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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14

THE ARMY AND THE STRIKE

+ the textile employers continue to block
arbitration and the strike goes on. use Of the
United States army probably is only a matter
OF time.
Use Of federal troops in civil strife as re-
quested by the Governor of Rhode Island and
last night rejected by his legislature caucus.
can be good or bad Il depends largely upon
the purpose Of the authorities. the intelligence
Of the army officers. and the discipline Of the
troops.
The last time ne army was called out 1t
disgraced itself and the nation. That was in
July. 1892. when President Hoover and General
Macarthur loosed a military terror on the I'M
armed bonus camp at the national capital.
There was Mortified public protest Typical OF
the public reaction was the statement Of
Frances Parliamentary Of labor-that the
action was "un-American and unjust"
Misuse Of troops was not prevented by the
original war department instructions to Cen
ersI Macarthur and his officers TO use all
humanity consistent with the execution of this
order"
General Macarthur still is chief of staff.
and the cry OF Communist danger which was
used Two years ago by the suthorities-and
later disproved completely by government in
vestieatiOn and the cOurts-is raised again
today IN the textile strike.
on the basis OF the record Of misuse OF
federal troops and the wide misuse Of state
troops in labor disputes. 1t would be folly Tor
President Roosevelt TO underestimate the
hazard Of calling the army in this emergency.
Nevertheless II IS the obvious duty Of the
federal government to use the army TO curb
mai Tor disorders when local and state author
tiles have failed. American citizens are guar
anteed security in their property. protection Of
their lives and civil Liberties.
In the textile strike the mill owners have
the right to property protection. The strikers
have the right to be protected-by the United
States army If necessary-in their right Of free
speech and ass4 nblage and Of peaceful picket
ing. State troops in the south and the north
have tended to protect the mills property
rights and violate the strikers civil rights. 1t
is TO be assumed that. under the Roosevelt
administration. the United States army would
rot be used in any such partisan fashion.
President Roosevelt presumably would FOL
low the precedent of the 1914 Colorado coal
strike. when President Wilson used federal
troops 70 restore order by disarming both sides
and preventing the importation of strike
breakers.
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der healthfuI conditions should be
inherent.
The right of citizens to petition
the king in colonial days to remedy
grievances is not yet established
against our industrial lords.
Property rights are sacred under
our law, but the property right
theory should include the jobs of
the workers as inalienable while a
controversy over wages or conditions
exists. The state should protect the
workers from being deprived of their
right to earn a decent wage under
decent conditions.
Cancellation boards or arbitration
boards should have judicial author
ity to impose their findings upon
employer and employe after public
hearings of the grievances.
No worker should be subject to
the arbitrary whims Of an employer;
the contract to work should be as
sacred under the law as the right
to protection of corporate property.
Political democracy is farce if
the government fails to enforce in
dustriaI democracy; the freedom to
starve must be inaIenable, but to
make starvation a necessity reveals
barbarism in industry. Shall We
have democracy in industry, or in
vite sovietism?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14

years of administra ton he did abso-
lutely nothing to improve the sit
uation.
At the election he went down to
defeat with the worst licking any
President ever received, except Taft,
and that was due to the division Of
the Republican party when Teddy
made the split.
It was said that a few weeks be-
fore the election he remarked he
didn't care a damn about being
elected again, but three weeks after
this he went on the stump and in a
desperate manner made the greatest
effort to be elected.
Like the drowning man grabbing
at a straw, he said if he was not
elected the country would be ruined.
Subsequently he said if he was de-
feated grass would grow in the mid
die of the streets in the principal
cities of this country.
If any ordinary person made a
remark of this kind you might think
he was fit subject for the lunatic
asylum So what can one think of
the former President making such a
statement?
He was judicious for while in
keeping his mouth shut, but poll
tics forced him into the open.
He should be relegated to the ex-
treme rear, pass into oblivion and
be placed in the category of inocu-
GUS desuetude.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
"SUBACETOADO"

