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MONDAY MARCH 19, 183* SUMNER ON SHERIFF HOLLEY TT is not .surprising that Sheriff Charles L. Sumner oiK-ned his mayoralty campaign with a maudlin statement about “the little woman.’’ Sheriff Lillian Holley. This Is just the sort of partisan claptrap that may be expected from the old-time, machine politician like Sheriff Sumner. Besides, he may well .sympathize with Mrs. Holley's gross mismanagement of Crown Point jail. His own record with Marion county jail has T>een far from distinguished. It has been only luck which has prevented the escape of criminals from that institution. Only a few days ago Hilton Crouch, a dangs rous criminal, was caught in the nick of time after he had sawed almost through a bar. Where did he get his saw blades? Why, he was a forehanded gentleman and brought them with him in the soles of his shoes. This business of carrying hacksaws in shoes is one of the oldest tricks known to penologists. Why were not prisoner Crouch's shoes carefully examined? Ask Sheriff Sumner. Crouch also was found to have a long rope wrapped around his waist. It either was smuggled in to him of he manufactured it himself In either case how did he get it? Ask Sheriff Sumner. People have not forgotten the amazing revelations several months ago regarding the management of the jail. A trusty admitted that he had been in charge of the institution's garage, that lie oi>ened and closed the door and that he even borrowed a sheriff’s car occasionally to take his girl friends out on dates! W’hy was this permitted? Ask Sheriff Sumner. The sheriff’s candidacy for mayor adds a light touch to the primary fights. His is going to be a mast amusing campaign. In view of his record he will have to devote himself in the coming weeks to kissing babies, giving out free beer and cigars, sweetening precinct committeemen and venting such asinine statements as his remarks on Lillian Holley. Funniest of all is his impudence in running for mayor at all. OHIO’S MISTAKE? /'NHIO must be commended for the speedy trial and conviction of Harry Pierpont, but it also should be criticised for permitting this gang leader to remain in the Lima jail pending trial of two other members of his gang. Apparently the people of Lima do rot realize the ends to which a man of Pierpont's type will go when he knows that his final card will be death. To Pierpont death in a jail break or a fight with the law is more welcome than waiting weeks to die in the electric chair As soon as the jury returned its verdict Saturday night, Pierpont should have been sentenced to death ana removed t n the state penitentiary at Columbus. Nothing but trouble can be gained by keepuig this criminal in a jail that once was raided, costing the life of Sheriff Sarber. Pierpont was the man who raided that jail. He was free then, and his friend. John Dillinger, was in custody there. Today the situation is reversed. Pierpont is within the jail and Dillinger is free after his daring escape from Crown Point ten days ago. Neither of these criminals has anything to lose but his life. Each would rather lose it in an unholy alliance than in paying the penalty of the law. Ohio should act immediately to put Pierpont out of the reach of John Dillinger. “MILITARY LESSONS” WHETHER the deaths in army air mail flying have been excessive as the President and the public believe, or only about the average for normal army training, as some officers say. the President is obviously wise in restricting the air mail routes during this interim period. Since the air mail is to be turned back to private contractors, congress should speed the legislation for that purpose reQuested a week ago by the administration. One sentence in the President's letter of instructions to Secretary of War Dern is especially significant. He wrote: -Because military lessons have been taught us during the last few weeks. I request that you consult immediately with the postmastergeneral and the secretary of commerce in order that additional training may be given to army air pilots through co-operation with private companies who later on will fly the mail*-” After every allowance is made for the necessary difference in training and equipment for military and commercial flying, it seems clear that army pilots would be better aviator* if given experience in individual cross-coun-try. blind and instrument flying, in addition to the conventional formation air drill hitherto so much stressed by the army chiefs. A PAYING INVESTMENT a CTIVTTIES of the federal trade commisJ\. sion have cost taxpayers something like $5,000,000 during the last four years, of which perhaps one-fourth was spent on the investigation of utilities ordered by the senate. During those four years customers of electric utilities have been saved SI 18.747,654 by reduced rates. The percentage of profit to rate-payers on this investment is as staggering as the percentages of holding company profits disclosed by th# commission. Tb trade commission punctiliously reports that not all the reductions can be directly traced to Its investigation. It finds that $66,454.240 has been saved customers through re-

