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THE POST-DEMOCRAT, MUNCIE, IND., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17,1950

THE POST-DEMOCRAT k Democratic weoxly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncle, Delaware County and the 10th Congressional District The only Democratic New*oaper in Delaware County Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, »t the Post Office at Muncie. Indiana, under Act of March 3, 1879. PRICE 5 CENTS—$2.00 A YEAR MRS. GEO. R. DALE, Publisher #16 West Main Street Muncie, Indiana, Friday, February 17, 1950. Southern Democrats Strengthen Party The Democratic Southern. Conference at Raleigh, North Carolina, on January 28, strengthened the ties which make the Democratic Party a national party. Democratic Party officials from 14 Southern States heard a tight day-long schedule of talks on national problems by Cabinet members and officials of the “little Cabinet.” The meeting made page-one news. It was covered by correspondents from all sections of the country, by the major wire services, and portions of the meeting were broadcast over three national networks, seven regional nets, in addition to special coverage carried by more than FORTY individual stations. Republicans and members of splinter parties had hoped that the meeting would dissipate its strength in squabbles over regional issues. But as Conference Chairman Jonathan Daniels reported, the Conference members preferred to discuss national issues. The editor of the “Raleigh News and Observer” and Democratic National Committeeman from North Carolina, made this plain on the eve of the Conference. He said: “Frankly, I think those who would like to see a meeting of Southern Democrats devote itself to regional controversy rather than to constructive discussion of national issues are those who seek national disunity rather than unity in our foreign policy, who would make short-sighted cuts in a budget necessary to keep our defenses strong enough to deter any aggression against us, who are more interested in the special interests of Wall Street than in the interests of the people. “The people who tried to divide and conquer the American people in the 1948 election and who failed, would like nothing better than to see the Democratic Party divide and conquer itself. Favorite GOP Trick. A favorite trick of those who seek to play politics with the issue of government economy is to take some Federal expenditure that may sound unwise unless it is explained and cite it as an example of Federal waste. In a recent radio broadcast Budget Director Frank Pace did a fine job of debunking such tricks. He cited a Presidential request for $4,500,000 for the Department of Agriculture to assist in curbing spruce budworms and spruce bark beetles. This was a fine example of what demagogues like to play with in discussing Federal economy. You know the line. It goes like this: “Last year the Department of Agriculture spent four million dollars on budworms and bark beetles. How can we expect to balance the budget when we spent more on worms than we spent on the entire budget in Washington’s era?” Well, Budget Director Pace put his answer this way: “How would you judge a program like this? Would you simply judge it by comparing its cost to the costs of government in some prior period? If you did you would find that to kill two small bugs—which I am sure most of us have never heard of—will cost more than the entire Federal budget during the first two years that George Washington was President. “Or would you judge it in the light of our responsibilities for preserving our natural resources and for keeping our economy strong in this year of 1950? “If you do, you will find that this $4,500,000 which the Government proposes to spend will halt the destruction of 12 billion board feet of timber, valued at close to 100 million dollars. It will save, in one section of Colorado alone, sawmill and pulp operations valued at 15 million dollars a year and employing 600 wage earners.” That is the sound way to discuss Federal expenditures — not on the basis of COST alone, but on the basis of what the RESULT is worth in relation to the COST. H-Bomb Manufacture Approved By Nation The President’s announcement that the Atomic Energy Commission has been instructed to continue its work on atomic weapons, including the so-called hydrogen bomb, was met with national approval. All Americans seemed to recognize that we could not afford to lag in the slightest in our efforts to back our national defense with every possible weapon available to us. But no enemy nation could convincingly charge that this announcement was a threatening gesture, for under farsighted leadership we have matched our peaceful words with peaceful deeds ever since the surrender of Japan. However, the President wisely took the occasion of the hydrogen bomb announcement to state once again our peaceful intentions. He said: “Like all other work in the field of atomic weapons, it is being and will be carried forward on a basis consistent with the over-all objectives of our program for peace and security. “This we shall continue to do until a satisfactory plan for international control of atomic energy is achieved. We shall also continue to examine all those factors that affect our program for peace and this coun-

