Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 1 July 1938 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1938.

; ‘Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.”

Blind people are allowed to take their “Seeing Eye” dogs into the passenger sections of trains, boats, and airplanes. There are now about 400 of these “Seeing Eye” dogs operating in the United States.

Wheat farming down in the southwest has not proved a profitable and interesting as was expected. The wheat farmers there are rapidly switching back to cattle ranching.

Altogether Europe owes this country nearly thirteen billion dollars. The three greatest of these eighteen European debtors are as follows: Great Britain $5,263,719,066.73 France $4.121,120,502.59 Italy $2,019,907,055.68 It requires eight days after a successful vaccination for immunity against smallpox to develop. There are eleven million women in the United States who work for wages. There are approximately the same number of unemployed men who would like to work for wages that have no jobs.

The new LaFollette-Bulwinkle Bill authorizes the federal governnent to spend three, five,and sev;n million dollars respectively for •he next three fiscal years for ’ombating syphilis and gonorrhea. Another baseball player to make baseball history and a baseball record is 23-year-old Johnny Vander «eer who recently pitched two no’un, no-hit games, for the Cinciuiati Reds. This has never been equaled in major league baseball.

The average life of an airplane is about the same as that of an automobile; seven years.

The average cost of a new home the United States is about $3,-

President Roosevelt gets a salary check of $6,250 once each month. — — —

Mussolini of Italy pilots his own airplanes.

fhe Leland Stanford university, lo Alto, California, has an 8,000 ■e campus; the largest in the ited States.

China the pullers of rickrs must have a “pullers” li-

The average cost of killing a m in the World war was $25,000.

Japanese farms have, on an rerage, only 2.7 acres and each te of these farms must support s or more people.

Every twenty-six minutes some le dies in the United States from jpendicitis. There are only four truly sep--ate tastes—bitter- sweet, sour, rd salty.

About the only difference beireen the modern tavern and the d time saloon is the size of the ;er mugs and the charges for e lunch.

Some are born for great things, Some were born for small; )me—it is not recorded Why they were born at all.” — o : PATE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WELFARE Indianapolis, Ind., July 1.—An thopedic consultation clinic for ippled children in Indiana is to > held in the Commnuity Buildg, 1200 South Mulberry street, uncie, at 9:00 Wednesday morng, June 29. Crippled children om Delaware Randolph, Jay and [ackford counties may be seen ithout charge in this consultajn service upon presentation of recommendation card signed by ly local psysician. Dr. E. R Mumford, Indianapolis thopedist, will conduct the clinwith the assistance of Miss ranees Roush, R. N., orthopedic irse from the Division of Serces for Crippled Children in the ate Department of Public Welre. All physicians, medical societies id directors of public welfare in ie counties have been notified of re date of the clinic. Local physians who wish to see their paents examined will be welcome :' the clinic, according to Dr. liver W. Greer, director of the ate division. The new service, financed by deral funds, makes it possible for crippled child to be examined In s home territory. Whenever teir parents are financially eligTe, crippled children may be hostalized at public expense or recnmendations can be made to remnsible persons for caring for te child at home. This is the ninth clinic of the iture to be held in the state, te others having been at Jeffer-

4 Personalities In Music ^ Daniel Gregory Mason, A.S.C.A.P. HEREDITY PLAYS ITS PART

By Daniel I. McNamara

¥\R. Daniel Gregory Mason, ascap, •LJ MacDowell Professor of Music in Columbia University, exemplifies in his musical career the traditions of a New England family long representative of the musical aristocracy of America. Dr. Lowell Mason, his grandfather, was composer of “Nearer, My God, to Thee” and sponsor at his own expense of the first music course in an American public school in Boston in 1838. His father, Henry Mason, was a brilliant pianist and founder of a great piano and organ manufactory. His unde, Dr. William Mason, was distinguished as both composer and author and fellow artist of Theodore Thomas in the Masen-Thomas quartet of instrumentalists. He himself is a prolific composer of music in larger forms and the author of more than a dozen books on music and musicians. Dr Mason’s activity in literature is the result of an incident of his scholastic life in Harvard, class of 1895. Specializing in music with Dr. John Knowles Paine, he was stricken with a form of writer’s cramp that interrupted his work at the piano for two years. In the interval he turned to literature and developed his literary style. On leaving Harvard, Dr. Mason continued his music with George W. Chadwick and Percy Goetschius In Boston, then joined the composer, Vincent DTndy in France. Returning from Europe he became noted for his lecture recitals on musical appreciation. One of his first educational posts was with Dr Frank Damrosch in the New York Institute of Music. Later he helped organize the first adult classes on

