Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 17 February 1939 — Page 4

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncle, Delaware County ana the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Poetoffiee i*t 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, Indiana, Friday, February 17, 1939,

Music With Your Beer The 51 Republican members of the Indiana House of Representatives might be likened to the man in Stephen Leacock’s story who mounted his horse and rode off in all directions. On one hand they are avowedly trying to please those who are trying to abolish the evils of alcohol, and one the other hand they are trying to appear friendly to those strongly in favor of liberal sale. This is what is called playing politics. Music is a great accelerator to drinking parties, and the modern tavern, serving covivial parties, finds that demands for more refreshments increases as nickels are dropped into phonograph players. A bill was introduced in the legislature which would levy a tax on slot operated phonograph players. Homer E. Capehart, who threw the big cornfield party for Republicans at his Daviess county farm last summer, and who is mentioned-for every office from national chairman to' Governor, happens to be the sales manager for the firm which makes and distributes these music boxes. To enact the law might interfere with Capehart’s business and his generous contributions to the Republican treasury. The Republicans, of course, killed the measure. They preferred to offend the W.C.T.U. rather than their benefactor. Music with your beer, at five cents a tune, will continue in Indiana.

Pull Together for Prosperity Not for years have the times been so ripe for all parties in our national society to get together in a genuine effort to cooperate for the national welfare. Unmistakably, the people of America want such cooperation. Unmistakably, the nation needs such cooperation. So we say to industry, to labor, to agriculture, to government, to consumers, to everybody—“let’s all work together.’’ So we say to industry, to labor, to agriculture, to government, to consumers, to everybody—“let’s all work together.” After all, it’s an Old American custom.—From an editorial in La Verita of Waterbury, Conn.

A confidential report on foreign trade has been placed on the desk of a top-rung Federal official. And it is giving the top-runger and his aides a lot of mental exercisei. The report says, in effect, that America’s foreign trade is falling off, but not because of the circus antics of dictators. The report was written by a delegate to the recent Lima conference. He points out that although foreign buyers prefer American-made goods because they are better made, increasing prices, due to economic planning, labor unrest and higher taxes, are putting U. S. products out of reach. As long as American prices are continually forced higher and higher, the delegate points out in his report, we can expect a continued decline in the sale of American goods in foreign lands.

Items in the daily news which often fail to make the headlines, have the most vital bearing on the daily lives of most of us. For instance, a six-line dispatch from Berlin states that to relieve the shortage of physicians caused by Nazi ban on Jewish doctors, a drastic reduction in time required for medical education has been granted. Inexperienced physicians will be a great blessing to a person with a ruptured appendix.

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present but it is thought that expenses for floor space, extra help, and responsible services could be lessened by each community collecting the gross income tax for the state as now provided for the collection of state property taxes

through county treasurers.

The proposal to reduce gross in-, come taxes for retail merchants has at least for the present superseded another proposal made by retailers for a mandatory clause in the present law which would make it mandatory for each merchant to add the tax to every article sold. This plan would have the same effect as a direct sales tax and the small taxpayer would pay the greater majority of such taxes. It is believed that this proposal would receive more opposition than some plan to relieve those who are now paying an unequitable share of the gross income taxes. Some changes in the present law are admitted to be needed but repeal of the gross income tax would only revert to an unfairness in the distribution of the tax burden throughout the state. It may be remembered that property taxes have been materially reduced since the enactment and

vide for a penalty against such persons. Part V of the Act would give it the short title of “Children’s Act of 1939.” Numerous iuws in conflict would be specifically re-

pealed.

Second of the legislative acts of the child law enactment proposed by the Legion (Senate Bill 195) would provide for the re-imburse-ment of counties out of federal and state funds coming to the state welfare department for the care of child public wards in the county who do not necessarily come under provisions of the Aid for Dependent Children laws. The state would re-imburse counties to the extent, of 50 per cent of the cost of assistance to destitute child public wards. Third of the child welfare measures (Senate Bill 192) would raise the age limit for the treatment of crippled children under the Social Security plan with the aid of federal and state money from 16 to 21 years, and would clarify the subject of legal residence and per diem cost allowable by counties for the care of destitute children. Fouth of the Legion-sponsored child law measures (Senate Bill 194) would authorize the Governor to appoint, a commission on the Codification of Child Welfare Laws to be composed of not less

collection of ernss income faxes than ten nor more than

sons representing groups interested in child welfare legislation.

and that many persons who before never paid any taxes are now sharing in the costs of govern-

ment.

