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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
A FLEXIBLE LAW

XXTHTLE the stock market regulation bill is
w under consideration, guardians of the
public interest in congress need to be on guard
not only against amendments to disembowel
this bill, but also amendments to pull the
teeth of the n-Securities act.
In the short time that remains of this ses-
sion of congress, the Wall Street lobby is try
ing to cash in on the tremendous propaganda
campaign it has waged in the last year. The
securities law, say these lobbyists, is grand in
purpose but impractical in operation. They
say it is too rigid"
A review of the federal trade commissions
administration of the securities law will reveal
that it is a flexible law. The commissioners
have been realists. They have modified the
rules. time and again, yielding a little here,
tightening a little there. always seeking to
give to the financing of industry as free a rein
as is consistent with public interest.
The commission, for example, blocked the
attempt of one concern to escape regulation
through an investment trust device, whereby
the company's stocks would have been pooled
in A trust, and certificates of interest" in the
trust sold to the public. At the same time the
commission eased its rules to exempt from the
underwriters liability the investment house
that realizes nothing more than a retailers
profit, or sales commission, as an agent of an
underwater.
Another modification clipped the red tape
for the smaller promotional enterprises, in
cases where the promoters agree to abandon
certain dishonest practices.
The commission is adapting the law to the
needs Of honest financing. 1t is a complicated
technical task. and necessary notifications are
being worked out by administrative study.
More notifications are to be made. But mean
while congress should uphold the hand of the
commission. The commission has been IN
compromising only in its refusal to sacrifice
the underlying principle of the law-that in
vestors are entitled to know the whole truth
about what is behind the paper they buy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
MONDAY. NAY 7. 1894.
BEHIND THE DILLINGERS

THE picture Of John Dillinger daring the
United States to catch and punish him
has aroused a thoroughly understandable fury
in the American mind. And when the Ameri-
can mind is aroused it usually expresses itself
in a righteous determination to-paSs a law.
The pass-a-lsw formula will not be enough
to deal with the Dillingers abroad in the land.
OF course. the justice departments crime bills
to strengthen the federal arm for reaching
after interstate criminals should be passed by
congress. The forces for crime apprehension
can we'll be strengthened and made more sci
entifc.
But when the ultimate of these measures
is taken the war on crime will just have
begun.
Dillinger is one of an estimated American
army of 400, 900 men and women imina now
preying on society, an army three times bigger
than our standing army of regulars. 1t draws
into its Golfers wealth TINA at between
twelve and eighteen billions a year. It's war
riors are, like Dillinger, daring, we'll -equipped,
resourceful.
Bigger and better laws alone will not lick
bAAAS dAAuJ Will OAbSCI POllCC AOAGCS dAlu
jails.
As every penologist knows, crime is rooted
more in politics and economics than in human
depravity.
Rings of crooks, like Dillinger's, could not
survive without the connivance of crooked
politicians. When cities follow New York's
example instead of Kansas City's, and clean
out their political gangs they will begin
making Roadway against crime.
Cities and states then must clean up
crimes incubation plsces-their breadlines,
hobo-jungles, slums. They must reform crimes
school system, its rotten detention homes,
reformatories, jails, chain gangs, and peniten-
tiaries. Finally they must cooperate with the
federal government to make life for the Amer
lean masses decent, wholesome and secure.
Even Dillinger might not now be a hunted
outlaw if he had not gone to school in a state
reformatory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
CAN'T FIND HOAGLAND
AT REAL SILK

BY a Striker.
I would like to know why A. G..
Hoagland said he runs a footer ma
chine when he isn't ever a knitter.
if ne is, he must be another name
at Real Silk. 1 have been a knit
ter there for eight years and never
have heard of him. I have talked
to men there, and they say there is
no knitter by that name.
IF Mr.. Hoagland was right about
making good wages, why would
verybody get on him! If the knitters
made a 81 an hour, there would
be more than twenty in there work
ing.
The seamer who is for the ones
who stayed in, surely hasn't many to
be for.
I never was a strong union man
until now. That is because I didn't
know what it was all about. That
is the trouble with you who are still
working. You are afraid to learn
the union side.
You never will know what is right
as long as you just listen to one side
of anything. You will just stay in
there and help j. A. Goodman. Go
to a few Of the union meetings and
learn what it is all about.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
INSULT

