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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
FOR REDDER BLOOD

THE hundreds of lives saved from anemia
during the last eight years by their liver
diet discovery had already crowned the re-
search accomplishments OF DR.. George H.
Whipple OF Rochester. n. Y. and Drs. George
r Minot and William P. Murphy of Boston.
And now the Nobel prize in medicine for this
year signalizes this medical conquest as one
OF the worlds greatest.
The medical achievement makes blood red
der, in a fgurative as well as a literal sense.
Liver or extracts from it start good red blood
cells growing in a dying body.
Those Of Us who are well are given new
courage that other uncomfortable" diseases
will be stemmed in their human toll taking.
Dr. whipples laboratory experiments be-
gan the conquest applied TO human patients
BY Drs AIinot and Murphy. In a statement
TO Science Service. he predicts that pure
science Investigations Will enable the physician
TO bring under control still other diseases. No
bit Of accurate knowledge about the action
Of the body is useless. DR.. Whipple observes
that progress is often made by way Of de-
tours which look very unfavorable at first"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

drens character. establishing their ideals. and
suggesting to them the approaches to adult
hood.
homely illustration will show the trend
Hardly any one spanks his child any more:
and while that may be an excellent thing, the
oId-time hrmness Of parental discipline has
vanished pretty largely.
1t has been transferred to the school room.
The child whose parents cant do thing
with him"-and his name is legion, nowadays
-obediently toes the mark in school.
He has to- He knows teachers will make
it hot for him If he doesn't.
Now this is merely a symbol Of the way
in which we have transferred parental re-
sponsibilities to the school ma'am. The only
reason why we are not raising the most
spoiled brats the world ever knew is that the
schools are doing our work for us.
1t is for that reason that DR.. Hocking's
warning is timely. 1t calls on the educators
20 recognize that they have been given a
responsibility which, from time immemorial
has rested on the parent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
PRESIDENTIAL YEARNING

THE hidden ambitions Of successful men
u are interesting things when we can find
out about them. Many an industrial leader
secretly wishes he had become a prospector
or a musician; many a general would be
locomotive engineer or an Arctic explorer If
he followed the dictates of his own heart.
But the most surprising of all these sup
pressed desires is the one recently attributed
to the late President Coolidge.
Arthur Hopkins, theatrical producer, says
that Mr.. Coolidge always wanted to be an
actor. Mr.. Hopkins says that he and John
Barrymore learned this, some years ago. while
guests of President Coolidge at a White
House luncheon.
The President, he says, not only wanted to
be an actor. but was convinced that ne would
have been a pretty good one.
Few men ever win more success than Mr..
Coolidge found in his chosen field of poll
tics. 1t is strange indeed to learn that be-
meath it all there lurked hidden yen for
the glamour of footlights and grease paint.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
A SERVANT OF INDUSTRY

THOUGH the question whether recov-
cry should precede reform still is unset
tied, there is one field il which majority
opinion unquestionably wants to see reform
take precedence. That field is the stock mar
ket.
The measures passed by the last congress
have not been in effect very long, but it is
not too early to glance at the situation and
see whether anything more needs to be done.
John T. Flynn recently wrote an extreme
ly penetrating analysis of the whole stock
market situation. In his final article, look
ing to the future, he suggested certain steps
that might be taken to prevent Wall Street
from regaining its old dominance over our
economic life.
To begin with he asserts that our whole
financial system needs recasting. He would
have a national banking system, a complete
divorce between savings and lending insti-
buttons, further restrictions on the activities
of brokers, revision of our corporation laws
to require federal charters for all firms en-
gagged in interstate commerce, and abolition
of all holding companies.
Second, he would have all such restrictions
that deal directly with stock exchange &C
tivities written solidly into laws which the
securities exchange commission would be di-
rected to enforce. Under the present law the
commission makes its own regulations on
these subjects.
This, says Mr.. Flynn, puts the commission
under direct pressure from Wall Street to
adopt a liberal" attitude, and may eventu-
ally result in notification of the peoples will.
In discussing any such measures it is i'm
portant to keep clearly in mind the I'M
DERIVING purposes of this or any other finan-
cial reform program.
The things we have learned since October,
1929. prove pretty clearly that our financial
machinery got badly out of gear in the last
decade. The machinery of finance, credit and
exchange exists to make possible the func-
tioning of large and complex industrial So
ciety. 1t became perverted. 1t grew to be
an end in itself.
It got so that it was more important, and
more lucrative, to perform sleight-of-hand
tricks with this financial mechanism than it
was to produce the goods and services which
the nation needed
All that the reform program seeks to do is
to restore a proper balance. Finance must
become industrys servant again, and not its
master. Continuance or modification of the
reform program should be judged on that
basis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
SHEEP IN VOLTS CLOTHING

