Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 February 1944 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1944.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT £ Democratic weekly newspaper representing the £“/emocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879.. ” PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR “ MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Buncie, Indiana, Friday, February 18, 1944.

By Robert Lasch Let us examine this coalition of Republicans and poll-tax Democrats which in the House last week voted to deprive millions of servicemen of their right to cast ballots next November. It is the same coalition which voted on several occasions to raise the cost of living, either by prohibiting the use of subsidies or by hampering enforcement of price control. It is the same coalition which voted to extend the Russia-baiting Dies committee at a time when we were waging war in alliance with Russia; to kill off the Farm Security Administration at a time when we needed every pound of food production from small farms; to liquidate the National Resources Planning Board at a time when national planning was of critical importance; to tax the lowest income groups while sabotaging the $25,000 ceiling on wartime salaries, and to adopt a soft wartime tax policy in a period of unprecedented ability to pay taxes. This is the coalition, moreover, which the people 'created in 1942. It flows directly from a congressional election in which only 28 million people took part and 22 million people stayed away from the polls. What we must understand is that the disfranchisement of servicemen was not an isolated phenomenon, a momentary aberation, but part of a distant and premeditated pattern. And the clue to the pattern is this, that in 1942 we elected a House of Represem tatives which, though nominally organized by the administration party, was willing to sacrifice virtually any principle of national welfare (except the actual prosecution of the war) for the sake of striking a blow at President Roosevelt. Individual members of the coalition may not have wanted injthvi4ually^T© : 4avit^ npoTr all ouf heads a disastrous inflation. Yet as a group they behaved in such fashion as to produce that result because, as a group, controlling inflation did not matter so much to them as tearing down the administration. Quite possibly few coalition members bore a direct animus against servicemen. Yet, again, they were willing to disfranchise the servicemen because, in their scale of values, the rights and wrongs of soldier voting weighed less than their desire to foil and frustrate the President. This is a severe indictment, but its justice cannot, I think, be seriously disputed. Nor can the responsibility lie elsewhere than on the Republican leadership. For the Democratic wing of the coalition consists of dissenters, not the majority of that party; whereas the Republican wing is a disciplined party machine which mobilized 90 per cent of its strength against soldier voting, and has always been able to command at least 80 per cent of its potential on major issues. Thanks to this discipline, and thanks to the help of 30 or 40 reactionary Southern Democrats, the Republicans have been able to wield effective control of the House since January, 1943, without bearing the responsibility^ for it. No major legislation has been enacted without Republican approval, and in every important case the will of the Republican caucus has become the will of the House. One expects an opposition to oppose. But there are degrees of opposition, particularly in wartime, and the character of the present one has been clearly demonstrated on the soldier voting and inflation issues. Do we really want a House of Representatives which is willing to deprive servicemen of their right to vote, and willing to inflict a higher cost of living upon the families of those servicemen at home? What can we expect, during the critical two years ahead, from a Congress which stands on that record for the two years pa?t? Anybody who honestly faces those questions and all their implications must conclude that the 22 million peopel who stayed away from the polls in 1942 bear a special responsibility this year to take part in a congressional election which returns a better congress than the 78th. V If the GOP Is Curious Harrison Spangler, National GOP chairman, is very anxious as to how our soldiers feel about the 1944 election. Spangler’s curiosity led him to the extremely questionable device of inducing “Republican Army officers” to “survey” political opinion among troops stationed abroad. There is a much simpler way to find out the exact political opinion of Ametrica’s armed forces. It will answer all the questions which Spangler and other Republicans have in mind. It will save subterfuge, and the embarrassment Spangler suffers from having blurted out his indiscretion in mixing politics into Army affairs. What is that way? LET THE SOLDIERS VOTE. Let. Spangler line up Republican Congressional opinion behind the Lucas-Green bill, which will assure ALL the men and women of the armed forces the ballot next November. Then he’ll know.—Philadelphia Record.

