Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1938 — Page 17

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By Raymond Clapper

The Justice Department Is About Ready to Abandon Its Haphazard | Potshotting in Antitrust

TASHINGTON, April 29. —Pending Con-

© gressional revision, if ever, of the antitrust laws, the Department of Justice is pre-

paring to begin a vigorous campaign of

prosecution which will at the same time be

a vehicle for developing a better understand-

ing by business as to what it can and cannot do under these laws. Business long has been at a disadvantage because _it has been unable to ascertain in advance what the Government would and would not permit under the antitrust laws.

The present Administration has:

been hesitant to give an advance

opinion. In the Hoover Admin-

istration the whispering of advance advice to business was _ tried out with unsatisfactory results. The Administration is now about to try in a different way to give business advance indica‘Mr. Clapper tions as to what practices will be considered objectionable by the Department of Justice. This plan has been worked out by Thurman Arnold, new Assistant Attorney General. It was explained privately to a group of trade association representatives by Attorney General Cummings a few days ago.

Under this new procedure the Department of Justice will take pains, when beginning an antitrust investigation, to make an official ‘public statement describing the practices under suspicion andgtelling why the Department regards them as violating the antitrust laws. At present, when an antitrust situation is being investigated, the Department refuses to divulge any details.

The purpose of this procedure is twofold. First, it is expected to be helpful to business conduct by advising businessmen as soon as possible, and as completely as possible, whenever the Government discovers a practice which it regards as questionable. Secondly, it is expected to have educational value for the public by laying out in full view the methods used in the industry under examination and the effects of those methods upon free competition.

Unlucky Defendants Protest It must be remembered that the Government can

Investigate and prosecute only a fraction of the com-

plaints that come to it. Therefore, being unable to prosecute every potential case, the Government must

-select one out of many. Often this has caused un-

lucky defendants to charge that they were being singled out for persecution from political or other ‘motives,

Under the new policy, an attempt will be made to “select cases for special reasons which will be publicly explained. For instance one case might be selected to afford a test in the courts of a particular practice or corporate device. Sometimes cases may even be tried to demonstrate that the law is unworkable with respect: to particular situations and thus lay the foundation for special legislation. A - Robert Jackson says that nearly 50 years of antitrust enforcement has not suppressed monopoly so. much as it has educated business to avoid the crude and more easily proven forms of combination. Corporation lawyers have kept several jumps ahead of the Department of Justice, which is now about to try: somewhat more calculated tactics in place of the traditional haphazard potshotting.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

First Lady Fears She Chose Wrong Wardrobe for New England Visit.

EW YORK, Thursday—Suddenly today summer

weather is with us and I wish that one could travel with a wardrobe trunk instead of one suitcase. I am afraid that if this weather spreads to New England, I shall be very warm indeed in Boston tomorrow in a suit trimmed with fur. - Yesterday afternoon was a busy and interesting time for me. I spent an hour in the office of the Bureau of Vocational Service for Juniors. The National Youth Administration borrowed Dr. Mary Hays from them to work on the re-employment and adjustment of young people all over the country. She was loaned for a few months and is now, I think, on her third year of work, so the nation owes this particular private organization a debt of gratitude. I went from one little office to another and saw young people telling their problems to trained counselors. I looked through some of the questionnaires and was told about their psychological test which covers mental capacity and the ability to do things with one’s hands. I was particularly interested in the scholarship phase of the work, which makes it possible to retrain those who are not quite prepared for the work they want to do. The group which seemed to me most difficult to serve was the group between 21 and 25. The members of this group who are working, or trying to obtain work, often cannot secure permanent employment or are in dead-end jobs with no permanent advancement because of their lack of training or’ edu= cation. They need help almost more than do: the younger ones who are either trying to stay in school a little longer or trying to get their first placement.

Stands Next to Raymond Clapper

At 5 o'clock Mrs. Scheider and I went fc a tea given by Mr. George Carlin, head of the United Feature Syndicate. Editors, publishers and their wives were present in great numbers. I knew a few of them and stood with my fellow columnists to shake hands with them as they came in. Mr. Raymond Clapper stood next to. me for quite a while and I was most envious of the people who came in and called him by his first name and seemed so glad to see him. It was a very nice party, but I regretted not being ‘able to talk with many of the interesting people who were simply passing by and shaking my hand! “After dinner, Miss Esther Lape and I went to see Ethel Barrymore in “White Oaks.” The play is

- taken from the novel “White Oaks of Jala,” by Mazo

de la Roche. I enjoyed the book very much when I read it, especially the character of the old grandmother. I have never admired Miss Barrymore as much as I did in this role. It is a most perfect character part as she plays it. I am sure that you will be interested as well as entertained if you spend an evening at the Hudson Theater.

