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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934.
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NATIONAL LIMELIGHT (By Mark Vane Collier, Staff Writer the Helms News Service;
MINTON FORGES AHEAD. Washington, D. C., Nov. 1.— Fighting for continued progress and a sustained state and national re-
covery, Sherman T. Minton, Demo-,
cratic candidate for United States Senator, maehes toward in the senatorial battle. The country awaits with interest the results of the election in Indiana, because there, as in some other states, the issue is between the common people and the special interests, Minton is accepting the campaign as “a challenge to the liberal, progressive forces by the reactionary, stand-pat forces of the country.” His opponent, Arthur R. Robinson, has sharply attacked the National Re-
Government Has Tossed Sewer and Disposal Project in Lap of Council
Shay Minton, Lil Arthur, “Diagnosed
The government has now tossed the sewer and | disposal project directl in the lap of the city council. Major Philip Fleming, of Washington, assistant director of the P. W. A., Wednesday evening wired i Mayor Dale that if direct action is not taken by No-
covery program, while avoiding vember 5, Muncie’s allocatoin of $1,060,000, will be
giving any constructive ideas as to ypcpirirlpr]
what the Republican policies might ‘ .
he. | The mayor Thursday issued a call for a special
council meeting to be held in the council chamber at j
Doctor Alberta
MINTON A LEADER. , „ e, , ^ ^ o ' i i Sherman Minton, an overseas’ ; the City hall Saturday night at 8 O'clock. veteran of the World War is again | counc jl meets in regular SCSSioU OU the night in battle—this time against the in-: ^ ■, XT , _ . ” , i , -i , • , i rP . tolerable economic depression. His. ot Monday, November 5, but as that date is the final program is to put people to work,! deadline for action, the mayor feared the delay might
ness and industries out of the red. be tatal tor the project.
The constitution, he avers, gives A communication from Major first place to human rights and lib- Fleming received by the mayor erties. This includes, he indicates, several w'eks ago, fixed October 5, the right to work and the liberty as the deadline, but since the comof a secure living. : munication announced that if ac-
: tion were pot taken by the date
ROBINSON A STAND-PATTER. mentioned, action to rescind would
Minton’s opponent, Senator Ar- be “commenced,” it was generally
thur Robinson, has denounced both thought'the government would give state and' national recovery poli- Muncie a few more days of “grace”
cies. In a recent article in Liberty if it was requested. Magazine, Senatoi Robinson at- , Deadline Is November 5. tacked the President’s program of; ,, T , ,, ^ i- i * , , * , When the council declined to act
re-employment, forest conservation, October 5 the mayor wired and other rehabilitition work of Derore uct „ 0Dt y tne , , yc \ * the Federal government. He has .VA" a 61 ' t E opposed at every turn the various that M ,’ mcle wou d wake up The agencies set mi hv the Presidput request was granted m a brief teleto meet the natfonal emergency I sram from Washington that action
living any aEltive I would be wkhf “‘ 1 ' 1 tor a ,ew da > rs - giving any alternative | The wire that came Wednesday
INSURANCE CANNOT PAY A FIRE 10SS
Complete Coverage Does Not Exist—it is Not
For Sale.
without methods
to bring
alternative
improvement.
v did not even hint at further delay,
w P j; It bluntly declared that the alloca-
cies are all wrong, but fails, Minton charges, “even to tell the way hack to the old deal.”
as us
VOTERS TO CHOOSE.
tion of over a million dollars would be rescinded if action was not
taken by the fifth.
It might be stated that Fne Roose-
As Indiana nears the polls there government does not bluff. If is no doubt that Minton is the out-1 the council refuses to pass the nestanding liberal candidate in sup- ' ordinances on or. before port of the President and the state Mon ^y night, the government and national recovery program. He k^nt and ioan wilhhe cancelled comes' from the plain people, is a and WnTrtie wlli be marRed off the
university graduate, a war veteran, Ina fl, , ^ r r-, x- . and a fighter for the people in the I ^ow! Day Before E ect.on
present national emergency. One 1 Those who would tell you that thing is certain, and that is that son ^ other ™ ayor and his cabinet Minton is honest and forthright. C0 ^ reYlve the Project after canlie may still be untried, hut you * a * ^ Y §
can be factual in this idea: |through their hats.
