Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 228, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1934 — Page 14

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S THURSDAY. FEB 1. 1334. __ LIGHT COMPANY EMPLOYES ;r-rpHE lajst time the Indianapolis Power and S Light Company made the empty gesture ;of a microscopic rate reduction it slashed salaries. Some means should be found this time to protect the power and light workers since the corporation itself ;does not seem inclined to do so. ; This group of Indianapolis wage earners has been most shamefully chivvied about ;during the depression. Records of the company show that when their salaries wr-ie re'ciuced by 510',09 so : e .'I4OOO was added to the executive salary budget . In addi'ion the employe' were strongly ■urged to put their savings into the company's -stock Many of them felt that there was an 'implication when they bought that the managemen’ would buy bark the certificates at par if the employe at any time needed to get nis money back. A.'k any light company worker whether the company will rt-purchas* at par the stock it sold to its own people. These public utility workers deserve far better treatment than they have received. Despite salary cuts they have never lose their sense of duty to tne people of Indianapolis. They are up at all hours and in all sorts of we.: her mailing emergency repairs and maintaining service. When the rate reduction goes through this time it should come out of the well lined pockets of the executives and the management. Let the holding company in Chicago carry the loss instead of this fine group of Indianapolis citizens. MILK CONTROL THE agr.cultural adjustment administration having experimented with marketing agi ements and aband-ned them as a major prop for the dairy industry, now tentatively suggests a method of production control. Like the problem of reducing cotton acreage when thousands need cotton clothing and reducing wheat acreage when millions are on relief rolls, the milk program is offered, although there are hundreds of thousands of children who don’t have enough milk to drink. It is another phase of the lop-sided economic situation that is causing deep distress, and out of which the Roosevelt administration hepes to lead us. If milk production can. be controlled, but not to the point where city consumers will be cheated of an adequate supply reasonably pr.ced; if it can be financed out of a processing lax. but not one so. high as to cuio consumption; if it is accompanied by additional action aimed at reducing distributors’ profits which Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has called unreasonable, this new experiment may be justified. • But. eventually, unless the distributors’ control is broken—milk may have to be handled by the government as a public utility, and regulated—its prices, financial practices, profits, etc—as a public utility. Meanwhile the new production control experiment is proposed by Mr. Wallace, who promises no miracles as a result. HELPING THE DEAF ANOTHER sign of the awakening American conscience is a project being launched by the federal office of education and financed from civil works administration funds that may result in better schooling and training for deaf and partially deaf children. To gather information a corps of 375 jobless social workers in the next six weeks will visit every state. Assisted by local workers among the deaf they will prepare a report to guide communities and states in training these handicapped children for useful employment. According to a recent estimate 300.000 children In the schools are so afflicted with bad hearing as to need special training. Very few states : provide proper courses. For the hale and hearty, living has become a chore in these uncertain days. The handicapped carry a double burden. Public moneys fcpent in making them happier and more efficient will not be wasted. POLITICS THREATENS CWA 'T'HERE is something rather ominous about all these reports of graft and doubledealing in operations of the CWA. They have been widespread enough to cause department of justice agents to get busy, and the story they tell isn't a pretty one. Public officials in some localities calmly have put themselves on the CWA pay rolls; in others they have connived at a racket whereby CWA men had to fork over pert of their pay; in others they have passed out Jobs precisely as a rapacious city machine hands out plums at the city hall. Part of this is due to local political conditions. and part of it may be due to the federal administration's failure to proceed sharply enough against the spoils system. There'still are too many men who see in government Jobs only anew opportunity to reward deserving party workers. But. whatever the cause of it. the net effect Is to raise grave doubts about the working-out of the vast programs now being put into effect •t Washington. We don’t know yet how far some of these programs are going to go or how long they are going to last. Many people are convinced that some, at least, of these government projects are profoundly unwise and ought to be abandoned. But however opinion may run in those respects, one thing is obvious: Since we are more or less committed to a trial of a vast extension of activity by the central government,’

