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THE POST-DEMOCRAT a Democratic weekly newspaper representing tne Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and tbo 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County, Entered as second ciasse matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice fit Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 18v9. _ /_ , PRICE 5 CENTS—$1,50 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street, Phone 2540 MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher Muncie, Indiana, Friday, July 1, 1938 s>————— ^ — —* Labor Not a Tail to Communist Kite “A strong, honest, responsible labor movement is part and parcel of democracy and is America’s strongest bulwark against continuation of alien dictatorships, fascist and communist.”— President Homer Martin of the United Automobile Workers of America. IN HIS uncompromising pledge of a COMPLETE PURGE OF COMMUNISTS from the automobile workers’ union, president Homer Martin expresses VIGILANT AMERICANISM of the highest order. Declaring his effort shall be unceasing to drive out of organized labor the alien and destructive forces responsible for outlaw strikes and violations of contracts, he said: “We want peace within our union, but WE CANNOT COMPROMISE WITH A CANCER which s p r e a d s its malignant and alien poison throughout the body of our union. “We must insist it remain a labor movement, and not become a TAIL TO THE KITE OF FOREIGN AND HATEFUL POLITICAL MOVEMENTS.” / This is one of the most courageous public utterances by an outstanding labor leader the American public has been privileged to read. * * * It is in line with the fixed policy of the United Mine Workers of America in barring Communists from membership, and puts the two most powerful units within the Committee for Industrial Organization shoulder to shoulder in keeping organized labor AMERICAN. It is in hearty accord with the equally fixed policy of the American Federation of Labor, which has barred alien and subversive politis from labor’s ranks for more than half a century. It is, as Mr. Martin unequivocally says, “A FIGHT AGAINST THE ALIEN AND DESTRUCTIVE FORCES OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY.” In adhering to these splendid principles, organized labor will contribute increasingly and enormously to the permanent peace and prosperity of the country. * * * THERE is an unquestioned place in American social and economic life for organized labor, fully as much as there is a place for organized industry. The whole history of the organized labor movement in the United States justifies its existence. It is replete with abundant contributions to human advancement and welfare, and to national progress. But the labor movement must CONTINUE TO BE AMERICAN, in the future as it has been in the past, and not a TAIL TO THE KITE OF “THE ALIEN AND DESTRUCTIVE COMMUNIST PARTY,” as Mr. Martin accurately states the issue. President Martin has minced no words in pledging his union to that AMERICAN STANDARD. The nation as a whole welcomes that assurance, and see^, in it a hopeful basis for renewed confidence in the happy future of the country.—Herald Examiner.

A Summer Probe Congressional probing is a continuous process in the National Capital, but seldom have there been as many investigations during adjournment as there will be this summer. At least a dozen inquiries are to be conducted by the groups remaining behind. In the months ahead there will be staged a wide range of investigations by Congressional groups. They will delve into varied fields of business, government and politics. Their work is significant because their findings and recommendations will be the basis for many legislative proposals at the next session of the Congress. Largest and most spectacular of summer inquiries will be the probe of “monopolies.”

Business cannot be done with beggers or paupers. Every sort of business, big or little, depends on customers. Furnishing employment for workers is the sure way to restore business.

Do you think the Republicans would keep the present Democratic office holders if they got back in power ? All this talk about the merit plan is Republican propaganda. They would kick out all the Democrats before youl could say “Jack Robinson.”

What makes Republicans angry is that Democrats have made such a success running the state and national governments. They’ve been telling voters for years that only Republicans were smart enough. Voters know better now.

Stop and think. Is there anything seriously wrong with our state administration? Compare it to the McCray, Jackson and Leslie administration. Enough said!

Republican orators told us in the 1934 campaign that the nation was on the verge of collapse. That was four years ago. Well, we’re still waiting. We’re for qualifications for public jobs, of course, but not for putting people on the public payroll for life. That’s the protection they get under civil service. The Indiana Republicans are worrying about their platform. What they need most of all are some leaders. And voters. Isn’t it funny that the party out of power always knows how to run the government better than the part in power?

