Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 6 September 1935 — Page 2
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
Practical Paragraphs
By John Edwin Price
Many problems face individuals and groups of individuals today. Some of them can, with ingenuity, tact and perseverance, be satisfactorily solved. Others it is best to leave alone for the time being. The man who can quickly make .up his mind into which* category a problem falls will soon be solving something. If you are the sort of person who will compromise with your neighbor over a difference rather than let. a minor grievance develop into an open breach with long time bitterness then you have that selfcontrol and grace and mag nanimity which will mark as distinguishing characteristics that generation of men and women who will settle their international differences Vithout resort to war. Families of character make communities of character. Communities of character make states of character. States of character make nations of charicter. Nations of character make a commonwealth of peoples whose agreements can be de-
pended on. It makqs a difference in all the world how I live and how you live and how our neighbors live. It is still true that some things are good for a man and some things decidedly not so good. If a thought or act is a breaking down of one’s standards of temperance or makes him in any sense less fair to his fellow humans or incapacitates him ever so slightly to face his difficulties manfully,— it’s not so good. Do you remember that business headache you had a year ago? If so, you probably also recall that you found a w r ay to relieve it. Do you remember that crushing blow you received? If it didn’t drive you up a side road to something better, you have at least learned how to live with the scar. Do you remember that whole mess of “Might Happens” that clogged your mind and kept it engaged when it should have been working on something within reach of your ability and strength? They probably never happened.
GRUESOME READING But Maybe it Will Jar the Reckless Motorist
There’s a grim piece .in the Reader’s Digest for August which ought to be required reading for the reckless motorist. It w r as written by F. C. Furnas, who hopes that a little gruesome reality may shock the speedster into mending his ways. Here is a paragraph ’describing one class of accidents: Flying glass—safety glass is by ho means universal yet—coni tributes much more than its shareto the spectacular side of accidents. It doesn’t merely cut—the . fragments are' driven in as if a * cannon loaded with broken bottles jiad been fired in your face, and a sliver in the eye, traveling with such force, means certain blindness. A leg or arm stuck through • ’the windshield will cut clean to the bone through vein, artery and y . muscle like a piece of beef under the butcher's knife, and it takes little time to lose a fatal amount •of blood under such circumstances. Even safety glass may not be wholly safe when the car crashes something at high speed. You hear picturesque tales of how 7 a flying human body will piake a neat hble hi the stuff with its-head—the shoulders stick—the glass holds— and the raw, keen edge of the hole decapitates the body as neatly as a guillotine.
The automobile is treacherous, just as a cat is. It is tragically difh' ficult to realize that it can become the deadliest missile. As entlius|jjv lasts tell you, it makes 65 feel like ‘c. nothing at all. But 65 an hour is ^ 100 feet a second, a speed which
puts a viciously unjustified responsibility on brakes and human reflexes, and can instantly turn this docile luxury into a mad bull elephant.
Overturning cars specialize in certain injuries, points out F. C. Furnas in a realistic account of motor car accidents. Crackhd pelvis, for instance, guaranteeing agonizing months in bed, mptionless, perhaps crippled for life— broken spine resulting from sheer sidewise twist—the minor details of smashed knees and splintered shoulder blades caused by crashing into the side of the car as she goes over with the swirl of an insane roller coaster—and the lethal consequences of broken ribs, which puncture hearts and lungs with their raw ends. The consequent internal hemorrhage is no less dangerous because it is the pleural instead of the abdominal cavity that is filling with blood.
If you customarily pass without clear vision a long way ahead, make sure that every member of the party carries identification papers, suggests F. C. Furnas. For, says he, it’s difficult to identify a body with its whole face mashed in or torn off. The driver is death’s favorite target. If the steering wheel holds together it ruptures his liver or spleen so he bleeds to death internally. Or, if the steering wdieel breaks off, the matter is settled instantly by the steering column’s plunging through his abdomen.
Forty-four selected legal reserve life insurance companies eameti **» proximately four per cent on $19,000,000,000 of invested assets it is shown j by the Davis Life Insurance Annual, The chart gives the major items in the combined investment portfolio of the companies.
