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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
EXCUSE 1T, PLEASE

IN San Quentin, famous as the domicile of
innocent Tom Mooney. California hanged
l9-year-old Negro named Rush Griffin the
other day
Imagine that states embarrassment when
it discovered four days later that Los An
geles court had granted Griffin an appeal on
his plea that he killed in self-defense An
absent-minded court clerk, it seems, had mis-
laid the appeal papers.
Too bad. of course. but mistakes will hap
pen. And California courts clever at getting
around such little things as plumbers, have
set about to clear the records The court
machinery is moving Solemnly to save" the
dead mans life by sending the appeal papers
to the state Supreme Court. Apparently that
august body soon Will issue a stay of execu-
ton, and everything will be okeh.
Thus California reproduces in CHASTITY fact
the fiction story about the vigilance commit
tee that hanged the wrong man by mistake
The committees spokesman, notifying the
widow. apologized.
We're downright sorry madam" he said
graciously dofing his hat but We reckon the
Jokes on us"
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achoHy disapprove Of achot you sag and wH
defend to the death your right to say it-Vooire.

this he means a brain given to
yacillation.
Prior TO the World War. Arthur
Brisbain, the man of many words.
wrote extensively for peace: then
during the conflict became a lingo
of the purest water When the
smoke had cleared away. he told us
We had no business going overseas
TO help the European nations butch
er one and another
And if the war dogs break loose
again, where shall We find him?'
Provst questions We have every
reason TO believe he Will prove true
to type and fall in line with the
maudlin crowd who follow the band
wagon whether it leads to peace or
to destruction.
The author goes on 10 say large
per cent Of the human family is
encumbered by a "Brisbrain.' and
that this tendency to waver, is our
greatest hindrance to peace The
ludicrous position. that war is justi-
fable during action; and that it is
hell when the cannOns cease to roar,
is a psychological trend man must
fully recognize if he ever hopes TO
bring about peace on earth.
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YOUNG men who must pay with their lives
Il in case Of war. and young women who Will
psy IN suffering and tears, yesterday staged
8 nationwide peace strike on scores Of Amerl-
can campuses.
Patriotic organizations. R. o. T. c. men,
bers. police and a few college presidents felt
called upon to suppress the demonstrations. In
Los Angeles police dubbed two girls into I'M
consciousness and the K. K. K burned fiery
crosses above the campuses in warning. In
Boston seven students we're arrested and fined
for distributing peace literature and pro-
fcssor speaking against war was bOoed. In
Chicago stencil bombs were thrown at stu
den, paraders In Washington President Mar
win Of George Washington University refused
to allow Rep Maury Maverick Of Texas TO
address students.
Posterity will decide which Of these-the
mHtanty peace loving students Of America or
their obiecting elders-have served civiliza-
ton best.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13

THE terrible dust storms in the West are
producing change in popular attitude
which years Of earnest argument and prophecy
failed to achieve
For several decades. experts in soil con-
servaton warned the nation that 1t was
wasting its most priceless possession. But, on
the whole. the people remained Indifferent,
and so did their public officials. Now the dust
storms with their dramatic toll Of human life
and overnight destruction of vast areas of
farm lands. have shaken the people. The de-
mand that the government do something to
check the spread of man made desert has
reached panic proportions.
The alarm is justified.
But a discouraging feature OF the new de-
mand is the utter dependence with which the
people look to the national government TO
perform miracle True, washington should
and will spend hundreds of millions of dol
lars. There is no other adequate credit to be
used to fastcn the loose soil by planting trees
shrubs. grasses and Improbable erosion resist
ing crops. But aggressive cooperation by state
and local governments and the owners of land
is also needed.
1T is obvious" Director Bennett Of the U S.
Erosion Service SAYS. that this is not bat
tie ia be fought solely by the government. The
whole people must be aroused if We are not
to lose the battle
State governments have a duty even more
important to long-range success Of erosion con-
troll than all of the Federal governments pros
pective expenditures. State governments have
jurisdiction over lands privately owned. They
should exercise their power by prohibiting
further misuse of private lands by farmers
and cattle and lumber men.
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took on new cargo and cleared for the west
coast Of Africa.
Old Man Trouble vas still on the prowl.
More storms came. The old schooner sprung
a leak-or more accurately. a whole set Of
leaks And the young officer who went TO
sea for lark found himself commanding
laundering hulk in an Atlantic gale, with ris
frightened crew putting in "a hours day at
the pumps
Finally the pumps clogged. The schooner
became waterlogged. The young skipper
found his brief career Of command climaxed
BY the necessity Of abandoning ship.
There was just one Hfeboat-an l8-foot
affair into which y men had 10 Jam them
selves 1t was powered with small motor,
but the motor wouldn't work and they had
to take it out. They set forth, leaving the
schooner to sink, and set out to brave the
gale.
There followed days OF great privation. A
steamer hove in sight, failed to see them in
the storm wrack and went away. Food ran
low. toward the end they were reduced to
the unusual and interesting diet Of hard
boiled eggs and whisky.
And at last, with food and strength and
hope vanishing together they managed to
land on the tip of the island Of Bravo, in the
Cape Verde group, where they slept in caves
on rocky beach until one Of their number
was able to walk to settlement and sum-
mon help.
So the romance Of the sea is dead, is it?
If YOU think so, you might ask this young col
Iege lad from Florida
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
CHILDREN AT PLAY

