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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
NO WAR CAN BE JUST

THE editors of the Modern Monthly re-
l. Gently undertook to poll number of
distinguished Americans as to their attitude
in the next war. They asked these people
three questions, as follows:
What will you do when America goes to
war?
Will your decision be altered If Soviet
Russia is an ally of the United States in
war with Japan?
Would prospective victory by Hitler over
most of Europe move you to urge United States
participation in opposition to Germany in
order to prevent such catastrophe?
From the wording of these questions, 1t
seems clear that large part of the pacif1st
strength in America today has definite Com
munist leanngs; that the editors of the mag
azine, in other words. felt it likely that some
of our peace-at-any- price spokesman might
sing different tune if confronted with war
in which the survival of either Communism
or Fascism were involved.
One of the most interesting answers re-
ceived came from Archibald MacLeish, the
poet He made the point that the moment
pacifst admits he might support lust"
war, he ceases to be pacif1st; for, he points
out:
IF enough people believe that certain
type of war might be justif1able, then the War
Department will see that they get that kind of
warm print The kind of war they have
gotten in fact they will discover for themselves
some years afterward"
And so, he concludes:
There is only one possible position against
the menace of militarism: absolute hostility.
Any other is romantic. Any other supplies the
forces desiring war with the means of secur-
ing it."
A good deal of rather loose talk has been
INDUCED in about pacifsm in this country
during recent years. Much of it represents
very real and sincere determination to have
nothing more to do with war; but some Of it,
as this QUESTIONABLE suggests, is not so much
based on opposition to war itself as on oppo-
sition to certain kinds of war.
And as Mr.. MacLeish points out. that kind
of opposition puts no real obstacle in the path
of war. 1t simply lays every one involved open
to flood of propaganda.
The uncompromiSing pacifst is at least
logical. The man who says he would support
a VIZ under certain conditions will probably
be found whooping 1t up for the next war that
comes along. no matter why it is fought or
with whom.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
TWO SETS OF SIX

CPEAKING, he said, for the Ohio Chamber
~ of Commerce, George B. Chandler en-
lghtened the House Ways and Means Com
nittee on the six major menaces that are
holding back recovery"
l. The pending tax bill, which, he said,
threatens to confscate property;
2. The destruction of representative gov
eminent by converting Congress into a rubber
stamp;
3. The entry Of government into private
business on a huge scale;
f. The destruction of the rights of the
states and Capitalization of power in Wash
ington;
s. The fomenting of hostility to our Con-
stitution and hatred of the Supreme Court;
6. The creating of a race of mendicants,
loafers and weaklings through abuse OF relief
and sentimental social legislation.
1t sounds like a Republican list of things
to view with alarm.
Lest we be accused of destructive criticism,
we'll offer our own list of six things that seem
to us to be holding back recovery"
l. Failure of government taxes to yield
enough revenue to keep its credit certain;
?. The shrinkage of mass purchasing
power;
3. The loss of foreign markets;
4. Drought and the failure of farmers to
get high enough prices for the products they
90 raise;
{ Debts that sap the vitality and blot up
the earnings of individuals and businesses;
G. Doubt that the government in Washing
ton has the power to complete recovery pro-
gram.
Looking back over Mr.. Chambers list, we
note that not one of his six retarding infiu-
ences existed when Mr.. Hoover was in the
White House, and We wonder why recovery did
not come then.
Which leads us to believe thai maybe ours
is better .ist. For all six were even more
so then han now.
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So They Say

There is no more reason for. I'M
employed men in this country at
this time than there is for icebergs
in Arizona.-Frank G. Clark, ma
tional commander, the Crusaders.
The secret of our superiority over
Asia Will be our brains. Not that
We have more brains in Europe
than they have in Asia, but we
have the creative mind.-Dr. Andre
Siegfried, French writer.
If there is anything that enrages
me it is the knowledge that men
Of my own profession, who ought to
mold the standards high, see fit in
stead to degrade them, to debauch
them, to sell them and, selling them,
sell America at the same time
Atty. Gen. Homer S. Cummings.
If there is a word which has been
ridden to death today, it is the word
plan" I have seen nothing of
planning by any foreign country
which would lead me to think it is
a universal panacea.-Prime Minis
ter Stanley Baldwin.
l would rather be street sweep
er earning his living than queen
who has done nothing to deserve her
position. - Princess Elizabeth, for
mer queen of Greece.
If about 100000 people would
go of in a corner and die, the
capitalistic system could go on for
a while.-Upton Sinclair.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
HE THINKS MIKE is
WORRYING ABOUT 1T
By Subscriber,

