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SATtmDAT. KKB 24 1934 AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT IT would be well for us in Indiana to watch the moves of Senator George W Norris for a unicameral legislature in Nebraska. Senator Norris, famed for his Progressive leadershp, thinks his plan should be tried. He proposes that Nabraska elect a single legislative body of from 30 to 50 members to serve two years. He declares that even' state in the union is not ready for unicameral legislative bodies, but he does think that the Nebraska people are ready for it. We in Indiana should watch. History may be in the making in Nebraska and we might want to follow suit. “I PROMISE TO ■” ONE of the odd things about statements of current political candidates is the continued reiterations of support for President Roosevelt’s policies. It is wonderful that our chief executive should receive such wholehearted support, but— Would it not be better for some candidate to step forth and say: “I am ah honest man. I want this office to serve the people. I am a supporter of President Roosevelt, but. I do not tell you that I will vote for everything President Roosevelt wants. T shall have to be honest with my vote and honest with you.” And it is ten-to-one that mythical candidate would draw the cheers of President Roosevelt himself. THE COWBOY SENTENCE of Roger Touhy and two of his desperadoes to ninty-nine years each for the Factor kidnaping ends the career of another master criminal of the new American school. The ‘'Terrible Tounys” were guilty of a long series of kidnapings, robberies, extortions and other crimes in Chicago suburbs. Certain arrest and swift punishment, such as moved down on the Touhy mob will discourage kidnapers. As in most of the big kidnaping trials, the federal government had a hand in this Chicago affair. Although Touhy was arrested by a Wisconsin policeman, the United States division of investigations gathered most of the evidence that, convicted him. According to this division, there have been twenty-four kidnapings since the Lindbergh act was passed by congress last June. Today all but two, the Bremer and Hamm cases, have been solved. There have been fifty convictions. Sentences totaling 774 years have been imposed, eleven- kidnapers have been sentenced to life, two to death, one has committed suicide in his cell. But for the shameful California doublelynching the record has been unusually good. The handsome Roger Touhy was known to the underworld as the cowboy because he rode down his enemies. From the records of the department of justice it looks as if Uncle Sam is due to inherit his title. SANDINO General augusto sandino, rather mysteriously assassinated by members of the Nicaraguan national guard, was neither saint nor devil. He did not measure up to his own picture of himself as the “Latin Lincoln.” sent by fate to rid Central and South America of the despoiler from the north. Much less was he the cut-throat bandit painted in lurid colors by American officers and diplomats forced to justify our imperialistic intervention. He was. apparently, a sincere patriot, uncompromising and courageous to the point of folly: yet in him was some of the ruthlessness of his jungles. Certainly he was a very different type from that other Nicaraguan patriot Dr. Sacasa. the liberal president. Sandino did not lick the hated "Yanquis.” but he helped to educate us in foreign policy. The Monroe doctrine is no sanction for the United States single-handedly to intervene in or police the territory of any other American republic. Reversal of the interventionist policy by the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations was influenced in part by the fact that our undeclared war against Sandino cost the lives of 130 American marines and many millions of dollars, besides undermining our prestige and honor in Latin America. “OI R G ANG” r’ might be interesting to take a glance back at something The Indianapolis Times is quite proud. This newspaper recently concluded a series of articles about members of its editorial staff. The series took the staff members, one by one. from the editor down to the newest ‘•cub’' reporter, told who they were, and how they acted. The series seemed to ‘‘click." Many of our readers wrote to tell us how much they liked the series. But we went a little further. We checked and balanced our figures for our own satisfaction. Here's what we found: The average Indianapolis Times man is 31. married, and was born in Indianapolis. He went to school either in Indianapolis, or in a small Indiana community. He attended an Indiana college and he has been working for this newspaper for four years. To us. that sort of a tabulation is interesting. While we knew that almost every one of our staff members was an Indiana product, we wanted to know just what sort of training our men had. For instance we had only one man who was not bom In the United States. He was bom in England, but he went to school m In-