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LEGION SPONSORS SET OF CHILD WELFARE

Members of the group would serve without pay; they could call cn the services of the State Department of Public Welfare; and could employ such technical skill as LAWS i would be required to make a comI plete revision, consolidation, clari-

Members of the American Legion are sponsors of a set of our legislative measures for amendment of the Child Welfare Laws of the state which have been introduced in both houses of the General Assembly. The measures translate into legislative action the recommendations of a Commission on Child Welfare Laws which recently filed its report with Governor M. Clifford Townsend and members of the legislature. E. W. Mills of East Chicago, chairman of the Indiana Department, American Legion, Special Child Welfare Committee, served as chairman of the Commission. The Indiana Department’s legislative committee, headed by Judge A. D. Eby of Princeton, has assumed sponsorship of the legislation. The measures were introduced in the Senate by Senator Eugene J. Payton, of South Bend, and other Legion-

naires.

The principal measure (Senate Bill 198) in the American Legion set of four child welfare bills is one entitled “A Bill for an Act Concerning Public Welfare and the Welfare of Children.” It is divided into five parts. Part I covers the subject of child adoptions and is written to carry out the Child Welfare C o m m i s s i o n’s recommendations that full legal protection be thrown about parents, foster parents and children about to be adopted. It requires the waiting period of one year after a child has been taken into a home before final adoption papers can be Signed. The duty of investigation of all circumstances relating to adoption are assigned to the county and state departments of public welfare. Records are to be kept confidential; adoption proceedings in other sattes would be

fieation and codification of Indiana’s public welfare laws concerning children. The Commission would be instructed to report its codification of child laws to the 1941 General Assembly. The measure asks for an appropriation of $20,000 for the biennium with which to meet the expenses of the Commission in surveying and compiling child laws of this and other

states.

The Indiana Department of the American Legion in convention last fall adopted a resolution approving the recommendations of the Commission on Child Welfare laws and instructed its legislative committee to sponsor the legislative measures which have now been introduced. Work of the Commission also has been endorsed by the Indiana League of Women Voters, the American Legion Auxiliary and the Women’s Joint Legislative Council of Indiana. GROCER'S TRADE WAITS ON FUN

Buffalo, N. Y.—The word “unusual’ 'hardly does justice to Albert Pinkel’s grocery. It’s amazing. A potential Gertrude Stein, musician, artist, imitator and “whatnot,” Pinkel would rather, it seems,, entertain his customers

than wait on them.

The unpredictable Pinkel has his show-window filled with handprinted poems which in themselves indicate what lies ahead for the

m^ized; and the proposed law Z?TtJ'\meZ*o?e. An e^am-'

pie of Pinkel’s poetic ability is

would carry provisions for annulment of adoption if a child should develop latent defects such as epilepsy or insanity before the age

of fourteen.

Part II of tiie Child Welfare Act would re-write the criminal Bastardy Act of 1852, removing the stigma of criminality which formerly surrounded children born out of wedlock and their parents, and would place such proceedings in the courts of juvenile jurisdiction and treat the subject in the privacy of a chancery court. All records involving children born out of wedlock would be kept in confidence and proceedings held in private chambers, but the rights of mothers and the responsibility of fathers would be no less important than now set out in the law. This part of the proposed new Child Welfare Act conforms with the suggestions of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and follows modern social thinking which would protect the name and opportunities for every child regardless of the fact that he might have been born out of wedlock. All records of the birth and placement of illegitimate children under this act likewise would be held as confidential, open only to courts and welfare agencies of proper author-

ity.

Pgrt III of the general Child Welfare Act would strengthen existing provisions in the welfare laws on the licensing of child welfare agencies, boarding homes, and maternity homes and hospitals. It would provide for the development of uniform standards for child care, placement, medical treatment and social adjustment in such institutions. It would require the keeping of full records, filing of reports with the Children’s Division of the State Department of Public Welfare and would govern the placement of children in family homes, foster homes, adoptive homes, boarding homes and free foster homes. Such homes would be required to have proper license, and be inspected regularly, and such licenses might be revoked for cause. Part IV of the general Child Welfare Act would establish reciprocal arrangements for the importation and deportation of dependent children as between Indiana and neighboring states, making the control of this subject more workable than is now possible with a high bond of $10,000 being required of those importing children liable to be dependent. The amendment would simply pro-

