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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

enough to cover all business groups repre-
sented-
Thus 1t covered both those who oppose and
those who favor Federal relief by saying that
the Government should give aid "only when
absolutely necessary" Similarly, as regards
crop control it opposed only undue"
restrictions. In urging sterilization of ex-
changes and fixed gold standard dollar, it
added the qualification "as soon as practic-
able" Though opposing Government inter-
ference in business it requested one more years
extension of modified MIRA as necessary to
certain industries.
BY struggling to find a simple, easy answer
to these public questions and failing to do so,
the business leaders are now in better po-
sition to appreciate the hard job of the
President. Since their program shows that
they are confused and uncertain, they can be
more tolerant when the Administration is I'M
able to reach in bag and pull out formula
for quick recovery.
The President has made it clear that he
is ready to talk over these problems with the
conference representatives if their purpose is
to cooperate and not obstruct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22
sArrRDAY- DEcEMBER 2. -.
LAWYERS AND SHYSTERS

CONSCIENTIOUS lawyers Will applaud the
~ Justice Departments drive against shys-
tors who connive with criminals, share in the
loot and advise clients how to evade arrest
and punishment.
Americas legal fraternity today does not
enjoy the good reputation that once gave it
undisputed civic leadership. Many bar asso-
Citations have been VIGOROUSLY lax in ethical
standards, because the majority Of decent
lawyers have been too busy or too timid TO
prevent Founders from prostituting the progress
sion.
Typical Of the inability of lawyers to keep
their own house in order is the situation
which has developed in Missouri. There the
state bar leaders talked for years about the
need OF purge in the progression, but moth
ing was done until the State Supreme Court
moved IN with a big broom.
Part Of the blame rests with judges and
prosecutors who have shut their eyes to the
malpractces of fellow lawyers, and have been
Ioath to treat lawyer criminals like other
criminals.
The term "shysterr IS applied too exclusive
" to attorneys engaged in defending with
improper methods persons accused of the
lower crimes The term should include all
lawyer criminals and in this group there prob
ably are as many engaged in civil and cor
poration practice as in criminal practice.
Lawyers who concoct financial schemes to
rob investors are as unethical as lawyers who
shield racketeers. and generally are better paid.
Too many of the rewards Of the legal pro-
fession have gone to corporation lawyers most
adept in defeating the purposes of our laws.
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MORE INSULT TRIALS

THE state was wrong. said Chicago jury
L Martin insult did not steal
Acquitted of embezzlement charges. Martin
insult may now join his brother Samuel in
claiming "vindication." Brother Samuel won
mot guilty" verdict in a Federal mail fraud
trial a month ago.
Next month the state of Illinois will try both
Martin and Samuel on other embezzlement
charges. Whether those prosecutions fail, or
not. the Federal Government then will try to
prove Samuel insult and others guilty of
bankruptcy violations.
Present plans are to continue prosecutions
until all insult indictments are cleared of the
dockets.
In this country are several thousand peo-
PIE who doubtless are puzzled by what has
transpired in the Chicago courts. They are
the people whose savings we're invested in the
insult bubble They 10 not know, legally
speaking, whether they were defrauded
through the mails or whether their savings
were embezzled or vanished in the smoke of
bankruptcy All they know is that their
money somehow disappeared.
The prosecutors who are trying to inf1ict
social punishment on the insults represent So
,iety in general But these disillusioned in
vestors are their special clients, and deserve
the best representation the prosecutors can
give
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

house cold as a barn, burn two tons
Of coal month, paying $3.50 a ton
for it; SIPS a month for wa er;
pay a little insurance so the county
won't have to bury him when he
dies. Could he do it? No. Would
he live as many Of our city people
are living? No. He would have
to do just like the rest Of us-go
to the souphouse and get his beans.
If he passes the 5000 a month,
gets the money in circulation and
starts these factories to paying
the younger men a good living
wage, he would see old Indiana get
up and move. I am in favor of
the 5000. I have two old parents,
II and 80 years. Let the old people
nave few good days before they
go beyond. Thousands of these old
people have lived in poverty all
their lives, and don't know what
good time is. So pass the 5000 a
month pension and get rid of the
poorhouses. Don't forget, am
taxpayer.
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Unemployment Insurance Supported

