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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
HE OFFERS A GROUP
OF DARES, CRITICISM
By Bruce Brown

By Bruce Brown
In your paper May IS, under P.
BIS article, you state The Times is
opposed to Father Coughlin's theor-
les and imitation because The Times
believes that at this time the well
fare of the needy in this nation
would be hampered by bonus pay
ment and initiation.
Now, Mr.. Editor, you state, in
other words, that you are opposed
to all of Father Coughlin'S theories.
as you call them, because you are
opposed to what you call imitation.
1 am not going to attempt to
convince you that the bonus pay
ment as per the Patman bill would
have not hampered the needy of this
nation as you believe, although I do
not agree with your paper on this
point. but here is a dare and I dare
you to take it. 1 challenge you to
state editorially why your paper is
opposed to Father Coughlin's the
cries. And remember we members
of the N. U. F. s. j. will not be con-
tent with anything except sound
logic.
Are you opposed to our point No.
1. which states as follows: Il be-
lieve in liberty of conscience and
liberty of education, not permitting
the state to dictate either my Wor-
ship to my God or my chosen avo-
cation in life" or are you opposed
to point No. g. which is in favor of
the abolition of the privately owned
Federal Reserve Banking system
and in the blishment of gov
ernment-owned central bank? II
you are opposed to any or all Of the
sixteen points Or if your paper is
really opposed to what you call
Father Coughlin's theories, then
give it to us, but remember logic is
what we demand.
Again, I dare you to throw off
those financial capitalistic chains
that bind you so tightly that you
can not serve the people as you
should. You are really helping the
short-sighted few in this nation to
exploit the rest Of the people by
keeping from them the truth.
I believe Father Coughlin has en-
lightened the people of this nation
more than any other one man dur
ing the present generation. He is
doing during the 1920s and if you
and other papers should have been
doing during the 1920's and if you
had done it as well as Father
Coughlin is doing It we would not
have a depression and all the suf-
fering that it represents.
The privilege of free speech is a
wonderful advantage to our people
and we must not lose it. But I
know Of no other way that this
privilege is abused more than by
the editorial pages of our daily
newspapers.
The old saying that the half truth
is more truthful than a lie is in
effect true.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
CONTRAST IN RELATIONSHIPS

TWO strikes we're called in the same week
in a large Midwestern manufacturing city
recently.
In one strike there was a superabundance
of bad feeling. There were violent clashes
at the factory gate; strike leaders and man
agement We'd with each other in issuing war
like statements; and conditions outside the
factory resembled siege warfare, with pla-
toons of cops ready for action.
In the other strike both management and
strikers we're calmer. There was no effort to
run the plant in defiance of the strikers;
pickets had nothing to do and the few cops
present we're bored and idle.
The climax came when the president of the
company bought some balls and bats so that
the pickets could play baseball while waiting
for peace negotiations to be finished.
In which of these factories, do you think
will employer-employe relations be sounder
when the strike ends and production is re-
sumed2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
THE RADBURN PLAN

THERE Is some concern lest the low-cost
l. houses which are planned to replace slums
in many cities under Federal projects will be
marred by the fact that the neighboring homes
remaining vill be much below the standard Of
the new houses.
One way 70 avoid this would be to adopt
plan something like that on which Radburn.
n. J., "the town for the motor age" is built
Let the back Of the houses be turned to the
neighborhood; let them face each other across
the open park and play spaces which should
be at the center Of all such projects.
The people living in the old houses can
have no objection for even the backs of mod
EN- houses can be made attractive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
THIS SURELY SOUNDS
MIGHTY MYSTERIOUS

By o. n.
The undaunted chain letter is not
dead as many suspect, but it cou-
rageously moves on.
Although many Of the chain let
tiers died when the public was
frightened last week BY the arrests
of several operators Of chain letter
depots. there seems 70 remain one
chain which is moving slowly and
silently among the people of In
dianapolis.
The merits Of this particular
chain differs from all the others,
also it does not rush like streak
of lightning multiplying by tens OF
thousands daily. Although 1t has
been operating more than a week
very few have even heard of It. for
il isn't fauated before the public
and 1t seems 10 have escaped the at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
THURSDAY. Way %. la1s.
LIGHT ON LOBBIES

