Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 14 November 1924 — Page 4

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1924.

KGS LIGHTS Of <Continued fron- ''"tse One) ago. Mr. Csrr tt?.s suspected of bein', two friendly with the new klan, and lost cast further with the kirn afte" he had been seen conversing wit?! the editor of the Post-Democrat, which was, of course, regarded as .treason. We are happy to announce that Rev. J. Walter -Gibson, after trying all brands of klansmanship, has quit ;them all and has gone back to the ^preaching business some place or .other. The klan suits which have been pending for some time in the circuit -oourt may, and may not, come to trial The old klan sued the new klan for .'Swiping its $6,300 bank roll and the .klan regalia. The new klan sued Ihe old klan on general principles. It has just come to light how the <old klan happened to have $6,300 on hands to steal. Knowing that klan -.money is split up among the kleagles, klttdds and klabbers as fast as it is extracted from the jeans of the un--wary It was a mystery how there happened to be over six thousand dollars on hand just when the split canifi but the answer is easy. The officers of the old klan, Orion TSorcross, Frank Barclay, Sam Bemen «derfer, J. Walter Gibson and all the rest of them pulled off what we call in French, a “coup.” Without informing their brethren what was coming off a conspiracy was hatched among the officers of the klan last January, <to start a new klan. The thing was kept a dead secret among the half dozen conspirators. The r^nk and file had no knowledge of the coming split. Two weeks before the rebellion the members were all notified to come in and pay a year’s dues in advance, in order to meet certain pressing obligations. The suckers flocked in and paid their dues in advance and the klan bank roll was enriched to the tune of over six thousand dollars. This money was promptly checked out, one check for five thousand being drawn in favor of J. F. Hilderbrand. one of the officers of the old klan. After all the money in sight bad been dragged in the new T klan was -suddenly formed, all of the old klar. officers being at the head of the new. Hilderbrand was made treasurer of the nev r klan. Nobody knows how toe money taken from the old klan members was divided up, but it is probably spent by this time. ‘The new klan is said to be a trost as far as membership is concerned. Although its press agents tell big stories about the new klan being :strong in any states, there is no evi,dence that it got anywhere at all except in Muncie, and it seems to be fading away here. Both klans are rapidly disintegrating here and there seems to be 'ground for the belief that the klan in Delaware county will be a thing of ihe past within a very few months. The leaders have all double crossed each other and the members have seen so much crookedness that they are glad to get out and be normal once more.

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Story of Conditions There i Told by Emissary From the People. New York.—A story of conditions in Macedonia, which he ascribes to Serb and Greek domination, has been brought to this country by J. Chkatroff, representative of the Union of the Macedonian Organizations of Bulgaria for the United States and Canada, who arrived here from Sofia recently. The Macedonians, be said, want complete independence and hope that ultimately there will be a Balkan republic, with all Balkan countries federated states. Mr. Chkatroff said he represented approximately 450,000 Macedonians in Bulgaria, who are members of 04 fraternal organizations, 34 societies of youths, a score of benevolent associations and others. He expects to bring his message of Macedonian hopes to the 60,000 natives of that country in the United States. “In order to understand the causes of the unruly situation in the Balkans and especially in Macedonia, the country which has always been the apple of discord among the Balkan neighbors, one must not forget her struggle for liberty and political independence during the period of the Turkish domination, and the present-day policy of her new conquerors, Serbs and Greeks,” he said. “Many years ago the Macedonian people began a bloody revolutionary war, which has lasted already more than a quarter of a century, and this caused on several occasions the European chancelleries to move, and finally In 1912 the Balkan alliance was formed against the Turkish empire. | Unfortunately, the first Balkan war, ! and the following fratricide among the Balkan allies culminating in the Treaty | of Bucharest of 1913, instead of creating an independent Macedonia in ac- | cordance with the wishes of her people, and thus to establish a permanent ! peace in the Balkans, divided the country between the three belligerents. I Serbia, Greece and Bufgaria. This ac i tunlly made the Macedonian crisis worse. Errors Are Kept Up. “The last European war which radically changed the map of Europe and which gave us the great principles of 1 self-determination of Woodrow Wilson, did not bring to the Macedonian question its deserved political solution. , Macedonia, at that time, was waiting day and night to see those principles applied to her people, so thqt the latter may be able to freely determine their wishes as to the future of their i country. But the Treaty of Peace of Neuilly (1919) seconded the grave errors committed by the Treaty of Bucharest. 1 “It is true that thb great victorious powers imposed upon the governments of Serbia and Greece a treaty for the protection of minorities, which was supposed to guarantee the minimum of political, civil and national rights of the Macedonians. This treaty has now become as valueless as a scrap of paper. The Serbian and Greek governments instead of creating a normal regime in Macedonia as soon as they reoccupied the country after the great war closed by force more than 1,400 Bulgaro-Macedonian schools with 80,000 pupils and more than .4,000 teachers, which were devotedly supported and financed by the local population; seized the Macedonian churches, libraries and cultural institutions; burned all Bulgarian books and killed or banished from the country all of | the Macedonian intelligentsia. Nor was the fate of our other compatriots, Turks and Rumanians, in Macedonia a better one. The heavy fetters of the Serbian and Greek tyranny are to be found today on the doors of the closed I Rumanian and Turkish schools and public libraries in Macedonia, i In addition to this policy of the Serbian and Greek governments, which is directed against the moral and inj tellectual institutions of the Macei donian people, following the practice i of former Turkish governments, they began to use new means and methods | in order to ai*tificially change the ethI nographic character of the country; ! they resorted to a policy of colonizaI tion. Today Serbian and Greek aui thorities deport the native Macedonian i population, plunder their, property and : distribute salU among colonists ^ brought from Bans* and Asia Minor. S To have an idea of the terrible picture one must visit the thousands of ■ recently arrived refugees, flying from Macedonia into Bulgaria, a country j economically poor, and see their tor- ! tured bodies burned with hot irons or i boiling oil. I “There are two further reasons i which aggravate the situation in Macedonia. First, there is a Serbian and Greek administration, whose officers are alien to the people; notorious cor- ! ruption and sheer force are the only rules in the country, and It seems that 1 the whip Is their constitution. One | could find out proofs of this by reading Serbian and Greek newspapers. Secondly, the newly created political frontiers tore away the economic bonds between Macedonian cities and districts. Serbian Macedonia has no sea outlet and is gradually dying. Greek Macedonia has no “hinterland," while the remaining part of Macedonia—under Bulgarian authority—has neither sea nor any convenient land communications with the Interior of that country, and for this reason, la in a worse condition. The principal economical

