Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 September 1932 — Page 1

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT “HEW TO THE BLOCK; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT.”

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VOLUME 12—JNUMBER 36

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1932.

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Torment

By Helfur Surton

WE WANT BREAD NOT “BALONEY.”

leaders insist

The Republican

that the party in power cannot be blamed for the sad economic plight that 'has thrown millibns out of work and has led a mass of pov-erty-stricken, half-starved people

to the soup lines.

Are the Republican leaders trying to shift the responsibility for the present panic or do they actually mean what they say? It is quite apparent that they are trying j to “weasle” out of shouldering re-

sponsibility.

At the same time they are saying that their Republican regime should not bear the blame for the panic, they are saying that should the nation go Democratic, the \Democrats would cause the country to go into a o -onomic slump. Is this not. say in 'hit you must not blame the party in power for a panic if the party happens to be Republican. but if the party in power should be Democratic, pile the

blame on heavy?

This two-face attitud^ is evident

in a recent speech of Senator James' GOVERNMENT MUST

E. Watson at Madison, Ind. In 1 speaking of the Democratic victory in Maine, he declared: “Stocks went down one to twenty-four points. If one state going Democratic does that, what would happen if the whole nation went Democratic?”

IHPIHJCWIS mwi TO ttSfllKt

f mMsonoiis

LEADERSHIP OF REPUBLICANS IS CAUSE OF PANIC When Business is Prospering: Taxation is a

Minor Problem. ERNMENT Ml

GUARD EXPENSES

WATSON IS FORGETFUL. Watson is one

of that number

Cost of Government in Muneie Reduced More

Than 25 Percent.

The greatest panic that ever prevailed in this country is now the most part of everyday talk.

Congratulations Uncle Sam By MORRIS A. BEALLE, In “Plain Talk.”

ICONSTABLE AND FRANCE MAKE A FLAT FAILURE

The following article, in part b; Morris A. Bealle, appeared in “Plaii Talk,” of a recent issue:

which maintains that it is unfair to N ewg p a p er columns are filled with hold the party in power respon- t ^ e pagt fom , years of economic sible for a decline in business. nas,] osges and the a ] most unbelievable he forgotten his former stand or is amount of sllfferinR flue to hun he dishonest. Mr. Watson a s(C nn< j j m p r0l p er livelihood for milseems to have had mental paralysi&-r lions of unem p loyec i families. Ediwhen it comes to remembering thatr toria]g are W ritten and the comIhe stock market smash of 19..9, and mon street conversations nv e made the present panic with its unem-| U p whol]y of serious problems of

jloyment, hunger, soup lirfes. lost property and savings, limitation of educational opportunities, lack of medical care, suicides, million heartaches, etc., all took its grip upon the throat, of the nation only

how to keep from starving in this land of plenty and the reduction

of taxes. j

When business is prosnering and all those who will work,, can find a job, taxation is a minor prob-

a few months following the taking,] em amidst the masses of neople

of office by the present administration, which was swept into office by a Republican landslide in 1928. This slump, which Watson failed to mention- which took place following the political election of 1928, did not send the gambling prices of stocks down one to twenty-four points. Instead, it sent them down between two and three hundred points. Watson is quite ready to pin the responsibility for the recent turn in ^gambling in stocks on the Democrats, but he and his colleagues are unwilling to share the responsibility for the crash in 1929.

