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

VOLUME 18—NUMBER 19.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.

PRICE: FIVE CENTS

Republicans Criticize ut Offer Nothing Better

Newsoaper Safety Cam-

paign Given Credit For Greater Safety

Cornfield Meeting Develops Into ‘Yelping’Din ncpDCftOC Contest By Candidates to Public Office;!®*” UlUIilHO Senator Van Nuys Summarizes New Deal AUTO TULL

Accomplishments for Democratic Editors At French Lick; County Clerk Arthur Beckner Wins Governor’s Trophy at

Trap-Shooting.

Last week end thousands of Indiana citizens and guests from other states gathered together in the southern part of the state to promote activity for the coming fall election. The Democratic Editorial Association summer outing at French Lick provided for the beginning of political campaigning among the Democrats of Indiana while the cornfield party wholly financed by Homer Capehart, wealthy manufacturer, held on his farm near Washington gave a start to the Republicans. At French Lick U. S. Senator Frederick Van Nuys, Governor Townsend, Senator Sherman Minton, and Congresswoman Virginia Jenckes made addresses before the large attendance

at the Saturday night banquet. Van Nuys gave a resume of ttie

Chicago, Sept. 2.—The national safety council reported today that for nine consecutive months — starting last November—there has been an unbroken decrease in motor vehicle fatalities throughout the country from the corresponding months of 1936-37. The council recorded 23,510 fatalities during the period from October, 1937, through July this year. The reduction in fatalities, or number of lives saved during that time,

was 5,310.

There were 16,030 fatalities dur-j Phants, lions

of this darncer.

Sally Rand

The Post-Democrat hopes all Muncie’s citizens will whole-heartedly cooperate with the various labor organizations of this community to make this coming Labor Day celebration a great success.

Visit in Munch Friday

FARM TENANCY TO LOSE BULS! STARTED 19

County Fair Keeps Pigs and Preserves But Adds Sally Rand and Whiteman

Brockton, Mass.—The old county fair has been streamlined in an effort to recapture patrons Wno have drifted to movie theaters, dance

halls and race tracks.

Not only will the Brockton fair offer pigs, cows, horses and raspberry preserves this year, but the sponsors also plan to exhibit ele-

tigers—and a fan

Ing the first seven months

gear, a reduction of 4,520 from the same period last year, and 2,740 fatalities in July, 1938 as opposed

to 3,740 for July last year.

“The nation even came through the traditional traffic bugaboo of July 4 with a 21 per cent reduction in fatalities under July of last

important accomplishments by the | YOTk . " atlonal chairman John

t?;e D ;:L™;?o re WasM^tmfrn WimrL;Uln GO candldrtr r«*r newspaper

order to aid in a completion of the program which would restore this nation’s economic and agricultural status on a firm and secure basis. Governor Townsend summarized the legislation and recovery program by Democratic office-holders in Indiana and pledged full support to the re-election of Senator Van Nuys. Both the other speakers expounded jth^.m^mpJ^hmejvts of

the President aiicl pointed out the numerous benefits to the masses of people during the incumbency of

Democratic power

As usual, the Republican meeting was an attack upon the New Deal and all Democratic officeholders but no program of what they would do if they were in power was evident. James W a< lsworth, national representative from New

U. S. Senator from Indiana, Wil-J sa f e jy campaigns for the decrease,

liam Jenner, majority leader for the Republicans in the state Senate, and Congressman Charles Halleck of Rensallear formed the battery of oral criticism against Democracy from stem to stern. It appeared quite easy for them to curse all acts of Democrat officers but very difficult to offer anything that

might, better copditiona oxc_ei>t To. sarffassarf tfr equaJled- .their 1937

place themselves back on the pub

lie payroll.

