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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
MOB SPIRIT

THE human race has 70 cope with many
Il enemies in its long struggle to work out
a scheme for peaceful living. but the greatest
enemy Of all is the mob
For a perfect picture Of the way the mob
acts. consider the riot that swept up and down
the streets Of New Yorks Harlem the other
day.
A Negro boy tried to pinch 1O-cent knife
from a store counter. hOor-walker col
Jared him and the boy. naturally enough. set
up a holler. An excitable woman saw and
heard just enough TO touch of her motor re-
actions. and she ran out into the street yell
ing that the boy had been killed.
Up and down the streets went the CRY. Out
OF poOlrOOms. lunchrooms and workshops came
angry men. milling in the streets yelling,
looking for some one to fight. afraid suspicious
and angry. A crowd Of 1000 men and women
swept into the store. turning things upside
down. breaking things, yelling hitting, fighting.
Police reserves came. by the hundreds.
There were dozens of fights. Scores of men
were cut. beaten. or slugged. More than
hundred were arrested. Thousands Of dollars
damage was done to property.
And the juvenile knife-stealer who unin-
tentionall- started it all managed to jerk
away from his captors during the melee and
vanished utterly unframed.
You could search the word over without
finding a better example than this Of the blind.
panickv insanity Of the mob spirit. Here was
a riot Of major proportions. an ugly welter of
fights that spread all across pOpulOus sec
ton OF a great city-and all for what?
Not one Of the rioters knew. They could
not possibly have hoped to know. 1t started.
literally. from nothing at all; and because men
and women we're jittery. and gave way to the
combined emotions of anger and fear. there
was merry Ned to pay.
Now you don't need TO think very hard TO
draw the needed moral from all this. The
mob spirit that can seize a few thousand peo-
pie in one city is the same spirit that can and
frequently does seize whole nations when
hatred and panic get together.
1t sweeps dictators into power. causes mass
executions. concentration camps, SluggingS and
clubbingS; 1t fills the air with bombing planes
and the fields with infantrymen and sets
cruisers loose on the sea lanes; it irfiicts more
misery and destruction or the earth than
generation can repair.
And all in Harlenl-for what?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
TUESDAY. MARCH 2s. 1875.
THE ANTI-LYNCH LAW

FREDERICK vANNUYs. senior United
Il States Senator from Indiana. deserves the
praise Of every thinking American for his
determined efforts in behalf Of the Federal
Anti-Lynohing Bill.
Senator vanNuys has forced before the
upper House Of Congress his law TO do away
with the appalling number Of lynchings which
take place in the United States every year
Senator VanNuys IS putting every ounce Of
power he can muster behind the measure.
He pointed out 70 the Senate judiciary
Committee the simple fact that last year when
the measure was pending in the Senate. there
we're no lynchings during that period.
Senator VanNuys Is convinced that mob
rule can exist only when officers Of the law
lend tacit encouragement and his law would
hold responsible the men in charge Of the
prisoner when a lynching occurs.
There Is little doubt but that with the Fed
eral Anti-Lynch law on the books the number
OF Iynchings in the United States would de-
crease TO almost none.
It is high time that peace officers learned
that they can not shut their eyes to the law
and cater TO the mob.
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can be achieved. State bureaus Of dentihca-
ton are being established to cooperate with
the federal bureau at Washington. Legisla-
lures are considering schemes to have state
police forces supplement the work Of sheriffs
and country police.
The result Of all this should be to make the
path OF men Of the Dillnger and Floyd ilk in
finitely more rocky. The kind Of co-opera-
ton that will enable the law to strike
promptly across state and city lines is pre-
cisely the kind of thing that the criminal
can not cope with. 1t is encouraging to see
that We are going to get some Of it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
OLD DEALS FOR NEW

