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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Etemocracj; 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 2640 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921

THE DEATH OF SENATOR KNOX Senator Philander Knox died last week, has been buried, and his successor appointed. Since that time republican newspapers have devoted much space telling of the great services of the departed senator, and especially of the manner in which he busted up all the trusts while serving as attorney general of the United States. You have all probably noticed that the meat trust, the oil trust and all the rest of the trusts have been losing money and going into bankruptcy ever since the late senator tore them to pieces. It is always in order to speak well of the dead. We deplore the death of'Philander Knox, the man, and citizen, and respect his memory as such, but as a United States senator who helped haze Woodrow Wilson when ill health brought him to the brink of the grave, and who opposed the Versailles treaty because of its harshness to hated Germany, we have nothing but words of condemnation. Knox, as a factor in the life of America, is already forgotten. The name of Woodrow Wilson, whom Knox hated, will be a household word in the homes of all Americans, centuries hence.

A new Richmond has come into the field to complain of the democracy of the Post-Democrat. Charles Emerson, the republican member of the board of works, thinks it is a terrible crime for the board to publish legal notices for the city in this newspaper. He says it is not a democratic newspaper and is lying about Roll Bunch. It seems strange that the republican member of the board would be the one to kick, when both of the democratic members are satisfied as to the eligibility of the PostDemocrat to carry the legal notices. If he is not entirely devoid of a sense of humor he ought to see that his objections come nearer disqualifying him to serve as a republican member of the board than they do of disqualifying the Post-Democrat. However Charley will only have a little more than two months to register a kick as a member of the board of works. He is one of the bipartisan crowd who expect to sink or swim with Doc Bunch. There will be quite a few in the submarine squad after the first of January, the way things look now.

We meet scores of Democrats every day who declare that they will refuse to vote for Bunch for mayor. Hundreds who believed that he would retrieve himself have their eyes opened. K he should be elected and allowed to serve, the crowd that surrounds him now would attract federal officers like flies around a ’lasses bar’l. If the present tactics of the candidate and his board of strategy were to continue after he actually gets in office, Atlanta would soon claim its own again. The joke will be on the democratic party if this happens. Bunch’s refusal to get off the ticket and allow some one to run who has no prison record will be responsible for republican rule here for the next four years.

One more week gone by and Dr. Bunch has not yet reorganized the city board of election commissioners to suit himself. What we fear most is that Bill Daniels may conclude to write a poeriTabout it. If he does, how in the world will he ever find a word. to. rime with election commissioner ?

It takes more than fried fish to make suckers out of voters.

Doc’s right hand bower is a strike breaker. What has labor got to say about that?

Senator Tom Watson, the Georgian Ku Kluxer who derides Wilson, accuses nuns of being impure and whose opposition to the war with Germany amounted to treason, is Dr. Bunch’s ideal of a real statesman and writer. If you don’t believe this, ask Chauncey Stillson, who spent some time in Georgia with Dr. Bunch during the Watson campaign.

It takes a certain number of suckers to make a fish fry possible. It seems that the suckers have quit biting. The suckers are too busy eating each other up to pay any attention to campaign bait, hence, no more fish frys.

The Bunch board of strategy at a recent meeting decided to place a dictograph in the Post-Democrat office. Wish they would hurry up and put ’er to work. We never saw one of the denied contraption. One enthusiast wanted to plant a quart of white mule in the office and have it found there by officers, but that grand little scheme w^as even too strong for the board of strategy, and w r as voted down. Another disappointment, for we are pretty near out of mule—haven’t got more than a half barrel left.

Wonder how the laboring men of Muncie, w r hose big strike in the spring of 1917 was broken by lily livered toilers wdio were afraid of the boss, like the idea of supporting a candidate for mayor who is using one of the strike breakers as his bell wether ?

The fear is expressed that the making of a bum poet will mean the spoiling of a perfectly good blacksmith.

Burns, Swinburne, Keats and Riley must turn over in their graves every time Bill begins to play his tune on his typewriter To be known at home and abroad as the poet laureate of Five Points is not altogether to be sneezed at, even in sneezing weather.