BY Subscriber.
Thoughts while strolling in At
lantic City. Well, this certainly
is a city of conventions, all right.
It's nice to get down here and talk
over things with other police chiefs.
.. Also good to get away from In
dianapolis and those darned annoy
ing bookie shops. I thought I had
them all cleaned up, and then Otto
comes along and pulls a fast one
just as my train is leaving. . Co
operation, huh? Well, just wait till
I get back.
There is such a thing as raiding
some one else's territory, and that's
just what he did. Heck, what if
my boys haven't made any raids
lately? We made good start and
we haven't got enough men to keep
it up all the time. =. Just how did
Otto find out about those places?
Wonder what the people back home
think of the situation. :. Gee, this
is a wide open town. Bet the boys
on the force down here don't do
much worrying about shops-bookie
shops, at any rate.
Have to find out what the folks
are saying about it. :. Gosh, what
will say about it?
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SATURDAY. JULY %. 1898.
FEARLESS POLITICS

NTHEN cuttlehsh gets in trouble it al
ways emits cloud Of inky filth in an
effort to blind its opponent, then swings out
its shiny tentacles
Certain types of politicians, too, have de-
veloped defense mechanism that is a foul
phenomenon. In campaign times, such poll
ticians employ this strategy. If such poll
tician can't whip his opponent he seeks to
destroy him. How? Simply by starting false
whispering campaign about his opponents
personal life.
It sometimes works-more often it is
bOomerang-because of the insidious char
acter Of the campaign
Sometimes such politician poses as the
one true friend of the working man, and at
other times he adopts a mask of piety that
BELTS the character he is attempting to por-
tray.
It is rather strange to find the old cam
paign ruse being used in a fight on a news
paper. Or perhaps it isn't so strange at all,
but merely the only defense such politician
knows.
Honest newspapers can't be bluffed and
driven into woodshed skunk fights by perfectly
ridiculous and absurd epithets. But filth. of
course IS all some politicians know and their
only resort when their activities are exposed.
The old campaign trick isn't going to work
this time.
Somebody is going to have to explain sooner
or later the accommodating evidence of NAL
administration against the Criminal Court of
this county, as revealed by this newspaper.
Those charges can't be answered with old
campaign adver easements or with the wheezy
stunt of SANDER.
Sooner or later. somebody's got to be fear
less"
Isn't that what Judge Bakers campaign
advertisements said?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
AN ATROCITY STORY

THIS time the atrocity story makers are
= not waiting until the war begins They're
at it already.
A story from across the Atlantic says the
Italians have invented chemical powerful
enough to burn the shoes off marching SOL
diers. photographer inadvertently trod on
ground so treated and, though an officer
yanked the unfortunate chap back at once,
he was not quick enough. The fellows shoes
had been burned to \ crisp. That's the story
The Italians, it is said, plan to use this
chemical against the barefooted Philippians in
the coming war Inferentially it will also burn
he black soldiers feet to crisp
Rome has issued an indignant denial We
are perfectly prepared to credit the denial. A
small amount of reasoning should have dis
posed of the tale in the first place.
L Presumably. the Italians plan to advance
into Abyssinia, not retreat. How is the chem
ical to be spread over the ground behind the
African soldiers to catch them as they fall
back?
2. When the italians follow up the retreat
ing Abyssinians, would not the chemical act on
their feet as well?
s. Inc 1talians employ many native troops
themselves-troops who likewise go barefoot.
Would they not suffer equally With the enemy?
Such chemical might prove effective in
static warfare, where the side using it had no
intention to advance and wanted to keep the
enemy likewise at distance. no-man's-land
could thus be created, deadly alike to both
sides.
But that kind of warfare is the last thing
Il Duce seems to have in mind.
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his cab and obtain his passengers for
him. He is required to put forth a
little effort himself.
Traffic hazards can not be at
tributed to cab drivers nearly as
much as it can be to IA to 16-year-
old children driving cars and ell
derby. crippled, farsighted and color
blind persons who are driving cars
and have chauffeur and drivers IL
censes and who would be denied a
license in other states.
am a taxi driver, not by choice,
but by compulsion. I have a wife
and family to support and I am
doing it and not by any assistance
from any relief agency, either.
work for what I get, and I am
thankful to be able to do it.
I am submitting some facts and
figures for your information. (They
are authentic, too. Taken from
daily report of q cab driver who
records his daily earnings).
From Jan. l, 1885 to June 30, 1885,
a total of 181 days, he actually
worked total of 149 days. During
that 149 days he crossed a total Of
s110790 with 1851 drives. His pay
was 30 per cent Of that, $332.35.
The tips amounted to $29490. He
made total of 1881 drives in that
time for an average of 3141 drives
a day. He was working and he was
being fair to his public.
Cry Baby, put forth 100 per cent
more effort and 1000 per cent less
sympathy seeking effort and I'm
sure the outlook will be brighter.
Fill your working day with cans, not
can'ts.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
The Book World

