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WEDNESDAY. At!Q IS. ; r <34 FREE SPEECH IN INDIANAPOLIS TT im a pity, we think, that the Indianapolis police have made themselves censors of free speech. During recent weeks The Times has received numerous complaints that Chief Morrissey's men, arrogantly and without legal process, have broken up small gatherings of citizens who collected for the purpose of discussing social problems. This is not properly a police function. The conduct of these officers is particularly regrettable in view of the splendid record the force has been making in the suppression of real crime. Only four murders have remained unsolved this year, which is excellent in a city of this size. • Apparently the chief himself Is responsible for his men's attitude toward one of the most fundamental privileges of Americanism. His personal views are those of a violent reactionary. He hates •‘Communism” although we doubt that he has ever read Karl Marx's • Manifesto” or has the slightest idea of what Communism really is. And hatred usually implies fear. We. too, are unalterably opposed to the Communistic theory of government, but we know why we are. We do not fear it because we believe that it can never be sold to America. The fact that there are only a few thousand mcmber.i of the Communist jTarty in the whole United States is proof of this. The founders of this republic were no cowards. Liberty was to them the important thing. They feared no political change. They did not set order above liberty. They believed that the truth could be found only by the most free and open discussion. “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing,” said Thomas Jefferson, third President and author of the Declaration of Independence. ,"I hope we are never without such a rebellion for twenty years. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” Imagine what Chief Morrissey s men would have done to Jefferson if he made that remark at a street meeting. Or suppose Woodrow Wilson, who carried the countrv successfully through the great war, were to repeat his famous comment in Indianapolis: "The masters of the government of the United States are the combined capitalists and manufacturers of the United States." There is little doubt that the local police would Jug him for vagrancy. It is time that Mayor Sullivan curbed the un-American conduct of the police. The United States supreme court again and again has shown a jealous regard for the privilege of free speech. It has said that this basic right can be denied only when the words spoken cause ‘ a clear and present danger.” There can be no “clear and present danger” in the sporadic spoutings of a handful of socalled radicals. Chief Morrissey should carefully weigh the words of Mr. Justice Brandeis. of the United States supreme court, on this matter. •The fundamental right of free men to strive for better conditions through legislation and new institutions will not be preserved. if efforts to secure it by argument to fellow citizens may be construed ns criminal incitement to disobey existing law —merely because the argument presented seems to those exercising judicial power to be unfair in its portrayal of existing evils, mistaken ir its assumptions, unsound in reasoning, or intemperate in language.” Free speech is the only protection the American ideal has against well-meaning, but mistaken, majorities and bigoted, fanatical minorities. Even the stars, movinc in their eternal and exact orbits through the universe, maintain their precise order only because of the untrammelled conflict of mighty forces. •

FREE HAITI rpODAY the American marines are leaving ■l Haiti. Thus ends nineteen years of imperialistic folly. And. happily, the same Franklin Roosevelt who as assistant secretary of the navy had a hand in the original blunder, now as President, has wiped the slate almost clean. Herbert Hoover, also, deserves no little credit for starting this process of liberation. We have learned from this military adventure that imperialism docs not pay. We got nothing out of it—except that expensive lesson. For it was expensive. It cost us the distrust of all Latin America, creating enmity among our neighbors and raising barriers m the lands which should be our best commercial customers. Os course, we tried to sah e our consciences with guff about the white mans burden. about the fine military roads we built, the law and order we enforced. But the ugi> fact remained that we. with all our talk about democracy and freedom at home, had gene to a free foreign republic and as a bully forced our will upon a weaker people. We invoked naval necessity and the protection of American banking interests, but we could not change the simple truth that we were acting on the jungle law that might makes right. Fortunately, the Haitians are a forgr. mg race. Now that we are withdrawing our military dictatorship, they are ready to accept the sincerity of our change of heart. Almost, at anv rate. There is a qualification. “If my joy is great, it is not complete.'* says President Vincent of Haiti, “and it will not be until our financial liberation is added to our political liberation." The dispute over the bonds and the national bank and the continuance of American financial officers is a direct heritage of our renounced imperialism. For the sake of America, no less than Haiti, we should speed Hams fiscal freedom. i

