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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

THE BLUE EAGLE LABEL
sCRIPPs-HoWARD NEWsPAPERl

MIRA can enforce its codes when it deter
mines to do so. That is clear in two
recent cases IN which clothing manufacturers
defed the code and the code authority. thus
not only exploiting their workers and under
mining the general recovery program. but also
threatening their business competitors. In both
cases the cuprits were forced to surrender
because NRA withheld from them its blue
eagle insignia. making their products I'M
popular
Wulf Brothers, Inc. of New York City and
Troy after holding out for some time, ended
by agreeing 10 make restitution of back wages
Tor the period Of code violation and reimburs-
ing the code authority for the expense con-
nected with the enforcement proceedings.
Before any rugged individualist rises to
protest that NRA could not crack down on
willful code vlolators, he should read the fol-
lowing letter from southern dress manufac-
turer who was compelled by local NRA COM
pliance board to give up his blue eagle and
who has since got it back:
We have found that since our operators
are getting 80 cents an hour and only work.
ing forty hours week, they are working with
more pep and some are producing from IS to
80 per cent more work. We feel that if there
are any industries in the United States that
DO not work under the NRA, and who had our
experience. they would find not only differ
ence but benefit in working under a code
They would get better production and better
work"
Therein is the great hope of NRA 1t is
something more than idealstic 1t is prac-
tlcal-and the old system of long hours and
low wages is not practical for the worker. the
employer. or ANYBODY.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
FOR PEACE IN THE PACIFIC
From the San Francisco News

From the San Francisco News
MO sensible person can read the news
papers these days without wishing that
all the lingo politicians, generals, admirals
and newspaper publishers of this country and
Japan could be armed with rifles and bombs
and set to fighting each other to extinction
in some remote Pacific isle.
Even the most beIligerent of Americans in
sist that we in this country are not looking for
trouble and will avoid war if We honorably
can. But, they add. the Japanese are out to
make trouble and so we must get ready for
war in the Pacific if we want it or not.
In Japan the jingos are saying exactly the
same thing Yet there is as much evidence
that the Japanese people as a whole do not
want war as that the American people don't
want it. If anything, the balance of concili-
atory statements is in Japan's favor just now.
In the Japanese diet on Monday, Count
Futaara, a peer of the empire, rose and critA
csed the government for permitting publica-
ton of infammatory statements and predic-
tions of war
THE so-called national spirit fostered by
such incitations is not the true spirit of Nip
pom. in which an international outlook is in
herent," he said. THE true Sammurai spirit
seeks to prevail without fighting"
L quite agree" said Premier Saito. And
Home Minister Yamamoto announced that
the government is acting to control inflam-
matory publications.
Until similarly conciliatory and nacihc
statements come from equally high quarters
IN America, we can not claim that our devo-
ton to peace is any greater than theirs. Ger
tainly no government spokesman in this
country has seen fit to rebuke, much less con-
troll, infammatory publications in America.
AND While we would be the first to protest anv
effort at government control of the press a
rebuke from highg gquarters would be very
much in order
Jlngolsm in the one country promptly in
cites jingoism in the other, until voices of
moderation are drowned out and the certainty
OF war becomes fixed idea. Japan in recent
years has been the worse offender, and 1t is
the irony of this process of Indictment and
counterincitement that resentment in this
country is reaching a crescendo just as the
reaction has come in Japan and the liberal.
sensible majority there is reasserting itself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
DANGEROUS COMMENTS

A LONDON newspaper asserts that careful
negotiations are under way among the
United States, England and France, looking
toward the cession to this country by the
other two powers of certain South Seas islands
which might be used as aerial and naval bases
in the event of war in the Pacific
According to this story Washington tenta-
lively has offered partial cancellation of war
debts in return for such action. And the idea
back of it, of course, is supposed to be prepa-
ration for that much talked-of war with
Japan
This story may be utterly without founda-
ton; and, somehow, one may be forgiven for
hoping that is the case. The dangerous ten
sion in relations between Japan and the
United States has slackened in recent months;
but action of this kind would be sure to re-
vive Japan's worst suspicious
Prompt denial at Washington that any
move of this nature is contemplated would
be a step toward preservation of peace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
STILL SHIPPING LIQUOR

