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Time for Investigation

IF Hauptmann had been sentenced to life mprison-
ment, all of the recent unseemly row and appar-
ent hasty action to beat the electrocutioner would
have been entirely unnecessary.
There would have been plenty of time to have I'M
deraken very careful investigation of the case,
we'll as to have awaited evidence voluntarily
brought forward the result of any guilty con-
sciences. Even if we assume for the moment that
Hauptmann was not guilty of numbering the baby
1T seems certain any human matter canSbe
that he sufficiently involved in the case to
warrant his imprisonment for as long period as
any reasonable investigation would require.
If Hauptmann actually guilty of both MUIR
der and extortion, life imprisonment would none
the less, be suitable and adequate punishment Not
even the prosecution contended that the murder
premeditated Life Imprisonment is more of
punishment than speedy eectrocution 1t also fur
nshes society with complete protection against any
kind of criminal kidnaper otherwise.
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Gen. johnson Says

WASHINGTON, April 8-In the Sacco-Vanzetti
dangled two convicted men back and forth between
the teeth of death for months. The Hauptmann
case repeated that most effective of all torture.
The punishment of death lies altogether in its
anticipation. THE coward dies thousand deaths,
the brave man dies but once" Doctors say there
is no pain in electrocuton, but the mental agony
of approaching it is almost inSufferable. Bringing
man to within minutes of it and then snatching
him away multplies the laws extreme punishment.
Its tendency can not be otherwise than to dis
gust the public with that barbarc relc-capital pun
shment. 1t should be abandoned-not in the in
terest of criminals but for the self-respect of civil
Zation.
THE So-called science of penology is mess If
Il the penal colony system could be divorced
of its past inhuman brutalties it would be theoret-
cally the best plan that men have tried Convicts
deemed worthy of death, for the good of the
race, could be scientifically sterzed. The certainty
nals than the present relatively slight risk of
cution One that risk is slight is the reluc
lance of judges and executives to have any part
however justified and legalized-in the taking Of
human life.
There are plenty Of uninhabited areas the
earthS surface where living be sustained by hard
labor. Here men who proved to be unsafe for
association in law-abding communities be put
away without naf much degradation to them
selves and future danger to others as in peniten-
tiary
Copyright. 1886. by United Feature Syndicate.
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Times Books

A SWEEPING indictment of his home town ID
n contained in The Cherry Bed" trst-class
satire by Karlton Kelm (BobbsM Merrill Indianapolis;
$3.50. 1t is Mr.. Kelms first novel and may be
best seller before long
If you have lived in a small town the size
of Wnnebago the real or fancied Wisconsin town
about which the story is written you can appreciate
Mr.. kelms skill in painting his characters.
Although certain scheme correates the three parts
into which the story is divided the book is not so
much concerned with plot but unwilling Of
each character. And, the author pokes fun at
this one and jibes at another you readily SYM
pathize with Grandma Corley the elderly heroine.
Upon the death of her husband and the subsequent
director, she is forced to give up her home and
other possessions TO heip the depositors and it is
decided that she will live with each of her married
children, few months at each place. Realizing
that this may be the last time for her really get
acquainted with her children Grandma acquiesces.
albeit bit heSitantly. She insists, however,
taking along her cherry bed which was handed down
to her by her mother.
All through the storm and turmoil which seem
to beset every spot that Grandma is in, she keeps
calm, precious gem among so much chaff, her
heart aching for word from her youngest her
favorite, Roy, who has been cumming around the
country for time.
Roys reutrn, not as the bum but as respectable
author, brings the story TO somewhat melodramatic
ending but in no way impairs the plot of the story
It is exceptionally well-written and interesting
book.-(By Dorothy Ritz
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-08

