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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
STOP THAT COLD

DISTRESSING cold in chest or
IL throat, that so often leads to
something serious. generally eases
up in five minutes when soothing,
warming Musterole is applied.
Rubbed in once every hour. relief
usually follows in FIVE hours.
Better than a mustard plaster,
Musterole gets action because it's
= NOT Just a salve. It's a counter.
IrrifdHt stimulating, penetrating,
and helpful in drawing out pain and
Infection.
Used by millions for % years.
Recommended by many doctors and
nurses. All druggists. In three
Strengths: Regular Strength, Chill
dren's mild), and Extra Strong.
Radio: Tune in the Voice of
Experience" Columbia Network.
See newspaper for time.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
POLO INJURIES FATAL
TO ARMY COMMANDER

Colonel Gordon Johnston Dead at
San Antonio.
BIZ United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, March g.
Colonel Gordon Johnston, So chief
of staff of the Second division, died
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
PACE II
Convention Booked

BV Times Special
BLOOMINGTON, March 8. -
Latest addition to Bloomington
1884 convention list is the annual
meeting of the Indiana Association
of Insurance Agents, which will be
held Oct IL and 10. Attendance is
expected to be about 500 5.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
Doctors Are Scored

Mr.. Thomas said that the Cope
land bin is a reversal Of the tradi-
tional rule Of Jurisprudence in that
It considers every one guilty until
proven innocent
All that is wrong with the pa
tent medicine business is that We
are selling too much and the doc
tor don't like it. he charged.
We never have cOntended that
patent medicine heals disease. it
merely paves the way for the body
ito do its own healing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
COPELAND BILL
HIT BY PATENT
MEDICINE MAN
Proprietary Remedy Makers
Steal Thunder at
Butler Forum.
MARCH s, 1884

Peten. medicine men descended
on he Butler forum or pure food
and drugs last night AMI stole the
thunder from those scheduled as
speakers.
The new Copeland bill. now pend
ing IN COnU ess, which would
strengthen The food and drug law
and curb the advertising OF prOprie-
tary medicines, was the topic Of dis
cussIOn.
Its provisions were upheld by DR..
Frank Fiske OF the Pittman- Moore
Pharmaceutical Company and l. L.
Miller. consulting chemist and one
time head of the state food and
drug department
DR.. FIske pointed out that the bill
greatly viii curb sales Of patent
medicines and thus discourage self
medication.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
TUCSON OFFICER WILL
TESTIFY AT LIMA, O

Jay Smith to Be state Witness at
PierpOnt Trial.
BIZ United Press
TUCSON. Ariz.. March 8-Jay
Smith. local traffic officer, today
was en- route to Lima, o., to testify
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
Farmers Need Services

When time came for rebuttal from
the audience. T. c. WhitehOuse. Co
lumbus. proprietary medicine manu-
facturer, and Perry Thomas, repre-
senting the Crazy Water Crystals
C11lpany took the rOstrum.
MANY persons, particularly in the
rural districts. can not afford to call
a doctor charging 81 a mile when
there Is some slight illness in the
family Mr. Whitehouse said.
What We need is more instruC-
ton in Standardization and self
administered representatives.. The
American Medical Association is
trying to- curb patent medicine sales
because they hurt the doctor bust
ness
Il understand the doctors them
selves arc prescribing about 50 per
cent patent medicines. Surely the
consumer should be protected and
admit that there are crooks and
quaCks in the proprietary business.
but there are just as many in any
other business or profession"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
PRINCE OF ASTURIAS
ILL IN PARIS HOTEL
EX-King of SPANS Eldest Son Is
Reported Critical


PARIS, March s-The Spanish
prince of the Asturias. eldest son of
former King Alfonso of Spain, was
seriously i'll Of grippe today at no.
tel and reported in critical condi-
ton
The princes Cuban wife. to we'd
whom he relinquished his royal
status and right Of succession last
Juno. WIS nursing him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
Copeland Called Insincere

