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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
OMEN OF EVIL

THE fevered postwar world has given
many symptoms of mortal sickness. But
nothing has been quite as ominous, quite as
terrible in its reflection OF deep, malignant
distress. as this tragic suicide strike" of the
Hungarian coal miners.
Here is something new in the way OF
strikes. When more than a thousand men
are willing to lock themselves in lightless
underground corridors and invite death to
come to them in one of its most frightening
forms, it becomes dreadfully clear that no
ordinary capital-labor dispute is involved.
What we get, rather, is a struggle against
a whole society. a whole order of living; the
kind Of struggle that has sent revolutionists
out to die on bloody barricadeS in forlorn-
hope madness of desperation.
Indeed, this reaching Tor suicide in the
mine pits is more appalling than any revolt
could be. For men who rise in revolt, even
when the odds against them are a thousand
to one, still have that outside chance OF
success.
They still get a savage emotional release
from getting to grips with their oppressors.
They are in the open air, they die beneath
the sky, and they take some of their foes to
death with them.
But these men had none of these incen-
tives. Their threat simply meant that life on
the old terms was insupportable. In the
darkness of the depths of the earth, they
could invite the specter which miners fear
above all things; and by doing so they re-
vealed a frenzy of discomfort which is the
most frightening thing Europe has shown us
since the war.
For a thing of this kind could not happen
in a world that even was moderately healthy.
1t bespeaks a sick society, sick with a COM
plication of ailments that are beyond mere
palliatives.
A land in which a thousand men can de-
liberately plan to commit suicide as a protest
the point of death.
The peculiar inability OF modern society to
solve the problems of production, consumption,
and employment generates dangerous social
pressures in even the most fortunate of
countries.
In Europe the case is made infinitely worse
by the stupidity of the postwar treaties, wide
spread denial of liberty and a vicious network
of racial, national, and class hatreds.
This miners strike is ominous proof that
the pressure thus generated is reaching the
explosive point. To read about it is like hear
ing the rumble within a volcano. An eruption
is near; will Europe be able to survive it2
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
NOT PAUPERS

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S denunciation
OF the "pauper" test for voters should be
a warning to election board officials who are
inclined toward smugness.
In these swift-changing times, it is dan
gerous to apply old yardsticks. Who is a
pauper? Webster defines a pauper as one
whose sole means of support is from charity, or
a recipient of public poor funds. But that
definition. like the various state laws which
deny paupers the right of ballot. was drawn
to fit an era in American history entirely diff
ferent from the present.
Not many years ago. any man who wanted
TO work could find work. But the will to work
and the ability to work today are not enough
to get and hold a job. This ruthless depres-
sion has "pauperized" millions of men and
women rich in willingness and capacity to
work. They are helpless and b,ameless vic
TINS of an economic collapse.
Though inadviSable and undemocratic
even when written. the musty old pauper laws
may be enforced according to their spirit with
out DISTINGUISHING the unfortunates who today
subsist on unemployment relief doles. Any
attempt to enforce the letter of these obsolete
statues today would be unfair and unwise. To
deny the ballot to the unemployed would en-
courage them to use less democratic weapons.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
APPEAL MADE TO
BUY AMERICAN"
By Robert E. A. Crookston.

By Robert E. A. Crookston.
Looking back just a few months,
there were 1919 manufacturing
plants idle in Indiana. There are
still thousands Of idle plants
throughout the United States; idle
because they have no sale for their
goods.
We, as American citizens, are in
many respects to blame for this con-
dition. For instance, by carelessly
doing our shopping. As true Ameri-
can citizens who wish to see manu-
featuring plants start again, we
should consider carefully the ques-
ton of buying only American made
goods.
Smokers buy millions Of boxes OF
penny matches each month which
are made in foreign countries, when
our own match manufacturers make
them at the same price and just as
good. The penny match manufac-
turing takes in the lumber industry
as well as chemical industries.
Again, it is close to Christmas.
ask you to be patriotic; buy only
American made toys and thereby
keep the wheels Of the toy plants
turning and again help the lumber,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
. THE M

