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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
NO MORE SANTA CLAUS?

ONCE the wrecking of the Geneva disarm-
- ament conference eight years ago, the
United States Navy has played Santa Claus
for the warship builders who did the wrecking.
Now, however, it appears that the admirals
are weary Of the masquerade.
They have rejected all bids on a 1o,OoO-ton
cruiser, the lowest of which was s15525 900.
the highest sl7,92OOOO (They did, though.
award contract for 14,7OO-ton aircraft car
rier at S21 900 900 when they paid only $19,-
100000 for a 2O,OOO-ton carrier in 1880
In the boom days of 1929, with labor and
material at the peak the Navy paid $S673 900
for a 10,00O-ton cruiser.
The company which put in the present bid
of s1792OOOO offered in 1892 to build just such
ship for s9525 900.
With labor and material prices dropping
boosting prices. The admirals never COM
planned.
The only break came in 1892 when Beth
lehem Shipbuilding took a cruiser for $685.
coo. 1t was not, however. the depression that
brought the price down. 1t was that rarity
among our warship -builders-genuine compe-
tition.
ar outsider lad entered the bidding. To
meev this emergency" according to testimony
before the Senate Munitions Committee,
Eugene Grace, head of Bethlehem Steel Corp.
told the manager of Bethlehem Ship:
"Wakeman, you are authorized to use your
judgment, and be sure to get the work"
This resulted in slashing about 100000
from Bethlehems price. The interloper was
squeezed out.
The next year prices were back to SILL
GIT ,O0O though steel had dropped to S1.61 for
each hundred pounds from S1.88 in the boom.
Labor was down to 500 from high of 66.7.
Today, with but slight change in steel
prices, and with labor earning a per capita
weekly average of $24.35 as against more than
S28 even in 1880, the Navy opens bids calling
for an expenditure in some cases virtually
twice the boom cost.
And in those boom days the shipbuilderS
were making profits Up to 81 per cent when
they took a 10,O0O-Con cruiser for S10,60O,00O.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
A LESSON
BY EUGENE RICHARr

I have been slow indeed to learn
To stand alone, and not to turn
With eloquent and pleading eyes
For comfort to the strong and wise.
I have been eager, when love came,
To kiss. to sing. to call name
To go at last beyond the wall
That makes strange hermits Of us
all.
I have been always one to scorn
The creed that makes Of love
thorn
To tear the heart; a ghost that
cries.
A fruit that withers. a dream that
dies.
Now have learned the changeling
love
Is like the sprites they tell US Of
Like any elf or lepreehaun
That goes without good-by at dawn.
I can bear knowing what I know,
Relentless time must have It so.
am not first TO come TO grief
For some mad, glorious belief. 6 Il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
WHAT. WASN'T SAID

COME thoughts on Constitution speeches:
~ Herbert Hoover vibrabes in defense of the
Bill Of Rights which he believes to be menaced
by new economic PHILOSOPHERS"
We seem to remember that Mr.. Hoover was
the man at whose orders tear gas bombs bay
onets and torches were used to prevent a group
OF ex-soldiers from exercising their right of
free assembly.
Frank Lowden quotes the celebrated ours
is an indisSoluble union of indestructible
states" recalls that under Abraham Lincoln. in
the strife of Civil War, the people proved the
indissolubilty Of the Union. and infers that.
against Franklin Roosevelt. in the strife Of
ballots the people will have to prove the in
destructibility of the states
Mr.. Lowden neglects to mention that under
Lincoln'S leadership. the people found it neces-
sary to add the Thirteenth. Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Amendments in order to makes ours
an "indissoluble union"
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt makes her first
public appearance since she stood beside Mr..
Hoover on the Madison Square Garden plat
form in the fall of 1892 when the latter ven
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we produce and produce what we
can use.
Government reports tell us that
3 per cent of the people now own
10 per cent of the wealth. That 3
per cent. or about four million, will
be benefited Gf getting money for
which they have no use is a bene-
fit, by continuing the capitalist
system, and 1O5OO0,OOO will be
benefited by a change to Social
ism.
There is nothing fantastic about
the Socialist program. 1t is entirely
practicable and in fact is now es-
tablished in this country in the
postof1ice, public schools, police and
fire departments, public libraries,
streets and highways, harbors, play
grounds and parks and in all Of
these it is a decided success. Why
not make the manufacturing of
hats, shoes, clothing, nails, bricks
and every other thing of public
need, public utilities, owned by the
people and run to supply human
need?
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Times Books

