Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 July 1923 — Page 2

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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

PR I DAY, JULY 20, 1923'.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT j gazing over Alaska and centering his vision on the salmon A ,, , • <-i -p» i industry was peculiarly significant. While the Harding A Democratic weekly newspaper representing e em-, wag f ocusec j U p 0n canned salmon the Harding back

1 was evidently turned to column seven which gave the

mocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the

Eighth Congressional District. The

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in Delaware County.

grewsome details of the manner in which the voters of Minnesota canned another poor fish, Governor Preus, the Harding candidate for United States senator, and elect-

Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at ! ed a Swede farmer named Yonny Yonson on the farmerthe postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March i labor ticket. It certainly does beat hellamile how the

people of the northwest like to soak Harding and the farther northwest you go the worse it gets. By the way, Alaska is about as far northwest as any place in the

world. • * * *

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MUNCIE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1923.

WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?

The Press had an editorial Monday afternoon in which the virtuous finger of scorn was pointed at Gary, ! Fort Wayne and other wicked cities where violations of | the law are rampant. The Press declared that our old

Probably to nearly every citizen of this great land days of open law violations are a thing of the past and America means the spot in which he lives and which holds took pride in the fact that the thing is now done under for him the dearest associations. If he journeys to an- cover here, where it cannot be seen, and that we are thereother section his view of America widens, and if chance i fore virtuous and happy. Wilbur ought to have been takes him across the continent, east or west, north or more specific and have explained that it is Jim Dugan, the south, his vision of his country grows in strength and police force and the Muncie preachers whose vision is afbeauty. fected in the midst of our rampant rottenness. God, who We have been told many times that there is no typi- seeth all things, even to what is going on in Bob Graves’ €al American, and it is indeed hard to define one when the back room or behind the screens in wide open gambling many persons who go to make up the composite citizen houses and blind tigers in Muncie, doesn’t count,

are considered separately. Honore Willsie Morrow,

answering her little son’s question, “What does it mean I The Trades Council is thinking seriously of moving to be an American?” found it hard to express. their automobile from its uptown location and placing it She thought of New England and Virginia and their by the curb directly in front of Bob Graves’ police-pro-contribution to American history, of the great Mississippi tected gambling den on South Walnut street. This would valley and its contribution to the world’s food supply, render it completely invisible to the police, the ministerial She thought of the West and the years of pioneering that association and the Ku Klux Klan.

went into its making, and of the pioneering now going on in Alaska. She thought of the vast reclamation projects which are to turn thousands of acres of sand into fertile fields and orchards. She thought of the Panama canal and what it has meant to the commerce of the world. Then she tried to sum it all up. To be an American is perhaps to sacrifice, to produce, to pioneer, to create, to build, to serve. She found when she was through that she hadn’t made a clear definition. But she has suggest-

ed some of the traits which we like to consider typically ,. . n American and in which, as a comparatively young nation, Operation Among Consum

RADICALS TO TEST PRESIDENT ON COOPERATIVE IDEA

Harding’s “Scheme of Go-

ers” Will Rise To

Plague Him.

AND ADMINISTRATION IN THE NEXT CONGRESS

cerned About Consumers He Would Advise Revi-

sion of Tariff.

we take just pride.

Dr. W. T. Williams, a local pastor, has perhaps given to the people of this community the best and greatest definition of Americanism ever given to any American community. He has delivered three powerful sermons, neither of which can be denied by any person or organiza-

tion holding different views from those expressed by him. He has defined “Americanism” and has eloquently por- Warren Reallv Were Com frayed “An American.” His last sermon or lecture, call ^

it either, dealt with true precepts of Americanism and what constitutes a free democracy that makes Americans, The Daily News has been happy, honored if you please, in having been able to give to more than fifteen thousand readers, the meat of Dr. Williams’ addresses. In doing so we feel that we have performed a service to America and American principles. Dr. Williams has steadied those who have heard him in their loyalty to American precepts. He has kept hundreds from being led astray by a false doctrine, and in printing his lectures this paper takes pleasure in realizing that it has carried the messages to many thousand who have been unable to hear the

masterly addresses at first hand.

