Indianapolis Times, Volume 46, Number 174, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 November 1934 — Page 26

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TOIDAY. NOVEMBER. JO. IM4STICKER “FIXING” AN EVIL ONE of the worst evils of “fixing'’ traffic tickets is that those who are most able to pay fines escape them while the poor and humble, to whom a couple of dollars is a lot of money, are forced to pay. The wholesale violation of the traffic ordinances has become not only a public nuisance, but a downright scandal. We heard a woman, who should have known better, say the other day as she double parked: “If I get a ticket my husband will fix it. He’s a lawyer.” That woman rnd hundreds like her have been Inconveniencing thousands of citizens every day. Over-narking and double-parking may not be serious crimes, but they may cause serious accidents to innocent persons. The sole contact that many people have with the police and the courts is on traffic violations. If they all know that "fixing" is the rule they quite naturally hold our law enforcement agencies in contempt. In addition the practice is demoralizing in the extreme to the police. Why should a patrolman do his duty if he knot's the summons he issues will get no farther than some “fixer's’ desk? Chief Morrissey is to be commended, we think, for his drive on traffic violations and for his orders eliminating the sticker “fixer." He deserves the co-operation of every good citizen.

CONVERTED AT LAST SENATOR HARRISON’S espousal of lower liquor tariffs, after talking with the President, represents a desirable change in administration policy. Since repeal came a year ago, a limited supply of aged legal whisky in this country and a $5-a-gallon customs barrier against imports have given bootleggers a decided advantage over lawful competitors. Addition of federal and strtes taxes raised the total government levy on imported spirits to about $2 a quart, and the retail price to $4 a quart and above. That being more than the average whisky drinker could or would pay, he has been purchasing a less satisfactory product—either immature legal whisky or whisky of doubtful purity from bootleggers. % Richard Hunter, new short-term senator from Nebraska, puts it bluntly: “The ":nly good liquor available is what we get from abroad. The average person can’t afford it. Therefore, we should lower tariffs.” The Hutchins policy commission recently weighed the social and economic values cf lower liquor tariffs. “It is desirable in the interest of internal law and order and international trade to restore tariff and internal revenue rates for imported b=er, wines and spirits to the level of the Underwood tariff of 1913,’’ the commission reported. The Underwood gallon rates were: $2.60 on spirits, 45 to 60 cents on wines, and 45 cents on beer. The federal domestic taxes were not added, present duties are: $5 on spirits, $1.25 on wines, and $1 on beer. Domestic taxes arc audcd. The 1913 tariffs would give ample protection to loca’ producers. Under present rates, they have more than protection. ‘ They have a virtual embargo on imports. If its recommendation is adopted, the Hutchins commission said, “prices of distilled spirits a . wines will be lower and bootlegging *' , vouraged. Once smuggling and bootlegging have been brought under control, the government gradually might impose heavier domestic revenue taxes on alcoholic be/erages whether of domestic or foreign origin.’ STREET LIGHTS AND DEATHS INADEQUATE visibility is responsible for one-third to one-half of the fatal nighttime automobile accidents. A three-year survey dicloses that cities with poor street lighting have the highest auto latality rates, and cities with good street lighting have the lowest rates. What have the cities to show for their economizing on light bills? In the three-year period, it is estimated, the excess economic loss due to these accidents was $12,000,000. Depleted revenues have forced cities to cut expenses. Bifc they should be sure that economies represent real savings. Cheaper electricity rates may help solve the problem. ONLY A SYMBOL THE acquittal of Samuel Insull may provoke the cynical to n*w remarks about the difficulty of finding a m Uion dollars guilty of anything, but its chief importance is its warning that we can not ulame the disasters of recent years on individuals. Mr. Insull was a symbol—both before the crash and after it. When something very unpleasant happened to us, we immediately trained our heavy guns on this symbol. But the real trouble all along was not with the symbol, but with our own reaction to it. In the years before the stock market went Democratic. Mr. Insull was up on a golden throne, and he nev e would have stayed there a minute if we had not assented to it. We looked upon him as one of our great men, we listened attentively to everything he had to gay—not because we had any special reason to believe that he was a brilliant thinker, but simply because we were ready to give our highest honors to any :.ian who possessed quantities of the long green. Naturally enough, when the bottom fell out of everything, our ideas went into reverse. Instead of idolizing this utilities magnate, we tried to blame him for everything. A great many people lost a great deal of money in his companies—so we felt, in our wisdom, that the obvious remedy was to throw him in jail. Mow it should have been apparent that Jhe

