Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 July 1932 — Page 2
FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1932.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muucie, Delaware County and th 4 e 8t.h Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper hi Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muucie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1979.
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223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher Geo. R. Dale, Editor
Muncie, Indiana, Friday, July 8, 1932.
Post-Democrat, Two Cents! Today the boys on the streets will be yelling, “Democrat-Post, Two Cents.” It has been decided by the management of this newspaper that until the “depression” is over, the price of the Post-Democrat by mail shall be one dollar a year instead of two, and that the time-honored price per copy on the streets will be reduced from five cents to two cents,. Nickels are hard to get but the most needy can rake up two pennies. From week to week the PostDemocrat will have important ’matters to disclose for your benefit. -
SOME FOOD FOR
THOUGHT
that was a forced issue due to the defunct treasury left by the Hampton regime. All material reduc-
On August 1, recommendations tions and savings have been made for the 1933 budget and tax rate within the city budget during the for the civil citv of Muncie will past two years and if the other loi the uvn city or Aiuu.ie taxing Units of this county will be presented to the common coun- strive to make the same redijccil by the city controller. It will tions the tax problem will be lessbe remembered that tor .the past eiie( j f or 1933. two years reductions have been | q
made in both the budget and the tax rate by the present administration, reducing the levy from 89 ceirts on the $100 assessed valuation to 69 cents on the same valuation and saving more than $130,000 in the actual operating expenditures of the civil city. This reduction of nearly 25 per cent in taxes by the Dale administration for the past two years
proves that the civil city has gone ‘ ll ^ , the limit in cutting expenses and' Ph ( - piogram put over by Park still render necessary services to; .^^’^tendent^ ^ Oreamy Tuttle,
the people of Muncie. Such vast
4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION The celebration of the Fourth of jJuly at McCulloch Park was attended by a record-breaking crowd. ' Estimates on the vast gathering placed the crowd at fifty thousand, the largest crowd of people ever assembled in the city of Muucie for
reductions
already b.etpi possible ! ' ihi '
in expenditures have made that it is imtb'P'redt^pe. any greater
included a baseball game in the afternoon, a dog and pony show
and fireworks at night.
People came here from, all sur-
amount witlVoilt : 'Jeqpa^i?iug ^^^wet^Uie crowd 0 ™ 8 ^
Muncie is aliotR the only city of
efficiency of any one department. The only large items of tnir city budget as it is operated now «U*e
the appropriations made to Srou^cT.
BoydCurley, editor of
the city light and water bills, if the rates for light aud water were ’ properly reduced a saving of several thousands of dollars coulu
be cut from taxation.
The only other budget items that are generally talked of being reduced are salary and wages. It would appear to some persons that the only way to bring back prosperity, which the Republican party has chased away, is to place
&ny size in the state that'refuses..^ button sa i<i if p e te ■rj^ecognize a depression when the’ the'Vfcdii^pfidfeyj^p.arg
the Indi-
anapolis Times, spoke in the after noon just preceding the baseball
game.
The editor of The Post-Democrat introduced Mr. Gurley and a dozen or so in the bleachers must have ■thought it was a Democratic national convention. These fellows must have been laying in wait for .'a chance to holler “boo,” which
thev did right lustily.
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Great executives, drawing a million dollars a year, are forced .to make quick decisions. A policeman, with a gun strapped at his side, and pulling down a hundred
(Continued from Page One) fleers from unjust imprisonment. I
do not recall at this time that Mr. and fifty a month, has frequently Sutton, nor one of his hypocritical'but a split second to decide, outfit, raised a finger to prevent! Mr. Sutton, who does his snoring the outrage. Instead they ail stood with a typewriter, has nominaitu at attention with THUMBS DOWN | himself as the military genius of at that critical junction when the Muncie; the swivel chair authority scum of Muncie sought to destroy,as to what policemen should, ot orderly government. I should not do with the weapons
In praising Pete Horstman for they carry,
his bravery, Mr. Sutton cast an as- Officer Powell should have known persion on the honor of that of-1 this and should not have acted in fleer that should not be overlooked | that early morning tragedy wiLJiby the citizens of Muncie. jout first consulting the oracle, aali’in
was guilty of: that would take much time, that he hadj Of course if the officer had done
to do what he did in the alleged that he would have been dismissed conspiracy to. “hold his job.” (from the force for mental unfitness, That implies that Pete was a'and the Press would have criticizparticipant in a conspiracy b.e-jed the board of safety for firing a cause 1, as mayor, ordered him to| policeman who had used rare fore-
everybody in a bread line by not, ,, ^t allowing anyone 10 make a K*ln*} , | ^ mre.NUL mqrttor'mwltiiw ST- „ sclianv inlelleclmits j S aL * .bout t^egin* ,-e plenty of money ^ ‘
the spending public, and those taxdodgers who are sitting back in swivel chairs drawing a fairly fat
monthly income.