this one: “It’s coming true A nation Is Going to give everybody

a suit

then you won’t have anymore home You won’t need any we all will go to Boston Hill.” Just, as puzzling, if not more so, is Pinkel’s conversation. Asked how long he had had the store, the grocer, wearing a red celophane hat. replied: “Sixty minutes after 12 o’clock, I was very lucky—I 1 o’clock. This morning I had a wonderful appetite—at 60 minutes after 7 o’clock I 8 o’clock.” The walls of the store are covered with more poems and plenty of pencil sketches, drawn by the versatile Pinkel. A typical Pinkel reception was .afforded one customer who had picked up a box of crackers and was waiting for the storekeeper to appear. A sharp bark caused the customer to drop the crackers, but it wasn’t a dog barking, it was Pinkel doing one of his imitations. A yodeler, too, Pinkel is always willing to put on a show which usually attracts a large crowd. Customers come in to get groceries—but no one waits on them— so they usually content themselves by listening to the grocer strum on a well-worn banjo, hum, whistle, yodel and occasionally insert a barnyard imitation. Pinkel’s understanding of WPA, iccording to one sign, apparently h in business code. It reads: ‘WPA—We Play Around.” —o WOMAN BLIND 16 YEARS RECOVERS SIGHT AT 78

Rio Grande City, Tex.—After 16 years of blindness, Mrs. Sabina Garcia, 78, of Garciasville, has regained her sight. Eye specialists had told her that she never would regain her vision. But. recently she complained of a severe headache. A relative applied an ordinary eye-wash. Within a few hours, she announced that she could see and to prove it, she read newspaper headlines to her family. o The first balloon ascent in America was made on July 17, 1784, by Peter Carnes at Baltimore, Md.

BEEKEEPERS TO ME^T IN TWENTY COUNTSES

Beekeepers of twenty counties will meet during February to discuss problems of apiary management, honey production and bee disease, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today. The meteings are attended by James E. Starkey, chief apiary inspector for the Division of Entomology. Meetings scheduled this month are a part of the state-wide series arranged for the winter and spring. Fifteen county meetings were held in January and others will be held during March and April, covering all counties. The February schedule includes: Feb. 6, Hendricks county, Danville, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 7, Montgomery county, Crawfordsville, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 8, Clay county, Brazil, 7:30 p. m.; Feb. 9, Parke county, Rockville, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 10, Vermillion and Fountain counties, Covington, 1:30 and Veedersburg, 7:30 p. m.; Feb. 11, Warren county, Williamsport, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 13, Boone county, Lebanon, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 14, Clinton county, Frankfort, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 15, Carroll county, Delphi, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 16, Cass county, Logansport, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 17, Grant county, Marion, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 18, Madison county, Anderson, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 20, Shelby county, Shelbyville, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 21, Decatur, Greensburg, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 22, Ripley county, Versailles, 1:30 p. m.; Feb. 23, Jefferson county, Madison, 7:30 p. m.; Feb. 24, Switzerland county, Vevay, 1:30 p. m.; and Feb. 25, Ohio and Dearborn counties, Aurora, 1:30 p. m. t o FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION Indianapolis, Tnd., Feb. 17.—Commitments for insured mortgage loans under Title 11 of the National Housing Act reached a new high in Delaware county during 1938. with prospects of increased building construction for 1939, R. Earl Peters,' Indiana Director of the Federal Housing Administration, said today. The total for Delaware reached $588,598 from 185 borrowers at the close of business December 31, 1938, divided as follows: new construction $363,500 and loans on existing construction $225,098. Approved lending institutions active in making FHA loans in Delaware county include: the Muncie Fed. Sav. & Loan Ass’n, the Merchants Trust & Sav. Company, the Munoie Industrial Company, the Guaranty Sav. & Loan Ass’n, the Mutual Home and Sav. Ass’n, all of Muncie, and the Yorktown State

Bank.

The total commitments issued by FHA for insured mortgage loans on homes from 14,022 Indiana borrowers amounts to $49,271,463. a sum which has been expended by private capital in the field of home construction through the FHA insured mortgage loan program. The business for 1938 represented an increase of more than $4,000,000 over 1937. Mr, Peters based his prediction for a continued increased building activity this year on applications for new construction already in prospect, and the continued need for home construction to meet the normal demand. “The public is beginning to realize that the Federal Housing Administration, for the first time in our history, provides an unbiased agency to which the inexperienced layman may go for guidance and protection when he builds or buys a home,” Mr. Peters said. The FHA protects the buyer and the builder against expensive and unsound financing, second mortgage rackets, high interest rates, hidden commissions and other discredited devices which contributed so largely to the real estate collapse of the early 1930’s. — o “EARLY BIRD” BY PROXY. Philadelphia— When a Philadelphia theater offered special prices of $1 a seat—“first come, first seated”—J. H. Vernon hired eight telegraph messenger boys to go to the theater early and obtain good orchestra seats for himself and his seven guests. o A man known as Safety First, recently got a ticket for traffic violation in Los Angeles. o— LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Public Service Commission Docket No. 13720. Petition of Traction Light and Power Company for a Declaration of Public Convenience and Necessity for the Construction, Ownership, Operation, Management and Control of Electric Utility Facilities in Certain Rural Territory in Delaware County, Monroe Township. Notice is hereby given that the Public Service Commission will