KING COAL COMPLAINS IN its outburst against the federal water power program, the National Coal Association commands progress to stay its hand lest it reduce the profits of the coal Industry. It is strange indeed that coal has not learned its lesson. In a brief seventy-five years, the infant oil industry has driven coal to the wall. Yet coal still rails at competition instead of meeting it. But, says the NCA, this is unfair competition, because the taxpayers' money will be used to subsidize the government water power program. That is a mere supposition. The government says that the power projects are to be run on a self-sustaining basis. Proof must wait. • The Tennessee Valley Authority is unsound, says the NCA. because there is no demand for its additional power. In order for the TVA to succeed, the power demand m the territory it serves would have to increase three and onehaif times, says the coal association. The answer is that in Tupelo, Miss., the first TVA town, power consumption more than doubled in the first few months of cheap rates. Here are two other excerpts from the coal association: 4 “TVA's prospective hydro-electric power output, if produced by coal-burning plants, would utilize on an annual basis more than six million tons of coal,” and . . . “Electric energy can be generated at less cost in modern, efficient steam plants than in hydro plants.” If so, why doesn't the coal industry do something about it? Why does it allow this vast potential market to remain undeveloped? Why doesn't the coal industry construct giant central steam generating plants at the mines, and market the cheap power by long-distance transmission? The rivers, owned by all the people, have been wasting energy. Coal, owned by a few people, has been hoarding its energy in the ground. Our government has decided to harness the energy of the rivers. Why should not the few people who own the mines bring the energy of coal out of hoarding? The people demand and will get cheap power to wash the dishes, cook the meals, make the ice, sweep the floors, pump the wells, milk the cows, cool the air in summer and heat it in winter. Progress is on the march; it does not stop to bury its dead. There was once a great wagon industry and a great canal boat industry. If King Coal wants to keep his throne, he should get busy. A FEW LUCKY FARMERS DEVASTATING as the effects of the drought have been, they will at least mean good fortune to a few—to those farmers who do not happen to occupy land in the sections where the destruction has been worst. Consider the case of the farmer who raises corn, for instance. The national corn crop this year is expected to total around 1.570,000,000 bushels—a tremendous drop from the 2,343,000,000 bushels last year. As the yield has dropped, the price has gone up. Last year farmers sold their corn for approximately 47 cents a bushel. The price right now is 81 cents. The farmer whose fields were missed by the drought, and who raised a corn crop of normal proportions, is going to cash in handsomely. HOME HOOTS DEEP SET FEDERAL officials who think it will be an easy fnatter to transfer families from drought-stricken areas to greener fields in other parts of the country might ponder briefly over the British government’s experience in connection with the inhabitants of the island of Tristan da Cunha. This is a desolate and lonely spot of land in the south Atlantic. It has about 100 inhabitants. The soil is so poor that they can grow' nothing but potatoes. These, and the fish they catch, are their only resources. Once a year a British warship sails in and leaves a supply of canned goods. Conditions are so bad that the British government for years has been trying to persuade the settlers to leave the island and take up homesteads in South Africa. But the settlers won't do it. Absolute starvation may strike them, any year; even when it doesn't, they are condemned to a lonely and poverty-stricken existence. But they're sticking. nevertheless. Persuading people to leave their homes and make a fresh start elsewhere can be an exceedingly difficult job.