‘Wider Reforms’ (Continued From Page One) peaceably and to express publicly their views and opinions on important social and economic isSUGS. Freedom of Individual “There can be no constitutional democracy in any community which denies to the individual his freedom to speak and worship as he wishes. The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism.” He eounselled yoters of all part-

ies to ask this question: “To which of these general schools of thought does the candidate belong?” "Be it clearly understood,” the president said, “that when I use the word ‘liberal,” I mean the believer in progressive principles of Democratic, representative government, and not the wild man who, in effect, leans in the direction of Communism, for that is just as dangerous as Fascism.” He classed himself with “those of us in America who hold to” the liberal school of thought. Mr. Roosevelt reiterated his allegiance to the private profit sys-

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

President With Royal Visitor

Prince Bertil, Governor McMullen and President Roosevelt Here are the three principals in the tercentenary celebration of the landing of the first Swedish colonists at Wilmington, Del., left to right, Prince Bertil, son of the crown prince of Sweden; Gov. Richard C. McMullen of Delaware, and President Roosevelt. Prince Bertil spoke in place of his father who was taken ill.

tern. He equally denounced Communism and Fascism. He hopes and believes this depression is temporary and that private employment and private capital will take up the slack which required huge appropriations from congress this year. Defeatists Called “Copperheads” Briskly challenging “defeatism,” Mr. Roosevelt repeatedly asserted that New Deal “reform” would continue despite the counsel of “copperheads” to ease up. “Never before have we had so many copperheads,” he said. “And you will remember that it was the copperheads who, in the days of the war between the states, tried their best to make Lincoln and his congress give up the fight, let the nation remain split in two and return to peace—peace at any price.” o

Signs Of The Times • # ¥ Comments, Politically and Otherwise, on Present-Day Topics Down at Indiana University 90 young men, all high school graduates, are taking a five and one-half weeks’ training to become members of the Indiana State Police. (These young men have an average age of 24 years, an average height ,of five feet and eleven and a half inches and have an average weight of 175 pounds. They were selected for this training course by the nonpartisan state police board from more than 1,200 applications. The 90 finally chosen are the best of the lot. Most of them are going into police work as their life’s work. Indiana’s system of selecting state police personnel, its rigid training and its method of administering the department by the non-partisan board puts the Indiana State Police far out in front. Incidentally, the bill that passed the 1935 state legislature perfecting the state police department was the brain child of Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker. It was his ambition to see Indiana with a state police system second to none. His dream has been realized.

The public knows that crime has been decreased in Indiana and that robber gangs which once roamed the state have been destroyed. Howver, the public hears little about the fine work of these splendid young men who patrol the highways. The alertness of the Indiana state police was illustrated in southern Indiana recently. Two patrolmen, noticing an automobile with Illinois licenses ahead of them, checked it with numbers of stolen cars they carried. Sure enough, it was a stolen auto. Speeding up, the patrolman crowdi ed the driver off the highway and demanded that he and his companion surrender. To the surprise of the Indiana officers, the driver flashed a sheriff’s badge on them. The auto theif had been captured in a southern state and the sheriff was returning the car and the robber. “You boys are certainly on the job here in Indiana,” the sheriff said. “I’ve driven this stolen car through three states and I was never stopped until I got into your state.”

Persons moving into Indiana from other states are required by law to pass certain oral and written examinations and road tests before they are issued driver licenses. These requirements nettle many newcomers who invariably exclaim, “Why, I’ve been driving a car for 20 years. Why should I take an examination?” That question was asked by an Illinois driver at an auto license bureau in the Calumet region the other day. Nevertheless, he was required to take the tests. Of the 15 “true or False” type of written questions, he was right on only two. In the road tests, the examiner found the Illinois man was not familiar with Indiana traffic laws. A woman from California told Roberts Hill, Chief of hearing judge of the Bur-

eau of Motor Vehicle that she had driven for 20 years and it was ridiculous to ask her to pass an examination. She was real indignant. Hill explained that it was the law and she would have to comply with it. The first thing she did when riding with an examiner was >to drive through a red light to tnake a right turn. When told that she had violated the traffic law, she explained that such an act was lawful in California. Before new residents drive cars in Indiana they must know the state laws and prove their qualifications to drive. And we might add that it wouldn’t hurt some life-long Hoosiers to know more about traffic regulations, too. An interesting paragraph appeared in the “Topics in Wall Street” column of The New York Times. It read: “Students of conditions ..... find nothing to stand in the way of a general recovery in business and industry. Inventories are /far below year-end figures, and if the business trend were upward they would be exhausted soon. Prices of raw materials are at the lows for several years. There are usually few distress signals flying and, in point of fact, recent efforts by store chains to obtain sizable lots of factory or warehouse goods at bargain, prices failed to uncovev distress goods. On the other hand, business psychology is still gloomy, and no single spark appears likely to start the stalled economic machinery.” Why the gloom? Would it help if a few antiRoosevelt editors who, in their hatred of the New Deal, have been crying the blues and frightening the customers, retired into small, quiet rooms for a few minutes of serious soul-searching?

