Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 January 1950 — Page 2

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THE HOST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JAN. 20, 1950.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT l Democratic weoicly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper th Delaware County ■ --T-- — Entered aa second class matter January 15» ISIh st the Post Office at Muncie, Indiana, under Act of March 3. 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A TEAR ’ MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher 916 West Main Street , Muncie, Indiana, Friday, January 20, 1950. Time for Vets To Think of Investments Within a few days, the veterans of the second world war will begin receiving dividends from tlfeir G. I. insurance amounting to a total of more than $2,500,000,000. Despite the flood of this currency into the national blood stream and its possible upsetting influence on an already strained economy, few Americans will begrude this “windfall.” It is to be hoped, however, that the veterans who have grown several years older since their release from the service of their country have also grown a little wiser. Instead of “blowing in” the whole amount of their insurance dividends it would be the part of wisdom to put aside part of this money in some place of safety for use at a later date. To provide for this the United States TVeastfry Department is launching a new campaign td sell Savings Bonds to former service men and women. ! The plan has gained wholehearted support from all veterans’ organizations and will doubtless be embraced by far-seeing veterans in all walks of life. It is true that many of them are paying for homes hnd will want to put some of these insurance dividends into this channel. Others will find use for the money in paying off pending debts. But there are a great many ex-servicemen who have married and started rearing families in the postwar period. They realize that, as the government cannot continue to pay bonuses or provide dividends every year, there will be a time when this money will be sorely needed to meet emergencies in old age and for the education of their children. Help The Polio Drive Various organizations and private citizens of Muncie are enthusiastically . combining their forces to raise the $25,000 polio fund. This is the amount aet as the goal to be reached. Half of this amount will go to the National Foundation, which spent $22,000' in our community last summer. The other half will remain here for local emergency. Surely no one here, no matter what his financial circumstances might be, would refuse to give to this cause. After going thru the terrifying epidemic, this past summer, everyone realizes the fact that this money could be badly needed at any time. Let us all give generously with the hope that it will not be needed soon. Muncie St. Department Does Excellent Job If anyone has been inclined to criticize the work of the Muncie Street Department, be/fore doing so, he should stop and consider the various elements that have hindered the work of this department in the past several

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It has had to combat such natural elements as wind, sleet and torrential rains that have resulted in the flooded streets and sewers, fallen limbs and trees and the washed-out road to the ddfnping ground on Kuhner’s

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The street department is working under a meager budget which will not allow the hiring of extra men to take care of such unusual conditions as we are now going through and any added duties only serve to disrupt the carefully planned system set up by Street Commissioner llohn Morgan. Balanced Budget Plea

Old-Fashioned Virtues The state of Florida wants industries which are suited to its resources and climate. These industries are not of the “smokestack” Variety — Florida hausn’t the raw materials they need- Instead, enterprises which require small amounts of raw materials and the work of many technicians and craftsmen are desired. Watchmaking is cited as one

example.

