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The Klan Wins The decision of Attorney-General Ogden to dismiss the suit brought by his predecessor, Arthur Giiliom, to oust the Ku-Klux Klan from this state can not be interpreted in any other manner than a victory for intolerance, bigotry and hate. The excuse that the Klan has so dwindled ir. membership as to make a egal decision unimportant will only encourage future efforts to create a super government. The decision is interesting because of the fact that when Attorney-General Ogden took office, he received an offer from his predecessor to prosecute the case without cost and that the offer was brushed aside with the intimation that Ogden was quite able to run the legal affairs of the state. It may be remembered that the Klan had bitterly opposed the suit, which the attorneygeneral now finds so unimportant. Much evidence was taken as to the practices and customs of the klan in obtaining control of public offices, practices which were charged to be in defiance of law and the traditions of self-government. A legal decision ousting the klan would have served as a deterrent against any future efforts to bring hate and intolerance and intimidation into government in Indiana. There are signs that numerous similar efforts will be made by those who remember the rich pickings of the nightgowned leaders. Men are busy now in efforts to organize in the name of hate against certain races and certain classes.

Dropping the suit after the expenditure of money, the gathering oC evidence, a careful preparation of the legal points, can not result in other than encouragement to all Jhese movements. However moribund the klan itself may he, hate, intolerance and bigotry are not dead. If the law can prevent the organization of these influences in government, the sooner those who profit by creating hate know it, the better. If Mr. Ogden is too busy catching up with those who defrauded the state of hundreds of thousands of dollars of gasoline tax, why not, even at this date, accept the offer of the man who dared to oppose the klan as un-American to proceed to a judicial decree ? Glenn H. Curtiss Probably not since the death of Wilbur Wright has aviation lost such an important figure as Glenn Hammond Curtiss, who is being buried today. Although he ceased active participation in the world of aeronautics ten years ago, his influence is as strong now as a generation ago, when he made his sensational flight down the Hudson from Albany to New York. History will place Curtiss next to the Wright brothers. They invented the airplane. Curtiss popularized it. He was a genius at thinking up uses for the flying machine. He invented the flying boat. He was one of the pioneer pilots, and had few peers as a demonstrator. His name has dominated the aircraft manufacturing industry for twenty years. Just a few days ago Curtiss flew again over the Albany-New York route that he made famous in 1910. But instead of the flimsy boxkite, with a canoe ■trapped beneath it, which he used on the first flight, he rode this time in a luxurious twenty-passenger transport, also bearing his name. Those two planes are the phenomenal mileposts !n flying progress in this country. Pride in American aviation also must be pride in Glenn H. Curtiss.

The South Speaks Increase in the number of lynchings is one of the Biost serious developments in our national life. Twelve Mch victims were tortured and killed by mobs during last six months, a number equal to that of the entire year 1929. We Americans have grown calloused to this curse. Borne years ago public revulsion caused a recession of this wave of savagery. Now the wave is rising again. And the only response of many otherwise decent Citizens is the cheap plaint, “it's too horrible don t talk about it. ’ Two recent events, however, have caused more ffeought on this tabooed subject than the lynchings themselves. One was the reported campaign statement of Senator Cole Blease of South Carolina: •■Whenever the Constitution comes between me and %he virtue of the white women of South CaroLna, I ■ay to hell with the Constitution.” The spectacle of a United States senator publicly defending this barbarism, and thus inciting potential knobs to crime, probably has done more to shame the public generally than has all the recent professional agitation against lynching. Blease's declaration has had also one direct and immediate effect, as significant as it is hopeful. It has provoked statements by Governors of seven southern states, all condemning lynching, without qualification. What these Governors say is not so important as Row they say it. They seem to speak with the sincerity and grimness of men who are facing a great horror and are not afraid to fight. Here are parts of their statements: Governor Pollard of Virginia: “Lynching is barbarious. While I am Governor of Virginia, every power vested in me by law will be used to prevent any such blot on our civilization.” Governor Sampson of Kentucky: “I am opposed unalterably to mob law in any and all cases. If a mob may settle one case, it may settle all cases. The Constitution must be respected and all the power of the state will be commandcred to protect the most humble citizen.” Governor Long of Louisiana: “I have been Governor of this state for two years and no one, white or hi*'* has been lynched during that time. The policy of my administration has been to compel observance of the law.” Governor Gardiner Us North Carolina: “I regard lynching and every other form of mob violence not

