THE POST-DEMOCRAT VOLUME 20—NUMBER 18. MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939. PRICE: FIVE CENTA Local Tax Increase Dispelling The Fog Street Repair Program The Republican press agent recounts that recently he , • made a trip across the country and back and found that , 1 sFernat ei n tDalaoyo s fervott ' s Jeo pNu el awritiL ah la dh awda no ee cd urtrheadt awn s dh i ftth vi nt H ig est n n lama there was a general feeling among Republicans that if Mr. I Blockades City Traffic Roosevelt runs again he will be defeated more easily than if DOG "SMOKE EATER" GETS the Democrats nominate a conservative. DOUBLE WHIPPING ORDER Muncies Proposed Rate of $3.68 is 48 Cents FIREMENS HONOR BURIAL Curiously enough the Democratic press agent made the IN COURT ORDERS OF 1636 Major Part of Business District Closed To Chester Pa.—Socks, an Eng- same trip at the same time and found that the President was Boston—The General Court, Greater Than Present Levy and Tops the lish bulldog that answered all as popular as ever ; that the New Deal was being supported meeting at New Towne, in Parking and Street Traffic Due to Re-Sur- Bee alarms in Chester, receiv- by all except those who have assailed it consistently, and 1636, apparently felt that one ed a ceremonious burial by whipping was insufficient for facing Projects; Work To Be Completed List of Cities With Populations Between Moyameming Hook and Lad- that the President would run again. Moreover—and I think an anOnymous Boston man der company. this puts me one up on my distinguished contemporary -- I convicted of knocking down By October 15th and Thoroughfares Will 25,000 and 50,000 in the State; Cities With The dog was placed in a encountered a top-flight Republican economic royalist, who and kicking his master. silk-lined coffin and one of the was taking time off from his daily hymn of hate for Roose- That august body ruled that Lowered Rates Own and Operate Public volunteer firemen acted as he should be whipped at New Be Opened; Indiana Railroad Consents to undertaken. Socks, who had velt to bet with his fellow economic royalists, who consulted Towne, and "after a convenient Utilities; Campaign Pledges Turn to Stone a special harness to prevent their prejudice rather than their judgment—that is, he is time," receive a similar pun- Track Removal On Walnut Street. falling from the fire truck, had betting that if the President is again a candidate he will be ishment at Salem, according to But Taxpayers Association Appeals Bud- learned to drag a length of elected again! research workers for the Fed. Traffic in the business district of Muncie has hose, climb ladders and carry real Historical Records Sur- I encountered many among the Democrats who hoped he vey of the WPA. been inconvenienced during the past week with block- gets To State Board. a water bucket. — --o-- would run ; others who hoped he would not run—either be- ades while a street resurfacing program has been in cause they feared the third-term issue, or were partizans of According to a survey made by the Associated various candidates, but strangely enough, I missed all the progress. It is planned to resurface Walnut street Press, the largest increase in local tax rates through- ANOTHER ISSUE folks my colleague on the minority side found who were en- BUBBLE (BLOWN through the business district to th,e Big Four rail- out Indiana for cities in population between 25,000 thusiastically confident of Republican success next year. road tracks and several of the downtown business and 50,000 and among the nine second class cities of IS MISSING FOR How It Looks to a Neutral • UP BY THE GOP blocks have been cut off from driving and parking this state, is proposed in Muncie for 1940. Even It is conceivable, of course, that a couple of propagandists traffic. Jackson street from High to Mulberry fitting between Washington and California might hear mostly streets was reopened to traffic Monday after com- after reductions were made by local taxing officials what they want to bear, so perhaps it would be more inform- HAS BURSTED from the original proposed levies for next year, the 1940 CAMPAIGN ing to turn to a less interested source to ascertain political pleting the resurfacing of these two blocks. Work total tax rate in Muncie stands at a 48-cent boost over sentiment. It so happens that the New York Daily News, is now in progress on East Washington street from the present year. The taxpayers of this city have Vicious Attacks On Ex- which, I believe, has the largest circulation of any paper in i Specious Arguments Put Mulberry to Madison streets. This stretch of thor- been handed