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SATURDAY. JULY 29 1934 POLICE LAWLESSNESS *hail make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech ... or the right of the people peaceably to assemble”— Constitution of the United States. * We re waiting for the owner of the lot to give a written permit, and anyway, these other fellows will be going back to work at 1 o'clock so we ll hold him until then —Captain Ed Helm of the Indianapolis police. Yesterday the local police kidnaped Tom Smith, an American citizen, and forcibly detained him without placing any charge against him. Mr. Smith had been conducting a meeting to discuss the labor problems of Kingan 6c Cos. He had obtained the permission of a lot owner to collect his audience on private property. Captain Helm, acting entirely upon his own initiative, decided to break up the meeting. The Kingan management had made no complaint, knew nothing of the incident until it was all over. Even if the packing company had asked for police action the authorities could not have interfered under the law. It is obvious that the captain merely made up his mind to do a little bootlicking in an effort to curry favor with an important corporation. The sooner that the Indianapolis police learn that the Constitution was written to protect the rights of ALL citizens the better it will be for this community. That great basic document of American philosophy does NOT say: "Congress .'-hall make no law abridging the freedom of speech except when labor troubles are under discussion or the right of the people peaceably to assemble unless they assemble to attack industry.” We are not criticising Kingan's labor policies. We understand that the packing plant has recognized the American Federation of Labor and is living up to Section 7A of the NRA. But we believe that all industry should do what It can to discourage police lawlessness. A Democratic administration is responsible for the city's government. Presumably it is in sympathy with the New Deal. It is high time that Mayor Sullivan and Chief Morrissey acted to curb their subordinates to prevent such disgusting displays as that of Captain Helm yesterday. HITLER S RETREAT Mussolini is being cheered as the international hero in the Austrian crisis. He deserves credit for acting quickly to warn Germany that Austrian independence is inviolate. Italy's selfish interest in retaining a buffer Austria between herself and encroaching Germany happened in this instance to jibe with the larger interest of world peace. But we are inclined to think that Hitler should share the peace laurels with Mussolini. Sometimes a retreat requires more courage than an advance. And Hitler certainly has been running backward very fast during the last two days. Whether Hitler had any direct connection with the Austrian Nazi rising perhaps may never be known, but his indirect responsibility was clear. When Hitler's minister m Vienna tried to help the Dollfuss assassins escape safely into Germany, the danger of allied intervention in defense of Austria and against Germany became immediate. Fared by the united powers of Europe and hostile world opinion, a quick Hitler retreat W'as in order. Although that seems obvious from a distance, it could not have been easy for Hitler. Because he was letting down not only his Austrian followers, but also the German Nazis. To retreat. Hitler had to breast the Nazi fanaticism which he himself had evoked. This will not increase his popularity In his own party. Even so. Hitler is not yet in the clear in the Austria crisis. Several hasty gestures of professed neutrality by the Berlin government have helped to preserve European peace during the last forty-eight hours, but that neutrality will not be taken seriously for long if Hitler persists in allowing his armed Austrian Nazis to use Germany as a military base for Austrian invasions. Hitlers retreat is not finished. CONSIDER THE CAUSE "D UNNING down the big-time crooks and Putting them behind the bars or under the sod is an important job. and we seem to be doing well at it of late. An equally important job. which, so far. we have hardly so much as thought about—is finding out how the big-time crooks get that way. What happens, along the line between babvhood and adulthood, to turn a man into an enemy of society? Why does one man grow up into a useful citizen and another into a gangster? Is there any wav in which we can develop more of the first kind and fewer of the second? When you get to wondering along these lines, it's often useful to have a look at juvenile court records. These will show you some rather surprising things. They show, for one thing, that the great cause of crime is—poverty. Not the poverty that makes a man steal to get bread for his family, but the poverty that condemns a child to be brought up m a congested slum, with the street for his playground and his whole environment a subtle but powerful force to teach him that organised society is his enemy. Look at these figures from the Juvenile court of a ’••presentative city such as Cleveland. There are two comparable congested areas in that city, each inhabited by people of the

