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SATURDAY, OCT. 2, 1937

BLACK SPEAKS HUGO BLACK’S address to the nation was the work of a brilliant prosecutor suddenly turned to the defense. It was an eloquent plea for tolerance. It was clever. But like too many of the recent happenings in the region of the Supreme Court, “too clever.” ‘We admire tolerance as we admire few other traits in life. But we don’t admire credulity. So, while we should like to rest our comment with praise of the orator’s tribute to tolerance we must, in the interest of realism, say that we can’t overlook that thorn which was all but buried in the rose-bed of his rhetoric—“I did join the Klan.” Nor in conscience can we fail to apply some mathematics to the Justice's defense. He joined the Klan, he said, about 15 years ago. That would have been 1922. The year before that the Klan throughout the South had been responsible for the tarring and feathering of 43 persons, one of them a white woman. The initials “K. K. K.” had been branded on the forearm of a bellboy. A 68-year-old farmer had been whipped by a mob. An archdeacon of the English Episcopal Church had been whipped, tarred and feathered. And in March of the year Mr. Black joined the Klan a band of masked and hooded Kluxers had killed a man. » » » ® 8 8 IT is inconceivable that a man of Hugo Black’s attainments could not at that time read. One whose life had pulsated to the throb of current events must have known something at least of what was going on in his Southland. But, granting in behalf of tolerance that he joined the hooded order in a blaze of ignorance or misinformation, it is too much of a strain to believe that the events of the next four years when the Klan ran amuck could have escaped the attention of this man who, in 1926, was elected to the

U. S. Senate with the frenzied support of the torchbearers who in his own home town of Birmingham had perpetrated

their full measure of intolerance, intimidation and terror-

ism. Having seen much of the Klan in its heyday in many parts of this land we can realize the temptation to one aspiring to public office. We can understand why many yielded; why a Black, for example, followed the path of least resistance. It was a time when men had to stand and be counted, when the gaff was great and the heat intense. : But we would feel better today if the new Associate Justice last night had advanced the simple, though not so clever, plea that to err is human but to forgive divine, or had adopted the still more picturesque excuse of Falstaff who, upbraided by the prince, replied: “Hal? Thou knowest

in the state of innocency Adam fell; and what would poor.

Jack Falstaff do in the days of villainy ?”

THE PUBLIC'S BUSINESS WHEN Jackiel W. Joseph, Park Board president, and other City officials yesterday decided to force through the proposed 38th St. extension across White River, they excluded the public from the meeting. We cannot understand the reason for such secret proceedings. Perhaps it is simply that these gentlemen think that the public’s business is none of the public’s business.

THE LAWYERS VS. F. D. R. AT the American Bar Association’s meeting in Kansas City, its president, Frederick H. Stinchfield of Minneapolis, declared war on the Roosevelt Administration. Mr. Stinchfield, to be sure, put it the other way around. “On very many occasions,” he said, “the President has - expressed what seems to amount to a hatred of the legal profession. One must believe that this hatred arises out of the fact that the lawyers are the ones whom he finds the greatest difficulty in controlling.” Going on to appeal for nation-wide public support of the profession in an “unequal” struggle which he asserted is impending “between the President and the lawyers of the United States,” Mr. Stinchiield charged that the President _apparently is determined to destroy the Supreme Court. “But first,” he added, “I believe he intends to disarm the lawyers who might speak in opposition. He will attempt to discredit them and take away their influence with the people.” Now, if a sriggle between the President and the lawyers is “unequal,” with the advantage on the President’s side, we think that it is not because of what Mr. Stinchfield calls the President’s “quite unbelievable powers.” It is because of the way that lawyers have used their powers, which also are “quite unbelievable.” Instead of accusing the President of intention to take away their influence with the people, it might be well for the lawyers to undertake some self-analysis—to answer, frankly, whether their profession itself has not done a great deal to forfeit its influence with the people.

SLIPPING?

