Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 August 1924 — Page 2
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1924.
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
| sensible and patriotic answer to Coolidg'e’s military ges- ca ”- u is anarchistic and a menace. I to as much as one vote. cover the second degree work, which I 1 ture emanates from the home guards and from profes Such is the Ku Klux Klan - But 11 is And if ‘'Tolerance'’ is right, look.I hope can he arranged for Newark on A Democratic weekly newspaper .representing.the Dem-^ sional army officers who bclongjo the blood letting union “ 4 ^ ^ tile pel p6tlllty Ol their JODS. Hare we would like to add some of Indianapolis, treasurer of the • will be invited to take this worw. It The boys who did the real lighting, and who were re- thoughts which Dr. Lynn Harold democratic state committee. Toler-; is the desire to make this very specquited for their heroism by the Coolidge veto of the bonus H ° u s h . pastor of Central M. E. church ance published Elder's picture, with : tacular, and I know that from the
mocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the
Eighth Congressional District. The
~plv Democratic Newspaper
in Delaware €o.
Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March
3.1879.
bill, have had enough rf war. They are tired of the ful-
of Detroit and former presideat of scare heads ‘neverything, some time
“ m^nSSte^s So? S rrr'— p ~ h "f
to give Something they didn t have until it hurt.” “All intelligent Europeons are face ter having tried, if our information The poor gave the money and the blood. The politi- to face wit ^ the conviction that west- is correct, to get in as a dollar a
Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a year. 1 cians and the profiteers stayed at home and made money cvn civilization ma y be as definitely year man. his father is a millionkss! =3= r::::: --
\ ice presidential candidate. The boys who did the fight- spots and centers of desolation and
Office 733 North Elm Street.
GEO. R. DALE. Owner and Publisher.
Muncie, Indiana, August 8, 1924. BOARD OF SAFETY ACTS.
The board of safety Tuesday night fired Detective Ervin Berg for beating up a negro employe of Bob Graves, proprietor of a notorious gambling house and
The Montgomery twins, husband
destruction j have broken out like open and wifei who run the only five hun _ sores all over the world. Religious dre d percent restaurant in Andertoleration is the only hope ot our son, having moved five times in the civilization, he said, and he bitterly p ast year or so, I call them twins,
plans now made that you will be pleased with these plans. "With kindest personal regards to your husband, I am "Very truly yours,
"F. G. T."
GENESIS OF THE KLAN AS TOLD BY A FARMER
Old Farmer Corntassel, of Mupskingum township, was taken to task by a klucker neighbor, who accused him of intolerance respecting the klan. "Well,” said the old man, “I’ll tell, you about that. I don’t believe 1 am
ing applaud him.
The politicians who are now trying to make political capital out of Governor Bryan’t statement had better look
before they leap too fan d , rnced the k„ k>„* Kian.
TOO TJTP A W T ir'TJ'T' nrruorr Mhen there was fighting to oe r } ed folks, because they seemed to perhead snake, I am at once filled rri * 1 1 m UK WORK. done in war there was room for every- be trained, and have the actions, of with a holy desire to do it bodily
- i. - * , . , v - r- . llie b0arcl 0± safety Tuesday night decided that Cap- body - but when the war was won we the engineer referred to above harm. If I can’t do that, I cuss it out. booze dispensary which has enj y p ■ ( tain of Police Ira Coons was too heavy for the light work organ ’ zed tbe Ku K i ,ix the most j am going to attend kian meetings is that intolerance? present city and county administration tor tne past two j around police station and reduced him to the rank nf Dn diabolical organization ever created, more regularly hereafter and wheth- ‘‘Then, if I meet a skunk, I try to
onrl O hol-F , —T 1-. • 11 1 1 • , » ^ I thought we had got away from those
although they are sure enough mar- intolerant. But when I meet a cop-
tfolman, where he will be deprived of the onerous duties
ARTHUR NEEDS OUTDOOR EXERCISE. . Sin 06 becoming captain of Police Arthur Jones has
entirely outgrown his six-dollar nighty and his pillow case klux parade helmet has become entirely too tight. Jones
should have been fired from the force over a vear ap-o hp nlanforl LIo uvc - [ ** y b «f dgO, iig ious sect has
marph nf^Pp Pliiv e a P^ a n^ ne car ^ a ® e 0n ^ ine of evil.”—The Christian Conservator.
march of the klux parade of June 2, 1923, and protected
out-of-town klan sluggers who assaulted citizen^ of Muncie, in his presence, telling one man, who was assaulted beceusb he would not take off his hat to the Queens of the Golden Mask that he ought to have done as ordered refusing to arrest the stranger who made the attack.