Henry Schricker, Humanitarian Steps toward fulfillment of one of Gov. Henry F. Schricker’s most cherished desires —improved working conditions for Indiana’s institutional employes—will be taken within the next few weeks when the Indiana Sftate Prison and the Indiana Reformatory begin operating under an eight-hour day. The program is expected to be inaugurated as soon as sufficient new employes are obtainable, and will be expanded to benefit other state institutions as funds and employes become available. The governor, institutional offciials, budget officials and the divisions of personnel have held several conferences, at the governor’s request, and the plans will soon become a reality. Operation of the state’s institutions and care of the state’s wards have been uppermost in the governor’s mind since he began his administration, and he has worked constantly to better conditions for employes. Frequently he has paid tribute to the loyalty of the men and women who have opportunities in private industry. Most institution employes are now on a 12-hour day. Speaking before the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, the governor announced the new program, declaring, “It is just a matter of good sound business to handle employes in a humane way. Some day I hope the people of the state will erect a monument to these people who are doing the dirty work for us.” He predicted the population of all state institutions will increase within a short time and pointed out the need for additional facilities. The governor declared the state should be ashamed of itself for paying institutional employes as low as $35 a month “when we have an unincumbered balance in the treasury of $30,000,000.” The governor’s program won immediate praise, even from the Republican press. The Indianapolis News described it as a “commendable idea,” explaining that it will attract abler men. “The state may as well realize that it can not enlist qualified personnel unless it provides suitable working conditions,” the News declared. Under Gov. Schricker’s self-support program for the state’s institutions, 90 per cent of the food consumed is now produced on state farms. The state now has 9,300 acres of land in production and last year canned 650,000 gallons of food, some of which has been sold to out-of-state institutions and ^fco the armed forces. The savings to the state’s taxpayers as a result of the self-sup-port program is far greater than the increased cost which will result from the new program., and the benefits will be worth many times' the cost. Gov. Schricker always has felt very deeply about the situation in the state’s institutions, and the-state is grateful that this great humanitarian has taken the lead in a movement to bring Indiana up to the same high standard in this regard that it has attained in other fields of governmental and civil endeavor. GOP “Economy” Here’s another note on Republican “economy and efficiency” in government. Charles A. Huff, chairman of Mayor Robert H. Tyndall’s insurance committee in Indianapolis, has estimated that it will cost approximately $22,000 for the city to insure the 400 municipally owned automobiles under the new state motor vehicle responsibility act. The act, you’ll remember, was passed by the last Republican-controlled general assembly. If our figuring is correct, that would amount to $55 per vehicle. We did some checking up and found that the State of Indiana has insured state police vehicles, 375 of them, for a total of $3,350.00. The unit price for 323 passenger cars was approximately $8.70 for 50 motorcycles, the same, and for trucks, $10.80. That’s quite a lot cheaper than the $50 figure used by Mr. Huff for the city, and certainly state police cars would offer as much of a hazard, if not more, than city police cars. V Emmert Achieves Record Attorney General James Emmert, Republican, who is believed to have set some sort of a record for the number of opinions he has issued, is in hot water again. The attorney general recently ruled that accounts receivable, such as the charge accounts of grocerries, department stores, etc., were subject to personal property tax, because they were not affected by the intangibles tax law. The pressure on the attorney general from the Chamber of Commerce, retail groups and others was terrific. So Mr. Emmert recalled his opinion, rewrote it and said the accounts receivable were NOT subject to personal property tax. Now, some farm groups and others are turning the heat back on the attorney general, asking him to go back to his original ruling and threatening court action. Until the legislature does something one way or another, the state tax board must abide by whatever decision the attorney general makes. Would VVe Have Won? Isolationist Senator Nye of North Dakota, defending isolationists’ votes against preparedness, said if we had had ten times as much military, naval and air strength at Pearl Harbor, we would have lost ten times as much as we did. Brother, there’s deep thinking. If we didn’t have a Pearl Harbor, the Japs would have naturally attacked our West Coast. But if that happened, we suppose, Senator Nye would have asked, “What the hell is the West Coast doing on the Pacific?—Minnesota Teamster.

