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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
ROOSEVELT AND LA TOILETTE

Out in Wisconsin Saturday a couple of
- young fellows and their followers made
difficult decision They decided that the polit-
ical ideas they represent shall be presented to
the voters Of the state this summer and fall
under the label Of a new political party.
This is interesting because their ideas come
pretty close TO being exactly what we call the
new deal. The philosophy Of the new deal is
not new to the young men in question. They
have been working for it, and pretty success
fully, ever since their teens.
And their father before them had worked
for it. likewise very successfully on the whole,
all of his notable life.
Their efforts to further this new deal were
Of a practical kind. Two years ago it took the
form of campaigning for the citizen who had
given this new name to their fathers program.
Since Roosevelt took office they have sup
ported him Fundamentally and effectively
one Of them, Robert NJ. Jr, has probably done
as much any other single member OF the
United States senate to help the President
keep his personal and platform pledges.
Yet Saturday the young senator was forced
to decide TO campaign this fall against the
candidates of the Presidents party. The de-
cison was forced by the President. OF course
it will be said that it was forced by Jim Farley,
Democratic national chairman land post
master general but nobody is so innocent as
to believe that Farley is No man in his party
and the President only No 2.
The very fact that the Democratic candi-
date was running in 1892 on what the people
of Wisconsin recognized as a La Toilette plat
form not only gave that state to Roosevelt, but
brought into being something that had not ex-
isted-a state Democratic party. The situation
whereby progressives of both the old parties
could register their views by electing La Fol-
lette candidates ended Phil La Toilette &C
copied defeat through this new three cornered
set-up, but continued to support the Roosevelt
program. purely political-min Demo-
cratic party had been fastened on the state.
witnessing what had happened to Phil La
Toilette. progressives throughout the country
expected that the national Democratic organ
ization would throw its influence to Bob La
Toilette this year. Even after the Demo-
cratic national chairman had tried to defeat
Roosevelts able friend, La Guardia in New
York, the notion remained that in Wisconsin
the course of the national party leadership
would not be marked by Unintelligence and
ingratitude.
But the Democratic organization is out to
fight the La Follettes, as the old guard Re-
publican organization has fought them for
years. The fighting sons of Fighting Bob had
no choice but to accept the battle forced on
them.
They'll make good fight and We believe,
winning one The new deal needs La Fol-
lette in the United States senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21

NTOW that parliamentary government in
u Bulgaria has fallen to a military Fascist
dictatorship. We may expect new crop of
shudders in this country on the collapse of
democracy. Such fears are out of place.
Whether democracy is to prosper or perish in
the United States and elsewhere the latest
putsch in Sofia is of little significance.
Democracy can not die where it has never
lived A small band of politicians in league
with the military has long ruled Bulgaria.
Parliamentary institutions there were a screen
for autocracy. The people never ruled.
The fact that the transfer from the old to
the new type of Fascist state was virtually
unchallenged indicates how little the people
had to lose in going from one dictatorship to
another
The chief immediate difference seems to be
that the terror against socialists and liberals
is to be more open than in the past.
In the slow evolution of popular govern
ment the real test is not in the backward polit-
icaI countries It is in such nations as Britain,
France and the United States where the peo
pie accustomed to liberty and power will not
sacrifice democracy without death struggle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
AMERICAN CITIZENS

A N adequate fund of tax money is being
allotted for drought relief in the parched
areas OF Wisconsin and the Dakotas This
money will not only provide food for the VIC
Tins, but will also restore them to self-sup-
porting status.
Where pasturage is ruined, the govern
ment is to buy up surplus cattle to be pro-
cessed for relief distribution. Feed is to be
provided so that the farmers may keep a few
cattle and rebuild their herds after the
drought has lifted. Seed is to be provided for
new forage crops. Wells will be sunk to in
crease the water supply. Railroad rates are
to be reduced on feed shipped in and cattle
shipped out.
The victims of the drought are treated not
as charity patients but as American citizens
helped back on their feet by a government
alive to their needs and appreciative Of their
work
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and daughter, bring the narrative to an I'M
commonly moving conclusion

