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END OF THE TRAIL

A SAD finale is being written to the story
of two pals who hopefully roughed it to-
gether as gold prospectors in the West so years
ago.
Multimilionare Edward L. Doheny was
buried yesterday in Los Angeles.
Albert 2. Fall, former Secretary of the In
terror. sick and II. is struggling to keep from
being evicted from his old home on 100000
acre ranch in New Mexico he once owned.
The story of these two Westerners is a
thrice-told tale. The one wanted oil for great
enterprises. The other, who had seized con-
troll of the governments vast naval oil re-
serves, wanted money. There was a sudden
air Of prosperity on the Three Rivers ranch
a little black satchel. swapping of honor for
wealth. and an Elk Hills lease scandal that
shocked the nation. Doheny, who had lent"
Fall 100000 was indicted. tried and acquitted
of giving bride. Fall served a jail sentence
for taking it.
The careers of these two were anachron-
isms. When America was young, undeveloped
and lawless they might have succeeded in win
ming both wealth and honor. Not a few
American pioneers and captains of industry
climbed to heights of responsibility through
deeds quite as devious and dishonest. Who
will not admit that the unhappy ending to
their life story proves America has made some
progress at least toward higher standards of
conduct?
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TO THE TEACHERS

THOUSANDS of indianapolis children re-
turned to school this week, requiring the
services of many men and women who have
dedicated their lives to teaching
Always a noble profession. imparting knowl-
edge to the youth of today calls forth the best
that is in the teacher
No longer is the teacher d clustered person.
teachers in the last six years have felt the
panes of economic change.
To-Day more pupils are in the schools who
have been touched by the knowledge of how
important the fundamental things-food. shell
ter and clothing-can be-
And today more teachers are conscious of
the precarious state of all humanity measured
In terms of social security.
It may be that these things will bring the
teacher and pupil closer to each other; to a
clearer understanding of human need.
knowledge is the only fount of human lib
erty." read line in copybooks by which writ
ing was taught back in the little red school
house DAYS.
Writing is taught by other methods today.
But the necessity of knowledge in any concep-
ton OF liberty remains a fact.
The BOYS and girls who went back to school
this week viii, as men and women not so many
years hence. face the task Of remaking the So
cial order.
Their teachers viii make the greatest con-
tribution toward fitting them to cope with that
task intelligentlv and successfully.
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u. S. SHOULD MEET
WORLD AS TRADERS

BY the village Crier
The presidential election year is
starting in plenty of time. Before
the conventions next year the pri-
vate citizen will have his chance.
BY the time the professional poll
tician takes the stage he should
have plenty of expressions OF
opinion from which to select.
Here is one for both parties.
What is to be our foreign policy?
Is it to be a financial-military al
lance with European nations, or a
policy based on getting trade? Are
we to regard Russia as deserter
from the financial-military alliance
or is Russia to be regarded as a ma
ton whose internal affairs are her
own concern?
1t is my opinion that our best in
terests will be served by basing our
foreign policy on the basis of get
ting trade and not upon the idea
that we are a part of financial
military alliance with European ma
tons Also, that we should regard
Russia not as a deserter from a
f1nancial-military alliance with Eu-
ropean nations, but as a nation in
whose internal affairs we have no
concern.
Instead of being the censor of
world propaganda we should en-
deavor to use our intelligence in de-
veloping our own business organiza-
ton and governmental machinery
to meet the world as traders and
not as crusaders.
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Congress Rubber Stamp, Charge

BY Fl. L. 5.
Our business c1alrvoyants are
again given to reading the future.
predicting the recovery of lost for
tunes.
What is seen on the horizon is
a mirage. Before the new day of
industry arrives it will be neces-
sary to unscramble some eggs. And
some bad eggs will have to be
cracked.
Roy Towards letter to the Presi-
dent expresses the sentiment of
business men who do not know
that what has been attempted in
the matter of reforming the oper-
alton of business is insignificant
compared to the hurdle business
must make to find the market for
the products of industry.
No thinking person can adj
vance the theory that business
ever hesitates to accept orders for
goods if the buyer has means of
payment. Business is dependent
upon the buyers ability to pur-
chase. No reasoning person will
advance the thesis that the pur-
chasing power of the II million
unemployed has changed.
What has been purchased for
these persons on relief has come
from the borrowed government
credit. These persons will not
consume more, if the cost must be
borne by the Treasury.
But without additional demand
an improvement in production is
impossible. There is no question
about the ability of our Industrial
lists to furnish every want of the
American consumer, even if the
amount now consumed we're dou-
bled
The only thing that keeps bust
ness down is the fact that con-
sumers lack the buying power
represented by the current me-
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AMATEUR CONTESTS

