Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 7 August 1931 — Page 2
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 1931.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT
S Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Monel*, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The
•sly Democratic Newspaper la Delaware County.
^""jlntered as second class matter January 15. 1921, at the PostoMce
HI Mnncls, Indiana, under the Act of March I, 1879.
AT HEEKIN PARK, AUGUST 19
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228 North Elm Mreet—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher. Geo. R. Dale, Editor.
Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 7, 1931.
Again Loans We notice that the school board is negotiating a temporary loan of $42,000 to pay operating and instruction costs until the fall taxes are received by the board. And the county is negotiating a $39,000 to pay off evidences of the great Hoover prosperity. But the city administration doesn’t .lom the list ot the governmental borrowers and while other units were busy wrestling with loans and their repayment the Dale administration has instead piled up sizeable surpluses in the various funds. Twice yearly the school board borrows often as high as $77,000 to ease them over until the taxes come in and then, the loans with the interest is repaid and about that time they are ready to start the process all over again. We are greatly interested in the annouhcement of the new school superintendent in which he was quoted in The Press as having stated that the $42,000 loan of the school board was for the purpose of INCREASING BALANCES ON HAND NEXT AUGUST 1. Further—“THAT THE SCHOOL CITY JUST AS ANY OTHER BORROWER, MUST HAVE SUFFICIENT BALANCE ON HAND IN ORDER TO BORROW MONEY.” Our hope is that Supt. Horton was MISQUOTED in The Press for if that is his belief of the temporary loan of $42,000 then he has most certainly a lot to learn and this school board will be a training class for the new school head— For we can’t see how the temporary loan which will be paid back from the fall taxes within the next five months is going to increase any balances on next August 1. We wish that he or any other person would kindly explain such logic. Further that if the school board has sufficient balance to borrow money why borrow money. About the only use of borrowing the money would be to help out the bankers here who in supplying the loan also loan the board part of its own money. ,, „ _ T With such logic, if he is quoted correctly, Supt. Horton may be able to satisfy the school board, but his explanation is far from satisfactory to the citizens of Muncie. Democrats Surrender , Although two supposed Democrats have been elected by the city council to the school board we notice that the pair surrendered the board over to the Republicans when they selected Will F. White, the Republican member to serve as president for the ensuing year. It doesn’t look as if there is going to be any change in the school policies despite the fact that the Democrats won the last municipal election and the party men selected to the board seem to be content in riding along with the Republican management without a stir. Dailies Peacemakers? Even this hot weather there has been some interesting developments recorded by the daily newspapers. The Press Commentator blossomed out a few days ago -with the startling information that Billy Williams, Republican old gang boss, and Cal Paris arch enemy of'Billy were now ju^t as chummy as a couple of turtle doves. This astounding revelation came about as the great efforts of the Commentator, so he thinks, and the Republican factions leaders are now right neck to neck and their fondest hopes and anxieties are of each others welfare. Further, the Commentator visited with the Great Billy and discussed with him his various hobbies, his moods, his reactions, his ambitions, and enjoyed the masterful wit and keen insight of the Postmaster from Selma and out of the smoke there drifted a great humanizing inspiration of mediation of the warring Republican factions. Paris after the publication of the Commentators fine dove of peace flutter declared pointedly that if Billy Williams was such a great fisherman he didn’t know it for he had never received even a minnow from the piscatorial successes of the old gang boss and really there are few fast friendships without an exchange of fish. Not to be outdone The Star entered the list of mediators, thinking perhaps that if the afternoon daily could cement the warring Republican factions and bring Billy Williams and Cal Paris into such devoted Companionship there certainly must be a mission for them. So The Star imagined that Mayor Dale and City Judge Mann should be mediated as they propose for the great development of Muncie and one lengthy editorial was written and published thinking perhaps the offer of mediation would find fertile soil and the beautiful dove of peace rest serenely in the city hall. Both the Star and the Press suddenly become so beneficient to the citizens of Muncie and they, too, we guess are ready to do their good deed to make up for the slighting the citizens received while the Republican old gang exploited the taxpayers with high taxes and high public improvement costs. It seems so strange that the daily newspapers become so benign and solicitous about the citizens since the Democrats got into office and it is indeed a contrast with the customary traditions of these two sources of Republican old gang inspiration. After all, with them, perhaps it’s the weather that inspired the benevolent moves and with the passing of the hot wave will they lapse back into their old coma.
Supt. Hole of the parks department announces that on August 19 the Cardinal entertainers from Alexandria will present an entire evening’s entertainment for the people at Heekin Park. This group of entertainers have a varied progrom of music and features and a great treat is in store for the audience.
34 ARE JAILED IN KNOX COUNTY
Dry Officers Conduct Wholesales Raids at Vincennes.
Pennsylvania woman regained lost speech after being stung by a bee. The husband’s reactions are not disclosed.
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“Give me neither poverty nor riches,” says a philosopher: But if it must be one or the other, let it be riches, please. Germany might drag herself out of her financial woes for the time being by selling the Crown Prince to some zoo. The heat didn’t break hard enough to hurt: A Wisconsin woman eloped with two men the same day, but it seems one of them escaped.—Doyton Daily News. The fee system has been emptying the county jail at Crown Point and soon the sheriff will be wanting more salary- .' . T • ...
