Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 May 1934 — Page 1
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THE POST-DEMOCRAT ‘TIEW TO THE BLOCK; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT.”
VOLUME 14—NUMBER 17.
MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1934.
PRICE: FIVE CENTS
Most of the world is fiat.
There are nearly one million Boy Scouts of America.
If you don't know where to look for your n. xt. month’s rent, read the twenty.enth Psalm.
The Century of Progress is scheduled to open May 26. Last Year’s site of the Midway will become the street for the many foreign villages. A few more hot days and the men will bring out their straw hats; the women their furs.
An unfavorable growing season, together with a discouraging chinch bug report, is tending to make a farmer believe that God is co-oper-ating with the government in the crop reduction program. President Roosevelt is having an addition built to the White House.
A boy in Memphis, Tenn., was recently arrested for stealing a gal-
lon of castor oil.
There are more men named “William” than there are by any other name. “Mary” is the most common of women's names. However, we have been informed that during the World War there were about five thousand “John Smiths” In the American army, and_that
nearly one thousand wives named “Mary.”
of them had
School teachers’ wages are generally higher for the coming term, but probably not enough higher to be in iM-amrkLfiU iP.Jlu- advance cost of living conditions.
Twenty-five nurses at the Frances E. Willard Hospital, Chicago, struck for a $15 per month raise in wages. They were out one hour. The entire group was fired.
A great horned owl belonging to Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Warner, Monmouth, hatched from chicken eggs a brood of 35 at one sitting. Eggs have been fried on the sidewalks of Pheonix, Ariz.
The total number of persons employed in the motor vehicle and allied lines is over four million.
A “Dillinger hog,” says Hank, the hired man, “is a hog that you can’t keep in the pen.”
Mrs. Lydia Reed, Lakewood, N. J„ was sentenced to thirty days in jail for burning her 7-year-old daughter with a hot poker.
Pat and Mike are enjoying a rest with the modern “drummer.” Now, it is, “have you heard the latest one about Mae West?”
Right or wrong, Dr. W. C. Wirt
can issue only the minority opinion regarding the conversation at the now famous “Russian” dinner. Other dinner guests will not con-
firm Dr. Wirt’s statements.
“If I were you, I’d often say To those who seem to need ad-
vice,
I’d always look before I leaped; I’d always think it over twice And then I’d heave a troubled sigh— For, after all, I’m only I.”
THE VALUE OF A SMILE. It costs nothing but creates much. It enriches those who receive without impoverishing thpse who eive. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes
lasts forever.
, None are so rich that they can get along without it and none so poor but are richer for its benefits. It creates happiness in the home and fosters good will in business. Yet it eannot be bought,
Mayor Dale Explains Defeat By Bunch, Smiling Politician
NANCY HANKS LINCOLN THE IDEAL MOTHER
Here,™ 1 here, Everywhere
Gives An Interesting Outline of Tacticsjnri NUfftpcpn Used By the Good-Natured Doctor to UCLH " Hnt - l,Ul1
Win Primary Election—^Difference Between Dillinger and Bunch—People at
Mercy of Birds of a Feather.
First 100 Years
(By George R. Dale.) Darn it, Doc Bunch got his usual four thousand votes in the primary and his managers, the Honorables Bill Finan, Cliff Cranor aand Smokestack Jones, are cheering’ mightily. He got so many more votes than I did that I am really ashamed to tell you. The other prize winner, on the Republican ticket, is John Hampton, who nosed out Curtis Rector by a few votes. It is customary for lame ducks to explain how it happened. \ Councilman Bob Tumleson bit the dust and he rather thinks the cursed utilities sent him to the scrap
heap.
Winder and Grady Not on Doc’s Slate.
Winder and Grady, also defeated, have a different explanation: They were not on Doc’s slate. Tumleson thought he was, for Doc publicly said so before the primary and has now squared him up and made him feel important by telling him the big, bad wolf
was on his trail particularly.
It would be interesting to learn just why the utility wolf did not also get Councilman Hole, who shed tears in behalf of the plain people who are robbed by the utilities and Councilman Smith whose heart bled for the Southside on account of a sewer and who used
the radio to lambast our public utilities.^ Parkinson Rides in on Doc’s Shirttail.
