Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1939 — Page 10

Manager By Westbrook Pegler _ Kansas City Machine Didn't Have.

To Steal to Win Locally, but Kept Margit to Control State Vote.

'ANSAS crTY, Nov. 22.—Maurice - ‘Milligan, the . Federal District Attorney, ‘began the official investigation of the fraudulent "voting system main- | tained by the Pendergast gang in December, 1936; which was shortly after the Presidential election. The : reporters of The Star had turned up thousands of fake |

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’ VA AsERIGRON, 20: 22.5This nd sen vie | service to horse parlors, fllegal gambling of Moe 7+. | Annenberg. T have never ised any ofthese devices,

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GO: GET EM Bo Sheriff Feeney and Chief Morrissey have a sgmounosd their intention of tightening enforcement of liquor sales to minors and to persons slrady in au’ ntoxioted condition. Their- statements follow an accident in which a deputy sheriff suffered severe injury. Under arrest is an alleged drunken driver. % "We subscribe heartily to any enforcement efforts in this direction, though we regret that a deputy sheriff had 20 be injured to stir up real action. "~The sale of liquor to minors is an. old abuse around these parts and it is likewise common knowledge that persons already soused have no difficulty about being served. There is a good deal of truth in the sheriff’s remark that ‘tavern owners who continue to sell . liquor: to - intoxicated patrons “are more of a'menace than the weak-willed persons ‘to. whom they sell their stuff.” More power to your badges, wentiome Every citizen “Who values his health and limbs will subscribe 100 per cent to ‘thorough enforcement of liquor regulations.

“| ' This administration w was ro get wr, Atimenbery 7 tor political reasons—which is o. k. to the full extent that he deserved it on. the usual. standards of criminal procedure. : : ® .

PUT to do this in Mt: enierds case,’ it was first : necessary to say. that a horse race is a “lottery” a | or that betting on horse races is one—and then indict i | him on conspiracy to conduct a lottery. Now it isa _| prime legal principle that criminality must be plain. Nobody is expected to guess at whether his act is a crime. Whoever betore: heard that a horse race is a lot | tery? 1t it is, s0 is a football game. If the broadcast ; | ing of news about it canbe’ used for gambling, so can and is—the. ticker tape and the wire services of the Stock: Exshange-—or even the Broadcasting of: Clem MeDurthy. 4s ol am n saying that such things. ‘ought not to be stopped, but: I am ‘seriously questioning whether: this -|-1s the way to: stop or et as I seriously questioned whether convicting ‘Al Capone for income tax ‘evasion was the way to stop racketeering. ; Expedient; yes, but this'kind of - with Justice if permitted today against a citizen in the dog house can ‘be used " against one who isn't. It is especially y quéstionable where, as here, there is a taing “of -Poliuioal reprisal.’

R. ANNENBERG's Services ‘were used for race : , track gamblihg in some states where it is lawful i I ere it isn’t. But so also are decks of cards sold at drigglts and stationers used for. game bling where it violates local law. It is what other peo‘ple do with his output that may make it a crime—not the output. itself—at* least not without some such surprise fiction as that-a hotse race is a lottery, MF. . -has ‘conceded the point. I think he. should have fought ‘it to. the last ditch—if net for the sake of himself then for the sake of the principle “that protects us: ‘dll—that there are no “constructive This whole incident would have smelled mich: better and left a more comfortable feeling about the blind impartiality of justice, if i had all been thrashed out “before a Judge and joy.

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the ladies e for pure love of the pic but that gen a romantic explanation, not the practical one. The responsibility in the gang went down to the precinct 3 captain, whose political job, his living, depended on his shawing on election day. The machine wanted to keep a big margin in Kansas City to offset any pluralities that rival candidates might amass elsewhere in Missouri, : ng the precinct captains were under pressure to swell this advantage. To keep: their positions they stole names from other precinet rolls, registered dead men and, to avoid embarrassment with the boss, switched Republican votes over into the Democratic column. So it wasn’t true sporting love of larceny that motivated them. It was a political and thus an economic necessity, and each Republican vote in his precinct was n grave reflection on the efficiency of a captain. : Still the people of Kansas City gave no evidence of caring. They realized that an organization so tight : and efficient, so obliging and kind to the small in- 7 Fe BL Svidual in a hundred ways during the Jean, solid ws - ; : always ‘in Kansas City and figured that a little | bus So Lie i rt overage, or a lot of it, was just a mark of zealand some- | =~ dr re on Lor fits i . {img to be laughed 8! nok ysenien. ; pon 2 se shits — ; a —— — # = NN ITHER did they aid the wide open gambling and the prostitution, which were immoral, to be “sure, but were excused on the ground that with these industries to be worked for revenue the underworld

