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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
Taking the Cake for Impudence

Il WONDER why somebody does not get excited
Il about the frank and open revolt of the manu-
facturers. They said boldly that NRA boards might
have authority in other industries but that it was
their purpose to ignore the entire setup. Why not
call cut the guard, even the regulars, to keep
the members of the National Association of Manu-
facturers from seeding from the Union?
But what made me even more indignant than
the notice Of open defiance upon the part OF the
mill owners. was a statement which emanated from
the same group hour or so later. Robert L. Lund,
chairman of the board Of the national manuiac-
turers had the effrOntery to say: Good government
demands that any group exercising power under
governmental sanction should submit to supervision
by government"
And after establishing that principle Mr.. Lund
went on TO saw Yet, these national unions consist
entity have held through the years that they are
a law unto themselves
That I think takes the sponge cake for pure
fmpudence The head of a group which Just mas
told the government to so chase itself has the
bvnocrisv TO mourn because workers are not more
law abiding I do not want to see anybody killed
in any group but isn't 1t Just about time 1or some
group OF governmental supporters TO crop tear
Gas bomb III order to drive the rebelhouS mahuIaC-
turers back where they came from?
1t would be in interesting experiment. I'm hoV
sure whether il would work. Most OF the mn OWL
ers haven't been able 10 cry for years. after an
these are the gentlemen who still defending the
liberty" of child labor.
tCopvriEht 1884. BY The Tines
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Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TINE semi-annual meeting of the American Chem
l. teal Society opened in Cleveland this week just
as the annual meeting of the British Association for
the Advancement of Science was drawing to close
in Aberdeen Scotland. 1t is interesting to compare
certain aspects of these two meetings. aspects which
represent the two sides of modern science.
Important announcements came with rapidity at
the American Chemical Society meeting.
There was, at the start, the announcement Of the
discovery of new deadly poison gas by DR.. George
H. Cady.
Three Cleveland chemists from the laboratory
OF the National Carbon Company announced re-
searches upon the nature of the carbon which
fix for the first time in history the exact tempera-
ture at which carbon turns from solid to vapor.
This work is expected to have important indus
trial uses, eventually perhaps, leading to an arc
light brighter than the itself
DR.. Aristid Won Crosse of the University OF Chi
cago announced the isolation Of the radioactive
metal, protactinium
THREE chemists from the Mellon Institute Of
Il Pittsburgh announced researches which may
WELD drug which is a specific for pneumonia kill
ing the pneumococcus or pneumonia germ
The chief item of interest at the meeting OF the
British British association was the presidential ad-
dress delivered by Sir James Jeans famous astrono-
mer and cosmogonist.
Here was the other side OF modern science. Sir
James dealt with speculative and theoretical SUBJ
ject the nature of reality He discussed the trend
of modern theoretical physics and its philosophical
implications. The conclusions which he expressed
were that the only reality mental and that the
universe existed within our consciousness.
1T seems long way from Sir James speculations
about the nature Of reality to the shining bit Of
protactinium in its little glass tube Yet they are
closer together than the layman might suspect
Both men made Of the same knowledge OF
atomic behavior in arriving at their results.
The fact of the matter is thai speculatons lead
to practical results and practical results lead TO new
theories. The ancient Greeks specuated upon the
nature Of matter and dreamed of atoms. Today we
manipulate atoms in the laboratory TO obtain prac-
teal results.
The Mellon Institute chemists striving TO make
drug to conquer pneumonia, are manipulating
atoms By chemical means they change the
molecules of the drug knocking of one group Of
atoms, adding another
The theoretical work Of Clerk Maxwell, who
sought to explain the nature Of light led to the dis
covery Of radio waves by Professor Heinrich Hertz
Without Maxwell and Hertz, there would have been
no Marconi
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What About the EMPLOYERS?

