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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
CONDITIONS IN U. S.
MUST BE CHANGED

BY B. E. NJ.
I am a reader of your Message
Center daily. Your editorials are
very inspiring and l. never fail to
read them.
I followed the daily accounts Of
the Stoll kidnapping. Well, the
writer of this letter was born in
Kentucky just about five miles from
where President Lincoln was born.
I believe in those principles of Lin
coin, justice and freedom for all.
And I also knew Charles c. Stoll,
the father-in-law of Mrs. Stoll,
forty years ago when he sold coal
oil in one-horse wagon. Those
were the days before much lighting
by electricity or gas. Mr.. Stoll at
that time was great church worker
and superintendent of the Sunday
school which I attended.
I was very much surprised when
I read the ransom note where Mr..
Stoll said the President was against
the capitalists and the capitalists
would have to stick together. Of
course, we all know that and we
know that is the greatest reason why
We are not getting any farther along
in the recovery act.
If the twelve or fourteen million
unemployed and the seventy mil
lion who like myself are underpaio
and working for a mere existence
would stick together like the CAPT.
.talists, there would be q different
story. I don't believe in doing these
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

American baseball team: about 5000 japanese
turning out to see single game; about great
popularity contest to choose the fifty most
beautiful mattresses in Toxic to wait on the
American athletes at the dinner table; about
enormous crowds clogging the streets to see
and cheer the players-and, in familiar fash
ion. to ask for autographs.
Reading those things. We suddenly dis
cover: Why. these folks are like ourselves.
They like the same things we like If we got
to know them. we could Ike them first rate.
and they could like US.
And that. in turn is apt to make us Won
der whether there really needs TO be that mu-
tual suspicion and jealousy which-not TO
mince words about it-has showed us dam
gsrous distance along the road to war. If
handful Of professional athletes can give US a
vision Of international friendship. shouldn't
there be some way of translating the vision
into reality?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
CALLS FOR REMOVAL
OF CORRUPTION

BY Voter.
1t is common talk that a certain
candidate obtained his nomination
through giving groceries, money and
liquor.
Since the lower element has seen
fit to put over a man of this type,
what is the better element going to
do about it? Would you expect a
man of this caliber to be an honest
conscientious Official?
Are there enough Christian,
church-going, law-abiding citizens
to check the tide of corruption?
When you go to the polls today
will you vote for the entire ticket,
yellow dog and all or will you exer-
else your privilege through the mod
ern voting system and throw the
levers for a man who is clean and
upright and who stands for honesty
and justice?
Let us consider this situation seri-
ously. then adjust our political bear
ings accordingly.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
New Deal Gains LdMded

would not have gone down with
such defeat. What difference does
it make if Mr.. Roosevelt spends
money for a good cause such as
creating work for hungry, needy
people, for, after all, don't all peo-
pie create the government?
My husband is an overseas vet
eran, and while we could use the
bonus money, are we kicking?
We are not. Our President had
a reason for doing what he did.
We never have been exactly down
and out, but my heart and SYM
pathy go out to those who have.
can remember two years ago
when there were ten houses empty
on one side Of the street in the
block in which we lived and only
three men in the neighborhood
working, my husband included.
Today every house is filled and
every man is working.
I have not always been Demo-
crat, but thank God, my eyes are
opened.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
JAPANESE SIDELIGHT

