Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 November 1939 — Page 4

THE POST DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1939.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District, The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice %t Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. ' PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR

223 North Elm Street, Phone 7412. MRS. GEO. h. DALE, Publisher Muncie, Indiana, Friday, November 10, 1939

Farmers Not Responsible for Food Profiteering While President Roosevelt and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace have repeatedly assured the public that there are abundant supplies of foodstuffs and fibre in the United States and that there is therefore no occasion for profiteering on account of the war, they have at the same time emphasized that the prices of farm commodities are still below the level that would give the farmer’s dollar a purchasing power equal to what it had in the 1910-14 period. It is plain, then, that in any profiteering that has occurred the farmer has had no share While the government is dead against profiteering of any sort it does wish to bring up the purchasing power of the farmer’s dollar and it will continue to strive for that end. R. M. Evans, administrator of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, stressed this deteiinination in a speech before the convention of the Grain and Feed Dealers’ National Association at Minneapolis early this month. “The Triple A is still fighting for parity prices and parity incoma for farmers,” he said. “It stands today, as it has consistently^ stood in the past, for the right of farmers to produce all that they can sell at fair prices, without damage to the soil. This is the mandate given by Congress and we are not going to falter in carrying out that mandate.”

The More Deadly of the Species Congressman Martin Dies, head of the Congressional Committee investigating subversive elements in America, has indicated that more than 2,000 Communists may soon be removed from the Federal payroll. And Americans have applauded. it is of tremendous import, not because it represents several million dollars a year out of the taxpayer’s pocket for their salary, but because it reveals Communism more deeply rooted in America than even some of the most ardent so-call-ed red-baiters believed. The popular concept of a Communist, in the minds of most people, is a bushy-haired individual haranguing listeners from a soap box in New York’s Union Squire. There are many such haranguers in New York and other communities, but they are comparatively harmless beside the type new uncovered by the Dies Committee. Those now exposed are the deadlier of the species, for they, like some other types of racketeers, carry on their nefarious activities behind the cloak of respectability.

Mrs. Roosevelt Some Congressmen have an idea that Communists in the youth movement have imposed upon Mrs. Roosevelt. Mrs. Roosevelt doesn’t think so, and she’s smarter than most Congressmen. I once heard Mrs. Roosevelt explain in some detail how she met with three or four hundred “youths” from all over the world, with all sorts of problems racking their troubled brains. She confessed that she was on guard, at first, seeking to discover whether a concerted plan was being made to trap her with answers to a series of questions. She found out there was not, and for an hour and a half sat on the edge of a table, with several hundred youth “peppering” questions at her. Mrs. Roosevelt made it perfectly plain on that occasion, when she was the honored guest-speaker at a big luncheon at the National Press Club, that no one had put over any Communist schemes y>n her. She wouldn’t let them. Planning Jobs for Men Over Forty One of the great tragedies of the modern industrial system is the plight of middle-aged workers who are denied employment under the cruel and erroneous conception that they lose their efficiency after they are 40 years old. In theory and on paper, the machine should have eased the physical strain which made more youthful brawn a primary consideration in employment, but, instead, it has sent tens of thousands of men to the scrap pile. It is encouraging, therefore, to find industrial leaders taking an increasing interest in plans to mitigate this injustice. A number of important concerns at Rochester, N. Y., employing* over 35,000 persons, have committed themselves to a hiring policy that will keep the percentage of workers above 40 equal to the percentage of persons in that age within the community. This is not only a humane policy, but there is abundant evidence to show that it will turn out to be good business as well. Numerous investigations made by the Works Progress Administration have demonstrated the fallacy of the “through-at-40” inhumanity. The skill and experience of older workers, the studies have emphasized, make them assets rather than liabilities to employers.

West Virginia Remembers Former President Hoover has forecast that Germany cannot defeat Britain and France. Friends of the Allies will doubtless hope this forecast will prove more accurate than the classic about prosperity being just around the corner.—Huntington Advertiser. Or the fine crop of grass Mr. Hoover predicted would overrun Main St. if President Roosevelt was installed for a second term.—Wheeling News-Register.

Starve Germany Former President Hoover concludes that the United States will not go to war with the Allies, because American troops will not be needed. The reason they will not be needed is because France and Britain, by cutting out wastes of w'ar, will be able to reduce Germany and starve it to peace.

