Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 26 September 1941 — Page 3
POST DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941,
W. H.LARRABEE FAVORS GROSS
Believes Gross Profit Tax Is Fairest Measure For Nation
FORK and BEANS EN CASSEROLE I Score a Touchdown
During my legislative experience I have stated frequently that I would always make every effort within my power to advance and defend the theory of an equitable distribution of the tax load taking into consideration both the ability of the taxpayer to pay his obligation to his government, resulting from the benefits he has received therefrom. For many days I have considered the various phases of the bill in question, the so-called Revenue Act of 1941, and I can not feel that I would be justified in supporting it. Accordingly I am opposed to its passage and am so recording myself. Many weeks ago, in letters to ’ leaders of the Congress who are primarily concerned with the task i of drafting tax bills, and in per- ' sonal interviews with them, I proposed and urged enactment of a gross profits tax to defray the cost of national defense. At the same time, I proposed that such a bill be so written as to provide revenue for both national defense and for the payment of the cost of establishing a reasonable, direct, Federal old-age pension system to replace our present unsatisfactory State-Federal cooperative pension plan, under the Social Security Act. At a time when there are some who are certain of making vast profits from national defense production, while others are unfortunately and unavoidably suffering from economic maladjustment, I feel that my gross profits tax plan is fully justified. It would have taxed most those who are most able to pay and in so doing would have placed the defense tax on an entirely equitable basis. Those who make the most profit can afford and should be willing to pay for that privilege. These facts would not he true of the present bill. My opposition is in the nature of a friendly protest, and in support of my frequetly stated tax policy. I am convinced that the time is near when the Congress will be required to adopt the gross profits tax.
i on Football Supper Menus
f I hand, we asked the wife of one of our most famous football coaches, Mrs. Lou Little, what she likes to 1| serve after the game. “We like to entertain in a simple manner," said Mrs. Little. “There must be good food, not elaborate but plenty of it. Everyone will like this menu from the hungriest player to the daintiest feminine guest.”
FOOTBALL SUPPER MENU Hot Mulled Cider Casserole of Pork and Beans Buttered Hot Date-Nut Bread Celery, Pickles, Chili Sauce Jellied Cole Slaw Football Doughnuts Coffee As you plan Mrs. Little’s menu, you will find it is not only good to eat and simple to prepare; it is economical too. To get the party off to a good start, Hot Mulled Cider is served in punch cups. This is easy to make— just heat sticks of cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves in cider for 3 or 4 minutes. For the Casserole use canned pork and beans with ton#to
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heat in a hot oven about twenty minutes. The decoration is merely half slices of canned date-nut bread. Put them around the top of the beans about five minutes before the iasserole comes from the oven. Ordinary cole slaw is delicious with this menu, but molding it with plain gelatine makes it even more interesting. A little chopped green pepper and pimiento will give it color. To make “Football Doughnuts”; Cut inch rounds of regular dough; pull them gently into ovals, and fry as usual. They will puff up and look like footballs. Imitation “lacings’ 1 can be put on with white confee tioners’ sugar icing to furthei ■p o ? ^ ■*'n |>7 a Y)
HARRY KARRY
By WILLIS B. RENSIE
INDIANA CARES FOR HOMELESS
Total of 12,515 Children Receive Welfare Aid In June
Indianapolis, Indiana, September 26.—More than 12,000 homeless, a bandoned or neglected children under 21 years of age are receiving child welfare services from the state welfare department, it was announced today by Miss Mildred Arnold, director of the children’s division, State Department of Public Welfare. Through the cooperation of the 92 county departments of public welfare and the child welfare workers of the children’s division, the state welfare department has been able to provide advisory services and vocational guidance programs for the hundreds of homeless children of the state who have been placed in foster homes, Miss Arnold said. Of the total number of 12,515 children under care during June, 2,313 children were residents of children’s institutions, 4,995 were in foster homes and the remainder were being cared for in their own homes or with relatives. “If we could approach the solution of all our social problems by beginning with the child, we would save untold misery in this world as well as a great burden of public expense,” Miss Arnold said. iNeglected and homeless chib dren who have been deprived of their own homes are being taken from poor social surroundings and being placed in a wholesome foster home environment by the welfare department, she said. v “Foster homes are obtained.” Miss Arnold stated, “through the genuine interest of persons who desire to have children in their own home and who are genuinely interested in community welfare. Hundreds of persons have notified county welfare departments all over the state of their willingness to provide a foster home for a helpless and neglected child. “By ‘care for the child in a foster home’, we mean more than just food and shelter; we include those personal services which a parent gives his own child; training him to live in the community; to learn to handle money and to make purchases; to accept responsibility in the household, tasks according to his age and ability; giving him wholesome recreational outlets; and* most important, offering him the affection and comradeship of adults,” Miss Arnold said. o GREEKS HONOR ANZACS
Canberra, Australia — In recognition of the Anzacs’ valiant fighting in the defense of Greece and Crete, the Greek community at Alexandria has presented a hospital wing with 200 beds to the Australian infantry force in that city, the government has announced.