di an a polls and he 1 the next thing to t native Hoosier. We had a Jew New Yorkers, but ao few that when we checked our figures the totals showed almost 90 per cent Indiana. The managing editor was bom in Indianapolis: he went to Butler and Indiana university. The city editor was bom in Columbus. Ind.; the assistant city editor in Marion, Ind.; the state editor in Clinton, Ind.; and a dozen of our workers were bom right here. We're proud to say that we re almost 100 per cent Hoosier. It proves substantially that Indiana doesn't have to go outside for its man-power. AN ORCHID TO THE MUSEUM INDIANAPOLIS seems to be paying too little attention to one of its most valuable assets. It is not an asset which can be figured in dollars and cents value, but something which will bring to this city's next generation of citizens its full share of culture and knowledge of this strange world of ours. That asset is the Children’s Museum at 1150 North Meridian street, and it is a pity that hundreds upon hundreds of persons who were born in Indianapolis have not yet visited that great little institution. And the truth of the matter is that we grown-ups can enjoy the exhibits at the Children's Museum perhaps even more than our children. All of us. at some time or another, should visit the Museum. Take your child on an outing. Show him the armor that outfitted the warriors of the “Round Table," the curious, odd-shaped shells from the bottom of the sea, the scenes in which dinosaurs romped in prehistoric days. It will be an outing for you, too. Don't pass up the Museum. It’s too important. May it keep growing. CHARLES DICKENS ' Reprint Blonminxton Evynln* World) THE curtains of the past will open for lovers of good literature as the last unpublished work of Charles Dickens begins appearing in serial form in a number of the nation’s leading newspapers. ‘ The Life of Our Lord," perhaps the most intimate revelation of the grpat writer’s real self, should be one of the epochal newspaper publications of the time. However, it will not be the first outstanding classic to appear in this form. The prominent essayists of the last century employed their journals, the equivalent of the newspaper, to publish their works in, and many novels, plays and’ poems of distinction have appeared in this form. It is refreshing to find the newspapers at last ceasing to underestimate the intelligence of their readers. The day when spot news was the lone function of the newspaper is gone with the radio and leased wires. Now the newspapers can turn to the activity they were intended for in the first place—interpretation of the news and the creation of a record worth preserving. CLEAR OUT MISFITS A WASHINGTON publisher recently called for the formation of anew political party in the United States, with opposition to the general trend of the new deal as its main platform plank. Such a party, ne says, might be called "The Constitution Democratic Party," and would replace the existing G. O. P. The present Democratic party he would rename “The Socialist Democratic Party.” The reshuffling he advocates thus would give us two brand-new national parties to take the place of the ones we have. It has been one of the axioms of American politics for a good many years that there is little real difference between the two major parties. It has been equally clear that neither party has been homogeneous, and that each one contains sizable groups sadly out of harmony with the majority opinion of their fellows. To put through a general shifting of personnel and principles that would give us two big parties, each one more or less united from top to bottom, based on widely different conceptions of the function of government in the modern world, might be an exceedingly healthy development. It is hard to escape the feeling that the actual trend of things today is in that direction. We have the "western progressives” In the Republican party, who are far closer to the administration than they are to such leaders in their own party as Mr. Hoover or Mr. Mills. On the other hand, it is pretty obvious that men like Senator Glass and ex-Governor Smith are not exactly the same kind of Democrats as President Roosevelt. Continuance of this trend can do one of two things. It can give us two new major parties to replace the old ones, or it can split both our parties and give us a group of half a dozen or more blocs, creating a condition in which no administration ever could have a majority in congress and in which compromise and a multiplicity of "deals’ would be the order of the day. The recent experience of France is enough argument against the latter possibility. A republican government works best on a straight two-party system, with the two parties diametrically opposed, as a matter of principle, on most major issues. If we are to have that in the future. It might be a very good thing for us to promote some sort of reshuffling like the one this Washington publisher advocates. Jeffery Farnol, English blood-and-thunder novelist, expressed surprise at the culture of the middle west, probably not realizing the “wild" Indians had departed. Advocates of the soldiers’ bonus have urged their followers not to start another bonus march. Washington is cluttered up, already, with senate investigation witnesses. A boy at Alton, 111., has attained a height of nearly eight feet and. he says, the only good thing about it is that he got into the World's fair free. Proposals are being made to legalize many forms of gambling, as tax sources, bur look how it would Increase unemployment among racketeer*.

