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A Democratic weekly newspaper represo: ting ihe Democrat* ol Muncie, Delaware County and the lOtt Congressional District The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

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

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, September 8, 1933. Unscrupulous Rats Senator VanNuys handed out a statement at Washing-i ton Monday to the Associated Press and the United Press, I; in which he makes the definite assertion that he believes : the Federal case against the mayor and others here had all the earmarks of being handmade, declaring that in making j|< this statement he does so advisedly, having studied the evidence. Speaking of Mayor Dale the senator publicly states: “I am thoroughly convinced that he is not guilty of the crime alleged in the indictment/’ The senator says further: r “I have learned from most reputable citizens of Muncie that he has given the city one of the best administrations it has ever had.” Senator VanNuys, speaking as one who once held the position of United States Attorney for the district of Indiana, mentions “unscrupulous rats.” It will require but little effort here to show who the unscrupulous rats are, and may the Lord have mercy on them, for the victims of their proved perjury do not feel forgiving. Some have made a clean breast of it. Others have not. They will.

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Constant Public Demand There is no question of the good intention of the average legislator, and there is no doubt but that the official of the various departments of the government in the,state, county, township and municipality are using every endeavor to make a reduction in the cost of the maintenance of the government, but the legislators have in the past created sq many subdivisions and commissions that it requires the employment of many useless employees, but in considering the vast number of public improvements carried on, which have been of great and last benefit and in accepting same the taxpayer can hardly complain and so long as the public constantly demands its servants to build and improve, so long will the taxpayer be compelled to pay for it. A reduction of value means an increase in rate, and if the money is not collected by the direct tax it must be produced by an indirect method..

yi. partnership between a famous woman and a famous ship was revealed when it was recently disclosed that Mrs. Cobina Wright, ° nc e » brilliant stage figure, has secured an option on the giant liner Leviathan and /Ians to transform it into a recreation center in New Yor^. It is hard to picture the Leviathan, erstwhile queen of the seas in the role of showboat, but Mrs. Wright is confident she can bring the miracle to pass. Strangely‘enough, both Mrs. Wright and the Leviathan have one bond in common—both played their parts in the World War. While the mighty ship carried the major portion of the A. E. F. “over there/’ Mr*. Wright was one of the gallant band of women who tramped through French mud to entertain the boy#

on their time out of the trenches.

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Joins the Aginners Picture if you can Dr. J. Raymond Schutz, Indiana educator and theorist, addressing a Republiqan club in the state with criticism of the National Recovery Act and a half-hearted praise of former President Hoover. Then compare that picture with one of Dr. Schutz about five years ago when he returned from a European tour and warned the people of Indiana that something must be done to avert an economic catastrophe that was looming for the world and which did strike in the form of a depression with which this country is well acquainted. Here is what Mr. Schutz skid to the Republican club members gathered at a watermelon feast: “I am not for the N.R.A. as a way out of this depression. But, I have no other remedy, and perhaps I had better not voice my opposition to the plan. I only wish we had never started it. But we have started it and we must put every influence behind it. It must not fail.” And folks that contradictory statement came from a man who was the Republican candidate for Congress in an Indiana district last year and who was defeated. He is not for the N.R.A. but he has no other remedy. That appears to have been a failing of Republican leadership in the state and nation for a number of years. They have been aware all along that something is needed but they do not have the remedy and of course, for policy reasons, they are against any remedy that someone else might have the courage to present. And of all the menaces in the world the “.aginners” are the worst. Dr. Schutz made himself wide open when he told the club that President Roosevelt has put over his program in Congress because of his popularity and because the country was so thoroughly scared. Well, Mr. Hoover was elected President in 1928 by the largest majority any man had received up to that time indication that he also was popular and if he failed to retain and profit by that popularity it was his own fault. Furthermore, Dr. Schutz must realize that the country was scared because its government was in the control of a political group which had no remedy when remedies were needed. It is unfortunate that a good educator like Dr. Schutz should leave his natural field to enter one about which he knows so little.

(By George R. Dale) As I sat in my home Monday afternoon (you know that’s where the doctor told me I had to stay for some time, but occasionally escape quarantine when Mrs. Dale is not looking) I gasped with surprise and had to look twice with my good eye as I read this headline, stretched across

two columns:

“SENATOR VAN NUYS RUSHES TO AID OF MAYOR GEORGE DALE “Indiana Solon Declares Evidence In Conspiracy Case Bears ‘All the Earmarks of Being Hand Made/ Then I read the story. It was unimportant to me that the heading appeared under a two cqlumn cut of two handcuffed desperadoes being led to jail by a guard armed with

a machine gun.