CHICAGO—Despite the prepottderahce of low yield equities in the
field of investment, 44 selected United States and Canadian - legal reserve life insurance companies were able to earn an avferage of 3.90 per cent on $19,071,000,000 Of Invested funds in 1934, it is shown by the current edition of the Davis Life Insurance Annual. This comparatively good return is an example of scientific investment management, and demonstrates the value of wide diversification of risk, it was stated by H. A. Davis, Chicago, independent life insurance analyst and author of the annual. These companies have §86,106,000,000 of life insurance in force, or approximately 82 per cent of tho total for the entire industry, Mr. Davis, said: Domestic bonds represent the largest single -tern in this combin-
ed investment portfolio. Of the $19,071,000,000 29.7 per cent is in domestic bonds. Mortgage loans bn real estate rank next with 27.S per cent. Other investments Items are policy loans, 16.7 per cent; U. S, government bonds. 9.1 per cent; real estate, 7.8 per cent; Canadian bonds, 4 per cent; cash, 2,8 per cent; stocks, largely preferred and guaranteed, 2.4 per cent, and for^ eign bonds, excluding Canadian, only two-tenths of one per cent. , “It is decidedly interesting te note that these companies earned nearly four per cent on their invested funds in the face of the exceedingly poor investment opportunities” Mr, Davis declared “Another item of interest is the very small percentage lavas ted in fcreign bends, other th*n
equities.”
Ther^Doesn’t Seem to Be Much Question About the Recovery
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“Character is the result of two things—mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
The Ringling Brothers circus carries 800 horses with it.
The Butrick triplets of Adrain, Michigan, celebrated their fiftieth birthday recently.
“The United States is making steady strides back to prosperity. You can see it everywhere,” says Postmaster General James A. Farley.
Vice President Darryl Zanuck of the Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation has a new seven-year contract calling for a salary of $250,000 per year.
Statistics show that there were about 18,000 suicides in the United States in 1934. 38.4 per cent of these shot themselves.
Perhaps the most interesting and unusual item recently brought to our attention is the case of Isaac Franco, a delicatessen store owner at Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Franco petitioned his landlord to raise his rent up to the normal rate, that, “business is much better now.”
Two late movies starring Will Rogers will be released soon by .the Fox Film Corporation, They are “Steamboat Round The Bend” and “In Old Kentucky.”
“If you want to di-ive, don’t drink; if you want to drink, don’t drive.”
The average American is thirtyseven years old, spends $72 yearly for life insurance, has $251 in the bank, and $192 in a building and loan association.
Investigation shows that there have been more prominent men above the average heighth than beIo ' v * , i £! tflff One of the strangest cases in history is that of Napoleon’s mother. She had eight children and lived to see each one on an European throne.
Already the new Missouri “bottle cap” sales tax tokens (one mill
each) have been introduced to \ Japan has been having a prob-
poker in ante.”
a game called “mill-
Tomatoes were first introduced into this country from South Africa and were not used for food until after George Washington’s time. Nowadays tomatoes are considered one of the most healthful vegetables grown.
At St. Louis, Missouri, Mrs. John Scharf was enroute to her parents’ with her little daughter, Ruth Ann, to celebrate the little girfs first birthday anniversary. As they stepped from a street car they were hit by a truck and the little daughter was smashed and instantly filled. Poor grandma must have Ifelt terrible when she looked at the birthday cake, with only one candle, after hearing of the accident.
lem of parents abandoning their
children.
Often times it does not pay one to demand or take his highway rights when driving cars. Being legally in the right may not exempt one’s family from an ambulance trip to the nearest hospital.
A Galesburg, Illinois, concern advertises: “No Beer—All Other Confections.”
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WIT AND HUMOR! A Page of Will Rogers’ Funniest WiseCracks. Read Them in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed With NEXT SUNDAY'S CHICAGO HERALD AND EXAM-
INER.
“STREAMLINED” New York — Stewardesses on United Air Lines planes have to
be “streamlined.” Under a new rule, the company insists they must not weigh over 120 pounds and be not over 5 feet 4 inches tall.
Owing to an objection raised in the House of Representatives, Arlington cemetery will not be tendered as a final resting place for Will Rogers. It has been pointed out, and with some degree of propriety, that the area referred to is intended only for the reception of the remains of those who have served in the armed forces of the nation. It makes little difference what becomes of Mr. Rogers dead. His life work has endeared him in the hearts of his countrymen to such a degree that his grave will be a shrine, though it be dug in a wilderness, leveled flat, and marked by no stone, tablet or shaft.
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: in the Delaware Superior Court April Term, 1935, Kathryn Mason vs. James R. Mason, Complaint: Divorce, No. 616S. Notice is hereby given the said defendant James R. Mason that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant James R. Mason is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear
on Saturday the 26th day of October 1935, the 42nd day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the 2nd Monday in September, A. D., 1935, at the Court House in the City of, Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 24th day of August A. D., 1935. Mable B. Ringo, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Aug. 30-Sept. 13.
