Ligonier Banner., Volume 73, Number 30, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 July 1939 — Page 2

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MIS-INFORMATION ON NEW DEAL SOURS ERSTWHILE SUPPORTERS OF RADIO “BUSINESS” TALKS

Since last Winter seven Northeastern business groups, including the imposing Merchants Association of New York, have been sponsoring radio talks as part of a national campalgn entitled “What Helps Business Helps You.” Throughout the country local newspapers have given the movement enthusiastic support, except that recently there has been a disposition to criticise certain phases of the program, even among the more important metro politan newspapers. These have hinted broadly that “intertwined” with appeals for patronage of local merchants are caustic criticisms of the course of the Roosevelt Administration and especially complaint of taxes of the “indireet,” “invisible” and unexpiained variety. .

Several leading! trade papers have regretted what appeared to them to be an unnecessary infusion of partisanship in what otherwise they have hailed as a praiseworthy effort “aimed at restoring business to a higher level in public opinion.” This objective has been generally used in editorial comment and is credited to the prospectus sent out by the various participating business groups. In his comment! in the regular feature of the Sunday New York Times, July 9, “The Merchants’ Point of View,” C. E. Hughes, renowned business commentator and authority on business trends, writes:

“Some of these radio addresses have driven home their points nicely while others have recited those questionable conclusions ‘that the New Deal has “provided barriers” which are bandied about so freely but WON'T STAND UP. An instance in point was the offering of the research director—of all people—of the sponsoring organization: “If you have a job, you know' that the money you earn will not go so far as it once did and that what you buy costs more,’ this research man declared, ignoring the well known fact that living costs are much lower. The cost of living index is around 85 as against 100.1 in 1929 and 100 in 1923.”

Hughes explained that he used the year 1923 “because this speaker proceeded to work out some tax comparisons between that year and the present year,winding up with this gem: ‘With our income over and above our daily living being diverted in the form of taxes to provide cash for government spending, there ig little, if any, current savings available for the expansion ot business.’ ”’ ;

Owing to the emphasis which was placed on this astonishing assertion, Mr. Hughes confesses to being “burnt up.” For “In the papers almost day to day,” he reminds, “there is complaint of our vast fund of idle money—by the people who own it and also by those who are its custodians—and no one to use it. Total savings in 1923 were $19,727,000,000 and in 1938 savings were $24,626000,000 It is very much to be questioned whether this type of argument gets any placewith the average citizen, who simply cannot be quite so dumb as to accept it. ‘What Hurts Business’ would have been a better title.” :

“The amazing vote on the Townsend bill in the House should bring the blush of shame to the check of every Republican ‘economy’ orator in the country. Who now is ‘playing politics with human misery’ and ‘prostituting the Treasury’ Tor election support? The Republican party record on the Townsend bill utterly destroys the G. O. P. pretensions as the party of economic sobriety and conservatism. The New Deal record shines by contrast—a party which is not afraid to spend sensibly for business stimulation, to accept the responsibility for that spending and yet, 8 party which does not stoop to quack political remedies. The G. O. P. has not only stumbled—it has fallen on its face!”— Philadelphia Record (Ind.)

CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS WITHIN REPUBLICAN PARTY POSE PROBLEM FOR TOM DEWEY

Editorial discussion of Dist. Atty. Thomas E. Dewey’s qualifications for the Presidency has gone beyond the candidate’s widely recognized inexperience. The staid old Springfield, Mass., Republican is not only deeply concerned as to the source from which he will obtain his inspiration as a candidate, but even suggests that he should announce his proposed cabinet selections before the race starts.

“A ready answer was recently given,” remarks the Republican, “when the question was raised of Mr. Dewey’s complete inexperience in national and international affairs., The answer was that ‘within the next year’ Mr. Dewey would make “five or six speeches’ and that these would effectively promote his candidacy, since there was good assurance that he ‘would ‘take advice.’ - - : : “Mr. Dewey, even if he kept strictly within the confines of the Republican party, could avail himself not only of the contradictory opinions of ex-President Hoover and Mr. Hoover’s exSecretary of State, Col. Stimson, but could get ‘advice” of almost every color. Whose ‘advice’ will he take if he makes the ‘five or Six speeches?” And whom would he propose to put in his cabinel: to carry it out?” 3 5