Flying Fortresses Going Into Action Over Objectives In recent weeks, as more Flying Fortresses have gone into action, British air authorities have befrankly jubilant over the performances of the great, fourengined craft. Time and again, flying at 30,000-40,000 feet, they have reached objectives in Germany, unloaded their bombs, and got away scot-free before Nazi pursuit planes could do anything about it. This was no surprise to American aircraft designers. They were more interested in discover ing how Well the fortresses, if intercepted, would stand up to the concentrated fire power of the lat est Messerschmitt and Heinkel models. Now they know. For the Air Ministry has revealed that on Auguest 16 a fortress was caught by five Messerschmitt 109F’s and two Heinkel 113’s near Brest. The Nazi literally made a shambles of the big Boeing bomber. Several of the crew weve killed or wounded, the ship was set on fire, and by the time the. Nazis finished with it, it was little more than a flying wreck. Nevertheless, the captain brought the ship down safely on a British emergency landing field which was really too small to accommodate the fortress. That it got home at all was largely due to superb airmanship. But it is probably safe to say that no other plane could have taken such ,a beating and have stayed in the air.—Washington Post. Ox Cart Days To Flying Era Spanned At 95 Big Spring, Tex.—Mother Zinn’s 95 years have spenned almost every form of transportation known to man. Formally known as Mrs. R. B. Zinn, but beloved by hundreds in this community as “Mother Zinn.” the pioneer Texas settler recently celebrated his 95th birthday. For celebation she took her first airplane trip. The air was rough and Dr. P. W. Maline, who piloted her in his airplane, asked if the weather made her uncomfortable. “I should say not,” she said. “It’s no roughter than lots of country roads.” As a small girl, “Mother Zinn” rode in an ox cart, almost the most primitive form of transportation known. She came to Big Spring with her husband in 1883. “I took my first ox cart ride when I was a girl of 16,” she remarked on her birthday. “We made a trip from Cass to Pettus counties in 1864 during the Civil
war.”
After the airplane trip, the Methodist church gave her a reception. • “They said a lot of nice things about me,” she said. “And I was thrilled. Goodness, I don’t feel a day over 50.” —o The most popular game in the
United States Navy is “ace-deuce”,
pronounced acey-deucy, a modified I monuments and
NEEDING 3.000 SPECIAL CADETS Scholarships Will Be Awarded During Next Three Months
The War Department today sought applicants for 3.000 Army Aviation Cadet scholarships in aerial navigation to be awarded in the next three months. In announcing the scholarship offer at Fifth Corps Area Headquarters, Fort Hayes, Columbus, O., officials described it as “a wonderful opportunity for college men uninterested In pilot training or unable to meet pilot eyesight requirements.” Applicants may have eyesight as poor as 20-40 if corrected to 2020 by wearing glasses. They must be single, male American citizens at least 20 years old and not yet 27 who have completed at least two years of accredited college work including plane geometry, algebra and trigonometry. Application may be made at any Army Recruiting office in Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia or Indiana, through any Traveling Examining Board or by writing direct to the Air Officer, Fifth Corps Area Headquarters, Fort Hayes, Columbus, O. Navigation students, who fly but who are classed as non-pilot specialists, are paid the same as other Aviation Cadets, drawing $105 monthly plus equipment and lodging. Upon graduation they are commissioned second lieutenants in the Army Air Force reserve and go on active duty at a salary of $245’ monthly, plus an annual bonus
of $500.
