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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
UNJUST" LEGISLATION
A MONG Americas achievements last year
n were Is lynchings.

A MONG Americas achievements last year
L we're Is lynchings.
This record is the more Infamous in facts
disclosed by the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People. All of the
victims were Negroes. Nine were taken from
peace officers by mobs, four were accused OF
criminal assault and two of rape, four OF muir
der. one each Of the following: Stealing, as
sociating with white woman, knocking down
a white man, writing a note to white girl,
talking disrespectfully' to white man, mis-
taken identity"
The record includes the Claude Neal lynch
ing, probably the most sadistically barbarous
demonstration of mob fury in the history of
5O68 american lynchings since 1882.
It would be futile to blazon this dishonor
if 1885 did not hold promise of something
better.
Congress today has before it the Costigan-
Wagner anti-lynching bill, holding counties
financially liable for mob lawlessness in their
borders The very threat of this measure
checked the lynch evil last year. While the
bill was pending in Congress lynchings stopped
completely, but when it became apparent that
Congress would not act they broke forth with
renewed frequency.
1t is believed that the publicity given the
measure was responsible for drop of lynch
ings from % in 1888 to Is last year.
Organizations with total membership of AZ
million people are requesting President RooSe-
welt to put the Costigan-Wagner bill on his
must" program. The Government should not
longer ignore this evil and the popular cutlery
against it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

movie house in the larger cities, and the one
or two theaters in the smaller towns out in
the country, that the reactions Of the Amer
lean people to the new productions can be
gagged properly Such little theaters are in
the majority in this country and these most
Of US common folk attend.
Let one of these chief executives visit
neighborhood movie theater on Saturday or
Sunday afternoon or any evening Of the week,
and he will have far different feeling than
any he might have had at the premiere Of his
latest production on the city's leading screen.
The reason is that children attend these
neighborhood shows, with their parents, and
children are the most natural and outspoken
of critics They give vent to their emotions
by yelling and applauding and booing; and if
you will just analyze these reactions, in the
light Of the pictures presented, you will find
that the young ones are pretty fair judges, at
that
You will find that the children boo down
the pictures which their elders have been
trying TO have outlawed or restricted in def
ererce to the moral education Of these same
youngsters You will find that pure entertain
ment, with loud and hearty laugh, is most to
be desired.
And you'll find finally what Hollywood only
lately has discovered, that those undying chill
drens classics like Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch" and David Copperfeld" and Little
Women ere far more enjoyed than any pic
ture Mae West could give us.
Perhaps, after all, those sitting atop the
movie towers are noticing this truth. or are
needing those who have, for word comes that
we shall see more of the older classics and less
Of the sexy stuff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

THE statistics for industrial and agricultural
L. production for the whole year 1884 are MOI
yet available, but those for the first nine months
OF the year 1884 indicate a better record for
industry than those for 1888, and also indicate
very satisfactory progress in agriculture
Indeed, instead of millions of Russian peas
ants facing starvation this winter, the Russian
government for the first time since 1928 has
ended food rationing and abolished the bread
cards (see "The Nation" jan 2, p. 1D.
On top of all this the Russian government
has in the last two years made itself impreg
nable in the East against Mr.. Hearst's peren-
NAL enemy Japan, service which Mr.. Hearst
seems to have overlooked. Without declaring
war, Russia has made more efficient military
efforts in the way of moving men and materials
than the czarist regime did during the whole
RuSSo-Japanese war.
So far as the suppression of liberty is con-
cerned, imagine 1 would find Russia just as
unpleasant as would Mr.. Hearst. But the latter
would do well to dig out his New Testament and
read the injunction:
"Let him who is without sin cast the first
stone"
No one has done more in the last six months
than Mr. Hearst to endeavor to establish the
same type of intolerance Of Intellectual freedom
in the United States
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
EQUALIZATION OF PAY
NECESSARY IN CITY
By william Lemon.

