Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 August 1932 — Page 2
FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1932.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT £ Democratic weekly newspaper represeuling the Democrats Muncie, Delaware County and the 8th 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 2 CENTS—$1.00 A YEAR
223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher Geo. R. Dale, Editor
Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 26, 1932.
Who Got It?
(Indianapolis Times) Months ago it was admitted by the Federal prohibition department that a very large quantity of exceptionally line liquor, if any be line, had disappeared from the local Federal building. The liquor had been confiscated by the prohibition agents and was in their custody. The value of the liquor, under present bootleg quotations, amounted to thousands of dollars. The government agents were busy for some time in ’other matters. They convicted a Democratic mayor by the testimony of men and women who would not be believed in any other place in the world than a Federal Court. They snooped into conventions of men who had served their country at the risk of their lives and exercised a supervision over their habits and morals. The boys who had successfully defied the temptations of France could not be trusted to take care of themselves at home and the agents did it. Having completed this work, it might seem reasonable to ask that either the prohibition department or the department of justice discover where the confiscated whisky went. Not just some of the whisky, but all the whisky could be easily traced. Some of it, probably, was used in the dubious hospitalities of those in its custody. But there is still the question of where the rest of it went—and why. The matter may be more important than the fact that the prohibition agents who confiscate whisky can not be trusted with its custody. It may go higher, much higher.
The Strain Is Beginning to Tell!
By Talburt
Price of Skim Milk Reduced The mayor’s message to the council at its August meeting concerning the extortion of the milk trust has brought partial results. It has brought a confession of guilt and a technical reduction in the price, which will be followed no doubt by an .actual reduction. f V * The so-called “Mills Qouncil” Tuesday ahnoupced that 'the price pf milk had fc»eenHxedirced ten id eight cents ;per quart. '’ v 1 < As an afterthought it declar^ the “council” will sell two grades, of milk, at two prices, eight and ten cents: The ten cent milk, with caps adorned by the words “Special Nursery Milk,” it is explained, has a greater cream content than the eight cent brand, so the people are told to take their choice. In other words the milk trust expects to fool the people and create the belief that the price has come down by offering skim milk for eight cents a quart and milk with cream on top for ten cents. The Post-Democrat is of the opinion that the determined effort to create a milk monopoly here is doomed to failure. What the people want and will have is one-price milk, with plenty of cream on top, for at least eight cents a quart. The deception now being practiced in putting out two grades of milk simply adds to the resentment and fools nobody. The next thing probably, will be an announcement to “Misses Smith” that she can buy milk of the trust with or without typhoid fever bacilli, or with or without visible dirt, at prices corresponding to the hazard.
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Bystanders learned a thing or two They had not heard before. The things then said about the law Are never used in print, Of bow the cop might lose his job, There was a gentle hint. IThe officer, both mi>d and keen, Abuse could never budge. “The things you are about to say, Just save them for the JudgeJ have a duty to perform, I’ll try to do it fair, Defenses proper for the court, I hope you’ll use them there.’ The driver stood before the Judge With anger in his eye, Admitted that he saw the light, That much he’d not deny. The law was wrong and honest folks,
Should not bp haled in court; The cops might look for criminals, With hecords to report. The Judge withstood the storm of
rage.
That passed above his head, Although it touched him on the raw And made his face turn red. “If men like you would heed the
laiy,
And good example give, I think we’d have a better town, Than this in which to live.” “The light of red protects the way, So others may hot fear, ‘Lest we forget, Lest we forget,’ Just leave some tribute here. If five and costs you leave behind, You’d knpw just what I mean,
light. You’ll pass upon the green.’ —Harry Brokaw, in 'Fraternal Order of Elks Journal. o NOT BAD! NOT BAD-
“That’s a good looking car. What’s the most you ever got out of it?” “Eight times in one mile.” o 11 DIALECTS ON ISLAND
And when you next approach the ■from there.