New Books Today

~ Public Library Presents—

is perhaps proper that a German should write the biography of a dictator whose aim is to make a strong and self-conscious nation and who, “no friend

to democracy,” has striven to form a “soldierly dis-'

ciplined, well-led national state.” Such a man is KEMAL ATATURK (Hillman-Curl)

as portrayed by Hans Froembgen in the volume by that name. The son of an obscure government of-

" ficial, he was from youth a rebel against the cor-

ruption and inefficiencies of the government and the army, and saw the vulnerability of the policy which, identifying the interests- of Turkey with Moslemism, sought to create a pan-Moslem empire. How Mustafa Kemal made his way despite the efforts of intrenched officialdom which discerned in him

<-a'menace to its security, is the story of a man of cour-: . age, indomitable will, and a vision of the future. His

* revolution, as the author describes it, was that of one man—a man who understood that, to preserve her“gelf in postwar Europe, Turkey must put aside her traditional preoccupation and adopt Western ideas.

And to the new Turkey, Mustafa Kemal is now known: | Turks.

as Kemal Ataturk—Father .of the

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Superior Court, Rm. 4

JOHN F. ENGELKE

Court Four. (Born and reared in Indi- . anapolis; graduated from Manual Training Higlr School; received legal education at the University of - Michigan; has practiced law in Indianapolis for 30 years; served four years as City Prosecutor; for several years legal investigator of the Juvenile Court; Republican nominee for Juvenile Court judge in 1934; active in Masonic orders; married, has one son and one daughter and lives at 2818 N. Talbott Ave.; member of the Presbyterian ! Church.)

AM conducting my campaign for nomination as Judge of Superior Court, Room 4, upon the platform of supporting the Constitution, the rendering of decisions responsive to legal principles, and a competent and courteous court personnel.

anapolis Bar Association, I was given the indorsement of the Bar for the judgeship for which I am now a candidate.

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HENRY O. GOETT

Democrat, for Judge of Superior Court Four.

(Born in Indianapolis, Feb. 13, 1900; attended grade school, Manual Training High School, graduated Butler University, 1924; graduated Indiana Law School, 1927; Deputy " County Clerk, Municipal Court No. 1, 1926; secretary to Mayor Slack, 1928-29; City Clerk, 1930-34; Deputy Prosecutor in charge of Grand Jury 1934-38; president Indiana Democratic Club, 1931-36; treasurer, Marion © County

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1938

EDITOR'S NOTE—The Indianapolis Times has invited all the candidates in the contested primary election contests for the Mayoralty, Judiciary and Prosecutor races to make campaign statements. Responses received from candidates for Superior Court, Room 4, and Criminal Court, are printed herewith,

Responses from candidates in the contested Superior Court, Rooms 1, 2, 3, and 5, and Probate Court races alYeady have been published. Responses from candidates in the other contested races will follow. uncontested races will be published.

No statements in

Republican, for Judge of Superior

At the recent poll of the Indi-

Democratic Committee, 193436; Twelfth District Chairman, 1936-38; member Indianapolis Bar Association, Indianapolis Lawyers’ Association, Indiana - American Business Club, Citizens Safety Committee, South Side Turners, Masons; married and resides at 432 Sanders St.)

N presenting my name as a candidate for Judge of Superior Court, Room 4, to the voters of this community, I have been

actuated by the natural ambition .

and desire of many lawyers to serve in a judicial position. . In conducting my campaign I

~ have endeavored to present my

views in a manner in keeping with the dignity and propriety which judicial candidates should maintain. Our courts are the last resort of all persons seeking justice, and should be free from all undue influence, restraint and pressure, political or otherwise. ' Our judges should likewise be free to act in a fair and impartial manner, and administer justice according to the dictates of their conscience and to the best of their judgment. Recognizing these ‘principles as being essential to the maintens ance of respect for our courts, I can in good conscience accept the nomination’ and election to the office which I seek. I have held public office, both elective and appointive, and in discharging my duties have always sought to render faithful and diligent service. This policy of public service will be continued should I be nominated and elected

Judge of Superior Court, Room 4. ” ” 2

HENRY B. KRUG

Republican, for Judge of Superior Court Four. (Born in Indianapolis in . 1891; attended city grade schools, Shortridge High School and the Indianapolis College of Law; has practiced law here for 22 years; among organizers of Young Republican organization, served as chairman of Speakers Bureau in several campaigns; has never been a candidate for public office; married and lives at 2925 Ruckle St.; Member of the Indianapelis, Indiana and American Bar Associations; member, Baptist Church.)