NOT INTERESTED IN GAMBLING. The people of Indiana do and have a right to expect their lawmakers to be more fair and honest than that. Furthermore, the people of this poverty-stricken nation are more interested in prices and markets of produce and commodities than they are in the gambling prices of stocks on Wall Street. Watson did not look into the sit nation to see if this slump in stock prices might have' been staged for the purpose of influencing the fall election. There will likely be an investigation of all that went on be tween these rich men that caused the slump which Watson refers to Watson himself has admitted giving worthless notes for sugar stock while he was helping get through a tariff on that .product. The people will await with great interest to learn who all were involved in th*' slump in stock prices at the time of the Maine election, and why the slump took place.

but today it is a case of that people cannot pay taxes and interest and yet live. The cause of present day conditions are largely attributed to the Republican leadership of our country and 'iKhifullv so. because when a tariff wall is built so hi eh as to practically exclude all international trade it is bound to work serious hardships in a nation that nroduces five times as much as it c.en consume such as the United States dees today. American exnorts dronm'ne oc over seven billions of dollars since 1929. no demand for our excess products which in turn reduces the market price of such products to a level lower than they can be produced, money interests ef this trreat country contractimr the distribution of ranit.nl. and representation in srovernment. not for the masses of neenle hnf. fer p^>rnorations and banking: irir.t :+ ^Hp->s are e-eing to continue wbu t^e strnction of our economic inter-

ests.

WMI Solve Tt>emselv/»c.

By Morris A. Bealle. Congratulating Franklin D. Roose velt over his nomination for thr presidency and leaving the Ameri can people out of these felicitation* is like congratulating the fathei of a 10-pound boy baby and forget ting all about the mother who nur tured the future citizen for month and then gave it birth. And while you are handing out the congratulations, don’t forget old Doctor McAdoo and his con sultant. Dr. Garner, of Texas. Just as the Wall Street “complications” were about to set in these two competent and able doctors did their stuff. After all who is to be congratu lated most? Mr. Roosevelt realizes the ambition of a life-time. He is inevitably slated to achive the highest office in the gift of the American people, barring death or disaster. After all, what more can he ask?

REFLECTIONS

Watson says labor is protected by the present high fa riff. Maybe he is right. The laborers might never get a vacation if it were n<^t for the Republican tariff.

But the American people. The: lave had nearly 12 years of gov irnmental misrule and financial ex iloitation by Wall Street, culmi mting in the Hoover stock marke wash and the most disastrous, fai •eaohing and long-drawnont eco oomic depression in history. They have been robbed, milked Tnd swindled by the clique of mul i-millionaires from Manhattan Island, with the full connivanc* and hearty co-operation of th President of the United States am every cabinet department which

orgies and the market-rigging ac In 1924 and again in 1928 Wal Stieeu controlled both parties. P

Attempt to “Scoot” Mayor to Chicago Proves Tough Job.

WILLIAMS. WHIPPLE, HOLD CONFERENCE Wilbur Sutton Also Attends—Close Friend of Williams.

Many Conscientious Drys Were Made “Repealers” When They Seen How the Volstead Act May Be Used as a Terrible Engine of Destruction—“Never Too Old to Learn.” CAUSE OF PEOPLrVERSUS EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT

William France, president of the

„ , ^ _ , , ..board of public safoty, surety on was found necessary to the swind j th e appeal bond of Mavor DaK foiling schemes, the stock-jobbins <*ome reason or otjier wants off the

bond.

Acting on a Federal statute that seems to he somewhat vague, France sought to take the mayor

made no difference to them which to Chicago Thursday to have the was elected, and in 1928 they let!bondsman released by the Court

an unnaturalized foreigner In I r) f Appeals.

nominated and elected President RiRy 01 ' might, have gon^ of the United States—a man whose 1 !™* Peaceably if France had not acquired foreign viewpoint the jU'ougnt a constable along with

framers of our Constitution had

sought to guard against.

The Muncie Star recently refused to publish an article which accused Jim Watson of gambling in the stock market. Those Who heard Watson speak here at the High School building recently heard him try to "joke off” his record ef gambling while he is a senator. The Star probably did not publish the article which made the accusation against Jim because it did not want to spoil his speech!!

