Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 November 1938 — Page 4

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1938

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing tlie Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street, Phone 2540 MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher Muncie, Intiana, Friday, November 18, 1938.

Health Insurance There is dogged determination in Washington to provide medical care and hospitalization in a national program and make such service available at a cost of about ten dollars a year for each person. A study made by the government indicates that about six million persons are either sick or incapacitated every day during the winter. Health averages are better during warmer weather. The American Medical association maintains the position that “treatment of disease should be left as far as possible to private physicians.”

Old Age Pensions Many minds have many notions about old-age pensions, but there is no doubt but what Senators and Congressmen who will serve the next two years will see to it. that “some sort” of a law—liberal at that—is passed. Because public opinion crowds hard in that direction. “If all members of a democracy are considered equal, then all should receive equal treatment and benefit from the taxpayers’ money,” said a close observer recently. “This rule should be applied to pensions for the aged, and just one uniform tax-supported pensions be allowed to every one of a certain age. Public employees should get no more pension from the taxpayers than private ones, and all special tax-sup-ported pensions to privileged groups should be stopped. Such pension should not be graded according to previous earnings. The man who has earned more has already received more benefits and protection from the government, and should be able to save to supplement his pension.” In other words: One pension for everyone. Special favors to none.

The Notes To Japan The nature and temper of behind-the-scenes British diplomacy have been concentrated on getting the United States to take a belligerent stand against Japan. And if what Secretary Hull has said has not been suggested or inspired by England, certainly it is wholly satisfactory to England. The United States has no interests in the Orient worth war.—Herald-Examiner.

Prostituting the Air Waves If anytning would jostify rigid censorship of radio programs, it would be the crazy “dramatization” of a “war of the worlds” put on a few weeks ago by Orson Welles. It would have been bad enough to indulge in suih a performance at any time, but to send it out, practically without warning, when the whole world is “jittery,” is an exhibition of bad judgment hard to forgive. Of course, a lot of people were almost scared to death. The wonder is it didn’t ircate more panic. The broadcasting company responsible hastens to give assurance it will not be repeated. That is good, as far as it goes, but the Federal authorities should compel the broadcasters to tone down or eliminate other “scare” programs which are particularly injurious to children. The affair also serves to call attention to the scandalous way we are permitting the various tentacles of the Radio Trust to exploit the air waves for their own profit and for the enrichment of unscrupulous advertisers. No other really civilized country permits such downright prostitution of what is undoubtedly one of the greatest discoveries made by man. —“Labor.”

Britain’s new “understanding” with nazi Germany is in danger of being disrupted by a problem that hasn’t been much publicized as yet—but will be heard of to a much larger extent in the future. That problem is Germany’s usurpation of trade areas that England used to regard as almost her exclusive province. The Reich is as aggressive in its commercial policy as in its hold diplomatic and military policies. As one commentator puts it,/‘Germany has made no bones about her intentions of dominating the Balkans . . . . The Germans say they intend to dominate from the Baltic sea to the Black sea. Worse than that, from the British standpoint, they are making serious inroads into British markets in India, South Africa and Australia. That has already resulted in a loss of untold thousands of pounds in foreign trade to the Empire. It seems inevitable that it will result in much more serious losses in the future. Such countries as Turkey, Greece, Rumania and Jugoslovia used to buy the great majority of their foreign purchases from Britain. Today they are buying more and more from Germany. One reason is that in some cases Hitler offers extremely favorable terms. And even more potent reason, some say, is that he also gives them to understand that if they don’t patronize him they are liable to violent invasion. Anglo-German trade rivalry, in the view of most experts, was one of the main causes of the last world war. Both nations attempted to camouflage that fact, and attributed the war to various opposed causes, but the statistics tell the story. And it is not impossible that Anglo-German trade rivalry could start the next world war.

