Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 25 October 1946 — Page 2
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be elected in 1948 and they want one of their own kind. Therefore, they are likely to turn
thumbs down on Warren.
While former Gov. Harold Stassen of Minnesota continues to run well in the pub-
- Entered as second class matter January 15, 192i; I Uc P oll S, the real bosses f ^ .party at the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of j icgaid him as too hbeial. The isolationists
do not like him because he helped to draft ] the United Nations Charter in San Francisco and has been one of its staunch supporters. Stassen is the pet peeve of Col. Robert R. McCormick, publisher of The Chicago Tribune, about whom Marquis Childs writes in his column today. McCormick sees Stassen as a “me-too” man, which was the way he ■regarded Wendell Willkie and Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. If McCormick cannot get what he wants, he is sure to try to veto Stassen. As for Sen. Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, he is a candidate for re-election this Fall and is sometimes mentioned for the presidential nomination, but he is too much of a maverick to suit the powers that be and claims that he has already cast aside presi-
G. 0. P. - Still The Party Of
Hooverism
For several weeks the political campaign has been in full swing, but Republican orators have been noticeably hesitant in presenting an affirmative program. Let us see, on the record, whax the country would get
b - v eiecting a G. 0. P. Congiess. dential ambitions—Journal-Gazette. We would not get broader social security.
Republicans repeatedly have voted to freeze social security taxes. In the Senate last session they voted 32 to 3 against a bill to raise unemployment compensation to adequate
levels.
We would not get, from a Republican Congress, any legislation to raise minimum wages as a defense against wage cuts in a business slump. Senate Republicans voted 24 to 12 last April for an amendment destroying the Pepper minimum wage bill. We would not get a strong government policy to protect the public interest against private operators seeking special privileges. Senate Republicans voted 32 to 0, in 1945, to exempt fire insurance companies from the anti-trust laws. House Republicans voted 165 to 0 for the same bill and 146 to 1 to exempt railroad rates. G.O.P. senators voted 25 to 9 for the bill abandoning federal control of tidewater oil, and House Republicans voted 104 to 7 to override the President’s veto of this measure. * XXX What would we get on foreign policy? We have been told that, with Senator Vandenberg’s co-operation with Secretary Byrnes, our foreign policy is “bipartisan.” But there is little evidence of a genuine change of faith by- the G.O.P. generally. House Republicans this year voted 140 to 33. to kill the reciprocal trade pact policy, cornerstone of a Roosevelt - Hull program since 1934. In the Senate they voted 25 to 9 against reciprocal trade. Republican House representatives also voted 128 to 45 to destroy civilian control of atomic energy in favor of military dictatorship. XXX It is understandable that, with this record, Republican spellbinders would prefer to talk about anything except their positive policies. But the party has some. The G.O.P. is the party of inflation. Its congressmen fought to force price increases even before the war ended. The WherryShipstead amendment of 1945, to raise food prices, was supported by a Republican vote of 27 to 3. House Republicans voted 162 to 0 to destroy food controls and 153 to 8 emasculate all controls by inciting court appeals from OPA orders. The Republican Party is also the antilabor party. It is ready to inflate business profits but indignant at workers who try to safeguard their standards of living. In the Senate, Republicans voted 32 to 4—a margin worse, even, than that of Southern Democrats — for the Case bill which Mr. Truman
vetoed.
