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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1922

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Candidate Who Receives Sixty Votes Developes Into Great Statesman

Muneie is fast dev^lopina- a states man in the person of one Clell Maple in whom the republican party oup/nt to take a ^reat deal of pride. Clell is strong on letter writing and in offering 1 communications for publication in tht local daily newspapers. He was a candidate for the nomination for mayor, on the republican ticket, before the last primary, and, we believe, he received something like sixty or seventy votes, an indication that whatever he may think of himself as an expounder of pure republican doctrine, his party here does not seem to appreciate him as it should. In a recent communication ‘in a local daily Clell made a terrific onslaught upon Woodrow Wilson, blaming the -former president for drafting soldiers for the world war. If Harding had been president, says Clell, there would have been no drafting: That “if" of Cl ell’s suggests * the idea that an “if” is all that prevents his uncle from being his aunt Clell says he has written to those United Senators of his aoquaintanee, casually giving the idea that he has an extensive acquaintanceship among statesmen and hear statesmen, insta*ucting them to pass the soldiers’ bonus bill as soon as some sort of a tariff or something is devised for raising the dough. Clell writes many letters to many people in authority, but we have never yet heard of his advice being heeded. He recently wrote to Judge Anderson criticizing him for not giving Whity Evans more'punishment than he did. also advised the judge that Prosecutor, Benadum had been badly misrepresented in the federal trials held in Indianapolis > st December. In his communication in a local daily Clell says the boys across the sea suffered hardships, of course, but he reminded the public that us sea-at-homes had also heroically survived bran bread and other substitutes, and someway or other he wanted to lay it all onto Wilson. He compared the soldiers of the world war to those of the civil war, and told Low much better the former were treated and' cared for than the latter, apparently forgetting that the civil war was managed by republicans and the world war by democrats. He said some —of—the suWicTS— of pensions for forty years. The re publicans were in power about that long after the civil war. Why did they wait that long to pension their

soldiers ?

Clell says the republican narij'y never went back on a promise. Where oh where, is promised normalcy? Did the republican party promise to shut down factories, bankrupt farmers and make paupers out of laboring men and laboring men’s families, Clell? If it made that sort of a premise, then it is making good.

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MAGISTRATE’S REVENGE Wrexham. Eng.—Delayed on a motor trip by a driver who' kept zigzagging across the road, Magistrate Edward Hughes took the offender's number. Then he summoned the driv-

er and fined him $15.

BURIAL HITCH Cardiff, Wales—As a -Chinese was about to be buried in Cardiff cemetery the clergyman engaged refused to conduct the services because, the deceased had not been baptized; Another-elergy-man had to be called. > -

U. S. GOODS WIN

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OVER GERMAN % ' V' ~ aj] j fijpif ft cbi-i-aisiNj* 1 rr f -V ^^ Washington, Feb. 9—Recognized American quality and standardized nanufactuidng) methods are responside for the landing of anothep order >y an American firm in the face of ;een German competition lin Switzerand, says a report received in the lepartment of. commerce. According, to the report, an impurtmt American l'irm ; manufacturers of overhead trolley lines and transmission line equipment, with offices in Europe, recently landed a very nice order irom Swiss interests located just rcross the border from Germany. The order developed at the hi«h tension electrical congress held in Paris. After the -contract had been signed .he American firm asked the Swiss engineers why it was the latter had bought American equipment instead of German, which could have been obatined at an undeniably lower price. The answer came slowly,'after some hesitation, and was to this effect: We want high class standardized material that is not ■ changing all the time. Every time the Germans made us an offer they have got something better*— •n improvement over the devices they 'ffered last month. In the opinion of the American trade representative who sent in the report, the experience of this firm proves that in spite of everything .r.-nHii TiaS Hie cstriiVAy, high class American goods car! withstand competition.