INSULT is charged with fraud and embezzle-
= ment. 1t is important that he be punished,
but this is less important than that the public
through his trial obtain additional under
standing. of the operations of one type of high
finance and utility management.
The public mind is now open to this in
formation. The state and federal governing
bodies are trying not only to make another
career like Insults impossible but also to put
an end to this particular kind of special
privilege.
AS for insult himself, he is just another
tired old man facing the ruin which he in
f1icted upon so many others.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
talks BACK" TO
r CRAWFORD
BY Jerry Taylor.

BY Jerry Taylor.
I would like to answer the letter
Mrs. Crawford wrote on Monday.
called all Of Dillingers' admirers
brainless idiots. She just couldn't
sit still without trying to wisecrack
back.
I don't know you, Mrs. Crawford,
but from reading your letter. I can
describe you with one sentence:
1T burns you up to have the
truth thrown so fatty against your
face by some unknown you can
reach only by writing"
You can't say Franklin D. RooSe-
welt isn't one Of the best Presidents
we have had, and isn't he a po-
litician and isn't he unfolding the
country?
You certainly contradict yourself,
when you say you are against crime
and yet you would finance Dilling-
er's wrongdoing. That doesn't make
sense.
You say you don't teach your chill
dren to honor Dililnger yet you
honor him yourself. You should
abide by that old saying, practice
what you preach"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
Capital Capers
GEORGE E

THE Polish Embassy gave a superb party last
Il week in honor of Polish independence
day. At the end of 20 minutes one felt that Pu-
laski and Kosciuszko were more than ordinary
men and that the Leczinsky family had done
great thingS for the world.
Counselor Sokolowska and Nine. SokoloWska
received their guests at the top of the crimson
carpeted stairway, after which one passed
through the drawing room into the dining room.
champagne and whisky in the far room,
sir" whispered an affable ma jor-domo.
Most of the guests sensed the ~propriety of
slipping a toast to Poland in something stronger
than tea, so a general exodus commenced toward
the far room"
THE Ambassador of the Union of Soviet So
Il cialist Republics Ito give him his full title)
and Nine. TroyanovSky were present at the
Polish party and so were most of their staff.
Counselor and Nine. Skvirsky edged their way
through a barrier of friends. It was hard to ap-
proach them and even impossible to shake hands
such was the crush.
The naval attache of Soviet Russia raised a
mythical glass as he saluted friends across a sea
of shoulders. Nine. TroyanovSky'S white fur col
lar was barely visible over the arm of jefferson
Patterson, state department protocol officer
rather coincidence.
Speaking of protocol, the Soviet Embassy
staff always dresses correctly, leaves cards at
the right time, makes the proper calls and goes
QdSn4lg apOuC Town IN Lle most approved lash
ion. All the men yesterday wore black coats and
white collars. No red anywhere.
q a n
NEME. DALAI, wife of the Persian minister,
1V1 whose name is as musical as a poem of
Omar Khayyam, moved animatedly about, wear
ing sables, very blond and lovely, and followed
by admiring glances.
incidentally, she found someone who pro-
nounced her name correctly-dropping the Cd
Curiously enough, it was a congressman.
Mrs. Sol Bloom looked-shall one say "pi-
quante"-in her Breton Sailer straw hat. This
time, however, the hat was black instead of blue.
Representative Bloom crunched heavily on
someone's toe.
I beg pardon" he murmured politely.
The person whose toe he had stepped on re-
marked:
All but Mr.. Bloom is as light as a feather!"
Perfect tact on both sides.
FINANCIAL COUNSELOR BONCESCO of the
l. Rumanian Legation, who knows more about
allied debts than the allies. slipped champagne
very excellent. deliciously iced.
To him came Alexander Janta, special cor
respondent Of the Gazeta Polska of Moscow
who presented a letter of introduction. Young
Janta is on his way back to Poland from Toxic.
Hes writing a book about China and Japan.
Where is your charming wife?" inquired a
friend of Counselor Boncesco.
In the next ~room-talking to the Russian
Embassy" replied BonceSco. "You will know her
by her monocle."
cesco was discovered among all the Russians.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
BELIEVES WORKERS SHOULD
BE MORE GRATEFUL
BY Sympathizer.

