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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-11-30
A Mob Leader Explains

ct WAS the first one of the gang
l. to break into the jail. I came
to town in the afternoon and saw
the crowd around the jail. I de-
cided to organize a 'necktie' party.
Mostly 7 went to the speakeasies
and rounded up the gang there
That is why so many of the mob
were drunk. The word got spread
around that it was going to be a
Santa Clara university student
lynching. But I'm not a Santa Clara
student. didn't go to college. I
knew Brooke Hart by sight, but
never had spoken to him. I thought
that his terrible murder should be
avenged. I found that several hum
dred others thought the same
thing"
In other words, a farm boy who
came into town for spree managed
to hit upon a drunken crowd which
was willing to defend the American
home and its institutions for the
fun Of it.
Governor Rolph has called it "a
fine lesson to the whole nation"
And New York newspaper says in
its leading editorial Nobody that
we've heard of or talked to appears
to disagree with the mob or disap-
prove of what Governor Rolph
said"
All right; talk to me. Or better
still, read these selections from a
| United Press diSDatch.
"Thurmond was unconscious, and
probably dead, when the moose was
placed around his neck. He had
been beaten and kicked senseless. A
boy, not more than Is, climbed to
the top Of a shed and shouted in a
Shrill voice, Come on, fellows! He
was the leader the mob had been
waiting for. A new cry went up,
Lets burn emil Thurmond's body
was cut down. 1t was drenched
with gasoline. A match was touched
to it, but only his torn clothing
burned"
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Thanksgiving
BY THOMAS E. HALSEY

BY THOMAS E. HALSEY
Today this nation looks to God
For progress won and hopes re-
newed.
From humble layman to synod
We raise our voice in gratitude.
The doubts Of yesterday are gone;
The promise Of tomorrow stands
To give US courage with the dawn,
A greater faith, and steady hands.
We shall not bow to feast and song
Or let our souls be dulled with
care.
Americans-both old and young
Shall think or speak a grateful
prayer.
Rejecting on the waning year
With thankful hearts and simple
pride.
No future problems shall We fear
Nor solemn duties wave aside.
Supporting every righteous cause
BY thoughtfulness and vision
broad.
Let's forge ahead, but ever pause,
En- masse, to offer thanks TO God
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

not too costly. Today it is tragically waste
full It leads to disaster. We must now supply
a real and visible guiding hand to do the task
which that mythical, nonexistent, invisible
agency was supposed to perform, but never
did"
The fact that we are living in a new. COM
plicated and precarious economic epoch car
ries with it new responsibilities. We can no
longer pursue the happy-go-lucky policy Of
bygone years:
IN this era Of our economic existence,
believe it is manifest that a public interest
well within the functions Of government and
well within the authority of government under
our Constitution commands the protection,
the maintenance, the conservation of our in
dustrial faculties against the destructive
forces Of unrestrained competition
Certainly the Constitution never was de-
signed to impose upon one era the obsolete
economic dogma which may have been glori-
fed under it in an earlier one"
If we wish to do SO, there will be no trouble
whatever in adapting constitutional law to
the essential aims Of the new deal. The con-
cept of constitutionality always has been very
flexible, and anything has been constitutional
which the supreme court has wished to make
constitutional at any time. Those who raise
this issue are, for the most part, only trying
to throw dust in our eyes. Their only fear
is lest their own pet racket may be exposed
and abolished under the new plan Of govern
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GOVERNMENT BY DESIGN

