Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 21 July 1939 — Page 4

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing tbe Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 30th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.

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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, July 21, 1939

GOP Organ Exposes Pathetic Party “Opposition” In Congress In an effort at light-hearted treatment 0 fthe serious predicament of the Republicans in Congress, Robert C. Albright in his regular Sunday “Gallery Glimpses” in the orthodox Republican Washington Post declared in the issue of June 25 that “it becomes more and more difficult to see what Congressional campaigners are going to use for issues in 1940 ” He then proceeds to disclose that he means Republican campaigners. Relating that House Republicans have been “so busy voting with the Democratic majority” that “you might think it was one big happy party,” Albright continues: “During the past fortnight, on at least three major issues that will figure most prominently in next year’s elections, the minority has lined up with the majority in the final showdown. On a fourth and equally important measure, Republican votes enabled the Democratic leadership to carry the day.” It “started with the Social Security Act amendments and when the last ballot was counted, the Republicans, save two, had voted for the bill. So also when the corporate tax bill reached the House, Republicans offered amendments, of course, and even sought to recommit the bill. But when the record was complete and the votes were counted, only one Republican answered ‘No.’ “Anyone might have thought there would be serious policy differences on so basic a political issue as relief. Maybe there were and we overlooked something. But when each member’s final position was totaled, there were only 21 ‘noes’ and half of these were Democratic. There was a little more fight on the farm bill but the Republicans, as a party, could claim no credit for the vote against. As a matter of fact, if three of the minority had voted the other way, the $225,000,000 parity appropriation would have been licked. “It has reached a point now where Republicans and Democrats are bickering over which party should get the credit for the bills passed. Democrats smile knowingly and say only that all were Democratic bills, put through by a Democratic House and to be signed by a Democratic President- “ ‘Nonpartisan’ consideration of great national questions has arrived—maybe. But it doesn’t make campaign issues—” Albright means for the Republicans. The truth is that the Republicans did not have an alternative to offer in any instance. They voted for the New Deal measures because their own polls showed the public demand their retention overwhelmingly. An illustration is the much abused Social Security Act. When the original bill was passed in 1935, the mustered 33 votes against it. In 1939 only two of them opposed its expansion. GOP Spokesmen Denounce Pact Their Editors Generally Approve Chronic critics of the Roosevelt Administration’s Reciprocal trade policy lost no time in attacking the agreement under which 600,000 bales of American cotton are to be exchanged for 85,000 tons of British rubber, both commodition to be held as emergency reserves for use only in the event of a major war. Obviously, the agreement partly solves the twin problem of America’s cotton surplus and rubber deficiency. Ambassador Kennedy estimated that the United States would obtain in exchange for $30,000,000 worth of cotton, rubber which if bought through regular channels would cost not less than $36,000,000. The announcement in Washington as well as in London emphasized that the exchange was in no sense “barter,” such as is employed by the totalitarian governments. These latter result in “canalization” of trade between two countries so that all exports and all imports exactly balance. The BritishAmerican agreement is in an entirely different category and as an exchange of goods for goods is not in conflict with the reciprocal trade policy being carried out by the Department of State. The stocks of cotton and rubber are not to be used for commercial purposes to the detriment of either cotton interests or rubber interests. Britain must keep its cotton and American its rubber solely as an emergency reserve for at least seven years if there is no war. Clearly the purpose is to insure each country an emergency supply of a commodity which, in each instance, the country does not itself produce and whose importation would be difficult under war conditions. It is a part of the definite policy of the United States government to build up reserve stocks of essential raw materials. But notwithstanding that the agreement must have the approval of the Senate, as it also must pass the British parliament, the Republicans who have been the mitterest critics of the American reciprocal trade agreement program at once attacked the exchange agreement as being “destructive” of the trade agreements. They denounced the cotton-rubber exchange as “completely totalitarian in principle,” which it decidedly is not. However, the conservative Republican newspapers generally gave grudging approval of the Anglo-American agreement, especially as an essential measure for national defenseThe New York Herald Tribune even characterized it as “a proposal which is soundly conceived and well worked out in detail.”

