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The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
GUARD AGAINST
AN EPIDEMIC
Enrich md Strengthen Your Blood
Now With That Splendid Tonic
Guides Pepto. Mangan
RICH RED BLOOD FIGHTS GERMS
Ii You Are Pale, Oyertlred, Lacking In
Energy and Enthusiasm, Your
Blood Is Probably Thin and
Needs a Tonic.

The first and perhaps the only thing
you can do to avoid the dangers that
would come if there were an cpl
demic, is to take special care Of your
health. Keep your blood in good con-
dition. The blood very often gets in
had shape, almost without your know
ing 1t. How many times you feel tired
and exhausted. You have an all-gone
feeling for weeks. You don't care
about eating or going anywhere. Your
work becomes an effort and you wake
up in the morning more tired than
when you went to bed.
When you feel like that, look to
your blood You can be pretty sure it
is in a weakened condition. You have
bee restraining either mentally or ply
sically and your blood has become
clogged with poison.
Don't let yourself get run down. If
you do not feel right, begin taking
Guides Pepto- Mangan and keep it up
for awhile.
Guides -Mangan is put uup in
both liquid and tablet form and is sold
by druggists everywhere. The liquid
and tablets have exactly the same
incidental value. Buy whichever you
prefer and Sc sure it is geuine Guides
Pepto-Mangan. The name Guides"
is on the package Advertisement.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
PART OF STATE DRY
LAW HELD INVALID
Man Has Right TO Give Friends
Drink Rules Judge In Quash.
ing Indictments.

Springfield. Ky, March 3. That
section Of the Kentucky prohibition
enforcement act forbidding a person
to give another drink of liquor is I'M
constitutional, Circuit Judge |. H..
Thurman ruled here Wednesday
He dismissed five indictments
charging different persons with viola
ton of the State Prohibition Act by
giving drinks to their friends.
The ruling was made in the case Of
P. M. Howard, a farmer His attor-
neys filed verbal demurrer to the
indictment on the ground that "a law
that deprives one of free use of prop
erty lawfully acquired is an abridge-
ment of personal liberty"
Commonwealth Attorney Harding
opposed the demurrer, but it was sus-
tanned by Judge Thursman without
comment.
According to attorneys for Mr. How
ard, he obtained the liquor on ply
slcian's prescription.
Following the Judges decision, four
other indictments were dismissed
The Kentucky Acts of 1920 provides
that liquor, lawfully obtained. may be
given only to members of the family
living in the home and bona fde
guests.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
Of Happy Lamps

MYTH the winter come shorter days, quicker dark.
w ness and the earlier lighting of city streets and
suburban highways
No citizen should plod his way through dark streets
and roads exposed robbery confusion attack or insult
Long ago the old amplighter used to 60 through the
town, at dusk, lighting the Pickering corner lamps.
1t all took time. The last lamp to be lit found nighr
we'll on its way
Now, in the big central station the switch thrown
over and the whole city CLOVIS with happy lamps,
movement of one hand-the work of one second
- and light flows down miles of streets. Evil flies
before it, The way is made safe
From dusk until dawn through storms and fogs,
you may 60 upon your missions protected as with
thousand guardians.
Trace back this light, taken for granted back to
the big electric light and power station back over the
countless miles of wire, through overhead cables and
underground conduits, the huge treles generators
"hrring night and day in your service.
Trace it further back to the men and women whose
faith in this great public utility urged them to put mil
there would be no happy lamps.
Some 100000 American citizens hold securities in
the electric light and power industry Banks and nsur.
ance companies have invested and loaned millions
This industry, requiring tremendous investment and
capital to provide additional equipment will be able
through public support and confidence even further 70
extend and increase the scope and efficiency ofi.s
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
FAIR CAPITAL INCREASED
FROM $500 TO $4,000.

At meeting of the stockholders of
the Ewing Fair Company, at Ewing
the capital stock was increased from
$4,000 to 100000 The directors con-
template making extensive improve
ments as soon as business conditions
justify. Officers elected at the direct
ors' meeting for the year were J. L,
Williams, president; w. p. Dye, secre-
tary, and T. H. Talbot, treasurer.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
ROTSCHILD, GRAIN
KING, KILLS SELF.