Our nation’s industrialists haven’t any illusions about what may happen to upset financial and economic stability in our own country as America becomes involved in existing international entanglements and war problems. Business leaders are all apprehensive—because executives at the head of large concerns are old enough to remember the World War and its aftermaths.

<nrnE^ ROOSTERS SOURS

By WALTER A. SHEAD No where in the country is frhere a more consistent critic of

the Roosevelt administration than the Saturday Evening Post, and yet the Curtis Publishing Company, according to an Associated Press dispatch, has announced that the October 14 issue of the Post “will caiv i’y a greater vol-

ume of advertising than any issue since Sept. 12, 1931.” And it did.

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The Post has long since been considered by many as a business barometer, but more important than the actual advertising carried is the statement of the president of the Curtis company who interpreted the increase ae reflecting “normal improvements in conditions in the United States” because all the advertising was placed before the outbreak of the European war.

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“This country was very definitely approaching a newborn recovery when the war broke out and we still have the push forward which was coming to business because of that movement,” said Walter D. Fuller, Curtis company president. . * * * This tremendous business upturn is reflected in business conditions in Indiana, according to the latest issue of the Indiana University Business Review. The Review said: “The rise shown by the bureau’s index for Indiana is one which would have taken place had there been no breaking of the .uneasy peace in Europe; it was the expansion of an improvement which had been gathering momentum for several months.” * * * ^ With 100 as a normal figure, the Indiana business graph shows that starting at 109 in 1923, the line curves downward to about 89 in 1924. Then it takes an irreg- , ular upswing reaching as high as 120 in 1925 and on upward to ■ near 140 in 1929. Then came the dizzy crash during the Hoover administration, with the line tobogganing to below 50 in 1933. From 1933 th^ business curve takes an upward swing to as high as 125 in 1937. Then there is a downward sweep in 1938 to approximately 85 and at the present time the movement is upward, to approximately 110.

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Employment in Indiana shows a 13 per cent increase over 1938 with payrolls showing a 22 per cent increase, both brought about by sizable increases in industrial production.

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To further bear out the recovery picture and to discredit efforts of the Republican politicians to paint a dismal picture for the benefit of the voters, is the fact that national income in wages! and salaries alone has grown fr^m $30,000,000,000 in 1932 to more than $42,000,000,000 this year. Farm income has grown from $5,337,000,000 in 1932 to $10,-. 003,000,000 this year.

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The wealth of the nation has topped the $300,000,000,000 mark from a low of $247,000,000,000 in 1932. And this wealth is reflected in the average value of stocks and bonds today as compared to a brief six and a half years ago.

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Total deposits in all banks in the United States, exclusive of savings deposits as of June 30, 1933, was $37,998,000,000. The total deposits as of March 29, 1939, exclusive of savings deposits, was $53,812,000,000 according to the report of the Federal Reserve Board. Adding savings deposits, the total deposits in all banks today will reach the $69,-: 000,000,000 mark—the highest of 1

all time. * * *

The financial pages of the large newspapers are filled with statistics of increased and increasing profits and of increasing values throughout the field of industry and Investment.