Relief System Stands The threats and promises of Congress to change the relief system have been easily defeated. The changes to be affected will all be of a minor nature, with Federal authority and government money.

Monopolies of the Air A merger is being formed by the Western and United Airlines, and the reports are that masters of finances are promoting the transaction. The monopoly committee in Washington has expressed its interest, and will look into it. Chairman Senator O’Mahoney comments to the effect that these airlines are “concentralizing” control.

The Third Term Broadside-broadcasts by Cabineteers Ickes and Murphy are accepted in Washington as efforts to secure a definite reaction from the public in favor of another term for Mr. Roosevelt—a probable indication that the latter is “willing.”

— ‘'THE-' WOOSTER'S S9TJ13S

By WALTER A. SHEAD The Republican high command is making an issue of the size of the national debt in this campaign. Democrats should accept the challenge of this issue with a great deal of pride, for the national debt ias done two things, primarily. # * * First, the spending program of th President and the Congress during the past six years which has made a net increase in the debt of some 10 billion dollars, has saved this country from revolution or dictatorship such as has encompassed the nations of Europe. * * Second, federal spending hap uiabled the local units of governneryt to cease spending, thus reducing the debt of the local units >t government some eight billion dollars. Here in Indiana, for intance, because the federal government has assumed the expense >1 public improvements, the local units of government have been able to reduce their debt approximately 40 nv'Mion. dollars. * * *' And after all, the people are considerably more interested in local taxes, in local debts in the cities, towns, townships, etc.* than i> any national debt. As a- matter of fact and record, out of a population of 3,238,503 in Indiana according to the last census, only 152,665. individuals and corporations in Indiana paid any direct .'ederal taxes in 1,938 in support of the national government or the rational debt. * * * These 152,665 individuals and corporations paid a total of $37,560,355.03 in federal net income taxes and the people of Indiana have, received in direct cash benefits from the federal treasury approximately $3 for every $1 paid in federal income tax. For during the past six years the people of Indiana have received a total of $736,263,619 in cash , from the various federal agencies. So the total income tax paid in six years would amount to approximately $225,000,000. In other words Indiana folks- have received some $500,000,000 more in cash ^ benefits thap they have paid out m federal inepme taxes in the six-year period. , * * * And here’s a. significant fact, the very Republicans, men of wealth who are attempting to frighten the people by declaring President Roosevelt is spending the country into bankruptcy are the first to join the scramble to buy every government bond Issue, and buy these bonds at the lowest interest rate in the nation’s history. Their actions belie their words. * * * With every issue of government bonds over-subscribed, tnc nation’s obligations are today at the highest price in history. In spite of stringent stock market tegulation to prevent speculation vvith the people’s money, in spite uf the National Labor Relations Board, in spite of the wages and hours act, and other “business deterents,” the Nation’s bonds are selling today well above par, as hicrh as $122. * * * With a lower national debt, and without any of the so-called “business deterents” which the Republican politicians like to blame for their lack of patriotism in taking up the slack in unemployment, the Nation’s bonds in the era of Herbert Hoover, were selling far below par. * * * The attempt to inculcate fear in the minds of the people with reference to the national debt has fallen flat just as the Republican “National Debt Week” fell like a dud in a sodden field. Their attempts, instead of instilling fear has served the purpose of making the people of our Nation study just what the national debt means to their economic well being. They find cash benefits received as a result of this national debt would pay the entire tax bill of Indiana, property, state gross income and federal net income, for • period of almost five years. * * * The national debt was created for you, for labor, industry, business, agriculture arid the unemployed. It is an expenditure of your money which has brought; high return in dividends to you individually. Ind. State Democratic Committee

tm POST-DEMOCRAT FRIDaT, JTTLt 21, 1939.

| DISPELLING THE FOG (Continued From Page One) I particular bank toppled, as hundreds of others had done? I wonder if he i*ecalls General Dawes demanding of President Hoover $90,000,000 from the R. F. C. with the grim notice that every Chicago bank would close its doors next day if he didn’t get it? Likewise, has he in mind the miles of shutdown factories, the breadlines, and the circumstance that dividends of that date were classed as extinct? Perhaps the fact that the value of the shares and bonds that represented the bulk of the fortunes of those who like i Mr. Gannett are damning the President as the author of our present ills, is worth in the market twenty-two billions of dollars more than their value in the black days when the stock market was a nightbore, is not worth considering. True, the G. O. P.’s most eminent propagandist says he does not hate the President; that if the latter would only abondon his policies and—presumably—take the orders of the Liberty Leaguers instead, he would support him. It is said that our banks are “bulging with idle money,” to quote from Mr. Gannett’s recent speech, but somehow that does not seem like such a dire circumstance compared with the period when the President had to shut them all up, to save the solvent ones.

