Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 30 August 1935 — Page 6

THE POST-DEMOCRAT “ Democratic weekly newspaper representing: tbe Democrats oi Muncie, Delaware County and the lOth Congressional District ilxe only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, ai the Postoffice 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, Friday, August 30, 1935. "• WAS IT A DEAL? Wednesday it was announced at the postoffice that Francis Quill, employed there twenty seven years, and superintendent of mails for the past seventeen years, has been reduced to the rank of Special Clerk and that Clarence Gray has been advanced to the position h6ld by Mr. Quill. No reason was assigned by the first assistant postmaster general in ordering the.change. The reduction in rank from superintendent of mails to clerk carried with it a reduction of salary from $2,900 a year to $2,300. It has been generally assumed that Mr, Quuill has performed his duties faithfully, therefore some reason for taking Quill’s job away from him must have been presented to the postoffice department, and the complaint must have come from some Muncie source of information. It is probably unimportant that Quill is a Democrat. We always get our mail, no matter whether Democrats or Republicans serve the public. But we do insist that Mr. Quill should know why he received such a severe setback. Ira Wilson, the Republican postmaster may know. He is an extremely political personage. In 1932 he was Republican county chairman and spent his time in Republican headquarters, although he was then postmaster. He claimed then that the Republican postmaster general had given him a month’s furlough to attend to his political duties. Just prior to the election Postmaster Wilson caused to be printed and circulated a scurrilous handbill attacking a Democratic candidate for county office. He was then subject to removal for political activities and many are surprised that he still hangs on in a Democratic administration. In 1934 Postmaster Wilson was not Republican couhty chairman and his lukewarmness to his own party lends color to the charge by some Democrats that he made a deal with Mayor Bunch, then a Democratic candidate, to quietly 'support him for favors to be extended later. In 1932 Wilson just knew that Roosevelt could not be elected, therefore he felt safe in violating all postal rules to help defeat him. Possibly Wilson turned Democrat, like Arthur Ball, after the Republicans were ousted from power. If there was any valid reason, relating to fitness, that inspired reduction in rank of Superintendent Quill, no objection should be offered, but if the postmaster general was deceived by designing politicians of both parties, he should be made acquainted with all the facts and Mr. Quill is deserving of an explanation of not only why he was reduced, but who it was, locally, that helped put the skids under him, and what inspired them. Jim Farley is a square shooter, and we have enough confidence in his desire to give everybody a fair deal to believe that he will look into this comparatively small matter and do justice to Francis Quill by making a careful investigation. Mr. Quill is a known Democrat but he is quiet and unobtrusive in his politics and we have never heard of a com-, plaint by anybody that he has not performed his duties well. Mr. Gray, who supplants Quill, is said to be a Republican, but he is so quiet about his politics that some uncertainty exists. It is asserted though that he called for a Republican ballot in the 1 1934 primary, and the “weight of the authorities” by preponderant majority, declare him to be a Republican. His efficiency as a postoffice employe is*not questioned, neither is that of Quill. If Earl Tuhey, Democratic county chairman, were not too busy with other interests he might help solve this problem. although it might prove embarassing.

PULLING BOTH WAYS Muncie’s two Republican daily newspapers get their metaphors all mixed up. Loyalty to the grand old party compels them both daily to assail the recovery plan of President Roosevelt as being “grossly extravagant” and in the same breath urge that Muncie go the limit in securing allotments for needed improvements. They prove by the logic of canned editorials that government money spent here for needed public works and, relief for the unemployed is ruining the country but are contributing to the national catastrophe by constantly urging and demanding application for government money for the welfare of Muncie. If they were honest in their belief that the new deal is all wrong they would urge that Muncie should refuse to accept unconstitutional money for any purpose whatever. It is rather fortunate that Muncie recognizes their rather ludicrous attitude for exactly what it is worth. The people here have a happy faculty of taking their valuable suggestions seriously and smiling at their inconsistences.

THE LEGION Speakers at the American Legion convention at Indianapolis made thinly disguised assaults on the New Deal. A few America Legion headlines, who do not represent the sentiments of the rank and file, will fail in any attempt to use the Legion as a political organization. Neither must the people accept any theory that any organization is authorized to prescribe a hard and fast rule concerning what constitutes patriotism. Dr. Oxnam, the distinguished president of De Pauw university, was branded in a resolution as being un-Ameri-can and school teachers were urged to sign a pledge of patriotism. Dr. Oxnam is a man of great learning and is a good American. School teachers without exception are the salt of the earth. MASSEY AND MEEKER SAFE The Press carried a story Thursday to the effect that a rumor was going the rounds that City Engineer Arthur Meeker and Chief of Police Frank Massey were to be ousted from office by Mayor Bunch. To those who give credence to that rumor, the PostDemocrrA feels safe in saying that the mayor has no such intention and that they will hold their jobs as long as the mayor does his.

