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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
INDIANAPOLIS WINS
NATIONAL HONOR
By c. F. Maetschke.

BY c. F. Maetschke.
In view of the exceptionally fine
cooperation of The Indianapolis
Times in connection with publicity
for the recent financial indepen-
dence week observance in Indian
apolis, I thought you would be in
terested in the announcement that
Indianapolis was awarded third
prize in a nation wide competition
in 181 cities for comprehensiveness
of the local program.
quote from the letter of Henry
E. North, New York, general chair
man of the nationwide obServ-
ance:
Associations in 1871 cities COM
peted for the distinction which you
have won for Indianapolis. The
achievements in many of these
other cities were genuinely distin-
guished. To win from them, most
exceptional record was required.
Your program was exceeded in its
completeness only by those of
Richmond, Va, and Philadelphia,
Pa. In the planning and conduct
of your program you have set a
standard that honors equally your
selves. your community, and the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
MILK FOR THE RICH

OUT of the nationwide milk survey COLI
" Quoted by various wonen's organizations
cooperating with the consumers counsel OF
the AAA and spurred on by Mrs Roosevelt,
NAV come the factual basis for solution OF
this perplexing problem.
Milk the greatest cash crop of American
agriculture and the most important single food
in the world, presents problem which the
AAA's analytical Consumers Guide sums up
as follows: For the farmer-too much milk,
too low prices, too small income; for the con-
sumer-not enough milk, too high prices, too
small income.
Studies already made by the office of the
consumers counsel reveal that the nation
suffers from underconSumption rather than
overproduction of milk, that fifteen million
more COWS are needed if there is to be enough
milk to give every man, woman and child an
ADEQUATE ration. This would seem to make
any plan for blowing COWS under look
absurd
OF course a similar underconsumption
argument might be made in the case OF cot
ton. wheat and meat, for which commodities
the prediction control remedy is being tried
chasing power of farmers is largely response
BILE for destruction of consumer purchasing
power. But cotton, wheat CATTLE corn and hog
growers have welcomed production control,
whereas dairy farmers Lave spurned it.
Why then would it not be sensible to abide
by the judgment of the dairy farmers, forget
about production control and attack the milk
problem from the consumers angle. To
limited extent that is being done through gov
ernmental relief purchases.
If such an experiment is to have a fair
trial, there must be drastic slash in con-
sumner milk prices Not only to persons on re-
lief, but to all milk consumers. Obviously
such a price slash will not be forthcoming
from water logged, overcapitalized distributing
companies unless they are forced to it.
Grace Abbott, chief of the United States
chi:dren's bureau, found by survey of the
families of a group of railroad workers whose
incomes had been reduced on an average of
30 per cent that 81 per cent of the families
had cut milk purchases more than so per cent
and 81 per cent of them had reduced milk
purchases 100 per cent. She suggests that
milk be declared public utility so that pub
lie welfare can dictate its price to children and
insure that a reasonable share of profits go
to the farmers children"
Consumers Counsel Howe of AAA has
advanced several proposals. including CO.
operative buying by consumers, and dispensing
with costly duplicating delivery service.
Other suggestions worthy of attention in
clude milk distribution by municipalities and
extension Of producers co-operatives into the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
REFORMERS STILL
ARE WITH US

BY Orie J. Simmons.
Reformers as a genus are sup
posed to have become extinct; the
gentle arts of Carrie Nation and
Bishop Cannon are no more.
AS Al Smith would misspell it,
baloney We are merely in the
hands of lesser breed of reform
ers. In fact, prohibition repeal was
itself counter reform; noble ex-
pertinent in reverse. Noble expert
mentS seem well attended with boot
leggers, whether running forward
or backward. In backing up, we
had hoped to lose the boots. We
still have the boots, full of snakes
as of yore.
Today reformers are so numerous
we can not see the city for their
houses. The Constitution has been
new deal reform administered, the
chief evidence of which is the now
reformed alphabet. AS of old, re-
form is by ukaSe, by ballyhoo, and
by ill-considered legislation.
We like our present smiling chief
executive because as a reformer he
is so exactly like the rest of us. He
smokes cigarets; he got his job by
promising more than he can deliver;
he thinks it good ethics to break
contracts on the theory that two
wrongs can make a right. AS slo-
gan he might adopt, Forgotten men
can do no wrong"
Chief among self-righteous re-
formers of today are persons who
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
WEDNESDAY. JUNE 6, 1884.
THE REPUBLICANS NOMINATE