conduct public hearing in this cause in the Rooms of the Commission, 401 State House, Indianapolis, Ind., 10:00 a. m. Tuesday, February 28, 1939. Public participation is requested PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION By CHARLES O. MATTINGLY, Attorney-Examiner. Ralph E. Hanna, Public Counsellor. Indianapolis, Ind., February 14, 1939.

ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

The State Teachers College Board, Indiana, will receive sealed bids for equipment, for the Addition to Lucina Hall, a residence for women, and for the Burris Laboratory School Building, both buildings being located at Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, Indiana, until 10:00 a. m. (C.S.T.) on the sixth day of March. 1939, at the office of the Controller, in the Administration Building of Ball State Teachers College, at which time and place all bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. Any bid received after the above designated time will be returned unopened. For the Addition to Lucina Hall, W.P.A. Docket No. Ind. 1582-F nroposals may be submitted for the following groups: Group A—Student Pnom Furniture Group B—Dining Room Furniture. Group C—Pillows. Group D—Mattresses. Group E—Lamps. Group F -Kitchen Equipment. Group G—Refrigeration. For the Addition to the Burris Laboratory School Building, P.W.A. Docket No. Ind. 1465-F, proposals may be submitted for the following groups: Group A—Metal Furniture. Group B—Wood Chairs and Desks. Group C—Wood Furniture. Group D Classroom Desks, Tables, etc. Group E^—Laboratory Furniture. Group F—Industrial Furniture. Group G—Kitchen Cabinets. Group H— Hand Crafts Equipment. , Group I—Wood Working Eguipment. Group J Foundry Equipment. Group K—Steel Files, Steel Cabinets and Shelving. Group L Steel ^Lockers and Shelf Units. Group M—Steel Folding Chairs and Card Tables. Group N—Ceramics Equipment. Group O—Gymnasium Equipment. Group P—Pianos. Group Q—Visual E d u c a t i o n Equipment. Group R—Science Equipment. Group S—Art Equipment. Grpup T—Display Cases. Group IT—Adding, and Bookkeeping Machines. Group V—Calculating Machine. Group W—Typewriters. Group X—Duplicating Machine— Direct Process Liquid Type. Group Y—Duplicating MachineStencil Type. Group Z—Venetian Blinds. Group AA—Light-proof Shades. Group BB—Laundry Equipment. Group CC—Public Address System. Combined bids of similar groups for the two buildings will not be accepted. Copies of documents for the Addition to Lucina Hall may be obtained bv depositing the sum of Fifteen Dollars with the Controller of Ball State Teachers College; and for the Addition to the Burris Laboratory School Building by denositing a like sum with the Architect, Herbert F. Smenner & Associates, 108 Fast Washington Street, Muncie, Indiana, for each set of documents so obtained. The amount of the deposit for one set of documents will be refunded to each actual bidder who returns the plans and documents in good condition within ten days after the opening of bids. Ten Dollars will be refunded for each of all other sets of documents so returned. The contract documents including plans and specifications are on file at the office of the Controller of Ball State Teachers College, and the office of the State Board of Accounts, State House, Indianapolis, Indiana. The documents for the Addition to the Burris Laboratory School Building are also on file at the office of the Architects. Proposals shall be properly and completely executed on State Board of Accounts Form 95 for all groups involving no labor at site, and on Form 96 for all groups with labor at site, together with noncollusion affidavit required bv the statutes of Indiana. Bids on Form 96 must be accompanied by Questionnaire Form 96-A, State Board of Accounts, for any bid of $5,000 or more. (Section 53-102 Burns 1933.) Each bid on groups involving no labor at site (Form 95) shall be accompanied by acceptable certi-

