Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 2 June 1944 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1944.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT ik Democratic weekly newspaper representing the fVemocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the iCtb 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 Muncie, Indiana, Friday, June 2, 1944. Henry A. Wallace for VicePresident Two broad issues transcend all others in the presidential race of 1944: The winning of the war and a co-operative, democratic world peace; and commitment of our nation to a peacetime American ecohomy of full employment, with rising opportunity for the common man. Those objectives are irrevocably linked. We cannot have an America of rising and durable prosperity unless we have the lasting peace which only a world organization based upon democratic principles can produce. Nor are we likely to lead in the creatiop we also believe in an expanding democracy at home. It is therefore essential that our national government during the next four years be led by men whose dedication to those two objectives, and whose action in their behalf, are tried and convincing. The renomination of President Roosevelt will assure that the Democratic party offers that kind of supreme leadership for the White House. But nomination of a vice-presidential candidate whose record indicated lack of full awareness of our great goals for war and peace, or lukewarmness in serving them, would reduce confidence both at home and abroad that America will meet its historic responsibilities. For those reasons, Henry A. Wallace should be renominated for the vice-presi-dency. No other vice-presidential candidate whose name has been discussed measures up to the qualifications as does Henry Walace. He not ony understands the need for a world organization, which can be good or bad, depending upon the extent to which it serves good'ends. He understands the imperative necessity of its dedication, and America’s dedication, to advancing the freedom, education, dignity and material wellbeing of the common man. Henry Wallace knows that to organize for Imperialism is one thing, and to organize for United Nations democracy another; and no politically literate person doubts where he stands and fights on those issues. That is why the Vice-President today is an ideal emissary to China. It is why, throughout the world, he is a living symbol of the American liberal tradition, of American confidence in the common people. His declarations and his acts are invaluable in keeping alive the faith of our Allies in American liberalism, at a time when all too many declarations and acts of the State Department have raised doubts. Therein lies reason enough for Mr. Wallace’s renomination. Equally, it is needed as evidence that a Democratic administration will not appease domestic reaction—reaction which, if given its way, would lead America to a crash more tragic than the great depression. Henry Wallace stands among the greatest of Americans in performance to produce an expanding economy for farmers, for wage and salary workers, and in fighting the monopolies which war upon all businessmen who depend upon genuine free enterprise. The reactionaries within the Democratic party are working hard to bury Mr. Wallace. Unable to block Mr. Roosevelt, they would prefer a ticket part progressive and part tory at the top to one with no reaction in its highest candidacies. But the American people should have the right to cast their ballots for an administration that is consistent. They will have the right if Messrs. Roosevelt and Wallace head the ticket. — Chicago Sun. y_— Fred Bays And the Campaign Re-election of Fred Bays as chairman of the Democratic state committee was the signal for the opening of a militant campaign in the state of Indiana under the direction of the most dynamic personalities in the history of Hoosier politics. Democrats, under the capable direction of Bays, will start building in the precincts. Bays’ plans call for an educational campaign to enlighten every voter of the grave responsibilities involved in this campaign. The campaign will be carried into every nook and corner of the state, and it is underway now, and will be continued until the last ballot is cast in November. The Democrat sand Republican's are to get together oti one point in this campaign — decorations for the coliseum where the state Conventions will be held. The coliseum will be decorated for the GOP gathering June 1 and 2 and will remain in place until the Democrats gather June 15 and 16. Of'course, pictures will be Changed in between Conventions. The decorations, however, will be the only resemblance present — the Democratic convention will be an open convention and not a Gates’ (Ralph F. Gates) crashing affa i . r If The Fourth District, in reorganizing last week at Fort Wayne, offered its farovite son, U. S. Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Ft. Wayne, as the Democratic nominee for governor of Indiana At the state convention June 15 and 16. Senator Jackson has thus far given no

