Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 12 January 1934 — Page 2
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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 12, 1934.
Lest We Forget The political pot has begun to boil quite strongly here i nMuncie. From some of the names we see as candidates j they would not only make a horse laugh, but they would make a jackass bray. As we take notice of the past records of some of the “birds” that a^e seeking the office of mayor, we surely admire their gall. There is one candidate on the Republican ticket, and one on the Democratic ticket that have past records as mayors, that smells worse, to some citizens, than the South Side sewer does to those who were compelled to pay three prices for something they did not get. That costly piece of improvement made the contractor and some city officials pretty well fixed in this world’s goods, and at the same time made quite a few south side citizens lose their property. A little investigation will let any citizen know who was handling the reigns of our city government when that graft w r as put over on a great number of home owners in Muncie. Surely it has not been so long ago that the people have forgotten when the board of public works, bought broken down trucks in a dark alley, and let paving contracts to the chosen few, who grew rich at the expense of property owners, who lost their homes on account of paved streets being forced upon them. i Will the citizens let themselves be fooled again by pleasant smiles and friendly handshakes into placing once more into office those who only seek office for what there is in it? You cannot fool a mule with a picture of oats. Are the citizens of Muncie, more dumb than a mule? If they elect Roll Bunch, or John Hampton to the office of mayor we will have to say the mark of intelligence must be placed on the mules.
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a vociferous bellow. Soon she surprise it was shooting up rapid-1 This is not political as it effects could only bellow in a whisper, ly. In fact the ears were flying all citizens in our State irrespecshe got so hoarse. past him at the rate of 20 a sec- tive of party political affiliations. A little later she developed a f nd - . Gr ® a ^ ly Phased with his find We n0 , w know what is the ma tter S S'&BSS rJSS SSr iSs low on the air, he could make 0 * llls coat cau ght on an eai and , state of Indiana during the some easy money. So he got the ^ was carried rapidly aloft. No ^ ^ we gofng to let this d’^ohra^ms out of two old phono- one knew where he was until an cont j nue ? t am ma kin K the fight graps the wiring out of two old airplane party searchinig from the u° n 1 , md i , S t moael T’s and the batteries out of air sighted the massive stalks of here in Washington but need
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old Foggy s P ira l up and see how high it '' ai5 nington, D. C. Januaiy 2, 1934. yodel awhile in the mike. But his Pi ei 'ced the clouds. At about 18,-
anxious ears never even heard a 000 feet he saw the experimenter. Wlhen a fellow burns up the road squak. who had managed to get himself with . Ms aut<>m obile, other mo-
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Muncie, Indiana, Jan. 10, 1934. Mr. E. Arthur Ball, County CWA Administrator, Care Ball Brothers Factory, Muncie, Indiana. Dear Mr. Ball: Imagine my surprise this morning to read the article appearing in the Muncie Morning Star under this heading: “CWA Complaint is Investigated. Ball finds four of sixty-five cases unworthy of aid.” Under these two headings there is quite a lengthy article which leads me to believe that you have had a conference with a reporter of the Muncie Morning Star. Also, we find a copy of your communication to Mr. Book, of Indianapolis, carried under this newspaper head-
ing.
