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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06
THE DIFFERENCE
VXTRITTNG on jury trials of criminal cases
w in Englands courts, Raymond Fosdick

VXTRITING on jury trials Of criminal cases
w in England's courts. Raymond Fosdick
tells the Rockefeller Foundation folks:
Counsel on both sides give the appearance
of striving to arrive at the truth by the quick
est and most direct route"
What a change in the administration of
American justice, should our laws, lawyers and
judges strive for justice by the quickest and
most direct routel America plays the game
exactly the other way. Take this illustration:
On Dec. %. at the Huntsville CTex) peni-
Tertiary, one Dewey Hunt is to be hanged
If legal red tape or executive clemency does
not interfere. Hunt has been in the Dallas
Jail during the last five years and thirty days,
and it has taken court Of appeals two years
to decide as to Hunts appeal from a convic-
ton of murder. Hunts victim being only a
street car operator, his lawyers have had over
five years to try the legal loopholes for escape,
with no danger Of a lynching by a community
enraged by delays and miscarriages in admin
istering justice.
The cause Of lynching lies far back of spo-
radio mob madness. England has practically
no lynchings, for the reason that her people
have confidence that their lawyers and judges
strive for justice by the quickest and most di-
rect route
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WEDNESDAY. DEC. 6. 1888.


IF there is anything the Roosevelt admins
= tration needs It Is intelligent criticism.
The President himself has said so. 1t is IN
fortunate that the attack by the Republican
national committee does not meet this need.
The Republican campaign pamphlet en-
titled Tories, chiselers dead cats witch
doctors. bank wreckers. traitors" lacks convic-
ton It hides behind criticisms of the
administration by certain Democratic news
papers.
The glory Of the new deal is in the fact
that it is a series Of experiments in co-opera-
tive climbing out Of the deep hole we dug
for ourselves in the tawdry twenties. But
an experiment to get anywhere must be
guided by intelligent criticism. The curious
and distressing-thing is that about the only
creative criticism Of the new deal has come
from the new dealers themselves. President
Roosevelt in play after play outsmarts the
other team.
That is all very fine for the President. But.
after all, no one leader or group should have
a copyright on cleverness. BY long experience
we have learned that two parties are better
tIdH ONE OuJ Vi tIle COlI4llCG VI Hd1-OIuIIlS'
truth emerges.
So long as the G. o. P. has nothing to offer
but return to the old bankruptcy it may as
well save its pamphlet printing bills. Be
cause the public is determined to have a new
deal of some kind. The public may not be 100
per cent sold on the particular Roosevelt
brand But even the minority Of citizens who
are dissatisfied with the Roosevelt results are
asking. what is the alternatives The G. o. P.
has no alternative.
If the republican national committee will
go back and thumb through the worn political
copybooks, it will find its forgotten maxim:
You can't beat somebody with nobody;
you can't beat something with nothing"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06
A VOICE IS NEEDED

IF there is anything this country needs, it is
Il person who will be brave enough to lead
the American audience out of its state of
placidity and forbearance.
For if there is any group of individuals
that has suffered from the strain of all sorts
of public speakers, it is the American public.
The other day came the climax, the final
singing blow, to this great tolerant tribe.
Eva lie GalHenne and Ethel Barrymore, lead
ing actresses in their own right, rose before
a meeting of Philadelphia women and hurled
a bolt Of temperamental rebuke at them.
It was unexpected. It was devastating. It
left the audience cowed and dazed.
All the comment that could be heard from
the women as they left the auditorium, was
a vague "impudent" and "insolent," to ease
their feelings
No one got up at her seat to berate either
of the speakers. They simply took it, as nearly
every other audience has taken it from year
to year, without protest
OF course, this is an extreme case. But in
its extremity it is an excellent example of the
lengths to which speakers will go in harangu-
Ing their listeners without mourning their open
diSpleasure.
1t shows how docile. how unprepared, how
tractable the American audience is
Yet it should not be So No speaker is in.
fallible. No public character-not even the
great Barrynore-is perfect.
Yet speakers do not hesitate to tell their
audiences from the rostrum things they might
think twice to utter on the same level.
They do so, safe in the knowledge that not
one of that placid mass before them will have
the courage to get up and challenge their
remarks.
Some day nberator will arise Some day
some one will lead the American audience out
of its laSstude, toward a type of expression
so sorely needed to protect itself against the
declamations Of self-appointed authorities.
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Warns Against Rabbit s Disease

