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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
SCOTTSBORO AGAIN

THE trials of the two Scottsboro Negroes
l. that resulted in the convictions which
were upheld Thursday by the Alabama SUI
preme court were, if possible, even more cruel
and farcical than the first trial. There was
the same tense mob hostility. There was the
same exclusion of Negroes from the jury panel.
There was the same appeal to passion on the
part of the prosecutor The presiding judge
all but ordered the two juries to bring in a
verdict of guilty
In the first trial the two white girls, alleged
victims of the nine hapless Scottsboro boys,
gave corroborating testimony. But in the last
two trials, one of the girls confessed that the
charge was a frame-up.
Upon the discredited and contradicted teSti-
mony of the one girl hobo who stuck to her
story, Alabama's courts again have sentenced
these two Negro youths to the electric chair.
The other seven boys await in Jail for the day
when they, too, will be called,
These two cases, of course will be appealed
to the United States supreme court. There
can be little doubt that this highest tribunal
will say again, as it said when it reversed the
first conviction, that due process was denied
the defendants and ito hold otherwise would
be to ignore the fundamental postulate
of justice which inhere in the very idea Of free
government which no member of the Union
may disregard"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

But IT can not have the flexible code method
and at the same time the fixed blanket statute
method
President Green of the A. F. Of L. says that
the shorter work week is ''the only construc-
tive remedy to relieve unemployment" Ad-
hitting that shorter work period is one Of
the several major remedies required. a rigid
hour law would work hardship on many in
dustries and force them to close down. That
would not help labor.
This is a vastly complicated problem
which can not be solved by the simple device
Of passing a thirty-hour law.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
CLEAR THE RECORD

CRIMINAL activities have taken on in
~ creased popularity" in indianapolis during
the last few weeks
Apparently without clews which will clear
the case from police records, authorities have
been unable to find the murderer of Donald
E. Dillon 13-year-old south side boy, whose
death has been a mystery many days. Sew
eral steps have been taken in the case, but
the real iSsue-fnding and convicting the muir
derer-stiu is unanswered.
And Foggy Dean will get new trial for the
alleged machine gun Staying of Police Ser
geant Lester E. Jones. Sergeant Jones
walked into the fire of the gun in the Peoples
Motor Coach Company garage in February,
1888 For three weeks prosecutors and defense
attorneys fought jury selection and the actual
trial of the case. Many things have happened
since February, 1888 and the Sergeant Jones
case probably has been forgotten by many peo-
ple. Members of Sergeant Jones family and
this newspaper never Will forget that murder.
Saturday, the indianapolis front pages car
ried the story of the death of another Indian
apolis man. He appears to have been slain,
but his slayer if there be one. has not been
captured
The only share Of the spotlight which JUS
tice has been able to corner in the last few
weeks is the sentencing of Ernest (Red) Giber-
son to the Indiana state prison for life. This
occurred yesterday when the sullen prisoner
pleaded guilty TO his participation in the
Sergeant Jones case.
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker apparently
has found the proper method of abating
nuisance. Giberson had a habit Of escaping
from confinement here and in NobleSville.
Without doubt crime is on the increase
here. Before it gets too far along it will be
well if it is stopped. One answer will be the
solution OF many past crimes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
PROPOSES SUBSTITUTE
FOR POOR RELIEF
Rv Orie / Simmnns

BY Orie j. Simmons.
In lieu Of the present clumsy poor
relief, and to trace the identity Of
each citizen and to make every one
tax conscious, L propose an identity
tax of 10 per cent to be assessed on
all personal income without ex-
emption, or surtaX. The tax would
be payable weekly by identity tax
stamps purchased at the postofiice.
Let the proceeds go to pay a
weekly identity refund check Of ST
delivered by mail to each citizen.
man, woman and child. The payee
would af1x to check before cashing.
sufficient identity tax stamps to
cover his total income tax for the
week.
The checks could be cashed only
at a grocery or bank able to youch
for the payee's identity. Any change
Of address would be Endorsed on
check by payee, and entered on di-
rectory and identity records al the
postofice.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
COOPERATIVE PLAN
QUESTIONS PUT.

