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“TODAY’S ESCAPES” A S this editorial was written no Indiana ’**’ jail breaks other than the one at Franklin. in which lour men escaped, had been reported. This is an odd commentary upon the state of affairs throughout Indiana. The press practically has been united in blaming the state administration for breaks at the Indiana state prison. The press can't blame the state administration for escapes from county jails. Hamilton county. Johnson county—who's next? There is something more to all these breaks than negligence and carelessness. Probably, the real reason is that we in Indiana have retrenched too deeply. The public safety comes before reduced taxes for large corporations. Large corporations. of course, are not the offenders in Jail breaks. But spineless governmental officials are. Ever since the depression the word has been CUT. CUT. CUT! And they've cut out night guards, cut out inspections at jails. The result: Wholesale jail breaks. Just where does the public safety rank in Indiana? CRIME’S PAYMENT HOMER VAN METER was shot to death in St. Paul by police. John Hamilton is dead, federal agents announce. He is dead "beyond all doubt,” they say. Crime pays. Yes, it pays with death. Teach that to your boy. teach it to your girl. And then we will have a saner public attitude towards crime, towards criminals, and towards rats who pose as heroes. No, not even rats. Just mice in rats’ clothing. John Dillinger, John Hamilton, Tommy Carroll. Homer Van Meter ... all dead. Harry Pierpont. Charles Maklev ... to die in Ohio penitentiary's electric chair. Baby Face Nelson . . . alive, the whole United States at his heels, a hunted man, casting frightened glances, ever his shoulder . . . Crime pays . . . with death. GUAR ANT EE D FREE DO M “TN North Dakota, we fight with ballots, not A bullets,” said Governor William H. Langer in a speech here. "Out in North Dakota we educate 'em young and the first thing we educate them is not to believe anything they read in the newspapers." Governor Langer is a Republican. Governor Langer's Republican party is stumping the country, shrieking that the Democratic administration is driving for suppression of the press. Governor Langer. of course, wouldn't suppress the press. He'd just teach everybody young that newspapers were full of lies and weren't to be believed, no matter what they said. Give us suppression of the press. Governor. We'd like that better. THE CUBAN TREATY A FEW people may take out their pencils and try to figure whether the United States or Cuba got the better bargain in the new bi-lateral tariff treaty. But it seems to be nearer tne facts that both countries will profit and neither will lose. This treaty is exhibit A in the evidence the state department is building up to disprove the contention that it is impossible for a Democratic government to revive foreign trade by reciprocity trade agreements. Ten years ago Cuba was our sixth best foreign customer. Last year she was sixteenth. In the ten-year period Cuba's purchases of American goods declined 89 per cent, largely because we pursued a relentless ai.d unwise effort to squeeze blood out of a turnip—a policy w hich reduced Cuba to an impoverished island of misery, bloodshed and revolution. The treaty will help Cuba get back on her feet and re-establish herself as a valued customer. We have made substantial concessions by reducing the tariffs on sugar, rum. tobacco, fruits and vegetables. This does not mean that the American market will be flooded by any of these Cuban commodities. Cuba agreed to limit sugar and tobacco exports to arbitrary quotas; the rum tariff will still be $2.50 a gallon tit was s4*. to which will be added the domestic tax of $2 a gallon, and the fruits and vegetables get lower duties only during short specified noncompetitive seasons. In turn Cuba has reduced tariffs on American lard, vegetable oils, pork, flour, potatoes, canned goods: silk, wool and cotton yam and textiles; automobiles, metals, lumber, paper, hides, leather, chemicals, glassware, light bulbs and many other manufactured products. The treaty is good news to Cubans. It also is good news to American farmers and factory workers. JUSTICE HOLMES AND FASCISTS IF there is one man in the United States whose opinions are respected above all others it is Oliver Wendell Holmes. His mind is recognized generally at home and abroad as the flowering of the early American tradition. When he speaks he is listened to. Unfortunately, since retiring from the supreme court he rarely has broken his aloof silence. Now he has spoken. As might have been expected, the words of this venerable seer are not about the New Deal but an old deal, as old as the dream and the sacrifice which crea’ed this republic. It is the ideal of civil liberty, which our forefathers wrote into the bill of rights a the basic law of the land/ Those liberties today are being vtoii|

