The Hancock Democrat from Greenfield, Indiana • Page 7

7 THE HANCOCK DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 2, 1939 BUTLER RELAYS MARKWELL "RX46A" PLIER STAPLER Westland, Willow Branch, Wilkinson, Maxwell, New Palestine, Fortville and Charlottesville. The telephone companies declare if such a wage law became effective they would have to close or raise telephone rates from $1 to $3. WELFARE AND ANNUITIES FOR AGED NOT SAME ETERNAL LOVE I love to see the glinting stars And love their silent song; I love the glory of the night Its tale is never wrong. It tells of an undying peace Where worries fade away; It tells of rest and wondrous sleep Before the coming day. It tells the story of God, His blessings to each man; It tells the story of His love And of His wondrous plan.

It tells how He has well ordained His kindness for mankind; For night doth part us from our fears And terrors of the mind. I love the quiet peaceful night. The glinting stars above; Together hear them tell the tale Of His eternal love. Franklin Lee Stevenson. LYNAM FUNERAL HOME Phone 92 We are pleased with our efforts to please those who call us.

Our funeral service is dignified and excellent. MRS. ARVIN GIVES NEW EVIDENCE IN HER CASE Entry blanks for the seventh annual Butler Indoor Relays to be held March IS at the fieldhouse will be mailed to 129 college and university track teams in all parts of. the country this week Raymond Sears, carnival director, announced today. Many favorable replies have already been received from invitations which were sent out several weeks ago Sears said.

These replies have come from track teams that have participated in the Relays during their six years of running. Outstanding schools on the list of those to receive entry blanks this week are. in the university class. Michigan, five time winner of the carnival; Indiana, winner in 1933. the first year; Michigan State, Notre Dame, Illinois, Purdue, Ohio State, Wisconsin, and Pittsburgh.

Indications that Drake, Kansas State University, Missouri, and several other western schools might enter have been made by their respective coaches. Entry blanks will be sent to these schools. Outstanding schools in the college class to receive entry blanks will be Ohio University, Toledo. Michigan Normal. Western State Teachers College.

Kansas State Teachers of Pittsburgh, Butler. Miami University, and Loyola of Chicago. Preparations for the carnival are being rushed by the athletic department at Butler as the basketball season draws to a close. Trophies and awards for the fifteen event program have been purchased by the Relay committee and an advance tickets sales campaign has been started by fraternities and sororities on the Fair-view campus. Ticket prices for this year's Relays as set by the Relay committee are general admission advance sale price, $1.10 reserved seats, and $2.20 per box seat.

The advance sale of general admission tickets will be discontinued after Wednesday, March 15. DEMOCRAT SENATORS AGREE UPON GRADUATED GROSS TAX Hoosier Sentinel. Democratic members of he Indiana senate have agreed on a measure which would safeguard the gross income tax revenue for the state, and would, at the same time, extend the same relief to service dealers, such as barber shops, dry cleaners, beauty parlors and the like. From the very first, the administration of Gov. M.

Clifford Townsend has promised th5t any inequalities in the gross income tax law would be corrected, either through increased exemptions or some other method. In making good that pledge, the Governor has finally evolved a plan, with the co-operation of Senator Jake Weiss of Indianapolis, which he believes will relieve 75 per cent of the retail dealers and at the same time, fix gross income tax revenue at its present revenue. This plait is a graduated scale ranging rates from one-quarter of one per cent on incomes up to one-half per ent on incomes from to three-fourths per cent from $25,000 to one per cent from $50,000 to one and one-fourth per cent from 100.0000 to a million dollars, and one and one-half ivr cent on incomes of more than a million dollars. Records of the gross income tax show that the largest group of retail dealers throughout the state have a gross income of 15.000 or less. To meet constitutional rulings which have been made by the United States Supreme court, the graduated scale would work as follows: For instance, if a retail dealer had an income of $100,000.

say. he would pay one-fourth of one per cent on he would pay one-half per cent on the next three fourths of one per cent on the next and one per cent on the next $50,000. However, on all dealers whose incomes are $15,000 or less, the tax rate would be one-fourth of one per cent compared to the present rate of one per cent with a $3,000 exemption. It is the plan to substitute these provisions for House Bill 47, which passed the Republican House, carrying a reduction in all gross income tax rates on retail sales of one-half per cent. This bill would not give the relief to the small retailers and would at the same time take approximately six and a half million dollars from state revenues during the next biennum.

necessitating either new sources of revenue or curtailment of the state's payment to teachers or to public welfare. BIG LOBBY AGAINST BILL AFFECTING RURAL PHONES Marion County Mail. Among the biggest groups which oppose the newly proposed state wage-hour bill are the various associations of rural mutual telephone companies. Directors and members of local rural phone companies are joining the lobby at the General Assembly, which is very active in opposing the passage of the law in its present form. The state wage-hour bill carries substantially the same provisions as the federal wage hour law now in effect, except that it will affect intrastate businesses, while the federal statute can only enforce its provisions against firms engaged in interstate commerce.

