Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1936 — Page 19

HILADELPHIA, June. 25.— “My name is ‘#Admiral Richmond Pearson Hobson,” “aid the bald gentleman who sat before the microphone in the tryout room of the reso‘lutions committee.

You could have kiiocked ‘me ‘over with Shy one of Farragut’s damned torpedoes. Here was 22s hero of the Merrimac. Never before had I seen him in the flesh. When he was very young, and I Y was even younger, Richmond Pearson Hobson at the risk of his life tried to block the channel of Santiago harbor. Next to Richard the Lion Hearted, Hobson was my greatest hero. i But there he sat 10 feet away, a “1. dull, old gentleman talking tiresomely about something which he called a “morality plank.” Back in the days when most of us tried to copy Gibson drawings on burnt leather sofa cushions Richmond ; Pearson Hobson must have been ; straight and pm and quite. 2 Heywost Brown glamorous: young: feliow. ran doomed vessel in under the guns “of the Spanish batteries and let them riddle her. And the Merrimac went down in the green tropic waters of. Santiago bearing the gallant skipper and his skeleton .¢rew of volunteer daredevils, and wasn’t Richmond Pearson Hobson a fool to come up again? : None of us are wise enough to pick just the right gpot for the proper exit and the hero of the ‘Merrimac has grown old enough to be just one more national convention bore. 2 = = Another Famous Name Y name is William Jennings Bryan Jr,” ree ported a slim man. of middle age who. spoke in a voice almost inaudible and fumbled nervously with his written speech; He advocated an amendment to: prevent any Federal court from outlawing a state law except by a unanimous decision. His point was well taken and skillfully developed, but the room buzzed with casual comment. as: he droned on, not much regarded: because of vocal infelicity. Even if he had mentioned a crown of thorns . or a cross of gold I doubt if the gathering would have been roused. : Fanatics, demagogues, prophets, quacks, charlatans and potential presidents passed before the microphone of the resolutions committee and each had his say and then passed on. ‘And most of us had in our pockets round-trip tickets to oblivion. There was a silence and a hush when William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, appeared to voice, not the requests, but the demands, of his organization. Although I have been for many years a member of the federation through my card in Actors’ Equity, I found our president's talk a little disappointing.

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Earle Takes the Laurels F course I was in agreement with much he said, but as in Cleveland he advocated the withdrawal of Russian recognition-and I must say that as far as I am personally concerned red baiting is red baiting whether it comes from the mouth of our Wil.

liam or another. As far as the convention proper is concerned Gov. Earle of Pehnsylvania leads as the most eloquent speaker. Senator Barkley was a competent keynoter and it would ‘be praising him with faint damns if it were pointed out that he was decidedly better than Senator Steiwer at Cleveland. And yet he didn’t quite get them, He held: his fire back until too late. Like all keynote addresses the speech was much too long: though the Senator did throw out many paragraphs to the wolves in order to allow the sled to move more quickly. He attacked, by the flank of course, the United States Supreme Court. This went to 80 on the noise machine and’ it may turn out that the voters have less love for the nine old men that the practical politicians have. ‘anticipated.

BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

EEDSVILLE, W. Va, Wednesday—I reached Arthurdale at 6 last evening, to find that I had missed some information which had been sent me, and "that they were holding a ceremony at the new factory and awaiting my appearance. I went there at once and found Rep. Randolph, two factory officials from Cleveland, several of the resettlement officials and a number of other people. . I was presented with the first vacuum cleaner assembled here and I shall use it with great pride. We went to Miss Clapp’s house for supper, and afterward to the school gymnasium, which ‘is also used as an auditorium. I was to give out the ribbons $0 the winners in the music festival contests. There was an audience of some 800 men, women and children, and their approval of the program was attested by the quiet in the hall as each contestant played his contribution. > We began with the fiddlers’ contest. The first prize was won by a man who told me his violin was a very old one, which he had bought because. he liked . the tone.” His son won the second prize on the same instrument. The third prize was won by an’ old man who had made his own violin, and who was interested enough in the school to come and show the youngsters how to make violins for themselves. Next was a jigging contest. - They dance the old Elizabethan jig here which is quite different from any other type. Then came a mouth harping contest, ballad singing, and finally, gospel singing. " There were moments when I felt that volume and action represented the ‘whole aim and object of some of the contestants, but on the whole, the spirit expressed to me by one of the judges was prevalent throughout. Said he: “For 30 years I never missed a day of practicing on my fiddle, life without music wouldn't be worth

while.” : (Copyright, 1936, by United Features Syndicate, Inc.)

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RGANIZATIONS of amazing fluence trough

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BY HERBERT K. LEWIS | HATS your hurry, - mister? You can’t

run stop lights Hie t that in - ;

this: town!”

