Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 139, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 October 1932 — Page 1

1l - l*~ c /uprs^mwAxp

ROOSEVELT SEES ‘FORGOTTEN MAN’

—This Is Your Column— You Say It Be Your Own Columnist; Page One Is Wide Open for Your Views.

Editor Times — • WE are enlightened as to where to begin to put this government in fine shape financially. This •was made known to us through an address by Admiral Byrd, in behalf of the National Economy League. Strange that thus was not thought of until Just before election, one of the last efforts of a party that has failed to make good, known as the G. O. P. We no longer hear “full dinner pail” or “vote the Republican ticket or you have no job.” We are informed the war veterans are wrecking the government financially, with pensions to exservice men, widows, etc. The public should know the truth. Many veterans draw small pensions, that’s true. Thousands are unemployed and it's a godsend they do. Do you realize that veterans also are taxpayers? They spend their money with business men. Let the sponsors of the Economy League tell the other half of the story. Did Admiral Sims tell of his retirement pay from Uncte Sam? Did you hear from General Pershing and what he reaps from you taxpayers? Did Admiral Tlyrd mention his $21,000 annually, plus disability? No, lie did not. R. D. PARKER. . w m u a T.ditor Times—- | 'HOSE whom the gods would *- destroy, they first make mad.” Hoover's Cleveland address is to be regretted, because he permitted himself to violate Washington’s warning, but endeavored to kindle animosity of his party against the opposing party. Washington said: The common and continual mischiefs of tne spirited party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. “It always serves to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one party against another; and foments occasionally riot and insurrection. . . . There being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.” JOHN CLINE, Pine Village, Ind. mum Edit nr Timm — T READ The Times every day and like it because of its candid and vigorous str.nd on matters of public interest. Its attitude is not based on prejudice, but on thorough knowledge of conditions, social, moral, and political. In this complex and heated political campaign, there is a growing tendency to say ugly things about the opposite party or parties. In fact, many have been said. The Golden Rule implies that we should place the most charitable construction on words and acts of our fellow-men. Though we may feel sure that our neighbor is wrong, his motives may be as honest as our own. In the papers we see and on the stump we hear epithets such as schemer, liar, traitor, flung at the opposing parties. It's poor politics, because in many cases the words prove to be boomerangs. In 1884 Blaine would have defeated Cleveland had not his friend, the Rev. Mr. Burchard, referred to the Democratic party as the party of Rum, Romanism and Rebellion, which made enemies instead of friends for Blaine. Abusive epithets invite retaliation. We have no moral right to question the motives of our fellow-men. Hoover, Roosevelt, and Thomas, are our fellow-men. S. M. GLICK. u u n Editor Timm — PRESUMING on the liberality which admits to your columns the views of readers, I ask to quote ►from your editorial in Monday’s paper the following from Mr. Franklin Roosevelt, which you say you indorse: “There are two theories of prosperity and well-being: First, the theory that if we make the rich richer, somehow they will let a part of their prosperity trickle through to the rest of us; second, the theory that if we make the average of mankind comfortable and securer, this prosperity will rise upward through the ranks.” Permit me to ask for specifications. What economist of any note, what party, what considerable organization ever put forth or ever indorsed, as a policy of government, any such ridiculous proposition as the theory that if we make the rich richer, somehow- they will let a part of their prosperity trickle through to the rest of us?” Give names, books, or dates. As a matter of fact, no intelligent organization, big, or little, would suggest such foolishness. The thing is a man of straw, set up by Mr. Roosevelt to knock dowrn, one of his characteristic glittering generalities which mean nothing. C. L. G.

The Indianapolis Times Fair and colder with probably frost tonight; Friday fair.

