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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.
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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, IND., AUGUST 10, 1923.
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AS TO FAIR GROUND GAMBLING.
The announcement made by the police that any man attempting to bet on a norse race at the county fair is a sample of the pure and unadulerated humor which
fee, the fair association hangs up a purse, of three hundred dollars or so on each race and away go the horses, the big end of the money to go to the owner of the horse that can go the fastest Each owner is betting his fifteen dollar entry fee that his horse is the speediest. If he is right he gets the capital prize. If the boss is distanced his fifteen dollar wager goes glimmering. So, with the fair association and the race horse owners changing in the big money, the innocent bystander whose dollar to get in made the purses possible, is to be arrested if he offers to bet some bther innocent bystander two bits on the result of the race. The police, who allow gambling for money in a dozen or more cigar stores, get mighty particular about fair time, when all the preachers are looking. . J xu IS JUDGE DEARTH WEAKEN)#|3MT / The scheduled hearing of the Dearth proposed salary grab before the county commissioners Tuesday failed to COlne off on schedule time. When the hour approached for the hearing Attorney Bert Needham, who has undertaken the herculean task of proving that Judge Dearth is entitled to an eighteen hundred dollar raise, sent word that he had to leave the city and asked that the hearing be postponed until some time next fall. This is taken by most people to mean that Judge Dearth, realizing that the .Post-Democrat had licked the daylights out of his salary grab, has given up hope and is easing himself away by the “post ponement” route. The Farm Bureau members, who are opposing the deal, will not relax their vigilance, however, as some are inclined to believe that later an effort will ^ '^"de to iam the increase through when Liobuuy is * * * GOODBYE REPUBLICAN MACHINE. . Look out for the big fight for republican control in Delaware county next spring. The everlasting standpatters, under the leadership of Billy Williams, are facing certain defeat. Friends of Auditor Jim Dragoo are urging him for republican county chairman. If Jim gets out on the battle line it will be all off with the Williams-Dearth-Bob Graves machine. * * * * Boarding “trespassers” and “train riders” at the county jail is getting to be a pretty expensive joke for the taxpayers. Staff ketches ’em, Lance soaks ’em, Harry feeds ’em and Old Mr. Sucker, the tax-payer, buys the meal tickets. There were twenty of these bums in jail at one time last week, according to a released prisoner. It is costing the county in the neighborhood of a hundred dollars a week to help maintain this useless habit of fining “train riders” and sending them to jail. * * * « NAMING ’EM IN ADVANCE. It’s all settled. John Hampton is to be the next mayor and Sheriff Hoffman is to be the next chief of police. The klan says so, therefore, it’s bound to happen. Nevertheless, the people yre foolishly going to demand an election, regardless of the edict of the hoodoo empire. * * * * A report comes from Europe that McCormick, the monkey glad hero, is a proud parent. “What is it doc, a boy or a gfrl?” yelled pap through the keyhole. “Come in and help me get the durned thing down from the chandelier and we’ll both find put,” was the reply. * * * * An exchange tells of a local prodigy two years old, named Billy Fiererieson who knows all the letters of the alphabet. Since Billy started that early he may learn how to spell his name by the time he is twenty.
SPEEDERS ARE
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of City Judge Lance Coons will recall that two classes of offenders make up the bulk of the city court grist. “Train riders” and “trespassers” are in a class by themselves, because they always go to jail and the sheriff makes a profit of about forty cents a day off of each one of them. “Speeders” make up the other class. They always pay their fines, whifcb means five dollars in each case for Prosecutor Ogle. Incidentally there ard inbre petty charges filed and prosecuted in Muncie than in any other city in Indiana. A mania for prosecuting and fining citizens seems to possess Muncie^fifficialdom. It is not known whether Judge Coons talks in his sleep but if he does we kno'w what he says: “Five and costs.”
