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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
THE TARIFF BILL

ONE of the chief remaining jobs of the adj
ADMINISTRATION is tariff reduction. There
has been long delay. For months the admin
istration hirted with the idea that recovery
might return to this country alone, isolated
from the rest of the world by trade barriers.
Now the President has given up the dis
credited notion of self-sutficient natlonalsm
and turned to the Wallace-Hull policy of in
ternational trade. If we do not buy We can
not sell our large SURPRISES of farms and OF
industrial mass production
In theory the tariff barriers should be low
cred by congress which erected them Actually
that is not possible. If the tariff rates are
thrown into the congressional arena it will
mean weeks and perhaps months OF log-rolllng
during an emergency in which the nation can
not afford the luxury of selfish partisanship
The issue is complicated by the need for
reciprocal tariff agreements. Other nations
having followed our bad high tariff example.
and no general international agreement now
being in sight, we must bargain with individ-
uaI governments.
For this purpose the President Friday asked
congress to grant him sweeping powers. He
wants authority 10 u6gOCAdUe AoNO oSAOOAAAOAAON'
without senate review, which can run Tor
three years after signature or indefinitely,
subject to six months notice of termination
by either party. Without changing the free
list he would be allowed to raise or lower ex-
isting rates within a so per cent range.
In our Judgment the present emergency
justifes this unusually broad transfer OF
power from congress to the President-but
only if the administration bill is amended to
limit the proposed permanent power to brief
period of two or three years. In addition we
believe that congress, in temporarily trans
ferring its power, should instruct the President
also to seek an international agreement for
Joint fiat tariff reduction.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

contributed to the assertedly sorry condition
of the army air force.
The hullabaloo about Roosevelt's sending
army pilots to their death is groundless and
merely a weak attempt to hang" something
on the Roosevelt administration to impair his
popularity before the coming Of the next ma
tional political conventions.
Simply the army pilots went to carrying
the mails under about the worst weather con-
ditions. as is demonstrated by that Wasatch
mountain horror.
There will be more of such political at
tempts At this writing, it looks as if the OPP
position were destined to go into national con-
vention merely as a party viewing with
alarm" Roosevelt's putative mistakes. A tough
prospect for the politicians now endeavoring
to make party capital out Of the opposition
of particular elements to Roosevelt's stand
on such matters as veterans bonus, control of
crooked fanciering and rescue from the
clutches of conspiring contractors, particu-
larly those Of the aviation breed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
ABSORBING THE CWA

A DISPATCH from San Francisco reports
L that approximately 500 men are leaving
CWA jobs each week to take positions in
commerce and industry. If this trend is
borne out throughout the country as whole,
the ticklish experiment Of cutting off the
CWA project in the middle of this spring
may work out well, after all.
The CWA was designed as stop-gap, and
its entire theory has been that reviving trade
would open new jobs SO that the CWA work.
ers need not be kept on permanently.
If prosperity fails to return fast enough,
and the closing of the CWA leaves hundreds
of thousands of men jobless in a land where
there are no jobs to be had, then we shall be
no better off than we were before.
But if this trend reported at San Francisco
becomes general all across the country, sus-
pension of the eva will pass without diff
Guilty. One hopes that this indeed will prove
to be the case.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
A BETTER NRA