A USEFUL contribution to the volumes con-
N corning the policy of America in the west
ern Pacific is war Clouds in the Skies of the
Far East" by Tom Ireland putnam. s2.75).
The book offers a complete and painstaking
review of recent developments in the Far East
and suggests that America has precisely two
alternat ives
First, Mr.. Ireland says, we can continue to
oppose Japan's policy in Manchuria and China
That. he says, means war; so if we intend to
pursue that course we might as well start right
now in building up the Navy.
Secondly, he continues, we can take moder-
ate policy, let Japan shape her own policy and
thereby lead to a naval reduction agreement.
The way things stand, he points out, we are
trying to do both things at one time and he
describes our attitude as one of small-minded
meddling There seems to be a good deal of
sense in his plea that "as long as the yellow man
keeps out Of the white mans domain the white
man must give the yellow man fair chance to
work out his destiny in the yellow mans quarter
of the globe"
TT was in 1541 that Coronado led his tough
i Spanish fighting men off on one of the most
magnificent wild goose chases in history--the
quest for the old-plated seven cities of Cibola.
He found no cities, but he did cover a lot of
territory and he wound up somewhere in Kansas.
This expedition is known to every schoolboy.
What most of us do not realize is that it stirnu-
lated the exploring instinct in Spanish authori-
ties in Mexico, so that many other expeditions
we're sent up through the great plains in sue
ceeding years and the Spanish flag was ulti-
mately carried clear into Nebraska.
These expeditions are described in after
Coronado" by Alfred B. Thomas university of
Oklahoma Press; $3.50 The book quotes liber-
ally from ancient Spanish documents and it is
perhaps a little hard for the ordinary reader to
get through; but it does present an interesting
picture of immense job of exploration which
most of us never SO much as heard OF.
Mr. Thomas makes it clear that it was not
our American pioneers who discovered" the
great West. The Spaniards were tolerably ia
miliar with all that region before the Pilgrims
reached Plymouth Rock. They saw Pixies Peak
generations before Pike came along to give it
his name; they traded with such tribes as the
Apaches long before our own ancestors had even
heard of them.
If you are fond of delving into unknown by
ways of history you will find this a deeply
interesting book. 1t is useful as a reminder that
the American west has longer history than we
commonly realize.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
GOVERNMENT FINANCES