BY NJ. E. Selby.
In answer to a recent letter con-
corning the good to be gained from
unemployment insurance, in which
the writer could find no good"
reason for making it a public in
strument, may I offer the follow
ing plan which already has been
rendered to one large company
which employs thousands of
people.
Many employers have sponsored
credit unions for employees, dis
corning the benefits of keeping
workers from the clutches of loan
sharks. The credit union is here
to stay, proved by national laws
enacted by the last Congress, per-
hitting organization any place in
this country.
These credit union units are the
ideal base for an extension Of
planned provision for periods of
unemployment among people who
are willing to provide for their
own future but lack the initiative.
Legislation for such provision
is a certainty. 1t will take time,
but must come. So why not in
clude in the bill the right to
organize or form trusts" set up
within credit union units, for the
purpose of administering trust
funds accumulated by each worker
contributing the small sum of IS
cents "a base sum, used for illus
tration) weekly which shall be
matched by an equal amount for
each worker from the employer,
all going into the credit union
investment shares, which accord
ing to law are to be lent for
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22
BIG BUSINESS MUST NOT
KNOW" NEW DEAL SETUP

BY Patient.
About May, 1881, the secretary and
active general manager of one of
our very large heavy industry manu-
featuring concerns told me that his
company had just paid a cash divi-
dend to the stockholders equaling
100 per cent of the outstanding
common and preferred stock, and at
the same time had issued 100 per
cent stock dividend to stockholders
of record at that time. He also
stated that the company had cash
surplus in its treasury more than
equal to cash surpluses of all other
manufacturers of the same industry.
Having been connected with that
industry in one way or another for
many years, I know that if his state
mentS we're true, and have reasons
to believe that they are true, that
concern has quite an accumulation of
cash or possibly United States Gov
eminent bonds.
Later the same source reported
that in spite of very poor business
during 1881 and 1882 his concern
had been able to show profit, de-
rived principally from United States
Government bonds held. The capital
investment of the concern being sew
eral million dollars, their holding Of
United States Government bonds
must then indeed be considerable.
My point is-then how does our
Government expect to be able to
induce business in the face of what
these same manufacturers choose to
pronounce unfavorable conditions,
when they can keep their factories
open, even indulge in cut-throat
business tactics, pay taxes of all
kinds, add to SURPRISES and reserves
in the usual manner, when interest
payments on United States Govern
ment bonds held by them will wipe
out their losses and even show
profit to the concern?
Many other establishments of all
kinds in our country enjoy similar
circumstances as the manufacturer
we refer to here. Then is it not pos
sible, yes even to be expected, that
induStrialiStS, bankers, insurance
companies and all other similarly
strong organizations will carry out
the mandate reported to have orig
mated with the American Bankers
Assn. meeting during the sum-
mer of 1882 when it was the con-
sensus of those present that a Dem
ocratic President would be elected in
the fall, and that then would be the
real beginning of the depression?
1t was then that bankers and their
allies in industry determined to
freeze the American voters for at
least four years to retain their power
over every activity Of our American
homes. Will President Roose welt do
something about oUr money chang
ers," or will he let them outwit him
and his professors and SUI ely cause
their downfall at the hands of the
voters in 1896?
1t is amusing to read the daily re-
ports of our Chambers o. Commerce
activities, statements 'oy bankers |
and other flnanciers, pretending to
be warming up to the Roosevelt |
New Deal. If they are, then the
great mass of voters who supported |
our President really never have
known Of his real plans
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

provident purposes to members
only, by this means keeping the
funds in circulation for worker
benefit and at the same time
earning interest equal to other
shares of the credit union.
The interest from such shares
in a few years would retire the
fund payments completely. This
plan is based on pay roll of 300
people, which would with employer
equalization mean a total of $50
a week.
Payments to claimants Of such
insurance would be limited to
fifteen weekly payments Of $40
each and not claimable more than
once each year or until after two
weeks of unemployment. OF
course, certain limitations would
have to be imposed as safeguards,
but the cause Of unemployment
shall be no factor.
1t is needless to state that had
such a system been in common
use when this depression nit
and had all the unemployed 90
million) had an additional $3.50,
what a vast burden it would have
lifted from the taxed public. One
billion five hundred million.
Indianapolis has paid out
through it's Community Fund
nearly five million dollars in the
last five years. Such relief sum
created by the small sum Of 80
cents a week, if it had been
previous to the depression, would
have cared for 300 cities the size
of Indianapolis for five years.
And still unemployment in
surance is not worth the atten-
ton of thinkers!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22
NO MANANA'S TODAY

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was considered
very bold when he invited all Americans
with complaints against the Government to
write to him.
But compared with the recent action of
President Cardenas, new chief executive of
Mexico, Mr.. Roosevelts invitation looks like a
mild bid to increase postal revenues Senior
Cardenas has ordered all government tele-
graph lines reserved one hour a day for free
transmission of citizens complaints.
Something is happening to Mexico's man
ana" tradition
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RELIEF WORKER OBJECTS
TO "NAGGING" BOSSES
Bv a Relief Worker.


