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WEDNESDAY JULY 25 134. SLEEP, LITTLE MAN 'T’HE body ol John Herbert Diiiinger was ■*- back home today—back home for burial m a plot at Crown Hill cemetery. Throngs of morbidly curious made frantic efforts to catch a glimpse of John Dilnnger's mourning relatives, of the funeral services and of the coffin that bears the body of the man known as America’s most infamous criminal. It is puzzling to thinking persons to even approximate a guess to the reason for the peculiar mob adoration that has attached itself to the DilUnger myth John Diiiinger was a myth in himself. For ne was not a big-time criminal, not a big-time gunman, as America, oddly enough, uses the words •’big-time." John Diiiinger was a petty, little gunman who by chance became known as the leader of a band of ruthless desperadoes. Whether Diiiinger was the leader of that gang is problematical. There are those who claim to be on the "inside” who say that Harry Pierpont, that shallow, vain killer, was the leader. Still others contend that John Hamilton, still free, was the boss of this gang of cheap criminals which gained itself notoriety. Diiiinger was a little man. He proved that by his actions after his parole from prison. More than 150 persons who lived in Moores' ville signed a petition pleading for Dillinger's release. John Diiiinger had a pledge to fulfill to those Mooresville residents who, by signing that petition, had testified that they knew John Diiiinger would “go straight.” But. Diiiinger was not big enough to go straight. His father and others of his relatives have said repeatedly that a long first term had ruined the young man. The truth of the matter, probably, is that Diiiinger didn't have the nerve to go straight. He couldn't stand up and take it like a man. John Herbert Diiiinger—the little manstayed in the path of crime—the easiest path to follow. There was no mercy shown to Sheriff Jesse Sarber in Lima, 0., the day Diiiinger was set free. There was no mercy shown to Patrolman William P. O'Malley in East Chicago the day Diiiinger was behind the machine gun. There was no need for mercy to John Diiiinger last Sunday night when he was trapped by federal agents. John Diiiinger lived the life of a little man. He died a little man with the bullets of the law thudding into his body. Sleep, little man.

RUSSO-AM ERIC AN RED TAPE SHUFFLING along at an indifferent pace the state department announces that it soon will resume negotiations over Russian debts and claims in Washington. Almost a year has passed since formal recognition and nothing has happened. The vista stretches far along the red tape until it is lost among the bureaucrats—in Washington and in Moscow. But our government is more to blame, because America has more to lose than Russia by this delay. We are desperately in need of Russian trade. Russian orders to help us out of our depression. Russia would prefer to buy from us. but if necessary is content to buy from our foreign competitors in increasing quantities. Meanwhile, our trade dwindles. There is no sense in this, no business judgment. Russia not only is a good and much needed customer for us. Os more importance in these days of local and international default, Russia is one of the best if not the best credit risk in the world. It has been stated on the floor of the British house of commons that Soviet Russia is the only nation that has paid all of its foreign commercial bills, without a penny of default. Certainly Soviet Russia has a high credit rating among the largest American banks and corporations which have been doing business with her for years. To speed that desired Russian trade our government organized the export-import bank. When congress passed the Johnson law restricting credits to debt defaulting nations. our government institutions such as the export-import bank were specifically exempted. But our government officials in charge of the export-import bank adopted a do-nothing policy pending settlement of the old pre-soviet {Russian debt and the claims and counter connected with the Russian revolution land the American military intervention. * The Kerensky debt of $187,000,000 is small, and at the refunding figure granted to nations which are now in default would be infinitesimal. Fair settlement of claims and counter-claims, as in the case of American disputes with Mexico, Great Britain and others, will require years of patient work by a mixed-claims commission. One month s time should be ample for the Washington and Moscow governments to agree on terms of submission of these claims and counter-claims to neutral adjudication. Russia can afford to wait. We can not. This needless barrier should be pushed aside at once, so that the waiting flow of credit and trade can begin. If we wait too long, Russia will be tied up with machinery and orders with Great Britain and others who then will retain almost automatically the Russian market for replacements and follow orders for years to come. Surely such outstanding realists as Secretary Hull and Russian Ambasasdor Troyanovsky, who are to conduct the negotiations, can not be satisfied with the absurd delays which have marred American-Russian relations since recognition.

