Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 September 1931 — Page 3

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1931.

MAYOR’S CORNER

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made by Haylor. Lest you forget permit me to name who call themselpes democrats voted the for motion by Haylor. Lest you forget permit me to namei

spreading infamous slanders in a vain effort to defeat me. But Mr. Cromer is more than that. He is the secretary and paid attorney of the Central Indiana Gas company,

which hires the industrial engineer.

It is hardly necessary for me to make a blue print and hold it up for your inspection in order to locate for you the gentleman of color, so neatly concealed in this political woodpile. .... ‘. . . It should be apparent to you that the gas company, in-

these counterfeit democrats: Parkinson, Hole, terested in forcing you to take its word for the correctness

Grady, Shroyer, Tumleson, Everett and Smith. Voting with them were the four republicans, Hayler, Blease, Maick and and James. Councilmen Winder and Kleinfelder, true to their trust, poted

against this unholy alliance.

Not one of the seven democrats who have tied up with the republican machine would have been elected if the voters of Muncie had had the the slightest idea that they were contemplating such

amazing treachery!

I might tell you, in detail of the devilish ingenuity of the conspirators in their effort to ham-

string every department, btu as my time is limited I will merely mention this afternoon the street department. The council’s attempt to reduce the salary of Bill Daniels, street commissioner, from $2,600 a year to $1,800, was a crime in itself; a petty, pernicious effort to penalize an efficient public servant, under whose direction the street department has functioned in a manner that has pleased the citizens of Muncie beyond experssion. The wrecking crew wanted to fine Bill $800 a year for the good he has done. It’s a wonder to me they did not add ninety days on the penal farm with the expectation that Judge Mann would refuse to suspend the sentence, since Bill is not a bootlegger. /And then the conspirators seek to limit the funds for gathering your garbage, your ashes and your rubbish, to the point that you will complain of your filthy surroundings, and charge it to the mayor and his appointee, the street commissoner. They want to force you to go back to the days of former administrations, when the streets, alleys and garbage cans were neglected. To the day when you had to hire somebody to haul away your refuse. To the days when the street department was a haven of rest for worn out political hacks who sat around in the city barns and spat at the stove and cracked funny jokes at your expense when you vainly telephoned for somebody to come after your garbage. But let us get back to Councilman Hayler, and see if we can’t figure him out. Who is Rodney Hayler, republican councilman from the fourth ward. The new city directory lists Mr. Hayler as follows: “Hayler, Rodney G., Industrial Engineer, Central Indiana Gas Company.” The gas company, as you all know, is a benevolent and philanthropic association, organized for the purpose of selling gas with a possible admixture of atmosphere, charging you therefor a triflling sum each month, the quality being gauged by the company’s metefk One of my campaign pledges, which was also the pledge of all democratic candidates for councilman, was city meter inspection for all utilities. Seven of the democratic councilmen forgot their pledge after they were safely elected, and combining with the four republicans, refused to appropriate money for meter inspection. I don’t know what an industrial engineer is, but I do know that Mr. Hayler, utility employee and public official industriously engineered things in the council and headed off meter inspection. He also industriously engineered himself into the important function fo serving as official mouthpiece of the

council.

It might also be regarded as a singular fact that the office of George W. Cromer, in the Western Reserve building, is the gathering place of the council conspirators, both democrat and republican. And who, pray tell, is George W. Cromer? For one thing, as I remember it, Mr. Cromer headed the department of strategy for my-republican opponent, and was chief of staff of the slander department, with its whispering and

Food for Thought

the Luther College, Fergus Falls, Minn., with insufficient

funds t# pay their tuition need not worry this Fall. The trustees have armnuftced they will accept wheat grown on farms irom which vu. ‘ students come in payment of the tuition. E._ H. Ness, of the coLcg

shown accepting a load of gram from one of the ftri

students,

of meter readings, is using its employes to control the legislative acts of your public servants and that it feels itself so secure in its position thAt it brazenly sicks its dogs on the

administration.

I don’t know who heads the Central Indiana Gas company. It was my impression that it is an Insull outfit, but the management denies this. But whoever it is, Sam Hill or Sam Insull, the fact remains that utility interests control eleven members of your city council and are not only seeking to dynamite the present administration but are secretely laying their plans to control all branches of the next admin-

istration.

A local afternoon daily, praising the council for what it seeks to do, did a little figuring yesterday and published the result. According to the Press mathematician, the twen-ty-three cent cut advocated by the council will mean a saving of $23 a year for every citizen of Muncie paying taxes

on $10,000 worth of property.

I am surprised at this editorial conservatism. With three more taps on the typewriter he could have made it ten million and multiplied the saving to $2,300 a year. Assuming that practically all of us have the ten thousand, and that we are all giving vent to three hearty cheers, over that twenty-three bucks, how about Bill Daniels, whose taxes are to increase $800 a year in order to save the twentythree for us millionaires, and how about the men working on the street, whose wages are to be reduced under the plan

promoted by Gas House Hayler?

