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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16

IT'S high time We did something
Il about it, too. Our guns should
be hunted down and destroyed by
federal officials if need be, because
in this respect the people must be
protected against themselves.
It should be possible to keep a
check Of the. weapons manufac-
tured by our armament makers.
1t should be possible to make a
feeble attempt to prevent snug
Cling and sale Of weapons in the
country. When such an attempt
is begun it will be easier to appre-
hend the criminal, because posses
sion Of a gun would mark a man
as one.
The first step toward becoming
a murderer is to carry gun.
Swift, sure, easy death is possible
with the touch of a finger.
And all the arguments in favor
of the decent citizen armine him
self as a protection against the
bandit are, I think, petered out.
With all our arsenals at hand We
never have managed to do it. A
gun in the hands of any citizen
except an officer should mark him
with the brand of Cain. We never
shall be able to disarm the ban
dts until We disarm ourselves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
COURTESY WILL HELP

IT is interesting to read that immigration
officials have been ordered by Washington
to be more courteous and pleasant to immi-
grants who arrive at ports of entry into the
United States
In the past, the American immigration
service has not been exactly famous for its
smooth-voiced and smiling courtesy and
neither for that matter, has the immigration
service of any other nation. And it's point
well worth correcting.
The new arrival in any country forms his
first conception of the new land by his first
contact with it's officials If they are hard
boiled and unsympathetic, he's apt to get an
unfavorable conception, and it may stick with
him long time.
Courtesy doesn't cost anything, and it can
pay substantial dividends in the form Of good
will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
A Woman's Viewpoint
By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IF the government Of the United
i States can call in all the gold,
why can't it also call in all the
guns?
The Display of firearms found
in the New York City prison, the
story of which has scandaliZed the
country, is perhaps the most rep
rehensible of the many reprehen-
sible phases of that affair.
America is knee deep in guns
hence she is nee-deep in crime.
deadly weapons repose and can be
bought IN every dirty little pawn
shop in the land. They lie con-
cealed beneath the lovely lingerie
of lax ladies and within the desk
drawers of captains Of finance and
industry.
They are on the shelves, along.
side the potato masher, in the
housewives kitchen and every
body from guttersnipe to gentle
man boasts a family arsenal. For
every weapon the policeman car
ries the ordinary citizen owns two
and the bandit half dozen. In
the possession of revolvers, at
least, there is no class distinction
with us. Rich and poor, high and
low, white, yellow and black, good,
bad and Indifferent, we are all
gun teterss
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
THE WAY THINGS GO

MAYBE it is because a man has held the
w center of the stage ever since Adam
blamed Eve for choosing the wrong apple for
that first unfortunate breakfast.
Nobody really knows. of course.
But the world of men holds considerable
more interest for women than their lipstick
realm does for the butcher the baker, and
candle-stick maker.
The play begins at an early age. Miss
Marjorie Barrows. editor of Child Life. says
that there must be picture of boy on the
cover Of her magazine if she expects the sales
to mount. OF course. if there is room on the
sled or the handle-bars, girl may go along
If there isn't. then it's the maids day off
Statistics cleaned from news stands have
proved that the youngsters. mostly under IL,
who read the magazine want the masculine
influence.
For a girl will read boys books but boy is
scornful of girls books. Girls will play boys
games. too. Leap frog. marbles. baseball kite
flying. But when did you ever see a boy play
ing jacks. skipping rope. or sewing a hem in a
rag dolls dress?
No. They don't want to enter our world.
They have a nicer one of their own. And the
only way we can get into it is by being such
an interested audience that after while we
are given credit for enough intelligence to try
a game or two.
Men. when they discover that women are
capable of walking right down the main thor
oughfare. grow little fearful. No man wants
a woman who can ride faster than he can,
throw a ball farther than he can think
straighter than he can. And no woman. by
the same measuring stick. wants her strength
TO exceed that Of the man who has promised
to love her cherish her and sock in the jaw
any chance male who makes passes at herl
But women need a great deal of intelligence
to play the role For a man grows weary of
a woman who merely says yes" to every one
of his suggestions. He can buy photograph
record and get the right responses. He wants
intelligence. A pair of china blue eyes and
hair like fax may turn a February blizzard
into an April thaw but winter comes again
If the woman isn't intelligent. And intelligent
enough to keep the man from knowing that
his tOday's comment is something she thought
after breakfast yesterday.
AIargot Asquith countess Of Oxford and
Asquith. who has had ample opportunity to
observe the men Of the world. creates con-
siderable interest when she remarks in her
new book. More or Less About Myself" that
her life has been happier than that of any
woman she has known Because her hus-
band has never let his love for her usurp his
interest in their conversation
Lady oxford is 6rave She admits that
women prefer dialogues to monologues. And
she proves that men dontl For when man
did he made his wife jubilantly happy.
Since being a good audience is one of the
things asked Of US there is nothing to do but
be one But when We find a man who lets
us talk. too. We are likely to be so pleased
that we viii sit quietly and give him a bigger
hoorl
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FRIDAY. FEB. Is. 1884
DON'T BLOCK RECOVERY

