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A Democratic .weekly newspaper representing the Democrat^ of , Mnnci^,Delaware €ounty and the 10th Congressional District ; The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware. County.
-, 7 , _ ,— Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.
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Pertinent Facts About Teachers and Education
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Threp Parts
(By Wm. Wirt, Gary, Ind.)
Part Three
Lake Worth, Fla., Feb. 25.—We have been having ideal 1
summer weather here the most of our stay this time. I The proposed confiscation pro-1387 which was an average of In my previous trips to Florida the thermometer didn’t cess will reduce incomes in the I $2,244 per worker. Increasing live up to the good old southern tradition. In 1930 we drove' several classes. It may seriously I production 19 per cent would into Palm Beach and that night it froze in the Everglades, j interfere with the production pro-1 raise this average to $1,548'. practically destroying the bean crop, which was ready for: ce ss. if we have large incomes to! we need only $6,666 to estahharvest. 1 ! confiscate we must permit a suf-D 8 * 1 a minimum income of $1,000 part
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cpst of their education. There are many public services provided free to many people and such free services do increase their inebmes, ■fhe Essential Facts Can
Be Taught
Farmers had over 12 per cent of the workers, but received only 6 per cent of the income. Corporation officials had almost 5 per cent of the workers, and received only 4.1 per cent of the wage income, but they got, in addition, of the income that went to
Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish! The garnishee law passed by the 1925 Indiana state legis-
lature has been unanimously declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of our state. While this law which authorized a creditor tq receiye. judgment ]in any caurt and demand, ten
Last year we spent some days at Miami Beach and it jfiflent percentage of income over fr ^ 229 $ ’J°J o P ^J 0 R I irpercentaSr^ the* eighth^grade was uncomfortably cold the greater portion of the time. i the maximum to be retained. ! avera g in g only $655 in 1929. How eapily figure the comparative perWhen it turns COOl in Florida the native sons and daugh- 0th f rwise T these P e °P le 8to P!much farther can we go? Raising centage for the other groups? ters Will tell you “this is most unusual.” ! WstTl^OO^ l 116 in ^ n ’L 0f I?’ 329 ’ 000 persons < The great failure of the schools a u *.^ 4. u 4-u 4. 4-t- j a 1 least SlU.OUO capital toi each work- f rom <61 000 to $1,500 would re- has been that we have not taught A shop keeper here told me that the words most un- er. If we expect to increase the| quire an additional $9,664,500,000. the most worthwhile facts, nor usual IS a stock phrase used to warm up chilly Yankees and 1929 level of production we mustj We won id b p able to provide this have we developed the ability to that the words characterize the evergreen optimism of this i increase savings fdr additional j amount j n addition to the $6,666,-1 use these facts as tools with which glorious state. ! capital and education to secure j qqq qqq necessary for the estab- to think. The schools have not Have visited nracticallv all rtlacps in Florida on hot Vi tha | jetter , e q i ypm eat and better (lis p nient of a m i n i mum income of bridged the gap between theoretixiave visnea pracutany an places in rioriaa on DOin ine .framed workers and better man-: mi non nf ormr** it wnnld he cal teaching and the annlication of
east and west coasts and m the center, Lake Worth suits me agement.