and political center in Macedonia is Saloniki, which 1ms all the advantages of prosperity, yet at present the city gradually, hut certainly, is dying. Her people do not see any more the steaming boats, the commerce is dead and the merchants are leaving the town. Pathras and Pereas are rising on her ruins. Bitolia, Prilep, Ochrid and many other towns are sharing the same fate. “Under sitch heavy conditions could the Macedonian peop’e remain quiet? With their country torn into pieces could they forget the thousands of lives sacrificed for the liberty and independence of Macedonia, ever since the days of the Turkish regime? Who couid deny the right of the Macedonian to struggle for existence? Who could forbid the Macedonians the fruit of their labors so that the latter may’ not be plundered by Serbian and Greek authorities and the Macedonian girls and brides may not he insulted by the same? “And the Macedonian did exactly as an American, Frenchman or an Englishman would have done. The whole people were frightened by the terror of the new tyranny and rose up to pro-

test.

“Banished from their own country, the Macedonians found refuge in Bulgaria, America, Turkey and Rumania, where they formed strong organizations whose aim Is by legal means to obtain liberty for their country. The Macedonian emigrants in all lands, who number more than half a million souls, proclaimed their faith in the traditions ef past generations and now appeal continuously to the human conscience of the civilized people in the world for the creation of Macedonia

into a free country.

Old Revolutionary System. ‘Meanwhile in Macedonia proper

OPPORTUNITY IN AMERICA.

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WILLIAM E. KNOX

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Radical demagogues sometimes cuse the capitalistic system with voring the rich and powerful against the poor and lowly. Fiftythree years ago an Irish lad of nine was brought to the United States by his parents. He went to the public schools and then began work as an office boy. A few days ago, on October 1, he was elected president of the American Bankers Association, the world’s largest financial organization i He is president of one of the largest savings banks in the United States. | the Bowery Savings Bank of New York City. This election of William ! E. Knox, who has risen from Irish

STRAIGHT TALKS WITH AUNT EMMY

On How Not to Make Out Checks

immigrant to chief of American

after denying the people all rights of | bankers, is the most striking remindcarrying a legal political struggle or j er of the year of the democracy of opforming a national political group in portunity in capitalistic America. the parliament of Belgrade and Athens, I —

they resorted to the only possible ac-1 tion by creating anew the old secret; revolutionary organization with Its own postal service, courts, militia and i efficiently armed military forces, with, its own educational and economic | policy—in other words, representing a | true state organization, mysterious, yet 1 powerful and democratic In spirit, j whose ideals are the creation of an | independent Macedonia with equal j rights for all of her different nationalities, with Saloniki as her capital. “The Macedonians are neither brigands nor breakers of the laws gov-1 erning public order and safety, when j they are ready to sacrifice their lives I for the triumph of their ideals, when they gladly go to die in order to de- j fend their wives and children, when they calmly meet death in order to save Macedonia. And in their struggle for right and freedom the Macedonians hope that they may receive the support of all civilized nations and

all liberty-loving people.”

