Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 29 December 1944 — Page 4
POST ^EMOCIRAT, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2% 1941,
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THE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware Coun-ty. 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 w — Muncie, Indiana, Friday, December 29, 1944. Ham Fish Would Turn Back The Clock Rep. Ham Fish of New ¥ork Monday sang his swan song in the lower house of congress where he has been a member for nearly a ^quarter of a century. He bitterly denounced Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, Republican nominee for president in the November balloting. F'ish blamed Dewey for his defeat for reelection. Dewey publicly opposed Fish on the ground that the latter had raised “racial and religious issues.” If Dewey did bring about the defeat of Fish, he performed a public service. Fish has been one of the leaders of isolationism in congress and is one of those who seek to turn back the clock of progress. Maybe Dewey was a weak candidate for the presidency. Maybe it is true, as Fish said, that Dewey knows “comparatively nothing” about national and internatioinal issues. Dewey still is a better man than Fish. The former refused and continues to refuse to try to make a partisan issue of international peace. Fish wants to dump Dewey as “titular I leader” of the G.O.P., a sentiment expressed I also by the Chicago Tribune which says: “Gov. Dewey is through. The fact is so plain that it is useless to try to evade it.” What the Tribune and Fish want is to take the Republican party back to isolationism. That, if successful, would be a tragedy both for the party and for the country. Dewey undoubtedly knows that if he had come out for isolationism before the election he would have made a much poorer showing than he did. Dewey learned that much. Fish and the Tribune never seem to learn anything. The lessons of Pearl Harbor and the war are completely lost on them. They seem never to have heard of long range bombers and of rocket bombs. The Republican party is a house divided against itself. It is a matter of concern to every citizen as to which faction wins out. The G.O.P. failed to elect its candidate for President this year but it has many members in both the senate and the house. If it returned to isolationism as Fish and the Chicago Tribune want it to do, it might dash the nation’s hope of building a successful organization for enduring world peace, as it did in the days of Warren G. Harding. The people, at the polls on November?, eliminated from congress Ham Fish, Sen. Gerald Nye, Rep. Steve Day of Illinois, and many other isolationists. We think that shows how sentiment is running among the voters.—Journal-Gazette. V World Peace Plan Must Be Practical
Germany’s Labor Front Confronted with an acute’ and progressive shortage of labor, Germany mobilized her last reserves of labor in 1943. Gotthard Friedrich was then appointed Reich Manpower Engineer and given thirty-four regional assistants to direct 5,000 plant engineers whose appointment by individual managements had to be approved officially. The scope and depth of this mobilization are hardly understood by us. In a study which appears in the Psychological Bulletin, Dr. H. L. Ansbacher indicates that the Reich Manpower Engineer deals with minds and morale as well as with production techniques, with the result that the psychological tone of German industry is better than we may infer from the presence of millions who were bodily transferred from occupied countries into German industry. Extraordinary as our industrial record is, we have no national system of psychological training like that of the Germans. Such a system could not be set up in a democracy. With the aid of practical psychologists, Fredrich’s 5,000 engineers have apparently reduced industrial manpower by 10 per cent to obtain more soldiers, but without curtailing output. There are aptitude tests, character tests, expression analyses to discover originality and imagination, motion and time studies and intellectual tests—all for the purpose of finding the right man for the job. The results of this desperate psychological effort to make the most of the last man cannot be appraised until peace comes. It is plain enough that the system of training which was carried out in accordance with the realistic principles of M. Simoneit, a psychologist who commands the respect of the General Staff and who is the inventor of most of the tests used in German army camps, has been carried over into industry. When Germany at last succumbs it will be with the conviction that never in history was a nation so thoroughly mobilized and trained by a dictatorship for purposes of war.—New York Times. y
of the Franco-Russiafi alliatice and apparent French policy toward the Rhineland. But Paris reports indicate that French leaders wish to assure us that they, like we, desire
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to it we could well take a lesson from the i .•IF, T 'FTTF Russians and let France be very sure that ator n t le new Department, the
we count her for what she is—an indispen-
Whose Philosophy Rules
U. S. Diplomacy?
If there is a philosophical common denom-
sable partner.-
-Chicago Sun.
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Small Farms
The men who framed the Constitution of the United States did not leave out practical considerations. In fact, but for practical considerations the Constitution might not have been written at all. Washington, Madison, Hamilton, Franklin and the rest were not dreamers. They were all successful and had had a wealth
of experience.
