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THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1924.
THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT. A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demin oc rats cf Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The
only Democratic Newspaper
> In Delaware Co.
Department cf Agriculture Men Hop* i to Find Many Valuable Strains of Cereals There.
Washington.—To seek new plants I
Entered as second class matter January 15,1921, at j cultivation in this country, p. h. j
the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of
March 3, 1879.
t Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a Year. Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Muncie, Indiana, Friday, August 29, 1924.
Dorsett, for 25 years with the office of foreign seed and plant introduction of the United States Department of Agriculure, and his son, J. H. Dorsett, left this country recently for Shanghai, where they will begin a three-year plant exploration trip in China. Mr. Dorsett is a well-known scientist anti was one of the foundation builders of the bureau of plant industry, says the announcement of the department telling of the trip. He lias been on sev-
America Winning Heats in Contests Whose Stakes
Are Millions.
Washington.—Uncle Sam has been winning heats in one of the most dramatic races ever staged by trade—the raw silk transport race. Tlie course is 8,300 miles. Swiftest steamships, special trains for which speed limits are waived, seaplanes and airplanes participate. But there is no cheering crowd in the stands, because every mile of the race is con-
I NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS OF TAX
LEVIES
j In the matter of determining the j Tax Rates for certain purposes by I Hamilton Township, Delaware I County, Indiana. Before the TownJ ship Advisory Board, i Notice is hereby given the taxj payers of Hamilton Township, DelaI ware County, Indiana, that the proper legal officers of said municipality at their regular meeting place on 2nd day of September, 1924. will consider the following budget: , Township Fund.
. . i _.i. -pppp-nt- era l phint exploration trips and made cealed with the closest secrecy. The Jackie Coogan, the much belovecl movie S > i an extensive search in Brazil. j stakes are millions.
Iv received a wonderful welcome from all the children j j n the course of a long Stay in north- j In Ibis, 81 per cent of the United kV 1- -p vpri fBp little Ku Ku’s whose fathers tern China the two investigators will States’ huge silk imports from Japan Ol Indianapolis. Hive . . I* n and for- ■ searc ^ particularly for hardy plants,i came in foreign steamers hut within Wear masks, greeted him most entnusiasiic y j f or cultivation in tliis country’s north- j two years steamers flying the Amerigot for the time being that little Jackie is a very good ern Great Plains region. The work ! can flag in the Pacific have obtained
and practical Catholic and works at his religion.
TRUE VOICE.
Down in Texas an anti-Klan candidate was murder- aim stun,- intonsivoi.v ti„. m ,r„ i,,,par-
ed the other day Of course it would not be fair to |
charge that his murder was planned by the Kian. mere j there are in the gardens, fields and hp n dozen other reasons to account for the mur- ; orchards of that country many vn-
der without suspecting Klansmen of the crime But the fact that in the press reports it was emphasized that tne murdered man was an anti-Klan candidate shows the bad reputatipn the organization enjoys, not only m Texas but throughout the country.. Give a dog a bad name and hang him.” is an old saying that can be applied to the Klan with a little modification. It has a bad
name.-
will differ from ordinary plant ex- : an important share of this valuable
ploration, it is explained, in that in- trade.
stead of traveling widely the scion- | Why silk is rushed from Yokohama fists will concentrate on a small area 1 to New York at breack-neck speed,
outdistancing the best passengerservice, and the thrilling details of
crops still unknown and which may prove valuable in this country. “Many interesting strains of wheat, barley and other cereals are known to
exist in Manchuria and northern [ special train China,” says tiie department. “Some I worth of silk,
of these are likely to prove of great value in the United States. Soy beans, rapidly becoming an important crop An this country, are extensively cultivated in northern China, and many varieties will he introduced for trial.
If we may judge by the primary returns, in Texas Ifardy forasp cropg likelv to pr()ve of and Oklahoma, the Ku Klux is slipping. Otherwise, xor- value ln the Great Plains region nis > mer Gov. Walton could hardly win the Democratic nom- win be secured,
ination for United States Senator, nor could the wife of former Governor Ferguson secure a place on the gubernatorial ticket in Texas. The truth is that the Ku Klux is moving north. Its strongholds now are Indiana, ^ ^ Illinois and Missouri. When it reaches the Gi eat Lakes nf ] a p te ^ it will perish, which is always what becomes of all holierthanthouism, a fallacy as old as the human race.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch. t
The Montreal Star quotes Henry Ford as saying that the klan is a great patriotic body that has been shamefully lied about. The inventor of the tin can on wheeis once said on the witness stand that Benedict Arnold was an American statesman and that history was bunk. His son Edsel was a draft dodger and the old man himself has the undeveloped mind of a child of ten. It is just such feeble minded goats as Henry Ford that fall for the
klan.
