Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 10 March 1922 — Page 2

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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1!)22.

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 postoffiae at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act’of March 3,1879.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1952.

“WILSON’S CROWN OF GLORY” “Much may be said in Wilson’s praise. Passing by what seems to some of us a deplorable tardines in entering the war, it may be said that the conduct of America’s part in the war, wifh dm weight given to all the criticism which it excited, was a great ana marvelous achievement which any amount of criticism canno. belittle. It is unnecessary to go into details. The great .outstanding and glorious facts are known to all the world and written in indelible history. The achievement of securing the united ■support o^i the countiy in the war, the speed with which was drafted, mobilized, trained and transported to France and to Flanders a great and invincible army, the army’s valorous and decisive part in a quick ending of the war in victory for our great cause in the most stupenduous struggle ever known and the notable achievements in our great Navy will forever be precious and proud American memories which cannot be dissociated from the memory of Woodrow Wilson. Along with the achievements of the allied armies and navies it cannot be denied that by his Fourteen Points, despite all criticism, he gained the moral leadership of the* world and lost it onI> through political opposition at home. It can hardly be denied that by the sheer force of his ideas and his unequalled power to put into words the unexpressed senti ments of the heart of mankind, he so enfeebled the war morale ol the victorious Central Powers that it broke in their disastrous defeat and surrender before the united valor of the allied armies To the might of his pen must be ascribed an appreciable share ir the quick and righteous ending of the war. His great part in bringing more than fifty nations, including with the exception of our own and two of the defeated Central Powers, all the great nations of the world, into organized union tc assure the world’s future peace was almost as large an accomplishment as our part in ending the unparalleled world war. Whatever the defects in the League of Nations, it is the be ginning of the united effort to organize the nations in a determin ed opposition to the intolerable curse of war, a beginning whict cannot fail to ultimate in a better understanding and better cooperation among the nations, while it is the greatest concrete ex pression of world idealism ever known. Despite all the criticism tha^ may be heaped upon Woodrow Wilson, whether by disappointed friends of his cause or implacable and unreasonable foes, and whatever worthier thing mav follow and transcend his League of Nations, w r hat was achieved in that beginning under his administration cannot be taken from him but will forever be his crown of glory.—Samuel Colcord in The Great Deception.

March came in like a bucket shop victim.

Muctr to the astonishment of all concerned, the new republican council has been on the job for more than two wTiole months and the millenium seems as far away as ever.

It is hard to figure out just why the grand jury should last so long now that the republican are in pow T er in the city, county and every towmship ip Delaware County.

In the good old days of undisputed republican rule in Delaware County, it was customary for practically every republican office holder to steal all the available public funds, retire from office, buy a farm or something and live happily ever after on the money stolen from the dear taxpayers. It is remarkable how the grand old party stands up for the thieves within its ranks. For instance, one of the present state officers, elected in 1920, stole funds from the city in which he had served as treasurer. The republicans knew it, but they elected him to a state office, nevertheless. Over at Marion the renublican countv treasurer recently came up short $25,000. Instead of sending him to the penitentiary, where he belonged, his friends passed the hat and bought him immunity from prosecution. The township trustee of the township in which Marion is located, stole ten thousand, but as he did not belong to the thieves’ union he was sent to the penitentiary. Down at Indianapolis last v^eek the republican county cleric was arrested for stealing $150,000 and he is now being' talked about as a probable candidate for congress or something, on the theory that when an office holder steals enough he is to be classed as a politician, instead of a thief.