IT is not really big bad wolf on Wall
= Street. says the New York Stock Exchange
but to the contrary a harmless sheep around
which transformation has draped a VOLTS
clothing.
The way to dispel public antagonism, it has
decided, is to disseminate the truth about the
exchange Hence the exchanges projected
campaign of education.
I'VE shall present facts only" said Pres
ident Whitney in a form letter to exchange
members and correspondents asking them to
fill out QUESTIONABLE telling the attitude of
the local press and pulpit, politicians and
farmers, women and workers.
This new attempt to build public confidence
in the integrity of the securities markets is in
striking contrast to the unenlightened selfish
ness which characterized the conduct Of the
exchanges in the boom and panic eraS. APP
parently, the New York Exchange, at least, is
out to regain some of it's lost customers. Per-
haps the fact that the New York Exchange
showed loss in last years operations guided
it to the decision that it will be good business
to take the public into its confidence. What
ever the prompting, the action is cheerworthy.
But the exchange shouldn't make the mis-
take of kidding itself. Rigging of markets,
manipulative raids and other shady devices of
spectators were widespread in Wall Street in
the not far distant past. And the proof is
found in the sworn testimony of 1nanciers
who are still influential. Scandals revealed by
the senate banking committee demonstrated to
thousands of investors that they never had
chance.
The exchange should not try to prove that
it never was a gentlemen's gambling club
where insiders controlled the levers. Rather
it should demonstrate that henceforth, under
federal regulation, it can be an honest market
place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
PARENTS SHIFT BURDEN

T Unless We revise our way of training chill
- dren in the public schools, We may
presently find that we have reared a genera
ton of faded old youngsters" utterly devoid
of a sense of value.
This is the warning DR.. William Ernest
Hooking. professor of philosophy at Harvard,
issued to school teachers convention in Ohio
recently.
Teaching children how to solve problems
in arithmetic how to spell. how to reel off
the names of the Presidents, and how to
bound the state Of Kentucky. Dr. Hooking
suggests, is pretty nearly useless unless, at
the same time, We give them the mental and
emotional training which will enable them to
get something out Of their lives besides the
empty repetition of a monotonous routine.
Now the significant thing about this Is the
fact that the speaker seems to take it for
granted that the youngsters are to get this
kind Of development in the school rather than
In the home.
One Of the most profound changes any
human society could undergo has been taking
place in this country in recent years. and
most Of us hardly have noticed It.
We not only have given to our schools the
job Of teaching our children how to read and
write; we have. TO a very great extent, also
given them the task Of developing our chill
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03

