Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 May 1939 — Page 2

THE POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1939.

CERTAIN TYPES OF GRADUATES ARE IN DEMAND

Job Prospects For Accountants Pharmacists And Others Good

Empty Jelly Shelves Need Spring Tonic—Ripe Strawberry Spreads!

Men trained in accountancy and mechanical engineering, and women educated for secretarial work should be among the first of this year’s college graduates to find jobs, according to information released tdday by J. Bradley Haight, acting director of the Indiana State Employment Service. The data was obtained through the third annual Occupational Outlook survey participated in by the placement officers of the 40 state employment exchanges and conducted for tile guidance of youths, their teachers and parents. “Our study ot job-orders received during the last 12 months, and the requirements mentioned by leading employers who were interviewed in the course of the survey,” Mr. Haight said, “showed there was demand for college men with specific training in several occupations for which applicants already are available. However, since many available applicants lack a college degree or fail to meet some technical requirement, the new graduate may have an advantage over the man already in the labor market.”

NEW STATE LAW FORBIDS AUTOS NEAR FIRE SITE

A N empty jelly shelf is a chronic xX Spring household ill, but fortunately one that can be remedied the very minute ripe, fresh strawberries and pink stalks of rhubarb appear upon the scene! These two favorite fruits in homemade jams and jellies are one of the best “tonics” a menu ever had . . . and it’s fun to make them this newfashioned way. Modern recipes are foolproof— and time-savers for the jelly maker. They give you half-again more glasses, too—and a delicious ripefruit flavor exactly like the berry’s

own.

Start a batch of “Spring tonic” tellies this very day! These champion recipes were especially made tor strawberries, and turn out perfect products every time: RIPE STRAWBERRY JELLY (Makes about 12 medium glasses) 5 cups juice 7 cups sugar 2 boxes powdered fruit pectin To prepare juice, crush thoroughly or grind about 2V 2 quarts fully ripe berries. Place fruit in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. (If there is a slight shortage of juice, add small amount of water to pulp in jelly cloth and squeeze again.)

Several Revisions In The Laws Curtail Car

Driving

The new Indiana motor laws make it unlawful to follow retire apparatus, traveling response to a fire alarm, •e’- 'er than 500 feet or to park within the block where the fire apparatus has stopped in response to a fire alarm, Fire Chief Lloyd Morgan said yesterday. The law also provides that “no vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected fire hose without the consent of the fire department official in command. “No person shall leave a motor vehicle unattended without first stopping the engine, locking the ignition, and removing the key. When standing on a perceptible grade the brakes shall be set and the front wheels shall be turned

to the curb.

“It' is unlawful to drive a car when it is so loaded, or w r hen there are in the front seat such a number of persons exceeding three, as to obstruct the view of the driver to the front or. sides of the vehicle or as to interfere with the driver’s control over the driving

mechanism.

“It is unlawful while traveling down grade to coast or travel with

the gears in neutral.

“It is unlawful to throw upon the highway bottles, glass, nails, tacks, wire, cans, or any other subtance likely to injure any person,

animal, or vehicle.

“All vehicles shall stop behind school busses to allow school children to get on or off. ’ However, the section does not apply unless the school bus shall bear upon the front and rear a plainly visible sign containing the words, ‘School Bus’ in letters not less than four inches high which shall be removed or

covered when the vehicle is not in I road machinery, road rollers or

Measure sugar into dry dish and set aside until needed. Measure juice into a 5- to 6-quart saucepan and place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well, and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. At once pour in sugar, stirring constantly. Continue stirring, bring to a full rolling boil, and boil hard Vz minute. Remove from fire, skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once. RHUBARB AND RIPE STRAWBERRY JELLY (Makes about 12 medium glasses) 4 cups juice 8 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin To prepare fruit, cut in 1-inch pieces about 1 pound rhubarb and put through food chopper. Crush thoroughly or grind about 2 quarts fully ripe strawberries. Combine fruits; place in jelly cloth or bag and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and juice into large saucepan and mix. Bring to a boil over hottest fire and at once add bottled fruit pectin, stirring constantly. Then bring to a full rolling boil and boil hard Vz minute. Remove from fire, Skim, pour quickly. Paraffin hot jelly at once.