He criticised DR.. Royal S. Cope
land author of the bill. as being in
sincere in that he himself is en-
gagged in radio brOadcasts for patent
medicine sales.
ReyfOrd Guy Tugwell assistant
secretary Of agriculture and one Of
the leading proponents of the mea-
sure. has condemned all sales effort
and advertising as economic waste"
Mr. Thomas said.
A curb on radio claims for patent
medicines would be one of the
things covered by the proposed
Copeland law. A less drastic mea-
sure has been introduced in the
house by Mrs Virginia Jenckes,
congressional from Terre Haute.
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here today from injuries received
when he fell from a horse during
a polo game yesterday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-08
COLUMBIA READY TO
PICK COLLEGE WINNERS

500 School Journalists at Uniyer-
sity for Convention.
HN nfffd Prfss
NEW YORK. March 8.-More
than 1900 school journalists and
faculty advisers came to town to-
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FREIGHT RATES

IT would be unfortunate for the country, and,
l. we believe, for the railroads themselves, if
they were granted the 10 per cent freight rate
increase they are preparing to ask of the
I. c. c.
1t IS true that the new pension act will
add to the carriers pay rolls and that the pay
cut restorations will do the same. The rail-
roads estimate the pension act will cost them
sS6OOOOOO annually, pay cut reservations
sl56OOOOOO, increased prices of materials
$4,000 OOO-a total addition in operating costs
of $3.50 100000 But there are better ways to
meet these than by the familiar formula Of
soaking the public.
One way is to scale down debt charges, as
President Roosevelt has urged. The RFC,
which has loaned the carriers more than
$500 1000 at around per cent, has just sold
this idea to New York bankers who have
agreed 10 float a s5OOOOO0O loan to the
B. & o. at a rate eight-tenths of one per cent
below their original offer. OF course, whole
sale scaling down of the interest rates on the
carriers $4,000 100000 of bonded debt would
require either general recourse to the bank
ruptcy courts or a taking over Of this huge
burden by the government. But certain
financing economies can be effected.
Another way is a frank meeting by the gov
eminent of the problem of regulating the
railroads competitors, the truck, bus, barge,
air and pipe lines. These industries should
be made to pay their share of taxes and main
tain the same sort of labor standards the
railroads maintain under government regula-
ton. Next congress should see that they DO.
Finally there are savings to be made by
the elimination of competitive waste.
What the railroads need is new business.
They are geared to carry 100000 cars week.
They're carrying only 65OOOO although their
business is increasing except for the seasonal
slump. In the first five months of 1884 the
rail carers income doubled over that of the
same time last year.
If the rehousing and other recovery plans
succeed they will result in big movements OF
materials The lower the freight rates the
more of this business the railroads will get.
If any change in rates is contemplated, it
should not be upward
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
THE OLD DAYS

A CTS of a woman in hurting steaming
n mash upon federal agents who sought to
raid her home for alleged Illicit manufacture
Of liquor Saturday. was an echo O: the old
days.
Every one in the city can recall when
these alterations between the alleged distiller
or bootlegger and federal agents we're common
occurrences. In fact, in that era Of prohibi-
ton shooting was not unheard of.
But today the picture has changed. The
federal agents who attempted to raid this
woman's home are supported by an over
whelming vote by the people who wanted the
unfair liquor law repeaed.
Years ago the acts Of that woman would
have brought a wave Of sympathy Today her
acts are passed by. The public has changed
It's sentiment. The public has liquor and
knows that liquor can be bought in compliance
with the law
Any one who tries to handle the situation
in any other manner will find but little sup
port from the man who. not long ago, pleaded
for a revision Of his rights-and got that re-
vision
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
STOP POLLUTION!

