Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 5 May 1944 — Page 4

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1944.

THE POST DEMOGRAT ? I. i.cmdcratic weekly newspaper representing the l/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, at 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 Muncie, Indiana, Friday, May ,5 1944.

Who’s Playing Politics? State Auditor Richard T. James, an announced candidate for the Republican nomination of lieutenant-governor who hopes he has the blessing of state G.O.P. bosses, in a campaign address assailed what he termed “an interesting game of politics to make vates” on the part of Governor Henry F. Schricker. After reading press accounts of James’ speech we wonder, who is playing politics? First, James said that since becoming a candidate for United States Senator, “Governor Schricker now says he would like to cut the state property tax rate or increase the amount of distribution to our schools.” Mr. James why not tell the truth? James gives himself credit for being the guiding genius for a lower state tax rate. He said “as state auditor I made the first proposal to reduce the state tax rate.” Why doesn’t he tell the public where the funds come from to permit a lower rate ? The funds came from the gross income tax law enacted under Governor Paul V. McNutt’s administration. The funds came from a Democratic-enacted law which Republicans of Indiaia promised to abolish when they came into power and Republicans have been in full control of the legislature for the last three sessions. Why not, Mr. James, tell the people why the Republicans failed to make good their promises? James also claims credit for the increased amount being distributed to the schools of Indiana. Why not, Mr. James, give the public the tfue picture? Tell them that this also is made possible by a law enacted under a Democratic administration and from the funds made available because,of the gross income tax law. Another Republican candidate, Ralph F. Gates, who is seeking the gubernatorial nomination at the hands of his own constructed and well oiled machine, ascends the speaker’s rostrum and points with pride as to how the Republican Generaly Assembly “zealously guarded the $33,000,000 surplus in the state treasury.” And he then expounds further that the surplus would reach between $37,000,000 and $39,000,000 by July 1. Of course, Mr. Gates, did not tell his listeners that this amount was derived from the gross income tax law and that it accumulated under Democratic governors. He neglected to inform his listeners as to what the financial condition of the state was when Republicans were in full control. Mr. Schricker is playing politics according to the Republican candidates when he proposes benefits for the taxpayers of Indiana. The Republican candidates are not playing politics, according to their code of “get-into-office-any-way-you-can,” when they fail to tell the public the truth. Come, Mr. James and Mr. Gates, who is playing politics? V Which Do the Farmers Prefer? The Agriculture Department estimated cash income from farm marketings for 1943 recently at $19,009,000,000, compared with $15,336,000,000 the previous year, according to an AP dispatch published in the New York Times. Livestock and livestock products contributed the major factor in the rise. Hog sales made sharp advances over 1942 and there were marked increases in poultry and eggs, at higher average prices. Oil-bearing crop income was 70 per cent higher. This source of income was more than three times the 1942 figure. Receipts from peanuts ip Texas were six times as great as in 1942 and income from soybeans was twelve times as great. Income from vegetables and truck crops from January to November, 1943, increased in all regions. The largest gain was in the South Atlantic sections, where receipts were 52 per cent greater than for the same eleven months of 1942. Wheat income increased 13 per cent in the north central regions but dropped 2 per cent in the western area. In North Dakota, receipts from wheat were 40 per cent greater than in 1942 but in Kansas City they were down 5 per cent. Income from livestock rose 20 per cent in the eleven months, up 40 per cent in the South Atlantic region alone. In Georgia, income from eggs and poultry was nearly twice as great as in 1942, while income from livestock as a whole was 47 per cent above 1942. Receipts from hogs were high in all sections and increased 41 per cent in the west north central regions. The gain in income in Iowa was 39 per cent. In 1932, under Republican rule, the total cash income of the farmers of the U. S. A. was slightly over 4 billion dollars. In 1943, after 10 years of Democratic rule, it was slightly over 19 billion dollars. Which do the farmers of America prefer?—Rushville Telegram. Schricker Announces ^ For several months Gov. Henry F. Schricker has held the Democrats in Indiana at

arm’s length with his refusal to announce his intentions politically. Not until Saturday did the Governor make it plain to waiting throngs of political leaders that he would if the party desired, seek the Democratic nomination for United States Senator for the long term, and this announcement really boomed the campaign at once into a going and earnest program. With the announcement came the prediction by the present Senator Samuel D. Jackson that Governor Schricker would be his successor in the Sen-

ate.