HUMANITY TAKES HOLD THERE is a certain large American city which possesses an enlightened and active Juvenile court. Not long ago one of the city's newspapers set out to compare the way youthful offenders are handled by this court with the way similar offenders were handled before the court was established. What was learned is worth repeating here as an object lesson. Consider the case of Jimmie, for instance; Jimmie, the 11-year-old who kept running away from home and who said he was going to go on doing it. The Juvenile court authorities had a talk with Jimmie. They found out that he ran away from home, very simply, because he was unhappy there. He felt that he wasn't getting the breaks; his older brothers lay abed late and had nothing to do after they did get up, but Jimmie was routed out at 6 every morning and kept at a routine of household drudgery all day long. He had no time to play and h got precious little love or attention. So the court’s first step was to give Jimmie a room in the juvenile detention home—a clean, up-to-date building surrounded by playgrounds and equipped w'ith books, toys, and so on. not in the least like a Jail. While Jimmie stayed there, enjoying life for a change, court officers went to his home and began the job of straightening out things with his parents so that, when he came back, he could have something like a normal boyhood and something like a fair break in the division of family duties. The reporter who learned all of this, having seen how a lad like Jimmie fares when an enlightened and conscientious juvenile court looks after him, then tried to find out what used to happen to such a boys a decade or more ago. before the court was functioning. The contrast is enlightening. Ten years ago the cop who picked Jimmie up would have lugged him off to jail, forthwith. The only questioning he got w'ould have been from policemen; he w'ould have spent some time in an unclean cell, in close proximity to drunks,'aged vagabonds, pickpockets and all the other bits of human driftwood that land in the police lockup. Eventually he w'ould have gone back home —carrying a stigma. His parents would have paddled him, the neighborhood children w’ould have teased him, nothing would have been done to alleviate his unpleasant home conditions—and, in all probability, by this time he w'ould have developed into a full-fledged outlaw, an enemy of society made bitter by society's injustice. An ounce of prevention, they say, is worth a pound of cure. A juvenile court which keeps unfortunately-placed youngsters from growing up into crooks is worth, to the city w'hich supports it, infinitely more than it can possibly cost.

NEW DEAL LIBERTIES A VERY interesting and informative document is “Liberty Under the New Deal—’’ annual report of the American Civil Liberties Union. It surveys the whole field of civil liberties in the last year, and finds: That the rights and liberties of the people are more respected under the New Deal than they were under the old. That, contrary to its critics, the New Deal has not gagged the press or the radio, and that there is more freedom of expression today than before the New Deal. That minorities have been better treated—persecution of aliens has abated, Indian affairs are handled with greater sympathy and understanding, more liberal colonial policies have been adopted, marines have been ordered home from Caribbean dependencies, and the Philippines have been started toward independence That the oppressions which afflict the people are holdover practices of the old deal rather than Innovations of the new', and that the chief critics of the New Deal are the chief oppressors. That even under the New Deal, the United States has not regained its once proud status as an asylum for political refugees, and the persecuted, fleeing from Fascist dictatorships, knock in vain at our doors. That entrenched privilege has been able to frustrate the efforts of the New Deal to make good on its promises to labor implied in its encouragement of the formation of trade unions, that collective bargaining is a right asserted in law but not protected in practice “It is obvious, therefore,” concludes the Civil Liberties Union, report, “that in those fields where economic issues of pow'er and privilege do not involve its policies, the New Deal makes for a larger exercise of civil liberty. But when those policies affect the profits and pow'er of the ruling economic class, it is timid or ineffective. Despite the unparalleled power of the federal government, effective control over the exercise of civil, liberties in the United States rests w'here it always has been—with the masters of property.” ,

