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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1924.

HORSE THIEF BETECTiVES OUGHT TO BE EMPLOYED TO FERET OUT MYSTERY OF BASKETBALL TICKETS

ter Kemp and Kid Reed except that the south corporation line of Marion his red neck shows through the night jin a southerly di ection, to the juncshirt. -tion with State Road 35, a distance And it is said that Charlie never I of 2.64 miles.

ANDERSON HAS PLENTY OF ’EM. Roy Benefiel, Frank Britton and Carl Lawson, city patrolmen. Dr. Kopp, recently married a daughter of Ira Heath, exalted cyclops of Chesterfield klan. Invisible empire strictly against mixed marriages. Walter French, bookkeeper for Tracy Prophet. A1 Waymire, salesman Hudson-Essex, Anderson Garage Main street. Robert Wertz, Rickenbacker salesman, 8th street. M. I. Masters, of Masters-Shackleford grocery, W. Thirteenth street. His wife a Kamelia and son Paul is a klansman. Virgil Stanley, Mounds road. Took two ounces of chloroform last Sunday with suicidal intent, but is still alive and kicking. Like most klansmen, subject to hysteria. Burt Lewis, preacher and chiropractor, ,220 West Eleventh.' Aivis F. Hancock, field superintendent Fame Caning Company. Link Bell, former street commissioner. William Gall, clerk at Hotel Stilwell. William Onstott, foreman National Tile Co., 409 W. Second. Forest Hancock, clerk National Tile. Residence 2332 Walnut. Walter A. McCoy, foreman Forse Manufacturing company. Company sells window shades to Jews. Rev. Powell, Pendleton, resigned as chaplain of reformatory. Lor mg Stohler, democrat, member county council— Charles G. Alfred, has been chief of fire department for 25 years.

Anderson, a story the

Ind., Inarch 6.—This is Horse Thief Detectives

of Anderson ought to look after since they have taken over the law enforcement business. Anderson is all worked up over basket ball. There aren’t enough seats to go around and tickets bring a premium. Some people got the idea that a lot of easy money could be made by printing their own tickets and selling them for what

money they could get.

The police ran it down and what do you think they found? A man named Allan R. Bates of the Hudson Printing Company, Kluxers, set type. Notwithstanding the fact that this plant is a first class one, the tickets weren’t finished in it. But they took the set up to the Herald, Ed Toner’s republican paper, and had them printed, as you can prove by Alfred Brown, the foreman and Harold Laymond, another employee. This was a case of forgery but you have heard the last of it now that you know the way it was done. We don’t say that Ed Toner actually knew of it or that the money was used in his campaign but it strikes ns that forgery is about as serious an olfense as slot machines. In fact we don’t think Ed knew anything about It. But it is out of order for one printing establishment to set up the type and then take it some place else to have it printed. The whole job could have been done in either place. We wonder why the Hudson people were so anxious to get rid of the job when they had started it and we wonder whether the Herald didn’t stop to think when the job came to them under circumstances that were,

at least, unusual?

The local papers were full of the story until they found out where it led and since then you haven’t heard a single word ab5ut it and the police are called off permanently. When the police don’t find crime, they are dishonest in Anderson and when they do some real clever detective work they are called off the job. Again, we inquire, where are the Horse thieves with Charlie Poindexter and Walter Kemp and the rest of the Kluxers Anderson is the next town where you can expect a falling away from the Hfcux ranks. And if it won’t be the very next, it will be one of the early ones. The two accepted or rather the two assumed leaders are John Williams and Charlie Poindexter. Of course neither of them will long remain loyal even to such a breeder of disloyalty as the Ku Klux. Neither of these men have ever displayed loyalty to what most people call principles. John Williams is an old friend to all of us, in fact, we knew him when he was poor. We knew him when he was a roaring Democrat. That was his best time. He , worked on the Democrat and Bulletin until the papers almost lost their circulation and- until the Democrats got to be mighty few

•around Anderson.