The Republicans in Congress are still claiming credit for everything except the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover administrations. tea 5 X

NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE DECRIES SENATORS' Obviously on a sad note, the ultra-conservative New York Herald Tribune said editorially : “As a Republican newspaper, we regret that in the House so many Republicans seemed to vote on the neutrality problem primarily with a view to embarrassing the President. The crisis is far too serious for such petty spitefulness.” gty 2 No.newspaper is more constant in its criticism of President - Roosevelt than the. Herald Tribune, none gives more eonda%m; support to the effort to construct an ostp:fitlmmfih ~of supplanting the present nationél party control. Ye i the granddaddy of reactionary journaligm in the land caustically de-

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clares that this “petty spitefulness” is carrying partisanship far too far. : ;

~ Commending the Herald Tribune for contending that “no political party commends itself to a sane and patriotic People by displays of childish spite in a field where the Nation’s very safety is at stake,” The Dayton News adds: '

“The Administration favors the act. Ergo, the opposition must oppose it. Politics, when it infests foreign affairs, is a very dangerous thing. The bitter partisan, thrusting at the measures of a political opponent who may be defending his country’s safety and life, needs beware lest he wounds his country, too.” = :

Says the Republican Washington Post: “Few Americang who set national welfare above imaginary partisan advantage are deriving any satisfaction from the (neutrality) situation. . . The status quo thus prolonged is viewed with ‘misgiving by all who appreciate the precariousness of peace.”

“A writer observes that the various candidates bid for the Republican presidental nomination as if it were a construction job. The lowest bid to date is that of Vandenberg. He offers to do the trick in four years. Vandenberg is a U. S. Senator ; 8O was Harding. Vandenberg publishes a small midwestern newspaper; so did Harding. Vandenberg is counted the best dressed man in the Senate: so was Harding, through the former fails to possess the suave good humor and vote-catching personality of the latter. So, we’re asked to go Harding all over again, yea, ever ‘Back to Normalcy’ ’—Atlantic City Press (Ind.)

crTHE-" o ROOSTERS AN gt i 7 st By WALTER A. SHEAD Republican membership in the recent General Assembly passed up a golden opportunity to build up an offensive for 1940 by their failure to present a united front on the repeal of the tire truck tax law. % & * It will be remembered that Governor M. Clifford Townsend recommended repeal of the law and the state administration had made no effort to collect taxes under the provisions of the law in 1938. ; * * *® Had the Republicans in House and Senate been united there is no question that the law would have been repealed. Since the session adjourned, however, the Republican leadership in Indiana has sought to place the responsibility for the truck tire tax law on the shoulders of the administration of Governor Townsend. * * * As a matter of fact and record the Townsend administration had nothing to do with the law except to work for its repeal. The present tire truck tax law was the outcome of a report and recommendation of the Highway Survey Commission appointed by authority of a joint resolution of the Seventy-Ninth General Assembly. : The survey commission was evenly divided politically. There were ®welve members, six Democrats and six Republicans. ‘ _ + = Republican members of the commission included State Senator Will Brown, of Hebron, now deceased; Representatives William C. Babecock, Jr., of Rensselaer, and John H. Schermerhorn, of Wawaka. Other Republican members included Hon. Hinkle C. Hays, of Sullivan, Todd Stoops, of Indianapolis, director of the Hoosier Motor Club, and John W. Wheeler, Crown Point, then member of the State Highway Commission. *® % * In its published report to the General Assembly the survey commission said: “The commission recommends that motor vehicles such as trucks, tractors, trailers and semi-trailers, and buses be required to pay a weight tax based upon the tire equipment, and further recommends that themy should be no exemptions from the payment thereof to the motor vehicle highway fund.”

At another place in the published report the commission sets out fifteen recommendations among " which are: “that there shall be no diversion of any of the gasoline tax, fuel oil tax, weight tax and license fees from highway purposes,” and “That the weight tax shall be paid on the basis of tire equipment.”’ ’ » & The survey commission, of which Earl Crawford, of Milton, was named chairman, held a series of seventeen public meetings throughout the state and in Mmaking up its report followed generally, the standards set up by the United States Bureau of Publie Roads, supplementing them with further additional material. _ & *® * * The survey, with reference to “trucks, showed that at ninety stations where trucks were ‘weighed up“on portable scales; 62.4% were engaged in intra-state business; Trucks from out-state and unloaded in Indiana, 12.2%; Trucks loaded in Indiana destined for another state, 11.4%; and strictly inter-state traffic passing through Indiana, 14% of ‘all"truck traffic. ", _ This writer believes it needs no defense. If it dogs Shen Repuliicans. are equally respo gf«'fr» le for Its passage, G ¥ xs( T { “Priendship is a sheltering tree.” —~Samuel T. Coleridge.

