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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
THE TARIFF STAKE

TO the man who Yields the hoe and follows
- the pillow in the cotton fields of the south,
the reciprocity tariff bill, soon to become law,
offers more hope than any other measure con-
sidered by this congress.
To the man who works in the automobile
plant in the north, and the man who stands
at the factory gates, the measure is also of
vital Importance
In 1929, three out of every five bales of
American cotton and one out of every ten
American automobiles we're sold abroad.
In 1888, we exported ii per cent more bales
of cotton, but received for it about half as
much money And we exported one-fifth as
many automobiles. receiving less than one
sixth as much money.
Cotton field workers and automobile fac
tory workers are two groups of American la
borers who have no faith in the efficacy of
high tariffs as protection to American wages.
&. Largely because of the disruption in our
foreign trade, cotton field wages in the depres-
sion dropped to an average of so cents a day,
and for the same reason, to a lesser extent,
unemployed queues heightened outside auto
mobile factories
Given fair opportunity, our cotton and
our automobiles will dominate the markets of
the world. fair opportunity presupposes an
arrangement whereby our customers abroad
are allowed to sell enough of their goods in the
American market to balance the exchange.
If reciprocal trade treaties do not open
world markets, America may have to undergo
a RECOMMENDATION that will make our present
efforts of production control seem a laissez
faire policy.
An America Self-Sustained" may mean
the elimination of three out of every five COT
ton growers, two out of every five tobacco
growers one out of every three hog rasers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04

Chiefly these measures are in danger because
of the Indifference of certain congressional
leaders.
We are not impressed with the suggestion
that all security legislation be postponed, re-
ferred to an interim committee and Jumped
into broad program covering insurance
against sickness, old age, unemployment and
other hazards. Delay, familiar device of
former administrations, is not in the spirit of
the new deal.
Members of congress, about to fold their
tents to go back to their celebrates should
ask themselves what they will tell the people.
They have done some splendid and courageous
things this session. But, outside of providing
for the bare necessities of relief, the measures
they have passed chiefly have been to make
savings, investments and other property more
secure This was necessary. But what of the
security of the propertyless, the jobless, the
aged poor, the red men and the black men and
other submerged and voiceless millions?
What will members of congress say when
they go home and these ask: What have YOU
done for us?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
OLD AND THE NEW

|T>HE blue plains of the midAtlantic offered
u fascinating and uncommon sight not
long ago-the spectacle of race between an
\old-tine square-rigged sailing vessel and one
of the fastest of modern ocean greyhounds.
The four-masted bark Abraham Rydberg
was coming up from Australia to England,
carrying grain. She was flying before mod
crate gale at prodigious clip-and suddenly
she found herself alongside the Mauritania,
going in the same direction.
And while the Mauretanias passengers
lined the rails, the skipper of the bark cracked
on all sail and, for a time, actually held
abreast of the great liner.
In the end, of course, when the wind mod
Grated, the steamer drew ahead, and the
race" was over. But the event is deeply
interesting illustration of the fact that, when
conditions are just right, the windjammer can
hold her own with the best of them-for a
little while anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
A PREMIUM ON VIOLENCE

president ROOSEVELTS executive order
prescribing penalty against any employer
found guilty of dismissing or demoting an
employee for giving evidence in regard to an
NRA code violation is the minimum of pro-
lection that the government can give to
workers.
Violations of hour, wage and collective bar
gaining provisions of codes have reached the
promotions of a national scandal. There can
be no enforcement unless the workers them
selves are free to supply information. The
workers can not testify unless the govern
ment protects them from the wrath of unfair
employers.
But how feeble is this arm of government
reaching out to protect the workingman!
Passage of the Wagner labor disputes bill
would put more muscle and bone in that pro-
tecting arm.
Violence is growing in the strike areas on
both coasts.
And in the Minneapolis strikes there is
much fighting. There regional labor board,
hamstrung by inadequate laws, strives desper-
ately to restore industrial peace to the COM
munity.
Even under the Wagner labor bill-and
properly so-that board could not enforce
compulsory arbitration but it would have
greater power and prestige. There would be
no question of its legal standing. 1t could
insure the enforcement of well-defined laws
against practices which now make orderly COL
lective bargaining in many industries difficult
if not impossible
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
UNFINISHED BUSINESS