WTHETHER or not the Brain Trust is on
its way out, its members primarily were
responsible for the formulation Of the new
deal upon which the destinies of capitalism
and democracy hang. Professor Tugweu ranks
second only to Professor NToley as the best
known member of the original Brain Trust.
In the Political Science Quarterly he states
even more clearly than he did in his book,
"The Industrial Discipline" the fundamental
arguments for a planned economy and a
governmental policy sufficiently resolute to
make 1t possible.
He lays stress upon the point that we must
accommodate ourselves to the fact that we
are living in a new era of economic life. The
present economic epoch is one of main
tenance," as against the earlier era of de
velopment." The cutthroat competition and
anarchy which might have been permissible
in the period of development is likely to prove
ruinous in our age of economic maintenance.
Our circumstances have changed The
plowman no longer homeward plows his way;
he rides a tractor. Natural resources no
longer can resist, with the same effectiveness,
our instrumentalities for their exploitation.
"Our economic course has carried us from
the era of economic development to an era
which confronts us with the necessity for
economic maintenance. In this period of
maintenance, there is no scarcity of produc
ton. There is, in fact, a present capacity for
more production than is consunable, at least
under system which shortens purchasing
power while it is lengthening capacity to
produce.
In this period of maintenance, the fact,
and it is a fact. of dependence of all produc-
ton upon a monetary market. vitalizes not
only problems of transportation, distribution
and exchange, but also the fact of indispen-
sable coordination of these factors of our
economy.
Even more. this dependence of our total
economic life upon the market makes more
and more conspicuous the dependence of our
economic existence upon the purchasing
power Of the consumer-upon wages"
The new economic era also has made it
necessary for us to revise archaic views of the
function Of government and OF the inevitable
benefcence Of business which prevailed in the
past epoch of economic development. With
the abandonment of these outWorn doctrines
must go the theory of constitutional law
which they produced:
AT the center of this constitutional law
was the conception of government as police
man. Government was to stop fragrant abuses
and no more 1t should be negative and ar
resting, not positive and stimulating. Its role
was minor and peripheral 1t was important
in this one sense: 1t was to. prevent interfer-
ences with the competitive system Behind
that system $50 it was said and thoroughly
believed was an invisible hand which bene-
fcently guided warning business men to the
promotion Of the general welfare.
The Jig is up. The cat is out of the bag.
There is no invisible hand. There never was.
If the depression has not taught us that. we
are incapable of education. Time was when
the anarchy OF the competitive struggle was
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NOV. 80, 1893
It Seems
to Me
BY HAYWOOD BROUN

NEW YORK. Nov. Comment
N on the San Jose lynching con-
stitutes an obligatory column.
In the beginning it seemed to me
as if this thing were so mOnsrOuS-
" and obviously evil that it would
be enough to say calmly and simply.
Here is one more Sadistic orgy car
RED on by a psychopathic mob under
the patronage Of the mOronic Gov
ernor Of a backward state"
To my amazement I found not
only conformation but actual praise
for the lynchers in no less than
three New York newspapers. I read
of "the vigilantes" and the pioneer
spirit" and so on.
Let us examine the evidence to
see if there is any reason at all to
aScribe the deed to the full lowered
resentment Of an aroused public
spirit.
Here is the story of the lynching
as told by an 18-year-old ranch boy
who asserted that he was leader of
the movement.
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TINE unusual and spectacular al
l. ways attracts us. For this rea-
son the death Of the young Florida
widow who got into her sparsely
fueled plane and headed for
ethereal heights over the sea ap-
peals to the popular imagination
False as such a gesture may be,
II remains a little glorious. She is
lost in illimitable space.
She spurned the earth, scene of
her bereavement. Like some Viking
of old, she sought her extinction in
the waters of the ocean-f1rst
mother of man.
The question always remains:
What is it that induces otherwise
sane beings to end their days before
they are well begun? Is it sorrow,
is it ennui, is it rebellion against
a fate which they imagine to be
closing about them2
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he senses that life is more impor-
tant than any individual sorrow.
The years between birth and natu-
raj death are so filled with un-
known possibilities, with unimag-
ined joys, with sudden vital dis
coveries, that to voluntarily deprive
ones self of even a day of earth's
sojourning, is to miss, it may be,
the very event toward which one
moves; the moment when one
grasps, in a flash, the true mean
ing and purpose Of existence.
We must all pass through ink
black corridors of grief. But it is
only when we walk through them
unfalteringly, determined to fulfill
our destiny whatever it may be,
that we are truly loyal to our dead
To endure, not to die, is heroic.
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Exhaust Gas Is Winter Hazard