' RUSSIAN GOLD IF there are still Americans who are worried about how Russia is going to pay for goods bought in this country, they will find reassurance in the latest report of the American Bureau of Metal Statistics. Since it has been demonstrated so conclusively that the Soviet government never defaults on its foreign commercial obligations, certain opponents of Russian-American trade have retreated to the argument that Russia, even though she intends to do so, can not long meet her foreign bills because she will buy here so much more than she sells to us. They do not reckon with the Soviets’ gold supply. Figures just published by the bureau show that Russia has about doubled her prewar gold production, and that her $100,000,000 output in 1933 was a 42 per cent increase over 1932 In Moscow the estimate for this year is 5150.000.000. In view of recent discoveries and greater efficiency in working the old deposits, the Economic Review of the Soviet Union predicts that “in the not-distant future it will be possible even to overtake the output of the extremely rich Transvaal fields and to bring the U. S. S. R. up to first in world gold output." There must be some attraction in the Indiana state prison. A recent check shows some of the convicts are still there. AH the untouchables are not in India. Some of our best panhandlers report they have encountered several on downtown streets. Love is not such a torrid affair in Spain, after all. A Madrid butcher, closing his icebox when he suddenly returned home at night, opened it the next morning to find a male friend of his wife there, frozen to death. Drys checking a saloon in an eastern city announced that hillbilly songs had attracted scores of young people to the den of iniquity. But they overlooked the fact that they must have dnven hundreds away. t

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES \N important appraisal of a year of the NewDeal has come from the American Civil. Liberties Union. It has published its annual report on the fate of civil liberties during the last year. In those fields where the fundamental economic struggle between labor and capital is not involved, the New Deal thus far has had a very favorable influence upon the revival and enjoyment of our liberties. The Roosevelt administration has had such general public support that it could afford to be tolerant of criticism. Moreover most articulate criticism has come from the Republican party and has been of a political nature. It obviously would not be expedient to attempt to choke this off. Likewise, with respect to its attitude toward the press, the radio and the movies, the administration has not lent its support to any proposal for censorship. a a a •'"■''HE encouraging aspects of the New Deal A in relation to rights and liberties are the more tolerant policies toward aliens, toward Indians, the President's amnesty on Christmas restoring civil rights to those convicted under the espionage act during the war, and the treatment, for example of the bonus army in Washington last summer, in contrast to its treatment under the Hoover administration. ’ When it comes, however, to the fundamental conflict between capital and labor, there is quite a different story. The administration encouraged labor's hopes and activities by its expansive promises to labor and more specifically by Clause 7A of the NRA which explicitly guaranteed to labor the right of collective bargaining. When labor took the administration seriously and acted in a manner consistent with its pronouncements the government calmly walked out from under: “The government has not intervened to stop employers’ interference with union activities. It has not outlawed company unions. It has tended to restrict the right to strike. It has discriminated against left-wing and independent trade unions. It has not given labor representation on the code authorities. The present tendencies are to take labor into camp as part of the governmental industrial machine and thereby to lull opposition to sleep by making the workers believe the government will look after their owm interests.” a a a WITH respect to injunctions against labor the federal record for the last year has been fairly good. The constitutionality of the Norris-La Guardia anti-injunction bill has three times been upheld in the federal courts and denied once. An appeal to the United States supreme court is now in progress and a test case certainly will come before the court in its sessions of 1934-35. Nt until March, 1934, had a federal injunction against labor been issued since the passage of the bill. There has, howeier, been"almost a wave of injunctions issued by state judges. With respect to political prisoners the condition has not been altered greatly. A Mooney and Billings appeal to the federal court has been denied by both the district court and the circuit court of appeals. The present plan is to carry the appeal directly to the supreme court. Only one man still remains in prison in connection with the Centralia case of 1919. The prisoner has refused to accept a parole. No one now is serving a sentence under state criminal syndicalism or sedition laws. The Scottsboro case still hangs fire in spite of the stinging rebuke of the prosecution bv Judge James E. Horton. The attitude of the department of labor toward aliens has been as sensible and liberal as possible within the limitations imposed by laws. The preposterous attitude of the Republican administrations with respect to visits to the country by alien radicals has been reversed. Permits have been granted to such notable radicals as Tom Mann, Henri Barbusse and Emma Goldman.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

