Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 September 1929 — Page 2

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1929.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of llunci* Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 16, 11121, at the Postofftc* at Muncle, Indiana, under the Act of March S, 1879

PRICE 6 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR.

223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 EE0R6E R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, September 20, 1929.

That Two Long Bridge. It should be interesting for the people to know that the Burk Construction company has gone to work on the construction of the new Washington street bridge. Interest also attaches to one or two other features of this bridge transaction. The fact that the Smith Construction company, a reliable firm, bid $4,500 less than the Burk company is interesting. The fact that the plans of the bridge are thirty feet too long is still remembered. The unaccounted-for thirty feet might be used on extending thje width of the High street bridge to make room for Wilbur Sims to pass when he has been “hitting the bottle,” to use the words of Sergeant Seldpmridge.

Always Starting Something. A lady poll taker in the southwest part of the city met one woman in her rounds who said she didn’t like Dale’s radio talks. “What’s wrong with them,”, she was asked. “He’s always kicking about something,” was the answer. “Yes, he kicks on the gamblers’ and bootleggers’ trust and the paving crowd that robs the taxpayers and the thieves who formed the gravel combine and a police force and sheriff who fail to enforce the law. Is that the reason you don’t like to hear him?” “No, but he’s always getting in trouble,” was the comeback. “But he always gets out of it doesn’t he?” “Yes, but he’s always starting something,” said the next alibi. “Granted,” was the quick reply, “but he generally finishes what he starts. The truck, to mention one of many instances.” “Oh what’s the use of arguing,” was the final defense, “you’re almost as bad as he is.” “Well, goodbye; think it over, was the parting shot.

vestbr^ a high rate of interest and of their God-given function qjf supplying the wherewithal for the erection of homesj so the building of a few churches should not be interposed as an argument for the creation of a condition that throws hundreds of men out of work, and harasses borrowers, contractors and concerns selling building materials. Workmen complain also that in most of the big building projects, even some of the church work, that the contractors go outside of the city to get their skilled artisans, when Muncie is the home of some of the best masons, painters, plumberk and builders in general in the world. The people here generally would like to know what exactly Is the matter with the building and loan companies and local workmen want to know why they are compelled to remain idle while work is found for hundreds from other cities, who have no interest here whatever except to draw their pay and then go back home to spend it. -. To show how little the powers that be care for the interests of local labor, a Chicago firm is now doing the decorating in the postoffice. The Unity League expects to pay a Chicago firm of engineers a hundred thousand dollars for the plans of the two million dollar sewer. Bob Acker is now framing with a Chicago firm of decorators to take over that ten thousand dollar job in the courthouse. in the city hall a non-union painter, one Grover Eppards was given the decorating job and he is now at it. No one else union or non-union was given a chance to bid. He was given the job at his own price, although the law requires that bids shall be advertised for. Contractors and the building trades generally, both union and non-union, are demanding a square deal in Muncie. They haven’t been getting it, but representatives of labor have come to the conclusion Llere that it’s their own

fault.

Ninety-five percent of the adults of Muncie work for a living. Labor is omnipotent when it acts as a body, but without cooperation the five percent, thoroughly organized, remains in easy control.of the politics and finance of Muncie. It is time for labor to act.

orUer to insure results, the line must work perfectly in holding out would-be blockers of the kick. The kick must be executed quickly as the halfback is not very far from

the line.

Success in a box or diamond formation depends on the ability of the ends in handling (he opposing

tackles.

Editor’s note: Pat Page will tell about the tandem formation next.

SAMPSON INDICTED IN TEXTBOOK DEAL

Unlawfully Accepted Publishers’ Gifts, Charge; Kentucky Purchasing Body Accused.

THE BARNACLES

(Continued from Page One) ping the voters in the face to deliberately violate the law while he is asking them to support him. But the above named barnacles have no scruples when the people’s money is concerned. Remember, they supported Hampton four years ago and made the same promises then that they are making now. WOULDN’T IT BE NIOEi (FOR THE TAXPAYER TO HAVE THAT CROWD GET THEIR SLIMY HANDS IN THE TWO MILLION DOLLAR SEjWER POT?

STATE TAX LAWS HELD IN DEATH HIT BY REALTORS OF GIRL‘STUNTER’

Out-Moded, Inequitable, Say Speakers—Constitution Change Needed.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

The Fair Grounds. About the silliest thing that has been up for discussion for many a moon is the proposed sale of the fairgrounds to

George Ball.

The thing seems to have been promoted by Commissioner Acker. Nobody ever thought of selling the fair-

grounds until Bob sprung it.