this extra burden in spite of all the cam- Gov. McNutt Have the United States, has a scout out doing the very thing sys- ! Out Have Failed To oughfare has been torn up for several weeks and paign promises offered for tax reduction and the or- Fallen Flat tematically that we were doing incidentally and casually. Fool People closed to all traffic. Until the national conventions have been held and the op- . A number of streets have been ganization of a taxpayers association. When the state— government of For a year Republicans have as- the middle of certain trom meter receipts since the pro- posing candidates nominated no perfectly -satisfactory survey o,leved that Ike: roeld fool all the blockaded in The proposed total rate of $3.86 I Indiana was reorganized by Paul blocks instead of at the street in- gram was begun. state of probable majorities can be offered, but the G. 0. P. pub- citizens and Would ride back to now rests on appeal with the Knights Pythias V. McNutt, the toes of the party licity director tells his party of the "general feeling among Power in 1940. The Democrats had tersections which has caused con- — — tax commission and a further raised the cry that McNutt had Republicans that Mr. Roosevelt more easily could be defeated the jitters. Too many were fooled siderable congestion when traffic hearing will be conducted on the become a dictator, that he was the by this bubble. They were fooled unfamiliar with the blockades has Homecoming Game various local budgets before final Convention South ,Hoosier Hitler, that he was the re- next year than a more conservative Democrat." by the metropolitan newspapers been forced to turn around in a ;incarnation of every tyrant, an- By a happy coincidence Mr: Pasley, the News' political narrow street and seek another At Bloomington approval is given to the 1940 levies. and the propaganda machine. They e to their destinations. Pnb- The local taxpayers association Bend, October 3-5 I other Napoleon on horseback. passag surveyor, takes Mr. Roosevelt as his test candidate, and on were misled by this artificial dis- tic utilities have been busy making has sponsored the appeal from the -- I From the Democratic editorial that basis we can' compare what he concludes after devoting play. They failed to lecognize the Saturday, Oct. 30 increased rate. The proposed $3.86 The Grand Lodge Knights of meeting at French Lick, we hear fact that the people who did the improvements to their service total levy for Muncie sets a record Pythias and the Grand Temple Istrange words coming from this more time to a state than we spent on our whole voyage, with claiming and the talking were lines underground in the streets Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 28.— for the highest in this city. The Pythian Sisters of Indiana will hole dictator. We hear him saying that what my Republican contemporary thinks he learned. those who have always been Re- before the resurfacing is done. It Clashing in one of the top games the duty of every American is to has been announced that the Indi- record to date is the $3.80 rate es- their annual state conventions a California according to the News man, is 61 per cent publican payrollers and that it did ana Railroad company agreeS to of the nation, Indiana, and Nebras- tablished in 1937 and payable last South Bend. October 3rd, 4th am, Democratic on this basis. Nevada, next door, goes along not come from farmers, from work- ka will be featured in Hoosier year. PAeiscelil.vhee asdurl's icnivail molisbtepitrioepsheticn ers and indepentlent business men. permit the city to take up the car 5th. The business sessions of both note, the "right of every citizen to with 55 per cent. Utah surpasses California with a 66 per tracks on Walnut street but work footballs big kickoff here Satur- The tax levy survey of cities in cmventions will open officially on When the Presidents plan for has not begun on this project to day afternoon. The kickoff will Indiana shows that reductions vote as he pleases." cent vote for the Democrat, and Texas goes still farther up, unemployment was halted by be at 2 p. Wednesday morning, October 4th cenOttitmoofntahlls, t ht he se xipsr epsesg spsi n trhe have been made in cities where continuhag throughout that day and tor the forecast there is 70 per cent. Congrms coalition, the cry went It is understood that interurban The game will be the fourth of public utilities are owned and op- Thursday. Preliminary events on Next in the file before me is a border state—Missouri- out that Roosevelt was defeated. cars will be permitted to rip both t the series which has become erated by the city.