Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 January 1935 — Page 4

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, 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 Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 2, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.00 A YEAR. 223 North Elm Street—Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Editor Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 11, 1935, THE SEWER AGAIN. The board of public works and safety, met Friday with George Gascoigne, the engineer who drew the plans for the late lamented sewer and disposal plant with the idea in view of reviving the project. Several plans are proposed, one of which contemplates the issuance of general obligation bonds to pay for the materials used, the labor to be paid for by government funds. Unless the banks have changed their mind about bidding on public bond issues, that plan would not be feasible and the government refuses to recognize municipal obligations because of Indiana’s ridiculous dollar and a half law. The recently retiring city administration secured an allotment of over a million dollars for the project, the bonds to be self-liquidating. The new administration, now in office, disapproved the plan of financing and the large vote in the city indicates that it was disapproved by the voters. The Post-Democrat retains the idea that the plan decided upon was correct and that unless the legislature wakes up and repeals the dollar and a half law, the river will smell to heaven for some time to come. Of course the PWA could revive the loan and grant, and construction could begin under the plan already devised. Kentucky Colonel Sees Prosperity One of the real liberals among our industrial leaders is Colonel Wood P. Axton, of Louisville, Kentucky, who has aggressively insisted that we cannot have a return of prosperity until the producing class* of workers have sufficient income to buy back the products of labor. With this main thought in mind Colonel Axton recently made a speech at the Carrollton, Kentucky, tobacco festival which was received with approval in Washington by many leading exponents of the New Deal. This famed Kentucky Colonel who has consistently stood out for a square deal for the tobacco growers regardless of the consequences to him or his company said: . “The leaders in the AAA are honest, earnest men and not politicians. 1 would urge your continued cooperation with these men. The farming classes have been let down by too much profit-taking by the industrialists. It is no wonder that the game has been broken up. The country can not have prosperity unless the producing class gets enough to buy back the products of its labor.” More than 10,000 tobacco farmers had gathered at Carrollton to celebrate the first annual tobacco festival. They all cheered and roared when a big hearse bearing a banner saying “Old Tobacco Prices —Six Feet Under the Sod” led the parade to a huge warehouse where 1,500 gallons of burgoo were served before the speechmaking began. Burgoo is a juicy stew made by James T. Looney, the “Burgoo King” from Northern Kentucky, whose famed concoction is brewed for a day and night in kettles—a 500 gollon iron one dating from Civil War

days.

Speakers heralded the tobacco boom which had brought prices up 35 per cent since 1931. Growers are at last buying automobiles and farm tools an<? their wives are buying silk dresses again for the first time in many years. Axton’s speech was one of the high spots and carried great weight with the growers who know him as one of the biggest buyers of raw tobacco and might be expected to favor low leaf prices. If all of our industrial leaders had something of the same spirit of fairness as that which guides Axton of Kentucky, this country would soon be making a rapid emergence from the dark clouds of depression.

May Conquer Infantile Paralysis Once more a Canadian doctor challenges the attention of the world. It’s becoming a habit with our friends to the north. This time it is Dr. Maurice Brodie, a native of England, who received his education and training in Ottawa and Montreal. For years this young bacteriologist has been pursuing the germ which causes infantile paralysis—the disease of which President Roosevelt is probably the most distinguished victim. Dr. Brodie told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that he had found a vaccine which he believed would curb the disease, and that his experiments also indicated that he and his associates have found a remedy for sleeping sickness. It is an interesting fact that a part of Dr. Brodie’s work was financed by the Banting Research Foundation of Toronto. This foundation draws its funds from royalties paid by the manufacturers of insulin, the preparation which has robbed diabetes of its principal terror. Insulin was discovered by Dr. Banting, also a Canadian. Had he wished, he could have made a great fortune. Instead, he turned insulin over to the University of Toronto, which grants licenses to reliable manufacturers, and puts aside the royalties for just such battles as Dr. Brodie has been making against infantile paralysis and sleeping sickness.

