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but three are more than two sto-
ries high, and one of these will
be abandoned soon. This arrange
ment saves the climbing of stairs
and lessons the danger in case of
fire"
MIR. Bell did not say which
school was to be abandoned 1t
was not No. 2.
Forty-six years later-on April
81, 1916-newspaper files disclose
That No. school was termed by
Jacob Hilkene. city building COM
missioner, as being one of nine In
dianapolis schools unsafe in the
event of fire.
Mr.. Hilkene said in part: Cell
ing in boiler room of wood con-
struction ). no fire escapes"
Five fire escapes, two each on
the north and south sides of the
structure, and one on the west
side, were erected at No. 2 fol-
lowing Mr.. Hilkene's outburst.
/ found one escape on the south
side of the building in rickety
condition with one frame parted
from the joist Building mainte-
nance-men said the escapes we're
unsafe for use in regular fire
drills.
r ALSO found one balcony in
Il disuse in the structures in
terror between the second and
third floors. A door from cloak
room opens on to the balcony.
Fire marshals require that the
door be kept open.
If any one walked on to the
balcony and attempted to climb to
a stairway above that leads to a
fire escape it is possible that the
balcony would become a fire-trap
if the stairs leading upward were
ablaze.
A person on the balcony would
be forced to jump to the stairway
below or climb over the head-high
rail to the fire escape exit if cut
off from returning into the cloak
and schoolrooms.
Pupils in the schoolroom adjoin-
ing the balcony are not permitted
on it, In drills they are trained
that if the stairway beneath the
balcony is afire they must leave
by another stairway.
Added protection against any
one being left in room to
wander eXcitedly in a direction
opposite from the customary fire
drill routine is offered by each
room having a ''searcher" who
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school boards are chary of
spending money. For the
elimination of fire hazards
with fire towers, ramps and
other safety devices would
cost more than the worth of
the building.
The Indiana Inspection Bureau,
investigation agency for fire in
surance companies, passes the fol-
lowing criticism of the structure:
"One of the Oldest of city schools
Of three stories. Quick wood
burning interior, open wooden
stairways, and deficient exits. Elk
terror improvements are required
to make this building safe. From
life and fire viewpoints the follow
ing recommendations are made:
First, provide two means Of egress,
either with smoke proof towers or
fire ramps; second, replace wood
joist floor over boiler-room with
f1reproof floor and protect all
openings to boiler-rooms with
approved metal doors"
=
QUILT in 1854 at an original
ID cost of $81 900, and with an
addition TO it in later years, the
building typifies the wooden era
of construction with a brick
exterior.
The school has an enrolment
of $50 children. Because of its
downtown location the enrolment
fluctuates but it is higher this
year than last. Excellent fire drills
which empty the building with
in one to one and one-half min
utes-are held constantly and
minimize the hazards of a pos
sible blaze.
AS far back as 1870 William A.
Bell, a high school principal and
school board member, proposed
abandonment of three-story school
buildings.
Benjamin Harrison School is
three stories. The third floor is
used for assembly meetings, ply
steal education, with the only
classroom instruction that of sew
ing one semester and shop train
ing the next semester. School SUI
pervisors meet in the third-floor
auditorium.
y
MIR. BELL, back in 1870, in
1V1 speaking of No. 2 school as
one of three structures of three
story height, said:
"Out of our 26 school buildings
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low-priced production were employed.
Even at the 1929 peak, II per cent of the families
of the country were living less than $500 year.
Push up their purchasing power to that level and
every one would be employed producing goods. There
would still be plenty of profit for management.
ID UT when DR. Ezekiel begins drawing blue prints
ID of the machinery by which he would do this he
branches off into elaborate bureaucratic structure
which he describes as pratical" means for chang
ing over from an economy of scarcity to one of
abundance. How any who has lived through the
New Deals experience with NF2A and AAA could say
such plan would be practical is mystery.
