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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
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ATTACK BY HOOVER
CALLED
By d. Yaver.

BY ID. Yaver.
Mr.. Hoover's persistent efforts to
belittle the President and his adj
ministration have proved a BOOM
erang as ably evidenced by the re-
suits in Maine. Mr.. Hoover appar-
emily has learned nothing from his
infamous Grass will grow in the
streets" tactics.
Mr.. Hoover, you are being advised
badly in %criticiSing a real leader and
humanitarian like Franklin Roose-
welt.
While you and the rest of your
element were enjoying your pros
perity around the corner" thousands
of families already were destitute
and millions of others were under
going intense suffering quietly. You
no doubt held these people in the
same scorn you did the Chinese
coolies you are alleged to have ex-
plotted in your mining ventures.
Indiana a bow her head in
shame for permitting your Fascist
agent, Arthur Robinson, to repre-
sent the state.
Your attempt to frighten the peo-
pie through the columns Of the re-
dictionary Saturday Evening Post
and subsidized newspapers is a COM
plete fizzle. The writer suggests you
retire to the $4,000 900 ranch you
presented your son and spend your
remaining days being entertained by
the Melons, Millses, Fallses and Do
henys, and by all means surround
yourself with your great cabinet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
OPPOSES ARRESTS FOR
POLITICAL REASONS
By orie ]. Simmons.

BY Orie ]. Simmons.
I do not live in Rhode Island, the
state that was colonized for free
dom of speech and opinion, and it
was not the federal President, but
only a state Governor, who issued to
every police chief the order, arrest
Immediately and hold for examina-
ton every known Communist for
possible connection with riots and
disorders in this state" The or
der, although a state matter, Will
be backed if necessary by national
troops.
Hitler treated the Jews very SIM
ilarly. Spain drove out the Moors.
At one time the Ku-Klux Klan had
a parallel project. Herbert Hoover
says, For the first time in two
generations the American people are
faced with the primary issue of hu-
mainly and ali government the is
sue of human liberty"
I am a Republican and detest
communism almost as thoroughly as
Haywood Broun detests Herbert
Hoover, but I hope this thing of ar
resting members of the "out" po-
litical parties goes no further.
The New Deal does not like Re-
publicans much better than it does
Communists. Herbert Hoover, the
editor of the SatEvePoSt, and !
might all be thrown into the same
jail together. II this happens. I
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
TALK AVOIDS TROUBLE

THE English seem to have thorough knowl-
edge Of the way in which free speech
serves as a valuable social safety valve.
British Fascists had a big mass meeting in
London's Hyde park the other day. Thousands
Of Fascists paraded; thousands of their YIN
pathizers gathered 70 cheer them; thousands
upon thousands Of bitter foes Of Fascism gath
cred TO heckle them-and. finally. five thou
sand boobies were present to see that no blood
was spilled
There are civic authorities who would have
been alarmed at such a demonstration and
would have ordered all speeches called of and
all MODS dispersed. to prevent trouble. But not
the British. They let everybody talk. The
boobies had little or nothing to DO. No heads
we're broken. no noses were punched. and
everybody went home happy after it was over.
BY letting the disconnected talk their heads
OF. the British very frequently escape serious
trouble.
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sATURDAY. -. IS. 80.
THE LEAGUES SORE SPOT

THE sore spot Of the League Of Nations has
been touched again BY Polsnd's attitude
to repudiate the minorities treaty.
With the proper indignation the self
righteous great powers-Britain. France and
Italy-pointedly reminded Poland yesterday
that she had accepted the minority and other
treaties in exchange for her independence"
Poland has no legal right to kick over the
treaty on her own motion and without consent
Of the other parties TO it. This objection to
Polands move is especially pertinent because
the international treaty protects minorities
who are too weak to protect themselves.
Nevertheless. there is no justice in subject
ing Poland and certain Of the other new"
countries TO supervision and regulation from
which the older and larger countries are free.
There is an issue Of obvious and uniustihed
discrimination. Similar discrimination has
been used against Germany. Of course. in the
matter Of disarmament.
From the beginning. the league has been
rugged in favor Of the great powers. who too
often have exercised arbitrary dictatorial con-
troll of the international machinery at the ex-
pense of the weakers powers.
Poland and other smaller nations have a
case. But they Will have TO use more intelli-
gent ana effective methods than Poland has
used in the minorities dispute if they hope to
win their fight for a more democratic league.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
MANUFACTURING DEFIANCE