SAFE INVESTMENTS Isn’t it about time that the people should turn from the bunko man to the bank; from the glittering prospectus of the unknown to the gilt-edged paper of Uncle Sam; from the glib-talking promoter with his brilliant sheaf of stock certificates to the United States with its safe investment in Treasury Savings Certificates? Within a year Ponzi of Boston, Bischoff of Chicago and Lindsay of New York have worked a gullible public for millions of dollars. Men and women of apparent good sense have handed over their money to these swindlers without inquiry as to the financial responsibility of the men, or without knowledge as to their antecedents, their business ability, or the manner in which their money was to be used to secure the large returns promised. All these swindlers have been exposed by the widest publicity possible, and yet it is to be feared that thousands of people will fall victims to the next clever group that begin operations and who presei/c facinating schemes for rapid money making. Of course it is well understood that mbst of the people who have been swindled wanted to get big returns and get them quick; they wanted to double or quadruple their fortunes. At the same time a great many others of small 'means are among the victims, This class consists of those who do not know any better, and are dupes through their ignorance. They have not been informed about other safe and profitable investments. Many of them never heard that the Government of the United States offers the most attractive form of investment knbwn today; an investment paying four and a half per cent interest compounded semi-annual-ly, exempt from state and local taxation (except estate and inheritance taxes) and from the normal Federal income tax; absolutely safe; secure from loss by any contingency whatever. The United States Government Savings System is a department pf the Government. In all probability the Ponzi-Bischoff-Lindsay swindlers would have obtained a large share of the money which they collected in I any event, as most of it came from those who wanted quick and abnormal returns. But there were thousands of small investors who might have been saved if they had known about Treasury Savings Certificates. Of course it is impossible to save all the foolish people from ruin, and especially those whose cupidity constantly overreaches their judgment, but with painstaking effort the government is trying to save the money of those who are content with good interest and an absolutely secure investment.

THE COMMONEST MISTAKES Judge McCormick of San Francisco

of this important period of the religious and church world. To says these are the 13 commonest mis-

those observing Lent it comes as a period of sacrifice. It seems takes in life: very fitting in the busy world that thefe is a time set aside for this observance. For little thought is given to the significance of

the religious side of life and every year when these days of sac-, 1 s 0 rislt au ^ ong ’

rifice preceding that glorious day, Easter, when the story of Christ’s sacrifice, suffering and final triumph comes around it brings a renewed spirit and more reverent feeling for that Omnipotent and Omniscient God who has made all things possible. Many people who in their religious training have had no observance of Lent impressed upon them have also come to make it a part of their lives, giving up some pleasure or luxury and making it a period of well doing. It is a religious custom and one of the few such customs, which seems to grow stronger as the years advance. The Lenten season is an important one in many ways.

THE LENTEN SEASON , 1 The Lenten season is again here. It is the time of year when I churches offer suggestions and make rules as to the observance I

To attempt to set up your own stand-

--Markets-

U. S. Bureau of Markets And Crop Estimates Fruits and Vegetables Apple markets generally steady, New York slightly weaker for barreled stock. New York baldwins A2% firm in leading cities at $7.50-8 per barrel; up 25c fob western. Northwestern extra fancy boxed winesaps firm in city wholesale markets at $33.75. Potato market slow and slightly weaker; demand limited. Northern sacked round whites down 30c in Chicago at $1.65-1.75 per 100 lbs.; down 10-15c in other markets at $2-2.05; down 10c in producing sections at $1.50-1.60. Grain Prices declined during the week as result of liquidaton influenced by lower pbices in foreign markets. Chicago May wheat down l%c closing at $1.42; Chicago May corn down 2c at 64c. Government crop report issued March 8 places quantity of corn on farms March 1, 1922 at 1,313,120,000 bushels or 42.6 per cent of 1921 crop, as compared with 1,564,832,000 bushels or 48.8 per cent of 1920 crop on farms March 1. 1921. Quantity of wheat on farms March 1, estimated at 131,136,000 bushels or 16.5 per cent of 1921 crop, as compared with 217,037,000 bushels or 26.1 per cent of 1920 crop on farms March 1, 1921. Closing prices in Chi•cago cash market: No. 2 “red winter kota $1.33(4; No. 2 hard winter wheat $1.37; No. 2 mixed corn 59c; No. 2 yellow corn 59c; No. 3 white oats 38c. Average farm prices No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa about 46c; No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota $1.33%; No. 2 hrad winter wheat in central Kansas $1.20. For the week Minneapolis May wheat up l%c closing at $1.44% ; Kansas City May wheat down 1c at $1.29%; Winnipeg May wheat up %c at $1.40%. Livestock and Meats Chicago hog prices advanced 1020c; lighter weights advanced r/ost. Beef steers gained 10-25c; butcher cows and heifers 25-75c; feeder steers 15c; veal calves down 75c. Fat lambs and yearlings advanced 50-75c; ewes 25c. Feeding lambs unchanged. Match 8 Chicago prices: hogs top $11.40; bulk of sales $10.85-11.25; medium and good beef steers $7.50-9.25; butcher cows and heifers $4.40-8.50; feeders steers $5.65-7.65; light and medium weight veal calves $7-10.75; fat lambs $13.5016; feeding lambs $11.50-13.50; yearlings $11-14.50; fat ewes $6-9.50. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 important markets during the week ending March 3 were: cattle and calves 47,381; hogs 10,285; sheep 25,146. With the exception of mutton eastern wholesale fresh meat prices were not materially changed. Mutton ranged from $1-3 higher. Beef and light

