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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-18
THE BIG PARADE

THE big parade from beer joints within the
city limits to those outside the corporate
limits viii start soon after Mayor Sullivan
signs the 1 a. m. closing ordinance passed
Monday night by the city council
The idea of the ordinance is good. There
is no question but the public health and safety
will be improved in Indianapolis through en-
forcement of the ordinance.
But while Indianapolis is observing the law
If it docs-Marion county will be reaping the
benefits.
The city limits only are few minutes ride
from the downtown district. Anyone who
doesn't have his fill of beer or hard liquor by
l a. m Will not hesitate to taxi or drive to
the nearest place outside the limits.
Consequently the slot machines which are
operated throughout the county will begin
paying higher dividends and the operators Of
beer joints will find a better paying public.
City authorities should gain some measure
Of cooperation from county officials so that
the enforcement of the law will not be an
absolute farce.
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THOSE GERMAN DEBTS

CECRETARY CoRDELL HULL wisely re-
- fused to dicker with the Nazis for pay
ment of German obligations due American in
vestors. The United States government has
international troubles aplenty without setting
itself up as collection agency for private in
vestments abroad.
When Great Britain threatened to seize
German trade balances in London, the Nazis
backed down and promised TO pay full inter-
est TO British investors. Now, We demand the
same treatment for American investors We
could not do less and keep our self respect,
but, after all, it accomplishes no more than
that.
The British buy more from the Germans
than they sell to the Germans. Hence the
German trade balances in London. But we
sell TO the Germans twice as much as we buy
from them. Our trade balances are in Berlin.
Thus We haven't a big stick, as Britain has, to
force Germany to honor her debts.
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ture. IN the united Sac. always las been

ture, In the United States, always has been
primarily a family entertainment.
It has not been like the legitimate stage,
which offers homely plays like "Lghtnin'"
and sexy exhibits like Earl CAROLS revues,
simultaneously.
Americans have had the custom Of taking
the family along, when they go to the movies
Producers with an ounce Of perspicacity might
have recognized the fact.
That they didn't recognize it is glaringly
apparent. Their trouble not only has been that
they mixed stag-party entertainment and
family offerings promiscuously; they did it
with a smirk and leer so that the manner
was often more offensive than the matter.
All Of which is emphasized by the spon-
taneous way in which the drive for cleaner
films has swept the country. But this drives
vast growth, so eloquent of the faults of the
movie makers, is also eloquent about our
selves
1t is at once our strength and our weak
ness that moral issues" always absorb us. We
have. collectively, a conscience. Moved by this
conscience, we sometimes do very fine things.
Once in while. however, we go a little bit
farther than the situation warrants.
There is a chance that we may do that in
connection with the movies
This campaign, springing from the honest
resentment Of plain people all over the coun-
try. can lead to things that these plain peo-
pie don't desire. 1t can lead, for instance. to
a rigid censorship; and a censorship that be-
gins with the movies might easily spread to
the magazines. to the daily press, and to the
public platform. 1t could ruin, not only our
movies, but our liberties as well.
It is possible for us to make Hollywood
understand, Enthusiastically, that we want de-
cent films, to which man need not be afraid
TO take his family, without going to the length
of a censorship or handing over power to pro-
feSsional reformers.
There is middle ground between salacity
and repression. It's up to us to find it-and,
when we have found it. to camp out on it.
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FORTUNATE KNOXVILLE

