Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 22 August 1924 — Page 2
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1924.
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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT. A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Dhemocratic Newspaper hi Delaware Co.
Entered as second class matter January 15,1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Price Hte a Copy—$3.00 a Year.
Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Iviuncie, Indiana, Friday, August 22,1924.
EDITOR BECOMES SARCASTIC.
It must have come as a fearful shock to President Coolidge and to Messrs. Pomerene and Roberts, to say nothing of the other attorneys concerned, that the appropriation for investigating the oil-lease scandals has run out. The administration has obviously been putting its heart and soul into the oil inquiry. There is nothing it has wanted more than to go on with it to the bittei end, to press every charge, to follow every minor lead,
! therefore he is putting out the line of hot air about “In- ! diana klansmen being different.” I Instead of being different, they are a little more so. Every community in the state has had examples of the manned in which Jews, Catholics and Negroes have been persecuted and penalized by the klan. Jerry Curran, one of the best policemen on the force was fired without cause by a klan police board, after serving over twenty years on the force without a mark
against him.
Billy Sims, regular army man, Spanish-American war veteran and a man of exceptional bravery and with a splendid record a sa police officer, was fired by the same Man board for no other reason in the world except
t that he is colored.
j The removal of these men, one a Catholic and the ; other a negro, was ordered in a meeting of the Ku Klux I Klan. The demand was made by Bill Cahill, klan organizer and Wilbur Hyman, who lost his job as third assistant United States District Attorney because of it. And who forgets how Rosenthal, a Jew, was forced off the board of safety and who has forgotten how the klan worked against Silverburg, plugged for Dearth, because the former was a Jew and the latter a klansman? Today I stood on the sidewalk near the Wysor Block and heard two klansmen talking. One of them said: “I heard say that Catholics, Jews
and you can go down cellar and fix Lake Road. Kewpie is too yellow to it up there. Down under the ground j ^ 00 ^ to run. Cheer up, is the proper place for such con- :T ew P> e > the worst is yet to come. straction. j SOME SMELL! They All Deny It. j Newark, Ohio, Aug. 22, 1924—For Sam Schamp, agent for the Clover; three days a victim of Chief T^eaf denies his affiliation with the | Swank’s anti-dog crusade lay beKlan but they all do that when ques- j tween the police station and centioned. We don’t blame Sam for j tral fire house. The bloated carcass, denial however as he is back on the j fanned by the wings of countless job by reinstatement, on good be-! blow flies, emitted a stench ecmalhavior. Better be good Sam because i e d only by the awful odor from ;f you get fired again the Kooties ■; jbe present administration. The Kant l^Gvp so many in the Komis- s j.-y was darkened by great flocks of sary. The: ranks are pretty well fill-, buzzards who were evidently puzed up now. Many of them would i z!ed by the mixed smell and sus . like to have their 10 and _ shimmy piciously kept at a safe distarice .
money hack to buy groceries with Of course Charley Colter, the coal and grain man, and Lee Walters were not in the Portland aggregation but discreetly made themselves conspicuous by being on the streets of Decatur that night, fooling no
one but themselves.
Cash Lutz is suspected of being along. Cash thought he would fool
Somebody call Knauss. Curtis Berry is still on the police force. One year ago brother Berry was circulating among the farmers of Licking County, instructing them in the art and graces of citizenship at four dollars a throw. Below are listed some of Mr. Berry’s teachings.