ESSENTIAL PRACTICE AGAIN the United States fleet indulges in war games. Some ninety warships and 300 airplanes enter complicated and difficult maneuvers off the lower California coast, and stories about the "attacking force” and “defending force” get into the papers once more. We landsmen, who hardly see a warship from one year's end to another, seldom pay much attention to these maneuvers—except that we may, in our ignorance, wonder occasionally if they are really necessary. And it is not a bad thing for us to remember that these war games are just about the most important of the navy’s many peacetime functions. They are to a fighting fleet what daily scrimmage is to a football team. A football team that never practiced would stand little chance of winning its games; a pavy that ignored its war games would not be likely to have much luck in actual war. MISPLACED TALENT A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolboy in Saskatchewan recently was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment because he had spent his spare time forging $5 bills. Using a box of school paints, a homemade die and some bits of linen paper, this youngster turned out imitation bank notes which astounded the Saskatchewan authorities by their close resemblance to the real thing. And it is good to note that the judge who sentenced him said that a parole would be recommended if a training school could be persuaded to make a place for him. A 16-year-old who can use such crude tools to turn out such excellent work—excellent, of course, from a purely technical standpoint—must have a lot of genuine talent in him somewhere. Given the right kind of handling, such a lad ought to| become a most serviceable member of society. It would be tragic if such exceptional ability were permitted to become perverted permanently. An optometrist declares it’s not the cards, but their colors, that cause family bridge wars. Maybe hostilities would cease if all the cards were white—and blank.

Liberal Viewpoint ==■B7 DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES =====

