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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
SOLDIERS REVENGE!

a NY man who served IN the A. E. F. dur
ing the World war will be interested to
learn of the charges which have been placed
against an army medical officer in the Canal
Zone whose court-martial is pending.
This officer, it is alleged, had a castor oil
complex. soldier who came in with an
injured foot got olg dose of castor oil and
was sent back to duty; SO did another who
came down with appendicitis.
AS a result charges of malpractice have
been filed and the officer nust appear in an
army court.
The doughboys rad saying, in the A. E
F., that the army pharnacopeia contained but
two nostrums-castor oil and iodine You
either dosed with the one or swabbed down
with the other. no matter what allied YOU
This. of course. was unjust to & capable
and overworked medical staff. But it was an
army tradition, just the same-and this Canal
Zone case will stir memories of it in the minds
of a lot of ex-soldierS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
EDUCATION FOR THE FIT

GILBERT J. RAYNOR, principal of
- Alexander Hamilton high school, in
Brooklyn, N. Y. says that about 60 per cent of
the grammar school graduates entering his
high school in February were unfit to enter
Mr.. Raynor's explanation is not that the
schools are failing because only 40 per cent of
their product is up to standard. He suggests
rather, that they may be attempting to shape
their material into something from which it
should be excused. He proposes a reclassi1ca-
ton at about the sixth grade to direct many
pupils into vocational studies
This raises the same point upon which
Albert Jay Mock quotes the college presidents
advice to a mother: What is the use Of vast
ing a $4,000 education on a So boy?"
Such recognition of the different tastes and
apitudes of human bsings is no treachery to
theories Of democracy. Mr.. Raynor points out
that forcing students to attempt studies for
which they have no liking leads to discourage
ment and truancy. producing criminals.
loafers and social discontents"
Equality of opportunity we must preserve.
The pupil who wants to continue along acade-
mic lines must have the chance to do SO if he
can keep up the pace. But Mr.. RaynOr is
sound in his plea that the unfit pupil after
certain minimum of schooling should be re-
leased from routine which for him is no
opportunity at all. Otherwise his education is
a bad inveStE lent for the city
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
ENOUGH SILVER

ONE Of the minor political scandals has
~ been the profits Of spectators in connec-
nection with the administrations silver SUBJ
sidy. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau
has been Investigating this. Asked whether
the investigation showed that some of the
silver advocates had a personal stake. the
secretary said:
Eyes, we found some were not entirely
disinterested."
Mr. Morgenthau is not disposed to make
public the findings, at least not now. That
is unfortunate Since the public in the end
pays for the silver policy, it would seem to
have the right to all the facts available re-
garding those who are enriched. Also it would
be fairer to those silver advocates who are
disinterested personally to publish the names
Of those who are not-noW that the issue has
been raised.
Meanwhile the secretary is to be congrat-
ulated on his statement that the administra-
rion has no immediate intention of extending
its silver policy. BY long battle of attrition
the silver bloc in congress. really led by the
quiet and canny Senator Pittman rather than
by the more vocal sixteen-to-one-er already
has made sufficient inroads at the White
House for safety.
Therefore it is gratifying to find the secre-
tary Of the treasury publicly expressing skep-
ticism of the miraculous claims of the extreme
silver infationists.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
PRESS OR PRESS AGENT?

bankers representatives continue to as
- sail the pending stock market bill. One
OF their latest complaints is that it nenaces
the freedom of the press by its penalties for
the dissemination OF false and misleading
information about corporate securities
Ofhand, one might suggest that this pro-
vision menaces not so much the freedom of
the press as the freedom of the press agent
Do you know now the press agent works
when a powerful pool seeks to boost the
price Of a certain stock beyond its true worth
so that its members can unload at a profit?
He circulates phony bits of news about it,
He lets it be known that the company in
question has landed a Dig foreign contract
or bought important patent rights, or entered
into profitable merger arrangement
1t all makes the stock sound valuable, the
suckers rush to buy, the insiders Unload
and, when the smoke clears away the stock
price drops to where it ought to be, while
the insiders congratulate the press agent and
bank their profits
That's the sort of freedom" that this bill
endangers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

lions that prevent its adjustment
to the new order, it will be amend
ed or emasculated by judicial pro-
cesses to 1T the emergency. I do
do not believe that its rightly is
so great that it will not bend to the
pressure Of the new forces. 1t is
no derogatiOn of that wonderful
and admirable instrument to sug-
gest that the people were not made
for the Constitution, but the Con-
sitution was made for the people.
1t is an idle thought maybe; but
perhaps it has been reserved to our
generation to solve the ages-old
enigma of civilized man, viz: how
to bring about equality of opportun-
ity, and fair dealing among men.
Perhaps it has been destined that
Franklin D. Roosevelt should bring
all this about and thus win for
himself high seat among the i'm
mortals Of all time. Who knows?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
IDEAL MUST BE MAINTAINED