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pectedly, it runs out of funds for the purpose. Funds for Mobilization Day have been provided, with contingent funds in case of necessity, are regularly available. Funds for sundries, for pay-rolls, for painting bat-tle-ships, for Volstead enforcement on land and sea, for mowing lawns, for redecorating corridors, for printing speeches and for 10,000 other uses—these are provided. But funds for proceeding with the oil inquiry there are none. Figurateively, the administration is in tears. It was relying on the oil inquiry to make a name for it, to set a high-water mark for investigations to which the Republican party could point with pride for the next hundred years. It wanted to do it so well—and it has bungled.—Winchester Democrat. A CLEAR-CUT ISSUE. No Klansman can be a Democrat and no Democrat can be a Klansman. . . Jeffersonian Democracy and un-Americamsm will no more mix than oil and water. • Judge Anderson, on the federal bench, speaking of the Klan, said: ‘There is no place in America for stfch an organization.” We again insist that the Klan is an issue and a vital one—for the reason that no Klansman can be a Democrat and no Democrat can be a Klansman. The national Democratic party and the Indiana state Democratic party have both repudiated the Klan. In Indiana the Republican party is without a candidate for governor. The issue is clear cut—Klan and anti-Klan. In some of the counties the Klan has captured the nominations for county offices. They have here in Greene county and the fight in this county will be waged unceasingly against the candidates who are recognized as being members of this un-American organization. Those who desire to step within the breach are wel-
come.
I Of course, the old adage “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”—Bloomington Democrat.
f The latest is a Greek Ku Klux organization fostered by Atlanta. Their emissaries have secured 60 members in this city. Here is the selling campaign: “We intend to have this government run by native born only. No man of foreign parentage will have any show. We will make an exception in the case of you Greeks, you are a fine lot of boys. For ten dollars each we will let you come into the Greek branch of our order.” And to think, 60 of them to Houston fell for it.—Houston
Chronicle,
“Yes, and somebody will knock his God dam head off one of these days if he doesn’t keep his trap closed,”
was the peaceful rejoiner.
lam inclined after all to agree with Steve that Indiana klansmen are different, but the difference is in
favor of klansmen in other states.
The board of safety frustrated the plan of Chief' Ben bow and City Judge Coons by ordering former Cap- i tain Ira Coons to patrol a district south of the railroad, i ihe scheme to keep him in the city court as bailiff did; : not work. The klan is preparing to throw another fit for! the purpose of intimidating the board of safety but the board does not seem to be of the scary kind. The appointment of Fred Puckett as day captain will stand, regardless of the wails of the outfit that seeks to “save Muncie.
A klan parade is scheduled in Muncie for the 13th of September, the day following the “defense day” pro|s bu.rei'pStS'th'szs, Snfr, a; 1 c Ihc klan is a dead issue in Muncie and efforts to bring it to life are doomed to failure. 8
Adams Co. Koo Koo Kewpies Advertise The Post-Democrat Posted Side by Each With Klucker Ed Jackson’s Mug In Graham & Waiters Window -One Fellow Thinks It Libel To Publish His Name as One of Doodads— Other Easthaven Prospects Journey To Portland In Masks and Nighties.
, ,, . , . , .,, , 75 per cent of the public school everybody the night he wabbled teachers are Catholics
along in the Decatur Karavan, but that Kute little duck wabble—^belongs to no other individual on
earth.
You can always tell a Kootie by the way he walks, wabbles, spits or the kind of vermin he entertains. Taking Ta’nted Money , Ira Elzey, the brick mason, who is working on the new Catholic school and iris wife are reputed to j be Kluxers in good standing. We may be a trifle* dull of com- ; prehension but we would advise Ira 1 to get another job as they are likely to pay him off with tainted , money that came from the Pope of
Rome.
Ira says, however, he has his i grocer hypnotized and hasn’t jjet ■ discovered that Catholic dollars are not just like other peoples’ money. : For the benefit of our Catholic friends in Decatur, we wish to sug-1 gest a means of saving the parish j considerable money. After the new : school is complete it will be neces-' sary to tear the old building down but if the good people will be patient a bit longer the Katerers to hate will do it for you without any pay at all. The Post-Democrat is advised that when Charley Colter has the editor arrested for libel that Lee Walters is to defend him ’but we are of the opinion that he will come out like he did in his race for mayor a couple of years ago. We are so frightened over this that we couldn’t sleep last night for at least 30 seconds. Well our Mr. Jones has some real information relative to the situation in Decatur and Adams County, that will be ready for our next week’s
issue.