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS AND SPECIAL MEETING OF DELAWARE

COUNTY COUNCIL

Notire is hereby given the taxpayers of Delaware County, Indiana, and to the members of the Delaware County Council that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place, on the 24th day of February, 1944, at the hour of It* o'clock a. m. consider the following additional appropriations which said officers consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time; also to consider and act on the request of the County' Department of Public Welfare for additional appropriations, the amount of said appropriations be-

ing as follows: CUvrk Circuit Court 102A Salary of First Deputy.. .$ 150.00 102R Salary of Second Deputy. 150.00 102c Salary of Third Deputy... 150.00 102D Salary of Fourth Deputy 150.00 102R Salary of Fifth Deputy.... 150.00 602B Daw Books 85.00 County Auditor 104A Salary of First Deputy.... 150.00 104B Salary of Second Deputy. . 150.00 104C Salary of Third Deputy... 150.00 104D Salary of Fourth Deputy.. 150.00 C02D Adding Machines 875.00 County Treasurer lozA Salary of First Deputy... 150.00 102B Salary of Second Deputy 150.00 102C Salary of Third Deputy. . 150.00 103A Extra Clerk Hire 180.00 County Recorder 102A Salary of First Deputy. . . . 150.0,0 102B Salary of Second Deputy .. 150.00 205 Repairs 4.75 211 Office Supplies 7.70 County Sheriff 102C Extra or part time Deputy 300.00 County Superintendent Schools 102A Salary of Deputy 150.00 211 Office Supplies 60.00 County Assessor 102 Salary of Deputy 150.00 Township Assessor 201 Communication & Transportation 26.80 Prosecuting Attorney 105 Exp-Deposition-St. vs. Barton 75.00 County Court House 101 Salary of Custodians 800.00 205A Repairs 35.78

County Jail

205A Repairs 300.00 401 Insurance & Premiums . . . 75.00 County Infirmary 205B Repairs of Equipment — trans. from No. 206 .... 300.00 208 Garage & Motor-trans. from 202 & 209 t6 No. 208 ... 300.00 602F-2 Farm Equipment-trans. from No. 209 600.00 County Childrens Home 205 Repairs 113.19 County Commissioners 107 Per Diem Co Attd Officer 725.00 119S T B Indigents 1952.82 123A First Deputy Registration Office 150.00 123B Second Deputy Registration Office 150.00 123E Unpaid 1943 Claims for Deputies—Notices of Cancellation of Regis 250.00 408 Bounties for Animals . . . 100.00 Department Public Welfare 204 Printing and Adt 50.00 602G Other Office Equipment . . 100.00 102A Salaries of Asst. Directors & Supervisors 480.00 102B Salary of Visitors 2880.00 102C Salary of Clerical Asst. ... 12t>.00

Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriations as finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will hold a further hearing within 15 days at the County Auditor’s Office of Delaware County, Indiana, or at such other place as may be designated. At such hearing, taxpayers objecting to any such additional appropriations may he heard and interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when and where such hearing will be held. , SAMUED L. CUNNINGTON

Auditor Delaware County, Indiana. Feb. 11-18, 1944

Q Legal Notice NOTICE TO DIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids and proposals up to the hour of 10:00 a. m. C.W.T., on Tuesday, the 7th day of March, 1944, at the office of the Auditor in the Court House in the City of Muncie, Indiana, for the furnishing of the following equipment, materials, and supplies for the County Highway Do.partment and County Institutions, for the year 1944, as follows, towit: Gravel One (1) to five thousand (5,000) yards of gravel in bank or pile in Salem or Ferry Twp. Lumber Hardwood lumber in various amonuts, lengths, widths and sizes as per specifications. Asphalt & Other Bituminous Materials Tjiree Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand (325,000) gallons or less of Asphalt and other Bituminous materials. Drag and Grader Blades Drag and grader blades in various amounts, sizes, for various maintainers and graders ail as per specifications. Cement One (1) to two thousand (2,000) bids. Hardware & Electrieal Supplies For institutions of Delaware County for balance of year of 1944. Requirements and specifications for said equipment, materials, and supplies are on file in the office of the Auditor, of Delaware County, Indiana. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a non-collusion affidavit as required by law. Whenever a bid is in excess of $500.00 the same shall be accompanied by a bidder’s bond or certified check payable to the Treasurer of Delaware County, Indiana, which bond or check shall be in an amount not lessXhan 10% of the total amount of such bid. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Done this 15th day of February, 194!. SAMUED D. CUNNINGTON Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana J. Robt. Dong, County Attorney. Feb. 18-25 O Legal Notice NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: Mary Bradshaw

vs.