that trial ought to be as business-like and straightforward as is humanly possible. If it fails, it ought to fail because of its own inherent contradictions and not because of political ineptitude. What we are getting now is a discomforting hint that our political machinery is not robust enough to carry the load.lf ugly graft, favoritism, self-seeking and plain, everyday inefficiency can not be kept out of the operation of these projects, they have small chance of succeeding. No chain is any stronger than its weakest link. It is beginning to look as if the ordinary variety cf politics is the weak link in the chain upon which the administration's experiments are pulling. If that link gives way, the experiments are very apt to flop. Unless we can root political selfishness, stupidity and chicanery out of such activities as the CWA, we will lose our chance to test those activities t-.pon their merits. MEN At TOP COUNT 'T'HE troubles that afflict the great city of New York are New York’s own concern. Now and then, however, the rest of the country can get an instructive lesson by looking at them. Just at this moment New York has anew city administration which actually seems set to inject a little honesty and determination into the processes of law enforcement. It has taken a number of steps toward this goal, the most spectacular being the raid on the Welfare island prison, where the most appalling conditions of graft, neglect and incompetence ever disclosed in any American prison were revealed. And the interesting thing about it all is the fact that the authorities seem to have very little real trouble in their task of showing the underworld who is boss. They are cracking down on the crooks, the gamblers, the gunmen and the hard guys with the same police and inspection agencies that let these gentry flourish like the green bay tree under the former administration. Changes have been made at the top. of course, but the rank and file remains the same. A thoughtful citizen who looks about him and sees how firmly the underworld can get intrenched in a city’s life often is moved to despair. Gangs, rackets and corruption exist with the tolerance of the police. How, asks the citizen, are you ever going to smash them without first getting an entirely new police force? And how, considering all the difficulties. is such a thing practically possible? It isn’t possible—but it isn't necessary, either. It’s the attitude at the top that counts. The ordinary policeman, the man who pounds the pavement and gets the evidence and makes the pinch, will give just exactly what is required of him in the way of service. If little is asked, that's what he’ll give; if much is asked, he’ll give that— cheerfully and effectively. What we are getting in New York is simply a large-scale demonstration of this fact. The same enforcement agencies that winked at crookedness a year ago are jumping on it with both feet now. Smashing gangs really is one of the simplest of jobs. A city administration that really wants to do it can do it. All it needs to do is tell the cops.

THE PUBLIC’S BUSINESS FIGURES presented by United States Labor Statistician Lubin at the national housing conference prove that slum elimination is up to the cities and public housing authorities. Dr. Lubin showed that unless the United States raises the incomes of workers far above even the 1929 level the amount the average workman’s family can pay for renting a decent home is too small to interest private capital. In 1929, Dr. Lubin said, the average manufacturing wage-earner received $1,300 a year, the average nonmanufacturing worker $1,400. Now the former gets $875. the latter $950. A family spends about 20 per cent of its income for rent. Hence, at the height of our so-called “prosperity” American wage-earners’ families had available for monthly rent between $21.5b and $23 50, or about $6 a room for a home of 3% rooms. Apartments at $6 a room do not attract private investors. The answer to slum abatement, therefore, lies in municipal housing on a large scale or housing by public authorities or co-operatives. Limited dividend corporations can furnish cheap-rent homes, but their services will largely be confined to homes for the better-paid workers. For good, attractive, cheap and modern homes cities must furnish the capital and public-spirited citizens the brains and initiative. Cities should realize that slum elimination is an investment returning tremendous dividends not only in social values, but in actual tax savings. Langdon Post, New York Citys tenement house commissioner, found that the tuberculosis death rate in his city's slums averages 113 per 100.000 compared with 27 for nonslum areas and 58 for New York as a whole. Sanitation, police, fire and health services this year, he said, are three times greater in these areas than the tax revenues they yield. The federal government can aid the cities in leadership, standard plans, cheaper credit. Even if the $100,000,000 Federal Housing Corporation were financed with new millions, however, it could not do the whole job. There are millions of disease-infested, crime-breeding, soul-destroying "homes" which the United States should blot from its cities and towns. It is the public’s job. and the sooner the public sets about it the better.

