During the tumultuous years of the Depression, Indianapolis newspapers were requested to suppress news of labor disturbances and sabotage. The News and Star responded favorably, but the Indianapolis Times over the signature of Talcott Powell, editor (January 4, 1934)

'I am sorry to be unable to comply with your request. It seems to us that the most constructive thing a newspaper can do at all times is to print all the news regardless of whom it hurts or whether it agrees with our particular editorial policy. We do not make the news. We simply print it. If we desire to discourage strikes and labor disturbances, we do so editorially on the editorial page and not by withholding news from the news columns.
The only way that I know of to suppress news of a strike in the Indianapolis Times is for capital and labor to get together under the principle of collective bargaining, as laid down by the President of the United States, and settle the strike itself. Once settled, it has no further news value.'
With best wishes for the New Year,
I am,
Talcott Powell
Editor, Indianapolis Times