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tied or cashier’s check mrfde payable to the State Teachers College Board, Indiana, for an amount not less than ten per cent of the total bid price. Each bid on groups involving labor at site (Form 96) shall be accompanied by a certified check, cashier’s check, bank draft or satisfactory bid bond executed by the bidder and the surety company payable to the State Teachers College Board, Indiana, in an amount equal to not less than five per cent of the bid price. A separate bid shall be required for each group of furniture and equipment. A bidder may bid on one or more groups as provided in the specifications. Itemized prices shall be provided for each item in any group of equipment for the purpose of permitting the Owner to increase or decrease quantities, but such items and prices shall not be used as a basis, for making awards to any other than the qualified low base bid. The certified or cashier’s check for ten per cent of the total bid price of the awardee in each group involving no labor at‘ site (Form 95) will be retained as surety for the completion of the contract. Contractors awarded material and equipment contracts on which work will be required at the site, (Form 96) will be required to furnish acceptable surety performance bond in the amount of 100 per cent, of the contract price. Wage rates on this work shall not be less than the prescribed scale of wages as determined pursuant to the divisions of Chapter 319 of the Acts of the General Assembly of Indiana of ! 935. The State Teachers College Board, Indiana, reserves the right to reject any or all bids and to waive any informalities in bidding. No bid shall he withdrawn after the opening of bids without the consent of the State Teachers College Board, Indiana, for a period of thirty davs after the scheduled time of closing bids. STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE BOARD. By Lemuel A. Pitte^ger, President Ball State Teachers College. Feb. 17 & 24 NOTICE State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: In the Delaware Circuit Court, January Term, 1939, Charles R. Morris vs. Reuben Strong et al. No. 12690. Notice is hereby given to the defendants in said cause, namely, Reuben Strong, John W. Strong, Alfred B. Strong, Martin Boots, Rhoda Boots, Elizabeth Strong, Melinda Strbng, Minerva Strong, Mary Strong, Napoleon B. Strong, Mary Ann Mills, Reuben Mills, Albany Land Company, Nathan F. Dalton, Mary T. Dalton, Shelby Steel Tube Company, James L. Thurston. W. S. Brammer, James R. Stafford, Sarah C. Stafford, T. A. Stone, North Baltimore Glass Company of Albany, Indiana, Isiah W. Richardson, Jr., Sarah Jane Richardson, Joseph F. Jewett, Celia E. Jewett, David C. Richardson, The North Baltimore Glass Company of Vigo County, Indiana, N. F. Dalton, Trustee, B. F. Binegar, J. S. Fudge, John S. Fudge, Martha J. Fudge, E. F. Kottlowski, Ernest F. Kottlowski, Anna Kottlowski, William T. Steele, Amelia L. Steele, Bottle W. Wingate,

Wingate, wife of Bottle W. "Wingate, whose given name is unknown, Isaac Mann, Mary L. Mann, Elizabeth A. Middlehurst, E. A. Middlehurst, Elizabeth R. Muddleherst, Nathan F. Dalton, Henry J. Swanders, Myrtle Mpntgomery, Merty Montgomery, H. R. S^japder, EJdwain Carl Swander, 'Wm. Roscoe Slander, The unknown husband, wife, widow, widower, child, children, descendants, heirs, surviving spouses, creditors and administrators of the estates, devisees, legatees, trustees, executors of the last will and testaments successors in interest and assigns, respectively, of each of the foregoing named persons, all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; All of the women once known by any of the names and designations above stated whose names may have been changed and who are now known by other names, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff, and the spouses of all the persons above named, described and designated as defendants in this section who are married, the names of all of whom are unknown to plaintiff, All persons and corporations who assert or might assert any title, claim or interest in or lien upon the real estate described in the complaint in this action by, under or through any of the defendants in this action named, described and designated in this complaint and above named, the names of all of whom are unknown to the plaintiff; that the plaintiff in the above entitled cause of action has filed his complaint in the Delaware Circuit Court to quiet his title to the following described real estate in Delaware County, Indiana, as against all demands, claims, and claimants whatsoever, and against said defendants, and each of them, and against any and all persons whomsoever and against the whole world, towit: Beginning at a point in the line of the south side of the North halt of the Southwest quarter of Section One (1), Township Twentyone (21) North, Range Eleven (11) East, 315 feet west from the Southeast. corner of said North half of said Southwest quarter of Section One (1) aforesaid, and thence west on said line 580 feet; thence north parallel with the east line of said quarter section, 836 feet; thence east 580 feet; thence south 836 feet to the place of beginning, excepting therefrom a tract out of the northwest corner thereof 198 feet north and south by 110 feet east and west, containing one-half acre, more or less, leaving in above tract after deducting said exception 10.08 acres, more or less, together with an affidavit that the residence of each of the above named defendants, upon diligent inquiry is unknown, and that unless you and each of you be and Appear in the Delaware Circuit Court, said County and State on Saturday, the 15th day of April, 1939, the 12th day of April Term of said Court at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in 7 said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in your absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Indiana, this 18th day of February, 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of the Delaware Circuit Court (Seal) Elmer E. Botkin McClellan & McClellan Attorneys for Plaintiff. Feb. 17