On the other hand, deaths from
carbon monoxide gas have increased
about 400 per cent since 1881.
Sometimes death occurs through
riding in a car completely closed.
The exhaust pipe becomes choked,
then the carbon monoXde gas and
the exhaust comes into the tightly
closed car through the chinks in the
woodwork, and brings about deaths.
Such deaths occur particularly
when autoists are parked along the
roadside and the motor is kept run
ming to keep them warm. Last win
ter several instances were reported
in which two, three and, in one case,
four members of a family died I'M
der such circumstances.
The moral is, see that you have
plenty of fresh air while you are
warming up, or driving your car,
no matter how cold it is.
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:: The Message Center ::
hat will right iVOare

| of the higher principles of life stop
this contest?
Most of the contestants are still
in their growing years. The winning
couple only receives $1,000. How
any one can walk for this length Of
time without injuring himself physi-
cally and mentally is unbelievable.
Such a grind is sufficient to cause
insanity or permanent injury. A
ST 900 may not be sufficient for the
doctor bill. 1t is true that these
contestants should have better
judgment, but when they do not, it
is time our societies should act. I
hope indianapolis never will allow
such a contest to be held again.
By Wiley Perry.
The man who seems to be so
much aroused avoer the fact that
citizens of Kentucky and Tennes-
see are coming into indianapolis
and securing jobs should not lose
singht of the principle that We are
all one nation and the fact that
| VIC WC4C wi IL Ill OAlC OCdCC VI tAAC
other does not compel us to con-
fine ourselves within the borders
of that particular commonwealth.
I am a Tennesseean by birth and
served my country overseas for
twenty-five months and consider it
my right to migrate to any section
of the country which see fit to.
The remark that a silver dollar
looked like a cart wheel to some of
the natives Of the above mentioned
states would hold good, no doubt,
for millions of people all over the
United States and more so during
the last five years.
There may be a few cases where
HoosierS were told to go back to
their own state for employment, but
chances are that they were not any
more than were told the same thing
in other states.
Thousands of people in the south
ern part Of the state work in Louis
vile and there is not much of a
squawk heard from that sourse, so
the whole thing amounts to just
this much, Give and let live and
everything will come out all right"
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A SPECIAL hazard of the winter
L n season is death from inhalation
Of carbon monoxide gas, the exhaust
gas of automobiles, particularly in
large cities.
With the appearance of cold
weather, the newspapers begin re-
porting cases Of death from this
gas. Year after year the medical
profession has warned that it may
be fatal to run motor in a closed
garage, because the carbon monox-
ide gas coming from the motor ex-
haust is sufficient to bring about
death in the absence of any suit
able intake of fresh air.
The usual story is about as fol-
lows:
The car owner goes to his garage
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Governor Explains

