Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 July 1926 — Page 1

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MUNCIE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1926.

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DELAWARE COUNTY PEOPLE ARE FROM MISSOURI

Saturday Sees Close Of Remarkable Contest

Saturday Is Likely ToDe the Biggest Day of Whole Campaign Coming In Thick and Fast in Whirlwind Finish To Drive.

Final Count Takes Place Saturday Night

LIST OF CONTESTANTS. CIRCULATION CAMPAIGN.

MRS. FRED BURNS. MRS. GLADYS DIEFENBAUGH. MRS. J. C. WALLING. MRS. DAISY E. MILLER. MRS. GLADYS SULLIVAN. District No. 2 MRS. BYYRON WINGATE, Selma, R. 2. MISS CARRIE JORDAN, R. 6. JACOB FREY. MISS CLAIRE VANCE, Yorktown.

Pick The Winner

The Post-Democrat’s big voting campaign will come to a close Saturday night at 9 o’clock. A few words relative to the fair manner employed in winding up this big event will not be out of place. No doubt Saturday will be one of the biggest days of the campaign. It is not unusual in events cf this nature, considering the value of the prizes at stake, for the business turned in during the last day and night of the campaign to equal or exceed the amount turned in during the entire time of the race previous to that day. Consequently the management has arranged every detail in such a manner that it will be absolutely fair to each and every candidate on the list. The ballot box, locked and sealed, has been at the Court Pharmacy, Wysor Block, all this week and will remain there until the closing hour of the campaign, 9 o’clock Saturday night. No subscriptions or coupons have been or will be accepted at the campaign headquarters during the entire fourth and fifth period. All voting must be through the sealed ballot box.

There promises to be a fierce battle for the honor of avinning the automobile, tne biggest prize ever offered in this section. In this event the prizes are surely worthy of the effort. In fact, the others represent more than the average man's savings for much more than a year. The car itself, a Hudson Coach, represents a neat sum. All this week, up to the close of the campaign at 9 o’clock Saturday night, all business turned in by candidates must be placed in envelopes furnished by the office and sealed. No one, either inside or outside of the Democrat office, except the candidate himself or hers®lf, can know what these envelopes contain. They will be opened in the presence of the judges after the campaign is over at 9 o'clock Saturday night and the ballots made out to the amount of subscriptions enclosed. The ballot box will be turned over to the judges, the count made, the prizes-awarded and the'result announced. The final standing will be published in next week’s Democrat.

SCRAPS NAVAL TONNAGE PUN

Disarmament Conference Rejects America’s Strength —Comparison Proposed. Geneva, July 8.—The Americans met defeat yesterday on naval problems. Their minority report, to which Great Britain, Argentine and Chili had subscribed and made their own, was definitely rejected at a meeting of disarmament exports. Only the signers themselves supported it. Fourteen others voted against it and Germany declined to cast a ballot. This minority report contended that the naval strength of the various counties should be . compared by the tonnage of classes of ships, rather than by total- tonnage. The disarmament meeting then adopted the majority report of the naval subcommittee. The significance of today’s action is that one of the fundamental principles of the Washington naval treaty is scrapped, at least for the present. The principle is that in comparing navies of countries the standard should he total tonnage of classes of ships, as for instance, battleships. The report finally approved rejects the standard as unfair in its application to the countries who did not participate in the Washington conference. o President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge left Washington Tuesday on a special train enroute to the Summer White House in the Adirondacks. So far as possible the cares of state will be left behind with the intention of obtaining a complete rest after a hard winter and spring and in preparation for another difficult year ahead.

Poland plans to celebrate America’s 150th anniversary of independence almost as elaborately as it will be observed here, according to a cable received at the Polish legation in Washington Friday. Public schools will be closed for the day and a celebration will be held in the city hall at Warsaw, with the President of Poland attending.^ A felicitation petition with 5,Q00,000 names will be sent here.

Nearly $23,000,000 in tolls was paid by vessels passing through the Panama Canal during the fiscal year just ended. The sum is larger than that received during the same period in 1925, but slightly below the. canal record ofl924. President Coolidge has signed the bill appropriating $250,000 to establish a bureau in the Department of Agriculture to stimulate co-operative societies in marketing farm products. This was the only measure of relief granted. to the hard pressed farmers following the defeat of the McNary-Haugen bill demanded by the farm bloc and the Coolidge-Fess bill, backed by the President.

