Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 January 1931 — Page 2

FItIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1931.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT K Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muucie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15. 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncle, Indiana, under the Act of March I, 1879.

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223 North Elm —Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher. Geo. R. Dale, Editor.

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 2, 1931.

Hurrah for Wheat Another $150,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board is asked b,y President Hoover, which when appropriated, will make $400,000,000 appropriated of the $500,000,000 authorized. The New York World points out that “economically, the Farm Board’s use of the taxpayers’ money for a professed purpose of stabilizing the price of wheat and cotton has been 'a complete failure.” After quoting the decline of wheat and cotton since the Board began operations, the World says: “The Board is now in a position where it dare not let go and where, by holding on, it becomes involved deeper t and deeper in transactions which must ultimately defeat ' their own purpose . . . The call for more money was ipevitable.” According to the Omaha World-Herald (Dem.), about < the only response the Farm Board has received to its plea for crop limitation was from the weather.

FARM OUTLOOK ROAD BUILDING IN STATE FAIR! REACHES PEAK

Uneven Production and State System of Indiana

Drought Causes Losses in State.

BY T. R. JOHNSTON Publicity Director, Purdue University. (Written for the United Press) Lafayette, Ind., Jan. 2.—(UP) —Drought combined with economic depression served to lower agricultural levels in Indiana during 1930, according to J. H. Skinner, director of the Purdue university department of agricultural sionThe number of sheep in Indiana during the past year was the greatest of the last ten years, and prices were low. A cycular liquidation in the sheep business may oe expected to continue, making he outlook none too favorable. The demand for both lambs and wool was affected greatly by the lepression of the past year. During the year, the number of jeef cattle was two per cent be--ow the 10-year average. The reajon for the drop in cattle prices

Hoover Wrong Again President Hoover’s statement to the press charging the Congress with planning “raids on the Treasury” and aefeusi,ng that body of “playing politics at the expense of human Msery,” called for several severely critical speeches 4n the Senate and equally severe criticism in some sections of the press. The President’s own record in disbursing a $100,000,000 fund in 1929 for feeding the starving people of Europe and also $20,000,000 for Russian relief were cited, as well as the statement in his message to this Congress, in which he Said, “We have as a nation a definite duty to see that no deserving person in our country suffers from hunger or cold.” .1; • • u Among tfrd$e,who replied to the President’s criticism of Congress was Senator Robinson, the Democratic leader, of the seven who had issued a statement before the assembling of Congress favoring Cooperation with administration plans for relief and other legislation that was “conducive to the welfare of the country,’* and opposing partisan obstructive tactics. Senator Robinson reiterated his adherence to these declarations, and further said: “The President lost his temper and made a statement that, of course, is to be condemned. For my part, I do not propose to follow the bad example that has been set. My purpose is to try to do my duty to my party, to my people, and most of all, to my country .... I should like to see this Congress now act in a spirit of greater cooperation—and by ‘cooperation’ I do not mean that one man shall walk away and another follow 7 . I mean that if they are separated by a distance they shall advance to a common point and get together and work together. That is cooperation. I cooperate and I intend to continue to cooperate in the enactment of measures which I believe will promote the welfare of the country. I intend to cooperate in the confirmation of nominees whom I believe to be fitted for office. That does not mean, and no sane man can construe it to mean, cooperation in the passage of unjust and unwholesome measures or in the confirmation of unfitted nominees to office. . . . “The nation is facing a crisis. Our responsibility is the greatest we have ever encountered. Bearing it in the spirit of true patriots, we shall not find it necessary to abandon the policies or the principles which we believe should prevail in the administration of this great Government.”

FARMERS NOT PEDDLERS

Madison, Wis., (U.P.) — Excess farm products may be sold from house to liouse by farmers who carry a surplus with them without classifying them as peddlers or hawkers, an opinion of the attorney general has said.

APPLE TREE GROWS 6 KINDS

Mohawk, N- Y. (U.P.) — Ar apple tree which bears six vari eties of apples has been grown here. The tree produces Fallowar ter, Baldwins, Pound Sweots Northern Spys, Paissets and Midd le Apples.

