Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1936 — Page 14

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1936

THE ONE FAIR ANSWER

the hour of our worst depression we prayed for a leader. ~ We got one. We cried for recovery. It came. Hpw do we reward the leader? Do we turn him out? Of all the multitude of issues and charges and countercharges that we have been reading about and listening to in all these many months, that question, it seems to us,jis the central one. Deep in the American spirit runs a strong curnpent of fairness. We believe that there is but one fair answer. It is—vote for Roosevelt.

IT’S YOUR BALLOT

[JNPRECEDENTED registrations have been rolled up in Marion County, in Indiana and throughout the opuntry. The largest vote in history, presaging an accurate {expression of the popular will, is forecast. ~ Issues that will affect the community, state and} nation will be decided at the polls tomorrow. Be sure to vote. And vote the way your owm intelligence tells you, regardless of party. |

“LIKE A CONVICT” ’ OU will be forced to take a number like any convict,” Republican committees warn working men, “and have all information concerning your work, wages, etc., gio into a social security card file.” Of course. Every income tax payer has a number, and must tell Uncle Sam all about his earnings. Every auto has a number, and in most states every driver has a number on = his operator's license. Every soldier in numbered; so is & every veteran who receives any form of pension. Holders of all sorts of municipal and state licenses are numbered. Every insurance policy has a number, and that is gust what the insured worker will get under the Social Security Act.

How else could the records of 25,000,000 insurance policies |

be kept? ,

ANOTHER PRAIRIE GOVERNOR ] RIGHT north of Gov. Landon’s state of Kansas lies Nebraska, another typical prairie state. She 'is smaller in size and population and poorer than neighbor Kansas. Just to keep the record straight, she modestly Jrises and offers a few facts about herself. To wit— Nebraska has a balanced budget and always has had one. Furthermore, this year she has an accumulated sur- * plus of $21,621,930, or $893,373 more than lastyear. She has no debt, bonded or otherwise. . Nebraska has no state income, general sales nor cigaret taxes, and her general property tax levy is the lowest of any state in the Union, or $24 per $1000. Kansas [has a state income, a cigaret tax and an auto tonnage tax, and her I neral property tax is $31 per $1000. ‘Nebraska has received only $29,000,000 of Federal relief money. Kansas with a third greater population received twice that, or $58,000,000. It’s 10 to 1 that you've never heard of Nebraska's good ernor. No special trains carry him about. No poems nd songs are composed in his honor. His picture, decked In Nebraska's-goldenrod, is not spread over the land. He's ot even in Who's Who. If you're interested, 'his name is L. Cochran, and he's a Democrat. §

(CANDIDATE LANDON y

agree with Gov. Landon’s statement at Oklahoma City that: “The farm tenancy problem is one of the most serious long-time problems confronting the nation. . . , Today 42 farms out of every 100 are operated by tenants. Our national welfare demands that this situation be corrected.” . Moreover we are heartened by his profession: “There is no problem that I am more eager to solve.” : x = = ® = = pass on to another portion of the same Landon speech, that part in which he denounced the “atapts” of President Roosevelt “to create a one-man govnment of sweeping and unlimited powers” and to impose is financial, social and economic policies as well.” And the irt, indeed the main part of his speech, where he dwelt pon’ his favorite states’ rights theme and contended that he state government is best fitted to solve the problems

And remembering that Landon has been Governor of s for nearly four years, we consult statistics which DW = '* That 44 out of every 100 farms in Kansas are operated ¥ tenants.

LAST LAUGH

: (FROM THE BALTIMORE EVENING SUN) 'N Kansas the Democrats have made great play with the ork done by the PWA, the CCC and other alphabetical

gies in building small ponds and lakes as part of water-

ol and flood-prevention projects. Now come Gov. Landon’s friends with a letter written m in 1934 which, they insist, shows that he has always in the forefront of the lake-building movement. . With both the great parties thus falling over each to claim priority in advancing this idea, it is but nat-

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- AND NOW WILL THE PRESIDENT TELL US WHERE

HE STANDS?

By Westbrook Pegler

Novel by Newspaper Man Makes Columnist Cringe for Truth It Reveals About Part of the Press.

