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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
PAROLE SYSTEM FAILS

7. EDGAR HOOVER, director of those C.
~ men" who have made such notable rec
ord of late has earned the right - De listened
to with serious attention whenever he speaks
his mind about crime problems.
His recent attack on the evils of the parole
system, therefore, is not the sort Of thing
that believer in an enlightened penal sys-
TEN can afford to laugh off,
Mr.. Hoover told the International Asso-
citation Of Chiefs of Police that Americas lack
of strong parole system is "ghastly farce"
and demanded an end to the common practice
of making paroles, probation and commuta-
ton of sentences easy to obtain.
That the parole system in this country has
been abused shamefully is beyond question.
That an officer Of Mr.. Hoover's standing and
experience should center a hot fire upon it
merely confirms a long-standing suspicion.
Yet we should be exceedingly careful to
see to it that the criticism falls where it
really belongs-on the men who have abused
the system rather than on the system itself.
Basically the parole system is an intelIi-
gent and humane part of enlightened GRIM
the punishment ought to fit the criminal
rather than the crime Of two house break
ers, for instance, one may be a desperate
thug who deserves to stay in prison for life
while the other may be a man whom society
can safely release after a brief period. The
parole system is simply an attempt to adapt
the penal machinery TO such divergent cases.
But any social instrument is, in the long
run, just as strong as the society which tries
to make use Of it-and no stronger.
If society. for instance, fills its chief Offices
its governorships, its mayoralties, and SO
on-with self-seeking politicians who are in
public life solely for what they can get out
OF 1t, then no one need be surprised if the
instruments which these men handle are de-
based and perverted.
If our use Of the parole provokes such
man as Mr.. Hover to righteous indignation.
the fault lies with the persons who operate
the system. And that, in turn, means that
the ultimate fault is our own for putting
them in office in the first place
The remedy is not to junk the parole svs-
tenn, but to elect to Office men who will have
honesty and intelligence enough to make If
work the way it ought to work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
DRIVE OUT THE SAVAGES!

. DLOW, bugle blowl Loudly let the trum-
- pet sprayl
Uncle Sam is mobilizing against savage
foe armed with spear and wommerah.
The President has just approved millions
of public works money to conduct campaigns
against the hungry legions of Bugville. In
chief. he has severed relations with the fol-
lowing: Brown Tail Moth, now devouring
New England shade trees; Thurberia Weevil,
a cousin of Boil. making itself at home in
cotton plantations of the Southwest; Gypsy
Moth eating trees in New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania: the Rust boys, Blister
Rust of the white pine belts of New England,
the Lake States and far West and Black Stem
Rust Of the small grain states; Peach Mosaic,
who lives of peaches in Texas, Colorado and
the Midwest. Phony Peach Disease. which pre-
fers the peaches of Dixie; Citrus Canker, late
of Japan. now of Louisiana and Texas.
Too long these pestiferous little invaders
have laid waste to field, forest and orchard.
The Republic now stands as q man against
them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
PEACE THEORIES

WHATEVER else it may do the situation
w between Italy and Abvssinia il Of ,eost
providing us with practical test of some of
our hne-Spun theories about the way to work
for warless world
An example or two can be found in the
discussion OF the matter held recently in the
British House of Commons.
Sir Samuel Hoare, British foreign min
lister, suggested that England would welcome
any offer of American cooperation in the
effort to avert war; but he warned the Com
mons not to expect too much, adding:
Let us foster friendship and maintain in
our intercourse a realistic attitude toward
each other. We must expect no more from
our American friends than they are willing
to contribute"
Ihls, OF course was simply reminder
that isolationist sentiment is so strong in
America nowadays that Washington can not
be expected to make more than a gesture.
And that, in turn, calls attention to a fact
that friends of peace often overlook: when
you try to stop two persons from fighting, it
may be necessary for you to do it by force If
In other words, Anglo-American interver
ton in this quarrel would have scant efec.
unless everybody clearly understood that in
showdown the two nations would use guns
to enforce their views
Since it is perfectly obvious that neither
cares to do that, the sensible thing is to warn
everybody to expect no more from our
American friends than they are willing to
contribute"
All this, boiled down, simply means that
the world is not yet ready for Leagues of Ma
ticnS Kellogg treaties, and so on In the last
analysis, these things must rest on force, or
at least on the threat of force
If it be known in advance that the force
won't be applied, they collapse, as IN point of
fact. they already have collapsed
Then there is that other stunt, dear to the
idealiSt, of embargoing the shipment of NUM-
lions to warning nations. The Commons were
told that Britain has banned such shipments
to Abyssinia, but has not needed to do so in
the case of Italy, because Italy makes her own
munitions and doesn't need to buy any.
In this case. the ban is less move for
peace than def bit of aid to Mussolini 1t
will not help prevent the war; it will merely
make Italian victory more certain
Here, then, are two bits of peace machin-
cry" getting practical test The one fails
because no one cares to apply it properly; the
other turns out to be first-rate help to Inc
party that is forcing the war.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
PANHANDLING STATES