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or ly as morally wrong in every instance, cut as fundamentally destructive of the rights of every citizen." Governor Richards of South Carolina: “There can be no justification for lynching.” Governor Hardman of Georgia: “I am opposed to lynching or mob violence in any form. The Constitution of our country provides for a right of trial by a jury, which is fundamental.” Governor Moody Texas: “A lawless execution at the hands of a moD is murder under the definition of that offense in our statutes, and every participant in such act is guilty of violating both the law of God and man. . . . However atrocious or revolting the crime of the mob’s victims may be, there >n be no justification for setting aside the orderly rule of law by an unruly mob, and there is no such thing as mob Justice.” If these and other Governors will stand by their guns, the cowardly practice of lynching vill cease. Why the Hunt Might Lag A1 Capone, at his quiet retreat in Florida, is quoted as remarking tersely that the Chicago police know perfectly well, and have known all along, who killed the reporter. Jake Lingle. Capone ought to know, if any one does; but whether his remark is correct or not, it is highly significant —pointing as it does, to the fact that there are so many things in the background of this Lingle murder that practically no one in Chicago wants to see dragged out into the open. It may prove simple enough to convict the man who fired the shot into Lingle’s brain; but to tell the whole story of this murder it will be necessary to wash a great deal of extremely dirty linen in public. Some of this linen is owned by Chicagoans of considerable prominence. If, now and then, Chicago seems to be just a trifle lackadaisical about catching Lingle’s murderer, there may be a reason for it.

The New Censorship Customs officials used to have the power to prosecute book importers without trial by jury. Senator Cutting of New Mexico was able to change this system through anew clause in the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill. He was fought bitterly by Reed Smoot and others, but ultimately he triumphed. The first case under this dispensation just has come up. A Seattle book dealer imported 120 copies of a technical book by a great Dutch scientist, Dr. J. Rutger. It is entitled “Sex Life in Its Biological Significance.” The books were seized by the customs officials and action taken against the importer. Fortunately, he now will be able to invoke the aid of a jury trial, instead of facing customs officials and a complaisant judge. It Is well that this is the first case to come up under the new procedure. To seize an obviously scientific book, written by a world-famous authority and possible of perusal only by educated adults, exposes censorship in all its preposterous proportions. Money for Amusements The Very Rev. W. R. Inge, England's famous “gloomy dean,” remarks that what American spend on luxuries in two years would pay off the British war debt. He estimates that Americans spend ten and a half billions on amusement annually. Undoubtedly, the dean means that this is all very deplorable; but for the life of us we can’t see why. Granted that a deal of money is spent on very foolish, inane amusements; granted that we spend a lot of money for amusement when we better might be putting it in the bank; even so, that huge expenditure for recreation is, to our way of looking at things, a good sign. At the very worst, it means that an enormous number of Americans are able to spend time and money on recreation. They are able to forget about the cares of the workaday world every so often, even if they don’t always make their expenditures wisely. If we are leaving drudgery and monotony behind us it is a good thing no matter how foolishly we act when we look for amusement. A crack train has been named The Bullet. Probably because it’s the custom after being taken for a ride.

