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POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1946.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT ^ Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$1.50 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, March 1, 1946. The Pauley-Ickes Episode The Pauley-Ickes episode has served one good purpose to date. It has caused the public to do a lot of thinking about the kind of men who ought to be appointed to public of-

fice.

President Truman has made some excellent appointments and he has made some bad ones. Put if he thinks it is good politics or good government to push the nomination of Ed Pauley, he is mistaken. He has put himself on a hot spot and he does not appear to know how to get off. The best thing that could happen for him and his administration would be the rejection of Pauley by the Sen-

ate.

Ed Pauley is a man of ability. But he is messed up. His personal interest in oil is such that he ought not to be named assistant secretary of the Navy. Even if he leaned backward on oil and walked the straight and narrow path as the result of the Ickes disclosure, the public would still be suspicious and ill at east with him in the Navy department, The President’s Cabinet, like Caesar’s wife, must be above reproach. Mr. Ickes was right in making his disclosure of the advances made to him by Mr. Pauley. The public was entitled to know. Bu£ the part that Ickes has played seems something less than heroic. He kept still for a long time. He kept still, in fact, until it best served his own purpose to speak. His sanctimonious attitude which gives the impression that he thinks he is about the only honest man in the world is a little more than a lot of people like to swallow. Ickes has quite a reputation as a hatchet man. He might even be called a small atomic bomb when it comes to blasting other men’s reputations. He has often used this ability recklessly. As a consequence he does not have many friends. He himself has often commented upon the number of his enemies. But whatever one may think of Ickes, that does not clean the skirts of Mr. Pauley. Nor has the episode wrecked the administration of President Truman, although it has He should mind to have fought as hard for some of his good causes as he has fought for this bad t>ne. He would be better off today. Mr. Truman should acknowledge his mistake and withdraw the name of Pauley. If he does not, the Senate ought to vote against confirmation.—Journal Gazette.

Dispelling the Fog '; t :' The Pew-Weir clan is at the helm as the Republican party opens the all-important " 1946 congressional election campaign. All the • evidenre amassed since Congress returned from its recess supports this as a statement --of fact rather than conjecture. 1 Ernest E. Weir, labor-baiting steel mag--nate and a heavy sugar-daddy of the G.O.P., -writes a selected group of friends that his C party must be the “publicly proclaimed con’’servative party,” as Republican strategists |fight bitterly to prevent Roosevelt-Truman ^policies from being enacted into law. :* House minority leader Joseph W. Martin, |jr., talks vaguely about wanting “more people to have more money,” as his party connives, through the Case bill, incubated at a f Republican National Committee meeting in Chicago in late 1945, to destroy many of the y rights guranteed to labor under the laws ilj enacted during the Roosevelt administration. Republican leaders of twelve mid-western states, keeping step with their congressional representatives call for immediate elimination of the OPA as Chester Bowles, price control administrator, warns of the devastating effect of inflation, observing that soaring prices will destroy values of savings depos- . its, bonds and insurance policies, with resultant business failures', property losses and unemployment. Liberal Senator Morse fights hopelessly to reform within the party as the same midvwesterners applaud John W. Bricker, their presidential choice for 1948, and deny whisperings that their meeting is a “stop Stassen” move. Shortly before, Representative Charles M. LaFollette learned that obstacles arise when a liberal Republican tries to climb the- political ladder in Indiana. Pre-Pearl Harbor isolationist Republicans hoist the storm signals for the proposed loan of $3,750,000,000 to Great Britain as President Truman, Secretary of the Treasury Vinson and other administration leaders plead for restoration of Britain’s economy as a necessary aid to our own prosperity. Republican members of the House Banking and Currency Committee snipe at administration legislation to cloak National Housing Administrator Wyatt with authority to put price ceilings on homes built with priority materials as veterans desperately seek accomodations for themselves and families. Contrasted with the negative record which Republicans have been making since the first of the year, Chairman Robert E. Hannigan has set out to sell his party’s program to congress and to the American people. Chairman Hannegan chose, as his first objective, enactment of the bill to raise the legal minimum hourly wage from 40 cents to 65 cents, providing direct benefits to ap-

