Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 11 November 1927 — Page 3

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT

FRIDAY,, NOVEMBER 11, 1927.

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AUBURN Leads Again With Lower Tire and Tube Prices

For the 8th Year Auburn Has Led All Other Factories in Being First to Give Lower Prices to the Carowner and Without Reducing the Quality. Careful management plus Cash Buying and Selling Has Made This Possible.

Week End Specials on Hi-Pres-sure Tires 30x3^ heavy Clincher $6.00 31x4 S S $8.75 32x4 S S $ 9.25 33x4 SSI 9.50 34x4 S S $10.75 30x3F Tube $1.00

IT'S THE IN BUILT STRENGTH THAT COUNTS

Auburn Super Grade “Red A Bus, Balloon & Hi-Pressure Tires 1— Ouality, buiit regardiess-af price to the finest “Motor

bus” Tire Specification.

2— --A11 new rubber in tread an carcass. 3— Built over-size and with extra plies of heaviest truck tire cord, which eliminates breaking inside and punc-

tures.

Storage Batteries One-Piece Rubber Case 6 Volt Light Car _$ 6.75 6 Volt Heavy car $13.75 100 Amp. Radio _$ 6.75 120 Amp. Radio _$ 12.75 And your old battery

Usgs 10 SHOE SOLES CciTLcn or» io regular sole for men, women, children. Also for gum boots, galoshes. Anyone can put them on. No tools required.

AH make Flatteries rc-rb-irged and repaired. Rental Batteries for ail make cars, Radio.

Eveready Radio B Batteries Heavy Duty $3.70

Accessory Bargains Ford Timers .65 Ford Fan Beits .25 Manifold Gaskets, per pair __ .20 Ford Hub Caps .12 Water Pumps, Forr!$ 1.35 Rim Wrenches .25 Wrench Sets 5 .35 K. W. Coil Points per set .50 Hot Shot Batteries$1.85 Ford Spark Plugs _ .22 Kingston Carburetor $2.75 Top Patching .35 Tire Cut Filler ___ .25

BICYCLE TIRES $1.50 A good quality tire MOBILOIL CRANK CASE SERVICE Special, 5 Gal. $3.50 Shell Gas .15 Bulk Oil, per gal .50 Bring in your can. SERVICE WE SOLICIT YOUR ROAD CALLS ON TIRE AND BATTERY SERVICE.

GOOD' USED TIRES AND BATTERIES

EASY PAYMENTS IF DESIRED

Larry O’Connell Muncie Store—312 E, Howard St Hartford City StoreSales PaviOIon. Open Evenings and Sunday.

Week End Specials on Balloon Tires 29x4.40 heavy Tire and Tube tpO.lJ 29x4.75 $10.25 30x4.95 $11.95 30x5.25 $13.35 Others at proportionate low prices. 29x4.40 Tube $1.45

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The Conquest of America

“Conquest!”

(By Geo. R. Dale)