CHURCH CANNOT APPROVE OF KLAN ORGANIZATION
Brethren are flirting with the klan. I What shall be said of a minister who allows a lot of persons he does not know to come into his church during I a public service, hooded and masked, oome forward to his altar, bow in the ! ( attitude of prayer, and leave a sum of money in his hands? In such a case
ious Teachings.
years and a half. - The negro who was struck by Berg testified that Chief/Benbow participated in a. conference with Graves, Berg and himself and that Graves and Berg besought him to testify at the hearing that it was partially “his fault.” Possibly the board of safety had reason to discharge, Berg, but it is apparent that the matter deserves a thorough investigation. The fact that the notorious Bob Grttves took a hand in the deal and sought to officiate in a police squabble ought to make the Board of Safety sit
up and take notice.
Graves but recently participated in a drunken shooting scrape in Franklin Hall. He and his gang of protected outlaws crashed into the dance and opened fire with automatics. One man was killed instantly and others were wounded. The Ku Klux grand jury, presided over by a Ku Klux prosecutor could not decide which particular bullet from the basket full, more or less, that were fired by Graves and his party killed the victim, so no homicide in-
dictment was returned.
Graves was kept in jail a few days, where he was given special quarters and special attention by Sheriff Hoffman, and was then released under a light bond. Although Graves is colored and the police and sheriff are kluxers, Graves has had things his own way here. Those ,who urged the dismissal of Berg from the police forc<? are to be members of the Billy Williams klux-Republi-cap machine,^ of which the colored man Graves is an im-
portant political cog.
It i$ true that Berg is entirely too handy with his club and it is probably just as well that he is relieved from further duty. . There may be some justification in his contention that his numerous affrays were not of his seeking, but the fact remains that several men were rather badly
hurt by the ex^officer.
u The Post-Democrat believes, however, that the board of safety made a mistake in removing him so perfunctorily. Every man is entitled to a full defense and from the fact that the klux-republican machine was demanding his removal, suggests the idea that Berg’s withdrawal from the klan might have had something to do with the
charges against the officer.
i The evidence of the colored man who was beaten, that Bob Graves had tried to “fix” the evidence in a police trial should have been given more consideration by the board and should be made the subject of a special and thorough investigation, for the purpose of discovering the seat of the official conspiracy to protect Graves in his numerous
law breaking ventures.
It is a known fact that Graves is a close political ally of the klux prosecutor, and sheriff, and that political booze parties, attended by these officials, were held in his
gambling joint on a number of occasions.
All efforts to convict Graves in the courts have been unavailing, although evidence of an unimpeachable char-
acter could have been easily secured.
It is known to the police and- other peace officers that Graves opened up a new joint in the “redlight” several days, ago and the board of safety should respond to the
public demand for a show down.
The kluxer administration boasts that it has cleaned out the bootleggers and the gamblers. In one respect it
has made good in that fine: It has cleaned out practically enuren n-om uie very oegmmng ex-i- - all Ot the opposition to klan law violators, giving the lat- eluded secret society members, from i what com P° ses the clan or mob. Read Tnv* o tv-1 /-vtn/-vLt /-.v, .L• i . the klan artirlpc in UToarot’c
it is treason or not, am going t® put the width of the township be-
nf follinrr fVwv /vLln-P J V prejudices during the war. tell the readers of the Post-Democrat tween us, because I know that evenavJnf R fl T iet W , ., t0 and directing the machm- “I know that on Flanders field one many things they would like to hear, if I do lick him, I will carry the scars ery OI isrotner Lance S City court. By the way Night Cap- day a Catholic youth lay dying from I have been making a scientific stu- of battle for a long time. Is that intaln Arthur Jones has been taking On Considerable Weight. llis wounds - A rabbi, knowing the dy of the mental acrobatics of the tolerance?
boy would rest better, formed a cross Anderson klan, and find that many “Now, one day Mr. Copperhead met from two twigs and a protestant held of the members are almost as happy Miss Skunk just after she had had the cross before the boy’s eyes. , as jf they were in their right minds, an argument with some one. He was \ et after that, the Ku Klux Klan | 0 , completed overcome with her charms
has swept tlie country, I have been a minister 26 years, long enough to outlive the idea that apy race or re-
KAMELIA KITTIES
a corner on good or j
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have the constitution adopted and a vote be had electing a board of trus-
. of face, figure and fragrance, and, folllowing his usual procedure, proposed .marriage without a moment’s hesita-
ition or warning.
