Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 May 1934 — Page 14

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THURSDAY. MAY 24. 1934. BRAINS IN CHICAGO TAKE a look at the list of distinguished men attending the meeting in Chicago Friday sponsored by President Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors. You read the names of presidents of great corporations and great universities, leading financiers and renowned scientists, great engineers and chemists and college deans and professors. Captains of industry are to rub elbows and exchange ideas with experts from the laboratories. It is an industrial and scientific “brain trust’’ convened at the call of Mr. Sloan for the purpose of peering into the future to foretell the progress of the next hundred years. The name of Walter Dill Scott beside that of E. G. Seubert, president of Standard Oil of Indiana, of Glenn Frank beside that of Arthur C. Dorrance, president of Campbell Soup Company, or a dean of engineering beside that of a railroad president, all serve to point out how closely allied are the giants of industry with the giants of education and science. When President Roosevelt founded the so-called “brain trust” in Washington he did something that was fairly new in government but old in industry. For years big business has utilized the best brains that money could buy. Great corporations have called upon engineers, chemists and college professors to help develop industrial America. And these “brain trusters” have helped to swell the profits of industry. Practical big business long has known how to cash in on brains. Yet some big business leaders have only sneers for the “brain trust in Washington.” The “brain trusters,” they say, are theorists and are impractical. It was “good business” for industry to get college professors and college trained men to introduce scientific methods into industry and increase cash dividends. But it is heresy for President Roosevelt to get men trained in the political and social sciences to introduce scientific methods into government and increase the dividends of service to the American people.

UNGUARDED POOLS CHIEF MIKE MORRISSEY has issued orders against persons swimming in unguarded pools during the summer. His warning is timely and should be heeded by every child and older person who ever entertained the idea of swimming in creeks and rivers. > Poetry has been written about the old swimming hole and it is legend throughout the country. But youths of today forget that the swimming holes of days gone by generally were in the farm neighborhood creeks where every family was familiar with the water and bed of the stream or creek. The youths of today must remember that when they try their swimming in rivers and creeks that have been dredged to great depths they are combating a force much more powerful than their swimming ability. Two deaths already have occurred this year in Indianapolis. They resulted from failure of the swimmers to heed such warnings as Chief Morrissey’s. If your children don't understand these warnings, parents, it is up to you and persons in your community to explain the horrible possibilities of swimming in places which are not under supervision. A few cents spent in a municipal pool, or a private pool for that matter, where life guards are on duty, is a small expense compared with loss of life. FARMERS’ PLIGHT t TNDIANA farmers again find themselves faced with a drought which, unless it breaks soon, will be one of the worst in the last several years. They have been through battles of this kind before and although they sometimes are not victorious, they always have made a valiant battle against these odds. No one can do much for them but they at least are entitled to the support of those who appreciate persons who fight heroically to block defeat. BLAME LOCAL POLITICS 'T'HE first thought that hits you when you look at the new crime prevention program passed by congress is the fact that it gives the federal government a great new extension of power. The second is that we have brought it on ourselves by permitting our state and city governments, especially the latter, to sink into plain incompetency in the business of dealing with crime. Putting extra power to handle crooks into the hands of Uncle Sam is a move which takes us farther than ever away from the old theory that states and cities are self-sufficient political units. The whole interpretation of our federal and local governments points in the opposite direction. And yet it is equally clear that the step is a necessary one. The depredations of organized gangs of kidnapers have created a situation that simply is intolerable. Something has to be done; the only thing that can be done, immediately, is to strengthen the hand of Uncle Sam and call on him to do what local authorities can not do. As we do it, it is important that we remember why we are doing it. Primarily, it is because the average American police force is an inefficient and graftridden outfit which simply can’t do the job itself. And it is what it is because our local politics is what it is. In other words, we are