The invited Republican precinct committeemen and werkers of the party were well fed on sweet corn, fried chicken, watermelon and political oratory but nothing constructive came from the large meeting except a pleading to the workers that they lend more ef(Continued on Page Three)

FREE SCHOOL BOOKS ' During the past week it is noted that Mayor Bunch declared himself favoring free text books for school children and will aid in the circulation of petitions for the signatures of at least fifty-one per cent of the registered voters of the city which is required before such a measure can be adopted by the school board. The Post-Democrat proposed the free school books for Muncie early last spring but the petitions had not been properly circulated in time to secure the necessary signatures of voters in order to present the proposal by July first when such petitions should have been presented so that the school library could provide for them next year. The acts of 1935 by the General Assembly of Indiana in chapter 105 provides for the establishment of a school library which loans text books free of charge to all students from the first to the eighth grades. The first year of such a proposal would provide for free school books to pupils within the first five grades while during the second year the proposal would include the next three additional grades. A petition by 51% of the registered voters of the city must be presented to the school board by July first of the year preceding the establishment of the school library so that provision may be made in the annual school budgets to include sufficient funds with which to purchase the books to be loaned. Since the school board has adopted its annual budget and tax levy for next year, it is too late to make such a provision for next year but the petitions may be circulated in order to acquire the necessary number of voter signatures so that a school library may be established and free school books attained for 1940. For the first year, the free school book proposal would affect over 5,000 pupils and nearly that many families in Muncie. It may be estimated that the costs for purchasing the books by the schools would amount to $10,000 or necessitate an appropriate 21/2 cent tax levy. The provision for free school books has been successful and considered a fine adoption in our neighboring city of Anderson, as well as, Pendleton, Alexandria, and Elwood. State Representative William Black, who was one of the free school book sponsors in the state legislature, has been responsible for the enactment of the proposal in the communities of Madison county. The necessary costs for school books to be purchased by the school library would not be provided for each year since they would be passed down to other students graduating in the elementary grades and used until worn out. The loss of thousands of dollars to family budgets for the purchase of school books which are used for one school year and then discarded could be saved by the free school book proposal since the texts could be used several years by the numerous pupils by the establishment of a school library.

Wyoming headed the state honor roll with a 45 per cent reduction in fatalities from Jan. 1 this year, through July. Pennsylvania and Michigan followed with 39 per cent

decreases.

Thirty nine states and 307 cities had traffic deaths records for the first seven months of 1938' which

records. The states, total fatalities for the period, the reduction in number of fatalities for the same period last year, and the percentage decrease in comparison to the same period last year: Broom Maker, Blind, Supplies Sightless Men Blytheville, Ark.—Asa James, 40-year-old broom maker who never has seen one of his products, manufactures two dozen brooms daily in his small factory for salesmen, who like himself, are blind. He says a person can be blind and still specialize on quality. Despite the fact that he works entirely alone and by the sense of feeling, he is an expert broom

maker.

He does every job in making the brooms except growing the materials. And he does it quickly and neatly, even to arranging and sticking the straw. James, who has been blind since he was six years old, has been making and selling brooms since 1916, when he graduated from the eighth grade of the School for the Blind at St. Louis. He lost his sight when he underwent an operation for cataract. o BENT GLASS IS NO MERE CATCH PHRASE

As the glass is bent so is the table inclined. For bent glass is the newest medium for designers of occasional furniture. Several smart New York shops are featuring occasional tables and consoles of the new bent glass, which lends itself to graceful lines that make these pieces adaptable to a wide variety of interiors. One lovely little coffee table has a rectangular top of plate glass placed on curving legs of bent glass. Bent glass, according to the designer, Ben lYTTldwoff, ip plate glass which is reheated and then molded into semi-circular lengths. One New York shop even has a bed with head and foot boards of bent glass painted with sprays of flowers. The bed is shown with a group of blonde mahogany pieces. Put a workmanlike dressing table in the bathroom where you can accomplish the more serious part of the make-up routine. If the table is of glass and the floor covered with one of the new linoleums, minor tragedies of spilled powder and over-turned bottles will fade into insignificance.

will appear twice

daily for seven days starting Sept. 11 on a specially built, huge outdoor stage in front of the racetrack grandstand. A cast of 75, including 24 girl dancers, will assist

in the presentation.

And for an orchestra, the fair has obtained Paul Whiteman, making his only appearance at a fair

this summer.

