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The Redwood gazette., 1934-07-12

Waterloo. Iowa where they will visit
relatives.
Miss Margaret Gales visited with
friends at hankato two weeks.
The Catholic Ladies society met
with Mrs. Joe Shemon Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Pape and daughter
Lucille accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs.
Joe Goldfish and daughters, Evelyn
and Emily of Vesta and Miss Dorothy
Rohlik Of Seaforth motored to West
Bend, Iowa where they spent the day
visiting the "Grotto".
Frank Woelfel is confined to his
bed with rheumatism.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-07-12
Has Read Report
Cards for AZ Years

Each year for AZ years Mrs. Mary
Tschann of Northfield has read re-
port cards. During that time with
out interruption, at least one son or
daughter attended school and during
one term seven members of the FAM
lily were school goers. Louis, eldest
of the IA children, entered first grade
in 1892 and Irene, baby of the family,
graduated in the class Of 1894.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-07-12

ceived by the federal surplus relief
corporation.
The cars carried 45,421 cattle, 49,
726 calves and 1922 mixed. Heaviest
shipments were out of Otter Tail
county with 5,659 head; Big Stone,
with 5,249; Stearns, with 1882; Wiki
in, with 4,194 and Stevens, with
3,721.
The Redwood gazette., 1934-07-12
Buy 64,369 Cattle

Cattle purchasing under the drouth
relief program took 1850 carloads of
cattle out of 38 counties designated
as emergency drouth area up to the
end Of June, according to reports re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
A NEW PROBLEM

IT is still great deal too early to get fair
Il slant on all the effects of repeal of the
eighteenth amendment. Enough time has
passed. however, to make at least one thing
pretty clear. Repeal unquestionably has added
to the difficulties of an already tangled auto
mobile traffic situation.
The traffic commissioner of representa-
tive metropolitan police department point
ing to the fact that this years traffic fatalities
substantially higher than last years, as
serts bluntly that 'the most significant single
factor is the novelty of legal drinking" and
goes on to add that alcohol has figured in
larger percentage of fatal and less serious
traffic accidents during the first three months
OF 1884 than in the first three months of 1893.
1t is not only the fact that drunken drivers
get out on the road that complexities mat
ters-although this, of course, is the worst
part of it.
Drunken pedestrians reel out into the street
and get hit.
Furthermore, financial difficulties having
caused most cities to reduce the scope of po-
lice activities, there are fewer beat" patrol
men on the scene to collar such men and lug
them of to the police station to sober up
than there used to be.
And there is still another angle to it. There
is more night life now in the average city.
More people are on the streets after midnight
than used to be the case-and not all Of them
are cold sober.
Empty roads on the edge Of town are more
dangerous now. along about in the morn
ing, than they used to be; exhilarated jewellers,
homeward bound, zip along such boulevards
at breakneck speed and all too often reap the
literal reward of such speed-broken necks.
All in all. the evidence is pretty strong to
show that repeal has introduced an ominous
new factor into the traffic problem.
What needs to be done in the face of this
new factor is not at all clear. That there is
hardly a city in America which has enough
traffic policemen goes almost without saying.
That the police and the courts need to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
COSTLY SQUALOR

CHEAP housing, as rich America knows It,,
- is citys most expensive indulgence.
Witness the results of a survey just made
of a typical slum area of Cleveland by How
ard Whipple Green. consultant for public
works administration housing division. The
record reveals this slum area costing the tax
payers more than twice as much in fire. police,
health and other services as the average
metropolitan area of similar size
In this blighted region, where dwell PAT
per cent Of Cleveland's population. fire pro-
lection takes 144 per cent, police SIS per cent
of the taxes. This region absorbs s1,1770OO
more tax money than the s7S5.OOO required by
the average area of equal population. These
burdens, Of course, do not include the long
range tolls in sickness, delinquency, crime and
premature death that every slum exacts from
society.
Cleveland is no worse than most cities. and
better than some.
States and cities now striving to put their
fiscal houses in order should amend their
laws and ordinances to enable them to finance
low-cost rehousing projects. Squalid tene-
ments are economic as well as social mill
stones. Progressive communities will refuse
to carry them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
Out of Step
4 Statements

