Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 158, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1934 — Page 4

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MONDAY. NO’. EMBER 12. IMi BEHIND THE SCENES WHILE looking toward the 1936 campaign. Indiana Democrats can afford to pause and Interpret the story behind figures compiled after last Tuesday's election. Some of those, figures, the Democrats will learn, did not show the optimistic scenery that has been painted in the several days since the Cush of victory first overtook the party. Elsewhere in The Indianapolis Times today, readers will find the first of three articles by James Doss. Times staff writer, in which he drops behind the scenes of Tuesday's election to analyze the real story. The warning carried in the figures of the' election will show the Democratic party that despite victory in the high ranks of officialdom, the Republican party moved its men and women into first places in many mayoral and township office races. What happened? It was this: Indiana Democrats, bent chiefly on the worthy purpose of retiring Senator Arthur R. Robinson, concentrated their heavy guns in this battle. In Indianapolis the first line was centered on the election of Sherman Minton to oust Robinson and the election of Judge John W. Kern to block the attack of Coffin candidate, Walter R. Pritchard. There can be no criticism of this strategy. The Democratic forces were fighting where smart tactics counted most in THIS ELECTION. In the meantime, the Republicans, who controlled this state for more than sixteen sue-* cessive years, realized that to spend terrific amounts of money and effort to elect Robinson, would be throwing good after the bad. They realize that they only have been less than the controlling factors, politically, for but a few years as reckoned against the time they held sway. Many members of the Republican party will tell you they did not want Robinson. That he obtained no support In Indiana from the Republican national committee and had to stage his own insipid, faltering fight is proof of that assertion. But the smart Republicans, who are laying the groundwork for control again long after the Robinsons have been defeated, started building their new castle by constructing a substantial foundation last week. Here and there throughout Indiana today are the key controls to anew Republican organization. It is the first step in reorganization. Tlie Democrats may be overlooking a setup that may become a flying wedge in the next two or four years. It will be well if the Democrats bear this in mind if they wish to preserve their gains. CLEAN THE STREETS 'T'HE city of Indianapolis should maintain -*■ the streets of this city in a condition not repulsive to the pedestrians and autoists. Within the last ten days there have been numerous complaints concerning the number of dead cats and dogs in the streets. There is no excuse for this condition. A few nights ago when Indianapolis was the center of a heavy rain, every gutterway in the city was the reposing site for several inches of water. And this situation occurred because the streets and sidewalks had not been cleared of the great number of leaves that had fallen days before. Admittedly, it is a hard task to clear the streets of leaves this tune of the year. But it is reasonable to believe that the streets could have been cleare.! much more rapidly and better than they were a few days ago. Truck drivers who are assigned to picking up the scattered leaves also have a lesson to learn. Recently a city employe was driving a truck loaded with leaves south on Meridian street. There was no wire netting or weight to keep these leaves on the truck. Consequently every street bump or whisp of breeze hurled * leaves back to the streets. That, in itself, is Inefficient and verges on the borderdom of silly cc .vity. ANGLO-JAPANESE /"VMENS of war multiply. These ominous signs were noted yesterday on the anniversary of the Armistice by Lloyd George in England, by Pertir.ax in France, by Frank Simonds in the United States, and indeed by most commentators. We wish that we might dismiss these forebodings as the ranting of war-mongers and sensationalists. But we can not. No informed person can look upon the international scene today without seeing pie fearful forces that make for armed conflict. It is true in Europe. It is equally true in the Orient. Most disquieting to Americans must be the virtual collapse of the London naval disarmament meeting. Japan's provocative policy was expected. But Great Britain's failure to stand with the United States in loyalty to the Washington and London naval limitation treaties is as surprising as it Is dangerous to peace. As the British government gave tacit support to Japan in violating the treaties in Manchuria, so today the British government in effect has deserted the naval treaties and left the United States Handing alone. Fortunately, it is not yet clear that the Tory-dominated ministry in London is acting with the approval of the British people. Bwt. If the British people are opposed to this dangerous policy, they will have to move quickly to prevent what is rapidly coming to a renewal of the old Angio-Japanese alliance. MONEY FOR LITTLE FELLOWS SM*i h business la being deprived of credit and radical changes are necessary to enable it to participate in the recovery program.