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Republican Congressmen, whao during the 193 campaign promised WPA workers they would increase their wages if elected, Jubilantly cut WPA and lengthened the WPA work-week. They are now seeing the reaction to what they did rolling in from every part of the country. Here in Indiana approximately 25,000 workers must be lopped off WPA by Sept. 1. Previous to the new law, each WPA worker’s wages and hours were determined by two factors—the security wage and the prevailing wage. The security wage refers to what he finds in his pay envelope each week, and is suppcsed to represent enough for a worker in his classificationto live on in his community. The prevailing hourly wage of WPA workers 18 determined by the prevailing hourly wage for similar work in private industry. In those crafts where prevailing hourly rates are high, the WPA workers put in only enough hours per week to give him his securfty wage. For example, if the security wage was fixed at $2O a week, a WPA worker in a craft with pbrevailing wages of $1 an hour would work only 20 hours. This arrangement was a practical compromise between those who objected to giving even skilled workers any more money than they needed, and those who insisted that it would disrupt privatee hourly wage scales it they worked for less.

Congress, with the Republicains leading the senseless attack on WPA, eliminated this prevailing hour arrangement. As workers are fired, the remaining WPA employees, are forced to put in a greatly lengthened work-week at no increase in weekly pay. Most of the WPA workers do not object to the longer hours as such. What they object to—and rightly—is the decreased rate of hourly pay which undermines the wages of their fellows still in private industry, and which indirectly hurts their own chances of private employment by forcing down. mass purchasing power. If WPA projects are useless, as the Tories claim they are, then what, difference does it make to them whether a man works 80 hours week or eight? They say. they want only to save money. This pa~t of their ‘“economy” move saves. no money. The Republicans caused all this disruption and it is they who must reap the whirlwind, It is our prediction thdt some smug gentlemen in Washington—some gentlemen from Indiana, if you please—are going to have an ‘“ex” in front of their names after the 1940 elec-. tion. These WPA workers aren’t as dumb as some Republicans think.

What would happen to U. 8. business if all or part of our exports were suddenly cut off? Figures reieased by the: Department of Commerce reveal how impossible it would be for this country to prosper if we tried, as isolationists prea¢h, to divorce ourseleves entirely from foreign countries. Probably no one knows just what would happen, but the department’s figures may help us figure out. an answer of our own. In 1938 our total exports. to the world were $3,057,000,000. That’s our stake in the world’s trade. In 1938 it represented an estimated 9 Deér cent of the total movable goods produced in the United States. It was close to 10 per cent in 1909, 16 per cent in 1919 and less than 7 per cent in 1933, the recent low point. Some 2,400,000 persons in the U. 8. are directly concerned with that export percentage, They are the people engaged im production | and distribution of U. 8. exports. This foreign business which af-| fects so many persons means mueh:| to this nation. Roosevelt is trying -to preserve it. . o

© Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, who wants to be the Republican nominee for President in 1940, tried to advance himself last May by a bitter attack upon the Roosevelt administration. He charged that Roosevelt’s policiess had ‘stifled initiative’’, - “penalized thrift”, “throttled investment” and “killea confidence.”” While he was saying these things, here is what was taking place; Steel production was up 62 per cent over the May before; men’s .clothing sales were up 23 per cent; retail furniture sales were 26 per cent; electrical appliances were up 55 per cent; new telephone installations, up more than 100 per cent; machine tool orders, up 41.3 per cent over April; J. C. Penny Company sales up 17.92 per cent; lumber production, up 27 per cent; life insurance, up 9 per cent; factory sales of automobiles, up 49 per cent: Sears, Roebuck & Co. sales up 28 per cent; pipano shippments up 100 per cent over May, 1938, and new construction and engineering work started, highest for any May since 1930.+« This is evidence that business is increasing in gratifying manner under the Roosevelt administration, despite what Senator Vandenberg says about it.

