Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 310, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1934 — Page 12

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I TUESDAY. MAY *. 1834 VOTE TODAY •'"\A7HAT difference docs my vote make?" ™ How many times have you heard that remark? All too of*;n. Let you plead not guilty to that today. Go to the polls and vote. Multiply your “one little vote” by several thousand others who fail to vote and you have the reason for rotten government. The vote is the foundation of democratic government. By the vote, the governed pick the governors. Vote wisely and you will have no complaint of bad government. The primary vote, perhaps, is even more important than any other. The voters who have no interest in machine politics stay away from the polls, and who sneaks into the lists for the November elections but greedy, grafting politicians, dominated by bosses, and all after the taxpayers’ money. Go to the polls today and pick honest, independent candidates—men and women who will do the job right. President Roosevelt made an ar<>cal for honest government officials. Only YOU can fulfill that plea. If you fail to vote today, you may face the alternative in November of picking between two machine candidates, perhaps two greedy grafters, only too willing to sell their souls. All too often the November voter finds himself between the devil and the deep blue sea. It is the voter's fault. Had he voted in the primary he might have an honest man to vote for. Vote today. It is a vote for a good government. REAL POLICE WORK OUICK cleanup of the case in which two youths are alleged to have sought to obtain $25,000 from Eli Lilly under threats of kidnaping brings to the public attention an outstanding piece of detective work. Speed and accuracy counted in this case. Had the alleged extortionists had the opportunity to flee from the area covered by the officers, they probably would have made their flight successful. But, due to the quick-thinking of Detectives Morris Corbin and Stewart Coleman, the suspects were deprived of this thance. Corbin, Coleman and Mr. Lilly were on a train from which the money was to have been hurled when they sighted the white flag that was the signal for delivery. Instead of hurling money into the field, Corbin hurled himself from the train. He had no idea of the type of his quarry. He had no idea whether the alleged writers of the note were Dillinger gangsters, pranksters or morons. It took nerve to step into their haunts. A long vigil proved fruitless. Then followed a methodical investigation by Corbin, Coleman and Earl Wynn of the department of justice. Tracing every clew, even to the extent of checking sixty typewriters, the trio had landed the suspects within a few days. From then on the public knows the rest. The youths were brought to Indianapolis and yesterday were bound over to the federal grand jury under bonds of $25,000 each. They are in the United States court for two reasons. One is that they used the United States mails in writing the alleged note and the second because they had the ill luck to have two REAL detectives and a department of justice man on their trail. The Times believes no commendation is too high for these officers. More cases should have the same, speedy endings.

LAWS CAN’T CURE BACK about thirteen years ago the people of the United States got fed up with the insolent greed of the liquor traffic and decided to fix things by passing a law—the eighteenth amendment. In the succeeding decade they learned, to their pained surprise, that passing a law was not, in itself, quite enough. Now, just as if they hadn’t learned the lesson once, they seem to be studying it all over again. Just as they got fed up with the legal liquor traffic before 1920. they got fed up with the illegal one before 1933. So they tried the same old remedy; they passed a law. Oddly enough, they're finding out exactly what they found out once before. The prohibition amendment failed to solve the liquor problem; repeal likewise is failing to solve it. In each case, the primary difficulty seems to be that old assumption that the battle is won once you get the right kind of law on the statute books. Senator Borah leveled a terrific indictment against liquor conditions under repeal, in his speech on the senate floor the other day. But no citisen who goes places and keeps his eyes and ears open need have been surprised by what Senator Borah said. The facts are notorious. Bootlegging has not ceased, the pledge to keep the old-time saloon from returning has not been kept. When the final states were ratifying repeal of the amendment, it was a pommon wisecrack to say that “repeal is a good law if they can just enforce it.” Just why that should have been taken as a wisecrack is not quite clear; our experience with the amendment itself ought to have shown us that it was nothing less than a plain statement of an obvious truth. So far, our effort to enforce upon the liquor trade the kind of standards we talked about when repeal was pending is hardly visible to the naked eye. Until such effort is made in an honest and energetic manner, we have no right to be surprised by the abuses which have developed under repeal. We ought to know by this time that passing a law is only a first step in any reform.

