Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 17 November 1933 — Page 1

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VOLUME 13—NUMBER 44.

MUNCFE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1933.

PRICE: TWO CENTS

Here, There, Everywhere Frank W. Uahrey.

A man may be judged by tue friends he keep's.

“I am satisfied with my lot,” thought a real estate owner when he learned a prominent oil company

was seeking the location.

A Pet woman’s nightmare , turned on :: o be the shadow' of her husband’s foot on the bedroom wall instead of a terrible monster with

live horns.

“Rooseveltown” is the new name legally adopted by Xyando, N. Y.

Texas (Hello! Sucker) Guinan is

dead; just two days before the last of the necessary states voted to repeal the Prohibition amendment.

May her soul rest in peace.

Controller Lester E. Holloway Has Gathered Financial Data So Complete Picture May Be Shown of Present Obligations Against Taxpayers of the City.

“I helped fix theirs and they] helped fix mine,” admitted Banker Albert H. Wiggin when under investigation for drawing an exhorbitant salary. This is the manner by which the officials of most big corporations rob the real owners and customers of the business.

Samuel Insull is free. As w f e understand it, he can renounce his allegiance to the United States, make application for Greek citizenship, and then come back to this country mud carry on new activities with the

full protection of his quired “home” country.

newly ac-

As the depression continues so “grows the problem of the welfare

of the future aged.

The Graf Zeppelin holds the world’s record for the number«of miles flown; nearly one half million miles. It costs about $300 per mile to operate this big airplane. Fashionable women in Paris are now painting their eyelids and finger nails to match. Green and blue are the favorite colors of the younger women; black, gold and silver colors are favored by the

older women.

Recent statistics reveal the fact that house burglaries and robberies are on the increase generally throughout the United States. Dr. Charlotte Davenport, recently celebrated her 109th birthday. She has ten sons, all living. The eldest son is 93. She smokes cigar-

ets constantly.

President Roosevelt favors abolition of the death penalty, according to recent information given out at one of his regular semi-weekly

press conferences.

And now, we are informed that the average gain in weight of each of the government’s forestry boys

is 12 pounds. ,

An ear of corn with 1,248 grains was raised in Mercer County, 111., this year and is on display at the Aledo, 111., Times-Record office in

the above county.

Necessary data which has been compiled within the'past thirty days for the purpose of making application to the federal government for a loan with which to construct the proposed intercepting sewers and disposal plant in the City of Muncie has brought out some facts which should be interesting to all taxpayers and citizens of this city. City Controller Lester E. Holloway has followed a sample application provided by the state advisory board for the federal public works commission and has gathered financial data as requested in order that a complete picture may be shown of present outstandingobligations against the taxpayers of the city. The first information desired and furnished under the heading of Financial Data are the assess-' ed valuations for the past four years. The total net taxables for the ygar of 1930 were $66,089,455, for 1931, $64,483,625, for 1932, a pronounced reduction was made and the valuation as fixed for taxation purposes was $45,968,815, and for 1933, the total valuation again dropped to $39,733,665. These statistics will show the assessed valuation of the City of Muncie to have decreased 40 per cent within the

past four years.

The funded debt of the civil city of Muncie as of November 1, 1933 totals'$207,485.01, of which $39,000 is a general obligation against the city for cemetery purposes although up to the past two years has been self liquidating from receipts of the cemetery board by sale of cemetery realty. The total outstanding improvement bonds issued for street, sidewalks, sewer, curbs, and alley paving amount to $588,487.57. Improvement bonds, however, are not city obligations but are assessments against the owners of abutting property. The annual requirements to redeem the bonded indebtedness of the civil city in full are $44,500 for next year. 1934, the same'amount for 1935, $45,500 for 1936 $23,766.68 for 1937, $17,718.33 for 1938, $24,500 for 1939, and $1,000 per year from 1940 to 1946,. inclusive. The only floating debt of the civil city is a temporary loan issued August 1. 1933, and payable Dec, 31, 1933, in the amourtt of $18,000 for the sinking fund. Last Tuesday, Controller Holloway redeemed $5,090' of this loan which leaves a balance due by Dec. 31 of $13,000. The only contract which constitutes a debt against the city is Avith the Indiana General Service Co., dated March 21, 1933, and expires March 21, 1943, for the furnishing of electric current to the city with which to provide street lighting. There are no benefit judgments against the city and the other judgments as now recognized include a $6,982.48 amount due the Indiana Bell Telephone Co. and a $500 judgment . (Continued to Page Two)

