Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 December 1933 — Page 1

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FEARLESS

THE POST-DEMOCRAT “HEW TO THE BLOCK; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT/’

VOLUME 13—JSUMBER 46.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933.

PRICE: TWO CENTS

$36,143 Balance Feed Animals

In AU City Funds

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“The- wicked flee when no man pursueth.”

The depression is expensive; malnutrition, lo-ss of s,eep, gray hairs, postponed weddings, divorces and suicides. Such losses will never he fully adjust.d.

Controller Lester Holloway Gives Itemized anti Comprehensive Report of Financial Condition of City—Interesting Statistics, Enlightening the Taxpayers. i

“Like '.\i..e West, Russia admits she’s ’no angel’ but promises to behave,” says headlines in the Quincy (ill.) Times.

Patent burglar aldrms will not protect a bank whose funds are being stolen by clever juggling of the accounts by the banking officials. It’s only a few days until Christmas. I have suggested that San,a Claus bring me a pocket radio or an electric razor. However, I expect to get only two new neckties and another scarf.

Civilian Conservation Corps workers will be allowed a five-day holiday furlough. The furlough may be taken to either include Christmas or New Years.

A nudist wedding was he d recently near Los Angeles. The bride, groom, minister and guests were all without clothing at the wedding. The bride carried a large bouquet of wild flowers and ferns.

Science predictions are that this and the next few winters will be exceptionally mild.

“One of the inherent and ineradicable traits of the American voters,” says Frank R. Kent, political writer, “is that they infinitely prefer to vote against something or somebody rather than for them.”

officer who kills a bandit,” were instructions given police officers at Long Reach, Cal., by their new chief, Joe McClelland, who added: “If any fellow draws a gun on you, kill him; it is the only language he can understand.”

“The farmer who sells his corn for less than 45 cents per bushel this year is just foolish,” says Eall C. Smith, president of Illinois Agricultural Association.

Men of great ability often fail to make progress because they are lazy, but according to information at hand, laziness is not always voluntary. It may be caused by chronic disease, improper diet, or had heredity. “Good will,” according to a ruling of the Supreme Court, “is the disposition of the customer to return to the place where he' has been well served.”

“People run out.”

in debt, but crawl

The kidnapping epidemic in the United States has caused untold expense and suffering; not only to families directly affected, but to thousands of other families \Vhe live in constant fear of kidnapers. The government’s present war on kidnapers should be given the heartiest support of every American citizen.

Great Economic Foes of Mankind

Balances in all funds of the civil city of Muncie i at the close of the month of November amounted to! a fund'of $36,143.71. This amount is comprised of j the six various fund balances which include the remainder of| available cash in the general fund at $24,305.77, the park fund balance of $1,585.00, the surplus left in the gasoline fund of $4,102.01, the city planning fund balance of $5,443.48, the sum of $687.45 left in the sinking fund, and a $20.00 bal-i A

ance in the aviation fund.

m LITI/INOf F IS NOW SADDER AND WISER MAI

Starve W orkers

Here, There, Everywhere Frank W. Lahrey.

ANVIL CHORUS ACAINST N.R.A. AND ROOSEVELT

Street Commissioner Daniel Says That Has Been the Rule in the Fast—Wonders What the Fu-

ture Will Bring — Tells Some

Reminiscences.

In case you have a large fortune in bonds and mortgages and are utterly selfish, by all means join the opposition to the President’s

monetary policy.

If the dollar is permanently s.abiliz.d at its’ recent level, yon will he able to take your money—when the mortgages are repaid or the. bonds mature—and purchase about one and one-half times as much real estate, or other property, as you could have bought before the

Interesting depression, when you made your

investment. Money will continue to be scarce, your debtors wi.I have to work twice as hard to pay you,

At one time .in my life, I was humane officer, and was my duty to see that no animal was mistreated or starved, and at that time I had the authority to

