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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26, 1921
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IT Harold Phelps Stokes, Washington correspondent of the New York Evening Post, wrote for his paper the' other day an estimate of the Ambassa dors appointed by President Harding. Apparently the purpose of the story is to remind the country that the new administration has followed the old practice of rewarding men for political service in filling the important places in the diplomatic corps. The Wilson administration was criticised severely for doing this very thing. Now, Mr. Stokes points out, the Harding administration is as great an offender in this respect as any of its predecessors. In summing up the political service of the men that have been appointed to the first class ambassadorships, Mr. Stokes says: “It was the present ambassador to Italy who sweated the summer thru on the front porch at Marion editing Mr. Harding’s speeches. It was the present minister to China who labored long and faithfully in Republican headquarters in New York corraling college prcvfessors ifar iHatrding. It was the present ambassador to France whose oft repeated declaration ‘Ohio, nine votes for Wood; thirty-nine votes for Warren G. Harding’ became one of the most popular refrains in the calling of the roll at the Republican national convention. “It was the present ambassador to Japan, who, himself a member of the Republican national committee, handled the contests for the committee at the convention, and later at Marion helped map out the plan of the Republican campaign. And it was the present ambassador to Great Britain in whose ‘smoke-filled room’ Harding was virtually nominated for President at 3 o’clock of a hot June morning in Chicago.’
REAL POLYGLOT WEDDING; MANY NATIONS AND FAITHS Copenhagen — Hedwig Larsen, daughter of a rich Lutheran of Hadersleben, has married a Siberian Moslem who was a Russian prisoner of war in Germany. A priest of Dutch extraction performed the ceremony, both bride and gfromm having been converted to Catholicism. A French teacher and a Lettish merchant were witness-
GIRL VICTIM’S HIGH HEEL CAUSES TRAGEDY IN AIR Melbourne—At the inquest into the
death of pilot Thomas West and a man and girl passenger in West’s aeroplane, experts testified that one of the girl’s high heels had caught between the rudder bar and the wooden guard, rendering the rudder use-
The machine went down in a
KISSING IS LEGALIJED Berlin—The police court has legalized public kissing by freeing; a lawyer’s clerk and stenographer arrested in the Tiergarten. The couple had been shadowed for half an hour by a policeman, who swore he saw them kiss each other thirty tirnes, or once every minute.
To Sue Bootleggers For Income Taxes
Many Pay, Reporting Speculation, Says
Business Official.
New York, Aug 1 . 25—Federal prosecutors and representatives of the internal revenue bureau announced after a conference today that agents were gathering evidence for proceedings against bootleggers for failure to pay income taxes. Some bootleggers declare their full income and pay the tax, specifying their business as speculation, an official says, but federal agpnts have discovered many who have not re-
ported profits.
Reports concerning the latest variety of newly-rich—the bootlegging millionaire—attained concrete form recently when a Brooklyn woman suing for alimony charged in papers filed in court that her husband made 150.000 weekly by bootlegging. “When I object to his business,” her petition recited, “he scorns me and declares, ‘You ouglrt to be proud to
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NEW TAX BILL IS
ADOPTED IN HOUSE
Increased Exemptions to Heads Families With Incomes Under $5000
Washington—The tax bill was passed late Saturday by the house. The tax revision bill of 1921, estimated to cut $818,000,000 from the nation’s tax burden by 1923, was passed by 274 to 125, on an almost straight party vote. The principal changes in present tax levies made by the bill as passed include: Repeal of the excess profits tax. Increase of the corporation income tax from 10 to 12V 2 per cent, effective next January 1. Repeal of the income surtax rates from 32 per cent to 65 per cent inclusive. Increased Exemptions to Heads of Families Increased exemptions to heads of families, effective as of last January 1: To $2500 for incomes not in excessof $5000 and additional exemption for dependents to $400 from $2Q0. Repeal of the tax on life, fire and marine insurance policies and imposition of the corporation tax of 12 ^ per cent on all such insurance companies, except fraternal, effective next January 1. Repeal of the