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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
BY THEIR WORKS

IN summing up this New Deals year-snd-a-
half war against want, Mr. Richbergs final
report describes it as "a record of many diff
culties and some disappointments, but. on the
whole, of great achievement"
There is achievement in the attack on I'M
employment. An estimated 100000 workers
are back on private pay rolls, 100000 others
nave been given temporary public jobs, and
$4,000 are directly employed on public works.
There is disappointment over the delav in
recognizing NRA, a delay now playing havoc
with the hopes its early victories stirred: over
the high interest rates and other obstacles
slowing down the rehousing program; over la
Dor strife now spreading in part because of
failure to enforce the collective bargaining law.
There is impressive achievement in relief.
both for the millions of destitute individuals
and for business Although inadequate. federal
relief is keeping the wolf from Americas door.
OF the S5,OOO,0OO,OO0 granted or loaned to re-
lieve financial distress more than $4,000 900 900
have been repaid, a wholesome sign.
Higher farm prices have increased farm in
come by far more than S1,0OOOO0OOO But
debt relief agencies have not lightened greatly
the ultimate mortgage burdens of home and
farm owners. Disappointing also are the
relatively minor victories in the fight to regain
foreign trade and the apparent breakdown of
Russian negotiations.
Much more progress has been made in the
protective services notably in the new commits
sion regulating securities and exchanges.
beginning has been made in national
planning-in the petroleum administration, rail
co-ordinator's plans, power policy committee,
subsistence homesteads, CCC, erosion control
PWA and IVA
Finally there are efforts to improve the in
adequate information services particularly
through the central statistical board.
The nation has risen out of the depths of
its worst depression, is moving steadily forward
in the process of a definite economic recovery
and is building new defenses against recur-
renee of the economic ills from which it has
been suffering" says the Richberg report.
The money expended in these great con-
structive efforts is far less than the cost of one
year of participation in the World war with its
vast destruction of life and property. 1t has
been small price to pay for so great gain"
Compared with March, 1893, the gain has
been great; compared with the tasks remaining
to be done the progress is not so satisfactory.
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REORGANIZING GEN. JOHNSON

IRON the summer White House comes the
Il statement that NRA is to be reorganized
into three branches Following the federal
setlrp there are TO be administrative, judicial
and legislative or policy branches. 1t is re-
ported that General Johnson Is to head one
branch. probably the administrative.
There have been so many false alarms re
par6lng this long delayed reorganization the
public probably will remain somewhat skep-
teal until it is an accomplished fact.
Meanwhile 1t is rather generally admitted
that the NRA. which did such effective work
in the beginning under tremendous diff
culties. has disintegrated rapidly during the
last few months Today it lacks direction and
morale-even its routine mechanical eff
cheney is low.
How much OF this is due to General john
son and Miss Robinson. who maintain dual
dictatorship over the organization, is a matter
OF disagreement. Certainly the tendency of
the generals critics is to make him the scape-
goat for many of NRA's difficulties which no
executive or administrative board could have
overcome during the relatively brief period in
which MIRA has operated. Nor do these critics
give the general enough personal credit for his
initial achievement of selling" NRA to the
country.
Nevertheless even after the general is
given his due as a promoter and emergency
organizer, his best friends are beginning to
realize that other and quieter qualities are re-
quired for the long haul. The general, him.
SELF recently admitted that NRA can not re-
main a one-man show. And, having the de-
fects of HIS virtues. the general so far has not
been able to fit into any other kind of opera
ton.
Therefore. any new paper reorganization
and there have been several in the past-is
not apt to be effective so long as the general
remains at NRA. The real choice apparently.
is for the President TO continue NRA as an
outright johnson organization or to put it
under a new administrator or board as an
integral and disciplined part of the larger New
Deal operation.
We share the growing public belief that
the latter choice is the better one But proba-
bly, either Of those two alternatives would be
less hazardous than the present disastrous
method of trying to let General johnson 60
and keep him at the same time.
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By w. H. Richards.
Indiana has no reason to be
proud of its generosity in grant,
ing a pension to the aged. The
pitiful amount on which it is ex-
pected for those too old to find
employment to live is a disgrace
to a civilized community.
One man, 70, almost stone deaf
and tottering as he walks, gets the
munifcent sum of ST a month.
He has not living relative and
owns no property. In his lifetime
he has produced enough wealth
to support large family in
luxury for a century. He lives
alone in one room for which he
pays 81 a month. This leaves him
So, or 10 cents a day with which
to buy his food, clothing, medicine
and tobacco for his pipe, his only
extravaganza If he has any left
he may indulge in such luXuries
as he may desire.
This man has not spent his
earnings in riotous living. He has
lived clean, frugal life and at
one time had a considerable sum
saved. He has been past the dead
line of employment for the last
twenty years, and as he never got
more than a fraction of the value
of what his labor produced, he
had no chance to save enough to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
THE MISSION DRIVE

