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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Mayor Walkers Errand

Stirred by appeals from Tom Mooney and his aged
mother, Mayor James j. Walker of New York has
decided to go to California and appeal personally to
his old friend Governor Rolph for pardon for Moo
new and release for Warren Billings, the two labor
leaders serving life sentences upon periured evidence
We wish Mayor Walker success in his Grand
The mayor has entered good company We do not
refer to the Scripps Howard newspapers, which have
been appealing steadily for fifteen years for justice
to those wronged labor men, We refer rather to the
mounting list of other aroused Americans who have
made this cause theirs through the years. For in
stance:
President wilson's Mediation COMMISSIONING
feeling of dsquietude aroused by this must be
Needed for if unchecked it mpars the faith that our
democracy protects the lowest. even the unworthy,
against false accusations
Judge Franklin Griffin mooney trial judge
The Mooney case is one of the dirtiest jobs put
over resent the fact that my court was used for
such contemplate piece of work. There is no evil
dence against Mooney; there is not serious sugges-
ton that any exists
William " MacNevin foreman of the Mooney
iury)-There is no evidence to sustain MONEYS con-
viction and Imprisonment. (Al the living jurymen
have asked for MONEYS pardon0
Duncan Matheson (ex-captan of detectives who
worked up the cases against Mooney and Billings
To Mooney: Il am convinced that your rlghCS were
violated"
The Rev. John A. Ryan director, department of
social action national Catholic welfare conference
Tom Mooney should have been pardoned long ago.
Rabbi Stephen A. Wise-Always believed Mooney
innocent.
The Rev. John Haynes Holmes oo Mooney
rank your case with the Dreyfus as one OF the
legal horrors and inquities of modern times.
Alvin B. Powell Crippled victim of Preparedness
dav bomb)-They grabbed the wrong man.
DR. Albert Einstein-A miscarriage of justice I'M
doubtedly appears in the present case.
Senator Edwin P. Costigan-The known facts IN
the Mooney Billings such that the custodlans
OF civilization indict themselves if they fail to use
their influence to correct an indefensble record
Senator George w. Norris-How can California
continue to hold these men in prison? 1t is one OF
the puzzles of the decade that they have not long
ago been released.
Clarence Darrow-An unspeakabe outrage
Matthew Brady (present San Francisco county dis
trict attorney)-The only reason for keeping them
CAooney and Bllings) in Jail is that they are UNI
desirable citizens.
Henry T. Hunt Former mayor of CncinnatD-Cai-
tornia owes Mooney and Billings far more than a
free and unconditional pardon
William H Langdon associate justice of the Cali
fornia supreme court-I do know there has been a
failure of proof (of Billings guilt of such an extent
that there is now not even the sembance of case
against him.
Many more of these pardon crusaders will travel
IN pirit with Mayor Walker, and wish his mission
success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Peoples Voice

Editor Times-On Friday, Oct. 9,
the international labor defense sent
a delegation to the mayor in regard
to the numerous arrests during the
last few months. This delegation
was sent to Mayor Sullivan because
he is Indianapolis chief executive,
and such officers as the police chief,
etc, are accountable. There is
little sense in fooling around with
underlingS, who like to continually
refer any complaint to orders, or
imagined orders, supposed to have
been given by those higher up.
We were received very graciouSly,
and both the mayor and the visiting
delegates spoke out plainly as Mayor
Sullivan suggested we should. His
plain speaking lent him great elo-
Quence when he said that the police
must protect indianapolis citizens
from Chicago bandits who are pour
ing into indianapolis lately. It is
because of these bandits that the
police are so strict, Mayor Sulli-
van said.
The mayor also said that we have
free speech Though he must &C
knowledge there have been numer-
GUS arrests at street corner meet
ings) and that workers don't know
what their rights really are under
the Constitution. Only lawyers know
what workers rights of free speech
are, the mayor told us.
Are we lawyers? No. Then we
have no business talking about the
right to assemble and talk, and we
don't speak of the right things,
anyway. We are free to speak only
certain things, and should use an
auditorium or hall, such as Tomlin-
son hall.
He would limit the right of free
speech to those who have the coin
to rent a hall, and that agree with
his charity gangs, soup houses, and
other rotten climaxes of the whole
sale hoggishness of capitalism.
Have we a right to want laws to
protect the producer of wealth or
to put out crooks from social and
economic leadership? Shouldn't each
forward looking citizen seek more
freedom, and more abundant life?
ANY change to benefit the majority
must be one for workers benefit,
| for they are the majority.
ETHAN WALLER.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
1T SEEMS TO ME BY HF ER04S

