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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1933.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

A Democratic weekly newspaper reflresettlng the Democrat* ol Muncie,' Delaware County and the 10tt Congressional District The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, lidiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

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223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 CHARLES H. DALE, Publisher Geo. R. Dale, Editor

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 4, 1933.

Lost His Voice; Maybe Stagefright

Under the caption “Speak up, Mr. Howard,” the Indianapolis Times invites the superintendent of the state penal farm to inform the state what is going on down there. Somehow or other we have an idea that Ralph is hardly in a position to talk. The Times editorial follows: “More than a fortnight ago The Indianapolis Times made public, for the first time, the unspeakable conditions existing at the Indiana State Farm—an institution for the imprisonment of minor transgressors. “This newspaper showed that inmates had been assaulted brutally with blackjack and club for petty, or imagined, infractions of prison rules. “It revealed that men were tortured there in medieval fashion by being chained to cell doors for hours without food or water. “It set forth that a man who had no license to practice medicine in the state of Indiana had been permitted to perform a surgical operation upon a helpless prisoner. “It showed that the property of the state had been bandied loosely in printed affivadits directly charging that certain guards were diverting it to their own use. “It proved that the whole administration of the state farm was such that it was in direct violation of the letter and spirit of Indiana’s Constitution. “These charges should be placed before the grand jury of Putnam county. Why has the prosecutor failed to'act? “As soon as Governor McNutt learned of the situation he went into action. He reappointed Ralph Howard, who had seventeen years of experience at the farm, as superintendent. Then the Governor quite -properly left the details of reorganization up to him. “What has Superintendent Howard done since his appointment? Nothing, so far as the public has been informed. “It is high time for. him to make an open statement of his plans for the farm, which is supported bj^ taxpayers’ money. “You have the floor, Mr. Howard.”

MAYOR’S CORNER

INDIANA IS

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collected

lunaided, to prove that political collectors are not necessarily crim-

jinals.

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—.dug their regime the., . It is interesting to note that our esteemed and ever-to-be-enjoyed,7ub ^oiderT to^fm^ve^al’ the ' ’ mayo/should 6 get abarter local dailies comment freely upon the, ahem, resignation of Robe Carl ,. nx rar „ ifrom the secretary of state, say,

I with, the title: “Dale, Inc., Official

The Meaning of Efficiency

Because of the many changes of a purely political nature which Jiave been made in public offices during the past several months much ^has been heard of efficiency, the possibilities of its decline and the -effect that will have in the operation of public business. • Opposition to the spoils system and claims that terms of civil serv^vice are being violated have emanated from Republican circles, of course. In Indiana the basis of objection to the replacement of Republicans with Democrats has been that pas* state administrations "have endeavored to set up a bi-pvu'tisan system of governmental oper--ation. But the objections fail to carry any weight because the rec_ords show diat the so-called bi-partisan system was manned almost “wholly by Republicans. The system not only was not bi-partisan but -it was distinctly partisan. Now that Federal appointments 1 are being given to deserving Democrats, the cry is being raised that the principle of civil service ~ is being damaged. It is even suggested that Congress should Z strengthen the civil service system, placing practically all governmental workers under civil service. That also comes from Republican 'circles which desire such action before too many Democrats are placed ~ in public positions by the new administration. And the suggestion • is based on the theory that universal civil service will take governmental employes out of politics and thereby make for greater efficiency. However, although the office of postmaster is not under civil - service as other positions in the postal department are. It has been Z an unwritten law that postmasters maintain a non-partisan attitude.* ~ That being the case, as it is, how can these Republican leaders, now “ demanding civil service to keep Republicans in public jobs, excuse .the policy of the postal department during the campaign last fall in . calling together the postmasters of Indiana and other states and Remanding that they get active in the re-election of Mr. Hoover. They . were practically under civil service and yet they did what civil service is supposed to eliminate. Efficiency does not mean that an employe can have no political 1 affiliations. A Democratic worker can give just as good service as * a Republican worker which is being proved right here in Indiana.

