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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
THAT INSANITY PLEA

RY demanding radical reforms in legal pro-
~ cedure in murder trials, the American
Psychiatric Association has moved to end one
of the most glaring deficiencies of Americas
criminal law.
A report on the insanity defense" was
submitted to the nineteenth annual conven-
ton of the association recently, and it pro-
posed several important changes
1t would eliminate most of the abstruse
technical evidence which nowadays is sub
mitted to a confused jury when a defendant
asserts his own insanity, and it would provide
that any man submitting such plea be con-
fined in an asylum for an indefinite period.
whether he be found guilty or acquitted.
That the courts way of handling the in
sanity defense needs thorough overhauling is
too obvious to need argument. The psychia-
trists, who have good reason to know how
completely this kind of defense is abused under
present practice, are to be commended for their
effort to bring about reform
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
ANOTHER NEW DEAL

WEARS ago when many of us received diplo-
= mas from high schools and colleges COM
mencement speakers left the impression that
we could defeat the world and occupy niche
of fame if we were honest Woodworking and
intelligent.
How things have changed
Today the commencement speaker is deal
ing with national problems and the graduate
is looked upon as one of the future satellites
of a new deal in national and world affairs
The graduate is told that he will figure in
general revision of business, diplomatic and
social politics.
Changes in the nations social structure
were foreseen by three commencement speak
ers yesterday.
DR.. Frank A. Fetter, professor emeritus of
Princeton university. told the seniors at In
diana university:
There are many signs that if the capital
istic system breaks down it is destined to be
replaced, not by democratic socialism, whether
mild or radical, but by an autocratic oligarchy
of big business"
DR.. Ward c. Alice of the University of
Chicago. told Earlham college graduates that:
Regardless of the fact that we feel . :.
that democracy is the best form of government
yet evolved, We are today headed fairly toward
soma soEt Of dictatorship and unless we exr
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
Capital Capers
BY GEORGE ABEL

II UBIQUITOUS Charles Taussig, adviser to
" President Roosevelt on the Virgin Islands
and original brain truster" has just satisfied a
lifelong ambition to be a stowaway.
Charles arrived here the other day by plane
from an unexpected trip to Haiti.
1t happened like this:
Charles his charming wife, Ruth Taussig and
their daughter, Jean, we're guests on board the
Colombian Line steamer Colombia, watching
the review of the fleet off New York They
brought tugboat along to take them ashore
later. The Colombia was then to start West
Indies cruise.
At luncheon some one dared" Charles to stay
on board.
"All right, I'll stay!" replied Taussig.
$50 will l." said his wife, who thought he was
joking.
And l." said Jean.
ME, too" piped up Charles Pearsall, general
manager of the Colombian Line.
SO they sent back the tugboat and away they
sailed for Haiti-stowaways de luxe in the royal
suite.
Taussig dispatched two wires to New York
nNE caused plane laden with tropical cloth
~ ing to set off for Port-au-Prince. The other
cancelled a projected radio address under the
auspices of the Inter- Collegiate Council.
While $50 miles south of Cape Matters, Stow
away Taussig heard his address delivered over
the ether by a substitute who announced mfr.
Taussig has suddenly been taken i'll and is con-
fined to his bed" actually, he was lying on the
Sun-deck under tropical SUM-
In Port-au-Prince Stowaway TauSsig was in
PRODUCED to President Vincent of Haiti was
wined and dined by Minister Norman Armour
and gave his opinion about Haitian rum.
He has brought back few casks but an
nounces
Wait till you taste the old st. Croix rum of
the Virgin Islands. Um-mm Yum-mm! You'd
become a stowaway, tool"
NOTE-Stowaway Charles will remain in
Washington several days. rested from his tour
and no longer wearing the pale hue of one who
is overworked.
Il Ecuador and Minister Alfaro of Panama
are doing their part to make graduation day
success.
was feted by jovial enthusiastic Minister Colon
Eov Alfaro of Ecuador at champagne supper
at the Mayfower.
Timoteo c. Suescum is the students name
He was graduated in medicine from George
Washington university.
Bring every one you want!" insisted Envoy
Alfaro. Bring your professors and your school
mates"
They all came and enjoyed caviar and cham
payne, except DR.. Cloyd Marvin, president of
George Washington, who telephoned at mid
night that he had guests and couldn't get there
in time.
Dignified, studious- minded Minister Ricardo
j. Alfaro of Panama was host at a cocktail
party for graduating Panamanian students The
affair was a huge success.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
URGES TOLERANCE
TOWARD RELIGION
By W. F.