Maxim Litvinoff, Sovier Russia’s extremely able comisar of foreign affairs, is in this country seeking official recognition of the Soviet regime by the government of the

United States.

The able Soviet representative offers for our consideration a plan whereby Amtorg, the official Rus-

Success Depends On Co-operation Right-of-Way Must Be Secured before Work on Highways Can Be Started.

Continued success of the state’s 'unemployment relief work on (he highways depends on the sUte highway commission receiving the co-operation of the residents ot every community in securing the additional right-of-way along paved roads where the shoulders are .to be widened. No work can be started or jobs provided until this right-of-way is secured. Residents Must Help If the residents of thisjand other communities expect to have jobs provided for the unemployed, they must aid in securing the ground along the highways where the work is to be done. Besides providing jobs now and lightening the local relief burden, this work ad-b to the safety and appearance of the highways. ' o HUMAN NATURE. There’s no accounting for human nature, the State Highway Commission has learned again. The same group of landowners in one county who demanded the paving of a road past their farms a few years ago are now opposing the. widening of that road when it would mean jobs for several bun dred unemployed men in their

county.

3Pith B y y s r gs G0SSiPE:

Health of Nation Unusually Good Annual Sale of Tuberculosis Xmas Seals Will Be Inaugurated Thanksgiving Day.

. i sian l )nrcliasin S agency, will buy

Laboring Mon and Farmers Have ( nance to Break millions of dollars worth of Amer-

Economical Chains That Now Bind Them— Only Through Organization Can This Be Ac-

complished.

“The health of the nation has been unusually good,” says Dr. Stanley Coulter, Chairman of the Christmas Seal Sale, in a bulletin' issued today to the ninety-two! county units making plans for the | annual sale of seals which begins | on Thanksgiving Day. “But,” the | message warns, “while we have 1 held our gains well, it must be con-; sidered that health budgets have !

^een seriously diminished, and ef- “'VT^f f/■fci-1 cs t Iyii i 1/1 i» ) i 1 t c? ; ^ ^

LARGE SHARE TO BE BORNE. BY CITIZENS

!lean products.

It would, of course, be highly desirable if we could increase our import trade by a diplomatic and commercial alliance with Russia, but the plan proposed by the shrewd Soviet gentleman, has all jof the ear-marks of being just anme jother polite borrowing expedient. We have had some very sad ex-

in connection with at-

ot

and apparently we have no real as-theyiguj-ance that Soviet Russia will

By W. J. D.

It always seems funny to

when I see a bunch of farmers and I laboring men and women crying for,P ei 'i ence

help to get them out of the eco-feP^^L^l^T.^T^L^

nomie condition into which

Another Winter Like the Last,” Pres-

ident Said.

and care for the sick have been materially curtailed. The momentum of the campaign against

itiberculosis has continued for a I

remarkably long time, but it is al- j

ready losing its force. The priva-!p’JJJJLIC TREASURY ion of the past four years is bound , -vurirr T>r\ r r r m‘]Vf T IdClS; <> wear down resistance, and the; JNvil xSU 1 1'-JiTlljrboo

full effect of it will be evident in | ;he health of the people. This is !

particularly true with tuberculosis, j p jj g t Now J) oes

which according to data on hand is "

■losely related to those who are j Double Dllty—Muke

deprived of the necessities of life! and therefore fall victims to this

Uncle Jeb Pruden sez; “Pus’onely I’m in favor ov ^to much consi nictif criticism by tellers wlio never construc’ed eriythmg in thei lives—liter is consid’rable danger uv destroyin’ the consti’pashun uv

the hole Yoo’nited Staites.”