NEUNTTIONS makers complain that they
WI are misunderstood. The public 1t seems
has gained the wrong impression Of the
ethics Of the traffic in war tools
Perhaps this is due in part to the confu-
sion in Technology.
Who can blame the common people Tor
their perplexity. reading in the senate commit
tee testimony of one company paying com
mission" TO a relative of a high functionary,
Of another company using grease" to get
orders for guns. One salesman wrote OF the
need of spreading palm ell" in South Amer
lea. and another told how a little squeeze"
money was necessary in China. In Turkey 1t
was ".baoksheesh.' Sir Basil zaharof wrote
that he would use the funds turned over to
MIN to do the needful."
Would the arms manufacturers do well to
end this anarchy of nomenclature by agree
ing on some one tarm2 In order not to offend
any nationality. they might turn to the in
ternationsI language. In the Esperantist die
tionsry they will find: "Subscetoado" means
bribery
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
AID YOUR COMMUNITY

IN the very nsar future most cities ana towns
l. will be the scenes Of community chest cam
paigns.
Few Of us have had any too much money
these ls&t few years. When We are asked to dig
down to support a charity. 1t is only natural
that We should ask whether such contributions
in view Of the vast sums We are contributing
as taxpayers-are absolutely necessary.
The federal government has been putting
something like Sl2SOOOOOO a month into relief
work. The bulk OF the relief work is being car
RED BY the taxpayer rather than by the private
contributor. Is the community chest in this
fan Of 1884. an essential thing?
Perhaps the best way to answer that ques-
ton il to examine a statement just issued by
Newton D. Baker chairman OF the 1884 Mobili-
zation for Human Needs.
Mr. Baker points out that the government
work provides only the bare bones OF relief.
Private charity has 70 clothe the skeleton
with warm flesh. 1t is not enough to keep peo-
PIE from starvation: unless something more
than food and fuel be provided. the national
morale Will suffer irreparsbly.
Unemployment means i'll health. Reliable
surveys show that there is nearly so per cent
more sickness in the families Of jobleSs men
than in the families OF men who have steady
incomes. Medical services for such illnesses
must be free: the hospitals and nursing ssso-
ciations that furnish them are largely sup
ported by community chests.
Childhood suffers when adults are unem-
ployed Children in families on relief are
largely undernourished. Government help
can not reach them UnleSs the local. pri-
vately supported community agencies can help.
they will suffer physical and spiritual damage
which can never be made good.
Young men who can not work ind tims
hanging heavy on their hands. Keeping them
from starving does not relieve them from the
tdleness. Unless their communities
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
MEET NUMBER 81

DROACTTNIUM, chemical element No. 81,
is born 1t is not new in the sense that it
was unknown but it never before had been
extracted from its combining matrix Of crude
ore in pure from where scientists might see
and study it. DR.. Aristid Won Crosse, young
assistant professor in the University Of Chi
cago chemical laboratories, must feel about
this new chemical infant as a doctor feels
when he had ended a long and difficult con-
fnement case-elsted but not surprised.
DR.. Won Crosse started with three tons Of
raw material and ended with about one three
hundredth Of one ounce of the isolated ele-
ment. At the Cleveland chemistry convention
he showed a minute fraction of this as plating
on a bit of tungsten wire so tiny that it must
be kept in a glass tube. and can be seen only
by using pretty strong magnifying glass.
But let no one sniff at that hair-scrap Of
proactinium- plated wire. All Of us are what we
largely are by virtue of the delicate balance of
such minutise as gene-bearing chromosomes,
hormones. respiratory pigments, Wtamins and
slight but indispensable traces of metallic ele-
ments in our tissues.
BENJAMIN Franklin asked: "Of what use is
baby?" Chemists, physicists, biologists, even
astronomers do not yet know the use of this
one. But they are crowding round the cradle,
primed with questions The answers which No.
81 may give one day may help to shove the
world along an inch-or may revolutionize it.
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=
HOOVER, LIBERTY AND
SOME MEMORIES
By Joe B. Adler.