I am a subscriber to your daily
paper but never before have ever
written anything for any paper.
However, I think the public should
know how we relief workers feel
about our jobs. The great majority
of us think our President is a Won
derful man in working out plan
whereby we can make an honest liv-
ing, but when We are told by straw
boss that we are just trying to get
something for nothing, it is time
for some one to call halt.
At Z certain packing plant here,
the boss told a number Of men in
our gang that he could take 10
men and get out more work in two
hours than we were putting out in
two weeks and that we thought the
Government owed us a living.
This may be a fact about the
amount of work as none of these
men are experienced meat cutters and
probably never used a meat knife
before. I never did but am trying
to do the best I know. When We
go to work, we are charged with a
white coat and cap and sharpen
ing steel and. are watched like a
bunch of criminals for Tear we will
walk out with something.
They tell us we should be tickled
to death that we have jobs. I am
glad I have job, but it is not very
encouraging to walk up to a pay
window and draw So and know this
will not meet half our bills, so it
may not sink through the thick
skulls of some Of the bosses how it
makes a man feel to meet the col
lectors who call at our doors for the
rent and we must tell them we have
no money for them. Our children
must eat and we must feed them,
but one thing is certain, we can not
pay rent and eat on So a week with
a family Of any size.
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THIS LOVE

BY RUTH SWAN PERKINS
Sweeter than ounce honey in the
blood,
Fiercer than winter air-tides, oh,
strong wing,
Radiant substance from whose milk
sup,
From whose harp I pluck the
notes I sing.
Whyfore the quickened pulse, the
unsteady beat,
Or the sweet stupor as a warm
spring tide?
All to the reason and the sign Of
love,
Leash, wheel. spoke OF the chariot
I ride
Therefore. no questions ask I to my
heart,
Therefore, no doubts forfeit for
aim,
Proudly answering, dominantly in
spired,
Drive high Heaven on this steed
Of flame.
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I am not complaining about the
work I have to 90 but of the treat
ment of the men. What we do not
like is the way the bosses expect us
to do as much work as a man who
has had years Of experience. The
work is not hard and the hours are
not long but the continual nagging
about not doing enough discourages
any man. If this does not stop,
there may be way Of stopping it
by taking the matter up with some
one higher up, but work is what we
want and we are willing to do it,
but we are not slaves and refuse to
be classed as such.
A contented man will do twice as
much work as man who is dis
couraged. The bosses should get to-
gether with the men and have a
spirit Of cooperation.
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Capital Capers
THE traditional Cabinet dinner opened tn
by DAVID DIETZ.

TNHE traditional Cabinet dinner opened tn,
l. official social season at the White House
President and Mrs. Roosevelt received 81
guests, including all the members of the Cab.
met, headed by benevolent, silver-haired Secre-
tary of State COrdell Hull and Mrs Hull
Pink roses and Snapdragons added bril-.
! liant touch Of color to the long table. Among
| the four score guests one noted ambassadors
State Department officials NRA chieftains
senators, newspaper men, New York visitors ano
presidential secretaries.
Alec Weddell, who is American Ambassador
to Argentina, was a guest with his wife Sc
was Bill RullitC, Ambassador to Soviet Russia
looking very serious these days.
Clipper DR.. Leo Rowe director general of
the Pan American Union, for once was a guest
instead of a host. CThey failed to serve Leo's
favorite lamb stew
The Bishop of Washington, Dr. Freeman
gravely occupied a seat at the table, with his
usual dignity.
Dapper, alert-lookng Francis Biddle Phila-
delphia blueblood, who is here as chairman of
the National Labor Relations Board, chatted
animatedy.
Busy Jesse Jones, RFC chairman (whcse
thoughts habitually stray to Palm Beach at this
season., was present with Mrs. Jones.
The American Ambassador to Italy Breck-
inridge Long, who has his hands full just now
with the debut of his daughter, Christine,
dashed back from Philadelphia for the dinner.
Sedate Joseph H Choate Jr, chairman of
the Federal Alcohol Control Administration, and
Donald Richberg, bald-headed NRA leader, sat
near each other
1t was cosmopolitan dinner, as informal as
a formal White House dinner can be, which
isn't very informal
ONCE a Venezuelan was expelled because he
" failed to mention the name Of President
Dictator Juan Vicente Gomez in speech de-
uyered here.
Poet Pedro Rivero of the Venezuelan Lega-
tion certainly will never be expelled Yester-
day, he gave a talk over the radio and men
toned the name of Juan Vicente Gomez" so
frequently that is sounded like a poem.
In the first paragraph, he said Gomez" In
the third paragraph he said Gomez" The
fourth paragraph began with Gomez" The
fifth included Gomez" In the sixth, Poet
Padre slipped up and forgot to include the Die
tator, but he made up by mentioning him once
in the eighth, twice in the ninth, and ending
with salvo of Juan Vicente Gomez"
NOTE: Occasion of the Comedian fireworks
was the celebration of the 26th anniversary Of
the presidency of the noted Juan Vicente-an
occasion honored not only by Poet Pedro but
through a champagne luncheon by white-haired
Minister Arcaya.
GONE comment was caused yesterday as
- smartly groomed Ambassador Felipe Espil
of Argentina Selected as one Of the II best
dressed men in the world strolled along State
Department corridors.
There was more comment as Envoy Espil
entered the Office of Assistant Secretary Sumner
Welles. another of the II best dressed men.
What they talking about-tarifs?,,
hazarded some one.
"No-tailors" said another.
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So They Say