The man behind the sudden rejuvenation of the county fair is 38-year-old Frank H. Kingman, hired several years ago as secretary of the Brockton Agricultural

society, which sponsors the fair. ou tput in Pennsylvania during 1937 Kingman was told to put the |. e p r esented only 30 per cent of

fair back in the black as a paying , he tota , ot . 3 6>766> ooo tons,

proposition. Each year he makes j Despite the increases in steel

the rounds of fairs and exhibitions 1 }lt p U t i n other

MIDWEST MAKES LARGEST SHARE OF NATION’S STEEL Nearly half of the finished iron and steel products rolled in the United States last year was produced in the states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Illinois, while as recently as 1901 those states produced little more than one-fourth of the nation’s finished steel. The increasing importance of midwestern states among steelproducing areas, as shown by statistics, was accompanied by corfesponding decreases in the proportion of the total finished steel output produced in Pennsylvania, f'lew England, New York and New

lersey.

Steel mills in Pennsylvania in )S75 rolled 39 per cent of the total pf •'1,688,000 gross tons of iron and steel produced that year, and in 1901 about 56 per cent of the total of 12,349,000 gross tons was produced there. By comparison, the

in search of new ideas.

Another attraction Kingman will introduce this year will be a zoo with “every kind of wild animal.” Borrowing a page from world fairs, he also will have an international village. Typical homes in Sweden, Lithuania, Italy, Ireland and France have been erected. Attendants in native costume will display handiwork peculiar to their

countries.

There will be the usual harness racing, automobile races, vaudeville, aerialists, divers and exhibi-

tions.

Looking ahead a year, Kingman now is mapping plans to convert the racetrack oval into a setting for water spectacles.

Of the approximate 43,000,000 motor vehicles in the world today, about 70 per cent of the total are registered in the United States. England’s milk consumption is estimated at one-third of a pint per capita daily.

Textile Town Makes Its Own Factories Pay Ware, Mass.—When the Otis company closed its century-old textile mills last December, 1,100 of Ware’s 7,300 townsfolk contributed $40,000 and bought the deserted factories. Today, organized as Ware Industries, Inc., they ha\e induced nine concerns to occupy one-fifth of the floor space and pay 750 employes more than $7,500 weekly, a larger payroll than that of the Otis company in its last years. A shoe shop, making shoes for two mail order houses, employs 350 at weekly wages ranging from $10 for apprentices to $32 for skilled help. A dress factory that manufactures dresses for New York buyers employs 250 women and soon will add 100 more. A hat shop with 100 on its payroll plans to double its force by 1939. A concern that manufactures metal pocketbook frames plans to employ 250 by winter. Other concerns that have taken space include a dry-cleaning firm, a kitchen cabinet manufacturer and a machine shop. ■ o GLASS PLATES SMART A stunning gift for a fall bride are the new glass plates with center monograms, which a smart Fifth Avenue shop is featuring. The plates are fashioned of plate glass, and despite their fragile appearance are sturdy enough to be practical. 0 TABLES TURNED PERFECTLY

San Franfcisco.—Edward Collins, 27, feels that he has more than paid his debt to society. On the day he was released from San Quentin prison where he had served a term for robbery with firearms, he was held up in this city and robbed of

his trousers and $28 in cash by two have their responsibility as

gunmen. users.

regions, Pennsyl-

vania has continued to maintain its rank as first among steel-pro-ducing states in actual volume of

output.

AH Religious Schools In Austria Ordered Closed Vienna, Sept. 1. — All religious schools in Austria, including Roman Catholic parochial schools, will be closed permanently, the editor of the Voelkischer Boebachter announced today. The schools simply will not reopen at the end of the summer vacation on Sept. 19, the paper said. The son of Dr. Arthur Seyssinquart, governor of Austria, who is a pupil at the famous Schotten gymnasium, will be one of those forced to transfer to a state school. Explaining the move, Boebachter said: “The Nazi state stands basically on the standpoint that the training and education of youth in schools is an affair of the state and must be reserved exclusively to the state.” 0 — MOTORIST OBTAINS DAMAGES AGAINST PEDESTRIAN

FCA Expects to Lend 75 Million Before Next June 30. Washington, Sept. 2.—Government farm lending agencies esti- \ mated today that they have slowed j down the increase in farm tenancy j by more than 50 per cent during | the past year. The Farm > j curity Administration, through Federal Land Banks, and the Farm Security Administration plan to lend farmers approximately $75,000,000 in the fiscal year which began July 1 to make down payments on 25,000 farms. Department of Agriculture surveys showed tenancy Increased by 40,000 a year between 1933 and 1935. Officials said the number was about the same in 1936 ana 1937. They estimated 43 out of every 100 farmers till land in which they have no equity. Aid to Nearly 2,000 The Farm Credit Administration —the farm counterpart of the city Federal Housing Administratioi)— reported it is helping nearly 2,000 farmers “climb the agricultural ladder” to land ownership each

month.