NAL. The one that seems stupid or
dazed is likely to be infected with
tularemia.
Now to the women:
In preparing the RABBIT for eat
ing, play safe by wearing rubber
gloves. And see that the meat is
cooked thoroughly before serving.
And to both hunters and their
families:
See that you have no open wounds
on your hands when you come into
contact with a rabbit. The disease
may be contracted sometimes
through the bite of a tick that is
infected, or even by crushing the
tick on the skin.
Finally, it is well to emphasize
that the chief danger from tula-
remia lies in direct contact with in
fected tissues and that the person
who likes to eat rabbit meat can
avoid the disease by making sure
that the food is cooked fully.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06

IF you sometimes wonder why so
l. many eligible men do not hurry
to the altar, you may be interested
in the following letter. And, re-
member, please, that it is authentic,
and was not written by an old fogey,
but by a young man Of manageable
age who believes that women have
changed for the worse during the
last mad. idiotic decade" He
finds the modern girl without charm
or appeal. Here is the lowdown on
what he thinks about her:
Instead of being the individual
she believes she is, the average
young woman is a prize example Of
conventionality. This reflects it
self chiefly in her smoking and
drinking. 7 and very many other
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whether individualism shall drive
into another wilderness, or the job
be done collectively. I prefer in
dividualism. 1t has worked before.
In why Call on Uncle SAM" you
prefer states rights rather than call
ing on Washington to police our
towns. Fine Much better than
another code"
In "a Good Label" you fairly de-
fine Tory" I disagree with your
quotation from the editor of Com
mon Sense. Either my individual
istic ideas are all wrong, in which
case I am Tory, or the collectivistS
are all wrong. 1t will take more
than the epithet Tory to change
my opinion.
AS to From Three Great Lead
ers,' I disagree with the idea that
just where the drinker gets his mar
cotic is a cause for worry. True,
Alfred E. Smith is near-great from
brown derby to the sidewalks Of
New York; Newton D. Baker, have
heard of (PerShlng thought him a
fair boss and Mrs. Charles H.
Sabin is not an acquaintance of
mine. She is probably near-great,
too. But like the slogan, Make it
smart to be legal"
In short, there is a lot of logic
in your columns the last few days
Keep it up and you will leave those
of opposite opinion no ground to
stand on. Too often, liberals rea-
son by jumps; proceeding not con-
tinuously from the known to the
unknown, but leaving large gaps in
their logic.
I would rather be wrong con-
WINGED by quiet logical argument
that looked error proof than right
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06

THE rabbit season has brought
i out a great many hunters, this
year, and has exposed them and
their families to vicious disease.
Popularity it is called rabbits dis
ease. Among physicians it is known
as tularemia.
The disease usually begins with
symptoms much like those Of a
common cold. In most cases an
ulcer develops at the spot where the
infection entered the body. Many
times the condition lasts so long
and the fever is so protracted that
the disease resembles typhoid fever.
The doctor makes his diagnosis
by tests of the blood and by exam
ming the wound and getting the
history Of the case.
AS an indication Of the extent
to which the condition has spread
throughout the country, more than
one hundred cases have been re-
ported in most states since 1923.
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{: E: A Woman'S Viewpoint

"My third complaint is their pro-
love making. Kisses are
as common as handshakes used to
be. There is no difference between
a great many respectable girls and
the women Of the streets. The COM
pensation amounts to about the
same.
1--WE can not ignore the fact" he
continues, that the prevalence Of
bad habit or a vice does not make
it a virtue. At present men can
not raise their faces upward to
women. IN the matter of marriage,
We feel that we are licked before
We start
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN
Editor Journal of the American Medi-
cal Association and of Hygeia,
the Health Magazine.