A little research will prove that the ctiy of Muncie pays Jess to its public servants than any other second class city in Indiana. The responsible heads of each department are paid less than half the salaries drawn by the same officers. in the other nine second
class cities of this state.
The police and firemen are paid an average wage of $150.00 per month. It might be true that any number of men could be found that would accept these jobs at $100 a month but you certainly would not add to the efficiency of any department. Money spent for inefficient service is wasted money. Neither police nor firemen are drawing exorbitant wages when it must be considered that these men are subject ‘to call 24
hours every day, week, and at all
their lives on a “spot” to protect the safety and welfare of the citi-
zens.
The laborers on the street department and at the parks draw $20 per week providing it doesn’t rain and stop the work. Many of these men have large families to keep and the compensation for their services are not enough without even thinking of still reducing the small pay of the common laborer who hauls the garbage, cleans the streets; repairs the roadways, and sweeps the trash away. One member of the Delaware county taxpayers league asked the wage scale of the street and park employees and was advised that the rate was 50 cents per hour and they were employed I
He insisted’
respectful hearing,
! The following portion of Mr. Gurley’s address is well to remem-
ber:
“This is the one day set aside by law to the memory of outlaws. lit is particularly appropriate,, therefore, that this celebration is held in Muncie, where your chief, elected by you, has been made an outlaw by a perversion of the machinery set up by the first outlaws for the protection of human lib-
erty.
“I was in your city a year ago, the guest of your mayor. I am
proud to return.
‘‘Since that time, he has been convicted under a tyrannical provision of a law which both major political parties promise to repeal. “Whatever may be your opinion of prohibition, there can be no honest division of opinion concerning the degredation into which the Federal machinery of its enforce-
ment had fallen.
seven days al “There can be no honest divistimes placing!' ion opinion as to a conspiracy
provision of the statute which takes a man away from the city •where men have TRUSTED HIM WITH THEIR BALLOTS, carrying him into a foreign territory and convicting him on the testimony of the scum, the dregs, the off-scour-
ings..
“There can he no honest division of opinion on the question of admitting the evidence of the criminal and the debauched and discarding the words of those whom the people have chosen. “You in Muncie and I and all his friends, know that Dale, mayor of Muncie, is innocent, no matter \vhat a terrified jury, called from the distant farms and fearful of judicial castigation, may have
said about the matter.
“I congratulate you now on hav-
as mayor.”
participate. Why even
Sims, the colored
sight and precaution.
1 don’t know the workings
of
renegate policeman, who now oc- Powell's mind on that fateful occupies the same bed with Sutton,jeasion, but as all know, the mind
In
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was forced to admit, on the wit-iworks fast in times of crisis-
410 hours per week. iuoio,™,. D , that the amount was too much butj b
IZ TerX’Tf ENJOYiNG MOTORING. Hi# idea was «« ',«/«>■ -““Wf »«»»<<«". vacascale and work the men morel .® , ' 1 ' .® 1 ^P to be a care-free hours which in the end would r J ^ouble-fiee journey, make up your
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quire the same amount of money! . ,
used but add more dreary hours!®®.®' ,^ iape
of toil to the laborer. Experience will almost always prove that the laborer who is reasonably paid and does not have to exhaust himself from work is far better satisfied and will bring better results than the slave driven workman.
mind to start off with the car in
Don’t go unless you
have good tires on the car.