MISGUIDED ACTIVITIES (?) Much has been written and said of Urbain Ledoux, who sold unemployed on the auction block in Boston and who is said to have done more harm to organized charity in that staid city than good to the men he sold. He made another attempt at the same proceeding in New York and at last with a small army of unemployed, entered Washington, for an invasion of the White House, though his army, disappeared. Ledoux was kept moving by officials and certainly became a nuisance. Every city tries and tries hard to take care of its people. In Troy officials now are doing their best to look after those without work and though sometimes something is needed to bring the thoughtless to a realization of adverse conditions such tactics as those of Ledoux are useless, sensational and' it is believed do more harm than good. What a shame it is that these periods of unemployment come about. When fortune smiles roads are built, public buildings erected and other work carried on and to one who looks on and thinks backward it seems work that could easily wait is rushed through with other work more imperative. Some way to control the country’s activities, dividing the rush jobs and those which could be done later, has been suggested as a way to avoid such contingencies as the country now faces. If there is any way possible to carry out such a suggestion it is hoped it will be devised and preparedness be a motto in the future, making breadlines, such tactics as adopted by Ledoux and others unthought of and unnecessary. At present help is needed to furnish work for the unemployed and it is believed all called upon to aid in this project as planned by Mayor Deaton and those working with him will do all they can to help their brother and sister needing it, and the latter also can help by letting their wants be known.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1921

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John R. Hines is the democratic candidate for council in the fifth ward, comprising the thirteenth, fourteenth

and fifteenth precincts.

We do not know the republican candidate opposing Hines, but whoever he is, black or white, he ought to defeat the democratic candidate. Hines was on the “Doc Bunch slate” and defeated two other really good men for the nomination. We urge the defeat of John Hines as a democratic newspaper which has a right to object to the election of

objectionable democrats.

The divorced wife of the candidate, Mrs. Mary J. Hines, lives in a little cottage on West Twelfth Street. She is getting along in years, but works every day taking in washing, and when the paper mill is running, putting in long hours in the cutting room. She says during the seven years she lived as the wife of Hines, he did not “work a lick,” but subsisted entirely upon her earnings at the wash tub, and the earnings of her

deaf mute daughter.

She says he was so lazy that he would not take the trouble to remove his shoes or clothing when he went to bed and that many a morning he lay in bed with his shoes on, snoozing peacefully while she did two big washings. When the deaf mute daughter of Mrs. Hines became old enough to work she took employment at the Ball factory. The girl paid two dollars a week board, but Hines kicked at the low price and urged that she be charged more f for her board. The girl left and lived with a sister. The house needed a new roof and foundation and the floor of the kitchen caved in. Mrs. Hines says Hines proposed that if she would agree to a joint title for the property hm would go to work for $1.75 a day at a job which had been offered him, and would pay for the repairs on the house. The transfer was made after Hines had hauled some sills and other materials for the new foundation, Mrs. Hines says. As soon as the title was completed Hines sold the materials he had hauled in and never did make the repairs, according to Mrs. Hines, and did not go to work. She says Hines made a speech from the same platform with Dr. Bunch at Heekin Park during the primary, in the course of which he indicated that the city owed him the nomination because of his record as an instigator of great civic enterprises. She says about the only work he ever did while she was supporting him by taking in washings, was to the food she provided for him and go to bed with his

boots on.

She says if the city owes him anything, the city might discharge its obligation bv paying her Hines’ board for the seven years she was compelled to feed him and furnish

him a place to sleep.

When a divorce was finally granted, and the hard working woman was relieved of her load, the cquyt caused him to deed back to her the half interest in her property to which he claimed title. • J ’ This is the story told by Mrs. Hines, the ex-wife of the man who wants to represent, as a democrat,vtRe fifth ward in the city of Muncie. Mrs. Hines is a good wjpman, respected by her neighbors, and no one listening to her

story, would doubt it for a second.

It is probable that the board of strategy will now put

out some more poison about the Post-Democrat attacking another democrat. We are prefectly willing so blaze away. We are going against any two-legged critter, democrat or

republican, who forces.his .wife to support him

washings, so if this be treason, make the most of it. H

And in the meantime we advise the good people, of the

fifth ward, and out there among those humble cottages you will find some of the best people to whom God ever gave the breath of life, to get this story direct from Mrs. Hines

herself. . . The man or -woman who would vote for Hines, after hearing her story, ought to be disfranchised for life. What an honor it would be to the city, and the demo-

cratic party, to have a man sitting in the council who lived seven years on the earnings of his wife’s wash tub and the

labor of a poor, deaf mute stepdaughter! God forbid.

