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FRIDAY, ATJCfUST 10, 1923.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

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COST OF MARKETING HOGS IN CORN BELT

About One-Third of Total Is Terminal Charges.

Crippling Loss Found Heavier In November to March Than in Other Months—Seasonal Variation

Found in Shrinkage.

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(Prepared by th» United Statew Depltrtraaat

of Agriculture.)

About one-third of the total cost of

GAS HAZARD OF MINESREDUCED Discovery Just Made Cuts Down Danger From Fumes of Carbon Monoxide.

EDISON-FORD PLAN’S ATTACK ON INTEREST

Abolition of Rent No More Plaus'h blo Than Abolition of Pay on Loans, Expert Shows.

Pittsburgh.—-Carbon monoxide gas poisoning, the nemesis of workers in aiines, mills, garages, tunnels and various industries, as well as the occupant of the home, is the subject of an Important discovery just made by ex-

marketing bogs by co-operative ship- p er ts 0 f the Pittsburgh station of the Thomas A. Edison in their commodity ijAing associations consists of terminal : United States bureau of mines. money scheme to do away with the

It is no more unreasonable to pay interest on a loan of money than to pay rent on a house, declares William T. Foster, Director of the Pollack Foundation for Economic Research, in exposing the fallacy of the attack on interest charges by Henry Ford and

death matter with the farmer of those ‘ days; to steal a horse in his eyes was a crime that should he punishable by death. The public largely shared j the farmer’s view, with the result j that in 1866 a law was passed by the : legislature authorizing farmers to es- ! tablish “Horse Thief Detective Assoi ciations,” the members of which were ! to be armed with all the powers of (constables, which permitted, arrests even without warrant. The law pro- ' vided that when any ten citizens of a county appeared before a county auditor and testified to their desire to form such an association, their names ' should be registered and the proper j police power vested ih them. The

iharges, such as commission, yardage: and feed, the United States Depaft--ment of Agriculture has learned in a cost ot marketing study in the corn’

The discovery affords a quick and »ure method of determining the presence of carbon monoxide poison In the plood, and, according to the experts,

preseht financial system. Mr. Foster’s | object of this statute was simply to

enable farmers tp handle emergency

argument is reviewed in the present

article which is one of a series P re ‘conditions, and arrest horse stealing

belt. OowDiMtoik comprised sboutJSO, to sTffereS SSmST' the suspects on sight The general pur-

~ -s. hu? will bedises ^

abolition of all interest charges/’ Mr. The automobile has - almost supplant-

26 per cent and feed c25 ; f u i i n a legal way, in that it will prove On the average the ter- jonclusiyely the cause of such deaths.

Dr. R, R. Sayers and W. B. Yant, ;hemlst of the bureau, made the dis-

age about per cent.

minal vcwsta at all'markets for straight shipments ranged from $1.50 to $2(23

per 1,000 pounds, the average being covery, and, after months of research about $1,90 per 1.000 pounds. By in- ^0^ an( j ac tua,l tests upon human bedividual assocltitjons the lowest cpstj j | n g Si ^hey have reported .that theif was $1.55 and the highest cost was ; , impl6 system c ^ uld be operated by

$2.63. |\ t'l | ‘ ' inyone. — Losses from crippling were found ; Right jr^tment Assured,

to be heavier in .November to March, j eay tbat wlthln fifteen mln . Inclusive, than during other months of , >tes after the test is ma<3e the amount

Foster pa,y s - . “ ‘Interest,’ gays the Dearborn ‘ Independent, ‘is a tax that few ancient tyrants would have dared impose. Interest in actual modern practice is a contrivance whereby all production is taxed by parasites, and whereby money is given a supremacy over men, material and management which it cannot sustain.’

Renting Money

ed the horse and having no reason longer to function, these voluntary horse thief associations died a natural death though the statute remains

on the books.