By the time automobilists are trained down to a funeral gait* there are the cusses who spit on the sidewalk and the guys who swear out loud to look after, so there is no danger of our thrifty prosecutor losing his meal ticket. And still there are some people who wonder what makes the wildcat wild. o The Stellar Univopse. The Stellar Universe has a background of pearly white and astronomers do not know whether this is caused by inHlions of suns hr the presence of net iious matter scattered through the vast space. jJiJi.roooa t.,-; p ii.;..- ri'.g esodT fi£roo 8ag0clty ef W | 1d Creatures. io Wild animals know where to ftn<J protection, sayn the Department of Agriculture. In places where there are game sanctuaries, wild creatures hasten to them at the beginning sf every open hunting season.
THE FARMER’S ^ Wl INFLATED NEW POSITION ; THE CURRENCY?
TRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 192$
By WALTER W. HEAD, First Vice-President American Bankers Association The farmer today is more than a tiller of the soil. He is a business man. Raising crops is only a part of his business, if he is a real up-to-date Twentieth Century farmer. Problems of marketing, distribution and financing are equally impor-
tant
George E. Roberts Gives Common Sense Explanation for Currency Increase and j-, > Decrease. ? -' r
GOVERNMENT TOOK NO PART
anted!
Due to Changes in Supply, Demand and Prices of /Commodities Caused by War—Federal i Reserve Not to Blame.
The mistaken notion, that the cur-
The complexity of rency is inflated and 1 deflated by the ir modern eco- government ’h the Timed States from
motives beyond the understanding of average people is -effectually set at rest by George E. Roberts, noted banker and exponent of sound money, in an article in the Journal of the American Bankers Association. “There has been inflation by the governments of Germany and other European countries, which have issued money for the purpose of paying their expenses," Mn Roberts says. “The United States Government has done nbthing of this kind since the
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nomic organization
Walter W. Head makes it necessary
for the farmer to
understand and assist in solving, these problems ll ite is to suodeed. In this new role—as a business man —the farmer steadily has, advanced
to a better positidp.''
There was a tim« when the fairmer was dependent wholly upon private marketing agencies, whose interest;, was not always identical with his own, whose greed for profits sometimes out-
matched consideration of the fanner’s ' Civil War.
need. Today there are many great j “There is a genuine need for elas-co-operative marketing organizations ticity in the volume of currency, and that handle a large part of the farm- for machinery to adjust it to the legiter's crop and win for him more liberal i ma te needs of the country. The (treatment from the private agencies means provided are the Federal Re'which still handle the bulk of his pro- g^rve Banks, authorized to issue chrduction. S'- rency to their member banks, either | Today the farmer also has hte own 1 j n payment of deposits or for loans, bo-operative agencies of credit. If not , Side-Tracked Like Freight Cars satisfied with the terms upon which , “More curtencf ia needed in Sephis local capitalist is willing to ad- | em k eE , October, November and De-
cember than in January and February. As business slackens, currency naturally retires from circulation. Money accumulates In the member banks and they send it in to the Reserve banks, which in effect retires it, as
arc retired when traffic
falls
vance money upon a land mortgage, the farmer can go directly to the Federal Land Bank, which, by reason of tax-exemption and other advantages incidental to its governmental character, can loan money at a rock-bot-
tom rate ef interesi,-,.'; !_ i fjjo’ ) ' freight cars
In addition, the federal government j a j la
has established another group of ■ caHge d the great inflation of banks which permit the local banker* ^ dit and currvicy? It was due pri-t-by redlscount prirlleRes—-to extend m tQ thQ w vhlch made ex . the farmer et^dit oper- ■ traordlnary demandg U po n the indus-
tries and caused a great rise of wages
ations on a more favorable basis than ever before. If ha thinks his local bank la not sufficiently responsive to his need, this same legislation enables him te join with other farmers in a co-operative marketing association and arrange for credit diract from the
government banks. New Credit Fad tit lee
i For years it has been the farmer’s complaint—with considerable Justiflcn-tyen—-that he alone of all producers, has been forced to market his crop on the buyer’s terms because of his Inability to use his producta, in storage, as a basis for credit. Today the agricultural credits act authorizes the acceptance of warehouse receipts, on non-perishable agricultural products, as collateral for loans, the same as in the case of sugar or other commodi-
ties of commerce.
