Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 March 1924 — Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1924.

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THEJUJNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

Why Klan To Bring

Fails About

Law Enforcement Organization of Horse Thief Detective Agencies Urged To Evade Responsibilities.

CAN

THESE BE HELD TOGETHER? (Indianapolis Commercial Dec. 4, 1923.)

i and ancient Indiana lav/, and the i fact remains that the members of these associations have repeatedly | been -aught violating the laws and j depriving citizens of rights guarani teed them under the Constitution of ^ the visible Government of the United States, ; How long does any one think th a t those citizens who joined the klan conscientiously, believing that it might bring about better governi merit, can be held together in the face of the misgovernment for which the klan is primarily! responsible in Indiana?

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city advertisements

MEMBERSHIP. For convenience in analyzing the membership of the Ku Klux Klan the fallowing, subdivisions have been arbitrarily accepted: 1. Those who aspired to become members of the titled gantry of the order and joined forces with the kleagles and officers. 2. Those who became klansmen in the belief that they could better promote their business inside than outside the order. 3. Those who joined the order through fear of boycotts or anxiety fbr their friendships and business patronage. 4. Those who hold, for personal reasons, an intense and unreasonable hatred of the groups of citizens who are not eligible to membership m the klan and hoped, under klan masks, to vent their hatred on them. 5. Those who believed the klan could and would have a good effect on Government and society. 6. Those who joined the order for the purpose and with the intention of developing it into personal political machine, either for themselves or their political associates.

Department Of Public Works OFFICE OF THE BOARD I 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and tcf the Pub I lie: *

That group of Indiana citizens who joined the Ku Klux Klan in the belief that it could and would exert a good influence on the government of the State and its utilities, can now realize the extent of their mistake, measuring it from the record of accomplishment.

Quantity. More peace officers and more constant vigilance have been required in practically every point in the State. The taxpayers’ bills for law enforcement have increased steadily. There has been no real effort on the part of the klan, either to bring about law enforcement or to

law ‘among its

When they have hunted in vain for j compel respect for

the results that were promised them ! own members,

when their “klectokons” were col- I Why the Failure? lected, they have only to examine in- j To those who are familiar with the to the complexities of the invisible I inner workings of the klan this is the government, to understand why it | logical expectation. Those who were has failed to exert any good influence j deceived into joining the invisible in the visible government. j empire because it was represented Review of its ^accomplishments in \ as a “law enforcement agency” must Marion County are sufficient to show j now awaken to these facts: that better government is not a re- j 1. The laws of the invisible emsult of invisible government. i pire recognize only murder, rape and In the Clerk’s Office ! treason as major offenses worthy of

In the last election, the klan, ac- j trial .

cording to its own boasts, elected the J 2. The invisible government refuses present County wherk. Since his ad- j to recognize the rights of non-mem-ministration began the cost of opera- ' bers of equal protection of the law

rriaterially in- as was shown recently v/heri the

tion of the office has

creased and all who deal with it realize that its efficiency has been materially impaired. The records show for themselves, a list of errors attributable only to inefficiency, in the curing of which perjury has been invited and false affidavits urged, in writing. More employes are now on the public payroll in the Clerk’s office than ever before in its history and discrimination in accordance with tne teachings of the invisible empire are so flagrant as to be accepted as a matter of course. There exists no cause for congratulating the county on a klan administration of one office it admits controlling. In the city administration, invisible government has been the cause of greater dissension than has existed in any other administration—a dis^ sen^ion that once caused the mayor publicly to proclaim the inefficiency of his police department and threaten the displacement of all members who listened to instructions from the in-

visible sources.

The debacle which has occurred in the State government, together with the klan claims of control of it, can

as was shown recently v/hen Evansville klan attempted to obtain

justice for an “alien.”

3. The citizen of the invisible empire takes an oath to protect a fellow citizen who confides a secret to him unless that ^secret pertains to mur-

der, or treason.

