Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 September 1930 — Page 3
Friday, September 5,1930
Einstein’s Theory Simple Compared to G. O. P. Corn Tariff Mathematics Washington, August—Two recent statements—one by Congressman Wood of Indiana, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, and Senator McNary of Oregon, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture—concerning the benefits of the Grundy tariff on corn have drawn from Senator Caraway, (Dem. Ark.) a characteristic
reply.
“Einstein’s theory, which he said only twelve people in the world were competent to understand,’’ said the Arkansas Senator, “has nothing on the mathematics of these eminent Republican states-
men.’’
Referring to Congressman Wood’s statement that the farmers were enjoying an added income pf a half billion dollars, because the 25 cent duty on corn prevented the country from being flooded with cheap Argentine corn, Senator Caraway pointed out that the entire corn crop of Argentina amounts to only one-tenth of what we use, and our total imports before the Grund.v bill were about one-fiftieth of one per cent of our production. ‘‘But my esteemed colleague Senator McNary, furnishes an equation beside which Einstein’s hypothesis that a straight line is curved and that space is devouring matter is as lucid as the multipli cation table.” He quoted Senator McNary’s telegram to the Tariff Commission urging a further increase in the corn tariff because, as the Oregon Senator said, 30,000 tons of Argen tine corn are being used monthly in three northwestern states. Senator Caraway cited figures obtained from the Tariff Commission that the entire importation of Argentine corn into Continental United States in July was 302 tomvalued about $9,000, and that total imports of corn to all United States territory was less than 37.000 bushels-F-a little over 1,000 tons, of which 26,000 bushels wa» from the Dominican Republic to Porto Rico.
sugar industry. But why blame Cuba? Her 1930 crop is 10 per cent less than that of 1929, according to the Department of Agriculture and Cuban exports of sugar this year have been less than those of last year during the same period.’ The Democrat then calls atten tion to the prediction made by economists months before the Grundy tariff bill was passed that the 2 cent sugar duty would not really benefit the sugar industry in this country because the higher . tariff would stimulate the entry of duty free sugar from the Philippines, Porto Rico and Hawaii into the United States. As a verification of this prediction, the Democrat states that “our insular possessions have increased their 1930 production by 213,004 tons and have already this year shipped 1,333,024 tons of sugar to the United
States.”
More Confusing Distinctions On Unemployment Figures Washington, August.—Criticisms from industrial and labor leaders and others of the Census Bureau’s figures on unemployment, characterized as obviously ^misleading, finally brought a statement from William N. Steuart, Director of the Census, pleading justification for his figures on the ground that he had made a distinction between the jobless—that is those out of jobs, able to work and looking for work—and those out of work by reason of being laid off, who theorectically, at least still had jobs. “Every announcement carrying these preliminary unemployment figures,” says the Director of the Census, “has contained the statement that they would be supplemented later by data for other classes of persons not at work at the time of the census.” It was pointed out, however, by the Director’s critics, that this distinction between classes of the unemployed, which enabled the Secretary of Commerce to issue statements that had the effect of misleading the public, was the basis of their criticisms. Director Steuart now announces
“So the problem he presents is that the supplemental returns on that three northwestern states are unemployment will be grouped in-
using 100 times as much Argentine corn as the Customs House reports coming iiito the country and 30 times as much as reached our shores or our dependencies,” said Senator Caraway. “The answer .must be’ th«^.Jui : numerable shiploads of South American grain are being smuggled through our ports in .the false bottoms of passenger trunks or perhaps concealed like diamonds in the passengers’ boot heels. “Nobody,” he concluded, “would challenge the statistics furnished by the Customs Houses. Figures can not lie—which might be a rather broad statement in regard to the gentlemen who are trying to tell the farmer that his poverty is an abstraction, his mortgage a myth and his bankruptcy a mental state.”
Congressman Wood, Chairman of the Republican Congressional Committee, says the statements contained in Democratic publicity are false. Congressman Tilson, Republican floor leader, says the Democratic statements are half-truths. This is encouraging. In time, perhaps, a more important Republican leader will admit that the Democratic statements are the whole truth and nothing but the .truth.
Sugar Tariff Rise No Aid to mestic Producers Washington, August—The predicament in which the domestic sugar industry finds itself as a result of the increase from 1.76 cents to 2 cents a pound on sugar is pointed out by the Goshen (Ind.) Democrat which says that they are blaming over production
on Cuba.
