Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 December 1933 — Page 2

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, December 1, 1933. Municipal Ownership Marches On

(Editor's Note:—Below is printed an editorial on Municipal Ownership, which appeared in “The Progressive” of the issue of November 35, a newspaper published by Senator LaFollette, of Wisconsin).

The lavishly financed compaign of the Edison Electrical Institute and other agencies and spokesmen for the big private utility Interests failed to fool the people of three large American cities who voted last week on the question of public ownership. These cities were Akron and Sandusky, Ohio, and Camden, New Jersey. All voted by substantial majorities in favor of public ownership of utilities and took the first and most important step towards owning their own plants. In another targe municipality,—Cincinnati,—public ownership was defeated when even newspapers usually sponsoring the proposal opposed it because of faulty wording of the ballot, attributed to utility conniving, which would have led to complications and difficulties later on. In three other cities, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Youngstown, Ohio, the private utility interests won out after plastering thq towns with propaganda and tying in with the political machines to defeat tiLo proposal. The campaign in these cities was one of flagrant misrepresentations and deceit on the part of the utility spokesmen. In quite a number of small cities which considered the public ownership question at the last week’s elections, the issue carried and a new crop of public plants will dot the map when the job is completed. Numerous other small communities, notably many in the Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals area, will soon vote on municipal ownership and favorable results are expected. In addition, Washington, D. C., Nashville, Knokville, and Memphis are larger cities which are to hold municipal ownership elections in the near future. The public ownership movement has received a not to be resisted spur in the present Roosevelt policies. The national administration’s record on utilities is a good one. There are the Muscle Shoals and Tennessee Valley projects saved for the people instead of being turned over to the utility privateers, there was the shifting of the 3 per cent tax from the consumer to the utilities where it should have gone in the first place, and the latest is the pblicy of making public works funds available for public ownership projects.

ADVERTISEMENTS

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1933.

and clips; two new automobileslof the final action of said councilIbprrowing of the sum of $51,500 and equipped for police service; one and the state board of tax commis-|providing for the payment of inmotorcycle and radios for motor-Isioners will fix a date of hearing! terest as a temporary loan in an-

cycles; materials and repairs for in traffic lights: traffic paint and

Laswell 1 judgment.

Ordinance making special appro^"•iation of the sum of $34,641 for the use of the Department of Pub-

this city.

COMMON COUNCIL,

of City of Muncie, Indiana. LINTON RIDGEWAY, City Clerk.

Dec.1-8

ticipation of the current revenues of the Sinking Fund of the City Of Muncie, Indiana, actually levied for the year 1934, to be collected in the first ha.f of the fiscal year of 1934 for the Sinking Fund of the

He Parks for construction of swim- NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OFICity of Muncie and ordering and ming pool; materials for log cab-j PUBLIC HEARING ON TEM- directing the execution of notes, ins; materials for permanent! PORARY LOAN. jevidencing the same and designatbleachers and four automobilej In the matter of the passage of ing the amount, the interest and trucks. certain ordinances of the Common'time of payment, the manner in An ordinance authorizing the Council of the City of Muncie, Del-,which said notes shall be sold and borrowing of the sum of $100,000 aware County, in the state of Indi-providing for the interest, and issuing bonds therefore by the ana, providing:' for the borrowing! Taxpayers appearing shall have City of Muncie, Indiana, for theitemporarily of funds in anticipa-jthe right to be heard thereon. After use in providing funds appropriated tion of taxes for the first half ofithe special appropriations have for thei use of the Board of Public fiscal year of 1934. jbeen decided upon by the Council, Works,.the Board of Public Safety] Notice is hereby given to the tax- ten or more taxpayers, f ' 1 ~' v

and tire Department of Public payers of the City of Muncie, DelaParks of. the City of Muncie, Indi-ware County, Indiana, that a-pub-

ana. Taxpayers

appearing shall have

lie hearing will be he.d in the City Hall, Muhcie, Indiana, on the 11th

the right to be heard thereon. After day of December, 1933, at the special appropriations have o’clock p. m., on ordinances for the been decided upon by the Counc.U,!borrowing temporarily of funds en-

ten or more taxpayers! feelihgi titled:

themselves aggrieved b^ such ap- ' “An ordinance authorizing the propriations and determination to] borrowing of the sum of $51,500 by issue bonds, may appeal .to thejthe City of Muncie, Indiana, for the State Board of Tax Commissioners use of the varoius departments of for further and final action there-Uhe City of Muncie. Indiana, during on by filing a petition therefore the first half of the fiscal year,

with the-county auditor-.not later 1 1934.