proximately 4,000,000 low-paid workers engaged in interstate commerce. Personal appeals were made by the chairman to Democratic members of the Senate Education and Labor Committees to support the legislation. It was voted favorably, late in January. High on the priorty list of the Hannegan legislative program are administration measures to relieve the acute housing shortage through construction of low-priced homes and to extend the OPA law for one year from the date of its scheduled expiration, on June 30. j Thus, the Democratic leadership once j again accepts the Weir declaration that the J Republican party’s “only practical and effective stand will be that of the publicly proclaimed conservative party.” That is precisely what our party, the liberal (not radical) party in American, has wanted to receive from the opposition. Not only do we Democrats accept it. We insist on it. Our every effort will be to publicize it, emphasize it, until every American who goes to the polls in November, will know just what he or she is voting for.

We Must Give Faith, Hope as Well as Charity Most Americans rannot even imagine how ruthlessly Hitler's war machine “scorched the Earth” of Europe. Over here, we have no adequate yardstick to measure the destitution over there. Probably our closest basis of comparison would be the depression of the early 1930’s, and in this sense: that the moral aspect of that depression, by comparison, would seem luxury in most of Europe today. We are going to do what humanity and brotherhood dictate. We are going to share our food with

them.

We are not going to let them starve. Right now, most of us should do some quiet reflecting, and ask ourselves: Is that ! enough? We are sure the answer will be:

It is not enough.

Uncle Sam—no, not alone, but with the help of Canada, Australia and others—must launch a more effective program to help

those people to help themselves.

That was one of the five original duties of UNRRA. It is the one that has been most

neglected and least publicized.

Yet it is not UNRRA’s fault. Having always to fight for funds, and with the emergency so stupenduous as to take almost all those funds merely to keep millions from starvation, it has put first things first. It

has fed the hungry.

The danger is that short-sightedness may lead some to regard President Truman’s food program as an end—wh<3h it is only a

beginning.

We must follow up charity with faith and

hope.

We must—for our own enlightened selfinterest—lead punch-drunk Europe in restoring faith to its people and hope to its fu-

I ture. How?

Through UNRRA, or otherwise, there should be a draft of America’s best brains, to share with Europe not only our food but our organizing genius, which has no equal.

Let us lease-lend implements of peace as

we Jease-lend implements of war. That is, let us send farm machinery, looms, tractors, trucks and other urgently needed machinery and tools—the means by which our impover-

ished friends can help themselves. Yes, a little of this has been done. But

pitifully little.

There are three quite selfish reasons why

we should do it.

First—because if we do not, Russia will. She will step in and organize Western Europe as she is organizing Eastern Europe, as, for example, she has collectivized farms in Romania, reducing their production by 62 percent. % Second—we must do this because the sooner the nations of Europe again grow their own food and make their own clothing the sooner Americans can end food restric-

tions.

Third—because such a course will pay dividends in genuine, not imitation, good

will.

Let’s use a bit of elementary psychology. Sending bread and fats to maintain a bare subsistence diet won’t earn us much gratitude. It shouldn’t. Most of us would do as much for a dog. Even as individuals we ourselves would detest having to accept charity. Yes, we’d feel thankful for food. But we’d also feel ashamed of having to depend on others, resentful because we could not help ourselves. Any ma with spunk in him—European or American—wants, not charity, but work. That’s what Europe wants—as much as it wants food. If we want Europe to rebuild herself, to tollow our democratic and free economic patterns—we will have to furnish the leadership. She doesn’t have it. Moscow would be glad to furnish leadership toward the Soviet way of life. But up j,.? now, most of Europe still prefers ours.—• Philadelphia Record.