THE indianapolis Flower Mission has
= launched its campaign to obtain hos
pitsl for tuberculosis patients. a structure
which will house lO2 patients.
There can be no finer contribution to the
health Of city than contribution to this
cause. There is no hospital in Indianapolis
or in Marion county for that matter which
Will admit an advanced case Of tuberculosis
The Flower Mission did maintain hospital
for such cases, but 1t was condemned as fire
trap IN 1880 and closed.
Since the closing OF that hospital the mis-
sion has made every possible move toward in
surfing against the spread Of tuberculosis. All
this has not been enough. Children still con-
tinue to be exposed to the germs of tubercu-
loSis. whole families in some cases finally come
down with the dreaded white plague"
The New Deal. through its public works
administration. now has made a hospital for
advanced cases possible. The sum of s3s.5O0
has been granted toward the construction Of
the hospital
The mission through the years has accumu
lated an additional s5OOOO this ii has
offered toward the objective. approximately
s55OOO remains TO be raised and that amount
is the goal Of the missions drive.
The Indianapolis Times hopes that every
citizen will do his share. that the Flower Mis-
sion viii be eminently successful in its drive.
There can be no finer cause.
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IMeager Old Age Pensions Branded Disgrace

keep him free from want i'll his
last years. His savings have
melted away.
He is only one of a large group
who, after being a wage slave all
his life, is forced to beg for
crumbs that fall from the table
of the class that has made mil
lions by appropriating to them
selves the lions share of what his
class produced.
So long as the capitalist system
exists there is no security for the
workers. The only hope is that
the downtrodden toilers unite and
use the power of their great num-
bers to transform the industrial
system so that there shall be no
more extreme poverty or extreme
wealth, but that all shall take
part in both the production of
wealth, and in its enjoyment.
The workers will never get any
thing more than they have the
power and the will to take. The
ballot is the peaceful way to uni
versal security and the only way
by which a terrible disruption can
be avoided with the sacrifice of
human lives.
Prosperity for all is truly "just
around the corner" but we must
turn the corner to socialism, for
there it is. waiting.
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better than property himself He was attached
to the soil. and his life was at the mercy of
his overload The whole development Of
feudasm vas simply the story Of society's
effort to evolve some kind Of protection for
hin.
When the common man Of those days tried
to win a little freedom for himself. he had no
abstract concepts Of liberty in mind. Our
modern concern over freedom of speech and
conscience would have been beyond his under
standing
Liberty. to him. meant the right to own a
bit Of property, and to be secure in that own
ership. no matter how much the rich and
powerful might covet what he had.
As the years passed. this struggle for free
dom continued. The merchant in the town.
the peasant on his farm, the exporter who
took pack-losds Of goods over makeshift roads
or sent ships past the haunts Of pirates-all
Of these people wanted, first and foremost, to
be secure against the threat of dispossession.
If freedom meant anything to them, it
meant that. Property rights, Their, meant
human rights, very directly
Now the property right of those days was
a very personal thing The ordinary man was
struggling to get out from under; he could
do it only through the medium of his pos
sessions
To be able TO do what he wished with his
own was the supremely necessary first step
on the road to liberty.
What we need to do today is to study
whether that still holds good in a time OF
far-fung, impersonal corporations; to deter
mine, for instance, whether the same sacred
ness attaches to corporations rights in a
coal mine. for instance (which no stakeholder
has ever seem, as it does to peasants pos
session Of a COW which is his family's insurance
against starvation.
We might find that the fight for freedom
today is on a different basis than it was GEN.
turtles ago-and, on the other hand, we might
not. In any case, we need thorough public
discussion of the whole subject
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MunitiOns-A Came
XXTAsHINGTON, Sept. 12.-some of the ties.