This article is absolutely misleading, Mr. Ball, in every respect. You owe the writer of this letter, along with Mrs. Amos Replogle and Mr. Otto Sellers, an apology for having mislead the public on this matter of vital interest to both the taxpayers and the worthy poor in this city, for the following reasons:; * 1. In the first place, the writer of this article has never made any complaint concerning the CWA to anyone. I know nothing about the present setup of the CWA and its many responsibilities. 2. I have never made any complaint to the governor of our state or to yourself concerning the operation of the CWA and its many responsibilities. Mrs. Replogle and Mr. Sellers have never made any complaint along this line—but all three of us, dating as far back as a year and a half, have rightfully and seriously complained about the manner in which our poor relief is being handled in this city. I refer to the poor relief and its management by our Township Trustee, Mr. Ross, who has been supported in this mismanagement of affairs by the Muncie Social Service Bureau. ^ 3. The writer of this letter did *\ rite to Mr. Book, who has charge <>f the Governor’s Unemployment Commission, as late as several weeks ago, protesting the manner in which investigations w^ere being made by our trustee’s office, because I had been advised to $o so by Mr. Walsman, who heard our recent protest in the Delaware County Circuit Courtroom on the tax rate for Center township. Mr. Walsman introduced me to Mr. Book because he felt thal we had something of interest to him. The protest was not about the operation of the CWA, as this article in the Muncie Morning Star would lead you to believe, but entirely concerned the manner in which investigations were being made by our Township Trustee, Mr.-Ross, and the Social Service Bureau. 4. You have entirely misrepresented your interview with Mrs. Replogle and myself in my office. You have indicated that our charges were of long standing and •difficult to prove, and that you asked for additional information. Let me call to your attention that at the •time you called at my office I told you that I thought you should personally investigate the present poor relief system of in
do this, and you immediately employed Mrs. Replogle, at a salary of fifty cents an hour, to do th^s work, because of her experience in doing this kind of work. Therefore, Mrs. Replogle was your agent in this investigation and employed by you. It was your investigator who turned in these sixty-five cases, at an expense to you of $65. We asked you, in person and in letter, to secure a list in Indianapolis of all people owning automobiles in Center township. You could have secured this list had you cared to do so Furthermore, we asked you to get a list of the men working at the Chrysler in New' Castle and all other industries in Muncie. Because of your position you could have secured these lists to assist Mrs. Replogle in her work. Instead of receiving this information we received two lists, one from the Warner Gear and one from Kitselman Brothers. The list from Kitselman’s did not even include the addresses. Handicapped as she was, with the little cooperation from your office, Mrs. Replogle did admirable work, and uncovered sixty-five outstanding cases wherein families were on the Center township poor relief list when one or more of their family was receiving ample money from employment to support that family. Mrs. Replogle turned over to you this list and you in turn turned it over to the Social Service Bureau for further check and report. The foetal Service Bureau reported back to you on exactly 51 cases. They did not even report to you on the other fourteen cases, and it was quite natural that they would justify their previous action in placing these people on the lists by claiming that Mrs. Replogle’s report was incorrect, and that these -cases were borderline cases. They only admitted four of Mrs. Replogle’s reports to be true. All of this took place on November 16th. Instead of calling in .Mrs. Replogle and myself to defend our position and check the checkers—you immediately sat down and made out a report to Mr. Book, without giving Mrs. Replogle a hearing—your own investigator, paid out of your own pocket—and proceeded to give the Trustee and the Social Service a thorough whitewash. You did not even givp the writer of this letter the courtesy of a copy of this report to the governor’s office until January 9, despite the fact that you made up your report on November 16th, just about a week after Mrs. Replogle had surrendered to you her report on sixty-five cases. I am calling to your attention also, along this line, that on the ■ night of January 9th you called me on the telephone and you and I agreed that in fairness to all concerned we should check the checkers. It is difficult to understand why you would not accept the report from your own investigator, paid for by yourself, as against a report submitted by the people charged with negligence and mismanagement. Personally, I called you on the’ telephone prior to November 16th, on the date of November 14th, and I told you that I had personally investigated a number of cases jn one day, and found that in ten cases the family heads w^ere om
vestigation, and that t would sug- ployed and still their names apgest that you employ someone to peared on the towmship poor re-
LOSELY linked with 'winter life in Canada is the enjoyment of a multiplicity of outdoor sports w’hich can be ^ adapted to one’s in- ' clination and capability; as a spectator
or participant the individual may taste their joys to the full. The tinkU of sleigh bells, the ring of skate#, the clash of sticks in play, joyous shouts, cheery laughter, all are music to the lover of winter sports. One forgets,depression while gliding along on ski is, tramping on snowtshoes through snow-decked woods, skating on smooth ice sheets or speeding with breath-taking sw’oops down the toboggan slides.