TINE little island of Miquelon, home. port
Il for feet of rum runners throughout the
prohibition era, is not yet finished with the
task of supplying liquor for thirsty American
citizens.
Examination of the liquor import figures
for December, recently released by the de-
partment of commerce. shows that this tiny
island in that month sent to the United
States distilled liquors worth $4,000 and
wines valued at $4,000
Since the island itself ferments no wine
and distills no liquor, these stocks obviously
originated farther afeld; and one probably
is doing the islanders no injustice by sus-
pecting that to certain extent they repre-
sent stocks laid in IN the smuggling days
And one wonders: Will Miquelon cease
shipping liquor to the United States, once
these stocks are gone, or Will it continue to
maintain its place as a source of supply for
the American market. making its shipments
legally instead of surreptitiously?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
A TRUSTWORTHY EFFORT

ID REPRESENTATIVE JOHN F. DOCK
IN WELLER of California is planning to
introduce in congress a bill which would
eliminate political poStmasterships and put
all first. second and third-class postmasters
under civil service.
1t is more or less doubtful whether any
such bill could get through congress- never
theless MIR. Rockweiler deserves credit for
making the attempt. His proposal is one of
those reforms which would benefit the entire
public and would hurt no one but the poll
ticianS.
Taken by and large, the postoffice renders
a remarkably efficient service. If the entire
organization could be removed, it would be-
come just that much more efficient
Removing all postofice jobs from reach
of the spoilsmen would be long step in the
right direction. 1t will be enlightening to see
just how congress receives Mr.. Dockweiler'S
proposal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
THE ALIENS NEW DEAL

IRON precept and practice the United
States department of labor indicates that
the new deal is to include the 100000 aliens in
this country as well as the rest of us It's
policy will be TO hold tight the gates against
any food of cheap foreign labor, to crack
down on invading criminal aliens, yet to
temper the general laws with moderate and
humane administration.
Few will find fault with a policy that pre-
vents the admission of new jobless yet abates
some of the glazing injustices that have grown
up in the past.
Secretary Perkins has abolished the corps
of free-lance Section "a Men" whose deporta-
ton practices we're a scandal under the Hoo
yer regime, stopped finger printing of aliens.
modified the order relating to alien students
who work their way through college here,
made deportation procedure conform to prin-
ciples of law.
Families need not be torn apart nor
worthy selfsupporting political refugees re-
fused sanctuary With many more aliens
leaving than arriving, there is room for re-
uniting families and opening the gates to
those fleeing religious and political persecu-
ton, providing they will not become charges
on relief agencies
The oriental exclusion measure, passed in
a wave of hysteria in 1924 should not be al
lowed to stand and mar our relations with
Pacific neighbors. A regular quota under the
law applied to orientals would result in no
increase in the admission of alien workers.
probably would result in fewer being SNUG
ged in.
We can maintain the present restrictive
and selective principle and still do away with
useless crueltes and irritations. This calls
for just little kindness and common sense.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
PROGRESS ON CANCER

THAT distinguished authority, DR.. Francis
Carter Wood. director of the Institute
for Cancer Research at Columbia university.
in his annual report was careful to guard
against the physicians traditional bogy of
arousing false hopes. The total number of
patients cured" he said. lis small, and nothing
else is of value
But another passage in DR.. Woods report
is so encouraging in the distant view as to
deserve setting in a special frame. He has
been reviewing various studies, not all made
at Columbia, as to serums and the ways of
avoiding and inducing cancer. Then he says:
1T seems to me that the last year has
seen the publication of four important
Investigations more important for the future
study of that most dificult problem in medi-
cine-cancer-than anything which has been
discovered concerning the disease since man
began to observe it."
This does not mean cures for the imme-
date sufferer, but into the long procession of
humanity it injects a substantial hope that
was never there before. We all may feel in
debted for that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
NJ. E. Tracy Says