j “As Miss Skunk was nearing the jsane and yellow period of life, she coy-
Womcn in Prison jtees, or the officers be empowered to ly consented, and they were married T * F make a contract with the Kleagle, for by the Rev. Peewee Wrong. ^ ** SCape p aymen t 0 f t}j e commission; and | “la the course of time, the couple . . en °*’ '? n U . Ct n * a penitentiary the same way relating to everything. wa s cursed with one child, and they without guards whence no prisoner has I ,. T . .... B ... .. ., _ TT J ever escaped, Is the record claimed for ' “ We Can perfect thls organization named him Ku Klux Klan. He was a the Wierner-Neudorf prison near Vien-; and build up a membership this sum-1lusty infant, but as he inherited all: na^wltere more than 800 women are| mer ' and kee P these women satisfied, | the bad instincts of his father and serving terms of from one year to life. | and keep them believing in the or-j none the virtues of his mother, the The honor system is employed, the j ganization we have done quite a great | comrauni ty in course of time, made the
penitentiary being in charge of shout forty sitters ef charity under leadership of a supervising director who does
not even live on the grounds. The women do all their own work,
attending the heating apparatus, laundry, gardens, bakery, kltehen. and look
deal for the organization. / neighborhood so unhealthy for him, “You, no doubt, received Bulletin: that he is seldom seen without a diB*
Nc. 1. I would have acu put this iu|s uis « ef sum* kind."
the hands tf year women that are' “What you moan about a skunk hav-
right. and n E k them pass them along : in £ virtues?”
so that they can be read, and when* “°b y es > they have virtues, after
SeCretSocietyOf This Kind ttereVamp^reroTmd tor lisclDltoarT *"«■ * fc * wkl'-hj J ,' ra !W *- «• «* women; certain surgleal operations, the skunk
= Antagonistic To Relig- we wou ld lmse J «“
inquiry
for action—charges preferred or # 0 me-1 The prison has heceme almost self, jbod) brought up standing to t&b bar j supporting, and Is known as the model of his conference. We may he too f penitentiary of all Europe. The Ku Klux Klan. much of a back number to appreciate Now and again we are asked wbatj^ g00d things ° f ^ wonderful a S e ’ is our opinion and that of the church W /, 1 PerSbna y beg to be excus 3L 0 the Ku Klux Klan. We have given the klan-the prod(ffir view of the order several times, act carpe t ^ers of the Civil War.
and not long ago stated editorially, ^ meet the Libera! ^ ^ j n j t j an headquarters. We have the that the Church would not approve preacher w bo could take charge of our i _____ „ _ _
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MUNOE STAR . (Continued From Page 1.)
crat by unfair competition was hatch-
direct word of a klansman for this, a man who held a high office in the local klan and who was threatened with “banishment” for refusing to contribute mon y to keep the’thing
going.
Tl.e i cSv-DGmocrat doesn’t care a tinker’s cuss how long the SVnft
O, yes, the klan is all right (?)—it! printery keeps ou snnumg oat is 100 per cent American. Is it? No, i klan sand ba SS er > but we want to it is not. It is selfish, and sordid. It serve notice on a11 parties concerned, would hurl back into slavery the mil- Shaffer’s boot licker included, that , lions of blacks for whom the Civil i this newspaper has plenty of fight War was fought. It would destroy | lef t and P le »iy ° f friends who are religious liberty and freedom of con- thoroughly alive to the situation, science in propaganda against Roman! Weyiave been informed that the Catholics and Jews. . Both are guilty i Parkinson liability was assumed by ! enough, no doubt, but in curtailing | the Star on a two months’ trial. His their liberties what is to become of i salary will be paid largely by Muncie
the liberties of the Protestant? There
this organization. It should be enough puip ^ our presence and in the name that our discipline excludes all se- ci prom °ti n g a revival of religion, cret society members from our e ' en temporarily, turn the house of church. The klan is the meet secret God over to a hoode( i gang to go of all societies, in that the personnel tbl0U g b the sacreligious farce of powof the membership is kept secret, , wowing, and call it prayer and devo——,tion. We think they would get no We may state unequivocally that | nearer our allar than the door
we cannot and do not tolerate the klan. None of our members or preachers should be connected with the order. Any one so doing is subject to dismissal from the church for belonging to a secret society. The fact of membership in the order automatically takes one out of the church, unless he leaves the order, or states his purpose and plan so to do. We do not know how to state the case
more clearly. No, you cannot be a „ .,
member of the Ku Klux Klan and a tfte llberties of the Protestant? There Jews and Catholics, whose money member of the United Brethren 18 n ° excuse for dragging people from keeps the Star going. If these mer-
their homes in their nightclothes and j chants stand for Parkinson, who besubjecting women as well as men to longs to an organization that seeks the tortures of a hooded mob to be to disfranchise and bankrupt them,
flogged and even killed. This is not ! they will stand for anything. American. It is barbarism. It savors I - n
of the Spanish Inquisition, an institu-' tion of Rome. Bloody tyrants order-1 ed victims of their displeasure im-1
at our finances are limited, that our becomes a good citizen. And I think
milk, fre«h meat and other predncfjf'jirinting bill will be kept to a j after the same operation is perform-
mininuim, that they will be furnished ed upon the klan, making it impossible with financial statements by auditors,; for it to shake its foul venom from a director of finance will be appoint-! it* tail, its paver for evil will be gone, ed who will act as treasurer and who ■ Unless, indeed, the growing scarcity will install systems in the organiza- j °f suckers forces it into involuntary
tions. | bankruptcy.”
