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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
MONDAY. DEC. Il. 1888.
MOB SPIRIT

ME people say they are afraid the Grim
i,als will be acquitted, and they are
justified"
That indictment Of the system Of justice
throughout the nation today, was hurled by
Circuit Judge Fred E. Hines in NoblesviIe
last week when Hamilton county jurors failed
to reach verdict in the case Of Willie Mason
one Of several suspects in the Staying of Police
Sergeant Lester z. Jones.
Judge Hines could not understand why.
after days Of hearing evidence. and hours of
dehberation upon the facts, the jury could not
reach verdict Judge Hines wanted to know
why the twelve members of the jury were
unable to convict or acquit Mason.
Hung juries occur daily. Perhaps they are
the proof that these citizens called into public
service, are thinking in straightforward
manner and refuse to be swayed by the opn-
ions Of others. More likely, though jurfes
which fail to agree are proof that crime is not
considered seriously enough and a jury-room
wrangle is far more important than punish
ment for a crime.
In scoring the jury Judge Hines pointed to
Tic ulOO NAO4SilCe ClldI ildS Ueel pIeNdIeIlJ lOI
several weeks He said that the citizens
feared acquittal for criminals
Judge Hines talked straight from the Shout
der His statement was letter perfect to the
man who believed the law shall take its
cours Judge Hines sees a flaw in law en-
forcement.
But the real flaw is citizenry which give
one criminal another chance while it howls for
the life of another when mob spirit regns.
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lined up with even greater zeal to prevent

lined up with even greater zeal 70 prevent
revolution.
Opposition to prohibition has savored of
the highest social responsibility ever since the
eighteenth amendment was adopted. The
great majority of the social aristocracy have
from the beginning been vets. Through some
powerful economic interests. such as Rookie
teller and Ford, early were found on the side
Of prohibition the general weight Of the
wealth of the country has been steadily on the
side of repeal Moreover, before repeal could
gain much Roadway. John D. Rockefeller Jr.
and other great capitalists had to come out
ardently and openly in its favor. Most of the
leading lawyers of the country from Elihu
Root to Clarence Darrow have been ardent
workers for repeal over many years.
Powerful elements and personalities in both
of the major parties have favored repeal for
a decade. The metropolitan press has from
the beginning been preponderantly wet. The
intellectuals, led by Mr. Mencken have at
tackled, ridiculed and denounced prohibition.
Anti-dry sentiment has been strong and often
prevalent in our more important colleges and
universities. Wet speakers freely have de-
nounced the eighteenth amendment before
public forums throughout the country. Indeed,
by comparison with the' rough road which
economic revolution would have to travel in
this country, repeal has been a setup and it's
course amply creased by favorable public
opinion.
Let one start a movement for revolution
and the whole picture would be reversed. All
the wealth of the country would be thrown
instantaneously and unitedly against the revo-
lutionary program. Revolution would be de-
nounced in the press throughout the length
and breadth of the land All political parties
save the Communist would man the breast
works to stave off the revolutionary tide.
Children in the schools would be taught anti
revolutionary chants and college professors of
history would try to prove revolution COM
pletely un-American.
If this did not prove sufficient, the city and
state police and the United States army would
be called out to suppress all signs of insur-
rection,
in short whereas most of the powerful
elements in our social order, based on finance
capitalism, were lined up against prohibition
even before the resolution for repeal was sub
mitted to the states, they would be united to
the last ditch in battling against revolution
The one hope the radicals have in getting
control of the United States lies not in revolu-
ton but in the real possibility that finance
capitalism will completely fold up as the result
of cupidity and short-sightedness.
Therefore, if the radicals want to be prac-
teal they can leave aside all consideration of
training in craftsmanship and the heaving of
hand grenades and devote their attention to
the problem of how to run an advanced
mechanical civilization, on a socialistic plan.
If they ever get a chance to control America,
it will not be because they have seized the
country but because the folly of the conserva-
tives has slammed it down in the laps of the
radicals
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THE LAWS DELAY

