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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

menus VlSlIeQ upon OISdlllAGu
wealth as a sequel to CALIFORNIA;
class war. Both sides sinned, but
only one side received jail SEN
fences.
I hardly think anybody would
contend that in a new trial before
an impartial jury it would be pos
sible to convict either Mooney or
Billings. The chief witnesses
against the labor leaders have been
discredited. They have confessed to
perjury, and as things now stand
the trial judge and ten of the living
jurors seem convinced that they
were mistaken.
Shifting the Burden
DUT the official attitude of Cali
ID fornia appears to rest upon the
argument that Mooney and Billings
must shoulder the responsibility of
proving their innocence. The reas-
enable doubt rests not with the de-
PENDANTS, but with the prosecution.
eff they didn't do it, who did?' is
a familiar saying among the dwell
lers along the Pacific coast.
But under this system of juris-
prudence hardly one of us could
escape Jail. We have in various
parts of America numberless crimes
which never have been solved. Is
it necessary that some scapegoat be
found for every case?
For instance, I might be hard put
to it to prove beyond the shadow
of any doubt that I did not kidnap
Charlie Ross or murder Vivian Cor
don. My alibis could be quite i'm
perfect Indeed, it is not fantastic
to suggest that many American
communities are satisfied as soon as
somebody has been put in prison,
whether he is the right man or not.
Southern lynchings rest wholly on
this strange theory. Honor is ap-
peased as soon as some Negro has
been killed. It is not surprising that
a checkup reveals the fact that sew
eral persons of undoubted innocence
and many whose guilt was highly
questionable have gone down under
the hands of the mob.
And so it is a pity that this same
kind of thinking should invade the
courts of great community.
Great" is used by me more or less
in the sense of linear measurement.
For I feel that California is among
our backward states. In my esti-
nation it constitutes Americas
Ceylon's Isle.
That, possibly, is not due to any
native depravity, but to the effect
of climate. Our friends from the
far west are fond of Boosting OF the
salubrious gifts which nature show
ers on them. Undoubtedly they
speak truly and in doing so con-
denim themselves.
1t seems to be almost automatic
that man does not progress very far
either spiritually or culturally when
he lives in those parts Of the world
where the soil is no more than a
setup. In spite Of certain unlikable
qualities, there is no denying the
fact that the American Puritan did
develop a passion for righteousness
out of the very fact that rocks en-
numbered the land upon which he
lived and that he had to wrestle
the earth to maintain existence.
Rich black loan makes for laxity
in ethics.
The Verdict Was Fantastic
THIS I can say from experience.
I have not myself ever grown
grapes or alfalfa under benefcent
sun. But a columnist is sort of
endowed beachcomber, and he sell
dom is numbered among the best
citizens Of any metropolis. A soft
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

Ideals and opinions expressed
in this column are those of
one of Americas most inter
esting writer's and are pre-
scented without regard to their
agreement or disagreement
with the editorial attitude of
this Daper.-The Editor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

mQnuS.
THE complexity of modern IN
i dustry and its demands can be
realized from the fact that indus
try continually is crying for new al
Toys.
At the present time more than
5000 alloys, as mixtures of metals
are known, are in use in industry.
If the layman is surprised that
5000 alloys are not enough. he will
be more surprised still when told
that variations in these 5000 allows
are now possible which have the
result Of really putting tens of thou
sands of kinds Of materials at the
service Of industry.
IAN alloy may be so manufactured
and treated as to yield a large
number Of properties" says DR.. Zav
Jeffries, consulting metallurgist of
the General Electric Company and
the Aluminium Company of Ameri-
ca.
suppose we consider a steel with
2 per cent carbon as an example.
1t may be melted and poured into
mold and result in steel casting.
The steel casting may be used as
cast or it may have its properties
changed in a number of WAYS bv
heat treatment.
OR the steel may be rolled hot
and used for the structural mem
oers Of buildings or bridges. or for
pipe. 1t may be rolled cold and
used for machinery parts. such as
shaftlng. 1t may also be drawn into
wire.
Any of these operations is ca
pable of changing certain physical
properties throughout a considerable
range without changing the chemi-
cal composition-that is. without
changing the alloy. So it is to a
greater or lesser degree with each
OF the 5000 different alloys. Instead
of 5000 different sets of properties
therefore, we have tens of thou
sands"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02
A Man Becomes a Symbol