UNDEFILED HIGHWAY 'T'HERE won’t be any ugly billboards or -*■ ramshackle hot dog stands along the twenty-one-mile highway which the Tennessee valley authority is building in the vicinity of Norris dam. This highway will have a 250-foot right-of-way, and all buildings erected along its borders will have to conform to architectural standards set by the valley authority. Since the highway will cross country of great scenic beauty, especial pains will be taken to prevent the erection of any structures which might cut off the motorists’ view. This news is apt to make many a motorist wish that some similar regulation could be laid down for highways elsewhere. No one can take a motor trip nowadays without being obliged to look at a great number of roadside eyesores. A twenty-one-mile stretch of road completely lacking in such phenomena ought to be a rare treat for the eyes. b

A CRISIS IN COTTON 'T'HE Roosevelt administration’s agricultural experiment apparently has reached ffs greatest crisis thus far. Entirely voluntary heretofore, the proposal of compelling crop production is now advanced. and so seriously that Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is conducting a referendum in the south to determine whether some sort of forced crop control would be acceptable there. Mr. Wallace naturally says that “the government itself is not proposing compulsion” in w.shing to ascertain the sentiment of the south. He also says that he "would be opposed to any measure in which the farming operations of any group or section would be controlled against the will of even a substantial minority." But. nevertheless, the AAA is seriously inquiring of 50,000 farmers and others in the cotton south: “Do you favor a plan of compulsory control of cotton production to compel all producers to co-operate in cotton adjustment programs?” It would not conduct such a referendum unless it feared the failure of its second voluntary program in the south. Heretofore, the agricultural adjustment administration has said to wheat and cotton farmers: “If you reduce your acreage, the government will lease your idle land, paying you from taxes levied on the processing of your products.” Last season, the cotton south accepted this proposal, so that finally 10,090.000 acres were taken from production. This season's goal has been 15,000.000. In th" wheat belt, too, the response was good. Both sections received large benefit payments. But this season in the south the sign-up campaign apparently hasn’t been progressing very well. Recent official figures show an increase in winter wheat acreage. Thus, the voluntary programs have hit obstacles. Secretary Wallace pointed out two important ones: First, the government has no control over new lands, not eligible under the voluntary plan, whicH may be brought into production; and, second, it has little or no control over intensive cultivation of land left in production. Finally, in both the wheat and the cotton belts, those who have not taken part in the voluntary control programs menace their success. The decision to substitute compulsion for voluntary co-operation of farmers in controlling crops would be a momentous one. It may have to be taken, at least in the cotton south. But, in any event, the Roosevelt administration can not retrace its steps. It can not permit “rugged individualism” again to bring farmers to the borders of serfdom. Stalin says Japan and Germany have militaristic intentions, although the Russian army still is the biggest in the world. Mary Pickford says she isn't afraid of kidnapers, as she bolts and bars her door. A defeated candidate for congress tried to dig his way into a bank in Arizona. Since he couldn’t get his hands into the pork barrel, he tried the vault. Aimee Semple McPherson hits the headline in a newspaper, which still thinks ' Aimee is news. i-

\ Liberal Viewpoint Bv DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES .==