spark plugs, an extra quart or so of oil, use only fresh gasoline, be sure the car has been well lubricated before you leave and remember that a steady pace gets
This is well demonstrated with j you ' there more quickly than sud-
the efficiency of the street and deu hursts of speed
park departments. The reason >,ble chances for a small reduction in the civil city budget and tax levy for 1933 will depend largely on un estimated balance of funds left at the end of 1932. The controller wil not recommend any salary cuts an he has always maintained thai a city the size of Muncie should not have to continually borrow money with which to pay its bills. The Dale administration has made hut. one temporary loan and
NEW TYPE RAIL CARS. .Two large American railroads have recently placed orders for pneumatic-tired rail cars made of shot welded stainless steel. These vehicles will doubtless been seen in large numbers on American railroads within the next few years- They cut operating costs from one-half to one-third, are fast comfortable and durable. They are partmu arly desirable for use on branch liw roads.
ness stand, that his orders (were to arrest ALL violators of the law found on his beat, the so-called redlight district. Is there any sane person in Muncie who believes that 1 ordered Chief Massey, Pete Horstman or any other policeman in my department to protect any law violator in the city? It remains for the Muncie Press to proclaim a slander that was refuted in the Federal court by the government witness Sims, -yvlio patrolled the “red-light,” where lawlessness has always abounded. The Star Friday morning announced that the Madison county coroner would “exonerate” Horstman for killing Pothier, the bandit who killed the Elwood policeman. Am I to infer from this that the coroner will also exonerate the dead bandit for killing the Elwood
officer?
In his whining story about Horstman Mr. Sutton took occasion to criticize the Randolph county jury for acquitting Powell. In these times of terrible distress, when want, famine, banditry and murder have reduced America to the level of jungle law, and when the law of might, instead of right may at any moment precipitate our so called democracy into terrible disaster, the puny complaints of the Buttons and their like, sound pitifully small. When the officers surrounded the Elwood cottage, they thought the bandit was there. When they forced their way in they found a party of men and women peacefully drinking home brew. They were not absolutely sure that the man who pulled a gun was the bandit they sought. For all they knew he might have been some man, comfortably exhilirated by home brew, who resented the
intrusion.
The Elwood officer, Van Horn,
committed suicide by ordering the bandit to “put up that ^un!” Instead of putting up the gun he shot
the officer through the heart. If the officer had shot first, kill-
ing his man, and it was later discovered that his victim was merely a common tippler, taking a few sly drinks at a brew joint, the Press and newspapers of that character, would now be demanding
that he be punished for it. The moment of indecision on the
part of the Elwood officer, cost him his life. He probably remembered what nearly happened to
criticized by tlfe Press for his failure to perform his duty as an of-
ficer.
I remember one of Sutton’s outbusts when he decided that Mfincie policemen should carry nothing but clubs instead of guns. That m’s“ work in the dim past in S .Lion’s boyhood days, when lobbing henroosts and playing tick tack were major crimes, but not today, when organized society is in the midst of absolute war, with society on one side and man-killing criminals on the other. If the Muncie officer had tackled the bandit with a stuffed club, he would now be the late Pete Horst-
Obis McCracken was
hiAVei, as Horstman,. was assasBihafea’ ’without
stinct adds velocity to mind pulses at the critical moment. ( In the year 1922 three mgsked men jumped out of an automobile and one of them stuck the muzzle of a gun in my stomach. Although the battle was over in a moment, a thousand things raced through
my mind.
I was unarmed, and as I now recall it, my blood turned cold with terror. “Stick up your hands!” was the command of my masked
assailant.
His voice trembled when he said
it.
Is this a joke, perpetrated by friends, is it a real holdup, or is ii a gesture of the Ku Klux Klan to frighten me? was a- question, remembered later that I debated in the brief moment that the gun
threatened me.
I also recall that the trembling voice denoted cowardice. That as I now recall it was the deciding factor in the debate. I made up my mind that the fellow was too cowardly to shoot. It also ran through my mind that his fingers might involuntarily shake, as his voice had, and that the gun might
explode.
Then I made a momentous decision. Joke or no joke, Klan or no Klan, I condemned the man to
death. The first law
came to my aid. It’s a terrible thing to shot a man, either for real or fancied cause, and it was not until that moment that it had ever occurred to me I would kill under any circumstances. That, too, had to be debated. It would have taken me an hour to put all the things either in words or typewriting on Sutton’s lettering machine, that raced through my mind in that
fleeting moment.
Really that second was g lifetime- Such emergencies do not come to many men. 1 took the gun away from the man and shot him. He was picked up, thrown in the car and whisked away. 1 stood there dazed, scarcely realizing that such a thing could possi-
bly have happened.
