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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
RADICALISM WILL
BAR RECOMMENDATION
BY Orie ]. Simmons.

By Orie j. Simmons.
After reading your Aug. 30 edi-
torial, THE Sinclair Sign" I added:
Yes, the reactionary minority
should ponder the victory and
realize that just few such victories
will not merely 'disappoint and be-
tray the masses that voted for the
pamphleteer. These pamphleteer
victories will disgust and nauSeate
and educate the plain people as no
amount of conservative damning
could ever do. Herbert Hoover's
warning of the abSurdity of the New
Deal promised availed nothing. but
silk-hatted pigs are easier for the
still forgotten man to dope out"
AS long as this country stays di-
vided into forty-elght states and
ffty-seven thousand brands Of radi-
Gals with faces turned forward, not
backward" the threat Of regimenta-
ton never will go beyond the
asinine stage of alphabetical essay.
I do not believe that ANY attempt
to correct evil is better than no eff
fort at all" From Drive Them
Out" same date.
A radical knows not the differ
ence between asinine essay and
facing actualities. California can
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
A NEW STUNT

THE most interesting stunt that will be
Il tried in Germany this winter viii be an
attempt by the Nazi authorities to persuade
everybody that it's nice to be hungry.
Germany faces terrifcally difficult winter
The economic crisis gets graver. An actual
shortage in certain food supplies is foreseen.
The raw materials on which many of Ger
many's greatest industries depend can not be
obtained. because Germany has nothing to
use for money to buy them.
So. facing a season of want and hard
ship, the Hitler government is preparing to
meet it in a new way-by persuading people
that tightening your belt is great fun.
The opening guns in this strange propa-
ganda campaign already have been fired. The
bad economic situation is being blamed on the
errors Of Hitlers predecessors in Office and on
the hostility Of certain International cliques"
outside of Germany.
After this will come great broadsides ex-
tolling the virtues Of endurance and self
sacrifice. A tremendous barrage of oratory
billboards, and newspaper articles viii glorify
the Spartan ability to do without things. Ger
many will be sold, if the energetic Nazis pos
sibly can accomplish it, on the idea that a
winter of extreme hardship is only a new
challenge to patriotism.
Now this is interesting, not simply because
Herr Hitler is going to try to make an asset
out of a great liability. Its real significance
lies in its revelation of the tremendous power
which control of the sources of propaganda
gives to a man or party in this modern world.
A dictatorship does not, in the last analysis
depend directly on guns and bayonets. 1t
depends on the power to mold public opinion
All that the guns and bayonets can do is put
that power exclusively in the dictator's hands
In other words, a dictatorship does not
survive because it makes people put up with
its sway; it survives because, quite literally
it can make them like it.
1t does violence to the mind and not to the
body. 1t creates the state of mind that is ia
vorable to it. as long as it can do that, its acts
of actual terrorism are only incidental.
Could there be a greater object lesson in
favor of free speech and free press? AS
long as the sources of propaganda are open to
all, there can be no dictatorship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
EXTREMES IN MOTORING

XGTILLIAM COLLINS. head of the Cook
w county highway police in Illinois, be-
ieves that neckers and naggers cause more
traffic accidents than do drunken drivers.
Engaged couples. he said, indulge in the
traditional by-play of engaged couples as they
drive along the road. Being thus occupied,
they fail to watch their driving closely. Pres
ently-bang! and there's another smashup.
With married couples it often works the
other way. They quarrel, as married folk
occasionally do, set all wrapped up in their
quarrel, forget about the hazards of traffic
and again. there's another smashup on the
highways.
The moral seems to be that any activity
which diverts any part of motorists atten-
ton from the job of driving is likely to have
serious consequences.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
CAPITALS RETURN

