Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 August 1947 — Page 2
POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1947.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT & Democratic weexly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware Countj Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, 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, August 8, 1947.
Sugar and Your Congress Another increase in the price of sugar has been announced. This time, so the Sugar Rationing Administration states, the boost will approximate two cents on each 10 pounds sold at retail. Further increases to domestic consumers are" to be expected as the provisions of the Sugar Act passed by the Congress during its concluding sessions begin to make themselves felt in world markets. Op July 22, the Wall Street Journal, a publication which has yet to come under the scrutiny of the House committee on un-Amer-ican activities, sounded this warning: “Sugar is to be put under a completely planned economy ... If we understand what the Republicans were saying in the last campaign, they were denouncing this sort of business. If we understand a great many associations of businessmen, they have been asking that the government leave them alone. “But here is a Republican Congress about to approve as neat a little legal monopoly as one would care to see. We may have missed it, but we have not heard any of the business associations pointing out what their colleagues in the sugar industry are up to.” Despite this warning, emanating from friendly sources, the Republican-controlled Congress, abetted by domestic beet sugar growers and refiners, passed the measure. And sd we have, in the words of the Wall Street Journal, “as neat a little legel monopoly as one would care to see.” The consequences will be those which monopoly always produces. Congress, playing the role of Sugar Daddy to domestic sugar beet raisers and refiners, is something to keep in mind as the price of sugar continues to climb. It is also something to remember the next time fervid Republican orators denounce “planned economy.” It isn’t “planned economy” to which they object. Not at all. They merely object when the planning is done for the benefit of all the people, as in the case of the Tennessee Valley Authority or the proposed Missouri Valley Authority. They prefer to do it, as in the case of the Sugar Act, for the benefit of a privileged group. Sumner Welles recently noted another baneful effect of the Sugar Act. “It offers Cuba,” he said, “a quota which will be less than one-half of the maximum amount Cuba has recently sold us.” If the Sugar Act proves to be disastrous to Cuba’s economy, as some forecast, Congress will have destroyed, in the words of Mr. Welles, “one of our greatest foreign markets.” Protecting, through high tariffs, excessive subsidies, arid unreasonable quotas, a small, selfish American industry will not benefit the bulk of the ordinary citizens of this country. The current rise in the price of sugar demonstrates that. Those yet to come will make it painfully apparent.—Chicago Sun.
Poor Old England Merry England isn’t merry any more. England is probably in the most difficult position she has known since her fleet under the command of Lord Howard and Sir Francis Drake, with the aid of storms, defeated the Spanish Armada in 1588. Her domination of world affairs has ended. Her empire is slipping. Her military force is dwindling and her economic system is in a dickens of a mess. After the end of World War II in Europe, th^ English voters threw out the Government which had brought Great Britain so brilliantly and courageously through that major crisis and turned to an experiment in socialism. The socialistic policies received a lot of ballyhoo at home and abroad. They were supposed to put the island back on its feet. But the bubble soon burst and the roseate dream soon faded. England today is in far worse shape than ever before. What was to have been an advance has been a retreat. The Socialist Labor Government has proved impotent in dealing with the situation at home and in many foreign lands. It is, not able to meet its former commitments. It has been throwing its responsibilities into the lap of America’s fcapitalistic democracy, or letting them go by default. The key to the British economy is coal. Yet the •miners of that country are producing less coal for the Labor Government than they produced for the private owners. Nor lias the Government been able effectively to improve the physical equipment of the mines. The red tape and bureaucracy of socialism have failed to get good results, as they must always fail. Prime Minister Attlee only yesterday reported to Parliament on the desperate situation of his Government and the nation. He said-the Socialist Government would^have to take some measure of control over the employ of labor in an attempt to stimulate production. He frankly admitted that this would involve the sacrifice of individual liberty. He said the workers in the more essential industries would have to work longer hours. A Labor Government Indeed! England did not become great by socialism. In the days of her growth and greatness she relied oh individual enterprise. The recent experiences of England ought
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to be a lesson to those Americans who flirt with or openly advocate socialism or communism. We don’t want any of either here, now or ever. Socialist England is crying for the democratic and capitalistic United States to save her from ruin.—Journal Gazette.
