Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 237, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 February 1933 — Page 3

FEB. 11, 1933

NIGH TURNOVER IN LABOR IS BIG ! SOVIET PROBLEM Red Worker Faces Stiff Discipline Under New Kremlin Edict. Soviet leader* are nuntinr Lenin. ‘‘Father of Boiaheviam" to loatifv their frrent draatk rurtailmenta of individual Ilbertv of the worker*. Eurenr Lvon* aava In thia the fourth of hia aeriea on dramatlr new trenda in the I'. S. K BY EI'OENE LYONS United I’rea* Staff t'orreanondent (Copyright, 1933. bv United Press) MOSCOW. Feb. 11.—Further drastic limitations upon the individual Workingman's personal rights may be expected here as part of the regime of heightened revolutionary vigilance recently announced by Joseph Stalin and other Kremlin leaders. Legislation passed several months i ago to "discipline” Russia's growing army of •ndustrial workers unques- ■ tionably wull have teeth put into it i and enforcement will be made mc.re uncompromising. That legislation, it will be recalled. made it possible to deprive a workman and his family of job, j food-books and home for a single j clay's unjustified absence from work. I It also placed the control of food ! supplies directly in the hands of the factory administrations. Lenin Is Quoted Perhaps the most randid indica- j tion that force will be used even ; against the ruling proletariat, where j necessary, to raise production was j given in his recent speech by ! Viacheslav Molotov, premier and| one of Stalin's closest associates. Molotov quoted a passage from Lenin, in which the "Father of Bolshevism” had said that where productivity of labor demands it the government must not hesitate “to | use force, so that the slogan of j dictatorship of the proletariat may not be muddied by the practice of saccaharine methods by the proletarian power.” The emphasis which Molotov gave this quotation immeasurably is significant for the every day living and working conditions of the masses. Perhaps the outstanding paradox of this nation’s social system is the contrast between the exaltation of the workers as a class, and their lack of freedom as individuals. Their personal lives will be even further subordinated to the needs of the Soviet undertaking. Necessity Is Extreme It, must be admitted that the Kremlin acts to limit the rights of poletarians only under extreme necessity. However casual it may be in liquidating other classes or controlling the thoughts and actions of other groups, it proceeds reluctantly in relation to the class which made the success of the Bolshevik revolution possible. But the necessity at the present moment is extreme. Industrial output has been running startlingly below schedule . . . Molotov placed the 1932 increase of output at 8.5 per cent, against the 36 per cent planned. Productivity of labor, he said, practically remained unchanged during the year. He scarcely is likely to exaggerate in the direction of pessimism. It may be supposed, therefore, that the reality was even worse than he pictured it. Since lax labor discipline, such as absence from the factory, negligent work and fearful spoilage of products, is one of the main reasons for present economic difficulties, the tightening of discipline was inevitable. Prevent Labor Turnover In particular, it will be the aim of the authorities to prevent the disastrously high turnover of labor —running to 100 or 200 per cent every month in some factories and mines. The broader principles of workers’ control of factories was thrown overboard years ago. with the institution of responsible industrial management. Every effort still is made to obtain workers’ suggestions, and to take cognizance of complaints, precisely as in many intelligently run capitalist industries. But direct intrusion of factory hands in administrative matters is reduced to an absolute minimum. Doubtless, the tremendous powers put into the hands of the •'employers." that is to say, the management, by recent legislation will be used as little as possible. But the mere existence of such powers will be a deterrent.