WOMEN ON JURIES.
The Ku Klux circuit court jury commissioners Saturday drew the grand and petit juries for the September term of court. Five of the six grand jurors are women and six of the twelve petit jurors. Drawing petit juries by chance and almost invariably drawing an equal number of men and women is something to ponder over. That women are not entitled to serve on juries is the contention of many Indiana legal authorities. There ^ ^ ^ is no Indiana law authorizing women to sit as jurors 1 ^"they and the right to vote does not inherently qualify them in that respect. After the adoption of the suffrage amendment many states passed laws giving women the right to qualify as jurors. Indiana has no such law and the Post-Democrat" believes that women serving on Delaware county juries have no right, whatever, under
the law, to do so.
The question has been raised in a brief filed in the supreme court by the editor of the Post-Democrat, who was convicted and given a five months sentence and a fine of five hundred dollars for “libeling” the Muncie agent of the Fiery Ceoss. There were several “Queens of the Golden Mask” on the jury.
will he secured, The Dorsetts will search for, these plants and will send roots, cuttmgs or seeds for propagation and trial in department gardens.
“The department lias in mind hardy
Chinese hush cherries, which preliminary Investigations have shown to he
as far north as Mandan, N.
D„ and whose fruit is similar to the sour cherry of this country and used in the same way. Attempts will he made to find superior varieties of blight-resistant Chinese chestnuts, which the gradual destruction of the chestnuts of this country by blight has
rendered important to secure. “Attention also will he given to the
introduction of hardy shade and windbreak trees able to withstand the severity of the winters of the northern Creat Plains region. It is probable that Manchuria may furnish many such trees. For the Western states the explorers expect to obtain superior varieties of Japanese persimmons and of the Chinese jujube. Other Chinese fruits of probable value for which they will search are peaches, pears, apricots and plums, ail of which exist in wide variety. Many varieties of these fruits are now being grown here, but large numbers of ttyem are
yet to be tested.
“The explorers go provided with necessary materials for packing and shipping seeds and plants which will be shipped from Shanghai to Washington, where they will be inspected and freed from ,any diseases or pests be-
nre sent to the gardens for
preliminary trial and propagation. On this Exploration Mr. Dorsett and Ids son will travel in the provinces of Chihli and Shansi, and in Manchuria.”
Oldest Plate Presented to National Museum
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In Ohio they have quit burning fiery crosses and gone to burning Post-Democrats.
Me for Ma.
The Ohio democrats tell ’em.
Silence does not always denote wisdom.
Did you see that picture in a local paper of silent Cal enjoying a good, hearty laugh ? If that was a laugh there are no hounds in Georgia.
According to Dawes the klan performed a great service in ousting Jack Walton and it did a power of good at Herrin. Burning anti-klan newspapers at Newark was also commendable and of course sending the editor of the Post-Democrat to jail was a meritorious act.. And possibly the murders of Mer Rouge and the tarring and whipping of thousands were necessary acts of justice.
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The Star is still running a klan “democratic” weekly, employing its klan editor to solicit Muncie Jews for advertising. Shaffer’s boot licker is also licking the boots
of the grand dragon.
ALBANY FROWNS ON KLAN— GEORGIA CITY REFUSES IT USE OF PUBLIC AUDITORIUM
Albany, Ga.—The city commission of Albany unanimously refused to allow the municipal building to be used by the Ku Klux Klan for degree work after a petition signed by six Albany taxpayers had been presented asking for the use of the auditorium for Thursday evening. Hater it was announced that the klan had secured the use of the main auditorium of the Supreme Circle of Benevolence, a negro fraternal insurance order. This announcement was succeeded by one ■which stated the stage in the negro
hall was too small and that the degree work would be held in Tifton, a city some miles from Albany. It is said in Albany that the action of the president of the negro organization in granting the klan the use of the hall did not meet with the approval of the executive board and that this was the real reason for the subsequent change to Tifton. o — That juvenile delinquency decreases with the opening of playgrounds has been further verified by recent reports from Cincinnati, Ohio. In a period of three years since the opening of a playground in one neighborhood in that city the court records show a reduction in delinquency of 67 per cent.
What is probably the oldest plate in the world has been presented to •the National museum in Washington by Miss Leila Liebernian of Washington. For more than a thousand years the relic has been handed down through succeeding generations in the Lieherman family. The plate,’ which is about fourteen inches in diameter, was originally owned by King David and it bears the crest of the famous monarch. Along the outer rim of the plate are engraved characters setting' forth the use of the plate and a record of tiie various branches of the family through which It has passed.
