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CRIME, WIRE-TAPPING AND LIBERTY OTHING more precious was ever attained through centuries of struggle and bloodshed than Article 4 of tha Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States. It ig the “your home's your castle” guarantee. Under it the citizen ig entitled to his privacy against unreasonable and unwarranted searches and seizures. That liberty was acquired before there was such a thing as telephone, which today is as much a part of home equipment as were the what-not and the center-table a few generations ago. For an officer of the law to enter a home by stealth, hide under a bed or in a closet and listen in just on sus- | picion and without a search-warrant would have been a | clear violation of Article 4 in grandpa’s day. The Peeping Tom then had been furnished with no device such as the telephone, But for an officer of the law in 1938 to listen in on your wire, on sugpicion—that would have been legalized by the bill which just by an eyelash failed to get through Congress, It was one of those eleventh-hour things. A filibuster, coupled with a fervid desire by all hands to get home, caused the escape. » » » » » » UNDER that proposed act, wire-tapping would have been | lawful if any head of any Federal department go ordered on the mere hunch that violation of a eriminal law, enforcement of which was under his supervision, “may have occurred, may be occurring, or may be about to | occur.”

The potentialities of that are obvious. Under such a | statute an OGPU rivaling Russia's could be set up. Any punitive expedition desired by any head of any depart- | ment could be started against anybody, on the thin pretext | that anybody might be contemplating a violation of a eriminal law. Imagine a Harry Daugherty of a William J. | urng in a Harding Administration possessing such a | power, Imagine the heat that could be turned®on a political | opponent by the one who happened to be “head of a de- | partment.” No proposal more vicious in its possibilities was ever put forth before, or after, Runnymede, | And yet we believe the actual and immediate motiva- | tion was benign; that it was inspired by the practicalities of every grave crime problem; and that those who fostered | the measure merely failed to “think through,” to consider | what Herbert Spencer described as the “legislative momentum” which takes a law into remote regions undreamed of by the author—as did prohibition designed as a moral movement, create racketeering, corruption and dis- | respect for law, . » - » » » WIR E-TAPPING is an effective weapon against the erim- | inal, So is the third degree. So was the rack. So | was the fagot. But the question is—is the cure worse than | the disease, or, as Justice Holmes put it, “We have to choose, and for my part 1 think it a less evil that some eriminals should escape than that the Government should | play an ignoble part.” Or Justice Brandeis: “As a means + of espionage, writs of assistance and general warrants are but puny instruments of tyranny and oppression when compared with wire-tapping. . . . If the Government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law. ... To declare in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means, that the Government may commit crime to secure the conviction of a private eriminal—would bring terrible retribution.” » - ~ . s x E should breathe the sigh of relief that the Congressional truck missed Article 4. But that doesn't relieve | our modern society of the crime problem that has grown up with the telephone. A solution should not be impossible | —one that would preserve the same guarantees against |

invasion of telephone privacy as are assured in the original | Article 4. But such a solution will never come through any such slap-dash approach as the law which Congress so | nearly passed, Article 4 provides for warrants supported by oath or | affirmation before a home can be searched. The place to he | searched and the persons or things to be seized must be | particularly described. If those same safeguards could be fully incorporated into laws that would modernize wire investigations a great achievement in statesmanship would have been accomplished. But all emphasis should be on the side of absolute protection to the great liberty involved. Neither the zeal of the prosecutor nor the intrigue of the power grabber should be allowed to dilute in the slightest the guarantee that is expressed in Article 4. Society can’t ignore the problem of the telephone and crime. But neither can it afford to handle it in such a Happy Hooligan way as characterized that Congressional bill which, thank heaven, died at birth.

MRS. GRACE JULIAN CLARKE

RS. GRACE JULIAN CLARKE, who died on Saturday, was outstanding in social, literary and political circles. Active in club work for more than 40 years, she had served as president of the Indiana Federation of Clubs, the Indianapolis Women's Club, the Irvington Woman's Club and the Local Council of Women. She took a prominent part in many movements, among them that for woman's suffrage in Indiana. With a splen- | did social and political background, she wrote many distinguished literary papers and was the author of a life of her father, who had served in Congress. Mrs. Clarke will be remembered in Irvington for her intense loyalty and contributions to the community. The city and state will remember her as a broadminded and public-spirited woman, *

| but whether she can convert | our hands upon which she can regularly pay interest. | Could not the debt be brought down to some reason-

| possible loans.

without adequate security. | to hold the bag again and we ought not be lightly

Fair Enough

By Westbrook Pegler

Italians Over Here Might Promote Friendship by Sending Werd Home To Please Stop the Sword-Rattling.