That, of course, was merely one of the errors of the accursed “make up” man, who does the same thing to me occasionally in my own newspaper. The important thing was the heading and what appeared under it, which follows: “Washington, Sept. 4—(U.P.)—Senator VanNuys, Dem., Inch, today declared the case agamst Mayor George R. Dale of Muncie, Lnd., accused of liquor law violation, bears all the ear-

mark of being hand made.

“Dale’s conviction has been upheld by the Circuit Court of Appeals. An effort now is being made to obtain a pardon. “Over-zealous prohibition agents found a very willmg and fertile field in which to work when it came to ‘making’ a case against Dale,” Van Nuys said, after going over the record in the case. “I say ‘making’ advisedly because having read the evidence, the case bears all the earmarks of being hand made. “When I was district attorney I had many cases presented to me along the same line. I frequently had much more respect for the alleged law violator than I did for the unscrupulous rat who was trying to build up the case. “I am thoroughly convinced the evidence is much too

questionable to sustain the conviction.”

“Promises Full Support.

“VanNuys issued the following statement in connection with effort to obtain a presidential pardon for the convicted

Muncie mayor:

“I shall assist him all I can. I have known George Dale for at least 25 years. While, like all the rest of us, he has his peculiarities and eccentricities, I am thoroughly convinced that he is not guilty of the crime alleged in the indictment. I have learned from most reputable citizens of Muncie that he

has given the city one of the best administrations it has ever had. “From the fiscal standpoint it probably is in as good condition as any other city in the state. “Mayor Dale cleaned up petty grafters and organized bootleggers in Muncie and that probably led to his indictment. Over-zealous prohibition agents found a very willing and fertile field .in which'to work when it came to ‘making’ a case against Dale. I say ‘making’ advisedly because, having read the evidence this is one case that bears all the earmarks of having been handmade. “When I was district attorney I had many cases presented to me along the same line, I frequently had much more respect fqr the alleged law violator than I did for the unscrfipulous rat who was trying to build up a case. “Having read the testimony and opinion in the case I am thoroughly convinced the evidence is much too questionable to sustain a conviction.” It was no secret to me that Senator VanNuys was deeply interested in the case of myself and Chief Massey, who were unjustly convicted in the Federal court and I could fill this entire paper with the letters of congressmen, senators and private citizens of all parties, addressed to President Roosevelt and Attorney General Homer Cummings demanding an investigation of the case and a free and unconditional pardon. The editor of one of the greatest newspapers in America asked me, as a personal favor, if I would sanction a personal interview between himself and President Roosevelt, and wanted to know when I would be in Washington. My reply was that I was physically unable to make the trip, and had made no personal application for a pardon, but that if he wished to have a personal talk with the President, I could see no objection to such a procedure and was assured that he would make an appointment with the President at once and discuss the-'case with him. It has been my constant contention that the conviction was secured through perjured evidence, bought and paid for, like so much merchandise. After studying the evidence Senator Van Nuys it is evident, concurs with me, and a vast majority of the citizens of Muncie and Delaware county are proud of a senator who has the courage to speak out in understandable language. Louisiana has its Huey Long but Indiana has its Arthur Robinson so don’t turn up your nose too high when you read about Huey and want to register disgust.

The Republican leaders are doing everything they can to interpret the N.R.A. to their advantage but they know that the N.R.A. is the last straw of th hay stock that is smothering their future.

Now we wonder jus what those pirates of Wall Street did to Artie Robinson that he has suddenly turned on them after six years of voting just the way they told him to and defending the Grundys and the Mellons.

In other words, if Dr. J. Raymond Schutz had been elected to Congress from the Fifth Indiana district last fall he would have opposed the N.R.A., the farm relief plan and possibly everything else which is helping the country forget the depression. That ought to satisfy the voters of the Fifth district.

While the rest Of the disgruntled Republcan leaders in Indiana are spouting off about everything, Jim Watson is saying nothing which is another good eaxmple that Jim knows his politics.

Watermelons were served to a group of Republican leaders meeting recently which was somewhat of a comedown from the steaks and chickens they have been accustomed to for the past sixteen years.

CONTROLLER (Continued From Page One) expenditures as the civil city Muncie. Th« park levy at 6 cents wid provide sufficient funds at the re duced budget totaling a little more than $24,000. The sinking fund levy at 10 cents, will not be sufficient to meet all the bonded indebted ness coming due in 1934, but re funding bonds may be issued with which to retire the due bonds unabl eto be paid from the sinking fund levy and the city will not have to default any payments on Its bonded indebtedness. COMiSSIONER (Continued From Page One) $2,000 for a year does not go very

far.