ONE of the most confusing aspects of the administration's gold-buying policy to the man in the street is the assumption that raising the price of gold will raise prices in general. He has always heard that any rise in the value of gold means lowering the general level of prices, because valuable gold will exchange for more of other commodities than will cheap gold. But he also knows that price is supposed to be a direct measure of value. Why will not higher prices for gold mean the greater value of gold and, hence, lower prices of commodities. The explanation lies in the fact that in gold standard countries, which fix the amount of gold in the dollar, franc, pound or mark, there is often a very arbitrary and unnatural discrepancy between the commodity value of gold and its legal price in the coinage. The price of gold is fixed in the coinage laws which indicate how much fine gold by weight goes into a dollar. But the commodity value of gold fluctuates from time to time, like that of any other commodity, because of variations in the demand for it and in the supply available to meet the demand. Hence, our measure of value, the gold dollar, is fixed as to weight, but variable as to commodity value. For example, the commodity value of gold has fluctuated enormously since 1914, having slumped after 1914 and then moved upward sharply since 1925. But in the whole twenty years from 1914 to 1933, the legal price of gold, as measured by the dollar, remained unchanged at $20.67 an ounce. Indeed, ever since 1837 the legal price of an ounce of gold in the United States has been $20.67. Whenever the fixed legal dollar price of an ounce of gold is far below its commodity value, the gold dollar will buy a disproportionate volume of commodities and will lower prices in terms of the dollar. Suppose, for example, gold has a commodity value of $35 an ounce while its fixed legal price is only $20.67. It will take $35 worth of commodities to buy an ounce of gold, while it will require only $20.67 in gold dollars to buy the ounce. One can then buy just so much more gold or anything else with a gold dollar than he can with commodities under such an artificial arrangement. nan THE way to end this artificial advantage of the gold dollar and to bring .it down to reality is a deliberate depreciation of the gold dollar. This can be done by cutting the price of gold loose from the gold dollar anchor and ending the arbitrary fixed legal price of gold. Gold will then have to seek its own natural price level in the market and will buy no more when put into dollars than when matched openly In the market against other commodities. When this happens, it will take say $35 worth of gold to buy what it formerly required only $20.67 in gold dollars to purchase. This means that prices will rise when measured in dollars—which is the aim of both inflationists and reflationists. In short, raising the price of gold in terms of dollars means that it will require so many more dollars to buy both gold and the other commodities whose value is measured by gold. Boosting the dollar price of gold is only another way of stating that the dollar is being cheapened in terms of both gold and other commodities —it will take so many more dollars to buy an ounce of gold or a bushel of wheat—that means, in turn, the elevation of the price level in terms of dollars. Raising the price of gold in dollars, then, has little, or nothing to do with its commodity value, which is determined by the interplay of the demand for and the supply of gold. What happens is that when we end the fixed legal price of gold in terms of dollars, the price of gold as measured by dollars will rise to its natural level. The purchasing power of the dollar is lessened. whether we are buying gold or other commodities with it. This is only another way of saying that prices—dollar values—are raised.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to ?i0 words or less.) a a tt ALPHABET JUST PLUMS, SAYS VETERAN By E. H. Rader Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool all of the. people part of the time and part of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all of the time.’’ NRA and AAA and CCC and CWA and PWA equal Democratic political plums. Each of those organizations and commissions are under control of a bunch of political appointees whose salary eats up about one half of the money allowed to carry out the experiment. Somebody is getting fooled. The senate and congress believed that the good old U. S. was bankrupt and persuaded them to pass the economy act, cutting the compensation of disabled veterans 25 per cent and then, for every dollar so saved, expended $lO to help the railroads, who, during the war, were under government control, paid out high salaries and bonuses to show the said government that railroads were a losing proposition. Yet when the present seventythird congress convened, they faced an increased budget of ten billion dollars. Again, somebody got fooled. Before the November. 1932, election the Democratic politicians patted the veteran on the back and said: “Boys, Hoover turned the police and the army loose on the ex-service man. Vote the Democratic ticket, and vote it straight. When we get in power you wall get your bonus and get it quick.” Again, somebody got fooled, and how! The Democratic party is now giving employment to a few thousand men, at a wage that they can exist on but not live on, and saying prosperity is here, as if present conditions can keep up forever. Again, somebody is getting fooled. The present administration is now T patting itself on the back and saying: “What a big boy I am.” It doesn’t seem £o realize that Republicans voting the Democratic ticket put them where they are; but wait until 1936, and again, somebody will be fooled. Yes, I am a disabled veteran. I entered the service at the age of 23 on a contract to serve thirty years and retire. I put in twenty years of that service and was wounded in action in France on the St. Mihiel front. I was 52 on Jan. 19. I can do any work that any man 52 can do, with one arm gone and full of rheumatism. I am at present several payments behind on my home in which I have the savings of a life time invested. My subscription to The Times expires the 31st, but I will renew it if I have to go hungry in order to do so. If any one tells you that the economy act did not hurt the serv-ice-connected disabled veteran, you tell them for me that they are not only fooling themselves, but are also trying to fool you. nan FIRM AGAINST KILLERS AND THEIR “MOLLS” The Times should- be congratulated and thanked by all good citizens everywhere for the sensible and true analysis of the real character of the bank robbers and murderers trapped and jailed a few days ago by the police and sheriffs of Tucson, Ariz. This analysis was the first on the editorial page of The Times on Jan. 27. As the editorial truly says, robbers and murderers are at heart cowards. They never attempt their nefarious business unless they know they have the advantage over their victims. They would not dare to enter a bank if they thought the employes of the bank were ready to do battle with them. They would run if they felt that such were the case. The Tucson described one of them aptly when he told him \ \