music for the New York Board of Education. | In 1909 he joined the faculty at Columbia. He has achieved worldwide prestige as composer, teacher, lecturer and essayist and has become one of the most influential members of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. His works have been played by i symphony orchestras under Stokowski, Gabrilowitch. Stock, Stransky and other famous conductors. His piano compositions are favored by Josef Hofmann, John Powell and Percy Grainger. His “A Lincoln Symphony,” played for the first time by the New York Philharmonic Symphony under John Barbirolli, November 17, 1937, at, Carnegie Hall, was outstanding. _ Dr Mason is frankly a romantic among musicians. To him the su-‘ preme thing in music is the expression in forms of plastic beauty of simple, spontaneous, straightfor-J ward emotions. Like his illustrious predecessor at Columbia, whose name is given to the chair of musicj Dr. Mason holds with MacDowell that there is a definite kinship of the fine arts. His coordination of music with other cultural activities of the University has been a factor in expandingj^Columbia’s^musical prestige.

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sonville, Lafayette, Kendalville, Osgood, Tell City, DeMotte, Columbus and Vincennes. Persons desiring information concerning the clinic should see their county welfare director. o INDIANA'S DEEPEST WELL NOW LOCATED EAST OF SULLIVAN Drilling has been completed on a well, located two miles east of Sullivan, in Sullivan county, which has the distinction of being Indiana’s deepest well, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner, Department of Conservation, pointed out today. The well, which proved to be a dry hole, has a depth of 4,160 feet —68 feet farther below the surface than the well located northwest of Franklin, in Johnson county, which heretofore was the deepest well in the state. The Johnson county well also was a dry hole. Drilling activities on the Sullivan county well, which were conducted by the Felmont, Corporation, of Houston, Texas, attracted considerable public interest. Outside of being conceded the honor of being Indiana’s deepest well, it is the first well ever to penetrate the St. Peter sandstone in southwestern Indiana, the drill having penetrated this formation at 4,110 feet. The well also showed indications of gas at 370 feet and both oil and gas at points from 2,351 feet to 2,425 feet.

Mill Worker At 90 On Job For 62 Years

POOLS ARE POPULAR WITH PARK VISITORS

. State park swimming pools and beaches attracted 4,340 visitors during the week ending June 12, according to records received today by Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner, Department of Conservation. The bathing beach at the Dunes state park, bordering Lake Michigan, drew 1,640 swimmers; 1,140 bathers patronized the artificial lake at Shakamak state park; 769 visitors used the pool at McCormicks Creek state park; approximately 500 people swam in the lake at Pokagon state park and 291 swimmers were attracted to the Browii County state park swimming pool,. during the week. Rising temperatures during the past week resulted in other thousands of state park visitors seeking relief from the sun in park pools and at the beaches at the Dunes and Pokagon. Experienced life guards are stationed at each of the state parks Laving swimming facilities, for the protection of park' visitors.

Newman, Ga. — Sixty-two years making patterns and doing other mill tasks for the R. D. Cole Manufacturing Co. here is the record of J. Frank McSwain, who celebrated his 90th birthday April 18. McSwain willingly accepts present conditions as he looks back upon his 62 years doing his work well. “There’s a joy in doing an honest day’s work,” he said. “I would not be anywhere else in the world if 1 had my choice. “You didn’t come here to see an old man, did you? Well, you won’t. I’m not old. I’m just 90 years young. “And I’m not thinking of retiring. All this business about a man being through at 65 is a lot of bunk. I may get fired, but I’m not retiring.” Known affectionately as “Uncle Mack,” the nonagenarian says, “My health is as good as it ever was. My hands are a little clumsy, but that is the only difference I can notice.” McSwain is the proud owner of a gold medal presented to him by his fellow workers for his service and his work for them and in their behalf. ——-c FOREST FIRES BURN 7,560 ACRES DURING FIRST FIVE MONTHS Forty-three forest fires destroyed a total of 7,560 acres of Indiana forest land during the first five months of 1938,—more than twice the total acreage wiped out by fire during 1937, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner, reported today. During the first five months eight fires were reported in the southeastern district, totaling 1,719, with damage amounting to $25,369.00. The southwestern district of the state did not have a single fire until May, when they had thirty-five fires, destroying 5,481 acres of forest land, with an estimated damage of $78,629.00. Damage from fires in both districts for the five month period totals $103,998.00. In spite of the work of ifre-fight-ing organizations in wooded ’ sections of the state and the educational program sponsored by the Department, serious damage to Indiana’s woodland conttiues to result from fire*

