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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
HOW TO HEAD OFF FASCISM

ONLY militant and collective labor move
~ ments can save the two great Anglo
Saxon democracies, America and Great Brit
ain from Fascist relationships, declares John
Strachey in his latest and most alarmist book,
"The Menace of Fascism" (Covici, Friede).
Stripped Of forensics and its "anti-big
business demagogy" Fascism is to Mr.. Stra-
chey nothing but "bloodthirsty nationalism,"
set in motion by frightened privilege to wreck
by terrorism the workers organizations. His
first twenty-five pages are press clippings de-
scribing the savage trail of the Nazi Brown
Terror early last spring. They are not pleas
ant reading. Ten years Of Fascist rule have,
he sets out to prove. saved Italy from none
of capitaIsm's insecurity or poverty, but have
added "a form of serfdom for the workers
imposed by compulsory arbitration and the
denial of the workers right to withdraw his
labor"
The Roosevelt new deal leaves Mr.. Stra-
chey skeptical.
MIR. Roosevelt and General Johnson no
more can plan American capitalism than they
can square a circle" he says 1T is possible
that Mr.. Roosevelt and his colleagues will pro-
duce some sort of boom But just insofar
as they do they will SOW the seeds for such
a slump as will make the years 1929-1933 look
like years of calm prosperity" American and
British labor are optimistic. Hence-"The rise
of Fascist movement or a movement that is
for the preservation by violence Of the private
ownership of the means Of production Is an
historical certainty in Britain and America.
There is not the slightest doubt that the
. British and American capitalists just they
are thoroughly alarmed. will organize all their
forces-their physical force-in order to at
tack by violence and terror everything that
threatens their position. To suppose anything
else is to fall victim to the most pitiful
illusions"
The task Of preserving democratic institu
lions lies in the hands of the trade unions,
cooperative societies and labor parties, says
this Londoner These must take the offensive
against Fascism and "capitalistic imperial
ism" The future Of their own class and "al
of us" Is in their hands.
Mr.. Strachey's book to many may seem
lurid, bit unscholarly and, particularly to
Americans, unduly pessimiStic.
But it is provocative and it should be read
as a signal of warning. Democracy needs its
evangeliStS now as never before.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

business he gets as a result of his
political affiliations? He does not.
Next, we have the beer importers.
No one except an innocent babe
could believe that their business is
short of a racket. Every one knew
that it was an enormously profitable
scheme, but as to just what extent
the profits reached few knew until
The Times conducted its inveStiga-
ton and revealed its findings. But
do these beer importers pay 2 pei
cent of their gross earnings into the
Democratic party's Golfers? They
do not.
Now any intelligent person can
see the relation between an en-
ploye's salary and income from
state-sanctioned business of other
kinds. So why ignore the individ-
ually large profit group and go after
the small-saIaried people? Because
it hurts to hand over per cent OF
many thousands of dollars, and be-
cause the gentlemen controlling the
many thousands Of dollars also
happen to control the party.
Earl Peters may be just trying to
get a little favorable publicity from
his battle with McNutt, but he
should know that in this he has the
great majority of state employees be-
hind him. McNutt should forget
his day dreams about becoming
President and recall to mind some
of the ideals which he should have
learned in his days at Indiana uni
versity.
I also might ask whether Gov
ernor NIcNutt contributes 2 per cent
of the $4,000 year he gets for up
keep of the Governors mansion?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
M. E:.TracySays:

