Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 13 January 1939 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1939.

Tokyo Beggars Rely On Winds To Fill Purses

Signs Of The Times

Comments, Politically and Otherwise, on Present-Day

Topics

Tokyo—Beggars in this city are anxiously scanning weather reports discussing the rise and fall of barometers and looking at the sky i with a hopeful eye. They are gathering in the streets and everywhere the question is asked: “When, O when will the next typhoon come?” Recent high winds and heavy rains have brought this class o{,

Japanese a bonanza in the form ™thlng of its purpose or its cause,

The real meaning of war, not its dead and wounded but starvation o fchildren, the suffering of women, the privation of those who know

“An optimist has been described as one who orders oysters at a restaurant and expects to find a pearl with which to pay the bill.

Marry an orphan. Parents are a liability to a happy marriage, according to a survey of marriages made by a University of Illinois professor. He declared that the fewer parents a married couple has living, the better the chances for wedding happiness.

George E. Bayha, an old-age pensioner of Canon City, Colorado, drew a new $800 car in a lodge lottery. He was immediately taken from the State pension roils because he owned personal property of more than the legal limit of $200.

of umbrellas. Thousands of umbrellas, blown inside out and -away from their owners, have been recovered and sold by the local panj handlers. Frames command high prices because of an existing metal shortage. Groups of beggars warming themselves around little fires indicate the fate of wooden

handles.

But news has gone around that more and more Japanese umbrellas, made of paper and wood, are being bought. This threat, coupled with the fact that there still remains many thousands ol metal frame umbrellas, has caused the Tokyo beggars to send up a call for “just one more typhoon

please.”

o A CONSTANT BATTLE

Miss Anna Thompson, age 24, was found drowned in the bathtub of her parent’s home at Des Moines, Iowa. The Corpner decided that the girl had fainted while taking a bath.

The government is spending hundreds of dollars in an attempt to catch and convict several blackmailers of Philip Musica, who under the name of F. Donald Coster swindled the McKesson-Robbins drug corporation out of millions of

dollars.

‘Thirty dollars every Thursday’

No one can or will question the statements of Gov. M. Clifford Townsend in his New Year statemenb It is the story of continuous conflict between Those Who Have and Those Have Not. It is an endless battle between the forces of reaction and the forces of progress. What the governor did not say, but could have said in all truth was that the “depression” of 1937 was a manufactured panic, brought about by those who hate the name of Roosevelt and hate with even greater bitterness every movement launched by the New Deal. Recognizing the fact that there can be only one remedy for unemployment which is a job, the Democratic party first appealed to the special interests to furnish

is brought hotne by the sending of wheat to Spain. Again America sends more than sympathy. The President has arranged for distribution through the Red Cross of vast quantities of flour to both sides in the civil war now raging. There’s no attempt to settle the right or wrong—only ceep sympathy with those who must bear its penalties and who do not understand anything, except their own

hunger.

Many of these children have been hurried from the war zones. They have become exiles, many of their fathers killed, their mothers helpless to feed them. They are in France and England. They cry for bread, and only a great nation, such as the United Slates, can answer. Read the list of these named by the President to have charge of this distribution. They are the humanitarians, selected without any thought of partisan association. They are men and women of great heart and genuine sympathy. Here is something on which all parties can unite.

When they didn’t respond, the

wouldn't make pin money for the I Democratic administration launch-

average American if the new plan advocated by Howard Scott was put into effect. Mr. Scott, who six or eight years ago proposed his plan called “Technocracy,” has a new plan which calls for 12.7 hours working week at an annual

income of $20,000.

The old fashioned idea of soma folks that knowledge hi.<jh„ absorbed by placing a boo., under the pillow has been recently replaced by a machine invented in San Francisco which is claimed by its originators to import knowledke from some sort of a phonograph record through an especially adapted helmet which the “student” wears while sleeping.

Fishing seenis to be the favor 1 ite for U. S. Sportsmen but golf costs them more money. A Man with 25 cents worth of fishing tackle is better equipped for fishing than the man with $10 worth of jgolf equipment is for playing golf. Some one has dug up an old New England hotel lobby sign which reads: “Not more than five to one bed.”

