Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 August 1933 — Page 1
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VOLUME 13—NUMBER 29.
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.
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Confound a man who will sit up to the counter down town ann fill up but raise the dickens if his wife asks him to bring home a pint of !c n cream. Twenty j t ars ago a good permanent wave in a woman’s hair cost, fifty dollars but now a much better permanent may be had for a dollar. Many little girls two and three years old now wear their hair permanently curled and practically every woman gets a .permanent once or twice a year. Just last week Mrs. Emily Hoskins of Los Angeles, age 95, purchased a permanent wave.
“LIL" ARTHUR HARD AT WORK CAMPAIGNING
The Unitarian church and the Universalist church have taken steps toward uniting in the Free Church of . America. Final action will probably be taken early in October at Worchester, Massachusetts.
Recent returns from the various states voting on the Eighteenth Amendment indicates that there will be lawful whiskey and other forms of liquor in the W'et states by Christmas.
Mrs. Cruz Martinez, age 108, of Chicago, w T as recently burned to death when her dress caught fire from a cigarette she had been smoking. Dowm in Kansas fish worm raising has developed into a major industry.
“Business is like baseball; the hits you made yesterday will not win the game today.”
—Elephantiasis—wrrs thr>—rarrse given for the death of Miss Emily Loll, age 53, of Chicago. In two years this strange disease had caused Miss Loll’s w r eight to increase from 140 to 600 pounds.
Fredrick Osborn of the American Museum of Natural History recently stated that farm children are less intelligent than city children but the editor of the Prairie Farmer read the statement and answered with: “Comparison of farm and city children in colleges, in the army, and in positions of responsibility later in life, all indicate the superiority of those raised in the country.”
Egotist Knows He Will Center Fight on Criticism BUT TURN OF TIDE EMBARRESSES ARTIE Republicans Not Happy Over Return of Their Political Joke
Forestry Camps May Run Through Winter So satisfactory is the administration’s plan of caring for single unemployed mein in forest camps that it probably w r ill be extended The C. C. C. is enlisted for six months, but President Roosevelt is expected shortly to, issue instructions to Director Robert Fechner to “carry on” ■during the winter. This week the President set aside $20,000,000 of the public works funds for the purchase of additional forest lands, mainly in the South. It is expected that camp workers in far western ,states, where winters are severe, will be shifted into the southland.
Hoosier Democratic Club Incorporated With Avowed Purpose of Collecting Two Per Cent of Monthly Salaries of State Employes for Political Purposes. LATE G. 0. P. ADMINISTRATION COLLECTED FIVE PER CENT
Post-Democrat Pleased at Gov. McNutt’s Courage to Come Out in Open With Pro- \ ject to Keep Party in Good Financial Condition,
Activity in politics was not
great during the past week. Sen- Balances in all funds of the ator Robinson w^as hard at work civil - c i ty of Muncie ending July drumming up a crowd for his^^ total $47,036.40 according to homecoming celebration but the'the monthly financial report of citizens, generally were not paying; City Controller Lester E. Hollomuch attention to the vitrolic and j way. This amount is the sum of egotistical Artie, knowing that $30,441.70, balance in the general
All copies of the June edition oi the American Red Book that reached Berlin were seized by German police because of an article on Germany by Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr. Down at Carthage, Missouri, the courthouse yard had been re-land-scaped and sowed to grass but some fellow played a practical joke by re-sowing the yard with turnip seed; oh, boy! what a crop of turnips, is in the making.
Midwest farmers will receive no encouragement in W. P. Flint’s (noted entomologist) statement that unless adverse weather checks the chinch bugs they w r ill continue to feed and breed for another six w r eek or two months. o First Use of Gas ' As a Commodity One hundred and twenty-five years ago London became the first city in the world to use gas street lights, installing a system along Pall Mall. .The response was universally unfavorable. Cartoonists showed innocent citizens being choked :o death by the new T illuminant. Sir Walter Scott, greatest of the novelists of adventure,. spoke of “the madman’s scheme for lighting the city with smoke.” Another wel known personage observed that it would be as easy to light London with a piece of the moon as with
gas.
Electricity, wlien first employed, met much the same reception. Pioneers of great industries are often the victims of jibes and abuse.
his campaign will be centered on criticism of President Roosevelt for the adoption of the National Economy Act. Right in the midst of all his planning came the start of the industrial recovery campaign sponsored by the President and this rather put Mr. Robinson’s homecoming plans in the background. It w r as rather significant that the homecoming for Robinson is not being engineered by the Republican State Committee, which would bo-expected fo4ake the deadin such a celebration. As far as can be determined, the Republican committee is having nothing to do with it, which is not so strange after all, since the committee has no particular reason to be happy that Robinson is back
home.