Heretofore navigation students were selected largely from pilot candidates Who failed to make the grade. They receive a five-week military course, 15 weeks in navigation, meterology and allied subjects and five weeks in flexible
gunnery.
Little Damage To Cemeteries of A.E.F. Noted Cemeteries in France containing graves of American soldiers who died in the First World War, suffered little damage during last year’s German blitzkrieg into France, it was declared here today by a caretaker for the burial places. William H. Dorsey, employed by the U. S. government, admitted before a meeting of “Forty-and-Eighters” that some damage had been done to the graveyards when the Nazis swept toward Paris, but said it was not what might have been expected. “The damage in the cemeteries was nothing like that to the little towns, through which the fighting raged,” he said. “Many of them were turned into piles of stones and burned wood, completely de-
stroyed.”
Nevertheless, Dorsey said an occasional poorly-aimed aerial bomb or artillery shell would drop into a cemetery and destroy some
uproot others.
Defense Program Moving Fast
What about defense? The Roosevelt administration is perfectly aware that building up the arsenal of democracy dwarfs every other consideration. The success or failure of the defense program may well spell the difference between victory or defeat in the war on Hitlerism. The American people have a right to know whether everything is being done, which should be done, to speed the flow of war materials. Is the program going ahead at full speed? The critics, of course, say “No”—in fact, they always do. The easiest job in the world is to stand on the sidelines with raised eyebrows, viewing with alarm, uttering captious criticisms, pointing out the flaws and errors in a program of such, vast proportions as the American defense effort. This is the method used by the grumblers who chant that defense has “ broken down,” that production has has been “bungled,” that the whole business is a jumble of confusion, delay and chaos. What are the facts? The truth is that the United States—now —is producing at the greatest rate in hisory. Production is already 40 per cent greater than it was in May, 1940, when the present expansion really got under way. Most of the increase has taken place in military production Industrial output is about double what it was in 1918, the peak year of the first World War. The swift completion of naval vessels, the construction of huge docks and terminal facilities, the building of airplanes, the construction of powder and gun factories—these have gone forward at a pace almost unbelievable to those who appreciate the difficulties involved in such gigantic enterprises. One competent observer estimates that the two-ocean navy, a key factor in future defense plans, may be complted two years ahead of schedule! That means valuable months have been saved in the fabrication of complicated warships. That hardly seems like bungling and delay. Because the American people abhor war, very little was done to build up a modern, mechanized army before the Hitler armies overran the Low Countries and France. Before that we felt relatively safe behind the protection of a strong Navy. The Army is now getting in large quantities, tanks, motorized equipment, powder and guns. The new Garand rifle, said to be the finest shoulder rifle in the world, is being manufactured and delivered to the Army in quantity lots. The speed-up in tank production is a good example of what has been accomplished. The fact that hundreds of tanks have been delivered to the Army and to Great Britain is important. Even more significant is the fact that one automobile manufacturer, without previous experience in the line, set up and put in operation perhaps the world’s greatest tank factory in less than a year. It would be idle to contend that the production program is perfect. Programs of that magnitude never are. There is room for improvement and improvements will be made. Yet a few flaws on the canvas should not be over-emphasized to obscure the merit of the whole picture. The United States will shortly be outproducing Germany in military weapons, despite the long headstart of the latter country. Those who have constructive criticisms to offer, to help speed the job, should be encouraged. But sour fault-finding, based on nothing more substantial than tricky-figures and baseless generalizations, should be forgotten for the duration.
REFERS TO DEFEATED AS THE GAGGED MILLIONS OF EUROPE
SHIP BUILDING IS BEING RUSHED
in the whole of 1918, when America produced 1,830,000 deadweight tons
of ships.