indication that he would enter the guberna-torial-race. However, his name has been mentioned prominently in party circles for the past several weeks. A similar resolution indorsing Jackson was passed in the Tenth District. These indorsements are expected to lend much weight to Democratic insistance that he permit his name to be entered at the convention. V Lorch Defeat Shows Democratic Trend Before the primary a lot of Republican leaders in the Eighth District predicted that Major Chester Lorch would defeat Congressman Charles LaFollette for the Republican nomination for Congress. Apparently an extensive effort was made by a number of supposedly influential leaders of the Republican district and county organizations to defeat LaFollette. These leaders announced that their Congressman voted too much like a Democrat. Lorch was advanced as an exponent of the ultra-conservative Republican anti-Roosevelt, — almost anti-everything,— citizenry. And readers of two or three Republican papers in this district were led to believe that the woods were full of anti-La-Follette Republican voters. So the overwhelming vote of more than twenty thousand for LaFollette is an indication that a majority of the Republican citizens favor progressivism. Lorch received less than onethird as many votes as LaFollette. The vote is an indication of the Democratic trend in the Eighth district which will reach greater proportions with election of Judge Eichel, Democratic nominee for Congress, by a big majority November 7.—Corydon Democrat. V Paper Sacks and Henry Schricker Unaccustomed as we are to meandering off down political lanes whose guide posts we have often found to be set in pure quick-sand instead of on good solid granite, we are going to have a try at it this week. Henry Schricker, who hopes to become U. S. senator from Indiana one of these days, has a better right to look forward to this high place in government than anyone else about. Schricker has been one of the best governors Indiana ever had. Besides being an able administrator, he is a man of principle over politics; he is a statesman before he is a party man, and he is a good Democrat because he happens to believe in the good of the Democratic party. Henry Schricker, when he has patronage to dispense, looks around in all the dark corners until he finds the man he believes in his heart would be the man. Many a Democrat who felt it expedient to hand out a little gift all tied up in tissue paper and pink ribbon, has found that Henry, who does his handing out in plain brown paper sacks, easily opened so that anyone can have a lookin, sticks by his convictions once he has made up his mind.—Delphi Citizen. The GOFsMeal “The Republican party cannot win by griping, complaining and fault-finding. It must adopt a platform that carries out American ideals and then select a candidate to put that platform into effect.” ' That’s what Governor Martin told the meeting of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Republican National Convention. The sentiments are excellent. Th GOP needs a platform which will embody “American ideals.” But scarcely had the Governor finished making these remarks, than it was revealed that his GOP colleagues had selected, to draw that platform, none other than “Old Joe” Grundy. Grundy’s notion of American ideals is quite simply symbolized by a dollar sign superimposed on a Hoover button. When the State GOP gets around to forming a Youth Committee no doubt it will select M. Harvey Taylor, Joe Pew or some other kiddie as chairman.—Philadelphia Record. The Albany Sphinx Governor Dewey of New York, having refused to call a special session of the Legislature to loosen up the restrictions on voting by New Yorkers in the armed services, it becomes evident that a large proportion of the citizens of the Empire State will be disfranchised. Under the existing law in order to get in his ballot the soldier or sailor, Wac or Wave must writer to the Secretary of State (the state official, not Mr. Hull), his application will, theoretically, at least, be transmitted to his local election board, which will assay his title to vote in that district. If the local board accepts him, it is supposed to mail a ballot to the soldier, who will then have an opportunity of voting for everybody, including sheriff and Coroner, swear to it before an officer and mail it back to the New York War Ballot Commission, which would transmit it to the local election board to be counted. Under last year’s law, which was simpler, less than 5 per cent of the fighting folks, got in their votes. There being about a million one hundred thousand New Yorkers in the armed services, what chance is there of approximately one-fifth of states’ citizenry having anything to say about their Government? The only change sought from the proposed extra session was to cut out some of the red tape, by permitting friends or relatives of the absentees to make their application for a ballot for them. The Governor rejected the proposal without giving any direct reason. Of course, the circumstance that the Governor feared that