OURTS exist to to promote justice and’ thus to serve the public interest. Their administra~ tion should be speedy and careful. Every judge should, at all times, be alert in his rulings and in the conduct of the business of

the court to make it useful to lit-

igants and to the community. He should avoid unconsciously falling into the attitude of mind that the litigants are made for the courts, instead of the courts for the litigants.

Side Glances—By Clark

CORR. 1970 NED JRE WC RES.U.6. PAY. OF.

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"He has no garden—iives i in an apartment. in and look at these thingss®

He just likes. to come

As a practicing attorney for 22 years before the Marion County Bar, I feel that I know'the problems confronting litigants and lawyers before trial courts. The greatest criticism of courts today by the public is the law’s delay. While bar associations end law= yers are endeavoring to simplify

practice and procedure to the end —— - their party,

that the administration of justice may be expedited, I believe that. trial courts can do much along this line by being prompt in ruling and bringing cases to trial without unnecessary delay. I recognize that the time of litigants, jurors and attorneys is of value, and will be punctual in the administration of the business of the Court. I believe a judge should be courteous to counsel, Jurors, witnesses and livigants and will require on the part of clerks and court officers civility and courtesy to all who have business in the Court. ” » o

MARK H. MILLER Republican, for Judge of Superior Court Four. (Practicing attorney in Indianapolis for 30 years; age 54; graduated from Franklin College and Columbia University Law School; taught law one year at the Indianapolis Law School, two years in Benjamin Harrison Law School; served three years on the City Board of Health; past president, Indianapolis Board of Trade, University Club, and Lawyers Club of Indianapolis; member of the Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis Bar Association, Phi Delta Theta and Phi Delta Phi; home, 410 N. Meridian St.)

HE courts should be entirely ar

divorced from politics.

+ However, under our system the

public can, if it will, elect as judges men who have not been practical politicians or perpetual - office seekers with the attending obligations. My conception of the qualities required to fit one for the office of judge are honesty, intelligence, adequate education, courage, industry and courtesy. - Honesty of the courts is essential for continued confidence in government. There should not be in our courts a suspicion of prejudice because of race, religion, poli= tics, business connections or financial condition of the litigant. It is not the function of the judge of a trial court to make law but to know the law and administer it. Knowledge of the law comes only with the proper education of an intelligent mind. Without courage to resist political, social and business pressure, other good qualities become meaningless. Industry, to avoid needless delays, and courtesy, not always found in public office, should be required since the public pays the judge’s salary.

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CLARENCE E. WEIR

Democrat, for renomination as Judge of Superior Court Four

(Born in Warren, O.; graduated from Hiram College and Cincinnati Law School; came to Indianapolis in 1890, has resided here since that time; has never held office other than judicial; married, has two children, lives at 2428 Broadway; member of various national and state bar associations.)

NE of the most pressing problems at the present time is the method of selecting judges. On the courts rests the stability of our institutions. When the public cease to have confidence in courts, the collapse of the institutions of this republic is not far away. This fact is receiving ‘the attention of the people. Various methods of selecting judges are proposed and some have been put into law in other states. This has become necessary in order to remove the courts from political . control. The president of the Indiana State Bar Association recently said: “The present method of selecting candidates for Judge is a vicious system.” The opportunity is ‘open in this primary for the Democratic leaders to begin this reform. Before ' the Democratic repudiate

‘Why You Should Vote for

Superior Court, Room 4, and Criminal Court Candida tes Ask Support

NOT CONTESTED

No statement from Walter Pritchard, Republican, for Criminal Court Judge, is carried because no uncontested races are. included in this symposium. °

its = leaders should offer them an opportunity to select their own. judges. . : If the leaders desire to add prestige to their leadership and give strength to their ticket at the election, they should abandon their attempt to control nominations of judicial candidates by slates and other methods more odious. They should announce that such methods are at an end. My appeal is to the Democratic voters. Repudiate the slate-mak-

_ers and restore your own political

freedom.