and sifted and where a preponderance Of the
complaints will be settled out Of court.
Another special assistant to the attorney
general will sit with the federal trade COM
mission, where evidence will be gathered for
prosecution Of v~iolators who reject peaceful
settlement.
Thus it is hoped to keep the justice depart
ment advised Of developments and prepared
for speedy court action, which has been lack
ing in the past.
Why then shouldn't a third special assistant
to the encouragement sit with the National
Labor Relations Board to keep the justice de-
partment prepared for prompt prosecution Of
v~iolators Of section IA and code labor pro-
visions? 1t is just as essential to maintain
fair labor practices as it is to maintain fair
trade practices.
This special assistant should, Of course, be
an attorney grounded in labor law, and SYM
pathetic with the principles underlying COL
lective bargaining. At present, prosecution Of
alleged labor violations is a part-time job of an
assistant encouragement. Either he hasn't
the time to devote to labor cases, or he does
not meet the qualification outlined above, or
there is poor coordination between the justice
department and the NLRB. Otherwise how
can the fumbling of the ball in the important
Houde case be explained?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
GLORIOUS RETREAT

THERE are times when administration off,
Gals seem to have taken as their model
the famous and noble king of France, who
marched his men to the top of a hill and then
fearlessly marched them down again.
A few weeks ago We were hearing a great
deal about the Houde case. This was to pro-
vide the great and conclusive test of the gov
ernments powers under Section IA of the
national industrial recovery act.
The national labor relations board ruled
that a majority of the Houde company's
workers wanted to be represented in collec-
tive bargaining by an A. F. of L. union, and
that the company must deal with them or
else. The company calmly stood pat.
Now it develops that we are not to have
this showdown. after all. The department of
justice declines to prosecute.
Perhaps it would be simpler, if the men
are always to come back down the hill, not
to march them to the crest in the first place.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
VALUES IN EDUCATION

THOSE much-criticized "fads and frills" Of
current public school c~urricula are fire.
quently more valuable to the pupils than the
traditional three RS. So, at any rate, As
sistant Education Director Joseph W. FIGHTER
Of Ohio tells a state convention of parents
and teachers.
1t all depends. points out Mr.. FIGHTER. on
what you think a school ought to do. 1t
should turn out youngsters who can read and
wife, and who can do enough arithmetic to
check up on the grocers bill, naturally.
But it also hould give them the best pos
sible preparation for life in the broadest sense,
and for such preparation the "fads and frills"
are often of the highest usefulness.
We are more and more coming to realize
that education is not simply a matter Of ac-
quiring certain facts and skiIls. If it is to
amount to anything. it must develop the mind
and broaden the personality. For such pur-
poses the time honored three Rs may not be
quite enough.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
ACCUSED IN SHIP DISASTER

A CITING Captain Warns, four officers and
- some of the crew of the MORO Castle
are condemned for negligence costing many
lives in a preliminary report by two inspectors
of the United States steamboat inspection
board.
Such findings were inescapable, so damning
was the testimony which came out in spite of
the incompetent. haphazard and incomplete
questioning Of witnesses by the board, itself a
proper defendant in the case, because its in
spectors passed the ship in spite of serious de-
fects Of personnel and lifeboat condition.
The board. claiming lack of authority to in
v~eStigate the owners. none the less allowed
Ward line representatives. notably lawyers, to
hush witnesses. The board by commission or
commission protected the owners in providing
little protection for the disaster victims.
The report. indicating only incidentally
that the crew was distributed improperly. said
nothing Of its actual gross lack of training.
The board said nothing of the fact that this
crew upon which innocent passengers had to
depend for life was rfondescript, underpaid,
insufficient and hard-driven, with but a part
day in port at each end of the line.
Inspectors charged with approving the con-
dition of a ship are not proper judges in cases
of a disaster overtaking it. But this is only
one defect in the country's sea laws. histor-
ically constructed against the passengers n
in favor Of the ship owners.
Those who died in the Vestris did not die
in vain so far as eighteen countries signing
the new safety pact are concerned. Our con-
greSs did not ratify. The 1874 Moro Castle
victims must not ole in vain. but they will un-
less congress moves in a wholesale way to put
human life above the dollar on ships.
We hope that President Roosevelt, devout
seaman and humanitarian. will launch q
wholesale reform Of American sea law and en-
forcement before aroused public sentiment is
killed by congressional neglect as in the case
Of the VeStris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
OCT. 10. 1894.
TRUE AT LAST

