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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
URGES LESS PROMINENCE
FOR CRIME NEWS

BY Butler CriminoIogy Class.
An appalling crime situation ex-
lists today. There is much that the
newspapers can do to better this
situation. Therefore, we suggest:
First, that crime news be given
less prominence in the local papers.
The justification usually advanced
by the newspapers is that they
merely give the public what it
wants. In a. great measure, the
newspapers create the very wants
which they claim to satisfy. News
of greater value is sensational.
Second, that the news of John
Dillinger's activities be removed
from the headlines and relegated to
the inner sections of the paper. The
attempt Of the newspapers to man
ufacture news by ascribing to him
every hold-up and bank robbery in
the country is an absurdity which
the public should not be expected
to swallow.
Third, that the romantic style of
crime write-upS be modified. The
way crime news now is written
doubtless makes heroes Of criminals
IN the minds of our youth and en-
courages crime among their groups.
Even adults find suggestion and en-
couragement to eyade law and order
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
CHARGES POLICE ATTACK
LACKED JUSTIFICATION

BY Constant Reader.
AS I was leaving this city on the
5 80 Anderson interurban car saw
an act which causes more hatred to-
ward the city and law forces than
any one thing.
An Indianapolis officer, in COM
pany with two others, was following
several young fellows west on Mas
sachusetts avenue at the alley east
of East street. Without warning
one officer pushed young man
weighing about 100 pounds in the
back of the head and then struck
him with his club.
AS I see the law, if 2 man vio-
lates 1t enough to be punished the
officer is paid to bring or send this
violator to court where a learned
man has the right to say to what
extent the violation should be pun
ished.
do not believe any one has the
right to beat another on the head
with a club unless in lf-defense.
am not in the Real Silk strike
either way. If the police take such
brutal measures, how do they expect
to be respected?
This act seemed to please other
officers, each weighing 200 pounds
or more and supposed to be human.
I will gladly appear at The Times
office or in police court and make
further statements regarding this
case. There are several others that
were on this car that will do the
same.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
CONSUMER CREDIT

DASSAGE by the senate of the Sheppard
l. bill, providing for federal charters to
credit unions, will be hailed as an important
step in the campaign to expand these baby
banks into national system.
The credit union movement has grown
spectacularly and far beyond the experiment
tai stage in the United States Today there
are 1850 credit unions in thirty-eight states
and the District of Columbia. Their men,
bership totals more than half million wage
and salary workers. farmers and small bust
ness men. Their combined resources approx
mate $65,OOO 900.
Although managed by the humble folk they
serve it is noteworthy that there has not
been a voluntary liquidation of credit union
during the depression. Only half dozen have
asked relief from the RFC.
Credit unions mean much to the small
saver and borrower. Denied bank credit, he
easily becomes prey to loan sharks who do
not scruple to charge interest rates as high
as 100 per cent year.
national system of federally- chartered
credit unions should mean much to the ma
tons larger economy. Through such a sys-
tenn millions of credit could be turned into
buying power. thrift would be encouraged and
a backlog laid against future depressions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
SAVE OUR HONOR

THE revenue act signed yesterday by Presi-
\ dent Roosevelt is in many respects good
one 1t closes loopholes, slices little deeper
into large inhertances and incomes, provides
little more revenue.
But it sacrifices millions in needed revenue
by reducing taxes on incomes of less than
$4,000 a year-which means that it lowers
the taxes of 90 per cent of all income taxpayers
Persons fortunate enough to have taxable in
comes in this period of distress do not need
income tax relief. They did not ask for it,
And the granting of it by an election-con
scious congress was unintelligent in face of
the governments stupendous debt and in face
of the additional billions the government will
have to spend taking care of the unemployed
Nor can 1t be overlooked that the Pres
dents signature to the revenue act is a seal
placed on a broken pledge. The President
realizes this. He is sending to congress a re-
quest that the pledge be mended, that con-
gress reaff1rm its promise to the Philippine
islands by repeating the cocoanut oil tax Sec
ton of the act Congress hardly can refuse to
do this if it is mindful of our honor as a
nation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
PAN" STYLES FOR
STATE NRA CHIEFS