EW YORK, Nov. 2.—Newspaper people are hypersensitive to outside criticism, and for a defense, usually attack the profession which the critic has the honor to adorn.

But a newspaper man named Ward:

Greene has written a novel called “Death in the Deep South,” which might start an honest examination of conscience in our business and do some permanent good. I saw “Front Page” and “Chicago”

and I have always known that there were some points about us which were not quite nice. But, though I am sullen about the newspaper business and slow to shame, this novel made me cringe because I know a fellow reporter has told the truth not in flippant mockery but in sorrow. It never was brought home to me before how brutal we have been in some of our dealings with the distracted families of men suddenly accused of crime, crowding in to wheedle or trick them into chance remarks which might be used to torture them later on. In a vague way I realized and regretted that we

sometimes tried cases in the papers before they reached the court and made it difficult, if not impossible, to draw a fair jury or conduct the trial in a calm atmosphere. But I thought that was just one of the necessary imperfections in an imperfect world and now Ward Greene has shown me that we needn't

be so.

Mr. Pegler

” 8 2 OPS may be ruthless as all reporters know they are; prosecutors may be politicians without hu-

manity or honor, and people, in the mass, may be.

wolves, but that is no excuse for some newspapers to continue the sort of thing that reporters and papers do in this book, which only reports with terrible fidelity, so heip me God, a vice of the newspaper business in the United States. If a lawyer or minister or grocer had written the book, I would have put my back up and denied the repulsive character of the press doing a gang job on a sensational murder as depicted by Ward Greene. But then no outsider could have done it. Nobody but a newspaper man could have described the conduct of the papers and the reporfers and photographers and their motives as dreadfully as this ex-reporter. He must have been there himseif. » EJ 2 T is an evil bird which fouls its own nest, but Mr. Greene is still a newspaper man and so am I. But he knows and so do all of us in the business how some of the papers tear the hearts out of living human beings and jazz the news in cases involving the passions

of wolfish people and the lives of defendants who can not have their day in court when we have done our

L Stuff. a people in the tradition “of home rule.” 3

"The details are fictionized, but the general scenario the story is the lynching of Leo Frank 25 years ago and the scene is Atlanta. Cops, lawyers, politicians and reporters in the book all are vile, and the people are the worst of all. If newspaper people read “Death in the Deep South” we may find that Ward Greene has done something toward cleaning the nest.

The Hoosier Forum

1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it—Voltaire.

SAYS UNIONS SHOULD OPPOSE TOWNSEND By M. Davis Alex Gordon, head of a railroad union, is campaigning the state of Indiana, espousing the cause of M., Clifford Townsend in his race for governorship. In the course of his discussions of state issues, he informs his co-workers in organized labor fields that Mr. Townsend's labor record as a legislator is one which warrants and deserves the support of Townsend by organized labor. Mr. Gordon either has neglected to scan the records, forgotten Mr. Townsend's activities in defeating organized labor's legislation or is deliberately misinforming his hearers. While Mr. Townsend was serving as a member of our Legislature in 1923, a bill was introduced which became known as House Bill 50. It was an act concerning railroads, regulating the operation of trains, providing for the number of employes on them, the number of men to be employed in the business of operating engines, engaged in switching cars and to prescribe the qualifications of such men. This bill was commonly known as the “Full Crew Bill” and it received the unanimous support of every branch and field of organized labor. Mr. Townsend, Governor McNutt’s choice as his successor, was one of the 61 members of the House of Representatives who voted to kill the bill. . The record of his action on this bill appears on Page 453 of the House Journal of the 1923 regular session of the Indiana Legislature. Mr. Townsend's vote to kill this bill hardly places him in line to expect or receive the support of the thousands of members of the organizations in Indiana which supported this bill. Mr. Gordon should explain Mr. Townsend's vote on the “Full Crew Bill” to organized labor in general and particularly to the railroad organization which he represents.

x 8 2 REASSURES MR. CRAIG ON AMENDMENT

By a Reader It seems as if Will 'H. Craig, Noblesville, does not know that the constitutional amendment to be voted on Tuesday (Art. 12, Section 1) is already in the Constitution of