HIDDEN government will not end even
A If the black lobbyist registration bill be-
comes Law. The measure as passed by the
Senate merely requires that persons hired
&c influence legislation or obtain government
contracts register with the Senate. House
and Federal trade commission and file period
zeal reports Of their fees and expenditures.
The bill does not touch those who lobby
for their own interest, rather than for hire.
i docs not even require the paid lobbyist TO
name the public officials he talks to. Yet
even this mild reform is worth trying. It will
at least provide a register Of professional lob
byists.
Rep. Maury Maverick Of Texas. who recent
" startled his colleagues and embarrassed
well known lobby organization by refusing
an invitation to a steak dinner, has a sug-
Pesiion He would require each selhsh-inter-
est lobbyist to wear on his coat lapel the skull
and crossbones emblem and the name of his
employer II such law we're enacted and
respected. the corridors of the Capitol and the
department buildings in Washington would
give the impression of the legion of death in
perpetual convention.
As a matter Of fact, some of the best legis-
lation is the result Of lobbying by unself1sh
public interest groups. But they of course
welcome the regulation which the hidden lob
bies fear
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
Fears for Democratic Party

United States today has chance
to serve America, not politically
but in. an American way. Why
don't they do it?
If the Democratic party hasn't
men qualified to do us justice,
then it is high time to get out and
let in the party that is able to
do justice to America. In city
governments all over Indiana, you
see in print or hear them say
more Republicans than Democrats
are on the pay rolls. If we would
have an election, the country and
city would both go Republican.
am not looking for a political
job. I never had and never ex-
pect to have one, but for the sake
of the Democratic party next fall,
you will have to shake the Re-
publicans off the city, county and
state pay rolls and put them on
FERA.
I don't mean Republicans should
not have FERA work. This work
should be political. If the
Republicans get the jobs, you lose
some Democrats.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
The Book World

A PEOPLE who had nothing to lose but their
"A chains. writes William Henry Chamberlin
in The Russian Revolution" (Macmillan), are
now fairly launched on new economic system,
a new word outlook. new conception OF life
and ethics. in short, all the elements Of a dis
tinctive new epoch Of Russian natural develop
ment, which has yet to run its full course"
His tvo-voume history covers four exciting
years Of chaotic cCTfiict in which the illiterate
and inarticulate multitude uproOted the old
Russia. 1t dates from the downfall Of Csarism
in March 1917 to Lenins announcement Of the
the New Economic Policy" in March, 1921 Mr..
Chamberl!n, author Of several other books on
Russia. went there as an American newspaper
correspondent in 1929 and remained until last
year.
In history, as in natural science there are
no miracles" he says. There is only the working
out of the law Of cause and effect"
The underlying cause was the Csarst system,
with is repression of the middle class, exploita-
ton of the lower classes, decay of the upper
classes. and land hunger of the peasants. The
immediate cause was the World War which
broke the fragile shell of that system. And these
causes made effective Lenins leadership. Trot-
skys audacity. and their small band of hard
ened disciplined followers.
Why did the Communist revolution fail to
live up to its billing as world uprising7 It
stopped at Russia's frontiers, Mr.. Chamberlin
says. largely because in other countries a larger
proportion of the population had something
more than chains to loose. But the Commu-
nists reply. we merely miscalculated the time
the revolution is still spreading.
SEGREGATION, which IDS so long been
- fought by most NegrOes. is now advocated
as the one road to racial salvation by w. E. B.
Du Boise, Negro leader and editor of The Crisis,
in an article in Current History for June
American Negroes" he says, must plan for
their economic future and the social survival
Of the colorel folk in the world and the building
of full humanity, instead of petty white tyr
amy" Many a biography has been written
about Catherine, Empress of Russia, and the
latest is Catherine. the Portrait of an Empress"
by Gina Klaus (Viking. $3.50. /. Every one
knows the story of Catherine and, of course
much of this latest biography brings little that
is new. This one however, happens to be
one of the best books about Catherine and any
one interested in that period of history will be
delighted. .. just received is the small book
THE Jews in Nad Germany" CThe Jewish Com
mttee. 177pp). . 1t constitutes a scathng
denunciation Of the Nazis factual account of
the brutal and insane strangling of people by
a government.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
BANKERS APPEAR TO BE
MEMBERS OF SPECIAL CLASS

BY A Tires Reader
Since the President saved the
bacon for the bankers oy calling
money created by Congress, accord
ing to the Constitution, fat money
we can now resume our circulation
of unconstitutional money which
the bankers create with pen and
ink. The bankers have overlooked
a real bet.
Uncle Sam runs his printing
presses producing postage stamps,
which he sells at face value, with
out having any coupons attached
to them for bankers to clip. Looks
like our doting old Uncle Sam ought
to sell those stamps through the
banks and attach a little rake-off
coupon on each stamp, so our hard
working bankers could have work
and wages from the stamp sales.
But maybe the bankers are really
sovereign. 1t looks like it. At least
they are in special privilege class.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
WAY TO SETTLEMENT

