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eign reaction to the militaristic blast Of Pro-
fessor Ewald Banse, the arch-priest Of Naz
war aims. When an English publisher got
hold of Banse's book, the Berlin government
promptly denounced it as the work of an ire
sponsible theorist. 1t is reported, however, the
government still employs Banse as professor
Of military science at Brunswick Technical
college And the Nazis still accept him as a
leader in his field
An American edition has just been pub
lished by Harcourt Brace under the title Ger
many Prepares for War" The book is
diplomatic dynamite because Banse is so
frank He says Germany is not only going to
regain the territory lost in the great war but
much more besides; she intends to take gen.
erous slices from most Of her neighbors AS
for England he confesses cit gives US pleasure
to mediate on Cher) destruction"
Apart from his extreme candor in naming
names: Banse writes more or less like any
European, japanese or American militarist
For instance:
Preparation for future wars must not stop
at the creation, equipment and training of an
efficient army, but must go on to train the
minds of the whole people for the war and
must employ all the resources of science to
master the conditions governing the war it
self and the possibility Of endurance"
Stating that Germany now has rejected
"the poison of internationalism and paciflsm,"
Banse, as the prophet of Nazi imperialism,
concludes that it has two missions:
I'D To summon up the soul Of Germany
from the depths to perform its national, cul-
turaI and political task, SO that on German
soil all thought, all action and all speech shall
be German; and % to combine German ter
ritory throughout its whole extent into uni
fed and therefore powerful state, whose
boundaries will be far wider than those of
1914. Those are the two goals for which every
German must strive"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
LET US TALK PEACE

IF we would do less talking about war with
n japan we would be whole lot less like
Iy to get into such a war So said the Rev.
Ignatius w. Cox of Fordham university, in
a speech at a recent Lenten conference in
New York
1T is time" says Father Cox, ito develop
an Irresistible will for peace and to make
this will so evident now that our statesmen
and diplomats will Enthusiastically understand
that the American people demand a solution
OF international misunderstanding not by the
barbaric weapons of war; but by measures die
tated by right reasons, by natural and inter-
national law and arbitration"
There is good deal of sound sense in
that. We have discussed this war with ia
pan so long that we are about ready to &C
cept 1t as inevitable. 1t might be helpful if
we start discussing our opposition to it.
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: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
HEALTH AND WEALTH

= EPEAL'S promise of better and cheaper
N alcoholic beverages now should be re-
fected in vital and revenue statistics It is
beginning to make good its promise.
The New York state board of health re-
ports that for January the death rate from
alcoholism was 81 for each 100000 of popula-
ton, the lowest figure in twelve years. In
New York City twenty-seven persons died Of
alcoholism in January and nineteen in Febru-
airy, compared with sixty-five in December
These figures. indicating that New Workers
are drinking less or better liquor, should in
terest the twenty-five dry states still clinging
to the fiction that prohibition prohibits
Internal revenue collections for February
show how some money is being diverted into
the United States treasury vaults rather than
into bootleggers pockets. Distilled spirits taxes
brought in nearly $4,000 900, wines and brandy
nearly 100000, beer more than 100000
These taxes, however, fall short by about one
third of treasury estimates.
We. believe that import, federal and local
taxes on liquor still are too high to retire the
bootlegger from his illicit trade.
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xTOU would think that suicide would be the
Il refuge of old and beaten men-people
tired by life, discouraged, brought to the end
of the tether by disappointment and hard
luck, facing a future that could not possibly
hold for them anything to compare with their
dreams.
But somehow it doesn't always work out
that way. Youth can grow as Respondent as
age, sometimes Only the other day young
student in middle western university gave
way to the worries about his studies and took
his life.
And it makes one wish that it were easier
for an older person to go to one of these wor-
ried and discouraged youngsters and explain
that the difficulties of youth are never quite
as big and overpowering as they seem.
A lads career isn't hopelessly ruined be-
cause he fails to master the intricacies, say
of analytical geometry; failure in college
course usually becomes one of those things at
which a mature man looks with nothing more
than a rueful smile.
Yet there is a barrier between youth and
maturity which the best of advice all too
often is quite unable to span. We who are older
have had our defeats, and we have accepted
them. We have gone with our feet shod in
light only to discover that kind of footgear
isn't suitable for tramping through mire and
brambles
Youth has all that to learn; and because
it has, it has a way Of refusing to listen to
us when we try to explain that those catas-
trophies of the late teens and early twenties
are never quite as bad as they seem.
For each young man is buoyed up by the
conviction that he is different. Other men
have dreamed dreams and seen them dis
solve; he is something special, his dreams will
be realized, his battles will be victories.
It is because youth believes this that it is
always willing to die on battle fields, or on
barbados, to lead lost causes, to tackle
smudged and time-stained world with bright
confidence.
Then, sooner or later, the youngster has
to find out that it isn't So And there is
where our wisest and most sympathetic coun-
sci is needed. If We can give it, and get it
listened to. we can save a youngster from
black despair.
Sometimes we can't; and then, if luck is
bad, we have that most pathetic of all TRACE
dies-the suicide of a young man.
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PENALTY AND POVERTY