Finds Himself Conf router To Talk American Citizen arrest any person who unde if ed and mistreated any

by An Excellent Horsetrader

Out of Birthright of Freedom

not wholly unjustified trad' jtion has grown up both here and

her 1, 1»33. Last Monday night a special meeting of the common council was held in the council chambers at the city building anti an ordinance authorizig the borrowing and issuing of bonds to the extent of $100,000 was passed the first and second readings and a public hearing for the purchase of equipment and materials with which to complete a number of projects approved by the Civic Works Administration and which will employ 600 to 800 men who shall be paid by the federal gov-

ernment. :

The projects included in this bond issue are the construction of a swimming pool in Tuhey park, a flood prevention levee wail around White river, the removal ot all abandoned street ear rails in the city and the repair of streets, the painting and redecorating of the city building and the five fire stations and other constructive improvements in the city.

The total receipts in the general fund during the month of November amounted to $50,641.2' of which $5-0,000 w r as an advance draw on the fall collection of taxes at the treasurer’s office. These receipts added to the total of revenue placed in the general fund during the past ten months of 1933 make the total amount of receipts in that fund from January 1st to December 1st of the present year at $234,136.60. The totla disbursements from the general fund during the sapie period of time amounted to $269,830.23, of which amount $35,435.68 was expended during the monh of November. The disbursements from this fund for the first eleven months of 1932 amounting to $339,393.31 which is approximately $70,000 more expended for this period of time last year than has been spent in 1933, ; / The November receipts in the park fund amounted to $4,530.00 of which $4,500 was an advance draw on the fall settlement of taxes collected. The disbursements from this fund during the month was $3,6j02.39 which when added to the ^jnvenmftures’*of"prUVious mhmm ot the present year make the total disbursements from the park fund up to December 1st at $34,103. This amount is approximately $5,000 more than w r as expended by the park hoard during the same period of time in 1932 but this is due to the payment of a $5,000 judgment for the final payment on the West Jackson street properties purchased by the Hampton park board in 1929 and paying an exorbitant price for such although they had insufficient funds to purchase the same and only paid $10,000 on the $15,000 purchase. There were no receipts in the gasoline tax fund during last months and the disbursements

from this fund during November Muncie amounted to $2,088.57. Likewise,!

the city nlannimr fund hod no re Baker 18 a terrific fighter who the city planning fund had no re ha& never b( , en knocked from his ceipts and the expenditures made ^ a]th h , a fans fron k!!!l s . iun ± dunn /. las l mo nth I WO uid like to see such , an accomyas $19. <5. 1 he sinking fund 1 e-, p]j S ] imen ^ b eca u se 0 f bis cockiness ceived a $5,500 advance draw on in the ring . Kelly has whipped a the fall collection of taxes with I g ood many top-notchers in his which one of the temporary loan weight and the dope is,certain that notes sold in September for the Mr. Baker will find his hands

Phi Delta Kappa Gives Boxing Show

Next Monday night, December 4th, the first boxing show sponsored by the members of the Phi Delta Kappa fraternity of Muncie, will be held at the national guard armory on North Walnut street. An exceptional fight program has been promoted by Managers Gordon Simmons and Reid Armstrong with the main bout a ten round go between Rosy Baker, a former Anderson boy, and K. O. Kelly, the colored leather-slinger from Akron, Ohio. Four supporting bouts, two four rounders and two six round contests, will complete the total 1 30 rounds program scheduled as 1 one of the best cards ever held in

tax sinking fund was redeemed from the Mucie Banking Co. in the amount of $5,055.83. A temporary

plenty full to handle the Akron glove artist. The Phi Delta Kappa fraternity

loan of $18,000 was authorized for | has agreed to sponsor boxing this fund last August and payable Shows every twm weeks during the Dec. 31st. The redemption of one I v.luier mouths in me efforts of $5,000 time warrant on November j ^h^ing first class fighters to 14th leaves a balance of outstand- ! Muncie and putting on matches ing indebtedness from this fund | which the fhns of this sport in this at $13,000. The aviation fund had : Clt y de r I /lo d and are Reserving to no receints and no disbursements i See ' Publlc Patronage of these no rece pts ana po disbursements can onl be exce]led b the dnrmg iast month eav lg the bal- L lass Qf fight X s which wm be SP - anr e in that fpnd ot $-0.00. cured for each boxing card and The outstanding bonded indebt-jjt j s the pledge of the sponsors to edness of the civil City of Muncie I give everyone enjoying the best of amounted to $207,485.01 on Decern-1the fistic sport every satisfaction.

