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trict stand-patters, in Armstrong’s belief, ’‘don’t want anyone to carry the banner of Republicanism who screams we should outiNew Deal the New Dealers. A case of the kettle calling the pot black. 'For Wilson at heart (as proved by his record) is as reactionary as Armstrong. And Armstrong pretty well characterizes himself when he says “there is not a drop of New Deal blood in my veins.”

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GOP CHOOSES (Continued from Page One) pose giving funds ior UNRRA. In other words, he is for breadlines at home, and starvation and death —abroad: Instead of having our na- , —'?ton rise' to international stature, l ' and live up to its international re>ponsibilities, he would have us play Shy lock no\V, and suffer the ■’ inevitable hate and blame of every other nation in the world. This is. . the sort of thinking 1 which can « wpeck the world. - These are some of the . issues which face us today. Tait, speaking fof his party, has made it clear that it is along thqse lines that, the 194S.

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PHILLIP (Continued from Page One) 5 old hack horse which has ben ridj'ijen to death by reactionaries—and I’Ve have plenty of reactionaries j’Utow in both parties—Daniel J. Far- « mer.

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‘The Kettle Calls The Pot Black” The interesting thing about the candidacy of State-Senator-and-and Secretory-to-Senator Capehart James E. Armstrong for Republican nomination to Congress from the 9th District, is the fact that he says he is opposing E’arl Wilson because of the latter’s “New Dealism.” Wilson was indiscreet enough to hit National headlines last fall with' a suggested program for his programless party. At the time, he even said President Truman ?was doing all right. That was when “the honeymoon .was on,” and lots' of Republicans were prais-ing-Truman because tljey mistakenly believed that he was going to “right of center,’’ and they hoped he would help them undo the New Deal. Wilson, .however, went further. He saw possibilities in the situation. If the Democrats are going to discard the New Deal, said he, why not substitute a kind of Republican New Deal? Fighting Roosevelt and his New Deal never got us anywhere. A New Deal of our own, might. Other Republicans were horrified. The National GOP Committee quietly shut up Mr- Wilson. But Mr. Armstrong is out to make Wilson eat his words. Ninth Dis-

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OLb And NEW NEW YORK: After 12 years at City Hall, ex-Mayor LaGuardia, now a radio commentator, is opening private offices in Radio City . . . Twenty-two years ago, a girl began work in one of New York’s most important department stores. Her New Year’s present, this year, is its presidency, the first woman to hold such a position Her name — Dorothy Shaver -> , . The new-Cardinal, Francis Joseph Spellman, is not, as so many believe. a real New Yorker. He started life in a New England community .. . And—a little over a decade ago, William J- O’Dwyer was a beat-poynding patrolman, studying law in' his spare time. Today the Irish-born O’Dwyer is New York’s Mayor and first citizen,

JUNE KNIGHT New Jersey Vignette proving for the umpteenth time, that. O’Henry’s Bagdad-on-Hudson is generous with opportunity for her sons and daughters. IN ADVANCE: Newest phase of show business in peace time will be appearances of USO-Campshows regularly at veterans’ hospitals . . .

^ ffif "MM if Boh Wilson Robert Taylor and Katie Hepburn will soon go to work on the Metro lots, turning out “You Were There.” It will be Bob’s first post, war film . . . Erskine Johnson, who covers Hollywood as a new columnist and airer for MBS, sends word that Roy Rogers has won the “Box Office” award as "star cowboy actor of 1945” . . . Theodore Granik writes to remind that the “American Forum of the Air” will soon go into its 17th year — a record . . . The fall of ’46 will allow all to see and enjoy in actuality the new type of railroad equipment now getting oh’s-and-ah’s in those maga-

zine ads.

