Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 January 1922 — Page 1

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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1922

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New Road Superintendent Promises Great Efficiency Under County Commissioners

M. L. Yoakem, the newly appointed road superintendent for Deleware county, this week carded the Press and Star with an announcement of the policies proposed to be carried out fcy him during his incumbency in

office.

Economy, efficiency and the best results for the least money are the main things to be looked after, according to the statement made by the new road superintendent. He adds that the pledges of great accomplishments promised are to be carried out by himself under the able guidance of the board of county commissioners. With ah due respect to the ambitious utterances of the newly appointed official, we reserve the right to take them with the proverbial grain of salt, especially the promise that efficiency and economy will get anywhere with the present board of county commissioners at the helm and directing the activities of the road department. The county commissioners of Delaware county have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. Under republican rule in Delaware countv. the country went broke, waste, graft and extravagance has developed on every hand and the people of the county. without respect to party, have lost

confidence in them.

One member of the board, Clarence Retherford, has shown himself to be a business man and an efficient public servant, but the voice of the majority has stifled every effort made by. him to nut county affairs on a business One member of the board, Jonas Shoemaker, who was largiely responsible for the dismissal of Sorter Ross, a really efficient road superintendent attempted to put over a deal to get himself the job. but his plot was frustrated by Mr. Retherford. Failing to get the job himself, and being opposed to Ross because the latter obiectgA to the retention of certain init assistant road superinten-

TITLED TWINS OF 8ft London—The Dowager Countess of Lytton and the Dowagier Lady Loch, twin sisters, have just celebrated the eightieth anniversary of their birthday. Though alike m looks, they are opponents in political thought and action.

CLINGS TO PIPE IN DEATH Aldershot, Eng.—Dennis Murphy, a canteen manager, walked into the Basingstoke canal and was drowned. When his body was recovered his pipe was still held firmly in his hand.

CONFERENCE NEWS

of Ross, although the tax payers of the county generally demanded that

he be retained!

The commissioners have the naming of the assistant road superintendents and it is known that selfish politicians who control every movement made by Shoemaker and Shroyer, have been busily engiasred for the mst two or three weeks fixing up a “slate” of assistants to the road superintendent whose first duty will be to build fences for Harry New and the

republican machine.

There are thirty two road districts in the county and there will be an assistant in each district. Is it likelv that the people will get the “efficient” and “economical” service out of a bunch of political precinct heelers, that is so confidently predicted by the new road superintendent, who was appointed himself through the agency of the political machine which has been wasting the tax payers’ money?

Arms Conference will continue throughout January in prder to comrid plete its program and reach an agreekrT nrentnon Ear Easterir questions-.

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BRITISH GET VODKA Berlin—Large quantities of vodka have recently been shipped from Russia through Germany to England.

Washington, D, C., Jan. 19—Final action on the naval limitation treaty has been delayed by the reference to Tokio of questions concerning the Japanese islands and the maintainauce of the status quo in fortifications in the Pacific. The ship scrapping schedule was also referred to London. • * • The Shantung negotiations were resumed between the Japanese and Chinese delegations and an agreement was reached on the withdrawal of the Japanese troops along the Shantung Railway. • • * y It is authoritatively announced that the nine-power treaty dealing with China and the Far East, is in process of gestation. • * * Administration plans payment of soldier bonus from interest on war loans or proceeds of sale of long-term securities into which the loans will be refunded.

Shantung .negotiations between Chinese and Japanese delegates resumed at the request of Japan. ♦ 41 Other Washington News It is disclosed to Congress that the International Joint Commission report recommending construction of the St. Law'rence waterway provides that the United States shall bear the majoi part of the expense in deepening the river and in the cost of the Wellanu Canal in Canada. « * # A Government reorganization scheme soon to be reported may legislate two members out of the Cabinet in the consolidation of the Navy qnd Army and Labor and Commerce Departments. • • • Republican leaders continue to predict victory for Senator Newberry, but by reduced majority. * * * Anti-gambling bill prohibiting publication of racing news denounced as attack on freedom of the press before Judiciary Committee.

