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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
MURDEROUS CROSSINGS

A T Rockville, Nd just outside of Wash
- ington, a passenger train plowed into
school bus, killing IA high school students and
injuring others. This tragedy at the doorstep
of the capital, typical of SO many grade-cross-
ing fatalities throughout the country, under
scores the demand that the bulk of the $780,
100000 earmarked for highways in the work.
relief program be spent for the abatement of
such death traps.
The Maryland crossing is only one Of some
100000 potential agencies of massacre in the
United States. Last year these caused an es-
timated 1000 deaths and 5000 injuries.
A lethal grade crossing can be exterminated
for as little as $4,000. Gov. La Toilette of
Wisconsin reduced the death rate from this
cause by so per cent IN one year with an abate-
ment program financed by the state and rail-
roads. No form of public works offers quicker
returns in jobs and salvaged lives than this.
Now that the means are at hand to give
work and prevent death it would be indefensi
bic to spend this money on construction of
highways not vitality needed
Auto drivers, especially those intrusted
with the lives of passengers, must learn to
stop, look and listen. The governments job
is to send out its work crews at once to start
dirt flying in a nationwide project of death
proofing the highways
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
"THE DUTY OF THE yICTORS"

A LFRED A. STACEY, national comman-
- der Of the Grand Army Of the Republic,
believes tina. the Federal government should
pay Civil War pensions 10 veterans Of the
Confederate armies as wei as to Union men.
This, says Commander Stacey, would not
only be a humanitarian act; it would help
to remove the last vestiges of bitterness, and
it would seal the harmony that now exists be-
tween one-time enemies. Such a move he
says, is "the duty of the gictors"
Precisely 10 years have passed since the
men in blue and gray laid down their arms
The hatred and suspicion of war days are
almost dead, by now.
What more fitting way would there be
for the country to symbolic this fact than
to do as this old soldier suggests and put the
Confederate veterans on the pension rolls?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
Day Of Youth Is Here

will get thousands to come at no
extra expense, and it will be a
meeting long to be remembered,
since it will halt many of the little
new party attempts and unite all
youths in their attempt to assert
their rights.
When a people refuse to trust
their sons and daughters, for fear
they are reds" there is little
hope for the country, for if we go
red" our youths can be relied
upon to put on the show just as
well as any one else, besides fight
ing them in their attempt to enter
politics as leaders in their own
right rather than follow some OF
the old leaders.
The young men and young
women must act now if they hope
to have any say in party affairs
and call the meeting for May 20.
The old line party men keep the
young set stalled off, in the be-
lief they will come in for some
thing if they will let the old set
do all the planning.
It's the bunk-youths must step
out in front and tell, through their
great creators, what the young
men and women are thinking and
what they propose to do, and the
few old party men who keep send
ing up these smoke screens will
fade, close up and step out of
picture that belongs to the young
set by every rule and every reason
worth while offering.
This is youths day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
THE ROERICH PACT

THIRTY ONE years ago Prof. Nicholas
Roerich had an idea. Yesterday at the
White House, the plenipotentiaries of 10 Amer
lean nations, including the United States, cele-
brated Pan-American day by translating his
idea into an international covenant.
Under the Roerich pact, the signatory ma
lions agree to protect cultural institutions and
monuments within their borders at all times
and to respect the inviolability of those treas
ures of human genius in times of war. 1t is
an open compact of civilization to end vandal-
ism of libraries, cathedrals, museums and the
like. All of the nations of the world are in
vted to add their signatures to the document
approved so enthusiastically by the republics
of the two American continents.
Thus does progress inch forward. And thus
do persevering idealists like Prof Poerich and
his small band Of followers mold a better
civilization.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
CAREER MEN IN POLITICS