The FCA has financed the purchase of 55,000 farms since its creation by congress in 1935. The 12 Federal Land Banks advanced $130,000,000 in long-term loans to make the purchases possible.

Party Headquarters Opened and Numerous Meetings Being Held to Arouse Interest in Fall Election; Voters to Receive Three Ballots in City and Select Thirty-nine Public Officers for City, Township, and County; Final Election to Be Held November 8th; Finly Gray Proposes Central Electrification Plant to Be Built in Muncie to Furnish Electric Current Throughout Entire Community; Project to Be Part of Federal Building Plogram. With the final election a little more than two months away and the first of September past, both political parties locally are preparing for a concentrated campaign and appeal to the voters which will mark success and defeat for candidates of the various offices who were nominated by their party in the spring primary. On Friday, both Congressman Finly H. Gray of Connersville and Raymond Springer, Republican opponent in the Tenth District Congressional race, were in Muncie. Gray came quietly to the city as he has done many times before during campaigns to “get the hang of the barn” as he usually expresses the purpose of his visits. Springer, twice defeated GOP candidate for Governor of Indiana, was given planned publicity for his arrival.

The

Republicans of Delaware . , , , ^ . , , _ _ _ A i of the political party county bal-

county have opened headquarters I ^

in chargA of County Chaiirman I ’ ,, , , , John Lewis on North Walnut! esu es e anc s a street wtrlle tie Demoearts ed

“Despite lower farm commodity a g a j n occupy headquarter roomsl wlli be 39 pnm ' ip;i1 candidates to

The Jay-walker who causes motorists to have accident soon may be sued in court for damages if an English court decision reflects the trend of the times in this country, secretary-manager of ttye Hoosier Motor Club said today. He continued: “The English court decision was reported in the May issue of the R.A.C.Q. Journal, the official publication of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland, Australia. The suit was brought by a motorist who claimed he suffered damages through the careless walking of a woman. “The motorist stated that a wojrian Vran from a house in front pf his car. He endeavored to avoid her, but could not. The car hit as bank at the road-side, the driver suffering sprains, bruises and shock. Suing the pedestrian he was awarded 100 pounds for damages. The R.A.C.Q. Journal says: “This highly important judgment emphasizes strikingly the responsibility of pedestrians as road users. It also draws attention to the remedy available to motorists who are involved in an accident as the result of carelessness of pedestrians. “For too long have motor drivers had to bear the brunt of accidents caused by people who walk carelessly across streets and highways. The English award establishes a precedent and should serve to bring home to pedestrians the fact that they, as well as motorists,

road

prices the demand for loans to make the jump to ownership is about as heavy this year as at any time since the upswing in farm purchasing became noticeable in 1935,” F. F. Hill, FCA deputy gov-

(ernor, said.

Fund of 25 Million Ready The Farm Security Administration, which has $25,000,000 for the purpose, estimated it would help 5,000 farmers purchase homes this fiscal year. Last year it aided in the purchase of 2,000 farms. Officials said the FSA has money to help only about one out of every 100 tenants who want to buy

farms.

The FSA has $200,000,000- for farm aid this year. Congress appropriated $175,000,000 for grants and loans other than farm purchases. Officials said “around” $150,000,000 would be available as loans and that direct grants probably will not exceed $12,000,000. Administration also will cost about $12,000,000. o John Roosevelt Is Clerking In Store Boston, Sept. 2.—Clerk No. 2221, who is John Roosevelt, the president’s youngest son, reported for work in the bargain basement of William Filene & Son’s Department store today and was assigned a truck which will push through the aisles with stock to replenish the counters. He was on the payroll at $18 a week, which won’t even pay the rent at the $100-a-month apartment in Brookline which he and his bride, the former Anne Lindsay Clark, have leased. He insisted on starting at the bottom, however, and working up, he hopes, to the advertising department. In return for asking no favors, he required the store not to exploit his name. Like other Filene employes, he will attend the company’s evening school. o

in the Delaware hotel after Labor Day. Numerous meetings for organization purposes have already been held by both parties and the stage is being set for an arousing campaign from now on until after November 8th. The public officers to be selected by ballots this fall include a U. S. Senator from Indiana, twelve members of the National House of Representatives from this state, a state ticket except for a Gov-

ernor’s choice, a local countyrT ively.