a conservative magazine for business men, de-
scribed it in January, 1882, as "a hard-boiled
labor union which does its own wage cutting,
which has entered into an offensive and de-
fensive alliance with its manufacturers, and
which is the white hope Of sterilization in
chaotic industry"
The fundamental theory Of the Full Fash
Toned Hosiery Workers is that if employees are
to make higher wages, the employer must be
aided to greater profits. 1t employs experts
to study management problems. 1t foresaw
the depression before the employers.
In August, 1929, before the Wall Street
crash, this union voluntarily made its men,
bers accept a Is per cent wage cut! This was
to prepare the union shops for the depression
which was coming.
I'm August, 1880, in the face Of pronounce
ments from bankers, business leaders, and the
president Of the American Federation himself
that prosperity could be recaptured only by
keeping up wages to 1928 levels the union cut
its members wage rates IL to 40 per cent
more" says Fortune. at has taken most of
America year to realize the union was right"
The Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers re-
It uses direct mail and radio advertising to
promote sales of union shop products.
1t does not parrot more money for less
work." as do great many other unions. 1t
enters seriously into the problem of manage
ment and tries to give its employers sympa-
thetic cooperation. It's membership is made
up Overwhelmingly of highly skilled, Ameri-
can-born whites. 1t has been heavy con-
tributor to flood sufferers and victims of other
disasters. 1t never has held to communistic
doctrines and its officials say they know of
not a single Communist IN its membership.
In view of the unions remarkable policies
and record it is regrettable that a few Of its
members in Indianapolis have INDUCED IN acts
of violence. Heaving bricks convinces nobody.
The property of Real Silk and its employees
must be protected, and those guilty of dis
order should be prosecuted.
The depredations Of a corporals guard of
irresponsible persons should not be permitted
to cloud the main issue-the right of any
group of workers to bargain with management
through ANY representative they choose.
This does not mean a closed shop at Real
Silk. 1t does not mean forcing unwilling
employees into union. It does not necessi-
tate the abolition of the Employees Mutual
Benefit Association.
1t does mean adherence to the plain and
unequivocal labor policies laid down by the
President of the United States whose admin
istration was so overwhelmingly Endorsed by
the voters of Illinois yesterday
Real Silk MANAGEMENT is out of step with
the recovery program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
POLITICS OUT OF AVIATION

IT is tradition that the chief political leader
Il of party shall become postmaster general
when that party goes into power. For example,
Walter Brown, Republican; Jim Farley, Demo-
crat.
Into the hands of those two men falls the
task of handling such a highly technical prob
lem as air mail.
Now, skill in one line doesn't by any means
make a man sklful in another. The best sur
geon in the world couldn't run the twentieth
century limited
Backing away from the whole mess and get
ting a perspective, We believe the situation in
which commercial aviation finds itself today is
due to the fact that skilled politicians were put
in charge of the operation and development of
something in which they were not skilled.
The policies of the Republican, Walter
Brown, were challenged and upset by the DEM
ocrat, Jim Farley. Apart from all the issues in
volved, the charges and counter-charges, one
conclusion is obvious; neither was equipped by
training or experience to make final decisions
about so complicated matter as aviation and
air mail.
Looking, therefore, to the future of what is
certain to be-when the whole tangle is
Strengthened out-a great and growing indus
try, a sensible course seems clear
Take this highly technical task out of its
political environment and turn it over to men
whose business it shall be to run it as the in
terstate commerce commission runs the rail-
roads.
That course is provided in several measures
that already have been proposed. 1t should be
included in any final measure by which the
future Of commercial aviation shall be guided
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12

