Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 12 February 1932 — Page 2

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1932.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing tlie Democrats Muucie, Delaware County ami the Sth Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1979.

PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher Geo. R. Dale, Editor

.Marxio, Indian;;, Friday, February 12, 1932.

“Mellon Plan” vs. “Garner Elan” The Democratic Ways and Means committee of the house is receiving much praise from the press of both parties for eleminating the atroative part of the Hoover-Mel-lon tax plan, and also the proviso that the tax increase be

limited to two years.

The retroactive section would have applied to incomes in the year 1931, payable in 1932, beginning March 15. Obviously this would have been a hardship on all classes of income taxpayers, who had assumed and had a right to assume during the year of 1931, that their taxes would be based on the existing law. To increase taxes upon incomes that have already been received and spent or otherwise disposed of precludes the possibility of the taxpayer from so adjusting his expenditures to meet the proposed increase. Especially is such an injustice felt in a time of great depression like the present, which would require additional sacrifice to meet the increased taxation. Therefore, the business man, whose affairs were conducted on the existing basis of income taxation, and the smaller taxpayer whose income is derived from salary or wagers, and who may be without present resources to pay the proposed increase in the Hobver-Mellon plan, breathe easier for this relief from a threatened burden. The administration proposal to limit the fortcoming increase to two years would have worked further injustice upon the small taxpayer to the advantage of the wealthier class. On the assumption that conditions will be better tw T o years from now, The limitation would relieve the large taxpayer of the increased taxation at a time w ? hen he wmuld be more able to pay, and make a large contribution to the government’s revenues, while the ioss from small taxpayers wmuld be inconsequential comparatively. But that has been the Republican plan of income taxation ever since Mr. Mellon became “the greatest Secretary of the Treasury since, etc.” Its central idea has been to take as’ much of the tax burden as possible from those best able to pay and to transfer as much of that burden as possible upon those least able to pay. It has not-always succeeded, thanks to a miltant Democratic minority and a group of independent Republicans in Congress. In 1924, particularly, it failed completely. The Republican tax bill introduced in Congress that year was known as the “Mellon Plan,” and even before its contents wmre known to members of Congress, it had been generally endorsed by the party press, leading industrialists, and perhaps a majority of the general public as a result of adroit and misleading

advance propaganda.

As a substitute for the “Mellon Plan” the Democrats of the House introduced the “Gainer Plan” named for the Tanking Democrat on the Ways and Means committee at that time, the present Speaker Garner. The “Mellon Plan cut the highest surtax from 50 per cent to 25 per cent, with little exemption for small taxpayers. The “Garner Plan” fixed the maximum surtax at 44 per cent, later reduced to 40 per cent, and raised the exemptions from small tax payers. The “Garner Plan” was adopted, wdiereby 6,656,067 taxpayers were given more benefits than they would have received under the Mellon Plan, which, in turn, gave greater benefits to only 6,109 taxpayers than they would have re-

ceived under the “Garner Plan.”

Since that time the Democrats in Congress have made their influence felt in all taxation legislation. Now 7 that they are in control of the House they are in the position to formulate tax legisation along Democratic lines, assuring equalization of the tax burden, w 7 hich is the fundamental principle underlying all Democratic tax policy. The Democratic fax bill is yet to emerge from the Committee, but the taxpayers have the advance assurance that the worst features of tlw Hoover-Mellon proposal have been killed, which is also an assurance that the bill as a w 7 hole will be free from the impositions and inequalities that always characterize Republican measures of taxation. The public w'ill patiently await any contemplated statement by Senator Fess or Sepretary Hurley that the recent change from warm to snappy cold weather is due to the “great constructive policies of President Hoover.” President IlobVei" has asked for an additional $50,000 to be expended on the White House. Maybe he intends to build a cyclone celkp;.—Hailey (Idaho) Times.

PROSPERITY IS—

JUST AROUND THE CORNER-

—Fruth in the New Yorke*,

MAYOR'S CORNER

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your w 7 ife is hungry, and your babies are hungry, you don’t _

care what they call it.

Ham and eggs have the same appetizing smell, taste just the same and fill the same yawning cavity whether you have to go to Miss Horney or Carl Ross and get clown on ^our knees and pray to them instead of God Almighty to give you your daily bread qs it would if the government mailed you that awful dole, which lousy, pot-bellied, overfed,

Mexico has gone “over the top”; Indiana sent in its check several weeks ago for $7,000 in advance gifts; Florida, California and other States have assured their quotas.

