Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 September 1921 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 192?

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democracy of Muncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional Distrct. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Subscription Price, $2.00 a year in Advance Office 315 North Mulberry Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1921

DEFINITIONS OF NORMALCY The following definitions of the new word, normalcy, coined by Warren Gamaliel Harding, have been suggested to the editor: Normalcy (n)—A period of fasting and prayer. Normalcy (n)—Less wages and more hours work. Normalcy (n)—A time for reflection upon the error of voting one’s self out of a job. Normalcy (n)—Selling a cowhide for a dollar and paying twelve dollars for a pair of shoes. Normalcy (n)—Ordering the United States army to shoot down striking miners. Normalcy (n)—Making a Russian peace with Germany. Normalcy (n)—Looking for a job in a jobless world. Normalcy (n)—Creating political jobs for republicans. Normalcy (n)—White mule and wood alcohol.

This is the golden age of stock inflation and the public service corporations of Muncie are going to it with a vengeance. The public is being solicited to buy electric light stock, watered stock, waterworks stock and stock in the Drake estate. Ponzi had his innings, Holiday took his little flyer and the gas balloon, inflated two million strong, is about to go up. Barnum made no mistake. One a minute.

Did it ever occur to you that after all this water, gas and electric light stock is sold that the printing presses will be started up immediately and another batch be run off over night? And has it occurred to you that the people will pay the freight? Get wise: They are simply playing the little old game of milking the public.

THE THIRTEEN AMENDMENTS The election held here Tuesday was just about as exciting as an old ladies’ tea party. The American people don’t take kindly to elections that they don’t understand. The last legislature was good at framing up outlandish schemes to cause unnecessary elections at the expense of the taxpayers of the state. The people ought to be proud of that legislature and send them all back to make some more silly laws. If the people of Indiana are wise they will restore the democratic party to power in the general election next year. The democrats try to do things for the people. The republican party has been trying to do things to them. Most likely some of the amendmany ought to have carried, but real students of political economy in Indiana were disgusted wdth the whole business because the whole scheme was framed up by political tricksters yhti* the idea in view of stalling off a real constitutional convention as long as possible. j It was simply a bluff upon the part of the republican stand-' pat organization of Indiana to make the people believe they were 1 fixing up the old constitution in such a manner that it would never need to be changed again. One a/'jend* lent, needed above ail others, was not even men- 1 tioned by the legislature, an amendment that would have permit- j ' l municipalities to issue bonds for more than two percent of the taxable valuation. The utility-controlled legislature did not suggest such an amendment because it would have given Indiana cities a chance to acquire ownership of water, gas, electric light, telephone and street car systems. The next legislature ought to call a constitutional convention. 1 The boss-ridden people of Indiana could then elect live, progres-' sive men and women as delegates to the convention and the entire document could be remolded to suit the times. The political bunko-steerers who framed up the thirteen amendments sought to create the belief that with the passage of all thirteen, there v ould be nothing left to be desired.

LABOR LAWS A recent court decision held the present child labor law to be unconstitutional. The decision was given by an eastern jurist and the final decision of the supreme court will be watched with interest for the question of child labor is surely one of the most important to every commonwealth. Child life is often stunted by employment of children and laws to protect them in this respect should be enforced. There are many cases where the small earnings of the little ones mean more than those better off in this world’s goods can possibly realize and it sometimes happens that the laws are too rigid. Wiser heads, however, have passed on the matter and the laws stand, favoring no one. Recently in Troy a mother was left with five small children, ^another baby | (Mining after the husband died. The family resources were loiv and the oldest boy secured employment to help out the mother. The matter was taken up with the proper authorities and while •egret was expressed the lad was not allowed to work. This family finds it necessary to count every penny and though the mother could have benefitted she felt in a manner relieved as she does not want to run any risk in regard to her children’s health. President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor has delanded a child labor law that will withstand any court decision, should the eastern court be sustained it is hoped a federal law of similar character will be framed and the children protected. Vbuse of children previously given employment has made some protection necessary.

REGARD TO AGRICULTURE

The number of students expecting to take up the study of agnculture this year at institutions of learning is said to fall below those of previous years. It is said this is due to farmers becoming discouraged and not sufficiently urging their boys to take up this important branch. It is a great mistake for the young people to stay away from agricultural schools for it has been proven, according to leaders, that this training will actually treble the i come of a farmer or one engaged in agricultural pursuits. Country life is organized to a greater extent than ever before and i ■ also affords more intellectual enjoyment. Dean Alfred Vivian giving some excellent advice in regard to the matter and Miami ounty boys might do well to heed it. Young people of Miami runty, however, have in the past few years, taken more interest hi agricultural work.