A few months ago, Governor Fuller Warren of the state did something concrete to turn the desire into reality. He formed a Florida Industrial Development Council. He staffed it with nine of the state’s outstanding industrialists, along with the heads of Various public and private research agencies. Of great importance the Council is 100 per cent non-partisan and non-political. The Governor and some of the members are on opposite sides of the political fence. It is to the Governor’s credit that, regardless of this, he picked the best men available and set them to work. Much progress has been reported so far— new payrolls are coming to the state. Industry, agriculture and the tourist business are to be locked together to give Florida yearround stability of income. Monitor Stories Lauded The Christian Science Monitor has been running an extremely revealing series of articles on Russia, , by Edmund Stevens, who was the paper’s Moscow correspondent for years. One of the articles dealt with labor and the trade unions. Mr. Stevens said, in part: “Everyone who works, down to the Last ditch digger, is being prodded and cajoled constantly into working at a faster pitch. ... One of the main agencies, but by no means the only agency, for getting the Soviet worker to work harder and longer is the Soviet trade union. The Soviet trade uniory has nothing in common but the name with trade unionism as conceived and practiced in western countries. . . . “While, on paper, the Soviet trade unions are pledged to represent and defend the workers’ interests . . . these provisions have Jabout as much meaning and application • as the civil liberties guaranteed in the Soviet Constitution. The actual power of decision resideselsewhere, beyond recourse. The strike weapon, labor’s effective defense against arbitrary power, is as utterly outlawed as it was in Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy. .. . The Soviet trade unions . . . function primarily as an enormous, well-oiled nationwide machine for transmitting to the great working masses the endless official ballyhoo campaigns aimed at keeping the worker constantly pepped up so that he will exert his utmost effort.” Mr. Stevens then went on to describe some of the methods used to get the last ounce of sweat out of the workers, and concluded: “The workers, engineers, and technicians conform, though the whole thing is, of covirse, ‘voluntary.’ They well know the price of nonconformity.” Russia provides an extreme example — socialist dictatorship in ils fullest flower. Yet the same trend is evident where socialism of a “moderate” variety exists. In England, for instance, more and more restrictions have been placed on the freedom of workers, and the trade unions are being used as instruments of governmental policy. Men and women in the key industries cannot change jobs without governmental permission, and when that situation exists, free labor no longer exists. Number One Issue A s -the second session of this Congress-got underway, news reports emphasized that the domestic issue of the greatest concern to many Senators and Representatives of both parties was the cost of the Federal government, taxes and deficits. The news reports said further that Congressional leaders, on either side of the aisle which divides Republicans and Democrats, were determined to do everything possible to cut appropriations, to abstain from raising taxes, and to make the next budget show a surplus instead of a deficit at the end of the fiscal year.

May Be Window Trimmin’ The country’s so-called wise politicians on both the Republican and Democrat sides are of the honest opinion that the plea of Congress to trim the budget is just idle talk. The Republican leaders over the country are seemingly pleading .for a balanced budget but in reality this may be exactly what they do not want. This talk is merely a subterfuge. If the Truman administration was able to balance the budget, the Republicans would then be deprived of their orily legitimate argument and talking point against the present administration in the next campaign. Because of the budget situation,, top ranking Democrats are appealing to the President to slash the proposed biidget. Chairman of the senate finance committee, Senator George of Georgia, in making a stand for rigid economy, and is recommending a reduction in the administration’s proposed budget of $42,439,000. It is expected that the President will, in a few days, send his tax message to Congress. He lias indicated that he will recommend a substantial cut in excise taxes. This will no doubt serve to stimulate the sale of all luxury items that are now carrying a stiff tax which was originated during the war as an economy act. '

These are splendid aims but it must be recorded that they are usually honored more in the breach than in the observance. Practically everyone is for rigorous economy — for the other fellow, and for ample spending when the money will benefit him. That is why enoromus pressure is exerted on Congress by groups of all kinds for bigger and better appropriations. And that is why Congress must have the courage to resist this pressure if the nation is to avoid financial disaster. Governments, like individuals, can spend beyond their incomes and dissipate their resources only so long. The only difference is that government can stave off the day of reckoning longer. But when that day does come, the repercussions are felt everywhere. If Tito, as he proposes, can make Hungary pay $70,000,000 it owes him, we should recognize him and find out how it is done. Those Soviet scientists who are urging the Russians to atheism should also tell them not to believe anything Moscow says. New baseball rule book reveals object of the game is to score more runs than the other fellow. Glad that’s settled. An eastern college, we read, has developed a robot professor. With built-in absentmindedness ?

First to Fall

Lesion for January 22, 1950

r ■ i ■fiROUBLE IN THE CHURCH can ! A start anywhere. Sometimes it starts with the women. That wa* the way the early church found it. The experiment in fellowship which they tried ran into snags, for not even the first Christians were

perfect. The church in Jerusalem was in a sense inter-racial. Some were born and bred in Palestine, and there were others from the outside, with Qreek names.

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—Hellenists they were called. There was argument: Were the Hellenisl widows getting their share of th«

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Committee Chairman i •PHE APOSTLES, being called on, 4 refused to straighten the tangls themselves. Let the church elect a committee, they said. First on ths list was a man named Stephen. He turned out to be most famous for being the first Christian martyrj but when he fell unconscious beneath that shower of stones, thers died no ordinary man.

