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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
LOCALIZED LOTTERY

NEW YORK CITY'S effort to finance at
L least part Of her unemployment relief
burden by means OF gigantic lottery simply
emphasizes the way in which the pressure OF
this relief problem can cut across all lines Of
ordinary governmental procedure
The lottery is a game of chance which has
been held Illegal throughout the United States
for several decades. Federal authorizes Go not
allow data on lotteries TO be sent through the
mails; city police spend good deal Of their
time trying to sqUelCh the infinite variety Of
policy" and numbers games which flourish
everywhere.
All this is because the people of the country
generally have come to realize that a lottery
costs more than 1t is worth 1t encourages
the gambling habit and creates a steady drain
on the resources Of people whose means are
limited; furthermore. it Is not even. uniformly
a good thing for the lucky winners.
And yet this device. condemned by public
sentiment Tor years is now about to be adopted
by the largest city IN the country.
For New York faces no ordinary crisis.
Fully onc-fourth of all the city's inhabitants
are on city, state. or federal relief rolls. The
city needs s5OOOOOOO year to take care Of
them
Relief funds are gone. Right now the city
is taking money ear-marked for other pur-
poses to feed the hungry.
Pressure OF that kind can crumple almost
any opposition. can Overwhelm almost any
prejudice or habit Of mind. For the problem
is one that can not be lodged.
The jobleSS must be cared Tor; If YOU doubt
it. ponder for moment over the things that
could happen in a city like New York If more
than a million people, unemployed and fiat
broke. were suddenly told 10 shift for them
selves.
And the whole business is a warning for
the rest OF the country-one OF those fre-bells
in the night that Thomas jefferson used to
talk about.
The unemployment problem has the bit in
its teeth. ana it may yet run away with Us.
We must get the jobleSs back TO work.
Let the problem continue to develop. and
we shall have a social tension which could
drive us in directions that seem utterly I'M
possible today
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

on a similar guarantee Of political democ-
racy.
In Maryland. which rejected the Four
teenth amendment. a federal district judge
ruled that the Frazier-Lemke bill violates the
due process Of law" guarantee whichs that
amendment put into the Constitution. The
case involves a farmers attempt to prevent
foreclosure. 1t is expected to reach the su-
preme court.
Judge Chestnut here-as other federal
judges have done before hin-ruled under
the due process" clause that the federal
government can not infringe a property con-
tract.
In its recent Minnesota mortgage mora
forum decision, the supreme court upheld
the state law in the face Of the Fifth amend
mcnts similar prohibition against state action
abridging contracts.
The Frazier-Lense act goes further than
the Minnesota law. 1. provides, under safe
guards 70 the creditor. for the farmer in dis
tress to hold his property for hve years, paying
rent. Il allows a slx-months breathing spell"
before payments start.
But Jucge Chestnut apparently has over
looked another federal power-one congress
has had since the Constitution was adopted.
This Is fuu and complete power to make
bankruptcy laws The Frazer-Lemke act
applies only to farmers adJudged insolvent.
The case has wide social implication. 1t
is an important test of the power Of federal
judges to nullify federal laws, which has
been mounting steadily since that httle-de-
bated due process" clause was put into the
Constitution. not by the founding fathers.
but by the northern reconstructIonlsts in 1868.
IL a different category IS the ruling by
Federal Judge Reeves at Kansas City. hold
ing that federal public works money can not
be loaned and granted to cities or states, be-
cause the federal government has no juris-
diction over purely interstate business such
as the electric plant involved
This is indeed novel law. In the first place.
no regulation" or jurisdiction" is involved
in a PWA loan. The city Of COncordia in
this case must operate its electric plant under
the laws OF Kansas.
Congress in enacting the National Indus
trial Recovery Act with its public works pro-
vision was acting for the nation, and con-
tention that federal funds can not cross state
lines Tor the relief Of a citys jobless workers
must fail Of its own weight. PWA officials
properly express little concern" over this
decision.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
WHAT Do THEY FACE?

IT is probably a sign Of returning prosperity
L that college and university enrollments have
risen this fall. For the first time since the
academic year 1929-3O. there are more young
people in higher institutions of learning than
there were in the preceding fall.
Increase IN the number of students whose
expenses are being paid by their parents is
an obvious reflection Of better times. Increase
in the number of students who are working
their way through college must, similarly, in
dictate that Jobs are more plentiful
But the whole picture sets one wondering.
What sort of world will face these youngsters
when they are graduated? VIII it be world
ready to use their youth and enthusiasm and
training world ready. in other words to
put them to work?
or VIII 1t be the kind Of a world young
graduates have faced in the last few years
one in which al kinds Of labor intellectual
or manual are a drug on the market?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
REAL HOPE HERE