Find Coin of 1150 Armstrong. Mo.—A coin, hearing the date of 1150 and the image of Queen Mary, was plowed up the other day by P. W. Shiffett. a farmer near here. The coin is made of green gold, the metal used in ancient times for coihing money, and. besides, the date and the image of the queen, is marked with a cross, ten stars and has a ring soldered to it. having evidently been used as a watch charm at one time.
this contest against time over the world’s longest race course are told in tiie following bulletin issued by the National Geographic society : Excepting gold and silver bullion, silk probably is the most precious commodity, weight for weight, carried on a large scale bj commerce. A single
will bring $5,000,00« Just as it costs dearly
to ship money, high charges are put on silk shipments. The saving of two days’ sailing time between Yokohama and Seattle is said to make a difference of 50 cents a bale at New York. Interest on the millions of dollars tied up multiplies at the rate of thousands of dollars a day and, in addition, there
is costly insurance.
New Silk Course Record. The world’s record on the Yoko-hama-New York silk course was set up a few months ago when the Orient was brought within 13 days, 3 hours and 8 minutes of Manhattan. Laden with $5,500,000 worth of raw silk, the President Jackson made Seattle on the ninfli day. A United States mail seaplane met the liner at Victoria and winged its way to Seattle, 100 miles away. It brought port documents and forwarded cargo papers to New York before the President Jack-
son docked.
Special port forces moved the rich consignment in three hours to a special silk train waiting with steam up. The swift Oriental limited passenger trains take 70 hours to reach Chicago; the “reefer,” as the silk special is known to railroaders, makes it in (>5 hours. Twelve cars were required for the President Jackson cargo, With Queen Silk goes a heavy cordon of train guards armed to tiie teetli When the- treasure train safely reaches New York the shipment is divided quickl; inmng the consignees for stor age in warehouses or dispatched t< mills in such famous silk rrvrna an Paterson, N. J., or Woonsocket, It. 1. Carried on Mystery Train. Few people know when the “reefer’ is on tiie rails. Like a ship of war, it virtually runs under sealed orders Railroad divisions seldom know when it is coming or where it is going until it and orders arrive. The previous speed record for silli shipments was made when the Presi dent Grant landed a $10,000,000 . con signment at Seattle. The “reefer'’ brought this product of billions ol caterpillars into New York in 13 days, 4 hours and 55 minutes out of Yoko hama. Night air mail will he a boot to these New York silk merchants. Be fore silk shipments can he released many papers must be approved and inspected. Seattle has one of the twr seaplane mail services in the Unitec States, hence Queen Silk will suffer m embarrassment of delay. Night aii mail will hasten dispatch of silk ship ment papers to New York so there will be no slip when the dusty "reefer” readies the Hudson. Although silk culture originated in China and the very name China finds its birth in a term meaning “silk people,” the United States looks to Japan for most of tliis raw material. American mills are weaving nearly 5(>,(K)(>,000 pounds of raw silk annually, of which about SO per cent comes from Japanese mulberry orchards. The ugly little silk worm is treated with great respect in the Orient for it brings to the Far Eastern peoples more than $300,000,000 from the United States alone. Queen Silk’s throne is as solid as the year It was set up by a Chinese princess, centuries before the birth of Christ. The Western world began to worship her when the crusaders went to the East “to kill the horned devils and returned to Imitate the tine gentlemen they found there.” The merchants of Venice, thriving on the West’s new knowledge, like the mer-! chants of New York today, guarded Queen Silk well; this single city-state built 300 men-of-war to convoy its
•ilk fleets.
burning of candles in memory of 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
that she would immediately take her little girls out of the troop. After burning up the landscape with a few withering glances, Kluxer Baufejitian, frau and frauleins departed in their polished flivver,-
Salary of Trustee $
720.00
Office rent .
90.00
Trustee’s expenses:
Telegrams, telephones,
tolls
150.00
Books, stationery, print-
ing and advertising . .
250.00
Public ditches, assess-
ments)
100.00
Pay to advisory board ..
15.00
Care of cemeteries ....
30.00
Repair of public ditches
200.00
Total township fund .
1,515.00
Road Fund.
Labor ’
3,000.00
Road machines & tools .
50.00
P,ridges and culverts . . .
300/00
Gravel and road material
2,200.00
Total road fund
5,550.00
Spec'al School Fund
Repair of buildings and
care of ground .......
800.00
Repr. of other equipment
400.00
School furniture & equip-
ment
500.00
School supplies
400.00
Janitor’s supplies ......
150.00
Fuel for schools
1,000.00
Insurance .............
