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WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. 1934. VICTORY FOR COMMON SENSE THE voters of Indiana chose wisely yesterday. They decided to send Sherman Minton to the United States senate to back the New Deal. They stlngingly repudiated Senator Arthur R. Robinson, whose conduct and record have been a humiliation to the state and an embarrassment to his party leaders. People have demonstrated fully that they are weary of the old-fashioned, flag-waving type of political campaign based on insincerity and rooted In a cynical belief that the average voter is an emotional imbecile. Such was Senator Robinson's ill-advised appeal. Mr. Minton replied with facts. He founded his campaign upon the accomplishments of the President and upon an honest promise to do all in his power to aid him. The issue was clear-cut despite the silly efforts of the senile Republican leaders to becloud it with irrelevant matters. The great majority of the people of this state are liberals. They like the New Deal. They want more of it. Judge John W. Kern’s victory means two things: The city is to Jiave the same businesslike. graft-free administration that it has had under Mayor Sullivan; “Boss'’ Coffin Is as dead as his name implies. Indianapolis is a metropolitan center. Its mayor should be a big. broad-minded man who can see beyond cheap ward politics. Such a man is Judge Kern. Young and progressive Republicans well may gain some substantial comfort in the size of the vote they turned out. The defeat of their party would have been much more severe had it not been for their efforts. They were good sports and put up a magnificent fight despite their mistrust of the shaky leadership under which they had to work. As an independent newspaper we frequently have deplored the evil days which have fallen on Indiana Republicanism. We believe that there can be no future for two-party government until the Watsons, the Robinsons and the Coffins are made to walk the plank. Yesterday'* election merely proves this. Democrats now may well do some sober thinking about the heavy responsibility placed upon them by the voters. Theirs was no mere machine victory. It was an indorsement from thoughtful people who trust the party of President Roosevelt. We are glad of the results of yesterday’s election. We hope it may mean a rejuvenation of Republicanism so that the state will have an active minority, which is a good thing for government. But especially we are glad because Indiana is willing and eager to continue the march to recovery with the Roosevelt administration. THE OLD MASTER SPEAKS . FORMER Senator James Eli Watson, asked for comment on the election result, remarked: “You can’t beat money.” Nobody ought to know that better than you, Jim. HUEY BROUGHT TO COURT FREEDOM of speech, says the United States supreme aourt, does not become license to libel, even when draped by the cloak of congressional immunity. Hence Senator Huey Long will have to go into open court and prove the things he said about General Samuel T. Ansell, or suffer the consequences of a $500,000 civil suit. The former counsel of the senate committee which investigated a Louisiana election was accused by Long of fraud and forgery and was described as a scoundrel and a crook. Long said these things from the floor of the senate, then "franked'’ through the mails thousands of copies of his speech, according to Ansell. The speech, as sent out in the mails, contained several libelous interpolations not made by Long on the senate floor. Few people will sympathize with the roughtalking Kmgfish, who first dared the general to sue him and then claimed immunity from suit. The laws are adequate in their protection of lawmakers from harassing suits. But when a lawmaker goes out of his way to attack the character of a citizen, he should make an accounting in open court.. UPTON SINCLAIR’S SERVICE CALIFORNIA and America owe a debt to Upton Sinclair, defeated candidate for Governor of California. In the campaign just closed he has won a hearing for a class too frequently voiceless in our democracy. He has voiced the grievances of small wage earners and small land owners, hysterically perhaps, but effectively, and in the minds of many he stands greater in defeat than he possibly could have done in victory. He has aroused a great state to the need of economic reform without having incurred the obligation to supply it We are not sorry Upton Sinclair was defeated. He is not fitted by temperament or training to be Governor of a great state nor has he knowledge of how to run its complicated machinery. He is a Don Quixote in politics, gallantly but foolishly breaking his lance against the windmills of reality. His promise to end poverty in two years by undermining capitalism through state barter communes of the jobless was. as George Creel said, optimism carried to the point of delirium. As Governor we believe he would have niade a sorry mess of California's management and would have set back the cause of constructive liberalism throughout the entire ; country. But California should be grateful to Mm for his attempt. Capitalism can not affdrd to be complacent as it has been in California. Mo system is secure that even during a de-

