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them. and they we're pretty well fed up on
the war.
The outfit had been in the ST. Mihiel sector.
and had gone through long, hard engage
ment that left it rscked almost to exhaustion.
1t was drawn out the ranks we're refled with
raw recruits-and then instead of getting a
breathing space. in which morale and dis
cipline could be renewed, it was sent right
back into action.
The reason was simple The situation at
the front was bad; shock troops could not be
spared So the war-weary sixty-third went
back into the line, to face bombardment
even worse than the one from which it had
Just emerged.
The veterans lost their energy; the recruits
were stunned, almost paralyzed with fear.
Orders came for charge-and the fifth
company refused to move. So the military
machine moved to punish it for mutiny. The
company officers ordered one man chosen by
lot from each squad to pay the penalty. Five
soldiers we're chosen. marched off to a military
court-and executed by a firing squad
Nineteen years later widows of two of these
men got the case reviewed. And the French
army command decided that an injustice had
been done. It held that the 1915 court should
have been lenient, and that it was unfair to
make five men, chosen by lot, suffer for the
whole company. So the dead men, at last,
have been exonerated.
To be exonerated nineteen years after you
have been executed must be pretty cold COM
fort. The whole story is revealing COM
mentary-not on the blindness of any particu-
lar set Of officers, but on the ruthless and i'm
personal way in which any war machine must
occasionally, trample justice and personal
rights under foot.
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Capital Capers
BY GEORGE AHELL

THE Fourth of July found New Dealers and
l. Old Dealers, diplomats and government
officials, residential society and service officers
scattered far and wide.
The state department was deserted
Secretary of State Hull wearing white linen
trousers and a blue coat, was on a motor tour
through Virginia. Elegant Undersecretary Of
State Phillips was in Beverly, Mass, trifle
bored with the heat wave.
Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles,
who has been hopping his lofty brow with
morogrammed handkerchefs, relaxed in his
swimming pool at his country estate at Oxon
Hill Md.
Poppy little Ambassador Augusta Rosso of
Italy sailed for Rome to reSt-and see Musso-
lini.
The Swedish minister, cherubic Mr. Bos
from, suffering from the heat very visibly, found
that Swedish messages and cold tubs couldn't
help him. He's off for Sweden.
GONE people think Ambassador Patek of Po-
- land doesn't know summer is here. He wore
his fur overcoat until May. Recently he was
in Atlantic City-but now he's back bravely
enduring the heat, no one knows why. His
post long has been known as one of the diplo-
matte sinecures
Ambassador Saito of Japan is en- route to
Toxic.
The British ambassador, Sir Ronald Lind
say. Is in England and Lady Lindsay is in Seal
!
summer together
Harry Hopkins FERA administrator, hoped
off for Europe, after quick press conference
in which he spoke Of studying housing prob
lens abroad and seemed in great hurry. He
barely caught his train.
Navy Secretary Swanson, his long mus
tachios trailing in a delicious breeze, sailed
down the Potomac on board the Sequoia. Miss
Swanson and party of friends accompanied
him.
The minister of Persia and his wife, the ex-
otto silva Djalal, went to Long Island to visit
Colonel Robert Guggenheim at his Babylon
estate.
THE attorney general and Mrs. Homer S.
L Cummings followed the lead of Swanson
and cruised down the Potomac on a friends
| boat.
| one diplomat who was working was Min
/ lister Enrique Finot of Bolivia. He is handling
1 the Bolivian negotiations for war material con-
| tracts The Bolivians claim they placed large
orders here before President Roosevelt de-
| clared an arms embargo-and the U. S. is eX-
pected to allow certain shipments to go through
| French Ambassador Andre de Laboulaye is
in France-and reports are that he won't be
back
Secretary of War George Dern has sailed for
Panama with Ms. Dern and daughter, Betsy
| They'll be away a month.
Jonkheer van Haersman de With, the new
| Dutch envoy, sent hack word from Newport
that he's remaining there another week He
loves the place.
Jovial Michael MacWhite minister of the
Irish Free State, is on a motor trip through
the Catskills. Il want to visit Lake Mahotac,
he said with a twinkling smile before leaving
1T sounds ike the name Of an Irish whisky
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A BOUT the only social value the sanguin-
\ airy strike Of Pacific coast dockmen seems
to have is as a warning.
This protracted and violent affair teaches
the lesson the Orientals have learned, that hui
mans sometimes will fight even harder to save
their faces than to gain an economic adj
vantage.
Since May O. when the dockmen went out
in demand for union recognition and better
hours and wages, both strikers and employers
have been playing a face-saving game. Sew
eral times during the negotiations the belliger-
ents have been on the point Of patching their
differences. Pride always has interviewed and
with each failure mutual agreement has be-
come more difficult. The shippers have been
paying for their pride in millions Of dollars in
losses. The unionists may pay in loss Of their
strike The climax TO the long-drawn-out
quarrel is the very thing that neither side
wanted. the Intervention Of state militiamen
to reopen the ports. Now, instead Of reasoned
negotiation. passion is loosed along with tear
gas and gunhre.
The public should have been in the affair
as peacemaker. instead of a strike-breaker,
armed with policemen's clubs and troopers
bsyonets. The federal government several
times has profered its services in mediation to
no avail. But now the public is in the bust
ness it should do its policing with minimum
show of force. There is no excuse for orders
to shoot with bullets and kill with bayonets.
Such orders breed more hate, spread disorder,
prOlong the warfare, and tend to make Of the
strikers and their sympathzers radical and
embittered enemies of society
Under the Presidents new labor boards
there should be less of this senseless blood
letting. It will be the governments business
to see that strikers do not reach the stage of
blind unreason and to provide forum for or
derly adjustment Of labor disputes. The gov
ernment's new mediation machinery is the
public's substitute for just such bitter wars as
this.
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NEW TEST OF POWER

