Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 January 1943 — Page 3

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1943.

THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...

“Judge, I didn’t realize till the other night when I ran across an article in the paper what a whale of a lot of industrial alcohol the government needs for the war.” “I should say it does, Chet. I understand the beverage distillers around the country are producing about 240,000,000 gallons of industrial alcohol this year for ammunition, tires.

and other things. I’d say it’s mighty fortunate these distilleries are available to do the job. Otherwise, if we still had prohibition, the government would have had to spend millions of dollars and use up a lot of critical materials to build plants...to say nothing of all the time it would take. It might have been just another case of ‘too little, too late’.”

Moderated by FRED G. CLARK General Chairman American Economic Foundation

Wake Up. America !

“Will Limitation of Incomes Bolster National Morale?”

Miss Katherine P. Ellickson Department of Education and Research C.I.O.

debated by Mr. Channing Pollock Playwright, author of the forthcoming autobiography: Harvest Of My Years

Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc.

IS MUHCIE (Continued From Page One) comes true? So far as we can see it points to the conclusion that before the season is at the halfway mark, our teams will consist fo men rejected for physical defects and those awaiting the call from the armed forces. There will also be a sprinkling of youthful wonders under 18 and weary veterans of 38 and over. It won’t be major league baseball as we’ve known it in the past. It couldn’t be—even if not another man was given up for military duty. Not with players like DeMaggio, Ted Lyons, Ted Williams, Taft Wright, Pete Reiser, Red Ruffing, Tommy Henrich, Hal Schumacher Johnny Beazley, Bobby Sturgeon, Charley Gehringer, Phil Rizzuto, Larry French, Hugh Casey and scores of other familiar names gone from the box scores. What Majors Face in 1943 Add to the loss of these headliners the terrific drain on rank-and-file talent and you have some idea what the majors face for 1943. Sure, they’ll play. And the fans will come out in surprisingly large numbers. But the pitching will be a trifle less effective, the base running a step slower, the throwing not quite so accurate and the hitting a bit weaker. Oddly enough, though, the competition probably wilLbe closer you will glance at that paragraph and keener than for years past. If above, you’ll see that one item cancels another. Weaker hitting opposed to less effective pitching gives you about the same result— on the surface. It may be Class C caliber, but only an expert could tell the difference. The average fan will get his quota of thrills and excitement — although it' comes from a lot of fellows named Joe of whom he had never heard before. Franjdy, however, we’re inclined to think that none of the new players, inexpert as they may be, can pull as big a boner as did their employers. Long before October 3 we think the magnates will sadly realize that fact. They’ll discover that even though their 154-game schedule seemed sacred to them, it won’t to Uncle Sam. DIAMONDS NEED REPAIRS Baseball fans probably are wondering why the big league clubs don’t train in their own parks, since distance jaunts to warmer climes are out for the duration. There are sound reasons. One concerns the parks themselves and the effect of the training routine on the playing surface. Most major league parks now are used for football in the Fall, and when football teams get through with them, the infields and outfields look as if they had been used as a proving ground for tanks. They really get chewed up. Consequently, the orchards need a lot of manicuring in the spring, and to get them in shape with flocks of ball players galloping over them every day would be a problem. Ground Too Soft Spring thaws present another difficulty. Spikes of the players in training would tear up the soft ground beyond chance of speedy repair. The conditioning of the ground offers different problems in different parks. The Polo Grounds and Yankee Stadium in New York, for instance, have drainage problems and would be almost continually soft as a result of the thaw and Spring rains. The Polo Grounds is built on filled-in soil, and over an old creek. Consequently it is slowly settling, and every couple of years has to be filled in. Even part of the grandstand starts dipping and has to' be jacked up.