The Republicans haven’t changed since
1933. What they offer is a return to Harding- .
Coolidge-Hooverism — to high-tariff spouc- PrOflUCuOfl Is TtlC Bifif Word
Lobbyists Slow To Register The deadline for Congressional lobbyists to file their first quarterly reports under the La Follette-Monroney Law has passed with only a few complying with the new statute. It is possible that the new law is misunderstood by the very men who have wielded such influence on laws and lawmakers in the past. Under the report of the LaFollette Committee to the Senate, lobbying is not prohibited. In fact, there is no change contemplated in the practice — except that it must be done in the open with the lobbyists’ source of employment and his purposes being made matters of public record. That does not seem too harsh on the men who manipulate our lives behind the scenes, and there are some earnest, honest persons who do not come under -the lobbyist law. They are those who appear openly and frankly before Congressional committees and engage in no other activities to influence legislation. Also exempt are those who appear voluntarily without any compensation for lobbying. The Washington Post interprets the law on others as follows : “. . . There is a misconception that so long as lobbyists keep away from Capitol Hill they are immune from punishment under the act. This may be a costly mistake for some. For the measure is clearly intended to apply to all propagandists for pay in all parts of the country who attempt to influence Congress by sending in a vast amount of information and misinformation, sometimes in the form of forged letters and telegrams. Others who must register and disclose tlie sources and purposes of their employment are the lobbyists who hover around Washington without, ever appearing at a formal hearing or listening to a debate. The law also applies to a great number of honest and respectable representatives of business, professional and philanthropic organizations who are welcomed to Capitol Hill for the useful information which they supply. No attempt is made to draw an impossible distinction between good and bad lobbies. The philosophy of the law is that both the good and the bad must operate in the open so that the public and members of Congress will be fully aware of their activities and
interests.”
Perhaps our lobbyists are waiting till they find a loophole before they register. If great numbers of them are unemployed this Winter it will not materially affect the country’s welfare. Journal-Gazette
No Death Blow to KKK False security is a dangerous thing. The State of New Jersey’s Supreme Court, it was reported, has “outlawed the Ku Klux Klan.” A note of caution. The KKK is not really outlawed in New Jersey. What the court did was to lift the KKK’s charter. The organization no longer has the protection that incorporation provides members. All members are answerable now in a court of law for damages resulting from KKK violence. The KKK has been a subversive organization much given to violence. That consideration must surely discourage membership. But it would be folly to assume that the KKK has been smashed in New Jersey or any other State by Iqsing its charter. It’s dangerous because it could mean a relaxing in liberal vigilance.
ing, to do-nothingism about monopoly, to contempt for the workers and the people generally. Let the voters remember that, whenever good legislation was passed by the last Congress or bad legislation halted, the strength of the progressive forces was almost wholly among Northern Democrats:' There were a few notable exceptions among Republicans — but none from Illinois. Chicago Sun
Warren Of The Pacific Coast When Gov. Earl Warren of California won both the Democratic and Republican nominations for re-election he immediately began to be mentioned for the Republican nomination for the presidency in 1948. His clean sweep of both primaries was dramatic and attracted nation-wide attention. ' But. Gov. Warren was a national figure before that. He had been the keynote speaker at the GOP national convention in Chicago iii 1944, where he did a first-rate job. Much pressure was put on him by Gov. Dewey’s backers and others to accept the nomination for vice-president. This pressure he resisted sucessfully. He said he wanted to go on being governor. It may have been that he sensed that President Roosevelt would be elected and thought the gamble was too great to take. Warren is a vigorous and personable fellow. He makes friends easily and he seems to understand the fine art of politics, He might make a better president than Taft or Bricker, but it is doubtful that he could be nominated for the highest office. His loyalty to California is great. He has been one of the foremost figures in the attempt to build a great industrial empire on the Pacific Coast. This does not endear him to the industrialists of the East Coast who play such a big part in the control of the Republican Party. They regard him as the representative of a competing group. He might not play their game as they want it played. These Eastern industrialists feel that they have been out of power since Hoover left the White House on March 4, 1933. They are confident that a Republican president will
* The big word in the United States in the immediate future must be PRODUCTION. If the American people wish to work themselves out of the difficult situation in which they presently find themselves it must be through the medium of industrial production. There are no other means of escape available. Only a plentiful supply of manufactured goods and food products will bring down prices and defeat inflation, which the nation has been dreading and fearing for a long time. There are now 58,000,000 people employed in this country and that is an outstanding record. If they stay on the job and keep the wheels turning it will not be long until shortages of all kinds will disappear. But a high level of efficiency has to be maintained. If management and labor start kicking over the traces and spend their time fighting each other, production will suffer and inflation will not be licked. The unrest which grew out of the war and the subsequent demobilization still runs deep. The threat of another possible war because of diplomatic friction between the United States and Russia has added to that unrest. The two currents account for much of the behavior which has been displayed since V-J Day. An honest effort must be made to conquer this unrest and fear. It cannot help but can only hamper the efforts of the national economy to get back to nor-
mal.