BACK TO THE COURTS nnOM MOONEY and Warren Billings, spending their eighteenth year in prison on tne word of witnesses who later admitted they lied will be cheered to learn that able and public spirited lawyers are taking their case back to the courts. So will the people of many lands to whom this celebrated case has become the symbol of legal lynching. Yesterday Attorneys John Finerty of Washington and FYank P. Walsh of New York filed a writ of habeas corpus in the San Francisco federal court, declaring that Mooney was convicted on perjured testimony and testimony known to be perjured by agents of the court back in 1916 when he was tried. The brief the United States supreme court s rulings in the Leo Frank and Scottsboro cases. If those defendants were denied due process of law under the fourteenth amendment because of mob intimidation, certainly, the brief argues, Mooney was denied due process when convicted through perjured evidence. In fact, says Counsel Finerty, the use of perjured evidence in securing conviction “is a far more subtle and dangerous invasion of the fourteenth amendment even than mob intimidation.” California, like Massachusetts, has a peculiar prohibition in her Constitution that forbids higher courts to reopen a case unless error is discovered. Proof abundant has been brought to light that all five of the chief state witnesses against Mooney were peijurers. The state courts were powerless to right the wrongs they wrought. Attempts to secure justice through executive clemency also have failed. Four California Governors have listened to a noisy minority in their state and turned a deaf ear to the still voice of justice. Unless that state elects a just and courageous Governor this fall or the federal courts intervene, Mooney and Billings will continue indefinitely to pay as felons for a crime some one else committed. We hope this writ goes to the United States supreme court. The issue is: Can a court of law under the United States Constitution convict a man on perjured evidence? MOVIES IN EDUCATION A/COST school authorities nowadays are -*■*-*- worrying more about how they can manage to keep their buildings open and pay their teachers than about new experiments in educational methods. But eventually, when full economic health returns to the land, the question of the moving picture’s place in the primary school will have to get a lot of attention. When V. C. Arnspiger, research engineer, told the Society of Motion Picture Engineers in Atlantic City recently that proper use of educational films would teach children in half the time that books teach them, he touched on something that a lot of laymen had already thought about. The potentialities of the educational film seem to be almost limitless; and so far they are almost entirely unexploited. Sooner or later our school leaders ought to make a thorough investigation of this new method of educating our children. DOUBLE-BARRELED AID TT is to be hoped that congress will act fast on President Roosevelt’s request for authority to launch a great federal housing program. The whole proposition looks like one of the administration’s very best ideas. For this scheme, like the famous CCC project, is a thing that cuts both ways—or can cut both ways, if it be efficiently handled. It would be a direct spur to national recovery, helping to revive a great capital goods industry which needs revival very badly; and it would help to provide many Americans with improved living facilities which are greatly needed. Slum clearance, construction of new private homes, modernization of existing homes which are antiquated and poorly equipped—there is enough work here to keep the building industry busy for years, and it would be work with a direct cash return to the community. The faster Washington gets busy on it, the better.

HOT DOGS 'T'HE passing of Harry Mozely Stevens, creator of the hot dog, recalls the debt the world owes this aged and obscure philanthropist. Stevens launched his first hot dog at a little baseball park in Niles, 0., in 1900. Today its billions of descendants are hawked to the masses at fairs, races, ball games, subway stations and other comers of the universe. Our statistician tells us that if all the hot dogs consumed each summer day were strung together they'd make a chain reaching around the globe 3.2 times. And what a garland! While the hot dog is a native Buckeye it took three nations to make it what it is. The late Mr. Stevens was a Londoner by birth, and the sausages that make a hot dog are jolly frankfurters. But who’ll deny that here’s a 100 per cent American and a friend te all who eat standing up or on the run? COMPLETE THIS JOB 'T'OO much good work has been done on the A Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill to allow that measure to die on the senate calendar. The Van Nuys subcommittee held exhaustive hearings. Many amendments were adopted to conciliate opponents but the bill came out of the judiciary committee without losing any of its teeth, and without a dissenting vote from the Constitution-minded lawyers of that committee. Scientists have discovered a tremendous storm on the planet Jupiter. If they look closer they may discover another bank crash underneath it all. The University of Chicago is collecting more than 400.000 maps in a large library. Gangsters will keep out for fear theirs will be included. The federal relief administration has let a large contract for cheese for the poor. No need to let a contract for baloney. Everybody gets plenty of that free. Young John Jacob Astor says he hasn’t the faintest idea of what business to take up. Get to him early, fellows, and avoid the rush. English scientists are trying to find a way to make use of morons. They might look over the American plan of municipal government. t

