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THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934. THE BOOTLEGGER’S FRIEND 'T'HE coast guard is spending taxpayers’ •*• money for a fleet of seaplanes to wage war on rum runners. Had we uspd discretion in our liquor tariffs. there would be no rum rows today off the Atlantic, Pacific and gulf coasts. The rum rows exist chiefly because of the huge profits to be gained by smuggling in liquor to avoid the $5 a gallon tariff. The internal revenue bureau is preparing to spend more of the taxpayers’ millions to mobilize a liquor tax enforcement army of 4,000. Such a vast and costly bureaucracy would be unnecessary were our liquor tariffs and taxes and the profits of distillers kept within reason. We travel in a mad circle. We levy impossible tariffs, and prevent the legal liquor industry from replenishing its inadequate supply of good liquor. We levy stiff taxes, and make even the cheapest legal liquor too costly for the average man's pocketbook. Thus we make it possible for the bootleg industry to thrive by robbing our government of revenue. And the government dissipates the revenue it does collect by buying more equipment and employing more job-holders to wage an unpven and unnecessary war on smugglers and bootleggers. A BY-GONE BUGABOO QAYfI the Honorable Bertrand H. Snell: “The new deal’s experimental efforts to put business in a strait-jacket and make the American farmer do a goose-step at the behest of government obviously are on the way to abandonment.” Thus does the house Republican leader and spokesman serve notice that his party will try to ride back into power in this offyear election on the back of that familiar bugaboo, “government in business.” Before joining in the Snell wail, other Republican “outs” may do well to study the record. The United States Chamber of Commerce in convention last week found fault with only a few details of the new deal. Instead, it praised both the purposes and accomplishments of the Roosevelt agencies. Said its president, Henry I. Harriman: “The chaos of unbridled competition can not be permitted to return. Some federal agencies co-opera ting with business must continue to carry out the major functions exercised by the NRA and the AAA.” Our “goose-stepping” farmers, far from being dissatisfied with the AAA voluntary crop-reduction program, are actually pushing for still more drastic control. The compulsory cotton quota law was enacted over the misgivings of the administration's open-minded secretary of agrculture. It was sponsored by the ultra-conservative Bankhead brothers, backed by 95.2 per cent of the thousands of cotton farmers who participated in a referendum poll. Come now small manufacturers and business men. asking for government loans to carry on—asking for government loans because private financial institutions either can not or will not supply the needed credit. To meet this just demand from small industries, the administration moves to improve the credit facilities of the Federal Reserve System and enlarge the lending powers of the RFC. The federal reserve is still in conservative hands. So is the RFC, that creature of the Hoover administration which was brought into being by the unyielding insistence and uncompromising necessity of big business. Now little business wants and needs the same type of credit assistance. Our farmers, just recovering from a long period of falling prices and foreclosures, do not consider the administration's co-operative planning for their own improvement a “goosestep.” Business, measurably freed from the terrors of ruthless competition and given a life-line of credit which private finance had failed to provide, is not aware of the alleged government “strait-jacket.” The Hon. Mr. Snell must be keeping his ‘ear to the ground'' in the drawing room of the Bankers’ Club. Some members of this club, having already enjoyed enough “government in business” to save their own hides, now are quite anxious to get their grip again on the reins of commerce and industry. THE BIG TEST TF you know what the future of the battleship is going to be. the expens of the 1935 naval conference probably will give you a job. , Battleships have been ignored by naval conferences ever since the historic Washington conference of 1921. With two or three exceptions, no battleships have been launched since then. The naval competition of the past decade has been in cruisers and auxiliary craft. Next year, however, there is to be anew conference, and the battleship will cut a big figure. A strong move to cut down battleship sizes has begun. Japan, it is said, would limit such craft to 25,000 tons. England would cut them to 22.000 tons, some smaller powers would reduce them to 10000. Only the United States would keep the figure where it is now—at 35,000 tons. Back of all this difference of opinion are certain strategic considerations, of course; but the chief factor is the inability of naval experts to agree on what role the battleship will play In future naval warfare. The evolution of these gigantic fighting ships is interesting. Originally the battleship was simply a