obvious remedy wm nothing of the kind. These unlucky investors were victimized, not by any one man, but by a combination of forces; by themselves, first of all, and by the temper of the times, secondarily. How was this victimization made possible? Chiefly by the fact that we suspended our critical judgment in favor of a great desire to have all our problems solved by the power of finance. We knew that many things were out of Joint in our country. The life was being ground out of agriculture, labor was getting less than its share of things, the development of mass production and super-finance was piling up stupendous problems which we had not even tried to solve. But we were eager to forget all about those things—we simply refused to be bothered by them—in the hope that by piling stocks and bonds up high enough we could be floated over into anew era without effort of our own. Well—lt didn't work. We should have known that it wouldn’t work, but we never le. ou- '.ves ask questions. We have been sitting .iiid the wreckage for several years, now; and our remedy is not to put this or that man in jail, but to change the psychological background against which these men operated. Insull's acquittal ought to be a timely reminder of this.

ANOTHER RAT GONE A NOTHER of John Dillinger’s rats has gone the way of all outlaws. Baby Face Nelson, as well known to Indianapolis newspaper readers as his unlamented leader, Dillinger, was found dead in a ditch near Chicago, a victim of bullets fired by two dying federal agents—dying wounds inflicted by Nelson and a companion. Dillinger, Pierpont, Makley, Van Meter, Tommy Carroll, Nelson, all have met the end that was justly theirs. If there ever was any proof of the adage that “crime doesn’t pay" this is it. i Instead of glorifying the holdups and thefts of a gang of rats such as Dillinger’s, impress upon your children the headlines of the newspapers which read: “John Dillinger Slain.” “Harry Pierpont Executed.” “Makley Put to Death.” “Carroll Killed By Officers.” “Van Meter Shot to Death.” “Baby Face Nelson Dead.” Remember these headlines. They tell a story so gripping;, so pointed that no child snouid bo permitted forget them. When America —and Indianapolis in particular —wakes up to the fact that crime means only one thing-r-death—then we will have the law observance we constantly seek, and type of men ant’ women we’d like our children to be.

UNION HARA-KIRI TNT3RNAL American Federation of Labor strife between two groups of building trades unions is more serious than the usual jurisdictional disputes common to craft unionism. This internecine wrangle rages when all labor should be pulling shoulder to shoulder. Moreover it strikes at the key industry in present recovery efforts—construction. The organized labor movement has made great advances under the New Deal. But how can it hope to continue winning the confidence of the government, of the unorganized workers, and of employers, if it can not keep order in its own house? Public opinion, now unions as never before, will cool if t .se internal A. F. of L. fights retard thr vital private and public rehousing projecu. Such disputes are, first, labor's business. It has been suggested that the federation set up a “court’’ to settle jurisdictional disputes, to prevent unnecessary strikes, and to punish labor r. .eteering. The loosely-joined “international” unions today present much the same picture as the thirteen American colonies before the federalization under the Constitution. Organized labor will not win its battles against enemies outside until it develops courage and power to deal with selfish and sometimes unscrupulous officials within the unions.

IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED THE depression brought Lialarapo; is more than destitute families .and dicreased business revenues in all branches of industry. It brought lower budgets for governmental units and with that a crop of bad streets. Mayor Sullivan did all the improvement work possible under the city’s financial outlay. But traffic makes streets bumpy and wears them out. And traffic in Indianapolis is as heavy as ever. The city—with every other city in the nation —seems to be coming out of the gloom of the depression. Mayor-elect John W. Kern can do the city one great favor. He Immediately can start planning improvements on the city’s streets. It will be a great Improvement—both In looks and in the temper of our citizens. THE REAL DELINQUENT so often some die-hard suggests that the trouble with our young people is that we have been too sparing with the rod. A sound thrashing every so often, we are told, would work wonders with some of these youngsters whom we find exceptionally hare} to handle. Maybe so. But Father E. J. Flanagan, head of a boys’ home in Omaha, suggests that it is the fathers of delinquent children who need the licking. He boldly proposes that when a child gets into trouble with the law, and is found to have been neglected regularly by his dad, dad be called in and given a dozen or so where he will notice them most. Father Flanagan points out that parental neglect is responsible for juvenile delinquency in a tremendous proportion of cases. In such cases, obviously. It is the parent who needs correction far more than the child. The electric utilities are getting ready to short circuit the government’s power project, although they should know that such operation usually gives the meddlers an awful shock. A still was rented down from family to family for making liquor at home in Staten Island, a part of New York that hides behind the skirts of the Statue of Liberty. A French scientist has found that wine Is better for horses than bran. That doesn’t mean wine Is better for men, too, because men don't eat bran as horses do.

Liberal Viewpoint BY Dtt. HARRY ELMER BARNES

GRANVILLE HICKS takes me to task in the “New Masses” for likening the American Communists to the early Christian theologians. I have no particular desire to get into a heated debate with my old friend Mr. Hicks, but the question is important enough to warrant a little more impersonal discussion. Almost any sane and well-informed student of human affairs today will admit that capitalism is in about the same position as was feudalism in the fifteenth centry. It is certainly in its terminal stages. No reforms proposed by anybody possibly could save it indefinitely. Had American business been willing to follow Mr. Roosevelt enthusiastically a year and a half ago, it is possible that capitalism could have been made fairly tolerable in the United States for a generation. Whether we like it or not, then, the capitalistic system is on its way out. The only question is whether or not it will require ten, twentyfive. fifty or a hundred years to fold up and whether it will go out by way of Fascism, Socialism, Communism or general chaos. When capitalism does come to an end we shall certainly need some large and responsible group cf individuals able to take hold of society and f' • better job than the capitalists did. So even acious conservative ought to wish the radica. J. Even if he does not live to come under tneir dominion, certainly his children or grandchildren will. Therefore, he ought to desire that the radicals who will take over the running of society will be well equipped to execute their responsibilities. nun AMERICAN radicals make one of their major mistakes in thinking they can repeat the Russian “coup” of 1917 and overthrow capitalists society but by violence. Even if they were to increase their present numbers by fifty fold the/ would be utterly helpless before the air bombers, poison gas, tanks and machine guns of those in position of political authority. For the American radicals to rehearse for the bar; i ’ades is as silly as for a man to pack his wardrobe for a rocket trip to Mars. But the ultimate collapse of capitalism is as certain as its forceful overthrow in America is manifestly impossible. Therefore, American radicals should get ready for the responsibility of administering a great industrial state rather than for manning the trenches. Harold Laski, for example, rather than Trotsky should be their major prophet in technique. Mr. Hicks accuses me of being just as fervent as the radicals and points to my former debate* with Bernadotte Schmitt over the question of who caused the World war. This was a rather unhappy slip of Mr. Hicks, for Schmitt stood toward me with regard to the question of war guilt much as Mussolini or Hitler stands with respect to Mr. Hicks on the question of social and economic policy. I never wasted my energy on those who differed from me by half a hair on the relative guilt of France, Russia, Germany and Great Britain. Rather, I welcomed their fellowship in the common battle against myth mongers. If Mr. Hicks were to follow the same procedure, he would have no time to lambast Fadiman, Cowley, Chamberlain and the like, but would reserve his strength for Ralph Easley, Hamilton Fish, Harry Jung, the D. A. R. and the libe. NO ONE expects the American radicals to crawl into the same political and economic bed with Franklin D. Roosevelt or even with George Norris and Bob La Follette. But a radical bed which is not wide enough to hold Norman Thomas, J. Lovestone, A. J. Muste and W. Z. Foster at the same time is not wide enough to work up even a healthy nightmare to scare capitalism. If American radicalism is to have any promise for the future it must gain converts. This it is not likely to do so long as-it follows an intellectual procedure designed to make its propaganda just a little more repulsive to thinking men than the propaganda of capitalism. The reactionaries can do all the hating and scolding that human society requires. The radicals should save a little of their energy and resourcefulness for cerebrating. It is high time that they should cease following a strategy so futile and ill-advised at almost to make it seem as though it had been recommended to them by the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