The Republican committee bulletin was shortened again last week mainly because it had nothing new r to handle. There was an attempt to rewrite what has already been given out in attacking the program of the McNutt administration, but that fell flat when reports from state departments proved that the program is succeeding admirably and w r ill meet expectations. Every indication pointed to the ability of the administration to keep its pledges to tht people and that about ends the heckling over Low it is being
done.
New Deal, Ne<v Thought It will be recalled that the restoration of jobs to the unemployed has been attempted time and again since the beginning of the depression. Most of that ac- 1 tion has been handled from the community standpoint, people being urged to make work, give odd jobs and provide employment in a small way. Under the Hoover regine the policy was to permit each community to solve its own unemployment problem. For the Federal government to have taken
fund, $8,913.43, park fund cash balance, $5,558.21, remainder of city planning funds, $1,635.17, gasoline tax fund balance, $20.00 left in the aviation fund, and $467.89 in the sinking fund. The general fund retained a balance of $49,493.22 at the beginning of July and $952.63 was receipted into the fund during the month. The total disbursements from this fund during the month of July amounted to $20,004.15. The disbursements from the general fund during ihe first seven months of 1933 totals $164,826.92 which is the low T est amount of expenditures from this fund over this period of time ever made. In comparison with former years the disbursements from the ge'neral fund from January 1 to July 31, 1930, amounted to $264,284.33, in 1931, the total dropped to $251,872.34, and during the same period of time in 1932 the total disbursements amounted to $225,-
260.28.
The park fund had a balance of $11,725.08 on July 1, received $93.11 during the month, and expended $2,904.76 during July. The sum total of disbursements from the park fund during the first seven months of the present year amounted to $22,210.13. Due : to the payment of $5,254.09 this year on the balance required for the purchase of the five lots and houses west of the Jackson street bridge for park purposes as contracted by the Hampton park board, the amount of expenditures from the park fund during 1933 to date will exceed the amount of former years exhept for 1931. The disbursements from this fund from January 1 to July 31, 1930, amounted to $19,518.77. During the same period of time in 1931, the total disbursements amounted to $30,255.27 which w r as due to the expenditures of $6,0(K) from this fund for the cleaning of White river banks and the em-
Having bared his head to the bitter blasts, and proved in court through the opinion of Judge Smith that collections from public employes except for the selling of jobs, do not constitute a„crime, the mayor of Muncie has made Indiana safe for Democracy and incidentally for Republicanism. At Indianapolis the Hoosier Democratic Club has been incorporated by those close to Governor McNutt, with the avowed purpose of collecting two per cent of the monthly salaries of state employes for political campaign purposes. Republicans Got Five Per Cent. Pleas Greenlee, secretary to the governor, is quoted in dispatches, as saying that nobody should object to a 2 per cent assessment, since the last Republican state administration collected 5 per cent of
code of that “rugged individualism” to which Mr. Hoover was so
stubbornly committed.
What each community w r as attempting to do in a small w r ay those three and a half years the Roosevelt administration is doing
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a band would have violated the ployment of several hundred men.
’in 1932, the disbursements for these Severn months amounted to $18,899.40. The city planniqg commission expended $43.65 during July which is the only disbursement from this fund except for a transfer of $5,000 to the general fiind during May of this year. The gasoline tax fund t had a balance of $609.42 at the beginning of July and the receipts during the month totaled $9,670.24. The | receipts to this fund include the July distribution from the state which amounted to $9,644.49. The aviation fund had no receipts and no disbursements for the month of July. v The sinking fund with which bonded indebtedness of the civil city is redeemed had a balance of $15,489.05 on July 1. The amount of bonds and interest coupons due and paid during the month totaled $15,021.16 which left a balance on
July 31, of $467.89.
Miss Perkins To Ban Prison Goods
But Increase Is Less Than in June;
Warning to Laggard Busi-
ness Men.
NEED MUCH ROOM.
Several Democrats of Muncie, w r ho have so far failed in their efforts to land jubs with the state, object to Bluffton and Logansport state appointes using the fair grounds at Indianapolis, for holding their first annual reunion. It is currently reported that state appointes from these two towns are so numerous that there is not sufficient room in the average park to
accommodate the crowd.
The removal of prison-made products from competition with “free” labor was demanded this week by Secretary of Labor Frances Per-
kins.
