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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
WE SHOULD ALL SHARE

A RTHUR E. MORGAN, who is chairman of
the Tennessee Valley Authority and-in
his spare time, so to speak-president of
Antioch college, tells his students at the open
ing of the fall term that America must begin
to build character ION the plane of social re-
sponsibility"
Now, it is the peculiar privilege of college
presidents to mouth charming phrases before
a wide-eyed convocation of newly arrived fresh
men. But DR.. Morgan's suggestion hits new
note. and it might be worth a second look.
Each individual" he says, must deter
mine to follow for himself the disciplined good
life. regardless of the pressure of the mass"
Does this mean a reversion to the loose
talk about an "aristocracy of brains" that we
heard so much about few years ago? Not
necessarily; for Dr. Morgan goes on to add:
There must grow a willingness to share
the common lot and progress only as the COM
mon lot can progress. To large extent that
means change of personal aims and desires"
And it is precisely in this direction that the
present trend in American life must swing if
the high hopes of the last eighteen months are
not to be dashed.
SS%AAS
such notion as this which helped, in the early
years of the republic. to build that great Amer
lean dream which has always dazzled our eyes
just beyond the horizon.
Men came to believe. in those fresh new
days. that human life could be lived on basis
different from anything previously tried; that
the rights of the humblest man could be made
as sacred as the rights of the mightiest, and
that progress should mean nothing at all I'M
less it means better life and truer freedom
for the fellow at the bottom of the heap.
1t was. and is, a noble, dream. Like all
dreams. it has been stained and frayed in its
passage down through the years. But it re-
mains Our finest heritage; and if the confusion
Of this era is to mean anything at ALL it must
mean revival of that dream and new effort
to attain it.
And, as DR.. Morgan suggests. before We can
attain it We must find new mental attitude.
We must somehow, get this willingness to
share the common lot and progress only as the
common lot progresses"
Only in that way can We make of the New
Deal anything more than an empty set of
slogans.
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BELITTLES ATTACK ON
G. o. p. ORGANIZATION
By Arthur G. Gresham.

BY Arthur q. Gresham.
John w. Kern, Democratic candi-
date for mayor, bemoans the fact
that the Republican party of Marion
county has an organization. Mr..
Kern makes very pathetic figure
OF himself when he attempts to
warn the citizens of Indianapolis
against machine politics. Here we
have a candidate carrying the ban
ner Of the McNutt political ma
chine posing as a, crusader for good
city government.
A vote for Mr.. Kern is a vote for
McNutt and a state NRA. Why. I
would like to ask Mr.. Kern, has not
the Marion county Democratic Or
ganization followed the procedure of
all other campaigns and organized
Democratic ex-service mems or
ganization?
The simple reason is the Demo-
cratic party penalized the disabled
veterans and placed them in the
bread lines. Mr.. Kern criticises the
Marion county Republicans because
George V. Coffin is a member of
that organization. I venture to as
sert that Mr.. Coffin has served the
state and nation not only as a
soldier but as a good citizen just
about as faithfully as Mr.. Kern.
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I aOhoIIy diSapprove Of tOhat yow sag and aCiu
defend to the death your right to say it-VoItaire.

and anything he does that will not
harmonic with the Republican
ideals that Lincoln advocated would
be to his political detriment. Alasl
Poor Lincoln! wonder if he would
recognize present day Republican,
ism?
The Republican party toward
election time always has made it its
business to remind the Negro that
all the wrongs and abuses inflicted
on the Negro have been done by
southern Democrats; but strange
as it may seem, each and every one
OF those wrongs were perpetrated
during Republican administrations,
when a Republican congress and a
Republican President could have de-
Tended the cause of the Negro, but
nothing was done even as a politi-
cal gesture.
l am not trying to defend politics
in the south, but those of us who
have lived in Indiana for any length
of time surely can appreciate the
difference in political recognition
given the Negro by the Democratic
party in contradistinction to Repub-
lican protestations of friendship
based entirely on the ground of a
Lihcolnian proprietary indenture,
political or otherwise.
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Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

