davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
A WELCOME TEST

THE National Labor Relations Board well
Il comes the legal challenge hurled yester-
day by the House Engineering Corporation of
Buffalo when it refused to comply with the
boards Sept. order to recognize the majority
union exclusively for collective bargaining.
The case now will go to the courts The
issue is crystal-clear. The company does not
challenge the boards facts: it challenges the
law.
In its Houde opinion supported by legal
citations including a supreme court decision,
the board clarified this question of majority
rule. In the more recent Guide Lamp Cor
poration decision it laid down the identical
principle that an employer must recognize for
collective bargaining a majority of the proper
unit. The proper unit, it must be remembered.
can be either group craft plant or an
industry as determined by similarity Of work
in each individual case. The Guide Lamp Cor
poration of Anderson was instructed to recog-
nize the metal polishers' union as the exclu-
sive bargaining agency "in certain depart
ments Of the company" In the Houde case
the proper bargaining unit was found to be
the plant.
In the coming court battle the labor board
will be on firm ground because its Houde de-
cision did not attempt to impose tyranny
by majority unions. The Houde case decisions
specifically disavowed any attempt by the
board to force a closed shop, or to deny the
minority right of petition over grievances. or
to protect any majority union which abuses
Its legal privileges or to force EMPLOYEES to
join majority union, or to lay down any
blanket rule for American industry as to what
shall constitute the proper unit of represen-
tation for collective bargaining.
The probability of the United States SUI
preme court upholding the collective bargain
ing law. and its clear meaning as laid down
IN the Houde decision. is very great. The
sooner this test can be made and legal CON-
troversy ended. the better.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
THAT PERMANENT WAVE

livery forty-f1ve minutes an American is
murdered. Last year the United States
homicide rate was 1877 for each 100000 highest
in the civilized world. England's was o5
The nations crime bill is estimated at
s13.OOO,OOO, OOo
some $4,000 Americans are in prison. about
100000 regularly engaged in the business of
crime
These figures have been brought together
by the magazine Fortune.
Inc crime wave has been a permanent one
For years We have been as effective as Canute
in hating it. Now, for the first time, the crime
doctors are using intelligence as well as force
Thanks to the auto and the submachine
gum to prohibition, the war and the depression,
crime spread over state lines and took on a pc
cuharly revolving aspect. Bank robberies. rack
eteering and kidnapping became commonplace.
AS was inevitable. the federal government had
to step in to help the states
The results of federal Intervention are be-
ginning to be impressive. Practically every kid
naper has been caught and jailed What if the
racketeer Capone was taken for income tax
evasion and the killer Dillinger for auto theft?
All AONCAolo are S6CGAllg JIltlI ILeu.
But this is only small part of the busi-
ness. The great bulk of crime still is local and
travels afoot. The same will and intelligence
that the government is applying to interstate
crime the localities must apply to interstate
lawleSsness.
Recently at Milwaukee the American Bar
Association learned some of the things commu-
mites can do to help stamp out crime.
President Earle Evans of the association
said the bar must rid itself of the lawyer
criminal, the man who. though sworn to en-
force the laws helps criminals to evade it. As
siStant Attorney General Joseph B. keenan,
urged citizens to throw out of Office their cor
rupt officials.
America is discovering that crime isn't
simple. To punish and brutalize few in the
hope of lettering the many has not worked.
Even after the legal brains of gangdom are
eliminated by action of bar associations and
courts. and after politics is divorced from alli-
ance with criminals, society still will have the
job of removing the basic economic causes of
crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
A SYMPTOM OF HATE