XXTHEN Indian Commissioner John Collier
w announced his plan to restore self-de-
termination and self-respect to the exploited
FIST Americans, Congress co-operated 1t
passed the Wheeler Howard Indian reform
act. Then a great majority Of the tribes
eagerly accepted their New Deal by popular
vote
Today reaction in and out Of Congress
threatens to nullify this progressive measure
The law authorized appropriations Of s12,
100000 for purchase Of land for landless In
dams, creation Of a revolving loan fund, edu-
cational loans and tribal organization ex
penses. But the budget bureau this year cut
this to se,425 900. Then House subcommittee
sheared that down to s3,275 900. Here was
total cut Of nearly rs per cent Of the authori-
zation Of last year.
In addition enemies of the measure have
launched personal attacks against Commits
sioner Collier. One critic demanded his i'm
parchment on the ground that he was men,
Der of the Civil Liberties Union.
In the Indian country certain cattlemen,
lumbermen and others are still trying to per-
susde the tribes to reject the measure They
have not succeeded, however. Apart from the
Oklahoma Indians, who were not covered by
the law. only one important reservation, that
of Fort Peck, Mont, has rejected it,
The Senate should undo the effects Of the
ill-considered House attack. The white man
has established pretty consistent record for
double-dealing with his redskin brother,
record that the Wheeler-H Howard act sought to
redeem. Is this, too, going to turn out an
other broken treaty?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
SEES WEALTH SHARING AS
CURE FOR WORLDS ILLS

By Ed Andrews
Our Neros at Washington are
fddling while Rome is burning.
If any of you old birds want pen
sions you will have to wait until
1886, when the old-age pension will
be the main issue. Then we will
have leaders like Senator Norris,
Father Coughlin, Upton Sinclair or
Huey Long.
AS long as the government allows
such institutions as the Ford Motor
Co. and the International Harvester
Co., the utility companies and other
corporations of like character to ex-
plot and commercialize 80 per cent
of the people in order to make mil
lionaireS and billionaireS out of 10
per cent of the people, then it be-
comes necessary to tax those enOr-
nous and useless fortunes in order
that the 80 per cent may live. Fate
has decreed that we must have
money or starve.
I understand the three Mellon
brothers have five billion dollars
and there is a per capita of $50 or
S32 for every man, woman and child
in the United States, so those boys
must have good many children's
money.
If I were king I would skim the
top off some of those large fortunes
and give it back to my subjects.
That is the only thing that will
cure this depression.
Machinery has displaced IS per
cent of the workers who never will
have jobs again. No use putting
them out on subsistence homesteads
and expecting them to live on their
own. They would not know how,
for people who have spent their
lives on farm barely get by, though
I think that is the best place for
them as they could help themselves
little.
In my skimming operations, I
would take the thickeSt cream of
the largest fortunes, of the small
Ter fortunes I would take only a
thin layer. Of a $4,000 estate I
would take nothing at all. Then
everybody would have plenty and
nobody would be hurt. Under any
other system some one would be
hurt.
Another curse to the county is
the spells system which follows
partyiSn. 1t would be good
thing If both those old parties could
be irretrievably lost. Then there
would be no such thing as born Re-
pubhcans or born Democrats. What
is such peoples opinion worth?
New parties should be formed every
four years.
However, I think there is a new
party in the ofing. I would call it
! the tax Nrty. or would that get
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
WHITE COLLARS

MORE than 100000 jobless white collar
w workers on relief will be cheered by the
news that S3OOOOO.COO Of the big works pro-
gram is embarked for them.
In the depresSions sad annals are no more
distressing stories OF broken pride and lost
morale than those Of clerks. statesmen. pro-
fesSionaI men and others Of the So-caled
middle-claSs. This group has multiplied
amazingly. a recent Labor Department sur
vey showed that in 1870 there were only =
900 white collar workers or 20 per cent. out
Of 10 million persons then gainfully employed,
but by 1880 this group had grown TO eight
million. or 1913 per cent out Of 4s million gain
fully employed workers.
Even before the depression a great surplus
OF trained and professional men and women
was creating a problem in security. Unor-
gained and voiceleSs they bore their burdens
silently When the depression came they were
the last 70 be considered. They were the most
forgotten OF al the forgotten millions that
the New Deal inherited
The Roosevelt Administration has tried TO
help the dependent white-collar classes. In
its public works OF art experiment. its social
surveys is census and other projects, it has
given the country obstructive improvements
and provided special Jobs
Obviously, however. many Of the white COL
lar workers viii have 70 readjust their lives
10 farm. handicraft and other types OF labor.
It Is to be hoped that in spending the new
money the government can aid them to find
permanent careers as well as temporary relief.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
Tough Bosses tapped

