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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
LITTLE VS.. BIG

CONGRESS has begun another attempt to I'LL
~ one Of the holes left by the death of NRA.
Hearings are being held before group of House
judiciary committee members on a series of bills
designed 70 prevent price determinations in whole
sale traLe.
Coal men, the first scheduled witnesses, are to be
followed by spokesman for grocery and drug groups
manufacturers, wholesalers and brokers
Soon after NFA was declared unconstitutional.
last spring various bills introduced attempting
to get at various phases of the price problem and
to equalize differences between large and small
businesses. judiciary subcommittee headed by
Rep. Utterback Cd. la, was appointed to handle
them and has been studying the situation since
AS a result Rep. Utterback has framed bill OF
his own. now pending before the committee. 1t
would amend the Clayton antitrust act in num-
Der of important respects.
1t would place specific ban on basing point
price systems.
1t would forbid price discrimination in interstate
commerce.
1t would provide strict regulation of quantity
discounts, and would forbid payment of brokerage
commissions and allowances except in very linz
tied number. of specific cases.
ID EP. UTTERBACK denies his bill is aimed at
big business and says instead that his intention
is simply ito put all business basis of equality
by preventing price determinations"
He believes number of large manufacturers
where they not controlled by pool or monopoly,
would like to be freed of pressure constantly brought
on them to grant rebates and other allowances
In sense however, the hearings will be con-
tnuatlon of the long battle waged between bigness
and httleness in business 1t began with the Sher-
man Act, passed in the Cleveland Administration,
but quickly amended to inocuous form. Next came
the passage in 1913 of the Clayton Act made useless
in number of respects by subsequent Supreme
Court decisions.
The battle continued under MIRA, with foes of
monopoly gradually swinging around to the point of
view that price-cutting as we'll prce-control can
be used as weapon against small independents
Under the Utterback bill the Federal Trade Com
mission would be given the task of enforcing the ban
on discriminatory price schedules
Other legislation pending in Congress would give
the commission a freer hand in dealing with decep-
tive acts and practices as well as unfair competition
In the Senate, Senator Borah is backing the most
sweeping measure yet proposed on the subject It
would forbid person to quote lower prices in one
place than he offers in others or to quote unreason-
ably low prices anywhere. This measure would
prevent any price variation based or differences in
selling expense transportation cost or competitive
conditions.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY .. 1895.
IT CAN HAPPEN HERE

IF you have read Sinclair Lewis ut Can't Happen
Here"-and you should-you will remember how
secure Editor Doremus Jessup felt against danger of
Fascist coup in this free American republic And
then, rather suddenly. such coup pounced on him
and other freemen and enslaved them under bru-
tai and vulgar dictatorship
Fascism came to America, in the book through
false of security Things are happening right
about us today that should jar that sense For in
stance
The discovery in Washington of an organization
calling itself 1.-THE American Union Men," lobbying
for bill in Congress to put all labor unions under
commission of high ranking officers-an incredible
proposal but seriously preached by its Fascist minded
hackers;
Passage by the United States Senate of the Tyd-
ngs-McCormack bill, which would make a felon
of any one who criticised the Army or Navy;
Propaganda being stirred behind that other ILL.,
favored measure, the Kramer bill, Federal anti
sediton bill dangerous to liberty the notorious
alien and sedition acts of 1893;
The Blanton rider to the District of Columbia ap-
preparation BILL requiring all teachers to swear every
month they have not discussed Communism;
The invasion of schools and colleges by patroteer-
ing and journalistic ed-baiters bent on terrorizng
teachers and crushing free and liberal thought;
general strikes; hating movements; vigilante
rule; lynchings and other outbreaks of awlessness
Some of these things will be laughed at as rdicu-
lous. They seem ridiculous but Mussolini
before he organized his march on Rome. So was
Herr Hitler, when he began his Inflated Munich
beerputsch. So Huey Long when he started out
to seize free commonwealth and put it under his
capricious rule.
Yes, it can happen here. The germs of Fascism
are scattered wide. Unless those who love liberty
put themselves guard, the germs will spread.
Some day may wake up, as Doremus Jessup
did, to find the enemy in power.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
MASS HOUSING