They knew that the Articles of Confederation which preceded the Constitution were a failure. The colonies which had been freed from England by the Revolutionary war could not live under them and do business and provide for the common defense. The founders wanted security and order. The Constitutional convention was not a harmonious gathering. There were many differences of opinion and interest to be reconciled. There were compromises to be reached and they were not reached easily. But the work done by that convention which held its deliberations in secret has stood the test of time. It still commands the admiration not only of the American people but of students and scholars through-
out the world.
The men who sit down to draft a world organization in the interest of permanent peace could do nothing better than to study the precedings of the Constitutional convention. The problems which the peacemakers will have to face are different than those which faced the makers of our Constitution. But the spirit in which the problems are approached could be the same. And whatever is done for peace must have the backing of the peoples of the world as our people have backed the Constitution. It- is not enough that some plan be set down on paper. It must be accepted by the statesmen, the diplomats and the common men and women. They must have the will and the disposition to make the plan work. We have a Bill of Rights in our Federal Constitution which guarantees certain freedoms. But it is public acceptance of these rights which really guarantees them. There are many laws upon the statute books of the United States which have become dead letters because opinion is not back of them. The world has dreamed of peace before but it has never had a practical plan which prevented wars. To draft such a plan now and to make it work is the supreme task of this generation.—Journal-Gazette.
At the recent annual .convention of the Rational Farmers Union, Secretary of Agriculture Claude E. Wickard expressed conviction that the small-family farm will have a continuing important place in the nation’s agricultural set-up. The Secretary said: “The small farm makes for fairer distribution of farm income, for better care of the soil, for better citizenship and for happier liv-
ing.”
The problem of an adequate economic and social status for the family farm will be a difficult one for many years to come. It is a traditional part of our history that the small but independent farmer is a cornerstone of society. Jefferson believed democracy would be safe so long as we remained a nation of agriculturists. In 1880 about 90 per cent of the population lived on farms or in small villages; today approximately 75 per cent of our people are classified as urban. Yet the major problem facing farmers is markets. Furthermore, statistics show that 25 per cent, of the country’s six million farms produce around 80 per cent of the total national farm income. The size of the problem is emphasized by the fact that experts believe nearly three million farm families have
inadequate incomes.
This means that American industry has a u ^ _ slim market among this sizable group. The h"n "194*4’/’ fact that the average size of farms in the United States has shown a gradual, constant increase from 138 acres in 1910 to 174 acres in 1940 is not particularly relevant. A family farm, efficiently operated, has been able to
use increasingly larger acreages.
There are hopeful prospects for a renaissance of the position Of small farms in the national economy. The farm-implement companies are ready with plans for power machinery to fit the needs of the family farm. Both the Rural Electrification Administration and private utilities are planning a wide extension of power in rural areas. The science of chemurgy, industrial use of farm products in manufacturing, is in its infancy. After the war it is probable that organized farm groups will push the growth of farm-er-owned farmer-controlled cooperatives.—
New York Times. V
God Rest Ye Merry-Let Nothing You Dismay August 14, 1941: Partial text of the White House statement on the Atlantic Charter, drawn up by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, during their meeting at sea: “The following statement SIGNED by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Great Britain is released for the information of the press: “They have agreed upon the following joint declaration: “First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other; “Seeond, they desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned; “Third,, they respect the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live, and they wish to see sovereign rights and self-government re-* stored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them.” * * * January 2, 1942: The Atlantic Charter is specifically accepted by all the United Nations. February 23, 1942: A Mutual Aid Agreement is signed between Great Britain and the United States, reaffirming the Lend-Lease understanding, pledging “attainment of all the economic objectives set forth in the Joint Declaration made on August 12, 1941, by the President and the Prime Minister.” June 11, 1942: A Lend-Lease agreement is signed by the U. S. and Russia, in which there is a similar pledge to uphold the Atlantic Charter. October 28, 1942: Replying to Wendell Willkie’s suggestion for a Pacific Charter, President Roosevelt
said:
“It is perfectly clear that the Atlantic Charter applies to all humanity.” August 14, 1943 (first anniversary of the
charter), statement of President Roosevelt:
“The nations (resisting a common, bar-
baric foe) have united. They have formed a great union of humanity, dedicated to the realization of that common program of purposes and principles set forth in the Atlantic
Charter.”
