Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 27 June 1924 — Page 3

FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1924.

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

KU RLUX KLAN (ContiQued from Page One)

industriously advertised in Knox, Licking and Muskingum counties, only 1600 shimmed suckers turned

i out in the pdrade. Preparations had

any of their public obligations, either been made to care for 5,000, so the civil or military. He declared that local loonies had to' use up the surCatholics, Jews-, negroes and persons Plus grub. Some of the boobs ate hot of foreign birth, who are loyal to the dogs to such an extent, last week,

principles of American government that they are still barking, and who serve their country faith-j Newark Fell Down

fully in peace and war are 100 per i Newark fell down badly. They had cent American, and that those who' chartered four cars, but were able to dissent from this view are not. ; hH but two and a half. But they had

Mr. Harris said that he could not ^ to pay for four. That’s all right, too.

agree with the spirit that called on | The O. E. owned by Jews and man-

Catholics,^ Jews, negroes and persons j ed Kluckers, needs the money,

of foreign birth in wartime and thenjKuties Kouldn’t Kome Across With

insinuated that they are not good | The Rent

Americans in peace tisidi - ^ Ku Klux h r adduarters have been

‘•Where were thoao lidasted 100 J moved from Main Street to Fifth

per cent Americans in the late war?” j Street. The landlord got tired of inquired the speaker. “Did they | waiting for his rent, so the Lousy come forward then as an organiza* i Looters decided it was cheaper to tion to the support of the govern-; move than pay rent. They claim their ment? We know where Woodrow, new 2x4 quarters are more commodWilson stood, we know where Theo-! ious. Perhaps that is because the dore Roosevelt stood, we know where, membership is dwindling so rapidly the American Catholics, Jews and that they will soon have plenty of negroes stood, but where did these J room in a rat hole, which certainly self- styled 100 per cent Americans j would be an ideal meeting place for

stand. them. “They are many honest members of the Ku Klux Klan,” the speaker continued, “but I will say to them that they are misled. If there are i any of the organization leaders here, | I will say to them that they are dis-I

honest.”

Mr. Harris read the provision of

the Indiana constitution which guar* funy Automobile Sales Company, at antees to all citizens the right to 401 Union street, Union Hill, N. J., worship as they please, and deplored was driven to bankruptcy by his acany disposition to criticize any citi- tivitieg in the Ku Klux Kl&n> he sa id

last Thursday. Rose, who was formerly Klea-gle of the Klan in Hudson county, filed a petition in bank-

The i 0ll °T? S I r ° gram „ WaS giVen ,ruptcy at Newark yesterday.

“The Ku Klux Klan completo’y ruined my business,” declared Ross today. “After my affiliation with the Klan became known the Cathblics and Jewish students deserted in droves, and I am bankrupt today as a result. Three years ago my school had enrolled 120 students, and .when assembly; “History of the Flag,” P.

COLUMBUS ALSO HAS ITS USUAL BRAIN STORM

Bankrupt Ex-Kleagle Lays Failure To Klan Herman E. Ross, owner of th«^ Tiffany Auto School and of the Tif-

Columbus, Ohio, June 27.—The South High School came to the front on graduation day. Several colored youths were in the graduating class and the band hired for the occasion refused to play if the colored .graduates were not made a separate class. We’d like to hear that band play “The Gang’s All Here.” Where was that band when Barnum was hunting freaks?

( ed the 8th day of July, 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 which may have been presented; said Board fixes said date as a date for the modification confirmation, rescinding, or

postponement of action on

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CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

Department of Public Works Office Of The Board 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. Notice To Contractors And To The

Public:

Notipe is hereby given, to the public and to all contractors, that the ^

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS

zen for exercising this right. He said that he is a Mason and a Prot-

estant.

at the Flag Day observance

‘Star Spangled Banner,” band; introductory services, Dr E. P. Buckley, exalted ruler, and officers of the Elks; prayer, the Rev. John T. Scull, World War chaplain and pastor of Wall Street Methodist church; song, “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,”

I closed the doors Saturday the

A. Northam; altar service, es,ulre! number couM be countea on , cn fln _

and officers; song, “Auld Lan £‘gers.—Tablet.