transportation taxes, effective next January 1. Repeal of the taxes on fountain drinks, ice cream and other beverages and the substitution of manufacturers’ taxes as follows: Four cents a gallon on cereal beverages; five cents a pound on carbonic acid gas; two cents a gallon on fruit juices of soft drinks; three cents a gallon on still drinks, exclusive of mineral and table water, and ten cents a gallon on fountain syrups. These changes would go into force on enactment of the law. Repeal of the stamp taxes on perfumery, cosmetics, toilet preparations and proprietary medicines upon enactment of bill. Changes Proposed on Sporting Goods Repeal of the ten per cent tax on baseball, football and basket-ball equiqment, skates, toboggans, snow shoes and skiis, and reduction of the ten per cent tax to five on tennis, golf and polo equipment, games and the like, the whole to come into force on enactment of the bill. Exemption from the income tax of the first $500 of income from investments in building and loan associations, effective at passagje of the law. A reduction from five to three per cent in the levy on candies and of from ten to five per cent in the levies
on fur articles and art and art works and repeal of the tax on electric fans. These, too, would be effective when the bill became a law. A reduction from ten to five per cent in the tax on all yachts with motor or other craft less ■ than 32 feet in length or of less than five tons carrying capacity exempted from this tax. This provision also would he effective upon enactment of the bill. _ _____ Exemption from the income tax of all allowances from the federal government for the service of the beneficiary or another in the military or naval forces of the United States, effective immediately the bill becomes a law. Luxury Taxes Taken By Retailers Repeal of all the so-called luxury taxes now collected by retailers and the substitution of a manufacturers’ tax of five per cent on the following articles when sold by the manufacturers at the sums given: Carpets and rugs, $3.60 a square; trunks, $30 each; valises, travelingbags, suit cases and hat boxes, $15 each; purses, pocketbooks, shopping and hand bags, !$4 each; portable lighting fixtures, $10 each; umbrellas and parasols, $2.50 each; fans, $1 each; house or smoking coats or jackets apd bath or lounging robes, $3 each. These changes would be effective upon the signing of the bill. Will Be Taken Up In Senate Sept. 21. The bill was sent Monday to the senate, where it will be taken up after the end of the recess on Sept. 21. Meantime the senate finance committee will hold additional public hearings ori the whole tax question and probably revise the measure in a number of details. As finally passed by the house with* nearly 100 committee amendments .the bill is estimated to produce a total of $3,347,000,000 revenue this fiscal year, or $221,000,000 less than Ithe estimate under the existing law. As repeal of the excess profits tax and higher income surtaxes rates would not become effective until next January 1. the full force of the measure will not be reflected in government receipts until the calendar year 1923, but Republican leaders say that through repeal of the transportation and other taxes the reduction in the tax bill in the next calendar year will be approximately $512,000,000. IMMORAL SCOTLAND
Edinburgh—Immorality is increasing in Scotland. Aberdeenshire conditions are worst. The illegitimate birth rate in that county is 17.8 per 1.000.
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FROM RADICALS AND CLASS LAWS
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WARREN GAMABIEL HARDING’S STEP-MOTHER LIVES IN MUNCIE
Dr. George Tryon Harding, father of Warren Gamaliel, has taken a third spouse to his aged bosom, and there is no record as yet that his eminent son has either written or tele-
graphed congratulations.
It may be a matter of news to
It is said that the Hardings do not boast openly of their supposed descent from the hated Governor Tryon, but that they take much secret satisfaction from the thought that they sprang from one who had gained such eminence, even if that eminence did
many Muncie people to know that the | happen to be gained through being the
second wife iof Dr. Harding, Mrs. Eudora Harding, ! is a fesident of Muncie, residing in a modest home of
her own on Bethel Avenue.
Mrs. Harding was divorced from the aged father of the President
abject tool of America’s chief perse-
cutor, the King of England.
Mrs. Eudora Harding, stepmother of the man who holds the highest position in the entire world, that of president of the United States, is not unduly elevated because of her rela-
rniCAGO.—The middleman Is Pacific exportc rs.
aroused.