THE city OF Knoxville, Tenn, is to be the
Il first major town to get IVA electricity.
The Electric Bond & Share Company has
accepted an offer for its Knoxville plant. de-
pendent upon bondholders taking $3.50 for
their holdings The bOndholders are expected
to do So since that is much more than the
present market price. And it is much more
than the bonds will be worth if the city goes
into competition with the privately owned
. company.
Just how fortunate Knoxville citizens are
individually YOU can understand when you
look at the electric rates they are going to pay
They now pay an average Of Sc cents kilo-
watt hour for domestic electricity. IVA Will
sell 1t to them at:
cents for the first so XVIII.
cents for the next 80 XVIII.
cent for the next zoo XVIII.
mills for all over 400 XVIII.
But their good fortune goes beyond do
mestic saving. Knowles industries Will save
thousands Of dollars through cheap rates
Some Of these savings. no doubI. will be passed
on to the employees in the form of better wages
and passed by the employees into the chan
nels OF trade.
High wages and low power rates are better
Tor any city than the reverse-high power
rates and low wages.
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all the blood and other waste from
Strengthening, and also sewage from
toilets used by 100 or more employees
into the creek.
After about three years of this
pollution, I noticed that some of the
cattle refused to drink the water
and I began making investigations
and found the creek bottom in a de-
plorable condition. I took the mat
ter up with the city and county
boards of health with no results.
Each year conditions grew worse as
the business increased until now he
creek has become a mass of slime,
filth and maggots and the odor is
equal to that from a cesspool.
On Aug. 9, 1881, I found thou
sands of dead fish in the creek and
have the photographs and films in
my possession. I made an appeal to
the state superintendent of fisheries
with no results. I have also made
several appeals to the state board
of health and no action was taken.
At present, the creek is in an I'M
believable condition. I have had
sick COWS, losing one, and my tenant
has also lost a COW. I can't prove
that these COWS died from drinking
the water, but I can't believe that
the water is fit for the cattle to
drink. We have had sickness in our
family and we were told by our
physician that our drinking water
should be boiled.
7 asked the county board OF
health officer about three weeks age
to investigate, he promised to come
but hasn't appeared as yet. The
prosecuting attorney was called on
and he wouldn't have anything to dc
with it. Just before the last cleo
ton I was told that nothing could
be done while the Republicans were
in power, but that the situation
would be taken care Of with q
change in politics. The condition
now is much worse and every one ]
approach say that there are no
teeth in the Indiana laws at the
present time.
Would it be possible for you to
send a representative to investigate
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WFDNFsDAY. JULY. 1s ~.
MOVIES AND NEWSPAPERS