“We have learned in the past that
the real, true success of America— EARL HARRIS STAGES tend by America, I mean the United | FIGHT AT EAGLES CLUB States—has been accomplished thru j Earl Harris is again in the limethe ballot box. In fact, every country ! light. This time he filled up on white in the world has been envious of us, | mule an d started a rumpus at the but they refused to relinquish the , Eagles club. Now there are a lot of power tKht they held in their hands 1 decent fellows in the Eagles and they
that the people might take control! promptly kicked him out.
iL':r government, and in so doing j Some day or night Harris will outtake the plum out of their mouth. If i wear his welcome in Zanesville, and 'is good for the United States, 1 there will be no tears shed when he
then it is surely the right principles g'oes.
which to construct a constitu-
church at the same time. And further ,wf may say that it seems to us that any intelligent United Brethren i should know better than to join such an order and expect to retain member-1 ship in the church. We went through the throes of division to maintain our
position against secret societies. It, . - — — was not done to be contrary nor re- i pr ^ one d and murdered without trial, actionary, but from principle. The i h*™' ate mob or c ^ an ru ^ e ' s America’s
church from the very beginning ex-
upon
tion for the klan. ’T surely trust that this letter will apprise you of the situation as it is, and I surely trust that I can expect
ONE BUNCH OF KLANSMEN STAGE RETURN TO SANITY All honor to those Brenham, (Texas), klansmen who had the cour*
and depend oa your hearty co-opera- age to disband. Here is why they did
tion to put this mammoth task ©ver. “I will have ready for you Sunday Bulletin No. 2 to be issued on Monday. In this bulletin, we will take up the constitution. Bulletin No. 3 will
it, in the words of the man who made the motion: “It was not serving any useful purpose and was causing friction in the country.”
ANDERSON KOOS
greatest menace—no matter who or
ter a rnonopoly on gambling' operations and liquor sell-» our P a i es - it was terribly distressing i* be k * an ar t’ c i e s in Hearsts intema-
ing. It is a well known fact that whisky selling and gamb-i to have thrus ^ upon us the division tlonaI ,n tbp ling is on the increase in Muncie and that practically, with a11 its woes ‘ Tlle ministers of
fully to build the church,
tional in the past months. Yet some United Brethren
every law violator is either a klansman or cog''in the ManV that "" hai,py day h!ul lab0, ' ed ‘ aith ' ,know that the klan
political machine.
(Continued From Page 1.) attend the meetings and take a look at the heads when the boys peel off their pillow cases. I feel like apologizing to the monks every time I
look ’em over.
Speaking of human freaks, and the transition of man from monkey, we
do not
, is bad! Our .have a specimen here in Anderson and with 1 preachers are reported to lecture for that is about half done, with the pre-
horror they saw her torn and many [ the order, and others wink at it, and ponderance, probably, on the monkey places destroyed and ruined. We hear ‘ silently encourage it, and we surmise side of the fence. We ain’t goin’ to it said that there never should have that some are members. What’s the name no names, but this particular been any division; very true. The at-.matter with us? If we are to go this kokonut kracker is also a cross betempt to turn the church from her i road we may as well take down our tween an engineer and janitor of a distinctive mission never should have I banner and disband and go with the large building in the center of the been made. There is planty of evi-j crowd. We had better consider our city. He consorts with other neardence that our Liberal United Breth-1situation and mission, and get down humans, and neither he nor his assoren, despite their outward showing ofito earth and maintain our position, ciates are fooling anybody but them-
growth have not succeeded as they! All who cannot do so better be honest selves.
