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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
TRADE

BECAUSE it always is harder to build than
- to tear down, the administration today
faces one of it's most formidable tasks in max
ing the new reciprocal trade act work to re-
store our once fourishing commerce.
On the one hand, the government must
frame agreements that mean something for
the great farm and factory export industries
and the 100000 Americans depending upon
them for a living. On the other hand, it must
avoid working injuries to other industries. In
steering between these two the government
will encounter rocks and shoals.
The effectiveness of the new act has been
impaired somewhat by the war debt hasco,
which strips the President of what might have
been his best bargaining weapon, and also by
a provision in this law forbidding any agree
ment to reduce foreign debts. Trade agree
ments also will be limited by the state depart
ment's promise not to disturb the most favored
nation principle in existing treaties.
This means that in making foreign conces-
sions we must extend them to all with whom
we have favored nation treaties. The debt
clause affects only five of our big customers,
however, and the most favored nation restr1c-
ton affects only about one-fourth of our ex-
ports.
Untouched by these limitations is a vast
field of potential trade. And the administra-
ton is setting up an expert service to study
what articles and what nations first can be
brought under the scope of the act.
Industries that fear this law will raze tariff
walls like a Joshua's trumpet are offered as
surance by the government. President Roose-
welt says that mo SOUND and important Amer
lean interest will be injuriously disturbed"
State Secretary Cordell Hull promises that
nothing will be done "blindly or hastily"
Francis B. Sayre, assistant secretary of state,
says that Everything will be done to promote,
not harm, American industries and interests"
Administration leaders conceive the new
act as the other half Of national planning.
While seeking to control production at home
they also hope to build outlets for agricultural
and industrial SURPRISES abroad.
Perhaps this road will lead America out OF
it's economic cave to dwell again among the
family of nations.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14

A FTER "due weighing" of evidence, DR.. F.
- Scott Mcbride, general superintendent OF
the ~Anti-Saloon League of America, finds that
repeal haSAsailed deplorably to solve the liquor
problem. -
After similar weighing" the New York
State Alcoholic Beverage Board finds that
repeal in the Empire state has brought about
definite evidence of social, moral, and eco
nomic improvement.
Repeal undoubtedly has had its benefits
and it also undoubtedly has given rise to
some conditions which seem worse than was
the case under prohibition.
But turning a blind eye to a situation that
does not match up with the Investigators
personal prejudices, and magnifying every
thing that does agree with his viewpoint, will
not bring the nation any closer to solution of
the vexing problem.
There is such a thing as temperance in in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
THURSDAY, JUNE IA. 1884.
JUSTICE

"TLL put you under $4,000 bond and your
cases won't be tried until next year."
That was Criminal Judge Frank P. Bakers
answer yesterday to three youths, facing grand
larceny charges, who decided to enter pleas of
not guilty rather than stand by previous pleas
of guilty.
1t seems as though this punishment is too
severe for justification. Why couldn't those
men have been allowed to change their pleas
and to have been given fair and speedy trials
so they might have the opportunity to start
service of their sentences Immediately?
The outside observer can see no reason why
the court, irked over these changes Of pleas,
should condemn three men to spend an entire
summer and winter in the Marion county jail.
Perhaps the three men are in error. If they
are then they certainly will learn the lesson
of the law. For they know that after a year
in iail they stand the chance of serving addi-
tional terms. 1t would be a queer turn If a
Jury should acquit them.
But, frankly Judge Baker, don't you believe
il would be we'll to reconsider this case? JUS
tice. without balance, is a poor grade OF
Justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
The Kiss of Death