Cincinnati has its own peculiar problem. The Redleg owners would have to set out buoys on occasion to find the bases. Only timely intervention once saved Secretary Gabe Paul from a watery grave in centerfield when Pitcher Lee Grissom insisted on dunking him over the'side of a rowboat during one of the periodic floods. Ballyhoo Cut Expenses Condition of the playing fields undoubtedly has most to do with the clubs passing up their own parks for training, but there are other factors which make a change in enviroment advisable. One is the air of mystery the ballyhoo created by an out-of-town camp. Another is the fact that there is a better chance of obtaining hotel accommodations at figures the clubs are willing to pay. It is highly probable clubs were given pretty low rates at their California and Florida inns, as the concession would be made in the interests of advertising. The clubs aren’t saving any money on hotel bills and meals by training in the North. They pay the expenses of the players wherever they train, so they’ll naturally look for bargains. The players probably will insist that training in the North is no bargain, any way you look at it.

MOGULS DO THEIR “BIT” Professional baseball maguls are going to do their bit toward winning the war—and how f They have agreed to reduce the 6,880,000 passenger miles traveled by the clubs’ personnel last year to 5,380,000 this year, but insist upon playing the full championship schedule of 154 games. Maybe baseball is essential to the winning of the war and pational morale would crack without it. The moguls, however, are moved by more materialistic considera-

tions. With them it is to be “business almost as usual,” and if transportation facilities are used unnecessary, that’s just too bad.—Labor o ‘ Legal Notice NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that William Arthur Anderson has filed his petition in the Delaware Circuit Court of Delaware County, Indiana, as Cause No. 16795 to have the time and place 6f his birth determined. Said petition is set for hearing before said Court at Muncie, Indiana, on January 29, 19f3, or as soon thereafter as the Judge can hear the case. Dated this 22nd day of January, 1943. JESSE E. GREENE Clerk Delaware Circuit > Court Victor M. Bruell Attorney for Petitioner

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS)

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Keith Spangler vs. Betty Jayne Spangler non-resident In the Delaware Superior Court January Term, 1943. Complaint: Divorce. No. 7137-S Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Betty Jayne Spangler that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant, Betty Jayne Spangler is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Thursday the 18th day of March 1943, the 58th day of the present term of said Court, to be holden on the second Monday in January, A. D. 1943, at the Court House in the City of Muncge, in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 18th day of January A. D., 1943. JESSE E. GRJ2ENE, Clerk Gene Williams, Plaintiff’s Attorney.

MISS ELLICKSON OPENS: Thousands of Americans are making the supreme sacrifice in jungle and desert. Millions are giving of their strength and health to make munitions and produce food. They do' so willingly that democracy may live. But have we true democracy if meanwhile a favored few receive and spend unlimited millions? Civilian supplies are inadequate for our accustomed levels of living. Many Americans engaged in essential tasks lack sufficient food, clothing, housing and medical service to maintain health and strength. The war effort and the rising generation suffer. Spending of huge incomes reduces supplies for the majority and utilizes manpower needed elsewhere. Saving of such incomes enhances inequality of wealth. Undemocratic practices will inevitably weaken morale at home and at the front. Farmers will toil hard— but not so that speculators may flourish. Labor will agree to wage stabilization—but not so that resultant savings in costs create great fortunes. Excess incomes go to the very people who blocked expansion of rubber, steel, and aluminum production, and who are still neglecting labor’s proposals for greater output Limitation of incomes would be a mild step towards equality of sacrifice. But it would bolster morale by promoting hopes of a just and democratic peace. MR. POLLOCK CHALLENGES: I agree so heartily as to the need for sacrifice. I’m in favor of making it universal! Why limit it to the class that has paid, and is paying, most of the expense of the war? Why not include the “workers” whose wages, according to the United States Department of Labor, went up 100% from January 1939 to December 1941, and an additional 25% since Pearl Harbor? And the farmers whose income is even more swollen? How are we increasing “great fortunes” that pay an income tax up to 90% and an inheritance tax up to another 80% ? MISS ELLICKSON REPLIES: Present taxes leave some people over $100,000 a year but take 5% of wages over $12 a week. Giving up milk involves more sacrifice than giving up champagne. Millions receive less than enough for health and security but strikes are very rare. If there are persons in positions vital to the war effort with so little patriotism, community spirit, or sense of fair play that they will not exert their best efforts for $25,000 a year net, then the sooner they are discovered and replaced, the better for our country, Problems.of the war and their reconstruction require men of public spirit in industry and trade as well as government