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Enough for Two

OOD things come in small packages. And if you have looked over the list of good things that come in the new small can, you will agree. Whether you are a bachelor or bachelor girl, newlyweds, long-weds, or oft-weds —you know the satisfaction of having just enough of just the right

thing, and no waste. Forty-Three Foods

Thai is the long-felt need which the 8-ounc can fulfills. And so popular has it become, in its brief time on the market that already forty-three different foods are so packed—and more to come. The bachelor girl in her kitchenette apartment opens the buffet, or 8ounce can of prepared spaghetti and finds it just enough for the maindish of her lunch. The woman with a family opens the 8-ounce can of mushrooms and s finds it the correct amount to add to her chicken a la King. The bachelor opens a

^ of . i rui i wcktail and finds it] tabic surprise!

the perfect proportion to add to-» well, anything he likes. Here is the list of the famous forty-three. Pa^te them on your order memorandum so you can ask your grocer about the various

brands of each.

Apple sauce, apricots, artichoke hearts, asparagus, beans, beets, blackberries^ brown bread, Brussels sprouts, carrots (plain and with peas), cherries (black or red pitted), com (golden bantam, white or kemelettes, or popping), cranberry sauce, figs, fruits for salad, fruit cocktail, grapefruit, grapes, krautine, loganberries, mackerel, molasses, mushrooms, olives, peaches (halves, sliced or diced), pears (diced or halves), peas, pineapple (crushed, tidbits or juice), plums, prunes (stewed or fresh), raspberries (red or black), rhubarb, sauerkaut, spaghetti, shrimp, spinach, strawberries, succotash (with white corn, golden bantam, or with green limas), tomatoes, tomato sauce, turnips, vegetables for salad, vege*

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nust be explained in terms of deuand, rather than supply, and should not be construed as indicat.ng a long-time drop in prices. As long as the general industrial lepression continues, <116 decreased demand for meat associatsd with it will continue to influence depression of cattle prices. The spring pig crop in Indiana, was about 12 per cent below that*) ing of 1929. The succession of unfavor; able corn crops harvested in Indi ana in recent years has resulted n considerable curtailment in hog

production.

Although hog prices are not as sensitive to changes ip industrial conditions as prices for other 9lass cs of livestock, the depression has jrought on lower hog prices than .vo-uld be expected normally. Indiana dairy products producers particularly those in the southern part of the state, are somewhat liscouraged as result of a year oi .ow butter-fat prices, a small ha.' crop in 1930, an almost complete pasture failure during the lattei part of the summer, and a verj small corn crop. In northern Indi ma, the outlook is more optimistic. Low prices of butter-fat in 1931 have been the result, partly of lov lemand accompanying the depres-, sion, and partly of large production. The drought has curtailed produc ion of dairy products in recent .nonths and will be a depressing influence on production until new feed supplies are available in 1931 The number of milk cows wat slightly larger gt the beginning Oi 1930 than a year earlier. In June 1930, production of milk per cow was higher than at corresponding season in recent years. The Irought, however, together will low prices which dispouragec ueavy feeding, decreased the pro iuction per cow late in the sum

mer.

Less milk was produced in Julj than in any July of the three year;, preceding. Butter production ii June, July and August was con siderably lower than in the cor res ponding months of 1929The number of laying chickem n Indiana farm flocks increased

Now Embraces Total of 6,010 Miles.

BY JOHN J. BROWN Director Indiana Highway Commission. (Written for the United Press) Indianapolis, Jan. 2.—(UP) — Highway construction in Indiana reached its peak during the past year with completion of more than 560 miles of pavement—the largest amount ever constructed in ohe

year-

At present, the stale system embraces 6,010 miles—a network connecting all county seat towns and cities of at least 2,500 population. Of this total, more than 3,100 miles

are paved.

Much of the new paving this year was near populous cities and was 30, 36 and 40 feet wide. If mileage were estimated on the 18 and 20 feet standard width, there was actually paved in 1930, the

equivalent of 583 miles.

Total expenditures of the highway department during the last fiscal year was $22,569,171.12 and receipts were $23,349,638.QL Expenditures in the 1929 fiscal year were $20,733,264.12 and receipts

were $21,438,982.86.

Aggregate of federal aid - colleete.d m 1930 was $2,072,530.61. In 1929, there were 479 miles of pavement constructed, making a total of 1,039 miles completed durthe first two years of -Gov. Leslie’s administration. This cotal is nearly one third of the aggregate mileage paved in the last

iiy 2 years.

