Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 June 1947 — Page 3

POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, JUNE 27. I9J7

THE MARSHALL (Continued From Page One) is the fact that Americans and Russians cannot cooperate in any world plan until they have confidence in each other. Whatever may be the virtues of Marshall Doctrine, it will not amount to much until some way is found to restore confidence and trust between the top leaders of both countries, Russia and America. tf this confidence could be restored, the Marshall Doctrine or plan might prove to be a boon to this war devastated, war worry world, and go down in history as one of the great milestones to the road to world peace and prosperity. Regardless of what becomes of the Marshall plan it will stand as a confession to the death of the short lived Truman Doctrine, and will prove that the Truman Doctrine was an error in the first place. o

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(Continued From Page One) consciences disturbed by the facts of the matter. “It occurs to me it might be that senatorial consciences are not yet entirely dead, and some Senators could not afford to expose their consciences to this very remarkable expose that has been made by the Senator from New Hampshire. They could not bear to. see the hideous monster they have unwittingly embraced, stripped and exposed by the Senator from New Hamp-

shire.”.

The debate on this bill brought out the fact that most Congressmen usually make up their minds on issues prior to and independent of any debate which takes place in the Chamber. This upsets the general belief that Congressmen usually make their final decisions on important issues only after they have studied all the evidence pro and con. It also gives support to those who hold that Congressmen make their decisions under pressure from lobbyists rather than under influence of open debate on the floor. Reactionaries Meet With Defeat In Efforts To Stop Wallace From Speaking in Capital City. The reactionaries pulled every string at their disposal to prevent Henry Wallace from speaking in Washington, but failed in their efforts. The opposition was led by Representative Alvin O’Konski (R. Wis.). It is recalled that this is the man who was accused of receiving $17,000 dollars from Germany to pay him for the delivery of a series of addresses in America on the virtues of the Nazi regime in Germany, and to dissiminate Nazi literature here in Arperica. At least O’Konski has not changed in ohe respect. He still believes in Hitler’s idea of preventing free speech. Many Ameri'canes are thankful that we have not as yet reached that state of dictatorship where an honorable citizen and a former vicePresident can be denied the right to speak his piece. Representative Jackson (R. Calif.) selected a unique method to describe Wallace’s appearance in Washington. He said, to the House, “At the risk of infringing upoft the prerogative of the Weather Bureau, I should like to give an entirely unofficial but likely prognostication of the meteorological conditions to be expected in this city for the next 24

hours.

“A low-pressure area is expected to reach Washington early this evening acfcompanied by mounting temperatures. It will center at Water Gate, on the Potomac, and will be accompanied by high winds, blowing alternately hot and cold. Freezing temperatures can be expected in the vicinity of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on the minbrity side of the House of Representatives. Silver clouds will be in Evidence, turning a deeper red about nightfall. Gentle variable

1 Some Representatives refused j to let the smear Wallace efforts deter them from going to hear him make his speech. For instance, in the midst .of the smear debate, Helen G. Douglas (D. Calif.) arose and informed the House that she was going to hear Wallace. “I take this opportunity of informing the House that I am going to avail myself of the opportunity tonight of going to hear our former Secretary of Agriculture, our former Vice President, our former Secretay of Commerce, Mr. Henry A. Wallace, a distinguished American, when he addresses the Southern Conference at Washington, D. C. The American way is to listen, to read, to try to think for yourself, and then come to some conclusion. God help America if freedom of speech or freedom of assembly is ever

seriously threatened.”

It is reported that more than ten thousand persons, including some Congressmen and Government employees, who defied Rankin and O’Konski, turned out to hear Wallace’s speech. Again democracy won its fight against the totalitarian efforts of the reactionaries, who sought to prevent Wallace’s speaking in the Capital

city.