IT was moving day the other day at the White House executive offices. Buzzing, bustling, moving typewriters, shifting furniture from one office to another, carrying files of government documents, answering telephones and receiving visitors, the White House staff settled itself in its newly completed quarters. Outside the remodeled building, painters busily plied their brushes, putting the final touches to pillars and cornices. Occasionally—above the swish of brushes and the click of typewriters—one caught the sound of a basso profundo voice barking orders. That was plump, energetic Steve Early, presidential secretary, directing the work. Steve took his moving job seriously. He seemed to be everywhere at once, doing ten things at a time, commanding his cohorts with the intensity of a big executive. Thanks to his alacrity, “business as usual” was the order at a reasonable hour in the afternoon. A casual observer might have supposed that the staff had been settled for many days. The familiar model of President Roosevelt’s Democratic donkey and five ship models loomed against a beautiful light gray-green color scheme. Office space has b*;n increased from 15,000 square feet to 40.000 square feet. “At last I feel I am able to stretch,” remarked one member of the staff. And he illustrated the remark graphically, until he caught Secretary Steve’s beady eye fixed upon him. NOTE:—In contrast to the bustle and rustle at the White House, the state dapartment building across the street was empty and deserted yesterday. No diplomats called. There were no important treaties being prepared. Secretary of State Hull smilingly remarked at his press conference that there seemed to be a dearth of news and of visitors. a a a BARON PAUL (HIPPY) SCHELL, ex-caviar salesman and secretary of the Hungarian legation, startled Washington’s diplomatic corps by appearing at a cocktail party wearing a bright pink shirt. In these troublous times, diplomats are worried by any shade of red or pink. Kippy’s shirt has naturally caused the usual fireside pow-wows, and one envoy actually went so far as to insinuate that a “pink shirt” movement may now be expected at any movement. The movement would naturally start at Newport over a tray of caviar sandwiches, and wind slowly down to Washington. Despite the ridicule, valiant excaviar salesman Schell continues to appear at parties in pink shirts some more faded than others (on account of the laundry) but all exceedingly smart and very Newport-ish. The Elliott Roosevelts are out of the new social register, although the rest of the Roosevelt family is in. Elliott may expect a call from the Communists at any time. Russia offering her army to France against Germany is the best indorsement from the outside world Hitler has yet received. Grandmother used to brag about her new machine in the old days, just as daughter does today. Only it was a sewing machine then.

THE INDIANAPOLr TIMES

A HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF—!

The Message Center

(Times readers are invite a to express their views in these columns. Make your letters short, so all can have a chance, himit them to SSO icords or less.) mam FATHER COUGHLIN PROGRAM SUPPORTED BY READER By H. V. I would be very thankful indeed if granted enough space in your Message Center to reply to the request of J. O. to express my approval of Father Charles E. Coughlin’s crusade. I have wondered for years why someone big enough to take up the cause of social justice has not launched the fight before. A careful review of past legislation reveals that practically all has been class legislation. If mechanics and agriculturists or, in other words, the workers, would pool their votes instead of being blinded by party prejudice created by professional politicians and stop fighting each other, they could obtain their freedom from slavery to the advantage of all classes. Have read many articles written by so-called economists in the last few years and none has yet told the reader the real truth, which is the basic or natural law of economics and can not be changed. For a people to control the economic situation they first must control the political field. The capitalists know this only too well; therefore, the fight to keep the masses divided. The church has sanctioned this unjust system; therefore the indifference to same. The people are not as dumb as they are supposed to be, but lack organization. More power to Father Coughlin. Join him and control your destiny. I am not a Catholic and don’t intend to be sidetracked by petty differences of political or religious issues or opinions. I am, however, a real red-blooded freeborn American. a a a OBJECTS TO RIGID ENACTMENT OF LAW By a Reader. All the fuss that’s being raised about traffic violators at this time is a little amusing and more than a little disgusting to most of us. Amusing, because it is soon forgotten. I can remember several instances in the last few years when the traffic department suddenly has decided, under pressure, to enforce the law and bring to swift justice all the wicked people who double park for a few minutes while they pay a bill and those who remain in a parking space thirty minutes overtime. Disgusting because of the way in which enforcing the law is handled. One night last week a woman, driving a car that looked as though it couldn’t possibly make more than one trip into town in six months, pulled up in front of the office of an Indianapolis newspaper and double parked. One of the newly energetic and watchful officers of the law stood behind a car parked against the curb, watched the woman stop her car and go into the building. Then he calmly wrote a ticket, stuck it under the windshield wiper and walked away, perhaps very well pleased with himself that he had performed his duty honestly. He adhered to the letter of the law by presenting stickers to drivers of cars double parked, with motors running, when he knew they would be moving on in a very short time. In both instances the officer could have walked up to the automobiles and instructed the drivers to find parking spaces. Even though people have known for years that it is against the law to double park, the law has been enforced so tittle, that it seems as if