Syne,” assembly; Elks’ tribute to the! flag, James Sweeney, past exalted ruler; Southern airs, band; salute to the flag, American Legion, with color guard and firing squad.—Louisville

Herald.

DIZZY DAISY (Continued From Page One) the grand jury in Licking county for embezzlement of the funds of the order in Newark, organized the Queen^ of the Golden Mask in Zanesville. She was sent here by Dizzy Dazy Barr of Indianapolis. The fact that Shinn had her finger in the pie is additional evidence that there are no assets left where the Queens can get them. 184 Zanesville Zealots There were exactly 184 members of .the Kockeyed Knights of Zanesville in the widely advertised parade here

Hoosier County Agents Greeted By Coolidge

Department Of Public Works Office of The Board 212 Wysor Block, Muncie, Ind. * Notice of Improvement Resolution Notice To Property Owners: In the mater 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, Indiana, as authorized by the following numbered improvement resolutions, adopted by said Board, on the 17th day of June, 1924, to^wit: I. R. No. 1164-1924, For paving the alley between University Avenue and North Street from Pauline Avenue to Reserve Street. I, R. No. 1165-1924, For local sewer on the east side of Macedonia Avenue from Eighth Street to Sixth Street. I. R. No. 1166-1924. 'For Vocal sewer in Brady Street from Willard Street to the alley between First Street and Second Street. 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 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 fix-

j Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, in-

vites sealed proposals for the consaid re i struction, in said City, according to

monstrances; and on said date will! the respective improvement resolu-

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 the i City Civil Engineer. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS By Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. o NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, will, on Saturday the 19th day of July, 1924, at the hour of 10:00 o’clock A. M. in the commissioners room at the Court House in the City of Muncie, Indiana, receive sealed pro posals or bids for the following supplies to-wit: One (1) four or five ton truck with hoist and dump and three quarter or similar closed cab, delivered at Muncie .Indiana. 20,000 gallons, more or less, of tar for use in maintenance and repair of county highways, delivered at Muncie, Indiana, one-half for immediate delivery and balance delivered on order of County Highway Superintendent of Delaware County, Ind. Bidders should submit with their bids drawings or plans and specifications of the truck offered. Bidders are required to accompany bid with certified check for five per cent (5 per cent) of the amount of their bid as guarantee of faithful performance of the contract should their bid be accepted. The board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. Hone tbis 25th day of June, 1924. JAMES P. DRAGOO An flit or Delaware County, Indiana. June 27—July 4.

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, to-wit: I. R. No. 1102-1923, For grading of West Sixth Street from Port Avenue to Rochester Avenue. Each bidder is also to file with the Board an affidavit that there has beer 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 sea! ed, and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’clock' in the evening of the 1st day of July, 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 1-2 per cent) of City Civil Engineer’s estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if 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 accompanying 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 June 20-27-1924.

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Washington, June 26.—A visit "to the office of President Coolidge, where each man was introduced to the President of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, was the big event on the program yesterday for the Indiana county agricultural agents her© for a few days to study the work of the

department of agriculture.

The agents were received at the White House at 12:30 o’clock and later were taken about the White House grounds. ( The program included a short vis-

it to the Arlington experimental ,, . . » • .« farms and a sight-seeing tour about thanking the Catholics of America for

GEO. WASHINGTON OUT OF DATE, KLAN SPEAKER INSISTS IN DEBATE AT COLORADO UNIVERSITY

(Denver Catholic Register)

“George Washington lived many years ago, and things have changed,” This is the Ku Klux answer to the Fmher of Our Country’s . letter to Bishop Carroll of Baltimore,

the city. Senator James E. Watson obtained Hynes E. Terry, former Mount Vernon man, now an official guide, to pilot the agents to points

on June 14. Although the affair was of interest.

FRIZZLE AT NORTH VERNON

the part they had taken in the Revolution, hoping that justice and liberality would ever prevail in this nation and expressing the desire that Americans would never forget what they owed to Catholics and to the ; aid of a Catholic nation in winning

I ' the their liberty.

