Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 15 December 1933 — Page 1

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VOLUME 13—NUMBER 48.

‘HEW TO THE BLOCK: LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, UtJDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1933.

TRUTHFUL

PRICE: TWO CENTS

They tell bye, bye.

us it’s' buy, buy, or

ROOSEVELT TELLS FINANCIAL LORDS WHAT THEY CAN DO

Has Courage to Take Bull By Horns, With Idea to Pull Us Suckers Out of Slough in Which Reuublican Misrule Placed Us.

“Keep your temper; nobody else wants it.”

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When an N. It. A. code is approved by the Government it has the force of law.

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From Reno, Nevada, one must travel sontheast to reach Los Angeles, California. Reno is ninety miles farther west than Los Angeles. ■ _ , ' '• '“ r * :!- * There will be about as much variation in the “drinking” laws as in the parking laws. The one who drinks will hardly know whether or not to sit at a table, sit on a stool at the bar, stand up at. the bar, or take his bottle out to the cari

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In times of war 'able bodied men are drafted to help protect their country. In time of a serious depression available wealth should be conscripted for the benefit of the general public. There are none other than unpleasknt solutions for either wars or depressions when once countries are engaged.

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The origin of the term “lynch” is derived from the name of one Charles Lynch, a Virginia planter, who recommended a swift hanging for serious offences rather than waiting for the slow routine of the law to exact the legal penalty.

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The Iowa State College has it figured that the total operating expense of the average automobile in the United States including depreciation and insurance, is 6.4 cents per mile.

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At Rifle, Arizona, a cpuple were recently remarried after having been divorced for 57 years.

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Christmas. Seala should be placer on the back of the holiday

mail. * * *

Richard Feagaus, St. Louis, was fatally injured when he fell while running with a stick in his mouth. The stick pierced the roof of the mouth, the wound became infected and bronchitis followed which resulted in the three-year-old lad’s death.

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France seems to be having difficulty in convincing this country that we need French wines. Our officials as well as many American wine drinkers have not forgotten that France defaulted in her World War debt to the United States. / * * * The prize steer at the National Stock Show in Chicago was of the Angus breed and sold at $1.30 per pound. It weighed 1,200 pounds, was 18 months old; bringing a total of $1,560.

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Joseph Krall, age 33, Chicago, is the twenty-fourth person in the history of surgery to have had his entire stomach successfully removed. L O SCATTERED. President Roosevelt goes to the Georgia springs to take the baths, Postmaster General Farley is going to Europe on a vacation, Secretary Hull is on a good-will tour of South America, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson has been riding around the Pacific on a battleship. Even with such distinguished gentlemen away the government at Washinton goes ahead under full speed.

By W. J. D.

After six years of unprecedented suffering, hunger and cold, caused by the utter breaking down of our economic and financial structure, we at last placed in the highest office within the gift of the people, a man who has the courage to take the bull by the horns, and begin to put the nation back on its feet. Franklin D. Roosevelt, has the courage to tell the great financial lords what they could do, and what they could not do. He also had the courage to put plans into effect that has placed millions of idle men back on the payrolls, at a liy : ihg wage; something' they have not had for many a year. The great financial and industrial lords, who still have a few of their hired flunkies in the Senate and Congress, are putting s up a fight against the efforts of our President through the columns of the press, which are owned, body and soul, by the great financial robbers of the nation. One of them, U. S. Senator Simon D. Fess, of Ohio, says he will give his last drop of blood to see that the President’s NRA, and other plans are not made permanent. How those great financial and industrial barons hate to giVe up their system of robbing the com-

mon people

Republican Misrule. The President has asked the farmers, small merchants, and laboring men and women to unite in one solid mass and help him pull our nation out of the slough of despondency into which the misrule of the Republican party, vffiich is owmed and controlled by the big robbers of the nation, such as the International Bankers’ Association, the industrial barons, and the great public utility gamnates, some of whom, when they get caught, take their stolen millions and flee to a foreign country. Such men as Senator Fess, should be driven from the country, and not allowed to take any of his blood money with him. eW admit that the great, masses of people have been suckers for hundreds of years, and if they fail to grasp the chance that is now given them to organize, and get solidly behind our President and his plans, and quit listening to such flunkies as Senator Fess and the lying editorials printed in the columns of the bought and paid for press, they de-

serve no better conditions than j wtoat they have been getting in the i past. Whenever we hear a small merchant or laboring man complain' about the condition of our country 1 we generally ask them, what have you done to better those conditions? Have you, Mister Merchant, always run your business on a strictly honest basis? Have you. Mister Laborer, always refused to undermine your fellow r worker or have you went, to the boss and said: "I will take that fellow T ’s job for twenty-five cents less on the hour than he is getting?” Too many farmers and laboring men and women listen to the slick (Continued to Page Two) o — Ford’s Newspaper Says That “N.R.A. Is Here to Stay”

‘Many Believe It Is the Greatest Piece of Legislation Ever Enacted by a Civilized Nation.”