IT is easy enough to be Mortified by the
Il revelations now being made before the
senate munitions committee. 1t is not nearly
so easy to figure out just what ought to be
done about it,
What is being learned is only an amplifica-
ton of previous disclosures. The big NUM-
tions firms are true internationalists. They
find ways of cooperating to insure bigger
profits.
They divide world markets on a truly grand
scale. They get the cooperation of naval
authorities, and they have broadminded way
of exchanging patent rights
There is nothing especially new in all this;
and yet the force Of the disclosures. echoing
from the vast sounding board which senate
committee can erect has shocked the Amer
lean people very profoundly
For there is something about the NUM-
tons business which puts it in a class by itself,
The men who market guns, submarines, and
bombs are not dealing in ordinary merchan-
disc they are dealing in sudden death, and
they have a proprietary interest in mass
slaughter which makes their trade of direct
concern to ordinary folk everywhere.
And yet, as things stand today. it is hard
to see precisely how the business can be re-
formed
For this great traffic in the machines Of
destruction is a symptom of trouble, rather
than a cause. 1t is a symptom Of a great divi-
sion among the peoples Of the world-of
rivalries and suspicious and hatreds and in
justices. innumerable and almost insoluble.
Granting that the munitions makers have
not been above stirring up trouble, on occa-
sions. 10 boom the market the fact remains
that for the most part. this vast trade in
weapons goes on because nations everywhere
are expecting war.
The world. in fact. is pretty sick, and its
intervals Of sanity between spells Of fever
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
UP TO THE FARMERS

CHESTER c. DAVIS. administrator for the
AAA. says that future crop control
schemes will depend on the wishes Of the
farmers themselves.
Corn belt farmers will be asked to take
part in a referendum. to say what they want
to do about their 1885 corn crop. Similar
referenda will be taken among other farm
ers regarding other phases of the AAA pro-
gram; and if the farmers wish to give up the
whole crop control plan, they will be able to
say so, and the government will listen to
them.
1t is doubtful if any man is wise enough
to predict, at present. just how the farmers
will vote; and that is precisely what makes
the taking of these refrenda a wise move.
In the long run, no agricultural plan can
succeed if it does not have the support of
majority of the farmers. To find out exactly
how the farmers feel about the present pro-
gram is very sensible move.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
RELIEF FOR 100000

A Ii attempts to forecast the future of the
New Deal-or, for that matter, of Ameri-
can business-are complicated by the recent
appearance Of a surprising and unpleasant
fact: to wit that approximately 2SOOo,OOo
Americans will be on relief this winter.
Here is a factor that nobody had looked
for. Trying to figure out where it came from
gets us nowhere The important thing is to
recognize how drastically it conditions every
thing that We may try to do.
A sixth Of the entire country no longer is
able to support itself. More people than live
in New York and Pennsylvania will get
through the winter only through the assist
ance Of the government. All the relief prob
lens that We ever had before dwindled almost
to insignihcance in comparison.
Now perhaps the most surprising thing
about it all is that Mr. Richberg's disclosure
Of the staggering size Of the relief problem
has not created more alarm.
The news has sobered us to be sure. and
il has worried us-but it has not created
panic. 1t has not led us to throw up our
hands ana look to imitation as the sole posi-
bic solution. II has not made us feel that all
our recovery effort to date is fiat failure. II
has not given us that hopeless feeling that
the depression is a vast. boa constrictor-lke
force which will go on Tightening its coils until
il brushes US.
on the contrary. people generally have
taken a cool and sensible view. Here is our
problem, and 1t is a good deal bigger and
knottier than We thought it was going to be
but It isn't insoluble and our confidence in
ourselves is such that We believe We can take
It in our stride.
Yet this confidence should not lead us to
underestimate the pressure which a relief
problem OF this magnitude can exert. Unless
We keep ahead of it. it can drive us-in direc-
tions we may not foresee.
For these 100000 have got to be taken
care Of. no matter what 1t costs us; further
to see that they are fed and housed is only
part OF the job. Eventually they must be put
back to work. And when you try to figure
out how this is TO be done. you begin to see
what a comphcsting factor this relief situa-
ton really is.
ForeoaSting the future is futile unless these
g 100000 are taken into account
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
TuEsDAY. sEPT. n. ls1a
WHAT'S THE ANSWER?