p USsIA has her Stain; Italy, her Musso-
N lni; Germany, her Hitler Poland, her
Pilsudski; America, her Roosevelt, and God
save the mark, Indiana, her McNutt.'
Thus doomed Major Norman A. Imrie,
Republican pundit, in the keynote speech
yesterday at the Republican state convention
If he had only waited for a few minutes
he could have added: And God save the
mark twice. Indiana Republicanism, her
Arthur Robinson!"
For the Republican party renominated Mr..
Robinson by acclaim. There was not man
in the state who even would hazard the neces-
sary campaign contribution to qualify as
candidate for the United States senate
The Pilsudskis MussolniS and Hitlers all
have the same technique-appeal to the
prejudices and passions of organized minori-
ties. That is Mr.. Robinson's long suit. The
only difference between these famous dictators
and Indianas senior senator is that they are
effectiye and he is not,
During his tenure in Washington Mr.
Robnson's own colleagues in the senate have
not permitted his name to appear on any
important piece of egislation-veteran or
otherwise-which they passed. This is
unique record shared only by the contemplate
Huey Long, who has been in the senate
much shorter time than the Indiana senator.
Senator Robinsons name has been linked
persistently with the Ku-KluX Klan. 1t has
been reported that the former grand dragon
of. that organization, an infamous scoundrel
named D. c. Stephenson, assisted in getting
Mr. Robinson his original appointment to the
senate. Stephenson now is residing in the
state prison as the result of a peculiarly re-
voting murder of young woman.
On Aug. g. 1888, The Times publicly asked
Senator Robinson number of questions. We
repeat them today:
Senator, were you ever a member of the
Ku-Klux Khan?
Did you ever speak before a meeting OF
this misguided and bigoted group?
Did you ever renounce khan support at
time when it would have been politically in
expedient to do so?
what was your connection, if any, with
the klan?"
In the nine months that have interviewed
the senator has not replied. If he was not
connected with the most un-American organ
ization the country has ever seen-an organ
ization which f1outed the fundamental prin-
ciple of freedom of worship-what harm could
there have been in denying it?
If the senator was convinced, however
mistakenly. of the righteousness of the khan
cause why has he not been courageous enough
to admit that he participated in its activities?
Thus the Republican party of Indiana, by
the nomination of this man, has demonstrated
its complete unfltness to lead the people OF
the state. That. we think, is a tragedy.
Well, it's all grist to the Democrats MILL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
NATURE TAKES TOLL

NEWS of the drought and heat wave ham
mering the corn belt is a sharp reminder
that the farmers primary enemies are neither
overproduction nor high freight rates, but an
cient inanimate forces that can neither be
defeated nor wholly understood.
The first cave man who scratched the soil
with stick and dropped few wild seeds
into the scratch was at the mercy of the ele-
ments; and the ultra modern farmer, who
uses expensive machinery and gets advice
from his state agricultural college, is, in the
last analysis, in the same boat.
Whether he will get a. good crop depends
on things over which he has not the slightest
control-rain, wind, and sun. If they are
kind, his ground will yield bountifully; if they
aren't, it won't, and there is nothing he can
do about it.
The old risks of agriculture-the oldest
business risks in all the world-are the same
now as they were before the pyramids had been
built
The corn belts sufferings this spring re-
mind one of those eerie predictions some
biologists have made-that the greater part
of the interior of America is destined, some
day, to become semi-arid and barren, nearly
waterless region, where things will not grow
and men will not be able to live except as scat
tered nomads.
To be sure, not all biologists make this
prediction, and those who make it put the
time of this change far in the future-which,
to geologist, means anywhere from $4,000
years up; so that no one need worry for fear
that the hot, dry weather which is blighting
crops today is the forerunner of the deserts
arrival in Iowa.
Nevertheless, these stories of parching
drought and devastating heat make one think
about it. And they lead one to wonder how
long it will be before men get sense enough
to settle their differences with one another
and present a united front toward their real
enemes-the implacable and unresting forces
of nature.
For these troubles of the present day
overproduction, marketing difficulties, tariff
restrictions, falling prices, and the lke-are,
after all, secondary Settle them all, and
there still remains the task of forcing the
earth to yield enough to feed her teeming
millions.
That is the oldest of all society's problems,
and it will probably be the last to be solved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

