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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
THE NEW LEISURE

W solve their new problem of machine
made idleness Americans must 90 for
ward, not backward, says the New York COM
mlttee on the use of leisure time. They will
find the answer not in the outlived handicraft
ideals of Tolstoi, William Morris and Ebert
Hubbard, but in the modern and civilized use
of their new leisure
Whether we like it or not, Henry Ford
probably comes nearer than Gandhi to SYM
oollzlng our age" says the committees report
But just because we recognize the Inevitable
ity of standardization in material production
we constantly must emphasize the need of
personal and individual development in human
beings"
The committee finds the forty-hour week
now standard in fifty MIRA Codes Thus the
average American soon will have to divide his
week into something like seventy-seven hours
for sleeping, eating and personal care; forty
hours for working; ten hours for going and
coming to his work. forty-one hours for
spending as he will. The boon of play time.
formerly enjoyed by few is in reach of the
many. America, that through its pioneering
NA"JS SN0OAAON WIN 40 VIC S1CdCC0I N1IGuS, LOW
must find virtue also in leisure. How will
Americans spend their forty hour quotas
of free time?
The present social tools of leisure -
schools, libraries, Fairgrounds, museums,
parks, public golf courses, swimming pools, free
concerts and the rest-should be restored and
extended as soon as battered budgets permit.
That most neglected field of adult education
should be given more attention by educators.
The great outdoor recreat ional grounds should
be broadened, travel cheapened the use of
home gardens encouraged
But the immediate task is to solve the
problem of too much leisure of the wrong kind
unemployment
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16

the general food distribution services in the
United States.
1t is impossible to overstate the need of
such studies at this time.
From scattered sources We learn that among
those sitting at the nations table, the organ
lied professors and distributors are getting
bigger and bigger helpings, while the morgan
lied producers and consumers more and more
are cast in Oliver Twist roles.
In report on his measure Senator Burton
K. Wheeler quotes AAA estimates on the
mounting costs of food distribution. In 1928
he says the farmer got AZ cents of the con-
sumer's dollar. the professor and distributor,
So cents Last January, in spite of AAA, his
share was So cents, theirs "a cents.
1t also appears that extravagant, monopo-
listic, unfair grading and even racketeering
practices are growing among certain food dis
tributors.
Most tragic is the milk dispensing system,
or lack of system. DR.. Frederic c. Howe, AAA
consumers counsel, charges that five big milk
trusts dominate the market, that milk COM
bines operate at colossal profit" that their
methods are "wasteful" and costly" that
farmers produce at a loss and consumers often
are gouged.
Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the chiIdren's
bureau finds milk consumption declining
among the families of the poor, and has sug-
gested that perhaps milk should be handled as
a public utility.
In undertaking studies along the lines of
these two resolutions the federal trade COM
mission would add to its already splendid serv-
ices to the country
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16

definitely to the struggle of the
working class and its emancipa-
ton.
He returned to America in 1913 as
the first Soviet ambassador to the
United States, though unrecognized
by the United States.
Many OF us still remember the
great meeting in Carnegie hall in
New York. John Reed addressed
large audience with a message
of the new era, at whose birth he
had been present.
He was the first American to
serve as link between the United
States and Soviet Russia. He re-
turned to Moscow in 1919 and
worked indefatigably trying to eff
feet a rapprochement between the
two countries. He contracted ty-
phus fever and died in Moscow
and lies buried under the Kremlin
wall.
In memory of this American who
was the very embodiment of the
youthful American spirit, there has
been organized cultural clubs
throughout the United States. These
clubs arose at various points of
the country spontaneously. They
serve as a remarkable tribute to his
name.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
BELIEVES ROBINSON
WILL BEAT MINTON