WTITH its usual avidity for change, Ameri-
W ca has taken to amateur contests in
which budding musicians take part.
Orthodox music teachers in the main con-
denim such contests. but it is not out of place
to inquire if what Is termed musical ortho-
doxy is not 10 blame for much of Americas
indifference to good music.
True. the amateur contest craze has led to
racketeering. Some of the legitimate con-
tests conducted by radio are being imposed
upon by those who are INSCRIPTIONS. But
there is hardly human activity that it not
subjected TO more or less raoketeering.
No comment on things musical. so far as
indianapolis is concerned, would be complete
without reference to the movement for erect
ing an open air theater in Holiday Park. to
serve as a civic music center An application
Is on file for Federal funds to carry out the
project
Whether the grant OF funds Is made or
not the opportunity is open for musical lead
ers Of Indianapolis TO speak their minds SO
far. there has been a paucity OF comment.
More musical orthodoxy or Just plain. everyday
indifference to civic needs and problems2
There has been silence. too. on the part of
those citizens who have the means to finance
the gap between the sum the Federal govern
ment has been asked to provide and the sum
Necessary to complete the project
Some Indianapolis business concern guides
b. men Of foresight and civic pride might be
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WHERE OUR DOLLAR GOES

NXTISELY the Federal Trade Commission
w has decided to proceed with the price
spread investigation of foodstuffs, in spite of
the flbuster that talked the appropriation to
death
The high cost of living is again becoming
an issue as it relates to some commodities
In drafting the resolution authorizing the
ETC investigation and appropriating sl50,000
for the purpose Senator Wheeler provided for
going thoroughly into the entire subject. He
proposes to discover just how much of the
consumer dollar goes to the farmer, the
packer the professor the warehouser and the
niddleman.
The financing of this intricate distributive
system is to be explored. and charges o. mo-
nopolistic practices gone into Under the sub
ject of monopoly the resolution lays down the
following two-point program for investigations
l. Methods and devices used by corpora
tions for obtaining and maintaining their con-
troll or monopoly of the manufacturing. mar
keting processing warehouSing. and distribu-
ton OF such commodities, and the proportion
of any such major farm commodity handled by
each of the large units involved.
p The extent to which fraudulent. dis
honest, unfair and injurious methods are en-
ployed in he grading. warehousing, and trans
portation of Such farm products. including
combinations monopolies. price fixing. and
manipulation of prices on the commodity ex-
changes.
These have long been matters of acrimoni-
Gus debate. 1t Is time for more light and less
'heat on the sub.eGs
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wEnNEsnAY sErrrMnER Il. IL.