Quotable Quotes At a recent secret meeting of Senate and House Republicans, former Senator John Danaher of Connecticut, now GOP congression liaison officer, is reported to have said: “You would be amazed to learn how many people think the Democrats stand for democracy and the Republicans for something entirely different . . . We are simply playing into the hands of the Democrats when we, stress the word ‘Democracy.’ Hereafter, let’s use our own word—‘republican’—with j a small ‘r.’ ” No matter how small you slice it, John, it will still be the same old elephant meat.

The Soviet Answer International morality as regards secret military intelligehce is a good deal like the fabled morality of the Spartans as regards stealing foxes. It’s all right if you don’t get caught, but if you do. Russia, accordingly, would much prefer not to have had her secret intelligence in Canada uncoverered. But since it was, she has handled the matter with quite unconventional frankness. She has bowed to convention by recalling her military attache because of the “inadmissibility” of acts of members of his staff. But she has announced in forthright fashion that he did, indeed, receive secret information. Russia carries conviction, moreover, when she adds that the information was valueless, having already been ascertained through official publications, including America’s Smythe report on atomic energy. Competent atomic scientists in this country were all along convinced that important data for atomic production did not leak; and dispatches from Canada do not indicate important leaks of any nature. Normal standards of intercourse between friendly nations bear Russia out when she charges Canada with unfriendly action in revealing such leakage as there was, without first asking the Soviet government to explain. The Canadian government did not, “officially,” designate Russia as the recipient. But Russia was “authoritatively” identified as such. A great and hostile hue and cry resulted, as was evidently intended. The Kremlin’s counter-attack, with its jabs at Britain as well as Canada, must be considered in part as a means of diverting attention from the “inadmissible” acts of Soviet agents. But the entire affair, following the acrid debates between Messrs. Bevin and Vishinsky in the United Nations Security Council, symbolizes a degree of mistrust between Russia, Britain and America which is all too gravely dangerous. It must be the first objective of America, Russia and Britain to bridge the gap.—Chicago Sun. The Old-Time Politician is Obsolete If democracy is to flourish in the United States in the future the people will have to find a way of calling better and abler men into public service. Political and economic affairs are growing increasingly complex—much too complex for Senator Claghorn to understand and handle. That’s no joke, son. Anyone who will take the trouble to look at both major political parties today will find that there are few men who are eminently qualified to be president of the United States. Few members of the Senate and Hou&e are outstanding. Mediocrity in high office was not so dangerous in the earlier days of this republic when life was relatively simple. It is dangerous now and the cost of it makes it a luxury which we cannot afford. President Truman during his short time in the White House has often commented on the fact that he cannot persuade enough competent men to help him. Those with the most ability want to Stay in private business and the professions where the compensations are better and the brickbats are not so frequent. Many of the leaders of private business who went to Washington to serve during the war, found the red tape of government and bureaucracy to be stifling. They felt they were not able to acomplish much because of it. The time has come when the people themselves must make up their minds as to what they want to do about such a situation. It is not going to solve itself. The old-type politician is well known to all of us. He is versed in all the local prejudices and is able to be all things to all men. He may have the gift of public speaking or handshaking. He knows how to tell a funny story and pat a baby on the head. His convictions are highly volatile. His hat may be picturesque and his hair long and bushy. Such qualifications are hardly enough to fit him to deal with the problems of war and peace, the atomic bomb, modern economics, the intricate question of taxation and all the other complex facts of modern society. A et, he is not going into voluntary retirement. He will be around as long as the voters tolerate him.—Journal Gazette. Nobel Prize Winner Gives Warning In the realm of politics Dr. Harold C. Urey, professor of chemistry at the University of Chicago, is unknown. As a scientist, he- has an international reputation. He won the Nobel prize in science for his discovery in 1934 of the heavy isotope of hydrogen, an importaht factor in nuclear energy research. In a recent article in Collier’s, he wrote: “I write this to frighten you. I’m a frightened man, myself. All the scientists are frightened—frightened for their lives— frightened for your lives. We who have lived for years in the shadow of the atomic bomb are well acquainted with fear, and it is a fear you should share if we are to intelligently to meet our problems.” Dr. Urey is not talking through his hat. Nobody knows better than him and his colleagues how dangerous the atomic bomb is to the future of civilization. It is more real to them than it is to laymen. To us, it sometimes seems only like a bad dream. We get absorbed with our personal affairs in following current events, with the thous-and-and-one things of every day life, and forget all about the bomb. But it is still in existence and like the sword of Damocles, it hangs as a threat over the heads of all of us. The scientists never forget it. Nor do