REASON By F landis CK

IF thit John MacDonald of Baltimore, whose testimony sent Mooney, the San Francisco labor leader, to the penitentiary for hombing the Preparedness parade in 1916, is in his right mind, then we believe his testimony that he testified falsely. a a a The fact that he was willing to return to California and swear that he committed perjury when he knows that it might send him to prison, perhaps for the rest of his life, should remove the last doubt of the genuineness of his statement, particularly when there are many indications that Mooney was framed. a a a BUT it is not enough for MacDonald to declare that he swore falsely. He should go the whole route and uncover the conspiracy which induced him to do so, no matter whom it may involve, for it is an unspeakable crime for any group to plot to rob an innocent man of his liberty. a a a This case involves not only the calamity visited upon Mooney! it is also a calamity to the cause of law enforcement, handicapped enough already by the thousand and one obstacles which are thrown in the pathway of just prosecutions, without the maudlin sympathy for criminals which is bound to follow the establishment of Mooney's innocence. He will head a fresh chorus of insistence that all the monkey business which now handicaps criminal prosecutions is necessary to safeguard the rights of the innocent, when as a matter of fact the indictment of innocent men is the most remote of possibilities. a a a IT occurs in great cities only after an atrocious crime, when a great reward is offered for the conviction of somebody, and it occurs in rural county seats hardly ever. It is safe to say the guilty are acquitted a thousand times where the innocent are convicted once. a a a Throughout the years we have been somewhat familiar with the prosecution of crime in a county seat, part of the time as a member of the bar, and in all of the long stream of crime that has gone over the dam In those years we know of a multitude, as guilty as sin, that escaped and of but one single charge of felony where the defendant actually was innocent. And In that case the prosecutor gladly asked for a verdict of not guilty. So if Mooney is turned loose we should not be swept off our feet by a maudlin clamor that our courts are monsters, seeking the lives of the innocent, whe in truth they are antiquated, inefficient instrumentalities for the punishment of the guilty and the protection of the law abiding. Le the crusade for punishment, swift and sure, go forward. # _

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SCIENCE -BY DAVID DIETZ—-

The Ancients Believed That the Sun Was No Higher in the Heavens Than the Clouds. ' THE ancients worshipped the sun as a god, frequently as their chief god. They realized what modern science has affirmed, that life upon this earth is dependent upon the light and heat of the sun. But the scientists had no appreciation of the true glory of the sun. In many legends, the sun was a shining chariot, driven across the heavens by a sungod. The sun was thought to be no higher in the heavens than the clouds. When the sky was filled with clouds, they thought the sun actualy was battling its way through the clouds. We must not, however, be unfair to the ancients. While it is undoubtedly a fact that these myths ofginally were believed literally by all, they gradually gave way to better beliefs before the end of the Greek and Roman civilizations. It is probable that to the end of these civilizations there were many people who still believed them. But the scholars and philosophers progressed beyond them. This is not only true of ancient Greece and Rome, but of ancient Babylon as well. While the great mass of people continued religious worship based on solar mythology, perhaps in many cases even losing sight of the origin of their pagan worship, the astronomer priests developed a considerable astronomical knowledge.

Eclipses THE ancient Chaldean astronomer priests were particularly interested in the study of the motions of the sun and the moon. They made excellent progress, realizing from the aspect of the sky just before sunset or after sunset that the sun changed its position with relation to the stars. This discovery of the apparent path of the sun among the stars, which we now call the ecliptic, was an important discovery and bears testimony to the ingenuity of these early astronomers. Os course, they did not know, as we now do know, that this apparent motion of the sun really was due to the motion of the earth in its own orbit. They also studied the motions of the moon and learned from their studies of the moon and sun to predict eclipses. They discovered the eclipses occurred in cycles and that any given eclipse was followed by another similar one in eighteen years and eleven days. This period, after which a given set of eclipses repeats itself, they named the Saros, a term which is still used by astronomers today. The usual number of solar eclipses within a Saros is seventyone, though it may be two or three more or less. A study of eclipse records shows how old astronomical observations were in Chaldea. A reference in the Assyrian eponym canon, a pr esage which refers to a year in the Assyrian chronology which has been identified as 763 B. C., says, “Insurrection in the city of Assur. In the month Sivan the sun was eclipsed.” From 747 B. C. on, a canon of astronomical observations was kept in Babylon. All eclipses were recorded in it. It was this canon, according to Dr. J. K. Fotheringham of Oxford, famous authority on ancient astronomy, which led to the discovery of the Saros.