TASHINGTON Sept. 12.-Some of the tes-
w timony before the senate munitions COM
mttee:
Senator Gerald , Nye-Doesn't this letter Gin
which Vickers official referred to Geneva or
some other fancy conventionD indicate desire
that the arms conference fail?
Henry R. Carse president, Electric Boat Com
pany)-Naturally no one desires action to be
taken that would be contrary to his interests
| Senator Nye-Who are the troublesome or
CARNATIONS" referred to here Gn Vickers let
ter of 1889?
Mr.. Carse-Oh, there are pacifist organiza-
tons in England as we'll in this country.
Sir Basil zaharoff Gin letter to Mr.. Carse)
| 4 quite agree with you that the era of sub
marine boats is opening all over the world.
| You may count upon my little efforts
always working in your direction.
Mr.. Carse Ito Senator Nye)-Sir Basil is a
very modest man.
Sir Basil Gin a letter to Mr.. Carse acknowl-
edging receipt of ACT pesetas)-with which
I am doing the needful.
Mr. Carse Go Senator Nye)-I don't know
what the phrase means. He never told us.
One can make all sorts of guesses.
CIR BASIL Gin a letter of 1928)-My fifty
- years experience with government represen-
tatives tells me that tact goes long way.
Senator Homer T. Bone-I'm unable to I'M
derstand why the United States goes to the
expense of sending naval officers around to adj
wise other nations how to build good navieS
using the navy as sales agent?
Mr. Carse-Seems to me more a gesture of
good will.
Senator Clark-You know that all your South
American business was based on bribery, don't
you?
Mr.. spear-I wouldn't say that. In my
opinion you couldn't do business in South Amer
lea without paying commissions
Mr.. Spear Gin a letter to Commander Sir
w oil lOO
however. that the real foundation of all South
American business is graft. My own ex-
perience is that at the last minute there is al
ways something extra needed to grease the way.
Senator mellow far would the Electric
Boat Company have got in South America with
out the aid of the state and navy departments,
and your activities with money?
Mr.. Spear-I think they were helpful, but
don't know whether they were the deciding
factor.
Mr.. Spear responding to question of Sem
ator Bone)-Anotner World war would in my
opinion destroy our western civilization
CENATOR NYE-We have it on pretty good
- authority that representatives of the mu-
nitions makers were behind the curtains at
Montevideo pam American conference getting
orders occasioned by such fears as they could
work up
Mr.. Spear (to Commander Craven)-It is too
bad that the pernicious activities of our state
department have put the brake on armament
orders from Peru by forcing the resumption OF
formal diplomatic relations with Chile.
Mr.. Carse regarding his company's request
in 1888 that the state department help collect
money owed the company by Peru)-Why, Eng
land uses its ambassadors all around the world
to collect its peoples debts. So Aubry (the
companys Lima agent) thinks that's all we have
to do. -. OF course understand our state de-.
partment won't
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1 e0holIy disapprove Of 10hot you sag and will
defend to the death your right to say it-VoItaire

vacation were Homer Watson and
myself. On Sept. we were told
we were through. The two single
men remained. 1 wonder why? Mr..
Wayman knows why, although it
will be covered up in some way If
possible and an alibi offered. Mr.
Watson has a family of eight. L
have family of four my wife has
been i'll for the last year, and l was
placed at work by Mr.. Pelfry be-
cause Of my health, impaired by eff
fects of gas received three different
times during the World war
A deal like that smells rather
strong, does it not? And that is not
all; there are other cases of men
working for Mr.. Wayman who have
no one to keep but themselves, and
man with three separate incomes,
and they never were on relief before
going to work. Money paid to those
who do not need it would enable
several married men to support
their familits.
talked to Mr.. Wayman at one
time IN regard to the man with three
incomes, and he contended that as
this man was placed on orders from
Mr.. Book, he was powerless to in
tervene. I wonder if Mr.. Wayman
will contend now that it is on orders
of Wayne Coy?
1t looks as though the boothckers
hold the winning hand in those
cases. Any one wishing complete
data on any one of these cases, can
get it from me at any time and
also have the proof to substantiate
nv statements.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
TWO EXPRESS VIEWS
ON TEXTILE STRIKE
BY Two Strikers.

