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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1926.

FORESEES EARLY FALL OF BRITAIN AS WORLD POWER

‘Gloomy Dean’ Inge Says Empire Is Weakening—U. S. Friendship Uncertain.

New York, Sept. 27.—The early passing of Great Britain as a world power is forecast by Dean Inge of St. Paul’s, London, in an analytical survey of the empire, published today as the latest of a series by various authors on “The Modern World.” Living up thoroughly to his title of “the gloomy dean,” he sees greater danger not only in the international situation but even from “the antisocial and unpatriotic sectionalism which is the curse of industrial civilization especially danegrous in a country situated as

we are.”

“The main the empire,” “The omens unfavorable.

danger is interior to declares the dean, at present are very Everything points to

a coming time of trial for the nation and the'empire. It seems for every reason unlikely that our position as a world power will endure much longer. Much depends upon the friendliness of the United States on which we certainly can not count, though of which we

should not despair.

“The cordial friendship which many Englishmen enjoy with individual Americans must not bend us either to the intense concentration of the American people at law upon what they consider their own interests, or to the prevailing unfriendliness of expressed by its politicians and journalists, to this

country.

POINCARE LAYS ALL WAR BLAME ON THE GERMANS

Premier Takes Issue With Foreign Minister Briand’s Action.

St. Germain, France, Sept. 27.— Premier Poincare yesterday, made his first public utterance on international affairs since he assumed the combined task of premier and minister of finance. In a rather sharp talk to disabled war veterans, evidently destined to carry beyond the frontiers, the premier served notice that no matter how far France might be willing to meet Germany in a new friendship, there was one phase of the situation in which he would never yield a. jot, namely, the responsibility for the war. On that point he was adamant that the Germany of 1914 was responsible. The enthusiastic cheering that greeted the premier’s address showed that the war veterans at least indorsed his position. The meeting was presided over by Louis Marin, one of the stanchest of Nationalists and the leader of the Right group in the Poincare Cabinet which is directly opposed to the elements represented by Edouard Herriot and Artistide Briand. / At Variance With Briand. The Premier’s speech is entirely at. variance with the recent efforts of Foreign Minister Briand at Geneva. There is much speculation now as to what M. Briand will do at the next meeting of the Cabinet council. The Congress of Disabled War Veterans which closed its sessions here yesterday, adopted a resolution calling upon all members “to refuse a vote to any parliamentarian who accepts the ratification of the London and Washington debt agreements in their present form.” The speech is interpreted generally as a reply to that of Foreign Minister Stresemann at Geneva. “You know too well the horrors of war to be anything else than faithful servants of peace,” M. Poincare told the veterans, “but peace should never be for you a reason to abdicate your glory or to renounce the rights you defended.”

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Elect Carter and Dowling Defeat Hawkins and Heath