Free “Juice at Fort Morgan

Fort Morgan, a thrifty little city

T _ P , , of northern Colorado, has declared underbred politicians profess to hold in such teiiible dread. i a dividend of one month’s free

It were better, indeed by lai, that a million babies 'pij,, publicly owned

should perish or be blasted for life through undernourish-!power plant is making enouh proment than that the great American people should retreat Tits in eleven months to pay all

o "<?eded oosts’ for twelve. W T here-

for one single instant from its un-, dying, fundamental and constitu-

The Voice of the Kitty

Around City Hail

TORMENT

(Continued From Page One) oaign and figured out the new joh for Mellon. It is one of the habits of Mellon to quit under fire. For a number of years he was in charge of prohibition enforcement. Then a hunch of “wisecrackers and

_ „ , • «i r smart alecs” wanted to know why “The greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alex-i4j le owner and operator of the big-

Question: “Don’t you think a councilman should have the right to get drunk, at least once a year?" T. M. Full, 5718 North Hackley street, ‘‘Yes 1 do, especially if he is a member of the council’s finance committee and is antagonistic to Mayor Dale.” Iva Payne, Home for the Feeble Minded, Ft. Wayne. “No I don’t think a councilman should so live that.he wouldn’t shudder when Die baggageman gets rough with his suitcase. James Johnson Corbett, PretseJ Road, Indiana. “It’s all right for a councilman to take a few drinks, as it creates a market for our surplus product, but when he looses his hat it’s a horse of another color. 1 think he ought to have the Mayor arrested for stealing his hat.” Clinton Bridgeweight, Chicago, 111. “I think it takes a lot of nerve to arrest a councilman for “tanking up,” and I feel that we should investigate the Mayor’s office and the police force for permitting the same of near beer in Muncie.” Cole Blease. 8647 Bavarian avejuue. “It’s a shame to think that any policeman would arrest a prominent democratic member of the common council just for taking nine or ten drinks of good liquor. Of course the man was drunk all right and lost his hat, but in my opinion, the policeman who arrested him should have found his hat and taken him home instead of locking him up with a bunch of drunks ami we, his friends' very much resent it.”

Another red man bit the dust could easily be true if that red man entered the office of the Police Chief this week. Since an industrious salesman demonstrated the wonders performed by a floor wax he was selling and waxed the floor in the Chief’s office, it is rumored that the floors are so slick that Massey used ice skates when going around in his office. Charlies Indorf says he would like to warn all men never to go a rummage sale and lay their hat down unless they want it sold. Mrs. ;ndorf was helping with a rummage sale for their church and thinking he would help a little, Charlie goes hi and takes off his new $5 hat. Mrs. Indorf proceeds to sell Ids bat immediately for 50c. Now, Charlie tells us confidentially, that be didn’t even get the 50c, so take heed all ye men with new hats. The members of the city council presented their new president with “A1 Smith’s Katie,” at the last council meeting. What is poor A1 doing without his hat? And do you think this will ynake “Ora” aspire to be the country’s next president?

antler Hamilton” may soon be known also as “the greatest Ambassador u Great Britain since Charles G. Dawes.

Building

Commissioner

Cost

$ 1.900.00

Permits issued by the building commissioner’s office during the Aveek amounted to $13,881.25. They

are classified as follows:

No.

Additions, alterations & repairs (residential 6 Additions, alterations & repairs (nou-resi-dential 1

Private garages 1

Wiring 1 10.2a Plumbing — 6 730.00 Sewers 3 90.00 Heating Systems —13 3,236.00

Awnings, sighs and

billboards — 3 Ga.00 Total 33 $13,881.25

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of the dual-filament lamps. The tops of the beams should fall just below the horizontal line marked

on the garage doors.

Each lamp should be tested separately. The plug can be pulled from one of the lamps, or it can be covered with an opaque cloth. When adjusting the lamps for angle of rays, car owners may at the same time check the focus. It is good practice, too, to apply a mixture, of lamp black and alcohol with a soft cloth to the reflectors, and to wipe this off when dry. The [illumination can sometimes be

- - doubled or even tripled by this

, ,506.00 c j ean j 1)f ,

350.00 Ciedn

A GRAVE MISTAKE

ADJUST HEADLIGTS; AN EASY HOME

JOB

Correct adjustment of headlights Is a safety measure as Avell as an aid to vision, and can be accomplished in many instances by using the doors of a private garage as a screen. Ascertain the height of the centers of the headlights from the ground, and draw a hoizontal line on life closed door at that height. Then park the car 25 feet from the doors, say on the driveway if it is

Jevel.