Remembering this I admire the courage and precision of Pete Hortsman. He was a real policeman. He didn’t waste a shot.
Mm—
but he
a chance. ’ ? The past year has been a year of tragedy for Muncie’s faithful police department. And I’ve heard about all out of the human blatherskites who seek to weaken the city’s defense against outlawry that I am going
to stand for.
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The Spice in Sports BY BILL LEACH
_____________________ Ever since we were a youngster playing sandlot ball back of cranky Mrs. Schnitger’s house, we’ve learned that team work and teamplay are the fundamental characteristics j of a winning ball cluo, whether that team be major league .calibre^or plain ordinary “choosesides” baseball. Now comes a startling exception to that dule in the case of Chick Hafey and the
Cincinnati Reds.
The Rede must have Hafey in ■jhe lineup to win ball games. We state that as a fact after watching the team closely for the past few weeks. We do not mean to infer (hat the Reds are a “one-man” bad club, but we do mean that the Queen City club relies in that one player more than on any other. The Reds, in the midst of a terrible slump, have lost a significant number of games by a single run. Hafey’s power at the bat, admittedly great, would have saved
many of those games.
It is not comforting to think of
of nature ^' le Reds as being helpless without
the services of one player. Other factors have been at work, of course. The Reds’ pitching staff has not shown at all well and ths team’s defense has cracked at critical moments. Still and all, had Hafey been in the game the Reds would be a fighting first division
club right now.
Some time ago we referred to the dogged spirit which was being manifested by the Reds even in their frightful slump. Though the team has ‘not improved since then, that spirit remains the same. That is, essentially, the difference between the Reds of 1932 and the Reds of 1931. Manager Dan Howley admits that he is at a loss to explain the team’s poor showing. Howley has done everything possible to strengthen the club but has been faced with miserable luck at every turn. President Weil sticks grimly to his task of conducting the club’s affairs off the field, waiting for the break that is bound
uanpnuo? n CU " aCy ,f hlS 1 S !r® t 1 n ! g t0 come. The players are disap p n( led his own lite and the life ( p 0 j n t e d, but not disheartened
of others.
Carry a spare tire, some extra Powell, and withheld his fire. If! 111 81 - on j 1 cntirlr Tlllio-C Oil ry W O I'S t TD B 11 liarl Vl Jo f orl JV»n 1 blispect
As graphically told by a reporter who saw it, Pete emptied his gun
Horstman had hesitated the bandit would have shot his way to freedom, and other lives would have
been forfeited.
Powell saw a man, very late at night, running in the “redlight.” The officer commanded a halt. He did not know who the runner wao, although lying witnesses attempted unsuccessfully to show that he thought it was the unspeakable
suspect that when Powell saw the unknown man running, in a suspicious quarter, lie reasoned that the unknown had a good reason for running when a policeman
ordered him to stop.
What if the running man had just robbed and murdered somebody? What if he was a burglar getting away with his loot? 'Powell didn’t know- All he
Bohlingei. All he saw was a man knew that he was a paid defender
running, with a suit case in his hand, and that he failed to stop at a command to halt, and the time
was 1:30 in the morning.
Being a police officer is a ticklish job. One minute society would rend a policeman to jail and the ne. t minute places him on a pedestal. He is always in danger jnf being “danin^i. 1. von do and
of society and that he would have to answer to society if he permitted the escape of one who might be a desperate criminal. If lie shot lie might kill and be tried for murder. If he depended upou his lungs instead of the gun to stop the running man he might lose his job and be unmercifully
Pittsburgh can go from eighth to first, so can tire Reds. This writer tries not to be sentimental, but there are times when sentiment crops out just the same. One of-those times is when we mention Johnny Fischer. Not a great many people know who this youngster is, but one of these days mark our words, everybody is going to know. And Cincinnatians and Middle West folks in general are going to be mighty proud. This boy . is a mere youngster, bat is now rated second among ai 1 United States amateurs. He finished behind Johnny Goodman, of Omaha, in the Open. His game is mechanical perfection itself, his temperment cool under the greatest strain. Lrst week, competing in the Open and Intercollegiate, the boy played 198 n > ti; of turnament golf in nine uays. with only one day’s rest between + V '^'o
tourneys.