Dispdiing The Fog

UNLAWFUL TO DRIVE CAR IN UNSAFE CONDITION OR WITHOUT CONDITION IS THE STATE LAW

It will be unlawful to drive, knowingly, an automobile which is in such unsafe condition as to endanger any person or which is not equipped with the proper lamps and other equipment specified in the new law which goes into effect July 1. The law does not prohibit the use of other parts or accessories not inconsistent with the act. All vehicles now must carry lamps which must be lit from a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise and at any other time when there is not sufficient light to render clearly discernible persons and vehicles on the highway at a distance of 500 feet. The only exceptions made are for implements of husbandry,

use as a school bus. “On a multiple lane highway divided by a parking strip 20 feet or more in width, motorists on the opposite lane from the school bus' need not stop but may proceed with caution.” U. S. COINAGE FOR YEAR EXCEEDS $12,000,000 Philadelphia. — More than $12,000,000 worth of coins were turned out by the Philadelphia, Can Francisco and Denver mints last year, according to the United States Assay Commission. Dimes, quarters and half dollars made up $8,098,493.05, while the rest consisted of pennies and nickels. o A 1939 survey indicates that the U. S. has a larger supply of feed grains and hay on hand per animal than it has had in many years.

farm tractors. Lighted lamps or lanterns in front shall exhibit a white light visible for 500 feet and tail lights or lanterns must exhibit a red light visible at least 500 feet to the rear. Automobiles must have two headlights on each side of the car and one tail light which must be wired so that it will be illuminated at the same time as the front or auxilliary lights. Either the tail light or a separate lamp must illuminate the rear license plate with a white light to render it visible for at least 50 feet. Motorcycles and bicycles must have one wihte light in front and one tail light. Animal drawn and other vehicles must carry a white lamp or lantern in front and a red light or lantern in the rear. Red Reflectors for New Cars All new cars sold after June 30,

shall have two red reflectors in the rear, visible from all distances within 300 to 50 ieet at night. Only one spot light is allowed and it must be so aimed upon approaching another vehicle that no part of the high-intensity portion of the beam will be directed to the left of the prolongation of the extreme left side of the vehicle nor more than 100 ieet ahead of the vehicle. Not more than three auxiliary driving lamps are allowed on the front of an automobile which shall be mounted at a height not less than 12 inches or more than 42 inches above the level of the ground. Signal lamps or devices are allowed and when signal lamps are used they may display a red or yellow light. Signal devices in front shall display signals visible , from the front and rear for a 100 feet in normal sunlight and at night but they shall not project glaring lights. The signal light in the rear must be visible from the rear only for 100 feet. Additional Lights Not more than two cowl lights are permitted which must emit white or amber lights. Not more than one running board light on each side is allowed which may emit white or amber lights. Backup lamps are permitted which may be wired separately or in combination with othei lights but this lamp must not be continuously lighted when the car is in forward motion.

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CITY STUDIES MALNUTRITION

St. Louis—The board of education has ordered an investigation of malnutrition and other bodily impairments among children living in the central business and industrial district here to determine the connection of health with morethan the usual amount of failures throughout the-- area.