The people of the United States are now pretty much on their own now with the removal of wartime and postwar controls. It is up to them to regulate themselves and to deport themselves with sommon sense and intelligence. America became great as an individualistic nation. It chafes under regulations. It has the opportunity to show that it can make the most of freedom as it did in the days when the republic was being built. Teamwork under free choice is required if the future .of our business and industrial life is to be bright. Journal-Gazette.
Looking Around __Repressentative John J. Sparkman, Democrat of Alabama, states the reasons why the Democratic Party will be victorious in the coming Congressional elections: “ the Democratic Party presents to the people its record of unparalleled progress during the last thirteen years. It adheres firmly to the progressive principles of Franklin D. Rosevelt, and is determined to carry out his program under the leadership of President Truman. “It is that program that the people of America want. That is why I am confident that they will elect a Democratic Congress in November. “Like the Democratic Party, the American people are determined to hold the line against reaction.” XXX Senator James A. Meade, Democrat of New York, running for Governor of the Empire State, praises the patriotism of American labor in an address before 1,100 delegates of the State convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations: “Labor must be given the right to deal with management as an equal, not to be treated as a chattel of capital and manage-
ment.
“It is imperative to the success of our production system that labor have not only its constitutional right of bargaiping collectively with management concerning wages, hours and working conditions, but also that the law assure the continued enjoyment of
that right.
“The Wagner Act for the first time gave
legal meaning to the laboring man’s constitutional right to form or join a labor organization of his own choosing for the purpose of bargaining collectively without fear
of being fired by an employer.” *
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Representative Adolf J. Sabath, Democrat of Illinois, Charges that the Republican members of the House of Representatives killed the Wagner-Ellender-Taft general housing
bill:
“The Republicans managed to weaken that bill under pressure from the shameless real estate lobbies- _ “I did my utmost, as did every Democratic leader, including President Truman, to get the Wagner-Ellender-Taft general housing bill, designed to provide more than 12,000,000 homes for veterans and other Americans at rentals they can afford to pay, out of the House Committee on Banking and Currency where the Republican members filibustered the bill to death. “That should be proof to all alert veterans that it is in the Democratic Party that veterans will find the warm human sympathy and understanding of their needs and problems.” XXX Mayor George Brunner, Democratic candidate for Senator of New Jersey, speaks of the fight labor mpst make to retain its gains: “Labor faces its own ‘Operation Crossroads’ in the postwar period. . . With the end of the war the tide of reaction has set in. Every gain which labor has made is being threatened. . . (Republican Senator H. Alexander) Smith is pleading for another chance at the Senate. He’s pleading for another chance to vote for a new Case Bill. Another chance to knife social legislation— another chance to do the bidding of his Wall Street buddies. I don’s think the people of New Jersey will give his that chance. I think we have seen then end of the farce entitled ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington’.” XXX H. Clifford Townsend, Democratic nominee for Senator from Indiana, speaking at a CIO Rally in South Bend, charges: “A tightly organized and powerful reactionary movement has been developing. It aims to ‘get’ labor. It tried to get Roosevelt. It did ‘get’ Senator LaFollette. It wants to ‘get’ the small, independent businessmen and unorganized farmers.”
ed in this campaign? And, what is even more important, what process of thought ever led them to believe that the name of President Roosevelt would not come prominently to the fore in this, the first election after his death? In view of these strange GOP complaints, this may be an opportune time to give the Republican leadership a lesson in American
history.
For, whether the Republicans like it or not, the past thirteen years are a part of American history. And a very important part of that history. And, in spite of what the Republicans may think, Franklin Roosevelt stands out as the dominant figure in that period. For the name of Roosevelt stands for more than just a man. It stands for a philosophy of government. A philosophy which has for its core all the great social gains of the past
thirteen years.
These gains are familiar to every Ameri-
can.
THOMAS A.
