Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 23 February 1934 — Page 4
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1934.
DO YOU LIKE POLITICS? Editor Post-Democrat: It ie amusing to the writer of this letter to hear some of the presumably istelligent people in our city make the following expression: “I think municipal ownership would be fine, but 1 am afraid of politics in its operation.” Of course, the men who have been working for municipal ownership understand where all of this propaganda comes from. We are fully aware of the fact that utility interests right here in Muncie at this time are using this stock phrase to try and kill off this rapidly growing public sentiment for municipal ownership. If Muncie were the first town in Indiana that ever worked for mu nicipal ownership it would be dif fevent. Fiftyrone per cent of all utilities in Indiana are owmed today by municipalities. Up to date, the writer has visited forty-tw towns in Indiana and Ohio having municipal ownership, and he ha. not found one that is not operating successfully and profitably to the municipality, and working to great advantage to the taxpayers, and to the people using light, water and gas. If there is any municipality in Indiana not operating its own utilities successfully and happily, 1 have never heard of that town. I would not he surprised if ten per pent were mismanaged, but to date 1 have found none. We certainly know that most of these utilities .operated by private corporations such as we have in Muncie, have been mismanaged throughout the entire state. Private ownership of utilities in Indiana is a history of corruption and loss to the peopie buying their stock, such as you cannot find in any other industrial
activity.
Look around over the city of Muncie, fellow citizens, and see
politics, becausp politics merely means your vote. Do not let the utility interests confuse politics with crooked politicians. There is a world of difference. It is amusing to hear the reports on the streets. One or two of the city councilmen that have been working for the interests of the utilities for the past four or five months told a friend of mine that, the utilities were making no effort to keep us from municipal ownership. This is a joke Do not let them fool you, Mr. Public. They wall fight municipal ownership to the last ditch. In the end the city of Muncie will take them over. We will squeeze the water out of their valuations and buy them for what they are worth, according to law. They are worth about twenty-five per cent, of their present figure, and the law provides exactly how ill of this shall be done, and when ■e get through with them we an going to do a good job of it. The judge of the Circuit Court at Muncie, will be the final judge, and we have sufficient evidence of inflation of stock values here tr prove our claims. The prostituting of the public by questionable utility operation has been going on long enough, and I for one, as a taxpayer, will see this through to he finish, and I am expecting the loyal and faithful co-operation of each and every man and woman in Muncie that wants to see the utility user and the taxpayer get a square deal. I am as much entitled to your co-operation as you are entitled to mine. Let us face this problem together and then we will
pe victorious.
In paying utility rates in the city if Muncie during the past twenty yeavs, you have contributed handsomely in a financial way, to this
who it is that will oppose munici- utility corruption going on in this
country of ours, and is it time that we use your vote, ladies and gentlemen, which is politics, to chase these money changers out of the temple, and I am giving you credit with having sense enough to do it.
Sincerely,
S. H. BEMENDERFER, Chairman Citizens Committee.
pal ownership. The subsidized hankers who are working for the heavy stockholders, and part of the people employed by utilities, and those people misinformed—who have not taken the trouble to go and get the facts—are the people today opposed to municipal owner-
ship.
The Municipal Ownership League is making a determined drive in behalf of the widow, and the laboring man, and the low salaried white collar man, and the downtrodden taxpayer, to get relief for him. If these people lack sufficient Intelligence to realize that we are fighting their battles and they go to the polls and support the system that has been robbing them right and left for years and years here in Muncie, then we have no sympathy for those people, and they deserve
none.
Certainly our forefathers gave us politics. Politics means “independence” and it means the vote. If you believe in the American govern ment as founded by men like Washington and Jefferson, and preserved by Lincoln, then you believe ir
scalded when a pie blew up. A bite from a large black spider sent a Maryland woman, Mrs. Catherine Cochran, to the hospital in a serious condition. Yet some scientists still tell up a spider won’t or can’t bite. John Austin stumbled while loading a box of dynamite on a barge in Indiana. It didn’t explode but the box struck his neck and broke it. Howard Lewis fared somewhat better while carrying an armful of dynamite through a Baltimore tunned. A rock crashed down the bank, struck him in the back and knocked him down. But he didn’t drop the explosive. Richmond Bone put his Christmas watch in his pocket and walked out on the porch to enjoy the Georgia sunshine. A stray bullet fractured his arm and w T ould have killed him if it hadn’t imbedded itself in the wmteh. Two colored brothers-in-law had a failing out and decided to fight a genuine Alabama duel. When the pistols went off, Frank Bishop fell mortally wounded. W. O. Pearson didn’t fall and was just as healthy as before after a .45 caliber bullet had been extracted from the skin on his forehead. Martin Larkin of Virginia drove past the signals of the watchman on a draw bridge which was open and plunged off. One of the gates swung back, caught the spare tire of his car and saved the young man from an icy bath in the Potomac river. A turkey buzzard attacked an airplane while flying over Kentucky. The bird avoided the propeller and crashed through the windshield, killing him and causing the pilot, Harry Musick, of Indiana, to be severely cut by flying glass. He landed the plane safely, however.—Pathfinder. —o HELPFUL HINTS Keep your mirrors out of the sun. It is often the sun’s rays which cause the spots and other blemishes. j Fat used in making pastry should he handled as little as possible. Heat spots on furniture will disappear if rubbed with linseed oil and later polished. After washing your windows rinse them with waiter in which a little vinegar is added. They will be brighter and stay clean longer. Grass stains can often be removed from white materials by sponging with ammonia and w r a-
ter.
