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The Washington times., 1935-07-20
COUNTERACTS GLARE

When choosing the paint for the
walls and ceiling of a room that
receives much direct sunlight, give
a thought to the cool gray-greenS
that are so restful to the eyes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER Q, 1895.
THE NEW CAR SEASON

THEY are beautiful new streamline models which
- you the average automobile user, will see on
display at the indianapolis automobile show. Ma
chimes Of many hues and many improvements
And as you ponder whether to trade in your old
car for this fall or wait until spring YOU
hold in your hands the success or failure of great
experiment.
The automobile industry has risked millions in
the hope that the public will change its buying
habits, now that the motor vehicle has become a.
year-round necessity instead of a summer luxury
If the public responds, the industry can overcome
costly characteristic-the irreguarty of employment
which was spelled misery to the families of hundreds
of thousands of workers in the automobile and kim
dred industries.
At President Roosevets request the industry
moved up the introduction of new models by two
months in an effort TO level off the extreme seasonal
peaks and valleys of production and thereby provide
months of steady employment for workers whose
tenure on the pay rolls heretofore has been COM
pressed into few weeks of filing rush orders
The automobile industry long has been one of
high daily wages but the periods of employment have
been short and the layofs lengthy resulting in low
annual wages and lean months of insecurity for the
workers.
This maintenance of pools of unemployed around
automobile factory centerS has been socially destruc
tive and economically wastefu and has added much
to the relief burden in those communities The work.
ers in automobile factories have not been the only
sufferers, for the industrys purchases have been
marked with about the same unevenness as its Sales
causing irregular pay rolls in factories supplying it
with tires, appliances and steel
This effort to reguarze employment deserves en-
couragement. The automobile industry should be
commended for its cooperative experiment in in
dustrial planning One company, General Motors,
has announced the establishment of sixty million
dollar fund to stabilize production and employment
even further than the inevitably gradual change in
buying habits will make possible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
WHERE WE ARE

COMFORTING to taxpayers is the assurance of
~ Jesse H. Jones, head of the Reconstruction
Finance Corp that the operating profits of this big
government bank will more than cancel possible
losses from bad loans.
Challenging to private financial institutions is Mr.
Jones invitation to them to take over the now profit
able service Of supplying the nations credit needs
responsibility which they loaded into the govern
ments spacious lap when the depression made profits
uncertain
And stimulating to industrial leadership should
be Mr. Jones suggestion that it take unto itself the
problem that is its own, the problem of stabizing
employment and building up purchasing power and
bring about balance between the nations ability
to produce and its ability to consume
Jesse Jones and his colleagues risked billions of
the taxpayers money On the country's future back
in the dark days when private nanciers were rakng
in their chips and withdrawing.
Their boldness proved to be good business Not
only the bank deposits and insurance policies
of millions Of Americans salvaged. Not only were
great corporations saved from bankruptcy and banks
and other lending agencies enabled to meet their de-
mands. Today, 81 per cent of the billions lent have
been repaid and of the remainder only small frac-
ton is in danger of being found uncollectable
But what the RFC started out to do under Hoover
and what it and other government lending agencies
have continued to do under Roosevelt has fastened
upon our economic system more or less permanent
structure of capital and debt, structure which
natural economic forces otherwise would have ruth
lessly destroyed.
The dog-eat-dog economists may say in retrospect
that this was mistake, that the depression should
have been allowed to run it's course But ours is a
political democracy, where the human equation is
who
eminent interference, frantcaly solicited and OBJ
tanned government assistance when the juggernaut
of defation bore down upon them
For better or for worse we have bolstered-rp
capital structure. And bolstered-up purchasing
power is necessary to keep economic system func-
toning within that structure. That means higher
real for industrial workers and higher incomes
for farmers, small tradesmen and others who do not
draw wages from industry
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
THE BLUE LAWS PASS

nNE result of the recent elections was the release
~ of Pennsylvanians from the Sunday blue laws
OF 1894 BY exercising local option, granted by the
last Legislature, major cities and towns opened their
theaterS.
The decision of the people was expected They
already had obtained Sunday sports. Now they can
go to the movies and Sunday afternoon and eve
ming of wholesome recreation will be possible just
as it is in Indiana New Jersey, Illinois and many
other states
The Sundays under the blue laws encouraged vice,
ranging from the minor ones of children with moth
ing to do after church, the major ones of bored
men who found the way to back doors of saloons
The healthy situation, in states which permitted
innocent amusements following the morning church
services, much better than that in Pennsylvania
but it took the citizens there long time to make up
their minds.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
THE MODERN STUDENT