ITALY SETS UP CLINIC TO SAVE ANCIENT BOOKS

Entire Libraries Periled By Vast Invasion Of Termites Rome, July 1.—A clinic for sick books, hailed by the Italian press as the first of its kind in‘ Europe, has been established here. Various ailments, some of which are deadly, such as mold, bacteria, exidation, ruin the books. Lately as far as Italy is concerned, a new and no less destructive enemy has been added. It is the termite, a voracious white ant which is attracted by the ligneous part of the paper. During the past year, millions of termites, leaving from Sicily, have been invading continental Italy, doing havoc in the libraries of south Italy and even boring at the vital parts of valuable old choir stalls in certain churches of central Italy. The outstanding and most recent case of these devouring attacks is the beautiful choir of St. Peter’s church at Perugia, whose stalls have been almost pulverized internally. In Tobacco Leaves It seems that the termites appeared at Palermo and Catania mingled^ with tobacco leaves from the Near East, and from those two cities started their invasion northward. Alarmed at these various threats to ancient documents ami structures, the Italian government decided to face the problem in a big way and with adequate financial means. From this decision the idea originated of creating a national clinic for the treatment of printed and engraved matter menaced by destruction. The clinic, entrusted to the care of Prof. Alfonso Gallo and maintained through a special item in the budget of the ministry of national education, has been made an annex to the Botanical Institute. It is composed of two sections: the pathological ami the therapeutic, each supplied with modernly equipped laboratories. In the former section the experts, or clinicians, examine the causds and effects of the various ailments. Morphology has a great part in this work. In the latter section the remedies are applied after previous application of microscopy, spectroscopy, fluorescence, ultra-violet rays, photography, chemicals, etc. Egyptian Tablets Included Ailing engravings, manuscripts and prints awaiting the pathologists’ and therapists treatment include fragments of Egyptian papyri, semi-burned papyri broughtr-'ta^ light by the excavators of Herculaneum, waxed tablets, decayed parchments and incunabula, books bored by insects or damaged by must or by World War fires and bullets. Perhaps the most illustrious sick publication on this list is the gorgeously illuminated Bible of Borso d’Este, which Sen. Giovanni Treccani, the well known textile industrialist and liberal contributor to national learning, purchased in 1923 at a public auction in Paris, where it was hotly contested by international art lovers. Trecant paid 5,000,000 lire for it and then donated it to the nation. The Bible, restored to its original i lace, the Este Library of Modena, has been taken to the Rome clinic, where its malady has been diagnosed as mold, however, not in a serious form, for the present at least. MASS EDUCATION SEEN AT ZENITH

Berkeley, Cal.— Mass education has reached its peak in the United States, with the result that educators now are turning their attention to an intensive experimentation for quality instead of quantity, according to Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California. “Fifty years ago,” declared Dr. Sproul, “only a small fraction of our population completed even an elementary course in school and only 3.8 per cent of the age group between 14 and 17 years was en rolled in the high schools. “But in 1935-36 there were 20,392,561 boys and girls enrolled in elementary schools and 5.974,537 or more than 60 per cent of the 14 to 17 year age group, enrolled in high schools.” Dr. Sproul stated that to date the chief anxiety in educational circles has been to furnish some kind of school facilities for the young. While the quality of these facilities, he adds, has been a matter of deep concern, nevertheless it has been regarded as of less practical importance than the quantity. “But now,” he said, “we are reaching the peak yoriod of quantity production in school facilities and are turning definitely to inten si ve experimentation in a search for quality. “As regards quality, the past has been the era of the private college; but the future belongs in larger part to those institutions which draw their sustenance and support from the state.” o It is estimated that airplanes are carrying more than a quarter of a ton of diamonds from the Kasia fields in the Belgian Congo annually.

