because months of con-
gressional delay have brought the country into
saestate of strife in steel and other industries
and there is no time left in which to debate
sand pass adequate legislation. In these closing
days of the session small minority in con-
sgress can prevent passage of such law by fill
clustering
So the choice now is not whole loaf or
even half 1t is small slice or nothing. The
president has chosen the small slice.
Whether he can get even that small slice
depends on the intelligence of the Republicans.
They, apparently, are divided. Some of them
would like to defeat the mild joint resolution
by amending it to death.
A14oU' III Jul JuuSlueHI' WOuIu Ue poIlClcaI
sblunder for the Republicans If anything is
eclear in this situation it is that the vast ma
Sjority of voters who will go to the polls next
autumn want industrial peace preserved. They
look to the President to help preserve that
: peace. If congress refuses to give the Presi-
dent the minimum authority for this purpose.
the voters are not going to blame the Presi-
dent; they are going to hold congress RESPONSE
+. BILE. And they should
) ii the Republicans are intelligent they will
: get 1t through their heads that the voters con-
slider this issue above politics.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
Coffee Cream and ChIdren's Milk

lions of wealth destroyed and the
millions of lives lost was not
matter of force and terror but just
a long drawn-out Sunday school
picnic lasting some four years.
According to all three Indianap-
oils newspapers Communist Rus
STA informed the disarmament
conference that the way to dis
arm was to diSarm and proposed
complete disarmament - which,
presumably, represents more force
and terror on the part of the
Communists.
And there is the matter of the
100000 American children going
hungry. It is a pleasure to know
that this isn't being forced on
them and that it holds no terror
for them.
How interesting to learn that
American children are different
from all the other kids in the
world, they just don't like to eat.
Communists are quite fond of
that fellow Lenin who said that
no rich man should have cream in
his coffee until every child has
all the milk required. The old
meanieS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
JOB INSURANCE

ME social insurance committee of the
- Indiana state conference on social work
has approved tentative draft of compul-
sorry Indiana insurance law.
That appears to be a step in the right
direction and one which the Indiana legisla-
ture will be asked to approve finally in 1885.
The bill, as now written, would give the
benefits of employment insurance to any one
more than 16 whose annual pay is less than
$4,000
The bill provides for those who most need
: ald A youth under 16 who makes $4,000 a
year has no reason for not saving some of his
funds, but the married man with family who
. has worked year after year for less than 3d. 900
, and then finds himself in dire straits also will
. find that he has had but little opportunity to
set aside something for days of i'll luck
The bill, according to the committee, 90"
can provide buffer to the onset of depres-
sion unemployment and it would continue
, throughout the depression to give insurance
relief to large percentage of the unemployed.
The provision of buffer to cyclical unemploy-
, ment is one of the important functions of I'M
employment insurance. 1t gives time to get
emergency measures organized and it actually
reduces the amount of emergency relief re-
/. quired by a large sum"
Those facts certainly uphold President
RooSevelt's hope of bringing home and job
security to the people.
Those facts also make it mandatory for
! state legislators to consider the proposal fully
when it is presented.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
NOT THE LAST OF 1T

THE air mail bill awaiting presidential
signature effects some reforms, gives
lega. sanction to the temporary air mail pro-
gram of Postmaster General Farley and at
the same time introduces new contradictions
into the confusion of the air transport indus
try.
But 1t does provide a way to clear up the
confusion through creation of special COM
mission to explore all phases of aviation and
present to the next congress recommendations
for broad national policy. It is to be hoped
that the President will act speedily and wisely
in the appointment of this commission, and
that the commission will do a thorough Job
In no sense can this bill be considered
adequate permanent legislation. Containing
as it does a series of disconnected compro-
will be to keep the air transport industry in
confusion and add to the public apprehension
of the governments relation to the industry
The new law will not even be workable for
the interim period unless this congress adopts
clarifying legislation, in the form of joint
resolutions, reconciling the contradictions in
the bill itself and the conflicts between the
bill and the temporary regulations promul-
gated by the postofice department
This temporary period is not likely to be
one OF harmonious operation. The sooner a
long range program is substituted, the better
it will be both for the administration and for
aviation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
SLEEP DISTURBED BY
WELLS OF PEDDLERS

