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THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representinB Die Democrats of M uncle, Delaware County ana the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice ttt 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, July 14, 1939.

When Will Congress Adjourn? In the good old days Congress used to adjourn on account of Washington’s hot weather. But an air-cooled Capitol and air-cooled Senate and House office buildings, with perhaps, plus, an air-cooled living apartment for the family of a Senator or Representative, has transformed Washington into a good place to live in during the Summer. “Neutrality” legislation is turning on the political heat, and Senator Borah predicts that if the Administration insists upon the passage of that bill that Congress will not adjourn before the first of September. President Roosevelt says that he does jiot know when Congress will adjourn, and he tells reporters to “ask VicePresident Garner.”

Vandenberg Announcement a Single and Also a Triple Implying that Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, in suggesting that the Republican Presidential nominee in 1940 be “pre-pledged” to one term, is playing provincial politics, Columnist Raymond Clapper reminds that: “The one-term pledge is an old trick in State politics, often used by candidates who are running against Governors who have served one or more terms.” Also, observes Clapper, “It might be noted that in the same statement in which he advises the Republicans to put up a one-termer, Vandenberg announces his candidacy for a third term in the Senate, not counting the unexpired term for which he was first elected.”

Slum Clearance Least Costly of New Deal Programs, Says Straus Uncle Sam’s slum-clearance and low-cost housing program is the least expensive program undertaken by the Federal government, according to Nathan Straus, United States housing administrator. He told the House Banking and Currency Committee this week that if the building fund is increased from $800,000,000 to $1,600,000,000, the net outlay of the Federal government will be less than $53,000,000 a year, that sum representing subsidies to keep rents down “to less than half those now prevailing.” The government, Straus explained, is able to borrow money at a very low rate, in one case for 1 3-8 per cent, and loans it to municipal housing authorities at from 3 to 31<> per cent, resulting in a profit of about $20,000,000 a year. Additional funds are necessary, Straus emphasized, to avert a substantial drop in employment.

Neighbors All Today’s transportation and communication miracles have made neighbors of all men in all nations. Swift steamships, zephyr trains, streamlined automobiles and airplanes hurrying on wdnd’s wings, coupled with the telegraph, telephone, the news reel and the magic radio have made time, and space almost meaningless. Just as the barking of a nearby neighbor’s angry dog once aroused our parents’ household, so today the barking of an angry dictator four thousand miles away arouses our own households. And just as the mad dog menaced the neighborhood of a generation ago, so today does a mad or lawless nation menace the world neighborhood. Until a few short years ago only a handful of people knew much about the activities or products of other nations but today both the happenings and products of almost any nation are known to even the school children of America. And unless our civilization is destroyed by lawless nations, it seems evident that as time flows on more and more people everywhere will come to know more and more about the habits, heritages, products and happenings of every other nation. Twenty-two hundred years ago China attempted to isolate herself from her Tartar enemies by building a great wall, it today no more could hold them back than a sieve could hold water. For centuries on end the English Channel separated the British Isles from the European mainland and helped Englishmen to build a nation “above the tide of wars and windy fate.” But the Channel today cannot protect Britons from air raids; they must devise some new kind of protection or else they must help create a new kind of international relationship. . ' In one way or another whht every nation does is of first interest to the people of every other nation. Today a poor or good wheat crop in far off Australia, Russia or the Argentine 'affects the world market price of wheat and increases or decreases the income of every American farmer for that year who grows wheat. The same thing is true for cotton, corn, wool or what have you. Man today has been torn from the economic isolation which was the lot of his grandparents all the way back to Adam. Today the war threats of dictators force democracies to increase war preparedness expenditures. Thus no man can escape world happenings; dare remain indifferent to political, social or economic clouds that are constantly appearing on the edges of far off horizons. Today both war and peace activities ^are heavily mechanized. Aside from food the people of all nations in the conduct of either war or peace require copper, lead, zinc, tin, iron, steel, petroleum, coal, rubber and other natural products in ever larger amounts. No nation is self-sufficient. In fact, few nations have more than two or three of these natural products. Thus radio, the interchange of goods, is essential to either modern war or peace activities. And trade can flourish only when men or nations adhere to established rules and thereby gain trust in and respect for each other.

