300 additional men will be put to work at Owens Illinois

COMMENT

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By Wilber E. Sutton

IN OUR OWN

HOME TOWN —

STILL impossible to park in front of the post office half of the time nights and Sundays long enough to mail letters, although signs say parking is limited to 10 minutes. And hundreds of persons mail letters there in those periods . . . . . . . . Whatever became of that Yorktown lake project in which so many Muncie people were inter­ested? If Muncie takes her sewage out of the river and Buck Creek, a fine summer resort could be estab­lished there, as once was the case, with boating, fishing and swimming at our back door . . . . . . . . Still think the best-paying investment in comfort and dollars would be to convert the courthouse yard into a beautiful park with flowers, shrubs and fountains . . . . . . . . A journey into the country surrounding Mun­cie shows corn up and coming that will be more than "knee high by the Fourth of July." . . . . . . . . Muncie physician tells of a case where the death report should have read, "Died of I imagination," Doctors couldn’t convince a man he did not have cancer of the stomach, so the patient died of something he didn’t have. Some doctor might write an interesting book titled, "Queer Pa­tients I Have Met." . . . . . . . . Indications there will not be complete harmony in the ranks of the local Republican delegation to the state convention. Some of the delegates are pledged in advance, the big ma­jority are unpledged but some have strong leanings toward certain can­didates for governor while others actually are anxious to cast their votes for the man they think can win in the fall, regardless of who he may be. All should be in the last-named class . . . . . . . .Early morning in up-town Muncie: Stair­way loafers waiting to make a touch for a "cuppa cawfee" who really prefer a "shot in the arm" but who will take the coffee if you conduct them into a restaurant. Push-cart men sometimes very old, scouring the alleys for bits of junk. One curses under his breath on having to get out of the way of a truck making early deliveries. Motorists driving faster than they would drive later in the day. Servant girls wait­ing for buses to take them to their places of employment. Janitors cleaning stores preparatory to the day's business. All-night gamblers who used to be good breakfast cus­tomers of restaurants are missing. Must be something to this story that the big gambling joints are not run­ning. Girl with a collie on leash gazing into store windows. Where’s she been and where’s she going, this time o’ day? Clatter of dishes from a restaurant kitchen can be heard on the sidewalk. Two derelicts ar­guing politics. "Roosevelt hain’t give you and me any jobs has he?" The removal of the transient camp may be no loss and may be a big social improvement. Inmates caused police much trouble and one of the "clients" was found guilty of a major crime by a circuit court jury . . . . . . . .Here is an incident vouched for by two reputable persons. A tall, ungainly Negro walked into a local clothing store, bought a shirt for $1.95 and asked a clerk to call a taxicab for him. When the cab ar­rived the passenger proceeded to the transient camp. The cab fare was 35 cents . . . . . . . . "Andy" Rose whose avocation — not vocation — is flying, looks like a flier ought to look, if you get what we mean, which maybe you don’t. Anyway his address on aviation and the local airport before the Muncie Kiwanis Club, Wednesday, probably was the most informative talk of its kind ever made here. Every Muncie citi­zen should have heard it. He dis­jointed some popular fallacies and told things of which few of his auditors were aware about the fly­ing business into and out of Muncie. . . . . . . . . About one automobile for every five persons in Muncie and Delaware County and all 12,920 of them on Walnut St. on Saturday night . . . . . . . . Everybody is for the Central High band, orchestra, glee clubs and the rest of the musical organizations? Then attend the big concert tonight. It will not be as ex­citing as a basketball game, maybe, but more quietly pleasurable and it will be easier on the old ticker — and pocketbook . . . . . . . . Big now and much bigger in a few weeks when about 300 additional men will be put to work, the Henimgray Divi­sion of the Owens-Illinois Glass Company a few years hence may become Muncie’s largest manufac­tory. This is not a prediction, but it’s a possibility, the way the glass block business is growing. And it would not hurt a thing if Muncie people contemplating certain kinds of building were to investigate the merits of glass blocks.

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MAYBE THEY REALLY

HAVE INTUITION —

YOU'VE heard of "woman’s intuition. An Indianapolis housewife must have it de­veloped to the nth degree. Here’s what happened: A vagrant came to her door asking for something to eat. He was not insulting, not even impolite, and, usually she gives a hand-out to such callers. But be­cause, so she says, "I just didn’t like his looks," she summoned the police who arrested him and per­functorily charged him with vag­rancy. Vagrancy is what they charge you with when they really haven't anything "on" you and wish to hold you a while.

As a matter of routine the police department took the vagrant’s fingerprints and sent them to the Bureau of Identification at Wash­ington, just as they have taken the prints of hundreds of other prisoners. Maybe the officers, too, didn’t like the "looks" of the un­known wanderer. Then came back the word from Washington that the marks were those of Malcolm Sutphin, wanted in Chesapeake, West Virginia, for the murder of his nephew, Elva Sutphin. Confronted by the charge, the man whose evil appearance betrayed him, readily confessed, the officers say. Maybe there’s something to this "womans intuition" business, after all.

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INCREASE IN JOBS

SHOWN IN INDIANA —

WITH the coming of fine weather, employment in In­diana is showing a steady pick-up, which does not mean, of course, that there are not plenty of men and women out of work. It increased 1.8 per cent, pay-rolls went up 2.6 per cent, and man hours 3 per cent in April as com­pared with March, the Indiana Em­ployment Service announces. That was the third consecutive month this thing has been going on. Em­ployment and pay-roll reports were received from 2,231 manufacturing and non-manufacturing firms.

These gains are not large, but if they were to continue at the same rate they would be substantial at the end of a year.