governor JAMES ROLPH JR.
" has been quoted as saying that
he would like to turn over all jail
inmates serving sentences for kid
naping into the custody Of those
fine, patriotic San Jose citizens,
who know how to handle such a
situation"
And so the fine old pioneer spirit
Of California, under the leadership
Of that fine old nature lover, jim
Rolph, has ended kidnapping in the
great commonwealth of California.
And what has it left in its wake?
1t has left an obscene, depraved
and vile memory in the minds of
thousands who stood about and
cheered Justify.
Some of the children were ba-
bieS in their mothers arms"
If it were possible to carry on a
case history of every person in the
mob who beat and kicked and
hanged and burned two human
beings will make the prophecy
that out of this heritage will come
crimes and cruelties which are I'M
numbered. The price is too high.
Every mother and father of a son
wants to have him protected against
the danger Of kidnapping. But how
would you like it if it were your
16-year-old boy who climbed to the
top Of a shed and shouted in q
shr1ll voice, Come on, fellows!"
Governor James Rolph Jr. has
said with audacious arrogance, IF
any one is arrested for the good lob
Ill pardon them all"
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on cold morning. He finds it diff
cult to start the car. Because the
temperature outside is freezing, he
locks all the doors and windows
while he works on the vehicl. Once
the engine is started, he runs it at
a very rapid speed until it warns up
Under such circumstances, usual
ly, enough carbon monoxide may
accumulate to bring about death.
In 1924. a total of 1913 deaths from
this cause was reported, rising to 487
deaths in 1881, and 500 in 1892.
This increase, of course, is due to
the fact that the number of motor
cars used has increased, but it is
especially important because acct
dental deaths in general have de-
creased by about 10 per cent since
1881.
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A Womar'S Viewpoint i:
BY. MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

DAs AAASs w AL L En- LhOOSO4N
1t is none of these things. 1t is
simply a lack within the person
himself-a lack Of spiritual perspec-
tive. Only the individual who pos
sesses no mental reserves is capable
Of suicide unless we except those
who are unbalanced, as most sui
cides are.
.
DOUBTLESS all of us have flirt-
- ed with the idea Of self-de-
struction at one time or another.
There comes to every man a dark
day when he asks himself whether
life is worth the trouble Of living,
and when he questions the intelli-
gence Of a universe that appears
dourly inimical.
But the truly heroic individual
rresists the temptation. Somehow
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Thanksgiving
By a Times Reader.

By a Times Reader.
Our Father which art in heaven,
HalloWed be Thy name. Thy
kingdom come, Thy will be done
in earth as it is done in heaven,
Be with us in this time of Spiri-
tual need.
Lead us out of the crisis into
greater and better civilization.
Give our President health, and
endurance and the vision that he
may carry on to a success I'M
dreamed of in his great plan to
help humanity. Show him the
way and put into the hearts of
men and women the right way to
think and achieve by cooperating
with him.
We have faith in Thee and let
us be thankful for the blessings
we now have and for Franklin D.
Roosevelt in his efforts to solve
the social and political problems
ahead of us, so that this nation
may become a beacon light
through which the whole world
will find peace, safety and a larger
life.
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Frank j. Goulds 100000 gambling casino
at Nice has been burned down. Many loser
will kick himself for not having thought Of
that first before committing suicide.
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Canton China, has banned short skirts be-
cause they distract auto drivers. Not to men
ton the drivers interest in what is in the
skirts.
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Expiration to Come