ITO understand the fun significance Of the
life and death Of Huey Long it is necessary
70 look beyond The man to the conditions that
made his dictatorship possible
Those were conditions Of special privilege
which equaled and in some respects exceeded
anything existing elsewhere in state. city or
nation. CLOSED over BIZ a veneer Of aristocracy.
they were underneath. what VIC have seen in
Tammany al its worst, Ia Cincinnati 9nder the
Cox regime. in san Francisco in the days OF
Abe Ruef in Washington with the Ohio gang,
and in Indiana in the days Of Stephenson
Such conditions furnish fertile field for
the reformer pr the demagogue. It CHANGED
shat Long was not a reformer but a demagogue.
And as his political strength grew ne developed
the most ruthless lust for power that this
continent has ever witnessed.
The story need not be retold here Of how
that power spread until it destroyed liberty
and set zap a government of fear in place Of
government OF law. Neither need we more
than merely point out the fact that The die
tators ambition cid not stop at the state line
OF louisiana. In much greater sense than
being United states Senator. Long had become
q national figure with a national following.
And that following informed but little, if any,
OF the dreadful side Of what was going on in
louisiana. and resentful of the misery that the
times had brought. cried for the strongest
medicine in sight.
Had there been ia Washington. during the
desperate years when Long was building to
the peak of his power an Administration of
the corrupt and contented, satisfied to play
along with privilege. willing to wink at the
need for reform Huey Long would have be-
come more than presidential possibility He
would have become a presidential probability.
But such was not the Administration in
Washington. and therefore the most powerful
brake on the ambition Of Long was the reform
policy of Roosevelt out of that grew Longs
bitterness toward Roosevelt. Roosevelt stood
in his way A reformer blocked demagogue
and dictator
Long is dead. But there are others of his
kind And the lesson that this nation should
learn from his career is that given a combina-
ton Of conditions and the man, dictatorship
in this nation is just as possible as was the
dictatorship which he set up in Louisiana.
Special privilege-that unholy alliance of
politics and the kind of business which seeks
special privilege-can menace the liberties OF
all OF us. even as it brought about the end of
liberty in a single state.
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tions of certain individual editors, I
would gladly trust my future. The
trouble is that these kind men play
their power into the hands of
greedy profteers who, if they could
escape punishment, would inflict all
of the social crimes that ever cursed
the Congo valley.
To the extent that an editor is a
man. he teaches his readers to
think clearly and straightly. He
teaches them to detect fallacies III
the subtle reasoning Of less honest
writer's. He loves the whole truth
and stands by it when it hurts. He
tries to create market for excel
lence.
He wishes his readers to demand
truth.
In this glory Of mans good
name lies a hope that some day
American craftsmanship will serve
our country with the same integrity
and therefore efficiency as that in
which science and its products offer
to grant liberty and happiness to
the children of men.
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The Book World

HTILLTAM MFEE is mastery writer when
w it comes to stories of the sea. but after
reading The Beachcomber" doubleday. Doran;
50 So one wonders if Mr.. McFee hasn't over
reached himself just wee bit.
The Beachconlber" is the story of a captain
who has weakness for les femmes and who, in
turn. seems to be the weakness of many wom-
an But Fred Neve's affairs of the heart finally
land him out on his ear and he is ION the beach"
for few years until. love Grue love, this time)
leads him on his great comeback.
Celebrating the matter the old Book World
can't get away from the thought that perhaps
CAPT Neville liked being ruined over and over
again by the fair damsels. Else, why would be
constantly keep coming back for more punish
ment?
Mr. McFee. it is needless to tell you, is one Of
the finest writing men in the business and he
makes his yarn deeply interesting even though
it is not his finest book.
Mot having mentioned mystery tales for
IN some time we're going to step up with a
recommendation before the thrill fans think
we've deserted the cause Put this on your lis5:
Sudden Death" by Lee Thayer Dodd,
Mead; so.
Mr.. Thayer's previous books about his
extraordinary detective, red-haired Peter Clancy,
have set high standard and Peter performs
right up to snuff in this investigation into the
murder of Marvin Hayden.
Sleuth Clancy and his chief aid, Wiggar have
never been in better form and if you want a
No. mystery done in No style read it.
A ND here are few reviews in the proverbial
n nutshell:
Death on the Campus" by Addison Sim
mons (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.; so, mystery
story with more than a dab of violence; little
confusing, but intriguing.
Death in the Desert" by Paul l. Weman
CMacmillan; So; the story of the so years war
for the Southwest an exciting and moving tale
of the warfare between the red man and the
white man; colorful and dramatic; recommended
to all who are interested in the last great fight
OF the Indian.
George the Fourth by Roger Fulford &C. P.
Putnam's Sons; $500 an excellent biography of
that gay monarch who quite royal rake.
Well go into this one at more length in few
days
THE Curse of BigneSs" miscellaneous papers
of Associate Justice Louis d. BrandeiS of the
United States Supreme Court edited by Osmand
K Fraenkel, projected by the late Clarence M.
Lewis (Viking Press; $3.50; the republication of
articles and speeches of the great liberal justice
made when private citizen Justice Brandeis in
his private citizen days was bitter foe Of big
ness in any form, asserting, in 1913, that In
every business concern there must be size limit
Of greatest efficiency" OF deep interest to all
lawyers and business men.
Rubber Truncheon" by Wolfgang Langhof
&c. P. Dutton; $3.50 an apparently authentic
story of brutal terrorism in a Nazi prison in
Germany, stirring tale that we intend to tell
you more about.
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SEES EDITORS AS LEADERS
IN WORLD CRISIS