NOT SO SECRET SERVICE TJ' FFICIENCY of federal officers in finally getting Dillinger has not altogether quieted the public grumbling about the number of criminals who never are caught. This blame, it seems to us, does not properly belong to the federals Thev work under many handicaps not suffered by English and other foreign officers with whom they so often are compared unfairly. Some of those handicaps, now partly overcome by new legislation, have been inadequate appropriations for men and equipment and the conflicting jurisdiction of legal forces apparently inherent in our system of forty-eight states. Inefficiency and police corruption, arising from gangster alliances with politicians, has been rare in the federal service and unfortunately not so unusual in certain local police forces. All of this was demonstrated by the Wickersham report on the subject. ' • But when these allowances are made and full credit is given for the particular apprehension of Dillinger. there seems to be one serious fault which should be corrected. They talk too much. At the moment several of the officers connected with the round-up of Dillinger ar* explaining their methods, even to the point of hinting at the identity of the informers, who put them on the right track. One is quoted as saying it was a “woman in red,** friend of the outlaw; another that it was a Croatian gambling companion. Though the local police are doing most of the talking, the United

States department of justice officers also are doing some of it. They should follow the example of the effective United States secret service and Scotland Yard, which keep their mouths shut. Most such police work depends on informers. How' do they expect to catch the rest of the Diiiinger gang unless citizens afraid of being put on the spot know that the source of information will be protected? A MOUTHFUL SIGHTSEERS in Washington soon will find it necessary to take a very, very deep breath when passing the home office of the commerce department—biggest building in the capital. Stone-carvers are at work on inscriptions that will run along the top of the building’s four sides. Royal Cortissoz, art critic, wrote the inscriptions, and Mr. Cortissoz apparently is not one to be feazed by a blank space longer than a city block. Like the magician and his rabbits, he can pull out of his hat a sentence to fit any given space. Here is one of the Cortissoz mouthfuls now being immortalized. Breathe deeply and try it: “We rest upon government by consent of the governed and the political order of the United States is the expression of a patriotic ideal which welds together all the elements of our national energy' promoting the organization that fosters individual initiative.” Looks like the chance of a lifetime for a copy editor equipped with a chisel.

AFTER THE VOTING 'T'HE voters at Danville, Ky., hanged a state legislator in effigy the other day. The gentleman in question had promised his constituents to vote against a sales tax bill in the legislature. For one reason or another, it is charged, he forgot the promise; so the boys back home got a rope and a stuffed dummy and expressed themselves about it. Now' this sort of thing wholly aside from the merits of this particular case, or the benefits or otherwise of a sales tax—is w'hat we need a lot more of in politics. Voters who hang a legislator in effigy are at least showing a keen interest in the way they are being governed. Public apathy is the greatest of all foes of good government. Voters who express themselves as these Kentuckians did are not letting things go by default. CAUSE FOR TROUBLE DOWN m New York City, there is a gentleman who has maae millions out of strikes. For years he has been supplying big industrialists w'ith strike-breakers, and the business has been a profitable one. And while the present era has put a lot of business his w'ay. he doesn’t like the looks of the signs and portents. “I’ve been in this business a long time," he says. “I’m no chicken. I’ve made millions breaking strikes in this country. There’s plenty of trouble ahead . . . We’re going to be lucky if we save this country from a revolution." It is probable that this gentleman is taking an unduly pessimistic view of the situation. But it might be added that if the workers of America ever do get into a revolutionary mood, one of the prime causes w'ill be the activities of the men who make a business of supplying professional thugs to act as strikebreakers, guards and strong-arm men in industrial disputes. The Nazis still are trying to. shoot their way into control of Austria, and if they ever get in they'll continue to shoot others out. A Tennessee professor says the people are getting harder to fool. But still not so hard as to quit voting for the wrong candidates. But even though it’s a marine affair, you couldn’t call it an admiral strike, could you?