“These World War comparisons are made without suggesting in any way that the Commission's emergency activities are beyond criticism. The only way we will know whether the Commission has succeeded in its program is if the ships are furnished to deliver the goods. I think that up to the present, we have used our opportunities fairly well.” Who Are The Impostors? On behalf of Hitler and Mussolini, Editor Roberta Farinacci of Italy proposed an eight-point ItaloGerman peace aim. Point number 7 is: “Liberation of Christianity
from ‘impostors’.”
Who are the “Impostors” ot Christianity? Mussolini, when he sent his armies into Ethiopia and murdered innocent men, women and children? The Ethiopians had done the Mussolini gang no harm. If that is the kind of Christianity Mussolini and Hitler are going to liberate, it is time the definition of Christianity is changed in the dictionaries. They are just plain everyday murdering gangsters.—T. B. Trovinger in Tha Arlingtonian,
Arlington, Ohio. ——o
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form of backgammon. Tournaments j But he declared that these were are often held and prizes awarded | exceptions and that very few grav-
to the winners. es were destroyed.
Military And Commercial Craft Are Keeping Pace With Plan Uncle Sam is turning out warships and merchant vessels at an unprecedented rate, according to the latest check-up on marine construction. The Maritime Commission estimate that between 130 and 134 new merchant carriers will roll off the ways this year. This is far above the estimate of 105 new ships made last May by Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Commission chair-
man.
The construction of a two-ocean Navy is also going ahead at accelerated speed. The Navy Department, in a progress report, said the following had been accomplished in the period from January 1 to September 1 this year: Keels Vessels Laid Compl’d. Battleships 2 2 Cruisers 13 0 Submarines 18 9 Aircraft Carriers 2 0 Destroyers 57 12 Patrol craft 91 42 Auxiliaries 81 20 District craft 172 128 In addition to the figures on the number of vessels completed and number of keels laid, it was stated that 249 ships were launched, including one battleship, one cruiser, eight submarines and eight des-
troyers
Rear Admiral S. 'M Robinson, chief of the Bureau of Ships, pointed out that the number of workers engaged in .ship construction had more than doubled in a year’s time He added: “The establishment of the 48hour week and the development of the 3-shift, 24-hour day, involving a tremedous augmentation of shipbuilding workers, is effectively Using the nation’s manpower. “While the use of overtime has increased the cost of construction of naval vessels, the increase has definitely been compensated for by the accelerated speed of production which it has made pos-
sible.”
Admiral Land said that in the first quarter of 1942, the shipbuilding industry will deliver more new ships than were produced in any year since the World War, with the exception of 1941. He said:
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Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd J called them the “gagged millions! of Europe,” those unhappy peoples who groan under the weight of the Nazi yoke of serfdom and slavery. After, centuries of civilization and progress, it is disheartening to realize that perhaps the world has more subject citizens than ever before in human history. The French, the Dutch, the Belgians, the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians—the list of free peoples now held in human bondage is almost
endless.
