Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 February 1940 — Page 4

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1940.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT A. iJemoeratu* weekly newspaper representing ttoe Democrats of Miinele, Delaware County ana tbe lOtb Congressional uistrirti The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Jg ' ' ■ ' — — M.n.. — , ■— "■ ..I..-. ■ ■ Entered as second classc matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice St Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. "price 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR 223 North Elm Street, Phone 7412. MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher Muncie, Indiana, Friday, February 16, 1940.

“Travel America” In 1940 “Travel America Year” has been officially endorsed in a proclamation by President Roosevelt, who modernizes and streamlines the old slogan of “See America First” in an official declaration from the White House which urges that “we in the Americas further consolidate our unity by a better knowledge of our own and each other’s countries through the instrumentality of travel.” At the front of the movement is the United States Travel Bureau, a set-up of the Department o/ Interior. There have been several meetings of officials to get the travel idea in motion, and to pep up the leaders of travel industry of the United States and Canada. Many of the representatives of interested groups gathered a few days ago in Washington. Among them were the Governors of Alaska, Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, the Chief of the Canadian Travel Bureau and various officials and leaders of the automobile and bus industries, railroads, the American steamship lines, travel agencies and airways. It is not too safe to travel abroad this year. Because of this fact the “Travel America Yeai*” proclamation during 1940 is most timely. With the best highways in the world, and incomparable networks of railroads ready to meet all situations, the officials of the United States Travel Bureau have gone to bat on this proposition. The American public is told to cherish the thought and cultivate the hope of using the family bus and the commercial vehicles for travel to see our own country during the year 1940. Senator Bailey of North Carolina describes “the economic culture and recreational advantages of travel” as an asset that cannot be overestimated. Mr. Bailey is the author of a travel bill in the Senate, and Representative Lee of California has a similar bill in the House. Congressman Lee told the House that American travelers have spent over 4 hundred million dollars in a single year in traveling in Europe. Apparently those magnificent millions are to be added to the 1940 travel.business of the United States. It is a sum not to be sniffed at since it is a substantial need to the domestic situation. A summary of possibilities issued by the National Park Service indicates that the Federal and State Government will cooperate in promoting national travel this year. In 1939 the railroads stimulated “circular tours” to the New York and San Francisco World’s Fairs. And while that promoted travel by rail it also added to the volume of vacationists and tourists on the highways going East, West, North and South. Under the theory that dark war clouds have silver linings, with gold trimmings, this travel movement, bedecked as it will be with official approval and encouragement, should make it easy to see more and more of our own country during the coming months. “Little Business” Needs Protection From Big Ones Senator Joseph C. O’Mahoney of Wyoming, chairman of the Temporary National Economic Committee, or so-called Monopoly Committee, speaking before the New York Board of Trade, bluntly reminded his hearers that “free enterprise” about which industrialists talked so much meant free enterprise for the little business man as well as the big business man. He implied that this point was being overlooked by the large interests and said that the steady increases in the number of Americans without tangible property was the greatest danger to the system of free enterprise. To prevent the small capitalist and individual business man from being driven down into the propertyless class, “little business” must be protected from “the constant encroachment of big business . . . which closes the door of opportunity to the little man,” Mr. O’Mahoney said. “It is not necessary to destroy big business in order to protect little business, nor is it necessary to clothe government with the authority to direct business.” What he described as the “arbitrary private control” exerted by unrestrained national business actually constitutes a “species of economic regimentation which is equally as bad as regimentation by public authority and leads to it.” “Business needs the liberation of the 'natural person from regimentation by government,” he continued. “There is no possibility for the continued expansion of business unless the power of the masses of men to purchase the products and services of business is steadily increased. A reasonable program for the preservation of private enterprise therefore calls for an exertion of our best talent to encourage farm ownership and agricultural employment upon the other. “Furnishing jobs for men is not the business of gov- . ernment; it is the responsibility of business. The first concern of every man who calls himself a defender of private enterprise is to make certain that private enterprise provides employment for all who are willing and able to work.” New Deal Enables Widow To Carry on With Family ' Mrs. Jones’ husband died in 1934, leaving his widow with a small farm and four children to support. She realized she faced an important decision. Either she must leave her children, the oldest of which was a 14-year-old boy, and seek employment or she must make the farm pay. After some deliberation, she decided on the latter course. She applied to the local Federal Security Administration office in 1935 for a loan to buy livestock, equipment and machinery for her farm. With this loan, and the supervision offered by the rural rehabilitation and home management, she told officials she believed she could support her family. She bought four cows, a team of work horses, several hogs and increased her poultry flock. Since that time marked progress and improvement have been noted. She has met her annual repayments promptly and in 1938 applied for a second loan. Mrs. Jones has papered the rooms in her house, built a screened-in back porch and made numerous other improvements. She bought a steam pressure cooker and last year canned over 800 quarts of fruit and vegetables and slaughtered six hogs. Most of this food was consumed by the Jones family but some of it Was sold to county markets. The three girls are in school and the boys is now devoting most of his time to work on the farm. Two of the girls are members of a 4-H club. The other girl is taking a course in home economics and Mrs. Jones is a member of the Home Demonstration Club.

