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TUESDAY KOVBMBER TOM MOONEY IN moving toward jurisdiction in the case of Tom Mooney the United States supreme court is helping to redeem Americas judicial system. While It has not granted the writ of habeas corpus asked by Mooney's counsel, it has taken the first step by directing the warden of San .Quentin penitentiary to show cause why such a writ should not be considered. It is proper and Just that the courts should take up this case. It was under cloak of law that this man was arrested, tried in an atmosphere impregnated with prejudice, sentenced to life Imprisonment on the sworn word of persons Known to be perjurers by certain of the prosecution. If a court of law acted unjustly a higher court of law should undo the wrong. Since California's law does not permit its higher courts to right the injustice, the supreme court of the United States would appear to be justified In doing so under the broad constitutional guaranty of due process. Appeals to California's Governors for a pardon were natural. There was nothing else to do under the California law. But such appeals left the mam issue undecided. This is whether the courts were not guilty of allowing themselves to be used to railroad to jail an innocent man. This charge is made by Mooney’s counsel. Its implications touch the very roots of our republic. “To deny this petition.” argue Attorneys Walsh. Pmerty and Davis as Mooney's counsel, "this court must hold, as a matter of law. that the deliberate and knowing use by a state of perjured testimony to obtain a conviction of murder in the first degree is due process of law’ within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution of the United States. “Your petitioner most respectfully submits that his case, notorious throughout the civilized world as the Mooney case, stands as a reproach to the law of the land and the courts of the country.” The conscience of American citizens already has been aroused in this scandal. It is much more important to America and her Institutions that the conscience of the courts be awakened to this injustice committed eighteen years ago in one of their own sanctuaries of justice.

BLOCK MASON! IF Indiana law enforcement officers return Willie Mason, crippled hoodlum who is charged with the slaying of Police Sergeant Lester E. Jones, to the Hamilton county Jail, it will be a sign that this state doesn’t care to protect its name and citizens against additional jail breaks. Mason has proved to be too much for the Hamilton county jail and it is likely that he would at least attempt to wander away fiom any other site of confinement in which he might be harbored pending trial. However, a strong place of confinement, guarded properly and without any free chances for a getaway, should cure Mason of his tendencies—in time. To take another chance with Mason in a small jail, is a waste of time. There should be some penal institution in the state which can hold him. DOLLAR CONFIDENCE ACTION by the treasury department in liftmg the embargo on export of currency and credit should be helpful to the country in more ways than one. The most obvious immediate result is to eliminate much red tape which has tended to tie up foreign commercial transactions even under the modified embargo or limited license system recently in effect. Almost any move to lower trade and exchange barriers should be beneficial. Even more significant than this action is the implication of broader government policy behind it. The purpose of an embargo is to prevent a flight of capital. When a government removes the barrier this only can mean that it no longer fears such a flight. Indeed, money lately has been flowing in much faster than it has been going out. This indicates American and world confidence in the dollar. That confidence now is recognized and justified by official government action. Since further devaluation of the dollar automatically would cause another flight of capital, it is assumed that the government would not now lift the export restriction if it contemplated more devaluation in the near future. Therefore this latest move by the treasury department, coupled with its recent announcement of a refunding program next spring, seems to indicate that President Roosevelt has adopted a monetary stabilization policy. NEW YORK POWER REPORT THE New York State Power Authority report reveals the disparity between what electric rates are and what they should be. Also for the first time a public agency has worked out a formula by which the cost to private companies of distributing electric power can be ascertained for the public. In a survey of seventeen "representative municipalities.'* the power authority finds that the existing average rate of 6 cents for each kilowatt hour for household consumers represents an overcharge-of about 24 cents for each KWH A rate of 34 cents for KWH for homes that use 600 KWH annually, the authority says, should be sufficient to pay all costs of producing and distributing the electricity and yield a fair profit upon reasonable investment. Excess!va rates, the authority estimates.