(Continued Frcn> Page One) less than six weeks he had 6,800 men sheltered tnere with great stores of food and other equipment. Gave Blanket Orders. Then it was learned that Roosevelt had ordered $40,000,000 worth of guns, munitions, depth bombs, clothing, medicines, etc., weeks before Cungress had got around to making tne necessary appropria-
tions.
The country had to have sodium nitrate for the making of powder and the assistant secretary learned that the market was controlled certain interests and some gouging in prices was being done. Roose veil did not even bother his chief, or the State Department about that but sent an aide to the Chilean Ambassador and had him induce that diplomat to rush 5,000,000 pounds to the Chilean sea coast where he dispatched United States colliers to load it. There were no papers signed, no contract of any sort. It was purely a gentlemen’s agreement between the assistant secretary and the ambassador. Foresaw Eventuality. Then he combed the markets oi the world for other raw materials vitally necessary to the conduct oi the war and kept American ships speeding here and there to collect the shipments. Here he saved the country millions by cuttnig off the greedy middlemen and reducing transportation charges. Long before the United States entered the war, Roosevelt foresaw that eventuality and planned for it. One of his ideas was establishment of a “Naval Plattsburg.” Within a remarkably brief period more than 19,000 young recruits had taken training cruises of 25 days and when we entered the struggle 80 per cent of these enlisted. This was of tremendous importance to the transporting of troops and high naval officers paid tribute to, the genius which conceived the idea. Moreover, he induced contractors and manufacturers to undertake gigantic works on his own authorization, this in itself was a notable feat of business diplomacy. Devised the Labor Board. Enormous plants were erected at his orders for the manufacture of war necessities when other plants were working to the limit of their capacities and meanwhile he de veloped and made effective the plan for enlisting a merchant fleet of 450 ships, fully manned, which played an important part in the ultimate victory. Then he organized the Macy board which was eventually to become known as the War labor board, regulating war time wages, working agreements and doing much to prevent strikes sabotage, etc. He originated and won, as Admiral Sims put it, in a “knockdown and drag-out fight,” approval for the construction of 110-foot submarine chasers capable of crossing the ocean under their own power and without escort. Four hundred of these were built and serviced in less than three months, all manned by coast guardsmen and members of the naval reserve. The effectiveness of this type of craft is now a matter of history. Seized Scores of Boats. Another device which he backed and developed was the submarine detector. When ship owners refused to turn over their boats to the department for war duty ne shoved through in almost record time legislation authorizing the navy to commandeer any craft and seized boats by the hundred. He indheed yacht clubs To build serviceable boats capable of carrying machine guns and prevailed upon the owners of the larger private yachts to turn their boats over for service in European waters. Action followed action. Prompt decision followed a splendid imagination and foresight. One of Mr. Roosevelt’s ideas, the North Sea barrage to kill off submarines was sufficient in itself 10 write his name in history. Although he had to fight almost the entire naval hoard of strategists at a time when the smooth flow of troops and food supplies for the allies was vital he won, and high naval officers today give him full credit. He whipped even the British admiralty and Admiral Sims who termed this plan the conception of an amateur strategist. A Radical Thought. The idea of laying a sea mine barrage 200 miles from the Orkney Islands to the coasLof Norway was a radical thought, but it helped close the northern exit of the North Sea and helped bottle and destroy the German submarines. Here is another example of a keen and wise imagination. It meant building and planting 240,000 mines along this route. It meant the employment of thousands of men and scores of ships, but within a few weeks the work was well under way. Although the \yar ended before the work was completed, the fear as well as the actual damage done to the German U-boats proved no small factor in the final result. Later Admirals Sims and Harris gave Roosevelt full credit for a notable piece of work the latter exclaiming: “If Roosevelt had not been in office the North Sea barrage would never have been laid down and the submarine toll would have been far heavier.” , These are a few of the high lights in Roosevelt’s war service. There are many more but these alone make up a list of which it is hard to find a parallel in modern
times.
Spectacular Deals. One of Secretary Roosevelts greatest business feats, about which little was said was his handling of the Navy’s demobilization affairs. The armistice found the U. S. Navy with fifty-four naval bases and twenty port offices in Europe, warehouses packed with millions of dollars’ worth of supplies and munitions, and claims of unknown amounts. Secretary Daniels wished an early settlement of these matters to forestall a glut in the market. Roosevelt was delegated to handle these tremen-
dous problems and immediately went abroad. The almost spectacular deals he made to the credit of the United State are now a matter of history. For one item alone, the U. S. radio station in France, he received two million francs. Hearing of this deal, an important navy officer, who had been trying a long time to make a deal, remarked: “Roosevelt knows how to handle "he French.” All his deals were along similar satisfactory lines and everything was accomplished in the usual expeditious manner of
Roosevelt in six weeks.