She urged Recovery Administrator Hugh S. Johnson to put more than 82,000 convicts working for a few cents a day under a code that would ban from open markets goods valued at more than $75,-
000,000.
“I agree with labor representatives who hold that prison labor should be eliminated as far as possible from competitive industries,” said Mademe Secretary. “Convicts should be employed only on goods that will be used by the Federal, state and local governments, and the National Recovery Act affords an opportunity to make this reform” This is in line with the position of organized Jabor.
The mayor of Muncie and three subordinate officers were handed bouquets last January in the form of something like eighty indictments for collecting money of employes to defend the framed up
Federal cases. Dale as Burnt Offering.
Prosecutor Leffler became mightily enthused in procuring those indictments, which Judge Smith declares are faulty. The law seems to mean that w r hen one in authority accepts any portion of the compensation of appointees (which would classify collections for political purposes . with those alleged here) is guilty of a felony. Mr. Leffler, who Delongs to ihe party whose bosses invariably collect huge sums of appointees for political and other purposes chose to make the Democratic mayor of Muncie the burnt offering for all politicians in the state, Democratic and Republican, with the Delaware Circuit Court as his arena of action, when he knew that the milking of political job holders is a common practice in every county in the state and in every state of the
Union.,
Former United States Attorney George R. Jeffrey also sought to prove in the Muncie Federal trial, by a bunch of trained liars, that the mayor of Muncie was guilty of the henious and unprecedented crime of getting an entire Democratic state convention drunk on a gallon of whisky. Selected as Fall Guy. Although at every state convention held by either party, since the day that knighthood was in flower,
liquor has flowed like water, with no thought of criminal prosecution, the mayor or Muncie whs selected as the fall guy for all par 1 and present politicians, and that master politician, and all around liar and libertine, Earl, EvereC who rejoices in the title of chairman of the Delaware County party, was one of the perjurers who testified against the Democratic
mayor.
Thus the mayor here, in two outstanding instances, ha$ been honored by being required to go to court to defend himself against charges that have always been regarded almost as religious observ-
ances.
What Will Leffler Do?
The Post-Democrat is pleased to note that the McNutt Democratic state administration is courageous enough to come right out in the open and declare publicly that beneficiaries of a political system are to be assessed to keep their party in proper financial condition. No doubt Prosecutor Leffler is horrified, and ho doubt he will take the matter up with the attorney general and demand the immediate indictment of Governor McNutt. Jim Watson and Get-the-Money Will Hays should also register unbounded indignation, although dur-
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BA,D, EITHER WAY A colored man in Tennessee w^as charged with having more chick- 1 ens than he could account for, and his lawyer decided to put him on the witness stand and let the culprit speak for himself. The judge said to him: “Now, Sam, if you tell a lie, you know what will happen to you, I suppose?” ^‘Yes, suh,” replied 'Sam; ‘J’ll go to de bad place.” That’s right,” said the judge. “And do you know what will happen if you tell the truth?’ “Yes, suh,” answered Sam, prompetly; “we’ll lose de case.”
Today’s Safe Driving Hints By The National Safety Council
Starting
Most drivers have gone through that annoying and sometimes dangerous experience of having their motors die and leave them stranded in “the middle of traffic. A thousand horns honk, the policeman yells, and the driver gets panicky. Don’t get out into the line of traffic until the motor has w'armed up enough so that it will idle easily. On a cold morning, if you are afraid the motor may die, run slowly in second gear until it warms up. A good, safe start may save you from a sudden and unexpected finish. \ ..ii.ii.a.i ,ii tt gswj-i'-'.vTT.'Ma-i
Capital and Labor Pledge Aid to “F. D.’
Spokesmen for both labor and capital have assured President Roosevelt that their respective groups will back the blanket code and the general movement for industrial recovery. President Henry I. Harriman of the U. S. Chamber of Com-, merce, speaking in Minneapolis, said that 90 per cent of the business and industrial concerns will work with the government’s recovery plan. “As for the ‘chisllers’ and price cutters, who represent not over 10 per cent of the total, the government can invoke its power under the Recovery Act” he added. A ‘full and complete assurance” of the “cooperation and support of the working men and women of the nation” was telegraphed to President Roosevelt by William Green, head of the A. F. of L. Mr. Green described the President’s address as “magnificent,” and added: '“The masses of the people whom the ‘New Deal’ is designed to benefit and help in a large and definite way will cooperate with you and with the administration of the Recovery Act in making it a complete success.”^ .