DR.. Ezekiel, following the pattern of AAA would
pay government benefits to industries which enlarged
their production quotas in conformity with the
tional production blue print This would enable
operating industries to compete with chisellers He
thinks business concerns might be persuaded to fol-
low the plan the farmers persuaded by bene-
fit checks 10 follow AAA. That's one reason why the
plan is impractical.
The other reason appears in postscript to the
authors preface. just the book was going to
press. the Supreme Court knocked out AAA which
was his model. Dr. Ezekiel explains that his book
viii have to be read in the light of that unfortunate
incident.
MYTH business activity 30 per cent of normal
w and yet 100000 more still unemployed
the problem is far broader than that faced by
board of directors trying to decide how high its price
list can be held.
We have the industrial plant. the manpower and
the prospective capacity All partly idle Until
those three resources brought into full play the
matter Will continue to be the publc's business
Certainly it is the business of every taxpayer who is
yelling about the large deficit and the expense of
relief.
Industry can escape the blue print of Dr. Ezekiel
or some one else at Washington only by beating
Washington to 1t. In rich and highly developed
country like this onefourth of the able bodied work
ers viii not remain unemployed indefinitely. Not
even 10 please the Supreme Court -
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Ezekiel Would Pay
All $500 Annually
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

WASHINGTON Feb 27.-How every one can
w have $500 year is described by DR.. Mordecai
Ezekiel economic adviser to the Secretary of Agricu
ture, in book out today entitled "$2500 Year"
The Ezekiel plan is significant because it comes
from one of the most innermost brain cells of the
New Deal. DR.. Ezekiel is a 37-year-od economist,
who has been in the government many years. He
assistant economist for the Hoover Farm Board
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
-GY DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN

Tenant Farmers Union. The
union would have liked to take
control as a matter of protection
for it's workers. but lacked the
necessary capital.
However, the question still is
open. The Rust brothers have in
Dictated they will make the deal
any time the union can swing it.
But the sore spot is this: No
matter who handles the machines
marketing, any successful and
widespread use of it will create an
economic change comparable to
the invention of Eli Whitney's
cotton gin.
Lonely Eagle
4 PRIL 1 will ring down the
"A curtain on the New Deals
most spectacular tragedy.
On that day what little re-
mains of the National Industrial
Recovery Act expires. The rem
nant of 1900 officials, clerks and
other employees still on the pay
roll will receive their last pay
checks, and fms will be written
on the New Deals most sensa-
tional experiment.
The President will seek no new
extension of the shattered statute.
But he may ask for an authorize
ton to continue a small skeleton
research organization to atudy the
numerous and complex problems
which the NRA attempted to
handle.
Such a plan is being strongly
urged by Maj. George Berry,
Co-ordinator for Industrial Co.
operation.
Berry is the promoter of the
Industry-Labor Congress that
came to such a stormy and abrupt
end within an hour after it con-
vened early in January. Since
then he has organized Council
for Industrial Progress, made up
of representatives of manage
ment and labor.
The council is divided into
seven committees, each studying
a separate phase of industry labor
relations. Reports on their find
ings will be completed in a few
weeks and sent to the President
for his perusal and publication.
Copyright. 1886. BY United Feature
Syndicate. 1nc)
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says, Is his own, but he has been
aided by the inspiration of Sec
rotary wallace.
In q nutshell, DR.. Ezekiel's
idea is that the AAA benefit
payment plan could be applied
to industry. He is driving at the
situation which all economists
know exists-namely, that there
is productive capacity in this
country which, if intelligently
co-ordinated. could produce
enough goods to enable every
one to live on $2500-a-year
scale provided the ADVANTAGES of
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Ezu;ZnouAh
by
WESIBR0OkPEGLER

DRAGUE. Feb 27.-It was a good thing after all,
l. that the American team came over to the Na1
winter Olympic games because the show served two
useful purposes.