MR. POLLOCK OPENS: Whose Morale? Not men earning more than the reward allowed; certainly not that of men working, with such a reward in view. And these are the only considerable classes of any value to the nation! Conceivably limitation of income may bolster the morale of the enviously futile—but does that 1 matter? It would be as reasonable to ask whether we could bolster the morale of our armed forces by limiting promotion or improve the human race by withdrawing the promise of celestial reward. It seems even less likely our fight-; ing spirit will be reinforced by the,; reminder we may be losing the lib-: erty for which we are fighting. The order to limit incomes, originally proposed in the 1928 Communist Party Platform, and twice rejected by Congress, is as totalitarian as anything in Russia or Germany! It affects not only larger incomes, but millions of workers who depend on them; it is a complete negation of the American idea that earnings are ILnited pnly by a man’s own ability and industry. Abraham Lincoln said: “I don’t believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich. When one starts poor, free society is such that he knows he’ can better his condition.” MISS ELLICKSON CHALLENGES: Mr. Pollock apparently refers to President Roosevelt’s order limiting salaries—but not other income—to $25,000 a year after large deductions and taxes. Soldiers, teachers, public health workers, farmers and wageearners know very well that they will never earn that much. Surely they are of value to the nation! To quote Lincoln after denying this is as misleading as to call the President’s action totalitarian. Most Americans realize that their individual welfare depends upon the well-being of the nation as a whole. They share willingly in the sacrifices which war has forced upon us. MR. POLLOCK REPLIES: How do wage-earners “know they will never earn that much”? Most of those earning it now began with low incomes. The foundation of Lincoln’s “free society” is that any man may earn as much as his capacity permits. Is the chance of the small wageearner improved by limiting him—or the large wage-earner? Miss Ellickson suggests that wages be equal. Would she say that the labor leader should receive no more than a laborer? Or would she agree with Theodore Roosevelt that, “There is no more mischievous form of privilege than giving equal reward for unequal service . .?”

Assembly Discusses Home Rule Subject Indianapolis, Jan. 22—The stateHouse of Representatives voted this morning to substitute a favorable minority committee report on a Senate joint resolution for submission of the so-called “home rule” constitutional amendment. The minority of the House cities and towns committee was headed by Republican Representative John Kendall of Danville. He contended that the people should have an opportunity to decide the type of local government they desire. Kendall was supported by a halfdozen other representatives, including members of both parties. The Danville legislator called upon the House to repeat its action of two years ago when a similar resolution was approved by a 78 to 0 vote. The House cities and towns committee disapproved the controversial resolution by a vote of 7 to 5 yesterday. Republican State Senator James Armstrong of Springfield suffered a heart attack during the upper house session this morning. The 25-year-old legislator collapsed in his chair and was removed to the vestibule, where a fellow Republican senator and physician, Dr. Renos Richards of Patricksbufg examined him. Dr. Richards said the attack was the result of # overexertion and that Armstrong must rest for an indefinite time. o Legal Notice notice Notice is hereby given that Mark Coley has filed his petition in the Delaware Circuit Court of Delaware County, Indiana, as Cause No. 16783 to have the time and place of his birth determined. Said petition is set for hearing before said Court at Muncie, Indiama, on Jan. 30, 1943, or as soon thereafter as the Judge can hear the case. Dated this 20th day of January, 1943. JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk Delaware Circuit Court

Smokers in England must donate the tin in their tobacco cans to the salvage drive.

Black Markets to Affect Farm Prices

Washington, Jan. 22. —Farmers may be in for a disagreeable surprise when the new boss takes over at the Office of Price Administration. The new boss is Prentiss Brown instead of Leon Henderson but it’s likely to be the same old OPA, and it may have to issue orders from time to time which will be highly displeasing ( to farmers. Right now OPA is considering a new appeal for the fixing of a price ceiling on livestock. This time the appeal came from representatives of the packing industry. A great amount of rural wrath was poured upon the head of Henderson when OPA first recommended such a ceiling last summer. Brown may run into the same grief shortly after taking over his new job. If operations in black markets on meats increase, OPA is bound to take some action that may it into conflict with farmers. It appears that OPA can’t get at the meat bootleggers unless it draws up a set of marketing rules which will be applied at the source of production.