The county council met Wednesday but did not come to a decision on the matter. It is announced that it will be taken up again at a meeting of the council October 2. Acker was at the meeting and he assured everybody that the bid of George Ball would be the only one consider-

ed if the council acted favorably.

It will be recalled that Bob made the same statement concerning the letting of the contract for the construction of the Washington street bridge. He said the Burk company would get it and it did, although there was one bid, $4,500

less than Burk’s.

But Who wants George Ball or anybody else to buy the fairgrounds. This property belongs to the people. The commissioners have as much moral right to sell the orphan’s home, the coursehouse, the county jail or the poor farm as they do the fairgrounds. The idea was promoted from a shady source. The people would like to know what is behind it all. Somebody is expecting to cut a melon. It might be interesting for the people to find out what George Ball thinks about it. Acker assumes to speak for him and local dailies have said that Mr. Ball is “supposed” to be in favor of this or that plan in connection with the

proposed sale.

Personally we believe that Mr. Ball doesn’t know any

more about the deal than anybody else. The Post-Demo-crat knows positively that Commissioner Acker tried to gef an option on the Milt Hamilton farm when the. question of

the sale was first broached. j What did he want with it? The gang he works with is

generally looking out for the old dough. They’re after it now and will get it someway or other if this sickening deal goes through. It would be interesting to hear a public statement from George Ball. It is the general belief that Acker

is using his name without authority.

Our Liberal Council. While the county commissioners are busy trying to sell the fairgrounds to Glod knows who for God knows why, the sapient city council urged on by the astute chamber of commerce, is trying just as hard to give away the federal park adjoining the postoffice on the south. The city is busted flat—just had to borrow sixty thousand dollars for week-end expenses, but nevertheless the administration wants to give to the poor, hard-up government of the United States real estate that cost Muncie $12,000 several years ago and is worth several times that amount

now.

It is explained that with a new addition to the postoffice in prospect it would be “quite clevah, doncherknow,” for the city to donate the land. If that wouldn’t give you a sick pain, what would? When the government decides a community is in need of a new federal building or that the one in existence needs enlarging, it doesn’t take up a collection among the neigh-

bors.

When the postoffice building is enlarged, and additional ground needed for the purpose, it will buy the ground from the city, just exactly as it would be required to do if the adjacent land was owned by private individuals. The government is not asking for anything of that kind to be done. It is simply one of the Polyanna ideas that seem to find so much favor here with certain classes. With the city so hard up that it cannot pay its firemen and policemen'and so short that ft cannof keep the~streets clean nor the garbage and ash cans emptied it takes a lot of nerve to talk about making Uncle Sam a Christmas gift.

Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice to Property Owners: In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvemenfs in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions. adopted by said Board, on the 17th day of September, 192.9,

to-wit:

I. R. No. 622-1929, Paving the al-

ley lying between Mulberry Street and Jefferson Street from Washing-

ton Street to Gilbert Street. 1. R. No. 623-1929. Cement side-

walk, curb and gutter and paving between said gutter and existing

pavement on west side of Walnut Street from

Avenue north to Riley Avenue.

Frankfort, Ky., Sept. 20.—Indictments charging Gov. Flem D. Sampson and seven members of the state textbook commission with “unlawfuyy receiving gifts” from publishing companies were returned here Thursday by the Franklin county grand jury, which has been investigating state affairs for three

weeks.

The alleged gifts were specified as ‘‘a great number of common school textbooks, the exact number, description and time thereof unknown to the grand jury.” The books were alleged to have been accepted from eight firms which were seeking to have tetfts published by them adopted for use in the Kentucky public schools. Only Partial Jury Report Under the statute creating the textbook commission and making the governor its ex-officio chairman, a penalty of a fine not exceeding $1,000 and imprisonment of not more than six months in the county jail is provided for a person convicted of receiving ‘‘any property Mjf value” from a firm qualified to bid on furnishing books for the public schools which is seeking to have its books adopted by the commission. The indictments were returned unepectedly in a partial report. When the exact nature of the “gifts” specified in the indictment became known there was considerable surprise and speculation.

Director of Plane Party Must^ Face Parachute Accident Charges.