Dr. Shirley W. Wynne Wages Fight Against Common Cold —Recommends Salads. Dr. Shirley W. Wynne, health commissioner of ew York city, should be congratulated for waging a sane and sensible fight against the common cold, which is one of the greatest economic foes of mankind. Plenty of sleep and a balanced diet, including leafy vegetables, fruits and a salad and a quart of milk each day, are urg d by Dr. Wynne as among the most approved precautions for avoiding colds. Fruits and vegetables, the medical authorities tell us, are as vita.ly necessary to good health in the winter as they are in the summer, and the salad has been found to be the most popular and delicious w'ay of eating these healthgiving ingrediants. Other precautions against colds advocated by Dr. Wynne, follow: Keep aw'ay from persons who have colds; keep your mouth shut and breathe through your nose; bathe every day; dress according to the weather; exercise; keep your house and office at a temperature of betw r een 68 and 70 degrees; don’t use patent medicines; keep your house well aired.

Today’s Safe Driving Hints

By The National Safety Council

Od ghosts of Republica:] and public utility misdeeds have been

, , ^ called up by Sherman Minton, pubabioad, that European diplomarsljj C counsellor, to haunt those who are pretty smooth stuff and that [seek to undermine stale and naAmerican public men aVe so manv-itional administrative programs, babes in the woods when it comes, “Tricks,” he has told public auto dealing with them. It’s pos-Hponces, “learned by Republican sible that that thought was in thef! b ° k, '^ c ' ans at - tbe Wall mind of Russia’s shrewd, expei i j-^. 1 and elbow ot pubic enced Litvinoff when he climbed Ischemers are being brushed the steps of the White House tej oft ‘ for a colossal new deception of confer with President Roosevelt i :he .l ,uhl c - They are b,ginning the over American-Russian recognition.| anv '* chorus against NRA and It so, Mr. Litvinoff soon became; .. ■ , , . . „ * , i • Attack Human Welfare. sadder and wiser. He found him ,, ... , f , ,, J ‘They would crucify Roosevel self confronted Ijv an. excellent . - ... . ... .. horse-timler—a saave, polite horwJ;'? they .,; lK *"?“"■ "ft th , ,s , tlme trader with a Harvard accent, to P'f, "' ,11 £ »*•«<«)»« Home

, orobRnis. Fhev wil. he attacking

be sure, but a horse-trader never-r; ' , . ■ - *

1 ntman welfare and patriotic Amer lean, efforts to put aside want and hunger—a program to ease the 'burden of the common man.

found them extending on through ‘‘ T1 » s time tlie - v inteml t0 ta t k the days hhe American citizen out ot his

announced that so far as he was concerned, the negotiations could be concluded in half an hour, he

Upshot was that the 16-yeai breach between two of the major powers was ended, with the Unit-

ed States on the long end of ih deal so far as most of, its de mauds were concerned. Points of „ the treaty include: Waiver by

the Soviet of all claims grow' i?ut of the famous Siberian iixuu-^uan\nv ,, 3i£

official Soviet propaganda in this country; another guarantee against the formation of any group designed to change the government of the United States: fair and prompt trials for Americans erring against Soviet law; guarantee of the free exercise of religious beliefs of American resident in Russia. Little mention is made of trade relations and details concerning them remain to he worked

out.

First American Ambassador tc present himself to steel-jawed, steel-eyed, steel-mannered Numbei one dictator of the world, Stalin, whose adopted name means Steel will he William C. Bullit, wealthy young Socialite, who has WTitten a sophisticated novel satirizing Park Avenuites, a popular song oi tw'o, and has been the State De partment’s Russian expert. One of Mr. Roosevelt’s bright young men, he was instrumental in bringng about recognition and is considered an excellent choice.