At the last session of the Indiana l legislature the regular attempt was I made to pass a law authorizing a ’ State constabulary such as exists* ^

the year. Ihe loss on account of | carbon monoxide poison in the * s t ^ iere rea ^y anything more j Pennsylvania and other states. The

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killed hogs was found to be greater ' 9lood of the S11 bject could be deter- terrible about for the use in the spring months, particularly May | thus lUsming the right and money than about paying for the use and June, than in other months. Both ; pr0mpt treatment for the patient. ? Suppose a farmer crippled and dead hogs were more nu- Heretofore, doctors treatlhg carbon finds him9elf !fl ^f ed ^ a ba ^estmg

™ X-! shlpme,it8 th ‘ n ta i " e c t,t wm r om

“a 325 variation « ahrlnhag. ’ SSS b ° rrOW “ maChlne 0 ' Nelgllb0r ^ was also found, the highest percent- ; trltm^T g 1 or borr0w mon ®y and b ^ a machine, age or shrinkage occurring in August.! Savers-Yant dlseoverv came as The farmer would consider it right From July to October Inclusive. 1 6 as 1 to pay In some way for the use of the r rom jmy to uctoDeir, mctuaive, result of work ln Hudson river maf , h i ne W h V chonhi he exnert to shrinkage is greater than frosa No- ln N . w Y{> k whu* th „ Korean “ acdlne - ^should he expect to vember to March Althmnrh mixed ' DeS ln X ° rK ' WhII e the bureau bo rrow money—which is honored in vember te March- Although mixed < mines experts wet's engaged in the t h e markets in navment for the same shipments showed - greeter shrinkage a ^ maritets m payment tor the same than straight shinmentA the danart- of ascertaining a proper ven- , machine—without paying for the use

than straight ahipmentA wtSu d j atlng S y S ^ em f or the tubes under df the monev’

ment points out that this may : the river ^ a8 to rei|der automoblle .. Naw n 8upDose that the farm .

Indicate that the organizations ship. r harmless to those nasslnc suppose tnat the ra m

-inn- nnt * ases narmiess to tnose passing er uses the machine so successfully ab ottiem or war dae to th» fcmo o< they struck upon the new that he saves a thousand dollars, animal nanoii-r in em-a Be ^ hod determining the presence With that money he can buy a farm

«■“ 8hlpp ^ ^ c*™- rt carbon monoxide In the blood. • The .hidj eon-ieted of dat« eoll«t- Big Aid In Rwoo. Work. •d rrona 237 live stock shipping usso- ^ ^ elation, la the ten Middle Wenten, ! the v«lue of the dlecovatate., which .hipped mor. then 900,- *b ml ““. “ d Mr ' Tant 000 hog. In 102!. Th. carload or f oln l ,ed “ ut »er.tofor. rescue

^ A de- ' R ’ orkers have been hampered In treat-

ing stricken men beeause they did not

Ut a mimeographed pamphlet, entitled; ‘ I10 ' T whether the patle.t sttffered ICosts of Marketing Lire Stock In th. ,rom sll<,ck 01 c,rb0 ” ” ,<,1<rccl<! « * as -

shipment was the unit

tailed report of the study is contained

Com Belt-1921,” copies of which may ^ lkew l l8e - tbIs 7 &8 trde la *V a ge and ... ..j..-. . ... ntd tuTmel accident cases. The patients

be obtained upon request of the United States Department of Agricul-

ture, Washington, D. C.

U. S. MEASURES ROADS’ VALUES

ire always given oxygen, but it re- j guired an entire day or more to de- j lermine if they had carbon monoxide j poisoning. • ! With the discovery -at hand, Mr, ! Yant said, rescue workers In the In* flusfries will know whether the victim of an accident has carbon monoxide ! poison in his blood? *wttl know the ; exact amount of such poisoning, and .

and he can let Neighbor Brown have the use of It. Neighbor Brown naturally would expect to pay rent. Inj stead of buying the farm, however, he j could lend the thousand dollars to his i neighbor in order that his neighbor I might buy the farm, ki that case ; Neighbor Brown should expect to pay j for the rent of the money. All this ! seems clear. When the transactions ! are as simple as these it is plain that ! there is just as great propriety in J charging for the use of money as in charging for the use of things that

! money will buy.

i Loaned. Money Builds a School “We may assume, however, that the farmer does not want to buy land and ! Neighbor Brown does not want to ; borrow money. In that ease the farmer deposits his thousand dollars

Device Records Traffic on Highways Constructed With

Government Aid.

can proceed to give proper and prompt \ ih a bank and the bank pays him intrefttment within fifteen minutes after terest for the use of his money. TJut

the patient comes into their hands.