It is marvelous to note the consistency with which the Republicans win elections a year or so before the election. Chairman John D. M. Hamilton of the Republican National Committee has gone star gazing and recently announced that the high vote cast by the Republicans in recent mayoralty and Senatorial contests in Illinois unerringly pointed to a swing in the Middle West and the Far West to the G.Q.P. side—incidentally, the Democratic candidates in both contests were elected by satisfactory majorities — but the Republican Chairman adduced a proof of his triumphal prophecy the Gallup poll. Well, just about three years ago Chairman IT'Milton, after analyzing the situation in the Middle West, the Far West and in New York, foretold the election of Governor Alfred M. Landon, of Kansas, as President by more than 300 electoral votes, with the probability that it would amount to more than 350. And he quoted as a corroborative basis for that prophecy. “The Literary Digest poll, which never has been wrong.” At the same time, he said “We are conservative in presenting that four or five million Democrats will vote for Governor Landon this year.” Just about then the booming voice of Senator Vandenberg told the people that a wide split “in Democratic ranks extending to high officials would bring Republican victory in the Presidential race.” We had similar assurances of the inevitability of Governor Landon from Henry P. Fletcher, aforetime G. O. P. cheer leader, Bertrand H. Snell, aforetime G.O.P. House leader, and innumerable others, all of whom harped on the rift in the Democratic party as something that could not be healed and. which sewed up the election for the Governor of Kansas. In fact, one distinguished writer on political subjects enthusiastically exclaimed that the Republicans could beat Franklin D. Roosevelt with a Chinaman. My favorite columnist, the always consistent Frank Kent, in 1936, devoted columns to the spoken and unspoken opposition of eminent Democrats to their candidate and told how they would “privately contribute to the Republican campaign fund and vote for the Republican nominee.” And here he is again, in 1939, jubilating over the prospect of a Republican President and telling us “clearly the Democratic split cannot be closed. It isn’t that kind of a split. It is much too wide and fundamental.” Recalling 1936 Of course, more than a year in advance of the conventions which will select the candidates these 1939 G.O.P. oracles are practically saying that any Republican can beat any Democrat. As one of them points out, the Democratic progressives will not vote for a conservative, and the conservative Democrats will not vote for a liberal, and the logic goes on: “Neither faction will be satisfied with a compromise candidate.” All of these things are political absurdities. Party splits a year before the candidates are named seem ponderous and terrific — and nineteen times out of twenty they disappear when the political bugles blow. All the authorities quoted above were sure in ’36 that the friends of Alfred Emanuel Smith would follow him en masse out of the old party ranks, just as right now they are insisting that the men who oppose various of the Roosevelt policies in and out of Congress will lead their cohorts into the Republican fold. It would be a safe bet that the Democratic United States Senators who are cited by some of the commentators as illustrating the hostility to the New Deal policies will all vote the Democratic ticket next year, and most of them will be on the hustings making speeches for the nominee, whoever he may be. If an uncertain number of Democrats desert their party because a progressive is named for the Presidency, you may be equally sure that a correspondingly larger number of liberal Republicans will come over to the Democratic side. Naturally, they would have more faith in Democratic liberalism than in Republican protestations of liberalism. It is probably equally true that if it were the other way about, the result would be pretty much the same. Voters naturally vote for policies rather than individuals and prefer their own party’s brand of economic thought to an imitation of the same thing on the other side. It is only when such a split as was created by Theodore Roosevelt a quarter of a century ago, when he, the most popular Republican figure, went out and formed a new party, that they amount to anything in national elections. Independents Decide Local elections have undoubtedly been swayed quite frequently because of a split in the ranks, but it is the rarest phenomenon when a national election goes one way or the other because members of the party, however prominent, quarrel with each other or with the principles of a majority of their party. It has been shown definitely that men to whom large numbers of people are personally devoted, cannot transfer or deliver those votes to anybody else. We all remember that in the 1924 election as the elder LaFollette, the outstanding progressive of his time, became an independent candidate, the Republicans were filled Ttvith forebodings lest his large following would desert them. Yet, in the ensuing election Calvin Coolidge won with 382 electoral votes. The fear that LaFollette would cut in heavily enough to throw the election into the House of Repre-

sentatives, which was frequently voiced in those days, was as chimerical as the present-day wishfqj, thinking that disorder among the Democrats will be the deciding factor next year. Party allegiance is a stubborn fact. In almost any election, the candidates, good, bad or indifferent, get the normal vote of their party. The vote that decides elections is the ten million or so of citizens with no strong party affiliations, or with ~ party ties so tenuous that they are negligible when it comes to a decision on the principles for which each party stands. It is another safe bet that next year’s election will be decided in the same way. PROPER PLACE FOR BARMAIDS CONCERNS OHIO

Measure in Legislature Forbids Women to Mix Drinks.