ductions by companies investigated by the commission. It does not point out-what should be an obvious deduction—that the investigation stimulated rate regulatory bodies to act to bring about further reductions, and that companies which have not yet felt the searching light of investigation have hurried to clean their hands. The money the government invests in Muscle Shoals to bring about yardstick regulation should pay dividends Just as pleasing in the way of rate reductions. So should the money that will be spent in compiling and comparing rates throughout the United States if the house adopts the Norris-P-ankin resolution already passed in the senate. Best of all is the magic nature of this proposition which saves rate-payers money without causing utility companies to suffer. In 1932 the total number of kilowatt hours sold was 03.764 024.000 while in 1933, with lower rates, the public bought 65.753.608,000 kilowatt hours.' Utilities took in $1,832,595,000 from sale of electric energy in 1932 and $1,773,415,600 in 1933, a difference of only $59,180,000. ARTIFICIAL RADIOACTIVITY ■IT7TTHIN the last few weeks at Paris and ’ ’ within the last few days at Pasadena, experiments have been made that the future may rank with tile epochal discovery of radioactivity itself. Artificial radioactivity has been produced. Atoms are made to smash themselves. Irene Curie and her husband, J. Joliot, allowed alpha particles, helium atom hearts produced by natural radioactivity, to oombard the element boron. Not just when the attack was made but for minutes afterward, atomic explosion fragments consisting of positrons were emitted. With the million-volt tube of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. C. C. Lauritsen and associates flung deutons or heavy hydrogen hearts at carbon and here, too, positrons were emitted for many minutes after the deutons ceased to strike. Artificial radioactivity was achieved without the use of any natural radioactivity. What good will it be? When Becquerel discovered radioactivity in 1896 and Irene Curie’s mother and father isolated radium in 1900, who foresaw the usefulness of radium in the treatment of cancer. Medicine or industry may use artificial radioactivity to make the world a better place to live in. Physics is seizing the new knowledge it provides as new clews that will help the solution of the mystery of matter. LIVERMORE, AGAIN! TESSE LIVERMORE, once famous as “the ** boy plunger” of W r all Street, is broke again. His petition in bankruptcy discloses that he has liabilities of more than $2,250,000 and assets of approximately $184,000. Livermore has been broke before, and has come back to make a millionaire of himself. No one familiar with the career of this canny trader will doubt thac he will do the same thing again. He knows the Wall Street game as few men know it. He may go oroke, but a man of his kind nevCr stays broke. But the career of this famous speculator seems to stand as a kind of symbol of the whole stock market arena; a steady cycle of boom and depression, periods of great affluence followed by periods of extreme financial stringency. And what,, in the long run, does it all amount to? Just who in the end—if any one —is the gainer by this kind of operation? Surely not society as a whole. A CITY SPEAKS UP /' - '\NE of the interesting side issues in conA-' nection with the case of the notorious Dillinger gang is that a community at last has found a way of expressing its dissatisfaction with lawyers who stand between crooks and punishment. Harry Pierpont, one of the gangsters, is held in jail at Lima, 0., convicted of murder. He retained as his Counsel an attorney who also happened to be city solicitor of Lima. And what did the city council of Lima do but demand that this lawyer separate himself at once from the city pay roll, as a penalty for defending Pierpont! Now this, probably, was an unjust and impolite thing to do. Every accused man has the right to retain counsel; every lawyer has a right to take a case that is offered him. And yet, considering one thing with another. it is at least easy to understand why the Lima city council did what it did. AT LEAST TWO CHEERS HP HE President's proposals for temporarily letting down import bars against foreign liquors and increasing domestic quotas will be bad news for the bootleggers, but not bad enough. N It is true that liquor prices are much too high. It is true that a temporary relaxation of quotas will help bring in more and better liquors. But until something is done to reduce taxes and tariffs, bootleggers probably will continue to wax and prosper. Regardless of import quotas the tariff remains $5 a gallon. The federal tax is $2 and the average state tax Is sl. Here is an $8 wall. Bootleg can be bought all over the United States for $4 a gallon. It should be remembered that for some months quota restrictions against Canadian whisky have been off. The tariff wall has worked to keep out sufficient Canadian whisky to greatly affect prices. SURPRISE! /CABLES from Paris bring the surprising news that the French actually may resume payments on their war debt to the United States. The next installment is due June 15. and it is said that if the present Doumergue government remains in power the interest on the debt, at least, will be paid. The total due on June 15. is slightly more than $55,000,000. of which $19,000,000 is interest. All this, to the ordinary American, probably will come under the heading of news which is too good to be true. Most Americans have made up their minds that the French war debt was a thing which might as well be kissed good-by forever, so far as any chance of collecting any of it is concerned. To read that some of it actually may be paid is a surprise—and an unexpectedly pleasant one—even though the payment may be only one of those “token payments," a drop in the bucket, so to speak.