ADOE6 CllIOQS11OuU Vic WO4 III It.
L. CARDS Mooney as a symbol. He
has been set up as the typical mar
tyr to the ideals of justice which
prevail under the sway of big bust
ness.
Now, in certain cases, a guilty
man may become a hero through
the stress Of mass emotion. But il
does not seem to me unfair to say
that Mooney is the victim of a clash
which had very little to do with the
bombing of the Preparedness day
parade.
Indeed, few of his franker OPP
ponents have admitted as much
Several have been quoted as con-
tending that even if he did not place
the bomb he had been guilty OF
other acts of violence.
This is true. Billings and Moo
ney were fighters in labor war in
which both sides had recourse to
violence. But I never have believed
in approximate justice. AS a mat
ter of fact 1 do not think that the
same case falls nicely under that
head. For there were 20 punish
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

A Philadelphia youth was sentenced to two years
for yelling something beIttling at Grand He might
have failed but for the next two years he'll succeed in
making little ones out Of big ones
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02
Daily Thought

Use hospitality one to another
without grudging.-I Peter 4:9.
1t is not the quantity of the meat.
but the cheerfulness of the guests
which makes the Clarendon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

Now that the navy squabble is back in the head
lines again it's plain that Hoover and the Navy League
are still at
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

GONE of the California papers
~ take the attitude that it is
''impertinent for an outsider to
NEEDLE in the Mooney case" These
editors would have us believe that
the problem constitutes purely To-
cal issue. Of course, any such
claim readily is subject to effective
rebuttal. The facts point in quite
another direction.
1t may be remembered that many
Americans were unfamiliar With the
name of the prisoner or the nature
of the case until it was called to
their attention by protest meeting
held in Russia around the American
embassy. Woodrow Wilson thought
it national issue, and it was
through his mediation that the
death penalty was averted.
Since that time the Mooney case
has attracted interest all over the
world. Very probably the average
German and Frenchman is just as
familiar with the facts as the news
reader in San Francisco or New
York City.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBETN

Editor Journal Of The American Medica
Association and of Hygeia, the
Health MagayinP.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02

The Verdict Was Fantastic
THIS I can say from experience.
I have not myself ever grown
grapes or alfalfa under a beneflcent
sun. But a columnist is sort Of
endowed beachcomber, and he sell
dom is numbered among the best
citizens Of any metropolis. A soft
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-02
BY DAVID DIFTZ

Electricity Uses 5000 AUous.
but Cries for More TO Meet
Constantly Changing De-
mdndS.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Few Swedes Desire
Entrance to America

eTOCKHOLM.-Although the Swed-
ish quota under the American immigra-
ton law has been cut down to allow
only $500 Swedes to enter America In
the year 1930-31, 1t Is already obviou.
that even this small quota will not be
anywhere near fully used when the year
is up.
Swedish emigrants seem to have lost
all desire to go to America. The Swed-
ish-American Line steamers are sailing
with empty third-class hunks, and the
American consulate general in Stock
holm figures that only 1--WE out Of each
hundred Of original applicants turn UP
when informed that the visa they have
asked for has been granted; Consul
desire on the part of Swedes to 60 to
America undoubtedly is due. to the
newspaper reports Of the severe times
In America and the comparatively good
conditions in Sweden. In his annual
report to the authorities in Washington
he pointed oNt that while the number
Of unemployed in the whole world was
calculated to be $4,000, 900 on January
l, Swedish industry In the first week Of
1881 had only $4,000 out Of work. He
also reported that Sweden in remark
tional depression; that several Of the
most Important Industries. the foreign
trade and the financial houses on the
whole had had quite good year, and in
some fields had even made definite
progress. Adding that the crisis in
America probably was the most severe
the country had ever experienced, he
concluded that it was not surprising
that Swedes should be reluctant to leave
fairly reliable existence to go to an
other country where the chances Of
getting job were highly problematical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Archaeological Research Reveals
Histria Was Founded i'm $500 BIC.