says the census bureau’s report to the business advisory and planning council. This report is not a comprehensive study of our credit and banking problems. It does not touch upon the hesitancy of borrowers, nor upon the makeshifts of the temporary deposit Insurance setup. But it does suggest possibilities of thawing out credit for one neglected group. Within its scope, the study is helpfuL Few will disagree with its recommendation lor better co-ordination of our banking system. nor with the observation that no effective national credit policy is possible so long as 40 per cent of all banking is conducted under the divergent laws of forty-eight states, nor as long as the federal reserve board permits the twelve federal reserve banks to follow their several Interpretations of federal reserve laws. All banks eventually should be drawn into one federal system, with firm control of credit policies. Nor does there seem to be any logical objection to the proposal inat the securities act be modified to exempt the issuer from liability for "omission of material facts,” so long as he supplies all facts demanded by a responsible securities and exchange commission at the time of issuance. The proposed new chain of intermediate industrial and commercial credit banks might work oetter than the system set up by the last congress, which authorized the federal reserve banks and also the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make direct loans to Industries. At any rate It is worth trying. An unnecessary mystery surrounds this report because of its alleged premature publication and the belated efforts of the acting secretary of commerce. Mr. Dickinson, to dissociate the administration from it. This official backing and forthing, and the secrecy complex which afflicts the administration in most of its financial policy, is one of the barriers to a healthy flow of credit no less than the mechanical defects described by the census bureau’s report. WHY NOT BOTH METHODS? TT is "ridiculous,” declares Treasury Secretary Morgenthau. "to say that bootlegging can be beat by lower taxes.” The secretary says the way to do the job is to enforce the law. That is what the prohibitionists were saying about the bootleg problem a few years ago. But, somehow, the law w r asn’t enforced. Apparently it could not be enforced. Before prohibition, when bootlegging was a comparatively minor evil, a good grade of whisky could be bought at retail for $1 to $1.25 a quart. Today the same grade of whisky is sold by licensed stores for about $4 a quart. The present federal tax Is 50 cents a quart. To this is added, for all matured whisky, $1.25 a quart. This is either a tariff paid if it is an imported product, or the equivalent of the tariff, which, because of the protection, the seller Is enabled to add to the price of a domestic product. And on top of all this is added, in most states, a state tax, and the license fees which distillers, wholesalers and retailers are required to pay. All of which makes good legal whisky a decided luxury, and bootlegging a very profitable business. Several months ago Mr. Morgenthau started out to build up a force of 4.000 agents and employes in the alcoholic tax enforcement —as large as the prohibition bureau at Its peak of operations. Yet only recently observers estimated that two-thirds of the liqpuor being sold in the country was of the bootleg variety. That estimate may not be correct. We do not know. We hope Mr. Morgenthau does. JASON AND THE FLEECE TY OMAN delvers have found evidence that the Argonauts may have been real, not mythical, heroes. They unearthed near Paestum the capital of a column and a bas-relief, evidently parts of a temple described by the historian Strabo as built by the Argonauts. These stout fellows were the heroes enlisted by Jason among his people, the Minyae, to regain the golden fleece—kept in a grove at Colchis and guarded by a sleepless dragon. One of that gallant band, which encountered Lemnos, inhabited only by women, and rescued King Phineus from the Harpies, was Heracles, or Hercules, who during the journey won his second wife in a wrestling match. Hercules Is represented In the act of carlying off his spouse, on one of the relics found. It is to be hoped that further researches will disclose corroborative evidence of the existence of the best boxer among the heroes. Polydeuccs, who appeals to us as the ideal poker-partner. The high point of the voyage of the Argo, however—Jason's sowing of the dragons’ teeth at Colchis—is verified by repetition nearly every day among the munitions makers and other war-mongers of modern times. Os old, the Argonauts’ voyage was regarded as factual, an incident in the spread of Greek commerce and colonization. Maybe it will be again. KIDNAPING AND LYNCHING IN Arizona federal agents have arrested Oscar Robeson, dude rancher, and charged him with extortion in connection with the kidnaping of 6-year-old June Robles a year ago. In Oregon the federals are rounding up other suspects in the kidnaping case of Charles Urschel last August. Already seventeen persons have been captured as part of the ring that hoped to profit from the $250,000 ransom money paid for this Oklahoma millionaire's release. Since congress passed the Lindbergh law twenty-nine major kidnapings have occurred. Apart from the Robles case only two of these —the Hamm and Bremer cases in St. Paul—remain unsolved. The kidnaper of Mrs. Stoll, while unapprehended, is known. Kidnapers and extortionists are serving a total of 1,111 years in payment for their crimes. Thus surely the federal government's hand reaches for these cowardly criminals. Apparently it is powerless or unwilling to reach for the mobs that openly seize and lynch their victims before the very eyes of the law they defy. The recent interstate kidnap lynching in Florida is a reminder that mobs continue to carry on their brutal work unhampered. Last year they lynched twenty-eight persons. This year so far the have lynched seventeen. In the last five years there have been ninety-four lynchings in twenty states. In his message to congress last session President Roosevelt Included lynching 4 with

