Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 24 August 1934 — Page 1

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VOLUME 14—NUMBER 32.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934.

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The Gossiper

Where do the newspapers anjl people in general get this stuff about the women “wearing the trousers” when there are millions of male investigators ready to swear that there isn’t one in a thousand that does? * * * The laboring man with a large family to support, and rent to pay, who is working with a pick and shovel helping to build a ship-canal at $10 per week, shouldn’t feel disappointed if he fails to see his “ship come in.” * * * One can stop an automobile horn from blowing by cutting or disconnecting the wires, but the fellow who is continually “blowing his own horn” .in only be stopped by chloroformuiL him. * * * It is always well to remember that the shirt your neighbor is wearing, may not look near so dirty if you will take a little time and wipe your specs. * * * Few people with a clear conscience have ever been known to lose their minds. Many who have sustained such loss, went crazy trying to explain away their own crookedness. * * * Statisticians inform us “that there are one and one-half million persons in the United States who are employed daily in trying to keep us well." What good does that do when there are twice that many Republican editors and politicians engaged daily in making one hundred and twenty million people sick? * * * Down at Hoboken, N. J., Dick Rost sold his wife, Hildegard, to Paul Herman, for $700. He wanted the money to buy stamps. We never took any medals as a beauty expert at the fairs, but if Hildegard looks anything like she is pictured in the newspapers, Paul paid about $699.98 too much money. * * i* Maybe it can be done, but we have our doubts, and have frequently noticed that the big league batters who "consequently hit the ball, didn’t learn the art from watching their mothers mixing pancake batter. * * >* What Muncie should do is build a canning factory in McCulloch Park, at the mouth of Miller’s Branch, and can the “beef soup”, that comes from the packing house. * * •* A man’s actions may sometimes betray his lack of common sense, especially when he tries to fatten his wallet with some other fellow’s dollars and cents. * * * If one will put in a day at the new swimming pool at Tuhey Park, watching the male part of the population bathing, they will easily understand why men are not so strong for nudism. * * « The one great trouble with the Indiana old age pension law, is that when an eldely person makes application for a pension, he or she generally dies before they can g£t the “red tape” unwound. Perhaps the lawmakers figured that it was just as well for them to die in anticipation, rather than to die of starvation on the meager amount of pension provided under the law. * * * The public seldom accepts a man’s good opinion of himself as conclusive evidence that he is all he says he is. They usually wait for some one else to do a little talking. * * >* After learning that Bill Daniel, our efficient street commissioner, is soon to he relieved of his jub, the government immediately got busy installing outdoor contraptions for the receipt of waste. My!. Isn’t it off-fall?

Specifications and Plan Get Full Approval

Shay” Minton to Take Lil Artie to Cleaners

The one-point Senator Robinson failed to mention in his “twelvepoint” harrangue—a very importont one—was that when the hands of the clock “point” to 12, midnight, November 6, 1934, Sherman Minton will be the next United States Senator from Indiana.

Senator Robinson reminds

somewhat of ex-Governor Ed Jackson and his saddle “boss.” Ed always had the saddle on, wrong end in front, so that no one could tell

which way he was going.

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Recently a fire broke out in the little French village of Billiare-en-Benganne. Like many other places in the world there was an extreme shortage of water. The -Jnhapitants carried cider from their cellars and ’extinguished the flames.

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The state board of health has at last done one good thing which all should appreciate: They have eliminated the milkman with long, flowing beards, so that it is impossible for them to mop up the spilled milk with their whiskers and then squeeze- it back into the milk can. This possibly explains why we see fewer hairs in the butter.

In addition to the full approval of p^am and specifications, rate schedules and methods of financing the proposed sanitary sewer system for Muncie received from F. M. Logan, state engineer for the Public Works Administration, last week, another letter of approval was forwarded Monday to Mayor Rale from Dr. Verne K. Harvey, director of the Indiana Division of Public Health. While the letter from Mr, Logan emphasized the non-acceptance by the Federal government of either general obligation bonds or special assessment certificates ( as security for the authorized PWA loan and grant to the city of Muncie for construction of the sewer project, thereby destroying two of the argumentative “stalls” for delayed action by the common council on this project, the state board of health letter of approval stresses attention to the necessity and insistance of the constructio of the Buck Creek interceptor as outlined in the present plans and specifications. There has been a movement on

LaFiesta Show at Rivoli Theater

Keep Your Eye on Hitler’s Germany The German situation passed out of the headlines for the moment—but it will be wise to keep watch on it. Austria is struggling with civil war—-Italy has troops rtady to go into battle on short

notiqe—and the problem that Cen- j State Theatre in Chicago.