.birthright of freedom, his heritage >f an equal opportunity and his Vested priv'lego to enjoy food. Mhelier and happiness in an or-

dered social world.

“In spite of human misery, the public utility interesis and the po-iVico-b ankers continue to exert wmi beb ’ influences in the direction ol

expeffi-ij storing a govermnenigl system

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Court’s Notes

The Chamber of Commerce ha; appointed an intercepting .sewe> committee. John Udell, one of tin “big shots” of the chamber, and : handy man for the Social ServicBureau, is the chairman. It will bt a great relief to have the sevveragi from these two places intercepted Muncie has long been ill from in effects. A law r yer is a learned gent win rescues your estate from enemies and then keeps the major portior as his fee and pays the minor por tion out in court costs. Law <iiit.‘ and w'ine Rad one to the poo. house.

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they Can b'orTrroi: rtiVy h ock investigations into old practices and •sound alarms. They decry the appearance of just administrators who would bring them to an accounting for their past acts. “But they are no longer teaming with the party in power to keep rates high, for it can’t be done. They know w T eIl that the old political utility alilance is gone.” Minton advised Indiana communities and citizens to keep the shotgun of 'successful municipal utility operation behind the door, we.l oiled and ready for u-se on utility operators who persist in ap

pressing rate payers.

animal of which they had charge. When some 67 men applied to me for work this morning, I looked them over and only about a dozen of them looked like they were able to do a day’s work, on account of being underfed. \This made me wonder who was to blame for their condition. After some thought, I came to the conclusion that it was the system of a few to gobble up all the natural wealth of the nation, and in allowing this, we have become a nation of serfs where the masters swing the whip of idleness and starvation, in order to keep their slaves

under subjection.

Then the feeling of having the power to arrest those masters, for j causing such misery and suffering

ADVERTISING

CAMPAIGN TO BE LAUNCHED Beet Sugar Growers Determined to Stimulate

Sale of Product

Signalizing the launching of

Before the Social Service Bu au gives, the poor man wil! jstarve or freeze; awaiting fo: jkindly people, the bureau’s greedy i palm to grease. j People have been fed on Wall '.Street’s “baloney” so long, ihey [just won’t “stumick” it, even fron A1 Smith’s butcher shop. Le ^jthosh who are without greed, cas: the first ring of “baloney.” x

Inattention

If there is any place in the world where silence is really golden, it is in the driver’s seat. When the tongue wags, the mind lags. „ , , Driving a car is a full-time job. It dannot safely be combined with sociability, “necking,” sight-seeing, window-shop-ping or day-dreaming. Just remember that if you are traveling at even 30 miles an hour you will go 44 feet in that single second that your head is turned or that your mind lapses. If another car is approaching yours at the same speed your speed is automatically doubled as far as your relative position with that other car is concerned. Keep your eyes on the road and your mind on your driving.

If a bank president has a who e Isale hoiiise <l?eply indebted to his I hank, and if said president was !emperor of a commissary, would |the commissary he required to buy from said wholesale house? Why? Would this cause the commissary to charge more for groceries turn ished the poor than retail grocers

vliat promises to he the most aggressive and intensive newspaper advertising campaign ever conlucted by the beet sugar industry n the United S.ates, the Farmers: ind Manufacturers Beet Sugar As : sociatkm, representing all of the uigar beet growers and practically all of the beet sugar companies operating in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, announced today that a determined effort will be made, through the medium of newspapei advertising, to stimulate the sale if beet sugar grown and refined in Michigan*, Ohio and Indiana. Commenting on the launching oi he campaign, Dr. J. A. Brock, educational secretary of the associa

tion said:

“It has been demonstrated that the beet sugar industry is vita: to the agricultural and industrial prosperity of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, and the continuance of this industry can only he assured by our having the loyal support and active co-opera,ion of the people in these states. “To this end we propose to present facts concerning beet sugar and the beet sugar industry, through the medium of an extensive newspaper advertising campaign, believeing that the consumers of sugar in Michigan, Ohio and

was so strong, that I felt more like organizing that hunch of workers into militant crusaders, than I did i of putting them to work. Then the j thought struck me, what could a handful of half staved, half naked human beings do against the money changers and the great indus-i trial barons who hold the great i mass of human beings within their

grasps.