Watch for it. There is something that smells in Denmark.
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BOY, PAGE THE ALIENIST.
This is a proposition for debate: We have curried all the cross fibers of our gray matter, cudgeled our curiosity and sought advice from the Magii, but as yet have not been enlightened. We have no claim to being a philosopher nor have we especial ability to unravel intricate mysteries, but we do have our own timid opinions; but before we express ourselves we would like to hear from some of our klan wise men and prophets. The question is this: “Will the children born of the union in bonds of holy klux matrimony of the Rev. Hybarger and a kluckerino sister of Orestes be born into the fold as birthright kluckers or will they have to pay $10.00 and buy their bed sheets and pillow cases the same as white folks do when they come into the fold?” What
say ? ?
STEVE SHOOTS OFF HIS MOUTH. It does beat all how this man Stephenson, the blessed “Old Man” of the Ku Klux Klan of Indiana does keep on breaking into the newspapers. Steve’s latest outbreak is a long winded story to the New York World, in which he makes it plain, to his own satisfaction at least, that Indiana klansmen are a superior sort of a bird, not to be confounded, to any sense of ; the word, with the common, or garden variety, found in such benighted states as Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and other foreign countries. In all states but Indiana, declares this noted windbag, klansmen are filled with prejudice, hatred and malice toward Catholics, Jews and Negroes. The Hoosier klansman, according to Steve, is simply bubbling over with love and affection for the three classes named. For that reason, says he, the republicans will win in Indiana, having hooked up with the saints and the virgins of the Ku Klux Klan. In all other states, where klansmen discrinUnate against Catholics, Jews and Negroes, the klan slates will be disastrously defeated. In a speech made at Indianapolis not so long ago by this new Richmond of Indiana republicanism, he spoke at one time of the “two year fight I have made in this state against the Catholics.” He said it like he meant it and his utterance was greeted with tumultuous applause by several hundred of the gentle beings who love the Catholics so well. Being responsible for the nomination of his brother klansman, Ed Jackson, for Governor, Steve naturally feels it incumbent upon him to see that he is elected,
® eC f Ir ’ md - Aug- 22. Well, W^ll! and Frybacb wtla «ys he isn’t a The Post-Democrat oi last week’s mhmhW, Wfe understand however issue is posted side by eacb with the that this misguided mrtv was ripniPri mug of Ed Dolling? Jack$on in theV ^ v- K rty was denie( l window of Graham & Walters, ^ Mernbership m the Ananias Society stractors and attorney^. ' ' as bein S entirely too big a liar, but Too bad. Sometimes a paper like d 16 aw ey with it when he goes some individuals will fall into the 1 to Wayne as an organizer, social quagmire, but perhaps we mis- i S’ s awful to get black balled - understand the’motive behind thisL , ank Carro11 who works for the publicity. Possibly the firm of' r olter Ice Cream Company ought
Graham & Walters have finally , t6 g6t , c f 6led .°f f -
grasped the fact that the Post-Demo- j Ahr Wlth his Kute little float crat has been telling the truth about ! .* FieryKr ? ss that his dad is g°Brother Ed $. Jack?on and are try-j 1 ^ ^ U ^ e f 0 U buy “ lg up the Lutheran
ing to convince him by some means T' 11 ^ (atb61 . C Kattle ’
of absorption that he is the Ku L u jes, before we forget it we want Klux Klan nominee for governor and 0ur rheml Abr that thei ' e about to be overwhelmingly elect-1 a ooun ^ 1 t heSe farm * rs ed to retire into private life about K,. mfd., av , e , d6,c !d ed to tie the 4th of next November and thatLj .v.. ° n tai 8 ka ^‘ they are taking this means to devise . !A. lL^ re >' eady tor market and a the Lutheran and Catholic citizens | n-. r , f 6 , 61 y {r0S9 around the of Decatur and Adams Kounty that, , ,, f, 8 ? 16g for sale so no they want to make your abstracts ,- _ ' Urcie will be lost in assembland do your pettifogging at 'theUiL, 8 'P ment - Use judgment same old stand Brother Ash, use judgment; don’t ' However we'don’t like TO m “L ot ,hls live slock for
