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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1923.

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: Muncie Klan Invades Portland

:' The invasion of Portland by masked mem

bers of the Ku Klux Klan of Muncie, in open and flagrant defiance of an ordinance prohibiting parades of masked men, and contrary to the orders of Mayor Fleming, is a fine illustration of the lawless tactics of the klan.

'-- An ordinance of the city of Portland expressly forbids parades by masked men. That ordi

nance is just as much a law as is any other or

dinance on the statute books, but that meant nothing to the Muncie klansmen. Neither did the request of Mayor Fleming that they desist

from entering the city in violation of the law,

Both the ordinance and the mayor's statement

were brushed aside with ruthless disrespect.

And yet, the klan, in high sounding phrases

and eloquent sentences, boasts of its American

ism, its respect for the law, its defense of the underlying principles of the republic. The Portland incident proves conclusively how little respect the klan has for law. It set aside the constituted , authority of that city, trampled the ordinance under 'foot, flagrantly flouted its contempt for Mayor Fleming, and took, possession of the streets of Portland. This contemptuous attitude toward the constituted authorities of Portland was not expressed by citizens of Portland who belong to the klan; but by rank outsiders. Invaders from Muncie had the effrontery to defy the highest executive in Portland, and to set aside temporarily an ordinance that did not meet with their approval. Things have certainly come to a fine pass when these alleged upholdex-s of law and order, brush aside city ordinances in a neighboring city, defiantly invade its streets and by their

actions let a city know that the framers of its ordinances have no control over the klan. This lawless disregard for authority and this brazen imposition of its own will on a community is one of the real menaces in the klan. Its leaders have time and again denied that klansmen defy law and order. How are they going to explain what the Muncie invaders did in Portland? Will they assert that the Muncie invaders had the right to disregard an ordinance made by the city of Portland? Will they say that these

white-robed invaders of a peaceful city were exemplifying high qualities of American citizenship when they informed the mayor that willing or unwilling, ordinance or no ordinance, they would invade his city and -parade through its streets? Does that show the spirit of Americans or the spirit of outlaws? The presence of members of the Indiana state guard and some of its officers, showing their identity with the klan, is a serious phase of the Portland invasion. One officer was with the invaders at the outskirts of the city, but did not march into it with them. One may ask with propriety, what would have been the attitude of this officer if Mayor Fleming had called on the governor for troops to repel the invaders and he had been commanded to throw his brother klansmen out of Portland? To whom does he owe his allegiance ? To the supreme officer of the klan or to the governor of Indiana?

What business has he belonging to an organization, which in Portland took the law into its own hands, manifested its disrespect for it and for the mayor whose highest duty it is to enforce it? The Portland invasion portends some rich developments. If Muncie klansmen believe they can invade Portland, despite ordinances barring their masks, what is to prevent them from entering Richmond and committing whatever depredations suit their fancy. If they will not obey the mayor of Portland, what assurance is there that they will not disregard ordinances of various kinds here, which do not meet with their approval. The utter contempt for law and order, shown at Portland, proves as in many instances elsewhere that the klan is far from being that law abiding, peace loving, uplifting organization which its promoters and organizers claim for it.

How To Start the Day Wrong

WE ALL NEED A NURSE V By George Matthew Adams.

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Not even the dumb animal is more dependent than the human being when sore distressed. We all need someone who is extremely versed in understanding to nurse us along in our various moods, as well as when in our hours of aches and pains. Someone to "baby" us and flatter us. even when that would be the worst possible thing to do. Someone to tell us that they KNOW we are abused and unappreciated. Someone to look right through and into us and see all our faults at their worst, and yet to be kind and considerate to us, even when, again, they know that this procedure is si dangerous one. For nurses, you see, are unusual. Their job Is to help make folks -well! - The more we resemble other human beings, the more dangerous we become to ourselves, for we see so much of us reflected in others. And that's a bad thing. It gets us to brooding too much on all that we are, and keeps us from becoming much that we are not. Rich and poor, wise and ignorant, we all need a nurse now and then. There are no more wonderful people on this earth than nurses. They are regular springs of wisdom, and never ending in their flow of cheer and patience. ' 4 It is a good thing that we don't all have to get sick in order to be nursed. For there are thousands of natural nurses in the world and how warm our lives have been made by their love and sympathy! A real friend has to have much of the same spirit that a nurse has, a spirit of forebearance and a heart always ready to forgive. We all need a nurse and we all may become nurses.