IT S ALL GONE When the police are paid off on the 6th of September there will not be a dime left in the police appropriation for 1935. Possibly the county tax adjustment board, in reviewing the city’s demands for next year may inquire.what has been going on this year, wondering why the economy of past years has suddenly been transformed into senseless extravagance.

YOUTH BELIEVES IN DEMOCRACY Indiana sent 600 delegates by speeial train to the Young Democrat

ransAV, AtKrIj'37 so, xm.

of American convention at Milwaukee. That is something for leaders in the Republican party who are quarreling over factional control to think about. It might be an indication to those in the G. O. P. as which party of today is the party of youth and as to which has the leadership, vision and stated principles,appealing to the liberal, progressive minds

of the new generation

From that moment until the time of my election in, the fall I was blasted unmercifully, and I blasted back successfully,

if winning an office really means success.

Every element of the bi-partisan crowd that had made mockery of good government worked against me at the polls

A leading Republican paper in a recent edi- land after the election conspired unsuccessfully to send me to torial confessed that the party’s need today is “an infusion of new and ! prison for merely doing what I thought was my duly to do. ; young blood.” A Democratic editor comments that “the Democratic ; The first thing done was to cancel $300,000 in street con- 1 party passed through this transition of leadership in Indiana five years j tracts, let at inordinate prices by the former administration ago when young men of 35 to 45 years took charge of the organization j and to declare a moratorium on Barrett law improvements, and named the tickets.” This Democratic editor, an old-timer himself ' This naturally caused a coalition of high finance racketeers, I comments that the Democratic party in hands of the younger men and | whose business had been disturbed, and petty law breaking ; women did not bar older men from leadership and nominations, but : elements that had been operating openly under the umbrella

! that it did rule that “the older element was not permitted to dominate.” I of {fie sacred COWS of high finance.

Can it be said that the Indiana G. o. p. is five years behind Indiana [ The respectable racketeers and the half-world joined in Democracy in capturing the vigor and vision of youth? The delegation, the belief that the mayor of Muncie was an undesirable citiio Milwaukee would indicate that is so. There are young men in the | ze n, and should be deported to Leavenworth for his many

Democratic party who, with serious conviction, will state the reason as J sins against society.

| being that the Republican party of today is 25 years behind the Demo j Blit while all this was going on the tax rate kept stead- ' cratic vision of what constitutes a free republic, social justice, economic ; \]y dropping and at the end of the five years harassed owners | order and a “Land of Opportunity.” [ 0 f real estate had retired a million dollars worth of Barrett

' j law bonds that were forced liens on their property, and no SENATOR MINTON CARVES A NAME ! others were forced upon them during that period. Senator Sherman Minton from Indiana receives notice in national j Taking it all the way ’round it looked like a pretty fair

i news and magazine services for the part he has played as a member job of housekeeping, but that’s neither here nor there. A : of the Black committee investigating the $1,800,000 utility lobbying ac- ‘new regime is'in control and I would be the last one to critij tivity. He keeps up the good work begun in Indiana when he served c j ze we re it not for the fact that those in charge were largely j as public counsellor before the public service commission and was m y severest critics, and by their actions have shown that

active in setting the enviable record for $5,000,000 of annual rate re- ] they were not even honest critics.

! ductions for Indiana utility customers. Senator Minton is a fiery cross- | Q ne ,, c { a ] orie on {] le part of Mayor Bunch should reexaminer and tireless worker. Washington papers predict a brilliant i ii cve Democrats who voted against him of any charge of party | future for this junior Senator. . f {jc..] 0 y a ity that might be preferred against them. I p au j wpite, Republican, and city engineer during the FIGHTING DEATH ON THE HIGHWAYS Hampton regime, was named confidential deputy engineer i it’s a big job those 75 state policemen have ahead of them in pa- by Mayor Bunch. The paving trust rose to its zenith while i trolling 7i,oon miles of state highway in the Governor’s campaign to re- Hampton was mayor and White, by virtue of his office, made j duce the auto fatality rate in Indiana. These policemen, forming a all the estimates for paving work let at outrageously high

j state safety patrol, are going to enforce state laws against reckless.. contract prices,

driving, faulty brakes, improper headlights and the rule about stopping |. Muncie people thought it had discarded the paving trust at preferential highways. Peace officers in every county and city will forever, and probably took Mayor Bunch at his word and be called upon to cooperate. No greater public service could be render- J y 0 ted for him when he Spoke feelingly against the trust, but dd at the’present time with deaths on the highways showing a 14% in- j 0 h n Hampton at his worst never did a greater injury to Lis crease in spite of the reductions of the number of accidents. Every c j{ y B ian when he appointed Paul White city engineer. -y b:, sane motorist should poin in the campaign. i It does not particularly add to White’s prestige that he