DEMANDS THATA NATIONAL HYMN NOW BE ADOPTED

Maryland Solon Aroused Over Slur; In Favor of “StarSpangled Banner.”

Washington, July 8.—A demand that congress officially declare the “Star-Spangled Banner” the national anthem was made in the house yesterday by Representative Linthicum, Maryland, Democrat, as a result of the attempt in New York to censor the words of America’s patriotic hymn. Heretofore the argument has been concerned with the musical qualities of the national song. The new controversy hinges on a question of good taste raised by Mrs. Charles R. Scarborough, of New York, who ruled out the national anthem from a recent independence celebration on the grounds that the words might offend some English people who were present. The audience sang it anyhow. Now Representative Linthicum demands that congress formally declare that the “Star-Spangled Banner” is the national anthem. Francis Scott Key, author of the song, was a native of Maryland. His anthem never has been officially adopted. In a speech in the house, Linthicum congratulated those members of the New York audience who sang the song over Mrs. Scarborough’s protest. “It is high time,” he declared, “that in the history of this great republic, perhaps the most patriotic in the world, that division of allegiance should cease. Those who feel so friendly with England that they hesitate to sing the ‘Star-Spangled Banner,” should go to England and sing ‘God Save the King,’ and not bask under the sunsnine and prosperity of the American republic while entertaining such strong allegiance to other lands.” EVANGELIST BACK TO FACE PROBE Second Search for Cabin Has Proved Fruitless; Few At the Train.

L03 Angeles, Cal., July 8.—Mrs. Aimee Semple McPhearson. evangelist, and her mother, Mrs. ; Minnie Kennedy, returned yesterday from Douglas, Ariz., and Mrs. Kennedy announced her daughter would appear voluntarily before the county jury to testify she was kidnaped at Ocean Park, Cal., May 18 by two men and a woman and held for ransom. The Los Angeles pastor and her mother arrived from a hurried trip to Douglas ,where they went Wednesday foi; the announced purpose of attempting to locate the cabin where Mrs, McPherson says she was held by h$r,abductors. The evangelist’s homecoming was in distinct contrast to her trimumphal return last Saturday, when she wps met at the station by a cheering throng estimatted at 50,000 persons. Yesterday a small crowd of curious persons waited while the woman pastor slipped through a rear exit, jumped into a taxicab and hurried to her residence.

Documents known as the “Arch ives of Columbus” will be exhibited at the coming Ibero-American Exhibition at Seville, Spain. The documents consist of ninety-seven different papers and a Book of Privileges. They were recently sold to the state by the Duke of Veragua, a lineal descendant of (Christopher Columbus, for a sum equal to about $250,000.

Forty members of the famiiy of William F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody assembled at Cleveland, Ohio, Monday for a family reunion, and at their first meeting they ’discussed the establishment of a Cody museum in memory of the famous Indian fighter. The closest of kin among the Cody relatives is Mrs. Julia Cody Goodman,' 83-year-old sister of Buffalo Bill. iShe recently finished writing a story about her brother and herself.

ACROBATIC CHARLESTON TO BE BEREFT OF KICK

A direct branch of the Department of Commerce was opened last Thursday at Louisville, Ky. Prentis R. Terry of Louisville, graduate of Louisville and Vanderbilt universities, is in charge of the office. This should be of great benefit for the southern Indiana and Kentucky manufacturers and producers by bringing them into closer touch with foreign markets.

It is altogether likdly that a 3cent reduction in the state tax levy will be declared this fall. On July 1 the state treasury balance was $16,452,718.84 which was declared to be the largest balance within the last decade or possibly in the history of the state. This balance and the fact that the state is en-