try’s security.” The President’s calm announcement had great impact on a world which has witnessed our leadership toward peace in words and deeds—which has seen the European Recovery programs prove that we are willing to give practical, but unselfish help to friendly nations, and which has also seen us give military aid to countries standing in the westward path of communism. Free nations which had seen these concrete evidences of our peaceful intentions and of our resolute efforts to keep our own defenses strong knew that we were working on the hydrogen bomb—not to win a war, but to PREVENT one. The fateful decision placed even more firmly on American shoulders the mantle of world leadership which we assumed as the first half of the twentieth century came to a close. Greater than ever before was the necessity to continue the bi-partisan foreign policy, to continue as a unified nation to carry out a constructive program in the field of international relations. U. S. Housing Program Makes Fast Progress The Administration’s program to bring good housing within the reach of the large number of wage and salary earners of moderate income who still cannot find the homes they need at the price they can pay has made good progress in the first month of the new Congressional session. Hearings have been completed in the Senate, where the bill is scheduled for prompt consideration, and House committee hearings are being completed. The bill provides broadened FHA aids to private construction follower price housing and for housing for larger families. It now has added an important new provision for encouraging and financing housing cooperatives for middle-income families, as well as FHA aids to private industry to get lower rent apartments in 1950. Housing and Home Finance Agency Administrator Raymond M. Foley, strongly supporting the cooperative measure in testimony, defined the group generally to be served as that ranging in income, on a national average, from $2800 to $4400, and requiring rents in the range of $47 to $73 a month. Foley estimated that economies possible through cooperative housing could provide rents 25% below those possible under rental projects built under FHA’s liberal Section 608 rental mortgage insurance provided private builders. The group to be served represents families above the income limits for public housing but still unable at present prices to obtain the privately-built housing they need. The proposal received the expected violent opposition of the real estate lobby. Although the proposal would extend to lower middleincome families the same basic types of aid that private industry now employs to serve people of better means, the lobbyists denounce this middle-income aid as “socialistic” while they call for extension of the same type aids for their own operations to serve families with more money. Lobbyist claims that they are already providing sufficient housing for all middle-in-come families were punctured by Administrator Foley, who cited FHA figures to show that: (1) Little sales housing in this bracket is being provided in large cities and high-cost areas. (2) That rental units are for even higher brackets, with more than half renting for more than $80 a month, and (3) Even these units are so small that they do not meet the needs of a large number of middle-income families with children. Mr. Foley charged that opponents “misused national averages” to make it appear that housing now being produced is serving all parts of the country and all middle-income families. What does the Real Estate Lobby think about Americans who cannot afford to rush out and buy a house at today’s prices? Here’s what Herb Nelson, highly-paid spokesman for the lobby, wrote recently; “. . . we can have good moral qualities * in people who do not own their homes, We can have spirituality in people who do not go to church.” Does the Real Estate Lobby feel that it is all right for non-home-owners to go to church ? Citing FHA data, Foley said, “Some mid-dle-income families in most areas have been priced out of the market and many such families have run into difficulties in highcost areas.” The cooperative proposal follows up President Truman’s recommendation in his State of the Union message for enactment of a “vigorous program” for cooperative housing for middle-income groups. The proposal would authorize the Housing and Home Finance Agency to provide technical assistance and advance loans to qualified groups wanting to set up and plan cooperative housing projects. It would set up in the HHFA a National Mortgage Corporation for Housing Cooperatives, which would obtain most of its funds *on the private market through government-backed debentures to make loans to such groups up to 50 years at interest currently estimated at 3%. Initial government capital of $100,000,000 in the Corporation would eventually be replaced by shares purchased by cooperative borrowers. The proposal eliminates the need for either direct loans or subsidy from the government, by using the system of government-backed debentures which already successfully secures FHA insurance on mortgages against loss and by launching the program through a mixed-ownership corporation similar to that used in setting up the Federal Home Loan Bank System, under which most home savings and loan associations operate.

