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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
EQUATOR TO ARCTIC

WE thought we had this country pretty
w well built up with roads. Yet the PWA,
CWA, and CCC found plenty of opportunity
to build enough roads to girdle the globe, just
in the last year.
First we thought of roads from the point
of view of the county. Then the state road
was the model. Then the state road built
with national assistance. Then came the
great national highways, east and west, north
and south
Now we begin to think of roads in terms of
continents War department engineers have
found that the projected road from Seattle to
Fairbanks, Alaska, is feasible. If put through,
such road would lead to faster development of
Alaska, and closer relations with Canada, both
much to be desired
Further, it would connect eventually with
the road now being pushed south from the
Rio Grande. This fall such an all-weather
road is expected to be completed from
Laredo, Tex, to Mexico City. Later it is to
be driven through to Central and South
America.
1t will be a proud day for America when
it has road on which it's people may drive
from the equator to the arctic. No "'strategic
highway" such as bellcose countries are fond
of building, but broad highway of peace,
linking with a friendly tie the peaceful peoples
of the western world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
STATES GET TOGETHER

THE first interstate compact on. labor leg
islation, just signed by the commission
ers from seven northeastern manufacturing
states, opens fascinating vista.
Regional interstate agreements are not
new in America, as witness the six-state Col
orado river pact, the New York-New Jersey
Port Authority, some thirty other interstate
agreements for economic action Regional
pacts by groups of states for the adoption OF
uniform labor laws is novelty.
In this first agreement the states of New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts,, Connect
cut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and
Maine, their legislatures willing, undertake
jointly to adopt reasonably uniform stand
ards" They will not, for instance, permit an
employer to hire woman or minor under 81
at unfair" or Oppressive" wages To stabil-
ize labor laws between the signatores an in
terstate commission, with federal representa-
zion, is set up.
Here, it appears, are states seeking to ap-
ply to one another within an area of common
economic interest the same theory industries
are applying to themselves under the codes.
Under an interstate labor code higher living
standards can be maintained for all states, and
chiseler states can be kept in line. In view of
the need for all industrial code labor stand
ards eventually to be written into state laws,
the plan offers promise of great progress.
Labor Secretary Frances Perkins has taken
the leadership in calling interstate labor con-
ferences all over the United States. There has
been one in Atlanta for southern states one in
New England, one in the midwest. Conferences
are planned for the Pacific coast the south
west and other regions
1t is to be hoped that out of these will come
regional agreements similar to the one just
signed Here is an opportunity to work out
understandings that avoid the evils of state
competition without the necessity for federal
intervention
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
ABOUT MR.. WATSON
AND MIR. MINTON
By NJ. Richey.

BY NJ. Richey.
John Alexander Dowie said, eff
you can not say anything good, say
something" Jim Watson's comment
on Sherman Minton'S nomination
indicates that Mr. Minton, an ag-
gressive New Dealer, is not g. pro-
tege of the former senator, all of
which is wholesome to the citizenry.
Mr. Watson states that there is
an advantage in nominating for
United States senator man who
has no political background, to
which all will agree.
In these hectic days the masses
are not looking for politicians to
lead the way but for leaders who
have brains to formulate and exc
cute policies in keeping with Ameri-
can principles and the need of the
citizens. SHAY" Minton possesses
all these admirable principles.
Mr.. Watson opines that he never
met Mr.. Minton, which would in
dictate that Mr.. Minton has no
financial connections that would
profit more greatly by higher and
higher tariff walls. Mr.. Minton, as
a doctor of present day ills, has
more than one remedy in his pill
bag. Mr.. Watson's chief and only
remedy, which he proclaimed a
panacea, is tariff-administe in
ternally, externally and hypoder-
nically.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
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FRIDAY. JUNE %, 1894.
A WEIRD PROPOSAL