‘‘Certainly, overproduction is the
to six classes, each of which has its own special relation to the unemployment problem, which is regarded by some as contributing to the previous confusion. They contend that a person who is not \yorking, whatever the reason may be, is une.nlployed, and that the Census Bureau is a statistical bureau and not an interpretative literary bureau. Director Steuart's statement made no announcement of why the percentage of unemployed was considered in relation to population instead of to the number of wage earners, which also came in for much criticisms as a means of minimizing the facts concerning the amount of unemployment. While Republican spokesmen are asserting that world-wide depression is responsible for the decline in American foreign trade, the Baltimore Sun editorially points out that the statement is not true so far as prosperous France is concerned. The decline of American imports in France is specifically charged by that country to the Grundy-Hoover tariff.
Many people have open minds to-day—-so open that everything falls
out.”
Sir Josiah is reported further as sayiqg that the ment'al equipment of business executives does not increase in ratio to the number of graphs,. charts and scientific economic inventions they assemble in their files. Such executives, the Record remarks, - “make colorless statesmen.” They keep right on wanting to know the facts until the chance to use them is over.” The Record’s conclusion is that there is “too much digging, not enough building.” Our government never rteeded good public officers more than now.—Calvin Coolidge. Aug. 16, 1930. Cost of Government Increases Revenues Decline Washington, August—Mounting costs of Federal government for the current fiscal year which began July 1 are made more striking and of greater concern because of the cohtinous decline in revenue. For the month of July last and the first fifteen days of August, expeniditures of the government, exclusive of payments on the public debt, were $403,083,448, or $29,086,698 more than for the corresponding period in 1929, according to Treasury Department figures. During the same period the revenues were $197,365,559, or $54,766,985' less than for the corresponding period last year. A large part of the decreased revenues was due to the sharp decline in foreign trade. Customs collections (tariff duties) for the period were only $42,113,338 tor the period as compared with $78,169,228 in 1929, a decrease of $36,-
055,890.
The expenditures of the various goveriimenfc departments so far this fiscal year reveal that President Hoover has not been successful in making the large reductions he asked of the heads of departments. For the month of July alone the running expenses of the government departments were $17,121,389 greater than in July, 1929, while total ordinary expenses of the government were $31,328, 419 more than in July last year. Only two departments—Agriculture and Labor—showed decreased expenditures, and these both small, $327,994 and $79,755
respectively.
With mounting expenditures and decreasing revenue a
economic laws, there would have bidder depositing the same shall
been ample justification, for his present statement. Mr. Tilson and his party either were making wild statements in the era of prosperity or they are making wild statements now in the era of hard .times. “Logically, those whom the people applauded for the sq-cailledi ‘prosperity,’ they are apt to blame for the present situation. Mr. Tilson can not make out a case wherein the Republican Party can escape from the results of its own teachings. “Mr. Tilson is like the lawyer who was defending a criminal and lost the case. The lawyer presented a large bill to his client. Wfien the client saw the excessive amount he had been charged, he
said:
“I had very little hopes that we would win, but I did think I could have been convicted for less mon-
ey.”
An impartial and non-partisan review of industrial conditions reveals that the only important industry that has started up during the Hoover administration is Tom Thumb Golf.
fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying pro-
posal.
Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Eunice Carpenter, Clerk. (Sept.5-12)
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS
Old man Drought seems to have it all over “Old Man” Legge in curtailing production. o — Boys to Be Locked Up and Paddled Evansville, Ind., Sept. 1.— (UP) —Sentences were passed on six Evansville boys requiring them to be locked in their rooms every afternoon for two weeks, by Act- ’ ing Juvenile Judge Charles LaFollette. By way of adding court “costs” the judge required the parents to administer an “old fashion-
ed paddling.”
The sentences were passed after the boys were found guilty of robbing autos of flashlights, bundles
and purses.
Walter Dexter, 10, and Edward Ferris, 9, were sentenced to the reformatory for the same crime but they had previous records. o
Invents Machine / To Cancel Stamps
Laporte, Ind., Sept. — (UP) — Chester A. Weaver, formerly of LaPorte, is postmaster of the world’s only airport post office at Oakland, Calif., according to a letter sent to parents of the post
deficit master, said.
for the current fiscal year is al-| Trouble was experienced by postready feared by administration of-j master Weaver for a time, the letficials, according to report, esti-iter said, as no government stamp mated to run as high as $200,000,-1 cancellation machine was large 000. Last fiscal year there was a enough to cover the airmail stamps surplus of more than this amount, ; and additional stamps which some-
and a tax reduction of $168,000,0(10 was made to income taxpayers, for which the administration was criticized in some quarters, notably by Senator Couzens (Rep. Mich.) because it was not used to
reduce unemployment.