Summons book in hand, the Metropolis - (I11.) officer climbed out of his cruiser and approached the oar he had forced to. the cur At police headquarters a search

of the automobile, its driver and

passenger, revealed nothing amiss. The driver showed a title which checked with the out-of-state license plates. - “Just going East for a vacation,” the detained men explained as they paid $10 and costs to the court after being found guilty of violating a traffic ordinance, But the arresting . officer ‘was not satisfied. = The pair didn’t “look right” to ‘him, He suggested that a description of the men and car be sent police of the city which the self-styled tourists claimed as home.

“No,” was the superior’s:answer,

“a hunch doesn’t warrant expense of a telegram or long-distance telephone call. And it's not enough to detain a suspect the length of time it'll take to check by mail.” 8 wn HE desk sergeant’s. telephone rang at Indianapolis police headquarters: “This is -the filling station at 3400 W. Washington-st,” a voice said. “A Packard sedan with two men, acting kinda : queer, just pulled out of here. While I was filling the tank, I Heard ‘em talking -about giving some cops the slip, and they asked the quickest way out of town to Cincinnati. They had Missouri license plates.” The dispatcher at the Alabamast headquarters spoke into a microphone: “Car 51, be on lookout tr Packard sedan, Missouri license, two men in car, driving east on Wash-ington-st. Hold on ‘suspicion.” © Over a wire to Willard Park police radio station WMDZ, and broadcast over. the air, the dispatcher’s voice came from the loud speaker in the. cruiser... A few minutes later the suspicious car was spotted. At the officer’s ‘command the ' Packard stopped. The occupants looked at one another, -niettied- but not alarmed. This police questioning was getting to be “old stuff.” At headquarters, their story seemed straight enough; nothing was amiss with their car. But— “Guess we'd better: query © St. Louis on them before: they're released,” ‘remarked the sergeant, reaching for a message blank. A few minutes later, over the new police radiotelegraph station, details: of the pickup and coded finger print classifications of the suspects were transmitted in dot-and-dash direct to headquarters

The nerve-center ‘of : the iadiagapolis. police system, this building in Willard Park, E. Washing-

ton-st, above, houses: the equipment which trans-'

mits orders: to. police cruiser cars and messages to!

police headquarters in oiler cities. A steel fence, the .gate of which can be opened only ‘by the operator on duty, and bullet-proof : ‘windows are precau-

in the Missouri city. In 30 min® utes a reply was received: “MEN DETAINED BY YOU WANTED HERE MURDER CHARGE FOR SLAYING CASHJER BANKGUARD DURING $5000 HOLDUP EARLY TODAY. EXTRADITION’ REQUEST FORTHCOMING.”

8 » 8 HE foregoing hypothetical case illustrates in the first instance the ease with “which

. criminals may slip through -the

fingers of an uninformed depart ment. According to Chief Morrissey,, who ‘last week began his fifth year as head of the local force,’ numerous instances where “wanted” circulars have been re-: received by mail several days after a crime has been committed, and from ‘which .a fugitive has been recognized ‘too late, furnish proof

that a fast system of information ‘

- exchange is ‘needed. In the second distance ‘it shows a new application of science to criminology. Radlioteléegraphy extends the arm of the law so that, with a slight suspicion as a

_clew,. it" is able to reach across

the nation’ and put a definite finger on the guilty. : Indignapolis, on July 1, is to bscome a key city in such a network of police communication. In so doing “this -city = again will. pioneer in a new -field.. On Dec. 24, 1929, it became the fourth city in the world: to operate a -mobileunit, or ‘cruiser car, radiotelephone system. sin 8 DOPTION of the new service, following the trend toward increased ‘co-ordination of law enforcement agencies throughout

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country is further handicapped in

understanding it, by the fact that

many of the men who are bringing the charge about do not themselves understand it. When Felix Morley says that the keynote speech of Senator Barkley of Kentucky was a step in a process which intends “to fasten on this’ country an excessively modern twentieth century

collectivism’—when Senator - Barkley hears that said of his speech, I imagine Senator Barkley feels hurt, and thinks the word “collectivism” is just a brick hurled: at him by an enemy. it OF J : HAT is’ the sincere:attitude of not merely nine-tenths = but ninety-nine one-hundredths of the men who actually are taking the steps which Sonstitite this historic

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"Orders to eraiser cars are given by the dispatcher (above) from his |

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desk in the ‘Alabama-st police headquarters. The microphone carries:

his voice by wire to the Willard Park station, where it goes oyer the air.

the nation as urged by the Federal Department of Justice, is to

. ‘become effective after five months

of ‘experimental operation proving the reliability of the system. = - In addition to this city there

_.and county sherifl:

k headquarters - Lo is ; ~and available on rest for ‘use

are e 48 otters. in 23 ‘states, prepar‘ing to join the network July 1 or as soon thereafter as equipment can be installed,’ Capt. Robert L. - Batts, police radio supervisor, said. : .. Batts has been largely responsible for the system’s devel- ' opment. Among the larger thuriici-

| palities to be included are:

Boston, ‘Columbus, 0. (state police), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Dayton, Duluth, Davenpert,. Detroit, * Evansville, “Fort Worth, Grand Rapids Kansas ‘City, Louisville, Memphis, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York City, Phoenix, St. Paul, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Spekane, South - Bend, San Antonio and ‘Topeka. .

