Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 April 1932 — Page 1
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VOLUME 12—MN UMBER 12
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1932
PRICE 5 CENTS
Torment
By Helfur Surton
NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY! MAMA SPANK! Thosp who were privileged to witness the stirring scenes and hear the debate last week, as the lower house of the national government argued the sales tax, report. that not in twenty years in peace times has the battle been more tense. As the closing hours of the debate neared some mighty ugly epithets were loosed by the so-called respectable leaders. Nasty names were flung at the untiring opposition and a campaign of vituperation fell short of its mark as progressives of both parties held a united front against the
“leaders”.
A letter from the Board of Trade of Philadelphia revealed the interest of “big business’ in the attempt to pass this tax on the wages and
bread of the hope you v '
so that, a future Congress may re* peal the federal income and corporation taxes,” was the essence of their appeal. Instead of a cam-
HONEST INQUIRY WILL
Washington’s Rules of Civility
Tis ill manners to bid one more
■ uiiig people. "We eminent than yourself be covered naet the sales tax,us well as not to do it to whom it’s
due likewise he that makes too much haste to put on his hat does not''well, yet he ought to put it on at the first, or at most the
paign being waged by the anti- second time of being ask’d; now sales tax forces to “soak the rich”,what is herein spoken, of qualifithis letter revealed the real pur-;cation in behaviour insaluting, poses of the “leaders” to “soak the ’ought also to be observed in takpoor,” and to place the burden of ing of place, and sitting down for
SCHOOL PUPILS ENTER CONTEST
Cleanliness Institute, New York City, Of- . fers Rewards.
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Last Saturday Judge Robert Murray of the Superior court, rendered judgment against, the city in favor of nine deposed firemen, ordering reinstatement and pay-
taxation upon those able to bear it.
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A PERTINENT
QUESTION.
people least
ceremonies without bounds is
troublesome.
If any one comes to Speak to you while you are Siting Stand up tho he he your Inferiour, and
. .. . . . , ,, „„„ Iwhen you Present Seats let it be Arthur Brisbane raised the ques- according to his De-
t.ion the other day of “why all the I J
haste to balance the budget?” He pointed out that during the war
the budget was off balance and no . .. „ . „ . one seemed unusually disturbed s t°P and retire especia ly if it be about it. Up to the present the old a Boor or any Straight place to
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liness Institute of New York City for the best articles and drawings on the subject of cleanliness. Ten dollars each is being paid by the Institute for the best essays, editorials, cartoons and photographs tees.
about the value of cleanliness in! It has been the custom here personal and community life which since Heck was a pupp for Repuliappear in high school publications, lican mayors to fire appointees of The editorial board of the local I opposite political faith, and just
guard papers have not seen fit to^ive way for him to Pass jbigl. school is finding the student | a t this time I fail to recall a sin-
1 In walking the highest Place in body anxious to submit material, gi e instance of that sort that met
gree. When
you
meet with
than
one of
Pupils of the Central High
School have entered into competi-1 „ , , ... tion with those of three hundred nien t °f salaries amounting to other high schools throughout the about thirty thousand dollars, country to win some of the awards) That looks very much like the which are being offered by Clean- same court that refused to find in
favor of Albert Rees, a Democrat, who was fired without notice by a Republican administratin, sees things in a different light when a Democrat fires Republican appoin-
enlighten Mr. Brisbane. Along with x „ „ . , ^ ~
certain political leaders they are most Countrys Seems to be on for the prizes go to the individual | w i t h the disapprobation of the Rehaving a fit of hysteria regarding the right hand therefore Placejpupil whose literary or artistic'publican daily newspapers of
the budget and they probably have y° ul 'self on the left of him whom efforts meet the standards set by Muncie.
no other reason than that it is he-'y’ 01 ! 1 ' flesire to Honour; but It ing done in some European coun-! three walk together the middle tries where unemployment con-1 Place the most Honourable the tinues to mount in spite of the; wall is usually given to the most budget figures. Figures in a ledger worthy if two walk together.
mean little to people who are hungry in a land where store houses are bursting with plenty.
SOLDIERS WILL NOT FORGET.
These Rules of Civility are an exact copy, as to spelling, punctuation and obvious ommissions. — Editor. Q
the Institute’s judges. “There’s a Reason”
Parents who have been
As a matter of fact I am rather of the opinion that Boh Murray
aston- -would explode like a miniature
A , volcano if somebody would assume
men and daughter s sudden at- tQ tell h j m he couldn . t fire his own
tachment to the washcloth and
soap dish will understand the rea- '°' lrt bail,ff - hl8 0Wn , a “„° “ y “ son now. According to the local hls „ ow “ > ary ^ .he editors, it seems that the very idea matt f r bow spod the rest ot the of writing about cleanliness has people thought they were.
