Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 February 1931 — Page 2

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1931,

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Moneie, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The oily Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

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Muncie, Indiana, February 27, 1931.

What, Nother Commis? President Hoover has announced in connection with an estimated deficit of $100,000,000 in the Post Office Department that he will ask Congress to authorize the appointment of a Commission to investigate methods to put the postal service on a paying basis. The President is also reported to have said that he had no particular suggestions at this time as to how the revenues should be increased. The suggestion of Postmaster General Brown for an increase in the rate on first class mail from 2 cents to 2Va cents an ounce failed to make a favorable impression on Congress.

Herbert Sees Double. Commenting upon President Hoover’s Lincoln’s birthday address, the Baltimore Sun says that a collection of “principles,” such as enunciated by the President, “gain§ most of its practical significance by application to concrete cases. When the President’s speech is subjected to this test, one must conclude that he has acquired a quite new intellectual outlook during recent weeks, that his memory is a bit hazy, and that he construes his record in the White House in a most extraordinary way.” The Sun quotes from Mr. Hoover’s Lincoln Day speech: The moment the responsibilities of any community, particularly in economio and social questions, are shifted from any part of the nation to Washington, then that community has subjected itself to a remote bureaucracy with its minimum understanding and sympathy Victory over this depression and over our other difficulties will be won by the resolution of our people to fight their own battles in their communities by stimulating their ingenuity to solve their own problems. . . . ” “Clear-cut doctrine!” says the Sun. “But how "does it look when applied to Mr. Hoover’s major works since entering the White House?” The paper cites the Federal Farm Board Act and the Smoot-Hawley Tariff law as the outstanding enactments of the Hoover Administration, and says: “He does not appear to have been impressed by the dangers of‘having agrarian ingenuity sapped by Federal control. He did indicate a concern about the danger of having his plan get overweighted with bureaucracy, for, in urging its adoption, he told Congress: ‘No governmental agency should engage in buying and selling and price-fixing of products, for such courses can only lead to bureaucracy and domination.” But they were words, mere words. A Farm Board, entirely of Mr. Hoover’s choosing, has engaged on prodigious scale in ‘buying and selling and price-fixing of products,’ and he has not been heard to make the tiniest peep of complaint or criti-

cism.”

Concerning the tariff act, the Sun says: “Here, instead of attempting to stimulate the ingenuity of our producers, the President has buttressed them against a tiny fringe of foreign competition, by mandate from Washington that is administered by one of the most farflung of bureaucracies.” It compares his former position on drought relief, which it says “shows him in the forefront of the prabtical proponents of that paternalistic Federal Government which he scores in his Lincoln’s birthday speech. “Placed against the broader background of his record in the White House to date,” he paper concludes, “Mr. Hoover’s speech represents a remarkable conflict between birthday oration preachments and practical performance.” Legge Elucidates Lengthily. Chairman Alexander Legge of the Farm Board testified before the House Ways and Means Committee recehtly on the Burtness Bill to put an embargo for one year on wheat and some other farm products. He told the committee, according to a report of his testimony in the daily press, “that the flexible clause, which President Hoover regarded as the most important feature of the Hawley-Smoot tariff, doesn’t work for the benefit of agriculture in the present emergency. “It takes too long for the Tariff Commission to make its findings under the flexible clause, Mr. Legge testified, and even when the process is completed, the commission can do no more than recommend duties to equalize the cost ol production at home and abroad. With foreign countries selling agricultural products below the present cost of production, Mr. Legge said, such equalization affords no real protection to American farmers.” Chairman Legge urged favorable action on the Burtness Embargo Bill. He admitted that the proposed embargo would do our relations with other countries no good. Vestal Vets Villian. Instead of being a friend of the ex-service men, Congressman Vestal proved to be a villan to them for he was one of just seventy-eight members of Congress to vote to keep needy ex-service men from obtaining advance payments on money they will receive in a few years. During these trying “Hoover Panic” times friends of the ex-service men evolved the plan to permit the men an advance draw to hip them out of the present distress. President Hoover and Andy Mellon, both opposed such assistance. House and Senate passed a measure to give relief to the needy ex-service men, but the President vetoed it—without suggesting that a commission be appointed to delve intf the topic. And Vestal was one of just seventy-eight Congressmen to vote to uphold the veto while the number in favor of the plan was above the 300 mark. * Vestal’s veteran friends in the Eighth District can now point with unpardonable pride upon their FRIEND VESTAL. veteran teacher dies Lindley Bill Killed By House

SAYS DICTATOR WANTEDJN U. S. Senator Walsh Expresses Own Ideas of Public Opinion.

Washington, Feb. 2G.— (UP) — Popular suspicion of Congress and its motives represents a desire, among many influential persons, for a dictator in the United States, Senator Thomas J. Walsh, Demo- (

crat, Montana, believes.