By C. w. P.
This is a first time contribution
to the Message Center by lifelong
young Democrat.
The f1asco, called a Democratic
state convention, held in Cadle tab
ernacle, makes my blood boil, so
have just got to get it off my chest.
Governor McNutt as usual bags
the show, and Hitler-like, nomi-
mated his man Friday, man prac-
tically unknown and certainly with
no record emitting him to be United
States senator from Indiana. The
McNutt political machine candidate,
Minton, did not get the nomination
because he was the peoples favor
ite
Governor McNutt's attack on Sen
ator Robinson for his <. K. K. ac-
tivities will get him no place because
his organization is almost as unpop-
ular as the khan.
Earl Peters has done more for the
Democratic party in Indiana than
McNutt ever will do and certainly
deserved the nomination without
opposition and would have gotten
it if the people instead of the state
house gang had been nominating.
Louis Ludlow should certainly have
been second because of his marvel
GUS record in congress.
AS unpopular as Robinson is, he
probably will defeat the McNutt-
Greenlee political unknown in Mo-
vember.
The convention should have been
called 1.-The McNutt steam roller
exhibition"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
SLOW SLAUGHTER

THE killing of American Indians on the
open plain ceased to be an outdoor sport
with the passing of the frontier days The
slow slaughter that goes with undernourish-
ment, bad housing and lack of medical care
continues, according to Indian Commissioner
John Collier.
Tuberculosis today is killing the Indians
at seven times the rate at which it kills
Whites Mr. Collier said. I'm some areas the
rate is twenty times greater.
"Preventable mortality among Indian chill
dren is nearly three times as high as among
whites. From all causes Indians die at twice
the death rates of the general population"
Recently the Indian Bureau made a case
study of $4,000 Indians on ten reservations
in five states The study revealed that the
average value of goods consumed annually by
an individual Indian was less than $48. In
dian poverty is deepening the Indian estate
shrinking year by year
The Wheeler Howard Indian rights bill
would help this slowly sinking civilization by
hating the vicious allotment system and CIV
ing the government more funds to spend on
Indian health, education, irrigation and land.
The senate has passed this bill and it is to be
hoped the house will do the same before adj
journment Of this session. Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
COLLEGE GRADUATES
STILL RIGHT WINGERS.
By Ixnay.

By Ixnay.
The college graduate who gravely
clasped his diploma some time this
month has been pictured by rather
sentimental college deans as being
serious student of society in con-
trast to the graduate of two years
ago, who Tipped a highball and
stepped the tango with equal dex-
terity.
AS one who has faded in and out
of the collegiate scene for the past
few years, this writer challenges the
proud professors to produce this
protege of new age.
There is one beneficial difference
in the two types of graduates. This
years class, even in It's glorious mo-
mentS, does not expect to make the
$4,000 year that the predecessors
expected.
There have been alarming rumors
from eastern colleges that the stu
dents are studying the problem of
life with gravity, but fortunately the
section of the country which fos-
tered Willie Writ, educator, has
Stemmed the flow of knowledge
The bold left-wingers in college
become bank clerks; that is, if they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
STEEL AND THE LABOR BILL

WISELY, union steel workers have voted
to postpone their strike to give more
time for government action The government
has no partisan duty to intervene in this or
any other labor dispute. But it has a general
duty to protect the public interest And in
this case it has specific duty to enforce the
collective bargaining provisions of the recov-
cry act. Unfortunately the governments en-
forcement powers have been challenged.
In last-minute compromise with the Re-
publican conservatives, the President has
agreed on a congressional resolution spelling
out the right of government boards to conduct
elections to determine labor representation
under the law.
The resolution is weak. But if it is the best
that congress will pass before adjournment
as seems to be the case-then it is much bet
ter than nothing
In view of court delays in pending cases
involving labor sections of the MIRA, and the
fact that certain powerful steel and other in
dustrial groups challenge the authority of
existing labor boards, it is clear that such au-
thority should be double riveted by congress
now. The alternative is widespread labor
veStigate effectively the cause and culprit.
It Is unfortunate that the compromise
resolution limits the subpoena power of gov
eminent boards to labor election disputes and
does not provide for compulsory investigation
OF all labor disputes. While compulsory arbi-
tration is impossible and unwise under the
American system, compulsory government
powers of investigation are essential to indus
trial peace in our judgment. Otherwise there
is no intelligent and certain basis for decision
by the government or public opinion as to the
merits of the dispute or the kind of settlement
most in the public interest.
Enforcement of this compulsory resolution
should assure fairly chosen representatives of
labor hearing by anti-labor employers But
as to the disputes over wages, hours and work.
ing conditions which will be aired in those
hearings, there is little nothing in this reso-
luton to encourage peaceful settlement
That, however, is not sufficient reason for
rejecting this resolution which is at least a
beginning of the power needed by the govern
ment in handling industrial strife jeopardiz-
ing recovery.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
SECURITY LOOPHOLES