Enters Hogs Don Muterspaugh of Route 1, Eaton has entered some of his top quality Duroc hogs in the Hoogier Spring Barrow and Ton Litter Show, which will be held at Indianapolis on March 21 and 25. Any farmer in Indiana is eligible to enter hogs sired by a purebred boar and raised by himself. Twenty classes are especially provided for entries by farmers who produce hogs solely for market with an additional twenty classes open to pureored breeders. Exhibiting in the show is made relatively easy—no entry fees, no pen rent, and hogs are on exhibit only 10-36 hours. Entries close Breathing Spell Is Given Public

Snug-looking and low, this house was carefully designed to permit economical construction without neglecting any of the requirements for comfortable, enjoyable living. /The dwelling has been selected by American Builder magazine, 30 Church St., New York 7, N. Y., as its Plan No. 36. American Builder says that Walter T. Anicka, the architect, has adopted practical design, sound planning and simple framing as architectural principles and thus “comes up with a house that can be reproduced in permanent materials at an absolute minirtium cost.” The large, divided front window is a feature of Plan No. 36. With the adjoining plywood panels, . a striking central motif is created. Even more interest can be added by the use of dark, contrasting colors near the entrance way. Contrasting materials also are used on the gable ends and the garage door. For the roof, the architect suggest shingles of a color which will harmonize pleasingly with other exterior hues of the house and with the colors of

First Floor Plan

neighboring dwellings. The dwelling has three bedrooms, each of \ ample size. The dining alcove is an extension of thee living room, in the modern, informal manner. The kitchen is situated for convenience to the

dining alcove. (Detailed estimating plans and a complete home planning packet of building infromation are available from American Builder, 30 Church St., New York 7, N. Y. Refer to Plan No. 36.)

Chiropractors Get Right To Resume Practice COLUMBIA CITY, Ind., Feb. 11. —(U.R)— Whitley Circuit Judge Lowell L. Pexley reversed an earlier decision today and told two

chiropractors to “go ahead and practice.” Pefley granted a temporary restraining order last Monday, barrig Joseph W. Hayes and F. E. Michels from the practice of medicine. It was granted at the request of the State Board of Medical Registration and Examination. Today, the chiropractors’ attor-

ney, John W. Whiteleather, filed an answer to the state request for the temporary injunction, charging it did not show any emergency. Pefley agreed and said: “Tell the chiropractors to go ahead and open their offices.”

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The public will have a sixteen day breathing spell. The C. I. O. Communication Workers, last Tuesday, vited to postpone until February 24, a nationwide telephone strike which had been called for Wednesday morning at 6 o’clock. Cyrus S. Ching, mediation director, had requested postponement to permit more time for the conciliators to try to settle the matters in dispute. Union President Joseph A. Peirne said that the postponement order was transmitted to the union whose 100,000 workers had been scheduled to walk out at that time thus tying up the entire Bell Telephone system. He said “In accordance with Mr. Ching’s request for more time to bring about a peacable solution to the telephone wage dispute, C. W. A.C. I. O. is postponing its strike.”

Art In Review

NEW YORK -The Popes, the princes and the republican city-governments of the Italian Renaissance were not only seeking to extend their power. They also were concerned in the glory of their ideas and institutions. They called upon the artists to embellish their churches, their palaces and their cities. The works of art thus created remained for all times on public view. The happy people of Italy thus have grown up in the midst of beauty for centuries. Our present day rulers are not concerned with emblellishing their countries but in making them more and more powerful. They do not patronize the artist, but the scientist who furnishes them the most destructive weapons.. We have now reached the threshold of an era in which, according to the London Times, “It will be possible for any power with modern industrial resources to destroy the world as we know it.” In a world in which tlje works of art are banned from public places and stored in museums like canned goods in the grocery store, it is touching to see that some 3,000,000 pilgrims of beauty find their way yearly into the New York museums and art galleries. What makes these people seek these secluded and often ridiculed expressions of the human spirit? What makes them cherish the misunderstood, the unsuccessful and the unprofitable? What makes them brave the handicaps of prejudice? It is strange to see in the midst of a fast growing desperaation this glimmer of hope.

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Architectural Ideas Reduce Cost Of Building In Many New Homes

Building materials and architectural ideas in use today provide less costly and more comfortable homes. Among these are open room planning to create oversized many-purpose rooms, such as combined living-dining-room; basementless house resting on concrete slab foundation; picture windows which bring light,

air and view inside.