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ROOSTER'S SRURS

By WALTER A. SHEAD Employment on Railroads in Indiana reached a new high, accord-

ing to a release recently issued by the Associated Railways of Indiana. “Railr o a d employment in Indiana, buoyed by increased traffic on the rails and confidence o f the roads in a continued business revival has surged to a two-

year high/of nearly 35,000 employees,” the bulletin said.

WALTER A. SHEAD

And that expression of “confi- * dence of the roads in a continued business revival” is reaching through all industry and business in Indiana. Business men and industrialists now have the feeling there is to be a continued prosperity and are conducting their affairs accordingly. Gone is the uncertainty; there has been a complete black-out of fear. * + * An official of one of the largest steel plants in the world asserted recently that the reason for a capacity steel production and employment was that ‘‘We are just now feeling the effect of the President’s program.” # * * For many years the railroads have been the Sick Man of American Industry. It is likely that one short statement of President Roosevelt at the opening session of the last congress had much to do with a revival of the spirit of the railroad leadership. V * * President Roosevelt said: “Most of us have definite objection to government subsidies to the railroads to enable ‘them to meet the interest on their outstanding bonds or for any other purpose, and most of us also oppose government ownership and operation of the railroads. I do.” * * He And with alleviation of the fear of government intervention as expressed by the President, the railroads have lifted themselves by their bootstraps, to such an extent that railroad traffic for the first week in November established a record increase in earnings, at a nine-year high. Net earnings for September soared to $86,500,00, the largest for any September since 1930. * * * Railroads operating in Indiana have contributed substantially to the boom now being experienced by the steel mills. They normally use about 20 per cent of the iron and steel production.

With freight shipments slowed by lack of rolling stock, the railroads will have purchased 65,0IW new freight cars and 300 locomotives by the end of this year, la purchase order running into the (millions. In addition, shops of Uhe railroads in every section of (the state are humming with re(pair orders. Since the middle of (September approximately 60,000 Icars and 100 locomotives have I been repaired for service. * * * I Improvement in operating methI ods have enabled the railroads to | handle this tre^nendous and precipitate increase in business. So j great has the demand for quick shipment been, that many freight | trains are now running on passen- } ger train schedules. j * * * | Examples of improved operating ^efficiency, compared with 20 years Jago, include the fact that freight j cars average eight tons more in carrying capacity; locomotives av[erage 43 per cent more pulling power and freight trains go 64 I per cent faster. * * * ( This tremendous increase in , railroad shipping is indicative of [ the increase output of American I business and industry an increase : predicated only on domestic needs. * * * I Employing 1,200,000 men, the 'railroads have already spent '$150,000,000 for new freight fcars and an additional $150,000,r 000 for locomotives and have , placed orders for a half-million ions of new rail and fittings. * * * { The railroads are backing up Uheir confidence in the future i with the expenditures of millions [of dollars.

DISPELLING THE FOG (Gonmiiied From Page One) different directions in their conceptions of party policies and their views of what is best for the future.” Dolefully, he came to this conclusion: “I am very emphatic in my opinion that political history will duplicate the fateful results of 1912 unless we go back to old Republican principles.” Perhaps there may he something of comfort after all in this sad Governor’s idea, for it at least implies that there is enough left of the Republican party to have a bolt. . We must wonder how he is going to feel in the near future when the announced rash of G. O. P. speech-making breaks out—when Herbert Hoover sounds off in Omaha, Chairman John Hamilton speaks in New York, Mr. Dewey talks in half a dozen places, Senator Vandenberg electrifies St. Paul, Senator Taft shows in Florida, Governor James of Pennsylvania, and Governor Bricker of Ohio, a.nd a few other candidates are all on the programs—and all within a single week. The Sound and Fury With so much oratory in the wind, ordinarily there would be some expectation that somewhere along the line somebody would say something of importance, but there is no indication of such an outcome. Their combined speeches, if set up in ordinary newspaper type and measure, would make a column twenty leagues long, as the crow flies, and yet there has not been single sentence that anybody remembers ; not a paragraph that anybody would quote off-hand; not a phrase, let alone a slogan, that caused a tingle or a thrill. It is doubtful if in all our wordy history of political zephyrs or gales, there has been a period so devoid of sensation, so destitute of even novelty. We have had the same whimpering over the sins of the administration; the blustering about how much better the Republicans would handle the multiple problems of the day; but not one concrete thought. It would be a great relief if even one of the spokesmen for the return of the Old Deal would outline a single measure that the minority party would legislate for us if it had the chance, but that seems to be too much to hope for. So we must reconcile ourselves to eight months more of generalities, platitudes and pomposities before, the people will have a chance to cease yawning and vote to continue the G. O. P. as the minority party.