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

WALTON MOORE, assistant secretary of state, the other day revealed the reason why he is called “Judge.” Other assistant secretaries are alw’ays “Mr. Secretary, but Mr. Moore is known to everybody as “Judge” and by no other title. . In the old days when Mr. Moore had nothing to do with the state department, but was a congressman, he met a colleague from Texas in the Capitol. "Good morning, Judge!” said the colleague. “Why do you call me ‘Judge’,” inquired Mr. Moore. “You know very well I’m not a judge. ’ "I’ll tell you,” replied the other. "Down in Texas w r hen we meet a man and he’s very handsome we call him ‘Colonel.’ If he’s passably good looking we call him ‘General,’ and if he s ugly w'e call him ‘Judge.’ ” “But I turned the tables on him.” smiled Moore, as he told the story. "I stretched out my hand and said: ‘Happy to know you, Mr. Chief Justice’.” a u a THE noted Argentine artist, Senor Don Cesare Bernaldo Quiros, w'ho has painted many Washington celebrities, has taught capital personalities anew trick. He can knock the top off unopened wine bottles with a carving knife. At a picnic given by the charge d'affaires of Chile, Senor Edwards, it w ; as found that —although there were twenty bottles of delicious red and white Bordeaux wines—nobody had a corkscrew. “Wait a bit!” said Artist Quiros. “Just give me a carving knife.” He seized the knife in one hand, held an unopened bottle in the other, gave a quick flick of the blade—and off popped the top of the bottle. "Bravo! Bravo!” cried the enthused guests. “Now. another,” commanded Quiros. He flipped top after top into the air, as admiring picnickers gathered on all sides to view the performance. u a MR. OSCAR BLANCO VIEL, once the most widely talked about Latin American diplomat in Washington, has been shifted from his post as counselor of the Chilean embassy in Paris and sent to the Netherlands as charge d'affaires. A wire to a friend first announced the promotion. It read: “Oscar Blanco is to make his bow this month at the court of Queen Wilhelmina as Chile's charge d’affaires.” The picture of the debonair Oscar with his brilliant bow tie. curly black hair arid silverheaded walking stick as a diplomat at the court of venerable Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands has greatly amused acquaintances here. It is conceded, however, that Oscar will fill the role to perfection. Oscar was noted more than any other Latin American diplomat for the variety of his famous Dutch treat suppers and an envoy of the NethenSands appropriately remarked: “Well, now he can give his Dutch treats in the land of Dutchmen.**

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Hake your letters short, so alt can have a chance. Limit them to 2-’>o words or less.) a a a URGES BIBLE ADVOCATE TO CONTINUE STUDY By Jack Dolan. The Girl Evangelist is to be complimented on her courage in defending her cause as she sees it. Her letters to The Messagfe Center are interesting and carry the earmarks of a sincere student. It is to bq hoped she continues studying her Bible, its origin, and history, until she becomes familiar with all the facts. Has the Bible been revised? Look up The Times issue of March 4, 1933. See what chapter President Roosevelt placed his hand upon in his 200-year-old Bible while taking the oath of office. Then see if you can find that same chapter in your Bible. On further investigation you will find all the “isms” that seem to worry you will simmer down to one “ism”—socialism. Socialists have continually and consistently worked for the uplift of the human family Irrespective of race, creed, or color. They are no more or no less concerned with religion lhan any other political party. Why should any religious person take issue with a principle of this kind? Don’t you think it is time to lay off the “isms” for a while and do a little housecleaning? Cite me one religious organization that ever got strong enough to make a noise but what has executives who wallow In luxury while the tail-end of its organization is in infirmaries with petty politicians grafting on it without a protest. Surely you do not claim this nation is run.by anti-Christians. Then what is wrong? Why all the poverty with an inexhaustible supply of God-given resources? It is safe to say half our population is undernourished, while the major portion of the nation's income is going into the hands of a few persons who have already got more now than they will ever be able to use. Isaiah 65, 21-22: “They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat.” The Socialists are doing their utmost to fulfill this prophesy; they invite a rigid investigation. In return they ask you to investigate yourself with equal prudence. a a a CLARIFIES ATTACK ON HANDLING RELIEF By Sherman Long. My letters which appeared,in The Times a few days jigo, charging unfairness in federal emergency relief administration layoffs, drew considerable comment and criticism from both friends and foes. I am glad to say that some of my opponents possessed a mild and pleasant personality and were very kind and considerate of my feelings. The article as a whole was denounced as unreasonable and illogical. I did not intend to make a direct attack on any one for, the mere sake of vengeance or recompense, because my undying respect for the God-sent principles of collectivism hardly would permit me to make a direct or personal attack on any individual. Nevertheless, I am hu-