worked merely two or three hours
a day and maze more money than
they do in month; that they
should do as he has planned with
their work even though it must be
done over (and their way later
and even though it takes much
longer to do it in his old-faShioned
way.
In other words, she works in a
place where you would think no
humanity existed, and that there
was no equality among people, but
that the world is made for only
one side. The boss never divulges
the fact that it is he who should
be grateful for a living, made by
the sweat of others brows; that
the depression has been blessing
to him because his employees fear
to quit and hunt for another job.
He is never heard to utter APP
probation of their long, steady
hours of work by which they earn
his dollars with which to do his
"strutting," pay his maids and to
show off in society an education
he has learned from books and
not from good horse sense and
common judgment. Never a day
passes but that the Office girls are
Slammed" with nasty remarks
that they are not on a level with
the boss, even in view of the fact
that they have no desire to act
like they are anything but "toilers"
at his command.
I often wonder how such en-
ployers will feel when they leave
this world and meet their en-
ployes face to face at the boiling
pot? They will be on the same
level there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
So They Say

1t Is better for boys and girls to
learn to entertain themselves than
for them to be given so much money
for movies and elaborate social af-
fairs.-Dr. Thurman B. Rice, of In
diana University Medical School.
There is no reason why opera
should not give us all that the
theater gives and in addition all
that music gives.-Herbert Wither-
spoon, new general manager of the
Metropolitan Opera Company.
Never was the screens misuse by
reactionary, quasi-Fascist propa-
ganda so widespread and menacing
as today.-Dr. Francis D. Tyson Of
the University of Pittsburgh.
If our resources had been mobil-
lied in the interest of the entire
nation, we would not have needed
any credit NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. S.
Eccles, governor of the Federal Re-
serve Board.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
BY Bob McNalIy.


During this siege of pleading
for married women to be "ousted"
from their jobs, want to thank
Mrs. o. r. NJ. for her message of
March 8 referring to our First
Lady as an example.
I also was glad to read a mes
sage signed by Mrs. Doolittle a
few evenings ago, explaining the
adverse conditions of this attempt.
My wife works and it seems that
she has to, for we can't stretch
the scanty salary I earn working
half-time enough to be comfort
able. I realize that there are some
women who could easily give up
their Jobs to the single, but there
are reverse caSeS-Where married
women need jobs far worse than
the single, so why jabber away
and attempt to get law or order
started in the wrong direction. If
we could weed out the ones who
really should work, that would
be fine, but it can't be done.
I know that my own wife would
not work if she could be comfort
able without it; her place of en-
ployment is about like this, so
judge for yourself: The boss struts
about in the office boasting of
lis supremacy and authority, dis
closing his greed to rise in So
ciety, to give to some club or
another where his name will be
in print, to squeeze in a speech
here and there, and to get the Of
flee force told that he is the big
or; that they should be CRATE
full for any kind of job, even if it
does take overtime and rush to
keep the desks clear when he has
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

Deal and was disagreeaIly surprised.
I did the same with question two.
AS for question three-just try it
yourself and then compare your an
swer with the way things are being
carried on, then you get a funny
feeling. And then question four
That is one that all New Dealers
will skip. If you answer, you believe
in less governmental interference,
then you don't believe in the New
Deal. If you state that you do, then
you find yourself stumbling in ex-
planning why.
Mr.. Heating, you should be care
full in condemning and calling things
vague. One doubts your powers of
comprehension, and probably several
others do, too.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
OWNER OF 81 DOGS is
DEFENDED BY READER