better than any of them. ! Suppose half of the net incomes The bathing beach here is more satisfactory to most ® v . e 0 r . Vset maximum must be tourists than Miami or Palm Beach. The Gulf stream is !to liceep tbem^wmidng 18 The 0 'bah close to the beach and no matter how cool the air the water lance to. be confiscated in the $20,is always comfortably warm. |000 maximum class is only $5,854 I was out in the ocean Sunday morning when I should ] this amount is only have been at church, when who swam up and grasped my I Sbiuions^and 8 ’income taxes"’muS
hand but Bennett Heath!. That shows that Muncie people will find each other even in the middle of the Atlantic. Mr. Heath is here with his family for the winter. George Brooker and family are also here and other Muncie visitors
$1,000. Of course, it would be cal teaching and the application of necessary to raise the incomes of that teaching by the student when the 12,282,000 receiving $1,000 to he must leave the school and take $1,500 to a minimum of $1,500. To his place in the society of adults, do so would require anotbefr 5 ! Many adults remember that billion. We can in a short time their own problems in arithmetic produce this additional amount when they were in school were of and much more—if we can only teh following order: “A hare can avoid wars. jjump ten fet. How many jumps It would indeed he progress ^ }\ ar ®, *° closs a could we give to 31,618,000 per- held 1,400 feet wide, sons out of our 49,000,000 gainful-1 ( Why cannot practical, real-life ly employed the. security of a mini- problems such as the following mum income of $1,500. To do so be substituted for many of the would require $47,427 of our imaginary problems now being
available $62,759 in 1929. With- taught?
out increasing production the re-1 Students could be asked to add maining 17.382,000 of our gainful- the totals. They could be asked to
_ _ . , . . . . ,ly employed would have the bal-]determine the distribution of
of a fishing boat to take US out in the gulf stream, Wednes- j WI 1 not glve us Again in- ance of llie $(52,759 or $15,332. wealth in excess of production and day to try our luck on the deep sea monsters that are waiting ! C f^'i Their average would, therefore, the drop in percentage to the sevout there to bp raiio-ht Oh von fish I Prnhnhlv T will : td ‘ g f ins w01,1(1 have 10 be de !be only $876. To raise this average eral claimants from 1929 to 1932,
, 1 ^ ; , y< ? U Sai1 tlSh 1 Probably I Will j ducted to $1,500 we would need to in- the total distribution to labor, the
catch a sucker. Be just my luck. I 11 a11 incomes over $5,000 were I our production $11. This total distribution to capital and
Saw in the Post-Democrat that statesman Rowley, who ' Ron : 1 ' sca,tJt '; th( ‘ n the balance after could Dot be taken f rom the the percentage to labor and the
introduced a bill aimed at the Post-Democrat, says he picked ! p iV | inff ?l-« re —^ rich > because there would be no percentage to capital. They could
must
first be taken out of the $5,854 before it is divided. But for an individual minimum income cf $i,000 we need to secure $6,666. If all incomes over $1>';.000 were
j after savings are deducted is $7,
Joe and Dick and I have an engagement with the captain j 163. Half of this low maximum
to establish a minimum income
of $1,000.
It is evident the way out is not by confiscating wealth, even though it may be socially desir-
comes. This adjustment can be made by taxation. If we decide to confiscate wealth we should so decide because we consider such
per cent of a debtor’s, paycheck until such bill was fully paid I ? ls “ former prosecutor Joe Davis and family and Joe’s then tl]e ba|anc<5
including interest, court costs, and other collecting expenses, latne T 1 » was made for the purpose of exterminating the “dead-beat,” yet, the abuses of such legalized action more than offset the
merits of the enactment. '
After the passage of this statute, a large number of collecting agencies sprang up in business and solicited merchants for unpaid accounts to collect on a percentage basis. These collectors would harass the debtor oftentimes with insults and usually set up an office within the same quarters or next door to a justice of the peace court so as judgments would be easily obtained. Generally, no notices were given the the victim debtor although judgments always included several dollars for services of a ponstable to serve such no-
tices.