As usual In this country the violators are those who should shout loudest for law and order. They tear up the Constitution in the pretense of preserving it. Justice Holmes warns us against this national danger. In a message to a meeting of the American Civil Liberties Union, called to protest such recent violations, including the lawless use of the self-styled vigilantes acting against Ban Francisco strikers, he said: “Hasty resentment and unreasoning rancor may perhaps be expected of special groups. But when authorities surrender to those groups, adopt their rancor and resentment, and tolerate their methods of reprisal, they abandon processes established by our history. Such an abandonment in defying traditions Injures more than its victims.” When the constitutional rights of the humblest or the most hated citizen are destroyed, the liberties of every citizen are insecure. And when constituted authorities condone or connive at such methods they act as Fascists destroying American institutions. As Mayor La Guardia of New York expressed it st the same Civil Liberties meeting: “When civil liberties are abolished from the country our democracy will end.” REST FOR THE WEARY AT first our relief program consisted of pouring out hundreds of millions of dollars in doles. Then we spent hundreds of millions more on CWA made-work projects, many of them of no permanent value, conceived only for the purpose of providing jobs. These steps were necessary at the time. But they were also wasteful and unsatisfactory. Now the FERA is moving into its longrange program. Typical is the plan recently inagurated. whereby 60.000 unemployed, dolereceiving women are being put to work converting 250.000 bales of government cotton into mattresses. These mattresses will be distributed to others on the dole who have no mattresses and who have no money to buy mattresses. Hence it is in no sense government competition with private mattress factories. It is a shameful fact that hundreds of thousands of people in this bountiful land of cotton have no mattresses. It is also a shameful fact that thousands of tenant shacks in the very fields that yield the cotton boast not a single decent bedsheet, pillow’ case or towel, and that thousands of the workers who till the cotton wear flour sacks as undergarments when they dress up in their Sunday best. ECONOMICS YS. NATIONALISM FOR years our tariff barriers have kept out imports of Canadian cattle and Omadian feed for cattle. We fed tariff-protected hay to tariff-protected cattle. And under the blessings of thus "protection,” the American owners of the meadows and the owners of the herds w ‘ broke because they produced too much hay and too many cattle, driving the sale price down to less than production cost. Through this period, Canada, also with too much hay and too many cattle, begged in vain for a share of our market. This year a blistering sun has burned the hay and other feedstuffs in the western Mississippi valley. It is a drought that did not pause as it passed over the United StatesCanadian frontier. Millions of our cattle are starving. There is a good hav crop in eastern Canada. To get this hay for our western cattle. President Roosevelt by executive decree has removed the tariff on feedstuffs. But western Canada also has starving cattle that need the hay of eastern Canada, and therefore has demanded that the Dominion government embargo exports of hay. In days of plenty, our tariffs made trade with Canada impossible. In these days of scarcity. Canada talks of an embargo to make trade with the United States illegal. Natural laws made the United States and Canada an economic unit. But national laws, passed at Washington and Ottawa, have divided the unit. EXPORTS PICKING UP TN spite of tariff barriers and other obA stacles, America's export trade seems to be slowly regaining its health. Or, if that is too optimistic a statement, it is at least feeling better than it was a little while ago. Official figures compiled in Washington show that during the first six months of 1934 the United States exported just a little more than a billion dollars’ worth of goods—a higher rate than that shown by either 1933 or 1932. If things keep on at this rate, exports for the year will run above the $2,000,000,000 mark, which they haven't touched since 1931. Lest we grow too jubilant, it might be well to point out that we are still far below the 1929 high-water mark, when we exported goods worth more than 55.000.000.000. But we at least seem to be on the way up. SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLS r TPWELVE English schoolboys, says a cable A from London, are about to start for the United States, to spend a year in an American private school. They are going on scholarships as part of a scheme to promote better understanding between the two nations. Laudable as the idea is. there are people who would praise it a little more enthusiastically if they knew just what private school these lads are to attend. For there are, in the United States, private schools and private schools Some of them are very excellent indeed, and s< me of them are pale and snobbish imitations of English schools: and it is to be hoped that these young Britishers don't get into one of the latter variety. A young Englishman tossed into the right kind of American school could learn much about this country. If he got into the wrong kmd. however—the insufferable kind where headmaster, instructors and old grads all feel vaguely ashamed because the school isn t an exact duplicate of Eton or Rugby—he simply would be wasting a year. Some kindly brain truster might take a few minutes out and figure how much time we lose in a year trying to put that dratted cap back on the tooth paste tube. Anew tiger was delivered to Clyde Beatty in Detroit, so he named it Mickey Cochrane. Wonder what he'd call anew hyena if it was delivered to him in Louisiana. When Beebe gets tired of riding in his bathysphere, he can come back on land and > some more queer fish in a department Tt bargain rush.

