The Hoosier Forum Facts About Recovery Recorded in the Serving As Deputy State Auditor, Riedly Drew up Anew Shipping Bill
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PAGE 10 THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES DEC. 24, 1933 a court will not adjudge the invalidity of a statute The Indianapolis Times except for manifest necessity. THE PROBLEM CHILD (A SCR 11*PS-HOW AIUJ NEWSPAPER) "Every reasonable doubt must have been ex- ROT W. HOWARD President plored and extinguished before moving to that grave Squaring Washington LUDWELL DENNY Editor conclusion. EARL D. BAKER Business Manager "The warning sounded by the court in the Sink- The Circle MefttUer of United Press, Scrtpps- ing Fund lost none its significance. Merry-Go- Howard Newspaper Alliance. New*- cases has of paper Enterprise Association. ‘Every presumption is in favor of the validity of a With Newspaper Information Service and statute, and this continues until the contrary is Audit Bureau of Circulations. .McCREADY BXSTON shown beyond a rational doubt. One branch of the Round Owned and published daily (ex- government encroach on the cept Sunday) by The Indianapolis can not domain of an- Cos., other without danger. The safety of our institu- Christmas. This Times Publishing 214-220 W. night before BY PEARSON and Maryland-st, Indianapolis. DREW Ind. tions depends in no small degree on a strict ob- THEcolumn will not be \ read by as ROBERT S. ALLEN. Price in Marlon County. 3 cents servance of this salutary rule.’ many usual this evening. Its a copy; delivered by carrier, 12 as Dec. 24—No cents a week. Mail subscription "I can not rid myself of the conviction that in friends will be trimming trees. They WASHINGTON, E_-Vr rates In Indiana, $3 a year; out- matter how short the Presi- the imputation to the lawmakers of a purpose not will be getting ready to go to early side of Indiana, Cos cents a month. dent wants to make the coming ses- Give I.U/ht nnri the professed, this salutary rule of caution is for- communion. They will he in the prople Will Find now sion of Congress, one thing he can Phone It I icy 55.71 gotten or neglected after all the many protestations evening spell which only Christmas Their Own Way e not avoid is a knock-down drag-out of its cogency and virtue.” casts. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24. 1935 fight on the question of a ship This is the most important eve in subsidy. the year. approaches THE LINDBERGHS’ A MERCHANT’S None other The big operators have given a DECISION OPINION it in effect on people’s minds. Have is virtual ultimatum to the Shipping TT not good Christmas news that Col. Lindbergh T)ROBABLY the most unpopular man discussed you that people noticed who like Board that unless they have definite and his wife have sailed to England with their around “well-warmed and well-stocked clubs” noisy parties on New Year's eve are assurances either of mail contracts 3-year-old son Jon to avoid a possible repetition of tills wr eek is Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant. always quiet on the night before the or a subsidy, they will transfer their tragedy that robbed them of their first-born in This Christmas. Excitement, except the is because Mr. Filene in a radio broadcast tonnage to foreign flags. March, 1932. excitement of children, a vio- the other night committed what many of those who seems Undoubtedly this is partly bluff. America's heart will go lation. with them in a trip that frequent such clubs might consider an act of However, it has the Commerce De- will have little enough of the peace that the season treason to his class when he reminded his fellow The night before Christmas. May partment worried. It is no secret should afford every one. At the same time the financiers and big business men of some unpleasant all Times readers have at least a that American companies operating American people to would like believe that it was truths. share of the benediction. under foreign flags could cut ex- not necessary for the take Lindberghs to so drastic He reminded them that they were a pretty sick tt tt tt penses considerably. end sensational a step. lot in the spring of 1933, that their sickness was one T met for the first time a man I Andrew Mellon and his American The coming of 7 execution Hauptmann has stirred which they had helped to bring upon themselves and -*• had long heard IL Aluminum Cos. ships are demonstrat- all sorts of sinister rumors of—Edmund Os and threats. We believe the they then upon country, and that were only too Bingham. His grandfather was the ing this right now. these came from cranks, and that the law of Amer- glad to take the doctor’s orders. first