Judgments would be rendered on the word of a collector, a garnishment writ would be served on the employer of the debtor demanding that such employer withhold ten per cent of the victim’s salary or pay check, and turn that amount over to the justice court until the total amount was paid. Oftentimes, money loaned on collateral security, such as furniture, would be collected through garnishment proceedings rather than confiscation of the security. Such practices led to numerous credit stores opening for business and extending credit on many articles of merchandise without any investigation, because they relied upon the garnishee law to force their collections. . Employers *wera forced to become .collecting agencies for bill collectors, justices of the peace grew fat upon the court costs imposed against the supposed debtor, and operators of collecting agencies made themselves plenty of money while the garnishee law remained unattacked on the statute books. These practices encouraged the allotment of more credit until many persons had sought merchandise far in excess of their purchasing power. Credit stores invited your patronage on such terms that appeared to be so easy to assume. A dollar down and a dollar a week or even less terms than that. A great many persons were encouraged to make numerous put’chases on this basis, beyond necessities, until finally the total ,of small weekly or monthly payments exceeded their sixties or wages. Then, the process of garnishing was placed in operation until hardships were brought about. Y Many employers adopted the policy of discharging an employe who had been served a writ of garnishment. This Caused the loss of employment and a great deal of discouragement in domestic life. It had been contended by many good lawyers that the law was unconstitutional for ten years and several courts had declared it as such in various sections of the' stai;e. However, the decision of the state supreme court nullifies the act throughout the state and will stop the common practice of legalized high-jacking by injustice courts and collecting agency vultures. ; The person who makes a purchase with the intention of not pa'ying an honest debt does not deserve any sympathy. Better credit business will be established for those persons who must use their credit and who attempt to meet their obligations.
are deducted is
his own seat m the rear of the house and that he will prob- | contributions and income taxes ably choose the speaker’s seat the next time. Guess again. | are deducted the whole balance I’ll venture the opinion that he will be appointed to do his l wi11 not equal the $6,666 needed
sitting at home the next time.
The Post-Democrat never did anything to Rowley but he showed his calibre by stepping out of his way to start a fight, not knowing, most probably, what it was all about. He
was merely acting as a tool for the gang that has been after I able j-° ta ^® of the high in
the Post-Democrat for twelve years. The same gang that tried to railroad me to the federal prison when I was mayor. Delaware County needs men in the legislature who want to do
something for all the people of the state; not tools who blind- i action socially desirable and not ly go to the legislature to serve as instruments of those who ! because WR e p ect to add much to want to punish somebody, but men or women with lofty ideals 1 arguing”"for or'agafnst timpropoS* and a proper conception of their duty as representatives of I tion of redistributing wealth. 1 all the people. So much for Rowley. He disappoints me. merely want to point out the funRead an interesting Associated Press story in the Star ; da mentai facts that we should about Louis R. Glavis, chief investigator acting for Secretary ; ^ :,s tool ' s for strai sht thmkof the Interior, Harold L. Ickes. The Star story stated that j o ur total produced income for Mr. Glavis used his department to investigate every PWA 1932 dropped from $83 to $38.
loan and that Secretary Ickes accepts the reports of Mr. Glavis as final. The story stated that Glavis always had one of his men on the job. How well I know that. Once, several months ago when Forest M. Logan, Indiana representative of the PWA came to Muncie to attend a little meeting in the mayor’s office, attended by myself, councilmen Parkinson, Blease and Hole and two or three others, to discuss the proposed loan and grant, one of Mr. Glavis’s men was there on the job, busy taking notes and
saying nothing.
I do not know whether the others knew his identity. Before going to the office he showed me his credentials,
countersigned by Louis R. Glavis.
The bunch of fourflushers who destroyed Muncie’s opportunity to construct a sewage plant at government expense,
It is clear that we cannot get back our incomes of 1929 by redistributing wealth. We don’t have the wealth production to
divide.
Establishing Minimum Incomes By Increasing Production
The way out is by increasing production and giving the increase ’to the low income groups. We had in 1929 the unutilized plant and j the unutilized labor to increase
; our production 19 per cent.
