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appoint one of his friends to sit for him.
Thus, a lawyer may be trying case today
and sit in judgment on it tomorrow. If we
must have temporary judges-and we are not
convinced that we must-let us have them
appointed by the Supreme Court. and nobody
else. The present system leads to the foulest
sort of special privilege perversion of justice.
Liquor control is still another moot prob
lem The present liquor legislation has been
mere experiment. 1t has not worked. 1t
has tended to set up nonopolieS. Under the
importer system beer has become a vehicle
for the enrichment OF those in right" polit-
ically.
Hard liquor control is in the hands of a few
wholesalers. Stop and think, have you ever
seen liquor prices advertised in Indiana? Why
not? Because the law has made it possible
for a few individuals 20 control competition
to line their own purses-special privilege
again. The result is that the poor man can
buy neither beer nor lard liquor because the
take" of the privileged is excessive. The boot
logger thrives.
TINE Legislature, we believe, should direct
Il its attention to breaking these monopolies.
The tax should be lowered on all alcohohc
beverages. Beer and wine should be made
attractive Whisky and brandy should be
somewhere within the reach of the poor man
if he wants them The whole traffic should be
controlled by state authority and not by self
seeking business men or dollar politicians
Our lawmakers should also consider the
question of whether our streams are to con-
tnue to be open sewers for the benefit of
selfish interests Indiana's stream pollution
problem is menace to public health, re-
proach to an otherwise civilized people. You
would not permit your neighbor to dump his
garbage in your front yard. Why should cities
and industries be permitted to do just that?
Let us put teeth in our stream pollution laws.
These, it appears to us, are the important
problems confronting the legislature: An
honest ballot efficient law enforcement, just
and wise liquor control, cleaning up our
streams. Let us solve these problems.
If you don't like what your representative
in the Legislature is doing let him know about
it. The Indianapolis Times will inform you
how he votes on each one of these measures.
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FORCED LEADERSHIP
GETS SCANT PRAISE

By Hiram Lackey.
Timely and profitable was the
thinking of the conservative editor
Of The Times who wrote, THE
radicalism of today is the conserva-
tism of tomorrow" More fitting and
proper would it have been to pause
an hour to pay tribute to the
memory of the Christ-like men,
such as that of Debs who sacrificed
all which the world holds as dear
to the end that we might appreciate
the need of this change the merits
of which you SO loudly proclaim.
But, most magnificent would be
one grand resolution on the part
of The Times to give our social
workers who have followed in
Christs lead the full consideration
which the thankless service OF DebS
deserved.
This way lies greatness.
Small credit is due leaders" who
wait until the clamoring mob pushes
them on to their duty. This weak
ness did not characterize Lincoln.
Your quotations and intimations do
not make this accusation true. 1t
does disgrace The Times. The
strength of Lincoln'S mature char
acter is a glory too finely beautiful
to drag through the dirt in efforts
to sanctify the weaknesses OF our
politicians at Washington.
Our unfortunate slaves who, IN
their voting, followed the advice OF
The Times are still waiting for a
chance to cleanse their deflled souls
from the stencil Of charity and to
live decent lives.
I would be patient if I did not
know that this unnecessary delay
and devastation of human rights
and values are the result OF this
Administrations ignoble ambition to
keep the power of the wealth OF
this country in the hands OF their
small circle. Therefore, Roosevelt
must cherish and preserve the ma
ior evils of the system that has
made the Morgans and MELONS SO
powerfully unhappy. His intell-
gently humane attitude is consistent
with this ugly purpose.
Relatively speaking, justice de-
mands our admission that The
Times richly deserves praise for the
unreasonable good which its cour-
age and intelligence have accom-
plished in leading us from the de-
spair of Hooverism into our hopes
of today. Yet, judging by the same
method and looking upward and
forward, The Times as justly de-
serves to be taken severely to task.
Editors Note: Tsk, TSk!
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HOLDING COMPANY HALTERS