Glass Jar Maker Again Rules Rail Empire

That great railroads are still playthings of financiers and holding companies, despite government regulation and r.ne Senate railroad finance investigation, was proved this week when George A. Ball stepped back into control of the Van Sweringen “empire.” Ball is the multi-millionaire Muncie (Ind.) glass jar manufacturer who bought control of the empire in 1935 from the House of Morgan. About two years later, he sold his interest to a Wall Street “syndicate’ headed by Robert R. Young. What was actually bought in each case was stock of the Alleghany Corporation, top holding company, which controls the Chesapeake & Ohio, Nickel Plate, Erie

and other railroads making up a vast 23,000-mne system valued at $3,000,000,000. Ball bought the Alleghany stock for $274,682 and sold it to the Young group for 4,000,000 cash and a $2,375,000 promissory note, which came due this week. Young refused to pay it, because it would have cost him $1.97 a share for stock that is selling on the exchange now for only 87 cents. So Ball took back the stock and, with it, control of the empire. Thus a 76-year-old man who scarcely knows a caboose from an engine, and whose only interest in railloads appears to be speculative profits, again became the boss of one of America’s biggest rail systems. Young, however, still holds several strategic posts as a director

of “empire” companies, and he seems determined to continue his fight with Ball for control. He has brought a $5,000,000 lawsuit against Bali, charging that the latter illegally “manipulated” the price of Alleghany stock on the exchange, and thus boosted the price at which he sold the stock to Young. Moreover, Young charges in his suit, Ball promised to deliver control of the empire along with the stock, and has broken that promise by conspiring with the House of Morgan to get the control back. It probably makes no difference to railroad workers which group of financiers rules the empire, but the whole affair is an illustration of the way great roads are used as gambling chips in the Wall Street poker game.—“Labor.’\

Cleveland, 0., May 21.—Ohio’s barmaids are tlm center of a legislative battle which already has burst forth into arguments over the purity of womanhood, class legislation, equal rights and business survival. A bill in the Ohio senate would forbid mixing drinks or drawing beer by women. The house of representatives, after haranguing over many of the erstwhile wet-dry issues. sent it to the senate by a vote of 76 to 39. Rep. Martin Blum, Cleveland Republican, introduced the bilL supported by the Cleveland barr tenders’ and waitresses’ unions. During house debate, Donald D. Canfield, R., siapped the bill as the “smart idea of some bartender who wants to keep women from behind tho bar, but doesn’t care what happens to them in front of it.” Canfield was bitter in his criticism of the bill, terming it “silly.” “If my wife or daughter had to work in a saloon,” he said, “I’d rather have them back of the bar than in front.” Moral Issue Raised Joseph P. Conway, business agent of Bartenders’ Union Local 48, said there was a moral issue involved rather than the commercial one of making more jobs for bartenders. “It isn’t the barmaids we’re opposed to as much as the environment,” he said. “I know of places where the girls work on commission, and working on commission covers a multitude of things.” The support of Waitresses’ Union. Local 107, was shown in a statement that “a woman will work behind a bar Ini a fraction of a man’s salary, and we’re in favor of that.” The bill does not prohibit women from serving drinks after they are mixed or poured. Individual barmaids gave different opinions. Why Not? Asks Girl “What are the girls supposed to do if they won’t let us work occasionally behind the bar,” said Elsie Brandimarte. “I draw beers only when the place gets busy or when the boss wants to go out for a

while.”

“What do they think they can gain by throwing so many girls out of work?” asked Valerie Christea. The house debate centered around Gordon Renner’s proposed amendment to allow barmaids to draw beer. “I’ve never seen a woman who could mix a decent cocktail, anyway,” he said. Betty Madana resented this, and snapped, “That fellow should taste one of mine.” She, too, objected to

the bill.

