Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 December 1933 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1933.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper represor ting the Democrats 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 Poatofflce at. Muncie, lidiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

INAUGURATES “CHEESE MEEK” DECEMBER 11th TO

16th

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, December 8, 1933.

God Pity Poor Water Company By W. J. D. When I appealed before the Board of Public Works, I was handed a letter from the water company, stating that in using water in flush tanks and hydrants, for flushing sewers the water company estimated they had lost in the neighborhood of some $2,000. Knowing what my private water bill is every three months, and knowing what water is used at my home, I surely feel sorry-for the poor water company. But when I called up the fire chief, and found that the taxpayers of Muncie were paying the company $41.66 a year for each of the 644 hydrants, half of which, according to the fire chief, are never opened during the year, I began to' think that the taxpayers and not the water company were the ones who were being gipped. Three hundred and twenty-two hydrants not used for a year, costs the taxpayers just $13,221 from which they receive no benefit whatever. Maybe the street department has used a little more water in the last four years than was used by the department in former years, but few complaints are now coming into the department about water backing up in basements. There is no other way to get leaves and other trash out of side inlets but blow them out. 1 Of course, if *he taxpayers would sooner have water back up in their b>: lent, than deprive those eastern capitalists of a few pennies for water they pump out of White River, all O. K. by me. But my honest opinion is, that any city which is able to own its own water works, and does not do so, is as far behind the times as the old ox team is with the modern truck. ‘ In the next election, the-voters should make every candidate pledge himself to do-all in his power to do away with public utilities, which are owned by private capitalists. Wolves Are Snarling There is a big difference between municipal owned utilities and private owned utilities. When utilities are municipally owned and operated, the profits stay in the community and are beneficial to the merchants and citizens as a whole. With private owned and operated utilities the. profits do not stay in the community where they are earfaed, or rather, stolen. The profits, instead, find their way to the unholy coffers, to there rest with other “loot” of tjie Wall Street “baloney” operators. Some Of the loot or profits, whichever you prefer to call money, taken from the public by political extortion, goes to Greece. There resides the king vampire, Mr. Insull. It was only recently that some of the lesser vampires, of utility fame, decided to send no more of this filthy lucre to Greece, to Mr. Insull, who is a fugitive there. Vampire Insull was strong enough to resist the efforts, pf the United States to extradite him back to this country, the scene of his thievery. His greedious and le'ecHerous nature, however, will not resist the temptation to come back now that the gang of legalized robbers, glorified by him, refuse to send him any more of the spoils. We here and now predict, prophesy and declare that Mr. Insull, of the Jim Watson strain, will return and call for an accounting in the near future from those whom have shut off his profils while he is a fugitive in Greece. His blood brothers of Wall Street need him at this time. The old Wall Street guard “Bloney” has failed to stop the legions of 'Commander Roosevelt, and the iniquitous den of Wall Street thieves are fighting and snarling like a she wolf at the mouth of her lair, in defense of their ill-gotten gains.

\ ARE YOU LOP-SIDED? If you aren’t then you are one of! the four out of every ten whose' legs are the same length. Accord-' ing to Dr. H. V. Hillman of New! York, six out of every ten have one leg shor.er than the othqc. But if you are one of the six, don’t be-] gin to worry because the good doc-j tor says 91 per cent of the casesj are curable while but nine per centi

are listed as doubtful.

Governor Paul V. McNutt, announcing National Cheese Week to the State of Indiana, cuts a 150 pound loaf of cheese in the State House at Indianapolis as the first Indiana gesture in the national drive to relieve the cheese surplus now on hand in the United States. Governor McNutt asked for the co-operation of all the citizens of the State in the national drive to eliminate a national cheese surplus of 30,000,000 pounds, thereby aiding in the restoration of dairy prices generally. Indiana’s position in the industry has grown in the past ten years from 13th to 5th in importance among dairy states, the Governor said.