WALTER A. SHEAD

NEW BEDFORD ORGANIZES TO SAVE WHALER

Last of the Full-Riggers Rottihg Away on Green Estate. New Bedford—The famous slogan “Don’t give up the ship” is ringing once again in New Bedford. This time it ife not a war cry but a plea of townspeople to save a ghost ship—the 99-year-old fullrigged whaling, vessel Charles W. Morgan. The Morgan is the last memory of what once was a mighty inindustry. The wealth of New Bedford was founded on the whaling industry. At one time the whaling fleet numbered 426 ships, mightiest fishing fleet in U. S. history. Yankee crews sailed these ships the world over, bringing back whale oil and sometimes ambergris to fatten the purses of the old families. This illustrious trade was the subject of one of the great American novels, Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” The fishermen’s chapel described by Melville still exists. Today in New Bedford there are many mementoes of the whaling trade: a statue of a whale fisherman, harpoon in hand, in the prow of his long boat; a whaling dow’s walks” on many roofs from museum, and cupolas and “widow's walks” on many roofs from which townspeople and anxious wives kept an eye out for incoming whaling ships. Whaling Memorial With this tradition behind it, New Bedford wants to make a lasting memorial out of the whaleship Morgan. The great ship hunted whales for 84 years. She brought millions of dollars into the city. On one three-year voyage from 1841 to 1844 the Morgan yielded a profit of $70,000. But today the Morgan is a pitiful sight. In 1925 wealthy Col. H. E. R. Green, son of Hetty Green, bought the Morgan to save her from destruction. For 11 years she rode a concrete sea under full sail on Green’s elaborate estate seven miles south of New Bedford. Green not only kept the Morgan in good condition, but made her a living museum of the whaling industry. Blubber barrels were in the hold. The long boats rode their davits with harpoons in the bows. Green went further and reconstructed on his estate the waterfront street of New Bedford at the height of the whaling era.' Then Green died and four states fought for his inheritance tajces. The estate was closed to the public, the Morgan practically forgotten. She began to rot. Hurricane Toll Finally the hurricane of 1938 struck. It leveled Green’s airplane hangars, wrecked his beach houses, smashed through the miniature village street and left not a building standing. The Morgan, which had outridden storms in every sea the world knows, proudly rode her concrete base through the storm Her magnificent sails were stripped The copper lining on her hull was rolled off like a foil from a candy bar. Holes opened in her sides. But she was not wrecked. Now a year later, the Morgan still rides as the hurricane left her, a pitiful, disintegrating derelict. The people of New Bedford have been fighting for three years to get title to the Morgan, and enough money to re-equip and repair her. They want to move her to the city’s waterfront, build her a new wharf, so that visitors to New Bedford can siee forever what the whale town was like in the great whaling days.

Legal Notice

I.KGAT, NOTICE OE 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 27th day of November, 1939 ,at the Clerk’s Office, Court House in the City (or town) of Muncie in said County, begin investigaItion of the application of the following named person .requesting the issue to the applicant at the location hereinafter set out. of the Alcoholic Beverage Permit of the class hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive informaton concerning the fitness of said applicant, and the propriety of issuing the permit applied for to such applicant at the premises named: Walter Lytle, 55117, transfer beer retailer’s permit from Howard Smith, 1414 E. fith Street, Muncie. Said 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. Nov. 10 O A pound of tea makes from 150 to 200 cups, depending on the strength desired

All Hunters Must Have Licenses; , Cite Other Necessary Regulations

With Indiana’s open season' on rabbits, quail, cock pheasants and Hungarian partridge beginning Friday (Nov. 10) Virgil 'M. Simmons, commissioinler of the Department of Conservation, today reminded Hoosier sportsmen of bag limits and other regulations governing their sport. Open season dates, hag and possession limits include:

out permission. prairie chicken or chukar partridge. It is unlawful to shoot game birds or animals along ; upon or across any public highway. It is unlawful to hunt or shoot rabbits with or by means of an artificial light. It is unlawful to hunt fish or trap on the lands of another with-

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:1: Three days lawful hunting. Other regulations to be observed by the hunters include: It is unlawful to hunt, shoot or pursue any wild bird or animal without a license, except owners of farm land who are residents of Indiana and their chicken and spouse living with them and tenants of Farm lands and the spouse and children living with them on such land only. It is unlawful to buy or sell any quail, Hungarian partridge, pheasant, wild turkey, ruffed grouse,

""Two days lawful hunting. It is unlawful to use or possess a silencer while hunting. 'It is unlawful to hunt, shoot or kill any wild birds, rabbits or any species of game with any kind of firearms on the first day of the week commonly known as Sunday. Hunting and fishing appliances and apparatus may be seized and confiscated when used in violation of the fish and Game laws. Sportsmen unfamiliar with the Indiana hunting laws should consult their local game warden for information.

