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It Seems to He HEVWOOD BMUN DOLLFUSS is dead. Troop 6 march. War fleets chum through the waters. The strong man of Austria who turned the guns upon Vienna workers h d;ed. apparently at behest of another dictator. Proof mounts to underline the fact which long ago should have been apparent to the peoples of the world. The weakest of all governments ts that of the strong man. Facism carries within its heart the seeds of its own destruction. In every country it has brought blood and turmoil. Fascism makes murder run on time. It has masqueraded under various names in many lands but there is no mistaking the man on horsebark whether he ciK i U 1 himself Nazi, vigilante, kiar.sman or what you please. He ts the head-lov-v horseman crying out to all within the sound of his voice to follow him over the cliff.

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gency in the European situation which ought to alter America's steadfast determination to keep out of the remotest connection with hostilities. It will not be enough to declare a neutrality in thought and deed. Never again should we play the role of gunmaker for anv warring powers. We ought to be impatient with international lawyers who argue that we have the right to sell munitions to one or all parties engaged in armed conflict. Not one penny of blood money should be permitted to any merchant of death within our borders. It mav be argued that it is a little hysterical to assume that the shots fired in Vienna will be heard round the world. Another purge of peoples may be averted, but I do not think that there can be any such thing as undue haste in stressing the will of Americans to have nothing whatsoever to do with war. I am well aware that in the next few’ weeks or even months there will not be any visible support for a policy other than that of strict neutrality. Unfortunately we have before this seen men who cried “Peace! Peace!" and again ' Peace!” only to change their tunc. a a a Sparks of World Har AT the moment the death of Dollfuss and the mobilization of Italy's armed forces seem to have not the slightest connection with any American interest. But the episode is by no means as remote as the spark which killed a grand duke and sent millions of Americans overseas. It. will be said that there were •‘incidents” before we declared war upon Germany. It is inevitable that in any armed conflict there will be incidents. Thcv are bound to happen. In fact they can be made to happen. We might as well realize the fact that there are many powerful groups in America who secretly feel that a good rousing war would promote business and take the minds of millions of Americans off their economic worries. It doesn't matter particularly whether these gentlemen calculate with conscious cunning or are swayed imperceptibly by the inner urge of their own interests. The result can be the same. They will wait for the break. When the inrident conies, according to its cue, some high sounding slogan will be found to make American participation possible. There is no point in deluding ourselves into th" belief that every American is for peace. Nor can we bank upon the fact that the horrors of the last conflict are in themselves a certain deterrent. We must wax our ears against the sound of bugles and of drums. Wc must guard against contagion. To be blunt about it we must let war makers know here and now that anything but peace will be the warrant of their own destruction. Copvrtchf. 1334. bv The Timesi

