Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 93, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1934 — Page 10

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TUESDAY. AUG. 2i. 1334 THEY’RE BACK AGAIN .T> ECENTLY this newspaper pledged its news nd editorial columns to aid in ridding the county and city of those cheating mechanical devices known as slot machines. Last night reporters for The Times went out in Marion county and learned one important fact—the law is NOT being enforced. If it were not for the seriousness of the situation and the loss of thousands and thousands of dollars annually by men. women and children ia these gambling devices, the slot machine situation in this county would be pure and simple comedy. About two weeks ago SOME county officials announced they would rid the areas outside the city limits of the machines. Instead of ridding the beer joints, restaurants and roadside hangouts of these devices, the officials found that within an hour after the announcement of the impending drive, the machines had been hidden. But the time has come now for the real drive. Times reporters discovered more than a score of machines in operation last night and they also discovered the hiding places of many more. If the officials of this county who announced ihey would nd the county of the devices were sincere in their promises, they should act now. Other county officials have made no move to enforce the law. Delay in this matter may prove rather embarrassing. Law enforcement agents who won't or can't enforce the law are of no use to the taxpayers and residents of this or any other county. DOING OUR PART TNDIANAPOLIS is taking the lead again, this "*■ time as the city in which the nation’s largest work relief slaughter-house will be located. Officials of the Governor's commission on unemployment relief announced yesterday that the former plant of the Indianapolis Abattoir Company will be acquired for the work, with more than 1.000 city workers to get jobs. When a city and state "moves in” on a project of this type it is evidence that the residents of Indiana intend to battle hard times to the last ditch. THE RICHBERG REPORT 'T'HE Richberg report shows that the New Deal has made going and rapid strides toward recovery. It also shows that far more progress has yet to be achieved. The administration can take heart in the return of more than 4.000.000 idle to regular pay rolls since March. 1933. But. with approximately 10.000.000 still unemployed, the administration hardly can afford to indulge itself the leisure of pointing with pride to what has been done. Among the accomplishments are the 37.5 per cent Increase in the total of industrial wages, the 25 per cent net increase in the purchasing power of all industrial workers, the 26 per cent increase in average hourly earnings. and the reduction of the average work week by approximately six hours. But it is a matter of grave concern that the average factory worker's weekly wage has increased only 8.5 per cent, while his cost of living has risen 9 6 per cent. This seems to indicate that the worker is bearing more than his share of the share-the-work burden. In sharp contrast are the standard statistics figures, used by Mr. Richberg, showing that the net profits of 506 companies of all types were 200 per cent higher in the first half of 19J4 than in the first half of 1933. and that the net profits of 402 industrial companies were 600 per cent higher. As evidence of the economic lift. Mr. RichI berg cites: The factory production index rose from a low of 47 4 in March. 1933. to a high of 85.1 in July. 1933, dipped to 59.4 In November and rose again to 72.1 in May. 1934. Other indices contrast March. 1933. with June. 1934, as follows: Employment. 56.2 and 77.4: pay rolls. 33 and 59 5; wholesale prices. 60.2 and 74.6. These are unmistakable signs of an upward trend. But they need to be brought up to date with a chart of the recession since May. Other important accomplishments include: Abolition of child labor and reduction in sweat shops, destructive price cutting, and business failures —all traceable more or less to NRA. What a vital part public works expenditures and loans have played in providing employment and injecting new life into the depressed heavy industries is shown in Mr. Richberg* report. Few will quarrel with Secretary Ickes’ recommendation that the life and lending power of PWA be continued two yeara longer. Mr. Richberg will report soon on agriculture. relief, finances, government services and foreign trade. When he has completed his survey, we should be in a better position to answer the question: ‘ Where do we go from here?" SOCIAL INSURANCE NEXT month. Great Britain will extend her unemployment insurance system, bringing thousands of additional workers under its protection, increasing the size of the benefits and the period over which they are paid. It la significant that these things are being done by a Tory-controlled government. Conservatives in this country harp continually on the economic recovery that Great Britain has enjoyed “without any New Deal.” They ignore the fact that many of the innovations of the New Deal are old reforms that have been long in force in England. Because, in pert, of unemployment insurance and other protective social measures Britain's depression