ONE Of the more interesting events in recent
~ American journalism has been the trans
formation by which Haywood Broun changed
from a pleasant whimsical humorist TO an in
fuential social critic.
He used to devote himself chiefly to writing
gay nothings about his dog. his domestic ar
rangements his poker games, and his infant.
But he has the faculty for getting furious about
injustice and human exploitation, and when he
saw those things about him in profusion he
stopped being whimsical and began to yell.
Some of his most effective yelling is now
available in book form in 1T Seems to Me:
l925-l935" (Harcourt, Brace; New York; s2.5O)
Here We have a compilation Of approximately
100 of his best newspaper columns; and a sur
prsingly high percentage is not ephemeral jour-
nalism but solid, meaty literature.
Here for instance, are his articles on the
Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Mooney case, the San
Jose lynchings, Al Smith at the 1882 Demo-
cratic convention, the killing of Two-Gun Crow
ley, and so on.
This book is about as readable hit of en-
lightened social criticism as you are apt to run
across in a long time
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
UPHOLDS SOCIALIST PLAN
AS AID TO NATION

By W. II. Richards
In an editorial last Thursday, you
state that under present conditions
there is no prospect that we can
ever abolish unemployment, but you
are in error when you say, 1T is a
problem that would be acute under
SOCIALISM, Communism, or Fascism,
just as it is now acute under CAPT
talism''
Every person who has taken the
trouble to learn the plan advocated
by the Socialists, knows that there
would be no unemployment problem
if that plan were in execution.
When ell industries are publicly
owned and operated solely to supply
the needs of the community and not
for profit to any private individual,
there will be need for less work.
Workers will be employed only
hours enough to supply plenty for
all, and have the rest Of the time
for rest and recreation.
With the worker being paid the
full value Of his product, labor viii
be able to buy. There will be no
surplu ses to neceSsitate a war for
foreign market. We will use what
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
THEY'LL GO SAVAGE

IT is probably one Of the greatest achieve
ments OF the twentieth century that it
brought about the breaking down of the time
honored distinctions between civilized and I'M
civilized warfare.
The military art, hedged about with all
manner OF restriction for centuries, has fin
ally degenerated into an ordinary bar-room
praWl IN which everything goes, from goug-
ing to biting. And by singular bit of ironv
1t has fallen to the lot of the lowIy Ethiopians
to remind us of the fact.
Milton Bronner, London correspondent for
this newspaper, recently discussed the point
With prominent Ethiopian Official
This man told him that the Ethiopians are
quite prepared to fight like gentlemen But
he said, if the Italians take to use of bomb
ing planes and poison gas and start killing
innocent women and children, the Ethiopians
are apt to revert to the customs of savage
AFRICA and start torturing their prisoners,
II the fighting is going to be dirty, the
Philippians know few handy tricks.
NOW this is about as completely damning
commentary on the inexcusable savagery
OF modern warfare as could be imagined.
Ever since the white nations began to seize
the lands of their darker brethren thew have
prided themselves on their civilized wav of
fighting. They had evolved certain unwrit
ten, but binding, rules of warfare. Soldiers
old not make war on women and children:
they did not lombard unfortifed towns: thew
did not subject their foes to cruel and I'M
usual puniShments. They fought armed men
IN the open field and they fought on the level
So Englishmen fought African blacks.
Americans fought plains Indians, and French
men fought Sahara tribesmen and despised
their foe because the savage tribes killed non
conbatants and used the arts of torture.
The difference between the two kinds of
warfare became accepted as one of the dis
tinctions between civilized men ard uncivilized
men.
Then along came the chemist and the
aviator, and everything changed
I Civilized warfare today is savage warfare.
Unfortifed cities are attacked, women and
children are killed. poison gas SENDS men of
to cough their lungs to bits through long days
and weeks of agony. And it is hardly surpris-
ing that the barbaric Philippians find it a bit
hard to swallow.
If the fighting is going to be like that, they
say, they'll go savage themselves. And if that
happens, who can blame them-or say that
the African black carving up his prisoners is
any worse than the white European dropping
bombs on a village full of women and chill
drenP
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
A WOman's Viewpoint
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A SUBJECT threadbare from
L n much discussion is that of
the managerial mother-in-law. If
all the words written about her
were compiled the result would
be a tome Of enormous proper
tions, with every page pointing
out the miseries of her family.
If we believe reports, the Sor-
rows Of Werther are nothing TO
the sorrows OF the American
daughter and son-in-law who
have a middle-aged Meddlesome
Matte in the house. Everybody
within the radius of her influence
is uncomfortable, they tell US. She
makes them all unhappy.
But one thing we forgot. She,
herself, is the most miserable OF
the lot. The mother-in law is
the tragic figure in that dark pic
ture. For the truth is, nothing
makes one so unhappy as the urge
to regulate other people. It's the
kind Of job which never gets done.
Worry piles upon worry in the
mind. You no sooner have one
situation well in hand than an
other pops UP. The minute Lucy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER Is. 1885.
A SCORE FOR DEMOCRACY