By Joe B. Adler.
Who is Herbert Hoover, and what
does his opinion amount to that IS
of any importance?
When he was President and had
the greatest opportunity any man
could possibly ask for. what did he
do for the uplift of the people?
Irrespective of politics he has not
shown one trace Of any originality
or any disposition toward looking
after the interests Of the public,
but has Travelled with and catered TO
the interests of the money-changers
solely in every instance.
He now is bowling about liberty
and the Constitution, but what lib
erty did he grant the thousands Of
marchers who came hundreds Of
miles to plead their cause and
camped on the marsh lands near
the White House? Didn't he force
them out at the point Of guns and
bayonets? Was that the liberty he
he is talking about?
What did he do to get us out Of
the mire in which we we're sinking
deeper and deeper constantly every
second?
All that he promised and pre-
dicted was. prosperity is just around
the corner" and during his four
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14

By a Boomer.
Major Angas forecasts an
American boom; Mr.. Hopkins as
sumes direction of relief for
twenty-three million helpless vic
TINS of depression. Mr.. Wyer, the
engineer economist, assures us
that 100000, 100000 of the Ameri-
can debt structure must be writ
ten off before the boom can even
become a pop"
Mr.. Warren in his book shows
that all previous depressions cured
by natural forces invariably
had a price decline in the sixth
year of depression, which was
double the decline of the third
year. This decline in the sixth
year forced the debt structure,
built in the previous boom period
to collapse, bringing wholesale
bankruptcy, reputation and re-
organization of capital structure.
The action of these natural
forces has temporarily been halt
ed by transferring the debts from
private to public account through
placing the debt account of the
victims of natural forces with
federal agencies.
The earning capacity of the VIC
tins has not been increased to
meet the obligation. The location
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
We 60 Boom to Get Boom

of the debt does not solve the
paying power. The problem
still is the same.
Before Mr.. Angas' boom can
come the bath will be applied to
our debt structure. No amount OF
tinkering with or bolstering of
this debt can supply the necessary
props.
We are too orthodox in our
economics to permit a realistic
scaling down of the debt, because
each debt is assumed to be col
lectable.
However, natural forces will
further depress prices to the
point where the debt will topple.
After the debt barnacles have
been removed, another rush for
profits is possible.
These so-calIed profits are the
next debt for the following de-
preston to wipe out. Only a
planned economy can eliminate
these cycles of natural forces
which are nothing more than
records of social stupidity
Instead of making our curves
of business activity, We follow the
curves leading us into air castles
of prosperity and dungeons of de-
preston. We go boom" to have a
boom.
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help them to use their leisure-the government
can not hope TO do it-msny Of them will be-
come casualties Of the depression.
These activities constitute only part Of the
Community Chest program. Simply to men
ton them is enough to show how vitality i'm
portant support Of the Community Chest is.
BY contributing our share, We help to rebuild
our citizenry; for as Mr.. Baker says
Rebuilding this year applies not only to
houses skyscrapers, bridges and factories, but
to broken homes, scattered families, hunger
wounded bodies and the shattered hopes and
dreams OF America"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
REAL DEMOCRACY
DECLARED LACKING
BY a Social Democrat.

BY a Social Democrat.
The strikes involving hundreds Of
thousands of workers throughout
the country indicate that real
democracy has not been established
in American economic enterprises.
Politically, we vote to determine pol
icies Of administration. Econom-
ically, We resort to tactics Of bar
barism to settle our divergent views.
Ownership of production facilities
gives to the owner legal rights TO
deny the workers any voice IN the
conduct OF the business, although
every business depends upon the
workers to produce both the wage
received and the profits.
Shooting the workers or starving
them is the orthodox way of forcing
the will Of the employer upon the
workers. Very few industrialists
would think of operating their
plants with strike breakers as a
permanent proposition.
The cost of operation spirals when
green" hands attempt production.
In a constitutional democracy, de-
veloped from an agraltian economy
to a machine age economy, the right
to work at decent recompense, un-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
Il II
SUPPLIES ADDRESS
OF LIBERTY LEAGUE
By Gaylord A. Wood.