And there was Bob Parkinson who rode in on Doc’s shirttail, shouting anathema against.the utilifies.^ HFs ho betler than the other Bob, in fact, much
more horrible, yet he won.
And then on the other hand. There’s Shroyer and my old friend, Kleinfelder, whom I will always love, no matter what he does to me. They were on the doctor’s slate and won handily. Why did not the outraged Democrats of Muncie, arise in their might and clout them to oblivion, for they had openly de-
fended these same utilities?
I’ll tell you, if you do not know, why Doc’s slate of councilmen went through without a scratch, and I will do it' merely by quoting from the Thursday’s issue of the Press, which I present to you for your
earnest consideration:
It is seldom that anybody has demonstrated his personal popularity in so emphatic a fashion as has “Doc” Bunch in the primary. His followers are zealots who are zealots and fanatical in their support of him for all purposes. If his supporters were to see him chop off a man’s head with a meat cleaver, one and all would declare that they were not around at the time, or, if they were present, “Doc” didn't do it. It must be rather pleasant to have a personality of that kind. It is pleasant, but somewhat dangerous for innocent bystanders of the Democratic party. Personally I believe that Doc Bunch can lick any Democrat in Muncie in a primary, and it is equally certain that he could not possibly be elected mayor in the fall. That was clearly demonstrated in 1921, shortly after he came back from the penitentiary, where he did time without protest or appeal on a charge of conspiracy to use the mails to defraud. Wins in Primary Before Prison Pallor Fades. He ran for mayor before the prison pallor Had faded and in the primary wiped out a field of candidates with a vote of over five thousand. One of the defeated candidates was the late Ed Tuhey. honored and loved by everybody, who received but a little over
eight hundred votfes.
Gloating over his great primary triumph', he went into the final contest with the late Dr. Quick as an onnonent and was defeated by over 2,000.
Probably I am not cut out to be
TO RECEIVE $17,008.65
Amounts to $1.35 for Every School Pupil in the County.
Delaware County will receive. $17,008.65 from the state excise tax' division in the May distrnmtion ot; funds for school purposes, Paul P. i Fry, excise director, announced re-' cently. This amounts to $1.3.". for f every school pupil Mn the couhty,;
Fry said.y .
The disstriihutioh of funds col-j o{ficial memoriai to mark the iOOth! lected from? beer, wine and liquor | birthday of the first Catholic diotaxes and fees^is made twice each: cese in the pioneer west, at Vinvear. Six months ago. Delaware j cennes, Ind., next Sunday. It’s County received $16,750.67 fpr' obverse side pictures Simon Brute school purposes, making a total of, de Remur, the first bishop of Vin$33,765.32 sent to the ’schools of j oennes diocese, who served from that county in the first year of op-,i h* 5 death in 1839. The re-
eration of the excise tax law.
$50 for Each Teacher.
The bronze medallion above is am
begged, borrowed or stolen. It is ;nmong the “zealots,” described by
something that is no earthly good to anybody till it is given
away.
If at some time you meet someone who fails to give you a smile, may I ask that yW give one of your own. For nobody needs a smile so much as those who have
none left to give. o NATIVE ENGLISH
We were walking along the shaded street of an eastern Pennsylvania village when a girl came to the door of a nearby house and called to a small hoy playing on
the walk:
“Gusty, Gusty, come and eat yourself once. Ma’s on der table gow and pa’s half et already!”
verse side of the medallion shows the Old Cathedral, built a century
„ , , , J ago. It occupies the site of the
Total collection ot funds by thej 0^^ Iog cnurch built by fronexcise tax division in the first' tiersmen in 1702. Copies of the year was $2,731,521 33, Fry ati-i medal have been struck in menounce’d. Of this amount $1,762.* i morial bronze and in a baser metal 587 76 went to the schools of the: for pocketpieces and will be blessed state on a distribution basis of for the public at the celebration $2.68 for each pupil or neary $50 ( May ft. ... _—: . . t
for each teacher. Besides the dis trihution of funds to the schools of,^ Delaware County, a total of 881.80 was sent hack to general funds within the county during the year, Fry pointed out, making the < total distributed to the county, 1
$16,647.12.