BY a Night Worker.
To Police Chief MorriSsey:
Some time ago you we're the only
one in Indianapolis with enough in
testinal fortitude to stop that great
public nuisance, namely, paper boys
waking every one up on Sunday
mornings. Congratulations on that,
chief!
Here is another for you.
I am working man. My work
requires that I spend nights on the
job, which means have to get my
sleep in the daytime.
Can something be done about
strawberry peddlers yelling their
heads off all day long? They start
in the morning about 7:30 and one
half hour later there is another
gang selling its wares at a reduced
price. This keeps up until I have
to leave for work at night. My
wife tells me they are still yelling
around 7:30 in the evening.
One wouldn't object if they re-
duced their yelling somewhat; how
ever, they can be heard two blocks
away.
Another thing is that hardly any
one in the neighborhood ever buys
from them.
AS soon as the strawberry season
is over, thence will come the cher
ny peddIers and then the raspberry
peddlers.
just one mad bedlam all summer
long. I know that if it keeps up
around this neighborhood very long
somebody's berry cart is going to be
upset.
1 do not know what revenue, if
any, the city derives from issuing
permits to hucksters. However, in
asmuch as we do have stores in
town, I believe that the public well
fare comes first and that consists
of making a. mans home his castle
and not having every man out of
work and his brother yelling and
screaming around the front door.
Let us have some action, chief.
In conclusion, I will bet that the
majority of people in the city agree
with me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
BUILDING ASSOCIATION
POLICY PRAISED

BY G. l..
This is not about John Dilrlnger
or Real Six, but word of con-
structive praise for the building as
sociations in this vicinity is due.
When so many banks failed, the
associations paid reasonable divi-
dends to their depositors or built
up their reserve contingency funds.
They paid reasonable amounts
regulated by the state department
of financial institutions to depos-
itors to meet their needs, made
reasonable adjustments in interests
on mortgage loans, and co-operated
with the Home Owners Loan Cor
poration.
Their personnel is patient, friend
ly, kind and helpful to their GUS
toners. They still are the bulwark
of American home owners and
especially in this locality.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
BY a Female of the Species.

By Female of the Species.
1t is good to see Mr.. Maddox
back in The Message Center. The
thing that I like about his letters
is that he takes himself so SER
iously. And he is so we'll in
formed on his subjects, socialism
and communism. Why, he even
knows more about communism
than the Communists themselves.
Of course, most of what he knows
isn't true, but that is a minor
matter.
He speaks of Communist Russia
where the people are uniformed
and uneducated." The Soviet
Union, as it happens, now occu-
pies first place in the world in
book publishing and in number of
students in high institutions of
learning.
Those of us who had been labor
ing under the illusion that this
was an indication of culture APP
preciate having the matter cleared
up for us by Mr.. Maddox.
And as to force and terror, it is
true that Communists opposed the
World war. So it is good to know
that the World war with the bill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
PROFESSOR BUTCHART'S
LETTER COMMENDED

By Hiram Lackey.
Will you please extend our thanks
to Professor j. H. Butchart of the
astronomy department of Butler
university for his recent letter to
indianapolis newspapers. His civic
interest deserves our attention and
admiration. The citizens of Indi-
annapolis will appreciate more of this
quality of writing by educated men.
An occasional letter like his will
make the public views departments
of our indianapolis newspapers
worthy of space on an editorial
page, instead of in a comic section.
Of course, knowledge of the opin-
ions of the most lowly and I'M
learned people is of social conse-
quence and eminently worthwhile;
but for us to read and learn the
truth which has the power to il
Illuminate the darkness of our
minds, is infinitely more fruitful
and important.
We can learn truth best from
men of intelligence, discipline, I'M
Selfishness and years of training.
These essentials enable men to write
something worth reading.
If honest, courageous editors will
offer college-trained, religious men
the proper Encouragement, our
boosted freedom of the press might
become useful.
I wish to thank the indianapolis
editors for their cooperation with
such men as Professor Butchart.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
DIAMONDS IN TRADE