Dealers Oppose Bill The Cuyahoga County Retail Liquor Dealers’ association here opposed the bill, as did Cleveland leaders of crusades for women’s rights and morals. W. R. Lazarus, secretary of the liquor dealers’ association, said the bill’s adoption would throw several hundred women cut of work, and

added:

“There would be 5,000 places to police. It’s an impossible job. It is class legislation, discriminatory and unfair to _ the small places where a girl may work for only a few hours during a rush.” Mrs. Lucia McBride, former school board member and leader in the League of Women Voters, said she did not want to comment on the bill until she had read it, but “I always resent legislation discriminating against women.” Mrs. Yetta Land, attorney, be< lieved the bill unconstitutional, but hoped it would be enacted because “women were meant for better things than dishing out liquor.” The New Soutn Wales district of Australia offers $125,000 reward for a practical method of exterminating rabbits.

Flower experts have many Ingenious ways of developing new Items for gardeners, but their latest procedure involves the use of a powerful drug to trick Mother Nature NUo producing abnormally large flowers. Shown above Is an African Marigold blossom (at right) of normal size alongside a giant-size blossom from the same variety of flower, developed through the seedsman's new magic. The drug used is called Colchicine, and it is taken from the roots of the fall-blooming crocus. What happens is that a trained geneticist can drop some colchicine solution on the growing point of a young plant and, if fortunate, get a giant-size flower to develop. (As often as not, however, the flower is killed by the drug.) The true guide to the successfully treated Diant is

Ferry-Morse Photo the size of the pollen grains in the flowers. Grains twice the size of normal ones indicate that a flower may produce giant seed. When a flower produces giant see<i it is carefully reaped and then planted. If the drug has worked its trick successfully on Mother Nature the seed will produce an over-sized plant, with stems, leaves and flowers all about twice as large as normal, frequently with deeper color and more fragrant aroma. The results of a wholly successful treatment are shown by the two blossoms above, produced at a Ferry-Morse Seed Breeding Station. The one at the left was grown from a giant seed taken from a “drugged” plant. This scientific seed breeding, carried a few steps further, is expected to bring to the world’s gardeners new giant flowers in a number of species.

Boulder Dam Going to World’s Fair; Replica’s Tiny But Weighs 5 Tons

Las Vegas, Nev.—Boulder dam, the world’s greatest engineering project, which was raised on the desert of Nevada and Arizona, is going to the big city—to the New

York World’s Fair.

It’s a replica of Boulder dam j that’s going touring, but engineers who have viewed the replica, which was constructed by the Albright brothers, Bud and Jack, of Las Vegas, say spectators who view the model will get a better adea of the actual workings of the dam than they could if they visited the gigantic structure in Nevada.

SOUL MATE IDEA IN LOVE SCORED

Pittsburgh.—Girls who wait for their Prince Charming to appear are likely to be disappointed, according to Dr. Paul Popenoe, director of the Los Angeles Institute

of Family Relations.

The dream that somewhere there is a “special soulmate” wait-

The replica Look almost as long | ing for everyone is just so much to construct as aid the dam itself, | “childish^ bunk,” Dr. Popenoe de-

and Jack Albright, who did most of the actual labor on the model, declares that eery feature of the original dam is included in the model and is reduced to exact

scale.

The model is so constructed that the waters of Lake Mead are in the background. The entire process of turning the falling water into electricity will be duplicated before the eyes of the spectators. The model itself is 7 feet 6 inches by 17 feet and weighs 10,000 pounds. In operating the model, spectators can see how the water of the Colorado rivei was diverted around the dam site during the construction period. Then the lake can be filled to show the complete operation of the valve houses and the power houses. The operator also can create a flood and show how the spillways of the dam will work. There is a cutaway section in the model which shows the interior workings of the dam, the tunnel plugs, the diversion tunnels, the pipe and all parts which are underground in the original. The replica will form a part of the Nevada state exhibit, and it will be the first time that Boulder dam has gone on display elsewhere than in the p.recipitojis canyons to which it is anchored between Nevada and Arizona.