YESTERDAY, I summarized briefly the character of the assumptions underlying the new deal and called attention to the fact that the whole great experiment is today in a very perilous condition. The rule of the money changers and the tories has not been ended. The former are still in control of the nation’s finances, and the latter have jumped into the breach and are within a hairsbreadth of having the NRA tucked in their pockets. Mr. Pecora’s revelations seem not to have abashed or discredited the money changers. They are today in revolt against the monetary policies of the President. The actual application of the NRA codes is today in the control of the industrialists. The representatives of labor utterly are unable to cope with the rehabilitated tories. The latter seem in no way inclined to give even the preliminary new deal a fair trial. They insist that in its emasculated form it shall be highly temporary in its operation. The point of view of the producers still predominates. General Johnson has been concerned mainly with coding the various industries, and he has subjected over 200 of our different industries to more or less satisfactory codes. But all of these codes have been devoted primarily to conditions relating directly to production, with only a minor view to boosting and sustaining purchasing power. Even the very best codes only have been fairly passable rules for the game of productive industry. u u a THE concessions to labor have been of a formal character and have all too often been resisted when any effort has been made to carry them out in practice. The minimum wages specified in the codes have been paltry and niggardly beyond description and in no case do they form the basis for sustained purchasing power on the part of American workers. The working week has been altogether too long to insure a sufficient spread of work to absorb the millions of unemployed Americans. Nothing has appeared to give any indication of a determination to bring about a more rational redistribution of the social income. The farmers have fared better than any other group in this respect, but the farm policies to date have been primarily feverish and sporadic efforts to relieve immediate and paralyzing distress rather than a broad and constructive plan to assign to the rural population their fair and decent fraction of the social income. The wages and salaries legally imposed in the new dispensation have been far below the utterly inadequate level of 1928-29. Nor has vhere been : any scientific and determined effort to redistribute wealth through progressive taxation or a capital levy. The taxation policy of Mr. Mills and Mr. Hoover has not been modified in any notable way. Though Clause 7A of the national industrial recovery act purports to guarantee conclusively the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively with employers, the latter have resisted unionization in practice at every possible opportunity. u m a THE government has. as yet. given no indication that it proposes to crack down on recalcitrant industrialists. The United States Steel Corporation and other concerns now are openly defying the government by their refusal to deal with even a very conservative union, the United Mine workers. There has been more industrial disorder growing out of this opposition to unionism than has taken place for several years. We have an extremely able and alert group of individuals charged with protecting the rights and interests of consumers, headed by such stalwart progressives as Paul Douglas, Fred' Howe and Dexter Keezer. But they have been shunted off in a corner and possess little power or public prestige. While General Johnson's name is on everybody's lips, not one citizen in ten thousand ever has heard of the personnel or activities of those assigned to protect the consumer in what was to be an era of consumers' capitalism. Nothing of any moment has been done to ! handle resolutely the staggering problem of debt, j The refinancing provisions with respect to urban and farm mortgages simply postpone the evil day of reckoning. The reflation policies may. to some extent, reduce the practical impact of the debt burden, but to date the monetary barrage has done more harm than good by distracting attention from the critical situation prevailing in more fundamental quarters. Therefore, to realistic friends of the new deal, conditions appear somewhat alarming. Our financial and industrial rulers do not even seem inclined to give the new order, even in its lame and halting preliminary form, a square deal or a fair show. The people need light on the facts so that they may encourage the President to move ahead resolutely while there is vc.t time to save the enterprise to which he consecrated his administration a year ago. If this is not done, it is no idle talk to declare that Fascism is just around the corner—not a Roosevelt Fascism, but a greedy and ruthless Fascism directed by those who may overcome him.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) DEMANDS TO KNOW ABOUT DEMAND CHARGE By a Times Reader. I read a letter written by A. L. S. ! about the 63-cent light company demand charge and would like to add my bit to having this demand charge investigated. I live between two families. One has lived there two years and didn’t pay the demand charge, the other four years and has been paying 63 cents ever since it came into effect. The light company told me that old residents who lived here before they started this demand charge didn’t have to pay it. Seemingly, the light company doesn't live up to its own rules, because both parties lived here before it started. I thins if one has to pay all should, but why should any of us have to pay that demand charge? Only the light company charges it. I don’t care whether this is printed or not. All I want to know is why the demand charge to some and not to others, and why a demand charge at all? nan SUGGESTS CONDITIONS OF CASES BE CHECKED By James R. Helton. In regard to the statement pleading for the release of a prisoner that was made by Orrie J. Simmons. Mr. Simmons, your statement in The Times was a very poor one. For one thing, you said that Mr. Baker is the judge. It seems as though you are the judge, or want to be. For another thing, you do not know the conditions of this man as I happen to know him and know his condition, also. I am not related to this man. My plea is for a chance to see this man released as Mr. Coleman understands his situation. Mr. Simmons, look into some of these cases and you will learn the causes of some of these cases. nan BUSINESS MEN SCORED FOR WORKERS’ TREATMENT By H?nry E. Hall. Perhaps someone can aid me regarding this code which most of our business men have pledged to abide by, and are so eager to display to prospective customers; leading that unsuspecting victim to unravel this mess, when in reality they are only using his banner to increase their sales, and the slaves who are behind the scenes are not even taken into consideration. In every case I have in mind the men are working longer hours and receiving less money than they did before the NRA was inaugurated. The reason they don't squawk is because they have families depending upon that measly pittance to keep them from starving to death. Consequently, these unscrupulous leeches, who by no stretch of the imagination can be put on a level with the Dillinger gang, go unexposed. Dilllinger and Pierpont are Sunday school teachers in comparison to these vultures, who wait until a man is at the very portals of starvation. then hire him for starvation wages to put their rotten business in the big profit class. Let's hear from some of these NRA violators, if they have the nerve to protest an expose. May I add, in conclusion, that Mr. Webster has no words that describe this particular type of snake. nun NOTHING SURPRISES HIM IN THIS DAY AND AGE By M. M. I'm not surprised at any news. In Huntington a man sells his 12-year-old daughter. In Shelbyville a 7-months-old baby was found killed and wrapped in a newspaper. In Colorado a man kicked his 3-vear-old baby to death because the child couldn't pronounce “breakfast,” and another father smothered his 2-month-old infant to collect SIOO insurance. These are just a few of the crimes, as every one knows. But, here is my point: When a race of people kill their own for $lO, or nothing, do you think that a Negro is surprised when he reads that one of his race has been