a majority of the men in the camps or at the front would vote Democratic had no bearing oh the matter. Mr. Dewey is, according to his own declaration, not a candidate for the Presidency but does not disregard that he might be drafted. In the whole history of conscription there never was a draftee more willing to be coaxed or coerced than the Governor of New York. He has expressed as his sole interest his Governorship, which makes his arraignment Df the National administration, and his vehement but hardly lucid entrance into the controversy of postwar diplomacy as logical as fitting an elephant’s foot into a lady’s dancing slipper. His passionate concern lest a fellow in a fox hole in Italy ducking enemy machine gun fire, or five miles over New Guinea picking the spot on which to drop a half-tone bomb, should not have the opportunity to scan and mark a yard-long ballot is only equalled by his dismay that the soldier might be deprived of the privilege of voting for pound-keep-er in his home town. The answer to all this is that the folks at home—the mothers, wives and sisters and sweethearts—should take over. Just as they have gone into uniform to replace the man who is overseas, they should vote as a sacred duty as they believe their soldier boy would vote — if political strategy had not made it as difficult and impractical as possible for him to do his part in the determination of our national destiny. -—V Citizens Tire of Dangerous Factional Battle Indiana’s capitol city, ruled by a political machine elected under the G.O.P. banner, appears at last to have been aroused frpm complacency. The Indianapolis Bar Association, the Indianapolis Lawyers Association and the Ministerial Association have decided to “look into” and “investigate” matters. Latest and most outstanding among many peculiar events was the recent raid on an alleged gambling house operating in the capitol city as a social club. An informer, complaining of heavy losses at dice tables, pleaded guilty to gambling in the place. A special judge, assuming jurisdiction, dismissed charges against the alleged operators but convicted the informer of gambling. The judge, of course, explained in a public statement that he could not do otherwise because there was “insufficient evidence against those arrested as operators,” and that he was “powerless to change the defendant’s guilty plea regardless of the evidence.” The Marion County Prosecutor added a statement, “If there was not sufficient evidence available it was because the police department which is supposed to produce the evidence didn’t furnish it.” The taxpayers, however, are sick and tired of the feud between the City Hall and the Court House. They are thoroughly disgusted with the failure of law enforcement officers to make prosecutions “stick.” They don’t give a Chinese yen whether it’s the fault of the Police or the Prosecutor. They want, and have a right to fair and honest law enforcement without persecution or favor. Two rival G.O.P. machines control the Police and Prosecutor’s office. The public knows this and the public is placing the blame where it belongs. This condition endangers the life and property of every honest citizen. But, the laugh of the week was provoked when an Indianapolis Republican paper printed at the head of column three, page one, second section, the headline, “Remy Praises City’s Police,” and in column five, some page, printed the headlines, “Bandits Keep Police on Run.” Mr. Remy, you know, heads the City Hall’s Safety Committee which bosses the Police Department. —V Rankin Has Opposition Rep. John E. Rankin of Mississippi, rabblerouser and preacher of race prejudice, will be opposed in the Mississippi primary election on July 4, by Charles G. Hamilton, a 38-year-old preacher, who will campaign on the soldier vote issue. Hamilton claims that Rankii\’s record on the soldier vote bill shows that he has no interest in the soldier of World War II. We do not know anything about Rev. Hamilton but we do not believe he could help being an improvement on Rankin. The south sends some pretty poor sticks to congress, but then the north is not in a position to throw any stones until it gets rid of some of its misfits. No man, north or south, should be permitted to clown his way through congress, especially in times like these.—Fort Wayne Jour-nal-Gazette. V A Great Plan Get behind Secretary Hull's foreign policy, put the eternal spirit into it, and thus give the world lasting peace. His speech slammed the lid on the hater’s foreign policy snake. But watch ’em! They’ll breed other poison snakes to bite at the heel of American unity.—W. D. Jamieson in The Winslow Seat. V Governor Brickcr, Ohio’s current candidate for President, whose speeches often remind us of the irresponsible administration of another Buckeye, Warren G. Harding, made one intelligent prediction this week. “This country has a bright future,” he said. To that we agree. The certain re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt and defeat of many G.O.P. Congressmen assures this nation of a very bright postwar period.

Not What But Why “W hat are we fighting for,” whines a group of Republican politicians who hope to gain political advantage by fostering national discontent. WHY we are fighting should also be considered and' that answer is easy, but shameful. We are having to fight because Republican politicians blocked President Roosevelt’s efforts to fortify our island bases and refused to permit him to build up our navy to a point where Japan or Germany would not have dared to attack us and force us into the war.—Butler Times (Dem.).

