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

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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

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A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats ot | ' Muncie, Delaware county and the Eight Congressional District. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware Coiinty. 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 2o4« GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. 7”FRIDAY, DECEMBER _ £9ri922 __

AMERICAN BLACK HANDERS \

With the m^ution of legal action against the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas, the case of this highly organized and virulent association of what might be called American Black Handers passes, to ( a new phase. Governor Allen has done a most courageous thing \ in attempting by legal methods to expose the leaders of the Klan | and banish them from the State. But he is compelled to rest Ins appeal upon a technicality. Our legal and political philosophy is I taxed to meet a situation that is dangerous only because oi the , great masses of the people. . . Thus, were the Keagles to go on as they are going ac the | business of national disruption we should soon find the United States as divided in mind as the Balkans used to be when they were the breeding place for European wars. For it is the habit

of people to meet violence with violence.

~ When it is remembered that this revival of knownothingism on a scale never before dreamed of is due to the desire of a few men to get easy money from the illiterate, vicious and gullible, ana that it was brought about deliberately by methods of intensive salesmanship ordinarily applied only in the held of wildcat oil stocks, the whole affair seems as fantastic as it is perilous. Aggressive ignorance is a hard thing to deal v/ith. And the Ku Klux

is ignorance not only aggresive but savage..

If we should read that a Frenchman, living in solitary grandeur after a wild flight upward from poverty, and muttering strange phrases and wearing comic-opera regalia and a mask, had called himself Emperor and was supported by multitudes sworn to do his bidding and intent upon establishing themselves above the govern-;

ment and the courts of law, we should feel naturally that France. nr n,.,,.* r nir was approaching a state of mental and spiritual collapse. ButjiOiiCv IIiJiIl TOF rife"

that sort of thing goes nowadays in the United States. If we were J to learn some morning that bankers or labor leaders or political j radicals had donned masks and selected hiding places and turned to j mob-law lynchings and floggfngs to assert their pov/er and as part of a scheme of political dominance,, we should shout for the army. Yet the Governors of two States have virtually admitted that they find the Klux deliberaely interfering in the administrative affairs of their offices and laboring to frustrate the operation of law and to deny the fundamental rights of citizenship in the United

States.

In the last two years 800 persons have been lynched or flogged in the Southern and Southwestern sections of the country. The question naturally arises whether the Klan, organized to split the United States into warring, hate-inflamed factions, has a legal or

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ALF of «:is live!to be GO, and nearly a fourth of us reach.75. This cheerful state of affairs is announced O by Dri.Louis I. Dublin, chief statistician of!the Metropolitan Life Insurance ^Company. . '‘‘The average person at 50,” says Dr. Dublin, “may now hope to livedo the age of 71—or, as we put it, the average length of lifefremaining to each one of the survivors at age *50 is 21 more\years.f Even at 70 there is more than nine years'of expectation and so on in a diminishing degree to

the'end \ ,

^The average Baby born in America in 1901 fcould be expected to live 49tyears 3 months. ^ ) The average baby born in 1923 should reach 65, thanks to v great strides by medical science, especially ' in saving the lives of children during babyhood and early childhood. As a matter of fact, children born in 1923 may, for all we know, live to an average age of 100,150 or more. Startling ’disc^eries, in the’ way of prolonging human life, may be made before many-more years, by the use of radium or artMiciaBy; stimulating the ; endocrine glands of the body—

thyroid, adrenals, etc.

t\ The great strides That have been made in * the last 20 ;years,\in prolonging'the average^ duration of human life, have been mostly'J)y reducing infantile death rate. Sci'epce; js|turning its fattention to similar service for mature ipeoTflte.VMuch is possible.. And considerable is probable. / " SOiAekime when you have an idle hour, get onto the family whatever you keep the records in, and figure up )ik<Z average age at which people in your family diej It will

^rou what years are apt to be most critical In your f&s^SFSvhen health must be safeguarded most.

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WEEKLY MARKETGRAM

Grain

Grain markets unsettled during the week with holiday dullness the prevailing feature. Wheat prices averaged higher, Chicago May wheat ^gaining zVz cents net; Dec. corn down

Vic.