expected, to do. That church is great-j enough to leave. The dishonest ones Walter Black, who was defeated ly involved—both financially and j who won’t leave better be thrown out for recorder in the democratic pri-
_ I ■spiritually. (In a neighboring village ; bodily. Isn’t it time to quit fooling mary two years ago and then refusOur querist will no doubt be one of the bravest of the to Huntington is advertised a playjwith the Klan and do business for ed to vote for the nominee, is still at brave on September 12. He may even form himself into' un d er tbe auspices of the Liberal,God? Laymen, you are made to be- his job taking orders for ice cream « o wi/1 aocVi avrmnH Ync KpIIv VmMdp nn a fin Brethren church which from the ad- lieve that the Klan is an institution .and pop. He specializes on a horse a paraae, tie a iea sasn arouna nib oeny, uutKie un a un vert . sl promis< . s to ke 0[ the whlch , sto reine(] the ot aociety ia OS h, which fools 6ver T bo d y, ot sword and ride a raging steed around the public square |„ ature ot a .. F - llles .. attractfcm . Aja . a ri * ht the wrongs ot the day are course
j being deceived by smooth-tongued t It’s funnny how some democratic
not an attack upon our Liberal Breth- sophists ren and is not stated tn * / '” 1
sorrow.)
Why, after the consequences solTp-.seeking the pot of gold at the end of |finance committee of the democratic parent to the flirting of church with | the rainbow you are chasing. Any; county central committee. Of course these things, should we follow suit?!institution that sets one class against these wishy washy guys will stand Are there not enough examples all j another, or that undertakes to regu-! f° r * whole lot. John B. P. Bookout,
OVERDUE PATRIOTISM.
“Well, what do you think of ‘Brother Charlie’ now?” was the question asked a Post-Democrat representative by a local republican who belongs to the ready money, fi-
nancial crowd.
The gentleman referred, without doubt, to Governor Charles Bryan’s criticism of a sword rattling administration that has called out the army and navy and the home
guards to tell the world how good we are.
all day, thus demonstrating his fierce and warlike spirit, j united Brethren “leg show.” This is
There was time, back in 1918, when his overdue patriotism might have found an outlet on the battle fields of France, but we distinctly remember that his present day fury was then missing, although he was of proper
military age.
He was one of the boys who kept the home fires burn-
ing. And in this connection it will be observed that most‘ about us ot the effects of the church late society outside the regular order- Willis's deputy sheriff, had to be lin.0^ the Criticism directed at Governor Bryan, in his veryj swallowing the world? Yet Unitedly processes of the law is not Ameri-’ed, if possible, for it might amount
well-paid for the deception— ; organization leaders attempt to make
in joy, but in and glorying in your gullibility. You|°il and water mix. The ,Hon. Willis
.are simply pursuing a mirage andjS. Ellis has been appointed on the ' ’• -- - - '' ‘ “■ d 0 f|finance committee of the J
are chasing. Any;county central committee.
KLUXER GRATITUDE.
A few days since a representative of the PostDemocrat had occasion to visit at Portland, Bryant, Geneva, New Corydon and the German settlement east of Bryant among those plain, honest and law abiding citizens whose whole aim in life is to live in quiet, peace and harmony with every one and who have never had the serenity of their community disturbed until the Ku Klux Klan reared its head in their midst. As in all other communities where this serpent of hate has gained an entrance it has been getting in its venom of distrust and calumny with an ugly effort to disrupt the friendships that have stood through several generations. One of the people whom our representatives met is Dr. Schenk, of New Corydon, who cussed every Catholic in the community and condemned every one except himself and the Imperial Flivver. The doctor reminds us more of the dog that bites the hand of the person that has fed it than any other renegade we have met since the KKK have Konverted t^he doctor to their way of false thinking, for if this misguided vendor of pills is not a full fledged member of the order of hate he certainly has mast emphatic leanings that way. Anybody who boasts of being a reader of The Fiery Cross and the Menace and is too modest ? ? ? to read The Post-Democrat, either has something wrong with the cross fibers of his upstairs or is an enemy to organized society. We are just telling the good people of this settlement that there are some mighty good doctors in nearby towns who have not sold their birthright for a mere mess of pottage.
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