Construction Began With Invasion by Julius Caesar.

BRICK ROADS MOST POPULAR

«(f&pted as surfaces'on roads whlcl had excellent tlrainaJse and were laid on a rolled natural! foundation with a sand filleer. Most of the dike roads, which naturally have, a perfect drainage, were surfaced With this type. Later in the nineteenth century, when the process of vitrifying brick

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LAND UTILIZATION

Henry C. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, recently appointed a committee of five scientists to consider the problem of .land utilization. It is announced America has one billion acres of unused land and though only a small part can be used for growing cops, it is believed that they can be made useful in some man- ! ler. This committee of scientists certainly has an important | md a man’s sized job ahead of them. Population in America is j prowing constantly and surely in years to come this land will be j seeded badly and even now what a waste it seems to let it be idle. There are still lessons of irrigation, fertilization, drainage, etc., to be learned and these lessons when learned could be put to use in these lands. The entire problem of land utilization in the United States is a task to consider, but Mr. Wallace believes he has placed it in good hands and it will be solved in some way tqjbejbestjnterests of the people.

BETHROTHED FOR FIFTY YEARS Berlin—Herman Krahnest, aged 75, and Pauline Gorlich, aged 65, were married in a suburban almshouse, after being betrothed fifty year's. They must live apart, however, for there is no place in the almshouse for

HELICOPTER SUCCESSFUL Farnborough, Eng—Recent tests of Britain’s secretly built helicopter, a machine that can fly straight up and down, are reported to have been so successful that only a few changes in the model are necessary.

MANIAC POISONS CANDY

LOOKING BACKWARD The files of the Muncie Star and the Muncie Press disclose the astonishing fact that the success of Dr. Bunch in securing the nomination for mayor in 1913 was largely due to the fact that he was bitterly opposed by Billy Finan. Dr. Bunch capitalized the opposition of Finan and called for support because he was being fought by the “Finan-DufFy Gang.” Billy Finan is now one of the majorgenerals in command of the Bunch army of invasion. Has anything happened to William since 1913, observable to the general public, that would tend to transform him from a liability to a political asset in 1921 ? Doc Bunch boasted in 1913 that Billy’s opposition made him mayor. It remains to be seen whether or not he can win this time under the management of the man whom he pointed out as an awful example in 1913.

Brindisi, Italy—Driven insane by grief over the death of his daughter, a local confectioner poisoned all the candy in his shop, aud more than two hundred persons w - made ill. He confessed after two victims had died. BOLSHEVIK MASSACRE

Constantinople—Following an unsuccessful revolt at Astrakhan again Bolshevik rule, three hundred citizens were massed on the bridge over the liver and shot to death by machine gun fire.

AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION A complete change of the police board, made in timt, might have the effect of saving from disaster the parties who nov seem to be heaued direct eithei for Atlanta or Fort Leavenworth Either the voluntay resignation of the board, or thar removal by the mayor and ajpointmGnt of men who cannot be controlled by Roll Bunch, Billy Firan and Elmer Gentry, would clear up the situation considerably. It would be best hr the mayor, best for the present loard of safety and best for Roll Bmch and those who surround him if this were done. They should all be saved from their folly. Nofody in Muncie wants to see these ipen get into trouble. If ever the provebial ounce of prevention was neeted in Muncie it is right now. Bit, as we said before, it is their fuieral.

