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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

schumacher Up Again
The Giants smrged out 1913 and
1928 uumphs over the Boston
Braves Marx Koenigs single drove
an tho tuo winning runs in the
nn-r.r Hal Schumacher held the
Braves 10 C,cht hits iu winning his
tenth straight victory and his
twelfth of Tho season Iu the night
can Hank Lcibcr hIt TWO hOmers
and drove in seven runs IN the two
games
After defeating Cincinnati. s-5.
tho Pirates dropped the second
game 10 the Rods. 5-4 Waite Hoyt
helpcd win his own game IN the
onener bv driving in three runs
Ernie lombard. single. which
drove In two runs. and Billy Myers
homer with a mate on base won the
afterpiecc. Arky Vaughan. National
League batting leader made three
singles and A double IN four times
Up u the nightCap
The Phillies twice beat Brooklyn
hv one run. 81 and 81, the last
cong 10 innings Johnny Moore S
homer with a man on base won the
first came. George Watkins. with
tv.0 homerS. and Dolf Camilh. With
homer and two triples, led the
pills % victory In the second game
Detroit closed IN on New York IN
tine American League race by win
MING a double header. while the
Yankees broke even. reducing the
Sap between them 10 two games.
Tigers Crush Cleveland
The Tigers scored their seventh
straight victory and their NTH IN
q row over Cleveland. 6-5 ana lO-4
Hank GreenbergS single IN the
eleventh won the first game after
Mickey COchrane's homer with TWO
orr nm the ninth had tied the score
srhoolbov Rove. who started the
second game. had 10 retire with
vreuched shoulder. but received
credit for the victory
Lefty Grove halted tho Yankees
a. the Boston Red SOX tTlumphed-
A Grove blankcd New York after
the first inning. allowing only seven
hits the entire route Red Role s
bad throw on Cronin's grOunder
permitted the winning run. Lefty
Gomez pitched a four-hit game as
the Yanks grabbed the nghtcap.
I'll
whitehead Breaks Through
The Chicago White SOX won their
fourth straight from the s.. LOUIS
Rrowns bv taking a doubie-header,
1l-s and 40. and moved back into
third place. Johnny Whitehead
broke his siN-came losing streak BY
ulnn.ug the first game. MS ninth
victory Les Tetle held the Browns
"a Eve hits I'm The afIerpieCe-
The Philadelphia Athletics climbed
n sixth place by defeating Wash
inrt0u. So and 2-l Whitley VIII
sncrr As rookie >Outhpav- scored
his eighth triumph in the opener.
Rabbit WsrStlcr's triple and lamar
Nrwsomt's single drove IN ne &C
eidinc run ~ the ninth inning Of
the second game
Yesterdays Hero Lefty Gomez.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-05

FIRST game. u innings.
s. Louis .... 600 Ol0 200 002- u ?
Chicago ..... 900 100 020 600 ; Il 0
Walker ? Collins Haines and Davis:
French Root and Hartnett.
Second Came.
ST TouiS - 0o0 Ola 0n2-s o
Chicago ....... 100 oil 00i- II 4
j. Dean and Delaney; warneke. Kowa-
Tx and O'Dea
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>-BaSeball Standings .

Second game. 10 innings
Philadelphia ...... 0l0 Dol 020 So IL 0
Brooklyn .---.-.-.. 100 100 oil 8 II ,
Johnson. Jorgens Dams. Pezzullo Bivin
and Todd. Wilson. Earnshaw. Leonard
NUNS and Phelps. Lopez.
First Came
New York ......... 020 OBI 1910 l3 !
Boston .......-..... 900 $50 100 IA 0
Castleman Stout Al Smith and Man
cuso: Brandt. Cantwell. MacFayden. r.
Smith and HOGAN. Spohrer.
Second Came.
New York ....-..... 300 l0f 020-l2 II l
Boston ...-.......... 600 Ol0 O02- 3 0
Schumacher and Mancuso. banning:
FrsnShouse, Benton and Hogan. Mueller.
First Game
Pittsburgh .....+.... 04l Dol 300 Q is 0
Cincinnati ....-.---. 100 0l0 300 i3 l
Hovt and Grace FREY. schott and LON
bardi. Erickson.
Second Game.
Pittsburgh ..... 600 2O2 900 4 10 0
Cincinnati ........-. 900 100 40x- ) /
Swift Blanton. Bush and Padden; Mel
son. Brennan. Freitas and Campbell.
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Cleveland a. Chicago.
s. Louis Pr Detroit
NeW Tors ~ washington.
fOniv games scheduled
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago - Pittsburgh
BROOKLYN A. New YORK
fOniv games scheduled
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NATIONAL IFAGIr.