THE President has moved with speed-and
Il with justice on his side-to scotch the
attempt of railroad arrangements to throw
monkey wrench into the recovery machinery.
Apparently utterly oblivious to the fact
that the national aim is to raise purchasing
power. the railroads have demanded another
pay cut from their employees.
AS soon as this word reached Washington
the White House announced that the Presi-
dent had written the management asking for
an extension. for at least another six months.
Of the present agreement whereby 10 per cent
is being deducted from the pay of railway
workers.
Under present conditions" Mr. Roosevelt
wrote the prosecution Of A bitter controversy
between the railroads and their employees over
wages would have most disturbing influence,
and I am further convinced that conditions
are not yet sufficiently stable to permit of a
wise determination of what wages should be
for the future
The railroads made their ridiculous de-
mand just as they are beginning to see
increased revenue: just as Joseph Eastman,
federal co-ordinator of transportation, has
announced he will recOmmend-in the inter-
est Of the carriers-changes in the labor pro-
visions Of the emergency railroad transport
tation act to ease them. They ask this
sacrifice from their employees while the fed
eral public works administration is lending
railroads about 5000 900 900 to build up their
plant and equipment to provide employment,
while the Reconstruction Finance Corpora
ton, another government agency, is preparing
to make even more railroad loans.
The railroads want and are getting help
from the government. Their demand for
another wage cut would indicate they do not
want to help recovery.
If they do they will heed President Roose-
velts request.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
NEEDLESS MARTYRS

N times like these. we ought to be willing to
u deprive ourselves OF new dresses, sweets
salad courses at meals-what not
You might be surprised to know how often
such sentiments as these are expressed among
women's gatherings To change the point of
view Of such martyrs" may seem hopeless
Yet not until a few days ago did We learn
that persons who talk ike this are suffering
not merely from economic MISUNDERSTANDING.
but also from mental disease which psychia-
trists say is akin to masochism-one suffering
from an abnormality which makes him enjoy
being hurt.
DR.. Alvan L. Barach, New York psychia-
trist says the new disease attacks men and
women who are attempting to satisfy their
consciences by tuning in on suffering they
know others are undergoing.
Thus. without considering the consequences
to others or to the economic social scheme,
men will do without automobiles, women will
deprive themselves of needed clothing refuse
to call up their friends because telephone calls
cost or 10 cents each. reduce the family ex-
penditures for food beyond all reason.
OF course reduced income makes re-
duced expenditures inevitable But it is those
who we're living within their means before the
depression and who now, with a IS or 80 per
cent reduction in income. have cut themselves
down to so or even rs per cent of their former
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
LAWYER OWES A DUTY