OUCH has been the din raised by Wall Street
~ over the securities law and the stock mar
ket law that little notice has been given the
quiet, but pointed protests of persons who
find there is still muck in the stables of
finance.
New York's Better Business Bureau re-
Gently declared that the federal trade COM
mission has failed to stamp out fraudulent
practices; and that some of the old shell
games are still operating, especially in the
peddling of fractional oil royalties
More recently there has been reported a
tendency of some investment bankers to work
hand-in-glove with investment trusts and
of private and interstate marketing of secur-
tiles to escape regulation by the federal trade
commission BY marketing securities private
ly instead of through a public Offering by
foregoing the use of the mails and by confin-
ing the transactions within the boundary of
one state, some investment bankers avoid the
necessity of registering their offerings with
the commission and escape the civil liabilities
of the federal law.
At least, however, the federal law seems to
have forced such investment bankers to limit
their operations in a way as to make them
subject to the laws of the state in which they
operate The interstate" loophole is closed.
1t should be interesting to some people to
learn that there are two sides to the contro-
versy over what is happening in the financial
markets as a result of the federal law COM
polling the seller of securities to tell the buyer
the whole truth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
Stranger Felt Loneliness IN Indianapolis

I have played golf, tennis and
have gone swimming without ever
experiencing a kindly nod from
any one, and I am certain that I
am an average young woman.
Chicago isn't that way. Neither
is New York nor Dallas. There is
a friendly spirit of welcome among
tradesmen and city officials.
Perhaps one may call it civic
pride, that is certainly not to be
found in Indianapolis. I never
shall think of indianapolis with
out lonely shudder. I'm sorry,
for otherwise it is an amazingly
attractive city. am writing this
with the fond hope that it will
prompt some OF those who come
into business contact with the
public to recognize a wistful face
in the throng of shoppers and to
smile when serving the person
who possesses it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
BEER REGULATION OPEN
AS PROHIBITION

By A. L. E.
The cheating going on in Indian
apolis beer parlors savors of the
lazzez faire days of prohibition when
every corner was a neighborhood
home brewery.
Fifteen-year- folds, girls in short
dresses, youngsters who hardly are
out of the cradle, are being served
beer and extras" without regard to
age.
know that sounds like white
ribboner talk, but it's about time
that the Hoosier state came to the
understanding that our beer laws
are inadequate, enforced by in
competents, and promulgated by a
bunch of success merchants who can
not see beyond furtherance Of their
own candidate for President of the
United States, Paul V. McNutt.
Where are the investigators that
Paul Fry, excise director, promised
would keep the "hi-brews" of the
state within boundary lines of
decency?
Stools are merely hall-trees for
feminine hips and not to sit on in
the beer parlors. Men rarely use
the stools. The sandwich that was
supposed to go with beer has gone
the way of all sandwiches.
Nor has the free lunch counter
returned. Give us bigger and better
free lunches, fewer stools, more brass
rails, and send the bottle babies
home to their mamas instead of let
ting them guzzle beer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16

