Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 29 June 1923 — Page 2

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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1923V

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Mimcie, Delaware County and the Eighth 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.

MUNCIE, INDIANA, JUNE 29,1923.

AS “TOLERANCE”*SEES IT. Muncie, the county seat of Delaware County, Indiana, is a thriving town of about 45,000 inhabitants. ^Possibly ten per cent of the population is Catholic, with a moderate sprinkling of the other classes—Jews, Negroes, and foreign-born—proscribed by the Ku Klux Klan. The Protestant population is not predominantly Klux; but it might as well be; for according to the best of our information, almost the entire non-Klux population—Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and all—has shown itself so cowardly in face of the Ku Klux invasion that to a man up a tree it would appear that Muncie deserves what it is getting. What it is getting is brutal domination by an arrogant Ku Klux minority, which has sufficiently corrupted the local government (if it be possible to corrupt an Indiana politician), so that a Klansman dares anything in Muncie. Dares anything, that is to say, except to show his face! What happened in Muncie on Saturday, June 2, is tersely summarized in the following from the Ft. Wayne News-Sentinel: “A Ku Klux Klan, demonstration, styled by its promoters ‘a patriotic demonstration,’ at Muncie, had its natural fruitage in a free-for-all fight. “The Klansmen demanded that obeisance be made to the paraders by everyone who happened to be standing along the line of march. Those who refused to stand with head bared in reverence were made the target for a barrage of curses, and if threats failed to remove the hat, then fists were employed to require the deferential salute, which Americans commonly reserve for good women and the Stars and Stripes. “Of course, each parader toted an American flag, and thus had pretext for demanding that all heads must remo : j rlurinp* fho pntir** naraHp “But then, Muncie is only geographically a portion of Indiana.” That last, from self-righteous Fort Wayne, is “the most unkindest cut of all.” Doubly unkind it is, when one considers that indeed Indiana (in which Fort Wayne is included) is only geographically a portion of the United States, since the Invisible Empire of Atlanta, Georgia, has claimed for its own Indiana’s shady politicians, her State government in large part, and the more considerable of .her municipal and county governments. The distressing picture of Muncie, Kluxed through the cowardice of her own citizens, merits the space we give it this week. What has come to pass there is not the “fruitage” of Kluxism; it is merely the flowering of this treasonable conspiracy. The perfect fruit of the system you have seen in a desolate by-way of Louisiana, with the cloudwrapped moon hiding her face from what was done by the shores of Lake Lafourche. Indiana is well on the way toward fruitage. —TOLERANCE. * * * * HONORS TO MRS, MARTHA GAMBLE. Elsewhere in this issue appears as account of a surprise party tendered Mrs. Martha Gamble, who was recently ousted from the position of matron at the children’s home by Judge Dearth’s new political board of children's guardians. The account of the party was printed in the Star and we are reproducing it. The truthful statement was made that Mrs. Gamble “accomplished more towards making the place a home rather than an institution, than any other matron has ever succeeded in doing*-- —•asa 1 **.-- , - P* This is true, yet she was ousted by Judge Dearth's new board and the Post-Democrat was the only newspaper in Delaware county to protest against the removal of a woman who was looked on as a mother by the helpless little dependents for whom Judge Dearth professes such profound and serious regard. Words are inadequate to portray the indignation felt in Muncie and Delaware county over this high-handed invasion of this home of helpless, dependent childhood by a cold blooded political machine, but some good has come of it, in that it has shocked our people into a proper realization of the danger of electing the wrong people to office. If you are making five hundred dollars a month, or more, sign Judge Dearth’s petition. * * * * WHO WIGGLES AND WOBBLES? The Star Sunday had the nerve to carry a long editorial commending President Harding for his St. Louis speech, and actually construed the speech to mean that Harding favors the world court. He was in favor of the court until the politicians told him to switch, and he promptly switched. Harding was elected, it will be recalled, because the people believed he was firm and sincere, and was not a “wiggler and wobbler,” like Wilson. Harding will go down in history as a chief executive who

surrendered his convictions to political expediency, regardless of the welfare of the entire world. Wilson as a president who ignored politicians of all parties and pursued a policy, which, to him, meant peace, tranquillity and prosperity for all mankind. And never for one moment has that great statesman swerved from the ideals which his stern sense of duty impelled him to adopt and preach to his fellow citizens, heedless of political consequences

to himself or the party that elected him.

]a HOST TO PRESIDENT HARDING ON HIS ALASKAN TRIP.

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ONE KIND OF A YELLOW DOG.

The Post-Democrat editor receives many interesting

letters.

The majority are of the “bouquet” variety, signed by the names of the writers, but occasionally we are favored by unsigned “brickbats,’’ sent by cowards who hide their faces at night with masks and use the mails to say things they would not dare to say to our face. Last week we received a postcard, unsigned, which simply said: “Greetings, you yellow dog.” We will give the son of a she-dog who sent this postal card one hundred dollars if he will meet the editor of the Post-Democrat face to face and admit that he sent the post card. Our conception of a yellow dog is the sneak who sticks his head in a sack and writes anonymous letters. Come on and get that hundred and what goes with it.

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Judge Dearth is asking the taxpayers of Delaware county to raise his wages from $350 to $500 a month and he has been on the bench less than six months! With business men fighting bankruptcy, farmers getting six cents a pound for hogs and paying the highest taxes in history and laboring men working for reduced wages and paying top prices for the necessities of life, it takes more than ordinary nerve to make such a demand. If the county commissioners sanction this bare faced salary grab

they will hear from the folks.