NNE reads with certain Sardonic inter-
~ est that Martin insult, one-tine Chicago
utilities magnate, went on a hunger strike
shortly after he had been locked in jail at
Toronto, where he was being held for extradi-
ton to the United States
The food, it seems, wasn't quite up to a
utilities magnateS standards. For breakfast
there was porridge, BUTTERFLIES bread and sugar.
less tea; for dinner there was stew and cold
water; for supper. rice, bread and tea.
All this is rather plain fare especially for
a man used to the best food that money can
buy 1t is hard to blame a man for refusing
to eat it; and doubtless it is only human per-
verSity that reminds one that it might seem
like feast to some luckless old person who
invested, and lost, all his LIES savings in In
sui securities.
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HERE'S A BOOST FOR
THE STOCK EXCHANGE

By Times Reader
Reading your editorial of March
II entitled STOCK Control Threat
ened," do you stop to think there
are thousands Of people with five
to twenty-five thousand dollars in
cash who are depending on the
tickers of the New York Stock Ex-
change to put WN their daily bread
in 1884?
You can visit any stock brokers'
office and see old men, old women,
widows, cripples, ETC., all depending
on "bull market" to give them
the necessities Of life. And they
need it.
Who gives a damn about the
boobs who lose? The wise people
pick out the good stocks. and cash
in for profit.
Life is q gamble if you shoot
dice, play poker, or buy lottery
tickets. The wise win-the boobs
go to the poor farm!
So there shouldn't be any regula-
ton Of the New York Stock Ex-
change in 1884 Let the lucky cash
inland the unlucky keep their
money in their pockets.
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I a0hoIIy disapprove of aOhat you sag and qoiU
defend to the death your right to sag it-Vottaire

cradle to the cemetery, to provide
the necessities of life and have some
pleasure on the way.
The business man on the other
hand gets as much pleasure chasing
the elusive dollars as the hunter in
pursuit of the nimble bunny. Whv
then evade the truth?
Labor wants the money to provide
Tor the necessities of life and the
pleasure OF spending the surplus.
Some Of us derive the greatest pleas
ure In spending it before we lose it
ana the rest of us like to save it
up and spend it all at once. But it
IS my opinion that the bank hardly
misses the pay roll money. Most of
II IS back in the bank by Monday
morning.
Capital wants the money as a re-
ward for achievement and the
pleasure of the chase. So to those
mighty and mysterious individuals
known as capitalists I would give
honest advice.
GIVE the worker the pleasure of
spending a surplus and Won will pet
not only the pleasures of the chase
from your business but the substan-
t1al reward of achievement. Deny
the worker the pleasure of a sur
plus to spend and your business will
give only the doubtful pleasure of the
chase And by the way did you ever
go nome with an empty game bag
and a lot of alibis?
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THE GERMAN WAR PROPHET