IF you had 500 in gold, now that
l. the gold content of the dollar is
to be 80 per cent of its old value, you
could take your gold to the bank
and get S166.66 for it, thus making
a profit, without any effort on your
part, of nearly 81 per cent. If the
gold content of the dollar were to be
reduced to so per cent, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt has the authority
to do it, you could double your
money as far as the number of dol
lars is concerned.
That is one reason why you and
all the rest of us have been r chid-
den to possess any gold at ali and
why the government is getting ready
to take over the gold now being held
by the Federal Reserve bank.
While the Federal Reserve bank
is a government institution in one
sense of the word, it is owned pri-
vately. Member banks own its stock
and ultimately would benefit by any
profit it might make.
The federal Reserve now has
So, 600, 100000 in gold on hand. With
the gold content of the dollar re-
duced to so per cent Of its old value,
that gold automatically becomes
worth s6,0OO,O0O,OOO, which would
represent a profit Of $4,000, 100000.
A NY such an enormous profit as
"A that ought to be distributed as
widely and as equitably as is hui
manly possible, especially since it
has been created by the government
for the benefit of the people.
The only way this can be done is
for the government to take over all
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
Another StGnch Roosevelt Man

for our bankers, they helped wreck
the country and then laid down on
the job. So, should some Of them
go to the, wall. they can either
take the pick and shovel or the
short route, for the present adj
ministration believes in live and
let live.
And the wailing of Lii Arthur"
is only for the eX-service mems
votes; and, as one of the eXs, it
has no appeal to me or to thou
sands Of others, for I am able
bodied and able to earn my liv-
ing, provided I am given a chance
to do So
When an overproduction causes
as much hungery and misery as it
has in the last five years, it was
the only thing any sane govern
ment could do to try and distrib-
ute our money so we could re-
vive our purchasing power and
strengthen our credit system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
WARNING TO EXCAVATORS

u some of the statistics the regretted death
- Of DR.. Albert NJ. Iythgoe of cerebral ar
teriosclerosis in Boston was the eighteenth
fatality in eleven years among those closely
associated with opening the tomb of King
Tut-ankh-Amen in Egypt. BY other counts
1t was the twenty-third fatality. Industrious
search among the collateral associates should
greatly multiply the number.
Thus. say the true believers. the King Tut
curse is verified and credibility is given the
tabled hieroglyphic inscription, Death shall
come with swift wings to him who toucheth
the tomb of a Pharaoh"
The curse. we believe, can be placed on
scientific basis by literal study of the evil
dence. and several tentative conclusions APP
pear thus far to be valid They are
Any tomb violator who jumps from
seventh-story window will be in great danger
The funeral hearse of any tomb violator
will have positively lethal effect upon any
s-year-old child who gets under it's wheels.
Any tomb vioator who exasperates his
wife beyond reasonable point should beware
of bullets
ANY tomb violator above the age Of IS
may expect his risk as a life insurance pros
pect to be affected unfavorably during the
next decade.
In the spirit of science and logic, further
more. We submit one further bit of occult
data Years before King Tuts sleep was dis
turbed some German Psychologists took
home with them the terra Gotta bust of Queen
Nefertiti, and it became the most adored art
treasure of Berlin. The Egyptian government
8 few years ago negotiated for her return. but
the Germans wouldn't give her up. The queen
was King TutS mother-in-law.
And now the Germans have got Hitlerl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
THE FUNNY PART IS-WE
THINK WE'RE RIGHT
POETRY AND TRUTH

POETRY AND TRUTH
BY C. NJ. Hess
I have read your paper from early
youth
And have always depended on
morals and truth,
But of late I admit from your front
page view
I don't think as much of your paper
and you.
I don't want to go back to candles
and lamp,
And I don't belong to the nudist
camp.
Your paper of late devotes it's best
That is detesting to the human
race
The woman you picture without any
clothes
You can't fool the people for any
one knows
They are out for one night or per-
hapS week
Just for the pleasure and ambitions
they seek.
For the love Of your paper and its
daily news
And the sake, of humanity, please
change your views.
Editors Note: Above refers to
picture of Johnny Weismuller and
Lupe VeleZ not nude, but in bath
ing suits. We see nothing nasty in
the human body thus attired)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
HE HAS NO USE FOR
PLUM SEEKERS
By Russell V. Allison.

