Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 13 February 1925 — Page 2

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13,1925.

THE POST-DEMOCRAT. A democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware Co. Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3,1879. Price 10c a Copy—$3.00 a Year. Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher. Muncie, Indiana, Friday, February 13, 1925. DAVIS OF KANSAS.

the property, and the third appropriated $441.70 as hospital expenses of Ira H. Ingram, a private in Company F, Indiana state militia

Drapier Heirs Denied

Continuing to wield the legislative ax, the House concurred in a report of the committee on benevolent and ' scientific institutions and sent to dusty death the bill appropriating $45,675.46 to heirs of William and i Elie H. Drapier for reports of brev- . ier legislative reports of debates in ‘ sessions of fifty-third to fifty-fifth sessions of Legislature inclusive. t Opposition on the part of electri- • cal workers apparently was responsible for the killing of the Buchanan bill licensing all electrical contractors and electricians. Monday members of the House received a statement from a labor union of Gary protesting against passage of the

(Medill School of Journalism)

Another state governor is floundering in a mudhole. bin.

McCray, Walton, and Ferguson and another that we might T he senate bin prohibiting any have already skidded off the macadam into various kinds P erson from fishing in Indiana waof censure. Now it is Davis of Kansas. And it appears l ers w l ien the wat ® r 18 co ' rered w1 ^ that he has sunk deeper than the rest. - t0 noo , w!lh sixtv days . lmprlso „. From the outset of his term the Kansas governor has ment, ended its short career when been involved in continuous official trouble making. The the House adopted an unfavorable legislators got the habit of balking with such chronic re P° rt of its committee on natural

regularity that it finally ignored the governor’s wishes en- resource s-

tirely, an unheard of discourtesy in Kansas government. . ^ mnow Measures Dies The quarrels of Davis with county attorneys over parol- selling minnows or „ alt ing penitentiary convicts was incessant. Embittered by was killed by the same committee, his defeat for a second term, he cast discretion aside and Nothing so became the bin aboibrought down a storm of disapproval by handing out pa- ishin s the county road supervisor roles and pardons like a handbill peddler. In the last and conf e rrin g his duties on the weeks of his term he dragged the state university into ^ t'TZs politics by dismissing Chancellor Lmdley. And while the mortal coil Following a debate in alumni and friends of the university were still in a furor which the bin was attacked by the friendless governor and his son were arrested on a members of the House and defended charge of selling a pardon to a convict. , b y its author did the committee reJonathan Davis is the product of the Ku Klux Klan in port for inde fi ni te postponement politics. It was during the term of Gov. Henry J. Allen ^ rRvail in t th ? measun3 abol f in ^ that the klan took possession of the ballot box. Angered femng his duties on the commis-

by his ouster suit, it voted solidly against Allen’s candi- sioners. date for the next term, W. Y. Morgan. In two cities entire crowds walked out of Allen’s compaign lecture halls at a klan signel. Davis was swept into the governor’s

chair with a big majority.

Now the seeds of Ku Kluxism in politics are bearing; RwesentTtive Kissinger slid that fruit. Davis is disgraced, condemned by public opinion' in many instances good results were before his trial. Never before in the history of the stated not being obtained from the road was a governor arrested. The cherished record of the! superintendent and he favored Sunflower state has dropped into the mud. Davis drags! passage of the bil1 giving the

it with him as he tries to wade out of the political bog in

which he has ensnared himself—Carl Warren.

missioners

duties.

KLANSMAN’S WIDOW

pone consideration indefinitely. The motion was seconded by Represen-

tative Charles M. Clark of Indiana-

j polls. A motion to table the Menden-

(Continued from Page One) | hall motion introduced by RepreMen of Borneo. Where were they sentative Frank Wright of Ran- . . o ^ . i dolph county was withdrawn at the during the world war? It’s beyond ; request of tbe speaker t o give Mr. Us to tell you. Go and ask them.! Mendenhall an opportunity to speak

Too bad, that so many Anti-klanmen j on bis motion,

were so indiscreet and crowded in I

ah Mr 4 S ‘. Monority. North Sixth Street, TEN BILLS WERE

Helen Jackson’s hostess is still alive but how she can face anti-klan citizens after entertaining that Vile

Petticoat is beyond us.