BY Sympathizer.
In reply to your editorial re-
garding the Real Silk strike, it
seems to ME that when a paper
take sides with the public, in a case
Of this kind, it IS time for a few re-
plies from the readers.
1t was stated that the strikers
showed no signs of weakening.
Maybe not, but I know Of quite a few
who would be tickled to death to go
back to work tomorrow, if they
could.
I'm not saying that the strikers
are in the wrong, but I do say that
anybody making the money that
they were making, would be tickled
to death. I would like to see every
body make more money, but you
can't pick it off the trees.
You also say that the election
should not have been counted as an
election at all. The NRA spon-
sored the election, and it also gave
the employees an opportunity to bar
gain collectively for themselves. Did
they not do this? If there were as
many persons out on this strike as
the union says there is, why did
they not win it?
This union, it was announced, is
for skilled knitters only, and it
could not accept any one else for
membership. Then why did it &C
cept employees from looping, seam
ing, boarding, transferring ard
many other departments?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
ASKS FOR PLACE
IN NRA SUN

BY a Daily Reader of The Times.
The question of labor and wages
has been discussed pro and con from
every angle and every walk of life,
except that of the domestic.
Most girls working in a home re-
ceive from SO to SIS a week and food
that is cold and unpalatable. They
do their W laundry and some
times the family laundry. If there
are children, they have to care for
them and take their abuse. In
addition to this they work from
fourteen to sixteen hours a day. No
NRA here. They have no oppor-
tunity for social life; nc place to
entertain their friends. Conse-
quently, they lose touch with them.
Why doesn't the government give
domestic workers a break? An eight
hour day, minimum wage of $12 a
week and just one job to hold down.
Give us the same break you give
factory workers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
ALIENS-GOOD AND BAD

TINE Roosevelt immigration program, now
i belatedly before congress in the form Of
five bills. will not let down the gates to new
immigrants. but it may remedy two outstand-
ing evils
It would arm the government with greater
power TO deport habitual criminals, racketeers
and gangsters. And it should result in more
humane handling of innocent aliens and their
families caught in technicalities of the law.
Unlike some of the em~otion-bred immigra-
ton acts Of the past these bills are buttressed
with facts. Commissioner Mccormack Of She
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
BUSINESS BUILDERS
TAKEN TO TASK
BY Union Committee

BY Union Committee.
We notice that an organization
calling itself Associated Business
Builders is spending considerable
money in warning the public against
labor agitators. The caption at the
top Of the advertisement cautions is
to look at both sides, and then the
advertisement proceeds to give but
one side. Since they have given only
the capitalistic side, permit us to
give the other side.
We are filling station attendants
and are members of Filling Station
Attendants Union No. 1890 We
have no paid agitators, no paid
organizers and pay dues of 81 a
month.
Before the NRA every one of us
worked seventy hours a week for as
low as So a week. Do the Associate
Business Builders consider that a
fair deal? Under the NRA wages
have been raised to comply with the
law and hours have been shortened
to forty-eight a week. We still are
underpaid for the type of work we
do. Since one man alone can not
have no paid agitators, no paid or
ganiZers and pay dues of 81 a month.
successful bargain with employers,
we have organized for the purpose
Of collective bargaining, which is
within our right.
The Associate Business Builders
give no address; only a post Office
box number. Are they ashamed to
let the public know who they are?
It Is an organization which has al
ways stood for low wages and long
hours.
We are not ashamed to tell who
we are and where we can be located.
We are attempting to educate the
public to ask to see the gasoline at
tendant's union card before purchas-
ing.
We meet every Monday night at
201i5 East, Ohio street and can see
two sides to every question-the fair
side and the unfair side.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
SEES FROM
CHRIST'S TEACHING