QUITTING the stock exchanges under fed
= eral regulation will be one of the great
achievements of the Roosevelt administration
IF and when it comes to pass.
4 Why if and when? Because it will not
come to pass until the regulatory commission
provided by the Fletcher-Rayburn act has
been named and is functioning. The man.
ner in which it functions will tell whether or
not the government has been taken from Wall
Street back to Washington. And the manner
of its functioning will depend almost wholly
on the men the President names as COM
rnissioners.
IS In this connection there is a disturbing re-
port abroad. 1t is that certain names serious
ly proposed for the commission are those of
men now identified with the Stock Exchange.
In other words, the President is asked to take
his regulators from among the men to be
regulated. In still other words, to invite the
money changers to make themselves at home
again in the temple
In the past the stock exchanges have talked
a. great deal of regulating themselves and
they have been blamed for not actually doing
SO. The blame perhaps has been unfair, since
by the very nature of things they could not
regulate themselves in the public interest.
The point of view from their side of the
counter never could be the public point of
view
But, so it is explained, it merely is pro-
posed to name two brokers or investment
bankers or some such representative of the
stock exchange interest. The chairman and
the other two men could be Sinlon-pure repre-
sentatives of the public and they could out
vote the stock exchange men three to two
on any issue. The answer is then why have
them at all? Why have three of the men,
bers devoting their time to outvoting the
other two? Work doesn't get done that way
The commission which takes on the duties
imposed by the stock exchange bill-aS well
as the truth n-securities law, which thus far
has been administered by the federal trade
COMMISSIONERS an administrative job, big
job and hard job. 1t will not have the sur
plus time and energy to be also a debating
society. In any case, the debate has been
held. The subject was: Resolved, That the
stock exchanges should be regulated by the
public And the affirmative won.
Wall Street will have plenty of expensive
and able special pleaders before the commits
sion as cases arise; it should not have its spe-
cial pleaders on the board.
Yet that is what is being proposed to the
President.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
SUPERVISED PLAY

THE playground season in indianapolis now
Il is under way. Thousands of children will
take advantage of the play areas and the
~-''rlm:rg re- '--"ches A staff of COM
bending every effort
to r'S'-0 r. vNH7tion one of valuable
recreation and enjoyment for these thousands
The Times today prints the first of a series
of playground columns which will appear
twice each week during the summer In these
columns The Times will cover activities at
the grounds as reported by the officials in
charge.
1t is the duty of every person in the city
to cooperate in keeping these grounds and
swimming pools safe and profitable places for
the children to spend the next several weeks.
Every child who is permitted to play in these
supervised areas will gain much in health and
will be removed from the dangers of playing
in streets or lots near thoroughfares loaded
with traffic
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22

ORANGE, Mass, is going to have new war
~ memorial.
But it isn't going to have the usual grim
khaki-clad figure rushing forward with fixed
bayonet-not even the heroic and defiant SOL
der standing with helmet rakishly tilted and
eyes uplifted.
The model of the Orange memorial shows
seated soldier in trench cap and roll puttees.
one arm about young schoolboy, books I'M
der arm, who stands at his side. The soldier
is telling the schoolboy a story-and from
their attitudes you can see that it is no fan
tasy about the soldiers personal heroism.
The soldier plainly is telling the boy, not
how he, too, may some day attain to military
glory but how he may help bring about day
when there shall be greater glories.
And this will shine forth from the bronze
figures And who shall say that such war
memorial is less memorial to the American
soldier than those Victories" and "Glories"
that clutter France?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
REGRETTABLE

