Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 September 1939 — Page 3

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.

JAPANESE RULE IN SOUTH CHINA BARS IRON FIST

Plate Glass Mirror Redeems a Dark Corner

Army Refuses to Follow]

Stern Policy Used In North

Canton, Sept. 8.—If there is no anti-British move in South China, it is not because the southern Chinese lack anti-British feelings; It is because the Japanese Army in North China finds the movement more difficult to control than the forces in South China. That is the military spokesman’s explanation why no counterpart exists here of the North China campaign. Army and navy authorities would not venture to forecast the time when the “ingrained” antiBritish sentiments might overwhelm the restraining hand of the Japanese, as has happened in North China. They said they are merely watching to see what results Wang Ching-wei obtains in his efforts to win over the southwestern Chinese leaders. Actually, foreign observers -here believe an anti-British move is simply not in the Japanese policy for South China, which so far appears to be based on “sitting tight” and blocking supplies to the Chiang Kai-shek government. Iron Hanfl Resisted It is known definitely in wellinformed circles here that the Japanese North China command has brought pressure to bear on the South China command for an anit-British move, but the latter refused to comply. The only action apparently aimed at foreigners was taken for. a few days toward the end of July, •when Japanese sentries deliberately protracted their searchings of Chinese entering and leaving the foreign concession. Ostensibly they were watching for Chinese trying to hoard their Chinese national dollars by converting them into Hong Kong currency deposits in the foreign banks. Foreign residents grumbled and went hungry while their servants waited to bring foodstuffs through the sentries. The policy came to an abrupt end, it is learned, through representations by diplomatic officials. And since that time ,as before, relations between foreigners and Japanese have been all that could be asked under the circumstances. Foreigners Treated Same Britons coming to Canton have n‘o more trouble passing passport, inspection and searching than do other nationalities and there are no indications of discriminatory treatment of supplies destined for British residents. o

Pro and Con of Women in Industry

npHE magic that can be wrought by 1 a wisely placed mirror of plate glass Is interestingly illustrated in these two before and after pictures, taken in the dining room of a modest five room house. A total of 58.55, of which $6.00 was spent on a plate glass mirror, redeemed two ugly corners which spoiled an otherwise attractive room. A hanging shelf, for

which the homemaker paid $1.25, was hung above a chest just oppo* site the one pictured to form, with its bright pottery and brass orna* ments, a charming reflection in tha mirror. The green paint was removed from the chest for $.40, the original wood finished by rubbing with oil and $.90 more provided new handles of brass.

Valuable Information For Women

The controversy about married komen working has bobbed into Ihe news again with the suggestion by Mrs. Franklin' D. Roosevelt diat the best way to combat the legislative trend to bar married Women from state and local government is to bring out the “facts.” “Efforts - are now being made to find out what the facts are,” the President’s wife says in the August issue of The Democratic Digest, publication of the Women’s Division, Democratic National Committee, “and once they are verified 1 think women will have a basis for realistic presentation of the situation of married women as regards employment in general.” The First Lady declares that so far as she knows the number of married women in industry now is “comparatively small”, has “very little effect on unemployment” and in most cases the women are engaged in work “unsuitable” for men. On the other hand, Mrs. Roosevelt thinks that “a good case” can be made against employing more chan one member of a family in local, state or federal government when the salary of one of them provides an adequate standard of living. “It is important not to create a family bureaucracy in government,” she holds. “When you find all of the members of a family working in the government service and bringing home to the same house an Income clearly in excess Of the normal family income, then I think it is time to consider passing a law not discriminating against married women, or men, or young people, or any specific group, but simply stating that to safeguard government service it is necessary to employ only one member of a family where the salary received is above a given amount.” However, Mrs. Roosevelt does not think two members of a family, living in the same house, should be barred from government employment “if the lack of one salary would prevent a marriage or make obligatory a very low standard of living.” Mrs. Roosevelt’s opinions were given in response to a question asked her by Mrs. W. B. Murphy of Snow Hill, North Carolina: “Nineteen state legislatures have introduced bills during the past year to bar women who are married from employment in state and local government and in certain types of work. What steps can you suggest that women take to offset this trend?”