Since the National Industrial Recovery Act was signed last June, and especially since President Roosevelt’s radio announcement of the blanket code, the industrial city of Dearborn, Mich., has been intensely interested in aiding in every way possible the success of his program. Dearborn’s fervent support of NRA has not wavered, and there has been a universal feeling here that in due course this sentiment would he unanimous. That such is finally the case is believed to be evidenced by the following comment in the Dearborn Independent, owned by Henry Ford: “Some persist in condemning the NRA. Let it be said, and even taken as a prophecy, that the NRA is here to stay. Many believej it is the greatest piece of legislation ever enacted by a civilized nation. Be that as it may, it is at least one of the most human and equitable acts passed for /the common good in many years. It will undoubtedly be changed, altered, and modified as the needs arise,

but it will still be NRA.”

Unnecessary Tragedies Aid to Death Toll

Here, There,

Everywhere Frank W. Lahrey.

Buys Highways He Never Gets—

Maintains Others Not i Existing. 1 Those gentlemen who have ai- . . „ , t . .. ways enjoyed sinking their muzThe coming of winter bnngs wdn zles int0 h frothy steins of

it a number of varied and import-

ant accident "hazards.

Carbon monoxide is one of the foremost. Motorists warm up their cars in closed garages—and the inevitable result is more unnecessary tragedies to add to the annual dea.h toll. Another field where winter brings an increase in fatalities is in hunting—nearly one-half of all firearms deaths each year occur from November to February, Careless or inexperienced sportsmen carry loaded guns in vehicles, leave them leaning against trees, draw r them barrel foremost after them when crossing fences, shoot at mpving, unseen objects .and so on. And the accident toil soars.

Dangerous Practices.

To most of us. winter driving presents the principal hazard. Streets are wet and ice-coveyed Darkness comes early. Dy lying J prayffies that are reasonably ^ate Summer, becoh:.. c xt»v riU-ly. dangerous. The condition of one’s tires, brakes and windshield wiper is vastly more important than at any other time of the year. Every motorist should have his car examined at the beginning of winter to make certain it is in good

operating condition.

Human Element to Blame.

Today’s Safe Driving Hints By The National Safety Council

Unconditional ardon Granted

foaming bed - , are after an interval of 14 years, once more able to indulge kheir thirsts, without being forced to dodge into some beerflat or speakeasy, af.er casting more or. Lss furtive glances over their shoulders. They are also able to secure a beverage which is beginning to compare quite favorably with the lager bed- of pre-Volstead

days.

It is, no doubt, a relief to many genuine beer lovers, to be able to walk into almost any soda fountain or restaurant and enjoy their favorite drink, without fear of the

law, or of public censure.

Many old-time beer lovers were somewhat loathe to enter the oidtime barroom, as toward^ the latter days of the saloons’ existence, a certain prejudice had begun to |show' itself and eyebrows were lifted at gentlemen who made trecment trips in- and out of Htw

swinging doors. iuu,,IWk

The environment was bad in many of those institutions and any gentleman who tarried for a moment to drink a glass? of beer, could easily be made an unwillifig party to some more or less boozy argument, in which he had not the slightest concern, or he might be

) inveigeled into joining

Then he should remember that i;e Uo ;”; c VtT Z e;7 a r7V 1 e^)ar"an7 C

only lo per cent ot car accidents i , , can be laid to mechanical failure,j COeice and that in the balance the human

element must bear the blame. The only course to pursue is to drive with a maximum of care under any and all conditions—and drive as little as possible when road and weather conditions are exception-

ally bad.

In automobilets, in homes and in sport, winter presents a thousand menaces to life and health and property. Practically every one of them can be offset by care, competence and thought on the part of

the individ lal.

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Parking

When stopping or parking your car, see that the right side is within six or eight inches of the curb. The wheels should be cramped to the right so the car cannot move far accidentally. Make sure the emergency brake is set and that the gears are in neutral before leaving the car. Do not leave the curb after parking without first signalling and seeing that your way is clear to drive into moving traffic. A moving line of traffic has the right-of-way. Never park within 15 feet of a. fire plug, in front of a mail box, or within 25 feet of an intersection.