The 136 major bridges constructad in 1930 cost $2,225,000. Twelve were grade separations to avoid langerous railroad crossings- One of the largest structures was the White river bridge at NoBlesville vhich is a concrete arch with six jpans of 72 feet, each. Another large structure was the Lincoln Memorial bridge at Petersburg which is 1,652 feet long. Its cost was approximately $270,000. Plans # for bridge construction luring 'the coming year iflchjde :he Ohio river bridge at fcyap

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ux per cent from January 1, 1929 to January 1, 1930. By September 1, 1930, the number of laying pirds in Indiana had decreased tc □ne per cent below September 1. 1929. Hot weather reduced egg produc uon to a point where it was six per cent less per farm flock on September i, 193,0, than on Sep tember 1, 1929. The average weighted price drop in the state from 1929 to 1930 was 9.6 centt per dozen, or 33 per cent. The prices of eggs and poultrj will tend to rise when business shows signs of improving. t -o BREAKS BONE DRESSING

Mesa,—.(UP)—Dale Riggs, who played football several years, boasted he never suffered an injury on the field. While dressing for practice, he fell and dislocated his collar bone.

MRS. CAMPBELL PLANS TOUR

New York,—(UP)—Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the famous actress, is planning a three months tour of the United States, according to the announcement made by 1 her American representatives recently.

JAIL WOMAN TRAVELER

Cleveland, 0-, (U.P.) — Police jailed a Avoman traveler here, when they caught Mrs. Ethel Pearl, 22, formerly of Youngstown, climbing on a freight car. She said she had abandoned her husband in Youngstown and was going to “ride .the rails” to Mexico, already having visited Nebraska and Virginia the same way. FINED FOR MUD BATH

Berlin, (U.P.) — Pedestrians who received a mud-bath from a truck which splashed through a puddle close to a curbstone tpok out a summons against its driver who Avas fined, the court holding that there bad been plenty of room to have turned and avoided the puddle.

There is a woodyard in Chicago Where only deaf men are employed. And there are thirteen of them at work, sawing and chopping crossties furnished by one of the railroads. Tavo varieties of pink grapefruit are produced commercially in Manatee county, Florida.

dlle which -awill cost approximately i>2,500,000 and the Wabash river bridges fit Vincennes and Mt. Cat nel. • . < \ Indiana will collect $1,2$0;000 ol ederal aid on the Evansville project, leaving only about $25,000 do xe paid' Avith state fund's. The department plans to construct approximately 500 miles of naviiig during the coming year and o continue its program of oiling md graveling 1,000 miles of uiysuraced roads to make them dustiess luring the heavy summer traffic. It Avill undoubtedly be impossi )le in future years to construct as nuch pavement as Avas included in jrograms of the past two years because of the increased cost pi nainfenance. Unless highway de aartment receipts are increased, ii vjll be necessary to use money to: naintenance purposes which in the past was used for constructiotq Members of the highway com mission are: Albert J. Wedeking, Dale, chairnan; Robert V. Boren, Fountain City; Arthur P. Malton, Gary, and Jess L. Murden, Peru. They are to be credited Avith the iudicous selection of routes taken into the state system and the roads „o be improved. Among the largest paving pro iects completed in 1930 Avere the

‘ollowing:

Sixty miles on U- S. 50 between Washington and Loogootee, and between Seymour and Versailles Forty miles on road 6 betAveen Ligonier and Kendallville, and be .ween Hobart and Westyille. Sixty four miles on road 43 from Orawfordsville to the Pulaski conn y line via Lafayette and Morion, and between LaCrosse and Wan

itah.

Nineteen miles oil U. S. 27 beween Bryant and Berne and from Fort Wayne to Auburn, complet-. ng a paved road across the state from College Corner, O., to the Michigan line via Liberty. Eighteen miles on road 54 from Bloomfield to U. S. 41 south of Sullivan, completing pavement Torn Indianapolis io Evansville.

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— Photograph Canadian National' Railways. rpHAT a mountain big Horn sheep and goat can run faster uphill i X than on the level? The photograph of a big horn sheep on the side of what is almost a precipice in Jasper National Park, Alberta, in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains, gives a good idea of the ^type of terrain in which these animals really feel home.

MAY BE CLOSE!

board, given them our support and kept still when Secretary of Agriculture Hyde introduced his Russian ‘menace,’ and Chairman Legge of the farm board found so much fault with our practices. I don’t think we ought to keep still any longer; nor do most of th? traders.”