DRY-ROT PRESIDENTIAL TIMBER

The Pathfinder, that courageous magazine of current events, re ; . . fuses to be victimized by Republican propagandists or to be swayed crossers aren t much gooo tor anything else

by urgings of its partisan readers. In a recent issue it spoke editorially J

to those who have urgings it to say affirmatively that “the G. O. P. is | UAf fPCt f ACyflfS going to come back next year.” Calling to mind its editorial policies i I DIlV/ol Ivilga

which do not permit its editors to take sides on partisans questions The Pathfinder says: “We would be misrepresenting the facts if we said any such thing—for it would not be true. . . We believe in giving

cal and mental resistance. Athletic training tables serve bread in large quantities. Summer camps and picnic expeditions depend upon bread. Those who work on farm or in the heat, of the summer sun, find it absolutely essential to eat a large quantity of bread, along with nr'lk, meat and the usual watery foods because of the sustaining energy that bread gives. Business men turn to bread and milk because it supplies in easily digested form the best diet for sustained mental work and enables them to resist fatigue. “Balanced Diet” A balanced diet should consist of a food combination that develops fullest energy and body nourishment from what we eat. Mental and physical efficiency are sustained by the balance of bread with other foods. As watery foods have taken a bigger place on the menu, the balance of bread becomes more necessary. For perfect balance it is well to start your day with toast. Keep the bread plate filled at every meal with a variety of breads. Eat more bread and milk, bread sandwiches made with meat, cheese, peanut butter, jams and spreads of ail kinds—hot rolls with butter and sweet spreads. For dessert enjoy cup cakes or a layer cake served with fresh fruits or ice cream—or a jelly roll. Keep plenty of cookies in the cookie jar to provide inexpensive “sweets” for the children. {For economy, no food today offers so much for the money. Government figures for the past year show that flour and bread have

risen in c$st about 5 per cent while other foods have gone up as much as 80 per cent and more. Eat all the watery leafy foods you want, but balance with bread for sustained energy. r> . Mayor Bunch (Continued From Page One) sion fund could meet such obligations without any tax levy in the City of Muncie for the next ten years. The Police Pension Fund could not hold out that long but should be good for five or six years without a tax levy. Prior to the present year, these funds have received the benefit of a one cent tax rate which enabled the fund to grow to its healthy balance. The session last Monday night held in the council chamber was enlivened with suggestions from attending taxpayers as to how to reduce taxes. The advantages of municipal ownership of utilities was felt as comparisons were offered with cities of Indiana having possession of their light and water plants. The worthy suggestion of eliminating unnecessary and loafing employees who have been given political pensions was also made before the council by members of the audience. :—o —— Bowling Green, O. —Prosecutor Floyd Collier and Sheriff Arnold F. Isch are so confident, Wood county is closed up tight that they have offered a $50 reward to anyone finding a slot machine in operation.

Mr, Mills Clings to “the Old Order” Former Treasury Chief Is Satisfied With the System Which Enabled ; V \ Him to Inherit Vast Wealth and. Power

. - - , . j: Ogden jL, ; ;M> lls » multi-millionaire corporation lawyer, and Secretary

voted for Bunch and double-crossed Hampton, who kept him'. of the Treashry in the Hoover administration, made the following stateon the city payroll for four years at a good salary, nor does fdndnt in the course of an address at Chautauqua, N. York, last week:

it greatly redound to the wisdom of Mayor Bunch, for double- 5?

(Continued From Page One) the same engineer is employed. When the plan was blocked, over

promoters who sold Florida sand at a dollar a grain never thought of more beautiful pictures.

the people the facts and letting them think things out for themselves ^n'terested 0 in° tb^^roject,’ made

and vote their conclusions ... There is not a single stick of Q. O. P> jj, e statement, which was published presidential timber which is not worm-eaten and affected with dry-rot that Rollin H. Bunch, now mayor, —not a stick which an experienced builder would use in constructing a am! Lon Brackin, now city attorney coop—much less a political platform which will have to hold over 16,- anc ^ membei of the boanl of safe r.AA AAA , • T , u b. „ ty and public works, were respon000,000 voters in order to beat Roosevelt.” i s j])] e f or ^e catastrophe.