THE thought Of children swimming IN a
l. stream which is loaded with Sulphuric
acid IS repulsive. The thought that this situa-
ton has been permitted to start and continue
not only IS repulsive but points directly to the
fact that many persons in Indiana have been
negligent as far as public health is concerned.
The series OF stories on water source pollu-
ton now appearing in The Times brings to
light many facts which show the irrespon-
sibility and inability Of Indiana 10 handle its
public problems.
Unless something IS done. on a state vide
basis. the pollution situation may spread to
proportions which viii not be capable Of COM
bat.
II is time for every government unit and
every citizen Of the state TO organize to battle
this evil. To permit it to continue will place
every child and adult in jeopardy OF serious
illness or death. II must be stopped.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
AID TO MEMORY

CENATOR BORAH may be a very annoying
> man, especially to politicians, but now and
then he is very useful one.
Conducting a sngle-handed campaign in
opposition to both Democratic and Repub-
lican policies is an idea that would occur to
few people but the senator from Idaho. Even
fewer people, having conceived the idea, could
do anything with it. But Senator Borah is
in a class by himself.
No one can foretell the effect of his cam
paign. The country may yawn and look the
other way or it may greet him with loud
cheers; but, whatever happens, the senator
will be useful, just as a bit of string tied
about ones finger is useful.
He will keep us from forgetting something
that might otherwise, in the furry of cam
paign year, get overlooked.
one of cur biggest problems today is that
while we are pretty well agreed on the goal
we want to reach, we are not at all agreed on
the route We want to use in getting there.
Mr.. Roosevelt has one route, or a blend Of
routes. all mapped out; Mr.. Fletcher, an
nouncing that this route leads only to de-
str,iction. is working on another.
Mr.. Borah's function right now seems to
be to remind us that neither route will prove
satisfactory unless We make dead certain that
the little mantle ordinary. undistinguished
citizen who works when he can get work,
paws his taxes and never gets into the head
lines-gets protected from the danger Of fall
ing into the cogwheels.
For Mr.. Borah sees one fact very clearly.
our emergence from the depression will mean
very little unless We find some way Of checking
the great trend toward monopoly which has
been prime development Of the last genera
ton.
1t may be that Mr.. Borah is mistaken in
his belief that the New Deal program does not
constitute an effective check on that trend.
Fine words have been said TO the little man
BY the administration. in the last year. 1t
would be strange indeed if those fine words
we're not accompanied by protective action.
But the decision on that point can be left
to the voters. Mr.. Borah's job is to remind
US constantly that in one way or another such
protection must be had. His forthcoming
campaign may be irritating, but it ought to be
very useful.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16

putting things in great shape for a
sleigh ride at his own expense.
A man in public service can get
so big but when he gets big enough
to stick his nose clear across the
Atlantic ocean-Well, look out.
The case is not without precedent.
1t was not so long ago that a pokey
gentleman named Smedley Butler
tried to tell MuSSolini he was all
wet" or words to that effect.
The state department advanced
the proper apology and a short time
later Smedley's official title was eX-
brigadier- general.
With all due regard to eX-General
Butler it might be well to recall that
MusSolini is doing very nicely. For
the same reason I am inclined to
believe that Mr.. Hitler still will be
directing Nazi "purges' long after
Mr.. Johnson has donned the appel
lation of eX-administratOr.
There is another significant
factor. The johnson defamation
was made at Waterloo, Ia. Now
there was once a very capable and
doughty little soldier of no small
aspirations and known to his many
friends as Napoleon. Mr.. BOnaparte
if I recall correctly, underwent a
very unfortunate and humiliating
experience at Waterloo. Better read
up on it, Mr.. johnson. What's that
they say about history repeating it
| Self2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
CITES EXAMPLES OF
NRA INEFFICIENCY
Bv a Reader.