Citing numerous benefits of the New Deal administration and denouncing political adversaries of President Roosevelts Recovery program, Sherman of span-1 Minton, of New Albany, Democratic candidate for

ces, Senorita Maria Isabel, is a Denison visitor. Her entourage comprises 42 people, part of the troup which is ,enroute to the

tral Europe presents grows constantly more important to the

peace of the world.

All European byes are turned on Hitler, the iron-handed dictator.

He recently made a speech in errey

which he advocated international p-ace and understanding—but other governments still want to be shown. They know that Germany is embittered, that the Treaty of Versailles still rankles, and they

The noted interpreter

fijh, Mexican and Anduiusian dan-1 United States Senator from Indiana, made the prin-

cipal address before several thousands of persons attending the picnic and political gathering held at McCulloch Park Thursday afternoon and evening sponsored by the Democratic county women’s organization. The Democratic county and city candidates, the county organization officers, and the district Democratic chairman, Anderson Ketchum, of Greensburg, and Vice-Chairman, Mrs. Emory Scholl, of Connersville, all attended the rally in the interests of the po-

litical campaign this fall. ,

Senorita Maria Isabel is the featured dancer in La Fiesta Unit, which is being sent from Mexico under the sponsorship of the Mont-

Chamber of commerce.

The La Fiesta Show will play three days at the Rivoli Theatre,

August 26-28 inclusive.

•are preparing for any eventuality. ; dances.

The ensemble includes Micha, master of the ballet, and twenty beautiful Mexican and Spanish

the part of local dissenters and politicians to omit the construction of hte Buck Creek interceptor ’which would provide for sewage treatment and the elimination of stream pollution by the south part of the city, but, inasmuch as this ommission would not fully aleviate the pollution problems in Muncie, the state board fo health has ordered that the Buck Creek interceptor be constructed as well as >the sewjage treatment works for the cleansing of White River. What Other Excuse? Now that the several proposed changes in the Muncie sewer plans which have been deliberated by the common council for months as a slow death knell to the entire project have been met with complete disapproval by both state and Federal authorities, it is wondered what next will be the excuse for withholding jobs from numerous unemployed in accordance with President Roosevelt’s Recovery program, the allowance for removing clothes pins from the noses of all citizens who reside within several blocks of the river, and the treatment of Muncie’s sewage problem for better sanitary cam ditions and the efiear^ing^of White River. ? % fS Again, it must be feajfaed that the executive departmenjis* of the (Continued to Page ^ix)

SHERMAN MINTON-BIO GRAPHY AND MESSAGE

A Biography

REMEMBERING SOME IHINGS OF HAZY PAST

Work of Hardy Pioneers —What Will Future Bring Forth?

(By R. M. Hofer.) I dropped into Eugene, Oregon, recently to see the Oregon Trail celebration. Expected to be bored by an ordinary pageaut program. Instead I left much chastened and more than ever appreciative of the courage, initiative, ambition and enterprise that developed our United States from the Atlantic co^st to the last fronier on the Pa-

cific ocean.

This pageant was so beautifully 'done and so all-inclusive in pic-

Oratorical firehand and veteran campaigner in the capse of Hoosier Democracy, Sherman Minton of New Albany who heads the State ticket this fall, is the man who will retire from politics the present Republican Senator. A tired and trustworthy public servant, Mr. Minton has all the qualifications necessary to represent ably the people of Indiana in Washington. He was horn in Floyd County in the rural community of Georgetown and reared among the hills near the Ohio river. After attending high school, Mr. Minton continued his higher education at Indiana University. His qualities of leadership were recognized by his fellow students, and as an athlete of undying fame, debater, leader men, he forged steady to the f^&nt. (je graduated from the law school at the State University and was Awarded a scholarship to Yale. LateR he studied international law at thp University of Iparis. .Jn th4 fall of 1916,,* Mr. Minton rqturn,e^ to New Aj^hny for the praot#Sg of law. The hexl year bro^ ught the World War, and he enlist-j