CAY what you will, but it takes the federal
y government to round 'em up and find the
loot No one knows this better IMAM gang
leaders and racketeers About the last thing
they wanted to see was the department OF JUS
tice freed from it's prohibition load and their
own fraternity deprived OF bootlegglng revenues.
Recent weeks have demonstrated what Uncle
Sam really could do for law enforcement when
given chance to forget pint pocket peddlers
and allowed to go after big game.
Those on trial at Oklahoma City for the
KIDNAPPING of Urschel have had some bitter en-
lightenment as to the difference between fed
eraJ operatives and the local police
Machine Gun Kelly started out to save the
bunch by trying to frighten somebody. He
wrote threat letters and in a most brazen way,
even going so far as to mark some with MS
fngerprints.
instead of frightening anybody the machine
gunner got caught, and when caught he was
taken alive, which must have surprised nm
quite as much as it surprised other people.
A Ill things considered the outlook is bad for
N kidnapers, chiefly because federal author
tiles have concentrated on that crime. But for
the lack of men and money, they could do an
equally good Job with regard to all major
crimes.
Give the federal government one-quarter OF
the police force maintained by our states and
cities, ana you WOuIQ see lIlo u4uIueI tOSOio'
kidnapping record, thief record and racketeer-
ing record take an astonishing dive.
The essence of our crime problem lies in one
simple fact-criminals operate on a nation
wide basis while those appointed to catch them
do not. The policeman must stop at the city
line the sheriff at the county line and the state
trooper at the state line, but the thug goes
right on.
More than that, the thug can depend on
help The fraternity to which he belongs has
hideouts everywhere, political friends with pull
and lawyers who will play the game. The setup
owes its workability to a very rigid but very
simple discipline. The one offense is betrayal,
and the one punishment death.
ORDINARY folks understand the code and
" consequences Of violating it. They also I'M
derstand the helplessness of local authorities to
cope with it.
rapidly increasing number of unsolved
crimes and punished criminals has done much
to break down the public morale, and it all goes
back to failure of our law-enforcing agencies
which, in turn, goes back to lack Of effective
mobilization.
We have plenty Of peace officers. but they
are compelled TO work without the proper kind
of organization.
In the end. We are going to discover that
we must handle crime in the same way that We
are handling depression-on a nationwide
basis and by means of nationwide lookup
Crime has developed into an anti-social fra
ternity. 1t is no longer an affair of misguided
individualisn. Law enforcement has no choice
but to accept the cue and mobilize not only
bigger but 6 better disciplined army.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
A RISKY RACKET

TINE changing of prison doors behind seven
kidnapers of Charles Urschel and the six
abductors of August Luer will resound through
the underworld as a warning that kidnapping
is a risky racket. The swift conviction Of
these thirteen in Oklahoma and Illinois was
"just skirmish in the anti-crime war to
come, according to the federal governments
special prosecutor, Joseph B. keenan,.
The "Lindbergh law" bringing interstate
kidnapping under federal Jurisdiction is work.
ing The department of justice has investi-
gated fifteen abduction cases and it has solved.
or partially solved, them all. 1t is a gratifying
record, and one to spur the states to greater
efficiency in detecting and Furnishing their
criminals
If justice is swift and certain, as it was in
these two cases, it need not be made more
savage.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN=

NEW YORK, Oct. al am moved
y profoundly At least. I hope I
am. The last van has clattered up
to the door and left its cargo OF
ivory. emeralds and cheap tin trays.
1t seems TO me that moving day
is the very institution out Of all our
city ways which does the greatest
violence to a fundamental human
feeling.
I wish I could say with Rupert
Brooke that I might claim from this
time forth some slight corner OF West
Fifty eighth street as my dusty
own. When anybody quits house
after a long residence, he has some
right TO feel that his imprint will
remain upon the premises. Even if
no single physical manifestation of
his tenure is palpable. some inkling
of the spirit defieS any dispoSseSS.
Houses can be haunted by those who
went away in the october parade.
But who ever heard of a haunted
apartment?
1t is we'll enough to put up tab
lets of bronze saying: Here Shake
speare was born or "Once Wash
ington slept in this abode" but even
if I do much better in the next five
years than I have done in the last
forty-four, I hardly expect to see
any metal memorial commemoraJ-
ing the fact that, In these two
rooms and bath Haywood Broun
composed some six or seven hundred
columns"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
WHAT M'KEE CONTRIBUTES
~VXTHEN the decision is made-and that
w does not indicate that I shall make