By F. b.
1t certainly is remarkable how
brave our local police department
is-strong, brave men who know
not the meaning of fear. Why, it
is positively unbelievable the way
they have handled helpless citizens
around the Real Silk mills-cruel,
menacing men and women armed
to the teeth with stout heart and
voice of constitutional justice, de-
manding their rights.
We also must not forget our state
NRA representatives, devoted men
who stand firmly behind our Presi-
dent-so far behind they can not
see him. These men chosen to es-
tablish the NRA have established
themselves instead. The only time
any citizen hears about them is
when they attend a banquet and
blow off,"
Leave politics out of our police
department. Rank a person ac-
cording to his ability, not politically.
The biggest parasite in labor is
the "scab." Medical science ought
to find a way to rid progressing
industry and labor sterilization Of
this menace.
Don't forget if you want to
glimpse brave policemen take trip
to Real Silk, and if you want to
make a complaint and get results,
just try the state NRA. Just keep
trying, if you fail.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
THE CLASS OF "a

HAPPIER days may be ahead for the
10000 young men and women emery
ing from the campus this spring. Out of nine
college editors reporting to the Literary
Digest eight found conditions much bright
er, only one found them gloomy"
New hope lies in the general business
pickup, in a tendency of industry to select
trained young people, in a can, still faint,
from cities, states and federal government for
experts to help pull them from the muddles
left by politicians. The federal emergency re-
lief administration has helped 10000 stu
dents through the last year, and, doubtless,
will continue to aid students next winter.
Another silver CLINT will be found in COM
mencement addresses largely debunked by the
stern Establishments of the depression.
The picture is far from rosy. Poverty has
slammed the door of college education in the
face of thousands The federal Office of edu-
cation estimates 250000 fewer college students
this year than normally. And at least Is per
cent of college graduates are jobess. The pro-
LESSONS are overcrowded Many a college man
is working in the CCC or wsnders aimlessly
through transient camps. America is not
hospitable place as yet.
Yet who will pity the class of "a? Theirs
is war class. The times call them to war on
war, on poverty and want, on greed and in
Justice and insecurity. Tough as it is, the
world is their oyster
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
RELIEF IS FIRST

HARRY HOPKINS warning that the fed
eral government may have to spend bill
lions of dollars more than it has spent for
unemployment relief and public works prof.
ects is a sharp warning that one of the most
important jobs of the new deal is a long way
from being finished.
Whatever else the present administration
may seek to do, and however widely its vari-
Gus policies may be criticised, there is one
point on which all hands are agreed
People who can't get work are not going to
suffer from hunger, cold, and homelessness
any longer.
So far the federal administration has spent
$500 100000 on unemployment relief. Relief
Administrator Harry Hopkins was given $780,
100000 this spring to carry him through the
summer; but it is going fast, and there is
every indication that it is not going to be
enough
For there is one disturbing fact in connec-
ton with the recovery program. Unemploy-
ment may be shrinking, and pay rolls may
be going up; but there are today some 4700,-
900 people on federal relief rolls, as compared
with 100000 year ago.
In other words, an increasing number of
jobless people, unable to date to hook them
selves up with jobs, have come to the end of
their resources and are obliged to turn to
Uncle Sam.
In spite of business improvement Uncle
Sam is directly supporting more people now
than he was supporting a year ago. There
is no reason to believe that the present rate
of revival will materially reduce the number
in the immediate future.
This brings us up against the key factor
in the whole equation.
Back of all our talk about Codes reform
measures, monetary policies and the like there
is this large, solid, and interesting body of
people who will starve if the government
doesn't provide them with food and shelter
They must be taken care of, because while
the job of caring for them is expensive it isn't
half so expensive as cutting them off the re-
lief rolls would be.
The pressure which this fact may exert
on any recovery program is not thing to
be overlooked. No estimate of the new deals
accomplishments and no forecast of it's future
course will be worth much if the presence
of these 4,7OOOOO on the relief rolls is over
looked.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11

ment must reflect the views Of the majority
as to what is good for the whole.
Such government has right to demand
the greatest sacrifices of material things and
freedom of action from dissenting minority
with this proviso That the minority at all
times have the fullest and freest right to
appeal to the majority, and the government
representing that majority, in an effort to
change the dominant policy to one of the
minority's liking.
In a planned society there must be limits
to an individuals or a groups right to do as
they please, but there need not and must not
be any limit to the individuals or groups
right to say what they please. The greatest
essential of democracy is free speech and free
press. There must be light and lots of it if
the people are to find their own way in a
changing world.
AS We see the new DEAL it has not weak
ened, but has strengthened, the essentials of
democracy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
FRIDAY. MAY II. 1884.
RAILROAD PROFITS