RURAL NEWS

DALEVILLE, 1ND. ^ Mrs. Will Stewart, Mrs. Herbert “Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. Ray ^Stewart, of Kalamazoo, Mich-, .spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. John Barkdull. “ Mrs. Wesley Dunn spent Satur!day with her daughter, Mrs. D. C. “Sadler and family, at Anderson. * Mrs. Burton Kyle and son, Geo., ^nd Mrs. Helen Shafer, of Torrence, Cal., are visiting friends here. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Davis entertained Sunday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shoemaker and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Alva Betterton and son, Robert, Mrs. Mary Bettexton, Miss Ruby Davis and Edward Davis. Mrs. George McKee spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Huber, north of Anderson. The following members of the Epwoxth League of the M. E. Chui’ch, spent the week at Lake Webster: Miss Marie Ballinger, Miss Lenna Ballinger, Miss Maxine Ellison, Miss Hilda Ballinger, Miss Ilene Biddle, Miss Dorothy Helvie, Miss Monzelle Moore, Rex Ballinger, Danied Kirtleyf Wilson and William Roberts, Roberf and Donald Schlegel, Benjamin Smith, Mrs. Ella Knott and Rev. and Mrs. Arlington Singer. Mr. and Mis. George H. Mingle, and Mrs. J. A. Gibeault and children, Claire and Joseph, were .dinner guests of Mi’, and Mrs. Lawrence Flemming, at Oakville, Sunday. Friends here received word of the death- of Mrs. Hilda Brookins at Anderson. Mrs. Brookins was formerly Miss Hilda Forrest of here. Private funeral services were conducted at 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the residence, with the Rtv. Father Thomas Traverse, pasthr ci St. Mai-ys Catholic Church, in barge. Interment was made in the Maplewood Cemetery.

White, Muncie lawyer, who has served for many years under Republican presidents as chief immigration officer for the government.^ I would not for the world attempt to underrate the capability of Robe Carl, or of his peculiar fitness for this important job, bi^t why does he desert and leave the United States in a hole, just at the time when Doctor Roosevelt has begun administering his recovery pills to wipe out the national epidemic which sent everybody to the hospital during the four years that Doctor Hoover was at the head of the na-

tional health board?

Of course it could not have been possible that some hard boiled Democratic boss at Washington handed Robe Carl his hat and asked what was his hurry. We almost have the word for it here from tiepublican newspaper sources that the Roosevelt administration almost went on a strike when White, harrumph, resigned. We are now face to face with an awful thought. Some coarse, ill informed Democrat may get the job. Robe Carl should have considered the welfare of his country, before deserting as under-secxetary of the

department of labor.

As I recall it now it was only a few days ago that local dailies wondered what was going to happen to the state when Dick Lieber “severed his connection” with the state conservation department. , He quit, it will be remembered, when Governor McNutt put a measly Democrat in chaxge of Dick’s personally conducted conservation department and put Dick to work raking leaves, or something possibly of less importance, in the stdte parks. Dick resigned, with a gx-eat flourish, and in getting ready to start a brewery, his regular business before prohibition and a Republican governor yanked him from his malty surroundings and translated him into the world’s greatest authority on fish, flowers and foliage. Republican newspapers have quit eulogizing Lieber since he turned from the esthetic, so to speak, and quit his bii’ds and bees in favor of beer and baloney. Robe Carl, we are told, has quit his job cold, but i« not leaving Washington. It is announced that he will stay there and open a law

office.

There axe more lawyers in Washington to the squii’e inch than in any other city on the globe. It just seems impossible for Republican job holders to leave Washington after their jobs get away from

[them.