Indiana Farmer to Head Dairy Group Indianapolis, Jan. 22—A Hoosier farmer from Goshen, Indiana, has been placed at the head of a fivestate dairy animal conservation program. Farm security administration officials have announced that Otis Kercher of Goshen will head the animal conservation program for the states of Indiana, Ohip, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. Kercher has been aspciated with te FSA as northern Indiana supervisor since 1935. Previous to that appointment, he was with the Kentucky department of agriculture as livestock agent in the Bureau of Animal Industry. He also is identified wtih youth farm organizations at the University of Kentucky. Kercher, born and raised on his father’s farm near Goshen, graduated from the University of Illinois in 1914. He went to Louisiana where he taught for one year at the State Industrial school. Following sixteen years of work in the three states, he returned to his home town where he became associated with the FSA.

Taxicabs are now limited short hauls in Rio de Janeiro.

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TAX RATE FOR DELAWARE COUNTY, YEAR 1942, PAYABLE 1943 OFFICE OF THE TREASURER OF DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA, JANUARY 5, 1943. „ rm. , „ • * u, x. *». . *' * .nA Notice is hereby given that the tax duplicates of Delaware Gmtnty, Indiana, for the year, 1942, are now in my hands and that I am ready to receive the taxes thereon and now due. The following table shows the rate of taxation in the various town snips ana

Salem

Mt. Pleasant

j Harrison

| Washington

Monroe

Centre

Hamilton

Union

Perry

Liberty

Delaware

Niles

Town of Albany

Town of Eaton

1942 Payable 1943

1 On

II On

| On

1 On

| On

II On

| On

$100

Poll

| $100 | Poll || $100

Poll

$100

Poll

$100

Poll |] $100

Poll

$100

Poll

$100 I Poll || $100

Poll

| $100

Poll

$100

Poll

$100

Poll || $100

Poll

$100 1 Poll II

i i

State Tax

.011511.00

.011511.00 || .0115

1.00

| .0115

1.00

.0115

1.00

.0115|1.00

.0115|1.00 || .0115|1.00

.011511.00

.0115| 1.00

.0115

1.00

,0115|1.00

Common School Relief Fund

.50

| .07

.50

.07

.50

| .07

.50

.07

.50

.07

.50

407

| .50

| .07

.50

| .07

.50

.07

.50

.07

.50

.07

.50

j07

.50

.07

.50

! 3

State Teachers Pension Fund

.03

| .03

.03

Indiana Board of Agriculture

.0035

j .0035

.0035

.0035|

| .0035|

| .0035

.0035

.Q035|

.0035

State Forestry Tax

.002

4002

.002

.002 |

| .002

.002

} 6

Indiana Wolf Lake Park Fund

.002

| 400 2

.002

| .002

j .002

.002

New Harmony Memorial

.001

| .001

.001

| .001

i .001

.001

■

o 9

Total State

.12

1.50

.12

1.50 |

.12

1.50

| .12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50

-12

1.50

1 .12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50

.12

1.50 |

County Tax

.22

.50

.2:2

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

| .22

.50

| .22

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

.22

.50

| .22

.50

.22

.50

County Bonds

.05

| .05

.05

| .05

.05

[ ' '

County Welfare Fund

.13

.14

.13

.14

13| 14

Total County

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

| .40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

.40

.50

1 -40

.50

151) Township

.06

.25

.04

.25

.06

.25

.08

.25

.06

.25

.04

.25

.10

.25 || .06

.25

.07

.25

,05

.25

.11

.25

.05

.25

| .10

.25

161| Tuition

.44

.25

.42

.25

.37

.25

.34

.25

.42

.25

.35

.24

.21

.25

.42

.25 || .34

.25

.30

.25

.38

.25

.18

.25

.75

.25

| .42

.25 ||

17|j Special School

.39 |1.00

.53 |1.00

.56

1.00

.43

1.00

.57 |1.00

.40

1.00

.24

1.00

.59

1.00

.57

1.00

.55

1.00

.50

1.00

.57

1.00

.75

LOO

| .59

1.00 |

18|| Add. Special School Bonds, etc.