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Cut Down The Overhead . K ' r: SK ft Iti;. * ■<•'$ “The management of the public revenue—that searching operation in all governments—is among: the most delicate and important trusts is ours and it will, of course, demand rip inconsiderable share of my official solicitude, Under every aspect in which it can be considered it would appear that advantage must result from the observance of strict and faithful Oebnonty because it will counters t that tendency to public and private profligacy which a profuse expenditure of money by the government is but too apt to engineer.”—Andrev, Jackson in first inaugural address. The same thing that was true then is true now and let us not pass, lightly by the admonitions of these men who by their statesmenship gave to the world the wisest and happiest government it had ever witnessed, until, the present group of “master minds” lacerated it almost beyond feedgnition and created a tax monster with a thousand arms and claws digging to the bottom of every citizen's purse for the last penny and then with reckless disregard to the labor and toil that produced these funds, scatter them to the four winds, pausing when the supply is exhausted to devise ways and means for extracting more. Lpt us heed the advice of those who hued an empire from the forest, and for a century governed, without fads and fancies, in the form of commissions and boards, to the happiness of all. It is a well recognized principle of government that appointive officers are less likely to hearken to the voice of the people than elective officers and the further away from the place of performance, is the power directing public work the more wasteful and costly is its accomplishment. How can a board in the state capital do a thing in Delaware County as well as we can do it ourselves and how can they understand our needs and ability to pay? They do not and never will. The state of Indiana now presents a spectacle of high salaried officers, commissioners, and regulators jostling and treading uppn each other’s heels, and when they have nothing else to do they regulate and inspect each other and devise reports for everyone to fill out, as big as a Saturday Evening Rost,‘and which—no one understands, not even themselves. It recalls the old query, “Who is going to regulate the regulator?” We maintain with those who built this government, that the township should do the things it desires without dictation, coercion or even very inuch advice from the capital. If it desires to build or not to build let those who pay the money and not those who spend it, say, which shall be done. Every business man knows that needless.officers and bosses in his plant will bankrupt the business and he keeps the overhead down, the same is true of Statescraft. 1

Joseph P. Day, Anderson Democrat, May Ask For Nomination for Congress

Joseph P. Day. of Anderson, well *tion four years ago and Laknown lawyer, and former resident of ‘ repeatedly been made its secreta

Muneie, may soon announce himself as candidate for the democratic nomination for congressman from [lihe

eighth district.

Mr. Day is well known in Muneie and Delaware County, having. resided here for a number of years before moving to Anderson. He was the democratic nominee for congress in the eighth district in 1900, and though defeated by George Cromer, he ran 1,500 votes ahead of his ticket in the

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TO ALL WHO IT MAY CONCERN

Mr. Editor, Sir :t--

Having been a voter in the Republican party for over 40 years, and having voted it straight, and having been a tireless worker for its nominees, having discovered in the last three months the party is purged with prohibitionists, seeking office in the Republican party throughout the Country to elect enough members to

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An electrified countryside was one of the possibilities laid before Farmers’ Week audiences at Columbus last week by J. R> Howard, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, ahd prominent' in the news of the day by reason of a movement to put him at the head of the Agitcultural Bloc in Congress in, place of Senator William S. Kenyon, who has been appointed to the Federal bench. Mr. Howard said: “Recent adivancement has been madq in transmission which g|jves promise of a greatly extended use of electricity.

SENATOR BRAND RESUMES ATTACK ON HIGHWAY COSTS

everybody to believe in a personal God. are not satisfied with putting out a new Bible on the Spiritualist and one on the Catholics. I have them in mv possession for Proof.

DANIEL KNIGHT.

Congress to pass a law to compel ( The electrification of railroads, homes

and industry is in the immediate foreground. It is stated that there is sufficient undeveloped horsepower west’ of the Mississippi to run-- every railroad train within the-territory. ’ Already one of the great transcontinental! routes is electrified for nearly 8001 miles, and is pulling with a single en- ! gine 100 loaded freight cars across the Rockies. . V . k “I mention these things because Ij believe we are approaching a new era of transportation with much changled and improved systems which will) mean tremendous economics to the farmer. I have in mind also- conven iences in living, for the wider- distribution of electricity for light, heat and power on our farms will add material » ly to our home lives.” .. . ’ - '

ARABS HOLD UP MOTOR

Tunis—Arabs quickly adapt themselves to modern conditions. A hand of them held up a motor coach plying between Gabes and Medinine, killing a

woman and a French officer.

PEER WOULD BECOME HERMIT ' Delhi—Lord Sinha, the first Indian to sit in the House of Lords, has resigned the governorship of Bihar and Orissa. He plans to become a hermit

in the Himalayas.