But, out of pity, Dale Crittenberger bung onto him arid sorto kept him on

a pension hoping that he could find

wore a night shirt of any sort until last year. And Charlie conducts the county’s business and fails at his own. .His wife inherited some money from her folks, and they were mighty ' fine people, but Charlie got fancy and lost it. If he hadn’t married a little money he’d have had to work and might have made a fanner but it’s easy to spend money you don’t earn. And Charlie thinks Stillwell has the only gravel in the world but we have a mighty interesting gravel story on Charlie and some other commissioners. Some people say Tom Stillwell had Charlie’s proxy as Commissioner but we think he only advised him as a friend. And Charlie is expected to be loyal to the Kluxers as the Chief Investigator. Keep John and Charlie away from the paying jobs and you’ll lose two kluxers. They are two reasons Ahy Anderson w.ill join Muncie and secede. We wish at this time to correct an error which occurred in the issue of March 1. By mistake the name of Dr. T. F. Lewis, dentist, with offices in the Farmers Trust Block, appeared as a klansman. As a matter of fact Dr. Lewis is not only NOT a klansman, but is one of the men of Anderson who does not fear to express himself as being unalterably opposed to the lawless organization. The notes from which the last Anderson story was written contained the names of Dr. Lewis as being an outstanding opponent of the klan, and as being one of the few tenants of the Farmers Trust block who did not belong, hut by mistake, and through failure of the one who wrote the story to‘read the notes correctly, his name erroneously appeared in the klan list. It is a tremendous task to attempt the publication of the names of all klansmen in a city the size of Anderson, but it is a necessary work. To do this work without error would be beyond the power of mortal man. When mistakes creep in we will make amends and correct the errors insofar as it is possible to do so. We want to introduce Dr. Lewis as a real, and not a bogus American, of the so-called one hundred percent va-

riety.

CITY ADVERTISEMbNT

Department Of Public works OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind.

some way to get rid of him. By some stroke of good fortune, he left his meal ticket for some kind of easy money making mineral wool in Alexandria. He had been used to a pension from the Democrats and wasn’t used to wrok and, of course he didn’t know any thing about making wool, and he soon went broke and badly

bent those supporting him.

But Crittenberger was rid of him and so were the Democrats and that

helped some. Then he started some paper in imitation of the Menace and T0 WH0M IT MAy CONCERN 1

was going to get rich telling lies on NotIoe Is hereby g , Ten that the as .

the Cathohcs but he busted that in sesgment rol!8> ^ the names of short order. And, what do you think? . ... m , ’ „ , . owners and description of property

Ed Toner took him in and gave him . . . x . , v y * a job on the Herald. He had said sub J ec t0 b * assessed, with the lots worse things about Ed than he ^ mou “ ts of P"ma facie assessments, said about the Catholics but Ed saw ha ^ e bee ° made and are now on m e that Dale wouldn’t have him and and can be seen at the offlce of the Ed, being charitable, gave John an- Board ’ for the lowing improve-

other job on his Republican paper. ments, to-wit.

Now the Bulletin had increased in ^claratory Resolution No. 897-1922 circulation after John left and the For tbe vacation of a portion of the Herald shouldered the load. And now B° u levard extending from Main he had turned dry! And the wets Street to Jackson Street on the East had hired him to do their writing in Banlc °* White River, in Muncie, In-

the wet and dry elections. diana.

And they paid him soft money. So Declaratory Resolution No. 1112you have his number as a Democrat 1923, For the vacation of a strip of and as a Republican and as a wet ground five (5) feet in width off of and as a dry. And you expect him each side of Beechwood Avenue from to be loyal! What are his principles? Reserve Street to Alameda Avenue, And now he has a job with the Klux- making said Beechwood Avenue a ers as secretary on a salary. Ed fifty foot street or avenue and Toner must be anti-Klux or he notice is hereby given that on wouldn’t have put John off onto them, the 25th day of March, 1924, the John W'On’t be loyal to the Klux just Board will, at its office receive and like he wasn’t loyal to the Demo- hear remonstrances against the crats or to th eRepublicans or to the amounts assessed against their propwets or to the drys. erty respectively on said roll, and And such men as this they chose will determine the question as to as a leader and gum shoe man. And whether such lots or tracts of land he is the defender of Protestantism, have been or will be benefited by said although he wasn’t very busy defend- improvement in the amounts named ing it before he got the job. We hope said roll, or in a greater or less to see true Protestantism prosper but gUm than that named on said roll or it would do better in cleaner and in any sum) at w hich time and place more loyal hands. And some minis- a jj owners 0 f SUC h real estate may ters are willing to turn the whole attend( in person Qr by repregenta . cause^ over to Kluxers like John Wil- tive and be beard) 7;3() 0>clock p M liams! j BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Charlie Poindexter is another suc-]> Mary E . Anderson, Clerk, cessful and loyal man. He ran for [Advertised on March 7-14th, 1924.

office as a Democrat and the Demo- ’

