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THTRADAV SEPT a 1534. THE TEXTILE BOARD W^OLL OWING the failure of the national labor relations board, the NRA and its ; textile board to aet effectively, the President has appointed another board for the far-flung textile strike. This new board, apparently, has been selected with taie, Goteinnr John G. Winant of New Hampshire, its chairman, is an able independent Republican, of high reputation. Marion Smith of Atlanta is a distinguished lawyer, who has a good record as chairman of a regional labor board. Raymond V. Ingersoll. borough president of Brooklyn, has had ten s-ears’ experience as arbitrator m the garment industries. It is to oe hoped that this new board will I make up for the time lost in getting at the ! facts and paving the wav for early peace. Every day s delav makes for more confusion, engenders more bitterness, brings new forces ' of disruption. The recent experience on the Pacific coast should be a warning that prolonged strife between employers and workers carries grave dangers to society. Already the inevitable outbreaks of violence have brought death in the textile war. There is increased intervention by state troops. And after it is all over, regardless of which side wins or neither, there will come the ugly aftermath of reprisals, man-hunts and reaction. To all of will be added the economic waste of industrial conflict. For a long time this textile situation has be*>n the governments business. Strikers charge that collective bargaining is flouted by the employers. If so this is violation of NIRA'S Section 7-a. the law of the land. The government has had the means of finding out whether this charge is true, and of enforcing the law'. Charges are made that the cotton textile rode, the first one written under NRA. is being violated in letter and spirit. That, too. is the government s affair. Bui these and other union charges are de- ; nied bv the employers. Unfortunately neither the labor relations board nor the NRA is able to announce the facts. Indeed. General Johnson is suppressing three NRA textile labor reports. Since none ot the numerous tact-finding, taw-enforcing and mediating agencies of the New Deal has functioned well in this crisis, the only recourse now seems to be to start from the beginning again with anew government board for the purpose. No further time should te lost by that new board.

A NEWER EDUCATION Indianapolis, along With even.’ other city in tHe United States, will observe -American Education Week" Nov. 5 to 11. Duiing that week parents will be urged to visit their children's classrooms and attempt to learn how they may co-operate best with the teacheis ior the highest good to the children. Out of 1934 s American Education Weekshould come a New Deal in education lor the American boy and girl. Dean Henry Lester Smith, president ol the National Education Association, has sounded more than a keynote lor a newer education. “What we put into the lives of our boys and girls.” says Dean Smith, "will come out in the life of America.” "The schools.” he says, "must leach young people the realities of the present order, or disorder. They must open the pupils mind to a realization of society as it is, with all its inequalities and maladjustments. No longer can the schools emphasize merely the finding of right answers to problems laid down by the teacner. They must help young people to find out what the problems are and how they can share in their solution. "Finally," says Dean Smith, "the schools must teach the principles of collective action upon which we must work out our common problems. The nation has become one great community which must rise or fall as a unit. Co-operame action is imperative —and, if democracy is to survive, it must be voluntary and enlightened co-operation" We in Indianapolis have a great, progressne school system. Indianapolis should be one of the leaders in this great movement to put Ameriran education on a saner basis. Dean Smith has sounded the call. Indianapolis must follow. WHEN NR A FUNCTIONS WHAT the NRA can accomplish when it really functions is demonstrated in the settlement of its controversy with L. Greif A: Brothers. That ruggedly individualistic firm of Baltimore clothing manufacturers devised a unique wage scale, which observed the mens clothing code minimum wage lor unskilled workers, but left more skilled workers at the mercy of a novel bonus system. NRA imestigators charged that the bonus system operated to make only a slight differential between the minimum for the unskilled and the maximum for the skilled. While the Greif company took Its case to court, the NRA compliance division ordered the code authority to withhold from the Baltimore firm the little Blue Eagie labels that are sewed inside code-made clothes. This was a direct action against the Greif company porketboek, because without the little Blue Eagle labels the Greif company products were not eligiole merchandise for the shelves of Blue Eagle retailers. The company capitulated. It abolished its bonus system and established the same wage scale that us code-respecting competitors had been paying all the tune. It agreed