EW YORK, June 20.-—The BSocieta di Mutuo Boceoro, of New York, has protested “at the insults heaped on the Italian race” by your corres spotident, “We resent your attitude, as it tends to under mine the friendly relations existing between America and Italy,” says the note, By way of reply your correspondent would like to ask the Societa di Mutuo Soccoro whether it has

ever expressed any similar resentment against ine flammatory comments directed against other countries and their people by Italian Fascist leaders and Italian newspapers which speak only by Mussolini's permission, and thus may be said to speak sentiments approved by him. The fact is that any friction between Italy and the United States is chargeable strictly to fascism, which has been waving a dagger at the throat of all democracy for years. It has repeatedly caused mobs to gather before the embassies of friendly nations (not ours as yet) in Rome and has made submission to arrogance the price of friendship. 4d & 4

NOTHER fact is that fascism and our form of government are incompatible. It is impossible to believe in or admire fascism and be a genuine Amerfean, to be true to Mussolini and to the United States. The question of race is another and delicate matter calling for tact and courtesy, The Italians in this country—and in Italy, too, for that matter—are treated with respect by Americans, and Americans of Italian origin or descent are treated no worse and no better than other Americans. But when Mussolini sends his Fascist militia to Spain, bragging that they are invincible, and the troops conspicuously fail to make good his boast, it is Mussolini himself who puts the Italian race on a spot, Mussolini and his subordinates have a delightful habit of touching up the raw spots in the history of other nations and races, and in repartee of this kind it is only natural that some raw spots in the history of the Italians should be touched up, too. B #4 F these individuals are sincerely concerned over the friendly relations between the United States and Italy and if they have any influence in the homeland, they would serve the cause of friendship better by sending back word that the Americans have some delicate feelings, too. Because everything was going

along all right between this country and Italy and |

the feeling between the two peoples was very close

to genuine affection until the Duce began to rattle | | his sword. Naturally, if this thing ever heads up,

the United States and Italy are bound to be on

| opposite sides, because he has challenged our form

of government in the world. We never challenged his. This country gave up the attempt to impose democracy on the world a doesn't now presume to tell the Italians how they shall run their own land. And, finally, just why should anyone claiming to be an American be so touchy about a job of counter-ribbing directed at the soldiers of a bombastic dictator of a foreign land when they invade a stricken nation, also friendly to the United States, and forget to duck?

Business

By John T. Flynn

Adequate Security Is Necessary if U. S. Makes New Loans to England.

EW YORK, June 20 —The whispers about a coming debt settlement with England refuse to be hushed. It is entirely probable that there is something like this in the wind. The whole question is now involved in some confusing features. It would be well to get the problem as it faces the United States stated, even if no solution can be offered. England owes us in principal and accumulated Interest more than four billion dollars. One point is perfectly obvious. She cannot possibly pay this sum of money and nothing could be more foolish than for Americans to expect her to do so. But England has outstanding in her own borders

| bonds which originated in wars a hundred years ago.

She does not repudiate them, but pays the interest and those who hold the bonds are quite satisfied.

Therefore, the first question is not just whether |

or not England will pay the debts or not pay them, them into bonds in

able figure—say two billion dollars—with an interest rate of 2 per cent and all represented by negotiable bonds which this Government could accept and do with as it chose?

Seeking War Materials

But more serious than the payment of the debt itself is the circumstance which now brings the subject forward after England's repudiation several years ago. England does not so much desire to pay this debt as to arrange for new ones, to get around the Johnson law which prohibits loans to nations in debault on their debt to the United States Governs ment. The utter inability of England ever to pay off this debt would be a good reason for making almost any sort of settlement. Anything we could

| get would be velvet,

But the thing of most importance is to protect our national economy from being drawn into further imFor this is what England wants. She wants to buy war materials here. She wants credits for that purpose. If the American Government makes

| a debt settlement that will be one thing. But if it

couples with the debt settlement plans for further credit that will be quite a different matter. No one will say we ought not make loans to Britain for the proper purposes. but they ought not to be made We ought not to be asked

drawn into building up a profitable war trade in this country with England or anyone else.