BY Gaylord A. Wood.
The papers have been full re-
Gently of articles concerning the
formation of the American Liberty
League, but I find very few per-
sons who know how to address it
for information. Members of the
league do not have to pay any
dues or initiation fees.
Any readers of The indianapolis
Times wishing information or appli-
cation blanks should write Jouett
Shouse, president of American Lib
erty League, National Press build
ing. washington, D. G.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
DEMOCRAT TO VOTE
FOR ROBINSON
BY ID. NJ.

BY ID. NJ.
In regard to B. BIS letter on Sept.
12-what if Senator Robinson did
vote for the NRA and has since
changed his mind about it being a
success.
There are many persons who we're
for the NRA and now regard it
failure. So he isn't the only one
who has changed his mind. I could
name other senators from Indiana,
who ran on one platform and voted
against it as soon as they got to
Washington.
I always have been a Democrat,
but can see when things are run
right or wrong, regardless of who Is
at the wheel and 1 am voting for
Senator Robinson because he isn't a
yes man to the President and isn't
afraid to express himself when in
Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
OPTIMISTIC HOOVER
GOES PESSIAIIST

By John Beck.
Mr.. Hoover says we are drifting
to tyranny, so that is that.
Old Pessimistic Herbie-the same
one who said the grass would grow
in the streets if Mr.. Roosevelt was
elected president.
But, wait-let me retract part at
least of what I have said. He was,
back in the halcyon days Of '29, an
optimist. Some Of his pet phrases
were, Prosperity is just around the
corner" In thirty days We will be
back to normal" We have reached
the peak; things are getting better"
And while we were all waiting for
these great events to happen what
did he do? Well, I think the cleo
ton of 80 proved that the ajority
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
So They Say

AL Smith amuses himself by
throwing monkey wrenches at the
bandwagon as it passes by. Too bad.
This is the gentleman whom many
Of us once hailed as great.-Repre-
sentative G. A. Woodrum, Virginia
Democrat.
I don't think the open door is
worth a CHASTITY war. I don't think
the Chinese market is worth heavy
price in blood.-The Rev. L. K.
Patterson, dean of history, Wood
stock college, Maryland
When people are dipping their
handkerchiefs in Dillinger's blood
and selling them, and men with ma
chine guns can stage a half-milion
dollar holdup in crowded city
street. I refused to get excited over a
so-called movie decency drive.-Cecll
B. DeMille. noted movie director.
l came here for a rest, but l can't
get any. No sooner than come
into sight, some one starts shooting
questions at me.-General Hugh 5.
johnson. vacationing at Bethany
Beach, Del.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
VOTED FOR HOOVER
BUT HAS REPRINTED

BY A. Warren Jacobson.
I believe, now, more than ever,
that there is absolutely no danger
of the good old U. S. A. going hay
wire.
I believe, that the Stars and
Stripes are anchored to the top of
the flag stats more firmly than ever
before.
1 believe that America has made
greater advances than ever before
to real, genuine civilization.
1 believe that this nation will be
a world leader, and 1 was one Of
the citizens who voted for Hoover?
Wrong? Certainly, was. 1 am
now a Democrat and proud of it.,
and back The Times and the Presl-
dent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
BARBER COMPLAINS OF
LICENSE PENALTY.

BY an Indiana Barber.
In 1888 there was law passed
requiring all Indiana BARRIERS to
purchase a state license, the charge
being So.
This year the charge on these
certificates were reduced to 81, but
on making application for license,
BARRIERS were advised SO was a pen
atty charge for making purchase
after Sept. l.
We BARRIERS do not understand
why we should not be given some
extension of time before addition
of this SO penalty. It seems that
extensions of time are granted on
most all other state license, why not
ours?
The BARRIERS of Indiana would like
an explanation on why the state
should charge such a penalty.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
ABSTINENCE
BY ALTA BRUNT sEMBowER