Littlest State and Army

of 12 Join With Swiss Washington.—Uncle Sam Is taking Geneva.—Situated between Switzer*

an automatic permanent record of the l* nd a nd Austria is the little princi- __ _ _ economic worth of our highways* P®Uty Of Liechtenstein, which enjoys | g a nd dollars at a specified date, and

an idyllic existence and is the small- j interest in the meantime at a specified

the bank can pay interest only it it makes profitable use of hie aaoney. Now the bank finds that the city needs a high-school building, and has decided to borrow enough money to construct it. In order to obtain the money the city has issued bonds, each of which Is a promise to pay one thou-

which he is helping the individual states to build, that will also show the development of highway trans-

portation.

An automatic device for recording traffic which shows not only the number of vehicles which pass over It, but also their weight, is now being installed on the Washlngton-Baltimore boulevard in front of the campus of the University of Maryland at College park, Maryland, through co-operation of the university with the state roads commission of Maryland. Officials of the Department of Agriculture expect this device to confirm the results of investigations previously made which show that a good road IS such a paying investment that it is the poorest kind of business judgment to do with-

out it.

Establishes Road Worth. This device which is being installed on the Washlngton-Baltimore road was thought ©ut in the bureau of public

roads.

“The value that such a record will have is most obvious,” said Dean A. N. Johnson of the engineering department of the university. “It will give a basis for determining the economic worth Of our roads and indicate into what ou*

est state In the world. With its 11,000 Inhabitants, this tiny territory and the little Austrian province of Vorarlberg have now entered into a customs union

with! the Swiagi republic.

Prior to the war Liechtenstein, in spite of the strong antipathy of its people toward the Hapsburgs, was united with the Austrian monarch^ by union of customs, post and currency. During the war the diminutive principality, with Its “armed power” of 12 field watchmen, remained peutral. in 1920 the principality amalgamated Its postal administration with that of

Switzerland.

rate. The bank buys one of these bonds. Thus the farmer has had a part in providing the city with a school building; and the farmer has just as much right to expect interest for the use of his money as though he had loaned the money directly or in-

directly to Neighbor Brown.”

Choice and Character. Tito was experiencing that Inexor* able law of human seals, that we prepare ourselves for sudden deeds by the reiterated choice of good or evil that gradually determine character.—

George Eliot.

o —* •.v, A' .-v't Ideals.

It Is by believing in. loving, and fol-

Sallsbury, Southern Rhodesia.—Hu- illimitable ideals that man man sacrifice still Is practiced in some i grows great. . Tliey live before parts of the old world, It was shown ; as the image of that unto which when six members of a local tribe were i we ure to £ row forever. S'topford icntenced to death for burning alive a ■ Brooke.

Burn Youth as Sacrifice; Six Sentenced to Death

poung man named Manduza in order to

uppease the rain goddess.

Rhodesia had been suffering from a levere drought, and some of the native tribes ascribed It to the wrath of the

Suckers Didn’t Bite Here As At Albany

poddess, who, they believed, had been

highway transportation is developing,*’ violated. Inquiries led the tribal chief :

Work is in progress at/the unlves- to believe that his son was guilty of j One night last week a nut named sity at present of calibrating the ap- having assaulted the goddess, and he Haywood, who advertised himself paratus, casting the slabs of which will thereupon ordered his incineration, either as a doctor or a preacher, we form the covering, and otherwise get- The rain goddess, a young and hand- ,, .. cr , , . , . ting everything In readiness for the rome girl, did not testify against him. ^ f gat wb ch ’ advertised himInstallation. Defense counsel commented on the: se ^ f° r a ku klux klan speech at tChis first installation will be expert- high motives which led the chief to Campbell's auditorium. When only meptal, for the purpose of perfecting sacrifice his son for rain, and referred about fifty persons showed up at the and developing the apparatus. When lo parallel cases in Hebraic and ; meeting Brother Haywood called the installed the roadway will be unlm- Semitic history. j speech off and left tGWI1 At A i bany paired, the concrete slabs, which will Rain fell, soon after Manduza was . few nigllts j previious this fellow fo$l th. covering, being eo leia;a« S,^Ae^elb^ j ^ ^ ^ allsp ,.