TNHAT DR.. Thurman B. Rice was forced to
- use very plain language in addressing
residents of New Bethel Wednesday night, is
regrettable. The Times regrets the incident
as much as DR.. Rice does.
8 For the last week this newspaper has been
urging cooperation on the part of New Bethel
residents with county health authorities in
attempting to halt the march of the typhoid
epidemic there. Apparently these efforts were
lost in the din of voices raised in protest
against Indianapolis newspapers.
i In this day an epidemic of this or any
other type is news. An epidemic, as ever,
challenges medicine and man and must be
COPIED with Immediately.
/. We no longer live miles from our neighbor.
No longer are we confined with members of
our families to one and two-room houses. No
longer do we gaze over miles of barren waste
that once separated us from other human
habitations.
s. That era passed long, long ago. And it was
the general impression that the provincial
mind faded with that era.
There are, we are positive men and women
in New Bethel who realize the extent to which
Such an epidemic nllglG spread, WIFI us SouICe
at the very threshold of indianapolis.
! At the meeting Wednesday night, a member
of the audience demanded reporters be ousted.
The Times was represented by two reporters,
both of whom knew this papers editorial
policy, first in pleas that Marion county aid
New Bethel and second in urging that the
little community cooperate in the war to halt
the epidemic.
8 The newspapers of indianapolis were
charged with printing filth and lies" about
the epidemic OF course, that is not true.
Any one who has followed the newspaper
beverage of the epidemic knows the absurdity
of such allegations.
s. 1t was then that DR.. Rice decided to speak
the truth He told the assembled citizens that
their town was one of the dirtiest in the state.
He offered this as constructive criticism.
( He told the citizens that the state might
move into New Bethel and take complete con-
troll Of the battle against disease. That is for
the state to determine.
j His real thought went far deeper He
wants the citizens of New Bethel to refrain
from clouding a serious issue with animosity
against newspapers. He wants those people
to think of their lives and the lives of their
families. And he wants them to think and
act Immediately, using judgment that is not
out of balance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
APPAREL POUNDAGE
AND MODESTY

BY C. MarteIler.
To one who wonders what has be-
come Of old-fashioned girlish
modesty:
Did grandmother ever give a
"whoop" from her skirts for dis
approval of her fashion? Did we
ever give up on account of criti-
cism of lace yoke or peek-a-
boo shirtwaist? Or an elbow sleeve?
Did we submissively accept the re-
Dukes for that lovely wasp-line fig
ure? We met them by drawing
our 1aces an inch tighter, if posi-
BILE.
And who won the bobbed-hair
battle? Goody, goody for our side,
So I don't believe, Old Fashioned,
that your remarks about the mod
ern young woman will help your
cause, but I will speak to them
about it.
Now, girls, shame on you for your
backs, your arms, your legs clothed
only in a healthy coat of tan. And
those shameless tOeleSS sandals
from which your painted nails shine
so brazenly. Have I omitted any
thing oldster?
AS you swing along the city
streets with graceful, unhampered
step intent upon your own affairs
you may be causing the downfall of
some oldster who is trying to keep
his mind clean. In my day he
blushed a deep, embarrassed red at
the lift of skirt an inch above the
shoetop while crossing a mud pud-
die. That's where the beard and
mustache were helpful.
So, have mercy on the oldster,
girls, for to him modesty is a mat
ter of apparel poundage, not de-
meanor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22

goes into the water knows about them; every
one who sends his child into the water knows
about them in almost every case, accidents
come because one or another of these rules
has been forgotten.
The same is true of the use of boats Ac-
cidents need not happen to persons in small
boats; when they do, it usually is because
some one has, for the moment, forgotten to
use the care and foresight which operation of
small boat requires.
These summer accidents are startling
memorial to our careleSsneSs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
INTELLECTUALLY
AND SELFISHNESS

BY H. L.
Since the days of Plato, the INTEL
lectual aristocracy has sought its
philosopher king. Fine and worth
while is its ideal, for, after all, what
is more noble than an educated,
wisely trained, unselfish man di-
vinely qualified and appointed to
rule. He is the pride of all, the
glory of his country and hope for
the world.
But, can a politician fledged in
Indiana university where the law of
self preservation is a ruiz, smother
his innate Selfshness? Can that
portion of his personality which re-
spends to enlightenment be lifted to
that point where his self-love will
include all of his fellowmen?
Indiana university, whose presi-
dent is more interested in religion
than in anything else, has, in Paul
" McNutt, obviously failed to an
swer these questions in the affirma-
tive.
Can life be but to know that we
are the inter-related, inter-depend-
ent parts of the whole and so re-
lated that, when We help or injure
our fellowman, we help or injure
ourselves?
Profound emotional experiences
which stir the soul, appear to be in
dispensable to the development of
the ideal personality. The sorrow,
anguish, love, paternal and religious
experiences Of the immortal Lin
coln-made for him that nobility of
character which is as rare as it is
precious.
When Jesus perceived that His
diciples we're defiled by their mad
lust for power, He clarified the sit
uation by applying His supreme for
mula of Christian humility which
has no equal in establishing har-
mony among the children of men:
Let the greatest among you be
your chief; then let your chief be
your servant"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
FRIEND OF DOGS
RECEIVES REPLY