CIVILIZED Americans will cheer President
~ Roosevelt's attack on that vile form Of
collective murder-lynch law" and his implied
criticism of Canfomia's Governor for condor
ing the San Jose mob atrocity. They will
agree that the processes Of quick and certain
justice have fallen into a sad state Of dis
repair" They will pray for success in all eff
forts to speed justice in the courts.
The laws delay has come to be a peculiarly
fragrant vice of The American judicial system
And to delay justice is to deny Justice To
regain full respect of the people the courts
must cut through red tape, remove justice
from tangIefoot technicalities
But in freeing justice they should be
warned against that very emotionalism that
sweeps mobs into frenzid forays of revenge.
In West Virginia, in 1922, a Negro was ar
rested for rape. In less tAan twenty-four hours
he had been indicted, tried, convicted. SEN
fenced to be hanged and was on his way to
the penitentiary. Judge Lively, ordering new
trial, said: "A judicial lynching is a graver and
more startling crime than a lynching by an
irresponsible rabble."
Said Judge Lore Of Delaware: Most en-
phatically we say the remedy is not in hasty
and feverish action of courts of justice against
the criminal whose offense as the exciting
cause"
Said Judge Woodward of New York: eff
speed is, in fact, desirable end to be accom-
plished in dealing with crime; if it is necessary
as concession to the spirit of savagery which
survives beneath the veneer of civilized life it
is within the power of men to provide the ma
chinery by which men charged with crime
may be railroaded to their doom The
technical rules which are made use of by the
guilty to delay the day of execution are the
rules which guarantee to the innocent the
preservation of their rights even in face of
popular clarnor"
AS the Wickersham commission found
speeded-up trials can be as unjust as delayed
trials There is much to be done to simplify
procedure.
But, said the Wickersham commission.
changes in machinery are not sufficient to
prevent unfairnesS Much more depends upon
the men who operate the machinery"
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M. Tracy Says:

TINE grand Fascist council of Italy wants the
Il League of Nations reformed in two vital
respects. First, the league must be divorced
from the treaty of Versailles; second, the con-
Stitution must be changed so that the great
powers will have freer hand. If these reforms
are not carried out at the earliest possible mo-
ment the grand Fascist council leaves it to be
inferred that Italy will withdraw
Considering what already has happened to
the league, one is inclined to believe that the
grand Fascist council will succeed in getting
part, if not all, of its demands. Germany and
Japan already have withdrawn while the United
States and Russia never have joined. The alb
sence of these four major governments casts
grave doubts on the leagues ability to succeed,
even If Italy remains Steadfast.
The leagues critical situation is intensified
by growing dissatisfaction with the Versailles
treaty, and with a system of control in which
few very small governments can exercise the
veto power over its activities.
TDEALISTIC as it may be to give all govern
l. mentS a virtually equal voice irrespective of
their size or responsibility, the scheme is hope
lessly impractical.
Major governments always have and always
will determine the drift of human events. and
while it may be proper to check their tendency
toward imperialism, it is impossible to place
them on parity with small, impotent neigh
bors.
The enforcement of international law is of
vastly more consequence for the time being than
its remote detectives, and that manifestly de-
pendS on the attitude, cooperation and strength
of first class powers.
AS to the treaty of Versailles it was obviously
designed to perpetuate an artificial setup.
Though dedicated to the alleged protection of
certain little countries it smells to high heaven
with the purpose of benefting one European
group at the expense of another. Peace can not
be established on any such rotten basis
Widespread realization of the leagues fail
ure is responsible for the gradual abandonment
of peaceful activities and the reverson to mill
tary preparedness
A FTER fourteen years of struggling with
L N anti-war pacts and disarmament confer
ences the civilized world finds itself hopelessly
bewidered. The reason is plain Humanity was
stampeded into a great experiment. In 1919
there was nothing to begin with except a con-
fusion OF ideals and passions.
Naturally enough, statesmen capitalized
ldealism as the quickest way to promote their
pet preJudlceS and projects. Civilization was
handed what looked like a perfectly good peace
machine, but what was really a mechanism de-
signed to carry out a miserable war treaty. and
which has broken down because of that very
handicap
From philosophical standpoint. it requires
no stretch Of the imagination to discover a
deadly parallel between prohibition in this coun-
try and the League of Nations in Europe Both
were born of noble concepts
Both came into existence as the result of
war fever. Both were designed to make people
good by regulation. Both collapsed in depres-
sion.
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TWO WINTERS