DLAY, like so many other things in our
l. youth, used to be free for children" There
were the COW pasture baseball diamond the
old swimmin hole, the woods and its streams
for trapping and fishing. Today Sc per cent of
all Americans live in cities, and unless the
cities provide Fairgrounds, parks and other
recreationaI facilities children must play on
the streets and sidewalks.
The depression has pinched city budgets,
on the one hand, and sent into streets 100000
unemployed youths on the other. The result
is that play centers are underbuilt, made
quste and congested.
Ten million urban children are still with
out Fairgrounds says a report Of the Ma
tional Recreation Association. "Neighbor-
hood playing fields are only about 30 per cent
adequate The indoor recreation centers should
be more than doubled to meet the need for
them. The greater part Of the task of provid-
ing recreational opportunities lies ahead"
From now on urban America should plan
for play seriously as it has planned for
work in the past. And especially should it
have ample space and facilities for children to
run and stretch their legs in sport. Children
at play are not problems in disease, juvenile
delinquency or crime.
Here is a legitimate call upon the cities
states and nation now planning gigantic work
relief projects.
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BY F. G.
AS an interested reader of your
paper and as a student of modern
problems, I am offering the fol-
lowing article to you for publica-
ton.
The rumors Of a Germany pre-
pairing joyfully for war are
grotesque, the fruit Of imbecility
or conscious falsehood. Notwith-
standing the national movement
it will never renounce the old
German tradition of arms, its
virility and valor, or the educa-
tional formative school of the
army.
The third reich has been
founded upon the basis of a re-
liglous and Christian conception
of tho world: a moral foundation
to any and every system of gov
eminent; a strong central power
and authoritative and stable gov
eminent; an honest and honor
able administration; social
sentiment founded on the love of
ones neighbor and respect for all
honorable work; for every honest
son Of toll though he have a
ragged coat and horny hands; a
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
MOTHER PLEADS AGAINST
SON GOING TO WAR
By a Mother.

by m0tners
There is so much talk Of war and
there seems to be possibility Of
the United States getting into it. It
is terrifying to all, but mothers will
know the supreme heartbreak OF
seeing their young sons, many Of
them scarcely more than children
marching of, perhaps to be shot
down. These boys who have not
really lived yet. Who knows what
great men some of them might be-
come if only they were allowed to
live their lives War is such an
idiotio thing We might expect bet
ter things Of the people Of this en-
lightened time.
But why must they take the very
young boys? They can not vote IN
til they are 81 Why must they be
compelled to fight until then? They
would hardly know what it was all
about.
Won't all the parents and others,
too, who are against war write to
Washington and say so? I am the
mother of fine son and I am
heartbroken over the very POSSIBLE
ity Of war. There are so many other
equally fine boys who give such
promise Of valuable manhood later.
This mother has written to Rep.
Ludlow Of Indiana at Washington.
Won't the other parents write also?
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ALL VETERANS SHOULD
HAVE NATIONS RESPECT
By William VI. Easter.