Wrongdoings of Democratic officials at New Albany and XKokomo have been broadcast by Republican leaders to discredit the Democratic party. The G. O.P. papers have “played up”’ stories about misuse of public funds and have gone so far as to mention that New Albany is the home town of the junior Senator, trying to besmirch him through innuendo. It is a dangerous practice, for Repubican officials go haywire,too, but in its frenzied effort to get back into power, the Republican party is desperate and i not particularly ethical. The Republicajp attempt to brand Democratic officials as crooks and Republican officeholders as saint-like Has blown up. The State Board of Accounts has made public reports that Ronald N. Horton, former high‘way supervisor, and Oliver A. Stutsman, former auditor, both Republicans, of Jefferson county misused $7,227.43 on county road repairs in 1937 and 1938. The accounts ‘board charges false claims were made out to garages in the county for tires and repairs when the money actually was paid to Horton’s garage in Wirt, owned by Clinton W Horton, a brother of the highway ssupervisor. It was further charged that county employees hauled stone from a county pit to the farm of Dawson Smith, a county commissioner and a Republican. The lesson the Republicans should, learn from this is that persons who live in glass houses should not throw stones. =

CCC Boys Publish Paper At Kendallville

The 139 CCC voys In camp at Limberlost near Kendallville have issued their first news sheet, The Limpberlost Ledger, named in honor of the Indiana writer, Gene Stratton Porter. The group is engaged In soil conservation work in Noble, La‘Grange, Steuben and DeKalb counties. .

[REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS|

Zella M. Stage to Stanley R. Stage pt. sec. 16 Perry township. Gerry DeHoff, auditor to George P. Street lot 12 Smith’s add. Ligonier. Y

Herman Harris and wife to Frank P. Bothwell pt. out lot 141 Ligonier. Frank P. Bothwell to Herman Harris and wife pt. out lot 141 Ligonier.

Charles D. Wolf and wife to Fon--80 C. Wolf and Alta M. Smith N lot 7 H. C. Fisher add. Ligonier, Fonso C. Wolf et al to Charles D. Wolf lot 7 blk 3 Miller’s add. Ligonier. ; %

- Helen C. Teal to George M. Teal lot 3 blk 4 Miller add. Ligonier.

J. L. and Fannie Yant to Solomon A. Fulford and wife lots 27-32 O. P. Wawaka.

_“Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, sweet’ner of life, and solder of society.”—Robert Blair.

_ ln : - \ Yo - . ® , e ;'\‘/)\ Gl s L YO Of course you can’t pick up much money te, . '@ W, in the streets...or off trees. You’ve got e r O ‘ to work for money so you want to get a N b&“ s 4 pennies worth out ot every cent! ; S Afifig}s 8. If you’ve got something to sellor swap or - NG e, .you want to buy something or hire a ;;’;f;fl{m; = man try a WANT AD. T <yee | ® |

What You Folks Talked About

Mr. and Mrs. Phil Schloss are the proud parents of a son born Friday evening. Mother and youngster are doing well. The hot wave which prevailed here for three days was broken up Sunday afternoon. . Miss Margaret Kelley, Robert Stone, Mrs. Alvin Shock ad Miss Mabel Shock took in the excursion trip to Niagarar Falls. -They Lyon & Greenleaf Milling Company in the past year has made a number of enlargements and Improvements at their plant here,

Mrs. Elmo Shock was taken to the Goshen hospital where she underwent an operation for gall bladder rupture. ' Thieves stole three tires. ana rims from a Ford car belonging to Fletcher Sackett on the North Siae.

‘Earl Pollard suffered; painful burns as a result of a fire at tne Pollard pop corn stand. Mrs. Earl Creps submitted to a goitre operation at the Elkhart hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Simmons are home from a vacation trip in the East.

Edd Banta. spent Sunday in Benton Huarbor, Mich., with Mrs. Banta. A daughter was born to Mr. ana Mrs. Frank Mabley, east ‘of the city. Mrs. Frank Wood who had been ill'is much improved. :

oil Strike Reported On Huntington Farm

‘The Claud Drilling Co., of Oklahoma which has leased 1,200 acres in the Huntington, Ind., district reports finding of oil on the Ed Young farm in Jefferson township. It was in this same locality that oil was found 40 years ago. It is thought that with Dbetter facilities for drilling the present ‘wells being opened have great possibilities of becoming productive. Another campany has begun operations on the William Cramer farm about twd miles distant.