IT does not lie within the power
l. Of the Governor of California to
pardon the men and boys and wO-
men and children who cried out,
Lets burn 'em!" For them there
is no pardon this side Of the Judg-
ment Seat. To your knees, Cover
nor, and pray that you and your
commonwealth may be washed
clean of this bath of bestiality into
which a whole community has
plunged.
You, James ROlph Jr., stand
naked in the eyes Of the world. III
pardon them ALL" you say. Is this
TO be the measure of Justice in Cali
fornia? Men with blood and burnt
flesh on their hands are to be set
free. Mooney must remain in iail.
Freedom for the guilty. Punish
ment for the innocent.
Governor, very frankly, 7 don't
believe you can get away with it.
There must be somewhere some
power which just won't stand for it.
Copyright, 1888. by The Timesl
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(Ttmes readers are mUited to cypress
their Uietcs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare a chance.
Limit them to ESQ 4cOrds or IeSs.J
By H. v. Allison.
Writing the obituary for Old Man
Prohibition is a few days early, but
the end is near. Some will rejoice
to see him put away. In his youth,
he was very popular in the churches
and with the temperance cause, and
a guide for the coming generation.
In his later years, he lost the con-
f1dence of the people. Getting in
politics, he was successful in having
laws passed. That got us to where
we are today on the liquor question.
The offices his men held benefited
them only. And failure to perform
their duties helped to wreck the
prohibition cause. The main cause
of his illness and approaching death
was DOC" around the corner los
ing his job And the new doctor,
Franklin D. Roosevelt refused to
take the case.
I believe the increasing activities
in the churches and the experience
of the past will reform the prohibi-
ton cause to a temperance educa-
ton, with a fair and impartial law
for all the people. There should be
a severe law for the violator driving
a car under influence of liquor.
Under the NRA many families
will rejoice to think of sitting at the
table with wholesome food again in
front of them. That is only a part
of its success. I say, MIRA through
thick and thin.
BY P. S. Thomas.
Say, "NGr. Hoosier Loaf" who
signs your name Times Reader"
moved here from another state but
not the states you mention. I
moved here fifteen years ago and
felt I was welcome. Have lived in
three other states and felt the same.
Besides, as a travelling salesman, I
have been in ten other states and
only once felt that I was intruding,
and that was down in Georgia.
was selling sewing machines,
house to house canvass, when an
Old lady told me I had better go up
north where I belong.
How an imaginary line between
| our so-called states can make any
difference is more than I can see,
so, "Mr Loafing HooSier," get busy
and go to work. And when you
write again, sign your name and
address. Maybe I could show you
how to get work.
BY Times Reader
In regard to Broken Hearted
Mothers letter, we read it and she
certainly has our sympathy. This
Mrs. Trook never has known the
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Daily Thought

Not that I speak with respect Of
want: for I have learned, in what
Soever state I am, Herewith to be
content.-Colossians Ill.
LIE is happy whose circumstances
II suit his temper; but he is
more excellent who can suit his
temper to any circumstances
Hume.
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This is the fourth of a series of five
articles by DR.. Morris Fishbein on win
ter health and safety hazards, and ways
to avoid them.
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love of baby arms around her neck
or she hasn't any heart. Imagine
a girl with tuberculosis and not even
allowed to write her mother a line,
and a boy shut off from the world.
What do they think he will turn out
to be, a gangster, or to have a
grudge against the law?
The Bible speaks of the sins Of
the fathers shall rest upon the chill
dren, and in this case it's true. Also,
the mother is suffering. I don't call
that justice. There surely could be
no harm in a mother visiting her
children.
BY Arthur J. Krause.
Several weeks ago, I witnessed the
Walkathon at the state Playground.
1t was the first marathon I ever saw
and it shall be the last.
The contestants must walk forty
five minutes and rest fifteen min
utes. This is continued all day and
all night without variation At the
end of each walking period, the
contestants are forced to drill and
walk as fast as they can. Several
contestants fell from exhaustion but
they were forced to their feet and
continued their tireSome journey.
With very few exceptions, the
contestants look worn out. Many of
them are asleep while walking. We
have a humane society which pro-
secutes any person who miStreatS a
dumb animal but we have no society
for the prevention of human tor
ture. Is some one receiveing a rake
off for permitting such a diSgraceful
contest? Can no person or society
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BY Times Reader
In regard to Broken Hearted
Mothers letter, we read it and she
certainly has our sympathy. This
Mrs. Trook never has known the
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RY DR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN

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Give Light and The
People WHt Find
Their Oacn Way
Evening star., 1933-02-12
Removal Of the Ci0iI War Presidents Body
From Washington to Springfield, Ill.,,
Showed Necessity for Improved Cars,
and Pullman5 Lnvention, the ':Pio-
neer, Was Pit Into Use.

trucks with springs reinforced BY blocks Of
solid rubber. II was . foot wider and two and
half feet higher than any other car In service,
the additional height being necessary to &C.
commodate the hinged upper berth that Pull
Evening star., 1933-02-12

man had invented In addition to its unusual
strength, width and solidity, Is furnishings
fore b. the travelling public. Viewed through
the eyes Of today it was decorative orgy. but