Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 October 1922 — Page 2

■ # Friday, October 27, 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. —^ ri - d -^y7“OCTOBER 2771922: ~

THE LATEST IN K. K. K. ISM. The lava in the volcano of the Ku Klux Klan is boiling high, and an eruption is bound to take place very soon. The Imperial Wizard, Simmons, has been sidetracked for some time, and Klan organizations in thirty-two states have severed their allegiance from Atlanta. The latest acting Imperial Wizard, Edward Young Clarke, handed in his resignation recently. He is at present under federal indictment, and both he and Simmons have been charged with “drinking too much’' and with many other misdemeanors. In fact, a Baltimqre Klansman, who made an investigation of things at Atlanta, charges that “ the Imperial Palace is rotten to the core; the national leaders are political catspaws. The Klan is constantly being sold to the highest bidder.” This is also true of Klanism in Maryland. George Waldron, of Baltimore, who has long been active m anti-Catholic organizations, was recently expelled from the Klan, and he in turn charges local Klan officials with tyranny and with stealing funds. He says that the Atlanta officials “have been motivated by the desire for personal gain only.” This Waldron is also being charged with forming a new organization, and with “stealing” members from the Klans of the city. Davis, the hitherto King K1 eagle of Maryland, has been likewise ousted, and charged with claiming “that he got $20,000 from the klan last year.” Tennesse Klansmen have applied for a charter for a new organization to be known as the National Associated Klans. Every American citizen may belong to the ndw organization except blacks, and robes and masks will be discarded as well as the Imperialistic titles.—Sunday Visitor.

OTHERS READ THE POST-DEMOCRAT The Post-Democrat is greatly in demand in surrounding cities that have been invaded by the Ku Klux klan and hundreds of copies are sent to Anderson, New Castle, Elwood, Marion, Hartford City, Dunkirk, Winchester, Portland and other cities. The circulation of the Post-Democrat has increased within a few months from about two thousand to five thousand and the indications are that this number will be doubled with a few weeks. The demand for copies of the paper has been greater each week than the supply. Besides our regular mailing list hundreds of copies are sold Saturdays on the street and by local agencies. This week we are starting off a big list at New. Castle, where the hundred per cent Americans have gained a foothold. Next week we will have an interesting news letter from New Castle, giving the “inside” of the klan workings there.

The entire Vesta? family, Albert, wife, son and daughter are pulling down salaries at Washington, therefore it is important that Albert be returned to congress. And by all means let us not forget the old dame who was put on the Washington payroll by the Anderson statesman, and w T ho is required to split the money with Vestal, giving him eighty of the ninety dollars which she receives monthly for doing nothing. Among the many accomplishments of the republican administration (to use a phrase in general use by republican speakers) we hold that the greatest is the almost uncanny gift of being able to extract the last possible drop of liquid nutriment from the government teat. And at the head and front of this noble array of cheap, petty larcency grafters, our own Albert shines superb and alone, the envy of his mates, a congressman who was able to put his entire family on the payroll and in addition pull down eighty five per cent of the salary of an eighty year old capitol building janitress.

The republican state machine puts out the dope that Dick Elliott will be reelected congressman in the sixth congressional district, because the national anti-prohibition society has endorsed his opponent. And for the same reason, only different, we take it that the highly elastic republican machine prophesies the reelection of Albert Vestal in the eighth, now that he has the support and endorsement of the same wet organization that is opposing Elliott. Logic is something the republican machine hasn’t got anything else but, and reading the Indiana republican dope sheet is about the fondest thing we are of.

The real republican campaign is being conducted from the quarters of the invisible empire on the third floor of the Peoples Trust Co. building, where a desperate effort is being put forth to elect a Ku Klux judge, sheriff and prosecutor at the expense of the other republican candidates.

With Delaware county taxes constantly mounting and the value of a farm products shrinking, under republican rule, it will not be long before a pound of hog will sell for just about enough to pay taxes on a dollar’s worth of property.

When you vote a week from Tuesday, take a good look at your tax receipt, compare it with these received while the democrats were in power, and let the comparison guide you when you cast your ballot.

Senator Henry Cubage Lodge has endorsed Albert Jeremiah Beveridge and that ought to be about enough for Albert Jeremiah.

Under the latest Daugherty ruling foreign diplomats are to be permitted to bring all the booze into the United States that they desire and foreign vessels are to be permitted to steam into Uncle Sam’s three mile parking limit with unlimited quantities of “medicinal” liquor. Why not go a little farther and give these foreign booze hounds license to violate the rest of our state and federal laws?