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same racial stock. In one area the people are fairly well off; in normal times, the average family income there ranges from $1,500 a year to $2,500 a year. In the other area the people are poor, with average family incomes running between SSOO and $1,400 a year. The more prosperous area last year had one delinquent boy to every 910 inhabitants —29 delinquents, altogether, for the 26,000odd people in the area. The poorer area had one delinquent boy to every 183 inhabitants—a total of 154 delinquents for the 28 000 residents. Furthermore, for the city as a whole, families which receive help from charitable agencies, or families whose incomes are just big enough to provide the bare necessities of life, contribute more than 70 per cent of all the city’s delinquents. These figures speak for themselves. Poverty means crime. Slums mean gangsters. No attack on the crime problem can lead to a permanent solution, unless it includes some program for meeting the difficulty right at the source—in the dreary streets where our "underprivileged'’ citizens live.

WHY BLAME BOOTLEGGERS? LIQUOR tax receipts are disappointing to government revenue officials, who lay the blame on bootleggers. Anew rum row is forming off the North Atlantic coast, and there is talk of enlarging the coast guard. In "dry” Florida, some local police keep liquor smugglers warned of whereabouts of federal agents. These bits of news tell the trend in America since prohibition repeal. It is not encouraging. The American people hoped the end of prohibition would mean the end of bootlegging. They could not foresee that a shoutsighted government would continue a tariff and levy a tax that would add to the profit incentive of bootlegging. The bootlegger pays no license fee and he saves the tax of $2 on every gallon of liquor he sells. That is a margin large enough to discourage most any bootlegger from becoming a law-abiding citizen. And there is an additional $5 tariff saved on every gallon brought in from outside the country. Hence the continuance of rum row. And hence the talk of a bigger coast guard. The government involved would try to expand itself instead of reducing smuggling by the simple process of reducing the profits in smuggling. Half of the smugglers’ profits could be eliminated with one stroke of President Roosevelt's pen, under the reciprocity tariff law. As for the alleged lawless Florida police, it is obvious that they are either sharing in the profits of the illicit dealers, or that they typify the official insincerity of those “dry” states that want to be left unmolested in the enjoyment of the fruits of prohibition.

MINNESOTA’S MARTIAL LAW TNCREASING use of military forces in civil -■•disputes is one of the alarming signs of the times. Martial law' is a powerful weapon—and a dangerous one. It is dangerous not ony because it places bayonets and loaded rifles in the hands of young state troopers, but also because it suspends civil liberties and adjourns the orderly processes of social control upon which the people must continue to rely if democratic government is to survive. Too frequently in recent weeks, state troops have been used to oppress workers under the guise of protecting property. Governor Olson's resort to military rule in Minneapolis is the only recent demonstration that troops can be used to protect human rights, as well as property rights. His intervention to stop the reckless use of firearms by police and the high-handed tactics of employers who refused to arbitrate is in sharp contrast with what happened in San Francisco a few days ago when state troops calmly looked on while marauding bands of vigilantes, backed by police, beat up and destroyed the property of alleged "radicals.” But even in the hands of Governor Olson, martial law is a dangerous weapon. That is shown-by the press censorship. Quite aside from constitutional guarantees and from the natural desire of publishers to remain unfettered, the military dictator has committed a serious tactical blunder. His order, backed by threat of punishment by a military court, forbidding publication of "notices, bills, documents or newspapers defaming the state of Minnesota or any members of the Minnesota national guard in the field,” is a repression which automatically destroys the confidence of the people in the news they are permitted to read. And so long as the public has no faith in the reliability of the press, there can be no such thing as an enlightened public opinion, upon which the Governor must depend in his effort to protect both economic justice and public order.