CLOT machine racketeering in Indianapo-
- lis and Marion county has been the tar
get for attacks recently. with the effect chief
~ being that the machines have been re-
moved temporarily and then returned to their
nesting places as soon as the wave Of the law
has swept beyond
That the machines are permitted this toad
stool growth after various cuttings proves that
the law enforcement machinery of this city
and county has fallen down miserably. Such
aftermaths 10 enforcement campaigns also re-
veal that somewhere in the high or low ranks
OF personnel there are some very bad pota-
toes
Moral Lessons OF the years past were sup
posed to show that one bad potato spoiled the
entire lot in the barrel. It appears that the
spelling process has gained great hesdway.
Soon We Will have the politicians yelling
from the stumps that when they. or their
party take Office all will be changed-for the
better. All that comes under the general
classification OF -hooey."
II there are alterations to be made, there
is no reason Why they shouldn't be made now,
rather than on Jan. l. To permit errors to
continue merely emphasizes the general 'degra-
dation that has found its way into the city
and county.
Daily it is reported that dice games and
other forms of gambling involving high stakes
are taking place within the corporate limits
Of the city. OF course. you are told that you
must have an in" TO get into these games.
However to the ordinary citizen it seems
as though any police officer who walks his
beat daily and does a conscientious job should
know these places no matter how secret their
operations are supposed to be.
If these officers do not know where these
gambling dens are located. then it is time for
the chief of police and the safety board to
employ officers who know the answers.
And if these policemen do know the locs-
lions and facts about these gambling hide
outs. why don't they do their duty? If they
are prevented from 1t by bribery or orders
countermanding such action. then it is high
time the entire situation be aired.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
RUSSIA AND THE LEAGUE

ONE Of the most important international
~ Developments in a long while is the vote
Of the League OF Nations council to invite Rus
STA 70 join the league with a permanent seat
in the council
In the present state OF world affairs RuSSia's
membership probably is even more significant
than United States membership would be. 1t
rivets the new peace realisnment in Europe
and Asia under. which France. Italy. Great
Britain and Russia are expected TO stand to-
gether against any general war threat
Definitely and consciously. it is a reply TO
German and japanese withdrawal from the
league AS such. it should strengthen the
peace groups in Berlin and Toxic who are try
ine 70 restrain the German and japanese mill
tarists
Or Benes Of Czechoslovakia. speaking as
presiding officer Of the league assembly. did
not exaggerate when he described Russia as
a country without whose cooperation condi-
tons IN Europe and the world never will re-
turn 70 normal
OF especial significance to Americans. Rus
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11

the people which are called by my
name shall humble themselves and
pray, and seek my face, and turn
from their wicked ways, then will I
hear from heaven and will forgive
their sins and will heal their land"
Will the Lord do that for this
United States when our govern
ment is slaughtering pigs, burning
wheat, blowing under cotton and
laying waste Gods bountiful gifts,
where so many are hungry and
naked? He will not, for the wis
dom Of this world os fooliShness to
God and without His help and wis
dom from on high. President Roose-
velt and his brain Il should say
his alphabetical code) men are help
less. When men go back to God
the Giver of all good gifts, then
we will have hope.
Senator Robinson is the only
senator who fought to keep the
United States from recognizing Rus
STA, Red Russia, which starved its
people, Mr.. Farley over the radio
tried to put mud all over Senator
Robinson by saying the United
States already had in its treasury
100000 to its credit from Russia's
trade-blood money for the United
States from Russia. What tragedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
WHEN ROYALTY WEEDS

NXTHEN young man and young woman
w become engaged to be married, the news
is interesting to their friends-and, if they
happen to be famous, to a great many total
strangers as well. Ordinarily however, it can
hardly be classed as news of worldwide inn
portance.
The engagement between young Archduke
Otto and Princess Maria of Italy, though, is
something else again. 1t is a marriage of
state, and it may drag in its wake momentuous
consequences for a large part of Europe.
Otto wants to regain the throne of Austria.
Since royal houses do not give the hands of
their daughters to obvious losers, it may be
taken for granted that his ambition is going
to get a good deal of support from the gov
eminent of Italy.
And since sthere are other governments
which are firmly determined that no Haps-
burg shall ever return to Vienna, head-on
collision of rival interests seems to be in pros
pect
This engagement of Otto and Maria may
yet rank with the most important European
news item of 1884.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
School Teachers Accused of Political Bias