Mrs. Brown had a very bad cold. The other day while Mr. Brown was building a chicken house the minister called and asked him how his wife’s cold was. “Is that her coughin’?” he inquired. “No,” Mr. Brown answered, “It’s a chicken house!” Labor o A LIGHT CONVERSATION

An Englishman ,an Irshmaii and a Scotchman were arguing as to which of their respective countries had the lightest men. The Irshman led the argument by saying: “We have men of

Cork.”

That may be,” said the Scotch

Place a normal load in the’man, “but we have lightermen on gar, and switch lu the upper beams the Thames.” —LABOR

gest brewers in this country was handling that particular job for the government. He answered that he had disposed of his holdings in the brewerys. Then some other “limelight lunitics” called attention to the fact that Andy’s disposal was simply a transfer of title to his wife and son. With the fresh evidence. Andy decided to give up prohibition enforcement (??) and it was transferred to the Department of Justice. And again, when under attack, Mellon seelu; refuge in other climes. They’re nard to get when they are pardoned be-

fore they’re tried. o Tap Dance

Program Feature

A tap dance is something neAV on the radio but Polly Walters the movie star, avIio is one of Hollywood’s best dancers, does one this week for the Radio News reel of

Hollywood.

The broadcast, which will he heard over Station WX-W at 6:30 p, m. E.S.T. Thursday night, was recorded during a recent benefit performance in the film capitol. Most of the screen celebrities attended and are introduced by Arthur Caesar, the master of ceremonjes, who says they’ve been going >o benefits all their lives—mostly, though, for their own; benefit. Caesar introduces the artists >vho include Earl Bennett, the orchestra leader. Donald Novis, singer, and Miss Walters. “Three of the best entertainers in the world,” he calls them, “who alw'ays fill the theater with rythm despite the fact that the management would rather have patrons.

Since “iron hats” are made of “sterner stuff” than any cap. we offer suggestion to councilmen who may in the future be locked up on charges of “public intoxication,” that if they expect to use their hats for the purpose adopted by the last ‘‘law abiding city dad” that was arrested and given the uncoveted chance to vieW‘ the world from the inside of the “jail house,” after his brave effort to do a way with “blind tigers” by attemptping to consume all the liquor, we suggest that they either purchase or borrow one of the aforesaid “iron hats” or act their age and stop their childish pranks.

Bill Daniel, street commissioner, is confined to his home with illness. He caught a cold one cold, rainy day while out with his men, and now he is battling an attack of the flu and indigestion. However, he is on the mend. Last Friday night the City Barns basketball team played the Eagle Coal Co. team and trimmed them lo the sweet tune of 28 to 16. A return game was played this ’Fri-

day night.

Fred Kennedy, the bookkeeper at the city barns, is looking after the work during Big Bill’s illness. Fred says everything is going along smoothly, although Big Bill is being missed. “Bill,” one of the horses at the city barns, Avent to his eternal reAvard in horse heaven, Thursday night. It is said he died from general debility and other ailments. Friday night, February 19, the City Barns basketball team have a game scheduled with the team composer of the Muncie Pure Milk Co. employees. That ought to he a cream of a game fo the barn boys, and a blue-john for the concentrated cow juice hoys. BOYHOOD HOME

GOOD STREETS

(Continued from Page One.) and correspondence contemporan-

eous with Lincoln’s term in Con-

gress and as president, the Hitch-i-ock collection of Hanks papers, by far the largest collection of papers and pictures on the Hanks family extant, the Helm-Haycraft collection of early Kentucky manuscripts which provide a documenjary background for the activities of Thomas Lincoln and his neighbors, and Die Warren collection, representing the personal efforts put forth over a period of ten years by the director of the Foundation in the court houses of Virginia, KentuckA 7 , Indiana and Illinois.

