Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 November 1934 — Page 4

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THE POST*DEMOCRAT # Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muhcie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice *t Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.00 A YEAR. ~ 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Editor

Muncie, Indiana, November 30, 1934.

What! Slot Machines?

ly to the oytside world- Eventually, however, tl|e attention of the ] medical world was focussed upon him, and he was showered with 1

honors.

Like every good idea, Dr. Trudeau’s sanatorium soon had many disciples, and today, in contrast to his one room cottage with but two beds, there are in this country 659 modern sanatorio containing 86,917 beds. The importance of the sanatorium movement lay in the fact that at that time tuberculosis was by an enm-mous margin the leading cause of death in this country. No method of cure was known for it, and it was taken for granted that a diagnosis of tuberculosis was practically a death sentence. Trudeau showed how the disease could be cured by sanatorium treatment. The organization of the National Tuberculosis Association in 1904, with the unanimous election of Dr. Trudeau as first, president, marked ( the beginning of the nation-wide battle against the disease. Since then

For some time a Muncie editor who knows quite a lot | but doesn’t tell quite ALL he knows, has been worrying about slot machines. It was quite freely hinted that these devices of the devil were playing hide and seek right here in Muncie. First you see them and then you don’t was the information he received from some source or other. He hadn’t seen any of them himself, in Muncie, but he had seen them in Northern Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. And he had heard that they were going openly right here in Muncie. The mayor said that he did not know of any business places of any description where money slot machines were openly displayed and has had a standing order that the police must grab them if they do show up. But the editor of the Post-Democrat doesn’t tell everything he knows. He is just like the other editor. If either or bofh should publish everything they know, about everyn thing, they wouldn’t have a friend left in Muncie. What we did know, however, was that nickel, dime and quarter ‘jackpot’ slot machines were doing a land office business in small towns in Delaware county and in country roadside resorts, outside of the city limits of Muncie. This was proved Saturday night when Sheriff Snodgrass and his aids made a surprise raid and gathered in quite a flock of these machines in the country and small town dis-

tricts.

The editor who had complained of a possible flood of openly exposed slot machines in the city of Muncie, and who said it simply couldn’t be done without police connivance, praised the sheriff for his efficiency and promptitude. To which we wish to add our compliments. We believe that Sheriff Snodgrass is an officer who does his duty and that he would not knowingly shirk his duty at the behest of a measly bunch of slot machine grafters. Last week the Post-Democrat declared that if money slot machines were in evidence in the city of Muncie, openly displayed in any business house of any description, they would be confiscated and the owners prosecuted. That bet still goes. Slot machines are out in Muncie and always have been since the present administration began. The complaining editor saw a horrible sight recently, he says, at a Northern Indiana lake. He saw slot machines in a small grocery and saw one woman lose ten bucks in one of these mechanical horsethieves. We’ll bet the editor ten bucks that we’ve witnessed the same kind of monkey business in the very same grocery on King’s Island at Lake Wawasee. A little travel tends to shock one who becomes accustomed to the mild antics of Muncie. < And in Wiscinson and Michigan, where he was shocked to death? Yes, we’ve seen them there by the hundreds. We once drove through Minnesota. Duluth is in St. Louis county and St. Louis county extends to a point 125 miles north of Duluth, and embraces much of the lake region. Slot machines were more plentiful than partridges. Some guy whose name we have forgotten was running for reelection as sheriff of St. Louis county, lip above the iron range we casually asked a cigar store clerk, “Who owns all these slot machines in this part of Minnesota.” “The sheriff,” was his quick answer. “He’s a great guy, honest and straight as you make ’em and he’ll be elected again.” He was. But that’s not Muncie and it is Muncie we are talking about, not Lake Wawasee, northern Minnesota or Soviet

Russia.