At a, rough guess I would say that one percent of the Washington lawyers could easily take care of all the legitimate business that comes up in the District of Columbia. Robe Call White was a practicing lawyer before he became the horny handed workman in the office of • the secretary of labor. If he had been a brewer before he was called to the coloi’s to save his country. Robe Carl would have laid down the pick and shovel of labor and started a bxewery. Being a lawyer, Richaxd is himself again, and will practice law, right there in Washington, now that he has toxn himself loose from public office over the tearful protests of President Roosevelt. Now, there is one thing I have observed about lawyers in Indiana who go to Indianapolis to serve on state boards and bureaus. When their official jobs go flooey they kiss their native heath goodbye and open up law offices in Indianapolis. This is pax ticularly true of lawyers who have served on the public service commission. Thei’e to serve the people during their term cf office they leaxn so much about the game that they have no difficulty in getting large fees from utilities for repxesenting them in controversies before the commission^ of which they were former members.^ Now I don’t believe for a minute that Robe Carl White will open a law office in Washington with the idea in view of getting rich in the divorce court or defending bootleggers or collecting ovei’due accounts. Neither do you. Unless he is different from evex-y other lame duck lawyer that*’ I have ever heard of, his practice in Washington will be based, som’ewhat on his knowledge of immigration law, gained by many years experience as the eagle eyed watchman at the various poxts of entxV, to prevent gentlemen with bombs concealed in their long whiskers from getting off the boat. Now I’m not going to blame my old friend Robe Carl if he confines his practice to immigration questions. It may be that he will have quite a large clientele among foxeign ladies and gentlemen. Robe Cai’l knows how to keep them out and he knows all about their ti’icks to get in. Being a private citizen he would have a ftei’fect legal right to represent that well known citizen of Gi’eece, Sam Insull, but it is xr*t likely that he will, because Sam seems disinclined to retdrn to the land that he despoiled. —I am perfectly content if Robe Carl employ his undoubted talent to defend the right to entxy of those who have a right to sail to the land of liberty and become American citizens. All I ask is that before accepting foi'eign clients with long whiskers, that they must either come with a clean shave or have the bombs combed out of their whiskers befoi’e they disembark at the port of entry.

°f course Leffler would oe !Collector of _

pxomptly kicked out oi the state other Kind of Funds for the

house, but when one becomes :n- 0 f the Order ”

dignant he should be xuled by his jt takes money to run a political

campaign and after you are elected

conscience.

Will Rees Be Reconciled? And incidentally, how can Albert Rees, who holds some kind of a state job, be reconcilecl to the two per cent assessment, after woi’king so conscientionusly with Pi'osecutor Letter to indict the mayor for doing-what his bosses are getting ready to do to him? Being the official finger printer, he should finger print the governor, if he has not already done so. Having clarified the situation, and proving that political job holders may contribute to the “kitty” without sending their bosses to jail, the mayor is of the opinion that the Hoosier Democrat Club, Inc., should set aside a fund to re-' imburse the mayor and other victims who had to stand under criminal indictments for six months and battle the thing through the courts,

in Muncie on the Democratic ticket it takes infinitely more to defend from unjust prosecutions, broughi not only to disgrace individuals, but to destroy the party, locally.

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Tii a large scale, and the effects are being felt. Again, the personality of Mr. Roosevelt is winning he country. His new deal has pi’oduced new thought on an old mbject. The country would have followed Mr. Hoover just as well as it is following Mr. Roosevelt but he failed to take advantage of

his opportunity to lead.

Mr. Hoover handled theories and Mr. Roosevelt handles facts.

With a leader ready to do any-Mct labor.

thing that will restore the country and a country ready to cooperate, there is no question about the suc-

cess of the outcome. The Wall Street Hooey

Senator Robinson is actively engaged in his campaign for the nomination. He has established

Campaign Funds, or heaquarters and under the guise

of being the champion of the veterans he has arranged for a great “homecoming” in his honor, al though he has been home for sev era! weeks. His campaign is con fined to his opposition to the na tional economy act, which he de dares was dictated by Wall street

manipulators.