Fifty-nine men run the United States. — Former ^Ambassador
James W. Gerard.
Too Much
Digging, Not Building
Enough
Washington, August.-—After declaring that “Hoover’s administration will go down in history as one which devoted itself almost exclusively to fact-finding,” the Philadelphia Record quotes Sir Josiah Stamp, one of England's great financial authorities, that most of such activity in the field of private enterprise, “ends in the dustbin.” “Never before in history,” Sir Josiah is reported to have said, “has there been such a mania for collecting statistics and informa tion but what the world needs is
Judging by the way things have been going in this country lately one might judge, in spite of Mr. Gerald’s list, that nobody was running it.—George Rothwell Brown.
times are necessary. Stamp collectors over the country besieged the office for the airport postmark and the duties of , the office multiplied, it was said. To facilitate matters, Weaver invented a stamp cancellation machine, making a mark with an airplane outline which solved the dif Acuities, the letter said. The “fan” mail has increased since the new machine was made, however,
Weaver says.
State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: Lois E. Klingendinger
vs
Alfred A. Klingendinger. In the Delaware Circuit Court, September Term, 1930. Complaint: For Divorce. No. 7850. Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Alfred A. Klingendinger that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for a divorce together with an affidavit that/the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Friday, the 31st day of October, 1930, the 53rd day of the present term of said Court now in session, at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNES, the Clerk and,the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 3rd day of September, A. D.. 1930. PERRY W. MANSFIELD, SEAL Clerk. Elmer E. Botkin, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Sept. 5-12-19.
tablish sunspot ratios which will|> li A give ampler notice of impending I lUllI llgCIllS /Vl0
changes than are afforded at pres-
ent.
CITY ADVERTISEMENT
Department of Public Works
Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind.
To Whom Ft May Concern: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following vacation to-wit: DR-670, 1930, For the vacation of the alley between Birch and El liott Streets, from Sixteenth Street south of the first alley, and notice is hereby given that on the 26th day of September, 1930 the Board will, at its office at 10 a. m. on said day receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of lano have been or will be benefitted by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll for in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person
Trusty Returns With Loaded Truck
Bloomington, Ind., Sept- L—(UP) —After 16 years, Tom Hardin, convicted murderer, left Michigan City state prison and returned to Bloomington for a visit. Hardin rode into Bloomington with a truck load of license plates from the prison factory. As a trusty, he was permitted to make the 200 mile trip without a guard and was able to visit several former friends without police intervention. Hardin was convicted of murder for shooiing his wife and mother-in-law after a long drinking bout. o . Disabled Men to Receive More Aid Through New Act
Baltimore, Md., Sept. 4.-—(UP)— Within a year, 156,000 Would war veterans will be receiving government aid under recently enacted legislation which allows ex-soldiers compensation without the requirement of service connection of disability, director Frank T. Hines of the veterans bureau told veterans of foreign wars here in their convention yesterday. Hines said also that within six months 3,000 new beds would be ready for veterans cases, that many others would be available in present hospitals and that several new hospitals soon would be under wayThe recent consolidation of all veterans relief agencies, the direc- 3 tor explained, will greatly improve j government service to World war soldiers.
Being Instructed
Washington, Sept. ",—(UP) — Prohibition Director Woodcock, in opening the school for prohibition agents established to improve technique and morale of the prohibition forces, said today the government’s first objective is to stop
commercial violations of
amendment.
Addressing 34r picked men assembled here for instruction which they later will transmit to federal dry agents throughout the country, Woodcock said he wished them to pass on to the other operatives the thought that their chief efforts should be against large-scale, highly organized violations.
o
Of -102 airplanes in commercial use in Brazil, 63 are of French
the 18th manufacture.
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Sunday and Monday Just what the name implies— She was a woman who loved well—but not wisely! RUTH CHATTERTON “ANYBODY’S WOMAN” WITH CLIVE BROOK
EXTRA TONIGHT Special pre-view showing 11:30 p. m. “DAWN PATROL” WITH RICHARD BARTHELMESS
State of Indiana Is Too Much For Man
Gary, Ind., Sept. Z.—(UP)—In a fight against one other person Joseph McMahon felt he had an equal chance but when his opponents became too numerous he gave up. When Prosecutor Ellis Bush charged him with intoxication, McMahon came into court prepared to fight the case. He took his turn before the judge and waited. Finally his case came up. State of Indiana versus Joseph McMahon,” droned the clerk. Visions of a man to man fight
against the wiles of the prosecutor
01 renresentaiUve^and be heard. tade d ami in its place arose a pie-
Should Give More Attention to Work
High Cost of Convicting G. O. P.
