The Devils Lake world. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1920-1982, 1921-02-16
I. r. 4. Free Louersss|'
Sweet Scented Parsons Who. Peddle. Dope, Ga
Contradiction From Authority One
i 4@s Conditions In Russia s

s, Inc people OF TINS city recently hda an opportunity % neal. Sec
ture upon conditions i Rps.a. from one Who knew Whist e v.s falling
about from actual sxperiencs and personal knowledge. ~ refer g
E. I! Cotton Of New York, who spent about 70 month q A Rassiia invssi.
eating conditions for the Y. N c. A. @Y5yasaI %@s+ 8TM#h sHs|5
*esIn answer to an inquiry regarding the nuch.talked-of free lovsts
conditions said - exist a that unfortunate country MI. Cotton N
{ said that this charge was absolutely untrue, q sl1nder upon the
unhappy Russians andthat the morality Of the people was g good
as in any foreign country, and far better than il most q them. n
The people Of this state, particularly here in Devils Lake, hsve heard
much about free love in Russia, and consciencaess liars in the employ
Of the !. v. "A. have tried to make It appear, not without ~ degree of
success a reerettabe fact. that the rJonparisan leapue stood !. Z
champion and defender Of such vile rot. OF special prominence In
mouthing this libel and Islander against an innocent people. has been
one "Rev" Birchenough, an alien subject who comes to this country
from England, with that particular brand Of brazen gall, ego or just
downright CUTS, which permits him to talk about Americanism TO
Americans. We have no quarrel with British subjects who come 10
this country and attend to their own business, but it has not been the
lot Of The World editor to see a native born Englishman, or heard Of
one, good enough to talk Americanism to Americans. Educated to.
believe that an Englhshmana knows less about Amernanism than any
thing else, and when hearing Of an Englishman talking Amercanism
in America, just as much respect for him has been shown as would
have been for a nativeborn citizen of the United States who goes to
England, ties a monocle to his face, sticks a cane in his mouth, re-
nounces the country of his birth, and apes the English, dont-cherlkncw
And IS a companion to Birchenough, who delights to advertise him
self as the lighting parson," there is here in Devils Lake, n. Garneld
Walker, who also uses the ministerial robe to give a shadow Of tone
and respectabiity to his vulgar and indecent pratle about free love
conditions in Russia. M 5%&..
But getting back to the free love propaganda which this deGshtful
pair Of spouters have been spreading over the state: 1t is natural that
they should not know much about il, the things going ON here and there,
nd oftentimes under their very noses. 1T is the way Of some people.
to be 50 self-centered that they can see nothing beyond themselves, %
that when these sweet-scented pnks Of perfection were singing sthshE.
doleful songs about Russian free love and the nonpartsans their pou.s
oces were tilted at N angle which prevented them seeing right under
their own noses. instances Of free love, prsctieed by .loos per. cent"
l. v. AS would make the rake Russian stories seem tame reading
in comparison. " . .Xa &.
Attention was recently called to the Langdon incident where a school
girl had been outraged by no less than sxteen-all pure and spotlessA
l. v. AS This happened right in q community that fairly froths al
the mention Of free love, and the mel and women jump stif-legged 1t
the sight Of a meek and lowly Nonpartisan. Tread the Park River
Girl story this week. . S
Then there is the incident of the Larimore. girl who was induced to.
get in a automobile with four or five llly-white j. v. AIS and sons Of
]. V. AS. driven to a lonely spot between Grand Forks and Crooks
ton and forced to submit to the most brutal Of outrages by all five,
worse than Walker ever described as having occurred in bolshevik
Russia. This was such q revolving case that II took the best Of the
~ Y. A. lawyers in the state to save the little dears from long SEN
fences in the penitentiary. &. ;Ea#.%$ l"s#aasn 4. s
And last week Attorney General Iemke was called to act in ! ease
at Park River, where six men, ranging in age from twenty TO- sixty-six,
five Of whom were prominent T. Y. AS some. Of whom. were trained 70
sing Walkers free love song even more fuently than he, were ar
rested charged with, raping another school. girl. The same girl was
4 arrested in Devils Lake aafew weeks ago with q l. v. A. prune-ol
peddler. He somehow or other felt at home in Wakes town. But
he was arrested-and let 60 on bonds-since which no more has been
heard Of the disgracefu1 affair. sI4.4sEH
Recently it was charged from the, pulpit in this city Cy an I.Y. y
Spreacher) that there were q number Of high school girls in this city
afflicted with q sexual disease sanderuus, scandalmonging state
ment incur opinion condition, il true, that J. v. "A. men and young
men are responsible for, in all probability, for this is the city the ter
rorists boast Of as being the nearest perfect l. v. "A. center in the state.
These things, however, are not Of sufficient moment to ~attaStThs
attention Of the little jaw-smiths who. go about the country 1anisSwihk
sordid and indecent rechals Of Russian condidons-whch: DO no. exist