grown-up cruiser. The old-time "line of buttle ship” of sailing days had three gun decks where the frigate, or cruiser, had but one. She presented her battery in three tiers; otherwise, she was Just like the smaller craft. The evolution of the revolving turret, begun with Ericsson's Monitor, led to anew kind of battleship, one which had a strong secondary battery arranged in a broadside, and a biggun battery of four guns, mounted in pairs in turrets. Then came the dreadnought type, in which four or six turrets were mounted on a line amidships, capable of being fired on either broadside, and the secondary battery was reduced to unimportance. It was then that the battleship really began to grow. Hulls were made larger and larger, armor plate was made heavier and heavier, the big guns were made more and more powerful; and now we seem to have reached the limit of useful size, so that some experts doubt if the huge battleship is really worth what it costs. The argument probably will not be settled until a large-scale naval war is fought and the relative value of the different types of fighting ship is decided in actual combat. And we can only hope that the United States fleet isn't one of those with which the test is made. THE DOUBLE STANDARD yAISQUIETING is a report by the office of education to the national conference on Negro education, now being held in Washington. According to this report: Approximately 1.000,000 Negro boys and girls of school age are not in school; Nearly one-third of all Negro pupils in rural schools never go beyond the first grade; Illiteracy in seventeen southern states and the District of Columbia is 16.3 per cent, compared with 1.5 per cent among w'hites; Nearly 40 per cent of rural Negro schools provides only benches, without desks, for pupils; eleven southern states spend an average of $12.57 for educating a Negro pupil, $44.31 for a w'hite child in fifteen states, 230 counties provide no high school facilities for Negro children; salaries of white rural teachers average $945, for Negro teachers $368; at least 30.000 more Negro teachers are needed. “Grave as conditions are which statistics disclose, we know the Negro education problem Is much more serious than the facts available reveal,” said Dr. Ambrose Caliver, specialist on Negro education. “The depression has erased much progress that had been made.” Lincoln said the republic can not exist half-slave and half-free. No more can it exist half-ignorant and half-enlightened. FRIENDLY GESTURE 'T'HE United States congress will do a graceful and a gracious thing if it follows President Roosevelt’s suggestion and orders returned to Canada the official mace of the parliament of Ontario, captured in the War of 1812 and now' held at the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis. As the President points out, for more than a century these two countries have maintained a completely unarmed and unfortified border; and no man in his senses supposes that the next century will bring any change in this policy. Whatever passions the War of 1812 aroused have died out generations ago, and any action that would help extinguish the last memories of bitterness would be a good one. This mace does the people of the United States no good; it is doubtful if one American in 10,000 even knows his government possesses it. To return it would be to emphasize the enduring solidarity of the friendly relations between the tw'o nations.

PRICE OF RUTHLESSNESS T} USSIAN authorities delving in the official archives in the town of Kazan recently turned up a good deal of material bearing on the execution of Alexander Ulianov, who ' was put to death in 1887 as a plotter against the czar's government; and the incident is a reminder that this execution was probably the most costly one the Russian government ever ordered. For Alexander Ulianov had a brother, who became world famous a generation later under the name of Lenin; and it was the execution of Alexander that started this Lenin on his revolutionary career. It made him an implacable and sleepless foe of czarism; thereafter he schemed and plotted and worked night and day for one aim—the overthrow of the czar's government. World history might be somewhat different if the czar had exercised a little leniency back in 1887. Threat of federal legislation has acted as a deterrent to lynching. Should congress adjourn without passing the Wagner-Costigan bill that threat would be removed. The strong arm of the federal government must be extended to insure to all persons ‘the equal protection of the laws.” ~ A Salt Lake City man stole a bathtub from a neighbor, but was caught when he couldn't make a clean getaway. A copper bathing suit was shown recently at the Inventors’ Congress’’ in Seattle. It’s all right for the police to wear bathing suits, so long as they leave the girls alone. Ferdinand Pecora reveals that New York Stock Exchange brokers had 270.000 margin accounts as of June 30, 1933. Suckers continue to bite, on and off season. A dog is being shipped from Boston to Copenhagen, carrying 476 fleas on its back. Bv the time the ship arrives, probably, the fleas will be carrying the dog. always thought the seven league boots wcie fairy tale products, but by the wav he's been reported all over the world, Dillinger must be wearing them. Senator Borah says bootleggers are diets# 1 - ing the liquor tax laws. Theyll do that at least until the saloon keepers get organized. H. G. Wells predicts war to come by 1940. So if you can hold on six more years, happy days will be back again.