TITS Excellency Osvaldo Aranha, strong man.
Il l. of Brazilian politics and newly appointed
ambassador of Brazil to the United States is
delighted with his new post
He arrived during downpour of rain, swathed
in a Brazilian raincoat lined with rabbit fur
and wearing high, tan shoes with buttons. But
his enthusiasm remains undampened
Sitting in the yellow satin Louis XVI recep-
ton room of his old chancery Ghe entire en-
bassy moves to Massachusetts, avenue in a
month";, Envoy Osvaldo talked informally about
his mission here.
Mostly he spoke PortugueSe-tranSlated by
his linguistic Counselor -Valle--but once
he branched off into English
Washington" he breathed, making ecstatic
gestures with his hands "Vunderful Simply
vunderful!"
He declined to make any official statement
until after he has seen President Roosevelt and
presented his credentials
In fifteen days, the ambassador says" trans
lated the faithful Mr.. Vale. "he will speak good
English"
Few people realize that it is due to Ambassa-
dor Aranha that former Brazilian Ambassador
de Lima Silva is envoy in Brussels today,
instead of being out of a job. The President of
Brazil wanted to GUST de Lima Silva, but
Aranha insisted he be given another post (And
this wasn't learned from him. He is too modest
to admit it,
Note-Following Ambassador Aranha from
the station in heavy rain, Counselor Valle's
car was crashed into by another machine
ITS my fault" exclaimed the guilty driver.
"Nobodys fault in a rain like this" said
Vale, and he declined to accept any money for
the damages.
THE most disappointed embassy in WASH
Il ington and the most pleased is that of the
Spanish republic.
This paradox is explained by the fact that
all the staff are too busy to attend the Amer
ica's cup races at Newport, and the announce
for trade treaty between Spain and the United
States are to begin shortly.
Lean, serious Ambassador Luis Calderon is
an excellent yachtsman. He has often seen
King Georges yacht race at Cowes and has
taken part in the Spanish racing at San Sc
bastian. This summer he visited some of the
American yachts lying off Narragansett, South
ampton and Newport. But business made him
hasten back to Washington.
Then, there's the Count-Duke de Olivares.
yachtSman and sportsman Of the Spanish En-
bassy. whose Newport sojourn was the delight of
several dowagers.
Il tried to stay for the race" shrugged Oil
wares. but was forced to give up the idea"
Counselor Yrujo seemed unconcerned He
has just returned from Mexico
"A bull1ght," he hazarded, els worth two
yacht races
Young Ramon Padilla. secretary of the en-
bassy, is all expert sailor.
Il went to Nonquit," he sighed. shut work
called me back"
Anyhow" remarked philoSophic Ambassador
Calderon, I'VE are very happy to learn that trade
negotiations are to be discussed shortly between
Spain and the United States"
And we're giving sherry party for the
Mexican polo team" added Ramon.
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the smartest crook at large. In the capture
Of hdnspers their record is almost perfect.
The Lindbergh kidnapping put the United
States into the business Of catching interstate
criminals. Congress passed the Lindbergh
anti-kdnaping law in June, 1882. Since then
there have been twenty-nine kidnapings. All
Of these cases have been solved save three.
The abduction Of little June Robes in
Nogales, probably the work of a maniac, stin
is a mystery. The Hamm and Bremen cases
in st. Paul have resulted in no convictions,
but in both cases the department Of justice is
watching the suspects. The twenty-six solved
cases resulted In sentences totaling I'LL years,
melted out to seventy-one criminals.
Last year the bureau tracked down 1853
fugitives, an average Of more than three
day. Convictions followed in e55 per cent
of the cases.
Here Is a record that leaves no conceivable
justification for such brutal and anarchistic
Justice" as California mob visited upon two
kidnapping suspects
Splendid as is the governments recent rec
ord there is danger that this very efficiency
will invite unreasonable expansion of federal
police powers. The last congress properly
granted the federal government large powers
in crime abatement; the next congress will be
asked for more power.
It is cooperation between the communities
and the government in applying science to
detection, that is succeeding in this country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
IN THE FACE OF DEATH