1t prevented, for the time being at least brutal
raid on The Germ Jews and perhaps scattered
massacres by Hitlers Brown Shirts in reprsa for the
assassination of Herr Gustloff the Nazi organizer
in Switzerland, who was shot short time before the
athletes assembled in Garmisch- Partenkirchen. It
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hunts cloakrooms and under desks
for any one left behind.
The "searcher," however, does
not open the door from the cloak
room to the balcony during his
search.
Fire drills are required monthly
in all city schools and pupils do
not know the day or the hour or
the stairway to be used in the
drill.
INSTRUCTIONS given princi-
l. pals by the School Boards fire
drill bulletin are that:
Outside fire escapes should not
be used in fire drill until approved
by the State Industrial Board and
the Fire Prevention Department.
These escapes, if approved, may
be used occasionally in the dis
missal of the school"
A. H. Sielken, superintendent of
maintenance and buildings, said
that the Indiana Inspection Bu-
reau has recommended fire towers
or ramps for five schools, in addi-
ton to fire-proof floors over boil
er rooms. He said that the bu-
reau urged floors over boiler
rooms for eight other schools and
towers or ramps for two others.
Schools needing fire towers,
ramps and floors are: Nos. 2, Is,
7, 4 and 20.
Schools needing boiler flooring
only are: Nos. IL, IA, 18, "a, %,
80, SO and 40.
Buildings needing only fire tow
ers or ramps are: Nos. 20 and %.
Ten concrete floors above the
boilers at a cost of $1,000 a floor
would ban the major hazard in 10
buildings, says Mr.. Sielken.
Construction of fire towers,
what with some of the schools
already having outlived their USE
fulness, would be a wasteful ex-
penditure of the taxpayers money,
says Mr.. Sielken.
A B. GOOD, school business
L n director, estimates thai be-
tween $1,250,000 and $1,500,000 in
new buildings would be needed
to correct faulty housing among
the older schools similar to No. 2.
School No. 16, built in 1873;
No. 7, built in 1872; No. II erected
in 1874, No. 4, built in 1867, are
four of the older schools falling
under the inspection bureaus
critical eye. These four might
be considered in line for new
structures if the Board of School
Commissioners decides on further
expansion.
Consideration of the community
needs of the future, however, and
the constant shifting of the
population in various sections of
the city must be weighed by the
board before plans for new build
ings can be outlined.
An illustration of these shifts
in population and the resultant
closing of school can be seen
in the case of School No. II, at
1855 N. Capitol-av. This district
now is almost wholly business
one and the school is closed.
School No. % at 2101 College
av, and No. 81 at 1902 Park-av,
are examples of school districts
suffering from depopulation be-
cause families with children have
moved to newer residential Sec
tons.
A RSENAL TECHNICAL is the
N only indianapolis high school
with any major degree of fire
hazards.
One Tech structure, the Bar
racks, has only two stairways and
a single fire escape If, in the
event of fire, both stairways were
cut off and the single fire escape
barred, students in four class
rooms on the third floor of the
building would be forced to leap
the three stories to the ground to
reach safety.
The classrooms open into each
other with the two classes in the
center of the third floor forced to
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What Faces Them?

I'VE been around little recently talking at COL
leges, and l never face senior class without GER
tain misgivings AS look down at the bright young
faces-or at any rate the faces-I wonder just what
it is for which they preparing. Undergraduates
come up at the end of the evening and say How
does one go about getting job on newspaper
What can 1 say except that far as 1 know
almost all the papers in the country are already
fully stated and that don't think there is any way
for them to get job. The editor of large metro
poitan newspaper recently announced that from now
on he would hire only college graduates as Office
boys ana that the salary would be SIS week. And
he added that he not inviting applications at
present because all the jobs filled.