fFlrSt Game
PHILADELPHIA - 0f1 600 0Oo-3 S
BROOKLYN 020 100 900 z
Walters and Wilson. CLARK. Leonard ana
Lone
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
RAIL RATES AND FINANCES

D AILROADS are badly in need of the IS
million dollars additional revenue they
hope to get out of the temporary freight rate
increases granted by the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
Their obsolescent rolling stock will have to
be replaced. regardless of business conditions.
Repairs and rebuilding are needed along
rights -of-way. Debts aggregating more than
800 million dollars will have to be refunded in
the next two years.
Yet there is a convincing pesSimism in the
dissent of four ICC members vino voted against
the increases, holding that freight charges are
already at the ceiling" and that higher rates
are apt to result in further loss of traffic to
competing bus and ship lines
Regardless of considerations of cost of
service" Commissioner %Aitchison said. traffic
can not and will not bear a materially higher
level"
eff the struggle between the railroads and
other forms Of transportation Is to become
more intense" Commissioner Porter said, a..
then the railroads had better fo-t;fy them
selves by "A reduction in freight rates instead of
an increase"
Eventually, the railroads will have to find
some other solution for their problems. Federal
regulation of competing carriers would help
some But a general overhauling of railroad
finances to reduce the interest burden APP
parently is unacceptable.
The proposed Senate investigation of rail-
road financing, under the Wheeler resolution,
should point the way to this achievement
without sacrificing the interests of hitherto
helpless investors.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
WORLD UNITY

THAT sad and solemn noise you hear I'M
der the shouts and alarms from Europe
these days is probably the dirge that is be-
League of Nations.
With one tribe after another doing the
war dance about Pickering camp fire, in
ternatonal politics is rapidly shaping up into
precisely the kind of mess which the league
was designed to settle. And the league, de-
fed and Knocked over a period of many
months, is no longer relied on by any one to
handle the situation.
Before the I-told-you-so chorus grows too
triumphant, it might be a good idea to try
to figure out just why the league has failed.
The chief reason seems to be that it was a
magnificent theory tossed into a world that
wasn't ready for it. 1t was so far ahead of
its time in fact, that most of us have never
quite realized just what it was intended to do.
For the league was not designed as an in
ternational debating society, or as a forum
through which nations could negotiate
settlement of their differences. 1t was meant
to be an instrument more powerful than any
of its members, so that it could compel ma
tions to abide by the decisions of international
society.
1t was based on the idea that if it pays for
small states to group themselves into ma
ton, it also should pay for large nations to
group themselves into a super-state.
Thus the very features of the league COW
enant which aroused the most opposition
were the ones most vital to the leagues sue
cess. The league had to be able to enforce
its decisions; to do that, it had to know in
advance that it could call on its members to
use their armies and navies in the leagues
behalf.
The people of the United States refused
point-blank to agree to anything of the kind.
few years later Great Britain took SIM
liar step, refusing to sign blank check for
use of the British navy by the league.
The organization was thus hamstrung. It's
chance to be super-state was killed. 1t re-
NAMED only for the course of events to prove
its impotence.
Pacifists are fond of saying that ordinary
people don't go about their daily business
armed to the teeth to avert trouble-the in
tended moral, of course, being that nations
needn't do so either.
But the point is that ordinary people go
marmed because there is police force and
an organized body of law to handle disputes
for them. The league was nothing less than
an attempt to provide such institutions on
an international scale.
The plan collapsed when nations refused
to limit their own sovereignty. We seem to
prefer a system of intermittent warfare to
system of enforced peace.
The world as a whole is not yet ready to
submit to international control for the COM
mon good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08