Street Layout Confusing

By New Header. I have been in Indianapolis for two weeks and find the city quite confusing. In the first place, I have been unable to discover any street markers downtown. A iriend tells me he’ll meet me at an intersection of two streets, and I thereupon wander vainly about the Circle and the downtown section, asking strangers where I’ll be likely to find the intersection agreed upon. A city so complexly laid out as Indianapolis, should, I believe, have its streets definitely, plainly and frequently marked. I like the city, and it is comfortably big to accommodate the pedestrian traffic that throngs streets on shopping days. But, O my, I know that some day I’ll be picked up by police and charged with vagrancy when I am engaged in no more guilty pastime than trying to keep an appointment. And, since I am releasing a few pentup emotions about the difficulties I have found in getting about, I might put in a word about the motorists. There are yellow lines at intersections, back of which the driver is supposed to stop his car when

the courteous thing to do would be to warn motorists for a few days before stepping down so suddenly and so hard. a a a NEW DEAL FALLING SHORT OF GOAL By a, Neutral Observer. The editorial written by an employed woman in your recent issue is only one of numerous instances offering indisputable evidence that the so-called New Deal is far from being what is claimed for it. Despite continued prattling that all are being cared for, there are plenty who are suffering from being unable to secure or be supplied with the essential necessities of decent living. On the other hand, there is a huge army who are being taken care of entirely too well and at an extravagent expense. This applies to your numerous and nonessential political henchmen, big and little, who in numerous cases are holding dummy jobs regardless of qualifications. Senator Borah’s assertion of evidence of graft and mismanagement in the handling and conducting of the relief program is no newr. Right here in this small community not so recently, thirteen of those who were put on relief jobs were found found guilty of minor offenses ana in practically all cases it was political pull that put them on to the detriment of the deserving and qualified persons. Also with one exception all had their cases stayed or dismissed. There is also an attempt being made by some bright congressman to inject politics into the bonus, or adjusted compensation issue. To pay those who are on relief or in need is simply an indirect method for ttis politicians to come into the picture as they will naturally decide who is on relief or who needs it. The fact that there are more than three and a half millions certificates borrowed to the limit and unredeemed is evidence enough of the condition of the holders and if the administration requests all those who desire to wait until the policies mature before being paid to advise them accordingly they will not receive a single reply to that effect. a a a COLLEGES CAN KEEP CULTURE ALIVE NOW By r. r. The college graduate of 1934 and the one of 1734 have more than a title In common. Then, with a knowledge of Lat-'n, grammar, etc., he went out to at ack the devil and Spinoza with Scripture and logic.

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

the tight or the traffic policeman is against him. Some motorists do that, and leave a nice, safe path for the pedestrian to cross in. But some of them don’t. • They drive their cars across the tines and stop, and the pedestrian is forced to go in front of the car, into the line of cross traffic, or in back of the car, and rub his clothing against the muddy bumper of the next car in line. This type of driver is not peculiar to Indianapolis, and his greatest crime probably is thoughtlessness. But every one at one time or another, even if he owns a car, must walk across a street, and the drivers should remember that they may sometimes be in a position of doing some broken-field dodging, as it were. Indianapolis is a beautiful city, with impressive civic buildings. It has a nice pace and, as I said, is comfortable. But, to the stranger who is more or less on “his own” in matters of getting around, it is unnecessarily confusing. A small expenditure would provide markers, and surely the investment would be worthwhile.

