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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
A NEWER EDUCATION

INDIANAPOLIS. along with every other city
i in the United States, Will observe "Amer-
can Education Week Nov. to IL. During
that week parents will be urged to visit their
rbiIdren.s cIassrooms and attempt TO learn
how they may cooperate best with the teachers
for the highest good to the children.
Ont Of l9S4s American Education Week
should come a New Deal in education Tor the
American boy and girl
Dean Henry Lester Smith, president OF the
National Education Association, has sounded
more than keynote for a newer education.
What We put into the lives Of our boys and
girls" saws Dean Smith. will come out IN the
life of America
The schools" ne says. must teach young
people the realities of the present order, or
disorder. They must open the pupils mind
to a realization OF society as 1t Is. with all Its
INEQUALITIES and Embellishments. No longer
can the schools emphasize merely the fnding
Of right answers to problems laid down by the
teacher. They must help young people to md
out what the problems are and how they
can share in their solution.
~F1nalIy," SAYS Dean Smith. 1.-THE schools
must teach the principles Of collective action
upon which We must work out our common
problems. The nation has become one great
community which must rise or fall as unit.
Cooperative action is impersuve-and if de-
mocracv Is 10 survive. 1t must be voluntary and
enlightened cooperation"
We IN indianapolis have great. progress
sive school system. Indianapolis should be one
Of the leaders in this great movement TO put
American education on a saner basis.
Dean Smith has sounded the call. Indian
spolls must follow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
NEED OF THE DAY

CHARGES that governmental units suffer
- because Of the interference Of politicians
we're made yesterday by Schools Superinten-
dent Paul c. Stetson before 900 city teachers
Mr.. Stetsons charges are additional ones
in support of the theory and program, advo-
Gated by The Indianapolis Times, that poll
tics shall be eliminated entirely from the
operations Of many branches of government
which are supported by the taxpayers
Mr.. Stetson also opened fire on outmoded
systems of government and indicted leaders
for failure to face the situation rather than
hide behind bush of alibis and weak-sister
excuses.
The superintendent of schools could not
have been more pointed in his statements
or more accurate.
The Times maintains that unless civil Serv-
ice and merit systems are placed into effect
in Indiana'S state police and penal Setups,
this state is open to more condemnation for
the manner in which these operations have
been and are being conducted.
If there were more straightforward speak
ing officials in this city and state, who faced
the situation as does Mr.. Stetson, the remedy
would be forthcoming Immediately. i.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
TERRITORIAL PARADOX

TT is an odd development that in the Philip
pines, soon TO be independent, English has
been adopted as the official language, while
in the solidly American territory of Puerto
Rico. Spanish has taken the place of English
as the accepted medium of instruction in ele-
mentary schools.
The Puerto Ricsns speak Spanish from the
cradle upward Efforts have been made to
conduct the elementary schools bilinguaIy,
with English and Spanish used side by side.
Now. however, the instruction is to be solely
in Spanish, with instruction in English re-
served for high schools.
But in the Philippines, English is the only
language thoroughly diffused throughout the
islands Spanish is the language OF polite
society; English is the language in which buSi-
ness is conducted
The Filipinos themselves have voted to
make English the official tongue.
SO the American territory will speak Span
ish. and the independent Philippines will con-
tinue to talk American!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
OLD AS HE FEELS

XATHEN he was 30. General R. A. sneed,
W oklahoma's secretary Of state. took up
golf But it seemed to him lust an old man.
game" He would wait until he was 30. and
try it again.
That will be next year. for the other day
in Oklahoma City he blew out, with listy
lungs. the eighty-nine candles on his birthday
cake.
This oldster has found the secret for which
Ponce de Leon searched the earth in vain.
Life did not begin for him at 40 nor at go
It begins new every morning. Time for him
is string upon which he hangs, like gems.
his days Of work and calm enjoyment Each
year leaves him not just older and weaker.
but wiser and happier
His IAN old age serene and bright
And lovely as a Lapland night
This country, that glorihes youth for
youths sake. needs more like him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
NEEDED IMPROVEMENT

TT is noticeable that when motorists erring
L in aim or falling to follow the straight and
narrow, uproot or knock down the traffic sig
nails in the center of street intersections that
these signals soon are replaced by devices
located on the four corners of the intersection
That the citizens of indianapolis must
await injury or death before these changes
are made, seems rather a heartless waste of
humanity.
Surely if an accident results in the altera-
tions, there must be sufficient cause TO make
the changes before occurrence of tragedy
The theory of prevention should apply in
each instance where there is a traffic signal
In the center of a street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