********* **************************»*»i>*»»»»t'»»**'M''»*| | Peace and Harmony To Prevail ! .* 4 I The Press had a long editorial one day this week which * T voices the horrible fear of many republicans—namely that * ? the scrap between the Beveridge and New forces may * % create a breach that will be taken advantage of by the | f naughty and mischievous democrats. * It is all right, says the Press, for republicans to enjoy * * good natured contests in the primaries, but for heaven’s | t sake don’t get mad, seemed to be the burden of its cry. | * It was pointed out that trouble-making democrats are J now standing on the sidelines sicking the rival republican ? factions onto each other, which, as all truly good people 1 know, is a naughty, naughty thing to do. I We have no doubt that the Harry New army, led by * Major General Billy Williams, and the Beveridge hosts, led * by Major General Roy Friedley, will follow the advice of | the Press. It is possibe that the two major generals may, f venture out into no man’s land and make a few faces, and it £ may be that they will even go so far as to stick out their * tongues at each other, but far be it from them, or their valiant cohorts, to become peeved, angry, heated up or f otherwise bumfusticated. , £ The advice of the Press will no doubt be followed, so, I therefore, instead of a thumb biting and eye gouging free f for all, we may now expect a sort of pink tea battle, in which corn cobs and powder puffs will be the weapons instead of bullets and brass knucks. The Post-Democrat is willing to confess that it had great hopes of seeing a real scrap—one that would split the republican party right in two in the middle and let the democrats slide in next fall, but these hopes are now dashed since the Press has laid down the rules of the contest. Since the rules have been made it will now be the height of poor taste for republicans to get mad while they are fighting each other and democrats who seek to take advantage of republican family quarrels will be declared out of order. And. in the meantime, just to be on the safe side, the opposing factions, having agreed to the terms, of the peace conference, are in training for a real scra^ if powder puffs and corn cobs fail.

**»»**»*******************»>************************************^**************** * * I Frank Baily For Senator I • * Just now we are hearing considerable ta i.k in Indiana concerning the impending * battle between Senator New and Albert Jeremiah Beveridge. The republicans are going * ahead with their plans, obsessed with the mistaken idea that the Grand Old Party is go- $ ing to repeat its performance of 1920, when a yaller dog on the republican ticket could f have been elected. *

The average politician is stupid and his refusal to heed history is proverbial. Students of politics, looking back over the past forty years, cannot recall a single instance during that period where a landslide similar to that which smashed the democratic party in the fall of 1920, was not followed in the next biennial election by the complete over-

throw of the party in power.

This has been the rule, without a single exception, no matter which party won in the landslide. Invariably in the congressional elections following the landslides the party that lost before wins enough seats to control both branches of congress. Unless history fails to repeat itseli, the democrats will sweep the nation next fall and the senate and house of representatives will be purged of republican rule. Indiana will redeem herself next November and it can safely be said that neither Beveridge nor New will be chosen. The next senator to be elected from Indiana will be a democrat and it is up to the democrats to see to it that the right man gets on the ticket. Several prominent democrats have been suggested. Tom Marshall, former governor of Indiana and vice president under Woodrow Wilson for eight years, has been sug-

gested and he would make a first class candidate.

Bernard B. Shively of Marion, former state senator, has announced himself as a

candidate. Shively is a nephew of Tom Marshall. He turned progressive in 1912 and ran for congress in the eleventh district on the bull moose ticket. He long ago returned,

to the democratic fold and is preparing to make an active campaign. Ex-Governor Sam Ralston, of. course, has been frequently mentioned as a candidate,

but it is said that he will not enter the race. Tom Taggart, who was defeated in the

fall of 1920 by Jim Watson, will probably stay out of the race this time. The democrat, who, in the opinion of the Post-Democrat, is the most logical man

for thp senatorial nomination, is Frank Daily of Indianapolis, former United States District Attorney for Indiana. Mr. Daily is a big man, in every way—sane, level head-

ed, honest and courageous.

