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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
THE TEXTILE STRIKE

A a prod to the administration to enforce
labor provisions of NRA and the textile
code the almost unanimous union vote for a
national strike may help. But if the issue &C
tuaIly is allowed to come to a strike two weeks
hence, the chances of labor victory are slight.
Perhaps that is why the national officers of
the union vent along with the rank and file
demand only reluctantly.
Labor has a case The fact that textile
code violations are widespread seems clear. The
25 per cent cut in production time authorized
by NRA last June for three-month period
not only took one-fourth of the low wage out
Of the pay envelope but also increased the evil
stretchout system. So, although NRA pre-
viously had added about one-third to the num-
Der employed in the industry, raised the pitt
full minimum wage, and enabled the union to
multiply its strength more than fve-fold,
textile labor on the whole still lacks living
wage and a free bargaining power
If this we're prosperous industry in pros
porous times, national strike might be effec-
tive But it is difficult to see how a national
strike can remove the chief barriers to labors
welfare under present conditions.
The three major causes of the present bad
conditions seem to be:
l. A limited textile market rejecting gen.
eraI business conditions and inadequate ma
tional power national strike can not
change that.
, Extreme disparity of conditions within
the industry, with some employers dealing
fairly with labor and some not. The chiselers
in turn apparently consist of two groups; one
group of INSCRIPTIONS employers and COM
pettors, and another group of companies so
inefficient and uneconomic that they can not
comply with the code and survive. While local
strikes might correct some of these conditions,
a national strike would tend to align the good
employers with the bad and create a power
full united front against labor.
g. The breakdown of MIRA This is a gen.
eral condition, not peculiar to the textile code.
1t has grown progressively worse until the
President is now in the process Of completely
reorganizing the work of code enforcement,
especially labor relations. This is a difficult
task involving all industries involving indeed
the future of the Roosevelt administration and
national recovery. 1t can not be achieved
simply by a national textile strike.
But The danger of this and many other
strikes. most of them growing out of the same
failure of NRA machinery, should hasten the
Presidents long-delayed reform of NRA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
THINKS BIRDS ARE
NOT APPRECIATED
By Hiram Lackey

By Hiram Lackey
Will men or insects be the future
masters of the earth? What does it
mean to US to learn that there is
danger of human life becoming ex-
tinct with the passing of bird life?
This problem is disturbing the
minds of our great scientists. Birds
are an important factor in deter
mining the success or failure Of the
human race in its struggle for exis-
tence.
The success Of plans for the pro-
lection Of birds against their enc
miles must necessarily rest on the
public attitude. Today, the writer
was told by a staff member Of The
Indianapolis Central Library that
A. DuPuy's classic entitled Our
Bird Friends and Foes" is ready for
readers. An enlightened public
opinion which DuPuy has made
possible. can and viii give TO birds
their rightful place IN the interest
Of men.
If the beauty of plumage and
song that strike so tremendously
upon the heartstrings Of lovers and
poets could be felt by all Of us. this
old world would drop its rlantle of
melancholy and burst int0 a song
Of redemption,
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by business is based on its ability
to stand on its own legs.
The reverse forces government
to do the spending. The contrac-
ton of credits by our banking sys-
tenn is steadily going on, as 1t has
since the Wall Street crash.
That program means less spend
ing continuously by business. I'm
less government speeds up its
spending program to overcome the
contraction being forced by f1nan-
cial institutions, the final outcome
will be disastrous.
This rt-sighted policy OF
business and finance spells final
collapse for all. Confidence" is
not matter soothsaying, but OF
action demonstrated by deeds.
Less government spending before
business shows its backbone,
only adds to the unemployment
problem, which has caused the
spending program of the govern
ment. The fear was here before
it started and will have to go be-
fore the spending can stop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
HITLER'S ENEMIES

