Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 July 1934 — Page 1

THE POST-DEMOCRAT “HEW TO THE BLOCK; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MIGHT.”

TRUTHFUL

VOLUME 14-—NUMBER 25.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1934.

PRICE: FIVE CENTS

When speaking of fakirs and grafters, most men will say: “They are all right in their place.” Of course they are not thinking of the place set aside for them by an all-wise Providence.

“Hard work never killed any- < one,” but the bumps on the backs of some mother who raised large families is mute evidence that it is in no way comparable to a

“necking party.”

Usually, it is the men and Avomen worth while in this world who accomplish the things of importance in life. It is said, that the extreme hot weather oi . ..^ past few weeks, has causei. many converts to “nudism.” Who the heck wouldn’t become a convert, when all one has to wear is a toothbrush and a fan?

Will someone please give us the names of the quintuplets who are trying to organize the “Sound Money League”? There is no necessity to give their weights and brain capacities. We already know that.

Idle men and women, and the gossipers in general, might find much useful employment by simply keeping their noses out of other people’s business.

Lowest Balance in History of Administration This Was Caused by Delayed June Settlement of Taxes, But Which Has Recently Been Made—Interesting Financial Statement by Controller Holloway. Due to the delayed regular settlement of taxes which was not made to the various governmental units until July 2, the total balance in all funds of the civil city of Muncie dropped to the lowest figure since the inauguration of the Dale administration. The amount of funds available in the banks at the close of June totalled $12,510.68 which is comprised of general fund balance of $4,954.48, the park fund, $132.85, the gasoline tax fund at $3,703.77, the city planning fund, $943.48, and the sinking fund balance of $3,-

776.10.

The receipts into the general fund during the month of June amounted to $18,473.74, while the

“You can’t learn an old dog new tricks,” is an old ,old saying, but you can knock the stuffing out of him if he doesn’t try.

During this hot weather, if your minister, on Sunday mornings, appears to be somewhat frustrated, keeps mopping his brow every few minutes, has a peeved look on his face and seems as though he was

going to swear, don t think ill of - f June amounted to $7,861.59 him. Remember, ministers are! _. & v

just human beings and their unusual , actions may be caused by

disbursements from this fund totalled $50,436. The balance in this fund at the close of May amounted to $36,916.74. The park fund received $2,000 during June as an advance draiv upon the spring tax distribution. The disbursements from the park fund last month amounted to $3,848.97, and the balance at the beginning of June was

$1,981.82.

Increase in Funde.

The gasoline tax fund received $100 during June and there was expended from the fund a total of $4,257.82 during the same time. The balance in this fund at the begin-

INDIANA DEMOS WILL WELCOME P. M. G. FARLEY

them still wearing their last winter’s, red flannel underwear, due to the fact that you have failed to pay up your back church dues, or lie may na^TTrfed driving to meeting in a second hand car, minus a carburetor and without gas. Try

There were no receipts nor disbursements from either the city planning fund or the sinking fund during last month which left the same balances as of June 1, to remain at the close of the month. Last Monday the- county auditor’s office distributed the spring tax collections which increased the

pay big dividends,

worth trying..

Anyway it is

paying him his salary. It might (general fund balance by $40,209.18,

the park fund, $4,060.05 and the jinking fund by $6,704.42. There had been previous advance draws upon the May tax collections for the general fund to the extent of $110,000, a park fund advance of

Some local politicians and office holders, whose fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers have held the same offices throughout many generations, are so pleased with .themselwes' f a'S7l their administration of public 1 affairs, they walk up every morning and kiss the Courthouse, before beginning work.

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Clell Maple, L.. W. D. F„ has just published another of his famous letters in the local press

Elaborate Plans Being Made—Radio Address to Be Broadcast.

More than 1,500 Indiana Democrats will greet the party’s national chairman, Postmaster-General James A. Farley, at the banquet to be given in his honor by the Democratic state committee at 6

40,000 People See Celebration Here on July 4th Another Demonstration of What City Parks Have Come to Mean to Muncie During Dale Administration — Entertainment

Without Jeopardy.

Last Wednesday, ^July 4, the fifth annual celebration, sponsored by the Dale administration, attracted over 40,000 citizens afid visitors to McCulloch Park, where a full day of Activity and entertainment was enjoyed by the immense crowd. The feature acts with the Aerial Bauers and the Seven Franklins, followed by the huge fireworks display, entertained the capa-

city crowd without jeopardy to none.