VOLUME 44—NUMBER 139

BONUS VIEWS TOLD IN TALK IN PITTSBURGH Nd Payment Until There Is Treasury Surplus, Is Governor’s Edict. EARLY BEER PLEDGED Legalization Needed to Balance Budget, Says Democrat Nominee. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Corresnondent The soldiers’ bonus apparently I has been eliminated as a campaign issue in the spectacular Pittsburgh address by Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Governor Wednesday night reaffirmed his belief expressed last April to the effect that there should be no bonus payment until there is a surplus in the treasury. Roosevelt’s friends held that the bonus issue was removed from the campaign since both major candidates, while differing in detail of their utterances, are opposed to present payment. They professed not to take seriously rumors that the Republicans would continue to attack Roosevelt on the bonus by insisting that he be more “specific” as to his views. He not only delivered a stinging indictment of the Republican campaign management as “panic breeders,” who “spread the gospel of fear” among wage earners, but he attempted to place the administration of President Hoover on the defensive for what he said was its “failure to balance the budget.” The Governor urged “fyeer for revenue.” He promised to work for immediate legalization of beer so that the revenue might help balance the budget. Condemns Coolidge Statement He ridiculed utterances by Henry Ford, W. W. Atterbury of the Pennsylvania railroad, Charles M. Schwab and others that the reelection of Herbert Hoover is necessary to insure good prospects for business. He condemned the bonus statement made by Calvin Coolidge in New York when the former President charged Roosevelt’s silence with prolonging the depression. Roosevelt, anxious to assure the cquntry that he is as solicitous for the credit of the nation as any man, not only pledged himself to a 25 pei cent reduction in government expenditures, to opposition to any increased expenditures except to relieve human suffering, but he pounded with his heaviest artillery at the fiscal record of the Hoover administration, bringing jeers at the mention of Mr. Hoover and Pittsburgh's most famous citizen, former Treasury Secretary Mellon. Roosevelt analyzed the administration handling of the deficit, and accused President Hoover of not being frank with the country as to the real condition of the treasury, which he said faces another staggering deficit despite the claim that the administration balanced the budget. Statement on Bonus He said Mellon's estimates of receipts and expenditures after 1929 constituted a ' gamble on an economic miracle.” Roosevelt's bonus statement said: “Before any man enters my cabinet he must give me a two-fold pledge of ill absolute loyalty to the Democratic platform and especially to its economy plank, (2) complete co-operation with me looking to economy and reorganization in his department.” "Asa part of this phase of the problem I note that former President Coolidge is reported as having said in a speech at New York City: '“An early and timely word from the Democratic candidate for President that he would reject the proposal to increase the national debt by $2,300,000,000 to pay a bonus W'ould have had a great encouragement to business, reduced unemployment, and guaranteed the in- ! tegrity of the national credit. While he remained silent economic recovery was measurably impeded.” Recalls Former Words “That charge is baseless and absurd, for the reason that last April my views on the subject were widely published and have been subsequently frequently quoted. I said: “‘I do not see how, as a matter of political practical business sense, a government running behind $2,000,000,000 annually can consider the anticipation of bonus payment until it has a balanced budget, not only on paper, but with a surplus of cash in the treasury.’ “No one, for political purposes or otherwise, has the right in the absense of explicit statement from me to assume that my .views have changed. They have not. So much for another effort by Republican leaders to preach an unwarranted gospel of fear and panic to the American electorate.” The bonus pronouncement was followed by the proposal to tax beer in order to avoid any increase in tho present scale of taxes. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 53 10 a. m 54 7a. rt 53 11 a. m 55 Ba. m 52 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 54

‘'SIX HOURS TO LIVE.” A STARTLING, FASCINATING STORY, ONE OF THE TIMES’ POPULAR SIX-DAY SERIALS, STARTS IN THE PINK EDITIONS FRIDAY.

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, OCT. 20, 1932

Thousands Jam Circle to Hear Nominee

WMsumm it 5 iiiiiiiiii

Thousands upon, thousands jammed the circle and surrounding streets this afternoon to hear Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic presidential nominee. The photo was taken from the southwest section of the Circle as thousands in the welcoming parade broke their line of march to hear the nominee. Lower—Governor Roosevelt.

BUSINESS MAN DIVES TO DEATH Lately Resigned as Official of Armour & Cos. By United Prn is CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—George M. Willetts, 55, recently resigned as a vice-president of Armour & Cos., leaped to death today from a window of his apartment on the eleventh floor of a north side apartment building. His wife had left the apartment momentarily to get a newspaper. Willetts’ mother was in another room. The wife said Willetts was despondent over injuries incurred in an automobile accident more than a year ago, which forced his retirement, soon after he attempted to resume his duties six months ago. BOY KILLED BY TRAIN 12-Year-Old Hammond Lad is Victim of Accident. By Vnitrd Press FT. WAYNE, Ind:, Oct. 20.—Burrell Hammons, 12, died in a hospital today from injuries 'received when he fell beneath the wheels of a Nickel Plate train.