just paying the price for the slipshod way we have chosen to govern ourselves. The average city government is a product of old-line political machines. Such machines exist by favors—the favors that their leaders can do for people outside of the machine, and the favors which the leaders in turn pass on down to their subordinates. The logical result is that the city governments themselves operate for the sake of the political machines and not for the interests of the people. And, since they are like that, the police departments suffer in exactly the same way. Because of all this, the average police department is unable to fight crime effectively. Now, because of that fact, we are about to give the federal government powers that traditionally belong to local authorities. It is essential for us not to forget why we are compelled to do it. TYPE’S PRANK THE typographical error is one of those perverse and impish pranks of fate which afflict all countries alike. Every editor has suffered from it; the latest is the German editor in Essen, whose paper recently reported a telegram of birthday greetings sent to Hitler by President Hindenburg. The president closed his telegram with an expression not unlike the English “Hear, hear!” And some luckless printer inserted a question mark instead of an exclamation point after it, which so changed the sense of it that it became a cynical, “Oh, yeah?” Well, the printer went to jail for a while, and the editor suffered vast mental stress. And any one who ever worked on the production of the printed word will sympathize with both of them. The typographical error will happen, no matter how careful you are! And it has a fiendish way of happening at the worst times and places. It’s just one of those things that put gray hairs on the heads of men who work in newspaper shops. WE MUST KNOW ALL •pRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S sharp attack on the uncontrolled traffic in munitions strikes a responsive chord in the breast of every man who hopes to see the world continue at peace. So long as private individuals stand to make millions upon millions of dollars out of preparations for war, governments everywhere will be under tremendous pressure to continue with such preparations—and since human nature is what it is, that means the creation of rivalries, fears, and suspicions which make war more and more likely. The President indorses the Nye committee’s plan to investigate the whole traffic in munitions, and it is to be hoped that the investigation will be as thorough and as far-reaching as the senators can possibly make it. Before we can deal with the problem properly, we shall need all the information about it that we can get.

ZOMBIES TJETTER than any editorial we have seen on the subject is the following excerpt from a speech delivered in Kansas City by Rexford Tugwell, assistant secretary of agriculture, who believes that the social mission of the new deal is “to free the many from the regimentation of the few.” Said Dr. Tugwell: “One time, on a visit to a certain island in the West Indies, I was told of a curious belief that the voodoo doctors knew of certain drugs so powerful that they gave the appearance of death. The victim, properly dosed, then was buried by the sorrowing family, after which the witchdoctors came at night, opened the grave and restored the supposed dead man to animation. “These living dead men were called ‘zombies’ and they lived lives of complete apathy and complete docility. The higher brain cells no longer functioned and they were to all intents automatons, who did as they were told, asked no questions and were told no lies. In that way, the voodoo men got a supply of cheap and docile slaves. “Whatever the truth of this traveler’s tale, there is a lesson for us in it. Use your imaginations for a moment and see whether American workmen under the old order were not expected really to behave like zombies. When new machines forced them out of jobs, they were expected to applaud the spirit of progress, and find other jobs—if they could. When the selfishness and short-sightedness of the old order led our industrial machine into periodic depression—into those surprisingly regular outbreaks of ‘bad luck’—the millions out of work were expected to resign themselves to industrial ‘bad luck,’ to hope (meekly for the best—and to live on whatever charity was offered them. “And if by the millions they huddle through the winter nights in f>sp houses, on park benches, in pitiful shacks pieced together from discarded tin cans; if whole families crowded together in one room in poorly ventilated, unlighted, unheated and insanitary tenements; if ‘farm families—a million and a half of them between 1921 and 1933—were forced off their land to whatever haven they couid stumble into—if all this has taken place in America, as all of us know it has, what is it but economic regimentation of the most tragic sort? “These millions have been expected to live like Haitian zombies—to ask no questions, to take what is given them, and to be thankful. It is desirable, therefore, to examine carefully the false beliefs which stand between us and effective social action.” Anew law in New York permits patrons to stand up for their drinks, if they're willing to stand at all for the kind of stuff they’re getting. Darrow must think the blue eagle is nothing but a crow, but he can’t get Johnson to eat it. Austria insists that democracy still exists there, but it’s of the type where the citizen becomes the innocent bystander. The Chicago stockyards are being rebuilt fast, since the city administration has nothing to do with it. If you want to go into obscurity fast, just become the fourth husband of a movie actress who has her eye on the fifth. f

The New Deal "“By Senator Robert M. La Follette"""