township, and city elections.. This year each township will have an election for the office of trustee and advisory boards which will revive interest into every home over the selection of such candidates. There will be three ballots to be received by each voter in the city, a state ticket which will include the candidate for U. S. Senator, a city ticket headed by the mayoralty nominess, and the township and counto ballot. Rural precinct voters will receive one less ballot since they do not vote upon city officers to be elected. The Congressional candidates will head each

be selected by the voters in Mum cie. The city ticket will be headed by Rollin H. Bunch, Democratic present mayor, and Ira J. Wilson, former county treasurer and postmaster, the Republican candidate for mayor. A city clerk, city judge and nine city councilmen will be chosen also from the city ballot. On the Democratic ticket, Fred Fell and Judge J. Frank Mann are the candidates for city clerk and judge respect-

Clyde Dunnington and

Frank R. Wilson are the GOP nominees for the clerkship and

judgeship of the city.

The nine councilmen for the city will be selected from eighteen candidates including Clarence R. Hole, Ora T. Shroyer, Harry E. Moore, Jacob Brammer, Charles R. Wilson, Paul Hannan, Harve Riley, Erwin Walsh, and Reuben T. Jared on the Democratic ticket and Harold Stanley, Emory Long, Ray Langdon, Kenneth Rutledge, Charles Sanders, Albert Stephens, Samuel Cunnington, August Maick, and Orval Sutton, all Republicans. The first

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FOR CAMPUS WEAR

Velveteen cardigans combined with swing skirts of bright plaid woolens are among the smart new introductions for campus wear. The cardigans are piped in plaid to match the skirts. Another smart campus outfit is the rayon challis cardigan and pleated skirt combination. The cardigans of these little frocks are usually quilted, and nosegay designs are printed on dark grounds of black, wine and roya.l

Pearl White—She Did All the Tough Jobs Herself! Murder by OGPU—Stalin's Secret Assassins! Two of the Many Interesting Features in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed With NEXT SUNDAY’S CHICAGO HERALD AND EXAMINER.

LATEST CITY BALANCES Balance in all funds of the City of Muncie at the beginning of September amounted to $734,536.95 according to the monthly report of Lester E. Holloway, city and county treasurer. The total receipts into lal funds of the city during the month of August amounted to $4,633.61 and the disbursements for the same period totalled $51,067.65. The total receipts since the first of 1938 are $1,422.727.48 while the total expenditures have amounted to $688,190.53. The total balances of all funds include the general fund surplus of $61,055.09, the parks fund, $6,152.81, the sewage disposal construction fund, $664,648.02, the traffic regulation fund, $1,685.62, the gasoline fund, $646.92, the city planning and improvement district bond funds with 163.48 and $185.01 balances respectively. General fund receipts for the month amounted to $854.70, the park fund received $1,347 from cabin rentals and swimming pool charges, and the traffic regulation fund had $2,431.91 from the receipts of parking meters and traffic violation fines. The disbursements from each fund during the month of August by the city are as follows, the general fund, $38,798.32, the traffic fund, $2,195.95, the sewage disposal fund, $1,659.02, the park fund, $7,366.36, and the gasoline tax fund, $1,048. Due to a large amount of payments made by the city during the last two days of the month which prevented checks being cleared through the banks, the amount of outstanding warranty against the city treasury is the largest in many months. The total amount of checks issued by the city and remaining uncashed at the cloke of last month was $18,909.72. In comparison with a year ago, the total receipts by the city for the first eight months amounted to $652,172. 87 while the disbursements were $635,833.77. The larger amount of receipts for this year is due to the sale of revenue bonds in the amount of $703,291.22 for the construction of a sewage disposal plant.