It is a relief to turn from the frothj Beveridge and the slippery Watson to a man of the Daily type, who would represent Indiana in the United States senate as she has not been represented in years—not since the death of that real democrat—Bryan’s best

loved friend, the late John Worth Kern.

Frank Daily is the man who was chosen by the government to prosecute Truman Newberry. Assisting Mr. Daily in that celebrated case was Hon. W. H. Eichhorn of Bluffton, who was the democratic candidate for congress from the eighth district in 1920. The trial was held at Grand Rapids before a jury in federal court, most of whom had voted for Newberry in the primary n which he defeated Henry Ford. With consummate skill and in spite of the tremendm is d ilficulties thrown in his way by the arrogant stand pat clique, and in spite of the fact that the jury was made up of republicans most of whom had been original Newberry me jMr. Daily secured a conviction and if the law had been permitted to take its course Newberry would now be in prison, instead of the

United States senate. ■

It would be peculiarly fitting at this time for Mr. Daily to become the candidate for the senate from Indiana. Both Senator; New and Watson voted to seat Newberry, the

The republican organization in Indiana stands

00 ouynra^fleartrorSenator Beveridge cbmpiain

man who bought his seat in the senatf back of tVieii senawi & Li wieh 'ufiiuuy. ing of the seating of Newberry.

In speaking here on the life of John Marshall he failed to voice his disapproval of the seating of a republican senator who had bought his way into the United States senate. Of course Beveridge will be a candidat e for the senate, notwithstanding his coy declarations to the contrary. When he finally anpounces his candidacy, is there anyone in Indiana foolish enough to believe that he will have the courage to come out in the open and say that he will refuse to take his seat, i f elected, if he has to sit as a colleague with a near-penitentiary bird who was convicted 0 f buying his election and only escaped through a convenient supreme court decision? Beveridge has a barrel of money, or rather his wife has, which is the same thing. New has plenty, and his close affiliation with the big interests will make it possible for him to raise an enormous campaign fund. The republicans have shown by their acquiescence to the action of the republican senate, which seated Newberry, that the republican party, as a party, believes in corrupting the electorate of the various states. It was all right to buy a seat for Newberry it ought to be all right to buy a seat for Beveridge or Newberry. The Post-Democrat would like to see Frank Daily nominated for senator. If elected there would be no taint of dishonor to tarnish his career as a senator. The democrats of Indiana ought to get together and insist upon it that Frank Daily accept the nomination. This is to be a democratic year, therefore the nomination will be equivalent to election. ■ •

Newspaper Knocks Capt. Moles Have Stopped

The Star has suddenly ceased in its attacks on John Molefs, might captain of the police force. The Star was going! to have Capt. Moles fired, right off the bat. and the new administration/ came in for a bitter arraignment because of his appointment, but for some reason or other, the anguished demand for his removal has ceased. The main complaint against Moles w*s that he was once a saloon keeper and that the records show that an old fine agaiinst him had not all been paid. John Moles was a good officer when he served as a patrolman under former Mayor Bunch and there is nothing yet in his performance as captain under the Quick administration which entitles him to abuse or criticism. The Quick administration came into power on a platform of law enforcement. The pledge was made that organized gambling and organized manufacture and sale of contraband liquor should cease. Gambling has been broken up and the lillegal traffic in liquor has been smashed. The big offenders have left the city and the little ones are fast being converted into law abiding and hard working citizens. Most of the “cleaning- up” work comes under the supervision of the night captain, and from the complaints that are bding made by those who have hitherto been allowed to. violate the law with impunity, one inclined to believe that the ' Jeremiads of the Star have an accompaniment in the wails of the gamblers and the bootleggers. Capt. Moles seems to be doing what the people expected of the new police force, and the people are not worrying over his past.

FOG-EATING MACHINE London—The Surgical Supply Association has set up a fog-eating machine in the Gray’s Inn Road. It is said to work perfectly in clearing the atmosphere of fog.

GARDENS ON TABLES New York—Owing to the high prices of flowers many families have eliminated them as table decorations and are using instead miniature gardens of quaint design made of papier mache.

Just How Much is Your Farm Worth?