By G. W. T.
In this column on Oct. 4 G. A.
Chambers tried to explain co-opera-
ton in the United States. He ar
CUES that we should buy cooper
atively in order that we might
realize a higher standard of living.
The petroleum industry states
that maintenance of excessive Serv-
ice equipment cost the industry (the
consumer, as much as $455, 900 900
in 1881. The bureau Of agricultural
economics released figures which in
dictate that the annual cost of sales
manShip amounts to $27,000000, 000.
This means that each and every
family spends $1,000 year to have
goods sold to them. How would CO.
operation reduce these excessive
costs? How could we go about it to
eliminate these costs of the middle
man?
The codes of fair competition as
set up under the NRA are supposed
to prevent unfair trade practices.
Does the cooperative plan meet
these rules and regulations
The Consumers Advisory Council
was set up to protect consumer in
terests. Does the cooperative plan
insure consumer protection?
And last, if the cooperative move
ment has grown so fast within the
last ten years, why hasn't the aver
age person heard about it? If it has
any value for us we should know
more about it.
Be more explicit, Mr.. Chambers.
We are all looking for way out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
REITERATES STAND
FOR LOW WAGES

BY Daniel B. Luton
Times Reader" takes exception
to my contribution published Sept.
Il in which I advocated more pur-
chasing power for employers rather
than for employees. We have had
two recent periods in which wages
rose to abnormal heights; the first
was 1913 to 1920. the era of jokes
about rich riveters and workers buy
ing silk shirts. 1t was a time when
employers ultimately found wages
and salaries rising faster than prices
and as a consequence profits were
converted into losses.
The depression Of 1921 resulted
and lasted less than a year because
wages were reduced along With de-
cline of prices.
The other period was that of 1927
to 1929. The total employe income
Of all the people of the United
States was s33 600 900 900 in 1922,
rising to $4,000, 100000 in 1927 and
to s5300000O,O00 in 1929. 1t was
equal to twice the total Of all other
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
CONDEMNS CHARGE
FOR CASTING CHECKS
By HaIford Williams

BY Halford Williams.
I wish to say a few words in re-
gard to the 10-cent charge being
imposed by the bankers and some
stores for cashing federal emergency
pay checks, which are very small.
This in my opinion is about the
last straw to break the camels back.
The bank where I had my big IS
check cashed probably took in about
200 checks in one hour. I ask any
one, did the bank gain or lose? 1t
is about time the working people Of
Indianapolis awakened to the fact
that they are being gouged and
chiSeled on everything. We are
supposed to take it and like it.
If one undertakes TO disagree with
profteers and money changers he
is branded as radical or red. If
these bankers and storekeeperS
can't make enough without gouging
the workers, they should. quit alto
gether. If the banks land stores
continue this practice. fhe working
persons should get together and re-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
NO THIRTY-HOUR LAW

THE American Federation OF LABOR at its
San Francisco convention yesterday
unanimously adopted a resolution favoring a
federal law denying to interstate commerce
all goods not produced under the five-day
week and six-hour day.
To freeze into federal law such rigid rule
would be to repeat the enforcement fallacy
of the eighteenth amendment. TO gainsay the
theory of flexible regulation under the NRA
codes, to court industrial confusion and prob
ably bring about more unemployment instead
of less.
The federation just has gone on record
approving NRA and the extension of its codes.
These codes are adaptable to various in
dustries. regions and conditions. Labor is
quite right in declaring that the forty-hour
week. said to be the average established by
the codes, has not absorbed the jobless It
IS right in demanding reopening of the codes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
Three-Fomths of Negroes Declared Democrats

love with the Negro overnight
and attaches his name to the Re-
publican ballot and becomes a
member of all the Negro churches
who chance to be simple enough
to admit him.
For more than decade the
Negro permitted himself to be
used as a tool and if you should
trace the ancestors Of such graft
ers after the election nine times
out of ten you would find this
same man to be the son or grand
son of a soldier Of the South who
fought to keep the Negro en-
shaved, but while seeking the Ne
gro vote his slogan was I'VE
freed YOU"
The Negro becomes tired of this
same old Warmed-over hash, and
now you will find that three
fourths of the Negro voters have
turned Democratic and they rep
resent the very best class of the
Negroes of Indianapolis and else
where.
If any one doubts my statement
he has only to visit the Walker
casino, Indiana avenue and West
street, during a Democratic rally
and he will be convinced.
The new Negro of 1884 is begin
ming to think for himself, and
instead of following a party which
has become obsolete as the Re-
publican party has, he is endeav-
oring to better his condition by
following the grand old Demo-
cratic party with that matchless
leader in the person of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
FINDS G. o. P. LACKING IN
SOCIAL WELFARE FIELD
By a Reader.

BY a Reader.
The rally of the Get Our Plums
party demonstrated that the rugged
individualists are finding it hard
going without their accustomed pub
lie crib jobs. They condemn every
thing attempted by the President to
curb the destruction of American
standards.
Not a single concrete proposal has
been made by this group of dis
guised Fascists which will guaran-
tee to the American people security
Of economic welfare.
The policy Of the Hoover admin
istration gave us the collapse OF
March, 1888.
If the Democrats could take care
of the Republicans by finding pub
lie jobs for them, the policy Of gov
eminent would not matter.
The rally looked ike an old-time
medicine show. If Mr.. Roosevelt
fails to direct production to meet
a high standard Of living, the Fascist
Republicans will ballyhoo him out
Of the job, and show him how to
use persuasive power, not on capital
but on labor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
By a Constant Reader.