sufferings have been less severe and her recovery steadier. Nor is England an exception. Insurance against unemployment, old age. disability and illness is being extended in most pivilized nations. In the last year, according to a survey published by the magazine. Social Security: Australia has liberalized her old age pension laws; In Austria, the Vienna Workers’ sick fund, protecting 279.710 workers, paid out 31,000,000 shillings; Brazil provided disability and retirement insurance for commercial workers; Denmark perfected the administration of laws providing old age pensions, and health, invalidity and accident insurance; Backward India started a survey to find the best scheme for unemployment insurance for the municipal employes of Bombay, and centered attention on plans to provide sickness insurance for industrial workers, preliminary to old age, invalidity and orphans’ ; insurance; Italy, out of a compulsory tuberculosis insurance fund, paid benefits and provided hospital care to 57.258 persons; Japan extended health and maternity insurance to 290,000 additional workers, making the total protected in excess of 2.000,000; New Zealand's pensions department paid out 1.403.375 pounds to 37.507 persons, and gave additional benefits to 4,619 widows and 53,367 children; Norway took steps to inaugurate a general old age insurance plan; Poland put into effect a unified social insurance system covering sickness, maternity, industrial accidents, invalidity, old age, widowhood and orphanage for all workers in commerce and industry; Sweden enacted a voluntary unemployment insurance plan to which 700.000 workers will be eligible to share by contributing jointly with the government; Switzerland increased the government subsidy to her unemployment insurance system; France negotiated a reciprocity treaty with Czechoslovakia, which gives the citizens of one country residing in the other the right to share equally with nationals the advantages of unemployment insurance and relief. An even more comprehensive treaty, covering also health insurance and old age pensions, was ratified by France and Spain. For obvious reasons, no other government has ever asked the United States to enter into such a treaty. But if the New Deal continues its vigor, we may yet join the rear column of the world march to social security. THE STATE FAIR A NY resident of Indiana who prides himself on keeping abreast of the affairs of his horn state should avail himself of the opportunity to visit the state fair next week. The fair will open Saturday at the Indiana state fairground. On the ground, Hoosiers will find everything of interest to them, ranging from the daily job of home making to the latest developments in agriculture and science. The state fair, in years past, always has been worth a day of any ones time and this year, according to state officials, it will be outstanding in achievement and progress. STILL AHEAD OF EUROPE XX7TLLIAM FEATHER, Cleveland business ’ ’ man, returns from a trip to Europe with the remark that, in spite of the depression, ‘‘this country is living on a plane that Europe will be lucky to reach in another generation ”. Compared with France, Germany, and England, he says, the ordinary man in the United States is living, if not a life of luxury, at least a life of comfort. Conditions in England are better than those on the continent; but even there "the plain people do not know, as they never have known, a living standard compaVable to what we find here after five years of devastating depression.” Here is something worth remembering. It does no good, heaven knows, to try to minimize the effects of the depression, to try to pretend that there has been little real hardship. But it doesn't hurt to remember that, when all is said and done, we are still luckier than most people. The American standard of living is a heritage which even the depression hasn’t wrecked. DEATH, BY CHOICE TF Germany adopts the new penal code ■*- that has been tentatively outlined, a criminal sentenced to death would be permitted to take his own life. A guard would leave a vial of poison and a revolver in the condemned cell, and the luckless prisoner would use whichever method he preferred to put himself out of the world. A procedure so different from the usage prevalent in every civilized country is bound to seem pretty startling, at first glance. And yet you cculd make out a fair sort of case in support of it. One of the most ghastly things about capita! punishment is that long wait in the death cell between sentence and execution—that knowledge, from which the condemned man can not escape, that his keepers eventually will take him out and lead him forcibly to the electric chair, the gallows, or the guillotine. Many a condemned man, unable to stand the strain, tries to kill himself—and then prison doctors fight to save his life, so that it can be taken from him. later, in the prescribed manner. Permitting the man to kill himself might actually be more humane. CONSUMER AS PICKET TT is interesting to note that a New York supreme court judge has upheld the right of th? citizen to picket a business house in his capacity as consumer. A Bronx neighborhood organization felt that prices charged for bread were too high. So they began to picket stores and bakeries, demanding price reductions. The bakers asked a restraining order to make them stop, and the court refused to grant it. The right to picket usually is associated with labor disputes. Here it enters anew field, end the field is one in which it might prove useful. If a man can picket because he feels that he is underpaid, he also can do it if he feels that he is being overcharged.