than ten

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days

from; the da.e

An ordinance authorizing the Dec.1-8

or more taxpayers, feeling themselves aggrieved by such appropriations and determination, to borrow temporarily the sum of $51,500, may appeal to the State Board

7:3(T*()f Tax Commissioners for further

and final action thereon by filing a petition therefore with the County Auditor not later than ten (10) days from the date of the final action of said council and the State Board of Tax Commissioners wi.l fix a date of hearing in this city.

COMMON COUNCIL,

of the City of Muncie, Indiana. LINTON RIDGEWAY, City Clerk.

PE66Y SHANNON female LEAD 1N “ FUR.V OF THE JUNGLE** CRASHED THE MOVIES SEVERAL YEARS AGO BY 0EIN6 WHERE SHE WASN’T WANTED. PEGGY 1 WAS HANGING AROUND A SET AND THE DIRECTOR THOUGHT SHE WAS A substitute/ * PUTTING THEM ON ICE THE CREW AND ACTORS SENT INTO THE|W!IDS OF SOUTH AMERICA TO FILM PART OF "FURY OF THE JUNGLE” REQUESTED COOLING SYSTEMS FOR THE BEDROOMS AND RECEIVED THEM, THE~H16HEST SALARY PER FOOT OF FILM WAS EARNED THIS YEAR.; BY A PROFESSIONAL KNIFE THRCWER iKl'FUfcYOPTHE JUNGLE r HE PIERCES A BATATA DISTANCE OF »50 FEET. HE RECEIVED AN EXPERTS SALARY FORTWE TWENTY FOOT SEQUENCE.^ “

In addition, a growing realization is taking hold throughout the T? T- > ' . ^ W -$52,909 for the use of the Boara ul i) country as to the benefits of municipal ownership. The; disclosures w , earth. Thus the fife.w became millions of soufe-iroaniipg paradise, Public .Works for materihl in' rG ; that followed the Insull debacle, the Federal Trade commissidn’s’owners of all the eartli's oppor-l,homeless, hungry and helpless as paii-Jand construction of flood wall

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excellent work in tricking down utility practices, and the record' of many municipalities with public plants in surviving the depression with fine financial records are among the many factors which have been of tremendous effect on public sentiment, previously swayed by utility lies and propaganda. Every day, almost, one hears of another town with a public plant that is levying no real estate or personal property tax for civic purpose, thanks to the earnings (and at lew rates to the consumer) of their publicly owned plants. The addition of Akron, Sandusky, and Camden to the municipal

nership camps marks a big victory for good government. There 8Mt His on y Begotten Son oft

.1 be more as time goes on and the real facts become known.

tunitieA These owners of the gdd, you have on earth. We have a So-^jmi 'banks of White River; matei Mr. Gold, banded together asjcial Service Bureau which^ tiie^f or replacing and repair of

Chambers of Commerce and asso ‘ “

ciated bankers, and in their greedy quest of gold, the god of control, the millions of God’s children were made to suffer in want and hunger in the Heavenly Father’s kingdom

of plenty.

The Heavenly Father becoihe alarmed at your worship of gold.