bishop of the Episcopal Church One of the great mysteries of the ica now is strong enough to protect this unhappy He reminded them the recovery they are en- Indiana. ! shipping world is what became of family. that in Ed, as his familiars joying is due not so much to their own native vigor call him, was one of the active the special shipping bill concocted Indeed, the law against kidnapers now is no- as to President Roosevelt's New Deal medicine, which newspaper men of the city for many eeVjto*; by Secretary Roper during the clos- mean thing. According to Department of Justice / L is building up the red corpuscles of the country's years. He was the city’s first sports t1°QUgu /7/ ing days of the last session. figures there has been no major except 1 £NtY case the mass purchasing power. editor. That is, he was the first The bill was whipped Into shape Milne kidnaping for a year. Os 55 kidnapings Moreover, as an insider who knows how the big man to assemble all the sport news fojr when the shipping industry' began since the ‘ Lindbergh Law” was passed in June, game he warned American on one page. He is full of interest- lobbying for an independent ship- 1932, all but the case business is played, the Milne have been solved and ing of the ping agency. arrests voters that they would be letting themselves in for anecdotes nineties. have taken place In all but two. A total tt tt tt another headache if they were again to let the vio- What drew me to Ed chiefly of 122 persons have been convicted, four kidnapers was lent critics of the New Deal have their way. the that is rT~'HE Shipping Board is a grand have been executed, 24 are doing fact he a brother of ;. fi ’ t.'j • ttepgucK, life terms and George Upfold Bingham. The -*• pie-counter for politcal patron- sentences have been meted out totaling 1700 years. And he explained why it is that certain reaction- Up- ary newspapers, these big business fold is for the churchman grand- age. Few do any appreciable That good record was made possible only because which interests father. And the connection in my amount of work. And political in respect to this particular crime against society own, publish in their editorial columns comments discrediting recovery mind is Christmas eve. After living patronage is dear to Roper's heart. a law was passed which paid little heed to state the New Deal’s efforts—com- ments which do not seem to track in Indianapolis for many years, So three Roper henchmen hur- lines. Fortunately no high-priced lawyers have yet with the actual The Hoosier Forum facts about recovery recorded in the serving as deputy state auditor, riedly drew up anew shipping bill. been knocking at court doors crying that this Fed- news columns the same George Bingham joined Rome C. I wholly disapprove what you say—and will They Assistant Secretary J. M. eral law is unconstitutional in that it infringes on of newspapers. of were Stephenson, Rochester, McCall, assistant of Ind., in — Chester the rights of states to catch kidnapers. tt tt tt defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire. Johnson: going to South Bend to operate a to Roper, and "Admiral” J. C. Pea- Perhaps the Lindberghs were justified in their TN CURRENT news columns, we find many items bank. Mr. Stephenson cock, whose friendship with Roper escape. It was a personal which cf the type to which Mr. Filene We having died, decision nobody referred. (Times readers are invited to express when Townsend for else could Mr. Bingham is now president. demonstrated recently they plan old-age pensions. made him chairman of the Shipping make for them. Certainly no parent list them as additional evidence to confirm Mr. Fi- their views in these columns, reliyious tried to our two This must give the big bug a chill tt tt >t charge government Board. None has had experience will quarrel with it. We would like, to lene’s point that the New Deal has not been the controversies excluded. Make vour letters or three prices for authorized ships. up his spine. Whither or how fast however, short, so can a chance. Limit think it was not necessary. npHE bank, however, was not Mr. all have tt tt tt this will carry us, nobody knows. with shipping. complete failure which some doleful editorials -®- them to 200 words or less. Your letter Bingham’s first He FINDS AMUSEMENT IN Don’t let any one kid you by mak- What is in the bill nobody knows. would have us believe: concern. must he stoned, but names will be devoted himself to the church, serv- withheld on reauest.) CALAMITYHOWLERS ing you believe they can figure out Congress closed before it could see General Motors cuts a holiday bonus melon tt the results of this because they the day.