Through a typographical error it was stated last week in the announcement of the candidacy of William D. Carter, candidate for trustee of Centre township, that Mir. Carter had served for eight years. Mr. Carter was trustee four years, and was succeeded by Merritt Heath, republican, present trustee, who has held J;he office eight years and is now the republican candidate for county recorder, another fouryear office. Mr. Carter conducted the office of trustee in a business-like manner and he should be re-elected. During the eight years incumbency of Merritt Heath, a creature of the Billy Williams machine, the conduct of the office has been characterized by disastrous litigation, promoted by Heath, which has cost the township many thousands of dollars. Heath’s record was also blackened by one astounding act which should have caused his instant removal from office and which should forever disqualify him from holding any office of trust in Delaware county, and which should be closely scrutinized by the voters whose support he is soliciting in his campaign for election as county recorder. The records of the recorder’s office, which Heath hopes to fill, shows that as trustee of Centre township he purchased of himself three aeres of his own land, for school purposes, paying himself out of the township funds the sum of sixteen hundred dollars for the land, although the land is evaluated for taxation at only $150 an acre. As township trustee Heath brought suit in the circuit court, against himself, on behalf of the township, for the condemnation of the land for school purposes. The land was condemned, Judge Dearth named the appraisers, the price was fixed’ at $1,600 and Heath wrote himself a check for the amount. A friend of Heath, protesting the latter’s honesty, in a conversation with the editor of the Post-Democrat attempted to alibi the land deal by declaring that the appraisers appointed by the court slipped out to Heath’s farm and made the appraisement without Heath’s knowledge and consent. “Heath did not know they were coming,” said he, “and cannot be blamed for the valuation fixed by the appraisers.” Granted that he did not know they were coming and that they fixed the price without consulting him, Heath’s scruples did not prevent him from paying himself sixteen hundred dollars of the peoples money for land that was worth only a fourth of the amount, according to taxation records. It should be a irelief to the citizens of Centre township to know that Heath’s time has expired and' it is a matter of great importance to the citizens of the county in general to see to it that Heath is not entrusted with another office. Harry Dowling, his democratic opponent, is qualified and honest, and should be elected. Heath still has his farm left, minus the sixteen hundred dollar slice he wished onto the township. Unless he is sent to private life hei may get hard up again some time and sell another chunk to the public at war prices. And coming back to the question of a successor to the official who acted as real estate agent and sold himself his own land, the people of Centre township should' not allow themselves to be bitten twice by the same dog. George Hawkins, backed by the Billy Williams machine, and nominated at the primary by an eyelash majority by methods so rankly fraudulent that the republicans of Centre township are in open revolt, is the republican candidate for trustee. Hawkins is a justice of the peace. His office is in the Wysor Block. He does a real estate agency in connection with the squire business. Last spring he suddenly blossomed out as a contractor, associated with him a man named Beall, who had some slight experience in public work. When Hampton was elected Beall boasted that he would “now get his while the getting was good.” At the first public letting by the Harry Hoffman board of works a new and hitherto unknown firm of contractors, Hawkins & Beall, presented bids. It was then discovered that a contracting pool had been formed and from that time to the present all the public work in the city has been farmed out to the four members of the pool at outrageous prices. Low bidders who were not in on the graft were merely ignored and the property owners who are required to pay for the streets, alleys, sewers, sid'ewalks, curbs and gutters, have been swindled out of a hundred' thousand dollars in excess charges because of the operations of the administration contracting pool, of which George Hawkins is an important unit. If the people of Muncie and Centre township elect George Hawkins township trustee there should be an insanity inquest immediately after the election to inquire into the mental condition of the voters. Unless we have wholly misunderstood the sentiment of the people here they are enthusiastic in their desire to escape from the clutches of the greedy Billy Williams and Harry Hoffman machine. The election of George Hawkins to the important office of trustee of Centre township would keep the control of the office in the hands of the machine. It is therefore important that the voters should cast their votes for Mr. Carter for trustee. Mr. Carter has no land to sell to the township and he will not go into the contracting business on the sid'e. He will devote all his time and energies to the important work of the trustee’s office. Property owners of Muncie who have been gipped by the administration contractors’ pool should work for Mr. Carter’s success and should advise all their friends to go and do likewise.

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(IContinued From Page One) cheeks are paid to others. Prohably Gommissioner Tnjitt does no* know 'anyith‘ii)g about ;\e gravel

pit on his farm.

John Doesn’t Know It. Most likely strangers sneaked in there and started to hauling gravel from the Truitt domain, without letting John know what they were up 'to. At any rate lit seems strange that such a great advocate of the curing of gravel as Commissioner John Truitt would risk ruining Iht the roads of his own neighborhood them with gravel taken green and roads of his own neighborhood by covering them wiith gravel taken green and uncured direct from the pit, when 22,000 yards of gravel which had been cured in the sun for nearly four years was outu able just across the road. Mountains of cured gravel, paid for by the county, have been standing for years all over the county. It was easy money for the Hoffman gravel trust hut tough on the gravel read repalir fund. At present the fund is absolutely

AMEE UNWINDS TRESSES, SHOWS HAIR IS NOT FALSE

Evangelist Reveals True Color After Witnesses of Woman at Cottage Differ.