| These developments have relieved the farmer from what seemed to be persecution by short-sighted, tightfisted, grasping grain dealers, landlords and bankers—for there were some bankers who were guilty of this very thing, who thought of the farmer principally as a weak and ignorant opponent in a game whose only stake was the collection of a high rate of Interest. The farmer’s suspicion of the banker arose because of misunderstanding, because he judged bankers as a class by the derelictions of a few. Today, with these sources of govern-ment-controlled credit available at his call, the farmer cannot charge or even suspect that the bankers are conspir-
ing to do him harm.
As the real farmer has taken advantage of these opportunities, he has made himself a business man. Like other successful business men, he is equipped with credit to finance his operations, he is able to make use of labor-saving machinery, he ie abls to barter with buyers of his products aa
their equal.
COMPULSORY THRIFT
In Kansas a group of power and telephone companies is trying a compulsory thrift plan, which affects about 1,200 employees'and applies to pvery member of the organization from the president to the humblest day laborer. The plan requires that each shall save and invest monthly at least 10 per cent of his income. Every month each employee must ruajce- a report to the general office of how much he has saved, and in what he has invested it. The investment must be approved by a committee competent to advise. Government securities, savings bank accounts, building and loan stock, payment on a home, even payments on furniture are allowed. If debts have been incurred, these must be listed and payments may be arranged on them, but no more are to be assumed. The idea Is
and prices. It was inevitable that more credit and money would be called for to carry on business. “The boom year of business that followed the armistice was likewise ahnormaL The end of the war released a great many demands that bad been held in check. The foreign demands upon us at first increased. There was a tempo -y stimulus, but the volume o' h- 1 abnormal and could not be sustained. Agricultural production in Europe revived, the prices of agricultural products moved back toward normal, importations from the United States: fell off, prices declined,
“deflation” began.
“Some say ‘inflation should not be permitted,’ but if war occurs inflation is unavoidable. Recruiting armies makes a labor scarcity. Contractors bid above going wages to attract men. The war Industries did the same and the peace industries raised wages to hold their men. Governments of Europe sect representatives to this country to buy food and they hid up prices on the grain exchanges. Higher levels of wages and prices meant that more credit and money was required to
handle business.
More Business, More Money “The increased issues of currency was a result of allowing business to go ahead, upon the rising level of wages and prices. When a factory pay-roll doubled, twice as much currency had to be furnished for it When cotton rose from 10 cents a pound to 30 and 40, more currency was required to handle the crop, and so all around the circle. “Deflation did not come by an act of the government or the Federal Reserve authorities in suddenly withdrawing money from circulation. Deflation came naturally when business fell off aifd prices declined. Just as an increasing volume of business at higher prices called more, currency into use, so a decreasing volume of business at lower prices released currency from use and caused it to return to the Reserve banks. “There has been absolutely nothing new or strange in these price movements related to the war. Inflation and deflation have been just as always when wars have occurred. The only new factor has been the population. That is always being renewed, and most people do not learn by the experince of others. When hard times come it is always the thing to lay the blamed on somebody; and this time the Federal Reserve System h&s taken most of 1L’* , . .
AMERICAN SAVINGS INCREASE
New York.—Continued increase in the savings of the American people is indicated by the latest national compilatfbn just completed by the Savings Bank Division of the American Bankers Association. Savings de-
posits in banks and trust companies
to make the employee live within his Gi® United States were reported at means and also lay aside something I fU.SOO,000,000, June 30, 1922, the last in . rififlnltA form ; available nation-wide figures, as comin a detin te ro m. $16,620,000,000, June 30, Reports for the first nine month. Thls | an increa90 of -
$680,-
show that about IS per cent of the 000,000 or 4.1 per cent wages have been saved, no single em- The number of savings depositors, plsyee falling below 10 per cent Thia as indicated by the numbet of aeeiifl, ‘u* v a-a coun t s . g §ows an increase of 4.9 per
aT»«unts to over $100,000. Failure te report or to save brings dismissal, but In only two Instances among the 1,2€0 employees was such action needed Budget books are distributed and their use explained as a helpfsl method in establishing a working scale o< living that will allow for
thrift.