4. The invisible empire has itself admitted mob violence as one of its activities andi its defender have gloried in their law violations. No organization which, in itself, conspires to violate the law can be a proper agency for the enforcement of law. The invisible empire has been convicted time and time again of mob violence. Under the seal of the Georgia Corporation the Beaumont, Tex., charter issued a statement to the newspapers blasting of having tarred and feathered and beaten two men. In his defense of the klan in Oklahoma, State Senator Wash Hudson of Tulsa, said, in the Legislature: “The Ku Klux Klan cleaned up those leeches on society. * * * * I know of only one man who was flogged and diid not get what he deserved.” Sworn confessions' from members of the klan of participa'tien in unlaw-

Notice is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the Board of Public Works of the City of ! Muncie, in the State of Indiana, inj vites sealed proposals for the con- | struction, in said City, according to j the respective improvement resolu- ' tions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawing and specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, towit: I. R. No. 1124-1924, For a local sewer in Mulberry Street from Twen-ty-first Street to a point 160 feet south of Twenty-second street. I. R. No. 1125-1924, For a local sewer in Jefferson Street from Nineteenth Street to Twenty-first Street. I. R. No. 1126-1924, For a local sewer in Jefferson Street from Seventeenth Street to Eighteenth Street. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion in any way affecting said bid, according to the terms of Sec. 95, of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219). All such proposals should be sealed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock in the evening of the 25th day of March, 1924, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent (2% Per cent) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, /Jf the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in case a contract shall be awarded him on such aeompanying proposal. Said Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. By Order of the Board of Public

Works.

Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Publish on March 14-21-1924.

scribed public improvements, and 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 wlrch may have been filed, or which 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 abuttihg 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 the City Civil

Engineer.

BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertise on March 7-14th, 1924.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS Contract No. 39 Indiana State Highway Commission, Indianapolis, Indiana, February 4, 1924. Sealed proposals will be received at the office 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 Waterbound 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 3.03 miles to the west edge of Selma. Road 37, Section D, extending from the west corporation line of Muncie, in a westerly direction 0.8 mile. Road 11, Section E, extending from the south corporation line of Marion in a southerly direction, to the junction v/ith State Road 35, a distance

of 2.64 miles.

Road 35, Section C, extending from the east corporation line of Marion in an easterly direction 0.26 mile.

] Regulation of Labor Sanctioned by Court

| o _ — i • * « ^ Washington, March 13.—States may legally limit the hours of work of women in certain industries and prohibit their employment after cer{tajn hours at night, the supreme court declared Monday in a decision sustaining the constitutionality of a

New York labor law.

The case was brought by Joseph Radice, a restaurant keeper in Buffalo, who was convicted of having permitted a waitress to work after 10 o'clock at night in violation of the

act of 1917.

Pointing out that there was good reasons for believing that the New York legislature had correctly con- • eluded that the injurious consequen- ; ces of night employment were more i pronounced upon women than upon j men, the supreme court, in an opin- j ion delivered by Justice Sutherland, | held that the law under attack was i not an undue and arbitrary interfer- I ence with the liberty of contract between adults in the matter of employ-

ment.

IGNORE COOUOGE’S PLEA FOR TAX CUT House Will Not Pass Resolution Providing Relief Before Saturday.

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not lead to any other conclusion than ful assault and whitecappings have

that/ the klan is either unable or unwilling to bring about better govern-

ment.

In fact, there is only one evidence of the invisible government activity that might be construed in any way as beneficial, and in recent weeks that effort has reacted to the detriment of law enforcement. On Bootlegging In the matter of prosecuting bootleggers, foreign-born or of foreign extraction, detectives in the employ of klan kleagles have made some

been gathered by the dozen into the hands of those who investigated. More than two years ago the New York World listed and published 152 instances of transgression by groups of citizens of the invisible empire and in not one of these 152 instances did the “benevolent” society attempt to refute the accusations. Other Activities As a part of the “program” laid down for Indiana klansmen, the formation or the affiliation with horse thief detective associations is direct-

headway, but when they have under- j ed by imperial klansmen. The memtaken to prosecute persons capable , bers of these associations have reof employing legal counsel ,they have ; peatedly been in trouble, failed, and the result of their activ- j Yesterday, two representatives of ities has been the tightening of regu- ; this “law enforcement agency were