Pass Trouble ToBakeshop Cakes for Dessert Is Answer to Many Hot Weather Worries.

When the thermometer hovers around 90, let the bakeshop relieve you of some of your summer meal preparation. With a little ingenuity, a variety of cool and refreshing desserts can be made, using bakery cakes for the foundations. Pound Cake is a rich and creamy textured cake especially suited for making summer desserts. Serve it topped with peppermint ice cream and chilled chocolate sauce. Another nice combination is Pound Cake with vanilla "ice cream and a topping of fruit—preserved figs are especialy delicious. An attractive cup dessert is made by cutting a small cone-shap-ed piece out of the tops of un-iced cup cakes, then fining the cavity with a spoonful of fresh peach ice cream. Or the cup cakes may be filled with fresh fruit whip and the tops replaced, pressing them down gently. Here is a version of refrigerator dessert that is really an ice cream cake. A small un-iced loaf cake from the bakeshop makes the foundation. Slice it in halves lengthwise. Put the bottom slice into a refrigerator tray. Cover it with ice cream,—your favorite kind from the soda fountain. Cover the ice cream with the top layer of the cake, and replace the tray in the freezing compartment. When the ice cream is firm again the dessert is ready to serve. For serving, cut in slices and top each slice with ri,weetei*ed fruit or buttenlcotch sauce. Spice cake filled with vanilla ice cream and topped with butterscotch sauce is delicious. So is chocolate cake with peppermint Ice cream. Plain sponge cake is a delightful ■.complement tq fresh fruits. Squares of fluffy yellow sponge cake topped with sliced fresh peaches or red raspberries and whipped cream make an ideal summertime desert. o Study Water Level To Determine Rate of Drop In Levels Plans for extension of the water level survey being conducted in Indiana by the Department of Conservation in cooperation with the U. S. Geological Survey, to determine the rate at which the water table is dropping, were announced today by Virgil M. Simmons, commissioner of the Department of Conservation. At the present time approximately eighty wells are under observation in various parts of the state, with daily readings of the water levels taken and reported. Additional wells are to be included in the survey, particularly in the vicinity of Indianapolis where use of water by industry and for air cooling has increased materially in recent years. Reports indicate that water levels in the five observation wells in the Indianapolis area are lower than at this time a year ago. Similar reports have been received from other sections of the state, particularly those in whic'a large quantities of water are being used for air cooling, A survey of the ground water situation in Indiana and the selection of additional wells for checking water levels has been undfertaken by C. L. McGuiness of the U. S. Geological Survey, aided by the Division of Geology. o Names of persons found guilty of causing traffic accidents while under the influence of alcohol are being displayed on police placards at conspicuous points in Munich, Germany.

State Employes Chosen With Care; Dowd Example Selection of efficient public servants is a difficult job for any Governor, particularly when the law makes him responsible for their conduct and performance. Picking the right man for the right job is the mark of a good executive. No newspaper will suggest that when Governor Townsend selected Alfred F. Dowd to serve as warden of the great penitentiary at Michigan City, he had not selected the right man. No Republican politician will suggest that he chose this man because of his politics, and without reference to his capacity. That became evident when Warden Dowd was faced by one of those incidents that occur at times when men in captivity make a desperate break for their freedom. When three prisoners held a welfare worker, on her trip through the prison, as hostage, threatening her with death unless they were given their freedom, Warden Dowd never lost his head nor his sense of duty. Trained police officers declare that the incident might easily have become a holocaust under a man with less coolness and less courage. They give him credit for the fact that the incident did not turn the Indiana prison into a slaughter house. They praise the manner in which he handled the situation with utmost fearlessness, risking his own life to save that of the Welfare worker. When the history of Indiana prisons is written, the people will be glad that they had a Governor who had the wisdom to put the right man in the right spot. It was not by chance, or politics, or luck that this man was chosen. To say that the Democratic party cannot furnish the right man for the right state job much better then the Republican party, which considerVd jobs as “gravy” for the faithful, is to deny history. • -o LOUISIANA FARMERS THRIFTY