: VAN NUYS BILL ACCLAIMED BY LABOR The day Avhen industrial bosses can control the votes of workmen approaches an end, thanks to the Democratic convictions of Indiana’s senior United States Senator, Frederick Van Nuys. His bill in congress wins the praise of laborers and working men throughout the land for it would impose a fine and jail sentence upon employers who attempt, by threats and intimidation, to control the votes of their employes.

HOW BALANCE WATERY LEAF FOODS IN DIET

“Professional” Southsiders

One of the favorite arguments

used then was made by “profes- S ome Timely Hints RS to

What Children

FESS IS JITTERY Simeon D. Fess, Old Guard G. O. P. leader from Ohio, fears that the Roosevelt system for feeding starving citizens and finding them federal relief jobs is going to create a “permanent class oF unemployables.” What Mr. Fess is really worried about is that American citizens who have received a helping hand from President Roosevelt through all the troubles left to them by Hoover will be so grateful that they will return Mr. Roosevelt to the White House in 1936, regardless of invented political issues.

sional” Southsiders, whose only interest in the Southside sewer is to inflame its voting fever, by referring to the Southside sewer ' and pleading in behalf of citizens who had paid for a defective sewer i qnd were to be required to pay for

j another.

It seems to have been forgot- ' ten, or purposely overlobked, that the Southside sewer was projected and the contract let by the previous Bunch administration in the year 1920 and that one of the flock of deputies now employed by the city, was the city engineer at

| that time.

! Professional southsiders, who live north of the railroad, forget so easily, after accomplishing their political desires. There is no talk now about eliminating the Buck creek branch of the proposed

sewer.

Should Eat

Ball Outfit

When you sent your boy to camp this summer to build him up and get him ready for school, one of the most noticeable changes in his diet was the additional quantity of bread which he ate. Many amthonties belieye , that the present generation hds carried “diet,” to the extreme, where watery vegetables overbalance the more nourishing kinds of food. They recommend that a larger share of the diet include bread and other products baked from wheat flour. These foods relatively are non-fattening and (hey build muscle and bodiL resistance. . : ■. 7 f‘ Under Nervous Strain Bread gives clrldren reserve vitality to meet the nervous strain of school work. It provides physi-

and its.,voluntary economic system in favor of an authoritarian governmenl and °,n economic system based on coercion, on the obedience of the many to the few.” , U ; {"V 7 -x xxx - - -V AA-A - . - *J.. ."a'J ( It is difficult to discuss such a demagogic utterance with restraint. One is disposed to exclaim, “Rubbish,” and let it go at that. If Mr. Mills were speaking for himself, perhaps that would be the way to handle the matter, but he aspires to leadership in a great political party, and he is generally regarded as the representative of a small, but extremely influential group, once described by Theodore Roosevelt as “the predatory rich.” Because of these conpeCtions, and the gravity with which newspapers deal with his statements, Mr. Mills milst be noticed, even when he talks nonsense. X X X X The “old social order” to which Mr. Mills is devoted, produced the stock market crash of October, 1929, followed by years of the most devastating depression in this country’s history. When Mr. Mills and his associates went out of office on March 4, 1933, evedy bank in America was closed. Agriculture was prostrate. Millions of men and women were vainly seeking employment, and the Federal government was stubbornly refusing to provide jobs for the idle or food for the hungry. The grim fact is that our country was nearer revolution than it had been at any time since Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown. Mr. Mills would have us believe that the “order” which produced those appalling conditions is a sacred thing, and that we cannot change it without abandoning our free institutions! • ■■ ‘ ; ' x x x x He warns us that we are drifting toward “an authoritarian government” and “an economic system based on obedience of the many to the few.” ■ ■ .... Of course, “authoritarian government” is just a term coined by Mr. Mills to scare people, but his suggestion that if we don’t look out we will soon find ourselves mixed up in an economic system “based on the obedience of the many to the few” is a rare bit of humor. How about the existing economic system? Who obeys under that system—the many, or the few? The question answers itself. x x x x The fact is that Mr, Mills is clinging to the “old social order,” not because he fears an “authoritarian government”—whatever that may be —But because he si opposed to any change. The “old social order” suits hinj perfectly. It enabled him to come into the world with a golden spoon in his mouth; to Inherit vast wealth; to gain education, power and place with a minimum of exertion. It’s been good to him and he doesn’t give a “hoot” how it affects the rest of us.—Labor.