Rainbow Brightest Since 1929 Holiday trade brought the brightest glow of the business rainbow that has appeared since 1929. First estimates indicate that money in circulation increased $55,000,000, and more complete reports are certain to increase this figure. Bank clearings jumped to the highest mark in three years, an advance of more than 30 per cent over those of the Christmas season last year. Despite the holidays, steel operations increased to 35.2 per cent, of capacity, according to the American Iron and Steel Institute. Business failures for 1934 up to December 20 showed a decline of 40.6 per cent, from the corresponding period last year. With inflationists, bonusites, and Government ownership advocates screeching for their embryonic theories in Congress, business and industrial recovery may suffer a new relapse, but this will be temporary if the conservatives in Congress demonstrate they hold control and if the administration proves it is cooperating with them.

The Editor’s Corner (Continued From Page One)

Was it, by any chance, that I was in the hands of the Philistines who knew no mercy and held that the truth was no defense, because I was a Democrat? Ir is it that we now have a supreme court that recognizes the spirit of the times and does not adhere to the ancient belief that the king can do no wrong?

FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935,

AFTER* SPENDING WEEKS RAISING HIS FIRST MUSTAC-HE FOR A POLE IN'THE CAPTAIN T HATES THE SEA' FRED KEATING WAS ASKED BY THE DIRECTORIQ SHAVE IT QfF.

BOND PURCHASE (Continued from Page 1) bonds from any series and by such action City of Muncie improvement bonds are made more marketable to investors and at the same time propertiese subject to foreclosures because of delinquent assessments are protected. Refused to Lend Hand Controller Parkinson nor any of his band did not lend a helping hand to the Dale administration when it was attempted in 1930 to bring relief to Whitely property owners by fighting for lowered assessments on improvements in this area. And now he feels that any assistance to these people is bad business but only the bankjs should profit from money distribution. It is fortunate that “Bob” Parkinson was not controller then and what he would have done did not mean a thing. Former Controller Holloway invested in these Whitely bonds during 1933 to the extent of over $6,000 and all but approximately $1,200 have bedn redeemed. The recent purchase of bonds were from the same source and no doubt will be materially paid within the present year at a profit to the city of 6 per cent in-

terest.

“Bob” Is Learning The puzzle to Parkinson was the result of an error by the bank when they charged the waived improvement fund with the amount of the check drawn on the special assessment, delinquency and deficit fund for the purchase of the bonds. Such an error is merely a book transaction for the bank to correct and that correction has been fulfilled so “Boh” can rest easy until he finds something else to holler about. It was noted that Controller Parkinson moved his desk and office into a more private room located in the controller’s office at the city building. “Bob” is beginning to find out early that the job is not all roses and it requires a good lot of patience to set out in the open and meet the requests of the multitude of visitors to that office. Hiding may force the visitors to wait a little longer but it won’t dispense with the duties of a controller. —o Gross Income

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(Continued From Page One) fund allotted for actual poor relief, but it has many employes, on the public payroll who would be only too glad to assist, if they knew that they could get results. Politics No Concern The city hall is centrally located and no one knows better than the 1 editor of this paper, that the city hall is constantly haunted by hopeless men and women, either seeking unattainable city jobs, relief from hunger and cold or medical help for helpless invalids. The one big thing of importance now is for Muncie to devise some unified system whereby those in at a low administration cost, distress may properly be cared for The Post-Democrat doesn’t care who the trustee is, or whether he is a Democrat or Republican. Little children with empty stomachs in fireless homes do not bother | with academic questions of that kind.

(Continued From Page One) school year will be made April 15,

from the intangibles tax. May i|^ e new * n ' Jeau ty preparations.

,3 t mmm mmm Lois January is a winsome young Universal feature player, whose sparkling vivacity is among her

chief charms.

