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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
WHERE BUILDING STOPS

NEITHER more ample credit nor direct
L government stimulation will restore
health to the building trades until rents go
up or building costs come down. So says
a bulletin issued currently by the National
Industrial Conference Board.
Building costs today, says the bulletin, are
somewhat lower than they were 10 years ago.
but rentals are great deal lower. Ten years
ago man could put $4,000 into new house
and lot and could rent it for $3.50, or net
return of per cent.
Today the same house and lot would cost
him S4950, but the rental income would be
only $16s, net return of 3.8 per cent. To
get per cent return, the original cost
would have to be reduced to around $500
about 3S per cent below present levels
That, adds the bulletin, is why private
capital is loath to invest in new building
Unless rents go up or costs come down. its
reluctance will remain mistaken.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
MORE BACKBONE is
NEED OF NATION
BY Ross James.

BY Ross James.
There seem to be a lot of people
for and against the old-age pen
sion.
Why not give people over so years
$3.50 or 5000?
President Roosevelt gave the
farmers a pension for not raising
hogs, corn, wheat, etc. In doing so
he never brought back good or even
better times. Now, the poor can
eat meat. Don't take my word Tor
it. ASK any poor man.
What do we need with job in
surance? It would just be a chance
for graft and making more men
rich. What they need is to cu1 all
incomes, in any one family, to $4,000
a year. No man should earn more
than that. 1 don't care what he Is,
a mans income should be no more
than his service to the public for
the public pays the bill. The
money thus saved could be used to
make shorter hours and hire more
men.
Some of the men on the relief
seem to think they should not have
to work for what they get. I
wonder how many have trie6 to
help themselves.
What the United States needs is
more backbone and not so many
rich and poor hogs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
MONDAY JANUARY %. 1885.
SAFETY AT SEA

VXTHEN the liner Mohawk sank OF New
w Jersey and left IS dead or missing, she
did more than add a third disaster within five
months to a single companys log. She and
her victims became pleaders for a more ade-
quate system of American safety-at-sea laws.
It is unthinkable that ship owners Hobbies
should block such legislation any longer. Last
fall when the MORO Castle burned. causing
the 1874 deaths, hearings revealed that her
crew included many unframed. poorly paid
and overworked aliens. At the same time a
report to the National Labor Relations Board
criticised many American lines for low wages,
short crews, long hours and bad working con-
ditions. Some Of these lines are heavily sub
sidized by the taxpayers.
This week congress will receive set Of
measures prepared by the Department of Com
merce and covering all phases of ship safety
This program would provide that all plans for
new American ships meet rigid government
requirements, that maximum loading stand
ards be applied to coastwise as well as trans
ocean vessels, that other safety standards be
fixed and rigidly enforced by an enlarged in
spection personnel.
Daniel c. Roper, Secretary of Commerce, is
urging ratification of the 1929 international
convention for safety of life at sea. Had the
Mohawk been as strongly constructed as this
treaty requires, it would not have sunk, &C
cording to Joseph B. Weaver, chief of the
United States Bureau of Navigation and
Steamboat Inspection Service. But the labor
provisions of the treaty need careful scrutiny.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
NRA DECLARED TO BE
MONOPOLY BREEDER

By John c. Bankett.
"Other Peoples Money" by Justice
Louis D. Brandeis is a volume of re-
printed articles, all of which were
written before 1914 and before he
was placed on the United States Su-
preme Court bench.
In these articles the justice
strongly condemns the leading bank
ers of those days for their control
of credit and for their use of other
peoples money to get control Of the
industries and utilities for the pur-
pose of sitting competition.
The MIRA of the New Deal is a
greater effort to bring about mo-
nopoly than J. P. Morgan ever
dreamed OF.
The Sherman Antitrust law was
passed by a Republican Congress
to prevent the combining of business
in restraint of trade. The NRA of
the Roosevelt Administration re-
pealed the Sherman Antitrust law
to the end that competition could
be destroyed and monopoly be es-
tablished with the protection Of Jaw.
Under the rule of the Republican
party monopoly was unconstitutional,
and so declared by the Supreme
Court in upholding the Sherman
law. The NRA sanctions monopoly.
How will Justice Brandies rule OIL
this question when it reaches his
court?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
NEEDED CUBAN REFORMS

