Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1933 Edition 02 — Page 4

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_ SATURDAY. JUNE 17. 1933. A LIVING STANDARD r T''HE United States labor department’s project for a study to fix a cost-of-living standard for 1933 is long overdue. That this has not been done before illustrates again the indifference of the post-war ballyhoo era. No government study of living costs has been made since that of the war labor board in 1918, based on investigations in only ninety-two .industrial centers. The $ 1918 standards are obsolete today. Things considered luxuries fifteen years ago are necessities now. The use of that old standard as a basis for wage-fixing in recent years was, in the words of the former labor department statistician, Ethelbert Stewart, “A crime, a fraud, and an outrage.” In 1928, Professor Nystrom of Columbia declared that 23,000,000 Americans were living below the minimum standard for health and efficiency, that there then were 2,000,000 families at the poverty level, and 3,000,000 getting a bare subsistence income. In 1928 the average wage of workers in manufacturing plants was $1,140. In that year it required, for the decent support of a worker’s family, as estimated by the industrial conference board, the government, and others, about $1,820. The theory of basing wages on a fixed minimum cost of living is, of course, a survival of the discredited economies of yesterday. The American Federation of Labor abandoned this wage theory eight years ago and insisted that wages be fixed upon the worker’s share in the production of wealth. Such a standard is vital now that industry, labor, and government are setting forth on the new road of national planning and restoration of buying power. In 1933, the American living standard, according to Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, should include “not only a food, clothing, and shelter, but security for old age, and the opportunity for healthy recreational life and suitable, varied, and extended education.” As President Roosevelt expressed it Friday In describing the purposes of the industrial recovery law: “By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level ... I mean the wages of decent living ... it is greatly to their (the employers') interest to do this, because decent living, widely spread among our 125,000,000 people, eventually means the opening up of industry of the richest market which the world has known.”

DANGERS IN RECOVERY ROAD AS the grept depression of the ’thirties sinks into what we all devoutly hope will be its final coma, it is instructive to look back at the deathbed scenes of former depressions and see how they compare with this one. By one way of looking at things, they are all much alike. In former times, as now, the upward turn began before people realized it. Commodity prices began a slow, but steady climb, security prices advanced, scattered factories began to put men back to work, people started buying things again—and then, the first thing any one knew, we were out of it and there was a clear road ahead again. That seems to be very much the way things are working out now. But there are one or two differences, and they modify the whole picture in a way that it is impossible to ignore. In the first place, no previous depression led to such far-reaching and drastic action by the federal government. We never have before had anything like the new farm bill, the industrial control bill, and so on. No previous depression forced us off the gold standard; none ever caused so much power to be given, to the Prugident. Secondly, the international situation is different. Never before did the climax of hard times in America coincide with such a near approach to chaos in international relations. The London conference, with all that it implies, is anew thing; the problems of disarmament, international debts, world peace, and treaty revision give to our emergence from this depression an entirely new face. Last of all. it is true probably that never before have we been so thoroughly disillusioned—with our leaders, with our institutions, and with ourselves. We have called in question the basic features of our national life. Radical as our recovery program may seem, it is mild as milk cornered with what the great mass of people will demand if recovery is delayed along the way. We are coming out of it in a different way than we did other times. To say that we always shall go on in the old paths simply because "we always have recovered before" is to talk complete nonsense. Everything is profoundly different. Only by recognizing the extent of the difference can we find our way safely through the next few critical years. CUBAN ACTION AT LAST WITHIN a few weeks the Roosevelt administration seems to have made more headway toward an eventual settlement of the Cuban problem than had been achieved in the preceding four years. Even though all that has been accomplished so far is an agreement by the .Machado dictatorship and the revolutionists to accept mediation by the American ambassador, that is a beginning. Credit for this apparently goes both to the