. ” 2 8 3 APT. BATTS expects that the Federal Department of Justice at Washington, with its criminal identification bureau, also will tie in. with .the network at an early date. Because of low installation expense to cities already having police mobile-unit -systems, the

network is expected 10. have a rapid. growth. “And that,” Capt. Batts pointed out, “means something. In the seven years since 1929, more than 400 municipalities -have . installed radiotelephone apparatus, and the number constantly is growing. In Indiana alone there are 18 such installations, located in «this city, Richmond, Fort Wayne, Huntington, Marion, Lafayette, Gary, Hammond, South Bend, Evansville, Terre Haute, Kokomo and. Frankfort. State’ police stations are located at Indianapolis, Seymour, Jasper, Culver and Columbia City.” 8 #8 TH such a network in operation, providing practically instantaneous communication between all stations, here is the information-supply setup which the criminal of today will have to thwart to escape: 1. Municipal — Radio-directed mobile units receiving orders from police department - headquarters; in some cities two-way communication is in operation enabling the squad car’ to converse with headquarters..

2. State—Mobile-unit. - operation similar to the above, with cruiser car activities extended throughout the state, &nd receiving - sets in continuous operation in many small-town . police : departments s’ offices, 3. Intercity ~ = Ratlioielegragh; tra; LAr

by county, state and Federal authorities. 4. Supplementary to the. preceding, commercial telegraph and ‘telephone companies. Over their

wires are to be relayed messages

originating from, or addressed to, non-radio equipped departments.

‘Next: The “eost and “how the scheme was evolved.

LAUNCHED, SULLIVAN SAYS

change. They are ‘Democratic’ leaders .and office - holders. Politics is the whole of their careers. Their ‘concern is.with the Democratic Party as an office-holding and power-holding organization. For the

1.purpose of remaining in power, they

see President Roosevelt ‘as a good leader. Hence: in their eyes itis proper and wise to.do. what Mr. Roosevelt: tells them. Does some one say that Thomas: Jefferson is being abandoned? Oh well, what of it? ‘The ‘Democratic “principle . of states’ rights? Oh, well, that’s like the tariff, a good deal to be said on both sides. : In.short, the very actors :in this ‘historic: drama do. not see it as what. it is. To:see it as a striking change, but still merely a change within the American tradition—that is common eriough. : Indeed no one can. help seeing that. That much of it is plain- for every eye to see. S28. 82 \HERE were, newspapers, = from able commentators: which :

rites of the old: party, the birth of

a new party.” § .. He observed the absence ‘ of pie-

in Wednesday ‘three . accounts |

from saying “this unless: there is ample space to say it care-

1fully, with’ the necessary qualifica-

takes root in" America, will include fundamental: parts of. all three, but also will. omit parts of -all three. Probably Mr. Roosevelt himself does not yet fully envisage the’ form his innovation will take. Possibly he :does not even . see : clearly the future consequence of his present steps.. Possibly the change yet: may be averted. Yet ‘perhaps it: is. ‘no: tine for concern abdut: fine distihctions. Perhaps it is ‘no’ time*to be shy

about ‘being noisy. - One longs for

some one with a: simple, direct,

penetrating mind, a mind concerns |-

ing itself only with essentials. and dismissing immaterial qualifications. If such ‘a person were here, he would ‘soon be galloping westward,

a modern Paul Revere, crying out |

in every community ‘The Nagis are coming.” That arousing: slogan would not:be exact. But it would be . exact enough. to. be justified.