No Room for “Agitators" After all. the most that a capitalist employer can do is to discharge a worker. The Soviet management in addition can deprive him of the right to work anywhere else for ■ six months, can prevent him from buying food in official shops, and can drive him out of his home. The only capitalist parallel would be a "feudal” industrial town in which one corporation controls j everything, including stores, hous- j ing, education, and in addition has j a private police force to prevent j strikes. Since the Soviet state is the sole ; employer, strikes here rightly are considered counter-revolutionary. Any "damned agitator” advocating a factory strike would be subject to ; shooting here as an enemy of the state. DISTRICT MEETING OF EAGLES HERE SUNDAY, Indianapolis Eagles aerie will be host at the lodge home, 43 West j Vermont street, for a seventh district meeting at 2 Sunday afternoon. Class of about thirty candidates will be initiated with the ritual be- ! ing exemplified by the drill team of Kokomo aerie, twice winner in national competition. The team is di- j reeled by Charles Stewart, state ■ Eagles vice-president. Aeries from throughout central Indiana will be represented at the meeting. The meeting will be the occasion for an old age pension celebration, according to Otto P. Deluse. chairman of the order's state pension commission, as a result of progress being made in the legislature towards enactment of an old age pension bill.

BUZZARD BRINGS BEAUTY TO NIAGARA FALLS

A blizzard sweeps across the nation, bringing suffering to thousands. But at Niagara it paints a picture of beauty. Here is the famed Horseshoe Falls i nits manrie of ice aid snow. Mist from the roaring torrent at the left adds anew lacy pattern for Niagara’s winter tourists to admire.

TRADE PROBERS’ FUNDS PERILED Fight Will Go to Senate Floor After Action by Subcommittee. By Scripps-irownrft Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. The fight for funds to keep the federal trade commission alive will be carried to the senate following decision of an appropriations subcommittee to allow an increase of only $240,000 over the sum voted by the house. The subcommittee apparently acted on the supposition that the trade commission would be abolished or reduced to skeleton form after finishing up w'ork it now has under way. Five senate liberals appealed to the committee to continue the commission's appropriation at hearings just preceding the vote. They were Senators Thomas Walsh iDem., Mont.), George Norris (Rep., Neb.), Robert La Follette (Rep., Wis.), Bronson Cutting (Rep.. N. M.) and Morris Shipstead (Farmer-Labor, Minn.). The National League of Women Coters, representing “85 per cent of the countrys buyers,” also asked that the commision's work be continued to protect the public from misbranding, false advertisements, price discriminations, and substituj tion of products. A large number of important ■ holding utility company groups will escape investigation and a final report can not be written in the probe that already has been conducted unless the commission's funds are | increased beyond the point recom- ! mended by the subcommittee.

Film Stars to Stop Here on Way to Inauguration

Special Train Will Carry Notables of Moviedom; In City Feb. 27. I ■ The “Warner Bros. Special" pub- ! licity train, stopping at important cities en route to Washington for the inauguration March 4, will re- j main in Indianapolis one day— j Feb. 27. Stars of the Warner Bros, picture. I "Forty-second Street." Bebe Daniels j and George Brent, will be aboard, , as well as James Cagney, Joe E. i Brown. Ruby Keeler. Dick Powell. Warner Baxter, Bette Davis, Joan Blondell, Guy Kibbee, Loretta Young, Warren William. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ginger Rogers and j Una Merkel. Also aboard the train will be ten j of the most beautiful girls from Hollywood. The train will be made up vith an observation car decorated in the | manner of a Malibu Beach bunga- j low and will have a short wave j radio station, from which day by day broadcasts will be made as the ! train proceeds. There will be a flat car with a big electrical display of “Forty-second Street;" a box car with the generating units, and a combination club and baggage car. In this car General Electric, collabo- | rating with Warner Bros., will have I a display featuring the newest elec- j ! trical household'equipment now be- ; mg produced. In addition there will be two stateroom cars for the stars and two Pullman cars for the accompanying personnel of newspaper feature writers, wire sendee men, radio j crew and electrical crew. The train will arrive in Indian- I apolis at 11 a. m.. Feb. 27. The j stars will be met by city officials j and a parade will follow, taking | them to the General Electric Com- j i pany, 943 North Meridian street, j There they will broadcast over a local station. They will make two j appearance, matinee and evening, j jat the Indiana theater. The train | will leave Indianapolis at 11 p. m. | the same day, en route to Wash- ; ington. Now r Is The Time to rent your vacant house. An ad in The Times rental column will do it at the lowest cost of any other Indianapolis newspaper. RI. 5551.