preset on pauperizes millions In a land of plenty, or which denies reasonable comfort and security to millions of others in “normal’’ times. California is one of the nation's richest commonwealths, yet in that golden state nearly 1.000.000 person:- have been forced to exist on a bare subsistence dole. Until this great California irredenta is reclaimed. it will continue a constant menace to peace and order In the state. It has been said that civilization rests upon the patlenoe of the poor. But the time comes when this patience gives way to wrath. The surprising support given Upton Sinclair's crusade has forced home upon California’s leadership, both political and business, realization of the fact that people have been forced very close to this breaking point. The fact that hundreds of the thousands of good American home folks had become so desperate as to be willing to tie their fortunes to a Fabian Socialist with a fantastic dream for a ; ogram, offered a challenge that must not ignored either In Sacramento or in Washin. n. We hope that Sinclair v.li go back to his writing. His daring pen assaults on privilege, inaccurate as some of them are, will promote the quickening of state and national social consciousness more effectively than would have any adventures he might have made in the realm of statecraft. NEW DEALERS NOW that the Democrats have made their anticipated sweep of the congressional elections, what are they going to do with it? That may sound like a silly question since all those Democrats rode to victory on the New Deal wave with their hands on their hearts swearing to be true to it. But, in this imperfect world, campaign pledges often have a way of getting lost by the time the man of the people settles down in Washington, taking tea from the social lobby and orders from less charming interests. In fact the New Deal in this election was something like a state religion. It was embraced by so many converts among the candiates that unrepentant reactionaries were as scarce as professing heathen. For the first time the spellbinders almost forgot to campaign for home and mother and the golden rule, so frantically did they wave the New Deal banner. Only a small band of the disappearing old guard Republicans shouted defiance—such as Reed <Pa), Hatfield (W. Va.), Fess (Ohio)— as the popular tide engulfed them. But there are old guard Democrats to take the place of the G. O. P. in tie senate. Copeland <N. Y.) and Byrd (Va.) are back, and added to the list are several machine politicians like Moore <N. J.), and Guffey iPa.). Riding the same New Deal victory with these gentlemen of the right are others far to the left of President Roosevelt —radical new Democratic senators such as Schwellenbach (Wash.) and the boyish Holt (W. Va.) and the returning leader of the senate progressives of ooth parties, La Follette (Wis.). Before congress is in session a month this New Deal army of many colors will divide into its natural parts. The Democratic conservatives in alliance with the G. O. P. remnant, will fight with the progressives for control of legislation. That struggle, rather than yesterday's election, will determine the next step in the New Deal—backward or forward. And on the results of that battle, President Roosevelt, whose broad smile welcomes equally the Guffeys of the right and the La Follettes of the left, will decide how- far he will go—or rather how far he can go in carrying out the New Deal. 1,700 YEARS AGO IT might help us to face our current problems with more hope if we could only make use of the ingenious time machine described in H. G. Wells’ famous novel. This was a machine, as you remember, by which one could rove about in time as an automobile enables one to rove about In space. You either could go forward or backwardback to ancient Rome or forward to the millennium, whichever you chose. If we could get hold of such a machine, and spin back through a few' generations, we might discover that our difficulties today are only reprints of difficulties which assailed other men in times past. A writer in the Business Conditions Weekly of New York recently set out to collect a few of the doleful outcries which former depressions have drawn from discouraged men. As far back as the time of St. Augustine, 1,700 years ago, he finds a writer complaining that agriculture was decaying, purchasing power was dwindling, taxes were soaring and commerce was collapsing; the conclusion drawn, of course, was that the world was going to the dogs for good. He finds a distinguished French physician in 1832 voicing similar complaints, lamenting the turmoil and confusion of the times —he had seen a post chaise rattling along at five miles an hour, and he said that “this madness of speed Is wearing out men”—and he felt that his newly-born son faced a life which could bring him neither prosperity nor happiness. He finds an American editor in 1857 describing the “universal commercial prostration and panic” about him. and remarking that “it is a gloomy moment in history.. never has the future seemed so incalculable.” In 1886 a United States official speaks of the depression, doubts that any revival can come up to the level of the preceding fifty years, and concludes plaintively that “the day of large profits is probably past.’* It is really worth our while to mull over the dismal Jeremiads from the past. To be sure, it doesn't make our present problems any less difficult; but it may help us to see that a troubled time such as the present is never quite as dark and hopeless as the people who are living through it often suppose. Historians fifty years hence probably will find some of our current fears Just as quaintly humorous as those of former days seem to us now. MEDICINE’S NEXT GOAL TF you would like to know what maladies constitute the greatest challenge to medical science today, you might consult the statistics just issued by the United States census bureau. Studying and classifying the causes of the 1,324.074 deaths in the United States in 1933, the bureau reveals that heart disease is the principal Cause of death, with cancer next and apoplexy third, followed closely by Bright’s disease and pneumonia. It Is in the field covered by these ailments, then, that the greatest possibilities for med-