But Bob is a Republican, so the
General Motors Will
There are two groups of people who should readily see through the ItRold special Displays diers who served " 4 ’'''
in the last war
and the more than eight million unemployed. Most of the hot air being put out is for the benefit of these people and to impress them with the idea that wealth will not tolerate further taxation to pay the obligations due these two groups. When the soldiers were overseas balanced budgets were of no importance and now that great numbers of them are economically in need the budget should have the
same status.
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FROZEN SNAKE COMES TO LIFE. After having spent much time and reams of paper urging any kind of tax reduction, just so the tax rate was cut, the Evening Press has finally seen this child of its mind grow into an ugly beast that is about to destroy the legitimate operation of government. It should be remembered the friendly editorials and news space given by this daily to a reactionary city council last year in their attack upon legitimate servie by their unwarranted cuts in all city departments and now they are beginning to see that the program lias gone too far. In a short editorial published this week the Press now takes a stand for elimination of waste and efficiency, to which all can heartily agree. This is something new for the Press—even though the awakening was rather delayed.
“Work for Many Hands” is Slogan Adopted—Idea Is To Stimulate Business.
General Motors car dealers over the entire country will hold special displays April 2-9, inclusive, as part of the Corporation’s nationwide merchandising project “work for many hands” designed to stimulate business and increase employment. The special dealer showings coincide with national exhibits of all General Motors, cars and other products in fifty-five selected cities. These simultaneous gigantic displays constitute what is believed to be the largest merchandising endeavor of its character ever attempted by an industrial corporation. Both at dealer showrooms and at the fifty-five national exhibits, particular attention will be paid to newest car models in spring color combinations. All showrooms will be decorated for the occasion. Economic Significance At each of the larger cities of the country, commanding wide trading areas, selected for this mammoth simultaneous display of its products, General Motors will exhibit its more than 150 different model automobiles, electric refrigeration products, motor car accessories, and household appliances, such as vacuum cleaners, electric fans and farm water and lighting
law that seems to be made for Re-
Here, There Everywhere
fhet that the two Republican newspapers and the Republican city
council thinks the firemen ought gasoline
to be paid and reinstated.
; The city of Muncie will appeal this case to the higher courts, in order to determine whether or not Democrat mayors are to have equal rights and privileges ac-
corded to Republican mayors. Judge Murray further says the
Among the many peculiar laws enacted by the State Legislature In the past, is the law relating to the distribution and use of the
funds, which, among
other things, provides, that; when the moneys are turned over to the various cities, counties and towns, it shall he spent by them, “perferably” on streets or avenues forming a part of the state highway system. If this is really the inten-
No Promises Made by Attorney GeneralLocal Newspapers, With Inferiority Complex, Ridicule Visit to Washington Concerning Case.
( it> is subject to mandate to put f lon 0 f j, lNV mone y S p e
the discharged firemen back to , , . , . ,
spent on state highways, why not let the State Highway Commission have it all and make the repairs? It costs money to make the distribution and this doesn’t mean maybe, besides, many of the cities and towns do not seem to know what to do with it when they get
it. /
work. That also hringp up another argument. If this thing goes on who knows but ’Squire Randolph may throw me out of office and mandate John Hampton hack
c|i the job.
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Some day, when I have plenty of time to devote to my passion for writing light literature, I am going to publish a book about
judges.
You have observed, no doubt, that the Star and the Press are
Sim Gardner was bragging the other day about some old furniture he owned, which Sim said went hack to Louis the IVX. Dink
stimulated a noticeable improve-
ment in personal appearance. , , . , , . ^ Cleanliness Institute is a public publicans, which clearly leads tha service organization dedicated to Republicans can do as they jolly higher standards of cleanliness inj^.\ l ^ e ‘?' st Ai C °> eS ' in * 1 personal and eonirmuiTty life. ItF^^re hR when Democrats go supplementary readers are widely^ 0 court - a used in public schools throughout' That may be the law ot the land, the country. Miss Sally Lucas but I am not going to take Bob Jean, consultant to the School .Murray’s word for it, despite the
Service of Cleanliness Institute,
very much concerned over this.Foster overheard Sim’s remarks judgment against the city It is.and replied, “That’s nothi’n, my being pointed out with great par-(whole dining room suit goes hack t jcularity, as one of the penalties'to Sears & Roebuck on the fiffor electing a Democratic mayor! teenth.”
or Muncie.
! In other words, durn ye, vote t^e Republican ticket if you want
td keep out of court.