FACED by what they feared would be
l. hostile Senate investigation, public utility
lobbyists succeeded in having the inquiry
shunted of on to the Federal Trade Commits
sion. The lobbyists thought they had heard
the last of it.
That was six years ago. In the meantime,
mighty utility empires have been built up and
have crumbled, leaving startled investors i'm
poverished and dispoSSessed; and the Federal
Trade Commissions sttorneys accountants
and examiners have plugged steadily at the
job of revealing the practices Of the electric
and gas companies.
The periodical reports of the commission
have been damning indictments. Its conclud-
ing recommendations for new legislation are
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So They Say

AS seen by science, the universe
is a vaster and more orderly, more
dependable place in which to live
than was once recognized. - DR..
John C. Merriam, president of the
Carnegie Institution.
hate an alibi, especially in poll
tics.-Speaker Joseph w. Byrns.
If new public inquiry into the
films is inaugurated, people who
consider sex sinful Of itself must be
excluded, like other lunatics.
George Bernard Shaw, famous
dramatist.
The masses of workers in fac
tory, mill, and mine are regimented
to a degree unknown to any preyi-
Gus society.-Dr. Lewis Lorwln,
economist.
My advice to young painters is to
remember that nothing is denied
to we'll directed labor-Frank o.
Salisbury, British artist.
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IN THE CAUSE OF POLITICS

WE are so used to politics and politicians
w that we generally fail to realize the
outrageous things which are done in their
name.
Here's sample: Martin L. Davey recently
became Governor of Ohio. At the head of
the states minimum wage division was wom-
an named Louise Stitt. She had made an
enviable record in administering the law which
protects OhioS women and children from
economic injustice. But one of the Davey
administrators first official acts was to re-
move her from Office because she wasn't a
vote getter"
Now this sort of thing is as common as
grass; and because it is so common we don't
recognize it for what it is-an outrage, pure
and simple. To fire a capable public servant
because he or she didn't get out the vote for
this or that off1ce-seeker is to strike a blow
at the very existence of the democratic prin-
ciple.
And we're SO used to it that we don't greet
it with the indignation it richly merits
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spends it IN futile effort to re-
store prosperity And still we have
100000 unemployed and 19,000,-
900 on the relief rolls.
Mr.. Roosevelt, realizing the seri-
business of the situation, recon-
mends pensions for the aged and
unemployment insurance, neither Of
which can solve the unemployment
problem.
Evidently, Mr.. Roosevelt is paving
the way to perpetuate the capitalist
system and at the same time per-
petuate unemployment. No form of
slavery is SO distressing as to be
bound down to a chair bottom,
hungry.
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dole from the Government for not
producing, while the poor man in
the city, who is at all able, is
made to work for every dollar he
gets, often exposing himself in all
kinds of weather and then not
knowing whether he will eat to-
morrow or not. The security the
farmer has is priceless.
This dole given to the farmer
and for which we all pay the
process tax, benefits no one but
himself. He has almost his entire
means of suStenance around him.
He spends nothing at all in COM
parison with the man in the city.
He raises and cans his own vege-
tables, fruit and meats; has his
own milk, butter, lard and eggs;
has his own wheat ground into
-four and often his fuel comes of
his place.
He raises most of the feed to
support his stock. He trades
work with his neighborS and all
the commodities he runs short OF,
he borrows and pays back.
Through home economics clubs
their wives learn to make nearly
all their clothes, as well as make
and refinish some furniture. Per-
sons in the cities can not do this.
IT takes cold cash for every ne
cesSity.
Many farmers would starve to
death if they had to come to
town and work for a living the
way the poor man there does.
Where does all the money given
to the farmer ever help you and
me with this kind of frugality? A
like sum of money put into the
hands of people in town would
show a turnover Immediately.
It would help us all, for it would
have to be spent. 1t would help
the farmer too, in a legitimate
way, where, as it is, he is hold
ing all the money given to him,
to buy a new tractor so he can
Law off more help, and be able
to buy more broad acres. The
ultimate ambition of every farm
er, is to own more land.
There have been several good
sized farms sold recently, that l
know of, and all have been pur-
chased by some other farmer.
They seem to be the only ones
with money enough to buy with,
and it must be a paying invest
ment, or why do they want more
ground?
Most farmers I know OF today
are doing without any form OF
milk, butter and cream on their
own tables, in order to save it
and extract more dollars from
their innocent victims.
The farmer. because Of his or
ganization, can make demands
and get them. What other class
of people can afford to hire a
man in every county to represent
their interests as the farm agent
does for the farmer? Through
these agents, and his various clubs
and bureaus, the farmer works
for his own good, regardless Of
the hardship to other persons.
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This Won't Relieve Farmers

