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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
AIRLINES FLY ON

THERE is grim irony in the fact that
Il Will Rogers, who tried so hard to per-
suade his fellow countrymen that air travel
has grown completely safe, should himself
have died in an airplane accident.
And yet Rogers himself would have been
the first one to point out that the crash which
killed him and Wiley Post did not in the least
disprove his own argument
Rogers was not travelling in a commercial
air liner over a regularly charted route at the
time. He was away up at the very tip of
Alaska. in the heart of what is probably about
the most dangerous flying country there is on
earth lie was riding in plane which could
get only a restricted license, and travelling in
a fog watch would have grounded any trans
port plane.
During his lifetime Rogers is believed to
have travelled around 10000 miles on COM
mercial air liners-and he was never once
hurt. There is the testimonial that he him
self would have chosen in regard to aerial
safety.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
REVOLUTIONARY RELICS

1T is interesting to learn that Benedict
= Arnolds old sloop-of-war Philadelphia has
been raised from the bottom of Lake Cham
plain and is to be rehabilitated and main
tanned as revolutionary relic at Burling-
ton, VT.
This sloop was one of the boats Arnold
built in his valiant effort to head off Bur-
goyne's invasion In the fall of 1776 his little
fleet fought bloody engagement with the
British on Lake Champlain and lost, and the
Philadelphia went to the bottom. Had Con-
greSs supported Arnold then with the men
and supplies he needed, it is likely that Bur-
goyne would have been beaten long before he
had chance to get as far south as Saratoga.
The sloop ought to make an immensely in
teresting relic. Black traitor though he finally
became, Arnold was at one time great fight
ing man who struck valiant blows for Amer
lean independence. This sloop is memento
of stage in his career that is worth remem-
bering.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
THE CARLS WONDER
WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

BY Parlcr Pink
Carl was a very much disturbed
Young man. His one ambition
which now seemed to have been in
vain, dated back to when he was a
youngster building pyramids on the
kitchen floor. He now remembered
the commencement exercises and a
prominent politician who delivered
the grafton. 1t was such beauti-
full grafton which pictured a glori-
Gus future for every graduate.
In school he was taught how to
apply modern machinery, steam and
electricity to engineering and how
to accomplish the most results with
the least effort. He now had that
opportunity, not as an engineer but
as a laborer on an FERA project.
His government which was talking
the application of electricity and
modern machinery to free the
masses from toll. had given him-a
shovel and wheelbarrowl He was told
that a days work and results were
expected.
Could this be the same govern
ment which had all the latest ma
chimes and devices invented for the
purpose Of killing men in war?
Could it be possible that this
same government which was so eff
fcient in killing men could have
been the same one which placed a
shovel and wheelbarrow in his
hands for the purpose of lettering
mans condition?
Modern methods for murder!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
GO WEST, YOUNG ELEPHANT

NEW ENGLAND and the industrial East
L are already in the Republican bag for
IS. the party prophets say.
Wasn't that proved by Rhode Islands cleo
ton Of an ant-New Deal Congressman? All
the Republican candidate had to do was to
come out in favor of high tariffs for Rhode
Islands factory products and against farm
processing taxes. in favor of government home
loans and against government interference
with business, in favor of paying the soldiers
bonus and against the unbalanced budget
1t was a vote-catching formula-apparently
the very thing needed to recapture the East
So now to bag the West and make the
slaughter of the New Deal complete. Party
dopesters. Hoover included say the thing to
do is to go West for a candidate.
Returns from Robert H Lucas enterpris-
ing poll reveal an impressive plurality of party
workers also wanting to go West-into the
mountain fastness of IdahO-to ask Senator
William F. Borah to lead them to victory.
What matters it that this Republican Achilles
sulked in his tent in IL and "a and 80? They
are eager to storm the patronage gates. so all
they ask is that the nominee be one they
can count upon to restore the partys habit of
victory.
But the prospective coup doesn't look quite
simple to Senator Charles L. McNary of Ore
gon, the only Republican leader who has mas
tered the trick of maintaining his poise and
sense of proportion while keeping both ears to
the ground
Senator BOrah and some other Western
candidates. as well, are opposed to the AAA
farm program. For such rugged individualism,
they are loved all the more by their party
brethren in the East.
But the farmers who do most of the voting
In the West, have grown fond Of the AAA.
So. says Senator McNary, if the Repub-
Iicans are to be against the AAA in So, they
can't expect to win in the West unless they
think up a farm program better than the
AAA Their last agrarian innovation. the
Hoover farm board. didn't click.
Apparently. the Republicans will have to so
West for ideas, as well as a nominee.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
MASTER MIND