You can clean hubby’s dirty or greasy strop with sandpaper.
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Lydia Groves got so tired of listening to the voices talking thru the California telephone exchange she operated that she yawned. It wasn’t a half-hearted yaw r n evidently for she dislocated her jaw r and required a doctor’s aid to git it closed again. A young fellow in Montana had a desire to hunt wild geese—then out of season—and took up the chase in Yellow r stone park. He downed his quarry which fell in the Yellow r stone river. He w r as drowned while trying to retrieve the game. Of course it is nothing new r when attending the movies to see an actor hit another in the face with a pie but it is unusual for a pie to explode in ones face. Yet Celia Nixon, of Ohio, was severely
WORLD IN A LIGHT GLOBE When you switch on an electric lamp, you’re using materials that came originally from almost every country in the world. In that little 2;lobe that cost you 20 or 30 cents, there’s antimoy from Mexico, thoria from Brazil, niter and silica from Chile, cobalt and nickel from New' Caledonia, bismuth from Australia, tin from the Malay Peninsula, manganese from India, potash from Russia, sodium carbonate from East Africa, arsenic from Greenland—and so it goes down a long similar list of items. As has been stid, the electric lamp is literally the light of the world.
DU FONTS PROSPER. There is no such thing as depression to a company which gets a sufficient slice of war profits. E. T. du Pont de Nemours & Co. of Delaware, munitions kings of the western hemisphere, cleared $38,895,330 net profits in the year 1933.
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’TWAS A BUSY NIGHT
PhotvzrAfh, Canadian National fUllisajt, fflHAT the first of the swallow family to arrive north, and the, last to JL depart south is the tree swallow whose, picture appears above? Tni« is a most particular bird. It lines its nest with feathers,-and decided a liking for white feathers, that it has been Known to fly long, distances in search of white feathers rather than-use those of other, colors that were close at hand. The tree swallow is hardy and common. It is found as far north as Alaska and the Yukon^and asfar.southas CentraUAmerica./
Pith B y y S th y e n2SGOSSIPER
Uncle Jeb Pruden sez: “While it M. Herriot, of France, predicts is a fackt them Air Male contrackts that “French adversaries” are due we refured tu last w-eek wuz writ for a surprise. Since we have been in black and white, they seem tu ca ll e< 4 Pis s > an( l dogs, of the , . , , , T , , . , female variety, ever since the w r ar hev got a lot uv Brown mixed up wag over> let ug hope that we are
in ’em.’
Some local editors imagine freedom of the press means a license to traitors to their government to air their treachery through political propaganda in the form of short editorial “squibs,” published daily in their editorial columns, but it is to be hoped they will soon learn that this is an error. During the w r ar, traitorous utterances of this character would have means a call to appear before a “firing squad ”
A “gink” living at Glassmere, Pa., is said to have drunk a quart of whisky and ate five'dozen hen eggs in eight minutes. Well, a fellow who /can drink a quart of whisky inf eight minutes, might be expected to eat anything the hens layed.
Since Tom Lament, right hand man of the J. P. Morgan interests has come out with a statement that J. P. Morgan is in sympathy with the President’s gold policy. Democrats are beginning to think that J. P., is not such a bad fellow. after all. As the old darkey is said to have remarked: “The Lowd is a pu’fect good fellow, but the debbil is not such a bad fellow
either.”
Hugh Mackie, of Drumfrieshire the Grotna Green of Scotland, anf who was known as “the marrying blacksmith,” died one day Iasi week at the age of 85. Welded to
included as “adversaries,” and that they will surprise us by paying us a part of what they owe us.