I SEE no reason why anybody should deny that
4 mob had gotten out Of hand. And yet even on the
testimony offered it seemed to me that the defiance
of law and order was of a much more minor nature
than that INDUCED in By the manufacturers on the
very same day Only a column away from the story
about the WoOnsocket rOting found another head
line which read Employers Defy Bargaining Rule"
May quote the first paragraph from the account in
the New York Times? The chair hears objection.
The National Association Of Manufacturers adj
vised the nations employers yesterday to ignore the
recent ma iority rule decision of the national labor
relations board The board of directors of the asSo
citation wouio have employers disregard it until COM
petent judicial authority has passed upon the
ruling"
Now that seems TO me a far more riotous action
than anything which occurred in WOOnsOcket. Riot
ers IN the Rhode Island town broke few windows
anG tossed quite a number of bricks and assorted
missiles az members of the militia standing guard
A good many people who rampaged through the
streets OF WOonsOCket that night probably per-
SONS who had 10 direct connection with either the
A F. of L. strike the Communist party 1t always
is fun TO throw things at people who profess to have
authority. But in WOOnsocket the attack was not
upon our governmental structure as such hOodumS
acted after the nature of hOOdlums and in the gen.
eral excitement things done which could not
well be supported under any political philosophy And
the troops fired and eight men went down. And now
the jttery executive IS pleading for the ending OF
the regulars.
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easiest way for the landowner was
to send a few choppers down the
road"
Desk men in the AAA say: I'VE
anticipated that and have put a
clause in the cotton contracts to
prevent it."
But the clause is toothless. 1t
states that the owner shall, in
Sofar as possible, maintain on this
farm the normal number of ten
ants"
So while King Cotton, higher in
price than at any time in a dec
ade, continues to rule the south,
Seth Holt and an increasing num-
Der of landless choppers spit out
their watermelon seeds and move
on to the next town.
Copyright. 1894. by United Feature
Syndicate Incl
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owners to spend his surplus, so
as to get some benefit from it
instead of leaving it idle, and this
sets in motion a trade revival.
A LII trade slumps require re-
IN dundancy of money for their
cure. In the normal trade cycle
it natures automatically and
naturally" through trade and
prices falling with a cumulative
momentum even faster than the
quantity of bank credit is called
in and Debated. Redundancy can,
however. be created "artificially"
by initiation by the government or
by the Central bank.
I admit that in all cases where
redundancy exists it usually takes
some piece of good political or
economic news to touch off trade
revival, but it is, in the main, the
previous maturity of the condition
of redundancy which makes the
good news effective.
The return of confidence is Of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
MUSIC STUDENTS TO
REGISTER AT SCHOOL.
Seventh Annual Session to Open at
Conservatory.

Seventh Annual Session to Open at
Conservatory.
Registration for the seventh an
nual session of the collegiate de-
partment of the Arthur Jordan Con-
servatory of Music will be held Mon
day and Tuesday on the main
campus at 1904 North Delaware
street.
The collegiate department, affili-
ated with Butler. offers academic
degrees in music, dramatic art and
dancing.
Instruction for the 1934-35 school
year will begin next Wednesday and
continue on the same schedule as
that of the university. Max T.
Krone, director of the conservatory;
Mrs. Blanche Harrington, business
executive. and Miss Evelyn Green,
registrar. will have charge of en-
rollments.
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Baptist Clergy to Meet

