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THE NEW DEAL GOAL I AONALD RICHBERG, chief of staff of the federal New Deal forces, last night told the people of Indianapolis, in straightforward language, the future possibilities of the New Deal. Not attempting to dodge the issues, Mr. Richberg was frank in his assertion that much has to be accomplished, but the nation will fall short of the goal if the criticism is not constructive and the populace falls to work toward that goal. Excerpts from Mr. Richbergs speech tell the story: “We are still a free people. We intend to remain a free people." “We will not restore liberty to millions of Americans now dependent on charity and public relief until our industrial system provides them again with steady employment." “The huge exjienditures of the federal government have been made and are being continued under the driving necessity of protecting the entire population from the accumulated evils of a long depression." “It is desirable and necessary to balance the federal budget at the earliest possible moment.” * “It is a time for sober analysis of the gains and losses and the strength and weakness of our co-operative efforts. We must continue them and we must improve them. There is no patent medicine that wall cure our economic Ills. But of all the quack remedies the worst . that is offered to a nation in the cold, gray dawn after a wild night of inflated, intoxicated prosperity is to get drunk again.” “We have a President who is profoundly confident of the ability of the American people to govern themselves. They may well have faith in him who has such faith in them.” There are answers to many questions in those paragraphs. Surely the people of this state can see the necessity of supporting the nation’s drive to a stable and enduring future. ONE BOOM INDUSTRY A WEALTHY Kentucky woman is beaten, kidnaped and held for $50,000 ransom. A gangster-killer shoots his way to freedom in Missouri and makes for a hideout in the Oklahoma badlands. Every American city today fills its quota ot lawbreakers. Other industries may languish, but crime drives a roaring trade. It is futile to shake angry fists at this $12,000,000,000 business of murder and rapine, or invent new punishments. There is more purpose to such meetings as Attorney-General Cummings has called for Dec. 10 in Washington. Governors, crime experts, sociologists, doctors, educators, welfare workers, publicists, other leaders who create public opinion will be called to the capital “to build a foundation for a more effective administration of justice based upon the integration of all available forces of law and order." The conference will discuss these four subjects: 1. Causes and prevention of crime. It is proper that this comes first, for during the centuries good men vainly have tried to torture and scare bad men into behaving themselves while neglecting the conditions that made bad men bad. 2. Investigation, detection and apprehension of crime and criminals. England and other countries have found swift and certain detection and arrest more effective deterrents than severity of punishment. 3. Criminal courts and prosecution. In most communities bad spots will be found in courts and prosecutors’ offices, due primarily to politics and boss rule. 4. Detention, parole, probation and pardon. These institutions have fallen short of their promise, and in many cases are mired in graft and politics. Paramount in effective crime abatement are two factors. One is that brainy, honest and courageous men and women, from the lowliest “cop” to the highest judge, be put in charge of law enforcement. The other is closer co-oper-ation between local and national authorities. The long road to internal peace and security has no short cuts. CHARLES E. COFFIN 'T'HE death of Charles E. Coffin, secretarytreasurer of the Indianapolis Star and active civic leader of Indianapolis, brings to an end the career of a man who daily served the interests of his community. Mr. Coffin was one of the outstanding believers in community welfare, one of his chief goals in life being the establishment of parks for every one. He Instituted the municipal golf course system here, which has grown into one of the finest of its kind in the nation. Coffin golf course is named after him. At 85, Mr. Coffin still was active in daily business and community work. His history of starting life as a Salem ilnd.) farmer boy and winning his way to the top of the ladder was typical of Mr. Coffin s ability to move forward with the best interests of his city and state at heart. SAFETY OF DEMOCRACY THIS troubled world may yet be forced to understand that it will have to make itself safe for democracy before it can carry on with the ordinary business of living. Democracy has gone out of style since the war. That magnificent slogan that Woodrow Wilson handed out in war days has become something to laugh at—partly because the war no longer looks like the holy crusade we once thought it. and partly because democracy itself has shown more defects than we used to think it had. But when all the shams and hypocrisies of . the war are admitted and all the fault* of