BY a Striker.
In the face Of unprecedented OPP
portunities, expensive machinery re-
mains idle, while man power trained
for skillful service, that efficiency
which the times demand and i'm
PEELED by high motives, continues to
parade.
We have witnessed in the last few
years the breakdown Of the ma
terialistic philosophy of life. =
If the Nazarene who chose twelve
men and organized them for service
could return to earth to behold the
spirit and workings Of mutual asso-
Citations He would not know what
to make of it.
In the E. M. B. A., he would find
nothing that he taught back in the
long ago, and about everything that
he warned men against.
AS I learn more of company
unions expect less of them. One Of
the great pleasures of life is owning
ones home. only two out Of 100
Real Silk employees own their own
home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
ENCOURAGES STRIKERS
AT HOSIERY MILLS

By X. H.
I should like to send a word OF
encouragement to the Real Silk,
National and Fulton strikers through
The Indianapolis Times, the only
newspaper in the city which is not
afraid to print the truth. I am a
worker at Real Silk only because
I am ineligible to belong to the
hosiery union. I have many friends
among the strikers. Having heard
both sides. I am convinced the
strikers are justified in their de-
mands.
1t is almost unbelievable how
credulous the Real Silk stockholders
are. Mr.. Goodman's glib tongue
evidently has convinced them that
they can starve the strikers back
to work. The point they are over
looking is that these workers are
fighting for an ideal, not merely a
job. The laboring man has too
long been the money making tool
of the rich man. These man and
women are blazing a trail in this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
YOUTHS VIEW OF
DILLINGER
BY Jack KessIer.

BY Jack kessler.
While reading one of the letters
in this column I became interested
in the fact that so many persons
think that Dillinger should not be
mentioned unless he Is ridiculed or
condemned as a killer, Do they &C
tually know that he has killed any
one, or was it one Of his mob?
In the letter I read the writer
seemed to think that all Of the
younger generation is influenced by
the articles written which defend
Dillinger, or at least do not con-
denim him.
Being one of the younger gene
ration myself, I think that I can
safely say that the youth of today
is not influenced by articles writ
ten concerning the right or wrong
Of the criminal.
1 wonder if the person who wrote
the article which I read stopped 20
think that the youth tina TOOK
enough interest to read the edito-
rial page of any newspaper would
have criminal tendencies? I think
not. If the writer Will stop to think
the Constitution OF the United
States sanctions a free press.
1 agree that violation of the law
should not be lauded. but I do say
that Dillinger is as much a man
as the prison official who would
turn his head while some danger
Gus criminal walked out of the
prison gates. l hope to get a reply
from the writer of the article I read
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

rich mans town toward prosperity
for the working class.
The so-called Associated Business
Builders" had better consider their
future. A man who is struck when
he is down seldom forgets.
Mr.. Goodman makes it a special
point to converse with his employees.
I suppose by bolstering up their
courage he holsters up his own a
little. I overheard girl ask him
if he was going to keep them work.
ing or close the mill, to which he.
replied, I've never failed you yet,
have II" Very %reassuring but also
very evasive.
To the strikers: Keep up your
courage and fight it out and win.
The future of the Indianapolis
working man is in your hands.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
Asserts Otto Ray Takes Too Much Credit

his help? If he is nominated and
elected on his relief record he
will get plenty of pay for traf-
ticking in human misery.
We have a township trustee.
Surely she helped some one and
Otto Ray didn't do it all.
Would people like to have said
of their sheriff, "Oh, he's the fell
low that had his picture taken so
often with Elmer, the pig" 1
think that was cheap publicity.
If Otto Ray would cut out some
of his II did this; I did that and
give some of the Legionnaires and
auxiliary members a little credit
for work, he might get a Legion
vote, now and then.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
By An Unthanked Group.

