Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 November 1935 — Page 6

■

■i ■ 'V)'"*!

Ttit ftJSt-OtMOCRAf rnTDAT, NOttafBfiR 1, 1935.

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 nt Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR

110 North Mulberry Street—Telephone 79 GEO. R. DALE, Publisher

Muncie, Indiana, Friday, November 1, 1935. The Bandits’ Happy Home How much longer will the city of Muncie stand for daylight stickups and midnight house robberies that have terrorized the people here

for some months?

The robberies are committed boldly and nobody is ever caught. Friday morning shortly after 9 o’clock the Franklin Security company on South Mulberry, about a block from the police station was raided and robbed by an armed bandit. The play boys of the city hall, who must have their fun, seem to have more interest in prize fights, grouse shooting and the world’s ieries than they do in looking after the safety of citizens. The Star Friday morning stated that the mayor, city controller, city attorney, city clerk and city park manager were going to drive to Columbus, Ohio, Saturday morning to see a football game and that all were going to ride in the new camping car with a steam engine top bought by the mayor’s two percent club Possibly the whole outfit was to busy Friday morning learning how to blow the whistle of the choo choo, that they did not hear of the stick-up that was being pulled off almost in the shadow of the city hall. In the past few weeks over twenty house robberies have been committed, some of them unreported. On several occasions residents have been robbed in their homes and with threats of death have been compelled to hand over their money and valuables. The whole thing has ceased to be funny. It has become a serious problem. Notwithstanding all these stick ups, household robberies and a general epidemic of thievery, there has not been a single arrest, in spite of the fact that the police force has been increased to sixty-eight. We except of course, the notable arrest of three state policemen who happened to be in the city on the day that one of our regular weekly stick-ups. Then the local police “saw their duty and done it.” They thought the state police were the robbers and dragged them j to headquarters and knocked one of them in the head for good measure.

TI

leEdi

itor’s Cor

ner

******

A G. 0. P. Ghost

Some dusty bcnes were rattled the other day in the closet of Indiana Republicans. “Jake” Finkelstein, former campaign manager for Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, who was majority leader in the United States Senate- under President Hoover, was indicted by a Federal grand jury in Chicago on charges of evading income tax payments —the same charges that sent A1 Capone to prison. It seems that Mr. Finkelstein forgot to pay taxes on an income of $158,652.93 made in the second year of Senator Watson’s last term in office and that he also overlooked filing returns on an income of $76,144.69 in 1930. This was along about the time Senator Watson was receiving stock gifts from the Sugar Trust which he later said turned out to be no good. Wonder if Mr. Watson, who still is the dictator of Indiana Republicanism, ever pot his affairs with the federal income tax people straightened out?

Lipstick On Their Shirts Naturally there are two schools of thought on the feminine makeup question. Some people are “agin” it entirely, while others go in for it to extremes. Practically all women today use make-up to some extent and some men are said to do likewise. But men usually take a neutral attitude wherever and whenever beauty preparations and beauty aids are concerned. That is because chivalrous men like their women beautiful no matter what the cost. For this reason menfolks have long joked about getting painter’s colic. Yet they keep right on kissing the girls’ ruby lips.~ Whether it is because they can’t take it or not, it seems that modern youths have become so ungentlemanly as to complain about the girls using too much cosmetics, especially rouge. While they do not mind the appearance or even the taste (if they can get it) of lipstick on girls’ lips, fraternity lads have started organizing to protect themselves from that menace. They claim that the scarlet paste stains their best shirt when they dance with rouged and lipsticked misses. They have even gone so far as to declare they are not going to dance with the young ladies who wear lipstick at parties. If the girls won’t cooperate they threaten to go shirtless. But the girls, despite their rouged ruby lips, would likely have something to say about such rudeness, even if they let this complaint go unchallenged. They should at least inform the fraternity boys that no gentleman when dancing with a lady ever holds her in such a position that her lips or even her cheek come in contact with his wearing apparel. What the fraternity boys really need is a good book on ballroom etiquette.—Pathfinder.

n rainer ucaies me to near people moan Because mey ihu iu uuu.nect up with the pie counter after they have fought, bled and alrbost died (to hear therh tell it) serving the party to which they belong. Quite frequently they threaten to leave their patty and join the opposition and depart from the crowd which has distressingly neglected to put them on the payroll. They tell their sad story incessantly but somehow or other the recital does not interest the average listener. Fortunately the general public refuses to assay political principles on a cash revenue basis. When one becomes wedded to any given political philosophy, failure to provide could not be assigned as a ground for divorce. It’s too much like (he young wife who wrote to Dorothy Dix, or Aunt Bella or some other authority, complaining of the bonds of matri mony which kept her washing dishes and caring for a couple kids while other young folks, unencumbered by youngsters, husbands and dirty dishes could cut up w ith anybody they please without creating a public

scandal.