August 25, 1943: President Roosevelt, speaking to the Canadian Parliament: “I am everlastingly angry at those who assert vociferously that the Four Freedoms and the Atlantic Charter are nonsense because they are unattainable. If they had lived a century and a half ago they would have sneered and said the Declaration of Independence was utter piffle . . .”
May 7, 1944:
Item from the N.Y. Times:
“The Soviet paper, ‘War and the Working Class.’ asserted that ‘the Atlantic Charter and Moscow’ declarations were not sufficiently precise instruments for settling the complicated problems of war and peace
December 15, 1944:
Headline: “Britain Backs Soviet Claim on East Poland; Churchill Pledges Part of Reich
to Poles.”
December 17, 1944:
Churchill refuses to make peace with Greek EAM, who are fighting for right to
'share in new government.
France as a ‘Great Power’
It is often said, with considerable truth, that Russia does not yet understand the mental processes of the West. But apparently the Kremlin is better aware than we of something that is fundamental in France: the desire to be accepted as great and strong. Russia plays up to that French sensibility —and it pays here dividends. Nor is it playing to a myth. No major European question can be settled without French co-operation. French internal affairs, for all their sore spots, are sounder than thbse of any other “liberated” country. And although France possesses neither the immediate military nor economic strength which, in themselves, would qualify her as one of the prime world leaders, her history, her unconquered spirit, her geographic position and her prospects of recovery do qualify her. It is the essence of DeGaulle’s genius that he knows and acts
upon these facts.
Washington has now invited France to sign a declaration which will make her formally a member of the United Nations—an action barred to her until her provisional government was recognized by the western Allies. The French, of course, are going to sign—but are said to have stipulated—characteristically—that France be counted among the leading power sof the coalition. Childish ? Probably it would not seem so, to any American, were our country struggling under a mingled sense of greatness, shame, defeat
and renaissance.
There are dangerous trends in current French policy—including the military phase
December 19, 1944:
“President Roosevelt today unharnessed American foreign policy from the rigid letter of the Atlantic Charter with the revelation that the Charter was an unsigned statement of immediate aims rather than a formal compact with binding effect on the world. There is no authentic original, the President
"said.
The final draft was signed in substance . and there was no formal or complete document, no complete copy so far as the President knows, unless copies were retained 'by radio operators on the two warships which
bore the two chiefs of state.”
Wrote Thomas F. Reynolds, Philadelphia Record-Chicago Sun correspondent: “The net result of Roosevelt’s discussion was to demolish the .Charter as a rigid codiled statement of international law, from which no nation could deviate without violating its obligations and commitments in the family of United Nations. He did not elimi--nate or even minimize . . . the Charter as a statement of the United Nations’ MORAL
aims.”—Philadelphia Record.
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Greenwood’s Race In suite of his defeat in the election, Arthur H. Greenwood, Democratic candidate for congressman, is entitled to congratulations for the splendid race he made in a district where voters permitted petty war-time inconveniences to get the better of their judg-
ment.
Congressman Gerald Landis who has not brought so much as one federal benefit to the district during his years in congress, got a majority of 6,185 over Mr. Greenwood. That appears to be a sizeable majority until you comnare the Landis vote with what he received when he was re-elected two years ago. In 1942 Landis defeated Dr. Otto Nolan, of Bloomington, by a majority of 16.658. The fact that Congressman Landis’ majority of two years ago was this year reduced bv a total of 10,453 indicates that the voters of the district are losing faith in him. — Washington Democrat.
Senate foreign relations committee hearings have failed to disclose it. President Roosevelt, accordingly, will have to keep an exceptionally firm hand on the helm of the American ship of state if it is to serve consistent
and progressive ends.
Secretary Stettinius and the six nominees for high State Department posts who have testified before the committee unquestiom ably mean to operate, with other colleagues of the department, as a close-knit team. But it is a most divergent ‘ team—its ideologies ranging all the way from the forthright democratic convictions of Archibald MasLeish to the tendencies which have made James C. Dunn one of the blindest appeasers of Fascism in all the miserable past history of ap-
peasement.