A Woman's Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

TEARS, Hollywood, for producing Erich Remar- | Not only is it excel- |

que’s “Three Comrades.” lently directed, but F. Scott Fitzgerald has done a seript which is faithful to the novel. I hope the youngsters will not fail to get the implications it carries. The four people involved are heartbreakingly pathetic, not because two of them meet early death, but because all have been cheated of the chance to live in safety and peace even for a little while, The three Comrades fought for Germany in trenches and shell holes; the heroine starved for Germany at home—and for their sacrifices what did they gain? Less than nothing, says novelist Remarque, who went through these tragic times. Even the dead were lucky, luckier than the living who came back to a land blanched with want, torn with strife, where the fragments of a once happy people moved in a nightmare of poverty—disillusioned, miserable, lost. The most Impressive scene in the picture is the death of Gottfried’'s murderer at the hands of Otto. In the shadow of a brightly lighted cathedral, from whose windows are wafted the chantings of a choir, the deed is done—a deed of violent passion, caused

| by the piled-up hate and injustice and suffering of { many months.

The whole incident is directed with an artist's sure touch and is powerfully symbolic of the church's attitude in tolerating war, Yet, from this cauldron of horror, love rises triumphant; a love which does not follow the usual Hollywood standards, but which takes death in its stride just as it has taken the violences of life. Leaving the theater I thought: Surely a curse

will be set u the adults who teach young to believe in wan, ve

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Dealer Who Swept the Country !—By Talburt

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MONDAY, JUNE 20, 1938

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The Hoosier Forum

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

SAYS HAGUE SHOULD REVIEW | AMERICAN HISTORY | By RS Le | Criticizing Hague's statement to | establish a camp in Alaska, I sug- { gest he should read American his- { lory again. After all most of us can trace our ancestry across the waters, except perhaps a tiny minority of pure-blooded American Indians, We C. I. O. workers love our coun-

deep in that we water it with the sweat of our labor. We are determined to save our country from cestructive forces like Hague and his selfish lot. dd #4 4 DEPLORES ANTAGONISM BETWEEN NORTH, SOUTH By W. W. Baldwin Civil War soldiers are preparing for a joint reunion in Gettysburg, Pa. The purpose is to dedicate “eternal peace” between the North and South. In my opinion the Civil | War is still raging as much as ever | although men are not mustered and | guns are not fired. i Seventy-five years ago the Civil | War was supposed to close, vet at- | tempts still are being made to bring | about “eternal peace.” The selfishness between the North and South

has contributed lots toward bring- |

| ing about this present depression. I'm from the South and have a | fair knowledge of conditions there. I've been here a short time and have a fair knowledge of conditions here. The cause of this “fight” is nothing more than the Civil War, the most unjust, unnecessary, uncalled for war of all times. It was fought for the same reason most wars are, namely, capital and greed. ” » »

SCORES POLICE FOR DELAY IN INVESTIGATING ACCIDENT By CC FA LL

At all other accident scenes I have attended City Police were on hand, but they tried their best to ignore phone calls for their attention into an accident which occurred at 13th and Bellefontaine Sts, June 5 about 11:15 a. m. I went to the scene after the accident and was there for more than 0 minutes before police responded te two phone calls put in by the woman driver of one of the cars involved. This woman said she was told to go to the State House and | make out a report which would be supplied by the State Police. If it has become the duty of the State Police to rover accidents within the eity limits, what are the duties of the City Police?

try, Our affection is all the more |

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LISTS SPOTS FOR SAFETY ZONES By Trolley Rider Thanks to the Board of Safety for giving us trolley and streetcar riders a break. Those safety zones in downtown districts should have never been taken out in the first place, One or two places that should be included in the replacement of safety zones are at the northwest corner of Alabama and Washington Sts. on N. Alabama St.; southeast corner of Delaware and Washington Sts, and at the corners at the intersection of Capitol Ave. and Mary[land St. and Kentucky Ave. Painted | zones should be placed at Kentucky | Ave. and South St. on Kentucky Ave. | also would like to see the “No | Parking” signs set back so passen- | gers boarding trackless trolleys at | Alabama and Market Sts. on both

| sides of the street would not have | to wade water over their shoe tops | to get on a trolley bus. ' I recently asked an operator on an BE, 10th St. bus one day after a { hard rain, why he couldn't pull up to the curb, He said, “Auto drivers are allowed to park their cars within about eight feet of the end of the side curb.” It takes every bit of 35 feet to pull up to these curbs, so try to get those signs back to where they were originally.

KIDDING THEMSELVES By ROBERT O. LEVELL The guy who's always shouting off The things he's done or said Is like a bubble in the air, When all his words are dead; | For those who know this world of ours, The way it's run and done, Have ways to pick the winning stars And know them everyone.