Criminal Court

FRANK P. BAKER Democrat, for Renomination as Judge of Criminal Court. - (Resident of Indianapolis for 50 years; age 63; Chief Deputy Prosecuting Attorney, 1907 to 1911; was elected and served two terms as Prosecutor from 1911 to 1915; now serving second term-as Judge of Criminal Court; member of Edwin Ray Methodist Church, - Mystic Tie Lodge, Scottish Rite, Shrine, Modern Woodmen, Indianapolis and State Bar Associations; married, one - son, Frank, a junior at DePauw; one daughter, Martha, _ 11, attending School. No. 45; residence, 2702 Sutheriatid Ave.)

WILL conti to mete out speedy justice which I began when I assumed office seven and one-half years ago. I will continue to administer justice without fear or favor. I will continue to keep the docket of the Criminal Court up to date. I shall continue to give punishment to fit the crime. I shall continue the new system of probation begun two years ago. I shall continue to give severe sentences to hold-up: men, gunmen and gangster: I shall lg to stand for a clean, moral city. ; 8 = 8

JAMES D. ERMSTON Democrat, for Judge of Criminal Court.

(Resident . of Indianapolis since 1906; before moving here, served as Assistant

Entered as Class gasier at Postoffice, 1ndisndpoit

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Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio, and judge of the Police Court of Cincinnati; member of the American, Indiana, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Bar Associations; married, resides.at 1932 N. Talbott Ave.)

OVERNMENTAL and social affairs require’ “intelligent

and rapid exercise in" public, of-. fice, by public officials; the pres- :

entation of the integrity of the law; and demand & wise and prudent administration of all laws by those persons who are duty-bound to protect, observe and administer the laws of the land, especially, in the administration of the criminal av. The people stand aghast and alarmed at the increase in crime

and demand immediate trials of

all persons accused who are either in jail or released on bond. The lawyer who seeks the office

-of Judge of the Criminal Court of

Marion County should be one who is experienced in the prosecution and defense of persons charged with crime; the candidate for this position should be strong of character, clear and sensible in his exposition of the law and able to distinguish the difference between the State and the accused, the difference between right and wrong, and be able to apply the one and reject the other. The rule which requires that defendants in criminal cases must be found guilty beyond a reasonable doubt by the Court or by a jury will be enforced: And in all convictions there will be no delay in passing sentences.

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DEWEY E. MYERS Democrat, for Judge of Criminal Court. (Born in Clay County, May 20, 1898; graduated from Wheatfield High School, 1917; Indiana University, 1927; became Deputy Prosecutor in 1931; Judge of Municipal Court, Room 3, in 1935; married, has one daughter, lives at 5258 Carrollton Ave.)

OFFER my record as an attorney, a prosecutor, a judge and citizen as proof of my gqualification. If nominated and elected I pledge myself to consistent conduct of the Court in a manner that will inspire the highest respect for law, order and the Court itself. : I intend to be fair with the pub-

lic, the defendants and the attor- |

neys who practice in my court. I promise the speediest possible trials, not only to prevent the guilty ‘from benefiting from the apathy toward crime that arises

- from delayed trials, but protect

the innocent from long incarceration: through inability to provide high bonds. I now am free and will continue to keep myself free from alliances that would be a source of embarrassment to a man sitting on this important bench. To members of the legal profession I promise impartial treatment at all times.

Josper—y Frank

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Ind.

Our Town

By Anton Scherrer

It Seems Now That Indianapolis Worms Are Going to Take the Lead In Getting Us Back on Our Feet.

: { ; OTHING this spring equals the thrill of two years ago when the Buick people came out with an ad to the effect that they had perfected a car with “room for thé more abundant wife.” It proved a false alarm, but it made the spring of 1936 stand out like no other. This ‘year’s spring is more matter of fact. For

example, George Calvert's tulips went back on him,

On the other hand, Katrina Fertig’s are better than ever. Thus far this spring, she’s picked 200 specimens and the way things look she’s going to harvest another bumper crop tomorrow. The dandelions in the

. State House yard are thriving like

everything, too. It also turns out that Indianapolis has more than its share of rabbits this spring. They eat everything except dandelions. And while I'm on the subject I might as well tell you that most of the rabbits seen in North Side gardens are lineal descendants of a pair raised 30 -vears ago by the Gates boys when they lived at 1828 N. Illinois St. Chances are, too, that the rabe bits running wild on the South Side are the descend« ants of a pair raised by Charlie Helfenberger 50 years ago. Which reminds me that this is the time of year I usually render my annual report on the worm industry of Indianapolis. It’s high time I was getting around to it. According to Don Campbell this spring beats anything for the size of worms, especially the species known as nightcrawlers. This year they look more like snakes, says Mr. Campbell, and have to be handled as such. The size of garden worms is some= thing to brag about, too. As a rule, Mr. Campbell has his ear close to the ground, and knows what he’s talking about. :