Practically every Leffel living north of Logansport is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. A wise crowd Eh? Quite a nice haul for the professional train robbers of the Klan. Russel Deck, farmer Lucerene. Never been out of the County. Herd Burton, Lucerene—brother of Kookoo Orastes Ora Omer Orlanda Burton. Folks were surprised when he joined the Kluxers. LOGANSPORT Werick, L. G. 110 Linden Ave. powerman Pa- RyWright, Gerald Clerk Pa. Ry. Williams, Max 121 Humphrey garage Prop. Williams, R. Walters, Carl 214 Humphrey St.

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KILLED TUESDAY BY LOWER HOUSE

Monopoly Inquiry j, Ordered By Senate Is Sold For Taxes

Washington, Feb. 13.-^The Federal trade commission was directed yesterday by the Senate to investigate alleged monopolies in the electrical power and the tobacco industries and to inquire into the existence of a national propaganda to discourage public ownership of util ities. £«! o House Kills Third ! Religious Bill r _____ Indianapolis, Feb. 13.—With various members of the House declaring that the Dickerman religious training bill would connect church and state, the House yesterday killed the third Dickerman bill to come over from the Senate. Provisions of the bill enabled pupils to take two hours of instruction weekly at a school for religious inetruction, if so desired by the parents or guardians, and receive the same scholastic credit as for attending the public school. When the bill was handed down by Speaker Leslie on second reading Representative Ira Mendenhall of Daviess county moved to post-

Obscene Literature Act Is Killed; Minnow Measure Also Dies.

Indianapolis, Feb. 13.—The mortality rate of bills reached a new high mark in the House yesterday. Ten bills—nine House and one House and one Senate measure— were killed on committee reports in the forenoon session. The Knapp bill requiring all magazine dealers to obtain licenses so as to prohibit the distribution of salacious magazines was indefinitely postponed by the House acting on a unanimous recomdauon of its committee on public morals. Women’s organizations had been actively supporting the Knapp bill. The Indiana Parent-Teacher’s Associations also supported it. Opposition came from magazine vendors

and publishers.

Strange Battery Bill Killed. Speedy death was dealt to the Elliott bill which prohibits the sale of rental storage batteries by persons other than owners. In a brief debate preceeding action on the bill Representative Kenny said it was unnecessary while Mrs. Daugherty maintained that the bill would serve

a useful purpose.

J. Glenn Harris asserted that there was a remedy at present in the civil laws for the evil which the bill aspires to correct. By a vote of 55 to 33 the House adopted the majority report of the committee on Judiciary B favoring indefinite postponement. This committee also killed three other bills and was sustained by the House, j The first bill required that charges of misconduct of a juror must j be supported by an affidavit to a : juror or person having knowledge of such misco.oduct before a new ; trial ca» be granted; the second permitted widows with life estate in property bequeathed to a state institution by her husband to sell

j for many years the summer home of the late Kate Douglas Wiggin where the scenes depicted in many of her stories will be visited, and the Dorcas Society^ made famous in her • “Old Peabody Pey^*’ will receive the ' visitors from all parts of the nation. i COURT NEWS

The Post-Democrat admits that it has been somewhat negligent in the past in telling the public of things that he Press and he Star suppress,

and some of our friends even accused , sub ^ ect of argument .

us of “selling out’’ and joining the ,n S war

conspiracy t 0 suppress the things re-, over; sentiment was

lated above, so from now on we will our best citizens are a result of the

give the news without fear or favor.

showing the increase of foreigners within the country were quoted and the immigration doors were made a

A heartbreak-

ing war with Jforeignersi was just over; sentiment was strong. That

MAFERGUSON

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| CContinued from Page One) | Graves, a protected bootlegger and gambler, who has always got out ; from under in the city court, was ; caught recently-with a gallon of white mule in the safe of his joint. He was | tried Monday and an employee of | Bob’s claimed ownership of the li- ! quor found locked up in Bob’s safe, ! so the case was ‘‘taken under ad-

visement.”

I Jay Bennett, proprietor of the Mun-

icie Steam Dye Works, a member of wou]d come w , th secret the klan who still adorns the window an<] with , nvl3ible rule .

of his establishment with K. K. K. signs, was arrested in company with a woman in the Little block a short time ago and both plead guilty in the city ccurt to a statuory charge and were each fined the encr~uous sum

of one dollar and costs.