THE LAKE COUNTY MESS Reprint from the New York World-Telex ram. QHERIFF LILLIAN HOLLEY's hysteric "If I ever see John Dillinger I’ll shoot him through the head with my own pistol” hits the general level of law enforcement standards in Lake county, Indiana. This is the county where jail authorities let “Indiana's public enemy No. 1, ’ murderer and bank robber, have a knife in his cell and laugh at him while he whittles the wooden pistol with which he later terrifies thirty-three of the prison guards and inmates, locks them into cells and storerooms, collects sls and a couple of machine guns and escapes in the sheriff's own automobile! This is the county where Prosecuting Attorney Robert G. Estill, after Dillinger’s capture last January, nad himseif photographed with his arm around the shoulder of the desperado whom it was his sworn duty to try to send to the electric chair! Also where this same woman sheriff likewise pased for photographs, proclaimed that “John Dillinger may be able to fight his way out of some prisons, but he won’t break this jail,” and put an armed guard at the head of her drawing room divan to peer through the window and prevent the notorious jail-break-er’s escape. To cap the climax, we have the plaintive wail of Deputy Sheriff Ernest Baar, who slept near the Dillinger cell so as to be “available in case of trouble: “I could have potted him as he walked out if I had only awakened!” This sort of thing calls for something more than nation-wide laughter and contempt. Governor McNutt’s investigation should be stern and thorough. It’s about time local prosecutors and prison authorities were taught to be less keen for press photographs and high-sounding interviews and more zealous to perform their plain duties. The Lake county mess is another invitation to the rest of the world to sneer at American law enforcement—and reprint that amazing picture of a smirking public prosecutor with his comradely arm around one of the country’s worst criminals!