Collection Cost Low. |
Cost of making this collect ion ‘ 1
•vpas J*afc-then 3 per eejM pry the exact figure being $73,537.05
which includes all equipment purchased since the new department was started. The persent of the revenue required to collect the tax is remarkably low in comparison
with other states, Fry said. Amount, of property tax relief
obtained by the excise tax law averages 7.3 cents on every tax rate in the state, the figures show. In other words, an average rate of at least 7.3 cents on each $100 of assessed valuation would he necessary to raise the amount of money
produced by the excise division.
siBIfi STEAMER
SEEANDREE IN SERVICE
Between Buffalo, Cleveland and Chicago Dur-
ing 1934 Season.
CLEANLINESS IS THING TO BE ENCOURAGED
a candidate for I simply refuse to make nromises that T do not fulfill. Doc has the happy faculty of promising everything to everybody and getting away with it
the Press.
If T even look hke I am going to double cross a friend h^ gets insd at me and stavs mad forever, but Doc never loses his temper like I
do.
I don’t over remember of soeinehim lose his temper. His truimnh as a nol'tical boss is a happv d : snosit.ion and his knack of inflicting lasting iniiiry and then sending Td = victim awav hanpv as a lark with his death wound cauterized by the diplomatic, spreading of hull. Lovable. But Danaerous. Dr. Rollin H. Bunch is the most lovable and the most dangerous citizen of Muncie. The bulk of his blind followers have no politics He never supported hut one Dem-
ocratic candidate for mayor of Muncie in his life and that was Rollin H. Bunch.: He hejned defeat Milt Retherford in 1925. I'Mdinrr him nion? until he had definite nnoei’ that f)nc had joined forces with the Hampton outfit. Tn 1929 he onenlv onnosed me 'n the primary and in the final election. On the last dav before the deadline for filin or in the snrin!r of loeq be nersenallv told me tunt b'cfriends wanted Vm to file. Tie ac>od me to withdraw- and in tb« kindest manner nos«ihle nromised to snnnint me citv rontrnTer. T was somewhat neeve*- but T will sav tbts for Doc. be envied just a* sweetly at my refusal as he would if I had consented. Just whv he did not file, God only knows. If he had no power on earth would have kept me from being licked to a frazzle in that primary.
Immediately after this conversation I called up both of my competitors for the nomination, the late Cooper Props and Henry Hager and asked them to withdraw. I expected him to file or I would not have done it. I told them I could take it and that there was no sense in all of us being smeared by Doc’s hi-partisan machine. They did not recognize the menace of the silken threat and declined. There are men in Muncie today who could tell why he did not file then, but it is likely they will confess. so we can only conjecture. His mysterious, hypnotic manner of inflicting injury and making his victims happy ever their wounds is almost beyond comprehension. In the first district he secretly nromised Hole he was for him. He then boosted Jimmy Cunningham into the race for councilman and caused the report to be clandestinely spread that Jimmy was “my” candidate. Great Jollier Fools All Jollying the other candidates along he secured much support for himself., split up the vote among the candidates and got Hole over. A master politician in a primary, hut. a surefire loser in a geneVal election. It’s a crime the way he sacrificed friends to serve his own selfish purposes and then salves them over with eons.umate skill. In the second district, his real slate was, Shroyer. His innocent stalking horse was Rosinski. In Shroyer's precinct he spoke from the platforni and publicly told his hearers that he was for him. Shroyer was on the platform at the time. In Rosinki’s precinct, with Rosinski on the platform, he plead for the election of Rosinski. Shrover KNEW that Doc was for him. Rosinski THOUGHT he was, for Doc told him so and he blindlv believed it. He has nrohahly plactated Rosinski bv this time by making him chief of police or something. Will Promise Anything. Doc has an uncanny way of making legal tender out of nromises. It is hard to resist his eloquence, even when you know he is spoofing. He could give one of his victims a check and if the hanker told him there was no money there the victim would hurry back to com(Continued to Page Four)
Much Headway Is Made Against Disease in Last Few Years.