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tion when more Mr. Minton returned to New Albany. After three years practicing in Florida he returned to his old firm in New Albany. In civilian life, one of Mr. Minton’s first activities was to organize the New Albany Post of the American Legion. He later served as commander and was active in the State department of the Legion, which he served one year as Judge Advocate and Successive years on Legislative committees. Besides the American Legion, Mr. Minton is a mmber of the Elks, the Masonic Lodge and the Phi Delta Theta national collegiate fratornity. He is married and has a family of two boys and a girl. When the Democratic party answered the call of the electorate oin 1932 and Governor McNutt went to the Statehouse, one of the first men designated to aid him in the rehabilitation of the people was Sherman Minton. As public counsellor for the public utility patrons. When reasoning and proliminary

POLITICAL POT IS SIMMERING, WILL SOON BOIL

Republicans Give Dire Outlook — Democrats Claim New Deal Success

The great drive for November votes is beginning—and both major parties are throwing themselves into the job of getting them with more force than they have

shown for many years.

1 Republicans, who have been dorj mant for the last year and a half, are emerging. Definite, reasoned opposition to tire Roosevelt progrom is springing up. In a recent magazine article Senator Dickinson, who proposed Herbert Hoover at the convention which nominated him, made these definite criticisms of the present administration: That the Democratic party has . been leadiij£*uS<?Joward a dictator/l'ship'^ tha^Tts rale of expenditure 'of publicjjfiinds, iff continued, will »result",in Rational baiferuptcy; that it is destroying indipdjhjlism and

private initiativethF /Republican princ4>lesf| is-i to the preservation of U «%itibnal government and cient traditions. Mr. r ! 'points are generally in

aeford with those of Charman Fletcher of the Republican central

committee.

Democrats Not Asleep. The Democratic party is not taking criticism “lying down." For example: Recently only two cabinet officers—Hull, of the State Department, and Perkins, bf the Labor Department—were in Wash(Continued to Page Six)

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Sherman Minton

A great many attendants brought baskets of provisions for the p’cnic while others were served refreshments before the regular meeting opened with Mrs. Maragret Harrison introducing County Chairman Earl Tuhey, who presided throughout the program. All local candidates were introduced to the crowds after which District Chairman Ketchum presented the senatorial candidate, “Shay” Minton, as he is commonly known among his many followers. Mayor George R. Dale extended greetings to the huge audience and requested the utmost support to Mr. Minton, who is the man to take “Artie” Robinson. present U. S. Senator and Republican nominee for re-election, to the cleaners this fall. Attacks Republican party Acclaiming that the present national administration has done more than any other administration for the entire people of our country, especially the farmers and home owners who were faced with great losses by foreclosures, Mr. Minton severely attacked the Republican party for attempting to discredit the President’s policies by stamping them as unconstitutional w r hen all such actions of the New Deal administration have been for the benefit of the masses of American citizens and the assistance of a restoration to better economic condiUons. The government agene^e^Swhicb have aided to afford"jqbs Yffr- the unemployed, to feed the'hungry, and clothe the needy, to save ’the homes and farms of thousands of unfortunate people, and otherwise assist in the recovery of prosperity throughout the land, all these accompliah--ments by President Roosevelt were strongly upheld by the speaker and the full support of Mr. Minton as United States Senator w’as prom-

ised the New Deal. Friend Of Soldier

Himself having served with the Expeditionary forces overseas during the World War, the Democratic nominee emphasized his favorable position for the ex-ser-vice men of our country. Bemoaning their loss of control of our gov(Contmued to Page Six)

turing the human emotions that diplomacy failed, he gave battle

A Message

carry civilization forward, that in these troubled timrs it should be shown in everp art of the country, with suitable changes for each lo-

cality.

The Oregon Trail pageant portrayed the discovery and settling

up of the Oregon territory from liac ulIin)

the time of the legendary Mayas the river.’He is a man. among mn.

us down to the present. The trapper.

uncompromisingly until the victory

was won.