WHEN the decision is made-and that
w does not indicate that I shall make
1t. ="
We quote from Mr.. McKee's statement of
last Monday. We have no wish to play upon
words. But We think many citizens, after
reading the Mckee announcement OF yester-
day will feel doubt as to whether Mr. Mckee
really did make his decision or whether
MesSrs Farley and Flynn made it for him.
Mr. McKees vaccilation and delay greatly
strengthen the doubt.
Much of Fridays statement sounds forced
Much Of it seems labored and belated. There
is not a word Mr.. Mckee now says about
Tammany that was not just as true and that
he could not gust as well have said months
ago when thousands Of his fellow-citizens were
expecting him to say it.
"I was not offered a Fusion nomination"
he asserts. Possibly no silver platter was
employed in the case Of Mr.. Mckee any more
than 1t was in the case Of actual Fusion nom
inees But had Mr.. Mckee at any time indi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

JAPANESE, as pointed out by DR..
~ J. F. McClendon, are exceeding
ly free from goiter. He already has
made a survey of goiter as it occurs
all over the world and in all the
countries of the world, Japan was
the country in which goiter was
most rare.
For instance, he found only one
goiter for every million of the Jap
anese people. What that would
mean to the United States is easy
to calculate. If we had similar
record in this country, there would
be approximately 100 golfers in the
whole country. Instead. the~o have
been many hundred thousands.
In an endeavor to explain the ex-
ceedingly low incidence of goiter
among the japanese, DR.. McClendon
analysed numerous specimens of sea-
weed from various localities on the
japanese coast. Seaweed is about
one thousand times as rich in iodine
as any other food substance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
MONDAY. OCT. 2. 1898.
THE C. C. C. SUCCEEDS

THE civilian conservation corps yesterday
finished its first six months Of hewing.
and today the war department began enroll
ing these veterans and new recruits for winter
work in the south and west
Which reminds us that there is one of the
social work ever undertaken by your Uncle Sam.
Hunger relief has first pull on the nations
purse and heart strings. But a dole to the
idle is no substitute for wage to a worker.
And when work relief for 100000 young men,
who otherwise would be tramping the hobo
trail. ties in with so needed a project as re-
forestation the sanity of the arrangement is
manifest.
Furthermore when the projects turns out
work toughened, Sun-tanned young men pos
sessed Of that spiritual regeneration that
comes from intimacy with trees, mountains
and streams there is nothing to do but cheer.
So far the c. C. c. has freproofed some
100000 acres Of forest, fought blister rust in
400, 900 acres in twenty-five states. built 1000
miles Of telephones, improved bird refugees
and fought of the forests enemies in forty
seven states. Some 125, 900 young men of the
original 1000 have left the corps for other
Jobs leaving that many to be recruited for
the work to come. The program Of the next
six months is an ambitious one and covering
work in 100000 acres of state and national
forests.
Tree, soil and wild life conservation hardly
has begun But the corps work in conserving
humans is tangible and impressive. The men
are almost unanimous in calling themselves
fortunate.
We trust that congress will finance the
c. c. c. through the duration Of the depres-
son and that the states will adopt similar
work-relief plans. The jobless, pray heaven,
may not be with us long. While they are the
best way of caring for them is through such
profitable projects as this.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
Separation

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
Autumn caught me unaware today
Before had time to steel my heart
Or fortify my wits, it held
Me captive, every part.
I am hurt with the twilight's purple
peace,
And dazzled with the blue Of the
sky.
I am stirred with the gaunt beauty
Of the night,
And speared with the naples scar
let cry.
I am crushed with the brown leaves,
falling;
I am suspended in mid-air with
grey smoke.
I am knitted by the brittlenesS Of
the stars.
I am half-glad, half-sad, Of sum-
nler's revoke.
I am fearless with tears unformedf
I am reused to agony OF heart.
I am caught In this web Of beauty.
Oh, why must We endure 1t apart?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
A Woman's Viewpoint !:

TT may sound harsh, but it is true;
l. the most tragic figure upon the
stage of life today is the woman
who has given up everything for
her children.
Only the other day I watched the
farewell such a mother gave to her
last son. He was leaving for college.
One daughter was married, and a
second girl, several months ago, OBJ
tanned a job in a far away city.
Never have. I pitied any one
more than I did that mother. She
suddenly was defeated by a realiza-
ton that her work was finished.
For twenty-five years she had
boosted that she lived only for her
family. She considered it the part
Of wisdom to give up club activities
and for a long time has had no
intimate friends. She was just a
mother and proud of Ii.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
Leurinq Nothing Behind

WHEN a man has paid the
w last months rent and moved
away he quits his apartment utterly.
Even while he is in residence the
sense of possession never becomes
strong enough to create a potential
nostalgia. Ballads have been writ
ten by the score based upon the fact
that the tenor or baritone wants TO
90 back to his home in Tennessee,
Michigan, Ohio or New Rochelle, but
if I had the inspiration Of angels l
could move no multitude with my
desire to be once again on the tenth
floor of number one hundred and
something West Fifty-eighth street.
1t was a pleasant spot, indeed, a
Slight section of Ceylon'S Isle set
down in the middle of great me-
tropoliS. On clear nights I could
see Central park all the way to its
most northerly tip. watched the
municipal trees go gay in spring and
die a slow and crimson death in
autumn. And very often 1 sat upon
the narrow balcony and planned the
novels and the stories and the plays
I never quite got around to writing.
1 lived and loved and broke my
heart and took off fifteen pounds
and left behind me nothing but
steel bookcase. AS soon as they
lower the rent a little somebody
else will move in and never know or
care that his uneasy footsteps follow
the same track which was marked
by Broun perpleXed by the problem,
What on earth will suffice to make
column for tomorrow"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia.
the Health Magazine.

Seaweed is served by the Jap
anese in various fashions. They
often eat as much as ten grams of
the weed at a single meal. 1t is
served in q variety of ways and
under a number Of different names.
In this country iodine is supplied,
particularly for girls Of adolescent
age, in the form of tablets which
they may take during the school
year. These tablets contain ap-
proximately one-sixth to one-tenth
grain each and are given once a
week for period Of forty weeks
during the school year.
1t has been established by stud
les made in various parts of the
United States that goiter is most
common in those sections of the
country in which the water and the
soil contain the least amounts of
iodine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

the sternest one Of all for women
is the one which says, Your chill
dren are only loaned to you for a
little while. They never are really
yours"
Negligent, therefore, as the mod
ern young person may be about do
nestle duties, she's good deal
smarter on this point than her
mother was. She will avoid one
tragedy at least, if she has any
thing TO dc with shaping her life.
That's why I like the way wise
young matrons take their babies as
a matter Of course, rather than as
miracles Of nature. I like to hear
them speak dispassionately about
them. I like TO watch them walk
off calmly and leave them. This
lack Of sentimentality in the present
age means that both parents and
children will be happier.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

their rietcS in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4oords or lesS.J
By Joe Kelly.
Add suggestions to editors who are
young, inexperienced, not indigo
nous, over enthusiastic and some
times sophomore:
Don't worry about the odor from
Kingan'S. 1t is the odor of honest
toll, honest production, big benefit
to the community.
Kingans has been here long,
long time and has had an honored
career, backed, sponsored and man
aged by honest, worthy contributors
to human happiness.
You have an aesthetic nose.
Odors, pleasant and offensive, are
everywhere and that odor from
Kingan's, to many of us, well used
to it, and whose grandfathers stuck
pigs at Kingan's, is F'rangipanl.
If was an editor, I'd look else
where for sensations q was about
to say ideas than trying to en-
barrass an institution of historic
glory as Kingan's.
Odors are a part of progress. They
belong to progress. And Kingans
now probably is worried by larger
nroblems than carping editor
about it's body odors.
Also, I read the story in The
Times Tuesday night and note the
courses that are being offered by
the Indiana university extension,
and how ridiculous they seem in
this dav of essentials and the de-
bunking of such things as the
racket of higher, or college educa-
ton.
If the state does not pay for such
courses. this extension is okey. But
if it does. the state, as you know,
has both places to spend its money.
I would advise you to look critically
over the catalogue of the Indiana
university extension and see, the
amusing things that are being
taught there to folk who are in a
haze at the tricks Of sol dolsant
education.
It's all right if it does not cost
any taxpayer money, but if it does,
in the name of equity and sound
education, which is not necessarily
a part of college curriculums Cor
should I end that word in az this
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
BY MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