Ireland Will Censor Movies. & ces o£ Revr - Cortner, pastor of the

LUkllX IJUW CUVeiiJAg, utfllig ou ICUU LV « preserve intact the original surface. { This is highly Important In order that, '

as the traffic rolls over the apparatus* } Dublin.—The Irish government is ! there will be no Inequalities In the sur- < establishing a national censorship of j face which would induce the impact i cinema pictures. Hitherto managers > loads. have been carrying on such censor* j Show Highways Repay Cost. ship as was provided in England, and . The United States bureau of public many films wefe uncensored, but there j roads produces figures based on a sur- was no uniformity and some public vey of traffic In Connecticut to prove complaint of the exhibition of objeo

that a good road soon repays all it tionable films, cost An actual count of the traffic oh f\, | ff.

the Boston post road showed that the $6,000,000 to Fire Victim*, average weight of vehicles and coin* j Dnluth,4 Minn. — Nearly $8,000,000 mcjlilties passing over the rdaa'm mirra hfU Tieen paid by the United States hoturs each day wse l,14©”tona, Adit* j governmCtot to victims of the northern i

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Christian church at Albany, and a brother of Worley Cortner, one of the local boys who is getting the money

over in Ohio.

■- ' 0 _ ■ 1° “Tfil KLUX MORONS

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| enactment of any such law in Indiana i has always been opposed by organized | labor* which has professed to see in ' such organizations nothing but strikej breaking agencies. Therefore the so- | called “Cossack’’ law met its usual

| fate.

j “But it seems that a new driving j force was in truth behind the ”cosj sack” bill—the Ku Klux Klan. It was ; this organization that moved heaven I and earth to put the bill through and would have been successful but that some organized labor members of the Klan could not stomach it. i Defeated at this point, the Klux already had laid their plans and in almost a twinkling came the revival of the ancient Horse Thief Detective as- I sociations from one end of the state to the other. The Klux are now bus- j ily engaged throughout the State in j filing their applications with the county auditors, who lack the courage • to refuse them police power. i The general object of these new Klux police organizations is to stop bootlegging and to interfere in small community offenses which r) the child minds of .the Klux appe 5 } as big as mountains and sure to result fatally if not regulated at once. For exam- , pie, the Kluxers eye with peculiar! venom any slight deviation on the j part of either man or woman from j the straight and narrow way in sex | relations. All such cases are solemnly reported at the Klavern meet-: ings, and ways and means are dis-, cussed to bring about a reformation. It gives these Klux morons a great sense of importance—a moron, you know, is a baby mind in an adult’s | body—yes, it makes these Klux morons feel big to have in their hands actual police power, and the State of j Indiana is beginning already to reap the harvest in the reports coming in of the activity of the morons in trying to rectify all the wrongs of the universe—doing all the things they should not do in a well ordered community, and failing to do the only worth-while thing in their power to do—to mind their own business. One of the Klux specialties is to play “Peeping Tom” along the roads, hoping to detect some young couple “spooning” in an automobile. It is then that the horse-thief Kluxers appear at their best as regulators of, public morals. They rush from the j underbrush like bandits, flourishing, deadly weapons with which most of, them are entidely unfamiliar, One*| can foresee that a wave af real ban-! ditry along the countryside is bound 11 to follow. Real criminals, profession- j I al criminals, that is to say, for the j | amateurs are sufficiently criminal—1| will be quick to seize the opportunity thus graciously provided, to masquerade, as Horse Thief Detectives.

Klux Katch A Kluxer.

The state was shocked only recently when the Klux horse thief bunch constituted themselves an actual arresting agency in a case involving violation of the United States postal laws that a retired merchant named Ernest Loeb of Lafayette received a threatening communication some time ago demanding $1,000 in cash and signed by the Ku Klux. Loeb became scared and deposited the money at the place named. He “loosed up’’ so easily the first time that a little later he received another threatening letter,'this time from Muncie, demanding $500 more, and directing him to take a train at an appointed hour, to come to Muncie, and leave the, $500in a package on a table of the public library. This letter also was signed

Days of Horse Stealing.

oArwaflrmlba6#alrf^i$P95| 1 “Knights of ^

mate for the full day Increases the jlMS, according to figures given out by weight to >,520 gross tons daily. agents In this district for the United

States railroad administration.

Lo^. ^eciOod It was, time, th, figlit. land took it up with the Ku Klux organization of Lafayette. The Lafay-

verse them, the horse constituted the ette Kleagle communicated with the settler’s sole means of communica- Muncie Kleagle and a trap was set tion with the outside world. The for the blackmailer. Loeb came to

OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT

TO HIS EXCELLENCY, CALVIN COOLIDGE, President of the United StatesMr- President:—

expres-

The people of my community, district and state are a un"

mg the hope that your administratiotion will be successful a: chat under the guiding hand of such an experienced, resourceful ar ' patriotic statesman as yourself, our nation will prosper and peace, tra;: lity and

prosperity reign in America.