Liberal Viewpoint — —B, DR. lURRY ELMER EARNER

SENATORS COPELAND, Vandenberg and Murphy have introduced a bill into the United States senate designed to restrain criminals from obtaining deadly firearms. This bill is motivated undoubtedly by the highest and most sincere aspirations. But it raises once more the fundamental question of whether crooks can be restrained by legislation which has as its primary and most direct result the disarming of honest citizens. We already have plenty of state laws which virtually prohibit the possession of pistols and revolvers. But these have had little effect upon criminals and gangsters, a fact which was made patent by the information gathered by Senator Copeland's own committee last year. Legislation prohibiting the possession of firearms will be respected only by the law-abiding citizens who would not use them in an antisocial fashion. The crook who would commit robbery or murder with them w r ould not be likely to respect the law prohibiting possession. But laws which prohibit the possession of such deadly small arms do not prevent the purchase of such weapons. Even if they can not be bought in any given state, they can be bought outside and brought in. If they could not be legally purchased in the United States as a whole, they could be obtained easily outside and smuggled in. Further, though there might be a world agreement to outlaw the sale of p:stols and revolvers, it would be perfectly feasible to carry on a bootleg manufacture of such weapons quite sufficient to meet the needs of the underworld. nun MOREOVER, were gangsters absolutely deprived of pistols and revolvers, they could easily buy a standard shotgun, saw' it off, load it with buckshot and make it much more deadly for a hand-to-hand encounter than any pistol or revolver. Were our criminals reduced to desperation in their effort to get deadly weapons, this would be equivalent to declaring open season upon policemen, deputy sheriffs, custodians and armories and others who have pistols, revolvers and submachine guns in their possession. The recent antics of Mr. Dillinger well illustrate this point. The net result of all such legislation is to disarm the law-abiding citizen and to guarantee the criminals relative immunity in their depredations upon society. I do not often agree with the Chicago Tribune, but there was much truth in one of its recent cartoons in which it portrayed the Copeland bill as, wittingly or not, “a bill to promote burglary.” The Copeland bill goes beyond earlier legislation in attempting to restrict the sale of ammunition as well as of firearms. The wording of the bill would clearly apply to all shotgun shells and to about 75 per cent of the ammunition used in the rifles w'hich are common in the United States. It makes it unlawful for a manufacturer to ship such ammunition in interstate commerce to anybody except a licensed retail dealer. It likewise makes it unlawful for a dealer to receive this ammunition from anybody except a licensed manufacturer. This eliminates both the wholesaler and the jobber in ammunition as a legal participant in the ammunition trade. The bill also renders liable sportsmen who quite innocently and unconsciously purchase ammuntion from a dealer who has not fully complied with the law'. The mere possession of such ammunition would be sufficient evidence to demonstrate his guilt, n n INQUISITORIAL powers are given the department of justice in the enforcement of this proposed law. Extreme though this bill is, it might prove only the opening wedge for more fanatical legislation. Many of the persons w'ho now are supporting this bill openly admit that they desire further legislation w'hich would compel every sportsman to register his firearms and store them in a local armory when not actively using them for sporting or target purposes. There is just one point upon which such prohibitive legislation would prove justifiable, namely, the absolute outlawing of the manufacture. sale and possession of machine guns and submachine guns by anybody save governmental agencies and officials. No private citizen could offer the slightest justification for the possession of such weapons for legitimate purposes. Moreover. the outlawing of such firearms would eradicate the most deadly possessions of our more dangerous gangsters.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