GENERAL JOHNSON seems to have started
- something when he invited all critics of
the NRA to step up on the platform and start
swinging. Whatever else may be said about it,
he at least can't complain that they didn't
take him at his word.
And out of the resulting melee should de-
velop a great deal of benefit for the country
as a whole.
For several months there have been creak-
ings and crackings in the NRA framework.
Hardly any one has been entirely satisfied
with it; some people have been very deeply
dissatisfied. Until now, however, there was
no channel through which this current of
criticism could find an outlet.
Such a channel at last has been thrown
open-Wide open, to judge by the number of
complaints presented at the opening sessions.
Before the smoke dies down, both General
johnson and the nation at large ought to have
a pretty clear idea of just how and where the
NRA setup needs to be rejiggered.
And in studying this mass of complaints,
it is well to keep one or two fundamental
facts firmly in mind.
To begin with, there is nothing sacred about
the MIRA Those mystic letters simply stand
for a program by which the country set out
to accomplish certain things. 1t is the goal,
and not the method of reaching it, that counts.
And what is that goal? To restore indus
try to re-employ workers, to stimulate the
movements of trade and to boost consumer
purchasing power National sentiment is
united on just one point-that it is going to
reach this goal somehow, in spite of all OBJ
Stacles.
Unless it can be shown that the NRA is
the handiest and most practical method of
reaching it. it can't be expected to unite in
support of the blue eagle.
Which brings us to the other fundamental,
that the NRA--whatever its defects, however
much patching the current clinic may show to
be necessary-remains, so far, the one con-
crete program that has been offered. In sheer
self-intereSt, we must make it work smoothly.
We want to find out all that we can about
its defects, not because we are looking for an
excuse to toss it out the window, but because
we want it to be of the utmost possible service.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
THE OLD AND THE NEW

THOSE elaborate coronation ceremonies
which made Mr.. Henry Pu Vi the En-
peror Kang Teh seem to have been an odd
mixture of the very old and the up-to-date.
All the time-honored formulate of the in
credibly ancient oriental dynasty were used;
there were sacrifices at the altar, ceremonial
robes like those worn by Genghis Khan, and
so on.
But there also were smart Japane%e in uI-
tra-modern military display; there were for
eign correspondents wearing the evening dress
of the west; and when the ceremonies ended,
the new emperor got into an up-to-date bull
let-proof auto to go back to his palace
All this is more or less symbolic of the
anachronistic empire of Manchukuo itself.
1t, too is an odd mixture of the old and the
new.
Whatever else one may think Of it, it is
hard to see in it the vitality the responsive
ness to a pressing need, that can make it
truly enduring.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
TARIFF, LOCAL POLITICS

" get the background for the proposal that
tariff rate-making be put in the hands
OF the President, it is necessary to 90 back
IuH hah century in American history. to the
Gay when a presidential candidate remarked
contemptuously that the tariff was "a local
issue"
mat, on the face of it, was an exceeding
ly silly remark. But the years of tariff
Wrangling since it was uttered have gone far
TO prove that it was pretty largely correct.
tariff bill, in theory, ought to be framed
on broad lines of national interest. In ST.
tual practice, it never is Whether it be
bill to raise the tariff or one to lower it. it
inevitably degenerates into a great trading
game in congreSs-with weller of local in
terests ultimately deciding the issues.
However regrettable this may be. it is only
natural The individual congressman is put
under terrific pressure: he is, Furthermore. ac-
tuated by laudable desire to do what he can
for his own constituents.
The result Is an endless series of trades
Out of it comes a tariff bill that seldom is
either logical or national but that represents
the blending of innumerable forces. a COM
ROoAbO VI d NdSJ 1luIilDeI VI IOCdl issues.
The new proposal would remove this, very
largely, from the hands of congress. The
President would be empowered to negotiate
tariff agreements with individual nations and
to raise or lower tariff rates by as much as 50
per cent in the course of such negotiations
He could not take an article off the free
list or put one on it, and his power would be
limited to a three-vear term
This. clearly. is a bill of far-reaching pro-
portions 1t would alter completely our ira
ditional method of setting tariff rates, taking
this most important function of government
out of the hands Of congress and vesting it
in one man.
The question to decide now is whether the
advantages would outweigh the defects.
1t would give us a chance to get something
resembling a scientific tariff and it would end
one OF Washingtons greatest log-rolling
games. On the other hand. it would give the
President enormous new powers and-to all
intents and purpoSes-take from the repre-
sentatives of the people one of their most i'm
portant functions
We are called upon to do a nice bit of
weighing Of comparative advantages.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
TUESDAY. MARCH s. 1884.
THE PRESIDENT ON NRA