Keep Your Face Straight The Muncie Press has some worth-while contributors, after all. There’s Walter Winchell. His pungent observation on things in general are worth the price of a week’s admission every day. THE COLUMN isn’t so awfully rotten, after all. We enjoy it most when it soaks the administration. That’s what opposition newspapers are for. Most of the answers to the daily last page questionnaire are punk and so are the questions, but they add to the gaiety of nations. Tarzan, the durned ape, is getting awfully stale, Freckles ought to be drowned on general principles, Boots and Wash Tubbs seem to go on forever like Tennyson’s brook but Major Hoople and Side Glances make up for all the bad ones with some to spare. So let us not be too harsh and too ready to condemn. Stop and consider and you will have to admit that the present administration has had less adverse newspaper criti-7 cism than any in the history of Muncie. If you don’t believe this take a day off an& spend it reading the files of the two Republican newspapers in the basement of the public library, say for twenty years back. We recall one old-time feature of the Star. It was entitled “It May Make You Smile.” Too many did and it was discarded. That was many years ago. .Nobody takes newspapers seriously. The readers hardly ever agree with you. They’re too sophisticated to swallow the bunk that goes for news. And they don’t want to be educated. They want to be amused.

A Christmas Impulse

On the day after Thanksgiving there appear throughout the land those bright little harbingers of the holiday season called Christmas Seals, which have become familiar to all of us as the means by which the 2.000 affiliated tuberculosis associations of this country raise funds to carry on their work. This year they come to us not only with a plea for continuance of our support, but as a commemoration pf one f the most important contributions to medicine ever made in this country. Examination of the seals shows they bear the picture of a little cottage. Insignificant though it seems, this one-room structure was the first sanatorium in the United States in which the modern treatment of tuberculosis was begun. I became the nucleus of a famous institution and marked the beginning of the sanatorium movement in

excellent progress has been made, but it is still the country’s leading public health problem because it kills more persons between the ages of 15 and 45 than any other disease. It takes its victims chiefly from among young women between 15 and 30 years of age, from working

me nbetween 15 and 45, and from Negroes.

Such facts are food for thought ;even amid our joyous anticipation of Christmas. Cerebration upon the subject can result in only one impulse, an impulse that is entirely appropriate to the season of good will to men—Buy Christmas seals and help overcome tuberculosis.

Durgan Will Run Again Indiana Democracy is happy that Congressman George R. Durgan of Lafayette, has consented to run again in the special election to oe called by Governor Paul V. McNutt for the selection of a national representative from the Second Indiana congressional district. Congressman Durgan, it is now believed by his friends, may have been too reluctant to have taken credit where credit was due on his splendid record made in the Seventy-third Congress. He was one of the most consistent of New Deal supporters and voted for every recovery measure presented by the Roosevelt administration except the one that cut veterans’ pensions. A man of exceptionally level judgment in business and governmental affairs. Congressman Durgan was not the colorful orator or dramatic character that was his deceased opponent, the Honorable Frederick Landis. That Mr. Landis did not live to taste the fruit of his earned victory, is a matter of sorrow to the large number of his personal admirers living in the second district. They had followed him in a long career in which repeatedly he had demonstrated his independence of thought and action. The Democratic committee of the second district adopted resolution paying tribute to Mr. Landis and thereafter invited Congressman Durgan to become the Democratic ' nominee in the speciail electin, likely to be held in January after his present term has expired on January 3rd. The district committee further endorsed the record pf Congressman Durgan in his loyal support given to the president and his representation of the people living within his district. The ambition of Democracy over all the state as well as in the Second district tpday is that Congressman Dugan may be returned to his seat in the national house of representatives and that thus President Roosevelt will receive 100 per cent endorsement from

Indiana.

Herbert Hoover’s Reconstruction Finance Corporation loaned $80,000,000 to Vice President Dawes’ Chicago bank. Now President Roosevelt’s RFC is suing with the hope of collecting back $14,000,000 of a $60,500,000 unpaid balance due.