INDIANA TEACHERS OPEN PARLEY HERE

Battle over selection of the 1933 president of the Indiana State Teachers’ Association appeared probable at the Friday session, as 12,000 teachers attended sectional meetings in various parts of the city today. Reports from the controlling group of the association indicated that Robert Hougham of Franklin, Johnson county school superintendent, held the lead for the post. Sectional meetings of the association will close this afternoon, with the first session of the convention being held tonight in Cadle tabernacle. Friday the teachers will meet in the tabernacle for the first business session. It also appeared that the bid of Chicago for the association to meet there during the .last month of the

KIDNAP PLOTTER GETS HMfEARS Letter-Writer Also Fined $4,000 by U. S. Judge. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 20.—Eric Rudolph Diez/i the first man to be convicted in Illinois under the new “Lindbergh” federal kidnaping and extortion law, was sentenced by Federal Judge Charles E. Woodward today to twenty years in the penitentiary and was fined $4,000. A jury found Diez guilty of writing threatening letters demanding moneq to parents of society girls about to be married. DEFENDS SILVER STAND Hoover Tells Butte G. O. P. He Has Forced Issue to Conference. By United Press BUTTE, Mont.. Oct: 20.—Vigorously defending the administration’s attitude toward an International silver conference. President Hoover today wired Butte Republican headquarters he had forced agreement to consideration of silver problems at the forthcoming world economic conference.

world's fair may precipitate the first fight over a meeting place. Heretofore, the organization always has met in Indianapolis but with the Chicago bid, sentiment for breaking the association into several major sections to meet in other* Indiana towns and cities in the future, may gain strength. George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction, also has strong support for the presidential chair of the association, but it was pointed out that his interest in politics may react against him. Other candidates for the post are L. A. Pittengsr. Muncie Teachers’ College president, and Dr. W. W. Wright of the Indiana university department of education. If elected. Hougham will be the first county superintendent to hold (Turn to Page Nine)

Text of Roosevelt’s City Campaign Speech

j-*>OLLOWING is the text £/ of the address of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt in Indianapolis today: My friends, we are passing through no ordinary campaign. It is my belief that this campaign marks the beginning of anew deal in American politics, and in the conduct of American government. The American people, conservative and peace loving, have had an experience under the present Republican leadership that they do not wish to continue. The unsound and unintelligent venturing into economic policies that this administration, and that the present candidate for President sponsored, has brought a terrible retribution. His economic heresies have all “come home to roost,” and this administration stands convicted of having produced this brood of dis-aster-producing gambles with national prosperity. It will be the purpose of the new administration to bring order out of this chaos, to institute sound and progressive'and humane policies, to repair the damage that has been wrought, to return, if you will, the peopl of the United States to the ways „f economic soundness and a more widely distributed prosperity. These ways of prosperity and soundness are assured if we will order oUr economic and governmental life properly. In spite of the ruinous policies of the present Republican administration the country still stands, the richest in the world—a nation of the greatest of opportunities and potentialities. tt n NATURE has given us rich soil, precious minerals and a great network of invaluable waterways. The progress of migration has given us the best of the man power of the old world. There have come to us from other climes in the course of the generations people with enough of tradition and enough of genius to build here a civilization the like of which no one has dreamed. The old world has given us a population of strong men and women, a population willing to work, and willing to serve in the orderly building of a civilization. Even in the deep pessimism of this depression this population has kept its temper, has held steady in the face of adversity. And even now it is remaining calm in the face of organized and ruthless propaganda, the propaganda of eleventh hour political desperation which dangles the old ghost of panic before our eyes. Think of these facts, my friends, before the decision which you must make on Nov. 8. Remember that the unwise policies of this administration have made it impossible for the people of this country to profit by the rich products of the richest soil on earth. nun THESE policies have permitted also the uncounted riches of our mines to lie unusued, while those who stand ready to work these mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia and Ohio and Missouri, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Idaho starve in the very presence of riches. A selfish policy of pernicious private mbnopoly has permitted water power that might bring happiness to millions of homes to remain unused. Far out on the Pacific coast, a great population facing the Orient is unable to trade w'ith the Orient because of the unsound policies sponsored by men so narrow and localized in Washington that they were too selfish or too indifferent to realize the needs of people so far away. v What we need, what I constantly have preached in terms of unified national thinking, is a grasp of all our economic problems, genuinely inclusive of all these v diversified needs—a “concert of interest” I have called it. I want to add, too, that the financial system of the United States in October of this year, while badly managed and hideiously gambled