And besides, she complained, she had a job of her own before she made her fatal blunder, and had much more spending money than she did afterward and wanted to know wdiat in the heck she had better do

about it.

Thinking people will hardly reject matrimony as an utter failure because of such complaints, any more than they can be led into a general rebellion against fixed principles just because some ward heeler has failed to get a job. Take, for instance, the sad fate of a Gaston young man, of Repub Mean antecedents and training who grabbed the remnants of a dying Republican newspaper and called what was left of it the pround “organ” of the Democratic party after he had been faithfully promised by somebody that the Post-Democrat would be immediately shorn of certain pub

lie printing.

The shearing failed to materialize and other alleged promises were not fulfilled. And now bitter complaints are lodged (hat everybody lied to him. His wife was “promised” a job in the postoffice in Gaston and he was to be put on the state payroll as a reward for his contribution to Democratic literature and for his noble attempt to deprive the Post-

Democrat of filthy lucre.

None of these gaudy dreams of political appointments and wealth beyond jthe dreams of avarice came true, therefore the Democratic party is a dank and dismal failure. Who made all these glittering promises is to affiant unknown and said affiant careth less. But evidently they were made, if any, by a pack of dubs with well developed wish bones but

whose power of delivery is much below par.

1 he editor of the Gaston whatisit is really a fine and amiable young man, and it seems really a crime that a band of political cutthroats here, should have imposed on his credulity and youthful enthusiasm by

making vain promises,

How'ever it is hoped that his experience with those who for ways

that are dark and tricks that are vain can cope with any Heathen Chinee living, will not forever cloud the soul of this young man with distrust for all mankind. Right now of course it might be difficult for the

young man to decide who needs the most extensive cussing.

He is said to be torn betw r een two impulses. One is to bring an am" lion for breach of promise. The other is to saunter to the rear of the Washington hand press and fan himself gently with the sole of his'shoe

for his guileless belief in the promise of the ungodly. However I seem to have wandered away from the original text of

my weekly discourse to an otherwise enlightened congregation. Charley Ross wandered away one day and never came back. So where was 1? Os yes, in Gaston when the sermon ended and started with a treatise on the jai to the human system when the gladsome precinct worker rushes joyously to the hash counter the day after the election and finds a pair oi pants on every stool, the pants being occupied, inhabited and infested, in a manner of speaking, by a gang of hooligans who had read in the Brst reader that the early bird gets the hash and that those who

dally by the wayside merely get the bird.

So let’s remind the deceived Gaston youth that there is a sliver in

the lining of every shroud.

hie 3 hat f */, ^u^ateful Democratic party had caused him to quit his job at. the editorial desk and made a state policeman out of him? Bet us all pause for a moment to shudder. The going is not srood in Muncie for state policemen. Supposing he had come over to the S n a h ^ d °i hlS trad ‘ n f and had been kissed on the konk with a stuffed club, firmly grasped in the mitt of one of our own constabulary! Fhe rewards ot office are not great. Very few of us even become millionames trying to run a newspaper, especially when our hopes of affluence depend upon the promises of the league of liars Shucking corn is good, honest employment and the information vie ini tv 11 DmFthnY 1 ? 0 ^ iS 1)161117 of unsbucked corn in thaf vicinity, and that a good shucker can get a job without the recommendation of the county chairman or a United States senator In the words of Horace Greely, “Shuck corn, young man, shuck