The Democratic Editorial Association got a send-off that has already reverberated from one end of the state to the other, when the Governor yielded to the unanimous desire of his party to become a candidate for the nomination for U. S. Senator. Mr. Schricker has been politely pressed for an answer for several months, but he said nothing until the right time and the right place. That time was when the “big boys” of the organization were all present to assure the Governor of undivided support. He knew when to play his trump card, and by so-do-ing has brought the entire Democratic party into common unity for the approaching campaign. Never in history was there greater solidarity within the party and never was a man so loudly acclaimed by his associates. Henry F. Schricker certainly is a top-ranking Democrat, not only within his own party but with thousands of Republicans. This was demonstrated four years ago when he was the only Democrat elected to state office. During the tenure of office as Governor, with the General Assembly strongly controlled by Republicans, Mr. Schricker has managed his office well and has not only earned the respect of every Democrat in the state but holds a like respect with many Republicans. Henry F. Schricker is a common man, loved and respected by hundreds of common friends. Farmers like him, business men like him, labor likes him; even women and children admire him. The Republicans will find Gov. Schricker a very hard man to defeat.—The Williamsport Pioneer. —r v —. They Hate the’President Worse Than Hitler: No. 1 The above is not written in perfect English, but we thing you get the idea. Our first portrait in America’s gallery of Roosevelt-haters is that of Sewell L. Avery, president of Montgomery Ward & Co., big Chicago mail order house. Avery is in the news just now through his second wartime defiance of Uncle Sam. In refusing to obey a War Labor Board order to extend his union contract, pending negotiations, Avery has compelled the President •to interrupt his sorely needed vacation and take a personal hand in the dispute. It repeats Avery’s performance when he defied the WLB last June. Now it’s a good thing to have some healthy hate in wartime—if it’s hate for the enemy. Avery hates Roosevelt. We’ve carefully culled our files. We can find no instance where Avery publicly expressed so much as dislike of Hitler, or To jo, or even Mussolini. Why does Avery seem to hate Roosevelt more than Hitler? Sewell Avery doesn’t like to take orders from anybody. That includes his own stockholders, whom he cursed out when they questioned his $100,000 a year salary. XXX Avery is one of our successful businessmen who got to thinking he also was a self-made god. He started life with a silver spoon in his mouth and has had it there ever since. He became a lawyer but switched over to business when he got a job, in 1931, as Eastern sales manager of the U. S. Gypsum Company. Four years later, at 31, he was elected president. Sewell Avery likes to boast that never since has he held any job anywhere beneath the rank of president. When Sewell Avery took over as president of Montgomery Ward, at the pit of the depression, he remained as president of U. S. Gypsum, he told stockholders, on golf courses. Avery started hating the New Deal as soon as the recovery it engendered began pulling Montgomery Ward back on its feet. In 1938, Avery told Montgomery Ward stockholders the New Deal was destroying the “confidence of business to proceed.” He carried on his tirade— After which he revealed that his firm had upped the earnings per common share from 33 cents a share the first quarter of 1937 to 70 cents a share same period in 1938. In the first four years of the New Deal, he revealed, sales of Montgomery Ward increased 76 percent. In 1935 the firm earned $1.72 per share; in 1941—$4.14. XXX Why does Avery let his hate for the President and the New Deal drive him into making an utter ass of himself? For one reason: The New Deal, for his own good, had to discipline his power over his employes. It not only helped Avery and his firm; it also helped the men who worked for them. Thanks to wide distribution of stock. Avery has a firm grip on his Ward job. He does not have the same influence on his employes, or on his Government (as he used to when Hoover consulted him). He doesn’t like unions. They challenge his power. He doesn’t like the New Deal, for the same reason. He doesn’t like Roosevelt, ditto. Even Business Week Magazine bawled out Avery for his asinine attitude in defying the President last summer. Since then, he has