West Baden, Sept. 20.—Revision Wichita, Kas., Sept. 20.—A warof the Indiana constitution to meet ! rant charging fourth degree manthe needs of.^the modern day and to j g j au g^^ er W as issued here late even the_ burden of taxation in or- fQr Bei , t Wllit6) head of

der to bring relief to owners of leal ■ . . , .

estate met with approval of real-! the Irving Air Chute Company s tors who are in session here. I 'safety crew,” in connection with State Senator Winfield Miller oflthe death of Miss Helen Williams, Indianapolis Thursday afternoon 118 years old, who was killed m delivered an address on the propos-(making a parachute leap trom an ed revised state constitution at the j Irving demonstration plane here

sixteenth annual convention of the Uast Saturday.

Indiana Real Estate Association, which is in session at the West

Baden Springs hotel. Will Close Today

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE , SERVICES “Matter” is the subject of the Lesson-Sernjon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, Sep-

tember 22.

Among the citations which com-

ol North ' P r * se t* 16 Lesson-Sermon is the folCentennial 1 lowing l rom the Bible: “I am the ^ avenue. (true vine, and my Father is the

All work done in the making of husbandman. Every branch m me

public improve-1 t iat beareth not fruit he taketh

away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you, Hefein is

Issuance of the warrant by County Attorney William J. Wertz followed a coroner’s jury verdict that Miss Williams, who was making

..... her first leap, fell to her death be-

Final sessions of the convention, ca ^ ge .< she was not properly inwhich opened Wednesday, will be | S j ruc t ed j n the use of the parachute held this afternoon with the annual | or properly warned of the danger.”

business meeting. The banquet and, Wi |'| surrender Today

president’s ball will be held to- j white’s attorneys said he would ni Sht. i return here today from Ponca City,

“The question of a revised con-iQ kla t o surrender,

stitution for Indiana is not a new jj. was testified at the coroner’s one, said Mr. Miller. ‘Nor is it the i j n q Ues t ,h a t Miss Williams, White proposal of loose, irresponsible i and others connected with the thinkers or those having in mind |death inqu i ry attended an all-night wild vagaries of government. (party at a roadhouse the night be“Our present state constitution | fore t he accident. White testified was adopted in 1851, or seventy-1 t j iat “ S pjk ed beer” was served at eight years ago, in the primitive the place> but de nied that liquor days of Indiana. It was the work of ; bad anything to do with the fatal

men of high and sincere purposes,

They did not know, however, that | M ' iss E i inor smith of New York, from time to time our basic l aw 1 holder of the women’s solo endurwouid need change and provided as ance flight record, piloted the they thought a sufficient method i pi ane gh e did not attend the roadfor its amendment which has prov- house party. ed practi, ally unworkable.” j q

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ments shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Wojcks on the abo ( ye named date,

ami w the 4' f iori ° e ^ ^ ?ye ^ and may he seen in the office of rouch.^hUit ; so shall \e be my dissaid Board of Public Works of the;( J °h n Jo.l, 2, L 8).

The Lesson-Sermon also includes the folowing passages from Ithe Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy:

City of Muncie, Indiana.

The Board of Public Works has fixed the 8th day of October, 1929, as a date upon which remon-

strances may lie filed or heard by (<TT . ^ , persons interested in, or affected by ess Bie harmony

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Why the Shut Down? Contractors and workmen of the allied building trades find themselves seriously handicapped by the “shutting down” of all the building and loan companies in the city of

Muncie.

These financial institutions have made no loans since early last spring and while promises have been made since that time that “we will begin putting out inside of a month,” that time has not yet arrived, and now the time has been extended to the first of the year, at a season when builders do not expect to do much work. Various reasons have been given for the failure of the loan companies to function as they are expected to do, but none of them seem adequate'. It is vaguely intimated by some that investors in building and loan securities are cashing in their holdings and sending their money to New York to get in on the high rate of interest for “call” money, but nobody takes much stock in that theory. Careful investors who put their money in the building .and loan do not care to send their funds to the wild and Wooly money mart, taking somebody else’s word for it that it will come; back in a few days with seventeen percent interest added. Muncie has one frolic with get-rich-quick schemes and is now wary of high finance. But in the meantime the shutting down of the local pay stations' for builders has put hundreds of idle men on the streets and is causing contractors and prospective borrowers much uneasiness and actual • hardship. One excuse given is that the various big church projects in Muncie has led to the withdrawal of huge sums of money for church construction work, and that this has “strapped” the building and loan companies and made the building of homes impossible. This does not sound so good, either. The building and loan companies delight in exploiting their vast resources and of their value to the community and their ability to pay in-

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said described public improvements mau are becoming more ;inri nn Unto nt o• mv ov.ir>/.ir a apparent, we aie not gaining the

true idea of God; and the body will reflect what governs it, whether it he Truth or error, understanding or belief, Spirit or matter. Therefore ‘acquaint now thyself with Him, and be at peace.” (p. 324).