The amazing repudiation of Wash^^,1 | ington was made Tuesday night beevening fore a large audience in the Macky

The original joke of the season; About 7 o’clock in the

was pulled off at North Vernon, Ind., j crowds began pouring in. They were auditorium at the University of Col-

‘ mostly farmers and * , pightseers’“ L - orado, Boulder, when the Liberal

one i come to town to see the parade, and club of the university, an organi-

| fireworks. Such a motley crowd was zation under the direction of the j reefed in this fashion, following

June 14th, by the Ku Klux Klan. It was to be a state meeting of the largest—50,000 people were ex

peoted.

One hundred thousand buns were

ordered.

Nine hundred dollars worth of

meat.

Five hundred cases of pop and numerous other eatables. The weather man was even in their

admitted that the K. K. K. intended to keep up its fight on Catholic education, saying that if all denominations did what the Catholics do for their children, it would mean the end of the public school system. He said that the Roman church stood united, while Protestantism was “di-

vided, helpless, torn and rent by

,’sects.” The Klan, he maintained, | ing, but to fundamental truth, was uniting Protestantism. Protest- j which the flag really stands.

ifics and knew many Catholics- But he had found them just as hard to put into any single mold of thinking, outside of their religious faith, as any Americans are. He agreed with Oeschger that Americans who had left the church ought to come back, to the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man; not to flag wav-

for Our

ants have just as much right to or- ! nation is not yet so far gone that it ganize societies of Protestants as j must be saved by a bunch of bed anybody else, he wept—as if anybody i sheets A nation filled with schools denied it! At the end, Oeschger in-j and such universities as that of Colfringed on George M. Cohan’s copy- | orado needs no becloaked guards, right by valiantly waving the flag—j If the purpose of the Klan are good, but it simply would not come out ; why segregate? Why hide its mem-

of his pocket gracefully. ‘ hers?

The time of the speakers was di-j Oeschager had said that the Klan

the dons its regalia on four occasions

never before witnessed. I am safe professor of economics, presented! regular rules of the forum: Oes- only, when it attends a funeral, prein saying that more than one-half of the Rev William Oeschger, pastor of chager spoke thirty minutes, Gins- sents a public gift, meets in the klavthe celebrated order looked as if of the Highlands Christian church , berg then spoke thirty minutes with ern or goes out on parade Ginsberg

they never owned $10 all at the same Denver, and reputed treasurer of the time. As I personally watched the local K. K. K-, speaking for the Klan, parade I saw many people whom I and Chas. Ginsberg, prominent Jewknew, that were nothing more than 'isb attorney of Denver, speaking just crooks and roughnecks, I who against it. Mr. Ginsberg, who was wouldn’t pay an honest debt. accompanied to Boulder by Julius The parade actually counted by Aichele and John T. Maley, both

Son Of Klan Snoop At Hartford City Caught by his Dad Claude Hobson, Republiklan Candidate for Kounty Clerk, Makes Unpleasant Dis-covery-Booze In the Bushes and

Suddenly Changed Plans.

fort m£d° h< T la4 “ ...... ^ Dm and to their horror, discovered, it sensation involving two of her most is said, that the offender turned out ardent kiansmen, Klaud Hobson, klux- to be a sm of the commander of the republican candidate for county clerk expedition, Claude Hobson, and Frank Messner, Klux Judge Vic It’s a fine thing to be a klansman Simmons’ democratic probation of- if you don't weaken, but in this parficer. ( ticular instance, all the joy was taken

The story goes that Hobson, who out of the adventure,

carries the plate at the Methodist The young man, it is related, had church and shakes a dirty nighty at not been prosecuted. The liquor laws all the klan snake dances, occupied are not made for klansmen’s sons, the center of the stage in a recent The young man told his captors that liquor raid which did not turn out he had procured the liquor of Fred exactly the way they expected. ! Foreman of Eaton and the latter wa» Hobson, being a klansman, and arrested through the combined work therefore righteous beyond compare, 0 f Blackford and Delaware county,

v.as greatly exercised recently when klux sleuths.

told by a klan brother that a man had i The youth who was captured, rdd been seen hiding some liquor at night handed, so to speak, with the goods in the shrubbery in the paper mill 0 n him, was released and not proseI )arK - 1 cuted, hence the snickering referred