■ 1 just, hate to say it, for I am personally fond of Bob Murray, notwithstanding his politics, which ho works at constantly, hut will
The fingerprint department of the Bureau of identification at Washington, should by all means, procure fingerprints of some of the newspaper reporters who are now engaged in writing the “dope”
__ ... „, on Mayor Dale and other officials a- lowly Democrat be sent id jail of Muncie. They might get some
HUMBLEST CITIZEN MAY PETITION
Senator Jim Watson Reveals Trait of Character, Intensely Human, Hidden Beneath a Veneer of Politics—Honest Citizens Resent Effort to Wreck Administration.
again for venturing the opinion that the disease is not in the city hall but on the third floor of the
court house?
has -received many honors bqth here and abroad for her contributions to child welfare and health.
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Voice of the Kitty
WHAT’S TEN PER CENT
AMONG FRIENDS?
Paid propagandists of the Illinois Manufacturers’ association and the Chicago Journal of Commerce are busy on Capital Hill at Washington, in an attempt to take 10 per cent from the pay envelope of all government workers. It is a matter of common knowledge that thousands of government workers are underpaid; their earnings remaining almost stationary when everything else had depreciated during and after the war. Many skilled workers have continually remained below the compensation for like service in private industry. Members of the Supreme Court and other highly trained and skilled people are making sacrifices in serving the government and under the plan proposed by these reactionary organizations further .sacrifices are to be thrust npon these people who are unselfishly serving their country. Figures have been produced by members of congress to show that a cut of 10 per cent of every government employe from the President down to common labor would not meet the tVeasury deficit feff eight days. It seems that some propagandists would choke on a gnat and swallow a camel. As a usual thing manufacturers’ associations cannot be expected to be public spirited. They can fulfill their own needs from their own purses and believe every one pise should do the same regardless of the fact that many do not even own a purse
in these turbulent days.
“Don’t You Think that the New Styles in Women’s Dresses Should
Be Longer?”
MR. JOHN H. COLON, Macedonia Avenue and Elm Street. “No. I cant’ see it that way. WJien I was a young Man the women all wore long dresses, hoops and bustles, and when a young man picked out a wife and took her for better or worse, usually worse, he didn’t know what kind of a prize
CALLS WORLD A RIP VAN WINKLE BEWILDERED BY NEW CONDITIONS Like Man, Awakening From Long, Heavy Sleep, is Dazed and Tries to Solve Problems of Today as if They Were Those of Yesterday—New System Has Been Created and Must he Handled by Organization.
real fingerpj’ints.
Hank Klmmer married one of the Jollup twins last week and the twins look so much alike, Alex Gump asked Hank how he could tell them apart. Hank answered, “that don't eoncern me, it’s up to the other twin to look out.”
In its attitude toward
economic conditions, the world toI av'aking'fixim^'his^long^leep^in^the
('Now it is different and a man can see what he is getting and if he makes a mistake and gets stung
its his own fault.
MRS. ETTA LEGO, 120G North Main Street. “There’s reason in
opinion of Walton H. Hamilton, professor of law at Yale University, who spoke over a National Broadcasting Company network. “In the endless drama of man,”
. , ,,, T ... he said, “Rip Van Winkle has ap-
eyerythmg and while I am in favor, peared many times upon the R(age . ... r of the short dress I do not approve' His act of slpep aiKl awa keniug obvious. We forget that we have as of ^shortening them fyon^ h K ° W |has run through many cycles. Justjmany fields and factories, as much
" now he is emerging from a pro-of plant and equipment, as ample
present jt has merely revealed, our out-
standing economic problem. It has thrown into sharp relief the lack of harmony between up-to-date processes of production and out-of-date ways in which it is directed. “Today, in our concern with mechanisms like.money and hanking, and our preoccupation with unemployment relief, we arp prone to overlook the important and the
and lengthening them from above, so that they meet at the equator. MR. O. H. BUCrll, Miller’s Branch and White River. “They can’t get them too short for me, especially when younger women wear them. However .when old women with
Sy ThTaetlon by Oneral
has a major economic significance, according to those who have analyzed its extensive merhandising program. It is believed that a move of this magniture, by one of the strongest industrial corporations of the country, evidences faith in business and should have widespread effect on industry and employment. Any stimulation of business of General Motors Corporation is certain to have a beneficial effect on general business. Requirements of One Year The magnitude of General Motors purchases is shown in the following summary of its requirements during an average year: *78,000,000 board feet of lumber, 1.800.000 tons of steel, 5,750,000 square feet of upholstery leather, 4.700.000 gallons of paint and lacquer, 14,000,000 yards of upholstery cloth, 49,000,0011 feet of brake lining, 17,900,000' pounds of hair and padding, 1,300,000. pounds of nickel, j,40'0,000 yards of top and curtain material, 40,000,000 tons of copper, 54.000 tons of lead. Raw materials used in General Motors products are produced in 'wery state of the Union. General Motors has chosen for »he slogan in these exhibitions Work for Many Hands” to symbolize the belief that a stimulation >f bnsiness at this time would materially reduce unemployment. The theme will he symbolized by two huge hands that will flank the entrances of the various exhibition
halls.