Answers to Questions (Anv reailer can fret the answer to anv oupsfion bv writing The Palladium Information Bureau, Frederick J. Hask)n. director. Vv ashinsrton, I). C. This offer applies strictly to information. The bureau Oops not give advice on lesal. tneJical and financial matters. It does not attempt to settle domestic troubles, nor to undertake exhaustive research on anv stiMert. Write your question plainly and briefly. Give full name and address and enclose two cents in stamps for return postape. All replies are sent direct to the inquirer. Q. Did the native language of Negroes so develop their throat muscles as to cause them to drop or to change

our language as they do? H. V. R. I A. Prof. L. P. , Turner of Howard university says that, in his opinion, it Is entirely a matter of training and not of any anatomical difference in the or-; gans of speech. Educated Negroes as well as educated foreigners use the j

same consonants and vowels that educated English speaking people do and speak the language as perfectly as they do. Q. Have animals been found that have frozen in Polar ice for a centurv or more. If so, was the meat edible? G. L.. P. A. The Smithsonian Institution says that cadavers of the northern mastodon and hairy rhinocerous have been found in the ice of Siberia. Wolvts, dogs and bears are said to have oaten the frozen flesh as it thawed out. Small portions of the muscular tissues, skin covered with hair, stomach contents, et cetera, of one these frozen specimens of the mammoth are on exhibition in the the United States National Museum. J. If an electric light bulb contains no air, what keeps the pressure of the outside air from breaking it? -D. R. A. The strength of the glass keeps (he electric light bulb from bursting. When a bulb is broken with a blow, !he "pop" is the result of the fact that ;lie interior was not filled with air. Q. When did the Germans first use poison gas in the World War? S. W.

Who's Who in the Day's News

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Postage Meter an Innovation Machine Stamps Letters and Registers Amount of Postage Used by Ingenious Device.

MILO D. CAMPBELL Milo D. Campbell, of Coldwater, Mich., ha3 been named by President Harding to the federal reserve board as "the first farmer member." Legis

lation passed by congress last .year requires the presence of a farmer with that body. 'Cimpbell is president of the National Milk Producers' association. He has long been prominent in his state, and more recently he gained

nrttional notice be-! cause of his activity in behalf of

farmers' aorg'nizations. He was elected to the legislature in 1SS3, and from 1885 to 1S91 was secretary to Governor Luce. Later he became iusurance commissioner, making a record for efficiency. He is credited with accomplishing a great reduction in the insurance charge of the state and in forcing doubtful or fraudulent concerns out of business. Following his services In this position he was appointed chairman of the state tax commission, and was among the leaders in tax reforms whereby $300,000,000 was added to the taxable basis of the state. The entire system of railroad taxation was reorganized in this period. Campbell has been president of the state board of prisons and reformatory institutions, mayor of Coldwater and United States marshal for the eastern district of Michigan. Throughout his career he has been especially interested in farmers' concerns, and is at present president of the National Milk Producers' association and prominent in other farmers'

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The difference between exercise and work is that exercise costs something In club dues. European scientist says we are now nearing the end of civilization, but which end?

Paris has a new restaurant, where all the waiters are members of the nobility. We have been in restaurants right here in the United States just like that.

All young women entering Russia must, by command of the soviet government, wear woolen . underwear to protect them from the rigorous climate. There is one subject the government does not understand and that is women, especially American women, who make it a habit to dress thinly in

the winter and wear heavy clothes in the summer. Fur hats for women, for instance, come in style about the middle of July.

Br FREDERICK J. HASKIST WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 Business firms are printing their own postage stamps now, with government approval. That is, a firm can print postage stamps on all its letters, all before the correspondence is sent to the post office, The amount of postage used is recorded by an ingenius invention, a postage meter. Since 1S47, a brightly colored stamp stuck in the corner of a communication has been used by the United States government as an official sign that the delivery is prepaid. As the government engages in the business of carrying the mails, it has claimed exclusive right to print postage stamps for the entire country. The stamp was a sign of progress in civilization less than a century ago, and it is not yet ready for discard so

far as the majority of letter writers are concerned. But with the development of big business, efficiency experts began to grumble over the waste motions incident to affixing stamps to a huge pile of correspondence. To stick a stamp on one letter, or a dozen, is an insignificant task. To stamp, seal and post several thousand pieces of mail in one day, means work for a force of office employes. The telephone company of this city sends out 75,000 bills in a day or two around the end of each month, and this is not in anvway a record-breaking correspondence. Of late years the little red pottage stamp has been a subject of serious discussion around mahogany conference tables.