OLD GAGS GONE TO TRASH HEAP. Watson’s statement referred tc was meant only to scare people into supporting his ticket in November He seems to think that people hav^ forgotten the past. But they have pot. The “vote the Republican ticket and keep your jobs.” and the “full dinner nail” gags have worn out, and along with them the false propagada that the Republican party is the guardian of prosperity has gone to the trash heap. Senator Watson will have to get ? new gag. The people want jobs nr>* stocks: they want an opportunity to make an honest living, not prom ises and a chance to read or Jiea’’ of someone gambling on the stock markets of Wall Street.

SERVICES ONCE A YEAR

tn’t it also must conserve expenditures. So much newspaper scare is given to the lownning of assessed valnations and the cutting of tax rates but Urn only action that can bring relief to taxcavers is he aetnal eliminatine: of manv erovernraeenfal costs anfi the ^eduction of operating budgets. ’ T 'be assessed valuation and the tax i-ate will solves themselves but the amount of money actually snent for maintaining government must be regulated by the public officers charged with the authorization of such expenditures. The local tax m-oblem is centered linen the newlv created countv ( ax adjustment board. The special session of the state legislature this summer has offered a goal for Die various tax levying bodies to shoot at in the $1.50 aggregate tax limit law. While the law may be inooeraUve in the-city of Muncie as a whole it is nossible that every unit of local government can reduce uncrating costs which in turn will lower taxation from the neople. The civil city of Muncie has reduced the costs of government more than twenty-five ner cent under the Dale administration in the past three years. The nrosoects are that the civil city shall reduce another twenty-five Percent for 1933 which shall make a fifty percent reduction or the

Watson tred to get sympathy of fellow gamblers by saying he got

'Government must he maintained [C aught in the stock market. Re-

cent revelations by the Indianapolis Times show that he did not get caught very badly for he gave worthless notes for'much of the stock he bought. It also revealed that Watson was trying to get through a tariff that would raise the price of sugar on people in orider to boost the price of sugar stock he had bought with some of the worthless notes.

unlimited natural resources, how long ‘will it be until the tariff so much loved by Watson will become effective for the common man, the “forgotten men?” At the present time nearly one-half of our products must be exported In or- T der to keep everybody working. Should our resource^ become scarce at some time in the future, so that we would become a buying nation instead of a selling nation, at which time Mr. Watson says the tariff will he effective because of the absence of a surplus, would it be advisable to even then put a high tariff on products which the consumers of America would have to buy and raise the prices of commodities for the common people. The Democrats do not propose the doing away with all tariff; they merely insist that the common man be put on equal footing with the wealthy ami the priv-

ileged.

The slowness of our relief is due to slow motion on the part of government, the distinguished gentleman said. He pointed out that in France tariff can be chansred over night, but in the United States it takes as high as seventeen months to change the tariff. I wonder if he knows that we have a flexible tariff system that makes it possible for the president to make changes at once in emergencies?

Here is something I bet you did not know before. Jim said the farm board caused wheat to rise

Have the soldiers forgotten? i

When Watson smeared the salve 'y en * y cen t s on the bushel. Tf yon

in his recent address in Muncie, he said that in other nations during this depresson there had been 'bloodshed, but in America there has been no bloodshed. A lady near the reporter was heard to say, “that is a lie. How about the bonus marchers in Washington? The government itself, killed some of them.”

And listen to this: He says the Democrats “oppose” everything and “propose” nothing. Listen to one of Roosevelt’s speeches over the radio and see if Watson is right. That is, listen in on the speech if the Muncie Star or Press publishes the time of the speech. Isn’t it strange that the Star and

did not know this before do not. feel bad. You are pqt so dumb. There are a few million farmers

who do not know it either.

ECHO? WHY

Parkinson

made by

Oh! Why should Bob need to feel proud, To have his selection > such a crowd?

They will slip d<owu the street to their room on the alley. And there they will bunch and take count of the tally, To oust Mayor Dale. So they scratch heads and think,

him. who soul he has some sort of i paper with him authorizing him is agent to scoot right up to Chi-

cago with the mayor.