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Harding, Hughes and Vierick it t 's S ri K-V • ^ ? - '’r ' --<<•- * ... George Sylvester Vierick, the Teuton spy who was allowed to go unhung in this county during the world war, gave some interestingtestimony this week at Chicago, during the trial of the half million dollar damage case brought against the Chicago Tribune by Mayor William Hale Thompson, who charges that the Chicago newspaper pubished him to the world as a pro-German. Vierick testified that in the campaign of 1916, that sweet scented, sour kraut eating, limberger infected piece of humanity known as Von Bernstorff. tried to induce Vierick to support Wilson for president, although it was known to the world that Wilson would sooner have cuddled a skunk to his bosom than to have even breathed the same atmOvSphe:e polluted by the odoriferous Viericks and Bem-stoi-ff s. Vierick very naively declared on the witness stand that he was “finally induced to support Hughes.’' Now if that wouldn’t eurf Charley’s whiskers.What would? He was supported by Vierick and all the disloyal elements, but was yet defeated. In 1920 the pro-German element took no chances*. They organized perfectly and supported Harding ta a man.’ Harding! was elected and Vierick, who ought to have been hanged: for treason, was entertained royally by Harding after the election. On the witness stand VfeTick w r ac asked if he did not have a conference with Harding in February, 1921. He replied in the affirmative. hut refused to reveal what he and Harding talked about, on the ground that it would be “embarassing to the president”. • One would think it would be embarassing enough foi the public to even know that the' president would speak to such a lousy, traitorous, murderous enemy of our country as George Sylvester Vierick.

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Substance of His Findings Is Talk About Rrices Being Reduced • a Exaggerated >

When the groundhog came out of his hole last Tuesday to g(i,ve things the once-over, he wasn’t the only living thing that stepped from the winter’s quiescence. Senator Charles Brand, of Urbana, nemesis of the state highway department, came to Columbus on groundhog fiay and announced that after the cessation of •hositilities during the winter, he was getting ready for the spring, summer and fall campaign agpinst alleged high-priced roads. Unlimbering hfis guns Saturday, Ke poured -forth thje first barrage after spending several days investigating road costs at the four road lettings in January and comparing them with prices last. July and before the war. The substance of his ftndinglB is that all the talk about tx>ad costs being reduced is exag-

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Brick Costs Higher

Brick costs, he says, are higher than ever; concrete roads are 10 per cent cheaper, and macadam 30 per cent cheaper. Brick is. .still 300 per cent over pre-war prices, concrete 250 per cent, and macadam 300 per cent. “Why is Ohio heralding cheap prices for hard surface roads when cheap prices do not exist, when other states are fighting in the public interest rto break down organized prices and protect, the public from extortion?” 1 the state senator asks. Taking sharp issue with him rigjht at the outset, Highway Director Leon C. Herrick, when asked to verify

Herrick’s Figures Based on Senator Brand’s figures, ! the average cost per mile this year 1 on four lettings, all types of road, has been $34,360. Highway Director Herrick’s figures show an averagte cost of $25,739 without bridges, and $27,668 with bridges. “It is hardly fair to comment on the cost of brick roads this year, for only one job has been let for bncic,” Mr. Herrick said. It is a three-mile job on the Mt. Vernon-Newark road, and it was announced Saturday at the highway department that the contractor has given notice that his bid was too low and that he will be compelled to let the job go by default: Twenty-one miles of macadam road and 24 .n/.les of concrete have been let.

SEA-SICKNESS CURE WORKS, BUT INVENTOR GOES TO JAIL Naples—Humberto del Roco accumulated a goodly fortune here, selling for several years what he claimed to he a cure for sea-sickness. He had several hundred testiimonifils as to the efficacy of his preparation when the government made an investigation and 'found the “cure” to be nothing other than distilled water. He is in jail awaiting trial for fraud. SECOND ROYAL ROMANCE London—Sqon after Princess Mary is married if is reported that the engagement of one of her royal brothers to Lady Betty Butler, sister of the Duchess of Sutherland, will be announced. BATTLEFIELD MILLIONAIRE Paris—Francois Perrit, a contractor, of Amiens, has become a millionaire by collecting and salvaging battlefield debris.

treasurer. Mr. Day has made a special study of the fai*m loan act and believes its scope and activities may be

greatly enlarged.