And Now It’s the Japs The Japanese challenge the rights of the British in the foreign concessions of China. That has long been a controversial issue. The United States immediately gets the fray in defending the British. Already the war talk involves the United States, particularly in view of the fact that our State Department backs up the British position. The chances are that the matter will be straightened out by streamlined diplomacy.

ALL EDUCATORS WELCOME LOWER POSTAL RATES

President Roosevelt Is Given Credit For Bring-

ing Them About

The action of the President in extending the lowered postal rates on books for a 2-year period beginning July 1, 1939, is welcomed by schools, libraries and other educational groups throughout the Nation, declared the United States Commissioner of Education, J. W. Studebaker today. Commissioner Studebaker based his assertion upon the Office of Education’s report recently submitted to the President which summarized the effects of these lowered postal rates, during the 6months’ trial period, upon the educational institutions in the United States. This study, undertaken by the Office of Education at the request of the President, showed that the 1 1-2 cent per pound rate on books regardless of zone has been effecting important cultural and educational benefits through the wider and increased distribution. of books. Save Annually $1,600,000 From monthly statistics supplied to the Office of Education by schools and libraries, it is estimated that these institutions alone will save annually at least $1,600,000 on their transportation charges on book purchases, a sum which otherwise would come out of limited and inadequate book budgets, according to Commissioner Studebaker. By this economy more money for the pruchase of needed books and a corresponding greater circulation and use of books cannot help but result. A conservative estimate, it is claimed, places this increased circulation at approximately 3,250,000 volumes annually, a figure which does not take into account the increasing purchases of books by individuals. In addition to the direct saving in money, Commissioner Studebaker noted that the reports showed many indications of thee freer interchange of books in the interest of research and culture. Libraries are renewing their efforts to encourage study on the part of their alumni. Some State Universities are announcing their ability to extend the benefit of their resources to research workers beyond State boundaries. National education and civic organizations are finding it possible to effect a wider distribution of their publications. The 32.000.000 persons in the country reported to be without convenient access to bookstores may now have books at hand because the dweller in a rural spot in Wyoming or other distant States pays no more in transportation charges on a book from New York City than does a resident in Yonkers or Brooklyn, under the reduced postal rates order. High Proportion Textbooks Considered from all angles the President’s action in extending the order until June 30, 1941, means a wider distribution of books, which as stated in his original Order, are “indispensable to the cultural growth and development of the_ American people.” “It is of interest to note,” said Commissioner Studebaker, “that nearly 200,000,000 books are published annually in the United States, and of this number approximately 75,000,000 are textbooks for school use. “Practically unanimous approval has been expressed from educators in all parts of the country of the reduced postage rate order,” the Commissioner emphasized. o NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS In the Delaware Circuit Court, April Term, 1939. Complaint to quiet title to real estate. No. 12808. State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: Clem V. Powell vs. William A. Mendenhall et al Notice is hereby given to each and all of the defendants in said cause, to-wit: William A. Mendenhall, Carrie Mendenhall, his wife, William H. Hawkins and Hawkins, his wife, widow, widower, child, children, descendants, heirs, surviving spouses, creditors, administrators of estatees, devisees, legatees, trustees, executors of the last wills and testaments, successors in interest and assigns respectively of each of the foregoing persons named; all of whom are unknown to plaintiff; All of the women once known by 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 plaintiff and this affi.ont, and the spouses of all of the persons above named, described and designated as defendants in this action, 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 the complaint 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, State of Indiana, to-wit: Lots number 2, 3, 4, . 5, 6, and 7 in Block number 19, in Norvan Johnson’s Addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana: Together with an affidavit that the residence of each of above named defendants, upon dilligent inquiry is unknown, and that unless you and each of you be and appear in the Delaware Circuit Court of said County and State on Wednesday, the 6th day of September, 1939, the 3rd day of September Term, 1939, of said Court at the Court House ,in the City of Muncie, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in your abscence. Witness the Clerk and Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Indiana, this the 12th day of July, 1939. ARTHUR J. BECKNER, Clerk of the Delaware Circuit Court. Elmer E. Botkin, Attorney for petitioner. July 14, 21 and 28

T7.E POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939.