MAYOR’S CORNER

The Instill trial, which ended this week with such a grand and convincing vindication of that titanic swindler, was somewhat interesting to me, since the presiding judge was Jim Wilkerson, the federal judge who sat on the court of appeals at Chicago and voted to send me to the hoosegow. Federal Judge Wilkerson has had quite a record. He sent Scar Face A1 Capone to prison for failing to pay income tax, he stuck the mayor of Muncie and sat as judge at the Insull trial and kept his face straight when the jury filed in and apologized for annoying a citizen of Greece who merely left this country to start a shine parlor in Athens. Federal Judge Wilkerson of Chicago was nominated by former President Hoover for an advancement to the courts of appeals but there must be a queer smell about the judge, for the senate refused to confirm him. It’s hard to understood why the senate should have been so hard hearted, for Jim Watson was then a senator, and he plead long and tearfully in behalf of his Chicago friend. Senator Jim has since departed from the senate. Fred VanNuys beat him a couple hundred thousand and there can be but one explanation to that. Jim’s public simply refused to understand him. The voters of Indiana were hard hearted and cold, the ungrateful scalawags! Maybe the senate did not understand the great virtues of Jim Wilkerson, not even after they had been explained by such a great authority on probity and civic virtue as Jim Watson. At any rate the two Jims didn’t get very far with the senate, which was even at that time of Democratic complexion. Judge Wilkerson no doubt felt at that time, and possibly now, that the Democratic senate muffed its opportunity to promote a federal judge and it may be that a rather recent congressional investigation of Federal Judge Wilkerson’s administration of his office for ten years back has disclosed certain accentricities in the matter of receiverships and things which congress may take time between spells to look more deeply into. At any rate when Judge Sparks, formerly of Rushville, Jim Watson’s voting place, and who holds a judgeship as Indiana’s contribution to the United States Court of Appeals at Chicago, disqualified himself as judge in my case because he was from Indiana, and Wilkerson who had b^en rejected by the senate over Watson’s protest, was assigned to sit in my case. The court of appeals, with Wilkerson sitting as one of the judges, affirmed the judgment of Judge Baltzell’s case in my appeal, apparently overlooking the prevarication that was so apparent that President Roosevelt in signing my pardon while the case was on its way to the United States Supreme court made a statement in the document that he had been shown that the witnesses had perjured themselves. I don’t feel like accusing a judge who stuck A1 Capone (for income tax evasion) and who tried the celebrated Insull case, of bias against me just because his intimate friend Jim Watson happened to be the Washington end of the Muncie frame-up. It was all just a coincidence. Judges are superior beings who do not do such things. And by the way no judge is appointed for life, as is popularly supposed. They are appointed, according to the constitution (if I’m wrong ask Arthur Robinson) “during good behavior.”

this country.

The date was February, 1885; the place, Saranac Lake, New York. Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau had cured himself of tuberculosis after discovering that the more he rested the better he felt, and had built and opened his little sanatorium for the treatment of others. In those days the Adirondack Mountains were a rugged wilderness paradise for hunters, so news of Dr. Trudeau's work seeped but slow-

So aft^r all even such a renowned judge as Jim Wilkerson must either behave or be so adroit in concealing misbehavior that he is not cauhgt at it. The refusal of the United States senate to confirm the appointment of Judge Wilkerson would indicate that the senate thought the judge had not been behaving himself. But what right have senators to question federal judges?

UNUSUAL PACTS REVEALlb

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1934, . -

—by ‘T'AoifeSpodigbF'

PICTURE

j which, was the redemption of a [temporary loan note for the sinkling fund. The total receipts into all funds during last month amounted to $83,158.17, while the total disbursements made from all funds amounted to $77,323.31. o-

ALWOUGHA LONDONER, WON

STA^OF^'THE LADY fS Vv/i UNC " IS AN AMERICAN , ) \

“Greater love hath no man for another,” than the politicians have for the farmer, before the election. Then they proceed to tax him to death, confiscate his home, close the mortgage on his farm, rob his hen house, steal his melons, pilfer his orchard and sometimes ‘‘bump him off” with their automobile if he happens to get in their way. But when they hear a “little pig” squeal, well,, it’s just too darn bad, for the farmer.

TO'HfTTHE PAJAE WfrHA9A6N t /5 HOT A CASE OF ASSAULT AND . BAir&iy. iris STUD tO SLAMS FOR DtK£CT!N6 A SMALL SPOT ^ light so that ft illuminates THE face , Of the EEMJAUNE NEADJ

a SETTING EOR SEVERAL SCENES IN "THE LADY IS WILLING 1 tV45 AGED IN MOSS! TT is A CASTLE WHICH HA$- _ . / BEEN OCCUPIED COMlHUQttSLY SINCE 377/

Wei, anyway, the Muncie Evening Press made a gallant fight in their effort to defeat Upton Sinclair, for governor of California, and to them must go the credit for his defeat. Of course, this thing of going so far away from home to do their electioneering, may have saved the Constitution, but with so much work to do at home in order to save the old document, it looks as though they tried to cover too much territory, with the inevitable result, they lost the state.