18,000 More Men Are Now Employed
“WOOF! WOOF!” WOMAN DOES A DOUBLE-QUICK
Jumps Almost Out of
Her Skin — Dog
Talks.
WELCOME GIVEN
TO RCA EXHIBIT Speaks When
Whistle to Him Through
Microphone.
Here, There, Everywhere Frank w! Lahrey.
THE PRICE PAID
FOR CARELESSNESS.
During the present week newspapers have chronicled accounts of numerous accidents and a careful study of these accounts leads one to believe that at least 80 per cent of all these accidents might have been avoided had it not been for carelessness on the part of some of the victims, or on the part of sonemone who should have known better, but who, perhaps,
forgot.
In the early dawn a father lights a match to see that everything is right in the back seat of his car with the result that an open can of gasoline is exploded and his
two children were killed.
Another news item tells us that'' two men were killed and a man and his wife were seriously injured when three automobiles collided at a crossroad near Waterloo, Ind. A third accident occurred, according to reports, w T hen a detonator, with which a child was playing, exploded, necessitating amputation of a hand. These are just a few of the accidents reported, all of which indicate extreme carelessness, as for instance, why should an open can of gasoline be left in
.. the back of a car, and why should V isitors anyone be so careless as to light a
match in such close proximity to an open can of this fluid? But, of
course, the father forgot.
A “detonator” is a cap w'hich is
Somewhat tired from her wan- attached to a hand grenade in orderings about the Chicago World’s jder to make it explode. Without the Fair, a woman paused for a mo-'cap the grenade is harmless. Whj* ment to rest in the cool shade of should anyone be so careless as tq RCA hall in the radio and commu-1 permit these caps to be withiq nications building. reach of children who do not know There was a statue of a big, of their dangerous character?
big,
white dog. Rather cute, the woman thought, and stood looking at it for a moment. Then she turned her back to view the swarms of people moving along the boardwalk out-
side.
“Woof! Woof!” said a gruff voice right in her ear. She jumped “almost out of her
skin, face.
Dynamite is, of course, danger* ous, especially when it receives a sudden jar, but otherwise it can be handled without danger if one uses ordinary care. Attach a cap to it, however, and no one can tell just when it will explode, and yet many accidents have happened through the carelessness of those entrusted
and did a double-quick about!with handling it in leaving these The big dog’s head had dangerous caps where children can
Since June 10 Small Army 11,000 Have Found Employ-
ment With Chevrolet.
' r Hrgh'le'en- fhmiftand
are at work in Chevrolet and Pontiac plants today than at the same time a year ago, W. S. Knudsen, president and general manager of ^he Chevrolet Motor Company stated in discussing the employ-
ment situation.
In emphasizing this picture of rising employment. Mr.^Knudsen also pointed out that payroll figures of the two companies are now at a higher stage than in any vear since the boom period of
■1929.
In the single week from July 8 to Julp 15, inclusive, the number of men employed increased by approximately 4,000 at* the 20 plants throughout the United States and from the 15th up to the present, approximately 2,'(00 more men had been added to the pay-
rolls.
' Over 46,000 Employed Since June 10, declared Mr.
Knudsen, as he analyzed the figures, a small army of 11,000 men have found employment with Chevrolet -and Pontia'fe. Total em ‘'secrets
moved, and he was looking straight at her. His eyes were lighted with °La good-natured twinkle. He began
to talk.
j “I am the Victor talking dog,”
' J he said. “I am the most famous dog times as motorists learn to “stop.
find them and perhaps kill or maim
themselves for life.
As to automobile accidents; a 1 - though in a measure preventable, they are bound to occur until such
ployment today is above 46,000
persons.
Thousands had been added to the rolls before the proclamation of the President calling on the Country to shorten hours and raise wages in order that the workingmen, - on whom the prosperity of the country depends, might have additional funds to maintain the American standard
of living.
“Statisticians tell us,” said Mr. Knudsen, “that the average family is composed of four persons. This means that approximately 164,000 persons are benefited by either w r ages or salaries from the Chevi*olet and Pontiac plants. The addition of 11,000 men alone has done much to spread the wave of employment in the cities where those men are employed.” Increase in Salaries That his companies have wholeheartedly participated in the program of the President is shown by the fact that a salary raise of 15 per cent was granted all factory wage earners effective Aug. 1, making a total increase of 20 per cent over March, 1933, since a 5 per cent increase was announced in May. In addition, Mr. Knudsen also raised the pay of all salaried workers receiving under $1,800 per year by 10 per cent. It is estimated that these increases will place more than a million and a quarter dollars at the disposal of Chevrolet and Pontiac employes, for the balance of
the year.
mTfitr Vorld J
Welcome Is Given. “Now I remember you!” said the woman, regaining some of her lost composure. “His Master’s Voice, they always said under your picture. So now you’ve got one, too.” “I want to welcome you to the RCA Victor exhibit,” the dog continued. “Step right inside and see the many interesting features here, demonstrated by amazing apparatus. “Woof! Woof!” His jaws stopped moving and the big dog’s head rolled back to a cocked po-
sition.