DEMOCRAT
TICKET
^ JUDGE
CIRCUIT COURT
sale and sell negotiable school improvement bonds of said school city in the
Legal Notice
NOTICE OE THE SALE OE SCHOOL
IMPitOVEMENT BONDS
Notice is hereby given that at 1:30 p. m. on Tuesday, the 12th day of November, 1946, at the office of the Superintendent of City Schools in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, the Board of School
- - Trustees of the School City of Muncie, They have become as much a part of Indiana, will receive sealed proposals his life and heritage as the Constitution and for the purcliape ° - an y' 1 er or
the Declaration of Independence.
Nor will these gains made under Roosevelt diminish with time. On the contrary, their influence will grow as our nation continues to move forward. They will be studied in history books along with other great advances of earlier years, such as the end of, slavery, popular elections, and women’s suf-
frage.
The Republicans will find that the great gains of the Rooseyelt Administration have been forged into the very heart and fabric of American life. They cannot be ignored, and they cannot be erased. Such reforms as social security, unemployment insurance, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and soil conservation have had a profound effect upon the lives of all onr people. Many of our people have had a new chance for happiness because of the social progress achieved under Roosevelt and the Democratic Administration. The Republicans seem to forget, or would like the people to forget, that the Roosevelt policies form the foundation-stone of President Truman’s program. They forget that as running mates in the last campaign, Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman campaigned on the same platform and on the same principles. Today President Truman is translating that platform into action. Not only in this campaign, but in every campaign to come, the Democratic party will be proud to use the name of Roosevelt, just as it usese the names of Jefferson and Jack-
son. - \ And we are glad to be able to bring Roosevelt’s message to the people in his own words. We only wish that the voices of Jeffersqn and Jackson could have been similarly preserved. If they had, w.e of the Democratic party would do all in our power to bring their living voices into the homes of the American
people.
For Roosevelt and his acomplishments have become a part of the tradition and the program of the Democratic party. And, whether the Republican like it or not, they will remain a part of that tradition and that program.
aggregate principal sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars ($30,000,001, the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to be used for the replacement and repair of heating units at the' Washington and McKinley Elementary School Buildings and the purchase of additional bleachers for the Field House Gymnasium and instructional apparatus and equipment for the Central High School Building
and the Trade School.
Said school improvement bonds will be issued apd sold pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, on Apgust 14, 1946, and will consist of thirty (30) bonds of the denomination of One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) each, numbered from 1 to 30, both inclusive. All of said bonds will be dated December 16, 1946, and will mature and be payable on July 1, 1958. Said bonds will bear interest at the best rate obtainable, not exceeding four per cent (4%.) per annum, the exact rate of interest to be determined by the accepted bid for said bonds as' herein provided. Interest on said bonds will be payable on July 1, 1947, and semiannually thereafter on January first and July first of each year and the interest to maturity will be evidenced by interest couoons attached to said bonds. Beth the principal and interest of said bonds will be payable at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, Indiana, and said bonds will be delievered to the purchaser at said bank upon the payment in full of the purchase price with accrued interest to date of delivery. All bidders will be required to state in .their proposals .the gross amount they will pay for said bonds with accrued interest to the date of delivery and will be required .to enclose their proposals in sealed envelopes, having endorsed thereon the nature of the bid and the name and address of the bidder. Each bidder will ,be required to state in his proposal the rate of interest which said bonds will bear, not exceeding four per cent (4%). Such interest rate must be stated in multiples of onefourth (1-41 of one per cent (1%) and not more* than one interest rate shall be named by any one bidder. Each bid shall be accompanied by a check or draft for two and one-half (2%) per cent of the amount of the bonds bid for, duly certified by a responsible bank or trust i company and payable to the order of said school city. Such checks or drafts will be returned to those bidders whose bids are' not accepted and in the event the successful bidder fails to comply with the terms of his bid or to take and pay for said bonds, the proceeds from said certified check or draft shall inure to the benefit of and be retained by said school city as liquidated damages.
day of October, 1946. School City of Muncie, Indiana By William T. JHaymond, President John C. Banta, Treasurer Ora T. Shroyer, Secretary Board of School Trustees Bracken, Gray and DeFur, Attorneys Oct. 18-25, Nov. 1. Legal Notice NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS No. 21336 Orville W. Thomas
vs.