“There has been much talk against an extra session of Congress,” Walsh said yesterday. “That indicates the belief Congress is a necessary evil of which the country ought to have as little |

as possible.

“Many influential persons in the J United States want a dictator.

That is what it means.”

Walsh, Senate investigator and prosecutor extraordinary, said the Senate is at a distinct disadvantage in its frequent disputes with the President. The subject is one upon which the grey-haired west- (

erner feels very keenly,

j Walsh discussed these matters in connection with his efforts to obtain Senate action against three of President Hoover’s power commissioners. Against two of these, action was forestalled, but at Walsh’s behest the Senate has obtained the services of John W. Davis, Democratic presidential nominee in 1924,! to prosecute an ouster effort | against Chairman George Otis

Smith. •

The Montana senator said four influences worked “to embarrass” the Senate in its attempt to act against the commissioners. Ho gave these as the chief factors: 1. The opinion of the attorney

Hoover Portrait Completed By Noted British Artist

Washington. —Douglas Chandor, noted British artist, has just completed his much discussed portrait

of President Hoover.

Chandor’s famed paintings of H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, the British Prime Ministers, and Her Majecty the Queen of Roumania led TIME the weekly news magazine to commission him to do the

New Richmond, Ind., Feb. 25.— The body of John T. Harriman, 62 years old, former head of the New

Indianapolis, Feb. 26.—UP—The House today killed the Lindley Senate bill proposed a moratorium

Richmond schools, was brought |for one year, beginning February here for burial yesterday. He died 9, 1931, on the sale of property for

at Jeffersonville. Born in Waynetown, he began teaching school when he was 18 and followed the profession for forty-four years. He attended Valparaiso university and was graduated from the Uniysrsity of Louisville.

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delinquent taes. There was no debate on the House floor before voting. The bill was one of many introduced in the legislature designed for the relief, of tax burdened property owners.

Governor Signs Township Measure

Indianapolis, Feb. 25.— (UP)— Governor Harry G. Leslie yesterday signed a bill that would permit a township to issue bouds for payment of judgments rendered against it. It was introduced in the state Legislature by Senator Alonzo Lindley, Republican, Kingman, to allow payment of a $17,000 judgment owed the city of Clinton for school transfers.

GIVES STORY OF MORGUE SCENE Officer Tells About Con- > f'ession Regarding Drinking Party.

Valparaiso, hid., Feb. 25.—UP— The dramatic scene in a morgue which led Virgil Kirkland, of Gary, favorite at young set drinking parties, to confess the repeated indignities forced upon Arlene Draves, his 18-year-old sweetheart, the night she died, was described today at Kirkland's trial on a first degree murder charge. Kirkland, his hair sleekly combed, averted his eyes from the hushed courtroom as Lieutenant Paul Thixton, Gary policeman, testified. “After we arrested kjikland and took him to the statioii, we questioned him about the party at the David Thompson home,” Thixton said. Thixton quoted Kirkland as admitting that “everybody was drinking” at the party. Kirkland, however, was sober at the time of his arrest, the officer added. “Kirkland told me that Arlene became ‘hazy’ during the party and that he took her outside to revive her,” Thixton said. “I asked Kirkland to go to the morgue with me to see the girl’s body,” Thixton continued. VDepuly Coroner Chester A. Owen accompanied us. “After we looked at the body, we asked Kirkland if he attacked the girl. Kirkland denied it. “Owens then told Kirkland about the condition of Arlene’s body-r—the bruises and tpe blood. Kirkland began to cry. He sobbed on my shoulder for some time. Then he began to confess. “He admitted that he and four other meu had attacked Arlene during the night. "We returned to the police station and Kirkland gave a confession admitting that he attacked the girl cfoi the porch of the Thompson home and attempted to attack her twice later.

all the members of his cabinet. All but three of these paintings have been completed. Many of them have already appeared on the cov-

ers of TIME.

The portrait of President Hoover

general that the Senate had no au- _ , , - .. . TT rt „, rQ _ thority to act after having confirm- ^ * a o

ed the nominations.

2. The prestige of the President.

3. Partisanship.

4. Power company influence. Attorney General Mitchell’s opinion and the presidential prestige, Walsh thought, would have great influence with the people. “The Senate has inferior means of publicity compared with the President,” he explained. “I know of but one controversy between the Senate and the executive in which the country failed to back ihe President. That exception was the impeachment proceedings against President Johnson.” —! n k (

is life size, three-quarter length, and shows the President seated at the head of the Cabinet table. The artist has a harmony of dark reds and greens as his color scheme and has usfed th^-idjtheu'lt method of double lighting m order to obtain the effects of full shadowing. Five sittings, of twenty to forty minutes, were given to the celebrated Briton by President Hoover. The final sitting took place in the cabinet meeting room in the White House on January 24th. A reproduction in color y of this portrait will appear in an early issue of TIME.