Now, what is she? A sad, middle
aged woman with years of her life
before her, and nothing at all to
do except feel sorry for herself.
Even her husband has grown away
from her, chiefly because she has
so stepped herself in the maternal
tradition that she always put her
children before their father in her
attentions. She only gave him time
left over from them.
HUSBAND and wife are spiritual
l. l. aliens now. Both are alone.
And unless this woman has the
courage to make new existence
for herself, an existence with some
keen outside interests, she will sink
into forlorn old age.
For life never commutes It's sem
fences, nor paroles its prisoners.
We must endure its DEGREES and
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
OUTLAWS DEBUNKED

MUCH as a Economically minded person
4VA might like to take these bold, bad gun
men of the modern underworld at their own
valuation, it just doesn't seem to be possible.
There are, for example, those two despera-
does, Harvey Bailey and Machine Gun Kelly.
Both of them were famed as walking ar
senals tough man-killers who trod the earth
with such mighty tread that all peace Off
GERS ran to cover before them. But each one,
somehow, was captured without shot being
fired The officers walked in on them, got
the drop on them, and they surrendered as
meekly as drug store cowboys
And this is bit damaging to the legend.
The real bad men of the old west weren't
taken that easily. They might be surrounded
and covered but they fought to the end These
modern bad men, apparently, only shoot when
the cards are stacked in their favor. Billy
the Kid or Deadwood Dick wouldn't have been
caught in the same jail with them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02
So They Say

Labor and the farmer are cheated
by the same people, despised by the
same people and kept apart by the
same people-Mrs. Clifford Pinchot.
I've given up the idea of retiring
There's too much work to be done
and too short a time to do it in
Major General Hugh L. Scott.
It is doubtful is there has been
another period in American history
so opulent in the number Of strong
and brilliant preachers as our own.
Rev. Edgar D. Jones of Detroit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

BY H. L.
A week or so ago I read where
the xxx, or Klan, was calling in
the suckers for their final milking
at the K. of P. building.
Since the repeal of prohibition
the graft hasn't been so good.
They are at their wits end to
know what to do with their
hoodlum runners. These are the
birds that go ahead of our police
patrol cars and give warning, also
to gamblers and red light dis
tricts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

President of Yale says we are entering a
new dark age. We know where he got that.
He saw more smoke belching from the fac
tory chimneys.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

Detective is convicted for shooting a Ca
pone lieutenant. Next thing We'll hear pub
lie apology is due AL himself.
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racket should be given good kick
in the pants.
Some one has said that the state
is doing enough If it furnishes it's
boys and girls educational guidance
through the high schools. And that
is if boy or girl wants to go on
through state university, that boy
or girl, or his fond father, or some
body else, should pay the freight
not the taxpayers, but a small per-
centage of whom has anybody that
can be sent through the states
educational mills.
If it is done in a private school
De Paw, Earlham, Rose Poly, But
Ter, Notre Dame, or a good barber
college, that, as my dear old
German friend says, is difference
case"
By State EmpIoye.
With all the discussion going on
about the Democrats 2 per cent
club, I think it is time that the
views Of one who pays regularly be
heard. am employed at the state
house and got my job through pol
itics. I am not unwilling to pay
out the per cent requested" except
that I would like to point out for
consideration two examples of at
tractive profit making resulting
from Democratic supremacy in state
politics.
First of all, we have Bowman
Elder, who, by the way, controls
the money collected under the 2
per cent plan. Elder happens to
be treasurer and part owner of an
Office supply business here in In
dianapolis. This particular con-
Germ gets all the state business and
at prices that make 1929 look like
depression. Does Bowman Elder
contribute 2 per cent of the gross
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-10-02

Hoot Gibson is broke and in debt, while n
one but his creditors gives boot.