abouts; I mean materially as we'll
as spiritually.
1t isn't fair to attempt to toll into
the theater some man or woman
with hard-earned dollar to be
spent for the only evening of recrea-
ton in month.
Still less is there soundness in the
old managerial complaint that, in
stead of dramatic critics, newspa-
pers ought to send reporters to the
first night. There really is not
much to report. The newspaper
representative conceivably could
mention the fact of f1rst-night en-
thusiaSm. But it would serve no
purpose if he made a statistical
chart to indicate the number of
laughs, the precise volume of ap-
plause and the cubic content of the
assembled tear tribute. These things
are meaningless.
I have watched plays which went
with vast whoop at the opening
performances and faltered within a
week. An audience may laugh heart
lily at, play and still go away not
liking it. was told that on a Ger
tain first night out of town with a
new comedy David Belasco stood in
the wings and muttered to himself,
"Oh, dear! Oh, dear!"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Just Every Day Sense

BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

IRON another corner comes bitter criticism of
l. the American mother. This time Lincoln Stef-
fens objects to our softening influence.
Bah" he calculates, according to the interviewer
mothers do not wSh to understand their children
They wish to romanticize them. They walow in their
own emotions, fondling, shielding, coddlng them.
Can one expect men and to be sane and
happy when they have grown up on a diet of pop
spooned to them at some woman's knee?"
Admitting some truth in the charge, it is compare
lively easy to talk back to Mr.. Steffens about this
For practically all the mushness connected with
motherhood has been sponsored and kept alive by
men. They have insisted upon endowing us with
million pretty attributes that we naturally do not
possess.
And when it comes to romantic gushings they are
even worse than are for they stepped in the
very lees of sentimentalsm
TAVE we forgotten the male orator who still shouts
l. himself hoarse about sef-sacrificing motherhood
the evangelist who attracts strong to the con-
vert's corner with his tremoo about their absent
mammaSo
Al old ballads and pretty pale novels have
harped upon the idea that to be noble and fine,
women must be soft and mushy and never by any
chance exhibit any common where their children
are concerned
We need not discount the natural and sometimes
doting love of mothers This is in part purely ply
steal thing. But without stretching the truth too
mush would assert that all the silly notions built
up this subject have been created by the who
love being babied whether they are young or old
For every Lincoln Steffens today can find 10000
who believe that unless react in the same
old sentimental way, they are unnatural creatures
and menace to the race
So for the sake of getting something done about it
let's address all our advice this subject to the
stronger SEX
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
They Laughed loo Much

4 ND an assistant tried to console
4 n the producer by saying: why,
Mr.. Belasco, what's the matter? The
people out there are just laughing
their heads off,"
That's the trouble" replied Be-
lasco. They're laughing too much.
This play won't get anywhere.
They're not paying any attention to
the story. It's not going ahead.
They are just intent on individual
lines"
And so the critic who undertakes
the role of prophet upon the basis
of audience reaction rather than his
own is likely to make numerous
mistakes. 1t is not only his duty,
but his only useful function, to
describe as accurately as he can just
what he himself felt.
BY and by he comes to be a def
mite sort of signport. Naturally, he
has prejudices and whimS. But
these should be recognized by his
readers within a season or so.
In the case of certain critics, their
function may be an inverse one. 1
have known shrewd theatergoers to
waste very little money by adopting
the simple process of saying: Il see
Haywood Broun liked the new play
at the George M. Cohan theater
last night. Now know that there's
one show I don't care to see."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Mechanical Homes