Liberal Viewpoint 1 BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE sensational pay roll robbery in Brooklyn will galvanize public attention on the crime problem once more even before the news reels had ceased to depict the funeral rites of the late "Robinhood” Dillinger. It is doubtful if the James boys got away with as much ‘‘swag” during their whole career as was grabbed off in a few’ seconds by these shrewd and nervy metropolitan crooks. Half a million dollars seems a large sum, but it is rather trivial compared to the total annual crime bill of the nation, which rarely gets into the headlines. This is estimated conservatively as between twelve and fifteen billions of dollars. If only this sum could be reclaimed for constructive social purposes and put into public works, federal credit to business enterprise, housing and the like! Those who wish an unexcelled panorama of the crime problem in the United States will do well to consult the current issue of Fortune, in which the crime situation is surveyed with all the vividness and thoroughness for which Fortune articles are justly noted. The old crimes and criminals of a generation back—lone house prowlers, second-story men and thieves—no longer play a relatively important role in crime. The greater part of socially serious crime today is organized, often directed by the superior brains of an irresponsible lawyer. Operations are usually on a national scale, which makes it difficult for local police and prosecutors to cope with them. Much of the crime is nonsensational fraud, wholesale, but nonviolent, theft and the like which make poor newspaper copy and rarely is brought sharply to public attention. u n u IT was predicted that repeal would bring a new outburst of crime, often novel tj'pes of crime. In part this fear has been borne out in the apparent epidemic of sensational bank robberies, pay roll robberies and kidnapings. Neither bank robbery nor kidnaping is anything new in the annals of American crime, but both recently have appeared on anew and more sensational scale than ever before. In 1921 some 356 bank robberies were reported with a loss of $1,225,000. In 1932 there were 554 holdups and a loss of $3,384,000. Since 1932 the figures have dropped, primarily because there were fewer banks open for the outside crooks to hold up. Too good a job had been done on the inside of some of them by bank officials. Kidnaping became more frequent and sensational, but it is localized chiefly in the midw’est and far west. There were more kidnapings in New York state during the World war p’eriod than today. The Dillingers. Kelleys, Baileys and the like have brought to life again an old criminal type under new conditions and with a more deadly armament. Instead of a business executive type like Capone, "they are a twentieth-century reincarnation of Jesse James. Just as Jesse James’ six-shooter gave him an edge over less alert sheriffs, so John Dillingers Thompson submachine gun gave him an advantage over local police, and Dillinger’s high-powered automobiles are as about as effective an escape technique as James’ fast horses were in that day.” an n THE Fortune article calls attention to the scandalous failures in law enforcement. These probably reached their apex in Chicago in 1926 when there was a 200-to-l chance if ore committed burglarly that he would not be punished according to law’. But the writer is sensible enough not to repeat the hackneyed charge that laxity is due chiefly to police inefficiency and the like. He goes directly to the point when he says: “Crime is unpunished in the United States, not because of the law’s, not even because ot the individuals who administer ihe laws, but because of the 100 per cent American mixture of politics and law enforcement.” What is the hope of relief? The Fortune article lays much stress on the growing sentiment for" federal control over crime repression, and calls attention to recent federal activities and to new laws facilitating federal intervention. Much may be hoped from this in dealing with sensational crimes of violence. But we must remember that w’hile the country was waiting with bated breath for Dillinger’s capture nonviolent crimes and frauds filched a thousand-fold more money and property from owners than Dillinger and his gang grabbed off in all their robberies. We shall need a resolute marshaling of private as well as public forces to cope with this greatest of all crime menaces. Perhaps the newly formed commercial crime commission will fill the abysmal gap which has hitherto existed.