What can we do with an inI crease of 19 per cent in the proi duction of our present plant? There will be no additional ex1 pense for management, savings,
may not know it, but all the facts are known at the head- TheTJ p£ quarters of the public works administration m Washington. ; cent increase in production win
amount to $16. Labor received j $62,759 in 1929. An increase of
should have seen me going down-]$i6 j s over 25 per cent. Eliminatstairs three steps at a time. ing the managerial and profesUnkind Wife—Where was he—sional Avorkers, the remaining on the roof? workers (46 million) had $57,-
WiFELY COMMENT
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Slips Back in Old Rut Youth is invited into membership of the two major political parties of the United States. Both the Democratic and Republican parties seek to capture the enthusiasm, verve and purposefulness that is’characteristic of young men and women on becoming of legal voting age. Let us consider what appeal is today held forth to youth. On March 4, the Young Democratic Clubs of America, founded by sanction of the National Democratic Convention last held in Chicago, will celebrate an anniversary. Its membership has grown from 300,000 young men and women to 3,000,000. The aim of the Young Democratic Clubs of America is stated thusly: “To instill and preserve in the young people of the United States an interest in governmental affairs and to further the ideals and principles of the Democratic Party.” Last week in Chicago, the Young Republicans’ National Committee held a meeting. These young men and women offered criticism of the reactionary old guard which dominates the adult section of the Republican national party. In other words it hurled a defy at Ex-Presi-dent Herbert Hoover, Ogden Mills and, National Chairman Henry P. Fletcher. Instead of pledging allegiance t4>tbe principles of the Grand Old Party, the Young Republicans acquitted themselves as much as to announce their withdrawal from Grand OLD Party. They spoke of the need for a NEW liberal leadership. Illinois delegates spoke frankly: I “For the malady from which the party is suffering the cure must come from within. The disease is deep-seated and the cure must come up from the precincts.” But how easily the Young Republican movement slipped back into the reactionarism which it criticised within, its own ranks when sentiment was adopted favoring a “bold counter attack against the Roosevelt Administration.” The cloak of liberality immediately drops from the shoulders of the Young Republicans and instantly we see that Washington Birthday appeal of theirs to the young voters take on the hollow voice” of the Old Guard reactionaries. Young voters edii turn to but one party and one -school of political economy today if they are sineferely of liberal heart and that is the Democratic Party—the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt. ’v■ ' ’ '' ^ ' I .
Unusual facts revealed
.Atewy Carrolls [CHILDHOOD AMgmONi WASiTO. OWN AN ICC•fREAfvi PARLOR. SO
-by ‘JMovie Spotlight
DIDN’T KNOW HIS FOULS The football team came frbm a British coal mining district, and they were brawny fellows. The home team were not equal to their opponents’ rough tactics, and were
faring badly. .
Time after time little incidents were passed over by the referee that were not strictly in accordance with the book of rules.
ers could stand it no longer. “I say, ref,” he bawled, “do you only know a fowl when it wears fevvers?”
THE JOB HUNTER
“Look here, Bogus,” asked the Colonel, “Do you happen to know where Ink Johnson is just now?” “Yassah! Sho’ does, sah!” replied Bogus, “He’s asleep dis min-
rich. No one would be receiving be asked to secure the average more than $1,500. To raise the labor distribution to each worker, minimum income to $1,500 and if the total were divided equally, permit incomes of over $1,500 to , They could be asked to figure the remain as they were would re-j average incomes for the non-cor-
quire an additional production of j porate enterprisers.
$21. We must produce more. [ Students could be given the fol-
Can we produce $21 more (33 1-3,lowing problems:
per cent)? We increased our per: If there were 600,000 non-farm capita production 38 per cent and j families receiving $160,000,000 anat the same time decreased hours; nual income, what was the aver-
13 per cent from 1900 to 1930 even age income per family?
though we had the World war. | How much total income would Without the war we could have it take to give to each one of these done much better. Without an-, families a minimum income of $1,-
other war we can easily increase 000?
our production one-third in a | How much total income would much shorter time and reduce need to be added to the $160,000,hours still further—IF WE DO 000 income that they were receiv-
NOT DESTROY OUR ECONOMIC ing?