knockneed and howlegged wear them, I always feel like buying them & Klan nightgown so as to take care of over-exposure. MR. HELPER YELLING, Grant Street and Riverside Avenue. “I don’t mind seeing women wear short dresses, but when it comes to wearing lamp shades I draw the line. ( MISS FRIDDA FISCH, Granville Road and Jackson Street. “I think the present style in dresses is a great improvement over the styles of a fwe years ago, and I might add that they are more chic, than ,the dresses worn by the girls in Honolula, who wear grass skirts, while in olden times, so we are told, Eve wore a fig leaf, while Adam wore his Adams apple and no one thought anything about it. But now, if a young girl wears a short dress all the knockers in the neighborhood are gossiping about her. I think the girls have a right to wear dresses or to go without them and it’s nobody’s business. Personally I would prefer wearing the short dress with the old fash-
ioned hoops.
If all the food that has been served at banquets, socials, club meetings .church bazaars and other similar gatherings, held for the purpose of relieving the unemployment situation and distress among the poor, had been given to the poor instead of being eaten, there would be much less suffering in the world. As it is now it seems to he a case of meeting and eating and the appointment of committees to fix a time for holding another banquet.
The fellow who enters a cigar ,store with a pint bottle of alcohol in his pocket and calls for a bottle of near beer, and then proceeds to “spike” it. in the presence of bystanders, is certainly not entitled to pose as a regulator of public morals .even though he be a newspaper editor. In our opinion cases of this character are the ones that should he investigated. But, will this case be investigated? No, not on your life. They are after the
higher ups.
Although he had a wooden leg was engaged to be married, hut viien the bride-to-be found it out, are out of s i ie broke it off.
Muncie’s greatest need present, time is a good,
at the honest.
found slumber. In Irving’s story a|a supply of natural resources as new republic had come to claim| we had in days of prosperity. Our man’s allegiance, and yet the capacity to produce has been in drowsy Rip still professed loyalty: no wise diminished since 1929. to his majesty the king. Today a| No Need Of Contentment new industrial society has startled] “If today laborers us into consciousness of its pres- work, productive wealth of many ence, and every man, awakened by, kinds likewise stands idle. If workthe shock, has muttered his beliefs ingmen are only partially employ-
in the departed order of petty.cd, so are the establishments ! da iiy newspaper, one that will tell trade.” ' which produce the goods theyjthe truth and which has no alii-i
New System of Production j would consume. At the quickening Jance with the underworld, and whoi
Roused from his sleep by the do- touch of organization, laborers and )W jii n< M take sides with under-! pression, Professor Hamilton said, production resources can be made WO rld characters, in order to reap I the modern Rip Van Wrinkle tries to keep each other going. Nor need'a few dirty dollars in the way of
to solve the problems of today as we ho content with even the stan- advertising,
if they were those of yesterday. 1 dards of life which we enjoyed He uses the anti-trust laws to just before the great decline, make national commerce behave as “The truth, the plain truth, the if it were petty trade ;he is both- 1 simple truth, is that the stuff for ered because the turbulent forces an economic order which is an inof modern industrialism do not run strument of national well-being is in familiar channels. He talks all here; as the decades go by it about leaving control to the “nat- can be made to yield us better and ural laws of supply and demand;” better livings. The problem is one hecalls upon competition to make order and of direction. In short, industries orderly and efficient, our economic order has passed when the cases of oil and coal, from a deficit to a surplus econhanking and automobiles, present omy 'from a dismal flo hopeful
to his very eyes evidence of the economy. Its riddles are not to be|the order of distribution of the losses and poverty, the disorder'unlocked by the venerable notions gasoline tax was reversed for four
It. is said, that. more, than two thousand deer are killed by accident each year. That’s nothing, just look at the number of men t^iat are killed by dears each year. What effect would it have on taxes, if the State Highway Commission were to discontinue all road construction Tor a period of! four years and turn the gasoline tax over to the state? Or suppose
INCREASE OF DIAMONDS.
