Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 29 August 1947 — Page 4
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REMOVAL ' (Continued From Page One) something must be done to stop the spiral in the cost of living, if we are to avoid a depression Millions are already priced out of the market for everything except the bare necessities of life. Other millions are now scraping the bottom of their saving accounts. The workingman is going deeper and deeper into debt every week. The foreign countries have about exhausted their dollar purchasing power and will soon be forced to curtail their buying from us. This all adds up to unemployment, hardship and depression. The $2,000,000,000 in termnal leave bonds which the veterans will be able to cash next month, and the removal of debt limitation will be a shot in the arm to tide us over for a few more months, but only a few months. If something is not done to stop the rise in the cost of living, next spring will find the American people without savings and head-over-heels in debt. The farmers and the manufacturers will be unable to sell their produce and products, and we may find ourselves in the midst of a great depression. There is still time to prevent this, but action must be taken and that soon. The sand is getting low in the hour-glass. The rising cost of living resulting from the death of OPA has consumed the larger share of our war-time savings. The danger signal is that profits are increasing by leaps and bounds while the living standards of the masses are being lowered in the same ratio. Every economist knows that that is a dangerous situation, which cannot long be tolerated with impunity. The time for talk has ended. The time for action has arrived. The President and others have pleaded with the profiteers and vvarned of the danger, but their pleas have been met with scorn and their warnings have gone unheeded. The storm clouds of depression are gathering. Economic disaster is getting ready to strike. The blow is likely to prove fatal to our boasted system of private enterprise. The reins of government and management of industry are in the hands of reactionaries and profiteers and exploiters as we speed to the brink of ruin. The very men who boast so loudly of the virtues of private enterprise seem determined to destroy it.
The eyes of the world are upon us. If the profiteers and exploiters succeed in wrecking our system it will be too bad for us and the world as a whole. The profiteers, exploiters, monopolists, cartelists and reactionaries are doing more than all the Communists in betraying our country into the hands of Stalin. All the Communists in the world will never destroy a system which gives freedom, security and a high standard of living to the masses. History shows that the suppression of civil liberties by reactionaries in government, the exploiting of the masses by the profiteers, cartelists and monopolists prepares for the coming of Communion or Fascism. Therefore, if we would save our country from the clutches of some foreignism, we must act now to rescue it from the reactionaries and our industry from the monopolists and profiteers. This may sound like the ranting of an irresponsible radical, but it is not. It is sound economic philosophy derived from and supported by two of' the greatest Americans who ever lived, Thomas Jefferson and Franklin D. Roosevelt. When our system was quite young the prophetic mind and eloquent pen of Jefferson warned that “wide-spread poverty and concentrated wealth cannot long endure side by side in a democracy.” In recounting the things which led to the 1929 depression, Roosevelt had this to say. “A dangerous thing was happening. Half of the industrial corporate wealth of the country had come under the control of less than 200 huge corporations. That is not all. These huge corporations in some cases did not even try to compete with each other. They themselves were tied together by interlocking directors, interlocking bankers, interlocking lawyers . . . The struggle against private monopoly is a struggle for, and not against American business. It is a struggle to preserve individual enterprise and economic freedom.” We are in desperate need of a Jefferson or a Roosevelt to stem the tide of political reactionism and industrial monoj>oly and thus save us from the coming depression, and to preserve our system of democracy and private enterprise. Go To Church
STATE FAIR SHOW BOOKS STARS
| The best show of the year in Indiana will be seen by 12,000 persons Saturday night, August 81, at the Indiana State Fair. It’s the State Fair’s second annual Radio Roundup. | This is the lineup of movie and radio stars, the like of which is seldom seen anywhere: Jimmy Wakely, singer-star of western Monogram Pictures; Johnny Olsen, who’s heard in millions of homes daily as master of ceremonies on the Ladies Be Seated radio program. i And the Dinning Sisters, who have been a top singing trio on records, radio networks and in Columbia Pictures for several years; The Duke of Paducah, beloved comedian of the Grand 01’ Opry broadcasts whose “shoes are killin’ me,” and Salty Holmes, his partner in comedy on many broadcasts including the National