THE Russell Amendment should be removed
u from the Social Security Bill before it is
returned by the House and Senate conferees
for final congressional action.
Under this amendment, Stacker states which
have no old-age pension systems of their own
would be permitted to draw from the Federal
Treasury for the entire cost of supporting their
aged poor. 1t was put in as an emergency
provision, with a life Of only two years, on the
argument that backward states needed that
much time TO enact old-age security laws of
their own. But if it gets into the law, we may
be sure that the same states at the end Of tn,
two years will be back in Washington with
their hats in their hands. asking for more
time.
Thirty-five states now have old-age pension
laws. OF the Northern states South Dakota
Is the only one lacking such law. OF the
Southern states. only two-Florida and Ar
kansas-have such laws.
The Is non-pension states had just as much
advance warning that the Federal govern
ment wonld develop security program to help
the states that help themselves. And it would
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
A BILL SLIPS THROUGH

CPOKESMEN for the utilities succeeded in
~ crushing the death sentence" clause in
the pending utilities regulation bill in Congress.
While they were engaged in this battle, they
seem to have overlooked the bill which is
designed to extend the life and power of the
Tennessee Valley Authority-and they may yet
find that they concentrated their attention on
the less important issue of the two.
Beaten on the death sentence" the Ad-
ministration gets the IVA bill in the form it
wants. And the IVA, all things considered,
may very easily become more serious threat
to utility investments than the bill which was
defeated.
1t not merely has the government engag-
ing in the power business it has the govern
ment doing so on grand scale, with an
enormous river valley as its domain under
a program whose avowed intention it is to
sell the country on the beauties of govern
ment ownership.
1t is the IVA, rather than any regulatory
system, which is the real cloud in the utili-
ties sky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
THE RIGHT SPIRIT

Tor the first time in many years, Indian
apolis and Marion County citizens are wit
Messing a phenomena in the operation of the
police department and the sheriffs office.
Generally, you will find that the sheriff
confines his activities to the area outside the
city limits while the chief of police and his
men remain within the limits.
However, when Sheriff Ray established a
precedent 10 days ago in raiding alleged gam
bling resorts in the city, he asserted that he
was cooperating and aiding the police de-
partment."
And. yesterday, Chief Mike Morrissey re-
turned from Atlantic City, announced he well
coined the cooperation of the sheriff. 49,
Such pledges on the part of the law-en-
forcement chiefs of the county and city mean
that they have the right spirit
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
TUESDAY. JULY IS. 1895.
WHO PAYS THE BILL

WHENEVER government is made a po-
''htical playhouse for special privilege the
taxpayers have to pay. Marion County is no
exception. Costs have been steadily mount
ing while The Times has been pointing out
grave evidence of neglect, incompetence and
favoritism in Criminal Court and in the Coun-
ty Auditors Office.
Now the people know the bill they must
meet fO- the three-ring medicine show staged
by Judge Fearless Frank Baker Joel A.
CAB Baker and Auditor Charles A. Gros-
sart
The total county levy must be increased
by $4,000, according to reliable estimates.
No amount Of SANDER, obscenity, scurril-
Gus articles and anonymous telephone calls
can explain that
Perhaps Clyde Karrer. often Judge pro
tempore, who speaks of The Times investiga-
ton as kids play" thinks that this $4,000
is mere triviality
Possibly Joel A. Baker. who continues IN
draw a salary as Investigator when the Leg
islature established no such position. can
laugh of that $4,000.
1t may be that Judge Baker, who modestlv
proclaimed his "fearlessness" in political adj
vertlsements last fall, will be able to pass over
ths $4,000 with one of his lewd and not
Tery-funny. jests
s. Frankly We do not think the taxpavers
Will find this startling increase in expenses
at all amusing. We certainly do not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
TAXES-NOT POLITICS