IN the first week Of December 1882, a band
of unemployed men and women marched
to tell President Hoover and congress that
their situation was desperate.
They were met by an army of policemen at
the city limits They were stopped on high,
wind-swept stretch of highway and were held
prisoners for three days and nights The
weather was exceedingly cold No shelter was
provided and after trying for hours to keep
warm by walking up and down in their small
stretch of road many of the marchers lay
down on the cold concrete, with shoes for
pillows. and slept. There we're no toilet ia
cilities. No drinking water was provided for
hours Meager supplies of food were taken to
the camp by leaders who had arranged the
march.
The President refused to see the marchers'
committee.
The most daring demand made by the hun
ger marchers was cash payment of $50 to
each unemployed person, with $40 additional
for each dependent.
It seems longer. but that march took place
year ago
are being employed by the civil works admin
istration at wage scales fixed by the ap
proval of organized labor.
Other unemployed had been given jobs
earlier in the year through CCC camps and
NRA and public works. so that the still large
total of unemployment in the United States
-, has dropped to the lowest point since 1880.
Today the government no longer looks on
hunger as personal crime. It is determined
that no one shall starve and it is refusing
to fight starvation with the bitter bread of
charity More has been accomplished than we
realize until we look back to that cold week
last December when hunger marchers suf-
fered on a Washington hillside.
There stin are far too many unemployed
persons in the United States and there stir
are too many persons close to starvation.
Economically the shift in distribution of buy
ing power, which alone can revive business on
any sound basis, has not taken place to any
great degree.
Yet this is not the America of last year.
This winter will not be the dark terrible
period recent winters have been. Despair and
fear and SNUG cruelty gradually are giving
way to hope and achievement.
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Depression Brings Increase in tuberculosis

be remembered, not only interfere
with development of health gen.
orally, but afford more opportunities
for contact between well persons
and those with this disease than
occur in less crowded quarters
Moreover, once the disease be-
comes established, the opportunity
for recovery is much less among
the poor than among the well-to-do.
The poor who do not have the ad-
vantages of good nursing or of the
best type of medical care.
Parents who are attacked by this
disease, among the poor, are more
likely to convey it to their children.
The general state Of nutrition be-
gins to become less as the depres-
sion goes on.
At first the parents feed their
children. but later, as food becomes
more and more difficult to secure,
even the diet of the children suffers.
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REPEAL AND REVOLUTION

THE absence of any revolutionary aninus
o. zeal on the part of unemployed Amer
leans who have been on or near the bread
line for two or three years has tended to
spread gloom among the optimistic radicals
who believed that few months of want and
misery would send American workers to the
barricades. It is rather generally and sadly
admitted that the prospect of forceful revo-
luton in the United States is rather slight
indeed.
Just now. however. some of our revolution
airy friends are deriving new hope from the
astonishing rapidity with which the movement
for repeal has gathered momentum and
crashed through to a speedy success.
Radicals have pointed out how even few
ardent vets believed repeal possible a year
ago. The best they hoped for was modifca-
ton and some liberal laws which would per-
init the consumption of beer and light wines.
Within less than twelve months, radicals
point out. repeal has become the most amaz-
ing constitutional SNOWFALL in our whole ma
tional history. After our experience with re-
peal almost any social movement may be
regarded as within the bounds of easy posi-
bility. Given the right conditions. radicals
believe. We might overturn the whole social
order in year
1t seems that radicals who argue for the
possibility of social revolution on the basis of
an analogy With the repeal of prohibition fail
TO see that the situation is in no way compar-
able The great majority Of the factors and
I forces which have FASTENED repeal would be
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
Wisdom
BY EUGENE RICHART

BY EUGENE RICHART
This is my lesson: pain like knife
Rips the smooth surface of my life.
Why did think love would stay
with me
When it would not stay with Pene-
lope?
When even the song Of Solomon
Is seeking, seeking, a love that's
gone?
What could I give you to keep yo',
near,
Red lips to kiss and gay songs to
hear?
I brought you little or nothing, save
Love that never will know the grave;
And the child-like certainty that you
Would be forced by my truth into
being true.
I have learned much, but wisdom is
A dull thing compared to primroses.
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A Woman's Viewpoint ::

to their daughters to make good
marriages-that's what the Pitts
burgh woman is doing-notwith-
standing the fact that in most cases
good marriages mean money mar
riages. Yet thousands of obedient
daughters who follow the advice
may wake up some morning in the
future to find themselves the wives
Of poor men.
Money has a naughty way Of slip
ping through ones fingers. When
that happens the girls are just as
badly off in financial sense as if
they had given heed to their hearts
instead of TO their mothers. 1t is
eternally wiser 70 marry for love
than for money.
Doubt is the first mother Of wis
dom, and the parent who can not
ever doubt her own decisions is
never a At oracle for her children.
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HIS P(Olimt