The few who did not go into preaching went home to read Aristotle while their bondsmen tilled the land. The new spirit oi’ science and democracy had not pmtrated the colleges. Our curricula have changed vastly, but our civilization faste.-. The graduate of 1934, with an acquaintance of literature, history, economics, etc., plunges into commerce, which now includes mast activities, and beats his brain against reality. He can not float above It, in theology or on plantations, for he is not prepared to face it. If, for example, he consider-? the tariff, he finds that it is not decided by the interest of the nation but by powerful lobbies. Literature will not teach him to write slogans or magazine fiction. History will not prepare him to beat his chest if'i his party at election time. He must seek anew set of standards. Our colleges could easily fit him to deal with the situation. They could teach him oratory instead of reason. They could train him in salesmanship. But he has to learn them for himself. His culture, which is useless even in conversation, is only a chamber of the mind into which he can retire. But he is in peril of retiring too often. The impact of science and democracy was a splendid thing for the later Colonial colleges. The spirit of commercialism may give a more practical turn to our colleges. But if the change does not come about, we can console ourselves with the thought that they might preserve the amenities icr a time when they are again in vogue. After all, the church kept culture alive all during the dark ages when the sound of the Angelus was scarcely heard above the clash of steel. Our colleges may do the same. ana RECOMMENDS CLEARING OF DOWNTOWN TRAFFIC By E. L. Jonas. Being a reader of an a friend to your paper, I just want to make a suggestion. Your editorial on “sticker unng” is all o. k.. but you didn’t go far enough. You should try and impress on the city officials, especially Chief Mike Morrissey, who has more power than any chief we ever had in the city, and his traffic men to stop double parking near Illinois at Washington and Market streets, as it is almost impossible to get past these places sometimes through the daj. Taxis

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are lined up right in the parking zone, also cars are double parked in front of the Claypool entrance. Between Illinois and Capitol on Market street there formerly were two po.'icemen in the evening to keep the cars moving. It see ns to me that the city went to a great deal of extra expense installing traffic tights on Washington street from Delaware street to Capitol avenue and keeping the traffic men there also. Still the chief a’-e-uss he hasn’t enough men. Why bo’h tights and men? a a a WIDOW THREE CHILDREN NOW FACE POVERTY By B. B. H. Today I saw the most tragic thing I ever have seen. My heart still aches and I feel full of rebellion. What impressed me was the sick, girl mother.with three small children clinging to her. She is now completely responsible for the physical, mental and moral upbringing of these little ones. The father was young, strong and planning for Christmas, college and the things young parents usually plan. That was a short time ago. He was number , who was killed on his way to work Nov. 19. An accident? *Yes, but the man who caused this was just another drunken driver. Why can’t our family circles be protected from this menace?

So They Say

Physicians have been so busy diagnosing and preventing disease that the individual harboring the disease has been almost forgotten.— Dr. Thurman D. Kitchen, president, Wake Forest (N. C.) college. I’ve got what it takes, and unless something happens I should be a thirty-win pitcher.—Dizzy Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals. The depression should be saved; It keeps a lot of people from realizing they aren’t any good.—Don Marquis, author. \ There is nothing left, no green thing; it is gone.—Dr. Elwood Mead, United States reclamation commissioner, returning from the drought area.

Daily Thought

In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the threshold, which fill their masters’ houses with violence and deceit.—Zephaniah, 1:9. IN general, treachery, though at first sufficiently cautious, yet in the end betrays itself. —Livy.

Lacquer Love

BY RUTH PERKINS Now I call him lacquer love, He was so careful of his hair. So varnished superficially, So very debonair. But then it was all madness, The flame of first love’s fire, With adolescent sadness We spoke of our desire. The very childish voice of his, The very youth of me, Had spent itself acquiring A high sophistry. And now when I am older, Have time to turn and look, I laugh a tittle tenderly As at a fairy book.