But the will for freedom and a decent way of persists. The Nazi tyranny has crushed the bodies of its helpless victims but the spirit of resistance lives on. The • tide of opposition to Hitler rises on the
continent
.French men and women are ready to risk the peril of the guillotine, or the certain fire of a German firing squad, to perform acts of sabotage against their hated oppressors Hitler’s sentinels walk j cautiously along the canals of Holland in the dark hours of night— fearful of sudden death in a watery grave. The Poles, the Czechs, the Norwegians carry on a grim and relentless underground warfare against the despoilers of their lands and firesides. These things are not new to Europe. Too many of us forget that the armies of the Kaiser which over-ran Belgium during the first World War set the pattern for Hitler’s ruthless legions. They seized foodstuffs, carried off cattle and work animals, terrorized the civilian population, and forced Belgian civilians to migrate to Germany as slave laborers in field and factory. A graphic picture of this first occupation was provided by Mr. Herbert Hoover who saw service as food administrator in Belgium and Northern France before the United States entered the war. Afterwards, he wrote what he saw in these moving words: “The sight of the destroyed homes and cities, the widowed and the fatherless, the destitute, the physical misery of a people but partially nourished at best, the deportation of men by tens of thousands to slavery in German mines and factories, the execution of men and women for paltry effusion of their loyalty to their country, the sacking of every resource through financial robbery, the battening of armies on the slender produce of the country, the denudation of the country of cattle, horses and textiles; all these things we had to witness, dumb to help other than by protest and sympathy, during
this long and terrible time—and still these are not the events of battle heat, but the effects of the griding heel of a race demanding the mastership of the world.” Since that time, Mr. Hoover has served a term as President of the United States. Once again Europe feels the grinding heel of a race demanding the mastership of the world. Yet, Mr. Hoover looks at this new attempt from a viewpoint curiously different. Recently, he poined with other Republican leaders in issuing a statement which cast doubts on the belief that liberty is really at stake in this tremendous conflict “Recent events raise doubts that this is a clear-cut issue of liberiy and democracy,” said the statement. Perhaps so. But to most people the eternal issue of liberty was never more clear-cut than it is today. It would be unfair to suggest that politics or partisanship has tainted the views of a former President of the United States. It is fair to suggest that the passing years may have blunted Mr. Hoover’s perception of human values o Aobut 15,000 m^n hours go into production of an average pursuit plane, about 100,000 into production df a heavy bomber.
IRON MINES DUE TO SET RECORD
St. Paul, Minn.—The Lake Superior iron mining region will produce the greatest tonnage of ore in history this year to fill the nation’s defense needs, according to estimates by the Minnesota taxation department. A total of 77,000,000 tons was envisioned by the department, providing Great Lakes shipping channels remain free from ice until the normal closing of the navigation season, November 15. 'Minnesota’s huge open pits in the Mesage range and elsewhere will yield 60,000,000 tons, it was estimated. The Lake Superior mining region consists of Northern Minnesota and sections of Wisconsin and upper Michigan. The present record production was set in 1916 when Lake Superior mines produced 66,672,000 tons of ore. In 1929, Great Lakes freighters carried 66,166,000 tons, and in 1937 the total output was 63,186,000. Last year’s total was 64,310,240 tons—48,949,372 from Minnesota mines alone. Defense officials at Washington estimated production in 1942 would increase 30 per cent over this year’s anticipated record output. —o— Rice was sown on, 12,796,800 acres in Burma in the last year.
Mandan, N. D.—Agriculture experts here have discovered how to make use of North Dakota’s hugs jaegrabbit colonies. They are putting the creatures to work
testing grass.
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During the past two decades, service in the United States Navy, has been regarded as a career in itself. More and more men each year are making it a lifetime vocation probably due to the fact that after retiring an ex-service man gets his retirement pay regardless of any wages or ^ncome he may acquire in private life after he
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NOTICE OP PUBLIC HEARING ON AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE. Notice is hereby given tiat public hearing on an amendment toahe Zoning Ordinance of the City of Muncie, Indiana, which is n,ow pending before the Common jteincil af the City of Muncie, Indiana, ”11 be held in the City Council Chamber in the City Hall, at 7:30 o’clock ■p. m. on the 6th day of October, 1941, at which time and place any objections to such amendment or change will be heard. The proposed amendment or change to be made is as follows: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said City of Muncie, Indiana, so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district and to the eighty (80) foot height district the following described territory in said City of Muncie,
Indiana, to-wit:
The south half (Va) of lot numbered five (5) in block numbered five (5) in Coffeen's First Addition to the City of Muncie, Delaware County, In-
diana:
The west half (Vi) of lot numbered six (6) in block numbered five (5) in Coffeen's First Addition to the City of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said Olty of Muncie, Indiana, and has been considered, and said City Plan Commission has
made Its report approving the same. SS Information concerning said proposed SSi amendment or change Is now on file In £SZ
the office of said City Plan Commission
for public examination.
Such hearing wlU be continued from time to time as may be found necessary. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City
of Muncie, Indiana.
NOW ON DISPLAY AT THE SUPER MOTOR SALES
INC. 1110 - 1112 S. LIBERTY ST
PHONE 2-1141
City _ Council ana. this 18th day of September, 1941.
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