Awakening May Come. Even if I had let the thought of organization overpower me. and started out to organize that bunch of human serfs, the majority of them would have said, “Too hell with organization, w-e want to live free and equal human beings, so $hat we can show our rugged in flH idttalisnj. ' ■ — ~ Somewhere I have read, “the poor you will always have with you,” and just as long as the workers of any nation bow' their heads to dollars and hiss at brains, that saying will be true. But those who now r hold the whip hand had better not let their greed for dollars and power go too far, or they may awake some morning in the midst of a reign of terror that took off the heads of French kings and lords who had become a burden on the backs of the French workers. Happy to WorK. In order to stave off this reign of terror, 1 put those men to work and the way they buckled into their jobs, made me think of what a powerful amount of happiness would he found in this nation if every man and woman were for ever given the chance to produce the things neeessaVy to make this life a life of pleasure, instead of a life of misery, want and woe. God said, “the earth shall he My footstool,” btu when we view 7 the misery and suffering of the great mass of human beings who now inhabit that footstool, we think it will take a lot of cleaning and disinfectants before God will let His feet come w ithin a million miles of a place w’here children cry for

bread, where men and w r omen must beg for the bare necessities to keep the spark of life burning

within them.

MARX BROTHERS IN “BUCK SOUP”

Comes to Rivoli Theater Starting Sunday^—Fun

and Laughter

as.

•fitTout M;

Just about the time we were becoming convinced that Muncie had outgrown all of the traditions

...e new picture in °f tbe cross-roads town a neV crop

AiPjrlioys ami street

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men to romp and clown will open x four-day engagement at the Rivoli Theater next Sunday. “Duck Soup” is all farce and the

story is laid in a mythical coun.ry

where Grouch is dictator, with Chico, Harpo and Zepo on his staff Grouch is made dictator of Free

donia through the efforts of the wealthy Margaret Dumont The ambassador from a neighboring

republic tries to usurp Groucho’s power by fomenting a revoluaor

with the aid of three spies. He

fails in this and then turns to the dea of marrying Mias Dumont.

Dictator Dictates.

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When Groucho continues to innilt the ambassador, ihe war h - comes a rea ity. Chico and Harpo decide to join Groucho’s side be :ause the food is better. After au absurd war the Manxmen triumph. At a dictator, Groucho doesn’t lo much other than dictate to his secretary, Zeppo, but he starts a war and ends the picture with more laughs than there are fleas

In his army.

o— When the big guy squeezes the little guy that’s smart business. \Vhen the Government squeezes he big guy that’s meddling, tyranny, autocracy and a flagrant violation of constitutional rights.

RELIEF MACHINERY NOW RUNNING IN HIGH WITH JOBS FDR 4,600,666

Will Pay Regular Rate of Hourly Wages in Locali-ties—30-Hour Week Basis—Money Not to be Wasted, But Spent Where It Will Really Benefit.

The President has ordered full The new relief plan is really a

speed on the general national relief program The pledge is going to be redeemed, that nobody in this grand old nation is going to be allowed to go hungry, and nobody who is in distress ami is

nearly two pre-depression dollars. President Roosevelt’s idea is to make a dollar just as easy for the average man to get—and jus; valuable—as it was in 1926: also to stabilize the dollar at that point. If that plan goes through you wall not receive tbe best of it. All you will get is a square deal; j&o go out and yell “dangerous imitation” at

the top of your voice.

If the gold content of the dollar were reduced much below the 1926 level, that would be real inf ation and you would have a genuine “kick” coming, as you would he repaid by dollars that would buy less than the dollar you loaned. That will not happen, but if you are looking for the best of it,

“squawk” just the same.

