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TVEfinAY DECEMBER 11. 1934 THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, as usual, shows more perception and courage than those around him. The Attorney General and others responsible for the National Crime Conference, which opened in Washington yesterday, left ~ the unpopular subject of lynching ofl the program. despite the fact that the country recently has been shocked by anew outbreak of this revolting type of crime. But the President, in his address to the conference last night, included in the list of crime “horrifying lynchings, no longer confined to one section of the country.” In his general discussion of crime, the President stressed two points: One, the necessity of better training and co-ordinating of the many Federal, state and local enforcement agencies. Second, the need for building up a body of public opinion alive to the menacing situation. In both cases the kind of sporadic emotional reaction so typical of the American public is inadequate. The need is for a sustained and intelligent public support for a law enforcement system based on scientific methods. We wish the President had found time to speak at greater length to this conference. Specifically, admonition was needed from the President on the unholy alliance between crime and politics, and al£o on economic desperation and unwholesome social conditions as partial causes of crime.

A HOPELESS TASK SOMEWHERE in the United States today a hunted man is doing his best to accomplish the impossible. The feat which he is trying to perform is to escape capture or death at the hands of Department of Justice agents. That man is Thomas Robinson Jr., who is charged with fleeing with ransom money after he had kidnaped Mrs. Alice Stoll, of Louisville. Mrs. Stoll was held in Indianapolis several days and her captor escaped with but only a few hours leeway on the law. During the kidnaping The Indianapolis Times editorially warned Robinson of his fate. The last line of an editorial which pointed out the risks he was taking, told him that “Death is so permanent.” But, by that time, Robinson had added his name to the list of hunted criminals. Since then, though, many of the other names on that list have been erased with bullets. Robinson 1s under the same stigma as the other men on that list. His classification reads: “Criminal—kidnaping.” When he is caught—and he will be—he will pay the penalty. The Federal Government fails seldom. For all he knows the man he bought a sandwich for the other day is one of the score of agents who are sw-orn to track him down. His capture or death will come suddenly. It will be another chapter in the oft-quoted best seller of recent years, "Crime Doesn't Pay ” SNOW AND TRAGEDIES WITH Indianapolis and Indiana experiencing the first heavy blanket of snow for the winter season, the traffic death toll mounted with horrifying rapidity. Eighteen pe sons lost their lives in the state. Six of tnese persons were residents of Marion County. Scores of others were Injured, some of whom may die. Hospital authorities often have asserted that under .evere climatic conditions, the majority of autoists and pedestrians lean backward t ' be cautious. This week-end certainly exploded that theory. There is only om theory that can be considered and that is the theory of prevention. No matter how small the damage, the risk of lile involved always is at hand. And when damage Is done it can not be remedied.

BLOODY VIOLENCE ONCE more a European dictator presents America with a first-rate object lesson in the bloody price that any people must pay for submitting to autocratic rule. This time the lesson comes from Russia. A few months ago it came from Germany. A relatively shoit time before that it came from Austria. And though the course of events differed in each case, the lesson to be derived therefrom is the same. The assassination of Sergei Maronovich Kiroff. member of the Soviet Poetical Bureau, is answered in the only way an autocratic country can answer such a deed—by wholesale arrests, rapid-fire trials and an appalling number of executions. At last accounts, 66 people have been executed in reprisal—the reprisal being the government's way of replying to the only kind of criticism that is available to a Russian nowadays. And that is just the point of al: of these tragedies. Where free discussion is shut off, ballot boxes are sealed and ordinary processes of self-government are abolished, there is only one way in which a man can express his opposition to government policies; by violence. The uprising in Austria which resulted in the murder of Dollfuss, the German plot which led Hitler to order the execution of such men as Roehm and Von Schleicher, and now this Russian upheaval which sent 66 people before the firing squads—all of these bloody and desperate events are part and parcel of the autocrat ic process. They come with the bicycle. If you treat yourself to a dictatorship, there is no way in w hich you can escape such things. Now we have been told in recent years that the tide is setting away from democratic processes, that freedom is a luxury too expensive for the modern world end that self-government is too inefficient and cu*.-bersome to be tolerated in a high-speed, mechanized commonwealth. There is a substratum of truth in these assertions. People have grown disillusioned with