many billions Of dollars on public works to
provide jobs. Surely part Of this money can
be spent advantageously to reduce travel
hazards and facilitate transport. At more than
a quarter million grade crossings in the coun-
try, Stop. Look and Listen" signs impede the
flow Of rail and motor traffic
Trains Of the new type like the M-i0O01
can operate efficiently only over a clear right
of-vsy. government which is urging the
railroads to hasten modernization Of equip
ment should help make the safe operation Of
that new equipment possible.
The question Of how to divide the cost Of
constructing highway underpasses and via
ducts naturally arises. Since the railroads
would benefit almost as much as trucks, buses
and private motorists, it is asked, why should
the taxpayers foot the whole bill? Co-ordi-
nator Eastman, who never has advocated CIV
ing the railroads something for nothing, thinks
the government should pay all.
Pick and shovel men, concrete and steel
workers, and engineers now supported in idle
ness by government doles. would be better of
doing this work.
But the government should insist that all
railroads whose grade crossings are eliminated
AT public expense cooperate in the recovery
program by undermining their equipment and
improving their services. The benefited rail-
reads would thereby create new business, help
reneve unemployment and ease the govern
ments relief burden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
That Robins0n's q Panic, He Says

ocrats. They must be awful. I
heard considerable about Gov
crnor McNutt. I don't know what
office he is running for but he
certainly is in the running some
where. In climaxing his remarks
about Governor McNutt he told
us that he had travelled the state
from the Ohio to the Illinois lines
and from the Michigan to the
Kentucky lines; had talked with
hundreds of Democrats and Re-
publicans alike and hadn't talked
with a man who had a good word
to say for Governor McNutt.
thought that was quite the gentle
manly thing to say.
The meeting reminded me very
much of the old story which most
of you have heard, but perhaps
have forgotten, of the occasion
when a man was to be hanged.
He was such a culprit that he had
no friends, not even a minister
was present at the time of the
hanging. The authorities couldn't
bear the thought of continuing
without some one saying some
thing on behalf of the victim.
After much scouting around they
found one, lawyer, I believe,
who consented to say few words
just before the execution. He
arose and proceeded thus: Gen
tlemen, if you will pardon me we
will discuss the tariff for a few
minutes" Well, the Constitution
helps many speaker who is in a
predicament. No, I was we'll re-
paid for attending Senator Rob-
inson's meeting. got many laughs
and let me urge all to hear him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03

BY Reader, Frankfort
I attended my first political
meeting when Senator Robinson
spoke here few nights ago. l
look forward to hear Governor
McNutt here Thursday night. 1t
was just the two meetings for me.
It is worth any ones time wheth-
er he be Republican or Democrat
to go and hear Senator Robinson
if he has the chance. I think Mr..
Robinson is a past master at
bringing the real out CT the hypo-
thetical. He carried us to Moscow,
during which time 1 could almost
feel my whiskers grow. 1t was
thrilling. He also was instructive.
He told us that we didn't have
free speech, free press nor free
dom of worship here in this coun-
try. I marveled somewhat at this
as I couldn't note any restraint in
his speech nor have 1 noted any
restraint on the press. No doubt
he is correct, however. He told
us a lot about the Constitution,
and thank the Lord the Constitu-
ton still stands. On the whole
and considering the occasion, it
was a wonderful address.
have attended many Repub-
lican meetings in times past, be-
ing somewhat of an old-timer,
but I never attended one quite
ike this one. The usual array of
former Presidents pictures was
missing. Not a word did 1 hear in
reference to any former President,
not even Abraham Lincoln, who
freed the slaves. The Repub-
licans scarcely we're mentioned. I
heard a great deal about the Dem
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
LOW COST HOUSING