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Another Complaint Against the Light Company

By Daily Reader I don’t very often get hardboiled over things, but this time I am hard-boiled with the Indianapolis Power and Light Company. Monday, the 29th, I was sewing at home. I heard a rattle and looked up and saw a man at the light pole. I asked him whether he was tightening up the line. He answered, “Yes, mum,” as those lines near my house have become very slack. I went back to my sewing. It had never occurred to me that he was cutting off the lights, as I had had no notice; but, when I got to thinking, I got up. turned on a switch, and sure enough, no lights for the bill of $4.65 I owed. But that is not all. I had sent the money down and it had not

he was “just a baby killer,” meaning that the bandit was a ’killer of innocent, unarmed people. The same editorial compliments the law officials of Tucson for their well-planned and brave work in capturing the murderers. Notwithstanding, those ofjicials have been slurred by the murderers as “dubs” and “hicks.” This writer knows from personal observation that there are no braver or more efficient law officials between the two oceans than those found in ths southwest and west, and this is not saying a word against our own splendid officials. Again, those “molls” who join, accompany, aid, and abet murderers should be handled as accessories and receive the same penalties as the bandits and murderers. No maudlin sentiment should be shown them because they are females. A few executions along this line would materially reduce the present crop of “molls.” v We hope The Times will keep up its attack on murderers and “molls.” 808 FINDS ROCKY RIPPLE IS CONTAMINATED By Old-Time Fisherman. I am a fisherman. The reason for writing this article is to complain, or, in other words, raise h 1 about the conditions of the river in the vicinity of Rocky Rippls, one of the jpest fishing places for bass in Indiana. A sewer empties at this point about Fifty-Fourth street, a little below the Riviera club. The filth and dirty water that come from this is something terrible. This filth contaminates the fi’ater downstream beyond Northwestern avenue pr Michigan Road, j

A Woman’s Viewpoint Ry MRS. WALTER FERGUSON ==

IT’S a dull week when Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt doesn't furnish material for a column. Let’s talk about her again today. It’s a well-known fact that she has knocked down precedents and conventions as a reaper with his sickle lays low the proud grain. But that’s not half the story. For she has also destroyed an almost sacred myth. I’m wondering what the reaction is going to be in the American home. It is a legend with us that men engaged in great causes or noble endeavors need at their side some loving woman who will comfort, cheer and uphold them. A thousand times we have been told that they would fall in their tracks without such daily feminine ministrations. The brave, the strong, the gallant can not bear their tremendous burdens of finance, politics, industry or art lacking the sweet touch of a woman’s hand. All that old “Angel in the Home” stuff was kept going by just such propaganda. We believed it ana if the men did not, at least they pretended to. f

[7 wholly disapprove of what you say and\ will 1 defend to the death your right to say it — Voltaire. J

reached the office when that dirty trick was done. Now a neighbor and I each paid our part to have those poles put in up to Sixteenth street when Mr. Evans ran the line, for which I never got one dime back when they were extended. Now I pay 63 cents demand charge for something I know nothing about and 25 cents if the bill is not paid in ten days, and now $1 to have them turn it on again. The same thing over again—the poor will pay. I should have known when this company took it over what to expect. for I have said nebody could have been fairer than the Southeastern when they had control of this line out east. They believe in live and let live.