Little Patia May Gerth, of West Hartford, Conn., once asked a kind gentleman she had met to write a George Washington’s - birthday poem for her. The man turned out to be Henry Edward Warner of the Baltimore Siin. Some time later the 9-year-old miss received a letter which read as follows: “My Dear Little Patia: “I am very terribly, awfully busy, if you know what I mean, and what I am busiest about is work that has to be done, so that I can have but ter and jelly for my bread. 1 knew a man once who did not have any butter or jelly for his bread, and he was a grouch. I don’t want to be a grouch, so I must put in a lot. of time working hard. “But you get your George Wash ington poem just the same, and 1 wouldn’t do (hat right now for any other girl in the world. So you see how much I love you. And do you know there is a little girl in my house who is two years bigger than you are and one time I was telling her about you and she threw her arms around my neck and began to cry because she thought I didn’t love her as much as I did you. Wasn’t that funny? “Well, Patia. what shall we say about George Washington? So much has been said about him that 1 think you ought to have something very different and so 1 am going to write this for you. “Here is Patia’s prayer: “Good Lord. 1 pray that I may be A good American and see All other children grow to love The land our flag’s unfurled above Good Lord, I pray that I may stand For this, my own, my native land And always think the things that
You
And Washington would wish me to. Make me a woman, good and true. To love the Red, the White, the Blue, And where our glorious flag’s un furled Send love and justice to the world And when I stand to make my bow, Oh, Lord, please manage it. some-
how,
That I shall wed a loyal son. Send me a man like Washington.” o When you bring the clothes in from the line don’t dump them into a heap. Instead, fold each piece once or twice and pile neatly, and they will be lots easier to
iron.
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A press dispatch from Greenville, S. C., sa«ys: “Baramore Dunn, a farmer, has a cow which gave birth to a calf recently, and nine days later, gave birth to a second calf,” all of which reminds us of one we once heard, and which originated
It was a busy night for Motor eyelo Patrolman Nellum, recently. He arrested two alleged automobile thieves and saved two people from 'possible suffocation in a burning
house.
About 1 o’clock in the morning, and only a few minutes after the report had come in, Nellum arrested two alleged automobile thieves. They were charged with stealing an automobile belonging to a very prominent citizen. After locking up bis prisoners, Nellum went out and puttered around a little more on his motorcycle. Just to pass the time he escorted two or three drunks to the
lockup.
Around 5:40 in the morning, while crusing around, Nellum noticed smoke pouring from a residence. Running to the door, Nellum kicked it hard enough to wake up half the neighborhood. The occupants of the house and their bullog one “Beans,” were sound asleep. “Beans” awoke with a roar—the people also awoke, but without roars. The fire department was called, but by the time .they arrived Nellum and the residents had extin&Vished the fire which had been burning merrily in the kitchen. The next day the chief of police commended Nellum for his work. The occupants of the house also echoed the chief’s sentiment. The two alleged automobile thieves wish he had stayed in the police station and slept: “Beans” is undecided, for he doesn’t care much for strange policemen on general prin-
ciples.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Notice is hereby given that the State Teachers College Board will receive bids at the office of the Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indlara, until 10:00 o'clock A. M., the Sixth day of March, 1934, at which time and place all bids will be opened, for the construction of a nev,
„ , building to be known as the “Arts Build-
before Joe Miller was born. If you; ln S” on the campus of Ball state Teach- , x j +v „_ ,,„. ers Cohege, Muncie, Indiana. Approxi-
stimaled cost of construction of
have heard is, try and slop us: “There was once a farmer who was bitten by a mad cow. Immediately after, boras began to grow out of his head. He used to lower his head, charge, throw up his tail and bellow like a bull, and when it was milking time he would always back up to a bucket to be milked, but when they sold his calf for veal, it broke his heart.” P. S.—-Please wire us, in case the Dunn cow has
a few more calves.
Some wives never know what they want and are always unhappy until they get it; other wives know what they want, but never get it.
Isn’t it strange? The fellow who invented “Mulligan Stew,” was not named Mulligan. The inventor's name was—dura it, we forgot.
Lack of money keeps a lot of people making fools of themselves —Uncle Philander.
A faithful friend is better than "old—a medicine for misery, an
gether his last couple, as it were. I only possession Burton.
Bluffton appears to be first a( last, although she was always behind before, if you get what wo mean The latest report from there is that several best people of the town, report having seen fldcks of wild geese flying northward, while others claim to have seen dozens of robins in their back yards, one morning last week. It must have been the morning after the night
before.
‘Paper Profits, Cool Two Mil-
Some people are so narrowminded when argueing politics with yon, that you just don’t ever want
to speak to them.
