Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 July 1936 — Page 10

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MONDAY. JULY 27. 1936.

~~ “There is a man in San Quentin of the lofty walls - for as long as he may live, or till name no longer on the tongugs of men ~~. “Leaves a bitter taste, will be a shame to you . . ." . = * [Paul Engle in his poem to “California.” . | 8 5.8 : 20 years ago, on July 27, 1916, Tom Mooney ; was arrested for bombing a parade in San Pran-

_ ¢isco and killihg nine persons. In a “trial” that has

since been revealed as a judicial farce he was con- |

victed of murder, and, innocent as you or I, he has remained in prison ever since. : . ~ Twenty years is a long time. Think back over the last two decades of your life and recall what has happened. History's greatest war, biggest boom and worst depression. Russia gone Communist, Prance and Spain Socialist, Britain Labor and America liberal. . The continent spanned by air in 24 hours, the Pacific in a week. The radio, talkies, television, 200inch telescope, a thousand wonders in science to lengthen men’s lives, expand their vision, change . their thinking. A new America that sets out fo make her masses secure and plan her national life. . While you have been playing your part in this breath-taking drama Mooney has remained a prison . number. Through these 20 years—240 months, 1040 weeks, 7280 days, 174,000 hours—he has followed the dull, meaningless routine of a felon. + ‘Tom Mooney’s wrecked life is not highly important in the great scheme of things, for millions as worthy as he have suffered and died unjustly. What is important is that a republic that holds high its ideals of law and justice should have let this infa-

mous wrong go so long unrighted. It is important

to every American, because what has happened in San Francisco, Cal, can happen in any community under the flag. A tireless group of men and women, including Mooney’s volunteer counsel, are carrying on the freeMooney fight. Their funds are running low, but not the sands of their faith. It is hoped that by this fall the case will be brought again to the United States Supreme Court. . Will this highest tribunal of our justice make ~ Mooney’s twentieth year. in prison his last?

~ROADS, AUTOS—AND DRIVERS FORTUNE magazine study of our faulty traffic system concludes that half of the 3,000,000 miles of highway, on which the United States has spent $15,000,000,000 since the turn of the century, is “unfit for modern motor traffic.” The survey attempts to weigh the blame to be ‘apportioned to the automobile, the driver and the Toad. ‘The highway system is found utterly inadequate. The automobile is given almost a clean bill of health. “The driver is declared “virtually hopeless as a factor for logic and peace on the highway.” : “The cold fact is that traffic today is a combination of an 80-mile-an-hour car in the hands of a 20-mile-an-hour driver struggling to adjust itself to a 30-mile-an-hour road,” the article summarizes. “All the while the technology of the car was bounding forward, the technology of the road was Jagging. People thought that the cure-all for the congestion and death was still more and more hard roads. It is dawning upon them that what they " built were too often death traps and bottlenecks; that these slick stretches of pavements were invitations to more speed, more accidents, more deaths. “The road must not only be rebuilt, but also redesigned, for the conventional highway pattern ‘is a relic of the past.” The solution advocated includes the so-called “limited way” type of road construction, with a 10 to 30-foqt island down the middle of the road.

construction—which some day must come-—we are unwilling to say that drivers are hopeless, that -automobiles:can not be made safer, that systems of traffic control and enforcement can not he improved. It may take some realistic enforcement methods. Certainly Indiana and other states should have drivers’ license laws in which the examination means something. -Since 15 perocent of the drivers cause ‘most of the aceidents, the elimination of these rive ers is a primary salsty requisite. The magazine peints to the teaching of sound driving principles to Indiana school children—now a high school requifement in the state—as “the most promising trend in proper instruction” / Safety improvements in automobiles indicate that _ Automotive engineering can contribute still more to _ traffic safety. j ~All these factors figure’in solution of the traffic problem, Yet one need obly look at the record of ‘the Evanston (Ill) Traffic Bureau, which .trans‘formed Evanston from the most dangerous city in its

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started some political” talk aout seeking repeal of

the law and to keep a check on ‘iis operation 20-1 may be improved i necessary,

law already has had a wholesome effect on - Indiana elections. It Is a safeguard against voters the year

arcund. Purging the lists of the of per-

POLLUTION TEST CASE

THE fst test of the constitutionality of the 1935 Indiana Stream Pollution Act is before

Hartford City, but we do know that many cities, large and small, have taken advaniage of Federal

should: be pushed for an early decision.

TEXAS ROUND-UP ET us of the 47 other states arise and take our 4 hats off to Texas.

4-7aeés iu 'which we non-Texans had much interest.

They involved the seats in Congress now occupied by Reps. Maury Maverick, Sam Rayburn and Tom Blanton. aye . Maverick—Vigorous champion of civil liberties, of peace, of neutrality, and able, effective foe of special . Rayburn—Constructive lawmaker, co-author of the utility holding company law, the truth-in-se-curities law and the stock market control law, all designed to stamp out vicious financial practices— was also renomiinated, and will be returned to Con-

his probable promotion to the majority floor leadership. | . v2 nical meddler in the affairs of the public school system—has been forced into a run-off primary, with the chance favoring his defeat. %

IN GOD'S IMAGE?

ESS than 20 years from the war that was to end $4,500,000 with which to issue a poison gas mask free to every man, woman and child in the country. A factory is to be set up and, as soon as completed, the masks will he distributed. To prevent loss, destruction or deterioriation through careless handling. they are to be kept at comvenient, central points, readily available, however, upon signal - Meanwhile everybody is to be instructed in their use. : What a conunentary on the present state of international diplomacy! Only, more’s the pity and irony -of it, being “civilized,” they will not fight each other like sav-

| another, whole nations at a time—nct just soldiers, "but the aged, the newly born, the cripples, the sick,

the little boys and girls, indiscriminstely.

news from Britain. And it should cause us all— made, so they. say, in God's image-to hang our

"A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT |. IT is customary to criticise the man who deserts

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