BY ALA BRUNI SEMbOWEK
I would rather have my heart. cool
than scorched by pain;
I.would rather forget than remem-
berl
I would rather have the mist than
the rain,
Better than the fierce August. the
mild September!
I would rather have the song
unsung than the notes falling
On ears that so oft have heard the
music pass:
So, love. ! close the window, and ths
calling
OF life is muted by the glassI
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Limit them to ESQ toords or less.)
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Government now has mosquitoes working for
ii in a health campaign. Wonder how patron
age Boss Jim Farley managed to tell which Of
them were. Democrat mosquitoes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-14
Daily Thought

Also unto Thee, o Lord, belongeth
mercy; for Thou renderest to every
man according to his work.-Psalms,
81; u.
WE do pray for mercy; and that
Wv same prayer doth teach US all
TO render the deeds Of mercy
Shakespeare.
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MunitiOnS-A Game
XXTASHINGTON, Sept. IA. - Excerpts from
Wv the senate munitions hearing:

NTASHINGTON, Sept. IA. - Excerpts from
w the senate munitions hearing:
From John Ball, head of the Solely Armament
Company. Ltd, of England. dealer in second
| hand munitions, in a letter to the American
Armament Corporation:
I'VE have been approached here by certain
people interested in three-inch A. A. (anti-air-
craft) guns for Bolivia. =. The sale of material
emanating from a British official department
with a Latin-American country then at war,
might lead to some diplomatic shindy, for it
might be said that Britain supporting Bo-
| livia against Paraguay. If, however, an
American armament firm Of some standing
bought the guns, for eventual resale, things
might be easier. :"
From the same letter: "In spite of all the
dreams of the ideasts, who imagine that homo
sapiens is filed with honor, justice, love and
self-sacrifce. Japan is going to take still larg-
er slice of China, and comparatively shortly,
while the getting is good We think that the
United States would under the above circum-
stances. support the Chinese, supply them with
arms etc. We think it might be very adj
visable for you to approach the United States
department of foreign affairs and the war de-
partment, and hand them list Of what stocks
there are over mere.
IRON the same letter: speaking of orders
L from Japan "As you know, incendiary'
bullets are prohibited. they have become
tracers' . what is in name?"
1. ]. Gggy) Miranda of the American Arna-
ment Corporation to the Great Lakes Aircraft
Corporation regarding Far East inquiries for
planes L am acquainted intimately with such
well-known 1iers as Clarence Chamberhn,
Roger Williams Ruth Nichols, Elinor Smith,
Amelia Earhart . All of these people know
well. and I find them useful in the pursuit OF
business
Ruth Nichols Gin a telegram to the Nye COM
mitteel Exceedingly shocked request the
committee to demand an explanation from Mr..
Miranda of his statement that he found me
useful. :"
Amelia Earhart Gin telegram to the Nye
committee): I do not recall ever having met
Mr. Miranda. . I am opposed emphatlcally to
all that he has to do with war. My attorney
is investigating looking toward redress II
possible"
A LFRED j. MIRANDA, now president OF the
N American Armament Corporation, but then
an agent of briggs Ordnance Gin a letter to
briggs executive) . Mail me $3.50 in bank
notes Many little extra expenses Sack
vile UNITED States military attache to BrazD
for cocktails. and so forth Is.
Senator Homer T. Bone, questioning A. J..
Miranda regarding South America: DO the
European statesmen down there use palm oil
and grease
Miranda: Our methods are cleaner than the
Europeans. should be glad to discuss theirs
in executive session"
Bone: 1t is not necessary for you to use
names"
Miranda: We find certain conditions that
have to be met
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REPUBLICAN CHEERS
FOR ROOSEVELT

BY Republican.
In reply to A Reader and Boosterl
You do read the Bible, don't you,
for you stated part of it, but my
Bible says, love your enemies. My
God is also God Of the Russians.
OF course, you are a Republican,
not Christian enough to hold up
the hands of one trying TO help the
needy. Talk about our Arthur-Who
put him in office? 1 am Repub-
lican, but when l am whipped l am
man enough not to squeal.
If there is spark of Christianity
about you, put your shoulder to the
wheel and help Roosevelt get us out
of the rut that such men as Jim and
Arthur and a few others got us in.