Regulations Tightened on Erring Car Drivers

Under a new Indiana Law which became effective last month the plight of the individual whose license has been revoked for one offense or another becomes more ana more serious. On top of all . his other difficulties the offender must give proof of financial responsibility up to $lO,OOO for any damage property or death, for which he has bee found guilty. All such convictions go on permanent record at the State department office. For first offense responsibility is to be posted for one year. For repeated convictions three year bonds are necessary to obtain driver’s license.

More Than 11,000 Licenses Revoked

Rather startling is the report of Frank Finney, State Motor Vehicle License commissioner in which he states that 11,567 licenses have been 'revoked since Jan. 1, 1939. . The most common offenses were reckless driving, such as improper turns, failure to stop at preferential streets and highways, faiure to give proper signal, driving in wrong lanes and passing cars on hills and curves.

Greencastle Child Is Spotted Fever Victim

Mary Woodall, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woodall, of Greencastle died last week in the Riley hospital for children at Indianapolis of Rocky Mountayn spotted fever. Dr. Verne K. Harvey, state health commissioner reported this was the first death from this disease in the state this year, :

Alva Price was a guests of Kendallville friends over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed D. Smith motored to South Bend Sunday to earle on friends. g

Twenty-five Ligonier fans witnessed the: Goshen team trim LaPorte Sunday 5 to 2 at Goshen.

Mrs. Conrad White is home atter a week’s visit with relatives in South Bend, Mishawaka :anc Elkhart.

George W. Brown was a FKort Wayne visitor Friday. , Graham L. Lyon was a business vigsitor to South Bend yesterday. Fred Myers and family mhave gone to Michigan for a week's visit with relatives.

M. A. Cotherman, daughter Florence and son Donald spent Sunday in Goshen visiting relatives. Fiorence will remain a week visiting her grandmother Mrs. H. F. Cotherman.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard Fisel were in Waterloo Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smalley. Mr. Fisel witnessed a good ball game and there was a fine display made by an airplane and a trick driver. Mr. and Mrs. Fisel vote Waterloo a live Sun--day town.

Dr. Walter Baker c¢ame from South Bend Sunday and visited his sister Mrs. G. M. Zimmerman. The next free open air band concert will take place in front of the Dunning block Wednesday evéning.

LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Form No. 110 Notice is hereby given that the’ Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Noble County Indiana, will at 9:00 a. m. Central Standard Twme on the 11th day of August 1939 at ‘the Clerk’'s Office, Court House in ithe town of Albion, in said County, begin investigation of the applications of the following namee persons, Tequesting the issue to the applicants at the locations hereinafter set out, of the Alcoholic Beverage Permits of the classes hereinafter designated and will, at said time and place, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicants, and the propriety of issuing the Permits applied for to such apiplicants at the premises named. James M. Oxley, 50614, (Home Cafe), Jefferson Skt Cromwell—B ¢ e ¥ Wine Retailer. Glenn T. Graham, 50744, (Restaurant), Brimfield } —Beer Retailer. SAID INVESTIGATION WILL BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IS REQUESTED. ; ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE | COMMISSION =OF INDTANA. By: JOHN F. NOONAN Secretary. HUGH A. BARNHART Excise Administrator. oy 30 NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed and has qualified as administratrix of the estate of Frank Nicholas, deceased, and that said estate is now pending administration and settlenfent in the Noble Circuit Court of Indiana. The heirs of said decedent, creditors of his estate and all others interested therein will ke governed accordingly. Said estate is probably insolvent. i ; : Hattie Billman, Administraitrix Bothwell & Vanderford Attorneys. T 28-9-80

NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT State of Indiana County of Noble SS: Notice is hereby given; that the undersigned has been appointed administrator of the estate of Yangulph Werker, deceased, late of Neoble County, Indiana Said estate is supposed to be solvent. - Charles A. Werker, Admr. = Albion, Indiana. R R No. 4. W. H. Wigton, Atty. Ligonier, Indiana. 28-9-30