Being a one hundred percent American and a protector of pure womanhood, Bennett’s name did not appear in the local dailies, nor did | that of the woman who was cauht 1 with him. The Star and the Press [publish only the names of the poor j and defenceless and those who known to be enemies of the Ku Klux Klan. Bennett and the woman both

melting pot that had blended the strength of all nations into a demo-

As a candidate for governor, I pionisc-d that when I reached office 1 would mge laws limiting the licen^ nes of hooded mobs, t shall, ask the legislature to pass laws requiring the membership of each klan to be filed with the county clerk, aae I would' have a law that made ma.K-wearing public an offense punishable witn

one

| era tic people, was forgotten. Jewish | one year’s imprisonment for

person alone, and with two years imprisonment for three or more people

congregated with masks on.

Says (Crisis Is Past.

Although at one time the menance

| domination of the industrial power jof America was pictured. Patriotism j and the preservation of the law were

,, , . , . m ,. . j ’made a basis of appeal that caused they brought a remedy for threatened , _ „ x, , , x

i officers of the law and good men to disasters of society. These agents

of the klan, with its silent political machines and its determination to>

(enter the klan.

also made the most of each commu- | Thus thousands of men whose in-

nity’s chief prejudice and capitalized | tentions and purposes were the best. | ac( l u * re power through politics, seem race hatred, religious intolerance ; we re inducted into an organization ed to threaten internal dissolution and political greed, by making mag- that soon began a program of pun- that would have brought shame and’ nificent promises of the power that jshment on a par with medieval in ! distress to this country. I believe that

conniving quisitions. j as far as Texas is concerned, the j Early in the history of the klan in j c™ 8 * 8 i 8 Past and that sincere men

Religious prejudices is the founda- Texas, the common people began to j w ith the best interest of state and tion of the klan, when all camouflage realize that klannishness was based i neighbor at heart will forsake the is torn aside- The klan, shutting its on interests hurtful to their own wel- | mask for day light rule, court justice doors to certain citizens, brought dis- f are and they refrained from joning j and religious tolerance. There are solution and hatred from the start to the invisible in empire. But there ! many people who have been in bad towns that had been harmonious and we re many who could not see the j company before, whose manhood re-

scued them from the peril of too much association with unworthiness. That the worst is over in Texas is best demonstrated by the state elections of the last two years. The 1922

to neighbors that had been friends. menace of the klan for its pretenThe klan gained dominance in Tex- s ions. Immediately after its organias in the beginning because of its za .tion in Texas, a series of outrages birth at a time of chaos. Then its against guilty and against innocent agents built up an army of good men victims alike, shamed sane people

Representative Drake, author, pointed out that the bill was optional and that the road superintendent could be supplanted by the commissioners at their discretion.

and of narrow men alike by offering a nd threatened tq give unlicensed election netted some victories for the the bait most acceptable in each power to any man who wore a mask- klan, but the last election was almost are community. In negro-populated dis- Unlawful gangs took advantage of ! a complete victory for anti klansmen. tricts the fear of race equality as the this opportunity to gain nefarious | Liberty of conscience and the right result of uncontrollable conditions • p ur p 0Ses behind the sheet, and pri-| of just trial shall prevail in Texas

admitted on ’j 16 jof^tke cause^In other^is- wtjofls'witlftoHure." 8 Whipping squads * governed can^tea^ th^mas!^ from^h^ circuit cour as Bennett by a i tricts the vanguard of the klan pIc ‘ were organized in every klan, and it, Lone Star, whose creators died that

tured the pope’s alleged encroaching became a common practices for klans their children might have justice, power. to exchange visits in order to admin- ! tolerance and independence from all “Good Men Brought In.” — ister floggings and tarring-and-feath-j powers—visible or invisible that And everywhere the danger of for- ering to stranger victims for neigh-; threatens the liberty of free men on;

eign control was stressed- Statistics boring klans- [free soil!

j tion brought against

1 former employee to recover wages [alleged to be due, that they had been arrested and fined, hut the Star and the Press did not consider that as

news.

COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ANNUAL REPORT

lent of the Board of Commissioners of Delaware County, Indiana, of the Receipts, Disbursements and Balances

COUNTY REVENUE 1925

I Year, 1924

corn-

power to perform his

WOMEN’S MBS 10 MEET IN MAINE July 12 to 18 Will Be Occasion of Gatherings of Business Women.