Between Fifth and Nmth Centuries Country Was Constantly at War and Little Was Done—Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Saw the Greatest Development In Construction of Highways and Waterways. By HERBERT M. HENDRiKX. (Formerly Reserve Officer in the Army of the Netherlands, late officer in the American Expeditionary Forces.) The Hague, Holland.—(Special.) — The problem of road construction, now agitating several of the states of America, notably Ohio and Illinois, ;has been settled in this little kinglorn by the .ea for a number of vears, and settled, Incidentally, ir. a v o r of the p e r m a nent -•..Tface type )! construeA history of road construction, nowhere so c o m p i etely detailed 1 in Europe as in this country. 1-ierpert VI. Hcndnkx. j s 0 f interest in connection with the American situation. The record of roadways in what is now Holland began with the historical invasion of the Lowlands by the armies of Julius Caesar in 60 B. C., who built, for military purposes, the first permanent road in the lowlands at that time. The highway was about 180 kilometers long; the southern part being constructed of heavy sandstone boulders hewn out of the hills on the east bank of the river, while the northern part was constructed with a foundation of corduroy. Between the fifth and ninth centuries the country was constantly at war, and little or nothing was done in the way of road building. In the ninth century, however, the country came under the rule of Charlemagne, and under him road building was promoted extensively by a system connecting the various feudal governments. As a result of this construction, cities that are now known as Arnheim, Utrecht, Delft, Leiden, Antwerp, in Holland, came into being; thus early demonstrating direct connection between properly constructed highways and successful urban life. The labor of. construction was done by the people as part of their feudal obligations. They used the material at hand, which was sandstone, boulders, limestone and granite, and invariably the surface was of granite blocks. The roads were then maintained by tolls exacted from the people traveling them With the reign of Charles V came the revival of highway construction. This time cobblestones from the rivers and roughly shaped basalt rocks served as material far roads, which connected the principal cities of the Lowlands, and which greatly facilitated communication and increased progress. In 1648 began the “Golden Age of Holland.” During this time there was the greatest development of highways and waterways in Holland. It was then that the dikes on the sides of the canals were built, so today all canals in Holland are constructed with a highway on each side. The dikes were built with material dug from canals, while the crest was improved with suitable material and utilized as a highway, each bank allowing only one way traffic. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the highway system of Holland developed rapidly and thousands of miles of improved highways were built, using cobblestones and granite block as surface material. When John L. Macadam started building roads in England, highway construction in the Lowlands was changed fundamentally and the macadam type of roadway become popular. The old existing highways were reshaped and the old stone base used as a foundation. All the main highways were in due time rebuilt or resurfaced with macadam wearing course, which at the then existing vehicular traffic served very well. In the present age of motor traffic the macadam type of road has become obsolete, although the macadam foundation is to be strongly recommended, as it provides a better drainage and is not hampered by expansion and contraction, due to change in temperature, whereas, concrete is very susceptible to these changes. About the middle of the nineteenth century the first brick roads were constructed in Holland. These brick highways were out of the ordinary building brick measuring 2x34^x7 inches. This type was generally

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was perfecited, brick roads became ) ' w "° take their orders from Bunch, more popular, and small brick of the ( v ^ ^ known that federal officers same dimensions as the abpve men-, _ e o e j! co g n i z ance of the tioned building brick was e xtensively ! strategy lor Several vveeks ahd th^ used. This type of brick is, known as Post-Democrat cannot conceive how the ‘Klinker Brick” and derives its | men possessed of ordinary intelligence name from the “sound produced by ; would deliberately invite a repetition knoefung two bricks together.” i of the disaster which befell them beComcrete foundation was not) ^ ore > or how Mayor Kelly and Chief known, but a foundation of Telford, . honest and capable crushed gravel or stone, was gener-! ouicials. would care to take chances ally constructed. In mahy localities ein ^ oeld responsible for the acts a fohindation of old brick bats was j the^ifldnocc. °f 0 a" C °i nvic ^u ^ vh ° have used, the brick being procured from „ i- ° ^ th elr control dismantled fortifications or city walls cidents as the Chapman raid SUCh m "

Brick roads have given excellent I *

service and satisfaction in the Neth-j NOVEL SCHEME TO HALT CORN

erlunds ever since they have' been 1 .,,

adopted, chiefly because of the law * cost off maintenance. In Holland a , state highway administration was in- j augurated in the early part of the nineteenth century. Its system has I given splendid satisfaction and has ! p/rovided for a chain of improved

BORER MAY BE ADOPTED

1 ropose Early Crop, Which Would Trap Pest, Which Then Would Be Burned

c 0h io may set a trap for the loathhighways reaching the farthest cor-' | e Sfal Sf which"is^Wnn fSm.

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the European continent. | in crossing Lake Erie and Lake Tourists who travel in Holland will Michigan, during the past summer, notice that the roads are in excellent an( i the agricultural experts of Ohio condition, In spite of the fact that * anc * other lake states are puzzling out some of the vitrified brick roads are - a ^strategy of defense against the

half a century old This should be I ln ' as ^ n - ,

attributed to the fact that excellent i 'f i the Ohio budrainage is always provided for and ington conferring 'with federal^rL that a sound vitrified brick shale or t cultural experts, In the meantime he fire clay brick is used. is in receipt of a letter from E. P.