YOUR HOME AND MINE By Jane Floyd Buck Have you ever stopped to consider that your garden is the picture frame for your home? Every woman with an eye for the artistic knows what unfortunate things a bad frame can do to the loveliest of pictures. Therefore, when you are planning the fall planting that will make your garden a blaze of glory next spring—we hope!—give some thought to the most effective frame you can create for your house. Color, of course, is always important and if, by chance, your house is a dark color on the outside, go in for vivid hues in your garden, If you have brilliantly lined awnings be careful not to choose for your garden colors that will clash. Don’t forget that masses of

green shrubbery are a delight to the eye when summer suns are blazing down and also that if you want your shrubs to flourish next year they must be carefully pruned this fall. The remainder of this month and the first part of next month is the period to sow seeds of most of the bienials. If you sow pansy seed this month you will find that the plants will be just about the right Size with the approach of cold weather to put in their permanent places for next spring. Harden the plants by witholding food and if necessary water for a short time so that they will be hardened to withstand the winter. Hollyhocks also can be sown to advantage now and the plants will be just about the right size for transplanting to root well before frost. Since hollyhocks develop tap roots they should be transplanted when quite small.

GOVERNMENT AIDS BUSINESS

Cooperation Has Been Both Profitable and Useful

Pedestrians Continue To Jay Walk Unaware Or Heedless of New Law

Although the new law regulating pedestrian traffic went into effect the first of July there has been no noticeable decrease in the number of jay walkers, Todd Stoops, secre-tary-manager of the Hoosier Motor Club said today. He cintinued: “Figures prove that careless

What? No Frosting? -By Frances Lee Barton^ Tk^EAT without gravy, bread XYl without butter, or cake without frosting — these are not the things that appeal. Of course some delicious cakes are not to be frosted. As a rule, however, the frosting is desirable. Furthermore, the frosting should vary. Keep away from constant repetition and serve some new frosting that will delight. Here is one that is ideal for straight cakes, layer cakes or cup cakes: Chocolate Mocha Frosting -2 tablespoons butter; 2% cups sifted confectioners’ sugar; % teaspoon vanilla; % teaspoon salt; Vz square unsweetened chocolate, melted; 3 tablespoons strong coffee. Cream butter; add part of sugar gradually, blending after each addition. Add vanilla, salt, and chocolate and mix well. Add remaining sugar, alternately wft.fi coffee, until of right consistency to spread. Beat after each addition until smooth. Makes enough frosting to cover tops of two 9-inch layers, or top and sides of 8x8x2 inch cake, or about 2 dozen cup cakes.

CLUBWOMEN PAINT MAILBOX

Purcell, Okla.—The latest project of the Liberty Hill home demonstration club is complete. It was mailbox painting. Club women put a new coating of aluminum, red and black paint on the 84th and last mailbox in their neighborhood.

walking causes accidents. Almost 43 per cent of all victims of fatal trafic accidents in 1938 were pedestrains. Last year 13,340 pedestrians were killed and 295,420 were injured. In many cases the motorist was blameless, the fault was on the part of the .pedestrian. “In the past the motorist has been blamed for every accident but at the last session of the General Assembly the lawmakers took notice of the fact tha,t the pedestrian is often at fault and passed a law to regulate him. Failure to obey the law is a misdemeanor punishable by varying degrees of severity for first, second, third and subsequent violations. “It. is now unlawful ' foi-pedes-trians to cross the street at any place except in a marked crosswalk, between adjacent intersections where traffic control signals are in operation. This restriction on walking takes in th e entire business section of every city of any size in the state but the pedestrian either does not know about the law or he does not care. In the residential section of the cities persons crossing the street at any point other than within a marked crosswalk or within an intersection shall yield the right-of-way to all vehicles. Where the pedestrjan is crossing at the proper, place the motorist must yield the right-of-way to him. “Of course it will irk the pedestrian at first to obey the law but the law is . for his' protection and after following the law for a few months he will form the habit and thing nothing of it. Most of the pedestrians are motorists also and as a motorist he has had to be •regulated sometimes * until it hurt so if he can tak$ it as a motorist he should be able to take it as a pedestrian.”'