What most of the appointees still appear to have in common, more than any other single common denominator, are back-grounds and means which would make them eligible for the most exclusive of clubs. It is equally true that these men stand ready to serve under a liberal administration which is hardly popular in most such clubs; and an administration which, right now, appears to be committing itself to an increasingly liberal stand as regards the coming social pattern of Europe. But the hearings have done liti;le to answer the riddle why the President picked just such a team, so heavily rooted in conservatism, to implement such a policy. Among the more conservative nominees^ chief fire from Senate questioners centered on William L. Clayton. This is understandable, in view of Mr. Clayton’s record and the fact that, as assistant secretary in charge of foreign economic affairs, he may be so powerful for weal or woe. Mr. Clayton assuredly gave a distinctly Detter account of himself from the witness chair than some of his more irresponsible critics would have led the public to expect. Not only did he reveal himself as resolute, frank and resourceful. He was convincing in setting forth his belief in competition, his opposition to cartels. He showed a firm grasp of the necessity for American policies which, through sound credits and a low-tariff structure, will help produce prosperity abroad, so that expanding world markets can play their proper role in increasing American prosper-
ity.
Which is not to say that Mr. Clayton’s testtimony has reassured sober critics. His testimony did nothing to decrease belief that his and of competition tends, by survival of the fittest, to lead to monopoly. Nor is there any clear evidence that, much as he desires world prosperity, Mr. Clayton recognizes that, to produce it, profound social changes, bitterly opnosed by Europe’s oligarchies, are essential. 1 So far as verbal generalizations are valuable, it was good that one after another of 'die nominees, even Mr. Dunn, endorsed a foreign policy favorable to “liberalism.” But the most refreshing testimony was that of Mr. MacLeish. Particularly after Mr. Dunn had effectively dodged a Question designed to bring out his stand on Franco during the Spanish Civil War, it was insniring when Mr. MacLeish seized upon one of Senator Clark’s baiting Queries to’ make clear that he was against Fascism everywhere, and that the Spanish war resulted from a Fascist and Nazi attack upon a democratic power, which was not Communist. Maybe that’s strong talk to come from the State Department, but we need more action to back up the philosophy of political and economic democracy which Mr. MacLeish represents. If we are to have such action consistentlv, Mr. Roosevelt confronts a heavy job in directing his divergent State Department. — Chicago Sun.
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We Owe It To the Fighting Men Every day American soldiers are wading through the mud and snow of Germanv to fight for the security of their country. They are keeping the enemy far from our shores They want to win a victory before the Nazis can make good their boast to blast New York and other eastern cities with rocket bombs launched from Germany. These soldiers are fighting to win a peace which will endure. They do not want their children to have to go to war again in another generation. They do not want a peace which is nothing but an armed truce. The tragic mistakes which followed World War I are well remembered by most Americans today. Those mistakes must not be repeated. It is up to us who have remained at home to help the soldiers and sailors who will return from the war to see that they are not repeated. War is a terrible disease. We must make the remedy to fit the disease. It will have to he the right remedy. We cannot live by our prejudices. We must get the facts. We shall have to go to the roots of the causes of war. This will mean thought and study and investigation. This generation must set about the task of re-educating itself. None of us can live in a world that is dead. A sailing boat nsychologv does not fit these times. After the last war America withdrew within a shell. The nation wanted to forget the shock, the horror and fatigue of conflict. One midwestern newspaper announced as a part of its policy that it would not publish anv more foreign news on its front page. It said the public was no longer interested in foreign news. It was this sort of thing v/hich helped to lose the victory which our men in uniform hadlwop on tKe fields in “France.’ This time we rmrtt stay on the iob, no matter how distasteful it may be. We owe it to the young men who are wading through the mud and snow of Gerpiany today.—Journal Gazette.
Legal Notice
NOTICR TO NON-RESIDENTS State of Indiana, Delaware County, SS: In the Matter of the Petition of Tillus C Paskina and Anna Marie Paskins, husband and wife, for the adoption of Wade Gerhard Dice, a Minor Child In the Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1944 Verified Petition For Adoption No. 19547 Notice is hereby given the said Wade Lawrence Dice, that the above named petitioners, Tilius C. Paskins and Anna Marie Paskins, husband and wife, h§ve filed their verified jletition for the adoption of Wade Gerhard Dice, a minor child, in said cause, together with affidavits that the said Wade Lawrence Dice is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Friday the 16th day of February 1945, the 41st day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in January, A. D., 1946, at the 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 arid the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 9th day of December, A. D..