The time has come when England
and the United States should show
the world that our two navies are
not competitive but complementary.
Admiral Sir Lewis Bayly, of the
British Navy.
Financial wild oats have been
freely sowed. 1t will be unavoid-
able to reap the harvest.-Prof. H.
Parker Willis of Columbia.
America awful nice place. Peo-
pie live like monkeys way up high.
-Terengosi, African native brought
to United States.
The election Of Upton Sinclair
would throw fright into the people
of the United States as nothing
else has done. 1t would be looked
on as an approval Of radical
principles. - Senator Simeon D,
Fess (R., o..
Under the recovery program we
have done more proportionately
than any other industry in Amer
lea has thus far done for its en-
ployes.-George Arthur Sloan, head
Of Cotton Textile Institute.
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THE JOINT BUSINESS PLAN

TIE joint business conference did about as
well as could be expected with its COM
promise plan in view OF the wide difference
OF opinion among business leaders concerning
recovery methods.
The President will get nothing much from
1t that is definite and a practical program.
For, in order to get any sort of agreement. the
conference had TO stretch its canvas wide
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ANOTHER READER SEEKS
AID FOR AGED
Rv z. O.

BY F. o.
1 am reader of the Message
Center, and I read in the paper
where Gov. Paul V. McNutt is
in favor of only SIS to SIS a month
pension for people IS years and
over. What is he going to do with
men from As to IS years who have
large families and can't get any
work in factories?
I wish some one would ask him
for me if he thinks he could live
of S25 a month. Pay $40 for a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

For the first time in diplomatic history. the
word ~ was used in a note Mussolini sent to
the League Of Nations and some of the DELE
gates still wonder what he means.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

A policeman caught crook in New York
and Immediately began questioning him. pune
tuating his questions with a suitable black and
blue mark on each eye.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22

The National Resources Board has found
an easy way to get rid of Communists and
loafers-a 25-year plan that will provide work
for all.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-22
Daily Thought

These things I command you, that
We love one another.-St. John, XIV,
II.
LIE alone has lost the art to live
l. 1 who can not win new friends
S. Weir Mitchell.
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A Cleveland bridge expert sues two others in
New York for not recognizing his system, al
though he wouldn't care if they didn't recog-
nize it in a game against him.
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Goods in a midwestern university have
been getting low grades to attract the boys,
says a professor. That's not so dumb!
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Now Clara Bows baby boy is 1T"

Coach Biff Jones Of Louisiana State Uni
versity talked back to Huey Long and quit It
still remains Huey Longs university
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It's great forward step to think of elimi-
mating profits from war. at time when We
wouldn't dare think of eliminating war itself.
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The Message Center

Times readers are inUited to cypress
their viet0s in these columns. Make Y0ur
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0ords or leSS.)
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Philadelphia woman has willed $4,000 a
year 70 the man who marries her daughter.
It's a dare that can't be overlooked.
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Washington scientists report new nebula
1900 OOO, 900 900 900 OOOOOO miles away. Some
day those scientists will slip and say something
We can check up.
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If Greta Carlo really has ambitions to be-
come Duse or a Bernhardt, as only friend
of hers will admit, she had better not talk so
much about it.
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Phone Riley 5551
Hyder weekly herald., 1934-04-28
Will Press Action
 On Assessment Bill

Local holders of mining prop erty who are on the anxious seat regarding the perform ance of their annual assessment work will be pleased to learn that Representative E n g l. bright of California has decid- ed to press for consideration by the House of Representatives of the assessment moratorium bill passed by the Senate some time ago.
 The bill has been approved by a House committee and is now on the House calendar awaiting final action, accord ing to reports from Washing ton.