Higher prices reached on the 27th. and the market closed firm. SentiAtient bullish. Liberal export demand .for wheat at seaboard. Reports of damage to Argentine corn crop by locusts and drouth had strengthening effect on corn prices. ' Closing prices in Chicago cash market: No. 2 red winter wheat $1.27; No. 2 hard winter wheat $1,21; No. 2 mixed corn 74 cents; No. 2 yellow corn 75 cents; No. 3 white oats 44 cents. Average farm prices: No. 2 ■mixed corti in Central Iowa 61 cents; No. 2 hard winter wheat in Central /Kansas $1.05; No. 1 dark Northern wheat in Central North Dakota $1.06. Closing future prices: Chicago May wheat $1.26 Vo Chicago May corn 72Va; Minneapolis May wheat $1.24%; Kansas City May wheat $1.16%; Winnipeg May wheat $1.16%.

Hay

Timothy hay markets fairly firm. Receipts light but demand restricted '/by light holiday buying alfalfa firm ! at Kansas City but prairie weak at both Kansas City and Minneapolis. Quoted Dec. 27: No. 1 timothy New York $26.50; Phila. $22; St. Louis $21 Minneapolis $16.50. No. 1 alfalfa Kansas City $23.5.0, Memphis $31, No. 1 Prairie Kansas City $12.50 Minne-

'apolis $15.50 St. Louis $18.

Feed

Usual holiday dullness prevails in all markets and little improvement in

Klan Predicts

Continued from Page One od. If you really believe in the order and will practice its principles and conform to its regulations and usages and contribute the sum of $10 toward its propagation and can otherwise qualify, then membership is awarded you upon this service rendered and pledge of future fidelity to the institution. This is NOT a selfish, mercenary, commercialized proposition, but the direct opposite.” The Klan, he says in another passage is not encouraging or condoning any propaganda or religious intolerance or racial prejudice. “It is an association of REAL men who believe in BEING something, in DOING things worth while and who are in all things 100 PER CENT PURE Americans. Its lineage, he states, is “The Most SublimedddlC Sublime Lineage in History, Commemorating and Perpetuating as It Does, the Most Dauntless Organization Known to Man;” its secret is “Sacred Guardianship of the Most

bugs ia Lake City

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Total

Is Dead From Burns and Loss Is Estimated at

$720,000.

pression They have / not yet attained the heights which are bathed in the grateful sunshine of ^ prosperity. Some, indeed, have fallen bjA the way. Others are still in the valley Nevertheless, as we stop a bit and look backward we can see that very considerable ground has been gained by the great majority, and we can enter the New Year with

moral right to the use of the mails.* It will be odd if the federal three"firemen arrYnjured"and "pro - ‘renewed hope and with, that courage government compels Governor Allen to fight his fight unaided, iperty loss amonts to $720,000 follow- j Which comes from the realization that

INCENDIARISM IS ALLEGED

Apartment Blaze Is Credited to De-

fective Boiler But Others to

Conspiracy

Midgets Gather « For 1923

( demand is expected till after period

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace pf stock taking. . Stocks in hands of makes the following New Year 1 state-dealers large especially of , , . i 1 high protein feeds. Little demand ment for farmeis. j j; or cottonseed meal of which feed Twelve months ago .most of the six | about 140,000 .tons more were shipped million farmers of the United' States H’ om mills during past four months were starting on the'long hard climb Uj! an for same period last year. , » „ j. . , 1 Mocks ot wheat feeds due to recent out of the valley economic . de- | production in excess of present

WHAT JACK PERSHING SAID

—Philadelphia Ledger. (Rep.) ling a night of widespread incendiarism

‘and accidental fires hare.

Fifty-nine families were driven into the street when flames, totally de-

At a great meetug of the Chicago Association of Commerce ’ stroyed the half million dollar apartheid at the Hotel La Sallle, Chicago last week, with three thousand j me $ i^Snce, realtor, died of burns in attendance, Major General J. J. Pershing, head of the United reC eived when fire cut oft’ his escape. States Army, condemned the K,u Klux Klan as traitorous and alien J A defective boiler is thought to be to America. General Pershing said in part: iresponsible for tne apartment hou^? ‘There is little difference between the malign influence of the nf ^Acondiaiv orb-in Thev

we are really making progress. A year ago, when speaking of the prospects for farming in (1922, I said that while there iwas no reason to expect boom times for; the farmer in the near future, there was promise

demand. Cornfeeds in fair request at steady prices. Storage' stocks heavy. Movement fair. Quoted December 27: bran $25.25, middlings $25, ftour middlings $27, rye middhngs $25 Minneapolis; 36 percent cottonseed meal $42.25 Memphis, $42.50 Atlanta; 34 percent linseed meal ,$51 Minneapolis $53 * Buffalo; glutenfeed $40.35 Chicago; white hominy feed $28.50 St. Louis, $32 Chicago; No. 1

alfalfa meal $28.50 St. Louis.