A stalwart character, given to high principle and rugged honesty, Mr. Mintoq wMll carry the fight to the opposit’on. Neighbors sav this of him: “He has the stability of the hills; the relentless urge of

In a personal word, I w r ant to take this opportunity to pay my respects to the Democratic editors of Indiana. In the contes^ to communicate truth to our people concerning political and governmental affairs of our state and nation under Democratic administrations, I realize you are out-numbered by the the opposition. But you can take this from history, that the small compact armies, alert to all situations and moving swiftly, many times have overthrown troops greatly out-numbering them. Thanks to the militant work of the Democratic editors of Indiana

the works of sincere Democratic V. McNutt.

officials in fulfilling party campaign pledges are kept before the eyes of the public. With out the splendjd Democratic newspapers of our state, our party’s cause could soon be lost. If our story is told by the opposition press it becomes the criticism of the opposition. No honest purpose can succeed in a storm of dinhonest, biased, unfair and even malicious criticism. To Democratic editors and, through you, to Democratic candidates and workers throughout the state, I wish to state that my candidacy for the United States Senate, is a candidacy for a complete victory for the party in Indiana. My campaign is your campaign. Together w-e seek public support of the policies and works of that great President, Franklin D. Roosevelt,, and of our fine Governor, Paul

the prospector, huge trains of covered w'agons, travel by stagecoach, the pony express, all passed in a colorful historic review across an open air stage 250 feet long, with settings -of typical mountain scenery. A starlit western sky and a warm summer evening breeze carrying the scent of the mountains added a final touch of realism.

Hard Pioneer Life.

Pioneer life was shown—hard,

tragic, beautiful, character build-1 the past

ing—with its love stories, mar-' riages, births and deaths. Here also was shown the family life, the welcome rests at night with wagons forming a circle of protection while the weary travelers danced, prayed, played games—anything, in an effort to forget the constant danger from savage Indians. The audience lived through the conferences of the tanned, grim-faced

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Swim Pool

The total receipts from the new municipal swimimng pool at Tuhey park from July 17th, opening day, 'to 1 August 22nd amounted to $3,175.03 or an average of $85.81 per day. The cooler weather during

week has lowered the

daily patronage of the pool and with the season getting well towards the end it is expected that the new project will cease activity within the next few weeks until

next spring.

The ttoal expenditures to date for operation of the pool amount to $1,170.18 which represents payroll only. The costs of water, lights, and chemicals are not included in the above disbursements but it is

I estimated that they will not exceed f $500 to $750. It is evident that the new project has been profitable , to the city in actual revenue as well as a great convenience to the ’citizens of Muncie who enjoy waiter sports and the beautification of /pork property. o — "' Poorest Gamble; Risk Is Too Great Would you gamble $17,000,000 against one dollar? You wouldn’t, of course, no matter how good you thought your chance of winning. At those odds, no wager could possibly be worth the risk you would take. It is very possible, however, that you take an even poorer bet than that every day—that you ac-

cept, consciously or unconsciously, life’s poorest gamble. If you are 35 years old, you will, on the average, live for 17,000,O',X) more minutes. To save one little minute, thousands of automobile drivers risk losing the entire 17,000,000 minutes that are coming to them. They take that risk whenever they drive excessively fast, i whenever they cut in and out of traffic, whenever they pass other cars on hills or curves, whenever they are guilty of one of the many acts of carelessness that may cause an accident.. Each year in this county about 33,000 people make the 17,000,000-to-one wager with death—and lose. Hundreds of thousands of others are injured. Millions sustain needless property damage, estimated to reach a total of over a billion dollars.

FOR WAYS THAT ARE DARK Bret Harte, writing of the “heathen Chinee/’ ascribed to the lowly Celestial “ways that are dark and tricks that are vain.” We can think of no better description of the attitude of full blooded Americans of Muncie who are secretly trying to kill off the sewer and disposal project. A prominent Muncie man, who sees through “the old army game,” gave an apt illustration. He once took an active part as a lobbyist against a certain bill that had been introduced in the legislature. Conferring with a senator he knew to be opposed to the measure he asked the legislator to come out in the open with his opposition. “Oh no,” replied the experienced statesman. “That’s not the way to kill this bill.” “We’ll all be for it, one hundred percent, and then kill it off by objecting to details.” And that very thing happened and the senator was loud in his indignation when the bill was killed, and greatly deplored the fact that the originator of the righteous measure had not gpne about it in right way. And that’s exactly what is happening to the sewer project, which the government has agreed to finance to the tune of a million plus. Those who are secretly pledged to kill the project because the Dale Democrat administration has sponsored it are all for the sewer, one hundred percent, and will tell you so, BUT—yammer, yammer, yammer, which interpreted means that the dotting of i and the crossing of t should be amended. It seems quite likely that the secret propaganda will succeed and that the only chance ever offered Muncie to do this work will be amended to death. And the people will wake up some day and wonder why they ever listened to such bunk.