The basementless construction alone saves up to 9.5% of the cost of a small home. In a one-story house with 952 square feet of living space studied by the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, omitting the basement saved $722, or 9.5% of the erstimated cost of a similar house with basement. The basementless house cost $6,878, as against $7,600, including contractor’s overhead and

profit.

How Costs Are Saved

Basement excavation, foundation walls, windows and basement stairs; wood joisted floor framing, sub-floor and finished wood flooring, were eliminated in the basementless house, with saving of $2,102. A concrete floor slab, and a utility room for heat-

other facilities, were substituted

at a cost of $1380.

Of the $722 net savings, $100 was saved by using asphalt tile. instead of wood flooring. The 1 ins.

Closets are provided in hall, bath, bedrooms and utilty room. Dimensions are 42’ x 30’ The floor area is 1162 square feet with 14,525 cubic feet, equipment is housed in a small closet or utility room; or the oil or gas furnace may be suspended from the kitchen wall. Asphalt tile flooring is ideal over the concrete slab, according to David E. Kennedy, nationally known flooring authority, because it is one of the very few smooth-surfaced, resilient flooring materials that can be used without damage on concrete which directly contacts the ground. Modern Effects In All Cost Brackets This flooring, appropriate in the lowcost basementless house, fits eually well into homes in higher price brackets, Mr. Kennedy pointed out. Its attractive color range enables builder, decorator or owner to design individual custom floors, harmonizing with any decor. This material is used in all rooms, both for its design and color value and for the ease with which it is cleaned and main-

tained

Many other practical modern features are incorporated in Idw cost basementless homes, especially straightforward, open design of rooms; broad picture windows; clever space-saving built-

tile was cemented to the concrete in colors which varied from room

to room.

Thousands of basementless houses have been built since the war, to take advantage of the saving in construction cost. In a basementless house, heating The living room and kitchen face the front of the house and two bedrooms and bath are in the rear opening into a small hall. Adjoining the bathroom and kitchen is the utility room with an alcove for the hot water heater and furnace. The first floor is an insulated concrete slab laid on a gravel or cinder fill, to be covered with composition flooring or

carpeting.

Plans call for frame construction, insulated walls and ceiling, wide siding and asphalt shingles. The living room has a double glazed picture window and directly opposite is a wood burning fireplace. Kitchen-dinette is sep-

The basementless house also affords architects an opportunity to save space by eliminating radiators. Many of these houses are heated by hot water coils embedded in the concrete slab; forced warm air being used in many others. Space need not be sacrificed for either system. Even with farm air, the practice of using space-wasting floor registers is being abandoned and heat outlets placed in the wall a few inches above the narrow base-

boards.

When warm air i s used, metal heat pipes are laid on the ground arpund the edge of the foundation before the slab is poured. The concrete surrounds the underfloor pipes and should the pipes ever erode air passageways will

remain in the slab.

Because the furnace in a basementless house is located above th floor level, a blower must be used with warm air heat, or a circulating pump with hot water floor coils. With either heat, the

ing plant, laundry equipment and arated by a cupboard with open s i a b floor is comfortably warm

More Homes Now Built In Country Twice as much housing is now being built outside city limits as in the mid-20’s, the Housing and Home Finance Agency reports. In 1948-49, rural nonfarm housing accounted for about 44 percent of the new residential starts as compared with less than 20 percent in 1925. This increased construction in areas on the fringes of cities, beyond the city limits, is attributed principally to (1) scarcity of acceptable in-town sites for large developments, (2) the fact that outlying sites are cheaper and easier developed, and (3) the fact that motor vehicles have increased the distance that can be traveled to and from work.