IT would seem therefore that an
Il "air conditioner" soon will Join
the other mechanical contrivances
which the machine age has intro
duced into our homes.
It is interesting to speculate upon
the changes which have come over
the problems of house building since
colonial days. Once upon a time, a
house was chiefly four walls, floor
and roof. An open fireplace suficed
for heating and cooking Candles
or oil lamps furnished light.
Today, a house hides a network of
pipes and wires within its walls.
There are wires to carry the cleo
tricity for lighting the house and
operating numerous devices, from
vacuum cleaners to cigar lighters.
There are telephone wires. There
are special Connections for the radio
set. Heating is from centrally To-
Gated furnace with its own maze of
connecting radiators. Running water
replaces the old-fashioned pump.
And in all probability, the air con-
ditioner will not be the last of the
machines. Television is only around
the corner. Perhaps the television
machine will arrive first. Some au-
thorities predict it it will be here
in two years.
Recently a machine for making
talking movies at home has been
put on the market.
And so. distant summer evening
may see the family in the "air con-
ditioned' living room, trying to de-
eide whether to see and hear Rudy
Vallee on the radio-television or
whether to turn on the home .talkie
and see and hear Junior. age 5, re-
cite Mother Goose rhymes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Dry Air Feels Cool

r TITLE points out, however, that
IL merely cooling the air is not
enough. Frequently. the high mois-
ture content of the air makes it I'M
comfortable.
"a particularly promising devel-
opment," says the bulletin, SIS that
which makes summer air feel cooler
by actually leaving it fairly warm,
but by removing most of its mois-
ture. The well-estabhshed relation
ships between humidity and a feel
ing of bodily warmth are recognized
widely.
"The public, however, has learned
to dislike the clammy moisture OF
theaters which, in hot weather, are
merely refrigerated"
Methods are being worked out by
means of which air, after cooled
through water sprays, is passed
through materials, such as silica gel,
which absorbs much of the mois-
ture.
1t long has been the opinion OF
this writer that the problem of air
conditioning deserves the attention
of the nations leading Psychologists
and medical men,.
Merely to run down the tempera-
ture is not sufficient. Physiological
standards and not merely the ther-
mometer should be the criterion in
air conditioning.
Another important factor which
deserves attention is the relation
between the indoor temperature and
the outdoor temperature.
It seems likely that it is a mis-
take to maintain too much of a
differential between the two. It
only accentuates the discomfort
outdoors when the indoor tempera-
ture has been reduced too low.
Perhaps the wisest scheme would
be some sort of a sliding scale by
which the indoor temperature was
kept certain number of degrees
below the outdoor one.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
The Nations Disgrace

One of the things for which we shall not give
thanks on Nov Is will be the fact just revealed by
Courtney Dinwddie, secretary of the national child
labor committee that there are today in competition
with some 100000 jobless adults 332652 gainfully
employed children between the ages of 7 and II.
Forget if you the child victims of what the
President calls "the measure of passing adversely
which has come upon us" the $4,000 children to be
fed on cent meals by the charity of kindly Quakers
working in the desoated coal regions of West Vir-
gina and Kentucky, the thousands of little Oliver
Twists who will not dare to pass their bowls for more
during the coming winter.
Contemplate briefly instead this ironic picture re-
vealed by the depresSion-nearly three and half
million American children working while their elders
the streets.
If we can not wipe away the stigma of child labor
get these children out of the jobs that belong to
adults, and send them to school, where they belong
we should give up all pretense of being an intelligent
nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
Questions and
Answers