—— 1 JYlt. official entomologist of the New

( ’t ork agricultural department, who , suggests a plan that may be adopted by Ohio and other states in the de-

j Editor Approves Permanent Rowds

f av 'se of American corn fields against

the foreign foe.

I One Proposed Plan

] One of the means suggested by Mr.

The propaganda recently promoted > Felt is the planting of a small area with reference to road building in < nearly sweet corn next spring, to Ohio !, very unfortunate. The j w^uid” necessahir'hav™ to X to build roads is in the summer time, | stroyed, it being the theory of the

when work can be pushed. The type of roads must be determined by those having the responsibility for the matter It- isn’t a question of whether one road costs more than another, but it is a question of which type of road will give the service paid for. When Highway Commissioner Her-

New York strategists that the corn borers which survive the winter in the infested American areas will attack the early crop, if such heroic

measures be adopted.

It was suggested by federal experts that a quarantine area be established, including Indiana, Ohio and parts of Pennsylvania and New York, and this will be considered at the hearing called by the federal government for

rick came on the job he faced a road Oct. 11. But the New York entomogo-

condition which was terrible. The past winter had seen good roads ruined by traffic. Trucks were hauling larger loads than were reasonable; larger loads than are now law- t ful. ' The lower-cost roads, of which the propagandist speaks so enthuaiastically, are those that went to pieces, and, of course, some higher type roads were damaged. The present season has been used by road build- j ing men to put the old roads in as i good condition as possible and pro- , mote new ones as fast as they can. I Nobody objects to high cost if he gets what he pays for. The administration of the highway department is responsible for getting that value. ! While there have been many in- i stances where the care was not properly exercised, the present purpose seems to be to get roads and get val- 1 ties, and as such the people of Ohio will stand back of a substantial plan of road building rpgardless of the | fact that costs are now high on all types. Governor Davis has called atten- | tion to the public advantage of pushing public work this season, when | manufacturing plants are shot to pieces by a waiting policy. These are the days when probably more than 75 per cent of the people are driving some place. It is best to keep the road construction work going on. It is best to apply types of road as they are suggested by the i necessity of traffic. The people of ! Ohio demand better roads. They i have progressed in this from the ; former type of light traffic days to ! the present type of heavy construc-

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Not the cheapest roads but the best roads should be provided, and no one will excuse an economy at the expense of efficiency It is hoped that the work of road construction will go on, and it is believed Ohio is intelligent enough to approve that which is substantial construction, so that the future may enable our state to proceed to more construction, rather than being embarrassed with delays and costs for necessary repairs —Editorial in Bueyrus Telegraph

lists believe that the quarantine will not be nearly so effective as an intensive siege of field control work, directed toward keeping infestation at a minimum. A program outlined by Mr. Felt includes the following

suggestions:

Other Suggestions

“Thorough, nlov<'ig of Ltll early corn stubble, followed by rolling in the. infested areas. Disposal of all corn stover, in field, lot or barn, by

burning.

“Planting of a small amount of early sweet corn next spn'mc to serve •s 'ray corn and th-’s rm’xc Hie 1

spread.

“f'lr.s<v s nrrvr-ion of all early corn, in infested arras next summer and provision for handling it in such a way as to eliminate the pest. “pl»"tiop the mein crop late to avoid infestation. “Ensile the entire crop whenever possible, including all! wash' from canning factories; cut corn close to the ground and as early as possible.” It is also suggested that state and federal government take such steps as may he necessary to recompense owners of corn destroyed.

PLUNGE DESTROYS SPEECH

Paris—Raymonde Martin blindfolded her eyes with a blue silk handkerchief after taking off all her clothing and plunged into the Seine. She was rescued, but has been unable to speak since.

PRINCE REDS’ VICTIM

Paris—The reason for the suicide of Prince Lobanoff Rostonsky was revealed when it became known that two Bolshevik agents had followed him here from Russia and robbed him of his entire fortune.

m FOR RISKING LIFE

Hitchen, Eng.—Officials of the Knebworth Flower Show presented Constable John Atterbury with $10 for saving a dozen children from a wild horsed He suffered a broken wrist and a fractured skull.

BOAR’S STARVATION TUSK Paris—A wild boar shot near Montpelier was found to have a tusk which curving upward from the lower jaw, had perforated the snout and upper jaw. It would ultimately have died of starvation.

FIVE MEN’S TOWNS London—According to the official census report there are only five towns in Great Britain in which men predominate.

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