ONE of the most important cases that will
" face the United States supreme court,
when it convenes next fall, will be the one
dealing with the Iron Mountain Railroad and
its thirty-year gold bonds.
Some thirty years ago this railroad mow
part Of the Missouri Pacific issued bonds
which contained a promise to pay in gold
coin of the present standard of weight and
fineneSs" When time for payment came along
the nation had abandoned its old gold stand
ard and congress took the gold clause out of
all public and private bonds.
The present lawsuit over these railroad
bonds constitutes a test of congress power to
take such action.
The federal court of st. Louis has upheld
congress. ruling that these old gold clauses
are unenforceable SO now-what will the
supreme court 90? If it rules the other way, a
big monkey wrench will land right in the mid
ole Of the New Deals chief cogwheels.
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SEES WIDESPREAD
TRAFFIC VIOLATION
By An Ex-Claim Adjuster.

BY An Ex-Claim Adjuster.
I think it is about time for some
one to call halt to traffic law vio-
lations in this city.
I live in an apartment overlook.
ing the intersection of MaSsachu-
sets avenue and Noble street, di-
rectly opposite the traffic light at
the southwest entrance to the inter-
section. In all my experience, I
never have seen such disregard,
such wholesale violations of the
traffic laws as practiced in this
city.
Last Saturday night between 5
and 6 I sat in my window and re-
corded thirty-four violations at this
point.
Here are some of them:
Forming double line of traffic in
safety zone approaching intersec-
ton, passing other cars on the
right. two cars abreast going
through intersection, running red
light, running amber light and cut
ting through safety zone and pass
ing traffic light on the left.
Only cars or trucks belonging to
the fire department, police cars or
ambulances are permitted to pass
traffic light to the left.
But when the chief Of police Of q
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REFERS NEW DEALERS
TO CONSTITUTION

BY E. B. Payne.
In your editorial of July 3 on
Mr.. Fletcher's appeal to the public
to reread the declaration, you very
properly quoted the heart of the
document and commented very per-
tinently thereon.
May I suggest that while we are
rereading the declaration, we brush
up little on the Constitution and
find out what the second section
of Article 3, particularly the sec
ond paragraph and more particu-
larly the last twelve words of this
paragraph means, if anything.
To me it seems that in the face
of the threat of powerful opponents
of the New Deal to have the whole
program declared unconstitutional,
this innocent appearing paragraph
is the complete answer to the pray
ers of the New Dealers, if they only
have the intelligence and courage to
use the teeth this paragraph car
ries.
I am not quoting the paragraph
I refer to because 1 believe the
point will sink deeper if curiosity
incites the reader to do little
digging" for himself in order to
find out what it is all about.
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THE BLINDNESS OF WAR

IT will be a long time before the last human
Il echoes OF the World war finally die out
Every so often We hsar one Of them-some
little. long-forgotten fragment Of personal
tragedy tossed OF BY the great catastrophe
and when We 90. We begin TO understand why
the old Romans and Greeks symbolizsd war
as a personality. e God. Mars or Ares, a clumsy
and heavy-footed brute who tramped along
needless Of the people he stepped on.
4 French military court just the other day
made final disposal OF the cases Of five soldiers
who we're shot in 1918 for mutiny.
These soldiers were members Of a noted
detachment Of shock troops-the fifth COM
pany OF the sixty-third infantry regiment,
famous for its fighting qualities. But in the
spring OF 1915 things had gone badly with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-07
A WISH
BY VIRGINIA