crimes "that call on the strong arm of the government for their immediate suppression.” Despite a favorable committee report the Cos-tigan-Wagner anti-lynching bill was smothered in the session’s closing days. The federal government, so effective in stamping out kidnaping, should have and use similar powers to curb lynching. END OF THE ELM? r y'HE stately elm, says the American Forestry* Association, soon will disappear from our national countryside, villages and cities, unless the federal government moves quickly and deefsively. Next summer will be too late, for by then the deadly Dutcrf elm disease will be out of control, says the association. It asks that a million dollars be spent this winter and next spring in cutting down 50,000 trees in a diseased zone centering around New York. However busy the government may be with other affairs, official neglect should not permit the elm to go the way of the once proud and cherished chestnut tree. Nor can there be any question that it is a responsibility of the federal government. No single community, state or private organization can possibly cope with it. American taxpayers are a tree-loving people. They support federal bureaus, whose duty it is to combat plant diseases. They support a tree army of more than a quarter million youths in the civilian conservation corps. And they may think their money wasted if, a few years hence, the American landscape Is dotted with rotted branches and trunks of once beautiful elms. BACCHUS OYER THE WHITE HOUSE “■pLUMPY BACCHUS,” banished for almost fifteen arid years, is romping back to the White House. Under decree of the first hostess, wine again is to be served at the executive mansion. The 1,800 wine glasses stored in 1930 after waiting hopefully on the shelves for a decade, will be brought out, washed and polished as in the good old days, to receive their cheery contents. Dry guests need have no worries. Mrs. Roosevelt gives assurance that “nobody will have to drink who doesn’t want to.” To prevent the indiscretions of loosened tongues, fortified wines will not be served. American vintners are grateful to hear that only domestic wines will be permitted. By encouraging the quaffing of mild and good American wine the White House serves the cause of moderation. Many will drink the First Lady’s health, long life and happiness!

