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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24

proposal recently advanced for series Of
state factories in North Dakota.
This scheme has been propounded by Sem
ator Lynn Frazier, Republican, and A. C..
Townley, organizer Of the Nonpartisan League.
Under it, the North Dakota industrial COM
mission has asked the PWA for loan Of
100000 to finance a chain Of state factories
-seventy-fve of them, in ALTO make wooden
cloth, clothing, shoes, linseed OIL flour and
so on
The idea is that these factories would pro-
vide work for the states unemployed, help sup
plement the income Of farmers, and turn the
states raw materials into manufactured
articles
Leave aside, for the moment, the question
Of whether such an experiment in Socialism is
wise. and consider what pressure the scheme
would put on the traditional, politics-ridden
government Of the average American state.
1t is reported at Washington, for instance,
that PWA officials will not consider making
the loan unless they are convinced that there
will be efficient and rigidly honest admirIistra-
ton within the state.
And it also is recalled that officials of the
CWA recently ouSUeo GoVerhor W4l4ldn Ldn-
ger of North Dakota as state CWA adminiStra-
tor because of alleged political collections from
CWA workers.
A stunt of this kind, in other words, simply
would not work at all unless the state govern
ment were run with far more sense of public
responsibility and far less thought for political
advantage, than we find nowadays in the Or
binary state government
And if such proposals are to become part
of our scheme of things-as, according to
present indications, they may-it becomes
vitality necessary for us to make our system
of politics ready for them.
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dollars into the armies and navies
of Europe. 1t will grant unqueStion-
able doles to the god of war. 1t will
bestow gifts of loans to the god of
the Bank of England. It will has
ten to the rescue of the starving
Armenians, and the suffering Bel
gianS. It even will descend so low
as to appropriate money for pigs
and cattle in the drought-stricken
areas of the country.
But it will throw up it's hands
in horror if it is asked in the face
of an emergency to assist in feeding
the citizens of the United States,
who have been dispossessed of jobs
and homes.
And, to escape performing this
duty, it will hide behind false and
stupid definition of dole. But, at
the same time, the government will
extend real doleS to banks and rail-
roads and for the next human
butcher shop.
Back in 1916 and 1917, during the
course Of the war, hundreds of So
called minute men were responsible
for the sale of thirty billions of dol
lars of Liberty bonds, for the pur-
pose Of buying bullets to destroy
life, but, in 1884, these same fnan-
cial geniuses are afraid to venture
upon the sale of $50, 900, 900 900 worth
of emergency bonds for the purpose
Of preserving life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
DOLLARS AND HEALTH

COOPERATIVE marketing came in quite
~ sometime ago. Whole communities dis
covered that by purchasing a carload of po-
tatoes or twenty-seven bushels of lima beans
they could reduce the price of their food, and
yet not let their vegetable plates lack any one
of the well-known varieties.
Women have co-operated too, in the dis
tribution of maid or a gardeners time.
oh, yes, we are getting organized BY
cooperative helpfulness we are seeing that
our wants are taken care of. That is-unless
those wants apply to our anatomical structures.
And then, your stomach is still your own and
nobody has much interest in the fate of your
tonsils. The recent economic disintegration
through which we have passed has made limp
pocketbooks the universal thing. Luxurles had
to be abandoned. Too often necessities did,
too One of the first items checked from the
list was always medical service.
1t is quite time that something be done in
the way of medical cooperation. Mary Ross,
writing in the current number of Today, makes
an interesting observation. She says that
Detroit has adopted the policy of paying pr1-
vate doctors for doing in their own offices
services ordinarily performed by health depart
ment physicians working under salaries. I'M
munization against diphtheria has been the
most outstanding task.
If parents have any money the doctor is
handed three 81 bills If not the city gives
the medical man $3.50. 1t is all right, OF
course Physicians should be paid and paid
well. Only-a well-organized health depart
ment, Miss Ross points out, can inllnunize
children for less than IS cents apiece
If our medical system we're organized prop
erly drawing our conclusions from this state
ment, every one would have access to the
finest medical service at prices within the
reach of all of us. No one has right to place
health and human life on a bartering plane
Any physician knows that he is accepting
a divine trust when he pledges himself to the
alienation of human suffering. Whether or
not he makes money should have nothing at
all to do with his profession. If it does-then
he should be digging bitches, shoveling coal
or raising turnips!
Women know, far better than men, the need
of medical attention in home. Women have
more ailments than men, There are more
times when they balance their accounts and
wonder and wonder if they can afford to ask
a doctor to prescribe for the pain in their
backs, the catch in their shoulders.
Too often they decide that they can't But
if medical service were cooperative affair
within the reach of any one, health would
show rising scale.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
A LIMITED LATIN AMERICA