copy of The Post-Democrat get into r members,
bad company and are herewith » is and the baby Venus ing our apoligies to the decent peo- P1 P a niamn K little nightie, pie of Adams county. We W our L. / J 1° Z ^K.^ 6 heads and weep in rgaefe ^oloth and A' t Ad ot f bis bor, se as he did in as b es j' ae recent Decatur parade. Some Showed Their At Portland, ^lestion as to where Glenn got it
Well the DecatUr contingent of j 11 nig ’
the Kooties ilVdived its feet at the Q J e8 Peters ? n lvho als< ? ran for big and njirch heralded parade at J 101 ^ 0nc6 ’ bld caugbt out be ‘ Portland Thursday night, Aug. 14. 1 016 he g6t to first bas6 - All told, big and little, sane and o Fr U k Pet6rf *f; , th6 brave ’ wbo Otherwise, theire were less than & uaids tbe faithful from mauraudsevehty, including SOME of the mg J esiu f s when parade are on, his
Moose band, who, wended their way 80 ?: „ ,
to the Jay counity seat and after the „ yierri Peterson grandson of the
frantic appeals for the faithful to a ^° ran ’
show their colors something less B r °wn who had a frown and than 300 proceeded to violate the bls ^ ace masb down, city ordinance, which forbids the Ejoyd Baxter who works for the use of masked demonstratoions. E. Gets his meal tickets from
the firm he swears to destroy. Buck Baxter another G. E. ingrate. Clyde Berry who also feeds at the
G. E. tfough.
Hubert Cochran another G. E. away from home before and felt that bil A
they were safe from the eyes of the , Fred Ingalls and his wife, curious. Some of these birds re-j Sam the Undertaker, mind us of the mountaineer that ” e dq not know if Sani Black got “Went a power of a way from home bbe parade oh not. Sam is the unclean up to whar they call sop, derteker and has undertaken to run gravy.” , for coroner on the Ku Klux Klan Here aril some of the participants in some ,places referred to os night shirt and pillow case brigade ^ be Ropublican ticket and if Sam from Decatur. Most of them can al-| d ^ dn ^ * n ^ be parad e he was out ways be recognized by their wabbly j looking for somebody to bury and walk or the kind of shoes they have | V ke ^ be follow who was always lookworn out running over the Kounty j in ^ ^ or a gli mpse of heaven up in warning the people to beware, “The! s ^ y oordd havei found it right under Poipe of Rome is about to herald his b ’ s own ribs. Sam should be look* hosits and descend with all his regal after his ! own political funeral
NEWARK KLAN (Continued From P&tfe 1.) these trying times is condemned not only by thoughtless klansmen, but by so called ministers, self-ap-pointed spiritual teachers whose G. P. C. they saw in the clouds did not mean “Go preach Christ,” but as the farmer tol his son, meant “Go plow corn.” NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC—The Junior Klan will hold a debate in the high school auditorium next Friday night on tbe question, “Resolved That Negroes have tails.” Admission one dollar. The Rev. Porter E. Wright will probably borrow Jack Dempsey’s red, white and blue fighting togs to wear at the dedication of his Rising Sun temple. WANTED—A cheap second-hand machine gun by Mayor Stevens, quick !!! FOUND’—A Kamelia Shimmy in Lover’s Lane. Inquire of Chuck R—
Rats break their necks falling over guns in the basement of the Catholic church. The Pope ordered Harding assas-
sinated.
The Knights of Columbus took an oath to overthrow our government. Negroes have dark skins. The Pope is digging a tunnel between Rome and Washington. If you want to see a real American “look at muh!” Damn the Jews! and a couple of law-gonitis ! ! ! mm PACT GAINS FAVOR 01 GERMANY AS FOES SEE WORTH Hostile Press Moderates Tone and Retirement Pleases Germans.