Then, two years ago, a biamy meter was invented. It was approved by the post office department, and now about 4 per cent of the United States mail is metered.

The meter is used in connection with a mailing machine to print a stamp, post mark, and . cancellation mark on envelopes at the rate of 250 a minute. The machine also seals the envelopes and stacks them in a pile. As each piece of mail is stamped the meter registers the amount of postage used. Meters Must Be Licensed. Each meter in use has to be licensed by the third assistant postmaster general. Before it can be attached to the mailing machine, the meter has to be taken to the local post office and set for a specific amount of postage, after which the door of the meter is sealed and locked by the postmoster. The postage is paid for at this time. When the specified number of stamps has been used the prints head automatically locks and the meter has to be taken to the post office to be reset. The imprints made by this meter are not like adhesive stamps. The machine prints, an oval design labeled "U. S. Postage Two Cents Paid," or whatever the amount may be, together with the number of the permit and the

number of the meter. At the sides of the oval are the wavy lines which the post office usessto indicate that a stamp is cancelled. At the same time the machine also makes a circular imprint showing the name of the city and the date and time of mailing similar to the postmark ordinarily stamped on mail at the post office. Envelopes sent through this machine and registered by the meter go directly to the distributing cases in the post office to be sorted for delivery. Ordinary stamped letters reaching the post office have to be laid first in piles so that the 6tamped corner is brought to the lower left hand face. They are then postmarked and cancelled by a machine. In the Chicago post office 500 clerks are employed at these processes of facing, postmarking and cancelling by mail. Metered mail, being already postmarked and cancelled before mailing, is delivered more quickly than mail which has to go through these processes. There is a story about a superintendent of schools who did not count on the shorter routine of such mail. He was Jn the habit of sending briefv undated notices to his subordinate officials "Meeting tomorrow afternoon at four." Then metered mail was installed in the offices of the city government. The next time the superintendent of schools sent out the notices as usual they were delivered the same afternoon and the officials

all appeared a day early at the appointed hour. Metered mail is obviously not for the writer of an occasional letter, nor even at present for the office that employs a single typist. It is being used mainly by department stores, mail or-

cer nouses, insurance companies, newspaper offices, and similar organizations with large correspondence. Nearly all of the Federal reserve banks have adopted the system. Telephone companies are using it. And the city of Baltimore started a month ago to use the new method. Saves Time And Labor. The main advantages claimed for the new invention are that it is a time and labor saver, that it saves the Government money, and finally that it keeps an exact acount of all postage used by a firm. Losses in postage in the average business establishment are said to be larger than most people would think. An office stamp used for private correspondence seems like a trifle to many employes, and occasional-

After Dinner Stories "The wife and I have decided to quit quarreling." "Sort of a disarmament agreement, as it were." "Exactly, and yet we're having difficulty completing the arrangements. We've agreed not to start any discussion In public in the future; I'm not to preach economy any more, but there is still one great difficulty to be overcome. While we both wish never more to have a dispute she absolutely refuses to give up her right to the last word if something should , happen." Minneapolis Tribune.

Rippling Rhymes By WALT MASON

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. THE BUSY SPINSTER My Aunt Dorcas, ancient maid, thinks this Is a world of crime; at the head of some crusade she Is charging all the time; If a kid Is chewing gum and he sees Aunt Dorcas come, you will see him going some up the tallest tree he'll climb. She's indignant when I smoke, and she talks of filthy vice, and my pipe of British oak she has busted once or twice; and the tales I read, of detectives gone to Eeed, she will gather up and feed the furnac, in a trice. Husky citizens turn pale, sweat goes streaming down, their jaws, when my aunt is on their trail,

in some highly moral cause; for their

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ly he buttonholed the captain. "Captain," he said sickly, "can you tell me, please, how far it Is to the nearest land?" The captain looked through him idly and snapped out. "About fifty fathoms, sir J" Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Ismet says the allies hold the key to peace. The trouble is they have tried this key several times and it doesn't seem to unlock anything. Ganna Walska is going to let her fame as a singer rest on her reception in America. Well, just so she lets it rest.