—' At 10 o’clock in the morning a

ELKHART, IND„ WOMAN TO BE MEN'S HOSTESS

Here ne ’There, Everywhere

Miss Oarlotta Weith Has Had Much Experience in Work.

p.m. Friday, July 13, in the Riley “baek to schools during the preset,i

Room of the Claypool Hotel Indianapolis, Omer Stokes Jackson, the state chairman, announced. Elaborate plans for welcoming Mr. Farley are being made. If he arrives in the city in time, a reception will be held at the Claypool Hotel with county chairmen and vice-chairmen as well as India-

Urging Indiana citizens to file . “you must pay now. If you owe July gross income tax returns less than $10 you are urged to pay promptly and help the schools, the | now. Tax money made available state gross income tax division has ! for sch ° o1 distribution now will _ _ .« ,. , „ , I help hold down 1935 school tax arranged for the display of post- WioB tn h(i fall „

ers like the above in all state auto license branches and in other prominent locations in Muncie

and other cities.

“Income tax officials point out that more than $8,000,000 of gross income tax money is being sent

$8,000 and an advance to tJf^.’SiulEw^ia Democratic editors on the

activ^i reception committee will comi^sed lof th$ members of

ing fund of $12,000. f

For the first half tof the year, 1934, the total receipts ’ipto ; the^

general fund amounted to $$67,-J stated committee ^45.31, which includes the^balance ~ ™ ‘ ~ • '

jn this fund at the close‘of 1933 and a $50,000 temporary loan negotiated the first of this year. The total disbursements from the general fund during the first six

in which he has set -out in detail,4 months of 1934 amounted to $262,-

all the short comings of President ‘ Roosevelt, and explaining how the country should at once be reHooverlzed, Isn’t it strange how some people can make an ass of themselves and not know it? What Clell needs more than anything else is a cow’s drink of salts, or a touch of “Doc” Trent’s needle, apr

plied to his “funny hone.”

The fellows who were always noted for “getting the cart before the horse,” would still continue to do business in the old way, if they could Only find a horse. • o Muncie Officers At ... Ft. Benj. Harrison Forty-four Reserve Officers have reported to the Commanding General, Ft. Benj. Harrison, Indiana for a two weeks tour of active duty in conjunction with the Citizens’ Military Training Camp now being held at that stalion under the supervision of Colonel . P. Robinson, 11th Infantry, the immediate Camp Commander. Among the officers from Muncie having reported for duty are: flfciijor 0. Norcross, 35th Infantry, Captain, C. M. Drajoo, 335th Infantry, 1st Lt. E. R. Dillon, 335th Inf., 1st Lt. P. A. Bowden, 335th Inf., 1st Lt. C. F. Reed, 335 Inf, 1st Lt. K. S. Thornburg, 335 In. 1st Lt. K. W. Oring, 335th Inf., 1st Lt. W. T. Lesh, 335 Inf. H. R. Phipps, 335th Inf. 2nd Lt. H. B. Yohey. The religious side of the camp life has not been neglected. Five Chaplains will assist the Regular army chaplain in this important phase of the soldier’s life.

890.83, of which $50,000 is the repayment of the temporary loan and not an actual expenditure. The disbursements from this fund have increased over the previous year for the first six months due to the expenditures made for materials with which to carry on the CWA pro-

gram in Muncie.

Much Work Accomplished. The park fund receipts for the first half of 1934 totalled $43,154.16 which includes the 1933 balance of $2,193.56, and receipts from the .sale of bonds for park CWA proj(Continued to Page Four)

school year to replace money which otherwise would have to be raised through local property taxes. Distributions of additional millions will be made next year, the amount depending on the size of gross in-

come tax collections.

“If you owe $10 or more for the | have been made available at auto past quarter,” the poster reads, license branches.

levies to be made thk-, fall.”

July returns, according to C. A. Jackson, director of the Income Tax Division, cover income for the months of April, May and June, and must be filed by July 15. The exemption for the three-month period is $250. Persons who did not file a quarterly return in April but desire to file in July should file a return covering the period from January 1, to June 30, Jackson said. The exemption for the

six-month period is $500.

Tax return forms and information, as in past paying periods,

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and prominajiit

Deihd|rats v including Goverph'K' Paul a V. McNutt and senator

Frederick Wan Nuys. Speech To Be Broadcast

Arrangements have been made for loud speaking apparatus which will carry Mr Farley’s words to every person in the throng at the banquet. His address also will be broadcast over a statewide hookup of radio stations including WKBF at Indianapolis, WOWO at Fort Wayne, WIND at Gary and WAVE at Louisville. The broadcast will he from 7 to 8 p.m., central stand-

ard time.