Berlin, Aug. 22 -—With the return
of the German delegates from the London conference there is a conspicuous moderation in the tone of editorial discussions on the outcome and political experts are busy figuring out the party lineup in the Reichstag when the government’s action is
up for approval or rejection. The members of the cabinet are
inclined to view the parliamentary situation with a degree of equanimity born of the conviction that one© opposition force-s are given a complete opportunity to examine th® balance sheet brought back by Chance] or Marx and Foreign Minister S ressemann, and allowed to contemplate fue economic and political j efforts involved in a disavowal of the 'present government, they will be less j inclined to maintain the intransieant ! attitude reflected in the current editorials. Confers With Leaders. The chancellor entered upon a series of conferences with the Reichstag party leaders this evening and will continue them f i several days, or until •Jit Reichstag is convoked. “This v as the firo'. p sivvar con fercnce in which the wods “vanquished” and “victors" were dispensed with, and thro, gliout our negotiations we were nuver made hear one dsiagreeable word,” a participant in the London cnference observed today. He praised the spirit of equality that prevailed. One of the outstanding., achievements of the conference, in the opinion ot the German delegates, was the adoption of the principle of arbitration. Dr. Stressemann asserted that so far as the conference itself was concerned, the Germans had secured 100 per cent results. Evacuation Raises Hopes. The evacuation of Offenburg and Appenweier by the French today is held in official circles as an earnest of French intentions to live up to the agreement entered into with the German delegates, and it ill believed that this initial action will have a beneficial psychological influence on German opinion. Official quarters are firm in their belief that progress in the evacuation of the Ruhr will be made in rapid stages and that the French and Belgian troops will have disappeared before the expiration of the one-year term fixed by tbe conference. o A correspondence course in geology of petroleum deposits has just been announced by the University of Chicago in its home-study department. A bill to prohibit the teaching of the theory of evolution in the public schools of the State is under consideration in the Legislature Of Georgia. Forty-five per cent of the inhabitants of Spain above the age of 5 years are unable to read or write. The corresponding percentage in 1900 was 64, and in 1910, 59.
We will say for some of the Decatur Kooks that they were brave as lions. They did not all wear dunce caps. Some did and some didn’t. Some of ’em were never that far
might and put his iron heel upon
the necks of all protestants.” Here They Are, B'Gosh!
There was Beavers, the furniture man, who got the democrats to work for him and then turned Jiidas by
and make all preparation®. You can save a lot of money, Sam, by making your Kootie night shirt into a shroud even if you do not know how to make
a fieiy kross.
Either Colter, the coal dealer or
jining up with the apostles of hate. Fred Ahr wil furnish you a pattern
GIRL SCOUT CAMP INVADED; LEADER ABUSED AND THREATENED; KLUXER BAUGHMAN RUNS AMUCK Newark, Ohio., Aug. 22, 1924-—It has been known for months that the Ku Khtk Klan is the avowed enemy of the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America. This is not surprising considering the fact that these oi’ganizations make no distinction between religious sects. As the Klan openly states that they will use their influence to bar Catholics from holding any elective or appointive office, any promotion in the army and in fact declare they are not entitled to citizenship at all. The ignorant and bigoted attitude of the freakish organization was demonstrated a few days ago by Kluxer Baughman of West Main Street. Inspired by the lofty purpose of Grand Turtle-Head EVans, he invaded the Girl Scout Camp at Dugway Hill and gave a demonstration of what real 100 pei cent Americanism is. In his righteous rage he shook his fists in the face of Miss Swank, .Scout leader, and told her if she were a man he would pound her to a jelly. After 10 minutes of vile language and cowardly abuse toward the Scout organization he emitted a wild-bull bellow and tore up great chunks of sod. Before leaving he dramatically roared at Miss Swank that he was the father of his two daughters and was there to protect them. His wife who constituted his main reserve force punctuated his declaration of independence by shrill squeaks and the awful threat that she would immediately take her little girls out of the troop. After burning up the landscape with a few withering glances, Kluxer Baughman, frau and frauleins departed in their polished flivver, leaving nothing but perplexity and astonishment in camp. Now we believe Kluxer Baughman is incurable. People seldom recover from this sort of mania. We suggest to him, that some bright morning, he swallow an ounce of strichnine, tuck a lily in his hand and stretch his manly form hpon two chairs. As he emerges from the cold waters of the River and briskly shakes himself, may he grab a hat-full of apples from the tree of Life and loudly shout between crunches, “Tank Got, der ore no Catholics, Negars or Jews in der happy land of Beulah.” “Kewpie” Rine N. G., and also Keeper of Kontracts and Akkounts for the klan, is a nephew of his illustrious aunt, the notorious Mrs. Ackerman, who runs the Sure Shot maternity hospital on the Buckeye
For Evans’ Sake!