a. l*o to restore to its employes three months back pay, based on the code scale. There are many reasons to be gratified with the success of NRA's vigorous enforcement, in this case. It means that, at least for the present, industries under NRA codes are not to be subjected to that type of unfair competition which cuts prices by cutting wages and forces all employers to resort to sweat shop practices in order to survive. OLD AS HE FEELS \irHEN he was 80, General R. A. Sneed, golf. But it seemed to him "just an old man's game." He would wait until he was 90. and try it again. That will be next year, for the other day in Oklahoma City he blew out. with lusty lungs, the eighty-mne candles on his birthday cake. This oldster has found the secret for which Ponce de Leon searched the earth in vain. Life did not begin for him at 40. nor at 80. It begins new every morning. Time for him is a string upon which he hangs, like gems, his days of work and calm enjoyment. Each year leaves him not just older and weaker, but wiser and happier. His "an old age serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night.”* This country, that glorifies youth for youths sake, needs more like.him. NEED OF THE DAY /CHARGES that governmental units suffer because of the interference of politicians were made yesterday by Schools Superintendent Paul C. Stetson before 1.900 city teachers. Mr. Stetson's charges are additional ones in support of the theory and program, advocated by The Indianapolis Times, that politics shall be eliminated entirely from the operations of many branches of government which are supported by the taxpayers. Mr. Stetson vlso opened fire on outmoded systems of government and indicted leaders for failure to face the situation rather than hide behind a bush of alibis and weak-sister excuses. The superintendent of schools could not have been more pointed in his statements—or more accurate. The Times maintains that unless civil service and merit systems are placed into effect in Indiana's state police and penal setups, this state is open to more condemnation for the manner in which these operations have been and are being conducted. If there were more straightforward speaking officials in this city and state, who laced the situation as does Mr. Stetson, the remedy would be forthcoming immediately. . SEE THE FAIR THE Indiana state fair is breaking records of last year daily as the annual exposition progresses toward its termination. Indiana has discovered that thpre is more to the state fair than merely a day spent in sightseeing and entertainment. Its educational advantages are far in advance of its other features. To have neglected to visit the fair is to have missed an opportunity to learn what Indiana is doing in various walks of daily life.

NEEDED IMPROVEMENT IT is noticeable that when motorists, erring in aim or failing to follow the straight and narrow, uproot or knock down the traffic signals in the center of street intersections that these signals soon are replaced by devices located on the four corners of the intersection. That the citizens of Indianapolis must await injury or death before these changes are made, seems rather a heartless waste of numanity. Surely if an accident results in the alterations, there must be sufficient cause to make the changes before occurrence of tragedy. The theory of prevention should apply in each instance where there is a traffic signal in the center of a street. TERRITORIAL PARADOX IT is an odd development that in the Philippines, soon to be independent, English has been adopted as the official language, while in the solidly American territory of Puerto Rico, Spanish has taken the place of English as the accepted medium of instruction in elementary schools. The Puerto Ricans speak Spanish from the cradle upward. Efforts have been made to conduct the elementary schools bilingually, with English and Spanish used side by side. Now. however, the instruction is to be solely in Spanish, with instruction in English reserved for high schools. But in the Philippines, English is the only language thoroughly diffused throughout the islands. Spanish is the language of polite society; English is the language in which business is conducted. The Filipinos themselves have voted to make English the official tongue. So the American territory will speak Spanish. and the independent Philippines will continue to "talk American!” UP GO THE HOGS! A QUEER combination of drought and AAA manipulation has sent the price of hogs rocketing. Never before, outside of wartime, has the hog market risen as rapidly as it has this summer. Since June, the hogs of the corn belt have increased in value by nearly half a billion dollars: if the present price level holds, this paper value will be transformed into actual cash, with the corn belt farmer reaping the benefit. What this may mean to the country at large is mentioned in an article by Charles E. Snyder, corn beit editor. "To the business man and to the people generally.” he writes, "the pnee of pork is the most vital trade index. Everybody ought to be glad to see $lO hogs. Hogs at that level, and kept there, afford the best possible promise of good times for all.” At a moment when the sky is a great deal darker than most of us would like to see it, it is comfortmf to find at least one omen of good times Ham Fish and Matthew Woll must be asleep at the switch. They haven't yet discovered a Red plot in the fact that drought a re*-farmers are feeding Russian thistles to livestock.