Noted Chicago (Grain)! Trading Center May Suspend Business.

VISITORS LEAVE CAR

Logan, O.,— (UP) Guy Jackson of Good Hope Township, entertained visitors at his chicken roost one night recently. He Avar not there to receive tlrem but lie saw them off. They left in a car and he followed them. They turned down a blind road, turned around and started back, running into his machine. The men fled and left Jackson his chickens, Avith neatly wrung necks, and their automobiles. CAT IS WARY ANIMAL

.Geneva, O., (U.P.) — Geneva boasts a six- x toed cat, veteran of two automobile accidents, who even keeps a wary eye on things

Chicago, Jan. 2.—Further Federal restrictions on grain speculation may cause the Chicago Board of Trade to close its doors, an eventuality which, according to Peter B. Carey, a vice president, the board of directors has contentplated. “We might as well; few traders are doing any business; the government agencies are doing most of the trading,” Carey observed today. Outside his door had died the day’s tumult and uproar of the “pit,” unchecked in three-quarters of century. During the world war free trading Avas suspended, but the pit operated to acquire wheat for beleagured Europe. The Board. of Trade determined to close its doors during the depression of 1873 but. Marshall Field and Levi Z. Leiter dramatically shouted against it from the trading floor and the doors remained open. Mew $12,000,000 Building The present home of the Board of Trade, a $12,000,000 peak of forty-four stories, crowned with a gigantic statue of Ceres, rising 608 feet above LaSalle street, has been open only a year. ,Tt‘s time Ave fight back at those Avho.*have. tried to make the Board of Trade the goat in this farm relief business,” Carey said.

ROBERT EMMET O’CONNOR CAN’T 'SHAKE OFF THAT POLICE DETECTIVE LOOK

His fame as the stage and screen’s favorite police detective has brought much Avoe into the Iffe of Robert Emmet O’Counor, although it sometimes saves him a

speed ticket.

Working late one night. during the filming of Joan CraAvford’s new starring talkie, “Paid,” Sunday,. Monday and Tuesday at the Rivoii Theater, O’Connor blew out a tire on his way home and sought a telephone to summon aid from a garage. He rang the doorbell at the oaiiy house still lighted and waited expectantly on the porch. No one answered the bell but from within O’Connor heard scuffling of hurried fet, running Avater amj sihashiug of glass. While he pondered upon the unusual situation, the door was opened and a rather breathlesschap peered out. “Okey, bring in your bulls,” Avas the welcotne, “they-ain’t a drop left in the whole joint!” O’Connor ; is;.' seen as the detective in “Paid,’.’ which Metro-Gold-AvyiuMaVer adapted.from the Avide-ly-known Bayard Veiller underworld drama, “Within the LaAV.” The supporting cast includes Robert Armstrong, Marie Prevost, Kent Douglass, a newcomer to the screen Avho has the romantic opposite Joan Crawford,.John,-'MU*

jan and others.

Sam Wood, Avho recently produced John Gilbert’s successful

By Anna B. Towse

OAST and coffee and the morning newspaper. That ig what some folks call breakfast. But it is not a good breakfast on which to begin a good day’s work. The better the break-

fast, the better day!

The human machine which is subjected to so much wear and tear, must have sufficient ammunition to meej; the day’s strain and the nutritious breakfast provides it. Too, a good breakfast stimulates peristaltic action and if this functional process is delayed or abused by poor diet, it means that the body is not enjoying its usual

good health.

Many doctors claim that diet is the most important single item in the treatment of constipation. Yet how many folks depend daily ppon such artificial remedies as agaragar, milk of magnesia and mineral oils, when what they really need to do first is to create a healthy 'bodily condition by starting off the day with a good break-

fast.

Fruit should be included ih every breakfast menu — orange juice, grape fruit, fresh fruit in season, baked apples. Today transportation facilities have brought fresh fruit within the reach of every family at a reasonable price. Stewed fruits are not to be scorned nor is the proverbial boarding house prune to be ignored. We need never tire of cereals with the great variety on the market, cooked and uncooked. If bananas or fresh peaches are your fruit for breakfast, slice them over an uncooked cereal sensed with evaporated milk. The evaporated milk brings out the flavor of your fruit and It may give to your breakfast, even another variety of taste. Then there are eggs, griddle cakes, or toast and hot muffins. And best of all meals is the breakfast eaten with leisure. Menu I Orange Juice Uncooked Cereal Popovers Strawberry Jam Instant Coffee Popovers 1 % cups bread 2 eggs flour 14 cup Evaporated Itsp. sugar milk 14 tap. salt 14 cup water Sift flour, then measure. Resift with other dry ingredients. Beat eggs thoroughly and add milk, diluted with the water. Combine liquid'and dry ingredients and beat

