Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 September 1944 — Page 3

ALLIED (Continued From Page One) sian fleet. The 3rd Baltic army was driving hard for the coast northwest of Yalga in an effort to close off the coastal highway link ing Tallinn and Riga. The latter city, capital of Latvia, was almost encircled by the Russians and the Germans were counterattacking savagely in an effort to save it. In the Pacific, the blow at Luzon island in the Philippines was struck by carrier planes from Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher’s task force of the 3rd fleet. The Japanese said about 500 planes participated. A communique by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz said 205 Japanese airplanes were destroyed and 37 ships sunk or damaged, mostly oil tankers and cargo ships, some of them large. One Japanese destroy-er-leader was sunk and one destroyer damaged. Fifteen American planes were lost but some of the crew members were saved. The planes blasted shipping in Manila and Subic bays, Clark and Nichols fields, and the Cavite naval base. Nimitz announced that marines on Peleliu island in the Palau group east of the Philippines were still engaged in furious fighting with Japanese entrenched on the west coast. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced new attacks by his bombers and fighters on Celebes and other Japanese bases south of the Philippines. o LABOR (Continued From Page One) tragedy of widespread unemployment talked fast—and did nothing. They talked of a car in every garage . . . while millions walked their soles through, looking for jobe! They talked of a chicken in every pot . . . while capable, skilled workers and business men sold apples on street corners! They talked of patience . . . while the children of unemployed workers stayed home from school for the lack of clothes! Compare this talk, talk, talk with the quick, decisive action of the Roosevelt Administration. Within a few weeks after President Roosevelt took office, a conference of the leaders of organized labor and others was called to consider a program of action. The conference recommended: 1. Unemployment relief (by the Federal Government. 2. Drastic limitation of hours of work. 3. Minimum wages at a decent level. 4. Immediate abolition of child labor. 5. —(Regional pr i n d i v d u a 1 boards to consider matters of dispute between employers and employees. 6. (Government purchases -only from concerns whose labor policies included fair hours and fair wages. 7. Educational centers for people out of work. Everyone of these proposals later became established national policy. Most of them were in effect within a year! The need was desperate . . . the solution came swiftly! It was labors’ road to recovery, too. The Roosevelt record in the interest of labor has proved it. From now on labor will “hear” of vast unemployment after the Avar. Labor will be told such unemployment is inevitable. It is not! There has never been a country with purchasing power even approaching that w'hich now exists in America. Thanks to the wise planning and legislation of the present Administration, industries can be converted from war to peacetime production without prolonged difficulty. Workers temporarily released

during reconversion will be protected by unemployment compensation. They will have the protection of minimum wage laws and the assistance of the U- S- Employment Service while seeking neAV work. The aged can retire with old age insurance benefits. Dependent young people are provided for. The Fair Labor Standards Act will give maximum distribution of work as hours are shortened to peacetime standards. Large public and private housing systems are now being planned, assuring extensivev employment in useful and needed work. Frogress made in the past 10 years under the Roosevelt Administration proves that a people as resourceful as Americans can and should have full employment. This is a goal that can be reached. This is no part of the Democratic philosophy. This Administration believes in, and will not cease its efforts to achieve employment for all. o SEN. (Continued From Page One) cratic victory this fall. Glen Quirk of Muncie has been named to lead the veterans of both World Wars I and II in their activity towards the Democratic party. Other assistants will be chosen soon to aid these appointees in their work of organizing these groups. The Young Democrats of Delaware county met again last Sunday and completed their orginization for the promotion of activity from the Democratic youth in the coming election. Arthur Ulen is president of the Young Democrats, Clarice Stephenson, first vicepresident, Orville Rodeffer, second vice-president, Betty Reynolds, secretary, and Lamonte Gray, treasurer. A big dance is being planned by this group to be sometime around Halloween. They are also assisting in the registration of voters at present. The colored Advancement Club have moved into their headquarters which was the former Moonlight Gardens building at Seventh and Macedonia Ave. They have planned for prominent colored speakers to appear in Muncie and for many social activities as well. They have invited all other colored organiziations to share their headquarters during this campaign toAvards a Democartic victory. The Consideration and Progressive Clubs are other colored groups who have organized here during past years. Officers of the Advancement Club which will be an incorporated club include Rube Poole, president, Robert Marshall, vice-president, Aolius Smith, secretary, William Curl, treasurer and George Frazier, financial secretary. Registration activities continue to occupy the time of Democart workers. Every effort is being made to have a full auditorium for the Jackson meeting next Friday night and it is expected that a large attendance will be on hand to welcome and to listen to the address of Senator Samuel D. Jackson, Democratic candidate for Governor of Indiana. A REPUBLICAN (Continued From Page One) Are These the Men You Want?., Senator Nye, ranking Republican on the all-important Appropriations Committee, believes that . . . “The German people must be given the right to go back to Fascism after the war if they want it . . . ”—Chicago Daily News, Nov. 17, 1943. Representatives Hope, Wolcott, and Bondero had the distinction of voting nay to a solid list of administration bills—every single bill for defense which Avas presented to congress during two years. Much has been said about Hamilton' Fish. Too much cannot be