Beauty and the Bath (b) Y<£JE good, fair maid, and let who will be clever,” is sound advice for those who travel through thid world with an e/e on the next. A modern paraphrasing might read, “Be clever, fair maid, and let who cannot be good.” Very often, to be sure, to be clever is to be good. In the studidus cultivation of beauty many fair maids have found that the old, tried and true methods often bring best results. For example, take soap. More and more, the stars of Hollywood are advocating soap as a beauty accessory. It seems hardly possible in this day and age that anything with as long a history as soap is taking its place with elaborate modern creams and lotions as an Important cosmetic. Yet from Paris today come soaps carefully prepared and exquisitely perfumed which are calculated to combine the best of the old with the best of

from the excise tax and July 1 from the gross income tax. The gross income tax distribution now being made is based on $200 for each teaching unit. Delaware county was allotted 401 teaching units after the average daily attendance and other elements used in determining the allotment were checked by J. William Bosse, statistician for the department of

public instruction.

The gross income tax distribution corresponds with the estimate made by the state board of accounts last fall when local school budgets were being prepared. Estimates wer provided in order that Schools might decrease their property tax levies by the amount to be received from the state.

Handkerchiefs today flutter in Angers which are faintly perfumed by the lingering fragrance of Milady’s soap—a fragrance which Is the same as the perfume on her handkerchief. If she be young and blithe, her perfume personality is very probably expressed in the lilting “Asphodele,” with its gardenia base. And on her bathroom shelf the finely-textured French toiletto soap is, consistently an inevitably, Lentheric’s Asphodele,—an indispensable item in her list of beauty

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Relief Notes

THE LEGISLATURE (By The Editor.) Now that the 1935 state legislature, which is controlled by Democrats in both houses, has gone into session, local Republican newspapers and politicians are wondering whether or not Governor Paul V. McNutt will continue to dictate the activity of the legislative bodies. It is the opinion of the Post Democrat that the Governor will and should continue his control of the legislature as long as reform policies and enactments are beneficial to the citizens of this sj;ate. It is not important whether the Governor makes the laws and has them made valid by action of the Assembly but meeting the demands of the public wisely should be the thought of every citizen. Governor McNutt caused the 1933 legislature to reorganize state government and increase the powers of the executive departments, many changes being admitted to he experimental, but the administration of such government failed to be objectionable to a majority of the people which was demonstrated in the last election of Democratic office holders. As stated by the Governor in his message before the joint session of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Thursday, the costs of government have been paid, political subdivisions throughout the state have been aided by the state, schools have been kept open and the teachers paid, and such costs of government have been reduced in the state materially during the past two years. Every legislature brings about its share of dissatisfaction which reverts to the old truth that you cannot please everybody but if one should study the program of the Governor as proposed to the General Assembly it might convince a great many that it is well that the Chief Executive of Indiana does control the legislature. Poor relief is the most important problem facing the legislature says the Governor. The needy must be clothed, fed, and sheltered. This is identical to the program of President Roosevelt in that every individual requiring a job must be employed and economic suffering must be eliminated. The Governor encourages the state to assume its own responsibility for taking care of the needy rather than allowing the federal government to carry the entire load. The free text books for school children is an outstanding recommendation by the Governor. To the average family this obligation has always been a real factor in social and economic life. The proposal is to require the townships and cities to furnish hooks for school children. This plan should eliminate the frequent changing of books since the mu^ nicipalities and governmental units will be required to foot the bills. Strengthening of the old-age pension laws, continuance of a moratorium on delintraent Jax sales, and drastic reduction of interest charges and rates now charged by small loan companies are all measures which will prove beneficial to a greater majority of citizens. Talking with one Republican politician today it was suggested by him that the legislature could spend most of its time in repealing statues already on record rather than pass additional laws. It may be true that numerous laws are enacted at every session of the legislature which mean little or nothing to the conduct of government but it must be understood that amendments and changes are necessary from time to time to time to meet the public demands. Legislators, themselves, are pretty much in a fog during their time of service for their constituents and the executive departments who administer the laws are better able to recommend changes than most of the members of the Assembly. If the legislature approves a measure recommended by the Governor it does not necessarily mean that the Chief Executive is dictating to the Assembly but that the program suggested by the Governor may be representative to the general public.

