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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
THE MAGIC METAL

WE can not begrudge the silver advocates
w their JOY over naturalization OF the
white metal As usual they think the govern
ment has not gone Tar enough. but, also as
usual. they say this newest monetary move
viii speed MS along toward better times.
At each maauouary whirl. they have said
the same. And each time we have waited not
too patiently for our problems to disappear
and prosperity to return
Senator Elmer Thomas SAYS this latest
move is ~the beginning of a new world none
tarv system" UninSpircd by the money
docma. we confess we are more doubtful than
senator Thomas We hope he Is right Tor
we aeree it would be a fine thing 10 hasten
an international monetary agreement. In
deed. a world compact seems TO Us to offer
the surcst road to stability.
1t may be that the action Of our govern
rnenr IN taking silver of the market and CIV
ine If a aNed value IN terms Of American DOL
lars VIII tend 70 stabilize the price OF silver
elsewhere. and thereby give TO the nations
that have no gold metal OF more or less
stable value And it may pave the way 10 a
world agreement. BUT that prospect Is very
hay
All least. and maybe at most. the Datlonal-
-,tt1n Of domestic silver. by taking 1t out OF
the hands Of the spectators should help our
government to carry ont the purposes Of the
silver purchase act IN an orderly manner. But
failure 10 uatonaIze imports may create new
dimcultics-uobody knows.
Thus FAR there is nothing 70 indicate that
the administration intends TO try. by political
alchemy. 10 trsnsmute silver into money Of
greater value than the forces Of world eco
Monies VIII permit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10

BLANIES PAPERS FOR
DILLINGER MYTH
By W. c. Waldron.

By W. c. Waldron.
The Times laments the fact some
Of the correspondents to the Mes
sage Center are shallow thinkers.
especially in regard to the Dillinger
case. Is The Times deep" in this
respect?
Two types of criminals are prey
ing on financial institutions in this
country, the inside bandits and the
outside bandits. The inside bandits
are comparatively safe. If and when
caught. light sentences are given.
Luke Lea's case is the latest ex-
ample. Outside bandits are always
in danger. If and when caught,
which is always sooner or later for
bank banditry or auto banditry,
there are heavy sentences, ambus-
cade or murder.
During the history Of the United
States, the damage done and the
misery inflicted by the outside
bandits doesn't figure one-tenth OF
one per cent of the damage done
and the misery inflicted by the in
side bandits. SO long as conditions
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10

WHETHER that Clttering vision OF a MIL
w lion and 4 quarter Americans migrat-
ING from Impoverished farm lands IN the east
and middle west and settling on reclaimed
land in the Grand Coulee region ever comes
true OF not. 1t at least reyives the age-old
American habit Of looking 70 the west.
The picture Is a little confusing. at first
Glance. Il involves more Of an effort 10 as
serr human control over natural forces than
has ever been made in this country before
pulling enough people 10 populate fair
sized state Of 10 wornout lands where they
have struggled to establish themselves, turn
Ing a desert a thousand miles away into fer
tile farm land and then transplanting these
PEOPLE 20 IL en- maSse-here IS a spectacle AM
ambitious program indeed.
Il is so ambitious. indeed. that it may
prove impractical But il does furnish an
emotional lift OF a kind that IS badly needed
IN these days.
The optimism and drive Of the American
shirt owed much 70 the existence Of the open
west. The west always was the Americana
ace IN the hole; the chance TO drop every
thing. head toward the setting sun and start
things over in a new land was the one card
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ALL OUT OF STEP BUT WRIT