STITCHES IN TIME Where there are no vitamines, the people perish. Mary harl a little lunch, To tell the honest truth, Too little; quite inadequate; It wouldn’t fill a tooth! It went with her, this little lunch, This paper, bread and bacon, To school each day; she lost her punch. Her health was sadly shaken! 'Til Mary’s school served every day A warm milk soup nutritious.

Now ask her how she feels; and she’ll say “Oh boy, I feel auspicious!”

When it conies to sweeping clean, a new broom has nothing on a new vacuum cleaner. And it saves no end of Mother’s time and energy.

Samantha says: Homes where the womenfolks sing as they work have riches which neither wind, rain, nor bad markets can wipe out.

Save your own flower seeds this fall.

Wounded Veterans Learn Farming I | N AND about the city

Wounded veterans of the great war are being trained in agriculture at the New York State Institute of Applied Agriculture at Farmingdale, L. I. This photograph shows a few of the vets with a baby tractor drawing a plow.

THE BLACKSMITH POET IS AT IT AGAIN Shakespeare and Riley are dead and gone but Bill Daniel, the socialist who has been put in charge of the democratic party, still lives. Bill sent us the following, ahem—poem, by mail. Probably no other newspaper in Muncie would print it. We have printed some of Bill’s slush before and 1 in all fairness it is right to print this one. DALE AND HIS FIDDLE Hi diddle-diddle, George plays on a fiddle, That has but one string and a bow; That is why it is rare, George gets anywhere, The noise that he makes is too low. The tunes he plays, No joy will raise, And no praises of George will be sung; You are more apt to say, May God speed the day, When George from some limb will be hung. ’ • j He jumps onto Bunch, With his weak little punch, Then struts with a wise looking eye; \ And says to his chums, Who are mostly bums, See what a great boy am I. He jumped onto Klein, For falling in line, > To help his good friend Doctor Bunch; - • ^ . But Klein only smiled, Was not even riled, For he never felt that little punch. His brain he did tap, To hit Daniel a rap, . . \ That would lay old Bill in the shade; But the. ones who bought Dale, Will find they did fail, ' ' ‘ ’ And a very bad bargain have made. Still George wonders why, ' , 1 t Plis pdckets are‘ shy, Of the stuff it takes to buy beans; But he fan’t gather in, ' ' Much silver or tin,, . ' i • With the stuff he puts out for long greens. He must play a new, tune, And that pretty soon, • • j a v Or else of bean soup he’ll be shy; For his weak little bids, i Place beneath him the skid*s, ‘ - i • That will cause us to bid him goodbye. Then when all said, Little George will be dead, But no flags will be hung at half tnast; We’ll sing hi diddle-diddle, Little George and his fiddle, To some other country has past. The only thing we don’t like about Bill’s poetry is its very sanguinary slant. Once before Bill wrote a poem about the editor of this paper which threatened a ride on a rail. This time he goes farther. We are to be hung from a limb! And then, says the poet, “Little George will be dead ” Quite likely Bill is right. Little George would sure be dead if Bill’s suggestion were taken, and he were hung from a limb. Hanging from a limb sometimes has that effect, unless the limb happens to be of a gooseberry tree. Bill is certainly making great headway as a politician and those who have employed him to run the literary end of the democratic campaign are to be complimented for their stupendous sagacity. We do wish, though, that Bill would cut out the bloodthirsty talk. Some nutty friends of Bill might take him at his word some time and try some of that rail riding or hanging stuff and then we’d have to have our old automatic all cleaned over again-