SOUP for LUNCH ...good for Johnny ...easy for Ma ■JI/fANY a busy woman probably lul feels as a friend of mine does. “It seems I no sooner get those children off to school than they are back home again for lunch.” They are hungry, too, and need* ing a good hot lunch. One of the most nourishing and certainly one of the quickest of hot dishes for a busy woman to prepare is soup. Great steaming bowls of it

DEMOCRACY VS. CHRISTIANITY

Communists in U. S. Accused of Trying to Dominate Religious Groups Dorothy Thompson, a brilliant writer, whatever one may think of her opinions, says of Communists in America that “their carefully designed strategy, authoritarian unity and zeal make it inevitable that once they are in, they are very likely to dominate whatever group they enter.” And this fact should make every Christian man and woman particularly attentive to the nature of high sounding titled organizations, such as the League for Peace and Democracy, which has apparently been definitely ascribed as a Communist medium of propaganda. Communistic or authoritarian states are impelled by the doctrine of rule by common force. Democratic nations are ruled and impelled by the doctrine of the common honesty of man. Under the communistic doctrine, there can be no Christianity of belief in God, while in a Democracy there must be Christianity and belief in God, for the common honesty of man is guided solely by God’s laws. All law in our nation is based upon the Ten Commandments and we depend upon the honesty of the average man and woman to observe these laws or rules for our society. What disturbs thinking men and women and churchmen in America today is the indifference of thousands of citizens toward Christianity and Religion, when as % matter of fact and history, theste factors are essential to a successful Democracy. One has only to look to the Dictator nations where ComJnjunism and Nazism have taken root to note the end of Democratic government and Christianity. It should mean then to the citizens of America something more than a trite saying; that the Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the program of the Democratic Party have put Christianity into Government; that the National Administration during the past six years “has done more to put the teachings of Christ into Government than any administration since the birth of our nation.” Christianity is the rock upon which a Democracy must be founded.

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(Continued From Page One) next successive number and a statement that the state might go to blazes with their order. Officials and citizens were not opposed to the sewage disposal works but a problem of financing was facing the community and this had to be settled first. Later, the sewage treatment works was started and is now nearing the point of completion but the state order was not responsible for the new plant. The county commissioners might act accordingly and advise the state welfare department to either let us manage our own affairs or if they

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choose to do so they might build us a new jail as a gift. A late WPA grant has been received to construct a new comfort station at the courthouse. A centralized city bus depot which would provide for comfort to those who use the local bus transportation facilities might seem t6 he of more value now than a new jail. Above all, a breathing spell for taxpayers would seem more important now than the proposals for new buildings. A few years ago, a public improvement program for paved streets, alleys, sewers, sidewalks, curbs, etc., was carefully planned by a “paving trust” in Muncie. At that time such improvements were paid for directly by each of the property owners along the improved area. Many properties in Muncie were paying for two street improvements at the same time, one* being tor a crushed stone improvement and another being for contcrete or asphalt put in a year or so later. Such improvements were piled up against the property owners of Muncie to the extent that many property owners lost their holdings because they could not pay for the improvement costs. This extravagant program was broken up by former mayor Dale and additional costs were stopped until the taxpayers could recover from their load of indebtedness. It would seem quite plausible if local improvement costs were absolutely halted until a share of the present indebtedness has been liqquidated. Especially, this would seem fair in the case of building a new jail. If the local officials refuse to heed the command of the state welfare department except to correct unsanitary conditions at the present jail or to make necessary repairs to the building, it would be interesting to watch the action of the state department and whether or not they would consent to the freedom of all prisoners as well as to excuse all law violators because we have no jail in which to hquse them. . State government must be recognized above that of local communities hut it may also he conceded that sometimes departments choose to exercise more authority than they should he entitled to in the conduct of sub-divisional government and when, how, and for what we should spend our money.

Pea soup with parsley garnish. can be ready on. a moment’s notice. Just open a can, add water or milk and heat—and that’s all there is to it. Soup is a particularly happy choice, too. It is satisfying, yet light and easily digested. It sends a youngster back to school well fed, keen and alert for the afternoon's work and play. There are so many fine soups available these days that it is a simple matter to have a variety on hand: Thick soups, rich with chunks of meat and vegetables; chicken soup with cubes of chicken and lots of snowy rice in It; vegetable soup; such favorites as ox tail; and Scotch broth; vegetable purges such as tomato, pea, celery and asparagus. All fine wholesome soups that are almost a meal in themselves. Soups also are a help in getting more milk into a child’s diet. For instance, in mixing condensed to* mato, asparagus, celery or pea soup add milk instead of the usual water. Children also enjoy vegetable soup, chicken, chicken noodle and Scotch broth made with one-half can of milk and one-half can of water (using the soup can as a measure.) With the soup serve strips of bread that are first buttered, then toasted. Buttering before toasting is the trick here. It’s tasty and adds to any child’s enjoyment of his soup.