IT is an odd thing that professional baseball
i PLAYERS should succeed where statesman and
diplomats have failed.
While Babe Ruth and his all-star crew
from the American League tour Japan
and enjoy a public acclaim. national
friendlness. which is as amazing as it is sin
cere. the statesmen are looking ahead nerv-
ously 10 the coming disarmament" conference.
wondering how much longer the fabric Of
world peace Will be able TO stand the strain
which conflicting American and japanese
naval rivalries are putting upon IT,
Now It would be perfectly silly, OF course,
Ito suppose that because of japanese enthusi-
ssm for our game of baseball the difficult
problems surrounding the clash Of opposing
national policies are going TO be swept away.
international mixups aren't Strengthened out
so easily
And vet there is something about Japan's
welcome TO the American baseball team which
makes a person stop and think little.
Ordinarily We see the japanese in the light
~ their Manchurian adventure. with the sha-
dow OF great naval ambitions falling across
their shoulders. They become grotesque carl
cat,,res synbolizing ruthless and pugnacious
creed. Given a little bad luck. we easily
couId nut them In that gallery labeled the
enemy
And then We read about this tour OF the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
ROOSEVELT, NEW DEAL
AID NATIONS LABORERS
By Robert Myther.

BY Robert Myther.
After reading with great deal
of amusement Mr. McFall's state
ments in local Republican news
paper I am firmly convinced in my
own mind that Senator Robinson
has on his publicity staff some fair
ly good ghost writer's"
Furthermore, if Mr.. McFall has
the ability to deal in fiction and
fairy tales, like he misstated in his
articles, he has chosen the wrong
vocation; he should never have been
railroad man, but an author. To
my knowledge 1 have never as yet
admitted that Senator Rohinson's
Endorsement or the brotherhQods'
we're anything less than pur-
ported Endorsement for the primary,
and the brotherhood chiefs, who
have given this Endorsement, pri-
vately put their fingers to their
nose, and look up toward heaven
whenever this Endorsement has been
mentioned.
These same chiefs fully realize
that President Roosevelt is the one
who is responsible and who has
given his backing to the legislation
that has been enacted in the favor
of all labor today. Senator Robin
son Just tied his tail to the kite for
the sake of saving his face with Ia
Dor. and then came back to Indi-
ana and attacked the President and
the New Deal. In other words, he
has double-croSsed labor, he has not
kept his word, he has not kept the
faith. He never has explained TO
labor what he meant in his WaWa-
see speech, what he had IN mind
when he was talking about collec-
tivism and radicalism, and the road
to Moscow.
Christianity had its traitors who
we're enticed for thirty lousy
pieces of silver. Senator Robinson
also has his followers from the la
Dor movement. Labor is purified
with a detection Of these gentlemen,
who desire to go on record and fol-
low Senator Robinson in preference
to The President.
Some people possibly go to school
COR do they?) where they neglect to
learn the definition of the words
loyalty and gratitude" and their
overzealous to violate these
principles and promote the political
fortunes of a man who knows more
things that amt so, about more
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
RICKENBACKER'S RECORD

A GAIN the air transport record across the
n United States is broken.
Eddie Rickenbacker. in command, and the
other pilots brought one of the new Douglas
transport planes from Los Angeles to New
York in the amazing time OF II hours and
minutes, breaking his old mark by fifty
eight minutes. and averaging 2l5 miles an
hour
This is not in any sense a stunt 1t is a
record that really means something. 1t means
q. that regular. comfortable and safe airliners
now are almost abreast Of the tricky little
racers in speed. And speed. Of course. is the
sirplane's greatest attribute.
Granting that We are in a hurry. this
flight means that any Of US can now leave New
York in the morning and be on the Pacific
coast before the sun sets; that We can eat
dinner in Los Angeles. go to bed and wake up
next morning in New York; that We can so to
the theater in the evening. take a plane at
midnight. and be in Miami for breakfast.
It means also, as saickenbacker has always
said. that all the talk about America being be-
hind other countries in the air is bunk-thiS
fight helps prove 1t.
The plane which set the record yesterday
carried passengers, and the plane itself will
go into daily service between New York and
Miami over Eastern Air Lines. Its sisters fly
daily from coast to coast with passengers, and
others soon will roar over the airways through
out the nation One of the same type. flown
by the two Dutchmen. placed second in the
recent England-AuStrslia race.
When airplanes are mentioned. America
need not hide her head.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
LOWER INTEREST