New Orleans—The Louisiana farmer hows only to the Texas farmer in the matter of income according to B. B. Jones, agricultural secretary of the New Orleans Association of Commerce. In a list of southern farmers’ yearly incomes Texas led with $1,185 per farm; Louisiana was second with $917, and Arkansas third with $755. o PURSE SNATCHER BUSY.

Boise, Ida.—A mysterious purse snatcher who reaches through open windows to seize women’s purses from bedrooms while they are playing bridge has aroused this city. o T.KGAT, NOTICK OF PITBT.IC HKARING Notice is hereby given that the T_<ocal Alcoholic Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will, at 9:00 A. M. Central Standard Time on the 7th day of August, 19.39 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: Fred W. Bittlefield & Ora E. Gallimore, 50546. i(Our Place), 118-20 S. High St., Muncie—Liquor, Beer, Wine ReMuncie Lodge No. 245, B.P.O. Elks, 50721, 125 1-2 N. Mulberry St., Muncie —Liquor, Beer, Wine Retailer. Peter Limpert, 50617, (New Way Sandwich Shop), 108 N. Walnut St., Muncie—Beer Retailer. paid investigation will be open to the public, and public participation is requested. Alcoholic Beverage Commission of Indiana By JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary HUGH A. BARNHART Excise Administrator July 21

0. W. TUTTERROW 411 No. Elm. Phone 1084 Formerly J. E. Hays Grocery 901 No. Brady. Phone 511 In Whitely

Quality Fit for Kings Our Price is Within the Reach of Ail

ADDRESS MADE BY J. A. FARLEY

Postmaster General Ex presses Ideas of Administration

Excerpts from address by Hon. James A. Farley, postmaster gen-

eral :

“The question has been asked what has the administration and its supporters in mind? What do we want? Let me emphasize the objectives of the administration in a few sentences. “We certainly want business to make a reasonable profit on its investments, because capital takes the risk. “We want labor to secure a wage that is sufficient to bring a sense of dignity and security, and to have working conditions commensurate with the dignity of toil; for capital without labor would be as barren as money on a desert

isle.

“We want the farmers to reap rewards from their toil sufficient to lift or keep the mortgage from the farm and enough besides to leave a balance in the bank. “We want the banks to thrive and to use their hoarded gold to meet the needs of constructive industry and safely to finance the building of people’s homes. “We want business to boom— ; but we want all America in on the business. “We want the aged worker free from the haunting fear of a twilight of misery and poverty; and the widowed mother to have a chance to rear her children at home; and the crippled child to have a chance to support himself in self-respecting toil; we want a reasonable provision to tide the' worker over the occasional periods of unemployment—'iand these are the reasons we have written‘into the statutes the Social , Security Act, which is the emaricripation proclamation of the masses. “We want a free press, freedom of speech, and the right to worship God according to the dictates of conscience. “These, in brief, are the objects of the Roosevelt administration. To those who like to say that the ultimate goal is still far from being realized, I should like to point out that under President Roosevelt, the United States has gone further along that road than any other nation onearth. He has laid the ground work and brought about necessary reforms which will endure as long as the United States endures. “I do not wish to suggest that political foes of President Roosevelt should forego their constitutional right to protest and to op, pose, but I do wish to emphasize that in this period of international

unrest and uncertainty the basic need now is for national unity. “In view of the perilous conditions throughout the world, the time has come for all Americans to work together as Americans and to end the internal feuds that rest on nothing more substantial than spites and prejudice and foolish hates. We have seen too many unseemly hates, and our great American family has engaged too bitterly in family feuds that only tend to threaten the existence ot the common heritage of the

fathers.