GERMANY has bad luck with her propa-
~ ganda. She is preparing for war of
revenge. That involves military propaganda
at home. But she wants the world to think
she is peacefully inclined. So that neceSSi-
tates a different kind of propaganda abroad.
Unfortunately for her, however, she can not
keep the two separate. Her home military
propaganda constantly is leaking outside. AS
a result her neighbors are able to convict her
rather thoroughly with words out of her own
mouth
That was so in the case of Bernhardi's
writings before the great war. 1t is true to-
day OF the bloodthirsty book by Herr Hitler.
knowing this danger. Hitler, in preparing the
foreign edition OF his book. edited out some OF
the most provocative passages.
But the German government has been
even less successful in counteracting the Tor
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
AUTO MAKERS DON'T
TAKE A CHANCE

By c. S. G.
1t wouldn't hurt the automobile
corporations to tell the truth to the
peOple-who have to pay the cost of
the propaganda when they buy
autos - about the government and
the American Federation of Labor
whom they charge with trying to
force unionization of the industry
down their Threats.
The full page ads in local news
papers, signed by the Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, took care
not to mention the only issue at
stake in the matter, viz:
Shall the workers under the law
have the right to determine who
shall represent them in all negotia-
tionS with employers?
Simple, isn't it? Yet the auto in
dustry fairly paved the ground be-
cause labor unions" were trying to
swallow the industry, boots and
breeches,
The government sought to con-
duct an election at the various
plants to determine who shall repre-
sent the workers as provided for
under section z (a), of the recovery
act. The elections we're to be super
vised by a governmental agency and
every worker to have free choice in
voting without fear of losing his
job.
Did the auto makers agree?
Well, just listen to the whining
over the radio and read the full
page ballyhoo in the newspapers
and get the answer.
The charges made in some news
papers that the government was
trying to force some particular
union on the industry is wholly
false. Workers, however, have the
right to choose their own bargaining
representatives, whether trade union
or company union. The auto makers
are not sporting enough to take a
chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
A. F. OF L. DOESN'T WANT
TO RUN YOUR BUSINESS
BY Tom Berlin.

BY Tom BerlIng
Arthur Brisbane recently criticised
the A. F. of L. for refusing to rec
ognize the right of the owners OF
the automobile business to run their
own business. Brisbane says The
A. F. Of L. feels that it could run
the automobile business better than
the present management IS doing
but the automobile makers do not
agree with that
This statement is not true in the
sense that the A. F. of L. wishes to
run any mans business. It. is a re-
plica of the typical evasion of the
manufacturers in their effort to
muddy the waters Of reason to hide
the real truth or a decided failure
on their part to understand the
basic needs, wants and complaints
of their employees.
The executive class Of men,
whether they represent labor unions,
automobile makers, chambers Of
commerce, manufacturers, associa-
tions or newspapers have, in my
opinion, one outstanding trait Of
character which explains their sue
cess. They seldom are entirely right
and never altogether wrong.
The average working man under
stands that he never will get rich
on hourly wages and also that ne
can't eat the Constitution. He only
asks that his wage afford him some
opportunity, on his journey from the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
ECONOMIC FREEDOM"

"EOR my part" ogden L. Mills told the
Il Academy of Political Science, Il am pre-
pared to cast my lot with the policy of what,
for want of a better term, may call economic
freedom, as contrasted with the rigidity of a
controlled and regimented economy
For Mr.. Mills, millionaire and country
gentleman, economic freedom" as America
knows it has not been harsh. Yet it gave to
millions of Mr.. Mills fellow-AmericanS I'M
earned misery. It allowed between 100000
and 100000 people to go jobless even at
'prosperity's" height. 1t condemned three
fourthS of American workmen to live below
a decent comfort standard. 1t granted an
average factory wage of 81 300 and farm in
come of S700 year. 1t left a trail of city
and rural slumS. 1t permitted 100000
children under II to work for wages. 1t
spread blight of farm tenantry, business
failures, mortgage foreclosures, and offered
its victims charity or poor farms. 1t tolerated
a criminal waste of natural resources, the
overexpansion of capital good, giant stock
swindes, the destruction of foreign trade.
It brought on the nations worst depression.
This kind OF economic freedom" eventually
would wipe out Mr.. Mills own social caste
Economic freedom for the mass OF Ameri-
cans can come only through controlled
economy. And Americans generally have de-
cided to cast their lot with that policy That
is the secret of much of the Roosevelt popu-
larity which seems so mysterious to Mr.. Mills
and the other G.. o. P. leaders
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BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
The worlds teakWood treasure
chest
Piled high with piIlaged precious
ness;
Jade and gold and cloisoinne,
Mantillas, olives. from Cathay,
Treasures tresSelled tier on tier;
We may not have them, but they're
here.
The worlds teakwood treasure
chest
Heaped high with boarded happi-
ness;
Love and hope, sunshine bright,
Flowers, colors. pale starlight,
In earthly things we poor may be
But each his memory chest has he.
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PREPAREDNESS IS ANSWER
TO ALL PROBLEMS
Rr Henry p. Comineore