Assembly Now Speeding W ork

Indianapolis, Feb." 2j.—(UP)— Work in the Indiana Huuse of Representatives moved at a rapid pace today, thp body killing an amusement tax measure and the bill removing municipally owned utilities

lisii public mUities without author-

ization of tiie commission. The Senate daylight saving bill,

prohibiting fast time in Indiana, was amended by the House natural g resources committee to exclude all

‘CIMARRON’ AS PICTURE OPTS FERRE NOVEL

Film Version Proves Even Greater Than Book.

Coming to the theatergoing public by Radio Pictures, Edna Ferber’s epic “Cimarron,” at the Rivoli theater, Sunday, is even more powerful than the great story, read by millions in America. “Cimarron,” the picture, is all that is gripping in “Cimarron,” the

story.

Richard Dix as Yancey Cravat seems to have walked right out of the pages of the book. Lon Yountis will never be really slain until you see Dix do it, in the most poignant scene of talking picture history, the Osage gambling tent sermon

episode.

And those stupendous clashes of wills between Yancey and Sabra, as portrayed by Dix and Irene Dunne, should make the original story more than an epic. It becomes an immortal record of those deep psychological differences between American men and women, out of which has arisen the fundamental character of our nation. New Type of Spectacle Spectacle scenes abound in this production, but they are a new kind. Through the wizardry of Wesley Ruggles, director, they transcend mere spectacle and be come inspiring flashes which punc tuate and make the produstion as realtistic as early Oklahoma itself. The sutpendous land rush scenes, in which thousands of vehicles, animals and players appear is presented in such an ingenious fashion that the the spectator is apt to feel himself a part of this spectac-

ular episode.

Standing clear and unfettered above all the artistic accomplishments of this production, however, is one great fact. For once, a motion picture producer has taken not a single dramatic license. “Cimarron” of the talking screen, is Edna Ferber's “Cimarron,” complete, truthful in every detail.

Dix in Greatest Role

Dix, hero of a score of notable screen roles has never been seen to better advantage. One feels that Edna Ferber wrote her great novel with Dix in mind as Yancey Cravat. Irene Dunne steps to the foremost ranks of the screen’s dramatic actresses in “Cimarron.” Gems of characterizations are offered by William Collier, Jr., Edna May Olive, Estelle Taylor, George E. Stone and Rosco Ates.

Hoover Vetoes Vets Loan Bill

Washington, Feb. 26.—UP—President Hoover today vetoed the Veterans Loan bill which Congress had passed. He sent the bill back to Congress with a spirited message in which he pronounced the measure “unwise from the standpoint of the veterans themselves and unwise from the standpoint of the welfare of all the people/’ The message was delivered to the House of Representatives where the Veterans Loan bill originated. The president objected to the legislation on the ground that the treasury has insufficient funds to meet increased obligation estimated by treasury officials at a billion dollars or more. He also contended that it was unsound in principle to try to .aid business by borrowing money from some of the people to give funds to those in need. In vigorous language the executive told how the government has spent around $5,000,000 (billion) for veterans relief hospitalization and welfare since the war; He pledged himself to continue these expenditures but protested against giving increased loan al-

lowances as an aid in the existing economic situation.

Washington, Feb. 26.—(UP)— President Hoover concluded his veto message on the Veterans’ loan bill today and. prepared to send it to congress within a few hours. The president is understood lb have based his objection to the measure briefly upon these points: 1. It might place a million dollai strain upon the treasury at a time when government finances are such additional money should not be raised. 2. A contention that only a small fraction of veterans are really in need and that they can be taken ca/i*e of by other means. While the veto message was apparently a futile effort to kill a bill endorsed by an overwhelming majority of congress, Mr. Hoover exercised great care in its preparation. During the past three days, he has inspected reports from Secretary of Treasury Mellon and Veterans Affairs Administrator Hines. The first proof of the message was ready last Tuesday. Mr. Hoover worked until late last night upon the final draft of the veto message. It was being made ready this morning for presentation to the House.

from the jurisdiction of the public j cities but Indianapolis, and the reservice committee, and amending j port was adopted. As approved bv the daylight saving measures .so,;lhe House, the bill would not that it would apply only to indt [change existing laws concerning

(daylight saving regulations.

anapolis.

The Douglas house bill, proposing a ten per cent tax on admission receipts of all amusement houses, excepting when (lie program presents • church or school plays, dances, athletic contests and state and county fairs, was killed upon recommendation of the judiciary B

committee.

Upon recommendation of the cities and towns committee, the Wii-son-Eikenbary house measure was killed. It provided for removal oi all municipally owned utilities from the jurisdiction of the public serv ice commission, and would havt permitted Indiana cities to estab

VALUE OF HERD HINGES ON SIRE

Proved Bull is the Surest of Improving Herds; Exercise IN ceded.