Yet we congratulate you. gentlemen, as the citizens will continue to get the .efficient service of the (street department as they have in j the last three and a half year#; for jit happens that the street commis-

Jsioner is a particular friend of the i n a land where continuous may

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|forming of miracles that the world has ever know, and this great and only performer of miracles has promised the commissioner that He

will send down his own formula].L he party hold their annual au

for performing said miracles. Thanks for Salary Cut. With this promise assured, you need not lose any sleep about the street department being on the job, for it will carry on in spite of the efforts of the gentlemen, who in passing their first budget in four years, cut the allowance of the department to the quick and a little

deeper.

I also want to thank the gentlemen of the council for not cutting, the salary of the commissioner any lower than what it did. The commissioner says he (like Washington Tubbs, when he finds a new flame) “ain’t mad at nobody.” — o Still, there’s the chance that cotton wouldn’t have been worth picking if it hadn't been plowed

under.

OContinued from Page One.) and which nearly three-fourths of all taxes direct and indirect tax are paid, that is, your state, school, township and civil city are paying three-fourths In addition to all of this, the citizen living within the corporate limits pays through our system of taxation to w r hich every citizen subscribes, gasoline tax and other indirect method, at least three-fourths of all money that the citizen w'ithin the corporation pays, is expended outside of the civil city limits, all of them fine, but still leaves the city with the bur-

den of carrying on its own civil'

affairs and no voice w-hatevey m the state, county or township af-

fairs.

Take a city the size of Muncie—i the civil city has in addition to all Other taxes, to provide a tax for the maintenance of its fire departments and police department of nearly one hundred employees, its park department, its street department and other departments esti-* mated at 250 to 300 employees, within the civil cRy, all of which must be provided for after tine citizen tax payer has paid his state, county, school and township tax. In other words, .after maintaining all of the other outside departments and various organizations, over which the civil city has no control, the civil city citizen must provide independently for the .operation of his city and the peculiar and strange nature of .every citizen taxpayers is, that he concentrates his mind upon the civil city tax which is less than one-fourth of all the tax he pays and rarely gives thought to what becomes of the three-fourths that goes for outside

use.

The wages and salaries paid the various state and county officials is more and far in excess of the salaries paid the civil city officials. ‘There is no denying the truth, the fact, that each and every attempt made hy the legislature to revamp and reorganize our system of taxation has been imperfect so far as it concerns the general reduction of expense of maintaining the government in Indiana. There are other forms of indirect payment of money, not included the form-of tax. The system of collecting income tax in many instances cost the income taxpayer more money for postage, notary fees and drafts than the income tax itself. The automobile license and expense of obtaining so-called license plates, notary fees and incidental costs are wholly unnecessady and unreasonable.

Both have had thorny going; M.any other instances can be emumany steel and oil men have been jnerated which should be corrected

pie say along about the first of This subject has been discussed September, when tax rates are be-jfor years, and each legislator has ipg fixed, where will I get the promised his constituents at home money to buy school books? Andithat when he got to Indianapolis how often do the school books ^® . wou ^ promote a better conchange? This affects every home^ition, a staple system of staple in our state. The prices of school . school books and by legislation

books are exhorbitant and unreas-|P rov id e against these frequent enable and in our system of pub- c k?' nges an( * manjr our le Sislalic schools frequently changes are/ 01 '* have promised to take steps made of the books, so that the 1 / 0 provide a law by which the books one child uses are of no use'kooks in pur public schools should to the other child. Thousands ot ke provided by the state fiee to dollars are caused to be wasted the public school student.

by the frequent changes of the socalled system of education, and this great expense and loss falls upon the family least able to bear

the same.

There is no question involved upon questions of education—every citizen is desirous of having his child get the yery best that the' schools provide, but there is a question of the unreasonable | change and expenses connected with the cost of school books.!

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THINGS MOVING (Continued From Page One)

ing cotton crops. Got public works program moving niove smoothly and rapidly. Decided to abandon several army posts in interest of cenomy. Made important diplomatic appointments. Held conferences on possibilities for inflation, and studied economic trends. Made plans for extending Civilian Conservation Corps through witter. Arranged for opening negofia-; tions with Latin American countries on reciprocal tariff agree-, ments. In additiod the President must make innumerable less im-' port«nt decisions, meet many cailrs, go through a stiff and univoidable routiue that is part of

the chief executive’s job. Gen. Johnson Does Thin,gs

Most encouraging recent governmental achievement is comple-' ‘ion of the steel and oil cedes.

recalcitrant, glum, non-coopera-tive. General Johnson has become piffy-eyed and weary from struggling with them. Finally he got Reel leaders into a room, kept them there for 12 hours with hardly an intermission; almost Mtertlly tore an agreement out of them. Their demand for an open shop was defeated. Main provisons are a 4-0-hour w T eek, which nay be extended to 4.8 hours at .eascpal peaks; a minimum 40-‘ents-an-hour wage^; an eight-hour lay after November^ 1 if the inhistry is operating at 60 or more per cent of capacity. The code represents a middle ground; the government wanted more tlvvn it got, and the industry wanted to

give less than it finally did.