takes $33,000,000 a year from the pockets of New York's domestic consumers and *529,000,000 a year from retail commercial houses. The proposed state-owned St. Lawrence power project. It says, would establish a yardstick for rates and save commercial and residential power users within transmission distance approximately slßl 000.000 annually. Nor need the companies lose profits. It says, since lower rates would stimulate the use of electricity. This report comes on the heels of election defeats suffered by private power companies in Memphis. Sacramento and St. Paul, and at a time when Father Coughlin, of Detroit, is organizing his national union for social Justice, with a program that includes government ownership of power facilities. It shares the news with federal trade commission disclosures pointing to the /eed of federal control of utility holding companies, and will be followed by another trade commission report Thursday, summarizing the propaganda activities of the utilities, including their use of the schools, the press and civic organizations. These developments, bulwarked by the apparently successful government experiment in the Tennessee Valley, should serve as hints to the power industry that the people intend to get cheaper electricity. NO LABOR BOARD RETREAT ■pvß. HARRY A. MILLIS and Edwin S. Smith, remaining members of the national labor relations board, are showing a firm disposition against retreat from the principles set forth in the board's famous Houde decision. In the face of the justice department’s reluctance to prosecute the Houde case, the latter was invoked by the board this week in a decision against the Atlanta Hosiery Mills. The qualified “majority rule” principle laid down in the Houde case was not at issue here, but the other broad principle proclaimed in that decision was applic„'jle. This was the finding that—- “ Collective bargaining is a means to an end, and the end is an agreement (assuming an understanding can be reached) w’hich will stabilize relations between employer and employe for a definite period of time.” The Atlanta mills were notified that unless they agreed to ‘‘endeavor in good faith to arrive at a collective agreement,” the case w’ould be handed over to NRA for removal of the Blue Eagle, and to the justice department for prosecution. Unlike the Hcude situation, removal of the eagle in this case could work a real hardship on the hosiery concern. The retail code prohibits members from handling the produces of NRA noncompliers. This provision, which is absent from the automobile code that covers Houde's customers, places the power of boycott back of the labor board's decision Thus, whether or not the justice department interests itself in the case, the teeth are there to bring the offender to book if it persists in its alleged violation of NJRA’s pledge to labor. It seems unjust that NRA's varying provisions for different industries should expose one violator of 7-A to a boycott while leaving another to a dilatory justice department. That Is a problem which congress, in drafting new labor legislation, must bear in mind when it decides how labor's legal rights shall be enforced. The labor board recently reported to President Roosevelt that “the most serious difficulties which we face flow from the fact that the board has no power (except to a limited extent in ordering elections) to issue subpenas or to enforce its orders.”

NOT TO BE READ ALOUD TF there is one thing that this Judson Doke murder trial in Woodland, Cal., has accomplisheand, it is this once more how dreadful the most sincere and impassioned love letter may sound when it is read by any one other than the person to whom it was written. This, to be sure, is not exactly news. The high school pupil who gets entangled in the mesh of puppy love and writes his heart out about the unearthly beauty and charm of the little flapper, who has run off with his untried affections, generally lives to blush wholeheartedly over the memory of the things he once committed to paper; and from that point on, the incurable tendency of the lover is to write things which sound heavenly to the object of his affections and ridiculous to any outsider. But it is seldom we get so striking an example of it as this trial has provided. It is a long time since we have seen such painful reading. UN-GERMAN ECONOMICS ONE of the big problems facing the Nazi government in Germany these days seems to be the task of keeping retail prices from rising out of all proportion to consumers’ income —and. also, of reconciling the people of to such rises as can not be prevented. Dr. Carl Goerdelt \ mayor of Leipzig, has been appointed "price dictator” by Hitler, and has been given complete control over food prices. His position certainly is not enviable. The actions of the party that put him in power have made his task almost impossib.e. In order to protect German agriculture, food tariffs have been put at unprecedentedly high rates. Natural laws of supply and demand would seem to make a boost in living costs inevitable. Yet a Nazi newspaper remarks contemptuously that, “We National Socialists do not believe in economic laws.” and the effort to blame rising prices on malicious profiteers is being pushed with vast energy. Dr. Goerdeler's lot can hardly be a happy one. Nor. for that matter, can the lot of the German consumer. Massachusetts man has gone a year with hardly any sleep. But he hasn't hac* to spend Sunday in Philadelphia. Federal government being urged to assume control of truck traffic. First thing to do is arrange that they'll pull over to the right when we want to pass. Latest test got the United States fleet through Panama canal faster than ever before. In other words, the fleet is getting fleeter. Ln't there something funny about Mussolini calling the youth of Italy to arms, just when an 11-year-old hoy takes the throne of Rumania? He just wants the two nations to Plw. - _ V