by hidden air pipes, gymnasiums for
the bathers and the remains Of temples
with long rows Of columns all testify to
the slender Of the ancient city near the
mouth Of the Danube on the Black Sea-
Following troublesome period Of
three centuries, when Celtic invaders
had plundered over the Balkan penin-
sula, Rone's star had begun to shine
over this distant land and near neighbor
to the Orient, with the Dacian rapidly
becoming Roman province. Rome
finally built upon what the Greeks had
begun, and the first Rumanian, the
Dacian. gradually became more or less
Romanized.
Historians still wonder whence came
the early. Dacian. Traces of those who
came toethrive from trade with him
prove that he was a good shepherd
and horseman, that he was attached to
the wildS Of the inland, but his origin
Is no less q mystery than that Of the
American Indian. Descendants Of those
who found refuge in the wolds of the
Danube and Black Sea region during the
barbarian invasions still live on the
lower plains, but in place Of their mud
huts some have built more substantial
houses from the remains of old Roman
monuments or brick mounds erected in
mcIuoIy OF Roman cOnQueTOrS.
GU the way from Bucharest over
country roads one can still see traces
OF the beautiful stone reliefs depicting
scenes Of Roman triumph: but many Of
them today form the foundations of
peasant homes. In this same reg on the
famous Roman poet Ovid, after nine
years OF hard exile, sang his last in
mournful tones and died on the shores
OF the Black Sea on Rumanian soil.
Although the Rumanian government
Is giving an almost insignificant annual
sum toward this important excavating
work. devoted men and women of the
Rumanian Academy are determined to
go on with it until the early pages Of
their civilization becomes clearer. In
the meantime the tideless Black Sea
continues to retreat from It's once rich
gateway, Cetatea Histria.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

Continued From Third Page.)
forward with what he chose to call q
substitute bill. The plan which Mr..
Doak desired to substitute for the bill
I had introduced would have stricken
out Of the plan that had been adopted
by the Senate all provision for State
aid and consequently destroy the basis
of any reliable source of cooperation.
It would have eliminated the advisory
councils, indispensable to secure for the
employees, and 1t would have stricken
from the bill the provision that ap-
pointments to the Federal service shall
be in accordance with the rules of the
civil service. The Doak BILL admittedly,
did not involve q single improvement
over the existing deplorable condition
except to change the title and raise
the salary of the director in charge Of
the present decrepit employment service.
The House of Representatives over
wf1elmingly defeated the Doak substitute
and joined the Senate in passing the
bill had introduced. Had the Presi-
dent signed the bill we should today
have In operation permanent employ
ment service rendering effective assist
ance to both employers and employees.
The Presidents veto has made that,
for the present, impossible.
For three long years, while this bill
was pending in Congress, the admins
tratto1 never once came forward to In
augurate its own policy or to suggest
an Improvement upon the one I submit
ted. The sight Of millions of unem-
ployed left it entirely unmoved Only
In the closing days Of the session, when
the sting Of bitter public criticism pen
etrated the auathV of the adn1inisfra-
ton and literally goaded it into motion,
the administration reached out, not to
construct, but to destroy the work Of a
Congress and again to leave the unem-
ployed without the assistance and en-
couragement Of an adequate job-finding
service
I am certain of this, the Presidents
veto has only delayed the achievement
Of the purpose embraced in the en-
ployment service bill We shall yet
have an employment service Of which
the United States will be proud, If not
With the Presidents approval, then
without 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Tuskegee of 1881 Far Cry From Shanty
Where Booker T. Washington Taught