Barn Dance. For good measure there’ll be Indiana’s national champion barber shop quartet, the Doctors of Harmony, from Elkhart. In the accompanying photograph are, top, left to right, Wakely and Olsen, and, below ,the Duke, of Paducah and the Dinning Sisters. It’ll be a three-hour show of fun, music and prizes for Olsen will appear as he does on his broadcasts, giving away merchandise and cash to contestants. Wakely will sing some of his own songs, including “I’m Gonna Marry Mary.” Tunes of the Monon railroad’s Centennial will be played and sung. The Monon, and Kingan and Company, Indianapolis packers, will sponsor a broadcast over an Indiana network for a part of the show. i
SENATE (Continued From Page One) heroes and Brewster and Ferguson the villians, at least that is the way it appeared to many observers. The show was abrupty broken off right in the middle, and the would be Vice-President hung his head, tucked his tail between his legs and took off to the woods of Maine, leaving the once honorable and respectable Committee in shame and disgrace. Reams and reams of articles and editorials have been written on the Brewster Roosevelt-Hugh-es show.Tsome good, some bad and some indifferent. One of the best and most ingenious articles written on the subject appeared in the Aug. 18th issue of “The Progressive,” and was written by J. Lacey Reynolds. We take the liberty of copying a few para“The Hughes investigation reminded me of the Uncle Remus story of Brer Rabbit and the Tarbaby. Sens. Owen Brewster and Homer Ferguson like Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear, made a tar baby likeness of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, recorating it with Gen. Elliott Roosevelt’s brass hat and a braiziere from the collection of Johnny Meyer, Hughes’ publicity man. Their designs toward Howard Hughes were no more altruistic than the designs of Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear toward Brer Rabbit. True to the story, the plotters succeeded in tar-ring Brer Hughes in stocky fashion. But while they were deliberating how to dispose of him, he outwitted them. Over his loud protestations, they threw him into the briar patch of a Senate investigation. As it turned out, of course, the briar patch was the one place in the world he seemed to love best. He emerged,, just like Brer Rabbit, “whistlin’ and singinn’ and combin’ de last bit of tar outer his mustaches wid a piece of the briar-bush.” Brewster and Ferguson made such a big tar-baby that there was enough tar in it to smear everybody. Sen. Brewster still has a lot of combing to get the tar out of Hughes’ charges out of the mustaches of his political reputation. Whether Brewster actually offered to call off the investigation if Hughes would support Pan American’s chosen instrument airline bill—one need not attempt to weigh the word of one against the other. Suffice it to say that the suspicion has been planted in the public mind and Brewster will always be placed in the disadvantageous position of having to deny it. Denials will not win him the vice presidency which Brewster greatly treasures. Nor will he be aided by the horselaughs. For if there is anything funnier than seeing a man slip a banana peel, its seeing him slip on a banana peel he set for someone else. CAPITAL (Continued From Page One? vestigations conducted by Senator Tom Walsh or by President Truman, when he headed the Senate War Investigating Committee. The Senate will survive the degradation to which Senators Brewster and Ferguson have subjected it. The people will not soon forget the monstrous affront to our government’s , dignity which Brewster and Ferguson perpetrated in the name of the Republican Party. o Headless, Burned Body Discovreed Los Angeles, Aug. 29.—A headless and charred body, believed to be a woman’s, was examined for clues to its identity today by police who found it stuffed in a gunny sack a few feet off a foothill Lovers’ Lane. Officers took casts of the fingerprints and checked them against missing person files. The body was identified as a woman’s on the basis of the pelvic bone structure and red-paint-ed toenails. The head and right hand had been chopped off. Part of the chest was cut away and one foot was partly dissected. The victim had been dead about 30 days, officers estimated,
Indiana Boys Win
Smith Hanje SHARING TOP honors for Indiana in the 1947 model car design competition of the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild were Larry S. Smith, of Goshen, who won the state junior award and Arthur R. Hanje, of Indianapolis, who took the senior division award. They were each awarded $100. The Craftsman’s Guild is afl educational organization sponsored Ly General Motors to encourage die development of creative ability, handiwork and craftsmanship among ’teen-age boys.
POST-DEMOCRAT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1947.
Official 1947 Indiana Road Map
RADIO RALLY IS PLAN OF DEMOS
\^ho Will Be Indiana's “King and Queen Bub M ?