OFFICIAL DOCUMENT.
To all King Kleagles and Kleagles, Exalted Cyclops and Terrors, and to all Citizens of the Invisible Empire; in the Name of the Valiant and
Venerated Dead I greet You:
I,
Imperial Representative of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated, for the Realm of Michigan, by the authority and power vested in me under and by virtue of the commission granted me by the Imperial Wizard of the aforesaid Order, do hereby officially Decree and Proclaim that —, a member of the Saginaw County Provisional Klan, is from this day and date banished from the bounds of the Invisible Empire and from membership in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and shall no longer be recognized
as a Klansman; and for causes state: That the said has been and is now
guilty of acts and offenses being more particular-
ly as follows:
That the said has violated Items 2 and 4 of Section 2, Article XX, of the Constitution and Laws of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. That at various times and places the said conspired with other members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., in an effort to create strife and dissension in said order, and that the said has been and is now holding secret meetings with other members of said Order, seeking to create discord and dissatisfaction of members of said Order, which meeting are inimi-
cal to the best interests thereof. '
That the said has at various times and places uttered statements derogatory to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., and to the officers thereof, in that he has given out misinformation to various members of said order, which has been and is now detrimental to the best interests
thereof.
Said , so banished by this decree has a right to appeal to the Imperial Kloncilium within ninety days from this date, but if at the expiration of said ninety days no appeal has been made, then this decree automatically becomes final. Done in the Executive Offive of the Imperial Representative for the Realm of Michigan, on this Day of the Seventh Month, in the Year of Our Lord, Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Four, and on the Doleful Day of the Weird Week of the Terrible Month of the Year of the Klan LVIII and in the Third
Cycle.
Imperial Representatives Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Realm of Michigan.
The above is an exact copy of the The thing that is not humorous offic^a: banishment tiom the Ku Klux | the fact that grown men, living iis Klan that has been received by sev- i Saginaw, decent and respectable citieral Saginaw Klansmen today as the ! zens, have subjected themselves tt* result of their opposition to certain ; an autocrat who has come over the autocratic practices on the part of • southern horizon and in a few short local and state officers of the Klan. ! months wedged himeslf into a poslThinking readers of the Star are j tion whereby he i® entitled to dictate asked to scan the close of the docu- J and question the right of citizens to ment reading “and on the Doleful | assemble lawfully and protect felt
day of the weird week of the ter-1 ills.
rible Month of the Year of the Klan | Not so humorous too is the fact LVm and in the Third Cycle. that this same autocratic head of an Mark Twain writing of Huck Finn ! ... „ u w* and Tam Sawyer; Booth Tarkington organization professing to be 100
of Penrod and Sam, and Irvin S. Cobb of a “Boy Goin’ On Fourteen”
percent American can banish one of his subjects who has contributed to
have incorporated similar humorous ithe support of that organization withpassages in their works dealing with I out trial or hearing. The thinker isthe Americans boy’s love of the awe-! going to first think and then laugh.—; some and mysterious. } Saginaw (Mich.) Evening Star.