WHEN a clear-cT;t issue arises honest folks
w must stand up and be counted. The
strike at the Real Silk hosiery mills is, we
think such an issue. 1t is a head-on collision
between the labor policies of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration and those of the rugged individ-
ualists" whose mistaken and archaic beliefs
caused great economic collapse.
The President has made it plain that en-
ployes have right to bargain with employers
through representatives of their OWN choos-
ing The management Of Real Silk wishes its
workers to seek representation through the
Employees Mutual Benefit Association, COM
pany union. This, several hundred skilled
workers have refused to do. They are asking
the management to deal through the Full
Fashioned Hosiery Workers, an affiliate Of the
American Federation of Labor.
Who are the parties to this serious dis
pute? On the one hand there is the Real Silk
management. In 1923 the social justice COM
mission of the Central Conference of American
Rabbis and the department of research Of the
Federal Council of Churches had joint in
vestigation of labor conditions in Real Silk.
These conservative churchmen, after palms.
pany union functioned we'll on minor matters,
such as health benefits, it was Of little conse-
quence on such questions as wages and hours.
1T appears that when the company de-
termines upon general reduction of pay the
board (of the company union) may not be
seriously taken into account" says the report
of the rabbis and clergymen citing a wage
slash among the seamless fixers."
'Mr. Goodman (head of the planD called
a meeting of the 'fxers' and announced to
them that their wages would be cut and that
any one who did not agree was free to quit.
The matter was submitted to the executive
board Ga joint body made up of members
from the management and the company
union) one week after Mr.. Goodman's an
nouncement to the 'hxers' The board after
weeks consideration approved the new plan
of payment"
That certainly does not sound like true
collective bargaining. The report of the clergy
says later:
"The revolt in the full fashioned depart
ment was suppressed only at the cost Of in
stalling individual contracts (by which en-
ployes agreed not to join outside unions) to-
gether with the espionage, suspicion and dis
content which still obtain in this depart
ment"
The striking employees charge that these
conditions, found by the religious organiza-
tions in 1928, are still pretty generally true
today under the new deal.
The other party to the conflict is the Amer
lean Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery
Workers. This union is, in many respects,
unique among labor organizations. Fortune,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
THURSDAY. APRIL u. 1874.
COSTLY NEGLECT
a scRIPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

INDIANAPOLIS apparently is functioning
- under the theory that lives must be lost
before any efforts are made to prevent such
tragedies as occurred at Eugene street and the
canal Tuesday night.
-Four women, strangers in indianapolis, were
hurled into the canal when their car was
driven over a railroad track and switch at the
end Of the street.
Believing they were driving on a through
street block south of the scene of the acct
dent, these four women, all from Lebanon,
found no warning sign or barrier to herald
their mistake. Three of the women were res
cued but another was drowned.
There is no excuse for failure to have this
dead-end street marked properly. There is no
alibi for the fact that an automobile must run
over railroad tracks before the driver is aware
that the thoroughfare has ended.
Investigation by The Times at dusk last
night revealed that blurred sign is visible
several yards from the canal bank. The sign
can not be read at distance which would en-
able a motorist to stop his car in sufficient
time to avoid crashing over the tracks and
possibly diving into the canal.
Inc sign Is an Old one. Apparently 1t was
placed there several years ago when the
Hoosier Motor Club voluntarily marked many
dangerous traffic intersections and dead-end
streets. The paint has faded on this sign.
Even the skull and cross bones barely are visi-
bic within a few feet of the canal bank.
Several months ago when an automobile
hurled the bank of Fall creek at Talbot street
and two persons drowned, the city rushed
into a series of precautionary measures. Much
of this work still is to be done.
There is no additional reason for delay on
the part of the parties responsible for pro-
tecting such places. The excuse that there is
no money available for such work is a COM
plete failure.
Proper equipment for protecting lives is
cheap at any cost.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
MAN, POTENTIAL CRIMINAL,
FOLLOWS EXAMPLES DAILY