This accusation by Robinson is just, as wild as the rest of his tirades. Anybody with good judgment knows that the national administration has not and never has had the friendship of Wall street. President Roosevelt asked for the economy act in order to save the country financially. Even the leaders of the veterans recognized that necessity. The people of Indiana have their choice between believing Robinson or following the leadership of President

Roosevelt.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

August 4, 1933. Notice is‘hereby given that Ball State Teachers Coollege, at the office of the President, Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed bids until 9:00 a. m., August 12, 1933, for the construction of (a) Curbing for Burris School

drive,

(b) Sidewalk on North side of University Avenue from McKinley Street to Talley, Street, (c) One concrete tennis court, (d,) pne asphaltic concrete tennis court, all as per the plans and specifications on file in the office of the Secretary-Registrar. Bids shall be submitted on each unit separately. In addition, firms may place bids covering any combination of units. Ball State Teachers College reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Ball State Teachers College, Per W. E. Wagoner, Secretary-Registrar. August 4. —— o

In the state of Massachusetts American flags are made by con-

Overheard in a wheelbarrow; “Tryin’ to get sixty-six nations to agree? Phooey! You can’t even get one nation to agree with itself.”

Of course, displaying a sign that you are doing your part will amount to nothing toward effecting a recovery unless you really put action behind doing your part.

The library building commission insists on having the new state ibrary building used for no other purpose than a library, but the commission probably has not hear<: that during the depression lots of families had to double up and cooperate.

jises much laughter and joy for the I stars,

first two days.

Then conies “Seci’et of the Blue Room” with Paul Lukas, Gloria Stuart and a big supporting cast of ten film stars. This is a typical mystery drama, which abounds in action, thrills and suspense.' On the stage, in conjunction with this featui’e showing, Munice will get a glimpse of a talented group of kiddies that have been assembled in Richmond, under the leadership of Miss Kay Hadley. There are twenty people in the cast, among them a ten piece all girl stage band, which furnishes the musical background for -the juvenile

This revue

The rest of the members of the United State Senate may not nelieve it, but Arthur Robinson does get a few people out to his meetings to hear him rant about Wall Street. But maybe the rest of the senatoi’s are envious of Arthur, is the reason they shun his company.

created such

pleasing comment while showing in Richmond that it was immediately booked into a great many theatres in this vicinity and among which was included the

Rivoli.

Friday and Satuxday, “Moonlight and Pretzels” a musical screen feature is UT£ booking and which iboasts of fifty girls, six new song hits and over thirty xadio and stage stars in its cast. o— “Free coinage of silver will benefit China.’ Yeah. The bride

will get a china cake plate instead

of a silver gravy ladle.

Jh<?ubiioc Qhiatrt^

If things keep on as they are, the Republican chiefs will soon be charging President Roosevelt with gi’and larceny for stealing their thunder and what they hoped would be their issues in the election next year.

SPECIAL “FAIR WEEK” PROGRAM! STARTING SUNDAY

SUN. - MON.

Laff Riot

Interesting Program at Rivoli Theater

special effort has been made by William Exton of the Rivoli Theatre to build up an unusual and diversified program for the anticipated crowds visiting Muncie during the coming week, in attendance for the Muncie fair. Starting Sunday, “Mama Loves Papa”, a Paramount comedy drama with Charlie Ruggles and Mary Boland will hold forth. This brings them together for their nrst starring vehicle and prom- I

'Mamma Loves Papa”

with

CHARLES RUGGLES

and MARY BOLAND

Tues. - Wed. Thurs. Stage and Screen Show

“Secrets of The Blue Room”

with Paul Lukas Gloria Stuart and Kay Hadley And Her Kiddie Revue With an All Girl Stage Band

FRI. - SAT.

Music, Mirth and Song

“Moonlight and

Pretzels”

With an All-Star Radio and Stage Cast

EXTRA Saturday Only Little Orphan Annie in Person

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