For four hundred and twenty-five years, since the day the adventurer Columbus planted the Standard of Ferdinand and Isabella on the shores of a new world that word has led to mighty endeavor in America. Explorers, early settlers, soldiers, statesmen, politicians and captains of industry alike have felt the mighty urge to conquer. The primitive instinct to excel, to conquer, to subdue, to ride to success roughshod, if needs be, or by intrigue, where force and the shedding of blood would not best serve, has made of us a race of hunters, and hunted. Our first duty to posterity was to subdue the forest and annihilate the aboriginal owners of all the real estate comprising the Western hemisphere. We came, we saw, we conquered, and Lo, the poor Indian disappeared from off the face of the earth. Then by bloody conquest we freed the colonies from the dominion of the British Empire. In another sea of blood, the birth of Texas, the Lone Star, added another to our galaxy of states. Next we joined in, a fratricidal war—the North against the South. A divided house could not stand so Dixie became the hunting ground and the states of the Union were held together and preserved as a unit, through the surrender of Lee at Appamattox. But blood and pestilence could not stay the hand of the hardy pioneer and frontiersmen. Conquest! > They conquered the forest, the soil, the elements, the wild beasts and the wild men. The wilderness disappeared and well ordered farms took their place. But the pioneer warrioi^ statesmen and husbandmen, whose blood had enriched the soil of Columbia and transformed a wilderness into a rose garden, were supplanted by hunters and conquerers who hunted and conquested on a vast scale—the mighty combinations of brains and capital. Standard Oil, railroad mergers, vast accumulations of money piled up by life insurance companies and a huge network of interlocking industrial directorates, possessed of the power to control legislation, place their own judges on the bench and elect their own presidents, have now undertaken the real conquest of America. As individuals, the units of this mighty engine of conquest, are as a rule kindly and considerate men, who attend church regularly, and contribute large sums to charity, churches and .colleges. But as-a ; uriitp whole, they rcthle^s2A'Tfrey are their program of conquest enslaves the laborer, bankrupt’s the small biisi- ' ness man, wipes out weak competitors and impoverishes the farmer, it is nothing to them. Henry Ford, who has niade more money than any man in the history of the world, decided to change the style of his flivver. Without giving a thought to the consequences, his great factories were closed down and have been idle for many months. The shut-down has cost Ford $24a-,00A-Q00, but he expects tonget that sum back, many — times over, when he resumes operations. Money itself means nothing to Henry Ford, but his dream of greater conquests render him oblivious to the sufferings and privations of the hundreds of thousands who are dependent on him, either directly or indirectly, for the common necessities of life. Harding was nominated by the group that tried to steal the government’s oil reserve. The dream of empire, and not avarice, impelled this group to force the weakling Harding to name the pitiful tool Fall as secretary of the Interior. Possessed of untold millions, these great oil magnates merely obeyed the primal instinct to use their only weapon, money, to take something they did not need, for the mere sake of conquest. They enjoyed the power they possessed. They probably had no criminal intent. They felt themselves above the iaw. Possessed of power to ’ name presidents and cabinet members, they compelled their servelings to act, merely to demonstrate their power. By peaceful purchase from Russian, for the price of $7,200,000, Alaska was acquired by the United States. Thus far Alaska has repaid its purchase by products valued at more than a billion dollars. It has known anthracite coal deposits that will supply the entire United States for 5,000 yegrs at the present rate of consumption. The pioneers who mushed into Alaska nearly forty years ago when gold was discovered, were soon followed by the buccaneers of finance, eager for empire. The Guggenheim syndicate built a railroad connecting the Alaskan coal fields with civilization. Not content with its effort to monopolize transportation, the Guggenheims and others interested in their dream of empire, including a Muncie millionaire, fraudulently, by means of dummy entrymen, attempted to secure all the coal rights of Alaska. None of them needed the money, for they had more than they could possibly use, but the idea of cornering the coal deposits needed to supply the Pacific slope for all time to come, engaged their fancy and led them into the wild adventure to conquer. But, as in the Teapot Dome case, the hunters became the hunted. There were indictments and federal prosecutions. In fact there is a decided analogy between the two cases. Senator Guggenheim and his Muncie confederate sought to steal all the coal land in Alaska from their rightful owners, the people of America. Sinclair and Doheny tried to steal the government’s oil reserve. The Alaska conspirators were tried and acquitted before Federal Judge Landis in Chicago. Some of the jurors who served in the trial were later convicted of receiving bribes for voting as they did. Those who bribed them weie never brought to justice. Ballinger, then Secretary of the Interior, who connived with the Guggenheim crowd as Fall did with Sinclair and Doheny, was dismissed and dishonored. The trial of Fall and Sinclair came to a close lg,s,t week whep charges that attempts at jury fixing had been made. As this is written one alleged go-between has been indicted. Will the analogy between Alaska and Teapot' be completed by conviction of lesser criminals while the men who supplied the corruption money go free ? Conquest! The hunters and the hunted! Will the quarry aver turn and test his teeth and claws with the teeth and claws of his pursuer ? The law of the survival of the fittest still holds good. Either the hunter or the hunted will eventually control America. Unless the bloodhounds are driven back and whipped to their kennels - our national existence as a free and independent nation will have ended and serfdom and slavery will be the lot of all who fail to bend the knee to the empire of high finance.

CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our thanks and appreciation to the friends and neighbors for the sympathy and many acts of kindness extended to us, during the death of our dear son and brother, Lewis Allison. Especially thank Rev. Clarence Hunt for his consoling words, the singers and for the beautiful floral offerings. All kindnesses are greatly appreciated by THE FAMILY.

There are more than 1 000 buffalo in Yellowstone National Americans drink 121,000,000,000 cups of coffee a year, ays a St. Lcuis importer. Some one stole all but one of the side curtains from an automobile

parked in front of a house on Spring street. Auburn, Me. A few days later the thief returned and took the remaining curtain from the car which was parked in the same place. A machine which cleans eggs by sandblast has been perfected.

Hoosier Tire Shop CHARLES EICHER, Proprietor. STANDARD MAKES OF TIRES Reliable Tire Repairing. Phone 3051 320 E. Main Muncie, Indiana Muncie’s most popular priced tire store.

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: HOOSIER HEALTH and ACCIDENT i! INSURANCE COMPANY

E. P. GARRISON, Agent

622 Wysor Bldg. Muncie, Indiana Phone or write for Sample Policy—No Obligation.

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and there’s always a payment to be made—

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of those seriously injured:

1. One death in every eleven results from an accident. 2. Accidents occur 113 times as often as fires. 3. Automobiles alone kill 14,000 persons each year, which

is at the rate of 38 every day.

4. Fifty-seven automobile accidents occur every hour; 1,370 every day; 500,000 every year. 5. One person in every nine meets with some form of ac-

cidental injury each year.

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16. One dollar a week, when you are healthy aud at work, doesn’t mean much; but $5D a week from the insurance company for as long as you are disabled by injury may fZan the difference between comfort and privation. 17. Do it today—tomorrow may be too late and remember Somebody always pays. SOMEBODY ALWAYS PAYS

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HARDWARE, PAINTS AND CROCKERY Heating Stoves, large and small. Oil Stoves an.d Ovens, Gas, Heating and Cooking Stoves, Stove Pjpe, Tools, Cooking IHensils, Tubs and Boilers. Gem Safety Razor and 50c Tube of Shaving Cream for 35c Half Soles and Heels and Shoes, Shot Gun Shells, Varnish, Paint, Alabastine and Brushes. 2-6-6-G Screen Door $1.89 Stone Jars and Flower Pots, large and small. One Gross Bottle Caps for 35c Do you know Ringo & Sons have been in the storage, crating and packing household goods business for pver twenty-six years? When interested in thpi Une i,t would be well to consult this firm before you go too far. Ringo & Sons Walnut and Seymour Sts. Phone 69S-W