Over five thousand copies of the Pcst-Domocrat are being; /'Cn^Hr^Ad m Pave one) read this week. I have been in the publishing business in fair grounds, which is in the corMuncie for the past twenty years, took time out from 1930 li ? 1 . its °. f ? ity - Arthur 1 to 1935, to serve as mayor of the'city, and will have to admit : oils ’ brewery n saw raV thfrthat that during that period the paper was shamefully neglected Bail Bearing’Beer, and none other, by the publisher. • j was sold at. the fair. George Ball, ' After all it is somewhat of a man’s job to undertake to j the “ an ^ ] ” of 1116 Grass Roots, is be mayor of Muncie. It was Exceedingly arduou^ for me, be- mimd e eS fur" hoard dlctaL ° r of the cause of the fact that about half my time was occupied in i ’ i t W as at first thought that municipal affairs and the other spent in defending myself George would require the deacons and others cf my administration against ridiculous criminal i of tlle church to which he belongs p v os o cutions ! and contributes freely to tend bar This left me but little time to devote to the Post-Demo- | ruiPdry? but instead h an excrat, a newspaper that has made history here and elsewhere, | bootlegger and former convict and is noted for its cleaning out of polit.xal stables. I am | was picked out to shoot ’em back now to my real business, that of editing a newspaper, j «cross the bar to the thirsty men. which is more important than holding any dinky political | wonien D a i ^ < n(t f ^ x y c < ^ t | 1 y air ' job that I know of. j The experiment was not wholly The history of the Post-Democrat and its struggles is] a success. People do not mind coiimore than local. Newspapers and magazines ail over Amer-1 tributing to the fruit jar monoica have discussed at great length various phases of tjie nu-; polv ’ which there is no esmerous conflicts between the unmuzzled Muncie newspaper) inj t one brewery . dry> when there

are so many others in the world. You can lead a boss to the trough but you can’t make him drink. Likewise people who walk up; to the bar voluntarily can take ’er or

Lieber alone.

In the light of the rather unpopdlar fair grounds experiment it can be confidently stated that Lieber Lager will not. used for communion service in the various churches of Muncie over which

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Ps$t! listen.' Business is sickThe President's Sick.'— , The nation's Sick, Everything's Sick!

The Whispering Campaign Falls Flat!

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and the enemies of good government.

Its first exploit was an expose of Alpha Holaday’s get-rich-quick scheme. His arrest followed within one week and he was sent to federal prison for four years for defrauding Muncie and Delaware county citizens out of a half million

dollars

The Post-Democrat hit the old Billy Williams Republican machine a long series of body blows and the machine

folded up.

The common practice cf letting gravel “lifting” contracts

to favored individuals by county commissioners was then so i the Ball contingent have magnanthoroughly exposed by the Post-Democrat that it has be-distributed their membercome a thing of the past and many thcusands,of dollars were ^'t.JIa?fn' i*™ Jo*

saved forjhe taxpayers.

The klan fight which lasted over a period of four years also left its mark. The klan and its henchmen in and out of office fought unscrupuously and with great determination, but the Post-Democrat in the end scored a clean victory. The Post-Democrat built up a character of telling the truth, unafraid and disdaining threatened reprisals by powerful adversaries. When the famous paving monopoly fastened its fangs on Muncie, it was this newspaper, which told in de-

tail just how it was done and property owners were informed' them'to Max ziegier by the Yale. 1

just how it happened that they were defrauded by the imposition of unjust and exorbitant Barrett law assessments. One morning, early in the year 1929, I happened to drop into the office of former City Clerk Maynel Dalby. Nobody had suggested that I run for mayor, not even my wife. Some unaccountable impulse led me to ask Mr. Dalby for a filing blank, and I filed for the Democratic nomination for mayor. This was my own personal undoing. I fell from my high estate as a newspaper editor to that of a mere office seeker.

rot nrcR^ v ibo L^gcr for laryngitis or that tbn’r German expert brewmaster will not fill the swimnvng ^>ool daily at their V. M. C. A. with his super-fluid, instead of plain

water.

Something Must be Done However something has to be

done about, this. The investing nublie. holding beautifully engraved certificates of stock, is wondering how soon they will be selling

Some cf the investors here who ’'ought stock on the strength of the marvelous pictures of a brewery at Richmond that was never built, insist that the mails were

used to defraud.

They have the circulars sent out by the buoyant and creative minded Nelson. The pictures of the brewery-to-be reminded one of a sky line cf Chicago. Inventive