BY Two Strikers.
am a constant reader of The
Message Center and wish to express
my opinion of the local textile mil
situation. OF course, we realize that
there are always lot of greedy per-
sons fighting against some one who
is trying to work for the poor.
After Charles A. Young, manager
of the plant, had a conference with
Captain Helm, the scabs were es-
corted out OF the plant which Mr.
Young says pays no less than
s13. But, the truth is that there are
checks so small as $3.50 a week, full
pay.
We are glad to see red blooded
Americans on the outside fighting
for the poor while the ones on the
inside are there for no other reason
than to have the higher officials
pat them on the back and speak to
them when passing, which is very
unusual.
Even our best church members
are sticking around and say they
are going according to the Bible. We
wonder what Scripture they use.
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man who is giving his time and tall
ents for the good of his country.
AS an example of the accuracy of
statement and thorough knowledge
and understanding of the questions
involved in the contributions, 1 quote
from an article of Sept. 10:
Il am Communist. 1 believe in
the government of the United States,
but listen!"
The Message Center is The Times
best feature. Keep it up. 1t should
even be syndicated.
And, Mr.. Editor, in order that we
may add to the ever-growing ranks
of amused Message Center readers,
please don't blue pencil this too
much. It's all in a spirit of fun.
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ASSAILS REPORT ON
PENSIONING AGED
By Guy L. Woodruff.

By Guy l.. woodruff.
Running true to FORM the Indi-
annapolis Chamber of Commerce,
after announcing it would make an
investigation of the old age pension
situation in Marion county, issues
a report full of criticism.
It seems that the chamber has
learned nothing from the depres-
sion, especially the important point
that human need is paramount.
I understand that its old age pen
sion report was based on study
of the situation on which not more
than twenty minutes we're spent.
Doubtless the pension administra-
ton in this and many other coun-
ties could be improved. But why
does the chamber demand such a
high degree of efficiency of the old
age pension system in the face Of
the fact that no other law on In
diana's statute books is applied per-
fectly?
Probably the outstanding point in
the chambers report is the sug-
gestion that unless Marion county
commissioners act at once for the
best possible administration Of the
law, no old age pension appropria-
ton for 1885 should be recon-
mended.
Since when did the Chamber Of
Commerce take over legislative
duties? Permit me to point out that
Indiana's old age pension law Is
mandatory-county officials have no
choice but to make appropriations.
To the everlasting credit of officials
of most counties, appropriations
we're made, despite the attacks Of
selfish interests and the difficulties
Of government in a time Of eco
nomic stress without parallel in the
nations annals.
The goal of the leading old age
pension champion, the Fraternal
Order Of Eagles, is a more liberal
law for Indiana. The poorhouse Is
going-liberaI old age pensions viii
hasten its departure.
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AN ANCIENT CONCEPT

~ reply 70 a White House criticism-that
human rights and property rights are insep-
arabic. suggests that We need TO re-examine
the whole question Of what constitutes
freedom.
The inter-relstionship OF human ana
property rights dates back 10 the dark ages.
The legacy OF law and order that came down
from the Roman empire was little better than
q memory. FOR the ordinary man, might
made right. and It did no good to CRY about it.
IN those days the common man was Little
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MESSAGE CENTER
CAUSES SMILES

By Merrill Rockefeller.
By nature, I must have my comic
relief.
Yes, I find it in The Times, all
right, but not only on the comic
page. In The Message Center there
always is generous supply OF those
refreshing little chuckles, and some
times a genuine guffaw that makes
the day lighter.
To get the maximum number OF
laughs The Message Center must be
followed daily, in much the same
manner as Wash Tubbs would be
followed. The loyal reader will ap-
preciate this, for instance:
On Monday, Mr.. Robinson will be
laughed at, have mud thrown in his
face and denounced in no Elsie
Dinsmore- like terms, and on Tues
day, figuratively speaking, will be
set upon a monuments shining
example Of q fine, public spirited
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
MISPLACED CREDIT