In Iowa, a housewife dressed sew
eral rabbits which her husband had
brought home from a hunting trip.
Three or four days later a sore
spot developed on one Of her fingers,
then the glands in her elbow and
in her arm began to swell
Soon she had fever, chills, head
ache, and a lot Of aches all over
the body. A physician who exam
ined her discovered she had tula-
rennia.
The incident is a warning to
women who prepare the spoils Of
their husbands hunts for cooking,
and it may be a warning, also, to
the hunters. First to the hunters:
There's just one simple precau-
ton. Don't pick up rabbit that
is not quite well. The hare that
runs and jumps is healthy ami
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Al Should Announce Himself

4 L ought to be frank enought to
L n stand up and get himself
counted in the roll call of conserva-
tive American leaders. I haven't a
doubt AIS intellectual honesty in
calling for a return from expert
mentation back into the waiting
room where the general public cools
its heels and waits to hear from the
corporals and captains of industry
whether or not it eats today or
tomorrow.
I think that Father Coughlin is
right in urging the necessity Of a
new deal and one yet newer. He
has every right to go back to PapaI
encyclicalS to prove his point that
the church stands for better dis
tribution and a check on swollen
fortunes. 1 think it is an extraor-
binary phenomenon that the most
successful radical leader in America
today should be a priest.
In 1923 Bishop Cannon. the
Methodist Mauler, won a decision
from Al, but it was only on points,
and If a return match had been
granted the Mauler would have had
all the worst Of it. But Father
Coughlin is not trying for a de-
cision. He's after a knockout. And,-
in my opinion, he has Al lying on
the ropes.
Copyright. 1888. BY The Tines
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The AnecdOtaL Urge

1T seems to me that in this respect
L Father Coughlin speaks truth
fully. When he gets into more
minor things such as who visited
which Wall Street office at what
time I think that he is getting a
little off the track. I do not think
anybody Immediately should be
thrown out Of the society of useful
citizens simply because somebody
reports that Mr.. < was observed
tiptoeing into the house of Morgan
and that when he came out his face
was wreathed in smiles. That
seems to me circumstantial evidence
at its worst.
Mr.. x has denied, I believe. that
he ever called upon Morgan to get
a sufficient loan to swing the EN-
pire State building. 1 am convinced
that the enterprise proceeded under
its own steam and that none of the
traditional leaders of Wall Street
greeted the project with hurrahs
or hat tossing. But the issue be-
tween Al Smith and Father Cough
lin goes a good deal deeper than
the credibility Of an anecdote.
Neither one is under the necessity
OF calling sharp names, since each
IN all sincerity advocates an eco
nomlc scheme which is repugnant to
his rival.
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So They Say

The racketeer now has grown
strong and the tribute eXacted by
him is said to amount to nearly
S1,0OO,00OOOO a year - Attorney
General Hugh S. Cummings.
No amount of statistics and no
number of bulletins will take the
place Of a lamb chop and a glass
of milk at the right moment.-U. S.
Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins.
There is not much difference be-
tween the religions. 1t is what re-
suits in service that counts.-Ma-
harajah Gaekwar Of BaToda.
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: BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

young men have no desire to marry
a woman who carries the smell OF
a combined cigar store and saloon.
Secondly, young women are al
most ludicrous in their Alterations.
I can not find delicacy and fra
GRANGE in today's girls. NO, Dora,
he does not mean perfume). Am I
looking for something which ceased
to be with my mothers genera
lions?
IT'S it impossible to find girl
l. who can play Schubert's 'Sere-
made instead Of ambling to the
radio with grotesque hip move
ments, to give me It's the talk OF
the town
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-06
A SaUin!g2

By H. H. Haus.
read in your paper where seven
million dollars had been saved by
the Indiana highway commission.
Here is the truth how some Of it
was Saved-something that never
happened under the other adj
ministration.
The contractor who tore up and
cemented state Road so. from the
Bedford city limits east, paid his
men Is cents an hour. Ralph
Rogers, contractor of Blooming
ton, whose firm asphalted state
Road 7 from Columbus, paid 20
cents slave wages.
One of the foremen kicked a
laborer down when he could not
work faster. The foreman was
fined in court here.
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HEALTH PAYS
rect route

