Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 June 1939 — Page 4

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

THE POST-DEMOCRAT Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncle, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Poetoffice tet Muneie, Indiana, under Act of March S, 1879.

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Muneie, Indiana, Friday, June 9, 1939.

85% of AH American Farmers Participating In 1939 Program An overwhelming majority of farmers in every section of the United States have voted to participate in the 1939 farm program under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938. As the law did not become effective in time last year to enable farmers in many regions to plan their operations under the program proposed, the result of individual expressions thus far this year, made through their local committees, provided the first fair test of its popularity. Returns received to the middle of May show participation in 1939 by far the largest for any year since farm adjustment programs were started in 1939. They reveal participation as follows: 81 per cent of the commercial corn and wheat growers; 92 per cent of the cotton farmers and 80 per cent of the commercial dairymen. Participation by tobacco, rice and potato growers, who have until June 1st to indicate their desires, already average from 70 to 80 percent. On the basis of these returns, it is expected that 6,000,000 farm families will receive AAA payments in 1939, which is 85 per cent of all the farm families in the United States. Eighty per cent of all farm land and slightly more than 70 per cent of all privately-owned range and pasture land will be included in the program. These official returns refute conclusively the figures and “opinions” given in the most active of the nation-wide polls published in Republican metropolitan newspapers of May 12. “Even among farmers in the South and Middle West, where the bulk of the nation’s farms are located,” this poll asserts, “the agricultural program is favored by only a slight majority.” On the contrary, cotton farmers in the South, comprising the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas, voted to participate to the extent of a fraction more than 92 per cent, instead of the 52 per cent “favorable” given in the poll. In the North Central region—Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin—referred to in the poll as the Middle West— more than 1,600,000 farmers, or in excess of 75 per cent, decided to operate under the program. This is an increase of 450,000 over last year and represents more than 80 per cent of the farm land. In the Northeast division—Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New .York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont—76 per cent of the farmers are participating, which is 30 per cent above last year, and the returns will not be complete until June 1. In the East Central region—Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, participation is above 85 per cent, which represents more than four-fifths of the crop land. In the Western division— Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montant, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming—returns indicate that no less than 85 per cent of the farmers are cooperating. Last year farmers received in soil conservation payments $450,000,000. This year it is estimated they will be paid $475,000,000. In addition, they have been and are being paid for last year more than $209,000,000 in parity payments.

FRIDAY, JUNE % 1939. —

ute, the citizens of New York made a park out of a -dump in a depression year at a cost of $100,000,000 —and they just called it another day. That is some of the spirit of 'America, and it is made of the same stuff that sent their ancestors to the Pacific in covered wagons and is carrying the flag today; and which will, with God’s help, make certain the America of to-

morrow.

LAMB DERBY BECOMES ANNUAL TOWN EVENT

Willows Cal.—Twenty lambs participated this year in the city’s

annual Lamb Derby.

The idea of a Lamb Derby was originated in 1933 by Charles Raglin, commander of the Sons of the Legion, who thought it would be a “bracer” for depression year. It has now become an annual fixed event. The lambs are run five at a time by young boys.