HFRR HITLER Is holding a popular ref
II erendum all by himself. Opponents are
verboten.
Americans DO not give Hitler the high
rating OF genius accorded him by his Nazi
idolstors. And yet even the most democratic
American should at least give him credit Tor
genius in one direction. That IS his capacity
for making enemies. Few dictators in his
torv have achieved world diStrust so widely
and so rapidly. or have won such bitter hatred
az home.
Abroad. even the dictator he tried to imi-
tate. his friend MuSSolini. has had 10 mobilize
an army against him His Austrian fellow
countrvmen have executed some Of the Nszi
plotters. killed others in civil war and chased
thousands out OF the country. Not content
with the enmity OF France. Belgium and the
little entente nations, plus the new enemies
italy and Austria, he has added Great Britain
and Russian to the list; and the little sister
Teutonic nation. Holland. is reported in anti
Hitler negotiations.
OF course. there IS nothing unusual in
demaeog using foreign enmity for the pa
trioteering purpose Of turning hostile home
opinion from himself TO the alien Zoe.
But Hitler's genius for multiplying enemies
at home seems even greater than his capacity
abroad. He started by numbering Communists
followed With Socialist victims. then destroyed
old line trade unions, and hunted down mild
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liberals. Then he turned from the left to the
right and his predecessor in power, General
Won Schleicher. vas shot Finally he purged 10
death goodly number Of his own Nazi aids.
That was something Of a record IN nonparti-
sanship Of persecution.
At the same time he approached even
handed injustice in his treatment Of religion.
Though he was more ruthless in prosecuting
Jews. he soon earned the hostility Of Catholic
societies and churchmen. Now the Protestant
clergy are openly defying him and his edicts
and being jailed, Of course. Indeed, the re-
ligious leaders have been far more heroic in
their defense Of the real Germany. and
against Hitlerized distortion Of Germany, than
most Of the political leaders.
So Herr Hitler is staging what he calls a
plebiscite. The object is to prove that his
victims love him. This is to be achieved by
the simple device Of controlling not only the
election machinery and secret police, but the
press, radio and all means of communication
through which the citizens are being warned
in effect that any one who votese against
Hitler is an enemy Of the state.
In the Nazi lingo an enemy of the state
means a person Of any age, sex political or
religious belief who is in danger of being taken
for ride.
The people Of the world may judge Hitler
BY such plebiscite. but they will not judge
the German people by it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

BY Critic.
Much ado seems to be made Of
the fear that business is sup
posed to have developed by the
spending program of the govern
ment. If business had any con-
fidence before this spending pro-
gram was started. there would
have been no need for starting
the government spending program.
1t is the lack of spending on the
part of business that forced the
spending on the part of govern
ment. And if business can not re-
sumo it's spending program, while
government is giving it a boost,
then government will have to in
crease its spending rather than
decrease it. No responsible gov
eminent would drop its spending
program until business shows its
ability to pick up the responsible
ity. To stop the program before
business shows its capacity to go
it alone would only aggravate the
need for more spending. Con-
fdence to proceed with spending
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
SEES NO REFORM
UNDER REPEAL
Rv CRYSTAL Gazer.

BY Crystal Carer.
What did we really solve about
the liquor business when the prohi-
bition amendment was repealed?
Bootlegging still is prevalent; the
saloons that were not to come back
have merely adopted aliases. The
accident toll has increased sharply
Would you say that drunkenness
has decreased with an increased
supply? Is the effect Of liquor le-
gally sold less harmful to the VIC
tim of alcohol? Is there no more
collision Of law officers, with the
spigot twisters, no more bribery,
rake-offs, pay-offs or partnership
between government and booze?
We saved" our boys and girls
from the booleggers to turn them
over to our nice" rum shopkeepers.
Hail the new professors in rum
educationl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
SEES JOKER IN
HOUSING ACT
BY Circus Spectator.

BY Circus Spectator.
The housing act is another one OF
those things we are supposed TO
swallow with our eyes shut. If we
can ONLY be patient long enough
while our economic doctors go
through our pockets, we will come
out of this coma soundly broke. To
get a loan, to make repairs to
Ieaky roof that we had to let get
leakv while our pockets were being
emptied, we are now supposed to
60 to a bank to whom We have been
perfect strangers for nearly five
years. or to a building and loan
whose officers had 10 yell for help
to the RFC or the Home Loan bank.
This gag is all right for the in
side boys playing the slap me on
the back" game. The money ring
circus performers will fix up the
property now they have foreclosed
on. their teammates will do the
furnishing Of the material and con-
tract the work. The profits will
stay close to home. FERA workers
will have to keep on holding UNI
brellas over their leaky roofs, their
pay envelopes don't entitle them to
new roofs. Neither do our smart
business leaders know how to find
productive job" for these relief
cases" Any way we go we are sup
posed to borrow ourselves out Of
debt. the whole relief program is
based on more debt, while debt is
the cause of the economic collapse
Bassett Jones. engineer and econo-
mist. cites figures to show that we
have a 800 billion dollar debt in
this country with only 200 billion
collars Of property If we can dou
BILE the debt before We write it of,
we can keep on tinkering with nous
ing acts and relief doles quite a
while yet.
We have everything TO build new
things with, plenty Of materials
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