New American Frontiers At a time when so much of civilization seems To have broken loose from its moorings, it is worthwhile for Americans to look back over their history and see the route* which they have traveled to become the greatest nation in the world. From Jamestown and Plymouth Rock down to today is a mighty pageant in which millions of actors have played a part. It is the story of free men and women at work on a rich and varied land to convert it from a wilderness into an economic and political unit the like of which has never been seen anyv/here else. In that story are many lessons for the future. The Americans of the past never felt that any job was too big for them. They may have been grim at times as they wrestled with the forests, the fields and the streams, but they were never pessimists. Always, there were new frontiers and new horizons. Americans have valued their liberty of thought and action. They would not be cast in any binding mould. They were always hard to push around. Each individual has felt that he was largely the master and architect of his own destiny. And that is a good feeling. Competition has been a great factor in the building of America. No man, no city, has ever done so well or grown so big that some other man or some other city did not try to grow bigger. We are told that some people have now begun to look upon the United States as a more or less finished product. But that is not true. There are still new frontiers and new horizons. They are in industry, in the laboratories, in new methods of agriculture and in the universities and colleges where brains are developed and imaginations are stimulated. ' Those who stand still have lost the inspiration of the American Dream. They will be passed by the march of progress which is moving as of old except at a greatly accelerated pace. The war should have taught all Americans that their ability to achieve is greater today than it ever was before. The force which defeated the Axis was essentially our fofee. What we did in war can be duplicated, or surpassed, in peace if we apply our will and skill as we did then to attain a common objective. Those who would let America down in time of peace are letting themselves down. Those who think America is finished are themselves finished. The country will go on without them.—Journal Gazette.
Dutch Move the Clock Back The Dutch have blundered badly in the East Indies. They have chosen to use force at a time when force is out of date in dealing with colonial possessions or dependencies. The United Nations should deal firmly and quickly with the situation. The United States has not committed itself officially on the strife between the Netherlands Government and the Indonesian Re‘public, but there is little doubt about the sympathy of the majority of Americans; They recognize a parallel in the present struggle for independence with their own of another age. Long before the Japanese invaded the Netherlands East Indies in 1942 the forces of independence were at work. With the surrender of Japan the Indonesians and the Dutch began negotiations toward a transition from dependency to self-government status. Some progress was made. In fact, a pact was signed at Batavia last March which agreed on broad points and left some perplexing details to be worked out. One of the chief points remaining unsolved was the make-up of the interim government and the police force. The Dutch wanted a greater share in those than Indonesian patriots desired. There the negotiations halted. Some minor fights broke out and the Dutch moved in on the Republicans in force. Daily news reports of the Dutch military hiachine show a one-sided battle. No ° ne i s particularly impressed with the progress of the Dutch soldiers. The equipment in use by the Indonesians is far inferior to that of the Dutch. Military conquest will only fan the patriotism of the natives. Meanwhile much is being lost to the Netherlands. If the Republicans carry out their “scorched earth” threat the financial value of the colonies will be lost for years—and the fundamental problem will remain unsolved. The Netherlands Government could well have taken a lesson from American handling of the Philippine Islands and the subsequent establishment of a free Government. There is not a better example in the world of how colonies or possessions can be treated for the benefit of all 1 . The world moves slowly, and human nature never changes. But men do find better ways of doing things. Military subjugation of a whole people has been discredited by ages of human history. The Dutch are attempting to move the clock of progress back 100 years.—Journal Gazette.
Reuther’s Significant Victory The United Automobile Workers, largest CIO affiliate, with over 900,000 members, has escaped falling under left-wing control. By a vote of 2 to 1 the union has rejected a proposal to take in the 48,000
members of the Farm Equipment Workers union, which is tightly held by Communist sympathizers. The proposal to absorb the F.E.W. was made by George F. Addes, sec-retary-treasurer of the U.A.W., in an attempt to strengthen the U.A.W.’s left-wing elements, of which he is currently the recognized leader. The proposal, put forward as a measure to eliminate jurisdictional strife between the two unions, was a thinly disguised attempt on his part to oust Walter P. Reuther, anti-Communist U.A.W. president. Last year Reuther was elected president by a slim 124-vote margin. His efforts to rid the union of Communists and Communist sympathizers are well known. Addes, on the other hand, has consistently played ball with them. Reuther’s victory is probably the most important to date in the bitter internal struggle that Is going on in the CIO between the non-Communist majority and a small, vociferous Communist minority. The putcome of this struggle has a deep significance for the future of America. If the Communists succeed in splitting a large segment of the labor movement, it will mean that the fragmented halves will be at the mercy of the extreme left or the extreme right. Millions of Americans might have to make the terrible choice that is facing much of Europe, where the middle position has been squeezed out. The political salvation of America lies in reversing that trend and insulating the extremes.—Chicago Sun.
