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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
THE TYPHOID MENACE

CATURDAY eighty residents Of the little
- town Of New Bethel went to the high
school and received inoculations against ty-
phoid fever. The epidemic has ragged in the
town for many days. with the result that one
young man is dead and several other persons
have become III.
Reactions at a community meeting
Wednesday night led many persons to believe
that perhaps the residents of New Bethel
would not heed to the pleas of cooperation on
the part Of Marion county health authorities.
But apparently this feeling passed. and the
citizens of the community have decided to
heed the advice that lives are more important
than petty chickering's.
The residents of this town are to be con-
graduated for the change IN their attitude.
1t Will prove profitable in the long run.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
BABY BANKS

LEW realize that congress in its last hectic
Il days enacted a truly important bit of
banking legislation, the Sheppard bill, author
ling the federal government to charter credit
unions.
Under this act. when signed. the Farm
Credit Administration may natiOnalize and
standardize the young American system of
baby banks" an institution that many con-
slider a key to unlock a vast amount of frozen
consumer credit The District of Columbia
ana thirty-eight states now permit credit
unions by law The Sheppard act will extend
their benefits to the ten remaining states
The credit union movement is young in
this country but not in the older nations. 1t
started in Germany forty years ago Today
Germany has some fifty thousand such con-
sumner banks" comparatively managed by
peasants artisans and small business men.
They are commonplaces in Ireland South
Africa. India. Canada and the Scandinavian
countries. Here they have been operating only
decade and already there are more than
> $50 credit unions with total membership OF
100000 people and assets of Sos 100000
Il IS significant that in the United States
credit unions have weathered the depression
bravelv. Although they are self-managed
there has been recorded not a single instance
Of forced liquidation in the last five years.
This probably is due 10 the fact that they
have remained small III membership The
danger lies in their becoming too large
Properlv run credit unions should prove
tremendously useful in recovery. They should
encourage thrift. mobilize small savings for
cooperative use. and turn into buying power
the ,Inworked gold mine Of credit based upon
character. Credit unions Will not hurt the
hanks for these are fundamentally merchants
services They will hurt the loan sharks. now
charging people from 80 per cent TO as high
as 100 per cent year for small loans.
In the odd country" millions Of farmers
- r-,cs earners have doubled their eff
cheney. improved their livestock. added to
their wealth and that Of the community
tnronrb cooperative banking. Millions IN
,bis country should be able to do the same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
FOR BETTER LIVING

TT is seemly Of the administration 10 plan its
rehousing campaign along educational in
stead Of ballyhoo lines. But the country win
be deprived Of the higher social returns from
promote the larger values Of aesthetic and
social planning.
Banks and loan companies should be per-
suaded to cooperate in the mortage insurance
plans. Investors should be told of the ad-
vantages Of the new type of insured and
standardized first mortgages to be made avail
able under the act. Doubtless, railroads should
be urged to reduce their rates and material
men their prices in order to bring construc-
ton costs within easier reach Of home build
ers. It is even more important that the bill
lions Of private funds that may be released
for renovating and new home building be
turned into channels that will enrich the
nation in the years to come
For generations Americans have been
building their cities, towns and villages with
out benefit Of order, imagination, social well
fare, or sense of beauty. Most cities have
tried to ape New York, its skyscraper offices
and apartments. its dingy slums. Slovenly
towns have sprawled themselves along high
ways and railroad rights of way with no
thought of community appearance.
The process that the mock turtle would
call the publication of the United States has
gone on almost unchecked. Here and there
the city planners have been heard, and social
architects have built communities after pat
tern The colonial type towns of Cape Cod
and the little Mediterranean city of Santa
Barbara are examples of what can be done.
The new building movement may offer
America its opportunity not only to WOO and
win prosperity, but to set in motion forces that
will carry its civilization far beyond the old
ideals
We are five years behind IN normal build
ing and We should this year be spending
So OOO.OOO,OOO more on construction than we
are. The new housing act should make it
easier to raise the money. If we spend with
some thoughts of a better life every one of the
new building dollars will multiply itself in the
satisfaction of new wants.
Conducted with less rugged individualsm
and more social cooperation the rehousing
movement in the new few years can become
a dynamic uplifting force.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
HUMANE AND WISE