BY Dog Lover
If I were an artist and could
paint my conception of Jesus Christ,
one picture would give His likeness
with His hand on the head Of a
dog, for was He not pleased that
woman said her children fed the
dogs under the table from the scraps
of food?
Wilhelmina Adams is a martyr
to her love of dumb animals. She
has been prosecuted by her neigh
bors who could not sleep for the
barking dogs. May they never be
able to sleep again until they have
given restitution for the terrible
grief they have caused this girl.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
Dying Love

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
If love must die the usual death Of
things;
Burn its last crimson flower; pale
to white
If love must go as all bright bios
somings;
Curl petals dark beneath a freezing
blight.
If love must droop its head on slen"
der stalk:
Forget the stars careening in the sky.
If love must lose its heart, and
slowly walk
With shackled, sober steps, TO
calmly die.
If love must lose its pinnacle OF
height;
If love must lose its raptured love-
illness;
If love forgets the blue curve OF its
fight;
If love must lose its wanton, scarles
dress,
7 shall have none of it. I will let go
At April pitch before the deartns
and snow.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

speed cops ride the streets so the
motorists can see them, instead of
hiding around corners and build
ings. Then you'll find less speed
ing. Or are they afraid if the mo-
torist sees them first they won't be
able to show the speed and roar Of
their cycles?
Well, Chief Morrissey, If your
men are too tired to ride the streets
where they are supposed to be, tell
them to race their motors some
place besides Montcalm-st.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
FAN PREFERS CROSSWORD
PUZZLE IN NEW LOCATION

By a Crossword Fan
After reading letter signed "a
Reader" in the message center of
March Is, I can appreciate why we
are referred to as dumb Hoosiers.
Personally think you are to be
commended for changing the two
articles mentioned. If "a Reader"
ever tried to work crossword puz-
zle before you made the change he
would know it was next to impossi-
BILE, however, he probably hasn't
brains enough to work one so why
bother. might add that the other
papers carry theirs below the center.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
UNITE AGAINST CRIME

A PROMISING beginning IS being made in
the task Of providing the United States
with a unified police system which can cope
with modern criminals.
Fourteen states and some $50 cities are ex-
pected TO get together n the near future in
scheme OF cooperation by which information
can be exchanged promptly and cooperation
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
per Cent Of Pre-war LeveD

Those who wish to pursue further the study
Of these vital movements of our day will find
very helpful the following recent books: Everett
Dean Martin, Farewell to Revolution" Norton
So; Gerhart Seger, "A Nation Terrorized," Reilly
and Lee, $50: Prince Hubertus Lowensten
After Hitlers FALL" Faber and Faber, 81; A. N.
Holcome, Government in a Planned Democ-
racy" Norton, 50, and John Strachey, The Ma
lure of the Capitalist Crisis" Covici, Friede. s..
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
QUESTIONS LEAVE NEW DEAL
SUPPORTERS IN SWEAT

By V. E.
Mr.. Heating, you remind me Of
the two Americans who visited the
great American desert. One wrote
home a glowing description Of its
beauty and of the useful products
derived from it, while the other
wrote glumly home, Nothing to
talk about-it's just another desert."
On the other hand, there is some
thing constructive in Mr.. Blume's
letter. 1t has a deeper meaning
than one can imagine after given
careful thought. I firmly believe
that you, Mr.. Heating, have missed
its true beauty. Now, Mr.. Blume's
questions are far from vague. They
are cleverly put and it takes con-
centration to get what he is driv-
ing at.
Here's what I did I took ques-
ton No. /: do you believe that
this country needs one group Of
men to do the thinking for the in
dividual business man and labor?
Why?"
The first part I answered to my
self and then tried to explain it. I
compared my answer with the New
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

the money back fast enough? Bet
ter call it takes. We have always
been took" you know. Any time
you have bought anything from a
toothpick to threshing machine
you've been took" and we have to
devise a system of getting it back
pretty fast, for some of us have
cramps already.
Just face the facts. you politi-
clans! I defy you to present any
other painless system. Money has
no place in life only to keep people
from having what they want. Just
put old Morgan out on desert and
see if he doesn't raise the price of
wheat and devalue some Of that
gold. Ho-hum.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
Daily Thought

