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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
HOW PEOPLE FEEL

WHEN strike boils over into pitched
W warfare of the kind seen recently in
Minneapolis and Toledo, it ceases to be an
industrial dispute and comes perilously close
to being class war.
The violence Of the current strikes, there
fore, gives them significance far more
weighty than that usually involved in an argu-
ment between workers and employers.
1t is futile, that is, to try to understand
these troubles simply by looking at the specific
things the strikers are demanding and the
specific things which the employers are willing
to give them.
Fighting as bad as that which has been
seen in these two cities has deeper reason
than any mere disagreement about hours and
wages
Something is on the workers mnds-some-
thing that makes them angry and reckless
enough to risk policemens clubs tear gas, and
national guardsmen's bullets.
No matter how much we may deplore the
results, we should be very foolish if We did not
try hard to find out just what it is that is
wrong.
1t is probable that basically the trouble
comes from deep discomfort with the way
the recovery program is working out
We are just emerging from period of ex-
IRENE hardship for the working man. All of
us have suffered during the depression, but
hardly any of us had quite such thin time
of it as the wage Garner
1t has left him with what YOU might call
psychic scar that will be long time healing.
Now, bearing that scar, the worker makes
ready for the new deal and finds that in manv
cases it is being played with the same old
cards, in the same old way Fine words about
human rights have been said at Washington.
but they haven't been put into effect.
There are still employers who look back to
Homestead for lessons in the way to handle
labor troubles. And washington still postpones
the job of formulating definite and clear-cut
labor policy
All this, of course, does not excuse the
violence which breaks out in places like Toledo
and Minneapolis. 1t doesn't bring dead men
back to life, or make it right to toss bricks at
policemen and troopers
But it does help us to understand whv men
feel as they do feel. And it is vital that we
get such understandings
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STANDARD OF LIVING

1T is exceedingly interesting to notice that
L New York authorities have adopted new
definition of what it is to be INDECENT.
According to DR.. S. S. Goldwater hospital
commissioner, who has just drawn up new
rules limiting free hospital treatment to those
who are unable to pay. A man and his wife
who have to live on an income of less than
$40 week are officially INDECENT and need not
pay for hospital services.
If they have child, the limit is $25 a
week; if they have two children, it is $50
week-and so on.
Here is something that makes one stop and
think. To be sure, these rules are geared to
New York's metropolitan area, where living
expenses are higher than in many other
places.
Nevertheless, considering the number of
men who are employed-and glad to be en-
poyed-at $40 week or less, it is evident
that our boosted standard of living may not
be quite as high as we have thought.
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THURSDAY. MAY 81. 1884.
THE STEEL CODE
4 SCRIPPS-HOWAR NEWSPAPER)

TN an industry as large and complicated as
l. steel it is not easy even for the experts to
draft workable code. Certainly the old code
had been the butt of brickbats from all'sideS.
The new code agreed to by the industry, and
signed yesterday by the President, purports to
meet those past criticisms. In many respects
it does just that. For this the industry de-
serves much credit.
On two of the major points at least the
new code seems to be inadequate. 1t modifies
the multiple basing- point system of price
fixing. But complete revision of this sec
ton is postponed for another six months
pending study and report by NRA and the
federal trade commission. The public had
reason to suppose that the elaborate studies
already made by these two governmental
agencies would be sufficient
But the most serious defect of the revised
code is its failure to provide effective guar
antees by the industry itself for the collective
bargaining rights of the workers set forth in
the recovery law.
With a general steel strike already an
nounced for next month, this is no academic
matter And with the recent failure of the
government to win its Weirton steel injunc-
ton suit which will drag out the legal battle
for many months, the code Qualification on
this point is all the more important.
Fortunately, in his executive order yester-
day the President gave personal assurance
that he will undertake promptly to provide,
as occasions demand, for the election by en-
ployes in each industrial unit of representa-
tives of their own choosing for the purpose of
collective bargaining and other mutual aid
and protection under the supervision of an
appropriate governmental agency" But the
President needs for this enforcement the in
creased power which could be given by en-
actment of revised Wagner labor disputes
law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
USE FOR SCIENCE