To begin with, he filled the bill ae chairman of that Committee on Grievance#. Not ] many men, Mien or now, could fill ell three qualifications the Apostles required: reputation, ■ spirituality, and wisdom. | It takes a very tactful man to settle a difficulty In which women are concerned; it takes tact to handle any committee; it takes tact to manage an inter-racial sit* uation; it calls for wisdom to handle funds. , !

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Debater • j COME MEN THINK themselves ® bigger than their jobs. Some men really are bigger, and Stephen Wes one of these. He spilled over, m to apeak; he had even more ew ‘ergy end ability than the job eaUaf

for. We hear of him debating' ground the synagogue circuit parIttculqrly in the synagogues which ►were used by Jews from other [parts of the world. We have no details of those | debates, but we know how they f always came out: Stephen got the decision. We can guess, from his great speech in the ; hour of his death, what his gen- i era! line must have been. Many Christians in Jerusalem at^ that time had little or no idea that Christianity was actually a new religion; even the name “Christian” had not been thought of. They considered it a form of the Jewish religion. * • • . \' Scholar \ CTEPHEN’S SPEECH at his trial ^ (Acts 7) may sound dull to some now, but it was not dull to the audience. No man makes a dull speech on the brink of death. Further, it was that speech that got him killed. His listeners may not have liked it, but they certainly did not think it dull! The beauty of the speech is that it reveals Stephen’s keen insight into the religious history of his people. Speaking without notes, he reviews the history of close to' 2,000 years in a 10-minute talk, and yet brings out the main points. Only a real scholar can do that, a man who is both historian and prophet. The most important peaks In Israel’s history were .God’s revelations to them; and Stephen shows that these revelations had never been tied to a house or a hook. No institutions and no placs is indispensable to God. The same God who had wrought new things in the past had now wrought a new thing in Christ. And the religion 0 4 thing in Christ. ' • • •

Martyr . _: , STEPHEN’S AUDIENCE was no! ^ csjpvinced. Seeing murder in their eyes, Stephen knew his tims was short. In a few stinging Iasi words he reminded theni that murder was an old story in that Temple. They had killed prophets, they had killed Jesus the “Just One.” And now—. Now they dragged Stephen out and stoned him till he

died.

Well, yov can stop a voice hut you cannot stop an idea. Stephen was first to fall, but not the last. To this very year Christ haa his martyrs, men and women who will die rather than deny him. You can sSlence a man but you cannot silerice truth. When the world goes ajgainst her, the Church ahould remember that now as thien, “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”

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Legal Notice . NOTICE TO NON-RESIDENTS In The DELAWARE SUPERIOR COURT January Term, 1950 Complaint: FOR ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE No. 13859-S STATE OF INDIANA, DELAWARE COUNTY Muriel D. Nolan vs. Raymond Nolan Notice is hereby given the said defendant, Raymond Nolan, that the plaintiff has filed her complaint herein, for divorce together with an affidavit that the said defendant, Raymond Nolan, is not a resident of the State of Indiana, and that unless he be and appear on Thtursday the 16th day of March, 1950, the 58th day the next term of said Court, to be holden on the Second Monday in January, A. D., 1950, at the Corut House in the City of Muncie 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 12th day of January, A. D., 1950. Robert A. Milhollin, Clerk Victor M. Bruell, Plaintiff’s Attorney (PD) - Jan. 13-20-27.

Legal Notice INDIANA ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COMMISSION 201 Illinois Bldg. Indianapolis Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission BERNARD E. DOYLE, Chairman WALTER A. RICE GLEN A. MARKLAND WM. T. STEINSBERGER JOHN F. NOONAN, Secretary BERNARD E. DOYLE Chairman LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Delaware County, Indiana, will, at 9 a. m. (CST) on the 8th day of February, 1950, at the Clerk’s Office, Court House in the City (or Town) of Muncie, Indiana, in said County, begin investigation of the application of the following named person, requesting the issue to the applicant, at the location hereinafter set out, of the Alcoholic Beverage Permit of the class hereinafter designated and will, at said Ume and place, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicant, and the propriety of issuing the permit applied for to such applicant at the premises named: Denzill L. Retz, 72046, (dance), 111 W. Main St., Muncie, Indiana, NEW. Said investigation will be open to the public, and public participation is requested. Indiana Alcoholic Beverage Commission By JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary BERNARD E. DOYLE Chairman (PD) - Jan. 20-27.