THEY were discussing Napoleon at luncheon in the Chilean embassy. Minister Bello Edwards. Chile's charge d'affaires, raised his eyes politely over his glass of red wine. “This is the anniversary of the day Napoleon died in St. Helena,” remarked one diplomat. “Oh, no—Napoleon died on May 10,” observed another. “The emperor died on May 8,” corrected a third. “Well. I always prided myself on being an expert on Bonaparte,” argued still another man. “He died —if I remember history—on May 7 1822.” Quiet, unobtrusive Minister Edwards finished eating a French pastry. No one had thougnt about consulting him. Suddenly he remarked serenely: “The Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte died on the Island of St. Helena on the morning of May 5, 1821. in his 52d year.” He rang the bell. Over their coffee cups, amazed guests saw an attendant bring Envoy Edwards an old calf-skin-covered volume. Napoleon collectors gasped as they recognized the first official edition of the "Code Napoleon.” In future, glib ones will not talk too glibly about Napoleon in Minister Edwards’ presence. a a a SENATOR BILL BORAH will head Idaho's congressional delegation when it goes to the White House shortly to present President Roosevelt an invitation—painted in oils on a piece of buckskin—inviting him to the Fort Hall Centennial celebration in August at Pocatello, Idaho. The invitation will carry a special Indian head design and Bethel Farley, Pocatello artist, has designed the rustic lettering. The buckskin on which it is to be painted was obtained from a Fort Hall Indian home. According to reports, the Pocatella celebration will be a real festival. The celebration committee points out the international touch of romance to the old Fort Hall, established in 1834, as it was run as a trading post of twenty years by the British-owned Hudson Bay Cos. The Governor-General of Canada and governors of neighboring states are being invited. nan IT seems that a couple of nine-foot “dragons,” captured on the Island of Komodo in the Dutch East Indies, are being shipped to the Washington zoo. Word that the dragons are coming here aroused great interest in the state department, where Walter Foote, former consul at Medan, Sumatra, is known as “the only state department man who ever captured a dragon.” Walter is planning an unofficial visit to the zoo as soon as the Komodo dragons arrive. “The one I caught in Sumatra,” he explained, “was ten feet long.” Mr. Foote was-lying in his hammock one hot day in Medan, when he suddenly heard a great screaming and commotion out front. He got up and saw his Malay servants fleeing in terror from a great animal resembling a giant lizard. Valiant Consul Foote leaped to the rescue. Breaking off the branch of a tree shaped like a prong, he pinned the monster to earth. Later, he presented the carcass tp a Chinese cook who made soup out of it. Much astounded was the Dutch LieutenantGovernor of Sumatra when he heard that Walter had given the Komodo dragon to a Chinese cook. “That animal,” he said, “was worth its weight in gold.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TRIES .

SPEAKING OF ENTANGLING ALLIANCES

The Message Center

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Male your letters short, so all can hare a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) WHY FUNERAL WAS HELD FOR E. M. B. A. By a Boarder on Strike. In answer to a boarder in the plant, yes, we buried the E. M. B. A., which was the only human thing members of a bona fide labor union could do. The E. M. B. A., or any company union, is not fair and square, and mc'st of them have sprung up since the NRA as a shielded substitute to try to stop dumb employes from joining a bona fide labor organization like the A. F. of L., and that is the reason the workers are on strike at the Real Silk plant. They are going to continue their strike until they have won. Section 7A of the NRA code gives any employe the right to join the A. F. of L., and that is the reason so many persons all over the United States have exercised this right and do not join the boss’ union, or in this case, the E. M. B. A. Employes loan money to the company at 3 per cent interest, but when they borrow, they are charged 8 per cent, so you see Mr. Goodman has a nice bank profiteering on his employes’ money. The reason Mr. Goodman will not sign with the A. F. of L. are that his help will cost him more money. Sanitary plant conditions must prevail. bonus and penalty system will be abolished and work distributed fairly among employes. RELIGION IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD By P. W. In the 600 block on North Delaware street is the Gospel tabernacle. I had forgotten its presence. Several years ago, when prosperity was in the land, it was my wont to steal an occasional Sunday evening from worldly pleasure, and, with a magnanimous spirit of Self-denial, give it to the tabernacle. I remember that at the time I was rather amused at the smilingly earnest face of Mr. Cook, the preacher. In the good old days all of us smiled. For, wasn't God good? ; Didn’t He give us plenty of good ! food, dress us in expensive clothes i and fill our pockets with money? j But were all of us earnest? Were we honest with and true to the God with a generous hand? Impelled by some secret urge, with the smile gone from my face and the money from my pockets, i last Sunday again found me in the 600 block on North Delaware street. I know that the tabernacle called to me out of the past. And Mr. Cook is still there with his smilingly earnest face preaching the doctrine of truth and loyalty to the finer things. Shaken financially, but still undaunted by the economic storm, his faith has lost for me its amusing qualities and appears in its sublimity. I have thought it over. After all we can t fool God, and I’m coming clean. ASKS ABOUT GUARDS’ GUN PERMITS By a Rrader. - I think I can rely on The Times to jarint this, so that citizens of Indiianapolis will understand the trouble at Real Silk. Pay was cut time and again, and according to J. A. Goodman we should be glad that he permitted us to work during the depression at half our old salaries. No one has told yet that some of the employes are sleeping at the mill, afraid to go home. If my husband was that yellow I'd put him out of his misery. The company provides music, too, radios having been brought into the mill. Those guards have not left. They