$4,000 acres Of state forest land, and some 49,
900 900 trees set out in 1900 acres Of national
forests. This year there viii be many more
state paintings and at least $50 100000 trees
started growing in national forests.
Spring paintings along the shelter belt"
project alone will aggregate 100000 trees.
small beginning compared with the 1o-year
program for this magnificent adventure in
soil-saving aad water conservs ion FEEA
also is financing tree-planting projects for
highways and city parks.
The chief factor nationally in forest re-
buiLHng is the Civilian Conservation Corps,
which last year tripled normal paintings in
national forests, and will do much better I'M
der the new enlarged program. The states
have piled up creditable records. New York
with 10000 900 paintings Wisconsin with 49,
100000 new trees, and Michigan with l200o,
OOo new trees, led the states last year.
Encouraging as are these public projects it
is equally important that private timberlands
DE protected from destruction. The conserva-
ton of timber on the privately owned three
quarters of our total forests should be as
sured. stricter conservation enforcement and
cooperation between the government and the
industry is required.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
FORGOTTEN IN PRISON

Cov MIKE CONNER of Mississippi has
~ discovered that the forgotten man" has
a number of representatives in prison.
Many convicts, he found, are overlooked by
the parole board because they have no money,
no family, and no friends to bring their cases
before it.
They may deserve release just as much as
the men who are paroled. but because every
body has forgotten about them, they get no
consideration
In an effort to set matters right, Gov. Con-
ner has been personally interviewing such
convicts. Altogether, he expects to hear at
least $50 long-termers tell their stories.
His action reflects credit on him, and also
indicates weakness not uncommon in parole
systems. Whether prisoner is paroled should
not depend on the influence he can muster.
1t is the boards responsibility to examine
all prisoners cases without waiting to be
prodded.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
TIME TO CRACK DOWN

NEWS that a bench warrant has been
issued for the arrest of defense witness
in the Bruno Hauptmann trial, following
return of an indictment for perjury, is a timely
reminder that the courts too often are lax in
dealing with plain and fancy lying in the
witness chair.
In this particular case. the man accused is
one Benjamin Heller, who was called by the
defense to testify that on the night the
Lindbergh ransom was paid he sat in a car
parked by the famous cemetery wall and saw
Isidor F1sch cavorting about in the neighbor-
hood.
Whatever impression this testimony might
have made on the jury was Cancelled however,
when the prosecution introduced evidence to
show that at the time the ransom was being
paid Heller was involved in a traffic accident
away OF on the other side of town. After the
Hauptmann trial was wound up, the prosecutor
called the grand jurys attention to the matter,
and an indictment was voted.
About the only unusual feature of the case
is the fact that the grand jury actually did
get busy.
No one who frequents American courts can
be ignorant of the fact that fragrant perjury
has become almost as common as grass in
recent years. It is an evil that aflictS criminal
and civil courts alike. Hardly any criminal is
so friendless that he can not get some kindly
soul to come into court and swear that he
(the criminaD was many miles away when the
crime took place; few participants in civil
actions seem to have much trouble finding
people willing to swear to anything and
everything that seems ct the moment to be
advisable.
Yet indictments for perjury are rare, and
convictions are rarer still.
You don't need to think very long to see
how profoundly the prevalence of such
perjwed testimony interferes with dispensing
justice.
Our whole judicial process is based on the
theory that people who come into court VIII
tell the truth to the best of their ability. We
have devised an oath calculated to impress
upon the devout the supreme Importance of
sticking to the truth. Our laws provide severe
penalties for those immune to such i'm
preSsions. But perjury continues. and any
lawyer or court reporter can tell you that the
amount of lying that goes on in our courts is
enough to make Ansrias look like p:ker.
Until judges and prosecutors generally Sre
jealous to crack down on perjured testimony,
the courts will be- crippled. Nothing would
help the dispensing of justice much more than
widespread realization that the man who tells
lie on the witness stand is in for very bad
time Of 1t little later on.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08