THE attitude of people in the United States
- toward Latin America is apt to be very
sentimental If not altogether false. We either
romanticize our colorful Latin neighbors, or
look upon them as market on which we can
dump our surplus goods and thus not only
fatten our own purse but modernize a back
ward civilization. In either case we rarely
see Latin America from its own point of view,
its own achievements and its own needs.
DR.. Frank Tannenbaum is able to do just
that. His latest book, WHITTIER Latin Amer
leap" (CrowelD is a realistic study by an
expert.
He concludes that Latin America has no
future as an industrial civilization. 1t lacks
the necessary natural resources. That in turn
definitely will restrict its role in international
affairs.
DR.. James T. Shotwell, who writes a FORE
word to the book. points out that, if the Tan
nebaum thesis is correct, Latin America is
apt to develop less war-hke attitude than
if it were capable of producing the implements
and munitions essential to large scale war.
Tannenbaum has much to say about the
agricultural organization which he describes
as the basic concern of the people, and the
major political issue" Filling the soil is the
chief business of the masses of all those
countries; even in the mining nations of
Peru, Bolivia and Mexico 80 per cent of the
population are dependent on agriculture.
Hence the major Importance of the land
problem, and the tiller's right to the soil.
Latin America in a greater degree in the
future than ever in the past, because of a
prospective decline in the rate Of industrial
growth dependent upon exports abroad" Tan
nenbaum writes. must learn to live within
its own resources"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
NEED FOR PROTECTION

a NEW YORK judge the other day called
n attention to glaring flaw in the legal
machinery which is supposed to protect cit-
zens from financial loss as the result of auto
mobile accidents
His warming was issued after a New York
er mad struck man and his wife with his
auto. The couple sued him and won iudg-
ment of $6,500 The motorist promptly filed
petition in bankruptcy, citing the Judgment
against him as his only liability and his as
sets as nothing.
As result, the motorist got off scot free.
and the people he had injured were unable to
collect red cent
To the judge, this case stood as a warning
OF the need for compulsory liability insur-
ance law; and the judges viewpoint looks
very sound No man should be permitted tn
drive car unless it is certain that any one
he may injure will be able to get financial
redress from him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
TARIFF AND POPULATION

<AMUEL CROWTHER and others opposing
the Presidents plans to revive foreicn
trade through reciprocal agreements should
ponder report by experts of the scripps
Foundation for Research in Population Prob
lens. This reveals America entering a period
of static population.
Last year departures exceeded arrivals bv
4l,O00 persons. On Jan. / our population
totaIed 126,1440O0. gain of only 10000 for
1888. This is the smallest gain. with two ex-
ceptions, since 1870. If the population growth
continues to diminish at the rate of the last
decade We may look for fixed population of
100000 in 1940
In that case what would happen to our
industrial system without world trade OUT
lets?
Our production capacity is forty times
greater than it was century ago. Must this
greatest wealth-producing mechanism of all
history work only for 100000 home folks?
Or should it also work for the world? The
latter, surely, unless We are prepared to scrap
the machine
Outside of these tariff walls of ours there
are 2oOOOoOOOO people. 80 per cent Of whom
are living below the poverty line. There is
our potential market. But if we will not buy.
we can not sell. American capitalism has done
many wicked things; but nothing more stupid
than rait-jacketing industry with high
tariffs
From business viewpoint America self
contained also is America self-condemned.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
SATURDAY. MARCH "a. 1884
THE WORLD COURT MYSTERY