Livestock and Meats

At Chicago hog prices advanced 30 to 40 cents over those prevailing a week ago. Beef steers declined 5 to 15 cents, butcher cows and heifers weak to 25 cents lower; feeder steers steady to 15 cents higher and veal calves 50 cents net higher. Fat lambs

of better times, -both for the farmer 3rrt P 50 cents and fat ewes and ^or those wnose business is large- ne t higher while feeding lambs were

ly dependent upon him. The year has unchanged.

red radicals who ^ ore from within and the same influence ofthegS^ aSflK ^ of "F laste ^ Ku Klux Klan, which aims, to stir sectional and religious stme fifth - ’

ancf divide AffieriShns Into antagohistic groups. We cannot shut our eyes to the so-called ‘Invisible Emnire , that is working in our

midst. Officers of the state, nation or city who join this pros-Relieve to be responsible for the fire I Prices of the maior crons are mostlv whjIe stockers and feeders were slow,

Hunt For Three Men

Police speed crews scoured the city for a sedan carrying three men they

much better, than a year ago, both for

agriculture and for \industry. Crops have been good, on the whole.

On Dec. 27 hogs were strong to 10 cents higher than Tuesdays average; beef steers generally 10 to 15 cents lower, butcher cows and heifers strong to 25 cents higher; bulls firm, veal calves largely 50 cents higher,

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allegiance to an invisible power for an evil purpose. ' ner warehouse.

Thunderous applause greeted the General’s statement, but already the Kluxers say that Pershing is a Catholic—they ought

to tell you that he is a thirty-two degree Mason, too.-

Admitting that public opinion holds Gene Williams to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted by a picked, packed and predjudiced jury, Judge Dearth has followed the example set by his predecessor, W. A. Thompson, and has refused to set aside the verdict so wrongfully rendered. The judicial mind and temperament holds, it would seem, that it were better for an hundred men to suffer and perish than for the memory of one sainted and sanctified precedent to be treated with disrespect. Of course everybody knows that Gene is not guilty, but he will no doubt be sustained in his long imprisonment by the though that his legal lynching was accomplished through a proper application of the rules laid down in the book.

The official edict having gone forth from the city court to the effect that the gallon of dishwater consfiscated at the restaurant - of John Cox is non-intoxicating, you can now drink all the dishwater you want.

What it takes to make the invisible empire visible Governor Parker of Louisiana has got. The hand of the law is about to remove the mask from the faces of the klan assassins of Mer Rouge.

- COMING IN 1923

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A NOTKER year totters on crutches into eternity. Once XjL^more we stand on the threshold of the unknown. In greeting the stranger, 1923, it is good to know that better things probably are in store for us. The business outlook generally is much brighter than it was at the beginning of 1922. Uncertainty, bewilderment and fear have nearly run their course. Our goal is plainly in sight—we are headed upward to safe and sane prosperityAThere may be reactions, but they will be temporary. The Ipng-swing trend is upward. U ;Prosperity in 1922 was rather lop-sided. The year 1923 should do much to restore the normal balance, the eventual and inevitable equilibrium, with the purchasing power of farmers and small towns more On a level with cities, y i "iA year ago every other person was muttering some reason why business revival could only be temporary. Today the crape-hanger is a rare specimen. Best of all, no one will listen to him. That reveals a national spirit of confidence, the surest breeder of prosperity. jAll around, we are a saner people than when we ventured timidly into 1922. Home is coming to have more of its old meaning. So-called “jazz life” is gradually departing. l Men are working harder. There’s a general revival of the old-time, genuinely American spirit that made our country what it is. ' ■ As Coue, the French auto-suggestionist, would put it, “Every day, and in every way, things are getting better and better.” We wish our readers the best of good fortune and happiness in 1923 and the years to follow.

While there has

ieen a correspondiiig advance in the arices of the things the farmer must

Night watchman Swan said he saw ' the total sum wh ich farmers will

two men run out and jump into a small . „

sedan just before fire was discovered j recei>re ^ or cr °P s of this year is in Swan Creek lumber yards, where ! greater by a billion and a half dollars

‘IDGETS from ail over the world gathered lately in New York to plan their vaudeville program for 1923 It will he mostly in the United States. Europe isn’t a very profitable amusement field yet. Little Lucy Williams is shown sitting a-top the movie camera.

the fire loss, including six horses and two mules, was $39,000. Police said several barn fires in the wholesale district were of incendiary

origin.