Looking Into Lincoln’s Letters How did they feel—these watchers—when at midnight, July 25, after twenty-one years of waiting,, they saw the great seals retnoved from the last cache of Lincoln letters remaining on this earth ? “Like Keats on first looking into Chapman’s Homer,” said one, then quoted the lines: “Then felt I like sdme watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken;” “Black coffee . . . till daylight . . . hours and hours of work,” rumbled Carl Sandburg, who, twelve hours later in shirt - sleeves, clutched a precious manuscript in his hands. “It’s like a footnote to the Gettysburg Address,” he concluded after reading a cryptic letter which sounded as if it might shed light on some of our current problems. “It was a great haul of manuscripts fluttering down out of the storm winds,” said poet Sandburg reverently. Lincoln’s words in his familiar hand-writ-ing were all about them. Lincoln had walked at midnight; Lincoln had spoken. Little words, great words, amusing words, and brave words in answer to anonymous threats on his life. There was scorn in a letter written July 9, 1855: “We are not what we were . . . now that we have grown fat we are greedy to be masters.” “The voracious desire for office,” he wrote in one of the 1,000 letters on the great plague—job-hunters. As for the invaluable Bixby letter, or the great question: Who started the Civil War? Nothing sensational like that is revealed. Of his early life there is relatively little; family relationships, nothing; early life in Congress, much. A new book on the Congressional years may be expected. Significant omission—Stanton correspondence. Lincoln sleuths will have, plenty to say about that. Another little matter to be cleared tip: The Gettysburg Address was NOT written on a train. How do they know ? The original pencil script of the Farewell Speech to his friends at Springfield, just discovered, WAS. There is a great difference.—Journal Gazette. Mr. Acting President One requested piece of legislation Cbngress has given President Truman is the Presidential Succession bill. Under terms of the bill, which undoubedly will be signed into law, it is provided that the Speaker of the Housfe shall succeed to the Presidency in fcase of the incapacity of both the President and Vice-President. When the bill is signed. Speaker Joe Martin will become Vice-President in fact. The next person in the succession law who would be elevated to the Presidency is the Senate president pro tern; who is Sen. Vandenberg in this Congress. This is a unique situatibn. We now have a Dembcbatic Presidetit and two Republican Vice-Presidents. Under thh law the Speaker would not be vested with the title of President, but “Acting Presideht.” It was President Truman’s conviction that an elected oJficial should fill the chief exOttltive’s office instead of a political appointee in the event that neither a President nOr Vice-President were available. The point is large enough for argument. Perhaps One result of the succession law will be more careful scrutiny of the presidential timber we shnd to Congress. We could stand that.—Journal Gazette.
Literary Hands Across the Sea “Why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” being an admonition often honored in the breach by literary critics, one need rdise the eyebrows but one sixty-fourth of ah inch over.a recent Russian outburst. M. Mendelson asserts in a Soviet literary newspaper that “reactionary American publishers” have deliberately suppressed some anti-imperialist essays by Mark Twain. Only when the Soviet record for suppression Of the printed (or spoken) word becomes considerably less bleak can a Russian man of letters effectively cUst this particular stone at our glass house. Imagine, for example, the scene if a mass of documents comparable to the Lincoln papers were unveiled in the
Kremlin! Things can be grim over here, Cotnrade Mendelson, but hot in the way you imagine. A Chicago newspaper headlined its report of tbe opening of the Lincoln documents in this fashion: LETTERS TELL LINCOLN’S TIES WITH TRIBUNE With this as a starter, who can say that some enterprising scholar won’t discover what Lincoln’s preference would have been in breakfast food, suspenders, soap or whatnot—and emblazon same on billboards across the Union the Emancipator helped preserve? —Chicago Sun. Where Does Gov. Dewey Stand? Someone ohcC described Gov. Tom Dewey as looking like the figure of a bridegroom on a wedding cake. He is about as mute as one when it comes to the discussion of national issues. On his recent trip which he hds described as “nohpolitical” but which isn’t, he has kept his lips buttoned on all controversial mattOFS. He is all things to all men. This may be good politics up to a point. But there is such a thing as overdoing it. Gov. Dewey crept into a Presidential nomination once before by saying nothing. It looks as if he is trying to do the same thing again. Former Gov. Harold Stassen, who is the only avowed Republican candidate, is not afraid to say what he thinks. While few concede him a chance to win the nomination; they do respect his courage in tying into the issues. Sen. Robeht A. Taft has made a record in Congress. Whether people like it or hot, they know where he stands on domestic issues and something about where he stands on foreign policy. The latter position needs clarification. Sen. Taft