“Let the American people lay aside all backbiting and bickering and let us present a united democracy as an example to the world. Liberty and freedom can never be extinguished while the torch light of Jeffersonian democracy is held aloft by the citizens of this Re-

public.

“Let us chferish the great heritage that has come down to us from worthy leaders of the past, and let us hand down to our children the blessings and benefits of a united national famliy. Let us persevere with a common determination that no matter what befalls in less fortunate lands, we will make the American family, as Jefferson had planned, the most united, the most contented, the most tolerant, the most prosperous in all the world. “That was the dream of the

mighty men who founded the American Republic. “That is the ambition of Roose-

velt.

“And that must' be the common vision and the common aspiration of us all.” .. ■ .. NOTTGK TO T AXPAYERS OF' HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS

In th<- matter qf the passage of oer tain ordinanees ny, common council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, .Delaware Cqunty, providing for special appropriations of funds. Notice is , hereby given taxpayers of the vCtty. of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware C'ounty'v that a" public hearing will he in-- the.. City Hall, .Vl'ancie, Indiana, on the 7th' .day of August, 1939 at 7:30 -o’clock'P. M. on ordinance making .special hnd additional appropriation AN ORDINANCE MAKING ADDITIONALrAPPROPRIATION ON THE SUM OF $881.01 OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS OF' THE CITY OF MUNCIE, INDIANA FOR INSURANCE AND

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Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to he heard thereon. If said additional appropriations are determined wllP be filed with the county auditor, who will certify a copy of the same to the ,State Board of Tax ommissioners, and -said Stat^ Board will fix a time

and Ware for the hearing of such matter as provided' by statute. - COMJMON COUNCIL .of the City-of Muucie, Indiana J. Clyde Dunningtom

City* Cleric July '2,1-28

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NOTICE 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

Job Insurance Payments Lower Than June 1938

Job insurance payments in Indiana in June increased 13.6 per cent over May, but dropped 40 per cent below June 1938, the Indiana Unemployment Compensation Division announced today. “The fact that benefits claimed in June were only $904,000, which is $624,000 less than $1,528,000 paid in the same month last year gives new emphasis to the improvement in business conditions since last summer,” said E. E. Henry, job insurance manager in this district. “At the same time the payment last month to persons totally and partially unemployed provided an appreciable lift for those who drew it and for business in the local communities where it was spent. “When it is recalled that many persons who were out of work last year were not eligible for benefits until the repeal in August of the $10 earning requirement, even more improvement is indicated than the June benefit figures show. “Benefit payments in the state in June, representing the number of compensable iveeks of total or (partial urtemployment, numbered 94,946, compared to 85,454 in May and 137,829 in the previous June. The $904,000 paid last month was $108,000 higher than the amount paid in May. “In the forty districts of the state benefit payment rose or to meet localized conditions, with 21 districts registering increases over May, and 19 districts showing decreases. Compared to the previous June, payments were lower in 27 districts and higher in 13. “The district, which covers Delaware, Blackford, and Randolph counties, showed a slight increase, with 4243 payments for $44431.03 in June compared to 4171 for $43,869.10 in May and 6415 for $77,622.14 the previous June. o—— NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL BUS CONTRACTS FOR MT. PLEASANT TOWNSHIP

Notice is hereby given that at 8:09 o’clock P. M. on F’riday, Aug. 4, 1939, at the office of Charles Simonson, Trustee of Mt. Pleasant Township, Delaware County, Indiana, bids will he received for the driving of school bus routes numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10. Said contracts to be for the school years of 1939-1940; 1940-1941; 19411942; and 1942-1943. Specifications for bidding are on file at the office of the Trustee. All bids must he accompanied by a bidders’ bond, said bond to be forfeited if the successful bidder shall not, within ten days after notice of acceptance of his bid, enter into a written contract and ' secure said contract by the required insurance and bond. Each successful bidder as a part of his contract will be required to furnish a surety bond in the minimum penal sum of the approximate amount of the contract on the school bus route for which he bids. JOSEPH J. WORKMAN, FLOYD C. CURTIS. (ALFRED WALKER. Advisory Board CHAS. SIMONSON, Trustee of Mt. Pleasant Township. July 21

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