By a Reader.
Will you please have Mr.. johnson
solve this problem? have two
close friends who are in business.
One is a barber and the other oper-
ates a cleaning and pressing shop.
Neither one is making fair liy-
ing. Why? Because they both are
displaying the Blue Eagle.
The barber has as competition a
couple in his neighborhood who
have opened a shop in their home.
They are charging 20 cents for q
haircut and have an enormous busi~
ness, with no extra rent to pay. Tie
other barber has to pay high rent
and charge 35 cents for a haircut
/ Just because Of the Blue Eagle. He
is the underdog.
The man in the cleaning and
pressing business has almost the
same trouble. The shop that dis
plays the Blue Eagle is at stand
still, as it is compelled to charge
40 cents for pressing and Is cents
for cleaning and pressing.
Where I was in a shop the other
day, a man came in and asked the
price Of pressing and was told 40
1 cents. The man walked out, saying
he could get pressing for 25 cents
The owner of the shop said this
happens five or six times a day.
went past the 25-cent shop and it
was very busy.
What good is the Blue Eagle do
ing. as no attention is being paid
! to it2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
FIGHT ON POLLUTION
OF WATER LAUDED
By Delos A. Alig.

By Delos A. Alig.
Just a word of appreciation for
the work The Times is doing in the
cause of anti-Stream pollution.
I have been a sportsman all my
life and remember the beauty and
comparative purity of our streams
clear back to the Dos. always have
been an ardent Conservationist and
for thirty years have with each in
coming administration, whether Re
publican or Democratic, urged the
cause of anti-stream pollution, and
reforestation Of stream banks with
no appreciate success.
Officials admit these things as
part of their policy (See Page l OF
July outdoor Indiana. Nos. 5 and 81,
but never do anything. Of course 1t
is big undertaking, but it would
not seem so large if some one IN
authority would really work it out
on planned basis.
If you see your way clear to do So
I wish you would put in a word as
frequently as possible, about refor-
eStation of stream banks as we
never can have beautiful streams
without trees and fish and game
need forest protection.
This fight The Times is making
for stream improvement certainly
has the support Of all outdoors
lovers and is very popular with
every one except those who pollute
streams.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
SEES SKIDS CREASED
FOR HUGH JOHNSON
By the Scribblers.

BY the Scribblers.
Take a tip from me, Mr.. Johnson.
BY very diplomatic gesture on
the part of our state department it
has declared to the German en-
bassy that our nation is sorely
grieved that the words Of one OF its
officers have been "misconstrued as
official" The man in question is
one Hugh Johnson and while his
attack upon the Hitlerist regime was
purely individual in nature it has
necessitated the apology Of a few
men who apparently have a bit
higher regard for international
good will.
The words, the actions, the very
conduct of any official in the public
service must reflect at all times a
very conscious respect for the rela-
tons which exist between Nations
regardless of public sentiment, even
less, personal opinion.
I do not diSclaim the accomplish
ments Of Mr.. Johnson as NF1A ad-
ministrator, nor do I defend the
Nai "purges." The basis of my at
tack is the ethical implication Of
diplomacy, and when it is necessary
for the state department to apologize
for an ind9Vidual it is pretty
sound bet chat the individual is
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16

liquor traffic and the old-time
domination of the brewers and
brewery owned and controlled
saloons. What have we now?
ReVerting again to the subject
of a beer warmly not? The
brewerics have been charging the
retailers entirely too much for
their product, so that these re-
tailers can not make a cent by
selling a tWelve-ounCe glass of
beer for 10 cents, after they pay
all the federal and state fees. A
brewery war will be welcomed by
the man on the street who likes
beer and who longs for that ten
and tWelve-ounce glass for a
nickel.
But, Mr.. Editor, don't lose sight
of my query about the statehouse
and that Marion brewery. 1t is
something for your inquiring re-
porterS that will keep them busy
after they get through exposing
the dirty, foul streams and lakes
in Indiana. More power to you
it will be a good trick if you can
do it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
QUESTIONS BASED ON
CROP SHORTAGES