Accountant As Aid

Cities Standard Method to Those Taking Inventory

I Soldier Boons Cash Haogs on Foreign Loans

Washington, D. C„ Jan. 1.9—Cash bonuses 'for former ' soTcRers o'f tbe' great war will be available as soon as the $11,000,000,000 allied debt to the United States, or a part of it, is refunded into long-term obligations. This is the Administration plan which Chairman Fordney outlined to the House Committee on Ways and Means. The program provides for the payment of the bonuses from the interest on the war loans, or from the proceeds of the sale of long-term securities into which the foreign loans will be refunded. Thus it will be possible to go ahead with soldiers’ bonus legislation, but nothing should be done, however, according to the view of the President, until definite authority is vested in a commission to handle the refunding. The foreign securities are to be sold at not less than par and guaranteed by the United States. Mr. Fordney indicated that in view of the approval of the scheme by the administration he would hot press his own plan for a sales tax.

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CROP INSURANCE TO BE SUGGESTED AT NATIONAL MEETING

Many Questions of Interest to Farmers Will Be Discussed at Length

Washington, Jan. 15—Insurance of crops as a method of stabilizing prices of farm products is expected to be one of many suggestions put forward at the National Agricultural conference which opens here January 23, for inclusion in a permanent national farm policy. Discussion within the conference would be expected to develop whether the proponents would recommend that the insurance be carried by the farmers co-operatively, private companies, or through government aid. Hail insurance has already been tried by tobacto growers and storm insurance is in force in some sections of the west, but for the first time experts expect to, see the question presented for insurance against all crops Wsk. Success Is Claimed All crop insurance has been tested to a certain extent, it was declared both by mutual farmers companies and by private insurance companies and agricultural experts declare it has proved successful. Balancing production with consumption is another important topic which the conference leaders expect to see come up. The relation of the supply of crops and foodstuffs to markets has long been studied and suggestions which are likely to come from conference delegates it was said, ranged all the way from the old acreage limitation to a more careful study of world production and consumption. Along with this would go crop surveys in America which would enable the producers, in the opinion of agricultural leaders, to gauge the con-

sumption demands in advance of crop planting. Valuization of price fixing was said to be on the minds of several delegates and while economists declared all such efforts invariably in the past have failed, nevertheless it has failed to settle the demands. Bills of this subject now from the outside have coble for minimum price guarantee for certain staple commodities as wheat, corn, cotton and the like. Extension of the co-operative movement also is expected to be proposed to the conference. To Discuss Labor Leaders of the conference predict that the labor question inevitably will arise since the presence of railway executives and Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labob and of many representative employers as conference members will bring the two sides of the question together. The farmers, it was saia, are vitally interested in the labor question through its effect on transportation rates and because of a realization that wage scales are reflected in the pubchasing power of labor. The purely agricultural nature of the conference, agricultural department officials said, has been kept in mind and the dibt farmer, will be fully represented. Half of the personnel is made up of farmers and farm leaders and the other half of industries which abe dependent on a prosperous agriculture.

LINE FORMS THIS SIDE; GARLAND TO GIVE AWAY HIS $1,600,000 LEGACY

North Carver, Mass., Jan. 19— Charles Garland, the youthful idealist who has decided to accept the $1,000,000 legacy he once spurned, plans to give away most of the money, he says. The legacy he refused last year has now g|rown to $1,600,000 and Garland believes he can do more good by distributing the money than by allowing it to Me inactive in the hands of trustees. Garland, with his wife and baby daughter, Hope, lives on a dilapidated farm here, and works every day clearing away boulders from his desolate patch of land.

GIRL’S ALARM SAVES 500 London—A warning sounded by 17-year-old Gertrude Hughes enabled 500 employes of a factory to escape when ' fire broke out in the building, and cut off all the exit r'tairways.

FIANCEE GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE OFFICER SHE LOVES

Feltham, Eng.—The wedding of Commander John Wilson Forbes, R. N., and Mrs. Edith N. Ransome was the culmination of a unique romance. They were engaged to be married when Commander Forbes was taken ill. When informed that only transfusion would save his life, Mrs. Ransome offered her own blood f> r the operation. The wedding took place following the Commander’s recovery and the surgeon who performed the operation gave the bride away.