democracy; freedom can be retained only by making sacrifices; democratic government* can not always act with speed and decisiveness. But assassinations and mass executions go on the other side of the ledger. They reflect t n inefficiency greater and more costly than anything to be found in a democracy; the inefficiency of depotism, by which the inevitable manifestations of human dissent can be expressed and answered only by bloody violence. 3 PER CENT CO WRONG AGAIN 'T'HE parole system is often blamed for our failure to instill a respect for the law into crooks. But it needs to be emphasized that it is not the system that is at fault, but failure to operate it intelligently. What can be done with a properly handled parole system is shown by figures just made public in Ohio. Approximately three years ago Ohio modernized and overhauled Its parole machinery. Every effort was made to run the system intelligently and for the best interests of society. Since the reorganization, the parole board passed on the cases of 26,423 convicts, and granted paroles to 9594. Os the men paroled, only .3 per cent "have returned to crime. Seventy-two per cent of them are now gainfully employed; in other words, they have “gone straight” and are useful members of the community. Thus is an admirable record. It shows how the parole system is meant to work, and how it can work when state authorities make an honest effort to administer it intelligently. SAFETY OF CAPITALIST lITHEN Raymond Moley told the Congress * of American Industry that the New Deal is fundamentally an effort to preserve American capitalism, he touched on a point t.iat ought to be remembered in any discussion of the “left” or “right” tendencies of this Adm.nistration. There can be different ideas of the best method to preserve capitalism, of course; and the New Deal may be adopting a method somewhat farther to the left than many people think entirely sound. But basically it is not a radical move. The radical seeks to tear down the existing structure to make way for something he believes will be better. The present Administration, when all is said and done, is trying to save it. In that sense it is a conservative Administration.

THE REVENUE REPORT * I 'AX-HUNTERS, in congress and out, recognize no closed season on millionaires. Consequently much will be said about the million dollar income club gaining 26 new members in 1933, as revealed by the new internal revenue report. In 1929 this club had more than 500 members. By 1932 membership had dropped to 20. Largely because of more buoyancy in the security and real estate markets, the club’s membership rose to 46 in 1933. The 46 enjoy the privileges of complaining that the Government takes 59 per cent of all they “earn” In excess of a million, and 57.1 per cent of their incomes up to a million. These 46 persons reported a total income of $81,558,532, and paid a total tax of $25,848,046. Under the Huey Long scheme of taxation, the Government w'ould take all over a million. By substracting $46,000,000 from $81,558,532, we see a shortcoming in Senator Long’s proposal—it would not produce much revenue. Only 1,731,116 persons paid taxes on the 1933 incomes. But all persons paid other taxes. The Government has to have revenue. It must get the bulk of it from persons of comparatively small incomes. Under a tax system which rests, as ours does, more upon consumption of goods than upon wealth and income. the low-income groups carry more than their share of the burden. Last winter, Congress made the mistake of reducing rates on all Incomes up to $30,000. There are 1,711.530 persons in that class. But because revenue had to be found somewhere, Congress did not lighten the indirect taxes of more than 44.000,000 employables who had no direct tax on their incomes. In the interest of fairness and of obtaining much needed revenue, the Administration this year should reiy less on indirect taxes and more on higher direct taxation of middle bracket incomes.