COv. HAROLD G. HOFFMAN of New Jer-
- sey, in an address in Ohio, calls for more
career men" in politics to end the prevail
ing distrust of political management.
I'VE have failed" he says, ito develop a
public servant personnel which is uniformly
of such high character as to warrant conf
oence that administration by a government
agency is bound to provide those elements of
integrity, trusteeship, and inviolable ethics
which would command universal respect for
the public administrator"
There is good deal of logic in this de-
mand. 1t looks very much as if we were en-
tering era in which government would pro-
gressivey become more active instead of less,
and exercise more and more control over af-
fairs which touch the lives of all of us most
intimately
No such program can succeed unless pub
lie servants are of very high type. The old
time political appointee is as out of date as
The stagecoach in modern America.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
PUNISH THEM, TOO

MYTH heavy rains, dust storms and poor
w visibility to harass the drivers of automo-
bfles IN indianapolis, motorists find that
members of their own clan are their greatest
enemies after darkness settles over the city.
= The motorist who observes the law, driv-
ing carefully with proper lighting on MS car
discovers scores of other motorists who refuse
to heed the law. They are the drivers who
mark their cars on heavily travelled streets and
promptly neglect TO turn on lights.
A car without proper front and rear lights
Is menace. even on well-lighted boulevard
MANY cases in which automobiles have crashed
into other parked cars are recorded on the
traffic death list in Marion County in the last
few years
If the police department really means TO
enforce the traffic laws and really means 10
halt the rising traffic toll then duty will be
neglected if these violators of the light law
are permitted to go unpublished.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
ruEspAY. APRIL ls. 1875.
ROOSEVELT AND THE BANKS


THEY are trying TO wreck the Roosevelt
bank reform bill On one side are the
Coughlin cure-allers. They have the extreme
and loosely drawn Nye-Sweeney bill, which
can not pass Congress, but which can
help to block the Administration bill on the
other side are reacuonary bankers and Senator
Glass, determined TO prevent reform.
And lurking in the background are Demo
cratic Congressional leaders, with knives up
their sleeves ready to finish the work Of the
more open enemies of the New Deal. They
hope at the last minute 10 slash the heart
out Of the Roosevelt Eccles bill and then pass
It with much palaver to cover what they have
done
OF the dire need for reform Of the Federal
Reserve System there can be no doubt.
Whether 1t is called a central bank or some
thing else the people through their govern
ment must recapture control Of the nations
money power Business can not breathe with
out credit. AS long as the II regional Fed
eral Reserve banks are run by governors
responsible only to private bankers, the latter
will rule. Under the Roosevelt-Eccles bill the
government would have to approve the selec-
ton of the regional governors, and would con-
troll the committee which supervises the all
important open market operations.
When the President took Office he prom
ised to drive the money changers from the
temple" To that end he forced through Con-
gress the Stock Exchange and banking laws.
But the reforms are far from complete. The
pending bill is the next step. 1t is the answer
to those who would change the whole system
overnight.
What the opponents of the ROosevelt-Eccles
bill-the American Bankers Association, the
Liberty League and the conservative Senators
fail to understand is that reform is inevitable.
If they succeed in wrecking this bill, they will
get by until next winter But then they prob
ably will get the Coughlin bill or something
worse.
This is typical of the general situation In
Washington today. The conservatives are cut
ting under the New Deal, with the foolish idea
that if they can only get rid of the Roosevelt
program the country will placidly go back to
being ruled by the interests. Many Demo-
cratic politicians are under the same delusion.
That is the way of disaster. We are not
out of the depression yet. The Presidents
legislative program for recovery and reform
must be enacted within the next few weeks
before Congress adjourns.
This will not happen automatically. 1t will
not happen unless the great mass OF voters
supporting the New Deal make themselves
heard on Capitol Hill above the clamor Of the
vested Hobbies and the partisan politicians. 1t
Will not happen unless the President drives
through the obstructionists with all OF his
powers of leadership.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