ical triumphs are to be found. A sweeping blow at any of them comparable to the blows e ready struck at diphtheria, typhoid fever, and pernicious anemia, for Instance, would be of stupendous importance to the race. And while no such triumph Is to be expected immediately, it is worth remembering that gome of the finest brains in medical science are being devoted to a preparation for it. DOWN TO BUSINESS THE ambitious production program announced for next year by Henry Ford seems to foreshadow a pretty healthy revival in the important automobile Industry generally. It also looks like the actual beginning of the long-awaited pick-up in the capital ; goods industries. rxr this program carries with it heavy expenditures on capital goods. Ford will pay freight bills of $74,000,000, for instance; he will spend $53,000,000 on steel in the open market; he will put $100,000,000 into the production of bodies, and $22,500,000 into the rubber industry. Now it is pretty certain that Ford is not going to go it alone on a program of this kind. If he spends at this rate, other auto companies will do likewise. The result will be an extremely helpful stimulation of some of the great, basic industries without whose recovery we can not regain a real prosperity. USELESS PLEDGES ONE of the strange ways in which human l ature has expressed itself since the war is the great wave of pacifism that has spread through the younger generation. Perhaps “strange” is not quite the word, at that. No young man who looks back thoughtfully on the monstrous horror of the World war and the almost insane things that were done during and after it can be blamed very greatly if he concludes that nonresistance is a sound doctrine. But this spread of pacifism is relatively a new thing under the sun, even so. It has been especially noticeable in colleges. Over and over again w r e read stories of students banding together to swear that they will nev >r answer a call to arms. One of the results has been that the professional patriots have run quite a temperature about it all. Newton D. Baker, who as secretary of war in 1917 put some 4,000,000 young Americans into the army, took occasion the other day to warn these Idealistic young men that their anti-war pledges will mean precisely nothing if and when another war begins. •‘God forbid that I should want anybody to go to war, ’ he said, “but I’m too old to he otherwise than frank. The attitude of mar.y youths and many churches in seeking to avoid war by having nothing to do with it is a flight from reality. “If this nation became involved in another war the young men would be drafted, in spite of any pledges or desires or positions or responsibility. “It is Just as foolish to say you won’t have anything to do with war as it would be, if you were walking through the woods and were attacked by a lion, to say you wouldn't have anything to do with the lion.” These words, unpleasant as they may be to peace lovers, are nevertheless full of good sense. We can't avoid war by shutting our eyes to it. War, when it comes, is an outgrowth of a previously pursued national policy. If we hate war, our only course is to work for such policies as will enable us to live at peace with out neighbors. Once war comes, it turns loose a blind, overpowering force before which pledges to “renounce war” are utterly futile.