Here,The r e, Everywhere

The Honorable Fredrick Landis, of Logansport, Ind., who is engaged in a hopeless endeavor to be ,elected to Congress, on the Republican ticket, recently asserted that President Roosevelt doesn’t know what it is all about.” But it is to be noticed that Mr. Roosevelt seemed to have a fairly clear idea of what the large New York blue-sky stock and bond business was all about, when he sponsored legislation that put a stop tq the time-honored custom of annually robbing the public of untold millions, through the sa’. of near-bogus securities. Mt\ Roosevelt was evident 1 aware of what had been going Ci throughout the country, when he forced the hankers to guarantee the people’s bank deposits. Nor do the laboring men feel that the President “didn’t know what it vras all about,” when he instituted public works projects to keep them from starving to death, while factory workers can notice, without the use of glasses, that Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed to have full knowledge of factory conditions when he started his drive to secure shorter hours and higher wages in industry. If the Honorable Herbert Hoover, the silk-stockinged Ogden Mills, the plutocratic Andrew Mellon and the thrice-honored James E. Watson, had any knowledge of what the collosal industrial panic, or the preceding years of wild-cat speculation was all about, they carefully refrained from doing anything about it. And it is highly probable that a detailed account of everything Senator Arthur Robinson ever accomplished for the benefit of the public, if written in capital letters, could he neatly folded and concealed beneath a flea’s wing.

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A commission of experts has made a report to the governor concerning the “recodification” of our state criminal code, and out of ten recommendations made in that report, about half of those suggestions seem to be based on solid common sense. Nobody will deny that the “Great Lakes States” should permit one another’s police officers to pursue notoriuos desperados across state lines, and few citiz.ens will oppose endowing state officials with the right to accept donations of real estate to be used for state penal purposes. Nor will many citizens speak out against allowing individuals “who feel themselves slipping” to voluntarily apply for admittance to a state asylum, .w.tyhout waiting for a lunacy commission to undertake

the job.

But the idea of settjqg up a statq sentencing court anfhh* commission empowered to turn loqse jgny convict in a state penitentiary, whom commission might adjudge to insane, has all the possibilities of establishing a huge “star chamber” at Indianapolis. And what is to prevent a group of state politicians—provided we should ever become so unfortunate as to have corrupt individuals among our state politicians—from making some nice fat fees from the gentle practice of getting well-heeled convicted criminals “out of stir” upon the grounds of insanity? The brand of recodification that the citizens of Indiana want to see undertaken, concerns the establishment of some means of keeping our “bad eggs” in the penitentiary and not the establishment of new wavs of letting them out. Then again, everybody is sick and tired of seeing the Supreme Court forced to acquit obviously guilty desperadoes because our present laws compel our high courts to reverse trial court decisions for such flimsy reasons as that the prosecutor’s stenographer, who wrote the original indictment left out a comma. If we need any extra courts t all at Indianapolis, we need a larr . group of judges serving as a si cial supreme court, to clear up the cases that have been dragging fm the last 40 years. If every criminal’s appeal could be finally decided in 30 days’ time, there would be an end to this business of giving bond, appealing the case and going out to shoot and rob a few more citizens during the five or ten years required to get a de-

cision.

The high court judges are compelled to follow the law, and the only way Indiana citizens will ever see conditions changed, will he for the legislature and judicial authorities to meet and change the present court system. Respectable citizens would be almost unanimously in favor of a bona-fide recodification of our criminal statutes and court procedure, but nobody will he impressed by gestures and feeble efforts in that direction.

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It seems to me that the New York money interests, blinded by avarice, that are snonsoring those vicious attacks on President Roosevelt, are guilty of the basest ingratitude, and are in reality attempting to crucify their savior. Mr. Roosevelt has been jdst about as conservative as he could be, and still maintain some semb(Continued to Page Six)