(Continued From Page One) make tw ? o trips in the time it now

takes to make a single trip, the , ... , , cost of transporting that produce i w ^ iei ‘ e thousands of records bearfrom the garden to the commission Lincoln and cognate house w/uld be materially reduced| were c °P iec *- perhaps almost cut in half. If, ini Many Significant Facts addition, the delay and lost time! “The state in which Lincoln incident to getting that produce grew to manhood has become the from the commission house to the jjscene of the most thorough study neighborhood grocery could be oh-lover made of his life,” said Dr. viated. still further saving in the [(Warren in his anniversary statecost of transportation would be Anient. “After four years of work w r e

tional right to starve in dignified silence, Avrapped in the American

flag.

If you don’t believe this ask the editor of the Star or the peAvee Senator Sorghums of the nation’s capital If you do believe it ask ask the bread lines of Muncie Avho lockstep daily to the township trustee and the social service, and are > compelled to humiiate themseves and their families by begging for their daily bread nad Avondering hoAV long they Avill have to be investigated before they get it. If 1 were not a confirmed optimist, believing in our laws and the constitution, and the government, in spite of those who are temporarily administering our affairs, my faith would Avaver in a government that lets its people starve Avhile its prime minister, - Andy Melon, sneaks out of his job as secretary of the treasury, under fire, and gets himself shipped over to the land of Johnny Bull as Hambassabor to the Kink, where he will have nothing to do but eat, drink and he merry, wear short silk panties with aluminum buckles, kiss the queen’s hand and comb the king’s whiskers. When l look around and see what the people are standing for I feel like Wallace Beery in the great picture, “The Hell Divers, when his disgust culminated in two words: “Aw, Nurts!” There is more hope for Japan than for some of the so-called civilized nations. In that mystic land of the Orient there are two distinct classes, the war lords and

the idealists.

The Avar lords are shooting up helpless China in the name of pa triotism and oyalty to the flag of Japan. They are arousing the nationilist spirit, so called that is used in this and every other country when some excuse is to be found for the shedding of rivers

of blood.

What Ave of America denounce as a crime in Japan, even by our own jingoes and war lords, is exalted as a virtue at home, so isn't it, perhaps, about time that we reexamined the concept of nationalism. In a world that has become so closely knit, isn’t it possible that a little revision of this old and honorable standard might tie

in order.

fore, having in mind that these

nition to a pubic official a\1io did are ^ard times, when every litile his work well while holding one ! j le ip Si t,] ie c jty council has deoffice and who can be relied upon | cree( j no one ne°d pay t'6r to do it in another, and that the electricity used in January, voters next fall, regaidless of po i-i And Fort Morgan makes its tics wil elect him by a large ' current with coal, not from falling jority. | water; and already has one of the ’this is not politics Avith me. ^(lowest rate schedules in the coun-

is merely my belief that any man, .

Democrat or Republican, Avho i . . ... serves well shourt remain in the I Try to ™angme some 'greatnuhic service j hearted unit ot the Power Trust If men like'Wilbert Gray in the rf mittin S its bills for a month, on Republican party, and there are ie S™mid that it had made all many of them in Muncie. had been the money it needer m eleven in control in 1929, 1 would not have mo » ths ot N °\ . tlT been elected. In fact 1 would not l1- . Jou couldn t do such a thing have been a candidate. i without unlawtul stimulants; and It was because of the terrible ^ ven tlieI1 - the stram mi S ht be

corruption here that a change was tatal -

demanded. It was a crime to re-1 7° 7“ 7 . J move Wilbert Gray. It will be jus-| B , e courteous to all, but intimate tiee to restore him to another posi- wUb lew; tvue friendship is a tion 'ot responsibility. ' | l> ,an . ^ * lo ' v firowlli. — George

_ n Washington.

TO GIVE PEOPLE

members and

friends of the party to put tlu Victory Campaign across—to share the financial burdens of its activities which heretofore have rested—undemocratically— on a few shoulders. 1 urge every itpu and woman listening-in on (hi: nationwide hook-up to get behind his Scat? Victory Committee and give it Ms active and generous

support.”