350.00
Teachers’ Institute
680.00
Janitor’s service *
1,150.00
Transp. of children ....
10,000.00
Library
450.00
Light and power .......
500.00
Gasoline and oil
450.00
Total special school fd
16,830.00
Bond Fund.
Payment of bond
2,500.00
Interest on bonds
625.00i
Total bond fund
3,125.Of
Tuition Fund.
Pay of teachers .......
16,200.00
Total tuition fund ....
16,200.00
not mean Go preach Christ,” but leaving nothing but perplexity and as the farmer tol his son, meant j astonishment in camp.
Now we believe Kluxer Baugh--man is incurable. People seldom recover from this soit 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 upon 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 Lake Road. Kewpie is too yellow to fight and too fat to run. Cheer up, Kewpie, the worst is yet to come.
“Go plow corn.”
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC - The Junior Klan will hold a debate in ihe high school auditorium next Friday night on the 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 Ris-
ing Sun temple.
WANTED—A cheap second-hand machine gun by Mayor Stevens,
quick ! ’!
FOUND—A Kamelia Shimmy in Lover's Lane. Inquire of Chuck B'
Proposed
Levies*
Levy on Amount to be
Polls
Piop’y
Colec’ci
Township
.04
; $ 1,55(1
Road ...
... .25
.15
5,550
Special school
.44
16,328
Bond . . .
.01
3,125
Tuition .,
.34
12,810
Total .
... 1.00
.98
381863
Comparative statement
of taxes
collected
and to be
collected:
Total—
1922
1923
1924
1925
Levy
Levy
Levv
Levy
$46,077
$43,377
$41,891
$38,863
Taxpayers appearing shall have a right to be heard thereon. After the tax levies have been determined, ten or more taxpayers feeling themselves aggrieved by such levies, may appeal to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for further and final action thereon, by filing a petition therefor with the County Audi tor not later than the fourth Mon day of September, and the State Board will fix a date of hearing in this county. Dated Aug. 19, 1924. DUMONT LOTZ, Trustee. Aug. 29.
GIRL SCOUT CAMP INVADED; LEADER ABUSED AND THREATENED; KLUXER BAUGHMAN RUNS
AMUCK
Newark, Ohio., Aug. 22, 1924—It has been known for months * thai
tne Ku Klux Klan is the avowed SOME SMELL! enemy of the Boy Scouts and Girl Newark, Ohio, Aug. 22, 1924—For Scouts of America. This is not sur- three days a victim of Chief prising considering the faet that I Swank's anti-dog crusade lay bell.ese organizations make no dis- ! tween the police station and centinction between religious sects. As | tral fire house. The bloated carcass, the Klan openly states that they j fanned by the wings of countless will use their influence to bar Cath- blow flies, cnr'tted a stench equalolics from holding any elective or ! led only by the awful odorjf from appointive office, any promotion in j the present administration. ’ The the army and in fact declare they j sk^ was darkened by great flocks of are not entitled to citizenship at j buzzards who were evidently puzall. j zled by the mixed smell and susThe ignorant and bigoted atti- i piciously kept at a safe distance, tude of /the freakish organization | Somebody call Knauss. was demonstrated a few days •■ago j Curtis Berry is still on the police
by Kluxer Baughman of West Main Street. Inspired by the lofty purpose of Grand Turtle-Head Evans, he invaded the Girl Scout Camp at Dug way Hill and gave a demonstration of what real 100 pei cent Americanism is. In his righteous rage h e 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-hull bellow and tore up great chunks of sod. Before leaving he dramatically roared at Miss Swank that he was the father of his two daugh-
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 teach-
ings.
75 per cent of the public school teachers are Catholics. Rats break their necks falling over guns in the basement of the Catholic church. The Pope ordered Harding assassinated. The Knights of Columbus took an oath to overthrow our government. Negroes have dark skins. The Pope is digging a tunnel be-
ters and was there to protect them, j tween Rome and Washington. His wife who constituted his j If you want to see a real Amer*
main reserve force punctuated his ican “look at muh!”
declaration of independence by ) Damn the Jews! and a couple ol
shrill squeaks and the awful threat law-gon:tis ! ! !
Innocent of a Barber Maysville, Mo.—W. R. Taylor, who live* on a farm between this city and . Cameron, declares that he has lived j 72 years and has never been shaved j by a barber. Taylor revealed this fact when he read in a local newspaper that a man has reported that he was fifty-one years old and had never ( been shaved by a barber. As a result of his claim. Taylor beats the other man by 21 year*.