DOTH the Havana and Washington govern
- ments are put on the spot by the Com
mission on Cuban Affairs in its report on con-
ditions and its recommendations for reform.
Since the commission was appointed at the re-
quest of President Mendieta and consists of
leading non-partisan experts, its findings can
not be ignored.
The report has the scientific poise and in
formed courage to be expected from such men
as the commission chairman DR.. Raymond
Leslie Buell. of the Foreign Policy Association,
Professors Fetter, Graham and jerks, Di-
rector Gruening of the U. s. Division of Ter
ritories and Assistant Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson.
In its conclusion that the Cuban revolu-
ton, which overthrow the Nachado Dictator
ship, has since been prevented from produc-
ing most of the promised political and eco
nomic reforms, the commission confirms the
findings of virtually all unofficial investigators
who have written on the subject. Likewise, it
agrees with the opinion of other investigators
that Washington's partisan diplomatic inter-
ference was partly to blame. Deserved praise
is given to the Roosevelt Administration for
its enlightened trade policy. for Withholding
Marine intervention, and for abrogating the
Platt amendment.
Among the commissions economic recon-
mendations the most important call for de-
velopment of non-sugar crops taxation of I'M
used land, government development of small
holdings, a public health and social welfare
program and government jurisdiction over
public utilities. Only after sweeping economic
reform of conditions which now keep many
Cubans in state of illiteracy and seml-star-
walton, does the commission expect the island
to achieve real political democracy and sta
bility
OF even more interest to Americans are
the recommendations for changes in United
States policy. These include:
l. Cease using diplomatic recognition as a
partisan club.
?. Surrender the Guantanamo naval base
lease and use other harbors such as Vieques
Sound.
3. Restrict future Intervention to evacua-
ton of foreigners from ports in disturbed
areas.
This enlightened policy would pay big divi-
dends in Latin-American friendship. It de-
serves the most sympathetic consideration by
President Roosevelt and Secretary of State
Hull.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
COLLEGE YOUTH

FLAMING youth may have built pretty
l. hot fire on our college campuses during
the frenzied postwar decade, but the fire has
gone out now and the ashes are cold and for
gotten.
SO, at any rate, says DR.. Charles w. Gil
key, dean of the University of Chicago. The
present collection of undergraduates. Dr.
Gilkey says. is the best generation of college
students I have seen in so years OF contact
with students"
The Chicago dean finds the improvement
manifest in several ways.
For one thing. there is a greater attend
ance at chapel services, and a wider express
sion of interest in religious discussions. For
another, students are serious minded and
realistic in their attitude toward current
events They are at last awake to the fact
that something must be wrong with social
scheme which offers them so little.
Students are not at all convinced about
the solution Of our situation, but they are
convinced that something is wrong" says DR..
Gnkey. Yet they are not turning red on US.
Communism, the dean reports, attracts the
smallest of all campus groups, because it is
q dogma, and if there is one thing a college
student can't stand, it is dogma"
All in all, then, this college generation
seems to be in much better health mentally
and spiritually than any Of recent years; and
that, when you stop to think about it. is simply
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
LudIo1O Accused of Hampering President