WHAT does it take to make good lawyer?
W Probably there are a lot of answers to
that question. Earle w. Evans of Wichita,
Kan. president of the American Bar Associa-
ton, supplies one version in a recent speech
before Harvard law school students
Here is the program he suggested for bud
ding lawyers:
Make speeches which show that you know
the law; go to church so that the best citi-
zens' will see you; take part in public affairs;
join the Chamber Of Commerce and a service
organization; get known as public-spirited
citizen; be man of strong convictions; en-
gage in bill collecting. as that's good way to
make contacts; join bar associations; get a
thorough knowledge of accounting, engineer
ing and chemistry"
AS a guide book for f1edgling attorneys.
this is probably very handy bit of advice
But to the laynan it is rather remarkable for
the things that it does not say.
The modern lawyer often gets in very
peculiar dilemma. His duty to his client, and
to himself, can cut directly across his duty to
society as a whole. He doesn't perform his
functions in vacuum but in highly COM
pick and delicately integrated society where
his deeds can have effects that he neither de-
sired nor foresaw.
The lawyer, for instance, who specalzes
in keeping gangsters out of Jail eventually
may through no wish of his own, fill role
which is actively anti-social.
The lawyer who advises great f1nanciers
how to evade income tax payments and side
step government regulations designed to con-
troll the activities of high finance can become
a man who does society much more harm
than good.
The lawyer who shows stock speculator
how he can get around the rules which cover
stock exchange activities can become some
thing little better than parasite on society.
This peculiar criss-crossing of the lawyers
public and private duties raise complex
problem which, so far, the legal profession
hardly has attempted to solve. Advice to
budding lawyers-so the laymen would sup
pose-might properly touch on it little.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
Against the HdyShdkerS

constant plaintive note about the
low price of cream.
The wailing landowner who
oftentines becomes embattled up
on provocation, or persuasion, is
the same man who paid his labor
Is cents a day last year, even
though corn and wheat had dou-
bled in price.
I am against more handouts to
The farmer. Look how wheat pro-
duction has jumped, despite the
governments effort to restrict. A
few farmers sign up-the rest at
tend the meeting, and hurry home
to put out more wheat. The stu
alton reminds me of the little
state Of Delaware. In 1917 straw
berries brought SIS a crate; ten
years later, after all the hay
shakers rushed to plant straw
berries, the price was 80 cents a
crate.
If the farmer won't help him.
self, I am in favor of legislation
forcing on him the curtailment of
his acreage. Or, better still, let
him try the basket plan for a
while, like millions of his city
brethren.
Then, perhaps, he will put his
shoulder to the pillow and his face
to the sun, instead of wondering
what is happening on Main
street, or watching the mail for
the latest shakedown check from
Washington.
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I aohoUy djSapprove of 10hat you sag and 1OiU
defend to the death your right to sag it-VOItaire.

son we have so much crime. Then
he says, Il have walked the streets
of Indianapolis two weeks hunting
work"
wish to say to this young man
that 1 was once a young man, and
now 1 am four years older than the
President of the United States-our
birthdays coming on the same day,
and 1 never have seen the poor for
saken or the righteous begging bread.
I have reared two boys of my own
and stepSOn and one daughter. 1
never knew either one of them to
walk the streets looking for work.
taught them that the city had street
cleaners and would call them when
they were needed.
The. trouble with many young
men is that they walk the streets
looking for some one TO give them
something - they come in contact
with some of those ignorant Com
munistS who forever are walking
the streets Spewing out their ignor-
ance to young men His letter Just
sounds like some of their spew.
1 want to tell Mr.. w. H. H. of my
stepson. He finished Washington
high school in 1929, worked for a
farmer thirty-five miles from the
city, worked for room and board
and 81 day. On June 20, 1881, he
had saved up enough money to buy
car and get married. In January,
1882, he got a job overseeing a stock
farm, and, at present, is making a
good living and saving some money.
He took a chance, and did not walk
the streets, begging some one to
give him something. and listening
to dirty, rotten Communism.
1 am making living. I live in
the CITY, do not work at my trade.
which is carpentering, but I find
something to do, and support a,
wife. I am Sc. Young man, will
you let a man Of Sc put it over on
you that way?
So be good sport. Apologize
for your writing in the Message
Center Quit walking the streets.
Get busy and support yourself. Be
a man, and you never will become
a criminal.
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BY a Main. Street Observer.