By Sara E. V.
I wonder if it ever occurs to
citizens how devastatingly lonely
city can be to a stranger.
To a person of intelligence or
any degree of breeding, casual &C
quaintances are not only danger
Gus but abhorrent. And yet I
have been tempted more than
once to speak to some one just to
hear my own voice.
I am a college graduate with, I
trust, some idea of culture. I
have been guilty of thoughtless-
ness myself in the past; guilty be-
cause I was among friends. Today
a charming woman spoke 20 me.
She doubtless thought l was some
one whom she knew. The rest OF
the afternoon was somehow filed
with a glow. I felt that belonged.
Circumstances over which I
have no control made it necessary
for me to spend a few months
here,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

A SSISTANT SECRETARY WILBUR CARR
n attended formal dinner given by diplo-
matte Ambassador Saito of Japan in honor of
his grace, Prince Konoye, president of the house
OF peers of Japan.
AS Mr.. Carr entered the drawing room he
spied an old friend seated on sofa
He eagerly started forward, jovially waving
hand and exclaiming:
Greetings, contradict"
At the same instant he heard low chuckle
behind him. Carr turned and recognized Am
bassador Troyanovsky of Soviet Russia.
Much embarrassed, he explained:
"Er-you see, Mr.. Ambassador-when see
an old friend-er-a very old friend-er-I al
ways-er-address him as conrade' Just an old
habit of mine, you know!"
Listeners smiled tolerantly. TactfuI Ambas-
sador Troyanovsky bowed.
DR. sYNGMAN RHEE, former provisional
~ president of Korea who fled for his life
after being tortured by the japanese, is again in
Washington.
slight, smiling figure in gray, Dr. Rhee ar
rived here from New York, where he has been
organizing Korean and Chinese sentiment
Il am starting magazine to be called
Orient" he announced. 1T will deal with af-
fairs in the far eaSt-including Japan"
Ex-President Rhee visited the Virginia estate
of friend, stretched himself luxuriously be-
meath the branches of a Japanese cherry tree
inquired:
did George Washington chop down Jap
anese cherry tree?"
GENERAL diplomatic parties were formed to
~ go to the Camera Baer prize fight in New
York last night.
Minister Belo Edwards, charge d'affaires of
Chile is boxing enthusiast and escorted his
sister, the Comtesse de la Roche, to the fight
Minister Alfaro of Ecuador is another diplo-
mat who attended.
Most of the ambassadors claimed they would
have gone if they had time, but that the in
volved diplomatic situation precluded their at
tendance Certain it is that all radios at the
various embassies with the possible exception
of the Peruvian, where there is little interest in
pugilisn1), we're tuned in last night.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
PAINTS RUSSIA IN
DARK COLORS

BY c. P. P. Ivanoff.
Mouthings of Ignorant relative to
The Times editorial about Cleve-
lands lone c. A. R. veteran should
be ignored as they obviously are
without one iota of fact as back
ground.
For instance, the absurd utterance
of Jack Dolan in your issue of June
10, that the Soviet Union "is the best
governed country of all time
Mr.. Dolan would do well to make
a trip to that country. He would
have to escape carefully prepared
trips and propaganda to see bread
lines; people starving, not by thou
sands, but by millions; sanitary con-
ditions of the worst type; brutality
in law enforcement to the extreme:
complete subjugation of individu-
atty with no recompense, and die
tatorship at its lowest and worst
form.
Russia is the hell hole of hui
mainly with no possible outlet.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
SATURDAY. JUNE 16, 1884.
ONE YEAR OF NRA