What do the letters So and "G''
on European automobile license
plates mean?
"F" indicates that the car is reg
istered in France and that the IL
cense is to be honored in other
countries. German plates bear the
letter c.; Great Britain, &C b.:
Holland III" and so on.
What pitcher won the greatest
number of games in major league
baseball in one season? Did he pitch
right or left-handed?
Charles Radbourne of the Provi-
dence club of the National League
in 1884 pitched sixty-two winning
games. He pitched right-handed.
How many depositOrs did the re-
Gently failed Bank of the United
States in New York have and what
was the approximate amount of its
indebtedness?
1t had about 100000 depositors
and its liabilities amounted to APP
proximately $160,0000O0.
Who holds the record for the
transcontinental motorcycle run be-
tween Los Angeles and New York?
Allen Bedel made the trip in 6
days and Is hours.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
SINKING OF CHAUNCEY
November 20

NN Nov. 20, 1917 the U. S. S.
" Chauncey, a torpedo boat de-
stroyer, sank, drowning twenty-one
men following a collision with the
transport Rose.
Lieutenant-C Commander Walter E.
Reno, who was in command, and his
two junior officers, Lieutenant
Charles F. Wedderburn and Ensign
Harry G. Skinner Jr. and eighteen
enlisted men were lost.
The Chauncey was one of the old
type Of destroyers, completed in
1902. 1t displaced 400 tons.
Its complement included ninety
one officers and men, and for sew
eral years before the war it had en-
gagged only in coast defense service
Premier Lloyd George of England
speaking before the American war
mission and the British war cabinet
said that the collapse of Russia and
the reverses in Italy make it even
more imperative than before that
the United States send as many
troops as possible across the At
lantic as early as possible"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20

Bad Teeth Handicap School Pupils
HEALTH SERVICE

ined had one or more teeth that
showed active decay.
Nearly one-third of all of the
children were unable to read the
normal line of vision on the eye
sight chart, although most of them
were able to read the next line,
which is an indication that the de-
feet is minor in character.
MORE than 80 per cent of the
IV1 children had defective tonsils,
which means either that they were
enlarged or infected. One-fourth of
the children were reported as hav-
ing enlarged glands in the neck.
Ten per cent were reported as
having enlarged thyroid gland or
simple goiter; about per cent had
adenoids, and about 10 per cent
breathed through the mouth instead
of through the nose.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20

This, if true, can not be laid at the
critics door. He is for the most
part intellectualized beyond the
health of the current theater.
I mean he is much more apt to
give mental approval rather than
emotional. If it's Sheridan or
Shakespeare it must be good. And
we get a mass of dramatic criticism
which comes rather from the read
er's point of view than the specta-
tors.
In my day it was the custom for
critic to refrain from applause.
He did not want to make himself
conspicuous.
But I do not feel that the rela-
tionShip between reviewers and the
theater will be altogether sound I'M
til I find the entire corps assem-
bled around some stage door to
take horse or so out of the shafts
of a waiting carriage.
Copyright. 1881. by The Timesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20

TN all the time that have known
L the theater, there never has been
anything better than an armed
truce between its people and the
dramatic critics. Just now the
breach is wider and the feeling more
intense than ever before.
The actors complaint runs some
thing like this: Here we are in the
middle of a depression, and the
season isn't much good. Couldn't the
critics just pull their punches for a
while, and help things get started
along Broadway"
And, to be more specific, this is
the tale of man who recently came
to New York in show which lasted
two weeks:
They were crazy about us in
Pittsburgh and in Baltimore-both
the reviewers and the audiences.
Naturally, we felt sure we had a hit,
and all of us had debts to pay and
overcoats to get out of hook. We
were practically living on Sardines,
just waiting to get back to New
York and be set for run. And
then the critics came on the first
night and hoped all over us so hard
there wasn't chance"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20

More than l per cent of school
children have a defective color
sense The prevalence OF inability
to judge colors is about eight times
as frequent among boys as among
girls.
Hookworm infestation is fire.
quent observation in children in
southern schools; malaria was also
fairly frequent.
Hardness Of hearing affects tre-'
mendouS number of young children.
There are also such disturbances
as cross-eye and similar ophthalmic
disorders.
The child in school has a diff
ficult time keeping abreast of it's
work. 1t has every right to the help
that modern medicine can give it
ito make its opportunity equal to
that of other children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20