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

PROBABLY the most depressed man in Washington today, yet one of the most sportsmanlike, is Henry P. Fletcher, ex-diplomat, ex-tariff expert and at present chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Fletcher has been taking the overwhelming defeat of his party on the chin. He does not growl or say unkind words about his opponents. He still smiles and merrily goes the rounds of Washington society. And if the smile be a little forced and the tired look about his eyes a trifle accentuated, who is to criticise him? Glimpsed in the lobby of a hotel here, affable Chairman Fletcher was surrounded by a group of friends. (He will always have friends, no matter which side he is on.) “Too bad, old man,” exclaimed one as he patted him on the shoulder in jocular vein. Another began explaining laboriously how it all happened. The debacle started this way, then such-and-such a thing occurred, and then naturally there was a landslide. A third politician, glumly chewing on a cigar, expressed caustic opinions. Still others tried to cheer Fletcher with a gay and bantering repartee, s Past the group ambled a lady, widely known in political circles. She threw a glance at Fletcher. “Oh,” she remarked to a companion, “is that poor, miserable Mr. Fletcher?” The chairman of the Republican National Committee spun around. * “Yes, Madam,” he sighed, with a quizzical look, “it is indeed the poor, miserable Mr. Fletcher.” n a a SENATOR 808 LA FOLLETTE came bouncing into town, exultant, wearing a triumphant look, slightly tired, and so, hoarse he hardly could talk above a husky basso. It was, he conceded, a magnificent campaign. He found sufficient strength to receive congratulations from a score of friends and to express delight at Progressive victories in Wisconsin. After his luncheon with President Roosevelt, the active young senator bounced merrily out of town again and back to Wisconsin. He doesn’t expect to return before Christmas. But he’ll be busy, if yesterday's quick trip is any criterion. a a a IF the smile of Chairman Fletcher is forced, that of his rival, rotund, exuberant Chairman Jim Farley of the Democratic National Committee, is all-embracing and expansive. He sits at his desk surrounded by well-wish-ers, friends, acquaintances, g*ad-handers and political magnates of every possible Democratc flavor, receiving tribute like a king from his vassals. When he speaks. Emil Hurja jumps and the door opens or closes. Phones ring all day and it is as easy to see him as to interview the Viceroy of India. Nevertheless, Big Jim was “at home” to the press and they swarmed to his office like birds to a pudding. Lounging at ease in his comfortable chair, his face wreathed in a gigantic grin. Mr. Farley bantered for about an hour with correspondents. Nothing could shake his sublime satisfaction —not even the most pointed quip or barbed witticism. To every impertinence only the great smile flashed as cooing sounds proceeded from the Farleyan throat. If Mr. Farley smoked or drank (he does neither) he would have sipped a whiskv-soda or inhaled a Corona-Corona in sheer buoyance of spirits. Instead he chewed his inevitable gum. “This election,” de declared, beaming on his audience, "is the cheapest election we’ve ever had. It cost us only $15,000.” Again he remarked: “All my predictions came true. There will be no Republican party from now on. They have no leadership to stage a revival. In 1936. President Roosevelt will be re-elected unanimously. "Are you going to quit now as national chairman and improve the postal service,” asked someone. "I shall continue to function in whatever capacity the administration wishes me,” said Farley. It was Big Jim's day and not all the-ques-tions in the world could rattle him or disturb that cherubic smile. Man has brains enough to be much wiser than he is, says a Philadelphia professor, after taking a quick glance at some of our congressmen. United States libraries have registered a total of 24,000,000 book borrowers, although those who fail to return the loans might be classed at book buriers.