Hongkong, China.—To travel throughout the island of Hainan, South China, which is slightly larger than New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island combined, it is necessary to speak eleven diffeent dialects, declares an investigator who recently returned
~ SCHOOL COUP© HATTON FOEOT tCK TO TAXPAYERS OP TAX LI
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES
\r> tha matter of Determining the Tax Rates for School purposes by the School Corporation of Muncie, Delaware County, icaiaaa.
Board of School Trustees.
Notico i? hereby given the taxpayers of Delaware County, Indiana, that the proper legal oSicers of said school corporation at their regular meeting place, at 4:30 P. M., on Tuesday, the 20th day of September, 1932, will consider the following budget*.
for the purpose, although it does not provide for an elec-
tion.
rough, referee
in fact, that quails when
even the he starts
., . .. ... through a broken field with a loot-
The mayor states that if a majority of the council will baU un( jer h : . ,»eater. At the
Fixing the Blame
cooperate the city of Muncie will soon own its waterwoi^o and the price paid may be disappointing to “Stockholder.” If Muncie owned her own utilities a great burden of taxation would be lifted from the shoulders of our people.
Editorial Comment
(Continued from Page One) agamat ,t,he printipg business, the pdwfer' 'iit^uMi^’ jbpftking or insurance. It is the politician against the people. It is the attempt of the bureaucrat to take away the right of the individual to carry on an independent business. THE ACCIDENT PICTURE The complete 1931 accident “picture” is an interesting study in contrasts. Motor vehicle deaths numbered 33,500—a new high record. Accidents were the second most important causes of deaths in men, heart disease being first. On the other hand, industrial plants reduced employes’ injury frequency rates 38 per cent in two years, and railway crossing accirents declined 10 per cent. In the past decade, industry has
4 Marx Brothers Go Collegiate in “Horse Feathers”
If it’s really a long, loud laugli that this country needs, Muncians can get their share of it nlext week at the Rivoli theater, where the Four Marx Brothers, more cocoanutty than ever, are cavorting about in “Horse Feathers.’ t This time the setting is dear (old Tluxley College, with all Oiy
BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR SCHOOL CORPORATION
SPECIAL SCHOOL FUND General Administration—
l. Board School Trustees and Secretary’s OHice..$ 1,550.00 Superintendent’s Office 6.375.00 Finance and Accounting O0ice 8,207.00 Business Director’s Office .......
Buildings and Grounds Department School Attendance and Census Research Office
Supplies Department.
a. Supplies ... .1 b. Clerics’ Salaries
c. Other Expenses
Instruction Teaching .... Instruction Supervision—
1. Principals 2. Supervisors
Operating School Plant—
1. Administration Building 2. High Schools 3. Elementary Schools
Maintenance School Plant—
1. Administration Building 2. High Schools ,T 3. Elementary Schools Fixed Charges Co-Ordinate and Auxiliary Activities
Debt S— i —
Capita 1. New
2. Alterations
Debt Service pita! OutlayNew Acquisitl
2.865.00
25.00
4.238.00 13,963.69 5.490.00 1.106.00
33,451.20 9,508.32
30,871 13 40,562.59
5.995.00 10,395.00 29,650.89 7,449.22
14,800.00 15,793.34
Total Expenditures Special School Fund $242,356.38
TUITION FUND. Teachers’ Salaries—
1. High Schools (Junior) $105,362.22 2. High Schools (Senior) 82.502.FT
Teachers’ Salaries-x-
1. Elementary Schools 165,743.35
A. B. C
Total $353,603.14 Transfer Tuition 33,477.£3 Total Expenditures Tuition Fund $387,086.02 VOCATIONAL FUND. Salaries Vocational Teachers and Directors ... Equipment Supplies
42.33
Total Vocational Fund BOND OR SINKING FUND. Payment Principal Payment Interest Total Expenditures Bond or Sinking Fund
SUMMARY
Special Fund
Tuition Fund
$ 57,GGO.CO 38,83/.50 $ 95,857. ?J
. .$242,356.88
non mi a
. 387.086.02
Bond Fund 95,837.50
Vocational
42.38
end, they I'gat a huge bonfire to celebrate Huxley’s v-i-c-t-o-r-y, and what matter that the college itself burns down while these nit-wit Neros fiddle, dance and cavort about with the campus cuties? It’s
all in fun?
