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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
NO LABOR BOARD RETREAT

DR. HARRY A. MILLS and Edwin S.
II Smith. remaining members of the ma
tional labor relations board. are showing a
firm disposition against retreat from the prin-
ciples set forth in the boards famous Houde
decision.
In the face of the justice departments re-
luctance to prosecute the Houde case. the
latter was invoked by the board this week in
a decision against the Atlanta Hosiery Mills.
The qualified majority rule" principle laid
down in the Houde case was not at issue
here. but the other broad principle proclaimed
in that decision was applicao Die. This was the
finding that
Collective bargaining is a means to an
end and the end is an agreement assuming
an understanding can be reached) which will
stabilize relations between employer and en-
ploye for definite period of time"
The Atlanta mills were notified that unless
they agreed to "endeavor in good faith to ar
rive at a collective agreement" the case would
be handed over to NRA for removal of the
Blue Eagle, and to the justice department for
prosecution.
Unlike the Hcude situation, removal of the
eagle in this case could work a real hard
ship on the hosiery concern.
The retail code prohibits members from
handling the produces of NRA noncompliers.
This provision. which is absent from the au-
tomobile code that covers Houde's customers,
places the power of boycott back of the labor
boards decision. Thus. whether or not the
justice department interests itself in the case,
the teeth are there to bring the offender to
book if it persists in its alleged violation of
NIRAs pledge to labor.
1t seems unjust that NRA's varying pro-
visions for different, industries should expose
one violator of IA to a boycott while leaving
another to a dilatory justice department. That
is a problem which congress. in drafting new
labor legislation. must bear in mind when it
decides how labor's legal rights shall be en-
forced.
The labor board recently reported to Presi-
dent Roosevelt that the most serious difficult
ties which we face flow from the fact that
the board has no power Except to a limited
extent in ordering elections) to issue sub
penas or to enforce its orders"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
UN-GERMAN ECONOMICS

ONE of the big problems facing the NaA
~ government in Germany these days seems
to be the task of keeping retail prices from
rising out of all proportion to consumers in
come-and, also, of reconciling the people of
Germany to such rises as can not be pre-
vented.
DR.. Carl Goerdelor, mayor of Leipzig, has
been appointed price dictator" by Hitler. and
has been given complete control over food
prices. His position certainly is not enviabe.
The actions Of the party that put him in
power have made his task almost impossible.
In order to protect German agriculture.
food tariffs have been put at unprecedentedly
high rates Natural laws of supply and de-
mand would seem TO make a boost in living
costs inevitable. Yet a Nazi newspaper re-
marks contemptuously that, I'VE National So
cialsts DO not believe in economic laws" and
the effort to blame rising prices on malicious
profteers is being pushed with vast energy.
DR.. Goerdelers lot can hardly be happy
one. Nor for that matter. can the lot of the
German consumer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
BLOCK MASONi

IF Indiana law enforcement officers return
Il Willie Mason. crippled hoodlum who is
charged with the Staying of Police Sergeant
Lester E. Jones. TO the Hamilton county Jail.
it will be a sign that this state doesn't care
to protect its name and citizens against addi-
tional Jail breaks.
Mason has proved to be too much for the
Hamilton county Jail and it is likely that he
would at least attempt to wander away from
any other site of confinement in which he
might be harbored pending trial However.
strong place of confinement. guarded properly
and without any free chances for a getaway.
should cure Mason of his tendencies-in time.
To take another chance with Mason in
small jail. is a waste of time. There should
be some penal institution in the state which
can hold him.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13

takes $50 900 year from the pockets Of
New Yorks domestic consumers and $50 0O0.-
900 a year from retail commercial houses.
The proposed state-owned st. Lawrence power
project. 1t says, would establish a yardstick
for rates and save commercial and residential
power users within transmission distance ap-
proximately slsl 100000 annually. Nor need
the companies lose profits, it says, since lower
rates would stimulate the use Of electricity.
This report comes on the heels Of election
defeats suffered by private power companies
in Memphis. Sacramento and st. Paul, and
al a tine when Father Coughlin of Detroit.
is organizing his national union for social
justice, with a program that includes govern
ment ownership Of power facilities. 1t shares
the news with federal trade commission dis
closures pointing to the heed of federal con-
troll Of utility holding companies. and will be
followed by another trade commission report
Thursday summarizing the propaganda
activities Of the utilities including their use Of
the schools. the press and civic organizations
These developments, hulwarked by the
apparently successful government experiment
in the Tennessee Valley, should serve as hints
to the power industry that the people intend
to get cheaper electricity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
NOT TO BE READ ALOUD