New Ford Is On Display; Cars Larger and Faster

Longer Wheel Base, Roomier Bodies Are Features of Machine. The larger and most powerful Ford car built since Henry Ford launched into volume production is on display today by local dealers. The new Ford—a V-8, 112-inch wheelbase car—has new and dis-i tinctively modem lines, longer wheelbase, larger and roomier bodies, faster acceleration, and increased power and speed. It is exceedingly economical in operation, and with 75-horse power is capable of a sustained speed of eighty miles an hour. Anew styling is expressed in the fourteen body types. Features of distinction are the sloping radiator grille ,the skirted fenders, newly designed headlamps, cowl lamps and bumpers, the curve of the hood side ventilators, the 20-degree slant of the windshield, the curbed roof header, the curve of the rear quarter and the back ward sweep of the apron masking the gasoline tank. Bodies Are Wider The' new all-steel bodies are wider and almost a foot longer from the engine dash back. The instrument panel is directly in front of the driver. Front seats are adjustable. Options in upholstery and wide choice of body colors are available. All cars have safety glass windshield and all de luxe cars are equipped with safety glass throughout without extra cost. De luxe cars also are equipped with cowl

Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen belong to: Court Maxwell. Martinsville. Ind.. Chevrolet sedan. 246-103. from Martinsville. Harrv Bell. 742 North Tremont avenue. Chevrolet coupe. 105-992. from Holmes avenue and Michigan street. Claude Dale. 2042 Dexter avenue. Hupmobile coupe. 120-912. from Tenth and West street. Ralph Hamilton. 1125 Linden street. Ford truck. T 27-590. from 1125 Linden street. Ira Bradv. R. R. 8. box 39.9 J. Ford sedan. from 5500 Fest Michigan street. FREAK SNAKE IS KILLED Reptile Slain in Carolina Had Head Each End of Body. COLUMBIA. S. C.. Feb. 11.—Freak snakes of all kinds have been found, but one killed by a Negro in South Carolina has them all beaten. This snake was peculiar in that it had two heads, but unique because the heads were at opposite ends of its body. The thirty-inch specimen was turned over to the University of South Carolina. SOME WOMEN ALWAYS ATTRACT You want to be beautiful. You want the tireless energy, fresh complexion and pep of youth. Then let Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets help free your system of the poisons caused by clogged bowels and torpid liver. For 20 years, men and women suffering from stomach troubles, ! pimples, listlessness and headaches have taken Dr. Edwards Olive Tab--1 lets, a successful subsitute for cal- ; omel, a compound of vegetable in- ! gredients, known by their olive color. They act easily upon the bowels ; without griping. They help cleanse | the system and tone up the liver. If you value youth and its many gifts, take Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly. How much better you will feel—and look. 15c. 30c, 60c. —Advertisement.

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lights, two tail lights and two matched tone horns. The improved V-8 engine is fitted with all-aluminum cylinder heads. Use of aluminum cylinder heads permits higher compression and results in increased speed, power and smoothness, faster acceleration and added fuel economy. Capacity of 14 Gallons In the new three-quarter floating rear axle, the driving pinion is mounted in a double taper roller thrust bearing at the front and a straight radial roller bearing at the rear. This maintains permanent alignment of the pinion with the ring gear under all driving conditions and results in extremely quiet axle operation. The frame is cushioned by four Houdaille double-acting hydraulic shock absorbers. Shock absorber links are insulated in rubber. The rear fuel tank has a capacity of fourteen gallons. Transmission is of the synchronized type, with helical constant mesh gears, and functions quietly both in second speed and during speed changing. The clutch is of the single plate type and is spring cushioned for soft engagement.