Do you want a man on the circuit bench who takes an oath to protect Ku Klux criminals who are charged with crimes, excepting only malicious murder, rape and treason ? It is unthinkable. Vote for Silverburg.

They asked for God to give them men and they got Van Ogle and Dock Hanner.

FARMER’S BIG JOB Census authorities are giving out figures showing the country’s farm population in this country to be 31,614,269, a little less than 30 per cent of the total population. These figures include farm laborers and their families, with an average of about five persons to the farm. It’s a big job the resident of the agricultural district has according to these figures for not only are those residing in the cities depending on him, but a large percentage of those in the country as well. It is stated about one-half the people in the country are classified as rural, people living in villages of only a few hundred population coming under this classification. The average city resident has little idea of what the work of the farmer really means and of the vast territory he is called upon and for which he is expected to furnish his products. These latest figures show people if the country have a large territory cover with thousands and thousands dependent on them.

Colored Voters Beware! There are three or four colored men and women in Muncie who have been bought by the Republican Ku Klux candidates. Colored men and women of Muncie, they have taken money to betray you into the clutches of masked outlaws. They are trying to sell you out. You should shun these people forever as traitors to your race. Do not permit these traitors to Oven talk to yon. Send them about their business. They have been bought with a price. They are merely cheap merchandise. Tell them so.

Klan’s Oath

lieve in “White Supremacy?” Third, are you a Gentile or Jew? Fourth, what ts' your religious

(Continued on page 2) ! Faith and do you “owe ANY KIND the Arnoniw, Mating sufferinc and i of aIle S iaI ' ce . lort ' i >f " a ‘‘° n privation, f.wing disease and wounds government, mstitution sect people and grimy death ail over France rul ? r 7 <«*/“W" and Flanders will,cut any distine- » ,1<1 institution meant Using the lion hot,toon notion nt fn-ii™ linen Pope as head o! the Roman Catho-

lion between native of foreign born, •naturalized, or still alien, .Chn.jtian or pagan. Protestant*/or; Catkolib, Jew or Gentile, but pul'ing all together as units in what John Pershing' recently charactcriz,ed as .the finest army that e\!er trod shoe

leather.

wonderful working “power to charm and control” to make you actively anti-negro, anti-Japanese, anti-Jew, anti-Catholic and anti-alien-born. But further consideration and proof of Klu Kluxism’s vicious propaganda of prejudice and hatred, and its furtive assault on the very foundations of Nie principles on which the American commonwealth rests must be postponed until later in this

In the army which Gen. Persh-! Km.peror Simmons. Once inside ing commanded a mere handful of j y°ti will find that your ruler is not American vsoldifrs • iieceived, for | satisfied merely Ip. have you vv.iite, “conspicuous gallantry and intrepid- j Gentile, Protestant arid native-born,

lie church).

If you can truthfully answer that . you are white, Gentile, ProtJJtant senes.

and native-boni, you have passed. . ^<'0 have not yet exhaut-ed thin the Ku Klux test and are eligible J^tiuest o. the Gloran, that sacred to enter the portals of the Invisible ° , Ku Kiurism, Inc., against Emnirfe as a naturalized subject of piotnnnt’on of which t.ie 1m-

^ - - • penal Wizard issued a stern decree

of warning and then exposed it to casual perusal by getting it copyrighted and regularly catalogued in

n C.- will vxert thy for?* ,.( his | of duty in action, the ’highest mih- j c.---^— , —-r—•- ...

tary recognition this nation can bestow, the Congressional Meda 1 of Honor, which carries with its award lifelong freedom of the floor of the United States senate and

house of representatives.

One man of this handful was sergeant Alvin York, American, from the Tennessee mountains. And another was Sergeant, Benjamin Kaufman, unadulterated Jew, of No. 2113 Pitkin avenue, Brooklyn, and the 308th infantry, part of the 77th division winch was drafted) from New York City and required a corps of interpreters in thirty languages 1o start the training of its men

at Yaphank.

To get the full contrast between Americanism and Ku Kluxism, Inc.,

Irven Parrish Murdered Traveling Man Whose Death Went Unavenged

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A year ago last 'August a Fort that a prosecutor and his deputy Wayne traveling piapk named Irvin ! would allow a murder of this characParrish was murdered’ oh a lonely road | ter to go uninvestigated.. As far as in Delaware county. ‘ v * the records reveal this is the only Parrish was accompanied, at the » lu 7 k ‘ r that has V ver taken place in time of the' murder, by a woman j Delaware county that was not investinamed LaVaughn Cvmningham. The 8’^ by a grand jury, couple were in an aidomobile and ac-' ^ The , people would like to know why cording to the story 'Uf the woman, | Benadum and Ogle allowed this case two robbers shot her companion to without grand jury inqmry.