THE LEAGUE’S PEACE has the League of Nations appeared to better advantage than in these last critical days, when the clouds of war have crowded closer and closer upon Europe. Now there has been a peaceful settlement—for the moment at least. And the league is responsible. This achievement has not been accompanied, to be sure, by any dramatic gesture to warm the hearts of romanticists. The method, rather, has been that of informed and patient negotiation. The league machinery provided the facilities. Without the league, this Yugoslav-Hun-garian dispute would have been left to the dangerous bluster of militarists and the insidious maneuvering of secret diplomacy. That happened in 1914—and even today, after the investigations of a generation of historians, the world does not know exactly what happened in that other Balkan dispute which produced the war. Os course machinery is no good unless It Is used. The league can not function by itself. The world has another respite of uneasy peace today because France. Great Britain and Italy used the league machinery. Too often In the last decade, they have failed to do that. And their failure has been improperly laid to the league. One of the hopeful aspects of this new success is that it may encourage the large European powers, who dominate the league, to make even fuller use of it in future crises. If that bridge expert, who wants $300,000 for the use of his name in a liquor ad, wants to make real dough, he should get after those who use his name in vain in nearly every bridge game in the country. The way the bankers Y-ent'for that Federal bond issue of $900,000,000, you’d think some South American country had offered it. The program on which industrial leaders say they’ll co-operate with President Roosevelt reads, almost like the note Austria sent Serbia at the beginning of the World War. *

Liberal Viewpoint BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES

DONALD RICHBERG and Professor Moley have been trying to reassure big business and make its leaders feel that President Roosevelt is their friend. A much more powerful and logical statement of the affinity of the Roosevelt policies with business interests and of the folly of business in trying to sabotage the New Deal which I have ever read is contained in an “Open Letter to Big Business” by John T. Flynn in the New Republic. The more cogent parts of Mr. Flynn's argument are reproduced herewith: “Now I ask you to forget the nonsense about the Brain Trust and the left wing experiments. They exist chiefly in the minds of headline writers and disturbed souls like Mark Sullivan. I ask you honestly to examine the course of Mr. Roosevelt. “Do you know of any Republican President who has been more completely settled on his high-tariff policy than the President? Has the tariff wall been breached at any point? In the matter of money, has he not exhausted the resources of strategy to hold off currency inflation? He has, of course, taken the country off the gold standard. But when he did, was not J. Pierpont Morgan the first to approve his course? His gold purchase plan was not a sound expedient, but you will have to concede that it was an attempt to produce higher commodity prices in the world markets without actually. inflating the currency. “As for the Gherman and Clayton anti-trust laws, which you have tried to have modified or suspended for years, did he not give you the complete suspension of them; and did he not give you, upon the easiest terms, the boon of self-government in industry, which means the control over industry—including production control and price fixing through your own trade associations? Has he not persistently urged higher prices for your goods and offered to lend you money to that end?

“X7'OU may quarrel with Section 7-A, which accompanied these gifts, but you are compelled, in all fairness, to admit that the President has done everything possible to make this provision as little irritating to you as possible. His NRA administrator. General Johnson, for all his truculence and bellowing, declared that under NRA there could be no closed shop. And with General Johnson gone, his successor, Donald Richberg, proclaims the same principle. Have you not, from end to end. in your several industries gained your respective points in almost every quarrel with your employes? Could any Republican President have done more for you? What one has eyer done as much? “Can you name a Republican administration where the representatives of big business have been more generously represented? Do you not see one of your own number, Jesse Jones, at the head of the RFC? Is Eugene Black a stranger in your midst? And Harvey Couch, once of the Chase National Bank? And Mr. Moffett at the head of the Housing Administration? “Was Mr. Hoover in his palmiest days more intimately devoted to your interests than Dan Roper in the Commerce Department, or Mr. Swanson in the Navy, or Mr. Hull in the State Department, or Mr. Cummings in the attorney general’s office? I beg you to compare the number of prosecutions of big business under Mr. Donovan when Coolidge was President or under Mr. Mitchell when Hoover succeeded him.

NEVER in all those twelve long years of Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, has there been such a procession of business leaders asked to Washington to state their views. Never was there a President who was more wholeheartedly given to the aim of making business profitable and doing everything to make it so, or one who' has shielded you from heavy taxes more assidupusly than he. “The Republican party, as an instrument for actually serving you is dead. Its resurrection seems rather remote. If you need an agent in Washington, your one hope is the Democratic party. Asa matter of fact, you will have a much better chance in an alliance with the South than with the West, which will soon be in open revolt. “If you are wise, therefore, you will move in on Mr. Roosevelt. You will adopt him. You will make the Democratic party the party of big business. And you will not permit the power interests to hinder you because of TVA. It is the power interests and soma big Wall Street promoters who have ridden i.he Republican party to death. There is m reason, if you will examine the matter, why you should pull their chestnuts out of the fire.’’ Let Mark Sullivan, Dr. Wirt, Col. McCormick and David Lawrence laugh this off!