and the asphalt tile flooring i unaffected by the heat, said Mi Kennedy. Utility Room Necessary A development resulting fron basementless construction is th •utility room. For maximum liv ability in the house with no base ment, space .must be included fo storage, laundry and heatin eqiupment, and meters. The min imum adequate space is from 12 to 140 square feet. Arrangemen of equipment and storage spac is designed to utilize every ind of available space. When the utility room is con nected with the kitchen, an effec of spaciousness can be achievei by separating the two with a lov Storage* wall or counter. Thi also makes it easier to carry oi overlapping activities from on room to the other. Using the utility room as a rea entrance for the house eliminate the outside kitchen door. Thi means that soil and moisture ar not tracked into the kitchen. A properly built basementles house, including a properly en gineered heating system, fulfill the needs of good low-cost dwell Ing construction, in the opinion o the FHA. To prevent exces sive heat loss, the concrete sla must be properly insulated aroum the edges. When all constructio; requirements are met, the base meatless house is livable and de sirable, and cost savings con siderable.

SCRIPTURE Acts 15:1-35; Galatlns X DEVOTIONAL. READING: John 8:31*

Fight for Freedom Lesson for February 19, 1950.

•THERE ARE TWO KINDS of * problems with living things. One is the kind of problem caused by its growing too fast; the other is the problem caused by not growing fast enough. The early church had mostly the first kind of problem. At any rate it was taking in a lot of members whom the older Christians f o u n £ strange. At first all Christians had been Jews; no one thought of anything else. But in Antioch, as we have seen, and even more as the church spread westward around the edge of the Mediterranean,* the Christian churches were filling up with non-Jewish members, just as they are today. It is no secret that in the Masonic order there are 33 degrees. It is not possible for a new member to be taken right into the 33rd degree the first night. Everybody has to go through the lower degrees which are called the Blue Lodge. Now many persons in that early church thought of the Jewish faith as a sort of Christian Blue Lodge.

All the very earliest Christians had been members of that lodge; why shouldn’t every one else be the same? So when Paul and Barnabas came back from that historic missionary tour of Cyprus and points north, telling about the largo number of new Christians, these old-style Christians shook j their heads. Paul was by-passing the Blue Lodge; he was taking in members who had not gone through the proper preliminaries, the first degrees. * » •

What Makes a Man /' . A Christian? J pAUL KNEW a real Christian when he saw one. So did Barnabas. And the two of them knew, right down in their souls, that they had seen real conve* sions, genuine cases of person! coming out of pagan darkness int« Christian light, without being Jew* at all, even for five seconds. The vital question was simplj this: What makes a Christian? Th< old-style Christians, who had been Jews themselves and still were, for all their Christian faith, said: Unless you are circumcized and keep all the laws of Moses, you cannot be saved—you cannot evefl begin to be a Christian. Paul and Barnabas—not alone, but as spokesman for many others in the church —said: You are saved by faith. The Jerusalem Christians said: Yes, you are saved by faith, AND by keeping the law of Moses. Paul said: you are saved by faith, period. • * • How They Settled It ’ •THE WAY that problem was settled is a model for all Christian churches with problems on their hands. First of all, the argument was brought out into the open; it was not a whispering campaign. Second, it was settled after giving both sides plenty of opportunity for full discussion in public. Third, it was settled not informally but by a church council, a group of representative leaders, not by a simple majority vote of all church members indiscriminately. Fourth, it was settled (as the reader of Acts 15 may see) by appeals to fact and to Scripture. Finally, once the leaders had made up their minds, the church at large accepted their decision promptly, without further bickering. This has been the pattern for the Christian church ever since, though alas! it has not always been followed. There would have been fewer church splits if the example of the early church had been more seriously taken. , * * • Faith and Obedience pSSENTIALLY, that first great “ church council decided on the side of Paul and Barnabas. But they did not throw the Old Testament overboard. The moral law was as good as it ever was. But the council showed, once and for all, the true relations between Christian faith and obedience to the law of God. There is just one doorway to the Father’s house, the door- ! way of faith. We do not have to keep the law of Moses, or any set of laws, first. We are ' saved BY obedience. We are not saved FROM obedisnee. But we are saved FOR obedience. A Christian’s obedience to God is not a way of earning God’s good-will. It is a grateful response to God’s grace. And that makes all the diffeernce in the world.

Restricted Production A small area on the North American continent, which includes northern and eastern United States and neighboring southeastern Canada, is the only region in the world which produces maple sugar.