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amine the accompanying photo- a h° rr ° r over the community, graph of a Klan questionnaire which i The ordered man ^ prominent and it happens, was one of those cir J was a thirty seconcUle^ree Mason, rulated by King Kleagle “W. K. G.” j . a murder which called for a from a hctitioul numbered letter box! ri ^ d 1 investigation, but as far as we dub! 16 No. 111 !8° Graniercy*^Park, '^NeW '■ for\ S /^sa^m o? a*. I7s yeStd 1 The, CunninshaW wc™h, who witv

C OMMANDMENTS

Advertised “Converted and Escaped Nun” at Hartford City Turned Out to Be an Escaped Muncie Preacher

Mrs. Helen Jackson, the “converted, escaped nun,” who by the way never was a nun, has been working her graft for the past week or two in cities surrounding Muncie and an effort is being made, it is said, to have her make another series of “lectures” in Campbell’s auditorium some, time in the near future. She was advertised to speak in the municipal sales pavilion at Hartford City Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, but owing to the storm of protest, made by the best citizens of Hartford City, the mayor refused to let her speak. A Ku Klux ■meeting was held in the pavilion, however, Monday night, but instead of being addressed by the “escaped nun,” the crowd was harangued by an escaped preacher from Muncie, Rev. J. Walter Gibson, who was laughed at and hissed by his hearers.

At Dunkirk, where the fake riuri was to speak several nights ago, h£r business manager-husband JabkSoh, was walloped and run out of town by two ex-service boys, to whom he is iihleged to have said that it was the purpose of himself and wife to rid Dunkirk of “the d d Catholics.” Hot liking the climate in Dunkirk, the Jackson party departed without holding their advertised meeting. V - The woman spoke at Goshen several nights ago and as the newspapiih there, fearing the wrath of th6"Ktx Klux, refused to publish the tftitji about the grafting outfit, the Catholic Welfare Council of Elkhart, county distributed over the citv the following circular, which briefly, and to ittc point, exposes this fraud who is gdltlg over the country enriching hersm fet the expense of credulous suckers who give her money for spreading her monstrous falsehoods: ..^-t - .jr.-x'W -inn- m lOlVIfr,

To The Fairminded People of Goshen, A Plain Statment of Facts

Mrs. Helen Jackson, who has been giving a series of lectures in Goshen proved to be an absolute fraud. She never was a Nun, but she was an inmate of three reformatories. A reward of $1,000 will ho given to anyone who can prove that this wo-

man was ever nun.

Mrs. Helen Jackson, at the age of fifteen years, was committed to the Sisters Reformatory, at Detroit, Mich., by her sister because she warn unmanageable. This was in Septem- j ber, 1895. In December, 1897, she was permitted to return to her sister, then

living in Pittsburg, Penn.

Later she entered the Good Shepherd Reformatory, at Carthage, Ohio. Again in the Reformatory in Newport

Ky -

These reformatories were established for the purpose of bring back to virtue and a good life, fallen women. When they have passed a certain stage in the work they are sometimes allowed to wear a certain garb and assist in the uplifting of the other fallen ones. Mrs. Jackson was permitted to wear such a garb, as the Sisters mistakingly thought that she

OUT TO BEAT LADY AStOR Plymouth. Eng.- Dr. H. W. Bayley, who will oppose Lady Astov if. the next election, is already waging a systematic campaign for votes! ONE ARM VS. ONE LEG • Shamokin, Pa.—Theodore Price, a one-armed minor, had Thomas No* votney. a one-Uggecl many arrested for robbing him.

REVOLUTION

Acclaimed at Mass Meeting of Greeks in Athens—“Death To Traitors!” Is Cry

Athens, October 26 — The Greek revolution was acclaimed at a meeting in the Place de La Constitution Sunday. Citizens df Athens and members of the Revolutionity Committee harrangued crowds while airplanes released thousands of

ir „n 771x7 - .cu- j „ i nessfed ths murder, told a rambling!

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irJr . arti . JYU taken b Prosecutor Benadum and his Kluxism informs the prospect from f i enntv 0 , rnnclu-ive The the •‘Aulik - of its Imperial Wizard & a little pri--that wise man and wonder-worker ; vately and the cafee was allowed to

who has power to charm and con- i dro p

trol—and if the answers are satis- | N( ; d jury investigation of this factory further information will be atrocious homicide was'ever held, ftdtimpartedj - i

Do Net Apply To Women, Says George Harvey—Moses Referred

To as “Lady Killer.”