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES—

JEWISH culture and religion survived the political pow’er of Babylonia. Persia and Rome. They then defied the persecutions of Christian powers of nearly two thousand years. Will Jewish unity break upon the rocks of class divisions during the terminal stages of capitalism ? This critical'issue is dealt with by Rebecca Pitts in "Opinion.” Her article, entitled, “Jews Face Fascism,” is one of the most important and provocative discussions of the future of the Jewish problem ever written. It especially is significant when published in one of the most intellectual and distinguished Jewish journals in any language. Miss Pitts calls attention to the critical condition of the contemporary capitalism: “Today, at every turn, w’e find indicated the impending collapse of world capitalism. It is betrayed in the confusion and disintegration of the arts, in the evasion of philosophic thought, in the withering away of religion. . . . With millions too poor to buy, the productive plant runs down and stands half idle. People starve in the great centers of population, while the fanners and stock-raisers destroy nearly enough food to feed all the hungry.” nun I FASCISM, in fact if not always in name, is * the inevitable response to the growing desperation of capitalism. To succeed for a time Fascism must fan nationalism to a lever heat and national minorities constitute fair game for such patriotic hunts. The Jews are the most obvious victims of these assaults upon minorities. Not even the chance to go out after the Negroes will save the Jews in the United States: “Fascism is a dictatorship of the exploiters and their parasites; and its function is to preserve—in the face of mass suffering and discontent—the dying profit system. ... By now the usefulness of Fascism of a minority group within the nation should bo clear to every Jew’. . . . It is because the Jewish people stand to be crushed by Fascism that they need to see the situation clearly, and fight Fascism with every weapon within reach.” If this is the case, the Jews should cast their lot with the only group which fights Fascism, tooth and nail, namely the working-class movement: "If the Jew is to put up any fight against the Fascist enemy at his throat; if he is to survive as a conscious Jew, bearer of cultural gifts to the world—he must cast in his lot with the revolutionary proletariat. There is no other way.” n n n LOGICAL as this step and strategy may be, it will split the Jews of the w’orld wide open, since a large number of them are identified very prominently with the capitalist system which is creating the Fascist world: “We are confronted by the following facts; Fascism is the last stand of capitalism and the profit system; it maintains itself in power partly by the persecution of such minority peoples as the Jews; and the yet nearly half the Jewish people are identified with the bourgoisie—not only in their ideals but in their very practical urgent economic interests. “As the crisis deepens, we need expect, from the prosperous bourgois Jew, no renunciation of class-privilege. As long as the non-Jewish bourgoisie fail to tear him to pieces, he will cling desperately to his possessions and abjure, wherever posible, his Jewishness. He even will support either tacitly or openly the very Fascist movements that threaten his people with extermination.’’ Whether we accept Miss Pitt’s reasoning or not, her analysis will provide something worth remembering when we observe the trends in the Jewish problem as the capitalist crisis tightens up.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ARBELL