With the opening of a new year it is the natural to review in our thoughts the happenings of the past 12 months. These 365 days have brought joys and sorrows to all and we wonder what the days of 1923 will bring into our hearts and homes. In the year past we have blundered, there have been actions, words and deeds to regret and there has been some things left undone which brings a touch of saddness with its remembrance. Shall these same mistakes be reppeated or shall we profit from them in 1923? On the other hand we have performed some deeds it is good to remember. It is right to take note of our short comings, but it is also good to think of the happiness we may have caused others and if the balance is on the wrong side of the scale to make the coming 12 months count on the other side. A New Year’s resolution has become something over which many jokes are made, for they are so often broken, but they do help if they are made with a firm determination that they shall be kept. Each one has some special weakness or tempta-

Dr more than that which they received for the crops of last year. This will certainly mean better times on the farm, and farm folks will be able to sase up a little on the grinding economy they were forced to practice the preceding year. The labor cost of producing the mops of 1922 was still further reiuced. There were some substantial reductions in freight rates. Much ftelpful legislation has enacted and more will be this winter. Interest rates are lower and the credit strain as been eased. This had made it possible for many farmers who were rather heavily involved to refund their obligations and get themselves in coniition to win through. There are still some dark spots. In some sections weather conditions were jnfavorable and crops were short, and farmers in these sections are having a very hard time of it. Freight rates are still too high, especially for those who must pay for a long haul to

market.

Taxes are high, but this is largely due to the increase in local taxes, over which farmers themselves must exercise control. There has been gratifying growth in farmers’ co-operative marketing associations, and more of them are

tion and when we realize our own | being organized on a sound business

special trouble the way lies straight, basis.

A splendid determination for any New j Aside from the help which has Year is to live as near as possible . been given by legislation and by adto the teaching of the Golden Rule and ministration activities, strong

no one can go far wrong. When we think of gain and loss on the eve of 1923 in a measure we have kept this rule with our common love for humanity. Stopford Brooke says: “We turn and look upon the Vally of the past year. There below are spots stained by our evil and our fear. But as we look a glow of sunlight breaks upon the past and in the sunshine is a soft rain falling from heaven. It washes away the stain and from the purity of the upper sky a voice seems to descend and enter our sobered hearts, ‘My child, go forward, abiding in faith, hope and love, for lo, I am

with you always.’ w

May the New Year bring us all nearer to each other and may its joys far outweigh its sorrows for each and

everyone.

LAW VS. MAGIC London—Ki-Yama, the famous magician, was fined for cruelty in keeping his five perfoiming. pigeons in a cage two small for them.

econ-

omic forces are at work to restore a more normal relation between agriculture and other industries. The peril in the agricultural depression is more keenly realized by other groups than ever before, and on every hand a sincere desire is being evidenced to do what can be done safely to help the farmer better his condition. Everything considered, we have good reason to expect still better things for agriculture in' the year 1923.1

compared with Tuesdays pi’ices. Fat lambs steady to 25 cents lower, sheep scarce around steady. December 27, ) Chicago prices: Hogs top $8.70; bulk j of. sales $8:30 to $8.65; medium and good beef. steers $7.50 to $13; butcher cows and heifers $3.60 to $10; feeder steers $5.50 to $7.50; light and medium weight veal calves $9 to $10.50; fat lambs $12,25 to $15.50; feeding lambs $12.75 to $14.75; yearlings $9.25 to $13; fat ewes $5.25 to $8. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 important markets during the week ending December 15 were: Cattle and calves 82.570; hogs 19,133: sheep 38,848. In eastern wholesale fresh meat markets slight changes occurred in prices compared with week ago. Beef steady to 50 cents lower, veal steady; lamb $1 lower to $1 higher; mutton steady on good grade, weak to $1 lower on medium grade; light nork loins firm to $1 higher and

heavy loins unchanged.

On December 27, beef about $1 lower at' Boston, weak at New York and steady at Phila.; veal weak at New

Gene Caller on President

Chicago—When Mrs. Harriet Fur■ong complained that her husband , “used very bad language” to her, she j was informed by the police magistrate that Furlong had the right.

MOTOR CARS OUST TEACHERS Manchester, Eng.—Because they rode to school in their husbands’ motor cars, fifteen married teachers have lost their positions.

Montreal — Arrested for truancy, Minnie Curtis begged to be sent to prison instead of home. She was paroled to her parents.