behaved more and more like one of industry’s spoiled children. Someone once called him the “John L. Lewis of business.”. Of course, he could say he hasn’t bushy eyebrows. But his motto is: “To hell with you.”—Philadelphia Record. y Pretty Words Republican leaders of the Indiana General Assembly issued a joint statement which, after stating the special session was called for the prime purpose of passing a soldier vote bill, read: “However, meritorious any other proposed measure may be, it is the concensus of the Republican party leaders (and we might add not that of duly elected representatives and senators) that all of these items can wait until the next regular session which is only nine months away. “The Republican party also must meet its obligations to the people of Indiana—the people who have said and are saying that this special session would be limited to soldier legislation only. “The Republican party has always met its obligations to the servicemen and women of this nation and will meet its obligations in this great emergency.” Pretty words, very pretty words. And it expresses the Republican policy of waiting, but no action. Meritorious measures can wait—and one of those meritorious measures was Governor Henry F. Schricker’s proposal for a reduction of 7 cents in the state tax levy. Mr. Taxpayer can wait for relief as he has always done under the Republican party. The public wants a short session. Who started the idea of a short session? G.O.P. leaders in Indianapolis, in a campaign year, envisioned a one-bill one-day session, believing that it would be a great campaign issue pointing toward efficiency. The duly elected officials balked, and the session could not be limited to one day as the general public had long known, but the leaders could not lose face so they refused to let their hirelings consider anything but four hand-pick-ed bills. And you remember how the Republican party took care of the servicemen after World War I. After the soldiers tired of selling apples on street corners and marched on Washington, they were driven out at the point of bayonets. It was Herbert Hoover, the same gentleman who is now silently directing the campaign of Governor Thomas E. Dewey, who issued those orders for Republican relief to the servicemen. Pretty words—Republican promises that are never fulfilled. The MacArthur Affair Since it is the central part of the country that is regarded as most favorable to the movement to make Gen. Douglas MacArthur a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, the comment of the conservative Kansas City Star on the subject is of interest. The Star says: “The latest statement of Gen. MacArthur indicates plainly that he now recognizes the seriousness of interpretations that may be placed upon the movement attempting to make him a presidential candidate. He denies any intention of criticizing the administration in his previous statements or letters. He says once more that he is seeking no political office, but unfortunately he does not .say positively that he would not welcome a nomination and thus repudiate the ill-advised effort in his behalf. “Politically this movement has been misconceived to the point of asininity. It has lacked even a remote touch of cleverness or astuteness. It has been and is plainly stupid. It was not the kind of thing to take hold of the public imagination, and there has been little or no public demand for Gen. MacArthur as a presidential candidate. The movement has been engineered by a few politically bungling insiders. The latest of these to emerge, Rep. Miller of Nebraska, is a political nonentity, who would never have been heard of had it not been for his correspondence with MacArthur, now made pub-

lic.”

We feel sure that the best friends of the popular military leader believe that Rep. Miller has done him a great disservice. Even Miller must now realize his mistake. Every public man is subject to embarrassment by overzealous, but unwise followers. Gen. MacArthur is no exception.—JournalGazette. y May 2 Important May 2 should be marked on every calendar in every home in Indiana. Just imagine for yourself what the people of France would give to enjoy the high privilege which the registered voters of Indiana are urged to exercise on May 2, Primary Day. It is nothing less than to register an effective choice as to the nature and policies of the government they wish. It is the essence of that government of the people, by the people, for the people which we mean when we talk about democracy. It is a priceless privilege. It is a rare one. Even in England, where the right to vote was dearly won and jealously prized, the people have not been able to vote generally since 1935, the year of the last general election. There that privilege, that right, is a reality. For most of the millions of the earth it is only a fond hope. Nowhere is it so highly valued as whereUt was once enjoyed and has since been destroyed. No person in Indiana who has the right to vote in the primaries has the moral right