lations governing the use of the search warrant to a point where law enforcement agents are seriously handicapped. Indiana is declared to be the “stronghold of the invisible empire.” The “main purpose” of the klan is law enforcement, according to its imperial officers. Have the laws of Indiana been any better enforced during the last year, the year in which the klan has reached its zenith in Indiana? One has only to look ever the record to find the answer. Banditry prevails to the extent of the looting of a email city. Malfeasance in office has never before been uncovered in guch

bound over to the grand jury pending an investigation of the shooting at autoists and the haling of others into a justice court under conditions that were branded by Thomas Gar- | vin, attorney for the Hoosier Motor Club as “highway robbery.” Of course, the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., of Georgia, is not officially connected with these “horse thieves detective associations.” The imperial officers are careful to see that the order, as £fn order, is never betrayed in the

operations.

But the fact remains that the members of the Ku Klux Klan are officially instructed and encouraged to organize these associations under a lax

Department Of PuDiic works OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. NOTICE OF IMPROVEMENT RESOLUTION Notice to Property OwnersIn 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 with 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 to Alameda Avenue. I. R. No. 1129-1924, For a cement

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Washington, March 13.—President Coolidge made request of congress yesterday to adopt immediately a resolution making effective the 25 per cent reduction in personal income taxes payable this year, now carried in the revenue bill, but it met j with an unencouraging response. | This reaction was especially pronounced in the house, where such legislation would have to originate and where leaders Monday turned down an attempt to obtain such ac-

tion-

The President urged, through a message to congress that the pro-

Road 21, Section H-l, extending ; posed cut be made effective before from the north end of brick nortfi of | Saturday, when first installments on Portland, which is the junction of the taxes must be paid. State Road 23, in a northerly direc- j Chairman Green, of the house ways tion to the south end of brick south i and means committee, which would of Bryant, 3.09 miles. j first have to consider the proposed Total length: Bituminous Maca-j resolution, declared last night that m-S.SS-'.- -S’Jf •TrSmTx&VrR 6.78-j”“'at tiiis fate datb ii' ts' ^tfisblutely Im-

miles. jr.

Date set for completion, December

1, 1924. •

Bidder shall file b()nd 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 IJighway Commission, In-

i' possible to pass the 25 per cent rej duction in taxes, to be paid in 1924, as

| a separate measure-’’

SHERRIFFS OFFICE

(Continued from

dianapolis, Indiana, where same may j nin g' a gambling joint

be obtained upon the payment of $1 j & er -

Per set.

JOHN D. WILLIAMS. Director.

Mar. 6-13.

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CiTY ADVERTI3EIVI EN I Department Of Public works OFFICE OF THE BOARD 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind.

sidewalk on both sides of Beechwood Avenue from Reserve Street to AJa-

meda Avenue.

All work done in the making of said described public Improvements shall be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the improvement resolution, as numbered, adopted by the Board of Public Wouks 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, Indi-

ana.

The Board of Public Works has fixed the 25th day of March, 1924, as • a date upon which remonstrances

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments, have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following improvements, towit: — Declaratory Resolution No. 897-1922 For the vacation of a portion of the Boulevard extending from Main Street to Jackson Street on the East Bank of White River, in Muncie, In-

diana.

Declaratory Resolution No. 11121923, For the vacation of a strip of ground five (5) feet in width off of each side of Beechwood Avenue from ^ Reserve Street to Alameda Avenue, making said Beechwood Avenue a fifty foot street or avenue and notice is hereby given that on the 25th day of March, 1924, the J Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefited by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person or by representative, and be heard, 7:30 o’clock P. M. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertised on March 7-14th, 1924.

o— Great Uplifter.

For God’s sake, love somebedy, something, some Ideal, anything bosfrie* se»f. Lore is the npllfter.—Forbes

Mscuslne-

There is a pretty story going round that sheriff, the law enforcer, attended a party at Dutch Rosenfield’s just before the election along with other republican candidates and that the liquor flowed freely. And at the time Dutch Was being prosecuted on liquor charges and cases pending. The sheriff just couldn’t stand to see the slot machines running but he was willing to attend a booze party and help protect Dutch. We wonder why he didn’t file uuaffidavit against Dutch when he was present at the party and, by so doing, made a bid for the blind tiger vote. It will be a long time before Anderson is cleaned up with that kind or

actions.