London, October 26—The Ten Commandments do not apply to women, and therefor the Commandments

iiviiiiniuc nciu nut- n '! u . s D be revised to meet modern con-

„ t x r r ^ withstanding the fact that relatives! u^ ons ’ .^■ m ^ aS5ador Halfway down its test of your 1 n f | bo dead Ynan insisted that the true ' U arvey ■ an aiifiress to th e Authors’

eligibility to citizenship in the In- f ac t s 0 f the murder should be delved

visible Empire it has set itself to } n t 0 .

rear inside the coirlirys of frqe America, in Question 12, Ku Kluxifem asks whether you believe in “fhe principles of a PURE Americanism.” and above and below that

The question is with Muncie people is, “What interest did Deputy Prosecutor Van Oglo have in slowing down

(ho inquiry?”

The Cunningham girl gave birth to

point, in four other groups of in- a child in January, 1921, which has terrogatones, defines by implication j h ccn cared f or bv Vary'Ogle since it the kind of pure Americanism you ! was a dav old, according to the court must stand for to measure up or records of the adoption of the child by

down, to Ku Klux levels, as follows: i Ogle.

First, were your Barents born in the United Stales of America? Second, are you of the white race or a colored race, and do you i

Several months prior to the murder the child was legally adopted by the

Ogles.

Club.

If the Commandments are not revised, according to Colonel Harvey, a specific decalogue must be constructed for the guidance of women. As theologians have been unwilling to solve the problem, said the Ambassador, the authors must. Ambassador Harvey’s subject was “Have Women Souls?” He did not answer the question, but spoke an hour to show that women were treated merely ns property in the Old Testament. He characterized Moses as a “lady killer,” who classed wives

It would be hardly deemed possible with slaves and beasts' of burden.

CITIES are using great truck fleets to keep STREETS CLEAN—NEW YORK ORDERS 128 MORE WHITES

had been partially brought to a mere i bulletins. ^ x A1 x . . A manageable state. The garb is that! Cnes of > death to the traitor?,’ worn by the peasant women of Nor-! arose when Colonel Plastiras, a me‘mmandy, France. The Good Shepherd | ber of the committee, when outlining Order was established at Caen, France, I the aims of the revolution, criticised hence they give the Magdalenes in i Greeks who, he charged,-while their institution the privilege of wear-1 seeking to lay the blame for the di?ing this distinctive garb. It is not the ' aster in Asia Minor upon the arihy.

themselves were solely responsible. This was an allusion to the •imprisoned former Premiers and nyilitary officials whose trials on charges of treason await the decision of the

next national assembly.

After the meeting a committee .of citizens visited the American Legation, where after presenting a co^Y

habit of a Sister. No Magdalene, and this woman was such, is ever allowed

to beccme a nun.

If it were not for the fact that no paper in Goshen would publish a refutation of the hand bill she passed from house to house, we would never stoop to this means of bringing the

refutation of her claims to you. f ______ .

She never was a nun. She poses in | of the pre-revolutionary resolutions, what she says is a nun’s habit. It the chairman expressed the gratitude is not. She is just as credible in her! of the Greek people for America’? other statements of what is taking practical humanitarianism in helping

place among the Sisters. She cannot i destitute refugee?.

be believed. | i ■ " >- "J..L "JiHgi****** Her trial at Ann Arbor, Mich., in notice to voters of polling ftAOSB April of 1921, brought out her life. Notice i6 hereby given to the voters of You can get the record if vou wish '■ rvare county, Indiana, that the following pUcea frim the court . It is not delightful ha ve been^lected by the county commitettnem

reading. Telegram

Detroit, Mich., May 23rd., 1922. Helen Jackson was never a nun, but a penitent in three Reformatories. Let-

ter will follow.

Signed: Mather Francis Xavier, Detroit Reformatory, conducted by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd.

Cleveland, Ohio, May 23rd., 1922. Helen Jackson was never a nun. The Good Shepherd Convent. Detroit, Michigan, can furnish full record. , Motvter Superioof ' Carthag'e,

Ohio.

These telegrams can be verified by calling at Western Union Telegraph

Office, Goshen, Ind.

Listen to her language and see if you can hear in it the accents of him \vho said: “Thou shalt not bear false

witness against thy neighbor.”

xr ,, , \ Precinct No. 18—Shoemaker Store Knotn, NATIONAL CATHOLIC WELFARE j Precinct No. 18 '/•— C ross Roads School' HuiMCOUNCIL OF ELKHART COUNTY. L i . n ";.. „ , By H. M HAYES Pros Suite 235 J JESS IfcfKjUKMl-

Monger Bldg., Elkhart, Ind. SHOOTING AT A BURGLAR MOTHER KILLS HER BABY

as places for holding tho election on Nbvefiiber

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Precinct No. 1—-Central High School Building. Precinct No. 2 Council Street Hotel, 6 >3

South Council street, ■ Precinct No. 3 Court House.