Mayor Geo

In Order to Completely Rectify a Complete Miscarriage of Justice Police Chief Frank Massey, Too, Is Entitled to Complete Executive Clemency — Earnest Work of Senator VanNuys Highly Com-

mendable.

WHERE WOMEN DO THE WORK

j Most hen like to think that they | are the “boss” in their home. That is the case the world over, but |here in America they only think so. However, those men who I would like to be “boss’in their I home should move to Greenland, j No, not to freeze. Greenland is a j real haven for “lazy” males. There j the women do most of the w r ork.

While their menfolks get an extra A i ^ • • /» • . n nap each morning the women get

A complete miscarriage of justice was partially up , make the tire, get breakfast rectified Thursday by the New Deal administration and > whether you believe it or not when President Franklin D. Roosevelt granted an;men’s clothing before they put

unconditional pardon to Mayor George R. Dale, and, 111001 011 -

it is expected that within a few days a full restora-1 T he n r. a. Tione won’t do it. tion of judicial eminence will be prompted by the The n. r. g .of each individual is nation’s chief executive by granting clemency toj Every other tool tad has been

Police Chief Frank Massey, who together

Mayor Dale and seven members of the city admin- comes unplighted, with the picture

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at

into consuming a large

number of drinks for which he had

little or no desire.

Then again, if he was engaged in business or politics, he was almost sure to be effusively greeted by a large number of those individuals called “barflies,” who would edge up to the bar expectantly. Then the chances are that rather than be branded with the title of “tightwad” or “short horse,” the gentleman, who had dropped in for a glass of beer, I would spend at least two or three [dollars before he was able to make

[a graceful exit.

Not infrequently customers and hanger-ons, who were in their cups, would approach and insist on w r eeping on his shoulder, while t re- / {citing their business or domestic

1 - I troubles, and occasionally, for no

Centuries-Old Myth That Construe- part i cu i ai . reason, somebody would

tion Go in Hicing at Nip of , W ant to fight.

Fall, Has Beeii Exoloded. , Other individuals, who had he’n The Administration’s objective {engaged in serious drinking and to place 4,000,000 additional men at whose funds were geeting low, work this winter, insoiar as con-iW T ould jockey the gentleman into a structiion is concerned, is entirely [corner and endeavor to borrow five in keeping w r ith engineering pos-;or ten dollars “until tomorrow, iibilities. j All of those pleasant, little cusBuilding in winter is de^ nitely |toms connected With many old-

practicable. Some years ago con-

Winter Building a Business Tonic

struction engineers and builders exploded the centuries-old myth that construction, like the bear, should go into hiding with the first nip of fall. Methods have been in common use for years which permit of building in winter wi.h rapidity and safety. What Survey Reveals. A survey recently conducted by the Construction League of the United States revealed that nov-

time barrooms, caused a number of citizens to give those places a wide berth and to confine their drinking to bottled beer, delivered at the house, although they really preferred the old keg lager. Upon entering one of the present day beer dispensaries, anyone who was at all familiar wi.h the oldtime groggery and its bartender, with handlebar moustache and ample girth, as well as with the general atmosphere and pharacter-

mally one of every ten workers in'istics of the hangers-on, is at once

impressed by the great change for

the better.

It is quite safe to state that few citizens who are old enough to have been thoroughly familiar with the corner saloon in its “balmy days”, will favor a return to that system of “booze control.”

the country has a job in construction or in an industry dependent upon construction. Further, one of every five loaded railroad cars contains materials or equipment for construction. Therefore, when construction hits a snag such as winter, all industry and business, and practically all people, suffer a drop in income and many work-

ers get no income at all. Co-operation Necessary.

The Federal government and many of the states, are doing all that is in" their power to live, up to the pledge that there shall not be another winter like the last. To produce the greatest results their efforts mlist have the co-op-

The prominent Democratic gentlemen, connected with diverse factions, who have been trotting up and down the state in an advanced state of bumblebuzz and flutter, will be exceedingly wise if they immediately proceed to pull down their pro tuba*" ant vests and retire to the seclusion of their chimney corners for serious meditation, be-

eration of the private citizen. By fore engaging in further interbuilding and repairing this winter [views, involving more or less loose he will get bargains in construction political conversation, values—and he will he demonstrat-i Certain Inconsiderate members ing his faith in the axiom that in-jof the Grand Old Party and Revestment and employmetn are bet- publican editors in particular, are ter and cheaper than charity. \ ((Continued to Page Twoi