pork loins advanced 50c-$l at somq markets, steady at others. Veal and lamb practically unchanged. March 8 prices good grade meats: beef $13.5014; veal $16-20; lamb $26-30; mutton $17-22; light pork loins $19.50-22; heavy loins $15-16. Hay Market firm because of light ‘receipts. Bad roads curtailing movement. Timothy prices up about $1 per ton. Cold weather in northwest causng urgent demand in that territory. Alfalfa higher but prairie market practically unchanged. Quoted March 8: No. 1 timothy: New York $28.50, Philadelphia $24, Pittsburg $23, Cincincinnati $21, Chicag;o $23, Minneapolis $19, Atlanta $26.50. No. 1 alfalfaKansas City $22, Memphis $25, Atlanta $30. No. 1 prairie Kansas City $11.50, Chicago $16, Minneapolis $16.50. Feed Demand quiet particularly in east. Wheat feed offerings by mills light but at slightly lower prices. Heavy wheat feeds in good request in southwest. Hominy feed in excellent supply, prices easier, demand light. Production gluten feed continues good, demand slowing up. Linseed meal scarcer, export and domestic demand light. Cottonseed meal and cake supplies good at mills and in hands of dealers, prices easier. Receipts and movement most feeds good. Quoted March 8, bran $25.25, middlings $26.75, flour middlings $29.50; 369& cottonseed meal $39.75 Memphis; white hominy feed $22.50 St. Louis; linseedmeal $53 Minneapolis; No. 1 alfalfa meal $18.50 Kansas City. Dairy Products Butter markets steady and fairly well in line with each other although at times during the week there has been an unsettled undertone. Closing prices 92 score: New York 37%c; Chicago 36c; Philadelphia 37%c; Boston 38c.

NON-QUIBBLER DRAWS FINE New York—“Judge,” said Lawrence E. Durman, a broker, when arraigned on a charg‘3 of speeding, “I’m not gomg to quibble with, this policeman.” “Alright”, said the court, “I’ll fine you $25 for not quibbling.” PRINCESS REPROVED The Hague—Prin'';is- Juliana, 12-year-old heir to the Dutch throne, was reproved severely by the Queen for remarking that “in these days I must not count too strongly on being Queen.”

DIVORCE? SURE, <5% MINUTES London—Sir Henry Duke, presiding in the Divorce Court, has shattered another record. He disposed of 41 cases in a day, at the average rate of 6% minutes each.

Pretoria—Ali Ahmod Essa, on Indian hypnotist, was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment for posingi as a physician and taking fees from credulous.

To try to measure the enjoyment of others by your own. To expect uniformity of opinion In

this world.

To fail to make allowances for In-

experience.

To endeavor to mold all dispositions

alike.

