Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 16 April 1943 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY. APRIL 16, 1943.

From where I sit

ij?y Joe MarsHl

John Trumbull, our postmaster, looks up from his newspaper yesterday and says: “I see they caught another one o’ them socalled ‘gang-lords’ of the Prohibition era. 1 “Wonder how long it’s going to take us to wipe out the evil Prohibition left behind . . . not ' to mention the billions of dollars it cost the people?” Well, John’s right o’ course. Hard to believe America could ever pass a law like Prohibition.

But from where I sit it’s a big consolation — now that Prohibition is over—to see how moderation and tolerance have grown up in its place. Nowadays, if a man enjoys a friendly glass of beer or two after a day’s work, he not only can do it in clean, respectable surroundings-but he knows that no bootlegger or gangster is making a red cent on it.

No. 57 of a Series

Legal Notice

LKOAL NO TICK OF IMlil.K HKAKING Public Service Commission of Indiana Docket No. 15865 JN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF CENTRAL INDIANA GAS COMPANY FOR PERMISSION TO ELIMINATE AN ACQUISITION ADJUSTMENT FROM ITS PROPERTY ACCOUNT; AND TO RECLASSIFY CERTAIN OF ITS COMMON CAPITAL STOCK Notice is hereby given that the Public Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing in this cause in the Rooms of the Commission, 401 State House, Indianapolis, Ind., 10:00 a. m., Tuesday, May 4, 194:i. Public Service Commission * of Indiana By GEORGE M. BARNARD, Crfmmissioner Howard T. Batman, Public Counsellor Indianapolis, Ind., April 12, 1943. O Legal Notice LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Public Service Commission of Indiana Docket No. 15573 IN THE MATTER OF THE INVESTIGATION P.Y THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF INDIANA OF THE UNITED TELEPHONE INVESTMENT CORPORATION, A HOLDING COMPANY, AND ITS TEN SUBSIDIARY TELEPHONE CORPORATIONS, INi ' L1' D1 NG FORTY EXCHANGES OWNED BY THEM IN THE STATE OF INDIANA AND OTHER INDIANA TELEPHONE COMPANIES UNDER THE SAME MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL. FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING AND . ESTABLISHING JUST, EQUITABLE AND LEGAL RATES FOR TELEPHONE SERVICE. Notice is hereby given that the Public Service Commission of Indiana will conduct public hearing in this cause in the Rooms pf the Commission, 401 State House, Indianapolis, Ind., at 10:00 A. M., Monday, April 26, 1943. Public Service Commission of Indiana By: WILLIAM A. STUCKEY, Commissioner Howard T. Batman, Public Counsellor Indianapolis, Ind., April 14, 1943.

OLD DISC BEGS FOR ITS CHANCE

Useless On Farm, It Is Still Able To Slap A Jap “I’m getting pretty old, but I’ve seen a lot of living. I was born in a farm machinery manufacturing plant 10 years ago-Fmaybe it was fifteen years ago—I just can t seem to remember very well. My boss, Mr. Farmer, realized a few years ago that I had seen my best day and left me lying out here by the fence on the back forty. I know that I can’t be of any further use to him, but I could do a lot of good if I were slapping a Jap in the face. I hope he turns me into the scrap drive, so that I might be used to help win this war. “Old Jim Crow lit on the fence by me yesterday and razzed me about being unpatriotic. He told that an old hay rake on a neighbor’s farm had been sent to the front to do its bit for the army. Jim said that the last he heard of the old rake it was a part of a tank detroyer division chasing the dirty rats out of Tunisia. Boy, wouldn’t that be a grand and glorious feeling for me! “Of course, I know that the hay rake’s boss has a son in the army, and that makes a family feel a whole lot more patriotic. But it does lok like my boss could let somebody’s son use me. I’m made of good, heavy iron, and that is jusf what Uncle Sam is begging for. I know I’m old and rusty, but Uncle Sam says that doesn’t matter. I know he would be so glad to have me- if only someone would

Fewer Observances of Paper Weddings New York, N. Y., April 16.—Despite an all-time marriage record in the United States in 1942, appropriate first anniversary gifts may fall to a new low! The reason? Couple celebrating the first anniversary—universally known as the “Paper Anniversary” — traditionally receive complete table sets in paper, tender anniversary parties and dinners in paper— featuring paper cups, containers, dishes, napkins and table cloths. Because paper cups are so essential to the War Effort, on both fighting and war production fronts, many types are virtually unobtainable for First Anniversary purposes, it was pointed out. According to the Jewelers Circular Keystone Magazine, more than 1,800,000 marriages were solemnized in this country in 1942, topping the previous high of 1,679,000 'marriages during 1941. Thanks to the war, 1943 will witness the celebration of more Paper Anniversaries with less paper than at any time in history.