, ME job of the scientist, says Secretary of
Agriculture Henry Wallace in a recent
Scientific American, is not finished when he
has handed the world new discovery. He
ought to be prepared to insist that his dis
covery be used to benefit mankind
The secretarys remark is not a new COM
plant, but since it is one that has been con-
sistently ignored for many decades, it is
worth while to stop and have another look
at it.
Instead of complacent after-dinner
speeches in sweeping defense of science"
says Mr.. Wallace, 81 should like to find our
more articulate scientists insisting that the
benefactionS of science be used only in ways
that are plainly in the general welfare
ut would be encouraging to find, among
scientists everywhere, some evidence of honest
indignation at the way the gifts of science
have been turned against society and therefore
against science itself"
1t takes only very little thought to reveal
what the secretary is talking about.
Brilliant men, for example, discover the
secret of fight and enable men to soar
through the air like birds; and so far the
chief result has been to make war infinitely
more horrible and to include women and
children on its casualty lists.
Other brilliant men devise ways of en-
abling man to increase immeasurably his
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capacity to produce useful things. AS re-
suit, a few men get very rich, while great
depression sweeps down on the land and mil
lions of men are unable to get jobs of any
description.
Still other brilliant men make it possible
for voices and music to be sent hundreds of
miles through the air; and we get, accord
ingly, mass of trivialities, banalities, and
stupidities thrown at our firesdes every night
in a volume to make the angels weep.
You could cite many more examples, but
these are enough to show that the secretary
was quite justified in making his protest.
We have today enough marvellous inven-
lions to turn the earth into fruitful and
idyllic garden spot. If we ever learn how to
use them sensibly we can do exactly that.
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10hoUy disapprove of what yom sag and 10iu
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItaire.

I is Christmas and the last Easter.
Now the curtain has fallen on the
last act and the show is over We
shall now continue to rob and starve
our fellow men, or resort to any
thing whereby we can profit in
dollars and cents, but, of course, we
never will don our Christian masks
and costumes and attend rehearsal
each Sunday until opening of the
show, Dec. 25.
Why do people have to be so de-
ceitful? A company advertises its
new equipment in the light of pub
lie consideration only. Each street
car means a conductor laid off, as
each modern car is a one-man car.
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Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABELL-

nANISH pastry-noted for its excellence from
- Copenhagen to the Virgin iSlands-Won a
big battle in Washington
Speaker Rainey, his loosely -knotted artistic
tie flowing freely, went to a party given by
Minister Otto Wadsted of Denmark for the
Danish minister of public work, Mr.. Frii-Skotte.
The first thing he glimpsed was big table
laden with delicious Danish pastry, surrounded
by crowd of guests, eagerly sampling it.
"Oh you must try this Danish pastry, Mr.
Speaker" called Representative Sol Bloom of
New York one of the samplers.
Sol knows good pastry when he sees it. He
handed tray to Rainey.
mo, thanks replied the Speaker shaking
his leonne white head Never take any pas
try-thanks!"
"You just try this" insisted SOL
Raney did. He gingerly accepted one brioche,
nibbled at it in disntereSted way, then swal-
lowed it.
Have another!" urged Sol.
Rainey ate another
PLENTY more here" mumbled Sol, his mouth
full.
To make long story short, Representative
Bloom fed Rainey every kind of pastry made by
a Danish baker, and he begged for more.
I'm sold on this kind Of food" exclaimed
the Speaker as he finally was edged away from
the table. "Ill always eat Danish pastry from
now on"
Danes best pastry :. world" agreed
Sol, between mouthfulS.
n
NTHILE Speaker Rainey and Representative
w Bloom rendered full honors to Copen-
hagen cookery, Mrs Rainey and Mrs. Sol Bloom
stood nearby and discussed scientific dieting.
can insect" said Mrs. Rainey (who has two
college degrees), will not eat spinach!"
mot eat Spinach!" said Mrs. Bloom, amazed.
Certainly not" said Mrs. Rainey.
THAT can't be So" laughed Mrs. Bloom at
eat spinach"
TALENTED Eddie Bowling, the Broadway
i actor and producer, dropped into town very
suddenly and went out to stag dinner given by
the Irish minister, Michael MacWhite.
A congressman at the dinner called up his
wife in Chicago.
Nov, DEAR" he concluded, I'm going to let
you say word to the Irish minister
He started to hand the phone to MacWhite,
but Eddie playfully seized it, and sang Mother
Machree" to very surprised lady in Chicago.
At the end of the song, he hung up.
What in the world will she think of the
Irish Minister wondered Michael MacWhite
THAT he has beautiful Irish tenor voice."
retorted playful Eddie.
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By o. Simmons.
Postmaster General Farley's
handling of letter carrier routes
practically without substitutes is
move in the right direction. I
have been a sub-letter carrier and
both a sub ana regular railway
postal clerk.
I resigned from each because I
did not care for the work. Yet I
consider letter carrying as about
the incest job extant for the man
who has little imagination, no
gambling instinct and just enough
ambition to want a steady in
come.
Private business, with some ex-
ceptions, does not use the sub sys-
tenn, or the extra list" method,
which method is utterly unfair to
the sub. In case of sickness,
llow-employes and the boss di-
vide the abSentee'S work.
This means hiring more regular
employees, which is better than
maintaining a starving crew of
extra men," If a letter route
becomes vacant, the foreman of
carriers is the logical man tofcarry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
LUDLOW'S SERVICES
TO PUBLIC LAUDED