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democratic government are reviewed, it still is true that democracy does provide a safety valve which eases tensions and prevents the kind of explosions that have been tormenting Europe lately. Historians still are arguing about what caused the World war, and the argument won’t be settled for a long time to come. One thing, however, is very clear; a large part of the trouble was the ceaseless struggle of oppressed minorities to win their freedom. This struggle centered in the old AustroHungarian empire, and it touched off the war. The finest thing Wilson ever did was to tell the whole world that freedom and self-deter-mination must be the heritage of all peoples if a repetition of the holocaust was to be avoided. But the post-war readjustments failed to reach this goal. Democracy was discarded. Croats. Austrians, Russians, Germans, Italians, one people after another, were forced into the strait-jacket of autocratic government. That priceless safety valve, the ballot box, was was tossed out of the window. The result? Violence and bloodshed. In country’ after country the secret police must go about smelling out plots and conspiracies. Prisons must be enlarged, executioners must be kept busy. The dictators fear their own people and they fear one another. Riots and assassinations come In an ever-increasing crop; and each one disturbs an unstable equilibrium so dangerously that people catch their breath and wonder, “Will this start anew war?" Maybe it’s time to revive that old war slogan. a world that was safe for democracy would certainly have fewer danger spots than the one in which we are now living. DRINKS AND DELAYS T'vELAY in the trial of the by-the-drink case A-' in municipal court adds another chapter to the liquor situation in Indiana which has been dragging along in the dark for many months. Every hotel and place of business which can afford a license is selling liquor by the drink and by the time the case is taken through the courts many other places will be in the business. Indiana wanted the return of beer and liquor or it wo’uld not have cast its votes that way. The sooner the entire situation is cleared, the better off the state will be in its own eyes and in the eyes of its neighbors. DESERVING PRAISE '"l''HE Wall Street Journal, most outstanding financial publication in the United States, has paid high tribute to Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his city administration for the remarkable financial record achieved during his regime. It is the first time in the recollection of Indianapolis residents that this city ever has been lauded for its ability to handle its financial affairs. In past years Indianapolis has been the target for the wrong kind cf criticism. The record of Mayor Sullivan and Evans Woollen Jr., city controller, was praised and the Wall Street Journal declared the city’s standing has “won for it unprecedented support from financial interests and investors.” In the face of the reduction in the valuation of taxable property. Indianapolis still has been able to meet its pay rolls at all times and in no department of the administration have economy regulations caused impairment of operations. Mayor Sullivan has said but little about his accomplishments. But the taxpayers of Indianapolis realize what he has done and also realize that comment, such as printed in the Journal is far more beneficial than ballyhoo political speeches. CURE THE ILLS "PERHAPS the most vital phase of modern -*• police organization is the method of selecting recruits. The better known forces in this country' and Canada pay careful attention to this detail, for it is undoubtedly the most important. If a police force starts off on the wrong foot it will take a long time to correct that evil.” That paragraph is printed on Page 1 of The Times today in the second of a series of stories on police systems which have been written by Albert J. Beveridge Jr., a newspaper man and Republican candidate for the state legislature. Mr. Beveridge has made a comprehensive study of police conditions in Indiana, the eastern part of the country and in Canada. In the series Mr. Beveridge will deal with the needs of a worthwhile state police system. The Indianapolis Times advocates the merit system and civil service in selection of candidates for police posts and agrees with Mr. Beveridge that without this requisite any police force may be off on the wrong foot. Mr. Beveridge may be in the legislature. It would be fitting that he lead the campaign to cure the ills of law enforcement. POINCARE POINCARE was a great patriot. Perhaps too great. His love of country at times blinded him to larger international factors upon which the welfare of his country depended. He embodied the nationalistic spirit which so often defeated its own ends. As premier and foreign minister in 1912 and president from 1913. he tightened the military alliances which in part caused the World war and which then saved France from defeat by Germany. After the war again it was Poincare, as premier and foreign minister, who insisted upon military occupation of the Ruhr. This was the chief blunder of his career. It undermined the German republic and unleashed the forces of German reaction and revenue upon which Hitler rode to eventual dictatorship. Blinded by his intense nationalism, Poincare ignored the warning of other statesmen that his policy was creating anew and worse German menace for France. His greatest service was his heroic and successful effort, as premier and minister of finance in (1926. in stabilizing the franc and saving the French financial system. Lacking the peace vision of his fellowstatesmen, Briand. he nevertheless gave to his beloved France almost fifty years of service, and died poor—except in the veneration of his country. j *