OTH parties regarded the spect] election of a Congress- - man in the Seventh Massachusetts District as a possible barometer of popular feeling toward the Roosevelt Administration, and the Republicans carried on a hard cam- ~ paign in that Democratic stronghold. In the 1936 general election the combined Republican and Democratic vote for Congressman in this district was 127,580, of which the late Rep. William P. Connery, running for an eighth term, got almost exactly 60 per cent. Last Tuesday, a rainy day, the combined Republican and Democratic vote of the district was only 67,632. But “of that total, Lawrence J. Connery, who promised to sup- " port the New Deal as loyally as his brother did, got 59.81 per cent. : Is the New Deal slipping? If that Massachusetts special election was any sort of barometer, the answer would

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The Liberal View

By Dr. Harry Elmer Barnes

All of the Armament of '18, Plus Improved Guns and New Deadly Devices Available for Next War.

EW YORK, Oct. 2—When the next war comes we shall have all of the armament known in 1918—heavy artillery, improved machine guns, bigger and more impregnable tanks, as well as a multitude of baby tanks

which will supplant the old time cavalry. Air bombers have become infinitely more efficient since 1918. Poison gas will be dropped from the air

as well as used on battlefields.

In addition, it is likely that the awesome new developments in electro-mechanics will provide various forms of death rays. The ray bullet already is being experimented with. Other rays have been discovered which are effective in destroying the brain, dissolving the blood or burning up the bodies of enemy troops. The control of aircraft, ships - and tanks by radio already has passed beyond the realm of conjecture. They can be sent by radio control where few human agents would dare to take them. As Dr. H C. Engelbrecht has pointed out in the Nation: — ‘Already we have the fantastic conception of an

aircraft carrier with its planes carrying not a single human being. The ship is directed to any desired position and the planes take off while the directing human will be miles away, on land or on another vessel. Aircraft can be handled’ in similar fashion, torpedoes also.” The aerial torpedo unquestionably will be a new and deadly device. It can be used by radio control and sent over great distances. As far back as 1922 one was sent by radio control from Long Island to Trenton, N. J., with absolute accuracy. ; » ® ” HERE have been marked improvements in the aerial torpedo since that time. These torpedoes can be devised to carry bombs which they drop at intervals under complete radio control. Or they may be converted into giant bombs themselves to be sent to any desired spot. Sclentists are devoting themselves to investigations relative to the practicality of rockettorpedoes which will rise to the stratosphere and will bescapable of traveling enormous distances—such as across the Atlantic Ocean, Electric rays may be used to set off mines and all kinds of explosives both on land and in water.

Dr. Barnes

Military helicopters or machine gun lifts have been |

invented. They are inexpensive and can be used in

great numbers. 2 » »

LYING submarines—or diving .airplanes—by whichever name we prefer to cdll them, have al-

‘ready been invented. They are bound to work a

revolution in naval warfare.

Sub-machine guns are likely to supplant rifles as"

the artillery arms in the next war. The so-called

“death centrifuge” invented by an American and now being manufactured by the Japanese is a mechanical device for throwing steel pellets. It can discharge 33,000 rounds per minute, is very deadly at close quarters and does not require either powder or copper. Science has also been brought info play in the effort to provide protection against these new devices. Copper head-cages and glass clothes are already being manufactured to divert or absorb various forms of death-dealing rays.

The Hoosier Forum

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

DRUNKOMETER TEST BRINGS QUESTION

By Curious Reader, Columbus, Ind.

Reference is made to your editorial entitled “Breath Tests.” I as how the accused is going to be required to furnish breath for the tests when he cannot be required to testify, or in any way to furnish evidence, to convict himself. Such evidence cannot _be introduced against a defendant over his or his attorney’s objections. Upon trial, our courts presume the accused to be the most innocent person in the world; and continues so until other evidence than his own, or any taken from him, convicts him.

SUBJECT USUALLY WILLING INVENTOR SAYS

By Dr. R. N. Harger of Indiana University, Drunkometer Inventor

- In reply to Curious Reader: In the first place, if the subject will not co-operate, we can take a breath test without touching him. This is done by sucking the air into the testing device through a tube connected with a pump. We believe such a test corresponds to the taking of a prisoner’s fingerprints or photograph by police officials. We also believe that the breath, after it once has leit the body, can be called common property. We have conducted this test on more than 100 persons in City Hospital and found it as accurate as the method of making a person inflate a balloon. ‘However, the subject usually willingly blows up the balloon.