We pointed out that MIR. Robinson would
be of no use either to his party or his state in
Washington. In the interests of good govern
ment we begged the Republicans to nominate
a strong candidate. There were plenty avail
able.
Today the citizens of this state are edited
with the spectacle of their senior senator
bracketed with the most notorious mountebank
that ever went to Washington.
Every one at the national capital knows
that the two men have been associated close
Iv throughout this entire session of congress.
They have one thing in common-each has
been rejected and repudiated by his fellow
party members in the senate. Then. too, each
has a weakness for listening to his own voice.
Since they have so much in common it is
not surprising that the "Kingfish" heartily in
dorses "Lil" Arthur's candidacy. Such an in
dorsement, we think, may well prove to be the
kiss of death in the fall election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
G. Y. P. (GRAND YOUNG PARITY
THE HON. HENRY P. FLETCHER. new

THE HON. HENRY P. FLETCHER, new
Il chairman of the Republican national
committee. announces that his party plans a
nationwide appeal to American youth to sup
port its cause. The project is to organize
100000 young men and women into clubs as
shock troops in the battle of ballots next
November.
This picture of the G.. o. P.-or should we
say G. Y. P.-with the red rose of youth in it's
teeth would be. less comic but for several
things, especially what happened recently in
Chicago.
Young people are idealists and many are
crusaders. The Palmer House platform
lacked even the call to a lusty opposition fight
on the New Deal, not to mention a construc-
tive program of its own. For what are these
young people going forth to battle?
Young people are fearless of change. Yet
the platform" sneered at the experiments"
being undertaken in Washington and ~furtive-
ly warned against the fell purposes of the
group chino these measures to "alter the
framework of American institutions"
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Indiana and Steel

fear that a strike will be or
dered. Naturally those men
fear a strike. They want to eat
just as you and 1 do.
Your Times writer also says
that the merchants of the city of
Gary do not want to see a strike
ordered. That, too, is natural for
now they have seen the city come
back to something near normal
and it is to their benefit, and
rightly so, that a steady peace
and calm prevail.
Haywood Broun yesterday sur
veyed the area in which the strike
would occur. He ended his COL
umn by saying that the American
working man has been rough
when he sees some one else taking
his job and that he believes
rough performances will be e
peated in the future.
That, then, leaves Indiana with
only one hope. That men who
control the workers and who are
not natives of this state and
probably don't care what happens
here, will have common sense
enough to forget strike agitation
at this time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
GIVE US ANSWERS

r Asst month the voters of Marion county
IL went to the polls under the assumption
that their votes would be counted properly
and that if there was any skullduggery that
the law enforcement agencies of the county
soon would remedy it.
From the record, as it has been written
since May 8, the voters realize that they ap-
p"arently we're in error in both assumptions.
County authorities were convinced, they
said a few days after the primary, that there
had been ~miscounting of the ballots. They
said that the instances might have been COM
mon errors but that, on the other hand. they
might have been Intentional.
The voters still are interested in this mat
ter. They would like to know whether they
have been subjected to skullduggery or human
mistakes.
Which brings us to the conclusion that
soon, Mr.. Prosecutor and grand jurors. we
would like to Know the answers
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14

BY A. B. C.
Indiana will profit greatly if the
steel strike is not called this week.
For several years the northern
end of the state was considered
one of the greatest and swiftest
land and business developments
in the United States. Unlike
Florida, northern Indiana was
built on something solid--steel.
Now if a strike comes, it will
find this area, which just now is
regaining it's composure after the
depression, cast back into the
whirlpools of despair.
The men who work in the steel
mills in any part of the country
are REAL men. They have to be.
They are not brutal at heart,
but when the time would come
for violence in a strike, you can
bet that there are no other work
ers as we'll able to take care OF
themselves physically as these
men who do a real days work.
I notice in The Times a story
by a staff writer in which he says
that the surface is calm, but If
you scratch that you will find a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
CUT THOSE HEDGES

TINE Indianapolis police department.
L through a complaint fled by a reader of
The Times, requests that hedges which obstruct
views at street intersections be cut imme-
diately.
According to the department, the death of
one man in an accident last week at Fortieth
street and Carrollton avenue can be attri-
buted to untrimmed hedges, bushes and over
hanging trees.
No resident of the city, or county for that
matter, can afford not to heed this request.
There already have been too many automobile
accidents in Marion county this year. Every
step that can be taken by police and citizens
to halt this toll should be placed in effect
Immediately.
Don't tarry on this request, indianapolis
residents. You may be instrumental in saw
ing a life.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14