CONGRESS will commit a serious sin of
~ omission if it tables the entire pending
program of social legislation as some of its
leaders seem determined to do. 1t also will
commit an act of political folly.
Before congress are number of measures
vital to the welfare and security of the Amer
lean people. Some are controversial beyond
all hope of agreement in the time left to the
present session. But others have been scru-
tinized carefully and revised after lengthy
hearings and are favored so widely in and
out of congress that their passage is certain
once they are permitted to come to vote.
Among the latter are:
Wagner-Lewis unemployment insurance
BILL to encourage state security laws by means
of federal pay roll tax retuYnable to states
adopting standard measures.
Dill-Connery old age pension bill for fed
eral aid up to third of state funds to pension
the aged poor, measure that would cost only
$1O,OOO,OOO year for the present.
Wagner Costigan anti-lynching bill, to
make communities and their peace officers
responsible for mob murders.
Wheeler Howard Indian rights bill, grant
ing land and other reforms to oppressed In
dians.
Copeland pure food and drug bill, contain
ing protective amendments to the old law.
The administrations immigration program,
temperlng harsh practices in departments.
Wagner labor disputes BILL when properly
amended, to provide a labor court and
strengthen labor's rights to free collective bar
gaining.
The housing BILL to standardize home mort
cages, facilitate new home building and aid
in slum abatement.
None of these measures materially affects
the federal budget. Opposition comes not from
the treasury or the White House. If at all
1t comes from small special interest groups.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
REMEMBER CHICAGO!

MEMBERS of the Massachusetts, Real Es-
AVA tate owners Association are told by a
fellow member that "bums who own no prop
erty and pay no taxes" have been debating to
politicians and causing unduly heavy public
expenditures, and that the solution is for the
property owner to stop paying taxes.
After ALL" says the speaker, while we
taxpayers may be in the minority as far as
numbers of votes go, it's our money which
pays the bills"
The taxpayer, heaven knows has been get
ting it in the neck for long time and yet to
class those who pay no taxes as buns, and to
suggest that only the taxpayer has right to
tell the politicians what money to spend, is a
peculiarly un-American and undemocratic
doctrine
After all, the majority of people own no
real property and pay no income taxes. Are
they to be disfranchised therefor? Chicago
not long ago showed what happens when prop
erty owners stop paying taxes
Does any other city care to duplicate Chi
cago'S experience?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
MARKET CONTROL AT LAST

1 HE STOCK market control measure has been
- ground out of the legislative mill and on to
the White House desk, where the Presidents
signature will make i the law.
Is it not time for the exchanges of the
country to drop their dog-in-t he-manger atti-
: tude toward this effort of the federal govern
ment to establish order and fair dealing in the
marketing of securities? The detectives of this
legislation are the same detectives that the
boards controlling exchanges have long pro-
fessed. 1t is a law designed to stamp out the
admitted abuses that the exchanges them
selves could not prevent, or at least did not
:. prevent.
There was nothing hasty about this legis-
laton. 1t came only after many years of trial
of self-government by the exchanges had
exhausted public patience. There were full,
open and fair hearings before committees of
both houses of congress. Spokesman for the
:. exchanges had their say, and scores of their
recommendations were written into the law.
There was unlimited debate, and on the floors
of congress the exchanges had stout and bril-
liant champions.
The legislative battle is over. Let the con-
troversy die with it.
Any attempt to sabotage this new law will
work great harm both to the exchanges and
the country Enlightened self interest on the
part of exchanges and their members calls for
faithful cooperation with the new federal
F. commission. Instead of pouting that the law is
unavoidable, they should turn to and help to
make it work BY this spirit and method they
can gain whatever changes in the law that
experience proves desirable. But to buck the
law and the commission would be to court
even more drastic legislation. 1t is no idle
prophecy that if the law fails because the ex-
changes do not cooperate the next congress
may go beyond mere regulation.
On the President rests the responsibility of
selecting the five members of the new control
commission.
They should possess technical competence
and high honesty. They should know how to
deal tactfully with men without yielding on
the principles well defined in the law.
To allow partisan politics to enter into the
selection would mean a board made up to
appease class interests, sectional interests,
racial interests. The only test should bespub-
lie interest. And that can be served only by
absolute nonpartisanship.
These five commissioners who are to under
take reform of our investment practices
should be men who regard exchanges not as
clubs for the convenience of gambling gentle
men, but market where industrialist and in
weston can engage in fair barter, the one to Sc
cure capital necessary for his enterprise, the
investors can meet to buy and sell with access
other to make sound use of his savings; where
to knowledge of what it is that they buy and
sell.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
DANGEROUS DRIVING

THE writer of this editorial sat on the front
- porch of house in a residential suburb
the other night and saw one of the common
est and most appalling sights modern America
offerS-an automobile tipping along at
thirty-fve miles an hour down narrow street,
along which children were playing
To be sure, nobody got hurt. 1t just hap
pened that all the children kept out of the
cars path Nobody suddenly forgot and
chased rolling ball out into the street; no
child came down a driveway on roller skates
and headed out for the opposite curb
Children get absorbed in their play and do
such things frequently; this time they didn't
But the point is that if one of them had
done so, that car never could have been
stopped in time. Technically the driver might
have been guiltless; but no one who has seen
cars dashing along streets where children are
. playing would have found it easy to forgive
him
The man who drives fast where children
are playing is a potential killer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04