Capitol Capers Bk GEORGE ABELL JAPAN’S very able ambassador, Hiroshi Saito, has arrived in town after three months’ holiday in Tokio, with two crates of California strawberries, a delightful smile, and a frank statement that his country wants a big navy. Ensconced in a great leather chair in his study at the embassy, he cordially received twenty newsmen. “How do you do? How do you do?" he bowed. Much taller than his predecessor, Envoy Katsuji Debuchi, he still is a small man. Calm, unruffled, neatly holding a cigaret between his manicured fingers, he frankly answered all questions. “Japan,” he stated bluntly, “demands a navy equal to any other.” “May we quote you, Mr. Ambassador?" asked someone. “Certainly, you may quote me or put it any way you like." replied Saito in his clear voice. ‘An ash fell on the lapel of his dark blue suit, and he flicked it off. From the corridor came the pleasant sound of tinkling ice cubes. “We do not want to disturb existing world conditions.” Ambassador Saito was saying. Again, in answer to a question as to whether Japanese working men would shoulder the financial burden of a naval armament race: “Every class gladly will do its share.” After the questioning came highballs and cigars and cigarets deftly passed by a Japanese butler. Envoy Saito is living up to the boast he made on his arrival in the United States: “I know how to drink whiskies and sodas with American newspaper men.” Note—Ambassador Saito is popular with the American press because of (1) his cordiality, (2) his hospitality, (3) his clever mingling of utter frankness and diplomatic subtlety. He is regarded as one of the most capable ambassadors in Washington. a a a ANOTHER noble name is being added to Washington's foreign diplomatic corps with the arrival here shortly of young Count von Strachwltz, who comes to be attache at the German embassy. Count von Strachwltz is a cousin of the wife of the former German ambassador here Baroness von Prittwitz und Gaffron. who before her marriage was Countess von Strachwitz. The new attache is expected to arrive in about two weeks. He is at present in Berlin at the foreign office. His last diplomatic post was in Tokio. where he was popular and achieved an enviable record among the younger diplomats. a a a ANOTHER count—Leone Fumasoni-Biondl, who writes for Italian newspapers—recently entertained a group of Washington correspondents his colleagues, at the state department. Purpose of the dinner was a farewell from the hardworking and much-liked Leone, who sails shortly for Rome to rejoin his family for the Christmas holidays. All the state department correspondents attended. A novel feature of the dinner was the spun sugar decoration in the center of the table, representing the red, green and white flag of Italy. Michael MacDermott, the state department’s affable chief of the division of current information, was an honor guest, flanked by Russian, French and German foreign correspondents.

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(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns. Make your Limit them to *SO words or less.) letters short, so all oar. have a chance, a a tt END OF MAJOR PARTIES IS FORECAST By Jimmy Cafouras. The Democrats point with pride to their accomplishments. The Republicans malign and point out flaws. One thing is certain. Our city, county and state elections produce a great variety of undernourished and underdeveloped specimens employing tactics that any thinking man or any reasonable man detests. The national campaign apparently, and naturally, has a bit more finesse and polish. I heard McNutt called every possible kind of wretch. As if calling a man that makes him the same. Some day the Democrats and Republicans will lie a-mouldering in a political grave side by side while some such party as a Labor Party or a Worker’s Party thrives on the ground above them. an tt CITY ACTUALLY SPENDING MORE, IS ASSERTION By Max Young. Asa citizen who served for some six years as an official in the office of the city controller I am disturbed after a careful perusal and analysis of the report of the department of finance of the city of Indianapolis for the year 1933. * In such analytical and comparative examination I find what I consider a marked departure from the intent of the law and a confusing rendition of accounts. There are many instances indicating evident diversion of certain funds from the use for which they were intended. It proves conclusively that our present city Democratic machine is bleeding the taxpayer regardless of the assertion to the contrary. Instead of the cost of our city government being reduced, the records show increased expenditures, increased tax rates and an unwarranted increased bonded indebtedness. The following figures compiled from the records will prove such facts : 1922-25. Republican, expenditures, $34,320,690.23; bonded indebtedness, $15,053,770; tax rate, sl. 1926-29, Republican - Democratic expenditures, $34,339,461.88; bonded indebtedness, $17,498,530.00; tax rate. $1.05. 1930-33, Democratic, expenditures, $34,737,071.77; bonded indebtedness, $17,175,896.40; tax rate, $1.13. The tax rate for 1934 is $1.31. I fail to find the budget carrying certain balances from previous years with relation to certain general and gasoline tax funds. This is misleading and has the appearance of starting with a depletion. A precedent was established under the Slack administration whereby bond issues were authorized to meet current bills. The Sullivan administration has seen fit to continue this practice for the same purpose and it easily establishes a vehicle whereby a political machine readily can set up a powerful financial agency for political purposes. It is contradictory to the intent and purpose of the law to authorize bond issues for such purposes. The chief purpose of our budget law is to provide for the payment of current expenses from appropriations of anticipated current revenue, and this law is most certainly circumvented by a method of payment