A particularly able cast plays “staright” for the Marxes, but the 1 others haven’t a chance in the brilliance 'that U)e stars radiate. Pretty, blonde,* Th*lm g r fodd,,and Florine McKinney,-A hiuh^ue? wit equally as attractive, contribute the feminine interest; Dkvid Landau is the “heavy,” and effective bits are contributed by Nat Pendleon, James Pierce, and Robert Creig, the latter as the bearded Froiessor Hornsvoggle whose passage-at-arms with President iGroucho evoke howls of laughter. ^Norman McLeod, a Mhrx-pictures
veteran, directed. o
MUNCIE SC WOOL CITY
t. Total Budget Estimate for present school year 2. Deduct Misc. revenue for preseht school year
(estimated on former year misc. rev.) 1,581.33 3. Subtract line 2 from fine 1. 240,775.05 4. Temporary loans to be paid before Dec. 31 5. Total (of lines 3 and 4) C. Actual Balance July 31, present year V. Tax to be collected present year (Dec. settlement) l’. Misc. Rev. to be collected between July 31 and December 31..
9 Total (of lines 6. 7
GRAND TOTAL $725,342.28
10 Subtract line 9 from lina 5.
(Amount necessary to meet ex(Not
11. Est. Working Bal. for last half of next school year, greater than Va line 3.1 12. Add lines 10 and 11. (Amount necessary in June Distribution) 13. Amount tq be raised by tax levy (twice amount of line 12,
Net Taxable Property .., Number of Taxable Poll?
PROPOSED LEVIES
of the Marx-men determined to 'fight fiercely for their alma mam>my against the threatening gestures of rival Darwin. Grouciio is the college president, a post he has accepted because it seems the only way in which he can get his son, Zeppo, out of college. Zeppo has been a freshman for twelve (years. Under Oroucho’s tutelage
made amazing strides in prevent-Jfhe wins his diploma, his letter in
There has been considerable talk about the defective sidewalk on the Jackson street bridge, and the death of a small boy who was run over and killed by former Commissioner John Truitt. In the first place it is more the duty of the county to repair the bridges they construct than it is the city’s. It is especially provided that gasoline tax money shall be used for the repair of bridges. The city’s gasoline fund is tied up in litigation by councilmen, one of whom is Councilman James, who has been quoted as one who complains. The county gasoline fund is accessible. The city’s is not. The bridge should be repaired by the county. The city administration is blamed for everything that
happens.
It was on evidence of bootleggers who sold liquor in the country, in Sheriff Puckett’s territory, that the mayor was
convicted.
It might reasonably be expected that the mayor of Muncie should be charged with the depression. When Hampton was mayor the country was booming. The factories were running full time and poverty was un-
known.
Dale was elected mayor of Muncie and now ten mil lion men are out of work in America. It was during the Dale administration that Lindbergh’s baby was kidnaped and Chineamen were butchered, wholesale, by the Japs. Why lay everything on Hoover ?
ing accidents and in lessening jtheir severity. Part of this has been accomplished by improved guarding of machinery. The larger Jpart, however, has resulted from * ta. new spirit of saiety first that jias been instilled into workers and management alike. Precisely 'the opposite has occurred on our ^highways. JRecklessness grows, rather than slackens; improvements in cars breed more deaths
and injruies, not less.
What has been done in industry can be done with automobile driving. Just as industrial management disciplines the heedless worker who endangers others, so must the state discipline the heedless driver. If industrial workers can learn the gospel of accident prevention and take it to heart so that it becomes a part of their mental operations, so can the automobile driver learn care, com-
petence and courtesy.
It is time to take drastic action to make our streets and highways
safe.
“Stockholder” Kicks on Mayor
Sopie fellow cards the Muncie Press over the signature of “Stockholder” to congratulate the citizens that the water-
works will not be taken over during the administration of jThey* want great industries, such
Mayor Dale.