1944.
JESSE E. GREENE,
Clerk
John J. Dodd. Petitioners Attorney Dec. 15-22-29—PD
Legal Notice
NOTICE TO BIDDERS 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 2nd day of January, 194 5, 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 Department, for the year 1945, as follows, towit*— CRUSHED LIME STONE One (1) ton to fifteen thousand (15,000) tons of crushed lime stone. LUMBER Hardwood lumber in various amounts, lengths, widths and sizes as per specifications. GRAVEL / One (1) to Fifty Thousand (50,000) yards of gravel in hank or pile. GREASES One (1) lb. to two thousand (2000) lbs. of various kinds and grades as per specifications. MOTOR OIL One (1) gallon to five thousand (5000) gallons of Motor Oil as per specifica-
tions.
TIRES AND TUBES Various sizes of tires, both solid and pneumatic and tubes all as per specifi-
cations.
GASOLINE One thousand (1000) gallons to One hundred Thousand (100,000) gallons of gasoline as per specifications. ASPHALT ANH OTHER BITUMINOUS MATERIALS Five hundred Thousand (500,000) 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 all as per specifications. CEMENT One (1) to two thousand (2,000) bbls. Requirements and specifications for said equipment, materials and supplies are on file in the Office of the said Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a non-collusion affidavit as — quired hy law. Whenever a bid is in excess of $500.00 the same shall be accompanied by a bidders’ bond or certified check, payable to the Treasurer of Delaware County, Indiana, which bond or check shall be in an amount not less than 10% of the total amount of such bid. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. / Done this 22nd day of December, 1944. SAMUEL L. CUNNINGTON Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana Jacob Lennington, County Attorney Dec. 22-29—PD
MAY SHIFT HEAD DF GROSS INCOME
Treasurer May Assume Charge Of State Tax Division Group Indianapolis. — A governmental reorganization measure which would shift direction of the state Gross Income Tax Division from an appointee of the governor to the state treasurer may be introduced in the 1945 General Assembly. A recommendation by Attorney General James A. Emmert to that effect was approved by the Republican legislative policy committee yesterday. Emmert heads a subcommittee studying present statutes giving the governor certain legislative powers under the terms of Democratic sponsored legislation passed during the 1939’s. The Republican dominated legislature of 1941 passed a reorganization act but it was invalidated by the Indiana Supreme Court. Emmert also suggested the appointment by the governor of a director and two assistant directors to handle ' the gross income tax division business under the supervision of the treasurer as exofficio director. The treasurer would receive no salary increase. He now receives $7,590 a year. The attorney general also recommended clarification of other laws relating to the governor’s appointtive powers. He suggested that the chief executive have the authority to appoint a state purchasing agent to serve at his will, that the budget law allow the governor to appoint the state budget director, that the governor appoint the examining hoard for certified public accountants, that the state department of inspection and supervision of public offices be absorbed by the state board of accounts and that the authority of the state highway commission be clarified. : O • CHAMP “WHIRLS” FOR NAVY.
Ottumwa, la.—One of the nation’s leading baton twirlers, who won the national high school championship three years in a row 1937-il9>39—has donned Navy blue and leads the Ottumwa, la., naval air station band. He is Seaman 2|c Karl Thurman, Brookfield, MO., who this year won the national men’s championship aj the Chicago Musical 'Festival for the second time. —o ARMY ORDNANCE ON TOES
anon n a nuesrty cznciBTHAS—fir* WAR BONDS. Keep m BACKING THE ATTACK.
Independence, Mo.—Army Ordnance has developed a new method to keep automotive equipment in the fight in Germany, Lake City Ordnance Plant officials report. Piper Cubs are employed to spot trouble zones on French, Belgian, Dutch and German roads, and to send out ordnance wrecking crews by radio when it is necessary. o BUY MORE BONDS
OPEN AT NEW STATION
Glen Butts wishes to notify all his patrons that he is now moved and ready to serve them as usual at his new Gulf Service Station at the corner of Charles and Kilgore Ave. He will continue to render the same efficient and expert service that he has given in the past seven years.
GAS Is an economical servant in the home. It is also serving as a vital part in war production. Be patriotic. Help conserve gas by keeping your present equipment in good repair for higher efficiency. Central Ind. Gas Co.