Omaha, Nebr., March 3. - Emil
Rothschild, millionaire grain operator
and president of the Rothchild Grain
Co., committed suicide in his home
here today.
Heavy losses in grain and in foreign
market speculation were responsible,
notes left by the dead man said.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
RATIONAL ELECTRIC
LIGHT ASSOCIATION
This advertisement appeared in Saturday Eve
ming Past Of March and is reproduced by permits
sion of Maysvle Gas Co.
COLORED CITIZENS.

The Bethel Baptist Sewing Circle
will meet Friday afternoon in the
basement Of the church. After bust
ness the meeting will be turned into
prayer service conducted by Mrs. Liz
Zie Jackson.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03

Mr.. John C. Everett left today for
Cincinnati where he will enter the
Good Samaritan Hospital to rest up
after a most serious illness.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03

Mrs. Cliff of the Maysville Suit and
Dry Goods Company will have spe-
cial display Friday and Saturday of
Sailor and Tailored Hats. oct
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03

The Womans Home Missionary So
ciety of Scots NJ. E. church will meet
with Mrs. Lockridge, on East Fifth
street, Friday at 2:3O p. m.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03
ANsT Of COAL !T % +, b l. RIM HARRISON ( SON
TOBACCO MARKET.

The local tobacco market is re-
ported to be good again today with
good tobacco bringing unusually good
prices. Growers selling today seemed
to be very much pleased with the con-
dtion Of the market
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03

Dancing at the Dreamland Saturday
night from s to r.. 3Mch2t.
Congo River Tabernacle Lodge No
so will meet tonight at s p. m. All
members are requested to be present
Election of officers.
MRS. SUDIE MORTON, H. P.
MRS. c. b. HUMPHREY, A. Rec.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1921-03-03

From the famous novel by Herbert Knibb See the thrilling
roundup participated by the Harry Carey flying squadron OF
roughrng cowpuncher From the open road Shutdown
Slim He camped awhile the deserts rim and his heart full
to the very bm with the joy of wandering Then he took the place
of pal in jail He met the girl of old dream the trail Drilled
her with SO coffin nail andhe lost the lure of wandering
Shutdown Slim America frs-from box For the first
time this thrilling western feature will be presented at the regular
admission price which is
10 AND Is CENTS
STARTING MONDAY - The biggest thriller of them all Will
Edith Johnson FIGHTING FATE Don't miss
the first episode Monday.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

of manufactured goods for distribu-
ton; the guards we're paid last year
from 2,100 to 5000 rubles month,
when it required at least twenty
times as such to provide a living.
In commenting on the situation thus
created the Economic Life, the Of
fetal economic organ of the Soviet
government, said in its issue of
August 8, 1920:
st is clear that, barring a few ex-
ceptions, all those who undertake such
difficult and responsible work for so
small compensation do so in tn !
expectation of stealing"
1t is quite apparent from these illus
trations, which can be multiplied al
most indefinitely, that. whatever the
Communist leadership hoped that their
administrative apparatus would be,
whatever that apparatus was at the be-
ginning of the regime, it has now de-
gene rated into the most corrupt bureau
cracy that ever existed-a bureaucracy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

phase of governmental activity; they
are found everywhere. AS one of the
reasons for this, we find in almost all
Soviet discuss ions of the situation a
laconic statement to the effect that it
is impossible to live on the salaries
that the Soviet government pays its
officials, in spite Of the fact that as
rule the officials are better off than
any other group of the population,
with the exception of the army. But
the government itself has not enough
to give; so it closes its eyes to Of
fetal corruption and gives its silent
approval to bride taking and the rest
of the offcialdom's arsenal of tricks
for augmenting the means of livelihood
hood.
There are some phases of govern
mental activity in which men are
frankly expected to steal or do some
thing of the kind. For example the
employees of the Soviet warehouses,
vhere the government keeps It's stocks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

are numerous. In the first place, the
system of bribery adds greatly to the
Generalization Of the whole system.
Those who give brides are always in
position to obtain "favors," such as
exemption for their families, includ-
ing even distant relatives, from labor
duty; exemption from restriction of
living quarters, etc. (Pravda, Febru-
airy 4, 1920. In the second place, be-
cause Of official corruption, the pseudo
cooperative enterprises are able to OBJ
tain raw materials and fuel at the ex-
pense Of the nationalized enterprises,
which is terrific loss to the govern
ment, because most Of the enterprises
to which orders are EARNED out" man
age to sell most of their product pri
vately through secret channels. The
Pravda introduced the whole discussion
Of the question Of bribery with the fol-
lowing significant statement:
ct is we'll known that many of our
state owned factories and foundries are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