Wise Words on the Schools Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spokd last week on her favorite topic, Education,” and said a number of .things which deserve the widest ; udience. She pointed out that “rugged individualism” is no longer a .-.ufficient ideal for educators;" she urged the development in school ,nd community life of an outlet for that spirit of adventure which -outh finds—disastrously—in war. But, practical as always, she em■hasized this: “Progressive education is a continuing education—but you cannot have progressive education, or any other kind, if the teachers cannot be paid and the schoolhouses cannot be kept open. Too many parents, n,nd too many people who are not parents but are grown ups, are not thinking far enough ahead. If they realized what closing the school means in one way and another, they would find a way to keep the school open.” > Amen! And thanks for such counsel from such a source. Children already are paying a fearful price in body and mind for the depression which they did not cause and cannot understand. Every effort of every thinking person should be devoted tp lessening that price in every possible way.

WALL STREET (Continued From Page One) tain for these thieves of finance. It will be more difficult for them to control the nation and rob the people as they have 1 m doing since Englishman S bribed Congress. The key business is certainly in the “red”'. That is the temples of ':he thieves, who cannot operate successfully under the new deal. They have tied Up the credit of he country; they have impovershed the working man; they have sure created a chaos by their efforts to control the people by controlling gold. These thieves have a reason to yell, and criticise. First and Foremost Who'are these prominent Democrats who are so loud in their criticisms of‘the new deal? First and most prominent we have “Baloney” A1 Smith, partner of J. P. Morgan in finance. We have Wcodin who, we believe, was fired as Secretary of the reasury. Wocdin was 'shown to be a party to fifteen transactions of, pure bribery, so United States Senator Arthur Robinson said in a speech at our local arm-

ory.

We have Sprague, who came over from England to show us

that these people hungered say: • He is forgotten.” Farmers have been granted loans, prices have been raised? wages have been raised, working hoyrs shorteped . Fear Roosevelt’s Plan Our President has a fierce battle ahead. We should all give him our whole-hearted support. When lie returns the control of national currency to the people from whom it was stolen in 1873, our distress will be at an end. The monetary plan is the plan that 1 these Wall Street thieves fear the most.. Watch the papers and see who are foremost in criticising it. Next week I shall publish the Hazard Circular and full details of the bribery of Congress in 1873 by an agent of England. It will show the reason for the wierd cries of terror from the wreckers of mankind. This foremost criticising Democrat, of whom we hear, has been three times defeated in his efforts to be President. ' OUR RURAL EXCHANGES. Mt. Holly Eagle—Old Uncle Jim Sizler, not being seen on the streets for a few days past, aroused suspicion and a delegation was appointed to investigate. Uncle Jim lives by himself and he always

how to create “blue bloods”. Let j seta up when his old rooster crows, us hope he goes back to England. TTi 6 .found him in bed It sebms that one President has resting. When asked why he wasn’t

up. Uncle Jim

In Memorium

over trucks, barge lines and othei carriers, and provide the natior with regulatipn which is not re stricted to one form of transport. it has been rumored (hat Mf' Roosevelt plans to bring definite proposals for handling the transportation problem before Congress when it meets again, and it they are in line with his previou statements on the subject, a definite advance will be made toward settling a question which grows

increasingly important

Onward March of the New Deal

Things Are Improving—President Roosevelt is Greately

Encouraged.

(By Court Asher.) • irief-stricken, the nation is bowed in ^5rrow, ' 'V-'!’, 1 .- vVe ; will bury a baron of fffi$ii6e, tomorrow; The par-son will tell, of his many kind deeds, If his toil and sacrifice for the peoples’ needs; And as his cold, dead hotly lies grandly in state. His soul seeks admission at the pearly gate. “I deserve the best in your Heavenly abode, For on earth I ignored the Blue Eagle Code; Starvation wages to my employes