VOHN r. WALLER, deputy federal housing
administrator. says that the United States
is about to embark or one Of the greatest
building programs IN its history.
Within two months, he says, the housing
administration VIII announce a rehnancing
program for small home owners reaching into
the largest city and the smallest village"
There is a shortage Of nearly 100000 homes;
100000 houses are in need of repair, 3,OOO,-
coo of them seriously SO.
All this outlines most attractive picture
There are few industries whose revival would
help the business and industrial setup as a
whole quite as much as the building industry.
Let's hope that Mr.. Walters forecast is
made good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
A CLEAN OF LIGHT

THE new American trade agreement with
l. Cuba apparently is working even better
than expected.
The first treaty to be negotiated under the
administrations reciprocal tariff law went into
effect Sept. 3. Now the state department an
nounces that during the first six actual work
ing days Of the month 1877 tons Of American
products arrived in Havana. This tonnage.
carried in twenty four American-owned ships
Is reported by the department as one Of the
highest on record and due almost entirely to
the favorable tariff changes on American
products included in the reciprocal trade
agreement"
These figures did not include large stocks
Of our merchandise in Cuban warehouses
ready for entry on Sept. g. They covered only
forty-fiye Of the 46S items on which the
Cubans gave Us trade concessions.
Cubans estimate that 100000 pounds of
American lard will be imported this month.
compared with total lard imports for 1888 Of
only 9S7S 900 pounds.
Here is a CLEAN Of light in what has been
8 dark vista. Our great export trade Of S..
OoOOOOOOO four years ago now has dwindled.
partly because Of the world tariff war pro-
voked by Us. to 81 5OOO0OOOO. Perhaps now
through the tedious method Of separate recip-
rocal trade agreements we may win back some
Of this lost wealth for our business men, farm
ers and labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

EEDERAL judges have Just ruled the public
works legislation and the Frazier-Lernke
farm bankruptcy bill unconstitutional. and a
third federal court has been asked TO invali-
date the powers Of the National Labor Rela-
tions Board 70 order euploye elections.
The administration IS not alarmed at this
legal barrage on the New Deal Several score
OF these suits have not vet made an appre-
ciable dent in its program
The suit field in Richmond. Va. to set
aside the labor boards order for an election
in the Ames Baldwin Wyoming Company's
plant attacks the boards power 10 set up
machinery for industrial democracy. This
power was specifically granted by congress
IN Resolution a last June. This was an emer-
gency act, and the supreme court has up
held emergency laws OF drastic nature.
As Senator Wagner has repeatedly said
this legislation IS primarily a safeguard Of
workers freedom 10 select their Own repre-
ssntatiyeS The whole Constitution is based
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
FAVORS MUZZLING
OF RADICALS

BY a Reader.
Orrie j. Simmons has taken upon
himself the job of defending the
Communists right to agitate work.
ers to the point Of rioting and muir
der, rebellion and civil war; and as
Communist agitation is directly re-
sponsible for the recent footing Of
stores and general anarchy in the
eastern strike zone, this implies
that Mr.. Simmons condoneS such
activities.
If Communists were laW-abiding
citizens this would sound reason
able, but as the Communist party
has declared war on all capitalist
governments, including the United
States; to uphold and defend its
right to carry on its dangerous &C
titles is giving aid and comfort to
our most deadly enemies.
Until Mr.. Simmons is better &C
Quainted with the aims and pur-
poses of Communism he had better
refrain from criticising Governors
and other responsible men who
have the intelligence to see the dan
ger ahead and are patriotic enough
to take proper action against the
nations enemies.
There is entirely too many per-
sons claiming to be Democrats, or
Republicans, who are willing to
fight to the death to help the Com
munists and Socialists overthrow
the American system of govern
ment. Therein lies the danger to
American institutions. Until we get
rid of this infantile notion that
every radical idea and doctrine
must have free right to contaminate
the minds of our children and the
more susceptible and supplemented
adults we are likely to have much
unnecessary bloodshed and turmoil.
The real statesman, the wise edt-
tor, the genuine American patriot,
whatever his station in life, Is not
going to waste any sympathy on
the enemies Of our established in
stitutions, or republican form of
government and our whole AIneri-
can way of living.
If the Constitution guarantees
freedom Of speech and press to
every reasonable organization in
this country we will be living under
the red flag of Socialism in less
than ten years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
NEW ORLEANS SITUATION
DECLARED TYPICAL
By Joe College.