CONDITIONS THEN WERE VERY ‘EINe ih | COMPARED TO NTE TIRTY- Nine

"HISTORY LESSON

— A GAIN we quote: “If any man can ‘Have so wild a notion as to imagine - ‘that war will contribute more to the increase of riches than peace, I know no bette? way to decide the controversy “than by appealing to the experience of former ages, and producing precedents to the contrary out of our own story. «...» 1t is an absurd supposition to imagine that peace will weaken our strength, and ruin our authority -and reputation abroad, for of all governments those are the happiest who have continued longest without war.” Vandenberg? No, Xenophon. It’s from his ‘Means of Increasing the Wealth of Nations,” written around 358 B. C. ~~ We Jearn’ slowly The burned child, contrary to the legend, sticks his fingers into the fire over and over. But | +2300 years after Xenophon this nation renders at least lip ~ service to his doetrine. Which is evidence ‘to support the

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would not rob or murder to excess in the nice parts 1 wholly disagree with what You say, but will

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more—that a code existed whereby the underworld, . - CLAIMS RACKETEERING he wants changed come on. n Monday

out of gratitude for these opportunities and loyalty to Mr. Pendergast, from whom these blessings flowed, | pyyons IN. STATE | only once In. every seven years, such as Decoration Day, Fourth of July,

would police itself and refrain from uncouth conduct. Be Weta Sain A Nx The police department, which was crooked from the |By Warren A Benedict Jr. rs etc—and when they do drop 4 on|. top down, bolstered this belief with its own statistics, | I used to 'believe state was’| - us on Monday, if Aiy _ Jim doesn’t indicating that crime was rare. too American to tolerate racke | want to lay off, just-let him go on The people didn’t know much about their town, |ing. Events of the last week prove and work, Who cares? and if they resented anything it was the constant !I was wrong. In fact, the racketeers I think it is time the people of harping on corruption which was giving Kansas City (here are more subtle and under- this nation woke up and put a stop a bad name. Businessmen were especially sensitive to | handed than the Capone type. . . . to these Jims ‘and Franks coming this, but the fact was that businessmen, too, were be- | The responsible citizens have a along and telling us what to do. : holden for favors or trying to win favors from Pender- | Job’ ahead of. them next election. : : gast or afraid to approve bad publicity lest Pendergast | They are going to have to see that. x .® raise their taxes or harass them otherwise. legislators who abhor the racketeer- SUGGESTS SOME. WORK : ; |FOR DIES. COMMITTEE By E. J. Stroup, Elwood, Ind.

(Times rodders are wired to express , their views in these columns, religious con- _ troversies ., excluded. -Make _ your letter short, so all can have a change. . Letters must be signed, but names: will be ; withheld ‘orf request.

practices commiynism, mitch tess S0= cialism. .

Voice in ‘the ‘Crowd attempts to say that socialism will not work.” Is

"ing way. and’ believe in the American way, get in, gnd that the racketeers are booted not only out:

_ theory of Human progress.

BACK TO 19307"

HE National Grange, in i annual meeting this week ‘-at Peoria, demanded that the Hull-Roosevelt reciprocal-trade-agreement program be abolished, in order (says a _ dispatch) “ta separate foreign trade from politics.” And so another nail is driven hopefully into the coffin’ * ‘that Republican leaders—with some notable exceptions such as Col. Frank Knox—are constructiny for the Hull program, - which will lose its statutory breath of life next June if not given a new lease by Congress. . : “To separate foreign trade from politics”! Shades of Willis Hawley and Reed Smoot! = vampire to suck the life blood out of our foreign trade, the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 was it. far from being bound up in- “politics,” our foreign trade of the curse of politically log-rolled taritt “ barriers behind which <ur commerce had languished. The Grange proposes, not a return to Congressional | - _tariff-making, but establishment of a “non-partisan” board representing both producer and consumer interests to regu- ~~ late and promote “advantageous exchange of goods.” takes no imagination to picture the backseat rolé of the

If ever politics sired a

The Hull ‘program, was -designed to rid

Inside Indianapolis

"The: Fraternal Order of Police, Milk Prices, and : Sundry Notes.