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BOND SAI.E NOTICE

(TTY OF MITNCIE

Unbiased Authority Reveals How Trade Agreements Help Farmers Trade agreements negotiated with foreign governments “have substantially ;beriefitedi AmeVican farmers,” according to a report just issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of th.e Department of ‘Agriculture Jn Washington. Foreign sales of the.products of Arperican farms during the fiscal year 1937-38, when trade agreements were in force with 16 countries, exceeded by more than 100 million dollars the total for the full fiscal year 1935-36, 5 when such agreements were in force with only three countries. This w^as an increase of 55 per cent. Excluding exports of cotton, which fell off during the last period for reasons that have no relation to the trade agreement program, the increase in farm products alone wmuld have been 108 per cent. By comparison, the exports of American farm products to countries with which no trade agreements had been negotiated increased by only three per cent. Here in the finding of an unbiased and strictly non-par-tisan agency, devoted solely to the farmers’ welfare, is the answer to partisan propagandists who have persistently tried to deceive the public with the charge that the American farmer “is being sold down the river” by the government’s reciprocal trade agreement program. This propaganda consists almost entirely in citing the abnormally large imports of farm products in 1937 and in grossly distorting their significance. Imports were large in 1937 solely because of the widespread and unprecedented drought and they included millions of dollars worth of products urgently needed by American farmers, such as corn and hay for feeding stock. The report of the Agricultural Economics Bureau shows that imports of farm products from the trade - agreement countries actually decreased by three per cent during the two years ending last June, while from other countries, with ■which no trade agreements had been made, they increased by four per cent. Notable examples of specific benefits are the increase of 42 million dollars in exports of farm products to Canada in the fiscal year 1937-38 over the year 1935-36 and of 30 million dollars in exports of farm products to the Netherlands. During the current fiscal year trade agreements have been concluded w T ith four additional countries, making 20 in all.

INDIANA AT (Continued From Page One) We have problems, of course, most serious in complexity and magnitude, but everyone of our problems is solvable. No exigency, however serious, presents to this nation an insurmountable crisis. A belief in our capacity does not negative in any way the acknowledgement that difficulties .abound. The solution demands only the best that is in us as a nation, mentally and spiritually. Problems of our past, comparable with those of our present brought about by changing methods and changing times, have always been solved by courage and cooperation, by the realization that we all go up or we all go down together, and that one man is better than another only when he does better. In Indiana when there is a reason for discontent we meet it squarely. We correct, the cause where there is a cause and we destroy the excuse where there is an excuse only. It is not the spirit of America to attempt to divide section against section, group against group, or sect against sect. The nation has no greater enemy than one who would thus divide the country

against, itself.

I echo the voice of Indiana when I declare that we know full well the greatness of our tomorrow will be measured by what we build toward it at. home—in our communities, in our state, and in the nation; that we shall not let gather the clouds of hate which are carrying the storms of war in other parts of the world. We hope tor just and fair and righteous governments in other lands, but here at home our government is in our own hands and the duty of its maintenance is ours. This is our first duty—and we will keep first

things first.

Again I echo the voice of Indiana when I say that for us Democracy

—the sacred right to govern our- /named in the bid, will be considered,

selves—is not merely a theory of' government but a way of living. We will be patient with one another in our realization that each one is equally responsible. We stop and look within—each one to his own industry and thrift, to his own conscience and his own moral responsibility; and in the practice of self-reliance and tolerance we declare again that to live and let live is today not enough; we will live and help live in America. This is the spirit of Americans in Indiana and this is the spirit of the nation. Americans have died for their country and they will live for it in such a manner that it may realize its full capabilities and its

high estate.

Indiana is dedicated to the America of tomorrow; and if any Hoosier has a doubt about the spirit of the Republic I report to you from knowledge of every section that a tide of patriotism will come from the Pacific and meet the waves of faith which will roll toward it with the sun to submerge any foes that may ever be in our own household; or any threats from abroad; and all. for the glory

of the nation.

And lastly, for further proof, we may look about us and remember that here in these beautiful environs, here where we stand this min-

Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned Controller of the City of Muneie, Indiana, at his office in said city, up to the hour of 10 o'clock a. m. on the 24th day of June, 1939, for the purchase of bonds df said city designated as “Refunding Bonds of i939, Series B,” in the amount of $20,000.00, bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 4 1 /6 per cent per annum (the exact rate to be determined by bidding) which interest is payable on July 1, 1940, and semiannually thereafter. Said bonds are to be dated as of July 1, 1939, will he issued in denominations of $500.00, and will mature as follows: $10,000.00 on January 1, 1945, and $10,000 00 on Janu-

ary l, 1946.