RINGING silence in Washington greeted
"A the denomination of Senator Arthur
Robinson. Not one of his fellow party mem
bers in the senate even whispered qualification
over the choice of Indiana's bankrupt Repub-
licanism.
Today that silence is shattered abruptly.
Lii Arthur Robinson has a champion-none
other than Huey "Kingfish" Long, jigging
clown Of the national legislature!
Asked whether the report were true that
Mr.. Robinson was his candidate, the king
fish" replied with characteristic elegance:
you're damn right. I'm for Senator Rob-
inson and I don't care who knows it."
So the Republican party of this state has
come to such a pass that it's senator is in
dorsed only by a renegade Democrat! -
The Times repeatedly has declared that
Senator Robinson was held in such contempt
by his colleagues that they never even had
permitted his name to appear on a single i'm
portant piece of observation-disclosures or other
wise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
LAUDS EDITORIAL
ON AGE PENSIONS

BY a Liberal.
Your recent editorial, For the
Aged" states clearly an issue in
which the people of Indiana show
an active interest.
For the majority of us, only
death in early life will save us from
facing the poorhouse in old age.
We have not arrived at a solution
of the problem OF distributing
wealth so equitabIy that all may
have an opportunity to save for old
age.
Medical science has increased the
life span. Modern business and in
dustry, without sense or reason, de-
mands young workers. Thus many
men are cast on life's scrapheap
long before their earning powers
have waned.
The Indiana legislature at its 1895
session, will have an opportunity to
alter the present pension law and
remove the state from the list of
commemorative ranked as reac-
tionary in social legislation.
Indiana's pension law, with a
starting age ~of 10 and a monthly
limit of SIS, is a sorry thing COM
pared to Ohio's IS and SIS law.
Voters of Ohio, by a majority of
more than 100000, supported the
more liberal plan.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
PROPOSES PETITION
FOR WORLD A

By Chauncey B. Reddick.
Herewith is a peace proposal en-
titled 1.-THE Peaceful Patriots OF
America" I believe this is the
propitious time to start a peace
movement. 1t is the greatest cause
and should enlist millions of people
for preventing war:
A PETITION
This proposal shall be known as
the Peaceful Patriots of America.
We enter upon a movement to free
America from future a. and set
an example of civilization to the
world.
This movement should meet the
approval of every citizen from the
greatest to the humblest. This is
the greatest cause that ever enlisted
the sympathies of mankind.
1t affords ample opportunity o
all patriotic people of the nation to
come together and prevent future
wars.
Let us go to the harbor of New
York and place there a Prince OF
Peace" and a new light in the hand
of Liberty Enlightening the World"
In the event of invasion, and only
then, should we be in favor of war,
and at such a time fight for our
lives, our homes and our country.
Any person, 16 or older, is eligible.
This petition, with the signatures
of each unit, will be sent to the
President asking for peace. There
are no feesnko be paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
A BLESSING TO THE BLIND

THERE are $4,000 men, women and. chill
dren in the United States who never have
seen a daily newspaper.
They are the $4,000 blind whose reading is
limited to books and magazines published IN
Braille and whose knowledge of day by day
happenings in the world depends on what
they are told or what others read to them.
A young New Yorke: has announced that
next fall he will establish a daily newspaper
for the blind. The young man himself is
blind; has been sightless since he was 9 years
old. With the assistance of charitable organ
izations, he continued his schooling. won
scholastic honors and a college degree.
The proposed newspaper will be published
in Braille. 1t will contain advertising as well
as news and will be issued five days a week
free to 5000 blind in the middle Atlantic
states. Later it is hoped to extend this num-
Der so that the newspaper will reach blind
persons everywhere in the United States and
Canada.
There is something singularly appealing
about this effort of the blind to aid the BLIND
To those less handicapped it brings renewed
realization of the thousands of blessings and
advantages so commonly accepted as to be
forgotten.
The young publisher states his object in
establishing the newspaper is to make it pos
sible for the sightless ito take a more active
and profitable part in society" The words
may stand as a challenge to those who can
see.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
uNGUARDED POOLS