LL seems quiet at the moment on the issue of associate’ members to the Fraternal Order of Police. . . But it is going to.flare up again. . . . Assoon as the "dance is over, there are good reasons to believe the associate members will be asked to resign. One of the reasons is that Mayor Sullivan is just as set against the associates as is Chief Morrissey. . « Harmon A. Campbell, the City Councilman who was s0 upset about the Safety Board's outburst, did provide a list of the associates. A lot of the names are first-class. . .. But Mr. Campbell might be interested to know that at least one in the list has been well known as a bondsman on Police Row for a long time. , . It’s been reported that some of the judges listed were slightly embarrassed.

T 8 » 8 EDMOND C. FOUST, editor of the Hoosier Farmer, who has decided to seek the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor is said to have a lot of support. . Mr. Foust is amiable, mature, forthright. . And talking about politics and Lieutenant Governors, the heat may be turned on Henry F. Schricker about the rise in milk prices. .-. . It seems that the Milk Board was undecided about the thing. .’. . The inside story going the rounds is that the Lietitenant Governor said he was in favor of doing something ‘for the farmers. . . . That swung it. . .. Now it develops that some of the people interested would just as soon

of this city but out of the state: ®. = » SEES TOWNSEND PLAN AS TooL OF POLITICIANS By Observer Let's view this Townsend Old-Age movement for what it really. 15a fantastic plan Ampossible. of attdinment, but dangerous ammunition for}, political charlatans. = .In districts- where the vote is close. Townsend advocates . have been elected to Congress. The issue wasn’t on the candidate’s general fitness or character.: Did he, yes or no, swallow Dr. Townsend's preachings in| toto? That's all that mattered. The Townsendites serenly ignore] all our social and ‘economic problems, or. coun’ on their plan au-

‘time. Actually. they are generally Republicans, usually reactionary in most | ways, entirely unconcerned about: the problems of labor and

and all matters that affect our economie life. The pension . disciples are quite gullible, and easy prey for the small sums called for: .:. ..to further the “cause.” Any Suggestion that - Dr. Townsend could be anything less than 100 per cent right is high treason to them. They fall with- a

tomatically to solve them all for all|

capital, economic maladjustments,|.

confronted: sgain with a holiday 1try’s welfare.

Are, jobs under

Why all ‘the unemployment? ‘There: are 2,500,000 human beings no longer needed in farm producfor tmustrial } a ‘that doi pot exist. tha no This de “is

|1ars worth of labor cannot be. used, vast numbers eager to work will be unemployed . productively, taxes for “relief” a heavy burden on'the people, all of which means that the poor. will carry .the poor as well as the capitalistic. parasites on their

| backs.

Class ‘hatred? Capitalism is bréeding the ‘cause Recanse it creates class : pg ; * 8 WANTS STOP PUT TO HOLIDAY CHANGERS By Mrs: ©: ¥. Washmuth Well, the people of : America’ are

thanger by the name of Jim. We ‘don’t know who he is, for he did not Want the public to know. He may be Jim Jones, Jim ‘Brown, or Jim Smith. o:0 o ".~ But whoever he is, he " doesn’t know thai, ‘most of these Says: that |

‘capitalism ‘working for all:the peo-} ple? Every 30: days. 50,000 | youths {reach “work age.” capitalism incréasing at: that rate?

t in the’ {sense that hereafter billions of dol-]|

Since - it has: ‘taken. two years of “sordid _procedure™: to’ prove by. the ‘most reliable witnesses that a large majofity of the people of this country are: Communists, yet they have never defined . Communism, conse-

i ‘quently the people: are. wondering. just what Communism ds.