XXTHAT DR.. Writ called communism"
W Henry l. Hartman, president of the
United States Chamber of Commerce, now
describes as the most fundamental and far
reaching movement under way today" Which
goes to prove that there is a difference be-
tween blind and enlightened conservatism.
Both were speaking of the subsistence
homesteads sponsored by the Roosevelt adj
ministration. Both had in mind particularly
the original project at Reedsvine, w. Va, where
zoo families of stranded coal miners are be-
ing aided by the government to get comfort
able homes and earn a living.
Both men want to preserve the present
economic system. DR.. Writ would do it. ap-
parently, by letting potential enemies Of the
system starve. Mr.. Hartman would do it by
converting potential enemies into friends,
making it possible for them to become self
supporting and Self-reSpecting members Of So
ciety.
Social security has got to be given the
people Of this country" says Mr.. Hartman
The subsistence homestead projects will show
Us the way 10 the necessary decentralization of
industry: the relief Of mass congestion in the
cities: provision for workers to own their own
homes and contribute TO their own support"
Today the vaunted American standard Of
living" is a ghaStly myth as any candid per-
son may observe by looking out the window
OF a railroad train at the miserable shacks of
tenant farmers and the griny tenement houses
along the right-of-way.
We can make no honest boast Of living
standards until all American families are Sc
cure in comfortable homes protected from re-
course 10 breadlines.
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he could always use when everything else
went bad.
But the west filed up. It's rich natural re-
sources were all tapped. its homesteads we're
all pre-empted ard its horizon lost its allure
one reason why the recent depression was
more upsetting than any Of its predecessors
was the fact that this western escape was no
longer open.
NOW. out Of a clear sky, comes revival
Of the western promise-neW land, new homes
and new start Il is ike a rebirth Of pio-
neer days: and it has an emotional importance
that does not depend on the wOrkability Of
the particular scheme involved.
Il reminds us that our task Of utilizing this
great continent we inhabit only has begun.
The job Of building America is not ended
after all; it simply has passed through its
first phase
There is still much work to be done, there
is still an abundance Of opportunity, there is
still a challenge to an energetic and restless
race Of people-in the west. in the east. every
where
We may do a good deal Of fumblng around
before we find the best way to tackle this job.
But the Job is there. and its possibilities are
immense.
The Presidents dream Of what may be
done in the Grand Couee region simply
calls our attention to it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
.'THE TRAGEDY"

tom MOONEY celebrated his eighteenth
Il year in a California prison for a crime
sCme one else committed. on the same day
the United States circuit court denied him
the right to appeal from the federal district
court. The latter had refused him a writ Of
habeas corpus on the ground that his con-
stituuonal rights to due process Of law were
ignored by the state courts.
The tragedy of the situation is that the
petitioner CMooney) was not informed Of the
alleged perjured testimony and alleged mis-
conduct of the prosecuting attorney until it
was too late to avail himself of the remedy
secured to him." Judge Sawtelle said in deny
ing the appeal.
BY this he meant that Mooney did not
know that Frank Oman, the chief state wit
ness against him. was outside of San Fran
cisco at the time he said he saw Mooney
plant the bomb. Nor did Mooney know that
the prosecutor had knowledge of Oxman's
perjury The exposure came about eight
months after Mooney was convicted. Moon
SIX months after conviction. The California
law has no provision for new trials based on
evidence discovered later.
Here is indeed, tragedy.
Moneys lawyers are asking CALIFORNIA;
new Governor Merriam for pardon, and are
appealing for their writ directly to the United
States supreme court If California courts
have no remedies the Governor or the federal
courts should have.
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/ wholly disapprove of 10hat yon sag and will
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltajre.

remain this way, the American pub
lie will choose the lesser of two evils
and give moral support to the out
side bandits. I agree that two
wrongs never make a right, but you
miss the point.
AS for your editorial, "Sleep, Lit
tie Man." there is nothing pulling
about the Dillinger myth. 1t was
born Of newspapers and built up by
newspapers, The Times being very
conspicuous in this work. Compared
to our insults, Mitchells, Harrimans
and others, he was a piker Why
did The Times play him up so big,
and practically ignore the big shot
bandits?
Among the thousands who serve
time in our penal institutions, a
handful, and they are above the
average, can come out and stand
up and take it like a man. DilIinger
was only average. Crime IS not the
easiest road. 1t is the toughest.
Sarber can't be put on Dillinger's
list. OMalley? Maybe. 1t never
has been proved
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
A LESSON FOR AMERICA

DARIsIAN motorists drive fast, when
i they head out for the open country. On
the way they pass through the suburb Of
Cachan-and like motorists everywhere, they
are little forgetful about slowing down. In
the last six months the little town has had
twenty-eight motor traffic fatalities.
So the other day the people of Cachan de-
cided things had gone far enough. They
turned out en- masse and blocked the whole
highway shouting: I'VE do not want any
more Of our children killed. We do not pay
taxes to provide a pasture for automobiles"
Eventually the authorities got the road
open, of course. But they did assign police
squad to see that traffic through Cachan pro-
ceeds at a safe pace.
And it seems to us that the people of
Cachan had good idea. They refused to ac-
cept the traffic toll placidly as an unacceptable
misfortune instead they got up on their hind
legs and did something about it-and, as re-
suit they got some of the protection they
needed. 1t could be done elsewhere.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
THE MOONS MUSIC

out on the wastes Of the Atlantic, chal-
~ longing the westerly trade winds and the
SargaSso sea. hobs the ten-foot sailboat Of
young Alfred Lastinger. seaman. heading from
Florida for Spain.
He is stalking his life on the sporting ven-
ture Of retracing the route Of Columbus. who
left Spain about this time OF year He is
heading northwest as this seasons Caribbean
hurricanes threaten to send him down into
one OF the worlds deepest ocean pits.
Another daring fellow. VIII Beebe, is pre-
pairing at Bermuda to drop half-miIe down
in that same sea, in great steel ball on
steel cable Quartz glass windows, three inches
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
SEES NO DIFFERENCE
UNDER NEW DEAL
3y a Times Reader