Liberal Viewpoint

I NOTE that Miss Frances Higgins slaps Dr. Snedden on the back. “How inspiring,” she writes, “to find tke letter from Dr. David Snedden of Teachers college speaking as one with the voice of authority concerning the ravings of Hevwood Broun and Harry Elmer Barnes! He might have included in his arraignment your own editorials, such fine examples of rooted illiberality : under the mask of ’liberalism.’ “The wonder is inescapable if the authors of much outpourings never stop to think of the inestimable harm they are doing in engendering he spirit of class hatred. It is true that newspapers are printed to sell, as it is true that the I mass-mind is an unthinking mind, so mass ap- ; peals sell more papers, and there you are." To be accused of having brought class con- • sciousness into existence is certainly over-flat- ; tery for any writer or even any group of newspapers. It is almost equivalent to being credited j with creating sunshine, producing the industrial revolution, or being responsible for social evolution in modem times. This sort of talk is very much like the charge very commonly hurled against professors of sociology alleging that they have been responsible for all those changes in our family life which have come about as a result of the industrial revolution and the entry of women into industry. 0 0 9 SOLOMON is reputed to have said there is no new thing under the sun. Certainly the class struggle is far older than Solomon. Professor Breasted tells us about a vigorous class struggle in ancient Egypt in the third millenium before Christ. The German savant, Max Beer, has written four volumes on the history of class consciousness and the class struggle and his story begins with the ancient Orient. Our contemporary class struggle has been created primarily by the industrial revolution and the maturity of capitalism. Today, it is one af the outstanding facts of modern social and economic life. Any realistic writer who pretends to deal with the contemporary age must reckon with the class struggle, comment upon it. and elucidate its character. Indeed, the description and analysis of the present-day class struggle is the very essence of the social history of our times. But a description of the class struggle should not be in any way confused with incitement to class consciousness. The latter is something which is inherent in the very character of the present-day class struggle and needs no writers to bring it into being. 0 0 IT is a fact not emphasized sufficiently or freqently that clasfc consciousness is created and intensified mainly by the very persons most given to deprecating it in print or word of mouth. The bitter class struggle of today between the workers and employers was created in the nineteenth century by the new class of factory owners with their policies of low w’ages, long hours, miserable working conditions, unsanitary and dangerous factories, and the like. An embittered proletariat had to exist before Marx could fan it into fury. Likewise with the growing class consciousness of the American farmers. They have been stirred against their oppressors as a result of the depredations of the loan sharks, mortgage companies, grain operators, and other types of expropriators. Yet the very groups and types who have been responsible for this social discontent and exploitation are the first to protest when a writer on the current social scene sees fit simply to call attention to obvious facts. Inteligent description should aid with respect to the class struggle just as with respect to any other phase of modern social history. Diagnosis is the indispensable preliminary cure. Evasion of the issues and voluntary blindness to facts only invite disaster. If we wish to get rid of the class struggle and class consciousness the only sure panacea resolute social justice.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

