Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 December 1928 — Page 3

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1928,

FORMER TIMES IN DELAWARE CO. ARE RECALLED

Letter Received By Well Known Citizen From Author Who Is Nationally Known.

The following letter from a well known former Muncie woman, who is prominent in American literature, was received recently by Will Meeker: Dear Will Meeker This letter will probably surprise you somewhat, just as your letter, written to Fannie James, and enclosed in her letter to me, gave me a joyful memory shock This is Mamie Charles speaking. I couldn’t resist the temptation to write to you, and hope you’ll remember me too as a passenger ip the milk wagon, so many years since, that I remember it with tears in my eyes. But as far as it is, I can hear you yet, singing down Jackson Street, your voice always rising above the rumble of the wheels and the squeak ot ^he harn s, and I shall always remember how happy your song ounded, and how happy you always seemed. Did you have a care in those days—above wondering how to keep the kips out of your wagon? You never .eemed to

have.

I’m thinking coo of your father. My “Grandpa Meeker,” who used to come for me to take me to the farm to spend the day. Mother would get me all dressed up in a little white uress, and I had to sit quietly in my rocking chair on the porch, until Grandpa Meeker drove up for me. That setting quietly, almost wrecked me! I was so eager and impatient to go, and then to have to sit still, so I would keep clean, I suppose, was almost more than I could stand! When Grandpa Meeker came, he always let me hold the back of the lines, and he had a song he always

sang:

“A hawg an’ a goose “Was a goin’ to the Pastuer. The hawg said ‘Goosie can’t you go a little faster?’ ” I thought that was just about the funniest song I ever heard. Then I remember your mother so well, although I couldn’t have been more than six or seven years old. And Ida, and Mattie, and the sister who married Dr. McCrillus. Mattie married Charley McGibboney and the McCrillus’s had a little boy Carol. I remember when your sister Ida died, but I have lost track of the rest of the family. What ever became of Carol McCrillus? My Aunt Elizabeth Charles, whom yqp certainly remember, and whom I always called “Mama” passed on in HHft, at the age ^ S7 yearih We had lived in New York for twenty years, and she enjoyed it so here. She lived to accomplish her one great desire, cast a vote for Presi/dent of the United States. Two years before she died, we spent the winter in Florida, in Deland. I had a car, and we just went every place, she had perfect health, and was always interested in every-

thing.

It seemed right strange that one old family friend, Nell Jewett Klien should be livipg in New York, and sang at mother’s funeral. She was a remarkable woman, and the older I grow, the greater I appreciite her marvelous mentality. She was actually 50 years in advance of her

time.

You probably are wondering about me. Well, I m a Jouxmv.'&t, writing sto-i^s for magazines and newspapers. If you take the Saturday Evening Post, you’ll probably see a story of mine shortly called “Pen Madness.” Then you can say, “when that brat rode in *uy milk wagon, forty years ago, she showed

plenty of sipns of madness, and I; don’t mean Maybe!” ; That 411 West Adams street, sounds as though it is in the neighborhood of the old Keucbman homestead. Is it? I had a letter from Kate Denny some time ago, from California. She didn’t say whether they were just spending the winter, or whether they were living there. Muncie has undergone some changes I understand. 1 have been back only once, since 1897. The year Aunt Mat James dijed, I spent the summer in Indiana, visiting in Muncie and in Indianapolis. Our family is scattered to the four winds. Fred King and family are the only members remaining in Muncie. The rest are in N. Y. City California and Illinois. I hope you wfll take this letter ^n the spirit with which it is written. I couldn’t let this opportunity pass, for your letter to Fan about Uncle Phil’s watch—or was it Uncle Eve’s? brought back so many memories, and the time gets short-

er.

There are many Muncie people in New York. I see the Loves, Miss Nannie and Miss Emma Lou ever once in a while, and Nellie Jewett Kl^en and I have dinner together frequently. Clarence Carson was here this summer, and Callie Conn. You remember them don’t you? They were such good friends of Ida Frownfelters’ and also of the Meeker girls. With best wishes for health and happiness, Cordially Yours, Marian Gillespie. < “ Mamie Charles.” o

What Will We Do With the Aged?

(By W. J. Daniel) ]sary to fight with.

Seeing where President Coolidge j The workers of this nation did is pleading with congress to spend Sas much to win the war, as those a few billions of dollars in building who did the fighting. Then why a great fleet of War vessels, which pension one class and throw the

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will be almost useless in the next war (which will be fought in the hir) we wonder if there is not some better way to spend the people’s money than putting it into useless ships to be sent to the bottom of the ocean by some well directed bomb dropped from a high flying

bombing plane?

Why not use these billions of surplus dollars in granting the aged people of this nation a pension? After a man h'as passed the age of fifty years it is hard for him to get a job, as the majority of employers of labor seem to want young men, and when an old or middle aged man asks for a job he is told there is no vacancy in their organization. No matter how well preserved a man of fifty is, no matter how strong he is, and no matter if he

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS |

Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and to the

other class upon the scrap heap? England has passed an old age pension along with a sick benefit that takes care of English workers wh are unable to work on account

of sickness.