IF you can believe Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins, the present period of
economic evolution is going to end in a sys-
tenn of per cent capitalism.
BY this Mr.. Hopkins means that the re-
turn on invested funds will proceed at a much
slower rate than we have been used to in
the past. Capitals share of the profits in
industrial enterprise is going to be smaller,
in other words; the day of fortunes built on
a shoestring will be over, and money invested
in a going company will bring in only little
more than it brings now in a savings account.
The prediction sounds fairly mild, until
you begin to look into it a bit. Then you
discover that it is forecast of almost rev.
dictionary change
The old axiom-never literally true, but
close enough to it for practical purposes
has been that putting your money in common
stocks is speculation while putting it in bonds
is investment.
Buy bonds, and you get sure return,
limited to a certain figure; buy stocks. and
you run the risk OF getting no return at all
but as compensation for this risk, you may
turn a profit many times higher than any
bond issue could bring you.
Under a system of per cent capitalism,
the stakeholder would be right where the
bondholder is today. If he put 100000 into
a company, he would be satisfied to take out
$4,000 a year in profits; he would not be
expecting-as has been the case in the past
that his 100000 would be worth a million
in a few years if things broke right for him.
Those who have suspected the New Deal
Of a radical tinge hardly will be treasured by
Mr. Hopkins remark. This suggestion is rad
ical beyond question. 1t calls for a complete
change in our economic system.
1t took more than the lure OF per cent
to build up this country's great industries;
it took the prospect Of unlimited profits
such as those which made multi milionaires
out Of poor boys like Rockefeller and Car
negie.
Nevertheless, there have been times in the
last few years when any business man would
have been satisfied with per cent-if he
could get it. low profit is better than no
profit at all
A regime in which capitalism was held
to a per cent return might be acceptable,
If capital could be assured that it actually
would get the per cent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05

embarked for France, on arrival
proceeding to the training area, and
was stationed near Perigeux. Here
the division began intensive train
ing for combat service.
However, in October several drafts
were made upon the line companies
for men to replace casualties Of
other divisions then in the front
line. At the end of October the re-
naming skeleton of the division
proceeded to LIE Mans where the
enlisted personnel was transferred
to the First provisional training
regiment, leaving the commissioned
officers unassigned, including Capt.
Robinson. 1t was during this period,
just preceding the armstice that
Captain Robinson was promoted
and commissioned major.
While 1 disagree decidedly with
Senator Robinsons political affilia-
tions, views and statements, I see
nothing discreditable in the above
record, and hope it may settle the
pointless controversy that has been
going on, based largely on rumors
and wilful misstatement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
NATIONS FINANCIERS
DECLARED ON TRIAL

BY Anti-Autocrat.
The Green Bay speech indicated
that our government does not in
tend to repeal the laws and rules
governing the operation of business.
The blanket barrage of the cham
pions of rugged individualism in
Weighs against government inter-
ference with business. Since bust
ness has been, in control Of gov
eminent, the rules it calls inter-
ference are merely checks on the
foul players; the rules were not
made in advance, but only after the
foul punch had been struck by some
business.
Why did not our egotistical bust
ness heads change the gears in our
economic machine, during the four
years they were running in reverse
in the Hoover administration?
All the printing of the pump for
starting the wheels has not re-
duced an acceleration necessary to
absorb men on relief, who could
produce their every need, if per-
mitted to do so by this has beer"
gang of incompetentS.
Finance capitalism is on strike,
a strike which has cost our nation
many times more than labor strikes.
VIII these f1nanciers break the
nation, or will the nation break the
financiers' strike by creating an in
dependent, publicly owned system
of banks of credit and issue, and a
public system of production and
distribution, which will supply the
needs of all the people in album
dance? The financiars are on trial.
If they fail to produce soon, the
public will write fms.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
HIGH COST OF MONEY