Governor Smith announced pro gress in the Victory Fund Campaign by stating that Illinois reports pledges (jn hand of $50,00 ■ toward its quota; Maryland has $10 000 already signed up; New

possible. - When that comparatively simple illustration is applied to every hit of the edibles consumed every day in Chicago, and to every item of merchandise made, sold or handled the total saving posible by the elimation of unnecessary street congestion reaches a staggering figure and represents just as actual a financial benefit to the people of the city as the lowered costs of manufacture represent to the motor car maker.—Chicago Tribune. o Mail Order Concern Extends Wage Cuts The pay-cutting program of fSears-Roebuck & Co. has spread to all sections of the country tvhere this gigantic mail order and jshain store concern has branches. Employes in the firm’s five (branches in the national capital were notified of 5 to 10 per cent slashes, effective January 30. Denver employes received a similar reduction the day before Christmas. According to information, the (cut is nation-wide and will affect ^approximately 38,000 employes.— Labor.

iuive laid the necessary groundwork for an expanded program designed to perpetuate Lincoln lore end stimulate interest in his life. Many new and intensely significant facts are being added to the store of Lincoln knowledge through our research, and Ave are finding a growing interest in this subject on the part of the public. We plan in the next few years to expand this wealth of material and make it available to the vast number of Lincoln ‘fans’”. Aside from conducting research work, compiling available information, and gathering material for exhibits, the Foundation has special bureaus for marking sites of historical significance, for publishing books, pamphlets and magazines and for providing speakers for all occasions identified with Lincoln’s career, Dr. W/arren stated. 500 ROWBOATS ORDERED Hayward, Wis., —(U.P.)— An order for 500 rowboats, placed by a Chicago mail order house with a company here, has proved a business boom. The order is one of the largest in the history of the eompan; dost of the material will be obtained in this county.

(Continued from Page One.)

campaign . . . and to give the people a true' picture of the act-

ivites of their Government. “It is not merely a coincidence

that since the headquarters got under way, the Republican maj ority in the Senate has been re duced from 16 to 1 and that in the House the Republican majority of 103 has been turned into u minus sign with a Democratic Speaker in the Chair for! the firs* time since 1919. It is not merely a coincidence that the number of Democratic governors has increased to a total of 27 to date It is not coincidence alone that enables me to say, without exaggeration, that the Democratic Party today is the majority party

Nearly Two MHIPn Plurality “In the 1930 elections alone, on

the basis of the popular vote as complied by a prominent New York newspaper, the Democratic candidates received nearly two mil,lion plurality in the 37 Statewide contests—a Republican loss! of more than 7,700,000 votes asj compared with the 1928 majorities I

“This work of the National I

Headquarters dUViug the last two| and a half years, carried out on a j business basis, has nut victorywithin the Party’s Victory Cam-,

1 have great hopes of the brave PaigM now under way efforts of the thinkers of Japan who \lt is up to the

are openly defying the bloody butchers of their own country. The common people of Japan are against the imperialistic policy of its war lords, just as the common people of Great Britain sympathized with us in our war for inde-

pendence.

It is my hope and prayer that the real statesmen of Japan will eventually soa'c a problem that now threatens Avorld-wide disaster that may send your own sons

to the shambles.

Right here at home it takes all my patience to refrain from a denouncement of our own national government, or at least one part of it, the so-called department of

justice.

Department of justice men, hordes of them, have been here for some time trying to find some reason for securing my indictment on perjured evidence. This Aveek a disreputable male character and two women brought suit against a number of policemen. This is one phase of the conspiracy against me. Next Aveek the great conspiracy case is to go before the federal grand jprv Perjured witnesses, many of them, have been summoned to testify. It may be that the grand Jury will indict me on testimony of hoodlums. I hope, at least, that the federal grand jury will carefully weigh the statements, which Avill be, without exception, wuat lawyers term as self serving. The Y. M. C. A. is still the meeting place of the department of “juctice” conspirators and their miserable, lying stool pigeons. I have a good joke on the chamber of commerce, the home office of the celebrated Muncie plan, whose avowed purpose is to get jobs for unemployed persons. The interior of the chamber of commerce quarters is being newly painted. Instead of giving the job to some unemployed painter, the custodian Avas put to Avork at the painting. Instead of using the Muncie Plan the chamber of commerce played Scotchman and paved money by letting the janitop do it. Muncie painters made a holler and today the janitor Avas taken off the job and a local painter went

to work.

1 was very much pleased this week when Wilbert Gray, deposed infirmary superintendent, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for sheriff. Mr. Gray is the best man that ever held the infirmary job. He was removed in a cold blooded manner by the county commissioners and a Republican political favorite was given the joG. I hope the Democrats A\ill nominate Mr. Gray, as a mark of recog-

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A soft heart does not necesarily produce a soft head.

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