The Red Eyed Law

The feeling cont|nues to grow that Indiana has been run by lawyers long enough and thatfot is time for somebody else to get in the game, Indiana hap entirely too much law—too much repression. Hair splitting lawyers have a i^ode of ethics of their own which exempts lawyers from the penalties imposed upon us common people. Ninety-nina per |ent of the lawyers are in abject fear of the courts. If a judge arises sol4|nnly and declares that the moon is madfe of green cheese, the nien|bers the bar in his particular jurisdiction will generally support his cpinion' Ja man and the dissenting laity, who think differently, immediately tieconfe fit subject for a grand jury investigation. We have ^preme judges, federal judges, appellate judges, circuit judges, city judges, justices of the peace, prosecuting attorneys, deputy prosecuting attorneys, city attorneys, county attorneys, poor attorneys, and just attorneys, in such vast profusion that it keeps the rest of the people humping to get into enough trouble to keep them all working. Every two years the legislature, dominated by lawyers, meets and passes a new batch of laws. We already have enough to keep most of us in jail for the rest of our natural lives, but the red-eyed law is never satisfied as, long a?, there is a possible chance to put another “thou shaft not” on the statute books. What the people need is less law and more justice. In order to carry out the mandates of the legal fraternity the people are overrun by a constantly increasing army of sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, policemen, court bailiffs, constables, riding bailiffs, walking bailiffs, flying bailiffs, horsethief detectives, post office inspectors, state policemen, prohibition snoops, vigilantes, fly cops, revenue slickers, under cover men, private detectives and what not. You can’t walk a [half block without meeting some kind of an arresting officer armed with a forty-eight gun and a headache stick. The people certainly are not so bad that they need to be watched like that. Twice a day an army of policemen march solemnly away from the police station in double file to be distributed around town on the various “beats.” One would think, to see them marching in military phalanx that we were in a state of insurrection and that the army had suddenly been called out to quell the disorder. Instead we are a peaceable community, insufferably looked after, regulated, bluffed and buffaloed by a lot of normally good fellows who ought to be at work in some kind of productive labor. And the worst pa>:t of it is that the more judges, state police, city police and dfeputy this and that we get, the less the law is really enforced. Muncie is a shining example of this. When Hampton became mayor he added ten men to our already top heavy police force, yet, the disclosures made by Judge Dearth in his famous pronouncement are ample proof that one blind, deaf, paralysed and one-legged constable could have done better than all the policeme». sheriffs and deputy sheriffs in Muncie and Delaware county, And 1 the worst pant of it is that the people have to pay out good money to keep this sort of a mill grinding. Just think of the state of Indiana paying a perfectly good salary to a drunken bum like Durward Sharp, who slouches around Muncie the greater part of his time clad in the uniform of a state policeman! , Let us hope that the next legislature will get down to business aild put a stop to this sort of thing. The people resent it and could easily put a stop to it. The old Russian spy system has nothing on good old Indiana. These uniformed loafers should be put to work. There would be less crime and 1 fewer lawyers to be kept in luxury at the expense of people who really work.

Doubt Sincerity of Acting Prosecutor Wilbur Ryman, Holaday’s. Attorney; Victims Demand Thorough Investigation of Arch Swindler’s; Searching Probe Needed In Other Crimes; Grand Jury To Convene Again Soon and It Is Believed That Judge Dearth Means Business.

The grand jury adjourned Tuesday evening without returning any indictment against Sheriff McAuley and without making any recommendations to the court concerning the manner in which the sheriff’s office has been conducted.

It is stated that the body of inquisitors will meet next week to pursue the inquiry. No matter what happens the people are all sitting up and taking notice. When Judge Dearth declared several weeks ago from the bench that Muncie and Delaware county were rotten with gambling, prostitution and bootleg whisky and that he was going to fix the responsibility the people believed that he meant what he said. They are still resting the case of the people vs. crooked officials with Judge Dearth and will only be satisfied by a thorough clean-up. Naturally the people of Delaware county are “from Missouri” when it comes to any sort of an investigation that Wilbur Ryman is connected with. Hyman is one of the pliable members of the Billy Williams machine. which has complete control of the county and city administrations. The people here have even less confidence in Ryman than they have in Prosecutor Ogle, who named Ryman as his deputy to take charge of the investigation and then left on an extended western trip. For the past two years Ryman has been a Ku Klux Klan “organizer.” He was one of D. C. Stephenson’s flunkies and constantly did the bidding of the “Old Man,” who is now domg trft at tho penitentiary for murdering a woman. iHe was fired from his job as deputy United States district attorney by Judge Anderson because of his klan activities. While serving in that office four years ago he stood up with “Two Gun” Bill Cahill in a ; - 1