CHAIRMAN DOUGHTON says the House
- Ways and Means Committee will write
the tax bill and accept no dictation from the
Administration. We hope that Doughton and
his committee colleagues stick exactly to that
declaration and to the duty that declaration
implies
Under the Constitution, revenue bills arise
in the House. The Ways and Means Com
mittee is the point of origin there. That COM
mittee has had experience. It has had enough
experience to know that political gesturing is
one thing and raising revenue another. And
political gesturing has characterized this
whole 1885 tax proposition up to now. 1t
characterized the effort to jam the bill
through in six days and to short-circuit the
Ways and Means Committee. And it has
reeked with politics ever since
Now the measure is where tax measure
belongs. And the month that has interviewed
has served to show that the original Admins
tration plan was one of shockingly little sub
stance so far as revenue is concerned.
1t is now up to the Ways and Means Com
mittee whether it brings forth a tax measure
at this session or later. to go into the subject
unhohbled by the limitations which the Ad-
minstration sought to put on the measure it
attempted to jam through in the buns rush
that failed. Had that play succeeded there
would have been forthcoming not enough
revenue to pay even half the interest on our
present national debt.
None Of us likes taxes But we do know that
the fiddler must be paid sometime. We do
know that we have danced 1919 billion dollars
into thu red. We do know that nation with
q permanently unbalanced budget is headed
for trouble. Hence, when the time does come
to face the realities this nation wants no
camouflage. 1t wanst a tax measure that will
do what tax measure should do. and not
merely a fast play to outsmart Huey Long.
And it wants no political maneuvering from
the House Ways and Means Committee, either.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16

BY Grover Pratt.
Please allow me a little space
in your Message Center to con-
graduate you on your fine edi-
torial of July 10 entitled Time to
Pack up"
This fine editorial certainly por-
trays exactly what happened at
the time of the late World War.
Such editorials show The Times
to be head and shoulders above
most of the big dailieS.
I happened to be one of those
to whom the war was unpopular
in the beginning. I think we were
in majority. But in a short
time, I found we were in
minority and a little later very
small and unpopular minority.
Soon we were being treated as
though we were almost as bad as
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
LdmentS Talk of War

the enemy. What could have
changed the people so?
This little loud group you spoke
of in your editorial had been
joined by the press. If I remem-
Der correctly, there was not a sin
gle big daily paper in the United
States but what was whooping
her up in short time.
The Scripps-Howard papers
were no exception. The Socialist
press was the one to tell the peo-
pie the truth in the beginning and
continue to tell them the truth
until they became suppressed. If
all of the press had had as much
courage, there would have been
no World War.
1t is easy to say things now that
men went to prison for saying dur
ing the war for, in SO saying, we
are once more with the majority.
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have been appointed and elected to
public office We need not be sur
priSed at anything. 1t is a sure
thing that this country will see
more political corruption in proper
ton as Socialists and Communists
get their hands on our public money.
Mr.. Berling ends his letter by ask
ing what grass roots" means, any
how? Well, to get down to the
root Of the matter, it means just
what Thomas Jefferson said when
he advised "a frequent return to
fundamental principles. In other
words, getting back on constitu-
tional grounds. Keeping this ma
ton in the control of its friends and
laying plans in accordance with our
original blueprint to go ahead with
the job of building the greatest ma
ton on the face Of the globe.
We, the people, have not lost
faith in democracy, but we have
been blindly led a long way on the
road to socialism by men we can no
longer trust, and so we now begin
to wake up and look around for
better men to guide our future des-
tiny.
So, Mr.. Berling, I think I made
no mistake when I branded the
New Deal a socialistic and I'M
American scheme which no self
respecting Democrat can support. I
recommend a new national Demo-
crat Party in which no New Deal
Social-Democrat ever will be nomi-
mated TO Office. Socialism is I'M
constitutional, Christian and I'M
American and any person who pre-
fers it to our system Of government
is a poor citizen.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
JULY Is, 1896