THE senate hearings on the world court reso-
- luton prove that advocates are not limited
to peace organizations, but extend to many
large conservative organizations which round
out public opinion. These conservative groups
include the American Bar Association, the
United States Chamber of Commerce the
Federal Council of Churches and the National
Grange.
In view Of this wide public support and the
fact that both political parties are on record
In favor of the court, the everlasting delay in
ratification must be as inexplicable to Ameri-
cans as it is to foreign nations. OF course,
there is a senate minority opposition But
with the administration in control of the for
eign relations committee and of the senate, it
has good fighting chance to force vote on
the issue
Hence the question: Why has the admin
istration failed to put the world court on its
legislative program2
The answer seems to be that the adminis-
tration fears flibuster, which would endan-
ger the more pressing recovery legislation in
this very crowded session. This is a reason
able fear. Neither the world court nor any,
thing else should be allowed to block essential
emergency legislation. The lobby against the
Stock Exchange and labor board bills and the
munitions probe doubtless would like to see a
world court f1lbuster.
1t is quite possible, however, that public
sentiment is so strong at this time in favor of
the court and against any filbuster methods
during the national emergency that final &C
ton could be speeded by the administration.
After all these years of debate on the subject.
and after all the foreign members of the court
have accepted the Root protocol covering the
senate reservations. there is no excuse for pro-
longed speeches.
Without any illusions as to the power of the
world court to bring the millennium. we never
theleSS think that American nonmembershiu
is disgrace which the President should trv
to remove by pressing for prompt senate rati-
fcation. If the President runs into flibuster
which the administration and public opinion
can not break, he can then sidetrack the
court fight before it sidetracks the recovery
legislation.
ANY kind OF quick showdown would be bet
ter than letting the minority opposition win
indefinite delay merely by bluff and default
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MOVIES AND MORALS
WE viii not have to worry about bootleg
w movies this year.

WE viii not have to worry about bootleg
w movies this year.
The house interstate and foreign commerce
committee sensibly refuses to interest itself in
Representative Wright Patmans movie censor
ship bill. If the bill had become law we might
have looked forward to speakeasy picture
houses in each block, for the measure at
tempted to bar any film which Sin treatment
or subject matter harmfully portrays the life,
manners or customs of this or any other ma
ton or which holds up to ridicule, disparage-
ment or contempt any race, nationality or
religion, or which fosters in-will among or to-
ward the people of this or any other nation,
or tends to debase or corrupt morals or to
incite to crime, or to disrespect for law or
religion, or which promotes or encourages war
against the peace of the world, or which is
harmful to the public or any portion thereof
in any respect"
1t is hard to imagine any kind of film
against which that sweeping ban could not
have been made to operate. OF course pic
ture should not be harmful to the public or
encourage war or to do most any of the
things Patman mentions. But who is to say
when it does? The decision can not be forced
by law or reached by a censor.
If there is one lesson the American people
should know backward and forward, after it's
bout with prohibition, it is that morals can
not be legislated into people. People will drink
what they want to, they will read what they
please and they will look at the kind of movies
they like.
This does not mean of course, that the
public will be at the mercy of producers and
distributors of obscene books or pictures The
criminal law applies there, and experience has
shown that juries make pretty fair judges of
what is and what is not offensive to public
morals.
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I 10holIy disGpprove of aUhat yow sag and 1Oiu
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoEtGire.
g i02ANEA