a: Communist looks like, No doubt. if the next Congress will appropriate: enough money for two years more. of investigation and they can induce ' the - shades of Benedict ‘Arnold to return for a witness they might be able to prove that George Washington, John Hancock, Ben Pranklin, Patrick Henry and ‘all those who signed the Declaration of Independence ang the Constitution of the U. 8S. were Communists. We might suggest that if the Dies Committee: really wants to do this country a lasting favor they might

| investigate the: hidden motive for

the assassination of Lincoln, Garfield | and McKinley, and if that same thing yet exists in this country. it is extremely. dangerous to our coun-

._And then again “they might investigate whether this depression is American and if not ‘whose fault it is'and why. The common people are getting pretty well fed up on these fact finding: committees ‘without

their finding any tangible fagis,

and: what |

: relies — present. achievements of Jewry.

By. Hopwood. Broun.

Mere Campaign for Tolerance. Falls / Short in Fight Against ‘Racism,

ow YORK, Nov: 22.~In the fight against racism and all. the mounting prejudices - concerning creeds and countries I am. afraid that a for tolerance is hot enough. It is a luke-warm world at best. Fellowship must be founded on an enthusi~ asm rather than a niggardly neutrality. Indeed, when 5 man says, “I have Hoihing -against—" and ‘proceeds name ‘some group, ou nearly alw: find. him coming up: ‘with a “but,” Hen some st; tinging generalized

indictment. had ‘nothing against Jesus, but neither did he ‘have the warmth to ‘take a positive attitude and save the Son of Man from’ ¢rucifixion. And cruelty and injustice will- continue among men until we are ready to make affirmation one for the other, In the case of anti-Semitism ‘there is, of course, a utility in knocking down the slanders- and si 2 and false and shabby legends, but: the right of the Jewish people to their place in the sun in all lands does ‘not: rest only on the fact: that they are guiltless of the accusations brought - against them. - The time has. come: for non-Jews to testify out of o heir ir gars, .out -of history and out. of their own aith that the world stands in’ debt to the ‘One need not bé. a profound student. of civilization to: know that It was the Jews who played the pioneer part. in establishing "the fouridations of whgt we know. as culture. Asy soscalled Christian front against Jews'is' a denial of its own phrase, since Christani

| stemmed: out of Judaism Just as the New . Tesjament

.cofisumer- in such an: enterprise, nor the cumulative effect | Henry did all the explaining. . .. One source said that one bigwig in the State House was -even mit-

of protectionist “co-operation” among the producers. It t e ‘would be Hawley-Smootism moved from the cloakrooms of Milk Boasd the mee of 5 ‘public lop” on we Congress to the hotel rooms of the lobbyists, with the | latter Framed carte blanche.

| out ‘of the Old. Sy Church. Tradition Denied

I have listened 10° the hatred: loosed by. Speakers Yin New. York's Hyde Park, and some. profess faith which they deny with ig line of their They deny the tradi of the Church and. go against’ the clear and - xplicit words: of A the the ‘present Pope and his predecessors. of ‘the’ canoe is not % entirtly one . thy Heighies >The comnand 1s

» 8 “u THE FIRST ICE SKATING CASUALTY of the ‘season was Bill Miskimen of the Stokely Co. . .. He slipped at the Coliseum, broke an ankle. . . . Sorry, Bil. - . « Members of the Board of Works went to t on a “visit. .-. Roscoe: Turner waved ward a: hig: tri-motor. . . , “Let's go for a ride,” st Roscoe. . . « The Board to a man declined | hasaly. '3 Tek, WE. ., . . Scoop: Eddie oy own the other day. ... And: nobody. - viewed him about the war in the air. <« et » ® 2

bang for the political spieler who Pe with gusto. in singing a stanza from “Rock of Ages” or “America,” gives a general indorsement to. their plan ternational bankers all who oppose = it. It never occurs-to them that the} spielers: would bear Swther investi-

beams and smiles at them, leads! Defi me : Se ; % New Books at the Library. x and brands as Communists and in-|: Yi ¥ ie BS AG gations 5