and handicapped brother were piled
mountain high upon her shoulders.
And, in this same community,
farmers have received thousands Of
dollars from another section of re-
lief in connection with limiting
production of foodStuffs. The bank
has been given $4,000 of relief from
another section of the government.
We are all human. Mistakes are
frequent. AS one who is trying to
trudge down the dusty road of life
and view the scenery as I go, am
willing to confess that I don't see
how a relief program that func-
lions this way is anything but
quickSand Maybe am blind, but
I do not intend to sleep overnight
in such a house if can help it.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
HE'S SHY MONEY TO
PAY TAXES TO GET JOB

BY P. E. B.
Well, folk, here's one for the book.
During the week of July Z, I was
given a job driving a truck, steady
job. I have been working on FERA.
I had to have a drivers license.
The County Treasurer said I would
have to pay my poll tax before he
could help me. Well, where in the
world was I going to get $3.75? I
make $45 a month and have a
family of six to support. The re-
suit was I am still on FERA and
some one out of the state got the
job. It's sure thing I can't pay
taxes without job and it looks as
though I'll have to pay taxes to get
a job. Someone figure this out for
me.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
READER IS PUZZLED
BY PROSECUTING STAFF
By A Times Reader.

BY A Times Reader.
AS point of information, I am
wondering if you can furnish me
with answers to a somewhat puz-
zling situation I witnessed recently.
While in police court, I noticed
almost as many deputy prosecutors
as police. One prosecutor was trying
a case and three more were looking
on. I saw one of the city prose-
cutorS whom learned to, be Albert
Thayer, defending a case in Room 4.
Now, how much more money for
use of deputies is the present prose-
cutor spending as compared with
past records?
Are the city prosecutors allowed
to defend criminals in police court?
How many prosecutors are there
altogether? Perhaps this question
would be imposing upon you for
too much space. I would appreciate
your enlightening us on these points
with the same splendid and fair
frankness for which you are noted.
The Times will answer your
questions by mail.
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Tippecanoe
BY JOSEPHINE DUKE MOTLEY

BY JOSEPHINE DUKE mOILEH
There's a stream T. love forever
And I can forget it never. ~,
On its banks I've watched the sum-
mer days go by.
I've dreamed and roamed and rested
Where the whippoorwills have
nested
And the eerie owl sets forth his
plaintive cry.
I Nhave climbed its banks in May
time
And wild flowers found in daytime,
Bloom in mem'ry's picture brightly
as of yore.
It's ravineS are wild with glory;
Cress and gentian tell the story;
It's an Indiana Eden-yes. and
more.
How I love the sparkling water
That is Natures lovely daughter.
From its ever winding. curving
stream Of blue,
Steals wisp of Indian history
That will ever be mystery -
Fantastic, sylvan, spring fed Tip-
pecanoe.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
DEMOCRATS CAN'T TAKE 1T,
SAYS OLD-GUARDER
By an OId-Guarder

By an Old-Guarder
So the Democrats can't take it, hey?
Well do I remember when The In
dianapolis Times was riding" the
Republicans and running them into
jails one after the other.
And now when The Times turns
on the Democrats Their only re-
sort is to start issuing those dirty
little pamphlets. If I remember
rightly it was the Republican party
which was always accused of those
kind of attacks. The Republicans
(unjustly, too were labeled by The
Times as the Ku-Klux Khan party
and the enemy of Catholics, Of Jews
and of Negroes.
Any one who was connected with
the Republican organization knew
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
DISCUSSES TRAGEDY OF
RELIEF RED TAPE
b. R. H. Stone.

b. r. H. Stone.
Recent events call to mind the
story of the man who in olden
times built his house. In fact, as I
remember the yarn, there were two
men who tried their hands at this
work. One built his house on the
sand The rains came and the
winds blew; down came the house.
The other built his upon the rock;
the floods beat down uron the
house and lightning shook it from
stem to stern. This last mans
house withstood the storm.
The death of heroine in New
Augusta occurred this week. She
was not wealthy in earthly goods,
but she was the pillar of a family
1t has caused many to stop, look,
and listen. For the burden Of a
sick mother, partly crippled father,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
IF ONE QUITS TIMES
THERE'LL BE FIVE STARTS
By H. 7. B.