“He just can’t possibly be as bad I ., If ’ as has be f n int ™fted ; counas Senator Robinson” i oilmen are waiting until after the
n ! election to see “which way the cat
I jumps,”
FAILED TO REPORT
President Roosevelt has been commended for disregarding the
preemptory demand of the Unit- ; the flfth of November, THE DAY
that thought has gone
I glimmering, for the government has set the date of final decision on
ed Chamber of Commerce to tell them what he intended to do
BEFORE THE ELECTION. The council is composed of nine
about mostly everything. p er . i Democrats and four Republicans, haps some of these high-hat gen- ! Some of the I> mocrats on the tlemen will tumble some day to council are candidates for re-elec-tlie fact that they are no longer tion who want the public to know running the United States, but are | that they are running on the Roose-
only an integral and important velt platform.
part thereof—like us common | They endorse the public works folRs - [ (Continued to Page Four)
Many persons take chances with j fire and fire hazzards because they | believe they have complete insur- j ance coverage—that th«jy cannot lose financially in case of fire. What these people don’t realize is that complete fire coverage doesn’t exist. It isn’t for sale. On company writes such a policy—because
none could.
An insurance company can^Wy! - for materials destrefyed when a j blaze damages a home or business. Bu.t that side of the destruction is often the least of it. When a factory burns, men are thrown out of work. Their purchasing power is suddenly lowered or destroyed. They are often unable to meet their obligations. They can no longer bu(v the commodities and services local businesses sell. While out of work, they cannot maintain their homes property, or do their part in devel-
oping their community.
No policy from could be prepared that would protect a community against those results of fire. Again, every sizable fire destroys taxable property. A blaze may raze a great industry which pa/ys large taxes. With that source of taxation destroyed, taxes on all other property must be increased—and every citi-
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Alberta Graves is running what she thought until very recently was a restaurant in that section of the city that has been irreverently called the redlight for many years. Alberta is a colored lady, the widow of the late Bob Graves, who kept police of former administrations busy until a colored visitor from Anderson ended Bob’s career with a forty-five gun. The police happened to drop in at Alberta’s restaurant one night recently and caught her pouring a drink of liquor out of a pitcher for a customer. Charged with a liquor law violation, her trial in the city court turned out to be somewhat of a scream. The customer, a Swede, testified that he was feeling bad and asked for the drink so that he would feel better. , He also thought, that the raiding police, plain clothes men, were politicians, because they confiscated his bundle, which contained a shirt. The court acquitted Alberta, relying on an Indiana supreme court decision that the sale of liquor for medicinal purposes, was legal. So Alberta’s restaurant turned out to be a clinic, instead of a hamburger joint, and the colored lady finds that she has the right to prescribe either red eye or hamburgers to ailing customers. Having been duly qualified as a practicing physician as well as an expert compounder of Mr. Wimpy’s favorite food, Alberta should bang out her shingle, and advertise herself as a real doctor of medicine. The Post-Democrat, being a stickler for the ethics of the various professions, now proposes Alberta for membership in the Delaware County Medical Society. | She knows what to give ’em when they feel bad and that’s all any doctor can do for his patients. XL |L
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Next Tuesday is election day. By this time next | week the political campaigns which are now being furiously waged will be over and the people of Indiana, the Tenth Congressional District, and the City j
I of Muncie will know who is to represent them in both . iThe ha pp ies t person is the per houses of our National Congress and as chief execu- son who thinks the most interesitive of the City of Muncie. Appeals to the voters | mK thoughts -” have been and are being broadcast, spoken for in , our best friends never have hailpublic gatherings, and advertised through various ' tosls ’ hody odor or 3tmking feet -
mediums by one hundred candidates in Muncie and Delaware county as both political parties go into the last lap of their contests hoping that the public will
favor them.
Pasteurization of milk lowers its
vitamin content.
Study The Candidates
First, it should be meritable for each voter to carefully analyze the qualifications and background of at least the head of each party ticket including the state, county and city. The state is led by candidates for i U.S. Senator which is Sherman ! Minton, of New Albany, on the Dem- i ocratic ticket and the present Re- ! publican senator, Arthur Robinson, | up for re-election. As has been stated lny the Post Democrat before, it I is well remembered that “Artie” | Robinson became U. S. Senator because he happened to be one of the higher up in the Ku Klux Klan. Robinson was appointed to this office by Governor Ed Jackson after receiving his orders from D. C. Stephenson, who headed the Klan in Indianapolis and at that time was in jail at Noblesville facing a charge of murdering a woman, a charge on which he was convicted and now serving a life sentence at
Michigan City.
BANISHMENT FOR RECKLESS AUTO DRIVER
New High Record Fatalities Seen For 1934.