BY William Lemon.
I see where our new city admin
iStration has raised the street clean
ers' (White Wings wages, namely,
from IS to 40 cents an hour.
They received the most drastic
cut of any officials and employees in
the last administration, and aver
aged, providing it was fair weather,
S1120 week. This labor is not
only hard work, but is necessity.
This shows we have nothing to
fear in our selection Of our present
Mayor, and this shows us he is honest
and fearless and believes in special
privileges to none, giving them all
the same chance, regardless Of their
stations in life.
Balancing and equalizing wages
gives the working class more spend
ing power and will hurry up pros
perity, and shows that loyalty We
badly need to stand by President
Roosevelt. BY showing this sup
port, Wall Street international
bankers and the United States
Chamber of Commerce will in the
course of time call for truce. And
in the course of time, the masses
will win, and drive poverty and old
man depression from the face OF the
earth.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
FERDINAND PECORA

FERDINAND PECORA revealed to the Sem
l. ate Banking Committee the anarchy Of
Americas financial community.
He showed how the very rich avoided taxes,
how stock markets often operated as exclusive
gambling clubs where the insiders played fast
and loose and greedily with other peoples
money
He laid the foundation for financial re-
forms, building a mountain of public opinion
that proved invincible against Wall Streets
lavish propaganda machine.
He shared with Benjamin v. Cohen and
others in the drafting Of the compromise stock
market control law which Senator Fletcher
and Rep Rayburn so ably carried to enact
ment
The name of Ferdinand Pecora became a
symbol of civic righteousness in financial af-
fairs. Many Americans were disappointed
when President Roosevelt failed to designate
him as the first chairman of the Securities and
Exchange Commission, but they were glad that
Mr.. Pecora accepted assignment as one of the
five members of the commission.
Now that the commission has formulated
its major policies, Mr. Pecora can step out of
the picture. Washington will miss this laugh
ing, fighting crusader when he leaves to take
a place on the bench of the New York Su-
preme Court, but will applaud the promotion.
In choosing a successor to Mr.. Pecora, Pres
ident Roosevelt doubtless will strive to main
tain the high caliber of his present commits
sion, and turn a deaf ear to spectators with
pet candidates.
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- u - -. -

rHEN ,ca -s -. 1e -at di5 days
III Ae 1905 aisa I'll their lities
ca.r r1iOr ard l--loi, one ngure that comes
to mind is that Of Texas Guinan. Somehow
Tex typifed the whoopee spirit that was the
mark Of those days.
And Tex Guinan died, year or more ago.
very shortly after all those things she had
publicly typifed had died, too.
The other day an accounting Of her taxable
estate was filed. There were two interesting
things about it. First, her entire net estate
was only a little more than $4,000. Second,
she had left her entire estate to her mother.
So you see, first that this gilded figure
didn't have the fabulous wealth that was freely
associated with her name and second, that
after all she was Just a gil who. in spite of
the professional whoopee attached to her
name. had no one closer to her when she died
than her mother.
There's one pair Of glasses to look through
when you gaze back toward the Torrid
TwentieS
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
PRICE FIXING

COST of living figures announced by the
~ Secretary Of Labor should be thrown on
to the scales Of balance arguments of manu-
facturers before NRA in favor of continuing
code price fixing.
It may be, as some manufacturers contend,
that in some of their industries chaos is the
onl, alternative to fixed prices. But we doubt
it. Minimum wage and maximum hour pro-
visions, if enforced, should prevent return to
the old price wars that we're financed by wage
cuts
Living costs of families of workers earning
UP to $1,000 year rose about 8 per cent in the
first 1s months of MIRA, according to Labor
Department figures. Fortunately there was a
greater rise in workers incomes-aggregat
manufacturing wages in the same period
climbed 81 per cent according to the NRA.
Yet. compared to 1928, living costs are down
10 per cent, while incomes are down from 20
to 30 per cent. To achieve the indispensable
increase in purchasing power. it is necessary
to bring about either substantial drop in lv-
ing costs or a substantial rise in wages, or
both
The term destructive price-cutting" has an
ominous sound, but it is not easy to define.
What may be destructive to the profits of
few inefficient units Of industry is not always
destructive to the larger economic interests of
purchasing power. Price pegging to protect
profits may be even more destructive to the
larger interests of 80 pso-.s 7nl f our
-..-tl, .il
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIES

COMEHOW or other the people of the United
~ States, the common people who go no
farther than the neighborhood movie house
for their entertainment, seem to be a class
entirely apart from those great induStrialistS
10 whom they look for their future welfare
and morals.
Take the movie industry. as an example.
High up in the steel towers of New York, or
out in the guarded studios of Hollywood, sit
the Mayors and the Warmers and the Gold
vyns with no other contact with the millions
who daily enjoy their products than the money
that comes streaming to them through long,
devious channels.
AL they know about the likes and dislikes
OF their patrons comes to them only through
reports Of their hirelings or criticisms in the
newspapers. Direct contact with the people
themselves where they may hear and feel the
truth about their pictures, these potentates Of
the screen rarely if ever attain.
For it is only through the neighborhood
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

WE Go not know yet how the four billion
w dollars Of work relief funds requested by
the President for the next fiscal year will be
spent But it is generally understood that a
substantial amount will go for low-cost
housing.
IN this and other pump printing plans and
activities, the Administration is driving toward
an immediate objective-revival in the build
ing industry. Hence it is vital to the hundreds
OF thousands Of unemployed and partially en-
poyed building trades workers 70 be prepared
to make the most Of the opportunities that
come their way.
Yet. when the building trades unions should
be- united. they are engaged in perilous strife
among themselves. The outs have become the
ms. and the ms have become the outs. The
workers themselves are not to blame. 1t is
chiefly a squabble among their leaders, in
part over salaries and power, over who is to
rule the building trades department of the
American Federation Of Labor.
This internal pickering threatens spread
OF jurisdictional strikes that would cripple
efforts to revive building activity and stimulate
general economic recovery.
The public generally supports labor when
it strikes for fair pay and working conditions.
But the public is not tolerant Of strikes called
to draw a trade line between brickayers and
plasterers, or to determine whether carpenters
or sheet metal workers do a certain job, or
whether elevator construction workers or
union hosting engineers or union electricians
install building lifts.
1t is not important which group Of labor
leaders gains ascendancy. But it is important
to settle at once every jurisdictional contro-
versy which threatens the steady employment
of carpenters, plasterers, painters, bricklayers,
electricians. paperhangers plumbers and
others who earn or want to &c their liveli
hood constructing and equippirg new build
ings.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
BATTLE ON TOWNSEND
PLAN is CONTINUED

BY Mrs. Burns.
The Times states that President
Roosevelt does not think the time
is ripe for old-age pensions. The
time will never be ripe for poor old
people. This country is only for
the millionaire. But the time is
now ripe for the common people to
stand up and take notice.
Congress is now in session. What
do they care about want? A full
hog never hears the hungry ones
grunt. We won't get initiation be-
cause that would dig in on the
money hogs.
Money was inflated after the
Civil War, and it made times good.
And if the same money hogs could
get another war started, then they
could make more millions by poor
men putting themselves up as
targets. All wars are for the CAPT
talistS and they can sit back in
their palaces while the poor fellow
goes to his grave. Give the Melons
one thought. Three brothers are
worth eight billions. After the last
national election, a great fuss was
stirred up by the wealthiest of the
world evading taxes. Was anything
done?
The common people now have a
leader-Dr. Townsend, and the time
is ripe for the poor people to act.
Will they?
What has been done for the farm
ers? Look at the price of hogs, then
look at the price of meat. The price
is set for the farmer, but is it set
for the packer? All the farmer got
in the way of prices was caused by
drought. But I believe Secretary
Wallace stated an eye must be kept
on the farmer.
There are Townsend clubs that
are going around getting signatures,
but are missing half of the people.
All would vote if given the chance.
I am not old enough for pension.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY

livery citizen owes ii to himself to watch
IL closely the development of the coming
plan for public works which we are assured
Will replace direct relief for the 'able-bodied
this winter and spring.
Entirely regardless Of whether you approve
OF this plan or not if it goes into effect, it can
be made to yield maximum benefits to those
local communities which are ready for it.
More than year has passed since the
Civil Works Administration was projected.
The CWA came on us unannounced and found
many communities unprepared. They were
unable to produce at short notice public work
Of really permanent value.
The incidents of raking leaves in parks and
digging up payements to relay them again in
the same spot were largely the fault Of local
communities.
This time there is no excuse. Communities
should know and have plans for public work
that will be of permanent value now and for
ever into the future.
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his opinion the fallacy Of the Town
send Plan, perhaps has not read the
plan.
He gives a lot Of figures to prove,
as he says, the Townsend Plan
would "eat up all the money in
circulation" I wish to set him
right. 1t is not proposed that the
old people eat the 5000 a month
pension. Many of them have bad
stomachs and it is common for per-
sons past so to have had teeth.
If it has been possible for Wall
Street to suck up 60 per cent of the
wealth produced in the United
States each year, it surely is not an
imposition for the old who have
produced the wealth to hope to
chisel off a tid-bit here and there.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
BONUS PAYMENT IS
DEMAND OF READER

BY Veteran in Need.
Like "A Veteran" I, too, wish to
say a word about the adjusted
compensation certificates.
Taking into consideration the
many billions of bankers dollars"
that are being expended for this
mis-called relief. it shouldn't be
difficult to see why the vets them
selves want and need their money
due now.
Senator Sherman Minton can sit
there in Washington with his hands
crossed and say he isn't in favor Of
the bonus and that fellows like him
don't need it. Why, Of course not,
but there are millions out Of work,
hungry and i'll, who aren't receiving
the aid that is Justly due them, and
as for relief, Shay Minton ought to
try living on SO a week, keep house,
support four besides himself and
only get in three weeks work a
month. Then, he'd decide he
needed his bonus badly.
Personally, if the bonus isn't
pdlQ, Will 1OSS I44S 4dSt 4C14d444444S
thing I love and own-ny home. l
have sacrificed nearly all I have
accomplished since I left the trench
es after the Battle of the Marine
in 1918. have tried hard to back
the New Deal. I respect Mr.. Roose-
welt, but unless he comes across
with the adjusted compensation
certificates, and willingly, he is due
for the surprise of his life and by
the time he RECEIVERS from buck ague
after the next election, Will Rogers
will be preaching the funeral OF the
Democratic party and Father
Coughlin will be busy christening a
newborn Republican party.
AS for The Times being against
the men they capitalized on by
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
2-CENT TRANSFER
FEE UNDER FIRE

BY H. c. Rowland.
Since the local street car company
has established the crosstown
lines, I have daily expected to see
some one protest against the 2-cent
charge for the transfer. The person
fortunate enough to- live on line
that takes him across town to his
work pays no extra, but the one that
does not, of course, pays 2 cents for
a transfer.
Why should the persons who are
Inconvenience by having to change
cars in weather good or bad be
forced also to pay cents for a slip
of paper? This does not mean so
much to one individual, but a great
deal with all those riding the cars.
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does know the quality of humanity
in the masses, after having spent a
lifetime administering TO the most
sacred parts of their lives, who is
more competent to prescribe than
our old family doctor.
And if j. P. Morgan ever hears Of
our Einstein Jr will he ever get
good job making out Morgan's in
come tax report?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