Indiana just as it is on the ballot |

except for one word “White.” ~ The purpose of the amendment is to remove that word and give the state the right to enlist Negroes in the state militia if it should. wish to do so. So there is no cause for Mr. Craig to be so Irighientd about it. = ” FLAYS PROFESSIONAL POLITICIANS

By a Reader

The professional politicians during this campaign have spent threefourths of their space on the air and in the newspapers airing personal grudges and broken promises among themselves. At least it has given the American people an insight into the low nature of the

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Kansas Is for Roosevelt; Last Estimates of Both Parties Make. Him Winner; Democrats See 15,000 Majority; G. O. P. Concedes by 2000.

like the big money and the big business crowd, and now he’s gone over to them. We had some pretty ugly times out here in the depression, and if there communism coming, we think the Roosevelt handling distressed people is more apt to sidetrack it than what Alf believes and what

KLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Nov. 2—Kansas is for Roosevelt. I bet 50 bucks on it even in “Ark City.” I saw the last-minute confidéntial estimates. of both parties, and except for the sizes of the maJjorities, they agree on results even as to congres-

is any way of

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professional politician and no doubt it has hastened the day when the public will seek outside the ranks of politicians for their statesmen and directors of government affairs.

I am chewing my tobacco harder and spitting more viciously every day. What do I care whether Roosevelt consulted the advice of Al Smith—or whether or not he forgot the part of the platform the duPonts wrote? Politicians and big business have never considered the laws of good sportsmanship, and there's no tse trying the change the custom now. Remember how Lincoln tricked the Whigs with their platform in 1860?

It seems that every so often some politician has to go straight and start a party for the working man. But the funny thing is we never know that the ‘man is great until 40 or 100 years after he is dead. J ” 2 AUTUMN WEATHER WINS PRAISE FROM WRITER By Orie J. Simmons By every measure, fall is the finest time of year. Neither spring, with its wild, unfulfilled promises, summer with its too much fervor, nor winter with its discipline of wind and snow, can compare with autumn. All summer we strive and sweat so that autumn may bring us the harvest, and when it arrives we hear uot gratitude, but grumbling because winter is on the way.

BLAMES G. O. P. FOR NEED OF |

ANTI-LYNCHING LAW By Samuel H. Colbert

I received a letter containing the remarks made in the- national House of Representatives on June 20, 1936, by the Hon. Charles A. Wolverton of New Jersey. He said Democrats oppose the anti-lynching law and Republicans

SLEEP

BY JOSEPHINE D. MOTLEY

Have you ever noticed how The alchemy of night Can penetrate our tiredness which Makes nothing seem quite right, And brush away in gentle sleep The troubles we felt sure Were practically impossible Much longer to endure? And yet we pass sleep lightly by, Shun it whene’er we can, When in reality it is The greatest friend of man.

DAILY THOUGHT

Wherefore I perceive that -there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his own works: for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him.—Ecclesiastes 3:22.

BiSsEp is "the man that has found his work. One monster there is in the world, the idle man. ~—Carlyle.

favor it. I do not think Mr. Wolverton should blame the Democrats for not doing in three years what the Republicans failed to do in 50 or 60 years. If the Republican Party had carried out the plans of Abraham Lincoln, there would have been no need for an anti-lynching law. ‘Republicans kept the colored race in fear, believing they would go back to slavery, starve or be destroyed if they did not support the Republican Party. I am in favor of the anti-lynch-ing law. I believe President Roosevelt is. He has a great burden. He has to do today what the other fellow ought to have done yesterday. I believe he is for every one. I believe he should be and will be elected Nov. 3. 2 » 2 CHARGES COERCION BY CAPITALISTS A Subscriber . This article is not in defense of any particular candidate for office, but a protest against the use of coercion and intimidation during election campaigns. There are rumors and statements from employes of certain industries in the city that they fear loss of their jobs, if they dare become rash and express favor for any candidate except the sunflower candidate who wishes to move to Washington. This is further proof of the folly of allowing the economic system to remain in private hands. What are the workers going to do to throw off this yoke of coercion and intimidation of capitalism? Are they going to fight for their rights and free themselves, or remain slaves and sheep to be used at will and ‘then cast aside when of no further use? . ” ” » VALUES ROOSEVELT AS MUCH AS WILSON By Anna M. Mitchell . . I think everybody should be satisfied with our President, as he has done everything he said he would do, considering the great depression that Herbert Hoover caused. I consider President Roosevelt as great a man as our fighting Hero, Woodrow Wilson.

