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FEARLESS

THE POST-DEMOC

“HEW TO THE BLOCK; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT.

VOLUME 13—NUMBER 7.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1933.

BRICE: TWO CENTS

COMMENTARY

By Scrutator

Federal Judge Robert F. Williams at Oklahoma suggests that liquor law violators be given “ten lashes on the bare back instead of jail sentences.” How sweetly reasonable and bow tolerant, in view of the overwhelming national mandate for repeal ! It is such bigotry supports the belief that depriving others of their pleasure is not delight enough for some prohibitionists they yearn for the more positive pleasure of inflicting corporal punishmon: ■ a those> who differ from them > .i any question.

One Concerns Classification and Government of Civil Cities and Provides for Salaries of Officials, and Employees— —Other Will Hold Over City Election for One Year.

(lovernmont ownership of the railroads must come quickly if the carriers are to be saved from “hopeless general hankruptcy,” Samuel Untermyer, famous New York attorney, declared in an address before the University Club in Los Angeles recently. In bis speech, broadcast in part over a national radio network, Mr. Untermyer coldly and scathingly arraigned “high finance” and the house of Morgan for the unscrupulous financial juggling and gross inflation which, he declared, were largely responsible for the present plight of the railroads. The problem of the carriers, he asserted, is the most desperate and confusing which now faces the people of the nation. Congress, lie said, can stave off the inevitable for a time by continuing to pour hundreds of millions into the rail systems through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation—a procedure which will benefit no one but the very financial agents who have brought the present situation to pass.

COUNCIL OF NINE MEMBERS INSTEAD OF THIRTEEN AS NOW

just must have more sleep. Denver turned out a record-breaking crowd to welcome the travelers. Tom Mix, so far, has had a regular ovation. The train picked up Joe E. Brown at Chicago and Joe E. always pleases the crowd. Arthur Brisbane in his column TODA Y told recently of the new picture made in Hollywood, which while it may be a very “improbable picture,” will be “food for thought, and something, when it is shown on the screen, that no one can afford

to miss seeing.

The title of the picture, which by the w'ay, wasi completed on the set at 4 o’clock one morning is “Gabriel Above the White House,” and while it is a truly imaginary narrative everyone, from the fm ture President down will be interested by the “tale it unfolds”-

“Don’t miss it!”

Attempt Made By Local Representatives to Exclude Muncie Erom Act, and Mayor Dale Sent Telegram to Lieutenant-Gov-ernor, Agreeing That This City Should

Not Be Included.

House Bill No. 529 concerning the classification and government of civil cities, fixing and providing for the salaries of officers and employees, and Hoiise Bill No. 531, holding over municipal elections due in 1983 to the following year, 1934, have been passed by both houses of the Indiana General Assembly and await the signature of Governor Paul McNutt to

become laws of this state.

Indianapolis Stands Alone.

The reclassification of civil cities in Indiana, effective at 12 o’clock noon of the first Monday in January, 1934, leaves the city of Muncie still a see-

A. hurry call came to Warner Brothers’ studio for more electricians to be sent on to join the “Forty-second Street” train. What with getting up at 2 and 3 in the morning to meet the crowds at the

'Ih! 1 '•'{(•v'tljciaTw^satd- nicy ond class city with a population of 4-6,548 according"

to the 1930 United States census. The bill provides for cities having a population from thirty-five thousand to two hundred fifty thousand denominated as second class cities. Ony one city in the state, Indianapolis, can be designated as a first class city with a population of over 250,000. Third class oities range in population from 20,000 to 35,000, fourth class from 10,000 to 20,000 and fifth class cities are limited from 3,000 to 10,000 in population. All other civil cities in Indiana with less than 3,000 inhabi-

tants become civil towns.

i Four Members Lopped Off.

’ The elective officers of cities of the second class in which Muncie is designated shall consist of a mayor, a city clerk, a city judge, and nine members of the common council. These are the same as have been in the past except that The number of councilmen have been reduced from 13 which we have at present, to 9 and no more. The county treasurer shall be ex-officio city treasurer as is the law now for the city of Muncie. The mayor shall appoint a city controller, an engineer, a city attorney, police | and fire chiefs such as has been done in the past but a the board of public safety, which consists of three members each at present shall be combined into one board known as the Board of Public Works and Safety, the duties to be performed by the city controller, the engineer, and the attorney without addi-

tional compensation therefor.

Salaries Are Fixed.

UKGSIDENT FRANKLIN 1). ROOSEVELT.

VICE-PRESIDENT JAMES N. GARNER.

From 10th Dist.

“Technocracy is a fanatic fixation on the subject of an otherwise sane and progress-developing term, .technology, which is the careful; application of science to the production, processing and distribution of goods. “Undoubtedly there has been a phase of intense economic intemperance that is imposing a slow recovery. Unfortunately there is no panacea for the results of bad judgment. There can be devised no guaranty of individual success. And there is no way of legislating

prosperity.