CEVERAL prominent Englishmen recently
- united to make public protest against
the rising wave of discomfort with democratic
institutions.
All across Europe-from Germany from
Russia from Italy. from Austria, and from
lesser countries-comes a steadily growing
chorus of derision for parliamentary govern
ment.
Democracy, it is said. is worn out thing,
and liberty is an empty word; only by an
iron-clad dictatorship can a people hope to
meet the problems of the modern world.
Ali this, naturally. is beginning to stir
echoes in the British Isles, and these English
men. therefore, have called on their country
men to rally in defense of the democratic
ideal and to reaffirm their conviction of the
supreme Importance of human liberty.
Something very similar might be done
prcdtably on this side of the water Europe
is a long way Off but this attack on the old,
Anglo Saxon concept of freedom is a rlenac-
ing and contagious thing1ichief1y, perhaps,
because we have grown so used to the bless
ings of liberty that we take them for granted.
We pick up our daily paper. for instance,
partial story Of the news of the day, and that
the editor will speak his mind freely about
current issues. We go to a political meeting
perfectly confident that the speaker will say
precisely what he pleases.
II we don't like the actions Of our mayor,
our congressman. our Governor, or our Presi-
dent, we wait our chance to vote against him
at the next election-and, meanwhile, express
ourselves as bitterly as We choose to any one
who will listen.
We don't look on these things as priv
neges. They are part Of our daily life. We
hardly can conceive Of living under circum-
stances where such things do not exist.
Yet We need to remember constantly that
these are the very blessings of democracy
which now are under attack People fought
and died that we might have these privileges
and did it so effectively that we no longer
look on them as privileges.
We irnbibe freedom with the very air that
we breathe. but price was paid for it. and
it is our task to defend it everlastingly.
Under Fascism, under Communism, under
any kind Of dictatorship. we would lose it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
WHY DOESN'T KUNKEL
RESIGN? HE ASKS
Nv a Rig democrat

BY a Big Democrat
The Star has a fancy way of put
ting things on the front page want
ing Governor McNutt to give a
reward for Dillinger's capture. They
did not do this when ten convictS,
the worst type, escaped from the
state prison at Michigan City. Why
did not some one run front page
boxes asking Kunkel to resign? 1t
seems as they all have to pick on a
woman sheriff at Crown Point
when one man escaped. A few days
later another lifer escaped from the
state prison, and no one asked
Kunkel to resign. Why pick on this
woman, when we believe she was
sincere and doing her best? We
all make mistakes and have faults.
1t seems as though folks can't
see a big officials fault, but want
to pick on a woman, but not on a
warden.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
Visitation
BY HAROLD FRENCH

A candle lit my room awry,
1t made me many times myself.
I was outstretched, another I
Lay half across the closet shelf.
A memory lay in mute recluse-
A face too many loves ago
Hidden behind the glamorless
Loves of rest, of ease; you know.
That am old and love my chair.
And youths bright loves are
poignant only.
Their resurrection scarce should
dare
Disturb my very being lonely.
And yet, too old once more-once
morel
Common words, and always
tragic)
To cross a lawn and pass a door
And kiss a face less sweet than
magic?
Last night my candles cardinal
fame
Wrapped my room IN alien image.
God or I, who is TO blame
That I sought from it my heritage7
only know that a knock came
low.
A familiar hand was upon the
door.
I knew she came and I felt her so,
And I am an old, old man once
more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
Creation of Employment

ices of thousands of printers,
pressmen, bindery men and girls
to say nothing Of the transporta-
ton required to distribute them.
The same holds good in the au-
to industry. Without the modern
forming presses, drop forging ham,
mers, multiple drills and all the
other machinery to promote high
speed production the cost of an
automobile would be prohibitive
to the middle class and SO a fac
tory only could sell few cars
and consequently only few men
would be employed,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
OBJECTS TO DISCHARGE
FROM CWA PROJECT

BY a Friend
am a CWA worker who got laid
off Feb. 20. They were supposed to
lay men off with small families first,
but I got it first. There were 40
Of US. We were working for the
park board on Pleasant Run boule-
ward.
There are about $500 men work
ing for the park board, and we were
the only ones fired I can't under
stand. Some Of this bunch have
ten in their family I have six.
Why, right down the street from
me is man who still is working.
He only has one child and gets a
pension of $13 a month. And just
around the corner is a man working
on one job and his son ON another.
Both Of them are on CWA Jobs, and
have smaller families than I have.
There must be something wrong
about this.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
HE WANTS WATSON
TO EXPLAIN THINGS
By II. C. S.