ANOTHER STRIKE CALLED OFF

Wherein John Q. Public Is Chided

By P. R. T. Since first labor arose to its hind legs and served notice upon business that it intended to fight for better conditions and a right to sell its only commodity on terms laid down by labor, there has been a series of brands tacked upon it and the efforts to accomplish the ends in view. Each battle, usually brought about by pugnacious armed guards and strike breakers, has brought the cry of radicalism, nihilism, socialism and bolshevism, and now the red cape of the moment, brought to scare that flighty old bull, public opinion, wears emblazonized the title “communism." It seems that nothing horrifies John Q. Public (the Q for quiet) like the cry of radicalism. And nothing infuriates him more than to have his inherent rights to burn up gasoline interfered with and to force him into ignominiously trudging off to his business. Suddenly he learns that the Greek and Chinese restaurateurs have been asked pointedly to cease abuse of his palate and that he probably shall have to pack a lunch, or ride a bicycle. To top it off, he finds that ac-

man and am subject to mental weakness at critical moments! I trust with all sincerity that the readers understand thdt I do not consider myself one bit more worthy than any other of the relief workers. It was not for my sake that I took such an attitude of the situation, but for the economic security of my children. I might call attention to last winter, when I worked on the Civil Works Administration, I was on the job every day except when the weather was decids.l by the majority as not being permissible. I only lost thirty minutes of my own accord and I was on duty at least twenty-six minutes of that time, yet I acecpted the thirty-minute deduction with but little protest. I feel sure that I .am sufficiently able to prove that my dismissal could not have been credited to inefficiency, inability, or lack of interest or effort on my part. This, as well as many technical points should have been considered, but I notice this was not the case on any of the projects where workers were discharged. May I state once more that it is not my desire to -Jo personal injury to any one. I'm aware of the fact that I might have been a little too personal in my previous comments; however, those who accepted it as offensive need not accept this as in the least apologetic or compromising, as the object is rather for clarification. DECLARES G. O. P.*RULES RELIEF PROGRAM Bj T. Johnson. Just why must Indiana continue to suffer from partial distribution of federal relief? Our Governor made the great mistake of appointing some men to take charge of matters, particularly William Book, and results are such now that a Republican machine is being built up. Republican policy was repudiated at the last election. The public wanted the party out and wanted anew deal. President Roosevelt had the nerve and audacity to do the right thing but many public servants are doing

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

customed as he is to caviar and champagne at the end of the day, he must now subsist a little while on, say, side meat and beans, and also his own beer; because the dispensaries have followed the policy of the restaurants. He also, if he craves amusement, must stay home and bear up with the radio, or a book, for Peggy Flicker is upon a vacation. The operators have refused to operate. “Why, this is rebellion?” cried John Q. (the Q for querulous.). “It must be put down.” “Bravo,” whispers a little bird. “Don’t let any one interfere with your right to work for S2O a week. Jones world grab the job at $lB. Organize some vigilante committee and raise a bit of hell yourself. The Communists can’t tell us what to do.” Then with patriotic heart pounding proudly in puffed chest, J. Q. P. once more pulls old Henry Moneybag's chestnuts from the fire and the country is safe once more for Democratic and Republican plunderers. * And the striker who can't tell a Communist from an avocado crawls into a corner to lick his wounds and wonder.