MIN OIK ITBKIO LIBRARY TKNTAYIYK BtJDGKT—1!)Z6 Tn the matter of Determining' the Tax Rates for certain purpases by the Limary Board of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. ^Before the Library Board. Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, that* the proper legal officers of said municipality, at their regular meeting place, on the 9th day of September, 1935, will consider the following budget. BUDGET CLASSIFICATION
I.. .Services, Personal
11. Salary Librarian 12. Salary Assistants ll.liU.uo
51. 54.
Wages of Janitors Other Compensation
II. Services Contractual
Communication and Transportation Heat, Light, Power and Water Printing and Advertising Repairs Cervices Other Contractual a. Binding and Kuel
2,100.00
100.00
$15,170.00
200.00 2,100.00 1 50.00 1,700.00 700.00
b. Maintenance Office Supplies . . Other Supplies . . .
Building
. $400.00 . 300.00
$ 4,850.00
III. Supplies
IV. Material
X. Current Charges
150.00 1,050.00
$ 1,2-00.00
300.00
$ 300.00
Insurance Other ...
Premiums
500.00 50.00
550.00
VII. Properties
Equipment Books, Magazines, etc.
250.00 6,000.00
$ 6,250.00
.. .$28,320.00
INDIANA GENERAL SERVICE Cr
TO. OUR•CUSTOMERS: Ask the Physics teacher up at'the High School to define a kilowatt-hour.* 1 He will tell you that it is equivalent to the work that can be done by about 10 strong men in an hour. • At our low electric rates the aver-age-customer pays less than 5 cents a kilowatt-hour. For a penny he secures approximately the equal of two strong men working for an hour. Where else can you get-such a large penny's worth?
Division Manager
A GENT’S WORTH OF ELECTRICITY BUYS THE EFFORT OF TWO STRON® MIN WORKING FOR AN HOUR
Total ESTIMATE OF LIBRARY FUND TO BE RAISED FUNDS REQUIRED FOR EXPENSES TO DECEMBER 31st OF INCOMING YEAR
Library Fund
1. Total Budget Estimate for incoming year $28,320.09 2. Necessary expenditures to be made from appropriations unexpended July 31st of present year ••• 14,565.13 3. Additional appropriations necessary to be made August tst to December 31st of present year ■ • • 4. Outstanding temporary loans to be paid before December 31st of present year.—not included in lines 2 or 3 5. Total funds required (add lines 1, 2, 3 and 4
$42,885.13
FI NDS ON HAND AND TO BE RECEIVED FROM SOURCES OTHER THAN PROPOSED TAX LEVY: 6. Actual balance, July 31st of present year $14,121.72 7. Taxes to be collected, present year (December settlement) 9,000.00 8. Miscellaneous Revenue to be received Aug. 1st of present year to Dec. 31st of incoming year a. Special taxes 1,518.00 b. Fees and all other- revenue 1,000.00 9.. Total funds (add lines 6, 7, 8a and 8b) 25,642.73 10. NET AMOUNT TO BE RAISED FOR EXPENSES TO DEC. 31st of INCOMING YEAR (Deduct line 9 from line 5) 17,242.41 11. Operating Balance (Not in excess of expense Jan. 1st to June 30, less miscellaneous revenue for same period), 6,670.00 12. AMOUNT TO BE RAISED BY TAX LEVY (Add lines 10 and 11)... 23.912.41 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE
COLLECTED.
1930 Levy 1931 Levy 1932 Levy $33,350.00 $32,064.38 $25,969.32 Net Taxable Property: City Levy on property Amount to be raised Net taxable property: Township .. Levy on property
Amount to be raised
1933 Lew $19,866.83
1934 Ijevy $23,316.50
. . .$39,853,700.00
.06
23,912.22 . .. 3,205,465.00
.04
1,282.18
To bo
Collected 1935 Levy $23,912.41
Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon after the tax levies have been determined’ ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for furthet and final action thereon by filing a. petition therefor with the County Auditor riot later than the Fourth Monday of September, 1935 and (lie State Board will fix a date of hearing in this County. MUNCIE PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD.