If the cut goes through the boys receiving $22.50 a week will have their taxes increased $340 a year and those re-

ceiving $24.75 a week will be soaked $475 in addition to the P rlsin s in view of the fact that

three or four dollars tax they are paying annually on a few household effects. The same newspaper praises both councils, city and county, for going to the front for the taxpayers. The city controller really cut 8 cents where it hurt. The nine cents chopped off by the county council was from a department which could well afford retrenchment: the road department with its record of gravel dipping and staggering sums spent for some kind of black ointment, used to cover roads and a multitude of sins. All of you know how the road department in the county has for years squandered money for mountains of unused gravel. The last pile erected to the memory of the gravel trust was actually dipped in Madison county, at a cost of eleven cents a yard in excess of gravel that could have been secured in our own county. Probably the commissioners had in mind that the people of Delaware county were tired of looking at mountains of unused gravel in their own jurisdiction and started a mountain range in another county, where the startled taxpayers of Delaware county would not see it every day, and would suppose it belonged to Madison county if they did. At any rate, the reduction affected that department alone. The other departments were untouched. The county council therefore must not be compared to the city council and it was with ill grace that the newspaper classifying them together, blatantly declared that Mayor Dale opposed tax reduction in Muncie, when the controller and myself authorized the first voluntary cut in the city rate in the history of the city. ... It must have been elevating to the citizens of Delaware county to note the anxiety of State Senator Roy Friedley, who plead with the county council to reduce taxes. Friedley’s record in the last legislature brands him as the tool of the special interests. He voted for every utility measure, he voted against every measure introduced that would have curbed'the rapacity of the utilities and his vote and influence were cast with those who destroyed the income tax bill, which would have lightened the load of taxation for the little fellow and would have placed the obligation where it rightfully belongs, upon those who have, rather than upon them who hath not. His appearance before the county council was merely the gesture of the politician, who feels himself slipping, and attempts to restore public confidence in himself by a diohrhea of words that might mean something coming from one who had not already forfeited his right to the respect and confidence of the voters whom he had rankly betrayed. It is not my desire to unjustly berate any citizen or any public official and I trust that you will pardon my plain speaking concerning matters concerning the administration of affairs in our city and county. I despise hypocrisy in every form and as long as I am mayor of Muncie will endeavor to hew to the line of straight speaking and straight performance of my duty as I see it, regardless of criticisms by friend or foe. I am standing firmly behind the tax rate and the budget presented by the controller and will defend all unjust attacks against it. I resent the smug and complaisant assurance given you by those who have destruction in their hearts that a state house bureau will concur in the unreasonable action of the city council. It must also be with a sense of community abasemey.^ that any one should dare the assertion that we are lucky to have state house commissions that will nullify the acts of your elective officers. If I had my way about it the next legislature would wipe out the public service commission, the state tax commission and a dozen other state agencies that have erected in the state house a supergovernment that is hateful to the theory of democratcy and obnoxious in the extreme to those who believe in home rule and that our destinies should remain in our own hands rather than the hands of those who have but a remote iri|terest in the things that are dearest

to our'hearts.

of 5,000 persons heard Rev. Jeffers speak on “law and order” to-

night.

The action followed two outbreaks between rival factions, one headed by Rev. D. H. Heard of the First Baptist church, and the other by a visiting evangelist, Joe Jeffers, from Texas, in the past 24 hours. In a defiant gesture this morning, the evangelistic group held a “prayer meeting” on the steps of the city hall and Jeffers, prayed that ‘‘a bolt from heaven would strike Mayor Herbert

Bouler dead.”

The mayor thereupon ordered the assembly disbanded by force. He was assaulted by the evangelists’ followers, and had to be rescued by a squad of policemen. stateIiakes BIG TRUCK BUY 120 Are Bought From a Marion Company at a Cost of $159,295.

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Indiaapolis, lad., Sept. 11.— Purchase of 120 trucks by the Indiana date highway commission Wednesday came as a shock to followers of commission affairs who had received grapevine reports, from reliable sources, that the commission would buy only a few

new vehicles.

The action was especially sur-

Governor Harry G. Leslie had been reported to have virtually put a “stop order” on truck purchases. Trucks manufactured by the Indiana Truck Corporation at Marion ’were favored with an order for forty machines, which, in dollars, amounted 1 to the largest ' order given by the commission. However, the commission purchased fifty Dodge - trucks, but the order did not mount to as high a total

price.