WHITE-HAIRED State Secretary Cordell Hull sat stiffly in his chair as if about to sign a peace treaty. But he was only having his bust modeled in bronze-colored clay, through anew process which does away with the tedium of protracted sittings. The eminent Cordell, indeed, maintained his upright pose for only a matter of a minute. “Click!" went a camera shutter. “That’s all,” explained the photographersculptor. “You now may relax, Mr. Secretary." From the picture, a bust of Mr. Hull will be made. Great care was taken to prevent the secretary of state from squinting or pursing up his lips in that profound Huffish manner. Fortunately for the photo, Cordell has long since given up his erstwhile habit of chewing tobacco. The bulge in the jaw would have resembled Mussolini. Note—The photographer-sculptor is making the rounds of the Latin American embassies and legations, showing his samples. Finest bust of his collection to date is one of Dr. Leo Rowe, Pan-American union chief. From the hapjsy expression of the face, diplomats deduce the good doctor was photographed eating a plate of lamb stew—his favorite dish. 000 THE Paraguayan campaign is progressing admirably—no reference to the war with Bolivia, but the struggle to introduce yerba mate 'Paraguayan tea) into the United States on a big scale. Envoy Bordenave of Paraguay entertained recently at a yerba mate luncheon for a group of friends. Wearing the scarlet boutonniere of the Legion of Honor, a pearl scarf pin and his usual beatific expression, Bordenave sipped a hot cup of mate, declaimed: ”A book of verses underneath the bough, A cup of mate (maybe two) and how I love its fragrance as it gently steams . . . Ah, wilderness were paradise enow!" 0 0 0 THE pink hair of Senor Rubio Vivot of the Argentine embassy (it turned that way through a mixup in hair tonic) temporarily has transferred tonsorial attention from the alleged pink whiskers of Senator J. Ham Lewis of Chicago to the colorful diplomatic corps. Rubio means blond and that’s what Rubio's hair used to be. But labels are sometimes misleading. For instance, David Keys, young state department diplomat, usffd to be known as "Reddy’’ when he was Ambassador Dawes’ righthand man in London. Today the name sticks, although Reddy’s hair is turning a deep chestnut color. Friends now are calling conservative Rubio the "pink” of the Argentine embassy. Uncle Sam's attorneys in Chicago have been trying to prove that Samuei Insull juggled figures for his utilities. And he preferring symphonies to circuses! Since Mussolini demands military training from the age of 8 up, it won’t be long until Italian army officers on leave will be calling at the nearest kindergarten for "dates.” With all the European mock wars in progress, tourists only can be certain as to a war's validity by asking Sir Basil Zaharoff. A recent law decreeing that Persian women no longer must wear veils ought to increase the soap business in Persia. In 1929 there were 1,655.847 golf balls manufactured in this country. Now we know how many were lost that year. Illinois Relief Commission will rent cows to families on relief. Tired of being milked, itself.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. I.imit them to 25 0 words or less.) * 000 CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM GIVEN LAMBASTING By Another Times Reader. In response to the letter of a Times reader in the Oct. 11 issue, I would like to say he must have a political job or was born with his eyes shut and never has opened them. Any poor man wffio is not a Socialist by now is being used as a tool for all this graft under starvation wages, or else he never has read anything other than a capitalist paper. I suggest that he find out what he is talking about before he starts preaching, or if he has a soft job I would advise him to keep his bright ideas to himself for residents in my community and others also know what new raw deals are. We, who have faith in all these ABCs, may get a basket of groceries this winter wffien gardens are gone. We may even get some more promises. I for one have lived on promises for quite a while and it hasn't satisfied my hunger in the least. Live in hope and die in despair under the capitalistic system. Some day under anew system it will be live and let live. ,