Some people are imbued with the idea that a man cannot, be an interesting conversationalist unless he permits them to do at least 80

per cent of the talking.

There are beauty doctors who tell us that women smoke so many cigarets, it is causing hair to grow on their upper lips. Imagine a woman with a “hair lip” playing bridge and giving her husband a ecture for trumping her ace, or kissing the baby three places a L

once.

Some people are financially broke; some are badly bent from toil, while others have become crooked trying to avoid it. Now that the hunting season is on, we are reminded that forty-one years ago next Decoration Day, Grover Cleveland went fishing and didn’t get a bite.

The Republican press all over In diana have been condemning Governor Paul McNutt for handing out “political plums” to his friends, but during Governor Leslie’s term of office, apples were handed around by the car load and nothing was said. Looks as though there is a lot of “applesauce” mixed with the complaint.-

Answers to Inquiries q. To what extent is the President authorized under the National Recovery Act to enter into agreements? A. Section 5 (a) authorizes the President to enter into agreements with, (and to approve voluntary agreements between, both trade and industry, labor and trade organizations, and groups relating to any trade or industry. Q. Is it true that clerical employees of dressed-poultry establishments shall work 40 hours per week but that factory workers in same must work 48 hours per week? A. Yes; except that there is a tolerance of 10 percent in the case of office employees. Q. What regulations were fixed by the NR A as to the membership of local compliance boards? A. Local NRA compliance boards should be composed of six members selected by a nominating committee composed of members representing the interests of trade, labor, industry, and the consumer. These members should be truly representative of the following interests; 1, Employee in industry; 2, employee in retail or wholesale trade; 3, employer in industry; 4, employer in retail or wholesale trade; 5, a representative of the consumer, preferably a woman with no direct interest in or connection with trade or industry; 6, a lawyer in good standing with the State Bar association. These six members elect a seventh rpember to act as permanent chairman, who should be of mature judgment and free from connections which would cast any doubt on the impartiality of his decisions. Q. In what condition is the code submitted by the leather industry? A. It was approved by the President on Sept. 7, 1933. Q. Please let me' know the wages and hours for a dry cleaner. A. Under the substitution for the PRA applying to the dry-cleaning industry no factory or mechanical worker or artisan shall be paid less than 35 cents per hour in the northern area in cities of 500,000 or more, nor less than 30 cents in cities between 100,000 and 500,000 nor less than 27 cents in cities of less than $100,000. In the southern area not less than 20 cents per hour. These classes of employees are limited to 44 hours per week; provided, however, Uiat where a shorter work week is in effect the hours shall not be increased.

What a blessing it would have been for the United States If the old law in force during the time of Moses, whereby all male chi.dren should be destroyed, had been in force when “Frankenstein” Schall, Republican senator from Minnesota, was born. We never could understand how a fellow with a name like this ever managed to get into the Senate unless it was through a “Caesarian” operation.

carefully, in many cases boss who does the firing.

iS the

disease.

With Compound Interest.

“To delay adequate support* of the campaign against tuberculosis,” continues the bulletin, “is much like postponing the payment of a lebt it has to be paid sometime. In the tuberculosis campaign, however, we pay with compound inerest, for failure to carry on mea•sures for the control of the disease, permits it to spread, creating new cases and additional problems. That which is not. paid for ;oday in dollars will later be paid

in sickness and death.

Repairs.