Liberal Viewpoint =-By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

Editor’s Note—This is the first of two articles by Harry Elmer Barnes, Ph. D., commenting on John W. Davis' attack on the N *w Deal. AS was to be expected, the actual enforcement of the new deal is producing a definite separation of the sheep from the goats. Realistic persons will be glad to see this frank lineup. It will enable us to know clearly just where we stand. Even Mr. Roosevelt probably will welcome frank declarations of opposition. Open antagonism is preferable to hypocritical support, accompanied by secret chiseling and back-biting. Once the enemy comes out into the open, it will be possible to know who they are and take an effective potshot at them. Picking up the rotogravure of the New York Times recently I noted a picture of the eminent attorney, John W. Davis, motoring with J. P. Morgan in Porto Rico. It was explained that Mr. Davis was a guest of Mr. Morgan on a yacht trip through the Caribbean. Quite appropriately, there appeared in the following Wednesday’s issue of the New York Times a bitter attack by Mr. Davis upon the new deal. Mr. Davis had no hesitation whatever in aligning himself with the great Wall Street powers in assaulting the policies of a Democratic President who has at least promised to drive the money changers from the temple. u n * WHATEVER its validity, Mr. Davis’ attack on the new deal Is one of the most important onslaughts which has been made upon the President and his program. It is such for at least three reasons: (1) It is not a cheap and perfunctory political attack, but carries the battle where it belongs, namely, into the realm of economics; (2) Mr. Davis is a person of such prominence as not to be easily ignored; and (3) he brings together very well indeed all of the stock arguments employed by reactionaries in attacking the policies of Mr. Roosevelt. Mr. Davis takes his cue from the excellent brochure by Secretary Henry Wallace, “America Must Choose,” which has been run serially in the Scripps-Howard newspapers. But he passes over this rapidly and launches into a headlong attack upon the planned economic order which the new deal is endeavoring to establish. Very cogently, but with the great risk to his argument in the hands of any facile debater, Mr. Davis raises the question of who is going to give orders to the American people in the new regime which Mr. Roosevelt is trying to establish. “If there are to be orders, somebody must give them. Without impugning the high purpose and integrity of the great majority of our public servants, are we so sure of their constant wisdom, their disinterestedness, their ability to resist temptation, their freedom from political influence, that we are willing to trust them with unlimited power? n o a EVERY Socialist, every advocate of social discipline, of a planned economy, of a nationalist regimentation—cali it what you will—must answer in the end this question: Who is to sit in the driver’s seat and hold the reins and the whip? And the answer can not be made in such vague collective terms as the state, the government or society, for these only move by human hands. Who are the men, the gentlemen, that you would set to rule over us?” Such a query as this indicates a strange lapse of alertness on the part of so clever a lawyer as Mr.’ Davis. It provides an opening for a “haymaker” which any honest publicist, even if as clumsy as a Firpo, could land squarely on Mr. Davis’ exposed jaw. The obvious and crashing answer is that if the new deal amounts to anything the orders are going to be given by the elected and responsible representatives of the American people and their advisers. They no longer are going to be given, as they have been for the last fifty years, by Mr. Morgan, and the other great moguls of speculative finance. It means that we are to have an end of that “Invisible Government,” which has been very well defined by Mr. McConaughy, in his excellent book, “Who Rules America.” "It perhaps may be best described as the political and economic control of the community —oi the political control for selfish, if not sinister. economic purpose—by individual men, or groups of organizations, who are careful to evade the responsibility which should always accompany power. "They operate behind a mask of puppets in politics and business, and these must take the blame in courts of law, and before the bar of public opinion, for any errors in the technique of knavery.” A lamb born in Michigan has four ears, eight legs, and two tails. Probably the young of one of those elusive sea monsters. A one-armed bank employe in North Carolina is accused of forging hundreds of dollars’ worth of checks. Think what he might have done with two arms! A French scientist says those sea monsters washed up on the shore of France are nothing but sharks. They might have been among those that inhabited the stock exchanges up to 1928.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) # # G. O. P. STILL POINTING TO THE DEAD -By Hamet Hinkle. Another Indianapolis paper of strong Republican leaning recently greatly publicized the announcement of Walter Pritchard’s candidacy for mayor in the news columns. On another page in the same issue was an article praising Judge Earl Cox’s efficient record in cleaning the docket of the circuit court. I thought it strange that so much space should be given to this subject, as that paper had heretofore been very scant in praise of Democratic officials; but, reading further, I began to see the light. By subtle reference to the efficiency of Judge Cox over his immediate predecessor (of whom I have heard as a probable candidate, also for mayor) it was putting in a few licks for Pritchard. I am not acquainted personally either with Mr. Pritchard or Judge Chamberlin, and, moreover, I am a Democrat, but this barefaced conspiracy to ram down the throats of the trusting rank and file a candidate hand-picked by a few selfstyled bosses of the so-called grand old party is deserving of discussion. As this said political party has been makitig its biennial pilgrimage to the graveyard ever since 18G5 to point with pride to a great statesman, it is small wonder that independent voters are turning in increasing numbers to that party whose greatest statesman is very much alive in this day and age, Franklin D. Roosevelt. a a HE REMINDS US THE WAR IS ENDED. By a Times Header. In answer to A. B. C. Do you know’ the war is ended? Do you want to live on the past glory forever? I am also an ex-sol-dier, but why rave about it now the w ! ar is over? Please don’t hide behind a woman’s skirts, now that we are all getting it on the chin. 80, don’t put yourself in front as an ex-sol-dier or a married man. The ex-cry babies alwr > s are talking about fighting for “our country.” ts tt tt HE’D REDUCE THE NUMBER OF CONGRESSMEN ON TICKET By a Header. After reading and watching the papers in this country on the w r ay the congressmen and senators of our country are held by the gag rule on voting for amendments to bills and how they are kept from introducing bills to come before the house and senate by rules made by the administration, I have come to this belief: To be telling the truth, I can see no reason for having all these senators and congressmen in Washington. It looks to me as if one senator and one congressman from each state would be enough. Each of these senators and congressmen draws an average of about §12,000 a year, counting his mileage and other expenses. Look at the saving in dollars yearly this would effect if there was only one of each from each state. . I can see no reason for there being 435 congressmen and ninetysix senators sitting in Washington as they don’t seem to be able to pass on anything only what has been made up for them by a brain trust, and they don’t understand