“Technocracy is a misconception of the object of living.Mts deification of the technical is a fanatic fixation that makes the term ‘technocrazy’ far more applicable to its magnified fetish of machine domination and materialism. “The promoters behind Ibis ‘techno-crazy’ hallucination have made a purported dream into a nightmare of conclusions. Using routine engineering principles for the plotting of routine performance curves they have promulgated unsupported predictions based on' the projection into the future of normal processes carried to fantastic extremes. “This is wiklcatting of science in a Ponzi-like scheme for baiting labor with chimerical profits into a despotic slavedom for the gathering unto a self-annointed few the control of the wealth of the world. It has not even the saving grace of being funny.”—The Yale

Daily News.

George H. Dern, former governor of Utah and Secretary of War in the cabinet of President-Elect Roosevelt, in Chicago recently for a visit with his son, said he wants an army sufficiently large and trained to form a nucleus for a force which can meet any eventu-

ality.

“Our air force should probably be superior to that of any other power,” he said, “and we need to develop the National Guard and other defense auxiliaries.” o

WATSONISM ENDS

The nine members of the- common council shall he known as councilmen-at-large, and shall be elected by the voters of the entire city instead of elected by wards. On or before March 27, 1933, the common council of Muncie, shall, by ordinance, establish six councilmanic districts, each to contain, as nearly as possible, an equal number of electors, and in elections not more than one councilmanic candidate of any political party or organization shall he named or nominated from either or any one of

the six districts.

The salaries of city officers in Muncie as fixed by this bill cannot exceed the following amounts: Mayor, $3,400; controller, $2,400; city clerk, $2,000; county treasuerer ex-officio city treasurer, $720; judge, $2,400; city attorney, $2,100; engineer, $2,400; chief of police and fire chief, $2,000 each, and members of the common council, $250 each. By combining the boards of safety and public works with no paid members, reducing the salary of the county treasurer for his services to the civil city, and by re*

ducing the number of councilmenj How many hours a day should will net a total saving to Muncie of I pharmacist work?

PHARMACISTS' WIVES WANT SHORTER HOURS

Complaain That Long Working Periods In-

pair Family Ties

TAKES POSITION LIKE PHYSICIAN His First Duty Is To The

Sick and The

Ailing

BURNING BOTH ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE.

The old saying that “only those who have can loose,” ’er sump’in, seems to be applicable to “Mayor”! Everett. First, he was the Democratic county chairman at the last election, and lost Delaware County by a huge majority; second, he was appointed onto license distributor and lost the job; third, he was elected as a memiber of the city council and again lost out; fourth, he was elected as “mayor” by the council, and now the court has decided that he loses again. The next thing we may expeet to hear is, that he lost his colt. In the meantime, his friend and advisor, John Gubbins, has so far failed to get a job with the state. It looks as though another loss will he sus-

tained.

The fellow who claims that the automobile industry has not yet reached the saturation point, prob-

ably never rode in a rumble seat'in this*state shall be changed from during a rain. ' (Continued to Page Two.)

more than $8,000 per year. General Elections Combined. The act in reference to the hold-

ing of city elections and primaries provides that the election of all the elective officers of all cities

I JAMES W. COX SPEAKS RIGHT OUT IN MEETIN'

Peoples Forum of Muncie Star Carried In-

teresting Article. DEPLORES SLAP

AT JUDGE GUTHRIE

A LITTLE REMINISCENCE. Back in the early ’90’s, when modern pavements were practically unknown, imany of our sister cities in this part of Indiana which now boast of these improvements were engulfed in a sea of mud, particularly during the spring months when wet, rainy weather set in, [.and as no drainage was provided to take care of the surface or storm water, it naturally follows that the streets which were built out of tiie natural material, graded to the center and with side ditches i along the sides of the street or ; roadway, during these wet periods, were so intensely muddy that it was almost impossible to use them and the wetter the season was, the deeper was the mud. Among the cities affected by this joondition, there were possibly none that suffered more than our little sister city of Portland, which, dtie to the character of its soil and its tendency to absorb and retain moisture, was noted for the Imnasjsibility of its thoroughfares, all-of which is attested by an article ! which appeared in the Portland j Sun at that time, and which we are taking the liberty to quote in this

article.

! About this time a bus line was operated over the streets of Portland by a man named James Powell. familiarily known to all as Jim Powell, who was a giant in statura joed boasted of an avoirdupois which honroximated somewhere between 350 and 400 pounds, and notwithstanding his immense size, nossessed the sunniest of dispositions and was liked by all with

whom he came in contact.