start a little publicity on this mat
ter. Do you not think we have
been very patient waiting for the
last year, and have not received
any Of our money, and the banks
are still running, and the banker is
getting his money every month to
pay his bills and we have to borrow
to pay our taxes, when we have
money in closed banks. Do you call
that justice? Either close the banks
and let them suffer, or either pay
us certain amount each month.
Your paper has fought for things
that have not been as important
as this. Why don't you help us
little? No wonder they 90 not pay
us. Let's get busy and maybe they
will wake up a little to their obliga-
tons. Some people never pay their
bills unless you dun them.
No wonder there are men like
Huey Long. The world makes you
that way.
Hoping you see things my way.
and that you will help the people
of indianapolis get justice.
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who will come forward with the
usual glib attempt to explain away
the schemes of the allied stock job
bers and then some more unskillfuI
efforts of the local tory papers by
their use of mere generalities and a
multitude of words endeavor to dis
tract the public mind from the basic
issues.
A f1rst-class explanation will
serve, they believe, just as well as a
f1rst-class performance for the tax
payer who will have to foot the bill.
They well know the brevity of the
popular memory in public matters is
notorious. and that in a short while,
unless driven home by constant re-
iteration. most things become
blurred and forgotten.
So let us forgotten men raise our
voices in protest and denunciation
against the scheming of this local
coterie of financial buccaneers as
disclosed by the valiant Times, the
peoples defender.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
ROOSEVELT TAKING 1T ON
CHIN FROM BOTH SIDES
BY Jimmy CofOuras.

BY Jimmy Cofouras.
Every fence has two sides. Some
stand on one side of the fence.
Others choose the other side. And
often the other side chooses them.
Then there are those who stand on
the fence. These folk can see both
sides easily. But they fare terribly.
Each side fires its spiteful quota Of
brickbats at these courageous indi-
viduals.
Any sane individual easily can
observe the supreme tactical ability
and the negative strategy Of that
blessed man, Franklin D. Roosevelt
The mass accuses him of allegiance
to the class. Ano the class is not
sure that. he does not incline toward
the mass. Yet there he stands on
the fence in the thick of the battle,
courageously taking it on the chin.
If he steers a course that will
yield the bulk of administration to
the mass the class will withdraw
its support.
If he runs course that viii yield
to the class the mass will revolt.
Roosevelt literally has averted a
revolution and is constructively and
by degrees thawing and pruning the
class I'LL It ceases "a be Q Gihral-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
SEEKS NEW ORGANIZATION
TO AID ENLISTED MEN

By Regular Soldier.
A few words to the public for
friends and relatives of ex-Service
men of the World War. Back in
April, 1917, headlines of all United
States papers read United States
Declares War With Germany" I,
as a good American citizen, quit my
job on which I was being paid be-
tween $50 and $40 a week. I en-
listed in the regular Army, leaving
behind widowed mother and sew
eral small sisters and brothers to
make the best Of it without my
support, not even asking the gov
eminent for the SIS allowed for de-
pendents. Uncle Sam pleaded for
men to enlist, but 80 per cent were
yellow and waited to be drafted.
I went from one camp to another
suffering untold agony from ex-
posture and all other hardships.
Then in the summer of 1918 they
started putting drafted men in our
regiment. These men-I mean chill
dren-were so scared they were
afraid to walk post or do any mill
tary duties. All they would do was
cry and talk of their parents and
sweethearts they left behind.
I was wounded twice and will
carry these scars to my grave.
In 1917 enlisted men got all the
glory, now the drafted babies want
it. We boys can't join the v. F. W.
because we weren't overseas. Don't
the people know that more than
100000 men who went overseas
never saw the front2 I sometimes
go to their parties and they act
like bunch of whipped dogs. You
ask them where they fought and
how many battles they were in and
to see their discharges. They will
say II misplaced it and I don't
know where it is" They are afraid
to show it. They know that every
discharge has it written in black
and white.
Then they brag about getting
SIPS a day for overseas duty, and
we got 81 day.
Enlisted men should get together
and form an organization called
THE All-American Enlisted World
War Veterans"
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MONDAY. APRIL 8. 1898.
FOR THE GENERAL WELFARE"
scRrPPs-HowARD NEWSPAPER