Under these conditions the strictly local telephone companies were exempt from the provisions of the federal law, but would come under the provisions of the proposed state law, which would set maximum hours of labor at 44 per week and minimum wages at 25 cents per hour. It is almost universal practice among rural phone companies to place their exchange in a residence and, technically, members of the family ire on duty, or at the call of the switchboard buzzer, twenty-four hours per day. To force compliance with the provisions of wage-hour legislation would raise the cost of operation, and thus, the phone rental figure, to the point it would put many of these companies out of business, it was said. Among the companies near Indianapolis that would be affected are hose east: Ripley township cooperative, which serves Morristown and Carthage; Eden. Fountaintown, Mc-CordsTille, Mohawk, Mt.

Comfort, Confusion over the two types of payments made to the aged under the Social Security Act moved Moses C. Wood, Hancock County Welfare Director, to issue a statement today explaining the difference between old age assistance and old age benefits. Old age assistance, paid by the county welfare department with the financial help of the state and federal governments provides cash allowances to Indiana citizens over the age of 65 who are in need, and makes it possible for those who cannot support themselves to go on living in their own homes, the director explained. "In all cases, the amount of old age assistance is based upon the actual needs of the aged person, with the maximum limit set at $30.00 by both state and federal laws," the director said. Old age benefits, or old age insurance, provides cash benefits for wage earners after they reach the age of 65 regardless of their needs.

These benefits will be paid directly by the federal government each month from a fund which is now accumulating as result of a monthly premium paid by the wage earner and his employer. Old age benefits payments will not begin until 1942. "Old age assistance under the welfare program is a plan worked out by the county, state and nation to take care of the immediate needs of thousands of old persons who have worked all their lives without being able to save enough of a reserve to carry them over the last unproductive years of their lives," according to the director. "The old age insurance program helps the wage earner to save a small portion of his earnings during his productive years and adds an equal amount from his employer, so that when lie is no longer able to work he will have accumulated a reserve to support him in his remaining years. When the old age insurance program becomes fully operative, we shall probably see a steady decline in the number of aged on public assistance rolls," said the director.

WHY THE STATE LICENSES CHILD INSTITUTIONS The need for safeguarding conditions under which orphaned children live was given today by Moses C. Wood. Hancock County welfare director, as the reason for licensing and supervising foster homes and children's institutions. "Not long ago the Children's Division of the state welfare department learned of a boarding home with a very questionable record. A woman had been operating a private residence as a boarding home for children for several years prior to the passage of the Welfare Act, and the home had never been inspected or licensed by the welfare dpartmeut." the director said.

"When neighbors complained to the police of the treatment given the children there, a child welfare worker visited the home. It was found that there were seven children in the home. which had facilities to care for no more than two. The children were I frequently locked in their rooms for hours at a time while the manageress was away. I "Although the parents, relatives or friends of the children were paying I their board there, they all had to do work.

They received scanty meals of the wrong kind of food. The woman who ran the home was pleasant and intelligent, but she had no interest at all in children and no knowledge of their proper care and training. "She had been operating the home merely as an easy way of making a living. When she learned that the Children's Division would not license her home to care for more than two children, she immediately decided to close it. for she could make no money with only two boarders.

Other homes were found with relatives or good foster families for the children, where they will have the opportunity to grow up with the care and the affection which is the right of every child." INDIANA LEADERSHIP Speaking before officials of a great industry, Gov. M. Clifford Townsend said that the many new which are now coming, and will continue to come to Indiana, made their decisions because of the sound tax policy and its fair labor policies. This industry was among those who have invested many millions of dollars in new machinery and is now employing several thousand workers. They knew that he related the truth, as far as they were concerned.

Two years ago Governor Townsend won his election by defending the gross income tax. It had been assailed by the Republican orators and the Republican platform. Its repeal was promised. It is significant that while some groups are asking for a revision, there is no group and no politician who would dare to suggest that the policy be changed or the law repealed. Less dramatic, but of even equal importance in Indiana is the work done by the labor department, which has settled strikes before they start and preserved peace and good will against the temptations to resort to violence and enmity, strikes effect the entire communities in which they occur, so continuous labor is as important as more jobs.