.04

.29

.11

.105

1 .-D-

Poor'

.05

.06

.046

.015

.018

.02

.048

| .02

Poor Bonds j

.015

: (

.08

.057

.045

| «|0'45

Poor Judgement Bonds

.05

i s

Voc. School Fund, Twp. & Cor.

.10

i 23

To Reimburse Co. Revenue

.025

.03

.004

.028

.002

,045

.002

.01

.03

| .045

I 24

Library

.01

.07

.02

.015

1 |

4t> 26

Total Township & Schools

.98

1.50

1.15

1.50

1.02

1.50

.91

1.50

1.10

1.50

.97

1.24

.82

1.50

1.33

1.50

1.02

1.50

.93

1.50

.96

1.50

.86

1.50

1.80 11.50

1.33

1.50 1

Corporation

.01

.67

Street

.085

Bond Fund Al’y, Yktn. & Mun.

.105

Improve. District Bond Fund

Water

•3u

Park

.04

Light

.13

Policemen’s Pension

L : -v

1 '

; ;

Firemen’s Pension

L :

Total Corporation

.90

.jA

I.1AJ

•

37 38

Library City of Muncie

39 40

Total Library City Muncie Each Installment

! .75

1.75

1 .835

1.75

.77

1.75

1 .715

1.75

.81

1.75

.745

1.62

| .67

1 ’ 1.75

.925

1.75

! rn

1.75 |

.725

1.75

.74

1.75

.69

1.75

1.61

1.87

1.475

1.75

Total Year 1942

1.50

3.50

|1.67

3.50

1.54

3.50 ||1.43

3.50

1.62

3.50

1.49

3.24 ||1.34

3.50

|1.85

3.50

11.54

3.50 |

1.45

3.50

1.48

3.50

|1.38

3.50

3.22 |3.74

2.95 |3.aU

Town of Gaston

Poll

1.00 .50

.0115 .07 .03 .0035 .002 .002 .001

.12 |1.50

.22 .05 .13 .40 .08 .34 .43

.50

.50 .25 .25 1.00

Town of Selma

On | $100 | Poll

.OHSil.OO

.91 .90 .25

11.50 I .50

.07 .03

.0035 .002 .002 .001

.12 .22 .05 .13 .40 .07 .30 .55

.50

1.50 .50

.50 .25 .25

|1.00

Town of Yorktown

On $100

Poll

1.00 .50

.0115 .07 .03 .0035 .002 .002 .001

.12 11.50

.50

.22 .05 .13 .40 .04

.42 j .25

.50 .25

1.15

2.00 4.00

.93 |1.50 .54

.54

.995 |1.99

.55

1.75 |1.11 3.50 12.22

.53 .05 .08

.03

|1.I5 .39 .16

1.00

City of M unci*

On | $100

.0115 .07 .03 .0035 .002 .002 .001 .12 .22 .05 .13 .40 .60 .59 .11 .015 .057 .05 .028

Poll

1.00 .50

1.50 .50

.50 .24 1.00

1.50 ||1.45 |1.24 .88 ‘ "

.065 .02

1.75 3-50

.025 .05 1.13 .06 .06 1.58 3,16

.50

1.87 3.74

_ , IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT PAYMENTS CANNOT Auditor's^OKice^Stat^of^Ind^a^De^awareJSounty^ss^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ a ^ copy ot aU Tax ^ for ^ ^ ta the yMr ^ SAM CUNNINGTON, Auditor. 1^?®. BUT MUST “ All taxes for the year 1942, are due on the first day of January, 1943. Each taxpayer may pay in full any time between January 1st, and the first Monday in May, 1943, inclusive, or if the LESTER E HOLLOWAY Um tost toataliment y paid on is immediately added, together with all costs an£ charges provided by law.^ 'ireasmTo^DciaA^co^^na