By w. F.
The public is sick and tired of
politicians trying to stir up re-
ligious prejudice in order to be
elected. 1t worked a few years ago,
but now people have had lots of
time on their hands, with nothing
to do but think and study. Conse-
quently, they have become more
enlightened people, making it
harder to cram the old K. K. K.
gags down their Threats.
1 was born and reared a Protes-
tant, so this is not the complaint
of Catholic who has had his toes
stepped on.
1 will be strictly in favor of keep
ing Catholics out of public Office
when, and only when, our city,
county, state and federal govern
ments exempt them from all taxa
ton. Until then I will be opposed
to permitting mans or woman's
religion to operate for or against
his or her election, or appointment
to any Office.
Let us hope that in the future
our Protestant people will be wiser
and more broad-minded than they
have in the past.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
CHRISTIANITY AND
ECONOMICS SYSTEM

BY G. H. A.
The chiseler must go. Every one
declares war on the chiseler.
What is a chiseler? Is it some
one who is different from all the
rest of us? No, he is the product
and ultimate aim of our highly
competitive system, the competitor
who has competition down to per-
lection. Now that he is perfect we
turn on him.
What now is to be the aim OF the
perfect competitive system? Is it
to be the regulation of competition?
If so, for whose advantage? To
make profits for the minority in
business at the expense of the
majority who are the producers and
consumers?
We have tried private control,
and it has failed. We have tried
government control and it has
failed. Are we going ahead to gov
eminent ownership or are we going
to continue going backwards. Amer
lea is no longer at the crossroads
We are headed backwards.
Why all the opposition to govern
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
TUESDAY, JUNE IL, 1884.
TAKE OFF THOSE WHISPERS

COMMITTING should be done about sup
- pressed senators who turn committee
hearings into personal loud speakers. At the
Tugwell hearing yesterday it was almost en-
harrassing. The crowd was there to see the
professor put on the spot, but Senators Smith
and Byrd tried to steal the show. Of course
it was all flop because nobody wanted to lis
ten-not even their fellow members who said
right out in the meeting tina the two vocalists
were trying to knife the President through
Tugwell.
The other senators should be more con-
siderate today when the question comes up on
the senate floor Smith and Byrd should be
allowed to stand up and reveal just how little
they have to say.
But, apparently, the senate and the coun-
try have lost the opportunity of seeing Tug
well under attack. That's pity For the
Presidents aid, if prodded sufficiently, might
have stated the issue frankly. The issue is the
new deal versus the Democratic old guard, who
never have had and probably never will have
much sympathy for economic planning and
brains in government
Senators Smith and Byrd and the others
who have been manufacturing the myth know
better than any one else that Tugwell is not
a red. They also know that he did not write
the AAA amendments to which they OBJ
ject; no more did he write the so-called Tug
well pure food and drug bill.
They know he is not running the President
as they nsinuate. They know the President is
President. And they don't like it. That is
their right. We hope they say so on the senate
floor today-and take off their false whiskers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
FREEDOM TO SWAP

