Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 29 September 1922 — Page 2

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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional District. 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 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1922.

THE CHIEF OF HYPOCRITES The republican machine is now using the good offices of the" “invisible empire" to bring the colored vote back into line. Now that Cahill, the boss kotop, has visited a Muncie colored church and handedTihe nastor forty dollars and the congregation a line of hot air, explaining how the Ku Klux klan is organized for the benefit of the colored brother it is expected that the colored folks will be satisfied. His speech before the colored congregation differed somewhat from an announcement made by hifri in the jury room, at the time he was permitted, fraudulently, to'sit on a jury that tried Court Asher. One of the jurymen, who sat with Cahill on that jury, told the publisher of the Post-Democrat, that Cahill entertained his fellow jurymen with funny anecdotes and witty sayings, and that he seemed to be a “good fellow,” anyhow. He said “Cahill does certainly hate a nigger.” Among other things Cahill remarked, in the jury room, according to this juryman, that “down south, where I came from, there are only two good niggers, the dead one and the one in jail.” This statement was made by the juryman who sat with Cahill, while in a conversation with the editor of the Post-Democrat at the south entrance of the court house, a day or two after the trial. The hypocrisy of the fellow who would make such a statement and then have the gall to address a colored congregation, telling him how he and his fellow kluckers love them, would make a hyena or a turkey buzzard gag. Presenting to a colored church forty dollars of the money contributed by the suckers who were induced to join the kluckers to help oppress the negro, is also somewhat of a joke on the klans-1 men, who had not been informed that part of the loot was to be offered as bribes to the race they are being taught to hate Cahill and his fellow conspirators. Jesus was betrayed by Judas for thirty pieces of silver. Cahill raised Judas te;! when be handed a colored preacher forty dollars for the privilege of profaning the house of worship by his presence. It takes plenty of gall for the republican machine to ask the taxpayers of Delaware county to take another chance on the party that stands behind Billy Williams, Jonas Shoemaker, Sherm Shroyer and Charlie Van Matre. If the farmers of Delaware county who have been compelled to organize to prevent this gang from raiding the treasury for the construction of the Lesh bridge fail to vote for a change they deserve nothing better than the treatment they are now getting.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. (“Recollections of Abraham Lincoln”—Lam on) “I am not a Know-Nothing, that is certain. . . . When the Know-Nothings get control it will read: “All men are created equal, except negroes, foreigners, and Catholics. * 1 * * When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” EX-PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON. (Before the Manhattan Club, N. Y., Nov. 4, 1915) * “It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience and worship God as he pleases, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.” EX-PRESIDENT THEORORE ROOSEVELT. (New York Herald, Oct. 13, 1915 “Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions.” EX-PRESIDENT WILLIAM H. TAFT. (December, 1914) “There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt in any way to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach—it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end and work in secret and in the dark.” » 1 i RYAN. (The Comm one, August, 1915) # “Those who have come into intimate acquaintance with representative Catholics did not need to be informed that they do not concede to the Church authorities the right to direct their course in political matters, but many Protestants, lacking this knowledge which comes with personal acquaintance, have been misled.”

Testing Flour for Bread for Uncle Sam

The farmers who have been brought to the verge of ruin by Harding normalcy, the soldiers who have been stricken low by the Harding veto of the bonus measure and the laboring men who have been stabbed to the heart by the Daugherty injunction, will hardly repeat their mistake of 1920, when they cast their vote for a better day only to find themselves in the merciless grasp of a group of masters who are squeezing the lifeblood from the toilers of the nation. .Some are cruel enough to say: “That’s what they voted for and they got it,” but that fails to bring relief. This fall the men and women of America will drive from public life the treacherous agents of the plunderbund who are now Tiding, booted and spurred, to the hardest fall that Bourbonism has ever experienced in this land of the free.

Everett Warner showed himself to be a real man when he arose in the Methodist congregation last Sunday night and raised his voice in protest when Cahill’s masked clowns defiled the house .of worship. If a few more men of Everett Warner’s courage would come to the front this hideous, sacrilegious aggregation would soon be a thing of the past in Muncie.

ReV. Heber Dwight Ketcham dwelt heavily on the “reverent” demeanor of his Sunday night visitors. A similar gang entered a church at Brookville some nights ago. They were very “reverent” until an inquisitive member of the’ congregation attempted to unmask one of the intruders. The gentle lovers of Jesus and the flag fought their way out of church, knocking down a half dozen men and making their getaway in two automobiles. The very foundation stone of Kluckerdom is laid in the cement of bigotry, violence and cowardly attack by numbers on lone individuals.

THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION Reduction of the immigration flow by admitting into the United States only those persons elgible to citizenship, is urged by Chairman Johnson of the home immigration committee, in a speech printed in the congressional record. “The countiy seems to want complete suspension of immigration,” says Mr. Johnson, “That is impossible, it seems to me, for we should leave an opening for the admission of immediate relatives of citizens of the United States and permanently domiciled aliens; for their fathers mothers and children, but not for their uncles, cousins and aunts.” Mr. Johnson recommends a reduction in total admissions by reducing the percentage quota to 2 or even 1 1-2 per cent, which would lower the number of admissables from countries entitled to large quotas. Tightening up of the illiteracy test by providing authority for exclusion of the mentally inferior and “emotionallv unstable classes,” also is suggested, together with regulations providing for a more thorough physical examination. As another means of cutting down the totals Mr. Johnson declares excepted classes, such as students, actors and members of certain professions, should be admitted for temporary stay only. The immigration problem has been one of long standing. Many answers have been offered in the way of suggestions and legislation and still we have it with us. It is still unsolved and will, remain unsolved, according to present prospects, for a long time, notwithstanding the many solutions and suggestions offered to the contrary.

At tlie Department of Agriculture in Washington tests on most everything you can think of are constantly going on. Here's an odd one. Right in the beautiful building on the Mall is a miniature hake shop, equipped with electric ovens, mixers and every tiling. The photograph slanm-a champion breNl maker mixing a hatch of dough preparatory to baking bread to test the dour.

Urges State to Control Autos

Illinois Secretary of State Points Out Benefits from J\ T ew Regulations Claims Accident and Death List Can Be Cut Down and Millions Saved Owners

power to enforce observance. This is left entirely to local police and

sheriffs.

In Illinois we have just concluded very successfully an 'experiment, which seems to prove beyond question tha’t the State official who licenses automobiles and administers automobile laws should have police power so far as automobile laws are

concerned.

For some five or six years we ex-

Ry Louis M. Emerson. Secretary of State, Illinois.

Editors’ Note—Louis L. Emerson, Secretary of State for Illinois is one

of the. best known men in the middle- ^ west amd is also known in legislative perimented with volunteer automobile balls throughout the country. He has investigators. These were responsible fathered more than one movement in citizens in each community who, hems own state that has proven to be , i n g drivers of automobiles ihemselves, of unrversal good to all states. His were interested in seeing automobile

laws obeyed. A badge to be worn on the radiator of the car and a certificate of appointment were given those who would accept voluntarily this re.

His

present article dealing wih automobile indicates that the state supervision of the traffic laws as outlined is one of the pet hobbies of the ex,-

the assurance that both theory and practice are based on solid fact.

Turkish Leader Is Expected to Abide by Terms

London, Sept. 28.— : Smiles, which wreathed Lord Curzon’s face as he departed from the prime minister’s residence today after making a report to the cabinet of his Paris mission, typified the easing up of the tenseness in the near east situation as viewed here. Everywhere there are expressions of relief that the war cries of last week have been replaced by old school diplomacy, with such an old hand as Cur?on directing British policy, and although there is no word that the allied note has yet been delivered to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, it is intimated his refusal to come to terms is unlikely. The view held that immediate ac-

ceptance would be against Turkish “trading propensities.’’ It is said the Turk,' in bargaining, is prone to ask concessions. Definite Terms Offered The allies have made Kemal Pasha a definite offer of Constantinople, Thrace to the Maritza river and membership in, the league of nations, but it is believed that Kemal will probably reply with a demand for all of eastern Thrace and complete retirement of the British from the neutral zones. It is taken for granted, however, both ip Paris and London, that no reply will be forthcoming from the nationalist leader until he sees M. Franklin-Bouillon, the French envoy, who is expected to reach Smyrna Thursday. That all danger is not past is evident from today’s dispatches reporting a new Kemalist incursion in\ the Chanak zone, necessitating a further warning from the British commander there. Even when Kemal’s reply is received, there are likely to be prolonged negotiations, for it is believed Kemal will demand the admission of Russia and Bulgaria to the conference.

ecutive, a hoby that he^can^ride wuth j oponsibility, and some good was ac- ^ 4l " 4 ' u '“ 1 ~ Al *'' 1“ ' ‘ complished in this way. The volun-

teer inspectors, however, had no police power. They could only report violations to local authorities and in the end the degree of enforcement of the automobile laws depended entirely upon the attitude-^of the sheriff, chief

of police, or mayor. States Inspectors

Investigation showed that thousands of dollars which should have come into the State Treasury in the form of automobile and chauffeurs’ license fees was not being collected and that traffic laws frequently were ignored. While in some communities there was scarecely any violation of the law, in other' communities there was the

grossest laxness.