DAILY THOUGHT

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the King's wrath pacified.—Esther 7:10.

ETRIBUTION is one of the grand principles in the divine administration of human affairs. — | J. Foster,

STOKES ARTICLES TERMED ‘CLUMSY PROPAGANDA’ By Hiram Lackey In Thomas Stokes’ articles on “Re-lief-in-Politics,” he refers to friends and official representatives of the poor as “WPA henchmen.” In the same breath he refers to friends and representatives of big business as “state employees.” The Times Editor calls that seasoned reporting. In the interest of accuracy he should call it what it is—"“clumsy propaganda.” Obviously Mr. Stoker is biased. Both sides were guilty of the same offense, the misuse of force,

Newspapers not only represent big business, but they are big business. Our editors and reporters, in order to appear—may I say--seasoned henchmen of big business, are no more independent of the power of the purse than are the workers for the state. But like the kings and slavemasters of old, newspapermen have told us how to vote for so long that they regard it as their divine right. Utterly unreasonable, of course, but editors believe that they have a better right to suggest to the poor how to vote than has our friend, Harry L. Hopkins.

With knowledge resting on the dependability of our mind and senses, we the poor, believe that President Roosevelt's and Mr, Hopkins’ right to tell us how to vote is divine. The | slightest attempt to be fair and the | analytical power of a normal 6-year-old boy should reveal to you the | difference between telling a man what is hest for him and forcing him | him to 1o it. ” » ~ | MONTANA HAS CHANGES TOO, READER SAYS By T. E. Recently mention was made of the Rev, Lawrence Larrowe, pastor of the First Methodist Church at Springfield, Vt., who took a day off from preaching, went fishing on Sunday, and received a vote of ap-

proval from his trustees and his congregation. That, it was said, was an example of how times have changed in New England. Change, it appears, is not confined to New England. The Rev. Emerson W. Harris of the United Congregational Church at Butte, Mont, has just gone the Rev. Larrowe one better, with this announcement: “My congregation and I want to do some fishing this year, but we want to go to church, too. So, for the rest Hf the summer, we'll hold {our regular services on Wednesday | evening instead of Sunday morn- | ing.”

LET'S EXPLORE YOUR MIND

TRE STORY OF HEREDITY... THE SMITHS

ECTURER AT SCHOOL »S AIMED bo Te8 iE ITED AND ANYBODY COULD DEVELOP IMMENGE WiLL- POWER. [ HOPE 80." 6 SUT: DICK, [T® NOTH UTR ERRNO NEN To iT" YOUR OPINION

NOT only Mother Smith but both Dick and the lecturer are a bit mixed on what will-power is and on its heredity, although all are right that it can be greatly increased by training. Will-power is simply a “set of habit systems” — the habit of thinking situations out usly

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» » » PROBABLY the world suffers more from grownups who are mental adults but emotional | children than from feehle-minded- | ness, insanity and crime combined. | And it can all be overcome. The | first thing is to find how childish you are.

” » ” WE HAVE no exact researches on this important point but it seems to me the broadest-minded people I meet are the specialists and the narrowest those who have had a “liberal culture” but who have never really learned anything. They know a little Latin, mathematics, civies and history but they have not discovered what it really means to organize large groups of scattered facts into a unified body of knowledge, nor have they learned how to discover and create new knowledge. In my judgment, organized knowledge is the only knowledge that ever becomes power and no one today can possibly achieve this without specializing. This exact knowledge, and the habits learned in acquiring it, serve as Aa background for broad and unprejudiced views on all subjects. These ideas do not seem to agree with those expressed by President Hutchins of the Un ity of Chicago in his

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Gen. Johnson Says—

This Probably Is a Time When the Existence of War Debts Is More Valuable Than Their

ABHINGTON, June 20.-—Somebody is doing one of the best recorded publicity jobs of press agenting for Joseph P, Kennedy, our unstockinged Ambassador to the Court of St. James. This is no knock at Joe. He is, as usual, doing a realistic job, In fact, for once in our history, I believe that from the President down through the Secretary of State to the whole diplomatic service, we have the ace team of international poker players—not only in our hise tory but in comparison with the rest of the world, Will Rogers said: “We never lost a war or won a conference” and it was the literal truth, We were the international fat boy and the favorite indoor sport was to cuddle up to our foreign representatives and swindle us out of our candy. We won their World War for them, next paid for it, and then, through silly foreign loans to “backward and crippled nae tions,” supposed to sustain our export trade, kept them going until 1929 and, when we withdrew that tribute, the economic structure of the world collapsed. I doubt if anything like that could be repeated

with this present crowd handling our foreign relations,

Ad » » po agricultural price and relief policies are autoe matically ruining our export trade for farm products—a national disaster<but that is through a domestic rather than a foreign policy, The diplomatic service is doing so good a job that Uncle Sam is more respected in every foreign chan cellery than ever before. 1 believe that Mr, Kennedy is perfectly competent to play seven-toed Pete with all the card sharps of Downing Street,