and daughter, bring the narrative to an I'M
commonly moving conclusion
An experience Of this kind is terrible
thing for a child to have to live through. Such
thing can leave spiritual scars worse than
any harm that could befan the body. But
somehow. reading about this little soldier and
the way she stood up under treatment that
might have reduced a grown man to nervous
prostration. one suspects that she has come
out Of it with as little damage as was humanity
possible.
Nobody can tell what's ahead Of her in this
life, any more than the future can be pre-
dicted for any child. But it seems safe to bet
that whatever happens to her, she will always
ride out any storms she meets.
A little girl who can go through what she
went through as heroically as she did is the
sort Of stuff out Of which brave and sue
cessful adult lives are made.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
COMPANY UNIONS AND
PATERNALISM
BY The Observer.

oy Inc observer.
The Real Silk company union can
only be paternalistic. To make it
fraternal, the voice of the workers
ought to speak as authoritatiVely as
that of the owners. If the workers
in industry we're allowed to have
equal representation on the board of
directors with the stockholders, then
the workers who are the producers,
would have real industrial demo-
crazy.
Without the contribution of
laborS daily addition to the ply
steal assets of the company, the
value of the stockholders interest
would be zero.
The voice Of the workers on the
board of directors. would produce
a sense Of that boosted partnership
of capital and labor, which does not
exist where the one partner. capital,
dictates all the policies, the guam
tity, quality. the type Of product and
the distribution of the total value
Of the product as capital sees fit.
After the wages and cost of ma
terial have been met, the profit on
the goods is as much the concern
Of labor as Of capital, and the divi-
sion should be equal between capital
and labor.
Such a get together program
creates employee interest in produc-
ton If the striking men at the
mills had contributed the pay they
have sacrificed TO POOL Of funds
to buy a building and hosiery ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
THE PEACEFUL IRISH

WITH Great BHtain's troubles piling up
in many parts of the world, including
the near and far east, she may be somewhat
more receptive than usual to the latest Irish
peace gesture. Economic conflict between
those neighbors may seem patriotic duty to
the short-sighted and insular minded, but
those on both sides who pay the bill know that
it is senseless and costly.
President De Valera said to the great mass
meeting at Cork this week:
1--WE do not want to be at enmity with
Britain and if Britain should give preference
to our agricultural produce we would be pre-
pared to give Britain the preference in such
capital equipment as we may need"
That is an intelligent general policy It
would profit both the Free State and Britain.
At first glance it might seem to be injurious
to American trade for Ireland and Britain to
reach such agreements in competition with
our products.
But in the long run any natural exchange
of goods between those two countries which
breaks down destructive nationalism, will make
those countries healthier and stronger econom-
ically. And that, in turn, would make them
better American markets.
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.JUNE ROBES

XXTHEN you begin to get discouraged about
w your country. to think that it can pro-
duce such utter scoundrels as the men who
chained little June Robes in an underground
box IN the desert. you can get comfort from
the reflection that the same country also pro-
duced June herseIf-which helps to balance
the account
Nobody seems TO be quite clear about the
exact length of time this youngster remained
in that grave-nke dungeon; but ten minutes
would be plenty long enough, and the fact
that this youngster stood it as long as she
di6 and came out Of it with her spirit so
unbroken. indicates that she is about as
staunch and sturdy child as you could find
anywhere.
Indeed. the whole story would have made
unbearably painful reading if the little girl
had not been such a trump.
No man can read of that hot, dark, and
filthy prison. buried in the desert sands. I'M
der conditions guaranteed to make it uncom-
Portable TO the greatest possible degree, with
out feeling heartsick.
But ,Iune's own actions on being rescued
redeem the story. Her accomplishing bray
cry II Itself, IS amazing for a child Of that
age. or Of any age. Her pathetic eagerness
to recover her school report card is the sort
Of thing TO make anybody's eyes a triie damp.
And her immediate wistful plea, I want my
mama, and the final reunion between mother
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21