Kntcred as Second-Class Matter at rostoffitss, Indianapolis

with by this administration, still is, in spite of the actions of this adminstraton, capable of repair,. Nothing but unreasoning and groundless fear and hysteria can chip away the granite foundations on which our fiscal system is based. Thanks to Democratic measures, extending back for twenty years, created by a group of statesmen in our own party, who still are honored leaders in the American congress, we have flexibility and power of our central banking system, making for basic security. NOW, my friends, I havfi warned the country against unwise governmental interference with business. I have pointed out that the policies of the ’ present leadership of the Republican party in the last few years has constituted dangerous back-seat driving. It encouraged wanton and dangerous speculation. It refused to encourage those sound and patriotic masters of finance who sounded a warning and who tried to save the financial soundness of the United States from a crash that they saw was all too imminent. Administrative leaders chose to give support to the unsound side in that great movement. They neglected to put the heavy hand of restraint upon the buccaneers of public utilities and finance who swept the people’s savings into a bottomless pit of speculation. They encouraged unsound loans to foreign nations. They were furtive and uncandid in their budgetary policies. This, my friends, from a party, that has advertised itself as the friend of true business and true prosperity. u h NO, I am opposed to their kind of governmental interference with business. It means casual, dangerous tampering. But government can offer the sort of leadership that prevents false goals, that helps business to avoid the pitfalls of dangerous practices; that originates programs designed and directed to the use of business agencies, to the end that there will be no abuse of power, no neglect of the necessary, no subversion of the proper march of progress. Government can create a legislative program that will allow the country to prosper as a unit and avoid the dangerous condition of being half-boom and half-broke. It can determine proper international economic policies in accordance with the changed economic status of America’s international position. It can provide for proper corporate banking principles to eliminate the danger of pyramided structures; of overcapitalization; of needless and dangerous competition, safeguarding at the same time the rights of the individual—the rights of all individuals against privileged and unprincipled power. nun TO that end, the Democratic party this year through its platform and through the activities of its leaders has presented to the country a sound alternative to the present administration’s business policy of gamble and get-by. It (Turn to Page Seven)

HUSBAND SLAIN BY WOMAN IN QUARREL

By United Prfts BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Oct. 20. Richard E. Maher, 33, died today from a bullet wound inflicted by his wife, Georgia, 36, during a quarrel at their home one mile south of Bloomington. Informed of Maher's death, Prosecuting Attorney Leroy Baker said he would file first degree murder charges against the wife, with the provision that they be modified later when more complete evidence is obtained. Mrs. Maher told police that the quarrel started after she had accused her husband of infidelity.

THOUSANDS JAM CIRCLE TO HEAR RINGING SPEECH Democratic Program, Sound and Sane, Will Lead Nation Out of Morass, Declares Nominee. CAMPAIGN OF FEAR IS ASSAILED Beer for Revenue, to Take Wealth Away From Racketeers, Adovcated; Hits Speculation Orgies. Governor PTanklin D. Roosevelt today looked into the eyes of the Forgotten Man. He found him in Indiana, multiplied by thousands, who greeted him with hope in their hearts, with cheers in their voices, and with sobs in their throats as he appeared on the balcony of the English hotel. Governor Roosevelt was greeted by the largest number of human beings ever assembled in Indiana. Men and women, greater in number than the entire population of any third-class city in Indiana, doffed their hats to the strains of the national anthem. . When Governor Roosevelt appeared, applause continued until it became necessary to distract attention by bands and drum corps so that the program for his reception might be started.