Capital Capers

BY GEORGE ABELL

SLANG in all categories is the object today of widespread study. A book has just been published which lists “college slang. English underworld slang, golfing slang, sea fishing slang, railroad slang, newspaper slang, etc.” . . . Here are some examples of diplomatic parlance, as heard about Washington To pull a Micheli: To get bitten (Micheli, Swiss charge d’affaires, having been nipped by an alligator at the Spanish embassy). Mona Lisa of the Pampas: The Argentine ambassador, Fiiipe Espil, who smiles like the famous painting. The Doyden: Sir Ronald Lindsay, British ambassador and dean of the diplomatic corps. To be dollygannish: To insist on precedence at diplomatic parties. Persona non grata: Newspaper men who arouse diplomats before 10:30 a. m. Rain check: The farewell card left by a diplomat, which bears the letters p. p. c. (pour prende conge), often erroneously translated as “please postpone calling.” a a a COURTOISIE: Slightly stilted courtesy, such as the frigid bows exchanged by ministers of Bolivia and Paraguay when they meet at the Pan-American Union. White spatters: Members of the protocol division of the state department. Oddly enough, none of them now wears white spats except at weddings. Aide memoire: The final whisky and soda at an embassy tea. Congress: A conference. In Washington diplomatic circles, the word “congress” is usually taken to refer to the congress of Vienna in 1815. Demarche: Energetic step, like that of Persian Minister Djalal, who phoned police about the loss of his wife’s spitz, "Piggy.” Dutch Treat: Party at the Netherlands legation. Ein Konferenz: What German Ambassador Luther is always engaged in when visitors call before noon. Modus vivendi: Agreement reached over a bottle of Irish whisky. French leave: Newport visits of M. Jules Henry, French charge d'affaires. Hungarian rhapsody: The ecstacy of Hungarian Counselor Balasy over the United States. n a a BEY: A title formerly used by the Turkish ambassador, but dropped by him because so many persons insisted on writing to "Mr. Bey.” Casus belli: A cause for war—for instance, inviting two hostile diplomats to the same table. Ultimatum: The last word, such as that uttered by Paraguayan Minister Bordenave in a hotel here when he asked for Yerba Mate and found they didn't serve it. Letters of credence: Letters which are hard to believe. They are presented by accredited diplomats to the President. Sterling diplomacy: Protracted interview, of the type indulged in by Ambassador Marquez Sterling of Cuba. The real lest will face Chancellor Schuschnigg of Austria after the hay fever season. Almost any one can pronounce his name now. No wonder a certain movie actress has let out a terrific beef. A western farmer wrote h~r that he had named his favorite cow after hex.