BY L. w. C.
In answer to M. G. WIS sugres-
ton to muzzle the children instead
OF the dogs, will say that this
type of suggestion is exactly what
is to be expected from person who
thinks more of a dogs life than
that of a child's.
I am quite sure that if such a
person had child, which I doubt,
for it would take too much of his
time away from the dog, and the
child was bitten, he probably would
be the one to make the most noise.
I believe if he had been in nv
place and paid the doctor bill I did
and see the child tortured twenty
one times with that needle, all be-
cause some one didn't care where
his dog went, he might change his
mind. Even though a dog has a
pedigree a mile long, a bite from
him does not feel a bit better and
is not a bit safer than one from an
alley cur.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
CONGRATULATES EDITOR
ON STEEL EPISODE

By C. A. r.
AS a reader of The Times, wish
to offer my congratulations to Tai
colt Powell for the manner in which
he so recently escaped from the
clutches of the steel mill guards. His
experience, to say the least, was in
tereSting.
To him, the experience was no
doubt more or less tinged with hui
NOR, but how easily it might have
been otherwise.
For example, like other venture
some newspaper men, he might
have been prompted to investigate
at first hand the working conditions
in those steel mills. He may have
wanted to mingle with the steel
workers in their homes, and perhaps
if a strike was declared, he would
take his place with the steel workers
on the picket line, not protected
with the credentials of more or
less prominent newspaper man.
Then how easily his humorous eX-
perience might be turned into a
near tragedy. How easily he could
be placed in a position where his
head would come into realistic con-
tact with a club or a gun butt.
Or, later, he could taste the gas
that would be fired at him and his
fellow pickets by Indianas national
guard. He would become very, very
sick, and as he nurSed his injuries,
he could have the satisfaction of
knowing that as taxpayer of the
state of Indiana, he had helped pur-
chase the gas.
AS he decried the methods used to
break the strike, he perhaps would
have the satisfaction of saying to
himself:
well, don't agree with this bru-
tally, but I'll have to grin and bear
it because like thousands of others
in this state. I now realize that the
wsllop I got on the head by the
hireling of the steel trust, or the
state authorities, is the echo of the
vote 1 cast at the last election.
But next time-Well, what will I
do the next time? That may depend
upon how long the headache or the
sick stomach lasts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
Capital Capers
: BY GEORGE ABEL

T~ALL, unassuming Baron Maurice Rothschild
l. of France, senator from the Hautes Alpes
and power in French politics, ambled into
Washington for brief visit
Baron Rothschild called on French Ambas-
sador Andre lie Laboulaye The envoy fell all
over himself in order to be polite.
Il must show you around town." he observed
genially
|, Thanks" replied Rothschild ct think I'd
like to call on the President some time"
H m m m nj" said Laboulaye Strokng his
chin. "Of course, that might be arranged, but
-er-it's rather difficult. 1 take you down.
however, to meet Mr.. Hull"
''Hull?" said Rothschild. who is Hull? Why
should 1 meet Hull?"
Hull" cried Ambassador Laboulaye. "Why
Mr.. Hull is the secretary of state He may be
able to introduce you to the President"
"Oh, don't bother about that" said Roths-
child. MY good friend, Joe Robinson, is intro
ducing me to the President
There fell brief silence
Now" said Envoy Laboulaye briskly, ct must
take you to the senate. You really should see
the senate. will give you ticket to the diplo
matte gallery.
Thanks thousand times" responded Roths~
child, smiling But you see, I already have
seat on the floor of the senate. My good friend,
Hiram Johnson obtained one for me-"
CTILL smiling, still meeting good friends" on
~ every side, amiable Baron Rothschild mean
dered through a series of parties given in his
honor
He was guest at one party in Georgetown
at which hosptable host presented him with
a glass filled with crushed mint whisky and ice
"This, Baron he said, sis julep =. . mint
julep"
Baron Rothschild gazed at the sunset through
the twinkling facets of the amber glass
"Delicious!" he remarked, finally But, tell
me-could I have mint julep of my own max
ng?"
A special julep was made for him Ca Roths-
child julep, it has been christened). 1t consists
of mint, ice, and plain water. Rothschild does
not drink.
TINE diplomatic exodus which seems to have
4 started in Washington, has spared one
diplomat-the new Spanish Ambassador Senior
Don Luis Calderon.
Envoy Calderon-tall, thin, intellectual and
spectacled-sits in his cool, high ceilinged library
at the embassy and refuses to move.
why should move?" he said to friends, who
urged him to leave the capital during the warm
months. "The heat? I don't mind the heat.
was in the tropics-the Philippines. North
Africa Why should I worry?"
The new ambassador glanced toward the
sunny patio of the embassy, and pointing to it:
Il wouldn't care to stay long out there" he
added ut gets pretty hot in the patio.'
So hot did the patio become that recently
pet Observation-Disclosures used to swim
gracefully in the patio pool-turned up its pink
toes and died.
Ambassador Calderon will remain in Wash
ington, but he will not venture into the embassy
patio.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22