THE National Association of Manufacturers
= cast itself in a questionable role when
it advised all employers to ignore the Houde
case. decision of the National Labor Relations
Board upholding qualified majority rule in COL
lective bargaining.
Unless and until the courts upset it, the
labor board ruling stands as the highest in
depreciation of the collective bargaining law
passed by congress in Section IA of the re-
covery act and in Joint Resolution A. 1t is
not in the spirit of orderly government for
private citizens or organizations to defy law
agencies by such methods. Employers have
much to lose if defiance of law becomes gen.
eral in the country.
One wonders what the gentlemen OF this
association would have said if the American
Federation of Labor advised all workers to
defy the National Labor Relations Board and
its decisions. Wouldn't the cry of "revolu-
ton" be raised against labor?
Americans who do not like the laws, or
their Interpretation by duly constituted author
tiles, have recourse to the courts and congress.
The National Association OF Manutactur-
ers can not afford to encourage Americans to
resort to less orderly methods of change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
PAT PLAYS SANTA A

DROBABLY it is nothing more than political
l. patter when Senator Pat Harrison an
nounces at the summer White House that the
next congress may not have to pass a new tax
law.
The astute senate finance committee chair
man knows there are mounting billions OF
deficit that must be met. He knows these
huge bills for relief and recovery must be paid.
It is true, as Senator Harrison says, that
the federal revenues are increasing. Tax
payers turned in a billion more dollars for the
last fiscal year than they did for the entire
year before. But much of this new revenue
came from the pockets Of consumers, IN the
form Of excise and processing taxes on food
and clothing. Only 10000 600 represented in
creases in taxes on incomes.
There will have to be higher income taxes
up and down the line. based on capacity to
pay. 1t is only fair that those who nave
pronted by incomes through better business
should help meet the cost of the recovery pro-
gram. This has been done in England and
other countries. and Americans are no less
patriotic.
But Senator Harrison apparently has his
eye on the November election. He probably re-
calls AL Smiths remark that people dont
shoot Santa Claus Just before Christmas, and
he is putting on whiskers. 1t is unlikely that
he will fool the political grownupsu of either
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
ID OF GOOD WILL

THE United States and Canada joined
hands recently to dedicate restored Fort
Niagara, at the foot of Lake Erie; and while
the colorful ceremonies drew much public
attention. the whole occasion really should
have been impressed on our attention even
more strongly.
For this celebration emphasized a familiar
but still profoundly important fact; namely.
that the long frontier between Canada and
the United States has been unfortihed for 1T
years.
In a world that bristles with international
fears and r~ivalries. here are two great nations
so supremacy confident that they will keep
the peace with each other that they let their
joint frontier go entirely Unattended.
1t is a unique achievement in international
relations. and restoration of the old bastions
of Fl. Niagara is simply a symbol of it. The
people Of the two nations have a right to be
exceedingly proud.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
A CURE FOR NERVES

over in London they are trying a new
~ traffic system. Autoists are forbidden to
sound their horns after IL at night. The
theory is that when a pedestrian steps off a
curb, the motorist won't reach promptly for
the horn, but will slow down and stop. This,
London believes, will reduce traffic accidents.
Too, London wants to sleep and horn-blow-
good nights rest.
We in Indianapolis might take the hint
for most of this cityS automobile drivers are
afflicted with ~toot-itis. Toot-itis, it might be
explained, is a peculiar disease.
It's not limited to any particular class.
Old and young both haye it. Perhaps we
should say that four out of five have it.
Here's how ~toot-itis works! You're driving
up the street; the traffic light half a block
away turns from green to yellow, then to red;
you slow up, come to a stop. Cars stop be-
hind you. Then the light changes from red
to yellow and although you're supposed to
start on the green, not the yellow. you are
Immediately urged to get along by a blast of
tootS from behind you.
Or perhaps it's a halt at a downtown cor
ner. If the traffic officer doesn't switch the
traffic in ten or twenty seconds. somebody
back in the line let's out a weak foot. The
fellow in front of him let's out a bolder beep.
Suddenly. the chorus starts, honkings, beeps
and toots. It's all t~oot-itiS.
Let UP on that horn, Mr.. indianapolis.
We'd like a little peace and quiet for a change.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
MIND IN RELATION
TO MEDICINE