THE Roosevelt social security program has
4 come through the Ways and Means Com
mittee to the House floor much the worse for
its II weeks ordeal.
The committee removed from unemploy-
ment insurance and contributory old-age
benefits all farm labor, domestics. casuals and
employees Of non-proft institutions and from
1obless insurance benefits small firms that en-
ploy 10 or fewer workers, instead of four or
less as in the original bill. 1t exempted most
of the seasonal industries by raising from Is
10 20 weeks the period during which worker
must be employed to qualify for compensation.
Out of 100000 wsge-earners only about
220000OO, including the unemployed, stand
to benefit while the eliminated classes are
those most in need of protection.
The committee erred in eliminating provi-
sions for the sale of government annuities to
snall-income classes. Chiefly, it erred in re-
linquishing Federal control over personnel
merit guarantees maximum decency and
health standards and other rules for the states
to follow.
II the Federal government must collect, in
vest and allot security funds, shell out millions
in annual subsidies and generally assume lead
ership it should also have adequate control of
standards of administration and benefits. In
this bill the committee seems to have allowed
the states rights doctrine to r,n riot.
Yet imperfect as it is, Congress should pass
the Wagner-Lewis-D oughton bill with as lit
tie delay as possible. Wherein the House and
Senate can improve it they should. But they
should not permit the reactionary extremist or
perfectionist groups to defeat it or separate its
titles Imperfections can be ironed out in
subsequent sessions England has amended
her unemployment insurance laws Is times in
Is years.
Despite its faults the new measure repre-
sents momentous step forward in American
history. 1t raises old-age pension standards.
1t breaks ground for a nationwide system of
uniform jobeSs and old-age benefits supported
by industry. 1t aids the states in caring for
their dependent and crippled children, and in
their maternal and child welfare programs
and public health systems. 1t sets out to
substitute pensions for poor houses, insurance
for relief, justice for charity.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
CONGRESSMAN STRIKE BACK

COMETHING seems to be coming over our
- CongreSsmen-cr over some of them. at
any rate. They are beginning to bark back at
their constituents
First We have John S. McGrcarty of Cali
fornia, who was irked beyond endurance by
some of the silly letters he received and who
finally wrote to a voter and invited him to
please take two running jumps and go to hell"
Next Ohio's Stephen NJ. Young had SINH
lar outburst. To constituent who objected to
his support of a certain measure. Mr.. Young
replied that he was going to keep on support
Ing It and that al who disagreed with him
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08

IT is one thing TO quote Joyce Kilmer and
Il sentimentalIze about trees that lift their
leafy arms to pray. It is another to come to
their rescue.
April is month of Arbor Days in the
states. 1t is a fitting time to assay Americas
first serious movement to reforest naked
wasteland and eroded hillsides
According TO Charles Lathrop Pack, presi-
dent Of the American Tree Association, ast
year saw more than ss.5oOoOo trees tanted on
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
CITY BOOKIE OPENS
FIRE ON FARB

BY Bookie.
An article appeared in a morning
paper, saying that Lasky Farb was
the spokesman for the bookmakers.
l emphatically wish to contradict
this statement. I am in a position
to know that Lasky speaks only to
further his own interests and those
OF no one else. He has made mat
tiers worse by his chatter.
I also wish to say that I know
that LaSky has not received the
sympathy of single bookmaker in
the city, the majority of whom have
obeyed the police orders to close.
They are not hard to recognize or
locate.
1t is ridiculous and incredulous to
think that the Chief of Police would
allow a bookmaker to dictate the
policy of the Police Department.
1t is quite certain that Chief Nor
riSsey will not allow his peace OF
mind be disturbed by the chatter
emanating from Lasky.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08

could go to the same place that Mr.. McGroarty
told his constituent to visit
Somehow there is something rather en-
couraging about these replies. A Congress-
man must be responsive to sentiment in his
own district, Of course; but he must also be
his own man. with a mind of his own, ready to
follow the course he thinks best and take the
consequences at the polls.
little more Of this sentiment would give
us better Congress
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-04-08
GRANDPA

BY X. HILL
I know the best old fella,
That ever you did see;
He's big and strong and jolly,
Just like him I would be.
He knows about everything,
The rest in the land;
Cause when I ask him questions
S'plains SOS I understand.
And when my toys get broken,
He just knows what 10 do;
With hammer. nails or wire,
He makes them good as new.
Sometimes he tells me stories,
Or maybe sings TO me;
Or else he takes me ridin',
A'sittin' stride his knee.
II 1 grow to be a man,
As good and kind and true,
Then I'll be happy, grandpa,
Cause I'll be same as you.
/ know that God viii bless you.
And your life I'LL with joy9
Cause He loves you for bein'
So good 70 little bora