DECLARES ROBINSON LABOR’S FAVORITE Bv Charles McFaU. Asa Democratic railroad worker and brotherhood member, I feel I have the right to correct the statement of Robert Mythen, regarding what he calls the purported indorsement of Senator Robinson, by the twenty-one brotherhoods and labor generally. Being a Democrat doesn’t imply that I am anew dealer and a follower of Paul V. McNutt’s crowd and will desert a man who always has been a friend to labor and vote for an unknown man. I say unknown, and he is, so far as his relations with labor are concerned. Only this week a paper published by labor in Washington in bold head lines, reiterated its indorsement of Senator Robinson and so far as the twenty-one brotherhoods are concerned, the indorsement was and is for the re-election of the senator. This month’s issue of which I have before me, "The Railway Conductor” volume 51, No. 10. October, 1934, carries on page 307 a half page of indorsements for reelection of senators, by the standard railroad labor organizations and fourth from the top of the list is the name of Senator Arthur R. Robinson. Now, Mr. Mythen, deny that, j Furthermore, such -organizations do not indorse men who have no record favorable to their policies. So it is utterly absurd to think they. could or would indorse Sherman Minton merely because he was an attorney Tor a public service com--1 mission. So, Mr. Mythen, don’t call it a "purported indorsement.” It is genuine so far as the majority of the brotherhood members and the laboring folk are concerned. Os course, we know there are certain members Os those organizations who will not live up to the indorsement, but they are so far in the minority that their votes will not elect Mr. Minton or defeat Senator Robinson. Mr. Mythen admits that the senator made a good record for labor, but accuses him of doing a ‘Tight about face” act. If the senator's refusal to vote to bankrupt the country by continuing such spending as is going on now, is to be termed as such, so much the better for him. * The Democrats begged for the co-

\ Roosevelt Policy in Virgin Islands Lauded

By Benjamin A. Osborne. President Roosevelt is showing himself a very thoughtful statesman whose prejudices, if any, are at a minimum as far as the question of race goes. Since his occupancy of the White House he has been doing much to advance the political and social interest of the Negro. His administration within a year has seriously recognized and placed in high authority Negroes who were passed over by the administration of Herbert Hoover. President Roosevelt’s latest effort to assist the Negro is that of the scheme for the development of the Virgin islands as a section of the United States made so by the purchase of the islands from Denmark. The majority of the population of the islands is made up of Negroes. Republicans, outside of using votes to perpetuate themselves in office, have had very little use for the Negro as a cultural man and citizen. Wherever a Negro of any exceptional ability showed himself under the Republican regime there was always an effort of the Republicans to down him, harass him and make him a criminal. This was manifestly so during the Coolidge and Hoover administrations.

operation of the Republican members of congress in order not to hinder recovery, as the Democratic member of congress had hindered President Hoover’s attempts to improve conditions. The senator gave that co-operation, in good faith, but when such policies were contradictory to sane government it was time to refuse to vote “yes” to every measure offered. It is the inconsistency of the present administration’s policies that would cause any one interested in a permanent recovery to refuse at times to follow' the dictator. The statement of Mr. Mythen, that labor will desert the senator on Nov. 6, is his personal view. He has no authority from the ranks of organized labor to issue such a statement. 0 0 ' 0 ASSERTS NEGROES WILL VOTE DEMOCRATIC By John Bailey. I see that we still have a great number of Judases in the Republican party that would betray uneducated persons for a job or silver. Facts stand for themselves, thanks to the Democratic party that went to the rescue of the defenseless working people without discrimination as to color or creed and brought them out of a condition that was destined to war and ruin. Shay Minton was right when he said that the protection of the Constitution depends on whose hands it is in. Was it constitutional to drive the veterans away from Washington like they were dogs, after they had risked their lives that we might have freedom, without even making any preparation to care for them outside of soup lines? Why did these so-called upholders of the Constitution hoard gold and refuse to turn it in at the demand of the President? The reason is that they had gotten the nation in such a jam that they were afraid of each other. If the Constitution calls for what the Hoover administration put on us, i am sure that it never will work, i am sure the Roosevelt policy is in keeping with the Constitution and I am sure the poor class of people, white and Negro will elect men from Mr. Minton down to the smallest office, to help Mr. Roosevelt uphold that Constitution and to eliminate all Republicans such as Arthur Robinson who are

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

During these administrations, the Virgin islands virtually were thrown aside and no appeal from the islanders could touch the heart of the Republican party, but now that a man of human soul occupies the White House, the islanders have not appealed in vain and so they are to expect much economic rehabilitation through the efforts that are being made to bring them in line with other sections of America. In forming a committee to undertake the development schemes of the Virgin islands, President Roosevelt was so thoughtful he included two Negroes, proving thereby, that he is not obsessed with the idea that only the white man is able and that he is superior always in judgment and action. I again emphasize that the Democratic government of today is a relief to the Negro from the Republican government of bygone days. It is hoped with a President like Roosevelt, that it will be a long time before the Republicans again come into power. The Republicans should be properly purged; in fact, they should “get religion” before the people should again restore them to authority.