In view of this situation, the last

The American people have been slow to realize that the automobile is too ambulatory and too numerous to be regulated entirely by local governmeint. There should be state uniformity of regulation. Some central authority should have power to reach across several countries, to reach* into or outside of any city and compel obedieaice to traffic law’s. As long as enforetment of these laws is left to local police, the degree of enforcement will vary according to the varying efficiency or w r hims of the officials. EigLty-three per cent of the automobilos in use in the world are in the United States. There is one automobile to every 11 persons in the entire country, or a total of 10,448,633. In Illinois we have 750,000 automobiles. or one to every 9.87 persons. In some other states the percentage

is higher.

Last year 12,500 persons were killed in automobile accidents. This was an average of .00119 per car. How many) more were injured and how much property was damaged through reckless driving and lack of observance of traffic law r s cannot be stated accurately, hut the figures are enor-

mous.

Obviously there is a crying need for better regulation of the operation of aut omobile in a country where they

are so numerous] The Illinois Law

In most states the administration of automobile laws has been plajbed in the hands of the Secretary of

the 25 inspectors four or five counties to look after. The inspector cannot hope to cover this large territory adequately by individual effort. He gets in touch with the sheriffs, chiefs of police and mayors of the territory under ( his jurisdiction and -secures their co-operation. In this way uniformity of regulation is maintained and few violators escape punishment. To Increase Fees Where there are State Police this work perhaps could he left to them, but the experiment in Illinois ha^ proved very conclusively that there should he some state authority to secure uniform enforcement of automobile law's throughout the entire

state.

Where there are State Police this work perhaps could be left to them, hut the experiment in Illinois has proved very conclusively that there should be some state authority to secure uniform enforcement of automobile laws throughout the entire

state.

The first result of the regulation is to increase automobile fees, which in Illinois and in practically every other state are used in the building of more hard roads or the maintenance of roads already built. Chauffeurs’ fees in Illinois have increased from $63,000 in 1920, the year before the creation of the position of Automobile Inspector to approximately $80,000 this year. In 1920 a total of 568,739 automobile licenses were issued for ail classes of cars and this year the total will reach 750,000. A great deal N this, of course, is due to the natural growth of the automobile business, hut a large percentage also is due tb the fact that the activity of automobile inspectors has resulted in almost a 100 per cent registration ef cars. Another experiment in centralization tried during the past year and a half by the Secretary of State of Illinois is the compiling every week of the numbers and descriptions of automobiles which have been stolen anywhere in the state. These are mimeographed and mailed to every sheriff and police chief to aid him in detecting stolen automobiles. The system is proving very successful and has resulted in the return of scores of stolen cars. The numbers of stolen cars are reported direct to the Secretary of State by the local sheriff or police officer as soon as possible after the theft.

Wooden Pig Explains Why Market Totters

i legislature passed a law permitting the Secretary of State to appoint State automobile inspectors invested with power to make arrests for viola--tion. of the automobile or traffic laws of the state. Under this law, 25 in-

spectors were appointed.

These inspectors are costyig the state for salary and expenses less than $50,000 per annum and by their efforts they have increased the returns from automobile license fees by at least a quarter of a million a year In other words, they hav? paid for themselves five times over merely in

the collection of fees.

But the efforts of the inspectors are not confined to this one activity. They have aided very materially in increasing the safety of travel on the highways of the state by enoftying traffic laws and headlights laws. Illinois has 102 counties, so that it

State', but he has t?een given no has been necessary to give each of | of model meals.

Competition between departments of the College of Agriculture as to which w r ould have the best departmental exhibits at the State Fair ran as high ever this year, and some of the displays succeeded to an unusual degree both in attracting attention and in putting over timely

information.

Those exhibits wdiieh had in them something in action drew the largest throngs and held them longest. Frame sections of the new-type timber frame barns, shown by the departanent of agricultural engineering, w'ere rigged up with mysterious fingers whirh moved automatically to every part of the structure from sill to collar beam, pointing out advantages of the “balloon” structure which uses nothing heavier than a

twoMnch board.

Rural economists had the pig that went to market. It was a running, climbing and diving pig that travelled over hills, these hills being built of sod and to a scale which showed accurately all of the ups and downs of hog prices for the past 10 years. Every time the pig reached a crest and plunged it meant a bad break in the market, and there were road signs to show the cause, almost invariably a case of everybody rushing

in to sell at the same rime.