WASHINGTON temporarily has ceased being a city of foreign ambassadors and ministers and ranking government officials. It now is the residence of charges d’affaires and acting secretries. Frankly, the charges d’affairs and the acting secretaries are having a whirl of it. They don’t care if their chiefs never come back—at least, from a business point of view. Bill Phillips, acting secretary of state, seldom has enjoyed himself more than during last weekend, when he entertained Prince Kaya of Japan. One had only to take a quick glance at the Phillips physiognomy to realize that he wouldn’t have traded places with the King of England. Gay, black-mustached Charge d’Affaires Louis Micheli of Switzerland dashes about the country at such a rate it’s hard to keep track of him. Last week he. visited Newport. This week it probably will be Bar Harbor—although he already has been there once this summer. Baron Johan Beek-Friis, the blond and good looking charge d’affaires of Sweden, is more placid in his tastes, but he isn't finding things dull. He’s spending the week-end with friends at Bluemont, Va—not far from the summer residence of the Russian Soviet ambassador, Mr. Trovanovsky. nun THE charge d'affaires of Rumania, M. Florescu (an engaging personality), enjoys plunging in the surf at Bethany Beach. Del. Just now he's down there with Andre Popovicis of his legation. After a strenuous time attending parties in Newport and New York and official funerals in Washington. M. Jules Henri, charge d’affaires and genius of French diplomacy here, has finally settled down to the hum-drum existence of a foreign envoy during the summer time. At least he almost has settled down. At the moment Jules is still in Newport as the guest of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. But on his return, he expect.- to stay in town for several weeks with hardly any parties worth mentioning in the offing. The strong part of Jules’ diplomacy is that he accomplishes more for “la belle France” at a party than most envoys do after several hours at the state department. nun THE most popular party in Washington official circles for some time was the watermelon party at which Commerce Secretary Roper entertained two hundred government officials. cabinet members and various dignitaries. Last year. Secretary Roper gave the same kind of party and indications are it will be an annual custom. (One rather sad sidelight on the affair was the recollection by friends that last year the late speaker of the house, Mr. Rainey, had been among the guests.) Genial Host Roper, clad in light summer attire. strode about his garden on Woodland drive, greeting those who arrived with the question; "Won’t you have a slice of North Carolina watermelon?” The answer was invariably: “Yes.” "You bet I will.” beamed War Secretary George Dern. who would have taken first prize as an eater of melons, had any such prize been awarded. Colorado convicts took serum treatment, gambling against death for freedom. Indiana prisoners don't need to take serum for freedom. They just take a walk. That Pittsburgh heiress who married the truck driver apparently is going to give him the bird. She says she'll ask annulment because it was just a lark. Maybe if California wants to get rid of its Communists, they'd be welcome in Cincinnati. They'd do almost anything here to start an uprising of the Reds. That Kansas weather forecaster who admitted it was getting cooler when the mercury dropped from 102 to 60 probably will feel safe in ordering his coal by February.

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(Timet readere art invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so aH can have a chance. Limit them to 250 wordt or less.) n n EXTOLS PRINCIPLE OF SPEECH FREEDOM By O. S. Baird Sr. I have read with interest and surprise, and no little disgust, a letter in your issue of Aug. 17 in defense of capitalism and criticising The Times for practicing, as well as preaching, the freedom of the press, of which we have heard so much lately. I take and ready regularly three daily papers and several weeklies. The Times is the only one in the entire list that not only preaches but practices freedom of speech and of the press. I am not objecting to a defense of capitalism; a writer has a right to defend any “ism” in which he believes. But w’hy should he be so intolerant of the opinions of others? Why is he so free in exercising the right to express his own views while denouncing others for exercising the right to express theirs? If my memory is not at fault, one of the charges made against the apostles for their espousal of Christianity when they entered a certain city, was “They that have turned the world upside down by their teachings have come hither also.” From that day down to the present, every new idea has been denounced as radical, unsound, heretical and dangerous. If Christ himself again should appear preaching the same doctrines He did 2,000 years ago. He would be denounced by the conservatives of our day as a dangerous radical, heretic and bolshevik. Just such utterances as this letter do more to create Socialists and Communists than all the teachings coming from Moscow. I am not a Communist, but just a plain, old-fashioned Democrat who , believes that that clause in the Con-1 stitution giving us all the right to express our views means .something ! and is not as Senator Ingalls once said, “An iridescent dream.” I am more than willing to give to others the same'wight I claim for myself, wheher their ideas agree with mine or not. More power and influence to The Times, the only paper in Indianapolis that practices what it preaches regarding freedom of speech. nun LETTER BY A. B. G. BRINGS REPLY By a Times Reader. I would like to have space enough in your paper to answer a letter by A. B. G. I am the one who couldn’t! see any difference between the New Deal and the old. I wrote a little piece to that effect about a week ago and A. B. G. didn't like it. If the prices I quoted on wages and commodities now.and a year ago! were not true, why didn’t he deny it? He either is too blind or ignorant to see the truth and I believe it’s the latter. The price of commodities still is soaring but wages are not. I said the cost of living always has been about three times higher than wages, and I still say it. I appreciate my wages, but I would like to see the cost of living somewhere near them, anyway. It never will be that way under a capitalist government. A. B. G., don’t try to tell me about relief or charity. I had that for about three years and am still on it. You said the civil works administration gave a man a chance to earn a living and you're wrong. You earn what you get, but it isn't a