BY a Constant Reader.
In The Times of Oct. 5 I note
the severe criticism of Benjamin
Osborn, who was referred to as
the political barometer of the
Negro vote simply because Mr..
Osborn endeavors to prove the
disloyalty of the Republican party
of today to the Negro race. The
criticism of Mr.. Osborn is based
upon his assertion that the Re-
publican party does not distin-
guish between the Negro of 1861
and 1884, which is very true.
However, the Negro who makes
this assertion often is misunder-
stood and branded as ungrateful
to such great leaders as Lincoln
and Washington, but this is not
true.
All honor to Lincoln and Wash
ington and Grant and Harrison
and scores of other great leaders
who made it possible for the Ne
gu W CAAJOy W44clC liz 10 C44JOJ 4145
today. However the Republican
party has outlived its usefulness
and become the tool of the rich
and aristocratic, while the Negro
represents the poor laboring class
and the party which Frederick
Douglass, that matchless Negro
Republican orator of long ago,
once referred to as the ship for
the Negro.
Now the party has become the
haven for the corrupt Office seek
er and CRATER, since the Negro is
known to constitute the balance
of power in the Republican party,
and the shrewd CRATER and Of
flee seeker falls desperately in
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
Not My w avs
BY RUTH PERKINS

Leathy's garden is not mine,
Her walks are never deep in leaves,
And for her trim tomato vines
know that Leathy never grieyes.
Leathy's children are not mine.
Their frocks are all so sweet ana
clean.
And though I know they rightly
dine,
Their legs are never brown and
lean.
My garden is a tangled bed
OF poppys. peas and hollyhocks,
OF pulled up radishes Of red
And muchly trampled garden walks.
And Lord, I know not Leathy's
heart,
But If she too feels loves design,
Then Leathy's ways are happy ways,
viii not fret that they're not mine.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

lowing unfavorable references to
White House activities. Yet, that is
apparently what actually happened.
When the government goes SO far
as to throw fear into the churches
and to control them to point
where they will not even allow crit
icism of the President, then we are
actually living under a dictatorship
and free speech is a thing of the
past.
EDITORS NOTE-Mr. Hands
report of the White House "beer
party" varied widely from au-
thentic reports. Asked to cite his
authority, Mr.. Hand is alleged to
have failed to do so. Since the
Holy Writ is rather strict about
bearing false witness" perhaps
the other clergymen felt Mr.. Hand
should have been more specific in
establishing his charges against
the President of the United tSates
and his wife, who is a convinced
personal dry.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
l aOhoLLy diSGpprove of 1UhGt you sag and 1OiU
defend to the death your right to sag t-VoItaire.
OCT. 9, 1884

incomes derived from interest, rent
and profits.
This period was the era of profit
less prosperity, the era in which
leaders of industrial thought began
to PROFOUND the theory of high
wages and low costs as a policy of
enlightened industrial practice.
This theory would be sound as long
as low costs could be obtained by
high wages, but wages increased
faster than production and prices
remained substantially stable. AS
a consequence, profits again were
converted into losses and the pres
ent depression was inaugurated
President Hoover called a con-
ference of leaders in November,
1929; they counselled sustained
wages. The employers did sustain
wage rates and Henry Ford actually
increased the daily rate.
But with losses incurred employ
ment had to be sacrificed when
wages could not be reduced other
wise. So workers were dismissed
and the more rigidly the wage rates
were maintained, the greater the
number of workers to be released.
Again we are experimenting with
the same theory, that if wages be
increased prosperity will return. The
textile code is the first to demon
sttate that it does not work. After
one wear the higher wages had
forced higher prices which resulted
in less volume of business; the
President decreed a Is per cent re-
duction in hours and the cores
ponding reduction in wages was the
basic cause of the strike.
1t is the greed of the worker in
times of prosperity that finally
brings about loss of prosperity. The
motive may be commendable, but
the results are lamentable. Hearts
Of gold, heads Of ivory.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
ABOUT BEER PARTY"
AND WHITE HOUSE.
By z. ]. NIeIoy.