either at a standstill or else are barely
functioning at all Yet the pri
vately owned enterprises, MASQUERADE
ing under the guise of home and CO.
operative enterprises, are working and
hourishing'
In the third place, the owners Of
these privately owned enterprises, the
bride givers of the system, are rapid
ly developing into a capitalist class
of the most enlightened type; the
official Soviet organ characterized this
process by saying that "again a new
bourgeois class is being created,
rev speculative bourgeoisie. which ac-
quires greater and greater wealth and
lives in luxury while the laboring
masses are starving" Lenine's ere
vsed" policies have practically legal
lied this situation and have, conse-
quently, opened the way for bribery on
an even more extensive scale.
This and other forms of official cor
ruption are not limited to this one
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
The Ku-Klux Khan Spreads Terror in the South

, of the men while Engers was being
carried from the town
Il yelled for help when they carried
me into the Fair Grounds" Engers said
after the beating. Zone of them hit
me in the face and another one put his
thumbs into my eyes. After we got out
long ways | was carried to lonely
spot"
Tie him to the post" one of the
captors instructed.
That isn't necessary" Engers an
swered II took more from the Huns
than you can ever give me. I'll take
whatever's coming like man"
Regardless Of Enger's promise 10
take his medicine he was bound to
the post and the lash was thrown on
his back about score of times.
Acts of violence including the tar
and feather parties and beatings have
increased from time to time The
Khan bobs up here and there over
night. They parade in the smaller
towns nightly, terrorizlng the inhabl-
tants, warning many of them to leave
town as they are undesirable citi-
zens."
The wise heads of the South are
predicting an unpleasant future Of
strife, and perhaps civil war if the
present condition continues.
Because of the unrest and discon-
tent manifest among the citizens Of
Texas and states adjoining as the
result of the activities of the Khan, the
question has come into the limelight
in the Texas Legislature. Representa-
tive Wright Patman, Of Cass County.
introduced a bill last week urging the
Legislature to pass it because OF the
1awlassness and anarchy that now en-
vefops the state"
The bill was defeated by vote SO
to 40. Governor Pat Neff asked the
Legislature on August to institute an
investigation of masked bands and
secret organizations in the state and to
take what action necessary to enforce
the law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

Here Yesterday. White Supremacy
Here Forever 100 Per Cent Ameri-
canism.' Pure Womanhood," Dallas
Must Be Clean "All Pure White"
For Our Mcthers,' For Our Sisters, ="
For Our Daughters" parasite.
Must Co." Gamblers Must Co."
"Grafters Co." "Our Little Girls Must
Be Protected,' "Degenerates Must
Co.. The Guilty Must Pay" and The
Right Will Prevail
The parade had formed inside the
Majestic Theater Dallas's million-dol
lar showhouse. 1t covered a loop of
six blocks and a block wide The pro-
cession had its moral effect upon Dali
las. Police blotters have been prac-
tlcally clear Of Migrants and loafers
and gamblers
After this came the whipping of Ed
ward Engers, an overseas veteran, on
the night of June 10, because he was
alleged to have mistreated his former
wife, who had remarked fifteen months
before he fell victim TO the Kan's
wrath. Since newspapers have edi-
torially dayed the attack upon Engers
and much indignation has arisen from
citizens, some of the Khan have denied
the attack upon him. Some admit it.
Engers was at work in an oil station
late on the evening of June 13 when
two men came into the place.
I'VE are officers and have warrant
for your arrest" one of them said.
Engers went with them
The two men led him to secluded
side street. There eight masked men
we're waiting in an autom oble. The
engine was running.
Throw him in,' one Of them
shouted.
Fingers attempted to back away from
the men. A pistol was pushed in his
side. He was threatened with death
If he yelled. He was thrown into
the car It moved away faat.
Taunts and threats were made by many
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