While giant organizations of workmen, farmers and other classes have been forming, he has been the unhappy buffer of all disputes. Now he is organizing for sol - .preservation and preservation of public welfare against class legislation and radical agitators. R. I. Mansfield, well known Chicago business man, has been named chairman of tha new general educational eonuniUce to combat these alleged evils Associations-in the movement or expected to ]oin include the United States Chamber of Commerce, national assjx-iatiqns of millers, flour dealers, cotton growers, wholesale grocers, imuber. coal and product orgam/.at tins, grain exchanges, country banks and Atlantic and
The organization, Mr. Mansfield explained, stands for- sound economic prfncip'es, for a free, open competitive market and against pooling of grain by any interests. Immediate action is necessary against this p--ogram of “national Townleyism,” <ie said, for unless it is defeated the grain trade faces annihilation a d the country disaster. "It is a menace from which no line of business is safe,” he said. “The attack 0:1 the grain trade is merely the first symptom of what threatens to develop into a national malady, a malady that would endanger the entire industrial struc-
ture.”
Meanwhile p eliininary steps will be taken to de il with other special interest groups and the general
campaign agaii st all class laws ad-1 same basis.
vanced.
Education received by farmers during the fight on the Lantz antigrain exchange bills in Illinois has brought failure to attempts to sign up Illinois fanners for.grain pooling, Mr. Mansfield said. When Illinois farmers learned their market would be destroyed by the very bills which they had been told would benefit them, they marched in protest on the state capitol, filling the galleries and overflowing the corridors. Their protest was effective. The bills were killed. Associations of managers of cooperative elevators in Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio have declined to grant the preferential treatment which the pooling plan contemplated, it was announced, and will handle all grain on the
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AS TO THE TUCKER LAW
’Vluncie concerning the recent statement of the Bunch and Donn Roberts cannot hold office if
--..viu ui i/ue -oatcdme'there, made an inquiry of that official that, in his opinion, the law would
Much debate is heard on the streetr attorney general to the effect that Roll’ -
elected next fall.
the attorney general and was informed i be held good by the supreme court.
Rollin H. Bunch, the democratic ca. didate for mayor of Muncie, declares that he has no fear of the outcome of any legal battle which might come up as a result of the
law that was passed by the last legislature.
He has gone into the matter with some of the best lawyers of the state and has been given the assurance, he says, that the law will be held unconstitutional. He was nominated last month by a tremendous mapority, after giving the democrats of Muncie the same assurance, namely that in the event of election he would take the office and hold it. , Before the primary, in advocating the nomination of Ray Andrews for mayor, the Post-Democrat took the ground that it would be best to nominate a candidate who could be sure to hold the office if elected, and some democrats took great offense because of
our attitude.
Of course it is possible that we were mistaken in our opinion that the courts would hold the law constitution, but knowing the opposition to Rollin Bunch on the part of the big political interests of the state, both democratic and republican, as evidenced by the enactment of the Tucker law by a unanimous vote, we feel that no matter what majority he may receive, those who had the law passed will do their utmost to see that its ‘‘constitutionality” wil^be upheld. ’^f f, In assuring his many supporters that the law is unconstitutional Dr. Bunch could make assurance doubly sure by testing the constitutionality of the law immediately, instead of waiting until after the election, when it would be too late to remedy the disaster of an adverse decision. If the law will be unconstitution after the election, it is unconstitutional now, and if Dr. Bunch is convinced in his own mind that the law is not good he should not hestitfite in demanding an immediate test, which could be brought about by a friendly suit to enjoin the election commissioners from placing his name on the ballot. If the law were held unconstitutional, thus qualifying Dr. Bunch to become a candidate next November, all doubt would be removed and the democrats would enter the campaign with a more assured feeling than they have at present. The thing that worries the democrats is the assurance, given by good lawyers, that in the event of Dr. Bunch’s election and subsequent disqualification by the courts, the republican nominee would automatically become mayor of Muncie. With these things in mind, the majority of the democrats of Muncie would like to see the law tested at once, so that in case the law should be held constitution the central committee could place a candidate on the ticket before the election. * ^ r * ■ If Dr. Bunch is as sure of his ground as he says he is, he should not hestitate to test the law immediately.
about four years ago, after four years unduly
of married life with him at Marion, tionship to eminence. She is a modest,
well educated little woman, possessed
Ohio.