Preach Love, Not Laws—Longacre

Bethany Park, Ind., July 8.—A plea for ministers to preach the gospel of love rather than the execution of venegance upon evildoers by sheriffs and others, was made last night by Prof, C. S. Longacre, secretary of the religious association, in his address before the Indiana Conference of Seventh Day Adventists. “I have no faith in political preachers who would substitute the policeman’s clrb for the Cross of Christ. Nor have I faith in a church creed that substitutes the force of law for the power of love,” said Mr. Longacre. o Klux Klan Opposes All Sunday Dances

The Knights and Women of the Ru Klux Klan have passed the following resolution, it was announced

Saturday:

“Resolved, that we, the members of Hartford City Klan No. 34 and Godfrey Klan No. 93, are opposed

tirely out of debt will be response to the operation of all dance pavil-

ble for the 3-cent reduction in the

state tax levy.

NEW YORK—Because the Charleston is too acrobatic, it is to be modified by the American Society of Dancing Teachers. It is so popular, however, that they will retain it in a kickless * form under the name of Savannah, Mobile or some other point South. But. Henry Ford’s square dances—“Oh, they will succeed about as well as his peace ship,” the teachers think.

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The next thing is that the heat

wave may try and make all of

those lost degrees.—Terre

Star.

Dr. Emile Cone is dead. He will be remembered as the advocate of auto suggestion in the treatment of illness. He visited in the United States in 1923 and also later in 1924. I believe that almost every many, woman and 5 child is familiar with his formula, “Day by day in every way I am getting better and better.” •

The Dill radio control bill was passed by the Senate* Friday. This bill creates an independent commission of five members, similar to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to regulate the licensing and use of radio broadcasting. This will take control out of Secretary

Haute!Hoovers’ hands. The bill now goes

| to the House.

ions in Blackford county on Sunday.”—Hartford City Gazette.

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RICKSHA PULLING EXACTING.

(Sociologists looking into the question in Pekin, China, have determined that the business career of those furnishing the motive power for the man-drawn ricksha is only five years. Such is the endurance period of the arduous work. In and out of employment there are from 40,000 to 50,000 ricksha men in the metropolitan district. (Street cars are slow to gain

populaity.

o A six karet red diamond of a rare type has been found at the Kimberly diamond mines. Nikko, Japan, has a lacquered

Minister Finds Job As Editor Is Too Hard for Him

YAKIMA, Wash.—No one can run the other fellow’s job as well as his own, though he may, until he has tried it, be fully convinced that he is able to do so, said the Rev. D. W. Ferry here after a week as editor pro tern of the Yakima Daily Republic. The Presbyterian minister took the position after a series of arguments with the editor, Col. W. W. Robertson about the Republic’s editorial policy, especially in regard to the prohibition law and its enforcement. “Lots of persons think they could run newspapers and write editor)als without the least difficulty,” said Mr. Ferry. “I wish they could all try it once. It would develop a fine spirit of tolerance, though after the experience they might not survive long enough to exemplify it. If I have to retire from the ministry I certainly ain not going to try to find any rest in the editorial chair. It isn’t there.” Ferry said that he had learned that preaching every Sunday is nothing like the strain of filling editorial columns day by day. “The demands of newspaper space and time are so relentless that r could not stand up under them long.” o — GERMANS TO EXHIBIT BREAD-BOOZE MACHINE

klan meeting and ordered former Mayor Quick to discharge from the police force Night Captain John Moles and Detective Albert Rees and Jerry Curran because these three officers had become too ac tive in running down the shooti" scrape in which the editor of Post-Democrat and a bunch black masked kluckei-s volved. ;'t, . -tfppt 'Ryman is attorney tv Holaday the arch swind). robbed the people of Muu, surrounding territory six yeai by a get-xach-quick scheme. K day did four years in federal pris and then came back to Muncie am has been openly working the same swindle again. Victims of his latest operations vainly seek to get him to trial again. One woman who was robbed of over two thousand dollars, requested Prosecutor Ogle time aud again to begin an action but he refused. After the primary he did permit two people to file affidavits but with Holaday’s attorney in charge of the grand jury nothing could be accomplished in the way of running down the conspiracy to protect Holaday in his second venture in high finance. The people are also uneasy over the fact that Judge Dearth in his charge to the grand jury did not demand a thorough and investigation which would definitely fix the responsibility for the protection of the multitude of organized gamblers, prostitutes and blind tigers which the judge said his secret investigators found here in endless numbers. . (Continued to Page Four)