Paradoxial as it may seem, many people tt'ith a bad past, have buil; up a splendid future.

last to an everlasting home (it the consideration, but it should be sub ’rite annual Tuberculosis Christ-'not bottomless. A large share ot preachers are right) called he 1. jeered to close scrutiny by a group tiias Seal will go on ship oirTTianks- any kind of relief effort mu«t Au rhirikThg of fife unbrgaiitze'd Vbh- oT hlird-boiTed gentlemen,'CTTroit

Those New York bankers and “big ehot” oil operat s, who put up their intelligence as; collateral against the other fellow’s money and pocketed millions, should move to Muncie and join the “Contractors’ Trust” instead of remaining in New York among a lot of “pi-

kers.”

If you are carrying a large “bay window” in front of you, it might be well to send to Washington and have a, “stomach engineer” call on you and make a stomach survey of your case. He may suggest running you through a wringer, or perhaps ironing you out with a road roller. It may mess up the street or road, but they centainly take a 1 the juice out of a fellow There is no tax on the juice.

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Bride in Secret

Most college graduates imagine they know everything after they have graduated, but many of them outgrow it before they get to be fifty years old. Scientists teli us that green is the most quieting to the nerves of all colors. Well, maybe it. is. In fact! our ner\ r es are never so quiet as| when we have our pockets filled! with “long green.” but bow about | 'a Hibernian waving a green flag! !during an Orangemans’ parade? I

News dispatches from England Istate that the Duke of Atholl has been indicted in connection •with a charity lottery scheme. If w r e ever received a title of nobility, we fervently hope they pick out a better name to bestow upbn ns than Atholl.

There is nothing that has caused so milch sorrow and misery in the world as apples. Look at Adam and Eve and all the snakes they saw 'after eating apples. Imagine the

number of doctors who have lost ,,,, . „.. 0 ■fo T v,nn« three dollars a shot "^ause "a" Matrix,wasmanhedlast apple a day kept them away. Audi" she ed that a woman that’s not all. Wasn’t it an app e a j cftn k a secre t, for not a soul day put Hoover away, and inciden- |knew about her ma rital pldnge for tally cleaned out Jim Watson’s j mon ths. She is Mrs. Patrick H.

•stall in the Senate?

Not another winter like the

last!

That was the pledge of the new administration when it came into office. Every effort is being given to achieve it. It represents the most earnest hope of every citi-

zen.

But government alone can’t do it all. We can spend money for relief— a nd we are, but there is never' enough. We can build public works—but there comes an end to that, and the public treasury Is

giving Day, (he proceeds of which will be used to curb the spread of tuberculosis and provide means of helping those now sick to recoveiry. The seals which sell for one cent each will be available through the county tuberculosis

as:-" iation.

o Taxes on Beer as Agent for Schools Amount of Distribution Greater Than Promised a Few

Weeks Ago.

workers in ahjeign markets could be largely elim-

have fallen, when the reason of prove to he an exception to the their condition lies within them-jru.e; especially since it is rememselves. They, and they alone, have.bered that the wily Soviet gentlethe power to free themselves from’man completely repudiated all the deplorable condition into which 1 financial obligations of the former they have fallen. They will listen | regime in Russia, to some slick-tongued politician or. According to eminent statistirepresentative of some moneyed clans, the United States customargroup, who’s only aim in life is to ily exports blit 6 per cent of the keep the farmers and laboring men products of the nation and it would and women divided so that the rich seem that by increasing the purmay reap the profit that is to be chasing power of the American made off the sweat of the brows consumer, the necessity for for-

of the farmer and

indtfs-try. limited.