Science Aiding Battle On Forest Fires in State

More effective protection of Indiana woodlands from forest fire will result from six “forecasting stations” being established by the Division of Forestry, Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation, reported today. Through the use of scientific instruments, sets of which are already in operation at the Jackson County and Martin County state forests, forestry officials in charge of forest fire prevention operations can be warned hours in advance of potential fire periods. Over a test period of several months the instruments have received a thorough test and their efficiency has been demonstrated. Additinoal “forecasting stations” are to be located at the Clark County, Harrison County, Pike County and Morgan-Monroe state forests within the near future. Operation of the stations is one of the duties of state forest superintendents with reports being sent to fire wardens within a twentymile radius of the station. Equipment included are a wind velocity guage; a thermometer registering relative humidity; a rain guage and a hygrometer registering the moisture content of leaves, etc., on the ground. Readings from these instruments are correlated and a formula Worked out which shows the potential danger of forest fires under any set of atmospheric circumstances. For convenience each day will be classified from one to five, the lower figure designating a day on which there is little likelihood of forest fire, and the higher numbers indicating the increasing possibilities. 0 . LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will, at 9:00 A. M., Central Standard Time on the 7th day of August 1939 at the Clerk's Office, Court House in the City of Muncie in said County, begin investigation of the applications of the following named persons, requesting the issue to the applicants, at the locations hereinafter set out, of the Alcoholic Beverage Permits of the classes hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicants, and the propriety of issuing the permits applied for to such applicants at the premises named: Jesse Frank McKinney, 50185, (Coney Island Lunch), 513 S. Walnut St., Muncie—Beer Retailer. Magic City Lodge, 451, I.B.P.O.E., 50271, 116-116 1-2 E. 1st St., Muncie—Liquor, Beer,, Wine Retailer. Peter J. Costas, 50509, Transfer Beer Retailer's permit/'from Embassy Grill, ’Inc., 206 S. Walnut St., Muncie. Peter J. Costas, 50510, Transfer Beer Retailer’s permit from 206 S. Walnut St., to 425 S. Walnut St., Muncie. Said investigation will be open to the public, land public participation is requested. Alcoholic Beverage Commission of Indiana By JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary HUGH A, BARNHART Excise Administrator July 14. O NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals and bids at the office of said Auditor up to the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M. on Monday, July 24, 1939 for the furnishing of COAL for the institutions of Delaware County, Indiana, viz: Infirmary, Children’s Home, Jail and County Garage. Said coal to be- delivered to said institutions as ordered during the year following date of contract, free from freight and hauling charges. Each bid shall be accompanied by a non-collusion affidavit and by bond in the sum of $500.00. Specifications for said coal are on file in the Auditor’s Office. Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 14th day of June 1939. GUS AUGUST MEYER Auditor Delaware Counyt, Indiana July 14*21 1939

OOF ECONOMY IS ALL BUNK Ran Up All Time High • Expense In Last Legislature Indianapolis, Ind., July 14. — Despite all their preachments of economy and their indiscriminate and arbitrary slashing of budgets, Republicans in the 1939 General Assembly ran up a new all-time high in the expense of the legislature, according to figures revealed by the completed House and Senate Journals. The total costs were $167,772, an increase of $9,400 over the 1937 session; an increase of $18,010 over the 1935 session and an increase of $34,878 over the costs of the 1933 session. Most, of this tremendous increase was in the Republican controlled House of Representatives which spent $106,688 as compared to $98,365 for the House in 1937 accounting for $8,323 of the $9,400 increase. Most of the House increases were in salaries -with $61,122 for members’ salaries as compared to $60,512 two years ago: $7,567 for stenographers as compared to $3,335 in 1937. Miscellaneous expense in the House was $18,932 compared to $13,261 in 1937. Postage stamps cost $540 as compared with $350 two years ago and drinking water was listed at $165 as compared to $123 in 1937. The slight increase in the Senate was mostly for printing. while wages of employees showed a reduction of $300 and many reductions were made in almost every item of expense. In this instance the Republicans were running true to form and the record by preaching and promising economy while they were running the expense to a new alltime high. It has already been demonstrated that the cuts made by the Republicans in some of the budgets, cuts made without any knowledge of the working budgets, will cost the taxpayers of Indiana more in the long run, than if these appropriations had been made with proper relation to the functions of govenment. —* o MUSHROOM WEIGHS 30 LBS.