\ Prof. Urey says with all frankness that men of science are afraid of what politicians and diplomats may do with the bomb. And we can add that leaving it to some of the politicians we know is as dangerous as trusting a straight-edged razor in the hands of a little child. The scientist says that he has never heard of any scientific defense against the bomb and adds that its mere presence cannot be detected by any “magical means,” and that, “it is of such a size that it could fairly easily be smuggled in pieces from a country and assembled in another to await explosion at the touch of a distant radio switch. It all sounds pretty dangerous what could happen to the United States if some other country which was jealous of our wealth and power had the bomb and tried to use it against us. Dr. Urey flings out this further warning: “The bomb is fused. The time is short. You must think fast. You must think straight.”—Journal Gazette. Bear Who Come to Dinner Complains About the Food Russia, caught with her sickle down in Ottawa, tries to cover up by swinging the hammer wildly in Moscow. The Soviets follow the same principle as the holdup man who beat up his woman victime because her purse was empty. The Red Fifth Column in Canada having been caught passing military secretas to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, Moscow now berates Canada for making a fuss about the theft—on the grounds that the secrets Russia admits stealing were worthless, to Russia! Soviet fellow travelers, hastening to follow the Moscow line, are working themselves into a lather in the U. S. A. Even former Ambassador Davies, who ought to know better, says the Soviets have a “moral” right to steal the Canadian secrets. But the payoff is the frenzy reached in yesterday’s Daily Worker: “The real criminal in the case has appeared not as some vague and mysterious ‘spy ring,’ but as the brutal, aggressive, expansionist foreign policy of the •_ Truman Administration, embodying the greedy dreams of the Wall Street Trusts and the Hearst-minded militarists.” With the Soviets since V-E Day having extended their domination over territory with a population greater than that of the United States; with Moscow wielding one club on Iran, another on Manchuria, yet another on Hungary, with still one more poised at Turkey— The Kremlin has the crust to point at Truman, and cry: “He’s the cause of it all!” xxx Russia’s blunt confession that Canadians sold out their country to. the Soviets confirms the warning this newspaper has given time over with respect to U. S. Communists. What more do we need to prove the disloyalty of these people? What mote is necessary to demonstrate that dissolution of the Comintern in 1943 was a gigantic hoax ? What more is required to convince some of pur muddle-minded “liberals” that in playing ball with Communists they aid the enemies of our democracy? xxx What are we going to do about it? If we followed one Soviet example, all those caught in Canada would be liquidated. We remember that on the day the magnificent Soviet pavilion opened at the World’s Fair, a woman and her daughter were executed in Kiev, as spies—something few nations ever have done in peacetime. Then we could do as Russia did with the 16 Polish underground leaders who journeyed to Moscow for a conference. They were jailed as spies, tried and punished. But neither Canada nor the U. S. will follow the Soviet example. What should we do about it? First, all Communists, fellow travelers or Red sympathizers must be removed from key posts in Government or labor unions. There are plenty in both. Second, all Communists and fellow travelers in the U. S. A., whether they are American citizens or not, must be compelled to register as agents of 1 a foreign power. The list of names should then be put in pamphlet form, and widely distributed, so the activities of the Un-Americans could be kept under the closest scrutiny. Then, if conditions should become more serious, the Fifth Columnists, as Marquis Childs calls them, should be rounded up and isolated — or, better, given passports and passage to Russia. A nation which lacks the courage, the will and the intelligence to fight its internal enemies is a nation which gambles recklessly with its own survival. The U. S. A. has gambled long enough. — Philadelphia Record.