BY VIRGINIA
A beacon Light in storm-toss'd sea
OF Doubt; Of God, sometimes, when
He
Has failed to answer heav'nward
prayer
And I am doubtful He is there,
He shines me on TO flrmer shore,
And I believe in God once more.
He like a Hand that points the
way
To Better Living, but should I stray
From straighter Path to rocks below,
Lie bruised and saddened, this I
know:
He'd take me up and mend my
wings,
And soothe away the Hurt Of
Things.
He's sacrificed, he's pray'd, he's tried
To give me Joys that Life denied
Him in his youth. and ere he's gone,
Let me repay him what he's done
In no small way: let me prove I'm
glad
For Gods great gift to me, my Dad.
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REPLIES TO CRITIC OF
STREET RAILWAY

BY Pete.
I read in this column letter by
Daily Reader addressed to Dear
Big Shots" and in it he said:
THE indianapolis Street Railway
blows about how it is improving our
big city. But how? BY cutting men
off and using one-man cars and
that is progress-putting people out
Of work"
I think that man should get out
of indianapolis and visit other
cities-large cities-such as Chicago
and New York. That might open
his eyes to our progress. Chicago
has street cars, such as we discarded,
and taxicabs 1 would be afraid to
ride in.
I think Daily Reader" should
keep awake when writing.
About unempIoyment-did we
growl when trains took the places
of wagons and when cotton gins
came into existence? Yet each has
put men out of work.
Let Daily Reader" and all his
class think before they condemn.
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| CONDEMNS COURSE OF
LIQUOR BUSINESS

BY W. H. R.
When the millionaire brewers and
distillers were clamoring for votes
to repeal the eighteenth amend
ment, it was loudly proclaimed that
there never would be a return to the
old time saloon.
They succeeded in fooling a ma
jority of the voters and got the
amendment off the books. We have
not had a return of the saloon. Now
we have restaurants and taverns
and beer parlors.
1t was considered a disgrace for
woman to enter a saloon, but these
joints have been clothed with re-
spectability, and young boys and
girls not only enter them, but forget
to come out until they have to be
carried out.
A few nights ago two men and
two women came out Of one of the
most respectable Of these places at
2::30 a. m. All were staggering, but
one, the youngest girl, who did not
look TO be more than II. She was
too drunk. to stand and one Of the
men lifted her into a taxi and got
in beside her. Fortunately, the taxi
driver was sober, or there might
have been more to the story.
These joints, open all night, are
worse by far than the saloon ever
was and unless there is a lot of
regulating done very quickly prohi-
bition will be back into the Consti-
tuition to stay.
Have we become so depraved that
we must debauch all our sons and
daughters to raise revenue? Must
our government tolerate, for the
sake of revenue, a business whose
prosperity depends on the demon
alization of its customers, and whose
best customer is the communitys
worst citizen?
The traffic is being run on a plan
that surely will bring its destruc-
ton on it's own head, for surely the
ajority of our citizens will not
want it to go on as it is now oper-
ated.
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The Case Against Rugged IndiUiduaZism

garded as problems OF government
prior to the present administra-
ton. Business and industry dur
ing the first years of the depres-
sion showed no signs of being
willing or able to cope with the
situation. Thus the Roosevelt adj
ministration was faced with three
possibilities:
To take a firm stand against
any sign of revolution and let
the unemployed starve. To do
nothing either to feed the hun
CRY or to put down revolution
and thereby to encourage revolu-
ton, or to use unprecedented sums
for relief. The last possibility was
chosen. But the relief measures
we're recognized as only tempo
rary.
If the great piece of basic in
formation" is not broken loose
regularly, or if Europe or Asia
do not go to war, so we can
benefit by the misfortunes of
others, something permanent must
be done, and this may mean un-
employment pensions, old-age
pensions and doleS.
l believe that American man
hood and womanhood would soon
er work for living than to de-
pend upon doles. The government
should guarantee a job to every
one who can work and who is
willing to work. This may mean
taking over by the government
certain basic Industries in order
not only to provide jobs but to
make profits to pay for work that
did not yield an immediate profit,
such as road building, and soil
and forest conservation and res
toration.
Even before the supreme court
has chance to hand down q de-
cision, except on a few of the
minor issues of the New Deal,
the rugged individualists are she'd
ding crocodile tears over the Con-
stitution. They would have us
believe that the sun of patriotism
rose and will set in their order.
They are also worried about our
rapidly increasing national debt.
But why the difference between
the attitude toward debts incurred
during the war and during the
depression? The first caused un-
told suffering; the latter great
relief. The rugged individualist is
opposed to any expenditure of
money without profit going to
some one of his kind Millions
were made by the war prof1teers;
very little is being made by any
rugged Individuals" during the
depression.
Rugged indiyidualism is facing
a crisis in its existence. No longer
will its practitioners be permitted
to take almost the entire profit
from production, leaving the
worker much less than his fair
share in times of prosperity and
nothing in times Of depression.
No longer will they be allowed
to strip the forests, fields and
mines, assuring for coming gen.
erations heritage Of famine.
And I hope that the electorate
no longer will be fooled by the
twaddle about the sanctity Of any
set Of laws or any type of gov
eminent which assures one class
Of its citizens wealth unbounded
and another class the extremities
of poverty.
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SPEAKS OF DILLINGER
AND NEW POLICE