NPPORTUNE is the warning of Golfers
~ that communities and states are cutting
their health budgets at their own and the ma
tons peril.
Word comes from South Dakota, Alabama,
Mississippi, from Atlanta, Paterson, Seattle,
Pittsburgh, Cleveland and even from Wash
ington that serious cuts have been ordered in
the usual health service expenditures.
Now Of all times, ample public funds are
needed to guard the peoples health. Their
own incomes reduced or shut off, millions of
families depend entirely on public health
services. To fail them is not only perilous to
these families. Epidemics spread from poor
to rich.
Due to mild weather conditions, the reduc-
ton of industrial hazards, the lack of a big
epidemic and other causes the death rate fell
last year to a low of 100 1000. Infant NOR
tally too, fell from GO 1000 in 1929 to
SO last year.
AS Golfers editor says, with victory ap
parently within our grasp we are confronted
by forces which may unleash epidemics,
boost the already rising cancer rate and carry
us back to the health conditions Of years ago."
States and communities which can see
economy in cutting health budgets have not
profited by the lessons of history.
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:: The Message Center ::
wholly dsapprove you

(TtmeS readers are inUited to cypress
their Uiet0s in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ qoords or Iess.J
BY Tom Berling.
Friends and neighbors, taxes are
very heavy, and if those laid on by
the government were the only ones
we had to pay, we might more easily
discharge them, but we have many
others, and much more grievous to
some Of us.
We are taxed twice as much by
our idlenesS, three times as much
by our pride and four times as much
by our folly; and from these taxes
the commissioners can not ease or
deliver us by allowing an abatement.
However, let us hearken to good adj
vice and something. may be done for
us. Gold helps them that help
themselves.
It would be thought a hard gov
eminent that should tax its people
one-tenth part Of their time, to be
employed in its service, but idleness
taxes many of us much more, if we
reckon all that is spent in absolute
sloth or doing Of nothing, with
that which is spent in idle employ
ment or anusementS that amount
to nothing. Sloth by bringing on
diseases, absolutely shortens life.
Sloth like rust consumes faster than
labor wears, while the used key is
always bright.
So what signifies wishing and
hoping for better times? We may
make these times better if we be-
stir. Industry need not wish and he
that lives on hopes will die fasting.
There are no gains without pains,
then help hands, for I have no
lands or if have, they are smart
ly taxed.
He that hath a trade hath an es-
tate and he that hath a calling hath
an office of profit and honor. But
then the trade must be worked at
and the calling will enable us to
pay our taxes.
By o. J. Simmons.
I disagree often with The Times
editorial opinions. And for this very
reason, want to praise your articles
with which I am in agreement.
In your editorial of Nov. on the
Maryland Rebellion, you state the
issue fairly and correctly.
"The purpose of the law is to
protect the community from the
lawlesS minority" Lynching is law
leSSneSS.
In your editorial of same date,
'The New Frontier" it would
seem you have gone counter to
President Roosevelt's statement,
Our last frontier long since has
been reached" Of course, your
statements in this editorial are cor
rect; the only question bein g
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BY r. Springer.
An article by a Times Reader on
Dec. intimated that Hoosier wives
are lazy. That statement is false
and you know it, Times Reader.
You say there are no such wives
in Kentucky. That is partly true
as some have moved to this state.
My mother was a farm girl and
did a mans work in the fields. She
gets my breakfast and lunch ready
for me to go to work. She also
keeps her house in order.
I also know a partly disabled
woman who walks with the aid Of
a cane, who can do more work than
a few of your younger able bodied
Kentucky citizens.
There are numerous reasons why
we resent some Kentuckians. II
you want to see one, take a thor
ough look at the disgraceful condi-
ton of West indianapolis. 1t DIDN'T
look like that fifteen years ago
when HoosierS lived there.
This state welcomes desirable
citizens and industries, but we don't
care for the other kind If there
are any who don't like this state,
they are free to leave if they choose.
Some of our Hoosier employers
preach to us to support our home
industries and they will support us.
Why don't you practice what you
preach? Fill the jobs with HOLSTERS
first.
Will the gentleman who says he
might show Hoosier unemployed
how to find work get several thou
sand jobs for them. BY that, I mean
a real job and not a flim-ham sales
proposition that would starve
microbe.
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Bigger Than Amos and Andv