«l gl ‘ERE’S Gene Sarazen, national open golf champion, -snapped ' ' just as he arrived at the White House to call on President Harding The driver Gene is holding is the one he swung in the game that brdught him the championship 'I< gave it to the president.

York, steady elsewhere; lamb steady at Boston, slightly easier at New York and abi^it $2 lower at Phila.; mutton steady; pork loins weak, 5D cents to $1 lower at Boston, other cuts steady, all cuts weak at New York, steady at Phila. Dec. 27 prices good grade meats: Beef $14 to $17; veal $15 to $18; lamb $22 to $27; mutton $11 to $17; light pork loins $16 to $17; heavy loins $12.50 to $15. Fruits and Vegetables Potatoes ' steady to firm eastern markets and at shipping points for the week; slightly weaker Chicago. Cabbage markets irregular up $2 at f. o. b. shipping points. Onions steady to firm. Apples generally steady for barreled and boxed stock. Prices reported Dec. 27: New York and Pennsylvania sacked round whites $1.35 to $1.50 per 100 pounds eastern markets; 95 cents to $1.05 f. o. b. western New York points. Maine Green Mountains sacked land bulk $1.35 to $1.60 in New York and Boston, 72 cents to 75 cents f. o. b. Northern round whites $1.05 to $1.35 in Phila. and Pittsburgh, Chicago ranging 75 to 90 cents. Michigan and Wisconsin shipping points quoting 60 cents to 65 cents f. o. b. New York and Northern Danish type cabbage $20 to $23 per ton bulk leading city markets, down $3 to $5 in Cincinnati and St. Louis ranging $27 to $30. Shipping points quoting $16 f. o, b. Florida lettuce in 1% bushel hampers $2.25 to $2.50 in New York, $1.25 low onion to $1.50 in Chicago. Middlewestern yellow onions $3 to $3.25 per 100 pounds sack in Leading markets. Eastern stock $2.50 to $3 consuming centers. Spanish Valencias $1.50 to $1.75 in city markets. New York Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening apples $4.50 to $5 per barrel in eastern markets. Northwestern extra fancy boxed Jonathans $2.25 to $2.40 in Chicago. Delicious $2.50 to $2.75 in Pittsburgh. Dairy Products Butter markets barely steady; dull demand has followed holidays. Dealers have been free sellers and in some cases granted concessions to keep floors cleared of accumulations. Arrivals at New York included fairly good sized shipments of Danish butter.

DECLARES $1,000,000 DIVIDEND St. Louis, Dec. 28—Stockholders ot he Hamilton Brown Shoe Co., Tuesay declared a stock dividend of 1.000,000 or 25 per cent. This is in ddition to a 1 per cent cash dividend hich the company has paid monthly ince last July, it was said.

GIRLS ON WINE JUNKET Paris—Twenty-five waitresses employed by a London reyjtauif.teur nave been sent here to_ acquire knowledge of the French wines they serve to their patrons.

MINISTER TOO LONESOME London — Arrested for accosting women at Victoria station, Rev, Charles Brooke explained that Aft was waiting for his wife and “got lonesome.”

WANTS HUSBAND EXHUMED Chicago—Mrs. Emily Watrous applied for the exhumation of her husband’s body to determine whether ho was “really dead.”