St. Boniface, Man.—What is perhaps the largest mushroom ever found in Manitoba and that will prove to be a grand feast, was found on the outskirts of the union stockyards. The mushroom weighed 30 pounds and was 3^ inches in circumference. o NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS

In the matter of the passage of certain ordinances by common council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special appropriation of funds. Notice is hereby given taxpayers of the City of Muncie, Indiana,, Delaware County, that' a public hearing will he in the City Hall, Muncie, Indiana, on the 17th day of July, 1939 at 7:30 o’clock P. M. on ordinance making special and additional appropriation by tralnsferring the sum of $7,200.00 from item 4 materials of the special gasoline tax fund to itepi 7 properties of the said special gasoline tax fund, and making an additional appropriation of said sum $7,200.00 to the Department of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana. Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. After the special appropriations have been decided upon by the Council, ten or more taxpayers, feeling themselves aggrieved by such appropriations may appeal to the state hoard of tax commissioners for further and final action thereon by filing a petition therefore with the county auditor not later than ten (10) days from the date of the final action of said council and the state board of tax commissioners will fix a date of hearing in this city. COMMON COUNCIL, of City of Muncie, Indiana J. Clyde Dunnington, Citv Clerk July 7-14.

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Evangelism” Is Conference Theme

Evangelism as a cure for present world problems will be the topic discussed by ministers of the Chicago area from all denominations who gather July 17 to 21 at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for the fourth annual Chicago Ministerial Institute, “Trend of the times appears to be toward a great day of revival in spiritual interest,” says the Rev. C. B. Nordland, director of the Ministerial Institute. “Purpose of this conference will be to aid pastors and Christians of this area in their present day problems and to offer suggestions for a* aggresive evangelistic , program.” Discussions will oe directed to all fields of ministry with such topics as “The Place of Music in Evangelism.” “The Effective Evangelistic Sermon,” “Organizing for Personal Work,” “Winning and Holding the Young People for Christ,” “Radio Evangelism — A New Field of Endeavor.” Speakers to appear on the fiveday program are the Rev. “Mel” Trotter, evangelist; Dr. William Ward Ayer, pastor Calvary Baptist Church, New T York City; the Rev. T. Stanley Soltau, lecturer and Bible teacher; Dr. Homer Hammontree, Director, Moody Bible Institute Music Course; the Rev. Harold E. Garner, member of faculty of Moody Bible Institute; and the Rev. Robert Parsons, staff of radio station WMBI.

Indiana State Fair Premium List Ready For Distribution

Distribution of the Indiana State Fair premium list for the 1939 exposition which will be held eight’ days, Sept. 1 to 8, inclusive, began today at the fairgrounds office in Indianapolis. Harry F. Caldwell, president of the Indiana Board of Agriculture, urged all persons interested in exhibiting at the annual state exposition to write for one of the free booklets which contains complete classifications in all departments, purses and premiums offered, rules and regulations, closing dates for entries and other necessary information for exhibitors. The fair will offer $155,248.00 in premiums • and purses this Year, an increase of $7,871 over last year. The official classifications are carried in detail on draft horses, show horses and harness horse races, beef and dairy cattle, sheep, swine, poultry, rabbits and pigeons, argiculture, horticulture, floriculture and apiary, fine arts, applied arts and domestic art, culary, the farm bureau contest and girls’ school scholarships. In the club work division classifications are carried for the colt club, beef and dairy calf clubs, lamb, pig, poultry, corn, potato, apple and garden clubs, canning, sewing, baking, dress revue and room improvement, Boys’ and Girls* judging contests, trips and scholarships. If you are interested in exhibiting at the Indiana State Fair, address a request for a premium list to the Indiana State Fair Grounds, manager’s office, Indianapolis.

Are You a Good Driver? Make These Tests!