MOST nearly right, we believe, in its approach to
the manysided problem of housing is the De-
partment of Labor's Consumer Division It's latest
bulletin points out the waste and neficiency that
surround BODYBUILDING and the imperative need
that construction be brought into step with the ma
chine age
1t predicts that when the technique for mass pro-
duction of houses in factories perfected then and
then only will rehousng begin.
Eight of the nine factors which make housing
Sc costly at present could be eliminated by factory
made houses, the bulletin suggests 1t lists them as
follows Complicated craft organizations as applied
to both laborers and employers, perpetuation of
archaic craft methods, waste of material due to ex-
listing methods of fabrication at the SITE inappro-
pirate use of materials and appliances, lack of skill
in planning both land and buildings, high cost of
materials and their distribution lack of reasonable
assurance in market forecastng and seasonal char
acter of employment.
Millions of dollars in profits await private industry
If it can find out how to supply good homes to
Americans at $4,000 and $4,000 But unless it acts
fast. government may have to take the lead for
heavy proportion of the unemployed come from the
building industry and the unemployment problem
can't drag forever unsolved.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson

ME widow of Huey Long has been "honored" by
an appointment to the United States Senate to
fill out her husbands unexpired term. This is a
gesture which the women and the country at large
could very we'll dispense with
The Senate of the United States holds the fate
OF our nation and perhaps of the world in its hands
1t should never be converted into drawing room for
the display of courtly manners To send there even
for little while woman who is without expert
ence, and who claims no qualifications for states
manship merely because she happens to have been
married to former member, is the kind of gallan-
try which should enrage the women of the nation
and the people of louisiana
So-called chivalry, most of which is designed at
all times to make women feel inferior by fulsome
fattery can go to no greater lengths and work no
greater harm
II Huey Long had the qualities of good Senator
and was a power among men, then by all rules of
logic his wife would possess no such characteristics
Two autocrats live in the same house If thew
did the roof would fall. And men like Huey Long do
not remain married to women who exhibit any
particular aggressiveness or determination OBJ
vously then Mrs Long is not the type of person who
should be in the Senate. She is there to work the
viii of political machine to feed the vanity of
certain types of men who love to drink toasts to
the ladies-God bless 'em"-but who like them bet
ter the dumber they are.
am strongly in favor of more women sitting in
the Senate but as long we enter by post mortem
back doors our chances for obtaining honorable
places for those members of the sex who are capable
OF serving their country are lessened
These sops of political gravy are nauseous to dis
terminating feminine palates. Senators should re-
sent these slurs upon their dignity and women should
refuse such crumbs unless they wish to live on them
forever.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
THE JOHN L. LEWIS SALARY

TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS a year
is smaller salary than many fourth-rate cor
porations pay TO each of flock of window dressing
vice presidents.
In 1884 Mae West got 1899, 166 for her sex appeal
Mickey Cochrane $4,000 for guiding the Detroit
Tigers, and Joe Penner $4,000 for being a clown.
In that same year. 81 officers and employees of the
du Pont companies drew down an average of SAB 1000
each.
Yet it was regarded by some people as grotesque
when the United Mire Workers of America in con-
svention IN Washington, voted to boost the salary
of their president John L. Lewis, from $4,000 to
$4,000 year. AS If being the head of a union
of 100000 men, the largest and strongest union in
the country, required any less ability as an execu-
tive and organizer than is required to fill the shoes
of Charles M. Schwab of Bethlehem Steel who gets
$250O00, or George W. Hill of the American Tobacco
Co.. who gets $l87,126. No one who knows Mr.
Lewis ability doubts that had he dedicated his
life to making money instead of leading men, he
would be in the top income bracket.
We didn't think it was grotesque Yet we be-
lieve Mr. Lewis further proof of his stature as
leader of men when he refused to accept the in
crease. So did Philip Murray and Thomas Kennedy
respectfully vice president and secretary treasurer
when they refused to accept increases from $4,000
to $4,000 which the miners had voted.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
THOSE RED FLANNELS