The Victor talking dog, seen by millions in advertisements for many years, guards the entrance to RCA hall. He is six feet tall and wags his head and talks when a visitor whitles to him through a microphone nearby. With the assistance of a photo-elect’Fc cell, his
speaking organs begin to work.
Included in the RCA exhibit are demonstrations of television, radio transmission of photographs, the
of radio operation and
other features. There is also an exhibit of models important in the development of the phonograph
and the radio.
UGLY GIRL WANTS HUSBAND AH girls are pretty when they are mentioned in the newspapers. That is, all except Wanda Limperg of Danzig, who recently wrote a letter to the Washington Herald, explaining that she was a poor fishergirl, ugly, and with long hair, but that she wanted an American soulmate — “A steerman who would pilot her ship of life.” The ^mqws is not that she wants a
Tenet of Safety For Auto Drivers
.Safety on the highways is principally in attitude of mind. Better cars and roads won’t attain it. Indeed, they tend toward the opposite result. It has long been the experience that when a stretch of poor road is converted into a broad, straight, smooth highway the number- of accidents increases—because . motorists overestimate the safety factor. They lose the sense of caution that a poor road naturally creates—and the death and injury rate booms. The same thing is true of automobiles. The manufacturers give us cars with better brakes, sure'steering, more perfectly balanced bodies—and we abuse them to the point where the automobile accident rate breaks all records. Drive Carefully. The “safety attitude” isn’t a particularly difficult one t6 develop It is simply to drive as w r e’d like the car approaching us to drive. Don’t cut corners, nor pass ,n curves or hills, nor drive on the wrong side of the road, nor fighh for the right-of-way, nor drive so fast you cannot stop in the assured clear distance ahead. Almost every accident, minor or severe, occurs because someone violates these simple rules. Possibly a better phrase for safe driving would be “courteous driving.” Discourtesy on the highwav is always the friend of accidents. If you’ll make up your mind to drivf the way you think the other fellowshould drive, the accident rate will be due for a severe beating in the future.
look and listen;”-esymciadly at-rail-road crossings and at street and highway intersections, and it is possible that had this precaution been taken in the present case, tha
victim would still be alive.
HALF A LOAF BETTER THAN NONE AT ALL. Enactment of an old age pensiin law has long been considered by state legislators of Indiana, but it was not until the last legislature met in 1933, that such a law- w r as finally placed on the statute books and today we have the present old . age pension law- which provides that all persons of 70 years of age and over, under certain conditions, are entitled to a pension of $15 a month. Of course, the monthly stipend of $15 is small, but when w r e take into consideration the number of persons 70 years of age and over in the state of Indiana, then it begins to dawn on us just what this means in the w-ay of increased taxation. There may be exceptions, but w-hen a man or w-oman reaches the age of 70 years, it is reasonable to suppose that during their lives they have rendered some service to their country which entitles them to the right to live at ease during the remainder of their lives, even though the burden may fall heavily upon those who foot the bill, so let us not begrudge them the small pittance allotted them by law- if it will bring a little sunshine into the declining years of their lives. o You Cannot Help Getting Bargains
It is an ancient belief that the woman is the bargain-hunter of the family and that man must be dragged reluctantly, if at all, to where goods can be purchased cheaply. If that is true, the man of the family must be having a good time now-, for there is very little else but bargains, at prices unheard of a few- years ago. Those prices w-on’t be w-ith us much longer—economic law doesn’t allow “distress” sales to go on’forQ ver. Everything from shirts to cement is going to eosi more very mon, as higher price and wage levels will be on us before we know it. It’s about the last chance to buy needed household articles, and make property improvements and additions, at depression costs. The chances iare that you, the reader of this, have been lax about keeping up your house and grounds, in order to save. But you had better dart your building and repa’r work now- if you don’t w-ant to dig deep into your pockets in the neap future. Providing jobs and purchasing power is better and cheaper than charity.