4 NY one who has been in contact with STU
dents during the depression will appreciate the
little story which appeared the other day about the
date bureau at Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology
The boys and girls have become so efficient in
budgeting their money and time that they have set
up all kinds of little New Deal" contrivances This
bureau is of them.
Boys who desire a companion register their re-
quirements with the bureau. They describe the girl
say where they with to take her. and state how much
money they spend. The bureau has on file the
girls in the neighborhood who eligible dates"
and makes arrangements for the meeting It has
gone far that it has produced a perfect date
sort Of little Miss America named Bobby Rapport
She is described red-head and a junior at
Simmons,
One must admire todays collegians They do
things which show the American spirit is not
tagging.
An incredible amount of hitch-hiking is DONE
even when they have money. This in the face of
anti-thumbng laws. In addition to getting to and
from college without spending money they make
long summer tours We suspect that the depression
student sees much more of the country in year
than the pampered children who grew up before the
hard times.
frankness, A date occasionally is necessity to the
students, they go about eliminating all the waste
and lost motion In obtaining it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

(OMEBODY says that the American woman being
~ swayed easily by her emotions, shops too bur-
redly
Now such woman may exist, but I've not met
her lately Most of those seen in the shops dawdle
for hours over the simplest purchases. Instead of
emotion, extraordinary caution appears to svav
them.
To be sure there are occasional exceptions -
women who are overcome with the sudden desire for
some hat or bag or scarf whose color or form makes
such strong appeal thai they are not able to resist
its charm.
But this kind of buying can not rightly be called
shopping: it's spree.
Wardrobe planning is an admirable virtue, and
usually positive necessity But there come to all
of moments when plans must be flung to the
winds lest something inside us burst When that
moment arrives the economic skies may be their
blacklist, love may lie bleeding in the dust, or
perhaps our children have hurt u.s. and so we go on
living only if We are able to rush out and buy some
thing too extravagant for our purse, something
wholly unfit for our wardrobe.
1t may not be bad taste, then, which prompts
the typst the kitchen maid or the salesgir to some
orgy of expensive shopping 1t may be the express
sion of an inner rebellion which if suppressed too
long would topple her destroy her morale.
Each woman's closet contains some such article
a reminder of the conquest Of spirit circum-
stances. In mine it's hopelessly unbeconling yellow
coat-but it represents a victory.
So, the too-bright hat, the vivid shoes the bag
which shouts its coming far down the street. may not
be just hat or shoes or bag. Perhaps they are
stepping stones through some slough of despond.
1t is sometimes imperative that woman shop with
her emotions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

| tic tendencies by the resolutions
adopted during the convention.
The first is the decision not
to aid in organizing the unem-
ployed or relief workers. On record,
the A. F. of l.. is opposed to the
class theory, but in making this deci-
sion it recognized at least there are
two classes of workers: The I'M
employed and relief workers in one
class and the employed workers in
another. The purpose of the A. F.
of L. is to aid only the employed
class and may the devil take the
other
1t is a serious violation of our
theory of democracy when the
American Legion fosters legislation
to disfranchise an American citizen
because of his political belief, but
when the A. F. of L. disbars a work
er from holding office in his labor
union because of his political belief
it makes democracy seem a farce.
With its present tactics of apply
ing political pressure, the A. F. of l..
has accomplished some meager re-
suits in the way of labor legislation,
but most of this legislation has been
declared unconstitutional by Fed
eral judges and the Supreme Court.
The only way that labor can have
laws interpreted to its advantage is
to unite in political party and ap-
point its own judges; but the A. F..
of l.. again refuses to believe in
democratic methods and will revert
to the old method of direct action
which is anti-social. An organiza-
ton believing in democracy should
use democratic methods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT?

CPEAKING to the Ohio Chamber of Commerce in
~ Cleveland, Gov. Landon eXpounded doctrine
which he described as Kansas horse sense This
seems to consist of keeping government as simple
as possible adjusting it in the light of experience to
meet problems as they arise and accomplishing this
as far as possible on pay -you-go basis.
Few people, we believe will disagree with his gen.
eral thesis Yet they will differ on what is necessary
for government to do, what experience has
taught and when and how it is possible to operate
on a cash basis.
This Kansas idea is not new 1t essentially was
the philosophy of President Coolidge In his regime
the disparity between the income of the rural popu
lation and the city population grew ever WIDER the
credit of the people was funneled into the stock
markets, billions of the peoples savings dis
spated in blue sky operations and sent abroad on
bad loans. Through it all Mr.. Coolidge kept govern
ment simple, and his Federal budget better than
balanced. But not the economic budget of the
people.
DRESIDENT HOOVER embraced the same phi
losophy. His regime harvested the whrlwind of
bankruptcies foreclosures pauperzation. In his four
years the national income shriveled to about half
its former size and the ranks of the unemployed and
dspossessed multiplied. Though he strove nightly
to keep government simple as possible, and by
higher taxes and economy to get on pay-as- you-go
basis he couldn't balance his Federal budget.
From bad to went the individual and collective
budgets of the people, whose welfare the govern
ment existed to serve.
President Roosevelt has often expressed this same
general theory of what constitutes good government.
Yet his application of it has been quite different
from that of either COOLIDGE or Hoover. Under him,
the government stepped to stop some of the gam
bling with other people money which had proceeded
apacc under Coolidge, and to reverse the deflation
which crushed out economic life and hope under
Hoover. The President, busy making the government
do what he regards as necessary, has given less
attention to balancing the Federal budget Perhaps
not enough attention.
How simple We keep our government? What
has experience taught? When is a balanced govern
ment budget important than all other con-
siderationS?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

