Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 July 1921 — Page 1
THE ONLY DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPER IN DELAWARE COUNTY THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRA
VOL. 1. NUMBER 28
MUNCIE, INDIANA, JULY 22, 1921.
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NEWS OF THE FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL WORLD
President Harding’s invitation to the principal allied and associated powers to join in a conference for the discussion of armament questions, and if possible to evolve some settlement of Pacific problems has been received as the most positive evidence of national leadership for a long time past. Acceptance by some of the chief European nations ensures a thorough consideration of the whole international situation. Meantime, conclusion of working relations between the United States and Germany should go a long way toward the improvement
of the trade situation.
Steps Toward Tax Reduction In another way the week has been notable for national intervention in important business affairs. President Harding’s attempt to bring once more to the front the question of tax revision so long neglected by Congress, and the support he has received in many influential business quarters, shows that this subject will not, after all, be indefinitely laid aside. Taken in conjunction with his bonus bill recommendations, noted last w 7 eek, his action shows the President fully alive to the needs of the business world, and prepared to assist in promoting legislative progress when necessary. The market has received the statements of the President' accordingly as a very hopeful augury. Effect on the general tone has been correspondingly good and action by Congress in line with the President’s tax recommendations, which is now promised within two weeks in the House, should prove even more stimulating to those who had lost confidence in the prospects of genuine relief from present tax evils.
Business Is Hopeful
The better legislative prospects coincide with a hopeful attitude on the part of business. From many quarters there are statements of better conditions. Our foreign trade figures for June, just made public, show an upturn in exports for the
ior agricultural districts of the country, which are drawing on New York and other financial centers for assistance in furthering the production and movement of the new crop. This is shown by the increasing commitments of the Federal Reserve banks on member bank account. The advance in the accumulation of gold has swollen reserves to unnecessary figures, but this has little direct relation to the operations of the banks in a credit way. What is of importance is that they are making loans freely and are treating the community with a fair degree of liberality. Member bank reserve desposits : are larger than last week or last year. The action of Germany in applying for a large credit for the purchase of grains and staples here has tended to strengthen exchange on German markets, while converse the continued efforts of Great Britain to provide dollar balances here for the purpose of meeting her early maturities has tended to impair the position of sterling, at least for the time being. Germany’s arrangements in Holland for a loan of 150.000,000 gold marks, designed to furnish funds with which to meet 'reparations payments at the end of August has eliminated posible further reparations transactions as an immediate factor here. Altogether, the trend of affairs in exchange has been favorable, the movement of quotations being more positively in the direction of normal levels than might have been expected. There will be urgent needs for funds throughout the remainder of the season no doubt, both on account of the large carryover of commodities and because of the need of money in international transactions, but there is no reason why all requirements should not be readily met without ad-
vaneng rates materially. Market Review and Outlook
Relative inactivitv in the market during the past week was the natural reaction from the perhaps unduly large volume of business consequent
first time n about eight months, the | upon rumors of legislative and finan-
increase over May amounting to some $10,000,000. British buying of staples in this country is increasing, partly for seasonal reasons, but partly also because of the fact that recovery from thej'ffA/'t?? of epo coal stttke ’Saa-virofe. seisin. There is a well sustained demand for textiles, leather .'shoe's’and’ other articles of consumption. Price readjustment in steel and iron has apparently had but little effect thus far, it is true, but time is reouired for the effects of changes in the basic trades to make themselves felt, and there is general belief that revival of steel and ironmaking and of the building trades dependent thereon will develop in the autumn. Meantime, the prospects of agriculture continue to be pretty generally satisfactory, with a trend of prices on the whole upward. Financial adjustments that are being made now bid fair to give all the aid to the carrying and movement of crops that is essential. There
cial action of various kinds during the previous week or two. At all events the stock market has been unusually quiet. President Harding’s request that the unwarranted, restore a more normal condition in the Mexican oils. Sugar continues feverish for reasons already eviden* Outside of unfavorable trade condi ■
tions now existing sentiment among the trading element is arrayed against
the market, based on the very slack demand for stocks from the general public. In ordinary times July is considered one of the most important ivnstmennt months, but it has been a disappointment this year. This, no doubt, is largely due in the first place to lack of funds and in the second to uncertain market conditions,
which’always have the effect of mak-
ing would-be investors sit on the fence. It has been demonstrated on numerous occasions when the bear
is still a sore spot in the sugar indus- account became too extended that a try, which is having 0 serious effect j drive tigainnst the shorts succeeded upon sugar stocks listed in this 1 in bringing about rallies, and this is
market, but conditions are apparently in a fair way toward rectification.