However, if you happen to be an ordinary citizen, who is somewhat confused a-s to “what the monetary argument is a 1 about,” you will display rial wisdom if you stick to the safe and sane leadership of Franklin D. Roosevel.. and a.oij joining with the high financial alarmists, to awaken later to discover that you have been assisting in julling Wall Street chestnuts out of the fire. You will also he wise to take careful note that the eading opponents of the President’s monetary policy are high financial moguls of great wealth, or eminent writers, whose services are for sale. In the vernacular of the day, “don’t he a chump!”

corner wise-crack ers has blossomed out to adorn our principal street corners on Saturday nights. If you enjoy a good laugh, take a stroll along Walnut street next Saturday night. Some of these local sophisticates will remind you of the old-time “cut-ups” at the county fairs. About all that is missing is the ‘'Oh, You Kid” hat bands. It is a source of much pleasure to all concerned, to know that st veral hundred men who have been out of employment for several months, are to be put to work again, and paid out of funds which will he donated by the governments Some very important improvements are to he made in which hese workmen will assist, and among these may he mentioned the flood prevention wall along Wheeling avenue, from Minnitrista boulevard to the High street bridge; the new swimming pool at Houhey Park; grading and improving the new park and the removal of abandoned street car tracks all over the

city.

We should all be grateful to Mayor George R. Dale and the heads of the various departments of our city government, particularly to Superintendent of Parks, jolly “Creamy” Tuttle; the department of engineering for their recommenda ions, and those members of the city council, for voting the necessary appropriations. — o U. S. C. of C. Cries “Wolf” at Inflation

President, However, Shows Stubborn Determination to Carry Out His Program.

double-barreled one. It will furnish work to men now on the re-| lief rolls, who are just getting a bare existence, and it also provides for purchases on a large scale of dairy products, wheat,

prepared to accept work shall be j flour, meat and other foodstuffs,

jobless. Preparations are being made to use as much as $600,000,000 of federal money if necessary, to carry out this program—which !is the biggest thing of the sort ever attempted by any government. Every dollar of this government money is supposed o he matched

by another dollar of public funds

Indiana will recognize the fodoy | n ^ be states, cities, counties and of sending millions of dollars to districts of the United States. In foreign countries for a product pro- ^ be case 0 f some states which have

charge? Would this save taxpayers

any money? If you were a banker.jduced by foreign .abor which is, in aske d for it, Uncles Sam will take would you like to control a pom [no respect, superior to beet sugar 0 ver the whole relief job. But ip missary from whom the taxpayers'grown on American farms by Mich- a ]] cases theh relief work will be must buy poor relief supplies?l igan, Ohio and Indiana farmers carried on through theh local pubWhat name with five letters ofjand refined in fetories located in ]i e relief agencies. This does not Russian extraction, is czar of the'the three states by American la- include any private agencies of

Social Service Bureau? bor.” the sort.

and even clothing, coal and other necessities. These purcrases will help to dispose of the surpluses which are now piled up. In this way they will help especially to boost farm prices; but these products will not be sold or used in a way which w r ould hurt legitimate

trade.

The jobs will pay the regular rate of hourly wages which prevail in the locality, and the week will he on a 30-hour basis. The work whicli will be done will include a great number of different kinds, depending on the local needs etc. The money is not to he w 7 aste<f but is to be employed in ways which will really benefit.

The big, hold United States Chamber of Commerce cries “wolf” as the word “inflation” becomes nearer a reality while the government takee one step after another in the revaluation of the

do lar.

President Roosevelt retorts that the “Tories” are behaving just as they did when they challenged President Washington, in the old, old days. The resignation of Dr. O. M. W. Sprague, high sachem of finance, and special adviser to theTriasury, and hie blast against the Roosevelt policy, has served to cement the opposition to the President’s gold plans. In the face of the opposition that is being gradually organized, the President is showing a stubborn determination to carry out his original program. And that’s juet what is most likely to happen unless the whole New Deal should collapse in a hurry—which doesn’t seem at all likely. Meanwhile, all who are interested enough to have grand stand seats -might just as wmll sit quiet and watch the passing show