Logansport, Ind., April 1. — (UP)—An increase in the amount of money and diamonds owed by Cass couhty residents was revealed by tax assessors this year in comparing results of the first two weeks of the assessment period with the same period last year.
and waste, which attend its undi-
rected operation.
We must, do for the direction of the industrial system,” Professor Hamilton declared, “what has been, and is being done with its technology. Our scientists and engineers, our discoverers and inventors, have created a new system of production; the men wise in sirch affairs must create an organ teat km for it. They must contrive and Invent, arrange devices and procedure into schemes of control, and thus domesticate our rather unruly industrial machine. Capacity Net Diminished “The depression has not created,
in the head of the Rip Van Winkle
who went, to sleep.
SNAKE’S HIPS A REALITY. Chicago, April 1.—(UP) — The Field museum has installed some snakes’ hips according, to announcement Monday night, thereby removing the point of another
slang expression.
The museum’s snakes’ hips are part of an African rock python, which also has hind legs. The legs aren’t much use to the snake, but they do make the hips a fact
instead of a fancy.
years and the state retained one cent for maintainance purposes and the towns and cities received three cents. Do you think taxes would be lowered? Would the politicians stand for this plan?
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DEPRESSION DIVORCE.
Greencastle, Ind., April X. — (UP)"—'Putnam county’s first depression divorce was filed by Ralph C. Greenlee, who said his wife, Gladys Fields Greenlee, left him and returned to her former home in Indianapolis, because he was unable to obtain steady work.!
(BY GEO. R. DALE) The news from Washington, that Attorney General Mitchell has given heed to my request, made personally to him last week to investigate the charges I filed with his oflice, charging that the indictments returned against myself and others here were the result of perjured testimony, has been hailed here as a victory for decent government. In the brief presented by me to Deputy Attorney General Youngquist, I pointed out the inconsistencies of the indictment and offered, in the event of an investigation of my charges, to prove that my charges were true. The so-called investigation that has been going on here for many months is the most one-sided thing that could be imagined. ft was from the mouths of prostitutes who have been jailed, from crooked policemen I fired, from perjurers like Hershel Rose, from Plug Walburn, from Gel Mapel, from Earl Randolph, from Cliff Cranor and others who have reasons to hate an honest administration of the city’s business, that the testimony came before the United States grand jury. In my brief to Attorney General Mitchell all these things were offered as evidence of the conspiracy. It was shown that Cossack methods were used in making the arrests and that for weeks before the indictment was returned enemies of the mayor were spreading the news here that the mayor would be arrested late on Saturday, would not be permitted to give bond and would be compelled to spend the week-end in the Federal jail at Indianapolis. Neither the attorney general nor his deputies made me any promise that they would order an investigation of my charges, but the assurance was given that they would carefully consider my brief and communicate with United States Attorney Jeffrey at Indianapolis. Based on Washington dispatches that nothing was promised by the attorney general, local daily newspapers ridiculed my Washington visit. Like others with the inferiority complex they failed to realize that even cabinet members are human beings, and that the humblest citizen of the United States may petition for redress when he feels that his right under the constitution have been ruthlessly trampled upon. I feel sure that my request for an investigation of this damnable conspiracy will be met in the spirit of absolute fairness and that the result will clear me and my co-defend-ants and fix the responsibility. The intensely human attitude of Senator Jim Watson in paving the way for my personal interview with the attorney general without any request whatever on my part, reveals a trait of character, bubbling to the surface on the spur of the moment, that denotes the man concealed beneath the veneer of the politician. It was when the Democratic delegation to congress were discussing the lawyer’s angle of whether it would not prejudice my cause to approach the attorney general that Senator Watson settled the matter quickly by arranging the interview. I don’t think there was ever a time during Jim Watson’s career that I have been his political friend, and there is no reason to assume that that time ever will come, for I am fundamentally opposed to his school of political thought either in Democrat or Republican. But if I should live to a thousand years of age I will never get a bigger kick than I did in my room in the Willard hotel when my telephone rang and one of the boys from the senate press gallery called to announce that Jim Watson had stopped all arguments by making an appointment for my meeting with the attorney general. In my time I have bounced enough bricks off of Jim’s head to build a fair sized court house and will probably bounce some more, but the Lord help me, I will never enjoy it any more. It will simply be a stern duty, like that of ihe parent who lays on the gad and tries to lie himself into the belief that it hurts him worse than it does the kid. • I think now things are going to turn out all right. An honest inquiry can only result in one thing, and that is a complete vindication of my administration. Muncie is the cleanest city, from a moral viewpoint, of any city of its size in the middle west. Every honest citizen here knows this to be true and honest Republicans and Democrats alike resent this effort of the scum creation to gain ascendancy.