Los Angeles, Cal. ,Oct. 1.—Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, whose identification as the wioman who spent ten days at a cottage in Carmel, Cal., has revolved more or less around the color of her hair, look down her mass of bronze-ting-ed tresses in court here yesterday and demlonstrated that no part of it

was false.

The demonstration was made voluntarily after Deputy District Attorney E. J. Dennison had questioned Miss Emma Schaeffer, Mrs. McPhersons secretary, as to whether the evangelist wore

switches.

Miss Schaeffer had been called

<or =5 i e

gravel on the roads. The gang ha> the money, tens of thousands of

dollars worth of gravel are piled up

at convenient points, but all the

money was spent in advance to pay

the gangsters and now the roads must be neglected because there is not money enough on hand to pay for hauling the gravel from the piles to the puhUd highways.

McCreery All Set.

Anticipating a replenishment of the road repair fund after the regular fall distribution of taxes, a new Richmond has entered the field of

gravel exploitation.

Last July 'Oemmissioner John W McCreery deeded to his own son, J. Watt McCreery of Indianapolis five acres of land from his farm in

Harrison township.

On August 3, the county comm'ilssioners entered into a contract with J. Watt McCreery, son ol Commissioner McCreery, to dip ten thousand yards of gravel, “more or less,” at seventy cents a yard from the five acre tract. A gravel dipping outfit has been purchased and the McCreerys are busy piling up gravel, which will be exchanged for cash as soon as the suckers pay their taxes and the bank roll becomes replenished. , Only two of the commissioner? signed the contract with the juni'oi McCreery. The contract, which may be seen in the files of the auditor’s office, bears the signatures of but two of the commissioners,

Truitt and Jackson.

Probably these two kind hearted and accommodating commissioners slipped into town and signed up the contract with the son of their fellow commissioner without the knowledge of the latter. It may have ibeen done in the way of a

McPherson, and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, and others on a charge of criminal conspiracy growing lout of the kidnaping stpry Mrs. McPherson told when she reappeared last June after thirty-five

days’ disappearance.

Mrs. McPherson shook out her hair, which was surprisingly short and quickly put it back up on her head in big piles which have become famous in connection with the disappearance case.

Witnesses Differ.

Several witnesses have identified the evangelist as the woman who spent ten days at the cottage in Carmel with Kenneth G. Ormiston, radio operator, immediately following Mrs. McPherson’s disappearinoe, while other witnesses have been equally postivie that Mrs. McPherson was not .the woman. DRUGGISTS CLOSE NATIONAL PARLEY Wholesalers * Urge Federal Law To Stop Price Cut-

ting Warfare.

-pleasant surprise, or, perhaps, they Sprip^s. last night with a Hoosier

feared McCreery would object to

it if he were present.