Our Railroads - BY THOMAS L. STORES -

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6—Lay off of workers by the New York, New Haven & Hartford and some western railroads, on top of application by the nation s roads to the interstate commerce commission for increased rates, served today to emphasize anew a major economic problem that has been accentuated by diminishing operating revenues. Lively debate in congress on the whole problem is expected. These developments focused attention sharply on the ICC and Joseph B. Eastman, federal railroad coordinator, who is in the midst of plans designed to pit the railroads back on their feet and make them pay as they go. Reduction of personnel by some railroads, j following so promptly upon the request for $170,- ! 000,000 in rate increases by all the carriers, was regarded in some quarters here as premeditated, in other words, as a means of stressing their claims. run IT is the general opinion here that the ICC will grant some rate increases, though not to the extent asked by the railroads. The recent drop in business has reacted, as usual, to cut dow r n revenues. Net earnings of $28,510,000 were reported by the first fifty-eight railroads to make financial statements for July, as compared #with *50,569.000 for July 1933. Railroads recently have been complaining about increased cost caused by the new railway pension act, which requires them to lay aside about $60,000,000 a year for retirement payments. They challenged the law in district supreme court here, but their request for an injunction was denied on the ground that thus far the orders of the pension board have worked no undue hardship. The court left the way open for future injunctive requests. Railroads pay about $35,000,000 a year now under their own pension plans. Some have been discontinued. Another added cost is restoration of the 10 per cent wage cut which is being returned gradually. Two and a half per cent was restored June 1, with 2 4 more due Jan. 1 and the other 5 per cent April 1. a a a I INDICATIONS that the administration is seri- i ously concerned again about the railroad problem, which has perplexed the government ever since the depression, was seen in a recent editorial by Raymond Moley, confidant and adviser of the President, which demander action by the government. Though this was interpreted in some quarters as criticism of Mr. Eastman, there is no evidence here that the President is dissatisfied with the effort the railroad co-ordinator is making, against considerable odds, to bring some order out of railroad chaos. Mr. Eastman found a lack of co-operation by the railroads with his plans to overhaul the country’s railroad structure at the outset and finally had to set up, himself, the necessary regional committees to suggest methods for economizing by eliminating duplication of services, sales forces, administrative agencies, accounting, and by pooling facilities, and vhe like. His view of railroad managements creeps out, here and there, in his reports to congress in which he spoke of the "high degree of individualism” among railway executives which resulted in failure to get together on recommendations made by their own association.