TN New York Bruno Hauptmann fights ex-
l. tradition to New Jersey where he is wanted
for the Lindbergh kidnapping thirty months
ago. IN Detroit. a 20-year-old youth. who
threatened to kill Edsel Ford if he refused pay
ment Of $1,000. c~onfesses and is started on the
same day to federal prison.
In Louisville, the federals momentarily ex-
pect the arrest Of the kidnaper Of Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll. who has been returned to her home
on payment Of $4,000 ransom after being held
here for six days. In Camden, N. j., a real
estate man is being held for using the mails to
extort money from three wealthy Phila-
%delphians. In Chicago tn. federals capture an
18-year-old boy who tried to extort 5000 from
a yice-president Of Armour g. Co. Unknown
kidnspers hold for $4,000 ransom young Louis
opposite. son of a Bronx merchant. In Co.
lumbus. o., gangster-killer Harry Pierpont
goes to his death in the chair for killing a
sheriff at Lima a year ago.
There is, you will notice, something unique
in this one days front page crime stories. In
all but one of these seven cases the criminal or
suspect either is punished. under arrest or
known to the police, The quick apprehension
Of most of these kidnapers and extortionists
adds a new chapter to an amazing recent rec
ord in detection by cooperating federal, state
and local agencies.
Since passage of the Lindbergh law, justice
department agents have helped clear up all but
four Of the thirty-one major kidnapping cases.
Those unsolved are the June Robes case in
Arizona, the Bremen and Hamm cases in st.
Paul and the new opposite case in New York.
Crime doesn't pay" for years has been the
shallow theme of melodramas and movies. In
real life. too often, crime has paid and paid
well. At last America is saying Crime doesn't
pay" and meaning it.
And that is news.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18

BLAME FOR
ENDING PROSPERITY

By Weary Willie.
Please allow me to answer D. B.
Luten's plea for greater purchasing
power for employers rather than
employees.
He cites the periods of 1890
and 1929 and says that it is the
greed of employees which ends pros
perity.
In 1919, all manufacturing cor
porations in the United States had
a net income after taxes, of S3,493,-
OOO,O 900 in 1920, s2,337,O0 200. Dur
ing the period of 1929, all manu-
featuring concerns had these in
comes.
In 1927, $3.50, 100000; 1928, $685.
900, 900, and 1929, 1882, 900, 900.
Their profit increased in proportion
to their gross income, 4.05 per cent,
5 per cent and 5.35 per cent. They
got theirs more and more each Of
these years. May I suggest that it
was the greed of manufacturers that
killed the goose?
Why not ask property to give up
some Of its income instead Of labor,
to increase employers purchasing
power?
Since 1929, property has received
an increasing share of the national
income.
Labor's total income compared to
the national income decreased l
per cent from 1929 to 1892, while on
that basis. property income in the
form OF interest and dividends has
increased a per cent from 1929 TO
1892. This was true of rents and
royalties which increased % per
cent in the same period. Could it
be that the greed of property killed
the goose or just stunned it?
Nj. Luten cites the textile code as
a horrible example. In 1892, the
textile bushes with low wages had a
deficit Of s~l2QO0.OoO. In 1883, after
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
Capital Capers
: BY GEORGE ABEL