Contract to Commissioner's Son

Exposure of the Ku Klux Klan * .0 . 1 . . - , • . - ■ . (From The Portland Republican.) The revelations made public today by Thomas H. Adams, publisher of the Vincennes Commercial, concerning the political activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, surprises no one who has closely followed the activities of the organization. This paper has, time and again, called attention to such activities, knowing full well the danger. To the ordinary citizen, who has paid but little attention to the Klan, the revelations are startling. The committee of the Republican Editorial Association, which has been conducting the investigation into the political activities of the Klan, ana' of which Mr. Adams is chairman, has collected an enormous amount of facts, sworn statements, letters, photographs, etc., which absolutely prove the truth of reports made public. These facts shown that the Klan, Under the leadership of T. C. Stephenson, the “old man,” conspired and actually put into effect in the state of Indiana a Klan super-government, which controlled not only county judges, and other county officials in nearly every county in the state, but controlled state officials, and members of the Indiana General Assembly. Those who had the temerity to oppose the Klan were subject to various kinds of persecution, and in many instances sent to jail under some framed up chrage. The civil government of the state was displaced by the Klan, and all appointments were controlled by Stephenson, who became, in effect, a dictator. The Ku Klux Klan, under Stephenson, in superseding .the civil government with a Klan-controllecf government, was certainly guilty of conspiring, and the leaders of the Klan are guilty of treason. They should be indicted and punished. No doubt they will, as the committee appointed by the Republican Editorial Association, propose to have the Senate of the United States investigate the facts that have been collected and will ask for the indictment of every Klan leader. The facts collected by the committee, will, as fast as they are made public, be published by this newspaper. We want everybody to know what they are. We have been criticised’ in the past for fighting the Ku Klux Klan, but when all is known, we will be commended—perhaps in some instances criticised for not making a more vigorous fight. The revelations to be made public, it is said, will include even the Klan activities in Jay county and will affect many of the prominent politicians of both parties.

French Lick, Ind., Oct. 1—After urging Congress to outlaw the price-cutting war between chain stores and wholesalers, voting to help the Department of Commerce reduce the variety of toilet articles and udertaking a program for bettering employes’ welfare, the National Wholesale Druggists Association closed its fifty-second annual convention at French Lick

dinner celebration.

James Whitcomb Riley’s (nost popular poems were recited at the

At any rate McCreery’s nameidinner by Judge William A. Hough does not appear on the contract,lof Greenfield, a cousin of the cele-

Smith, Illinois, Pledges Aid To Dry Amendment

Chicago, Sept. 27.—Frank L. Smith, Republican nominee for United States senator from Illinois declared last night that “so long as the eighteenth amendment is a part of the constitution, I shall up hold it.” His statement was made in reply to those who have asked his attitude on the prohibition question. “If and when a majority of the people of Illinois upon a properly submitted question, vote for either the modification or repeal of the eighteenth amendment, I will as senator, comply with their mandate,” the statement added. o It should be interesting to you to know that the population of the city of Portland is now 7,390. This is the number certified to by the city assessor in his last report.

The United States Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed and remanded the decision of the District court at Cheyenne, Wyo., upholding the Teapot Dome oil lease obtained by Harry F. Sinclair and associates from the government while Albert B. Fall was secretary of the interior.

JURY ACOUITTED DANCE MUSICIAN

Elwood Man Cleared In Adelphia Garden Case At Hartford City.

Hartford City, Ind., Oct. 1. The case of the state against Eddie Land of Elwood, charged with Sabbath desecration for playing in an orchestra at a Sunday dance at the Adelphia Gardens, seven miles north of here, went to the'jury in the Blackford Circuit Court late Wednesday and did not return until Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock when a verdict of not guilty was rendered. It was expected that Land would be freed of the charge after the defense has brought out the fact that he is employed regularly in the tin mills at Elwood and that playing in an orchestra is not his usual avocation. The charge against him was based on the allegation that in playing in the orchestra he was following his usual avocation. The case has attracted wide attention. The argument^ were, made by Attorneys L. B. Simmons and Orville Parsley, for the defense, and Prosecutor Hugh Maddox, for the state.

Roving Workmen Costly-Kuebler

French Licks Springs, Ind., Sept. 28.—Deploring the shifting of American workers from one shop to another as a serious problem of modern business, W. O. Kueber of Newark, N. J., em^doyment and welfare committee chairman of the National Wholesale Druggists’ Association, in addressing that organization’s convention here yesterday challeged employers to help cure this instability by “playing more with their employes.” o :— MEXICO WILL EDUCATE BOYS OF INDIAN TRIBES

City of Mexico.—Indian boys from different tribes in Mexico have been assembled by the federal department of education, and will he given special training adapted to their needs and ability in a school, El Internado del Indio, in City of Mexico. The purpose is not only to educate the boys but to promote a friendly feeling between.those living in separated regions. / * o Governor General Leonard Wood of the Philippines continues t9 improve in strength after his recent operation for hernia. He expects to leave the hospital within a few days.