‘I SAW STARS’

He's Waiting For the Reds

By Algernon Goodboy, Elwood. Some of the contributors to these columns seem very much perturbed over the danger of the Socialist flag waving over our country in the very near future, but why lock the door after the horse is stolen, or why create so much furore when he have had socialism for these many years'? Jack London said long ago that the Socialists were working relentlessly night and day to destroy society, and through an editorial in one of our leading daily papers the Socialists boasted that 60 per cent of the 1912 Socialist platform had been adopted by the Democratic and the Republican parties. This only goes to show the craftiness of the Socialists, knowing the futility of ever gaining the power of government through the ballot, they have cunningly wormed their way into the ranks of the two major parties and caused a great many of their nefarious schemes to be embodied in their platforms. For example, we shouted our warning from the housetop long ago that under socialism they would take your farm away from you, break up your homes and that everything would be owned in common to such an extent that your wife would be my wife and vice versa, and that if you possessed a dollar you would have to share it with the one who has none, and who of us have not heard the story of the Irishman and the two pigs. Asa proof that we now have everything that we warned you we would have under socialism, let us take the plight of the farmer. Statistics state that in the last few years more than a million farmers have lost their farms and

through bond issues. This practice is unsound and grossly deceives the public. It provides money available for use in various funds for wages and expenses of those deemed necessary in the maintenance of a political machine. The city controller Is the watch dog of the city treasury and it is as vitally important to have a competent, capable administrator in this office as it is to have a mayor who will demand of him an accurate, lawful and proper budgeting of the city’s finances. The Sullivan administration tells us that it has reduced the bonded indebtedness $1,500,000. Here are the figures from the controller’s report. End of Shank administration: Civil city, $7,643,770; sanitary department. $4,254,500; park department. $3,155,500; total, $15,053,770. End of Slack administration: Civil city, $10,559,830; sanitary department, $3,575,550; park department, $3,363,200; total, $17,498,530. End of Sullivan administration; Civil city $10,607,618.40; sanitary department, $3,627,500; park department, $2,940,000; total, $17,175,898.40. Thus we find at the end of Sullivan's administration a greater bonded indebtedness for both civil city and sanitary districts. The i slight reduction in the total is only' j in the park department. b tt a MRS. FERGUSON’S PHOTO REQUESTED BY READER By P. C. Allen. I would like to ask why Mrs. Ferguson’s likeness no more graces the heading of her column? I am sure she is as good. If not better, looking than your other lady columnists, and personally I can say tbe same of her articles. So, let us

98 per cent of the remaining farmers are subject to mortgage foreclosure and eviction. Statistics also show that 70 per cent of the people of this country do not own their homes, and 82 per cent of the remaining homes are mortgaged for more than their collateral value. And again, in order to force a division of the money, I have reason to believe that the Socialists secretly gained control of the banking system, and it is a notorious fact that in the last few years there were 18,000 bank failures with a loss of more than $14,000,000,000 and, instead of dividing up, these Socialist bankers took the entire life savings of millions of people and left them destitute. Much has been said of late about the cruel treatment of the Russian women, but according to the most authentic writers the women of that country are not compelled to compete with the men for jobs, but receive an equal amount of pay for an equal amount of work performed. In America, under the present socialistic regime, the women are forced to compete, very often, with their own husbands, for jobs, with the result that women’s wages are far less than that of the men. I heartily agree with some of the contributors that the Socialists should be stamped and crushed out of our county, because. with all of things in force that you w-ere told that socialism stood for, I would not be surprised to wake up some morning and see the red flag of socialism floating over our country.