By Times Reader.
About a year ago the first of next
month we went to work on the
CWA at SIS a week. We could buy
hour for as low as At cents for
twenty-four pounds; butter, 16 cents
pound; sugar, ten pounds for 43
cents; bread, cents a pound, and
in some places, three pound loaves
for a dime; potatoes, 1912 cents to
Is cents peck; eggs, 10 cents dozen;
bacon, IL cents pound; steak, 1872
cents; pork chops, 1912 cents, and
you know how it was then.
Now they pay only So a week
and flour 80 cents to S125; butter,
q to 80 cents; sugar. ten pounds,
56 cents; bread. q pound loaf for
and 7 cents; potatoes, 25 to IS
cents peck; eggs, 10 to % cents;
bacon, 10 to % cents; steak, 10 to
25 cents; pork chops, about q or
% cents. I could name more, but
that's enough.
1t sure is a grand and glorious
New Deal and the President wants
TO know if we're better off now
than a year ago. We've had the
same thing every year since can
remember, so what's the difference
between the New Deal and the old
shuttle?
People suffered cold and hunger
while produce was burned up and
destroyed. Now Mr.. Wallace says
if this drought continues much
longer, we'll have to start pro-
ducing program. Who was it said,
What fools these nortals be?"
In another month school will
open. Where will our books, cloth
ing. shoes and all other extras for
four. five or more children come
from? Maybe our travelling Gov
ernor will help us get them. He
has been so much help to us poor
people, anyway. Or maybe Sher-
man .Minton will get US another
cut in our light bills. Mine fell
from S106 last year to SLOT this
year. That all helps.
Even Lit Arthur, Robinson, VITA
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10

BY a Reader.
Mans initiative in developing the
ARTS and Sciences" has solved the
problem Of production and trans
portation. Plenty Of everything
exists. Progress and change-the
elimination of the obsoltete-has
been mans endeaVor.
Our capital economy has not
changed since Shylock's time. Cap
ital demands income from the mere
lapse of time Qnterest). Many times
a surplus of factory or farm prod
ucts can not be sold for costs, in
GLIDING interest. Defaults occur,
foreclosures and liquidations are de-
manded, the depression is on, and
we have what we have-the drift
toward Socialism, Communism,
Recommendation, and NRA, all OF
which are beautiful in theory, but
where is the man or group Of men
big enough to direct the energy Of
100 million people?
Investment banking is in bad re-
pute, but it is a logical and neces-
sary development if periodical de-
pressions and liquidations are to be
avoided. Capital must take its in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
MIR. ADLER DEFENDS
HIS NRA CLAIMS
BY Jos. b. Adler

BY JOS. b. Adler.
note in the Message Center that
j. Pierce Cummings states the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles suggested a
federal commission be established
for the sterilization of employment,
and the resolution was urged on
June II, 1880.
This is merely a suggestion that
the government should do some
thing to stabilize employment, but
without a definite plan or method
of accomplishing it, nor even the
inception of move to acquire the
desired purpose. If this had been
done it would have required an in
definite length of time to appoint a
commission, prepare all the details
and many other things essential to
furthering the intended purpose.
What was imperative at the time
Mr.. Roosevelt took office was i'm
mediate and definite action to get
us out of the nire as soon as teas-
ible. We had been sinking deeper
and deeper for four long years at
that time, and the condition was
becoming desperate.
While I do NOT contend that 1
actually suggested the NRA, in fact,
I do state emphatically that I gave
Mr.. Roosevelt a definite plan to
start back on the road to prosperity,
and as a consequence the NRA was
a natural step in order to execute
the plan. After that the Blue Eagle
followed as the next step in that
direction Neither do think there
was anything remarkable in my
suggestion. for it was merely found
ed on ordinary horse sense. The
only feature am astonished about
is that some one else did not offer
my suggestion among the thou
sands who made suggestions. This
is more especially true relative to
the business men.
Offering plan to accomplish
something which would take
months or longer to inaugurate
while people were hungry and some
possibly on the brink of starvation
was not fitting time to take such
action. After that it is well to
establish a general plan to prevent
the occurrence, if possible. That is
the predicament the people were in
that time, and it was the propitious
moment in which judicious and
speedy action had to be taken.
Therefore, while the resolution
offered by the Eagles might have
been fine in the future, We had to
rescue those who were in the posi-
ton of the drowning man.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
LIKED EDITORIAL
ON WAR TOPIC
BY Hiram Lackey.