The hundreds of elevators and
hammer mills, the thousands of
gas stations and supply stores add
their testimony. The American
farmer is rapidly growing up, be-
coming educated in economics,
and writing economic history.
From the Middlewest the COOP
movement is spreading through
the Rocky Mountain states. Some
of the best coop gas stations and
farm supply stores are in Colo
RADIO and Montana.
4
FOLLOWING collapse of Upton
Il Sinclair's EPIC movement,
the people of California have
been turning toward cooperation
as means of direct action. The
movement is already strong in
Washington and oregon.
California just now is holding
the attention of co-operators
throughout the country. Whether
the native sons have grasped the
fundamentals of true cooperation
seems to be the question. If
they have, the co-ops will spread
in California. But if this fun
damental understanding is lack
ing, the movement will collapse.
For this reason California may
well be watched as an index of
just what cooperation can and
will do on the Pacific slope.
Next-How cooperative retail
stores have mushroomed through
out the United States during the
depression years and are multi
plying rapidly today.
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queen of hearts was returned, and
South won with the ace. The four
of clubs was played and West won
with the queen.
West now was on the spot. No
matter which suit he returned, it
would cost him a trick. He there
fore decided to make the best of
bad situation by forcing declarer
to use trump; so he returned
diamond, on which declarer stuffed
the eight of hearts from dummy,
and trumped in his own hand.
Declarer then cashed the king
of hearts and trumped a small
heart III dummy. The nine of
spades was played, East covered
with the ten, and South won with
the jack.
The ace of clubs was cashed, the
nine of clubs was played, and West
won. No matter what West re-
turned. the play would have to be
through EaSt's queen-five of spades
into declarer's ace-seven.
By clever play and precise tim
ing, declarer was able to limit his
losses to Two club tricks and one
diamond trick, thus making his
contract.
Copyright, 1895, NEA Service. Incl
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DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT has
l. just had proof of the old
adage that no man is a hero to
his valet. Only in this case, the
valet is woman, in fact a
"goody."
Goodies" are a classic stratum
of humanity about one notch
above charwoman, who make up
the beds of Harvard students.
Their sobriquet is officially
recognized by the university, and
they have been irnmortalized both
in fact and in fiction by strike
they staged against the university
for higher wages, and by a book
written by Travis Ingham (who,
incidentally, is a Yale mani about
a goody who for several years had
been making the bed of her long
lost son.
Anyway, a former goody who
took care of the room used by
Franklin D. Roosevelt Sr. while at
Harvard is violently anti-New
Deal.
And as her little contribution
to the Republican cause she has
been spreading the word that the
President, because of his capri
cious, superficial nature while a
student, was nicknamed by all the
goodies, 'F'eather-Duster."
TINE expose of the Townsend
Il movement has almost dried
up the once lush flow of money
into national headquarters-re-
Gently as much as 100000 a
month.
Townsendites lay the drastic
loss of revenue to two causes:
/. The oldsters already enrolled
have stopped coming across with
their nickels and dimes;
?. Few, if any, new members
are being acquired.
In New York, where the move
ment was spreading like wild
fire, recent weeks have seen no
new clubs. Similar tidings have
come from other areas.
And this is not all. In a num-
Der OF states there are rumblingS
OF revolt, and open threats to
quit the organization.
The national generalissimos are
greatly alarmed over the situa-
ton. They have been in almost
continuous secret conference since
DR.. Francis E. Towrsend's arrival
in Washington 10 days ago.
q
TREASURY chiefs have re-
l. ceived confidential word that
certain corporation lawyers along
Wall-St have jimmied legal loop
to circumvent the Administrations
tax program.
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portant, the farmer now gets fer
tilizer made according to the for
mulas which he lays down him
self.
AS he has pushed forward in fer
tilizer, so he has pushed forward
in feeds. In Indiana, Ohio, ILL
nois, and Michigan are hundreds
Of little hammer mills operated by
local co-ops. The farmer sells his
corn and oats to his own coop.
The coop imports the necessary
concentrates, makes up the feed,
and sells it back to the farmer.
There is no lost motion, no leak
of profits.
What makes it of national sig
niflcance is that these coop
groups are spreading. Volume of
business is growing. Most of them
now consist of a small elevator
and feed mill, warehouse SELL
ing feed, fertilizer and farm ma
terials, a gas station selling gas,
oil, spray materials, kerosene and
distillates.
THESE co-ops are rapidly be-
Il coming the shopping centers
of the counties in which they are
set up.
From Massachusetts, to Cali
fornia an increasing number of
farmers are becoming coop mind
ed. AS they think in terms of
cooperation, they are building
business that must be reckoned
with in the coming years.
The fertilizer plant at Lockland,
O., is a monument to a changing
outlook on the part of the farmer.
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there. They now, in many
cases, have gone straight
back to production.
They started, as in the oil
business. to save money by pooling
purchasing power. They found
4 that they could save more and
more by going further and fur
Their, $50 they kept on. The result
is another major change in the
economic set-up of the Eastern
and Western farmer.
Strangely enough, these farmers
have found that it doesn't take
much money to build big bust
ness, especially when there are no
profits going to outside stockhold-
ers. The case OF the Eastern
States Farmers Exchange provides
one of the most amazing records
in the annals of American bust
ness.
A group of men in Springfield,
4Wdoso., o. lew JCdl d6O OCNASkCN4 w
form a cooperative to save money
on feed. They set up their or
ganization on $4,000, which they
borrowed on their personal notes.
They have paid off the loan
and built up an organization with
assets of more than a million,
doing business of nearly two
millions annually and climbing
monthly.
THIS group started by pooling
l. its purchases to buy feed in
carload lots. Incidentally, the
members bought fertilizer in the
same way. just recently they
bought for cash a 100000 mill
in Buffalo, where they grind their
own feeds according to formulas
laid down by the experts they
hire themselves.
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The purpose of the tax plan
aside from revenues to force
corporations to distribute idle sur
pluses to their stockholders.
Spending of these huge funds is
expected to spur recovery. The
scheme of the wall Street sharp
shooters is directed at this basic
object.
They consider the heavy tax on
undistributed profits sure of pas
81 &c. So they have turned their
talents to devising a method by
which the corporations could re-
tain actual possession of the sur
pluses, after paying Che new
taxes, instead of distributing the
surplus to shareholders.
This is their formula: All flu
ture stock certificates are to con-
tain clause designating an Off
cial of the corporation as the
agent of the stock purchaser. This
agent is empowered to pay taxes,
then "reinvest" the surplus after
taxes are paid.
Under this innocent phraseology,
in other words, the corporation
would be empowered to pay the
tax, retain in its possession the
balance of the surplus profits.
To the stakeholder this would
mean that he would be paying the
tax out of his dividends and get
none of the surplus funds. Also,
the government would be blocked
from interfering with the artifice.
AS long as the taxes were paid, it
would have no grounds for pro-
ceeding against the corporation.
DALMER LONG, son of the late
a Huey, has been transferred
from day school in Washington
to boarding school, because his
mother, the Louisiana Senator, is
often away from home. His
trionic Senator AShhurst of Ari-
coma invited to act in a Washing
ton film, declared he would be glad
to do so, and would contribute his
services free. The manager did
not tell him that he had no in
tention of paying him anyway. i.
DR.. Enrique Finot, scholarly min
lister to the United States from
belligerent Bolivia, has just COM
pleted a book on Bolivar, the
Pacif1st." Latest IVA puzzler is
how to establish boat-ride sight
seeing on Lake Morris as FEEDER
al business. In private hands,
commercialism is feared. The Ag-
riculture Department has received
a letter: 81 would like to obtain
any booklets that you have about
termites, or any other breeds of
Indians"
Copyright. 1886, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-08
Washington Merry-Go-Round