2 8 =» CREDITS PROHIBITION WITH MANY GAINS By Henry S. Bonsib To those who want to know what good the Prohibitionists have done, I wish to say:

1. They meade liquor an outlaw. A poor woman said to a tavern keeper, “Please don’t sell my husband any more drinks. We need the money at home.” He replied, “You get out of here. I am no bootlegger. I am selling according to law.” 2. They stopped liquor advertising. This law was sponsored by the only Prohibition Party Congressman in Congress. 3. They reduced arrests for drunkenness. But. now many drinkers get by. 4. They reduced drinking by at least 60 per cent. 5. They made the streets safe places for women and children. 6. They shattered an organized grip on politics. Those who assisted in the overthrow of the 18th Amendment now have nothing to say. Repeal has not made good a single promise. It is a monumental failure. 7. They wiped out almost completely drink-made poverty. But now the taverns are crime and poverty breeders. ; : 8. They gave millions of youth better chances for an education. But now the drink places are thrown open wide to the youth and what will the harvest be? 9. They gave the United States the world’s most efficient industries.

General Hugh Johnson Says—

Hull's Policy Is to Protest Outrages and Keep Nation's Position Clear; | There's No Fair Prospect of Winning Decisively a War Against Japanese.

EW YORK, Oct. 2—The policy of Secretary Hull in these undeclared wars and flagrant violations of what might now be laughingly called international law, is to protest every outrage and keep this country’s position clear on the side of international decency. These notes are not like Woodrow Wilson's protests to Germany which all contained a veiled “or

else” tucked away somewhere in the writing. The Wilson notes themselves left us no other out but war. That was possible. There was a place in France to fight, enough protected transportation to get iy 258 at least a fair change of winning after we arriv Me ou problem is different. We have no place to go tof to font t Japan, no way to get there, and no fair winning decisively. : ” » 8 2 QEVEN thousand miles of sea is a greatdprotection

to us on our West Coast but it is just as good a

~ protection for the Japanese. Getting an army across

the Atlantic with the German Navy bottled up and all the loose shipping of the world turned over to us was bad enough. Trying to get a sufficiently large army across the Pacific to fight Japan would be im-

possible. Of course, we eld cut Japan off from all ship‘ments of Ame

you

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Make your letter short, so all can have a chance. Letters must be signed, but names will be withheld on request.)

Now the liquor bill has mounted up to 11 billion dollars and is still climbing. What do we get in return? 10. They drove the liquor from Main Street to the criminals’ hideout, but now we have more bootleggers than ever and the higher the license the more bootleggers we will have. 11. They killed the saloon with its public lure to drink. Now what have we under repeal? 12. Prohibition gave the United States economic stability whereby we have held up better in world depressions than liquor-ridden nations and all this with only a half a chance. A good law in the hands of its enemies. Is it not high time we “cry aloud and spare not?” Repeal is a tremendous failure. What cannot be mended should be ended. I predict that prohibition is coming back and with an administration that is a

friend to the cause.

® 8 =» NEW ORGANIZATION TO BACK HIGHER PENSIONS

By R. R. Bulgin

The committee on old age security of the Twentieth Century Fund of New York, a foundation prominent in the realm of social and economic study and of which Frank P. Graham, former chairman of the advisory council of President Roosevelt’s Committee on Economic Security, is a member, has this to say about old-age pension in its report: “The old-age assistance pensions should be increased from their pres-

- AUTUMN { By ANNA E. YOUNG The katy-did doth reign supreme She makes her call quite clear

She sings repeatedly her tune That autumn time is here.

The goldenrod in splendor, too, Proclaims her day is nigh And soon each leafllet will let go To waft earthward with a sigh.

The trees of green—their foliage soon Will don a golden hue And Nature will adorn her wood With new beauty — through and through.