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Convention Left Open Fred F. Bays has been reelected state! chairman of the Democratic state committee j with Mrs. Edna Bingham of Indianapolis i vice-chairman and all other officers reelected. No resolutions of endorsements for candidates were adopted, the leaders preferring to leave these selections entirely up to the state ^convention delegates. Mr. Bays has served efficiently as state chairman the past six years and was unopposed for his fourth term.—Decatur Democrat.

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Not Party Issues The issues of war, peace and reconstruction are not pafty issues. But they will be resolved by a Congress elected on party lines. In choosing that Congress the people dare not forget that it was the Republican party which repudiated international co-operation in 1919. To prove his fitness for a seat in the next Congress, a Republican candidate must prove his independency of narrow nationalism.—Chicago Sun (Ind.).

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Campaign Now Underway Reelection of Fred Bays as chairman of the Democratic state committee was the signal for the opening of a militant campaign in the state of Indiana under the direction of the most dynamic personalities in the history of Hoosier politics. Democrats, under the capable direction of Bays, will start building in the precincts. Bays’ plans calls for an educational campaign to enlighten every voter of the grave responsibilities involved in this campaign. The campaign will be carried to every nook and corner of the state, and it is underway now, and will be continued until the last ballot cast in November.—Howard County News. V .

Republican Keynoter Selection of Representative Charles A. Halleck of Rensselaer, and Hobart Creighton of Warsaw, as keynote speaker and permanent chairman, respectively, of the GOP state convention June 2 causes one to wonder who is directing the activities of the organization arid 110% many ho'rsOs are to be traded beforie the ticket is complete. Both men are from the Second District where Publisher Henry Marshall of Lafayette holds forth as a power. Creighton has been mentioned by Marshall followers as a possible candidate for governor and as permanent chairman he is in a position to improve his standing in the party. And one has to take into consideration that it was Marshall who proposed at the Indiana Republican Editorial association that Indiana get on the Dewey band-wagon then. Some leaders were reluctant with Willkie in the field, but Wisconsin took care of Willkie and the subsequent results improved Marshall’s political judgment. He is also one of Tucker’s backers. From all angles it looks as though Marshall will have a big say in the GOP convention. V

Club Politics “I can’t understand politics!” said the lady across the street. “All this talk about bureaucracy and dictatorship, and the rest. It’s all a mystery.” It need not have been a mystery if the lady had consulted Charles E. Merriam of the University of Chicago. This long-time professor of political science, who has combined a good deal of practical politics with his teaching, has just pointed out in his new book “Public and Private Government,” that politics is everywhere, and that a good place to study it is in clubs and local groups. “If you wish to understand politics,” says Merriam, “look around you at the association 1 of which you are a member. Is there no nonvoting in your ^association ? Are there no leaders whose vaulting ambition impedes the purposes of the group? Are there no inflexible interpretations of outworn rules ? Is there no pretty bureaucracy? Are there no efforts to seize power?” Woodrow Wilson once said that the politics played by Congress was nothing compared with that found in university faculties.— The Hoosier Democrat. V , . Richard T. James, auditor of state and candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor, groping for something to say in a campaign speech shouted, “The coming election campaign in Indiana will be based on an issue between free representative government as represented by the Republican party and a form of state sp'cialisrii espoused by the New Deal.” What’s the matter, Dick, can’t you find a state campaign issue, or are yon running for Congress? Why not tell the public just what you would do if elected? Of course that’s a foolish question. You know vou will not be elected. V Gen. MacArthur refused to be a trading horse for Republican politicians with his blunt rejection of an attempt to draft him. They’ll find someone not as smart as Mac-

Arthur.

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 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 -ale of securities and protecting the security of investors through the Securities and Exchange Commission. 7 Slum clearance. 8, Reduction of farm tenancy. 9 Old age insurance. 10 Unemployent insurance. i 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 though 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. L5 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 insuiance 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.