>NTASHINGTON, April 8-All
r " Pan-A m ERIC, a. recognizes
that there are two great prima
donnas of peace in the Western
Hemisphere. Ono is Cordell Hull,
Secretary of State of the United
States, the other Saavedra Lamas,
Secretary of State of Argentina.
Both desire to lead the Western
Hemisphere toward permanent
peace at the coming Pan-Amer-
lean Conference. simultaneously,
both have other conferences i'm
portant to their political and per-
Sonal future.
In Geneva, Saavedra Lanas de-
sires to attend the League Assem-
bly, in early September, has been
promised the exalted position of
League president.
In Philadelphia, Cordell Hull
has been drafted by Roosevelt to
put important party principles be-
fore the Democratic Convention in
June, keep in line conservative
Southern Democrats.
In order that he may get away
to Geneva, Saavedra Lamas wants
to hold the Pan-American Con-
ference early. But in order that
he may remain in Philadelphia,
Cordell Hull wants to hold the
Pan American Conference late.
Result has been a polite tug-of-
war between the prima donnas of
peace.
60 far, a provisional date has
Obeen set for July Is in Buenos
Aires. Mr.. Hull thinks that by
June 81 he can finish holding the
Democratic Party together in
Philadelphia and set sail.
Only trouble is that the ship
sailing on June 81 flies the Brit
ish flag. An American ship sails
on July 4, but this is too late to
get to Buenos Aires.
So Mr.. Hull is in a predica-
1AANAAV. 11C Ndll DON SOl1GI OllS1
General McCarl for a special rul-
ing permitting him to use a Brit
ish ship, but McCarl is likely to
reply that the Democratic Ma
tional Convention is not govern
ment business and no excuse for
Mr.. Hull's dilly-dallying in the
United States.
So it looks as if Mr.. Hull has
three choices:
l. Dig down in his jeans
and pay his own passage on
an English boat.
2. Forego the duty of hold
ing the Democratic Party to-
gether at Philadelphia.
3. Persuade Saavedra Lamas
to forego the honor of being
president of the League AS
sembly. thus hold the Pan
American Conference at
later date.
Several weeks of secret cabling
to Buenos Aires so Ear have failed
to dispel the quandary.
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Republicans Got
AAAChecks, Too
BY RAYMOND CLAPPER