BY Fred T. LOftin.
The vote, 17S to s, in the house of
representatives on May % on the
Ludlow bill directing the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation to
loan $40, 100000 to smaller in
dustries indicates the kind of 'go-
getter" our representative in con-
gress is. This act will enable smaller
industries to compete with the big
fellows by extending credits which
only their competitors are now able
to obtain.
originated at a meeting of some Of
the smaller Indianapolis man
ufacturerS. The Indiana Manu-
facturerS Association and the State
Chamber of Commerce and several
civic organization of indianapolis
gave valuable aid.
Operation of this act will put
millions of men back to work. In
doing this, will they continue to dis
criminate against experienced men
only because they have reached
middle age, by hiring only noviceS?
Some of them say the insurance
companies compel this.
This discarding of elderly men
affords a reason for the homestead
plan. If only the younger members
of a family are allowed to work in
the mills, the older ones could help
by tiling the ground. Relief money
could be saved.
The writer called Mr.. Ludlow's at
tention to the house shortage in
Newcastle and Connersville. Within
a few days he had representatives
of the homestead bureau Investigate
ing in those cities.
Mr.. Ludlow has been performing
many services for Indiana people
outside as we'll as in his district. 1t
is said no member of congress works
harder than he.
From having done newspaper work
in all parts of the state, he knows
the wants and interests Of the
people.
Regardless of the political affilia-
lions of applicants, he serves
promptly and courteously. In adj
dition to holding the Democratic
strength, he would draw large Re
publican vote.
The outcome of the fall election
will be very doubtful. The delegates
to the Democratic state convention
naturally will want a Democrat to
serve as the colleague of Senator
Van Mugs. Why not pick the man
who can be elected?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
FaVors Closing Downtown Postofice

the mail until a new man can be
found and trained. For short
emergencies, the announced meth
cd of dividing the work among adj
jacent routes is good.
In residence sections, any mail
so important it can not wait I'M
til tomorrow, should have a spe-
cial delivery stamp.
1t is unfair for circular mail
and not in much hurry CORE
spondence to carry all the ex-
pense of rush delivery many times
a day.
AS another move, letter routes
should be motorized and decen-
tralized, and parcel delivery as a
separate service discontinued. Let
each carrier motor route have, in
a suitable postal truck, two or
more carriers who distribute mail
on foot as the truck is parked
from time to time.
Each carrier motor route would
exchange mail directly with trains
and with other routes. Move the
general delivery window to the
Union station and abolish the
downtown postoffice.
Debate invited.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
KENTUCKIAN REPLIES
TO STUPIDITY CHARGE
By a Kentuckian.