How those people that live close to the river can put up with these conditions is more than I can understand. The new sewer constructed in 1932, coming from the north along the canal bank at this point, and which crosses the canal at Butler would, if I understand it correctly, could take care of this condition. But, the way things are, someone has shot a big blunder in the way of engineering and construction of this sewer, for it certainly does not do it. Conditions are worse than before. It would be well for the members of the board of works to take a trip and investigate this, and. correct this evil—it surely needs it. tt n a HOUSING PLAN BRANDED AS PURE FOLLY By Will H. Craig; The new deal with its numerous and confused organizations has dazed and confused the people. While all wish the ends will justify the means yet there are pitfalls and dangers all along the way. Most serious of these is the destruction of the morale, initiative, and independence of the individual. Thrift and ambition to get on In the world are things of the past. A large portion cf our people are now dependents ~.nd believe the government owes them a living. Some workers in C. W. A. have the audacity to strike for higher wages and better conditions. In many cases these workers don’t earn their salt. Their pay is a dole. The Times is a supporter of the removal of slums, and claims there is a great shortage in building. The trouble is that during the period of

BUT how about the first family and our pretty little myth? Surely you’re not ready to tell me the President is having an easy time or that he lazies around much. Yet from all I read in the papers Mrs. Roosevelt doesn’t find it necessary to be at the front door when he comes home after long sessions with the cabinet, or tilts with congress, or bouts with NR A complainers. Like as not she’s flying off somewhere to make a speech, dedicate a cornerstone or to attend a convention. According to the new deal in the White House, then, it’s taken for granted that wifely devotion and love can be demonstrated in other ways than bringing in the slippers and smoothing the weary brow\ And if the President gets through these first four years alive and well, and if Mrs. Roosevelt dashes about as fast as she has done in the past ten months. I shall know for sure that another illusion has vanished. Good riddance perhaps. It may be that men could get more done without us puttering around taking care of them.

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frenzied finance and fictitious prosperity the building business was overdone. I have traveled from northern Michigan to southern Florida; and, in every town, city and rural district, there are numerous vacant residences and store rooms. The removal of slums is a project of promoters, contractors and real estate men. Spend millions to remove some sore spots in Indianapolis and they will reappear elsewhere. The price of the property for the Indianapolis slum district is four times its market value. The idea cl creating new houses in this district to rent for $7 a room is preposterous, when such tenants can not now pay $7 for a four-room house. I know’ of an eight-room residence on Ashland avenue, modern in every way, and in tl>er'Tieart of a fine residence district, that rents for $22.50 a month. With such conditions, it is foolish to spend millions of dollars in order to give promoters some graft and union labor wartime wages, Until the un.ons come to their senses and reduce w'ages, no man will invest his money in building. He can rent cheaper. If houses in slum districts can not be built to rent for less than $7 a room, it is folly to build them. The government has no business wasting money on such projects. nan FREEDOM OF PRESS BEGINS AT HOME By Frank Youns. Every one has a right to his own opinion, but I think they should not be published in the Message Center, and, if you must continue to accept such offerings, each should have the full name and address of the writer published with the offering. There are lots of insulting and unnecessary comments published in this department; and. for one, I think the space could be used to better advantage. I know of several such editorials that have been printed that show ignorance of the subject mentioned and make accusations that they know nothing about. So for one who has read your paper since 'the first issue CThe Sun), I think this department should be abolished.

Love Is a Spark

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK Though I travel new roads and seek new faces Since you are gone; Though I make of my life a gay heartless vaccum. It will not matter long. Though I develop new whims and behave capricious, No matter, my dear. Though I cry I am happy to others unhappy. You need not fear. For my life is the gutted end of a candle FJckering in dark. When you return I shall know what love is: A divine spark.

Daily Thought

Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.—Jeremiah, 10:14. THE loss of our Illusions is the only loss from which we never recover.—Quid a.