The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-03-28


methods of reactionary critics. Here are
few gems cleaned from his lengthy philippe,
which he called THE Road to Moscow"
The basic laws affecting the lives and con-
duct Of a people are as fixed as the laws Of
gravitation or physics"
Come, come, Mr.. Utley, when you started
out in 1902 as a clerk with the American
Radiator Company how much was known Of
the law Of physics governing the atoms which
compose a steel casting? What was the law
of the fatigue of metals? Had the speed of
light been charted accurately? Were not the
scientists in the American Radiator Company
convinced of the truth Of Newton's law2 Had
they ever heard of, or even suspected Elm
STEMS law Of relativity2 No, you know the
laws Of physics change as the human mind
adds to itself knowledge and experience
ut Ghe Presidents philosophy is :. 49,. the
philosophy Of Karl Marx and of Soviet Rus
sia," this steel-master continued Il know of
nothing more tragic than the spectacle of
great nation committing suicide. Stop this
vicious thing while there still is time, lest you
force your sons and daughters to go through
bloody revolution to regain the liberty fast
slipping through your hands"
This is the sort of balderdash that may be
expected for several months from hysterical
opponents of the "old DEAL" which, while it
brought exorbitant profits to a few. carried
suffering and starvation to 100000 substan-
tial Americans
We are going to hear the Presidents poll
cies characterized as "bolshevistc, red" IAN
archistic," "communistic," radical" and a
thousand and one other adjectives by reac-
tionaries who put their minds in the ice-box
when they clipped their first bond coupon.
AS the verbal deluge begins it might be we'll
to define accurately some of these terms
which are being tossed carelessly around by
old ladies Of both sexes. Let us turn to that
conservative volume "Webster's New Interna-
tional Dictionary" for 1888:
"BOLSHEVIK-From the Russian "bolshe"
meaning the larger or majority. In Russian
politics member of the radical wing of the
Social Democratic party-any radical social
ist who believes in the overthrow of private
property BY FORCE and the establishment of
the dictatorship of the proletariat."
Since when has the national administra-
ton advocated force? Or suggested the die
tatorship of any particular class in America?
"ANARCHISM-The political and social
theory that ALL government is an evil"
Has the President ever suggested the aboli-
ton of all government?
"COMNIUNISM-A system of social Or
common"
When has Mr.. Roosevelt ever suggested
such a thing?
"SOCIALISM-A political and economic
theory of social reorganization, the essential
feature of which is governmental CONTROL
of economic activities to the end that competi-
ton shall give way to cooperation and the
opportunities of life and the rewards of labor
shall be equitably apportioned."
Is the President seeking to control economic
activities or merely to bring them under de-
cent regulation?
RADICALLY politics, one who advocates
radical and sweeping changes in laws and
methods of government with the least possible
delay, especially changes deemed to tend to
equalize. or to remedying evils arising from
social conditions"
Perhaps the administration might answer
this description more nearly than any of the
Others but what of It? What is so terrifying
about radical?
"LIBERALr-Not bound by authority, ortho
dox tenets, or established forms in political or
religious philosophy; friendly to suggestions,
or experiments, of reform in the Constitution
or administration of government"
This, we think is the category into which
Mr.. Roosevelt fits. All that he is trying to do
is to apply the scientific method to economic
and social institutions.
The Wirts, the Utleys and the Ogden Millses
controlled society in the middle ages. They
were a privileged class and at that time their
great fear was scientific knowledge. Their
privileges were based upon the ignorance of
the ordinary people Therefore they burned
and prosecuted those who believed the world
was round OF that the earth revolved about
the sun.
Fortunately the smallness of their num-
bers today and the spread of universal educa-
ton make return to the rack and the thumb
screw impossible. Luckily the Tories in these
times have to vent their prejudices in talk
which may be annoying but which is as harm
less as a tin whistle.
Mr.. Utley we believe, should devote him
facture of steel castings.
CIRERSON-A. w. o. l..