BY W. H. Brennan.
Your editorial on the students
protest against war was fine and
it seems people may yet see that
if our young men and young
women were placed in high offices,
this country would soon be back
on its feet.
If they are to shoulder all these
debts, they should have the say
how to go about it and if they
must fight our wars, they should
be the ones to say when and how
it should be done.
In a letter from a writer I am
told I am wrong about boosting
the youth movement in politics.
The writer said, "Old men for
counsel and young men for war
is an old saying and is good now"
But 1 do not agree with him, for
it is a rotten saying, whoever
says it.
OF course, none Of us wants war
and to condemn our young set for
protesting doesn't make sense, no
matter who does it.
There is no need to fear our
youths are going wrong in politics
or war, for if they could get sup
port and build up their youth
movement in politics, it would be
much better than listening to
some of the older set year after
year, telling of what great things
to expect from them, Just around
the corner"
If the youths call their meeting
for May 90 in Indianapolis they
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
EXCITING EXPLORATION

1.-TWO French explorers have just set on on
i hike through the desolate Hoggar noun
tains of Africa in a hopeful effor1 to discover
the fabulous beautiful blond sirens Of the Cara
T-Djanoun peak
These lovely ladies. according to legend, i've
in fancy gardens high up in some lonely cielS
of these very remote mountains, and are so
extremely charming that no man who sees
them ever returns
The Frenchmen aim to find out all ABOUT
them. TO conduct a bit Of archaeological re-
search on the side, anG-if the legend turns
out to be a dud-to do little hunting
Now all this is sample of the kind of thing
that used to make exploration worth while
not because these sirens are supposed TO be so
excessively beautiful, but because the lcgenu
itself is fancifu and improbable. so that it
gives the explorers regular story book excuse
for making their trip.
The world is shy on legends these days.
When such a man as Byrd or wilkins goes
down to Antarctica, for instance, the dumbest
school boy knows perfectly well what he is go
ing to see-ice, and lots of it, few penguins,
and possibly some particular rass OF frozen
rock and snow that no one ever saw before.
There are no legends about the place. We
know too much. The explorer may add to our
knowledge of polar air currents and geology,
but won't come back talking OF marvels and
unearthly portents. Such things have passed
forever beyond the human horizon.
It was not always thus. A few centuries
ago an explorer did not merely set out to see
undiscovered land; he figured he had chance
70 stumble into the fabulous courts OF PreSter
John. or bag few unicorns. or find the golden
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

city Of Manoa. or see those s.fange folk whose
heads are IN the middle Of heir chests.
The stubbiest island thu broke the sea line
might be place of mott unearthly wonders.
That gave spice to life, and it lent some
point to exploring. Who wouldn't be willing
to rough it bit, If he believed that he might
IN their hair2
SO these Frenchmen have brought explora-
ton back 10 its old status. They b2ve dug up
legend; they are going of to ind the sirens,
who seem g have eluded mankind ever since
odysseus nanfully sailed past them.
II we could have more expeditions like this
one, exploration Sould be worth reading about
once again.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
ROOSEVELT CREDITED
FOR GOOD TO NATION

BY J. X.
I quite agree with r. r. G, that
it is not unpatriotic TO criticise the
President. But I do think that the
criticism should be constructive. To
be constructive, it should recognize
and give credit for the good that has
been done and condemn that which
is detrimental to the nation.
I do not subscribe to the "Roose-
velt can do no wrong" theory, but 1
do look upon President Roosevelt
first of all as a human being. He is
not a devil nor is he a saint. Be-
cause he is human, he is apt to make
many mistakes and listen at times to
the wrong advice. However, if he
never made mistakes, he still would
not please everybody. The same
might be said for any President.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
THE GRASSHOPPERS

THOSE who think of Hitler as the voice
of the German folk of Father Coughlin
as the voice of Catholicism, of Huey Long as
the voice of the United States Senate may re-
call the words of Edmund Burke on the noise
making of his day. Said he:
Because half dozen grasshoppers under
fern make the field ring with their importu-
nate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle,
repoSed beneath the shadow of the British
oak. chew and cud and are silent, pray do not
imagine that those who make the noise are the
only inhabitants of the field, that they are
many in number. or that they are other than
the Titled shriveled meager. hopping, though
loud and troublesome insects of the hour
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
u. S. CROP PROGRAM
NCONGRUOUS, HE SAYS
BY Will ii. Craig.