The Trend In Money
The movement of funds is now more
something that can bo counted upon from time to time. More than this, however, can hardly be looked for until business conditions undergo a
and more positively toward the inter- change for the bettor
IMMEDIATE CASH BONUS NOT INDORSED BY VETS
Rainbow Division Association Recommends Early Collection of Accrued Interest on Allied War Debt and Pay Adjusted Compensation to Ex-Service Men
Cleveland, Ohio, July 21—The Rainbow Division Veterans’ association failed to endorse an immediate cash bonus for former soldiers at the closing session of their annual convention here. They passed a resolution, however, recommending early collection of the accrued interest of the allied war debt to the United States and the use of the money to pay the adjusted compensation for exsoldiers. The resolution pointed out that the allied debt to the United States now amount to ten billion dollars and that one and a half billion dollars are now due as accrued interest. The bonus resolution, reported out of committee after two days’ discussion, took into consideration the fact that treasury officials stated it would he impossible to pay a bonus without disrupting the financial organization of the government. Waste is Condemned It condemned the waste of millions of dollars each year in the employment of a vast army of unnecessary public officers and agents and indulgence in other forms of national extravagance by the federal government. The latter clause was said to be intended as a condemnation of the amount of money being spent in enforcement of the Volstead act. A resolution was adopted demanding adequate and efficient care for disabled service men. Colonel George R. Leach, former commanding officer of the 151stfield artillery, now mayor of Minneapolis, was elected president for the ensuing year. Other officers elected were:
Honorary president, Matt A. Tinley, Council Bluffs, la.: first vice president, J. Bentley Mulford, Washington, I). C.: chaplin. Rev. J. J. Hclliday, Detroit; historian, Colonel W. B. Wolfe, Chicago. The secretary-treasurer will be named by the president. The next annual convention will be held in Minneapolis, July 14th and 15th. At the close of the business session the delegates stood for twenty seconds as a tribute to the dead of the division.
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INVENTS HEAD PROTECTOR
New York—Charles Horan, promoter of sporting events, has invented a head guard for use by baseball players while at bat. The invention was prompted by the recent fatal accident to Ray Chapman, shortstop of the Cleveland team. The guard, which is made of composition of elimination cork and bamboo, may he fitted on over a player’^ cap. It weighs hut a tow ounces.
DOCK AND HIS RHYMEFUL FRIEND The Post-Democrat herewith reproduces a beautiful little poem entitled, “The Tool of Andrews,” written by the rhymeful blacksmith, Bill Daniel. The poem was printed, in circular form, by our old and esteemed friend, Harry Stout in appreciation no doubt of the kindness of the editor of the Post-Democrat, who, as election commissioner gave Harry the job of printing the primary election ballots. It was signed “Bunch for Mayor Club.” The lovely little “poem” was distributed among the populace at the Doc Bunch mass meeting at the court house Monday night and was no doubt helpful in inducing many to vote for the only simon pure bean and potato mayor on earth. Read and Weep; a? George Dale is sure a dandy, With his pen is mighty handy, Telling lies, tlu workers for to fool; But we know this man so well, It was not hard to tell That Ray Andrews had bought him for a tool. • He is the kin,! of whelp The Indians liked to scalp, As a traitor was a thing that they did hate; And when he went to Andrews’ camp, It proved he was a dirty scamp, That could be bought with dollars, as the bait. Now we have a little hunch His attack on Doctor Bunch Will cause our postmaster for to look Into the statement made by Dale, When he asked to use the mail, To circulate the paper of this crook. His mother-in-law he’d trade, For a glass of lemonade, x If there was'a nickel in it, as boot; A bank this man would rob, And he’d pull off any job If he thought he’d get away with the loot.