manitarian," he will lead him back
where they can kneel together be-
fore the only true gods and give
thanks to the voters of Marion
County and the nation for their
emphatic Endorsement of Hoover.
He then will lead the President
up the gang plank to the ship OF
state, where he will be securely
fastened under the bowSprit as the
emblem, figurehead and peerless
leader of all heads of ivory and
hearts of gold.
Mr.. Ludlow will then take the
helm, while Chairman Fletcher of
the G. o. P. charts safe course"
far from the troubled waters of
governmental interference with
business"
Arriving in known and charted
seas" and no longer ION nervous
edge" the New Dealers will then
be invited to walk the plank and
their alphabetical arrangements
will be dumped in the soup.
Of course, no Democrat could
appreciate Mr.. Ludlow'S scenario.
In the first place, he would not
recognize the slogans. Give a
Democrat victory at election, a
tin can, and his opponents can have
the contents, the results of the
victory. As witness, not DEM
ocratic eye has opened, not a
Democrats voice has been raised.
And thus it comes to pass, in
Marion County at least, as ARTHUR
Brisbane predicted it would come
to pass in the nation, that the
people did not vote for New
Deal, but only for handsome
and smiling gentleman-a figure
head
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
SCRAMBLE FOR PORK

IT is never safe to render an appraisal on an
action by Congress until you appraise the
motives back of the action
The congressional rebellion against the
gag rule" in connection with the Admins
tration's S40OO,OOO,OOO work relief bill might
be very praiseworthy thing indeed, if it
we're based on a determination to exercise
the full powers of representative government
in an untrammelled manner.
Unfortunately, however, it is commonly
reported from Washington that the rebellion
was designed chiefly to open the way for
log-rolling tactics of the traditional type. so
that proper amount of pork" could be in
jected into this measure
Viewed from that angle, the rebellion is
less symptom of congressional good health
than of political greed. There are valid argu-
ments against the gag rule-but the desire
to dip both hands into the pork barrel is not
one of them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
LETTER BY JUNIOR DRAWS
FIRE FROM WAR VETERAN

By James Brooks.
CHANGING over The Times I hap
pened to see Juniors" little piece
on soldiers and the bonus we are
now asking for. The American Le-
gion also is making it's plea.
I have been a member of the le-
gion, but at present 1 do not be-
long, as I haven't any money to
spare. However, I am for the Or
ganization.
I am a World War veteran and I
am proud of it. We are asking for
the money that we feel the govern
ment owes us. You also spoke of
this. If we had not stepped in and
won the war, where would you be
today?
Have you large enough income
to have to pay taxes? If so, you
must have a grand job. 1 also eX-
pect your father was making SIS or
$40 a day for his work-off us. Do
you realize the fact that every SOL
der who was killed in action made
just one more millionaire? Compare
your fathers income with ours. We
were getting 81 a day and paying
$3.50 a month of that for insur-
ance. Was that enough for a life?
Of course, you we're just boy I'M
der mama's wing, so you have moth
ing to squaWk about.
You state that you are in the
Reserves. You don't know what
military training is.
I have been wounded twice. I
get $40 month. Maybe I could
loan you half of that to help you
pay your taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

These poor "old souls" would GER
tainly freeze to death" if they de-
pended on your "soulless and sense
less jabbering" for cheer and help.
Just why, Rodney, are there so
many postal cards and letters con
tacting" Congress? Isn't it proof
that the Townsend plan has quick
ened the souls and spirit of Amer
lea?
Again you remark that many of
these messages on these cards and
letters reflect a desperate charac-
ter" Do you remember what Pat
rick Henry said in the Virginia Leg
iSlature more than $50 years ago2
Perhaps your memory and vision
have not the interpretive propen-
sity. 1 wonder if poverty causes
men who are good, loyal, law-abid-
ing citizens to do desperate things
because their morale is broken.
You say that many of these letter
writer's remark, I'VE voted for you
in the last election" And then you
say they tell Congress just what
they will continue to do if the
Townsend bill passes. But no one
knows just what they will do in re-
gard to voting if this bill does not
pass Congress.
Use your head occasionally, Rod
ney, and your mouth less.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
RODNEY BUTCHER
TAKEN TO TASK
Bv a Daily Reader.