From bankers Virgins and Mitch
ell of New York, down to local illus
trat1ons Qibel deleted) why is if
that we so infrequently hear land
hence realize) that at the elbow of
men responsible for all the greedy
Skullduggery that has meant the
loss OF millions and consequent pov-
erty to thousands of small. honest
uniformed investors through the
land, that, at the heart of all in
famous planning: and later, in de-
tense thereof, sits the crafty. and
too often INSCRIPTIONS corporation
lawyer, who always, regardless, gets
his pound of flesh" for cleverly
prostituting the very spirit of law
and justice.
And yet with all their chicanery
and oily and evasive way of beating
the devil around the stump" the
unprincipled lawyers were unable to
protect capital from the conse-
quences of their grasping selfish
ness.
Behind nearly all the unscru-
pulous thieving and consequent loss
OF millions that has so nearly
wrecked the faith Of the plain,
honest Woodworking people of this
country, lies the adroit aid of high
priced lawyers, yet their RESPONSE
blllty seldom is voiced.
A list is being compiled, for later
publication, of a thousand outstand-
ing frauds that have occurred over
this country during the past four
years (and containing ten local CT
tations). 1t is amazing to see the
class of lawyers, and frequently
judges, who have been on the in
side Of such frauds. Is not it high
time that We get the public finger of
Scorn pointed correctly at the veniaI
greedy and unprincipled corpora
ton lawyers connected with such
wholesale ship wrecking. Spiritual
wickedness in high Places" is the
name Of the disease.
Let us by careful Investigation
withdraw the veil of secrecy-here
and elsewhere-and bring out the
names of these lawyers connected
with all financial pirating and ship
wrecking.
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REDUCTION IN STATE
LICENSE FEES ASKED
By r. H. w.

By X. II. w.
Some of the large oil companies
of this country are shedding lot
of crocodile tears over the fact that
the motorist is paying lot Of
money in gasoline taxes and some
of it is being diverted to other uses
than it was originally intended
better roads. I am a firm believer
in tax reduction, but it is my opin-
ion that if the tax on gasoline was
done away with entirely, in very
short time we would be paying the
same amount a gallon we now are
paying, and may be more, and the
money that is now going to the
state and federal governments would
be going into the Golfers of the oil
barons.
Before the federal government
reduced the tax one-half cent a
gallon, the oil companies spread
lot OF ballyhoo, especially on the
radio, that on Jan. / the cost Of
gasoline would be one-half cent less
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
POLITICS MUST REFORM

IF present tendencies continue, the whole
l. face of American politics likely is to be
changed almost beyond recognition.
This change is not simply a matter Of
new alignment of the two national parties.
It will be concerned, rather with the me-
chanics Of government. especially of local
government.
Our conception of the duty which an Office
holder owes to the public. as contrasted with
his duty to his party. may at last be brought
up to date.
You can get an understanding Of what
the change may be Like By considering 3
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
WHICH OF THESE
DEFEATS NATURE?
BY Hiram Lackey

BY Hiram Lackey
In last Tuesdays issue Of The
Times we learned that scientific ex-
perimentS in London give promise"
of future success in predetermining
the sex of babies. What would be
the influence Of such powerful
knowledge if it were used merely to
crafty the whimS of parents who
have preference for sex? In this
matter can We not best trust to the
wisdom Of Mother Nature backed
by her aeons of experience?
With scientific birth control
knowledge, these foreign expert
ments remind us of how much
quicker scientific men supply us
with power than are religious lead
ers able to convince us of it's proper
use. Religious leaders helpfully
could pioneer the march of science
if they would but apply to their eff
forts the urge which makes for the
scientists success. His power is de-
rived from his uncompromising love
for and loyalty to the truth.
Wherever truth leads, he follows.
But the clergy contends that stub
born scientific facts and stern truths
inf1ict torture upon the sacred
things. OF course justice demands
the admission of many shining ex-
ceptions. However, many members
Of the clergy have found it easier
to fight science than to accept and
apply the righteousness of its find
ingS.
The fanaticism of the clergy de-
feats its own purpose by arousing
opposing influences equally extrava-
CANT. Consider! Which group will
have the most for which to answer:
The fanatics who are largely re-
sponsible for the evils of delayed
marriages, or those who are respon-
sible for the evils of our low birth
rate? Which class has most tragic
ally defeated nature?
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and the motoriSt would be that
much better off financially.
Within a very few weeks time
after this announcement the oil
companies raised the price of gaso-
line from l to cents a gallon and
once more the motorist dug a little
deeper.
Let's keep our state and federal
gas taxes and reduce the annual
license and registration fee to just
enough to cover administrative ex-
pense. This would mean a real
saving to the motorist. Some of
this money could be diverted to the
state general fund and give a larger
exemption to the man with family
on his state income tax.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
WORK OF DR.. GOUTHEY,
MR.. GABLE LAUDED.
BY Mrs. Vallie Ridpath