which is valid, however, since it bears the signatures of a majority of the board. There are s'oime who suspect that McCreery dodged when it came to such a bold job of looting, and did not care to have his signature attached to a con tract with his own son for the sale

of gravel to the county

In later issues the Post-Democrat will further discuss the gravel situation in Delaware county, and will relate how the gravel trust, with Chief Manipulator Hoffman ait the helm, slipped over into Madison county and swiped- the entire road repair fund in that county this

year.

But we ask our readers what they are going to do about the candidacy of Truitt and Jackson. Their record certainly brands them as unfit. Unless the vtoters send them to private life the taxpayers of the county have no assurance that their property rights will be pro-

tected.

The present bead of commissioners are in office to take care of themselves and their political cron ies. They sanction any extravagance which may be proposed by the machine. The city of Munoie is broke, but that did not prevent the creation of a new job at the city hall for a son of Commissioner

Andy Jackson.

The Conspirators.

In the last city election the PostDemiocrat warned the' people that if Hampton was elected the same gang of gravel conspirators would take over the city hall and introduce in the city the same methods which served to bankrupt the

county.

Hampton won, by an eyelash, and the prediction of the PostDemOcrat came true. Harry Hoff man, tlhe head of the gravel trust, was placed in charge of the board of works by Hampton, and everybody knows what he and his political associates are doing to Mun-

cie taxpayers.

The citizens of Muncie and Delaware county are charged with a grave responsibility. By their votes in November they will say whether this intolerable domdition is to be endorsed or wiped out There can be only one way to relieve the situation, and that is to elect the democratic ticket. If the democrats were in power and were doing the same thing the Post Democrat would not hesitate to denounce them and demand their defeat. There is nothing political in th ? s matter with this newspaper. The record against Truitt and Jackson is damming. They cannot be trusted to disburse the public funds. Delaware county needs honest and business-like administration of its affairs. o

brated Hoosier poet. “Bill” Herschell of Indianapolis, author of “Long Boy” and other favorites, recited some of his works. Tributes to W. J. Mooney and Woods A. Caperton of Indianapolis chairman of executive and entertainment committees respectively, were paid by the committee on

thanks.

RAILROADS EARN BUT FAIL TO PAY Years of Legal Controversy in

Sight Over Clause of Transportation Act.

Washington, Oct. 1—Arrival of the railroads at the peak of prosperity, with earnings mounting on every report, has focused atten- ‘ tion again on that section of the transporation act of 1920 which requires that the carriers turn over to the government half of their

earnings above 6 per cent.

During the first seven months of this year, the class one railroads had a. net operating indome of $611,853,632, giving every indication of going well over a billion before the year is over, since the heavy fall business was not includ-

ed in that figure.

Through the “recapture clause” the transportation act has been in effect six years, railroads have paid the government $6,618,049.18. Many more millions of dollars are due, but ht>w many nevefr has been

estimated.

A1 payments made to date have come from small railroads, and with reservations. No large road has paid anything despite the fact that many of them are believed to have earned (the six per cent as interpreted by the commission, some perhaps a good while ago. o MRS. BARR WITHDRAWS FROM RACE IN FLORIDA

U. S. WINS TEAPOT OIL CASE APPEAL

St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 29.—The United -States Circuit Court of Appeals, yesterday, reversed and remanded the decision of the District court at Cheyenne, Wyo., upholding the Teapot Dome oil lease obtained by Hairy F. Sinclair and associates from the government while Albert B. Fall was secretaiy of the interior. The decision declares the Sinclair lease to have been fraudu-

lent. The lower court is instructed to ask the Mammoth Oil Company for an accounting of all oil land petroleum products taken from the government’s naval oil reserve during its tenure. The Appellate court, in its decision—a sixty-five-page document —reverses Jiidge T. Blake Kennedy, who held in District court at Cheyenne in June, 1925, that the government's allegation of fraud had not been proved. He rejected the government’s annulment suit and left the Mammoth Oil Company in possession of Teapot Dome. ■ o Policemen in Buffalo operate passenger busses.