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The superintendent of the anti-saloon league of America, being convinced that Harding is to remain dry, declares that the league will put in all its time working on the democratic party. While in the senate Harding voted wet twenty-nine times, according to the congressional record. The anti-saloon league would get further if it would stick to the record as it is, not as the league desires it to be. f

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Former Prosecutor Clarence E. Benadum, king of the Ohio Klux, is going to lay off long enough next spring to run for the republican nomination for congress. He expects the Ku Klux republicans of the Eighth district to nominate him. The Klux may be foolish enough to nominate him, but if they do Clarence will be among the ??lsn rsns? in Nnvpmhpr -

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The colored people of Muncie are still boiling over the effrontery of the Klansman who had the gall to address them at McCulloch park. Colored voters of Delaware county know their friends and their enemies and they know what the Klansman means by “white supremacy.” They read the dictionary occasionally. * * * * v According to one of the enthusiastic newspaper correspondents with the Harding party, Harding is going to leave it all to God hereafter. Personally we know of no other power that can extricate him and his party from the mess they have got things into. * * * * Indiana republicans are worried over the colored vote and they are worried over the Ku Klux vote. The worries of the Kukluxed Republican state republican organization will soon be over, unless the colored voters all lose their minds before November, 1924.

STATE PROBE OF UTILITY RATES TO BE MADE SOON Public Service Commission To Investigate In Thirty or Forty Towns. LOWER RATES IS BELIEVED OBJECT Similar Action For Utility Rates To Be Started In Many More Places. Indianapolis, June 29.—In an unprecedented action, the public service commission Monday ordered an investigation started of public utility rates in thirty to forty Indiana cities and towns. There seemed to be an under-j Municipal electric and heating rates standing that the movement was di-. Muncie electric and water rates at rected at lower rates. j Fort Wayne. It was understood that a similar ac-j Municipal electric rates at Richtion will be started for utility rates in ‘ mond. as many more cities and towns in a ' Municipal electric rates at Loganshort time. I sport. For the past two years, it was said, ] the commission has been observing the j An opal made by fusing silica effect of the rates charged in these with ether is said to be even more cities, and it now finds cause for an im- ! lovely in its changing hues than a mediate beginning of an investigation mine stone. of the rates. J Typewriters which are painted Following are the companies, the white all over are said to improve cities and the kind of rate affected in the users’ output while causing less the commission’s order. f eyestrain

East Chicago & Indiana Water com pany—East Chicago water rates. Indiana & Michigan Electric company—South Bend electric rates. Northern Indiana Gas and Electric company—Fort Wayne, Bluff ton, Decatur, Lafayette, Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Frankfort, Lebanon, Hamilton and South Bend gas rates, and Lafayette electric rates. Interstate Public Service company —Crown Point, Lowell, Monticello and towns in the Monticello district. Columbus and Goshen electric rates. Northern Indiana Power company —Kokomo, electric rates. Wabash Valley Electric companyClinton a$d towns in that field, electric rates. Indiana General Service company Muncie and towns in the Muncie field, electric rates. Southern Indiana Gas and Electric company—Evansville, gas rates. Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction company—Terre Haute, elec Lagrange Light and Power company trie rates. Gary Heat, Light and Power company—Gary, electric, gas and water rates.

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Major John C. Gotwalis, U. S. A., D. S. M., vice chairman m the Alaskan Engineering Commission and a bona fide member of the Alaska Dog Mushers’ Union. With the chairman, Major Gotlwalls will pilot President Harding over the Alaskan railway on the trip which the executive began recently. His home is in Norristown, Pa. iImarkiage BECOMING LESS BINDING NOW? Society In Its Thrills, Becoming Artificial, Is the Belief.

Is society, in its search for thrills, becoming artificial? Does this artificiality tend to destroy the home and make marriage less binding? Coningsby Dawson, in his new novel, “The Coast of Folly” now appearing in Good Housekeeping in serial form, turns the searchlight of his observation and brilliant story-telling ability on these questions. Joyce Gathway’s experience, her life, is the inside life of society—its lofty disregard of accepted standards of morality and its supreme selfishness. Coningsby Dawson knows the truth about society. And he does not hesitate to expose its grave shortcomings. Questioned about the story, Mr. Dawson said that it dealt, by implication, with God—The Forgotten Factor in Modern Life. “In my story,” he added, ’■ “the girl who disregarded the traffic | laws of the Invisible Policeman, failed to get help from the one man who had a right to save her. Within twentyfour hours, for doing nothing worse than thousands of our girls are doing at every summer resort of fashion, she feund herself shunned, penniless, and figuring in a divorce.” What follows makes a story as exciting as it is morally stimulating. Boston was the first colony to have a ^ritten constitution.

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COMPLIMENTS of A FRIEND AND WELL WISHER

Million Dollar Oil Fire In Pittsburg

Above is shown the fire raging dn a 30,000 barrel oil tank of the Atlantic Refining Company in this city. The tank was struck by lightning and soon was a. roaring furnace.

Fourteen firemen were injured in battling the blaze which raged furiously for more than 24? hours. The damage is believe^ to total more than a million dollars.

Agents Wanted!

The Post-Democrat wants reliable agents an4 Street Sales Boys in Muncie, Eaton,, Albany, Gaston, Yorktown, Daleville, Mathews, Hartford City, Anderson, Elwood, Alexandria, Portland, Dunkirk, Redkey and Newcastle. They all buy the Post-Democrat and keep on buying it. It’s a real Democratic newspaper and it’s against the Ku Klux. The Muncie Post-Democrat MUNCIE, INDIANA Phone 2540