Legal Notice NOTICE OF THE SALE OF SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT BONDS NOTICE is hereby given that at 4:30 p. m. on Friday, February 17, 1950, at the office of the Superintendent of City Schools, Room 226 in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, the Board of School Trustees of said school city will receive sealed proposals and offer for sale and sell negotiable school improvement bonds of said school city in the aggregate principal sum of $500,000.00, the proceeds from the sale of said bonds to be used for the purchase and acquisition of real estate and the erection and equipment of new buildings and the remodeling of old school buildings and to supplement the cumulative building or sinking fund authorized by law and to pay the costs and expenses incident to the purchase of said real estate and the sale of said

bonds.

Said school improvement bonds will be issued and sold pursuant to a resolution adopted by the Board of School Trustees of said school city on January 12, 1950, and will consists of five hundred (500) bonds of the denomination of $1,000.00 each, numbered from one (1) to five hundred (500) both inclusive. All of said bonds will be dated March 1, 1950, and shall become due and payable on the following respective dates: Bonds numbered 1 to 30, both inclusive, December 31, 1956. Bonds numbere 31 to 60, both inclusive, December 31, 1957. Bonds numbered 61 to 90, both inclusive, December 31, 1958. Bonds numbered 91 to 150, both inclusive, December 31, 1959. Bonds numbered 151 to 210, both inclusive, December 31, 1960. Bonds numbered 211 to 270, both inclusive, December 31, 1961. Bonds numbered 271 to 330, both inclusive, December 31, 1962. Bonds numbered 331 to 390, both inclusive, December 31, 1963. Bonds numbered 391 to 450, both inclusive, December 31, 1964. Bonds numbered 451 to 500, both inclusive, December 31, 1965. Said bonds shall bear interest at the best rate obtainable, not exceeding four percent (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 shall be payable on4June 30, 1950 and semi-an-nually thereafter on December 31st and June 30th of each year, and the interest to maturity will be evidenced by interest coupons attached to said bonds. Both the principal and interest of said bonds shall be payable at The Merchants National Bank of Muncie, and said bonds will be delivered to the purchaser at said bank upon payment in full of the purchase price with accrued interest to date of delivery. All bidders shall be required to state in their proposals the gross amount they will pay for said bonds with interest to 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 shall be required to state in his proposal the rate of interest which said bonds will bear, not to exceed four percent (4%) per annum, and such rate of interest shall be stated in multiples of one-fourth of one percent in the proposal. Not ,more than one interest rate shall be named by any one bidder. The lowest and best bidder shall be the qualified bidder who offers the lowest interest cost, computing the total interest on all of said bonds to maturity and deducting therefrom any premium paid. Each bid shall be accompanied by a check or draft for two and one-half percent <2V2%) of the amount of bonds bid for, duly certified by a responsible bank or trust company and payable to the order of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, to guarantee the good faith of the bidder, which said checks or drafts will be returned to those bidders whose bids are not accepted by the board. In the event the successful bidder fails to comply with the terms of his bid or refuses to take and pay the bonOs bid for, the School City of Muncie, Indiana, shall retain the proceeds of the check or draft of such bidder, as liquidated damages. Said proposals shall be opened at a public hearing of the Board of School Trustees and said bonds shall be sold tp the best bidder as herein defined and for not less than the full face value of said bonds, with accrued interest to the date of delivery. The Board of School TYdstees shall have the right to reject any and all bids. No conditional bids will h'e received and the successful bidder wiN be required to accept delivery and pay for said bonds on or before March-, 1, 1950. Said bonds shall be sold subject to legal approval by attorneys for tUe purchaser and the cost of procuring such opinion shall be paid by the purchaser. All proposals shall be submitted and tsaid bonds shall be sold upon the terms and conditions set forth in said resolution and in the notice offering said bonds'-for sale. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, January 19, 1950. v. SCHOOL CITY OF MUNCIE. IN-

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By Norman K- Durham, President i Marie W. Owens, Treasurer Joseph L. Douglas. Secretary BOARD OF SCHOOL TRUSTEES Bracken, Gray, DeFur & Voran, Attorneys (PD) - Jan. 20-27-Feb. 3.