Statitstics procured from all of the prominent private reporting agencies confirm figures given by Chairman John H. Fahey of the Federal Home Loan Bank board in discussing new and brighter r— pects for home ownership. i interest persons seeking fields where business and government may cooperate to the profit of investors in government guaranteed securities. ’ Fahey showed that when Americans built 449,000 new family residence units in 1921, the total savings in American institutions amounted to $21,500,000,000. “Total savings now,” he said, “are well over 50 billion dollars. In 1937 we saved a billion and a half more than we did in 1929, notwithstanding that our national income was 67 billion in 1937 compared with the <peak of 78 billions in 1929/’ Where savings went in the unregulated stock-market boom wears of the late twenties is only too well known. It was in the middle twenties that home-building flourished. From 1929 it dropped and reached its low in 1934, when only 55,000 home units were constructed in the entire country, including territories and islands. By 1935 the figure rose to 144,000, in 1936 to 262,000, in 1937 it reached 289,000, in 1938 it climbed to 350,000, or six times more than in 1934, and for the first six months of 1939 the estimate was 250,000, indicating that 1939 will be a record year for all time. The people’s experience with insurance by the Federal Deposit insurance Corporation and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation demonstrates the confidence they have in the value of these insurance funds and their great influence in bringing out of hoarding and placing in the thrift and savings institutions va&t sums of money. Interest rates on home mortgages have dropped considerably, consistent with the decline in lending rates in many other directions. During 1939 an average of more than 2,500 new single-family houses have been begun every week under the Federal Housing Administration’s auspices. But not with government money—with the same private capital which currently is said by the metropolitan newspapers to be over-coy. To mid-year, the FHA has written insurance of almost two billion dollars on small home mortgages, cooperating with 7,000 loaning institutions, unfreezing their idle funds, employing men, supplying markets for a wide variety of materials, freight traffic, and products of mines and mills. Big money. But it is not money s it is credit. A federal treasury reserve of $25,000,000 has been sufficient to cover all possible losses, which have been very small. Of 357,000 residence properties with FHA mortgages, less than 500 represented losses. The result is that more than 8,000,000 citizens in one way or another, by new homes, repairs and improvements, bettered their living conditions. The FHA establishes standards for its work. It guarantees against loss to lenders. But private money and private initiative do the actual work. Far from being a hindrance to business, as partisans have charged against the Roosevelt administration, here is an illustration of genuine cooperation with capital as well as a service as valuable to prospective home owners as the service of the RFC to corporations.

The best way to fight a bad idea is with a better one. * * * * Of the 191 families that our government transplanted in the Matanuska Valley, Alaska, in 1935 there are 165 of these families still living there. Most of these families are doing real well; some of them make $6,000 per year. In 1936-37 Walter G. Pipple grossed $11,000 from his farm there by raising potatoes and garden vegetables. * * * * Poverty, grief and family worry are mentioned as the probable causes of Arthritis in a recent article in the Journal of the American Medical Asspciation. V V *>•" About 150,000 persons die in the United States each year from some form of cancer. Illinois, Iowa, and Wisconsin have a higher death rate from cancer than their border states. Texas, New Mexico and several other states in the South have a much lower death rate from cancer than the Northern states. Cancer as well as heart diseases and diabetes are on the increase in this country. * # * * The United States standing army ranks 17th among the armies of the world. * * « ip About 3,000,000 less have attended the New York World’s Fair than had attended the Chicago Fair at the same time of the year in 1933. ❖ * ❖ * In a reported poll of foreign newspaper reporters ten out of twelve said: “No War This Year.” * * ❖ * The United States has the smallest horse and mule population since 1879. $ * * ijc Whether or not Thanksgiving is celebrated on November 23rd or November 30th this year or on both days there will be plenty of turkey. There is an unusually large supply of turkeys this year. * * * Only 15.1 per cent of the population of this country have a high school education.

be 100 years old or older.

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Mrs. Cruz Martinez, age 108, of Chicago, died as a result of burns received when her dress caught fire from a cigarette she had been

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The big oil boom in Illinois has Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 8. Taxsent crude oil prices down. Many j payers throughout Indiana are be-

ing exhorted from every source to take advantage of the authority granted them under the Indiana tax laws to have a voice in the setting up of tax budgets for their local

subdivisions of government. Even the partisan metropolitan

newspapers are joining this chant. The Republican leadership, however, is at the same time patting Republican congressman on the back for the stand they took in the recent congress, which policy would place the administration of relief back in the local communities and take it out of the hands

of the federal government. So engrossed in their task of de-

feating President Roosevelt at any cost; so completely has their worship of the golden calf of national debt reduction in Washington occupied their waking hours, they have completely forgotten the “double talk” by reason of which these Republican congressmen were smug-

gled into congress.

They promised the adherents of the Townsend plan huge pensions and then voted against larger expenditures. They promised the WPA worker before election, more pay in his envelope and then voted to cut WPA appropriations. They have espoused the doctrine of Herbert Hoover, that WPA and reliet are not the functions or the worry of the federal government, but of

the loqal governments.