Hoover certainly should be sorry
by this time"
Yet, Indiana teachers, thanks to
the fine work of Governor Nc
Mutt, never have had to worry
about their salaries. They never
have had their teaching season
shortened.
1 challenge Mr.. Stetson to be
fair enough and honest enough to
instruct his teachers that any one
bringing up such statements as
the above in the classrooms be
subject to peremptory dismissal
upon presentation of evidence sus-
tanning such charges.
Had it not been for the fact
that felt certain my children
would have been MAD to suffer
for my action, 1 certainly would
have preferred charges last spring.
If Mr.. Stetson will grant the
children immunity from punish
ment and miStreatment because
their parents are Democrats, 1
should enjoy nothing better than
preferring charges at this time
against three teachers who have
been retained to teach again this
fall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
NEIGHBORS
BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN

BY EFFIE L. WORKMAN
My neighbors are the incest folks,
They never fail to say
Good morning" to each other
In the friendliest sort of way.
They never are too busy,
A favor small to grant.
No matter what the trouble
No one ever says i can't"
No high dividing fences
Mark the yards as yours" or mine"
But lovely flowers and gardens
Grow in rows along each line.
The lawns, like strips of velvet,
green,
Stretch terraced, to the street,
Where naples stand, whose
branches,
In an archway seem to meet.
This neighborhood of mine, displays
No wealth, or homes so grand,
But no finer hospitality
Is found in all the land.
They call themselves Just common
folks"
But they're rich IN things WORTH
while.
These friendly. kindly nelghbors.
aAlHayz ready Eatb q snailA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
OLD STANDARDS OF
MORALITY UPHELD
BY H. S. Osgood.

BY H. 5. Osgood.
R. M. Weller, the writer acknowl-
edges the soft impeachment Of be-
ing born thirty or forty years too
soon to fit into modern ideas and
practices so tactfully suggested in
your letter.
When men or women fall below
the level of self-respect to the
lower levels of fads or so-called Gus
toms and free and easy standards of
today, invented by class of ire
Sponsible youth, it is evidence Of
disregard of the dictates Of COM
mon sense and is regrettable to the
extreme.
In this birth control age in which
consequences are lightly regarded
and every drugstore is an arsenal of
defense, emergencies are not feared
by the most ignorant, hence every
thing goes as you inferred. The
ethics of decency or correct con-
duct are limited only by the vigil
ance of the cops on duty. then not
always.
Following your line of reasoning
in which you recognize no stand
ards, the result must be the entire
loss of modesty without which no
girl or woman can be trusted for
wifehood and motherhood. That is
dark outlook for any mans home
and anything or any custom that
makes a woman an unworthy men,
Der Of society is fatal stroke at
the structure of civilization.
Mr.. Weller, old standards that
have been tried and proven are the
only safe ones.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11

By H. r.
1 read with interest the address
Paul Stetson, city school Superin-
tendent, to Marion county teach
ers as we'll as The Times edi-
torial on the subject. Very, very
good.
May I suggest that Mr. Stet-
son insist that the teachers he
employs steer clear of politics
before he again relieves himself
statements to the contrary.
I have, as I thought, the priv
ilege of having my children in
one of the best schools in Indian
apolis which has reputation for
good schools.
I am a Democrat. hope the
children shall be, too. We re-
sent the statements of teachers
this spring, before the primary
election, that "the United States
would be much better off had Mr..
Hoover been reelected" that Gov
ernor McNutt has put taxes on
the present generation that you
still will be paying when you go
into the business world" and
that President Roosevelt is ruin
ing business every day, and any
one who did not vote for Mr..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
BELIEVES CONSTITUTION
STILL SUFFICIENT