’GATOR HUNTER, DROWNING IN SWAMP, ' SAVED BY LIGHT RAY UNDER WATER

T-\ON GRAY, Jr., of West Palm L' Beach, Fla., near death from drowning in one of the sink-holes which make hunting in the Everglades Swamp so perilous, owes his rescue to the beam from a flashlight, which he had held onto as he went down and which continued to shine under water. Gray was on his first alligator hunt. Luckily, his companions, T. T. Reese, Jr., and William Brandenburg, Jr., also of West Palm Beach, were experienced in the dangers of the Everglades — that mysterious American jungle where cotton mouth moccasins abound and large yellow tulip-shaped pads conceal sink-holes which can drag a man to death. Gathering at the edge of the swamp about midnight, the three ' fanned out and began the hunt. Reese and Branderburg wore headlights, and Gray carried a hand flashlight. Each had a,spear, made by attaching a hook to a ten-foot cypress pole. Experienced alligator hunters wear light, low shoes so they can swim if they get into trouble. Gray made the mistake of wearing hip boots, but it was too late to change without considerable delay. For about an hour the hunters walked through the swamp, stepping gingerly around lily pads, flteese and Brandenburg tried to I keep an eye on Gray’s flashlight bobbing along several yards to their ,lefL "Then I suppose we got careless,’* said Reese, “or we began Making more about the hunt than CONSTRUCTION, OTHER HIGHWAY WORK MAKES PROGRESS OVER STATE

Construction and maintenance work on the state highway system is progressing steadily despite unfavorable weather conditions in many sections, T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State Highway Commission, reported today. Progress of the maintenance program including oiling, surface treating and resurfacing of over a thousand miles of highways, is marked by the frequent changes in detours as listed in the weekly detour bulletin issued by the Commission. During the past week ten detours were eliminated as work was completed but twenty-one were established las new work was

started.

Additional construction projects have been started during the past week and still others will be started this month as contracts are awarded on the remainder of the 1938 construction program. A majority of the projects now under construction will be completed during the summer and early fall, placing the state highway system in excellent condition for the winter montlis. Both maintenance and construction work was started earlier this year, as contractors and highway workers took advantage of the weather conditions prevailing in April and May. During the last few weeks considerable delay has been experienced on some jobs due to frequent rains. o REFLECTOR BUTTONS AID NIGHT DRIVERS

Motorist traveling the state highways at night are finding that the use of reflector buttons on bridges, direction and warning signs and on guard-rail posts increase the safety of night driving, T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State Highway Commission, reported today. Reflectorized signs have become a part of the standard marking of the state highways for the information of motorists. By reflector buttons to mark the end of bridges and culverts, the motorist driving at night knows the width of the roadway before he enters the bridge and has an opportunity to stop if the bridge is narrow and traffic is approaching from the other direction. Use of reflector buttons on guard rails posts is another aid to the night motorist, showing him the edge of the shoulder and warning him of a change in direction.

NOTICE OF THE SALE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BONDS Notice is hereby given that at 2:30 o’clock P. M. on. Tuesday, the 19th day of July, 1938, at the office of the superintendent of City Schools, in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed, proposals tor the purchase of and will offer for sale the nego-

about Don. The first we knew, his light wasnt in sight. We got into action and in a few seconds, Bill had located him. Don had gone down through a lily pad, but the light from his flashlight was shining up through the water. We hadn’t seen it from where we were because some trees were in the

way.