Liberal Viewpoint =By DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES =

THE balmy spring air in Chicago seems to have been too much for Irving Fisher. His recent speech in Chicago before a large convention of advertising men admirably illustrates the reason why the professorial class is not held in too high esteem by informed and realisticallyminded Americans, As reported in the press, this address represented an amazing comedy of errors. On issues which are purely a matter of opinion the professor’s views may be as good as or better than mine. But there are certain things which are not merely matters of opinion but can be checked by reference to obvious and easily available facts. In the first place, Professor Fisher made it clear how deeply he suffers from what Francis Bacon called “the idol of the theater,” or subservience to hobbies and single-track reasoning. He recurred once more to his monetary obsession. He contended vigorously that the depression was not caused by industrial anarchy or overproduction. He held that it was due to false monetary policies before 1929. He maintained further that the depression was prolonged ty monetary mistakes and that if we escape from it it will be primarily through monetary reform. u a a THOSE who remember back to 1929 will not be likely to take Professor Fisher too seriously as an authority on the causes of the depression. Right on the eve of the great crash he maintained that the United States had reached a permanent high level of prosperity and that no depression was in sight. We heard little from him then with respect to dubious monetary policies that threatened to throw the country into an industrial and financial collapse. Personally, I believe that Professor Fisher’s monetary policies, taken by themselves alone, are on the whole sound and useful. But he does the country and his fellow-citizens a grave disservice by exaggerating monetary matters out of all proportions to reality. The fundamental causes of the depression were social and economic rather than monetary and any permanent cure will have to be found in social and economic remedies. But we can forgive Professor Fisher on this point more readily than we can excuse his literally cheap clap-trap about the Roosevelt administration and Communism. Dr. Wirt may not have known better than to make such charges and insinuations, but Irving Fisher certainly knows that he is talking through his hat in delivering himself of any such reactionary baloney. tt tt a NOT content with deriding the new deal as alphabet soup,” Professor Fisher accused the Roosevelt administration of turning toward Communism. He drew an ominous comparison between what he called the “American way” of economic life and the “Russian way.” He charged that Roosevelt and his associates have been moving dangerously far along the Russian road of the state control of industry. He asserted that Colonel Lindbergh has appeared in the role of the American Horatius and has sounded the alarm through his noble call to halt in the air mail controversy. The professor maintains that we will never get back on our feet unless we return to the “American way” of doing things. This was a strange assertion for a man who has been widely known as a professorial Socialist. ' For years Professor Fisher has urged the most extensive intervention of the state with respects to our health and beverage tastes. He was perhaps the most fanatical academic defender of prohibition. He even has flirted with the idea of curbing our use of tobacco. A man who holds such notions hardly should shy off the effort to produce a planned economy. Professor Fisher knows as well as any one else that, compared with Russia today, the nev deal is almost literally industrial and financial anarchy. If it fails it will be because of the lack of adequacy and expedition in putting over a planned economy. As for the “American Way,” in the sense in which it is used by Professor Fisher, we do not have to rely upon any guesswork as to where that leads us. All we need to do is to think back through the winter of 1932-33.