BY Joseph L. Watt.
I have noticed in several recent
issues of The Times that many
motorists had been arrested for
driving with last years plates.
Why is it that the police never
fail to arrest motOrist for the
slightest violation of motoring
laws yet somehow miss the viola
tors of the criminal laws of the
state and Nation?
Quite frequently the various
cities of this state break out into
a rash and start campaign
against the motorist for not haV-
ing a tail light, or one headlamp
burning and failures to stop at
important thoroughfareS where, in
most cases, there isn't a car COM
ing for several blocks. How strange
it seems that they do not start
campaigns against the criminals,
bootleggers, and slot machine
racket.
The state is now arreSting indi-
viduals for failure to purchase
new plates and I commend Frank
Finney in setting a deadline for
the purchase Of plates and to ar
rest any motorist driving his car
without them, but why must the
police forget enforcement Of
other laws. At least give the
motorists a fair chance-I know
many instances where a lot of
motorists would have purchased
their auto plates before the rush
period but were unable to do so
because in many license branches
the plates were not delivered until
late in December.
In one county the clerk, issuing
the plates, came to work half
hour late and very much under
the influence of Intoxicating
liquors. There was a lineup of
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
Lou Enforcement Raped

approximately so motorists and
the clerk established an all-time
record for slOWneSS-an average
of four plates issued an hour
Consequently in this case would
it be juStifiable to arrest any
motorist in that county for not
having the new plates?
In this state, and many others.
it is unlawful to operate a gam
bling den of any kind yet we can go
anywhere in the state and find
such places operating with 5 and
10-cent slot machines within plain
view. These places are usually
known to exist by the police pass
ing, yet no attempts are made to
arrest the proprietors and paddock
their places.
Are the police afraid to do this
because Of a reprimand from a
superior, who has pocketed a
donation from the operator and
has issued orders to Keep Off, "
or are the police themselves on
the pay roll Of the owner with in
structions to glance in the other
direction when passing and keep
moving? They can and do arrest
the motorist, though, because jle is
easy prey and there is no danger
of retaliation from any source.
If the state and city law enforc-
ing agencies are going to enforce
one or two laws at certain times
of the year I see no reasons for
having police. Why not do away
with this expenditure all together
and save the taxpayers a few mil
lion dollars if they keep up this
practice? If all laws we're en-
forced and arrests made at all
times the law would have the gen.
eral public backing and respect
for the police. They can not have
this respect, however, if continu-
ance of these methods are allowed.
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every extra they sold during the
war, I am sorry to read such an
editorial in your columns. I am
deeply ashamed of your paper,
which I have always read, to think
your loyalty to the boys is so short
lived, and I shall do all in my
meager and humble power to convey
to my ex-service friends and their
families, the gospel of PAY the
bonus or take your medicine at the
next election"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11
INTENTION
BY HARRIET SCOTT oLINICK

BY HARRIET SCOTT OLINICK
I would have made a shining song
of our sweet unity Of life.
I would have made silver prayer
OF being your eternal wife.
I would have made an altar high
To worship love at eventide.
But you have gone away from me
To mingle with the beating tide.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

New Jerseys ex-pugilist, Senator w. Warren
Barbour. stalks magnificently about the Senate
chamber, clad in a tight-1tting black coat and
striped trousers which admirably display his
bullying muscles
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Capital Capers
by GEORGE ABEL

NOTES on Congress: Much Swank in bou-
tonnieres and wing collars. Senator Royal
S. Copeland of New York arrives in braloed
morning coat with his customary red carnaton
in the lapel. But he's not alone. Senator Harry
Moore (former Gov. Moore) of New Jersey also
flashes a red carnation.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

Senator McNary of Oregon seems in pensive
mood as he glances over the thin lines OF Re
publican colleagues whom he will lead through
the congressional season as minority leader. But
his face retains its usual calm expression.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

The universe, say scientists, is expanding a
a rapid rate. Can't some one please call this
to the attention Of Huey Long?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-11

We are in the early, rather than
the late, stages of an era of scien-
tific and engineering advance
Willard E. Hotchkiss, president Ar
mour Institute Of Technology.