The lowly milkweed . . . will arise As breezes burst her pod We . . . pause in reverence and . In. the presence of our God! | in’ awe

DAILY THOUGHT

- The word of the Lord is right.— Psalms 33:4,

should give God the same place in our hearts that He holds in the universe.

| with our minds full

ent levels (a range of $4.06 to $31 a month, varying with the states) by offering increasing Federal grants to states which pay pensions over $12 a month. This amount

would be further increased in some cases by permitting persons with income up to $15 a month to receive pensions. Now, in most states, pensions are not granted when any income is available.” For the benefit of all the aged in Indiana be it known that a large number of elderly people have formed a club to be called “93” for the purpose of petitioning our next legislature to amend the present Old-Age Pension Law so that any worthy person of 65 or over may receive $35 monthly and have the privilege of earning $15 without having it deducted from the $35. Naturally the old folks would have to spend this much for decent. existence and this spending would help business, especially in small towns. The movement is strictly non-partisan. These elderly persons will hold meetings every Monday night throughout the city and state. On Oct. 4, at 7:30 p. m., a session will be held in the Holliday Building, 241 E. Ohio St., for the purpose of further organizing and to give anyone an opportunity to enlist. There are no assessments or stated dues and all the officials serve without pay. ” ”» 2 HE SEES THIS CHAP AS TALKING “PAP” By Not Alarmed : “Though never nurtured in the lap Of luxury, yet, I admonish you, I am an intelligent chap, And think of things that would astonish you.” Like Private Willis, in Gilbert

end Sullivan’s “Iolanthe,” Rep. Ed-

ward Eugene Cox of Camilla, Ga.,

has been thinking up some aston-

ishing things. Seems he ‘has “authentic” information that the C. I.

0. leaders are so mad about defeat |

of the wage-hour bill, which he helped chloroform in the House Rules Committee, that they plan-“a campaign of industrial disorder, intended to terminate in a general strike designed to bring the industries of the South and Henry Ford to their knees and reduce every contributing industry to a state of supplication for peace.” If that weren't bad enough the Communists in every state plan to “invade and infiltrate” both the Democratic and Republican Parties through C. I, O. membership. And what’s more if the Democrats don’t give back the $500,000 loan from Mr. Lewis’ C. I. O. “it inevitably faces ruin.” Here we are just settling back of happy thoughts about the adjournment of

Congress, and good crops and fewer

strikes and what a grand country this is after all. And along comes the Hon. E. Cox with this bunch of doom. Well, maybe he’ll feel better back in Dixie, if he stretches out in his rocking chair, and stops thinking so hard.

It Seems to Me

By Heywood Broun

Mahoney Probably Is 'Good Old Skate," but It Is Suggested That His Political Act Isn't So Good.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—It is a little difficult ~for me to take Jeremiah T. Mahoney, very seriously. I know that he used to be a judge and that he is running in the mayoralty campaign in New York. It has ever

been said that the issue is far greater than a local one, and that the fate of the nation for weel or woe rests upon his reception at the hands of the electorate. Jim Farley has indorsed him, and some

will point to his success or failure as a foreshadowing of the progress of the New Deal in the next two or three years or even longer. And even so, Jeremiah - Titus 8 Mahoney fails to loom as another Jefferson or an Andrew Jackson. You see I happen to know him only as Uncle Jerry. He is not, I hasten to add in all fairness to his candidacy, related to me in any

way whatsoever, but he is kin of.

‘some of my best friends. They do not speak disparagingly of him, although there seemed to be a sort of general family surprise when the papers said that he was running for some-

Mr. Broun

thing. Once upon a time, many years ago, he was

famous as a track athlete, but his specialty was leaping. For a time he held the high jump record. But the assumption among the members of his clan seemed to be that all that kind of activity had been laid away in lavendar, along with the silver mugs upon the ‘mantelpiece of his study.

FJ » 2 IS kinsfolk were somewhat startled when he came

out of the chimney corner and announced hime self as an entry for the hop, skip and jump. Not that he will lack loyal support among the Mahoneys and the Reynoldses. Quentin Reynolds, his favorite nephew, is quick to come to the defense of his famous kinsman when anybody in the bar puts him on the pan. Smacking the table with a vigorous fist he says, “Uncle Jerry is a good old skate,” and that ends the argument. To be sure, Mr. Reynolds. cannot pretend to be wholly neutral in a discussion of the burning issues of the local Armageddon. It seems that he expects

to get a low license plate if the Judge comes home in triumph. He has even promised to procure for me a nickelplated badge which will pass me through the fire lines in the event of a Mahoney victory. Though my stand may create internal ruction and impair an old friendship, I refuse to accept Uncle Jerry as a knight in shining armor. I think he is a stuffed shirt.