A-Sept. Is. Forty people were
Killed or died from injuries, and
about 100 were injured.
Q-What flag is flown by steam
ers entering a foreign port?
/A-The flag of the country
whose port it is entering is dis
played forward and the national
flag of the ship at the stern.
Q-Why are United States coins
milied around the edges?
A-To prevent chipping and
also to prevent the coins from be-
ing fraudulently reduced in
weight.
Q-Who was Crispus Attacks?
"A half breed Indian, or
mulatto, of birmingham, Mass,
who was born about 1920 and was
killed in the Boston Massacre,
March 5. ITO. BY some historians
he is said to have been a quiet on
locker; by others, a ringleader in
the disturbance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
Sees Need for Change I'M Code

agree the ancient theory of fit
ting the punishment to the crime
is not only false, but dangerous.
You will understand better the
occasions when the punishment
actually fits the crime-taking
into consideration the character
and capacities of the criminal -
may be regarded simply as CO.
medicines.
Thus it is possible, these two
now happy youngsters, happy be-
cause they have been relieved of
their life sentences, have chance
to Plead for mercy, for their first
and only offense ever committed
by them to a jury of Christian
mothers and fathers.
Legal machinery by which such
Tragedies as these at Jasper and
all over the state might be averted
is simple and comparatively fool
proof.
Indeterminate sentences for all
persons convicted of felonies
would place their fates in the
hands of prison board, composed
of practical criminologists,
pSychiatrists and vocational edu-
Gators. Regardless of the con-
vict's offense he would be in
generated until he could DEM
onstrate to this expert boards
satisfaction that he was entitled
to liberty and unlikely again to
abuse it.
The indeterminate sentence is
a powerful safeguard which pro-
tects society while offering the
repentant criminal a sporting
chance to come back. The act
committed by these youths was
wrong, reckless. 1t was silly of
them to believe that they could
get away with it. These boys de-
served a lesson, they did not de-
serve long terms in prison.
Each day hundreds Of young
men enter prisons facing terms
that leave them hopeless and en-
FILTERED. Many could be saved.
1t is a crying shame that they are
left to degenerate into blanched,
furtive beasts because the society
which judges them lacks both
mass intelligence and mercy as
practiced by our Savior while
on earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
Historic Rhine
BY BERTRAM DAY

b bEhI RAM DAY
The Rhine was born in far-off Al
pine heights,
Its glacier cradle sheathed II
snow and ice,
In youth and age it laves historic
sights,
AS it flows seward to its Para
disc.
Old castles border this majestic
stream
And on its silver thread, inlaid
with thought,
Are strung the pearls of love-per-
haps a dream,
Perchance legend dauntless men
have wrought.
The shadows of the Great passed
Ger its falls
And were reflected in its secret
waves,
For Romans, Teutons, Normans,
Franks and Gauls
Have battled here to conquer
lands and slaves.
Upon the bosom of the noble Rhine
Have travelled commerce, culture,
Cross Divine!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

General Wayne made in 1795 with Little Turtle
chief of the Miamis It would perpetuate of the
most important works of peace done by fighting
man. The Treaty Of GreeneVile, as it then was
called was one Of the events which opened the
Northwest Territory to safe settlement.
Rep. Frank L. Xlceb Of Ohio is sponsoring the
necessary BILL which seems to have the approval of
many groups Of citizens devoted to historical re-
search. Among the many petitions for government
monuments, this one seems to be as worthy as any,
Wayne left his trail from the seaboard to the
Great Lakes. The grant for Greenville has merit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
REPUBLICANS LEARNING
ABOUT NOMINEES