Smear Campaign Against Truman The Republicans who have decided to conduct their 1948 presidential campaign the red-smear basis have accused Truman of following the Communist line in vetoing the Taft-Hartley labor bill. On Monday, June 16th, several days before Truman vetoed the bill, Representative McDonough (R. Calif.) accused the President of being high pressured into vetoing the bill by the Communists. He said, “The Communist Party line is working in perfect coordination to accomplish the veto of the Taft-Hartley bill. It will be interesting to see what effect the party line will have on President Truman when he finally decides what to do with the bill on Friday of this week ... I wonder if the President of the United States will yield to this kind of demand and warning pressure. I wonder if the Communist Party ha's a pipe line into the White House.” It is believed that this is only the beginning of the greatest, the most debased, the most undemocratic and the strongest Fascistic political campaign ever to be conducted in America. Ever Democrat from the President down to the precinct committeemen will be semared as Communists. This depite the fact that Truman has given orders to have all Communists dismissed from the Federal service, and has declared his policy' of stopping Communism everywhere in the world outside of Russia. CONGRESS (Continued From Page One) of the people and proceeded to pass the bill, which many of its supporters are now ready to confess is proving to be a flat failure even before it gets started. Many reports show that a large per cent of the voters were-op-posed to the omnibus labor bill. Again this was not considered by Congressmen who were hell-bent on passing it regardless of the protest from the voters. For more than a year it has been well known that a great majority of the American people favored the passage of the Taft-Wagner-Ellender Housing bill, bill, but under the pressure of lobbyists. Congress continues to ignore the wishes of the people and keeps the bill from becoming law. It is the same way with the National Health bill which would have become law long ago if Congress had acted in harmony with the wishes of the masses instead of being activated by AMA lobbyists. There has been much talk of our form of government being

longer endure unless the general voter can find, some way of preventing himseif from being misrepresented by those whom he elects to represent him. More and more people are beginning to believe that the U. S. Government which is supposed to be representative of the people is rapidly becoming a government to represent the lobbyists and strong pressure groups. It is recommended that Congressmen find some way to free themselves from the iron grip of the lobbyists and to give more consideration to the wishes of the electorate. This argument was confirmed and strengthened by Representative Sabath (D.,I11.) on June 11th when he uttered the following words on the Floor of the House: “It is unfortunate that too often we listen to the reports and persuasions of paid lobbyists and propagandists on legislation, and

not to the people.”

TELEPHONE (Continued From Page One) a record high for the program. In order to prevent activity by pressure groups, the cities in which the vote is to be taken are not announced until the program is on

the air. •

Mutual officials said that a check by an independent public opinion survey group in which phone votes were rechecked by individual interview showed that the telephone surveys are ex-

tremely accurate.

The week before, the same show, Opinion-aire, conducted a poll on the question: Is the Truman Administration doing a good job? 57 per cent of those polled on that question held that the President was doing a good job,

Mutual announced.

In last night’s debate Senator Sparkman charged that the Republicans “like to disguise their booby-trap legislation as a mid-dle-of-the-road program. Sfenator Taft apd his well-disciplined co-

horts may be going down the don’t think so. No amount of Remidd.le ^e road, but they re publican propaganda can explain in Ino wrirmP nirprtinn a.* „ ^ _

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heading in the wr’bng direction. They’re marching back to the days of prosperity around the earner, of dust bowls and breadlines, of apple peddler on every corner. They are advancing bravely into

the mistakes of the past.”

DEMOS (Continued From Page One) treasurer of the committee and Jesse (Red) Rogers remains as secretary. Various committees will be named soon to complete the organization groups to handle campaign activities for the city election in November. The retiring Democrat city chairman has served as precinct corhmftmeirian for "many years' j and elected state representative I from Delaware county in 1944. He was also th^ party candidate for county assessor in the campaign last year and a prominent worker among labor groups. The new head of the city organization accepts his responsibilities with a background of both party and public experience. He has served as a member of the local tax adjustment board for several years. Shively, county chairman, will assist the city committee in their organization

work.