BY H. L.
This is a white flag. All bombs
are left behind. We are all Ameri-
cans, having common interests and
seeking the same goal-happiness.
So let's crawl up out of our trenches
and talk it over In peace.
Roosevelt declares there must be
change.
Public opinion will decide if this
revolution" is to be armed or
bloodleSs. The middle and upper
classes will lead. These people of
intelligence, combined with educa-
ton, are the ones who read editori-
ais. Thus editorial policy goes far
in deciding if revolution is to be
surgery or butchery. Will it be
quick and painless or long, drawn
torture?
We have but to consider how di-
vided America is seething with class,
racial and religious prejudice to
imagine the terrible slaughter that
armed revolution might entail. How
improbable would be the loss of
precious lives. For only that which
is built upon truth and justice can
stand.
Editors are honored with the trust
of making our revolution a peace
full work of enduring beauty. Such
is the tremendous responsibility oil
editors. But the greater RESPONSE
bility rests on an invisible govern
ment of wealth which really rules
the editors along with the rest OF
the country. Therefore, this ap-
peal is especially to wealthy mer
who control newspapers or can buy
them. Money is the key to power
Just as Thomas A. Edison was
I forced to accumulate wealth before
he could give his genius to the
world. SO does the pioneer of truth
need its power 70 bless the world.
To the goodIasSs Of the inclina-
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induced to sponsor real amateur contest
open only to those who have at least made
start toward acquiring musical training. Such
a contest would well be limited to persons is
or older This would bar the child wonders"
who clutter many programs OF this type.
Such an enterprise at least would bring
out enough talent to indicate what might be
expected should the open air theater proposal
become a reality.
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dunn of exchange. We have
money famine among the consum-
ers. This famine of purchasing
power is purposely created, it is
an artificial famine. If the con-
sumers had the necessary dollars,
every industry in America would
be roaring at top speed.
Even the New Deal does not at
tempt to supply the chips for the
national poker game. No manu-
facturer will build machinery or
operate pant merely to supply
Workmen with a pay roll. Bust
ness is not a matter of charity.
The only thing that makes the
mare go is long green. Why does
the consumer not have the long
green? Let Mr.. Howard ask the
President why ne let's private
groups control the volume of long
green in such a manner that we
have shortage of visible money
If there were enough money,
that is visible money in ciroula-
ton, there would not have
been a debt of 25 billion dollars
written up on the cuff. Neither
would we have depressionS. There
would always be money on the
line when we bought things.
Bookkeeping would be simple.
The interlocking directorates of
our financial and large industrial
enterprises must be unScrambled.
Industry must be freed from the
chains placed around it by the
manufacturers of money. It is
not fear that letters the con-
sumner, nor the producers, but the
artificial famine of real money in
circulation.
Congress is merely the rubber
stamp of the financial institutions
it created, and the public is the
victim; our misfortune is sealed in
advance. Our financial oligarchy
misrules America. What will we
do about it, Mr.. Howard?
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wouldn't be 90 days until we could
all see the difference.
There is a form furnished by the
Safety Board or state police to fill
out in case of an accident. Why
don't all police use their forms? I
fail to find local towns or smaller
populated counties that use them.
1t is time to make Indiana safe for
driving. 1t can be done.
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PRAISES EDITORIALS
IN THE TIMES