THAT this should come to pass was in
evitab,c. that Howard c. Hopson, some
where along the line. would be called the
master mind" Like the high powered car, .
the smoking revolver" and the "sickening
thud," the master mind" is always popular
with us newspaper folk
So Howard Hopson joins the innumerable
caravan. and as the latest in master minds
will gladden. the heart of many headline
writer.
Was 1t from this master mind that the idea
came of taking signatures for Geographic pro-
tests by the simple process of going alphabet
ically through the telephone book? Did this
super intellect conceive the great thought Of
employing Elmer. messenger boy and divinity
student, to solicit among his friends and rela-
tives at cents per signature?
Mr.. Hopson denies that he was the directing
genius" behind the Geographic bombardment
But master minds sometimes are modest
sometimes generous in passing credit for vast
ideas on to friends and associates 1t may be,
therefore. that his was an organization of
master minds and that the credit for those
miliancies should go elsewhere.
But there is at least one tribute that can
not be denied When it learned that Howard
@. Hopson was wanted for questioning the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
PROBLEMS OF WORKERS
STILL CONFRONT NATION

BY Times Reader
Haywood Broun's article of Aug.
Is said that when workers are
confronted with the choice of vot-
ing for a man who promises much,
but doesn't do it, and man who
promises nothing, the workers will
vote for the fellow who is frankly
their foe"
Broun never told a greater truth
better and talk to many Democrats
as we'll as Republicans Gust COM
mon men who are struggling to ex-
ist). They think: why doesn't
Roosevelt talk every night on the
radio and tell all the people of the
shysters in Congress and Senate
who will not pass the laws he has
asked in his attempt to aid every
body, then we would know he was
honest in what he meant, but we see
so much favoritism and graft right
here in Indianapolis that we know
he is not sincere in his past talks
or he would get the people behind
him and could get what was right"
The writer-as we'll as a number
of others-has always voted as
Democrat, but not the next time.
The writer's can chase over the
country and write flowery articles
about good times and you can refer
to increased saving accounts, but
you never get in touch with the
silent man whose heart and mind is
being slowly eaten out by the way
things are going. One of these days
the wolves will break down the
door.
Don't you suppose those men
know why the rich are fighting to
make soldier training compulsory
so they can have soldiers to protect
them and the young kids think they
are having the time of their lives
being tin soldiers. But wait until
they beg at factory door for a job
or more wages and then find other
tin soldiers with tear gas waiting
for them. All those tin soldiers
will not be generals or even good
privates and the Bible says, CAS- We
SOW so shall We reap" and I am old
enough to know that this is true.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22

South of market for half of its cotton, and
our Northwest of a market for half of its
wheat. 1t would mean depriving our great in
dustrial districts of the chance to grow rich
and prosperous-the chance, also, to end our
unemployment problem-out of war orders.
1t would mean refusing to let all the idle ships
in our harbors 80 back to gainful employment
In simple English, it would mean turning
our back on the certainty of a year or more
of top-speed prosperity
It can be done-if we want to do it badly
enough. 1t can't be done at all, however, if
we fail to count the cost in advance. Unless
we realize that remaining at peace in world
that has gone to war will call for sacrifices
right out of the old pocketbook we shall get
into the next war just as we got into the last
one-and for the same reasons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
PEACE SETS ITS PRICE

Tor people so anxious to keep out of war.
Il We Americans do singularly little thinking
about the price of remaining at peace.
We talk as ii war were something that
nations went into abSent-mindedly We assure
ourselves that since the overwhelming major
fly of Americans don't want another war. we
shall be able to stay out of it simply by an
exercise Of the will
BY talking and acting that way. We help
to pave the way for repetition of what hap
pened in April. 1917.
What We need to understand is that peace
has its price. 1t isn't something you can have
by just wishing for it, in this modern world.
You have to prepare for it, plan for it and
make sacrifices for it.
George Soule. editor of the New Republic.
discusses the price Of peace in a recent issue
of his magazine. He points out that sales of
American goods to warning nations, visits of
American business agents to war capitals,
loans of American money and the presence of
American ships in war zones got us into the
last war and would almost certainly do the
same thing in the next
The one remedy therefore. he adds, is to
follow a different course.
IF we give up the old conception of the
freedom of the seas and do not try to pro-
tect our ships or the goods they may bear to
the belligerents." he writes IF We do not
attempt to guard the interests or lives of our
citizens in the war zones and if above all we
prevent the growth of war trade with the
benigerents by embracing al loans and all
shipments Of contrabrand to them. most Of the
economic complications that entangled US in
the last war will not be given a chance to
weave their fatal web"
There. then. is the formula; simple, but
expensive Shall We have the nerve. as a
nation. to apply it when that next European
war breaks out?
u would mean. for instance. depriving our
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
INTO HIS OWN
THE American male is coming into his
- colorful own at last.