Tickets for the banquet are iu the hands of all county chairmen and vice-chairmen. Because of the large crowd expected to be present, sale of the tickets will he discontinued three days before the ban(Continued to Page Four)

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Bluebloods” \ ..j f > • i Snub Roosevelt

No Amateur Parrot. A man who believed he knew all about parrots undertook to teach what he thought to be a young mute bird to say “Hello!” in one lesson. Going up to the cage he repeated that word in a clear voice for several minutes, the parrot paynot the slightest attention. At the final “Hello v the bird opened one eye, gazed at the man, and snapped out, “Line’s busy!”

‘Jack Rabbit Drivers’ Cause Many Deaths Hairbrained Individuals Just Cannat Wait Their Turn Are Directly Responsible for Great Loss of Lives

(BY BERT PIERCE, AUTO EDITOR NEW YORK HERALDTRIBUNE) THE MOTORIST who weaves in and out of the traffic line in reckless disregard of traffic rules and the rights and safety of others is nothing more nor less than a traffic “chiseler.” His actions are responsible for a great many deaths and injuries on our highways. For some strange reason this hair-brained individual just can’t await his turn. He drives as if he were catching a train or rushing to a fire. His death-defy-ing chances are all in the day’s work for, because of a false confi- i deuce in his ability to chisel j through, they do not seem like chances at all. Must Head Parade. So he sails along, usually much too fast, worming in, out and around, laboring under the mad delusion that he must head the traffic parade. He seems utterly unmindful or the fact that eventually he will have to cool his pneumatic heels at some red light on down the street where the few seconds

saved will have to he wasted all over again. To a non-medical analyst this type of jack rabbit driver would seem to be about ripe for the psychopathic ward where, at least, his uncontrollable urge to hurry will not jeopardize other users of the highway. In One State Alone. Follow his criss-cross trail of death and suffering through the motor vehicle accident reports of 1933 and one finds an interesting story. Let us look, for example, at the tragic records of the state of New York for the past year. Of the total of 2893 highway deaths in this state, 1095 fatalities can be charged up directly to the wrongful acts of drivers And o f these just about 23 per cent were caused by drivers who just couldn’t stay in line long enough to insure the safety of themselves and others. Woeful Ignorance. In 178 of the fatal crashes he was clear over on the wrong side of the road and in most of these cases he was trying to pass other cars. He (Continued to Page Four)

Fifth Avenue Kiddies Told Ickes Is Bogey Man — White House Parties Called Drunken Orgies Society has snubbed Franklin White House party at which the

President and Mrs. Roosevelt remained but a short time before retiring. The party broke up before eleven. Some 3.2 beer was the most potent liquid refreshment served. Upon his return to Newport and New York he found general acceptance of a story appearing in a temperance magazine which described “kegs of beer, rivers of liquor, drunkenness in the White

House!”

Miss Carlotta Weith, Elkhart, Indiana, reported on July 4th to assume the duties of hostess and lend the feminine touch to the C. M. T. Camp, at Ft. Benjamin Har-

rison. Indianapolis.

Miss Weith, who has had much were repeated again

soft ball game was played between the Kleinfelder Beverage Co. and the Phi Delta Kappa teams with the K. B. G.’s winning by a score of 5 to 2. A great many picnic dinners were served throughout the park and tables and park benches were at a premium all day. At 2:45 o’clock in the afternoon, the Muncie Citizens baseball team met the Brookville, Indiana, club with the result of a 1-9 victory for the home team. A record crowd witnessed one of the best ball games ever played in McCulloch park. A Hot Ball Game Following the hall game the Aerial Bauers put on their sensational trapeze acts 70 feet in the air and the Seven Franklins entertained the huge audience with a stage program at the foot of the large hill in the park. These acts

in the eve-

In our opinion, one of the greatest mistakes that could possibly be made, would be for the advocates of the Presidents ideas concerning control of industrial plants, to take a radical or extremist attitude and insist that business management be hampered by a long list of petty restrictions and annoyances. This writer has never been much in favor of hureauocracy, and for that matter would be in favor of letting everyone run their own business without governmental interference, if he believed that the rugged individualistic idea would work out in this day of mass pro-' duction and modern machinery, without involving widespread starvation and underconsumption,. It would seem that every business should be forced to pay a certain specified minimum wage and to work but the required number of hours as per code—and. then be left largely to its own devices. If governmental bureaus, which frequently tend to assume more authority that Congress intends, to delegate, should adopt the hahir clerks to pry into the details of business management and attempt to dictate the details of industrial management, that plan would react violently. Let’s see that business is given a square deal and then insist that decent wages and regulation hours be adopted by all firms. As we see it, that is the only place where the government should be in the picture; and that because of public necessity.

exnerience in hostess work, served nin S after the fireworks display, with the American Red Cross in The fireworks were set off across

Washington for fourteen months during the World War, under Fredrc M. Ayers, director of the ser-

vice of supplies. She was a Tnother an< ^ roadway was a mass of

D. Roosevelt and is at present busily villifying him through a “whispering campaign” of unprecedented proportions, according to Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr, writing in Liberty

Magazine.