St St St Chaldeans WE usually think of accurate astronomical observations as beginning with the Greeks, but Dr. Fotheringham points out that the Greeks owed a great debt to the Chaldeans. He thinks that Greek astronomy had its foundations in the work of two Chaldean astronomers in particular. There names were Naburiannu and Kidinnu. Naburiannu arrived at surprisingly accurate values for the apparent motions of the sun and moon in 500 B. C. Still better values were calculated by Kidinnu in 383 B. C. The Greek astronomer Hipparchus is believed to have made use of Kidinnu’s calculations in arriving at his own. The world has learned of Naburiannu and Kidinnu only within recent years as a result of the translation and publication of a number of previously unknown Babylonian and Greek texts. The world is indebted chiefly to a group of distinguished German Jesuits, Fathers Epping, Strassmaier and Kugler, for this very valuable service. These texts tell of the two Chaldeans, who, according to Dr. Fotheringham, are “entitled to a place among the greatest of astronomers.” Fotheringham further states the Kidinnu was so excellent an astronomer that he obtained a value for one of the components entering into the calculation of eclipses which was better than the one used by present-day astronomers.

ON July 25, 1805, the Lewis and Clark expedition discovered the three forks of the Missouri river and named them the Jefferson, Madison and Gallatin. The party, consisting of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and twenty-seven other men, had started from the vicinity of St. Louis In May of that year. After reaching the three forks, the explorers proceeded up the Jefferson, crossed the Rocky mountains in September, then went down the Columbia river and, on Nov. 7, came in sight of the Pacifn ocean. They spent the winter on the coast and started the return journey on March 23, 1806, and arrived in St. Louis in September of that year, having traveled a distance of nearly 8,500 miles. For more than a year the explorers had been cut off from all communication with the outside world and suffered terrible hardships. However, they collected a mass of valuable information about the physical characteritics of the country, its climate and the Indian tribes. Hie expedition was commemorated in 1905 by the Lewis and .Clark centennial at Portland. Ore.

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DAILY HEALTH SERVICE Facts Sought on Liver Extract

BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hreeia, the Health Maerazine. ONE of the great discoveries of modern medicine in recent years has been the knowledge that the use of liver has a definite effect on cases of pernicious anemia. Formerly, practically all these cases were fatal within a short period. When it was discovered by such fundamental workers as Whipple of the medical school in Rochester, New York and Minot, Murphy and Cohn of Harvard University Medical school, that the feeding of liver stimulated the regeneration of blood corpuscles, cases that were going rapidly downward began to improve. Soon it was found that the eating of raw liver or even of cooked liver was a strain on the appetite and digestive mechanism even of the person with this disease. Then ex-

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Editor Times—l would like to correct the erroneous idea that the public in general seems to have gathered from more or less indirect statements made by the postoffice department, namely, that the department gives the postal employes a pension, and to increase that pension would be a drain on the treasury. This impression given to the public paints Uncle Sam as a very generous and thoughtful individual. He seems to be generous because “he gives” the mail clerk and carrier a pension, and also “seems” to be thoughtful by safeguarding thp overtaxed treasury by not allowing the small increase in pensions which justly is due the civil service employe. Now the truth about this pension system of these government employes is this: The mail clerks and carriers pay for the pension they receive by a per cent deduction from their salary. This pension fund has grown since May, 1920, until now it has reached a figure which allows a surplus several times the necessary amount to pay the pensions of those fortunate enough to live to the pension age. (The average life of a man who retires from the postal service is never more than three or four years, after retiring.) This is why the pension fund grows so fast, and why there exists such a surplus. The government could pay these men at least three-fourths pay for pensions, which is their own money, and still have a surplus. Can there be any one who would have objections to the mail carrier getting his own savings after thirty or forty years of service? Why, then, do the politicians at the head of our postal and legislative departments object to this fair play? Do they wish to create a favorable impression with the voters by indirect statements which point to the false side of a question as being true? The mail carrier and the clerk are appreciative of their jobs, especially in this kind of hard times and are not “biting the hand that feeds them,” but do want a square deal where their own savings are involved, at least to the extent of the truth being known it. G. W. SHARKEY. 5221 Ellenberger drive. Editor Times—For a good many years a strong advocate of the oldage pension system, and recently I had the experience of presenting it to the voters of Marion county as a legislative candidate on the Democratic ticket. I always have viewed pensioning of the aged from two angles, the economic and the humanitarian. Modem machinery rapidly is taking the place of man power in industry and a vast number of plants have set 50 years as the age limit for workers, and many as low as 40 years, especially those employing salesmen, and some do not want salesmen older than 35. Under past and present wage levels, it is and has been absolutely impossible for the average wage earner to maintain a family decently and lay aside enough for old age. Thus, after having given thirty to forty years of their lives at low wages, while industry has made millions, the workers are called in, given a $25 watch or a little money, and turned out into the world, broken in spirit and without money enough to support them thirty days. They are tossed to the human scrap pile, forced to make one of two decision; first, to go to that haven of refit as some politicians