The mayor summoned police to »is office and the pair were ejected. .Vhereupon a council of war was the office of Counselor Tod *Vhipple. who seems to he the legal •epresentative of the crowd that jUants to give the mayor the air. Associate Counsel Gene Williams, former penitentiary bird, a very close friend of Wilbur SuUon. attended the conference in Tod’s

office.

Williams is not allowed to practice in the local courts, but is sometimes allowed to linger around the corridors when the janitor is

not looking.

The mayor left for Chicago late Thursday and is now at work on the preliminary arrangements necessary before a bondsman may be

released.

In an interview Mr. France is minted as being somewhat doubtful as to the power of the mavor to remove him from the safety

board. v

It seems to be the opinion here

L that the law will finally prevail, regardless of the declarations of some

who want to make the law. The Press, as usual, is worrying

about the breaking down of local government and pravs for the day when the right kind of people are

elected to office.

In the meantime, after nearly three years at the helm, the city administration shows the lowest ner capita cost of operation of any second or third class city in the

state.

The city has the lowest tax rate of any second or third class city owning no utilities, has a balance in the treasury, never borrows money, has the best fire department in the state, has a police force that is outstanding in its accomplishments, park and street departments apnroved of by all, and nobody complains but the Press. It. is hard to understand why Mr. France wants off that bond, and run away from an administration that honored him. unless he fears that the mayor is going to run

away.

Tt r^°v be that he was tired of being in decent company. The action of France is unaccountable, but probably has an explanation that will be revealed later. - — — ————— “BLESSED” BANKROLL GONE

Yarmouth, Mass.—Only once a year are services held at a twocentury old church in West Yarmouth, known as the Friends’ Meeting House, an institution of Quaker origin. The anniversary services are arranged by the National Society of Friends. In other da^s weekly services were conducted.

Press are not very good at telling

when Roosevelt’s speeches are ifjBut all they get done is raise a big

. they think he will not sav any- stink,

slashing of exnenditures just haltu^j a pp G aj to the peo-:They babble and talk, they scheme

^ t1lfl wlinlesn1 ° sm,fln pie? | and they plan

jTo cause a disturbance and raise The Indianapolis Times threw! hell if they can.

some, light on Watson’s part 1

in two frorn the wholesale squan dering of money by the former ad-

ministration.

The reports from the controller’s office will show that in

LIGHTS FRIGHTEN SKUNKS Magnola, Mass.—J. Harrington Walker recently installed floodlights in the garden of his estate here to brevent* skunks gathering on his lawn. The skunks, evidently disliking publicity, have shunned the estate since then.

in jTo crijpple the Democrats is their

which ihe stator p^sed so h^.p.ch

i. * iv. It reveals tlmt Watson fought! sn '

passing of the home loan bill! or >ly aim;

this time is a dirty

the same fund in 1929 was $645'.000. The indications for 1933 are

at

^ shame.

the bill for months but came out AVheh. things look so line for the

mm The inriirations ror a re for 5t when was convinced bv I candidates concerned, OOfi. the indications ror lass are in Tndinnn thnt it Some one ought to tell them to go that the civil citv will use $320,000 som ^ h'S guns in Indiana that it. dumed Fvorv, o-onemi fnnri nnvi vpnr would mean thousands of votes fori ‘ . v , , horn the geneiai tuna next year. , ,. ^ , 1. .. if the river is full when we ve not While other tax levying bodies are y m in ^ fall election and Rl' ht| not had a shower making some reductions in their '1° impossible of sending him cannot compare with that conn-

actual expenditures, if the percent- back for another term. c jj 0 f ours

age of savings to the taxpayers ' q

were as great as those of the ciivl Watson almost forgot himself

Pity, our taxes would be cut in and told the truth about tariff not And when liquor is made legal ents.

half. The Dale administration has (helping the farmers and laboring and taxed . to bring in a billion a —o always and continues to sponsor (men. He said that a high tariff year, no problem will remain ex-| The records show that very few lower costs of government. It would not. help us as long as we jeept that of finding a way to waste^ich men got that way by riding

o cmr*rvinc Tn iiiic! ion/i pf itVm pvtm mpna* ^prices up after they got to the top.