BY Will ii. Craig.
In a recent editorial, you said,
There is something so incongruous
about paying men to raise less
wheat and cotton and hogs at a
time when millions of people are
suffering for want of food and
clothing that we can hardly expect
to make this scheme permanent"
This is true, but how much more
incongruous is it for the Federal
government to spend hundreds of
millions of dollars to reduce crops
and then both state and nation ap-
propriate millions more to teach the
farmers how to raise bigger and
better crops.
What did the Indiana Budget
Committee or the Economy Com
mission say about appropriating
money to Purdue University for ex-
tension and experimental work
among farmers? No one knows, as
its reports were never made
known SO the taxpayers could see
how their money was wasted and
their interests exploited.
The government is going to buy
a lot of marginal land and retire it
from cultivation. At the same time,
it is spending hundreds of millions
Of dollars on the Boulder Dam and
other irrigation projects to bring
into cultivation millions of acres of
new land. Oh, consistency, thou art
a charm!
Going further, why should In
diana University have a teachers
training course when we have two
state and II non-state normals,
turning out a great surplus of
teachers with 5000 now idle in the
state? And why have seven divi-
sions in the Conservation Depart
ment, manned by lot of services,
like geology, bugology, ETC., when
such work is fully covered by the
Federal government and our own
state schools.
If the special session wants to
strike pay dirt" for the taxpayers,
let them dig into the expenditures
of the state schools, Conservation
Department and Highway Depart
ment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
CONFIDENCE IN NATIONS
ASSETS NEEDED
BY John B. Reed.


The defaulted loans and interest
on loans to foreign governments
have caused loss of confidence in
them and retarded commerce, ex-
change of commodities, thereby les
sening production, closing industries
and ousting employees.
These foreign and domestic Sc
curitieS were unloaded upon the
public for their money by the Nor
gans, MELONS, Whitneys, and others,
acting as brokers who retained
sizeable cash commissions.
Now the banks go broke and our
deposits are denied US. These de-
posts are represented by frozen as
sets Of nonconvertible securities.
Now prosperity will come on the
return of confidence in securities
and governments control Of their
issues.
Congress, to relieve this depres-
sion, is borrowing billions from
those pIunderers on Understanding
bonds, the money to be given to the
needy. or spent on federal, state or
municipal works.
This gives present relief, which
Is most important, but does little
toward. the most essential need
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
HE'S A DEMOCRAT
WHO MADE AN ERROR

BY r. r. G.
Roosevelt Follower" flatters me.
He is wrong on all counts.
am not Republican, nor am n
hot-headed. have never held pub
lie office and 1 don't think the del
preston would have ended imme-
diately had Hoover been reelected. I
think the $4,9OO,OOO,OOO work relief
legislation will do some good. 1t will
help buy the Administration back
into office in 1886.
I have never tried to dictate to
anybody and am not a sore head. I
am just deluded Democrat who is
honest enough to face the facts and
admit the error Of my ways.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
LUDLOW PRAISES STAND
OF TINES ON AMENDMENT
Nv Rep. LOUIS Ludlow

BY Rep. LonS LudloW.
Thanks very much for your letter
and for its enclosures. the editorial
and cartoon that appeared in The
indianapolis Times. I am deeply
appreciative Of the very effective
support The Times is giving to the
resolution which I have introduced
to minimize the possibility Of war.
I have no pride of authorship
whatever, but I believe the proposed
amendment I have introduced is
the most effective measure pend
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
starting industries in the production