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Timet readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so a'l can have a chance. I,imit them to 250 words or less.) a a a BELIEVES OFFICIALS SHOULD GIVE TIME TO JOB By James Neller. I noticed your editorial, “How to Get a Job,” and I was very much impressed as to what was said. There is a lot being said about lowering taxes and I have often wondered why more has not been said about officials that do not attend to their duties. I am referring specifically to the treasurer of Marion county whose salary and fees net him more than any official or judge is receiving in the courthouse and yet he spends practically no time in his office in the courthouse but the work is done by the chief deputy. The treasurer says he can make more money in his beer office than as treasurer. I venture to say that he has not spent two whole days in the treasurer’s office since he became treasurer, Jan. 1, 1934. Occasionally he will spend fifteen or twenty minutes in the office and then you will not see him again for days. In May he spent some time w'hen the board of review met but he did not attend all the meetings, I am told. Mr. Sexton, treasurer in 1932 and 1933 spent a great deal of his time in his office. Why do we elect a man to office and then allow him to hardly go around the office? I think it is time that we call a halt to this kind of business, and tell him to step down and out if he does not look after the affairs of the office. This is an important office and if the treasurer looks after it, he can, to some extent, help lower the taxes. Publicity will go a long way and I am hoping, after you have investigated, that something will be said about this. Ido not believe there is another official in Indiana who devotes so littte of his time to the duties of the office to which he was elected. He may say that he looks after the affairs'from his beer office but the treasurer's office is in the courthouse and that is where persons expect to find him. I am a taxpayer and a daily reader of your paper. ana ADMINISTRATION OF PENSIONS ASSAILED By Mrs. Alice Beecher. Is the pension a joke? Yes, Mr. Humanitarian, 70 years —graveyard age—is right. I read that in one county more than ninety applicants died before they received the pension. I think the commissioners were waiting for us all to die so they will have more money to build golf courses, etc. We expected, and should have had sls a month Jan. 1. but didn’t get anything in Montgomery county until April. I am 76, I get $5 a month. My home, if paid for, would be worth S9OO. In 1929 it was in good repair and I got a loan of S7OO. My monthly expenses are, on an average: Loan. $7.60; taxes, $1.50: w r ater, $1; fuel, S3; clothing, $1; light, 50 cents; medical attention, sl. total, sls. I rent part of my house for $5. If I can keep it ren:ed and can get the rent I have $lO when I need S2O for utilities and to ha.’e anything to eat. I have a little garden. The commissioners are not fair. They allow one old man $7.50. He lives with his daughter and has no rent, water or light bills or taxes to pay. He works in the garden and with chickens and pigs. He does enough to more than pay for his keep. Another couple provides an example. The wife is the pensioner^

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Complains Republicans Rule Relief II ork

By a Reader , .. I read your article about the Federal Emergency Relief Administration Workers’ Union and I am not a bit surprised, because everything is run by Republicans appointed by Bill Book. The whole crowd in Room 401, city hall, are Republicans, and, believe me, if you are a Democrat you can not get a job. The towmship trustees are so careful about giving any one a job, and really are doing things right, but there is a chiseler somew’here in Book's organization who is changing rates and qualifications of workers to suit any condition. The government rules classify workers according to their ability,

she draws $lO a month. They have a large garden, some chickens, all their wood for cutting, and pasture for a cow. They have no rent to pay. Why do I who have so much expense, get only $5? The sls wouldn’t go as far with me as the $7.50 does for the old man w r ho has no expense. I am not objecting to what any one gets but I think I ought to have more. I told the commissioners so, and they said that if we didn't quit complaining we might not get anything. ana PREDICTS UNION NEAR VICTORY By B. S. Gant* “The Waterloo of labor is Indianapolis.” How often in the last few months have I heard that remark? My honest conviction is that w r ith sufficient organization and a sense of seeing two sides of an equation at one time that we. the service station salesmen of Indianapolis, are about to efface some part of that stigma. Loyalty to stockholders is heard from the oil executives whenever we ask for a higher pay scale, and to be allowed to check our sales by meters, thus arriving at actual sales and not to use the antique stick measurements that leave us at the mercy of temperature changes over which we have no control, and vacations with pay that any one working for a living is entitled. If the holder of oil stock could see the low level to w'hich the morale of the men whose services control in a large measure the value of his holdings, I think that he would be one of the first to insist that the company do everything in its power to raise that morale—unquestionably a discouraged man is the very worst sort of salesman material. The success of Filling Stations’ Employees Union No. 18,990 in its demand for recognition will, in my opinion be a triumph of good judgment on the part of the oil companies involved. a a a DECLARES REPUBLICANS ARGUE FUTILELY By G. B. Watkins. From the attitude the Republicans are taking, brazenly speaking of mistakes they think the administration is making, it really is pitiful. They want to get in so badly. But on what grounds can they base their argument: We remember it has been but little more than one year ago when they had full sway, and we all remember the condition in which after twelve years of Republican management, we found the business of the country. It is plain that if the same management had been extended four years longer, the natural conclusion .would have been, and u now, that

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but if you would check up, you would find evidence otherwise. I hope the men behind the movement do take the thing to Washington and get it straightened out. Bill Book and his Republican appointees certainly have revised things in this city, and I don’t see w-hy the Governor allowed such a thing to happen. Something drastic has to be done by the Governor because things as they are now surely will w’reck the Democratic party and Indiana will go back to the old deal. William 11. Book no longer is connected with the relief administration. He now 7 is on official of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce.