MOVE TO LIFT LIQUOR PRESCRIPTION LIMIT House Judiciary Committee Reported Ready to Urge Change. By Scripps-Hoicard Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Congress may be urged by the house judiciary committee Tuesday to remove restrictions limiting the quantity of medicinal liquor physicians may prescribe for patients. The committee is expected to report favorably the Celler-Beck bill, which authorizes physicians to use their “own professional judgment,” and removes restrictions upon the number of whisky prescription blanks issued to physicians. Efforts will be made to obtain early action in the house with a view of obtaining passage in the senate before March 4. Senator Hiram Bingham has a similar bill pending in the senate. At present physicians are limited to 100 prescription blanks every three months, and are forbidden to authorize mo r e than one pint per patient every ten days. These restrictions were condemned by the Wickersham commission in its report to congress, and their removal has been requested by the American Medical Association.

AUTO SHOW Will Continue 2MOREDAYS OPEN 10 A. M. TO 10:30 P. M. Due to the severe weather, the Indianapolis Auto Trade Association is continuing the Auto Show through— Saturday and Sunday t You have never seen such beautiful autonobiles as are being displayed this year. Do not miss seeing these cars, even if you do not contemplate buying until later. The new 1933 Ford will be on exhibition Saturday and Sunday. LOW ADMISSION PRICES! SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS!

OIL DEMANDS OF PERSIA ARE KEPTHIDDEN Both Sides in Dispute Apparently Leave Plenty of Bargaining Margin. Thi* is the second of a series on the Anelo-Persian oil dispute which is up for consideration before the Council of the League of Nations. By United Press TEHERAN, Persia. Feb. 11.—The attempt to learn, in concrete rather than generalized terms, what the Persian government demands from the British oil concessionaires proves a baffling undertaking. Either the shah's government has not made up its mind what it will accept, or it is saving its fire for a more appropriate time and place. Officials of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company have voiced the complaint, according to Teheran diplomatic circles, that they have been unable to tie down the Persian authorities to a specific list of demands. It even is reported that such a list had been asked for and was about to be presented by the minister of finance, His Excellency Taquizade, when the annulment intervened. The company, however, seems to have been equally reluctant to disclose exactly how far it is willing to go to meet the demands. Both sides appear to be leaving themselves plenty of margin for real bargaining. Company Also Reluctant To an outsider it seems strange that the company has not made public the texts, or at any rate the substance, of two tentative agreements containing important concessions to the Persians which the shah’s government is alleged to have failed to accept. The Persian government has been accusing the company of failure to meet changing conditions. If. as intimated, the two agreements did in a serious sense meet the Persians’ claims, their publication completely would nullify the accusation. The shah’s numerous complaints summarize, in their simplest form, to a cry for more royalties and for closer scrutiny of the business which is to produce those royalties. A Teheran journalist stated that 24 per cent of the net profits—a 50 per cent increase, that is, over the 16 per cent stipulated in the original concession—would satisfy his government.

Flat Payment Proposed Other methods of calculating Persia’s due also have been suggested. One is a flat payment of so much per ton of oil produced, as in the recent Irak agreement. Another would provide a fixed annual payment regardless of production. The sum mentioned, it Is reported, ran around 2,500,000 pounds sterling. Even more important than the percentage to be paid, of course, is the method of calculating the net profits. The Anglo-Persian in the years since its organization has become a powerful world-wide organization with numerous subsidiaries. It is true that the Persian government contributed none of the capital on which this expansion rests. It did contribute, as it insists, its soil, its oil, its most importan* form of capital in fact. Persia’s Part Is Puzzle To what extent did Persia's contribution, namely its oil resources, enter into making the world-wide organization possible? How much of the “net profits” of the oil concession went to build up the profitable subsidiaries controlled by Anglo-Persian? To extent, if any, should Persia participate in the winnings of these subsidiaries? Persia also contends that the concession has netted Great Britain something more than profits—namely, a petroleum base for its middle and near eastern empire. That is an intangible item in the company's accounting; but the oriental mind is sometimes more proficient in calculating the intangibles than the solid statistics. Farmer Buried in Old Casket By t nitrd Press SPARTA. Mo., Feb. 11. Daniel Goode, a farmer, was buried in the casket he hod made for himself eight years ago and which he had kept in the living room of his home. He was a Methodist and the casket 1 was made by a Methodist minister.