Fats keep the body warm to give it i power to work. It isn’t the far-sighted man who is always looking for trouble. Few people are so disagreeable as those who agree with everybody. The milk of human kindness doesn’t always make buttej’ for the people who are well bred. The popular novel doesn’t seem to treat of married life. Married life is a short story nowadays. Nell—“Did the wedding pass off nicely?” Belle—“Oh, beautifully. Every woman there was crying.” You never can tell. The man who makes the longest prayers Is frequently short when the collection plate is passed. “Extremes meet,” quoted the Wise Guy. “Yes, many a hot-headed fellow gets cold feet,” replied the Simple Mug. Even when he can't count on his friends, the optimist thanks God that he can still count on his fingers. The cynical bachelor observes that a philosopher is any man who has never attempted to argue with a woman. The boy who says he would rather give his money to the benighted heathen than spend it going to the circus will bear watching. Muggins—“Hope is a great factor in the tight for success.” Buggins— “Oh, yes, hope is all right, but it is just as well to remember that two pairs will beat a four flush.” FLORIDA PHILOSOPHY ^ A bass singer is not as base as he sings. No, Dickie, a ship’s salon isn’t a sand bar. Nobody loves a fat man, unless with him goes a fat salary. Eh, girls? A self-made man is all right; but there are times when even a selfstarter fails. Now is the time if you feel like writing to drop a line to the fish and let ’em know you’re coining. A young hick had better be tied to his mother’s apron strings than to a wild woman’s shoe strings. j ^ A new broom sweeps clean, but then i people use vacuum cleaners these days. (Maybe there’s more dirt.) The average housewife is more interested in bringing down the price of groceries than in bringing up father. —Florida Times-Union.

STATISTICAL NOTES

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FORD OFFICER HEARS MISSOURIANS’ PLEA

Joplin, Mo., Sept.8—Attentive consideration of a proposal to have Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer and capitalist take over the defunct Missouri and North Arkansas railroad, was p(iven to a committee representing towns along the line at a conference in Detroit yesterday with E. G, Liebold, personal secretary to Mr. Ford, J. R. Pile, a member of the committee, telegraphed a local newspaper last night. The committee was closed with Mr. Liebold for nearly three hours, at the end of which Mr. Ford’s secretary announced that the request would receive immediate attention, Mr. Pile’s message said. Complete data on the railroad, which suspended August 1, last, was furnished Secretary Liebold.

MILK MEN TO FORM MARKET ASSOCIATION

Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana Districts To Be Represented in Organization

BABIES’ LUCKY ESCAPE Ramsgate, Eng.—The two infant children of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas White were asleep in their bed when the roof collapsed. The timbers smashed the bed, hut neither child was injured.

WOMEN STIR STRIKE New York—The award of trophies by a women’s committee to stores declared the best kept in the exclusive. Long Island suburb of Forest Hills Gardens has caused a row. Some proprietors claim they are slighted for spite.

LOVE ME, LOVE MY DOG Rome—Joseph Fiero, a cook, stole the Countess Alfina’s pet dog|. She had him arrested. He said he loved the countess and stole the dog because she scorned him. He got a year in prison to nurse his passion.

Cincinnati, Sept. 7—Several hundred milk, producers from the Cincinnati distribution territory, including sections of Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, met here yesterday and agreed unanimously to market their milk on a co-operative basis to the exclusion of the present method of selling, their products to a middleman. More than one-half of the necessary number of signatures sought for , the movement were obtained at the I meeting, it was announced, and it was declared that there is no doubt now but that the plan will go throug)h. The mutual non-profit plan is to be adopted. The farmers are to pool their milk and market it through a central organization, to be known as the Tri-state Co-operative Milk Marketing association. . Producers who become members of the association will be prevented from marketing their products elsewhere, unless it should be offered to the association first and rejected or permission for such sale outside should be granted by the association. TEN-YEAR-OLD SUICIDE Swaffham, Eng.—Albert Fodder, aged ten, ran away because he was reprimanded at school. He put his neck on the railroad track as a train approached and was decapitated. WALLPAPER BATHING SUITS London—Bathing costumes of wallpaper designs have “caught on” at most of the English beaches. These costumes produce a grotesque effect as they cling to wet bodies.

Thirty-eight per cent of the electricity we utilize comes from water power. There are eight meat packing plants in Indianapolis employing more than 12,000 workers. More than 700,000 women in the United States are afliliated with the American Federation of labor. One section of the new Alaskan railroad was built at a cost of $250,000 per mile owing to the unusual difficulties encountered. During the last year the crude oil production in California reached a total of 105,613,700 barrels, the largest ever recorded. Indians farm for themselves a total of 759,933 acres. Indians doing this vast work number 36,328. The number engaged in stock raising is 47,174, and the value of stock owned by Indians is $37,401,101. — it A Virginia railway locomotive hauled 80 loaded coal gondolas containing 9,200 tons of coal from Victoria to Norfolk unaided. The 125-mile trip was made in nine hours and 50 minutes, and it is claimed to be a new record.