If the addresses by Dr. Williams, as reproduced in the Daily News, have kept even one from a mis-step, the effort has not been in vain, but we know and feel that many hundreds have been set right and have been saved from a step that would have been regretted in the future as foolish, supine and ridiculous. Every un-American, un-Chrisian and grafting organization has failed and so will the^present day movement lose its unbecoming fight. It will be the story of the ass in the lion’s pelt. Until it started to roar it was believed to be a lion, but when it sought to increase the fright by “roaring” its bray betrayed it, and those who ran, turned and scoffed at the Ass that had opened its mouth. The traducers of Americanism will reap the whirlwind someday for the foolishness of their folly. Dr. Williams in attempting to steady the people has performed nobly and well, and his effort is appreciated by right thinking people.—Wapakoneta, O.,

Daily News.

president’s words—uttered in a speech that was perhaps only designed to get votes—is .taken for granted hy certain spectators of the republican game. It is believed that the “radicals” in congress and certain considerable elements outside of congress will welcome the president’s proposal and confront him with legislation seemingly intended to carry it into execution. Other critic^ of the president’s sudden and unexplained advance in the direction of Senator Brookhart’s philosophy are content to allege that if Mr. Harding really was concerned about the consumer’s well being he would recommend a drastic downward revisicrh of the Fordney-McCumber tariff, i^hich has increased the cost of living by about $4,000,000,000 a year. Th?s tariff, it is contended by these critics, is simply a tax on consumption giving t v government in revenues only a tenth of the toll it takes from

consumers.

said, “We must make our mountain pledges that had been given in theWest a country of homes for people campaign of 1911 and subsequently, i who need homes” and that “the work “There is no mistaking the import i must be done so that it will insure ° f the speech of the Senator from | , . ,, J Kansas,” said Senator Borah (Rep. i most to the advantage of society,” \ u i * .. i

• y ’ Ida.) “I have known for some time j

etc. In the same speech he drew a that Republican leaders propose to j vivid picture of the West in the fu- kill the reclamation policy. The Sen-: ture as “a wonderland as the result a tor from Kansas has been very i of irrigation, and he commended frank in announcing to the country j Theodore Roosevelt’s declaration that that the policy is at an end, so far! “It is better for the Government to as the leaders of the Republican

help the poor man to make a living party is concerned.”

for his family than to help a rich a few days after this statement by man to make profit for his com- Senator Borah, Representative Green, parly • , ’ ranking Republican member of the ! The principle is particularly Ways and Means Committee, speak-

sound toda\, said Candidate Hard- ing. in the House, said:

ing, referring to Roosevelt’s words. “Since there has been some inti-fi.o-cent stamp on the city one.” 1 mation that the conferees (on the We have need to make these areas soldiers’ adjusted compensation bill) (of the West) the seat of millions disregarded the will of the House, of new American families ‘said permit me to state that the conferees Mr. Harding. took these provisions (including one The bill appropriating $350,000,000 for reclamation projects) out by reafor reclamation of lands in some son of the objections of the Presitwelve or fourteen Western and dent to them as part of this bill. Southwestern States was introduced This bill must receive the signature in Congress within a few weeks after 0 f the President before it goes in the Mr. Harding became President, statute books, and the conferees did Every effort was made to get the' not want matter which they felt satRepublican leaders to consent to the jsfied would prevent it ever becom-

bill’s enactment. They refused, ing a law.”

When the measure had been before; Mr. Harding has been President Congress a year, Senator McNary of for two years and three months. In Oregon and Representative Smith of that period, it is pointed out, Con-1 Idaho, chairmen, respectively of the gress was in session 624 days out ot j Committees on Irrigation and Recla- a possible total of 730. Mr. Harding '■ j mation (of the Senate) and Irriga- h a cl plenty of time and chance, it is tion of Arid Lands (of the House) contended, to accomplish the enactI visited Piesident Harding, reminded ment of a reclamation program if he j him of vhat he had said in the cam- h a( j been eager to redeem the prompaign of 1920, and urged him to press i seg be was understood as making in foi the passage of the bill. 1920. He is now suspected of rei Following their interview with the newing his campaign for the presiPresident Senator McNary and Rep- dency. * resentative Smith stated to the cor-

respondents that he had favored the

enactment of the bill at the “present WHAT IS MEANT BY session” (1922) and that he had “DUMB-BELL" promised to confer With members of ——— the Republican Steering Committee “Did you post those two letters I of the House and stir them to action, gave you, Norah?”