For
The Dean Brothers (Dizzy and Paul) of the St. Louis Cardinals are unusual baseball players. They brag about what they can do and then usually do it. “Me and Paul,” says Dizzy, “are the world’s champions; we’re the best, the very
best.”.
Many of the states have passed oid age pension laws. The present generation need not worry about old age. The government will provide for that—a pension sufficient to provide ample food, comfortable clothing, fuel, a home, and medical treatment.
The government is sure making it tough on kidnappers. Practically every case of kidnapping has been solved.
Reports from public dtepartments, tate traffic authorities and safetjy
organizations in all parts of the i „ , , j , country show a startling increase pea, : e “! 10 flunked hls EngllSh
Last year Notre Dame had a student named “William Shakes-
in automobile accidents.
Every driving crime is on the rise. The result, if the present trend
Governor Jackson I continues, will be that 1934 will see
course. This year the same Shakes peare is making a good showing on Notre Dame’s football squad.
had promised the appointment tolf^ 6 establishment of a new high
Frank Ball, of Muncie, but reserved
himself in favor of Robinson at the
command of Stephenson. Robinson Not Statesmen
Robinson is a politician, not a
in fatalities. Statistics for the worst j wee ^
The average pay check for those who work for wages is $27 per
In the United States, according to information at the general land office of the Department of Interior, there are still about $1,125,00b quarter-section (160 acre) tracts of
Indiana Politics Final Analysis
driving months—October. Novem ber and December—may make the
record even more horrible. The automobile accident problem,
statesman. One of his political mov-j ^ as t> een a major issue foies in his appeal to the veterans of ‘ mari y years, has reached a crucial _
, Indiana by offering to fight their ! stage. The American highway todajy j land open for homesteading. | ettiTse, - the-bonus. It should he re-X i s a slaughterhouse the most care-1 — j membered that Senator Robinson ; competent and courteous driver i Some of the taxes in China have ' failed to utter any disapproval of takes his life in his hands when he j been collected as far in advance as
! the methods employed by the ventures on it. Around the next 1949.
' Hoover administration when thqy ckmve °f over the next hill there i ordered the veterans out of Wash-1 ma y be a drunken or reckless driv- \ “Two churches bidding for the ington, D. C. during the “bonus I er the controls of several thous- j cradle may bring heartaches to the march” a few years ago. Sincerity P° lin ds of steel moving at a; parents and mar an otherwise of mind is one thing and politi-! tremendous speed. Less than ten j happy marriage,” says the Literary cal strategy is another. Do not be I P er cen t of motorists take chances | Digest which continues, “Think
As the political chart was drafted j orous and active and the Repub-
for the closing days of the cam- | licans tired and worn, paign in Indiana is presented some Outstate reports,
Senator Robinson Will be Defeated’
So Says J. H. Reigner, Editor of Blue Grass Clipper, a Political Prophet, Who is Known as the “Sage of Kentucky.”
Will Defeat Robinson
About nine years ago a man walked into the Prudential Insurance Company office at Seymour, Ind., and exclaimed. “I am going to the United States Senate.” This man was Arthur R. Robinson, of Indiana. He made good his threat. Being a Ku-Kluxer, he was appointed by Ed Jackson, a KuKlux governor, as the successor to Senator Samuel M. Ralston, who had died.
big-head malady. Great men are not bothered with it But, take a man with mediocre ability and send him to Congress, and he will get the big head nearly every time. If Senator Fess was born near the headwaters of “Bitter Creek,” Senator Robinson must have been born in the neighborhood of Yuba Dam, for he lias nothing hut anathemas to hurl against Roosevelt, recovery and the New Deal. RobinI sen is less experienced, less pop- ; ular, has less political sense, but
Ku-Kluxism was then running ! more bigoted, more unreasonable riot in Indiana. The Ku-Kluxers I and a good deal more of a “damhad a candidate for about every of- j phool” than Fess, for Fess, with all fice from governor to constable and i his bitterness, DOES recognize a they were controlling the offices in j Democrat as a white man, which state, city, county, town and town- j Robinson does not. If Fess were ship. With this influence behind ! going to blow up the Democratc orhim he was wafted into the sena-1 ganization, he would not have the torship at the election in 1926, al- i galvanized gall to ask the Demotheugh he was about 40,090 votes j crats to furnish the dynamite, behind his ticket. He was re-elect-j More Up Than Down ed two years latrr, but this time ; RoMnson is now ln the throes 0 , he was 125 000 votes weaker than , greatest political battle ot his the head ot the Republican ticket. ]lfe | nd )n Mg desperatlon he Is Gets Swelled Head. icharging that the election of Sher- , Robinson, jumping from a state j man Minton, his Democratic comsenatorship in the United States | petitor, will mean the elevation of Senate over Republican congress- Goverpor McNutt to the Senate,
men of vastly more experience and ; He might as well have said that i entirely too narrow to fill the shoes sagacity, turned his head and he : Minton wasn’t a Democrat. One is : of Beveridge and others, and he soon became afflicted with magal- j just as truthful as the other. He will be defeated in November by acephalities. There is nothing so ‘ even puts words into Minton’s j 50,000 majority and up, and it is fatal to a man’s usefulness as the mouth as saying, “The Constitu- more likely to be up than down.