has some speeches scheduled for later in the Summer and they are not likely to deal in glittering generalities. He usually believes in being specific. Aside from a statement or two on certain phases of the international situation, Mr. Dewey has yet tb speak his piece. He has never held a national office and therefore has undergone no real test in national politics. Much of his political reputation goes back to the days when he was a “gang-buster.” That sort of thing is dramatic and has a simple, primitive appeal. Since then he has served as Governor of New York, where his record is generally regarded Us good. He is thought of as a competent Executive. But we believe that the public would like to know just what is in his mind about the controversial domestic issues which will have to be met during the next four years. They want to weigh his words, since he has no record in national politics, and see whether they have a good, sound ring. Has he grown in intellectual stature during the past four years? Has he had his mind as well as his ambitions focused On the national scene? . We hope that his opponents can smoke him out before the Republican national convention next June in Philadelphia. We do not believe that the American people want to select a President in a poke. — Journal Gazette.
The Returned Veterans Before World War II ended there was much talk about how hard it would be for the returning service men and wottleh to make their readjustment to civilian life. All sorts of troubles were anticipated. We believe the facts will show that the adjustment was less difficult than anyone expected. This is true despite the obvious hardships which were imposed by the housing shortage. The returned vets were no softies. Thby had been so well trained that they were at home uiider almost any conditions. After a few weeks of feeling awkward and being misunderstood by civilians, they settled down, got married, entered school, or took a job, and made the best of their situation. Even those who had to become accustomed to the use of artificial limbs showed, for the most part, an excellent mental attitude. We think thfe veterans are to bfe complimented. They did not create a domestic Crisis as they might well have done. The whole program was made less difficult by the fact that postwar Atheficd has been prosperous and there has been plenty of jobs. Widespread unemployment would havfe complicated matters, and have caused inahy of the returned men and women to tutu cynical. Thousands Of youngsters who served in the armed forces have entered colleges and universities under the GI Bill of Rights and by all 1 fefiorts they are taking their studies seriously. They will go into business life and professiobs later, well trained for their future careers. The veterans have not created an acute problem either politically, socially or morally. And are too dfeeply trained in the American way of life for that. They wish to serve their country in peace as they did in war. On the whole, they give promise of being a stable generation, bettor equipped and better prepared than the generation which preceded them. Much will be heard of them in the future in business, politics, agricuture, the professions, literature 'and the arts. They came from every walk of life and they will participate in every sbrt of endeavor. Perhaps they, more than any other group, will help to set the country on the tight course in days to come. It will be several years before we shall see the complete flowering of their talents and get the full force of their impact on American life.—Journal Gazette.
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NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS
No. 11381-S State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Louise Murphy vs. Eugehe W. Murphy In The Delaware Superior Court April Term, 1947 Cohiplaint: Divorce Notice is hereby given the said defendant Eugene W. Murphy that the plaintiff haS filed her pomplaint herein, together with an affidavit that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Thursday the 18th day of September 1947 the 10th day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the Second Monday in September, A. D. t 1947, at the Court House in the City of Muncie in said County and State, the said cause will be heard and determined ih his absence. WITNESS, the Qlerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at trih City of Muncie this 18 day of Jiily A. D., 1947. < SEALi Jesse E. Greene, Clerk Ogle & Manor, Plaintiff’s Attorney. (PD)—July 25-Aug. 1-8.
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NOTICE TO NON-RESItlENTS
State of Indiana, t/elaware County, ss: John E. Donovan
Ruth E. ioribvdn
In The Delaware Superior Court
April Term, 1947 Complaint: Divorce.
Notice is hereby, given, the said defetidsIHt Ruth E. Dohovan that the plain-
tiff 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 arid appear on Tuesday the 30 day of September 1947, the 20 day the next term of said Court, to be holddn on the 2nd Monday in September, A. D., 1947 at the Court House in the City of Muncie, in
said County and State, the said cause \yill be hbard and determined in her
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said Court affixed at the City of Muncie this 31 day of July A. D., 1947. (SEAL) Jessb E. Greene. Clerk Ogle &, Manor, Plaintiff’s Attorney.