cent, with the states reporting for the first time In 1922 excluded. The third annual report of the Savings Bank Division on school savings hanking also shows Increased American thrift, 1,* 271,029 pupils having savings accounts during the school year of 1921-192$ as against 802,906.
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I do so. Wabash county will be the sub- in a Catholic school and teach, they
T* 17| • iject of discllssion next week and resi-’ wouldn’t allow it, but Catholic teachItS Klan tionnection dents of Wabash county and the city j ers come in our schools and teach. j of Wabash should all arrange to se- #ur children, from year to year we
j cure copies and find out what is real-, have them in our schools they are
Hundreds of people stayed away! l y going on in their midst. Look over brought on the election board, prefrom the Delaware county fair this 1 this new list of Marion Kluxers: i cincts, etc., anything and everything, year because of the foolish action of I GEORGE COLE, president First they are not allowed to be in this orthe fair board In permitting the kll | Natl0nal Bank - ! ganization, they have their own or«»x Man ,o use L S'ouL M ^
GrattBMUMt!own, which is perfectly alright, they
1 have no right whatever in having de ', their hands in our governmental afr fairs, because the Pppe already said
meeting place.
The fair ground belongs to the pub-
Grafit county.
JOHN SHULL, deputy sheriff. BILL CRERER, chief of fire
lie and whoa -the fair bc&rd turns -14$
over to outlaws who seek the busi- REV j j pisCHER, organizer for
ness and social destruction of Jews, Catholics, negroes, foreign born and “weak kneed’’ Frotestants and publicly declare their intention of depriving these groups of their civil liberties, it is only natural that they: should feel about the same toward the fair ground as they do concern ing Campbell's auditorium, which seemfe to have been dedicated to the disciples of hate, boycott and oppres-'
Sion.
The people here had not forgotten the parade of June 2, which started from the fair ground. The lawless gang of masked bandits who assault-
in 1925 we will have the government , and schools nd churches under our
E. C. MODLIN, printer, 38th and | j n 1925, that is not far off, just
women
Washington streets.!
B. F. NEEDHAM, undertaker, Sixth
and Washington.
L. L. KEELS, Swift’s Packing com-
pany.
SAM ORNALD,
Washington.
less than two years/ and the next election is going to tell us, whether we are going to have a Pope or a Protestant country, it is time for us 1o wake up, for each one of us should
be 100 per cent.
“I know you Protestant people and
ED WORK, fireman. North Wash-j membcrs 0) , ,. hur ,. hi the prlncI _
ington street.
grocar, 32nd and
RALPH WARNER,
Glass block.
J. W. HARVEY, JR. LEE CUSTER, bootlegger. GUY ESHERMAN, grocer,
real estate, 1
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ed dozens of ^citizens who refused to and Wabash, formerly owned by Ed
Barton.
doff their hats to the klan laid all
their plans of insult and assault;! fred C. HORN, grocer, Spencer
while in assemblage at the fair Avenue.
ground, and they were there by permission of members of the fair board. n i-UA —o— “Advanced'’ English Woman. Elizabeth Martrodo of Exeter, England, an electrical engineer, installs lighting systems in country homes and fits up wireless sets for “listening in.” Little to Be Said in Praise. About tfie only good, thing that can be sa* J for poverty is that It is n? disgrace. — —o— BIG BEAGLES
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pies of this organization I am representing is your principles, put your name in on my book, it takes a united effort of every Protestant person to make this thing come over, and it is going over, it is going to come. | A1 other thing when foreign people I come over here they want work, they ! have been shipping foreign people i in here from other countries for sevI eral years. In the industries and fac- , tories of the east, they have been
BERT SMITH, grocer, North Bran-' . . . ^ ^ i shipping them m by the ship load and
allowing them to work in our factories, taking our American people’s work away from they, that is the thing we won’t allow, this organization is to stop that thing. Whenever *111 comes to that place our American people are going to live with a higher standing, they are going to get better income in wages, have better wages and live better people; bfihind
S. M. ELLER.
Y. F WHITE, ex-sheriff
son street.