Getting started an office boy is by no means
bad way of entering newspaper work but if it is the
only oophoe left, then what earth becomes of the
thousands of young men and women studying in
schools of Journalism? The plain answer is that they
are attempting to learn a craft which, in all proba
bility they will have chance to practice And,
naturally the same thing is true of embryo mining
and mechanical and civil engineers, while it is no.
torious that there is end of the making of doctors
and lawyers in fields which already glutted.
SaUed for No Purpose
COLLEGE education will not avail the 100000
~ very much unless it serves to inculcate in them
sharp interest in the economics and the politics of
the world in which we live. In other words the
young man who wants to study medicine is less than
acute if he sticks wholly to his test tubes and takes
no account of any of the various schemes for the
Specialization of the profession. He must not only
learn his subject but he must become effective in
finding some way in which he and his fellows can
and transmit their knowledge once they have
obtained it,
Surely any mute Pasteur undergraduate Ehr-
Itch must pause at times and say to himself, What
is the point of preventive medicine if it is merely
to keep millions alive for the dole and for the bread
line?"
Copyright. 1895,
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body can prove anything he
pleases by snatching stray SEN
fences from jefferson, and even
Hamilton may be used on both
sides of the street. 1t it not
simply that the gentlemen in
question wrote voluminously and
sometimes reversed themselves,
as wise men should, but rather
that phrases snatched out of their
context can be used to riddle the
fundamental philosophy of even
the most dogmatic and unswerv-
ing
However, it seems to me that
Era nklirn Pnneeuelt WAS much too
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WAsHINGroN, Feb. 27.-The
w President has issued quiet
orders for a drastic curtailment of
Prof. Tugwell's Resettlement Ad-
ministration. The move was
made because Tugwell was not
getting results.
The money saved is to be turned
over to Harry Hopkins Works
Progress Administration for UNI
employment relief.
The decision is important be-
cause it indicates an abandonment
of the Tugwell policy of long term
planning, in favor of concentra-
ton upon immediate expenditures.
Tugwell pointed out to the Presi-
dent when he first undertook the
job of readjusting the farm popu-
lation of the United States that it
would take several years, that he
could not produce effects imme-
diately.
Now, however, WPA funds are
running short. And the President
has passed out the word that only
those agencies showing actual re-
suits shall be favored with funds.
This will affect other agencies as
well, particularly slum clearance
under the Public Works Admins
tration.
Trouble Spot
NEW DEAL economists, porting
L Y over the unemployment prob
lem, have singled out modest
little factory in Memphis, Tenn,
as the greatest possible trouble
spot in the entire country.
1t is the plant where the Rust
brothers are putting together their
new cotton picking machinery.
The machine is supposed to
pick 1900 pounds of cotton in 80
minutes. This means that it would
do the work of 100 men.
The effect of this upon hard
labor in the South, upon the en-
tire system of tenant farming, is
something which economists do
not like to contemplate.
Strangest twist of fate is that
the machines inventors were
humble cotton workers, have al
ways sympathized with labor, are
now professed Socialists.
Amazed by the thought of what
their brain-child might do to la
Dor, they offered to turn over mar
keting control to the Southern
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also vindicated the contention
of those who opposed American
participation that the Nazis could
not be trusted to refrain from
political and military propaganda.
But for the presence of the
players and a couple of hundred
foreign journalists in Garmisch
the Nazis undoubtedly would
have swooped down on the Jews
to avenge the killing of their or
ganizer. Hitler had delivered an
grafton at the bier of the dead
conspirator, in which he charged
not only this killing but 10000
others to Jewish terrorists, and
in ordinary circumstances the
order undoubtedly would have bee
torrjhlo rovan0o
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HEYWOOD.BR0UN

THE Presidents speech at Temple University was
- among his best 1t TO me he set happy
precedent in not quoting from the writings of
Washington And he did we'll to announce abb
stention from sentences beginning, IF George
Washington had been alive to-day"
We stand on the brink of a long political cam
pagn which may turn very dull and boresome If
the rival forces going to swat each other con-
tinuay with rival texts from the founding fathers.