Latest Garrup Poll In the latest Gallup poll, the voters “sampled” over the country were asked the question, “As you feel today, which political party—the Democratic, or Republican—can handle each of the problems better?” The answers, listed as follows, show conclusively that the voters have not lost faith in the Democratci party as the party of the common man: No Dem. Rep. Dif. Dealing with world affairs 49% 28% 23% Keeping wages high 60% 21% 19% Keeping farmers’ income 56 25 high Keeping farmers’ income high 56% 25% 19% An earlier poll showed that 57% of the people feel that the Republican party is primarily interested in people of above-average income.

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Ollie Mopes and The Streamlined House

The other day a construction firm set up an exhibit in the courthouse square. They built a neW “house of the future”—and invited folks to see it. Drew quite a crowd—with the women sighing over the shiny kitchen, and the men admiring the heating units and insulation. All except Ollie Mapes. He looks around a spell and goes home. When I get there, he’s sitting before his old dutch fireplace, with his feet on the screen, and a mellow glass of beer in hand.

“You know,” quotes Ollie, “it i takes a heap of living to make a home.”

Locking around, I see what Ollie I means. A room crowded with memories of a life well spent—and the 1 friendly habits of a happy home, from a blazing old-fashioned fire, to a mellow glass of beer with ( friends. From where I sit, those , things do more to make a home j than modern streamlined gadgets, j I

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Office of The Board City Hall Muncie, Ind., Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice To Property Owners

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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, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Incliana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 20th day of February 1946. to-wit: I. R. 896 - 1946 - -Sewer in the Alley between Burlington Drive and Willard Street from Kibble Avenue to Mock

Avenue.

I. R. 897 - 1946 - Sewer in South Liberty Street from 21st Street to 20th

Street.

I. R. 898 - 1946 - Sewer in the alley between Godman Avenue and Ethel Avenue from Manning Avenue west to Tillotson, thence north in Tillotson Avenue to Nickel Plate Railroad. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 13th day of March 1946 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 2:30 p. m., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the prirpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may 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 said 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 proposed improvements,, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. Board of Public Works By W. M. Brock, Clerk 2-22-46—3-1-46 O Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

No. 29718 State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss; Donald L. Jarnagin

vs.

Patricia A. Jarnagin In The Delaware Circuit Court January Term, 1946 Complaint: For Divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant Patricia A. Jarnagin that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant Patricia A. Jarnagin is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Saturday the 20th day of April 1946, the 18th day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in April, 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 her

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fice of the Auditor of Delaware County, State of Indiana. Each bidder shall accompany his bid with a non-collusidn affidavit as required by law, and any bid in excess of Five Hundred ($500,001 Dollars shall be accompanied by a Bidder’s Bond os a certified check payable to the Treasurer of Delaware County, State of Indiana, which bond or check shall be in amount not less than ten lltt'&j percent of the total amount of such bid. The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Dated, this 22nd day of February,

1946.

Sgmuel L. Cunnington Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana (Press & Post-Democrat) Feb. 22, Mar. 1

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NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS

No. 30662 State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Reba M. Campbell

vs.

Marian A. Campbell In The Delaware Circuit Court, January Term 1946 Complaint: For Divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant Marion A. Campbell that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit

WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 19th day of February A. D.,

1946.

Jesse E. Greene, Clerk

John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Atty.

Feb. 22, March 1-8

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of the County

of Delaware, State of Indiana, will i ceive sealed bids and proposals until the hour of 10 o’clock in the forenoon, on Monday the 4th day of March, 1946, at the office of the County Auditor of Delaware County, in the Court House, in the City of Muncie, Indiana, for the furnishing of the following equipment for the County Highway Department of said county, as follows, to-wit:-

—TRUCKS—

One or more Dump Trucks with capacity of two ton or larger. Equipped

with Dual rear wheels.

Requirements and specifications for said equipment are on file in the Of-

that the said defendant Marion A. j Campbell is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Saturday the 20th day of April 1946, the 18th day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in April, 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 and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 21st day of February A. D. 1946. Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Atty. Feb, 22, March 1-8

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