YESTERDAY was historic day not only
Il for the Philippine Islands but for the
United States and the world.
The FiHpinos elected their first president
their first major step as an embryo com
monwealth which 10 years hence will be trans
formed into the Philippine Republic.
Back in 1893 the United States went into
war with Spain. At that time nobody dreamed
OF what would quickly happen, as a result, on
the opposite side of the globe.
The war with Spain was to end Spanish
domination Of Cuba. It so happened. how
ever. that for long period the United States
had maintained a small fleet in Asiatic waters
and. being without a base of our own, this
feet. at the outset of hostilities, found itself
in Hongkong.
Honkong is British. SO. as a neutral, Bri-
tain had to warn the Americans that, after
coaling, they would have to choose between
being informed and leaving port.
Admiral Dewey, of course, steamed out to
sea. AT Manila lay Spanish fleet. Dewey
decided to go after it. Thus, mere chance was
largely responsible for Dewey's appearance in
Manila Bay on that historic May l. He de-
stroyed the Spanish ships captured the naval
station at Cavite and raised the American
flag over the Philippines.
cynical world said the flag would never
come down. The American democracy, it
jeered. had gone imperialiStic-just like all
the rest.
Last year. however. America made good her
promise The Tydings- McDuffie act was
passed During the transitional period the
islands would have their own president, vice
president and other administrative officials
and a regime with only the himsiest sort of
tie with the United States.
Manuel Quezon, president Of the Senate
and father of Philippine independence" very
fttingly was given the honor of being the first
chief executive He richly deserves this dis
tinction For a third of century he has
devoted his life to the job of preparing his
people for this great day-their first taste of
freedom.
Similarly deserving is Speaker of the House
Sergio Osemena, elected vice president on the
Quezon ticket.
In Europe. and even in this country one
hears a great deal nowadays concerning the
failure of democracy. But an occasional in
stance of this kind does much to revive ones
faith in that form of government promise
is on its way to redemption.
But our promise has not yet been wholly
honored. Our economic ties with the Archi-
pelago remain important, especially to the
islands. Political independence without eco
nomic independence will prove a mirage 1t
would be cruel and a mockery for us to get
out of the Philippines only to have them fall
later on into the arms of some other strong
power.
President Quezon and other leaders have
warned that some Of the trade arrangements
now or soon to be in force between our coun-
try and theirs demand adjustment.
In all Justice we must listen to what they
have to say.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
GEN. JOHNSON is PRAISED
FOR FOOD REVELATION