A MEXICAN newspapers seldom have gagged
at. or refused. any Of the sexy come-on
type Of advertising put out by the movies.
They have published reams Of Slush relative to
the love life Of Hollywood There has been
little sustained newspaper protest against ex-
ploitation Of sex perversion and the deifying
by the movies Of gangsters and crooks.
Now that the forces modified by the
churches have risen in protest. certain ele-
ments Of the press arc showing a distinct ten
dency toward self-absoluuon and recently &C
quired sanctmony. Experienced editors know
that the reading public has a very real ca
pacity for sensing hypocrisy. It Will behOove
newspapers not to squaVk too nosily about
the mote IN the movies eye and forget the
beam in their own.
Throughout the postwar era there has
been a steady swing toward greater liberalism
in both art and letters. Newspapers adjusted
their technique to the popular taste Some
exceeded all reasonable bounds and pandered,
just as certainly as did some movie producers.
Meanwhile, it would seem that the bowling for
Will H. Hays blood might be confined to those
papers which risked advertising receipts and
popular displeasure by protesting against the
class of picture now under fire, before such pro-
tests became so popular.
There is no denying the high purpose &C
tuating those heading the present movement
to clean up the films There is no denying
that millions. regardless of religious convic-
tions. are in sympathy with the efforts of the
League OF Decency and its non-Catholic
allies. But neither can it be denied that the
boycott welded by a minority group is a dan
gerous weapon which generally begets danger
Gus contradictions
It is the mission of a newspaper to report
life. Reporting does not, per sc, involve in
dorsement. But. if the tide Of moral taste
turns, and swerves back toward crinoline and
long underweaT-against bridge and for au-
thors. for church socials and against dancing
lit viii be a poor service to journalism for
safety-playing editors suddenly to discover
that they have been for this sort of thing all
along
There is no substitute for sincerity. The
ohurchmen now crussding against the movies
are desperately sincere. It will be well for
editors to be equally so-regardless Of where
this sincerity aligns them.
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BY Old H. X. s.
I was gratified that you gave
me spot" position on my recent
contribution against brewery
domination, anent your editorial
concerning possible brewery
war.
I really meant it when I sug-
gested that your staff of inquir-
ing reporters might well look into
the matter of the personnel be-
hind some of the oreweries and
beer taverns.
Mike Hanrahan is a fine fall
guy in this by-the-drink arrest
situation, but I wonder whether
Mike put up the $4,000 or $4,000
necessary to fit up that now IA
nous grille. also wonder whether
Brother Fry or any of the state
house coterie really believes that
Mike put it up.
Does the fact that Mike started
to call his place the Berghof Grille
intimate anything to anybody? I
don't mean to intimate that I
have anything against Mike, for
1 don't know him personally and
I must admire him for getting
about $1,000 worth of publicity
out of the Democratic city and
state administrations activities.
There is another matter entire
ly aside from the decent sort of
a place Mike runs. And it all
ties into the political and near
brewery domination of the beer
and liquor business. And that is
the springing-up of "joints" (and
no other word will fit) which have
become noticeable if not numer-
Gus in indianapolis as we'll as,
possibly, throughout the state
with the breakdown of regula-
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lions concerning the sale Of hard
liquor.
A case in point is on North
Delaware street in this city,
which up to last Saturday was,
ostensibly, just one Of those cigar
stores which more or less in
cidentally ran a rhum or domino
game. Now it has bloSsOmed out
into a beer joint cavern is not
the word in this caSe) and the
sign on the window adVertises ice
cold beer and sandwiches.
1t is noticeable that the window
is frosted with stippled paint up
above the heads of passersby. On
the inside, what does one find? A
pine veneer bar, a pine veneer
back-bar, even large panel of
veneer pine taking the place of
the conventional mirror. A few
chairs occupied by arguing DRINKS,
a baseball ticker and a cigar case.
The bartender cheerfully serves
you either Patrick Henry or
Cooks in a f1fteen-ounce glass for
a dime, or he will just as gladly
serve you a drink Of blended liquor
in any form or gin drink. Asked
for a sandwich, the bartender
said:
We'll, we've only been open since
Saturday and we haven't our
sandwich arrangements made yet"
And yet, the state excise de-
partment is supposed to know that
an applicant Is in a position to
sell food and that his place has a
certain seating capacity. Other
places downtown and elsewhere
have been compelled to put in
stools at bars, no matter how many
tables they have.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TINES
HE'LL IVY LEE!

A THOUGH Germany under the Nad
"A regime pleads an insufficient exchange to
meet obligations abroad the German dye
trust has managed to find $4,000 year to
pay Ivy Lee for advice on Nazi behavior.
Ivy Lee is the man who discovered gold in
public opinion. His saga begins with the time
he applied his alchemist touch to the reputa-
ton of John D. Rockefeller. Ever since, rich
men and corporations have paid Ivy lavishly
to wave his magic wand.
Mr.. Rockefeller, it is said, gave some atten-
ton to Ivy's advice. But the Hitlerites, in
disregard of his counsel, went ahead harassing
Jews and rafting sabres, thereby deepening
the American distrust he was hired to allay
Ivy's fee. however, probably is not contingent
upon saving the Nazis from their own folly
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Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL

INTERIOR SECRETARY HAROLD ICKES is
l. finally going on vacation-the first holiday
he has taken since assuming his position in the
cabinet. He will leave tomorrow for Glacier
National Park.
Ickes' decision to take vacation is the direct
result of a wire from President Roosevelt, who
previously urged him to take few days rest,
without much effect.
When, after much insistence by the Presi-
dent, Ickes and Secretary Wallace mOtored down
to Skyland, Va, for several days, Wallace util-
lied the spare time to write a book and Ickes
wrote three speeches.
According to present plans Secretary Ickes
probably will meet President Roosevelt in Port
land, Ore, and accompany him on a tour Of
eastern oregon and through Glacier National
Park. In Ickes' own phrase, however, he will
lust bum around and look the place over" I'M
til the arrival of the chief executive.
7 TITLE 7-year-old Jose Luis Vale, son of the
IL newly arrived charge d'affaires of Brazil,
Mr.. Freitas Vale, has becomes telephone adj
dict.
Fascinated by American phones. Jose Luis
has begun to call up all his fathers friends in
the diplomatic corps. He has learned to ask
for the number in English and can also say
Hello! Henol" but he talks in Spanish.
His father plans to put him in Washing
ton school this fall.
Il want him to learn two indispensable
things" he informed a friend. English and
baseball"
T AIRY RICHEY has left by plane to see "the
IL chief"
In case you forget who Larry Richey is he
was formerly secretary to President Herbert
Hoover The Chief" is the way he still refers
to the former President.
Larry is always cordial, and always faithful
to his late boss. He keeps in close touch with
Hoover He has an Office here, but he frequently
Journeys to the west coast.
Glimpsed at luncheon in the Hotel Mayfow-
err this jovial member (some think the only
jovial member) Of the old Hoover encourage re-
marked:
YES I'm going to fly out to California and
see the chief. I'll be glad to get away. I expect
to be gone about three weeks or so and do a
little golf playing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-18
GRUFF POLICEMEN AND
INFERIORITY COMPLEX
By JaYWalker

by JdyWdAhtEs
I read in the papers the other day
that Cincinnati police have equipped
their automobiles with loud speak
ers, and when they see someone vio-
lating traffic rules, they politely
call attention of the tranSgressor to
his error.
1t probably is a good thing the
members of the indianapolis police
force are not similarly equipped. If
they we're, persons on downtown
streets probably would hear CONVEX
sations, such as this:
Hey, you blankety blank so and
so. get back on the sidewalk and
wait till the light changes. Say, old
lady, where do you get that idea,
jay-walking? Back up there, blank
ety-blank it-get back of that line
I don't care if you are from another
state and don't know the traffic
rules"
Traffic policemen lead a trying
existence, 1 know, and some of
them, not enough, unfortunately,
have gotten the idea that courtesy
pays. But there are others, includ-
ing officers not on traffic, who seem
to think they have to puff out their
chet.s, get red in the face and bel
low insults to everyone within ear
shot on the slightest provocation.
1t seems to me that the average
person would have lot more re-
spect for policemen if the officers
always were courteous, or at least
differentiated between persons who
have committed minor or technical
offenses, and those who are tough
criminals.
Maybe the gruff, 'hard-boiled"
cops really aren't that way. Maybe
it is just their way Of covering up an
inferioritY complex.
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PURPOSE
BY WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD
By II. Foley.

BY WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD
With singleness Of purpose, many
claim,
LIES greatest prizes usually are
gained.
They say success only can be
obtained
BY those who play a single-handed
game.
Yet, although it may bring both
wealth and fame,
7 envy not the man who has
remained
Upon one craft in life; who IS
enchanted,
Like galley slave, to but single aim.
For, when this single purpose
skaters; when
This bubble, built by capitalists
and kings,
Bursts, as it very often does, what
then?
The papers daily tell us what it
brings
Three fifths Of all our suicides are
men
Who stake their liYas too much on
single things.
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DON'T GO TOO FAR

THAT the people OF the United States. at
- time when new currents in politics. in
economics. and in social reform are demand
ing all the attention men and women can give
them, suddenly should become engrossed in an
effort to purify the movies is an eloquent
Phenomenon.
It Is eloquent because it tells a great deal
about cur movies, and about ourselves.
First, about the movies.
They have had something Ike this COM
ing 70 them for long time Whatever the
Hollywood moguls may say about their art"
the plain fact remains tina. the moving pic
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NUDISM CALLED BAD
AS GANG MENACE