HIGH tariff advocates consumed lot of
IA time and lot of space in the record
(political medicine for the days to Gomez, but
f1nslly the senate has passed the reciprocity
tariff bill.
1t will become the law in few days and
then, before many months have elapsed, we
shall learn whether we have the ability to
swap our way back into fair share of the
worlds trade
Because other nations embraced om Short
sighted Smoot- Hawley philosophy, world COM
merce is now so throttled down that the bar
gaining method offers the only practicable
approach. In every quarter of the globe ma
tions groan under their own unmarketabe
SURPRISES.
The reciprocity bill wisely confers upon the
President the power to participate in the bar
gaining that other nations already have
started. 1t means that if world trade is re-
vived we shall not have to sit helpless amid
our own SURPRISES and watch it pass us by
Unfortunately many of our tariffs are so
high that the Presidents so per cent reduction
lever will not be sufficient to bring relief to
our own consumers. For example, our ridicu-
lous prohibition liquor tariffs, even if cut in
half will still be too high to permit any serious
threat against our "bootleggers' paradise"
Senator Gore of Oklahoma has definition
for trade which may be useful to our foreign
trade bargainers when they sit down across
the table from the bargainers of other nations
Said the senator:
Trade is process by which two men get
what each man wants, both parting with what
neither needs, and both profting by what
neither loses"
That applies to the disastrous SURPRISES,
here and abroad.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
ENOUGH SILVER

NTE had to do something for silver" said
w the silver-tongued orators from the
states where silver is plentiful. Well, it is
done. Both houses of congress have passed
the silver bill. In few days the President
will sign it and it will become law.
And the American people can be glad.
-. Not because it will make our troubles
any lighter, but because it probably will not
make them any heavier.
-. Not because the President will do these
things that the bill empowers him to do, but
because he probably will not do those things.
The President has experimental just enough
with monetary manipulation theories to know
their limitations; he probably can be depended
upon not to misuse this new silver infationary
power any more than he has misused his vast
credit inf1ationary powers.
=. Not because the silver bill soon will
become law, but because it no longer takes
up the time of congress.
We can be grateful because we probably
shall not hear any more of silver until the
next session, and during the few days that
remain of this session congress can get down
to work on legislation that is fundamental to
recovery.
Maybe with the long silver orations out of
the way we can get action on an adequate
labor disputes bill in time to stave off the
we can get action on the housing bill to pro-
vide jobs for workers in many industries weary
of idleness and relief doles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
DEGREES BALLYHOO
OF PATRIOTISM

BY Emily S. Barber.
Veterans Wife" seems to have
learned very little from the need
and suffering of veterans and their
dependents" and incidentally all
the rest of the common people, if
her idea of patriotism is still the
outgrown one of whooping it up for
our glorious republic" and dofing
our hats to the flag.
She already is talking of the
next conflict" when-God help us
we have not paid for the last one,
and probably can not for genera
lions to come.
1t is this distorted idea of pa
triotism, this ballyhoo about our
glorious traditions, this teaching of
our youth that our country is al
ways nobly right, but right or
wrong, our country" that makes
young men believe it their sacred
privilege to go out and to be muir
dered, or their high-minded duty
to murder others who are, quite
possibly, as sincere in their convic-
tions and their love of their country,
as are we.
If veterans Wife" would read a
little, she would learn that about
80 per cent of the blood money"
goes to the armament makers who
know no country, no patriotism,
and we, poor fools, worry about who
shall carry the colors" in the next
war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

be reared at Deadwood, S. D., to the memory
of Deadwood Dick Clark, Indian scout, from
tiersman, and hero of dime novels.
The Deadwood Dick thrilers were not lit
erature, it is true. There may have been
justice in the parental threat to apply the rod
to the luckless youngsters caught reading
them.
But memory of them comes back for a
moment like fresh, clean breeze as one turns
in disgust from the mass of drivel and worse
that masquerades today literature among
our more advanced" readers
And Deadwood Dick fans of another day
silently cheer those who have remembered
across the years to pay tribute to the hero
who thrilled them as he triumphed over his
foes
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