English working women are assured of being taken care of by the state when in confinement. In this country you must call a private doctor in confinement cases, and the first thing the doctor says when called is, “have you got the money?” No money, no doctor, and the law says you must have a doctor in all confinement cases. The Socialist party and the Fraternal Order of Eagles have been trying for years to get the government to pass an old age pension bill, but so far only a few states have done so. State pension laws

Federal Commission Will Ask; Public: Appropriations of North- ' NotK ‘ e

west Territory States.

■Washington, Dec. 15.-

is hereby given, to the

public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of In-

Enthusias-l ( |iana, invites sealed proposals for

tic in the belief that the George [for the construction, in said City, Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincen-[according to the respective imnes will become a great shrine improvement resolutions below men-

be of a sober, industrious nature, may he i p som e in relieving the

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This office is in receipt of a copy of the Danville, 111., CommercialNews, printed on paper made out of corn stalks. This differs but little from wood pulp paper, being possibly of a tougher composition. From experiments made at Danville, it seems possible that corn stalks will soon be largely used in manufacturing print paper, which will conserve the timber supply to a considerable extent—and publishers hope—bring down the price

of paper.

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he is not wanted in most of the fac-

tories.

Right here in Muncie, there has been a number of old men who committed suicide after years of service to one employer, just because the boss h’as told them there was no more work that they could do. Being an honest worker, he has spent all his wages keeping his debts paid, and with sickness, death and other things to take what little he received for his long hours of labor he is turned out without a

cent upon which to live.

The only thing he sees to do is to ask for admittance to the county house or death. The average laboring man or woman hate the crumbs of charity, and rather than eat them they do the only other thing for them to do, take their life. We pension our soldiers, we pension the widows of presidents, we pension widows of great generals 'and ship captains and none of these are,

really in need of pension. Only the (in the political pie. If there were soldiers. iany aged persons left after the po

llitical plum houses had been sup-

problem of the aged, but we should have a national law for the pen-

sioning of the aged.

Some way must be found to take care of this problem, for there are seven out of every ten persons over the age of sixty-five who are wholly or in part depending upon charity for a living. The employers of labor have set the age of fortyfive as the limit for employment, feo we can not put the pension age too high, or we will still have mil-, lions of men 'and women going hungry in this, the richest of all na-

tions.

Of course there are other ways to get rid of the aged. We might make a contract with the medical colleges to buy them up for experimental purposes, and if we can not get rid of all the aged' that way we could still keep a few political plums, known as county houses supplied so that a number of lame ducks could still keep their fingers

(in the

the middle West, members of the Federal commission named by the President met Wednesday and outlined preliminary plans for carry-

ing forward the project. 1 The several states comprising

the Northwest territory will be asked through their Legislatures to

tioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawings and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below describ-

ed, towit:

I. R. No. 482-1928, For local sewer in alley lying between 14th

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make modest appropriations so that; street 'and 15th Street from the they may share in the glory of the [east line of Witt Tract to Hoyt shrine and the Indiana Legislature | Avenue; also sewer in first alley will be asked to continue the pres- running north and south east of

ent tax levy an additional three Hoyt Avenue.

years in ord.er that more I'and may j Each bidder is also to file with be acquired at Vincennes. ithe Board an affidavit that there Luther Smith of St. Louis, Mo., a)has been no collusion in any way member of the commission, told of [affecting said bid, according to the a recent visit to Vincennes. He said [terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of he believed additional land should [March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p 219) be acquired in order to remove a | All such proposals should be sealrailroad switch and a mill that jed, and must be deposited with said “stand out like a sore thumb” near Board before the hour of nine the site of the proposed memorial, o’clock in the forenoon of the 15th

the $25,000 competition in which i reject any and all bids,

the 'architect will be designated, j BY ORDER OP THE BOARD OF

Christopher Coleman, Indianapolis, PUBLIC WORKS,

will receive a salary of $6,000 a I Mary E. Anderson, Clerk

year. 1 (Dec. 21-28, 1928.)

But what do we do with the aged workers? Send them to some county institution to be mistreated and eaten up by maggots. A person who has spent his or her life in useful employment is just as much entitled to a pension as 'a person who serves his country on the field of battle. Would the soldiers in the

last war have done much fighting A machine enabling the somposif the workers at home had not er to type his musijcal ideas as uaey worked with all speed to furnish come to him has been invented in them food and other things neces- 1 Budapest.

plied, we might make a contract with a number of fox farmers to take the rest off our hands. Old horses are getting scarce, and foxes must be fed if they are to produce furs for the rich females of the so

tailed human race.

A Merry Christmas

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A Happy New Year

Fred Puckett

Sheriff-Elect of Delaware County

More Money May Be Sought Congress appropriated $1,000,006 to the Indiana shrine: an additional

day of January, 1929, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to s'aid

sum of Federal money may be j city, for the sum equal to two and sought after, but Senator Fess of, one-half per cent (2 1-2%) of City Ohio, president of the commission, [ civil Engineer’s estimate which and Senator Watson, a member, ad-j shall be forfeited to said City as vised that it would not be possible liquidated damages, if the bidder

to obtain the extra sum at the short

session.

The Federal commission will invite the Indiana commission to proceed with the selection of an advisory architect and with plans for

depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in c&se a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to

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