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gagged. They have learned that much by sad
experience and the lesson will stick.
So much for the first object lesson. The
second one runs parallel; it is a succinct and
memorable demonstration Of the nature and
value of academic freedom.
If there is one place above all other where
mems minds should be free to rove in any
direction that seems good to them, it is uni
versity There must be freedom there, If there
Is none anywhere else.
without it. university ceases to be place
where minds are broadened and culture is
developed. and becomes a country club, a
political organization, an athletic association,
or what you wish; anything at all but uni
versity.
And when that Transformation takes place,
the institution is no longer worth what it
costs.
Now a person who has succeeded in i'm
parting these two important lessons in freedom
has accomplished something noteworthy.
Many people grow old and die without ever
learning that if freedom can be squelched in
the editorial rooms and on the campus it is
in danger everywhere.
Senator Long, amazing as it may seem, has
actually broadened the education OF the
youngsters at Louisiana State.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04
A LESSON IN FREEDOM

TTUEY LONG seems to have done the stu
Il dents of Louisiana State University a
double barreled favor-quite unintentionally.
The unrest which seized the student body
Or a part of it, when the student newspaper
was gagged may not last very long. 1t may
not bother the KingfiSh in the least, and it
may do absolutely nothing toward freeing the
university from his domination.
But it is giving these young students the
best possible kind of object lesson in two kinds
OF freedom
First of all, it is teaching them-in the
most approved laboratory manner-juSt what
this famous old freedom of the press argu-
ment is all about.
When the staff of the student paper re-
signed after discovering that it would be lese
majeste to criticise the Senator, they learned
something that newspaper editors of all times
and places have known, to wit: That news
paper is worth nothing whatever, to its read
ers or TO its publishers. if it be not free to ex-
press opinion and present facts without inter-
ference from above.
They VIII not need to be told any more.
that people Is not tree II its newspapers are
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04
SHOWING UP WE'LL

THE financial angle of the farm program
is interesting. Newest figures released
in Washington show that farmers participate
ing in the crop adjustment programs have re-
ceived, to date, slightly more than $5O7,OOO 900
in cash benefits. This, however, has cost the
treasury nothing, the processing taxes having
taken in $55800OO0O
These payments in themselves are an i'm
portant contribution to farm income. But the
AAA program must ultimately stand or fall
on its success in increasing the farmers in
come indirectly, by raising the prices of the
things he sells, rather than by its direct pay
ments; and in this field, too. the record is not
half bad.
Farm income for the current year is esti-
mated at $4,000 100000, which is about 10 per
cent above the 1888 total and some 80 per cent
above the total for 1882.
In other words. the program is costing the
treasury nothing, and it is slowly succeeding
in raising farm prices.
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COST-OF-LlVING FIGURES

THE national cost-of-living survey promised
l. by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is long
overdue. 1t will be the first since 1919.
Field agents will go into homes OF wage
earners. list the goods they buy and prices they
pay, learn how much they spend for food,
clothing, rent and what portions of their in
comes go for such comparatively new things
as radios, automobiles and silk stockings Data
thus collected will show consumption trends.
and enable the Labor Department to revise its
inaccurate f-living index.
1t is one of the many enterprises Of Isador
Lubin, who, since becoming labor statistics
commissioner. has tried to bring new vitality
and meaning to the Governments tables and
charts.
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WOMEN WORKERS GAIN

MIRA has done more in one year to i'm
prove and standardize working condi-
tions for women than was accomplished in the
preceding 20 years. according to Mary Ander-
son, director of the United States Women'S
Bureau.
BY outlawing or regulating industrial home
work and by raising pay minima, NFA codes
have checked abuses that were spreading
rapidly under the depression. But one-fourth
of the codes, Miss Anderson says, still permit
the employment of women at wages less than
are paid to men for the same work.
Efforts will be made to standardize labor
laws and insure fairer treatment of women
workers in all of the "A states whose Legisla-
lures meet next year. The Presidents I'M
employment insurance program for the next
Congress offers hope of greater security to
both men and women workers.
Il am sure" Miss Anderson says, that as
women we rejoice in the advances made, but
We must respond even more strongly to the
call for organized effort to bring security to
all members of society"
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FACTS ARE NECESSARY

THE senatorial munitions committee, which
dug up so many interesting and appalling
facts about the trade in guns and explosives
for us a month or so ago, is broke now. 1t has
much work still to do, but its investigating
staff has been decimated, and such investiga-
tors as remain will have to work without pay
through December, according to a recent dis
patch from Rodney butcher.
This would seem to put the issue squarely
up to congress. The committee has spent
only $4,000, to date-and the disclosures it
mas made have been worth many times the
price. If more money is needed to enable the
committee to finish its job, the new Congress
should provide it without delay This work
should not be allowed to lapse for want of
financial support.
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MUNITIONS RACKET AGAIN