But this press agency that has him coming hom ) 4 " with a war debt settlement before breakfast, ne

and dollar devaluation over the lunch table, a military :

and naval accord in the evening an Cc ship back to London before ie Bry " ayetiey li The war debts are not written off. War thr Europe and no European nation could fight Fptany portant war without first assuring credit hers and our “benevolent neutrality.” Modern war depends too much on motor-driven vehicles on land, sea and alr and the products of petroleum—of which we cone trol three-fourths of the world's output. In the poker game of arranging any such supply, those war debts are aces back-to-back in our hands.

yy the world in its present state, it would be silly to make the only kind of settlement now possible—a promise to pay, say, 10 per cent of the principal sum in Kathleen Mavourneen securities—

“It may be years and it may be forever” I$ would just be trading one worthless promise for 10 per cent in another worthless promise, Anyway, until this question of dollar devaluation and international stability of money is settled, what boobs we would be to make a war debt settlement on a greatly reduced basis without knowing whether we were eventually to be paid in token, wampum or hokum! There are times in international relations when the existence of a debt is of more value than its dise charge. With those war debts and our economic supremacy, we may hold in our hands the peace of the world,

Washington

By Raymond Clapper

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Business More and More Is Having To Take Public Into Its Huddle.

ASHINGTON, June 20.—Well, this Administra« tion is giving us some more regimentation and some more bureaucracy, Congress has passed a law creating a Civil Aeronautics Authority to regulate airplane traffic. It is an ICC for the air, and will operate in that fleld somewhat as the Interstate Commerce Commission has operated over the raile roads. It is the plainest kind of interference with private enterprise. If you want to fly passengers in your airplanes you will have to obtain the permission of this Civil Aeronautics Authority, and it may stick its nose into your business, inspect your planes, test your pilots, ask you who put up your capital, prevent you from buying up a competitor, and determine whether your rates are reasonable, Thus we see being born another great regulatory bureacucracy, taking its place alongside the I1CC, the Communications Commission, the Federal Power Commission and a dozen others. Does it mean that the Government has gone crazy again on the subject of interference with private business? You know the answer. Commercial air lines fly human freight and they have become an important agency of transportation. The Govern= ment exercises its right to step in for the protection of the traveling public. Actually the Department of Commerce has been doing this inspection for some years.

The Inevitable Price.

Practically no one in his senses objects to (his further intervention in aviation on behalf of the public interest. It is so obviously necessary. But it was not nearly so obvious to many people when the Government wanted to intervene in private enterprise to protect the stock investments of the publie by regulation of the stock market. Nothing so strikingly demonstrates how modern industrial life compels government to intervene in the everyday affairs of its citizens as does this new Civil Aeronautics Authority, Of course it means interference with the private business of running come mercial airplanes, Of course it means regimentation if that is what you prefer to call it, But that's the inevitable price of the airplane age. So it is with trading in stocks, with issuing securi« ties, and so it will soon be with the hours and wages of your help if you are in interstate commerce. There will be more regulation and never less.

Watching Your Health

By Dr. Morris Fishbein

BOUT 170 per cent of the human body is water, An average size man, therefore, contains within

his system about 100 pounds of this vital fluid. Much

of the water is in the blood and in the lymph. Some of it is in the space between the various cells of the body, and the rest of it is actually in the cells, Water is the universal solvent, but its function in the body requires that it be constantly in motion, The water of the body is of service in many ways, It holds in solution the essential substances. as a means by which these are transported from one part of the body to another and from one cell to another, It helps to protect the body ap~inst injury by lubricating various surfaces and by' 3%’ounding delicate tissues, For all of these reasons every one should deter mine how much water he needs daily in order to be

comfortable and to maintain his body in a healthful state. Fortunately the water reserve of the body is subject to a great factor of safety. We can go below the optimum level for some time without developing serious symptoms, and we can also be above the optimum level.

Within the muscles and the skin there are large .

reserves of water which can be given up if the more vital organs in the body need the fluid. It has been estimated that the amount of water required by the average person is four to eight pints

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