Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 March 1946 — Page 2

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1946.

T1JE POST-DEMOCRAT t 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 22, 1946.

DispeUing the Fog By SAM O’NEAL Now that the Kepublican party has dropped its “me-too” porturings of the last two presidential elections and gone back to its old profession as the great political Wall Street walker, why should there be any further speculation as to the type of man it will nominate in 1948? I ask the question in all sincerity. Frankly, I do not understand why anyone should 3ven consider the possibility of a Republican “liberal” as the party’s candidate next time. With the party now openly committing itself to outright reaction, going back to its old belief in government-without-program and people-with-protection, what reason is there for thinking the 1948 candidacy could be given to anyone except a man of the type of, say, John W. Bricker? 1 do not say that Bricker will be the selection—though 1 am a strong “Bricker man” from this side of the fence, believing as I do that few other Republicans are as capable of thoroughly bungling the candidacy and saying the wrong things at the right time as consistently as John Bricker. As the party of reaction, the Republican party will have rough sledding in 1948 on principle alone. Disregard of the people may send it into a nose dive through its own platform. But with John Bricker to make the speeches, the dive would have jet-propul-sion behind it. In making any sort of prediction about an election that still is more than two years away, I realize I’m sticking my neck out, but, gentle reader,, here is my neck. I am willing to go on record as saying that the Republican candidate in 1948 wlil be John Bncger or somebody just as whole-hog reactionary as Bricker, and almost as inept. There will not be, cannot be, a liberal Republican ticket. There cannot even be a round-trip ticket to fake liberalism on the “me-too” line. It will be just as well if we realize that now. The sooner we know what kind of a candidate the Republicans are going to put up, the better we Democrats will be prepared Americans^ will De^) r^ahiTe^f^ll^' Ul^ii '"rim just another party fight. This raises the question about Harold E. Stassen. The former Minnesota governor recently came out of the Navy, fired with a consuming ambition of gaining the Republican Presidential nomination. To do so he must successfully buck the will of the Old Guard gang that pays for feeding the efdphant and taking care of other party qhores. They regard Stassen as being too liberal, although we have genuine doubts Qqncerning that. V ' Stassen thought at first he could become the nominee by making an extended ^peaking tour of the country—for handsome honorariums, we understand—and through visits to Rusia, England and other parts of Europe and South America. However, youthful Harold hasn’t found it quite so simple as all that. He’s having trouble in his home state about which even his best friends didn’t tell him. Stassen has learned in the last few weeks it will take a stronger candidate than Representative Walter Judd to defeat Senator Henrik Shipstead in the Minnesota Senatorial primary. Republican leaders have informed Harold he must file against and defeat the dour and elderly isolationist to prove he has the situation well in hand in his home state. Even if he beats the incumbent senator, Stassen will face trouble in the November election, just as Bricker will in Ohio. There is another young man who is finding this business of running for President a tough job. He is former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, who was offered up on the alter in 1944 but, nevertheless, is anxious to try again. New York’s Democrats, however, should take care of him in November. Some of the party's elder statesmen, like Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Robert Taft, may well enter into the picture before the nominating convention in the summer of 1948. Vandenberg ducked out of Cleveland before the 1936 nominating convention was concluded to avoid being drafted as the vice presidential nominee on a ticket already beaten before the campaign began. Party bigwigs havn’t forgotten this incident but the Michigan Senator has gained some stature through his switch from an outright isolationist to a pseudo-internationalist. His record on domestic issues is sufficiently conservative to put him in the Bricker category. As for Taft, there is no more able exponent of reaction in America. The issue would be clear-cut with the Ohio Senator as the nominee. Thus, with the 1948 picture shaping up as it is, it’s pretty nice to have a Democratic neck to stick out.