It will be recalled when the press dispatches carried the news the other day of Dr. Harding’s wedding, the good doctor half way denied that the wedding had occurred. Some months ago, in an interview published in a national magazine, captioned “My Son Warren,” Dr. Harding was quoted as saying that he had never been married jaut once—-to the mother of the president, notwithstanding the fact that his second wife was living right here in Muncie. The middle section of Dr. Harding’s name—Tryon, is a name of which the Harding family is extremely proud. It is claimed that the Hardings claim lineal descent from the despot Tryon, who was promoted, by King George III during colonial times from the office of lieutenant governor of the Carolinas to be the crown governor of New York. Tryon was known and hated by every true American during revolutionary times because of his treacherous, tory blood. Every student of American history will remember 1 that Tryon was the most hated man in the colonies and that he was compelled to flee to England when the colonists began their battle for freedom and independence. It appears that there is but little authentic history concerning the Harding family dating back of the time of Dr. George Tryon Harding, but thei’e have been plenty of “Tryons” since. President Harding has a brother, practicing mediciffe in Columbus, Ohio, who rejoices under tnc name of George Tryon Harding, II. The Columbus brother of the president has a son, christened George Tryon Harct-' ing, III, thus combining in one Harding the names both of the tyrant Tryon and his royal master, George, III.
of plenty of good common sense and of an inherent dislike for unwarranted pretension. »’ Her first husband, who died ten years ago, was named Luvisi, and was of Italian descent. She has one son, Hugh and two daughters. One of the daughters teaches school in Marion, Ind., and the other is cashier in Trullender’s grocery in this city. Mrs. Harding has nothing but words of kindness toward Warren Harding, the individual, but her estimation as to his statesmanship and as to his value as presidential timber, is entirely different. She voted for Governor Cox last November, though the opposing candidate president was her own step-son.
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CROCODILE JARS BATHERS
Paris—One of the eigjht crocodiles placed in the lake at Versailles Park by a cinema company dodged the players’ nets when the performance was over and escaped. Its presence was not known until some bathers entered the lake and got the fright of their life. Then the Paris Zoo was called on and the crocodile was trapped.
ENGLISH DROUGHT BRINGS EPIDEMIC AND ODD PESTS
London — Physicians blame the widespread epidemic of sore throats to the drought and the dust resulting from the extended dry spell. In 2nany sections there are plagues of green,' 61 lie If amT red bugs which have devoured vast gardens. Cows are yielding much less milk. Ducks and geese are laying smaller eggs.
HOUSE ASKS SENATE REPRIMAND REED FOR ATTACK ON VOLSTEAD
Holds Speech “Reflection On Character” of Author of Dry Law.
OH! YE “BRAINS!”
“Cutlets” From the “Early Dawn,” Muncie Full-Time Daily With Tinted Additions
“Hear Ye Him” Also Please.
‘Us” If You
By Our “Outside Man” “The oppressed across the ocean are poo'r fellow lovers of liberty; those in the alley here at home are ‘shiftless and unwashed aliens.’ ’’— “Early Dawn.” Those “poor fellow lovers of liberty” are not brought to this country because of their desire for “liberty.” Nay! ! and the “Early Dawn” knows it.—They are brought to America to CUT the wages of native-born, Eng-lish-speaking, patriotic American Labor! ! Also to assimilate their Iqw, unkempt bodies and vicious minds with and through American-born-laborers, thus corrupting and mongrelizing society, creating that hellish rot in America known as “The masses and the Classes” the very thing our
war of the Revolution was waged to exterminate. We are merging back to aristocracy and peasantry, and our present administration is of the blue-veined, genuine aristocracy type. The “Early Dawn” print is an alley of this ultrashoddy, dollar-created aristocracy. It can’t help it, however. Pity it dare NOT speak its mind. Send for about fifty more cargoes of the “unwashed .aliens” and the love mongers, of foreign degredatiom will hold a “Normalcy” hallelujah conclave. “The reason the voice of the people ministration is of the blue-vissed, them are yelling for the same thing.” —“Early Dawn.” Excepting in last fall’s campaign. The the whole mess yelled for “the same thin£,” same “old thing,” and by Hector, they got “the same old thing,” Normalcy and hell, and shoved clear through it. Now they want “Normalcy” in our city governmenr, and from the tone of the jitney, and the “force” of the poor S. C. corporation, it would see that “No two of them are yelling for the same thing.” We guess yes! The “average” member of the C. C. seems to be choked, under the yoke of well, the “same old thing,” that “master”
stuff! Will the masses ever arise above it? Never until dupes cease to be flunks. “In Cina bandits are fastened in a cage and left to stare. Here they occupy an office and continue to fatten.” —“Early Dawn.” Not all of them. Just the few who are above the law. NOT above suspicion, however. Those within the law get jugged or hung. Those “others” go to church or to high office and some day, off to hell.