WHY TIRED (Contniued from Page 1)
driver of an oil fuel truck had been working approximately twenty hours without relief and from his own statement fell asleep at the wheel or dozed. As a result the vehicle swerved across the road, or street, and plunged into a two family dwelling, tearing away part of the porch and also a large section of the clap-boarding on the side of the house. The resultant cost of repairs to the house was extremely high and the whole front end of the large fuel truck was very badly damaged. “A heavily loaded truck from Boston bound for Springfield reached Spencer at 2:30 a. m. The driver, a sober .steady and experienced. man about 45 years old, was asleep and failed to make the right turn on the steep downgrade near the Town Hall. His truck crashed through the wooden fence in a doctor’s yard. The noise evidently woke the driver, who jerked his* wheel to the right. The truck continued through the doc-
struck the end of one of the tworail highway fences; The upper rail had torn across the top of the hood, crashed through the windshield and struck the driver’s left eye. The entire left side of his head was crushed. He lived until Tuesday morning but never woke, up to tell hqw it happened. The road surface was clean and dry.
the weather clear.
“Factors that must be considered in counteracting fatigue, are the physical and mental health of the driver; a safe limit on the hours of operation; restriction on the overloading of vehicles; the proper ventilation of the cab; care that on,e does not overeat. Efficiency always decreases with ^ fatigue.”—Public Safety.
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REVENUE
tor’s yard, dropped over a three now.
(Contniued from Page 1) come tax increases will doubtless cause a further flow of capital into tax-free government bonds, thus taking money out of the channels of trade, and away from industries sorely in need of funds. To this extent, it will hamper employment and delay a return to 'normal con-
ditions.
There is one lesson we should 'have learned—that undeviating watchfulness is the price of economical and efficient government. If we have to pay greatly inrceased taxes we have ourselves principally to blame—we gave officeholders all the rope ’they wanted, and ‘they are slowly strangling us. The American has been indifferent to the operation of his government. He has been a poor stockholder. He is paying
foot wall at his driveway, continued along the walk in front of several stores, missed a large elm tree by inches, crashed down a twelve foot wall to the street, snapped off a telephone pole, tore through the side of a wooden building, and finally came to rest in a store. The steering wheel had pierced the driver’s abdomen and he was dead. “A large truck, with driver and helper, returning from New York, reached Park Square, Boston, at 1:30 p. m. It sideswiped a parked car, veered across the street striking a passing car, and crashed into another parked car, injuring three people. Investigation showed that both driver and helper were asleep, having had no rest for 36
hours.
“It is not truck drivers alone who have accidents because they are tired. Two Princeton students, both 20 years old, went to the home of one of the boys at New Rochelle, New York, to get his fur coat. His family urged them to spend the night there, and return -o college in the morning. However, they had 8:30 a. m. classes and started back at one a. m. in a Whippet roadster, three years old. The one who was not driving soon fell asleep. The operator managed to keep his eyes open until he reached a gradual curve on an iipgrade about four miles from Princeton. In his words: ‘I must have been asleep a couple of seconds, because I suddenly awoke when we hit a telejhone pole. 1 was temporarily dazed. As soon as I realized what had happened, I looked at Fred. I found him in the ‘car, blood dripping from his head, nose and mouth. He was unconscious. I took him out of the car and laid him on the ground.’ Fred had a fractured skull. He died on the way to the hospital without recovering consciousness. “A Boston salesman, 2^ years old, drove his Dodge coupe to New York to spend the week-end with his wife. He started back to Boston Sunday afternoon. He was found at five a. m. Monday at the ! side of the Hope Valley Highway in Rhode Island. His car had ii j
The tax fight never ends. It is time we laid our plans for doing what we can .through the power of the ballot, to make tax reduction
a reality in the future.
TOO MANY.
“Mother, is it true that an apple a day keeps the doctor away?” “Yes, Jimmie. Why?” “ ’Cause if it i«. I kept about ten doctors away this morning—hut I’m afraid one’ll have to come soon.”—Bolton Evening News.
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