interesting data o be studied over by the politicians as well as by the
laF people of the state.
First of all, the chart noted the
based on con-
servative estimates, indicate that Democrats have not lost any ground during the' past two years in the ninety-two counties of Indi-
mislead by one whose efforts are j but that ten per cent menace us j twice, theieloie, before marrying 1 only to acquire political power and ab - i one of another creed, is the advice attempt to destroy all causes with-| The old fashioned type of safety | P ro testants and Roman
1 out Republican endorsement. Robin-1 campaign, engineered and enforced Catholics.
Ison like Jim Watson, represents | by the general public—by the nine-; T , , , ! on^y the moneyed interests in Con- ty per cent of drivers who are com-' f U c^ts, on an average, $249 less gress and damns the present Dem-j potent and careful. The reckless a .p? 1 , 1 ?i ° r^tv C0Un l ' V ocratic administration because it: must be driven from the highways I y 1 in e i y.
seeks to protect and benefit the I —and to achieve this, the force of I masses of people of our nation | public opinion can be even more' rather than favor few. useful than law. No matter how j
good a state’s traffic code is, or [
complete collapse of any chance j ana. In several of the counties, or
for the re-election of Artie Robinson to the United States Senate. The strategy of the Democrats in dealing with Robinson showed its effect during the past week. In place of the question whether he would win or lose is now the query of how badly he will he de-
feated.
Robinson Obeys Orders. Robinson may never forgive the Republican state committee for the defeat he receives November 6. It was the Republican state committee that pulled him off his original plan of campaign and sicked him on the program he has been following But the Republican committee, realizing the popularity of President Roosevelt in Indiana, and hoping to chisel in on a few posts in Congress, convinced Robinson that he shoud dwell on criticism of the state administration. Robinson felt that too much censure of the state administration would become nauseating to the public and react against him, hut he followed orders and let go with all barrels. The effect has been just what he felt it would. The Democrats let him rant and rave until he was out of breath and had nothing more to talk about, then they put in their licks. Governor McNutt, chief target for Robinson’s vitrolic tirades, marked time until last week and then with a positiveness that won'him the acclamation of the people two years ago, he completed the undoing of
Artie.
Republicans Worn Out. Another line on the chart shows the effect that a campaign of this type will have on party organizations and also on the public. The Democrats started at the top of the hill by virtue of their being in power. They applied the brakes on the ball until last week when momentum and speed were essential On the other hand, the Republic-
ganization workers contend the Democratic tickets will reap a greater majority than in the landslide of two years ago. In three normally Republican counties, the organization of that party is said to he in such a demoralized condition that the Democrats will pile
up a sizeable majority. No Ground Is Gained,
j No fear is expressed by any of the Democratic district leaders for the congressional candidates who are seeking re-election The confressional group of twelve from Indiana will be completely Democratic again is the assurance from all districts. Because of the peculiar situation in which they found themselves, with the people demanding support of the New Deal, even the two outstanding congressional candidates on the Republican ticket have been unable to gain any ground during the campaign. With Democratic success certain in a majority of the counties in the state, the complexion of the state government will continue Democratic during the next two years. The events of the past week show that the people of the state are awake to what has been done for them in the matter of business efficiency and economy in state government and there is every indication they will vote for this to con-
tinue.
the Demoratic party in Indiana, and j ^f o1, it cannot produce results if: a vacc j ne called “amniotic fluid.’