BY Main. Street Observer.
I agree with Westbrook Pegler
that the honest hayShaker is TAX
ing Uncle Sam to the cleaners. I
live in a country town thirty miles
south Of Indianapolis-it is typi-
cally Main street. The reactions
are easily a cross section of rural
human life anywhere in the coun-
try.
The children of Israel, lost for
forty years in the wilderness,
could not have walled more plain
lively than the hard-pressed farm
er of today. I meet dozens of
farmers each week, and it is rare,
indeed, to find one that is opti-
n1iStic.
This morning I said to one, II
suppose you feel better, now that
hogs have advanced" His reply
was no surprise to met was
the stock answer they all give:
We'll, the price won't help when
haven't any to SELL sold mine
when they were cheap"
A short time ago when eggs
were going up 1 queried a farmers
wife:
Il am glad to see you are get
ting more for your eggs now"
Her reply was not unexpected
''The price doesn't help me any,
my hens aren't laying"
Yet one of our grocers tells me
that oleomargerine is his best
seller to the farmers, despite the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
ANOTHER PROGRESS EMPLOYE
ANSWERS LETTER CHARGES

BY Esther Staley.
Mr.. and Mrs. True American, as
you call yourself, if you are so sure
of your assertions why don't you lay
your cards on the table and sign
your name?
You haven't any use for a COM
pany union. Well, what do you
know about this one you speak Of?
1t was voted in by standing vote
after a motion had been made and
seconded. and representatives elected
by secret ballot. Now, who rail-
roaded anything?
From your viewpoint, the Progress
Laundry employees are a bunch Of
dumbbells and fools. From my view
point they are sensible and CO.
operative, each one of whom wants
to beat the depression and bring
back prosperity.
Why dig up the war because Mr..
Baum was of German birth. He is
an honest, plain-spoken man, who
has made the problems of employees
and employer a life study, and has
at last found a fair and square
way to solve them.
A true American will give the
new deal a fair trial and cooperate
with the employers who are living
up to the NRA as the Progress
Laundry is now doing and will con-
tinue to do, regardless of such CEN
sorship as you offer. If you knew
your statements to be facts, the
labor board should have gotten your
story. I've been employed by the
Progress seven years, and your
statements were news to me. 1 al
ways have received the best of
treatment and I highly respect my
employers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
OUR LIBERTIES

A MERICA is losing too many civil liberties
L and not knowing it.
AT no time" says the annual report Of
the American Civil Liberties union, has there
been such widespread violation Of the workers
rights by injunctions, troops. private police,
deputy sheriffs. labor spies and vigilantes."
More than fifteen strikers have been killed,
200 injured and hundreds arrested since last
July. Forty injunctions have been issued
against labor leaders. The national labor
hoard has lacked the viii or the power to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
BE HONEST WITH
YOURSELF, IS WARNING
Rr An interested Reader.

By An Interested Reader.
Here's my answer to Whats the
sense of being honest?" You say
! that you know instinctively and
from experience that the transgres-
sor gets it in the neck if he is
caught. Have you stopped to think
where he gets it if he isn't Caught?
MY answer to Whats the sense Of
being honest?" is playing square
with ourselves"
When you lie or deceive others, or
pull crooked deals, you may hurt
them for the time being, but un-
consciously you build an invisible
wall around yourself. Each time
you do a crooked deed you build
the wall higher. People still like
and respect you You have many
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
HERE'S SOLUTION TO
SCENT BEER QUERY.