A we had suspected, Al Smiths story that the
New Dealers caught the Socialists in swimming
and stole their red fannels isn't true at all
Socialisms Number One Man, Norman Thomas
not only publicly absolves Mr. Roosevelts Brain
Trusters" OF larceny but counters with much more
serious charge against them from his viewpoint.
This is that they're trying to salvage the capitalist
system that ne hates.
The Roosevelt emergency program, Mr. Thomas
admits. might be good reformism" but it's the
opposite of Socialism.
There is nothing Socialist about trying to regu-
late reform Wall Street." he says. Socialism
wants to abolish the system of which Wall Street
is an appropriate symbol.
There is nothing Socialist about trying to break
up great holding companies. We Socialists would
prefer to acquire holding companies in order to
socialize the utilities subject to them
There Socialism at all about taking over
all the banks which fell into Uncle Sans lap put
ting them on their feet again. and turning them
back to the bankers see they could bring them
once more to ruin.
There no Socialism at all about putting in
co-ordinator to see if he could make the bankrupt
railroad systems profitable SO they could be more
expensive for the to acquire as sooner or
later. even Republican Party government, under
capitalism, must"
And down the list Mr.. Thomas goes slash
ing. AAA subsidized scarcity TwA is fair flower
to grow among weeds. Social security is inadequate
for essential security. All these attempts ito curb
rampant and arrogant capitalism are just so much
bread circuses to keep the people quiet" as they
watch "a dying social order" die
If you like labels Mr.. Thomas has one too. It's
State Capitalism toward which we're going And,
he warns. this points more toward Berlin than to-
ward Moscow.
We think Mr.. Thomas is right in saying the only
the Roosevelt Administration has carried out
the Socialist platform is ION a stretcher" We be-
eve he's Trorg in warning that it is moving toward
FasciSm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
The Ho0sier Forum
acholy disapprove of what you scy-amd aoiIs
defend to the death your right to say it.-Votaire.

Some 1890 banks received nearly one
and one-quarter billion dollars.
Nearly another billion was lent
to other banks to pay off deposit
tors. Purchases of capital notes,
preferred stock and bonds from 600
banks amounted to more than an
other billion dollars. Loans to rail-
roads were one-half billion, and to
mortgage loan companies nearly a
quarter billion. Insurance companies
got nearly 80 millions.
Is this the sturdy giant upon
whom the American people have
placed their economic hope and
fate? Here was rugged individual
ism in the nth degree. Have Smith,
Hoover, Talmadge and Landon
resurrected this ghost?
The sorry thing about the whole
situation is not the cry of those who
benefited from this injection OF
government credit into private bust
ness. 1t is that nothing has been
done to prevent a recurrence of
the situation, and that no basic
reconstruction of our economic
structure has taken place to assure
abundance for consumers.
The whole program of government
credit to private business has aimed
at maintaining an economy of
scarcity.
We have had producers money
profits as our our chief concern. We
should have striven for consumer
profits through increased production
and consumption. The whole policy
is absurdly unsound.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
REPRIEVE OF HAUPTMANN
JUSTIFIED, HE SAYS
By F. S. Caprio, NJ. d.

BY F. 5. Capri0, M. ID.
A man who is willing to face po-
litical suicide, become the target
of national criticism, shoulder the
tremendous responsibility of last
minute decision, must without ques-
ton, command sufficient grounds
and confidence in his beliefs to JUS
tify his action.
A surgeon, prior to performing a
major operation, studies his patient
thoroughly, takes every factor into
consideration, calls in consultants if
necessary, makes his diagnosis as
accurately as possible and then ex-
erts every effort to carry his pa
tient to recovery. 1t is the duty of
the Governor of New Jersey as leg
iSlative consultant, to see to it that
the state exhaust every possible
means of arriving at a satisfactory
solution of the Lindbergh kidnap-
ing before executing a major pro-
cedure from which there is no re-
covery.
attended the trial in Fleming
ton, N. j. 1t appeared evident that
the defense counSels' battle against
the prejudiced prosecution of the
state was futile.
believe that the evidence as
presented by the prosecuting attor-
ney definitely established Haupt-
mann's implication in the crime. He
deserves the maximum penalty of
the law. However, appeasing the
impulsive sentiment of the mass in
no way constitutes the final solu-
ton of the crime.
The Governors reprieve is justi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
OTHER OPINION
What jackson Said