MORE MEN IN THE AIR RECOMMENDATION by the Baker committee, that the United States proceed to build and maintain an army air force "second to none” and that it begin at once by acquiring 1.000 new fighting planes, points us in the direction of a state of military preparedness such as we had not previously thought necessary. It still is a little early to tell just how big a role the air force will play in any future war. Nevertheless, it does seem certain that a nation protected by a navy as large as ours, and by an army air force as powerful as the one called for by this committee, ought to be as secure from attack or invasfon as any nation can be. And there is an odd thing about this aerial defense; it can be built up and maintained without bringing with it the evils of “militartsm’ such as would inevitably accompany a corresponding growth in the land army. We can have the world's premier air fleet without actually increasing the number of men under arms very substantially. If the army were being increased in proportion, the country would be over-run with men in uniform, just like pre-war Germany. OUTLAW’S FAREWELL ~ TJEFORE the case of John Dillinger lapses into final obscurity, it is worth while to have a glance at the verdict of the coroner s jury which examined into his death. The verdict reads as follows: "John Dillinger came to his death from the wounds of bullets fired from a revolver

or revolvers, all In the hands of one or more government agents. The agents are to be highly commended for their efficient participation in the occurrence.” In its laconic brevity and salty expressiveness, this verdict has a tang not unlike those which used to be recorded in the wild west of frontier days. It tells the whole story in two sentences. Short and grim, it is a fitting epitaph for a gunman.

Liberal Viewpoint BY UR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

THE labor crisis makes it timely to refresh our knowledge of the worlds experience with the general strike. An excellent survey of the subject can be found in Wilfrid Harris Crooks book. "The General Strike,” (Chapel Hill, N. C, 19311. Such strikes fall, into three categories; (1) revolutionary attempts to change the economic and social order; <2> sympathetic strikes to better local labor conditions or end a specific abuse; and <3> strikes organized to force reform legislation or constitutional concessions to the masses. Precisely speaking, the term “general strike” probably should be reserved for the first of these interpretations. This conception of a universal walkout of labor to wind up capitalism has been chiefly the work of anarchists, syndicalists and communists. A Chartist leader in England, William Benbow. proposed in 1832 a "grand national holiday of the working classes.” A generation later a similar walkout was recommended by the anarchist, Michael Bakunin. But the general strike was brought to the fore in radical discussion chiefly by the French syndicalists, whose intellectual leaderwas Georges Sorel (1847-1922). Sorel was warmly backed up in 1888 by the then radical Aristide Briand. William D. Haywood brought the idea to the United States in connection with the I. W. W. brand of syndicalism. a a a THE syndicalists’ program is to ruin as many employers as possible by peaceful sabotage —all kinds of annoying activities and devices to hamper industry. Then, as a final clean-up, they propose "a general cessation of work, which would place the country in the rigor of death, whose terrible and incalculable consequences would force the government to capitulate at once.” Thereupon the radicals would put an end to private property and the profit system, and establish the syndicalist system. Communists accept much the same strategy. The radical type of general strike was used by Lenin and Trotsky as a part of their strategy in bringing the Bolshevik regime to power in 1917. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg used it in Germany in ISIB and 1919, but the strike collapsed and its leaders were assassinated. Aside from these two, the nearest approach to anything of the kind was a strike engineered by the Swedish Federation of Labor in 1909, aimed at ending use of the lockout. The workers lost, but the strike scared the country enough to help on the progressive movement which has since gained great headway in Sweden. Revolutionary aims and mere labor opportunism w'ere intermingled in the general strike in Catalonia, Spain, in 1909; in France in 1910; in Dublin in 1913; in Italy in 1914; in the Argentine in 1919. and in Great Britain in 1926. In none of these instances did the leaders have in mind the unseating of the capitalistic system. a a a THE sympathetic general strike by conservative unions is a bird of a different feather from the general strike of the radicals. It infrom the general strike of the radicals. It involves no effort to change the existing order. It becomes a general strike simply because other unions than those involved in the original dispute over labor conditions join in out of sympathy. Among the many sympathetic general strikes, a few stand out. The first was the general strike for the eight-hour day in th,? United States, approved by the Knights of Labor in 1885-86. This collapsed when the Haymarket riot and other cases of violence, justly or unjustly, discredited the labor movement. The dramatic sympathetic strikes of 1919 in Winnipeg and Seattle are still fresh in memory. The British general strike of 1926 was fundamentally a sympathetic strike—a protest against the lockout of the coal miners. Though 3,000,000 workers responded the strike failed, partly through harshness of the British conservatives and partly because of false promises made to the workers by Sir Herbert Sar- and other Liberals.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SHORT, stocky Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky of Soviet Russia Thursday called at the state department to open negotiations for the settlement of American debt and damage claims against his country. Promptly at 10 o’clock Envoy Troyanovsky, wearing a light brown suit, brown shoes and black and white tie. emerged from the elevaior en route to the office of Judge R. Walton Moore, assistant secretary of state. “I am very optimistic of reaching an amicable accord,” he said briefly. Lanky, amiable Judge Moore greeted his visitor with typical Virginia cordiality. "How are yo\ Mr. Ambassador?” he beamed. The judge looked unusually swank in dark gray coat, white flannels, black and white shoes and a blue and white tie. There seemed to be a black and white motif about the entire assemblage, perhaps an unconscious reflection of the shadows and lighter aspects of the situation. Secretary Hull—a symphony of light gray—had also donned black and white shoes and a polka-dotted tie. The conference between Troyanovsky, Hull and Moore, lasted almost two hours. A photographer, taking pictures of the trio, said to Secretary Hull: "Make out like you're talking, Mr. Secretary.” "Well, there's plenty to talk about,” retorted Hull, smiling. Later, an official communique was issued: "The conversations were conducted in a thoroughly friendly atmosphere and with a sincere disposition to reach an agreement. There will be another meeting next week.” a a a Argentine ambassador felipe espil has been spending so much time at the Oxon Hill estate of Mr. Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state, that the diplomatic corps is gnawing its respective mustaches (or lips; with sheer envy. Last week, the shrewd Argentine envoy (solicitous about Argentine trade) motored up from Hot Springs to see the elegant Sumner, who now definitely controls the United States’ Latin American policy. Diplomats buzzed, gossiped, hinted, wondered what Espil "was trying to put across.” "I love the country,” replied astute Felipe. Again this week, Felipe was a guest at the Oxon Hill manor. "Sumner Welles is a delightful host,” purred clever Felipe. Diplomats visioned prophetic tea leaves floating on Host Sumner's swimming pool. nan THE Austrian troubles brought quick repercussion in Washington. Minister Prochnik, monocled envoy of Chancellor Dolfuss, read the bulletins forwarded from his legation to his cottage at Rehoboth Beach. Del. He issued no statement, but was said to be returning post haste to Washington. Reports that Italian troops were being mobilized along the Austrian frontier caused black-mustached Signor Giuseppe Tommasi, charge d'affaires of Italy, to leap in his roadster and speed to the state department. "What's the news? What's the news?" asked Giuseppe, evidently much excited. He was told all the developments, including the Italian mobilization order. Shrugging eloquently, Giuseppe exclaimed: “No, no, no, no! That must be a great exaggeration.”