Shown above is a reproduction of the cover of the official 1947 Indiana road map, now being printed by the State Highway Commission. The first maps coming off the press will be available to the public at the Highway Commission’s exhibit in the Manufacturers’ Building at the Indiana State Fair, which opens Friday. General distribution of the new maps will begin after the fair. Several new features are embodied in the attractive 1947 road map, whose cover motif is Paul Dresser’s famous Hoosier song, “On The Banks of The Wabash.” The map itself is printed in four colors instead of three. The map revisions, designed to make the information more clear and more complete, include the following multiple-lane highways designed as such; state mileage
chart standardized to show distance from center to center of each city listed airports designated by airpla'ne symbol; incorporated cities and towns shown in orange; lakes and streams depicted in light blue color; highway routes shown through all towns instead of stopping at the borders, the area outside corporate limits is colored yellow in detailed insets of Indiana’s larger cities. All informative features of former Indiana road maps are retained in the 1947 edition. Highway officials pointed out that one of the most valuable parts is the reproduced United States may on which mileage distances are shown from Indianapolis to all other major cities in the nation. The Indiana Highway Commission has received widespread commendation for this convenient national mileage map.
In Michigan And Indiana, Meetings Will Be Held In Every County A radio rally of the Democratic Party was announced today by Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic National Com-
mittee.
The rally will be held on September 2 from 10:00 to 10:30 p. m. Eastern Daylight Time over the facilities of the American Broadcasting Company. It will mark the first time that a major political party has used the radio as a means of conducting a meeting of the party na-
tionally.
The radio show emanating from Washington will supply the core of political rallies throughout the nation. Local Democratic groups will meet to listen to the program and will then hear their own speakers on local issues. The radio show itself will consist of a series df remote broadcasts from various sections of the
United States.
Among those to be heard on the show will be Mayor William O’Dwyer from New York, Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas from Los Angeles, Senator John Sparkman from Birmingham, Ala., Marshall Hanley, president of the Young Democratic clubs of Indiana, from Indianapolis and Gael Sullivan from Washington. Other speakers cannot yet be announced. » 'M4KIIKI Co-operating in this experiment is the American Broadcasting Company which is making the time available to the Democraitc Party as a public service. Already, although the program has not been listed in the schedules, nearly ten independent radio stations have asked to be affiliated with the network for
that one show.
In Michigan and Indiana meetings will be held in every county. Ohio has notified all of its 8,000 precinct workers to have local neighborhood meetings in conjunction with the show. In Texas county meetings hre being organized now. Nebraska and Iowa have scheduled local meetings. Minnesota Democratic leaders are working out their plans and have indicated that the local meetings will be held in all coun-
ties.
The program is being aired as an experiment, as part of the ra-
dio planning
paign.
but they said the body was strangely mummified, with little evidence of decomposition. They believed it had been dumped in the hillside pine thicket above Sierra Madre only 24 to 36 hours earlier. The pine needles beneath it were still fresh. Marks on the skeleton showed evidence of murder, Lt. Garner Brown said.
CONSERVATION (Continued From Pacre One) A list of eligible Republicans for the jobs was submitted by Mr. Smith, and names chpsen from that list.
Law Ambiguous The ambiguity of the ill-writ-ten Taft-Hartley act was dramatized shortly after its passage by a verbal altercation between its two authors. Congressman Hartley said the soft coal miners violated the law when they won a good contract. Senator Taft said Congressman Hartley was wrong. Democrats asked the two authors to please get together on what they meant to write when they cobbled their two bills into one. Taft and Hartley kept mum. Hartley’s silence was an unusual phenomenon, according to connoisseurs of Hartley oratory. Now comes to light a possible reason for Hartley’s silence. Reads a dispatch in ScrippsHoward newspapers last week: “MAKE A LAW, THEN EXPLAIN FOR A FEE. . . “ . . . Rep. Fred A. Hartley’s doing a thriving business explaining the new labor law to employer groups Two-day seminar on Taft-Hartley Act is scheduled by Indiana Chamber of Commerce,
and Hartley will be paid speaker . . .” o — Local Students On Honor List
Bloomington, Ind., Aug. 29.— Scholastic honors at Indiana University were achieved during the 1947 spring semester by four students from Muncie. As announced by Registrar Thomas A. Cooksonfi the honors list for the sophomore, junior and senior classes, freshman honor students having been announced previously, contained the names of the following students: Lois Ann Piopho, 414 Alameda, wh(? ranked in the higest one per cent of her class and Robert M. Clark, __41 Wheeling Ave.; Ted C. Doty,* 702 E. Adams, and Loren C. Marsh, 524 Riley Rd. o Joint Airport Plan Delayed The City Council has withdrawn support of the proposed MuncieAnderson airport and has recommended that the question of Muncie’s participation in the airport project be *put up to the voters in a referendum. The Council Monday night removed a $30,000 appropriation [from the 1948 budget which had been earmarked for the airport. It also voted to turn back to the general fund $60,000 which was raised by taxes in 1946 and 1947 for the airport. Plans called for the construction of the airport at Crossroads, midway between Anderson and Muncie.