At Indiana Fair

RIGHT this W'ay, lad-ees and genteel-men! See Alasha the Human Snake! See the double-bodied baby! Right this w-ay! Only a dime, ten cents, two nickels.’’ Along the Indiana state fair's midway echo the cries of the haw'kers of pit-shows to a chorus of rooster crows from the fowl building. a a a Just step into the Coliseum, ladies and gentlemen, and if you wonder at the smoothness and elimination of floor-dust as polo ponies gallop about you’ll be told that the tanbark was scarified by a caterpiller ‘‘Diesel’’ and then rolled and treated with calcium chloride to prevent accidents. a a a SEE that gentleman standing over there talking to Levi Moore, publicity director. Will, that’s B. H. Heide, Chicago, general manager of the International Livestock Exposition. Mr. Heide has a record of twenty years unbroken attendance at the Indiana fair. He's drumming up exhibitors for the annual Chicago exposition and entertaining in a tent near the stock arena. a a Rugs, repository for bridge game ashes and spilled cocktails, might get anew break in longevity if husbands arc shown by wives the creations in the Women's building. The exhibit has been termed one ftf the finest shown at the fair. They are hand-made and for the most part the property of Indiana women. tt tt * SKIMMING the outside rails in front of the grand stand as though their legs were made of railroad iron, the troupe of Russian Cossacks at the state fair track has kept the crowd out of its seats throughout its performances. Nor .are the daring rides any whit less tame than they seem for Andrew Goorbouschen, one of the Cossacks, suffered bruises and cuts when his horse swerved against a fence. tt a u Husband lost? Baby strayed? Then, if you’re at the Indiana state fair, just get in touch with police headquarters or publicity officials and they'll put the traveling announcer at work. He’s a cross between a town crier and a sandwich man and he's guaranteed to find the most aimless "primrose path papa” in the state. a a a A GARDEN. 50 by 100 feet, will save a Hoosier family between $25 and SIOO yearly. This estimate is made by H. E. Young, in charge of the gardening exhibit in the Purdue university building. Under Mr. Young's direction, sixty canning centers have been established in the state. Relief families are furnished with canning equipment and aided in gardening by the university's agents. a a a A banker, who can count the good points on a saddle horse with the ease with which he counts bills through a teller's window, is one of the most popular judges at the Indiana state fair. He is Thomas M. Wilson, Bowling Green, Ky., judge of the fairs saddle horses. He officiated at the leading horse shows in the nation and is a large land owner near Bowling Green. a a a HEREDITY may play only a small part in rearing a child but when it comes to making a cake rise. Mrs. M. E. Rynerson, Clayton, the state fair's champion cake baker, gives it all sorts of credit. , With twenty-seven cakes entered. Mrs. Rynerson carried off prizes on all but three—and she confesses she inherited her cake-making ability from her mother. Her twenty-seven cakes contain twenty-one dozen eggs, and she holds some kind of a beating record lor she scorns an electric mixer and beats the, eggs manually. Nor does Mrs. Rynerson stop at cakes. With eighteen pies entered she captured ten prizes. a a a Loral H. Mahan. 16, Ben Davis, won the blue ribbon in carving with his walnut-finished cedar chest shown at the fair on the mam floor in the Woman’s building. Loral has won two straight years in the carving exhibit. a a a Tom Knipe, Kokomo, w r first prize for the best vase of flowers displayed at the fair. Love's floral gardens. Elwood, and Luebking and Company. Indianapolis, were respectively second and third. Wiiiie everybody else is supposed to be oenefiting by the New Deal, how about the husband who has to exercise his wiles dog?

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Timet readers are Invited to express then views in these columns, ilake pour letters short, so o'l can have a chance. I.imit them to 859 words or lets.) a a a BUSINESS REGULATION LIKELY TO INCREASE By a Subscriber. Os the group now unemployed throughout the country, five million never again wnll be, permitted to perform any useful labor in pioduction and distribution. This tragedy could be permitted only under a system of irresponsible control of the machinery of production. The present breakdown is the result of an over-emphasis of individual control of the system for creating social needs. No business long can succeed which ignores its obligations to the public. No business can be said to be wholly private. Public tolerance and public patronage are essential; public acceptance is a necessary element in the success of every business. Industry is as important to social well being and national development, as education,. sanitation—or public safety. Government of the people is as much or more concerned w ? ith an industry or business that fails to respect the public welfare as it is with a public enemy of any type. Therefore, no business can be said to be solely the concern of the individual operating such business. Our statute law has fixed many regulations interfering w-ith this widely heralded "constitutional right” to run our own business in our own way. Failure on the part of our socalled private control of business, to give the service the public demands for this privilege of operation, will force the public to protect itself further to insure a standard of operation compatible with the greatest public good. Industrial barons would do well to bow the knee and accept this social responsibility. a a a OPPOSES BROADCASTING CHURCH SERVICES Ernst Heberlein. I hope that when "A Radio Listener” gets enough support to abolish the broadcasting of the traffic court proceedings that he will turn his efforts to abolishing the broadcasts of church services. Had I & more gifted pen I might try to do it myself. Each morning I tune in to a local station to hear an early morning "wake-up” program. If I am too early,. I either must be denied the use of my radio or listen to some sacreligious blasphemy by some ignorant preacher all said in the name of Christ. With Christianity fast oecoming the largest and best paying industry in America, I can not see why it shouldn't pay for its programs, be taxed, and shopped regularly by the Better Business Bureau for misrepresentation. If our morning ministers would go to the gospels and original Christ teachings their efforts might be appreciated, but Christianity is as far away from those teachings as it is close to the certain racket that it is. I am an Episcopalian and feel that it is an infringement on my constitutional rights to be compelled to listen to a Baptist or any other kind of service. The manager of the local station tells me he is compelled to give

