Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 7 April 1933 — Page 2
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a M^uiocraMc weekly newspaper represe: :ing the .Democrat^ < Muueio, Delaware County and the 10tt Congressional District The only Democratic Newspapei in Delaware County.
Kuterei) as ..ioSd cUi. matter January 18, 1921, at tb> Po.lolllc.
at Muncie, lidiana, under Act of March 0, 1879.
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‘Let Rovers Beware”
Legal Notice
Then resolve to drive safely, obey traffic laws and think of the other fellow.” ( If you do this, you’ll have a happy year, unmarred by tragedy.
u worth Notice of the passage of an Or-
dinance to license and regulate
Too, in these t tfays of strictly regulated family budgets, remembering that high automobile insurance rates are the inevitable result of a high accident record—and that only safe driving can bring
them down.
(Chicago Herald and Examiner) Any one issuing spurious $1 or $5 or $10 currency is, when discovered, sent to prison for ten or fifteen years. But any one can issue $1,000,000 or $5,000,000 or $10,000,000 of meretricious stocks or bonds without going to jail. Why should it be so gravely criminal an offense to issue counterfeit money and not an equally gravely criminal offense to issue counterfeit "securities”? 'Tis all wrong, wrong as it can be. For every hundred dollars the American people have lost through bad currency, they have lost millions through bad slocks and bonds. Therefore, the public welcomes the prospect of punishing severely hereafter issuers of misrepresented share and bond certificates. The Democratic administration’s new measure forbids the offering of securities until full information, sworn to by the issuers, has been furnished the Federal Trade Commission, and subjects those subscribing to the statement to punishment by $5,000 fine or five years’ imprisonment for misrepresentation. * * * Neither the suggested fine nor the term of imprisonment is adequate. The issuers of fraudulent currency, who are pikers contrasted with issuers of fraudulent securities, invariably go to prison for long terms. So should issuers of fraudulent securities. The punishment should be long banishment to the penitentiary. Too long have Americans been regarded as fair game, as easy marks, by scheming promoters, scheming brokers, scheming floaters of worthless stocks and bonds. Why should it be less of an offense to steal thousands of dollars from innocent victims than to steal a loaf of bread or to pick a pocket? The new security bill should be furnished with sharper, longer, more forbidding teeth. Especially important is it to provide by law that every statement concerning a proposed new security issue be sworn to, not by subordinates or by other dummies, "but in every instance by the principals. Let this be done, and let the penalty be greatly increased, and the robbing, the plundering, the ruining of unwary investors by dishonest security issuers and underwriters will cease to be the pppular, profit able pastime it notoriously has been heretofore.
MAYOR’S CORNER
Why Citizens Go Broke It is doubtful that there is a city in the United States whose pri valcly-ownod public service corporations do not collect more profit from its citizens than the city collects in ta^es.- JHow city dwellers of t,his enlightened country ever got it into their noodles that municipalities only can perform functions that are all outgo and .no income whereas any function that makes profit must be left to private enter prise is more than we can savvy. For instance: The city may support a fire department, hut it must not sell fire insurance. it can bury paupers, but it must not bury people whose relatives can pay for the burial. h may hire teachers, prescribe what they shall teach, but it must not print school-books nor jnanufactqre school furniture. It may spend money taking sewage out of the city, but it cannot make money by selling its citizens groceries. It can give police protection, but it cannot sell burglar insurance. It can pave streets, but must not run street cars or busses over them. li can give health service tree, but not heal service to the sick unless the patient is broke. It can operate patrol wagons and ambulances, but not taxis. It cannot sell coal to its citizens, but removes the ashes and cinders free. Jn short, the American municipality Uas the intelligence and the power to do anything that brings nothing in, but is' too dumb and spineless to do anything in which there is a profit. Of course there are exceptions to the rule and the funny thing about them is that w hejcver we find one, we find a municipality that has money in the treasury and isnt corrupt as hell. Boy, page the fool-killer. Insull is in Greece.
Dollars Gome Home
Trace the course of a dollar spent for property improvement, re pairs, or replacement. Part ,of it goes to local merchants, who provide the .needed ma^. terials. Another part goes to the workman on the job. The -workman spends his part for the necessities of life. The corner grocery, the drug store, the department store get it—and through them it goes to their employes, to the farmer and the manufacturer. Then the circle begins again—the money enters new pockets, passes through other industries, travels to other sections qf the country. The part of the dollar going to the store providing the supplies follows much the same course. It pays the store’s workers. It pays bills. It goes to factories to purchase new stock. From the factory it goes to other workmen, to related industries supplying raw materials,;
lo investors.