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PATIENT DR. LEO ROWE, director-general of the Pan-American Union, is growing a trifle bored with the long, often futile, sessions of the Pan-American Union governing board. So Leo determined to grease the wheels of progress and have the sessions run smoothly and efficiently to a happy conclusion. At this week's meeting he had the various business before the board neatly typewritten. Each diplomat, as he arrived, found before him a sheet of paper with everything spelled for him in black and white. That—thought Leo — ought to make things clear. It worked beautifully at first. Then Ambassador Felipe Espil of Argentina suddenly discovered that efficient Leo had not been efficient enough. In fact, he had omitted to furnish the text of an important and highly technical question. a a a FROM that time on, things went from bad to worse. First, Dr. Rowe had to find the missing text, which he finally did—under a heap of papers. Then, erudite Minister Alfaro of Panama stood up and talked for an hour about the question. Colleagues began to yawn discreetly, fidget, glance at their watches and wonder how long he would go on. At last, amid applause (either for the welldelivered speech or its conclusion), Envoy Alfaro sat down. The meeting was about to adjourn—only an hour late. v “Mr. Chairman,’’ began a voice . . . Minister Gonzales of Costa Rica was already on his feet. He orated for another hour on the necessity of American schools teaching more Spanish and Portuguese. Gonzales pleaded that if any money was left over from the publication of the Pan-American bulletin, these funds should be diverted to the cause of teaching Spanish here. Since publication of the bulletin invariably results in deficit, this plan seems doomed to defeat. The session broke up hours late. Dr. Rowe has about decided to give up hiq idea of greasing the wheels of progress. Anyhow, he has the faculty of withdrawing into himself. a a a '"l ’HE most amusing story in town (at least -I- to this column) concerns the youthful third secretary of the British embassy, Mr. H. W, A. Freese-Pennefather. Mr. Freese-Pennefather arrived at a diplomatic dance the other evening carrying two extra collars. One collar was for himself (in case his original collar should become wilted while dancing' and the other was for a friend. However, as the mention of neckcloth, ruffs and neckerchiefs is not “being done” in polite British circles this season, Mr. Freese-Penne-father found himself wondering how to apprise his friend that an. extra collar was at his disposal. So he wrote a little note: “Dear Denis: “Your collar is in the car. which is parked some little distance down F-st.” The story does not record whether Denis was able to find the car and the collar, but he was observed later wearing a beautifully serene smile and neckwear as starched and untarnished as Queen Elizabeth’s ruff. Cows are being taken around to show city school children how they get their milk. But the modem youngsters want to see the animal from which they get their beer.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, hlahe your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to SSO words or less.) AGITATION PAID ORGANIZER Bv a Times Header. Some of us in the filling station union local No. 18,990, are getting a big kick out of the Associated Business Builders articles on paid organizers and agitators. As far as our union is concerned the builders are all wet and are barking up the wrong tree, as we have no organizers. A paid organizer-agitator is as useless to.us as a swimming suit is for Byrd in his isolated ice hut. Whenever we need to agitate the boys we just remind them of the long hours, small pay, shortage, quotas, etc., that they were compelled to abide by before the NRA and they get agitated quick enough. MOTORING "PRACTICE OF POLICE RAPPED By Miss N. R. Here is a little incident that happened when I -was coming home from work that I would like to report. The time was 3:30 in the afternoon. The Shelby street car stopped at a street corner, where there isn’t a safety zone. A police squad car was following the car. Instead of stopping, the officers drove on. A woman was getting off. She had to wait until the police got by—if she had stepped down, she would have been hit. I think if the police would begin to arrest each other it would be a good idea. They are more reckless than the ones they arrest. URGES “BREAK’’ * FOR WORKERS By 1,. H. Miller. While Mr. Goodman owns Real Silk and is too stubborn to give in to the strikers, I can not understand why Messrs. Kahn and Barskin, owners of the National and Fulton mills, must abide by J. A. Goodman’s decision. I always have had a great respect for these two men, so I ask why can’t they do their own deciding and forget Real Silk? Come on Messrs, Kahn and Barskin, give your employes a “break” and show that you are willing to abide by their vote in favor of the union which took place last October. tt a tt OPPOSES RE-ELECTION OF ANY OFFICIAL By a Taxpayer. In Pottsville, 1,000 taxpayers stormed the courthouse and took out two county commissioners, and demanded the course of an increase in taxes. What happened there would be a good thing in Marion county. The taxpayers always have been too docile. All they are expected to do is walk up to the treasurer’s window and hand over their last cent. Then it is divided up among the clique to squander any old way they see fit. Thousands of persons who once were thrifty citizens and the makers of this country are having the savings of a lifetime swept away. A stop to this should have been affected long ago. The taxpayers’ money paid for a special session of the legislature to fix a $1.50 tax limit. What are the rates? Center township has $3.13 and Wayne $3.28. The case is pending. and it will be pending as long as we spineless people let the office holders pull the flesh off our bones. Every old office head is now seeking to be re-elected at a fat salary. We pay office holders SIO,OOO and $15,000 a year to sit in a finely furnished office, or run around over the country -gjaking speeches. Not