By Gehe Cole.
In reading your editorial on
liquor control, I have come to the
conclusion that you are just an
other one of those cheap hypo-
critics, who would rather go into
a drug store for your boQze, than
be seen entering a place that is
licensed by the government for
that purpose. 1t commonly is
called saloon.
You know, if you know anything
at all, that the drug store has
sold as much whisky illegally, be-
fore prohibition, than ony other
agency And to say that our
Governor might bring reprisals on
them in case of liquor violations
is the last word in comedy.
Our state and national govern
ment have shown by the way
they have administered the new
beer laws that they are the fore
most grafters in the business. and
yet you expect the drinking public
to pay for legal liquor and cut out
the bootleg We are just about to
enter on new phase of real boot
Logging. You say the government
needs the money that tax will
bring. I certainly feel sorry for
the country. that bases her pros
perity on legalized booze racket.
Now that the vets have won, you
say be sportsmanlike would like
to ask you where was the sports
manship of the vets during prohi-
bition?
I never have noticed in your
paper before repeal anything about
being smart to be legal and 1
certainly would hesitate to sponsor
a slogan so hypocritical now.
If this is too much to the point
don't print it, am not expecting
it.
Editors Note: We see your
point, but don't agree with it,
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BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

satisfactory food, whose body is
weakened by starvation and by ex-
posture, presents the ideal soil for
increasing intensity in the spread of
the disease.
The famous Edward L. Trudeau,
who devoted his life to the study of
tuberculosis, found that rabbits in
oculated with the disease, if con-
fined in damp, dark places without
sunshine or fresh air, rapidly sue
cumbed, while others treated in the
same way, but allowed to run wild,
either recovered or had the disease
in a much milder form.
Occupants Of cellars and under
nourished workers crowded together
under bad conditions are like the
rabbits of Trudeau.
Crowded living conditions, it must
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ONE WASTE STOPPED

A TTORNEY- GENERAL CUMMINGS has
Il n the right idea, we think, for dealing with
pending prohibition prosecutions. He says:
With regard to the racketeering groups
and persistent offenders - those| crimi-
nally minded, with previous records
each case will depend on the circum-
stances There will be no disposition to
pursue otherwise decent citizens.
Nearly $129 100000 was spent by the fed
eral department of justice on the futile at
tempt to enforce nationwide prohibition.
Taxpayers money henceforth should be
used only to end bootlegging, racketeering and
profteering so far as the liquor field of
prosecution is concerned.
FooliShness, futility and waste are over.
People now are asked to respect law that
is respectable.
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T AM reprimanded severely this
Il morning by Pittsburgh woman
who signs herself "A True Mother"
why" she asks, "do you in
variably take the side of the child
against the parent? After all, ex-
perienced men and women must
know more about life than their
sons and daughters. and should be
listened to on the subjects Of mar
riage and the professions"
They must, Of course, bat do
they? That is the question. To
prove a superior wisdom men and
women are expected to act accord
ing to all their acquired knowledge,
and that they seldom do.
Experience is no good unless one
is willing to profit by it, and from
general observation adults are as
bad as children when it comes to
putting their burned fingers right
back into tbs fire.
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By. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

I believe in youth. Nor must it
necessarily follow that this means
a disbelief in age; only that I never
again shall put complete faith in
cock-sure maturity any more than
in cock-sure immaturity. I can't
see that the papas and mamas I
have known have had any corner
on wisdom.
INDEED, some of the most loving
l. have ruined the lives of their
children. They we're not perverse
nor stubborn. They we're only per-
fectly certain that they were al
ways right. And in a good many
instances, time has proved the
grown-ups exactly as ignorant and
wrong in judgment as the young
sters could ever have been.
Mothers feel themselves actuated
by a sincere love when they preach
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
It Seems
to Me
: BY HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK. Dec. ll.-"Dear
~ Haywood Of may address you
in this familiar fashion, 1t has
been my custom for several years
to send you a birthday letter.
MY comments on these occasions
have been kindly and yet decidedly
critical. But now that you have
just turned IS and are halfway
home or closer. I feel that you may
stand in need Of a friendly pat
upon the back
L can not in consistency award
you laurel, but if a few leaves of
russell oak will il. any way suffice
they are yours for the asking. In
other words. I think that within
the last three weeks you have done
your best work.
In my opinion. you are batting
over your head Frankly. you are
not a 300 hitter, but when I see a
lad whose lifetime average is ap-
proXimately 221 going at a .2ss gait
I will confess that I And it ex-
citing.
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should occur under Paul McNutt
after he had dismissed some of
Governor Leslie's appointees, and so
nagged at Paul McNutt and his ad-
ministration and coined your phrase
Of "a veil of secrecy"
But would you insist that he
should have published each day all
the action he was taking to appre-
bend the culprit what stole these
bonds? Did you desire to publish
for the benefit of the criminal. so
that he or she could read about the
efforts and plans made to catch
them, so that they could successfully
evade the law? Would you wish to
advise the fugitive just what banks
and bond houses and brokers the
authorities were watching? It is a