Lessons In Life of Honey Bee Did you ever stop to think, when you serve yourself a big spoonful of honey at breakfast, just how much hard work it represents? It takes 20,000 bees, each flying about two miles on an average, to gather one single pound of nectar. And one pound of nectar makes only about a quarter-pound of honey. Literally millions of flowers must be visited. During the honey season, bees actually work themselves to death. Even at night they wtfrk, transferring honey to storage places higher up in the hive. They wear themselves out with work, and die about four weeks after they hatch from the brood cells, 'here they might live for months if they took a little time to rest. These are some of the observations made by Herman Hauchfuss, :om the Department of Agriculture calls the great American “bee alosopher,” because during a lifetime spent in raising and studying jees, he has worked out a whole philosophy of farm living from his nillions of insect workers. “The great lesson which the farmer can learn from the honey bee,” he writes in The Country Home, national farm magazine, “is cooperation. When you taik about cooperating^ too many farmers think immediately, ‘What can I get out of it?’ They don’t know what the word means. They ought to study a colony of bees. What do you think would happen if every bee In a hive worked just for itself? The whole colony would perish. They live and prosper because nature has taught every one to work for the general welfare. “If men would just live together like bees, the world wouldn’t be in the fix it’s in today. Man’s greatest enemy is his own selfishness. Look into a hive. There you'll see the most perfect community under the sun. Except for the drones, every single member belonging to it has just one sole aim in life—the welfare of the colony. Even the drones serve a purpose so long as the workers permit them to live. We don’t know exactly what that purpose is, but we do know that a colony doesn’t thrive so well without them.”

earth to re-establish a kingdo mof brotherly love. Hie Son, Christ, came among you, teaching brotherly love and that the god, Mr. Gold, was a false god. “He whipped and beat with a scourge the money changers from God’s temple. They who had turned God’s house into a den of thieves. Then Christ, the Son of your Heavenly Father, was crucified and killed on the Cross for teaching that the earth was God’s kingdom and brotherly love, and not the kingdom of Mr. Gold. “The Heavenly Father patiently waited, thinking you would show remorse,, that His Son’s teachings would save you-that you might live and equally share in the opportunities on earth as He intended. After centuries had passed, you still lived the same and worshiped Mr.

Gold,

“The Father then believed that you did not want a kingdom of brotherly love, such as we had in heaven. Being a loving Father and desiring to make His children hap py, the Lord then established the same kingdom in heaven as you had on earth.” St. Peter then asks you where you will take up your abode and what you expect to follow for a

living.

A Dream of Heaven

common people maintain. They 6 fleets along ear line; materials give nothing away but sarcasm and f 0r painting City Hall and Fire bad advice. If you have no ridij Stations; street ^ repair materials friends or re ation to help you; it and for four (4) automobile trucks.

you cannot, by trickery and fraud, exploit your fellow angels, you will have to get along the best you can. I will give you a ticket for the mission; you can .sleep in the basement; they will give you once; then you must move on and beg somewhere else. You wiL read where soft-soap armies and welfare societies will help you, but remember, they operate here as on earth, for profit. They will allow, you all the green flies you canj catch if you will sort clo.hes and j tear paper for half a day. Therei are many kindly angels who will! feed you and help you when possible, but they are often misled by! these charitable organized outfits j who are really lega.ized beggars j and grafters. '“You have one hope on ear; If j now. You have a leader who he-, lieves that brotherly love was the] wish of the Lord; that His children are entitled to equally share! in His blessings. He has, as did! Christ, challenge the right of thej money .changers to own and con-! trol the opportunities on earth! and the bodies and souls of hu-!

manity.

“The offsprings of the money i changers, who ki led Chris , nowj seek to destroy your leader. The Chambers of Commerce and international bankers, their underlings and many misguided people are trying to thwart his efforts to establish a kingdom of justice on earth as we did have in heaven. | You have a courageous leader and| he will succeed; uut until lie does;

Ordinance making special appropriation of the sum of $l£,450 for the use of the Board of Public Safety of the City of Muncie. Indiana. for a radio system, including transmitter and antenna: &as equipment; three (3) machine guns

What Mother Really Wants

This year give something practical. For the women who spend most of the day at household tasks, no gift could be more welcome than one which simplifies her work in the kitchen. The modern efficiency and countless improvements of this household servant, will save any woman many hours a week —your holiday gift will make every .day a holiday. Central Indiana Gas Co.

MUNCIE, INDIANA

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(By Court Asher.)

If, after you have been to the commissary and received your dollar’s worth of groceries for which the taxpers must pay a dollar and a quarter, you find a newspaper as you trudge wearily home, your hungry family eats the entire weekly pittance you have received in about two minutes and still are hungry, you read your 'newspaper.

able angels. “What?” • you ask in astonishment. “Is this not heaven?” “Yes,” says St. Peter, “but there are many tramp angels here now.” “How can that be?” you ask. “I thought all were equal in heaven, with peace, happiness and plenty for all.” St. Peter replies kindly, yet seriously: “It was that way here long ago. We each made our own halos,

You see where barons of finance harps, wings and raised our own

confess that they have made millions while millions have hungered, where a Mr. Wiggan ordered wages cut over the country: how he and associates gambled with the opportunities. the destinies and souls of the nation; you read of the acts of trickery, bribery, fraud and fiendish inhumane acte. unknown to the devil himself, openly confessed to by these financial wizards. You vvish for even a little of “Bloney Al’s” “bloney,” and doze off to

sleep, to dream.