administration In Washington and to the personal qualities of Ambassador Welles. Under the regime of Ambassador Guggenheim, the American embassy seemed as much under the fist of'Machado as everything else in terrorized Cuba. The precise kind of pressure which Ambassador Welles is putting on the dictator is not known. But presumably Machado has been informed that the United States, "under its treaty obligation to protect the civil rights and democratic institutions of the Cuban people, will withdraw recognition from the present government unless it speedily reforms. If the United States withholds diplomatic recognition from Machado and refuses to intervene against the revolutionists, the terrorist probably would be overthrown in short order. That method doubtless will be used by the Cubans to get rid of the tyrant, unless the less costly and less bloody method of outside mediation succeeds. Perhaps the United States would be in a much stronger position, both in the eyes of Cubans and the rest of the world, if it invited two or three other Latin American governments to join in mediation proceedings. Since Secretary of the Treasury William Woodin and others in or near the administration have special Cuban interests, and since part of Cuba’s troubles are due to exploitation by our banks and sugar barons, an invitation to certain other Latin American governments to share the responsibility of Cuban mediation would show that the Washington government has no selfish interest to serve. Such joint action would be of value, not only for purposes of mediation, but also to prepare the way for Pan-American co-opera-tion if mediation fails and more severe measures are necessary. THE STATES CAN HELP r T*'HE national recovery act’s mighty promise of progress should not encourage a relaxation of the winning fight for state laws having the same general purpose. Ailing industry needs two crutches, federal and state. The federal government is preparing to function as a big brother to industry and labor in creating a planned order and abolishing unfair practices. The states should consolidate gains made under this project. This legislative season has been marked by impressive stgps in social reform. Os the twelve states which have ratified the child labor amendment, seven acted this year. Os the twenty-five which have adopted old age pensions, nine acted this year. Os the fifteen states that have minimum wage laws for women and minors, six adopted their codes this yeai* and three more are considering bills. This season saw five states limiting the hours of women and minors in industry, four states passing anti-injunction laws, six states regulating the sale of prison goods, twenty states considering jobless insurance. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins sees in the recovery act “a proving ground for social legislation by states.” In conferences this summer she will urge labor leaders and social workers to keep up their fight and to adopt standardized labor codes. Times are hard now. When times get better, it would be well to remember that “When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil got well, devil a monk was he."

HAWKS AND HIS ROBOT THE non-stop robot flight of Frank Hawks from Los Angeles to New York last week gave a vision of the future of aviation which deserves better than the passing moment of wonder which the public in this fast-mqving world accords such feats, then forgets all about them. Hawks previously had set a record over the same route it was 17 hours and 36 minutes, and the date was June 28, 1929. Four years passed and no one beat it. until along came Hawks and the De Besson mechanical pilot. With this aid he cut four hours and eight minutes from the previous time, reducing it to 13 hours and 28 minutes. The best crossing, with steps allowed for fuel, was 10 hours and 20 minutes. In another year or two or three Hawks, or some other man-bird and a robot companion, will be bringing the non-stop flight down to the 10 hours and 20 minutes. The Hawks flight shows again the great importance of instruments and mechanical aids in flying, with regard to speed, accuracy of flight and safety. Great developments in these lines have occurred since Lindbergh flew the Atlantic. The conquest of fog through radio beacons for landing now is a near reality. The prodigiousness of all these things can be seen better when it is recalled that the first air trip from coast to coast required forty-nine days. That was twenty-two years ago. The record has rapidly dwindled. Like the fast planes, aviation is flying too fast for the eye of public attention to follow it. ELIMINATE r ,THE RACKETEERS ONE of the good things the senate did in its final moments was to vote a drastic investigation into racketeering in America's biggest cities. If our “new deal” is to be all that it ought to be, it must find some way of dealing with the racketeer; and although a great deal is knowp about that problem, no effective correctives can be designed and applied until a lot of definite, detailed knowledge is tabulated. The best way to get such knowledge seems to be by means of a senate investigation. The committee members who will study the matter this summer and fall can be relied upon to get it. Following that, there must be new legislation. It is to be hoped that the investigators will find some way in which an aroused nation can strike a crippling blow at the underworld sharpers who have been levying such a heavy toll on legitimate business. BALM IN GILEAD "PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S executive order for government reorganization heralds the early passing of two bureaus at Washington that never will be missed. One is the bureau of prohibition, the other is the justice department's bureau of -investigation for all the departments. The function of Issuing permits is to be f