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PATCHING HOLE IN WALL When an electrical outlet box or a switch has been removed from a plaster wall, patching the hole can be difficult if the lath was cut out American Builder magazine suggests this method of doing the job: Cut a piece of stiff cardboard a little larger than the hole. Punch a tiny hole in the center of the cardboard and slip one end of a piece of string through the hole. Knot the other end of the string with a knot big enough not to slip through the hole too. While holding the loose end of the string, push the cardboard through the hole in the wall. Hold the cardboard firmly in place by pulling the string taut. At the same time, fill the hole with plaster. When the plaster has hardened, cut off the string flush with the wall and smooth the spot with sandpaper. Webh T~

(Continued From Page One) ator Jenner is on the Judiciary Committee, which will pass on the nomination. Marshall Hanley, city attorney of Muncie, Indiana and former asociate of Judge Sherman Minton is said to be the nominee for first assistant to the new U. S. Attorney.

Legal Notice NOTICE TO BIDDER AND THE PUBLIC: Notice is hereby given that the Board of Public Works and Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana will on the 1st day of February at the hour of 10 o’clock a .m., A. D., 1950 at the office of said Board in the City Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, receive bids for the purchase of the following equipment: 1 Industrial wheel type tractor equipped with % yard front end shovel loader. 1 105 cfm two wheel trailer type air compressor. (Specifications for above equipment are on file in the office of the Board of Works) Said above described items are to be purchased for the use of the Street Department of said City. Bids may be made on any of the above described items and must be submitted on forms prescribed by law, which forms may be obtained in the office of said Board. Bids must be submitted on each of the above described items separately, should be sealed and must be deposited with said Board at its office on or before the hour of 10 o’clock a. m. on the 1st day of February 1950, and each such proposal or bid must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City with good and sufficient surety thereon, in the sum of $1000.00 or a sum equal to 10'}? of the total bid submitted by such bidder, whichever amount is the lesser, to the approval of the Board, to secure the performance of such bid or contract. All Bids and letting of any contracts hereunder shall be made in accordance with and governed by the terms of Chapter 99, of the Act of 1945 Said Board reserves the right to reject any an<t all Bids. Board of Works & Safety of the City of Muncie, Indiana Mary Frances Leonard Clerk of the Board (PD) - Jan. 20-27.

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(Continued From fage One) the most prominent in demanding that the cost of government be drastically reduced. Furthermore, it is extremely likely that for us to attempt to establish bases on Formosa would immediately set off World War III, which we know would be an atomic war. Finally, I have never seen any evidence that warfare has injured the cause of Communism. You can shoot and kill men and destroy wealth but you cannot thus exterminate an idea, -be it good or evil, and that the evil idea of Communism actually thrives on the privation and misery which follow in the wake of warfare. Let us hope that the decision made by the President proves correct and that history will again prove that time can be a great healer. From the present viewpoint, and under all the circumstances it appears to me to be a wise decision.

New Definitions (Continued From Page One) he must make sales or obtain orders or contracts for services or for the use of facilities for which the client or customer will pay, and (3) his work other than making outside sales or obtaining orders or contracts for services and facilities cannot exceed 20 per cent of the hours worked in the workweek by non-exempt employees. There is no salary requirement for this exemption. Exceptions —Executive administrative and professional employees who are paid at least $100 a week are not required to meet all of the various tests. They will be exempt if their duties are in the main executive, administrative or professional. If you want copy of official definitions, write the Personnel Relations Department, Indiana State Chamber of Commerce.

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FREE LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE “Christian Science: The Hope of Mankind” Claire Rauthe, C. S. Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1950 AT 300 P. M. Masonic Temple Auditorium 520 E. MAIN STREET Auspices of First Church of Christ, Scientist, Muncie, Indiana First Church of Christ, Scientist, Muncie, Indiana Cordially Invites You.

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