A MERICA and other nations will watch
n with keen interest the Senate munitions
inquiry which resumes today.
Disclosures before this committee last Sep
TENDER startled many countries. Evidence
tended to prove that some arms manufacturers
had formed an international cartel, banded
together to divide world markets and share
profits. used bribery and propaganda to keep
nations arming against each other, and mis-
used for their own profit advantage the United
States naval and diplomatic services.
Chairman Nye is justified in assuming that
the world understands the Importance of his
committees work. His intimations of still more
astounding revelations have commanded wide
attention His promise to show how munitions
makers have thwarted the peace efforts of
statesmen indicates that the climax of the in
quiry is ahead.
The desire for peace is universal. If it is
proved that arms manufacturers have TO
and have undermined peace conferences as
charged some years ago by a League OF Nations
commission the Parliaments of the world
will get mandate to bring the traffic in death
weapons under firm international control
That our own senate investigation has forced
the British government to start a similar in
ouiry shows how widespread is popular concern.
Before we can act intelligently, We need to
learn the whole truth about the arms bust
ness. We depend upon the Nye committee to
educate US.
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COMPLAINS OF SERVICE
AT CITY HOSPITAL

BY Times Reader.
One morning I had taken my
little girl out to City Hospital for
an examination and also to get
information on report of my old
est daughter I had there the week
before. I was Is or 20 minutes late,
but explained my situation.
Now, as my income isn't a for
tune and had to be out there the
same day at 8 p. M, naturally, I
had to stay from a. m. till p. M,
as I can't get the examination of
the little girl and the report on the
other one on account of being 20
minutes late, which I'm not in the
habit of doing
suppose the hospital staff men,
bers think can come out at any,
time, keep the child out of school
and come out for another day. They
don't realize have a husband to
get off to work and two children to
send to school and lunches to fix,
not mentioning myself and the one
1 take with me to get ready.
can't those persons show at least
little respect and consideration for
others? The self-centered are often
the best satisfied persons in the
world because they do not suffer by
the disaffection of others. To them,
there's no one of sufficient impor-
lance the loss of whose esteem is a
matter of deep concern.
Too high to be hit and too big to
be hurt, they are hardly conscious
of opposition or persecution, of in
suit or offenSe. They never take a
hint, because they imagine a thrust
at their dignity could never have
been meant, and they never see a
point against themselves. To laugh
at such conceited persons is asinine,
and to avoid them is to compliment
them, they think, with wholesome
respect.
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take measurements, watch the adj
vertisements, read the labels, and
LOOK at the signs, and you will be
saving yourself and me, too, lot
of trouble and time.
Getting mad and reporting clerks
seldom does you any good. More
often than not, the floor walker
winks at them behind your back
because they know your type.
Talk loudly enough to be heard.
Be sure you have your money ready
before demanding attention. Don't
take your friends with you unless
you have to do So Do not make
sarcastic remarks aside to other
customers. Do not interrupt a clerk
counting change or measuring. Ask
directions from a or-walker, not
clerk. Do not question a clerk
about merchandise in other depart->
ments or in other stores.
Please, Mr.. and Mrs. Christmas
Shopper, show common courtesy to
me and I will meet you more than
half way.
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TUESDAY. DECEMBER 4 1894.
COMPULSORY DRILL