He said he was a friend of labor, But he’d stab us with a saber If he thought that by it Ray would win. He is also a friend of Doc’s, , But you can bet your dirty socks He would stab the doctor, too, for Andrew’s t m -
A nice ride uppn a rail
Should be;given this George Dale, With the advice to leave our city fair; For a traitor like he’s been Has no place among us men, Who play the game of life upon the square.
Bill has, in times past, inflicted the F st-D 4 ii
Tr vie
; locrat with poetical efFudjonsv Bill said fl ' “U.tb't Lor the yvthm
ms’wTthin hfs gozzarclILty and nijri.'t, we let him go to it, and even published his latest, the foregoing eulogy of the patient editor, who, as Bill says, is due for a vacation
from the city, following a ride on a rail.
“Telling lies, the workers for to focjl,” is as Bill says, a serious offense, provided, of course, the prevaricator fails to be the president of the Bunch for Mayor Club, or his idol,
the bean doctor, himself. ;
The final conculsion is, one would infer frhm reading Bill’s masterpiece, that the editor has no right to share a place on earth vich “us men,” meaning no doubt himself and
his master’s voice, “who play the game 1 life on the square.”
Bill’s poem is now being set to music, to the tune of “Old Dog Tray,” and will be produced at an early date by the great virtuoso, Haystack Jones, and his talented band of
musicians.
Primary Election Results in Election of Roilin El. Bunch and Dr J. C. Quick
THE GOOD OLD TARIFF
Editor Post-Democrat: ■ I am an iron and steel worker, having puddled iron under all tarrift's since 18GP. I herewith give the price for puddling-: Iron lot in Morrel tariff GOO pr. ton Dingley Tariff 550 pr. ton. William Wilson tariff 425 pr. ton Aldrich tariff 600 pr. ton Highest tariff ever enacted by the governmen. The Cor Whell Workers ! were shot down at McKees Rocks for asking for an increase in wages under the Aldrich tariff, the Underwood! tariff, the present tariff wages be- | ing paid to puddlers under that tariff ' $18 50 per ton. Now comes the Mondell Emergency tariff still higher than the Aldrich tariff, and the steel trust is reducing the men and refuse to pay living wages to the workers with the expectation of getting the Mondell tariff through- the highest tariff in the history of this government. DANIEL KNIGHT I was foreman of the puddle mills at the National Rollings Mills at McKusport, Pa., under Flagler. TACKS IN HAZING
Denver, Col.—Hazing at the Independence High School is frowned on by the police, who have started an investigation. The upper classmen compelled the juniors to hold a shhit-tail parade and then run a gauntlet of paddles studded with tacks.
PARROT SO YEARS A CAPTIVE
London, Eng.-—Over 80 years old, Joey, a greater sulnhur-crcasted cockatoo, is spending his declining years in the Zoo. He was recently deposited there by his master and mistress, who had the bird in their family for eighty years.