BY r. J. B.
It is interesting to note just
how little our Indiana, as we'll as
our national lawmakers know
about the American farmer. If
they did know him intimately,
there would be no kowtoWing to
favor him, whatsoever, at the
present time.
One of our best known Ameri-
can writer's recently said:
THE farmer is everywhere and
always a capitalist. He is never
so happy as when looting the
pockets of those he sells to, but
when the looting turns the other
way, his screams are heard from
coast to coast"
This writer is beginning to
fathom where our trouble is, and
when more do, and expose some
of the tactics of the farmers,
then and then only, will the leg
islating be done for those who
really need it, and not those who
by their skillful organization de-
mand it.
am speaking from experience.
I own a fair-Sized farm and lived
on it for years. All my rela-
tives are farmers, and I am as
quainted in every community in
my county, so I am we'll versed in
farming conditions. My farm,
though operated now by tenant,
has been the only holding I have
that has shown a profit every
year for the last five. 1t has taken
what I have made there to help
defray my living expenses in the
city and keep up city property.
During the war we sold wheat
for 1925 to $2.85 a bushel; corn
for So; hogs, $26 a hundred; milk
at 40 cents a gallon, and every
thing else in proportion. These
prices we're too high, but since
every one was handling money
profusely, they paid the demanded
price and kept still.
Were these high prices satisfac-
tory to the farmers? Absolutely
not. They bitterly condemned
President Wilson for setting the
price of wheat at S225, instead
of allowing it to skyrocket. I re-
call many farmers back in that
time who felt the government
should pension them. They were
working for the country the same
as the poor devils in the trenches,
who were half starved and endured
a living hell, while working for 81
a day, with nothing to come to, if
they ever reached home again.
The largest class of people who
have had to call for help in every
community have been the laborers
in the cities and towns. Not one
call for relief out Of 100 has been
from the farmer. Then why don't
we see to it that the class hardest
hit should be the one to be helped
first, and permanently, if posi-
BILE? Instead Of this being the
case, the ones the least needy have
been the ones to be helped most
generously.
The farmer Is now accepting a
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part reptile, part fox and part hog.
Man employs his reptile nature to
conceal his under-cover methods.
and his fox makeup for slyness and
cunning. His hog-like character
istic prompts him to take all of
everything in sight he wants.
The names Of many of our great
American money hogs are so famil-
lar to most of us that it is needless
to mention them.
We all know how these money
hogs have accumulated so much of
the money Of the country and piled
it up in the banks to remain there
until the government borrows it and
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out profit to any capitalist employer
or speculator.
What is meant by profit, is that
which any person receives over and
above that which he has earned
fairly. In no other way can con-
sumption equal production.
On the other hand. none save
those who are in position to en-
ploy and exploit labor and thereby
become rich, or such as desire and
cherish hopes of getting into like
positions, will oppose realignment.
1t is claimed by some that man is
the embodiment Of all animal crea-
ton. II 50, it follows that man is
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NEW SOCIAL ORDER
BENEFITS CITED