father, and his own father was the
head man around the place. DR.. Mo-
ten and DR.. Denny played together as
children, and 1t became Robert Mo-
tens privilege and pleasure to protect
Little George" as they went their
rounds. Now one Of these children Is
president Of the largest institution for
white youth In the State Of Alabama
and the other Is the principal Of the
largest institution for colored youth in
the State.
idents Of several universities. Among
Williams College. DR.. Arson Phelps
Stokes, canon Of the Washington Ca
thedral, read q history Of Tuskegee
There were stirring, inspiring talks
throughout the celebration.
A visitor does not remain In Tuske-
gee long before he realizes that all the
activities in the community (for Tuske-
gee Is q community as well as a
SCHOOL,, are done by colored people
themselves; Here the race has dem
onstrated its ability to carry on sue
cessfully by itself. In his history Of
Tuskegee DR.. Stokes called attention
to the fact that the first principal,
Booker T. washington, was I11ulatto.
After he passed away, he said, the
trustees Of the school decided to place
it under the leadership of Dr. Robert
Russo Moten. who is "a Negro Of
unmixed blood" The policies of Dr.
Washington are being most acceptably
carried out by his successor
Even though Tuskegee is operated
entirely by the race for which 1t was
established, the school and the COM
munity would not have been possible
as they now stand II It had not been
for the generosity Of white friends who
have. aided It financially for many
years. With their assistance there Is
every reason to believe that Tuskegee
Institute will continue to grow In size
and in influence and will increasingly
be the power for good in the future
that 10 has been in the past,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26

"A YOTHING is more inter-
M esting than to hear
successful men remi-
4 ' nisce about their ca
reers. Recently, after a golf
game, I had such an oppor-
tunity.
My companions were well
known lawyers.
One of them said: II
wasn't much Of a student In
college. I played on both the
foot ball and basket ball
teams, and I managed to
graduate and 60 on through
law school.
MY first Job was in the
Office Of a country lawyer in
a small city in Pennsylvania.
There I really did work, pre-
pairing cases and trying them,
and doing my best to master
the profession.
ST could look forward to
earning enough to marry on,
but could see no chance Of
ever escaping from that small
town.
zone Christmas I visited my
folks in Boston, and while I
was there q friend told me
that q certain lawyer would
like to meet me. I called at
his Office the next morning.
We chatted for about an hour
and then, out Of a clear sky,
he offered me a partnership.
I was flabbergasted, but I
managed to stutter an &C
ceptance. I started in with
him a month later. In that
firm I spent 10 very happy
and profitable years.
lone day I summoned up
courage to ask him how he
ever happened to make me
such an offer on so short an
acquaintanceship.
His answer was surprising.
He said that for years he had
been able to secure more bust
ness than he could properly
(Copyri
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
Fascist Activities
Held Beneficial

Diario del Concrete, Barranquilla
Is there to be q decadence Of foot ball
in the United States? Attendance last
season, despite an unprecedented COM
mercial depression, would not indicate
these contests are losing popularity.
yet there is, nevertheless, q growing
feeling that the sport is not free from
contacts and exploitations which have
debased It from a purely amateur ex-
hibition of skill, agility and endurance
between gentlemen. It has been claimed,
for instance, that all the college fees of
some players have been paid by alumni
associations. or even by the educational
establishments themselves, to secure
winning teams for the advertisement or
prestige Of their respective institutions.
That there has been a decadence In
true workmanship, for these reasons,
there is no doubt: but 1t also is appar-
ent that American interest centers
rather in the results than In the ethics
of intercollegiate sports, so 1t is likely
that ideals win continue subservient to
monetary considerations.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
BY BRUCE BARTON.