hindering the progress of the country through their selfishness. We Negro voters have not forgotten the reign of the K. K. K.Coffin rule, when they tried to segregate the Negroes in one end of the city, and the corruption of the state and city that finally sent Mayor Duvall to jail, and only time saved Governor Ed Jackson from prison. The Negro has awakened and we will stick to the party that made it possible for us to live and enjoy happiness wherever we see fit and in order to do this, we will send men who will co-operate with Franklin Roosevelt, we shall vote the straight Democratic ticket. 000 SEEKS INFORMATION ON SCHOOL COMMITTEE By H. J. Wilson. Asa taxpayer and voter who has studied with interest the statements and platform of the citizens’ school committee candidates, I would appreciate and so would many others, being enlightened through the press as to a number of puzzling circumstances and situations connected with the present schooi board campaign. After reading Alan W. Boyd’s recent speech as a school committee candidate, in which he “urges voters to guard schools and keep politics out,” it is thought that perhaps Mr. Boyd would be kind enough to enlighten the Indianapoiis voter on the following: From what source is money derived to take care of the citizens’ school committee expenses, such as office rent and help, the salary of the managing director, John L. Niblack, printing, publicity costs and incidentals? This is puzzling as it is understood from committee members that they are not being called upon to pay dues. If this be true, who does pay and why? Is it to be taken merely as a coincidence that Herman C. Wolff,

Daily Thought

Repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God, If perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.—The Acts, 8:22. BEFORE God can deliver us from ourselves, we must undeceive ourselves*—St. Augustine.

OCT. 16, 1934

chairman of the nominating committee selecting school committee candidates, happens to be the head of an insurance agency, which it is being generally reported, writes the major portion of the insurance covering Indianapolis school properties? Is it a mere coincidence that the school committee office and tha insurance office of Mr. Wolff are situated in the same downtown office building in close proximity to each other? Out of an approximate listed membership of 155, how many school committee office and the inattendance and had voice in the selection of the present five candidates for the November election? a a a OFFERS DEFINITIONS OF SOCIALISM By Noah H. title. I would like to refer the party, A Times Reader, writing on Oct. 11, to a few recognized authorities. Socialism is a theory of society that advocates a more precise, orderly and harmonious arrangement of social relation than that which has hitherto prevailed. (Webster’s Dictionary.) Socialism seeks an organization of life as shall secure for every one the most complete development of his powers. It is applied Christianity; the golden rule applied to everyday life. (Professor Richard T. Ely.) The Encyclopedia Britannica says: “The ethics of Socialism are closely akin to the ethics of Christianity, if not identical with them.” I am sure, Times Reader, you know nothing of Socialism, and less of the Socialist movement. Socialists do not believe in war, nor do they advocate revolution that would destroy all that has been accomplished in 140 years. The trouble today the world over is a result of the very thing advocated by you. Only an old line party politician, or capitalist, one of the 15 per cent that want the land, water and air in their greedy grasp, would make such a statement. I hold no brief for the Communist. Read enough on the subject to know it before trying to tell others what Socialism stands for. Socialism, so named in your article, 13 needed by all classes; even the capitalists are insecure. No law ha3 been passed in the last twenty years for the benefit of the masses, that was not first advocated by Socialists.

Sc They Say

Oh, I feel fine. Yes, I feel swell. —Samuel Insull, entering trial in Chicago on charge of using mails to defraud. You can not make profits under a new order unless first of all you are making them under some kind of order. Sir Josiah Stamp, British economist. The functions of a citizen and of a soldier are indivisible in the Fascist state.—Premier Benito Mussolini of Italy.

VIEWPOINT

BY ELLEN BETTY’ Even as a young thing I was strong and tall; I could hardly bear it Not to be small. Now I know surely, Tall girls are the ones Who bring into being The strong, tall sons.