transferred from the present prohibition bureau to internal revenue; the enforcement of the dry r law is turned over to the new division, to be handled there by a few hundred field men and state directors. These two bureaus were the Peeping Toms of the unlamented post-war era. Tire first piled up an intolerable record for snoopery, wiretapping, intimidation, and hair-trigger gunplay. The second was famous for its equally objectionable red hunting forays. It will be the hope of liberty-loving Americans that with the going of these two bureaus will go the spirit that created them. OUR PROGRESS IN ART A MERICAN artists, says Homer SaintGaudens, no longer are under the compulsion of going to Europe to learn and practice their craft. Hunting for pictures' to be exhibited in the thirty-first international show of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh, this famous art director says he found only two “important” American painters still working in France. “Twenty years ago,” he says, “one-third of the American artists who counted spent at least a part of their time in Parifr. Now the school has gone home. It wasn’t the depression that did it, either, but a growing consciousness among the artists that they didn’t need to go to Paris to paint.” Asa symptom of the development of a strong, healthy native art which can be of the highest value to America’s cultural life, this observation is uncommonly interesting. Dispatches say the London Economic conference is a veritable babel of tongues, with delegates speaking English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and other languages. The difficulty, however, lies in trying to get them to talk turkey. 1 University of Utah professor urges that a course in courtship be given in high schools. In lots of high schools, this just comes naturally. Now that the huge public works bill finally has passed, it looks like President Roosevelt is getting ready to give unemployment the works. Dr. E. A. Hocpton of Harvard announces plans for a survey to determine if American people are growing taller. Seems like now is hardly a fair time to make the .test, since most Americans have been pretty short for the last three years. Upon reading that a gas explosion in a Western town tore up the street, we are inclined to believe that a lot of startled bystanders did the same thing. Goldfish, says a scientist at Chicago's Shedd aquarium, “are just as happy when being fed by a stranger as when being fed by their owner.” Any fisherman can testify, however, that a lot of other fish seem to object to being fed by his hook.

M. E.Tracy Says:

THE appropriation of more than three billion dollars for public work is an essential feature of the industrial recovery bill. Some people regard it as the most essential. No one expects congress to repeat it, however, much less make it a regular item of the budget. Why not take a similar attitude toward other features of the bill? President Roosevelt is grappling with an emergency. He was elected for that purpose. His campaign centered on the idea that something drastic had to be done. When he assumed office, he made no bones about telling the people that he would do his best to give them the kind of leadership for which they so emphatically had asked. But the President's thought is one of relief rather than revolution. He is not a Mussolini or a Hitler. To put it bluntly, Mr. Roosevelt is tackling the depression in about the same way that Woodrow Wilson tackled the war, mobilizing the power of the country just as quickly and just as effectively as he can. The stupendous program he has formulated may lead to certain changes in our financial and economic system, but much of it is bound to disappear with the situation it was designed to meet. The country elected him because it had decided that normal methods were unsuited to the abnormal conditions which existed. ana TURNING this proposition around, is it not absurd to assume that the abnormal methods he is proposing would suit normal conditions? Whatever others may think, the President has no illusions on this point. Undoubtedly, he sees room for improvement in many branches of the government, but his immediate objective is to get the country back on its feet, to rehabilitate buying power, provide work, and re-establish business in any and every possible way. Roosevelt is leading a fight to beat depression just as Wilson led a fight to beat Kaiserism. He is striving first of all to obtain unified, forceful action. Wilson did not visualize himself as a dictator, though he called for and received dictatorial powers. Neither does Roosevelt. An emergency requires dictatorial power, but as an emergency, not as an excuse. That is where the American differs from the European attitude. a a a TANARUS) OOSEVELT is a more typical American than was his orthodox, unadaptable predecessor. This country’s outstanding tradition is 'flexibility of mind. Its government was founded for no purpose more distinctly than to make that possible. We have created a dictatorship almost overnight, but without altering or violating the Constitution, and it is not the first time. When the task in hand is finished, we can return to our knitting. Some people, especially those who make the wish father to the thought. See permanence in every new' idea, even though it obviously is intended to serve a temporary end. They are as shortsighted as those who can see nothing good in new ideas. In considering what will be left of the 1933 legislation when the emergency it was designed to meet is over, let us remember what happened to most of that designed to win the war.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so ah can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or lessJ By W. C. Lewis. Does it appeal to you as right or even necessary to feed horses to dogs? One big advertiser of dog rations announces regularly over the radio about its range horses being slaughtered for dog meat No doubt this company w'ill argue that the slaughtering of horses for dog meat is no different in principle than the slaughtering of cattle or sheep; and that these horses are wild and unfit for anything else. They say that dogs like horseflesh. Perhaps such concerns can advance many arguments to justify this business, but it appeals to many people as neither right nor necessary. Over the centuries the horse has won a place in man’s affections, not only as a beast of burden, but as an intelligent companion, sharing man’s play as W'ell as his labors. Perhaps the dog has w'on a similar place in man’s affections, but are we to sacrifice the one for the other? What w’ould these people say to the slaughter of dogs, in turn, for chicken feed or some similar purpose? Ought not ths wholesale business of butchering these noble wild animals for dog meat be discouraged? By A Tire Builder. Why is it that you have to go to some other state to hunt sweatshops when there are plenty in Indianapolis? We have a tire company which, a short time ago. was given a big writeup telling of the return of prosperity. The first thing w T as als per cent w r age cut announced on April 28. Now the girl tire builders are forced to work from 6 a. m. until 6 p. m., seven days a week, for less money than they were making in eight hours and five days. An electrical manufacturing company on East Washington street is working my sister-in-law 102 hours a week, 15 hours a week day and 12 hours on Sunday. If this is prosperity, let’s have another panic and we all can go on the county.