Capital Capers BY GEORGE ABELL

CAPITOL HILL is beginning to buzz like a political beehive, with senators hastening back td town—many of them talking their heads off on a variety of subjects. nun Senator Gerald Nye, youthful chairman of the Senate Munitions Investigation Committee, yesterday was issuing from the Senate lunchroom when he heard a whisper. It was Senator Hugo Black of Alabama, one of the big munitions investigators. “I have some information for you,” muttered Black, in a low tone. Gerald stepped aside and held a whispered confab with the Alabaman. Then, after some head wagging, he proceeded on his way to the munitions hearing. No one has been able to learn what the dramatic whisper portended. nan Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, presidential hope of some G. O. P. members, yesterday finished his luncheon and demanded—in his eloquent way—a certain special brand of cigar. The timber of Vandenberg’s voice holds a deep musical quality. The tone lingers in the air, like the sustained note of a church organ. Perhaps that’s why every one standing about could hear him. Unfcrti rately, the Michigan legislator missed getting th? cigar he wanted. He was forced to accept crc of inferior quality. nan Stnatoi W. Warren Barbour, ex-pugilist and heavyweight of the Senate, strode magnificently about the Senate Office Building corridors yeste-day. The echo of his firm tread and his sho.*t basso laugh could be heard half a block. nan Senator George of Georgia is to be seen these days busily discussing a great many things —notably the recent election of Senator Cutting in New Mexico. As chairman of the Privileges and Elections Committee, he may be called upon to settle contested points at issue in that election. Incidentals, Dennis Chavez (Cutting’s opponent), doesn’t seem to be worrying. He is very much in evidence here, while Senator Carl Hatch, his lawyer, handles his New Mexico interests. m m m MEMBERS of the tax sub-committee of the Ways and Means Committee temporarily have stopped arguing in order to hear arguments before the Supreme Court, on tax cases. Their faces are a study of rapt attention as they listen avidly to Solicitor General Biggs, and to the quasi-humorous remarks of the Justices. Also, as they gape at the agility of Associate Justice Owen Roberts, who—at the close of court —quickly discards his judicial robes and is whisked away, in contrast to the solemn exit of Associate Justice Brandeis. nan Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma is prone to mumble these days and count on his fingers. That simply means that he’s plotting his monetary program for the season. The other day he had a long, earnest interview with Father Charles Coughlin, lamed radio priest.

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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.) u n u AID FOR FAMILY, NEIGHBORS IS NEED By Jimmy Cafouros. Christmas conies but once a year. And it has been the custom at Christmas time to go Christmas shopping and buy all sorts of trinkets and knick-knacks and load them on various suspecting and unsuspecting people. The custom dates back a long way and were you to ask folk why they send Christmas gifts it is doubtful if a large percentage would know. Most people do it because it’s just done, that’s all. But there comes a time in the life of all people who live long enough—and this is just such an occasion—when the things you would like to do and the things that you ought to do are at Joggerheads. Buying Christmas presents and being Sant; Clar vUtside of your own family is ■ tremendous strain these day a f the ordinary folk, and one w _Dct judge that with an now and then we’re practically every one of us just folks. A card at Christmas time with a beautiful sentiment that is heartfelt and a sentiment that is loving and lovely, is as praiseworthy—in fact, more so—than a silk tie, or silk sox, or a cigaret lighter, or a ham. Os course, the hungry can’t live on sentiments, but the greatest job of the common man today is to feed his own family, and if there is anything left in the budget give it to the Community Fund. nan AMERICAN LEGION ACTING IN NATION'S INTEREST Bv Harry C. Moore. When we consider how fearfully and wondrously made we are, it isn’t surprising that nature makes a mistake. Human errors are not pleasant to look at or talk about, and I shall not go into length regarding the article appearing in Wednesday’s Message Center signed “By sls-A-Week Capitalist” nevertheless the writer should be correctly informed of what the American Legion thinks best for the future of the country. At no time has the American Legion asked the payment of the bonus, which is actually owed them, until the convention in Miami this year, and you can be assured that this will not come ahead of other important relief measures that this organization has always sponsored in the interest of its disabled. Speaking as a member of this organization I believe we are all satisfied with the present slogan and do not care to change it, nor do we think the future of the country depends upon the bonus. I personally see no reason for criticism of this kind that breaks into print every few days. an n SEEKS SUGGESTIONS ON PERPLEXING PROBLEM By One Who Did His Bit. If it isn’t asking too much, I would like to have this published in your Message Center. It is getting to be very much of a problem in various ways to me. In 1916 I made futile attempts to enlist in the United States Army. I finally had a man enlist and give me his papers and I took his place but was soon caught up with after a few weeks and sent home wtih rejection papers. I was only 15 years old. But I did not go home, I went to Canada and enlisted and was accepted. In the meantime I had written to Ex-President Wilson to plead my case. Some months later, my folks re-