Chemists Block Egg i Cold-Storage Frauds Washington.—Chemists of the Department of Agriculture have discovered a new way to determine whether eggs sold as strictly fresh are really ! fresh or whether they have been in ^ cold storage. A departmental bulletin j

says:

“Large quantities of eggs are now ’ preserved by first dipping in hot oil to ■ seal the pores in the shells and are ! then immediately placed in cold stor- j age. There is no objection to the practice, but recently It has been found! that a number of egg concerns have been treating these eggs on removal ! from storage so as to give them the i appearance of having been just laid, j “The treatment to remove the tell- j tale oil gloss consists in ‘manicuring’ ! the shells with a blast of fine sand or : in treating them with a bath in an i

alkali solution, after which they are 1 y°«rself, sign your name to it as usual dried and rubbed with French chalk . and indorse 11 ^ as thou * h were .

or talc.

“Chemists of the department have devised a method for detecting eggs which have been treated with oil and then subjected to the restoration process.”

“The most annoying thing has happened, Aunt Emmy,” exclaimed Helen. “I sent a check for $5 to the hospital to help them in their drive ami some one cashed it. Isn’t it a shame, for I jimply can’t afford to send another.” “I don’t see how that could happen,” said Aunt Emmy, “if you made out the

check properly.”

“Why, of course, I did,” Helen said. •‘I made it out just as I always do. to

bearer.’ ”

Aunt Emmy laughed. “No wonder you lost it!” she said. “Any one at all could ca. n a check made out like that. It’s very careless of you to do it, no matter to whom the check is given. It would only take a few seconds to write the name of the payee properly. A check made out to ‘Bear-, eF may be cashed by any one who gets it. It is regrettable but true that not every one is honest. You know that lots of people would take a five dollar bill if they happened to find it. A check made payable to bearer or to ‘cash’ is just as tempting to them as

a five dollar bill would be.”

“But. Aunty, it was so frightfully mean to steal from the hospital!” “You invited this particular theft by neglecting to make your check out properly,” A.unt Emmy admonished Helen. “You may be glad your loss is no greater. Even when you go to the bank for money yourself you should not make your check payable to cash. Suppose ybu should lose it on the way? The same thing that happened to the hospital check might happen to it. Better take an extra minute and make the check out to

Court Bars Girls Wearing Knickers Chattanooga, Tenn.—The police matron of Chattanooga has decreed that girls must appear before his honor, the city judge, when arraigned, in proper female attire and the objection to this rule by two girls from St. Louis, aged nineteen years, who are on a tour through the country, was the basis of a pretty lively row In the matron’s office. The girls wore boys’ caps and shirts and knickers and it was this dress the ma-

tron objected to.

Before court the matron Insisted that the girls wear skirts before they faced the judge. They refused pointblank. The matron borrowed two skirts from the Associated Charities. In spite of the girls’ objections their trousers were removed with the assistance of the police department and they were brought into court attired in dresses and fined $5. The same question has arisen before in this city court and the officers of the charities have appropriated two skirts from their supply of old clothes, so that in future all women arrested in knickers can be brought into court in feminine attire.

one you received from someone else.’ “That seems like a lot of times to sign your own name on one little check, doesn’t it, Aunty?” objected

Helen.

“It’s ever so much better to be on the safe side than to lose your money through carelessness,” retorted Aunt

Emmy.—Anne B. Aymes.

Government Does Not Own Reserve Banks

In the discussion of the Federal Reserve banks and their operations, undue emphasis has frequently been placed on their relation to the government, and they are frequently called “government banks.” As a matter of fact, they are not “government banks” in a true sense, but are corporations organized under an act of Congress, and owned entirely by their member banks. The government does not hold a single share of their stock. The control of the banks’ operations is also largely in the hands of the member banks, who elect two-thirds of the Federal Reserve bank directors, the remaining one-third being appointed by the government to represent the interest of the government and the public. The Federal Reserve banks, it is true, are agents of the government in addition to their other activities, and in this capacity they must follow the Instructions of the government in handling transactions which they perform simply as agents. We believe that it is important that the fact thn* a clear understanding of this poin’ should be generally had, as manv ^ the criticisms made against the Fed eral Reserve banks have been based on a misapprehension as to their rela tio««h3p.to the government.—Amer can Bankers Association Journal.