” = ” BELIEVES DEMOCRATIC FUND RAISING IS O. K. By Reader A great deal has been said by certain Republicans about the Democratic method of assessing political office holders as a means of raising a ‘campaign fund. As a common man who has never held political office, I would like to arbitrate the matter. First, it will be admitted by all

that a political campaign can not be carried on without funds. Second, since the Democrats have kicked out their Wall Street branch, they must find a new source of contribution. : Third, contributions from the common people never were of any consequence. They were hardly (Turn to Page 15)

It's a competition in which the man who comes near-

It Seems to Me By Heywood Broun | G. O. P. Campaign Has Attacked.

American Form of Government and Tried to Bring It to Disrepute

NEW YORK, Nov. 2.—There are few states" ments which irritate me more than “Why, Gov. Landon is friendly to labor.” It's like saying that somebody is fond of dogs & and babies. Indeed, I really believe that the’

Kansan's_concern for the worker is just

about completed by the time he has shaken hands with the engineer. In the last couple of days Alf has. developed - a8 sudden passion for collective bars gaining. He is going to see that the laws on the subject are strictly enforced. Of course, he slides by the fact that until the Supreme Court passes on the Wagner-Cons nery Act after election it will ni be known whether there is an Federal legislation to speak of on the subject. And even the Wag ner Act hardly seems operative save -in‘a very limited number of = industries which are engaged in interstate commerce. . Of late the court has been ex= : tremely dogmatic in its decision # as to what constitutes interstate” commerce. If anybody sets a bale or a beam down: for so much as a second the flow of commerce has © been interrupted and we are back in the jungle of states’ rights all over again. Incidentally, one curious thing about the Repub lican campaign has been the manner in which it has attacked the American form of government and '

Mr. Broun

sought to bring it into disrepute. I know that there B%

have been many speeches by Landon and his asso= ciates about the sanctity of the Supreme Court, but the legislative branch of the government is also: part of the fundamental structure, and it has eoms, in for a beating. : » » ”

AKE, for instance, the last-minute drive against § the Social Security Act. Republican spellbinders are just falling over one another to point out that the disbursement of funds will need enabling legislation on the part of the Congress of the United States, The argument of the Republicans runs that Congress . can not be trusted to deal honestly with the funds raised by employers’ and employes’ contributions, Congress, so the Republican spokesmen state, is likely to steal the money and use it for other purposes, cheating the worker out of his rights. Now, I will admit that there have been Congresses which seemed to me pretty crumby. There will be others. But if we are to accept the Republican con tention that the legislative branch of the American

government is almost certain to be corrupt we ha gone a long way on the road to some one of “isms” of which the Landonites are always speaking

#” ” ” He” can anybody argue that democracy is a ood thing and at the same time maintain that the men- the voters send. to Congress are almost to be unfaithful to their trust? After all, I don’ py suppose- that even Alf M. Landon wants to lish the upper and lower .houses and place the whole fate of the United States in the hands of the Supreme Court without any assisting agency. When people say that it is poppycock and gross

cloak to the Republican Party they overlook fact that the present drive of Landon, Knox, et al. against Congress is precisely in tradition of Hitler and of Mussolini. Germans and Italians lost their liberties bec

‘they listened to those who told them that they not fit to choose their own representatives and ‘n

make themselves the wards of a higher paternal

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

al for the public to forget who was the real pioneer. This est guessing the number of electoral votes Landon

8 none other than John R. Brinkley, Old Doc Brinkley, goat-gland specialist. Away back in 1930, and again in Doc. Brinkley was campaigning for the governorship Kansas on a platform whose main plank, recited in every ech he made, was “A lake in every county, where you can

bitterly. Farmers are not for him. satisfied with all the New Deal has done and they want to know what's coming next. ;

foun. zo much rough-su : SIME Sax Xucies 3

r years and six years ago Old Doc Brinkley got razzing for his cockeyed idea of ameliorating Jeans of lakes and gioonlight. Buti toda¥. the tog

> him. Nowhere have 1 _ From the : ae