Liberal Viewpoint B\ UK. IIARRX ELMER BARNES ARMISTICE DAY, like the Fourth of July, has tended to be an occasion for school exercises which whoop up the glories of war and call attention, in particular, to the stirring and gratifying results of the late World war Os late, however, there have been certain gratifying evidences of a change of attitude and some symtoms of thoughtful sobriety. The most notable instance which has come to my attention this <rear is the Armistice day number of the Scholastic, the National High School Weekly. If this issue does not rock secondary' education in the United States and goad the super-patriots to fury, then certainly the country as a whole must have arrived at a newstate of sanity on the question of war. It starts out by playing up the resolution against war adopted by the National Educational Association at Washington last July: “War is the greatest menace to civilization. As an important step toward the elimination of war, legislation should be passed by the United States congress prohibiting profits on the manufacture and sale of munitions and other war equipment. Children should be taught the truth about war and its costs in human life and .deals and in material wealth. The Journal of the N. E. A. should carry frequent articles contending war, its costs and its consequences.” a a a BUT the editor does not duck the responsibi’ity of putting himself on record. He flatfootedly backs up the N. E. A. resolution: “The common sense of educators has brought them to see that schools no longer can piey ostrich and stick their heads in the sand in a world where war is always just around the corner. The resolution of the National Education Association quoted on this page is a frank statement of the act that education must either destroy war, or war will destroy it, and with it everything else that nakes civilization possible. In this Armistice cay number Scholastic makes it contribution to the N. E. A.’s plea that young people shall be ‘taught the truth about w-ar.’ ” The editor also goes to th.; root of the matter by pointing out that the only certain way to put an end to war is to make peace time conditions sufficiently decent so that war will not be invited by the misery of the masses: “We must make peace good. We must devise an economic system that works, to provide adequate food, clothing, houses, and some of the minimum pleasures of life xor all. When we do that, we will automatically rid ourselves of the war danger. Build a society so satisfying hat men will not wish to escape from it by going to war, and you hammer a nail in the coffin of the war god.” non INSTEAD of boasting of the glorious and happy results of the World war, a striking exhibit is run indicating its colossal costs, and based upon the authoritative study of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. It points out that the staggering World war casts of $400,000,000,000 would: (1) Provide every family in the British Isles, France, Belgium, Germany, Russia, the United States, Canada and Australia with a $2,500 house on a SSOO five-acre lot and furnish it with SI,OOO worth of furniture: (2) would provide a $5,000,000 library and a $10,000,000 university for every community of 20,000 in all of these countries; (3) would create a sum which at 5 per cent interest would yield enough to pay SI,OOO a year to an army of 125,000 teachers and 125.000 nurses, and (4) would still leave enough to buy every item of property in both Frahce and Belgium combined. This, in addition ‘o .5,988.371 dead, missing and unaccounted for and an even greater number of wounded, was what it cost the world to allow Serbia to realize its nationalistic ambitions for expansion and a bloated frontier, to enable France to get back Alsace Loraine, .to help Russia get the straits (which she did not get after all) and to aid Great Britain in destroying the German colonial empire, navy and merchant marine.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL ARGENTINE Ambassador Felipe Espil mysteriously appeared at the state department recently on a secret mission. The envoy tread softly, conferred lengthily with Sumner Welles, assistant secretary of state, then departed without revealing anything. And what do you suppose the excitement was ail about? Argentine “hot dogs.” A shipment of Argentine sausages and salami has been held up in the port of New York. Envoy Espil is trying to get the shipment released. Thence all the whispering, conferring and softpedalling of the elegant Felipe. Hot dogs! Reason for the holding up of the Argentine shipment results from an American law which decrees that such foods as sausages, salami, etc., must be frozen for twenty days in the country of origin before they can be legally admitted to the United States Buenos Aires exporters failed to freeze their ‘hot dogs” at the required five-degree Fehrenheit temperature, hence the difficulty. “No frozen hot dogs—no entry,” rule port authorities in New York. “Can’t these dogs be frozen here?” inquires Felipe. Apparently they can’t. All the trouble of his Argentine excellency is apt to be in vain. Unwilling to send them back yelping to Buenos Aires, he still is striving to have them declared "persona grata” tor should it be “hot dog grata”?). Someone has suggested they might be brought in via the diplomatic pouch and served at one of Espil’s cocktail parties. aaa SIGNOR GIUSEPPE TOMMASI, the bold Italian diplomat who sallied forth recently to hunt ferocious grizzly bear in the depths of darkest Virginia, has returned to Washington—alas, sans bear! He is being roundly congratulated, however, by colleagues on his safe return. They feared that the bear might return to Washington—sans Tommasi. NOTE—Evere since eating the delicious roast bear served at Sovrani's in London, Signor Tommasi has been ambitious of running to earth his favorite dish. a a a SENOR DON MANUEL TRUCCO, the Chilean ambassador, has gone to New York to see the Chilean team perform in the National Horse show. Asa matter of fact, there is very little for him to do in Washington—except dance, and he doesn’t like that. The Chilean team has performed exceptionally well in the show, and Chilean horsemen are being toasted by many Latin-American diplomats here. A number of other envoys are in Manhattan for the show, including the Irish minister and Mrs. Michael Mac White, Brigadier-General and Senora de Azcarate of the Mexican embassy and the Commercial Attache and Senora de Gaxiola of the Mexican embassy. The Persian minister, Monsieur Djalal, a great lover of horseflesh (he admires the stable of his friend, Mr. Guggenheim, on Long Island), is also in New York, but his mind is fixed on Persian art at the Roerich museum and the celebration of ancient Firdusi’s birthday anniversary at Columbia university. If he has time, he will watch the nags jump—but there are no Persian ponies in the running. National doughnut month, as October is supposed to be, will pass quietly enough if we continue to do nought abort the doughnut. The government is going to let any one inspect your income figures next year, it has not vet decided whether or not it will furnish the microscopes. Poverty has been given a reprieve in California. It was a mad Halloween crowd the Chicago world fair drew on its last night, although not so mad as the concessionaires were later.