(From a speech delivered at Fond Du Lac, Wis., May 19). LET us look the facts in the face and take a realistic view of the political conditions that confront us. The leading progressives of this country in 1932 openly advocated the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a Progressive Democrat. With the support of progressive and independent voters, he carried Wisconsin and other states where the Democratic organization was a discredited and feeble minority. President Roosevelt was nominated and elected because the people believed him to be a man who could not be controlled by reactionaries in his own party nor by selfish and corrupt groups that have always sought to manipulate party machinery in their own interests. During the campaign he boldly declared his purpose to free the government from control by these groups, to restore our natural resources as a part of the commonwealth, to use the authority of his great office to create purchasing power in the hands of the masses, and to end the system of looting and exploitation that had piled up dishonest and speculative profits in a few hands. The courage with which he faced a tremendous task accounts for the confidence and support the people have given him, notwithstanding mistakes, disappointments and condemnation of certain policies of his administration. No one can deny that the principal achievements of the present administration had their origin in years of effort by .progressives of both parties and have been accomplished since March 4, 1933, by active co-operation between the President and progressive senators and representatives within and without- the Democratic party. Under the Hoover administration, the progressives led the fight to make great wealth pay taxes to provide federal relief for the victims of the depression. I have contended from the beginning that it was unfair to place the burden of this emergency upon farmers and home owners who pay the local taxes. The relief afforded has not been adequate. But there would have been no relief whatever, no civil works, no public works program, and no serious effort to make wealth pay its share of the costs of this emergency, had not the progressive blazed the trail for nearly three years before the administration came to power. u k 'T'HE Democratic congress recently passed a ±™’™ Ue biU which would have allowed wealthy taxpayers to escape the burdens of this depiession had not the progressives forced action to increase taxes upon those best able to pay. It was the long struggle waged by the progressives under the leadership of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, which prevented the lease of Muscle Shoals years ago to private power interests. It is being used today to force reductions in electric rates throughout the middle west and south. The Tennessee valley is being developed in an effort to solve the economic problems of a great section of the country despite the stranglehold of the power trust on reactionaries in key positions in both parties. Those who control the Republican machine are so bankrupt of ideas that they cry for restoration of the policies which helped to produce the depression. They lack faith in the citizens of the United States They are the only important group which believes the American people can be induced to give up free institutions for Communism, Fascism or tyranny in any other form. The same reactionary interests which domi-' nate the Republican party are now -reaching out for control of the Democratic party through the state and congressional elections of 1934. They will have their candidates in the primaries, masquerading as supporters of President Roosevelt and hiding under the cloak of his popularity. They have already crept into the machinery of the party in many of the states. u n DEMOCRATIC administrations in one state after another have made barter of public patronage to build political machines, and checked the advance made under progressive leadership by placing the emphasis upon party regularity rather than upon genuine service to the people. The same interests which seized upon the nation’s distress to pyramid their profits, when Woodrow Wilson led this country into the World war, are determined to gain every advantage they can out of the present emergency. Those who have gathered the ownership of the wealth of the United States into their own hands have actually grown in power through the wholesale confiscation of homes, farms, and small business in the last five years. Their stake in the control of government is greater than it was in 1929. The promise of the administration at Washington will surely be blasted if the campaign this year results in the election of enough reactionaries in either party, to combine and again betray the people’s government to the forces that ruled it for a generation and plunged us into this depression. The interests that seized control of our resources and confiscated the savings of a nation will not abdicate or retire without a struggle. They are fighting for their existence today and they will be quick to take advantage of any mistake of the President or the congress and any sign of apathy among the people.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

A QUICK glimpse at ceremonies honoring the anniversary of the birthday of General Lafayette: All of the chiefs of mission of the diplomatic corps were present (except for the German, Chinese and Italian representatives). Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British ambassador, displayed an amazing costume combination. It consisted of sponge-bag trousers, a doublebreasted black coat and no waistcoat. Why no waistcoat, queried some? Too hot, was Sir-Ron-ald's sensible reply. Mrs. Edith Nourse Rogers, representative of Massachusetts, wore a white spring dress with emerald cuffs. Representative Sol Bloom of New York, morning-coated and correct, played a role in the ceremony. Sol’s record has never yet found him absent from any ceremony in which the name of George Washington was likely to be mentioned. French Ambassador Andre De Laboulaye delivered a flowery address in English, mispronouncing only three words. The sartorial hit of the diplomatic corps was Portuguese Minister De Bianchi. He affected an Ascot tie with a pearl in it, striped trousers and a winged collar—and looked terribly hot. tt MRS. WOODROW WILSON in her usual symphony of black and white, sat at a committee table. Mme. Felipe Espil, wife of the Argentine ambassador, sat in the diplomatic gallery and blew kisses to her handsome husband. Alert Joseph J. Sinnott, doorkeeper of the house of representatives, snapped his fingers at the dignified diplomatic corps at the conclusion of the ceremony, and motioned them to move on. Mme. De Laboulaye, wife of the French ambassador, followed her husband’s speech with rapt intentness, leaning over the diplomatic gallery rail. Those who received (why, none can say) a great burst of applause from spectators—Sir Ronald Lindsay, the British ambassador; General John J. Pershing, in full dress uniform, and Governor Scholz of the sovereign state of Florida. tt OTHERS observed at the Moore fiesta included Mrs. Hull, wife of the secretary of state, whose ankles were strapped up (she fell recently); Undersecretary of State Phillips and his daughter Beatrice. Phillips was in double-breasted gray, and his daughter in white with a picture hat,

THE INIMMRILiy TlMiia

IT’S NO USE BOYS—HE’S ON TO YOUR CURVES!