I give,

But I must be going on my way to

win, Several million new hands haw So, open up, St. Peter, and let me gone to work in our country. Pro in.” jduotion has increased in factorie:

land particularly in public projects

St. Peter slowly stroked his istaff, Your government is spending mon Despite his high office, he had to e . v lavishly to beat the depression laugh; (Every form of industrial activity Said he, with a fiery gleam in his is being aided. Relief is being pro eyb, I vided for those who are “up

“Who’s tending this gate, Bub, you against it.” /

or I? | Official and unofficial record.You and yourVkind, so I’ve ’oft show that there is an incr ase-ii been rbld, |the volume of consumption. Price 1 Impoverished God’s people by your have a lot to do with profits. Th< greed for gold. | existing plan of moderately bigger

'prices contemplates a “b'ettei

‘You cheat your employes to obtain break” for employers. Collectm great wealth, |bargaining plans for wage earners 5rind out their souls; break down Money juggling by the governmen their health; is an. important experiment in thr Sunday finds you in church in your New Deal. special pew— i There is reason to IWieve Mia' You’re a thief, a blasphemer and a the New Deal aims to shift the bur hypocrite, too!”’ ,den of taxation onto the shoulder; Thereupon he arose in his stature of the mighty rich. The ordinan

And pressed a button against the

wall.

Said he, to the imp, who answered the ring: “Prepare a red hot griddle for that vile thing! But, stay! Even the devil will never

put up

With the stink of roasting such a| dirty pup. You go back to your kind on earth| and tell. We don’t even want such as you! iii hell!” «

and the forgotten man is beinr promised the benefits of a re-allo cation of taxation. Somebody must

pay the bills.

Officials in Washington say “things are improving” throughoui the nation. The President and hn administration are greatly encour

aged.

Opinions Alike on

Growing Complex of Money Problem Not Since Days of Bryan Has It

So Excited the Electorate— Much Dissension Caused.

Railroad Problem „ l!i; g SwL complsx,ty ot ‘" e

Rumored Roosevelt Will Bring Proposal for Handling Transpor-

tation Before Congress.

In a recent address, Carl Gray, President of the Union Pacific, made a large number of quotalions concerning the railroad problems, from sayings and writings of various observers—public officials, members of utilities commissions, executives of large and medium-aized businesses and so on. They displayed an amazing unanimity of opinion—all believed that unregulated, helter-skelter, competitive practices between different types of common carriers is destructive to business, and that there should be unified, equitable regulation that regards all carriers in the same light.

Had Vast Experience

It is, Mr. Gray’s opinion that'this Regulation should be made part of the duties of the Interstate Commerce Commission—an opinion

shared by most authorities. The

not forgotten anyone. The many up. Uncle Jim replied that the Commission has haa > Hst experhungry people he has caused to rooster hadn’t crowed yet. Itjience in observing and legulating be given work are not forgotten. |turned out that the rooster had the railroads. It would be eu.Uentffhe ones who caused conditions (been dead for three days. ly fitted to exert similar authority

found its echo

Istely in the resignation of two high government officials. The subject of monetary standards is very likely to be the hottest of subjects when Congress convenes. And, unless the public nnlse changes its beat materially, the bulk of sentiment will be in favor of a reasonably conservative stand. Most businesses and individuals believe that gold should remain the backbone of the system—and there is a strong deman that monetization of silver be adopted, in order to provide gold with an ally in doing essen-

tial work.

Not since the days of Bryan has money so excited the electorate—nor caused so much dissent among a multitude of experts. o —- RUSSIA UNDERSTANDS. Instead of “speaking to Russia through ' ‘friendly powers’,” the United Spates Will talk direct to the Sovieis in the future. Statesman Litvinoft nas done a first-class jql) at Washington. Now, as a result of the lengthy couteiences be tween him and President Roosevelt, Russia will be able u. under stand us from now on.

A good cold-weather dish is pork chops, but here is a novel way to! prepare them. Pace seven pork! chops in three quarts of cold wa-j ter. Lei them boil slowly for half| an hour, then add one and one-half packages of macaroni, broken in; small pieces. Cook until the mac-; aroni is tender, and salt and pepper to taste.

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