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(Times readers are invited to express their vietes in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance. Limit them to 250 words or less.) a a a LIGHT NEED FOR RAWLS AVE. NOTED My a Times Reader. About six months ago, a petition consisting of names of lawful property owners was delivered to the right party at the *city hall. The petition was for a street light in the vicinity of Rawls avenue between between Arlington and Goode avenues. To date, there has been no action. If the people were asking for some. whimsical thing, there might be a reason for the silence, but this is a serious matter, and one of much discussion and disgust. If the party whose O. K. would make the placing of a street light possible, lived in this section, I doubt very much if it would be lacking very long. There is a half block of unoccupied shacks owned by one of our leading real estate concerns. The houses probably never will be occupied as vandals have stolen the plumbing. Some of the buildings are condemned. There they stand, hideouts for tramps and loopholes for the lawless. In the last year, all sorts of things have occurred in this section with no light on the subject. Haven’t the people on Rawls avenue any right to protection? I understand there are parts of the city where people have complained of too much light. Well, what's stopping the city from doing a little transplanting? Fall is the time to set and reset, or will we have to wait until worst comes to worst and the squad car comes? Then the pity of it will be the vandal or victim will be unable to be recognized unless some thoughtful person happens to have a flashlight or blow torch in his possession. a a a SOCIAL CONTROL IS NEED OF NATION By Dave Newhart. One of the follies of our industrial age is that human beings shall be compelled to earn their keep, while machines are made to displace human energy. This indicated that the theory, either is unsound basically, or that we must prevent machine production. Having scrapped millions of men and women through the introduction of machinery to produce goods which they require, we shall be compelled to change our theory of reward for labor by delivering the products of the machine to these people regardless of their forced idleness. If idlness shall be the criterion for withholding the products of the machine from those forced out of employment, then those who own the machines, but who perform no labor, must be put on the same subsistence level as the worker who is forced out of employment. This would force social disintegration. Ownership of production machinery must be coupled with social obligations. Human waste can not be tolerated even as much as the waste of natural resources. Public interest must be the predominant factor in the operation of our industrial equipment. Withohldlng the products of the machine for social use is as unsocial an act as polluting the source of water supply. Social control is imperative if machinery is to perform its functions for society. In our swiftly changing social order we have failed to attack those social duties upon our owners of production equipment which will incure society of its. benefits. If society is to protect the prop-

FAREWELL TO ARMS

Protests Smoke Nuisance

By Coughs a Carload. What has happened to efforts of the city administration to eradicate the smoke evil in Indianapolis? Factories pour their black veil into city nostrils. Apartment houses soak lawn and linen with dust from cheap coals. “Bigger and better city smogs” is the ozone watchword as coughs hack in city trams, restaurants and public places from the obnoxious fumes and smoke. Like all good work smoke eradication stopped with the thought of cutting tax budgets, elections and patronage appointments.

erty of the owners, then the owners must insure society of all the benefits accruing from their use of machines. If private ownership fails to meet the requirements for a high standard of living which machinery makes possible, then private ownership will have to abdicate to public ownership of production facilities. Ownership must have duties and responsibilities attached to it, as well as having privileges derived from it. If the New Deal fails to provide for a social production under private ownership, then a “new deck” must be used to force social distribution under public ownership. The old ideas must go with the old methods; one can not advance without the other. The welfare of the people is more important than fossilized ideas of individual right to control production regardless of the social chaos and consequences it produces. Eyents will determine our course of action. a a a WILLIE WILL GET ANOTHER CHANCE By Ballad of Indiana Gaol. The saw manufacturers are rushing salesmen to Indiana. The pistol purveyors are ready to do a barrel-house business. Iron-bar factories are in readiness for anew order for jail bars in Marion county. The depression in the locker-up and jailer-in line is over. Willie Mason, Wee Willie, who wiggled out of the Noblesville jail is back in the clutches of Indiana authorities, and now for another jail break. The stage is set for another blazoning of Indiana as a place where prisons are built to break out of and not into. But mayhaps with election over there'll be no true reason for suspected bandits and muderers taking French-leave. Anyway Wee Willie’s back and now the fun begins. Whose banana cart will bring him a bunch of revolvers hidden in the peels? Ho-hum! Another New Deal—in jail breaks! a a a READER BELIEVES TRUSTEE DESERVES RE-ELECTION By L. B. Peake Winifred Wilson, your letter in The Times doesn’t explain why your father must have the truck. I should think that a man with seven in his

Daily Thought

He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich He hath sent empty away.—St. Luke 1:53. IT is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.—Cervantes.