CENATOR WILLARD E. TYDINGS has pro-
- posed an international conference at
Washington to deal with all the postwar in
ternational problems. ranging from the war
debts down to armament reduction and cur
rency Sterilization
While the present state of public opinion
in the nations of the Notwithstanding our own
may make such proposal premature it at
least indicates the real nature of the problem
that confronts us.
Until there is some sensible settlement of
these pressing issues. there can be no real re-
turn to world prosperity. There may be
whole host of difficulties in the way of such
settlement; there are enough headaches in the
currency question alone, for instance, to keep
statesmen busy for months.
But sooner or later these things must be
settled and settled intelligently. 1t is encour-
aging, at least, to see oawning realization of
the fact in the United States Senate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
So They Say

Disabuse the mind of the publH
of the still prevailing notion that
our security markets offer a royal
opportunity to sudden riches
Charles r. Gay, New York Stock
Exchange president.
We should begin law enforcement
by obeying more laws ourselves. We
should worry more about that ID
billion crime bill than the four bill
lion-dollar relief bill.-Burdette
Lewis, public welfare expert.
The Herculean task of the gov
eminent today is to take care that
its citizens have the necessities of
life. We are seeking honestly to
do this, irrespective of class or
group.-President Roosevelt.
We must get the idea shat the
Heavenly Father gave this earth TO
every one and did not intend for
any of us to be pig with any part
of it.-Newton D. Baker, attacking
national isolation"
Men are much more interesting
and intelligent than they were in
my day.-Margaret German, 103-
year-old Chicago spinster.
What is capitalism but he right
to be thrifty and enjoy the savings
of your thrift and nitiative?-James
w. Gerard, wartime ambassador to
Germany.
am proud Of my country, and of
its people and the struggle We are
making, striving not to get back to
old financial conditions, but to new
and better things-Mrs. Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The United States has the sound
est currency" in the world.-Henry
Morgenthau Jr., secretary Of treas
ury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Morgenthau's talk on gold.
Here is something maybe all can
think about-buy American.
Have you ever seen this in papers
street cars and on bill boards
Why? Lack of thinking. lack of re-
spect for rights of fellow workers
and greed.
Take the smallest coin of the
United States, the penny, for ex-
ample.
Of the 124,OOO,OOO people under
the flag, how many are smokers
users of matches? Say 100000
If so, a. box of matches lasts each
about two days. Or 2O0OO,O00 boxes
a day or 100000 day How much
of this sum goes to foreign coun-
tries? I would say about half, here
in town, 80 per cent on the sea-
boards For the whole country
about IS per cent or $4,000 a day
or S54, $50, 900 a year.
Use your own figures. 1t is still
big money to raise from pennies
WHAT about nickles. dimes, quarters,
half dollars and dollars?
AS in the match case, when you
toss your coin across tie counter
for foreign goods you are really
breaking your arm to get it across
the sea, we'll out of reach of Ameri-
can labor. Why is this? Some
say foreign labor is cheaper. All
you need to do is count the matches
and see for yourself.
The standard of living differs.
Should we go down to theirs? They
can make things, ship them 5000
miles and sell about the same price
as local goods. What can be left
for the workers?
If you spend United States money,
get American-mad goods. regard
less Of price. The difference can't
be much, if any. Would you take
foreign coins for change? No! Well
then, demand American goods.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
Spring Desire

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
I wished this spring for happiness;
For heart to cry at blowing trees.
For words to catch the frail blue
notes
OF unseen, wordless melodies.
I wished for peace and idle hands
That might weave the pale green
hours
Into a symphony Of Joy.
/ wished for these unhampered
powers.
But spring is pulsing. eager life,
Forever moving toward goal.
I found my sought-for happiness
In launching dreams TO stretch my
SOUL
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

BY z. F. n.
I have been reader of this
paper all its life and enjoy the
editorials and Message Center
very much. 1 just can't hold from
expressing my opinion of lot of
things that are going on in the
United States today.
First, I can't for the life of me
see why person has to go on re-
lief for a period of time before he
can get relief work, am 100 per
cent American and believe in
America and American principles.
But in the last five years, I have
lived up my small savings, sold
my auto, mortgaged my household
goods, been threatened with fore
closure and yet can't be considered
for relief In the name of Amer
lea, why? l am not proud but
my American pride is above
charity and III starve before III
go on charity in the wealthiest
and supposed to be the most
Christian country in the whole
world. God help America.
Our Democratic party in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
VALUE OF CONFIDENCE