Springer Takes Dictation Raymond Springer, of Connersville, G. O. P. congressman from the tenth distrist, was one of those double-talkers before election, but now is taking dictation from the high command of the Republican party. Mr. Springer set out the policy of Indiana Republican congressmen when he said in the Congressional Record of July 17, 1939, these

words;

“Therefore I say that these stag-

7'he GOP Politician And His Double Talk

of the producing companies in other states have suspended production because of the low prices.

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The British Government has removed the 600-year-old coronation chair from Westminster Abbey and placed it in hiding as a precaution against its destruction during a

possible air raid.

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A seventeen-year-old exhibitor was injured at the Rock Island (Illinois) County Fair by a Duroc boar when he attempted to separate two of his prize boars which accidently got together. The lad was seriously injured when the boar thrust a tusk into his thigh.

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“Let me serve the living here, Not the dead across the bar, Let me carry hope and cheer Where the sad and hopeless are; Angels wait upon the dead— Let me smooth the path men

tread.”

LIS1 FAfiMS IF BUYEB IS SUUGH1 Such Action Does Not Constitute Option

on the Land

Any farm owner of Delaware County who wishes to sell all or part of his land to tenants obtaining purchase loans through the Farm Security Administration may list such land with the Farm Security Administration, it was announce dhere today by Otto E. ( Breitwieser, Delaware County! Farm Security Administration Su-

pervisor.

He emphasized, however, that listing of land for sale does not constitute the giving of an option. “Borrowers under the Tenant Purchase Program can take options on farms only when such farms are productive enough to assure a good living and income to retire the Iona,” Mr. Breitwieser said. He also pointed out that money would be loaned for purchase of land only at prices in proportion to the earning capacity of the farm. “We believe that there are probably a good many land owners irf Delaware County who would like to sell all or part of their land at a fair price, particularly if they could sell for cash,” Breitwieser said. “Under the Farm Security

Federal Deposit Insurance, which Administration Tenant Purchase

Anti-Christian Education Perilous Says School Head

Anti-Chrisftian education taught, today in schools endangers the welfare of the country, according to Dr. Will H. Houghton, president of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Young people are led to> believe there is no God—hence that He can have, no power in their lives. “When you ask what is wrong with America, have this picture in mind as part of your answer,” he asserts. Dr. Houghton is one of the leading speakers at the Labor Day Week-End Youth Rally to be held September 1 to 4 at Moody Bible Institute. Purpose of the rally is to provied youth of the Chicago area with a meeting place for Christian fellowship and inspiration preceding the opening of the school year. A newborn baby has 270 bones; but some of these join, and a full grown adult has only, 206.

OPENS BRAZIL FACTORY.

A new American tire factory has just been opened in Brazil. — o Tourist hotels are to be built in ‘the Caucasus Mountains in Russia. !

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In Japan only fiye families control sixty-two per cent of the total wealth of that entire country. ‘ * * ❖ ❖ There is pnly one baby in the 72 houses ^on “Millionaire’s Row” on Upper Fifth Avenue, New York City. * * * * The goverhmeilt is spending about three and one-half million dollars for building 25,5?)0 galvanized steel granaries to furnish storage space for millions of bushels of foreclosed : corn. The government has had to take over 257,000,01)0 'bushels of 57-cent-a-bushel corn. The new crop of corn is estimated at 2,459,888.000 bushels. t 5k 5k 'I* The average motorist spends a total of $140 at filling stations during a year for fuel, crank case oil and grease. • i\i * 4k * Many automobiles run too cool according to prominent mechanics who claim that for the best results the radiator temperature range should be between 160 degrees and 180 degrees.

program, the seller gets all of his money at one time since a loan is made to the applicant to enable him to pay for the farm in a lump

sum.”

It was explained that any land owner wishing to list land for sale ’may obtain listing forms from the Farm Security Administration office in Muncie. These forms provide for information as to size, location, condition of improvements, fertility, past crop production, selling price asked, and other important details. Some of the Tenant Purchase applicants may already have farms chosen, but the listings in the Delaware County Farm Security Administration office will be available for Those who do not have specific farms in mind. Tenants already are making applications for purchase loans. Applications will be accepted up to September 1. After that time, the County Tenant Purchase Committee will begin looking over application^ so as to make recommendations for final loan approvals. Mr. Breiwieser said that farms to be purchased by means of these loans must be of the type known as “Family-sized farms.” That is, they must be of a size and quality which will enable the family to

Reno. Nevada, is ninety ntiles | ^ke a good,iiving, repay^the toan.

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nent security.

The local office is located in room 205 of the Postoffice building

in Muncie.