It is also announced that the

threatened by various foreign

aoom nigmian. urenue vanaoxe ; ismS) but as many see it the great . winds emanating in eastern Eur- fbrpnt to mir rprmhiip is th<

ope will increase to tornado prpportions and all loose items in the way of foreign policy and dollar credits sliould bb battered down. Tomorrow, fair and warmer.”

j est threat to our republic is the misrepresentation of the wishes of the people by those whom they elect to represent them. Many seem to be of the opinion

sible for them to kid labor into | supplemented by some form of

cleaning between the teeth and the best method of doing this is the old-fashioned toothpick.”

not voting in November of 1948. They may think that labor will again accept the soft words the Republican politicians spread to conceal their evil intentions. We

away the statistics. . . . On the basis of its showing, the Republican party is not friendly to labor. It is exactly the opposite. It is 92 per cent against labor; “We wonder what the campaign orators will say about that,

come election time?”

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in 1941.

3. Railroads have four times as many Diesel locomotives as

they had in 1941.

4. More planes arrive and depart from Midwest airfields, and “every plane has a hungry maw that must be filled with

octane gasoline.”

5. More homes are using fuel

oil for heating.

The company said thousands of new wells were in production and hundreds of miles of new pipe line in operation. It said its refineries are producing more gasoline than ever before. The company said that refinery projects already completed have added 13 per cent to its crude-running capacity. Standard attributed part of the shortage to last winter’s heavy demand for heating oil and to the transportation bottleneck. It

Democratic citv ticket headed bv said there sti11 were not enou g h S°S 1C hC l d 5L b 7 Pipe lines and tank cars to carry

the extra load.

Holloway, mayoralty nominee, will formulate and present a definite and unified program to the voters for a better city government* in Muncie. The Democrat candidates include Holloway for mayor, Edgar Crago, city clerk, Mario Pieroni, judge, Joseph O’Neill, Kenneth Raisor, and Paul Cooley, councilmen-at-large, William Yohler, C. Woody Wilson, Lionel Harmison, Charles Chambers, ' Paul Elsten, and Kermit Toland for district councilmen.

OUR FRIENDS (Contirmed From Page One)

dent, not to enact legislation of

benefit to the country.”

Again quoting from the editor-

ial:

Probably the Republicans be-

“We frankly do not know how long this situation will last,” the

company said.

USE A TOOTHPICK

Buffalo, N. Y.—Genteel or not, the toothpick has been crassed as “the best method” of cleaning

teeth.

Dr. Edward L. Ball of Cincinnati courted the wrath of etiquette authorities yesterday and told the 79th annual meeting of the New York State Dental Society that proper use of a toothpick could prevent 75 per cent of tooth

decay.

“Not one person in a hundred really knows who to clean his

Housing Shortage Worse in Northwest

Chicago, 111. — The housing shortage is worse in the north west than anywhere, almost. John Weinmahn of St. Paul, Minn., reports that when the groundhog came out to look things over on Groundhog Day, three families moved into his hole before the little fellow could make up his mind. about the weather.

that our dear republic cannot lieve that it will again be pos-

That’s- a lie, kiddies.

It’s one of the tall ones submitted to the Burlington (Wis.) Liars’ Club in its annual contest. O. C. Hulett, head man of the tall tale gang, “says” he is getting high lies from all over the world — just like he said he did before the war. O. C. sent in these

whoppers:

Dr. F. P. Cerniglia of Monroe, La., claims he was driving toward Texas one afternoon, just as the sun was kicking out heavy shadows. His car stalled and a kindly motorist stopped to offer a hand. Neither had a rope 6r chain, finally, the Good Samaritan backed up, tied tyie shadow of his car to the front bumper of the Doc’s machine and towed him 30 miles to the next town. Lee G. Deethaler of Beaver, Pa., swears he saw two Brooklyn Dodger fans walking hand in hand with an umpire down Flatbush Ave., after the “Bums” had

lost a game.