The rich are organized into oaf Bona-fide (cash) foreign trade is. solid mass of dollars, and the dol-jof course, highly desirable, but. if lars of the rich have a great deal j we are forced to loan bankrupt for more power than the strong backs;eign consumers the money with and weak minds of those who labor; which to purchase our products and and till the soil. No person ever j then run the risk of engaging in got rich using his or her muscles.!wars ami foreign political entangOne has to use his or her gray mat-ilements, in order to obtain that .er, which lies in his or her “hatjclass of business, it. would seem rack.” if th?y ever expect to get j that we could devote our efforts to more than a mere existence out oflbuikling up a home market to much thtis life. w better advantage. Strength to Break Chain. | It is to be noted that the most The farmers and laboring men'self-sufficient countries of the and women far outclass the rich ini world—France, for example—have numbers and if they had the sense|weathered the world-wide industo organize into one great solidjtyial slump in better order than mass, like the rich, they would I have the other countries engaging have the strength to break the in the world wide commercial war-

chain of dollars that binds them fare.

to an economic condition of slavery, penury, crime, the jail and at

The proposition offered by Comrade Litvinoff may be worthy of

dition of the farmers and laborers. Rally afflicted with “pawn brolf-

borne by t th individual citizen.

Dollar Does Double Duty puts me in mind of a picture I And this doesn t mean c mi i y, .j^ve seen hanging on the wall of vital as that is. The best kind or j t ( ie old-time saloons. That picture relief is that which spends showed a number of breweries and and provides jo >* on j a number of Dutch brewmasters which are permanen > \c .::! a ll hung to a tfee, and on the hot-!who

and gives those whd pay the bill, nicture was written - Up* is something really needed. That is! tom ot tlie fixture was wiltten. |get is.

ers’ eye.’

Idealistic American gentlemen sent abroad to represent ns have been consistently worsted by the practical foreign representatives, know what they want—and

true whether the work is done by the Federal government or the state, or John Jones down the

street.

A dollar spent, for a new house, or to repair an old one, does double duty.* An extremely large share of it goes directly to labor in your own town. The rest of it goes to various industries, through numerous pockets. It touches many

states and Communities. It is al-]that runs foul of a bull dog. will

ways growing—and by the time it has run its course it has done the work of fifty or a hundred dollars. Remember that—and remember too, that you have a selfsh interest in building and repairing while prices are still in the economic

basement.

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Court’s Notes

Governor McNutt has been re w , as ferred to a*s the attorney who nevei won a case, and the soldier whe never fired a shot. He has, however, since becoming governor, Won all arguments and fired many.

Lots of fellows are fired with enthusiasm, but if you will notice^

: Level-headed adherence to a carefully planned program finally has come to Indiana. Last week, every * school unit in Indiana received its first share of money from the state beer law. Hundreds of dollars and, to the larger cities, thousands, were returned from the state which collected the taxes on beer as an agent for the schools. The most important thing about the distribution was one that even (he school patron's and officials most benefitted might have overlooked. This fact was that the amount of the distribution greater than promised a few weeks

ago.

Real Tax Relief.

When the governor took ihe un-

precedented step of providing es- _

timates of state distribution of Social Service Bureau funds to the local taxing officials s }, (Ul j ( j s00n declare a fat dividend so that they could reduce property their profits. They have been taxes accordingly, he tried to make ^ojjhjng lb e poor of about 25 cents those estimates large enough to on tbe ^oiim- from the meagre alaffdrd some real property tax re- j owance thev receive fr orr i th*lief and at the same time make county . trustee eac j 1 week> tax-

iliem conservative enough not to p a y era pa y t i 1P in i s and get nboe*

cripple the schools or other units ,.jg] U a ] on g w ith the paupers. It of “government. ^ } e a real sociable arrangement for

He promised that the November tbe ’ social Service Bureau. 1 distribution of excise tax would

be at least $1.20 for each pupil. The tester Bush, “big shot” in the actual distribution was at the rate ] oca j chamber of Commerce, was of $1.33 for each pupil. Careful p resen t when the county commisobservers saw in this fact a cer- g j 0nerg refused the use of the Cir tain indication that the new taxa- cuit court room to a delegation of tion program will be successful and ^f unc j e taxpayers. The citizens that the future of Indiana is safe. I^.^o really own the courthouse de-