WARNS HOOSIER CORN GROWERS

AAA Chief Says War May be Boomerang; Urges Cut in Acreage Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. 16.—A warning that the European war would not solve the American farm problem despite general optimism was sounded to more than 3,000 Hoosier farmers yesterday by R. M. Evans of Washington. D. C., National agriculture adjustment administrator. He said the European market “may act as a boomerang,” and result in overproduction and lowered crop prices “European nations just aren't interested in our farm products these days,” he asserted. “They’re interested in our guns and our planes and our bombs and they’re holding onto ttfeir credit to buy these. They’re stepping up their production of corn and pork and wheat and tobacco and getting along with less of them.” He pointed out that the 1940 corn' acreage allotment allowed for expansion in the export business in pork and lard and said that without that increase a larger reduction in the 1940 corn acreage than that made would have been indicated. Evans contrasted the 1932 and 1933 average corn prices of 30 cents with the average of 46.8 cents per bushel in November and 53.2 cents in January and blamed the increase on the 1939 corn loan, provided in- the ever-normal granary “Let’s s not undo a blessing by running our Granary over,” he said. “Normal yields on the 1940 corn allotment will keep it there.” “We sholuldn’t overlook the value in conserving the nation’s soil resources played by corn allotments and the corn loan,” he continued. “It’s been pretty well established that we get the most conservation in years of stability.” Conservation takes a “back seat” when prices are high and supplies short, he said. Harry J. Reed, director of the Purdue university agricultural experiment station, said the goal of the station during the next few years would be to increase the Indiana farm income $50,000,000 annually. It is entirely possible to bring the farm income higher than ever before, he said, not only by improving our production and marketing efficiency, but by finding new uses for our products. Hassil M. Schenck, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau, said that all the farmers wanted was stability so that the prices of commodities which they purchased remained in direct relationship to the prices secured for their products. Other speakers were Herschel D Newson, master of the Indiana Grange, L. M. Vogler, chairman of the state agricultmaal conservation committee, and Lieut. Gov. Henry F. Schricker. Nazis Claim Big Day for U-Boats Berlin, Feb. 16. — A high command communique asserted today that Germany had sunk 58,000 tons of shipping yesterday. “February 14 was particularly successful for Germany in sea warfare, especially for German UBoats’,’ the communique said. “On this day alone 58,000 tons of shipping were sunk.” The communique said that several prisoners were taken during patrol activity in the frontier dls-~ triofe south ef Saarbruecken.

Goes With Welles

J. P. Moffat

Although the mission to Europe of Undersecretary of State Sumner Welle* still remains a “oneman show, 1 * it has been announced that J. P. Moffat, above, will go to Europe with Welles. Moffat , is chief of the stKte department’# European division.

Liars’ Capital Is Challenged With Cat Tale Burlington, Wis. — This world capital of tall story tellers faces competition. Liars of Osage, Okla., have challenged Burlington fibbers to a “lie-telling session with no holds barred.” “To prove we rate in the championship class,” wrote Glenn G. Cates of the Osage team, “here’s one an Osage kindergarten pupil tells: “ T was getting dinner one day when I accidentally dropped a very sharp knife. It cut our old cat’s tail off up close, clean as a whistle. He looked so exposed and embarrassed that I decided to build him a new tail of wood. I threaded the tail stub and made matching threads on the wooden job and screwed it on. The cat looked proudly at it a moment and then scampered out into the yard. “ ‘The next thing I saw was our old cat hiding behind a tree near which all the rats in the neighborhood passed. When a rat stuck his

Leap; Year Supper Party by Dorothy Greig

¥ EAP YEAR will see many parJLi ties . . . parties at which the accepted social amenities go into reverse, and the wooer becomes tbe wooed. So up and at 'em, girls? We’ll show our partners how things should really he done.