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

Where at one time Indianapolis bid fair to step down from the throne of being a “smoky city” to leave Pittsburgh, Pa., that title, now it again seeks to announce to the world at large, “Coal smoke here we come.” Airplanes attempting to land at municipal airport find visibility reduced by the black mantle over the Hoosier metropolis. Or is it that, despite all the cries of some manufacturers of the city, business really is improving and factories operating, even though new workers are not being hired?

family could feed all of them fairly well on SIO.BO weekly. I say Hannah Noone Is right In. refusing him surplus government food because he wants to buy a truck. Os course, you can’t eat the truck or drink gasoline, but you could buy something. You could eat with the money your father pays for the truck. Hannah Noone knows what she is doing or she would not be able to meet the situation as she has, and I say, "Good for Hannah Noone,” and I’m glad she is reelected. a a a BELIEVES M’NUTT DID NOT AID MINTON By E. L. Lindsey We are wondering how many more votes Mr. Minton would have had if not backed by McNutt. It was like offering a child a choice of spinach or castor oil. Some day we will be able to show McNutt how well he is liked without affecting our President. We had to toss a coin to choose between Lil’ Arthur or Paul. a a a INDIANA NOT GETTING RELIEF SHARE, HE CHARGES By Jerry. "Ain’t God Good to Indiana?” Let's see how that line from Herschell's poem applies to Indiana and the New Deal. Undoubtedly the federal government has done a great deal of good in Indiana by the federal relief, CCC, AAA, etc., but have we received our fair share? Statistical reports Indicate that the per capita cost of recovery will be almost exactly the same in each state. The federal relief dis-

So They Say

I am sure Russia has more territory than she will be able to develop for a long time to come.—George C. Hanson, U. S. Consul General at Moscow. I could have gone to England and duplicated the reputation there that I’ve made here. —Samuel Insull. Os one and all I ask but this—think of me as still with you. Let me continue to fight the fettle at your side.—General Evangeline Booth, leaving U. S. to take charge of International Salvation Army. The late 1920s were not the golden age of advertising. That was the brass age. The golden age is just ahead of us.—Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant. I am enough of an optimist to believe that industrial history’ will again repeat itself.—R. P. Lamont, former secretary of commerce. I'm the most abused man In public office today. Sheriff John M. Sulzmann, of Cuyahoga county, Ohio.

XOV. 12, 1934

tribution, however, varies from $295 per capita in some states to sl6 in another. Only one state suffers worse than Indiana in this injustice. We get sl7 for each person, and Nevada receives $295 per population. All these figures are from the federal reports, so I assume that they are reliable. Suppose a person w T erc to take a S2OO auto from you, and give you back sl7, do the same in another state, and give back S3OO. That is exactly what has been done.

I Hate You Not

BY WINFIELD SCOTT HUGEL Three soldiers met at the Unknown’s tomb, American, Englishman, German, Veterans of trench and sea and air, Now plain Sam and Henry and Herman; And they conversed of the crimson days When lust benumbed each human trait. Then knelt and prayed to the one just God That men keep sober and think through straight. Said Sam to Herman, “My brother died Shot down by a German army plane;” “And a brother of mine,” said Henry, “By a German gun was slain;" “And my only brother,” said Herman, “Was killed by your guns allied.” They stood at salute, two friends, one foe, And the gulf between was not so wide. “You hate us now,” said Henry and Sam, “Since our men your brother slew.” "And you loathe me,” said Herman to them, “Because my comrades for one killed two.” “We loathe you not,” said Henry and Sam. “Since you killed not for personal hate.” “Neither,” said Herman, “can I hate you. For you killed not, 'twas your lord, the state.” “We love you, friend,” said Henry and Sam, “And hate none because they are German.” “There’s no discount for the blood you bear, American, English,” quoth Herman. “Had we had the vote,” said Henry and Sam, “No guns would have barked on the border.” “Had I had a voice," said Herman, “Force had never been styled a peace warder.” So these of the line discovered truth More Dotent than statesmen devise: When common folks vote to declare the war Red wars will have greeted his last sunrise! "I hate you not.’ the three declared, American, Englishman, German; “We’ll vote no war,” said Henry and Sam. “I’ll second the motion," said Herman.