The Rev. B. R, Johnson, Downey
Avenue Christian church pastor,
will speak on THE Ministers Atti-
tude Toward Organized Labor" at a
meeting of the Baptist minister of
Indianapolis at 1890 Monday morn
ing at the First Baptist church.
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The government has material
interest in the life of the three
Hollis and the thousands of other
share choppers" of the cotton
belt, for through the AAA it has
poured out the vast sum of $685.
624,878.56 in the last year in an
effort to save the cotton crop from
a ruinously low price and cotton
farmers from destruction.
The Hollis live in bleak, I'M
painted shack that stands by the
dusty road a mile west of here.
The shack is not their own, nor
did it belong to the family who
lived there last year, nor the
family before that. The fact that
the windows have neither saShes
nor shutters will not trouble them
next winter, for they Will not be
5here. Indeed, there is reason TO
doubt if they will last through
the present month and into the
picking season. A man can't live
on watermelonS.
y g
"TROUBLE is, some of 'em do
i not give you no furnish in
the CROWN season. They take
care of you long as you're workin'
on the crop, and then they shut
down on you"
The older BOY was speaking,
quite without bitterness. He held
a red cube of watermelon on the
end of his knife, took it into his
mouth, calmly spat the seeds at
hound cog stretched out in the
dust.
IF you can't get through to
pickin' season, you have to move
on, and he gets everything-the
whole crop"
The furnish" about which he
talked is the system of furnish
ing" and "deducting" food and
keep during the season. 1t is the
curse of the Hollis and all their
kind in the deep south. Never out
of debt, they are kept by land
lords who provide them with
furnish" and deduct the cost,
plus high interest from the pro-
ceeds of the cotton crop.
q e
TWO questions, particularly,
i trouble officials of the AAA.
One is the fact that many CROP
pers and tenant farmers last year
did not receive their full share of
government bounty for blowing
under their bursting acres. The
money was sent to the landlords.
but if it was passed along, it suf-
fered first from a wholesale attack
of the "deducts."
Second is the fact that the
AAA cotton program has increased
the evictions Of tenant farmers,
added to unemployment.
Usually shiftless and migra-
tory, this was one year when the
tenant farmer wanted to hold on.
The price Of cotton was high, he
wanted to stay to enjoy the fruits
of his labor. But acreage had To
be reduced by 40 per cent. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
Fair Enough
by
WESTbROOK PEd[ER

IKE the fire which wrecked the Moro Castle.
l. the truth. after slow, smoldering start, Is
breaking into flames in several places. It rapidly
is getting beyond the control of the lawyers who
tried 10 sife it and of officers who escaped death
at sea to perish even more horribly the witness
stand. Those who lost their lives in the disaster
soon were opt of their agony and there are men
ashore in New York today who often will wish TO
God in years to that it had been their good
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

in the preceding instaIIment Major
AnEas described how the administrz-
tons course in raising wages helped
maintain effective consumer demand
and why. without resort to much credit
imitation. business and employment i'm
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groups rather than working ones. When 1 picked
up a paper Thursday I found on the first page an
account Of the shooting OF eight civilians in WOon
socket. The news story said that officer of the
national guard called upon a group Of picsets
10 disperse. When they refused ne ordered volley
fired and the eight in question fell under the
bauaRe. There was further newspaper testimony
that windows were smashed and stores were looted
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been a great feat OF newSpapering and many OF the
stories which turned up in interviews with
passengers and sailors scattered a great area
have served leads for the investigation Reporters
and photographers flew out over the wreck in bad
weather before the Moro Castle ever went on the
beach. Reporters and photographers went aboard
the hulk in the breeches buoy when the plates in
some parts of the boat still were red hot and the
gas was bad that they had to wear gas masks.
They had to pay IS per head to board the ship and
SIS to rent the masks The expense wasn't important
but the spirit of the thing ghoulish as that
of the go-getters of Asbury Park who were claim
ing the relic a resort attraction before the last
bodies had been moved out of the hull.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
TWO SUSPECTS HELD
IN SHOOTING EPISODE
Arrests Made on Complaint of
Chicken Dinner Farm Owner.

Police today were holding two
Morgantown men on vagrancy
charges while they investigated the
alleged shooting up" Of chicken
dinner farm operated by Miss Rose
Lamar on the Allisonyille road.
The men-Frank F. Sattler Jr..
%, and T. w. Woods-were arrest
ed last night by deputy sheriffs on
Miss Lamar's complaint. She told
the officials, police say, that the
men had visited her farm on an
earlier occasio nand had shot out a
window light at that time.
Last night, she said. the men re-
turned and, when she recognized
their car, she notified the deputies.
The deputies say they found a dyna-
mite fuse nthe car.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