SENATOR ARTHUR (LI'L ARTHUR) ROBINSON, now battling valiantly in Indiana for retention of his senatorial toga, is missing from the list of those scheduled by the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee to address the country over nation-wide radio. The startling fact that Li’l Arthur—whose eloquence frequently provokes yawns from his colleagues—is not to be a campaign speaker, aroused comment in capital circles. “It can’t be true,” said one acquaintance. “Li’l Arthur will just insist on being heard.” Several admirers were stunned by the news. They were tuning up their radios ready to listen in. But none of the small sprinkling of conservative or progressive senators now about Washington seemed deeply chagrined. They hear Li'l Arthur often enough during sessions. A di/ect question to committee headquarters about the Indiana senator's status brought a quick reply. “Senator Robinson,” said a committeeman, “is not scheduled for any radio talk. Our time is all allotted thus far. But he may be later, of course.” a a a WHILE Li’l Arthur works day and night on his Indiana campaign, assisted by a secretary, a publicity man and two stenographers (whom he took from Washington to help him), his office here is somnolent and without excitement. A few tourists from Indiana occasionally wander in to inquire about Robinsons chances in the campaign or to peer curiously at his piles of literature about World war veterans. Otherwise. there are no callers. s. Several days ago a Hoosier constituent strolled into the office and asked a few haphazard questions of the young girl in charge. • Would you like me to have someone show you the Capitol?” she said, wishing to be pleasant. “Oh. no,” he answered. “It’s so big you can’t help but see it.” ana SEVERAL senators still hover about Washington. like bees above the hive, unable to tear themselves away from the scene of their labors. Senator Pat Harrison left yesterday for a trip to Mexico, after bidding a fond farewell to Mrs. Harrison, who decided (since the capital isn't hot just now) to remain in town for another week. Then she departs for Asheville, N. C.. and thence to the old homestead in Gulfport. Miss. Pat is most enthusiastic about his Mexico jaunt, and has done little for the last week but study books, maps and diagrams of the country below’ the Rio Grande. In Mexico City he will be a guest of Ambassador and Mrs. Josephus Daniels. Josephus and Pat are old pals. Senator Bachman of Tennessee has been host at a series of small luncheons, mostly informal. Senator Duncan U. Fletcher, the stock market sleuth from Florida, has come back greatly rejuvenated from his sulphur baths near Roanoke, Va. Mrs. Fletcher, incidentally, is writing a book of memoirs. Senator Royal Copeland of New’ York, who has been dashing in and out of town, writh his inevitable carnation still immaculate in his coat lapel, has finally departed for a rest at his summer home in Suffern. N. Y. There is a report that Senator and Mrs. Jesse Metcalf, now yachting in Newport waters, are coming back to Washington for a short visit. San Francisco's health commissioner said it was a swarm of mosquitoes that came into the city recently by automobile and ferry from across the bay. Their wives, however, are more considerate and just call them insects. An Oxford scientist now tells us thdt man is at least 16.000.000 years old. but by the childish things he does you'd think he’s much older than that.

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(Times readers are invited to express their vietcs in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a cjiance; himit them to 250 words or less.) REPUBLICANS SCARED FOR CAPITALISM B George W. Curlis. No 100 per cent Democrat will pay to have his throat cut, unless he exhibits the same degree cf intelligence the North Carolina pastor did in his rattlesnake exhibition. Fellow’ laboring men take my advice, read Heywood Broun in The Times daily, if you desire an education of how to combat the capitalist. Mr. Minton doesn’t waste time arguing the Constitution. Take the Republican authority Justice Hughes, who says: “It is true we operate under a Constitution, but the judges say what it means.” It was an easy matter to change the Constiti tion within the last year when conditions demanded a change. Chairman Fletcher won't use the bow and arrow once during his campaign. Andrew Mellon won’t use Old Ironsides to smuggle or ship his aluminum. Senator Robinson w’on’t use the horse and buggy for the purpose of making his campaign more constitutional. Blackstone said, “The responsibilities of the government increase likewise the yielding of individual rights increase.” The Republican party was unfit for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Wherein has its platform and individual politicians changed? If 97 per cent of all property is owned by 3 per cent of the people, as occurred mostly under Republican administration, how can an American citizen who is by birth a natural born revolutionist, vote a return of conditions worse than slavery of 1863? It is time 97 per cent of the people show 3 per cent of the people how to act. t a a a , CITES BY-DRINK TEST AS GOVERNMENT ERROR By Buv-A-Drink. What's it all about? The headlines say “By-Drink Sale Drive Is Renewed” as state officials intend to go after the violator of package sales—the beer vender who has a little “corn” to sell. But are the state officials prosecuting any one for selling by-the-drink? The city police merely arrested one man in a test case and let it go at that. The law is violated on all sides and now they're starting a test case to find out whether they can make their liquor act stick as far as package sales are concerned. The McNutt administration resembles a government-bv-error and the Democratic party in general seems to administer the affairs of state throughout the country in the same way. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. If the first law isn’t the right one, then test-case, test-case it again. Nc wonder the average citizens is perplexed as to traffic laws, drinking laws, dancing regulations, tavern rules. He hardly knows if he's within his legal rights when he turns off the incandescents to go to bed at night. He is perplexed in every way, but one, and that one will be how he'll vote at th“ fall election. McNuttism is to be eradicated with the rapidity of nudism in an Arctic climate. What's next in our noble experimental station—lndiana-in govern-ment-by-error?