Indianapolis, January 11,—A check up of manufacturers of commodities and materials used in home building and moderization throughout Region No. 7 shows a marked increase in business since the beginning of the Federal Housing Administration program. The check was made for the period of September, October and November, 1934, as compared with the same for 1933, and it shows Indiana’s increase to be 42 1-2 per cent.

The first meeting of the state advisory committee of the Federal Housing Administration in Indiana will be held at the Clay pool hotel, Indianapolis, Tuesday afternoon, January 8. W. D. Flanders of Washington, director of the field division of the FHA, and Percy Wilson of Chicago, regional director, will he principal speakers, with R. Earl Peters, state director; Tom McConnell, associate director and Arthur V. Brown, Indianapolis banker. Mr. Flanders and Mr. Wilson also will speak that evening at a mass meeting in Tomlinson Hall.

Of those working in offices, four out of five miss one or more days work each year on account of colds.

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log cabin that has been dismantled and*hauled to the park is being rebuilt. A stockade three hundred feet square also is being erected as part of the village. o PERFECTLY CORRECT A scientist giving a lecture to some students, asked one to name a poisonous substance. The amusement was intense when he replied: “Aviation, sir.” “Come, come!” snapped the professor, “this is no time for hilarity. What do you mean?” “Well, sir, one drop will kill! was the reply.

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Statistics show that the country girls marry at an earlier age than

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A relief project being carried out in Henry county is the construction of an open air theater, to seat about 3,000 persons, in the Henry County Memorial Park, north of Newcastle. The theater will be used L for open air plays, civic gatherings and other community purposes.

WANTED ’EF CRACKED His wife was on holiday, and he was doing his own shopping and

cooking.

“How much are the eggs?” he asked the shopkeeper. “Fifty cents . a dozen for the best.” said the man behind the counter, “Cracked ones 25 cents a

dozen.”

The harassed husband looked

PRACTICALLY SAME THING “Did you ever play polo?” “No, but I fell off the to]> of a stepladder once with a hammer in my hand while trying to fix a gas

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SHE HAD GONE TO SEA A man at a recent dog show noticed a pretty girl gazing around j as if puzzled. He went over to her land said: “Pardon me, but can’t i you find the kennel you wish? If j not, I shall be glad to assist you.” j “Oh, thank you,” she replied, j “Would you mind showing me j where they are exhibiting the jocean greyhounds?”

Relief workers are painting and redecorating the interior of the Allen county courthouse, at Fort Wayne.

Workers on relief rolls are excavating for a sewer survey and sewer replacement at the Evansville State Hospital in Vanderberg county. Building of winter quarters or dens for animals in Wilson Park, Bedford, is a Lawrence county relief project. A storeroom for feed also is being built.

ERA workmen are engaged In building a “Lincoln Village” in the town park at Rockport, Spencer county. Five log cabins are being constructed, and a two-story hewn

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MyFavoriteRedpes •mm Frances Lee Barton says: mm IMY family feel just a little bit .TJ. cheated if we don’t have a made” dessert. This used to be rather a nightmare pn busy days until I discovered the miracles that could be wrought with canned fruit and a package of fruitflavored gelatin. Here is one of them. Layered Peach and Banana Mold 1 package lime-flavored gelatin; 1 pint warm water; y 2 cup canned sliced peaches; 1 1 banana, sliced. Dissolve gelatin in warm water. Arrange sliced peaches on bottom of mold. Pour on warm gelatin, being careful not to disarrange peaches. Add banana. Chill until firm. Unmold. Garnish with whipped cream, if desired. Serves 6.

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