COME l 200 deportable. but otherwise worthy
- aliens were due for exile this summer un-
der the immigration law.
Colonel D. NJ Mccormack, the depart
ment of labor's new immigration commissioner,
could see no justice in tearing these people
from friends and families, while racketeerlng
and criminal aliens, legally here, were al
lowed to remain He asked congress for a
law authorizing the department to separate
the sheep from the goats and deport only the
undesrables.
This would not have increased immigra-
ton. since for every alien permitted to remain
one. person would have been checked off his
countrys quota. The measure came into con-
gress late 1t was met by the prejudice OF
certain restrictionists who persuaded house
members that it would increase immigration.
1t was lost in the closing days of the session.
Colonel Mccormack however, did per-
suade congress 70 give the department power
to stay the deportations until next session.
Studies revealed that $40 persons who other
wise would have been deported would leave
behind them 987 members of their families,
children and adults, OF whom 83S are United
States citizens. Approximately Cos Of those
left would have become public charges. For
each three deportees the country would have
had to support four as dependents.
The next congress should remedy this
manifest folly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
MONDAY. JUNE 3 1904
ANOTHER BANK STORY

A N official Of the United States district
\ court has filed a report that contains
many serious charges against former officials
Of the former Fletcher American Company.
These charges are to be aired in open
court in view Of the fact that an appeal
from the report already has been taken.
Today a new bank. which according to its
officers has "a clean slate" has been rebuilt
on the site OF the old Fletcher American
National bank Of which the Fletcher American
Company was a subsidiary.
The charges made against the old institu-
tons subsidiary have no effect whatsoever on
the new bank.
Indianapolis, in the last few months, has
witnessed many and varied revelations against
financial institutions which have gone de-
funct
OF course. the charges in the Fletcher
American Company case which have been
made must be aired in open court and must
undergo many tests before their proof is ap-
parent.
This case like all other bank cases in the
city, must be laid before the public and there
is no doubt but that in the Indianapolis fed
eral court the case will be given the fullest
consideration and judgment always necessary
in matters of such Importance
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
Middle Glass Fares Badly Under NRA

BY One of Many.
We have been told house di-
vided against itself can not stand.
The NRA is splendid in itself, but
there must be some one higher up
who is a traitor to the cause. We
know it isn't our beloved President
then whom?
One year ago to we of the mid
die class, who barely got by
through the depression, the NRA
seemed heaven sent. We viSioned
ourselves riding in good cars
again, living on a little better
scale. going places, and saving a
little on the side, but it is a
changed picture, now. Men whose
salaries we're cut to the lowest
possible level, who have given the
best years of their lives to their
employers, now find themselves
either fired outright, or brow
beaten into quitting their jobs
and for what? Employers con-
stantIy sing about the men they
can get and plenty of them for
$14.50 a week to do the same work.
Is there no protection under
the blue eagle for such men who
have executed their duties faith
fully and honestly? Must their
homes, some nearly paid for, be
sacrificed; must they lose their
cars and in some instances up to
$4,000 worth of good furniture for
a 5000 or $500 mortgage?
Why did the cleaners scrap their
code? What is there to prevent
other industries from following
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
WORK FOR EXPERTS

-RESIDENT ROOSEVELT has no inneol-
i ate task more difficult than selection Of
the seven members Of the new federal COM
ulunications commission
Unfortunately. TOO few men in this eoun-
NV have both the experience and the public
x,fsu-poiut essential to the purpose OF the new
commission
A stupendous task lies ahead. The COM
mission assumes wider powers over the radio
eel6 than are now exercised by the expiring
federal radio commission and undertakes
limited jurisdiction over the telephone and
telegraph industries. The men who start the
work Of the new commission are called upon
nv congress 70 study and recommend addi-
tional legislation. This looks toward more
complete indignation Of the nations communi-
cations facilities 70 the end that the people
NAV be more efficiently and economically
served.
The logical place 70 find talent for the
commission Is In the various state regulatory
boards among men who have learned by sore
experience the difficulties involved in con-
trolling the large public service corporations.
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suit? Then suppose that does
happen? 1 am not a Red, not
even a Socialist, but do you think
intelligent American citizens are
going to lose all they have gained
and do nothing?
1 won't lose my home without
first fighting back for all 1 am
worth. What would working men
do with thirty-hour week? Three
years ago, I used sometimes forty
gallons of gasoline a week on
pleasure jaunts, I buy less than
five now. No pleasure trips any
moreno shows-no vacations,
and barely enough wages with
which to provide the necessities of
life.
Those who are on city or county
relief profit by the NRA, because
$1450 every week looks big to
them, but for $50 and $50 week
men to be reduced to SIG and $18
a week is disastrous.
AS an aftermath OF the depreS-
sion, we find ourselves worse off
than we we're during the actual
depression. During prohibition I
could afford all the beer I wanted;
as it is, I can't even afford the
luxury of an occasional glass, as
my extra money must go to a
milkman.
Living expenses have increased,
my family has increased. and my
wages have decreased; that is the
plight of one of many.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
MINTON CONSIDERED
LOGICAL NOMINEE