Mayor, Roll in H. Bunch. City clerk, George H. Jones. City judge, William A_ McClellan. Councilmen: First ward, PI, D. Dowling; second, Barney Walsh; third, J. B. Piner; fourth, William B. Weaver; fifth. John H. Hines; sixth, Leo Fell; seventh, William H. Holm; eighth, Luke Plymale; ninth, Charles Pittenger. Councilmen at large- Jesse White, Jesse Ward, W. C. Porter and Roy Taughinbaugh. The foregoing ticket was named by the democrats Tuesday in one of the liveliest primaries ever held in the city of Muncie. The feature of the campaign was the runaway race of ex-Mayor Rollin H. Bunch, who was opposed by three candidates, Edward Tuhey, Ray Andrews and Charles Bov den. Dr. Bunch treceived 488 votes, carrying every ward in the city. His vote was three times the combined votes of all his opponents. Dennis Cleary was defeated for renomination for the office of city clerk; by George H. Jones, one of the younger crowd of democrats. Among the others defeated for renomination are Councilmen A1 Bingham, Jerome Galliher, Harry Kleinfelder, Charles B. Thompson, John Petty, Perry Snyderand Cary Crozier. The candidates whp lost out have taken their defeat good humoredly and are not nursing “sore spots.” There were 6,447 democrat votes cast and 7,495 republican votes. The unexpected magnitude of the democrat vote, so closely following the disastrous defeat of 1920, augurs well for the success of the entire ticket next fall. The four leaders in the republican race w'ere Dr. Quick, Walter Steele, Jack Fitzgibbons and Dr. Coffman. Dr. Quick won easily, receiving almost as many votes as all the other candidates combined.
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SHIMMYLESS SHIMMY Paris^-An “expuragated shimmy” now has the official sanction of France, approval having been given by the Union of I’rench Dancing Masters. It is rather completely expurgated, though, for a while undulations of the body below the shoulders are allowed, shouder shaking is under the ban. 1
DOCTORS’ FOUR-HOUR STRIKE Vienna—All Austrian doctors, both private practitioners and hospital physicians, declared a four hours’ demonstration strike, when, expect for critiea cases, no patients were attended Meetings were held to protest against . recent legislation, which the doctors ! regard as injurious to their interests.
DON’T HIDE THE FACTS! REPUBLICAN LEADERS WOULD NOT HIDE THEM TO SHIED US
Editor Post-Democrat
As there is no other source through which the real American, a believer in American principles, as written into our Declaration of Independence, and our national magnacharta, our fundamental, pre-amended document, our constitution, if you please, whereby the American citizen may hope for redress and protection, I desire sir, in this brief epistle, to “call up” the high-hreds in authority at Washington, those high-born, deep lovers
Hughes, Mr. Jim Watson, Mr. Taft and other of the splendid gentlemen, in our “domestic” walks of life ivrged you to vote for, and, like nice little, cherub gullibles, you voted it, with wide stretched mouths and a prolonged yelp for “Normalcy!” You have them both now' Ytm have that juicy, sweet, creamed-laid “normalcy” and the “get hack” fell where it always falls, upon the masses,—not the political classes—and the burden of hardship, as in all time past, is resting upon the creators of all things.
of ail humanity, especially that i temporal, while the manipulating po- — >> j ,, 1 hticsl masters cry out as you ask for
“down trodden,” “sore oppressed,” God.fearing (7) patriotic (?) “humble hearted,” nation ndared shielders of American interests for “the masses:” (yes, yes,) those gentlemen who “make presidents” and call up the
justice, “Hold! Enough!” Well, it occurs to a man up a large sycamore tree, 'that the “dear, dear masses,” have had. or will soon have “enough,” with a big “E”, in candor, with no
maKe presidents and call up tne 1 ' ’ “L . 1 dupes to ratify the “make;” those facetiousness pushed in, what do you
teeming thousands of unjustly idle men and women think of yourselves
and sweet “Normalcy?”
A NEW PROTECTIVE DEVICE FOR ELEVATORS
LO E D £>012 k/w AM A*?
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When Lord Burnham, president of the Imperial Press Conference, was made a chief of the Blackfeet recently, he was given the name Nat-o-Sapi, meaning Chief Old Sun. Yellow Horse, chief of all the Blackfeet, conducted the initiation ceremonies at Gleichen, Alberta, and wore a high silk hat with a yellow band while Lord Burnham donned the feathered headdress of an Indian. Lady Burnham also presented with a similar headdress and a buckskin jacket dec-^
orated with beads.