A DANGEROUS PLACE TO PLAY

By S. E. M. You accuse the church of being opposed to progress in government and science. Now it is easy to demonstrate that this is far from the truth. Father Coughlin indorses the New Deal and points out that there is much more to be accomplished. As for the part the church plays in the advancement of science, this is even more evident. Wasn’t it a Catholic priest who was so lately lauded by the scientific world for his invention of synthetic rubber? And wasn’t this same priest the president of a scientific society during the last year that recently met at Butler University? What of Father Hubbard, the famous “glacier priest,” who is so highly regarded for his scientific discoveries? It is conceded that the thirteenth was the greatest of centuries. Dtring this period all the sciences flourishe: l . People were flocking to the various famous universities. Yet the Catholic Church was the only important religious body at that time, and all these universities were under her control. It was at that age that gave the world Thomas Aquinas, the most learned man of all time, and, by the way, a Catholic priest. You accuse the church of being reactionary. Is it not the Liberty Leaguers and the capitalists, and you who are opposed to Father Coughlin, who are reactionary? Is it not Father Coughlin with the approval of his bishop who is sponsoring a safe and sane change? The Catholic Church is only reactionary to injustice and n n a

By John Kennedy. H. C. A. writes that he knows history, yet in the same column makes the statement that most churches are opposed to progress in science and government. Now in the first place, if he would read Christian history, he would find the church first taught hope, faith, courage and charity, a good foundation for progress. You could not accomplish much or get much co-operation unless you had these traits. As for scientific research and discoveries, their records show for themselves. Here are a few discoveries made by monks, priests and laiety: window glass, bells,

ceived a letter authorizing the local recruiting officer, the late Major Ryan, to accept me in the service. A month or two later, I was located in France under a foreign flag. I tried to transfer to the United States Army after they came over. There was more red tape and delay and I gave it up. • In May, 1919. I came back with the idea that my citizenship would j automatically be reinstated. But \ since, I have learned, this was not the case. For the last twelve years, j I have tried to get it straightened up any other way but to engage an attorney, in other words, buy yotur i birthright. That I will not do. ' | I don’t think I am asking too much. I may have made a mistake and done a foolish thing, but at that j age, is one accountable for everything one does? I am proud to have | se r ved with the E. A. F. A better group o. men I never have met. Os course, it always is said the ex-soldier is always wanting something. They are called treasury rob- j bers and whatnot, as if they were I not entitled to a bonus. Canada paid a bonus and at time of discharge, not years later. . Your suggestions wul be welcome.