Minton Is Capable
Shay Minton, standardbearer of
The most danger following a surgical operation has always been cans d by peritonitis. However, a
, ... . . , near 100 per cent preventive has how conscientious a highway pa-j been dIscovered . The preventive is
How’s Depression? Improvement Seen Correct answers to questions regarding conditions of the country are being twisted because this is the political season of the year when the voters have been visiting the polls. Nevertheless facts are facts, and the best official and smiofficial information proves that there is a general improvemeht in
candidate for U. S. Senator is a world war veteran himself and far more capable to represent the interests of all veterans in our federal government than one who uses veteran issue only for political gain. Minton, like Senator Fred Van Nuys, will go to Washington determined to assist our President in bringing back economic recovery in America which the Republican party destroyed and forced millions of honest workmen out of employment. A vote for Mirdnn is a votq for the restoration of Indiana statesmanship in Congress and not the continuance of a politician who carries the brand of a Klan tribute to
Washington.
Gray Is Statesman
The Tenth Congressional District of Indiana of which Muncie and Delaware county is a part and which the Hon. Finly H. Gray, of Connersville, now represents in Washington should be proud to reelect an experienced representative such as Mr. Gray. You, who have heard and read his radio broadcasts nd his speeches during this campaign, know that Congressman Gray has a sound principal to represent for the benefit of all people. He does not seek a political job for a salary or political prestige but he aspires to continue the fight to restore price levels of productive
the public is indifferent,
Banish the drunken, the reckless, the incompetent driver—it may save your life, and the lives of loved
ones.
You wouldn’t expect the ignorant to be prosperous enough for golf, but many a player can’t count above six.
Nobody ever added up The value of a smile; We know how much a dollar’s worth And how much is a mile; We know the distance to the sun, The size and weight of earth; But no one here can tell us just How much a smile is worth.”
Daniel C. Tobin Extols Minton
Endorsement of Sherman Minton for United States Senator and of the whole Democratic ticket in Indiana, was given Tuesday at the monster Wagner rally in Cadle Tabernacle, Indianapolis, by Daniel C. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and A. F. of L. council member. His endorsement of Minton carried an arraignment of Senator Robinson for failure to support labor’s New Deal. Tobin’s remarks:
tunities? Can the friend of labor vote against the greatest friend labor ever had—President Franklin Delano Roosevelt? “Every laboring man knows, or should know, that the policies of former President Hoover, Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills favored the interests of capital as opposed to the interests of labor .Every laboring man in Indiana should know that Senator Arthur R. Robinson lined up with Hoover, Mellon and
‘The working man, the friends of; Mills when the Smoot-Hawley tar-
comodities. the buying power of the | organized labor, hold in their iff act was passed which destroyed
hands today a noble heritage that! American foreign markets, lost to
Arthur R. Robinson never thought of giving them. In Section 7A of the NRA, the American working man has a declaration by his government that it is national policy
people, and economic prosperity by placing back in circulation the money and currency withdrawn b|y the organized international bankers and brought on the depression.
Gray Unlike Murray
tion is a futile instrument.” He is
ans, starting at the bottom of the ! business and industry with a corhill, pushed hard and were panting j responding increase in employ-
and tired just when the final drive |ment.
was necessary. This could be | —o
sensed by the public attending the political meeting of the two part> ies and finding the Democrats vig-
Again America copies Russia. The Reds, you remember, decided to give up dreams that wouldn’t work.
Unlike Bob Murray, local Repub-1 for ^bor to have equal privileges lican aspirant for the Congressional ! with capital—the right to collect-
seat, Finly Grajy does not seek to I ive bargaining,
keep his hands in the public treas- ! ^ an Labor Reject Roosevelt? ury for his livelihood hut he seeks : “Never in the history of this nato aid the farmers, the laborers, a^d ! ti° n before has the working man the masses of citzenry of our dis- 1 beard it made a part of national poltrict. Finly Gray is endorsed by ! that square dealing at all times labor organizations because he has I ^ or labor is to be the law of the always been their friend. He is the land. Can labor reject this great choice of the farmers because he award for which it so long has is one of them and realizes their Can labor turn its back upneed or assistance in legislation. on l be b rs t ma X ever t° occupy the Finly Gray is an authority on mon- Wliite House with the courage and Continued to Page Four) fairness to give labor equal oppor-
America more than four billions of dollars in sale of surplus products abroad and thus threw better than five million American workmen and farmers out of employment. How can Arthur Robinson have the face to come back to Indiana and parade what he says is his love for the laboring man when he contributed specifically to throwing five
million men out of work? Robnson Fair Weather Friend
“I have watched Senator Robinson’s career as a senator and I can say to you today that he is no friend of labor when the going is hard—when the laboring man is the under dog. He wants to he the laboring man’s fair weather friend.
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