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Defends Traffic Court Broadcasts

B? E. H. Simmons. Asa constant reader of The Times for the last ten years, I take the privilege of defending the Thursday afternoon broadcast of the Indianapolis traffic court. In answer to "A Radio Listener,” and "By Another Listener,” who wishes to have the broadcast stopped: Have either of you received a sticker, or been arrested for any traffic violation? If you have, I can understand the attitude you take on the court broadtast. The word of the arresting officer is always taken in preference to the accused. Well, why not? Average human beings will lie themselves out of the jam that their own carelessness or recklessness got them into, if possible. If the judge didn’t take the officer’s word what would be the use of having any court at all, traffic or otherwise?

time to such broadcasts. With this control of our radio we still prate 1 about Hitler controlling the press find radio. Americana —ho hum! a a a SEES PUBLISHER IN GRIP OF DEVIL By Lewis .Cummins Jr. In a recent radio address, an attorney for the Hearst Publishing Company stated that Secretary Wallace and his kind were, in private life, unsuccessful men. He declared that Mr. Wallace never had employed six men at any one time, iby the use of his own money. He neglected to state that Jesus and , Abraham Lincoln belong to the same ; class of financial failures. As I' sal j listening to his false teaching, I ! could not help but think of the firm ' grip which the devil has on the Hearst Publishing Company. a a a CO-OPERATIVE SYSTEM HELD ONLY SOLUTION By a Cloverdal* Reader* After a few hundred years of science, invention, education, and the multiplication of production a hundredfold, we find ourselves in j the saddest plight in human history- Hunger stalks in the midst of j plenty, enforced unemployment to the extent of ten or twelve million ! men, with factories enough rusting jto employ all. What Is wrong? Is ! it because the people don't need the | that the idle factories could | turn out. or is it because they don't ! have the purchasing power to buy j the things they need? Why should a nation grow so rich | in resources and build up production to the height of perfection and i at the same time her people grow ! so poor that they can't buy enough ■ goods to employ themselves? I think that we should ponder deeply over this situation. Really, the cause is very simple. When we are allowed to work, we create a surplus or profit. Profit is the difference between wages and what we can buy back with wages. Since we have lost our foreign mark“ts and there is no more opportunity for industrial expansion, it becomes imperative that we kill profit. Capitalism has outlived its usefulness. We can t keep taking out profits unless there is some way to immediately use this profit. This being an impossibility, there is noth|mg left for society to do except to strive for a co-operative common-

II wholly disapprove of what you say and will defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

If you are a father or mother and one of your children were killed by a reckless driver or by someone failing to stop at a through street, you w'ould take an entirely new view of the subject would you not? Os course you would if you are human. "By Another Listener” says it is impossible to get a square deal. Put yourself in the judge's place. Can he take all afternon or morning for three or four cases? I have listened in since the broadcasts started, ar.d the judges have shown no partiality to any of the accused, in my estimation. I say keep the broadcasts on, and you and I will be more careful, as we know what to expect. If w’e do go up, w ? e will deserve it, for the motorcycle cop is not going to arrest us for nothing. He is trying only to protect your children and mine, and make Indianapolis a safer place to live.