BY Hiram Lackey
I'm thankful for man at his best.
I read and re-read Liberal View
point" and Fear Rules World in
The Times of Sept. 6. In reverence
for sincerity and truth, was forced
to read with head uncovered.
Truly these are two of the finest
editorial columns I have ever seen
composed. These creations live and
breathe.
How refreshing to see the heights
to which man can arise in his quest
for truth. Here we find the great
ness of wisdom, fairness and COM
passion.
The writers beautify their columns
with the loneliness of the soul of a
philosopher, historian and poet.
They light The Times With literaRIre
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So They Say

If my Interpretation of Mr.. Roose-
welt is correct, the business COM
munity will henceforth observe in
Washington a President who is
anxious to out-Coolidge Coolidge in
giving industrial prosperity to Amer
ica.-Maj. L. L. B. Angas, British
economist.
I hope nobody in this congrega-
ton has been taken captive by Huey
Long, DR.. Townsend or any others.
Their plans take no recognition of
ability, but penalize industry and
thrift.-The Rev. Paul C. Warren,
New York City minister.
I've seen the rise and am now
seeing the decline Of the American
theater. It's frightfuly sad. I've
known the time when 400 companies
were starting out from New York
every fall-Charles T. Darcy, dean
of American playwrights.
How much did the World War
accomplish? Contentment and pros
perity of the world? Overthrow of
the Kingdom Of Mars? The war to
end war"-the very irony of the ex-
preston answers that question.-Dr.
Mary E. Woolley. president, Mt.
Holyoke College.
In my opinion it is the beginning
Of long and one of the
bloodiest and cruelest periods the
world has ever known-Gen. ], B.
NJ Hertzog, South African premier.
referring to the alo-Ethiopian
crisis.
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BELIEVES INDIANA CAN
BE MADE SAFE

BY E. S.
read both your editorials and
Message Center.
1t doesn't do any good to say
anything about the slaughter Of
men, women and children, but 1
can't keep from telling my idea OF
relief.
Safety laws of Indiana say per-
son driving with bad lights, bad
brakes. no horn, bad steering de-
vices, on the wrong side OF street
or road, passing on hills, curves and
many other things are all reckless
driving charges.
1 believe if our safety officials,
city police and all in authority
would enforce the rules and revoke
licenses on the second notice, it
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l wholly disapprove of a0hat you sag and wiI
defend to the death your right to sag u.-Voltoire

which deserves to live. These fad
ing flowers of journalism are worthy
OF a lasting home in our hearts.
Their beauty is only equaled by
their strength. They launch ire
mendous blows against our social
inertia.
Such is the need of the hour.
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/ COL. ROBINSON LAUDS
C. NJ. T. c. PUBLICITY

BY Col. o. p. Robinson
On behalf of the young men who
made up the Citizens Military
Training Camps at Fl. Harrison this
summer, may I express to you our
appreciation for the publicity you
gave them?
At the same time I should like to
take this opportunity to tell you,
and through you tell my friends in
Indiana. "Good-by."
I have enjoyed my service in In
diana immensely. The people of
Indiana have been extremely good
to me and I go to my new station
with the most pleasant memories
Of the fine friends I have made
here. I regret that I must leave,
but as a soldier, of course, orders are
orders. am coming back to In
diana sooner or later.
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The Message Center

(Times readers are jnutted to empress
their uie,os in these columns. Make your
letters short, so all can have a chance.
Limit them to ESQ cords or less. Your
letter must be signed, but names 4CiU
be vithheld at request Of the letter
t0riter.J
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Understanding
BY JAMES ID. ROTH

I tried to catch a sunbeam,
And hold it for my own.
1t slipped away across a stream,
AS if 10 say in moderate tone.
I'll travel on away from here,
A silvAr cloud has hidden me-
Some lonely heart that l may cheer,
Is waiting yonder blythe sea-"
1 reached for the sunbeam inno-
Gently,
But learned a lesson I will tell,
Some things l think belong to me,
Belong to some one else as we'll.
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Daily Thought

But Jesus said, suffer little chill
dren, and forbid them not, to come
unto me: for of such is the king
dom of heaven.-St. Matthew 1914.
CHILDREN are Gods apostles,
~ sent forth, day by day, TO
preach of love and hopes and peace.
-. r. Lowell.
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