EITHER the representatives of munitions
- manufacturers have way of taking
credit for things they never did, or they some
times step about ten miles over the bounds of
propriety.
The American people have not yet forgot
ten how William B. Shearer took the glory COR
whatever you care to call it, for the wrecking
of the Geneva naval conference Now the
senate investigators find a letter in which
Sterling ]. Joyner claims the credit for plac-
ing of two congressman on the powerful house
rules committee in 1928.
1t has been asserted that the Geneva con-
ference would have failed even without
Shearer's efforts. and it may well be that the
two congressman in question would have got
on the rules committee without Joyners help.
But the whole business leaves a bad taste,
in any case. The munitions makers repre-
sentatives either claim too much-or do too
much.
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UNFAIRNESS CHARGED
IN FERA EMPLOYMENT
By RaIph Ruhl.

by haipn huni.
I would appreciate the use Of this
column to advise the public in re-
gard to methods being used in the
employment and discharge of en-
ployes working under the federal
emergency relief administration in
the government food stores in this
city. This work is Under the di-
rection of Frank Wayman.
I was placed in one of the stores
last fall and worked until several
months ago when was transferred
to the main store. I lost no time
and had no trouble with any one.
On Aug. 81, I was notified that
two men we're to take week off,
beginning Sept. 2. Two more men
would be laid of for a week be-
ginning Sept. 10 and so for three
weeks, as there were six men work
ing, four married men with fami
lies and two single men. The first
two men picked for the enforced
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-12
VIEWS PRESENTED
ON CRIME CAUSES
By d. Austin sommer.

By d. Austin SOmmer.
In beautiful Crown Hill cemetery,
almost within a stones throw of the
spot where my mother lies, is the
newly made grave of John Dillin-
ger. We blush with shame at Dill
fingers crimes, and tremble at the
thought that we still have hundreds
like him. We can not help asking
ourselves who is to blame for such
a life.
Dillinger himself was to blame;
for though he was in part a crea-
ture of environment, like all of us,
yet he knew right from wrong.
Without the doctrine of moral re-
sponsibility all society collapses.
Movie directors of gangSter scenes
helped John in his life of crime.
He was bracing his nerves with
their gangster play when he met a
gangsters fate. The directors de-
Tense that I'VE give the people what
they want" is the same that the
saloon keeper and dope peddler
make.
The "czar" of the movies, who
never czared, should hide his face
in shame and guilt at Johns re-
production of crime-plays he per-
mitted. The minimized moral in
gangster play has no attraction
for the mind of red-blooded boy
in comparison with the thrilling
deeds Of violence portrayed.
TT,1co,11r11IO11c criminal LAWYERS
should be classed in society with
their clients, for they encouraged
John and his kind with hope of
escape. We have become nauseated
with the lying defense that the muir
derer's mind went blank" An OLD
law book says Woe unto them who
justify the wicked for reward"
Judges who permit criminals to
escape under cover Of technicali-
ties and tricks must bear blame,
too, for the flood of crime which
carried this gangster down.
Newspapers and magazines which
have featured crime, have lent
their aid in educating John and
his pals.
Many preachers failed to watch
and warn the leaders of thought,
and thus are partakers with them
in the filth which has flowed.
Yea, practically all of us have
helped put John Dillinger in his
unhonored grave, by our indiffer-
ence to moral and civil delinquency.
The remedy resolve that 1 will
cease dallying with the moral things
of life, and will protest against
iniquity and that which leads to
it, and will encourage by word and
deed those editors and preachers
and other workers who are trying
to make the world safe and de-
cent and happy place to live.
1t was not Dillinger who was
public enemy No. l, it was Oily
Dalli-er, the moral trifer, who is
still much alive and loose, and is now
hiding, disguised, in the neglected
regions of our hearts.