Today s Science BY DAVID DIETZ

possesses free will. This is the latest IJL opinion of science, according to Dr. Arthur Compton, professor of physics at the University of Chicago and world-famous authority upon cosmic rays and the quantum theory. Dr. Compton bases his opinion upon one of the newer developments of quantum theory, the socalled Heisenberg "principle of uncertainty.’* first enunciated by Dr. Werner Heisenberg. Is man a machine? A few years ago Clarence Darrow went up and down the land debating the question with clergymen and others. But the question is much older than Clarence Darrow. During the nineteenth century, the answer to the question became increasingly "yes.” The structure of the universe, according to the nineteenth century science, was a mechanistic one in which the law of cause and effect ruled supreme. But the twentieth century scientists are no longer certain that cause and effect rule so supreme in the universe that one can imagine an unbroken series of causes extending from the events of today back to the events which took place when the solar system took shape. It is possible. Dr. Compton says, that we live in a world of chance in which man has free will and control of his own actions. 0 0 0 TH statement that natural phenomena do not obey exact laws marks perhaps the most significant revolution in the history of scientific thought. Dr. Compton says. "Faith in the reliability of nature.” he continues, "is the very bed rock on which the structure of science is built. Has science, with its continual searchings for fundamentals, finally undermined its own foundations? Or is it possible that under the new physics a more adequate picture of the world can be drawn, one in which purpose is effective and life again has human meaning?” Reisenberg's uncertainly principle may be briefly stated. It is that no possible experiment can tell us where a particular electron will be at a definite future time. The importance of this is not realized until we remember that the electron is the fundamental particle of matter. Everything in the universe—the earth, your body, the cells of your brain, are made up of atoms which in their turn are composed of electrons. Thus means, according to Dr. Compton, that "the laws of the new physics can not predict an event. They can only toll the chance of its occurrence.” The difficulty lies in attempts at making measurements. These attempts alter the possible results in such a way that they invalidate the exactness of the measurements n n a \S an example. Dr. Compton cites the measurement of a bullet s speed. Whatever is used to measure its speed, slows or deviates the bullet by an amount that can not be exactly predicted. Even if the shadow of the bullet is measured. Dr. Compton says, at least one panicle of light must collide with the projectile which has an mfinitesmal but possibly significant effect on it. If a radio ray, or other photo of lesser mass is used, the wave-length us so great as to defeat the purpose of predicting future position exactly. The bullet’s future motion can not be predicted exactly from a knowledge of its past history. Dr. Compton says. Large scale events follow laws, but these laws are. according to the uncertainty principle, only "statistical laws of prooabiiity.” The unpredictability of the actions of individual electrons is important because the motions of one electron may set off chains of activity resulting in large scale events. Dr. Compton gives a simplified example of how this might work. He imagines two photo-electnc ceils set up to intercept one beam of light, one of which would set off an explosion while the other would prevent it. Under no conceivable conditions cf control, he says, would it be possible to predict whether the first photon or light would strike one cell or the other.

The complications of the Austrian situation are many e\en though the fundamental lesson blazes like a signal fire upon a hilL And surely unless madness is pandemic the houkl be articulate. This is no whisper. The crackle of the flames cries out, “sheer off .” nun l . S. Should Keep Out w i THAT the next few days W will bring may not be foretold accurately. What happened twenty years ago should be graven upon our memory. There is no possible contin-

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Funeral Over, Mooresville Settles Down to Sedate Pace

BY HELEN LINDSAY Timr* Staff Writer LIKE a sedate Quaker lady, the little town of Mooresville attempted to settle down today to its usual quiet routine. The throngs that gathered in the usually peaceful streets yesterday were gone. The doors of the Harvey funeral home where crowds viewed the remains of John Dillinger, slain gangster, were closed. Leaning against one of the posts of the porch was a broom. Over the railing hung a somber strip of carpet. The wooden floor of the porch still showed the footmarks of the hundreds of curious who slowly paraded there Tuesday night. Mooresville housewives hurried along shaded streets to groceries. Meals must be prepared, in spite of the greatest excitement the town has ever known. Around the corner of one of the streets, a little girl ran, laughing, pulling her barefoot, tow-headed brother in a little rrd wagon. They seemed totally unaware of the fact that just a few hours before the body of America's most infamous criminal had lain within a block of them. 808 ON the corner in front of. the bank, proups of men were gathering today, discussing the details of the slaying of "Johnnie” Dillinger, the home-town boy who had terrorized the midwest in bank raids. Three high school girls stood in front of the drug store, eyes shining with the memory of the unusual excitement. A huge black sedan pulled up to the curb. Within, evidence of a happy vacation trip packed around them, were a group of tourists. The car bore a Pennsylvania licence. Three women and a man alighted. An elderly woman remained in the car. fanning industriously in the heat of the morning. The tourists entered the drug store, and stopped at the soda fountain. While they waited to have orders for cooling drinks filled, they sauntered to the post card rack. • Look, here are post cards of

TODAY and TOMORROW a a a bub By Walter Lippmann

WHEN the President announced that he was going on his vacation he said in effect that he not only wanted a rest, but that he wanted to regain his perspective, seeing the forest rather than the trees. This is an enormously difficult thing for a responsible man to do.