GOOD NEWS

COMMANDER V. NJ. ARMSTRONG wisely
~ and courageousIy has announced that
politics Will be kept out Of the state legion
convention, which meets at Gary on Aug D.
Charges Of meddling in local and national
politics have been levelled frequently at the
legion in recent years. Whether they have
foundation or not such accusations are bad
for this great fraternal organization It's Of
fcials should treasure its reputation so leal-
ously that they keep 1t above reproach-
The founders Of the legion were well aware
Of the insidious danger that politics might
bring 10 il. That was why they inserted the
following paragraph in the constitution:
The American Legion shall be absolutely
n0npOlitical and shall not be used Tor the
dissemination OF partisan principles nor for
the promotion Of the candidacy Of any per
sons seeking public Office or preferment- No
candidate for or incumbent Of salarled
elective public Office shall hold any Office in
the American Legion or in any department
or post thereof
The congress paid the legion the high hon
or Of granting II a national charter. The con-
stitution Of the legion is a solemn covenant
between the veteran members and the peo-
pie Of the United States. Every legionnaire
has a deep and abiding moral obligation to
keep the faint OF partisan politics out of the
organization
There have been numerous cases in which
individuals have used their legion connections
to further selfish political ends This Is the
sort Of thing that Commander Armstrong is
anxious 10 stop. He is right and every de-
cent thinking member should back him to the
limit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
DEPLORES CONDITION
OF PRINCIPAL STREETS
Nv NevVcOmpF.

BY Newcomer.
Why must indianapolis, boosted
as a town of beautiful homes, have
streets on its principal residential
bouIevards which jolt one into i'll
humcr and disgust with the city
management? At first I was i'm
pressed with the progressive ap-
pearance of indianapolis, due
mostly to it's well-kept and attrac-
tive residences, but after living here
a short while I changed my mind
One must drive down North
Meridian and Illinois streets. Capt.
toI and Central avenues and Wash
ington boulevard, principal north
side thoroughfares like a drunken
driver in order to avoid the ruts
and corrugated surfaces"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
ASSAILS SACREDNESS OF
DEBT OBLIGATIONS
By OnlOOker.

BY 0nlOOker.
The Lafayette Journal and
Courier seems to be disturbed over
the four and one-half billion dollar
increase in the national debt in the
last year.
It does not seem to be disturbed
over the multiplied debt of citizens
represented by fixed charges, such as
mortgages, bonds and taxes, where
that multiplication is the result Of
lowered income for wages, rents,
commodity price declines and fail
re of corporate earnings. Bank
ruptcy of the farmer and business
man, also the decreased buying
power of wages, do not seem to dis
turb the country's single track
minds. 1t is no wonder we founder
in social science. if we fail TO place
our emphasis on human we'll being,
as paramount to gold, leather,
shells, beads or any other fake
standard.
The longer the total debt prob
lem is left to grow, instead of re-
ducing it. the greater the crash in
evitably will be. We are as cock
eyed about our own internal debts
and their sanctity as we are about
the foreign debts. Debtors and
creditors who do not earn income,
upon which rests their ability to
pay, are as useful as stoves on the
desert. When our antiquated money
fetish ceases to be the driving
power of industry and it is replaced
by social credit" which will de-
liver a maximum of goods to all
consumers, we will not be bothered
by debts, either pulic or private.
In the meantime we are just kid
ding ourselves over the "sacredness"
Of debt obligations and feed our
selves hooey and bologna and yelp
for relief loans and dOles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
SEES DISCRIMINATION
IN LICENSE SITUATION
By A. b. c.

BY A. b. c.
We are forced to pay peddler's
licenses of SO year, then the po-
lice allow any one to peddle with
out a license. This is just as much
a law as traffic laws. so why can't
the police have traffic officers asd
r. -orcycle police pick up every che
without a license? If any one is
peddling with soldiers or sailor
liense, the license is supposed TO
correspond with license on car. Also,
push cart peddlers are supposed to
have licenses.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
Summary on
Your Birthday
RY VIRGINIA KTDWELL

After all. we are completely mated.
Our love has made us think and
feel as one
And with desire for each we're never
stated;
We match at work or rest or hav-
ing fun.
Each year We find our love has
drawn US nearer;
Our interests and emotions never
pail
Each year our growing love has
shown US clearer
We are completely mated, after
all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
FIREMAN SPONSORS
BROWN DERBY ENTRY
BY a Fireman.

BY a Fireman.
To all city fremen:
Once year Indianapolis crowns
her most distinguished citizen with
the Brown Derby. This year let's
put this crown on one Of our own
fire ladies
now nominate one you all know
and like, John l.. Sullivan
Come on, you 500 boys in blue, and
let's make this selection a landslide
for our own Indianapolis fire de-
partment.
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and labor, all we lack is money and
with what money we have, we feed
the politicians in style, the relief
men for tinkering jobs and keep the
factory wheels moving at a snalIs
pace. Where did our leadership
escape from? Who put the joker
in the housing act?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
Daily Thought

For though 1 be free from all men,
yet have I made myself servant
unto all, that I might gain the
more.--I Corinthians, gig.
1T is fit and necessary that some
Il persons in the world should be
in love with splendid servitude.--
South.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