COUNTY PRINTING — BLANKS. STATIONERY AND PRINTED SUPPLIES Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, State of Indiana, will on the 2nd day of December, 1938, at the hour of 10:00 a. m. on said date, at the office of the Auditor of said County, in the Court House, in the City of Muncie, Indiana, receive sealed bids for the furnishing of all classes of County Printing and Printed Supplies, for the year 1939. Said supplies have been classified into Classes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, and specifications covering the same are now on file in the office of the Auditor of said County for the inspection of bidders. All bids must be submitted as to each class and contracts will be awarded separately upon each class. All bids must be accompanied

by a non-collusion affidavit and each bidder shall deposit with his bid a bond in the sum of $1,000.00 with good and sufficient surety conditioned that he will promptly enter into a contract if the same be awarded to him and for the faithful performance of such contract. Wage Rates of this work will not be less than the scale of wages as determined pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 318 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Indiana of 19<*5. All bids must be submitted on forms provided by the Auditor and the Board of Commissioners reserves the right to reject any and all bids. I' Done this 18th day of November, 1938. GUS AUGUST MEYERS, Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. Nov. 18 & 25

“We learn little from victory, much from defeat.”

About one-half of all illness is preventable and about one-third of all deaths could be postponed, according to a prominent physician.

More than three per cent of the human race is left handed.

Father Flanagan, it is reported, has found the donations for his homeless boys at Boys Town, Nebraska, about $5,000 short since the appearance of the movie entitled “Boys Town.” The good father had hoped that the publicity gained for his home through the movie would help his cause. However, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $5,000 to Father Flanagan for the movie rights.

Automobiles were first manufactured for commercial sales in 1899.

Douglas S. McElwain, Army reserve officer and United Airlines co-pilot, was killed while riding in an automobile. McElwain who lived at Berwyn, Illinois, had flown his plane to Stergis, Michigan, where he had started with his brother-in-law for a fishing trip when both outside dual wheels on a truck ahead of them flew off and one of the wheels crashed through the car in which McElwain was riding.

Major Lew B. Brown, publisher of the Evening Independent at St. Petersburg, Fla., has for 28 years given away his home edition on the streets of St. Petersburg on days when the sun fails to shine. This year in October St. Petersburg had two sunless days in succession. Only ten times during these 28 days has St. Petersburg had two sunless days in succession.

Well, with election over now maybe our favorite radio programs will not be interrupted by some mud slinging politician and news papers will cease to be political advertisements and get some news in them again.

“The lover who yearns For affection denied; The prince is his hall And the pauper outside; The parent whose darling Lies under the pall— Each mournfully dreams Of the end of it all.”

STATE - WIDE IMMUNIZATION PROGRAM AGAINST D I PTHERIA TO BE CONTINUED THIS YEAR

Released by State Board of Health. Parents, teachers, physicians, scientists, and nurses, cooperating with the Indiana State Board of Health, the Indiana State Medical Association, and other public health officials of the State, plan to continue their state-wide drive against diptheria. The objective of this drive is to do away with this disease which each mother dreads, and which takes the lives of more than 150 school children .in the State of Indiana each school year. As difficult as all this may seem, i fevery person will do his part, scientific medicine will make diptheria as rare inside our State borders as leprosy. This movement to do< away with diptheria was initiated by a state-wide program which began in November, 1933. At that time numerous outstanding welfare and medical organizations of the State aided in carrying forward plans for immunization of all children of preschool and school age. The results of the program in 1933 and during succeeding years, have greatly decreased the incidence of diptheria throughout the State. It is now felt that with the oncoming of the school year, that every school child before entering the school term should be immunized against diptheria. It is also equally as important to immunize the preschool child, so that he may be protected against this disease which is most prevalent during the fall and winter months. This can be accomplished by consulting your family physician. No child in Indiana should have diptheria. Although a campaign to down diptheria years ago would have been as unsuccessful as an attempt to check the tide of the ocean, so rapidly and so sure have been the strides of scientific medicine that it is nothing less than criminal for a child to be allowed to contract diptheria in these days in which medical science has found a way to immunize every child against diptheria. The way is simple, and entirely safe in the hands of a reputable, competent physician. If every child in Indiana were immunized the ages of six months and eighteen months, diptheria would soon be wiped out of the State. o According to some scientists, eating sugar before drinking alcoholic beverages is one way of remaining sober.