existing drunkenness, which they
tried to blame on prohibition, would
disappear.
We have had legal beer and whis-
ky about year now, and what is
the situation?
The old fashioned saloon, except
for whisky, has returned. Every res
taurant and cafe where a decent,
God-fearing man could take his
family, now sells beer and is over
run with boisterouS DRINKS, falling
over each other and respectable
persons as well.
I stepped into little restaurant
the other Sunday morning to get a
BOTTLE of milk, as the milk man had
missed us. While I was waiting at
the counter, up walked a poor be-
sotted creature with a stein of beer
in one hand and a whisky bottle in
the other.
He started telling me his life his
tory, although gave him no en-
couragement, and tried hard to
make me drink some of his foul
"rOtgut.
Such conditions are intolerable.
Everywhere one goes he sees youths
and adults, as well, in a polluted
condition.
Unless there is an immediate and
decided change, the public will rise
up in arms and prohibition will be
back, this time to stay.
Hasten the day.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
COMMON SENSE URGED
TO BETTER TRAFFIC

BY B. V. d.
Why are the police so anxious to
"bawl' out all and sundry for minor
traffic violations, giving stickers and
arresting motorists for perhaps a
minute overtime parking Of
Tense, and yet SO blind as to let
cars roam the streets at night with
no lights, maybe one light in a
great number of instances, no tail
lights.
I understand the city has an
ordinance prohibiting parking of a
car on the street at night without
front and rear lights, but I have as
yet to find car parked on the
street for the night with any lights.
1 may have overlooked one or two
but my business takes me out fire.
quently until early in the morning
and these parked cars with no
lights constitute a real hazard.
Perhaps the worst offender of the
lot is the motoriSt who starts out,
fills up on beer and then forgets to
turn on his lights. They swing
around corners and if you're lucky,
you dodge them.
Why is it the police can't try to
protect the fellow who is trying to
obey the law by forcing the other
fellow to observe merely the simple
laws OF common sense in driving.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04

first thing you encounter is a flip
young waitress who seems to ques-
ton your presence unless you i'm
mediately order beer and continue
ordering it.
Quite close to you, as it usually
happens, will be party of young
DRINKS whooping it up, yelling and
telling obscene stories in a too east
ly heard tone of voice.
Take a look around and the char
acter of the women present is forci-
bly, impressed on you in many cases.
In the old days they stayed on the
streets and kept out of the places
supposedly reserved for decent folk.
Another fragrant affront to decent
people is the great number of minors
one sees in the beer parlors these
evenings. Those under 81 are in
about as great majority as those
who have reached their majority.
Is this the way we are supposed to
raise our children-teach them to
become orunkards?
Please understand am not
against the enjoyment of beer in
the proper place and in the proper
amounts but something should be
done about it if we are to keep our
self-reSpect.
Must we continue to associate with
harlots and their ilk merely to
drink an innocent glass of beer?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1884.
A SHAMEFUL INCIDENT

THE parole of Harold Herbert Schroeder is
u one more humiliation to the citizens OF
Indiana. Our public officials turned mad
dog loose upon society by releasing John Dill
linger. There is scarcely community in the
civilized world that does not hold Indiana's
law enforcement in contempt.
There was some excuse for paroling Dill
linger Complaining witnesses and the pre-
siding judge felt that he should have another
chance" There was no excuse at all for the
state prison parole boards liberation of
Schroeder.
Members of the board must have realized
that their action was questionable for they
surrounded the Schroeder parole with such
secrecy that, although it occurred March 80,
it was only discovered by accident on Satur-
DAY.
Schroeder's crime was peculiarly vicious.
He was involved in clandestine love affair.
He picked up an unknown man in his car,
stabbed him to death and then burned the
body beyond hope of Identification. Apparently
the victim was some poor unfortunate. The
motive was a life insurance fraud. Schroeder
hoped the body would be identified as his
$22,500 worth of insurance.
1t takes particularly cold blooded and
scheming type of criminal mind to plan and
execute such crime.
No wonder Judge Frank P. Baker, when he
heard of the parole denounced it as "a breach
of faith"
No wonder Prosecutor Herbert E. Wilson
was shocked beyond measure and exclaimed
that Schroeder was very dangerous" and
should have served his full sentence of twenty
one years instead of less than four.
The parole board failed to consult either
Judge Baker or the prosecutor. 1t based its
curious leniency only upon Schroeder's good
prison record and upon letters written by
citizens of the convict's home town, Mobile,
Ala.
These citizens may have had good inten-
tions. but they knew nothing of the crime.
1t is, unfortunately, easy to get people to sign
their names to anything. This was proved
several months ago by the wag who got up
petition urging the appointment of zangara,
, Mr.. Roosevelts would-be assassin, to the
Presidents cabinet.
The kindest thing that can be said about
the members of the parole board is that they
paroled Schroeder either because they were
grossly ignorant or astonishingly naive They
have proved themselves utterly incompetent
and an incompetent parole board is a grave
danger.
There should be a thorough and public in
veStigation of the Schroeder parole.
Decent citizens are tired of their public
servants making joke of the dignity of
great state
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD
TRIES TO FLOWER