By Reader.
We see John Dillinger is accused
of robbing another bank. l wholly
agree with his father, he is not to
blame for what Johnnie has done.
The rotten deal he got for the first
trouble he ever was in is the cause
Of his being where and what he is
today. At that, I don't think he Is
guilty of one-third that he is
riamed for. If he is, it's high time
the state was getting some new po-
lice officers.
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An interview with Alfred P.
Sloan Jr., president of General
Motors, Where Do We Go From
Here" published in the June 16
number of Today, is we'll worth
reading because therein is set
forth by one of the ablest of the
opponents and practitioners of
rugged individualism the argu-
ments for that philosophy.
He states:
1--WE are living in a not-yet-
finished world. The progress of
the next two million years is as
inevitable as that of the last two
million years." and Il can not help
but feel that in very short time
we are going to break loose an
other great piece of basic infor-
nation which will keep us indus
trially busy for a great many
years to come"
This leads one to these conclu-
sions:
That our ten million unem-
ployed have only the hope for
some great piece of basic infor-
nation to be broken loose" Gre
ating situation such as that Gre
ated between 1914 and 1919 by the
World war and between 1920 and
1929 by the motor car industry, to
keep them from starving.
That there is nc disposition on
the part of rugged individualism"
to accept the idea that while
brains and the development of
science have wholly revolutionized
business and industry, that our
governmental and social institu-
tions are as archaic as the method
of transportation in 1888 would be
today.
That there is something unique
and sacred about our Constitu-
ton. That were it possible to APP
ply our best brains, the scientific
method, and the accumulated ex-
perience of $50 years of our his
tory, it would be almost treason to
suggest that it would be possible
to write new instrument better
fitted to our own times.
I would like to believe with Mr..
Sloan that this great piece of
basic information" would solve the
unemployment problem for the
next ten years and then some
thing else would be discovered to
solve it for the next ten years so
on ad infinitum. If I believed that
this were possible, and I have the
greatest faith in the possibilities
of the almost infinite development
of science, I would not so be-
grudge to the Millionaire his bill
lions, nor find any fault with the
profit method of distribution.
But the discoveries in science
which led to our almost unparaI-
leled progress in industry have
not solved the unemployment
problem and I do not believe they
ever will. Why all of this objec-
ton to the use of our best brains,
and to the use Of the scientific
method in revolutionizing our ar
chaic social and governmental in
situations when this method
proved so successful in business
and industry?
Our unemployment problems
have not been regarded in the
past as problems of business and
industry, nor have they been re-
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south, for instance, on Meridian
street and crossed an intersection
against the red light and should
be injured by car going east or
west, he would have no cause for
legal action against the driver Of
the car.
I formerly lived in a city in an
adjoining state and I will say that
We would not have thirty-four vio-
lations in whole week. That is.
at one particular intersection. We
wonder at the increase in traffic
deaths. I wonder there are not
more.
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city of this size does not even know
the traffic laws, then it is hard to
expect the public to observe them.
To prove my statement, 7 refer to
a statement by Chief Morrissey
published in local paper the day
before the Speedway race in which
he stated that pedestrians had the
right of way at intersections.
I would like to inform the chief
that pedestrians do not have the
right Of way at intersections. The
traffic light is meant for them just
the same as for motorists.
If a pedestrian should be walking
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Director Of a closed Cleveland bank
couldn't remember any details about s3OOo
600 loan ne made from the bank. 1t was such
a trifle, you know
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The active life of an oyster is said to be
ten years. How long it lasts after that only
the taste Of your stew can tell.
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DR.. Dafoe has stopped giving the Canadian
quintuplets their diet of rum but the father
can't get over it yet.
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Thinking says Harvard professor, caused
the depression. but it wasn't so much what we
thought as how.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-06

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 The better drugstores have anti venin in stock in regions where rattlesnakes occur. By following the directions on the package any one can inject che antidote. As antivenin keeps indefinitelyl, d package may be carried in the emergency kit; or if you are going on short trip in snake country the druggist will rent a package for fraction of the cost.
 If you have antivenin at hand it is better NOT 70 apply tour niquet, but inject the dose at once and let it enter the blood stream.
 If no antivenin is at hand Git is effective if given within an hour or two) probably the best treat ment is immediate criss-cross cuts through the fang marks just through the depth of the skin (1s inch deep) and perhaps 4 incn long, and immediate suction with the mouth. Also bind something tightly around the limb above the wound, but loosen this a few sec- onds every five minutes.