HUNDREDS of children, ranging in age
Il from 6 to 16, daily are taking advantage
of the public and private swimming pools and
beaches in indianapolis and its environs.
The sport of swimming on these hot days
is something that should not be denied this
horde of youngsters.
But swimming in unguarded pools, where
the children have no idea of the depth of the
water or the dangers lurking in them, should
be denied them.
Every parent in indianapolis should conduct
an educational campaign in his own home to
prevent a son or daughter being replaced by
stark tragedy.
Much of the summer remains. Teach your
child the advantages of safe swimming and
the disadvantages of unguarded pools.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
FORGET IT

TINE American home always has been a
l. good deal like the weather. There was a
lot of talk about it. but very few ever really
did anything about it.
Sentimental songs about Getting Back to
That Tumble-down Shack" and "Shanties in
Old Shantytown" have been extremely popular.
though it's hard to see just what there is that
is really attractive about shacks and shanties.
Bat apparently there was a lot more reality
in these songs than there is in most popular
songs of the day. A report of the American
Public Health Association reveals some star
ting things about the great American home.
Only one-sixth of rural homes have plumb
ing. Less than one-fourth of the nations
homes have running water; less than half
have electricity.
DR.. Haven Emerson, president of the asso-
citation, points out in addition that many pri-
yate single dwellings are ire-traps, and that
the average American home is wasteful of heat
because not properly insulated-and very I'M
comfortable in summer for the same reason.
He adds that many small homes of the
south lack the screens in doors and windows
that alone will prevent malaria among the
occupants. In addition to this, as applied to
individual homes, recent revelations in the
New York City Investigations of tenement con-
ditions have shown horrible conditions Of
housing that are duplicated to some degree in
almost every American city.
Thus the huge housing remodeling pro-
gram OF President Roosevelt gains considera-
bic support. Certainly there can be no better
/ use Of federal funds than to loan them 70
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
NUDISTS
READ BIBLE
Ru RihIe Reader

By Bible Reader.
I would like to express my opinion
of Merely Intelligent" who wrote
in the Message Center last Satur-
day. He shows himself up well in
that letter. He seems to long for
the human ace to be absolutely I'M
hindered in their chase after the
lustful and harmful things.
I gather from his letter that he
is a total stranger to the Bible. If
he, and the nudists, too, would only
take time to read one chapter of
it a day, they soon would change
their views. Man was not made in
the image of God physically, but
spiritually.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
WHY SING
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
A heart that sings
But little is afraid
Of troubles silent footstep stealing
near;
For well it knows
That sorrow beats retreat
When joyful song is waited to her
ear.
Does bee sting flower scented sweet?
Does worker curse the gentle breeze
that cools?
No more can contents of Pandora's
box
Rob glad remaining hope of her
song-jewels.
And so I'll sing;
Loves Old Sweet Song will do
To drive away this Misunderstanding,
aching fear.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
OF l
ON Sc A WEEK
BY CWA Worker.