BY Sir Walter.
Women who do not have the
courtesy to thank members of the
male sex trying to perform small
acts of ordinary courtesy for them
are not only annoying but are do
ing the very thing which eventual
ly will curtail all efforts of men to
be polite.
Several times during the hot
weather I have paused at the en-
trance of Office buildings to hold
open heavy doors for women who
were passing in or out. They sailed
by without so much as a thank
you, or an attempt to take hold of
the door.
I realize that my effort in cour-
tesy was very small thing. It in
volved a few seconds of my time
while hurrying about the city. The
physical discomfort involved was
trivial.
But the mental discontinue suf-
fered by the realization that many
women are ungrateful for small
courtesies is distressing.
When one tries o perform even
the smallest act of kindness and is
not even rewarded with a THANK
you" ones natural inclination is to
say, well, the hell with them next
time"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
MILITIA ACTIONS AT
SPEEDWAY SCORED
BY Another ID. ID,


Disguised Democrats letter on the
actions of national guardsmen at
the Speedway should be instructive
as to the caliber of men in the
guard and should raise a very per-
tinent question.
The question: Under what posi-
BILE law does the adjutant general
Of the state allow the use of ma
tional guardsmen in army uniforms
as private guards, privately paid, for
a sporting event?
This question is asked in all good
faith and without thought of criti-
cism for the Speedway, which. this
year at least, provided a grand
spectacle.
The action of the guardsmen in
searching the drunk-and there
were plenty of drunks-is in line
with the actions of the guardsmen
called in to Toledo. There to keep
order" these tough young men
murdered two strikers before the
Governor began to order them out.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
LOCALIZED MURDER
AND SPEEDWAY

By L. B. N.
The Times carried recently a
long winded interview with Colonel
Eddie Rickenbacker, the Speed
way and aviation impresario, giving
our lace of aces" impression of the
1884 500-mile race. Colonel Rick
enbacker nobly pointed out the
great engineering advances. But
he forgot to mention the fact that
before the race that he lauded as
so free of accidents" two men lost
their lives on his Speedway track.
Wasn't it Colonel Rickenbacker
who roared about "legalized MUIR
der" when President Roosevelt
cracked down on his (libel deleteO
aviation company and put the mail
service in the hands of the army.
If anybody had any right to
shout about "legalized murder" it
is not Colonel Rickenbacker of the
motor speedway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
BY An Eagle.

By An Eagle.
Old age pensions have won a
signal victory in Grant county
a victory that surely will mean
something to even the most re-
dictionary and selfish of officials.
Fully advised that the pension
law would become effective Jan.
l, 1884, the Grant county council
nevertheless appropriated only
$4,000 for pensions, which soon
was depleted.
Recently, eleven pension appli-
cations filed a mandate suit n an
effort to obtain payment, and Cir
cult Judge o. D. Clawson upheld
the mandatory clause of the pen
sion law and ordered the council
to appropriate $4,000.
In compliance with the court
order, the council made the ap-
preparation.
Clay Kearns, Grant county
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
Court Victory Won By Old Age Pensions

auditor, announces that payment
of pensions on the basis of the
courts order will not entail a
loan. Therefore, it is logical to
assume that the proper enforce
ment of the old age pension law
can be obtained if determined
fight to that end is made.
Within a few days, the Fra
ternal Order of Eagles in Indiana,
chief advocate of the pension Sys-
tenn, will meet in state convention
at Evansville.
This is to serve notice on Short
sighted, reactionary politicians
and other groups like minded,
that the order intends to see that
the 1885 Indiana legislature
strengthens the present pension
law to bring real benefit to every
needy old man and woman.
In simple justice, the order can
not take any other course.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-04
warden, BRUSH THOSE
WALLS AWAY'-SO LONG

BY F. A. ID.
70! Ho and bottle of "hum-
bug'-and as it's too hot for a
yawn you'll have to let this go at
just wondering what next at the
Indiana state prison.
First, ten men escape from the
Indiana state prison.
Second, along comes John Dill
linger and makes a travesty of the
Crown Point jail with his little
whiting knife.
Third, Harold Schroeder, alleged
torch slayer, is released by the pri-
sons board Of trustees without ask
ig the prosecuting attorney of Mar
ion county or the criminal court
judge who sentenced him whether he
should be free.
What next?
Just any day now and Stephen
son will be out of prison garb and
dining with the McNerts and other
Scottish clans, while the public
thinks he still is in prison where he
so richly deserves to be.