BY Physician
The reaction Of the public to the
case of John Dillinger should be
looked at with a clear perspective,
because it clearly illustrates some
of the important fundamentals in
the psychological life of man.
Every individual is a potential
criminal. I can say this with con-
viction because I am familiar with
the human acquisitive and sexual
instincts. These instincts constant
ly are making demands upon the in
diVidual for qualification, and it has
been for the express purpose of
curling these demands and the
keeping of them within consistent
bounds that social organization
has been created.
The social organization has been
largely successful in this achieve
ment, but it must be remembered
that coercion has been the method
employed and that the instincts
have by no means been destroyed
The Numerically opposed, forbid
den tendencies of the individual and
the tendencies of society make of
the former a potential criminal. If
at any time the expression of the
instincts exceeds the limits imposed
by society, the law has been violated
and punishment is imposed to dis
courage emulation.
This conflict is perhaps most vio-
lent during the periods of puberty
and adolescence, for the agencies of
civilization have at this time their
greatest responsibility. The express
Sions of youth are difficult to curb.
Thus we have had the experience
Of hearing number of pupils of
high school age state that an ac-
cused murderer should be allowed
to go free.
When we witness the spectacle of
an individual forcibly exacting from
society the things that he wants IN
defiance to all the rules which we
have been forced to accede to,
have the strong suspicion that we
are working off some of the ten
denotes on our own part through a
Sneaking admiration of him. Who
among us has not murdered an
enemy or appropriated his worldly
goods in phantasy? The desire is
there but its actual expression has
been frustrated by certain factors
in our own personalities which are
the outgrowth Of our relationship
with society.
If we can concede the truth of
the principles briefly outlined above
and recognize man for what he ac-
tually is, then we readily can see
why it must be so essential that our
laws should be made intelligently
and enforced vigorously. To do
otherwise is to encourage certain Of
the less socialized members of the
group, and the psychiatrist knows
that there are many Of them, to
follow the examples that have been
so conspicuously set for them.
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-R.0B6RG-
a0hoHy disapprove of 10hat yoW sag and toW
defend to the death your right to sag it-VotGire

was on the pay roll. He lost every
dollar he had, and he took it on
the chin like a man.
Another fellow in our gang who
was overseas for two years, and was
with Pershing on the Mexican
border before the World war
started, and his feet shot so full of
holes that he hardly can walk, and
he has seven small children. Do
you call that laying off single men
first? Consistency, thou art
jewell.
Every man in our gang, including,
the foreman, was on township re-
lief before the CWA was started.
We have been returned to that re-
lief. Not a man in our gang has
any income from any source unless
he has a job. We are not crying.
and we are not calamity howlers,
but we do feel that the wishes Of
President Roosevelt, the greatest
President since Lincoln, are not be-
ing carried out in this program Of
demobilization-Mr. Books state
ment Notwithstanding
We knew it was bound to come
sooner or later, as the CWA is to be
demobilized by May l. We didn't
expect to work to the last day.
Neither did we expect to be let out
the first week.
know single men who are work
ing. 1t seems to me the good pur-
pose for which the CWA was IN
tended has been defeated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12

lacks the strength it had in the days of Debs.
In England under Macdonald it largely was
unclaimed by the Tories, while in Italy, Aus
tria and Germany it was easily swept aside by
Fascist dictators.
Only in Russia has Socialism been victori-
ous-and that in the forum Of Communism
which Hillquit and the other orthodox Social
lists hated almost as much as they hated cap
italism.
And yet Hilquit, shortly before he died,
closed his life book with these words:
Having chosen and followed the unpop-
ular course OF Socialist propaganda, am
entirely at peace with myself. 1 have nothing
to regret, nothing to apologize for. If, forty
years ago, could have foreseen all phases of
the tortuous course of the Socialist movement
in this country and in the world, would have
years OF life in me I would continue spending
them in the Socialist movement, without re-
gard to it's practical prospects or immediate
accomplishments. To me the Socialist move
ment with its enthusiasm and idealsm, its
comradeship and struggles its hopes and dis
appointments, its victories and defeats, has
been the best that life has had to Offer
He was consoled by the fact, also. that
many social reforms first advocated by his
party were later forced on the other parties
by the pressure of events and so became law.
1t was yicarious achievement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
Supports Loan Companies