AROUND THE WORLD There are natives in central Africa who can jump five feet into the air from a standing position. That the use of splints In the treatment of fractures was known to the rude practitioners of prehistoric America is revealed by examination of the skeleton of a young woman recently exhumed in the Pueblo ruins at Aztec, N. M. A remarkable tree in India is known by the natives as the mowra and by ourselves as the “Bassia tree.” Of its three varieties, one produces the butterseeds that have been much used in the manufacture of margarine, soap, etc., in Europe. Lloyd’s is probably one of the most famous British institutions and is known throughout the world. It is associated in minds of most people with tne insurance of ships and cargoes and with occasional freak policies, which are in the form almost of bets or wagers.

London—“Dr.” Charles Henry Willie, a beauty specialist, was fined $100 for representing himself as a doctor. He promised never to offend again.

. MOONING AND SPOOING A full moon is romantic But, sweethearts, be on guard Its glow Is apt to show The hammock in the yard.

HIS DISCOVERY 'She: You used to say you couldn’t I P v e without me. He: ThaPs before I found that you’d had three husbands before I knew you, who couldnYt live with you.

NOTHING NEW Snail — Own your own home, eh? Why I’ve always done that.

AT THE FISH STORE

Mrs. Newlywed—How do fish

come?

Clerk—In various sizes. Mrs. Newlywed^—Then give me a pair of sevens. That is the size of my glove.

URGENT So you drove your car last Sunday? Yes, but it was very grgent business. Urgent? Yes. I was taking my moth-er-in.law home.

BEFORE THE DAYS OF FIREARMS. Old Stoiieham.mer: Hey! Don’t you see that sign? No hunting allowed. - - * Young . BoneT chisel: I’m aising a bow an’ arrow, you old boob. That’s not hunting aloud.

Weekly Marketgram U. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates Washington, D. C. For week ending September 2, 1921Fruits and Vegetables Potato prices advanced in Chicago carlot market. Minnesota early Chios up 75c ranging $2.25 to 2.50 per 100 pounds sacked. Colorado and Idaho Rurals strong at $3.15 to 3.25 other middlewestern markets steady to firm at $3 to 3.25. Prices at Idaho shipping points up 15c at $1.75; at Minnesota points 20 to 25 cents higher at $2.05 to 2.10. New Jersey Giants firm at $1.70 to 1.85 f.o.b. shipping points, steady in Eastern cities $2 to 2.35. Maine Cobblers steady in Boston at $2.20 to 2.35. Eastern yellow onions steady in eastern cities at $3 to 3.90 per 100 pounds sacked, slightly lower at Massachusetts shipping points at $3.50. Middle western yellow Globes steady at $3.50 to 3.75. Washington yellow stock steady in middlewestern mai’kets at $2.50 to 2.75. Cabbage markets generally steady, demand and movement moderate. New York domestic cabbage sold at $45 to 50 bulk per ton in eastern cities, and at $35 to 40 in Cincinnati. In St. Louis Colorado stock strong at $50 to 55, Wisconsin Danish Type $60 to 65. Total apple movement 5134 cars compared with 5910 to date last season. Most markets well supplied. Apple demand slow to 'moderate, markets dull and 4w‘ealc. New York A 214 Wealthys $8 to 8.25 per barrel in Baltimore, $7-50 to 7.75 Chicago, and $7 Pittsburgh, West Virginia Jonathans A 214 $8.50 in Philadelphia. Hay Market conditions changed only slightly during the week. Eastern markets generally dull. Slightly improved demand noted at Atlanta and other Southern markets. Light receipts cause advance at Chicago but country loadings are again increasing. Prices lower at Cincinnati but demand fairly active at the decline. Quoted Sept 7, No. 1 timothy New York $30.50; Phila. $24; Cincinnati '$19; Chicago $24. Feed Demand generally dull. Winter wheat feeds more freely offered. Cottonseed meal strong and quoted about $5 per ton higher than a week ago. Very little buying at the advance. Corn feeds unchanged in price, demand light. Alfalfa meal steady Storage stocks of wheat feeds good. Receipts and movement light. Quoted Sept. 7 Bran $13, middlings $14, flour middlings $20, Minneapolis; 36 per cent cotton seed meal (spot) $35 Memphis; linseed meal $38 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa meal $20 Kansas City; Gluten feed $30.15 Chicago; white hominy feed $23 St. Louis. Dairy Products Butter market very unsettled and quiet the past week, buyers holding off until Labor Day. Stocks of fancy butter well cleared, and marked now firmer with prices on 92 score 1 cent higher than a week ago. Closing prices, 92 score; ChicaTe 39^c; New York, Phila. and Boston 42 cents. Grain For the week Chicago December wheat advanced 9%c closing at $1.32 1 4; December corn 1 cent closing at 5414- Save lack of support and aggressive selling by northwest houses on the second, the market advanced throughout the week with good commission house demand, good buying by eastern houses, short covering and generally bullish news. On the seventh India purchased around 11,500,000 bushels wheat from Australia; country wheat offerings in Southwest larger. Closing price in Chicago cash market; No. 2 Red winter wheat $1.30; No: 2 hard $1.31; No. 2 mixed corn 50c; No. 2 yellow corn 56c; No. 3 white oats 36c. For the week Minneapolis December wheat advanced 8%c closing at $1.39 1 / 4; Kansas City December wheat Vzc at $1.23%- Chicago September wheat closed at $1.29; September corn 5414 c. Livestock and Meats