WHEN you get through chuckling about
w the story of the bogus oil promoter
who came to grief in Tulsa after short but
active career as a big shot, you might find
It worth while to take a second look at the
affair. There is something rather instructive
about It ALL
This man. as you have probably read blew
into Tulsa announcing that he was the head
OF a big new oil company.
He rented the entire floor of bank build
ing and established offices there. He bought
a hone and established a couple of servants
in It. He arranged with a contracting firm
to build 100000 refinery near Fort Smith.
Ark
Then. through a bank. he got in touch
with a New York brokerage outfit which
agreed to market 100000 worth of bonds in
this project. Next he summoned a railroad
representative and arranged for construction
OF a spur Inc to his new factory.
And all ne while his actual assets amount
ed to nothing more than pleasant smile and
three cents in cash.
Eventually. OF course his balloon exploded
from sheer excess of hot air, and he wens
smiling of to Jail.
But his whole venture is a beautiful illus
tration Of the way in which We are COM
PEELED 10 take each others word for things
IN this modern world.
The only difference between this mans
activities and those Of a bona fide business
man seeking to establish a new plant was
that this man had no backing. He was able
to build beautiful framework on the mere
fact that people trusted him.
Not once did he lay a cent Of cash on the
line Nobody asked him to. People just took
It for granted that a man doing the things
ne was doing was operating in good faith.
There could hardly be a stronger example
Of the way in which modern business is found
ed on onhdence-confdence that the other
fellow is on the level, that he is what he says
he Is and will do what he says he will do.
Once in blue moon some one comes along
and abuses this confidence. In this Oklahoma
case. the result vas something 10 chuckle at;
IN the Kreuger case. it was a financial holo-
caust
Meanwhile. in the overwhelming majority
OF cases. the confidence is deserved. Vast
projects are undertaken simply because men
trust one another.
This trust takes the place Of money, in a
very real sense. In itself. it is riches: and
In the long run it is probably the business
worlds most precious possession.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
SUGGESTS MOVE TO
OYERRULE SUPREME COURT
Rr Marren A. Benedict Jr.

By Warren A. Benedict Jr.
The decision of the Supreme
Court regarding NRA, while tenn
porarily unfortunate for a nation
that has been immensely benefited,
might be a good thing for us.
1t might cause us to realize there
is something wrong with a system
that permits nine old men, some
in their dotage, to have the final
say in matters that affect us so pro-
foundry. 1t might make us feel
there is something undemocratic
and out Of keeping with the Consti-
tuition itself in the way these judges
are appointed, draw huge salaries,
hold Office for life. are answerable
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

tention of the clever newspaper re-
porters.
This chain is not offered to the
officers of large industries that they
may pass it on to their long list
of employees thereby being the first
to derive the benefit obtained from
same, but it is confidently passed
from friend to friend, mostly those
whom had lost in other chains; and
these cautious participants are slow
ly, but surely deriving the proper
returns.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
The Message Center

Times readers are mUtted to cypress
their vietCs in these columns. Make your
letters short. so all can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ words or less. Your
letter must be signed. but names totH
be oithheld at request of the letter
trrifer
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Magician Howard Thurston msrries Massa-
chusetts girl She'll have the sympathy Of other
women whose bubbles always have something
up their sleeves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

A 3o-foot poster showing an autoist carry
ing a crippled child, has been erected in New
York as a warning to reckless drivers. 1t
ought TO do some good for about week. when
a car will undoubtedly crash into it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
Daily Thought

But If We have bitter envying and
strife in your hearts. glory not. and
lie not against the truth.-James III,
IA.
TOOLS may our scorn. not envy
L raise for envy is kind Of
Ipraise.-Gay.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

According to a style note, high heels are
going out of fashion. Things have come to a
pretty pass if women are going to start run
ming around with low heels.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

New German dictionary casts out the for
eigu word appendicitis, and substitutes
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." Henceforth, Ger
man who has had ar operation will be con-
sdered menace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

The world won't wear a path to your door
even If you do have wonderful trap-if you
always keep it going.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Judging by those casualties, the Navy seems
to be taking these war games too seriously.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30
THE LOWLY MATCH is
USED IN DISCUSSION
By D. r.

By D. r.
After reading w. BIS letter on
thinking and his assumptions, I
wondered if he heard Secretary
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

DR.. EinStein gets up in Philadelphia, and
sits down without making speech. This gives
us more time to devote to Gertrude Stems
latest offerings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

AT the rate the dime heiress is spending
her money, Miss Hutton might do worse than
start studying this chain letter thing
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

African dust storm hits Rome. A few of
these. if they're anything like the American
variety, will put Abyssinia in II Duce's back
yard.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Ohio state professor finds average radio
listener has aged three years. For some of US,
one broadcast can accomplish that -
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Expert claims President Roosevelt has ex-
ceptional speaking voice. The way to develop
one, evidently, is to shout, repeatedly. some
such phrase as Mama! Where are you?"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

The United States has the Sound
est currency" in the world.-Henry
Morgenthau Jr., secretary Of treas
ury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-05-30

Men are much more interesting
and intelligent than they were in
my day-Margaret German, 103-
year-old Chicago spinster.