CTATISTICs and indices are sometimes dull,
- hard to understand.
But this isn't so when the railroads,
through their own bureau Of railway econom-
les, announce that the net operating income
of Glass carriers for the first quarter of
this year was more than three times that of
the same period last year.
Such figures can be appreciated; for when
trains move with paying cargo, some one is
buying, some one selling.
Among the first to suffer in a depression,
railroads are among the first to come back as
business improves. Their arrangements
demonstrated their faith in the current come
back" by returning to their workers the 10
per cent wage sacrifice they demanded many
months ago.
Now, if the railroads fortify their position
by cooperating with the Presidents special
cabinet commission that is studying ways of
reducing their fixed charges and financial
superstructures; If they actually bring about
these reductions, neither the carriers nor the
country need despair for the future of the
railroad industry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11

hind his machine guns. Scotland
Yard would have waited until Dill
linger went to sleep or got drunk.
What will be the situation at the
front" by the time this letter
reaches print, no man can guess.
but the latest news indicates that
General Dillinger and his small
army of four or five pals still have
an edge on the United States army
and the Minnesota national guard
combined.
This is war of one man against
the combined power of 100 millions.
So far the 100 millions have been
the losers in every skirnish, getting
the worst of the fray in dead and
wounded and in booty.
Beginning his remarkable series
of attacks with a wooden pistol
against machine guns, General Dill
linger is still winning out by turn
ing automatics and machine guns
against rifles and artillery.
1t won't be long now. Something
is bound to happen soon. Before we
get to print Dillinger will either be
captured or killed-or still at large
most likely he will be dead any
way, for if all those detectives,
police, militia and regular troops do
not succeed in getting him, they will
worry and work him to death killing
them,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
PLEAS, HE SAYS YOU
LACK TECHNIQUE
BY Walter Windshield

BY Walter Windshield
Pleas Greenlee just doesn't have
any technique. He might take
tip from Adolph Hitler, who, &C
cording to the London Herald, has
his opponents votes voided and
thrown out This happens continu-
ally in the elections of workers
representatives in the factories
where Adolph'S states usually lose,
but the bosses count nothing but
votes for Adolph's henchmen.
1t is rumored that Governor Nc
Mutt may spend the week end in
Indiana. He is much in demand on
the Chautauqua circuits, and, you
know, one must not let official duties
interfere with ones ambitions. He
still thinks he would make a hand
some President.
1t is a rank injustice to give the
Indianapolis Athletic Club only IS
per cent exemption on taxes. Since
the big Democrats have moved in
there, the club has become an edu-
cational institution.
Education is great thing-take
it from the citizen who borrowed
money to pay taxes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
DEMOCRACY'S ESSENTIALS

"TN his inaugural address Mr. Roosevelt
i said: We do not distrust the future Of
essential democracy If the social discipline
which he proposes is to be based upon con-
sent rather than force, its relation to what Is
essential in democracy must be defined. The
definition can not be long postponed. Viz
GINA Quarterly Review.
To find out what is essential to democ-
racy, we first should consider what is not. 1t
is not essential to democracy that an executive
be weak. 1t is not essential that there be
discussion by legislative body when imme-
date action by an executive is demanded for
the public good. Several hundred men in the
Capitol are not necessarily more representa-
tive of the people than one man in the White
House: it depends on who the men are and
who the man is.
1t is not essential to democracy that the
speople select a vast number of public off,
Gals at the polls if they can obtain officials
Of higher qualifications by electing just few
men who in turn. appoint others on a basis
Of merit The patronage system is not es-
sential to democracy; it impedes its successful
functioning.
Public questions will be decided better if
men take part in politics with no possibility
OF being rewarded with jobs or favors for
themselves or their friends and relatives. The
whole bundle of practices which We in
America know as politics" is not only not
essential to democracy but has been burden
which democracy has carried with difficulty.
What is essential to democracy is that gov
1T
whole people for its policies and acts and
, that the government be accountable to this
people at free and fair elections, Govern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11

the son who is only a high school
pupil.
In Mr.. Mittman's first article he
criticised the humor of one of
the radio programs to which he
had listened.
I do not wish to defend all radio
programs as being decent in their
entirety but I do believe that they
are sufficiently pure to satisfy
any one but the most narrow
minded who are eternally seeking
some matter about which they
may raise a fuss and thus place
themselves in the eye of some sort
of a public, at least momentarily.
It seems rather inconsistent
that if Mr.. Mittman seeks to live
in as decent a manner as he, in
timated that he should find such
difficulty in resisting listening to
programs of which he disapproveS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
OLD TIME PROSPERITY
SENT TO SCRAP HEAP