When the school term started at Oswego, Illinois, in 1937 the school board failed to re-elect their high school principal. They hired Melvin G. Attig of Aurora for the job. The students were dissatisfied with the change and concocted all kinds of schemes to make life miserable for Mr. Attig. The Board rehired him again last year and he statred thq present term determined to make good but the job proved too much for his nerves. The thoughtless students made him discouraged and desperate. He recently committed suicide by stepping in front of an approaching train. Now, the students are sorry; the widow and two children sad; and the town of Oswego given too much notoriety.

ed its great projects of spending in the employment of userui and creative labor, those who asked for the right to work as a part of their inalienable rights. What happened in 1938 more than justifies this spendnig. The governor calls attehtion to the new state institutions. He calls attention to the things built in the' smaller units of government in this state, of new school Houses and new sewers, of better roads and broader means of transportation. More than this, the Democratic administration installed the system of Social Security. This state kept pace and led. As a result, long before the funds were expended, men were again recalled to labor and to industry. For the first time in history not only was the right to work a legal right, but there was an agency held responsible — the state itself. The season just closed shows what happened, not only to labor but to business. Sales in every city reached new peaks, with money earned by those who spent. The Democratic way has proven itself the good way. In saving others, business saved itself. The governor makes his report and gives his challenge. Will the voters go forward with the Democratic party or go backward to the Republican ways—the way of dog eat dog and degil take the hind-

most?

Again comes the clarion reply “We will go forward, not back-

ward.”

o A PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR

When the Red Cross begins its distribution, on both sides of the red line of battle, their purpose w(ll not ask on which side their fathers fight, or for what. Let others decide on the right or wrong of causes, if there be a right or wrong. Opinions differ. All that they will -see is suffering and human misery. They will look into the eyes of starving children and hear only the piteous cries for something to eat. They will seek

jobs, j to sage these young lives from

death, not by bullets and bombs but from stark hunger. Again the realities of what war brings, perhaps its futility, is brought homfe. Again president Roosevelt and all America, with its great surpluses of food, answer the command that comes through the ages, and perhaps the reply from above to an entire nation of “Even as ye have done to teh least of these, my children, ye have done it unto me.”

Many gay New Year’s parties were held in Chicago. Cover charges ran as high as $25 per person.

Both government bureau and private finance and industrial business forecasting organizations are predicting an upward trend in the times for 1939.

Chicago: In addition to Bill Thompson’s western 10-gallon hat, Courtney’s still hat, and various other types of hats a lady wishing to be nominated for a city aiderman tosses in her pan-cake top piece to make the ring full of hats.

‘.‘Not woes at hand, thous coming Are hardest to resist; We hear them stalk like giants, We see them through a mist. But big things in the brewing Are small things in the brew; So never trouble trouble Till trouble troubles you. ——: o —— RABBIT HUNTERS ENDED SEASON LAST TUESDAY Tuesday, January 10. was the last day of the rabbit hunting season in Indiana, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Cpnservation, has warned Hoosier sportsmen. Open seasons for the taking of other wildlife, excepi by trapping, have ended previously. Reports from all parts of the state indicate that rabbits have been unsually plentiful in most areas this year but little attention has been paid the cottontails by some sportsmen due to fear of tularemia. Chief danger from this disease is from infection while handling the rabbits, as proper cook’-ng eliihinates the possibility of being affeeted.