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By C. W. R. and W. A. S. With every resident in Indianapolis and the surrounding territory interested, the city is to be congratulated for the manner in which it finally has tackled the job of getting federal funds to relieve the situation at the Indianapolis sewage disposal plant. The Times recently printed a series of stories on pollution of waterways on which the paper should be lauded. It appeared for a w'hile that every other city, town , and hamlet in Indiana, except Indianapolis, was in for a razzing. We’ll say this, though, that when you did let go on Indianapolis, a thorough job was done. Every move that the city can make to clean up the sewage disposal situation in this area should be carried out to the finish. Unless it is, there is no reason to start such a program. The guarantee that the w r aters of White river are safe for humanity is something which should never be varied. And while we’re on the subject

OBJECTS TO SIRENS ON BICYCLES By Annoyed Neighbor. Isn't there a state law or city ordinance prohibiting the use of sirens on bicycles, and limiting use of sirens to police and fire department machines and to city hospital ambulances? I am very sure there is such a law and I wish something could be done to enforce ,t. Indianapolis is the “shriekingest” town I ever was in. It is seldom, or so it seems, when other traffic noises are not at their peak, that one can not hear the wailing of a siren somewhere. I spent nearly a week in Chicago this summer and heard a siren only once. Two years ago, I spent two weeks in Kansas City, and heard sirens only once. One or two private ambulances in this city have sirens which they use whenever a police officer is not in sight. As an added annoyance, boys on bicycles add to the din. I live in the 2200 block, Central avenue, and there is a noise-loving lad with one of the annoying sirens on his bicycle. I think he is a delivery boy for a drug store in the vicinity. How’ that boy loves to hear his siren shriek. He rides up and down the neighborhood at night, when people are trying to get to sleep, with the siren screaming and annoying every one within several blocks. Aside from the annoyance, the bicycle siren tends to make people careless when the siren happens to be on a police car, ambulance or fire truck. I should think the police would do something to stop this as a matter for their own safety. n a a CITES OBJECTIONS TO GASOLINE SYSTEM By Retailer Regarding gasoline for sanitary commfc.sion, the answer made by Mr. Nolen is right, but there are facts that can not be denied, and which do not change the situation so far as the right or wrong of the situation is concerned. These are that the employes are using city property to conduct a private business; they are buying of a company which supplies the city proper with gasoline; the price they pay is a violation of the code and Secretary Ickes orders;, the price is 4 cents 0 2. to employes instead oX 2

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of what the city is and is not doing, let’s go into the traffic and slot machine conditions existing hereabouts. The traffic situation always has been bad and always will be until the residents of this city and the members of the police department realize this no longer is a onestreet town with the pump overflowing at Illinois and Washington streets. About the only thing most of us motorists and pedestrians can say in favor of the local traffic situation is that the police department finally has become broad-minded and big town enough to chart traffic lanes on some of the chief thoroughfares. The slot machine racket is about over, w'e hope. We’ve been in some of these joints and know that the machines are there and will be out in the open again just as soon as the boys feel the heat is off. Now' seems to be the time to stop this racket forever. Why there should be any delay is more than most of us can figure.