said to prevent his re-election. It was Fish, you’ll recall, whor-re-turning from a talk with Von itibbentrop—announced that the German claims were “just.” Fish has spoken at meetings of Bundists. He has contributed articles to a Nazi propaganda publication, “Today’s Challenge.” He is convicted of intimate acquaintance with Geo. Sylvester Viereck, in Avhose interest he permitted mail to go out under his congressional frank. Fish, also, has voted no on every measure that Avould aid in the defense of our country. He voted no to the soldier vote bill. “As ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Fish directed the two-and-a-half year fight in the House against the government’s foreign policy. Fish made the opening speeches in which the line that the opposition was to take’ was laid down. Fish controlled the opposition speeches and led the caucuses in the house lobbies. Fifty to 70 Republicans consistently followed his leadership, praising his attitude and defending him against attack.” —New Republic, May 18, 1942. Hamilton Fish is now the ranking Republican on the Rules Committee. o FDR’s First Speech Set For Saturday Washington, Sept. 22.—President Roosevelt told his news conference today he was busy preparing his first “political” ’speech in the current campaign to be delivered tomorrow night at a dinner given here by the AFL Teamsters Union, but he was reluctant to answer political questions by correspondents. A reporter asked for comment on a statement by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey that “your administration is saturated with the defeatist theory that America has passed is prime.” The President asked the reporter if he thought so. “No, sir,” the reporter replied, ’’that is why I asked you to comment.” The President shook his head, saying that he would not comment. That, he said, was an awful thing to think about at five minutes after eleven in the morning. o Jackson Pledges Good Government Indianapolis, Sept. 22.— Strong liaison Avith women “for the type of government that will produce the greatest good for the greatest numlber of our citizens” was pledged by Ben. Samuel D. Jackson of Fort Wayne to the Marion county Women’s Democratic club should he be elected Indiana’s next governor. Jackson expressed a belief that Marion county, the state’s most populous, would return a majority for Democratic candidates. He said that “there are those who seek to open the doors of the statehouse to men and influences who have embarrassed their OAvn party leaders in convention.” “These men will not have the help of the leaders of their own party who believe that if they gain access to the governor’s office, that party will be embarrassed as much in public office as they were in party councils,” Jackson said. One thousand workers from British Honduras, most of them experienced “axmen,” will be brought into the United States by the War Manpower Commission to meet the serious labor shortage in the logging and lumbering indus-

tries.

A pioneer fire started in 1790 by hi s forebears is still burning in the log cabin of ‘Uncle Bill Morris, at Saluda, N. O.

The Line is Busy...

You don’t hear much about him .. • Yet he is one of the heroes ... one of the real heroes ... of the war. When the front moves up, the Army Signal Corpsman is in there where the fighting’s thickest... dodging machinegun slugs and mortar bursts •.. stringing phone wires across the battered face of Europe ... keeping foxhole outposts in constant touch with headquarters behind the lines. And because of his quiet courage and cool-headed skill under fire, the Army’s lines of communication keep busy ... and keep going forward with every step our fighting men advance. It’s a job we of the railroads can appreciate and understand. For today our lines are busy, too ... busier than they have ever been before. And as Victory comes closer, they will be even busier ... the job will grow even greater ... for men and guns and fighting supplies must keep flowing in an everswelling stream to all our fighting fronts.