BY Hiram Lackey
"One of every six persons re-
ceiving relief in New York is unable
to work because of physical all
ments directly traceable to the de-
preston. Many of these defcien-
cies are due to lack of sufficient
food"
For having the courage to say this
1 am proud of Gen. Johnson. He
speaks as does the man that money
will not buy.
Such news deserves the headlines,
1t would make headlines in an en-
lightened country where interest is
centered on service and people in
stead of profits and money. 1t would
make the key editorials. I wish to
thank The Times for the force with
which you presented the facts.
People on relief should have an
abundance of those nourishing
foods which are rich in vitamin A
liver, eggs, milk and it's products,
not to mention fresh fruits and
vegetables. The farmers need the
market. The tragedy is entirely
uncalled for. For politicians it will
be most unfortunate.
1 have seen indianapolis children
forced to live on baskets which con-
tanned food that would scarcely sus-
tain the health of an adult, much
less a growing child. This is true
regardless of what any one may
say who is paid to deny the facts.
Of course children who inherit
strong constitutions may not reveal
this havoc until thousands of dol
lars have been spent on their train
ing and they are ready to start to
work at 80.
The situation would be helped if
newspapers would publish more of
the complaints of people who have
the enlightenment to know when
they are in danger.
Here is where President Roosevelt
should have kept his pledge to the
forgotten man, instead of going to
the bat for j. P. Morgan in trying
to suppress the Nye committee in
vestigation Of J. P. MOrgan's con-
nection with the munitions racket.
Mr.. Roosevelt'S anti-labor activi-
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and her husband are Strengthened
out, come Bob and his wife with
an even more alarming domestic
fracaS to arrange. Or there are
Brother Joe and his daughter,
who is entirely out of control now
that her mother is dead; or Aunt
Kate, always so shiftless she has
never been able to manage her
crew and certainly needs help and
advice.
So it goes. Endless vistas Of
trouble stretching out before you
to the grave. We are indeed fools
not to relax and let our adult
children go their ways. There's
no rest for the wicked, the re-
former or the managing woman.
Yet I have it in my heart to be
a little sorry for her. She goes TO
such lengths to meet trouble, and
when all is said and done she is
worrying about other people S
happiness.
Public busybodies are moved by
the same instincts that move her,
but they get praise for their pains,
monuments are built to their
memories and eulogieS are deliV-
cred over their graves.
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Labor Is Badge of Honor

others, they assume the domineer-
ing attitude. treat employees like
so many cattle, exploit their labor
through wage rates that are de-
signed to impress the employe
with an inferior complex.
They become the slave drivers of
industry and paternalistic patron
izers of those who support them
with mental or physical labor They
never make 1t interesting to work
for them.
They are found in all classes of
society. They swear at the folk
on relief, if they do not take job
at a socially indecent wage. They
do not recognize any one who
works as an equal to whom they
would pay respect nor do they
recognize the fact that co-opera-
ton necessary for real success
can best be obtained by good will
and humane action.
They are the ones who cause
strikes, poverty and social disloca-
ton. Men who work are the SUI
periors of those who do not. La
Dor is the badge of honor and SUI
periority.
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BY Times Subscriber

By Times Subscriber
The acquisition of money by
persons in such volume as to re-
lieve them Of their worries Of pay
ing their bills for normal needs
develops a neurOsis, which makes
them act as if they were superior
to others who have not attained
such a status of independence,
from making a personal social
contribution to society.
More often the possession of
fortune is not badge of honor,
but Of shame, due to the methods
by which it was acquired.
1t is extremely difficult to pre-
vent the development of this neu-
rosis in the person who possesses
ample income for every need he
desires to crafty.
Having lost the need for self
expression through the avenue Of
work, many such persons develop
the desire for personal recogni-
ton through the exercise Of power
over others and personal display
along sensational lines and in
frivolity.
When they are employers of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18

He was for justice. I wonder if
Mr. Pegler knows anything about
conditions in Louisiana.
He should, if he is going to criti-
else the greatest man that Louisi-
ana ever had. I wonder if there is
any one who fought to make this
a land of plenty more than Senator
Long? Who in Washington ranked
higher than Senator Long, La Fol-
lette and Garner? Senator Long
also stood for the bonus bill, the
security law and for about all Of the
laws that were for our betterment.
There are a lot of those kind of
men who say mean and vile things
about the deceased Senator who did
not have courage to face the man.
The people get tired of hearing
people of the Pegler type who be-
rate the dead.
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ties, unholy alliance with J. P. Nor
gan and lack of foresight is dis
couraging; but the utter hopeless
ness of the whole tragedy is 2een in
the blindness of Republicans who
imagine that some of their politi-
clans would have done better.
The trouble is that too many lib
erals are for sale. I hope I do not
overestimate the honesty of Demo-
Gratis nor the intelligence of Re
publicans, during optimistic mo-
ments when look for a strong rad
ical leader.
Our learned DR.. Harry Elmer
Barnes has the intelligence and
training. His courage and insight
combined with his Lincoln-like love
for democracy is a good prescription
for Americas under privileged.
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So They Say