There Are Still Two Big Markets

Indeed, from the way things look it wouldn’t sure prise me to learn that worms are sold by the piece this year. Up till now, worms around here have been sold by liquid measure—the contents of a tomato can being rated as the equivalent of a pint. Last year the worm industry seriously considered doing away with tomato cans and selling their products by the dozen. They didn’t get anywhere with the idea, principally because last year a dozen worms didn’t look like much. This year, however, worms are doing their part and it looks as if it might revolutionize the industry. I sense something symptomatic in the news because when the lowest order of articulate animals takes a notion to do its part there’s no reason for anybody to lose hope. Otherwise the worm industry hasn’t changed much since last year. The two big markets are still doing business at the same old stands. Just like last year, half of the fishermen will use worms caught in the S. West St. district. The rest will depend on worms grown in the rich deposits along the Pendleton Pike tracks. As far as I can judge, one is as good as the other. That's about all I have to report this time, except that it did my heart good—just as it did last year—to see the worm merchants’ eyes light up at the “mention of Evans Woollen Jr, Dan Layman and Don . Campbell.

Jane Jordan— Stay Out of Family Troubles of

Friend, Is Jane's Advice to Girl.

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 16 and 1 have been going sfeady with a boy of 20 for the : past year. He is a very serious boy, far superior to most in morals, habits and ideals. He has one bad fault—a fiery temper and even - though he seldom gets angry enough to use it, it is still there. He is thor“oughly misunderstood at home and his temper has driven him to say many things which he will always regret. -In fact so much has passed between him and his parents that a barrier has sprung up between them. Because of this he has become more and more attached to me. As a ‘result I have been able to win in one year the love that his parents have failed to win in 20, and they have begun to resent me terribly. Is there any way in which I can help to reconstruct this broken household? How can I win the friendship of his parents? DECIDEDLY WORRIED.

” ” ” ~ Answer—I don’t believe that there is a lot you can do to reconcile this boy to his parents. About the only way you can win the friendship of the parents is to side with them against the boy. If you do this you will lose your influence on the boy. Therefore, I think you'd be very smart to stay out of his family troubles. A girl often thinks that it strengthens her position to win a boy's mother but this is not always true, Sometimes he gets the idea that the two most impor tant women in his life have' joined forces for the purpose of controlling him. When a boy is in rebellion at his mother, it isn't wise for his girl friend to line up with her. The danger is that the young man will identify his girl with his mother and react to the two women in the . same manner. You wouldn't want this to happen to you, would you? I think you can be friendly and pleasant to the young man's parents when you see them without entering into their arguments with their son. If they don’t like you, you can’t help it and their objections only will strengthen Yhe bond between you and the boy. Since you are only 16 1 am glad you make no mention of marriage, for I believe you have a difficult situation to deal with here and it would be an advantage for you to observe the boy over a longer period of time before you think of permanence JANE JORDAN.

Put your problems ina letter to Jane Jordan, who will answer your questions in. this column daily.

Bob Burns Says" OLLYWOOD, April 29.—It must be wonderful to be able to write books that will benefit and ‘influence mankind. _ The other day I attended a » Hollywood party given in honor of a famous author. One young fella come up and introduced himself to the author and said: oq have just finished readin’ a book that you wrote before you were married, and you made love sound so beautiful that I have decided to get married

The author said “What was the name of the book?” The young fella said - ‘Love's Perfect Dream.’ ” The author said “Well, you wanta read the book I wrote since I got married—it’s Salle ‘The

Awakening.’ ” (Copyright, 1938) ‘ ———— —

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Walter 0 'Keefe—

OLLYWOOD, April 29—King Zog of. Albania married an American-born girl. Zog'’s jon: ia is Hague’s in Jersey City; each rules about one million subjects. The bride probably thought it was better to have one million people calling her “Queen” than to have h Duchess” like that other

rd country without ‘haven't. even got an Une

n m bly fo the title 1s ridics Zog unless she I Nia ovine er she ess she lov e m ermore, ‘willing to be out of work any minute. A gypsy fortune-teller prophesied she’d marry a , and it all sounds like Abe plot of the next orp the Marx brothers. :

Mr. Scherrer