BY Kentuckian.
If the writer of the article on
Kentucky ignorance will overlook
the stupidity of this writer, who,
incidentally, is just another Ken
tuckian, 1 will endeavor to show
that it was the working of mind
that prompted such an assertion as
he made.
He is Of the type universally
known as a calamity bowler, one
who lacks the insight to see that
his failure to accomplish his aims
is due altogether to his failure to
take the initiative.
If he is such a smart man, why,
may I ask, does he wall about be-
ing unable to earn no more than
$18 week? Surely there must be
a demand for such a person who
can openly refer to thousands of
others as ignorant.
I can readily understand why you
don't care for Kentuckians. You
answered that when you said you
at one time lived among them, for
a real Kentuckian has no feeling
Of friendship for such a person as
you have shown yourself to be and
they no douht told you so.
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So They Say

You can wait patiently for ma
tional recovery to restore normal
activity in almost every other field,
but you dare not permit millions OF
school children to grow up either
mentally or physically starved.
Childhood can not wait-Joseph
Miller Jr., New York educator.
For years now city consumers
have bought farm products at low
prices only by being subsidized by
the farmers. This is not good busi-
ness, even for the conSumer.-Dr.
Rexford G. Tugwell.
Real improvement comes not from
the growth of state power, but from
growth of education and develop
ment of individual character among
the people.-Samuel Sesbury, ia
nous New York investigator.
This price system has been Won
derful racket as .ong as it was on
the up and up. A racket remains a
racket as long as you have the pay
off. And when the payoff stops. you
have a national washout.-Howard
Scott, technocrat.
1t is a sad commentary on our
government that the President in
an acute crisis had to turn to a
brain trust" composed of college
professors outside the service.-Dr.
Harold w. Dodds, president of
Princeton university.
There really is painless dentistry
today. The trouble with adults is
they had some bitter experience
when they we're youngsters and they
can't forget.-Dr. Arthur C. Wherry,
president of the American Dental
Association.
1t is Scant satisfaction to the
mothers of today to be remembered
by the gesture of flower on Moth
er'S day, but to be forgotten, and
ignored in their travail,-Dr. How
ard w. Haggard, Yale medical au-
thority.
The Specter of Lawrence of Ara
bia has haunted and followed me
relentlessly for fifteen years and
made me pariah in the nations of
the world. - T. E. Lawrence, now
Shaw of the British
army.
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SUGGESTS TWO
TRAFFIC CHANGES
By Leo ]. LandwerIen.

By Leo ]. Landwerlen.
I enjoy reading the Message
Center as it enables the public to
express views and convictions. Your
paper has been of great service to
the people of indianapolis in expos
ing the evils that have come upon
the people.
The sad accident that happened
Saturday, April IA, on Shelby street
when a child years old was injured
fatally, is to my mind case of
carelessness on the part of the street
car company. 1 have noticed signs
on the back of street cars to drive
safely and protect children, but it
seems the company does not prac-
tice what it breaches.
I think the city should pass an
ordinance whereby it would be I'M
lawful for one street car to pass
another at an intersection when
either one is discharging or taking
On passengers.
I have noticed time and again
that passengers get off of a street
car and walk around the back end
of the car without looking to see
whether there is another coming
from the opposite direction.
don't think time is such an
object that the street car company
can not afford to take this little
precaItion and thereby save lives
and lot of misery.
Another evil I have noticed is that
cruising police cars travel about ten
to fifteen miles an hour down the
center of street and sometimes in
heavy traffic one is forced to follow
the cars for blocks before being able
to pass. I think they should have
little respect for other persons
driving who pay taxes and license
fees to use the streets without inter-
ference of this kind.
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GABLE TABERNACLE
DECLARED ASSET
BY a Girl.