for 3 cents; other companies have been stopped from doing this same thing by the code authorities. It is largely a question of whether the gas companies want to do the right thing or whether they want to disobey the code as some of them have done right along. Little retail stations .have to obey the code or get a fine as did the poor tailor in New Jersey, but some companies here have not even attempted to start to obey the code, and the least the governing bodies can do is to refuse to co-operate with them. a a a INVESTIGATE INDIANAPOLIS, NOT HUEY, IS PLEA Bv Robert E. A. Crookston Your editorial about “Huey's Circus” Aug. 9 was a boomerang at yourself. You say that an average family of 5.75 persons in New Orleans lives on an average of $19.40 a week and that so many families have no fresh milk at all. Say, what is the matter with you? Are you blind? Why pick on Huey Long? Investigate in Indianapolis. Come visit me. I’ll take you to place after place where no fresh milk is used, bought, or can be bought. Furthermore, we don’t know what $19.40 looks like in Indianapolis. I work two days a week, receive $6; have a family of three, pay rent, buy my groceries, wear clothes bought years ago, and can get no government surplus food—and am hungry most of the time. New Orleans is getting the best of the deal. Come out, Mr. Reporter, and I will give you some facts. Lay off Huey and help clean up your own city. I am not a Communist but an American citizen who believes in justice to all. REBUKES M’NUTT FOR BRICK ROAD VIEWS By a Franklinite. “Home-town Boy Makes Good.” should be the headline in the Martinsville papers since Governor Paul V. McNutt has decided that the state road down by Franklin should be paved with bricks instead of concrete. Residents down here want concrete but the Governor and the highway commission are at odds as the Governor is trying to “brick” a highway contract out of the commission for his home-town brickyard at Martinsville. Well, we folk here in Franklin.be-

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lieve in helping all “home-town" boys along and would like to do a favor for McNutt and Martinsville, but not at the price of our pocketbooks. Brick paving will cost almost twice as much as concrete. We’re looking around now for a “home-town boy” of our own in an eflort to nerve him up to give Martinsville's “white hope” a beating for the next office he runs for. Then maybe we can toss a few bricks of our own kind at the Governor that will land where they’ll do the most good. a a a STREET CONDITIONS BRING COMPLAINT By a Reader. What has become of your Mr. Fixit? We taxpayers on South Belmont avenue need help. Several .of us have complained several times and we've had no help. Please see what you can do for us. The pavement between Wyoming street and Oliver avenue on South Belmont is almost unpassable. We had oil and the street was graded early in the spring. I might add this is a through street connecting Road 67 and Washington street and is traveled heavily. Help, please. a a a THINKS BEER DRINKERS STILL BEING CHEATED By No-Foam. A few days ago the city measures department declared it was going to war upon beer parlors where undersized steins were advertised as several ounces bigger than they are. Nothing apparently came of it! The war apparently was only a neighborhood squabble and yet in many beer parlors of the city 16-13 ounce steins should be filled from the bottom instead of the top. In fact the bottom in some cases seems to be so false that it would hold almost as much beer as the foam which tops the wild stuff sold in the steins. The attitude of the proprietors is if you don't like it, go somewhere else—and the customer does. But he only finds himself being “gypped' again in another fashion. The stems are either advertised larger and proportionately smaller as far as beer or they're smaller with more foam. Complaints to city officials seem to be futile when the apparent cheating in steins goes on right before the eyes of the city scales and measures department. Or mavhaps they never drink a drop and do not know how the beer-drinking public is being taken for a beer-less ride. QUERY BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL O, what’s life for if not to bring delight, To taste each joy to it's full and live, Taking the best of everything in sight. Taking the most of all the world can give? And what's love for if not to bring you joy? Take it and question not from whence it came; Let no small scruples your starved heart destroy, • For life and love you’ll find are all the 4ame.