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tracts of liver were discovered which gave the effects when taken in very small doses. Still later, Doctors Sturgis, Sharp and Isaacs, associated with the University of Michigan, found that extracts made from the wall of the stomach of the hog had a similar good effect. When insulin was discovered, it was heralded widely by the public as a cure for diabetes. Physicians announced, however, that insulin was not curative in its effects, but that it served as a substitute for the secretion which was lacking in the human body. In other words, while it would not cure the patient, it would prolong his life greatly and relieve him of his disabilities. Perhaps the same fact applies in the case of the use of liver and liver extracts in the treatment of pernicious anemia. As long as a patient takes his medicine as he needs it,

call it, and would have the public believe, the poorhouse, or to cross the Great Divide, often by their own hands. The department of labor, in a recent report, showed that the average wage in the nation is $34 a week. This is based on figures from 5,000 industries in all sections of the country. With modern machinery rapidly taking the place of man power, immigrants coming to our shores by the thousands annually, overproduction with a wage insufficient to buy what we produce, it seems to me that unless we adopt an old-age pension system, we good Democrats and Republicans, too, will be making application to go to the poorhouse within a few years. One of the arguments I have heard against old age pensions is that it would destroy the initiative of the young man. I contend that his initiative is destroyed the moment he is asked to work for a wage ranging from sl2 to $lB a week, ten and twelve hours a day. The only promise held out to him is that some day he will be president of the company, provided he works long enough, hard enough and cheap enough. These promises rarely mature. Another argument is that the pension system would make old men lazy. I contend that there are many who never have performed a hard day’s work. It would be quite fair to permit those who have given years to toil that society might continue, to enjoy a few of the good things of life in their old age. It may be of interest to readers to know that the good old U. S. A. is the only civilized country on the globe that does not have some form of old age pension. Twelve of our states have adopted the system. I would appreciate very much hearing from readers who are 65 years of age or older, regarding number of years employed, if now working, how long and at what salary. FRED S. GALLOWAY, 4121 Rockville road.

Editor Times—To the Business Industries of Indianapolis: A great deal has been said about “Boosting Indianapolis,” but can that be done with so many Indianapolis citizens walking the streets looking for work? Indianapolis business pleads for our people to deal or buy from home industries and at the same time hire people from other cities and towns to work for them and leave our own taxpayers walk the streets looking for work. We encourage every one to buy homes here and at the same time employ people living in small towns who have moved there or live there because they can do so cheaper than living here. Look at interurbans, busses and automobiles coming into this city, each morning from neighboring towns loaded with workers who have jobs wiich belong to citizens of this “no mean city.” Unless we protect our ovn citizens first, we are placing an inducement to live in surrounding towns where living is cheaper and will have to have a larger charity fund to take care of our own people who have been induced to come here and become citizens. Take for example 500 out-of-town people earning S2O a week. They are taking SIO,OOO out of this city each week that should go to 500 families in this city and would be spent here for the necessities of life. If people realized that this city was boosting THIS city first and must live here or not wo* here, then

he can maintain himself in fairly good health. If he fails, his condition begins to get worse. Statisticians for a large life insurance company recently have studied the death rates from pernicious anemia in persons from 25 to 74 years of age over the period 1921-1929. The liver diet first began to be used in 1926. There have been decisive decreases in the death rates from pernicious anemia since 1926, particularly as applied to women beyond middle age. In the age period from 55 to 74 years, the death rates have decreased 43 per cent among men and 50 per cent more among women for the period 1926-1929. The statistics will continue to be studied, with a view to finding whether use of liver and liver extracts will result in a permanent lowering of the death rate or in the postponement of death from the disease.