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The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short , so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) tt tt tt OPPORTUNITY IS THERE FOR REAL WORKERS. By a Worker at Real Silk. I read in the paper last night about someone only drawing a check for $2 or $3. Now I have been at Real Silk almost eight years and I feel than I can call that erroneous. How some of those knitters have held their jobs all these years is a mystery to me. This also applies to some of the transfer girls and boys. From some of the work I have seen them put through, Jit is no wonder they were penalized. Some of them wouldn’t know a bad stocking if they saw it and some can't see, or rather they don’t want to see them, and send them through anyway. I have worked for several knitters there and they all are striking now, but there was only one who was any good. I know our wage scale is far above the NRA. It may not be as high as the union wage scale, but we can’t find out what the union wage scale is. If those knitters think every one can’t be a knitter they are right. It takes someone with pep, one who will attend to his own machine. Some of the girls who are out do not make good workers and yet they are squawking because they didn't make good money. Yet their knitters would have to wait on them every set. I also would like you to know that the knitters couldn’t make less than 90 or 93 cents an hour and the girls between 40 and 43 cents an hour and if they wanted to work the girls could make better than 60 cents an hour. I have seen knitter checks —from S3B to S6O within the last three months. THUGS SHOULD LEAVE WEAPONS AT HOME By a Times Reader. This is in answer to R. S.'s hosiery questions. Yes, people on the outside know exactly what they want. The only difference is that they have been bullied and told when, where and how td spend their own earnings. Sure any dumb cluck can hold down lots of jobs, but it takes an intelligent person to be a knitter and keep up with all the changes, new attachments with no more pay. Through this depression I know of knitters who drew from $9 to sl2 a week and had families to keep. That’s good money but not enough of it, that is why the strike is taking place today so our wages won’t be raised sky high now and after everything is cut and dried papa Goodman can’t come to us and say “Well, folks, the company lost money. I hate to say this but you will have to take a cut.” If you have a child try letting that child perform as a policeman. If Real Silk thugs would leave guns, ax handles and pieces of gas pipe wrapped in newspapers at home, there wouldn’t be any trouble. n n a PROTECT CHILDREN, IS WRITER S PLEA By x Citizen. Six-year-old Fannie Glanzman is dead. She was killed by an automobile at the corner of McCarty and Meridian streets. The story, as published by the papers, does not, in my opinion, get at the real truth. The scene of the accident is a dangerous five-way intersection with heavy traffic at all times. Taxpayers pay out their

Advocates More Publicity for Democrats

By W. H. Green. Just a few remarks in reference to your support of the new deal and the Democratic party. Even a blind man should sense the different feeling of freedom and independence since the Democrats have taken over the reign of government. Any one seeing the new cars on the streets, the number of men working, visiting Anderson and Newcastle and reads papers showing the various increases in pay rolls, bank clearances and car loadings should know conditions are vastly improved over a year ago. Any slur cast on the brain trust is unwarranted. Who is so foolish as to prefer lawyers, newspaper men, bankers and politi-

money to have just such corners properly guarded by policemen or traffic lights. Our officials are accustomed to making speeches and proclamations about good health week for babies, and the police department, under the direction of that great humanitarian, Chief Mike Morrissey, warns children to stay off the streets. But there are occasions when even children must cross streets. And they deserve the protection of traffic control, even if Mike does think it more important to send all his policemen to guard Real Silk. Mr. Goodman’s shop must be protected, it seems, no matter how many innocent children’s lives are sacrificed in the process. It is the duty of every citizen of Indianapolis to rise up in one mighty protest against conditions which make such things as little Fannie Glanzman’s death possible. Yes, Fannie is dead, and the police still are protecting Mr. Goodman's brick building so that he and his family may have, from the labor of others, a beautiful estate where the rich may play without danger from automobiles. But what if a few workers’ children are killed, so long as the rich are safe? n tt a • DEMANDS PROSECUTION IN VOTE CASES By W. L. McPherson. It is your duty to the public and your subscribers to see that the official canvassing board alleged outrage is prosecuted. u tt tt STRIKERS STAY TOGETHER BECAUSE THEY KNOW FACTS By Times Reader. I read an article in the Message Center by S. F. H. entitled “Explains Status of Union Knitters.” I am a knitter and a striker. I have been knitting at Real Silk for almost eight years and that is more experience than most of the instructors had when they came from U union mill in Ft. Wayne here to teach us knitting. They also paid union dues for a year or more after they came down here. Most of them withdrew their cards to take foremens’ jobs. Mr. S. f. H said that there are hundreds of union knitters out of jobs. That is wrong. There are a number of union jobs open in union mills throughout the country which we would be glad to occupy but as we are on a strike it is against our rules to transfer any member during a strike. Real Silk had ads in Chicago papers and also eastern papers for knitters and if there were any knitters out of jobs they would have