Since a party of this type is decidedly informal, keep refreshments informal, too. You might serve the following which would please everybody: LEAP YEAR SUPPER Tomato Juice with Lemon Broiled Hamburger* with * French Onion Rings on Toast Tossed Green Salad with French Dressing Assorted Cheese with Crackers Coffee ‘The French Onion Rings are made this way: 2 tablespoons butter 8 onion rln^s (sliced % inch thick) 1 can condensed consomme 2-3 tablespoons grated cheese (Parmesan or sharp) Cut large onions into slices ^ inch thick. Brown the slices on each side in the melted, hot butter. Pour the consomm^ over the onion slices and cook 30-40 minutes or until tender. Sprinkle the rings with Parmesan or grated sharp cheese and brown under the broilerServes 8.

head out our cat would switch its tail and knock the rat dead. “The next morning the cat had everything organized. He had another cat sitting on a fence as a lookout, 16 cats dragging off the dead rats, 150 digging holes to .bury them in, and 25 more covering them up. A pussy was keeping score.” o Maids Disclose Major Reasons For Ending Job Seattle, Wash.—Why maids leave home was revealed in a survey of Seattle maids. A poll of housemaids disclosed these reasons: Not enough pay. Too much work. No consideration from employer. Children. No time to themselves. No accommodations. Amorous husbands. Some of the complaints set forth by the maids were: “Some people think they are running a short-order irouse — short snacks here and short snacks there, midnight lunches . . even if a husband never looks at us, just because we may be goodlooking the wife gets jealous and fires us ... we get paid and the housewife then borrows our money to pay the iceman. All the maids questioned said they never entertained a policeman in the kitchen. “That’s just in the funnies,” one of them said. v Most housemaids said they thought their work was “good training”—professionally and matrimonially -— o Japanese Troop Ship Sunk, 2,000 Lost Say Chinese Chunkking, China, Feb. 16.—Chinese sources reported today that 2,000 Japanese di’owned when Chinese artillery sank a big Japanese transport in the Yangtse river near Pengtseh, between Nanking and Hankow. o ^ 4-H CLUBS BIG BUSINESS

Berkeley, Cal.—The 714 4-H clubs sponsored by the University of California Agricultural Extension service have become “big business” in California. Last year they invested $422,294 in livestock and crop projects and reaped benefits of $113,740. o The government of Venezula is using American products in its “three-year plan.”

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Liberalism vs. Reactionism In whatever garb the Republican leadership dresses the old eie phant in the 1940 campaign it will still be the Old Guard. It they dress him up with pink hair and a streamlined trunk with Dewey, to fool the folks, he will still be the old guard If they drape him in the trappings of New Deal enthusiasm with Yandenburg, he will still be the grand old party. If they cover him with platitudes and spread roses in his path and polish his toes until they shine with balanced budgets with Taft, or Gannett, he will still be the G.O.P. For the battle lines in this campaign, stripped of all persiflage will be drawn between the liberal Democratic party and the reactionary Republican party. The Democrats always have been Liberal—The Republicans always have been reactionary. The Republican old guard sixteen million strong, no more, no less—well fed, well equipped, armed with the artillery of the press and the machine guns of the vested interests and the best commissary their millions can procure, but without the inspiration of leadership, will march in regulation waves to certain defeat. The Liberal army of Democrats volunteers all, with no Hessians in their ranks, enthusiastic, inbued with a spirit of libera] freedom, volatile, sensitive to individual liberty and despising the battalments of privilege and greed behind which the opposing reactionaries are entrenched, will march to victory with a great liberal leader. When the Democratic party has place^l a great liberal in command, it has won elections from the time of Jefferson on doVn to this day. When it has' foresworn its traditions and listened to the sirens of Wall Street it has lost ignominiously. And when that happens the records show that fifteen million men and women lose interest and stay at home—they don’t vote. The reactionary Harding polled 16,000,000 votes in 1920 while the conservative Cox polled 9,500,000. The Reuctionai'y Coolidge polled 15,700,000 votes in 1924 while the equally reactionary Davis polled 8,300,000. The reactionary Hoover, coupled with intolerance and bigotry, polled 21,000,000 votes in 1928 while the conservative Smith polled 15,000,000., The reactionary Hoover, on his t own in 1932, polled 15’,700.000 while the Liberal Roosevelt polled 22,800,000 and the reactionary Landon in 1936 polled his 16,600,000 while the liberal Roosevelt boosted his total to 27,400,000. So the normal Republican or reactionary vote in the nation is approximately 16,000,000. The normal Democrat on liberal vote in the nation is from 22,000,000 up Our task is to nominate a liberal leader who will give inspiration to the great army of independent or stay-at-home votes The issue liberalism vs. reactionism.

Kipling’s Home Due To Stand As Memorial

Burwash, Eng. — Batemans, the lovely 16th century home of Rudyard Kipling, with the death of Mrs. Kipling, may become a national memorial. She preserved and cared for it to the last for that purpose. Little was known of Mrs. Kipling for she was of a shy, retiring nature and disliked publicity of

any kind. They were married when Kipling was 28 and lived in a little bungalow in America where he finished “Many Inventions” and began “The Jungle Book.” In these early days, she was his secretary, banker, business agent and farm superintendent and even | his sentry against those who would invade his much loved privacy. American metal-working lathes are now in demand in the Nelherlands. Manchuria plans to mine $7,125,000 worth of gold this year.

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