CITY CHATTER: Is Danielle Darrieux, the French film star trying, to again crash Hollywood? . . .-Will Henry J. Taylor’s click commentary “Your Land and Mine,” Mutual coast-to-coast airer, be made into a series of movie shorts? . . . Will FCC Commissioner Paul Porter, become one of Mr. Truman’s Presidential assistants? . . . Will Winston Churchill get that bid for a network commentary series when he comes to New York this month? .. . Will Dick “Rogue’s Gallery” Powell turn director-story writer as- rumored?...June Knight, movie, nightclub and radio star, is busy these wintry days, headlining with Bobby Clarke in a riotous stage comedy, “The Would-Be Gentleman,” currently playing in New Jersey, with a further road itinerary planned. THIS IS POST WAR: When Asbury Park, N. J., the famed resort,' announces that it will resume the traditional baby parade in '46 . . . When real estate values jump to points 25 to 100 percent above normal . . . When Guy Lombardo, Tommy Dorsey, Bing Crosby, and scores of other pre-war musical favorites start signing new contracts ... When the Public Library gets its massive face washed . . . When pitchmen return to the streets, selling everything from shoe-laces to j “th§ finest nylons.”

James A. Eicr.dge The Young Men’s Liberal Democratic Club will hold a meeting Saturday night, January 12th, in the Circuit Court room. The affair w r as arranged by Ben Becham, president of the organization. James A. Eldridge, executive secretary of the Young Democrats of Indiana will be the guest speaker for the evening. He is widely known throughout the state as a public speaker. As an active participant in the work of the Indiana Committee for Victory he spoke throughout the state in behalf of public support of the Dumbarton Oaks Proposals; later speaking for the ratification of the San Francisco Charter. He has taken part in numerous radio discussions of vital topics of public interest. A student of politics and economics, Eldridge has lectured before many civic and patriotic organizations. He has stressed the need for an informed citizenry to carry forward the peaceful, orderly democratic system of government. As a veteran of World War II he erans Committee. is a member of the American VetMr. Eldridge’s talk will be entitled “A Program for Liberals.” Ail Democrats are urged to be present. * BUSINESS (Continued from Page One) the Ohio Teamster exposed the fact that the Labor Union newspaper and its owner had collected more than $29,000 for personal services, expenses and advertising in the 1940 and 1942 campaigns of Gov. Bricker. Such papers probably have an appeal for business men in Ohio. If they want to contribute to it, that is their business. If they think they are buying any influence or good will from the Teamsters’ union they are suckers. We accept no money from business men or corporations or anybody else that does not go to our members in the form of wages paid torwork done . A New York City “labor” newspaper has recently hen conducting a campaign for advertising in the South, using tactics which brought repudiation from the American Federation of Labor. So far as we know, their solicitors did not mention the Teamsters. But just in case they did, we are not interested in that publication either. If any business man or politician is approached by anyone offering to sell Teamster support, we suggest that he save his money. We also suggest that he call cops. —International Teamster.

0 P A INDORSED (Continued from page One) sively business and mercantile organizations,”. the Calumet continued. “They work for the progress and improvement of their districts. §uch progress is for and on behalf of labor and industry as well as for the advancement of commercial facilities and the welfare of the people in general.” When chambers of commerce are motivated by the principle outlined by the Chicago paper, they have the cooperation of labor, as evidenced by Brother Groth. When a grovip of business men indorse an agency as important to labor as the OPA.they are entitled to labor support. And they receive

it.

The action of the Chicago business men in approving the OPA, followed similar action by a meeting of the small merchants of Indianapolis. The Indianapolis merchants declared that under the OPA regulations, they had done better financially than ever before. While the OPA protected the public by keeping prices down, it also protected the small merchants from inflation which would have put them out of business. The indorsement of OPA given by the South Chicago Chamber of Commerce indicates that business men are begining to realize that their interests are identical with labor’s in pdeventing inflation. Inflation would lead to depression and ruin for most of the business men of this country. The only people who would profit by inflatio would be a small group of rich speculators. They would end up owning most of the property in the