wealth such as the Socialists are striving for. A system of service at cost, goods made for use instead of profit, and the full social value of each one’s toil. A more just distribution of the national income will immediately solve this problem that the two major parties do not want to solve because they believe in the capitalist system and they are going to keep on trying to make it w'ork until the revolution comes, if we keep voting for them. nan COMMUNISTIC ATHEISM AND ITS CONSEQUENCES By Algernon Goodbov, Elwood. I am glad to see voices raised in a relentless fight against Communist atheism. I myself was unaware of the far-reaching influence of communistic teachings until a short time ago, when, after a careful survey in a large city I could, to my astonishment, find only two persons who still clung to their sublime faith in the Bible and still belie’ eci the earth is flat. But there is a rift in the dark clouds hovering over our country vhich points to the fact that w'e have not gone entirely atheistic because of the communistic teachings. I had never understood clearly a certain quotation in the Bible until a short time ago when a minister during a sermon said; "Oh, how i like to see little children suffer, because the Lord said. Suffer little children to come unto me’,” and according to statistics given out a few days ago by the National Board of Education there are more than three million children of school age who are suffering from lack of food and proper clothing so that would prove that we still are a Christian nation. It is a notorious fact that the Communists will stop at nothing to enforce their atheistic ideas upon the people. For example, in Russia, where, after centuries of patriotic devotion the people learned to worDaily Thought And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling place for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.—Jeremiah 51:37. NEMESIS 1$ one of God’s handmaids.—W. R, Alger.

.SEPT. 6, 1934

(ship the czar and he was known as the "little white god” and they offered up their supplicatioas to him. but the Communists destroyed him and Russia is known the world over as a godless country. But that was the least of their crimes, because i n order to deprive the simple minded moujiks of their favorite objects of worship the Communists destroyed eleven carloads of shin bones of St, Anne m Moscow alone. Now, there might be some satisfaction derived from the fact that the Russian cars are not as large as the cars here, but knowing the{ miraculous curative powers of these particular bones it is a great wonder the people of Russia did not suffer an epidemic before they had time to establish the medical clinics for which they are noted. I will say in conclusion that it must be a great source of satisfaction to conservatives to see so many patriotic organizations springing up for the protection of our country. We have the White Shirts, the Night Shirts and the Black Shirts, through the entire gamut of colors; then comes the Liberty Guards, the White Guards, the Black Guards and so on ad infinitum. aaa PROPOSES LICENSING SLOT MACHINES B i. n. n. Now that Dillinger is dead and buned and his pal and their face lifters have been arrested; it is getting too cool to talk about the nudist colonies and the Real Silk spat is over, the mam subject is slot machines. So long as slot machines are illegal (hey will be operated as a graft just the same as the red light district, stag parties, and gambling joints. ■When any city official says he isl going to put a stop to these any one half bright at all knows thJ answer. It can not be done any more than the United States government stopped the sale of liquor m 1918. I believe the best thing for every one concerned is to make these' things legal. Then put a tax or license on each, and collect it. the same as from the fellow w’ho has to have a push cart to make a living or a city license for a truck. Put a tax or license on slot machines and let them be operated in the open instead of on second floors and in basements. There is a tax paid on ail of these illegal things mentioned but not paid to the city or state. If you don't believe it, ask the operators of any of them and if they are not afraid they willt tell you how much they pay, but not to whom it is paid. FANTASY ~|j BY SIGRID TONI* Tall trees ] Like silent sentinels / Starkly stand Beside the palace gatei j Behind whose golden H, ,es rise A sparkling paradise Os fountains Flowing Into breezes blowing Across gardens Glowing With gems of dew. There is no palace, No golden-hinged gates; But still they stand Lake silent sentinels. —The tall tree*.