“We knew Don’s heavy boots were dragging him deeper into the ooze. We threw down some brush and other debris and, lying on it, got hold of him and hauled him out. He was nearly gone, but artificial resuscitation brought him around. The batteries in his flashlight were fresh ones when he put them in, so they kept on working even when under water. If they hadn’t, we never would have found him.” Reese is well-known around West Palm Beach for his ability as aa alligator hunter. He uses the hide* for pocketbooks, luggage and trophies, and also occasionally brings back an alligator alive, keeping him ’as an attraction for tourists. liable school improvement bondsof said school city in the aggregate principal sum of Thirty-five Thousand Dollars ($35,000.00), the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to be used to pay a portion of the cost of erecting and constructing an addition to the Wilson Elemen tary School and for the installation of a hew heating system therein and equipping the same for school purposes and also for the purpose of installing a heating and ventilating system in the Roosevelt School Building, all in the City of Muncie, Indiana. The portion of the cost not paid for out of the sale of said bonds is to be provided by a grant from the Works Progress Administration of the Federal government. Said school improvement bonds will be issued and sold pursuant to a resolution adopted by said Board of School Trustees and will consist of thirty-five (35) bonds of the denomination of One. Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, numbered from one (1) to thirty-five (35), both inclusive. All of said bonds will be dated July 1, 1938, and will mature and be payable on the following respective dates: $10,000.00 on December 31, 1952 $10,000.00 on December 31, 1953 $15,000.00 on December 31, 1954 Said bonds snail bear interest at the best rate obtainable, not exceeding four per cent (4%) per annum, the exact rate of interest to be determined by the accepted bid for said bonds as herein provided. Interest on said bonds will be payable on December 31, 1938, and semi-annually thereafter on June 30th and December 31st of each year and the interest to maturity will be evidenced by interest coupons attached to said bonds. Both the principal and interest of said bonds will be payable at The Merchants Natonal Bank of Muncie, Indiana, and said bonds will be delivered to the purchaser at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, upon the payment in full of the purchase price with accrued interest to the date of delivery. All bidders will be required to state in their proposals the gross amount they will pay for said bonds with accrued interest to the date of delivery and will be required to enclose their proposals in sealed envelopes, having endorsed thereon the nature of the bid and the name and address of the bidder. Each bidder will be required to state in his proposal the rate of interest which said bonds will bear, not exceeding four per cent (4%). Such interest rate must be stated and must be in multiples of one-fourth (1-4) of one per cent (1%) and not more ihan one interest rate shall be named by any one bidder. No conditional bids will be received or considered. Each bid shall be accompanied by a check or draft for two and one-half per cent (2 1 4%) of the amount of the bonds bid for, duly certified by a responsible bank or trust company and payable to the order of said school city. Such checks or drafts will be returned to those bidders whosebids are hot accepted and in the event the successful :

bidder fails to comply with the terms of his bid or to take and pay for said bonds, the proceeds from said certified check or draft shall inure to the benefit of and be retained by said school city as liquidated damages. Said bonds will be sold to the highest and best qualified and responsible bidder and the best bidder shall be the one who offers the lowest net interest cost, to be determined by computing the total interest on all the bonds to their date of maturity and deducting therefrom the amount of premium, if any, bid. Accrued interest on the bonds will be computed on the basis of the bid rate accepted. Said proposals shall be made and said bonds shall be sold subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this notice and in the resolution of the Board of School Trustees authorizing the sale of said bonds. The Board of School Trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 21th day of June, 1938. SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE INDIANA. By E. ARTHUR BALL VERNON G. DAVIS FREDERICK F. McCLELLAN Board of School Trustees. Bracken, Gray & Le Fur, Attorneys. June 24, July 1 & 8 ■ o NOTICE OF THE SALE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BONDS Notice is hereby given that at 2:00 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 19th day of July, 1938, at the office of the superintendent of City Schools, in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the purchase of and will offer for sale the negotiable school improvement bonds of said school city in the aggregate principal sum of One Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($120,000.00), the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to be used to pay a portion of the cost of erecting and constructing an additional classroom unit for the McKinley Junior High School and equipping the same for school purnoses, including the cost of lighting, heating, sanitation and the costs and expenses incident to the sale of said bonds. Said building will be erected on real estate now owned by said school city on North Walnut Street, immediately north of and adjacent to the Field House in said city. The portion of the cost not paid for out of the sale of said bonds is to be provided by a grant from the Federal Government. Said school improvement bonds will be issued and sola pursuant to a resolution adopted by sa ; d Board of School Trustees and will consist of one hundred twenty (120) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, numbered from one (1) to one hundred twenty (120), both inclusive. AH of said bonds will be dated July 1, 1938, and will mature and be payable on the following res-pec-tive dates: $20,000.00 on December 31, 1949, $20,000.00 on December 31, 1950, $20,000.00 on December 31, 1951, $20,000.00 on December 31, 1952, $20,000.00 on December 31, 1953, $20,000.00 on December 31, 1954. Said bonds shall bear interest at the best rate obtainable, not exceeding four per cent (4%) per annum, the exact rate of interest to be determined by the accepted bid for said bonds as herein provided. Interest on said bonds will be payable on December 31, 1938, and semi-annually thereafter on June 30th and December 31st of each year and the interest to maturity will be evidenced by interest coupons attached to said bonds. Both the principal and interest of said bonds will be payable at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, and said bonds will be delivered to the purchaser at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, upon the payment in full of the purchase price with accrued interest to the date of delivery. All bidders will be required to state in their proposals the gross amount they will pay for said bonds with accrued interest to the date of delivery and will be required to enclose their proposals in sealed envelopes, having endorsed thereon the nature of the bid and the name and address of the bidder. Each bidder will be required to state in his proposal the rate of interest which said bonds will bear, not exceeding four per cent (4%). Such interest rate must be stated and must be in multiples of onefourth (1-4) of one per cent (1%) and not more than one interest rate shall be named Jby any one bidder. No conditional bids will be received or considered. Each hid shall be accompanied by a check or draft for two and one-half per cent (2y 2 %) of the amount of the bonds bid for, duly certified by a responsible bank or trust company and payable to the order of said school city. Such checks or drafts will be returned to those bidders whose bids are not accepted and in the event the successful bidder fails to comply with the terms of his bid or to take and pay for said