Not to yield to unimportant trifles. To look for perfection In our own actions. To worry ourselves and others about what cannot be remedied. To consider a thing Impossible that we cannot ourselves perform. Failing to help everybody wherever, however we can. To believe only what our minds can

grasp.

Not to make allowances for the weakness of others. To estimate by some outside quality when it is that within which makes the man.—From the Oklahoman.

ODD BITS OF FACT An apple’s skin is one one-hun-dredth of an inch thick. There are more suicides in China than in any other country. One pound of phosphorus will supply heads for more than a million matches. Snow has fallen only once in Cuba, on Christmas day in 1856. The oriental has more than 300 uses for bamboo. Sweden has the longest mile, 11,690 yards, and China, 705 yards, the shortest. John Wesley is said to have preached 45,000 sermons in 54 years. The planet Mars is never nearer the earth than 36,000,000 miles. Paper was first made of straw and hay at Meadville, Pa., in 1828. Antidisestablishmenlarinnlsm Is said to be the longest word in the English language. An authority on finance, after exhaustive investigation, finds that in the United States only one rich man’s I son in 17 dies rich.

POPULAR SCIENCE Machinery belts have been made in Europe of braided or woven paper, built up on cores of cotton, sheet metal or a combination of thread and wire.

CANADIAN ROCKIES RESORT KEEPS OPEN HOUSE ALL YEAR

Banff, the Beautiful, is rapidly becoming an all-the-year-round resort. The summer months during which its palatial betels are open, wdl always be the leading season, with Winter Carnival weeks as second. but the balance of the year sees an ever-increasing number of travelers detraining at the picturesque log station that ulocks the town’s clean, wide Main street. Autumn among the mou-ntains that encircle Banff, is a season of pure joy. There is a tang in the air and the hoary giants wear their < itaks of mist more frequently, hut the crispy coolness invites to more strenuous exercise in the open. The trails call —trails that are dry and free from warfri-weather insect life. Ponies and motors arc available for long trips and with the smaller number of visitors there is no likelihood of a shortage of either. One meets fewer people along the trails and motor roads; one may linger hours long at some vantage point, feasting on a mag-

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rificent panorama, without being annoyed by chattering tourists. When the snow falls, a trip to Lake Louise on skiis or snowshoes permits a tete-a-tete with the Pearl of the Rockies. Swiss guides are available if climbing is desired. With the departure of the throngs of summer guests, the wild game which is protected in Rocky Mt. Park in which Banff is located, become more ventur^ome and it is a common sight to see deer grazing along Main street. The Government swimming pools

are open all winter and late victors enjoy the novel experience of splashing in open-air, glass-en-closed pools of warm water from Nature’s own hot kettle, while onlookers are wrapped In finrs. There is always nlentj/ pi hotel accommodation at Panff and travelers will find a betw©en-seasons stop at Banff a pleasandt interlude on trans-continental journeys. This is particular 1 ” tirue during Winter Carnival days when merriment and healthful sport fill c\ij:ry waking hour. i

WEEKLY LETTER CLAUDIUS GALENUS

The Post Office Department is the biggest distinctive business in the world. It spends $600,000,000 annually. The annual turnover, the in and out of the business, which measures any business, is more than $3,000,000,-

000.

In every single hour of the twenty four, 1,400,000 letters are mailed; in every day of the 365 days, 33,000,000 letters are sent; during the year more than 12,000,000,000 letters will be handled. Fourteen billion postage stamps, 1,250,000,000 postal cards and 2.750.000. 000 stamped postal cards and 2.7501.000. 000 stamped envelopes are

in his eye, that light of which a gteat French surgeon said. “The American soldier is different from all others. I don’t know what it is, whether it is God, the Monroe Doctrine, or President Wilson, but he has something in his eye.” Yes; Wilson’s place was by the dead soldier, and the people hnew it, and told him so by their unconscious outburst.”—The Wilsonian Magazine. —Troy (Ohio) Democrat.