BY An Unthanked Group.
I am writing this in behalf of a
group of women in the American
Legion auxiliary.
At a political meeting, Otto Ray,
a democratic candidate for sheriff
said he fed and clothed all the
poor of indianapolis. He ran the
relief kitchen. Perhaps he helped;
but does he say he helped? No.
He. says, Il did it ALL"
I know thousands of persons
made this help possible. I was
n of many women which sort
ed and repaired dirty garments
that some one might be clothed.
Did 7 receive any money for that?
No. Did Otto Ray receive pay for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

practice be right, every man deserves
to know.
Every fertile human being who is
the father or mother of fewer chill
dren than he or she has the capacity
to have has practiced and probably
is practicing birth control.
1t is not good for the soul of man
to believe theory and practice
an opposite theory. Why live the
essence of a continual lie? To the
extent that you are doing right, you
deserve to have harmony restored
in your personality. But in ones
innermost nature one must believe
one is good. In our present scien-
tific age, the price of this JOY is
knowledge as vel as faith.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
FOR ~PRITCHARD,
REGARDLESS

BY ]. B.
This slate they r talking about
does not interest me I don't care
what is said about him. I think
Walter Pritchard was the favorite
at the time the mayoraly candi-
dates filed. I don't think any one
can say anything against the char
acter of Mr.. Pritchard. 1 have
known him for many years and
know him to be a man of his word.
If he tells you anything, you can
depend On il.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
OPEN MIND URGED
ON IRTH CONTROL
By Forrest L. Hackley.

Your birth control articles have
been read with interest. You have
printed some profound truths whose
brightness has been enhanced by
the presence Of some very stupid
things which you saw fit to print
on the same subject.
Everybody should investigate
every argument both for and
against the practice of birth con-
troll. If the practice be wrong and
harmful, knowledge is the best pro-
lection. To the extent that the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
FUTURE FLIGHT

DROFESsOR AUGUsTE PICARD, the
L dauntless Belgian who flies up into the
shakespeare for recreation, believes that man
may some day solve the problem of inter-
stellar travel and make round trips to the
moon or to some of the planets.
1t is his notion that this may become pos
sible, not through the use of rocket engines
or by firing huge projectiles from gigantic
guns but through discovery of the secret of
disintegrating matter. He says that the dis
indignation of 40 pounds of lead, for instance.
would provide ample energy for a round trip
from the earth to the planet Mercury.
Now all this doubtless sounds remarkably
like a pipe-dream. and it probably shows
that scientists, nc less than any other men,
have moments in which their imagination
goes on the loose.
But it makes a nice picture, anyway. Dizzy
or otherwise. it's something to look forward to.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

President Roosevelt is considered a hero by
the Germans, says a German shipping execu-
tive. But their standard of hero worship is
Adolf Hitler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
The Message Center

Times readers are tnuited to cypress
their" Ciews in these columns. Make pour
letters short, so all can haUe a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 0ords or Iess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

Former Senator Helm of Alabama has
failed in his attempt to return to congress. One
at a time! We have Huey Long now.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

In a finish fight with the law, it's the out
law who gets finished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

Fourteen thousand ~clergymen. convened
in New York, voted against war. Who cares?
The clergymen aren't running any of the
governments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07
FINANCIAL COUNSELOR BoNcEsco of t

London's famous opera conductor, Sir
Thomas Beecham. orders his audiences tc "sN
up" when he's ready to begin. The idea! Next
he'll want his customer to get out altogether
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

A scientist says that exposure to the sun
ages the body. What does that matter? Our
modern bathing beauties take to the sun as
they do TO water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-07

/ whoUy disapproUe of Uhat you sag and WtH
defend to the death your right to sag it-VoItdlre.
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