Administrations
Washington, August Replying Indianapolis, Sept, to a statement by Representative_s tr i eter attention to
Tilson of Connecticut, Republican House leader, that the present depression, unemployment and hard times are due to “economic laws” and in no sense can be charged to the Republican Party, Representative Kincheloe, (Dem. Ky. ) said: “If when there was comparative
prosperity in the country Mr. Til-i identified with education, were de son had fchen started that that dared objectionable to the su-
■L—(UP) classroom
teaching, and less regard for the frills of education, has been urged of 1,800 Indianapolis public schools teachers by Paul A. Stetson, su-
perintendent of schools.
Special observance weeks, and plans for interesting the child in sideline projects, not definitely
prosperity was not due to the Re-
basic cause of depression in the a new techinque of thinking, publican Party but followed from
MV. Hoover Likes Jig-Saw Puzzles Bishop in St. Louis Star
preme obligation of the school administration. “This obligation is to increase the effectiveness of class room teaching,” Stetson said. “Teaching will become more effective by incorporating a better plan of supervision and by less interruption of regular school work by days, weeks and drives of all kinds, which often cloud the real purpose of the school,” Sfetson
said.
CITL 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 Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, according to the respective improve ment resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawing and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, towit: IR-649, 1930—.For paving and curb and gutter and sidewalks on Eleventh street from Gharkey street to the Nickle Plate railroad. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p 219) All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of ten o’clock in the forenoon of the 16th day of September, 1930, and. each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said city, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent. (2 1-2%) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
Eunice Carpenter, Clerk. September 5 & .12, 1930.
SUNSPOTS MAY AFFECT WEATHER
Imre of the entire state, throe and one half million persons, fighting
him.
“The odds are too great, I’ll plead guilty,” McMahon said. o ABANDON TRIP.
which shall be forfeited to said
City as liquidated damages, if the work in research calculated to es-
Scientists Seek Ratio of Influence on Heat, Cold and Rainfall.
Vallejo, Calif., Sepi ; —(UP)— A visionary photograph of the good year 1940, A. D. A small, bespectacled man peers through a smoked telescope, carefully jotting down his findings. When they are complete, he makes a detailed report. Acting upon his report, thou sands of workers are dispatcher along the thousands of miles of the Mississippi valley, to work feverishly at building new levees against the coming of a great
flood. Or—
Workers are sent into the moun tains in December to construct new dams and reservoirs Ao trap the melting snow the following spring, so that the lowlands, which are to suffer a terrible summer drought, may live in comfort on the hoarded water. Such a picture will become real ity if the tentative findings of Captain T. J. J. See, U. S. Navy mathematics professor (retired) are confirmed. After 10 years of continuous research, Captain See has definitely connected the behavior of sunspots, he has announced, with the Mississippi floods of 1927 and the present drouth that is burning up the Mississippi valley
and midwest.
Captain See thus summarized
his results:
1. It is proved that when sun spots are most rapidly increasing, the earth is unduly chilled and the upper currents of our atmos phere descend so near the earth’s surface that, we have floods, storms and hurricanes, as in 1927 2. The maximum of sunspots in 1928-29 was thus followed by the dreadfully cold winter of 1928-29, in which all countries suffered and Europe was hardest hit. «► 3. Now the Talanee observatory in France reports that there was a sharp diminution of sunspots in June. The earth was given too much heat early in July and hence all countries are suffering now
from drought.
“I am afraid,” Captain See said, “that adequate relief from the drought cannot be expected before September, when the rapid motion of the sun southward will finally upset present atmospheric conditions and bring rain.” Captain See’s sunspot theories almost coincide with those of Father Jerome Ricard S. J., “padre of the rains” at Santa Clara University, Calif. Crops have been planted for many years on Fr. Ricard’s “sunspot” forecasts. Both scientists arfe now hard at
Newcastle, Ind., (UP)—Eightyfive miles of a canoe trip which was to have taken three Newcastle men to New Orleans, was enough to threaten the canoe and dampen the spirits of the trio Charles Wod William Highley and Glenn Cooper abandoned their jour ney at Louisville after embarkation at Lawreuceburg.
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