T EGAL efforts TO protect religious DIRECTORS
IL from compulsory military training in
state colleges receiving federal grants have
been blocked by the United States Supreme
Court. Yesterday the court upheld the Uni
versity OF CALIFORNIA; suspension Of students
for refusal to take compulsory military courses.
This was in line with the recent Supreme
Court dismissal Of the appeal of University
of Maryland student in a similar case.
Since Justices Cardozo. Brandeis and Stone
concurred in the unanimous decision, in
supplemental opinion written by Justice Car
dozo, there is little hope that the so-callec
liberal justices later will reverse the decision
1t would be fruitless to question the legal
validity of a unanimous decision of a Supreme
Court containing the illustrious names in
Guided in the present court membership. But
that does not answer the larger questions in
voIved.
The militarzing of Immigrant colleges may
be within the letter of the United States Con-
stitution and of the law. STILL as admitted by
the Cardozo- Brandeis-Stone opinion, such
regulations may be condemned by some as
unwise or illiberal or unfair when there is vio-
lence to conscientious scruples. either religious
or merely ethical"
We condemn. and an increasing body OF
American citizens condemn, compulsory mill
tary training as unwise, illiberal and unfair.
Moreover we condemn it inefficient and
wasteful of the taxpayers money.
1t is unwise because it breeds disloyalty
to the government by large numbers of the
highest types of citizens who. though them
selves not conscientious directors, can not
respect an authority which violates the re-
Igious scruples of others.
It is illiberal because it distorts the spirit
OF free inquiry into gooSe-step education.
1t is unfair because it denies higher educa-
ton to religious DIRECTORS who can not afford
to attend more expensive private colleges, as.
in the case of these University of California
students
1t is inefficient and wasteful because many
of the students who are compelled to take
military training in their first years at college
drop out in the later years, and do not become
suitable material for reserve officers. either
in training or morale.
The battle against compulsory militarizing
of the students of state universities should
60 on But the fight will have to be made in
Congress- which controls appropriations for
the Army and the Reserve Officers Training
Corps on which the state compulsory military
education system rests in practice. And the
fight also will have to be continued in the
states Just as Wisconsin and Minnesota re-
Gently changed from compulsory to elective
military courses, so other states can be per-
suaded by proper methods.
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civic pride. He will see things as he
has never noticed them before
Heretofore the street lights ano
pavementS haven't cost him any,
thing so why should he worry? We
all know men and their wives who
are both employed and live in apart
mentS; enjoy all modern convent
enceS yet never pay one cent of tax
They even move about to avoid the
assessor. ask you is this a fair
state of affairs?
The very poor whom the objec-
tiers are pretending to sympathize
with never notice the difference
Their money all goes anyway. 1t
might as well be made to give them
protection in their old age when
they will need it most. Their wage
will be much better under this
plan. Now they are only eking out
miserable existence. A tax like
the sales levy will never be hard
ship when it provides for old age.
Here is another stock objection
old persons don't need that much
money. Granted, but the Cougar
old persons are the mothers and
fathers of the multitudes out of
work. When we took the money
from the hands of the parents we
also took the authority away from
them, which in turn gave youth
more liberty than was good for it;
hence the crime situation.
An entire reversal of circum-
stances has been brought about IN
the last few years, wherein the aged
have had to be dependent on the
young. 1t had always been consid-
cred a problem to manage them
when occupying the advantageous
position ofsproviding for them, so we
are reaping natural results from the
situation as it is today.
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never be what most persons term
imitation of money. This can come
only by the bank system permitting
more credit to circulate. The banks
can choke every attempt to initiate
by printing more money, in that it
would go into the Federal Reserve
vaults and rot there if the banks
so decide.
We do business with bank credit
in 80 per cent of all our transac-
tons. The cash, as some persons
know money, is but a drop in the
bucket. We are suffering from wild
bank credit imitation during the Re-
publican prosperity daze.
Credit is created to suit those who
manipulate the stock market. Cred
1t expansion is move to create a
come on" movement to sell the
stock credit certificates to suckers
after they have recuperated from
the last "sell them out" movement,
brought on by shutting off credit.
When the market has been
shaken down enough and the pub
lie has dumped its stock, so that it
is back in the dice leaders hands,
then bank credit is expanded for a
new crop of fish.
The insiders get oug from under
long before the fish do in the in
f1ation boom. While the fish are
taken for a cleaning we have hard
times. When they are baited We
have boom times.
Imitation only can come whel the
insiders are ready to set the nets TO
make their haul. Credit imitation
will not come soon because the
wringer has not yet produced
enough dehation to suit the in
siders.
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CLERK URGES PATRONS
TO BE COURTEOUS
By An Overlooked Clerk,

By An Over Worked Clerk.
If you want to see the worst side
Of human nature. the grasping, de-
ceiving. vain, petty, mean side, try
working behind counter for sew
eral years. The average customer
regards the clerk as an enemy who
is going to cheat MIN, if possible, or
attempt to sell him something he
doesn't want.
Now, I like for you who are my
customers to feel that I am your
friend. OF course, I don't give a
hang about your Aunt Martha S
operation or your daughters birth
day party. You needn't try to i'm
press me with who you are, what
you have or where you've sen. I've
seen thousands of you and could
tell you facts about YOU self that
you would not care to believe But,
if there is something in my de-
partment that you want or need,
will do my best to help you But
don't like to wait on a pig-head-
ed, obstinate, mercenary old crouch.
1t is best to have a definite idea
of what you need before you GO
downtown. How am l to know
whether this green hat matches
your suit If the suit is at home in
your clothes closet? Bring samples,
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INITIATION POWER HELD
SOLELY BY BANKS
By Periseope.

By Periseope.
These discussions relating to in
f1ation are based upon the false as
sumption that currency imitation, that
is, printing of twice the present five
billion dollars of currency, would
upset the value of the national cur
rency.
The real value of the currency Is
determined by and upon the amount
of credit created with the available
supply of money by our banks. In
the last orgy of fake money values,
our banking system permitted bank
ing credit to reach f1fty-three billion
dollars, all based on the paltry five
billion of currency then existing and
which sum has not diminished
today.
This credit, today, however is
about 40 per cent smaller in bank
credit circulation. When banks get
more currency on hand than they
want for use in credit expansion to
borrowers, they retire the currency
by sending it to the Federal Reserve
Banks, where il builds up reserve
credit for future use, but not present
use.
For this very reason there can
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04
Solution offered for Traffic Problem
By a Times Rea der.