You depart from the earth, ferfy across ttfe river of death. You come to the pearly gates of the golden city—heaven. You are met at the gate by a kindly okl angel— St. Peter. He takes you inside and gives you kindly advice and instructions. He tells you to be care,'T of your assoJat.es in heaven 1 to stay away from disreput-

You pick out a green knoll in the you must live here as you did on distance, telling St. Peter you had earth. Here is your tick t to the lived in the mountains and would mission, a bed iu the cellar and a live on the knoll; raise flowers and bowl of soup; then you must iramp be happy. on and beg elsewrfere, and hope St. Peter then says: “You can’t for the success of your earthly

ive there; that knoll and the land, President."

for many miles around, is owned Then you awaken in a cold by o>ne of our far-sighted angels.•sweat. You are gad tha: it is only He was one of your captains of in-a dream about heaven. But what dustry on earth; a leader in your about the earth? Are you going io Chamber of Commerce. He dislikes be one who wants to live as you trespassers and is holding that have lived under the regime of the land for rising market. You cannot false god, Gold? Or are you going raise flowers; that, concession was to be patient and loyal to the Presi? sold to a corporation. They have den; who is seeking to break the an eternal franchise on Hie flower, bonds of pauperism on earth and industry. They Were formerly pub- establish a heavenly kingdom ot

lie utility magnates on earth and brotherly love?

are very strong in power here. The false prophc.s crucified

They have only one sorrow. They Christ.

must send some of their profits to o—— a Mr. Insul, on earth, who wi 1 be NOTICE TO THE TAXPAYERS OF a director here some day.” PUBLIC HEARING ON APPRO You then ask: “Did not the PRIATiONS AND DETERM IN A Father allot me any land, I being TION TO ISSUE BONDS, one of His children?” | In the matter of the passage of “No!” says St. Peter. “You some certain ordinances by the Common here as on earth with nothing; the Council of the City of Muncie. Del land is owned by pioneers who aware County, Indiana, providing gained ownership centuries ago.” for special appropriation of fund. “You ask: “What can I work and issuing of bonds, at?” I Notice is hereby given the tax St. Peter replies: “Our only in- payers of the city of Muncie, Dela dustries are a wing, a harp and a ware County, Indiana, that a public halo factory. They are controlled hearing will be had in the city hall, by the barons of our Wall Street. Muncie, Indiana, on the 11th day ot They have patent rights on all December, 1938, at 7:39 o’clock p. harps, wings and halos. They em-m.,ion ordinancesientitled: “An prploy very; few and operate just dinance autWriziiil the borrowing enohgh. 1° ‘Supply the fortunate of the'sum Of $100,900, and issuing wealthy. There are many jobs as bondf. therefore by the City ' of servants, hut they are eagerly Muncie, Indiana, for the use in prosought after. The l ather has made vkling funds appropriated for the an exact duplicate f the earthly use of the Board n# Public Works, kingdom in heaven, t ur interna- the Board of Public ,::at'et :'nd the tional bankers have esublished Department of Public Pa rue of. the then chambers of commerce and City of Muncie, Indiana, making

flowers. We all helped each other and truly lived in a paradise of brotherly love. You children on earth caused the change here. You were given the earth, lavishly stocked, to provide for the needs and comforts of all. You did not seem to-- want to live as we did in heaven. You did not equally share in the opportunities on earth. Certain ones were permitted to establish a kingdom of their own. “They took over the power to command and contral the gifts God had put on earth for all. All opportunities were under their control. They -created a god of their own whom they worshiped. Mr. Gold. “He was the personal god to a greedy few, but you were all taught to worship him. When tneir private god had gained conU o! and dominance over your body and

soul, brotherly love was forgotten operate’through them. We <• especial appropriation of the sux^ of

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