And at last, the dollar comes back, through one channel or an other, to the original spender. In a short length of time that dollar has had a thousand uses. It has done the work of a thousand dollars. That’s the beauty of money which is actually circulating—it is used an infinite number of times, and it does as much good each time. Now is the time to obtain needed repairs at the lowest cost in decades—and at the same time do your bit in fighting depression. Jobs are cheaper than charity—and without the jobs, there w:on’t be anything for charity.
Sow Spring Safety Seeds Eaiiy As v inter begins to relax, golfers start thinking of fairways, fishermen of cool streams trickling away in the mountains, families of rides on warm, bright Sunday afternoons and in the twilight of the rapidly lengthening evenings. It’s time to get the family automobile ready for another season. Let us pause for a moment to consider the new season. Will, it be like the last? Will it cost the lives of 29,500 more Americans? Will it bring serious and painful injury to nearly a million more? Will it cause an economic loss to the nation in excess of two billion dollars? That's the record of the 1932 automobile season. It should
never be repeated.
It is true that there were fewer accidents and fatalities last year than there were in 1031, but much of tho reduction was accounted for by decreased use of automobiles. On the other hand, safety workers and educators in accident prevention can view the results with a cer tain personal pride. If their teachings are beginning to gain results, or if the tragic record of the past is beginning to influence the man behind (he steering wheel, we may look with greater hope to 1933. “Get oui the family ear by all means,” says James A. Beha, general manager. National bureau of casualty and surety underw'riters. “Make sure it’s in perfect condition. Have it Inspected as to brakes, lights, steering mechanism, tires, rear vision mirrors and wind-shield wipers—all the small equipment which means so much to safety.
For the first time in nine weeks I was permitted to sit down to myj typewriter today and do a little work without the aid of a stenog-j
rapher.
This eyesight trouble is a serious business. I woke up one morning in February with a dense clqud partially obscuring the vision of
the left eye.
I rubbed it, took another squint and the cloud still remained.
Thanks to expert treatment the cloud is getting smaller, and less dense. The doctors tell me my eyesight is saved and that I will be
able in a few weeks to resume my normal, active life.
Many things have happened in these nine weeks. A radio at my j ^ cleaning, bedside in the hospital kept me informed of great events in the world’s history. \
The bullet that was fired at President Roosevelt and killed Tony
Cermak. The trial of the assassin and his execution. A house painter with a dream of world dominion becomes the absolute dictator of Germany and American Ku Kluckers who wanted to exterminate Jewish citizens of the United States shed crocodile tears because Hit-
ler is banishing Jews from his kingdom.
I heard the entire inauguration ceremony which placed President Roosevelt and Garner at the helm. Being well acquainted with the buildings on Capitol hill and of the general geography of Washington I actually SAW it all, lying on a cot in a hospital, with bandages over my eyes. The radio also took me to the senate chamber and the house of representatives when the new Democratic congress convened. It also informed me of the repeal of the Eighteenth amendment by congress and of the extraordinary changes in the government of Indiana by enactments of the Indiana legislature. It informed me that I was elected mayor of Muncie for an additional year, without raising my fiinger as much as buying a single campaign cigar. I heard the crowd in Butler Field House razzing the mighty Bearcats. I recognized the sound. The crowd is always against the most formidable contender in any athletic contest, therefore 1 whispered to myself “Eat 'em up, cats’.” When a bunch of unknowns defeated them, I shut off the radio and went to sleep and refused to
listen in on the finish of the tournament.
The information was conveyed to me that the Gubbins-Everett-Aker crowd were defeated by a three lo one vole in the city Democratic organization contest, and all was well. The real Democrats combined to oust this unholy combination and it will be completed Saturday afternoon when the Democratic county committee is to meet at the Kirby hotel to remove Everett from his position as county
chairman.
This is being written Friday afternoon, the day that beer came back. I am informed that there was a loud outcry in the Gubbins camp when Harry Kleinfelder was named as local wholesaler without the recommendation of Chairman Everett. They just don’t know how it kappoped, and probably they never will know. Prohibition, we are told by Citizen Herbert Hoover, is a noble experiment, and I solemnly warn those who believe that beer will save the country, that beer, also, is a noble experiment and that the people will rise against it, as they did against prohibition, if its sale is to be interpreted by public officials as a letting down of the public conscience that will condone drunkenness and violations of criminal
statutes.