By John G. C. Shon.
Fritz Krulls thesis on the abb
surdities of education seems to
evolve from healthy observation.
Mr.. Krull wisely notes the tin
pan alley histrionics of our be-
loved bandits and the laiSsez faire
conduct of our school fathers.
Both are excellent material for
oft-punned luncheon affairs.
I argue with Mr.. Krull, who is
brave enough to question the
present system of ballyhOos rela-
tive to deals of this sort and that
sort, when the child in school to-
day is innocently struggling for
that" position in life which is
obtainable by only few.
His eXcitation anent the con-
duct Of our evolutionary schemes
is worthy of our reflection He
says that civilization has to be
learned, hence taught! That is
something that most of our So
cial workers know, but are too
tame or dumb to teach! mean
that our school system is just an
other "one of those things"
Our schools swallow DR.. Wirt's
and other pedagogics and adopt
the cafeteria style Of teaching,
urging the student to keep NOV
ing in rapid stride in the hope that
it will inoculate him with the
modern tempo" Of doing things.
The student gains a smattering
of arithmetic, art, music and some
of the sciences and the political
setups of the major parties, but
he fails to CLEAN the true urge of
human mankind.
Civilization is with us, but
how many feel its presence? Civ
ilization has not advanced very
far because of the selfishness of
the few.
The few have been successful in
painting a dream picture of am
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MONDAY. NY q. 1913
BARROW DISAGREES

THE Darrow board report is Disappointing.
Most Of its sound criticisms have been
anticipated by MIRA, and remedial action
started. particularly in the temporary steel
code. Records Of business failures show that
the codes in general have aided rather than
harmed the little fellows.
But the National Recovery Review boards
report is a tremendously important document.
despite its weaknesses II sums up the attacks
on NRA-conradictory as they are-and winds
up with Clarence Darrows own sincere
diagnosis Of the ultimate fate Of our industrial
civilization
Mr.. Darrow says our choice is between
monopoly sustained by government and "a
planned economy which demands socialized
ownership and control" General johnson says
these alleged alternatives really are "Fascism
and Communism"
NRA from the beginning has been designed
as a halfway house" between these two,
which could be fitted to Democratic political
government and a Democratic people. It also
is a framework IN which a future planned
economy is possible. Mr. Darrow's conclusion
therefore attacks the fundamental aim Of
MIRA He says in effect that public supervision
without ownership and control can not cure
us of monopoly and other business evils.
Maybe not. but the experiment is still in
process and it Is too early for dogmatic pre-
dicuons. The recovery act in effect. is blue
print Of plan for industrial democracy. Under
it. or something better along similar lines,
stand our hope and chance for happier, more
abundant and efficient industrial life. It has
had less than years trial and NRA is trying
hard to improve the structure it has built
The Darrow boards finding of monopoly
tendencies under code operations is more to
the point. Analysis, however, shows that
monopoly practices have prevailed in business
for many years NRA embodies some of these
accepted practices in codes and sought to
regularize them, to avoid business crookedness.
The report makes the charge that big bust
ness dominates the code authorities, and that
business has its own men in NRA. This is a
trend deserving serious consideration. 1t is
one of NRA's weak spots, where a break might
do irreparable damage to NRA's fundamental
aim and principles
The answers by Johnson and General
Counsel Donald r. Richberg as sharp in tone
as Mr.. Darrow's complaint might well have
been more temperate. Mr.. Richberg's separate
reply concerning the steel code is an able de
tense. admitting shortcomings due to the mad
Code-maktng scramble of last fall and outlin-
ing plans for more safeguards
1t Is unfortunate that the Danow criticism
is not better based; there is plenty Of room for
improvement in NRA and its codes.
But it viii be equally unfortunate for NRAs
enemies if they try to use the boards findings
as a basis for political attack on the recovery
act; NRA's defense is more than adequate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
THE PRESIDENTS PLEDGE