nut of all the squabbling about the soak
" the rich" tax projected for congressional
consideration, there should at least come forth
an excellent educational program on the gen.
eral subject of government finances.
On the other hand we have Michigan's
Senator Vandenberg declaring that the pro-
gram as the President has outlined it is 'fn-
adequate, incomplete, and pathetically super
fetal"
1t is his idea that Congress should take a
few months off to think things over and then
come back with plan that would not only
boost the taxes on the very wealthy, but would
increase the takings from citizens of more
modest means.
On the other hand, we have the well-to-do
Charles H. Sabin Jr. appearing as the mouth
piece for a group of wealthy men who feel
that the Administration should simultaneously
reduce income taxes and balance the budget;
and before any one can remark that this would
be good trick if you could do it, they hasten
to suggest an all-inclusive Federal sales tax.
Just what will eventually be done with the
program subjected as it will be to strong pres
sures from Numerically opposite directions, is
something for the seventh son of a seventh son
to worry about. But it should at least set peo-
pie thinking about some of the fundamentals
of government finance problems.
To begin we might reach the point of I'M
derstanding that in any scheme of tax reform
we can't have it both ways reduction of
income taxes would be blessing and so would
a completely balanced Federal budget, but
some of our publicists and statesmen have
been agitating for both things at the same
time, and this educational program might con-
vince them that this just naturally can't be
done.
Beyond that, however the discussion should
focus attention on the fact that one of the
greatest needs of the hour is the restoration of
order to government finances.
A budget which goes unbalanced for year
or two in a country as potentially rich as the
United States, need not worry any one. bud
get which is permitted to stay unbalanced for
year after year, while high officials evade the
subject of tax revision by relying hopefully on
business revival is about as ominous a por-
tent as government can face
We seem at last to be coming to grips with
this problem If the coming row over the adj
visibility or otherwise of soaking the rich
arouses us to the Importance of a balanced
budget, it will be one of the most useful de-
velopments of the year.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
ENOUGH OF THE VIRGINS

TINE Virgin Islands squabble strikes us as
Il having gone far enough. The islands are
1S5 square miles in area. They have popu-
lation of $1,000. Not much bigger than the
District of Columbia and with less than one
twentieth as many inhabitants.
They were bought from Denmark during
the World War lest some foreign power use
them as naval base. The price was s25.0oO.-
COO It is not the initial cost, however. but
the upkeep that has been worrying this coun-
try ever since.
the Virgin Islands" says foreign policy re-
port. is the latest issue Of the Sears-Roebuck
catslog." but even So the annual imports Of
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squayely any of the accusations re-
garding their public conduct.
They have preferred to shout out
vile names like adolescentS learn
ing their first swear words behind a
barn. They have polluted the
atmosphere with not only their pub
lie records but their private opinions
of individuals.
am thoroughly disguised with
the regime Of Democracy in Marion
County, with the exception of Sher-
if Ray, who seems to be sincere and
hard working.
The county party leaders, afraid
of their own faint shadows, seem to
be afraid to do anything but allow
the inevitable to happen, crush
ing defeat of their party. There is
a streak of yellow apparently in the
party councils.
You can take it from me, I'd
rather vote the prohibition ticket
than vote for any Baker Grossart
backed candidate.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
CONDEMNS ATTACKS ON
TIMES EDITOR
By A Rea der.

By A Reader.
From time immemorial persons in
high places have been anonymously
attacked by scurrilous publications
and always the enemies have lost
caste with their colleagues and fell
low men.
Nothing is so low, depraved and
cowardly as these libelous attacks
upon the editor of The Times pub
lished by those who fear him in the
Courthouse. They will not come
out in the open courageously as he
has done but prefer to shulk like
dirty alley rats in dark corners.
They whisper Shiny stories in bar
rooms, they spe I'D the county's
money to excess and then they
openly abet the circulation of this
Dart.
1t is not dart. 1t is a blunted
shaft poisoned with the dirt of filthy
minds. A psychologist would say
it represented a mental condition
diseased with frantic fear.
Literature has excused many
barbed attacks because of the wit
of the attackers. but there is no
Wit. no sign Of intelligence, in the
Dart.
These Marion County officials
whose activities have been exposed
by The Times never have answered
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Roosevelt Until Then