Economic experts forecast a most prosperous year in 1939. Not only for the farmers and workers, but for every line of business. They see a steady flow of dollars into the coffers of the carpenters, the building contractors, the automobile makers. Not a boom, but a steady flow of money. This was what President Roosevelt predicted when he asked for more spending. This is what fhe Democratic Congress provided. And the results are now evident. Should these prophesies come true, and there is every reason to believe they will, it means that the national income next year will probably exceed those of the false prosperity under the Republican regime which brought about the big collapse ten years ago. The national income might easily run over 80 billions, which will furnish the answer to those who hage criticised the administration and its policies. It means that income taxes will also rise and any worries about the national debt disappear. o GOLDEN EAGLE IN PERIL

Fargo, N. D.—One of North Dakota’s most magnificent birds, the golden eagle, is likely to disappear from the state if thoughtless hunters continue to kill it, according to O. A. Stevens, botanist at the North Dakota Agricultural College. “The eagle still is a nesting bird in the badlands,” he said, ‘but with continued persecution it. will cease to be such.” o ZOO HAS PIG-TAILED MONKEY Toledo, O.—A pig-tailed monkey —said to be one of a dozen in the country—is a new inhabitant of the Toledo zbq^ , __ ^ o —-— “WILD CAT” MERELY A PET Agon, Conn. — Cecil Barrett bought a ‘wild cat” from a hunter and was a big embarrassed later to discover the animal, which he planned to have mounted, was a neighbor’s pet angora. — -o~—.-■■■-*—-T36 King Ritcl, dov; $ & Te^a's, contains 1.259,999 acres.

King George has stopped a racket. He will scan closely the list of debutantes and matrons and see- if impecunious Englishwomen, of high social standing, have been selling their titles to rich Americans and Englishmen of Plebeian blood, for the privilege of being received by their Royal Highnesses, whatever that means, and paying out rather large sum Tor me chance to bend their knees to the king and queen. It is rather a mad world. The country that abolishes all titles and dukedoms by revolution, sends back its daughters, (or is it grand daughters) to be received at court—and pay for the “privilege”. Democracy evidently loses its significance, to those who still pay homage to royal titles. o OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD

Washinton, D. C., January 13.— At the beginning of the twentieth century—just 38 years ago, the United States was a somewhat isolated part of the world in which tariffs were sky-high to protect American manufacturers in establishing many new lines of industry. Steel was competing with lumber, and both were very important industries. Andrew Carnegie lived to say that the United States could compete in the steel industry with the world, without aid of tariffs. That is only an incident in changes brought about which finally resulted in present day trade treaty policies. The railroads connected the vast distances in our country. Little did any one dream that the automobile industry would out-distance the railroads as a medium of transportation in a few years. American automobiles were so good that they rode right through all the tariff walls onto the highways of the world. The third link in transportation was furnished by “steamboats” today. They are propelled by petroleum and electricity, sources of power borrowed from the automobile industry—and they call themselves by the grander names of ships and liners. The automobile industry furnished new wings for the discovery that was made by the Wright brothers. Planes now soar through the air with motors that were developed in automobile factories. Diesel engines made by automobile manufacturers are breathing hew life into the rail-

roads.

The country , talked about good roads for three centuries, but never started to build real highways until automobile transportation made us road-conscious. Any road was a good. road, “that went from here to there” twenty-five

years ago.

Thirty-eight years ago all the cor-

cbai oil. Gasoline. Ms been deeloped, from refinements of. the same

product. Its: annual rate , of consumption totals 21,34&,h3j5,00.0.. gal-

lons, according to 4 1938 reftbft. Gasoline is one of the principal

sources of taiation. : ~ Whefi Morse telegraphed froffl Washington to Baltimore less than a hundred ye.ars ago the message

was snd exclamation: “What hath GOd wrought!” Bell telephoned over a mystical, mile of wire about

sixty-fiye years ago, and Marconi

communicated across, the ocean ih 1901. AU these triu$ip5i> ia - colamuaication ’were’’" SifitE

nonchalance. The motor car appears to have been developed through evolutionary processes, with many inventors contributing to its perfection. In less than twenty-five years it has become recognized as the most important industry in the history of the world. Economically speaking, we have ridden to OUR PLACE IN THE WORLD, in Amer-ican-made automobiles. o DECLARES ANOTHER DIVIDEND

Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan. 13.— A semi-annual dividend at the rate of 1 1-2 per cent per year to savings, building and loan associations, an insurance company, ahd the United States Government, which are stockholders in the Federal Home Loan Bank of Indianapolis, was announced today by Fred T. Greene, President of the Indianapolis Bank. The Bank will disburse $68,334.47 on January 5, 1939 to the 210 member institutions and the United States Government. This is the semi-annual dividend declared by the regional Bank and it has now paid dividends for six successive years, “The six month period just closing has been as satisfactory as any in the Bank’s six years, from the standpoint of earnings,” said Mr. Greene. “Aside from the fact that we are handling a larger total volume of loans than in any previous period, earnings were influenced by the cheaper Dancing which was available to the System through the use for the first time of deben-' tures sold in the open markets for capital. “Earnings were such that the Bank’s directors were able to allocate to surplus a substantial amoujnt over and above the legal requirement of 20 per cent of net. “Altogether with this dividend payment the Indianapolis Bank will have paid to the United States Government $574,959 in the six years that it has been using funds from that source. Today more than sivty-five per cent of the funds in use by the Bank are from private sources, only $6,577,400 out of total liabilities and capital of $18,546,631 being from the Treasury.”

LESS FEDERAL HfeLP FOR STATE HIGHWAYS DURING FISCAL YEAR

DEMOCRATS TO COOPERATE IN INVESTIGATIONS

Democratic members of the state senate will not stand in the way of any investigation of state governmental departments, but will, to the contrary, gladly co-operate in uncovering any irregularities which might exist. By taking this stand at a caucus prior to opening of the General Assembly, the Democratic senators put it up to the Republicans to prove campaign charges. Governor Townsend, in addressing house and senate Democrats several weeks ago, took a similar position. It is now up to the Republicans to “prove or shut up.” The resolution adopted by tbe Democratic senators follows: Whereas, the Republican leadership in the House of Representatives has, through the press, announced its purpose of conducting an investigation of different departments of the state government, and _ Whereas, the providing of means and the making of an appropriation for holding such an investigation would require the concurrence of the state Senate, therefore, Be it resolved by the Democratic members, being a majority of the Senate, that we co-operate with the House of Representatives in providing means and machinery for a fair and complete investigation of any and all departments of the state government. Be it further resolved that it is the desire and intention of the Democratic members of the state Senate not to obstruct, but to aid and assist in the making of any irivestiaigtion that is constructive and is for the purpose of remedying any defect that may exist in the contents or administration of present laws at this session of the General Assembly. oTHE RIGHT TO WORK

The difference between the Deniocratic and Republican principles is found in their attitudes toward labor and men. One stands for men, the other stands for

profits and gains.

Recently the head of the Federal Reserve Bank, whom no one could call a radical or a Boushevik, sent this letter to a senator who proposed to end all WPA work and balance the budget. It is a remarkable letter because it reaches the depths of New Deal philosophy. It goes back to the Declaration of Independence and what it means. Here is what the head of all the banks in the nktion, says: “I believe the most basic right of all is the right to live, and next to that the right to work. I do not think that empty stomachs build character nor do 1 think that substitution of idleness and a dole for useful work relief will improve either the dignity or the character of the people affected. Further than the right to eat and the right to a position, I think the individual, whether rich or poor, has the right to a decent place to llVe . . . a right to security in old

ner stores carried kerosene and age and to protection against tem-

porary unemployment.

In a machine age, the, right tp life depends upon the right to wCHt and if private industry cannot give that opportunity, the goverhnlhut

must.

In the coniing months, private indhsiry wlil again be given this opportunity. It will again be isked to give this country an opportunity for every worker. It will be given an opportunity to let him earn a safe place in which to live and a chance to fedrn himself and his family a decent livihg. Liberalism, •js put to Its, test in this d^e absorb|ag issqe.