WEBB HUNT, President:
ARTHUR H. PIERSON, Secretarj
LEGAL NOTICE In the. matter of determining tax rate's for certain purposes by the civil town of Eaton, Delaware County, Slate otf Indiana, before tire Board of Trustees. Notice is hereby given the Taxpayers of Eaton, Delaware County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said Municipality at their regulaV meeting place on tire 11th day of September, 1935 will consider the following budget: GENERAL FUND Salary of Trustees $ 300.00 Salary of Clerk Treasurer 24 0.00 Legal 100.00 Printing 150.oo Building Repair 25.00 Office Expense and Suppllete 50.410 Health Officer and Supplies 60.00 Salary, Marshall, Street and Water Commissioner 1200.00 Compensation of Firemen 250.00 Labor on Streets and Alleys 100.00 Material and 1 Supplies ; • • • 200.00 Miscellaneous Expense 200.00 Barrett Law Expense 25.OO Election Expense 175.00 Total 4 $3075.00 ELECTRIC LIGHT FUND Street Arcs and Hall Light $1503.87 Total , $1503.87 WATER FUND Interest and Retired Stock $4369.00 Salary Clerk Treasurer 120.00 Power 600.00 Labor ' i 150.00 Supplies and Material 150.00 Total $5389.00 ESTIMATE OF FUNDS TO BE RAISED General / Electric Light Water Total Expense . $3075.00 $1503.87 $5389.00 Amount to be Raised by tax 3396.33 1601 12 1698.16 Taxable Property $485,190.00 Amount to b« Levy on Property Raised by' Levy General Fund $ -70 $3396.33 Electric Fund 33 1601.12 Water Fund .35 1698.16 COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE COLLECTED 1933 Levy 1934 Levy 1935 Levy 1936 Levy General Fund $2459.30 $3230.03 $2730.10 $3396.33 Electric Light Fund 1793.24 1659.88 1402.97 1601.12 Water Fund 1793.24 1570.15 1327.13 1698.16 taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the levies fhave been determined, ten or more 'taxpayers- feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final action thereon by filing a petition therefor with the County Auditor not later than the 4th Monday of September and the State Board will fix a date ot hearing in the County. Dated this 28th day of August, 1935. L. M. RICHARDSON, C. M SMARTS, Clerk-Treasurer Pres, of Town Board.
the matter of determining the tax rat Town of Selma, Delaware County, Indiana, befo
OF TAX
tes for certa:
the Board
LEVIES.
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BUDGET CLASSIFICATIONS FOE TOWNS
GENERAL FUND.
1*—SERVICES, PERSONAL.
2. Salary of clerk-treasurer 50.00
1. Salary of trustees S 60,00
ary arv npe
7aees
6. Printing and advertising
3. Salary of marshal / 25.00 4. Compensation of town attorney.. 25.00 5. Waees of street laborers 100 00
■Hvertisini
7. Cartage
75.00 15.00
2—-SERVICES, CONTRACTUAL. 1, Street lights 380.00 2, Street supplies and labor ...... 275.03 3, Rents =, 36.09 4 Office supplies 1 03 5. Fire hose and supplies 25.Oq
, :
Total general fund
. $1,067.03
ESTIMATE OF TOWN FUNDS TO BE RAISED.
General
Fund
ar I 1.087.09
incoming year (estimated on State Board
of Accounts data and former year misc. rev.) 333.00 3. Subtract line 2 from line 1 . . ....: 682.00 4. Unexpended appropriations July 31st Of present year ... ... ... .. 613.00
5. All additional appropriations between July 31st and De
6.
All additional appfopfiatiens between July 31st ant Temporary loans to be paid before close of present year
eeember 31st
SO/OO 1
7. Total (linfes 3, 5, 5 and 6) . J ... S 1,388.00. ‘ ~ - ; :.. 576.121 33.36' 128.33'
11. Total (lines 8, 9’and 10) 12. Subtract line 11 from line 7 13. Estimated working balance for six (less misc. revenue for same period)
"788.111
months after close of
14. Amount to be raised by tax (add lines
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$
$ 599.891
next year
62.53
662.42i
Net taxable property
12 and 13)
OSSD LEVY.
I - -; •. 8174,320.60!
Levy oh Property Amount to be Raised
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COMPARATIVE STATEMENT OF TAXES COLLECTED AND TO BE cOLtlcfED. Name of fund Collected Collected Collected To Collect • . • :"L —> 1933 1934 1935 1936
$166.73
General
levies
19S3
$186.35
1
$161.95
1936
$882 12.
not later than the fourth, of hearing in this county.
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EMMETT S. MYERS,
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