Washington, Sept. 29.—Mrs. Daisy Douglas Bare, formerly of Indiana, yesiterday, informed national Republican leaders here, of her withdrawal as a Republican candidate tor Congress in the Fourth Florida district. Mrs. Bare, nominated by the “regular” Republicans, is withdrawing in favor of L. D. Householder of Gainesville.

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The Armour Grain Company of

Chicago was ordered by Secretary

Jardine Mpnday to show

why an order should not be issued to all contract markets to

refuse trading privileges to

company.

Poison milk in Illinois has killed fifteen. The latest victim being an infant at Auburn, III. Gov. Small has issued an appeal- to all farmers of the state to keep cattle from shady pastures until fields can be inspected for the white Snake-root,

cause a poisonous weed.

President Orellana of Guatemala is dead of heart trouble. Gen. thelLazaro Chaoon, the first designate,

has assumed the presidency.

GOOD SEED THROWN AWAY.

(By W. J. Daniels) We have watched your efforts tor the past several years to teach an unthankful lot of so-called rational people, that they are being imposed upon, and pour efforts, and the results, up to date; makes us believe that you are about as near to your goal, as one man would get in filling up the ocean by throwing in one grain of sand at a time. Many admit that you tell the truth, but when they come to vote, and the great boss cracks his whip, the truths you have told them fade away like the dreams of a love sick youth wblo thinks he can care for a wife and. family on thirty-five cents per hour. Another thinig. Did it ever acour to you that when you roast a big boss, that you -start the blood of patriotism rushing thru the veins of-the dupes of the big boss? To make a balky mule pull, it does no good to whip the driver. The lash must be well laid on the mule. 'For the past several years you have wasted a lot of energy, trying to oust the Williams gang from the saddle, by lambasting Billie, still Billie Sits smiling in the saddle, cracks his whip, and the m-ulles pull like hell to pull the load (the gang) lout of the mud hole. Why not change your range of fire? Why not try whipping the mules, and give the boss a rest. The writer never blames a -good rider for sticking to his mount. But he does blame a big strong mule for allowing a cruel rider to continue laying on the lash, when by one good buck he could change places. Billie Williams would be a darn fool to get off the backs of the mules of this part of the universe as long as those same mules keep all four feet on the ground, and with head and tall down carry him safely thru -the political manure heap. No man of 'any time, ever uttered a greater truth than did the late P. T. Barnum, when he said the American people loved to be humbuged. Barnum also said that in the so-called human family there are tour suckers born every glorious nation of a few millionaires, and millions of darn glorious nation of a few millionaire, and millions of darn tools, he would say that there were now on this part of the Bankers Association’s domain, about one good fisherman to e'ach million suckers. If you were down in the main part of the city during the three days of frolic held in the business part of the city thiiis week, you could have noted how a big noise (Band) kept the suckers on the move from one street in-" tersection to another, to see some person walk a slack .wire, or do some other crazy stunt. Had you, Or some other teacher of the truth, got upon one of the stands erected along the streets, and tried to -halt that crowd of suckers, and get them to listen -to the truth, they would have yellpd: “To hell with you, we are busy now filling our system with thrills.” . When the Sweetest Parade ever held started up Walnut street, it took a flock of Muncies finest? to keep that wise bunch of voters from jamming the street so full of their presence that the kids dould hardly show just how proud they would be when they became old enough to bring into the world some good suckerst who would make good cannon fodder tor some future war But hop to it George, in a year or so the Supreme Court of this grand nation of suckers may uphold the truth biit by that time you tvill, we hope, learn the lesson that the average American mter .liyesJn. the cellar (stomach.) and just must have some one- to ride them.