Occupational diseases have cost employers a substantial sum of money during the last few years. They will probably cost plenty more before employers learn how to eliminate them from industry. Some of these diseases are caused by spreading of spores or germs. Several others, such as amoebic dysentery and typhoid fever, are caused by unsanitary habits of employes—eating or handling food without first thoroughly washing the hands. More than one epidemic in the past has been caused in this way and conquered only after a
hard battle.
Considerable headway has been made against these diseases in the last few years by determined educating of employes to wash frequently, above all before eating. Experience has shown that they will do so when facilities are easily available and they are furnished with plenty of clean towels. The rapid spread of paper towels through industrial establishments, as well as schools, has helped perhaps more than any other factor. Available at all times, sanitary because discarded, they overcome both the insanitation of commonly used towels and the reluctance ; that public towels cause in a person’s mind to wash at all. Paper towels, are used cnTeFTy in factories, schools, and offices where, in most, instances, no towel service was provided prior to paper. Occupational diseases, as well as contagious diseases among school children, is grave. It is to be hoped that some adjustment can he made which will properly leave towels in public washrooms.
The great steamer Seeandbee,
the flag ship of the C. & B. lines, will operate on a regular weekly schedule, during 1934, between Cleveland and Buffalo and Chicago. Seven-day round trip, all-expense cruises at low cost will he special features of this service. However, one-way passage and port to port trips will he available for those whose arrangements do not per-
mit of the complete cruise. Every indication is that the sec-
ond year of “A Century of Progress” Chicago’s great world’s fair, will be more interesting and wonderful than the first year, and for that reason travelers from the East can combine the pleasures of a wonderful lake cruise with a visit
to the exposition.
General Manager, P. J. Swartz, of the C. & B. lines, has gone to great lengths in providing a program of entertainment on shiphoard A nationally known orchestra’will provide music for dancing. The first sailing is from Buffalo, Sunday, Jnlv 8; from Cleveland, Monday, July 9. and arriving in Chicago Wednesday morning, Jnlv 11. As the ship does not leave Chicago until Wednesday evening at 11:45 o’clock, round trio cruise passengers have an entire dav and nivht to devote to the world’s fair. FiV^nn^opniiy nttractive folders, co^ipiotelv describing the.s» cruises mmH )\a aoiit without, obligation ur>un vep"es! bv tiie Cleveland and Buffalo Transit Co»ona n v. foot of East Ninth street. Cleveland, O.
PPOFFSSIONAL KNOWLEDGE. While on the bench one dav. .Judge Daniel called a case for trial, and two lawyers anneared as attorneys for the litigants. “You’re a dirtv shyster” snarled uno of the lawyers to the other, “and before this case is through I’ll show von un for the crooked an n that you are.” “Sez you ” snannerl <he other. “Yen are a cheat and a liar.” “Como, come,” broke in the iudo-o. “Let Ihe case proceed—now *v>at the learned counsel have identified each other.”
A NFW DPINK \ Kansas hnsinoec; mon. re'iurn•rtrr fyrwn ypp-nt visit to New Vork Ci t ,r . was imerpcced bv the npu' rockta'l served c-erywhere. “ T t is a drinv w'lpre thev not in ’uhiskv to mpVp ir strona - ” this TTprienn related, “ihpu water to make it. weak .‘then gin to makp it hot and ice to make it cold, lemon to make it sour and sugar to make it sweet. Then they say: “Here’s to you,’ and drink it themselves.”
FLAT SILVER IN THE MODERN SPIRIT Following the example set by other table accessories flat silver is deserting established patterns and interpreting the modern spirit in a new simplicity of design. Robert E. Locher, one of America’s foremost contemporary designers, and known for his original designs in furniture, glass and metal, has again scored with his “modern classic,” an expression of the new age in fine sterling silverware. Mr. Locher’s design turns its back relies for its beauty on effective on ornateness and heaviness and simplicity of line and curve. It is ; the perfect accompaniment to the luxurious dignity of the modern
table.