BY A. Leader.
Asking for r. Earl Peters nomi-
nation for United States senator
upon the ground that he was OPP
posed by the Governor was the pre-
dominating cause Of Mr.. Peters de-
feat.
While Mr.. Peters professed to and
did indorse the administration, those
with an imaginative cause for
grievances against the 1888 re-
medal legislative acts recognized an
opportunity to combat the Governor
over Mr.. Peters shoulder, thus I'M
Intentionally detracting attention
from Mr.. Peters merits and worthi-
ness of recognition, all to the detri-
ment of his candidacy.
1t was recognized by the rank
and file of the citizenry that the
resentment against the Governor
was due to the much-needed tax
spread, utility and other imperative
ly needed remedial legislation to-
gether with the imposSibility Of pro-
viding positions for all applicants.
All this was considered by the log
ical thinking citizenry as an illegiti-
mate excuse for the reputation OF
the Governor and his administra-
ton.
At all times the delegates were
out of bounds of organized control.
The selecting of a citizen other
than Mr.. Peters as a senatorial can
didate was the result of growing
desire on the part Of the delegates
to resent the movement for repucia-
ton Of the state administration,
which I dare say, without fear Of
successful contradiction, is popular
with the masses.
Sherman Minton's undef1led stew
ardship in public Office, together
with his personality and stamina,
made him a logical nominee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
FAIRGROUNDS ON
NORTH SIDE URGED

By G. L.
The editorial in The Times of
June 81 entitled, North Side Need"
as to mo playground between
Thirty eighth street and the canal"
is both timely and good.
The park board may now plead
financial difficulties, yet the Wood
stock Country Club is leased to 1t
by the city. Why not have the city
lease from the owner a large tract
of ground at Central avenue and
Forty sixth street, between Central
avenue and Washington boulevard,
which could be leased during the
summer months for perhaps a small
rental to help him pay the taxes.
The north side civic clubs should
get behind this movement and
make it an issue. I am sure the
progressive Indianapolis Times
would help to establish such play
ground which would also be agree
able for adults to have the more
abundant life" in the New Deal of
which another editorial on the.
same date speaks.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
PAIN
BY VIRGINIA

BY VIRGINIA
I planted my love and watchd it
grow
Slowly, at first,
1t pushed its way through,
But I gave it TO drink
Rain from my tears,
And it Toasted and thriv'd on my
smiles
Through the years.
I tenderly nurSed each bud
AS it came,
Watch'd over them,
Worshipped them,
Called them by name,
Tended companionship to the last
bloom called love
With the help Of the Master Gar
dener above.
1t grew to be of astonishing height.
And 1t wound its long tendrils about
my heart,
Tight,
II drank up my tears,
II ate up my smile,
Slowly crushing my heart
All the while
I destroyed it! Love, I had To dare.
The pain was more than I could
bearl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
RECOVERY PROGRAM
CALLED FUTILE
By a Terre Haute Reader.

BY Terre Haute Reader.
General Hugh S. johnson says:
Higher prices first, and then will
follow higher wages" This is equal
to saying we must first have an air
plane, then we can invent an air.
plane.
Prices on commodities are not de-
termined until the cost Of produc-
ton is known, and for the welfare
of the nation, the outstanding Of
these costs is labor.
Granted, however, that prices rise
first let US analyze the result.
For more than a year the brewer
les have been allowed to charge sic
barrel for beer-outrageous TO be
sure-yet skilled mechanic enters
a brewery and offers a service which
at the very least should reward him
$3.50 an hour. But the greedy profit
grabber takes the advantage of the
mans misery and offers him 50 a
day, in the belief that if one will
not accept it another will.
And where is General Johnson to
take my part?
A lot is being said nowadays about
chiselers. The only real chiselers
are those who always were-the
greedy profit getters.
1t does not require a Philadelphia
lawyer-it requires nothing more
than a boy TO figure out that higher
prices are ruination-not prosper
ity. The more your dollar will buy,
the more you pull out of the market,
and the more labor it requires TO
replenish the market.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
ICE MAN REPLIES
TO NIGHT TOILER
BY The Ice Man.