BY N. E. p
The defeat of Jack Kelly, Demo-
cratic nominee for mayor of Phila-
delphit, may have been due partly
to dissension in his own party but
it does show something about the
attitude of Pennsylvania toward the
New Deal.
The Republicans took a tremen-
dous licking when George H. Earle
was elected as the first Democratic
Governor in 40 years and they i'm
mediately began to correct their
strategy. Instead of a nominee for
mayor of Philadelphia who could be
branded as a reactionary conserva-
tive they took Republican, S.
Davis Wilson, who certainly is a
progressive.
In other words, the Republicans
are learning. They are learning that
they have to make a new deal them
selves in their choice of candidates.
1t is more natural for Philadel-
phia to choose a Republican than
a Democrat, but it has not been so
natural to choose progressive Re-
publican.
Kelly is one of the ablest of the
younger followers of Roosevelt, a
fine fellow and one of notable
family. His brother is the play
wright, George Kelly, and another
brother is the famous Virginia
Judge" of vaudeville.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
BY T. Ernest Maholm, Attorney

ny L. Ernest Manolm, Attorney
Judge John l.. Sumner, of the
Dubois Circuit Court, last Satur-
day, demonstrated his Christian
spirit and human kindness when
he vacated a previous judgment
of conviction which carried a life
imprisonment sentence for two
20-year old boys.
Bonnie Robinson, mother1ess
since 8 months of age and father
less since IA years of age, and
Albert Boquette, of San Pedro,
Cal, we're in Dubois County,
Indiana, during September, 1884.
Penniless and hungry, they held
up a filling station at Hilham,
had the agent get in the car,
drive out of town, took $3.50 and
then brought him back. They
later were arrested and brought
to Jasper, Ind, and placed in
Jail.
They continually were warned
and threatened that unless they
pleaded guilty to kidnapping, they
would be sent to the electric chair
and made to burn on the hot
seat. Finally they did plead guilty
on October Is, 1935-and Judge
Sumner, having no alternative,
was compelled to sentence them
on their plea of guilty to life
imprisonment. And for one year
and fifteen days, they remained
in the Indiana State Prison, at
Michigan City.
Now it seems very curious this
case has not impressed thought
full people with the necessity for
drastic reform in the fundamen-
tails of our criminal code. Per-
haps it would be more to the point
to charge the basic theory on
which that code rests has proved
false, yet it continues to stand
virtually unchallenged because of
societys intellectual laziness.
Today we should know no two
persons commit Identical crimes
with the same freedom of con-
science, the same motives, the
same backgrounds, the same
mentality, the same physical
adaptibility to modern life and the
same capacity for repentance and
reformation.
If you will consider, you will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

creased since September, 1888. There
is the real test for the New Deal.
The President says the New Deal
is complete and business shall have
a breathing spell. Take a deep
breath, boys, for it will be hard to
get another five billion. If you don't
get it, run for the oxygen tent, but
don't try to find it buried under
balanced Federal budget. With the
lengthening lines of the unemployed
go the shadows that cast before
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
Daily Thought

And If kingdom be divided
against itself, that kingdom cannot
stand.-St. Mark 3:24.
THE multitude which does not
l. reduce itself to unity is confu-
sion; the unity which does not de-
pend upon the multitude, is tyran-
ny.-Pascal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
THE GENTLEMAN EVIDENTLY
is ANTI-NEW DEAL
By a Times Reader

BY Times Reader
The recovery myth" is much like
Halloween lore. No thinking person
would deny that the initiation of
bank deposits created by Federal
borrowing, and the spending Of these
billions by the government are re-
sponsible for this so-called improve
ment in business. This injection of
Federal spending is a hypodermic
and is only a temporary bolster for a
diseased economic structure. The
hypodermic must be administered
again, and III larger doses as the last
one wears off, if a total collapse is
to be averted. That this can con-
tinue for long period of time with
out bringing on exhaustion is an
other delusion.
The New Deal architects have
added more membranes to a fail
ing economic system, rather than
having removed a cancer that will
cause its not far distant death.
Unemployment actually has in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
ANOTHER WAYNE MEMORIAL

IRON the lovely little churchyard of st. Davids
Pennsylvania across the mountains to the Ohio
and through Indiana, runs the path of memory of
Anthony Wayne.
The Waynes lie in st. Davids: it was their fam
lily church We are reminded of the many scenes of
the generals exploits by current movement to
build by Federal grant. memorial at Greenvile, O.
The memorial would be in honor of treaty
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
GLOW is sandpaper made?

Glow is sandpaper made?
A-By coating stout paper with
glue and sitting fine sand over its
surface before the glue sets.
Q-Do persons born in the
United States of alien parents have
to apply for citizenship papers
when they become of age?
A-No; they are natural born
American citizens.
Q-WhaG was the date of the
explosion in Wall Street in 1920,
and how many persons were killed
and injured?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09
Questions and Answers

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Indianapolis Times Washington
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ington. d. C. THE EDITOR.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

them the approaching day of reck-
oning. 1t presages not a New Deal
OF tlnkering, but new structure of
production.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

The fact that the American Army is so small is
proof positive we have aggressive intentions
against any nation on earth.-George H. Dern Sec
rotary of War.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-09

I'm not going back to the stage nor into films. In
my opinion, marriage is 24-hour job.-Mrs. James
tJimmy) Walker.
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