IF there is one thing that this Judson Doke
murder trial in Woodland. Cala has
accomplished, it is this - 1t has emphasized
once more how dreadful the most sincere and
impaSsioned love letter may sound when it is
read by any one other than the person to
whom it was written.
This, to be sure, is not exactly news. The
high school pupil who gets entangled in the
mesh of puppy love and writes his heart out
about the unearthly beauty and charm of the
little fapper, who has run off with his untried
affections, generally lives to blush whole
heartedly over the memory of the things he
once committed to paper; and from that point
on, the incurable tendency of the lover is to
write things which sound heavenly to the
object of his affections and ridiculous to any
outsider.
But it is seldom We get so striking an exam
pie of it as this trial has provided 1t is
long time since We have seen such painful
reading.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13

World war-ly the boys sang I'm
going to murder the bugler. Some
day they're going to find him dead"
What! No buglers killed this Ar
mistice day?
Oh! for a good bugler to assassi-
nate and none has come our way.
Where are all the buglers of the
World war? No cemetery claims to
be populated with them. No peni-
Tertiary asserts it has its share Of
buck privates with the bugIng
homicide affixed as a reason for
their having a number.
work nights. I live in the vicin-
ity of the World war memorial. And
Sunday while the boys paraded
again in their doWn-at-heel, moth
eaten uniforms, was tempted to
get myself a good bugler with my
double gauge. tossed several in
the discard because of youth, ma
tional guard and Boy Scout garb,
and centered on one tall bird to
measure for a wooden kimona.
He had no right, rites or no rites,
to wake a working "bloke" up in
the middle Of the afternoon with his
"rat-a-tat" and yet I lowered the
blunderbuSs.
The alarm clock rang in my room.
I'm going down to get new alarm
clock today. I'm going to move be-
fore next Armistice day and I've
sworn to get me my next bugler,
alarm clock or no alarm clock.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
DOLLAR CONFIDENCE

A CTION by the treasury department in
n lifting the embargo on export Of currency
and credit should be helpful to the country
in more ways than one.
The most obvious immediate result is to
eliminate much red tape which has tended to
tie up foreign commercial transactions even
under the modified embargo or limited license
system recently in effect Almost any move
to lower trade and exchange barriers should
be beneficial
Even more significant than this action is
the implication Of broader government policy
behind il The purpose Of an embargo is TO
prevent a fight Of capital When a govern
ment removes the barrier this only can mean
that it no longer fears such fight. Indeed,
money lately has been flowing in much faster
than it has been going out. This indicates
American and world confidence in the dollar.
That confidence now Is recognized and justi-
fed by official government action.
Since further devaluauon of the dollar
automatically would cause another flight Of
capital. it is assumed that the government
would not now lift the export restriction if it
contemplated more devalustion in the near
future.
Therefore this latest move by the treasury
department. coupled With its recent announce
ment OF a refunding program next spring,
seems TO indicate that President Roosevelt has
adopted a monetary Sterilization policy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
BY League of Loyal Democrats.