Churches Aid the Nation

unsound policies. It hardly looks like the people are marching away from the leadership of the church, as you state, when you consider the large following that is supporting the National Union for Social Justice. You state that the pope and the Italian clergy are on the best of terms with Mussolini. It might interest you to know that Mussolini was a professed atheist when he set out to make himself dictator. He suppressed the strong Catholic party by a reign of terror. He burned Catholic clubs and meeting places, to accomplish his end. After ascending to power he realized the Catholic religion would come in handy, so he adopted it. The pope and Mussolini were at odds on the youth question after the signing of the Vatican Treaty. In 1931, the effigy of the pope was burned in the streets of Rome at the instigation of the Fascist party. Harmony? We hardly think so. For a true picture of the church’s attitude toward Fascism, read “The Vatican, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow.” Father Coughlin doesn’t expect the manufacturer to forego his profits and pay the laborer enormous salaries. He believes, however, that such men as Ford, Mellon, du Pont and others could pay better wages and of ’course cut down on their profits and still be millionaires many times over. Isn’t this only logical, or are you an advocate of sweat shop wages and the high-handed attitude of so many employers who will not consider the just rights of the working man? nan organs, Pope Gregory music scale, glass staining, clocks with balance wheels, mariner’s compass, printing—probably the most important invention of all—not to mention many other ones of that day, and the modern inventions, of which wireless by Marconi, was one. In architecture, the cathedrals of Spire, Cologne, Milan, Winchester and others too numerous to mention. Add to these the works of Dante, Angelo, and a host of others. Trials by jury, the Magna Charta habeas corpus, and a million otner reforms. Yes, Mr. H. C. A., you had better read more history. It’s educational. ERRORS CHARGED IN TIMES RELIEF SERIES By Jake Taylor. I read the series on state and county relief which you now are printing. You stated a few nights ago where the state and county relief is-paying $42 or more a month for a family of four. Well, I think you had better look on the opposite page as I have four in my family and I am only drawing $33 a month. Now where do you get that $42 or more? I work three weeks at $9 a week and one week for $6. I have run my legs off trying to get my raise and what’s coming to

Daily Thought

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distribted to us, a measure to reach even unto you.—ll Corinthians, 10:13. WE wound our modesty ana make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish tiicui.—Shakespeare, ft J

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

DEC. 11, 1934

me, and the only answer is, “I will see about it, etc.” That is a fine answer. I have to feed four mouths, buy coal, pay rent, utility bills, pay car fare and buy clothes on $33 a month. Explain to me where you got that idea and I will prove to you that you are all wrong and show it to you in black and wiaite or on any joo that you want to investigate. I have been a subscriber of your paper for many years and delivered your paper when I w r as a boy. So I dare you to print this in your paper and show me.

So They Say

We soon shall have enough to see that the American lot today is heroic and honorable enough il unprosperous.—Professor Allan Nevins of Columbia. I have no immediate desire for children of my own—Princess Barbara Hutton Mdivani. The democratic way of life is on the defensive everywhere.—Professor Carl Wittke of Ohio State University. It is within the range of legislative powers to enact laws and prescribe regulations to promote the health, peace, morals, education, prosperity and good order of the people and their general welfare.— Circuit Judge C. M. Ward, of West Virginia. Thank heavens, all poetry Isn’t published.—Professor Harry Overstreet, College of the City of New York philosopher. Being broke isn’t so bad. A big fortune is just as much worry as no money at all. It's being independent that I don’t like—Samuel Insull.

Indiana Day

BY THOMAS E. HALSEY At school I muffed in history. I shamefully confess. Tradition, therefore, seemed to me Conjectural, at best. The modern progress of our state Impressed me quite a lot; But while its greatness Id relite. Its struggles awed me not. Along came Indiana Day, Arousing my concern; I then began a brief survey, Its meaning to discern. I dug up maps and histories That long unused had lam. Forgotten facts, now mysteries, Began to live again. I visioned early pioneers Upon this very soil;, Determined hearts—immune to fears— Resigned to endless toil. I saw them facing bitter days Os hunger, want and strife; At every turn, hell-bred forays. Exacting blood and life. Through years of drab uncertainties And sufferings untold. Those valiant souls won victories Which we shall ever hold. Or.' 5 hundred eighteen years ago. The peace they sought began; But few were yet alive to know The product of their span. Let monuments of bronze or clay Mark those Immortal yeans, But reverence should rule this day For those brave pioneers!