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No. 11408-S State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss: Eileen Frances Huggins
Edward Earl Huggins In The Delaware Superior Court April Term, 1947 Complaint: Divorce. Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Edward Earl Huggins that the plaintiff has filed hpr complaint herein, together with an affidavit that the said defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Tuesday the 30th day of September 1947, the 20th day the next term of said Court, tb be holden on the Secdhd Mbnddy in September, A. D., 1947, dt the Couft. House in the City of Mum cie in said County . and State, the paid cause will be heard and determined In H * WITNESS' the Clerk and the Seal of said Court, affixed at the City of Muncie, Indiana this 28th day of July A. D. f 1947. (SEAL) Jesse E. Greene, Clerk Gene Williams, Plaintiff’s Attorney. (PDi—Aug. 8-15-22 9, ; Employer Gives One Year Vacation
Chicago, IH. — Employes of M. Glenn Miller, who riins a small advertising agency here, will receive a full year’s vacation for every six years of service with the firm. Miller said tbday that he believes the plan should be extended “as far as possible” ihtd every line Of American employment. “Each of my employes will receive a year’s vacation, at full pay, as soon as they have put in six years with the firm,” he said. “There’s just onfe strihg attached. The yfear must be used for self-
improvement such as (ravel, schooling or research.” Miller’s office employes il persons. One of them, sfendjgrapher Nelly Mason, left a few days ago, the first of the employes to take advantage Of the ^plan. She is going tb travel. Miller said that employes would have a chance to save extra money for the Ibng vacation but to give them a good send off he adds a $100 bonus to the last paycheck before they leave. He’s convinced the general application of the plan would give a boost to employment in the nation. “It stands to reason that the system would increase the number of jobs about one-sixth,” he said. “And since the people on vacation would still be drawing their pay their, earning power would remain the same. “I think it would give us a more satisfied and better educated society.”, Miller’s the only one in the office who won’t benefit by thcr plan. He’s tbb btisy. Sells New Cars At Half Price
Chicago, 111. — John Kiers, 26, said today he. certainly did a brisk business selling brand new automobiles at half price. The customers were happy, and Kiers was happy. But police locked him up. They didn’t know what it was, but they figured there was a gimmick somewhere in Kiers’ hobby — buying scarce articles and selling them at cost or less. “I guess I was trying to be a good-time Charlie,” Kiers explained. Kiers siad he financed his sales with what he had saved up while he was in the Army, with his salary as an accountant, and with “$5,000 I won on the daily double.” Kiers’ philanthropy started when he came home from the Army after serving as an air force sergeant. He said he did many a good deed by selling refrigerators and radios at bafgain basement prices to anyone who wanted them. He lost money on these sales, but Kiers soon branched out into the, automobile business. He found several dealers who supplied him with vehicles, and he offered them to all comers at a 50 per cent reduction. Business boomed while it lasted. Then two detectives learned Horn one of Kiers’ customers ^bout the auto business. They listened to his story and took him to jail. “I’m confused,” said Kiers. So were police. They were looking for someone who wanted to make a complaint against Kiers, possibly on confidence game charges. But behind him Kiers had left only a trail of satisfied customers.
INDIANS HERE FlttST
Chicago—Dr. Paul S. .Martin of the Chicago Natural History Museum says there never has been a highly civilized people whb preceded the American Indian in North America, a theory some hold becdusb of large burial moiinds that are hard to account fot. Careful archaeological wotk has shown “without a shadow of a doubt” that the mound builders were American Indians, Dr. Martin said.
U;N. Facts and Face DENMARK
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The Kingdom of Denmark has an area of 16,575 square miles and a population of approximately 4,000,000. Occupying the peninsula of Jutland and several islands between the Baltic and Nbirth Seas, it is a country 6f low, undulating plains arid grass lands, separated from her Scandinavian sis-
ters, Sweden Arid Norway, by two narrow stfaiis. Orifce world fariious for her dairy products, Denmark Was occupied and stripped by Germany during Wdrld War II and is riow recovering. She is a member of the U.N. General Assembly and is represented at U.N. Headquarters by Minister Plenipotentiary William Borberg, Her capital is Kobenhavn (Copenhagen); her flag shows a red field quartered by a white cross.
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