It is beyond my powers of expression to depict the love a -l respect accorded the late president, whose untimely death has caused * nation to mourn, but The king is dead. Long live the king.” While mou sing the death of. Harding the man and executive, we, aS a people, must think of the living. The sublime opportunity is yours to serve your fellow citizens, in a manner denied the beloved Warren G. Harding, because of a peculiarly constituted individualism, which impelled him, through the innate goodness of the heart, to pursue a mistaken policy of localism, rather

than a firm policy of nationalism.

Mr. President, the Ku Klux Klan is either right or wrong There can be no middle ground. Its policy and program is identical in every state It cannot be a blessing to Texas and a curse to Massachusetts. It it is a boon to Oregon, it cannot be counted a liability in Indiana Born ot secession, nullification and treason, this vicious mutiny against a democratic form of government has spread from its rebel homestead until its poisonous breath has contaminated every state in the union. The problem, Mr. President, is a national one, which involves the question of the greatest good to the greatest number of people When you firmly quelled a police mutiny in the city of Boston, your fame went ^r^f^ If T^n executive who believed in law and order, and who rightly held that the public servant should recognize no higher authority than the mandate of the people, who represent the government. ,, 5 A merica toda W an invisible empire seeks to control and direct the affairs of our visible government. The lamentable failure of the government to stamp out this evil in its incipiency has led to disastrous results. The invisible government has invaded the sactuary of the courts sworn officers of the law have become minions of the hooded empire j governors, senators and congressmen, bowing to their local constituencies, have taken the blood sealed oath to betray their nation- The nation is looking to you, Mr. President, to destroy this unclean bird of prey which has substituted terrorism and minority rule for open government and the administration of office by men who hold sacred their official oath.

Respectfully submitted,

AVERAGE CITIZEN.

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bills as directed and retired. Then with some mazuma.

out stepjjed one Ernest H. Maitlain, an artist, age 30, formerly a student at Purdue University, Lafayette. As his hand closed on the package, he was promptly grabbed by the Kluxer Horse Thief Outfit. He was first hustled to the office of the Muncie chief of police, then placed aboard a train and brought to Indianapolis, where he was taken to the office of one MUton Elrod, alias “John Hamilton,” editor of the Indianapolis Fiery Cross. There Maitland was s&bje&ed td a 'sweating' '' L and was forced to ^contewtoa. Mail;js;, simply an ordinary ‘^educat.ed” moron of the type turned out in (hundreds by American colleges, with no real power to think, simply a parrot. He told the Kluxers that he needed the money and saw a good

“One ttf Us”? Oh, Horrors! Then at this private session of

^ Kluxer Horse Thief Detectives and members of the Klux editorial staff, Maitland whispered something that made the Kluxers sit up and take notice. He told them that he himself was a Kluxer and regularly admitted, all dues paid up, and in good stand-

ownership of a horse was a life-and- Muncie, deposited a fake package of chance to scare a Jew into parting

ing. He staunchly demanded the pro- piece of bamboozling dope to the qf-

tection solemnly pledged in the se cret work of the order, which is to the effect that Kluxers will stand by ;one another to the last ditch in all prosecution, malicious murder, rape and! treason, alone excepted. . ; The Kluxer police morons had thought at first that they would turn Maitland over to the United States marshal at Indianapolis, but to their disgust, finding that Maitland himself was In truth a regularly admitted

member of the Klux in good standing, decided that other measures would have to he adopted in consideratiom of the Kluxer oath. S 0 Maitland was again bundled on the train and sent; back to Muncie, where he was booked? and will be tried according to Stat© laws, with a loaded Klux Jury to him. The innocent public 10 percent;. Klux in Indiana, will be treated to a:

feet that the Klansmen felt so sorryfor Maitland’s family that they did': hot desire to have him tried away

from; home;'!! h&sJsT 4&> .

The Kluxers with characteristic houghtlessness, neglected to inform the public that they had arrested one of their own members for the cheapest kind of blackmail. Maitland was promptly provided with bail and supposedly is once more in the bosomu

of hia family. - L( „