A Ii over Newark; all over the
L n country" answered the man
who knew Father Coughhn. In
fact, some of the radio cabs here are
putting out little placards saying
that in their cars you can hear
Father COughlin and get where
you're going at the same time"
I don't know just where Father
Coughlin is going. but this clerical
crusader is certainly on his way. In
a knOckdoWn fight between Al
Smith and the rector Of the Church
of the Little Flower, Mr.. Smith sim
ply stands no chance at all It
isn't fair fight. Father Coughlin
is so much better known at the mo-
ment that even the best arguments
of Al come to the millions as no
more than a whisper.
I have heard the words Of the
radio priest only in part and on a
few occasions. Save at the time Of
some particularly bitter controversy
the newspapers do not print very
much about him. This is decidedly
an error in judgment. Right now
anything which Father Coughun
says is news.
I am not sufficiently familiar with
his talks to say whether all his
theories are justified from my own
point Of view. In general I am on
his side, although there wotid be
sharp disagreement as to details.
Father Coughlin is preaching the
doctrine that the immediate choice
Of Americans lies between "Roose-
welt and ruin" The clergyman con-
tends that the President of the
United States is engaged in a life
and death struggle with the Spokes-
men of big business and that the
bankers and the rest are intent
upon destroying all the vital factors
in the new deal.
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The telephone code will be limited to regu-
lation of hours and wages. When it comes to
wrong numbers and overcan charges, the gov
eminent knows when it's licked.
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Another set of scientists eXhausts the aid
in big radio tubes down to one and one-half
biIlionths of an atmosphere. But they can't
cut down on the hot air that goes through it.
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wouldn't it be grand if the administration
could get our young men and women to pillow
under some Of the wild oats they SOW?
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Amelia Earhart says old men should be the
first to be called to arms in case of war. Only,
they're sure to be hard of hearing.
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Smithsonian scientists have discovered that
a bee stings hardest sitting down. Now we
need only sign the national anthem to keep
bees from singing us.
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Tests by a Chicago university professor
show that 80 beer is not Intoxicating The
students he tried it on continued to cut their
classes.
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A Russian professor says We can live to
be $50 years old. But who wants to?
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super-men are predicted for 100 years from
now. And they'll have their super problems,
too
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It Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN-

NEW YORK, Dec 6.-"That
~ wasn't such a terrible bad
audience. said the chairman Of the
netting consolingly. After all, YOU
boys must remember that you were
in conflict with Father Coughlin"
rs he here in Newark this after
noon?" I asked.
Not in person" replied my in
formant. In that case you wouldn't
have had any audience. I merely
meant that as you three We're fin
iShing up Father COughlin was be-
ginning and there are a whole lot
Of people here in New Jersey who
don't miss a word he says. How
about coming over and having a
drink"
The first thing that struck me in
the speakeaSy was the presence
Of dozen men who sat about a
table drinking nothing. eating moth
ing, saying nothing They were lis
tenng to Father Couhlns broad
cast.
The New York delegation ordered
cocktails and the bartender seemed
a little Surly as he filled the order.
He don't like it if you order
mixed drinks explained our host.
He doesn't want to miss Father
Coughlin."
DO you mean to tell me" 7 asked,
that all over Newark people are
sitting goggle-eyed and fascinated
by sermon on free silVer?"
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and led thereto by epithets, slogans,
and mob psychology. So, dear.
opponent, if you wish to convince
me and other Tories Cor whatever
we are) stick tight to the careful
calm logic we Tories so dearly
love.