DRESDENT ROOSEVELT diagnosed &C
u curately the ills which threaten NRA in
his address to code authority officials assem-
bled in Washington yesterday.
The aim Of this whole effort is to restore
our rich domestic market by raising its vast
consuming capacity" he said. Mentioning
Justified" complaints that consuming capac-
fly has been lost sight of by industry. he
added:
mo one is opposed to sensible and reason
able profits, but The morality Of the case is
that a great segment Of our people are in
actual distress and that as between profits
first and humanity afterward and humanity
first and profits afterward We have no room
for hesitation"
Then the prescription:
THE purchasing power Of the people can
be increased and sustained only by striving
for the lowest schedule of prices on which
higher wages and increasing employment can
be maintained. 1t is the immediate task
of industry to re-employ more people at
purchasing wages, and to do it now"
In further defense of the wage-earning
portion of the new industrial partnership he
warned that the sections of the recovery act
guaranteeing collective bargaining by repre-
sentatives of labors own choosing mean just
what they say
we can not tolerate actions which are
clearly monopolistic which wink at unfair
trade practices, which fail to give labor free
choice of representatives or which are other
wise hostile to the public interest" said the
President.
Never again will we permit the social
conditions which allowed the vast sections
of our population to exist in an un-Ameri-
can way, which allowed a maldistribution of
wealth and power"
That should be clear enough for any one
to understand.
Chiseling is not going to continue. If en-
ployers chisel on wages and hours and col
lective agreements, If they keep on raising
prices far above the amounts necessary to
meet wage increases-as the consumers adj
Visory board says at least fourteen industries
have done-the President will take action
against them under the law.
The high spirit of endeavor in which the
industrial recovery program was launched has
not been forgotten. The administrations new
pledge, it is fair to hope, marks the rebirth of
that spirit in MIRA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
ROOSEVELT is GREATEST
MAN, HE BELIEVES
BY Ray Adams

BY Ray Adams
Well, folks, I don't know much
about McNutt and his affairs. The
city and state already we're in a
mess.
I am not well enough educated to
figure it all out, but I'll say this:
If you had raised as much hell with
the Republican administration we
would be better off today.
I do know that our Democratic
President is doing all he can to
help us, so let's all get behind him
and give him a great big hand.
I give Lindbergh credit for cross
ing the ocean, but many Of us
would have tried as much had we
had time and money as he did. Buts
now, I've changed by mind after
reading his telegram to Roosevelt
whom I regard as the greatest man
since Abraham Lincoln.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
SEEKS PROBE OF PHONE
COMPANY RATES

BY j. A. Delaney.
You should be commended for
your efforts and final success in
what you have accomplished from
such a powerful organization as the
Indianapolis Power and Light Com
pany, and I know of no better
phraSeology to use to encourage you
to continue this investigation, than
you expressed in your editorial OF
Jan. 81, wherein you quote: chow
| guilty? If crowded into corner at
last, this desperate corporation adj
mits a 5 per cent guilt, is it not
possible that it has been culpable
by two or three times as much as
it admits)
1t is my opinion and I am sure
from the daily contacts I make, the
opinion of 80 per cent OF the bust
ness, professional and private citi-
zens of Marion county that you
have done a wonderful job, and the
hope prevails you will not relinqulsh
your efforts until justice to the pub
lie is complete.
Then why stop at the indianapolis
Power and Light Company? There
is another large and most powerful
organization within the state OF In
diana which is just as guilty, II not
more so, than the power company
the Indiana Bell Telephone Com
pany, or in other words, the Amerl-
can Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany.
An Investigation Of interest
loading charges should be made on
the circulation of borrowed money
between the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company, Western
Electric Company and Bell Tele-
phone Company. 1t would be in
tersting to hear the result of this
probe.
There have been many things
said in the last year in connection
with the investigation of this huge
corporation, but very little action.
The federal interdepartmental COM
munication committee voiced the
general popular complaint that the
rates of the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company and its
subsidiaries, of which the Indiana
Bell Telephone Company is one, are
excessive, but nothing has been done
to reduce this excess.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
are spent annually by this corpora
ton through the lobbyists at Wash
ington, and personnel departments
scattered throughout the country.
The minute a question arises in
connection with reduction of rates,
the diplomats are on the scene, and
for all this, the public is paying.
Editors Note: Please, MIR. De
Lancy, we can only do one thing
at a time. We have looked brief
ly into the phone company and
find no similarity between it and
the light company
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
AID YOUR OWN
CHILDREN IN WORK