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to £SO words or less.) 9 9 9 JUSTICE AND CASE OF DILLINGER By Mrs. J. F. Brenele. Since the general public has evinced so much interest in the Diilinger case, I can not let it pass without expressing my opinion on some of the high lights. Now that he is dead and the public's idea of justice surfeited, perhaps it is well to ask ourselves, was justice really done? Some of the morbid curiosity seekers who dipped handkerchiefs in the slain man's blood, others without consent of his family holding an autopsy and mutilating his body, and still others who stampeded his relatives' home to get a glimpse of him, do not seem to be in keeping with a civilized country or necessary to meting out justice. If we are so anxious to see justice done, let us see it done in all walks of life. We are a peculiar people. We over-dramatize the depredations of a Dillinger while we wink at the nefarious practices of so-called business men, who probably do just as much harm, but who through legal counsel and technicalities of law, manage to escape punishment. There is nothing commendable in Dillinger's career. He was a bank bandit and possibly a murderer. He held up banks at the point of a gun, but he didn’t stand behind a window and blandly smile while taking your money like some of our bankers did when they knew their banks were insolvent, and through asinine court rulings and decisions, escape without punishment. Strip Dillinger of all the glamour and drama, and we have left about the same kind of a man our respected bankers and Insulls are. a a a CAN’T SEE BENEFIT IN PROHIBITION REPEAL By Still Illusioned. The public was bamboozled into expecting that prohibition repeal would bring undreamed of prosperity, putting all the idle city workers to work, finding a glorious market for farm surpluses, raising farm product prices and annihilating the bootleg business. Speakeasies were to be no more. The federal budget was to be balanced by liquor revenue, the expense of liquor violation trials would stay in the treasury', and everybody would again be safe on the highways. No more hip pocket flasks or high school boy and girl drinkers; the liquor dispensers would be “regulated” and moonshine would be only for lovers’ lane. It just takes a subservient press and plenty of boloney to keep us smiling. We are drinking our way to prosperity, while bootleggers sell two-thirds of the liquor. ana GOVERNMENT KEEPS MOVING By Mr*. Nor E. Will*. We in Indiana have been treated to anew style administration. We have so far progressed from ox cart days until *e are used to a tourist government with our governor flying. yachting or motoring to the four corners of the nation on the slightest provocation. However, the Washington administration has broken all records with the cabinet and new dealers on vacations or traveling at Uncle Sam s expense. The President heads the list with an excursion to Hawaii on the U. S.