Time to Delete from Constitution Weapon That May Be Used By Political Parties to Destroy Those Who Offend By Plain Speaking and Honesty in Official Action. There has been , considerable gabble about the repeal of the eighteenth amendment. The democratic party ^declares itself unequivocallly in favor of repeal. ' The republican party is no less committed in that direction than the democratic party, but it attempts to disguise its sentiments by confusing phraseology. • The Post-Democrat editor is a personal dry. but was made a personal “repealer” when prohibition agents and local stool pigeons through perjured evidence convicted him, as mayor of the city, for enforcing the national liquor low in Muncie. Personally we deplore the fact that no matter which party wins, yvhat practically amounts to the “open saloon’’ will eventually come hack. , As a citizen of the United States, who observed from a ring-side seat in the defendant’s dock of a federal court, how the : Volstead act may be used as a terrible engine of destruction, we throw in with America’s greatest statesman. United States Senator George Norris of Nebraska, a republican with a conscience. Senator Norris has always been a personal and political dry. In openly declaring in favor of Governor Roosevelt, Senator Norris, seventy years of age. remarked that one “is never too old to learn.” The editor of ,the Post-Democrat is not as old as the Nebraska senator, but he has learned one thing, and that is that the constitution of the United States should never embody in its sacred provisions a section so directl in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment, which guarantees that no citizens shall be deprived of life, liberty or possessions withou* due process of law. ‘ > The Volstead act, spawned by the Eighteenth amendment, has shortened our life, taken our liber ty away and deprived us of all our possessions with out due process of law, in a court where due proces r and obvmus perjury became synonymous terms. It is logical, therefore, for the Post-Democrat whose editor has been so thoroughly manhandled should Qualify as ?n expert witness in ,the cause of the peaple versus the eighteenth amendment to thrconstitution of the United States. It is a trite paving that it were better that ? thousand guilty go free than one guiltless be con-

demned.

Let us therefore delete from the constitution ? weapon that,may be used by the political party ir power ,to destroy, through perjury and nolitica 1 urge, those who offend through plain speaking and

honesty in official action.

We do not agree with individuals of both parties who would have you believe that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness of a nation depend chiefly on the question of whether one can eet r drink or not get a drink, depending on the point O’ 1,

Here, There Everywhere

Those Happy Days Under Mr. Wilson. RemembfT tliose happy days prior to the war Mr. Wilson tried Lo keep us out of, and what a wonderful howl the entire Republican. Press set up, and how Mr. Wilson was condemned ‘ all along the ine for not entering the war, and hott his action was sneered at by this same Republican Press anil the small politicians and how they refered to it as “his watchful waiting policy?” Remember those happy days prior to the war Mr, Wilson tried to keep us out of, how complicaitions arose between our government and the government of Mexico, 'and how this same Republican Press and the small politicians condemned this same Mr. Wilson lor not sending our army into Mexico and “cleaning up the whole •ountry”, and how they accused him of being afraid to fight? Remember those happy days brior to the war Mr. Wilson tried (o keep us out of, when an American vessel was searched on the high seas by the British, and how this same Republican Press condemned Mr. Wilson for not declaring war on England? Remember those happy days prior to the war Mr. Wilson tried -o keep us out of, how that staunch Republican, Ex-President Roosevelt. stumped the country, making 3peeches in favor of war and how he spoke of Mr, Wilson’s “watchful waiting policy”, and how he proposed to raise a company of five hundred cowboys and take hem across the ocean to annihilate the Kaisers Army ? Remember those unhappy days almost fifteen years after the war Mr. Wilson tried to keep us out of, when the bonus marchers, former soldiers whose entrance into the war the Republican Press was largely responsible for, marched to Washington and after a few short weeks wasted in entreaties to be paid the moneys due them for services in the war, and how they were treated to tear gas and driven from th White House grounds by bayonets, just like dogs? Much more might be said in refreshing memories of the past but we will leave this to some other lime. However, there are some tilings that will long be remembered and chief among these is the attitude of a few “Hooverized” preachers, many of them with foreing names, who a few short years ago were listed . as “one hundred per cent Americans,” altho they never smelled gunpowder, and who are now wallowing 1 in the dirty cess pool of politics and openly stating, “That an Ex-Soldier who asks for payment of a bonus at this time is un-American.”