CHIROPRACTOR LADY (Continued From Page One.)
they will be asked shortly to publish 1 their views and get off the fence. The people here, both klan and anti-klan,| are getting tired of their good Lord ■ good- Devil -policy.'- —■■■■■ A Mr. Browning has been brought, here from Logansport to help straighten out klan difficulties;and a meeting will be held soon which will be pre’sfiTed oVef by’R&lph Warner, a locdl real estate dealer. Rev. Fischer, the organizer for the wom.en, is assisted by Mrs. Alfred Hogston. They spend most of their time in this capacity and have profited financially, it is
said, by their work. 1
Tip Hulligan, merchant’s policeman, still spends most of the time in
back our American money makes one dollar here makes several dollars there. I say they come as aliens, stay as aliens and leave as aliens, want to come over here and want to vote, they want to cast their vote the
same as American people, they want I to come to pass.
this movement these things are going
to have their teachers in our church and schools, they want to have control of our churches and those things. There is another thing, that is the associating Of our Protestant children, our Protestant children and boys, with these Jews and Greeks, They’re all foreigners, they are not our class of people, they must have a place of their own. We have around here eighteen or twenty families, negroes and whites .mixed with our race, col-
“It has been said of this organization that we were * * * we have been known as tar and feather. I am glad I belong to them.” (Then the lady reads from a book what the Kamelia stands for.) Her time being limited, she read fast and I did not try to follow her on that.) “There is a lot of people who say this is another form
of fraternal order, it is not a fraternal order, and it has no likeness whatever of any fraternal order, when
ored men married to a white woman | you go into this organization, you
don’t have a lot of initiation work to go through you simply take the oath, you won’t* reveal or you won’t tell nbthing outside of the organization that aint supposed to be let out. I want to give you the creed, the principle of our movement, it is knov/fi as the Ku Klux Klan. I believe in
God, Jesus Christ his Son,. I believe
Tip Boxell, W. C. McKinney or Dad is alright, but it is not, they should Crawford. We are also waiting to, have a school of their own, where hear denials from Jim Whitman and they will have colored teachers, that Le-w Lindermuth, Marion policemen. 1 will teach them their lessons, the Readers should not fail to read in same kind of teaching, the same Engour next issue about the klan and the Hsh language, we teach our children, colored contractor. The editor of the Another thing there are Catholics Post has been repeatedly urged to teaching in our schools, we couldn’t discuss conditions in the eleventh do that, if we wanted to, any Protdistrict generally and has decided to estant people or teacher couldn’t go
that Protestantism is the purest form
and a white man married to a colored woman, they’re mixed up in that way, we have in Marion eighteen or twen^ ty families like that here, and in a few years, we can’t tell those colored
the Marion hotel braying for the klan children from our children they have while drawing money from merchants colored blood in their veins, they mix who are objects of the. Rian’s hatred. Vrith our Children in school and they Henry Billings, of the Osburn paper think Wheii they mix with our chilcompany, has not as yet denied pub- dren in school, they will get used Tib
licly that he is a klansman, nor has associating with our children, that it of Christianity now in existence, etc., -4 ” -- - «->-•—~ ^ th^bne ci§fc
Americans have rights superior to all others. I wonder now ,if any of the ladies want to see me personally. I am a Ku Klux KIan and I ammighty proud of it, I think it is one of the highest standards you could live by outside of the church. I feel elated that I can be a member of this organ-
ization.”'