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By W. A. Benedict Jr. It seems the new gasoline code has turned the new deal into a raw deal for the motorist, when he was looking for some relief with the dropping of part of the federal tax, and leading gasoline companies broadcasting for the repeal of the rest of it. Now, with all stations forced to sell at the same price, and an overnight inarease of as much as 44 per cent in some cases John Motorist has been dealt another blow below the belt. Such price fixing can only result in forcing small independent companies out

it, anyway. There are a few I can leave out of this that have minds of their own and one of these is Arthur Robinson. He has a mind of his own and can think for himself and for the interest of the people he serves. I think the people will come to see this in time not to send men up there who can not think for themselves. And, thank the Lord that they have not gagged the press of the U. S. A., as yet, as this is the only w r ay the people can find out what is going on in Washington, and get the right views of what their senators and congressmen are doing there. Please print this for me. tt , U tt URGES PLANTING OF TREES THROUGHOUT INDIANA By J. G. Collins. I read the editorial in The Times about “Money Grows on Trees.” Sunday, I drove over to Richmond and stopped at Centerville airport, which is about six miles west of Richmond. This small airport was about eighty acres, with a small hangar, and a few small outbuildings. Now the CWA has taken it over, and is enlarging it. To the south of the old airport was forty acres of the finest land in the state. The CWA workers butchered this beautiful woods to the ground, chopped up all the large trees for firewood. It would take 200 years to grow as fine a stand of timber as was on the forty acres. There are thousands of large empty fields around this port, but God’s woods must be destroyed, with 200 CWA workers leaving destruction everyplace. Better had they been on the dole. The last few years everything has burned up on the farms because of lack of rain. The water level in Indiana is lowest in history'. Indiana’s once fertile fields are fast becoming barren and worthless. If the rainfall in the Mississippi valley keeps shrinking as the timber is destroyed, fifty years will see Indiana nothing but a desert. All rivers will dry up in the summer, leaving Indiana nothing but dry plains. Why not save the few forests that Indiana has? Put these men to planting trees everywhere, not destroying them. Thousands of Indiana farmers would like to have ten and twenty-acre fields on their farms set out in young forest trees, j This would take thousands of acres out of cultivation and help stop overproduction. Trees are man’s best friends. It 1 takes hundreds of years to grow ; but they can be destroyed in a few hours. Here’s hoping that no more forests will be destroyed, when there is idle ground everywhere. Plant trees— plant them everywhere.

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

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of business, gouging the motorist, penalizing economical and efficient methods of retailing and suspicion and distrust for NRA. When we consider the vast number of people employed, directly and indirectly, by the automotive and allied industries, and the increased pleasure and joy in living practically all of us derive from the motor car, maybe we will be more interested in protecting the motorist from excessive taxes on the part of the state, and profiteering on the part of the oil monopolies.