Rosie S. Thomas In The Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1946 Complaint: For Divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant Rosie S. Thomas that the plaintifl has filed his complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant. Rosie S. Thomas is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Tuesday the 10th day of December, 1946. the 36th day the next term of said Court to be holden on the 1st Monday in September, 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 absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal ot said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this ,9th day of October A. D., 1946 (SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney Oct. 11-18-25
. ... . .. John W. Patrick.
Said bonds will be sold to the highest i n The Delaware Circuit Court
and best qualified and responsible bid-
Legal Notice
NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS No. 21319 State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Claude McGairk
vs.
Rosie McGairk In the Delaware Circuit Court September Term, 1946 Complaint: For Divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant Rosie McGairk that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, foi divorce together with an affidavit thal the said defendant Rosie McGairk is no: a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Tuesday the 10th day of December 1946, the 86th day the present term of said Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday in September, 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 absence. WITNESS, the Clerk and the Seal ol said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 4th day of October, A. D, 1946. (SEAL! Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Oct. 11-18-25 • O Legal Notice NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS No. .21327 State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Maggie B. Patrick • . mem
September Term. 1946
der and the best bidder shall be the Complaint: For Divorce q tirVir* n-pfnvc fVio 1 i tvt „ r* • i i
Remember The Ant And The Grasshopper?
When President Truman removed price controls on meat he bowed to the cunning of Sens. Taft and Wherry, the engineers of destructive OPA amendments who talked piously of consumers’ interests while thinking of their own political fortunes. Nevertheless, the President’s act was inevitable if the American public was to have its share,
of hoarded and held-back. meat.
In this hey-day of food prices the producers should take warning of some historical facts. The day of dollar butter and $30 hogs will not last forever. One needs to look back only a few years to see what happened in the early thirties to farm commodities, or back to 1921. The bottom dropped out of the farmers’ market with a sickening thud. The boom had been top short lived to pllow many to become debt-free and the result was
bankruptcy for thousands.
This time there have been five years of farm prosperity. The length of the boom in food prices is unpredictable. Some “better minds” set it at a year, others longer. But reaction will set in. It would behoove American food producers to read the fable of the ant land the grasshopper once more. Consumers have been reading it now for several months. Journal-Gazette.
one who offers the lowest pet interest cost, to be determined by computing the total -interest on all the bonds to their date of maturity and deducting therefrom the amount of premium, if any, bid. Accrued interest on the bonds will be computed on the basis of the bid rate accepted. Said proposals shall, .be made and said bonds shall be sold .subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this notice and in the resolution of the Board of School Trustees authorizing the sale of said bonds. Said bonds will be sold subject to a legal approval by attorneys for the purchaser, tjie cost of such opinion to be paid by the purchaser. The Boar^i of School Trustees shall have the right to reject
any and all bids.
Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 18th Oct. 11-18-25
Notice is hereby given the said defendant John W. Patrick that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant John W. Patrick is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Tuesday the 10th day of December. 1946, the 86th day the next term of said I Court, to be holden on the 1st Monday ' in September, A. D., 1946, at the Court House in the City of Mifncie 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 9th day of October A. D., 1946. (SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk John J. Dodd, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
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Dispelling The Fog ' The Republican leaders and the editors of certain Republican newspapers are objecting to the use of the name “Roosevelt” in this
campaign.
They don’t really try to put their objections in any concrete form, but they let it be | known that somehow they don’t think it cricket for us to mention the name of the 31st
President.
Now this seems to be a very strange thing for our Republican opponents to do. In effect they are asking the American people to forget the past thirteen yeai-s, an era which equalled in importance any previous period in our history. Why is it that they do not like to have the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt mention-
Some of Those Eggs Might Be
Added
The GOP apparently has never heard that old one about not counting your clyckens before they are hatched. Via the grapevine comes the word that GOP national headquarters is now “certain of the House” — so certain that they are advising their workers they can now relax on the Uongressianal campaign, and concentrate on capturing the Senate.
Oh, yeah?
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