ONE Of the most delightful human interest
~ stories of the year comes-of all sources
out Of the horror of the MORO Castle fire.
A passenger on this steamer was fireman
named Kempf. Testifying at the inquiry, Mr..
Kenpt told how he went overheard to escape
the flames. accompanied by two girls. They
drifted away from the ship. and one Of the
girls asked him. We'll. big boy. do you think
we'll make it?"
And Mr.. Kempf added. at the inquiry:
And if that girl is still alive. hope she will
drop me a postcard right away. She was
one swell red-head"
There is something so refreshingly human
about this story-this undaunted wisecrack in
the very shadow of death-that one is In
clined to agree. offhand with the fireman in
his estimate Of the red-head Let's hope he
gets his p-stoard-and. for that matter. nice
date for himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
WastefuJ Competition Deplored

real producer is a notch lower in
the social scale.
We pat ourselves on the back,
that our far-famed bureaucrat,
Uncle Sam, does not send seven
mail carriers down every street, or
that we are not trampled by police
and f1remen.
Competition has some virtues,
but they must be paid for. In
this case Of milk, the price is paid
by children in deprivation Of the
very thing of which there is an
abundance.
If the farmers will bring their
milk to the farm bureau for dis
tribution through district substa-
tions, where consumers may come
and get it, the farmers would get a
decent price; there would be no
oversupply, and the consumer
could get twice the amount of
milk for his money.
omy, more goods for less money,
We need more real producers,
less tollgate keepers in our econ
and a little Recommendation in place
of this waste of competition.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
THE LINDBERGH CASE ARREST

THE Lindbergh kidnapping case arrest is big
news not only because it may solve the
most revolving crime OF decade. but because
II shows the growing power Of law in the
United States. Other arrests probably will
follow
The Law no longer is a weakling when it
can reach out and get an extortionist suspect
two and half years after the crime. In this,
as in other recent arrests. the law barred not
only a long arm but also long memory.
The United States is making better use OF
two weapons in its war on crime. One is CO.
operation. the other intelligence. This arrest
was due n working partnership between New
york City. New Jersey state and federal Of
d-erS
The 500 new federal operators under Di-
rector J. Edgar Hoover's bureau Of investiga-
ti-a are pling up a record for effective inter
SAFE c.-ms dctset.oa that must give pause to
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ators who sinned in the last three
Republican administrations with the
great engineer at the wheel, to find
ourselves in the wind-up in the
worst financial condition this
country ever knew; that was enough
to convince us that we had not been
sending the right kind of material
to Washington and we can not see
that we had made a mistake by
telling them at the polls two years
ago that their service no longer
was desired.
Persons living in glass houses
should not throw stones. Come out
with a remedy for this financial
predicament we are in, and we
might consider a return engage
ment; otherwise we are going to stay
where we moved two years ago, for
think that the Democrats will find
the way by the help of those Re
puDiicans who laid prejudice aside
and are working for the best inter
ests of the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21

By Milk Consumer.
The federal trade commissions
investigation of milk production
and distribution will give us some
information which most of us
already know. The milk business
is not different from most other
businesses.
The competitive system of in
dustry encourages so much du-
plication of effort, which is not
conducive to savings, but a dis
tinct loss to our standard of liv-
ing. When seven milk wagons
pass one door, we know that
somewhere out of the pockets of
the patrons payment for this
monstrous waste of labor and
profits for equipment must come.
But why pick out the milk bust
ness? There's the bread wagons
parade; vegetable trucks, filling
stations, chain stores and most
every line of business and profess
sion beating the bushes for the
consumer dollar. The selling fran
chise is a coveted prize; statesmen
are recognized as gentlemen. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
BELIEVES VOTERS WISE
TO G. o. p. WILES