GREATEST INDUSTRIAL EXHIBIT Madrid—Unless present plans miscarry the Spaniish-American Exhibition to be held at Seville in 1923 is to surpass all previous industrial shows.

MUFFLED AEROPLANE Geneva—M/ Berger, a Swiss scientist, claims to have invented a muffler which silences aeroplane motors. This, he declares, will make bomb attacks in war more deadly, because the aeroplane can fly lower.

RUSSIANS SEND OUT FLAX Riga—Several thousand tons of Russian flax have arrived here and will be shipped out immediately upon receipt of orders from Berlin.

“New Year’s resolutions to take a ftirm inventory are of little value uness they include a resolution to do the job right,” says the farm accounts specialist of the Department of Rural Economics. He issues the following 'ugjgestions Which, he says, touch on points often neglected. ‘.All farm property must be located and listed. Two men can generally do this job better than one. One can call off the items, the other record them. Two men are also better when it comes to measuring and estimating mows and bins, for feed on hand. “Appraisal is extremely important. It is generally best to app'raise after listing, by a warm fire in the house, since this promotes more careful consideration. “Real estate is hard to appraise. A fair market value should be used, not a forced-sale value, nor a speculative or suburban-lot figure. It is well to ask yourself what you would be willing to pay for the farm, as it stands, and as a farm. As to the value of stock and produce on hand, use markef prices, allowing 1 for the cost of getting to or from market. When it comes to machinery and toels. use original cost less depreciation since the time of purchasing. This depreciation will depend on the estimated life of the machine: on equipment estimated to last 10 years, deduct 10 percent annually.

HUNT 3,000 GERMAN GUNS Dresden—Following the discovery of 150 hidden gluns in a printing machine factory, search is now being made for 3,000 more which disappeared during the revolution of 1918.

LUCKY DREAM London—’Hugh Richardson, now recognized as one of England’s leading artists, was formerly a miner. He says he changed his occupation owing to a dream.

BARRICADES IN BERLIN

Berlin—So many shops have been jacked during the night recenty that all owners now barricade their doors with heavy planks before going home. Commissioner Haynes gratified by improvement in prohibition enforce-

j ment in Chicago.

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* It seems strange 'that the republicans of Delaware * County fail to realize that George B. Lockwood, of Washt ington, publisher of the National Republican, is one of the * big republicans of the “old guard”, and that he is probably t “closer to the throne” than any other Indiana member of £ his party. * Lockwood was one of the inner circle that made Will f Hays the national chairman of his party, and he was largeI ly instrumental in making Adams national chairman after * Hays went into the cabinet. The “colonel” could have se- * cured a cabinet position himself if he had wanted it, and it j is a fact well known to the Indiana republican organization £ that Lockwood could have been governor of Indiana merely * by saying the word. * Those on the inside know that McCray would not have £ entered the field if the Washington publisher had elected * to make the race. Mr. Lockwood has now been offered the t secretaryship of the national committee, to take the place * of the late Clarence Miller,, but he will probably follow his * usual custom of declining official position himself. The position raid the late Mr. Miller the rather nifty salary of six hundred dollars a week and expenses, which makes it a rather hard job to decline, but it has always been Lockwood’s rule to let the other fellow take the jobs that go with politics. Mr. Lockwood is a great big man in some ways, showing a progressive spirit at times which is wholly at variance

with his reactionary stand-pat writing. He has consistently preached the gospel of republicanism as voiced by such men as Cannon, Watson, Lodge and the standpat group in general, and of course he is utterly and everlastingly on the wrong side of everything in his writings, but that does not alter the fact that he has graduated from Indiana precinct politics into the broader field of national politics. The Post-Democrat does not intend to be classed with those who made the saying possible that “a prophet is not without honor save in his own country.” Lockwood will be heard-from further if the republican party lasts long enough.

Snell-McCormick forestry bill J * advocated before House Committee on 1 ^

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