But take diligent heed to
love the Lord your God, and to
walk in all His ways, and to keep
His commandments, and to cleave
unto Hin, and to serve Him with all
your heart and with all your SOUL
Joshua, xxi, 5.
THE Christian is the highest
l. style Of man.-Young.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
MONTCALM-ST RESIDENT
CRITICISES CYCLE POLICE

BY Times Reader
Every day there are from two to
three motorcycle cops who hide
around the corner Of 18th and
Montcalm-sts waiting for speeders.
1t sounds like a bunch Of threshing
machines.
If any one else was making that
much noise they would be arrested
for disturbing the peace. If Chief
Morrissey doesn't know how to stop
speeders, I'll tell him. Make the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26
The Message Center

their riecs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can hare chance.
Limit them to $50 iCords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 40iJ
be toithheId at request Of the letter
toriterl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

Veterans are still wondering why they were
called doughboys during the war, unless it
anticipated their demand for the bonus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

Fifteen million dollars viii be spent on beer
advertising. making competition not so soft for
the soft drink dealers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

Sidney Franklin. the American toreador,
won his suit against film company for call
ing him a bull thrower." throwing the COM
pany for a loss Of $1,000.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-03-26

Toledo policemen are being taught polite
ness. Perhaps then the bandits wouldn't mind
getting caught.
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-13
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing.

R-K-O Keith's-"Escape Me Never,
at 1875 am. 1870, 1924, 5:l8, 1872
$50 and 1880 pm.
Loew's Fox-"Public Hero No. H.
at 10:45 am, 1880, AIS, 7:05 and
e:55 pm. Stage shows at 1890, $40
6:10 and 1855 pm.
EarIe-"Girl from Tenth Avenue, II
II am, 1885, 4:20, 7:05 and 10 pm
Stage shows at 1910, 3:25, 6:10 and
e:o5 pm.
Palace-'Doubting Thomas" at
HIS am, 1920, 3:25, 5:35, TAO anc
GAS pm.
"Florentine Dagger, /"
at l1:10 am, 1855, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15,
and $50 pm.
BeIascO-"Unfinishe Symphony" at
1855 am, 2:04, 4:12, $40, 1928 and
1924 pm.
COlumbia-"It's a Small World" at
1915, 2:10, 4, 6, 7:50 and GAS pm.
Little-"Sins of Love" (for men
only, at 10 am, 1880, 3:45, 5:45,
S:45 and 10 pm.
Tivoli-"G Men," at 2:2o, 4:10, 5:55,
7:40 and $50 pm.
AmbassadOr-"Girl From Tenth
Avenue" at Sis, 7:55 and $50 pm.
Howard-"G Men," at 1880 am.
$50, 4:10, $50 and $50 pm. Stage
shows at /. $40. $40, 8 and 1920 p m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-13

service for half century-as Mr..
Smith took 1t with him in his several
moves and eventually to Statuary
Hall.
His second station was In the main
corridor in front Of the Senate cham
Der. In those days the Associated
Press had a desk In the corridor
opposite "Andy'S'' Also Irish Mary
had a pie stand there for several
years, with one Of her best customers
Senator West of Missouri, who had
served In both House and Senate
of the Confederate Congress, and
whose tribute to dog is recognized
as q classic. Ives had the Senate
telegraph ONCE there, Mrs. Bur-
lingame had a souvenir stand. etc.
Andy Smith well remembers the
day when Dick Bright, sergeant at
arms Of the Senate, came along and
drove out these money changers in
the temple of legislation. Speaker
Thomas B. Reed Of Maine did like
wise on the House side.
Mr. Smith has always been "a great
one for regular exercise" He has
never neglected walking and calls