Harry Lee Bradshaw In the Delaware Circuit Court |January Term, 1944 Complaint: Divorce No. 18678 Notice is hereby given the said defendant Harry Lee Bradshaw that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with a affidavit said defendant Harry Lee is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Saturday the 15th day of April, 1944, the 12th day the next term of said Court, to be holdcn on the 1st Monday in April, A. D., 1944, at the I Court House in the City of Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined in his 'absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 17th day of February, A. D., 1944. JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. House Committee Approves Bills Washington, TTeb. 18—The house appropriation committee today anfunctions supply bill calling for expenditure of $111,477,979 on flood control and other civil projects during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The total includes $86,911,440 in new appropriations — the exact

■ that the Bradshaw

Bottled Grape Juice Flavors Salad

To highlight an important dinner, make Grape Juice Salad well ahead of time, and have it ready to unmold with no fuss a( the last minute. Bottled grape juice is low in point value, but high in flavor and favor. Combined with crunchy apples, celery and green pepper, grape juice lends not only a tangy flavor but a colorful note to the dinner setting. For 6 servings. 2 tablespoons lemon Juice Zz cup diced red apple 1 tablespoon granulated gelatin % cup diced celery cups bottled grape Juice Vz cup finely cut green pepper* teaspoon salt Vz cup broken nut meats 2 tablespoons sugar Lettuce leaves Place lemon juice in a medium sized bowT Sprinkle with gelatin and let stand for about five minutes. Heat bottled grape juice and pour over soaked gelatin. Add salt and sugar and stir until dissolved. Chill until mixture begins to thicken. Fold in apple, celery, green pepper and nut meats. Pour into individual nolds or one large mold and chill in refrigerator until firm. Unor lettuce. Ton with mavonnai.se and earnish with nut meats.

Legal Notice LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcrholie Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will at 9:00 a. in. Central War Time on the 3rd day of March, 1944 at the Clerk’s Office, Court House in the City of Muncie, in said County, begin investigation of the auplications (f the following named persons, requesting the issue to the applicants, at tlie locations hereinafter set out, of tlie Alcoholic Beverage Permits of the classes hereinafter designated ami 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: Margaret Harper, 99059, (Restaurant), 131() E. Memorial Drive, Muncie—Beer, Wine Retailer— Theodore Bicknell, 99024, (Restaurant), 639 W. Eighth St., 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 BERNARD E. DOYLE Excise Administrator amount requested by President Roogevelt in his budget message. The remainder represented reapproved a War Department eivii ptoalien of previously authorized but unobligated funds. The $23,566,539 in reappropriafed funds was $3,008,450 more than contemplated by the budget bureau. ' The committee said it authorized the increase for important and necessary advance planning of flood control work. The committee at the same time recommended repeal of $34,957,572 in other unexpended balances of previous appropriations for projects suspended for the duration Its recommendations allow expenditures of only $2,767,473 for preliminaries on the third locks program of the Panama Canal, and repeal $30,257,572 which had been authorized for work on the locks, which practically are in a ‘suspended status.” The committee said that when resumption is decided upon, congress should re-re-examine the matter, obtain revised cost estimates, and start appropriations afresh. The bill proposed $25,000,00 for flood control work in the Mississippi river and its tributaries.

The committee said there was pressing need to bring the mainline Mississippi river levels to project grade anil section at a ; number of points, fiucluding Cairo, 111. The bill authorized $46,800,00 in new appropriations for improvement of authorized river and harbor projects and maintenance, operation and care of others. The new projects, totaling $3,630,000, included $250,000 for open channel work c.u the Illinois waterway. The more important projects are: Mississippi river levees, $12,378,000; revetments, $5,800,000; dredging, $5,350,000; St. Francis Basin project, $100,000; Yazoo Basin project, $315,0.00; Atehafalaya Basin floodways, $200,000; surveys, cages and observations, $604,000. In the general flood control pro-

Bazooka Berkshire

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. — Nc Arkansas Razor-back is this grand champion at the Pacific National Berkshire show purchased by Bob Burns, motion picture and radio comedian; at $1050 for his Rancho Bazooka. Bums, who is famous for his wild tales of Arkansas hill folk, and the guttural rumblings oi his gas pipe Bazooka, is an ardent admirer of fin& livestock and : spends much time at his ranch 1 her».

Cores for 6 Kids—Works in Factory

Mrs. Irma Stewart, 39, Is a part time Winchester war worker helping make stocks for the famous Garand rifle on the 7 P. M. to II P. M. Shift. She also keeps house for her defense plant worker husband Harold, Sr., and four children and to round out her waking hours, boards two other babies. The picture, at left, shows Mrs. Stewart at her job in the New Haven plant, at work on a Garand rifle stock, and above, in her kitchen at her New Haven home.