By Joe College.
Kingfish Longs recent probe Of
vice and corruption in New Orleans
was interesting as political ma
newer. but it hardly provided any
unusual revelation Of police meth
DDS. The uninitiated may have
been shocked to learn Of petty
graft in connection with saloons
and vice dens, but the worthy citi-
zens Of New Orleans may console
their outraged conscience with the
knowledge that these conditions are
comparable 70 those existing in al
most every city.
Prostitution, for instance, is an
established business in every average
community, which the police could
hardly destroy, even If they wanted
to. The best they can do is to
maintain a semblance Of order.
The result is that the disordewly
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
Compiler Describes analytical Bible

Authorized Version was brought
forth.
I wonder if Mr.. Achley knows
that we have no original docu-
ments of the Bible; that they have
been lost for centuries. Does he
have the slightest idea how the
Bible has come down to us2 We
are perfectly safe in assuming that
he is wholly ignorant of these
things.
The Revised Version, now so
widely used. which is our best
translation as far as accuracy is
concerned, corrects a great many
mistaken translationS of the Au-
thorized Version. Does Mr.. Ach-
ley, whose name is not in the In
dianapoliS directory, understand
that the Revised Version has
changed the word of God, or has
more accurately given what is the
word of God? Does he really know
what is meant by the word of
God?
The New Analytical Bible has
in the text of the Authorized, i. E.,
King James Version, more than
$500 bracketed words which cor
rect that version, or state the
original more adequately. These
bracketed readings are the render
ings of the Revised Version.
1 would advise Mr.. Achley that
before holding himself up for
ridicuIe he spend a little time
ascertaining just what is the word
Of God, what is translation of
the Bible, and how translations
contain many errors for which the
word of God is not responsible
and that the Bible he is using is
one of those TRANSACTIONS, a fact
with which mary young boys in
Sunday school are familiar.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

HAND-TO-MOUTH RELIEF

ME mayors relief program. as outlined 10
President Roosevelt in Hyde Park. should
help clarity this whole problem so that Amer
lea can meet il with realism instead Of wlsh1ul
thinking.
The j0bless viii be with US in large num-
Ders during the approaching winter and for
several winters TO come. BY February. It is
estimated. the public viii have at least 20
100000 mouths TO feed. This huge burden can
be met decently only If its costs are distrib-
uted Justly
The executive committee Of the United
States conference Of mayors thinks the cities
and states should care for the unemployabie
jobless except veterans. The great body OF
able-to-Hcrk unemployed should be a burden
chiefly upon the federal government. This IN
general. seems to be a fair division AT least
We appear 70 have accepted it after three
years Of noundering
But such a partnership can not work un-
less the localiciues and the government CO.
operate to the limit.
Many states now are not shoulderlng their
share of the hunger load. Recently the gov
eminent has been footing the whole relief bill
for louisiana, Arkansas and South Carolina,
and the bulk of it for fifteen other states on
the other hand certain cities and counties of
Connecticut. Kansas. Maine. Massachusetts.
Ohio and Vermont have been bearing the en-
tire burden Of relief.
Federal Relief Administrator Hopkins SAYS
the states must raise slOOOO0O0O more in the
next six months than they are raising now.
Otherwise his funds VIII not last until April l.
He is convinced that many cities, counties and
states ARE putting up less money than they
should" In spending these localities also
should plug up the leaks Of politics. graft and
ineniciency The localities must raise more
money and spend it more wisely.
But the federal government owes it to the
localities to declare a national relief policy
pending adoption Of a long-range security pro-
gram. Last winter the government rushed in
at the last moment and set up its hit-or-miss
CWA Localities, now fixing their budgets
have a right to know how and TO what extent
the federal government proposes to meet this
winters heavy load. There has been too
much hand-tO-mouth relief
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
VETERAN OPPOSED
TO ROBINSON


Lii Arthur is trying to hold his
seating space, but I am fraid he is
not going to make it. 1 haven't
much faith in those who would
send him back. I am a veteran and
not a Republican, but as for me and
my house, he gets the limit. No
more Democratic promising sena-
tors for me; voted for Van Nuys
and We now have all the Eyes men"
we need as I find him good at
drawing his breath and his salary.
Sure, Lii Arthur used to be a
K. K. K. So did my dad and mother
and many of my friends. Yes, he
voted for the alphabetical soup.
That sounded good to me too at
first, but all the good that turned
out Of it, was a prediction of 49,
600 900 on relief this winter while
scabs are protected against strikers
who want more than IS or $40 a
week to live on until they are res
cued by the old age pension law.
High profits from high prices and
low wages-industry is moving on.
We are al for this great admins
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

tration just as long as it follows IN
the footsteps of the old order or
so per cent profit to larger corpora
lions and greater monOpolles TO
make more millionaires.
NRA (nuts running America has
added little to employment, much
to the costs and greatly to the dis
content of the forgotten man who
in this New Deal was supposed TO
relieve. The greatest help was to
the PIP political plum pickers).
If we say we are broke we are
socialistic, or cry we are hungry,
communistic.
If we squawk too loudly we are
shot, beaten, jailed, and told we do
not appreciate what this God-sent
administration is doing for us.
say again, down with the old order.
Vote for those who do little for
us. Minor acts are far greater to
me than enormous promises. Why
can't we draft mayor like Sullivan
TO retain his Office?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
WE'RE CHIDED ABOUT
HUGH JOHNSON
By Walt Smith.