The reasons, as reported by the writer, are simply that blue bloods are afraid of Roosevelt and what his program means to them. He is a communist in their eyes who brought about the trial of Mitchell, society’s favorite banker, and who would dare to persecute Mr. Morgan and Mr. Mellon, and who talks about the “redistribution of wealth.” Not Interested In Truth. One authority told him, says Vanderbilt, that New York subscribers to a Washington information service was dissatisfied with iteifis furnished them unless they had some negative implication. “They are not interested in the truth,” this person told the writer. They crave wild rumors. Whv, do you know that the other day I got hell from a Wall Street banker because I sent him a wire denying the story connecting a member of the adminstration with an unpleasant scandal? ‘Am tired of your ballyhooing the administration.” he wired back. ‘Insist upon getting real facts for my money.’ When a member of the cabinet catches a slight cold I don’t dare describe it as a ‘slight cold’ in my wires. ‘Secretary So-and-So is ill at home. The nature of his mysterious illness is being kept a secret by his physicians,’ is mv way of describing a slight

cold.”

Ickes Held to Scorn. Vanderbilt quotes the same authority as stating that Fifth avenue children are taught to look upon Secretary Ickes of the Interior as a big bad wolf and that he doesn’t dare send out anything about Ickes finding jobs for 2,000.000 unemployed but that he must interview some disgruntled middle-Western grafter instead and send: “Have just learned from unimpeachable sources that the breakdown of the PWA program in the Middle West is imminent”. Vanderbilt says he attended a

AGRICULTURE SECRETARY ON CHILD LABOR

Denies That the Children Could No Longer Do Farm Chores

of the last American Red Cross unit sent to France after the armistice, serving' in hospital huts and canteens until the summer of 1919, when she was transferred to the Roumanian commission. From here she went to Constantinople, where acted as personnel officer and had charge of the United States-Rus-sian postoffice. S Plenty Of Experience. Still later Miss Weith was sent by th£'Red Qross^to CohJentZj German^/. ’ where she operated the recreation hut. until the troops returned home. Miss Weith was the Women’s Overseas League’s first hostess at the first C.M.T.C. at Fort Knox in 1922. Her work was done so well that the army offered her the regular hostess job at Plattsburg Barracks, N. Y. . For the past eight years Miss Weith has been connected with the Massachusetts state hoard of health, division of examination of prisoners.

the river from the park and the entire river bank together with the grandstand, bleacher seats,

people.

A dance followed the evening performances in the park shelter house with Hoover’s Orchestra furnishing the music. The MIRMA association held its last drawing for the summer months at 10 o’clock after which the crowds began to separate for home leaving only those attending the dance and some who were seeking relief from the heat ; ; of. the: day. The Krafts j Novelty band" furnished concert , music during the day and accompaniment for the feature acts.

Got It Honestly. r Note from teacher on Betty’s report card—Good worker, but talks too much. Note from father over signature on back of card—Come over sometime and meet her mother.

Isn’t it strange that every one of the staff of able writers, who have regularly written for the Saturday Evening Post, for the past ten years, should he so bitterly opposed to progress and should simultaeously take an ultraconservative stand? Writing men, as a rule, are more or less liberal in their views, and it is to be suspected that certain captains of finance have made »{p those learned authors minds for them. Somehow it doesn’t sound reasonable that some of those individual writers could not find even a shred of good in any phase of the New Deal. Nor that, no more than they have invested, they should be so mightily concern^KT about certain technical questions of finance.

WHY MASKS HAVE EARS Little incidents often give birth to great ideas. And just in case you are one of the numerous baseball fans who have been asking who first thought of the idea of putting ear protectors on the masks worn by umpires, here is how it happened. Way back in 1912 an umpire named Billy Evans was checking them off behind the plate when a fast one pitched by Walter Johnson passed through the catcher’s hands and seriously damaged the umpire’s ear. Right then and there Evans decided an umpire’s ears deserved protection and told the manufacturers so—and there have been ear protectors on the umps’ masks ever since.