He announces that in case he should he a candidate and successful in winning the election, he would sponsor a bill in the national house of representatives giving the laboring class a similar financial service now fur* nished to the farmers, long time, east payment loans whereby they might purchase and pay for Vheir OVllii homes, increase home ownership and

decrease tenancy,

Mr. Day is loyally democratic, but not narrowly partisan. He is an able speaker and in case he should he nominated an election would give the eighth congressional district real representation for the first time in a number of years. ^

He has a wide acquaintance throughout the district, especially in Delaware, Madison, Randolph and Jay counties. He organized the Madison

CN U RD TS New York—This sample of condens ed spelling appeared in a “Personal” column here: “Hp u red 2 Itrs b4 u 1ft Nyk. Anxs nt hrngv WI ms u trby.' Perhaps you can decipher it.

MAN WITH BAGGY EYELID

Berlin—The only clew the police have to the slayer of Fraulein Fredericka Pimmeln is that just before she was found murdered a man with a haggjf right eyelid was seen to leave her home.

DIES ON BROTHER’S GRAVE

County National Farm Loan Associa- j military cemetery.

Verdun, France—Four years aft-;r her brother was killed defending the Fortress of Verdun, Yvonne de Lienne shot herself dead on his grave in the

Republican Machine Fixing Things to Suit the Bosses, but Trouble Looms Ahead

Not satisfied with firing Borter-

Ross from his position as superint?n- mad* by the boarda*.

THROWS $10,000 AWAY Athens—While traveling from Alexandria to Saloriika a wealthy Greek woman became insane and threw' $10,000 into the sea.

BALFOUR DEMANDS POWERS KEEP VOW IN FAR EAST PACT

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Voices Warning World Will Consider Transgressor in China as “Outside” of Comity o! Nations

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Washington, Feb. 9—The arms conferen.ee Saturday wound up its work

with a whirlwind of action.

I formally approved the various agreements- to make for peace in the far east. In the closing moments, Arthur J. Balfour, heading the British fiek'L. it’fMi voicing ihv b vling of

prices quoted by Mr. Brand, declared statesmen everywhere that China is that the Urbana solon s representa- J the keystone of that structure—uttertions constitute “a studied effort to ed a solemn warning that the world discredit the highway department, expected a respect of the settlements evidently with false statements.” arrived at in strict good faith. Brand’s Price List ' Any nation, the British statesman Prices quoted by Senator Brand said, which in the future aimed to

are as follows: Brick, Per Mile

Before the war $16,000 July, 1921 49,249 January, 1922 49,858 Concrete, Per Mile Before the war $12,000 July, 1921 ! 33,424 January, 1922 30,378 Macadam, Per Mile Before the war , $ 8,000 July, 1921 32,047 January, 1922 22,846 Highway Director Herrick had an analysis of this year’s costs made Saturday. It shows that the cost per mile of. brick is $33,063 and not $49,858, as Senator Brand said; bituminous concrete, $26,612, plain concrete-, $36,334 and reinforced concrete $28,286; bituminous macadam $17,359.

transgress the principles laid down in the conference with regard to China need not plead ignorance nor seek to invoke any “secret understanding”

with minor Chinese officials.

Such a nation Mr. Balfour impressively declared, would be considered

“outside” the comity of nations.

In a brief hour’s work which pre-

ceded a field day for oratory in which rt . Lurx , tu the delegation leaders took opportuni- ^ .

ity to pay tribute to President Hard- j c ‘

ing for the calling! of the conference i

and for its work, the conference put | GLAD IT ISN’T A, LEMON

the formal stamp of approval on the ;

dent of public highways in Delaware county, the county commissioners this week took a new angle on the situation by refusing to allow Mr. Ross his last month’s salary. The Indiana law provides that all employment in the road superintert-. dent’s department must date from the 5, 22nd day of the month. After the commissioners fired Ross and gave the job to Mr. Yoakem, the latter did not qualify until after the 22nd of December, consequently he did not attempt to take the office until Janu-

ary 23.

Commissioner Shoemaker, who ; wanted Ross’s job himself, but who J was caught and exposed, in the act of trying to put over a deal to resign as commissioner and grab the road superintendent job, was so sore over his defeat that when the cpmmissioners allowed claims Monday he refused to pay Ross, insisting that Yoakem was entitled to the salary of the office from Dec. 22 to Jan. 22. Mr. Yoakem was not claiming the salary, but that

made no difference to Jonas.