street car motorman slowing
down, it seemed as though he
gained speed and the car crashed
into the rear of the automobile.
I have known of several cases
of this kind, and not once have
I heard of any one collecting a
single cent of damage for this sort
of carelessness on the Part of street
car motormen. Taxi drivers are
as bad in cutting through traffic
at a high rate of speed.
Bus operators also drive at a
high rate of speed and zig-zag
through traffic. In pulling up to
street intersections to make either
right or left turn they give no
warning, but just go blowing on
through traffic, regardless of
whether it is extremely heavy or
light.
Operators of trackleSS trolleyS
never stop when making turns,
even at Washington street and
Capitol avenue, where traffic is
always fairly heavy, unless they
receive the red light or are re-
quired to discharge or take on
passengers. With exceptions of
the two instances they blow horns
once or twice and plow right
through, regardless of whether
they make a left or right turn or
go straight ahead.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
Capital Capers
Try GEORGE ABEL

CENATOR HUEY LONG has received a sting
- ing rebuke from Minister Enrique Finot OF
Bolivia as a result of derogatory remarks ne
made about that ENJOYS country on the senate
floor.
! Recently the Kingfish charged Bolivia's share
of the Chaco war was being financed by the
Standard Oil Company and that the government
of Bolivia was under the heel" of the New Jer-
sey corporation
Minister Finot sent three-page, closely type
written letter to Long, denying each assertion IN
detail and offering to back up the facts with OIL
cial documents.
while my diplomatic condition" he wrote,
makes it impossible for me to answer your Of
fenSive remarks, I can not let pass your COM
plete distortion of the truth"
Privately the minister intinated that he
would be happy to punch Huey in the nose
should occasion present itself. But he feels that
diplomatic dignity requires more polite handling
of the matter in public
The entire Bolivian legation was greatly in
censed at the Long TRADE.
senator Long, said Minister Finot, could
easily have checked the facts before making such
an outrageouSly untrue and unfair speech. am
afraid the language in my letter is bit too
moderate for the way feel. But it is necessary
from a diplomatic viewpoint to remember that
Mr.. Long is after all, United States senator
He concluded the letter to Huey with the
statement: II am inclined to think that your
GOOD falth mas Deen aDuSeQ by IdlS6 ana 1nC6r-
ested Misrepresentation"
NOTE: What Senator Long does not know
is that one member of the Bolivian legation
staff is noted as an amateur boxer and spends
several hours each morning practicing body
blows and uppercuts.
A AMBASSADOR MARQUEE STERLING of
IN Cuba went up to the Capitol to see the new
treaty between his country and the United
States ratified by the senate.
He marched into the diplomatic gallery and
found senators discussing the pact animatedly.
One man stood up and said something about
"Cuba"-Marquez couldn't quite make out what.
Then another man said something else opposing
the first senator.
"Dios!" muttered Envoy Sterling. Il under
stand nothing of all this
So he took his hat Che had forgotten his
atomzer, which he uses constantly for his hay
fever) and went to the press gallery.
Il am"-he began.
"You can't come in here" said doorman.
'You can't come in here
But I am the Cuban ambassador" explained
Marquee, drawing long breath
They let him in then and some of the news
paper boys explained what was going on in
the senate Marquee nodded several times and
went home and sent euphemistic wire to
Havana.
But he is still very much puzzled about senate
procedure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

national institution of life insur-
ance. We offer our sincere con-
gratulations.
The report of the committee of
awards commends especially the
newspaper publicity program in In
dianapolis. made possible through
the cooperation of Indianapolis
newspapers. The comment in the
report follows:
1.-THE weeks activities in Indian
apolis were distinguished by par
ticularly effective publicity in the
newspapers. Every committee meet
ing, every detail of plans, every
talk and every activity of under
writer's was made use of to get the
facts of financial independence be-
fore the public. If prizes had been
awarded on the basis of outstand-
ing special activity, Indianapolis
certainly would have won the award
in the big-city group for its excep-
tional management in publicity
matters"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
CHARGES POLICE
WITH "MOOCHING"
By 1 Wonder.