By II. C. S.
So far I have refrained from an
swering anything I have seen in the
public press. However, in looking
over my evening paper few days
ago, I happened to run on to an
article supposed to be from our
distinguished ex-senator James E.
Watson, in which he said eve
should stand unwaveringly by the
fundamental thought of individual
Isnitiative, thrift and individual eff
fort"
OF course that is a reproduction
OF the old worn out statement OF
the G. o. P.'s rugged individualism
which, in plain language, means
Every tub stands on its onw bot
TOM"
The mystery, the surprise and the
Joke of those words is that every
man has a right to express, practice,
and fight for the development Of his
God-given ability and talent. But
along comes man with his unique,
insincere, deceptive and crooked
laws, that govern society and
monopolize the opportunities for
him to express and develop his in
dividuality and initiative.
Of course I appreciate our ex-
senator's ability as a politician.
From the standpoint of a statesman
and a diplomat, as far as the twen-
tieth century is concerned, he is a
complete failure. Mr.. Watson, you
believe in the survival of the fittest.
If our past economic system is what
you want and is the only thing, that
will uphold our present civilization,
IF we are civilizeO, and the only
method, that you have to offer,
please explain to me and the public
why we have come to the present
crisis.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
FOREST AND FIRESIDE
THROW another log on the fire

THROW another log on the fire :"
Il advises the popular song.
Good advice it is, too, these chilly late
winter evenings that precede warm spring
days.
These spring days we shall be building new
homes and apartment houses, and we ought
to put wood freplaces in every one of them,
for what is home without a hearth?
We also should assure ourselves Of a supply
of f1rewood for these hearths at prices every
one can afford
One way to do that is to establish munic-
ipal or county forests
Every community in America should have
a large community forest, out of which the
trees may be carefully cut as they mature.
That is the way to get cool summer shade
and winter freside warmth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
BANKERS SCORED FOR
IMPROPER INVESTMENTS
By Barnie Wade.

BY Barnie Wade.
Dillinger is not as black as others.
Why should police spend all of their
time locking for Dillinger when
there are so many other criminals
at liberty?
I am a reader Of The Times and
think it will come as near printing
the truth as any other paper in
indianapolis.
Since Dillinger broke prison there
has hardly been a day his name has
not been on the front page of all
our papers. While there are others
who never are mentioned. They are
the bankers who took working
peoples money and spent it when
real estate was not worth. what they
put in it. know people who had
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
CAPITALISM IS DYING
FROM IT'S OWN SINS
BY Thomas d. Niece,

BY Thomas D. MCGEE
To some observers watching the
trend Of current events it seems that
we are in the midst Of great war.
1t is a silent, bloodless, smokeless
nondestructive war, but it is war,
nevertheless titanic struggle be-
tween the two great divisions of
cur society-"the have nots and the
have COTS"
The dispossessed and despoiled
Of our land-those unfortunates de-
prived by irresistible forces, of prop
erty, money, jobs and all economic
opportunity, have at last become
articulate They have lifted up
their voices. Their mouthpiece is
Roosevelt, and the instrument of
their economic salvation is Roose-
velt's NRA.
Contemporaries seldom under
stand the significance Of the great
social forces, silently working epo-
chal changes in their civilization.
The present mystification Of some
Of us in these topsy-turvy times is
perhaps attributable to the fact
that a new era, new society is
evolving swiftly from the ruins Of
the CID order.
Capitalism that promised so much,
capitalism that did so much is dy-
ing, dying a premature death sup
erinduced by its deadly sins and ex-
cesses-its brutal credits ruth
less, materialstic philosophy, its
stoical indifference to social wrongs
Of its own creating. And so it has
brought about the intolerable con-
dition in which 80 per cent of our
wealth and property is owned and
controlled by 10 per cent Of our
population, and IS per cent owned
by but per cent of our people.
This quiet, bloodless revolution is
a force Of such momentum that
nothing can withstand its effects. If
our Constitution, Notwithstanding
its salient, general welfare clause,
contains inhibitions and qualifica-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
REAL HE-MEN NEEDED
TO ENFORCE LAWS
By Oliver TownsIey

BY oliver Townsley.
Just what is wrong with the law
of this country?
Would we allow our foreign
friends to believe that our great
protecting law fears one unarmed,
shackled and manacled individual?
If so, then what a laughing stock
We must appear to be. We should
offer to sign up with one Of their
comedy film producers.
If they wanted to declare war
with us, they would laugh What
push over"
I refer to the press photograph in
your paper of March 8, showing
Sheriff Sarber's son, aiming a ma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
BORAH'S BOGEY

CENATOR BORAE'S fears Of the Presidents
- reciprocal tariff bill may provoke addi-
tionaI debate and delay. but apparently the
measure will pass.
He says he is in accord with the plan to
reduce tariff barriers But he's frightened at
the prospect of a single individual-the Presi-
dent. in this case-tixing tariff rates and con-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
BANKERS COMPARED WITH
DILLINGER, PIERPONT
BY a Times Reader