Beacon Falls, Conn.—Ludwig Zick, proprietor of a roadside stand, paid $190 to have his $203 roll “blessed” by two gypsy women, who said they wanted a loaf of bread. When one of them asked j Zick if he had money he wanted blessed, he handed over $200. After several mystic passes, the

couhted ^h^monev^an hour latbri view of the individual, but we do believe that if thr

and found only $10.

Chief Engineer Hoover and Assistant Engineer’s Hurley and Watson, officials of the Financial Depression Corporation and members of the Board of Directors of ?he Association for the Promotion of Unemployment Incorporated, of \merica, are working frantically the past few weeks endeavoring to convince the voters, especially te farmers, that there never was a Mme in the history of the Repub’ican party when it was more urgent for the laboring man and the farmer to return that party to power and thereby continue that prosperity with which we have all been blest for the past three vears. Assistant Engineer Hurley "•ven goes so far as to accuse the Democratic candidate for president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, of ‘Pirating” Engineer Hoover’s ! deas, entirely overlooking the ‘piracy” committed bv his chief against Alfred E. Smith, while Assistant Engineer Watson launches forth in a maze of statistics to prove that the present tariff is he only m^ans of protecting the ■’armer and laboring man and maintaining our present high standard of living. With winter •oming on and millions of people •sut of employment it. is more than possible, if the present adminisl ration is continued in power, that 'hese great enaineers will be quite busy staking out lines and erect'ng signs pointing the wav to housands of soup houses, where he unemployed may be fed.

BOAST TWO FIRE .CHIEFS Tolland. Conn.—Other towns may boast of more than one fire apparatus, but Tolland probably is I he t only one which can claim two active fire chiefs. Edward Wochomurka was duly elected, but (When two factions developed, he |resigned. Now Emil Von Deck is chief of the original force and Wochomurka heads the insurg-

(Continued to Page Five) 'have a surplus. In this land of'the extra tnoneY.

fourteenth amendment is to endure, the ei^hteentf MUST be deleted from the,constitution of the United States. As living, breathing testimonv in behalf o^ the cause in action, the editor of the Post-Democra J herewith introduces in .evidence thirteen exhibit lettered consecutively from A to M: Namelv. him self, one wife, seven children and four grandchildrer The editor of the Post-Democrat is trying tr present this to you as a personal, rather than a pol

itical question.

The question comes up to you, in its final analy / (Continued to Page 2)

It is somewhat tragic to note he attitude of certain Democratic Conncilmen in catering to the mshes of Republican newspapers md politicians in matters pertainng to the office to which they ^ere elected. You Democrats "who desert your own party in order to 'lease a few disgruntled politicans. not onlv loose the respect of 'our own party, but the respect of hose Republicans who are advis'ug you as well, and when you bave helped them to condemn your 'wn party you will find that they 'ave no further use for you and 'on will be regarded by them as 'Rant tools who have been used o pull the chestnuts out of thebre. In view of these facts it vould seem to us, that, it is about ime you got wise to the fact that he fellows who are now promptng you to create discord in your 'arty, have been staying awake at light preparing plans by which ('Continued to page two)