In his speech the Governor talked to his forgotten man. The forgotten man was there —and the forgotten woman. The scene in Indianapolis today never has been duplicated except in times of revolution. Smashing at Republican propaganda Os fear and panic, and demanding the sane type of business regulation that curbs speculative orgies, Governor Roosevelt attacked Republican policies which have resulted in a national condition of ‘half-boom and half-broke.” Early in his speech he said the Democratic party will seek a federal taxation on beer to “take wealth from the racketeers.” Democrat Program Sound The presidential nominee pointed to the Democratic administration program as one that was sound and would bring about setting the nation’s government in oraer for a conservative and steady advance to prosperity. Roosevelt scored “narrowness” of Washington diplomats who have blocked trade with the Orient and said he will support trade agreements to guarantee friendly international relations. Cheered wildly at intervals during his address, Roosevelt spoke to the assembled crowd from the balcony of the English hotel. He characterized America as a sound nation, with a sound government, which awaits only setting of its governmental and economic line in order. Streets Are Crowded Indianapolis streets were trafficblocked long before Roosevelt left his train at the South Alabama street elevation. He then was taken by parade through crowded streets over a downtown route to the hotel. Roosevelt arrived here from Cincinnati and, in his address, did not touch upon the bonus issue, as he did in Pittsburgh, when he declared that, with the country now financially retarded, payment of the bonus shoulfi be postponed until conditions improve. Stating the Democratic policies on beer, Roosevelt said: “The party wants to acquire, through a sound federal policy of federal taxation on beer, some of the countless wealth now going into pockets of racketeers.” He attacked Republicans for the “eleventh hour political desperation which dangles the old ghost of panic before our eyes.” “It is my belief that this campaign marks the beginning of a

She said that during the argument she grabbed a razor and threatened to kill herself. Maher took the razor and said, “I can cut deeper,” according to her story. The wife displayed cuts on her arm which she said Maher had inflicted. She told of getting a .32caliber revolver and firing three shots into the wall to frighten him. He refused to be frightened, she said, and she fired one bullet into his stomach. The couple came here from Mt. Sterling, Ky., two months ago. Maher was a stone carver.

HOME EDITION PRICE TWO CENTS Outside Marion County, 3 Cents

new deal in American politics,” he said. “It will be the* purpose of the administration to bring order out of chaos; to institute sound and progressive and humane policies; to repair the damage that has been wrought and to return—if you will —the people of the United States to the ways of economic soundness and a more widely distributed prosperity.” . Roosevelt scored the “unsound policies of men so narrow and localized in Washington” that the population of the Pacific coast is blocked from trading with the Orient. He said proper international friendship would benefit all nations. Charges “Hideous Gambling” VI want to add, too, that the financial system of the United States in .October of this year, while badly managed and hideously gambled with by this administration, still is, in spite of the actions of .he administration, capable of repair,” Roosevelt said. “This is no time for madness and improvisation and throwing of political brickbats over the back fence.” Parade Is Colorful The parade which took Roosevelt to the hotel was as colorful as any ever staged in Indianapolis. Throughout its length it was bright with signs oi every description that attacked the Hoover administration. “Happy Days Are Here Again” was the outstanding musical strain of parade bands. From his car, Roosevelt smiled and nodded greetings to the crowds that lined the curb. He often looked up at office buildings and waved to workers who watched. Mrs. Roosevelt, who arrived on another train, went immediately to the English with her party. The Circle crowd was the largest assembled there since the Armistice. The crowd was swelled by Democratic leaders from all parts of the state, majority of the 12,000 school teachers in the city for their state convention, and thousands of office workers and other city residents. Welcomed by Sullivan The parade continued long after Roosevelt had entered the hotel and gone to the balcony and bowed his acknowledgment of the cheers. He was welcomed by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan. Roosevelt mentioned Governor Harry G. Leslie’s hand clasp and brief chat with him as the parade passed to the statehouse. “It was a very sporting thing to do,” the nominee told the crowd. He said he was glad to have Paul V. McNutt, “the next Governor of Indiana, next to me.” Behind the candidate’s car in the parade were several autos bearing Mrs. Roosevelt and the Governor’s son, James Roosevelt, and Democratic party leaders. Roosevelt was to confer with the state, district and county leaders of the party organization at 2:15 at the Claypool. Democratic mayors have been invited expressly. Conferences to Be Held At 3 Mrs. Roosevelt was to meet with the women workers in the Riley room and at 3:30 the young people’s organization will meet with James Roosevelt, son of the nominee, in the Chateau room. The candidate will hold conferences with representatives of labor, agricultural, industrial and other groups from 4 to 6 p. m. At 7 the special will leave for St. Louis and at 8:20 will stop at Terre Haute, where Roosevelt will deliver a rear platform talk. Start Ballot Distribution Distribution to ninety-two county clerks of the state of 1,925,000 ballots for the November election, was begun at the statenouse today by a staff of fifty men under J. Otto Lee, clerk of the state printing board.