By a Daily Reader.
I see Rodney butcher takes a
'crack" at the Townsend plan in
The Indianapolis Times, in his
Washington correspondence dated
Jan. 81.
Rodney, I just wonder under what
code of ethics you were reared, or
just what kind of a Sunday school
you may have attended that allows
you to "juggle facts" in such a care
less manner, so that many who
read what you say might be led to
believe that they were going north
when really they were travelling
south, just because you had their
faces 'veiled" with misconception
and blighted faith in real truth.
However, Rodney, you might fool
more people than you are if you
would keep your name out Of your
''mushy'' articles. They are ION to
you," Rodney.
Speaking Of hearts being broken"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL

brilliant stars and orders, blue-and-g gold
ID china recently bought for the White House
for $4,000, pink carnations pink roses and An
daIusian tangoes by La Argentina, featured the
diplomatic dinner given by President and Mrs.
Roosevelt
All the chiefs of foreign diplomatic missions
IN town attended.
Shrewd Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky flew
from Los Angeles by speedy plane to be there in
time.
japanese Ambassador Saito, not to be out
done by any Russian maneuvers, fastened back
dinner.
The new Belgian ambassador, Count van der
Straten-Ponthoz charming gentleman, was on
hand with his affable countess.
Minister Finot of Bolivia and Minister Bor-
denave of Paraguay, whose countries are at war,
did not bow to each other as they glanced across
the table. Fortunately, they didn't sit side by
side. If any one except the RooseveltS invited
them to the same table, he'd be looked upon as
goofy.
The new Cuban ambassador landed in New
York, but couldn't appear in time, so faithful
DR.. Baron, who has represented Cuba in many
crises before this, put on his white tie and
appeared instead.
MONSIEUR LELY, who used to be chief of
Iva the monks of Mount Athos went as the
charge daffaires of Greece-nc new ambassador
having been sent here vet to replace Guardian
hos SimopouloS. (The long, curly mustachioS OF
the lamented Charalambos will live in Wash
ington diplomatic history0
Mexico was represented by Charge d,Affaires
Campos-Ortiz, who has been doing diplomatic
honorS for his embassy for some months
His serene highneSs, Prince Damras Dam
rong Devakul, the SianeSe minister, looked like
midget next to big Sir Ronald Lindsay. He's
the tiniest diplomat in Washington-just as Sir
Ronald is the biggest
Precedence was as strictly adhered to as in
Dolly Cams heyday.
First marched the bulky British ambassador,
Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of diplomats. Qady
Lindsay stayed in New York;
IT MEN the Peruvian ambassador, Mr.. Freyre,
l. who talks with more of an oxford accent
than Sir Ronald. If something happened to Sir
Ronald (euphoniously termed His Britannia
MaJeStyS ambaSsador') Freyre would take frst
place.
After Freyre came che much-lionized Am
bassador Espil of Argentina, with his pretty
American WIFE who used to shoot lions in Africa.
Ministers followed the ambassadors With
Marc Peter of Switzerland as dean OF ministers.
Envoy Peter has been here since the day when
boards were fashionable, and, in fact, he used
to wear one.
Sandwiched between ambassadors and minis
tiers was Secretary of State Hull, making new
sort of diplomatic sandwich After the minis
tiers came Senator Key Pittman chairman OF the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep
sam McReynolds, chairman of the House For
elgn Affairs Committee. Then-all the charges
d aftaireS finishing with the charge daHalres or
the Dominican Republic.
The RooSevelts came at the top and the DOT
tom Of the list. President and Mrs. Roosevelt
headed it and the Elliott Roosevelts ended it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

By George Gould Hine.
I note that Mr.. Ludlow is now
busily engaged in frustrating the
Presidents desire to substitute
jobs for doles.
AS this is the first important re-
quest the President has made Of
Congress at this session, this is
Mr.. LudloW's first opportunity to
fulfill the promises he made to
the voters of Marion County in
his victory statement after his
election. It reneWS our interest in
that statement.
Every one knows that in each
campaign it is necessary for each
side to invent it's own expressive
sayings, phrases and slogans. No
one is surprised when they are re-
peated from coast to coast by
politicians too lazy or dumb to in
vent their own. But when a poll
tician after he is safely elected,
unconsciously repeats in his vic
tory statement all the pet slogans
of the opposite party, it OCCASION
ally produces in any one but a
Democrat a slight start of sur
prise.
Putting the stand-pat Repub-
lican slogans in quotation marks,
Mr.. Ludlow's victory statement
presents very definite scenario
with synopsis as follows:
Fully realizing, with regret and
sorrow, that the President, ever
since his Inauguration, has been
wandering after false gods" Mr..
Ludlow promises the voters of
Marion County that he will take
the President gently by the hand
and, correcting his errors" in a
kindly way, because he is a "hu-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
NEW SOLDIERS MAY
BE NEEDED SOME DAY