By Walt Smith.
TSh Tshl Talcott POWELL
That you, who rise from your vir-
tuous couch each morning and blow
a kiss eastward toward the best
President or the last" should be
guilty of lese majestic.
That you should crack down"
about the ears of the dyspeptic dis
positioned. tough splitting and loud
speaking Top Sarg' Johnson, just
goes to show that you are going
soft; that you can't take it. Why,
man. when you take a crack like
that at the Presidents right bower
you become a sinking, cowardly
Tory, and up to now you have swal-
lowed the castor oily New Deal with
a smile, and looked as If you liked It..
Time was, few years back, when
The Times was an Independent,
fearless and hard-hitting paper that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
Falling Star
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
By the Scarlet Quill

Tonight the moons a mighty boat
Drifting in a serene sea-sky;
The stars that round her gently
float
Are fishing smacks asailing by.
The milky way the foam must be,
The clouds are icebergs, still and
white,
If they collide with the ships at sea
Well have a falling star tonight!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

"hewed to the line, let the chips
fall where they may" with the ak
always sharp, so there was no need
to take the position of having IAN
ak to grind" And did the people Of
Indiana like it? You ask 'em
You probably will receive a letter
from Robbie calling you nasty
names and as your editorial was
asking for it," a slap on the wrist
will be Just what is coming to you.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
By G. R. Kaye. Director. Students Bible
Inc fufo

By G. r. Kaye, Director. Students Bibl
Institute.
There has come to my notice a
statement by Herbert r. Achley
in The Times Of Sept. 10. He
wants to know What authority
any one has for changing the
Bible" and declares that the New
Analytical Bible states that the
Bible contains thousands of mis-
takes. AS I am the author-com
piler of the New Analytical Bible
I should know something about
this.
Mr.. Achley's statement, "Our
ministers can never believe that
Gods word is full of mistakes"
might create the impression with
some who are not acquainted with
the analytical Bible, that it takes
this position. He says the Bible
he now has is good enough for
him. Which version of the Bible
does he refer to? There have been
several of the English Bible
Wycliffe'S, Tyndale'S, COverdale'S,
Matthews, the Great Bible, Gene
va Bible, Bishops Bible, Au-
thorized Version and Revised
Version.
Mr.. Achley writes as if one Of
these Bibles, presumably the Au-
thorized Version, was the original
Bible, that Moses, Isaiah, Paul
and the others wrote the Bible
in the English language. 1t does
not seem to have occurred to
him that these versions are but
translations of the original He
brew and Greek Scriptures; that
these translations do contain mis-
takes; that many English words
of that earlier day have become
obsolete, and that we are in
possession of manuscript copies
of the Bible not known when the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
DRIVEN TO POETRY
BY POLITICS
By Esaw Thornbrook

By Esaw Thornbrook.
I offer this to all lovers Of music
and to all lovers Of clean politics.
Try this on your piano to the tune
of The Girl Left Behind Me"
Mr. Pritchard. the Republican candidate.
whose given name IS Walter,
Has got a mob behind him who Will take
him 10 the slaughter.
They say that Walter has a very bad cold
and Just can't keep from coughing.
But II won't be the cough that carries him
of
But the Coffin" they carry him of in.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
The Message Center

(TimeS readers are tRvfted to eGpress
their Uiet0s In these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ toords or Iess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24
Sc They Say

A star or executive is worth as
much as the public can be led 10
think he is worth by paying to see
his offerings Rosenblatt. NRA
division administrator Of the film
code.
We certainly are in one he'll OF a
business, where a fellow has 70 wish
for trouble so as to make a living
Frank Sheridan Jonas, munitions
agent.
Take our own government in
Washington today. You viii find in
practically every branch an able,
conscientious woman who really
runs the particular ice.-Frances
Robinson, NRA assistant to General
Johnson.
I don't know Ask the little skirt.
General Hugh S. Johnson.
What happened in Maine, I think,
can be interpreted not by us. but by
the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
eral James Farley.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-24

Looks like Franklin Roudybush's Washing
ton school for would-be public servants viii
have 10 add a course in mattress making.