o SLIP-PROOF COMPOSITION TO ANCHOR SCATTER RUGS 1 iScatter rugs on waxed floors have been up to now almost as dangerous as they are beautiful. Little toddlers seem to take any tumble with no more serious results than minor bumps and bruises, but adults do not fare so well when a small rug slips from underfoot. Accidents of this kind can be eliminated now by use of a 1 new cork composition. Korkotan is a leather-like material of tanned cork, which when slipped under the rug grips both rug and floor. The more you walk on the rug, the tighter its grip becomes. Department stores have it in strips or rug sizes, and you have it cut slightly narrower than the rug so that the edge will now show. 0
“STEADY GIRLS”
One thing about the Daughters of the American Revolution,
Deserves to Be the Patron Saint of Mother's
Day.
Nancy Hanks Lincoln, probably more than any other famous American mother, deserves to be the patron saint of Mothers’ Day, according to Dr. Louis A. Waren, one of the foemost living authorities on Abraham Lincoln’s youth and parentage. American mothers, taking account of “the biggest job in the world” on each second Sunday of May, Dr. Warren said, can find no better ideal for motherhood than the woman whose son, the Civil War President, paid her the immortal tribute: “All that I am or hope’to he, I owe to my angel mother.” “Devotion to her family,” said Dr. Warren, who is director of the Lincoln National Life Fundation, was the keystone in the character of Nancy Hanks Lincoln which made her deserving of the tribute paid to her. This quality was responsible for two other attributes which contributed greatly to the success of her son: She was selfsacrificing and she was ambitious for her family. Mother as Criterion. “Abroham Lincoln lost his mother at the age of 9, hut, as modern psychologists have since proved, the character developed in the first few years of life determine one’s future, and Abraham continued to build on the foundation his mother had given him until he became one of the nation’s most revered statesmen.” “Credit must go to both ‘mothers’ of Abraham Lincoln for producing one of the world’s most famous men,” said Dr. Warren. “The qualities which give nobility and greatness to motherhood were possessed by Sarah Johnston Lincoln as well as by Nancy Hanks Lincoln, and they are still worthy of emulation by all mothers,” Be Sure Your fires Are in Good Shape In reconditioning your car for the spring and summer driving campaign, it is to be hoped that you did not stop with the engine, the brakes, the lights. Of course, these must be in perfect shape, hut perhaps you overlooked a vital safety feature in every automobile—the tires. While your brakes stop the wheels, it is the tires that stop the car. That fact is being emphasized in this day of high speed and increased horsepower. If you go fast, you must stop quickly. And that is where the tire comes in. Figures, obtained by the National Bureau of asualty and Surety Underwriters, indicate that threefourths of the cars ir/.pected in a number of states" last year had dangerous defects. Nearly 48 per cent of these defective cars were equipped with tires that were either poor or only in fair condition. A poor, even a fair tire, is liable to a puncture or blowout, and everyone knows what that means at high speeds. All drivers have noticed the adnormal number of blowouts and punctures during the first warm days. The heat has raised the air pressure and a worn tire has blown out or punctured on a sharp obstruction or severe hump. During the winter months the dampness has seeped in through the cuts and bruises produced by thousands of miles of driving. This dampness has decayed the rubber and weakened the tire. There were 7,120 accidents last year due to punctures or blowouts. In 480 of these accidents persons were killed and there were 27,160 skidding accidents in which 1,420 persons were killed and 30,200 in-
jured.
Look your tires over carefully, and if they are not up to standard replace them! o THEY WERE SNOOTY
The air mail service, having been cracked in the head and now now convalescing, is to be put on a
in the limelight owing to their'basis of short-time contracts, annual meeting in Washington, is j while a special Government comthat they stand like hltching-posts mission prepares recommendations against radical departures in our | to the next session of Congress. National Government. They ad- Nothing wrong with the mail con-
m nrinni. ' tvnptcs hnQ hpad hr/YUP’hl /nit
here to the conservative principles of the founders of the Republic, believe in the constitution of the United States, a big navy and a big time in Washington for themselves each Spring. They are solid, steady girls, full of ideas
and love of their country.