NJ. o. Otto.
What shame it is Junior
(your name typif1es YOU'D you missed
going to the front to starve and
freeze and go half insane. What
pity you didn't come home legless
and armless. Dollars to doughnutS
your old man stayed home and
made his $40 a day while I drew
my ST a day. Fifteen of these dol
lars went to my mother each month
the other SIS was blown in on such
luxuries as scent chocolate bars
donations from this country that
sold for 81 each from the Y. M. c.
A. over there. Cigarets, also do
mated, were 81 a pack some places
How did we know they were do
mated? Why, because when we
opened them we found notes, even
in some cases American money con-
cealed in the pack.
You can call us winners in a news
column, but your kind OF people
don't say things like that to ex-
soldiers faces.
Take yourself up to Marion, Jun
ior, and look over those winners.
Go out to our own veterans hos
pital. If you have the nerve, tell
these fellows they are winners.
Fellows who remark as you do
speak only because they are ignor-
ant-they can't help it. You en-
joyed life at its best, Junior. You
ate the good eats, you saw the good
shows and spent the good wages or
perhaps attended some elite prep
school. Your judgment of the ma
jority of Legion and Veterans Of
Foreign Wars members certainly
calls for an apology.
admire our President as much
as any one, but because we need 1t,
I feel that he should pay the adj
justed service compensation certifl-
Gates. Dire need prompts many
things, Junior.
Better think it over, Junior. An
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

to live, he doesn't take on few
hundred bookieS who make their
money on race horses. If you would
walk from South-st on Illinois, to
Westinghouse, you would encounter
at least fifty.
have yet to receive a letter from
slot machine operator telling me
when to play machine, but these
bookies do send letters telling you
when and how to place bets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
MASKS
BY MAUD COURTNEY wADDELL

BY MAUD COURTNEY WADDELL
Daily we see in the busy strife,
In Joy and sorrow, all walks Of life,
Faces of those we think that we
know;
But deep in their hearts, deep down
below,
Are sad tears and grief they never
show.
Only once in awhile one may know
In a tender moment of mutual kill
They open their heart-we look
within.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
SUGGESTS CLEANUP
OF CITY'S BOOKIES
Bv a Reader.

BY a Reader.
have been following closely Mr..
Feeney's Jealous attempts to clean
up those slot machines that abound
in Indiana, but I think it queer,
if he wishes to make the city so
clean and a better place in which
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
So They Say

We face a world totally out Of
date and which must be revised
consecutively- William B. Stout,
automotive engineer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
Daily Thought

For every tree is known by his
own fruit. For Of thorns men do
not gather figs, nor of a (bramble
bush gather they grapes.-St. Luke,
vi:xliv.
NUR deeds determine us as much
~ as we determine our deeds
George Eliot.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28
The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their UietOS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to $50 a0ords or IesS.J
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

No doubt DR.. Townsend means we'll. but
can he guarantee that all the homes for the
aged won't become hilarious night clubs and
gambling joints?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

other war might come some day,
and if it does, Uncle Sam will have
to locate about five million new SOL
diers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

The World War cost us nearly $4,000
100000. and the world has still to he saved
for democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

It's said you need a vocabulary Of 10000
words to understand the days news, unless
you conflne your reading to the funnies, Of
course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-28

Nowadays college is rated by the number
Of professors it has on President Roosevelts
brain trust.
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