THIS is the first anniversary of the NRA
One is supposed to say something about
it, perhaps to say whether it has succeeded
or failed. Most people find themselves say
ing yes and no. That is not very satisfac-
tory answer. But it seems to be the truth.
NFA has failed to bring back prosperity.
NRA has failed to create enough jobs to take
up more than a fraction of the unemploy-
ment slack NFSA has failed to raise the aver
age real wage. MIRA has failed to keep prices
from outrunning increased purchasing power.
NFeA has failed to curb unfair trade practices.
NRA has failed to protect the consumer and
some small business men against monopolies
strengthened by codes. NRA has failed to
protect labor in it's right to organize and bar
gain collectively.
All of which sounds like very severe in
dictment. But is it.?
Since when has any law or any govern
ment machinery been expected to solve our
economic problems in the space of twelve
months. Even if NRA had been set up as an
absolute dictatorship, the job could not have
ben done in year or in decade-at least
that has been the experience of foreign die
tatorships.
But NRA was created as cooperative ex-
pertinent between government and industry,
depending for the most part on the free and
sincere team work of industry to write it's
own codes and to police itself. Some indus
tries have co-operated completely. Most of
them have not.
That has not been due entirely, or probably
not even chiefly to the inherent self1shness in
human nature which the pessimists think can
never be changed. There have been at least
two other major causes. One was that some
industries were so close to the wall they could
not take the temporary losses involved in rails
ing labor and other costs faster than prices
and income. But perhaps the main cause of
the failure to cooperate was the lack of edu-
cation. Too many business men, big and little,
have not yet been persuaded of the necessity
of New Deal if the American system is to
survive. They got religion during the dark
spring of 1885, but they backsld the first
chance they got.
But is that so surprising? Don't we all
learn slowly? And will it not take many years
of self-education in adversely to convert
America as a whole from reliance on economic
anarchy to faith in planned economic de-
mocracy?
In that mood, the country can sincerely
give thanks for what MIRA has achieved. It
has carried us a step forward. Before NRA
we were falling back rapidly. Now, however
slowly, we are going ahead.
This newspaper, which has believed for
many years in the purposes which at last. in
spired NRA and the New Deal, believes more
firmly than ever in those purposes today If
America is to make progress we believe it will
be through more of the New Deal and not less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
PICTURE OF MAN WHO
"CAN TAKE 1T"

By friedrich Omer Rusher.
Across the threshold of life stands
man. one who is denied the
means of a livelihood, one who is
willing, but no one needs his serv-
| ices.
He has tried in vain to locate
employment. He is at the mercy OF
the world. He has too much ambi-
ton to impose on charity. He would
rather the less fortunate have his
share.
He, like many others, is an I'M
married man, young and full of
hope, but somewhat downhearted.
He doesn't reveal what is in his
heart, but it is there just the same.
You wouldn't know he had any
worries to talk with him. He takes
it on the chin and smiles. That is
hard to do, yet it can be done.
He has walked the streets many
times searching for work. Some
times he lands it, sometimes he
doesn't. Nevertheless, he keeps on
trying, hoping some day he will
have a steady income.
He is one young man who tries 90
see the sunny side of life. He tries
to spread good cheer among every
body. He is not an angel; just a
man. No one is a stranger to him.
He tries to treat everybody alike,
regardless Of how they treat him.
His one great aim in life is to
honor the Golden Rule.
You have all seen this man. You
have his kind in your own neigh
borhood. There are many thousands
of men just like him. Isspeak of
no one person in particular, just
the unfortunate individual, who is
scarcely existing.
Encourage these men. You who
can help them; do it. Help them
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-16
RIO Oa1o
WhoHy disapprove of whGt yom sag and '0itt
defend to the death your right to sag i-VoLtGire.

I are apt enough to punch an adding
machine, upon graduation. Rather
than actual sincerity to any cause,
the radicalism of college students is
mostly for impression than for any
of the absurd yellS raised by red
baiters.
The so-called love of culture is
merely social whimSy to impress
the eligible girls in the same man.
ner as an adroit prom trotting
foot.
A year after the cheer leading is
over, the college graduate has SIM
mered down and becomes as dull as
any other convention-loving person.
Colleges, it has been said, are ex-
plotted by capitalists wishing to
keep alive the spirit of stodginess.