BY Times Reader
The photos Of John Dillinger and
EstilR were disgraceful. What dc
you think of the picture? Harry
Pierpont is branded a killer, and a
school kid is sheriff, with a sub
machine gun turned on a man. This
is what I call disgrace.
Who has closed the banks, and
left people without money, or food?
This was not Pierpont, or Dillinger.
Yet they have to be hunted How
about the banker. What will he
get?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

By r. E. S.
In the March issue of The
Times, r. H. is under the impress
sion that modern machinery has
caused idle hands. I believe I
can show you the error.
When the linotype first was in
troduced printers wanted the
patent squeIched, saying they
would all be thrown out of work.
Cali type was set by hand at that
time. But the machine came any
how and so lowered the cost of
composition that thousands of new
books and magazines and news
sheets sprang up requiring serv-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
SEEKS LUMBER TO
BUILD A HOME
BY Frances Ross.

BY Frances Ross.
I hope you will let me use the
Message Center to appeal to people
who have vacant houses, that are
being torn down and the lumber
destroyed I would like to have two
houses to wreck for the lumber to
build a little home
am living in an open shack
made of tin and cardboard, strug-
Cling to keep my two boys, 7 and
IA, with me. If some one would
give us lumber to build, we woulc.
be happy.
have tried to get work so I could
be independent, but it is impossible
to get work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
SEEKS SUPPORT FOR
RADIO BILL

BY NJ. L. Boyd
VIII you not use the influence of
your paper in support of the radio
bill (AIcFadden H. r. 1886 now up
for consideration in congress? 1t is
Of vital interest that the radio, as
well as the press, be kept free from
selfish commercial or religious cen
sonship, interference or dictatorship
as to what the people shall or shall
not hear.
Please give your support to this
bill.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
SUGGESTS U. S. BUY
KEYLESS LOCK co.

BY D. Smith
Mrs. Roosevelt wasn't SO dumb
after all. 1t is time to take some
action when a firm makes a profit
of TOO per cent on its product and
also gets the same product back
when the contract expires.
Why couldn't the government
purchase the Keyless Lock Company
at a fair price and establish the
housing project near Indianapolis?
Nobody could kick about that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

chine gun on a helpless, marmed
and tied-up Harry Pierpont.
Why. is such an unprecedented
favor granted a bereaved relative?
If Harry should happen to make
a face at this deceased sheriff's son,
it may mean because Of prejudice.
Yours in favor of employing more
of our younger generation to repre-
sent us in law, and trusting that
we'll get real he men.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
The Message Center

(TimeS readers are inuiteG to cypress
their rte10s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ S0ords or tess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
aoholy disapprove of e0hat yOm sag and will
defend to the death yow right to sag lt-Vottaire.

their life savings in banks of this
kind and today they are living on
charity. And what about judges
and prosecuting attorneys?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

The late unlamented hard winter permits
us to pass on to cur children what our fathers
passed on to uS-Daloney
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

An average of 100000 persons attended
the movies in the United States each week
last year There's still hope for half the
population, at least.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

Iowa state university has installed easy
chairs for students. The professors should
stand up. so that at least they Will remain
awake
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

A retired engineer Of Worcester. Mass, has
donated $4,000 to Harvard for a survey of
stars up to a distance of 600 quintillion miles.
He's bound to make MS money go long way.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

Light wines and beers can't be very light
if heavy taxes are put OH them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19

A meat dealer i'll Germany was Jailed for
selling unreliable sausage" Isn't t good to
feel you can depend on Germany's baloney?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-19
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
u. S. TO BUY WHEAT
FOR NEEDY FARMERS
S5,0O0,00O Will Be Released for
Immediate Purchases.

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.-The
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
will release $4,000, 900 Immediately in
eight states to purchase wheat for
drought areas, Relief Administrator
Harry L. Hopkins announced today.
the gift.
A boat used for peddling wares
to larger vessels is called a "bum-
boat"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-23
VETERAN KINGAN'S
employees HONORED
$50 OId-TimerS Club Men
Attend Celebration.

More than $50 veteran employees
of Kingan & Co. attended an Old
Timers dinner last night in the
Kingan Employees Association hall.
Of the veterans present fourteen
have been in the company'S serv-
ice more than fifty years and 371
have been employed more than
twenty years.
Speeches were made by w. R. S.
Sinclair, president of Kingan & Co.;
Richard Sinclair, vice-president, and
John r. bingham, director.
Appreciation and gratitude was
expressed for loyal service given by
Edward Bowers, retiring president
of the Old-Timers Club.
Musical entertainment followed
the dinner and speeches.