handle. AS a businesS-getter
he was a star; as an organizer
of an efficient force he was a
failure. He had hired brilliant
young chaps out of law school,
but somehow they never de-
veloped as he hoped. Being
brilliant, they expected to get
results easily, and If they
were whipped a couple of
times in court 1t broke their
spirit.
Zone night he went home
and sat down before the fire
to analyze his situation. He
decided to look for an entirely
different type Of man; he
listed the qualifications:
81. The man must not be
too smart. He must have the
habit of working hard for his
results.
20. He must have had q few
years Of hard practice in a
country office.
IS. He must have been in
college athletics, trained to
fight for victory, and to keep
up his chin In defeat.
Having made this list, the
lawyer asked his friends to
recommend men who met the
qualifications. One of them
named me-. and the lawyer
remembered that he had once
seen a foot ball game in which
I was badly smashed UP, but
was still able to carry the ball
across the line for a touch
down.
$50 you see," my friend con-
cluded, at was that one little
thing to which never at
tached the slightest impor-
lance that made my whole
career"
When you hear stories like
this. and I have heard manv
Of them. 1t makes YOU think
that there are no little things.
No operation Is so insignifi-
cant that a man can refuse
to give 1t less than his best.
/, 1881
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
IContinued From Third Page.)

Bxuening made Marshal Won Hinden-
burg his patron saint and the fountain
head Of his political authority. HIS
Z exploitation of the Hindenburg myth
was attended by success, as the olo
marshal has become a demigod OF the
German Valhalla.
The next move was to drive home
10 the extremists the necessity OF keep
ing the Anglo-Saxon nations well dis
posed toward Germany.
Finally, Bruening has made skillful
use Of his war record in his campaign
against the youthful Nazis Of Herr Hit
Ter and his associates, who are fright
fully bloodthirsty in their oratory
against the "SoziS" and "BolShis," not
to speak of their pet enemies, the Jews.
but were only "nlilkthirsty," as Zen
trist Deputy suggested with sly alluslon
ct their age, when the chancellor was
garnering his laurelS In the trenches.
Committed Grave Errors.
Germany's chancellor could not have
been so signally successful If he had not
committed several bad mistakes in his
efforts to save the situation. The most
Grievous error should be mentioned here
as an illustration of the craftsmanship
which Herr Bruening has used to turn
the adversely of fate to advantage. 1t
occurred last Summer when Germany
seemed to be headed toward one Of
those crises which are particularly try
ing for the future of young republic.
Unemployment was on the increase, and
while the state deficit threatened to
wreak havoc with the calculations OF the
finance minister, taxation came danger
ously near the straining point. The
Reichstag was turned into bedlan1 and
the agitators Of the extreme factions
broadcast dire messages Of the tmpend-
ing doomsday.
Bruening dissolved Parliament and
decreed new elections for the middle of
September. It Is obvious to the present
day observer that it was not the height
Of political wisdom to trust the fate Of
Q country in ebullition to the wtimS Of
a historical electorate. The German
voters presently punished this political
impudence by sending back to Parlia-
ment contingent Of lot extreme Ma
tionalists, the cohorts Of Herr Adolph
Hitler.
The German Facists appeared at frst
Q formidable menace, and the fact that
they grew out Of nothing made their
sudden emergence all the more mtimi-
dating. With ininitable skill Chan
cellor Bruening reduced the extremist
Deputies 70 the role Of circus clowns. He
accomplished this by using the Nazis
and BolshevistS for o German version
Of an Amos n Andy act, which pro-
vided the comic relief in an otherwise
tragic situation and exploded the bonn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-26
4,694,493 Bibles
Distributed in China

SHANGHAI.-A total Of 1884, 493
Bibles, New Testaments and portions
Of the scriptures were distributed in
China during 1880. according to figures
published by the China agency Of the
British and Foreign Bible Society. OF
that total, 28,517 we're complete Bibles
and 44,476 were New Testaments. The
society, which entered the Chinese field
as far back as 1914, estimates 1t has
placed s5,2s4,629 copies of Bibles, New
Testaments and gospels throughout the
country up to the end of last year. The
1880 total Is 600, 900 below that Of 1929,
the reduction being ascribed to I'M
settled conditions In the interior Of
China,