Times Column Writer to Be Lincoln Day Orator

Dr. Joseph Fort Newton Is Scheduled to Speak at Springfield, 111. Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, author of "Everyday Religion,” which appears daily on The Times editorial page, will be the Lincoln birthday orator at the Springfield < 111.) celebration, to be held this year on Feb. 13, the 12th being on Sunday. The annual Springfield address is the most important among Lincoln birthday celebrations. It is delivered in the Statehouse in the room where Lincoln made the famous address in w'hich he said: “A house divided against itself can not stand,” and "A republic must be all slave or all free.” The celebration is under auspices of the Abraham Lin-

HOPE TO SPEED DEBTOR RELIEF Attempt to Reconcile Wide Differences in Con- • gress. By Scripps-Hjoward Xewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—An attempt to reconcile wide differences over the form of debt relief legislation will be made in the senate judiciary committee next week. If the committee is able to agree unanimously, a measure will be sent to the senate for immediate action, in the hope that it may become law in the lame duck session. If the committee dees not agree unanimously, and long debate seems inevitable, the bill will be abandoned until the special session. Anew draft of the measure embodying changes in the section affecting railroads, which are said to meet with approval from the interstate commerce commission and A. A. Berle, economist friend of President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, has just been prepared to lay before the judiciary committee. Aowever, this draft omits some of the provisions intended for relief of mortgaged farm owners, and westerners probably will oppose its enactment in this form, while So-licitor-General Thomas D. Thacher and Senator D. O. Hasting (Rep., Del.), author of the senate bill, be-

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1931 FIGURES Total Operating Revenues of System Drop 11 Per Cent. By United Press NEW YORK. Feb. 11.—American Telephone and Telegraph Company. world's largest business enterprise. dug into surplus to (.he extent of 522.143.183 last year to pay its $9 annual dividend to more than 700.000 stockholders. Net income of the company last year, the 1932 annual report disclosed. fell off to $145,906,909, equivalent to $7.82 a share, compared with $166,666,534, or $9.05 a share in 1931. Dividends Held Down Although failing to indicate the future dividend policy of the company. Walter S. Gifford, president, explained that “an important consideration back of the financial policy of the company has been the fact that regular dividends, representing as they do a return on actual cash invested, are vital to the vast majority of its hundreds of thousands of stockholders, more than half of whom are women." At the close of 1932. Gifford told stockholders the company had accumulated a surplus equal to $29 a share on all outstanding stock. Prior to 1932, the company never paid out all of its earnings in dividends. Operating Revenues Off During 1932 the Bell system, w'hich includes associated companies. decreased its telephone service by 10 per cent to 13,793.000 telephones. Lccal telephone conversations fell off 5*2 per cent and toll i or long-distance calls decreased 17 per cent. Total operating revenues of the | system decreased $119,400,000, or : 11 per cent, during 1932. while net earnings amounted to $194,400,000, a decrease of $63,600,000. Operating expenses were cut about 11 per i cent. Total assets of the system at ! the end of the year were $4,901,j 576,000. BANS PENAL CROWDING 300 Reformatory Prisoners to Be Transferred to State Farm. Overcrow'ding of prisoners at the Indiana state reformatory will be relieved by transferring 300 to the Indiana state farm. Governor Paul | V. McNutt has announced. | The practice of putting tw’o or more prisoners in a cell will be dis- ! continued, the Governor said. Dire moral lapses have resulted, the Governor w'as informed by Wayne Coy. his secretary in charge of penal affairs. Transfer is expected to raise the institutional morale, he said.