Poisonous gases were introduced in- j especially in developing programs of to recent warfare by tha German army j cooperative business organization during the engagement near Ypres. I amonS farmers, and has been widely pril 22, 1315. They were generated j "demand as a speaker on these and In bombs, grenades, and other pparaelatrt ,t0Plc,s- .pbell has been a " .. a ..,t ,..!f( o ,,Lki Practical and working farmer all his

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sonous gases were later used both by the Allied and Central Powers chiefly in the fnnn of explos-ive shells. Q. What nationalities were represented in the American army a(t the time of the Revolution? D. G. C. A. The main nationalities represented were English, Scotch, Irish, Welsh and French.

Slow flapping of a butterfly's wings produces no sound but when the movement becomes rapid a noise is producad that increases in shrillness with the number of vibrations.

farms on the outskirts of Coldwater, Mich., which are widely known as models of agricultural efficiency.

Japan has three thousand newspapers and magazines.

Pile Sufferers Don't become despondent try Dr. Leonhardt's IIEM-ROID no greasy salves no cutting a harmless remedy that is guaranteed to quickly banish all misery, or costs nothing. A. G. Luken Drug Co. Advertisement,

Memories of Old Days In This Paper Ten Years Ago Today

The grand jury after inspecting the county jail and Home for Friendless Women was expected to make several recommendations to the county commissioners regarding changes which should be made. The conditions which made the jail unsanitary were reported by B. F. Wissler, foreman of the grand jury.

Lessonsln Correct English Don't Say: I know that I WILL like her. I know that you SHALL like her. . SHALL vou do this for me? I AM WILLING that he WILL GO. SHALL you run on this errand for me? Say: I know that I SHALL like her. I know that you WILL like her. WILL you do this for me? I am WILLING that he SHALL go. WILL you run on this errand for me?

Good Health Secret of Beauty Beauty lies in the care a woman bostows upon herself and in keeping at bay those dread ailments peculiar to her sex, which drag her down and leave telltale traces upon her countenance. Sparkling eyes, the elastic step and a clear complexion never accompany organic troubles. Distressed expressions, a sallow complexion, dark circles under the eyes, lassitude, headaches, and mental depression are the telltale symptoms of women's ailments. Women so troubled should not lose a day in taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, made from roots and herbs, the most successful remedy known to overcome woman's ills and restore health and beauty. Advertisement.

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CLEAN KIDNEYS BY DRINKING LOTS OF WATER

ly an employe who handles large amounts of stamps succumbs to the temptation to misplace a sheet now end then. An instance of the first sort of misappropriation of stamps was indicated by an official of a big company not long ago. He was studying the stamp meter system and he asked in jest: "I suppose I can send my Christmas cards through that?" "No," he was told, "not unless you send them in office envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed in the upper left hand corner. All mail put through the stamp meter is required by the government to be so marked." The official shrugged his shoulders and said jokingly that that was indeed a drawback. An example of carelessness with stamps on a bigger ecale occurred in a county tax office. A'woman who had worked there 17 years had charge of sending out all tax correspondence. In this work she ordered and used great many sheets of stamps. Suddenly it was discovered that she had been appropriating stamps for herself regularly. A mail order house, it was revealed, had become suspicious and investigated her case. With stamps sent to such firms she had furnished an entire house. Mail order firms do not look suspiciously on

email or occasional purchases paid for

in stamps. But when a customer pays

for beds, kitchen cabinets, and floor

lamps in 6heets of stamps a company wonders why money orders or checks

travel straight she will hound them to their fate and invoke all kinds of laws. With no husband 6he can boss, she must boss the blooming town, and she's always sore and cross, with a dark, indignant frown; and a wintry frost is she; and the voters cry, ."Oh. chee! Let us climb yon greenwood

tree," when they see her coming down.

Had my aunt become a bride in tLe days of auld lang syne, I might point to her with pride, as a woman truly fine; with a husband at her heels, to endure he saustic spiels, in her head the busy wheels wouldn't creak and whir and whine. But she dodged the wedding ring and the wreath of orange bloom, and today I see her swing through a village full of gloom; looking for an evil dire she can swat with martial ire, and her neighbors all perspire and are quick to give her room.

are not used, and sometimes it tries to find out. So extensive a system of 6tamp graft as that just recounted is probably rare. But organized pilfering of postage Is known to exist in many cities, and the casual stamp 'borrower'' is anything but uncommon. The stamp meter, like the cash register, is proving an unpopular innovation 6o far as this type of employe is concerned.

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