SYSTEM. We do need to improve j What per cent was the 600,000 our economic system. We have of the total number of families? been improving it. We can im- j The same four questions could prove it much further. We dare be asked for the farm families not destroy it unless we are will- and for the unattached persons.
ing to accept a much lower standard of living. Establishing Minimum Incomes By Adjusting Price Levels In 1922 farmers lost 50 per cent
Is it not evident that the opportunity for applied practical problems in the social science field is unlimited? Is it not clear that we do not need to increase the num-
of their relative purchasing pow-1 her of problems in the arithmetic er. Since the low incomes were to make a place for these problargely on the farms and in the! lems? All that we need to do is extractive industries, lowering the substitute worthwhile problems gold content of the dollar in for- for many that are now being used.
higher standard of living than any other system since the dawn of time. Evidently we need to coordinate better our social science, our mathematics and our litera-
ture.
As a rule literary people are not good at. figures. Xhey do not enjoy working with figures. I have heard many of them say that figures give them a headache. Unfortunately, in the field of practical executive work, in the managing of our production and distribution of wealth, figures are the sources of the facts necessary for straight thinking. Appreciation of the importance of figures in the balance shets and skill in using figures as tools in thinking comes largely through experience. The fact that widows and young men generally throw to the winds successful businesses left to them bv husbands and fathers is traditional. Few have learned to face facts and figures. Of course, the successful management of a business is something more than the intelligent use of balance sheets. It is true, also, that man does not live by bread alone. No one denies that man is something more than an economic machine. But in an automobile you must take into consideration the engine. So in the production and distribution of wealth for man’s benefit and as a foundation for his richer life you must not forget essential economic laws and the means of working understandingly and in harmony with these laws. Therefore, when we make the people who cannot tolerate figures, professors, teachers, preachers and popular writers, our superexecutives in our social and economic order then we are all likely to wake up some morning with terrible headaches. I do not object to preachers and popular writers carrying on propaganda for the small segment of truth involved in their pet theories. It is very difficult for the z-Dillia, fl.-rKq( z z adult mind to receive a new idea. The world needs agitators and reformers to put up a vigorous fight for new ideas. And, if these reformers and agitators had the w’hole truth and nothing but the truth, all the dramatic appeal would quite generally be take a out of their crusades. Therefore, we can well afford to excuse these persons if they, in their enthus iasms, are not always intellectually fair and honest with themselves and with us. But with teachers it is different. They are charged with the tremendous responsibility of training the plastic minds of youth. Therefore, teachers must always be absolutely fair and intellectually honest. Their job is not the inoculation Of youth with formulated beliefs concerning anything. It is their job to teach youth the essentail truths and how to apply them in their ow r n straight thinking in making their own life adjustments. Teachers cannot present the
_ . v , facts of social science without eign exchange, did, April 19, 1933J Educators know that we learn | using figures and without teaching automatically increase the rela- to tliink only by thinking. We i students how to use them, tive incomes for farmers and the learn to use essential facts as j It w’as also evident that Dr. increase would have been perma- tools ip the thinking process only j Tugwell is right in his contention
nent, if we had not at the same by much practice in searching for time boosted city prices that are facts and practice in marshalling artificially controlled and by so, them in our thinking processes, doing destroyed again the relative j For example, if the children had purchasing power of 45,000,000 of available the number of families our people. Thus, without increas-j and’ unattached individuals and ing production we did raise most the total income received by each of the low incomes. That we;group, they could practice searchcounteracted this raise was due ing for the essential facts they
to our own stupidity, to the selfishness of codes in restraint of trade, and probably to the interest of those who did not want Recovery—those w’ho preferred Re-
form.