How Could MYTelephone Call Delay a War Call?

TIN AND SCRAP WILL HELP BOYS

Few Realize That Former Waste Is Now Precious Material Once upon a time there was a boy, a grand boy who lived in our neighborhood. He was full of the love of life—that fullness of life. | that has only been offered to the youth of America. Then came the call to arms. Our country, which had always been able to offer our boys and girls the countless advantages of our great resources, was called upon to retrench so that our armed forces could be adequately maintained. This boy, perhaps your own boy or your neighbor’s boy, made a promise to his God, his country atid his family to fight, if need be to die, that this selfish intrusion in our way of life might he forever stifled. As we all know, he has kept his promise with all the courage and cunning at his command. He will continue to give that which is expected of him . . . many times over. But he can’t do it with bare hands and courage. This boy may be lying in an advanced foxhole/ position in the buried in muck, tortured by insects, bugs, and reptiles, where he waits for his chance to strike a blow for our security. To strike this blow he has to have courage, a gun, ammunition, grenades; to protect his movement in position, he must have smoke bombs; to protect his battalion, his communication set must receive the information on the disposition and strength of the enemy’s troops. If and when he is detected and wounded, he must have tubes of sulfanilamide ointment to protect him from infection. Then, if by the grace of God he is returned to a field hospital for first aid, he will he given blood plasma in the hope that his life may be spared. It could have been the tin can you prepared that supplied, the necessary tin to make the hand grenade; -it requires only one properly prepared tin can for this. It could have been the scrap iron that you collected that supplied the necessary metal for a machine gun; it requires only 50 pounds of scrap to build a heavy

one.

It could have been the waste fats that you saved that supplied the necessary glycerine for his ammunition; two pounds of waste fats will produce enough glycerine to make five anti-tank shells. It could have been the discarded hosiery, scrap brass and copper, or reclaimed rubber that has saved the lives of many of our boys. “Let’s get behind the men behind the guns and ships and tanks, And all those daring flyers in our Axis-bombing ranks, And the farmer and the townsman and the preacher and the Press, Schools and clubs will all combine to make our scrap drive a suc-

cess.

Junk that’s sold should be invested in those vital bonds and stamps, Make the Stars and Stripes respected by those Jap and German tramps. So let’s all keep on a diggin’, pile the salvage high and wide, Keep it rollin’ to the steel mills for the fight on Ffeedom’s side.” "’"'lied, white and blue are the world’s favorite colors for flags.

YOUR telephone call —like every other —must pass through at least one ’’central office.” That’s the way each and every telephone connection is made. This important centralized switching equipment is shared by all telephone users. It can take care of only so many calls at one time. When it becomes over-crowded, additional calls must wait—until somebody hangs up. When you do not replace the receiver after calling . . . when children hold long telephone "conferences” ... when grown-ups "visit” by telephone even on individual lines, equipment in the busy telephone office is "tied up” for long periods. Telephone lines are crowded now, carrying more calls than ever before. Some are urgent * . . war calls that must get through quickly. Please use your telephone moderately in wartime so that no emergency message will be delayed;

INDIANA BFl l TEl EPHONE COMPANY

help me get to a scrap pile. “Now please don’t get me wrong—my boss isn’t lazy. He’s a good farmer and is doing everything he can to help our country reach its food production goal. But it does seem that he could find enough time to take me to a Scrap pile or cal^ a scrap metal dealer— I’ve helped him put in many a crop, but it seems he doesn’t realize that there is still a big job I can do. “Will someone please tell him that I want to go to North Africa or Australia”? Do you, Mr. Farmer, have an old disc, tractor or implement of any kind that should go to war? Do you have -small pieces of iron and steel that could be doing their bit in Africa? If so, why not junk them today—don’t wait until tomorrow. Our boys on the fronts can’t wait till tomorrow for their attack—if they do they may lose. You may feel that you have done your hit, but have you- really done your best?

TREASURY DRIVE HAS TWO DUTIES Will Support Men And Prevent Inflation In United States

The Treasury Drive for the second war loan, which opened April 12, has two distinct purposes, both of vital 'importance in our conduct of the war program. One is to provide 13 billions of additional dollars—“fighting dollars”—to support our fighting men with all they need in war weapons and war materials. These dollars, taken directly from our pocketbooks and pay checks, will be a tangible evidence of our personal “state” in the war for freedom. 'the other purpose of the loan is' less visible but not less essential. It has to do with checking inflation. It is estimated that the national income this year may reach the gigantic figure of about 135 billion dollars. In times of peace a constantly growing income calls for increasing expenditures for all kinds of goods and services. Unfler wartime conditions — especialy those of a “total” war when all resources must be mobilized for war purposes—we are faced with a steadily shrinking volume of goods and services available to civilians. With many of these goods we are rapidly exhausting reserve stocks and replacements will be on a much smaller scale than when they were accumulated. In addition, a great number of fairly expensive machines and gadgets are not to be had at all, or only in very small quantities. Furthermore, “luxury” travel and vacations, which used up a good part of our surplus income, are out for

the duration.