DURSUING its intelligent experimental
II method. the administration did one thing
after another to restore normal. credit. It built
up an enormous machine of potential credit
initiation. lifted the banks back to their feet,
established a deposit guarantee system to
obviate the need Of hquidity and steam
shovelsd in the taxpayers money to encourage
lenders to lend and borrowers to borrow.
Some Of these experiments obviously are
not working For about a year. bank loans
have been declining steadily. and in recent
weeks there has been a discouraging evidence
of a general recession in private business and
employment.
In view OF charges that one OF the reasons
for the failure of credit to circulate is the
excessively high toll exacted by creditors. the
time appears ripe for this open-minded adj
miniStration to take fresh look at the record.
The farmer. through the farm credit ad-
ministration and subsidiaries. can get money
at per cent to refinance his mortage, at
per cent to produce new crops and at 4 per
cent to hold his cotton or corn of the market.
The urban home owner. in distress, is
charged per cent for Home Owners Loar
Corporation mortgage.
The home owner. borrowing for repairs on
an unincumbered house. may be charged up
TO OF per cent for loan from his bank in
Sured by the federal housing administration.
Che nominal rate is per cent, but because
the borrower has to pay the interest in ad-
vance on the whole sum and repay the prin-
cipal in inStanments the real interest can run
up 70 81 per cent?
The housewife. living in a community with
reasonable electric rates. may purchase cleo
trical household appliances on electric home
and farm authority installmsnt credit with
real interest averaging about 10 per cent.
Industries. denied credit by local banks,
may borrow at the rate prevailing in the
community" generally per cent-from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation or from
a federal reserve bank. on adequate security.
Railroads pay 5 and So per cent to the
RFc for operation loans. and I per cent tin-
terest free the first year, TO the public works
authority for improvement loans.
Cities. counties. school districts and states
borrow construction loans from the public
works administration az per cent
Bark and mortgage companies can borrow
Tor the RFc 81 per cent and then re-lend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
RELIEF WORKER
COMPLAINS
BY a Relief Worker.

By Relief Worker.
1t seems poor persons here have
to beg for everything they get and
then many Of them are turned
away.
The high cost of food makes IL
hard on the relief workers. 1 have
five in my family and get TWENTY
one hours a week at 40 cents n
hour. The $40 a week is needed
for food and then we do not have
what we want to eat. There is gov
eminent food, meat, butter, corn
beef. and -four to give to relief
workers with their little weekly
wages, but just a few workers get it.
You have to be on the right side of
the fence to get anything.
School starts soon and there are
no clothes or books. Winter soon
will be here. There is no extra
money for bed clothes TO keep the
poor warm. Is this what Indiana
calls New Deal-making beggars
out of good, honest hard working
men. think President Roosevelt
is o. K, and 1 still have faith in
him, but these little state men put
in Office under him are tearing IN
every good thing he wants done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
WEDNESDAY. sEPT. S. ls1s,
HOOVER, CONSERVATIVE CRITIC

HERBERT HOOVER has written a book
Il Il attacking the New Deal. He calls it
The Challenge to Liberty Part Of it IS pub
lished in advance in the current Saturday
Evening Post.
Il is easy enough 10 reply to Mr.. Hoover
with Wisecracks. After all he is like the badly
defeated general who is taken out when the
army is in retreat who returns to find another
general regaining the ground he lost and then
proceeds 10 lecture his successor on how it
should be done.
SO Mr. Hoover knows that he is a target for
ubes. The fact that he goes ahead. and voices
his criticisms Just the same is an evidence Of
courage.
Nor can his announcement be ignored as
an outpouring OF personal spleen. On the con-
trary the published portion is singularly free
from personalities or bitterness. It does not
have the marks Of comeback campaign ora
tory.
Mr.. Hoover writes as one who sincerely be-
Heves in the old order. and who feels called
upon to warn the nation against its passing.
He does not do the job very effectively,
especially because he is confused in his own
mind about liberalism. He thinks he is de-
Tending liberty Liberty" is a large word
most politicians and political economists.
from the extreme Tories on the right to the
Communists on the left. point to it as the
goal OF their conflicting systems
But the issue of government in a de-
mocrscy is how to achieve the much discussed
largest liberties for the largest number. Mr..
Hoover believes in the kind of liberty which
existed in his administration. which worked
out in actual practice as freedom for the few
and bondage for the many-bankruptcy bond
age. debt bondage. breadline bondage.
Most Americans, after the disastrous ex-
pertinent with the old order in which Mr..
Hoover still believes. prefer to trust their
liberties and livelihood to the New Deal ex-
pertinent. We share that faith of the ma
jority
But it is an experiment. AS such it is sub
ject 10 trial and error. If it is to work, the
errors must be detected and corrected. Hence
the need for critics. particularly conservatives
who are super-critical That is the function
Mr.. Hoover seems to have taken upon him.
self, and it is a legitimate one.
II the New Deal can not profit by criticism
and survive its critics it is not worth as much
as we think it is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
SLOT MACHINES
AND POLITICS
By a Blindman.