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» » » T was Father William, was it not, who was rebuked for trying to balance eels on the end of his nose at his age? I feel the same way when Uncle Jerry comes out of retirement snd proceeds to juggle red herrings. I wouldn’t care much about the trick even if 1% were good, but Jeremian Titus Mahoney is dropping the salt fish all over the stage. I think he ought to go back to high jumping. Possibly one should not be too severe in the judge ment of politicians. A drowning man will clutch at a straw, and in his extremity Uncle Jerry may eventually be forgiven for grabbing with both hands at an extremely dead flounder, The only danger is that somebody might take him seriously. Does Jeremiah Titus Mahoney really intend to suge gest that he would send the police out to club the head off every worker who dared to raise a peep against unjust conditions? Don’t be silly, Uncle Jerry. Be youl age and be yourself and quit iid with matches.

The Washington Merry- Go-Round

‘Montana Watches Feud Between Senator Wheeler and Rep. O'Connell; Congressman Is Bitter Over Former Progressive's Change in Attitude.

Fan Su0de | Bling sotton-—and when

3,000,000 bales of cotton. Japan is one of its principal remaining export markets. The agricultural

South is still geared to cotton and almost as depend-

ent on its export as a seal is on . That would be just like getting so mad at a man that you bite off your own thumb. » » » HERE remains the single slim alternative—a naval war on commerce. Perhaps the

States alone could start a sort of world-wide rat hunt

for every merchant ship that flies the Sun flag. Maybe England would help us, but that is not likely because Hitler is Japan’s ally and Mussolini's bedfellow and England needs all her navy to watch the Mediterranean and the Baltic. If she did help us she would want a few billions on tick, as she did 20 years ago. It would be cheaper to buy off Japan.’ So we start a naval war to “sweep Japanese off the seas”"—and it becomes open season for Japanese gunners on American people, goods and ships everywhere and from now on.. Japan has a nice, neat navy of her own, almost as

large as ours. Our world commerce compares with hers as three to one—three

Party.

By Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen

UTTE, Mont., Oct. 2—An old, old human drama is being re-enacted in this state. It is the ancient struggle of David and Goliath. In the role of Goliath is Senator Burton K. Wheeler, generalissimo of the fight against the President’s Court Bill. In the role of David is a 27-year-old Congressman, Jerry O'Connell. Up to a few months ago the suggestion that they would soon be engaged in mortal combat would have seemed fantastic to both. Mr. Wheeler was the famed. left wing crusader, the nemesis of the “Ohio Gang,” the running-mate of the elder Senator La Follette, a potent chieftain in the councils of the Democratic Mr. O'Connell was an unknown freshman jn Congress Then, out of the blue, Mr. Roosevelt sprang his Supreme Court reform plan. Mr, Wheeler, whom he had counted on as a certain supporter, recoiled—first in indignation, then in fury. And as the fight intensified, this rift became increasingly bitter and personal, until finally Mr. Wheeler openly allied himself with the conservative elements he had battled for two decades.

hie ss = = N Montana evidence of Mr, Wheeler's change of position was even more. dramatic. For two de-

cades he had fought the Anaconda Copper Co. the dominant business interest in the

state. And it had | nn

newspapers Anaconda owns, Mr. Wheeler began to be acclaimed a great statesman. His anti-Adminise tration speeches were printed at length, his picture frequently displayed. Previously, the company papers would not even report announcements of his meetings. Like most of the other liberal leaders in Montana, Mr. OConnell at first did not take seriously Mr. Wheeler's break with the White House. But when the Anaconda publications started hailing him as a hero, Mr. O'Connell saw Tel. 2 . . O'CONNELL’S ser dly of “The Company” is fierce and personal, His father was an Anae conda miner killed in a strike when Jerry was a boy. Anything the company stands for, or anyone it ape proves is anathema to him. From the moment the company papers began ping Mr. Wheeler, Mr. O'Connell declared war on

With Mr. Wheeler off- the reservation, Mr. O’Cons nell lost no time in opening fire on him. At first, Mr. Wheeler paid no attention to the attacks. But when a big political rally during his June visit proved a dud, and he heard that Mr. O'Connell was planning a state-wide speaking tour after Congress adjourned,

‘the Senator sat up and took notice.

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