Company Union and “Yellow Dog ” Law

By FKRA Laborer. Strikers at Real Silk, Fulton, and National, I want to inform you through The Times that all your acquaintances in the labor movement are in sympathy with your struggle for the right to live. The last state legislature passed a law forbidding “yellow dog” contracts. It occurs to me that the company union at Real Silk has ear marks of a “yellow dog” violation. Now, a word to the workers who are still employed in Real Silk. You are sure sold on rugged individualism. Mr. Goodman is an ardent believer, so much so that he had a church built in his little home. He lives on “millionaire” row' and while at the plant he is dickering w'ith detective agencies to hire more guards to protect his employes.

merely checked out of their hotel and are ‘laying low.” These men are too dangerous to be left at large. Five or more of them attempted to attack a striker at his home last week-end! How can guards get licenses to carry guns? Some of them have permits and guns. Police check up their well being at intervals. Lieutenant Sheehan deserves quite a bit of stock in the company for the unusual pains he has taken in being especially brutal to the strikers. Oh, yes, the busses are still being run. screened to make accidents doubly sure. What is this thing called public safety? Those who are so satisfied with their salaries must be on the private pay roll. At least, the seamens must not be among those who were fired and replaced by new workers at the magnificent wage of $8 a week. Wonder if those still working think they will get rich quick by getting the strikers back at the $25 a head that J. A. promised them? Guess again! ana STRIKER S WIFE HAS HER SAY’ By a Striker’s wife. I would like to ask certain persons in Indianapolis why it is that they seem to know more about the Real Silk strike situation than the ones who are participating in it. I work with the public; consequently I have an opportunity to get the general consensus of opinion regarding this matter. It seems for the most part, the public believes the strike is not justified. These people are satisfied with the present wages; the strikers are not, and know that they are entitled to more. That is the trouble with our country today; we do not look into the future and fight for our rights, but are satisfied with prevailing conditions. Those strikers are pounding the pavement because they want a union mill and what goes with it. They are tired of dictators; they want a little sayso themselves. Isn’t that what our President wants—collective bargaining? J. A. Goodman gets 20 per cent more for hose than the union mills. He pays his employes 20 per cent less. Who gets the money? The employes don't. Ask J. A. if he is getting the hose elsewhere. If not, he had better quit advertising ringless hose. As there are not enough knitters working to run those stripers, yet enough is produced to fill orders. He can not possibly buy enough ringless hose, because union mills will not sell to him under present conditions.

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

Mr. Goodman is a first cousin in action if not in blood to John D. Rockefeller who taught a Sunday school class and hired thugs and gunmen to kill innocent women and children at Ludlow, Colo. Thirteen women and children ■were killed because their husbands and fathers dared to defy the “yellow dog” and ask for money instead of script. Furthermore, a recent episode happened to young J. D. in erecting of Radio City in New York. The w'orkers on the job were forced to kick back from $12.50 to S2O a week to the leeches who controlled the project. In conclusion, workers, build your own i.nion organization so it can not be fleeced from the inside or outside. Keep the power in the hands of the rank and file, for solidarity and unity of purpose will win.