BY Eugene L.
How can the public get scent
glass of beer? The answer is this:
If the government reduces the tax
on beer, i. g. 81 for the govern
ment and 81 for the state. This
would cause many more empty
barrels, and more money due to a
larger volume Of beer being drunk.
There also should be Standard
size bottles and glasses for the
benefit Of every one.
Wine should come under the
same tax as beer in proportion to
the tax as it now is.
Government salesrooms should
handle the whisky, and il a res
taurant owner wished to sell it he
should buy it direct from one Of
the government stores, and be I'M
der its supervision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
Betrayal

BY A. JEWELL
Fragments Of a crystal, broken,
Echo Of a last word spoken;
Remnant Of a dying song
Faded roses kept too long,
Intrigue Of heayy-lidded eyes.
Tangled web of faltering lies,
Anguish Of a bartered soul
Heartbreak for a paltry dole.
Writhe in lone futility-
Chaos, not tranquility
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
HERE APE SOME VIEWS
ON OUR RADICALS.
BY Orie J. Simmons.

BY Orie J. Simmons.
Well, I know that it took Poe a
year to write THE Bells" But !
wish genius were not so slow. ]
want Pegler to write another as
good as the account of the child
labor massacre.
When a piece gets so good it
makes a radical columnist admit he
has no sense of humor, it must be
downright good. Although the re-
suits on the radical must have been
just a fareup. nothing permanent
Radicals are not like that.
Peglers' bit of fiction was equal
to Gulliver's Travels, better, in fact,
because shorter. Still and all, Peg
Ter would improve if he wrote 500
words. No columnist can write LOCO
words a day Of course, Haywood
Broun does fine on 1000 words a
Gay. He writes 500 words on each
Of two subjects. AS completely
inane radicals go, Broun is pretty
good. CULVER would have called
him a Yahoo.
Editors Note: But it didn't
take Poe a year to write THE
Bells" It was written in one
afternoon and evening in the
home of Mrs. Elizabeth Graham,
Germantown, Pa
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friends. but you soon lose interest
in this or that person and seek new
friends. maybe finding fault every
where, while the fault is within
yourself. Life seems empty and you
never are satisfied. You can't smash
down that wall unless you undo
each crooked deed that built it so
high. This you may find a very
hard task. So why not play square
with O11rSa1vee2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
EMPLOYE IS LOYAL
TO PROGRESS LAUNDRY

By An Employe for Four Years.
Don't bite the hand that has fed
you all through the depression.
have been a reader of The Times
ever since it has been The Times.
In behalf of the Prograss Launry:
I have been employed at the Prog
reSs Laundry for four years. and I
always have found them fair with
their employees. When they were
making good money, so were their
employees, and I think each employee
that is there today should be will
ing and ready to stand up for their
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16

employers and not want secret
vote. Let all of indianapolis know
you are for the company that has
given you employment for so long
and has been able to keep their
doors open.
We have heard so much slave talk
about the laundries, but we have
none in the Progress Laundry. We
all do our part and are willing to
get our work out on time. The
Progress doors always are open, and
every one is welcome. Words never
can express my praise for the Prog
reSS Laundry.
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ANSWER TO A YOUNG
MAN OUT OF WORK

By H. Hurd.
1 see in your Message Center a
young man writes about the Difficult
ties Of single men, and signs his
name w. H. H. He says young men
have not chance in the world. He
says he must have experience, and
how in the world can person have
experience unless he has chance2
Then, he adds, This is the very rea-
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

standard Of living. who may truly be said to
be mentally awry.
After the doctors analysis, it viii be a
brave person who will criticise a neighbours
expenditures for needed new cars equipment,
clothing, electric appliances, when so many
people have nothing to eat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-16
Daily Thought

Use hospitality one to another
without grudging-Peter, 40.
I IKE many other virtues, hospi-
IL tally Is practiced in its perfec-
ton by the poor. If the rich did
their share, how would the woes
Of the world be lightened.-Mrs.
Kirkland
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Now if General johnson had handled the
matter, he'd have had Mr.. MacCracken
crackin.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are mv!ted to cypress
their Uietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 toords or IPss.J
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