Don Synder of Waynesboro, Va., said it was right smart chilly in his town last winter. He went down stairs one morning to find the fire had gone out. So he opened the icebox door, ran back to his bed and crawled under the blankets until the place warmed

up a little.

They have some fancy raccoons in Florida. J. A. Woodward of New Smyrna Beach writes about a fast and resourceful ’cooii he knows. This sly fellow had outrun all the hound dogs in that part of the country. Woodward suggested putting a greyhound in with the hound pack. They did and off went the pups, with the racing dog yip-yipping in the lead. Finally, the greyhound

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Joan Crawford Highest Paid Star Philadelphia. Pa. — Movie queen Joan Crawford was paid $400,000 by Warner Brothers Pictures, Inc., last year while comedian Bob Hope got $275,000 and his side-kick Bing Crosby $250,300 from Paramount Pictures, Inc., the companies’ annual reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission displosed to-

day.

(All salaries and commissions reported to the SEC are gross figures before federal or state income taxes. The federal tax alone runs about 50 per cent on a $100,000 salary, scaling up to 68 per cent on a $500,000 salary). Actor Ray Milland, star of “Lost Weekend,” atso hit the movie jackpot for 1946, receiving $234,166 from Paramount. The trio of Hope, Crosby and Milland topped the Paramount payroll last year to replace Director Thomas Leo McCarey, Actress Olivia De Havilland and Vice President and Ceneral Manager Henry Ginsburg who were paid the three highest salaries in 1945. In that year, McCarey, director of “Going My Way,” was paid $938,770. Warner Brothers paid Stanley Morner — better known as actor Dennis Morgan — $261,006, while Director Michael Curtiz was paid $258,600 during 1946. In 1945 Actor Charles Boyer was fhe topsalaried Warner star at $207,500. o Watchman Leaves With Liquor Store Chicago, 111. — Police are on the lookout for a man named Jones today. It is a complicated and pretty interesting story. We are hot going to tell you Mr. Jones’ first name because there is on off chance he may have been an innocent bystander. But Simon Brown, the victim, and the Chicago cops doubt it. It was like this: Rrown’s south side liquor store and gin mill was rbbbed last Labor Day. Brown said enough of that stuff and went out and hired

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^BURBANK, CAL. 1 — Alexis Smith, movie star, displays “blow-; up” of 100,000,000th Idento-Tag issued by Disabled American Veterans. Funds realized from IdentoTag have enabled the DAV to maintain its increasing program of rehabilitation and service to the (.nation’s wartime disabled veteran. The miniature auto license plate tag, which provides key-loss insurance, is distributed to more than 20 million motorists each year. Miss Smith, star of “The Two Mrs. Car.rolls,” shows tag denoting number American ygterans_disabled in War eervice. /* himself a night watchman—man name of Jones. Brown admitted today he had little faith in human nature, after what had happened. Jones was a nice old man, about 62, good to his kids and all that. But the saloon-keeper was skeptical. He had all sorts of ideas. First, he thought he would hire a watchman to watch his watchman. That sounded a little silly, so he did the next best thing. Each night after the last drink was sold and the hangers-on were swept out, he would bid Mr. Jones a fond goodnight—and lock him

in.