By F. T. w.
In The Times of Sept. 5, DR.. Nor
ris Fishbein enumerates marvellous
discoveries in medicine, after which
he added:
There is one important .addi-
tional trend of modern medicine
above all others that has been
omitted from the list. 1t is medl-
cine's recognition of the Importance
of the mind in relationship to the
body generally"
DR.. Fishbein does not claim medl-
cal discovery, but rather that medl-
cine recognizes the Importance OF
mind. If medicine had made the
original discovery it would have
been the greatest discovery medicine
ever made. The good doctor does
not define mind, or tell us much
about it, in fact nothing, though he
admits its Importance. Webster OF
course had to give us a definition,
thus:
"Mind is the intellectual or a
tional faculty of man; conscious
ness; soul; memory; intention;
opinion"
One easily may see that the great
Webster was somewhat dizzy and
rather uncertain as any one must
be who attempts to define mind.
Mary Baker Eddy brought to the
notice of all mankind the lmpor-
lance of the mind which resulted in
greater study of mind and its power
than ever had been up to her dis
w Mrs. Eddy defined mind as
spirit, soul, principle, substance, life,
truth. love-" which is as bew1lder-
ing as is Mr.. Webster's definition,
because mind is very difficult to de-
scribe, if indeed it ever has been
or v e will be properly defined.
New Thought, Unity and other
metaphysical followers accept Mrs.
Eddy's definition pretty generally.
However, these cults differ materi-
ally as to the abode or location OF
the mind. Some believe it to be
within the human body, while Mrs.
Eddy declares that it is not and
could not be. DR.. Fishbein would,
of course, differ with Mrs. Eddy.
Medicine does well to recognize
mind in it's relation to the body and
it's Importance in treating the body
for the cure Of disease. Students OF
medicine who recognize the mind as
an important factor in relation to
bodily functions will discover great
er power of the mind than medicine
ever has admitted up to this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

parties always have stood for this
kind of a system, and stand for 1t
now.
Regulation is not enough. Trust
busting is not enough. Honest
money is not enough. Do not let
yourselves be fooled by those who
advocate salve treatment for our
social leprosy.
Fifty years of liberal and progress
sive surface reforms have brought
us to the condition in which VIZ find
ourselves today. Only the Socialist
party advocates the orderly recon-
struction of industrial society to
bring a full, glad life to all. 1t is
the workers party in America.
The wealth and knowledge Of $50
years of achievement are at our
command if we will organize for
power. We shall not starve in the
midst of plenty. We are the ma
jority. Workers and farmers every
where unite, agitate, educate and
organize. We have world to win
and nothing to lose but ball and
chain.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

BY John A. Simpson.
I wish to call your attention to
the fact that the Democratic party
has failed utterly to make good
most of it's campaign promises, as
follows:
First, if beer came back, taxes
would be reduced greatly. But
what are the facts?
Second, although pledged to
strict economy, taxes are higher,
especially on property. We also
have gasoline, oil, sales, tobacco,
income, cancelled check and
amusement taxes.
Why has the NRA failed? Did
it not give labor the right to Or
ganize and bargain collectively?
Never in the history of this great
nation did we witness so many
general strikes.
Why so much talk about rad
icals? Every disguised person be-
ing deceived by rotten politics is
not a Communist. Why are ell
derby persons receiving 81 a
month instead of the SIS old-age
pension maximum?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
CHARGES Democrats Fail to Keep Promises

I defy the public officials, ma
tional, state, county and city adj
ministrations to point out econ
omy, with one single exception,
namely, reduced pay of underpaid
state, county and municipal en-
ployes and veterans of all wars,
the ones who could least stand the
gross injustice. I ask if the DEM
ocratic party is the true friend OF
the forgotten man?
Why not enforce employers OF
labor to comply with the law, as
we'll as the toiler? Why are the
national guard and police always
on the scene? Strikers are shot
down and strike breakers pro-
tected.
The old political bunk is not
being erammed down the Threats
of the voters as easily as office
seekers think. We demand JUS
tice and action, not promises. We
taxpayers foot the bill and de-
mand service, economy and true
representation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
ASKS POLICE AID
TO A DRINKS
BY a Business Man.