BY a Times Reader.
Let Capt. johnson, with the aid
of all the newspapers in the city,
through the medium of a coupon
published in the papers, get a
promise from every downtown
business man and his employees.
to keep their automobiles parked
out of the mile square during
business hours.
If every business man and his
employees would leave their cars
outside of the downtown area, it
not only would make more bust
ness downtown, but there would
not be any traffic problem such as
double-parking.
Mr.. Business Man, how do you
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04
ANSWERS OBJECTIONS TO
TOWNSEND PENSIONS
By A Reader.

By A Reader.
I wonder if it occurs to the public
the why Of the underlying reason of
the opposition of the big interests
and their cohorts to the Townsend
old-age pension plan off hand be-
fore one advances any arguments,
they bark out, ooh! it won't work. -
That is positive evidence that they
know that it will work and proves
the old suspicion that they don't
want anything to work that will
benefit the multitudes. Oh, yes,
they have put plenty of study on it.
They like to pooh pooh it and pre-
tend that its supporters are so ig-
norant that they believe in some
magic wand transition.
Big interests know only too well
the plan is workable. Why do they
object? First, they know that by
removing all the old steady men
from behind the works puts crimp
in the morale and more response
bility on the management. They
tried that back in the old efficiency
racket days; they know by expert
ence now that that doesn't work.
They also fully realize that there
would be better conditions and
therefore make the workmen more
independent. If there is anything
employers are afraid of it is la
bility of scarcity of labor
There isn't actually one good
argument against the general sales
tax. Thousands of our citizens
escape direct tax at all times and
boast about it. Well, that type of a
person isn't a good citizen. He en-
joys all the public improvements.
With a sales tax he win take more
interest in them and cultivate more
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expect your customers to park
their cars when you and your
employees have every space used
by $3.50 a. m, and in most cases
your cars stay parked all day,
through the kindness of the corner
policeman, forcing a great many
to do their shopping outside of
the downtown section?
You pay high rent for your
location and then keep your GUS
toners away from it by parking
cars in front of your door.
This idea was tried in small
city in Wisconsin by it's own Mer-
chants Association and it worked.
1t will work in Indianapolis.
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Daily Thought

Yea, though 1 walk through the
valley of the shadow of death, I
will fear no evil: for thou art with
me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.-Psalms, 23:4.
THE charm of the best courages
Il is that they are inventions. in
spirations. flashes of genius.-Emer-
son.
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The Bolivians captured Fl Senator Long
from the Paraguayans in the Gran chaco.
making this the first defeat Huey has felt
since the last session of congress.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04

That New York father who threatens to
return a baby girl to the maternity hospital
if she doesn't look like him would better
square himself with the mother first,
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Autumn Winds
BY MORRIS KING

The wind has dotted the cloaks Of
trees,
And whistles through their naked
limbs
A gushing, shrilling. bitter swirl.
It's somher music CRATES the ear
Prepares US for the harsh. cold time.
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The Message Center

Times readers are inDtted to cypress
their oieS0S In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have q chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or Less.J
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The Hindu rope trick remains unsolved.
and the world stin has something to look for
ward to.
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So They Say

Every one has a right to work if
he wants to, and we will stand for
no interference from the radicals.
George w. Marland, chief of Den
yer police.
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ne wants to, and we will stand for
no interference from the radicals.
George w. Marland, chief of Den
yer police.
Now I can park my car in a mill
lion-dollar garage, the senate gar
age.-Senator- Elect Theodore Bilbo
of Mississippi.
We (womem don't want and
never have asked for sympathy.
Sympathy has never been a substi-
tute for justice.-Mrs. Mary Muir
ply, president of the Women's
League.
Present-daY social situations may
seem new ard intricate, but in the
last analysis it is the same heroic
struggle to win the minds and hearts
of men from the call of the world,
the flesh and the devil.-Edward D.
Kohlstadt, executive secretary of
Methodist board of home missions.
No prudent nation can efford to
be unarmed in the world today
Lammot Du Pont.
I'm not witty person. I Just try
/ to be funny.-Fanny Brice.
hope I'll act until I'm old, but
at any rate I'll be working at some
thing.-Sylvia Sidney, film actress.
Every dog should have f1eas.-Ed-
ward A. ONeal, president, American
Farm Bureau Federation.
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I'm not witty person. I Just try
to be funny.-Fanny Brice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-04

I hope I'll act until I'm old, but
at any rate I'll be working at some
thing.-Sylvia Sidney, film actress.
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No prudent nation can efford to
be unarmed in the world today
Lammot Du Pont.