Caterpillers Eating Canada Thistles In State

Dark caterpillars are literally eating up the Canada thistle in many sections of central Indiana, according to inquiries which have come to the iPhrdue University agricultural experiment station within the past few days. Contrary to some expressed opinions, the caterpillars wiill not attack or injure any of the farm crops, nor can a field he cultivated to destroy the thistle, according to Purdue authorities. J. J. Davis, entomologist, says that the worms are known as the thistle caterpillar and develop into a beautiful butterfly known as the painted lady .They feed on thistle burdock, and a few other weeds, as well as sunflowers and hollyhocks. They are not known to attack any of the farm crops, and will cause no danger. They are present every year, but only (in exceptional years do they appear in large numbers A. A. Hansen, -botanist, say that “it is not likely that the caterpillars can be utilized to kill out the thistles since they occur in large numbers only in occasional years and furthermore they will not kill out the thistle even when they defoliate the plants, but they will prevent them from seeding. o FLAPPERS, SHIEKS NO DIFFERENT IN 1300 B. C.

NEW YORK.—A machine that makes bread and 98 per cent proof alcohol at the same time will be shown in the German exhibit at the sesquicentennial exposition at Philadelphia, Pa. Kurt Zimmerman, director of the German exhibit, arrived a few days aboard the steamship Zeeland with 1'50 exhibits for

the exposition. o

If the salts in the ocean were spread over the United States they would make a layer more than a mile and a half deep. If all the progeny of one oyster

bridge oyer which only members of lived and multiplied through six the rpyqi family may cross. J generations, the heap of shells

'CHICAGO—Flappers and shieks of Egypt in 1300 B. C. were not greatly different from the bobbedhaired “shebas” and drugstore cowboys” of today and craved their beer and orchestra, declared Prof. James H. Breasted, in making public the results of recent excavations in Egypt under the auspices of the University of Chicago. Heaven, he said, was pictured by the ancients much like our modern night clubs. He told of one group of a dozen small statutes representing the life of a family “on the other side of the Jordan,” which had its musicians, a beer maker and a bread maker.

Will Demand Free Press

The newspapers of Indiana, alarmed at the decision of the supreme court in the Post-Democrat case, which declared the truth no defense, are seeking an interpretation of this decision in the United States Supreme court. If the highest court in the land affirms this decision then the entire press of the country will be jeopardized. Even as it is, the latest Indiana contempt case may be* cited in other states as a precedent for similar action. A great Chicago newspaper has taken cognizance of the Muncie case and will probably add its great strength to the defense of free speech in the highest court of America. - v Word twisting lawyers, fearing to offend the bench, seem generally to be in harmony with the idea that judges, who are creatures of the constitution, have the “inherent” power to punish summarily for “indirect” contempt. This does not mean, however, that there are not a few courageous lawyers, whose democratic ideals have not been destroyed by the atmosphere of despotism, who will be heard in behalf of this great question of that liberty of speech and press guaranteed by the constitution. If judges and court attaches are to be placed above criticism and their truthful critics imprisoned for telling the truth about them, then not only newspapers, but the people in general, will find themselves in dire straits. If the press is to be muzzled, and threatened with imprisonment and extinction if it dares to call attention to the acts of unworthy public officials, it would be easy to establish a judicial tyranny which would perpetuate crooks 'in office and cause a riot of corruption disastrous to the people as a whole. The Post-Democrat decision says the truth is no defense where it holds the court up to the contempt and ridicule of the public. It needs only to be shown that the words, false or true, were uttered or published in order to establish the guilt of the one charged with contempt. When the Pilgrim Fathers fled for America, and set up a republic of their own, they thought they had forever discarded the theory that the king can do no wrong. Yet, under this decision, if a newspaper had the absolute knowledge and proof that a judge had taken a bribe and sold out a litigant in a case on trial or about to be tried, he could be cited for contempt for publishing the facts and sent to prison for it, without trial, while the real criminal, the judge, would pocket his bribe money and continue to occupy the bench, unscathed by the l$w.