The results of the elections leaves the national situation pretty much as it was. More Republicans were elected to the House of Representatives than the Dmocrats expected but there remains in that branch of Congress an impressive Democratic majority. In the Senate the same effect prevails. So what? The minority party is in a spasm of enthusiasm because certain New Deal Senators were defeated. In fact, in estimating their gains, the anti-administration spokesmen are wiping out the distinction between New Deal and Old Deal Democrats. They point with overpowering pride to the election of Mr. Robert A. Taft to succeed Senator Bulkley of Ohio, even though Mr. Taft— despite his name and the deduction drawn from his success—found it advisable to proclaim his progressive sentiments during the campaign. But the Republican press and party leaders are equally edified at the defeat of every antiNew Deal Senator, although in the primary contests before election they were hailing them as heroes for their sturdy independence. More logically could the Democrats claim that the anti-New Deal Senators went down to defeat because they opposed New Deal policies and argue that if they had not gone Off the reservation they would have been re-elected. Senator Lonergan of Connecticut, for example, was acclaimed by the Republicans as an outstanding statesman and fearless public servant when the primaries were on. Now his defeat is being welcomed as further evidence that the country is turning away from the New Deal. The same might be said of every Senator and Representative who fought the Roosevelt politics, either totally or occasionally, and who finds himself a lame duck today. Republican Praise Turns Sour Incidentally. I wonder how these gentlement regard the Republican adulation they accepted with so much gusto a few weeks ago, when they compare it with the ferocity with which they were treated in the election. They were men of magnificent courage, patriotism and independence when they sought and obtained Democratic nominations; they were unfit and inferior when they were opposed by Republican candidates. In only a single instance was the minority party consistent in its approval and anti-administra-tion candidates. They did take John O’Connor, Chairman of the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives as their own candidate, and now the New De^' James H. Fay goes to Congress Mr. O’Connor’s stead and there- 1 ^ be a different Rules Commit. Chairman. While I am wondering let me muse over the question of how many of the’r new members the Republican minority in the House would be willing to trade for the retention of Mr. O’Connor at the head of the Committee on Rules? Actually, the New Deal was not the dominating factor in most of the election, though we tried to make it so. Either the Republican candidates countered by pretending that they, too, were for most of the New Deal policies, or some local political situation eclipsed what should have been the determining element in the election. This was particularly true in Pennsylvania. In Ohio the result was due to the circumstance that Ohio had an unsatisfactory and unpopular State administration, and the sins of an individual were, as usual, visited on his party. New Dealers Win in Big Way In no other State was the New Deal so completely the issue as in New York, where Governor Lehman was re-elected and Senator Wagner came through with an old-time majority. Wagner was the particular target of the interests most violent against President Rosevelt and his policies. Not only do we have Wagner back on his old job, but we have given him a colleague Senator—Congressman Jim Mead—of equal loyalty to the progressive principles of Democracy, as the successor to the late Senator Copeland, who was a shining light among the anti-New Dealers. On the whole, Democracy has not fared badly in the election. We have lost a number of Congressmen, as was inevitable after three periods of increase. We lost a Governorship here and there, but we gained two—in Maryland and California—so we still have about three out of four State administrations. The country at large, therefore, again has testified to its confidence in the Roosevelt policies, and the fight for the betterment of American conditions goes right along. Incidentally, the stock market opened strong the morning after election day. Now comes the time when the people are entitled to a respite from politics, and among the things from which a vacation is due in this series of letter. So, I think the newspapers that have opened their columns to my interpretation of political developments, and express the hope that my readers have not been unduly bored, I announce the temporary suspension of the Fog Dispellation. o GUERNSEY IS SOLD TO CRAIG Marion, Ind.—A registered Guernsey bull has recently been sold by O. C. Holloway & Sons to Roy L. Craig of Portland. This animal is McRoyal of Giant Alder Farm 264257 according to The American Guernsey Cattle club, Peterborough, N. H.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. To Whom It My Concern: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following improvements, to-wit: 1. R. No. 549, 1929—Paving Ninth Street from Walnut to Madison. I. R. No. 574, 1929—Paving Seventh Street from Pershing to Ebright. I. R. No. 593, 1929—Paving Monroe Street from Willard to the Railroad. I. R. No. 513, 1929 — Grading Alley between Wayne and Carson from Locust to Virginia Avenue. D. R. No. 791, 1938—For the reopening of vacated Elm street from the south line of 18th street, southward to the north line of Blocks 228 and 229, lots No. 1 and 5 in the Muncie Natural Gas Land Improvement Company of the Watson Tract, an Addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana, and notice is hereby given that on the 9th day of December, 1938, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited by said improvement in the amounts on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend in person or by representative, and be heard. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Celia Null, Clerk. Nov. 18 & 25