By James Fl. Job.
I wish to ask the question, who
or which class of our people would
welcome the solution and elimina-
ton of the unemployment prob
lem?"
1t is that portion Of our people
who are able and willing to work.
If all our workers were permitted
to enter the field of labor without
let or hindrance and receive the full
price of their labor, none need be
either unemployed or want for the
things they produce.
Under such a social order each
and every worker would be per-
mitted to give in exchange every
dollars worth of what he might pro-
duce for its equivalent in what some
other worker might have produced,
on the basis Of an even deal, with
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eliminate breach Of promise suits and leave to
the discretion of the court the naming of CO.
respondents in divorce suits.
Mrs. Nicholson is an ideal person to propose
such legislation. She is no dried up theorist
but the young and attractive mother of two
children. Although she bears distinguished
name she is not a person VINO enjoys either
wealth or privilege. She has been a gallant
fighter for causes which she thought were
right-whether they happened to be popular
or not.
Few will oppose the latter part of her bill
that the court should decide whether CO.
respondents should be named. Every one is
familiar with the neurotic and vengeful man
or woman who names every personal enemy
he or she has when a divorce suit is fled
Her proposal that breach of promise suits
be abolished will meet with stiff opposition
The legal profession will be in the forefront
of the battle against her. They will base their
opposition on the fact that if her bill passes
it will take business away from them.
The public will know how to weigh such an
argument 1t is as selfish as though the medi-
cal profession condemned the use of insulin
because this relief for diabetes cut its fees.
Her principal opposition, however, will come
from those females, who, whether consciously
or not. place monetary value on themselves.
We can see little difference between the woman
who values her person at two dollars and the
one who vaules it at, say. S2OOOOOA One dis
eliminates between them only as to degree,
not as to motive.
Indiana has plenty of laws on the statuteN
books to shield really innocent victims from
harm. Mrs. Nicholson's bill would not disturb
these
No honorable, decent woman ever sues for
breach of promise. The Nicholson bill will
be opposed. But thinking people, we believe,
will know exactly how to gauge the character
of those who are against it.
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Daily Thought

Now set your heart and your soul
to seek the Lord your God; arise,
therefore, and build We the sanctu-
airy of the Lord God, to bring the
ark of the covenant Of the Lord,
and the holy vessels Of God, into
the house that is to be built to the
name of the Lord Chronicles,
22:19.
ITO yield reverence to another, to
l. hold ourselves and our lives at
his disposal is not slavery; often, 1t
is the noblest state in which man
can live in this World-Ruskin.
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QUESTION

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
You who have worn the wind for
cloak;
The stars for crescents in your
hair.
The moon for gold to clothe your
limbs;
The night your love; The dusk your
dare!
You who have shared the SYM
phonies
Of birds that peck the sky's plate
blue.
Who knew the scarlet songs OF bells
Swung in the twilight Just for you.
You who have climbed the pillared
clouds,
How can you sweep this house
with pride?
How can you wear this ginghaw
frock?
How can you be SO satisfied?
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THE sen RACKET

LEGISLATION ROBERTA WEST NICHOL-
IL SON wants to curb the racketeers of her
own sex. shs asks the enactment of law 70
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A Legislative Program
by TALCOTT POWELL