We have been called everything
from reds to treasury robbers and
now We are called cry babies and
yellow. If the Regular Soldier" will
look at the records OF the various
combat divisions he will find out
how yellow they we're or how much
crying was done.
He said he had attended their
open meetings and al lthey did was
brag. The ones he heard, about SO
per cent, never saw any service at
all. am a member Of the V. F. W.
and any time this Regular Sol
der" wants 10 look at my discharge
he is at liberty 70 do so. We have
nothing against the domestic service
men. II was not their fault that
they were not ordered across. but
call the soldiers. sailors and marines
Of the A. z. 2. CRY babies and yellow
is not to be thought Of for one min
ute. This man does not seem TO
understand that there were thou
sands OF regular army men in the
A. z. F. and also there we're many
who tried to enlist but were turned
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home from Jefferson Barracks, Mo.
Then along came the draft and I
was one of the first called, without
claiming any exemption. 1 passed
the examination and served 81
months with the drafted army, but
did not go overseas.
Now, Mr.. Regular Soldier, it did
not take me long in the service to
find out that the 80 per cent that
you speak of we're not yellow, but,
to be brutality frank, they had more
sense than you and 1 had and 1
will shake hands with any of them
today and say, "Buddie, you we're
a scholar and gentleman"
You complain about the hardships
of 1917. I went through that, too,
and I am not kicking. because I
know the boys who were at Chateau
Thierry and the Argonne went
through much worse.
You are kicking because you can't
Join the V. F. w. If you we're over
seas, you are eligible for member
ship If you were not. where did
you get those two wounds you speak
about? Did you fall of your bed
while doing bunk fatigue?"
I have two boys coming up and
should I live to see them face the
same kind Of a crisis that We faced
back in 1917, unless it would be an
invasion Of our own country. my
admonition to them will be. Wait
for the draft" And I had as many
CUTS as you in 1917.
In closing, I want to add if you
are not eligible for the v. 2. W,
why not get that chip of your
shoulder and join up with the
American Legion, an organization
that does not discriminate against
either domestic or foreign service?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
A. y. P. 4. AND CHILD LABOR

From the New York World Ttlegraml
THE American Newspaper Publishers AS
ISOLATION Is circularizing its members with
editorial attacks on the Child Labor Amend
ment. The World Telegram is member Of
this national organization Of daily newsps pers.
But this newspaper also happens TO be an &C
tive advocate Of the Child Labor Amendment.
So We desire herewith 10 repudiate the &C
ton Of the A. n. P. A committee, which We
believe IS doing distinct disservice to AIneri-
can newspapers generally
There IS a legitimate field for the activity
Of the 4 n P A functoning as a trade
association. TO advance the legitimate interests
OF the publishers when these interests do not
run counter TO the public will However be-
cause OF the special privileges accorded the
American press under our form OF government,
newspapers can not act as special pleaders
for their own interests without compromising
the special position they occupy in the public
confidence and esteem.
With any newspaper worthy OF public sup
port and confidence, public service must come
before self-service. Nothing could so greatly
damage American journalism in the eyes OF
the public than for 1t to make Of itself
regimented pressure group comparable TO the
National Association Of Manufacturers or the
American Federation OF Labor
These are days Of widely divergent views
on vital public policies. A truly independent
press. giving full and free expression TO d.
virgent views, Is the implement by which <ital
questions can be fully aired and sane policies
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
So They Say