Hobson is reported to have enlisted t 0 above,

the aid of Messner and a deputy Blackford county citizens of all sheriff and the trio are said to have parties are getting ready to put th® hidden near the cached booze in order hypocritical klan and its ridiculous to catch the depraved outlaw who had candidates out of business in the complantod it there. j n g election. It has been just on® The three sleuths lay in wait for brain storm after another since th® several hours and finally a dark form klan took possession here and th« was seen to get the liquor and start people, acting as an insanity commiaaway* with it. The keepers of the sion, have the strait jacket all ready.

tempt of court for refusing to give porary presentation of the white on®i testimony because it conflicted with was indicated of the outcome of the his Klan oath. debate. Ginsberg spoke of the Unknown; Oeschger, in his final summing up; soldier. His and the other men’s admitted that robes were worn f<Mt faRh was not asked a few years ago the purpose of instilling fear into when they were called to fight. Why' others. now? He said of the Klan: These! Both men received a great deal Of fellows think that we take them' applause The Klan had about 150 seriously. But we don’t” If they members there, having purchased stand for a nation with liberty, with tickets en bloc to pack the meeting, religious freedom, so do we. If they But Ginsberg received a gigantic oraqualify these things, they no longer tion at the end of his speech, showstand for the principles on which ing that the majority of the audienc® America was founded. . As Ginsberg clearly favored his side, was fininshing, he said that he would j Oeschger’s church was visited bj! wave a flag if he had one along. ' some hooded men who presented him Oeschger kindly took his out, but in with $56(FTast^ Sunday evening. Tha handing it discovered that he was minister could Chic Sale the next handing Ginsberg a white handker- time he comes to the Orpheum. H® chief instead. A few minutes’ search can sue him for imitating him as ail revealed the real flag- But the tem- orator, if his style is copyrighted. (

(fifteen extra* £or rebuttal, and admitted this It wears its regalia Oeschger finished with fifteen min- four times only—every time its memutes, summing up. hers meet or might be discovered Ginsberg said that all Americans The real purpose of the Klan is were agreed as to law enforcement; to build up a political machine for as to fear of God and as to respect men who vote its members as a for the flag. Patriotism is an ac- body and by hypocrisy secure the

’avor It was a beautiful day but

they just would not turn out. ! four of us numbered 700 to 710. Of prominent Democratic leaders, gave cepted virtue. There is no debate votes of others whom they pat on the

The writer thinks that the crowd | course in our small town with the a masterly address. ) about it. Have our institutions so back in public and stab in secret,

would easily be counted at 900 or! streets crowded and the cars strung The Rev. Mr. Oeschger, while he. failed that a secret, self-constituted This country was founded by men

out it looked to be much more but it attacked George Washington’s stand, organization, whose members are frbm lands where equality and religwas not- ( did not g° into Abraham Lincoln's unknown, had to be formed to up- ious liberty did not prevail. They There was not a bit of trouble any- assertion that if the Know Nothings hold them? Has the Protestant instituted a nation where these rights where. I think the Kiansmen had won their poitn of taking away the church so failed that its regularly would be secure. The Klan now all the fight taken out of them. Their liberties of Catholics and foreigners constittued authorities can no longer asks us to repudiate them Who are party certainly was not a success, he would move to some land where keep it up, and it must have the as- the men that ask us? We don’t j It is rumored that an assessment despotism was not covered by the sistance of persons who hide their know. They hide themselves and 'of $10 will be placed on each mem- cloak of hypocrisy, Ginsberg had identity to -do this? He denied such will not tell us. They are other se- | her in the county to help defray the used both these quotations with the j a state of affairs. j cret societies in America. We admit

1,000 people during the entire dfijfc Can you imagine so much foood

for 1,000 hungry Kiansmen?

A special train from Anderson and Muncie brought a mob of FORTYNINE which included the band. They had guaranteed 300 tickets from these places. Another neat little

loss to the noble order.

As a little advertisement Ku Klux dummies were stationed on all street corners to direct traffic. They were unnecessary ornaments, because

there wasn’t any traffic.

The night before some miscreant scattered carpet tacks in front of the fair grounds which really made it i tell very unpleasant for everybody Of course the Catholics were blamed for this A $100 reward was posted for the capture of the person. The bills were ’out even before the tacks

were discovered.