» Many of the: Tools: of the present war ‘dre , traceable: to| the tariff ‘walls which criss crossed post-Versailles ‘Earope. | If we retreat to- Hawley-Smootism, as Senators McNary. Capper and others ‘seem :fo desire, we may very well be putting down the roots. of our participation in this, or another, war. - It would mean crawling into the shell of economie: nationalism, ‘With everything that phase implies in lowered living standards, regimentation of agriculture and industry, ‘and. intérnational animosity. Farmers: will do well to regard skeptieally the clever charges: that: the trade agreements have favored industry at their expense. “There is no basis in fact for truly astoynding statements that the program has injured American: farmers,” says, Mr. Hall. “The very reverse: is the case.” : Under the’ ‘Seals agreements program, he says, “between 1935 and 1938. our exports of farm’ ‘products to trade ‘agreement ‘countries: inéreased by nearly 50 per cent; whereas to other countries they actually declined slightly.” Arid | = Pust for imports, tariff adjustaients have affected only: about | EE 8 pet cent of our agricultural imports, but ‘more. has, 2 the & t of ot non-agricultural imports. Nu there have been Intquition invol par- {J Tr, Dr ducts, and: if 80 the farmer is: robin pi far peo But if he has a vivid’ recollection’ of: the arly 1930s—as what farmer has not ?—surely he will hesite before being. sold that bill of shoddy goods again. .

0 OD SCHOOL FOR STATESMAN: a [AYBE the world. is underestimating the diplomatic "ability of Wang ‘Ching-wei, the veteran Chinese poli- : Ar ‘whom the Japanese have hand-picked to head their spe live “Central Government of China.” its “For this job, in which he will try to keep both J an | Ching happy at the same time, it seems to us that 2 5 been well schooled. | For in reading about his career we | into that back in in1928; on being released from a prison | PoP ton, he gelebrated by mar. 4:

surface, there : are hidden motives of pride, and greed, and jealousy. . In “The Town -Cried Murder” (Scribner). the author, Leslie Ford, Sells the story of the Yardleys and| ¢

GS otatatul little Wowk of wil‘ljamsburg, Va, in all the glory : of ts Restoration, would séem a‘most unlikely. place for: a murder, There, ‘| surely, with so many tourists and so much activity: and prosperity come " ancestral home, Yardley Hall.| ‘upon its citizens, no -one-could find {Old ‘Melusina. Yardley has refused time for the doing of evil deeds. [to sell their home to the Restora- grand -However;. even. here, and perhaps tion, though it 15’ badly in need of|’ here more than other places, because | repairs; as is'also the family fortune. |.

Re i # : SAYS. CAPITALISM FAILS hon TO PRODUCE Joss Vsy BR Sprunger 3

PERRY LESH, the Community Fund's Ehetaebic’ Russia is a dictatorship as, cruel

Jas Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. pa Jail 2 Th hd pape pi he This is not in def: of commu. | of its be past. and its memories, behind|To restore the latter she brings

help. . .. They liked him. . . . And if you're interested | 2 Dut 7 dons, bel ve. that I Aa the ang beauty = ie a ine engagement of Hor ee at the momeyt in newspapermen’ s likes, add. Raymond American Side Glances—By. Galbrait th

of we eh have ‘nothing against ‘them. "But ‘let uw ‘20 ‘much further. Let us be alert to realize that whoever raises the knife of prejudice against -any group. whatsoever Ty

& Shortly Kelly, new national commander of the |uacheler Tom he Noith.. this enLegion, to that list. —_ §agement. is public, Seymour + is found ‘murder: -in ‘his library. cs case is-a puszler, at first, to] i the -- two “local police officers in charge, for they-find clues that lead; [them to-a great many of their old friends-and neighbors. And it looks [pretty -bad, tao, for. young Bill | [Haines lately come to ‘Williamsburg |- | [to visit Miss Lucy Randolph, an old _f {friend .of the Yardleys. It. takes a. second crime to show Sergt. Priddy’ +} {just the: right- clue’ to ‘lead him straight to the murderer,’ a

with his dagger the flesh And ‘honor the heart o Ameria,

A Woman's S Viewpoint By Mrs. Walter Ferguson

By Jane Stafford

Tthe age: of 18 yeantte average i A and presumably the average Jone, also, is too young for war service from “health standpoint. This charge and the suggestion that tb |‘age of enlistment for service in the: ela. siowid ‘be raised to 21 years, is made by Dr. F. 8. Burke, chief of

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