Altogether we have vastly more money to spend than we have means of spending it—a -surplus spending power, it is believed, of around $40 billions. Unchecked by price controls, rationing and stabilization of wages and prices of farm products, this surplus as it competes for scarce goods would soon result in that dangerous and swift rise in all living costs which goes by the name of inflation.

SENATOR (Continued From Page One) publican “post-war planning” meeting held at the Indianapolis Columbia Club recently. We have the answer now. Wrote the Ft. Wayne News Sentinel: “If they “themselves can’t get together with their fellow-Republicans in their own home state, what makes the Tark ington-Coulter clique of Willkieites at Indianapolis imagine that they have a sure-fire formula for achievj ing global solidarity between the i United States and 30 or 40 foreign j countries?” Fun, watching these j Republicans isn’t it? The isolationist press either hasn’t looked the measure over carefully, or else it was ready to admit its efforts were in the same class as those of saboteurs and wanted tp escape responsibility, when it so bitterly opposed the War Security Bill. We have the word of Roger N. Baldwin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, that the measure “is unex ceptionable from a .civil liberties standpoint—it simply plugs up existing holes in the law against sabotage and provides heavier penalties for violations.” The isolationists, critical as usual, charged that the hill was designed to “muzzle all criticism of the administration and the conduct of- the war.” We refer them to this section of the measure, which guards against any application of the bill to curb honest criticism: “Nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any citizen or citizens or newspaper or other publication at any time from FREELY discussing or OPENLY criticising the domestic or foreign policies of the administration of federal government.” The Justice Department drafted and sponsored the measure, - and pointed out that under present statutes the eight Nazi saboteurs who slipped ashore from a submarine last summer would have got off with not more than two years’ imprisonment had they been tried in the civil courts rather than under military jurisdiction. The Justice Department cannot deal severly enough at present with persons who harbor enemy agents or transmit military information to the enemy, and the more severe penalties are necessary. We use the paragraph at this week’s example of the “anything for a dig at the President” attitude which is hindering the administration’s war

effort.

Since the “back to the farm” movement is especially necessary for dairy farming, which is suffer ing from a lack of skilled work ers, several plans are being pul into effect for returning qualified dairy hands to their former jobs. Country war boards are cooperating with the Department of Agriculture in persuading men in Class IV F—physically unfit for military service—between the ages of 18 and 45 to go back to dairy production, if they are not now engaged in essential war work. Dairymen have long pointed out that dairy work call^ for special skills, that are generally developed by long experience, and for that reason it is highly desirable for all dairy workers, not now employed as such, to use their experience where it counts most— in the production of foods vitally needed by soldiers and civilians alike.

The rules governing the rationing of dry beans, peas and lentils have been revised so that growers of these items need not deal in points when they deliver rationed dry legumes to the first purchaser, known as the “country shipper.” Transfers may also be made pointfree from one country shipper to another, but when the items pass on to wholesalers and retailers they will.be point-free only if used for seed purposes, otherwise they come under point rationing. -o An insurance company has estimated that the average child costs $6,150 to rear.

So now comes National Republican Chairman Harrison Spangler, in reply to Democratic proposals for a short campaign next year, and says the Republicans will go along with a short campaign if President Roosevelt is out of the picture. The war or nothing else matters. Just eliminate Roosevelt and everything will be lovely. Indiana is as famous for its basketball as it is its politics, so let’s suppose it’s tournament time. Podunk and Si wash we’ll say, are among the finalists. The school officials know there's a war on, and it’s not advisable to play at Butler fieldhouse, so a proposal is made by Podunk to play at the fairgrounds Coliseum. “Sure”, says Siwash, “we’ll play you at the fairgrounds—but you'll have to leave your captains at

home if'we do.”

All of which may sound a little silly, but then so does Mr. Spangler. We don’t know if President Roosevelt is going to be a candidate—we don’t think he does. We are more interested in winning the war, and so is he. The people of this country are going to make the decision, not Chairman Spangler, and when the time comes, if the situation is such that he’s needed, and if he’s the best man for the job, the people will nominate and elect him. If he’s not needed, and he’s not the man for the job, then the people will nominate and elect someone else. We still have great faith in the democratic operation of this government. The Chicago Sun does very well in answering Mr. Spangler’s suggestion in the

THE OLD JUDGE SAYS...