By Russell V. Allison.
In reference to the article of Jan.
% by a McNutt voter, who claimed
he pulled the wrong lever when
voting and is sore because he didn't
get his promised job.
We will all admit that McNutt is
not what he should be, but why con-
denim the whole administration just
because you didn't get that plum
you were looking for?
A voter such as you is disgrace
to the party, as your only thought
when voting was of a soft job which
you say you we're promised.
I am a little curious as to who
you are, but wasn't a bit surprised
at your not signing your name, as
articles such as yours seldom bear
a signature. But. I'll bet your name
wouldn't cause much unrest at the
StatehouSe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
FRANCE SUSPICIOUS

A N American who observes recent events
n in France is likely to come to the con-
clusion that the French are a most excitable
and efervescent race.
A political swindle which cost the French
some 25O.OOOOOO francs is uncovered and
what happens? The government falls promi-
\ nent statesmen devoutly refuse to accept The
premiership. royalists smash cafe windows
and throw chairs at policemen, and Paris in
dulges in a long weekend of the most hectic
kind of rioting.
In this country. where financial thimble-
rigging conducted at the public's expense is
more common phenomenon it is a little bit
hard to see lust why the French are so excited.
What have they got to kick about, any,
way? asks the average American. They lost
25OOOOOOO francs in a swindle? Well, that
comes to about s12.5OOOOO at par.
Suppose they had had an insult to build
I'D utilities investment companies for them;
or suppose that some foreign nation had Dor
rowed a matter of s4,OOOOOOOOO from them
and refused to pay.
What would they do then-tear down Paris
and throw the Arc de Triomphe into the
Seine?
All of which is apt to lead the average
American to suspect that the French don't
know when they are well of.
The answer. Of course. is that the Stavisky
swindle is more than Just bit of financial
piracy. 1t seems to the French to be symp-
tom of some deeply-rooted and fundamental
fault in their organization Of society.
II isn't, as the old saying goes. so much
the money as the principle Of the thing that
Is bothering them.
That is to say that the ordinary French
man suspects that there is something radically
wrong with his form OF government. He
doesn't know Just what it is, and he doesn't
know Just what ought TO be done about it. but
he has an uneasy bunch that things aren't
iust right-and an affair like this swindle
simply confirms that bunch.
So he boots out his government. and starts
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

the gold and convert the profit to
public use.
The fact that President Roosevelt
favors such a move hardly can be
interpreted otherwise than as fore
casting sterilization of the dollar.
To the extent that such action
would cheaper money and make is
suance of more paper money posi-
BILE by raising the value of the gold
reserve, it must be regarded as in
flationary. At the same time it
precludes the hazards of ordinary in
flation, since it rests on fixed
standard and makes the dollar re-
deemable at a fixed price.
DUT, and this is the important
ID point, it presents every advan-
tage of ordinary initiation by per-
hitting the issuance of more paper
money without ver-reaching the
gold reserve and that, too, on a free
gold market.
A gold reserve of $3.50 900, 900 900,
which is about what We can claim
right now, automatically would oe-
come $4,000 100000 if the gold con-
tent of the dollar were reduced to
so per cent.
1t generally is agreed by econo-
mists and financiers that a govern
ment safely can issue paper money
to two and one-half times the
amount of its gold reserve. In other
words, with a gold reserve of
$1,000, 100000 the United States
would be in position to issue
SIT, 500, 100000 in paper money. 1t is
not conceivable that We shall need
moro
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
HER EMPLOYER IS A
REAL GENTLEMAN.
By Mary Lovelace.