The theories of Major L. l..
B. AngaS, in "The Coming
American Boom" are presented
by The Indianapolis Times to
its readers as a journalistic
function of service. Publication
of the series of ten articles
written by the noted British
economist does not imply an
Endorsement of his views by
this newspaper.
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luck to die and be done with
it, too.
Incidentally. at a time when
some people have been toying
with the idea that the press
is not worthy of the freedom
which it demands, newspapers
and reporters have been large
~ responsible for the dis
closures which now are being
recorded. The reporters work
ing around the dock canvassed
the survivors while their i'm
presSions we're still fresh and
got to them before they could
be reached by counsel for the
prospective defendant Ward
line. The detailed coverage
On the MOl-y-o Castle story has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
DAILY WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
--Bu DrelU Pearson and Robert S. Allen

bride Sept 5Th department of agriculture, up in
Washington staging losing Seth Holt his
their watermelon.
this state to keep from eating water
principal of Seth the
midst Of their cotton
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say that there IS violence and
the threat Of violence in sew
eral OF the mill towns Of his
domain and that he has lost
his nerve and would like TO
pass the buck Obviously, IL is
ridiculous 10 identify all rough
and riotous action upon the
part OF American workers as
being directly inspired by Mos
COW. Long before Lenin ever
had been heard Of. union men
IN this country we're the VIC
tins Of numberless bloody en-
counters. I say the victims"
adviSedly because I must insist
upon reafiirming my conten-
ton that disorders lie chiefly
AZ the doors+pDS Of pmDlOviup
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course a vital factor, but con-
fdence itself at the bottom of
depression is itself re-created by
the maturity of monetary re-
dundancy, for the simple reason
that the fact that there is more
money about" makes people feel
richer because they have more
money to spend, and the eventual
spending of the redundant bal
ances resulting from this feeling
tends to touch off better trade,
and to improve confidence. If in
creasing the total money, i. e., the
average mans bank balance, by
10 per cent does not have this eff
feet, doubling or increasing it one
hundredfold will.
Usually, however, even a small
increase like Is per cent will be-
gin TO prove effective, especially if
further increases are anticipated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15

MOnday-HOw government by
devaluing gold increased potential
cash reserves by over $4,000, 100000,
and by borrowing from banks
widened basis of credit.
Copyright. 1884. by Simon and Schuster
Inc; distributed by United Feature
Syndicate Incl
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THIS artificial" creation is
l. really the crux of the argu4
ment of this book since upon it
depends the vital question whether
any government, and Roosevelt in
particular, can in fact cure de-
preston by conscious and deliber-
ate enlargement of the supply Of
money. The general theory of the
matter is as follows:
If the amount of money in
country. which is all owned by
somebody. keeps stable, while trade
and prices fall to say half their
former scale. people. on an aver
age, will-other things equal-be
boarding half the total money in
existence.
The boarded half will be re-
dundant from the point of view
of real business" as distinct from
store of value" requirements.
The result is that. if the redund-
ant part we're once more spent
with its normal velocity, owing,
say. to people no longer expect
ing prices to go on falling. in
creased buying would take place
from the shops, general trade
would improve, inventories would
decline, and prices would then
tend TO rise.
Latent redundancy of money.
in fact, by leading to an in
creased velocity. would also in
crease the velocity Of goods, and
this, by lowering stocks. would
tend to raise prices.
Conversely-and We are still con-
sidering the question Of redund-
ancy-if the bank balances Of ev-
erybody in a country were sud-
denly doubled. a similar redund-
ancy of money would occur. The
owners of the extra money would
naturally desire TO put it to some
profitable use. They would thus
tend to buy either income-giving
securities. or alternatively. to buy
commodities which would give
them some physical satisfaction.
This. again. would mean increased
buying from the shops. fall in
inventories, a rise in prices. re-
placement orders to producers,
and an improvement in trade.
It is true that for period peo-
pie may go on boarding either
new or old money which itself is
redundant, either through ner-
vousneSs or in the hope or fear Of
further falls in prices, but event.
ually there comes point when
the condition of redundancy be-
comes so great that it induces
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HJeemC bM
@
Haywood BROUN