An Open Letter to the Housewives of America Dear Mrs. Housewife: The other day, you may have read in your newspaper the Gallup Poll report showing that three out of four Americans believe price control is necessary and want the ceiling law kept in force after next June, when it

otherwise would end. If you are one of the minority of our citizens—the one out of four—who wants to end government protection and let prices go through the ceiling, skip this. It won’t interest you. You can afford to pay $2 a pound for beef—$10 for that 5-pound roast you plan for next Thursday—$6 a pair for nylons, and $8 each for those new shirts your husband needs. Obviously you can afford these prices. You wouldn’t be asking for them if you couldn’t. But if you can’t make ends meet at such prices, just as clearly you will want to be protected against them, because those are a few of the levels we are headed for if we do not keep ceilings on these markets by the law of our land. Now, regardless of what this Congress does, a new Congress is to be elected next November. You have a vote. On that day —November 5, 1946—you have the choice of staying home or going to the polls. Maybe you will want to de-ice and clean the refrigerator on that morning of next November 5. Maybe you will want to do your marketing. , In the afternoon, you may plan to tackle that job you have put off so long, of going through Junior’s things and getting rid of the things he has outgrown. Or catching up on the serial that you began in the House Journal so you can throw away those back copies you’ve been hanging on to. Lady, if you stay home on November 5, to de-ice your refrigerator, it will be the most expensive de-icing operation you ever indulged in. You could step out right now and buy yourself a new fur coat with what it’s going to cost you next year as a result of staying away from the polls to clean out that refrigerator. And don’t throw anything of Jnior’s away. Maybe he’s outgrown haljj his clothes, but if you don’t vote, he’s going to need a V in those old pants next year—or go with out. Because, you see, Mrs. Three-Housewiv-es-Out-Of-Four, if people don’t get out and vote next Noverhber, the Republicans may win in a number of states and congressional districts. All their off-year elections victories in recent years have been won in just that way—by default of the electorate. And if the Republicans get in, you will most certainly get your $2-a-pound beef in 1947, your $6 nylons, your $8 shirt. Proof? Well, lady, members of the House of Representatives voted only a few days ago a measure to provide OPA with funds to carry on price control. Had the bill been defeated, there would have been no money for OPA to carry on. And here is how the two parties voted: For Price Control: Against Price Control Democrats 166 Democrats 3 Republicans 19 Republicans 105_ 4 Trnrr: 7=nirei H an—ttoli.m-vvTTT',—IT? up to you. You can vote next November or you can stay at home. You can elect a Democrat Congress, pr, if that is what you want, you can elect a Republican Congress. And you don’t have to vote a Republican ticket to do that. All you have to do is stay at home. But if you do stay home, remember to put that V in Junior’s pants. o Selective Service Extension The Army has reported proudly that in five months it has raised a volunteer force of 600,017 men, the largest volunteer force in our history. The Army and its recruiting system may take pride in that figure and the nation as a whole may take comfort that the rate of re-enlistment has been so high. More than 60 per cent of men now comprising the volunteer Army are men who saw service in World War II. Nearly 15 per cent are men who were in the Army prior to Pearl Harbor and the remainder are youngsters who enlisted rather than be drafted. Good as the recruiting rate is, will it be enough to enable the Army to attain its propected nucleus of 1,500,000 men by July 1? It is doubtful. Little more than three months remain before that arbitrary deadline, but on May 15 the Selective Service Act will expire unless it receives Congressional revival. It is hard to see how this nation can meet its obligation in a military way without extension of the Selective Service Act. Legislation that would extend the act another six months already is before the House. It should be acted upon favorably, and soon. Certainly, no one can tell what shape military demands will assume in the future, nor in what direction they will go, but it is a foregone conclusion that this is no time to let our strength be shorn through politics. The present state of world affairs may be less than a crisis, but it is a troubled period in wliich it is well to be prepared for any eventuality. Discounting war entirely, our military needs in the next year or two will be considerably greater than our present manpower can produce. Our commitments to liberated and occupied countries still remain on the books as definite obligations. It is hoped that all worry over possible use of added manpower in another war will have been removed before Congress votes on extending the Selective Service Act. But it is necessary for a while longer to maintain our strength through conscription. Universal conscription may be unpopular now and always but temporary conscription is better than impotency. If there is a better remedy, let its proponents speak out.—Journal-Gazette. o Crumbs of Credit “We cannot completely discount all of the effective things done by the Democrats while they have held control of the Federal administration. We must particularly give them credit for some of the social reforms which raised the standard of living of the common man.”—Rep. Margaret Chase Smith, Republican, of Maine.