Precinct No. 4--St. John Hotel, 327 East Jack-

son street.

Precinct No. 5—Williams Plumbing Shop. 1(125

East Main street.

Precinct No. 6—Slnger’.s Candy Store, 110H

East Main street.

Precinct No. 7—West’s Residence, 1821 Samp-

son avenue.

Precinct No. 8- Hall’s Roofing Shop, HO?,

South Walnut street.

Precinct No. 9—Walnut Street Baptist Church, corner Walnut and Twelfth streets. Percinct No. 10—Ervin’s Residence, OtT South

Plum street.

Precinct No. 11-

1520 Kirby avenue. Precinct No. 12 -Hurst’s Residence, 1421 Algdc-

denia avenue.

Precinct No. 13—Wolf's Residence, 1 !1<5 Ks-t

Sixth street.

Precinct No. 14—Sipe’s Residence, 2707 Ayjth

Monroe street.

Precinct No. 15—Ford’s Residence, 1GOO Wevt

Ninth street.

Precinct No. 16—West Side School HuUdiiv'. Precinct No. 17—Riverside School BuUiltnjJv

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-William Everson Residehie,

Precinct No. 19U, Red Men’s Hall. Precinct No. 20—1. O. O. F. Hall. Precinct No. 201j— Bunkum School House.

Precinct No. 21—Brown’s Tin Shop. ' ’

Precinct No. 21 1 /5 -Tuttles’ Office. Precinct No. 22—-Cowan School Building. ;

Precinct No. 23—Royerton School Building.

Precinct No. 23U>—Williams’ Store. Precinct No. 24—Enterprise Office. i Precinct No. 25—John Forman Room,

Precinct No. 26—Center School Building. 1

Opera House. >

Precinct No. 28-—DeSoto School Building.

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; Precinct No. 30—Oak Grove School House.!

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Colorado Springs, Col. — Shooting at a robber who had entered the

“m ho™" 0 Mrs. ThS <Tr- j Ktffi & s V=SSZ J» .. .. Her fifed a bullet through the body ! Precinct No. 2S-Albany Town Hail. ,f J •* of her baby, lying in its crib noaV No - 3 ? n £“ k , C k ro Wj^^* ' '* the window. When Carrier returned \ sherman j. SHRQYEIV -j/ - the next morning he found his wife j clarence l. retherfoRJ),

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A contract for 128 five-ton motor trucks, just awarded by the City of New York to the White Comj ny, Cleveland, following a previous order for 212 trucks of this make some time ago, gives the Whitt Company the two largest orders for motor trucks ever placed by a municipality and gives the street cleaning department of the City of New York the largest known fleet of standardized heavy duty trucks. Specifications required bidders to produce verified records showing at least 100 heavy duty trucks which have covered more than 7D,-

000 miles. This requirement was a simple one for the . White Company, which qualified in this re-

spect two years agrr. —

One hundred and twenty of the trucks will be equipped with power dumping bodies deveteped especially for refuse collection u-.der the conditions existing in New York. Each will carry six yards of refuse. They will be used for all phases

trucks essential in keeping itai thousands of miles of streets in a sanitary condition. The city has a nationwide reputation for clean streets and because jf the constant growth of the street cleaning problem, large investments in motor equipment have been necessary. To protect the city against the blocking of thoroughfares by heavy snowfalls, such as happened two

of street cleaning work, including i years ago v/hen Nev York traffic the removal of ashes, garbage and)was paralyzed for days, a method snow. Six will be provided with of attaching snow plows to. the winches and two will be equipped j front of the trucks v/as developed with apparatus for handling and, on short notice, the city can wrecks. j throw into service a great battery

New York City has found motor of snow fighters.

ENLIST RIGHT NOW The Post-Democrat wants every democrat and every individual in Muncie and Delaware county who is opposed to the vicious, lawless and unDatriotic Ku Klux klan to order this paper sent to his or her address, by mail. Show that you are willing to supuort and encourage a newspaper that does not fear to do battle in your behalf by paying for a year’s subscription. Fill out the blank which appears below, enclose two one-dollar bills, mail it to the Post-Democrat, and vou will get the paper, one year, by mail. ” SUBSCRIPTION ORDER Enclosed find Two Dollars for which please send me The Muncie Post-Democrat for one year, beginning with the next issue. v Signed Address (Cut this out and mail to Post-Democrat, Muncie, Ind.)

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