DARN credit administration spokesman tell
an interesting story of short-term crop
and feed loan to a Minnesota farmer.
When the farmer paid back $500 he had
borrowed from his local production credit asso-
citation, which is financed by the FCA, he also
sent along a $3.50 check to pay the interest.
He had been dealing so long with private
money lenders that he had developed the
habit of paying 10 per cent on short-term
loans.
Imagine the farmers surprise when he re-
ceived a refund check of 1914 from the pro-
duction credit association, with a note ex-
planning that the interest charge was only s35.
because it was computed at per cent instead
of 10 per cent, and because it was chargeable
only for few months. Probably it figured out
a whole year.
Since the farmer didn't draw out large
part Of the loan until late in the season. ex-
plains the FCA, interest on it was charged
onyl for few months. Probably it figured out
something like this: Say the farmer got $500
at per cent in three payments: $500 for six
months-interest $3.50; $1,000 for three
months-interest S12.5o; $1,000 for about one
and one-third months-interest IL; total in
terest, sS6-and not $3.50 by long sight"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
BY Eva Collier.

BY Eva Collier.
In answer to the tree planting
situation by Earl e. Williams, in
The Times Nov. 3, let me state
that President Roosevelt has done
more for the laboring people in
the last year and half than any
other President in history.
Even if the next congress were
asked to appropriate 100000 to
change the course of the Missouri
river in order to irrigate the area
for the tree belt from Canada to
Mexico, why shouldn't it be done
if it gives employment, food and
self-respect to the many who
need it.
AS far as making the situation
any worse, it couldn't be any
worse than the one Mr.. Roose-
welt has just pulled us out Of. If
Mr.. Hoover had had a pet theory
that affected the common people
and had put it into practice in
stead of anxiously casting his lot
with the capitalists, he probably
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

things that deal with misstatements
and untruths" Particularly, do 1
want to emphasize and deny that I
am paid political worker
If the fact we're known I think
that it would be clearly case Of
ION the other side" and for the in
formation of these conference.-the
position that I hold in the state
government is one that was inaug-
urated by labor. 1t is held, and al
ways has been held by member
of organized labor, just the same
as many other jobs within the Dem
ocratic administration, where union
Jobs are held credibly by men from
their various crafts. Governor Nc
Mutt has kept the faith with or
ganized labor, and the laboring men
of Indiana-signed twenty-one labor
bills-and what a contrast his &C
ton over his Republican predeces-
sors-McCray, Jackson and Leslie
whose records in Office were replete
with the vetoing of labor legisla-
ton.
Mr.. McFall states that the Presi-
dent is not running for office. What
wisdom" We realize that, but SEN
ator Robinson does not. He is run
ming against Governor McNutt, and
we all know that Governor McNutt
is not running for off1ce-but Presi-
dent Roosevelt's policies are running
for office. and it is necessary to elect
more men like Sherman Minton,
and the congressional ticket in IN
diana, who will keep the faith, sup
port these policies. and back labor,
so that they may receive fully the
fruits of legislation that has been
promised by Franklin Delano Roose-
welt.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
CRITICISES M'NUTT REGIME
FOR LAKE co. OCCURRENCE

By Ralph NJ. Lett.
The most precious thing in life is
ones liberty and it is assured us IN
the Constitution that liberty can
not be taken without due process
of law. Yet. under our state adj
ministration, headed and directly
answerable to Paul V. McNutt, we
have had our constitutional rights
usurped and Haunted in our face.
BY the reorganization bill, chapter
four, section fourteen of the 1888
acts of the legislature, the Governor
is the head of the law department
of the state.
Under his direct orders one Mr..
BARGE stole into Lake county and
kidnapped" eight witnesses. These
men were taken without any SEM
blance of legal formality and were
denied due process of law as assured
them under the Constitution. Upon
the efforts of laW-abiding citizens
to release them by writ of habeas
corpus, they took the witnesses and
fled. In Indianapolis they re-
fused to permit the sheriff to serve
writ of habeas corpus by barricad-
ing the hotel. The liberty of eight
citizens has been usurped and
Haunted before the entire country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