BY II. 7. B.
More power to The Times in it's
fight for cleaning up Criminal
Court. There was some mob in
that court Friday morning. Some
poor kid that didn't show his face
around the church and speak to the
preacher would have gotten 10
years. So all you kids who are 60
ing to do what Finchum did better
think twice, because you might not
be on very good terms with your
preacher. Judge Baker told the mob
they should quit taking The Times.
For every one of those people
quitting your paper, there will be
five new customers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
So They Say

No lady bar fly ever produced a
Thomas Jefferson, an Andrew
Jackson, a Woodrow Wilson, or a
Franklin D. Roosevelt. Woman will
not find any inspiration hanging
around saloons.-T. L. Anderson, st.
Louis excise commissioner.
America has never really been
written about. There is so much
for American writer's yet to do.
Honestly, in the next 20 years we
are going to turn out some grand
books.-Thomas Wolfe, American
author.
1t is foolish to talk about capital
punishment as the state taking
vengeance" when it resorts to jul
dicial surgery to get rid of such
cancerouS growth on the social body.
DIR. Joseph A. Vance of Detroit.
We are going to clean New York
Of sin and corruption with the help
Of ballots and politicians, or with
out them. If we don't get what we
want with ballots, We'll get it
through mental telepathy, through
transmission of thought forces
Father Divine.
I am much happier, believe me,
now that I am free from the in-
sincerities of Hollywood.-Ramon
NoVarro.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-16
INSISTS NEW DEAL
is SOCIALISTIC

BY E. F. Maddox.
In reply to Tom Behring'S letter,
defending President Roosevelt and
communism, I want to say that most
of Mr.. Roosevelt's defenders are also
friends of socialism or communism.
But listen, my friends. Any attempt
to socialize this nation by any man
elected on the Democratic ticket
would be treason to his party and to
his country.
Stuart Chase, a well-known So
cialiSt, says that Specialization is
upon us, horse, foot and guns
outright government ownership is
growing steadily the AAA has
begun the task Of Socializing agri-
culture, and there is for the dis
cernible future, no turning back
finally, to tilt the problem at a
somewhat different angle, the New
Deal may be called collectivism
rampant"
Surely, Mr.. Berling, you will not
deny that Stuart Chase knows
socialism, or collectivism when he
| sees it.
Also Drew Pearson and Robert s.
Allen stated in an article in The
Times that the IVA is socialism and
that the South is tapping it up with
out knowing it. Well, there are
plenty of others tapping up social
ism in this nation without knowing
it, but E. F. Maddox is not included
in the number.
Ed Howe of Kansas says that
President Roosevelt's liberalism is
nothing but thinly yelled commun-
ism.
Add to this the fact that Mr.
Roosevelt has shown a decided pref
erence for Socialist advisers, Social
ist officials for his key posts. Social
iSt measures for his legislative pro-
gram and Socialist planners for his
future programs, then take into con-
sideration that he is using Socialist
methods to force his program on the
people of this country and make
your own decision.
I am willing to wait and let the
present Administration prove by its
own actions that it is more social
istic than Democratic.
Mr.. Berling wants to know if it
is not true that we as American
citizens have become used to po-
litical corruption and are no longer
surprised or interested when such
breaches Of faith are exposed?
My answer to that is that since SC
| many Socialists and Communists
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be unfair to permit these 10 states to draw
more than their share Of the s5OOOO,0OO an
nuaI Federal subsidy. 1t would be not an en-
enlargement to state cooperation. but to state
neglect, parsimony and rapacity. 1t is strange
indeed that the South so jealous of states
rights, should be Sinking states duties.