By Grover Pratt.
Arthur Brisbane says we have
shortages in the wheat, oats, barley,
fax and corn crops this year. He
goes on to say that few years ago
this would have been considered a
calamity, but now under the new
era this is probably the greatest
blessing that could have befallen
the country.
What kind Of reasoning is this to
come from the brains Of the coun-
try, the highest paid editorial writer
of the day, man who must at least
wear a No. 9 hat, and is put up be-
fore the reading public daily to edu-
cate us and mold our opinions? l
would call that line of piffle an in
suit to the intelligence Of a 10-year-
old child.
Here is a question for the 10-year-
old child, but it is too deep for
Brisbane or the present political ad-
ministration:
If the farmer raises half as much
and gets double the price, how much
more money will ne have?
If there is one-half as much on
the market, causing the retail price
to double, what effect will thIs have
on the consuming public?
Where will the consuming public
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
CHURCH AND MONEY
DOMINATION CHARGED

By a Reader.
Mr.. Hudson and Mr. Maddox la
ment about the opinions of Franz
Cummings. The first two forget
that the same God that created
them also created the men and
women Of Mr.. Cummings mind. 1T
is not necessary to be an atheist to
be anti-religion. A Communist does
not have to be an ATHEIST.
It all depends on the way one
thinks. 1t happens that we all get
in this world by the same door, but
we Go not grow with the same
thought.
God wills and what happens? A
child is born to be a genius, another
to be stupid; in a birth comes SIAM
csc twins; in another quintuplets;
another child is born to be the car
and pope Of one-siXth Of the earth
(Russia); one more to overthrow
him, his native empire, and papacy
Genin).
In one part of the earth the
prophet Of God is Buddha, in an
other it is Confucius, in another it
is Jesus Christ, in another Moham-
ct, just to mention four Of the main
representatives Of God on this earth.
God gives intelligence to build
cities, including churches. It takes
hundreds Of years to build them. He
then destroys them in two min
1r+ar. ba i0cDiree farmers tn sow
plenty, then comes the storm or the
insects and destroys the crop. Well
He created a Hoover who lost max
| ing campaign speeches with min
lister of Gods sermons and prayers.
! He created also Roosevelt who
won without God s minister's prayer.
Again He created the father Of our
nation, Thomas Paine, not to men
ton many Of the great minds OF
other parts Of the earth-and Col.
Robert Ingersou; from our Indiana,
Eugene Y. Deb5, and Abraham Lin
coin, who knew no church.
1t is time that more persons 20 to
the central library instead Of to
church. While ministers organize
anti-moyie, anti-tobacco, anti-drink.
and What-not movements, none of
them dares to organize against the
/ oppressors Of the workers.
What is the matter with the pres
ent era's people? Here we are IN
this great United States of America,
where church and money rule the
country, and what mess!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-16
FARM LABOR

A ANNOUNCEMENT by Secretary Frances
a Perkins that the labor and agriculture
departments soon will undertake a Joint study
Of farm labor conditions is the first serious
notice the government has taken Of one OF
its most distressing economic puzzles.
Farm hands are the forgotten men, even
under the New Deal. They come neither
under the NFA codes nor. except for vague
clause in the sugar contracts. under the AAA
agreements. Working in an industry that has
been struggling to maintain itself from dis
aster for years, they have been forced to
work for a bare subsistence. Often a whole
family works IN the fields during harvest time
and then lives on public charity in the winter.
The distress Of this group is beginning to
break through to public notice in labor dis
turbances Of a peculiarly bitter nature-in
the Ohio onion fields. in CALIFORNIA; fruit and
vegetable valleys. in New Jersey. The greatest
hardships appear to be found among the
casual workers on the large industrialized
farms. where harvesting is purely seasonal
and often must be pushed with high speed.
There Is no easy answer. A long range
program, looking 10 better conditions should
include some means OF tying these families
n home life through land-ownerSEip. The
Presidents subsistence homestead plan should
include farm hands families as well as city
,,neuuloved. Those working on the soil are
more likely 10 succeed as part-time farmers
than CITY families and unless this type OF
labor Is de-casualized its lot can not be
improved.