Lafayette Journal and Courier1
Inc birthday of Andrew Jackson
was celebrated this year with a lot
OF eclat. One notable jackson BAN
quet was enjoyed at $50 per plate.
There were comparisons of modern
craftsmanship with the ruggedness
OF Jackson. This adds interest to
soi-,e quotations from "Old Hickory"
himself. Jackson, for example, said:
Il shall keep steadily in view the
limitations as we'll as the extent of
the executive power, trusting there
by to discharge the functions of my
Office without transcending it's au-
thority.
advantage must result from the
observance of a strict and faithful
economy. This I shall aim at the
more anxiously, both because it will
facilitate the extinguishment of the
national debt. and because it will
counterfeit that tendency to public
and private profligacy which a pro-
fuse expenditure of money by the
government, is too apt to engender."
And again in President Jackson's
Farewell Address" these words:
"Our Constitution is no longer a
doubtful experiment, and at the end
of nearly nalf century We ind it
has preserved unimpaired the liber-
ties of the people and secured the
rights of property.
There have always been those
amongst us who wish to enlarge the
powers of the general government.
Every attempt to exercise power be-
yond the constitutional limit should
be promptly and firmly opposed. for
one evil attempt will lead to other
measures still more mischievous.
Congress has no right, under the
Constitution. to take money from
the people. unless it is required to
execute some of the specific powers
entrusted to the government.
you viii find there is constant
effort to induce the general govern
ment to go beyond the limits Of its
taxing powers. :
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08

sentsng from the ruling of their colleagues: For
the removal Of unwise laws from the statute books
appeal lies not to the courts but to the ballot and
the processes of democratic government"
In 1876 majority of the Supreme Court said.
For protection against abuses by Legislatures, the
people must resort to the polls, not the courts"
The sentence occurred in ruling in the Grang-
er cases. Local authorities had been attempting to
regulate the rates Of railways and grain warehouses.
These industries rased constitutional objection but
the court rejected tbeir arguments.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
GLOW old is Clark Gable?
Ale was born Feb. l, 1901.


Ale was born Feb. |, 1901.
Glow may mercury be removed
from a gold ring?
Aft the ring is gently heated
the mercury will be volatilized. The
vapors are poisonous and should
not be inhaled Hold the ring on
an iron wire well above gas,
candle, or lamp flame. If there is
much mercury, there is some
danger that the amalgam will melt
when heated. If there are stones III
the ring they may crack. 1t is
always best to have the work done
by a competent jeweler.
Q-What are the symbols of
forty fifth. fiftieth, sixtieth and
seventy fifth wedding anniversaries?
A-Forty- fifth. ruby; fftieth, gold;
sixtieth and seyenty-fifth. diamond.
Q-What is the name of the
theme music of the motion picture,
"One Way Passage?"
A-The music was written es-
pecially for the picture by staff
composer in the studio, and has not
been published.
Q-What are blind alley" jobs?
A-The term generally refers to
occupations or positions in which
there is no chance for advance
ment.
Q-Does the former Crown Prince
of Germany live with his wife, or
are they divorced?
A-They are not divorced. He is
living with his wife and four of his
children at Cecilienhof Castle, Pots
dam, Germany. His oldest son,
Prince Wilhelm, lives at Bonn, Ger
many, and daughter, Princess AL
exandrine, lives at Iona, Sophien-
hohe, Germany.
Q-Has the merchant fleet of Hol-
land a greater gross tonnage than
that OF Greece?
A-YpS - 81 s
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
TODAY'S SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ-