Several members of British royalty and nobility are now chiefs of Canadian Indian tribes. The Duke of Connaught, when he was governor general of Canada, was created Chief Teenchka Eeyake Oonka, or Great Mountain Chief, by the Stoney Indians at Banff. His costume as chief was complete from war bonnet to beaded moccasins. The Prince of Wales enjoys the distinction of being a chief of at least three tribes. During his tour
of Canada last year the Stoney Indians made him Chief Morning Star, the Bloods initiated him as Chief Big Mountain and the six tribes of the Iroquois welcomed him as Chief Dawn of the Morning, j There are still 106,000 Indians of various tribes in Canada who live on reservations but keep up
picturesque customs and on cere monial occasions wear bonnets of feathers and beaded buckskin cloth-
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ing. The great pow-wow at Banff each July for visitors to the Canadian Rockies is spectacular and entertaining. The Indians own real estate in Canada valued at $51,000,000 and nearly $5,000,000 worth of live stock. Many of the Indians live are successful farmers, crops raised their by them in 1918 being of the value
of $3,142,046. Many, too, are still masters of woodcraft and are ey , pert hunters and guides, ^ JSBJ
Broadway, high-pat, Trinity Church goer’s (on Sunday only) who barter the nation’s production in six days, on the boards of trade, and the government silenton the crime, and on Sunday occupy the plush cushions in the front pews in the “fashionable” New York and New England Churches and then, in a National election contribute from their “fashionable coffers” millions upon millions to “inflpence” an election, the aim of which
is, “Put the country back Normal” Among the innovations in the new while “Normalcy”-(God must love that | Ambassador Hotel, Park Avenue and word when He thinks who originated > Fifty-first Street, New York, are the it) only means the big things keep j micro-self-leveling tvpe of elevators, on in the usual big way. the “fool • the first to be installed in New York, people” create and maintain it all, any- When the operator throws the stopway, and, as the “dear masses” don’t ; ping lever before the car floor is at know any better than to vote their . the floor level, or after it has passed fool heads off by voting against the ' the floor level, a small magnet actugreat principles laid down and carried , ates a cam which sets another hoist-
out by the greatest American, Woodrow Wilson, and now we are in an American soup house, with the bone sucked clean of all its substance, and the soup is becoming thin as strained slough water in August, why, sir, we see every reason on earth,-but reason.why the millions of $4 and $5 and $8 a Jay laborers all over the country voted last fall to make a hastv hurry up to get back to “NORMALCY! ! !” They had lived seven years of glor-
ing machine in operation. This machine being small, moves the elevator Very ‘ slowly, and the up-an.d-dow>n position of the cam determines the direction. When the floor of the car is exactly at the flooi level, the magnet leaves the cam and the car stops Then, and not until then, the dooirs may be opened. Passengers are thus protected by a double safety device, one which does away with all danger of stumbling or tripping when enter-
ious prosperity under that gr^at pa-j ing and leaving the car, arid which
triot, statesman, Christian believer in humanity and its righteous cause and had prospered as never before, but the air became rent with political poison by dispots and political mountebanks, and, like sheep going over the bridge, because one jumped, thus the poor, easily vamped, mind-wandering element in society, caught the spoiled liver-bait and swallowed bait, Kook, line, pole and frightenend the mmrod on the bank, all to “get back” to “Normalcy!” Well, the masses arc' “back” with everything, and can get ahead with nothing, and now listen to the “whangdoodle mourneth”by day and by night, as the “get-backers” wail, frail, in their daily trail for a job in which thej? fail, then again, they wail. That, my large, robbinmouthed chump is the glorious “Nor-
malcy
also makes it imnossible to open or close the doors of the elevator shaft until the car is in the “safe” position. TURKEY WITH FOUR LEGS Oak Ridge, Ky.^—Mrs. Nancy Sargent. is the Owner of a freak turkey which was hatched several years ago. The turkey has two complete sets of legs, two going in one direction and two in another The turkey was
living at last reports.
TIRES OF LIFE AT 15
New York—“Life isn’t worth while without a good time. By a good time I mean having 7 the attentions of young men.” This was the philosophy aired by Martha Korne, fifteen, who, facinc charges of truancy, unsuccessfcBy at
Mr. Harding, Mr. Lodg'c, Mr. tempted to take her life by gas
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