Mr. Roosevelt, for example hardly had started on his voyage when there appeared the threat of a general strike all along the Pacific coast. Appeals went out to him beseeching him to turn the Houston off her course, make a dramatic landing at San Francisco, and by the spectacular might of his presence impose a peace. It is easy to imagine the arguments for such a gesture. It could have been said that his whole recovery program would be jeopardized if the strike became embittered. prolonged and extended; that a failure of the recovery would mean his own political defeat. * It also could have been said by another school of advisers that since the strike was doomed to fail, a sensational intervention would give him lots of glory. To resist the hysterical appeals for help required composure founded on confidence in the working of American institutions; and, in his own disposition, it needed a freedom from the Messianic delusion to which public men are so susceptible. To resist the temptation to exploit the situation for an easy victory required not only a freedom from vulgar ambition, but a sure sense of what will really in the long run enable him to govern successfully. a a a HE chose not to let the excitement of a local crisis assume the proportions of a national emergency. The Houston proceeded on her course. This capacity to see correctly a complex situation and to make simple and decisive judgments is the test of statesmanship. It can not be acquired from statistical indicators; it can not be planned; it can not be reduced to a formula and applied by rule of thumb. It is a subtle combination of intuition and experience, of insight to the essential and a recollection of how men have behaved. It was in the month preceding his inauguration that the President was called upon to display such wisdom. The nation was moving through demoralization to panic. It was then that Franklin Roosevelt reached the conclusion which made the first months of his administration such a brilliant success. It was not a conclusion about devices and schemes and particular policies. ; A man without political wisdom might easily have lost himself in a jungle of proposals for doing this or that particular thing about this or that bank, this or that aspect of credit and currency and gold. The President had the insight to see that the crisis was fundamentally political in the sense that the people had become confused and frightened, because the government and their institutions were paralyzed and impotent. Seeing this, he took the decision to ask congress for a concentration of power in the executive. That was what broke the panic, opened the banks, and restored the morale of the nation. It was not done with the deuces of the emergency banking act; other devices might have been better. It was done by restoring the government as a point around which the nation could rally; by making a government strong enough to banish fear and allow private courage to revive. m * m IT has become increasingly evident for some time that events are shaping up where there is

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The thrill-filled last moments of John Dillinger’s hectic career are sketched here, on an actual picture of the scene, as the outlaw went to his death by federal bullets. (1) Dillinger leaves film theater, followed by two women. With a piercing look, he passes Melvin Purvis (2), department of justice investigator, waiting in front of an adjacent beer tavern to spring the trap; then (3) the women believed to ha\e led the outlaw To his doom fall back, and flee (4) as the cordon closes in on the quarry. (5) Bullets thud into the body of the gangster and he plunges dying into the alley.

Dillinger’s father, and his home,” one woman exclaimed to another. B B B PURCHASES were made, and the supply of cards was exhausted. With an expensive booking fountain pen, one of the women began hurriedly to address

required another decision, comparable in importance with that which led to the request for emergency powers. The panic at which they were directed has been ended. But the powers remain. They are vast, comprehensive and undefined and this means that in exercising them the President must delegate them to a great number of officials who become in effect lawmakers Ad Hoc. No one who appreciates the general condition of the world will, I think, be so foolish as to believe that normal conditions are restored and that government can proceed in its old routine. Emergency powers will have to be maintained and exercised for some time to come. But there is no reason why the administration should not now make manifest its purpose to substitute, where it can, settle policies for administrative discretion. It would be unwise, I think, to take irrevocable positions on such matters as gold, silver, and expenditure, though there is no reason why the administration should not make its intention plainer. But there are large sectors of the New Deal which have very little to do with any new emergency which might develop, where it is most desirable to reduce drastically the scope of administrative decisions. an n npHIS is particularly the case in respect to NRA and to the regulation of the capital markets. Here the government exercises a direct impact upon millions of workers, employers, bankers, investors, that is to say, upon the individuals who conduct the private business which must be made to recover. That recovery depends upon the enterprise of those individuals, and enterprise will not flourish under the pall of uncertain and undefined administrative powers. The outcry about "bureaucracy” is not to be dismissed as Mr. Farley. for example, has dismissed it. It has a foundation in fact. It expresses not a trumped-up grievance of reactionaries, but a true complaint which can not be ignored. It is, of course, easier to say that there should be settled policies than to define those policies. But in these matters if the direction and the intent can be established and can be made convincing, that will be enough at the moment. What is needed is to make perfectly clear to the people that the New Deal is not to be administered by fiat, that vital decisions affecting private enterprise will be made by the orderly procedure of open and considered debate, and that no one need fear that he will suddenly find himself committed to anew policy that some one has decided upon in Washington. In the determination of his basic atttitude the President saw in 1933 that what was needed was a concentration of power in order to restore morale. It is now the summer of 1934. and he might well see that what is now needed is the stabilization of power in order to provide private initiative with a sense of certainty. iCopyrigiit. 1934)