"Sure been a great year for crops, Judge... best we’ve had in quite a spell.” "That’s true, Henry... all over the country. As a matter of fact, there’s been quite a surplus supply of grain according to some figures I saw in one of your farm papers the other day. But that surplus is being used to mighty good advantage and is making the contribution of you farmers to the war effort

more important than ever. , "Here’s just one example of what I mean. The beverage distilling industry alone will use 100,000,000 bushels of this surplus to njake alcohol seriously needed by the government for gunpowder, synthetic rubber, chemicals and medical supplies. "So, keep it growin’ Henry... you’re doing a great job.”

Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc.

following editorial.

“For pettifogging irresponsibility and willful refusal to face the crisis of war, it is hard to beat the statement of National Republican Chairman Harrison Spangler. In this a m a z i tig statement, Mr. Spangler hangs a price tag on his party’s devotion to the war. He tacitly admits what every man of sense knows—that a short presidential campaign next year is desirable and will permit concentration of the nation’s energies upon winning the war. He then goes on to declare that the Republicans will not permit a short campaign if President Roosevelt is the Democratic candidate. His party, he thus gives us to understanddoes not consider a speedy and decisive victory as an end in itself, so vital as to take precedence over everything else. No; to Mr. Spangler and the G.O.P., the repudiation of Franklin Roosevelt comes first.' The question of a fourth term for President Roosevelt must be decided next year in the light of conditions then existing. If the war is still going on, the decision should be made in as short a time as possible, with a minimum of national distraction from the war effort. Mr. Spangler proposes to keep the fourth term dispute alive not only throughout

Legal Notice NOTICE OF NEGOTIATING OF SCHOOL m s CONTRACT'S FOB CENTER TOWNSHir, DELAWARE COUNTY, INDIANA

Notice is hereby given that the Trustee and Advisory Board of Center Townshin, Delaware County, Indiana, will Ineet at 8 o’clock p. m. on May 4th. 1943 for the purpose of negotiatingschool bus contracts for Routes Number 1 to 26 inclusive fpr the years of 19431944 and 1944-1945. Description of routes and specifications fo^- equipment are on file at the Trustees office and the County Superin-

tendants office.

The meeting will be held at the office of the Trustee of Center township, Delaware County, Indiana. CHESTER C. CLARK Trustee Center Township

1944 but through the balance of 1943 as well. Somebody ought to tell Mr. Spangler that in a recent Gallup poll, 58 percent of those who had opinions declared in favor of Mr. Roosevelt if the war is

still going on next year. To us, this is a sign that the American people put the war first, above all other consideration. Mr. Spangler and the G.O.P. would be well advised to do the same.

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STARS ON PARADE

By TONI ROSSETT

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JON HALL ONCE STUDIED TO 60 INTO THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE IN THE PICTURE JON DIDN’T HAVE A DOUBLE. HE ACTUALLY MADE ALLTHOSE DANGEROUS DIVES HIMSELF/ DOROTHY LAMOUR. } WHO PLAYS

OPPOSITE HALL .WAS DISCOVERED

BY A STUDIO TALENT SCOUT

WHILE DANCING IN A NEW VbRK _ .

t£iL. night club. Tfcn \V4ealv forgets the Polynesian lovers in the hurricane.'" names aohf JON HALL-JHE HERO SAYS “I DIDN’T MIND THOSE DIVES IN KtOrLto iNAriuo s>U nt

THE PICTURE AT ALL, IVE BEEN DIVING OFF BRIDGES INTO THE RWER WHERE I LIVED IN CALIFORNIA SINCE I WAS A KID/*

CALLS EVERYONE *4boTS .

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— IS ONE OF THE BEST ALL-AROUND SPORTSMEN IN HOLL/WOOD. CLARK LOVES TO SNEAK OFF TO SOME DISTANT RURAL SPOT WHERE folks Know nothing OF MOVIE STARS. TO THENl he is oust another cny GUY ON A VACATION. HE SAYS HE REALLY FEELS HIMSELF IN THAT ATMOS-PHERE-FISHING with A LOT OF OLD CRONIES WHO DON’T REALIZE HE^THE SCREEN’S GREAT LOVER l

HARRY KARRY

1 Hn a FIGHT WITH THE. CHAUFFEUR, I ZX-5 IS KNIFED FROM BEHIND BY Aim.

A FEW MILES NORTH OF THELONELY HOUSE.

HELLO-YES,THIS IS DOCTOC? FIELDS.-— EMERSENC/? VES, I'LL BE RIGHT OVER.

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By WILLIS B. RENSIE

HMm/ AN EMERGENCY 'WAY OUT THERE/- IN THAT LONELY OLD HOUSI OH WELL/