BY League of Loyal Democrats.
With the election in California
over, we deem it proper to outline
the situation with which the DEM
ocratic party and the state of CAL
ifornia must be faced for the next
two years. This situation also will
have repercussions upon the
Democratic party as national
entity, and the nation itself must
inevitably be effected by the SIN
clair movement.
This election is unique in the
annals of American political his
tory. The outcome should restore
the faith of any doubters in the
stability and judgment of Ameri-
can voters. In a state that is
overwhelmingly Democratic, and
in spite of campaign that was
vicious, venOmous and unre-
strained, Democratic voters were
able, with unerring accuracy, to
separate the metal from the drosS.
They gave the President and his
administration their overWhelm-
ing support. They gave him pro-
gressive Hiram johnson. They re-
turned the eleven incumbent con-
gressmen and probably have added
two more; but what is of infinitely
more Importance to the state and
the party nationally-they have
given the lie to the charge that
the Democratic party is the party
of Communism in America.
The point we wish to drive home
is that the battle against Com
munism in the state and the ma
ton has just begun. Through con-
troll of the Democratic state CEN
trail committee, Mr.. Sinclair is
definitely in control of the name
of the party in this state and will
remain so until the real Democrats
can recapture the organization at
tEe polls two years hence.
On the night of Nov. 6, in radio
broadcast, Upton Sinclair stated
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
NEW YORK POWER REPORT

THE New York State Power Authority re-
u port reveals the disparity between what
electric rates are and what they should be-
Also for the first time a public agency has
worked out a formula BY which the cost TO
private companies OF distributing electric
power can be sscertained for the public.
In a survey Of seventeen representative
municipalities" the power authority finds
that the existing average rate Of cents for
each kiIowstt hour for household consumers
represents an overcharge of about 2i5 cents
for each XVIII. A rate Of 81 cents for XVII
for homes that use 500 XVIII annually. the
authority says. should be sufficient to pay all
costs OF producing and distributing the cleo
tricity and yield fair profit upon reasonable
investment.
Excessive rates. the authority estimates.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
LETTER CAMPAIGN FOR
AID is SUGGESTED

| Hy I. Wilmington.
Some $4,000 voters in Indianapolis
registered and did not vote on cleo
ton day. These we're voters who
two years ago voted with some hope.
That hope did not materialize and
they got sick and tired of voting.
Some voters voted Republican to
protest.
Some voters voted Democratic,
some because their hope material
lied and some because they still
hope to materialize. None of these
voters has principles.
The real politicians are those
Democrats and Republicans whose
aim is: 1 go in to get all I can
while the getting is still available
or hope it may be available.
These are the ones who have
grab principle. Remember there are
exceptions of sincerity in all doings.
Of all political parties interested
to get the control of the governing
power, in my estimation, only the
Communists and Socialists have the
principles of doing good for hu-
manity when they win the power.
1 am one of those who still hest
tate to be either Communist or So
cialist. I do not know why, I am
trying to understand myself, and
I am sure this was the last vote
I'll cast for an old party. From
now on my vote will go to the So
cialist or Communist parties.
Meanwhile, now that the Demo-
Gratis have full power, demand the
necessity of life for you and your
families. Tell the congressman and
senators by letters that you expect
some service from them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13

Tn moving toward jurisdiction in the case Of
n Tom Mooney the United States supreme
court Is helping 10 redeem Americas judicial
system.
While It has not granted the writ Of habeas
corpus asked by Moneys counsel II has taken
the first step by directing the warden OF San
Quentin penitentiary to show cause why such
a writ should not be considered.
It is proper and just that the courts should
take up this case. Il was under cloak Of law
that this man was arrested. tried in an atmos-
phere impregnated with prejudice sentenced
TO life imprisonment on the sworn word Of
persons known TO be perjurers by certain OF
the prosecution. II a court Of law acted I'M
Justly a higher court of law should undo the
wrong. Since CALIFORNIA; law does not permit
its higher courts to right the injustice, the
supreme court of the United States would ap-
pear to be justified in doing so under the
broad constitutional guaranty Of due process.
Appeals to CALIFORNIA; Governors for a
pardon we're natural. There was nothing else
to do under the California law. But such
appeals left the main issue undecided. This
ing themselves 70 be used to railroad to Jail
an innocent man. This charge is made by
MONEYS counsel Its implications touch the
very roots of our republic.
To deny this petition" argue Attorneys
Walsh Ffnerty and Davis as Moneys counsel,
'this court must hold, as a matter of law.
that the deliberate and knowing use by state
OF perjured testimony to obtain a conviction
Of murder in the first degree is due process of
law within the meaning of the fourteenth
amendment Of the Constitution of the United
States.
Your petitioner most respectfully submits
that his case. notorious throughout the civil
tied world as the Mooney case. stands as a
reproach to the law of the land and the courts
OF the country"
The conscience of American citizens al
ready has been aroused in this scandal 1t is
much more important to America and her
institutions that the conscience of the courts
be awakened 20 this injustice committed
eighteen years ago in one Of their own sane
tuaries Of justice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
4 Battle Has Begun