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country while small business men lined up with labor in front of employment offices and soup kitchens. When business and labor both demand continuance of the OPA, even the most reactionary congressmen and senators should be convinced that when they agitate for repeal of this federal agency they are agitating against the public interest Those who are not convinced should be defeated next November. SACRED COW OF COP DEHORNED Representative LaFollette’s Liberalism Brings

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Representative Charles LaFollette of Evan&ville still calls himself a Republican, though he has comsistently supported the New Deal program, and in his ov r n active prq-labor stand on various issues (to quote from the Washingtqn editor of the Chicago Sun’s feature, “Inside Washington”) invariably finds that “virtually his support comes from the Democratic side of the House”. . . LaFollette being “one of the few liberal Republicans in the House.” His liberalism, indeed, has already brought growling from the reactionaries of his own state, and a cry of “throw him out! He’s not a Republican!” Admiration for his courage and his steadfast convictions is confined largely, also, to the Democrats. There will be no Republican “amens” to his latest daring pro-

nouncement.

One wonders indeed if the Indiana Senatorial aspirant has not signed his own political death-war-rant, so far as his own party is concerned, for (as Drew Pearson described the incident) “LaFollette attacked that super-sacred cow, states’ rights, and before he was through had virtually dehorned the animal . . . His speech packed such a wallop that conservative colleagues on the Republican side almost swooned-” States’ Rights was a southern issue at the time of the Oivil War, but since the beginning of the nation, it has been kicked about from party to party, and from political exigency to political exigency. Since the advent of Roosevelt and the }New Deal, the Republicans have made it their own private fet- , ish. It was a major slogan in the last national campaign. And anyone who attended sessions of the last, iGOP-dommated Indiana legis-

lature will remember how the cheers rang at any Republican member’s mention of “the soverign rights of Indiana.” The right of the people of Indiana, the rights of the aged and dependent, the rights of workmen to compensation for unemployment or injury, the rights of veterans, were matters to squabble over , to fight or to ignore (except that the public would not let them be ignored); but the rights of the soverign state of Indiana —■ ah! That was another matter. Hooray! For States’ Rights! And now this red-headed Hoosier dares.isay on the floor of the House; “there are no such things as States Rights. There are rights of citizens who live within a state. The man who speaks of state -sovereignty speaks the language of tctalitarism. There is only individual sovereignty-” Colleagues on btoh sides of the aisles,” (continues Pearson) “listened in amazed silence. Only Congressmen to answer were two Republi canu . . • Significantly, no whimpers came from Southern Democrats. “ ‘Did not the sovereignty of the i-tates exist long before the federal government?’ asked Bates (Republican) of Massachusetts. “ ‘Yes, but man existed long before the state of Massachusetts,’ shot back LaFollette. The state of Massachusetts did not create its citizens and does not own them. The citizens own the state. In the Continental Congress and the convention which created the Constitution • . The issue was not states’ rights. “The issue was, ‘shall the people determine that they can be better served by a (federal) government with power over the State.’ That is the constitutional answer, and it is the only answer that parallels with any idea of the innate dignity and honor of mankind. From that premise I do not yield, nor shall I ever yield, God giving me the strength to retain my intellectual moral and spiritual integrity-” • o —— Legal Notice

NOTICK QF SPKCIAL JIKKTINO OF COMMON COCNCII. OF CITY OF MI NCIE, INDIANA Notice is hereby given that the Common Council Oif the City of Muncie, Indiana. will hold a special meeting of said Common Council in the Council Chamber in the City Hall, Muncie Indiana, on the 18th day of January, 1946, at 7:30 o’clock p. m. to elect a suitable person to fill a vacancy in the offic^ of councilman on said Common Council. ,Common Council of City of Muncie, Ind. J. CHYDE DUNNINGTON . . City Clerk Jan. 11-18—-PD O Buy More War Bonds

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Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS State of Indiana, Delaware Co., ss: George Marshall Clark vs. Iva Kathryn Clark In the Delaware Circuit Court,. January Term, 1946, Complaint: for divorce. No. 20601 Notice is hereby given the said defendant Iva Kathryn Clark that the plantiff has filed his*complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant with an affidavit of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Saturday the 9th day of March, 1946, the 54th day the present term of said Court, to he 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 w*! be heard and determined in her absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the gea 1 of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 7th day of January A. D„ 1946. JESSE E. GREENE, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney.