YOUNG (Continued from Page One) Mr. Bays was the victim or an automobile accident this week but is expected to be able io fulfill his engagement in Muncie next month. It is also planned for a later meeting to be conducted here at which Homer Adams, national president of the Young Democrat Clubs of America, will be the guest. Mr. Adams is assistant director of finance of the state of Illinois and was elected to head the national organization of young Democrats at their convention held in Pittsburgh last August. The enthusiasm received from

party officers and workers throughout the county already in the local organization indicates a march to victory for the party next year. Advisory board members who have been selected so far to serve the local county organization of young Democrats include Joe Sollars of Washington township, Ray Dowling and Delores Melvin, Harrison township, George Peckinpaugh and Mrs. Gene Cox, Salem, Vaughn Ellis and Mrs. Dale Hoagland, Mt. Pleasant, Robert Holdren in Union township, Don Scott and Beulah Pittenger, Hamilton, Joe Lafferty and Mrs. Edna Black, Center, Floyd Nixon and Mrs. Myron Wise, Monroe, Lawrence Martin in Niles, Paul Cooley and Mrs. Carl Wysong, Delaware, Robert Scott and Mardella Walker, Liberty township. No selections have been made from Perry town-

ship to date.

Legal Notice

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 20th day of November ,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: Philip J. Dargo, 54822, (Southern Grille, 835 S. Walnut St., Muncie— Liquor, Beer, Wine Retailer. Carl Stein, 54768 (Restaurant), 113 W. Main Street, Muncie—Beer Retailer. Said investigation will he open to the public, and public participation is requested. Alcoholic Beverage Commission of Indiana By JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary HUGH A. BARNHART Excise Administrator. Nov. 10

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CALIFORNIA WEATHER NOTE Sacramento, Cal.—Tom Dennis, chief maintenance engineer of California highways, estimates that 100,000,000 cubic feet of snow are removed each winter from California’s mountain highways. Legal Notice

ROM) SALE NOTICE CITY OF MUNCIE Sealed proposals will be received by the undersigned Controller of the City of Muncie, Indiana, at his office in said city, up to the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M. on the 29th day of November, 1939, for the purchase of bonds of said city designated as “Refunding Bonds of 1939, Series D,’’ in the amount of $4,000 bearing interest at a rate not to exceed 4 1-2 per cent per annum (the exact rate to he determined by bidding), Which interest is payable on July 1, 1940, and semi-annually thereafter. Said bonds are to be dated as of December 15, 1939, will be issued in denominations of $500, and will mature as follows: all on January 1, 1947. Bidders for these bonds will be required to name the rate of interest which the bonds are to bear, not exceeding 4 1-2 per cent per annum. Such interest rate must he in multiples of 1-4 of 1 per cent and not more than one interest rate shall he 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 he determined by computing the total interest on all of the bonds to their, maturities and deducting therefrom the premium hid, if any. No conditional bid or bids for less than the par value of said bonds, including interest from the date of said bonds to the date of delivery, at the interest rate named in the bid, will be considered. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. In the event no satisfactory bids are received at the time and on the date herein fixed, the sale will he continued from day to day thereafter until a satisfactory hid has been received for said bonds. All bids must he filed in sealed envelopes marked "Bid for Refunding Bonds of 1939, Series D”, and each bid shall be accompanied by a certified check in the amount of $500.00, payable to the City of Muncie, to guarantee the good faith of 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^yefusal of such purchaser to perform in accordance with the provisions of his bid and the notice of sale, then said check and the proceeds thereof shall be the property of the city and shall he 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 December 15, 1939, at the office of the Treasurer, or at such bank in the City of Muncie as the purchaser shall designate in writing. Said bonds are being issued for the purpose of refunding certain outstanding bonds of the City of Muncie which mature on December»15, 1939, and will be the direct obligations of the city payable out of unlimited, ad valorem taxes to he 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 he on file on the date of sale and ,will be furnished to the successful bidder at the expense of the city. i Dated this 9th day of November, 1939. JOHN D. LEWIS. City Controller. Nov. 10 & 17

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