DENSE A school teacher asked ner class in what part of the world the most ignorant people were to be found. A small hoy volunteered quickly, “In London, England.” The teacher was amazed and questioned the lad as to where he had obtained such information. “Well,” he replied, ‘the geography says that’s where the population is most dense.”
tracts has been brought out, hut some of the big lines got pretty snooty, and maybe they will be benefited by having been set hack
a few pegs.
o WATTA MAN! WATTA MAN! The manager of a touring theatrical company wired to the proprietor of a theater in a small town where his company was due
to appear:
“Would like to hold rehearsal next Monday afternoon at three. Have your stage manager, carpenter, property man, electrician, and all stage hands present at that
hour.”
Four hours later he received the following reply: “All right. He’ll he there.”
Every once in a while some prominent editorialist comes out with a thesis, in which it is clearly stated, or plainly implied, that the average American citizen is not endowed with enough common sense to merit the right to vote, and that the pancea for all our governmental ills lies in disfranchising the general public and permitting none save an “intelligent minority” to visit the polls. While there is not much doubt that better government could be obtained, if only the highly intelligent were permitted to vote, and they could he induced to waive all selfish interests, in consideration of past experience, we have no reason to suppose the highly intelligent element of the country would suddenly become altruistic and refuse to exploit their disfranchised breathren as of yore. Highly intelligent Wall Street leaders were the real directors of our national government for many years and we now have a concrete example of what happens when the intelligent minority permits its cupidity to rule. If our “best minds” were entirely unselfish, most of us would be glad to say “Amen” to the idea of restricting the privilege of the ballot, but until that time arrives, most of us will favor trying to struggle along the way we are going. The average voter may not know it all, but he can. tell when hU stomach is empty, his family des.timte and when things have been pretty generally cornered by the select few. Then again, if it had been left to our “best minds” to decide, Herbert Hoover would still he the President of the United States and little, if anything, accomplished towards aiding the poor. No doubt a good king could govern us better than we can govern ourselves, hut all kings were not good kings. And somehow or another, most of us prefer to have some way of peacefully correcting abuses when things become radically wi’ong. Judging from the way International affairs are looking, some bright morning we may awake to find that New York, or Philadelphia, or Boston has been blown to “smithereens” by an invading air fleet. And just about that time we will probably begin to sit up and take notice that the airplane, as a military weapon, is not to he sneezed at. Everyone with an ounce of sense is aware that our old-line army and our expensive collection of armored rafts called battleships, could afford us no protection in case of an invasion by an enemy air armada. Yet here we sit, year after year, complacently permitting the large steel companies to block all plans for an adequate air fleet, that tnillions of dollars may be appropriated annually to construct floating targets, on which gold braided admirals may strut and pose. Of course, the money spent in constructing large armored ships has helped some of our factories and has furnished employment to numerous men, hut it would seem that we can ill afford to leave our important cities wide open to aerial attack by the first little Japanese jingo general who happens to feel aggrieved at Uncle Sam on that particular day. Our gunboats and cruisers have been very useful in policeing the harbors of some of the banana republics down in Central America and keeping order on the Whangpoo River in China, but opposed to an enemy air fleet we had just as well have row boats and sling-shots.
When the American citizens of 300 years from now peruse the historical chronicles which record the foibles of 1934, our present civilization will, no doubt, present a decidedly lop-sided or cock-eyed effect; and when viewed in retrospect will in all probability appear in about the same light as does ancient Rome as portrayed by Mr. Gibbons in his celebrated history. We wonder just how posterity will regard the mentality of a public, w r hich in a year of unprecedented financial and industrial depression, paid a “fair to middlin’ ” hoochie-koochie dancer a larger weekly salary than it paid to Franklin D Roosevelt, upon whose shoulders rested the welfare of the nation, if not the civilized world. It would seem that an historical account of this day and age could be compiled by even the dullest dolt, which would rival in frivolity anything displayed by the court of Marie Antoinette, or by ancient Rome in Nero’s time.
It would be a splendid thing if some kindly philathropic lady or gentleman of wealth would underwrite a project to remove same of the disgraceful hovels, warrens and hutches in which human being are living amid squalor and wretchedness, in the extreme southwest part of this town. (Continued to Page Two)