bonds, the proceeds from said certified checK or draft shall inure to the benefit of and be retained by said school city as liquidated damages. Said bonds will be sold to the highest and best qualified and responsible bidder and the best bidder shall be the one who offers the lowest net interest cost, to be determined by computing the total interest on all the bonds to their date of maturity and deducting therefrom the amount of premium, if any, bid. Accrued interest on the bonds will be computed on the basis of the bid rate accepted. Said proposals shall be made and said bonds shall be sold subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this notice and in the resolution of the Board of School Trustees authorizing the sale of said bonds. The Board of School Trustees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 24th day of June, 1938. SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE Indiana. By E. ARTHUR BALL. VERNON G. DAVIS, FREDERIC K. F. McCLELLAN, Board of Sch.-ol Trustees. Bracken, Gray & DeFur, Attorneys. June 24, July 1 & 8 o ^ ARE TAXES HIGH IN THE UNITED STATES. Before you start kicking about taxes and the cost of government, it might be well to see wh.T is happening to other countries. If you lived in Great Britain, the only advantage you would have would be on an annual income of from two to five millions a year. It is cheaper over there—if you are one of the very, very few who have such a return. But if you are ordinary folks, say a single man or woman with an income of $1,000 a year, you pay nothing. In Britain, the tax is $25 a year. If you receive $2,000 a year, you will pay $32 in this country, hut in Britain, you will be assessed $173. In this country, if you are married, you pay nothing, but the cost In Britain is $63. Now move up a step to $2,500 a year. You still pay nothing if you are a married man, but across the waters single persons pay $283 and married couples kick in with $173. Get your wages increased to $3,000 and for the first time, if you are married, you will pay taxes— the sum of $8 a year. The cost of remaining single jumps to $68. But let’s see what happens in Britain. Out of your raise in salary you will contribute $283. If you still insist on remaining single. you pay $68 here and $393 in England. Now, if you are “in the money” and earn or receive as much as $10,000 a year, your worrier are not over. There is the tax of $2,071 for the single men and $1,961 for married men in Britain as against the $560 in this country lor single men and $415 for married persons. Of course, if you are really prosperous, and get a hundred thousand a year, you will pay a third of it in taxes—in this country. The English government takes more than half. Yet you hear no complaint that the tax system takes away ambition of its people. It is only when you get into the million dollar class that the balance shifts in favor of Britain. It is cheaper to be very, very rich in Britain. As a matter of fact, it is $16,684 cheaper. The moral is, of course, get your million a year and move to London. Otherwise it will be cheaper here —not only cheaper, but you have the chance in this country to get that million. ——o NOTICE TO COAL CONTRACTORS

Muncie, Indiana. June 20, 1938. The Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, will receive proposals until 10:00 a. m. and sealed bids until 4:00 p. m., July 5, 1938, at the Superintendent’s office, 226 Central High School Building for the furnishing of coal for use in the several schools in the city of Muncie during the school year 1938-1939. Specifications are on file and may be secured at the office of the Superintendent. TRUSTEES, SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE. E. Arthur Ball, President Frederick F. McClellan, Treasurer Vernon G. Davis, Secretary. June 24 & July 1

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