Chief oil code difficulty wa ; over price-fixing. One group wanted it all the way from the well to the gasoline tank; another opposed complete price-fixing, and simply wanted a stipulation to prevent selling at below cost. No amount of argument could bring agreement. General Johnson finally handed them a code prepared by Secretary lekes and James Moffett, ex-vice-president of the Standard Oil of New Jersey. There will be a 4.0-hour week at 40 cents per hou*;. The President has the power to fix for 9) days a minimum gasbline price. He is likewise to appoint a committee of 15 to consider the price question, and to make recommendations to the states concerning oil regulation.

CONOmlS (Continued From Page One)

ime since the election last year. With a continuation of the local meetings it is safe to predict that Aithin a month the party will be m an even keel with its condition luring the campaign a year ago, vhen its movements were clocklike, perfect and smooth. The re- 1 cent Democratic editorial convention started the machinery and a checkup on the results will be possible in October when the wouaen

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Prepare “Recovery” Delicacies Now — By Jane Rogers ■

QINCE a few years after the PilgrimB first landed on New England’s rock-bound coast, a family board groaning, with special delicacies—sweets and others— has been the symbol of rejoicing and good cheer in America. Today recovery and future prosperity are on everyone’s tongue; are in the very atmosphere we breathe. Prepare now to be able to serve throughout the winter months those preserved fruit delicacies that can add so much to the family’s enjoyment of the menu and the resulting np-building of morale. Fresh fruits are abundant and Inexpensive. Sugar, too, is low in cost. Modern methods of preserving have cut down the time and work involved. Finally, the results are an important contribution to good health and stamina, for the sugar is a concentrated source of energy, and the fruits themselves provide essential vitamins and mineral salts. Now, therefore, while the markets. are still overflowing with the products of orchard and garden, is the time to stock your shelves with the wherewithal to add zest to winter meals. Peach Butter To 4 pounds of pared sliced peaches add 2 cups of water and cook carefully until peaches are soft. Force through a colander and measure. Allow two-thirds of a cup of sugar for every cup of sieved peaches. If you Avish add a drop of oil of cloves and oil of cinnamon — but no more than a drop. Cook, watching that it does hot burn, until df the desired consistency, then put .in hot, sterilized jars and seal. It te not absolutely necessary to pare the peaches when making peach, butter—but if

they have thick, fuzzy skins It is better. Ripe Grape Jam 4>/2 cups (2>A lbs.) prepared fruit V cups f.? lbs.) sugar b' .tie pectin To prepare fruit, slip skins from about 3 pounds fully ripe grapes. Simmer pulp, covered, 5 minutes. Remove seeds by sieving. Chop Or grind skins and add to pulp. Add Vz cup water and if desired, ferated rind of 1 orange.- Stir until mixture boils. Simmer, covered, 30 minutes. (Wild grapes, < Malagas and other tight-skinned grapes may be stemmed, crushed whole, simmered with % cup water 30 minutes, sieved, and then measured. With tight-skinned grapes add juice of 1 lemon, to water. Use 4 cups prepared fruit). Measure sugar and prepared fruit into large kettle, mix well, and bring to a full rolling boil over hottest fire. Stir constantly before and while boiling. Boil hard 1 minute. Remove from fire and stir in pectin. Pour quickly into glasses. Cover with %-inch hot paraffin. .When cool put on tin covers.

CCURACY IS VITAL

umn pow-wow at Madison. VanNuys Back On Job

After a vacation of several months, interrupted by a brief visit in Indiana, United States jSenator Frederick VanNuys was back in Washington the past: week, fresh, his vitality restored and he went to work on the volumes of business that were waiting his attention. Senator VanNuys was named on several of

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the most important committees of V '| the Senate and these members are i getting to work for the gathering of data that must be ready when .Congress adjourns in regular ses- r j

sion next January.

Summarizing the political picture at the close of the past week the impression is that the round was rather even with a slight) edge for the Democrats because of the position they occypy to do hings. The Republicans did much ‘alking and predicted what they will do next year but there is nothing they can do with their present leadership. A change there is necessary before the Republican party can be a real factor in

Indiana politics.

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