It is now lawful, through national and state legislation to buy, sell and drink beer, but it is not lawful to make moonshine whisky and cook stove beer and sell it. Drunkenness is also an offense, so it. is the duty of those who are licensed to retail beer to keep their patrons sober and to cooperate with the police in exterminating unlawful sales of contraband whisky and hopae brew. iCity Engineer “Billy” Harley informs me that he is writing an article about the waterworks, sewer, dredging and disposal question. It will pay everybody to read it, I know, for Mr. Harley knows his business, thoroughly, as the people of Muncie will recognize, whe| thay come to know him as well as I do.
and pressing of wearing apparel or of cleaning articles of household furnishings within the city of
the business of cleaning, renovating, repairing and pressing of wearing apparel and artiples of household furnishings in the city of Muncie Indiana, and within four miles of the city limits and providing for the furnishing of certificates or tags with or upon the clothing therein cleaned, renovated, repaired or pressed inside or outside of the city of Muncie within the territory inside or outside in which said city has jurisdiction and to regulate the location, the management of the business, for the protection of the health of the inhabitants of said city and to the property, both real and personal and providing to patrons through loss of fire or other loss or damage and fixing and providing a penalty for vio-
lation of said Ordinance.
Be it Ordained by the Common Council of the City- of Muncie, In-
diana, That
Section 1. For the purpose of defining and describing the business
renovating and
pressing of clothes, wearing apparel and articles of household furnishings be it known that such business is a business in which the owner and employes are engaged in soliciting or engaging in cleaning of clothes by chemicals or cleaning clothes by any means or where clothing and articles of furniture are .cleaned or pressed or where articles of household furnishing are stored and kept for the purpose of pressing or cleaning or repairing for which the patrons are charged for services per-
formed or to be performed. Section 2. It shall, be unlawful
‘'or any person, firm’, or corporaion to engage in the business of Iry cleaning, renovating, repair-
ng or pressing clothing, wearing
ipparel or household furnishings
the Controller. 1 You can,-say one thing for beer. Section 6. That every person. Nobody crooks a little finger while firm or corporation engaged in the idrinking from a stein.
Muncie and having and using j business of dry cleaning, renovat- But it doesn’t take 12 itches to solicitors within the city of Muri-|ing and pressing of clothes, wear- make an athletes foot. ?ie, shall first obtain from the jng apparel and articles of house- - v - —
Controller of the city of Muncie, a .hold furnishings, shall, at the license so to do, and such noii'ii me of delivery of any article to
resident, person, firm or corporaion shall meet with all of the requirements of a resident applicant, and shall deposit with the Building Inspector sufficient sum 'f money to pay aR costs includng the time occupied by the Juilding Inspector in going to and aspecting the principal place of msiness of said non resident, apdicant shall secure and maintain >. place of business within the city jf Muncie, subject to the inspecion and approval of the Building nspector of the city of Muncie, and upon presenting to the Controller the certificate of the Building Inspector and the bond required of a resident, together with the fees required of a resident to. the Controller of the city of Muncie, said Controller shall
thereupon issue a license. Section 4. That all licenses is-
;ued hereunder to a resident person, firm or corporation or to a ■ion resident person, firm or corporation shall he and extend for the period of one year from its late of issue, subject to revocation by the Mayor of the city of
Muncie, in case of a violation
he terms thereof, or in case of the violation by the holder or holders of the license of any ordinance of the city of Muncie, or the laws of the State of Indiana.
Section 5. That the applicant
or license in his application shall state the name and address of the business; the name and address pf the person; the name and adIre&s of the ruembers of the firm; the name and address of the corporation, and in event of the sale qr in an exchange of the business or change of the name qf the busipess t he holder pf the license shall eport the same to the Controller
in the city of Muncie, Indian i, or and said license may he ti ans-
its patron, furnish said patron a certificate or tag with the article, which said certificate or tag shall ’pear the name and address of the business and a statement as to what service has been performed upon the article or articles and .the price charged therefor. , Section 7. Any person, either as a principal, or as a member of a firm or corporation, or any person, agent of a firm or of a corporation or agent of an individual engaged in business, who shall in any manner, engage in, do or transact any business of cleaning or renovating or repairing or pressing of wearing apnarel or articles of household furnishing without first having obtained a license ,as herein above set out, upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $200.00. | Section 8. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect, upon its passage by the Common Council ami upon publication as pro,cided by law and upon the approval and signature of the Mayor
hereto.