RADIO PRIEST i GOVERNMENT

(Continued from Page One) he given emphasis: Duty of Government “Government exists at the sufference of all the people—not for the welfare of a class. “It is the husines of government to regulate the conduct of individuals with each other and of the employer wih the employe. “Property ownership does not imply unlimited control. “The hourly wage contract should be abolished and should be replaced by an annual wage. Moreover, there should be a partnership, not in ownership but in profits. ‘Labor should have a voice in management of the business.” Warns Industrialist Father Coughlin warned industalists that their “only salvation” >sts on social justice and added: “Your only redemption is for capal to join labor instead of perituating its harlotry with finance. “The ownership of property does 3t argue that the owner may do ith it as he pleases. If I own a in, that is no argument why I lould kill my neighbor’s child. I own a factory, that is no reajn why I may starve the laborers > make profits, and profits only for :ockholders. All property is owned rimarily by God, and is to be used, not owned, for the common welire of every person.” MANY THINGS (Continued from Page One) cabins in the parks, the entire rejuvenation of the park system which has brought recreation and entertainment to every citizen of Muncie are all monuments to the Dale administration for which the people of Muncie can be thankful. The prevention of an expensive luxury such as the proposed airport on which the common council voted to spend $150,000 for improvements may well be classed as a deed of thankfulness to the present administration. The numerous federal projects such as the channel deepening of White river and the construction of the boulevard around the river banks vhich are in progress now furnishing employment to hundreds of local workmen are all to be objects of thankfulness in Muncie. Thankful for President. The people of Muncie and of our nation can be thankful that such a leader among men with humantarian ideas for the masses of citizens throughout our country is now an occupant of the White House and the head of the United States, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. We can be thankful for his recovery program which is bound to bring us back to normal prosperity and happiness rather than facing more long months of destitution, starvation, and a nationwide unhappiness. This year, especially, we have cause to be thankful for the days of good weather which in cases has eliminated bitter suffering from exposures of coldness in those homes that are ill provided with fuel and food. A glorious Thanksgiving Day it was and may we never overlook these many reasons for our thankfulness of living.

(Continued from Page 1) value of this support. An interesting example of that was given recently when Liberty Magazine, invited a group of leaders in industry and public life to addres the public on a series of Forum broadcasts. The Forum which is broadcast over the Columbia chain each Thursday night has presented among others the following: C. M. Chester, president of General Foods; Bayard Colgate, of the fifth generation of Colgafes; P. W. Litchfield, head of the giant Goodyear organization; John W. O’Leary, president of the Machinery and Allied Products Institute; and H. W. Phelps, president of the American Can Company. Government, in the person of Secretary Ickes, spoke on the Forum explaining the operations of the Public Works Administration. Proves Us Worth The Forum quickly proved its worth in keeping the public informed on current national problems and in giving public officials a chance to hear the views of industry on its relationship with government. In the last analysis it may be the obscure, anonymous citizen, sitting at "his radio or reading his paper, who makes of breaks men and policies. With his support behind it in sufficient strength and numbers, neither laws nor legislators can sidetrack the progress of any project. And that is the 1 final test of a true democracy.

iness in this matter was Mr. Harriman;—government was represented by NRA’s head man, Lawyer Donald Richberg, and James A. Moffatt, head of the great housing administration which hopes to put new financial blood into heavy industries by making it possible for people to build new homes and repair old ones more cheaply than they could in the past. Mr. Harriman made the statement that heads this article after he called on Mr. Richberg—and he added a sentence of ‘great importance: That there was no difference of opinion between the two men. He then said that business was entering a new period of “realism,” and was leaving the painful period of “readjustment,” behind. Willing to Take Chance What that means, of course, is that industry and the Administration are gradually arbitrating their differences. Many observers are of the opinion that Mr. Roosevelt is moving toward the “right,” so far as the legislative trend is concerned, while business is growing less conservative, more willing to take a chance. Neither side is satisfied —it is a known fact that high Administration officials have a number of reforms in mind which they would put forward if it were not for fear of frightening capital, while industry • would prefer that the Adminisration go much farther toward the conservative side than it is likely to go. But both seem to he agreeing on a middle ground which will he reasonably satisfactary to all concerned.