BY a Blindman.
Slot machines usually get a lot
of attention just before an cleo
ton, mostly to get the so-called
church vote into the sack.
Politics as the American play il
must have a source of long green
to pay the regulars who depend or
election day wire pulling jobs. The
candidates do not pay for the whole
show. Donations come from the
interests whose stalking horses the
candidates usually are.
Have not slot machine owners for
years played part in financing
these political dramas?
Part of the game is the regular
or irregular drive on these machines,
or rather on the owners Of the out
side machines.
It would be interesting to have a
complete list Of the donors to polit-
ical campaigns and to know their
connection, not forgetting the roles
they play later in the game, when
public and private interests conflict
That is what makes our democracy
so interesting and amusing.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
| WhoIIy disapprove of aOhGt you sag and wiU
defend to the death your right to sag it.-Voaire.

learn much from a dip into the mire
of pseudo Utopia, and forty-seven
other states can profit by her Mega
tive example.
Some day the people of this ma
ton will have tasted so many
brands of silly cure-all, they will be
sickened. Then will arise new and
better crop of timid and conservative
men. with much finer series of
clubs and private offices and homes
millions of them-in which to sit
whilst they damn radicaliSm.
Conservatism is its own worst
enemy. We just got tired of being
the best fed, best clothed, best
housed people on earth, with no
spree Of wild theories to amuse and
entertain. We started rebelling
against sobriety, against wearing
clothing, against staying married,
against working for living, against
history, against keeping written
promises, against cold logic, and in
the fun Of kicking over the traces,
we found actual evils to rebel
against too.
Also, radicalism is its own worst
enemy. If we could Just elect Hey
wood Broun as President, the reac-
ton to decency would leave the ma
ton sane for decades to come. Vio-
lent poisons often defeat their own
purpose by being such good emetics,
if taken in large doses. This let
ter is not to be read by radicals.
They can not reason very well.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05

safe at home on mothers breast OF
feeding the chickens.
am glad you think I never voted
the Democratic ticket. I sure want
to forget it, so help me.
You talk as though all Republi-
cans were crooked. Well, maybe so
but I notice the Democrats are let
ting quite a few of them out of
prison; maybe they think they will
need their help in future elections
Well, they should show their appre-
citation in some way.
I suppose you have landed posi-
ton with the civil works admins
tration at $24 month and think
these are good times. I would like
to refer you to Presidents Harding
and Coolidge's administrations as
an example of what real prosperity
was. OF course, Mr. Hoover was
different. He turned from a Demo-
crat and ran on the Republican
ticket just in order to give the
Democrats one more chance. Me for
Robinson and his veterans bunk
I served as a machine gunner
with Alvin York. You all have heard
of him,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
BY LYLE A. BROOKOVER
copyright, 1884, by United Press
M ASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-Developm