livery ONE seems agreed that. regardless
II Of whatever other steps are required for
economic recovery, large-scale housing con-
struction by both the government and private
industry is imperative.
Recognizing that prevalent high interest
rates and charges on mortgages stand in the
way of an adequate building program, Presi-
dent Roosevelt twice in the last two days has
urged the need Of cheaper money. He in
structed Federal Housing Administrator Moi
felt 70 fix per cent as the basic maximum"
charged on loans insured by the housing adj
miristration. In some communities 8 and 10
per cent are prevailing rates.
We hope the President is successful in edu-
eating the public that per cent is enough to
pay on well secured and insured mortgages.
Chief among the evils which the FILA plans to
eliminate are exorbitant second mortgage costs.
and short-term mortgages with high rates and
renewal charges.
Great Britain now is enjoying a building
construction boom largely because British
hnanciers decided that per cent is a good
return
Before the housing program progresses far,
it may be necessary % examine other factors
in building coSts-materials and labor.
Manufacturers OF building materials may
have to weigh the advantages Of lower profits
for each unit and larger turnover against pres
ent profits for each unit and the present small
sales total. Building trades workers, also, may
have to consider the advantage Of a tempo
rary lower wage for each hour to gain many
hours mora er1nIovn1ent on lOW-coSt workers
houses The workers want and need higher
annual incomes. That. too. is the way to
larger buying power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
THE TREE PLANTING
SITUATION IS AIRED
By Earl e. Williams.

BY Earl Z. Williams.
The Presidents plan for planting
tree belt" from Canada to Mexs
leo has collapsed, as was expected.
Mr.. Roosevelt finally has been con-
WINGED that trees just won't grow In
that area, due to the fact that theirs
is not enough moisture in the
ground.
We are hoping that the Presi-
dent will not try any more Of his
pet theories, but from past expe-
rience we should not be too hope
full. 1t would not be at all sur
prising If the next congress were
asked to appropriate 5000, 100000 to
change the course Of the Missouri
river in order to irrigate that area
so that trees will grow. Even
though the plan is not feasible, that
will not deter the President, as it
would give employment to many de
serving Democrats"
1t is apparent that President
Roosevelt is not at all concerned
whether his plans work out or not.
as long as money is spent and his
party benefits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03

EXTENSION OF the automobile code without
II change for ninety days is described in
some quarters as a major rebuff TO labor. II
is true labor did not obtain the public hearing
OF changes It desired But. under the very
difficult situation which exists. labor Jared
rather well at the hands Of the President.
The President in extending the code last
night announced that he is instituting "a
study which may contribute toward improve
ments in stabilizing employment in the in
dustry and reducing further the efforts Of
the seasonal factors Those seasonal factors
are the rub a the automobile problem.
A wage Of $40 a day is a starvation wage If
the man gets only sixty-fve days work in
year. Some OF the data presented to the
President tends to show that earnings Of auto
motive employees average less than 5000 year.
Therefore in starting an investigation i'm
mediately for sterilization Of employment and
later code changes. the President intends to
achieve what labor expected from public hear
ings. which still will be held if necessary. If
the President had intended his executive order
as a rebuff to labor. as impatient critics con-
tend. he would not have said:
7 have not asked the manufacturers to
agree that such an inquiry should be made.
I have though It better to bring the inquiry
about under my executive powers"
Whatever may be the complaints Of labor
regarding conditions in the industry. the BIZ
partisan automobile labor board on the whole
seems to be stopping discrimination against
union organization under the law. One source
of weakness is hat the labor groups fight
among themselves. making the problem Of rep
resentation and collective bargaining especially
difficult.
Given a good year in the industry, which
is foreshadowed in part at least by the Ford
announcement Of a one million car produc-
ton schedule, labor can look hopefully toward
the results Of the Roosevelt Sterilization policy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
STOP. LOOK. LISTEN

THE vision OF streamlined trains rounding
- the curves al ninety miles an hour. in
augurating a new era in railroading. focuses
attention on the possibilities Of providing en-
ployment and stimulating industries by elini-
nation Of grade crossings.
7 doubt whether any projects would pro-
duce more general benefits. considering the
relief Of unemployment. aid to the capital
goods Industries. protection Of the public
safety. and improvement OF transportation
conditions" says Railroad co-ordinator East
man.
IN the next few years. IA is generally
agreed. the government viii have to spend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
FARMER HAS PROFTTED
UNDER NEW DEAL
By Ernest Hamlyn.