THE TEXTILE BOARD

FOLLOWING the failure Of the national
labor relations board. the NRA and its
textile board to act effectively the President
has appointed another board for the far-fung
textile strike
This new board. apparently, has been select
ed With care. Governor John G.. Winsnt Of
New Hampshire. its chairman. is an able in
dependent Republican. Of high reputation.
Marion Smith Of Atlanta is a distinguished
lawyer. who has a good record as chairman
Of a regional labor board. Raymond V. Inger-
soil. borough president Of Brooklyn. has had
ten years experience as arbitrator IN the gar
ment industries.
II is 20 De hoped that this new board will
make up for the time lost in getting at the
facts and paving the way for early peace.
Every days DELAY makes for more confusion,
enRenders more bitterness brings new forces
OF disruption.
The recent experience on the Pacific coast
should b. a warning that prolonged strife be-
tween employers and workers carries grave
dangers to society Already the inevitable out
breaks Of violence have brought death in the
textile WAT There is increased intervention by
state troops.
And after it is all over, regardless OF which
side WINS or neither there Will come the ugly
aftermath of reprissls. msn-hunts and reac-
ton. To all of that will be added the econ
omic waste of industrial conflict
For a long time this textile situation has
been the governments business. Strikers
charge that collective bargaining is aouted by
the employers. If so this is violation of NIRA'S
Section Ia. the law Of the land
The government has had the means OF
finding out whether this charge is true, and
OF enforcing the law. Charges are made that
the cotton textile code the first one written
under NRA. is being violated in letter and
spirit. That. too, is the governments affair.
But these and other union charges are de-
MED by the employers.
Unfortunately neither the labor relations
board nor the MIRA is able TO announce the
facts. Indeed. General johnson is suppressing
three NRA textile labor reports
Since none of the numerous fact-hndlng'
lav-enforcing and mediating agencies of the
New Deal has functoned well in this crisis
the only recourse now seems TO be to start
from the beginning again with new govern
ment board for the purpose.
No further time should be lost by that new
board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
WHEN NRA FUNCTIONS

XXTHAT the NRA can accomplish when it
w really functions is demonstrated in the
settlement Of its controversy with L. Greif q
Brothers.
That rugGedly individuslistic firm Of Balti-
more clothing manufacturers devised a unique
wage scale. which observed the mems cloth
Ing code minimum wage for unSkilled workers.
but left more skilled workers at the mercy of
a novel bonus system. NRA investigators
charged that the bonus system operated TO
make only a slight diferential between the
minimum for the unskilled and the maximum
for the skilled.
While the Gren company took Its case 70
court the NRA compliance division ordered
the code authority to withhold from the Bal
timore firm the little Blue Eagle labels that
are ssved inside code-msde clothes. This was
a direct action against the Greif company
pocketbook. because without the little Blue
Eagle labels the Greif company products we're
not eligible merchandise for the shelves of
Blue Eagle retailers.
The company capituiated. II abolished
ITS bonus system and established the same
wage scale that It's code-reSpectlng compete
tors had been paying ali the time It agreed
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
PROPOSES LICENSING
SLOT MACHINES

BY I. n. n.
Now that Dillinger is dead and
buried and his pal and their face
filters have been arrested; it ia
getting too cool to talk about the
nudist colonies and the Real Silk
spat is over, the main subject is
slot machines.
So long as slot machines are il
legal they will be operated as a
graft Just the same as the red light
district stag parties, and gambling
joints.
When any city official says he Isl
going to put a stop to these thingsA
any one half bright at all knows the
answer. It can not be done any
more than the United States govern
ment stopped the sale of liquor IN
1918.
l believe the best thing for every
one concerned is TO make these
things legal. Then put a tax or
license on each, and collect it, the
same as from the fellow who has to
have push cart to make living
or a city license for truck.
Put tax or license on slot ma
chimes and let them be operated IN
the open instead Of on second floors
and in Easements. There is a tax
paid on all Of these illegal things
mentioned but not paid to the city
or state. If you don't believe it,
ask the operators of any of them
and if they are not afraid they will !
tell you how much they pay, but
not to whom it is paid.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

ship the car and he was known as
the little white GOO" and they Of
fered up their supplications to him.
but the Communists destroyed him
and Russia is known the world over
as a goddess country.
But that was the least of their
crimes, because in order to deprive
the simple minded moujiks of their
favorite objects of worship the Com
munists destroyed eleven carloads
of shin bones of st. Anne in Mos
COW alone.
Now, there might be some salts
faction derived from the fact that
the Russian cars are not as large as
the cars here, but knowing thes
miraculous curative powers of theSe
particular bones it is great wonder
the people Of Russia did not suffer
an epidemic before they had time
to establish the medical clinics for
which they are noted.
1 will say in conclusion that il
must be great source of satisfac-
ton to conservatives to see so MANY
patriotic organizatio springing up
for the protection Of our country.
We have the White Shirts, the
Night Shirts and the Black Shirts.
through the entire gamut of colors:
then comes the Liberty Guards. the
White Guards, the Black Guards
and so on ad infinitun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
UP GO THE HOGS!