partake Of it, but how many of us
really appreciate it?
We poor people, who are plain
people, understand life better than
the wealthy. Why? Because we
have worries that the wealthy don't
have. We humble ourselves to plain
living. We sacrifice to help our less
fortunate fellow-men. Their Strug-
giles are our struggles.
There is a class of plain people
who have no ideals, no pride, and
know nothing of the better things
in life. These people are to be
loitied. Some of them are highly
educated, but have not cultivated
their training.
To know and understand life is to
believe in God. You must follow in
His footsteps to understand and
realize the greater things in life. If
you have knowledge of higher ideals,
He gave it to you. Cultivate those
ideals, and His blessings will be be-
slowed on you.
What we need among poor people
today is more encouragement. AL
ways encourage a, fellow-man who is
down and out. Give him something
to think about besides his worries.
Perhaps you are in a position that
your worries are far less.
We don't have the same social
standing we used to have. Our stan
dard of living has been lowered. We
had good jobs, good incomes. But
today we are struggling and still
happy. We can still take it on the
chin and smile, and that means
something.
We are not rich, wealthy, ignorant
or dumb. We are plain, God-loving
people, used to things we no longer
can have.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
COMMUNISM BOOS ALL
TRAPPINGS OF WAR
BY Paul Wysong.

By Paul WysOng.
"One lone Civil war veteran
marched in Memorial day parade in
the city of Cleveland-one old man
in blue coat, white-haired and
stopped, valiantly stepping along
+ to honor his departed comrades.
And a little group of Communists,
standing on the curb, booed him as
he marched"
The above is the opening para
graph of an editorial appearing in
The Times of June 5. The editor,
probably, with the fingers of the
grieving Moore stunning the sad
and mournful notes of THE Last
Rose of Summer" on the editorial
heartstrings, laments this "abySm-
ally ignorant" attitude of Commu-
niSts.
Communism does not deal with
personalities. It's thought is for the
mass. Always it has and always it will
boo" capitals wars, be their trap
pings of blue or the color of gray;
the cross of Christ or the sword of
Mohammed.
Communism did not boo that lone
marcher of once blue legion that
fought and freed an enslaved peo-
pie that they might be available for
future soup lines. 1t booed the in
defensible cause of our civil gar
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

ment ownership? Is ours not a
government of, by and for the
people?
Perhaps those who oppose govern
ment ownership realize that they
are no longer a part of the govern
ment. Perhaps the opposition
comes from a group in whose eyes
the future of America is obscured
by the dollar sign.
On Sunday these groups attend
church and profess to believe in
Christ and helping their fellow
man. The other six days of the
week they believe in helping them
selves by taking advantage of their
fellown1au. How close can we ap-
preach Christianity with our pres
ent system?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
CRITIC OF LUDLOW
RECEIVES REPLY

BY ], ]. H.
This is reply to the man who
wanted to know what Louis Ludlow
did in the years he mentioned.
Why doesn't this man go to the
headquarters of the Democratic
party?
1 am sure that Louis Ludlow has
done more good for unfortunate
people than any other congressman
from the state of Indiana.
I wish to ask the inquirer just
where he was during the years of
1917, '18 and '19.
l am World war veteran and
100 per cent for Mr. Ludlow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
WEAKNESS CITED
IN COMMUNISM
By Hiram Lackey.

By Hiram Lackey.
The editorial in The Times of
June S, relative to the poor pSy-
chology which American Commu-
nists practice, is worthy of the
Communists most serious considera-
ton. AS friend of the truth and
justice in Communism, 1 wish to
express my thanks for this edito-
rial favor.
But there still is a more funda-
mental weakness in Communism.
The basic defect in American Com
munism lies not in its Yuncompro-
missing radicalism, as this is a Chris
tan virtue. In dealing with ques-
tions of major Importance, Christ
YVES the most Uncompromising of all
reasonable radicals. Measure His
ultimate influence and compare it
with that of your ideal Conform
ing reformer."
The weakness of those radicals
whom we associate with Commu-
nism lies in the fact that they are
mistaken in their thinking and feel
ing relative to questions such as
religion and certain aspects of per-
sonal liberty. They fail to recog-
nize the fact that intellectual per-
sons without spiritual development
are no more prepared to judge the
value of religion than a 6-year-old
child of normal mental develop
ment is prepared to judge the value
of algebra.
For, spiritual development is as
much above intellectual develop
ment as intellectual development
is above physical DEVELOPMENT.
AS do ministers, so do Communists
miss the mark when they talk about
things Of which they have no I'M
Outstanding.
Let us pray that American Com
munistS will find the wisdom to
build on the secure foundations laid
by our Master, the original and
greatest of all Communists.
Let us bear in mind that personal
liberty is thought to be cher
ished. But the idea of its surrender
to and for the public good is forever
inseparable from, Greater love
hath no man."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