It’s the biggest job the railroads of any nation have ever tackled. But we know now • •. with the continued cooperation , of shippers and receivers of freight and of the traveling public .. • ^ ~ it will be done... ^ And we know, too, that—with final Victory at last in sight—the new skills and knowledge that we have found in the urgency of war must quickly be turned to our next great task ... the job of helping speed industry’s conver-] sion to production for peace ... ' And that this new-found strength will ■ make it possible for the New York ' Central—side by side with all the other ; railroads of the nation—to provide finer transportation for America than i the world has ever known. New York Central OVW OF4*i£SfC4'S RAtiatOAOS 'IBP —4U (/NfTBO FOR WCTQRy f

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944.

Voter’s Calendar AUGUST 2, 1944. Upon and after this date any person serving Avith the armed forces Avho is personally present in the county of his residence may, after official Avar ballots are available at the Clerk’s office and before the time noAv fixed by laAV, for voting at the Clerk's office by regular absent voter’s ballots, appear at the Clerk’s office and ii registered vote such absent voters’ official war ballots. OCTOBER 8, 1944. First day a voter may make an application for a regular absent voter’s ballot at Clerk’s office. OCTOBER 9, 1944. / Last day for a voter not coming under War Ballot laAV to register before the general election. OCTOBER 9, 1944. Last day a voter may transfer his registration before the general election. OCTOBER 23, 1944. Last day Avhen applications for Avar ballots may be received by the Clerk where ballots are to be mailed to voters without the territorial limits of the United States. 'j OCTOBER 24, 1944. Last day a person to challenge registration of voter by filing affidavit with Clerk of the Circuit Court. OCTOBER 27, 1944. Last day on which members of armed forces may personally procure and vote at Clerk’s office official War Ballots. OCTOBER 28, 1944. First day a voter may personally procure and vote a regular absent voter’s ballot at Clerk’s office. OCTOBER 28, 1944. Last day when applications for War Ballots may be received by the Clerk where ballots are to be mailed to voters within the territorial limits of the United States. NOVEMBER 4, 1944. Last day a voter may make application for a regular absent voter’s ballot. NOVEMBER 6, 1944. Last day a voter may personally procure and vote a regular absent voter’s ballot.

CAPEHART (Continued from Page One) As chairman of the G.O.P. State Committee, Gates demanded and obtained absolute obedience to his every wish, his every command, concerning enactment or defeat of bills before the state legislature. He is now going about the state promising that “If I have the honor to serve you as Governor there^ will be no government by execu-’ tive order.” Thousands who know how he ruled the legislature by “executive order” while serving only as party machine boss, can’t help but laugh heartily at his

promise.

It’s too bad that the G.O.P. state convention, last spring, failed to adopt a solid party platform on which Gates could stand. His call for the Mayor to come in and help him frame his “personal” platform —in the same manner Tom Dewey called the G.O.P. Governors to St. Louis to help him frame a platform afteV the G.O.P. national convention failed to build a substantial one—proves what many papers, Republican and Democratic, said at that time. The G.O.P. state convention platform is of little substance. It’s so weak Gates is afraid to try to campaign on it. For many Aveeks, as this column has pointed out, other G.O.P. candidates have been insisting that Gates must adopt ^ program, draft a platform, or do something that would appeal to the voters. His answer is to call in the Mayors to tell him what to do— and doubtless Avhat to say Avhen he is in “their tOAvns.” At the risk of being called “partisan” ( we Avould like to warn Ralph Gates that many of those Mayors Avill be seeking promises—much as “Boss” Bradford sought and obtained from Gates for Marion County some weeks ago. Of course, the party bosses will make every effort to keep the meeting harmonious on the surface. Gates will expect them to come bearing gifts of strong support. It is a fact of human nature that nearly all Mayors are politically ambitious, and there’s no reason why they should not be, so they will be attempting to obtain from the man who wants to be Governor something of value in return. Just some little promise, such as the appointment of John Smith or Jim Jones to head the Highway Commission. (Names purely imaginary.) But if reports from Gates’ oavu fellow candidates on the G.O.P. ticket can be believed Ralph has already promised that plum. In fact nearly the entire crop of plums the job seekers Avant has been promised. Some say five bushels of plums have been promised by Gates for every single plum on the tree. Homer Capehart, at another “conference”’ at French Lick, greatly modified a former campaign declaration. He has been claiming that his only desire in seeking election to the U. S. Senate, was to “go to Washington and help Tom Dewey end all the Noav Deal bureaus.” At the French Lick meeting he said “at least 25 per cent of the governmental bureaus must be abolished.” That may be construed as an admission that he now feels 75 p'er cent of them are ' justifiable. By election time Ave expect to hear him say: “I Avant to go to Washington to help Tom Dewey perpetuate all of the Nbav Deal.” Dewey, at Philadelphia, made a good start when he named fourteen or more New Deal Programs Avhich he too has decided Avill have his blessing and protection if he should be elected.