INDIANAPOLIS, THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1934

the post cards. They would tell the folks back home that this was the home of America’s arch criminal. "This is his father,” she wrote, addressing the card to Medbury, Pa. Just a short distance from the

SSO IS DONATED TO ‘CLOTHE-A-CHILD’ Junior Chamber of Commerce Sends Times Check. Remembering in the heat of the summer the need for winter clothing for the city’s indigent, the Junior Chamber of Commerce today sent a check of SSO to The Indianapolis Times as a starter on the annual Clothe-a-Child campaign, held each Yuletide. Fred E. Shick, president of the chamber, in a letter to The Times said, "As token of appreciation (for post co-operation) I, as president, enclose herewith a check payable to your order in the sum of SSO, as a contribution to the Clothe-a-Child, which worthy project your paper sponsors each year at the Christmas period.” EVANGELIST RELEASED AS BAIL IS LOWERED War Ace Impersonator Freed on $250 Bond. Roy L. Brow’n, evangelist and selfstyled conqueror of Baron von Richtofen, Germany’s premier World war ace, was released on bond yesterday after Judge Frank P. Baker granted its reduction to $250 in criminal court. Brown was arrested and taken to city hospital as a mental case several days ago after he was alleged to have accosted a Negro woman, supposed to be one of his religious followers. In his possession were found clippings relating to Captain Roy Brown. Toronto, the Canadian flier officially credited with having brought down Von Richtofen. The Indianapolis Brown is alleged to have told Negroes with whom he was staying here that he was the “supreme being.”

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e really should have a wider acquaintance. I never know any of the people these horrible things happen to.”

drug store was the real scene, also shown in the pictures. It was a quiet little cottage, perched on the top of a rocky hill. A barrel-stave hammock In the front yard held young members of the Dillinger family. Grouped on the porch and be-

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DAILY WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

WASHINGTON, July 26.—General Hugh Johnson is keeping up his record for esoteric expressions. His latest is “aerooagitics,” which he applies to big business barons. The word derives from Aeropagus, or Mars Hill, in ancient Athens, where sat a tribunal of unlimited authority. They were called aeropagites. John Milton used the. word aeropagatica as the title of an essay in which appealed for complete liberty in printing . . . Utah's wordy Senator William H. King, Mormon Democrat, may go the way of his famous one-time Republican colleague, Reed Smoot.

King faces serious opposition both in the primary and final election. The same young, progressive Mormons who brought about the defeat of Smoot in 1932 are after King's scalp, have put Dr. Herbert May, state senator and dean of the University of Utah, in the field against him for the Democratic nomination. . . . The FERA quietly is keeping in close touch with attempts to develop a southern newsprint industry. If the outlook proves sufficiently promising, Harry Hoppins is prepared to assist by supplying funds to house, furnish, and maintain the necessary labor, although not directly investing in the industry, . . The railroad brotherhoods have opened a special bureau in Washington to advise rail workers about the new railroad pension act. It is in charge of Lee M. Eddy, vice-presi-dent of the Railroad Telegraphers’ Union, and one of those who put the measure through the last congress. . . . Treasury department guards are being put through pistol practice, their range being located in one of the subterranean rooms of the building. u u n THE Blue Eagle housecleaning is getting serious. , . . The entire executive personnel is being fine-tooth combed secretly with the idea of making replace-