BY B. B.
wish to take this means to con-
graduate George w. Curtis on his
article in this column on Sept. Z
and I hope to hear more from him.
Mr.. Curtis states:
"If it becomes evident that it Is
impossible to regulate and control
industry and capitaliStic enterprises
under the Constitution, suitable for
the existing state of society, then
the usefulness and necessity of the
Constitution ends"
Every right thinking person in
this land should agree with Mr..
Curtis. However, there is no rea-
son as yet to believe that this can
not be done under the present Con-
stitution. The old Hooverites would
have us believe that the recovery
laws are unconstitutional. Why take
notice to this, as the Constitution
itself places the authority in the
United States supreme court to de-
eide whether a law is unconstitu-
tional.
The heads of great industries
helped to frame the NRA and now
since they have been pulled out of
the quick sand, they are moving
heaven and earth to keep it from
working. Likewise, I am informed
that we have a senator representing
the people of this state who cast his
vote in the senate in favor of the
NRA and other recovery laws and
now he is discouraging everything
which the NRA stands, for. How
any thinking man or woman can
cast a vote for a man Of this type
is more than I can understand.
Labor should not only have the
right to organize but should be en-
couraged to organize by government.
We never will restore the economic
balance until labor is organized and
organized wages are paid. This is
the only way, under our present sys-
tenn, to prohibit industry from over
capitalization. Overcapitalization is
the major seat of our economic
trouble today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
HERE'S THE STRAIGHT OF
STRIKE DEATH TOLL
By Joe College.

By Joe College.
I beheld an aged news monger
holding in his left hand several
copies of the early edition Of The
Times, bearing a streamer, Nine
killed in Textile Warfare" In his
right hand, he supported ditto Of
The Indianapolis News, which pro-
claimed over eight columns. to the
effect that not a paltry nine, but
ten had paid the supreme penalty
in the strikers cause.
After my mirth had subsidized at
this journalistic discrepancy, I real
lied with shock that the hitherto
fearless Times might not be what
it seemed, but only a hollow mock
cry Of journalistic ethics.
Having been fortunate enough to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11

hear last week a statement by the
editor of The Times that he was
a d-in-the- wool, yard-wide, cop
per- bottomed capitalist and a Re-
publican, at that $50 am y, 1
thought to myself, Can it be that
this is evidence of the work of that
arch-fiend, endeavoring to suppress
the news of labor's fight, to pass
off as a puny nine casualty battle
what is really thriving ten-death
WARP"
Come, Mr.. Editor, can you defend
yourself against this heinous charge
of coloring the news, of propa-
gandizing the bourgeiosie against
the seriousness of the class warfare?
Ten were killed on the day in
question. The early first edition
of The Times had nine killed All
later editions carried the death
list at ten.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
PLAN SUBMITTED FOR
NEW STATE PRISON.
By O. ]. Simmons.

BY o. ]. Simmons.
Now that prison experts are adj
hitting they need to start over,
hearken unto a man who never saw
a penitentiary. Let us build state
prison, to house men and women,
perverts and normals, bad men and
alimony victims.
First, we need land, a few score
acres. Around it build a concrete
wall twenty feet high, mostly to stop
bullets from inside coming out
Let the wall be gateleSS. Inside, a
central tower a hundred feet or so
high to house sharpshooting guards.
Lay out four prison streets, all
radial and pointing directly to the
central tower. On the far side Of
the circular street build huts for
prisoners, each hut to have roof
four feet above ground on the
tower side and sloping to street
level away from the tower. Between
huts have yards eight feet square,
each hut having one yard. to be
planted in flowers Ono food gardens
allowed) by the occupant Of each
hut.
Around the first or inner circle
of huts build a second street, ten
feet wide and touching all first
street nuts in the rear.
Use solid concrete for all huts
and streets.
Place huts on second street and
around these lay out the third street,
and so on until finally the base of
the wall touches the back Of all
huts on wall street"
Outside Of every hut, in the wall
or roof, facing the yard, place a
microphone, so the tower guards can
stamp eRs conversation frem yard
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-11
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

ish delirium are not long The munitions
makers are complicating factor, to be sure;
yet the roots Of the disease go beyond them.
To curb their activities might relieve the
patients sutferings slightly but it would not
cure him.
We live, in other words, by the sword-an
Of us, in every land. AS long as We do, we
hardly can be too Mortified at the way the
people who make and sell us the swords get
rich.