Real Homes or Realty Speculation? Critics of the Administration’s plan to get 2,700,000 new houses built by the end of 1947 complain that the program is “too drastic.” Of course it is drastic. So are the hardships being endured by several million veterans who can’t find a decent place for themselves and their families to live. You can’t face up to a major crisis like the present housing shortage without drastic action. In 1933 with our economy down for the count, drastic action was taken. As a result the country got back on its feet. But the business-as-usual boys screamed to high hea-

ven.

In 1941-42 we took drastic action to gear the country for war production. By all-out effort we threw such a weight of men and materials at our enemies that we literally blasted them to kingdom come. But again, the business-as-usual crowd yelled that they were bing hurt. Now the same calamity-chorus is atit again. Lobbyists are swarming over Capitol Hill like termites, chewing away at the props of the plan that the President and Housing Administrator Wyatt have set up to relieve the home shortage. Republicans in Congress are lined up almost solidly against the program. If they cannot kill it outright, they are determined to delay it and cripple it with as many weakening amendments as possible. The Wyatt-plan is an across the board plan. It strikes realistically at every angle of the problem, which is the only way a quick and effective job can be done. It involves incentive payments to get production moving swiftly. It stimulates use of new materials and methods in an industry whose techniques are as out-moded as a buggy whip would be on a 1946 Buick. It provides government aid in financing a home mortgage. It diverts scarce materials from non-essential commerce into low-cost homes that the people will be able to afford and it protects home buyers from runaway increases in already inflated real estate

prices.

Every day the program is delayed means 3,000 fewer homes built this year. The alternative to the Wyatt plan is coddling special interests—and continued shortage of houses. The choice is between quick, drastic action, and prolonged drastic

hardship.

Most shameful spectacle of all is the fight of the real estate interests against

ceiling prices on houses.

Most interests—according to their i)ttk«smen—are not concerned because ceil-

subject, statesmen and diplomats are carrying on in much the same way they always have, seeking a fool’s security which could be destroyed in the twinkle of an eye by 500 atomic bombs effectively used.—Journal Gazette.

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It has been clear for two weeks that an agreement depended primarily on finding a formula to save face for both sides. The compromise allows the company to claim it granted only a basic IS^-cent increase and the union to say that the additional “equalization fund” makes up the full 19 V2 cents. What happened in the broad sense, however, is that the union proved its capacity to endure an extremely punishing contest and to win substantial gains—both wage gains and security clauses—to which, in view of U.A.W. agreements with other motor manufacturers, it was entitled. It was unfortunate for the workers, for the company itself, and for the whole country that they were achieved only through a strike. Industry faces serious problems as it moves into civilian operation, not least of which is the need to raise.the production standards of its workers. But in our system, the best way—indeed, the only way—to settle such problems is through the frame-work of collective bargaining. It is urgently to be hoped that settlement of the G.M. strike will furnish the final impetus needed to produce agreements in the remaining disputes which are checking reconversion.—Chicago Sun. o

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in Christmas Day Message, 1934: In front of the White House is the monument to a man who will live forever as the embodiment of courage—Andrew Jackson. . . . His patriotism was unstained and unafraid. Carved into that monument is his expression of the necessity of union. That message grows in importance with the years. In these days it means to me a union not only of the States, but a union of the hearts and minds of the people in all the States and their many interests and purposes, devoted with unity to the human welfare of our country.

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mg prices would cut into the enormous profits they hope to get as a result of the desperate need for shelter. Heaven forbid. It is the poor veteran they are worried about. If a veteran buys a house in 1946 they want to protect his right to sell it at a profit in 1947. What veterans want is a roof over their heads now—not a chance to speculate. Few veterans can afford the prices that are being asked for houses now, let alone the prices that will be imposed if the real estate busi-

ness has its way.

| What makes the crocodile tears of the j housing speculators particularly disgusting is the fact that the price boom they are so eager to set off would inevitably be followed by a collapse in values. Then every veteran who had managed somehow or other to get a hold of a piece of property would

be left holding the bag.