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

cians to supervise the affairs of the country to men who spend their lives seeking an honest education. If no credit can be given men of great learning, why not close all schools? Your editorial of several days ago, “The Good Old Days,” was fine. The trouble is that it doesn’t ast before enough persons. With such a greater percentage of the newspapers Republican, there is a hard force to combat. The greatest thing the people need is some method of getting the accomplishments of the Democratic party before them in such a manner that every one can understand them. I showed your editorial to at least a dozen persons. It should be shown to every one.

hired them three weeks ago. They were unable to get any. Mr. s. F. H. said he would advise the strikers to get a union knitters’ book and read what it takes to qualify as a union knitter. I wish to state that all of us strikers have union knitters’ books and working agreements and also the union wage scale book. That is why we are sticking together. We have awakened and know that we have been cheated out of about sls a week for years. HONEST MEN NEEDED IN PUBLIC OFFICE By Ex-Lieutenant Elmer Stoddard. I wish to praise one man who said the backbone of good government rests on the police department for the presei’vation of law and order and if nominated and elected his chief would come from the police department. Asa member of the police department twenty-nine years, I believe in the merit system and give all officers due credit for good conduct and service rendered for our great city. I believe Walter Pritchard to be honest with our people in asking to be mayor. I was sergeant twelve years and a lieutenant three years and I know that ex-Judge Pritchard was a good judge to our poor people that were brought before him in his court. He also said that police and firemen should receive better wages for the protection of homes, life and property. What we must have today is honest men in office. a a LABOR NEEDS VOICE IN MANAGEMENT By H. L. Sttger. Congratulations on your editorial cm the Real Silk situation. You are still optimistically hopeful of naving the lion and the lamb lying down together to create that “partnerup” between business, capital and labor. What really is needed is not a bargaining agreement, but a vested right of labor to have a voice in the management through representation on the board of directors, to control policy and division of profits equally between the building and machinery stockholders and the labor stock producers. m m m RATES THE TIMES AS WORKERS’ FRIEND By Arthur M. Thompson I beliee The Indianapolis Times to be the true friend of the laboring man. I appreciate your editorial policy pertaining to the Real Silk

MAY 24, 1934

Hosiery Mills. I have witnessed 4 many strikes in my time. I am long past middle age and speak from ex-' perience. J. A. Goodman and his imported ’ guards show history repeats itself. Capital will not play fair with the f man who serves it. As see it from an old man’s point of view, the Real Silk is doing more to retard recovery in business by far than to help, things along. I believe decent living wages to faithful employes will, make the most faithful guards any firm could ask. , DECLARES STRIKERS AIDED BY UNION By a Striker’s Wife. To a Boarder: Do you really know what you are talking about when you say that the striker’s children are going hungry? The union may not oe paying a salary, but it is not letting any one go hungry. I have been hungry when, after working all week, my husband brought home some very small checks after working all week. Do not worry about the strikers; ) they do not want sympathy from you. a a HERE’S ANOTHER VIEW ON POLITICS, JOBS By Mrs. Russell Burrows. I read an article written by E. W. I do not know whether you are a Republican or not, but I certainly don’t think Republicans put Mr. Roosevelt in office. I have heard more Democrats say they had voted nothing but Democratic ticket for years, but they had voted their last. No, I don’t agree with you. I don’t think there is any danger of you finding a job so soon either. , Vote Republican next time and see how soon you find a job. Are you a white collar boy? Oh, no, or you would have employment.

Daily Thought

Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come; and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.—Revelation, 14:7. Henceforth the Majesty of God revere; Fear him and you have nothing else to fear. —Fordyce.

PLACIDITY

BY ELLEN BETTY I hate to bother God with minor things, I seldom pray— And yet, unconsciously, today, A little prayer took wings. ‘ Oh, let me have an hour at dusk, Just for my very own; And in that hour let me be As quiet as a stone. Let the breeze blow over me, Let the sky bend low, Light a narrow row of stars, In flame-sweet candle-glow. Oh, let me steep in solitude! It is the dearest way For me to gather fortitude Against another noisy dayl’