Soils men showed sod from a limerenovated pasture in Jackson County, before and after renovating; fruit men stressed the pink spray for apple scab; crops workers emphasized that a bushel of new corn has in it three gallons of water, and urged early seed selection and storage this fall. Entomologists showed the right way to spray for potato hopperhurn, and the results- Home demonstration workers made display of inexpensive household conveniences, and

KLANSMAN t > (Continued from page One) its conception, vicious in its nature, political in its objects and subject to the will of a self-constituted Emperor who seeks to exploit the American people for his own personal ag-

grandizement!.

“In defiance of your threats of dishonor, disgrace and death,’ as contained in your ritual—written and copyrighted by yourself—I denounce your ritualistic work as an insult to all Christian people in America, as an attempt to hypocritically obtain money from the public under the cloak of sanctimonious piety, and I charge tffiit the principal feature of your ceremony of ‘naturalization’ into the ‘Invisible Empire’ is a blasphemous and sacrilegous mockery of the holy rite of baptism, wherein, for political and financial purposes, you have polluted with your infamous parody those things that Christians, regardless of creed or dagma, hold

most sacred.

“I further charge that when in | your printed literature you claim that your organization is the ‘genuine original Klan,’ this statement is a fraud historically and a fraud in principle. While you have—without any right whatever—appropria■ed to yourself the namo,, regalia and certain nomenclature of the original Klan, your scheme is radically different in conception, in organization and in purpose. A careful study, which I have madft, of the prescript cf the original klan and all available history and literature on the subject, reveals the fact that there is little if any anything in common between the two organizations. Your false pretenses of ‘genuineness’ is, therefore, an insult to the- history, the traditions and the entire record

of the South.

“Ever since your schema has been actively propagated there has been a wave crime in the southern states, consisting to a large extent of ‘private regulations’ of the public peace, committed by men who have gone about their respective communities wearing disguises and taking into their own hands the functions of prosecuting attorney, witnesses, judge, jury and executioner, in direct contra vention to the bill of rights of the federal and state constitutions. Men have been dragged from their beds at nights, forcibly abducted on the streets and in their homes, arrested without warrant on the public streets, conveyed to secluded peaces, there to be flogged, tarred and feathered. In two instances, helpless women, after being stripped of their clothing have been similarly maltreated. “In nearly every reported case the perpetrators of these acts of lawlessness have v/orn disguises, de scribed as ‘masks and white robes,’ whjcjr description vorrh'sponds convincingly with the official regalia of the ‘Invisible Empire.’ In three specific cases acts of lawlessness have been so openly and flagrantly committed by members of the Ku Klux Klan’. that you have been compelled to take official cognizance. In tljse tihiDe fr.pttinchs wthiere respon^bi’j ity has been fixed, it was very evident that the illegal oath and the secret teachings of your ‘Invisible Empire’ were construed by your dupes as granting a license to engage^ in •secret regulation of the peace by means, of anonymous warnings, threats, intimidations, abductions, the whip, and the use of tar and feathers. “Having studied your scheme, both from the inside and the outside, 1 have no doubt whatever that practically all of these reported 'outrages were committed by members of your oxganization. If it wei’e proved, how. ever, that your ‘citizens’ were not px^a facie x-esponsible, at the same time there exists a moral responsibility, because when one gi'oup of people is permitted to go about in disguise it places the community at the mercy of any group which cares to adopt similar tactics. “Evei’ywhere the promoters of your scheme have gone, they have sought to enlist as ‘citizens’ the white, Gentile, Protestant public officials, especially those haveing in charge the enforcement, of the law. No malt or how capable, how efficient and how conscientious a public official may he, if he chances to be a Jew or Catholic, you not only do xxot want him but your organization is now planning actively to cause all the Jews, Catholics and foreign-box*n natm-al-ized Americans in this country to be removed from public life. Aside from vicious politics, and in view of the fact that your oath is an accessory! before, the fact to mob violence this tampering and meddling with the law-enforcing machinery of the country—under the alleged plea of ‘law and order’—is a direct blow at the entire legal machinery of the United States, a condition that, in its nature, approaches anarchy. “At a time when peaceful relations are existing between the white and black races you are disrupting the industrial condition of the South by your anti-negro propaganda and causing a state of unrest that can result only in dangerous and mischievous consequences. In your antirCatholic and anti-Jewish propaganda your organization is scattering broadcast over this country wicked, malicious and inflammatory lies about American citizens of those religious beliefs, lies that bx-and your movement as being far more Vicious than the insidious German propaganda in this country prior to our entrance into the recent war. You are publishing, for example, the statement that the Jews are seeking to promote a race war between white people and negroes, and the intimation that the Catholic church was responsible for the murder of President Abraham Lincoln. In public statements you and your paid speakers give expression to wordy, sanctimonious and high-sounding platitud j’;, while secretly your propagandists, in a sneaking and contemptible manner, are spreading poisonious and vicious lies they dare not give voice to in public. “Your ‘Invisible Empire’ is furthermore a money-making scheme! You yourself, an individual of little, if any, means prior to your becoming an ‘Emperor,’ have ” so far received from ‘friends’ a $25,000 residence completely furnished! Youp connection with the organization is either bringing you large sums of