STATEHOUSE UNDER THE BLUE EAGLE

I want to thank the ex-service man on enlightening my misguided views in regard to his friend, Senator Robinson, I also believe every ex-service man who has a sendee-connected disability should receive a pension in accordance with his disabilities. I also believe that those entitled to a pension will get one later, but Li'l Arthur would get us all a pension if we would vote for him, if he could. He always is throwing a monkey-wrench in the Roosevelt recovery program, but we will send him to the sticks this coming November, providing you Republicans are dumb enough to re-

lynched by blood-thirsty people? They are innocent in most cases, because if they just wanted somebody white, there are plenty of them in his own race, especially in the south, because the white man and woman haven’t stayed on their side of the fence. Even in slavery, masters have sold their own children on the block. As your paper prints the truth, regardless of who it hurts, I'm hoping to see this soon. a tt tt WHAT’S WRONG; THIS READER WANTS TO KNOW By John H. Burlask. On the strength that writers to the Message Center ‘‘show ignorance of the subject mentioned” Mr. Frank Young wants this department “abolished.” Just what great store of fact have you got to offer on any of the following questions Mr. Young: The NRA, CWA, CCC the PWA and AAA? Don't stall. You know next to nothing . . . and you've plenty of company. The wrathful comments you call insulting and unnecessary come from a patient public—the common people, people tired of having their opinions smothered and twisted by a minority of professional liars and “take” men misnamed public servants. It’s housecleaning time Mr. Young. And that's what free speech is going to give this country, a good housecleaning. I. for one, am sick of cringing beneath the fellows who run the machinery of this country. It’s time they were being educated to the idea of being employes, not employers. There's no reason at all why the garden variety of man should not have access to the records of this city. There’s no reason why he should not be treated with courtesy whether in the courthouse, police headquarters, or the Governor's office. But this isn't tfUe. A common laborer with the grime of honest toil on his face can’t get to first base in these sanctuaries. What’s wrong with the balance of things?

A Woman’s Viewpoint ===== By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

A CORRESPONDENT wonders whether, if birth control is legalized, there might not be a bitter reaction against the government from those who have postponed having families so long that they never have them at all. That, it seems to me. is hardly likely. If the time ever comes when all men and women can plan for their children and prepare for their advent with foresight and caution, their desire for babies will increase, especially among the class which now has few. Undoubtedly many people are reluctant to "bring children into the world, not so much because of the state of their pocketbooks but because of the sorry state of the world. We value children so lightly because we always have had too many of them. The prolific breeding of the uneducated has restrained the thoughtful person from a wastage of life. For wastage it assuredly is. a a a W’Fl have looked complacently on while little children were starved and overworked and contaminated by vice. No matter how many other crops failed us, there was m Piergreduc-

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nominate him; and I think you' are. We Democrats admit we are ashamed of our Louisiana Kingfish, but you Republicans seem proud of the exploits of your Kluxer, Li’l Arthur. I also will admit I pay no income tax, for the past Hoover administration made a tramp out of me, and twelve million others; and, from your roar, you must be one of them, but you will have admit that the present administration is so far accomplishing wonders and will succeed, in the course of time, regardless of your friend, Li'l Arthur. HE BLAMES SHREWD FRENCH CAPITALISTS By T. M. Squawky. Shrewd French bankers legally rob French citizens of $40,000,000. Notorious Stavisky bank scandal. Police protect legal robbers. Police kill French citizens who have been robbed, and wound 1,600 more. French citizens tried to peacefully protect themselves from legal robbers by mass demonstrations, but were fired on by the police. Citizens did not fire a single shot. Shrewd bankers caused sixteen citizens to be killed and 1,600 citizens to be wounded. Can anything be done with the shrewd bankers? No, they are too smooth. If the 1,600 citizens are all the French citizens who have been robbed, the citizens were legally robbed of $666 each. The shrewd bankers should have robbed more citizens, so each citizen would have only been robbed legally of one penny. Perhaps the citizens would not have minded this. Next time the shrewd bankers must rob four billion citizens, then they won’t mind. o a u VALUE OF MONEY IMPORTANT IN U. S. By A. J. Kinnear iMartinsville). Money is a measure of value the same as is a bushel basket, a carpenter’s or lumberman’s rule, a pint or a quart. Money is the one thing which does no good until we part with it. Children alone understand money. Hard them pennies, nickels or dimes and they start at once to exchange them at the nearest store for candy or toys which they can use. Money, like a bushel measure, may be made of any material which is most suitable as to convenience. Paper money has been found much more convenient than silver and gold for measuring all transactions above $1 in volume. A bank draft or check is preferable for large transactions. The only ones who need a medium of exchange which is of itself valuable are primitive or uneducated peoples, or people traveling