THE American male is coming into his
u colorful own at last.
No longer need he sally forth night of it
dressed up like an undertaken. He may go as
peacock, not penguin Always butterfly at
heart, he is emerging from the sartorial
cocoon in which custom has wrapped him since
the days of the Puritans.
So, at least promises chat arbiter of the
elegancies, Raymond Twyeffort, chairman of
fashion committee of the American Merchant
Tailors' Association. 1t must be true, for Mr..
Twyefforts own Fifth Avenue shop is ablaze
with a display to stir the heart of Senator J.
Ham Lewis himself-Joseph coats, Cleopatra
vests, dark blue opera hats, rainbow collec-
ton of splendors to transform the tired bust
ness man into thing of beauty. Described as
bit of all right is a bright orange jacket to
catch Miladys eye of an evening.
America" says Mr.. Twyenort, "has been
suffering from pernicious anemia from lack of
color"
So that's what's been the matter!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22

MYTH Great Britain and Others trying to
w line up the United States against Italy
in the African European war threat Congress
is failing in its duty to provide for the neu-
trality which we believe public opinion de-
mands
The World War record Of bankruptcy and
blood proves how easily the United States
can drift into a foreign conflict, though the
combined American public, President and
Congress opposes such ENHANCEMENT and De-
leves it impossible. Regardless of our peace
desires today, we are in danger of being
pulled into the next foreign war. If we ignore
our experience we are as foolish as the child
who sticks his hand into the fire second
time.
The neutrality resolution passed by the
Senate yesterday will not give US sufficient
protection. The proposed House resolution is
even less adequate
The Senate ban on munitions sales and
shipments to belligerents ignores the fact
that the bulk of war trade is not direct NUM-
tons but essential contraband such as oil,
cotton and foodstuffs 1t also ignores the fact
that the chief avenue of ENHANCEMENT is
through loans and credits making America an
investor il the foreign war. The proposed
House resolution would fix no mandatory ban
on anything even on munitions, but leave the
entire policy discretionary with the President.
HERE is the record proving the futility of
Il that approach:
The absurdity of safeguarding neutrality
by merely permitting the President to take
such steps if he desires, after war begins, is
shown by President Wilson's official reminder
to Germany in 1915 that an American ban on
allied war trade would violate neutrality. Re-
plying 10 Germanys request that we ban war
shipments to the Allies, President Wilson
stated the well-established international law
as follows:
This government holds-and is con-
strained to hold in view of the present indis-
putable doctrines of accepted international
law-that any change in our laws of neutral
ity during the progress of war, which would
affect unequally the relations of the United
States with the nations at war, would be an
unjustifable departure from the principle of
strict neutrality by which it has consistently
sought to direct its actions The placing of
an embargo on the trade in arms at the pres
ent time would constitute such change and
be direct violation of the neutrality of the
United States"
The Senate proposal for such a ban late in
1914 was protested by Britain ard disavowed
by the State Department.
Thus, on the record the proposed dscre-
tionary grant of embargo power to the Presi-
dent after hostilities begin would actually en-
courage violation of neutrality and Our direct
participation in foreign war
THE record is equally clear on the prime
- Importance of contraband other than
munitions, which the Senate fails TO ban.
Apart from the obvious examples Of cotton
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
THURSDAY. AUG y laas
FOOD FOR THOUGHT

THE complaint is often heard in Indian
spolis that the Police Departments res
cue squad" system on accidents is antiouated
and dangerous.
1t is true, of course. that only the police
may summon the ambulance and that. in some
cases, injured persons are forced to wait for
come time after the arrival Of police for the
ambulance.
In view of these repeated complaints it
may be sensible move for Chief Nike Nor
rissey and the Safety Board to review its sys-
TEN on accidents and, if necessary, alter the
setup
The difficulties of course. lie in the fact
that If the police did not have the discretion
ary power Of slImmoning the ambulances the
costs Of that service would be tremendous to
City Hospital Every case, no matter how
petty. would be rush ambulance call.
But the fact remains that seriously injured
persons have been forced sometimes to wait as
long as half an hour before the ambulance
could arrive.
It seems criminal to think of dying persons
perhaps stretched out on the sidewalk, while
police restrain Gould-be Samaritans from
rushing the persons to the hospital with expla-
nations that the ambulance will arrive at any
moment
There should be some middle-grOund be-
tween these two difficult situations
Perhaps the Safety Board can find it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
Never Again
An Editorial