DILLINGER HAS THE SAME CHANCE—IN HEAVEN By a Times Reader. When Prosecutor Robert Estill stated to Governor Paul McNutt that Matt Leach, of the state police, was handling the Dillinger case with an eye for state administration publicity, he certainly told the truth. As for Mr. Estill’s having his picture taken with Mrs. Dillinger, I wonder if those who did so much talking were just a little jealous. In the last day of judgment, they will have their choice who they w’ill stand by. In the last day John Dillinger will stand the same chance as the rest, for Jesus’ mercies endureth forever. n a HIS VIEW ON LAUNDRY DIFFERS WITH WELLS’ By Jesse Hoitsclaw. In answer to a letter by Esther Stanley that the Progress Laundry does not have many slaves, and that they carried their employes through the depression, she failed to spate the wages received by the employes in the last two years. The employes in the Progress Laundry receive on the average from $3.33 to §6.67 a week. Every pay day I have taken checks to the bank which could serve as proof. One u'eek I took thirty-three checks, totaling $2lO. At that rate their employes received on the average of about $6 a week. They say they abide by the NRA, but they are disobeying the NIRA, seventh section, which reads that no employes shall be discharged for union activities. Eleven employes were discharged by the said company in the last two months. The company was found guilty of discrimination against these employes in front of the regional labor board Monday, Feb. 12, 1934. They were ordered to reinstate said employes by the executive secretary of the regional board, which the company officials refused to do. Our complaints are forwarded to General Hugh Johnson, Washington, D. C. Isn’t there some way to stop all this discrimination and slavery against the employes of said Progress Laundry? a a o SEEKS BETTER REPRESENTATION FOR AMERICAN PEOPLE By Frank Walton. When Americans see they no longer can play politics, but must < get down to business and feed thenown people, they will come into j their own. If I were putting on a recovery ; movement for the people I would make it practical and not theoretical as Hoover, McNutt and Roosevelt have done by playing politics. I would get our taxes down well within the volume of money. If money was worth 6 per cent, taxes should be 50 cents and $1 on the hundred. At the one dollar rate 1 per cent would be one sixth of the value of money paid in annually. I-would cut down government expenses to

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meet the $1 rate or less, and not let it exceed the $1 rate at any time. I would loan money at each county seat under the school fund plan, from the United States treasury, then take the interest from the loans and put our people to work on public improvements. Then, I would work all the public roads with men and teams and team equipment— not trucks, tractors and contractors. I would let anyone that could not do a day’s work do what he could, and receive credit for what he did, so that old or disabled men could do what they could and wanted to do. There is plenty for all and then some in a country like ours. I w’ould want the state legislature to pass on our laws; and, at each voting time, let the people vote “yes” or “no” on our laws, and throw out what laws the people didn’t want to back, and okeh the laws that the people want. We could have more work and money than we have men to do the work, under the Walton platform, for years to come. In the event of a declaration of war, the people’s vote would be “yes” or “no.” In this way, man would come into his own Christian rights regarding his own destiny. a tt PROGRESS LAUNDRY CLEARED AFTER INVESTIGATION By Francis Wells. INCLOSED is a letter from Jesse Hoitsclaw which you had sent us in which she alleged a violation of the code of fair competition for the laundry trade on the part of the Progress Laundry. Immediately upon receipt of your letter, I referred the matter to George McKay, our field adjuster, for his investigation. Mr. McKay reports that he called on E. B. Cracraft, vice-president and secretary of the Progress Laundry—that he verified wage payments from available records, and that all vouchers drawn were checked against the pay roll and time clock cards and were scrutinized carefully for indorsements and bank cancellation. Mr. McKay reports he found no irregularities. Mr. McKay reported that it is true some of the women in the press and hand ironing department received small checks which Ls due to the fact that employes in these departments work only part time. Thank you for having called this matter to our attention. a o a PERHAPS ESTILL WILL KISS DILLINGER NEXT TIME By J. P. Jamarpe. In view of the fact that Prosecutor Estill saw fit to embrace John Dillinger when that worthy celebrated his first home-coming to Indiana it seems only fair that the legal luminary should greet Johnny with a kiss when they meet again. Who said that the law was harsh and cruel? It appears to be composed of nothing but sweetness and light In this section of the country.

Forgetting

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL I can fill up my days and not miss you, I can smile and accept other men, I can stifle my longing to kiss you And I think I’ve forgotten you, then. But at night love for you makes me weary, And the long lonely hours pass like years, If I sleep—l awaken dream-weary And my pillow is wet with my fears.