FISH UP JEWELS Cahors, France—W’hile fishing in the River Lot some workmen pulled up a small jewel casket containing gems valued at $10,000. It was later, learned that the casket had been stolen in the local railroad station from a traveling jewelry salesman who was drunk.
RISK LIVES IN CHASE London—Fifty men risked death from the “live” rail in the tube while pursuing an armed bandit who had held up Harry S. Vose, a school teacher. The bandit was captured after a fifteen-minute struggle, which tied up traffic.
Washington, Aug. 25—The senate was requested the first of the week in a resolution adopted by the house by a vote of 181 to 3 “to take appropriate action” concerning remarks of Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, during) debate on the anti-beer bill last week, which the house held were “improper, unparliamentary and a reflection on the character” of Representative Volstead, Republican, Minnesota. First Time for House It is the first time in history, so far as official records show, that the house has taken such action. On two previous occasions, however, it censured a representative for making uncomplimentary statements about Senators and the senate. In both incidents the offending remarks were eliminated from the Congressional Record'by a house vote. The resolution, which was offered by Representative Newton, Republican, Minnesota, was adopted after brief debate and was referred to the rules committee when it reached the senate. Mr. Reed made no comment cgncerning it. What Reed Said Senator Reed’s language, as printed in the Congressional Record follows: “Until the other day I never had the pleasure of seeing the distinguished author of the Volstead act. His brief biography states that he was born in the United States. I am, however informed he speaks very broken English. I do not know what his ancestry may be, but I know that I have gazed upon pictures of the celebrated conspirators of the past, the countenances of those who have led in fanatical crusades, the burners of witches, the executioners who applied the torch of pers^ution and I saw them all agai«.when I looked at the author of this bill. ******* “I have no respect for a man, whether he be a member of the house or elsewhere who proposes to whittle down the constitution of te United States, who tries to leave it, as does the amendment of the house, so that an officer can go into every Building except a residence; who puts the discovery of a bottle of beer above the constitution, who, in the pursuit of his favorite pastime of hunting somebody who may take a drink, who is willing to destroy the constitution, which he held up his hand and before Almighty God,
swore he would miantain, protect and preserve. “A man who thinks more of ‘getting’ a bootlegger than he does of preserving the palladium of human liberty, is not fit to be in a legislative body and not fit to be a citizen of the United States. I have more respect for an anarchist, who, in his igfnorance and blindness, stands upon a soap box proclaiming against all government, than I.have for the man who will in this body, or in the house or representatives swear before the Almighty that he will preserve the constitution of the United States and then employ the authority and power the people vested in him to preserve the constitution, for the purpose of destroying that sacred document.”
Moving of Food Into Russia Will be Rished
Several Days Must Elapse Before First Expedition Crosses the Border.
Riga—The work of moving foodstuffs .and medicines for the relief of famine-striken, disease-ridden Russia was expected to be under way within 24 hours following the signing of the Russo-American relief agreement received here today. It will be several days, however, before the first expedition crosses the frontier. The first foodstuffs and meclicines will be brought to the Riga base from Dantzig, Hamburg and London, hut before another week has elapsed, supplies should be on their way from New York. Walter Lyman Brown, director of American relief administration in Europe, who signed for the United States, is returning to London,, leaving John Miller in charge of American relief. He will be under Dr. Nansen, who is in charge of the international relief movement.
HUSBAND KILLS TWO
Standish, England—William Gamble is being sought for the murder of his wife Lily and Richard Myers in the Gamble home. Both were killed by blows of an axe. The following note was found on a table: “I caught them twice; I think that is enough.”
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