C,AAIUEL JOHNSON in his dictionary. as everybody
- remembers. defined patriotism the last refuge
of a scoundrel" Some modern photographer ought
20 explain Communist plot" as "the first out OF any
reactionary Governor" These are the days in which
the Red menace" has become the straw for every
dying dynasty Il is utterly preposterOus for Gov
eror Green Of Rhode Island 20 declare that his state
is facing "a Communist uprising" ! can not believe
that the Governor himself thinks this is true. In
my opinion he merely is clutching al a convenient
phrase He is making much wider and more sweep
ing claims concerning the power and prestige Of the
revolutionary groups than they ever have advanced
for themselves I think the Governor means TO
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
Just a Company Man

THERE was something suspicious in the alertness
l. of the Ward lines lawyers to surround the
skipper and other sailors of the Moro Castle, who
had remained aboard until the ship was aban-
doned. The attorneys would not let them talk I'M
til they took the witness stand and in the meanwhile.
had twenty-four hours to work on them.
The newspapers were pretty hard-boiled. They
analysed the grounds upon which Captain Warns,
fresh from the hands of the lawyers based his sus
pcion that the fire had been set" and found them
silly and said 1t may have been just COIN
cdence that Captain Warns who never left his bridge
to investigate the fire and long refrained from
calling help, into court, after comforting with
the attorneys, with theory so strongly in the COM
pany'S interest
AS Captain Warns came ashore, the coast guard
skipper who made him abandon the ship praised his
bravery in hanging on until the disaster was COM
plete. But bravery wasn't all that the situation
called for He had been company man, not pas
sengers' man. He under the pressure of the
salvage law and he knew that if he called for help
his own future either was lost indefinitely post
poned. In trying to serve the company and his own
interests, he foundered and failed 1t horri-
bic predicament for man just called to the COM
mand of big vessel 1t is being said that, at the
worst, he guilty of nothing but bad Judgment
and bad timing. But it more serious than that.
He showed regard for the companys money
and his own career than for the lives OF his passengers
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Let's DefctiOnize the Sea

A TOGETHER, the human race has little to
n boast Of its conduct AS the stories of the
Moro Castle and the President Cleveland out.
sailors revealed pickering, gossping and
spring. The dead skipper of the MORO Castle.
Captain Willnlott radio nut who liked to tune
in crooners and police calls He took dislike
to George Alagna, the assistant radio man. and
going to have him beached. But when the pressure
was turned on, Alagna was the bravest man on the
ship and the camest with the exception of George
Rogers, the chief radio man. Alagna finally wrung
out of Warns permission to call for help at the last
possible instant and when the call had been sent,
dragged Rogers through the fire to the forecastle
deck.
On the President Cleveland, the deck officers
ganged up their master, Captain Robert E. Carey,
and by previous arrangement blackened his repu-
tation before the inquiry. They said he slow to
put out his boats and might have rescued people who
died These not the sort of Sailormen that fic-
ton tells about but maybe it would be good idea,
while the inquiry is going to defictionize the
and seafaring
Kpling Conrad and McFee have led people to
expect much too much of who are only hard
driven employees of souess corporations whose first
interest, when disaster happens is to get the lawyers
down to the dock
Copyright 1884 BY United Feature Syndicate. Incl
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise., 1934-07-20

Mrs. Susan Budd. Funeral services
were held at Greenbush Methodist
Church Sunday afternoon at four
o'clock, conducted by the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Sims, assisted by Rev. j. II. Bin
sted. Active pallbearers were Mes
SIS. Walter Budd, William Savage,
Edward Savage, Tracey Lewis, Dew
ey Lewis and Charles Bundick. Mr..
Budd is survived by the following
brothers and sisters, Mr.. James F.
Budd, Mr.. John w. Budd, Mrs. James
Savage, Mrs. Betty Roberts, Mrs.
Hampton Hickman, Mrs. Ethel Lewis,
and Mrs. Charles Sterling of Norfolk
Miss Edna Nelson of Baltimore is
the guest of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
G. C. Nelson.