This is the second of a series of three articles on summer health hazards. AFTER over-exposure to sunlight as a hazard in summer, the next most important source of trouble is food and water. In the first place, one should be careful not to eat too much In summer. Fruits and vegetables are the most valuable bases for the summer diet. However, no one-sided diet is safe. Every diet suitable for health and growth must contain protein, carbohydrate and fat, mineral salts and vitamins in suitable proportions. Milk and milk products should form the basic substance in diets particularly for children in summer, as well as in winter. However, it is much more difficult to keep milk satisfactorily in summer, and parents must make sure that refrigeration is adequate, that the milk is .pasteurized properly and clean when it comes to the home.

ONE does not meet half so many 1 neglected wives in the magazines these • days. The pious old girl is n<Jt nearly so popular as she used to be. Once upon a time there was no literary formula so successful as that which had for a heroine the down-trodden, doormat kind of woman, the unselfish mother type, who always was being imposed on by the family and who trotted her feet off waiting on them, counting herself fortunate if .she could be remembered in their prayers. We shed freshets of tears over her kind in the old days. Now, we only want to give her a good, big I shake. Certainly, a distinct change of senI timent has been registered. Admirable as the long suffering ladies I of the past may have been, the pubI lie has lest patience with them. We

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Food and Water Are Summer Hazards = BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN i--

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What's the Pay? By More Than One Depositor. While Judge Cox is airing out the affairs of the Meyer-Kiser bank so thoroughly, why doesn't he give us some information as to the salaries paid Judge Garvin and Walter Myers as receiver and attorney for receiver? As far as we depositors and the general

Questions and Answers

Q —Give the number of daily births and deaths in the world. A—Professor E. M. East of Harvard university, estimates that 150,000 are born and 100.000 die daily. Q—What is carbon-monoxide? A—lt is produced by combustion of carbon in a limited supply of air. Coke, coal, gas, gasoline, all give off this poisonous gas under certain conditions. Q—How should a letter to the King of Siam be addressed? A —His Majesty, King of Prajadhipok, Bangkok. Q—When did the Battle of the Clouds occur in the Civil war?

So They Say

I don’t want to be other than hopeful about our future, but I certainly think that as a great power England culminated in the nineteenth century.—Dean Inge, London’s “Gloomy Dean.” I should no more call reflation which is taking place from abnormally low price levels inflation than I should call a man a mountaineer when he is coming up from the cellar.—Sir Josiah Stamp, director of the Bank of England, in address at Chicago. Africa is the only peaceful, quiet continent, without tyrants, without dictators, without danger of revolution or war.—Guglieimo Ferrero, historian.

Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia, the Health Magazine. Cereals are likely to be less in demand in the summer, as are also carbohydrates in general. Many persons attempt to avoid hot foods during the summer. However, the eating of cold meals regularly soon clogs the appetite, and the cold plate of meats and vegetables should be considered a summer delicacy rather than a routine item. It is particularly important to make certain of the sources of food supplies while traveling or in camps. Every bit of food and drink dispensed in any cajnp or sold to travelers should have passed a proper food Inspection, i It is safer for the traveler to depend on w'ell-packaged foods than to take chances on uncontrolled food purchased along the road.

have come ’round to the sensible conclusion that if a wife is neglected and abused, it’s two-thirds her own fault. nun A Nd I think we’re right, although I am forced to admit that the ladies have much the best of everything these days, aft least in the best sellers. Man now is the misunderstood, the down-trodden individual. As he thrives in the magazines, he is the loveliest of worms. And so long as girls and women make up the majority of magazine readers, and this vicarious power in the pulps gives them thrills, just so long. I suppose, will man remain a worm—on the printed page. In real life, however, it is desir-

public are concerned, this has remained a deep, dark secret. Or would- this disclosure be disconcerting to the judge's program? Inasmuch as Judge Garvin gave up a $5,000 a year job to take on this receivership, we believe the information requested would be interesting to aU of us. Or is that asking too much of the judge's searchlight of publicity?

A—That name has been applied to the battle of Lookout mountain, which occurred Nov. 24, £ 1863. Q —What kind of climate has Panama? A—lt is entirely tropical, with warm days and cooler nights, the temperature varying from 63 to 95 degrees. The seasons are divided into wet and dry. Q —What is the displacement of a large United States submarine when submerged? A —Approximately 3,960 tons. Q—What American city leads in the production of iron and steel? A—Pittsburgh furnishes 25 per cent of the nation’s steel and 20 per cent of the pig iron. Q —State the value of American imports and the exports of 1932. A —lmports. $1,322,665,009, and exports, $1,617,877,000. Q—Are the native inhabitants of the Philippine islands American citizens? A—No. Q —What is the derivation of boycott? A—Captain Boycott, the first notable victim of the system. Q—How long is the coast line of Florida ? A—Twenty-five hundred and thirty statute miles. Q—Has there ever been a race driver who drove the "entire 500mile race without stopping for any reason? Yes—Dave Evans, in a Diesel car, drove the full race, without stopping, in 1931.

Inasmuch as germs thrive in warm weather, it is important to watch the water supply. Water taken from streams should not be used for drinking without boiling. Extra precautions should also be taken with milk whenever it is purchased in bulk instead of from a dairy company which maintains suitable pasteurization and control of bottling. The amount of water taken into the body in hot weather should be increased, because more water is evaporated from the surface of the body and used up in the body’s metabolism than in colder weather. Because of the tendency to eliminate water to maintain the body’s temperature, there is a tendency to small, hard actions of the bowels. The taking of extra water will help to relieve this condition. NEXT: Dangers of poison ivy and similar plants.

able that both man and woman should possess some spunk. Playing the martry gets you nowhere. Elsie Dinsmore and her silly little tricks are as incomprehensible to today’s 10-year-old as the Einstein theory. And I hope the time soon will come when we shall not think it necessary for any home to be dominated by one all-powerful personality. Individuals capable of rational thought, and who use their reasoning for social problems and industrial perplexities, should be capable of adjusting their love and matrimonial difficulties with justice and intelligence. I'll go farther; I’ll say they are. Marriage is a mess, not because we can’t make it a success, but because we’ve never tried to do so.