BAD BOY SENATOR The famous Huey Long rapped a Washington reporter with a a aue in. reply to a request for a lews statement. Everybody is ■■apping Huev and it is an open secret in Washington that the Senate would like to throw him out if a way can be found to do
lions,” says a headline in a leading c 50 - A committee of the Senate is
investigating, and it may he heard
from a little later on.
Sunday newspaper. Of course, this doesn’t mean that the poor fellows who gather paper in pushcarts, made two millions. Oh, no! It wis a few of the fellows who worked for the former administration, and who are trying to “come back.” If Japan’s profuse offerings of friendshin toward the people of the United States are sincei-e, how the devil does it come they send an ambassador named Saiton to the White House? We have always heard that satan was a diplomat, but we’ll be durned if we ever thought they would station him at
Washington.
There are hundreds of people in Muncie who would do considerable more reading, if they didn’t have to shovel snow off of the entire front lawn each night and morning, in order to find their newspaper.
RAKING ’EM OVER, Mrs. Titter—I saw your husband at the masquerade ball last night, chasing after a hula-hula dancer in a grass skirt. Mrs. Jitter—Why, the old rake!”
mate estima
said building is $3^,000.00.
Separate bids will be received, as follows: (1) For the construction of the building (general contractt; (2) For the furnishing and installation complete of heating- and ventilating systems. and plumbing and sewers: (3) For the furnish'ing and installation complete of electric wiring: (4) For the furnishing and Installation complete of elevators: (5) For the construction of the building as a whole or any combination of contracts. Bids must be made on Form 96 prescribed by the State Board of Accounts as amended by the Architect to comply with the Federal Public Works Administration rules and must be accompanied by a certified check equal to 5% of thp amount of the bid and a sworn financial statement on form 96A prescribed by the State Board of Accounts according to section 2 of an Act approved March 16, 1929, concerning the awarding of contracts appearing in chapter 202, page 680, of the Acts of the
Indiana General Assembly, 1929.
No bids will be received from any Contractor who has not signed and complied with the applicable approved code of fair competition adopted under Title I of the National Industrial Recovery Act, or if there be no such approved code of fair competition, who has not signed and complied with the provision of the President’s Re-employment Agreement. Forms for this signed statement may be had from
the Architect.
The proceeds of the certified check accompanying the bid of each successful bidder shall become the sole property of said Ball State Teachers College in the event such successful bidder shall fail to enter into a contract and execute and furnish an acceptable bond within 10 days after he has been notified that his bid has been accepted. Certified checks of unsuccessful bidders will be returned to them. Each successful bidder will be required to enter into a written contract and execute a lawful bond, meeting ths approval of said Teachers College Board and the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works in the amount equal to the amount of the contract price and conditioned for the faithful performance of
the contract.
Each contract will contain a provision requiring that wage rates to be paid by the Contractor shall be as prescribed by the Special Board for Public Works of the Federal Emerengencj' Administration, and also will contain all provisions required by Bulletin No. 2 issued bv the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works. Detailed plans and specifications will be on file in the office of Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, and the State Board of Accounts, Indianapolis, Indiana. Plans and specifications for use of bidders may be secured from the Architect, George F. Schreiber, 801 Architect and Builders Building, Indianapolis, by making a deposit of $50.00 for each set, which deposit will be refunded upon the return of such plans and specifications in
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Shorter Hoars for Mother
No more hovering over a hot, old-fashioned range for hours at a time. Those hours may now be spent in the easiest chair in the house—reading, sewing, listening to the radio. Meanwhile the most modern of household servants will be automatically cooking the family’s next meal.
“Horse Farmer” vs. “Tractor Farmer” Team Is Still in Efficient Service— Tractor Is On the Scrap Heap.
A good, practical farmer that we know, bought a team for $300 a few years ago, when his neighbor bought a tractor for $3,000. The “horse farmer” has made a condstent profit out of his farm, even during the depression, and his team is as efficient today as when he bought it. The “tractor farmer” is broke—too much capital invested for the possible earning power of the land. The tractor is on the scrap heap. As with hanks, so with farming; their salvation depends on men who “know the business.” All the “relief measures” in the v/orld cannot save the inefficient, the wasteful and the ignorant from failure. o How the woncl improves! Some 400 years ago, suspects were tortured by the church instead of the cops.
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The right Is reserved to reject any and all bids. STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE BOARD. By Wm. F. Cronin. Secretary.
During the past year and a half, numerous salesmen and sanitary engineers have visited in Muncie, |but very few of them seem to have the slightest knowledge of the national game of baseball. It is doubtful if one of them could throw a baseball 50 feet with both hands, but when it somes to “throwing the bull,” they appear to be ambidextrous.
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