BY Girl.
After reading Mr.. Martins re-
marks on the Cadle Tabernacle I
came to the conclusion this was a
man of kind I had never met.
don't know what Mr.. Martins oc-
cupation is, but have an idea he
is pastor of one of our modern
downtown churches, or he is man.
ager of some night club and IS all
excited because some of his patrons
are beginning to see the permanent
value of Cadle Tabernacle.
I do not know how Mr.. Cadle
meets the expenses of this large in
stitution; neither do I know what
the expense has been in the past.
But I do know that whatever the
price has been, the unusual gospel
truths that have been uttered by
DR.. Gouthey from the tabernacle
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VOTERS LEAGUE
ACTION PRAISED

By A. NJ
We men voters must hand it to
the women's voters league of our
city for keen foresight in not want
ing, as it were, to buy pigs in a po-
litical poke.
This league set dates for groups
of all candidates of both parties to
speak before that leagues commit
tee on efficiency in government.
Is not this new move politically,
never dreamed of by men, entirely
consistent with the eternal fitness of
things? Who said "the female of the
species is more deadly than the
male?" No, she acts more carefully
and more intelligently as dealer,
trader and shopper, and her varied
sad experiences with male mistakes
makes her want to be shown, to get
an eyeful of whatever she buys
either in cash or in confidence.
Men can not read men, but wom-
en- can read men as an open book.
So we congratulate this league for
having started something valuable
in public life, something overlooked
by careless men.
CareleSSneSS in wedding out I'M
worthy public Office aSpirants, even
in a democracy, has cost the nation
untold millions.
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OBSESSION
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICH
I have queer aversion
For certain pleasant street.
1t wanderS past a garden
With beds placed quaint and neat.
But bordering the sidewalk
Is a grapevine, musty dark:
Twisting round some rotting posts,
With small worms in their bark.
The vines are old and leathery-
Twinirg headless snakes.
Shining silver patterns CLEAN
In the web the spider makes.
One day my terror caught me
When I saw lean gray mouse
Go noiselessly through the grape.
vine.
It was his sinister house.
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platform have more than paid for
all the cost.
I doubt if this city ever has had
so many deep spiritual messages, so
plainly and boldly stated as by DR..
Gouthey.
If the entire city would forget de-
nominationalism for one evening
and attend one of these services be-
fore the closing service, I have no
doubt but what the public would
be convinced that we seldom have
the privilege Of having as our guest
such a man as DR.. Gouthey.
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y
MAKE BELIEVE PLAY
ON EARTH'S STAGE
RH a Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
Another act has been dramatized
in the great play, Make Believe"
staged in the theater Earth. We,
the people, all are actors, pretend
ing to be Christians and following
in the footsteps of Christ.
Our play is in two acts. The first
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31
A STUPIDITY OUTLAWED

ME President has declared an embargo on
- the exporting of American munitions to
Bolivia and Paraguay
Other Notwithstanding countries have
done the same.
So here is one war on whose stupidity the
whole world, aside from the belligerents, is
agreed. 1t is not, of course, the first stupid
war and it probably will not be the last. But
1t Is an encouraging sign when such unanin1ity
OF disapproval is shown even about other
peoples wars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31

In sixty-four years, the world won't have
enough iron to meet its needs, says a Ger
man chemist. But chemicals are fast replace
ing cannon already.
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book giving the full names of all the
initiated federal bureaus is titled the Manual
of Emergency Recovery Agencies and Facilities
land now another book will have to explain
the MERAF
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-31

AL Smith is heading commission to draw
up new charter for New York. Tammany
doesn't mind so long as it can handle the
elections.
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New York judge banked $166OOO in four
years, on a salary of $4,000 year. There's
the result of saving little out Of the weekly
pay envelope.
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Postofice officials point out that an avia-
ton executive made nearly $10,0oo,Ooo on a
1888 start-and chance to make good.
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The house passed the bank pay off" bill,
which was to be expected. Imagine con-
gresham turning down pay off,!
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Telephone directories, London court de-
crees, are works of hterature-except that the
plot is always the same.