JUNE 17, 193&

It Seems i to Me ==BY HEYWOOD BROUN=Ji YORK. June 17. light of much more weighty problems, one distinct achievement of the Rocs welt administration has j received less than its share of j praise. I refer, of course, to beer. Once upon a time I was an ar- | dent wet. but my interest in the j matter waned, since it seemed so i slight a thine with which to be concerned in a world so monstrously ! out of gear. Moreover, there was | the fact that as far as self-interest went prohibition's hand lay very lightly upon my shoulder and that of niv neighbor. It was and is difficult to grow passionate about the evils of enforcement at a time when that branch of governmental activity has dwindled to nothing larger than a mans hand. With the palm up, I may add. How can even the most consecrated crusader weep into his highball and complain of the tyranny which condemns hint to aridity? b a a Home Brae AND when they talked of beer no wild light came into my eyes. The beverage so long had been denied me that I all but had forgotten its bouquet. To be sure. I had tried some unfortunate experiments in home industry and sampled the brew put out by the semi-profes-sionals. But as a careful liver I felt that I must reject these concoctions and return to something like gin. since there the difference between the good and the awful is but a hairline distinction. Beer became no more than a memory o'" bright college years. I felt that it was an addiction which never could be recaptured in maturity. It was like a long cheer, with “Team! Team! Team!” at the end. It was missing the last trolley and riding back to Harvard square in a j hack. Indeed, beer was my lost j youth, and even ,an act of congress ! could not restore it. At least so I thought, until I j heard the sound of the big white horses tramping the pavements in the early dawn. I felt moved by both patriotism and nostalgia, and I resolved to give the stuff a chance. I knew it would require character to take up again where I had left off so many years ago. But I have character. I never ■would have become a beer drinker in the first place but for an iron will. Back in the days of my schooling it was bitter and appalling. I was all of 12 or 13 before I could tolerate beer save as a chaser. a a a \ Starting Life Anew And when the bell rang for this second lap. I found that I must my education anew. At the first sip I thought to myself, “And is this the stuff over which good Democrats bled and died at the Chicago convention?” The rule which helped* me may be of aid to you.* Take one bottle every morning before breakfast. After the first week or so you won’t mind so much. Within a month conversion will have been attained. Some of the complaints made against beer are well founded. It has no perceptible effect in stealing away the brain or quieting any other disturbing symptoms. Probably you will never hear any man say: “I’ve just been in a terrible automobile crash. I think my leg is broken, and I'm sure my wife's mother has been killed. Quick —• give me a glass of beer.” And yet it does have an effect in i soothing minor tribulations. The ether day I lost, temporarily, the title V>f champion golfer of the Hunting Ridge Tom Thumb Country Club, and one bottle of beer was enough to wipe out the disgrace and the venom. In fact, I went right out and took the title back again. It has been customary for most newspaper paragraphers to refer scornfully to what the law allows. They profess to believe that modern beer is not up to the standard known when we were very young. Frankly, if my memory serves, there is no great difference. Just what the brewers did to keep in practice I don’t pretend to know, but it seems to m that certain devoted experts must have remained constantly in training till the great day came. 0 8 8 Forbidden Fruit SOME psychologists believed that beer never could compete with ardent spirits because of the fact that forbidden things are more appealing. The curious condition obtaining in New York state has met this objection. Only the other day I sat in a speakeasy, and to the next table there came a customer who ordered beer. The waiter seemed shocked. “No beer,” he said, “but I can give you Scotch or rye” “What! No beer?” said the man. “No beer,” replied the waiter. “We have no license to sell beer, and under Mr. Mulrooney's ruling we can obtain none. We can not sell it to you. Don’t you understand that would be illegal? How about a highball?” The customer got up and left in a high dudgeon. I followed him out, and when last I saw him he was ringing doorbells all alo- the block, trying to crash the entrance of some place which would consent to sell him legal beer illegally. ‘CosvrisK* 1933 bv The Times) ■ My Guests BY M. B. M. Step softly—you who walk upon my porch; Some honored guests are there: Do not disturb them by a footfall harsh— This splendid, royal pair. A pair of cardinals! They occupy The honeysuckle vine; And hid their jewels there—not fearing me; These friendly guests of mine. No more—that flash of beauty on my porch: And now—walk you will: My guests are gone; and left an emptiness That all else can not fill. Another spring; my red bird* have returned — The old, gray porch to cheer; I wonder if they know—in som* strange way— A welcome awaits them here?