Growers Within

sold every yedr. More than 326,000 postal co-work-* efs are daily engaged serving the 110,000,00(1 people, or one postal worker for every 337 persons. The postal establishnaent operates its “railway mail service ov(er rail trackage long enough to encircle the earth ten times. Forty three thousand rural carriers go out evey moning, serving six and one-half million families, and before sun down every day travel 1,170,000 miles—a total of 353,000,000 miles a year ovei* the highways of the country. We use 800,000 miles of twine every year tying the packages of letters, enough twine to encircle the earth thirty two times. Every year 6,500,000 pounds of paper are used in manufacturing the postal cards alone. Debts totaling $1,500,000,000 are paid through the Post Office Department annually, with 150,000,000 money orders. There are 500,000 depositors in the Postal Savings, a larger m%nber than in any banking institution in the world, and 75 per cent of them are of foreign ex-

change.

The Parcel Post is the greatest express company in the world, and will handle, this year, more than 2,500,000,000 packages; the annual business of the American Railway Express will probably be 400,000,000 packages. The only real leadership on the Republican side in this Congress has been displayed by the Republican members of the “agricultural bloc” who for the second time have forced the reactionary administration and reactionary legislative group to sur-

render.

The first surrender of the President and the Old Guard legislators to the agirarians was in the acceptance by them of the Democratic amendments to the Tax Revision bill, the most impcVtant of which perhaps was the one of the few redeeming features of the act. The second surrender was in forcing the acceptance of a bill to enlargp the Federal Reserve Board to enable the President to appoint a farmer as a member of the Board, which the President promised in advance to do. Whether this sort of legislation is generally approved of nr not,, it demonstrates the power wielded by the so-called “agricultural bloc” and the fear in which the reactionaries hold that group. Already there are mutterings of dissatisfaction in financial circles ovep this latest surrender to the agrarians The financial interests see in this move of the “agricultural bloc” an impairment of the Federal Reserve system and a disposition on the part of the President to play politics with that system which may ‘result in weakening the independent functioning of the Federal Reserve system. The Federal Reserve Bank system is the financial bulwark of the nation, and its maladministration by a Federal Reserve Board should not be confused with the merits of the Federal Reserve Act itself. That act is well nigjh perfect, a fact shown during the world war when it was tested to the limit. Politics has no place nor part in it.

500-Mile'Radius To Get Reports

New Radio Telephone Service Was Started Monday By Board of Trade

! Chicago, March 9—The farmer need be no more than 30 minutes behind his city brother in receiving news of the . factors which determine prices of agricultural products, Robert McDougal ; president of the Chicago board of i trade said in a statement outlining the board’s plan to broadcast crop market reports by radio telephone, | which started Monday, j T he radio system, which will cover a territory within a radius of 500 j miles of Chicago, he characterized as j ’The greatest forward step in two ; thousand years” in ringing the far- ) m er in contact with the factors that make the price of his product. The statement follows:

Closer to Cities

“The telephone and the automobile , nioved the farm closer to the cities. | They will be broug-ht still closer by I our radio telephone service. It is our 1 belief that our half-hour bulletins, giving not only quotations but fundamental news of the crop and market situation througjhout the world, will enable the grain grower to buy or sell as confidently and almost as quickly

as if he were in Chicago.

“The radio system will cover the territory within a radius of 500 miles of this city. In this area there are, I am informed, thousands of radio sets in villages and on farms. Even on farms where there is no apparatus there are telephones, and the nearby village will have the radio reports. “In the great war we read that bed springs and even coat hangers were made to serve the purposes of the wireless and ff we may predict the future by the past it may not be far | fetched to. vision the day_jyhen the ‘ farmeTYoIlnwing his' furrow may 1 * be in instantaneous touch not only with the factors which affect the price of his product, but with the news of the j world. In its present stoge, howj ever, I believe that country grain 1 elevators which are scattered everywhere will serve as stations for our reports, being distributed by them still further by telephone to such farms as have not their own radios.