Tex, the Khan recently justified the
tarring and feathering Of DR.. j. S.
Paul and R. F. Scott, veteran of the
World War. 1t was alleged the two
were implicated in the illegal opera
ton upon young girl.
Following the confession from the
local Khan that they had committed
the tarring and feathering, Colonel
William J. Simmons, Wizard of the ma
tional order, issued sensational state
ment that he would have the matter
investigated, threatening to give the
names Of the Khan to local police Off
GERS and revoke the charter. The threat
never was carried out. Both men were
warned to leave town. Scott has LEFT
for good. Dr. Paul is still in Beau
mont. When on the street he appears
with bodyguard.
"Americanism that Is the one word
upon which the Ku-Klux Khan bases
its existence. All Of the Ku-Klux Khan
stationery is printed on its own press.
On the lctterhead of its stationery
at Houston, Tex, is the motto:
"Commemorating and perpctuating
the most sacred and sublime lineage in
all history"
In the upper right hand corner OF
the sheet is the famous fiery cross Of
the Khan and in the left is the mounted
klansmcn. Many Of its notices that
have been printed and circulated about
Texan towns are: 1.-THE Unseen Eyes
Have Seem" Beware Of the Ku-KIux
Klan," 1--WE Don't Want Mulatto Chill
drcn," "Whitc Men Must Stay Away
From Negro Quarters" Gamblers and
Bootleggcrs Must Co." and eve Don't
Want any Negro Belhops."
Many and moro Of these signs and
notices are borne by the Klansmen
during their paradcs, which are always
Of an unexpected nature. They are gen
orally needed. Failure -, do no is fol-
lowed by the trial before the boiling
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

pot Of tar and the administration of
feathers
A high powered automobile dashes up
to the curb White hooded and robed
figures with the insignia of the Kans-
men on the left breast spring out upon
their victim. Selling him they throw
him into the car, then vanish into the
darkness.
Those are the steps that prelude his
sure and certain trial in the light of a
bonfire at the edge of town. The man
is told the offense for his punishment.
Then he is stripped naked. He is
placed on the ground while the Klans-
men take turns at beating him with a
wet rope. Then the tar is poured onto
his body and then he is rolled in feath-
ers. He is tossed back into the car
and thrown out at some prominent cor
ner in town.
Arrests have been made in only one
case of the fifty of recent days.
This was at Waco, Tex, where the case
against the men never has been
pressed.
The Klan's activities opened in
Houston on December 8, when 500
Kansmen attired in their uniforms
paraded through the main streets
bearing innumerable banners. This
was the first sign Of the Khan. Since
then it's activities have increased with
each day and night.
The first act of the Khan in Houston
was the tarring and feathering of B.
L. Hobbs, prominent lawyer. Three
days before he had received warning
from the Khan to leave town. He
ignored it. He told many Of his
friends of the threat letter. On the
night Of February he was kidnapped
from his apartments and taken to the
edge Of the town. His hair was
clipped and he was tarrcd and
fcathcrcd. He was accused of being
"too friendly with negroes" Hobbs
left town and went to Alvin, a small
town near Houston. Two days later
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

still--handicapped, it seems
as justice Is meted to alleged violators
of the law by masked bands-strange
and mysterious figures in long white
robes.
The "invisible empire" known
throughout the South as the Ku-Klux
Khan. patterned in detail in laws after
the Khan of the Civil War, is response
BILE. The Ku-Klux Khan has sounded
the warming The guilty are fleeing.
The innocent are being terrorized
The Khan Of olden times had for it's
purpose. the holding down Of the ne
croes in the South during the recon-
atructions days that followed the Civil
War in 1865. This Khan never had for
ita victims persons of its own race and
color The modern Khan has special
lied or the whites.
The old Khan came to an end when
criminals and refugees from the law
used the name and customs of the
Khan to counterfeit their own acts Of
violence. The dissolution came in 1869,
when the Wizard Of the Khan, General
Nathan Bedford Forest, ordered it so.
But, now, each day there is the story
Of some one carried to the edge OF
town, stripped, beaten, tarred, fcath-
cred and returned TO town to be Kissed
at by the curious. The acts nre at
times denied by the Khan. Other
times they go unnoticcd. In many in
stances they have directly shouldered
the biaule
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
Negro Bcllhop in Dallas
Branded With IL. X. r."