the country would have been on the brink of dissolution and past redemption. Consider the program passed by this administration in providing employment for millions of young men in reforestation work, reserving a certain amount of their wages to send home for the support of their parents? Do you know of anything more humane than that? To enumerate the many acts of meritorious results, w’e call attention to the newspapers of the country in which all reports show wonderful gains in business of the country in all departments. Do you remember any President who took management of affairs under such discouraging conditions as prevailed on all sides fifteen months ago? Yet under such conditions, discouraging as they were, we find employment much on the increase with millions fully employed. Radio reports tell us of benefits to the farmer and increased prices of all farm products. And why all the cry of running the government in debt, when 95 per cent of the expenditures are backed by securities as good as gold? The 5 per cent is feeding the starving millions, made so by three successive Republican terms. The writer can not imagine why even good Republicans would dare to ask for a change after so recent an experience when they held full sway. nun PLEADS BREAK BE GIVEN PEDESTRIANS By Helen Kay Yoon*. Perhaps I am dumb! If I am, I stand convicted, but it seems to me that a pedestrian hasn’t a Chinaman's chance in this city. He stands on a downtown corner waiting patiently for the red light, but when it appears does he get across the street? Indeed, he does not. For around the corner come a fleet of taxis,*trucks or what have you, and by the time he has dashed back and forth a dozen times in a mad effort to save his life the green light is on again, and the entire procedure is repeated. The other day after I had hopped back and forth like a frantic toad,

Daily Thought

But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted- wnth the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him.—l Kings, 12:8. EACH succeeding day is the scholar of that which preceded.— Publius Syrus,

.AUG. 28, 1934

I watched with growing admiration a middle-aged woman of no uncertain girth take matters grimly into her own hands. She had the red light, and the look of determination on her face was absolutely inspiring. she barged right out into the street. Horns were honking, brakes suddenly applied, drivers scowled at her from sundry cars, but she went right through as serene and undisturbed as a mother cat depositing her kittens in anew and safer place. I envied her, but was too cowardly to follow her example. I can t for the life of me see any sense in giving the right of way and then permitting half of Indianapblis to come around the corner and appropriate it. * Some persons are obliged to walk and are obliged also to get to places without taking half the day to do it. Isn’t there some way to have a third signal to insure the safety of the walking crowds without the old and short-lived system that sent us scurrying in herd formation like a flock of sheep? That humiliated us. Some of you with minds less obtuse than mine should be able to offer a solution. And now you motorists give me the works. There is nothing like a good, clean fight to clear the air. a a a FIREMAN COMPLAINS OF CONTRIBUTION By a Fireman, In regard to the Republicans and Democratic campaign funds, this is one for the book. When the Democrats took office about seven years ago, they said that the fireman and policeman must not have anything to do with politics or they would be fired. You can find this in the book of rules. Now they have demanded that every private give S2O to the campaign fund if he is a Democrat or they will see why. The Republicans never have asked that much and we had our pay raised under the Republican administration and the Democrats took it away from us. We also have been assessed $24 more on the year for our pension fund and are about to lose our pensions. If the Democrats are elected for four more years the firemen and policemen will be paying the politicians to work for the city of Indianapolis.

Never a Poet

BY LAURENCE E. SCOTT A poet I could never be; I can’t describe a lovely tree Nor paint with words a sky so blue That you could vision its azure hue. The rase would wither and lament Should try I to tell of its perfumed scent And surely I must need despair Os telling of fields and streams so fair. But oft I try to fashion a poem Os the love and care I’ve had at home. Os children's laughter and pattering feet. Os mothers’ lullabies, soft and sweet. I sing the praises, now and then. Os those who love their fellow-men. I write of the toiler’s joy and strife And the little worthwhile things of life. I can't describe a lovely tree But a poet I could never be; Nor tell in true poetic style Os things that fantasy beguile.