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HARDING AGAIN “SPOUTING” ON RECLAMMATION

(Special Correspondence)

Washington, July 20.—'President Harding’s indirect proposal of Federal assistant to “a scheme of co-operation among consumers,” it is believed in Washington, will rise to plague him and his administration in the next congress and the next campaign. It is regarded as inevitable that this suggestion and the president’s “hope” that he will be able to “recommend to congress a beginning” in the direction

of this consumers’ co-operative will 1 cJTr'/JrnT/'kXT r furnish the basis of a demand for Fed-! IN SECTION WHERE

eral legislation and financial support | SIIRTFCT VTTAT

for such an organization. |

It is foreseen that the advocates of I

the government’s participation ** j P e0 pl e 0 f West CRH H a rdly

Have Forgot Warren’s In-

Considered Hardly More

Than An Appeal

for Votes.

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STRAINING AT GNATS. Rev. John W. Nicely, of the First Presbyterian church, loosed the thunders of his wrath last Sunday morning against the unholy selling of tickets on an automobile raffle sponsored by the central trades council. The ministerial gullet in Muncie is much given to straining at gnats and swallowing camels. We are ready to admit that playing marbles, pitching horse shoes and selling chances on an a utomobile are crimes of the blackest hue, and congratulate the.clergyman upon his fearless exposure of the automobile bandits, but why specialize with such a fertile field of exploration before him as Muncie presents today ? Is one to construe that the Rev. Nicely believes our hard working sheriff and chief of police have driven out all the sinners with the lone exception of the Muncie Trades Council, or does he wish to start on that body as a feeler and gradually work up to the point of hurling defiance at police-protected cigar store gambling for money or the resort operated by Robert Graves, the colored gambler, who has agreed to deliver the red light vote in return for police protection ?

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CANNING THE POOR FISH. The Star’s picture Tuesday of President Harding

schemes to stabilize wheat and other agricultural products, to build and operate federal warehouses, and to establish a system of co-operative marketing will be reinforced by those claiming to speak for consumers, including the proponents of government

ownership.

That the Republican reactionaries in control of congress have startled by a contemplation of the

direct But Effectual Opposition.

HERE’S UNCLE SAM’S PERFECT

SAILOR.

(Special Correspondence)

Washington, July 20.—When read been' in the light of his previous position and performance in respect to reclamation, President Harding’s equivocal approval of Federal aid in recovering arid lands for agriculture is considered by some of his critics to be hardly more than an appeal for votes in a section where the subject

is vital.

It is contended that the people of the West can hardly have forgot the ; President’s indirect but effectual opj position to the Smith-McNary bill, I which contemplated appropriations : of $350,000,000 in the course of a long j period of time to accomplish the big : undertakings which he reservedly indorsed in his speech at Spokane. | “I have been pleased to commend j the subject of extended reclamation j to the consideration of the Congress, 1 mindful of the fact that reclamation from the national viewpoint must be considered as an investment of funds which will be at length returned to j the Government,” said Mr. Harding. The record shows that Mr. Harding I has favored reclamation when he ! was a candidate but has not furtherMeet up with Chieg Pharmacists' ed it since he has had the opportunMate Samuel S. Grant of the U. S. N., j ity to use his official authority and who has worn the blue of the naval prestige in its behalf, say his critics. | service for twenty years and never On August 31, 1920, when Mr. Hardj broken the regulations. He is now j ing was seeking the presidency the I serving in the Naval Hospital in Brook- ! first time as he is now seeking it a I lyn, where he is commended by Sec’y.' second time, he was eloquent about of the Navy Denby. ' reclamation and among other things

Instead of expediting the SmithMcNary bill the Republican Congressional leaders gave preference to the President’s ship bonus bill authorizing the payment of some $750,000,000 In subsidies to private individuals and interests operating vessels purchased from the Government, and to the bill sanctioning a loan of $5,000,000 to the “black” Republic of Liber-

ia in Africa.

In September 1922, about five months after the President was quoted as having promised to assist' the passage of the Smith-McNary bill western Senators sought to force itsj adoption. Senator Curtis of Kansas,! Republican whip, made a bitter! speech against the bill. He charged j that only $12,000,000 of the $32,000,000 advanced by the Government on irrigation projects in the West had been repaid, although the value of the crops harvested from the land had been many times the cost of these, undertakings. ; This utterance of Senator Curtis, j spokesman of the Harding adminis-! tration in the Senate, was interpret- ■ ed by western Congressmen as expressing the President’s views and as forecasting a repudiation of the'

“Yes’m; at the post-office. But ij noticed that you’d put the tWo-cent | stamp on the foreign letter and the: “Oh, dear, what a blunder!’’ “But I fixed it all right, ma’am. 11 just changed the addresses on the!

envelopes.”

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