Houston experienced the terror and
excitement of several other kidnap-
ings and Earrings and then the scene
shifted to Dallas. bellboy in the
Adolphus Hotel, the prided hosiery of
the South, was taken from the hotel
by masked men. On his forehead he
was branded tx. K K" in silver
nitrate. He was brought back to the
hotel and turned loose in the lobby
Many guests crowded around the
branded negro He was charged with
intimacy with a white woman in the
hotel
On May 81 Dallas witnessed the
largest parade in the history Of the
Khan IN Texas. 1t was on Saturday
night and the streets were crowded.
Suddenly the great white lights along
Elm Street, city thoroughfare,
went out. With only a few lights here
and there from shop windows piercing
the darkness, the street was enveloped
in a mass of jet. Down the long
street came the ghostIy parade Of the
kiansmen. The fiery cross, at the
head illuminated the way. The city
of 10000 persons was still as the
white robed figures moved on silently.
mysteriousy. Behind the bearer of the
fiery cross came the long line of silent
men. Every twentieth man carried a
banner with an inscription.
Inc first one read, 1.-THE Invisible
Empire" Others were: Here To dav
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
Khan Jpstifes Tarring
or Veteran and Physician

The Ku-Kiux Khan, from hcadquar-
ters in Atlanta, Ga, where " was
founded, ayers that 1t IL merely OF
fraternal nature. 1t In declared that
tho organization does not stand TOR
tar and gatherings, yet ut Bcaumon1,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21

he was taken to the edge of that
town in daylight, his car was pointed
west and he was ordered to so in that
direction and. not stop until he was
out of Texas. He never has been
heard Of since.
Following the tarring ARRAY the
Khan sent $500 to the Young Women's
Christian Association for the home
less girls who had been burned out
BY fire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
v1edsm breeds Huge Bureaucracy Rife With Graft
Corruption and Terrorism
Main Factors of Red Rule
Private Industries Flourish Under *sCo-operative'
Mask by Paying Tribute for Every Conces-
sion to Low and High Officials

scum of Russia. These elements are
organically incapable of creative and
ef1clent work. Most of the better ele-
ments have been either bounded out
or else have left of their own accord.
unable to stand the conditions and the
association. Those who remain have
neither the will nor the opportunity to
do really good work But the inefi-
cheney of the Soviet bureaucracy has
also deliberate cause, which lies in
the general dishonesty of the official
personnel. OF course, corruption and
dishonesty are to be expected, consid-
erlng the sort of elements that pre-
dominate in the bureaucracy, but their
actual extent is startling, even after we
discount this very important fact.
Let us take bribery as the most i'm
portant and glaring of the forms of bu
reaucratic corruption. Several months
ago the official organ of the Russian
Communist party, the Moscow Pravda,
devoted series of articles to the ques-
ton. In one of these articles. pub
lished on February d, 1921, the author
described one of the phases of Russia's
national life, which provided an espe-
cially fertile field for bribery and off,
oial corruption. Under the Soviet sys-
tenn Of nationalized industry, l. e., be-
fore Lenine's revised" economic poll
cies went into effect, the only indus
trial o0fernriscS u,h1Ch
outside of governmental supervision
were those organized on a cooperative
basis. Officially, these enterprises were
supposed to receive their raw materials
from the government and sell their
products to the government. As
matter of fact, however, many of these
enterprises were in the hands of pri-
vate business men. The government
EARNED OUT to these pseudo-co0pera
tive enterprises orders for part of the
work which was supposed to have been
done by the nationalized factories. And
the process of placing these orders and
of supplying for them the necessary
stocks of raw materials and fuel be-
came source of revenue for the Soviet
officials. The article in the Pravda has
the following description of this sys-
tenn Of bribery:
Each private entrepreneur has to
pay brides to everybody in the Soviet
institutions. He pays for the very fact
of receiving an order; for the drawing
up Of the contracts; for the estimates;
for the right to receive cash payment;
for the right to obtain raw materials
and fuel; and to countless controlling
and receiving commissions. If his
papers have to 60 through number Of
stages, the same thing happens in all
of them
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-21
By Russell J. Birdwell

- ROM an "invisible empire" the
Southland is taking her medi-
cine. The law is at stand