Sacred Cause.” Its courage is “The Soul of Chivalry and Virtue’s Impenterable Shield: the impulse of an Unconquered Race.” Its teachings “inculcate the sacred principles and noble ideals of the world’s greatest order of chivalry, and direct the way of the Initiate through the veil of Mystic Philosophy into the Empire •Invisible.’ Its character is “the noblest concepts of manhood idealized in thought and materialized in practice in all the relationship of life; Mystery and Action; Mastery and Achievement.” Its ritualism is “vastly different from anything in the whole universe of fraternal ritualism. It is altogether original, weird, mystical and of ,a high class, leading up through four degrees. s “Dignity and decency are its marked features. It unfolds a spiritual philosophy that has to do with the • ,, very fundamentals of life and living, here and hereafter. He wbo f explores Jlf the dismal depths of the Mystic Cave ~ 0 and from thence attains the jefftyj, , heights of Superior Knighthood may sit among the gods in the Empire Invisible.” Its mission, says the “Emperor” is “duty—without fault, without fail, without fear and without reproach.” Its society is “the practical fraternal fellowship of men whose standard is Worth, not Wealth; Character, not Cash: Courageous Manhood based upon Honor untarnished by the touch of Hypocrisy or the veneering of Society’s selfish social valuations.” Its place is “in the heart of every ‘True American,’ alongside of every other fraternal order,” and “in its original casting, unique mannerism, sacred sentiment, noble purpose and peculiar mysticism it is separate and apart from any and all and peerless in its distinctive peculiarities.” Finally, he declares, its fraternity is “not merely reciting in ceremony pretty, time-worn platitudes on brotherly love, but to enforce a fraternal practice of KLANISHNESS, thereby * making devotion to its standards worth while. “The Glory of a KVansman is to« Serve.” And what is “Klannishness “Emperor” Simmons gives the answer in the secret (and copyrighted! “Imnerial Instructions, Document No. 1, Series A. D. 1918. A. K. (anno Klan) LM., Being Official Instructions in K-uno in the border Realm of Karacter from the one who traversed the Realm of the Unknown,wi’csted the solemn Secret from the Grasp of Night and became the Imperial Master of the great lost Mystery. Words of timely Wisdom from the soul of the great Imperial Wizard, who out of Mystic Darkness brings Light. Printed by the Ku Klux Press.” The eight-page pamphlet ends as follows: “Ponder well all these things which I have spoken to YOU as coming from the hidden recesses of a soul unselfishly communing with its God for the betterment of its fellows. Oh, Klansmen, minimize not the importance of your sacred mission in life and discount not your most laudable achievement that is—to attain to the high standard of Klanish character—Matchless Manhood. “Non Silba Sed Anthar.’ ” The document is signed: 1 “Done in the Aulic of His Majesty, the Imperial Wizard, (Empero J of the Invisible Empire, in the Imperial Palace, in the Imperial City of Atlanta, Commonwealth of Georgia, United States of America, this, the First Day of the Fourth Month of the Year of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen, and on the Deadly day of the Windy Week of the Appalling" month of the year of the Klan LII, and in the third Cycle off the third Reig'n of our Reincarnation. Officially uttered, inscribed, signed, sealed, communicated and committed to you in the sacred unfailing hand, William Joseph Simmons, Imperial Wizard.” But what is “Klanishness?” A very practical thing, says the “Emperor” in the body of his “Imperial Instructions,” and doubly fourfold. There is Physical, Social, Moral, Vocational Klanishness; also Patriotic, Domestic, Racial, Imperial Klanishness, and each variety is described and identified at toe great length for full quotation here. The truly “Klanish” Klansman will not “strike, stab, lacerate” or otherwise injure another Klansman, nor be ashamed to acknowledge another Klansman because of the latter’s lowly social status, nor will he “give himself over to debauchery.” Vocationally, “boosting each other’s business interest or professional ability” and assisting “a Klansman to earn an honest dollar” are imperially approved; while “borrowing from a Klansman and being slow to repay” is not good,form. “Patriotically,” Klancraft consists in voting “not politics but patriotism” and displacing “the corrupt politicians with dependable patriotic statesmen.” Domestic Klanishness is “standing by and protecting the sanctity of the home and its manifold interests;” i-acial Klanishness means to support “White Supremacy,” and the imperial variety is to “give due respect and maintain a Klanish regard for the person and authority of the Imperial Wizard’.’,and thus facilitate “his efforts in perfecting the work he has to do for the glory of the Invisible Empire in its development and government.” There you have the gist. of the two statements of what Ku Kluxism. Inc., stands for in the life of America. They are equally official and one ab- ^ : splutely contradicts the other. One is fiery, the other is werdy. One defines Ku Kluxism as a deferred holy war v/hich in the future, with “rhetorical and otherwise” fireworks, is. going to create “a very unpleasaht situation,” though at present merely “keeping- records” of its enemies, and “making plans.”

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS State of Indiana, Delaware County, ss:— In Delaware Superior Court, November term, 1922. In Re—The petition of Charles A. Barley, et al., for drainage, No. 3591. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, to whom was assigned the construction of the ditch and drain described’ in* the final report of the drainage commissioners in the above entitled - cause, will on Tuesday, January 16th, 1923, at the hour of 11 o’clock a. m., receive bids at the law office of Omar G. Weir, Room 9, Anthony Block, Muncie, Indiana, for the construction of said ditch and drain. Said contract will be let to the lowest bidder. Bond or certified check of $500.00 to accompany bid for construction of said work. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. CHARLES M. REASONER, Superintendent of Construction. Dec. 29 ; 1922, Jan. 5, 1923. Dated December 26, 1922.