Several of the best men serving as assistant road superintendents were fired because they refuse to takp orders from Billy William’s machine, efficiency was entirely lost sight of when the matter of naming men for the places was taken up. Poitics was

the‘sole thing considered.

A’mong the democrats who were removed was Sam Gray, who has served as assistant road superintendent in his district for over eight years, being the oldest man on the force in point

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went to the length of inducing Pros,--cutor Benadum to conduct an invegrig'ation with the idea in view of getting Auditor Jim Dragoo in trouble. At last {accounts Auditor Jim warloading up a little fusee of his own and if the grand jury does not adjourn too soon, it may be that son his pursuers may wish they had not

started the argument.

PLACE BAN ON RADIO BROADCAST SENDING

Commerce Department Hopes to Work Out New Plan for Amatein Wireless “Bugs”

Washington, Feb. 9—Orders for temporary suspension of rad:o broadcasting by amateurs, because of interference caused regular radio service, were announced by the commerce department. New regulations, however, will be issued covering amateur broadcasting as soon as some desirable plan can be formulated Radio broadcasting, the department explained, is a new wireless service, which has developed very rapidly during the past three months and now •embraces the sending out of everything from market quotations arid

of service. Mr. Gray was the best ! crop estimates, health talks, weather

Pacific treaty with a supplement excluding the homeland islands of Japan frbm its terms. Final approval of the far eastern treaty affirming anew the open door in China and providing for her integrity against foreign exploitation and encroaehment. • ^ Final approval of a treaty revising the sytem of Chinese customs charges - a measure described as vital to the rehabilitation of China by herself. Formal announcement of a declaration of Japan’s famous twenty-one demands oh China and formal announcement of Japan’s abandonment of the much attacked “group five.” A provision to the naval limitation treaty that none of the powers pledged may sell any of their warships between now and the time they are

scrapped.

A resolution to improve the protection of the Chinese eastern railway. While Satorday’s work virtually completed the work of the conference,! which adjourned at 2:35 p. m., it will: formally be closed Monday with an! address by President Harding. All j ■ delegates are making arrangjements to | return to their homes immediately

man in the employ of the county, ouc he was removed for purely political

xeasohs.

The grand jury this week was in

forecasts, high-class entertainment to lectures, sermons,' music and announcement as to stolen automobiles. The result has been to fill the aiir

voked as a medium for carrying on a with radio reports to detriment of political feud. The Billy Williams' commercial and necessary service.

results of three long months of patient and not untroubled negotiation which will take their places in the niches of

history.

Approve Pacific Treaty Final approval of the four-power

Willesden, Eng.—Lecturing before the Geographical Society. Dr. ^ Joseph Bridges, director of education, declared ‘it could be proved that the earth’s shape is more like a pear than

an orangp.

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At last we have found out why the movie kings are paying Bill Hays $159,000 a year for looking wise and saying little pieces for the newspapers every so often. The latest Hollywood vamp murder tells the whole story. Up until the time Hays was employed to look after the movie business, it was the rule to pick out beautiful creatures like the lately deceased William Desmond Taylor, or cute, dimpled darlings like Wally Reid, to go to the front for the picture game. It finally deve’oped into a continuous performance between the vamps and the vampees of the picture world, the performance being punctuated occasionally by the murder of some actor or actoreen. Finally Hays was picked out to manage the game. He was selected because, without doubt, he is the ugliest man in the world. It wasn’t so much the ability of the man, but the patent fact of his durability, which caused the film kings to pick him out as supreme boss. Bill ought to last forever. No living creature with a face like Bill’s, a retreating chin like Bill’s, a squirrel tooth front like Bill’s, or a pair of beautiful drooping ears like Bill's need fear sudden death at the hands of some bewitched, beguiled and betrayed movie queen Bill may move through Hollywood’s most select murder localities, feeling perfectly safe from harm. We do not know exactly what Bill has to do in the way of serving as arbiter of the picture business, unless it is to see that plenty of flowers are ordered in advance every time some popular actor or actress is murdered at Hollywood, or to act as umpire every time Charley Chaplin, Jock Pickford. Fe.tty A.rbuckle or the rest of them decide to change wives, for better or for worse. We will leave it to those who saw Bill Hay’s picture here last vleek whether or not his face would stop a clock.

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