ONCE the debacle Of 1929, a majority Of the
- people have been convinced that strict
government control Of stock markets is essen
tal to future stability.
The public has shown extraordinary
patience through the long months that con-
gress has wrestled with stock market investi-
CATION and legislation. While the public does
not presume to understand the many compli-
cations surrounding governmental control over
the nerve centers of finance, the public does
know that after extensive hearings and at
least three rewritings Of the legislation to meet
a multitude of objections, the house and the
senate have passed two separate measures that
are the same in most important features.
There is now no valid reason for further
delay in the adjustment Of differences between
the house and senate bills. Despite all the
protests from Wall Street that the legislation
will slow up business it seems clear that re-
covery upon solid foundation can not be
achieved without establishing general con-
fdence that efforts toward recovery Will not
be destroyed overnight by the manipulation of
market SPECTATORS That public confidence
should grow from the day stock markets are
brought under the firm rule of a federal
agency.
President Roosevelt, who initiated the stock
market legislation to redeem his pledge to the
people, has given his opinion as to how the
two secondary differences between the house
and senate bills on margins and organization
should be settled. The public is willing to &C
cept the Presidents Judgment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
MORE THAN ELECTRICITY

IT is too early to judge the operations of the
Tennessee Valley Authority on this first
anniversary
But, this much is sure:
It has started at Muscle Shoals the business
by which the federal government will be able
to measure private power costs; it has pro-
vided work for thousands; 1t has reduced cleo
trio rates; it has started program of social
development that radiates hope and vitality; it
is making low-cost high-quality electrical ap-
planes available to consumers.
As important as is the power development
Of IVA, We believe that in the long run a COL
lateral project will prove more important:
That of providing means toward the more
abundant life" of which President Roosevelt
has spoken.
In seeking its aims. iva, fortunately. is
guided by a threeSome-Arthur E. Morgan
David Lilienthal. Harcourt Morgan-who have
demonstrated that they have hearts and
minds
Their first years work is good. May their
next be even better.
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job. Well, why don't you stand up
for yourselves and get them?
If all Of the workers at Real Silk
would have stuck together there
wouldn't have been any strike. It
would have been won the next day.
But no, there are always enough
narrow minded persons to keep on
working and you will find that as
a rule they are from Kentucky. [
lived in a Kentucky settlement in
West Indianapolis. The only thing
that I can give them credit for is
for leaving Kentucky, but they
should not come up here and take
our jobs and tell us how dumb VS.
are and how smart they are.
If Kentucky is so wonderful why
don't they go back there and stay.
not bite the hand that is feeding
them?
Now, if anybody can show me one
case where a hard working man
ever had anything I will show him
10000 who haven't a thing. How
is anybody going to provide for their
old age on $40 or $50 a week?
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More About Education IN Civilization

bition which involves the accom-
plishment of a trade or profession.
Machinery in the meantime has
rendered this painting a worthless
fabric. The schools have only
kept step in the speeding up Of
their curricula.
Thousands of graduates leave
the portals Of their alma mater
filled with the appreciation of
this and that, but empty insofar
as their ability to exercise their
talents is concerned. Civilized
life is conducted today by means
of switches and valves and our
poor graduates are bewildered
since they know very little Of
civilized life.
Most any species of animal life,
without any schooling, learns to
shift for itself. Gods blessings,
the five senses, seem to awake in
the animal at the day Of birth.
Man is different.
Man must be taught to exercise
those five senses with which God
endowed him. That is the defini-
ton Of civilization. We should
maintain the fine institution of
civilization and nurse it to
greater ambitions through our
schools by properly teaching civ
ilization, or humanity, to our
youngsters and especially to our
grandfathers.
Evolution is a pretty safe word.
Revolution is yet something to
trifle with. I do not bother much
about either one as far as def
nitionS define. Let us have a
taste of "convolution," that is,
all things rolled up together into
the one big thought that we civ
ilized folk can just as easily
wither up as the flower in the gar
den unattended, as rise to spurted
bloom as the we'll fertilized plant
in the greenhouse.
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I think the group has a lot of
nerve to say the city is too big to
be run by the agitator and his
thugs. Who brought the thugs to
the city?
1t also is charged the agitator is
causing the heads Of industries to
look for other communities where
they can locate. Was it the labor
agitator who caused some Of our
largest industries to leave the city
before?
I am not connected with the Real
Silk trouble, but hope the strikers
will stay out until they get justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
UNION VIEWPOINT ON
HOSIERY MILL STRIKE