Indiana will have a million and three-quarter dollars less in federal funds available for construction work on the state highway system in the coining fiscal year, T. A. Dicus, chairman of the State Highway bommission, pointed out today. Allocations of federal funds, available for highway work in Indiana during the fiscal year beginning July 1, will amount to $3,310,000 according to announcement by the U. S. Bureau of Police Roads. This includes three district funds: $2,437,000 to be matched with state funds for construction work on the state highways which are designed as part of the federalid system; $365,000 to be matched with state funds for improvement of county or state roads which are a part of the designated feederroad system; and $508,000 riot to be matched with state funds, for elimination of grade crossings and ihstallatioh of flasher signals at grade crossings. Each of these funds is less than became available on July 1, 1938 when the State Highway CommisMpg was allocated $3,149,011 in federal-aid; $629,802 in feeder-road furids, arid $1,308,113 for grade crossing elimination and ‘ flasher installations. The total in federal funds available for the present fiscal year was $5,086,926, or $1,776,926 more than will be available during the coming fiscal year. , Naturally with this reduction in federal funds, the furids available for construction work on the state highway system and for improvement of feeder roads will be reduced by an equal rimourit. A substaritial part of the extensive State highway construction programs carried on during the past five years have been made possible by federal funds, an average of $6,948,430 having been received each o fthe fige years. The riaajor part of these funds ’were direct grants, not requiring that they be matched with state funds. o FEEDING BIRDS IS PART OF INDIANA’S CO NS ERV At ION

More than ten thousand Indiana coriservatioriists are engaged in a state-wide program for the emergency feeding of birds and wildlife during the winter . months, Virgil M. Simmons, Commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. Tons of screenings, grain and other suitable feed have been collected for the feeding programs sponsored by the more than eight hundred and fifty conservation clubs arid thousands of feeding shelters have been constructed. This is all.a part of Indiana’s conservation program and one of th e major winter activities of the consergation clubs. The emergency feeding of birds apjd ydldlife by the members of^ the conservation clubs receives wide support in the local communities from Boy Scouts, Future Farmer and 4-H Club members, from rural mail carriers, highway workers arid bakery apd milk route drivers. While the screenings are <^ohate4 by feed companies and elevators where they are a by-producf, clubs spend hundreds of dollars in purchasing grain and other supplies for use during the winter months when the ground is covex-ed with snow or ice and in the normal food supply is hidden. Members of clubs in rural communities usually collect their own feed while feed is purchased by clubs located in the cities and towns. Among typical reports on winter feeding activities, is that of the Wabash Conservation Club of New Harmony which has about three hundred pounds of seed on hand, will purchase an additional amount if needed, and will hage twenty club members, Boy Scouts and WPA workers distributing feed tp more than twenty feeding stations in the vicinity. Clubs reporting on their winter feeding program have several thousand feeding stations established in areas where birds are located. Mariy of these are simply brush heaps or piles of corn stalks arranged to keep the snow off the ground and open on at least two sides. Persons interested in aiding,the winter feeding program should communicate with their local conservation club or game warden.

GREATER INTEREST IN OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES SHOWN BY HOOSIERS

Iricreased interest in the out-of-doors and participation in outdoor activities was cited today by Virgil M. Simmoris, commissiorier of the Department of Conservation, as among the major conservation achievements of .the past year. A record number of Hoosiers enjoyed the best fishing arid Minting during 1938 that have been possible iri Indiana for many yfears; a substantial gain aud a new attendance record was established by the state parks; new recreational areas at the state forests and game preserves were used by thousands Of visitors; the number of conservation clubs has grown steadily and they have increased both their membership and their activities. Indiana’s reputation as the “Vacation Playground . of the Middlewest” was upheld., by the influx of tourists who camejn increasing

of the state parks, the lakes arid the scenic and Aifctorjc , areas, it is estimated that expenditures by these tourists d'movirited to more than a hundred million, dollars. „ Operations of the Department of Conservation continued during the yeah oh a growing scale. The state hatcheries propagated and planted a record number of game fish; propagation and liberation .of pheasants quail and radc^on reach-

ed new totals; development programs, aided by the CCC and the WPA, increased facilities for public enjoyment and operating efficiency at public areas in charge of the department; and information on natural resources and conservation activities reached many thousand Hoosiers,. Progress has been made in a program to protect Indiana’s forests and to increase the potential timber supply. Cooperative programs for the control of Japanese beetle, Dutch Elm disease and other insect pests and plant diseases are being continued with success, particularly in the case of the Japanese beetle and Dutch Elm disease. Scores of producing oil and gas wells were cornpleted, iri'dicating that Indiana may again become an important factor in the production of thesp natural resources. Improved larid utilization, more effective water conservation and a broadened program of wildlife management are other features of the Indiana conservation program which more than two hundred and fifty thousarid Hoosiers are actively participatirig. —r-r O —rrMODERNIZATION AND SAFETY OF HIGHWAYS MARK 1938 PROGRAM