If you wonder how you rate as an automobile driver, try these simple tests on yourself. The following practical examination for motorists, if passed, will prove the individual’s ability to handle a vehicle satisfactorily., Todd Stoops, secretary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club said today. 1. Operate the car over a twomile course that will take- you through both business and residence sections.’ 2. Apply both foot ahd emergency brake suddenly. 3. Drive your car across two or three busy street intersections. 4. Make at least two complete stops in traffic, one in a traffic lane, the other at the curb. 5. Make at least two right and two left hand turns. 6. Stop and start going up a 10 per cent grade, that is 10 feet up in each 100 feet forward. 7. Turn around between curbs on a 20 to 28-foot street, preferably with a slope of five per cent,—a pronounced crown or deep gutters. 8. Run in reverse 50 feet. 9. Park parallel to curb between two cars or other obstacles 20 feet apart, or length of your own car plus five feet. “When you have concluded the test and checked your driving, consider yourself as having failed if: 1. You show evidence of inexperience, poor, gear shifting, repeated stallings, poor steering control, too much speed at intersections, poor judgment in traffic, excessive use of second gear, disregard for pedestrians and .unusual nervousness. 2. Either hand or emergency brake fails to stop or hold car properly. 3. You fail to comply fully with requirements of traffic signs or signals you pass. 4. —5. You neglect to signal for each maneuver. 6. You roll back more than one foo't when starting. 7. You climb either curb or obstruct traffic to the extent of causing other vehicles using the road to stop. 8. You weave back and forth excessively, or fail to look behind sufficiently. 9. You touch either vehicle or climb the curb.

CAMERA FAN PROFITS.

AHiron, Q.—Harold Bailey, 21-year-old candid camera fan, was awarded $25 in court for his Injured dignity and camera after it was destroyed by an enraged gambler Bailey attempted to photograph in a gambling house. “The camera was worth only $6,” Bailey said. “That leaves $19 for my dignity—and it was ,fun, anyway.” ——6NOTICE TO PAINTING CONTRACTORS

The trustees of the Muncie , Public Library will receive sealed bids until 7:00 P. M.; July 22nd at the office of the librarian for the redecoration of the basement floor of the main building at Jackson and Jefferson Sts. Specifications are on file in - the office of the librarian. - , Trustee Of the library WEB HUNT. President CHAS. G. HAMPTON, . ■ . ’ Vice-president

British Union Seeks To Lift Women’s Pay London—A campaign to raise the wages of women workers to a minimum of $10 a week is to be launched by Great Britain’s biggest trade union—the Transport and General Workers. Ernest Bevin, the union’s general secretary, said the campaign will apply to women in many industries which the union covers. The union has been largely influenced in its decision by the enormous increase in the rate of output by women under modern mechanical conditions. It holds that wages paid to women in many callings now bear no proper relation to the value of what they produce. It is felt by the union that women are still suffering from the tradition of low wages which existed before the World War, when the average wage for women was about 11 shillings ($2.75) a week, and wages of 8 shillings ($2.00) and 19 shillings ($2.50) were common. o - A convention of women’s clubs adopted the word “homemaker” to replace “housewife.” o NOTICE OF BIDS FOR TEMPORARY SCHOOL LOAN Notice is hereby given that at 1:30 o’clock P. M. on Tuesday, the first day of August, 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 Sixty Thousand Dollars ($60,000.60) to raise funds to meet the current operating expenses of said school city for the fiscal school year in anticipation and to he 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 he due and payable on December 30. 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 ih the face of said warrants. Said time warrants evidencing the said temporary loan will be dated and issued orf the following respective dates, for the following respective amounts, plus interest to maturity, and for the use of the following respective school funds, towit: August 3, 1939, Special School Fund— $30,000.00. September 22, 1939, Special School Fund—$10,000.00. October 20, 1939, T.uition Fund, $20,000.00. 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 princij)al and inter, est of said time warrants. Said loan will be made with the bidder submitting the lowest rate of interest therefor and only one hid will be accepted from each bidder. All bids shall be submitted on forms furnished and approved by the hoard and each hid shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the bidder that no collusion exists between himself and any other bidder for such loan. The board of school trustees reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Proposals for said loan will be subject to legal approval of the successful bidder, the cost of procuring such approval to be paid by the bidder. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 13th day of July, 1939. School Citv of Muncie, Indiana By E. ARTHUR BALL, President VERNON G. DAY IS, Secretary JOSEPH H. DAVIS, Treasurer Board of School Trustees Bracken, Gray and DeFur, Attorneys. July 14-21

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