Keno, iNcvaua ‘'T j and lay the foundations for perma-

farther west than Los Angeles, ^ f , nritv

California.

Most fatal automobile accidents occur between’ the hours of seven and’ eight in the evening.

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In a good cabbage country an acre may produce as many as 10,000 heads of cabbage.

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Many of the American flags usde in this country are purchased from Japan.

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The sailors who, were with Columbus on hie historical voyage Of 1492 did not use tobacco. Tobacco was discovered in San Domingo four years later.

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gering appropriations of money must be stopped. Every class of our people are suffering from the spending of money by this administration. . . . Let us start on the highway of recovery by curtailing the policy of reckless spending the taxpayers’ money. Let us turn the administration of relief back to the local communities and thereby stop the waste and squandering of the money which has been appropriated.” And how, Mr. Springer, would that policy of Republicanism affect the taxpayer here in Indiana? Listen you taxpayers. In Center township, Marion county, the taxpayers are paying approximately a million dollars annually for relief. That means a tax rate of approximately 20 cents on the hundred dollars. The federal government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939, spent $10,967,141 for relief in Marion county, approximately eight and a half million of it in Center township. Now following the policy of the Republican congressmen as dictated by the Republican leadership to return relief to the local communities. it would mean that we add eight and a half million dollars locally for relief instead of a million dollars. That would mean a tax rate of approximately $2.00 per $100 for relief in Center township instead of 20 cents. Where the average taxpayer with a property valued at $4,000 is paying approximately $8.00 annually now, the Republican method would cost him approximately $72.00. Is •that what the taxpayers want in

hold true in every county and township in the state. How Faith Was Kept But here is how the Republicans elected to office in the last election kept their faith with WPA workers as spread in the Congressional Record. In March this year, the President transmitted his request for additional sums for WPA in the amount of $150,000,000, but the house committee on appropriations reported the bill out carrying only $100,000,000. On March 31, this resolution was debated and attempts made by Republicans to amend it to provide for only $55,000,000 appropriation. Congressman Taber, of New York, ranking Republican member of the appropriations committee, moved to recommit the bill with instructions to report it out carrying only $55,000,000, instead of the $100,000,000. The motion was lost by a vote of 276 to 130, but four Indiana Republican congressmen voted to recommit the bill and to cut the appropriation to $55,000,000. These four were Charles Halleck of the second district; George Gillie of the fourth district; Forrest Harness, of the fifth district, and Raymond Springer of the tenth district. There, WPA workers, you have these gentlemen on record. Then when the appropriations came up for final passage with $50,000,000 slashed from the President’s original request, ’ the same four worthies, namely Halleck, Gillie, Harness and Springer even voted against final passage of the bill. And that is the reason you thousands of WPA workers have been relieved of your jobs during June and July of this year.' Halleck, Harness, Gillie and Springer voted to put you out of a job. Gamble With Welfare The Roosevelt haters, gambling with the welfare of the American people, defeated the measure which would have brought relief to small business, just as the Federal Housing Administration is aiding home owners, by giving them government insured loans. The Roosevelt haters, returning to their time-worn policy of letting the farmers shift for 'themselves, slashed the entire appropriation for the Commodity Credit Corporation which provided funds to peg the farmers prices. So great, however, was the boomerang from the farm organizations throughout the nation, that the admiinstration was able to slip the appropriation in as a rider on the deficiency appropriation bill, with no help from the Republicans. Had the Republicans obtained their way farmers would be selling corn for about 28 cents, instead of the pegged price which the Roosevelt program has given them of between 55 and 60 cents per bushel. What do the farmers think of this Republican policy? Indiana taxpayers are interested in local expenditures. They are interested in local taxes and because the federal government has assumed the greater burden~of relief and public works, local subdivisions of government in Indiana have been able to reduce their bonded debts some $50,000,000. The Republican policy would necessitate another $50,000,000 debt to Indiana taxpayers because local subdivisions of government are financially unable to assume this burden, many of them could not even borrow the money to carry on. But what cave they for the folks back home if they can please the bosses of the Republican party and the barons of Big Business in

Indiana, for the same ratio would Wall Street.

SEE AND DRIVE THE NEW 1939

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JOKE JAILING NO JOKE Cleveland, O.—Traffic Patrolman Edgar Robinson spent an unhappy, anxious two hours in jail here on his wedding da£ Fellow patrolmen lured him from his bride’s home and locked him up in the precinct station on a “charge” of “being married.” ><

BURNHOUSE VET FIREMAN

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