Road 35, Section C, extending from the east corporation line of Marion in an easterly direction 0.26 mile. Road 21, Section H-l, extending from the north end of brick north of Portland, which is the junction of State Road 23, in a northerly direction to the south end of brick south of Bryant, 3.09 miles. Total length: Bituminous Macadam 3.09: Surface Treatment 6.79 miles. Date set for completion, December 1, 1924. Bidder shall file bond with his bid equal to 1 1-2 times amount of his proposal. Proposals, plans and specifications are on^file in the office of the State Highway Commission, Indianapolis, Ind ana, where same may be obtained upon the payment of $1 Per set. ' JOHN D. WILLIAMS. Director. Mar. 6-13. o

CITY ADVEK I lisb.lvifc.NTS

Department Of Public works OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION

crats had sense enough to turn him down. Why would the Democrats of Madison county want a fellow like Charlie! We have some bad ones but we won’t stand for Charlie Poindexter. And then he ran on the Bull Moose ticket for the same office. And the party of Roosevelt wouldn’t have him. He tried again and as a Republican and got to be Commissioner to the regret of most good people. It seems odd that he had to join three parties to get a job. It looks as though he has no fixed political principles but joins any one that will keep him from farming. As a political chamelon he holds the record. But with all the political »©lors he has had he still has a red neck. And there are many freckles on his red neck and if we had a long red, freckled neck we’d join most anything that wuold cover it up in the parades. Charlie looks as handsome as Wal-J

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Contract No. 39 Indiana State Highway Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 4, 1924. Sealed proposals will be received at the offlce of the State Highway Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana, at 10 o’clock A. M. March 20th, 1924, for: Bituminous Surface Treatment, Bituminous Macadam Top Course, and Waterhound Macadam Base Course on State Roads as described below: Road 33, Section M, extending from the east end of brick read east of Muncie in an easterly direction 3.09 miles to the west edge of Selma. Road 37, Section D, exteriding from the west corporation line of Muncie, in a westerly direction 0.8 mile. Road 11, Section E, extending from

Notice to Property Owners: In the matter of Certain Proposed Public Improvements in the City of Muncie, State of Indiana. Notice is hereby given by the Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is desired and deemed necessary to make the following described public improvements for the City of Muncie, Indi ana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 4th day of March, 1924, towit: I. R. No. 1127-1924, For a local sewer known as Wilson High School sewer, the line of said sewer commencing at Mulberry Street and 17th Street; thence north in Mulberry Street to 15th Street; thence west in 15th Street to Franklin Street; thence north in Franklin Street to 14th Street; thence west in 14th Street 150 feet writh tributaries in High Street from 14th Street to a point 220 feet south of 15th Street. I. R. No, 1128-1924, For a cement curb and gutter on both sides of Beechwood Avenue from Reserve Street Avenue. I. R. No. 1129-1924, For a cement sidewalk on both sides of Beechwood Avenue from Reserve Street to Alameda Avenue. All work done in the making of said described public Improvements shall he in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Works on the above named date, and the drawings, plans, profiles and specifications which are on file and. may be seen in the office of said Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana. The Board of Public Works has fixed the 25th day of March, 1924, as a date upon which remonstrances may be filed or heard by persons interested in, or affected by said described public improvements, and on said date at 7:30 o’clock P. M., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the purpose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been filed, or whici may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and oh said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed improvements, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to the proposed improvement and to the said City will be equal to or exceed the estimated cost of the proposed improvements, as estimated by tbe City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertise on March 7-14th, 1924.

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INVENTORS EASY PREY OF CROOKS

KLANSMEN SEEK

Supposed to Be Cautious, They Prove “Suckers.”

How inventors are being victimized in a nation-wide swindling game is brought to public attention by the League of American Inventors. According to all traditions inventors as a class are supposed to be poor. They are supposed to be suspicious and cautious to an unusual degree. But the success of the swindlers who are taking large sums away from them proves that not all inventors are literally penniless, and that those who have any money are apt to invest it more trustingly than the persons who buy oil stock and gold mines by mail or-

der.

The sharpers who are fleecing in- eration and

(Continued From Page One) 8. To request of the imperial klonvocation any legislation he may de-

sire.

9. To remove from office any other than the imperial officer on the grounds of incompetency, disloyalty, neglect of duty or unbecoming conduct—of which he is the judge. 10. To appoint all imperial officers and grand dragons, and fix their

terms of office.