The following tentative program has been made by the committee in charge of the convention of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs which will meet in Portland, Me., July 12 to 18. * * A great International day, when women from all the countries of the world will be the guests of the business women of America, will be the most impressive feature of the convention. Thursday, July 16, is the date set for this demonstration of international friendliness between business women. Women from foreign lands will be guests of the federation for morning motor trips to the pleasure resorts of Maine immediately surrounding Portland, and in the afternoon will participate in the convention program, remaining over for the banquet in the evening when Judge Florence Allen of Cleveland, O., will arrange a program of which international co-operation will be the keynote. The International day feature will be another step toward the formation of an international federation which is expected to materialize within a few years, as active organizations of business and professionwomen now exist in practically every county under the sun. Briefly outlined, the program for the convention includes a meeting of the national executive board, Monday morning, July 13, and the opening convention session, that afternoon at 3 o’clock. A reception for national officers will be held in the evening. Tuesday, July 14 will be given oval women now exist in practically er to round-table discussions, and vocational luncheons will be held Tuesday noon. Tuesday night will be set aside for the impressive ceremonials of charter night when charters will be issued to new clubs. Visit Wiggin Home Further round-tables will be held Wednesday morning; the birthday luncheon, which represents the completion of the federations sixth year, at noon, and a clambake and sail Wednesday afternoon, when some of the delegates from the South and middle West will make their first acquaintance with Maine lobsters and clams. Thursday will be International day, and Friday the election of officers will take place, and the “prank fest” at Old Orchard, one of the most famous beaches on the Atlantic coast. The Saturday and Sunday preceding the convention will be given over to teas by Portland hostesses to the entire convention body, and the Saturday following the “prank fest” will be featured by a trip to Poland spring as guests of the Lewiston (Me.) club, and to Quillcote-on-Saco,

5,940.00

Clerk of the Circuit Court - 490.15 County Auditor 8,034.94 County Treasurer ” ~ 7,397.95 County Recorder "" 3!o28.52

County Sheriff

County Surveyor County Superintendent County Assessor

County Coroner

County Health Commissioner

Commissioners Court Wo',7«or

County Council: Attorneys, County and Pauper County Board of Review County Board of Truancy

Expense of Aooc SbxUg ' ^42 74

Township, Poor " Court House

County Jail """ 155 95

County Poor Farm County Home for Orphans — Expense of Inmates State Institutions Expense Insanity Inquests j Expense Epileptic Inquests ’ Expense Burial (soldiers) Expense Elections Expense Public Printing Highways, Viewers, Damages, etc. Board of County Charities

Farmers Institute _ 50

Expense of Ditches^ Expense Justice of Peace Unwaivered Sewer Assessments

18.00

7.607.56 9.462.08 15.566.39 6,555.80 14.708.74 804.21 3,998.60 2.012.35 916.00 3.572.00 1,806.75 1.305.00 760.00 1,836.70 12.329.95 9,783.86 22.423.15 5,240.52 44.783.96 44.482.40 4.526.38 4.336.35 95.00 5.340.00 14,582.86 2,234.91 318.00 369.90 98.75 1,414.55 4.80 2.412.36

Deficiency In School Funds Expense Game Garden Destroying Seines Expense Poor Children Preliminary Cost of Highways Weights and Measures Inspector County Agent ' Tubercular _ _

Free Tubercular Test Taxes Refunded Examination Public Records YirY County Penal and Benevolent Institutions Donations and Bounties Expenses of Bridges * ” Expense Bridge Repairs Prosecuting Attorney , ~~~ Change of Venue Circuit Court, Special Judges Circuit Court Jury Fees Expense Circuit Court I Superior Court, Special Judges Expense Superior Court

County Hospital Association

’•Sfe j

)

539.09

5.00

25.75

2,304.35

1,574.56

-—

2,503.98

2,070.60

3,777.77

—

2,775.19

1,720.79

475.08

1.080.00

2,613.72

72,105.41

314.68

16,404.74

669.39

1,509.48

600.00

6,243.80

11,337.08

200.00

3;052.28

10,000.00

603.25

$389,879.18-

Expenses 1924 $389 879 18 Leaves Balance December 31, 1924 $ 69i388Y0

County Revenue

Principal Congressional Principal Per. Endowment Interest Common Interest Congressional Interest Per. Endowment Fines and Forfeitures