BRANDS STAND ON STRIKE UNFAIR Bv a Bystander. I have been a reader of your paper for several years and always have considered it a fair and impartial one until the Real Silk strike. Your stand seems most unfair. I never have been a worker at the mills, but live nearby and know both, sides. Most persons do not realize that more than two-thirds of the mill force still is working, but it seems that the majority no longer rules. The barred bus came by my house with about 200 strikers following and throwing bricks. A few of the most rabid were arrested, but that was all. The Times squawked until Mr. Goodman got rid of his armed guards, and as soon as that happens the strikers really get rough. They thought it terrible when threatened by company guards, but feel it perfectly right and just if they bounce bricks off persons’ heads and endanger the lives of honest workers. a a a FUR COATS AND FINE CARS—THEY’RE ‘OUT’ By Striker in Dalton, til. Well! Mr Company Union Man. if women are sporting fine fur coats and your men driving fine cars, they are doing something the Real Silk workers can not afford to do. The men in this plant haven't made enough money in the last year to buy food and pay rent. As for fine cars, that is a laugh. The superintendent of this plant drives a car which is wobbly and about to fall to pieces. If he can't afford one, the rest of us can't. a a a INTEREST AROUSED IN BIRTH CONTROL By Old Woman in Shoe. With breathless interest I have read all of the letters on birth control in The Message Center. They have taught me to think more sanely on this subject. Several of them appeared to be written for the purpose of awakening interest in birth control. Os course I have had plenty of interest in the problem ever since I moved to the shoe, but I did not have the honesty and sanity to face the issue. a a a ASSERTS TAXES WORSE THAN DILLINGER By a Timet Reader. Where are the persons who say Dillinger is a crook? Have you ever taken a look around in your own city? I am not sympathizing with

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Dillinger. but how about you who-, are paying taxes in Marion county? I have a vacant lot in Perry town-* s ship inside the city. Nothing valuable whatsoever. The city appraiser appraised it for $450. Thai’ assessor of Perry township ap-“ praised it at $2,000. My taxes ara , S6B a year for a, vacant lot. I can at least see a little manli-. ness in what Dillinger does, but L,‘ certainly can't say the same of the' tax situation. •* a a a VETERAN SEAMER FAVORS STRIKE By a Seamfr. ** I am one of the oldest workers in; the seaming department. I have*’ yet to see us get a break from the! E. M. B. A. All we get is time’ lunch and minor things. Did we vote for the cuts we got?* No. You even have to be a good* friend of the forelady to sew well. All her friends are on three-way! machines. I am for the strikers! 100 per cent. Boys, you will win if you stay out. It is costing J. As Goodman far more than it is cost-* ing you. So far as the wages are con-; cerned, I know of a knitter who* makes $45 a week and five otherswho make $25 a week. You can’t, rate the whole department 6n one. man. I want to thank Tre Times; for being the only paper to pnntjfc the truth. I have taken The Timesfor seven years. a a a DILLINGER DEFENDER ! DRAWS CRITICISM By J. B. This is in response to a letter by' Mrs. Z. Burkert. You say you are; the mother of two little girls. I* feel sorry for them; I hope they! do not read what you write for the! paper. \ I suppose Dillinger is blamed for many things he does not do, yet. there are a lot of things he has! done. * One thing we do know, he was* in jail in Ohio, and two men killed . a sheriff, to get him out. Now, mother, as you call yourself, was he not the cause of the murder? You said you are one of the millions that are for Dillinger. I just * wonder if you mean? millions of mothers. Here is hoping they catch him*.’ before you read this. Daily Thought , O thou that dwelleth uoon manvwaters, abundant in treasures, thine! * end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.—Jeremiah, 51:13. THOSE who give not until they die, show that they would not , even then, if they could keep it any Hail. Night in Spring • by HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK Here on this hilltop in the wind There is no sorrow; none has sinned. With pale stars sighing overhead I find a silent, pulsing bed. I drink the flower of fragrant night; A turning flower, black and white. I sense slim growing, fecund plants That move in solemn, tribal tranceThe hours pass in slow array— Veiled dancers of the breathing night; Until the nude, cool forms of day I Appear, and cause their purple flight. I stand and view the coming dawn; Pain in my cheat; throat filled with , song.