EXPOSING THE KLAN Continued from Page One your cervical verterbrae? What was the matter with the man ? Did he rebel and refuse to prosecute victims selected by the klan for punishment? And the sheriff of Decatur county and the mayor of Greensburg are NO GOOD. That means, of course, they are not klansmen, and of course utterly hopeless as public officials, according to the standards set by Lone Tree Club No. 35, of Decatur county. It will no doubt come as a surprise to the “weak” prosecutor, the “unfavorable” judge and the “no good” sheriff and chief of police to find that their qualifications have been so carefully recorded at the state headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. The Post-Democrat has surprises in store for all the county and city officials in the state of Indiana. The big special edition win carry the entire story and it’s a scream. Every citizen of Indiana should order a copy in advance and keep it for future reference. Victory at Newark, O.

Over in Newark, Ohio, the people read the Post-Democrat and its influence there in the recent election was felt. In the face of the great Ohio republican landslide, Licking county, of which Newark is the county seat, elected the democratic county ticket, although the county went for Coolidge by a large majority. The klan wasthe issue locally, and although Newark was one of the worst kluxed cities in Ohio, the anti-klan forces were victorious, the klux-republican county ticket going down in defeat through an, intelligent coalition of the anti-klan forces of both parties. The big fight in Licking county was between Hi Holmes, safety director of the city of Newark, republican and kluxer, and Fred Vogelmeir, democrat and anti-klan, in their race for sheriff. When the votes were counted it was found that Holmes had been defeated by the overwhelming majority of four thousand, which was a clear demonstration that one section of Ohio has revolted against klan rule. In Ohio, one man, known as a safety director, is the head of the police department, performing the duties, which, in Indiana, are delegated to three men, who constitute what is known as a board of safety. It was this man Holmes, who was so utterly repudiated at the polls on November 4, who, as head of the Newark police department, caused the police of the city to confiscate and burn shipments of the Post-Democrat arriving in the city. Acting under the direction of Holmes the police of Newark for three months have suppressed the distribution of the PostDemocrat, insofar as they have been able to do so. The boys who sell the paper there are harassed every Saturday by Ku Klux police, and they succeed in selling them only through stealth. The police are instructed to follow the boys and when they oatch them with Post-Democrats in their possession, the bull headed cops forcibly take the papers away from the boys and destroy them. An effort was made by friends of the Post-Democrat in Newark to secure a restraining order which would prevent the police from performing their weekly act of banditry, but in a remarkable decision handed down by the court, they were permitted to go as far as they like. Notwithstanding the vigilance of the klux police, hundreds of papers are being sold in Newark weekly, but of course, it is impossible for the boys to sell as many as formerly, when it was no uncommon thing for twenty-five hundred to three thousand to be sold weekly. Naturally the citizens of Newark, who like the Post-Demo-crat, and are pleased with its weekly expose of rotten conditions in the klux-ridden city, simply boiled over when the police began confiscating the papers, and the result of the election has demonstrated that the safety director did not become very popular because of his lawless act. Newark is a fine little city of thirty thousand inhabitants, but when the klux craze struck Ohio last year, trouble set in and in a moment of emotional insanity the people voted the Ku Klux into power, electing a man named W. H. N. Stevens as mayor. Stev-’ ens filled all his appointive offices with klansmen and the mismanagement of the city’s affairs under the Stevens regime is notorious in Eastern Ohio. The election of November 4 was the first opportunity the people of Newark have had to gauge the sentiment of the voters since the city election of 1923, consequently the overwhelming defeat of the klux ticket there has caused universal satisfaction. The editor of the Post-Democrat has received many letters from Newark citizens since the election, declaring that this newspaper was an important factor in molding public sentiment there. ' We wish to congratulate our many Newark readers on their victory for the right and wish to assure them that the Post-Demo-crat will not permanently permit the lawless confiscation of their papers to go unchallenged. The matter will again be taken up in the courts and the affair will be thrashed out to the very last straw. We do not hesitate to declare that the action of the Newark police in making unlawful raids on small boys, and confiscating their stock of newspapers without warrant of law, constitutes a felony that makes the acts of Jesse James and his outlaw band sink into insignificance. It may be that the Newark bandits in office will do some thinking, now that the people have spoken in no uncertain terms, and that the head bandit, Service Director Holmes, who went to defeat, four thousand votes to the bad, may have visions of what is going to happen to his gang in Newark in the coming city election.