-o sired to discuss the local utility IMPATIENCE. robbers and ways and means to The President ami those who are stG p ( )e j n g robbed. Mr. Bush said:

directly connected with the admin- ..’ We w0l ,i t | not (et you use the istration say they are satisfied chamber of Commerce for that with the progress being made by purpose, either.” A true example the NRA. The official heads of the of . the sai( i chamber. It was never nation, including General Johnson, use< i f 0 p anything beneficial to

declare that the dissatisfaction in Mancie or her citizens. most sections of the country is due ,

to impatience because recovery is We are c ; 0 aely watching the not progressing faster. President ,stories of the “Old Timer” and the Roosevelt was given authority by f iiary of “ye olden times” published the voters in the last election to jn t h e i 0f . a i daily papers. The percreate a “new deal.” He and his i 0 d xin der the Taft administration, administration are carrying out w hen George A. Ball was indicted the instructions of the people. Why an< i tried in the Federal Court tor get so impatient with them when attempted thievery, will be very

they are doing that? They have a interesting. The jury in Judg

right to proceed with the execu- Landis’ court, acquitted Mr. Ball.

Sullivan, the wife of Assemblyman tion of their policies a much longer,Ten of the jurymen, however, were Sullivan of New York, who recently; time than has been given them, later sent to prison themselves. WM elected for his fifth consecutive j \ re W e Americans getting jumpy,| Moral: Bewae of “gift-bearing

term. like the Frenchmen? ;Greeks.”

was

"Us Dutch hang together.” Now.) The sole exception to this rule— if tire farmers and the laboring'at least since the World War—ocmen and women would all bang to-|eurred when our delegation to the gether and not underbid their fel-j London economic conference, below farmers for the sale of thejhaved exactly like the foreign delproduce and labor .power, they legates and refused to make conwould not have to csy out, “theicessipns unless granted return

wolf, the wolf of hunger is coming favors, to my door!” Going about the world with your head hanging between your legs, like a hound pup

never get you out of the life of penury into which you have fallen on account of your foolish belief

in individualism. Crows Stand Guard.

“United we stand, divided we fall,” hae more real truth in it than any saying we have ever heard a preacher utter. Did you ever try to (slip up on a bunch of crows? If !you have, you know what a hard (task it has been. For the crows have sense enough to put out a guard, and when the guard lets out a squawk, the whole flock immediately takes to flight. Have you a guard that always tells you the truth when danger appears? No! You elect some slick politician who is in the pay of organized capital, who doles out to a small group of farmers and laborers a little relief and lets the rest of you go on living a life of want and misery, while the organized ministers tells you such fairy tales as; (Continued to Page Two? *

According to reliaule information obtained through various sources, no Indiana . city has yet secured a loan from the public works administration board for the construction of sewers and sewage

treatment works.

This is not th“ fault of either the cities' or the public works board, but is due to the fact that there is too much “red tape” cqiU nected with the securing of a loan. One trouble with the matter is, too many experts have had a hand in preparing the questionnaire and form of application which must be filed by the borrower. Where this is the case, one may expect a .superfluity of technicalities as well as many meaningless words, all of which have a tendency to confuse the borrower and incidentally re--

tard the work.

What the city needs worse than all else, is employment for several hundred men during the winter, but if it is expected to relieve distress and put men to work on the sewer, much red tape will have to

severad.

Today’s Safe Driving Hints By The National Safety Council

Courtesy

Common highway courtesy—that good old-fashioned kind that existed in horse and buggy days—will prevent many traffic accidents. When you meet another fellow at an intersection, don’t insist on the right of way. If he knows you have it, fine, but if he is in an argumentative mood an accident will result unless one of you gives in gracefully. Give the pedestrian a break. Even though he may be in the wrong, slow down and let him cross the street safely. The mildest mannered men are often selfish boors when they get behind the wheel. Selfishness anywhere is a vice, but on the highway, where life and limb are at stake, it is doubly vicious.