You have heard a lot of about “regimentation” of business by government, but little about the remimentation of business men by bigger business men. We hear a lot about how the New Deal has sought to destroy a free market and to tell business men how to run their businesses. Big Business has done most of the complaining. In the light of this, what happened at a Federal Trade Commission hearing in New York the other day was particularly interesting. The commission’s hearing was on a , charge that the Cement Institute and 75 member companies were conspiring to eliminate price competition in that industry. The head of a Brooklyn building material company testified that cement companies in his area refused to sell cement to him because he had bought some cement from abroad at a lower price. The head of a similar company in Harrison, N. J., testified that he got into trouble of the same kind because he established his own truck company so that he could save money by buying cement direct at the factories and reduce his retail price. Both men had to yield to the big cement companies before the companies would sell them cement. We wonder how many lines of business—where the President is assailed as a “dictator”—big business men themselves play dictators to little business men? o JULY (Continued from Page 1)

recommend it (the office building) or not. I want to do what the majority wants to do.” Townsend said that after consulting administration officials, he had decided to ask the legislature for funds for 17 projects, all for state benevolent institutions. Included is a new $500,000 tuberculosis sanitarium in, southern Indiana, which Townsend said probably will be built on land already owned by the state either in a state park or forest. Favor Limiting Action The governor asserted that sentiment among the members of the legislature seems to favor limiting action of the special session only to the appropriation bill. Previously it had been suggested that the legislature, if it started a session, might go and change laws which have become campaign

issues, such as the “windshield gadget” law and the port-of-entry nquor law provisions, both of which were condemned in the 1938 Republican platform. A special legislative committee, however, has canvassed the Democratic assemblymen and has reported that they gre willing to adjourn without straying to matters other than the appropriation bill. VALUAlEllILL NEARLY FINISHED Clairton, Pa.—Completion of the huge Irvin works of the CarnegieIllinois Steel Corporation — the largest private construction proj ect ever undertaken in the Pittsburgh district—is expected sometime next August. Work on the $60,000,000 plant began May 22, 1937, when the first earth was spaded by William A. Irvin, vice-chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, parent concern of Cargenie-Illinois. When placed in full operation, the Irvin works will have an annual capacity of 600,000 gross tons of finished steel in sheet and tin plate sizes. Semi-finished steel will be drawn from a new mill being erected at Cargenie-Illinois’ Edgar Thomson works in Braddock. Completion of the new facilities at Braddock is also expected in August. The Irvin shop project in Mifflin township has already called for the transportation of thousands of tons of earth and steel, and the employment of hundreds of men. The plant’s tin division has been placed in commercial operation and work is being rushed on the 80-inch hot strip mill, completion of wheih will permit full capacity production. o Farm Tenant On Same Land for 50 Years Audubon, la.—Jens P. (Big Jim) Jensen, Elk Horn, la., who has seeded a crop for the 50th consecutive year on the same leased farm, believes entirely too milch importance is attached to the farm tenancy problem. While thousands of other farmers migrate annually from farpi to farm, Jensen tills the 120 acres he first leased when he was 22 years old. “My landlords have always been fair and I’ve always had a square deal so I’m staying,” the 72-year-old bachelor said. During his long tenure, Jensen has had three landlords. A native of Denmark, Jensen came to Iowa at the age of 17. For -five years he worked as a farm hand before leasing his present acreage in 1888. o THF. NElW DEAL RECORD When the people learn the truth about the present recesvsion, what and who caused it, why it started, and what keeps it going, they will in all probability decide that the New Deal record in the matter has been all that could be demanded. For the year 1937, the last for which there can be a record, the Department of Commerce has just issued a report that the total national income was $69,817,000,000— within eleven billions of the alltime record of the prosperous 1929. This was achieved despite the cessation of business' that was commanded by. the Economic Royalists in their desire to ruin Roosevelt, in their mad determination to show him that they were still rulers of this country. The country was on the way to prosperity. It had every prospect of even increasing the national income. That would have made all talk of national debt sound silly. But it also shows that the only road to permanent prosperity lies in the buying power of the people. That will be furnished now, to some extent, by the many parts of the New Deal program, by the spending and lending of the government where private industry has jailed to spend or private capital has refused to lend. Business dies when there are no customers. Until the people have money, they can buy little of the p—■ - • - . . NY