BY CWA Worker.
I would like to know if the Gov
ernor or any member of the unem-
ployment commission could live on
Sc a week, pay bills and buy gro
ceries and clothes and still have
any money to save.
I am a civil works administration
worker and only get two days a
week to support three persons, my
wife and father and myself.
I wish you could answer this in
the Message Center and show a way
in which we could live. I am will
ling to work, but I would like
wages so we could at lest be able
to have a decent meal now and
then.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
MINTON SHOULD
BEAT ROBINSON
By r. t. Smith

By X. t. Smith
Indiana Democrats should be con-
graduated. They have picked a
candidate for United States senator
who should be able to take Arthur
Robinson for the ride which has
been waiting for him these many
long months.
The people of Indiana, whether
Democrats or Republicans, can not
deny that Sherman Minton has been
an aid to them in escaping the OPP
preston of utility rates. That rec
ord, alone, should convince a ma
jority of the voters that he will see
that they get a square deal If he
is sent to Washington.
That Governor McNutt, instead of
some one else, controls the state
Democratic politics, seems to be
rather a foolish issue when the mat
ter of beating Robinson is SO i'm
portant.
The sooner the last vestige of the
Ku-Klux Khan, as represented by
Robinson, is wiped off Indiana's
slate, the better off we will be. Min
ton should be the man of the hour.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
SUGGESTIONS FOR
HAPPY l F
Charles Hooper

By Charles Hooper.
Tobacco bought from a grower
costs me about five times less than
the package article, postage in
Guided. The cost of living would be
lowered greatly if people would
produce what they consume, or buy
from producers. All things come
from the ground; therefore, be a
farmer, or buy from farmers.
Even in cities persons can live
more cheaply by canning food and
making things in the home. Three
rules for living cheaply are:
Make every home a factory.
Do without unnecessary luxuries.
Live on a farm where nearly all
essentials can be produced, and
where a man can be his own boss,
and live happily.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14

rebuilding the American home into something
that will be fit to sing about.
Perhaps, if the housing program is, success
fully carried through, a future generation of
song writer's will cease to chant of tunbled-
down shacks and cabins in the cotton and
write o tender lyrics to THAT Fireproof,
Insulated, Tile-bathroomed Old Electrical
Home of Mine"
At least that would be something worth
singing about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
1 7 SHOULD AID
NEW BETHEL NOW

By ]. ID. T.
1t is pitiful to see a community,
such as New Bethel, but a few miles
from the heart of indianapolis, suf-
fering from the ravages of typhoid
fever just because some one has not
been far-sighted enough to provide
proper methods of water drainage
and sewage disposal.
In the first place why should any
sane group of county officials per-
nit a town this size to go on year
after year with a drainage ditch
running through the center of it?
Citizens of the community will
meet next week in an effort to solve
this problem. Let it be hoped that
Indianapolis will step into this bat
tie and aid this community in solv-
ing a problem that will become more
serious each day it is permitted to
co'o+inue without remedy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
OFFERS REMEDY
FOR HARD TINES

BY w. HI. Silver.
This, I think, would be a great
immediate relief to the depression:
Grant each person go and over a
pension of $3.50 a month and re-
quire each to spend SIPS each
month and to put S25 in govern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
FEW STOCKHOLDERS
IN BANK PAID
Another Victim.

BY AHOtnbE FICNInHs
I am sorry for the subscriber who
claims he was a stakeholder in a
closed city bank and paid the re-
ceiver. but he should remember
that he was only n stakeholder
and not all of them, and if he had
held off he would have been ahead
because most of them have not paid,
although a suit was filed against
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14
CLEMENCY COMMISSIONS
COURSE CONDEMNED

BY a Believer in Fairness.
I have been wanting to voice my
opinion in regard to the clemency
board and your cartoon of June 7
gave me an inspiration-so here
goes. E. G. B. stated that every
thing that was asked for was pre-
sented to the board. The judge,
prosecutor and the man who was
robbed all were willing to give this
young man a chance to re-establish
himself in society. He had a good
job to go to. his institution record
was fine and he had a small son
who needs his support.
In my opinion that was sufficient.
Now compare this young mans rec
ord with that of the man the board
set free in March and tell the board
what you think.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-14

vestigation as well as temperance in the use
of liquor, and some of the fact finders might
employ it in their research.
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The Message Center

Times readers are invited to cypress
their OteSos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all cGsS have a chance.
Limit them to $50 words or tess.J