rover to live within his income,
and many times help him work
out a budget. This promotes
friendship with the borrower and
often is the stepping stone to
success for the borrower.
He knows that the company Is
trying to help him and are will
ing to help him at any time. Many
of the employees of these loan
companies live very modestly in
the northern section of the city.
They are expected to live within
their income. Of course, the en-
ployes are free to borrow.
And now something about the
interest charges. A friend bor-
rowed $500 from loan company
about sixteen months ago. He had
accumulated bills approximating
this amount. After he returned to
work, he decided that he would
borrow enough to pay off his
debts. This loan company paid
off his bills and he began repaying
in monthly payments. After he
had paid regularly each month for
ten payments, he again was
thrown out of work. This time
he was without work for almost
six months and could not meet
his payments. The loan company
did not worry him about it and
was exceedingly patient with him.
Once more he has job and has
not created but few small debts.
All he owes is his loan from the
load company. I do not know how
the interest is figured on a $500
loan. My friend says he owes the
loan company S310.10, but I be-
heve this is mistake inasmuch as
he paid back for ten monthly pay
ments and the 1910 is more than
he borrowed to start with.
Those who are in charge of
studying these interest rates sure
ly do not'want to help ruin a busi-
ness organized to help the needy
people of this city and state. Re
Gently I read about a loan COM
pany failing because they could
not make profits above their ex-
penses. Judging from this, it seems
that the loan companies rates are
not too excessive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
Poem by a Girl
BY HAROLD FRENCH

BY HAROLD FRENCH
There were enough forewarning
clouds
Where lilies grow in Hemmonis lane.
And just enough Of sheltering elm
And just enough Of rain.
Was just enough of quick surprise
AS two young strangers met.
For there was room for two blonde
heads
To keep from getting wet.
Was just enough Of romance .hs1s,
And rain the shade of pearl.
There was enough Of boyhood there
And just enough of girl.
A morning woods and dripping trees
And wet leaves on the ground,
And just enough Of breath to kiss
With Just. enough OF sound
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
AN AMERICAN SOCIALIST

NOR man who had to fight hard through
l. the years and who achieved few, if any, OF
his goals, Morris HiIlquit lived an unusually
happy life. His newly published autobiogra-
ply, Loose Leaves From Busy Man" Mac
MILAN, seems to prove the old copybook
maxim that Joy is in the struggle rather than
in success.
No movement has failed more completely,
at least on the surface, than the Socialist
party Of which Hillquit was a national and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-12
honey in Ireland. Can The Time,
explain how it got into Indiana2
DECENTRALIZATION OF CWA
Is UNDER FIRE

By r. W, Gibson
William H. Book, state CWA
director, has said that no discrimi-
nation was being exercised against
certain workers and that most of
those who lost their jobs were single
men. He also should have added
that no discretion was being ex-
ercised.
will qualify that statement by
saying that my foreman was in
formed that he and his crew of men
were of the pay roll.
There were fifteen men in our
gang. Nothing was said about
single men, because we didn't have
any. Thirteen men have a total Of
f1fty-seven children, all of school
age or younger. The foreman and
truck driver have no children but
they do have World war service
records. Both were overseas two
years or more. Our truck driver
was in the Rainbow division and his
outfit was not a division held back
behind the lines in support Of re-
serve. He was in the front lines
for twenty months.
Our foreman was one Of the finest
fellows you ever met. He formerly
owned a retail business in this city,
back when Andy Mellon was Pres
ident and Hoover, with his bunch
OF "just around the corner, boys