BY a Business Man.
AS a taxpayer, home owner, a
business man in the 1900 block,
Shelby street, I hope you will give
space in your paper for this letter to
the chief of police.
1 ask him to do something to
clean up Shelby street from Mime
sofa street to the Belt railroad. On
Saturday nights these two blocks
are the DRINKS paradise. Come out
and see for yourself, Chief Norris
Sey.
When these buns see a police Of
fcer in uniform they hide and when
he is gone they come out like rats
to insult u women and girls.
A family stopped trading with
me because the mother was afraid
some drunk would harm her chill
dren.
Again, Mr.. MorriSsey, I am asking
you to do something about this con-
dition. There are buns on this
street who have no means Of sup
port. They beg, and if you do not
give them money they insult you.
If there is not something done to
relieve this condition, we will be
forced to go before the board of
safety.
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MunitiOns-A Game
XXTAsHINGToN, Sept. 15.-Here's some more

Nv Sept. 5.-HereS some more
w senate munitions committee testimony:
j. Samper, agent in Colombia for CurtiSs-
Wright planes Gin a letter to w. F. Goulding,
vice-president of Curtiss~ Wright Export Corpor-
atom: Il have just received from Irwin para
chute company some scarfs to distribute among
the pilots here. 1 am afraid that the propaganda
was sent too late, because I was informed def
nitely that the government had ordered the
consul to place orders with our competitors
(Switlik) for the pa1achutes they are in need
Of. 81"
Artemis Denasas of the Societe Financiere ct
Technique de Greece, at Athens Gin a letter, to
Export Corporation officials:
Il have succeeded to persuade the air minister
through a common friend to give his preference
to your material. Write to me a private let
ter saying you will allow me a commission of
5 per cent. I shall transfer this letter to the
friend of the minister in order to guarantee him
that he shall get his profits without this transac-
ton being disclosed. -"
c.. w. Webster, agent of Export Corporation
for Latin-America Gin a letter to Captain c. K.
Travis, his representative at La Paz, Bolivia
In selling this Falcon to Peru, please handle
this, if possible, in the same manner as the other
Falcon and Hawk we sold. Payment to be made
to me personally and not to the company, as 1
have certain commissions that will have to be
paid. -"
c.. W. Webster Tin a letter to j. v. Van Wag-
ner): " Conditions are becoming very acute
and I do not wish our files to contain anything
with a bearing on this business. You always can
send any necessary letters to my. home and
thereby keep them out of our files. -"
w. F. Gould1ng, vice-presidenko of the Export
Corporation Gin a letter to F. G. Nichols, of Colts
Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company
In a letter from Bob Farnsworth, an Export
Corporation AGENT he refers particularly to the
recent visit of General Macarthur UNITED
States army chief of staff to Turkey, and the
fact that General Macarthur was received with
great pomp and enthusiasm by the Turkish dig
nitarieS. Naturally, the general was made famil-
lar with the business which we are carrying on
With the Turkish authorities and, apparently, he
talked up American military equipment to the
skies in discussions which he had with the Turk
lSh general staff. Bob FarnSworth says that for
safety sake he is not putting down in black and
white what was said, but I rather gather that
your equipment and ours did not suffer from
lack OF praise. "
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
REAL ROMANCE

THE word romance" IS a strange one. 1t
Il usually ~conjures up visions Of men who
i've lives OF danger and sction-soldiers, cow
boys explorers. sailors. and so on; too often
We forget that the greatest romance of all is
sometimes TO be found IN a life which, to all
outward seeming. is prosaic and uneventful.
One is reminded Of this by news Of the re-
cent death Of DR.. william Campbell Posey.
noted Pennsylvania opthalmologist.
Dr Posey spent his life combating diseases
Of the eye: and a short time before his death
he wrote g short article for the Lfe-Saving
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
URGES MORE MONEY
FOR RELIEF PURPOSES
By william Rupert.