money at* present or the promise of same in the future. You are allowed to appropriate to your own use all cf the $10 ‘donated’ by any person whose application you personally solicit. All of the rituals and other printed publications of your organization are copyrighted in your name, and it is presumable that you either received royalties for their use or a cash consideration for their sale. “Your organization has Recently bought Lanier university, of which you. have been made the head, and college presidents are usually paid salaries. While orders for robes at $6.50 are taken in your name, they are filVd by the Gate Manufacturing company at a substantial profit, and thp public has not been informed as to the disposition of this huge amounts of funds. The Searchlight Publishing Company, headed by your Imperial Kleaglp, is no doubt a revenue producer! Your Imperial Kleagle is also the head of the Clarks Realty company, in whose operations I have no doubt you are also interested. Thess varied financial operations indicate to me that spreading religious and racial hatred is a lucrative business for you and your associates. “Your whole ‘Invisible Empire’ is a cancer in the body politic. It is like some foul and loathsome thing that grows and flourishes in the daidc, away from the sight of honest men and women. It was conceived in avarice, sired in ignorance and dammed in greed. It is now being nurtured in cunning and false pretense and fed upon an urfholy just for gold by means of passion, hatred and the prejudice of religious and racial fanatL cism. •Ynd day by day, with your bily assurance, you say that these devilish devices of discord are being developed in the name cf ‘pure Americanism”. If this is your idea of America, you haven’t the slightest conception of what pure Americanism means. “There is no place in America for an ‘Invisible Empire’ of hate and v^iiom: q n »-l there is no provision in the laws of this country for an ‘Emperor.’ The ‘Invisible Empire’ should be made visible. It should he held up to the light so that honest men can see its ugly structure and analyze its nefarious potentialities, and then, having seen this monstrosity, the people should demand of their legally constituted forces of government that Ku Kluxism and the Ku Klux Klan he outlawed and barred'forever from operating in this free Republic. Yours truly, . “HENRY P. FRY.” That is how the Simmons-Clarkc-brand of Ku Kluxism impressed one man who came into close contact with it. In succeeding articles the grounds on which he based the various charges in his indictment will be taken up and exa/ ined in every detail in the light of facts established by The World and The News in their country-wid? investigation of the Klan’s activities. • “Pieces of Eight?" These are gold pieces which wert coined early In the seventeenth century at the Amsterdam mlnv, tha Netherlands being under Spanish rule at the time. They were worth eight Spanish reals, or about one Spanish Peruvian dollar, and were coined at the time that Spain was at. the height of its power end prosperity.

Never Change. Some men are like phonographs—• every day they roll off exactly the same records.—Boston Transcript.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Work* Office of the Boar4 212 Wysor Block Muncie, Indiana. Notice to Contractors and to the PabUc. Notice U hereby given, to the publie and to all can tractors, that the Board of PuBlio Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, ih said City, according to the respective improvement resolutiens Mew mentioned, and according to the plana, profiles, drawings and specifications therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below des«ribed« U>-wit: I. R. No. 861-1922, for cement sidewalk o-n both sides of South Jefferson street frefn 17th to 18th streets. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 65, of the Att of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219.) # All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board befoas the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 3rd. day of October 1922 and' each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable te said City, for the sum of $100.00, which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in oase a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying proposal. Said Beard reserves the right t« reject any and all bids. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. By MARY E. ANDERSON, Clerk. Sept. 29th 1922.

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie. Ind., NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, ludiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 26th day of September 1922 to-wit: I. R. No, 928-1922, for cement sidewalk on both sides of Seymour street from Wolf street to Brady street. All work done in tha making of said described public improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of tha improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 17th day of October 1922, as a date \ipon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 7:30 o'clock P. M., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date .as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said d*i4t« will hear all persons interested or hose property is affected by said proposed nprovements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and tb the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated ■ cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by the City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORK'S, MARY E. ANDERSON, Clerk. Sept. 29 Oct. 6th, 1922.