No Armistice Eighteen years ago, on November 11, the greatest w r ar in history came to an end. On that day an armistice wms declared for the purpose of arranging terms of peace. But since then, and before, there has been going on a war that knows no armistice. On one side is the enemy tuberculosis; on the other is the human race. The human race has had a winning fight, yet the toll is still high. Last year 75,000 Americans lost their lives in this warfare, a greater number than fell victims of bullets during the entire period of the World War. The ammunition used in this w r ar consists of sanatorium beds, clinics, school health work, nursing service and health education methods to teach the public how health may be improved and tuberculosis prevented. The means of financing this program is obtained through the sale of Christmas Seals purchased generously by Hoosiers during the months of December. • On Armistice day it is fitting and proper to give thought to this relentless war, and consider the program for the future and the possibility of an armistice. The soldiers in the front lineHrenches are the tuberculosis association standing shoulder to shoulder in a firm line facing the enemy. And as the troops engaged in the World War were aided by the people back home w r ho supplied the necessities of warfare, so do our tuberculosis workers need the help of the public in making this battle for health successful. The help asked is that everyone buy Christmas Seals and Christmas Seal bonds which will be offered to the public on Thanksgiving Day and throughout the holiday season. Make the season a gratifying one by a liberal purchase of these messengers of health and cheer.

corn.

Chamber

It’s All In the Question We are beginning to grow' suspicious that the widely advertised “weekly poll of public opinion” is another one of these Liberty League -Save the Constitution movements aimed at the New Deal. By a system of questionnaires going to persons unknown to the general public, the so called Institute of Public Opinion learns that “public opinion” is J to 2 against government spending for relief. Wonder what the answer would have been if the question had been put this way: “Are you in favor of 10,000,000 men, women and children starving or of government spending?”

The Choo Choo Cars The mayor’s two percent club has finally justified its existence. The mass mind of the financial experts of the city administration laid aside for the time being pressing fiscal matters such as digging sewers on paper and paying policemen with rubber dollar bills, to solve the more vital question of what to do with the two percent money. “Leave it to Parkinson,” was the final verdict and Bob forthwith bought choo choo cars to play with. Nero, the original playboy, bought a twm dollar and a half fiddle with money he had collected from the Praetorian guard and played “Turkey in the Straw” after assassinating the fire department and setting lire to Rome so he could collect the insurance on his dry goods store on Main street. He was not criticized because it w r as very fatal in Rome, just as it is today, to criticize authority. The boys simply have to be amused. Much enjoyment can be extracted by playing train. If the 2 percent fund holds out a few box cars will be purchased, a toy track will be laid around the city hall and everybody can ride and play ring around a rosy at the same time. Minds that can conceive of such worthy civic projects as toy chuchus, plugging up sewers and building a Chinese wall down the center of the Walnut sueet bridge, may be relied upon to get a passing grade fiom the kindergaiten school, were they now seem to be enrolled. After Controller Parkinson has mastered the art of ringing the bell and blowing the whistle of his two percent locomotive and if time lies nenvy on his hands he might take fifteen minutes off to explain to his mystified public why Muncie is busted and wdiy there’s nobody at home behind the payoff window of the controller’s office.

(Continued From Page One) adjustment hoard had finished with the mayor’s $1.62 rate it had been carved down to 98 cents and the mayor smiled and said he w-as perfectly satisfied. Previously the mayor had proposed a $221,000 bond issue. The council authorized the bond issue but an appeal was taken to the state tax board and the issue was cut down to $81,000 this week. The mayor again smiled and expressed satisfaction. He remarked though that he “wished” the amount had been left at $221,000. He Avas satisfied but not contented. A Dangerous Wish Bone The powerfully developed wish bone of the present administration has developed a tug of war here. Every day almost some new form of “improvement” is suggested to mortgage Muncie and the army of defense puts on the Avar paint and goes wearily to bat. However the humanizing of the chamber of commerce may prove to be an asset to Muncie. For some time it has really had nothing to live for. Now that it has awakened from a long sleep and developed a surprisingly increased number of red corpuscles in its veins, further raiding is presaged. But the hoys of the illustrius chamber had better remain aAvake or they Avill lose their undershirt. Mayor Bunch is an exceedingly Avily antagonist. He has carefully compiled a set of fgures and his threat to take the radio to expose plutocrats Avho seek to cramp his style, might materialize and he may “salute” Muncie some night Avith an air attack that Avill blow the chamber of commerce into smithereens.

Jim Watson (Continued From Page One.)

Utah.