By Wonder.
AS I am of voting and taxable
age and get around town a little bit
and have read the petition which
would undoubtedly be backed by a
ruling majority of Indiana's citi-
zenry to pardon this states so-called
No. public enemy.
For the last five years I have been
in a position to observe closely the
capacity of the long arm Of the IN
dianapolis law.
How many policeman on their way
to roll call, driving their loaded pa
troll cars on the district or going
home with bullying pockets and
stuffed caps have you ever seen pass
beer joint or poolroom without
stopping in for his dole? Pitifully
few, I have observed.
Recently the wholesale price of
the four leading brands of cigarets
(never do the police take a 10-cent
pack was raised to $1.15 for car
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THIS WOMAN LIKES
SMALL COURTESIES
BY H. X. Young.

BY H. K. Young.
I am heartily in accord with the
sentiments expressed by "Sir Wal
ter" in the Message Center, and
am no disgruntled male, either.
am one of those women who wends
her way through heavy doors almost
daily, and who is more than CRATE
full to the occasional male who still
remembers to remove his hat in an
elevator and permits girl to pre-
cede him into a car.
Equality Notwithstanding, there
are still some small courtesies per-
mitted. But like "Sir Walter" I
have become not little annoyed at
the casual acceptance by the aver
age girl.
1t isn't at all necessary for a
strange man who is in a hurry to
wait for a woman to enter a door
first, or to hold the door open for
her in passing. But it is a charm
ing gesture and one that should be
appreciated by every one of we
women who encounters it in world
gone suddenly heller SHELTER.
If you even open a door for me,
"Sir Walter" I will practically en-
barrass you by my profuse remarks.
And that isn't sarcasm, mean it!
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y
BANK CLOSING LOSER
WANTS ACTION
Bv Another Victim.

BY Another Victim.
At short intervals there appear in
your paper articles from persons
who lost money in the banks that
were permitted to close their doors
and account to no one.
1t seems strange that nothing can
be done about these outrages; they
are an insult to civilized people.
Aspirants to offices of public
service might keep in mind these
things and think of something that
can be done to help these I'M
fortunate persons who we're legally
robbed and the robbers upheld by
officials who could do something if
they would.
The writer was one of the 5000
persons who lost in the closing of
the State Savings and Trust Com
pany. The stockholders have not
had to pay, even though it is the
law. Why?
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distribution field. Too many producers CO.
operatives have been subservient to the big
distributors.
With pauperized farmers on one end and
undernourished children on the other end, we
have no tears to waste on the middlemen
chiefly responsible for the spread between what
the farmer gets for his milk and what the
consumer pays for it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
I aOhoIy dIsapprove of a0hat yom sag and sOiN
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItaire.

I ton of 10 and 15c straight sell for
$1.50-a profit of IS cents if they
are sold, but after careful survey,
find that the police carry out,
from an average of the poolrooms in
districts I have in mind, 20 per cent
more cigarets than are actually
sold.
In this district there are 3 patrol
cars, total of police, 2 squad cars
carrying a total of more and 8
detective cars bringing in 6 more
officers, a grand total of at least ID
packages of cigarets a day or nearly
ID cartons week, plus an occa-
sional package of gum or candy
bar.
In other words, at, IS cents profit
a carton the proprietor must sell
nearly cartons to break even on
the $2.70 worth thespolice carry out.
How many places sell that many of
the leading brands? They don't.
The poolrooms in this district
average a loss of $16.10 a week on
cigarets alone.
But don't think this merchandise
is wasted, dear taxpayers. Do the
police take these smokes home for
bridge prizes or give them to their
friends, to hurt their donors busi-
ness? They do not. In their eager
ness to play square with the already
hard pressed and downtrodden pros,
prietorS they give them a chance to
break even and buy cigarets from
them-the police-at about 10 per
cent less than the wholesale house
can sell them. Who wouldn't? 1
think that is violating the whole
sale code, isn't it Mr.. johnson?
Chief Mike Morrissey was
policeman not so long ago and
knows such conditions exist, but
is there any one big enough to over
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
DILLINGER GRADUATE
OF CRIME COLLEGE
BY Clifford Roe