Only when YOU have worked alone
when you have felt around you
black gulf Of solitude more isolating
than that which surrounds the
dying man. and in hope and in
despair have trusted n your own
mistaken will-then only will YOU
have achieved The late Justice
Oliver Wendell Holmes.
There is no sadder sight in the
world than aimless, dispirited youth.
The Prince OF Wales.
am going TO America 10 improve
my mind-H. G. Wells. British
author.
America IS on the verge Of real
economic recovery.-Gen. Charles 9.
Dawes.
You wouldn't call it smart 20
discard your aces in card game,
would you? Well, that's what the
American League has done, dis
carded Babe Ruth. its ace Of Ola
monds. Rogers Hornsby. manager
Of the st. Louis Browns.
The German government has but
one moral ana national alm-tO
safeguard The worlds peace.-Adolf
Hitler.
Well tell foreign countries. we
don't want war. but We want peace
and If you bother US well knock hell
out Of you. Representative VIII
liam P. Connery o. Massachusetts.
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WAR JUSTIFIABLE' DURING
ACTION, HE ASSERTS
By John Stewart

By John Stewart
Some fictitious characters in liter
allure serve as types for philosoph-
ical bases or for psychological
trends, but seldom do We find
living person 70 meet similar requir-
ments. However. Gene Provst, in
an article against war points 10
man whom he feels deserves equal
notice with Michiaveln. This per
son, Provst assures us. is encum-
bered with a "Brisbrain," and by
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The Message Center

(Times readers are inUited to cypress
their UietCs in these columns. Make your
letters short, so dH can have chance.
Limit them to ESQ t0ords or less. Your
letter must be signed but names 1oiU
be 1oithheId at request Of the letter
tCriter.)
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REGULAR SOLDIER
GETS ANSWER

~ HFIUFIN D r aIFt-
I wish to say few words in de-
Tense Of the drafted soldier who was
so unjustly criticized in the April 8
issue OF your paper by "A Regular
Soldier
When the United States. entered
the war, volunteered for service.
After few days Of appearing be-
fore this doctor and that, I was
declared physically unfit and sent
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
Because of You
BY DAISY MOORE BYNUM


I thought that love was full Of bliss
And joyousness and gay romance.
I find that love is full Of pain
And shocking fear and dread sus-
pense.
7 thought that love was calm and
still
A. summer skies are. after rain,
7 find that love Is raging wild
With seething Joy akin 70 pain.
I thought that love would dry my
tears
And bring me rapture. fresh as dew
But love has brought a broken hear.
Which shall keep because Of YOU
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down, only to be taken in the draft.
Is it any fault Of theirs that they
were drafted? The thing to be done
is to respect all VINO wore the uni
form whether they saw foreign serv-
ice or not.
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IRREGULAR SOLDIER" is
RAPED BY READERS
BY Another Regular.

BY Another Regular.
I would like to ask the guy who
called himself an enlisted man how
he got wounded twice and never left
the United States. He must have
been a weakling himself to have
suffered so much agony while simply
walking a post. He didn't make the
allotment to his mother because he
was required to send her part of his
pay
If anybody asked me, I would say
that any soldier who talks the way
he does was wounded before he
joined the Army. I was a regular
myself and in the Sixteenth Infan-
try and 1 believe I can tell him
something. I did not fight myself
since I was a cook, but I saw those
who did. Nearly all of those in
France who did not go to the front
were regulars of his type, There
we're as many drafted babies, as
he calls them, as there were regu-
lars in the regular divisions because
Of the requirements drafted
The children, he says, were afraid
to walk post, and I am telling you
this and get it straight-some of
those drafted babies were under
machine gun fire longer than he
ever walked a post. There were
regulars as well as others who wor-
ried about wives and sweethearts.
He says he can't get in the Vet
Grams of Foreign Wars and no doubt
they are not worried because they
wouldn't admit a man of his type
even though he we're eligible. Their
could walk a post without
suffering untold agony.
In closing, I will say that the in
fantry boys think more of their
drafted buddies than they do Of
the enlisted kind that roamed
from camp to camp to stay at home.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13
CRITICIZES TIMES FOR
GEN. JOHNSON SERIES

By stephen Gaynor.
We have been reading your paper
for years and have not always
agreed with your editorials but now
the limit has been reached in the
dirty stuff you print from the pen
Of Gen. Hugh Johnson, slurring
Catholics. We're done.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13

It was thought rather selfish Of Ray Ham
ilton. Public Enemy No. l, to surrender when,
If he had reached for his gun. some other
lad would have earned promotion.
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After agreeing in matter Of guardianship Of
upside down" girl. her father is reported to
have had change Of heart The family seems
to have more than its share of physical pc
culiarities.
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Daily Thought