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and to the Public: Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, according to the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawing and specification therefor on fi^e in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, towit: I. R. No. 781, 1938—Local sewer in the alley between 15th and 16th streets from Birch street to ElI d;, r. No. 782, 1938—Local sewer he alley between 16th and 17th ,i Birch street to Elliott street. Each bidder is also to file with Liie Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219). All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of nine o’clock in the forenoon of the 28th day of November, 1938, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2%%) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. Celia Null, Clerk. Nov. 18 & 25

CREWS SNARING MANY RABBITS

Greensburg, Kas.—Rabbits may be a bed time story in some places, but here in Kiowa county, they are business. For almost 50 years, live rabbits have been shipped from Greensburg to all parts of the United States. It was the Crowe Animal company here, which gave to the country, the famous black-tailed jack rabbit of legendary speed. Catching the rabbits provides work for men and horses during the day and for men and motor cars at night. The day shift uses a net large enough to encircle several acres of land. Men on horses chase the rabbits into the net. The riders must leap from their horses and capture the rabbits before they can gnaw holes in the net and escape. At night, three men comprise a rabbit hunting crew. One drives the automobile, one works a spot light used to blind the rabbits and the third man throws his hand net over the rabbit before it recovers sight. A night crew usually brings back 30 to 40 rabbits in that manner. Speed is bred into the Kansas jack rabbit by the necessities of nature. The prairie offers little protective covering and few hiding, places against the rabbits’ natural enemies. Hence only the swift rabbits survive.

“Essentials” comprise less than 2 1-2 per cent of the imports of the United States.

IT7ITH the weather experts pre- »» dieting a wet cycle starting this year. It is wise (p invest in a rainy day ensemble for preparedness. 1 Here Is one of the new duranized raincoats in white, which traffic experts say is the best of all “safety first” colors. Even the pooch has his little rainy day ulster in white bound in a bright Scottish plaid. |

RAINY DAY FASHIONS SMARTLY STREAMLINED With scientists announcing a wet weather cycle just around the corner, designers have been busy lately evolving a variety of smart things to do away with rainy day fashion blues. Raincoats, once shapeless horrors designed solely for ultilitarian purposes, have become so streamlined it is almost a pleasure to have a rainy day occasionally and blossom forth in a smart wet weather ensemble. The packaging idea has gained such proportions this year that a complete rain outfit from head to foot may be had encased in en velopes small enougfi to fit niceiy into a handbag. Among the latest introductions in packaged coats is one fashioned of a new duranized fabric known as koroseal, which in additios to being waterproof is also fire resistant, acid and sun proof. In other words, it does not deteriorate and gum together after a few months use. Another trend to look for when you go shopping for your rainy uay outfit is the white raincoat which, safety experts say, helps to prevent accidents as the wearer is plainly visible to automobile drivers. Accessories for rainy day wear are unusually interesting this season. There are waterproof bandanas to tie over one’s head in place of the usual hat. These are sure to be popular with college girls. There are also some smartly decigned little sports hats of a waterproofed silk with an opalescent sheen. Rubbers and overshoes both come in packaged form and may be had to match one’s raincoat and thus complete the ensemble idea. And, if there is a pooch in the family there are raincoats for him, too, with a zipper arrangement that fits over his ears and keeps the water from running into his ears.

GUARD AGAINST AGE SIGNS AROUND EYES A New York nerve specialist

remarked the other day that he could tell a woman’s age by her eyes. In five tests he hit the nail on the head every time, proving that his words were no idle boast. Yet many women who spend hours of though and care on thencomplexions and their nails completely overlook the equally important business of warding off age signs from their eyes. The wisest method of caking care of one’s eyes is to combine home treatment with regular visits to a beauty parlor. Home treatment is important, of course, but even the best home treatment cannot 'accomplish the same successful Jesuits as can a trained masseuse, who knows the muscles of the face and understands the scientific care of the skin. On the other hand it is just as important that you supplement such professional care, which should be on a weekly visit basis, with a daily routine at home. First of all invest in a good eye wash and bathe your eyes for two or three minutes at night just berore retiring and in the mornfng upon arising. Eye exercises are another essential to bright healthy eyes. Exervise your eyes night and morning and at intervals during the day when they feel tired. Holding the head still,‘turn the eyes from side to side. Then look up and down wihtout moving the head. Next roll the eyes around and around. Close them and squeeze the lids together. At night after the eyes have been exercised and bathed in an eye cup with a solution, the eyelashes should be brushed upward and the brow should also be treated to a brushing. Rub a little vaseline into the lashes and brows and apply a good wrinkle cream underneath and at the corners of the eyes. Follow this routine regularly and even, though your eyes be small and in no way distinctive you will find that people make complimentary remarks about them.