Definite progress in the modernization of Indiana’s state highway system ahd in making it more safe for the motorist, marked the 1938 program of the State Highway Commission, T. A. Dicus, chairman poirited out today in sumarizing the year’s activities. Both the modernization of the highway system and the elimination of motoring hazards are a part of the Commission’s continuing program and plans are already under way for even greater progress during the new year. During recent weeks contracts have been awarded for the construction of many miles of new pavement, the building of bridges and grade separations and for other improvement work on the ten-thousand-mile highway system. Among these projects are continuation of dual-lane construction on Road 30 and Road 40, closing a gap in the pavement of Road 67 and additional work on Road 57 as a short route tp Evansville; replacement of more than a score of bridges which have harrow roadways; installation of flashinglight signals at railroad-highway intersections; and building several grade separations. Among tha results of the 1938 constiructiori program are: completion of 450 miles of higb-type and 272 miles of low-type pavement; construction of sixteeri grade senarations, and the building of. S’S bridges. In addition to the maintenance of the highway system, 397 miles of highway routes through cities and towns of over 3.500 population were added to the system for maintenance and improvement; 280 miles of worn highways were salvaged by resurfacing and an equal mileage was surface treated to create better traveling surfaries on highways carrying light traffic loads. The safety program developed through the Bureau of Traffic has been an important factor in re-i ducing the number of motor vehicle accidents on the state highway system, with a consequent reduction in the loss of life and property damage. This program will become increasingly effective as studies of traffic control measures are continued. PRESIDENT SFEAKS SATURDAY NIGHT

State Chairman Omer S. Jackson and James L. Beattey, secretary of the state committee, who is state chairman for. the Jackson Day observance, have asked Democrats in every county to h^ar President Roosevelt speak over all national radio chains. The, President will go on tne air at 8:30 p. in. Central Standard Time, and st>eak for half an hour.

ON THE WIND SWEPT PRAIRIE

Cushing, Okla. — It was cold. Lacking underwear, the Cushing high school debate coach used his ingenuity instead. He came to school with bis pajamas underneath his clothes. o — NOTICE OF SALE Muncie Temporary Loan Warrants Bids will be received by the City Controller of ( the City of Muncie, Indiana, at his office in the City Hall in said City on the 23rd day of January, 1939, up to the hour of ten o’clock A. M. on the following issues of temporary loan warrants of said City: Ternporary Loan Warrants, in the amount of $100,600.00, evidencing a temporary loan for the General Fund; Dated as. of the date of delivery thereof; Payable on June 30. 1939; Interest rate not to exceed 4 per cent per annum (to be dfetermined by bidding), payable at maturity of warrants; Denominations as requested by the purchaser; Delivery to be made as follows: immediately upon award to purchaser. Temporary Loan Warrants, in the amount . of $7,000.00. eyideriemg. a temporary loan for tile Sinking Fuhd ; Bated as of the ddte of delivery thereof; Payable, on .June 8'i. 1939; M tSfest rate apt to exceed 4 per cent per anri,um , (td b e determilled by biddiug), payable at rilatulity of warfahts; Deuominations as requested by the purchaser; Delivery to be made as follow^: immediately upon award to purchaser. Tempprairy , Lpdh .Waf'failts, in the amount of $10,000.00, evidencing a temporary loan for the Park Fund; Dated,as.of tljft data of ’ delivery thereof; -