D L. all ad,rn thaf otar--
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optimistic in stressng the educational gains in re-
years. 1t is not altogether salutary gain that
today more than 100000 students are seeking de-
grees in our colleges and that another 100000 are
taking extension courses studying in Sumr1er
schools. The truth of the matter is that certain
number Of Americans marking time in cols-
tered halls because they have nothing else to do.
Some of the unemployed go TO the movies and
others lake extension courses.
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"CRANDMA! What school did you go to"
The spectacles taken off and carefully folded
handkerchief wipes them and Grandmas is
that be given by hundreds Of grandmothers and grand
fathers in Indianapolis tonight.
benjamin Harrison, dear!" is the proud reply.
Sedate in age the Benjamin Harrison School, No 2 at
Delaware and Wanutsts, stands today with of the
same fire hazards it had in Grandmother's day.
1t of 10 to II schools in this city upon which
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Hitler on the Spot

Hitler on the Spot
DUT Hitler found himself on the spot For he had
NJ taken elaborate measures to pretend for the
benefit of the visitors that the plight of the Jew
exaggerated. He had taken down thousands of Wig
orous signs which had hung in public places such
the railroad stations and postofces and had or
dered the removal of anti-Semtic posters from bill
boards, restaurants and stores for many miles
around.
Thus the visiting athletes and the tourist reporters
outward evidence of the campaign of per-
secution unless they happened to come upon chance
copies of The Sturmer the official anti-Semitic pub
lication
In view of the Nazis' insistent claim that Jews
had not been moleSted in the course of the slow
it would have been bad propaganda to turn
loose the Brown Shirts to club and kick Jews wher-
found in reprSal for the death of Gustoff. So
tempting incident wasted and Htlers oratory
at the grave, of course, not audible in gay and
distant Garmisch.
Not many of the athletes were reading news
papers during the games few of them Hitler's
ambiguous tribute to the intelligence of the German
delivered at the tomb of the dead spy In this
remarkable Grafton Der Fuehrer led off with the
customary exatation of German character but wound
up saying that in 10000 other assassinatons of
man patriots the Jews always contrived to persuade
misguided Germans to do the dirty work. 1t seemed
a fine acknowledgment of the superior mentality of
the Jews.
It's LiUely Paper
ME STURMER reappeared after the foreigners
u had left town and plastered on the walls
of the government office in Munich few days later.
1t is lively publication, with a monopoly on por-
biography in the Naz state which started as the
private racket of Julius Streicher and brought him
more than 100000 when he sold it to the Naz Party
short while ago. The party apparently intends to
let the paper ole before the summer Olynnpics
The political and military character of the Nad
Olympcs thoroughly obscured the sporting signifi-
canoe on three days, and the flags of other nations
seldom were seen at any time amid the thousands
of swastikas the moving pictures should prove if
they are shown unedited in the United States
Three times Hitler converted the show into
political gala day, and those Americans who were
punched and pushed around by the aptly named
Black Guards will assert that the spirit of fraternity
through sport emerged from the party with contu-
s1ons, abrasions and probable internal injuries
I would like to offer the affidavit of the wife of
an American who got punch the nose from
Black Guard while trying to penetrate the military
spectacle in order to reach the sport But the lady
prefers to say nothing for publication, because her
husband works in Germany at present and might be
kicked out or locked out
In view of the bold perversion of the games at
Garmisch however, there may be renewed opposi-
ton to participation in the summer games But the
Nazis were entirely blameworthy, for they simply do
not know what the Olympic spirit is and decency is
foreign to their nature.
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BY ARCH STEINEL

a by Archse inelf
system
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hunts cloakrooms and under desks
for any one left behind.
The "searcher," however, does
not open the door from the cloak
room to the balcony during his
search.
Fire drills are required monthly
in all city schools and pupils do
not know the day or the hour or
the stairway to be used in the
drill.