by fewer veterans each year is to see the
gradual passing of a loyal group.
Let's hope that the G. A. r. lasts as long
as humanity possible and the last of the
veterans still will find many summers of meet
ing and talking under the shade trees of
Indiana cities and towns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
Questions Power of Church for Good

The Socialists more than thirty
years ago urged the pensioning of
the aged, rather than their con-
finement in poorhouSes, where the
religiously inclined visit occasion
ally to sing and pray.
1t is only within recent years
that the church awoke to the fact
that the aged were not getting a
square deal.
I am quite sure, too, that it was
not the church which started the
campaign to abolish child labor.
Large profits come from child la
Dor. and pay for pipe organs and
stained glass windows.
A community of intelligent per-
sons needs no religion or alpha
betical government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
WATCHFULNESS IN SUMMER

A NY one who reads Indianapolis newspa-
L pers must have discovered by this time
the arrival of the inevitable tragic, summer
feature-the news story telling how this or
that person was drowned while bathing or
boating at some summer resort.
These stories are specially tragic because
almost every accident of this kind is pre-
ventable.
There are a few simple rules which will
keep any swimmer safe. Every one who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22
GIRLISH MODESTY
STILL EXISTS
By Impolite Youth.

By Impolite Youth.
To Fashioned who wonders
about the old girlish modesty:
1t seems to me that you were so
busy looking at the young women's
bare backs trying to see what you
couldn't see that you had no time
to look to their conduct.
You ask, Where is the old-fash-
Toned girlish modesty?" Well, where
was it in the first place? In a half
yard of dress goods on their backs?
If you think these girls haven't
any modesty, approach one of them
in the manner that their backs sug-
gest to you and you will find that
they keep the old-fashioned girlish
modeSty intact right in the palms of
their hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22

then Mr. Worker retorted that if
this were news, the line would have
to be drawn.
All I have to say is that Mr.
Worker is wrong. Wasn't the fact
that a temporary settlement was
reached matter of news? Wasn't
the fact that Mr.. Green's power of
persuasion stemmed the tide toward
strike the truth?
Mr.. Worker evidently wants to
find fault in the worst way and be-
cause he's scared stiff of burly steel
workers, tries to take it out on The
Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-22

By Doubling Thomas.
Writing in the Message Center
yesterday, E. F. Maddox takes eX-
ception to the statement by Paul
Wysong that America is a ma
ton bereft of God and brands
Marx and Lenin as infidelS.
For every specific instance
which Mr.. Maddox can cite in
which the church has been of any
benefit to humanity, I can cite
him at least two in which it has
taken the side of the oppressor
against the oppressed; impeded
the spread of scientific knowl-
edge and invaded homes to en-
force its musty, outworn pro-
nouncements, few of which mean
a thing toward human happiness
or welfare.