Tools Inadequate To Repeal Invasion If War Catches Us Napping Says Gen. Bullard — Britain May Come Down the St. Lawrence

Farm opposition to the proposed child labor amendment to the Federal Constitution appears to be dwindling. Evidence of definite farm bloc support for the amendment has just appeared in a statement from Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, strongly supporting the proposal. Twenty states have thus far rattified the amendment. Sixteen more will make it the law of the land. Opposition of farm spokesmen has heretofore been based on the argument that, if it were passed, children could no longer do their farm chores or help a neighbor in a busy season. Secretary Wallace denies this, in a signed article for The Country Home, a national

farm magazine.

What Straw Vote Shows A straw vote, taken by the same magazine among typical farm families, shows that two out of three farmers favor "extending the child labor laws to govern working hours of children on farms ” Secretary Wallace’s statement on (Continued to Page Four)

War would find the United States and paramount weapon of war”

unprepared, says Lieutenant General Lee Bullard, formerly in command of the American Second Army in France, writing in Liberty Maga-

zine.

“In major wars we sacrifice tens of thousands in needles casualties while we prepare,” the writer states. “It would take fourteen months for ns to replane our anti-

(2) The striking changes in the nature of War. Modern wars are not fought by armies but by people. Our Navy could not prevent Great Britain’s from sailing down the broad St. Lawrence River, writes the General, and, by means of airplanes, striking terror into the heart of the triangular area bounded approximately by Wash-

ouated artillery with modern I ington, Chicago and New York.

pmces. In the last war we delivered man power only, turning the tide of victory. But our men fought with artillery, tanks and airplanes furnished by our allies.” Airolanes Come First. General Bullard lavs heavv emphasis upon the need of airplanes. He writes: “We are seventeenth amons militarv powers Our armv air corps is sixth. Our navy is third in effective strength. In vulnerable boundries we are first. In wealth we are firsthand in world envy. In men under arms per billion dollars of wealth we are last.” Dominant factors in modern warfare and defense are (1) the airplane. “It has become the first

Tools Are Inadequate. After listing the tools with which we would have to repel foreign invasion: “It is folly to think they are adequate.” And the speed with which war can be launched gives the unprepared less and less time. "It may surprise readers to learn that as our defenses are at present constituted some military experts assert emphatically that It would be possible for a European power to place an army of 100,000 men on the Atlantic seaboard more quickly than we could do so and regardless of whether our fleet happened to be in the Pacific or Atlantic,” writes General Bullard.

When the vast Tennessee Valley Improvejpent'prpject was just starting, the entire valley was overruli by an army of county seat lawyers and other local citizens of more or i less prominence, who set-out to warn the farmers, whose land must be purchased in order that construction he started, to have nothing to do with the “carpetbaggers”, “cussed Yankees" and other like “furriners” representing the gOrernment, that wished to buy their lands. Those local dignitaries, w r hom subsequent investigation proved, usually derived nice legal fees for representihg the power corporations, also predicted that the large elictrification endeavors would be badly bungled by the Federal government. Citizens of towns adjacent to the new waterpower dams, who are now getting their electricity from Uncle Sam, at approximately onethird of the former rate charged by private concerns, have discovered that most of the gloomy predictions dispensed by the aforementioned dignitaries were without foundation. If the American people are smart enough to wait another year, until the effects of the new slum elimination plan have a chance to b* seen, and until some of the other remarkable New Deal projects are further along, before joining tbf anvil chorus, composed of “soiw grapes, hut of office politicians”, they may be agreably surprised at the resujts. Take, for example, the larisedtations of old Jim Watson, who nhwir accomplished anything constructive in his life but who sits around gryping and saying “it can’t he done”, to all suggested improve-

ments.

Wouldn’t it be a brilliant idea, at this stage of the game, to b£gin following the suggestions of the same old failures, who had charge of affairs during the Hoover debacle; and who, when the showdown arrived, did not have the slightest idea as to the mens of remedying their own sorry mess? Most of those individuals intimately connected with the failure of the Hoover regime, are wise enough to realize that their political hopes are somewhat deader than th» original passengers on Noah’s Ark, and remain discretely silent. A few thick-hided stalwarts attempt to bluster their way out of obscurity by destructive criticism. When the Republican party comes back, it will be with an entirely new set of leaders. The rank and file of that party, being about as badly disgusted as was the (Continued to Page Fourjl