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STILL HANGIN’ AROUND

He’s Fed Up on Dillinger and Real Silk

By H. Adams. I have been a citizen of Indianapolis for a long time, but I did not realize the people here were so ignorant and narrow-minded until I began reading The Message Center. Reaily, Mr. Editor, your Message Center is not worth a darn. The idea of letting people express their views is a grand one, but what views! You, the editors and reporters, could issue a paper dealing with Dillinger and Real Silk,

one old office holder should be elected the second time. How can taxpayers feed all that are being fed? The majority of those aided never as much as paid poll taxes until they had to. to run automobiles. People own property and live off the county. What kind of work was done by the civil works administration. Raking dry grass; playing in the ditches; the hardest work done by the workers was throwing clods at one another. And such mobs setting out little trees! Utility companies come along and cut dowm fine, big trees that have taken fifty years or more to grow. All taxpayers should say they have paid their last taxes until the taxes are cut to what the law set as the limit. a a a “LET HIM WHO IS WITHOUT SIN ” By a Reader. I wonder how- many of us today remember this story. The Pharisees brought unto Jesus a woman taken in adultery. The law in those days was that she be stoned to death. It is the same temper today, only dressed a little differently, that is being used against John Dillinger. If he was brought in the midst of us, I wonder how many of us are without sin who could cast the first stone. I am sure all would be convicted by their owfi consciences and walk away one by one. Error of any kind can not hide from God, so why not put him in God's hands? ABOUT MONKE*YS*AND HOSIERY STRIKE By W. E. Blanton. This is in answer to the one who signs him or herself “Another Hosiery Worker.” You surely think more of your little pin, than you do of collective bargaining and the welfare of those who will be employed after you, who may be your son or daughter. And speaking of monkeys, I think your attitude makes you eligible to ride home in the company's monkey cage, the wire-protected Greyhound bus. HOPES DILLINGER* WON’T BE CAUGHT By Mrs. Zula Burkert. I have been a reader of The Times for several years and think it is a wonderful paper. In response to a letter by Myrtle Moore, I wish to say I am the mother of two little girls and not a socalled “moll.” I am one of the “millions” who are for Dillinger. I think that if given a chance, he would settle down and make a citizen of whom we would be proud. I think he is blamed for many things that he doesn’t do. How do you know that he ever has killed anyone? If he ever came to my house and wanted to stay all night or needed help in any way. I certainly would help him and never squeal either. I do not know him, but if ever I should get the privilege of meeting him I would treat him with courtesy. Here is hoping that he never gets caught.

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

and the people wouldn’t even miss the news of the world. Nothing of any importance really happens in this city but your readers hang on like grim death to the above-mentioned subjects. Aren’t there any half-way intelligent and educated readers of The Message Center among us? If so, for heaven’s sake write, or I will cease to read it, and to top it off, by heck, I will move to Brownsburg or any town as small, where they at least talk about the weather.