that this election was just one
skirmish in the battle to teach the
people of the state and country
that the EPIC plan is the only
plan to end poverty, that he pro-
poses to launch a campaign OF
education, that he speaks with the
voice of ten million unemployed
throughout the nation. His ma
tion-wide challenge over the radio
to the Presidents veracity was
unethical and was an affront to
all who acknowledge the leader
ship of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1t is established definitely that
an attempt already is being made
to develop the EPIC movement in
other states There are EPIC head
quarters in New York, Philadel-
phia, Detroit and Cleveland. The
Utopian Society, which is but an
other name for the EPIC move
ment, is being spread through the
middle west. For the above rea-
sons we warn our Democratic
friends in other states to be on
guard, as Communists now are
attempting to bore from within in
the Democratic party throughout
the nation, using California as
base
California Democrats, therefore,
must warn the nation that there
will be an attempt by Sinclair to
make EPIC an issue in the next
congress, that there may be Com
munist members of the California
legislature, and that the Sinclair
forces will attempt to be present
in force at the next Democratic
national convention. They def
nitely scheme to make the Demo-
cratic party communistic. We
would not be true to our national
party, to out state, or to ourselves
if we do not lay these facts before
you.
This battle on a national front
has just begun.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
AUTUMN
BY RUTH PERKINS

The bronze earth trembles at a
chilling breath
Weaving a distant spell on sloping
hills
That burn sacrifcial fire. and
death
Walks on silent crisp-leaved feet
and chills
In stealthy manner bush and vine
Whose ghost-like husks make
whisper IN the wind.
The false bright days ike painted
hypocrites
Go flaring, draped in gold and
splashed with wine.
Talking in brittle high-strung notes,
light fits
IN shifting strokes retouching
design
That daily grows more somber, and
the earth
Laughs gustily in dry and bitter
mirth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
TIMES SHOULD STAND
BY LIBERAL VIEWS
By D. r.

BY D. r.
My congratulations to The Times
for its foresight and couraging in
picking the right horses in the re-
cent elections. Ever since 1923 I
have nursed a grudge against your
newspaper and have not yet quite
gotten over it. 1 certainly can't for
give your whole-hearted support Of
Herbert Hoover and the whole Re-
publican ticket in that year.
Your newspaper must accept some
of the blame for letting the depres-
sion dig in so deep. Under any other
President, business and the worker
never would have suffered so much.
But do want to compliment you.
You are trying hard to rectify that
great error by sticking close to the
liberal side. Stay with it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
TRAINING IN VOTING
NEED IN INDIANA

BY o. ]. S.
The people must be told the truth
about their officials, be that truth
bitter or pleasant. A precinct cleo
ton board is a very important Off
cial body. And clean elections can
be had.
AS the Republican clerk of the
Thirteenth precinct of the Twelfth
ward, wish to praise other officials
of the board under which I served
Nov. 6.
Every voter got his rights insofar
as lay in the power of that board.
When necessary to assist a voter,
the work was done fairly and i'm
partially. Not a man on the board
acted like a Democrat or Repub-
hcan. Each man acted like an hon
est public official.
OF course, too many voters
asked for assistance in voting,
either through terrible ignorance on
their part, or some one told them
not to keep their vote secret.
couldn't guess which. If a CWA
boss or some other person got too
persuasive, or if certain rumors of
threats and coercion before the cleo
ton be true, these things happened
not in the polling place. I hope
other precincts had as clean board
as we did.
We now have two years to get
ready for another election. During
that time let's get all these voting
machines out Of storage and set
them up in corner stores and else
where for practice.
If the adults won't practice on
them, let the children do so. And
thus by 1910 or 1914 we can have a
population able to vote without two
clerks at their elbows.
Otherwise a voting booth Is as
secret as a goldfish bowl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13