By william Rupert.
1t Is right TO cut expenses and
reduce taxes in some cases, but in
the name Of justice and mercy, why
cut appropriations for the poor and
unemployed and old-age pensions
so much more than other items?
We all know there are more needy
old persons in this ctate than last
year. Besides, what they have to
old persons in this state than last
year. It is cruel and inconsistent.
Most Of the county councilmen are
wel-to-do and have plenty Of this
worlds goods. The present Presi-
dent Of the United States and ex-
President, both with big hearts and
big vision, suggest that more ought
to be done for the unemployed, the
poor and the aged.
I challenge any county council or
any individual to show cause why
poor relief or old-age pensions should
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
ABOUT CHURCHES
AND GAMBLING
BY a Times Reader.

BY a Times Reader.
A few lines for Mr.. jeff will be
appreciated in the Message Center.
I am sorry for him, worrying about
the so-called churches, where the
gambling really begins.
Wotsmatter, Mr.. jeff, did you take
a chance on the auto given away
and didn't get it?
Maybe you do not realize these
~so-called churches do not wait for
the taxpayer to support them, and
what is more Of it, their schools are
self-supporting if you have been
reading the papers for fourteen
years. 1t seems you would be more
broadminded. Yes, and I don't hap
pen to be a member Of these So
called churches.
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So They Say

I just throw EN- in-that's all.
Sometimes the ball gets struck,
sometimes it doesn't. Most times, if
1 throw 'em fast enough, they don't
get hit.-Schoolboy Rowe, Detroit
Tigers pitcher.
We all get breaks, good and bad.
What happens when they occur is
mostly a matter Of how we meet
them.-Deems Taylor, American
composer.
1t is far less expensive to replace
slum areas with clean, healthful
living quarters than to run up stag
gering police, fire and sanitation
bills.-Sir Raymond Unwin, London,
famed city designer.
Fascism has brought war nearer
than it ever has been before in
the postwar period.-W. NJ. Citrine,
secretary British Traders Union
Congress.
No artist ever sings in true pitch.
They express their artistry through
variability. They Isl the score
merely for reference.-Dr. Harold
Seashore, Iowa State university
psychologist.
Whose liberty is Nj. Hoover talk
ing about in his criticism Of the
New Deal? The liberty Of the peo-
pie who have been gouging the
public or the u of those who
have been gougedi-RepresentatiYe
Joseph w. Byrns Dem, Tenn.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
DEEMS SOCIALISM
ONLY WAY OUT
BY w. Williams.

Oy W. Nuudmss
More than ten million men now
are walking the streets and high
ways looking for work, and at least
another ten million are forced to
submit to part time employment.
Think Of it! Want and grim fear
Of want haunting the multitudes OF
the working class. Think also Of
four million farmers in distress.
Now, let us study the ABC Of un-
employment. About 5 per cent OF
the people own as private property
the nations industrial set-up, the
mines, mills, factories and railways.
By owning the property, they are
held also to own the right 10 give
or withhold the jobs connected with
the property.
In order that there may be prof
its, two conditions are absolutely
necessary. First, the workers must
be paid less than the value Of the
goods they produce. Second, there
must be a market in which to sell
the goods.
The Democratic end Republican
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
/ whoNy disapprove of whGt you sag and will
defend to the death your right to say it.-VoLtGire.

be reduced below So a month or 500
a year. The needy can not live or
be cared for at any poor home for
less. Shame On such treatment. If
the county commissioners in some
counties do not raise the amount
when they meet again next month,
some cd persons will go hungry and
cold this coming winter. 1 am pray
ing and hoping the unemployed and
the aged will be cared for as human
beings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
Forgetting
RY VIRGINIA KIDMELL

By NJEJINIA hIDWELL
I try so hard 10 fill each hour, each
day
So trimming Ger with work-so full
Of play
That I can dull this constant wish
for you.
And make a pretense Of forgetting,
too.
But in the very midst OF it I find
A sudden, poignant mem'ry in my
mind
And all the pleasure In my work or
play
Is gone and I pm lonely right away.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

An Illinois bank. going out of business,
offered free fountain pens to induce CUSTOM
ers TO check out their deposits. If the bank
wanted people to withdraw their money. it
simply should have failed.