tion of babies. We’ve seen scrawny weakling's gasp a few months or a few years and then die, and have remained comparatively unmoved. Some of them were such frightful specimens of the race that death was a release for them and a boon to society. A great deal of our agitation about the value of human life is sadly overdone. Asa matter of fact, even the most violent opponents of birth control do not care so much about life, else they would direct some of their energies to conserving that which already exists. Surely the child who is alive is as important in the sight of God as the one not yet born. If we really cared about life we would try to make a decent world for living children. We would suppress our fears over the immorality of controlling birth and think more about the wickedness of slaughtering boys in war, about the misery of millions of babies in overcrowded cities, about the horrors of breeding among weaklings, syphiletics, morons and criminals. As children improve in health, beauty and happiness you may be sure they will become even more desirable possessions,

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

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in a strange country where the measurements of their home country are not understood. In the very early settlement of our own country coonskins and tobacco each were used as mediums of exchange. The Indians understood those and could use them. Many large transfers of value here in the United States are made by mere words, the telegraph, telephone or cable being used. It all depends on the intelligence and stability of the users as to the form of their money. A country like ours, which produces all things needed for human comfort within its domain, can use a medium of exchange a v s best suits it. I am very sure the time is here to put on our thinking caps as to what is money. We must choose between controlling the form and quantity of money we need, or just go on being controlled by those who corner our money supply and dictate its value. a tt a HE'S GOT DIFFERENT VIEW ON 467 PAGES. By Manual Pupil. This is an answer to the letter published in The Times on Feb. 8 by Orie J. Simmoas, stating the fact that his daughter could not do such and such a thing because she had such a large assignment in “A Son of the Middle Border.” by Hamlin Garland, containing 467 pages. I am an upper-classman in Manual, and, when I was a freshman, I had to read the same book as an English assignment. I know that when the teachers give the pupils a book of 467 pages or more they do not intend for the pupils to read it in one night. My teachers had Us read one or two chapters a night so we might get the more important parts without difficulty. His daughter surely had neglected the book until the last minute, or she would have been able to do the thing which her father or mother wanted her to do.

So They Say

The tremendous buildings of New York are beyond belief.—Colonel Russell Martin, G. A. R. command-er-in-chief. The more you pay the higher you go. Only the lack of money prevents ascension to 18 miles —Professor Auguste Piccard, stratosphere flier. Barents who enjoy the blessings of the patter of little feet must be responsible for the damage done by little hands, or in this case, by little teeth—Circuit Judge George Janvier of New Orleans. No one but a cross-eyed man can realize how much fun it is to be cross-eyed—Ben Turpin. What would the w’orld think of me and of Greece, if Insull died of heart disease?—Nicholas Moutzourides, Greek minister of interior. Every man and woman in this country who is willing and able to work needs to be permanently and securely employed. Secretary of Labor Perkins, Musicians are suffering from an excess of machinery, just as human labor is suffering in all branches of industry.—Edouard Herriot, former French premier. RED MOON BY VIRGINIA KID WELL Alone were we in the black of the night When down at the foot of the sky Rose the edge of a large red moon in sight And we watched it climbing high. Closely and tenderly held to you. Cheek pressed to mine you said. "Want it? I’ll go get it now for you—” But I smiled and shook my head. "You are my moon and my stars," said I, “You are the world to me," And the wise old moon found a cloud in the sky And your lips in the dark found m,