After a short time the road was scraped and things went on

smoothly.

There weren’t as many people in town during the day as on an ordi-

nary Saturday.

a state of affairs.

losses, but we don’t know how true most telling effect. j The K.. K. K. has had a lawlesd the right of men to organize for good this is. The gist of the Oeschger address j course. We must refer to its his-! purposes. But the others are not i There were numerous other expen- was that the Klan was necessary to tory for information about it. With!ashamed of themselves. They admit,] ^y ve entertainments such as aer^- enforce the eighteenth amendment. |,violence, it has attempt to supplant on their coat lapels, they ^re mem-j

planes with red lights in the form of He claimed that it had closed red, the arm of the law. Its history is, hers

a cross. AH thees things cost them light districts in some southern cit- i resplendent with violence, blood and plenty of money, and only time will ies and that the gates of immigra- j friction. We are told that it exists

how sick our little Jennings tion had been shut through its ef-,to save us. To save us from what?

county Koo Koos were and are. forts. He frankly admitted that it He denied that the American repub-

I wish that I were a writer so that wished to compel every child to at- lie had failed

I could more easily show you how* tend the public schools, but while! Oeschger had said that his two very unsuccessful it all was. he was vehement in his protests that sons were missionaries in China I get great pleasure out of your the Klan stood for constitutionalism, Why send them to the Orient to

paper and want to congratulate you, he did not go into the question of spread the religion of love if their,’for handling law breakers and assure on your fearless stand. Hoping to its having been found guilty by a father was spreading hate here at!justice. But if they are supplanted, more see this or at least part of this story federal district court in Oregon sev- home? 1 orderly government is gone. Ginsin print and wishing you lots of sue- eral weeks ago of attacking the U. The Catholic church has existed j berg reminded Oeschger that the first cess in your difficult task, I am, S Constitution in its efforts to de- many years in America Can any one j time the Klan was ever heard of in a Respectfully yours, stroy liberty of education and the point to a single overt act on its - public way (here was when Judge

“AN OBSERVER.” rights of parenthood. He brazenly part? He said that he was in pol-'Butler found a Klansman in con-»

, i !

So far as red light districts are concerned, the Klan is not necessary to handle them. Denver closed its years before the Klan was organized. As for the eighteenth amendment, Colorado had a law of this nature long before the Klan came into being here- The courts are available

ONE LANGUAGE AND FREE SPEECH. The Junior Order of United American Mechanics paraded the streets of Muncie Saturdaynight. In order that there should be no misapprehenson on the part of Muncie citizens as to the nature of this organization it should be borne in mind that some of its objects and purposes are practically synonymous with those of the Ku Klux Klan. The two organizations have worked hand in hand and the membership is largely identical. The Junior Order bases its right to existence on its opposition to the Catholic church, but the order takes it all out in talk and does not attempt rough stuff and has not attempted to take over the government. Members of this elder brother of the klan carried illustrated banners in the parade which were similar to those usually carried by masked kluxers in the street demonstrations here. Disinterested observers who tried to reconcile the varied sentiments expressed'by the banners went Tome badly confused. One banner, for instance, shrieked out a demand for “One Language,” and the very next one borne in the parade declared for “Free Speech.” If speech is to be free when the Junior Order and the Ku Kluxers take possession of the state Louse and the little red school house, how can it be accomplished if the “one language” part of the program is carried out? One of the great privileges of education is the opportunity to acquire a mastery of foreign languages. The text books of schools, colleges, clergy, the bar and the medical profession would"have to be revised if these extremists had their way about it and American travelers in foreign lands would be forced to the necessity of making signs in order to make their wants known to the hated foreigners. What, in the name of God, do organized bodies of men and women mean by swashbuckling up and down the highways and byways bleating about their “Americanism” and abusing all others who refuse to # participate in their ridiculous assumption of superior citizenship ? . When one sees an uneducated lout slouching along the street carrying a sign demanding free schools, you can bank on it that the fellow would be some place else, attending to his own business, if he had had proper schooling himself, and had taken ad-v-nt^ue of the opportunity to acquire an education which is afforded every youth of the land. Gross, dense, blind, all pervading ignorance is the father of all such nonsense.