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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. Limit them to 250 words or less.) a a a LETTER CAMPAIGN FOR AID IS SUGGESTED By T. Winnington. Some 65,000 voters in Indianapolis registered and did not vote on election day. These were voters who two years ago voted with some hope. That hope did not materialize and they got sick and tired of voting. Some voters voted Republican to protest. Some voters voted Democratic, some because their hope materialized and some because they still hope to materialize. None of these voters has principles. The real politicians are those Democrats and Republicans whose aim is: I go in to get all I can while the getting is still available or hope it may be available. These are the ones who have a grab principle. Remember there are exceptions of sincerity in all doings. Os all political parties interested to get the control of the governing power, in my estimation, only the Communists and Socialists have the principles of doing good for humanity when they win the power. I am one of those who still hesitate to be either Communist or Socialist. I do not know why, I am trying to understand myself, and I am sure this was the last vote I’ll cast for an old party. From now on my vote will go to the Socialist or Communist parties. Meanwhile, now that the Democrats have full power, demand the necessity of life for you and your families. Tell the congressmen and senators by letters that you expect some service from them. a a a TRAINING IN VOTING NEED IN INDIANA By O. J. S. The people must be told the truth about their officials, be that truth bitter or pleasant. A precinct election board is a very important official body. And clean elections can be had. As the Republican clerk of the Thirteenth precinct of the Twelfth ward, I wish to praise other officials of the board under which I served Nov. 6. Every voter got his rights insofar as lay in the power of that board. When necessary to assist a voter, the work was done fairly and impartially. Not a man on the board acted like a Democrat or a Republican. Each man acted like an honest public official. Os course, too many voters asked for assistance in voting, either through terrible ignorance on their part, or someone told them not to keep their vote secret. I couldn’t guess ■which. If a CWA boss or some other person got too persuasive, or if certain rumors of threats and coercion before the election be true, these things happened not in the polling place. I hope other precincts had as clean a board as we did. We now have two years to get ready for another election. During that time let’s get all these voting machines out of storage and set them up in corner stores and elsewhere for practice. If the adults won’t practice on them, let the children do so. And thus by 1940 or 1944 we can have a population able to vote without two clerks at their elbows. Otherwise a voting booth is as secret as a goldfish bowl.. a a a HE CAN T FORGET THE BUGLER SHOULD NOT PASS’ By Shockfd-Proof. It was with qualms that I opened my papier Sunday. No headlines were there and yet sixteen years ago in France. Fuddletown, United States, and points