OVER THE TOP I hear you took a disastrous plunge in Wall street? Yes; 1 was sort of standing on the edge, and someone gave me a tipi

They say thatTrien of braips live long. Miss Keen: Well, don’t b~6 discouraged, Mr. Pinhead, all rules have their exceptions, you know.

AN ERROR. Choily: I came to ask for your daughter’s hand. Fond Dad: Do you realize she's all I’ve got? Choily: Gee, I thought you had a million!

Lens GLITTER J?/ Consistency fs a( That’s all' right, it you can’t

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THESE STRIKERS LOSE Sunderland, England—When shipyard joiners struck on a 12,000-ton oil steamer building on the Wear, the oWner<Rsailed the vessel to Havre, to be completed by French labor.

Chicago hog prices show declines ranging from 10 to 75c per 100 lbs. compared with prices a week ago. Beef and feeder steers down 25 to 50c; butcher cows 15 to 25c. Heifers unchanged; veal calves up 25 to 75c per 100 lbs. Fat lambs and yearlings up 25 to 50c. Fat ewes steady to 25c higher. September 7 Chicago prices; Bulk of sales $6.65 to ?; top $9.10; medium and good beef steers $6 to 9.50; butcher cows and heifers $3-50 to 8.75; feeder steers $5 to 7.25; light and medium weight veal calves $10.75 to 13.50; fat lambs $7 to 9.25; feeding lambT $5 to 7.10; yearlings $4.75 to 7.25; fat ewes $2.50 to 4.75. Stockers and feeder shipments from ten important markets during the week ending Sept. 2 were; Cattle and calves 52,022; hogs 4,378; sheep 131,508. In eastern wholesale fresh meat markets beef ranged from 50c higher at some markets to as much as $1.50 lower at others. Good veal up $1 to 2; medium grade veal generally $1 lower. Lamb ranges $2 to 3 lower; mutton steady to $1 lower. Pork loins $1 to 2 higher. Sept. 7 prices good grade meats; beef $13.50 to 17; veal $20 to 24; lamb $16 to 20; mutton $11 to 14; light pork loins $27 to 30; heavy pork loins $17 to 22. The Tobacco Market According to a Census bulletin there were 1,894,400 acres planted in tobacco in 1920, while the production from that crop amounted to 1.508,064,000 pounds. There were imported during the year leaf tobacco and tobacco products to the value of $98,562,000, while the exports of leaf tobacco were valued at approximately $245,000,000 and of tobacco products at $43,000,000. The combined production of cigars in registered factories and in bonded manufacturing warehouses numbered 8,720,754,000 and of cigarettes, 61,859,900,000 and of chewing and smoking tobacco and snuff, 413,891,000 pounds. There were 15,834,000,000 cigarettes exported during the year, leaving 46,000,000,000 factory made cigarettes for consumption in the United States. Revenue collected during the year amounted to $294,000,000.

Three old broomsticks, says Mrs. L. J. Gilbert of Grover City, can be made into the best kind of tripod support for a home made dress form.