The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-10
100000 i. s. J0BLESS WILL GET
RELIEF WORK BEFORE NOVEMBER,
ROOSEVELT SAYS, OUTLINING AIMS
Profit System LGuded as
Necessary to Nep Deal
by Roper in c. of c. Talk
America or Threshold of
Great Upturn, Cabinet
Officer Says.

Retention of the profit motive was
advocated by Daniel G. Roper, Sec
rotary of Commerce, in an address
delivered this afternoon at the
luncheon meeting of the Indianap-
oils Chamber of Commerce in the
Claypool. Unless business proSpers
such earnings must fall, he said,
and hence, successful business is the
keystone in the arch of our ma
tional welfare.
I'VE are for business profits" he
declared.
Addressing himself to the business
men of Indiana he pointed out that
if they are "up and doing" We shall
move forward to higher ground than
ever yet attained in this state or in
the United States.
when we realize" Mr.. Roper
said, that only a few years ago
our national income was in the
neighhorhood of go billion dollars a
year and that at the bottom of the
depression period it had dropped to
40 billions, we see something of
the opportunity before us to re-
build America.
Time to Go Forward
Business leaders and other close
stuCents of trade conditions
throughout the country are decid-
edly of the opinion that the clock
;e ctrilyi,10 fo,. - foyv,orI ,,oovoyo,oyo+
and that with only a slight change
for the better in public attitude, in
confidence and courage, a part of
the lost so billions in annual domes-
tic trade can be restored in COM
parativeIy short time.
IT hope it is already known that
the Department of Commerce is
seeking every possible means of be-
ing hels9fllls.tn business, This de-
rarttnent is charged under its orr
ganic law with the responsibility of
fostering and encouraging business.
To that end, all of the facilities of
the department are dedicated.
Business men will find the doors
of the department always open to
them and their visits cordially re-
ceived"
Defends Little Fellow
Mr. Roper also put in q kindly
word for the little fellow" declar-
ing that conditions in small business
units must be recognized and so adj
justed that restrictions which might
be necessary for large scale endeav-
ors will not impose handicaps on the
small operators.
In a. press conference prior to his
address, Mr. Roper elaborated on
his view that business profits must
be retained
In this era of huge governmental
necessities, he said. a large part of
the funds to meet budgets must
come from the channels of business
and. consequently, business corpora
tions must have profits which can
be taxed Therefore, he added, the
entire system OF government with
large budgets must be founded on
profits.
FavOrs Count of Idle
The Secretary declared that he is
going to suggest to the Public
Works Administration that q census
be undertaken to determine the
actual number of unemployed and
eunemployables." BY "unempIoy-
ables" is meant those persons who
for reasons of age, physical inabil-
ity and mental inability, are per-
manently idle.
He intimated that such q system
of classification would have the re-
suit of whiting down the number
of unemployed now carried on the
rolls.
Mr.. Roper also pointed out that
he is giving serious consideration to
the launching of a survey to deter
mine distribution costs of the many
articles which enter into the living
costs of the nation