AMBASSADOR ARANHA of Brazil is flying
N to Chicago this week to see the worlds
fair-and, incidentally, to be guest of honor at
a banquet given by the board of directors of
the Associated Coffee Industries of America.
Coffee always comes after the entertain
ment," explained his Brazilian eXcellency.
With Senhor Aranha goes his able counselor,
Freitas-Vallee. The latter is a trifle discouraged
about his English since he has heard his 7-year-
old son, Jose, speaking that language over the
telephone.
Jose picks up the receiver and mutters
quickly something like this:
Gimme Decatur Blah-blah-blub!"
Whether he sounds like an American tele-
phoning in a great hurry or whether the opera
tor merely makes a good guess, Jose invariably
gets the right number.
Poor vallee, however, picks up the telephone
and enunciates his words very clearly-although
with a foreign intonation.
Alas" he signs, they always say to me:
What number, please?' What number,
please?' over and over. My son has discov-
cred the secret of successful %telephoning in the
United States. but I am a dismal failure"
CENATOR M,ADOO, with sphynx-like, enig-
matte smile, again is in Washington for a
few days, having whizzed here last week from
California via Mexico in his blue and silver
monoplane-the Blue Streak"
The California legislator expects a busy win
ter. Topping the facts that he will leave shortly
for Honolulu. that the next congress will be an
important one. that Mr.. Upton Sinclair is now
keeping political necks craned in his direction,
that there is still campaigning to be done-the
eminent McAdoo has just been selected presi-
dent of the National Aeronautic Association.
In this last capacity. he will take Office for
mally on Nov. 1, replacing silver-haired Hiram
Bingham, Connecticut's ex-senator.
McAdoo referred to his election as head Of
the N. A. A. as surprising and unsought." But
he's frankly enormously pleased, having long
been an enthusiast in aviation.
Note-With his usual affability. Senator
McAdoo has just turned over his Blue Streak"
to a party of friends for a brief jaunt to New
York.
CECRETARY of the Treasury Morgenthau
~ yesterday had a few words to say about
wire tapping.
Does the treasury department still tap
wires?" he was asked by a newspaperman.
Yes" he answered. "in bootlegging and
narcotic cases."
What about income tax cases?"
"Ah. income tax" replied the secretary. look
ing very judicial, lis another matter"
Note-The portrait of former Secretary of
the Treasury Ogden Mills, which hangs in Nor
genthau's anteroom, always excites attention 1t
is very lifelike in one -respect-namely. the man
ner in which Ogden clasps a Corona Corona
cigar twixt chubby fingers. But the habitually
rubicund cheeks are paid. almost as if the ex-
secretary had suddenly come face to face with
81 Of q closed bank.
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What Scion Carter Said IN 1928

the chicanery and the disgrace of
it all.
John Duvall was indicted and
proven guilty of having obtained
the great office of mayor Of In
dianapolis through corruption. He
was the nominee of George v. Cot
fin and his machine. The great
prestige and oratorical powers of
the junior senator from Indiana
(Arthur Robinson) played no
small part in securing his nomina-
ton and election"
"Updike had sold out; he had
contracted to give Stephenson
the right to name the postmaster
of indianapolis"
This nefarious contract has
been made public, but not to this
day has the junior senator Robin-
SOM repudiated its maker, and
the same organization headed by
George v. Coffin is at present en-
gagged in returning him to the
halls of congress-"
1T was this same Ed Jackson
who upon the death of Samuel
Ralston-appointed Arthur Robin
son (senator) at the request Of
George V. Coffin and Clyde Walb,
who also is under indictment. I'm
til their exposure and conviction,
Senator Robinson paraded arm in
arm with Stephenson, Duvall,
Jackson and others. I charge him
with most intimate association
with this gang, of being under
obligation to them"
Without being unkind, every
voter in Marion county will ask
you, Mr.. Carter, when is it you
speak the truth?
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the code and an increase Of wages
the textile business had a profit Of
S11, 900, 900.
1t had a change from a 6.8 per
cent deficit to a profit of ga per
cent of net worth. Could it be that
these employers r not getting
theirs in a better fashion than the
employees?
In the period 1929, the twenty
leading iron and steel companies
had profits as follows: 1927, $780,
900, 900; 1928, s2O9, OOO, 900, and 1929,
1852, 600. 900. They increased their
profit percentage from SIS to 11.3
per cent. Yet the greedy steel labor
er killed the goose, Mr.. Luten says.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18