By Earle S. Bailey.
1t is a wonder to me, as suppose
it is to a few others, why there is
not more said against the doings of
the nudistS.
The world in general must be sew
eral degrees in favor of it. The
editor of a large newspaper could hit
it hard. 1t is also a wonder to me
that the authorities do not suppress
it. Is there some great power back
of it that they fear?
In my judgment, the authorities
are to blame for the practice exist
ing now, for I think there is law
againsct obscene pictures and public
nuisances, such as public bathing
beaches, which are almost nudist
camps themselves.
All these things, and other SINH
lar ones, have in the last twenty
five years, on account of weaklings
in law enforcement Offices, tended
to lead to nudiSt camps, which is
altogether as fearful a thing as our
modern gangland.
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STREAM POLLUTION
CASE PRESENTED

By Mrs. Anna Canen.
I have been advised that The In
dianapolis Times has been conduct
ing a campaign against stream
pollution and was advised to write
you of a case of pollution that ex-
lists at Elkhart.
am a widow owning a farm of
100 acres about three blocks south
of the Elkhart city limits. On my
farm have pasture land of twelve
acres with yellow creek running
through it. I have seventeen head
Of cattle and a tenant has two head
pastured on this land.
About ten years ago the Elkhart
Packing Company built a plant on
the creek directly across the road
from my pasture land and empties
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Glass cotton and glass wool are being man
ufactured, and soon we may expect glass
clcthng-if only to make it easier for us to
see through some of our acquaintance.
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this condition? Would appreciate
any advice or information you could
give us to help clear up this situa-
ton. 1t seems like it is impossible
for us to get the case before the
Droper authorities.
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l a0houy diSapprove of a0hat yom sag and wW
defend to the death yom right to sag it.-Votaire.

that the candidates are not con-
trolled by any clique or faction, or
never was affiliated with the Ku-
Klux Khan. BY that time, 1 expect
the candidates of the Democratic
party will be more than glad to for
get that they sanctioned such acts
as the NRA and AAA.
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The Message Center

Times readers are tnvited to cypress
their Utetcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 Uords or Iess.J
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RAPS INVESTIGATORS
OF RELIEF WORKERS

/
OF RELIEF WORKERS
BY H. d. Stiles.
l would like to ask the Governor
of Indiana whether he has given
investigators authority to remove a
man from relief work for not keep
ing account of every penny he
| spends.
In other words, worker is al
lowed so much a week for food and
if he buys 10 cents worth more of
beans than allowed, he is raked
over the Goals and told to econo-
mize or be removed from relief.
If investigators have this power,
they should remove all workers who
diSobey. For we are all the same,
only some are more unfortunate
than others.
The ones who are fortunate
should not put the unfortunate
down in the gutter and kick them.
Some day we may rise up and take
things in our own hands. am not
Red, but it is time for the poor
people to show that they have a
right to spend their own hard
earned money and have a fair deal
and not be led around like cattle.
DISCUSSES SOCIALISM
AND RELIGION
By H. Foley.
I wish to advise E. F. Maddox
that MARKHAM or proletarian Social
ism is not at all concerned about
the heaven above or the hell below
the earth, if there are such places.
But the concern is to ring out a
hell from the earth and ring in a
heaven upon it.
Nor have the religion and pol
itics which constitute this Social
ism the least concern about the
service Of celestial divinity, Jesus.
Jehovah, Allah or Buddha or any
other, by doing his will, but both
are much concerned the service Of
humanity, which consists in rightly
learning, interpreting and using the
laws Of nature wholly for the pur-
pose Of making the terrestrial lives
OF men, women and children as long
and happy as possible, and with
absolutely no reference to any ce-
lestial life which may be either
above or below the earth.