By Henry P. Comingore
The narrow-minded person who
signs his name as Man" must be
ashamed of his name or is afraid
that some one will uncover his rec
ord during the war. If he is not
ashamed then what else could he
be worried about? He should have
signed it man (?)"
He evidently is not very well
versed on the topics Of the hour so
will try to enlighten him as to
the stand of the American Legion
as to the bonus. The legion did
not even ask for payment Of the
bonus at this time as the condition
of the finances of the nation would
not permit the payment Of it. The
legion is trying TO get the pensions
of the disabled veterans back as
they are mere deserving than the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
UNEMPLOYED GIVE REASON
FOR BIRTH CONTROL

By w. P.
For the benefit of the inquisitive
gentleman, Hiram Lackey, who
writes in The Times of March 20,
may I submit my opinion on birth
control? Where and what I was
before my conception is of no conse-
quence to me. That immortality is
my lot, can understand in a vague,
unorthodox sort of way. What con-
Germs me most is my own relation
to the millions of unemployed who,
denied the privilege of honest toll,
are obviously an overproduction.
Pirate, if you will, of our divine
mission to multiply and replenish
the earth. Boast, asininely, of our
dominion over the other forms of
animal life. Deep down in our
hearts is the conscious shame that
until we arrive at more equitable
distribution of earth's products, we
shall have to practice some safe and
sane method for the curtailment of
human production. Who would rear
his child to be a pauper?
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rest of the able-bodied men who

rest of the able bodied men who
served.
The American Legion is not nor
are any of its members un-American
when they differ with DR.. Oman
of De Paw. If asking that the ma
ton prepare for another war by
teaching college and high school
military tactics and building a large
enough army and navy to protect
the nation is un-American thank
God that I belong to SO great an
organization as the American
Legion.
Yes, God in his heaven surely
must look down and pity a
man who does not know that pre-
paredness is the only preventive
that we have in this world or the
next. So if you would live, prepare
for peace as you would to meet your
maker as all God-loving and fearing
people should.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
WHY NOT RUN JOHN
FOR GOVERNOR?
By a Voice of the Multitude

By a Voice of the Multitude
Freedom of the press, and free
speech, seem to enjoy rightful places
in the columns of The Times. Such
fairness, and such a broadminded
attitude toward contributions to the
Message Center, prompts the writer
in behalf of friends to submit the
following:\
"Dillinger for Governor"
Quite a shock to start with, isn't
it? It's fantastic, and maybe a lit
tie too strong, but it exemplifies the
thoughts Of thousands, in their de-
termination to voice opinion on to-
days leading topic, the escape of
John Dillinger.
It is true that Dillinger never will
run for Governor, but is it not true,
had he a chance to be a free man,
a chance to become a lawful citizen,
a chance to be a free spirited man
to breathe the ozone without dodg-
ing a badge al every turn, a chance
to use his brain for the good Of the
people, that he would make a much
better Governor than many in the
past? He has proved he knows how
to use his head, and to use that
head for something good for the
people would be something I'M
usual which the people of Indiana
have not enjoyed from politicians
for long time.
Press items from time to time
practically prove Dillinger's criminal
career was caused by not having the
proper chance and by the over
jealous attitude Of the authorities
to put some one behind the bars,
and throw bouquets at themselves.
We do not uphold Dillinger, pol
iticians or any one in a criminal
career, but we do believe a man
of Mr.. J. DIS makeup would make
useful citizen if given chance to
go clean, and not via the parole
route.
The recent photograph Of the
prosecutor at Clown Point" with
Dslinger was one Of much affection
and respect for his captive. He
did not want John to be mad with
him, in the event he did escape.
And we believe that the Little
Woman" of Wooden Gun, Ind,
should be admired for keeping
John behind the bars as long as she
did. Had he been in the custody
of some Of our other strongarm, he
men sheriffss John would have fled
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
BY d Times Reader