Frantic appeals have also been made to the department of justice, and even to the President, to keep Die pride of Indiana out of the hoosegow. Somehow or other the press disnatches from Washington which trickle into benighted Muncie, consist almost wholly of explanations of the ex-senator himself about the episode. Watson says he has no kmnvledge that he has committed a crime against the government. A1 Capone, also of Chicago, Avho was sent up for a long time for neglecting to pay income taxes on his ill-gotten gains, made the same assertion. ha\'e forgotten whether or not Finklestein was Scar Face’s lawye;, or eA'en his campaign manager. Hollers For Help Press reports indicate that Senators Joe Robinson and Pat Har-

rison, tAvo leading Democratic senators, have gone to the front for their former colleague in distress, but. the folks will decline to helieA'e this until they hear from the senators themselves. Watson says he knew a year and a half ago that department of justice agents had him under investigation and he really thought, he says, that the Avhole matter had been dropped. It is inconvenient and embarrassing to a great man like Watson to be disturbed and have his mind taken from his Avork by such a trifle at such a critical time in the nation’s history when men of his calibre are needed to defend the constitution. It is somewhat laughable to note that Jim knows Avho to go to when the road becomes too rocky for the weary pilgrim. If it had been two or three years ago Avhen Fred VanNuys knocked him loose from his perch, he Avould have merely given the high sign of distress to his Republican cronies in Wash ington and somebody else would' have been tossed to the lions to appease outraged justice, say, for instance a Democratic mayor of Muncie. Now a New Dealer? But now Jim is cimply following his invariable recipe for getting in—or out: “If you can’t beat a majority, join it.” Now Da is begging the Democratic majority to save his hide. In order to show his good faith he may be expected to take the stump any time now to belloAV praise of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. His rather remarkable silence the past few weeks, and sudden restraint from booming attacks on the Democratic administration, are now sufficiently explained. IJe has been committing the Democratic platform to memory so when his voice begins to ring again, it Avill ring with true Democracy and Jeffersonian simplicity. But aside from all that this man Finklestein was no slouch as a campaign manager. He knew where to go to collect and he split fifty-fifty Avith his candidate. Finklestein could no doubt write a hook that would make mighty interesting reading.

Cops Escape (Continued From Page One) throats, highAvay robbers, gunmen, stick up men, porch climbers and petty thieves and the police seem to be helpless to protect the citizens who are taxed to death to keep them. How come?

Robert Shaw, a 26-year-old Negro, was killed at St. Louis in an argument over two cents involved

in a crap game.

A- - ---- - -~

A .... ... l'- A

TA* Mlle$ Standith memorial at Duxbury, Mm*. MILES STANDISH

XJISTORY. and poetry have combined to make Miles Standish immortal. If in poetry he figures as the man who lost out in a battle for Priscilla’s heart, history attests his victories in the struggle against hardships in the new land of America. Captein Miles Standish remains in our national memory as a symbol of the earnest Pilgrims and their arduous • lives. The qualities of courage, loyalty, passionate love of liberty rooted in the earliest pioneer days seem woven into the very syllables of his name. There is inspiration in every tablet and statue to his memory, find there are many such throughout the country. Miles Standish was born in Lancashire, England, of ‘good family, and was educated tfor a military career. While fighting for Good Queen Bess in The Netherlands he met the Pilgrim* who had taken refuge at Leyden and threw in his lot with them. He was on the Mayflower $vhen it sailed to settle a new larid for the sake of religious freedom. Although a fighter, his, tact succeeded in placating Indian chiefs and his wise dealings with the red men helped the struggl-

ing settlement, undermined by sickness and death, to survive. When diplomacy failed, however, he was among those at the head of the colonists in bloody skirmishes. Whether the doughty warrior really sought the hand of lovely Priscilla Mullins is for historians to quarrel over. It is true that his wife died in the first bleak winter of the settlement and if Priscilla captured his heart, she did not break it beyond repair, because two years later he married another. It was after his marriage that Captain Standish built a permanent home not far from Plymouth and called it Duxbury for hia ancestral estates in England. Here., he lived, sharing the life of the colony, serving as its magistrate and military leader, until hia death in 1656. In 1872 the monument shown in the sketch above was erected on the part of the Duxbury property known as Captain's Hul, by a' memorial association of New England patriots. The sturdy stone tower, surmounted with a statue .of the Pilgrim military leader, Aptly represents the sterling virtues of Miles Standish.

(Copyrighted by Memorial Extension COmralwJofl.)