It Pays to Advertise
Charles Peniston, age 12, and Jane Norris, age 13, wink at the photographer after winning the gala Bubble-Blowing contest at the Philadelphia Bulletin Jamboree on July 4th. All Indiana kids are ) invited to the 8-day Bubble-Blowing contest at the Indiana State Fair < starting August 23th through September 5th.
Monday, which is expected to draw 10,000 to 20,000 persons from Anderson, Connersville, Muncie, Richmond, New Castle and Kokomo. Leon Henderson, Washington, former OPA administrator, will speak. There will be a parade at 12:15 p. m., with six bands from Anderson, New Castle, Richmond and Muncie, and floats competing for prizes. The speaking program will start at 2 p. m., with responses by officials of several cities. Mr. Henderson will talk at 3 p. m. At 4 p. m. there will be music by Roy Endicott’s Band and the Four Scotts, United Mine Workers Quartet from Bicknell. At 5 p. m. there will be a balloon ascension and double parachute leap by Byron King, Farmland, and at 8 p. m. a floor show. A large delegation from Muncie Will be in attendance.
icy was simply one of “feeding and breeding.” “For every dollar we spend, we have one more Japanese mouth to feed,” he said. “A more practical solution would be to make feeding of Japan conditional on a prompt cut in the birth rate.” Hiler said he had discovered that Japanese food production can support only 20,000,000 to 24,000,000 persons. The Japanese population is close to 80,000,000 and growing by a million every four years.
NEW Ca'
Suggest Moratorium On Jap Birth Rate Hollywood, Aug. 29.—A “Bio-
logical Armistice” was proposed today to solve the high cost of oc-
cupying conquered Japan. Dr. Hilaire Hiler, painter and
word expert suggested a moratorium on the Japanese birth
for the 1948 cam- ': rate. He said it would cut the U.
i S. taxpayer’s bill for feeding the I rapidly multiplying Japanese and forestall future Japanese “expan-
sionist” warfare.
“Of course, it’s none of my business,” he said, “except as a tax-
payer.”
Hiler was a painter in the days of cubism and impressionism and now conducts a school he calls the future “American Oxford.” Hiler said the present U. S. pol-
Leon Henderson
To Speak Labor Day
The program has been an-
nounced for a Central Indiana C. I. O. Labor Day celebration at Shadyside Park, Anderson, Ind.,
PHANTOM GATE AT STATE FAIR
I The Phantom starting gate, shown above, will be used in all heats of Indiana State Fair Racing, A. G. Norrick, Muncie, director of speed, has announced. | It will be the first time that a starting gate has ever been used on the State Fairgrounds track. Grand Circuit harness racing at the State Fair, paying purses of $125,000, will start August 80, and will resume on Monday, Labor Day, continuing daily through Friday. The rain date is Saturday, September 6. State Fair dates are August 29 through September 5. I The gate is the property of the Grand Circuit which now requires starting gates for all its events. It differs from the common type of wing gate in that it operates on a telescope principle. A mechanism on the rear of an automobile projects a single steel bar perpendicularly from both sides of the car. Each bar shoots out directly (toward the track
rails) to a maximum 80-foot span across the track. The Phantom Gate, so named because the wing bars disappear rather than fold along the sides of th« car, is operated by the starter who stands in the back of the automobile and faces the' horses. He controls the gate operation and the speed of the automobile as well, the driver merely steering. The car can reach a speed of 27 miles an hour in 120 feet. It of course moves ahead of the horses and runs to the outside of the track at the first turn. Many horsemen believe the Phantom is the best starting gate yet devised for harness racing. P. A. (Paul) Young, Waynesfield, O., starter at tho State Fair meeting, also will bring his own folding wing type gate which will be used as an auxiliary if needed. Young, as starter, of course, will operate the Phantom Gate.
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