Bidders for th^se bonds will be required to name the rate of interest which the bonds are to bear, not exceeding 4y 2 % per annum. Such interest rate must he in multiples of (4 of 1% and not more than one interest rate shall be named by each bidder. Said bonds will be awarded to the highest qualified bidder who has submitted his bid in accordance herewith. The highest bidder will be the one who offers the lowest net interest cost to the city, to be determined by computing the total interest on nil of the bonds to their maturities and deducting therefrom the premium bid, if any. No conditional bid or bids for less than the par value of said bonds, including in-

terest from the

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. In the event no satisfactory bids are received at the tiine and on the date herein fixed, the sale will be continued from day to day thereafter until a satisfactory bid has been received

for said bonds.

All bids must be filed in sealed envelopes marked “Bid for Refunding Bonds of 1 939, Series B,” and each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of $500.00, payable to the City of Muneie, to guarantee the good faith 4f the bidder and insure that the bidder will, if awarded the bonds, promptly accept delivery of the same in accordance with the terms of sale. In the event of the failure or refusal o’f such purchaser to perform in accordance with the provisions of his bid and the notice of safe, then said check and the proceeds thereof shall be the property of the city and shall be considered as its liquidated damages on account of such failure or refusal. The checks of all unsuccessful bidders will be returned immediately upon the award of said bonds The successful bidder shall accept delivery and make payment for said bonds prior to ten o’clock a. m. on July 3, 1939, at the office of the Treasurer, or at such bank in the City of Muneie as the purchaser shall designate in writing. Said bonds are being Issued for the purpose of refunding certain outstanding bonds of the City of Muneie which mature on July 1, 1939, and will be the direct obligations of the city payable out of unlimited, ad valorem taxes to be levied and collected on all of the taxable property in said city. The opinion of Matson, Ross, McCord & Clifford, bond counsel of Indianapolis. Indiana, will be on file on the date of . sale and will he furnished to thp ^successful bidder at the expense of tjip oity. * ; - JDated this 8th day of June, 1939.' : JOHN D. LEWIS),—

City Controller.

Juno 9-16

LARGEST CIRCUS (Continued From Page One) of junglebred beasts, will present the largest group of performing wild animals ever seen in America —50 lions, tigers and leopards. Gargantua the Great, the world’s largest and most ferocious captive gorilla, has grown since last year, and stands 5 feet, 7 inches when erect, weighs around 500 pounds and has an arm stretch of over 9 feet. His huge air conditioned cage is a sight in itself. Heading the roster of features newly imported from Europe are the Pilades, who do the leaps from the long ramp and spring board over elephants, camels and horses, standing side by side; the Zerbinis, foremost teeterboard acrobatic act of the Continent and cousins of the famous Riding Cristianis, who again head the bareback riding numbers; the Great Arturo, fearless tumbler and comic of the high wire; Hubert Castle, acrobatic comedian of the tight wire; the Aieardis, amazing novelty jugglers of fire torches; the Filudys, springboard somersaulting marvels; the Iwanows, stars of the aerial bars; Albert Powell, contortionistic thriller of the flying trapeze; Albertino of London, Europe’s favorite clown, and Lulu, the greatest woman clown of the age. And back to the Big Show comes the circus glamour girl—dashing Dorothy Herbert, she of the flying curls and whipping draperies, whose exciting laybacks on rearing horses and fire hurdling equestrianism are the delight of audiences everywhere. The big standard features—the Flying Concellos, the Riding Cristianis, the Walkmirs, the TorrenceVictorias. Dolly Jacobs and her riding leopards and lion, and all the rest of them are back. And harness races have come to the big top for the first time in circus history—poundiug hoots, flying manes, flashing sulky wheels.