have her picture again, as it is so much easier to find her articles. Editor’s Note —Mrs. Ferguson's photo will appear when anew picture is made. B B B FEARLESS, HONEST MEN NEEDED IN OFFICE By Harry C. Moore. No doubt the article in Saturday’s edition signed “By Reader, Frankfort,” either was written by someone already employed by the state or has a political job locally. The title and the conspicuous position you placed this sarcastic article is proof that whoever wrote it certaintly is a Democrat. While he starts out by saying that he attended his first political meeting when Senator Robinson spoke the other night; he admits a little later that he has attended many Republican meetings in times past, being somewhat of an old-timer, but never attended one quite like this one. Perhaps a lot of your readers are getting as many laughs from this article as he did at the meeting, and after he reports on the Govemar McNutt meeting they will get many more laughs. It is evident that this writer was not interested in the policies of the

Daily Thought

And the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, neither would he let the children of Israel go; as the Lord had spoken by Moses.—Exodus 9:35. A STONY adversary, an Inhuman wretch. Incapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy.— Shakespeare,

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present national and state administrations. He is disappointed in not seeing the usual array of former President’s pictures, also, that none spoke of them. I might ask, w’hat are they running for? This isn’t a campaign for former Presidents. What the majority of voters are interests 1 in just now is to elect men who 1 wui represent them both honestly and fearlessly, and I believe they w’ould rather take a chance on someone who knows enough about the Constitution to talk about it than to accept promises from those that keep harping about the New’ Deal. a a a CONDITION OF BUSSES DRAWS COMPLAINT By a Bus Rider. The article lauding the Indianapolis Street Railways appearing in The Indianapolis Times, Oct. 30, certainly is good advertising, but is truthful only in part, i. e., in relation 1.0 the speed and comfort of the new street cars and not to the schedule they operate on: neither does it apply to most of the busses run by the same firm. 1. Bus fare is 10 cents, street car fare is 7 cents. Z 2. Busses are old and should hate been junked years ago, i. e., the old yellow ones, the new ones are usually fairly comfortable. 3. The air in them is so filled with gas that a passenger hardly can breathe. 4. The gas irritates the nose and throat. 5. One line was rerouted, causing a saving in time required for the trip which the passengers appreciate, but why should we now be penalized for this time saving fly having to ride in old yellow busses which should have been junked years ago. 6 A driver once said “gas in a bus is unnecessary, if they are given proper attention by the ' garage force.” That was in 1932. The writer once reported one such bus in 1932 to a superviser on the Circle. His reply was, “You will soon have new busses on that line." We have had new ones most of the time since the new blue ones were inaugurated till Oct. 10, now we have busses filled with gas and all means of ventilation (windows and door) shut. Since they (the company) know we must ride a bus to get to and from work they seem to think any old thing will do. At one time for a period of several months from forty to fifty passengers rode in one bus. I wish the next inspectors from the large cities would ride an old yellow bus from the Circle to the end of the line then publish their opinion of "the best system in the country." Also, by way of suggesting that the smoke nuisance in street cars ana busses be eliminated is to have “no smoking" signs again displayed, that also will add to the comfort of most of the passengers.

LAMENT

BY POLLY LOIS NORTON I knocked upon your portal Sure I had a wondrous line, I brought with me all my samples in my case; Oh. I was a cocksure mortal. And I started out just fine. But you slammed your heartsdoor shut right in ray face! Cruel lady, I shall find me Other prospects Hist as good and just as fair; But may true love never mine be, Thrust I not my toe within her door and keep it there I