The Governor could make exactly the same speech to any labor group, or farm group, or business group, that he made to these industrialists and obtain exactly the same reaction of approval. In these matters Indiana has led the union in its donation tc the common good. The gross Income tax is being copied in other states which have been as yet unable tr solve their tax problems. His labor program Is now called the Indianr Plan and is being applied nationallv After all, leadership is offering the correct solution to public problems tr a bewildered and divided people. Nv one can deny that In this Indiana hat made a most enviable record.

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H. Evans, Republican floor leader of the House, to task for charpinsr cost of operating the state jrovernment had doubled since 1933. Edward II. Stein. Democratic leader, quoted some enlightening figures on the subject.

Stein said: "My colleague. Mr. Evans, made the statement some weeks ago" that the cost of state government had doubled since the Republicans controlled state government. Apparently. Mr.

Evans was either grossly misled by a careless accountant, or he had no desire to tell the facts. "Comparison of the budget recommendations for the year to end June 30. 1940. with appropriations for the year ended September 30, 1933. shows an increase in the current total of J4.9.V.V.S2 (1933 total.

1940 total. 'Critical analysis of the detailed ficures making pthe totals reveals an increase attributable to the Department of Public Welfare (non-existent in 1933 of $9,213,100. Recommendations for the Alcoholic Beverages Division. $334. 300; the Gross Income and Store License Division.

the Driver's License Rureau. rnid 1 cthr nw boards or departments, bringing the total increase due to new services to $10,630,243. Shu-e the total increase over 1933 appropriations is only it is evident that the current budget re a i contemplate a decrease of $5,670.53 in the departments which existed in 1933. "Of 122 departments, boards or commissions included in the current budget recommendations 50 show decreases are State Highway Commission. State Printing Board.

Penal and Benevolent Institutions total. Secretary of State. Board of Tax Commissioners, Board of Health and Public Service Commission. I feel sure that the people would wish to have these facts in order that they may see the problems of government objectively and honestly, instead of being colored by the blind partisan prejudices which prompt misleading statements made by members of the Republican majority." NO BANK PANICS Lafayette Leader. Not all have forgotten the days when President Roosevelt came into power.

Not all have forgotten the long lines of panic-stricken depositors who gathered at the doors of banks which had closed their doors, never to open again, and for the most part, never to obtain the money they had left with the banks. One of the first acts under the Roosevelt regime was that to guarantee all bank deposits up to $5,000. The banks at first objected to the law which forced them to contribute to the funds set aside for this purpose. No bank objects today. Certainly the 37.000 men and women who had placed their money in the New Jersey bank which was forced to close because of its heavy loans on real estate, will not object.

The bank closed early last week. It was turned over to a receiver. But there were no hordes of anxious, desperate depositors around its doors. There ere no wails of grave disaster. There were no thoughts of sukied from those whose savings had been entrusted.

There were no threats to mob the officers of the bank, none of the scenes so familiar in all previous bank failures. For the government, through the organization established for just such situations, promptly announced that full payment to all with $5,000 or less on deposit, would be made as soon as the bank could be liquidated. Such a failure, at other times, would have started a run on all other banks in the New Jersey city and everv other banker would have trembled for his own safety. Nothing of the sort happened. Business and industrv continued as usual.

Men and women still went to work, sure that the banking episode would have no effect upon their jobs. All felt safe because they were safe. Those who have hurled their criticism against the New Deal and its methods might read the lesson. For more than bank depositors have been saved by the New Deal. Human life is safer, just as every liberty is safer from the plan and program established when this country turned from Republican to Democratic control.

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I know from experience that Retonga does everything claimed for it." Start on Retonga today. It may be obtained at Karly Drug Co. Adv. CHICKS, BUSINESS AND POSTOFFICE THRIVE IN S. POULTRY CENTER" Ramsey, Feb.

27. A thriving baby chick business, which reaches throughout the western hemisphere, just now going into its four-and-a-half -month rush season, has helped the postoffice of this southern Indiana village of seventy persons to climb from fourth to second class. Postmaster Rolla E. Pinaire pointed out today postal receipts had amounted to more than $120,000 the last three years. He said so far this year they are running nearly IS per cent, ahead of 193S, and predicted if the growth continues at that rate they will top $50,000 annually.

Five big hatcheries, which sometimes set 2.000,000 eggs at once for electrical incubation, ship baby chicks a few hauls old to every state in the Union and many South American countries. They gather the eggs from 500 poultry farmers in three counties. The volume of business led one farm magazine to call Harrison county "the poultry capital of America." These hatcheries supply 96 per cent, of the patronage of the post-office. One of them alone spends almost $12,000 a year for postage. They ship from a dozen to loo chicks to a box for from 27 cents to $2.50, to any destination that can be reached in seventy-two hours.