11. To solicit applications for membership, receipt for donations and admit to membership any person or persons, at any time and in any manner he chooses, provided they are eligible under -the constitution. 12. To “contract, in the name of the j order, with other members for its ex- ! tension, financing, management, op-

business interest, and

ventors are both clever and efficient. They obtain their “sucker lists’’ directly from the government by way of the

Patent Office Gazette. In this official ^ .

publication the government regularly | est ’ v-ell-bemg or prosperity prints the names and addresses of all | order, not provided for in this

shall fix the compensation thereof.” 13. To determine any question of j paramount importance to the inter-

of this

con-

persons who have been granted patents since the preceding issue. In the course of a year some 50,000 names of possible customers thus fall into the hands of fake patent promotion companies, writes Frederic J. Haskins in the Chicago Daily News. Attack Vulnerable Point. The men who control these companies know that the average inventor believes absolutely in the importance of his invention, and that he will go the limit, financially, to have it devel-

power, without restrictions, to conttract with other members for the extension, financing , management, operation and business interests and fix words, he may contract with any words, he may cotract with any member of the order for the expenditure as he may see fit of every dollar of the order’s funds and property. His will is final in the disposition of every penny of klan funds and there is no obstacle to his contracting at any time he may desire for the dissolution of the order and the dissipation of ad its property. Under another .section of the constitution the wizard is specifically empowered to manufacture everything that the order requires. This he may do in his own name, in the name of the order by contract with a member or by the use of the funds of the order. What he manufactures he may sell to the members of thp order at any price he may establish and the members of the order must buy and .use his products at any cost to them- , selves, as they may become necessary ; in the conduct of the affairs of the

1 order.

Imagine, if possible, the people of ’ th e United States, conferring on the ; President, or the Secretary of State, the power to manufacture everything

uses and re-

quiring that the Government use things of his manufacture to the ex-

stitut.ion, which decision shall be

final.

Analysis of these specific grants of power cannot help lead to the con-

clusion that the invisible empire be- ' tllat \ he Government

comes the expression of one man’s ideas only and that all citizens of the

j invisible empire are forever hound to j clugk)n of any otber articIes support one man, who possesses full ; 0h! boy> wbat a ^nop^y;

power and authority to perpetuate ^ busiuGss t

himself in office. j Remember, too, that when the The powers delegated to the im- j i t i ea gi e talks of the constitution his perial wizard by the thirteen sections j victim ta ^ s oath to support it is

constitution j .<j Ugt like the Constitution of the

United States.” As to Everytnmg

The imperial wizard is the sot©

What

oped commercially. They know also

that in a great many Instances the in- 0 f one article of the ventor with a new patent cannot put be divided into these groups: it on the market himself and has no ! i v t.-

i 1. Power to control the membership

idea how to Interest manufacturers. I . .

The patent office cannot help him. It by admission as he pleases.

is concerned only with the recording 2 - Power to control the or Saniza-j J . udge of wbat questions of imporof inventions. So the wily promoter tion by appointment of all important tance pertaining to the “interest,

officers, including those who elect ; we ip be i n g or prosperity -of this orbim ’ |der” should be determined by him on 3. Power to control the finances by ithe groundg that they are no t precontracts fqf “extension,’financing, | scr . bed by tbe consti t ut ion. He has

is able to attack the Inventor at the most vulnerable point, offering to assist the patentee to market his Invention for a reasonable commission fee. i This Is the basis on which the patent i

sales swindles are operated.

The promoters work entirely by; mail. There are a number of them j and they are hard to catch. Their of-1 flees can be moved from one state to'

management, operation, business in-

terests.”

4. Power over everything in the empire through the miscellaneous authority to make final decisions of im-

the power to make decisions in such of these matters as he may elect, and his decision therein is final.

well-being

another over night, and it is an easy p 0r t a uce to the “interest, matter for them to think up new and! urogueritv of this order” high-sounding names for their com-1 " ‘ . . t panies when certain names begin to i to M em ers P attract suspicion. I Th© imperial wizard has power to The Post Office department has In- admit whom he pleases to tbe eravestigated three of the companies and Pire, limited only by the constitutionput them out of business. A. J. Wed- al restrictions that the derburn, founder of the • League oi must he native-born, white, Gentile American Inventors, has furnished the and wiI1In g to contribute $10 department with a long list o! such 1 __ ,. .. , . , companies, and the Inspectors hav.l He might, Ithe wishes, by one stated that they expect to give special e< ii c t> extend membership to ail the attention to the matter at an early members of another order at any date. i time and any place. He has power to Meantime, Mr. Wedderburn says, th« extend a charter or revoke It, at will, downfall of the swindlers is in the j j n event of any attempt on the hands of the inventors themselves H pan c , a klan provInce or realrd f0 they are wary enough not to be taken : , . . ...... in by impressive stationery and offl.! °'' €rral<! «* “«“«»• 116 •»* clal looking contracts, fak* sales com-j*° r, v oke the charters of the klans panies obviously will have to seek an- j compos'ng the rebellious subdlvfsiou other source of Income. jand thereby throw out their votes in