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The Message Center

OUT OF REACH

Mr. Brisbane's Parachute Jumper Scare

By the Scribbler. I have wondered often that in an age when there are literally thousands of intellectual, wellbred citizens of marked ability and apparently reasonable judgment in assessing values, they should at the same time accept with such ravenous gullibility the utterances of a certain daily syndicate column. Watson in his "Meanings of a Liberal Education” warns that this "distorted sense of values” is the greatest shortcoming of our civilization. Arthur Brisbane, author of the column in question, receives some $75,000 a year through his pot boiling methods. With this comfortable revenue assured, the author of the column is quite content to spend SSO worth of mental energy on a 5-cent issue and viceversa. I have long proceeded along the theory that every written or ut-

S. Houston at an expense of half a million dollars to the taxpayers On previous fishing trips he hes been the guest aboard the Astoi yacht, thus saving any expense to the government. The First Lady is sightseeing over the land on her way to visit her daughter, Anna Roosevelt Dali, who with Sistie and Buzzie, is establishing a residence at Reno for the purpose of emulating her brother, Elliott, by getting a divorce The President’s mother, Mrs. James Roosevelt, is enjoying teas and parties in England, some at Buckingham Palace, with the king and queen of Britain. Two of the Roosevelt boys dropped into Washington a few days ago and found the White House closed. The princelings of America’s royal family did not know of the presence in the capital of each other until they met in a fashionable hotel. Many Hoosiers sweltering at home no doubt would like to follow the example of the first family in the matter of vacations. a a a DECLARES SELF FOR JOHN DILLINGER By M. E. B. I am for John Dillinger. Not that I am upholding him in any of his crimes; that is. if he did any. Why should the law have wanted •John Dillinger for bank robberies? He wasn't any worse than bankers and politicians who took the poor people's money. Dillinger did not rob poor people. He robbed those who became rich by robbing the poor. I'm for Johnnie and I have sympathy for John Dillinger Sr. a a a DIDN'T LIKE EDITORIAL ABOUT DILLINGER Bt C. W. The person who wrote the editorial entitled "Sleep, Little Man” must be jealous because his conscience wouldn't let him do the things Dillinger did. At least, the editorial leads one to believe that. This person calls Dillinger cheap. He isn't half as cheap as a crooked banker or a crooked politician because he did give the bankers a chance to fight, and they never gave the people a chance. Dillinger never had the nerve to go straight, but he did have the nerve to fight for the things he missed in the years he ,was locked in prison. Why not show to Dillinger?