THE NEW HIRED HAND!

A Battle Has Begun

By league of Loyal Democrats. With the election in California over, we deem it proper to outline the situation with which the Democratic party and the state of California must be faced lor the next two years. This situation also will have repercussions upon the Democratic party as a national entity, and the nation itself must inevitably be effected by the Sinclair movement. This election is unique in the annajs of American political history. The outcome should restore the faith of any doubters in the stability and judgment of American voters. In a state that isoverwhelmingly Democratic, and in spite of a campaign that was vicious, venomous and unrestrained, Democratic voters were able, with unerring accuracy, to separate the metal from the dross. They gave the President and his administration their overwhelming support. They gave him progressive Hiram Johnson. They returned the eleven incumbent congressmen and probably have added two more; hut what is of infinitely more importance to the state and the party nationally—they have given the lie to the charge that the Democratic party is the party of Communism in America. The point we wish to drive home is that the battle against Communism in the state and the nation has just begun. Through control of the Democratic state central committee, Mr. Sinclair is definitely in control of the name of the party in this state and will remain so unitl the real Democrats can recapture the organization at the polls two years hence. On the night of Nov. 6, in a radio broadcast, Upton Sinclair stated

World war-ly the boys sang “I'm going to murder the bugler. Some day they’re going to find him dead.” What! No buglers killed this Armistice day? Oh! for a good bugler to assassinate and none has come our way. Where are all the buglers of the World war? No cemetery claims to be populated with them. No penitentiary asserts it has its share of buck privates with the bugling homicide affixed as a reason for their having a number. I work nights. I live in the vicinity of the World war memorial. And Sunday while the boys paraded again in their down-at-heel, motheaten uniforms, I was tempted to get myself a good bugler with my double-gauge. I tossed several in the discard because of youth, national guard and Boy Scout garb, and centered on one tall bird to measure for a wooden kimona. He had no right, rites or no rites, to wake a working “bloke” up in the middle of the afternoon with his “rat-a-tat” and yet I lowered the blunderbuss. The alarm clock rang in my room. I’m going down to get anew alarm clock today. I’m going to move before next Armistice day and I’ve sworn to get me my next bugler, alarm clock or no alarm clock. aaa NOV. 6 IS PASSED; FORGET THE ELECTION By Tired Listener. The election is over, but the aftermath lingers on. Why can’t we human beings have done with an issue when it is finished, instead of “hashing over” all the campaign details long after the votes are counted, and the candidates are exulting or grieving, according to their success or defeat? Whether you wanted Two-Fisted “Shay” Minton or “Li'l Arthur” to occupy the seat in the senate—whether you were a Democrat or a Republican—whether you wanted support oi the New Deal or believed

[ l wholly disapprove of what you say and will j defend to the death your right to say it. — Voltaire.

that this election was just one skirmish in the battle to teach the people of thQ state and country that the EPIC plan is the only plan to end poverty, that he proposes to launch a campaign of education, that he speaks with the voice of ten million unemployed throughout the nation. His na-tion-wide challenge over the radio to the President’s veracity was unethical and was an affront to all who acknowledge the leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It is established definitely that an attempt already is being made to develop the EPIC movement in other states. There are EPIC headquarters in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Cleveland. The Utopian Society, which is but another name for the EPIC movement, is being spread through the middle west. For the above reasons we warn our Democratic friends in other states to be on guard, as Communists now are attempting to bore from within in the Democratic party throughout the nation, using California as a base. California Democrats, therefore, must warn the nation that there will be an attempt by Sinclair to make EPIC an issue in the next congress, that there may be Communist members of the California legislature, and that the Sinclair forces will attempt to be present in force at the next Democratic national convention. They definitely scheme to make the Democratic party communistic. We would not be true to our national party, to out state, or to ourselves if we do not lay these facts before you. This battle on a national front has just begun.