DIAMONDS- certainly trade hands in this
~ day and and age
The other day we read how the parents of
Miss nene Gillespie, prominent in New York
social affairs, had returned 100000 diamond
ring to none other than John Jacob Astor.
Yesterday we read that Mrs. Adolph zukor,
wife of the film magnate, had more than
$87 900 in jewelry stolen from her in a Chicago
hotel.
Those of us in Indianapolis who probably
don't realize what 100000 diamond, or even
$S7 900 worth of jewelry looks like, get kick
out of these quick turnovers. It looks as
though the diamond trading business is on the
upturn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

TALL, elegant Sumner WelleS, assistant secre-
u tary OF state, and lovely Mrs. Welles, were
noStS at a garden party at their estate near Oxon
Hill, Md
State department boys were present en-
maSSe, some diplomats, too-dapper Bello Ed
wards, minister of Chile in blue suit and green
ana red striped tie; Ambassador MARQUEE Ster-
ing OF Cuba in mOuSe-colored cutawav: the
olmlnutlVe Siamese Princeling, Damras Dam
rong DeVakul Belgian Ambassador Paul Nav.
very CheStert1eldian in dapple-gray with a
mourning band on his sleeve; correct Ambassa-
DOR Freyre of Peru, sitting on chintz sofa.
talking politics.
nNE of the most interesting guests was ener-
~ get1c plain-spoken Fred Britten "big navy"
congressman and ex-pugilist who told good
Joke he recently played On Josephus Daniels at
the New York naval review.
L came out of the Plaza" chuckled Ered
and t?ere was Daniels in his Quaker hat. ready
10 60 down town to review the fleet. There were
some motorcycle policemen waiting to escort
him. but they didn't know Mr. Daniels from
beans. W
Presently, Mr.. Daniels got in his car and
grove off, He thought the police would naturally
follow, but they didn't. He went down to the
sea alone. " WIZ
MY four automobiles were waiting. NV
hCCle niece said to me: Uncle, what pity we
can't have motorcycle cops to escort usP" T
patCeo her hand and said: Just you wait now
L went over to the policemen saluted and
asked What's your detail? - Thew renlied :.
ambassador Daniels, sirp That's me- I said
4hey Saluted and replied: Very good sir. When
ever you're ready I went back to nv niece and
tolo her: Don't worry, darling. We're going to
have that escort
We'll, we did. 1t was glorious ride down
F11th avenue, with the sirens and claxons going
ana irish cops block away holding up their
nandS and stopping all traffic! I warned the
policemen not to go too fast-you see. I was
AFRAID we might catch up with Daniels. and that
would nave been just too bad!"
MR. JOHN PHILIP HILL of MARYLAND ex-
IVA congressman and future Governor Cor 81
ne says was an early arrival at the Welles
party -0'
John Philip seemed in radiant humor. For
once, he wore no uniform.
How is your potato field?" asked a friend
knowing that the former Representative is grow
making vodka -
"Rotten!" doomed Farmer Hill "Or perhans
should say, wonderful The governments paw
ing me bonus for raising less potatoes. Isn't
| that marvelouS?"
He sighed reminiscently and added
1 turned all my potatoes over to be eaten bv
the potato bugs. What mea1"
|
COURTLY Mr.. Welles bowed to a lady in a
~ large picture hat, who was admiring his
flower garden
"Oh, Mr.. Secretary" sighed She "How much
l envy your beautiful blue Canterbury bells
| How do you make them grow so high?"
Hmm nm!" commented Sumner. 1.-THE cold
winter did them good. The hardest part ha:
been to keep the slugs away"
You must have learned how to keep the
slugs away during your stay in Cuba" grinned a
| visitor.
SUMMERTIME successfully avoided Havana
buletS-grinned good naturedly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-15
NIGHTSON
BY ALYS WACHSTETTER


Let us take this hidden path
Here 49,. hold me tightly, dear,
The night has become suddenly
dark,
The moon no longer lights our way,
But I am with you and have no
fear.
The wind loves the moon, as you
love me.
See he has bedded her in a
feathery cloud,
Listen he is grooming her to
sleep
With singing whispers of love,
To be adored by one so strong,
like me. she must be proud.
o my beloved, we have but minute
souls,
Time is timeless for the wind and
And our entire span is but one night
to eternity,
Give me this hour filled with love,
Bend my spirit In abandon = 90
we die so soon.