Hoover to renominate the Re
publican party as he and Ogden
Mills are trying so hard for 1886.
Perhaps Horace sees this, but he
is not yet ready to make public
announcement of his findings.
Nevertheless, he has convictions.
He seems to be missing the long
association with the Harding
Coolidge-Hoover plunderbund, the
plunderbund that saved Amer
ice" from 1921-1933. AS editor of
the Saturday Evening Post, he
naturally feels very keenly the
loss of the big sin era. In those
days big shots sinned in Dig
way, and the Constitution didn't
seem to mind. At least SO it seems
to Horace in 1885.
1t was bitter gall, it was hui
initiating to state publicly, per-
haps with the written permission
of Herbert Hoover that it would
be a mistake for the Republican
party to ETC., ETC., etc. 1t was
bloody piece Of business and who
but Horace would have thought
of such a neat way to wipe out
the damned spot?"
1t wasn't so bad after all, and
it didn't hurt, either! And the
city slicker from Philadelphia cid
it IN this wise: AS soon as he
had said the nasty thing about
Herbert Hoover, he added very
quickly that the Democratic party
shouldn't please nominate PreSi-
dent Roosevelt, eitherl 1t would
be big mistake for the Demo-
cratic party to renominate Presi-
dent Roosevelt, ETC., etc, etc.
President Roosevelt inherited
the depression even as Herbert
Hoover inherited the depression.
=. Oh, yeah! From whom did
Herbert Hoover inherit the de-
preston? From himself or from
the Republican plunderbund? He
was in the Presidents Cabinet
from 1921-1933!
Now that we have an official
explanation for Herbert Hoover,
we shall wait for an explanation
of the Republican wash-out of
1921-1933. Until 1886 and there
after, President Roosevelt.
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Bv pesdemona Onderdonk.

BY Desdemona Onderdonk.
Horace Lorimer lives in Phila-
delphia. He does not live in In
dianapoliS or, for that matter, in
Indiana. He's writer. He writes
for the Saturday Evening Post.
He also writes about Herbert
Hoover. He used to write about
the Republican party. He likes
to write editorials. He does not
like President Roosevelt.
Horace has just come out with
an editorial, Poker Politics" It's
a pretty slick editorial. It's not
exactly the kind of editorial one
would expect to see in The In
dianapolis Times, or, in any one
of the Scripps- Howard papers.
It's about the sort of thing one
would look for in an old man
let's say, in a retired trad
er; saclike chin, purpled veins in
the face, and hands that reveal
plenty of feline caution.
In "Poker-Politics" Horace did
a lot of wandering. He seemed
to know just where he was going.
Yet, he spent a lot of energy in
getting to his destination. His
was an awkward undertaking.
Hence, the awkward manner of
talking-with tongue in cheek.
The thing was distasteful, too.
But it had to be done. And who
other than Horace Lorimer, edi-
tor of the Saturday Evening Post,
to do it? A nasty thing had to
be said about Herbert Hoover,
and wouldn't it be less damaging
to say it in dignif1ed fashion?
And in a slick manner? The Re-
publican party of 1921-1933 was
left unmentioned.
Horace didn't say it at the be-
ginning or in the middle of his
editorial, or at the close. He said
it near the close. He said the
Republican party could not af-
ford to nominate Herbert Hoover
for the presidency in 1886. That
was a shock to all of us out here
in the hinterland who voted for
President Roosevelt in 1892! Hor-
ace failed to see that it's going
to be equally as futile for Herbert
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
SHERIFF RAY PRAISED FOR
EFFORT TO CLEAN CITY
Bv a Reader

BY a Reader
Here's a plume for Sheriff Otto
Rays homeland may he collect
many more of them. His honest.
sincere efforts to clean up gambling
in Indianapolis where others ap-
parently have failed, deserve the
praise of all citizens. Maybe the
county has uncovered one real-for-
sure honest official at last. And
what will Chief Mike say when he
comes back. Maybe all the red in
his face won't be Atlantic City sun
burn.
Go get 'en, Otto.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-13
SCOTS AT COMPLAINT
TAXI DRIVER MADE

A Reader.
I have before me a letter appear
ing in your paper under date of
July 8 which was contributed by a
taxi driver, relative to earnings and
hazardous conditions of the streets,
which is ridiculous and preposterous
on the face of it.
If that driver only makes s135
day. as he says, it is his own fault
and not that of his employer He
can not expect his employer to drive
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Daily Thought

AS one whom his mother COM
forteth, so will 1 comfort you: and
We shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Isaiah, 66:13.
THE powers of Time as a COM
l. forter can hardly be overstated;
but the agency by which he works
is exhaustion.-L.. E. Landon.
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efficiency, while her mental
brilliancy, keen sense of humor and
innate fairness endeared her to all
with whom she came in contact.
Her desire to please the children
and to bring to them the beautiful,
along with progressive instruction,
awakened a sincere devotion in
all