And it would serve to wake America’

up and cause us’ to see just what is being done—and also to foresee the; future ‘steps which inevitably must follow the one being taken here. ? (Copyright, 1936, ‘New York Tribute, tne)

THIS CURIOUS. WORLD - + - “By William Ferguson

HILADELPHIA, June 25.-For ‘several years your correspondent has been hear 3aT=ing that the real deliberations of the rules of the American people are not conducted in open meeting but. informally. in: more or less social knots, usually impromptu. So this afternoon, because it was raining and because : the program of the Democratic convention called for business of a routine nature, your eorrespolident went natting around the lobby of the Bellevue-Stratford hotel where he met the Hon. Ray Cannon, member of Congress from. Mil- | waukee. Rep. Cannon is a sterling statesman who keeps ever before his eye the sacrifice of the heroes of Valley Forge, the. sacred heritage of the founding fathers, . the undying principles of Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln and the constitution- {: al rights of the accused. 3 “Don’t you ever buy,” your cor- |i Fespondent implied, “a drink, you — ca estbrook Pegler “Why: you cur,” said Rep. ane: nen with an evil leer, “you-know I never Jake: ine toxicants in any way, shape or form. 2 “Good,” your correspondent said. And When the little circle was seated at the table your correspondent mentioned ‘the ‘case of the mémorable Chicago Black Sox who faked the World Series of 1919 between Chicago and Cincinnati. Mr. Cannon, then a criminal lawyer, defended the sacred’ rights of the -accused in ‘that deplorable vulture-swoop ‘upon’ ‘the very tap-roots of the ideals of American youll, 2 =»

Gels Himself Told

TE sacred rights of the accused,” Cannon said, “will ever be uppermost in my ‘thoughts. And

‘Valley Forge and Jefferson, Jackson and Linco

“Which Jackson do you mean?” your corresponds ent asked. “Andy, Stonewall or Shoeless Joe?” “Who, me?” said’ Rep. Cannon. “Well, I want. to tell ' you something, you cynical, smart-cracking, over-dressed Broadway :fop. Let me tell you something about the sacred rights of the accused. But first let me hear you tell the waiter something.” Your correspondent told the waiter something and

- Rep. Cannon began his story.

There . was, it seems, an honest American citizen in Milwaukee who wished to uplift the common man and, to this end, decided to sell breeding rabbits by mail, promising to buy: from his clients at a profit to them all the progeny of the original stock. He ade vertised in certain magazines, offering three rabbits, two does and a buck for $24. Not. to bring the ugly subject of sex into a political essay, there were unavoidable errors-in the shipping department. The rabbits were shipped by a Philadelphia Negro and it seems he made mistakes, shiping three little girl rabbits or three little boy 1ab= bits per order instead of two little girls and one little

- boy. This made all the difference in the world. There

were no bunnies for the customers:to sell back to Rep.

_-Cannon’s clients and presently the man was arrested

on a charge of using the mails to defraud. LR Fought the Good Fight -

“FOUGHT and fought ‘for my client's constitae ‘tional rights” said Rep. Cannon. “Twice we

ot if went to the Court of ‘Appeals. and up:.again. ~ And, finally, by a .gross miscarriage of: Justice, he was

sentenced to one year in Leavenworth. I thought of Jackson—not Joe, the fleet of foot, but Stonewall Andy—of the sacred heritage and: Valley Forge—and persevered, but all to no purpose. My guy had ‘sold more than $500,000 worth of rabbits. - “About six months after he went AWAY I went; out 40 Leavenworth to see a client abouf ‘a matter. And there at the train was my rabbit man, in a ‘white linen suit: and straw hat and swinging a cane, the Grover Whalen of Leavenworth prison, greeting distinguished gues : “And I will ever keep“before my eyes, as a guiding star in my career, the sacred heritage of Valley Forge

and Andrew Justice and constitutional miscarriage.”

Your correspondent rang the glass with the spoon : once : more.

. BY DREW PEARSON AND ROBERT S. ALLEN HILADELPHIA, June 25.—A little drama. enacted - during the closing hours of Congress is causing the behind-the-scenes boys of this Convention more secret agony than any: aebaté over two-thirds rule-or platform. Ruefully they admit that this dramatic by=play may lose. Pennsylvania for Roosevelt, may also swing Ohio and West Virginia away from him. “It happened while the Senate was racing toward the wind-up. - Seated in ‘the: gallery were John IL. Lewis, powerful pro-Roosevelt - eliief .of the : United Mine Workers, and William Green, head of the American Federation of Labor. Both were sponsoring - bills: vital to their: ‘infer ests. Green was backing the Walsh-Hesley: Bill plying NRA code standards to government. con Bewis was backing the new Guffey. Con) Bill. £ ; Suddenly, with no warning, Senator Pittman, pres. ident pro tem. called up the Waish-Healey ‘Bill, without half the Senate knowing what he was doing, yelled: “Without objection the bill is passed. The ayes have it” Senator Hale, Maine Répub called for the “ayes and nays,” but Pittman; overe him. Thus Bill Green’s bill was mide: ‘law. Simul taneously, Bill Hushing, chief lobbyist of the A..F. of L., was ‘busy lobbying against John Lewis’ bill. £3 = » ® OHN L. LEWIS is the sches; Iabor . supporter

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