The importance of keeping a proved bull can not be stressed too emphatically. Altogether too often good sires are sent to the butcher long before their value is*knowu, principally because their owners did not keep records on the daugh ters, and therefore, did not have any way of determining their value. If production records are kept on a bull’s first five daughters he is a proved bull. If these first five daughters produce more than their dams the bull shouud be kept in the herd indefinitely, while if they produce less than their dams he

The majority report of the cit ies and towns committee favoring passage of the Furnas-Eikeiibary-Black measure providing for appointment of boards of works and city attorneys by mayors of third, fourth and fifth class cities, was

adopted.

-As originally introduced, the provisions of the bill would have been mandatory upon the mayor, but as adopted, they would he optional The city council would be required to approve the mayor’s selection. The minority report would have limited the provisions to affect fifth class cilies only.

should be disposed of as . soon as

this fact is determined.

Many bulls do not receive ihe proper attention- white they are in the herd, even to negligence ot feeding. When' the bull is in full service he should receive about the

Sheriff Identifies Charles Lennon

Marion, Ind., Feb. 56.—(UP>— Twelve farmers composing the jury trying Charles Lennon on a charge of participating in the lynching of two negroes last August 7, heard Jacob Campbell, former sheriff, identify Lennon as a mob leader. Campbell was the first witness for the state, and the only one on the stand yesterday. The state was expected to complete its evidence in time for the defense to open i(s testimony today It was expected the case would go to the jury tomorrow.

GAMING WARNING GIVEN

Rochester, Ind., Feb. ?3.—Official notice was given yesterday afternoon by Prosecutor Daniel S. Perry that any one in Fulton county possessing any kind of gambling device must get rid of it at once or suffer prosecution. Similar action

same ration as is given the dairy, has been taken in adjoining coun-

cows. A good ration, to be fed with lies, plenty of clover hay and a limited ambunt of corn silage, is made up

of 3U0 pounds ground corn, 300 pounds ground oats, 200 pounds wheat bran, and 200 pounds linseed meal. Barley or wheat may be sub-

stituted for the corn.

Exercise is important, and n

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Typhoid Fatal to Educator

Goshen, Ind., Feb. —(UP) — Typhoid fever caused the. death here last night of Noah Oyer, 39, for the past six years dean of Goshen college. Oyer was dean of Hestson college, Hesston, Kas., prior to com-, ing to Goshen. .\ The widow, two daughters and a son, survive.

Purdue Gets $50,000 Gift

Small Girl Killed By Train Kendallviile, Ind., Feb. —(UP) —Dorothy Lambert, 6, was killed here late yesterday whgn a trair struck the auto in which she was rWing with her grandfather, How ard Lombard, 60, Fort Wayne. The child suffered a broken neck. Lombard probably will recover.

Auto Is Struck by Two Trains Lafayette, Ind.—The new dormi-jthe second housing 118 men, while Areola, Ind., Feb. 26.—(UP)—A tor y for men at Purdue'university, I the first takes care of 153. Tiie double crossing crash here late yes- Franklin Levering Cary Hall, made j new building is modern in every terday caused the death of the three'possibie by a gift of $50,000 to} {way, each man having a separate occupants of the machine, after it Frank Cary, of Lafayette, in mem-1 room and equipment. Each of the had been struck by two Pennsyl-

vania trains.

Charles Piatt, 67, driver; John

ory of his sou. Three years ago Mr | dormitories has a faculty member

aud Mrs. Cary made a similar gift for the construction of the first

Hoffener, 21, and Piatt's foster son, men’s dormitory. The two build Robert, 5, were killed, ings are similar in construction.

is counselor. Tiie new dormitory will aid greatly in handling the. rapidly growing student body at

Purdue.

Arraign Kowbuttom Friday Indianapolis, Feb. ?J.— (UP) — Harry E. Rowbottom, Evansville. Republican congressman from the First Indiana district, indicted on nine counts on charges of taking $1,750 for aid in obtaining postal appointments, will be arraigned in Federal court here Friday. o FORMER RENSSELAER HAMMOND MAN KILLED Hammond, Ind., Feb. 26—Henry j Brochardt, 64 years old, Hammond merchant, was found dead on Ridge road near Wicker park yesterday. Police believe he -was bit by an automobile as lie crossed tiie highway and was left to die by a nit and run driver. o Senate Urged to Consider Farmers

ilndianapolis, Feb. 27.—(UP) — Farmers and representatives of serum manufacturing companies pleaded with the Senate committee on agriculture last night to kill the House bill prohibiting farmers from administering serums to their own livestock. Under terms of the measure, representatives of serum firms would be prohibited from dispensing advice or instruction with their products. The provisions also would apply to manufacturers of animal remedies.

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