By Ernest Hamlyn.
The Republican county central
committee is sending out speakers
this fall in the farming commune
ties and still is trying to induce
the farmer to vote against his own
interest. But the farmers have not
forgotten the twelve years of Re-
publican administration and their
appeal to the powers lat were for
relief, but to no avail; when Jim
Watson would stump the state in
every campaign and tell the farm
ers that they sure had a tough time,
but stick to the Republican party
and the tariff and it would do the
job. Yes, it did the job. So well
it made near paupers Of most Of
them.
Under this New Deal, prices are
many times greater for the principal
products than for many years and
the speakers will not convince many
farmers that IA and Is cents a
bushel for corn and 80 cents for
wheat received under the Repub-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03

been doing to our people when the
Democrats owned the K. K. K, but
we know today who owns the grand
united order of the sons of the an
Gent night riders and red light
brigade.
l. We believe today that every
vote we cast for the Democratic
party in Indiana will be vote cast
for the political liberation of our
people in the South.
2. We are satisfied that the
Democratic party has done more for
our people in Indiana than ever
before.
3. We believe that the Democratic
party has shown us that they are
anxious for our political co-opera-
ton, and that when they are fully
satisfied that our political allegiance
to them in the north, east and west
is assured, they eventually will elimi-
nate the political restrictions against
the Negroes in the south.
4. When the Negroes learn to
divide their votes between the two
major parties, their political future
not only would change in the north,
but the south. recognizing them as
allies, also will make bid for their
votes.
5. The political indenture of the
Negro in the south is due to the
fact that though he has been child
of the south, a man of the south,
fed, clothed and educated in the
south, he never has given the south
his political allegiance.
After all IS said and done, we
never must forget the fact that
some of the most intelligent, pros
porous and influential Negroes in
this country still are in the south.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
CONGRESSMAN SHOULD LISTEN
NOT TALK, HE SAYS

By An East slider.
Mr.. Scott, of Greenfield, says we
need a representative to say mo" to
the New Deal program. What need
would there be of mentioning a New
Deal if the old order had shown
ability Of our robustness men to
operate their business in such fash
ion as would have provided constant
production of new wealth?
The scrapping of 100000 men,
and the destruction of their oppor-
tunity to earn and create new
wealth thunders condemnation and
reproach to those whose snort at
the attempt of government to re-
store their usefulness to society.
The old order Of incompetents
who still shout of their superiority,
despite their abysmal failures to
control this fake system Of produc-
ton are not to be trusted again
until they demonstrate some OF their
boasted supremacy.
Seeing is believing. There never
has been a constant program devel-
oped by our super-men which had
any rhyme or reason to it for meet
ing social needs.
The relief program was as neceS-
say in Mr.. SCOTS hometown as 1t
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-03
NEGROES WILL NOT FORGET
DAYS OF OLD REGIME

BY Ernest z. Lashaleri.
The election period is here again
and every one is advising his neigh
Dor how to vote and who to vote
for.
The Negro, still being considered
politically ignorant, has many coun-
sellers and advisers. He invariably
has lived on the Republican side
of the political house so long that
he is ostracized by his own people if
ne votes the Democratic ticket. His
is the only race of people which has
stood the test of time and the many
changes without ever attempting to
divide their vote between the two
major parties. He always is re-
minded of the many good deeds
the Republicans have done for him
to the extent that he feels it some
what a betrayal of fidelity if he
votes for the Democratic party.
That argument may have stood
the test twenty years ago, but in
1924 the Republican party brought
a dirty night shirt from Georgia
and sold it to D. c. Stephenson to
be retailed at $40 for each 100 per
cent Republican in Indiana with
the avowed intention Of racial and
religious hatred with the Negro as
the principal character in this
drama Of hate. There are many
Negroes who can not reconcile
that display OF hate then with pro-
testation Of friendship now.
We are of the opinion that the
Republican party has displayed suf-
! ficiently to us all the hateful things
they claim the Democratic party has