to neglect it. It is once a concrete duty of citizenship and a symbolic act of faith in democracy. Primaries are of vital importance. It is there that delegates will be elected to attend state conventions, where in turn delegates to the national conventions will be named. A primary vote is just as important as a general election vote. Go to the polls on May 2, and cast your vote for the best candidates. y Something New In Politics The Lawrence County Democratic organization set a new precedent April 1st when they filed a complete ticket composed entirely of women. There is no record that such a movement ever occurred before anywhere in the country. A prominent Bedford Democrat said to us* “Why not, when you go into most any courthouse a lady waits on you. They do all the work so why not elect them to office.” He further stated that all the candidates were well known women of fine character and splendid ability. Whether elected next November or not the movement got off to a good start for practically all the press associations put it on the wires and was given publicity from coast to coast. It is our most honest opinion that more women should be recognized on the ticket in Washington county in the future. — Salem Democrat. y These Things Come Not Back By Ruth Taylor There is an old proverb taken from the Persian: “Four things come not back—the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity.” “The spoken word.” It is not the fine things we have said that come back to us. What haunts us is the careless word, the critical speech, the unconscious cruelty. The times we misunderstood or misinterpreted our neighbor’s action, tjie hasty generalization, the rumor repeated as though it were fact, the unkind gossip, are what we remember. If we are sincere in our endeavors to do right, these things plague us. These are the words that hurt us as deeply as those against whom we talked. “The sped arrow.” This is the barb of unkindness that went straight to the heart of our neighbor, the wise-crack that stung, the indifference to our brother’s needs, the cold withdrawal from the common life. The sharp trick, the self-interest we displayed, the spurning of the outstretched hand are among the things that torment us. “The past life.” Not only do we recall those things we did individually but our national mistakes, for which we, as citizens, are responsible. We neglected the developing of brotherly relations between Americai^ of good faith. We assumed an isolationist attitude toward the problems of the world. We allowed the sores of other nations to fester and flare up until the plague threatened us with its virus of hatred. “The neglected opportunity.” Here again we suffer from both our individual and national efforts—the friendships we did not make, the help to the downtrodden we did not give, the responsibility we shirked. We created out of the wilderness a great nation. We founded a democracy — but how have we lived up to it ? We boast that the United States has the ideal living plan for all. If we mean what we say, then we must begin immediately to put an end to the race hatred that has been permitted to creep in, or we will undermine our own basic principle and go back hundreds of years to the bigotry of old that destroyed nations. We have our opportunity now to correct old mistakes—but we must remember the four things that come not back: Let the words we speak be words of fairness and friendship. Let the arrows we send forth carry venges of brotherly love. Let our life be as near to what we want our future to be, as we can make it—and let us not neglect any opportunity to prove the worth of our faith. 2—VA Weltome Opportunity It was a fighting Henry Schricker that the more than 1,000 Democrats gathered at the Claypool Hotel in Indianapolis heard last Saturday night. Fresh from the “short” session of the General Assembly, in which the Republican majority shamefully ignored the right of all servicemen to vote, the Governor was visibly moved as he denounced their tactics. Always enthusiastically received by his audiences, the Governor Saturday injected a healthy enthusiasm into the Democrat gathering. His simple statement that if the Democrats of Indiana “should determine that I be the party’s choice for the United States Senate, then I will do my best to be elected” fired the assembled Democrats with a lasting determination to continue this splendid state official in the service of his country. Marshall County Democrats will welcome the opportunity they will have in November to play their part in sending Henry Schricker to Washington. — Plymouth Daily News. V Free Enterprise Look closely if you can into the records of those who are screaming most about “free enterprise” and you will find in most cases that they are referring to laws and regulations by the national government designed to protect the masses of people in this country and harming only predatory interests.— New Haven Union Times.

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 banking system. 2 Creation of a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to guarantee bank deposits. 3 Organization of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation to save p 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 Consepvation Act. 6 Providing truth in the »ale of securities and protecting the security of investors through the Securities and Exchange Commission. . i 7 Slum clearance. 8 Reduction of farm tenancy. 9 Old age insurance. t 10 Unemployent insurance. 11 Federal aid to the crippled and blind. 12 Public works projects, carried on to provide work and to build thousands of permanent improvements. 13 Distribution of funds through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to save starving people who had reached the end of their resources. 14 Enactment of minimum wage and maximum hour laws. 15 The Civilian Conservation Corps and Reforestation. 16 The National Youth Administration, aiding thousands of underprivileged young people. 17 Legislation abolishing child labor. 18 Reciprocal trade agreements. 19 Stimulation of private home building through the Federal Housing Administration. 20 Resettlement of farmers from marginal lands that cannot be cultivated profitably. 21 Getting electricity out to the farmers through the Rural Electrification Administration. 22 Water conservation programs. 23 Drought control and drought relief. 24 Crop insurance and the ever normal granary. 25 Assistance to farm cooperatives. 26 Conservation of natural resources. 27 The National Labor Relations Act. The records speaks for itself.