BY H. C. A.
In, an editorial recently, under the
caption of Sign of Premise" you
discuss the possibility of business
revival as a consequence of in
creased wages. You continued:
I'm spite of all that has been
said, it is not yet entirely clear just
how much increased consumer buy
ing power can do to restore pros
perity."
In my opinion it is clear that i'm
proved buying power will have a
somewhat beneficial effect, but there.
is a difference between increased
wages and increased buying power
It is this trif1e of a thing called
profits, which accounts for that
difference.
AS Ruth Finney says in the same
issue of your paper, speaking of
the troubles awaiting the Presi-
dent:
There are, of course, the chronic
NRA problems-prices that persist
in rising faster than wages-mount-
ing profits which have caused labor
to renew it's demand for shorter
hours and higher wages"
There are rosy reports in the pa
pers these days-reports of increased
sales. But the sales are measured
in dollars only. If they had been
expressed in pounds and gallons the
reverse would have been the case.
AS a matter of fact, in spite of
slightly increased wages, the buying
power is lower than ever.
But this only answers half of the
question. Suppose we actually
should experience increased buying
power, which, of course, would have
to come at the expense of profits.
Such thing could never be the re-
suit of a voluntary agreement. Sup
pose the government should enforce
lower profits, would that solve our
problem? BY no means. Half of
the nations business would be
thrown into bankruptcy, resulting
in twenty millions unemployed in
stead Of the present twelve millions.
It. is about time for the average
man to wake up, and to understand
the simple economic truth that
capitalism is only possible in periods
of expansion. Anybody who thinks
that such a period is on its way is
more than an incurable optimist.
He is believer in miracles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
TRACKLESS TROLLEY
SERVICE DEFENDED

By Trackless Trolley Operator.
I wish to reply to T. F. Glass
statement about the trackless troll
ley cars.
He says the cars travel on streets
that the taxpayers keep up. In
dianapolis Railways, Inc, pays as
much tax as any firm in the city.
AS far as licenses are concerned,
these cars can not go on all streets
as do buses and automobiles. They
have certain amount of space to
operate in.
indianapolis Railways pays its
part on the improvement of the
streets. The operators of these cars
are not bus drivers. If Mr.. Glass
only will use half of the precaution
the operator does to avoid getting
in a trap, as he states, he would not
have any kick coming when he
drives on these streets.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
So They Say

1 will support President Roosevelt
whenever I think he is right -
United tSates Senator David A.
Reed of Pennsylvania.
Spoiled children grow up looking
only for spelling The hated child
is as bad off. DR.. Alfred Adler,
Viennese psychologist.
The ideas back Of restoration are
new to us older men, yet we are
willing to go along and do our part
in effecting better times.-Charles
M. SchWab.
1t will need more than a brain
trust to turn the United States
communistic.-Samuel insult.
The sorry fact is that the average
congressman is entirely willing to
buy votes so long as he can com
pound the felony by doing it with
somebody else's money. - Professor
Edwin S. Corwin Of Princeton.
There are lot of crackpots on
earth who like war-any kind of
war. But I'm not one of them
Major-General Smedley D. Butler.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11
wholIy disapprove of a0hat you sag and s0iU
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltaire.

in the crime columns. The crinni-
nal himself feels superior and self
satisfied when he reads the ac-
counts of his exploits.
We believe that if the newspapers
will place less emphasis upon crime
news in general and Dillinger in
particular, and at the same time
discard the romantic style of writ
ing much will be done to lessen
crime.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-11

BY H. R. Farnum.
l have read some of the letters
in this column with a great deal
of interest during the past few
weeks. I would like to offer some
advice and few replies.
First, the advice. In cases
where there is any question I
would suggest that you require
your contributors to add junior
or senior to their names for sake
of identification.
In one specific instance, namely
the two recent articles by Edward
E. Mittman, such information
was lacking.
I know the family, and do not
believe that the father is capable
of such lack of knowledge, al
thought I can not say as much for