Payable on June 30, 1939; Interest rate not to exceed 4 per cerit per annum (to be determined by bidding), payable at maturity of warrants; Denominations as requested by the purchaser; Delivery to be made as follows: immediately upon award to purchaser. Said warrants arp payable out of taxes heretofore levied and now in course of collection for each of said funds, a sufficient amount of which taxes has been appropriated and pledged to the payment of said warrants and the interest thereon. Said temporary loans are being made for the purpose of securing funds to meet current operating expenses which are payable out of said three funds respectively prior to the collection of taxes in the year 1939. The approving opinion of Matson, Ross, McCord & Clifford, bond counsel of Indianapolis, will be furnished to the purchaser at the expense of the City. No conditional bids, or bids for less than the par value of the warrants bid on will be considered. The right is reserve to reject any and all bids. In the event satisfactory bids are not received on the date herein fixed, the sale will be continued from day to day thereafter. Dated this 5th day of January, 1939. John D. Lewis, City Controller. Jan. 6 & 13

NOTICE OF BIDS FOR TEMPORARY SCHOOL LOAN

Notice is hereby given that at 12:30 o’clock P. M. on Thursday, the 26th day of January, 1939, 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 bids and proposals for a temporary school loan in the aggregate sum of One Hundred Fifteen Thousand Dollars ($115,000.00) to raise funds to meet the current operating expenses of said school city for the fiscal school year in anticipation and to be paid out of taxes actually levied and now in course of collection for said school year, which said loan will be evidenced by time warrants of the said School City of Muncie, Indiana, executed in its name and on its behalf by the president, secretary and treasurer of the Board of School Trustees of said school city. All of said time warrants will be due and payable on July 20, 1939, and will bear interest at the lowest rate obtainable, not exceeding six per cent (6%) per annum, the interest to maturity to be added to and included in the face of said warrants. Said time warrants evidencing the said temporary loan will be dated and issued on the following respective dates, for the following respective amounts, plus interest to maturity, and for the use of the following respective school funds, to-wit: January 27, 1939, Special School Fund $30,000.00. February 24, 1939, Special School Fund $25,000.00.

March 10, 1939, Tuition Fund $10,000.00. March 24, 1939, Tuition Fund $25,000.00. April 7, 1939, Tuition Fund $25,000.00. The amount of the principal of said warrants with interest to the maturity thereof has been appropriated out of current revenues of the respective funds for which said amounts are borrowed and said revenues have been pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of said time warrants. Said loan will be made ■with the bidder submitting the lowest rate of interest therefor and only one bid will be accepted from each bidder. All bids shall be submitted on forms furnished and approved by the board and each bid shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the bidder that no collusion exists between him self and any other bidder for such loan. The board of school trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 5th day of January, 1939. School City of Muncie, Indiana. By E. ARTHUR BALL, President VERNON G. DAVIS, Secretary JOSEPH E. DAVIS, Treasurer Board of School Trustees Bracken, Gray and DeFur, Attorneys. Jan. 6-13.

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned that an emergency exists for a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana, to make appropriation of an additional amount of money for expenditure for said Township during the current year of 1939, as follows, to-wit: Fund No. 11, Purchase of Ground $ 500.00 And that a meeting of the Township Advisory Board of said Township and the trustee thereof, will be held at the office of the said Townsip Trustee at his office in the said Township of Salem, on the 16th day of January, 1939, at 7:30 o'clock P. M. of said day, at which time said appropriation will be considered. RAYMOND SHIREY Trustee of Salem Township. Jan. 6 & 13

SAFE CAB DRIVERS HONORED San Francisco — Seven taxicab drivers of this city were presented with gold watches for having driven 700,000 miles in five years without incurring even a scratched fender or dent in their machines. However, while taking full credit for their own driving, they admitted that luck alone had probably saved their machines. o MUSEUM FOR UMBRELLAS

Novara, Italy—A museum for umbrellas and parasols of all per. iods and all nations is soon to bo opened here. Novara’s Interest Sir uiribrellas lies in the fact that it has long been the headquarters of the umbrella industry in Italy.

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