Everson Is Chief of Military Bureau

and on said date at 9:00 o’clock a. m. said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for Hie pu r r> o sn' (TT Amu Httst " hn d consul - ering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding. or postponement of action on s^id remonstrances: and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated

Sixteen Are Killed and Fifty-Five Injured in a Detroit Cabaret Fire Today Detroit, Sept. 20.—While the orchestra was playing a lilting Spanish tango, one . hundred guests in a fashionable study^ club cabaret, were surprised by shouts of “Fire!” early today, and before they could escape, 16 persons were killed and 55 injured. Within a few hours after the tragedy the proprietor of the cabaret, Martin Cohen, was arrested and held on a charge of negligent homicide. A cigarette carelessly tossed among the club's gay hangings was considered a likely explanation of the fire after a bombing theory had been dismissed.

Noted Landscape Artist Is Shot to Death at His Home

Paris, Sept. 19.—Eleven persons lost their lives in a series of storms which swept France, Tuesday, according to the latest advice from the provinces. In addition to the victims of the storms, three bodies were found floating in the swollen rivers.

ALBERT VESTAL BETTER

Anderson, Ind., Sept. 19.—Representative Albert H. Vestal, who has been seriously ill with a cold and complications, is better.

According to latest calculations the circumference of the universe is only 16,000,v00 light years, which is about 1001 h the size previously supposed.

Philadelphia, Sept. 20.—Frank Reed Whiteside, noted Philadelphia landscape artist was killed today when he answered the ringing of the front door bell at his ho m e. A bullet fired at close range went through Whiteside’s body. Police believe robbery was the motive.

Washington, D. C„ Sept. 20.— (UP)—Special—President Hoover, today nominated Brig.-Gen. Wm. G. Everson of the Indiana National

cost of the proposed improvements, j Guard, to be chief of the Military as estimated by the City Civil En- : Bureau, with the rank of major

gineer.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By Mary EUAnderson, Clerk. September 20, 27.

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the line.

In the diamond formation, the quarterback and the forward halfhack silift either to left or right thus forming a diamond. The ball may .he^passed to the quarterback, wRp (usdally is nearest the center, or fd the halfback and fullback in

the rear. Very often in this formation the quarterback handles all passes from center. After receiving the ball he may pivot around and hand it to any of the other backs. Sometimes the quarterback may fake a pass to one backfield man and then take the ball himself or hand it to another man. This adds deception to the play. When in diamond formation, the fullback usually does the bucking. His best buck is through the weak side of the line. End runs also may be attempted from this formation. The halfback farthest back usually handles the ball. He then follows the three backs around the end of the line. A guard also may come out of the line to aid the three backs in interfering. • Short passes are the most common variety of forward passes used in this formation. They are usually thrown by the halfback farthest back from the line. Criss-cross passes also are common from the diamond formation. A quick punt by the halfback who handles the passing may be attempted, hut in

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and to the Public: Notice 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 diana, invites sealed proposals foi the construction, in said City, ac cording to the respective improve ment reoMutions below mentioned and according to the plans, profiles drawings and specification therefor on fileviu the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, towit: I. R. No. 606-1929, For paving of Mulberry Street from Fifteenth Street to Eighteenth Street. I. R. No. 607-1929, For cement sidewalk on north side of Ashland Avenue from Reserve Street to alley west of Alameda Avenue. I. R. No. 608-1929, Ft»r cement sidewalk on south side of Ninth Street from Rochester Avenue to Clark Avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in anyway affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219i) All such proposals should be sealed and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of nine o’clock iu the forenoon of the 1st day of October. 1929, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a cerlified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2%%) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall lie forfeited to said City as liquidated damages if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. S. id Board leserves the right, to reject my and all bids. BY OK >ER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC VV :"KS. Mary v Anderson. Clerk. September 20-2i.

The first brick-making machines i ‘>i.icted only a,tout half a ■r~■‘-■'t-v "go. Extensive areas in the Dismal swamp region in North Carolina have been reclaimed and planted with mint Norway’s whaling expeditions to the South Seas have obtained more than 1,000,000 barrels of oil In ths season’s catch.

Explosion of a Gasoline Pump Kills Two Canadians

Winnipeg, Man., Canada, Sept. 20—Two employes of the K. M. Motor Company, Frank Martin, 30, and Richard Highest, 27, were killed here today when a gasohne pump exploded and drenched them with flaming liquid.

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