All nations before him are as
nothing. and they are counted 70
him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah, 40:l7.
TAKE away from mankind their
Il vanity and their ambition. and
there would be but few claiming 70
be heroes or patriots.-Seneca-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13

A young Slaughter ky graduate walked
74Ss miles for his diploma. That training will
help him when he tries for job.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-13

Our bilhon-dollar government recently &C
cepted a voluntary s35 contribution from a
California man We wouldn't be surprised now
to learn that Newcastle was in the market
for COAL
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BY z. A. Shaw.

Having time to waste. l read in
your Message Center issue Of
April 8 letter supposed to be from
a Regular Soldier" and after reao-
ing same I am convinced that your
paper is the third rater Of Indian
apolis for publishing such "tripe 3"
This Regular Soldier" starts out
by emphasizing the fact that he
is expressing a few words, but it
takes him beyond his anticipation
to explain his dull mind.
His suffering untold agonies' 60
ing from camp to camp, boy that's
a hot one! He must have been
latrine sergeant. or on permanent
K. P. duty-or perhaps the straw
in his mattress was his diet for
shredded wheat and he couldn't
take it. Ye godsl What a soldier
And he was wounded twice. that's
the one that gets me-but they tell
me that our alien camps were some
times severe and the mess kit knives
flew thick and fast, or perhaps his
wounds we're from flying hatpins Of
a blond who insisted on eliminat
ing chiselers.
Now his remark: we boys can't
Join the V. F w. God forbid be-
cause We weren't overseas" Well
that's break for that lance cor
poral.
Having been among a lot Of ex-
soldiers (squawkers not included
I've never heard any of the real
ones shout about their sl25 a day.
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100000
65,000,000
S43,625,OOO,O00
Total

TT is evident that no society with this economic
L and social exhibit can carry on for very long.
Like most sensible persons Professor Pltkln con-
tends that it would be easy for capitalism to
continue for generations in this country If 1t
could muster even a little enlightened sef-ln-
tereSt But he sees little of this in prospect
Can we Americans give capitalism a fair
trial? I do not know. have grave doubts as
to whether we can for at least another genera
ton. When 1 see some OF the selt-Styled lead
ers of capitalistic groups denouncing every at
tempt to bring expert intelligence into the gov
eminent I am forced to believe that the great
est enemy of capitalism is the obsolescent
capitalist
In his very important book, Capitalism and
It's Culture" (Farrar & RineharD, Professor
Jerome Davis gives us what is probably the best
readable survey of the impact of capitalism upon
civilization as a whole. 1t is not pleasing pic
ture, but it is pretty close to the facts He
shows how capitalism reacts upon society, re-
ligion. law government, the press and education.
If Professor Pitkn is still little hopeful of
capitalism, John Strachey in his The Nature OF
the Capitalist Crisis (Covic Friede), has no
grafton Department has seen to it that far
larger number of Americans will read Of our
national economic weaknesses than would other
wise have been the case.
TN another important Brookings Institution
l. study Dr. Harold G. Moulton analyses the
operation Of contemporary capitalistic economics
The Formation of Capital" Bookings Institu-
ton. 1t should be read along with Lewis Corey's
The Decline of American Capitalism" Those
who wish an authoritative conventional account
of American banking organization in the last
two decades will find it in Lawrence E. Clark's
Central Banking Under the Federal Reserve
System tMacmillan0
Samuel Strauss presents mellow and inter
esting prospectus Of the new capitalism
american Opportunity, Little Bron), an attrac-
tive program which has little probability Of
being tried out in practice. Mr.. Osmond X.
Fraenkel has edited a number Of Justice Brand
els more notable papers on legal, economic and
international topics ("The Curse of BigneSs,
VIKING. 1t reflects both the Justices keen So
cial conscience and his antipathy to monopo-
istic tendencies. Those who wish TO go to the
bottom Of the economic planning problem will
do we'll to read the papers edited by Mary L.
Fledderus and Mary Van Kleek, Economic
Planning Covici. Friede).