The Portind Sun devoted much time and space in an endeavor to I better the conditions of the streets , * | and at times its articles were sarF castic as well as humorous and on i ffhe. Aaaion R^nrhnrd-^^ ttytf, ids follows: “A gentleman crossing lone of our streets the other d.av, stepped on an old hat in the mud, when all at once a voice cried out from under the hat: ‘Hey! dammit, get off my bend.’ ‘What are you doing down there in the mud?’ inquired the gentleman who had stepped on the hat. ‘Mud, hell,’ answered the voice .from under the hat, ‘Why, I’m Jim Powell. I’m on

ton of the bus.’ ”

While this story is somewhat exaggerated, yet it aptlv illustrates the condtions which existed at that time and when we hear so much advice given in regard to bettering our present conditions bv returning to old times and methods, we wonder how many of us would care to

make the journey?

Hopes That Dale Will Continue to Function as Mayor.

CHANCE FOR IMPROVEMENT. The government priting office normally employs an average of 4,000 persons. As scarce as dollar bills are with us, we would be willing to second a motion to double the force, increase the number of working hours and triple the number of distributors, and inci-j dentally improve the method of distribution.

We are beginning to suspect that the* fellow who coined the expression, “Prosperity is just around the corner,” worked in a roundhouse.

When you get something for nothing, some one gets nothing for

This is a live subject of debate these days behind prescription counters of Muncie drug stores as it is in drug stores throughout the'.something. .country. The debate has been rag- o— ing ever since the recent state- What has become of the fellow ment of Herbert R. Mayes, editor who was afraid to handle money on Continued to Page 2) account of the germs on it?

The following article pnnesrprt in the People’s Forum addressed o the editor of the Muncie Star on Tuesday, February ‘28111 aiid signed by James W. Cox, who ac"oiding to the city directory resides at 820 Riverside avenue, this city. This article portrays the ipinion of many citizens of Muncie and presents many of the tacts of local attempts to crucify honest and conscientious office holders who will not bow to the angry j wolves. Thanks Mr. Cox and do j

come again.

THE MUNCIE MUDDLE

Editor The Star:

I see in The Star that the “nn-J scrupulous scrappers” of Muncie have dragged one of our mostj outstanding advocates of peace and justice that Muncie has ever known, into their squabble, our honorable Judge Guthrie. \ r It seems that they are no respecters of persons when they cannot have their own way, are ready to bemean and belittle all

who oppose them.

The noble Muncie city council it seems have about failed in their attack on Mayor Dale (more power to him) and of course Muncie

must have a headline.

tiTell-I only hope that George R. DaR defeats the whole bunch even if they did pay qut their

thirty pieces of Silver.

! I happened to know something about this charge against him for

I went before these investigators By W. J. D. ,pie.to.grasp the thought that they when they were at the Y. M. C. A. The big howl tnat is being put up should have spent a little of their I had some information as to by the Republicns over the hold- time in devising ways and means where half a wagon load of booze over election bill, sounds to us like To keep in power. was hidden in a gravel pit and ‘he baying of hounds after they! If the Democrats have the sense went to have them take care of it have treed the coon. The only dif-lto throw aside their petty hatreds, but it did not take me long to find ferene'e is the Republicans are the, and get together for the next two out that they were not looking for ones that are up the tree. years and serve the people as law violators but were out mayor The Republicans’ thinking ma- public officers should, the Repub-hunting and all I got in the way chines were too busy devising waySjlicans will forever have a hard time of results was a telephone call and means of sinking their hands .getting one little finger into the warning the owners to get the deeper into the pockets of the peo-! (Contitnued on Page Three.) j (Continued to Page Two.)

IHF.RE’S CHANCE TO

PUT ONE OVER.

Now that London has iutro-. duced a new innovation in dancing, ih which two ladies dance at the) same time with one male partner, we may soon exneet to be going' tandem in America. Not only will; this new style permit us to dance with our best rdrl. but with our nrospective mother-in-law as avcII. Here is a golden opportunity for designing mothers who have marriageable daughters on the marker., to administer a knock-out in at least 1 three rounds. At that, it may he better than taking your p’-os-oecLve bride’s mother out driving in the rum hie seat aeM have bet direcUng events according to blue nrint«. and there surely would 1)° less danger than to have her riding on the rear end of a “bicyeye

built for three.”

Senator Frederick VanNuys

HOLD-OVER ELECTION BILL CAN BE GOOD OR BAD; IN EITHER CASE PEOPLE SHOULD BE PREPARED

APPLICATIONS FOR C.MJ, CAMP DISCONTINUED

Heavy Advance Enrollment Has Made It Advisable

MANY HOYS WILL BE DISAPPOINTED

AH Counties Have Exceeded Their Allotted* Quotas

The exeeedinglv heavy advanced enrollment for the 1933 Citziens’ Military Training Uamps, to be held in the fifth corps area, has made it advisable to cause publication of notice to all county chairmen and other procurement agencies to discontinue acceptance of (Continued To Page Three)

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