that it was time to repudiate its workings—the time has come to forget Nov. 6, and turn to other things. Os course, we all will be anxious to see how these newly elected persons conduct city, county and national affairs—but at least we can dust off our hands the heat of campaign arguments, air our minds, and get back to every-day business. Let’s forget ail the arguments! a o a TIMES SHOULD STAND BY LIBERAL VIEWS By D. R. My congratulations to The Times for its foresight and couraging in picking the right horses in the recent elections. Ever since 1928 I have nursed a grudge against your newspaper and I have not yet quite gotten over it. I certainly can't forgive your whole-hearted support of Herbert Hoover and the whole Republican ticket in that year. Your newspaper must accept some of the blame for letting the depression dig in so deep. Under any other President, business and the worker never would have suffered so much. But I do want to compliment you. You are trying hard to rectify that great error by sticking close to the liberal side. Stay with it. aaa CHIEF MORRISSEY SHOULD STAY IN OFFICE By T. E. K. I read in your newspaper that there is a possibility that Chief Mike Morrissey may retain his job under Mayor-elect Kern. What’s the matter with Morrissey and who have they got to replace him? All they have is a bunch of flat-footed dumbbells. I'm for Mr. Morrissey. At least he is a GOOD Cop. a a m ROBINSON—A MILLSTONE—HAS BEEN CAST ASIDE. By Roberta. It seems awfully decent in Indiana once again. We can lilt our heads once again now that Senator Arthur

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R. Robinson no longer represents this state in the United States senate. Time, the magazine, gave Robinson a beautiful political obituary last week. Their story said that the Roosevelts at least were very happy to be rid of Robinson because no rumor was too low for the honorable senator to pull into the open. I recal several scurrilous attacks on the President and his family made by Robinson and I am sure that all decent Republicans are tickled pink that he's been defeated. I know many of them who scratched his name from the ticket. He cost the Republican party 20,000 votes in Marion county and perhaps we can go places now that we have lost that millstone.

So They Say

George M. Cohan is fairly good as a comedian. But comedy isn't acting. You should have seen the actors I used to know.—Frazer Coulter, once-famed stage star, on 86th birthday. Unless we can conquer the discord which dominates the world today, it must go down. Human reason is bankrupt.—Archdeacon Francis H. D. Smythe of Lewes, England. I don’t like any form of work in which you do two days’ labor for the price of one.—Pauline Lord, stage actress, speaking of the movies. There are no political parties in America today. What the public is interested in is, Will the schemes being tried in Washington be successful?—Senator James Hamilton Lewis, Illinois. Every working man is a capitalist. —Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. When you get to be my age, birthdays shouldn’t be a time to celebrate. The more you forget your birthdays as you grow older, the younger you stay.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. I was mei ffy doing my bit in the cause of Roosevelt and recovery.— Edward F. Pritchard Jr., Princeton senior suspenced for beer drinking.

Daily Thought

And God said to Balaam, Thou shalt not go with them; Thou shalt not cure the people; for they are blessed.—Numbers 22; 12. THERE is nothing evil but what is within us; the rest is either natural or accidental.—Sir Philip Sidney. AUTUMN BY RUTH PERKINS The bronze earth trembles at a chilling breath Weaving a distant spell on sloping hills That burn a sacrificial fire, and death Walks on silent crisp-leaved feet and chills In stealthy manner bush and vine Whose ghost-like husks make whisper m the wind. The false bright days like painted hypocrites Go flaring, draped in gold and splashed with wine, Talking in brittle high-strung notes, light flits In shifting strokes retouching a design That daily grows more somber, and the earth Laughs gustily in dry and bitter mirth.