starting industries in the production
of commodities.
These borrowed monies must all
be repaid with interest added. These
plunderers must, in some way, be
made to give this accumulated
wealth back to the public where it
belongs.
One way is to stop issuance of
any interest bearing bonds and
hereafter use paper money, as gold
and silver instead.
Confidence in the Soundness OF
our country's assets makes one in
vestment as good as another.
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ing before Congress as a preven-
tive of war. I also believe that I'M
less we secure the adoption Of this
amendment, or one similar to it,
we shall before very long find our
selves involved in another war. 1t
is situation, I think, that is a
challenge to all patriotic Americans
who believe in majority rule espe-
cially in respect to such a sacred
decision as decision for or against
war.
I think The Times is rendering
a great service to humanity by its
very intelligent championship Of
this cause, and as one who IS seek
ing to be a humble instrument in
accomplishing a beneficial service
to humanity, I am very apprecia-
tive you may be sure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
YOUNGER GENERATION TAKES
STAND AGAINST WAR
By a Reader.

BY Reader.
1t makes ones heart swell to hear
our doughboys tell it. When it
comes to panning and rubbing it in
till it gets results you can't beat a
dyed -the-wool doughboy.
Some gentleman calling himself a
Regular Soldier, either in fanci-
full moment or by some mistake
wrote certain things that failed to
appeal to the real doughboys. In
fact it raised their bile. The Reg
ular Soldier" has our sympathy. He
hasn't reached the end yet.
I was a regular soldier myself
during the World War. I remember
all the battles in which fought as
If they were only yesterday. I re-
member I had blue pieces and
brown pieces and a big agate. I
lined up the two armies in battle
array and hid the general (just like
they do in the real thing. Each
side got its turn to blast the men Of
the other side. I fought most the
battles of the time and lot more
besides which I thought were neces-
sary for a well-rounded war.
Let us hope that my generation
and the succeeding generation will
engage only in this type Of warfare.
God alone, with the exception OF
some few Of the fine lads that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
So They Say

There is a rising tide of industrial
Observation-Disclosures Wagner Of New
York.
He is very sweet and very Won
derful. We will continue to be the
very best of friends.-Princess Bar
bara Hutton Mdivani. seeking di-
Vorce.
I am watching events. When
and if-the time comes that I may
feel called upon to act again, will
act.-Upton Sinclair.
Women who pluck their eyebrows
endanger their eyes. Besides, that
practice, in the opinion of men, is
hideous.-Paul Clifford, prominent
Vermont optometrist.
What science has done TO maket
it possible to live to ripper age IS
offset by the tempo of the times
DR.. H w. Cook, insurance executive
If recovery does not come soon,
we may as well get ready for what
ever DR.. Townsend, the Rev. Fa-
Their Coughlin and Huey Long pro-
pose-Edward A Filene. Boston
merchant.
Don't destroy 95 honest utility
men to get at five utility crooks
Fred c. Clark, national commander
Of Crusaders.
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1t has been proved, says New York psy-
chologist, that one mind can affect another at
a distance. We're convinced of it, having
seen men turn pale after trumping an ace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
The Message Center

(TimeS readers are fnvtted to cypress
their UietCS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 40iH
be 1oithheld at request Of the letter
frriteF.l
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16
COQUETTE
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

BY POLLY LOIS AORION
You are a crimson leaf floating
upon still water.
Blue-green ice that warns before
death comes.
Tongues Of bright flame, embracing
charring.
And tie dank smell Of death IN
haunted empty Tooma
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

Cleveland girl who hiccoughed for nearly
three weeks straight was advised to drink lots
of beer. The object seems to be hicccugh to
end all hiccoughs.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

Helen Morgan of stage fame has sued her
husband for divorce on grounds he forced her
ito support herself" We thought a piano did
that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

Rhode Island missionary returns to United
States with tales of cannibalistic Solomon
Islanders. Wonder why missionaries teach ma
tives to love their fellow-men when they al
ready dote on them?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

Under new Washington ruling. dogs and
cats may now ride in Pullman cars. Since meat
prices went up. We thought all available space
was taken up by hogs and cattle.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-16

Remember when people used to chew each
mouthful of food certain number of times
to aid digestion? Now they do it to get their
moneys worth.