Passed by the Common Council
ofjof the city of Muncie, Indiana,
" this 3rd day of April, 1933.
ORA T. SHROYER,
President, Common Council. Presented by me to the Mayor for his approval and signature this 4th dav of April, 1933.
LINTON RIDGEWAY,
City Clerk.
Approved and signed by me this oth day of April. G.EO. R. DALE, Mayor of the city of Muncie, Ind.
Attest:
Linton Ridgeway, City Clerk. April 7 and 14.
Dr. E. Frank Turner
Registered Podiatrist FEET TREATED
700 E. Willard St., Muncie, Ind. Plenty of Parking Space. No Extra Charge for House Calls. For Appointment Phone 5917
THE BIRTH OF ' A NEW NATION A Picture You Cannot Af-
ford to Miss
Whooping Cough By JOHN H. WILLIAMS, M. D. (City Health Commissioner)
Most mothers fear scarlet fever for their children. They also fear diphtheria, but when it comes to a disease like whooping cough, they are likely tq- consider it of minor importance, and one that the child should acquire early in life, so as to “get is over with.” Tliis is always a foolish and often a fatal view to take regarding this
matter.
Whooping cough starts like an ordinary cold. The eyes water, there is a dry, hard cough, and the patient may develop fever in the course of the next week. This stage lasts from seven to fourteen days, when the cough changes in character, and occurs in paroxysms. The second, or spasmodic itage, lasts from two to three weeks and in many instances from six to eight weeks. The whoop is characteristic of this stage. The cough is often too frequent and persistent • in this stage as to be extremely exhausting. A Dangerous Malady. About 80 per cent of whooping cough cases occur under 5 years of age, and more than 90 per cent, of deaths occuring from whooping coughs, occur under 5 years of age, This dangerous malady in little folks is spread through contact with the secretions of the nose and mouth, which may come from coughing or sneezing or the use of contaminated handkerchiefs, pencils, cups, playthings, etc. Every child Is susceptible to whooping cough, though fortunately second attacks are rare. S«rious Responsibility, at is not always easy to make a diagnosis of whooping cough unless one can bear the “whoop”—and the disease is very communicable in the early stage before the “whoop” develops. One should always be suspicious of any spasmodic cough, especially at a time when whooping cougfi is prevalent. There is a serious responsibility on tte part of parents of children with whooping cough to see to it
that the disease is not spread to other children. One child may have a mild case, and the next a severe one. Should Be Closely Guarded. The treatment of this disease is very unsatisfactory. The many “cure-alls” advertised are no good. The child should be closely guarded or under the care of the family physician. Proper feeding, sleep and fresh air to help tide over the period of illness and prevent complications like pneumonia, is important. The simplest rule is: Call your family physician, notify the board of health and follow their directions and advice implicitely. o Quantity production isn’t limited to America. The stork delivers a new Jap every 15 seconds. Let’s have silver. It isn’t yellow and it doesn’t hide.
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within four miles of the boundary| ferred, subject to the approval of
qf said tity or to solicit such busi-' aess in the city of Muncie, or in iny of said territory contingent hereto without first obtaining from the .Building Inspector of the city of Muncie, a certificate of inspection of the premises, where said business is to he operated,! and upon obtaining said certificate of inspection, he or it shall then make application to the Control‘er of the city of Muncie for a license and accompany said application with a bond in (lie sum of $1,OOO.nO payable to the citv of Muncie. Indiana, and shall file therewith a cleaners and dyers bailee! insurance policy, the same to the approval of the Gontoller of the city of Muncie, and if said application and bond be approved and accepted by the Controller the applicant shall pay to the city of Muncie, the sum of Five Dollars and upon receipt of said sum the Controller shall issue a written license to the person, firm or cornoration therein stating the name of the person or firm or corporation, and the location of said business, the bond so given and approved shall l)' 1 for the benefit of I any person, firm or corporation which may he aggrieved or dam-1' aged by the action of such business or for loss of any person. Crm or corporation sustained through or Iry the acts of the operators of said business or for the loss of any loss or damage pf wearing apparel or household furnishings delivered to said business, either by fire, theft or any
other cause.
Section 3. That any person, firrp or corporation .with its place of business outside of the territory consisting of the city of Muncie and the area within four miles of the corporate limits of the city of Muncie desiring to engage in the cleaning, renovating, repairing
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