Legal Notice

NOTTCK OF PKT1TTOX FOR ANT) DETERMINATION TO ISSUE BOND

Taxpayers of Liberty School Township of Delaware County are hereby notified that petition has been filed by fifty or more owners of taxable real estate located in said School Township requesting the Advisory Board to authorize the Issuance of bonds, of said School Township for the purpose of providing funds to be applied on the cost of installing a new heating system, rewiring, remodelling and improvement and the construction and equipment of an addition to the Liberty Township Consolidated School Building. A remonstrance may be filed against said proposed bond issue by owners, of taxable real estate located in said School Township, in the manner and within the time provided by Chapter 119 of the Acts of 19P.7. The taxpayers of said School Township are further notified that the Advisory Board did, on the 27th day of April, 1944, determined to issue the bonds of said School Township in the amount of $60,000.00, maturing serially over a period of approximately 15 years from the date of issuance, for the purpose of procuring funds to be used as above stated. Said bonds will bear interest at a rate not exceeding 2%% per annum, the exact rate to be determined by bidding. The net assessed valuation of taxable property in said School Township is $.2,025,985.00, and the outstanding indebtedness of said School Township is None, exclusive of the above mentioned bonds. Objections to the issuance of said bonds may be made by ten or more taxpayers filing a petition in the office of the Auditor of Delaware County within the time and in the manner provided by Section 64^1332 Burns Statutes 1933, which petition will be heard and considered by the State Board of Tax Commissioners in the manner provided by law. Dated this 27th day of April, 1944. Francis H. Williams, William E. Butterfield Charles C. Jump Township Advisory Board VIRGIL R. RUBLE. Township Trustee Apr. 26, May 5

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

the

State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: In the Delaware Circuit Court April Term, 1944 Complaint: Divorce Richard Patterson

vs.

Rosabelle Patterson

No. 18890

Notice is hereby given the said fendant Rosabelle Patterson that plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Rosabelle Patterson is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Saturday the 17th day of June, 1944, the 66th day the present term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in April, A. D„ 1944, at the Court House in the City of Muncie, 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 April A. D., 1944. JESSE E. GREENE,

Clerk

JOHN ,T. DODD, Plaintiff’s Atty. April 21 and 28—May 5—PD

Germans introduced flame-throw-ers in 1915, according to the War department. Coal chutes of carrara glass have been tested and found to outwear steel five to one. No telephones have been manufactured for civilian use since Nov. 15, 1942.

Propose Air Route for Nearby Cities Washington, May 5. — A civil aeronautics board examiner today recommended that four major airlines be granted routes connecting Detroit, St. Louis and Memphis, with certain intermediate stops in Indiana, Ohio, Missouri and Kentucky. Transcontinental & Western Airlines was favored for a run between Indianapolis and St. Louis, via Terre Haute, Ind., and Chicago & Southern for a route between Memphis and Detroit, via. Paducah, Ky., Evansville, Ind., Indianapolis, Anderson-Muncie-New Castle, Ind., Fort Wayne, Ind., and Toledo, O. The examiner also recommended that American airlines be allowed to operate between Cleveland and St. Louis, by way of Fort Wayne, Anderson-Muncie-New 1 Castle and Indianapolis, but that all flights terminate or originate at Cleveland or points east. Mid-Continent Airlines’ application for a route between Kansas City and St. Louis, via Columbia, Mo., was approved by the examiner. TVA had requested the run recommended for Chicago & Southern. And United Airlines’ request for a Detroit, Cleveland, Omaha route by way of Toledo, Fort Wayne, Anderson-Muncie, Indianapolis, Terre Haute and St. Louis was denied.

Denies Ex-Marine’s Petition for Retrial

Fort Wayne, Ind., May 5.—Earl W. Hoelscher, ex-marine who is serving a life term for the murder of Jack T. Schaine, Chicago drug salesman, today planned to appeal to the Indiana Supreme Court the ruling of the Allen County Circuit Court which yesterday denied his petition for retrial. Hoelscher’s petition, submitted by Oscar Thiel of Gary, asked that the confessed slayer be allowed to withdraw his plea of guilty on the grounds that he had not been fully informed of his constitutional rights. However, Judge William H. Schannen held that a transcript of the proceedings showed that the ex-marine had been duly informed of his right to have counsel and a trial by jury. Hoelscher was captured in Des Moines last December and admitted to Allen county authorities that he had shot Schaine to death on November 19, 1943, in order to rob him.

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