By Times Reader
I am reader of The Times, and
would like to see this printed.
The Message Center is all right.
The worker has a right to voice
some Of the truth. 1t is hurt
ing the man with money.
The MIRA is a fine thing, but
should be enforced. It will be
the only means of putting people
to work at better wages. If
they are not investigated they will
have the people here working for
nothing, with barely enough to
keep the wolf from the door.
They put the blue eagle up and
hide behind it; cut your wages,
and work your longer hours. The
business mans idea is to get out
of debt and let the worker pay
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
SMOKE SITUATION Is
UNDER ATTACK

BY Reader
I remember that some time back
your paper called attention to the
smoke and SCOT" of this city, and
that now there has been a COM
mittee appointed to investigate.
+ I really believe that this is one
OF the dirtiest towns in the country
per population and no doubt there
are plenty Of ways to remedy it,
such as proper screening of the
stacks, also the use Of a better grade
of coal. Your paper will keep right
after it until the situation is rene
died.
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Demands NRA Enforcement

for it. Does he cut his wages?
No. Where are Indiana'S NRA in
vestigators? 1t is time they were
getting busy in Shelbyville. Not
all firms here are like that, but
some are, and they should be
looked after.
The CWA worker is better off
than the fellow who slaves every
day for a small salary. If he quits,
where will he work? His employer
knows this. That is why he cuts
his wages. He knows he can't
squawk. Pride keeps him there
instead of on the county.
Now, MIRA investigators, get
busy. What are your duties?
This is the truth. I am a slave
worker. I don't ask for wages SO
as to bank SO or 81 week. I
just want living wages.
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THE TIMES IS LAUDED
AGAIN
By Harold Fey

By Harold Fey
have been greatly enjoying The
IN. LIInes lately. The Dickens feature,
Inc Lie OF Our Lord" is certainly
a memorable achievement Of Jour-
naIlSln. Your editorial page is far
and away the best thing Of the kind
IN tins part of the country. And
WhlIe l am in the act of cheering.
let me put in a whoop or two for
BergS cartoons. That one Of
Samuel insult standing and looking
out across the lonely waves toward
what was once his home was a
classic.
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LIFE OF OUR LORD"
PRAISED BY PROFESSOR

BY Prof. o. F. Hall, Purdue
May I add my word Of apprecia-
ton of running on your front page
Dickens Life of Our Lord" You
are doing much to counteract the
feeling that newspapers do not try
to elevate the general current of
ideas and ideals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-26
SHE WANTS DICKENS
STORY IN BOOK FORM
By Mrs. B. II. Willard

by Mrs. 3. II. Willard
want to express my appreciation
OF The Life Of Our Lord" recently
published in your paper. 1t solves
my problem of finding the story Of
Jesus life in simple statements
easily understood by children.
Dickens tells it in an ideal way.
hope it appears next IN book
form.
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STILL MENACTNG

IN declaring that the underworld today has
more men under arms than the United
States army and navy combined, Attorney
General Homer Cummings gives us a striking
Illustration OF the extent of the menace pre-
scented by our metropolitan gangs.
A fair-minded observer probably would
admit that the situation today is better than
it was say. five years ago, when Al Capone
was in his hey-day and it was almost an
unneard-of thing for prominent gangster
actually to be sent to prison.
Nevertheless, the challenge to organized
society which gangland presents has by no
means been met fully.
The underworld still supports a larger
armed force than the federal government
itself supports. That simple statement shows
graphically how much remains to be done.