VXTASHINGTON, April 8. - There's a carefully
w guarded reason why Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace is no longer apprehensve and nervous over
the Senate demand for the names of those who have
received AAA benefit checks. He has familiarized
himself with the records and is quite certain that
when the names come out some other faces besides
his own will be very red. a.
Wallaces only regret now that the fat is in the
fire is that the Senate is asking only for those who
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received benefit checks OF $4,000
or more. That will pass over
some interesting in tances.
Wouldn't it be odd, for instance.
if the son of former Republican
President turned up as receiver
of modest AAA benefit checks?
The Republican n ationa1
chairman, Henry P. Fletcher,
says that Wallace doesn't want
to produce the names because
they might show that some of
the AAA money went back into
the Democratic National Com
mittee campaign chest. Possibly
co But IL seems there orn also
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Liberal Side
by
HARRY ELMER BARNES


TT is far too early for any sensible man to
possess any dogmatic certainty with re-
spect to either the guilt or innocence of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Conviction by
formal guilt, but no realistic student of
crimnology would admit for moment that this
has anything particular to do with his actual guilt
Nor will the realist be especially impressed by Haupt
mann's protestations of innocence or the last
minute confessions Of dubious characters
But there is one thing about which one can be
very safely oogmatc at the present moment This is
the fact that the Hauptmann presents an un-
usually convincing demonstration of the utter folly
of capital punishment
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From the Southern ports, this
Eastern States Farmers Exchange
group brings it's fertilizer into
Boston by the shipload, ages and
mixes the product in it's own
plant, for distribution to It's men,
bers.
The amazing thing about the
whole organization is that it has
never sold share of stock. 1t
has never raised another loan
since that original $4,000. There
are no mortgages on its proper
ties.
Everything belongs to the
farmer members, who get feed and
fertilizer they can depend on, and
a nice fat patronage dividend at
the end of the year.
And the farmers like it so we'll
that they are widening their field
of operations and branching into
new lines.
In Indiana and Ohio, fertilizer
was the big bugaboo after the
war. When grain prices went
tumbling, fertilizer prices failed to
follow.
TINE farmers got together to do
l. something more than talk.
Perhaps 20 years ago they would
have made appeals and looked for
political action. But these farm
ers began to look about them for
a source of supply, and formed
co-operatives to buy.
After a few Misunderstanding ex-
periences, they were about ready
to quit. No one would sell them
fertilizer.
One representative of the fer
tilizer interests, however. made a
costly mistake. Approached by a
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There's Still a Doubt