We All Want Job Insurance From 1929 to 1932 we distributer $23 more than we produced. Adding our excess wealth distribution over production during the years 1933 and 1934 would give us a total job insurance distribution from surpluses and assets of at, least $35 for the years 1930 to 1934 inclusive. To the extent of having surpluses to distribute to labor in a depression we have had job insurance. But i$ has been inadequate. If we had set aside 5 per cent of our Labor fund every year since 1909, we would have accumulated a surplus of only $35 by 1930. We have distributed that amount already during this depression and have not been able to keep the production pump primed. I am in favor of job insurance. But like any other form of insurance it will not tide us over our terrible post-war price-deflation periods. We have had over fiftyfour years of such serious depressions since the year 1800 and only five years of other depressions. Most certainly we should he ashamed of such a record. The only way out is to avoid these periods of price-deflation. They could not have been avoided by Socialism, Communism or Fascism. They could have been avoided only by keeping out of war or by changing our yard stick for measuring prices after each year. I am not arguing for or against a change in our social and ecoI nomic order. I am merely pointing out that our schools have failed to
will need in order to think straight in solving the problem of how we can establish minimum incomes of $1,000, or any other amount. Then they could practice the use of these essential facts as tools and determine the average income for ^each group and the total income needed for a minimum individual
or family income of $1,000. They!offered as alternatives, less. All
that real economic planning is possible only in the Socialistic or Communistic state. It was also evident that as social science teachers we must learn how to apply the system of double entry accounting to our social and economic life if we are ever to be able
to understand it.
In America we are not satisfied with the capitalistic system of private enterprise. We believe that rugged individualism must be controlled sufficiently in the priv-ate-enterprise state. It is not that we love private enterprise so much, biit that we love the Col-lective-state enterprises that are
ute over dar in de shade of de
At list one of the home support- lumberyard lookin’ for a job, sah!”
BEFORE DONALD COOK BECAME AN ACTOR HE WAS A BELL-BOV, ELEVATOR OPERATOR! BUS BOX "TRAVELING SALESMAN, 9 S77£NO-
could ascertain the total amount of additional income needed. They could decide how to secureit. To he sure the younger children could not use the United States census, the United States statistical abstract and the Brookings Institution volumes as source reference material. But, it would he a simple thing to make available for them easy reference ma-
terial.
In ^ the social' science classes there would be a difference of opinion concerning the necessity for capital and savings. There would be a difference of opinion as to the necessity for the same minimum incomes for individuals and heads of families. The proper discussion of such subjects based upon facts and not wishes is exactly the thing that the children need to practice so they may think straight in the social science field. The fact that Lenin always referred to the Russian state as state capitalism and that Russia is the most capitalistic of all countries at the present time would be illuminating. The fact that it is necessary for Russia to divert an unusually large percentage of its annual production to capital investments because of its plans to expand its production plant would and could be apprec-
iated.
The objective is to enable these boys and girls to take their places in the society of adults and there
that I am asking is that we make up balance sheets for the several forms of social and economic orders that we can have, BEFORE WE MAKE OUR CHOICE. Then we will know what we are choos-
ing
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teach the plain, easily ascertain-' decide intelligently whether or able and non-controversial facts | not they want capital and savings concerning our historical exper- to be owned and operated by the ience in producing and distribut- state or by individuals, 'whether ing wealth. It may be that our or not they want state or private ignorance concerning these facts [ management of industry and credmakes it impossible for us to it agencies, whether or not they diagnose our economic ills and; want a democratic form of govapply the needed remedies. ernment or a dictatorship, and all If the rental value of the homes!of the other vital social science
owned and occupied by the income recipients were added, the total income produced would have been $86. If we were to add capital i
questions that they alone must decide during the coming genera-
tion.
Today’s generation of citizens
gains, the income would have is deciding these very questions been $6 more. Even then we j and they cannot make intelligent would not have included all of decisions. Their schools failed to the income. When a man sends educate them properly. As a result his children to the public schools, Dt is quite generally believed that example, other taxpayers are j we are now ready to cast aside an
for
contributing
to him in part the economic system that has given a
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