QUICKIE QUIZ TWO HANDS, CLEAN AND JERK: Weight lifting is as old as the evolution of the animal desire for controlling inanimate objects. TWO HANDS SNATCH: Not being exactly play for the participants, weight lifting requires the utmost from a. man’s muscles, but it attracts relatively Jittle interest as a spectacle, for it is merely a show of strength and lifting power. TWO HANDS MILITARY PRESS: Seven events usually make up a weight lifting program. They include right hand snatch, left hand snatch, two hands snatch, right hand clean and jerk, left hand clean and jerk, two hands military press. Scoring is on the point system, YOU’RE HANDS DOWN IF YOU CAN’T TELL: Alan Scott (and Murdoch), MBS commentators, who holds the world championship for two hands military press. Tlie American (and ivorld) record for tioo hands military press as of March, 19H was 321 pounds, made by John Davis in the heavyweight class.

YOUR WEEKLY MEMORY TEST How good is your memory for facts and faces? Here is your chance to find out. ONE YEAR AGO THIS WEEK As fighting reached a climactic pitch between Allies and Axis, it was revealed by an army headquarters command that 115 captured troops had been lined up and summarily slain by their captors without benefit of any recognized military trial rights. Who were thpse involved ? FIVE YEARS AGO THIS WEEK In a proclamation made in Rome, this monarch renounced his claim to the throne of Spain in favor of his son. Prince Juan. Who was the ruler? TEN YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

The woman pictured above was elected the first woman governor of any state in the Union—the state of Wyoming. Subsequently she was upopinted director of the United States mint. Who is she? 41SSWERS: ssoy aojXo i ai;;a V IUX osuoi/djy g sdoojf sdJOZ Jjunj UDUtJOQ .s'jjyyijy uomXjjtfiiJO uvjtjamy—suitjjt^ 'j Edited by Henry J. Tavlor of the 'IfiS “This Land of Ours’’

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DEFY KT.q ENT OF PEBLIC WORKS AND SAFETY—OFFICE OF THE BOARD CITY HALL NOTICE TO CONTRACTOR AND TO THE PUBLIC Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors that the Board Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, and according to the plans, drawings and specifications therefo:e on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described to-wit: New police (radio station—complete plumbing and heating and electric wiring and fixtures. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has b.een no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95 of the Act of March 6th, 1905 (Acts 1905, page 219.) Bids in excess of $5,000.00 must be accompanied by a statement on f orm 96-A prescribed by State Board of Accounts. All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 2:30 o’clock in the afternoffE of the 16th day of January, la46, and eacn such proposal must oe accompanied by a c.ertuied check payable to said City, for the sum equal to five per cent (a%) of the City Civil ■engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing tile same shall fail duly and promptly to execute tiie required conti act and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. BY ORDER OE THE BOARD OE PUBLIC WORKS AND SAEETY W. M. BROCK, Clerk Jan 4-11—PD o Paint Threes against Beavers CASPE, Wyo.—Trees and power lines in tlie Mills area near here have been painted with creosote to prevent attacks by “eager beavers.” The buck-toothed little animals have been gnawing down tret 3 and power lines. Museum Requests Tanks

NEW ORLEANS OJ.P.)—The Louisiana state museum has asked for its share of surplus army tanks and guns. They will be placed alongside relics of other wars. Trie museum already has a fqc-simile of the Japanese surrender document. - —o Memory Lapse Costs $25 CHICAGO—MichaeJ A 1 w a n, 53-year-old brewery fireman,, was fined $25 and costs on a disorderly conduct charge filed by his wife. She charged he had hidden he upper plate and then forgotten the hidingp lace of the teeth.

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