Some shipments go air mail. Hatchery owners estimate they will ship more than 20,000,000 baby chicks this year. LARGEST AIRPLANE ORDER SINCE WAR AWARDED BY ARMY Washington, February 24. The war department announced today award of a contract for to the Wright Aeronautical Corporation of Paterson, N. for purchase of new airplane motors.

The order involves about 500 engines, officials said, and was the largest single contract of its type the army has awarded since the world war. The motors, known as the "Type R-1S20" are for installation in the new single, bi-motored and four-motored fighting planes now under construction for the army air corps. Jesse Franklin Schultz. age 57, died at his home in Fortville at 7 p. m.

Tuesday after an illness of ten years. He is survived by the widow, Mrs. Maude Schultz: four children, Duane, of Cloverdale; Miss Lavaughn Schultz. of Indianapolis; Mrs. Vern Alford and Mrs.

Doris Gamble, of Fortville; three sisters. Mrs. Minnie Apple, of Pendleton; Mrs. Gertie Colins. of Indianapolis, and Mrs.

Bessie Wilson, of Warrington. Funeral services were held at the residence at 2 p. m. Thursday by the Rev. Samuel E.

Carruth, pastor of the local M. E. church. Burial was made in the cemetery at Mc-Cordsville. Fortville Tribune.

SHIRLEY FARMER DIES SUDDENLY Knightstown Banner. Alton Collier, 67. died suddenly Monday morning at his country home northwest of Shirley, of a heart attack. Mt. Collier was a well-known farmer and had spent his entire life In that community.

He is survived by the widow. He was a brother of George Collier, who was formerly coach of the Knightstown basketball team. New Strength and Freedom from Suffering She Gained Through Retonga Months Ago Proved Lasting The wonderful and lasting benefits MRS. LLiiiUA AHV1N of Retonga are being demonstrated every day as case after case is re CIVIC THEATER WILL PRESENT PLAYS The Civic Theater will depart from tradition on its next billing, March 10 to the 15 when a one-act play, "The Happy Journey," by Thornton Wilder, will be presented as certain raiser before "Up She Goes." a full-length play by Paul Vulpius. Likewise "The Happy Journey" varies from the usual theater production, for it is a play without setting or props.

In it the stage manager plays an important role. He is on the stage, explains the action and reads the parts of characters not in the scene. In this manner a vivid portrayal of Ma Kirby's character is presented, and the imagination of the audience is stimulated by the implied and suggestive background. The play was written by Mr. Wilder before "Our Town." produced in the same style, which won the 193S Pulitzer prize.

"Up She Goes" is a delightful farce adapted from the Viennese by John J. Coman. The plot is built upon that human weakness, vanity. Christopher Stringer is an impetuous young man, bereft of a job. He breezes into a bank where an old college chum is working and immediately announces himself as a member of the staff.

He begins talking about the Kubinski matter and before the day is over has everyone concerned with the importance of the affair. Actually there is no Kubinski matter, but no one in the bank from the president to the clerks will stoop to admit this ignorance and debate the question. Chris talks so authoritatively about the situation that he soon has various members of the staff recalling their association with him on the matter. Of course complications arise but the president's daughter steers him through the plot tangles. The play moves along merrily, poking satire at big business, its bluff and mental confusion.

Tickets will go on sale March 3 at the Civic Theater, 1S47 North Alabama street. Indianapolis. Ind. DEMOCRAT IN CHINA If you were to visit Burrelle's Press Clipping Bureau in downtown Manhattan, you'd find a hundred young girls doing nothing but reading newspapers and magazines. The offices, which overlook the Hudson River, are as quiet as a library reading room, and all you see are newspapers stacked in piles ready to be read and clipped.

Harold Wynne, a young college graduate who is the president of this unusual organization says: "Our girls enjoy reading the Hancock Democrat, and you will be interested in knowing that we send clipping from your paper to all parts of the world. Today, in far-off China or Japan, some government official is reading the articles which were published in the Democrat about the Chinese-Japanese war." Burrelle's Press Clipping Bureau was Btarted back in 1SS8 with two readers and a handful of papers. Frank Burrelle. the originator of the clipping bureau idea and founder of Burrelle's overheard one man ask another if he had seen the article In the morning paper which mentioned his name. From this conversation began an organization which today has branch offices all over the world and spends more than $40,000 a year for newspaper and magazine subscriptions..