Won*t Get Up and \V ork, Wife Hurls Hot Water Oakland, Cal.—Joseph Cabral, fortysix. said he was too ill to work and remained in bed. His wife, Mary, demanded he rise and seek a job. When he refused, she poured a kettle of boiling: water over him, he told police at the county hospital, where he is being treated for severe burn* on arms and chest.
Meets Dad in Jail Atlanta, Ga.—Father and son were ! reunited when John L. Gunn of Mem- ■ phis, Tenn., entered the federal penl1 tentlary kere, where his father, John G. Gunn, Is serving a sentence for violation of the anti-narcotic law.
Aged Man in Prison Sioux Falls, S. D.—Prison doers closed at the penitentiary recently behind Artlur J. Ferguson, seventy-five years, fo* killing his wife in 1022. While avalting trial Ferguson attempted mlcide. but failed.
Plan Crusade for . Safe Crossings Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—A campaign to “make Indiana safe from grade crossing accidents” will be launched at the state-wide safety conference called by Governor Branch to be held G ffi. 14 md 15, Commissioner Frank T Singleton of the public service commission announced yesterday. The date for the meeting was fixed after g conference of railroad safety officials with Mr. Singleton. The meeting will be held m the chamber of the House of Representatives. newarTkian (Continued From Parfe 1.) ceeded is shown by such institutions as I. W. W|’s, Anti Saloon Leagues and various kinds of Ku Klux Klans. We find this ignorant bigotry especially noticeable in Anti-Saloon League sympathizers who refused, regardless of fitness and qualification to vote for any man who disagreed with them concerning how booze should be sold. It reached its culmination, however in the masked outfit known as the klan, led by fanatical preachers, a portio nof our population secceeded from law and order and tried to steal the American Flag. Their insane fanaticism led to such propa ganda as “The Catholics killed Harding”, “The Pope will soon occupy the White House!” “The Jews have all the money!” “The Greeks have all the restaurants!” “The Negroes are dark!” They threw teeth-gnashing fits because the Catholics venerate and cherish the memory of the Virgin Mary. We are inclined to think that most any half-way civilized being desires to think that the mother of Christ was pure and saintly. How they railed at Catholics for burning candles in their church! Poor, benighted klansman! do you not know that for 1500 years the Catholics cherished our Bible by meeting in caves and reading it by candles. We as protestants owe that church a debt of gratitude for the valiant fight they waged against the pagan hordes. The
TEXAS REDEEMED. • I Texas has redeemed herself from the curse of kluxism. As predicted in the Post-Democrat, “Ma” Ferguson skinned Judge Felix Robertson, the klux candidate for governor of Texas by more than a mile. As this is written the returns are not all reported, but the majority of Mrs. Ferguson^the woman anti-klan candidate, over the tar and feathers candidate will exceed one hundred and twentyfive thousand. Texas today stands the most glorious state in the union. The average Texan is a real fellow. When the Ku Klux craze struck the state she went wrong temporarily, but Texas does not stay wrong. Thousands and thousands of former klansmen, nauseated and revolted at the hypocritical and lawless regime of the Evans autocracy, which is seeking the overthrow of the government of the United States, helped swell the tremendous majority of the anti-klan candidate. The writer has before him a letter from Dr. Fred B. Johnston, a charter member of the San Antonio klan, written two weeks before the primary, in which he scathingly denounced Robertson and pledged his support to Mrs. Ferguson. The Lone Star again beams brightly through the rifted clouds. God bless Texas.
Ohio Democrats Against Klan. The Ohio state democratic convention Tuesday went emphatically on record against the Ku Klux Klan, denouncing the organization by name in the exact words uttered by Candidate John W. Davis in his Sea Girt speech. The democratic party in the nation and most of the states is clear in its opposition to this unAmerican organization. Over two years ago the Post-Democrat began fighting the klan and continually prophesied that to be against the klan was democratic and that the democratic party would have to declare against it in the 1924 campaign. Because of our attitude, Obed Kilgore, kluxer, then democratic county chairman, issued some sort of a proclamation declaring that the PostDemocrat was not a democratic newspaper, and with the assistance of his klux republican friends started a so-called democratic weekly which declared in its initial number that it would not discuss “religious affairs.” Tfie stand taken by the Post-Democrat has been vindicated by the democratic party in Indiana, Ohio,. Texas and many other states as well as in the national councils of the party. Albert S. Burleson, of Texas, in demanding a ruling that kluxers be denied the right to vote in Texas democratic primaries because they constitute a separate political party, has hit the nail on the head. When a democrat joins the Ku Klux Klan he ceases to be a democrat and he should not be allowed to participate in the selection of democratic candidates until he has withdrawn from the klan and made proper amends for his betrayal of the principles of democracy.
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