;HEYWOOD BROUN . | ARTICLES LAUDED By Rosa C. McNamara. I consider the articles by Heywood Broun the outstanding syndicated material published in Indianapolis. If these are discontinued, I shall not only cease buying The Times, but shall try to persuade those I can to do likewise. There is no intention to discontinue the Broun articles. SIOO-A-WEEK KNITTERS AND MATRIMONY By GolddiKcer. I have been a seamer for more than five years, but never has a knitter looked so attractive until I heard that when the union gets in at Real Silk the knitters will get SIOO a week. I was wondering if the union would consider conducting a matrimonial bureau if it wins. This might be another good way for the union to capitalize on. I for one will help it out, and will exchange photographs with any of the attractive knitters. I would prefer one of these cave man types who handles clubs, iron bars and bricks. Hair, eyes and height, no object. The only requirement will be that he makes SIOO a week. I will agree to spend the money as quickly as he can make it and help to foment the next strike for more. a a a CHARGES PROFITEERING FROM MISFORTUNE By a Striker. The wartime profiteer was jailed and fined and made an example of; What could be any w'orse than a depression profiteer, or one v’ho profits off the misfortunes of others? How many of us worked during the depression for wages of S2 or $3 a week and were told if we didn’t like it,’ there were persons who would gladly take our jobs for less. J. A. Goodman of Real Silk informed us in one of the many speeches he gave during the depression every time he wanted an excuse to cut wages, that he could get people to work for him for 50 cents a week. Hosiery and lingerie prices did not come down accordingly. The union factories over the United States had to sell their products for the same price that he sold his goods, but they paid union wages to their employes and still made a profit. How much more profit did Mr. Goodman make with his starvation wages? NRA doesn't mean a thing to him as he still is paying some of the girls $6 and $8 a week. a a a MINING WITH BAYONETS PROVES EXPENSIVE By E. Archer. I want to inform the citizens of Indianapolis of a coal strike in southern Indiana, where guards tried coal. They produced three cars of coal at a coal cost of SI,OOO a ton. The public couldn’t pay that price for coal. That proved you can’t dig coal with bayonets. Neither can you produce hosiery with gun and billy club. If Oiief

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Mike Morrissey wasn’t a Real Silk stockholder, maybe he wouldn't have the police force guarding it. Strikers, you are going to win. Stay out until you do. The labor board at Washington is not going to stop this strike. The E. M. B. A. workers have a lot of nerve to condemn the American Federation of Labor Hosiery Workers Union, when workers have to ride in busses behind barred doors and screened windows escorted by hired guards and the law. It is a disgrace to humanity. a a a FISH SLAUGHTER CHARGE RESENTED By the Four Fishermen. I am a resident of Delphi, Ind. After reading an article in this column I decided to tell the other side of the story. It is the opinion of most fishermen there is a wholesale slaughter of fish going on here, with river pirates, thieves of the night, stealing the precious game fish from the waters of paradise for fishermen. That isn't the truth. I know that with a few exceptions only soft fish are being gigged. I will venture to say that for every pound of game fish taken with a gig there are twenty-five pounds that go back to the cities undersize and over the limit in number. The groups of river workers here can not afford a $25 dollar pole and a SOO reel, plus a trunk full of flies, spinners and other teasers. They do well to get a $3 gigging outfit. Maybe you are right about the fish not having a chance, but what are a couple of boats and a river compared to the gauntlet of fishermen the fish have to run. Sometime you ought to camp along the lower part of Tippecanoe or Wabash rivers and count the lights of the fishing boats. You can count them all on one hand even if you only have two fingers, and you will be lucky to see any at all. I would not worry, Mr. Sportsman. There always will be enough fish for all of us. After inquiring at the groceries, I find that their stocks of sardines and canned salmon are holding out quite well considering thp fact that, the scarcity of fish, due to gigging, is upon us. WILLIAM MOONEY IS A DEMOCRAT By John Shea and John O'Brien. Please tell us whether William Mooney is, a Democrat or a Republican. William Mooney is a Democrat.

Idle Hands

BY LEONE I am just as glad As I can be That I have two hands, And that I can see A thousand things for them to do Each day. I question not How large or small The task may be. For, after all If sent to me, I know I Must obey. To me, it seems The saddest things Are the idle hands That never bring A bit of joy to someone. on The way. They look so helpless, So alone. For each neglect They must atone, When they have learned the will, to T *—h’y pray.