The next morning, he would unlock the door, bid his night watchman good morning and take over the day side. Everything went along fine until sometime yesterday morning. Brown came down to relieve Jones at noon. He found glass all over the sidewalk where somebody had busted the front door. Inside nothing but chaos. A whole lot of chaos in the form of assorted dirty glasses and missing liquor bottles. $500 also was missing along with a lot of cartons of cigarettes. The cops reasoned one of several things happened. Either Jones pitched himself a nice party. Or he got lonesome for people, broke out in the dark of night and left a big hole in the door for somebody else to come in and get rich. Pending location of the man Jones, police considered adding a new charge to the book. Do You Want to Buy a Gas Mask? Chicago, 111. — Uncle Sam has 2,000,000 gas masks in his cellar and they’re yours for the bidding. That is, if you can use 1,000 or more. Your .Uncle is too busy with taxes, labor and foreign business to peddle gas masks one at a time. Bruce J. Brown, Chicago regional director of the War Assets Administration, admitted after considerable hemming and hawing that there is a joker in the nose bags which cost the government $5,000,000. They’re no darn good as gas masks. But if you< are interested, the masks will be placed on sale June 23 through WAA catalog CG-27-1222 and sealed bids will be accepted up to July 7. Brown said that the masks have been declared “unsafe and unfit” lor use as gas masks or smoke masks. But he hastened to get on record as saying there are a lot of other things you can use a gas mark for. For instance, if you have one clamped on your puss at the proper angle, the little woman can’t tell whether you stopped for a beer on the way home. Brown wouldn’t be quoted as saying so, but they also would be handy at tub-thumping political rallies. Or for protection while playing such rough games as pitch the bean bag. The WAA official said be serious about this thing. The canister, containing certain chemicals, he said, can be removed and used in refrigerators as deodorizers, killing the smell of the limburger. That, he said, might give you ideas for other uses. The mask-carrier also might be of some use. It is made of cotton duck, with a strap that goes over the shoulder. It could be turned into' £ tool kit. o PATRONIZE ADVERTISERS

Legal Notice

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATIONS

Notice is hereby given the taxpayers of Hamilton Township, Delaware County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place at 7:30 p.m., on the 7th day of July 1947, will consider the following additional appropriations which said officers consider necessary to meet the extraordinary emergency existing at this time. Special School Fund No. 23, Transportation $6,800.00 Taxpayers appearing at such meeting shall have a right to be heard thereon. The additional appropriation as finally made will be automatically referred to the State Board of Tax Commissioners, which Board will hold a further hearing within fifteen days at the County Auditor’s office of Delaware County, Indiana, or at such other place as may be designated. At such hearing, taxpayers objecting to any of such additional appropriations may be heard and interested taxpayers may inquire of the County Auditor when and where such hearing will be held. JOHN B. LOTZ Trustee of Hamilton Twp. I PD)—June 28

Legal Notice

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, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adobted by said Board, on the 25th day of June 1947 to-wit: I. R. 955-1947—Sanitary sewer in East Second Street from alley between Macedonia and Shipley Streets to Brotherton Street. f I. R. 956-1947—Sanitary sewer in Ivy Street from Jefferson Street to Granville Avenue. All work done in the making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of ttie improvement resolution, as: numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named datei 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 16th day of July 1947 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 10:30 o’clock a.m., said Board of Public Works will 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 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 PUBIC WORKS By W. M. Brock, Clerk (PD)-6-27-47—7-3-47 L —o— Legal Notice

NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS No. 11296-S State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Paul Covey vs. Alpha Covey In the Delaware Superior Court April Term, 1947 Complaint: for divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Alpha Covey, that the plaintiff has filed his complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless she be and appear on Thursday the 21st day of August 1947, the 111th day the present term of said Court, to be holden on the Second Monday in April, A. D., 1947 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 of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie this 21st day of June A. D., 1947. (SEALi Jessie E. Greene. Clerk Gen,'e Williams, Plaintiff's Attorney. (PD)—June 28-July 4-11

PIGEONS GO LITERARY

Cambridge, Mass.—Two pigeons solved their particular housing shortage. They built a nest on a marble ledge inside the main reading room of Harvard’s Widener Library.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SERVICES “God the Preserver of Man” was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, June 15. The Golden Text was: “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped” (Psalms 28:7). Among the citations which comprised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: “And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah: And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him. And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died” (Genesis 5:21, 23, 24, 27). The Lesson-Sermon also included the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, “Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Baker Eddy: “Men and women of riper years and larger lessons ought to ripen into health and immortality, instead of lapsing into darkness or gloom. Immortal Mind feeds the body with supernal freshness and fairness, supplying it with beautiful images of thought and destroying the woes of sense which each day brings to a nearer tomb” (p. 248) 0