A QUEER combination of drought and AAA
manipulation has sent the price of hogs
rocketing Never before, outside of wartime,
has the hog market risen as rapidly as it has
this summer
Since June. the hogs of the corn belt have
increased in value by nearly half billion
dollars: if the present price level holds this
paper value will be transformed into actual
cash, with the corn belt farmer reaping the
benefit.
What this may mean to the country at
large is mentioned in an article by Charles
E. Snyder. corn belt editor.
To the business man and to the people
generally" he writes. the price of pork is
the most vital trade index. Everybody
ought to be glad 10 see SO hogs. Hogs at
that level. and kept there. afford the best
possible promise of good times for al"
AT a moment when the sky is great deal
darker than most of us would like to see it,
it is comforting to find at least one omen
Of good times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
Defends Traffic Court BroadcdSts

BY E. H. Simmons.
AS a constant reader of The
Times for the last ten years, I
take the privilege of defending
the Thursday afternoon broad
cast of the indianapolis traffic
court.
In answer to "a Radio Listen
err" and BY Another Listener"
who wishes to have the broadcast
stopped:
Have either of you received a
sticker, or been arrested for any
traffic violation? If you have,
can understand the attitude you
take on the court broadcast.
The word of the arresting Of
ficer is always taken in preference
to the accused. Well, why not?
Average human beings will lie
themselves out of the jam that
their own carelessness or reckless
ness got them into, if possible.
If the judge didn't take the Of
flcer's word what would be the
use of having any court at all,
traffic or otherwise?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
COOPERATIVE SYSTEM
HELD ONLY SOLUTION

BY a CloverdaIe Reader
After a few hundred years of
science, invention, education. and
the multiplication Of production a
hundredfold, We find ourselves in
the Saddest plight in human his
tory. Hunger stalks in the midst of
plenty, enforced unemployment to
the extent of ten or twelve million
men. with factories enough rusting
to employ all. What is wrong? Is
it because the people don't need the
goods that the idle factories could
turn out. or is it because they don't
have the purchasing power to buy
the things they need?
Why should a nation grow so rich
in resources and build up produc-
ton to the height Of perfection and
at the same time her people grow
so poor that they can't buy enough
goods to employ themselves?
I think that we should ponder
deeply over this situation. Really,
the cause is very simple. When We
are allowed to work. We create a
surplus or profit. Profit is the diff
ference between wages and what we
can buy back with wages. Since
we have lost our foreign markets
and there is no more opportunity
for industrial expansion. it becomes
imperative that we kill profit.
Capitalism has outlived its use
fulness. We can't keep taking out
profits unless there is some way to
Immediately use this profit. This
being an impossibility. there is Moth
ing left for society to do except TO
strive for a cooperative common
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
OPPOSES BROADCASTING
CHURCH SERVICES
Ernst Heberlein


I hope that when "A Radio
Listener" gets enough support to
abolish the broadcasting of the
traffic court proceedings that he will
turn his efforts to abolishing the
broadcasts of church services. Had
I a more gifted pen I might try
to do it myself
Each morning I tune in to a local
station to hear an early morning
''wake-up" program. If am too
early, 1 either must be denied the
use of my radio or listen to some
sacreligious blasphemy by some ig-
norant preacher all said in the
name of Christ.
With Christianity fast becoming
the largest and best paying indus
try in America, l can not see why
it shouldn't pay for its programs.
be taxed. and shopped regularly by
the Better Business Bureau for
misrepresentation.
If our morning ministers would
90 TO the gospels and original
Christ teachings their efforts might
be appreciated, but Christianity is
as far away from those teachings
as it is close to the certain racket
that it is.
I am an Episcopalian and feel
that it is an infringement on my
constitutional rights to be COM
PEELED to listen to a Baptist or any
other kind Of service.
The manager of the local station
tells me he is compelled to give
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

If you are a father or mother
and one of your children were
killed by reckless driver or by
some one failing to stop at a
through street, you would take
an entirely new view Of the sub
ject would you not? Of course
you would if you are human.
by Another Listener" says it is
impossible to get a square deal.
Put yourself in the judges place.
Can he take all Afternoon or morn
ing for three or four cases?
1 have listened in since the
broadcasts started, ard the judges
have shown no partiality to any
of the accused, in my estimation.
l say keep the broadcasts on,
and you and l will be more care
full. as we know what to expect.
If we do go up, we will deserve
it, for the motorcycle cop is not
going to arrest us for nothing,
He is trying only to protect your
children and mine, and make In
dianapolis safer place to live.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
BUSINESS REGULATION
LIKELY TO INCREASE