lief. You did not see fit to accept that report, despite the fact that 1 am a heavy taxpayer in this county. Up to date you have never called me in to give yop additional information to support my claim. 5. You owe Mrs. Replogle an apology because the last day she worked for yop you told Mrs. Replogle in your office that you had been thoroughly convinced that there w'as something radically wrong in the system of investigation, but that because Muncie had been somewffiat notorious in its civic reputation you did not think that anything would be done, despite your knowledge of conditions to the contrary. When Mrs. Replogle gave me that report I immediately went to Indianapolis and interviewed Mr. Book. As a result of my trip to Indianapolis four investigators came to Muncie in the last four or five days. Did they come to the people making the charges, for additional information? They did not. Instead, I am presuming they acted the same as yourself, in accepting the testimony of those people charged with the misconduct of our affairs. I understand these four investigators have gone back to Indianapolis, without ever having, interviewed Mrs. Replogle or my-
self.
Mr. Ball, I am charging political interference with the failure of this investigation, not only politics from questionable politicians but I am charging those interested in the Social Service Bureau with assisting materially in whitewashing the entire affair from start to finish. Politics has prohibited us v from getting relief through the County Commissioners. It has prohibited us from getting relief through the agencies at Indianapolis that should indeed be interested in seeing that the taxpayers and worthy poor in this county are served. I have carefully reviewed these borderline cases you speak of here, in your report to Mr. Book. The first case called to my attention is a family receiving $44.00 per month pension, and this has been going on with the knowledge of the trustee for a year and a half, and all this time they have been on the towmship. The children have been fed by charity at school and they have been getting clothing regularly. This pension was recently reduced to $24.00. Th.e Social Service claim that they gave them help all the time “because they were ignorant.” This is the expression used in the report. I am just wondering how many fami’ies living in Muncie lived on less than $44.00 a month and at the same time had apcess every week to our township poor fund? This is only one of hundreds of cases in this town of a like nature. 6. We note that you say here in your report to Mr. Book that no one is to starve or freeze. I i have always maintained that our Worthy poor deserve more than the ajnount of money that they have been getting, but how in the name of all that is good can we possibly do this when we have hundreds of families *on the township poor fund list that are already employed and able . to take care of themselves. It seems to me that my viewpoint is more sincere, in wanting to keep the people from freezing and starving, than a viewpoint that discredits a report handed in by their own personal investigator, that was never call-' ed back to substantiate and prove their claim. Now, Mr. Ball, you may be interested to know' that because I had become thoroughly disgusted wit/li the experiences I had with j all agencies to whom I appealed,! that a new organization has been! farmed here in Muncie to stop this j duplication of effort and heavy ex-j
Steadiness and skill are tested on tfce curling rinks, excitement is rampant at the hockey, games, and on Dog Derby day one naturally follows the crowd. In contrast, golf and other summer sports may be enjoyed during wdniter in areas along the Pacific coast. The general inclination is to spend one’s vacation when the days are long and warm. The National Parks of Canada of the Department of the Interior at Ottawa, a government service which supplies information to intending visitors to that country, reports that there appears to be an ever-growing tendency to enjoy, outdoor life during the winter season, and that a few days’ relaxation when the weather is cold
family could not use ih lie was furious. Then just for curiosity’s sake they set 1 some of her milk aside to see wffiat the cream was like. And lo and behold insttead of cream a delicious chewing gum developed on the milk. But even that is not all about this remarkable cow t . To the amazement of everyone the cW shed off her hair slick and clean, and is now growing a wonderful coat of pine
needles for hair.
Since most ordinary cows have to have corn, we’ll let R. W. Harris, of Hurdsfield, N. Dak., furnish his variety. A few years ago, he writes, a man by the name of H.
and bracing is now considered a3 C. Chester was experimenting with conducive to the recreative side ol neiA varieties of corn. While exhealth and well-being as is the usual peHmenting he found a very new summer vacation. and different variety. So he plant-
ed it.