By Z. ]. Meloy.
At the ninety-eighth annual New
Jersey conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Atlantic City
on Sept. %, the Rev. L. L. Hand,
Lambertville, N j., read q report
alleging that President and Mrs.
Roosevelt held a beer party in the
White House. The conference, COM
posed of 900 ministers and lay dele
gates, did not reappoint Mr. Hand
to the board Of temperance, prohi-
bition and public morals. He had
been president Of the board for five
years.
1t seems impossible that the New
Deal has reached into the churches
and that the churches are afraid
TO offend Dictator Roosevelt by al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

fuse to accept a check and demand
return to the cash pay envelope.
1 am wondering how long the citi-
zens of Indianapolis are going to
listen to the misleading propaganda
OF certain organization and the
bunk handed out by some politicians
and take it lying down as they
have for several years. The con-
sumner should organize.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
DIPLOMATS accredited to Havana ant
- Washington Mexico City and Washington

ETC, nave WONDERFUL Time.
The other day, his excellency. Munir Bey,
ambassador of Turkey. departed for Mexico City
to present his credentials to President Rodri-
guez.
He will visit Chapultepec Castle, where once
Inflated Emperor Macmillan and Empress Car
lotta reigned); lunch amid the floating gar
dens at Xochimilco; view historic Taxco a
vision of eighteenth century loneliness; bask in
the sun at glorious Cuernavaca. Then-back to
Washington, where on Oct. %, he Will preside
at a reception honoring the anniversary of Turk
ISL independence.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

The President talks to the people at the
fireside, but when he talks to congress it may
have TO be in the woodshed.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
The Message Center

Times readers ore GMOIted to e0presS
their Vtetos IN these columns. Make your
letters short, go all can have chance.
limit them to $50 CORDS OF Iess.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

And so the man who cracked down on the
chiselers broke down himself.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09
Daily Thought

But this I say, he which soweth
sparingly shall reap also sparingly;
and he which soweth beautifully
shall also reap bountifully-1l Cor
inthians, 9:6.
XXTHEN you give, take to your
w self no credit for generosity,
unless you deny yourself something
in order that you may give.-Henry
Taylor.
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NOTE-The Glasgow Herald is owned by
Lord Camrose. Graciously Douglas Will
liams, representative in New York of The
London Daily Telegraph (another Camrose
newspaper, ploted young Sir Anthony about
town, assisted by Bert Hulan, New York Times
correspondent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-10-09

Fhone Riley HSl
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Dazzling Demonstrations
of such modern miracles as motionless
motion, visible sound, audible sight, arr
ti6cial fever, new sodium light, the "elec-
trio eye" at work. Many other spectacu-
lar phases of electrical advances.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1934-04-10

Educational Entertaining
Only $500 people can see this show in
Waterbury. Over 5000 tickets are al
ready sold. Get yours at the Y. M c. A..
today. Admission tickets. Is cents. Seats
I in the reserved section SO cents.
The Washington times., 1934-11-16
PRESIDENTS SPEECH AT HARRODSBURG

is present in very large part in
the veins of millions of our
people. More than that, the
example and the spirit of these
earlier Americans Is present in
the mind and the heart Of all
our population.
NEW COMMONWEALTH
1.-THE events which we here
celebrate were so vital in the
extension of the new nation
that it has been thought proper
for Congress to commemorate
them not only in the spirit
Of gratitude, but in the spirit
of emulation, as an example to
guide us in the conquest Of
new frontiers Of the spirit that
are neither physical nor geo.
graphical.
1--WE are carrying on, we shall
carry on, the purposes Of these
men and women Of HarrOdS-
burg, they were hewing out
cOmmOnWealth-and like that
word commonwealth
I'VE, too, are hewing out
a commonwealth "a common
wealth Of the States which We
hope will give to its people more
truly than any that has gone
before, the fulfilIment Of Sc
curity, of freedom, of OppOr.
tunity and of happiness which
America asks and is entitled to
receive"
The Washington times., 1934-11-16

nations that mere discovery OF
new lands conveys no
sovereignty; and, indeed, that
mere conquest conveys but
little better title. 1t Is, after
all, only the peOpling Of the
wilderness which gives per
manency in the form Of an
ordered society.
"There Is a very definite
analogy between those days
and ours. Upon the pioneers
Of these great stretches Of the
central west were forced new
activities because of the cir.
cumstanceS of their surround.
ings. They were compelled to
hew out a new path-a path
that was dependent not on the
AK and the rifle alone, but upon
their ability to govern them
selves in new ways as well.
PIONEERING DEMANDED
"TO most of the pioneers the
necessities Of the new life
called for efforts and expert.
ments to which they had not
been accustomed in their earlier
years in the more ordered
civilization Of the Atlantic sea-
board. Survival itself demanded
immediate and new action.
81 have called us who are
here today Pioneers of 1894
l mean everything that the
word pioneer implies. We, too,
in these latter years through
out the length and breadth of
the land have come to a
realization of the pregnant fact
that the accustomed order Of
our formerly established lives
does not suffice to meet the
perilS and the problems which
we are compelled to face.
Again, mere survival calls for
new pioneering on our parts.
"SOme portion of the blood
of the coloniSts and the blood
of the pioneers who worked
their way through the genera
lions, across the mountains and
across the plains and again
across the mountains until they
came to the 'Pacific-that blood