To any one not suspecting fraud, j any assembly,

the proposition made by one of thes« j Nintey-nine per cent of tbe klan companies seems satisfactory from « , membership, voting in a body In

JUDG EVICTOR SIMMONS DECLINES Tl SIT IN DALE CASE

Judge Victor Simmons Monday declined further jurisdiction in the fake liquor* charge against the editor of the Post-Democrat, which has been

candidate ; pending in the circuit court for over

a year The case was set for trial Saturda* by Special Judge Simmons, and the latter has heard and acted on several motions in the case, one being Lis refusal to grant a change of venue from Delaware county. We were gilling ready for trial Saturday when the judge unexpectedly withdrew

from the case.

business standpoint. The inventor re-

op-

position to the imperial wizard, could

celves a business-like letter In which . .

the sales company ask. permission t« 1,01 r ® TOke • Teto or OTerCome M* market his Invention and assures hlnn P°^ er - event of such opposition he that It appears to have great commer- j need only exert his authority to susdal possibilities. The company Is pend nnd the ninety-nine per cent have a stipulated commission when would be deprived of all voice in the the sale Is effected. The inventoi j organizatlon> wllile the one per cent

apparently has nothing to lose. He li not asked to spend any money. If he signs a contract, however, h<

, performed his will.

Nowhere in the history of fraternal

begins gradually to realize that mar or national Government has the

Voice Like mumlose or ceusp captivity, and zoo know tl a'

o* the Ostrich, other birds, ostriches to use their voice in few visitors to th® > '-jtve voices at all.

In their na: m • ever, they me they have a • Hon.”

uroundings, how-ii-iitn dumb, for o the roar of

!■ Both Beenes. “I chafs against the regulations/ murmured the college girl as she prepared a surreptitious welsh rabbit at 2 a. m-—Boston Evening Transorint

ketlng a patent may Involve all sortt voice and the will of the mere memof expenses. The fake sales companlet j her so little weight as in the Invisible

are expert at fitting these expensej ! empire,

to the client’s pocketbook. They cafl. As to officers

tell from the letters of the client just' about the sum that can be got from ! him. I

Drained to Limit. Perhaps the first demand is for .$2||

The ability of the imperial wizard, as commander-in-chief, to surround j himself with a staff that must funcition to his liking, Is unparalleled in i any organization in the world. ! He may appoint all officers of high-

char-

to pay for printing a prospectus tha| will enable the sales company to pre

sent the facts regarding the patent hj er ran h than the officers of the a convincing way. The inventor maj tered klans and he may suspend then be told that a model is necessarj tho^e klans if he does not approve in order to demonstrate the patent t< 0 f their selection of officers.

a certain manufacturer. Next maj i come a demand for $100 or maybe $1, ( ' 000, for a survey. The inventor h given to bnderstand that his patent U most promising, but that certain manufacturers are holding off, and tha| the advisable move Is to make a survey of factories using similar equip

ment. So it goes, as long as the in-

ventor will send any money.

Generally speaking, once the clien) - starts to spend money on the proposition he Is loath to back out without receiving some return from the deal But eventually the financial limit ii reached—It may be $50 or $5,000. Th« inventor grows Irate or alarmed. H< then receives a brief and formal letter stating that his invention hai proved to be of no commercial value The letter may even end curtly: “Please don’t bother us with any fur

ther correspondence.”

There are variations of this scheme, Somd*t>f the promoters demand, ant get, a preliminary fee which may b« as high as $100. One agency advertises itself as a “buyer of inventions for firms.” For $15 it would presen! an Invention to firms which would b« likely to buy it. The inventor Is politely Informed, in due tfme, however, that no firm had been interested in hi<

idea.

He may fix the term of offlce of all officers except the emperor and he may remove any and all officers of the order other than the fifteen imperial officers, whom he also ap-

points.

, He appoints the grand dragons of , the realms and can remove them -sat jwill. They, in turn, elect the imperial wizard and nothing in the invisible empire can prevent the wizard from dominating the election of his succes-

■or.

He Is a member of the legislative body and he has the power to veto its acts His veto can he overridden by a three-fourths veto of the bbdy. He is a member of the judiciary and advisory body and its judiciary decisions are only final when they are ratified by the imperial wizard. It is the duty of all officers of the order to obey him in all matters not specifically prescribed in the constitution and he may remove any and all of them except the imperial officers when, in his judgement, they fall him. As to Finance The imperial wizard has the sole

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