‘THE BRAINS OF THE GANG’

Dubious of Old Age Pension Investigation

By a Worker. , , ~ I read with mixed feelings the announcement that the Chamber of Commerce is to make an investigation of old age pensions in Marion county. Asa firm believer in pensioning the aged, I would rejoice to see data obtained upon which might be based a more liberal old age pension law for Indiana, but I have misgivings regarding the outcome of the Chamber of Commerce investigation. I feel quite safe in saying that never in its history has the chamber. the apostle of long hours and short pay, acted in the interests of the people as a whole. Chambers of commerce, manufacturers’ associations and like organizations for years were the outstanding foes of old age pensions. The chamber’s national organization, I recall, a few years ago approved “in principle” the pensioning of the aged. Despite that declaration, I am living by any means. You contradicted yourself by saying the CWA was only a relief measure and not a job. Your talk about taxpayers supporting us makes me sick. I- suppose you’re one of these $1.50 a year taxpayers who squawk their heads off because the bosses don’t stand over the CWA men with a whip. You talk about losing one’s selfrespect by being on charity. I’ve still got enough self-respect left to fight against human misery and suffering in a land of plenty. I guess you’ve made $8 or $lO a week all your life, and sl2 or sl4 seems like a fortune to you. nun BELITTLES ROBINSON’S STAND ON VETERANS By .lame* F. Walker. Replying to H. Sprunger's article on Robinson and the Constitution, Li'l Arthur doesn't even know the meaning of the word constitution. He has grabbed up quite a few jaw breakers and he raves and rants and no one ever yet has discovered any connection with the real issue in his campaign. Since 1775, he is the only United States senator who has the honor of doing the least, knowing the least, and the least popular. The only thing that Li’l Arthur can do is to whine to the tune of the Ku-Klux Klan. The veterans’ bunk he is throwing out is only bait for the $10,000,-a-year dole for himself. Indiana voters can not be fooled all the time; only part of the time. n n n EDINBURG RESIDENT MAKES COMPLAINT By Kyms Owrn Wendel, Edinbor*. Last Monday I wrote a letter to the editor of the Edinburg Courier for publication in his paper, but for some reason or other he did not print it. And for some reason or other he has had considerable difficulty in speaking to me since. The article that I wrote was : prompted by the fact that the man I wrote about and myself were at | cne time applicants for the position | of superintendent of the local light ! and water plant, and neither of us was considered, but the plant was turned over to other parties. The article that I wrote follows; j “Editor. Edinburg Courier: In ! making my rounds about town Mon- ! day morning, I observed that a man I had been sent to Edinburg by the i Interstate Public Service Company to meter the new panel being in-