BY Mary Lovelace.
AS a reader of your paper for If
teen years, I want you to publish
this letter in your Message Center.
Recently I read an article about
slaves in the laundries and the girls
being told to make the NRA quota,
Is cents an hour, or get out.
If some of the girls would stay
out of the ladies' restroom. setting
their permanents, penciling their
eyebrows, ETC., they could easily
make the quota with very little
trouble.
And, as to slaves being made out
of the employees, I do not know what
laundry her friend was employed in,
but, as an employe of the Sterling
Laundry for eight years, I will say
we have no slaves, and our employer
is a gentleman respected by US all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
A MESSAGE INTENDED
FOR FARMERS

BY a Times ReadeS.
A million dollars lost to the farm
ers by selling their hogs at present
prices. Hold your hogs ten days and
see if you don't get 5 cents a pound,
and by adding cents, that will give
us so cents for the corn we have
fed to them. Feed your surplus
corn to your hogs and make them
ready for market half fat, and keep
the market broke.
We have been looking to the gov
eminent to help us out of the hole
we are in, and now we have to help
ourselves out.
Just few years ago we held our
hogs five days and they went from
31A cents to 5 cents, and We can do
it now.
Please put this in your paper.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03

By VIM. E. Lemon
We sometimes hear the remark
made, usually by the man in the
street, or by some dyed-in-the-
wool Republican who couldn't
make down payment on pack
Of cigarets, that the huge gov
eminent expenditures at the pres
ent time will ruin, wreck f1nan-
cially and socially, our present
bankers and f1nanciers, which in
time will ruin our country
We, the middle and working
class, already have been taken to
the cleaners by these INSCRIPTIONS
money-mad gentlemen, and, as for
wrecking our country, the Hoover
wrecking crew did a complete job.
Roosevelt's constructive ideas, in
the course of time, will put our
ship of state on an even keel, and
she was listing a-plenty when he
took hold of the wheel. And, as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
Stranger Than
Death
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
Deeper than life and all I've learned
in life
Is this sweet understanding We
possess.
It's indisSoluble, through peace or
strife
It binds us with complete inevitable
ness.
Stranger than death and all its
promises
Is our attraction, mutual, ruthless
too.
Never to be explained in life to us
But ever to bind my heart to that
Of you.
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rioting. and chuckles sleefully while the

rioting, and cfuckles gleefully while the
royaists assault the gsndarmes
And it makes an interesting and instruc-
tive contrast with the situation in America
Financial losses suffered by American in
vestors make the Stavisky loss look unirn-
portant; yet they have caused no riots, no
cabinet designations, no throwing of restau-
rant chairs at innocent cops.
why3 Because We have a confidence in
our form Of government, our organization of
society, which the French lack.
Financially, we have lost far more than
the French; actually. we have lost far less.
We still have an mistaken faith in ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
PASSING ON SALES TAX
is NOT ILLEGAL.

By a Times Reader.
A certain downtown hotel of me-
dunn size, where I expect to be
permanent guest, rented me room
for a specified monthly rental. At
ter I had moved in and was paying
my first months rent, the hotel
bookkeeper informed me that 1
would pay a sales tax Of cent on
each 81 rent.
I refused because I understand
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
ROBBED OF LOVE,
is CHARGE
BY a Times Reader.

BY Times Reader.
am one of the unfortuna ties who
on Jan. 7, 1925, through the
juvenile court, lost my liberty and
five children through the spiteful-
ness of few women.
One has been adopted and one
still held prisoner in an orphans
home in the city. I wonder if it
is more important to the taxpayers
of the city and county to break up
my life's work, rob me of the love
that is duly mine, and them of the
1ove of each other, and pay high sal
aries to court and children's board
of guardians, in order to further
wreck my life, or give me a job at
which I could maintain my family
and allow me to run my own fam
lily affairs.
7 have had nothing but injustice
all the way through.
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that the tax is to be paid by the
company and not passed on to the
customer. Am I right?
AS my next months rent is due,
would appreciate your information
once. Thanks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-03
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