Editors Note-Albert HI. LOsche,
city purchasisg agent, explained
that this year the city continued
its old contract signed in jan
uary, 1888, which provides that
two gasoline companies furnish
gasoline at 5.S cents gallon
below the standard price at serv-
ice stations.
When the county asd the post
office department advertised for
gasoline bids this year, Mr.. LOsche
said, the best bid was 3 cents
below the service station price
Rather than risk being forced to
pay a higher price under a new
contract, the old contract was
continued, he said.
Mr.. LOsche said he was
unaware whether or not any con-
tractors were interested in either
of the two gasoline companies
supplying gasoline to the city.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
Capital CaperS
BY GEORGE ABEL

Fan, handsome Jesse Isdor Straus, Amer
l. lean ambassador to Paris, dropped into the
state department the other afternoon to say
good-by to friends before sailing today to re-
sumo his post.
Hello. jesse" was the greeting as the pleas
ant-faced envoy appeared silently on thresholds,
a decidedly Rooseveltian smile on his lips
L heard you weren't going back to France,
Mr.. Ambassador" said an acquaintance, voicing
the general runlor
Il sail Saturday" replied Envoy Straus sue
cinctly.
He vanished into the office of Undersecretary
William Phillips Gust back from the north), to
discuss current matters" luncheon at the
Carlton a few talks with friends over haze OF
cigar smoke, an interview at the White House
with Chief Roosevelt, and Jesse was of Tor New
York s.. and, despite all rumors, Paris.
Note-Jesse's visit was surprise to several
friends here. But he is always persona grata,
and the hearty echo of tales about Jesse" lin
gered in state department corridors for some
time after his departure.
Jesse STRAUS isn't the only diplomat sail
j ing these days. In fact, the difficulty seems
to be pick diplomats who aren't sailing for some
place.
White haired Ambassador Trucco of Chile,
who few down to his country recently and
suffered injuries when his plane crashed, has
arrived in New York via the slow steamer route.
His son and daughters accompanied him.
Second Secretary Senior Don Mario Rod
rguez was on hand to greet his chief and
escort him back to the capital by train.
Charge d'Afaires Jules Henry of France has
arrived in Washington after a weeks stay in
Newport. during which the excellent Jules took
occasion to inspect several yachts great
yachtsman and fond of sailing the briny deep
is this Frenchman from the midi who has often
gazed upon the blue Mediterranean.
The minister of the Netherlands. Jonkheer
H NJ van Haersma de With, has sailed aboard
the good Dutch boat Statendam, bound for his
native Holland and an audience for his gracious
sovereign, Queen Wilhelmina.
Former Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills still
continues to cruise along the Atlantic seaboard-
from Narragansett Pier to Newport and back
again-aboard his yacht, the Avalon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
URGES CRUSADE ON
SLOT MACHINES
By One who Knows.

By One Who Knows.
Your reporters might be Of great
public service by publishing the
names of the owners OF the Marion
county slot machines. II would also
help guide the voter how TO cast his
vote.
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INQUIRY ANSWERED
ON GASOLINE BIDS

By Curious
Why is it that the city has not
asked gasoline bids in the last two
or three years? In the past it has
been customary to receive bids
every year.
If The Times will have its re-
porters look into the matter, 1 am
sure it will find some interesting
revelations. The city purchasisg
agent. am told, is buying gasoline
and oil from a company owned or
controlled by a certain prominent
street contractor who also gets a
lot of street work from the city.
Please look into this and turn on
the light"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

Private beach; small extra charge for fish
ing and grabbing, says a summer resort item.
But any husband knows he can get the crab
bing at home without any extra charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

dam-minded United States is predicted
for the near future by President Roosevelt A
good many Republican ex-ofice holders nave
been minded that way ever since last election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18
The Message Center

(Pimes readers are iHUited to cypress
their UielcS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so az can have a chance.
Limit them to $50 words or leSs.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

Considering all the turmoil about shorter
hours it's a sort of relief to see them steadily
going into effect on daylight without the need
for mediation.
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So They Say

am interested in a social insur-
ance program only in SO far as it
tends to restore the equivalent Of
the garden and the woodpile which
our industrial readiustment has
taken away-Owen D. Young.
To any one who will work it, the
soil will offer a real living Harvey
Firestone, rubber magnate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

A lot of beautiful blends have found that
they can make more money telling stories to
juries than they can writing them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

Cities and states owe the United States
total Of sl2OOOOO 600. Couldn't Finland be-
come one Of the United States to set an
example?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-18

When We read that Vice-President Jack
Garner is going on vacation, We wonder
whether he Is headed for Washington or leav-
ing there.
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Note-Jesses visit was a surprise to several
friends here. But he is always persona grata,
and the hearty echo of tales about Jesse" lin
gered in state department corridors for some
l time after his departure