Mayor’s Corner (Continued from PagU One) year. One newspaper critic, finding reason even to complain about this, makes light of it and asserts that it will mean only a few cents saving for each taxpayer, and will not be noticed. Nevertheless the sixty thousand to the good will pay my salary twenty times over. For the first time in modern history Muncie will npt be required to borrow a cent this year, nor will it be necessary to create a single bond issue for any purpose whatever, unless some sudden and unlocked for emergency arises. Not only that but there will be a balance in the general fund at the close of the present year greater than that of last year. It has been said that the council, possessed of a queer mania to disturb the equilibrum of the various executive departments of the city, threatens to cut the tax rate ten cents lower and to reduce salary and wages budget items. Muncie is now paying the highest wages for labor in the street and park department of any city in the state, from fifty to fifty-five cents an hour. All departments can function admirably next year with the budget and tax levy presented by the controller, without cutting wages. It is reported that the proposal is to cut the street department to thirty-five cents an hour and reduce the salary of Bill Daniel, street commissioner thirty percent, and that Dewey Hole, Park superintendent and his men are to suer the same reductions at the hands of the council. I sincerely hope that this threat is wholly unfounded and I am sure that the council will signally fail if it attempts to disarrange the carefully worked worked-out program of the various departments. And I am now appealing to the citizens of Muncie, regardless of political party, to take hand in the game, with a united citizenship protesting against organized attempts of a minority to throw a mom key wrench in the machinery of your local government, these iniquitous plans may easily be frus-
trated.
In conclusion I wish to make the announcement that I will be “on the air,” broadcasting from Radio Station WLBC every Friday afternoon from 5:30 until 6 o’clock. I don’t know what my subject will be next Friday. Tune in an WLBC next Friday at 5:30 p. m. and tell your neighbors to do likewise.
Vincennes, Ind., Aug. 6.—An army of Federal prohibition agents who swooped down on Knox county and Vincennes Wednesday .arrested forty-three persons and crammed the county jail to capacity, with suspected liquor law Yiolators. It was the biggest series of raids ever staged in Knox county. The prohibition officers came from Illinois and Indiana and concentrated at Terre Haute this morning, where they received final instructions on the conduct of the forays. Late this afternoon they struck. The men were under the direction of Charles P. Britt of Indianapolis, deputy prohibition administrator for Indi-
ana.
Evidence on “Buys" Claimed Although the curtain on the prohibition drama was run up this afternoon, more than a month of stage management had been in the charge of two special investigators who had been in this county obtaining evidence since June. Mr. Britt stated Wednesday night that he had evidence of “buys” against the entire list now in cus-
tody.
The raids thinned out the population of liquor dealers considerably, and ensnared some of the most notorious violators of the dis-
trict.
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Man Without a Country
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Peter RubsIsII, the man -without a country, is shown at right listening to Immigration Inspector Joseph V. Mitchell, at Boston, denying him permission to land in this country on the ground Russell is a British subject. The British authorities, however, have just returned him to this country as »n American citizen. Now that both countries refuse him, Russell may'be forced to spend his life on the ocean. He is a firepan on the “S/S. Winona County,-out of Liverpool.
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FARM BOARD IN TROUBLE AGAIN Cotton Planters of South Protest Sales of Cotton to Germany.
Washington. Aug. 6.— CUP)—The farm board, which has encountered its most feverish activity in the hottest part of the summer, strove Wednesday to quiet a tumult in the south as the latest trouble in the grain belt was taken over its head to President Hoover. Senator William J. Harris, Dem., Ga., leader in the protest against the farm board’s reported plan to sell cotton to Germany on longterm credit, was assumed by Commissioner Denman that the board would try to avoid disrupting the cotton market, which just this week reached a 16-year low. Meanwhile, It appeared Germany was unlikely to accept the American proposal to buy either farm board cotton or wheat on long-term credits. Five days have elapsed without any definite propostition from Germany being laid before the board.. A possible solution of the farmproduct purchase problem was seen by some in the agreement Wednesday of New York bankers to extend credit in an unnamed amount to Germany. With money so obtained, Germany could purchase needed farm products here from the current crop, through private sources. This would meet protests against sale of government wheat or cotton, as it would help absorb the current crop. Board officials told Harris there was no proposition as to cotton or wheat before the board. They told him they would act for the farmers’ best interests. Harris interpreted this as a victory in his protest against sale of the board’s stabilization cotton from the 1929 crop carryover. But board officials said they made no pledges. o Germany May Boy American Cotton
Berlin. Aug. 6.—(UP)—Accepting a suggestion of President Hoover, transmitted through Ambassador Frederic M. Sackett, the German Government offered today to buy from the Federal Farm Board 600,000 bales of United States cotton and to acquire an option on an additional 200,000 bales. From most reliable sources It was learned Germany’s proposal was transmitted to Washington last night. President Hoover’s further suggestion that Germany purchase American wheat was temporarily shelved, pending conclusion of the cotton deal. —o Modernism: “No they don't belong to our set. They break entire ly different laws.”
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