■■ necessities of life and very few of its luxuries. Yet 70 per cent of all industries are engaged in the manufacture of what were once luxuries. Every dollar spent on government projects will trickle back into some form of business. The grocery and the butcher shop will get. a part. Some of it will go for clothes. This may start the long trek back was pursued between 1932 to 1937. When it does start, the people will demand to know why it was ever stopped. The blame will not be placed upon the New Deal. Those who are responsible for their insane way upon the president have much to answer. They will be found guilty —the business men who were afraid that the nation would become too prosperous. —o : — NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL BUS CONTRACT Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, July 19, 1938, at the hour of eight o’clock p. m. the Trustee of Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana, and the Advisory Board of said Township will receive sealed bids for the services of school bus driver in the schools o'f said township during the one year period next following said date for route commonly designated as route twelve (12). Said bids must be tendered according to law. Said Trustee and said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 1st day of July, 1938. CARL E. ROSS, Trustee, Center Township, Delaware County, Indiana. Brady & Watson, Attorneys. July 1 _ o NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie will receive sealed bids for the installation of a new steam heating plant for the McKinley School, Mulberry and Race Streets, Muncie, Indiana, at 2:00 P. M., July 19, 1938, at the office of the Supt. of Schools. 1 Plans and specifications for all classes of work, including general construction, heating and plumbing and electrical work are on file and may be secured at the office of Houck and Hamilton, Architects, Room 7, Patterson Bldg., Muncie, Ind. Board of School Trustees, E. ARTHUR BALL, VERNON G. DAVIS, FREDERICK F. McCLELLAN. H. B. ALLMAN, Supt. July 1, 8, 15 -O NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL BUS CONTRACT At eight o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, July 19, 1938, at the office of Raymond N. Carmichael, Trustee .of Perry Township, Delaware County, Indiana, bids will be received for the driving of Route * Number 1, Perry Township for the school year 1938-1939. Description of the route and specifications for bidding are on file at the Trustee’s Office. All bids must he accompanied by a certified check or cash of $25.00 for the faithful compliance of bid, if successful. R. N. CARMICHAEL, Trustee of Perry Township. July 1 — o — ADVERTISEMENT Muncie, Indiana. Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the Board of Public Works, City Hall, Muncie, Ind., until one o’clock p. m. (Central Standard Time)—July 27, 1938, and will be pubiicly opened and read

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of Muncie, Indiana. In genergi, the work contemplated comprises grit chambers, pre-settling tanks, aeration tanks, sludge settling tanks, sludge digestion tanks, covered sludge drying beds, building, connecting c o n - duits, pipe lines, mechanical equipment and appurtenances. The following quantities give a general idea of the amount and character of the work to be done. Excavation, 35,000 cu. yds. Concrete, 8,300 cu. yds. Steel Reinforcement, 550 tons. Cast Iron Pipe and Fittings, 215 tons. Buildings, 115,000 cu. ft. Sludge Bed Covering, 35,900 sq.

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Copies of the contract drawings, specifications and blank proposals' are on file and may be seen at the office of the Board of Public Works, Muncie, Indiana, or at the office of George B. Gascoigne, Consulting Sanitary Engineer, 1140 Leader Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Copies of tne specifications and of the contract drawings, can be obtained from George B. Gascoigne, Consulting Sanitary Engineer, 1140 Leader Building, Cleveland, Ohio, upon the payment of Twenty Dollars ($20.00) for both. Deposits will be returned in full to all who submit a formal proposal to the Board of Public Works. All others who take out plans and or specifications will be reimbursed fifty (50) per cent of the deposit if all documents are returned in good condition within thirty (30) days after the receipt of bids. Proposals must be addressed to the Board of Public Works and endorsed, “Proposal for Sewage Treatment Works—Contract A”. Each proposal must be accompanied by a certified check in the aimount of not less than five (5) per cent of the amount bid, drawn on a solvent bank, and made payable to the City of Muncie, and to be by it held as a guaranty that in the event the bid is accepted and a contract awarded to the bidder, the contract will be duly executed and its performance duly secured by the required bond; and in default thereof said check and the amount represented thereby will be forfeited to the City as liquidated damages. Each bidder is required to execute the Non-Collusion Affidavit, and the Standard Questionnaires and Financial Statement for bidders, Form 96A, Indiana State Board of Accounts, all as included in the contract documents. The Contractor to whom any award is made will be requirecVnfrj furnish acceptable surety, construction and performance bonds in the amount of one hundred (100) per cent of the total amount of his proposal and guaranteeing the faithful performance of the work. Attention of the bidder is called

Bidders are advised that the City Charter and the Statutes of the slate of Indiana, will all apply to this contract and that all proviions of the above will he enforced. Each proposal must be made upon the blanks furnished with the contract drawings and specifications, and it must be delivered at the office of the Board of Public Works, City Hall, Muncie, Indiana, previous to one o’clock p. m. (Central Standard Time) on the day

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The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids, or parts thereof, to waive any informalities or irregularities in the bids received, and to accept such part or parts or all of any bid which is deemed most favorable.

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