Weather has much to do with Greatly interested in this new' the enjoyment of summer sports variety he w'as up early the next
but with those of winter it is al- morning to see about it.
most a negligible factor. All the ^ winter sport enthusiast asks for is - plenty of snow and a thermometer which flirts with the zero mark. It is an agreeable surprise to discover on one’s first experience of a Canadian winter that the temperature is not only bearable but pleasant, that extremely cold days are the exception, and that the clear crisp air and brilliant sunshine amid splendid natural scenery add exhilaration to healthful
periment any more with corn. P. S. Huskers in ballooons were sent up to harvest this corn. The stalk itself was allowed to stand until it dripd out so it wouldn’t cause too much damage when fin-
ally cut down.
To The Citizens of Indiana: I need the help of every Citizen in Indiana in the fight I am making to compel the Civil Works Administration to use coal produced in our Indiana mines for Federal relief coal distribution in the State of Indiana. This is not an attack on the “new deal” or on President Rodee velt’s administration. I am loyal to the “new deal’ and President Roosevelt and his administration By attacking this un-economic and insound plan of the Federal Coal A-dvisor who is a subordinate here in Washington, I am correcting a condition which will do harm tc
To his the “new deal.’
torists who believe in obeying the law', feel that he should be arrested for arson.
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S. H. Bemenderfer, Chairman, Citizens Committee.
pense to the township by the township trustee’s office and the Social Service Bureau. We have our regular investigators in the’ trustee’s office, paid for by the township, ac-!
cording to the payroll. I his should ^y e neV er knew they had such be sufficient. Howeser^.mstead pi j large' mosquitoes with such tough conducting the trustees otfice te iMlfe in Texas until Ned ison, of this manner, the powers that be, gp 0 y Fy., sent us this story: in Muncie, have seen to it that an- Back in the nineties I w'as emother agency, the Social Service played on a ranch in southern Tex . Bureau, is maintained and paid for iv jy waS) mostly, the shoeby the poor in this city. I say byij, n g horses. I remember on a the poor in this city because the Saturday evening, the sun was profits of the commissary, thatl’ }r . d jij n g doW n so hot it seemed should be handed on to these pool ^hat my buddy and I would melt, i starving people, are being takenl ,y e som e very vicious horses
over by the Social Service Bureau to maintain their institution. This report *came <to me directly. A state auditor verbally protested to
me this setup.
I feel very deeply grieved that rll of this bad to come out in thf caper, Mr. Ball, .but when yotf set fit to publish in our paper a lette 1 full of misstatements of fact, am give to the reortej- for pub’caGor many other misstatements of fact I am made to defend myself, and 1 am also made to defend your In vestiga,tor. Mrs. Replogle, whom you employed to get you the in formation which you permitted t< he repudiated without 'giving he the' cfourtesy of supporting her re (port. I insist that you owe bott Mrs. Replogle and Mr. Sellers, a‘ well as myself, an apology, and 1 am sending a copy of this letter tc our Muncie papers in fairness tc these good people who have sup ported me in my determination tc make the office of ohr Townshi; Trustee function not only in the interests of our clown-trodden Tax payers but sincerely in the intervstS' o L 'i cpr worthy poor, that xmlcl be far more ably supported f many of these families, now re-
chat evening that must be shod, j About three in the evening my j buddy said, “Watch out.” I looked in the direction he -was ' 'ooking and saw the largest sw T arm j of mosquitos I had ever seen. We left the horses stand. Gathering | some tools and ropes, we made | for cover under some large salt j kettles which had been abandoned many years ago. These kettles j were in the form of a hemisphere ! and about six feet iu diameter and three and one-half feet deep. Turning one of those kettles bottom side up, I darted under ter , •.helter from the mosquitoes. > o I ?ooner had I gotten under than heh skeeters began popping t„ dr bills through the bottom of the kettle and I began, with my hamner, to clinch their bills. In less han half an hour enough had lit in the kettle and I had clinched Gieir bills that they rose with the cettle and flew off with it. Beginniing with a slight deviaion from veraciouspess A. J. Fishir, of Clayton, Ida., writes in to cay he has a wonderful cow. Her mice was so powerful he gave her the name of Foghorn. With her last calf, however, she developed
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