By Mrs. Vallie Ridpath
AS I am a daily reader Of The
Times and faithful attendant at
Cadle tabernacle, have been hear
ing the way DR.. Gouthey has been
praising your paper for the wonder
full work you have been doing by
publishing the great writings of
Dickens.
I think it would pay you to have
reporter right by his side and put
some of his good sermons in there
by Dickens writings. The people of
indianapolis do not know how news
papers feel about a thing like this.
I think it would pay us all to get
lined up with DR.. Gouthey and
Brother Cadle and help to bring
America back to Christ.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
ARGUES CHRISTIANS FOLLOW
TEACHINGS OF GOD

BY A. S. w.
We find many ideas given by
leaders of our nation to remove the
awful conditions of the present.
Some say the Republicans are
responsible. Others say it is the
result of Wilson's administration.
But I do not believe any of these
theories. 1 believe our worthy lead
ers have served in all good faith.
But the people of the world have
reached the climax. AL the afflic-
ton we have to bear we have
brought on ourselves. We have
come on a level with ancient Israel.
No history can show so much sin in
this world as at the present time.
There is only one way to elimi-
nate this, and that is for this nation
to repent, set an hour for prayer
and every soul turn to God and ask
Him for deliverance, and the victory
is sure.
God has not forsaken us, but we
have forsaken him. We never saw
the U. S. A. as wicked as at the
present time. If we received what
we deserve in our unwortniness, I
fear we would endure more hard
times than we do. But it is Gods
mercy, not for our worthiness, but
because He promised Father Noah
to send rain on the unjust as well
as the just.
And now, to come to the point:
When church members become
Christians, cease their drinking
parties. card parties, shows, festi-
walls in the Lords house, cease to
make the Lords house a house of
merchandise, and clean up, so we
can tell them from saloon buns and
bootleggers, I'm sure God will give
us victory, in the name of His dear
Son.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
Postal Cuts Are Scored

The postoff1ce department always
has been run to give public serv-
ice. Postage rates are higher, but
service is poorer. There is plenty
of work for the substitute carriers
if the department would do the
public right by giving them the
service that they expect and pay
for.
It's a mighty poor time for the
poStoffice department to enforce
an unjust economy on the lowliest
of its employees, the substitute en-
ploye.
People have a right to two-trip
service and four-trip business
service and should demand it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-24
ReincarnatiOn
BY HAROLD FRENCH


Two blasphemous notes have framed
a splendor;
A sodden leaf and hay wood smoke.
A doubt has left the landscape in
terror,
While myriad sun-streaks nnger,
heSitant.
I am picking peoples and fiinging
them to death
In fcrlorn driftS-the world is I'M
steady,
And If I will pick two peoples more
Or one, is uncertain. I have picked
Them before, but I can't recall how
many.
Ny hands are tinged with a scarlet
shame,
I'm wondering if the peoples I
picked
Before, and these are the sams.
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WHAT ARE THE ANSWERS
TO THESE QUESTIONS2

By State Republican, National Democrat
Will some one please point out
one thing that the state Democratic
party has done for the working
man, or any one else, for that
matter9 Also, what are the real rea-
sons for paying a state income tax,
especially that part making it nee
esSary to go to the trouble of filing
four times a year, and why should
beer cost double in this state as
against what it costs in neighbour
ing states?