By Consistency.
Scion Carter, a prominent local
Republican, made a radio talk
Monday night in which he at
tackled the radio program of the
Democratic party.
But first let me note that at no
time did he assert that the DEM
ocratic speaker had made a mis-
statement or spoken an untruth.
I am going to recommend that
the Democratic speaker quote
word for word a speech made by
Mr.. Carter just a few years ago,
on March %, 1923, which is as
follows, in reference to Stephen
son and the pestilence he brought
upon Indiana:
ITO be able to boast, I am the
law he needed servile hench-
men. Courts were to be corrupted
and disgraced for the accomplish
ment of their purposes. Public
contracts were to be let to those
who paid the highest prices for
them. George V. Coffin of Indi-
annapolis, who is the present dean
of this infamous school, became
the guiding genius of Stephenson
in Marion county and before We
knew it this octopus of corrup-
ton thrust its tentacles into every
part of the state of Indiana. Ed
Jackson was elected Governor OF
the state of Indiana, John Duvall
was elected mayor of indianapolis,
while Stephenson himself sat back
as the master spirit of it all.
But murder will out, and the
pure light of a searching publicity
disclosed to the amazement of the
people of this state the corruption,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
SHERMAN MINTON AND
THAT BAT STORY.

BY ]. Wilson white.
In the News of Oct. 9, some one
tries to recall a story about a bat
with beasts and birds, and he mixes
Sherman Minton with his story, say
ing that he belittled the Constitu-
ton, which is not true.
Mr.. Minton did not belittle the
Constitution in his sympathetic
words about the starvation and suf-
fering of the poor and the helpless
ness of the American people in the
worst depression this country ever
has had.
The Constitution can not feed the
poor and drive away the depression.
Anybody with any sense knows that,
and if all would join together to
bring back recovery then the Con-
stitution still would stand.
That is what Mr.. Minton meant.
There is no reason in any words he
has said nor in any words and ar
tons of any Democrats to stir any
controversy about the Constitution
and nobody is going to pay any at
tention to Senator Robinson's talk
about it.
Why doesn't he let the Constitu-
ton rest and tell the voters what
efforts he will make to restore
prosperity? He is one of the bats
Tapping his wings for nothing.
. Sherman Minton is right and so is
| Governor McNutt, and while the
bats are flying, birds are flying, too,
and the roosters are set for a big
crow after election.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
NO OVERLAPPING!

7 Under the late and unwept noble expert
~ ment the government kept merrily wire
tapping the peoples personal liberties in the
name Of law enforcement, until a sensible
congress halted the practice by refusing funds
for such purposes. Now, with even less excuse,
Secretary Morgenthau advocates the tapping
of phone wires to catch dope peddlers, snug
glers and bootleggers.
You cam get these people if you go about
it in a sissy manner ne says.
1t is true that opium smuggling probably
is on the increase, that marihuana peddling
goes virtually unchecked in certain western
states, that there is a vast amount of heroin
brought into our ports by sailors. But, as the
bureau of narcotics recently suggested, abate-
ment is most effective when the narcotic
producing nations cooperate to halt illicit
shipments. The sale of bootleg can be cut
down by lowering the tax and tariffs to make
legal liquor cheaper. Besides these measures,
the government can make its drive against
law wviolators effective without r~esorting to the
vicious and repudiated practices of official
snoopery.
In a dissenting opinion on this question
Justice Brandeis warned against thisp practice
in language every American should cheer.
"As a means of espionage" he said, "writs
of assistance and general warrants are but
puny instruments of tyranny and oppression
when compared with Wire-tapping."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
Sc They Say

Things look pretty good with the
RFC. We have contacts all over the
country and conditions appear 70 be
good--Jesse Jones, RIG chief. :
The coast Of Ireland was the most
pleasant thing I have ever SEEN
Leonard Reid, Canada to Bagdad
fier, forced down in ocean hop.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
RESTLESS
BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL

BY VIRGINIA KIDWELL
l grow restless in the fall;
Feel imbued with strange desires,
Dread to hear the wildfowls call,
Fear to see the autumn fires.
Everywhere I turn I find
All the thing I buried deep.
All vain hopes I left behind,
Vows that 7 could never keep.
Haunt me everywhere I go.
With the past's inSistent call
Every year it happens so.
I grow restless in the faIl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-18
MRS. ROOSEVELT ON THE STUMP

MRS. ROOSEVELT is popular because she
Iva Ia natural She dares to be herself. Be-
ing herself means influencing public affairs.
So she is going TO take the political stump in
the congressional campaign.
In addition 10 sharing the popular admira-
ton for hrs. Roosevelts personality. this news