B. t. NJ. sauawky
The child labor cartoon was won
derful. Like a good show, one could
see it over again. It should be on
the front page.
I'd like to tell you a story about
child who was employed by her
mother at the age Of to dress her
self. She was paid weekly. Some
mothers dress their children until
they are 10. This child of 3 learned
many things from her employment.
She learned about the week, the
names Of the days, the number of
day in the week, and something of
money.
Would you believe that on her
own decision she bought stockings
to match her most beautiful dress.
For a pale green silk dress she
bought pale green silk stockings
that matched to a shade. She looked
like a doll in them when she went
places suitable for her to wear them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
Does It Matter
BY FRANCESCA

BY FRANCESCA
-Four walls and a Window bed
and a chair,
A desk, a bookcase, a light;
-Four walls and window, it all
seems so bare,
When I climb up the stairway at
night.
A laugh with a heartache, some
tears with a smile,
And trouble I keep in my heart:
I suppose I'll get used to this life
afterwhile,
When I'm better at playing the
part.
Two disappointments to every wee,
JOY,
Few wishes. they never come true,
Why can't / sleep till the world
passes by,
When there's no one to care If
7 do?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
HERE'S AN NRA
COMPLAINT FOR JOHNSON

BY Z. ).
I wish some one would explain
the NRA to me I have a brother
who has a small business and before
he could get the blue eagle he had
to employ one or more persons. He
did this.
Now, I have been in drug stores
and numerous other stores where
they display the blue eagle. and
they have no extra help outside Of
member of the family. They do
all their own work, and still they
say, 1--WE do our part"
Then, others are making their
employees do twice as much work
and tell them to step on it or they
will lose their jobs.
No, I suppose you will not print
this, but two-thirds Of Indianapo-
lis is going this and getting by.
Then, I suppose when the public
sees this eagle they are to believe
they are doing their part, which I
say they are not.
I have been a reader Of The
Times for more than twenty years
and proud Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
THE AIR MAIL

THE party organs and politicians in con-
u gress in attempting TO make political
rying the mails may be throwing boomerangs
that Will return and crack their noses.
If the army planes now carrying the mails
are of low quality and the army pilots thereof
are too inexperienced. where does the blame
for this condition rest? Not with the Roose-
welt administration but with over a decade of
Republican party administration. And there
is testimony already on record to the effect
that favoritism toward big corporations con-
tributing to Republican campaign funds has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
LOTTERY SUGGESTED AS
MONEY CALCULATOR
By a Times Reader

By a Times Reader
Martin Sommers, Of New York,
says in last weeks Golfers, "A re-
cent survey shows that official
lotteries are held today in thirty
foreign countries, and that citizens
of the United States spend an aver
age of $4,000 a week on tickets
for them" No wonder we are short
on cash.
People always gambled, and al
ways will, so what is the reason why
the good old United States can't
have a lottery and keep that money
at home, and add some Of it to the
treasury?
Another scheme which would be
beneficial to many would be to
start a Householder Pool here IN
indianapolis. Issue $4,000 tickets
at Is cents each. Have 10000 prizes
OF $1,000 each, and, after COM
mission is paid to sellers and col
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
SANITARY CONDITIONS IN
EATING HOUSES SCORED
By Ernest Gree,,weIl.