BY Clifford Roe.
I have read many letters in the
Message Center about John Dillin-
ger. Personally, I feel that he is
only an amateur criminal compared
to the politicians who form the
wheels of so-called Justice"
If it were all written in words so
the average person could under
stand, it would read:
Dillinger is a graduate of the COL
lege of crime. Hatred and crime
has been branded in his very heart
and soul by Justice" rendered him
when enrolled in that prison.
In that institution he learned
enough to know what was easy and
what was hard.
Apparently, he learned enough to
outsmart those who call themselves
department of justice agents. They
would like to have people think they
are wise and brave. A bad break
they called it when Dillinger got
away at Little Bohemia.
Why don't they all admit the
truth? They fear him. So, why
shouldn't criminals go on?
Even if criminals are caught they
can walk away from the state
prison or jails without much trou-
BILE. At least they seem to be get
ting dissatisfied at Michigan City
and some of our jails. Indiana is
a criminals p4fadise.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
The Borrower

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON
I begged an hour from a perfect
day,
A glimpse of blue from the sky,
A lifting note from a cardinals
throat,
And breeze from the wind passing
by,
A spicy scent by Glove pink lent,
And the taste of the salt sea spray.
How shall I pay for these lovely
things
From which I weave tomorrows,
Since neighbors do not always lend
To one who only borgowsS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
BEYOND PUBLIC SERVICE

ONCE again-and in New York, as usual
~ we have one of those cases in which a
public servant is found to have enjoyed an
income far greater than the one he has
drawn from the public treasury.
This time it is a city court justice. Dur
ing forty-four months this ornament to the
bench drew a salary of $4Oo35; in the same
period he managed to put $166,66O in the
bank. AS result, the New York Bar AS
ISOLATION has brought proceedings to have
him removed from office.
It is conceivable, of course. that man in
such a position might be entirely innocent.
He might have inherited money from rich
unc.e; he might have made some very lucky
investments; he might heaven knows, have
held winning ticket in the Irish sweep
stakes.
But as a general thing. public servant
whose deposits SO greatly exceed his visible
income belongs back in private life, just as
quickly as he can be put there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
So They Say

A person killed in traffic is Just
as dead as if he had been murdered.
with a gun.-Traffic Commissioner
Edward P. Donahue of Cleveland.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

Wives influence their husbands
much more than husbands their
wives.-Lady Astor.
The defect of the cinema so far
has been its concern not with man
as thinking creature, but with
man as merely active creature
st. John IRVINE, famous British
critic.
The trouble with most students is
that they take in everything told
them not excluding lectures.-Pro-
fessor N. G. Hart, University Of
Western Ontario.
Dignity is like a perfume; those
who use it are scarcely conscious
OF it.-Queen Christina of Sweden.
Americans can't talk like the.
English, and they shouldn't try
Professor William Cabell Greet, ed.
1tor of the American journal of
Speech.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

A student sued his college for wasting his
time, but he lost. Good thing, or he would
have been encouraged to sue his parents next.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06

Paraguay threatens to scrap all rules of
civilized warfare with Bolivia. Munitions
makers must have given Paraguay some mod
ern ideas.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
The Message Center

(Times readers are united to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all cGss hare a chance.
Limit them to $50 Soords or Less.I
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write letters like this to the news
papers. No, reformers as a genus
are not extinct.
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A scientist urges scientific approach to
politics" But in the meantime the politicians
would get elected.