A far as have any personal prejudces in the
4 case, they all against Hauptmann. But after
very careful study of the case unable to con-
vince myself that his guilt established at the
trial beyond the reasonable shadow of doubt.
If overwhelming factual evidence existed against
him. it should not have been necessary for the prose-
cutor to appeal to passion and prejudice. 1t should
not have been necessary to produce some almost
incredible identification witnesses, especially if the
ladder evidence and testimony were genuine.
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trial practices inimical to labor
organization.
The old-fashioned conception
OF the employer as a benevolent
parsonage with the welfare of his
workers at heart. though it still
must apply in many cases. has
taken severe jolt with the rev.
elation reported to have been
made in Senate probe that ma
Jor industries were secretly buy
ing stores of machine guns, tear
gas, revolvers, and ammunition,
in anticipation of labor strikes.
The evidence was found by the
Senate Munitions Committee in
the flies of Federal laboratories
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-08
Solution to Precious
Contract Problem
BY w. E. M'KENNEY

Secretary American Bridge League
nNE of the greatest pleasures to
" be derived from the game of
bridge is the playing of hand
that requires precise timing; it
enables declarer to put either one
or both defendants on the spot
from the very beginning of the
play.
I saw Howard Gill of New York
City play today's hand recently in
an open duplicate game. Gill was
sitting in the South and you could
hardly criticise him for bidding
game with his holding.
Against the four spade contract,
West opened the king. of dia-
monds. This was won by South's
ace. The king of spades was
played and West showed out.
A small diamond was played,
West winning with the queen. The
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-04-08

WASHINGTON, April 8.-Several de-
velopments on the labor front point to
intensifcation of the long struggle between
employers and employees in industry.
These include unprecedented political
activity by labor groups, evidence of re-
preSsive tactics of sensational nature the rise ~
labor organizations to demand voice in new fields
and likelihood of a Senate investigation of indus
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deputation of farmers, who asked
for a better price deal, he said
that the fertilizer companies did
not intend to upset their selling
organizations for a bunch of
Scab farmers"
That got under the farmers
skins. They began to look in ear
nest then, and found that the
Tennessee Copper Mining Co. had
on hand a surplus of bi-product
sulphuric acid, the base off most
fertilizers.
So the farmers and the copper
company made a deal. The result
was formation of the Tennessee
Corporation, a subsidiary to man
ufacture fertilizer. The farmers,
through their organization, agreed
to take the entire output of the
factory.
TO-DAY the factory is turning
L out 10000 tons of fertilizer
annually. There has been drawn
up the first reciprocal contract in
America whereby the Tennessee
Corporation, freed of the neces-
sity of maintaining a sales force,
agreed to split the manufacturer
profit $3.50 with the co-ops.
Prices tumbled. But, more i'm
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BY BERTRAM b. FOWLER

Copyright 1885, NEA Service. Incl
WHEN American farmers start to cooperate in bust
ness, they have habit of following through rapidly
to the source of their supply.
They started in the oil business with few gas stations
Their steps toward the of supply speedy along
the route of tank trucks bulk tanks to oil blending plants
and their own coop railroad tank cars.
They started in fertilizer and feed at about the
time and their steps have been rapid and direct
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Inc, of Pittsburgh dealers in tear and nauSeating
gas who handle pistols and machine guns on the
SIDE
Correspondence was reported to show that pur-
chaseS had been made by employers with great Sc
crecy. Among Federals customers, the committee
evidence is said to reveal, have been the Werton
Steel Co.. Cudahy Packing Co., H. c. Prick Coke Co..
Southern Natural Gas Co. and Bethlehem Steel
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OPS-CONSUMERS IN BUSINESS


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