By Ernest Greenwen.
This is a copy of letter to DR..
Harvey, state public health director.
The sanitary conditions of the
public eating houses, consisting Of no.
tells, restaurants and hamburger
stands, in indianapolis are in de-
plorable condition.
I have been employed in num-
Der of them. The conditions that
exist are not sanitary. The dish
washing process that many Of the
establishments maintain do not
comply with the laws. A large por-
ton of the places are overrun by
rats and reaches. Most of them
serve broken or cracked dishes. Only
"a few use disinfectant in the dish
water; and, as a whole, the kitchens
are far from being sanitary.
The health certificate that en-
ployes are supposed to obtain is not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

BY Mrs. NJ. II. Newly
Congratulations and deserving
praise goes to The indianapolis
Times for publication of Dickens
"The Life of Our Lord" Those of
us who get SO bored with cur
rent events on the front pages Of
the press will appreciate what The
Times has done in purchasing the
works Of Dickens for the benefit
of the public.
I hope the story is kept on the
front page, for these are days
when this story as it goes into
print will give those of us a re-
newed lease on life. To those
of us who are discouraged and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

lectors, put the balance in charity
fund to aid the unemployed.
1t would give several unemployed
men and women work, and cut
down the township trustees ex-
penses for coal and food to the I'M
employed. And who would miss a
paltry sum of 25 cents each week?
The ten prizes would put money
in circulation and help all along
the line. True, there is law pro-
hibiting gambling, but it is violated
every day in smaller ways, so why
not violate it big and for a good
cause?
No doubt, it would stop the sale
of outside tickets and keep the
money at home, where it belongs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06

carried out, only by a few of the
houses. The Cooks, Walters and
Bartenders' Union, which I repre-
sent, have requested me to investi-
gate the possibilities of relieving
this condition.
Our organization maintains that
the public that patronizes these
places has a right to demand Sani-
tary conditions in eating houses.
Almost half the population of In
dianapolis eats in these places, and,
if we can by our efforts help these
conditions we will feel that we have
done our duty to the people upon
whom we depend for our liveli-
hood.
Any member of our local will
vouch for the conditions that exist.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-06
PROTESTS PENSIONS PAID
TO BIG SHOTS

BY ]. A. Perkins
I wish in a small way to correct
misinformed public pertaining tC
benefits or pensions paid to wal
veterans. Such benefits are not
paid by local taxpayers. They never
have been, nor shall be paid in this
manner. The money used for this
purpose is set aside from duties on
imports and high income tax from
the more than 5000 milliOnaires
made during the World war.
Be not deceived by the national
economy league. 1t only states half
truths. The national economy
league does not come into court with
clean hands in uEging reductions in
veterans assistance since its leaders,
themselves, receive government
pensions.
Admiral Richard E. Bird, head of
the national economy league, draws
$4,000 annually. General James G..
Sanford, $4,000; Admiral William
F. Sims, $4,000; Alfred E. Smith,
$500 from the state Of New York.
What for? Service-cOnnected dis
abilities? No! For being a good
governor. General John j. Pershing
gets $21, 800. I am a war veteran
and I pay $50 taxes annually. 1
believe in economy, and practice It..
My small pension was wiped off the
slate to appease the whims OF the
national Chamber Of Commerce big
business, and Wall Street, the in
come tax dodgers association"
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"The Life of Our Lord"

distressed may we be benefited
through the gracious efforts of
The indianapolis Times to pub
lish something, a secret dear to
the heart of a man as was Dick
ems, for his story, I'm sure, will be
good news.
Let every one wish for the sue
cess of The indianapolis Times
prosperity, and to its editors the
same wish, and may the sale Of
the editions mount to millions.
P. S.-If this is worth space in
your editorial column, I'm sure
readers will agree this is a Won
derful venture for Indiana's lead
ing newspaper, The indianapolis
Times.