1 dACLUlWll 1.^1 —

Sale of Bonds for Construction of public ditches Taxation for Redemption of Public Improvement bonds and 1 Tax Sale Redemption Recorders Fund Ditch Construction

Ditch Sale R S7

Ditch Repair General Gravel Road by Taxation Ditch Bonds State Show License 1917 Acts Ditch Collections Agriculture Experiment Station State Teachers Pension Fund ----- State Tax Benevolent Institution Fund State Highway Fund State School Tax ■' State Education Institutions Fund i Docket Fees j State Vocational Township Tax 1 1 Local Tuition Tax [ Special School Tax ^ Road Tax

Common School Revenue Surplus Dog Fund Library Fund Inheritance Tax Corporation Tax Water Works Tax Electric Light Tax Vocational School Twp. and Corp. Additional Special School 1_-_-Bond Fund Sinking Fund Park

Dunes Park Tax Indiana Board of Agriculture Policeman Pension Firemen Pension :

City Plan Commission

Total - - $542,463.02 $3,043,331.01 $3,585,794.03

Balance Dec.

31, 1923.

Receipts

Total Overdraft ExpendiDec 31 1923 tares

Total

Baf. Dec;. 31, 1924

__-$161,765.69 $

297,502.19

$ 459,267.88

$ S'SO,879.18

$389,879.18

$ 69,388.70

40,388.70

$45.59 28,302.30

28,347.80

12,040.90

1,207.32

1,085.00

2,292.32

1,985.00

307.32

62.27

955.93

1.018.20

350.00

350 00

668.20

11,970.91

11,970 91

11,853.41

117.50

628.15

892.60

1,520 75

1,088.89

431.86

85.66

787.40

873.06

838.52

34.54

408.00

15,337.40

15,745.40

14,945.40

800.00’

211,203.47

147,382.94

358,586.41

227,176.37

131,410.04

64,350.99

233,142.20

297,493.19

271,829.33

25,663.86

.31

ons 15,282.10

10,708.65

25,990.75

15.721.45

15,721.45

10,269.30

290.69

4,543.37

4,834.06

4,<>25.08

4,825.08

8.98

18.70

679.93

24,625.72

25,305.65

11.669.74

11,669.74

13,635.91

967.12

1,456.87

28.28

1,485.15

102.06

222.50

324.56

222.50

102.00

275.38

8,090.40

8,365.78

6,429.18

1,936.60

1.340.00

25.00

1,365.00

767.94

11,082.7V

11,082.77

11,982.77

11,082.77

4,283.44

4,283 14

4,283.44

35,149.27

127,330.43

. 127,330.43

880.60

79,361.52

79,361.52’

79,361.52

63,543.59

53,543.59

55,543.59

53,543.59

142.00

716.00

858.00

676.00

182.00

5,370.47

5,870.47

5,370:47

5,370.47

39,515.80

470,785.87

470,785.57

470,785.87

468,400.96

57,657.70

5 7,657.70

57,657.70

— 4,627.71

4,627.71

$8,986.58

88,986.58

88,896.58

88,986.58

8,770.34

21,727.97

17,015.60

362,843.27

362,848.27

362,843.27

6,425.11

7,737.01

20,822.83

89.467.66

89,467.66

60,159.22

913.24

37,549.16

4,689.80

8,803.91

13,493.71

_ _ 72,878.80

137,867.50

210,746.30

191.217.30

191,217.30

19,529.00

2,083.02

2,603.79

6,145.60

$4,728.05

4,728.05

$45.50 $3,290,757.77 $3,290,803.27 $294,990.7S

CONDENSED STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, Balance December 31, 1928 $ 542,463.02 Receipts for 1924 3,043,331.01

Total -$3,585,794.03 Overdraft December 31, 1923 45.50 Expense for 1924 r 3,290,757.77 Total balance in Treasury Dec. 31, 1924 $ 294,757.76

DISBURSEMENTS AND BALANCE FOR 1924. Treasurer’s outstanding warrants Dec. 31, 1924 $560,357.72 ATTEST: JAMES P. DRAGOO, Auditor Delawart Co., Indiana. FRED R. REASONER, Treasurer Delaware Co., Indiana. ANDREW JACKSON, ■ JOHN W. McCREERY, JR„ JOHN W. TRUITT, Board of Commissioners of Delaware Co., Indiana,

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