By Union Man.
To you who haven't enough get
up about you to fight for your rights
after the President of the United
States has given you the privilege
would you still be satisfied with
your starvation jobs after the
unions have fought and won bet
ter wage and working conditions?
Would you go to your employer
and say:
Here, we did not ask for such
good things. We did not fight for
such good wages and We want you
to cut our wages and ride US like
you used TO. We want you to tell
us that if we don't like it around
here to get out"
OF course. you would not do any
thing like that because you want TO
enjoy al Of the advantages Of any
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
MOVIES BRANDED AS
"ROTTEN TO CORE"
BY Charles Hooper.

BY Charles Hooper.
Like a good American seeing
Paris" I took in the movies on
recent vacation. I am ashamed to
be seen at them in my own town.
I found them rotten to the core;
a succession Of scenes of women
smoking, drinking, painting them
selves, and doing worse; scenes of
fast life and criminal life; eye
binding glare, deafening noise, hec-
tic excitement; men and women in
a mad Whirl like a dance of atoms
or derviShes; coarse, slangy, vulgar
language full Of double meanings;
gross materialism without a trace
of spiritually or refinement; and
frequent scenes, or obscenes, of
nearly nude women and lewd ges-
lures.
And I saw what grieved me to
my heart-children, unchaperoned.
laughing at nasty scenes and words.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
ATTACHES IMPORTANCE
TO HOSIERY STRIKE


BY Milo L. Curtis.
Organized labor Of the entire
state is watching closely the strug-
gle with the Real Silk mills and
Associated Business Builders and
other bourbons of indianapolis. We
realize you strikers have a tremen-
dous fight on your hands and wish
you the success your courage de-
serves. Such concerns as Real Silk
are willing to spend any sum of
money to keep the recovery plan
from being put into effect in their
plants.
It is an old trick of the employer
to try to build public sympathy
against organized labor. We we'll
remember the dynamiting of a
scabs dining car that took place in
Bloomington during the railroad
strike a few years ago. 1t gave the
newspapers excuse for scare head
lines, but when they learned that
the deed was done when no one
was in the car they realized that the
purpose was other than one Of ter
rorizing the nonunion workers.
We also remember reading in La
Dor, the railroad mems paper,
story carried some few years ago
concerning Real Silk and its labor
attitude, in which Mr.. Goodman
was quoted as saying that the only
way a union would ever be estab-
lished in his plant would be by call
ing out the militia with fixed bay
onets. We give him credit for be-
ing consistent in his attitude, at
least.
It might be we'll to remind the
Governor of that statement, in case
he should ever find it necessary to
assist in making the adminiStra-
lions recovery program a success
IN Indiana.
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chinery, their losses Of the past four
weeks would have bought a $150,000
mill clear Of debt; and then if they
put in the same energy for them
selves they would not only get
wages but all Of the profits.
Dollars and cents or dollars and
horse sense on labor's side, could
create an economic revolution and a
high standard of living instead of
the sub standard now endured.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-21
BEFUDDLED VOTER
RECEIVES REPLY

BY Beech Grove Reader.
A befuddled voter wants to know
why candidates religion and color
are not published along with their
names. Now this voter surely states
the truth when he admits he is be-
fuddled. I assert that Catholics and
Negroes have the privilege Of
breathing the air that our God gives
us. as well as the rights of citizen
ship, which rights can not be taken
away from US by any faction.