The Post-Democrat assumes.that the writer is a stockholder in the waterworks company. His self-congratula-tions is probably predicated on the thought that the company might be cheated in the purchase price. If the waterworks is bought by the city he wants a mayor who will acquiesce in a purchase price, no doubt, double the actual value of the property. It seems to the Post-Democrat that a word or two from the consumer who foo.ts the bill, would be more convincing than a communication signed by a stockholder in the company. i, , The mayor expresses disappointment at the failure of Governor Leslie to sign the enabling act that would have clarified the question of purchase by a vote of the people
of Muncie.
It was passed by both houses of the legislature by large majorities, and should have become a law. ' rlt is believed however that the act of .1921 is sufficient >
SPECIAL FUND .25 TUITION FUND : 25 BOND OR SINKING FUND
Special
Fund
Tuition Fund $387,086.02
Vocational Fund 42.38
Bond Fund $ 95,857.50
1,581 33
36,333.18 350,752.84
95,857.50
.. 127,385.27
500 00
350,752.84 6,538.61 198,250.88 8,765.86 213,555.35
42.38
95,857.50 27,176.10 51,214.80
42.38
78,396.90
137,197.49
17,466.60
.. 45,200.10
19,800.14 158,997.63
31.741.26 49,297.8#
.. 224,951.82
313,995.26
98,415.76
$46,364,905
Pol
is Property
be raised
'.67
TOTAL
/IT
9 ..50- $1,36 ' COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED
S'.
. Collected ’1930 Levy
^ .....$273,000.00 TUITION FUND 338,000.00 VOCATIONAL FUND ...: 19.500 00 BOND OR SINKING FUND 130.000.00
NAME OF FUND. SPECIAL FUND
football, and the girl—one at a time, of course—after some of the most hilarious sequences this reviewer has yet seen on the screen. Harpo and Chico Marx are as whimsically funny as ever. Harpo, as the town dog-catcher, \working his way through college, Chases canines this time, instead of gins. Now and then, however, he errs, but the girls are so pretty .that it’s quite the human thing to 'do. Chico is an amorous iceman \an a football star in the rough—so
THE TRAFFIC LIGHT The driver smoked a fat cigar; His glance was straight ahead; He gave the gas an extra touch, Although the light was red. His car just like a shining streak, Then sped beneath the light, While consternation reigned su-
preme,
In cars to left and right. The traffic cop was standing near, And saw the car that passed. Then straightway from his whist-
le came
The limousine then slowed and A loud and piercing blast,
stopped,
A hundred feet away; The driver came to face the cop, And hear what he might say The alibis came thick ana fast, Excuses flowed galore,
TOTAL $760.500 00
Taxpayers app
taxpayers leeliiig 1 ftnal action thereon,
the State Board will fix a date of hearing in the County.
Collected 1931 Levy $247,000.00 383,500.00 iso,’6662)6 $760,500.00
Collected 1932 Levy $243,200.00 377,600.00 '66,'666!66 $716,800.00
$224,951.82 313,995.26 98.415.76 $637,362.84
Amount to be Collected 1933 Le\y $224,931.$2 313,995.26
Dated Auk. 23, 1*32.
^" I 11 1
98,415.76 $637,362.84
After the lax levies have been determined, ten or molW
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tember, and
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WILLIAM F. WHITE. President. EDWARD TUHEY, Secretary. FRED W. MULLIN, Treasurer.
- .. NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX LEVIES. m ia * '*“*«“ «««“ ■>“»“" * »«■»“««
place, on the 6th day of September. 1932, will consider the following budget*
BUDGET CLASSIFICATION FOR TOWNSHIPS. l5UClBet *
TRANSPORT FACTS There is, as a rule, too much perjudice and not enough logic in discussions of the transportation
problem.
It is an inescapable fact, no
jnater ho wmuch is said, concerning the decline of the railroad, that rail transport is the backbone
of the nation’s industries. It is also a fact that there is
room for busses, trucks, waterways, oil pipe lines and other means of transport. The problem ds how to correlate these agencies so that each may be run on a profitable basis and serve the shipping and traveling public well.