From where I sit... ^ Joe Marsh

Sure’s a lot of talk going around nowadays about post-war planning... folks passing resolutions . . . statesmen holding conferences . . . governments making promises to each other. But as Bert Childers says: “What good is all this drawing up of plans unless each one of us decides to make his corner of the world a better place to live in?” ( From where I sit, Bert’s put the problem in a nutshell. Governments can pass aH the resolutions and make all the treaties

they can think of-and it’s still up to the people themselves to see to it that the world is ruled by tolerance and understanding. Unless we make up our minds to respect the other fellow’s rights and liberties—whether it’s the right to enjoy a glass of beer occasionally or the right to vote according to our conscience —all our post-war planning won’t be worth the paper that it’s printed on.

IVo. 75 of a Series

Copyright, 1944, Brewing Industry Foundation

This Is the Record—Don’t Forget It Shall We Trade All This for “Free Enterprise?” For those who may have lost confidence in the President as champion of the common man, we list below 27 important social, economic and governmental reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt Administration since 1933. We print the list merely as a reminder for those who may have forgotten. 1 Establishment of a sound tmdking system. 2 Creation of a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee bank deposits. 3 Organization of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, to save g» homes from foreclosure. 4 Saving farms from foreclosure by establishment of the Farm Credit Administration. 5 Rescuing agriculture from disaster through the AAA and the Soil Conservation Act. 6 Providing truth in the sale of securities and protecting the security of investors through the Securities and Exchange Commission. Slum clearance. Reduction of farm tenancy. Old age insurance. Unemployent insurance. Federal aid to the crippled and blind. Public works projects, carried on to provide work and to build thousands of permanent improvements. Distribution of funds through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to save starving people who had reached the end of their resources. Enactment of minimum wage and maximum hour laws. The Civilian Conservation Corps and Reforestation. The National Youth Administration, aiding thousands of underprivileged young people. Legislation abolishing child labor. Reciprocal trade agreements. Stimulation of private home building through the Federal Ilousing Administration. " , Resettlement of farmers from marginal lands that cannot be cultivated profitably. Getting electricity out to the farmers through the Rural Electrification Administration. Water conservation programs. Drought control and drought relief. Crop insurance and the ever normal granary. Assistance to farm cooperatives. Conservation of natural resources. The National Labor Relations Act. The records speaks for itself. ....

gram, no new projects would be started, the work being limited to those projects which have been completed or upon which work was suspended. The projects involved where the funds allocated for expenditure in the 1945 fliscal year are $50,000,000 or more. Included : Ohio river basins: Falmouth, Ky., reservoir, $50,000; Wolf Creek, Ilk, reservoir, $100,000; Chattanooga, Tenn., and Rossville, Ga., $100,000; Stewart’s Ferry, Tenn., reservoir, $100,000. The War Department estimated that mainteance costs of river and. harbor projects during the year beginning July 1 will total $28,332,000. Among the major project maintenance costs is the Ohio river, with an open channel work allocation of $1,208,900. Disaster Service During the fiscal year ending June 30, 1943, Red Cross Disaster Service extended aid to sufferers in 178 disasters, the largest number in the history of the organization. Distributed throughout 45 states, 119,295 victims received disaster relief and rehabilitation services representing a total expenditure of $1,592,500. When the Red Cro»ss drive starts on March 1, be ready with your donation. _o In the last 4,000 years of history there have been but 268 years entirely free of war. The first separate children’s court was established in Chicago in 1899.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES "Mind” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, February 20. The Golden Text is: “Behold, God is mighty, and despLseth not a: /: he is mighty in strength and wisdom” (Job 36:5) t Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “Give therefore thy servant an Understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the life of thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment; Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and an understanding heart” (I Kings 3:9, 11, 12). “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5). The Lesson-Sermon also includes the following passages from the Christian Science textbook,“Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “God is not moved by the breath of praise to do more than he has already done, nor can the infinite do less than bestow all good, since He is unchanging wisdom and Love. . . . God is Love. Can we ask Him to be more? God is intelligence. Can we inform the infinite Mind of anything He does not already comprehend” < n. 2)?

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