81 P. c. B.
The great magician act is on. But
the voter is learning to watch both
hands of the Republican party, and
while he sees the Constitution
waved aloft in the right hand, he
does not lose sight of the left hand
which is trying to steal his shirt.
He has seen enough of that hand
is quicker than the eye" business in
the past, and will not be fooled so
easily in the future.
When the magician talks the
loudest and waves one hand the
widest, he is trying to distract at
tention from what he is doing with
the other.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
GETTING SET RIGHT
WITH MR.. WRIGHT
By Frank J. Wright.

I purchase The Times each day,
largely for the editorial page-edi-
torials which always are good; car
toons which really are great re-
fer to those of Mr.. Berg. The ar
ticles of Barnes and Capital Cap
ers" by Abel are high in informative
nature.
BY no means would I ignore The
Message Center where the cross
current of thought may be found.
However, I become enraged (mildly
but aplenty at that when find
letters written by "A Reader" "a
Citizen" or perhaps bearing just
initials Of the writer. I discount
what the writer says about SO per
cent because of their timidity or
fear to sign their real names in full.
If I we're editing that column,
would refuse any letter for pub
LEGATION which did not carry, for
publication, the name Of the writer.
You can imagine how I felt when
I read my own letter Mind In Re-
1atoa te Nedicine" Sept Is. with
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
LIBERTY DEFINED IN
REPLY TO REED

BY Roosevelt Supporter.
Ex-senator Reeds speech before
the legion gave me the impression
that he wants the Constitution as
a license to make the United States
game preserve for special privi-
lege hunters to bag their prey.
rather than have it be chart for
the orderly conduct Of men in all
their relations to their fellows.
Liberty is not license to do as
one pleases. Liberty is the exercise
Of restraint on all that is injurious
to the social welfare. 1t is upon
this premise that all law is pre-
sumed to rest.
Only law-abiding citizens enjoy
real liberty. We never have had
individual liberty to do as we please
since we agreed to accept collective
liberty under the Constitution as
our primary law of conduct.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
COFFINISM COMPARED TO
M'NUTT MACHINE

By Arnold Campbell.
The Times editorial entitled,
Stamp Out Coffinism," does your
newspaper very little credit. 1t is a
camouflage to distract the electorate
of this county from the real issues
in the coming campaign.
Your complaint about a political
machine is more than amusing. 1t
is pathetically so. What political ma
chine ever known in Indiana was
tighter and more in control of jobs
and everything that goes with cor
ruption than the one headed by Nc
Mutt, Greenlee ct al. and its tribu-
taries in the various counties in the
state?
What was more vicious than the
poStponement of municipal elections
for year in order that Democrats
might hold Office a year longer than
the terms for which the people
elected them and for no reason,
other than it looked like bad year
for the Democratic party?
How about the open charges that
the Governor and coterie of his
friends control brewery or two in
this state and that local officials and
the state excise officials compel tav-
ern keepers to use their products?
The Times itself has decried the
system of importers which imposes
an unwarranted hardship and tax
upon the people of the state.
The editor has not lived in this
state very long and he can not, of
course, know of events a few years
back. But the public will remember
that when vacancy existed in the
municipal court when Ed Jackson
was Governor, John Kern, now the
Democratic nominee for mayor,
would have received the appoint
ment if at that time he could have
qualified. The law provides that the
municipal court judges have five
years actual law practice to be eli
gible and that was what kept Mr.
Kern from receiving the appoint
ment. Now, if George Coffin con-
trolled the Jackson administration,
as The Times charges in the edi-
torial Mr.. Kern must have been a
Coffin Democrat to have bean ac-
ceptable to Mr.. Coffin and Mr.. jack
son.
No, Mr.. Editor, the editorial was
one of the several dying gasps
which we will hear from your paper
and the Democratic party before the
party expires in November.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
STATUS OF NEGRO
AND POLITICS
By Ernest Z. LashaIin.