Maybe some of the organizations that passed resolutions about gambling would think themselves buncoed if they knew about Dutch. Dutch is gone but there are some eye witnesses living who are just aching to tell about it. And, when the Norton Brewery was raided and the beer stored at the jail, many persons drank it, carried it away and swam in it. Stack that up against the gambling and see what you think of it. We are against both gambling and blind tigers but Anderson had better change horses if it really wants relief. ^ vHow do they live and no* ivork? Another fellow that hangs around the sheriff’s office from opening to closing time is Dewey Meeker. He does no work that any one can tell us about unless h e has his mouth against some leak in the Kluxers. He is a late comer to Anderson fc but he is the one selected to be bailiff of the circuit court. We mean by that, he is selected by the Kluxers but that doesn’t mean he has been selected by

the Court.

If he got to be bailiff you couldn’t get on the jury unless you had your dues paid up and had been O. K.’d by John Williams. We wonder why they don’t let the courts alone? You never hear of any other organization, lodge or church trying to put their emblems j on the court house or Controlling courts and juries. Find an admitted Kluxer and then go home and see if

you want him for a leader.

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THE VOICE OF A REAL MAN. March 5, 1924. 355 Farmers Trust Bldg. Anderson, Ind. Mr. George R. Dale, Muncie, Ind. My Dear Sir: Let me inform you that, you have exactly the same right to print George Washington’s name as a traitor to his country, Abraham Lincoln, as a slave trader and secessionist, as to print my name for a Ku Klux Klanmsan. I have contended from the first that, America was the last place on earth for such an organization. Judge Anderson says, “There is no place in America for it” and Idieartily agree with him. I do not wish to condemn my fellow countrymen, who are doubtless, with few exceptions, as sincere and loyal in their intentions as I am but, I do condemn the spirit with Which they have been victimized. A vicious traitorous mercenary disposition on the part of a few to commercialize the gullibility of the many, under the guise of “Americanism.” To my mind it is decidedly un-American, unconstitutional and demoralizing. Let us retain the motto, “United we stand,” rather than “How different we are.” Where men of different race, religious creed and, nationality enroll • under a common banner mingle their life’s blood upon the field of battle in defense of a common couse, can you say justly that it belongs to one more than another, that it is less dear to one than the other? There is in our midst, alien enemies who seek to destroy us, because they do not understand. But, worst of all are those in exalted positions in business and governmental affairs who, through carelessness or moral and religious degeneracy betray the confidence of the people. Can the true American be judged by the standards of race, creed or nationality? Kindly print this Mr. Dale. I want your informant to know there is one type of an American who doesn’t require the cowardly protection of a night shirt and a pillow case when he speaks or acts in defense of American ideals.

Sincerely,

T. F. LEWIS.

LAUGHING OVEk THE SPOILS. (By the Truth Teller.)

There’s one born every minute, Old P. T. Barnum said; Some wise guys down in Georgia, Got this meaning thru their head; And started an organization, Called the Ku Klux Klan; Went fishing after suckers, Who walk in the shape of man.

They talked of patriotism, And of pure womanhood; Used a lot of sucker bait, That no sucker understood. They caught them by the thousands, With their religious bait; Relieved them of ten dollars, And filled their minds with hate. They dressed them in a shimmy, Put a fool’s cap on their head; Then for this ghostly ward-robe, For another ten they’re bled. But suckers still kept coming, And handing in their ten; ’Till the wise guys from Georgia, Are rated as rich men. These wise guys down in Georgia, Lived well on sucker stew; The bank account they started, Just grew, and grew and grew; They picked the little sucker’s bones, Along with those of adult size; They picked the female suckers, too, And filled them full of lies. Then there came a squabble, Over the sucker stew; Which was being divided, Between a mighty few; Of the wise guys from Georgia, Who after suckers ran; Picking the bones of millions, With the bait of the Ku Klux Klan. Well, goodbye you poor suckers, Who joined the Ku Klux Klan; Handed in your ten spot, And forgot you were a man. We are laughing down in Georgia, Over our mighty gains; We picked out of you suckers, Who had ten and no brains.