WAsH1NGTON, Sept. 5.-Developments in
w the NRA dispute within the last few
days indicated today that the ak is swinging
for General Hugh S. Johnson if he persists in
opposing reorganization plans of other New
Dealers.
Insiders believe General Johnson is aware
of the situation. He is expected to back down
next week when he confers with President
Roosevelt at Hyde Park. If Johnson insists
upon continuing his one-man control of MIRA
the chances are he will be out of job in the
relatively near future.
There are strong indications johnson will
back down and keep his job
The nub of dispute between johnson on one
side and Miss Perkins and Richberg on the
other is:
Shall NRA become a vehicle by which in
dustry may govern itself or shall there be a
large measure of federal supervision?
Bound up with that question is Johnsons
personal relationship to the Blue Eagle He
believes industry should govern ITSELF that the
federal trade commission should remain
stripped of former authority to enforce anti
trust laws against monopolistic price fixing.
Rlchberg, who was second man in the MIRA
setup and now is secretary of the executive
council, joins Miss Perkins in demanding a
firm federal control over industry.
THE United Press was informed on unim-
l. peachable authority that the breach be-
tween johnson and other key New Dealers
began almost year ago. soon after NRA
began to function
Informed persons make the unqualified
charge that Johnson has consistently refused
to cooperate in the administrators general
attack on depression. The recent, much
publcized row between johnson, Richberg and
Miss Perkins merely brought public attention
to situation which has troubled the White
House for some months.
An official who followed the NRA dispute
from its inception explained it today to the
United Press as follows:
In the Roosevelt recovery army" the in
formant said "NRA and AAA are the forward
divisions to carry the brunt of the enemy at
tack. Public works and other government de-
partmentS are supporting units, similar to
finance. ordinance, and quartermaster depart
ment in the army
Inc federal emergency relief is mopup'
DIVISION, comparable to the Red Cross
We might as well carry on war without
general staff as to operate this recovery army
without co-ordinating board and a general
plan IN which all divisions work together.
"Lightning-hke changes of policy are un-
doubtedly brilliant military strategy but they
are dangerous unless they are merged with the
general plan"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
GENERAL EVA

I OGICALLY. the Salvation Army at its
- London meeting chose Miss Evangeline
Booth as its new general
Daughter OF the army's founder, she per-
sonifies its spirit. Since girlhood she has
worked to reclaim the untouchables. Along
with her songs and sermons have gone warm
food and clothing for the hungry and ragged.
OF course, it is not enough to reclaim mis-
cradle individuals while the society that made
them miserable is unreclaimed. But even un-
der a regenerated society there will be need
for personal help and friendliness.
Here is one army and one general every ma
ton hopes Will win.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
DEBAUCH
BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Swift beauty pressed me down and
held
Me spent; with pallid cup to lips
I drank a draught of purple mist.
1 drank the sky in shuddering sips.
I drank the suns last crimson
drops;
In anguish held the weight of trees
To pinioned lips and knew the
strength
OF beauty, terrible and freel
At length, quite drunk with beauty's
wine,
I was released; too weak TO try
To stir I lay and gazed into
The calm. mauye peace Of twilight
sky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05
Charges LaGity IN Prison Administration

H. D. Claudy and his assistants,
Evans and Ferguson. Guns and
ammunition we're found by one
of Claudy's stool pigeons a week
before the break and no search
was made for other guns, but
four or five innocent men who
had not been in the institution
thirty days we're put in the hole
and then in seclusion for six
months.
Welfare island was given
shakeup, but it was Sunday
school compared to the admins
tration of w. H. Daily and H. D.
ClaudY.
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this taxpayers money to the taxpayer fol 81
per cent. as in the case OF housing.
The government is trying to persuade the
citizen to make use Of high interest loans.
VIII the little man borrow at such rates2 Can
he afford it2 Before the administration goes
much further in its consumers credit program
it will have to get the answer to these ques-
tons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05

By Richard AppIegate.
Your paper speaks the truth, no
matter whom it helps or hurts.
Why give Governor McNutt and
Warden Louis Kunkel all the heat
for the escapes from the Indiana
state prison? I am one who knows
and saw everything from the start,
from the shirt shop until the
passage through the front door,
of the most daring and smoothest
escape in penal history, that of
Harry Pierpont and his gang.
Let me ask, was it under the
supervision of the Democrats? No.
1t was right under the nose Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-05

LIKES ROBINSON AND
| VETERAN BUNK
By a Fighting Soldier

By a Fighting Soldier.
Will you be so good as to grant
me an audience in the Message Cen
ter again?
Replying TO James F. Walker.
The first time I met Senator Rob-
inson was in the Argonne forest.
He was an officer and well liked by
his men. However, don't think
that viii interest you as it was more
than 1000 miles away and you we're