By George Clark

neath the shade of the trees in the yard were sorrowful-faced older members of the family. They were the aunts, uncles and cousins of the dead gangster. The excitement was over. John Dillinger had paid his last visit to Mooresville, his home-town.

ments where the individuals do not come up to scratch. . . . Several already have been bounced quietly, and the inside word is that others are slated for the skids. . . . North Carolina just has elected a congressman whose only chance of filling his seat is a remote one of a special session being called between now and next January. ... He is Harold E. Cooley, elected to the unexpired term of Representative Edward William Pou, who when he died was the oldest member in congress. . . . The Tennessee Valley Authority is having no trouble disposing of its government-produced electric power. ... It has applications on file from 283 towns, twenty-five counties and thirty-seven industries totaling many times the current now available. nun THE Aluminum Company of America, once the haughtiest of giant corporations, s is turning a New Deal face to the press—or at least to the Washington press corps. It has set up a public relations office in the capital, manned by a veteran news man and several young experts. They have begun a vigorous campaign of "education” . . . Secretary Henry Wallace is trying to sell the fine arts commission an idea for mural decorations in the new agriculture department administration building. He wants the walls to be covered with figures of American people and industry done in giant-sized relief in brilliant terracotta. Julian Lee Ruyford, young Mississippi artist and poet, conceived the plan ... It may be Washington's heat, but the commerce department’s elevator service suddenly has gone high hat. Employes carrying anything that looks like a package are ordered to take the freight cars. n n a ONE of the stumbling blocks to peace in the long-drawn-out Chaco war is the personal vanity of South America’s statesmen. Saavedra Lamas, Argentine foreign minister, wants to get the glory of achieving a settlement. So also does Chilean Foreign Minister Cruchaga. Brazil’s foreign minister, Mello Franco, thinks he is best qualified to do the job, since he already settled the Peru-vian-Colombian dispute. None of them will pull with another. (CoDvrieht. 1934. bv United Feature Syndicate. Inc.) ACCOUNTANTS TO FETE MEMBERSHIP TEAMS Winners in Campaign to Be Guests at Hartley Club. The two attendance teams of the Indianapolis chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants which have amassed the most points for new members and attendance will be honored by the board of directors at a golf match and dinner Saturday at the Hartley Hills*Country Club, Hagerstown. Captains of the successful teams are Leo B. OToughlin and H. F. Goll. Jesse C. Crim, Indianapolis, and Ray C. Teeter, Hagerstown, have charge of arrangements.

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fair Enough tnoKmut NEW YORK, July 26—It always will be a matter of regret that John Dillinger could not b turned over to Lewis E. Lawes, the warden of Sing Sing, for understanding and moral rehabilitation. The prison officials and police who did deal with the boy were a brutal lot. They only antagonized a sensitive youth, with no mother to guide him, and drove him to acts of mischief. * Dillinger suffered from a disease called claustro-

phobia which is a dread of confinement. The longer they kept him locked up the worse he felt about it. After one stretch of nine years in prison for beating up an old man while playing a game called rob-the-grocery-store, this dread became so pronounced that Dillinger was not himself any more. Thereafter whenever he saw a policeman he was reminded of the law. Whenever he saw the steel bars and iron-bound doors of a bank his thoughts returned to prison. In these moments he lost his poise, shot people, stole money and vio-