our vacant houses would be filled or empty bread boxes of many idle here would oe filled from local merchants with local earned money. A definite example of this practice; a local married man, with a wife and four children, buying a home and paying taxes in this city, is working every other week because the plant thinks they should give every other week to a single boy who lives at Shelbyville with his parents, and takes his week’s wages there to spend. Is that helping solve our unemployment problem? Drive by plants of this city and notice tire covers on expensive automobiles from Ikankfort, Martinsville, Greenfield, Noblesville, Muncie, Anderson, Shelbyville, Franklin, Mooresville, Plainfield, etc. A great many of those people have wealth and some of it has been gained by working at Indianapolis wages and paying small town expense for living. An owner of a business living in this city or out of this city, but adopting this policy, shows that he is boosting the city where he is a heavy taxpayer and is not trying to take Indianapolis money some place else to spend. This can not be done by passing laws. It must be done by business policies. JAMES A. STEPHENS, 1333 Shepard street.

Daily Thought

But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.—Ezekiel 18:21. Many believe the article of remission of sins, but they believe it without the condition of repentance or the fruits of holy life.—Jeremy Taylor.

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JULY 25, 1930

M. E. Tracy SAYS:

Some of the Brainiest Boyd We Have Are Leading Gangland , Some of the Most Persuasive Salesmen, the Shrewdest Executives, INSINUATIONS begin to creep into the news that Jerry Buckley was "just another gangster.” The same kind of insinuations crept into the news soon after Reporter Lingle was killed in Chicago. It is a safe bet that they wiU creep into the news after every assassination in which gangland appears to step out of line. They represent the cleverest kind of propaganda. Whether true or false, they satisfy a good many people that nothing very serious has occurred. A good many people feel that the easiest solution of the gang problem is to let rival factions kill each other off. and, to some extent, this thought has been fathered by officials. a a m Led Reform Fight TERRY BUCKLEY was supposed ** to be a reformer and acquired more than a local reputation by his scathing attacks on the Bowles administration in Detroit. He not only became a recognized leader in the recall campaign, but took every opportunity to denounce and expose Detroit’s underworld. When he was shot down from behind by three gunmen who planted eleven bullets In his body, folks naturally assumed he had fallen an innocent victim to that same underworld. Men on the streets called for action, the county board of supervisors and the city council offered rewards, the Governor of Michigan came across the state by airplane, and every possible agency of law enforcement was put to work. Then came the whispers about Buckley’s alleged contact with racketeers, about large sums of money acquired in mysterious ways, and about the possibility that he was killed because of personal trouble.

No Minor Matter rUCKLEY Is dead. He can not defend himself against charges of blackmail and extortion such as gangland knows how to frame. But if he were guilty, as the whispering implies, would the situation be better, would the murder be less reprehensible, or would there be less excuse for public alarm? If gangland has reached a point where it can put false reformers at the mike, and false reporters in an editorial room, we are confronted with a serious problem, indeed. The machine gun Is bad enough, even if used only on rival racketeers, but the ability to take over broadcasting and impose on big newspapers is worse. Asa matter of common sense, we are up against a brand of lawlessness which goes much deeper than a murder here and there, or an occasional knockdown and dragout for control of rum running. Lawlessness is not only organizing, but organizing on a business basis, for the express purpose of running local politics in many of our great cities. nun Public Is Dumb PUBLIC dumbness is chiefly responsible for the way gangsters, yeggs and racketeers have established themselves in our larger centers, for the pussyfooting politics and police incompetence which enable them to carry on their dirty work with so little Interference. The public has come to take a gang war, or ever, the killing of an innocent by-star.der, in about the same way it takes a tree-sitting craze Just another act in the passing show, just another interesting bit of life. Let the gangsters go on, and, like the Kilkenny cats, they will wipe each other out. nun They Have Brains A BEAUTIFUL theory, but it leaves one fact out of consideration. Some of the brainiest boys we have are leading gangland, some of the most persuasive salesmen, some of the shrewdest executives, some of the clearest thinking political highbinders. They not only know what they are doing, but they have devised a rigid code to back it up—a code which appeals to youth because it supplies an objective, even though the objective may be bad. Gangland is not bossed by a crowd of nit-wits who rob for pastime, or kill for blood lust. The proposition Is essentially profit-taking in purpose, and is based on carefully worked-out plans. Scores of gangsters have not only gotten rich during the last ten years, but have lived to enjoy it.