SHADES (Continued From Page One) Roosevelt, Rev. Gibson, said, is “an absolute dictator.” Now just where have Ave heard' all this crap before! Wasn’t it back in the early 20‘s that the churches and rostrums resounded with this same brand of patriotism! In going through the files of The Post-Democrat of those years we find many allusions to Rev. Gibson’s speeches that had the same familiar trend. This is a poor time to be organizing another klan, Avith the nation wide shortage of sheets and pillow cases, but if Dewey is elected maybe they figure they can get priority. FDR (Continued From Page One) that way. Complications on the home front have increased rather than diminished as the tempo of the war has been stepped up toward victory. Inevitably, perhaps, the emphasis is still on Avar. The imminent RooseA'elt - Churchill conference Avill take up issues of paramount importance concerning the treatment of Germany and the shift of the chief war effort to the Pacific. Incidentally, military men make no secret of how carefully they avoid any subject* that has even faint political overtones, as many of these problems do. When he was elected Governor in Novem^ex*, 1942, Thomas E. Dewey called for “unswerving loyalty to the Commandei'-in-Chief.” If there was a Commander-in-Chief to Avhom loyalty was owed in 1942, there is a Commander-in-Chief today. The politics of the moment cannot wipe out that fact. AMG Established In Occupied Reich London, Sept. 21—Supreme headquarters announced today the establishment of an Allied military government for occupied Germany to “begin the task of destroying national socialism” and facilitate the operations of the invasion forces. A message from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower Avas broadcast to v the people of Avestern and southern Germany, advising them of the military government and asking that civilians continue their normal activities so far as possible. “An Allied military government is established in the theater under my command to exercise in occupied German territory the supreme legislative, judicial, and executive authority vested in me as supreme commandex*, Allied expeditionary force, and as military governor,” the message said. o have risen greatly over the 1941 levels,' soap up as high as 138 per cent, and toothpaste 214 per cent, according to the department of commerce. The Ordnance Department, Ai my Services Forces, directs a national safety program from Chicago, involving nearly 500,000 workers and billions of dollars of property and material. Bynthetic urea, containing nitrogen taken from the air, can effectively replace part of the protein in the diet of cows, imports the Massachusetts Agricultural Experimental Station.

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CHRISTTAN SCIENCE SERVICES “Reality” is the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, September 24. The Golden Text is: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh doAvn from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning” (James 1:17). Among the citations which comprise the Lesson-Sermon is the following from the Bible: “Behold, God is my salvation; I Avill trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation. And in that day shall ye say. Praise the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, make mention that his name j is exalted” (Isaiah 12:2-4). “For i he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee; behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation” (II Corinthians 6:2). ^ 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: “‘NOW,’ cried the apostle, ‘is the accepted time; behold, NOW is the day of salvation,’ — meaning, not that now men must prepare for a future-world salvation, or safety, but that now is the time in which to j experience that salvation in spirit and in life” (p. 39).

Legal Notice

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF THE BOARD CITY HALL Muncie, Ind. NOTICE OF lMPROA r EMENT RESOLUTION

NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS In the matter of, Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana Notice is 'hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, thkt it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbeued improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 6th & 20th day of September, 1944 towit:. 1. R. 874—Construction of Sanitary Sewer in the alley between Blaine and Wolf streets from Manor Street to Park Street. 1. R. 875—Concrete Paving of the first alley North of Petty Road from Woodridge Avenue to the East line of Mapleridge Addition. Also the alley along the East side of Mapleridge Addition from Petty Road to first alley West. , All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall lie in accordance with the ferms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works cn the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may he seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 11th day of'October, 1914 as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 2::i0 P. M., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which maV have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on sajd date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said city will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the pr<TY»osed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS "W. M. BROCK, Clerk of Board of Works Sept. 23-30—PD.

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 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 wale 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. ( q . s - 10 Unemployent insurance. 11 Federal aid to the crippled and blind. 12 Public works projefcJ^, •aarried on to provide work and to build thousands of permanent improvements. 13 Distribution of funds through $<£ Federal Emergency Relief Administration to save starving people ^d 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.

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