What About 1t, Mr.. hoover! MI. OtlmSOn'
On Oct. II secretary of State Stimson urged the
League of Nations ito exert all pressure and author
itv within its competence" in the Manchurian sit
uation.
"In its part" the stimson note said" the Ameri-
can government acting independently through its
diplomatic representatives will endeavor to reinforce
what the league does and will make it clear that 1t
has keen interest in the matter is not ooiviouS
TO the obligations which the dsputantS have as
sumed to their fellow signatories in the pact oil
Paris as well in the nine-power pact should time
arise when it would to be advisable to bring
forward those obligations"
month and eight days later Aristde BRAND the
leagues leader and spokesman, declares:
Intervention by the United States, independently
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
HE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES
NJ. E. Tracy
SAYS:

EUents IN MdnchuriG Sug-
gests That This Is No Time
to Get Cocky, or Hot
Headed.
NEW YORK, Nov. 2o.-Japan
IN warns Russia to keep out of
the line of fire, lest complications"
arise; Chang Kai-Shek talks about
rushing to the 'front.' with a Chi
nese army of 1000, 900, and M. BRAND
says that We could stop it all by
intervening.
No doubt, we could. We not only
have the power, but are in a pecu-
liarly advantageous position to exert
it. Being Japans biggest customer,
we could clamp on a boycott that
would hurt. If that failed, we could
throw an expeditionary force into
Asia with the same ease and prodi-
gality that we threw it into Europe.
There are those who think Japan
would yield to boycott, or even a
severance Of diplomatic relations,
but they can't guarantee it. Under
such circumstances. it is the part
of wisdom to put the worst possible
construction on intervention and
not commit ourselves, until we have
counted the cost and made up our
minds to see it through.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
SCIENCE
BY DAVID DIETZ

Acknowledging Devices Are
Being Perfected to Make
Homes as Cool as the
Movie Palaces" in Sum-
mer.
ID APID strides are being made in
N the development of air-condi-
tioning machines designed TO keep
homes cool in summer. according
to the Industrial Bulletin Of Arthur
D. Little. Inc.
Now that cold weather is here,
householders as a matter of course
turn on the gas or order their coal.
Cold weather is something to over
come, not something to endure. But
hot weather, except to movie
palaces and a few museums, still is
to be endured.
According to Little, it would be
possible at the present moment to
equip any home with a suitable
ir-conditioning machine. The only
difficulty would be the cost of OPP
Grafton.
This is estimated to be about $156
a month, figure that puts the
service beyond the reach of the
average householder.
1t is thought, however, that inn
provements in design and the in
vention of new devices soon will
reduce the cost.
The most satisfactory air con-
ditioning devices today are those
in which the air is cooled and
washed by passing it through a
spray of cold water.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
No Time to Get CoCky

THE issue admittedly is serious.
4 If sidestepped, it easily might
throw the entire peace movement
into confusion and spoil the good
work already done.
On the other hand, statesmen
should remember that it is peace for
which they are working, and that
there is generally more than one
way of meeting a difficult situation.
The critical. nature of recent
events suggests that this is no time
to get cocky, or hot-headed.
BY allowing themselves to be
carried away with enthusiasm,
peacemakers can, and often have,
precipitated a worse brawl than
they started out to stop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
A Volcanic Situation

THERE are indications that ia
l. pan is on the verge of be-
coming another Prussia, that the
Fascist, or military, party is about
to take control of the government,
and that her course will become
more and more imperialistic.
Hot words at this precise moment
might serve to help the movement
along, while calmer tone might
do just as much to discourage it.
We are dealing with a volcanic
situation, not alone in Manchuria,
but several other places. Two years
Of depression have served no purpose
so distinctly as to make people irri-
table and nervous.
In our efforts to main peace
through orderly adjustment of con-
troversieS, we are challenged not
only by the trouble that has broken
out in Manchuria, but by the OBJ
viouS necessity of taking all posi-
BILE care not to make it worse.