AUTO LICENSE (Continued On Page Six) forms instituted by Commissioner Finney was to reduce the cost and the waste Avhieh formerly attended the work of compiling onto license records. Soon after, he cut the cost of auto drivers’ licenses, rearranged the system for auto licenses sales for convenience of motorists all over the state and stopped the old political game of letting licenses collections drag through half the year. Efficiency

and sendee are noAv the watch-word of the auto license department under Mr. Finney. And they are being practiced daily with savings to taxpayers and motorists. In the meantime, Commissioner Finney has been at Avork with commissioners of other states in attempting to have reciprocal relations regarding regulation and licensing of motor vehicles observed. He has made real progress, for it is seldom heard that Indiana trucks are having difficulty in other states. Also, along the line of his official duties, Mr.

Finney is throwing all the weight of fits office and staff into the campaign to cut down motor accidehte and fatalities. He is cooperating with state highway commissioner ift’ the effort to pfofhote “Safe Driving” on the highways In his bands is. the power to revoke and deny driver’s license to reckless motorists and he does not hesitate to use it. Democrats in the state employment recently honored Mr. Finney by almost unanimously re-electing him president of the Hoosier Democratic Club. In between times Mr. Finney writes enthusiastic Democratic editorials for his weekly paper in Morgan county. He is a past president of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. -

DRIVERS (Continued From Page One) hovers around the 35,000 mar 1 :. Only the most stringent metnods can hope to handle the lunatic fringe. Modern traffic laws, rigidly enforced not only by the, traffic patrol hut hy the enthusiastic cooperation of the same and careful drivers (the 90 per cent) are vital. The one way to hammer same sense into the “lunatic fringe” is to treat them as the public enemies they are.

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by th« Judge of the Circuit Court oi’ Delaware" County, State of Indiana, executors of the estate of Michael J. Clarke late of said County, deceased. , Said estate is supposed to be slovent. WILLIAM P. CLARKE JOSEPH M. O’DAY. Date, October 29, 1935. Attest, Mable B. Lingo, Clerk Delaware Circuit Court. O’Neill & Bales, Attorney. Noa. 1. 8 & 15. ' u —^ I— -- -.t ’ • -m mrm . _ .... NOTICE TO HEATING CON-

TRACTORS The Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, avRI receive sealed bids until 4 p. m., Nov. 12, 1935, at the Superintendent’s office, 226 Central High School Building for the installation of a boiler and stoker unit, ash hoist, and other miscellaneous -boiler room equipment for the Wilson Junior High School Building, Muncie, Indiana. Specifications are on file and may be secured at the office of the Superintendent. TRUSTEES OF THE SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE, INDIANA. E. Arthur Ball, President Frederick F. McClellan, Secretary Vernon G. Davis, Treasurer D. W. Horton, Superintendent. Nov. : 1 & 8. ,

--rr" - - ' NOAH. PROMOTER

A city business man was very keen on having proficient clerks in his employ. Before a clerk could eftter his office he Avas required to pass a written examination on his knowledge of business. At one examination one of the questions was: “Who formed the first company?” A certain bright youth was a little puzzled at this, hut was not to he floored. He wrote: “Noah successfully floated a company while the rest of the world tvas in liquidation.” — o BULLY!

In a discussion on the type of milk which should be provided for school children, the chairman of the health committee said: “What this toAvn needs is a supuly of clean, fresh milk, and the council should take the bull by the horns and demand it.”

USED FURNITURE Buy - Sell - Trade Stoves, Parts and Repairs Phone 3371

Rousing American College Youth!

Sunday - Monday - Tuesday famvrisjia^l

Mary Jayne Barber and Beauty Shop 1Q9 South High Street—Phone 84 Every Operator an Artist First Class Work

GOING DOWN' )

6V2^ A KW.-HR. FOR FIRST 30 AVz? A KW.-HR. NEXT 30

Ivy h

IS HISS

syag

Ml

A KW.-HR. NEXT 390

2^

A KW.-HR. For the Balance

INDIANA OBNEFtAL SERVICE CO. TO OUR CUSTOMKRSj You probably havt boon thinking of utilising sons modern electrical appliance to shift part of the burden of hone making to electrical servants* Our lov electric rates that step down rapidly make it possible to operate that vished for range, refrigerator, automatic vater heater, washing machine at surprisingly little additional cost. The greater your use of electricity the less you pay for the added current* During the depression the cost of electricity has steadily gone dovn. Today the average rate to our customers is 37$ less than it was in 1927.

£/<X

Division Manage^)

BARGAIN BASEMENT FOR WATER HEATER SERVICE

In n

THE MORE YOU USE ELECTRICITY THE LESS YOU . ‘U ' ' w'-.v'-' 1 t y, - PAY FOR ADDED CURRENT