‘One World or None’ Most Americans are familiar with the late Wendell Willkie’s book, “One World.” It made a tremendous impression on American thinking. Now a book has appeared called “One World or None.” It is a report to the public on the full meaning of the atomic bomb. It was edited by Dexter Masters and Katherine Way and contains a foreword by Niels Bohr and an introduction by Arthur H. Compton. It ought to awaken all of the Rip Van Winkles from their complacency. Dr. Philip Morrison, the nuclear physicist, says that the bombs will never again come by ones and twos as they did on Japan but “in hundreds and even thousands.” He continues: “If the bombs get out of hand, if we do not learn to live together so that science will be our help and not our hurt, there is only one sure thing: the cities of men on earth will perish.” The scientists whose views are expressed in the book do not see any adequate defense against atomic bombs, if they are brought into use in war. It will be a question of slugging it out. Says Neils Bohr: “Against the new destructive powers no defense may be possible.” Says Philip Morrison: “The bombs can come by plane or rocket in thousands or all at once.” Says J. R. Oppenheimer: “It may be said here that the present situation hardly warrants the belief that techniques of interception will greatly alter the cost of atomic destruction.” These men are eminent scientists and they probably know what they are talking about. People who used to sit in the movies and shudder at the sight of Frankenstein’s “monster” now have something really big and dangerous to worry about. We cannot postpone action in dealing with it as best we can, although one wonders if human beings are wise enough to know what to do. The Federation of American Scientists declares that “never have people had the opportunity and the responsibility which the citizens of the United States have today.” While Americans ponder and debate the

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Legal Notice NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE

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Bring the Lobbies Out Into the Open A thorough investigation of the lobbyists now “infesting” Washington is sorely needed. Speaker Rayburn has called attention to the activities of utility interests against the rural electrification and public power programs. The strength and ubiquity of an enormous lobby which is fighting price control are demonstrated every day. Representative Sabath, in demanding an investigation, cited the most glaring recent triumph of pressure tactics—the virtual defeat of the veterans’ housing program at the hands of real estate and building interests. For all these reasons and many more the middlemen of legislative influence should be exposed. The lobbyist is an ancient and probably inseparable barnacle on democratic government. Nobody expects that attempts to influence the course of legislation can or should be eliminated. But when extravagantly financed, elaborately organized pressure is exerted upon Congress by special interests which admittedly respond to private rather than public motives, then Congress and the public, are entitled at least to a full airing of their activities. XXX j In the case of the veterans’ housing program, no measure of this session had more ] genuine public support behind it. A Fortune survey of public opinion shows that 81 per cent of the people want rent ceilings maintained, 63 per cent want ceiling prices kept on building materials, 75 per cent want the government to channel materials into lowcost residential construction, and — most striking of all—48 per cent want the government to embark on a large-scale home-build-ing program. Mr. Wyatt proposes very little direct government enterprise; he would leave most construction to private builders, with government providing the incentives and mechanisms needed to shift their energies into high gear. That so many people favor direct and positive government action amply justifies the Fortune survey’s conclusion that “the people seem to be in a mood to put overwhelming political pressure behind legislation that would implement Mr. Wyatt’s program.” Despite this preponderance of public support, the House cut one vital section after another out of the program. The explanation is that the real estate lobby could organize its opposition and bring it directly to bear upon individual congressmen. The public wielded only diffused, indecisive influence. The purpose of an investigation would be to smoke out the lobbyists, show who pays their bills, reveal their methods of operation, and lay bare the motives of their obstructionism. For example, one wing of the antihousing lobby is headed by the Producers Council, which claims to represent manufacturers of materials. Who actually supports this organization? Why? What is their purpose in fighting the program—to forestall competition from small producers, to keep the construction field safe for non-resi-dential builders, or what ? Congress is entitled to ask such questions of every lobby now operating in Washington. When the questions are asked and the answers spread on the public record, the power of the lobbies will be seen to have undergone a sharp decline. 0 Government should set a good example for other employers; its treatment of some government workers is anything but that. — Miami Citizen.

Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that public hearing on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, which is now pending before the Common Council of the City of Muncie, Indiana, will be held in the city council chamber in the City Hall at 7:30 p. m., on the 1st day of April 1946, at which time and place any objections to such amendment or change will be heard. The proposed amenament or change to be made is as follows: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said City of Muncie, Indiana, so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district and to the eighty (801 foot height district the following described territory in said City of Muncie, Indiana, to-wit: A part of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of section three 13) township twenty (20) north ten (10) East, described as follows: Beginning at a point thirty-five (35) feet north and one hundred thirteen and eight tenths (113.8) east of the northeast corner of Hackley’s Reserve (said corner being a bronze marker set in the concrete pavement of State Road No. 67 and No. 3), thence running east parallel with the center line of Tenth Street (now vacated) seventy-eight and four tenths (78.4) feet to an iron stake, thence south parallel to the east line of State Road No. 67, and No. 3 a distance of 237.7 feet more or less to the north line of Centennial Avenue, thence northwesterly along the northerly line of Centennial Avenue ninety - two (92) feet more or less to the south east corner of a tract of land heretofore conveyed by Charles M. Lesh and Iva R. Lesh, husband and wife to Western Oil Refining Company by deed dated August 26, 1927 and recorded in the office of the recorder of Delaware County in Deed Record 2G4 page 297, thence northerly along the east line of said western oil Refining Company’s tract seventy-five (75) feet to the northeast corner thereof, thence north parallel to the east line of said State Road No. 67 and No. 3, one hundred twenty-three and five tenths (123.5) feet more or less to the place of beginning. Northeast corner of Broadway and Centennial Avenue. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said City of Muncie, and has been considered, and said City Plan Commission has made its report approving the same: Information concerning such proposed amendment or change is now on file in the office of said City Plan Commission; for public examination. Said hearing will be continued from time to time as may be found necessary. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Muncie, Indiana, (SEAL) J. Clyde Dunnington City Clerk, and Clerk of the Common Council of the City of Muncie, this 15th day of March 1946. March 15,22

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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works Office of The Board City Hall Muncie, Ind.. Notice Of Improvement 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, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, as autnonicd by the following numbered improvements resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 6th day of March 1946.. to-wit: I. R. 902 - 1946 - Curb and gutter on both sides and excavation on Parkway Drive from Woodridge Drive to Kimberly Lane. I. R. 903 - 1946 - Curb and gutter on

both sides and excavation on Kimberly Lane from Euclid Avenue to Petfy

Road.

I. R. 904 - 1946 - Curb and gutter on both sides and excavation on^Lorraine Avenue from Euclid Aygriue to

Parkway Drive.

I H- 905 - 1946 - Curb and. gutter on both sides and excavation on Euclid Avenue from Lorraine Avenue to the West Line Maple Ridge Addition. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shah b<? 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 3rd day of April 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 wili meet at its office in said City for the purpose 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 whethe the benefits that wi« accrue to a property abutting and adjacent to t • 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 B?/ W. M. Brock, Clerk 3-15-46-3-22-46

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING AMENDMENT OF ZONING ORDINANCE

Notice is hereby given to the citizens of Muncie, Indiana, that public hearing on an amendment to the Zoning Ordinance, which is now pending before the Common Council of the Citv of Muncie, Indiana, will be held in the city council chamber in the City Hall at 7:30 p. m., on the 1st day of April 1946, at which time and place any objections to such amendment or change will be heard. The proposed amendment or change to be made is as follows: To amend, supplement and change the present Zoning Ordinance of said City of Muncie, Indiana, so as to transfer to the business district, to the six hundred (600) square foot area district and to the eighty (80) foot height district the following described territory in said City of Muncie, Indiana, to-wit: West 32 feet of Lot Number Three Hundred Seven (307) in Burlington Heights, an addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana. Southwest corner of 14th Street and Burlington Pike. Said proposed ordinance for such amendment or change of said present Zoning Ordinance has been referred to the City Plan Commission of said City of Muncie, and has been considered, and said City Plan Commission has made its report approving the same; Information concerning such proposed amendment or change is now on file in the office of said City Plan Commission, for public examination. Said hearing will be continued from time to time as may be found necessary. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the City of Muncie, Indiana, (SEAL) J. Clyde Dunnington City Clerk, and Clerk of the Common Council of the City of Muncie, this 15th day of March 1946. March 15-22

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