Day May Mean Much

“A day may mean much to the farmer in marketing grain. Prices in an open competitive market adjust themselves at high speed to changing conditions. It is important that the farmer and the country grain dealer should learn of these changes without delay, not only for personal reasons, but because the more quickly all the buyers and all * the sellers comprehend the situation, the more quickly prices will adjust Ijo true

values.”

“Nearly every Saturday night you can see a moving sight in Washington. In front of one of the variety theatres after the performance is over there is a crowd of a thousand persons or more. It may be cold or slightly raining or the snow is softly falling, hut the people stand there, sometimes for ten minutes oblivious of their discomfort. A closed car with its engine running is in the alley. Slowly the car pulls out, a cheer gpes up, men stand bareheaded and women wave their handkerchiefs. In the pallid uncertain light there is a fleeting glance at the man in the car. ( It is not mere idle curiosity that has brought the people there, for to Washington Woodrow Wilson is now no more a novelty. It is something finer and deeper than that. It was in the same spirit that the woman went into the hospital to minister to the stricken soldier; it was her gratitude to him for having taught her the meaning of sacrifice.”—“A looker on” —in the milwaukee Journal.

“On Sundays and holidays men and •women and children, most of them busy thfougih the week, walk to the home of W’oodrow Wilson and stand there in groups, speak together in hushed tones as if something solmen and ennobling moved in them. When on. the street they cheer him as he passes, and there are often chokes in the cheers, and always tenderness. Why do they do it? Let it be known that he is in his seat in a theatre, and the whole house will rise in homage. Let his face be thrown on the screen, and it will draw a greeting that the face of no other living American receives. “Why should the vast throng that packed Pennsylvania Avenue from end to end on Aripistice Day have stood reverently, with heads bured in silence as the bier of the unknown soldier passed, attended by all the official greatness of the moment—the President, his Cabinet, the Supreme Court, the House, the Senate, the Diplomatic Corps, Pefshingt, Foch—why should this great crowd have watched t in silence until, quite unexpectedly, a carriage far down the line came into view? Why should this crowd, unconscious of what it was doing, have broken into a low cry of sympathy and grief “There’s Wilson!” The cry flew down the Avenue. “They saw him as the man who had called into service the boy they honored, wffio had put the wonderful light

Permanent Whitewash. Mix six pounds of whiting with cold water, taking care to. leave no lumps. It should be about the consistency of thick cream. In an old Jar steep three ounces of size in cold water for 12 hours. Then make !t very hot, but be careful not to let !t boil. Pour it while hot into the whitewash. It la most essential that the size be fresh or the smell of it will be quite intolerable. Any coloring—green, pink, blue, or fawn—may lie added. Children and Books. It does the child no harm to make the acquaintance of books which were not written for children* In a home where the great books that have inspired or amused successive generations are accessible an active-minded child is likely at some time to get at them. If we want our children to fall in love with the better kind of books let us provide them with oppormnities for meeting such books without too much formality. PQP-ROTTLE FANS, LOOK! , Rouen—American baseball fans who wield pop-bottles should profit from the case of M. Langenove, spectator at a Rouen-Paris football game. Langenove threw a missile which blackened the eye of a Rouen player and he was fined $1,000.

“SOAP AND SUDS” PEERS

London—The list of peerages recently announced was immediately christened the “Soap and Suds” list because King George conferred titles upon a prominent soap manufacturer and a distiller.

The middleman is not the one who gets squeezed. Strange to say, it is the one at the end of the line.

❖ | ! Political Announcement i A ❖ 1 •* +;* •j-4* 4* *i 4 * * * 8 * * * 12 •*-*** •t* 4-*1*4* 4* 4* 4* 4* ♦$*-£* 4 TOWNSHIP TRUSTEE I will be a candidate for the nomination for trustee of Centre Township, on the democratic ticket, subject to the decision of the primary, Tuesday, May 2, 1922. Efforts and votes in my behalf will be appreciated. AUGUST R. FELIX