The Packard Motor Car Company recently announced a price, cut in their automobiles ranging from $100 to $300.

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“There are nearly 30,000,000 marriages in the United States and each year a million more are added to that number,” he said. “Unfortunately, nearly 200,000 of the million married couples in the present year may end in divorce court, and others, though not breaking up the marriage, will be miserable in it.'’ Couples Told of Errors Dr. Popenoe said the reason for the high divorce rate is that the couples “don’t try.” “They intend to get, not to give,” he said. “It’s up to the other fellow to do all the work. “Before marriage, they made some effort to please each other. Now they are married, they think it is time to settle down.’ If you want to ‘settle down’ after marriage, don’t trouble to rent a home; just move info rhe graveyard.” Husband “Star Boarder” “Too often,” the marriage relations expert continued, “the nusband begins to consider himself a star boarder rather than a lover, and the wife gets careless about her appearance and disposition.” The trouble is, he said, that the home, the church and the school in the past have paid little attention to education for marriage. It’s an encouraging fact, he said, that schools are adding courses concerning family relations as fast as teachers can be trained to give

such courses.

STATES URGED TO MODERNIZE ALIMONY LAWS

S. L. Katzoff Finds Women to Blame For Abuses.

San Francisco.—Concerted state or federal action apparently will be necessary to curb the nation’s “alimony racket,” believes Dr. S. L. Katzoff, medical director and consulting phychiatrist of the San Francisco Institute of Human Relations. The keen, analytical physiciansurgeon leveled h blistering attack on indiscriminate alimony. In his new book, “It Takes Two,” he termed alimony “legalized larceny,” “taxation without representation” and “matrimony’s enemy No. 1.” “I know of nothing that can bring more cynicism, despair and disrespect for our laws and systems of jurisprudence than the slapping of men into jail for failure to pay alimony,” Dr. Katzoff said. “Is it any wonder that so many men crack under the strain —with the inevitable result of breakdown, anxieties, disillusionment, compulsions, neurosis and psychosis? No End To Jail “Usually the husband’s alimony is not a debt; yet he is held in contempt of court in refusing to pay. He is guilty of a fresh contempt every time he fails to pay. Whether he can pay or not, whether it is right or wrong—these questions are not asked. In the ‘alimony racket’ he does not have even the right of double jeopardy. And there is no legal limit to the number of times he can be jailed for non-pay-ment. “One of the very vital, destructive after-effects of alimony is the loss of respect for our laws, courts and certain types of judges. “Many an uncalled-for alimony decree has not only ruined the social integrity, economic stability and even the health of a good man, but has caused the demoralization of many alimony-hunting and ali-mony-grabbing women. It has corrupted whatever sense of wholesome pride these women may have had. They become lazier and more predatory than before. Encouraged by their lawyers, and the law itself, these women set out to find a wealthier victim next time. Wants Cases Individualized “Certain antiquated laws should be interpreted in terms of presentday living and human welfare. Each case should be individualized. Only those women who are deserving and actually in need should be provided for in accordance with such need and the man’s ability to provide for her support. Certainly, if the wife is completely at fault in a domestic tangle—why should the man have to pay anything? o INDIANA YOUTH REGISTERS FOR OLD-AGE INSURANCE

More than one-half of the old-agn insurance accounts set up in 1938 for workers in Indiana were for men and women under 30, according to a statement issued today by Mr. H. L. McCarthy, Regional Director of the Social Security Board for the States of Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. More of these account numbers, he stated, were assigned to young people between 15 and 25 than to persons in any other age group.

CAFETERIA CREDIT FAILS.

Taft, Cal.—The local high school cafeteria tried the experiment of extending credit to students for luncheon. It found they ate more and paid less. The cafeteria is now on a strictly cash basis. The students eat less and pay.

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