The public interest is the main
thing at stake. The people want fast, economical and adequate transport, at reasonable rates
Township Fund.
Salary of trustee $ 720 Office rent 90 Trustee's expense - 150 Office telephone 25 Records and advertising 350 Public ditches 200 Pay of advisory board 15 Examination of records 45
Miscellaneous:
1. Legal service 25 2. Care of cemeteries 25
3. Trustee’s bond
100
Total township fund $1,745 Poor Fund. To reimburse county $250 Tuition Fund. Pay of teachers ... $14,800
300
Special School Fund.
Repair of buildings and care of grounds $ Repair of equipment 366 School furniture and equipment .. 300 School supplies 400 Janitor supplies 300 Fuel for schools 900 Insurance 350 School transfers 200 School telephone 50 Teachers’ institute 10O Janitor Service 800 Transportation of children 6,400 Light and power 400 Miscellaneous 100
as the railroad, to maintain a high standard of purchasing and employment. Until the national government perfects a transport policy that affects all interstate carriers imparially in vegulaion and taxation, the public interest is not served and the stockholders and employes of the railroads are unjustly discriminated against.
■ o HIGH PRESSURE
Mother: What made you stay so late. Have a flat tire? Daughter, dreamily: No, mother, I’d hardly call him that!
NO OBJECTION
Jack: :"'o you object to petting? Juanita; ’hat’s oue thing I have never acne yet.
Jack: Felted.
Juanita: Objecti-c.
Total tuition fund $14,800
Library Fund.
Library tax $250 ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED.
Town- Tuiship tion Fund Fund
1. Total budget estimate for incoming year. .$1,745 $14,800
2. Deduct misc. revenue incoming year (esti-
mated on former year misc. rev.).
line 2 from lii
Total special school fund $10,900 (Complete detail of budget estimate,may be seen in office of Township Trustee.)
3min{
tiisc. 1-9
1,745
Subtract line 2 from
Unexpended appropriations July 31 of present year 660 All additional appropriations between July 31 and December 31 : Temporary loans to be paid before close
4,000 10,800
Special School Library Poor Fund Fund Fund $10,900 $250 $250
10,900 250
Temporary loans to b of present year Total (of lines 3. 4, 5
2,405
795 570
line 2) 400
Total (of lines 8, 9 and 10) 1,765 Subtract line 11 from line 7 640
Est. working balance for six months after
xt year (not greater than one870
14. Amount to be raised by tax levy (add lines 12 and 13) 1,510
PROPOSED LEVIES.
Net taxable property $2,563,160 Number of
FUNDS
Township Tuition
Snecial Library Poor .
„ _ and 6) Actual balance July 31st of present year.. Tax to be collected present year (December settlement) Misc. rev. to be collected present year (onethird of line 2)
close of next yea half of line 3)
7,400
18,200 8,730 5,765 685 15,180 3,020 7,400 10,420
4,960 130
15,850 4,835
380 40
5,740 125
2,440 13,015 2,845
5,400 8,245
265 115
135
250
school 1.00
Total COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND
xable polls 218 Levy on Levy on Amount to Polls Property be raised
.06 $ 1,516 .40 10,42-0 .32 8.245 .01 250 .61 250
Collected
_ ,. 1929 Levy Township $ 1,715 Koad 1,71. sues -■■■■■■■ lom
ibvary
Poor
school 11,342 345 345
Collected 1930 Levy $ 1,340 8,400 11,395 300 300
.80 $20,675
TO BE COLLECTED.
Collected 1931 Levy $ 2,095
13,625 12,250 335 335
Tt> be Collected 1932 Levy $ 1,510 10,420 8,245
250 250
™al $29,248 $21,72-5 f 98,640 $20,675 Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies bMn determined, ten _qr more taxpayers, feeling, themselves aggrieved bv such
action
the fourth this county.
Dated 26th August, 1932. GEO W. BRINSON, I
26—Sept 2 Trustee Hamilton Tw^ I
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