BY Ernest Z. LashaIin.
The political status of the Negro
is and has always been a mooted
question between the Republican
and Democratic parties.
While the Negro with Democratic
tendencies is striving to present to
the public Democratic defense for
his plight as a citizen some one is
always taking up his cause and
trying to persuade him to believing
that the Republican party is and
has always been his friend and
advocate.
AT election periods he Is told that
Abraham Lincoln was his godfather
and emancipation. his political God,
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natured.-Upton Sinclair.
The denial of property rights ale
ways has been the prelude to a de-
NAL of human rights. Shouse,
president of American Liberty
League.
I won't talk.-Baby Leroy.
For the next 1000 years there will
be no revolutions in Germany
Adolf Hitler.
The true hope Of progress lies in
the spiritual mponderables.-He
bert Hoover.
After I talked with Roosevelt I
found that not so many of my ideas
were new as I had thought.-Upton
Sinclair.
AS an organization, we are neither
for nor against President Roosevelt.
American Liberty League.
zaharof contributed to the world
nothing but the technique Of msssed
murder.-Senator Homer T. Bone of
Washington.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
CHALLENGES G. o. p. TO
IMPROVE NEW DEAL
By c. F. ward.

By c. F. Ward.
notice the Republican office
seekers have a great deal to say
about the New Deal, and I wonder
why they did not make protest
against such outrageous mistakes
the President was about to plunge
the country into. If they were wise
enough to see what the results would
be. why didn't they protest?
They suggest that a good way
would be for the Republicans to
come back to the job Of offire hold
ing through the back door Of the
American Liberty League. I want
to tell those fellows chat We are not
coming back as long as they put up
the same representatives and sen
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
PARKING FAVORITISM
NEAR TAVERN CHARGED
By Times Reader.

By Times Reader.
I wonder why the taxicabs can
park in front of the Dinty Moore
beer tavern so pedestrians have to
get in the middle of Ft. Wayne ave-
nue. to cross. There also is a mo
parking" sign on the north side of
st. Joe street. But the patrons of
the tavern can park their fine cars
along there and never be bothered.
I wonder if a poor man could do
the same?
Is it because the chief Of police
has a finger in the pie2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
Bittersweet
BY RUTH PERKINS

BY RUTH PERKINS
My lips crave more than Utilization.
Fleeing flattery. admiration,
I want my lips aloof and prim,
Not easy marks for every whirn,
Clustered. honored, deemed as such.
Yet tantalizing though untouched.
And yet if what crave were true
I'd never known the love of VOL
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only my initials and one of these
wrong. I wish all would sign their
names; it would give more weight to
what is said. Naturally, I wasl
peeved when my name was not
printed in full.
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Daily Thought

If the Lord delight in us. then He
will bring US into this land, and give
it to us; land which floweth with
milk and money.-Numbers, l4:S.
MO free man viii ask as favor
IN what he can not claim as re-
ward--Terrence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21

Sir Basil zaharof, Garpo. and the famous
Egyptian Sphinx ought to get together for a
friendly chat. But probably the Sphinx would
talk too much
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21

The man with real vision is not predicting
revolution; he is investigating his neighbours
needs before ordering the winter coal supply.
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Usage Indians to the eighth descendant
are entitled to $4,000 each because of oil dis
covered on their territory. Why shouldn't the
Indians get the best Of everything9 Don't
they have reservations?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-21
The Message Center

(Times readers are Mvfted to eCpress
their Cielos In these columns. Make yoiir
letters short, so all can have chance.
Limit them to $50 CORDS or less.)
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Sc They Say

I am going to learn to be good
natured.-Upton Sinclair.