"Peope crushed By awS their
enemies then m be enemies those Cho hare much hope
danger0u Ednnd Burke M
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INDIANA legislators might well ponder these
i words. The present session is confronted
with grave matters. Burke's words are as true
today as they were a century and half ago.
The people, in the last analysis, is the true
legislator.
First among the legislative problems, we
think, is the purifying of the ballot. Our whole
theory Of representative government falls If
voting is dishonest. Suggestions have been
made that the direct primary should be abol-
ished. This would be a return to "bossism."
1t would utterly disenfranchise women, who
are rarely elected delegates to party conven-
tons. Every good citizen should fight such
measure.
The League Of Women Voters has suggested
a number of primary reforms. Chief among
them is a provision whereby the ballot boxes
would be collected at some public place and
the votes counted publicly. This is a splendid
idea. The reasons for it are obvious. 1t will
be fought by every crooked politician in and
out of the Legislature Ballot tampering is
what gives political machines their power.
Let us stop it.
second problem is that of law enforce
ment-another word for decent government.
We must set up an efficient State Police force
which Will make another Dulinger episode
impossible. Indiana became the laughing stock
of the world because of Dillingers gang of rats
Give us an efficient force of State Troopers
free from political influence, and it will take
care of future Dillingers.
A MOTHER angle of the same problem is
4 the granting of power to the Governor
to investigate his own departments. He is
held responsible by the people for the admin
istration of the states affairs. Therefore, he
should have the power to compel the appear
ance of witnesses before him. If the chief
executive is to be accountable for corruption
he should be able to conduct an adequate in
vestigation to determine whether corruption
is present.
The Bar Association has suggested
number of measures for cleaning up the legal
profession Its bills are excellent They
merit public support.
One of the worst evils in the Indiana
judicial system is the ability of a judge to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-29

Police in Shantung are going around cut
ting of the queues Of Chinese who stick to the
old custom. And, in explaining, they cut the
tale short
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King zog of Albania has failed to find an
intelligent American heiress with 100000, to
marry her, because he asks too much. Can't
he be satisfied with the million2
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AS things stand now, the youngsters are
figuring out how to spend the 5000 a month
their parents would be getting under the
Townsend plan.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are inUtted to eTpreS8
their rietos in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have q chance.
Limit them to $50 10ords or leSs.)
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| whouy disapproUe of aOhat yOu sag and a0d
defend to the death your right to sag it.VOLtare
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Editors Note: Tsk! Tsk!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-05-28
By FRANK BUCK" ONEILL

Times Staff Correspondents
That first inning seems to be
the tough one for the Indians. The
Griffs got the jump on Sunday
with two runs and followed through
with three runs yesterday. These
off of Monte Pearson.
Mel Harder will pitch for the
Indians this afternoon and Buck
Newsom, dealer in adjectived ideas,
will perform for the Griffs.
Buddy Myer was close enough to
shake hands with Joe Kuhel when
Trosky came to the bat in the sec.
ond inning, but that didn't stop
the Indians player from shooting
the ball between them.
Heinie Manush started the bat
ting rally in the first with two
out. His triple was just a chal.
lenge to Myer, and Little Ug''
took it up with alacrity. Stone
and Travis liked the idea, with a
result that the runs rushed over
the plate.
Bluege gathered another hit for
his average in the second inning.
It was clean blow to left field.
imp Rules Out Hit
Bill Dineen took a double right
away from Monte Pearson when
he declared the pitchers smack
in the third inning a foul ball.
From the stands at any rate, the
ball was fair by a good foot.
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Jack Bentley, who hurled them
fast and slow for the Giants not
so long ago was around renewing
old acquaintance and getting the
atmosphere of the clubhouse.
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BRADLEY HEARS
KANM : SIDE

Alva Bradley, president Of the
Cleveland Indians, is back ir. the
Forest City today to hear Willie
Kamm'S side Of the factional fight
that threatens to disrupt the
Cleveland baseball club. Bradley
surely is in an unenviable position
as he returns to Cleveland.
AntiJohnson sentiment h as
been famed by hate until the
Cleveland front office has been
flooded with mail demanding the
decapitation Of johnson. Threats
Of a boycott have been made
against the Cleveland ball club.
It will require sound judgment
and firm determination to COM
bat these forces of inspired round
heads.
AS conditions stand at this writ
ing, johnson is just as strong as
Alva Bradley, who happens to be
president Of the club. The writer
is informed that Mr.. Bradley has
rebuffed certain agents who tried
to show him how, where and why
Johnson failed as manager. But
pressure may become overpower.
ing.
walter johnson is my man.
ager," Bradley told this writer
yesterday as he boarded a train
for Cleveland. 81 have the great
est admiration for him. Maybe
they'll run me out Of Cleveland,
but I'll take a chance on that"