BY Hiram Lackey.
wish to thank you for your edi-
torial on Staying Out of War" in
The Times Of Aug. 6. You found
and printed that brand Of truth
which really gives your readers an
insight into one Of their major
problems.
Now will you please write new
editorials on the need Of new parties
and technocracy in which you use
that same Christian influence. To-
day you stated these important
problems, threw up a smoke screen
and deserted US.
Not long ago you received Fos-
dicks explanation on why We de-
layed solving these problems. He
gives us an insight into these mat
tiers. If you believe that his the
ory on prejudice and sacredness be
false. VIII you kindly write an edi-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
RESENTS APPOINTMENT
OF BILL BOOK

BY B. E. r.
Governor McNutt certainly made
a big mistake when he appointed
Bill Book head of his commission
on unemployment, because Mr.. Book
in turn, appointed Republican to
every key position in the whole line
up. He has men appointed now
who have lived ON the city as far
back as the Shank administration.
1t it an insult to the Democratic
party and to President Roosevelt.
I hope Mr. Book takes his old
college chum with him over to the
chamber of commerce. I mean the
celebrated DR.. Keyes. He jumps
from the automobile business to
the hotel business, running a hotel
for transients. His wife is secre-
tary to Mr.. Book. That is what I
call hot stuff" just wonder how
long the voters Of indianapolis are
going to stand for this kind Of work.
The best thing that could ever
happen TO Indiana would be for r.
Earl Peters to take over Mr.. Hoke's
position, because it at least would
heal up some of the wounds IN the
party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10
LAMENT
BY ALYs WACHsTETTER


The hungers Of my heart I weave
into song,
But the one for whom my songs
are made
Somewhere lies unconcerned in
deepest sleep.
And I, alone at night from distant
hills
Sing, so the vino may carry him
The sad, dim echoes Of my thren-
ody.
Awake from sleep 49,.
And through your open window
Listen to the melancholy chantings
Of my voice.
20 my love, without you, the whole
world is an empty path walk.
Grooming to my heart in pain.
Forever, until the last long breath
Flows from my troubled body
shall love you.
o lover, partner Cf my ecstasies,
Come back to aching arms
Where first you slep. a lovers sleep.
Give back to me the deep past joys
I knew;
Ny pride, in dust, face downward
at your feet
Sings in monotone.
Dawn and have walked and sang
another lonely night away.
How long, o God, until the time
that I shall sing no more
Till lie dead on some high hill,
Away from sorrow and the agonies
Of love
Needless of the one who broke his
trust2
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torial in which you give better
explanation? Since you are de-
termined to write on these progress
sive subjects, if his explanation be
sound, why do you not print it? If
it be false, we wish to know the
truth.
We plead for that earnestness
and clear thinking of which we
know you are capable. After hav-
ing read your best, we are not sat-
isfied with anything less sincere
and constructive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10

Another group of convicts fled Indiana
state prison after making dummies and put
ting them in their beds. But why did they
go to all the trouble when plenty of guards
were available for that purpose.
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his $4,000 per year. is so poor he
had to 60 to a government hospital
and let the taxpayers fix him up
for his campaign.
How can we stand any more?
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Wonder how Alfalfa Bill Murray plans to
pass away the time after he leaves Office, with
no militia to call out.
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So They Say

Americas problem is to bring eco
nomic security to the common man
and still cherish the weapons Of
democracy.-William Allen White,
famous editor.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are tnVtted to cypress
their Cfeios In these columns. Make your
letters short, so all con hare chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or Iess.J
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We can make more bags, but it
takes a long time to build three guys
like them. T. Cooper, balloon ex-
pert, referring to the three stratos-
phere flyers.
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I believe in assisting our foreign
trade, but also believe in making
sure that we get paid for it.-George
N. Peek, NRA foreign trade adviser.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-08-10

In the old days, when wife beating
was a contest Of skill and daring,
there was nothing like an Irish cop
to restore peace and tranquility to
the neighbOrhood.-County Judge
Martin of New York.
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MEN.

What may seem to be the, end Of the
trail may be only the forks in the road,
No man is through as long as opportunity
is still being DEVELOPED. Men are coming
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and consistent work will accomplish re;
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BIG MONEY who once were IN these
chant farmer. school teacher: eleetTieal lee saI,sn
electrical engineer, minister. builder snoe
salsman and many others. These men
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based on supplying a definite need at an
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1884 will be our biggest year; 1888 was
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You do not invest or buy anythinng N
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