and scrap iron exports which are the basis
Of munitions manufacture, oil and food ship
ments we're even more important than direct
munitions because more scarce
Germany could not win without starving
out England. hence the submarine terror. AS
for the American oil which ran the allied
navies. tanks transport. and aviation Glenn
enceau voiced truism in saying oil won the
war.
To embargo munitions and permit the
larger trade in such contraband as cotton
scrap, oil and foodstuffs, is to close the crack
in the door carefully and leave open the whole
side of the house.
z VEN more important is the power of loans
~ and credits to pull us into foreign war.
BY extending credit We underwrte the war
and then go to war finally to make good that
investment-which we lose anyway The idea
that we can be neutral in any war in which we
have millions and billions of dollars invested
IS fantastic. Where they treasure is :"
Let's look at the insidious record:
In Secretary of State Lansings success
full effort in 1915 to lift the original neutrality
ban on belligerent loans, he wrote to President
Wilson:
Doubtless Secretary McAdoo has dis
cussed with you the necessity of floating gov
eminent loans for the belligerent nations
which are purchasing such great quantities of
goods in this country, in order to avoid a seri-
GUS financial situation which will not only
affect them but this country as well
to withdraw any considerable amount (of gold
from Europe to finance the American war
trade) would disastrously affect the credit of
European nations, and the consequence would
be q general state of bankruptcy If the
European countries can not find means to pay
for the excess of goods sold to them e.
they will have to stop buying"
In other words, the war could not con-
tinue unless America financed it.
And when we did put up the money, the
French statesman, Andre Tardeu, made the
very obvious servation-whch seems to have
escaped the Senate yesterday: From that
time on, whether desired or not, the victory
of the Allies became essential to the United
States"
We bailed out the bankers and we went
to war; But we lost our money which has
HeVel peeH pd4u DdCA' we 4oSC our youCnS Oh
the battlefelds abroad and lost our civil lib
critics at home; and we added to world bank
ruptcy and destruction which still grips us
and others today
OUCH are the facts They are the undeni-
~ able official document record of how we
got burned before historys tragic warning of
how we NAV he burned again
Unless Congress places an advance man
datory ban on all war credits to belligerents
and on all shipments of contraband in Amer
lean bottoms, the same major forces which
destroyed our neutrality before will threaten
us inevitably again.
This is the gravest issue in the world today
for America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
SUPPORTS MORRISSEY IN
PLEA FOR MORE COPS
BY L. A. Mulrey Jr.

BY L. A. Mulrey Jr.
Comes now a Daily Reader" who
has the nerve to squawk because
the chief of police has requested
more men on the force.
He is the same person who will
wall loudest at traffic violations and
deaths and of prostitutes walking
our streets and protest vainly be-
cause all the beer taverns are closed
on Sunday.
There has been a lot of abuse
heaped on Mike MorrisSey's shoul-
ders since he took Office but if we
stop to consider those who were in
the Office ahead of him, we can be
thankful that he is not as black as
he is pictured.
If he had the man-power, he
could put a stop to some of the
reckless driving this writer witnesses
every evening and the rowdiness in
beer parlors every night, which. by
the way, is the reason they close on
Sunday. He could corner some of
the footpads that lurk in every alley.
He could rid us of the "old morons"
that shadow every schoolhouse and
put an end to that public enemy
"the gasoline thief"
The government never rid us of
racketeers such as Dillinger and
his stripe with an inadequate force.
1t took the combined effort of the
G-Men to accomplish the task. And
we can't expect the chief to be a
miracle man.
In these hard times, every man
with a good job or income is con-
sidered a little off-color by the ma
jority of the non-workerS but, after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-22
He Points With Pride

high standards of percentage in
class work and personal record.
The same language is spoken
and taught. Religious thought
and practices are matters of
choice since all are united in the
honor and worship of One Su-
preme Being, God.
Contrast the kingdoms or states
of Europe. the great diversity of
language laws and customs, the
absence of any uniform system of
education, the emphasis placed on
different forms of religions and
religious customs, an utter lack
of unity of plan or purpose OF the
different governments composing
the Eastern hemisphere, all sus-
piciouS of the motives of each
other and anticipating bloody war
at any overt act of the other at
any time with enormous standing
armies and huge navies for the
upkeep of which stupendous taxes
burden the people badly governed
by dictators and ancient laws and
customs.
These and other bad conditions
retard progress or national devel-
opment and will continue to do
so until those governments are
federated under representative
government with just and equal
laws. The common school edu-
Gates the children impartially and
practically, regardless Of creeds or
any other consideration than a
high standard of knowledge under
teachers whose purpose is i'm
parting knowledge through high
standards of text books approved
by an educational board qualified
to educate children away from
ignorance and crime to qualify for
good citizenship.
A variety of tongues and Ian
guage is not compatible with the
best interests of business, society
or intelligent government. No
language is more intelligent or
capable of finer meanings than
the American tongue and the
civilized world must and will
eventually accept it as such.