Target of Criticism • Indiana trucks had been the target of criticism of other bidders. The competitors pointed to the fact that Samuel J. Farrell of Hartford City, a representative of the Company, is a member of the state budget committee. Mr. Farrell has always contended that he has never had any part in sales to the commission | , The Indiana’s method of bidding likewise was criticized. That comunlike the others ,had made separate offer on each old truck ;h the commission proposed to e in on new ones. The other competitors .for the ' commission business had made only a dump offer for the old trucks. Deny "Employment Angle” Exclusive use of the “Indiana enipioyvnent” .angle also was denied to the Indiana company by the other bidders. Among the companies which received the bids, several are large users of Indiana labor. These include, besides the Indiana trucks. Fords- and Studebaker, at South Bend, one of the largest northern Indiana employers of labor. Several other bidders were large employers of Indiana labor. O—

•IpHE flv* major divisions which share the responsibility for the services provided by the Girl Scout national office for the field, will submit reports to ^he annual convention to be held in Buffalo, N. Y., October 14-1T. These divisions, which arejknown as Program, Personnel. Field. Business and Public Relations, axe under the direction of five chairmen, who are respectively Mrs. Arthur O. Choate, Mrs. Hathan L. Miller, Mrs. Fredericl. Brooke, Mrs. Giles Whiting and Mrs. Louis Guerineau Myers. The organization of the Girl Scout national work on the ba^is of these divisions was made as a result of the development plan adopted'ta 1929.

BELIEVE RARE DRUG WILL KEEP GHICAGU MOTHER ALIVE

Chicago. Sept. 11.—(UP)—Mrs. Andrew Nelson received her first treatment yesterday of cortin serum a drug so scarce that a nation-wdde appeal was neccesary before enough could be obtained to save her life, Mrs. Nelson, mother of six children and wife of a jobless carpenter, is almost paralyzed from the effects of Addison’s disease. Her skin is darkened and her flesh is abnormally cold. “We won’t know for 24 hours how beneficial the treatment is,” said Dr. Allen T. Kenyon of the University of Chicago. “The length of treatment required is uncertain. Addison’s disease is caused by destruction of certain

As the treaty grows older, it becomes increasingly clear that the famous mirrors at Versailles didn’t cause enough reflection. A London doctor says sweets will cure asthma. This will prove new wheeze for little Willie. A fisll out of water suffers, but think of an Important citizen in a town that doesn't know he’s impor-

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glands. Cortin and cortex extract supply elements normally provided hy the glands. Because the disease is rare and the treatment new, the results in individual cases

are difficult to forecast.”

Dr. Frederic Hartman of Buffalo, N. Y., supplied 200 cubic centimeters of cortin, made from the glands of cattle. It was trans-

death. The Mayo clinic of Rochester, Minn., announced today that it also had dispatched a supply of cortext extract, enough to last for

perhaps two weeks.

“Yes,” said Nelson, at her bedside, “it was like a sentence of death when physicians told us only

there rare drugs could save herwhat she meant, life, that ske was dying, and that believe it.”

hospitals which had the compounds could not spare them. “We had to have the extract, but we couldn’t get it. Even if it could be spared, I didn’t know how to pay for it. Yesterday, I left my daughter, Jane, with Mother and walked the streets all morning, looking for work. “I was a carpenter up until two years ago. I made good money. I was planning to put all the children through college. Then depression came. I lost my job. If we didn’t have a kind land-lord we’d be out in the street. “Mrs. Nelson’s illness was Ahe

last blow.

“I was in a daze when I came home at noon yesterday. I hadn’t

ported here in an airplane against found work. I looked at Jane

when she ran to the door to meet me. She was smiling. I was so foggy I couldn’t grasp what she was saying. She was trying to tell me that the United Press had phoned. I asked her what about. ‘The serum, the serum, it’s on the way’, she told me. Then I knew

But I couldn’t

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MARTIAL LAW KEEPS CHURCH FACTIONS FROM OPEN FIGHT

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Jonesboro, Ark., Sept. 11.—(UP) —Martial law was declared in this town last night to thwart threatened violence between rival church factions. The order was issued by Gov. Harvey Parnell at Little Rock, upon request of local officials, following two outbreaks in the past 24 hours. Troops were in command of Capt. H. E. Eldridge, head of the R. O. T. C. detachment of the State Agricultural college here. Other National Guardsmen from Blytheville augmented the force. City and county officers surrendered their authority and

troops patrolled the streets, dispersing crowds, directing traffic and keeping persons from the city hall, where the mayor and chief of police yrere attacked this morning by churchmen who attempted to hold a defiant “prayer meettag” ■ A large number of troops surrounded a tent where the Rev. Joe Jeffers, evangelist from Texas, one of the leaders in the church quarrel, was- conducting services. It was Jeffers’ revival that precipitated the church ’ trouble, involving the Rev. D. H. Heard, pastor of the First Baptist church. Each has hundreds qf followers, who are openly antagonistic. It was estimated that upwards

Edgar Kickard. treasurer of the Girl Scouts, will present that organization's, budget for 1 932 to tn<? Seventeenth annual convention which will’ be held in Buffalo, N. Y., October 14-17. Despite the depression the financial position o-' the Girl Scouts has been such as ts ensure the execution of the development plan initiated by the organization I art year and to augur well for a similar success in 1932. Mrs. Rickard has been associated with the Girl Scouts since 1927, when she became a member of the boArd of directors. Mr. Rickard is a member of. the Girl Scout Men’s Fiaaace Committee, which is ..headed ' by - Mi-. ■ Julius ' H. Barnes.

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