thoroughly with a Dover beater until the batter is free from lumps and is full of bubbles. Pour into well greased hot muffin tins, filling half full. Bake 15 minutes in a hot oven (425 e F.) then reduce to moderate oven (375 °F.) and baka 25 minutes. Yk-ld: 8 popovers.

Menu II Baked Apple Whole Wheat Scrambled Eggs Buttered or French fogst Currant Jelly ’ Cocoa Scrambled Eggs 6 eggs 1 cup evaporated 14 tsp. salt milk Dash pepper 2 tbsp. butter Beat eggs until they are no longer stringy. Add salt, pepper and milk. Put butter into hot saucepan; when it bubbles, add egg mixture. Stirring constantly, cook over hot water until firm, but no! hard. Two tbsp. grated cheese added to raw mixture gives a very desirable variation. Minced parsley, cress, pimiento, or cooked mushrooms may also be stirred into scrambled eggs just as they are removed from the fire. Yield: 5 servings. Cocoa 2 tbsp. cocoa 114 cups evaporated 2 tbsp. sugar milk Few grains salt 114 cups boiling 14 cup hot water water Mix cqcon, sugar and salt and add hot water. Cook over a Jo\y flame 10 minutes, stirring occa*5on* ally to prevent burning. Add hot diluted milk and continue cooking over hot watej 10 minutes. Whisk with a DoveT egg beater before serving. Yield: 6 servings. French Toast 3 eggs 1 y 8 cups water 14 tsp. salt 12 slices stale 8 tbsp. sugar bread 114 cups evaporated milk Beat eggs, add salt, sugar and milk diluted with the water. Cu| crusts from bread, soak in the custard mixture until quite soft. Brown on both sides on a hot, slightly greased griddle. An aluml* num griddle will require little of no greasing, depending upon pre* vious use. Yield: 6 serving!.

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each other recently. Their deaths

follow each other in the death roll The only .centenarians in Mar- ot ^ ie t° wu

seilles, two Avidows, Madame Georgia’s new stat.e sales tax, Selma Roedel, aged 104, and which became effective October 1,

Madame Arakinan Qvokmiali, age 1929, brought in a total revenue of 110, died within a feAv minutes of $1,753,027 the first year.

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AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE GREATEST MURDERER

She’s a slayer!

P '.TTLE CREEK. MICH.—The gentle hax.us of tlie American cook are

while he sleeps. His mistress calls

him Richard but he’s “Pop Eye’ 1 charged by Dr ^ Harvey KeUogg

with being the co’antry’s greatest death agency. She destroys several times msro lir s than murderers, automobiles and a dozen other of the great killing agencies, the health authority

asserts.

Research in the nutrition laboratories of the Battle Creek Sanitarium was described h? Its head as revealing that the most dominant features of

A school teacher’s chance of eA r ei', today’s mortality tables are due to making a high salary is only about dietary errors. “Experience has shown half as good as the chance of a how our patients are much Improved woman who enters commercial and addition to their diet of the manufacturing fields. l *®~ c ***®d foods, which cen-

to the neighbors. He has six toes on each of his four feet. Staticians credit him with only seven lives now. He’s been run over twice i convincing fashion. The habit of sleeping with one eye open, neighbors state, was acquired following Richard’s second tiff with an au-

tomobile.

tain an abundance of vitamins, minerals and residue,” he said. “Cases of chronic circulatory disease, chrome arthritis, chronic gastro-lntestinal disease and migraine have been cured by a change to this diet, giving up one consisting chflVy of bread, butter, meats, potatoes and sweet desserts, all but butter being vitamin-poor. "We have reproduced degenerative disorders, affecting especially the heart, blood vessels and kidneys, multitudes of times In our laboratory animals by changes of diets. Then we have restored them to health by making the game nutritional changes that we bring about In the case of httaiss suffe?e£4.“

PAID l Quarterly Dividend January 1 the regular quarterly dividend on the Preferred Stock of Indiana General Service Company

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