DECORATIVE IDEAS FOR THANKSGIVING With Thanksgiving just around the corner it is not too soon to be thinking of decorations for the Thanksgiving table so that each small detail may be just right. Planning the -table can be lots of fun if one takes time to shop around for unusual favors and to work out a distinctive color scheme. This year the shops are filled with all sorts of amusing and colorful favors, bonbon dishes, and items for centerpieces. There are demur and delightful little Priscillas and John Aldens for use as bonbon holders and all sorts of brilliantly colored crepe paper vegetables and fruits that make effective decorations and also serve as poppers holding caps to add to the gaiety of the Thanksgiving party. The Thanksgiving turkey is also seen in a variety of new guises for bonbon cups, place markers and candle holders. A beautiful table arrangement could be worked out by using place mats of blue glass with a central arrangement of bright hued crepe paper vegetables, spilling from a horn of plenty fashioned of white cellophane. The vegetables, in reality poppers containing caps, could be awarded as favors after dinner. Candle holders of white cellophane with red tapers would be effective with such a table.

bonds. It is certain that the completed project will cost many thousands or dollars more than if it had been allowed to be constructed several years ago during the Dale administration. This completion of this project is important to the citizens of Muncie and it is to be carefully watched as to the expenditures involved towards that end. It may be considered that the new administration will be turned over one of the finest equipped street departments in the state. The services rendered during the past four years have not been the best for the amount of money expended but at least the department has had every piece of equipment necessary to render good service and such equipment is available for use. It should not be necessary for the new administration to provide funds for the purchase of anymore new tools with which to clean the streets, dispose of the garbage, cans, and ashes, and repair our highways. It is thought that Bill Daniels, formqr street commissioner under the Dale administration, will be back on the job in that department. It is without much question that numerous changes will be made in both the police and fire departments due to the strenuous political activity of policemen and firemen in the recent campaign. The new mayor is subject to a mighty tough job when he assumes his office and it is no wonder that he should seek comfort in sack cloth and ashes before his Maker while the job-hunters seek to find him and politicians use their pressure to run the show.

STATE OFFICES (Continued From Page One)

FIRST STEPS Continued From Page One) sist in this work and be co-operated with by the new administration. It can only remain to be seen whether or not the practice of economy will follow or that political debts will be paid from the public treasury. The projects for improvement to our city must be continued at least for those which have already been started and it is unlikely that present expenditures will be curbed in this respect. The sewage disposal system must be completed for which the city has issued and sold more than $703,000 in revenue

government and to eliminate corrupt practices throughout the state. GoA r ernor Townsend has ordered a strict enforcement of the law against the operation of slot machines throughout the state and instead of waiting for local authorities to correct such menaces whichhave not been satisfactorily done, the Governor orders the state police to confiscate all slot machines wherever they may be found in every corner of the state. The order shall remain in effect throughout the entire administration of Townsend which is at least for the next two years. It is expected that the state organization will begin to make numerous changes in their local political machinery and to assemble plans for a Democratic victory in 1940. Directors of the Hoosier State Press Association have set the dates of February 10 and 11 for the mid-winter banquet and meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association to be held in the I(jley room of the Claypool hotel at Indianapolis. Former Governor Paul V. McNutt will return from his post as high commissioner of the Philippine Islands soon after the first of the year and is expected to be present at the Editorial banquet as a principal speaker. It is expected that McNutt will remain here on his next return and begin to prepare for his proposed candidacy for the Presidency in 1940. According to Walter Winchell last Sunday night, McNutt’s successor at Manila will be James Cromwell, husband of the wealthy Doris Duke. It is widely recognized throughout the state that selfish politicians are not wanted and that the state administration must deal with friends who demand some respect with the public. When and if such co-operation is tendered by the statehouse and every local community, then the Democratic party has begun its victory march for two years hence. The masses of people know that it has been the Democratic party which has more greatly benefitted them but they insist that the insincere and ruthless would-be politicians be rejected from the ranks of so great a party and that more emphasis be placed upon honesty for the welfare of all the people.

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