By Subscriber.
Of the group now unemployed
throughout the country, five mil
lion never again will be permitted
to perform any useful labor in pro-
duction and distribution.
This tragedy could be permitted
only under a system of irresponsible
control of the machinery of pro-
duction.
The present breakdown is the re-
suit of an over-emphasis of indi-
vidual control of the system for
creating social needs.
No business long can succeed
which ignores its obligations to the
public. No business can be said to
be wholly private. Public tolerance
and public patronage are essential;
public acceptance is a necessary
element in the success of every
business. Industry is as important
to social we'll being and national
development, as education, SANTA
tion-or public safety.
Government Of the people is as
I1ltCu Will oAA
industry or business that fails to
respect the public welfare as 1t is
with a public enemy of any type.
Therefore, no business can be said
to be solely the concern of the in
dividual operating such business.
Our statute law has fixed many
regulations interfering with this
widely heralded constitutional
right" to run our own business in
our own way.
Failure on the part of our So
called private control of business, to
give the service the public demands
for this privilege of operation, will
force the public to protect itself
further to insure a standard OF
operation compatible with the
greatest public good
Industrial barons would do we'll
to bow the knee and accept this
social responsibility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
SEE THE FAIR

THE Indiana state fair is breaking records
l. of last year daily as the annual exposi-
ton progresses toward its termination
Indiana has discovered that there is more
TO the state fair than merely day spent in
sightseeing and entertainment. Its educa-
tional advantages are far in advance of its
other features.
To have neglected TO visit the fair is TO
have missed an opportunity to learn what
Indiana is doing in various walks of daily life
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

also to restore to its employees three months
back pay. based on the code scale.
There are many reasons to be gratified with
the success Of NRAs vigorous enforcement. in
this case. 1t means that. at least for the pres
ent, industries. under NRA codes are not to
be subjected to that type OF unfair competition
which cuts prices by cutting wages and forces
all employers to resort to sweat shop practices
IN order to survive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

wealth such as the Socialists are
striving for.
A system of service at cost, goods
made for use instead of profit, and
the full social value of each ones
toll. A more just distribution of the
national income will Immediately
solve this problem that the two ma
jor parties do not want to solve be-
cause they believe in the capitalist
system and they are going to keep
on trying to make it work until the
revolution comes, if we keep voting
for them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
SEES PUBLISHER IN
GRIP OF DEVIL
BY Lewis .Cummins Jr.

By Lewis .Cummins Jr.
In recent radio address, an at
torney for the Hearst Publishing
Company stated that Secretary
Wallace and his kind were, in pri-
vate life, unsuccessful men. He de-
clared that Mr.. Wallace never had
employed six men at any one time,
by the use of his own money. He
neglected to state that Jesus and
Abraham Lincoln belong to the same
class of financial failures. AS I sat
listening to his false teaching, 1
could not help but think of the firm
grip which the devil has on the
Hearst Publishing Company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
FANTASY
BY sIGRID TON

D1 SlOhlD lONY
Tall trees
Like silent sentinels
Starkly stand
Beside the palace gates
Behind whose golden h ,es
A sparkling paradise
OF fountains
Flowing
Into breezes blowing
Across gardens
Glowing
With gems Of dew.
There is no palace,
No golden-hinged gates:
But still they stand
Like silent sentinels,
The tall trees.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

time to such broadcasts. With this
control of our radio we still pirate
about Hitler controlling the press
and radio. Americana-ho hum!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
Daily Thought

And Babylon shall become heaps,
dwelling place for dragons, an
establishment. and an kissing, with
out an NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 5l:37.
NTEMEsTs is one Of Gods hand
~ maids.-W. r. Alger.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

Ham Fish and Matthew Vol must be
asleep at the switch. They haven't yet dis
covered a Red plot in the fact that drought
area, farmers are feeding Russian thistles to
livestock -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

While everybody else is supposed to be
Denefting by the New Deal. how about the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

Tom Knipe Kokomo, won first prize for the
best vase of flowers displayed at the fair.
Loves floral gardens Elwood and Luebking
and Company. Indianapolis, we're respectively
SECOND and third
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06
The Message Center

Tunes readers are tnUtted to eTpress
their rteios IN these columns. Make your
letters short, so az cGn hare chance.
Limit them to $50 t1ords or less.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-06

Loral H. Mahan, is. Ben Davis. won the
blue ribbon in carving with his walnut finished
cedar chest shown at the fair on the main
floor in the Womans building Loral has won
two straight years in the carving exhibit.
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