| A STRONOMERS today are not
IN only studying the stars, but
what is between the stars. This
recent interest in interstellar space
is we'll justified for calculations show
that the stars occupy only a tiny
fraction of space.
"a photograph of rich star field
or a star cluster is very apt to give
the impression that space is about
as well filled with stars as the air
is with raindrops in an average
shower" DIR. ]. A. Anderson of the
Mount Wilson Observatory, says. "A
very little consideration shows that
this impression is quite erroneous.
Calculations, DR.. Anderson says,
reveal that there is 10 billion times
billion Chat is one, followed by 10
ciphers) more empty space than
stars within our own galaxy or
Milky Way.
"Raindrops one-eighth of an inch
in diameter would have to be on the
average four miles apart in order to
furnish a reasonable comparison, >
he says.
Our own galaxy is just one OF
some millions of galaXies distributed
in space. The average distance be-
tween any two external galaxies or
spiral nebulae as they are better
known, is about 10 million light
years. CA light year is six tr1lllon
miles)
ONCE the stars within these
y spirals are distributed about as
far from each other as the stars
within our own galaxy, DR.. Ander-
son concluded that in the known
universe as a whole the amount or
space is 10 million times a billion
times billion chat is, / followed
by Is ciphers) greater than the
stars.
DR.. Anderson gives an illustra-
ton which serves to heighten the
meaning of this fact.
The number of stars in our galaxy
is approximately 100 billion. The
average external galaxy Is smaller
than this and so probably contains
fewer stars. But each galaxy prob
ably contains more than 10 billion
stars.
The total number of galaxies
within reach of the 100-inch tele-
scope is now believed to be about
billion.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
Your
Health
DR.. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

TXTHEN your baby fails to gain
w weight. the malnutrition indi-
Gated may be due to insufficient
amounts of food, or to inability Of
his body to absorb food.
Remember that the body must
have materials for energy output
and for growth, and that it will
burn up its own tissues if it does
not get enough food.
This failure of nutrition may 60
on to point where it is impossible
for baby to survive. Moreover.
the baby that is insufficiently or
inadequately nourished is likely to
develop various infections, TO which.
IN a state of malnutrition. it will
readily succumb.
Failure to gain weight is, there
fore, a most serious condition.
Doctors estimate that from one
fourth to one-third of all the chill
dren in the United States today are
undernourished.
cause of irritable nervous systems
are likely to be undernourished.
Many of them hurry to get out to
play when they have not eaten
enough. Some play so much that
they become exhausted, and do not
care for food.
OBVIOUSLY, the way to over
~ come malnutrition is to give
your child more food, but you can
also benefit him great deal by
choosing and emphasizing the.
right kind of food. The food selected
should include the right amount of
carbohydrates and plenty of vita
Minis.
1t is wise also to take the neces-
sary steps to correct the irritability
of your child's nervous system and
much play. Make certain, also, that
he does not eat between meals. A
piece of candy or a glass of milk,
taken just before meal, will kill
the appetite for food.
Sometimes undernourished chill
dren will eat better if they get more
sleep. The irritable and restless
child should stay in bed until at
least 10 a. m. and take long nap
in the afternoon.
This serves the double purpose of
lessening the demand for fuel to use
in supplying energy of quoting the
nervous system.
1t is particularly important to re-
move any infections that are dis
turbing and destroying the body of
the child.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
FEELS DISGRACED BY
STATE MILITIA

BY Ex-SoIdier and Union Man, Westfeid
Every local union and the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor as a whole
should thank Gen. Smedley T. But
Ter for telling the truth about the
state militia, better known as tin
soldiers" or "scab herders.'
1t is a disgrace to the United
States Army that state militiamen
are allowed to wear the same uni
form.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
DESPAIR
BY POLLY LOIS NORTON

The gates of heaven may open
portal-wide,
Or hell itself gap hungry, end
leSSly;
I shall not care to set a foot in
side
When death has claimed this dis
NAL part of me.
Heaven or hell would just be further
terms;
This ones enough. Learn here I
know must,
Still I shall choose at last the kiss
of quiet worms,
Caress of cropping roots around my
dust.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-02-08
FORESAW DEATH FOR
WPA WORKER

BY E'Claire
We read in The Times Of the
"avoidable accidental death" of a
WPA worker, William Locke.
warned you of this in letter
to your paper Jan. Is, which has
not been printed yet.
The body was sent to the city
morgue and, of course, there will be
no investigation to find out if the
foremen have men undermine banks
while other gangs come along to cut
them off. And also if the safety
men go along the banks and don't
see or say anything about it.
Mr.. Locke was just another victim
(among the many of our govern
ment of oppression for the poor.
/ am sure the family and rela-
tives have the deepest sympathy of
all of us WPA workers.