Their Own Reports Prove The Administration Has Not Hampered Business

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

State of Indiana. Delaware County, ss: Lewis Oliphant vs. Margaret Oliphant In The Superior Circuit Court April Term, 1939 Complaint: Divorce No. 4289-S Notice is hereby given the said defendant Margaret Oliphant that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Margaret Oliphant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Monday the 7th day of August 1939, the day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the second Monday in April, A. D., 1939, at the Court House in the City of Muneie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of sa d Court, affixed at the City of Munci? this 6 day of June A. D., 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk Walterhouse & Mansfield, Plaintiff’s Attorney. June 9-16-23 O NOTICE TO COAL CONTRACTORS

The Trustee of the School City of Muneie, Indiana, will receive sealed bids until 4:00 p. m. June 23rd, 1939, at the Superintendent’s office, 226 Central High School Building, for the furnishing of coal for use in the several sehools in the city of Muneie during the school year 1939-1940. • -- », Specifications are ■on file and may be secured at the office of the Superintendent... ' ; E. ARTHUR BALL, President VERNON G.-DAVIS, -Secreta ry — JOSEPH H. DAVIS, Treasurer • Ml ■

Pot and Kettle Says the arch Republican Chicago Tribune in an unguarded moment: “The Republican state committee last week tried and failed to select a successor to the late George F. Harding of Chicago as Republican National Committeeman for Illinois. Unable to agree, the state committeemen began factional maneuvering and intrigue in which the shadows of the old Small-Insull-Frank L. Smith control of the state takes substance. Mr. Smith, twice denied a seat in the United States senate, appeared on the scene trying to take advantage of the deadlock in 'his own interest. If the party permits these cats to come back, it will be lost for another generation.

*1,826,726.00

TO THE

RESCUE

And that’s just the beer tax revenue this state itself collects... to lift the burden of direct taxation from your shoulders. Nationwide, beer contributes over a million dollars a day to the cost of government. Think what that means in paying for relief, in public works, in old age assistance right in your own community. Then think of the million new jobs that beer made. And then add to that a 100 million dollar market for farmers’ crops!

How can we keep these benefits ... for you and for us? Brewers of America realize this depends on keeping beer retailing as wholesome as beer itself. They want to help public officials in every possible way. They cannot enforce laws. But they can—and will—cooperate! May we send you a booklet telling of their unusual self-regulation program? Address; United Brewers Industrial Foundation, 19 East 40th Street, New York, N. Y.

*OqIq frocn Indiana Alcoholic Division; license fees included.

BEER...a beverage of moderation

Reports of business corporations to their stockholders definitely disprove frequent assertions of Rej publican speakers and newspapers that the Administration at Washington has been hampering business recovery to imperil the profit system. For example, in a single issue of the staunch G. O. P. New York Herald-Tribune (May 13), 19 of 27 corporations in all lines of industry and commerce reported very substantial increases in net earnings during the first quarter of 1939 over that period in 1938. Several reporting losses attributed them to their foreign branches. In a classification by industries of all American manufactures, the Associated Press reported that the largest gain was made by the automobile makers, whose earnings were 835 percent higher than in the corresponding quarter last year. Other industries making impressive gains were railroad equipment, 447 percent; dairy products, 168 percent; building materials, 91.5 percent; machine tool makers, 68 percent; aviation manufacturers. 77 percent. Scores in other lines showed increased net earnings to the extent of 50 percent and slightly less. Retail sales were characterized as “exceptional.” Montgomery Ward & Co. had the highest first quarter profit in the firm’s history. First quarter sales of Marshall Field & Co. equaled their entire trade volume during all of 1938. Record breaking also was the net earnings statement of Sears, Roebuck & Co. for April. Sales of furniture, pianos, all food products, electric power, air conditioning, all metals, textiles, drugs, clothing in all grades, soap surpassed those for the same quarter last year, as did also car loadings and steel shipments. Thomas J. Watson, president, announced that “sales of International Business Machines Corp. in the first four months of 1939 were the best volume in the company’s history.” Even the railroads were improving, gains of the Union Pacific being 20 percent in the West and the New York, New Haven & Hartford 14.3 percent in the East, over 1938. Yet. the gentlemen who meet