unemployment, put around two bill
lion dollars into circulation, and
this money going into business right
in our own community would end
the depression forthwith. We will
have rounded the proverbial corner
beyond which prosperity has been
lurking so long. BY one simple act
of social justice we will have solved
the problem that has puzzled the
economists, philosophers and poll
ticians of the whole world and has
brought us to the verge of ruin of
our entire civilization.
The plan is nonpartisan, non
political and nonsectarian. ANY
one can support it without changing
their political or religious views or
leaving their church or party.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

things by crime and kidnapings, but
at the ballot box on election day.
When the government takes over
all banks and controls all capital in-
stead of capitalists controlling the
government and make it so that
everybody who wants work can have
it at decent living wage, crime
will cease.
Alfred Lawson of Detroit, the
founder of the direct credits So
ciety, has the right idea. Every
thing for everybody will hurt no.
body. Until these things and con-
ditions change, we can expect most
anything to happen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
Word Picture
BY MAZDA sTECKELMAN

BY MAZDA STECKELMAN
Then cometh night. Speeding wide
dark wings and gripping close
the feet Of earth.
Familiar structurs take on strange
shapes and blin,- their eyes
like mammals stirring in re-
luctant birth
High above, where the passing day
and twilight meet
A hand seems stretched il blessing
DER the town
Long rosy fingers resting there, and
hanging softly down
One instant-then lost again in
evenings misty bloom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

The thousands who fought for the flowers
over the grave Of Pretty Boy Floyd probably
have no books at home to press the flowers,
in, anyway.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

A French professor suggests sort Of Co
property" system to replace the present wage
plan of industry. During depressions it would
be a "co-no-property" system.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
So They Say

Nothing will do more to clear the
air, to restrain excess and to pro-
mote political and business health
tnan demonstration that this is still
an independent tWo-Way land po-
lltlcally.-Arthur A. Ballantine, for
mer undersecretary of the treasury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

Don't laugh at Hitler. Huey Long is groom
ing himself for the presidency.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

People here are so delightful in
the midst Of such a mechanical life.
Madeleine Slade, disciple of
Ghandi.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

Extreme specialization alone is
not a guaranty Of success or even
OF a job in a social or economic or
der which is out Of Misunderstanding
Cults Willard, University Of Illinois
president.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

Mussolni approves new plan for sharing
farm profits. the optimist that he is.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
Daily Thought

We have dealt very corruptly
against Thee. and have not kept the
commandments, nor the statutes,
nor the judgments, which Thou
commandest thy servant Noses
Nehemiah III.
MO principle is more noble, as
IN there is none more holy, than
that Of a true obedience.-Henry
Giles.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm lectured some scien-
fists on NEUROLOGICAL monsters. the other day,
but probably SHE'D at mentioning Mars.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

1t is just as possible to shut off
the current Of a river as it is to stop
the march Of science and invention.
Max w. Babb, president Allis
Chambers Manufacturing company.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

A planned economy can not be
practiced in free democracy
Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago pub
Usher.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

In the long run, the multitude of
individual opinion works out pretty
well-Secretary Of Agriculture Hen
ry A. Wallace.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09
The Message Center

(Ttmes readers are EnUfted to eEpress
their Uiel0s in these columns. Make your
Limit them to ESQ a0ords or Iess.J
letters short, so all can haze a chance.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

For the professional criminal,
nothing could or should be done.
But many men are not criminals.
They are people who have commit
ted crimes.-Judge Horace Stern,
PHILADELPHIA.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

| wholly disapprove of 1Ohat you say and Witt
defend to the death your right to sag t-VoItaire.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