R. Robinson no longer represents
this state in the United States SEN
ate Time, the magazine, gave
Robinson a beautiful political obitu-
airy last week. Their story said that
the Roosevelts at least were very
happy to be rid of Robinson be-
cause no rumor was too low for the
honorable senator to pull into the
open.
1 recall several Scurrilous attacks
on the President and his family
made by Robinson and I am sure
that all decent Republicans are
tickled pink that he's been defeat
ed. I know many of them who
scratched his name from the ticket.
He cost the Republican party 10000
votes in Marion county and perhaps
we can go places now that we have
lost that milestone.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13

that it was time to repudiate its
workings--the time has come to for
get Nov. 6, and turn to other things.
Of course, we all will be anxious
to see how these newly elected per-
sons conduct city, county and ma
tional affairs-but at least we can
dust off our hands the heat of cam
paign arguments, air our minds, and
get back to everyday business. Let's
forget all the arguments!
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-13
Capital Capers
; BY GEORGE ABELL

A RGENTINE Ambassador Felipe ESpil mys-
N teriously appeared at the state depart
ment recently on a secret mission. The envoy
tread softly, conferred lengthily with Sumner
WelleS assistant secretary of state, then depart
ed without revealing anything.
And what do you suppose the excitement was
all about?
Argentine "hot dogs"
A shipment of Argentine sausages and Salami
has been held up in the port of New York. En-
voy Espil is trying to get the shipment released.
Thence all the whispering, comforting and soft
pedalling of the elegant Felipe. Hot dogs!
Reason for the holding up of the Argentine
shipment results from an American law which
DEGREES that such foods as sausages, salami, etc..
must be frozen for twenty days in the country
of origin before they can be legally admitted to
the United States
Buenos Aires exporters failed to freeze their
hot dogs" at the required five-degree Fehren-
heit temperature, hence the difficulty.
mo frozen hot dogs-no entry" rule port
authorities in New York.
Cant these dogs be frozen here?" inquiries
Felipe.
Apparently they can't. All the trouble of
his Argentine eXcellency is apt to be in vain.
Unwilling to send them back yelping to Buenos
Aires he still is striving to have them declared
persona grata" Cor should it be hot dog
grata"O.
Some one has suggested they might be
at one of Espils cocktail parties.
CIGNOR GIUSEPPE TONIMASI, the bold
- Italian diplomat who sailed forth recently
to hunt ferocious grizzly bear in the depths of
darkest Virginia, has returned to Washington
alas, sans bear!
He is being roundly congratulated however,
by colleagues on his safe return. They feared
that the bear might return to Washington-sans
Tommasi.
NOTE-Evere since eating the delicious roast
bear served at Servants in London, Signor Tom
mast has been ambitious of running to earth
his favorite dish
CENOR DON MANUEL TRUCCO, the Chilean
- ambassador, has gone to New York to see
the Chilean team perform in the National Horse
show AS matter of fact, there is very little
for him to do in Washington-eXcept dance, and
he doesn't like that.
The Chilean team has performed eXcep-
tionally we'll in the show, and Chilean horse
men are being toasted by many Latin American
diplomats here.
A number of other ENJOYS are in Manhattan
for the show, including the Irish minister and
Mrs Michael MacWhite, Brigadier- General and
Sonora de Azcarate of the Mexican embassy and
the Commercial Attache and Sonora de GaXiola
Of the Mexican embassy
The Persian minister, Monsieur DALAI a
great lover of horsefesh Che adnlires the stable
of his friend. Mr. Guggenheim. on Long Island),
is also in New York, but his mind is fixed on
Persian art at the Roerich museum and the
celebration of ancient FirduSis birthday ami
versary at Columbia university. If he has time,
he Will watch the nags Jump-but there are no
Persian ponies in the running.