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Newspaper
Delphi Citizen
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1946
Page
6
Carroll county residents hold about 10 million on deposit across four banks and another 10 million in Victory bonds and savings. With a population near 15 000 this implies an average saving over 1200 per person. The piece argues against lifting price ceilings, fearing inflation and a 1920s crash, urging continued restraint to preserve savings and avoid bubbles.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson argues farmers prosper when industrial workers are fully employed and wages are high. 1945 gross farm income reached 24 billion dollars with 13 billion net income after costs, aided by 90 percent parity for two years post peace. Full employment and foreign trade growth are seen as safeguards against future farm crashes.
After VE Day the Army faced mass demobilization and redeployment as 4,650,000 soldiers returned to civilian life by 1945 end. The author credits the Army for the large, imperfect but effective effort, noting shared praise with the Navy for a vital wartime mobility role.
The piece notes a freight rate hike from Delphi to the seaboard from twelve to seventeen cents per hundred pounds by November. It claims farmers will lose four cents per bushel, while grain dealers resist the raise. The piece frames it as a prosperity shift toward trusts and corporations at farmers' expense.
The book fills gaps in Benjamin Franklin's life up to 1757 with letters and writings, including scientific correspondence and a posthumous will fragment. It extends to his death, adding works once out of print and new pieces from other authors and editors.
Treasurer Frank T. Millis directs uniform 1945 income tax payments for farmers noting three rate possibilities. Farm products sold wholesale taxed at 1/4 percent. retail sales to consumers at 1 percent unless qualifying as a retail merchant at 1/2 percent. Capital asset sales and personal property taxed at 1 percent, with $1,000 annual exemption. Trade union growth and Corelli mention appear as brief inserts.
Indianapolis reports hundreds of ex servicemen reentering Hoosier manufacturing as mid-December employment improves. Noble R. Shaw of the Indiana Employment Security Division notes total wage earners reaching 542,089 across manufacturing and eight nonmanufacturing groups with payrolls rising 2.1 percent to 21.85 million dollars. December factory employment stands at 357,189, up 1.7 percent since mid-November but down 25.8 percent from December 1944. Farmers purchase life insurance at a record pace nationwide, nearly double prewar 1941 levels.
In Delphi the week of January 20 to 26 is Army recruiting week, with January 26 designated as Recruiting Day. Lafayette Recruiting Office staff will be at the local post office to talk enlistment and veterans discharged within twenty days may re enlist and keep their previous rank. after February 1 this privilege ends. The governor’s proclamation urges 17 to 34 year olds to consider voluntary service and notes the national security need.
The document features quotes from Eli Culbertson praising his international plan and a harshly dismissive note about a bronze statue. Another message from Robert Moses dismisses a park statue gift while outlining reclamation efforts. A third item rejects myths about imperial divinity and asserts the Emperor Hirohito is not a living god.
A local column reports Solid Fuels Administration in Indiana pledging one car of coal this week to the community and warns of possible weeks of rationing. Dealers stress self rationing while urging neighbors to conserve heat and consider pepper exchanges and neighborly doublings up. The piece also cites an Indianapolis News editorial on Monon railroad reorganization, predicting improved capital, diesel locomotives, and a stronger Indiana rail link between Louisville and Chicago.
The record notes that WWII combat deaths totaled about 265000 with roughly 650000 wounded, while home front accidents caused 355000 deaths and 36000000 injuries, including 1258000 cases of permanent disability.
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