I'm glad we're getting away from
the flaming youth novels.-Sinclair
Lewis, author.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-11-09

Never give anything to the poor.
They are useless, dangerous, and
ought to be abolished.-George Ber-
nard Shaw.
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Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
WEBB SILENT
ON ACTION IN
DEFUNCTF FIRM

LOS ANGELES, Junt 10. tUP) =
What action, if any, the attorney
generals office might take in the
case of the defunct California Re-
serve company lay hidden today be-
hind the silence of u. s. Webb, at
torney general.
Webb allowed the hour of noon
deadline in summary ultimatum
sent him by the county grand jury
to pass without giving any indi-
cation Of his intentions.
Wayne Fisher, foreman of the
grand jury, had written Webb that
the statute of limitations on the
California Reserve case expires
within a few hours, and had de-
manded that Webb notify the jury
whether or not he would accede to
the jurys request that he appoint as
special counsel for the jury MEM
ber of his office.
The district attorneys office Is
disqualified for making the investi-
cation, Fisher contended, because
the company was headed by George
C. Gregory, husband of Berthyl
Gregory, District Attorney Buron
Fits sister and confidential secre
tary.
The company, which solicited
loans on an alleged promise to pay
S per cent interest, crashed for ST.
000, 900 several years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
CHAMBER TO
HEAR Of I. b.
CONTROL PLAN

Effects of the proposed tubercu-
losis clean up of dairy cattle in
Imperial county will be explained
at the meeting of the El Centre
Chamber of Commerce at the noon
day luncheon on Wednesday Of
this week. Three speakers will be
heard on different phases of this
clean up which is to be made pos
sible by the appropriation of gov
ernment money.
Hugh T. Osborne, county super
visor from this district will tell OF
the county's part in this national
plan which directly affects Imper-
ial county; D. L. zinn will explain
what this program means to the
local dairymen and farmers and
Walter B. Havekorst will explain
the financial set up under which
this tuberculosis clean up program
will be accomplished.
The Ell Centre Chamber of Com
merce has long been interested In
some measure which would make
Imperial county a tuberculosis free
dairy area and has worked with
other organizations in an endeav-
or to bring this. about. Barring
Imperial county milk from the Los
Angeles and San Diego areas until
this county is tubercular free, has
worked great hardship on local
dairymen and, as Imperial Valley
is the logical supply for the milk
sheds of the coastal areas, it IS
believed that these markets will
automatically open up to Imperial
Valley milk as soon as the county
is established as tuberculosis free.
The chamber luncheon will be
held at noon at the Hotel Bar
bara Worth and w. H. Tyler, Jr.,
president, urges all dairymen in
this locality to attend this lunch
con and hear these speakers ex-
plain the meaning of this cleanup
program.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-06-18
SEVEN DEAD
IN HURRICANE

NEW ORLEANS, June Is. U.P)-
Two small children were swept to
sea on a raft and drowned dur
ing the 70-mile hurricane which
raked the Louisiana and Mississip-
pi coasts Saturday, taking a total
of seven lives, and doing millions
of dollars worth of damage.
One man was electrocuted by a
power line. blown down during the
storm, two. Negroes were. killed by
flying bricks, one man was killed
in an automobile accident and an
other was run down by a train
while the storm was at its height.
The children were Roosevelt
Dulpxntis, 2, and, his 1-year-old
sister. They were swept from the
raft at Oyster Bayou when their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Dup
lantis, tried to row them to safe
ty from a shrimping platform.
Others killed in the storm were
Wilbert Butler, So, Bunkie, La,
Charles Prince, 55, Loreauville, La,
Dock Morehead, 40, Forest, Miss,
and two Mississippi Negroes.
Frank Grayson, chairman of the
Red Cross at New Orleans, in
spected the storm area and report
ed that while damage was great,
very few people were rendered
homeless. .
Unofficial estimates placed dam
age to crops and property at be-
tween four and five million dollars.