Fishing provides the only oppor-
tunity for modern men to do real
thinking undiSturbed. 1t offers a
real escape from the complexities
of modern life.-Dr. George B. Cut
ten, president, Colgate University.
Democracy must meet the bread
and butter issue, for hungry men
care little for. constitutions. And
it must meet the new day in sue
cessful competition with every other
form of government on earth
John V. Brennan, prominent Detroit
jurist.
We stand at a decisive turning
point in history. Unless strong de-
fensive forces intervene, civilized
nations are doomed to perish like
ancient Rome and Athens.-Dr. Al
fred Rosenberg, Nazi philosopher.
Much nonsense is being talked
of the need of certain nations
to expand. Both Italy and Germany
could support their present popula-
tons in comfort under a sane eco
nomic system.-Lord Strabolgi, war
time British naval leader.
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Message Center

(Ttmes readers are jnutted to empress
their UieWS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ words or less. Your
letter must be siGned. but names t0iH
be tcithheld at request Of the letter
tCriter.J
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REHABILITATION

CEPT. Is, 1885, Results to date as indicated
~ by business reports and Republican state
mentS, of breathing SPELL:
Business is making the most Of it.
The Republicans are making the worst of it.
50 lot of people have been made happy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18
CRITICISES PEGLER FOR
ATTACK ON LONG
By Audrey ]. Suttles

BY Andrew ]. Suttles
Please give me few lines i'll re-
gard to Mr.. Peglers criticism of the
late Senator Long, the victim Of an
assassin. Of course, Mr.. Pegler
knows that he, himself, is a man
greater than Senator Long. He has
talked it over with himself.
Senator Long stood for that which
was good for the common people.
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Daily Thought

Your gold and silver is can
kered; and the rust of them shall
be a witness against you. and shall
eat your flesh as 1t were fire. Ye
have heaped treasure together for
the last days-JameS V, 8.
TOLD can gid a rotten stick,
NJ and dirt sully an ingot.-Sir
Philip Sidney.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-18

A German chemist has evolved pajamas
made of wood. If Hitler tries them and gets
splintered, the chemist may find himself in
wooden kimono.
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The Indianapolis Times
ID scRIPPs-HowARD NEWsPAPERl

Phone Riley s551
Smyrna times., 1935-03-14

papers of wars and rumors of
wars. But do you know that there
are battles being fought within US
that are causing more deaths than
all the wars we read about.
We have in our systems whole
regiments of soldiers, millions of
them. They are the white cor
puscles in the blood and are called
Little White Soldiers" They at
tack and destroy disease germs of
all kinds. These germs are con-
Stantly entering the system and
trying to find a lodgment in their
own favorite parts of the body.
The Little White Soldiers" are
always on the alert, waging battle
after battle against the disease
germs. If they win the disease
germs are thrown off; but if the
disease germs succeed in reaching
their lodging place, they increase
so rapidly that the patient con-
tracts the disease. If by repeated
attacks, the e'Little White Soldiers
overcome the disease germs the
patient RECEIVERS. If the germs win
the patient dies. The health OF
mankind hangs upon the vigor anC
vitality Of these Little White
Soldiers"
| BY the use of the microscope il
has been learned that drink of al
intoxicating liquor, passing quickly
into the blood, paralyzes thest
Little White Soldiers" and they
act like drunken men. In pursuit
they cannot catch the diseast
germs and thus cannot destro.
them. Every time man takes
drink of liquor his life is imperilec
from disease. So, physically
strong drink ruins the health ant
weakens the body and renders tn
person unfit to Withstand any grea
strain or disease.