every spring to speak for the Chamber of Commerce of the entire country completely ignored these glowing figures. Instead they charged the government at Washington with having placed every possible obstacle in the path of progress. So startlingly insincere was this indictment, resembling to a remarkable degree editorials in ultra-conservative Republican journals, as to evoke the following scathing comment in the ScrippsHoward newspapers; “If the U. S. Chamber of Commerce really spoke for American business, then the resolutions adopted by this organization at its Washington meeting would have to be written down as a calamity to the country. For if American business as a whole were as blackly, hopelessly reactionary as these resolutions would make it appear, the Roosevelt Administration could claim itself justified in fighting business to a knockout. What the Chamber demanded was death to the whole New Deal. As a climax to stupidity, it called for outright repeal of the Wage-Hour law— which now requires a minimum wage in interstate industry of $11 for a 44-hour week—on the ground of ‘impracticability.’ We believe most business men are as far from agreement with the stone-age attitude of the Chamber’s resolution writers as we are from agreement j with the backward-looking WageHour pronouncement of the American Newspaper Publishers Association convention in New York

last week.” •

o AUTO CLUB TEACHES 100,000

Commission Bars Stands From State Road Right-of-Way A request to state police and other enforcement officers to clear state highway rights-of-way of itinerant stands by the State Highway Commission, was reported today by T. A. Dicus, chairman. The request called attention to a Resolution adopted by the Commission in 1937 which designated such use of the highway right-of-way as a safety hazard and as unfair to established businesses. The most common violations are by persons selling baskets, statuary, pottery, cherry cider, peanuts and other wares. Frequently trucks or cars -used by these peddlers are parked so that they become traffic hazards, and displays of the wares offered for sale are placed almost on the pavement or traveled part of the highway. The State Highway Commission is spending, Mr. Dicus pointed out, thousands of dollars each year to eliminate traffic hazards on the state highway system and to increase the safety of motorists by proper marking and speed regulations. If itinerant peddlers are permitted to use the highway shoulders to display their wares, a new traffic hazard is created and this hazard becomes more dangerous as passing motorists may stop to make purchases.

STATE PARKS DRAWING THOUSANDS EACH WEEK

Toledo, O. — The Toledo Automobile club, using two dual-con-trolled automobiles, has given safetyunotoring lessons to 100,000 boys and girls in northwestern Ohio. o — CRIMEAN WAR VETERAN DEAD

Brisbane—Charles Longden, believed to be the oldest veteran of the Crimean war, died here at, the age 6f 105. He served in the Crimea with the Royal Engineers.

Indiana’s state parks are a constant stimulation of travel by Hoosiers and motorists in other states, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, said today after checking park attendance reports for the

past few weeks.

Although weekend weather conditions have not been particularly favorable, attendance at the parks and memorials already has passed the hundred thousand total and will grow rapidly during the coming vacation months. In 1938 state park visitors traveled approximately forty million miles.

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TURKEY BOOSTERS EAT BEEF Worcester. Mass.—At a meeting here to discuss plans for making the public “native turkey conscious,” directors of the Massachusetts Turkey Growers Association dined on—roast beef.

ELECTRIC RATES

DROP AGAIN NEXT MONTH ON July 1st the Second Domestic Rate Reduction will be made

ELECTRIC ROASTERS ON SALE • Extraordinary valuas art offered THIS MONTH ONLY by Your Electrical Dealer. Investigate this ideal Hot Weather Cooking Davica.

i4 T THE beginning of this year we Zjk made the first of our progresJL JL s ive rate reductions and now comes the second. Effective with hills rendered after July 1, 1939, the first block of 30 kilowatt-hours used by our domestic customers in any month, is reduced to 5*/2 cents a kilowatt-hour. The extremely low levels for additional consumptions continue. Did you realize that after 60 kilowatt-hours, the cost per kilowatt-hour for the next 240 kilowatt-hours is only 2 , /2 cents and that above 300 kilowatt-hours, you may buy all the electricity you need for 1 1 2 cents a kilowatt-hour? With these substantial rate reductions you cannot afford to perform the back-breaking tasks of household operation. Take advantage of our low electrical rates. Modernize ycur home with new labor-saving devices.

INDIANA GENERAL SERVICE COMPANY

AFTER DECEMBER 31st, 1939

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