ercise all possible care. there is where we shall
bring up"
De Paw university seniors heard DR.. Err
nest F. little, Evanston 1l10 minister, say:
Two beliefs are gaining credence with
many--that an unregulated pursuit of private
gain must give way to some kind of social con-
troll, and there is no escape from economic
disaster save in a more widespread distribution
of purchasing power"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
This Bank Stakeholder Sdus He Paid

BY A. Subscriber.
Your Message Center carried a
letter on June 6, Loser Wants Ac-
ton, by Another Victim" which
was not entirely in line with the
facts.
The last paragraph of his COM
plant states that the stockholders
have not had to pay, even though
it is the law, and asks, "Why-?"
And my comment is, ooh, YEAH"
A few years ago the writer
bought twenty shares of stock of
the bank in question at $500 a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
RELIEF RECIPIENT
COMPLAINS

BY Relief Worker.
We poor people in Martinsville
are just getting enough relief work
a week to keep us from starving;
no money to pay rent; no money
for clothes. We may have to join
the nudists. About all we get a
week is twelve hours at 40 cents an
hour, which means $3.50.
I have five in my family and
don't know how I will pay rent or
buy anything we need.
There seems to be a few official
jobs at good salaries. How do they
do it? The poor people are get
ting nothing.
We poor people want enough to
let us live and a place to live. Most
all poor people pay rent, and how
can we If we have no work?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

share. Several years later the
board of directors cut the number
of shares in half, making the ST.
600 investment worth only $1,000.
In addition, when the bank closed,
there was 81 900 on deposit in the
savings department. Last fall the
writer turned over to the receiver
$1,000 representing his stockhold-
er's liability. I incurred total loss
of $4,000.
And then Another Victim" says
the stockholders have not had to
pay. He had better be sure of his
facts before he makes a statement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
A MERITED TRIBUTE

A PHILOSOPHER has said, HE whom one
age stones, another enthrones"
While it may be exaggeration to apply that
maxim to the case in mind, it warns the
hearts of that generation which stole with
trepidation into the attic to revel in the dime
novel exploits of Deadwood Dick to learn that
recognition has come at last to the favorite
author of their youth.
A bronze-plated cobblestone monument will
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
WISH

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
1 wish that could see your soul.
I know it would be beautiful.
1t would be savage, dark and grim.
1t would be cleaning, never dull.
And If I could but see it once,
I would be tolerant and wise;
knowing all things, holding the key
To all that hides within your eyes.
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u0holIy disapprove of aOhat you sag and sOiu
defend to the death your right to sag it-Votaire

greed, profit, wealth accumulated
by the few from the enforced labor
of the many.
I can sympathize with the editor.
I, too, experience his emotions.
When old glory majestically mounts
the flag pole my eyes dampen and
my heart Swells. I see an embryo
republic, Bunker Hill, Washington,
Patrick Henry, Yorktown, the in
comparable Jefferson, Lincoln-the
picture fades. Them days are gone
forever"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12
Daily Thought

All therefore whatsoever they bid
you observe, that observe and do;
but do not We after their works:
for they say, and do not.-St.
Matthew, 1913.
WTE live in an age that hath
w more need of good example
than precepts.-George Herbert.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

No one could have done better keeping
those Canadian quintuplets alive than old DR..
Dafoe, says his brother specialist. Turning
down that $4,000 world fair contract was
heroic deed in itself
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

King Prajadhipok of Siam went to England
Tor another operation on his eye. Perhaps he
feared Americas new eye opener
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

Republicans are calling for a square deal"
now-let the Democrats try getting around
that.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-12

Conditions are getting so bad out west that
many farmers beginning to doubt there
ever was a flood, even in Biblical times.