lated the traffic laws. The unthinking asked for vengeance. The intelligent person realized, with a sense of shame, that Dillinger. himself, was the one who had been wronged and that society was to blame. * a Confinement Dread In Bad THE dread of confinement is a common ail-, ment. Among its victims Is Owen Madden of New York, who spent some time with Mr. Lawes in Sing Sing and came out a better man. Mr. Lawes’ sympathetic understanding prepared him for a parole and an enviable success in the wildcat beer business in New York during prohibition. Mr. Madden's brewery, on the lower west side of New York, produced the best beer to be had in the east. It was free of seaweed and marine insect life and was esteemed so well that when the government raided the plant and took it over, the court solemnly ordered the agents to give it back. The agents had knocked in the door when they should have rung the bell. The agents also piped away some of Mr. Madden’s private property, to wit, certain quantities of beer. There may yet be introduced in congress a bill to reimburse him for this vandalism. With a love of clean sport cultivated at the ball games and gymkhanas held on the Sing Sing campus, Mr. Madden also became a manager of prizefighters. .The memorable tour of Primo Carnera from coast to coast in the course of which many opponents collapsed as though they had been threatened with death, is inscribed in the boxing guides as his contribution to pugilism. One opponent, in fact, insisted that he had been threatened with death and Primo was suspended for life by the New York prize fight commission. Ho was reinstated soon afterward, however. James A. Farley, the postmaster-general, then chairman of the prizefight commission, deemed it unfair to Mr. Madden to bar his fighter for long. Mr. Madden was trying to re-establish himself in society and Mr. Farley hadn’t the heart to deny him this chance. b b a Looks Rad for Madden 'T'HANKS to Mr. Lawes’ inspiring influence, Mr. A Madden also shunned evil companions and established relations with the late Larry Fay. Mr. FfJy controlled night clubs and taxi fleets and dealt in stimulants and milk. Mr. Madden was the welfare officer. He supervised the personnel. He let the personnel understand what was good for their welfare. If they did as they were told their welfare was okay. He was sent back for further rehabilitation by Mr. Lawes but his claustrophobia became so acute in less than one year that he was released again. At present he is making command appearances before the grand jury which is investigating symptoms of fraud in the sales of coal to the city. Mr. Madden, equipped for the world by Mr. Lawes, took a job with a coal company. The grand jurors seem to think there was something sinister about that. However, two state parole officers have shown the true scientific attitude toward a famous claustrophobia patient. These two, Corcoran and Doyle by name, constituted themselves a bodyguard for Mr. Madden and endeavored to shield him from all unkindness. They are the sort of parole officers, just as Mr. Lawes is the sort of warden, who might have rehabilitated John Dillinger if fate ever had thrown them together. Mr. Madden’s claustrophobia is bothering him severely just now. He is in great dread of confinement. The dread is aggravated by a demand from the government for $75,000 in income taxes. A1 Capone, another sufferer from the same malady, got eleven years for neglect of his income tax. Comparing Capone’s symptoms with his own, the patient has been feeling very 7 depressed. If society makes another Dillinger of Mr. Madden that will be society’s own fault. Society ought to know that it makes him nervous to be locked up. (Copyright, 1934. by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.)

Your Health BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN —

YOU are likely to have diabetes if any member of your family has had it. In other words, you inherit some defect of structure, perhaps related to the pancreas or some other glands. If your family, therefore, has had a history of diabetes, you should be particularly on your guard against various constitutional factors related to this disease. You should have regular examinations of the excretions of the bladder at least once every six months, to detect the presence of sugar at the earliest possible moment, and to provide for suitable diet and other medical control when sugar is found. The occurence of diabetes in twins has been observed frequently by physicians. In practically all of these cases, the twins were what is called similar, instead of dissimilar, twins. a a a IN a Boston clinic, twenty-six of the patients with diabetes were found to have twins —thirteen similar and thirteen dissimilar. Among nine of the thirteen sets of similar twins, both were diabetic, whereas only two of the thirteen sets of dissimilar twins were both diabetic. This is, of course, about what could have been expected, since it is known that similar twins tend to develop physical disturbances of the same type. As evidence of the extent to which diabetes is inherited. the condition has been found to occur ten times more often in the brothers and sisters of diabetic patients than in persons generally. Moreover, it is found that many of the blood relatives of patients with diabetes develop the presence of sugar in the excretions without actually having diabetes itself. a a n • INVESTIGATORS are convinced that there exists a potentiality or likelihood for developing diabetes which is transmitted in human beings according to the laws of heredity. There are often physical factors involved as well as the factor of likelihood. The presence of overweight, the eating of vast amounts of carbohydrate food, which throws special stress on the organs involved in digestion and in the handling of sugar by the body, the existence of nerve strain and stress may throw pressure on weakened organs and tissues which will produce the disease much more certainly when the likelihood exists than when it is absent.

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