their utmost to hinder the effectiveness of the work. The Republican party has taken charge of federal relief work in Indiana. A study of the roster of employes will disclose that many leading Republicans have charge of the important work in this state. Rumor has it that Governor McNutt appointed John Duvall, former mayor, to one position in the relief program. There are many others entrenched also and how they got in no one knows. If we are to have a new deal, we should at least have persons administer it who are in sympathy with the movement and want it to succeed. I have been both a Democrat and Republican-. I voted for the New Deal because the old gang was rotten. Why not try to give the Roosevelt program a chance? a a a POSTAL SERVICE REGIME LAUDED Bt J. G. C. Whoever “I’m Telling You” is, he most certainly must net work in the postoffice. His message sounds like a dead letter to me. There have been thousands of promotions in the postal service since Mr. Farley has been postmaster general. The substitute clerks have made more money in the last sixteen months than in any other six-teen-months period of their service. I personally know two substitute clerks who bought new automobiles only last week; that sure points to prosperity. Just the other day an order came for all subs to report for work every day. Increased business made their services necessary. The large cities are not moving as fast as the small ones, because money is going back to the people. In 1929, all the money in the country was piled up in two large cities of the United States. Under the New Deal, money is Circulating among the masses of the people. In time, the large cities will get their share of this business, as soon as the farmers’ and small towns’ purchasing power is restored. Mr. and Mrs. Public know our country is on the right road to recovery, and it will take more than wooden pistol politics to fool them.

.JULY 25, 1934

I have heard no complaints of the so-called curtailment of the postal service. Mr. Farley seems to be the ablest postmaster-general the United States ever had. a a a PRAISES SUPPORTER OF PRITCHARD FOR MAYOR By Charles E. Schumacker. Regarding the debate between Mr. Adams, Mr. Cusick and others on Arthur Gresham's indorsement of Walter Pritchard and Georg:* Coffin, I do not know either man personally, but I do know Arthur Gresham—in fact, I went to school with him and have known him for the last twenty-five years. The argument seems to be that Mr. Coffin is a politician, and for this reason should have nothing to do with the Republican party or Mr. Pritchard's campaign for mayor. If Mr. Coffin has an organization built up of such men as Arthur Gresham, then I think it must be a pretty good organization, and Mr. Coffin must be pretty smart. a a a CRITICS OF BIBLE CALLED ILLOGICAL By F. Harvpy. The Bible defenders have been accused of lacking logic. It appears that my letter to this column, either was ignored or measured in that same half bushel that Bible critics use on the word of God. A traveler who arrives at a wrong destination, gives evidence that he has been traveling the wrong road. Logic is a correct form of reasoning, and leads to a correct conclusion. He who reaches a wrong conclusion, gives evide ice that he is lacking in logic. The Bible's critics reach a wrong conclusion when they say the book is not inspired. Two things prove its inspiration, it is unfailing in its many prophecies and it inspires man with God. When a street car hauls passengers, few doubt it is connected with the power house. If a well meaning person erred in saying, “One must believe,” then I shall inform any to whom belief seems repulsive, that another course Is open to man. He can doubt ar.4 suffer the consequences. A m-n doesn’t have to believe that Franklin Delano Roosevelt is President. If he desires to be laughed at by kindergarten children, he can doubt. If a man carelessly electrocutes himself, we do not rave about the terrorism of electricity. If we did, those who enjoy their electric appliances would laugh us to scorn. Yet when a man by his folly, brings on his head destruction, persons accuse God of injustice.

MOMENT

BY HARRIETT SCOTT OLINICK I am adream with happiness. He loves me; he has said the words. My thoughts have daring, shining wings; They swoop and sing like mating birds. Tonight the stars have lit their flames In yellow paths across the blue. For me the moon wears apricot; For me she dons a silver shoe. t Hearts may be breaking as I sing But none can wilt my flower. Tonight I am beloved; I dream, And steep in this, my little hou**^