TO BE OFF LIST

Reduction Of 2 Points Ordered On Cheese, Beef Steaks Washington, June 2.—The Office of Price Administration today removed canned carrots and canned orange and grapefruit juices from the ration list, effective Sunday. It reduced by two points- the ration value of all cheese and cheese products and chuck beef steaks and chuck roasts. Cheese will be 10 points, a pound; chuck steak

five points.

The agency said it is expected that more beef, veal, lamb, mutton, and variety meats will be available to civilians in June than in May, but that there will be a slight reduction in pork supplies. Pork and other meat, except beef, con iinue ration free. Other changes in the new ratipn chart, effective from Sunday through July i, included a reduction in points for evaporated and condensed milk from one to onehalf point a pound; an increase for grape juice in pint sizes by four points to 10. and an increase in pineapple juice in No. 2 can from 12 to 15 pointy Point values of all 'Other pro cessed foods and Tats, including butter and margarine, were un changed. So. too, were the values of better gi*ade beef steaks and beef roasts—the only meats still rationed—except chuck. To clarify the status of beef steaks and roasts, OPA ruled that onlv grade D beef is not included in the better grade—and rationed —category. Grade £) beef usually goes into hamburger and sausage

for canning.

The two-point reduction f o i cheese and che.ese products, OPA said, was made possible by the increase in the civilian allocation from 40 million pounds in May to 48 million pounds in June. Cuts were ordered for canned milk to allow the same amount ox this important baby food under the new monthly allowance of 30 red points a month for each civilian as was available when 60 red points, were allotted each month. OPA explained that the mover ment of canned carrots was slowed down after other major canned vegetables were made point-free. Therefore,, it said., it was deemed advisable to place carrots on the ration free list, too, and thus speed their movement. Prospects of larger than expect ed supplies of citrus fruits resulted in point value reductions for those

juices. Blends of grapefruit and orange juice also were included in the point-free list. Values were raised on pineapple juice—from 12 to 15 points for a No. 2 can—to slow too-rapid movement, OPA said. Dionne Quintuplets Receive Natal Gift Callander, Out., June 2. — The fondest dream of the Dionne quintuplets came true yesterday when their father presented them with •a pony on their 10th birthday. The birthday was the last the five little girls will observe as wards of the Ontario government. After June 30 the girls, Yvonne, Cecile, Marie, Annette, and Emilie —will revert to their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Aoliya Dionne, although Dionne must share control of their financial matters with Percy D. Wilson, guardian for minors of Ontario. Among other presents, the quints received five alarm clocks, but their father said he didn’t think they would be of much use to them because “they’re always up before any clock rings in the house.’’ o Legal Notice NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF HEARING ON APPROPRIATIONS In the matter cf the passage of certain ordinance hy Common Council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, providing for special appropriation of funds. Notice is hereby giyen taxpayer of .the City of Muncie, Indiana, Delaware County, that a public hearing will be in the City Hall, Muncie, Indiana on the 5th day of June, 1944 at 7:30 o'clock P. M. on an ordinance making special and additional appropriation as follows, to-wit: , Out of the General Fund: To the Board of Public Works and Safety Item No. 251, Repairs, and BuUdtngs and Structures^—$8000.00 Taxpayers appearing shall have the right to be heard thereon. If said additional appropriation is determined upon a certified copy of such determination will be filed with the County Auditor, who will certify, a copy of the same to the Stgte Board of Tax Commissioners, and said State Board will fix a time and' place for the hearing of such matter as provided by statute. COMMON COUNCIL Of City of Muncie, Indiana J. Clyde Dunnington, City Clerk May 26, June 2 a— Legal Notice NOTICE FOR mns FOR PURCHASE OF TOWNSHIP SCHOOL HI'S Notice is hereby given that the Advisory Bpard of Salem Township, Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids at my office until June 6, 1944, at 10 a. m., for the purchase of one school bus: Body to be of all steel construction, having a capacity of 36 passengers, approximately 17 ft. 4 inches in length and 96 inches, in width; Chassis to be 1944 truck suitable for mounting above body on. The right is hereby reserved to reject any and all bids. RAYMOND C. SHIREY Trustee of Salem Township Delaware County, Indiana Dated May 26, 1944 May 26, June 5

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