WHEN THE FIRE (Continued From Page One)

and an obligation which every citi-1 Balances in all funds of the zen owes his nieghbor and his com-1 civil city of Muncie at the close of munity. It is in the interest of I the month of November amounted

everyone—it means actual cash savings to us all. It’s fun to watch the fire engines go by—but it isn’t

so much fun to pay the bill. .PUBLIC MUST (Coptinued from Page One) person must be enlisted in a

great war upon the reckless in a

incompetent and the drinking

driver—a war that will get re-

sults. The pressure of public

opiniion would be the most potent i weapon the nation could have in a campaign to make the highways

safe.

BUSINESS IS (Continued from Page One) ,

The Roosevelt experiments obvi-j vember, of which $6,0(10 was an ously marked a new era in Ameri- j advance draw on the fall tax setcan government—no President in tlement and the balance received history bad been so daring, none from the rental of park cabins, had tampered so much with the ex- j The disbursements from this fund isting financ’al and industrial ma-j during the month amounted to a chinery. During the first two years {total of $2,293.62, and with the abof the Roosevelt administration, the | sorption of the previous month’s attitude of business was one of [ overdraft in this fund amounting

to $34,571.64, according to the monthly report bf City Controller Lester E. Holloway. This total balance consists of the various fund balances including the general fund of $30,879.02, the park fund, $1,137.30, the gasoline tax fund of $635.24, the city planning fund, $943.48 and the sinking fund of

$976.60.

These receipts into the general fund during November amounted to $71,090.42, of which $70,000 was an advance draw on the collection of fall taxes by the county treasurer. The disbursements from this fund during the month totalled $66,103.33, of which $40,000 was expended to redeem temporary loan notes to the Muncie Banking Company, due December 31, but paid before maturity, in order to save interest charges. The park fund received $6,067.75 during No-

Engineer Paul V. McNutt, in charge of the “Governor’s Special’ 1 en route to Washington, D. C'., and with Sherman Minton on board, appears to have been so absorbed in trying to get the old train there on schedule time, he failed to notice all those “Stop McNutt” signs scattered along the line. In fact, he didn’t even blow the whistle

There are a lot of defeated candidates who are still sore at the voters because of their defeat. We haven’t much patience with some of them, especially those who “can’t take it” and smile. The fact of the matter is that, if the voters wanted them they would have elected them, and we would suggest that they publicly apologize, through the columns of the press, for having asked the voters to support them.

Nevertheless, noth withstanding, although, but, the Constitution is still with us. We have the same regimentation, alphabetical form of government, little pigs, Hoover and his Joke Book, and fiat money. But still everything goes on as usual, except Robinson and Bob Murray. PREPARATION (Continued from Page One) will be recessions. Thousands of wise Americans are preparing for that next depression now. They are putting away what money they can to meet it—and as their earning rise they intend to put away more. And their investment plans are very different from what they would have been a few years ago. Most have learned, to their sorrow, that speculation cannot enter into a sound saving plan. They are putting safety first, last and all the time. Foresighted Citizens Many of these foresighted citizens are turning to life insurance, knowing of its fine record of achievement during recent trying years. They believe it offers them the highest attainable sandards of safety. Money that comes comparatively easy today is going into contracts that can be collected in later life or when earning power slackens. What ever the plan used, it’s a fine augury for the future that our national attitude toward investing and saving has grown wiser.

slightly hostile observation—it waited, not only to see what was going to happen, hut w r hat the verdict of the public would be at the

polls.

Verdict is Given That verdict was given last

to $2,636.83, the net balance in the park fund at the close of Novem-

ber amounted to $1,187.30. The gasoline tax fund had no re-

ceipts during November, and there was expended from this fund last month a total of $3,863.04. The city

Scientists have found a way to cure fodder artifically. But apparently here’s no w r ay to cure cannon fodder.

month, when the voters, in the, planning fund likewise had no rewords of William Allen White, all ceipts during the month and also but crowned Mr. Roosevelt. Accord-1 no disbursements,, which left the ing to an Associated Press dispatch' preceding month’s balance of

of November 17, business and government have definitely united in a mighty joint effort to produce recovery. The representative of bus-

$943.48. The sinking fund received a $6,000 advance draw from the fall collection of taxes during November and disbursed $5,063.32,

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