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inclined to believe that the Chamber of Commerce really is committed to the guiding principle of profit, which maintains that the working class should put in as many hours a day as humanly possible at wages which permit only a bare existence. Low wages and irregular employment make impossible the accumulation of money to care for the worker in old age. He, therefore, in the absence of an adequate pension, must spend his last days in the living death of a poorhouse or accept what in tragic humor is called “poor relief.” In this old age pension investigation, the Chamber of Commerce is on trial before the bar of public opinion. If the inquiry is conducted fairly and results in constructive suggestions. the chamber will have done much toward removing the odium with which it now is viewed by thousands of Indianapolis citizens. stalled to handle standby service for the town. “This man was one who last Jan- | uary was an applicant for the po- j sition of superintendent of this plant, but was considered incompetent to handle the job, yet the work he is doing for the Interstate is work that can not be done by the present superintendent. The question I want answered by the public is this: Why isn’t a student recognized in his own home town ? While he was doing this complicated work the local men were playing with the street lighting system which never can be permanently fixed the way they are trying to do it. nun SENATOR ROBINSON CAST IN RED ROLE Bt a. l. c. Why don’t the state police or whoever attends to such matters arrest Arthur Robinson on charges of inciting to riot and incendiary speeches. To only scan his alleg°d speeches one can see that he is the worst anarchist in the state. The harassed Communists fade to a poor parlor pink beside the bellowings of our senior senator. I j strongly suspect he has been subsidized by Mr. Stalin to lead the world revolution in the United States In such a state as California Mr. j Robinson wouldn't be allowed to j thunder as he does. The district at- , tomey would have him up quicker than a w r hip for syndicalism, nihilism and public nuisance. police allow him to go on talking and getting people all worked up to overthrow something or other. There is just too darned much free speech. nun DAUNTLESS ACCOLADE GIVEN LI L ARTHUR Bt Dalton Huntr. Indiana should be proud of Senator Robinson. His keynote speech marking the official opening of his campaign for re-election shov.'s him before the whole United States as a man who has not been frigitened by a violent reactionary government which has assumed the powers of dictatorship to the extent of trying to eradicate the rights of free speech and freedom of the press. He has pointed out fearlessly the evils of a bureaucratic Socialist government while that same government has attempted to put him off the radio. He has demanded for the citizens of Indiana and the

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United States the right to have a representative government as has until now been granted them under the Constitution. He has shown the people how their money has been squandered recklessly on experimental projects; how food and clothing have been destroyed while people starve. Such a dauntless man as Senator Robinson deserves the whole hearted support of the people of Indiana. tt tt tt SUICIDE SUGGESTED FOR HUEY AND ADOLF By W. F. I see by your paper that Huey Long <Der kingfish as Mr. Pegler calls him) is attempting to rule Louis ana by the force of a Hitler. Huty Long reminds me very strongly of Adolf Hitler. He is % demagog who rants and roars and promises everything to everybody. Like Adolf, he can't deliver, but he sure can talk a mouthful. Huey and Adolf should get together, talk things over, and then do the smartest thing for their two countries—commit suicide. a a a SALOON DAYS OF YORE RETURN By F. H. That promise of the repealists that they would not bring back the old saloon if they got legal liquor, was quite as thin as when sister promised dad that if he'd let her have fellows, she would positively do no kissing. Merely changing the name of rattlesnakes would not diminish the danger to humanity in the least. There is nothing in a name. John Dillinger’s name was good enough for a great evangelist, but his business caused him to be shot in an alley. The fang of the rattlesnake is to be dreaded, not his rattle, but his rattle does at least warn us before he strikes. We were in no doubt what the name saloon meant in the old days. It warned us before the serpent of strong drink struck us. But today, strong drink strikes the unsuspecting, from a tavern, grill or grocery. The other day. a wet who can see finally that all the repal promises were only a lot of bologna, made the remark that “We'll have prohibition again.” if we do, I wonder if we will have repeal following it, with the promise by repealists that if they get legal liquor, they'll not bring back the tavern. America's moving right along. Let each one draw their own conclusions as to w’here.

Reincarnation

BY EUGENIE RICHART There is a place you dreamed in long ago, That only the free and strong and wild can know . There, where the tawny tigresses may pass Soundless as shadows gliding through the grass, You were asleep, and silently became A creature even loud cities can not tame. There were strange scarlet blossoms growing near. There were strange forest sounds for you to hear. And are you sometimes lonely for the far Places where human voices never are? Do you wish ever for the alien grass Where you once saw a tawny tigress pass?