BY The Ice Man.
read your paper every night and
have for years. I did at one time
sell it-when I was boy Today
am an ice man trying to make a
living. I see in the Message Center
Night Toiler complains of noise.
Night Toiler has job probably
where the roar of machinery keeps
the neighbors awake or some other
kind of a noisy job. Nobody is
knocking about his job. We prob
ably all would be working if we
could find jobs.
have been in other towns, and
have found that the ice man and
fruit peddlers yell their lungs out
or ring bells there as well as here.
So you see, Night Toiler, we ali
have to yell for a living. If you are
going to kick, why don't you pick
on everybody-the ice man, the
ragman, huckster, the ice cream
man. the paper boys, and the coal
man?
I believe in a fair living for every
one whether it is yelling, singing or
preaching.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

umn on June 81 about colored in
preference to Negro, we as a group
laud the writer of the letter for
calling the public's attention to
things we've often discussed among
ourselves.
This group formerly praised The
Times for its action in bringing To
light corrupt political bosses and
machines, not only in the county,
but the state, so as to aid num-
Der of our race in the future.
AS advice to The Times, don't be
a small-town paper and let the
News put you in the rut with our
people.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
PROTESTS AGAINST
VACATION SET-UP

BY a Faithful Reader.
. The letter by c. j., headed, De-
ploreS State of Nonunion Workers, -
sure hits the nail on the head.
In my particular major oil COM
pany. vacations this summer are
being given as follows:
All office force employees receive
ten days with pay; all maintenance
supervisors receive ten days with
pay; all all garage mechanics get
ten days with pay.
Why the service station attend
ants don't get vacations with pay
the public will nave to figure out as
it is too deep for me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
l 1OhoLty diSapproUe of a0hat yom sag and a0iU
defend to the death yor right to sag it-VoLtoire.

The Roosevelt plan of recovery is
going east by going west. Flowing
under cotton, killing off hogs, and
putting land out of production does
not lead to prosperity, except for the
chosen few who do not need it eX-
cept to satisfy an uncomfortable
greed.
Let the people own the machines
and all other means Of production
and prosperity will reign in the land
forever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

federal commission must be done in co-opera-
ton with state commissions
Novices can not be expected to cope sue
cessfully with the high-priced lawyers of the
great monopolies n the communications field.
and as is the case with similar federal regu-
latory bodies, the public is not represented by
counsel-the board itself having to perform
that function
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
PROPOSES LOCKOUT
/. OF CAPITAL

BY KY.
An editorial in Forbes Magazine
declares that capital has gone on
a strike.
The most effective way to get rid
Of a striker is to lock him out"
and let him starve to death.
The way to kill striking capital
is to declare a moratorium on gov
eminent bond interest, and let the
striking capital starve to death or
go to work in productive enter
prise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
NEW RELIGION BORN
IN RED RUSSIA
BY Walter Z. Martin.

BY Walter z. Martin.
I have read the letter by Jack
Dolan in The Times Of June 20. He
grants the death of the old and the
birth Of the new religion in Russia.
Those of US who have been
privileged to hear Paul Wyson ex-
plain the application of Russia's re-
vived practical Christianity now are
able to understand it's benign
processes.
Fervently, We thank our God that
Christ Is Risen"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
LETTER ON NEGRO" AND
"COLORED" APPROVED
By Spokesman.

By Spokesman.
The writer of this article speaks
for a group of co-workera, number
ing about twenty-five persons, all
catering to everyday downtown
business.
Referring TO a letter in this col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

MIR. GEORGE BRONSON REA. who is here
lVA as the unofficial observer of the Japanese
fostered state of Manchukuo, is being mentioned
as one Of those who will receive from Emperor
Kang-Teh the former Henry Pu vi, the Order
Of the Orchid"
The newly created order Gts full title is
Grand Imperial Order of the Orchid') has nine
grades. The highest decoration is called the
Collar of the Grand Order of the Orchid" and
the lowest the Grand Order of the Prosperous
Cloud"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

A savage night bird is believed to be ter
rorizing a section of a Long island village.
New York has practically no control over
liquor sales.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

Roger Babson says this country is on its
way toward dictatorship. He probably hasn't
read the speeches of some of our congress
men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

BY this time Finland should be sorry it
paid its war debt installment on time, since
so much more attention is being paid to the
other countries.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

General Douglas Macarthur brought suit
against two Washington newspaper men for
sl.75oOOO for alleged libel. and the writers al
most thanked him for the compliment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

Science Will take the place Of man in the
role OF father. in years to come. says a Phila-
delphia physician. There seems to be no hope
for women.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

The fact that half the houses in eight
American cities have no bath tubs proves
we're not so bad, after all. At least that many
families never made gin.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

Hopeful sign of recovery: One of Detroit'S
exclusive business mems clubs recently black
balled an applicant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25

Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, U. S. minister to
Denmark, has won a third share in large
Ceylon tea company thus making her eligible
for bigger diplomatic post.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-25
BELIEVES NEGRO BETTER
THAN COLORED
By J. A. Smith

By J. A. Smith.
I am quite sure that the better
informed Negroes hold view oppo-
site to that of a contributor to this
column signing himself "A Witness
who prefers the word "colored" to
Negro.
Use of colored is inaccurate. Be
sides the black, there is the yellow,
the brown, the red, and to make it
complete, the white race.