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

tered word should exhibit some degree of penetration and weigh with consideration both the pro and con. Too often I believe that the peneration of Mr. Brisbane is overshadowed if not totally obscured. Ultra-modernism unresstrained is not seldom the distorting factor. The columnist has observed recently that Russia is training some million parachute jumpers this year. Mr. Brisbane does not exactly prescribe that we emulate the action of the Communist repuolic but has seen fit to comment that “Russia is doing things” and infers that w'e are not above the danger of being caught behind the times. True, Russia is doing things; still my conservatism induces me to believe that a nation of parachute jumpers will gain but little ascendancy over those who remain on terra firma.

Was he not human like you or I? He had a soul and a heart. Everybody has a right to express his thoughts, but I admired him because he had'enough nerve to carry him through as long as it did. a a a OPPOSES GAS PLANT BUYING BY CITY By Gaa Consumer. There ought to be a rush to get the city to buy the gas plant, because, if the city don't take the lemon off the hands of the owners, the stockholders will have to suck that lemon themselves. With electricity available for cooking at 2 1 * cents a kilowatt, the line of gas customers will dwindle rapidly. In some cities in the country the gas plants have been dismantled. Hurry, you politicians, and dump this sweet morsel into the taxpayers’ lap. Electricity can be made for less than cent a kilowatt. So why bother with gas?

FILLING STATIONS WORKER COMPLAINS By A Reader I wish to bring to light, as a service station operator for a large petroleum company, the unfair stand the various companies have taken on gasoline shortages. To explain to those unfamiliar I with the term shortage, gasoline, being very volatile, responds readily to i heat and cold. Hot gasoline taken from above • ground storage tanks and hauled to I service stations and placed in cool, below ground storage, contracts or shrinks, causing a loss to the operator who pays not the company cost on the product but list price plus the state tax. Is it fair, we ask. to continue with such practice when according to state records all petroleum companies are allowed 3 per cent by the state for evaporation. When the state acknowledges and gives this allowance to the petroleum companies, we, as service men, feel that it is very unfair that a portion of this allowance is not passed on to us. BBS BLAMES RADIO FOR DROUGHT By H. C. I. The United States and Canada are suffering from the worst drought in history. The droughts have been getting worse for the ‘last eight or nine years and as I

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remember, the radio started about that time on its great progress in building powerful stations and burning up the air. Station WLW has completed the most powerful station in the world and it is said that if a bird should fly within six or seven feet of this tower, it would burn. Without doubt these stations over the country are taking the moisture out of the air. In your paper several days ago there was an article about an electrical invention that would destroy a million men. I think it would be a good thing to close all broadcasting stations in the United States for a period of sixty to ninety days. a a a EXPANSION OR CHAOS DECLARED INEVITABLE By a Radical. The President's query as tc whether we are better off than a year ago is construed to mean that we are on the right track to find employment for the 11,000,000 persons still unemployed. If that is true, how much will government spending have to be multiplied before those now idle can become contributors to the wealth of the nation, instead of forced parasites on existing wealth? If capitalism could restore normal balance without using publio credit for pump priming, it had plenty of time to demonstrate it. It is extremely doubtful whether capitalism can ever be revived, even with the crutches of federal* credit, props to business, and "relief doles” to victims of our antiquated system of distribution and production. If our hopes are based on salsa premises, the resulting disaster will bring the temporarily fortunate and the unfortunate down together in common chaos. The life of capitalism is predicated on continuous expansion, :n which the profits of capitalism are invested in new enterprise. If expansion fails to absorb profits, these profits strangle consumer purchasing power, and so spell death to the capitalistic system. New developments have not taken place in five years, and are not in sight at present. Why keep kidding ourselves about restoring prosperity through codes and doles? The handwriting is on the wall unless capitalism develops immediate new avenues for investment of "profits ’ taken from consumers.

Daily Thought

Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.—Galatians 5:23. MEEKNESS is the grace which, from beneath Gods footstool, lifts up a candid and confiding eye, accepting Gods smile of fatherly affection, and adoring those perfections which it can not comprehend. —James Hamilton.

FREEDOM

BY ALGS WACHSTETTER Quietly I leave you . . . My going makes no sound, I am just a brown leaf Fallen to the ground. I was a leaf in summer Clinging to you, a tree, Now it is October . . v . I am fallen, but am fre.