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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
oh, Nothing Like That!

Patricia and Billy are two lovable
children, but seem to enjoy a trium-
plant satisfaction when one Is punished
and the other Is not. Not long ago
Patricia while being dressed became
30 hilarious that 1t was necessary for
mother to give her q gentle smack.
Billy in the next room called out,
"Slster, is mother Furnishing your
Whereupon sister Immediately re-
piled, mo, she was killing a moth"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
"CAL|FORN|A FIG SYRUP"
MOTHER! Move Childs Bowels with this Harmless
Laxative-ChIdeH Love Its Taste

Millions OF mothers keep "California
Fig Syrup" handy. They know a tea.
spoonful today may save a sick child
tomorrow. 1t never cramps or over
acts. Ask your druggist for genuine
california Fig Syrup" which has d.
iections for babies and children Of ali
ages printed on bottle, Mothers, you
must say california" or you may get
m imItntInn svrnn.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

II your child Is constipated, full Of
cold, has collie, or If the stomach Is
sour, breath bad, tongue coated, a tea
spoonful Of California Fig Syrup viii
never fail TO open the bowels. In a
few hours you a see for yourself
how thoroughly 1t works the constlpa-
ton poison, sour bile and waste right
out and you have q well, playful child
again.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
Obeyinq Orders

Going into his stable one day, a coun.
try farmer found his little son with a
notebook and pencil in his hand, sit.
fling astride one of the horses.
"Why, Eddie" he exclaimed, what
IN the world are you doing?"
~Writing q composition" replied lit.
tie Eddie.
well. why don't you write 1t In the
libraryT
] Because" answered Eddie, 'ths
Atescher told US to write a composition
lon a horse"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
One Way Outl

A man was walking down the street
one day when he met an old friend.
Hello, Bill" he said. Can you
lend me a shilling, old sportI'
Very sorry" replied the other. ="
haven't a quarter, but I've got a
dime"
Never mind" said Jim. Lend me
that and owe me the other Is cents!'
Edinburgh Scotsman.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

With the antiseptic, fascinating CUT.
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scented, economical face, skin, baby
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Renders other perfumes superluous.
One Of the Cuticura Toilet Trio tSoap,
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Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
Plausible Influence.

"What do you think Of that young
woman who talks radical politicsT'
81 think" said Miss Cayenne, that
she Is probably not much help to her
mother. A parlor socialist Is usually
O bad performer in the kitchenette."
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

For true blue, use Red Cross Ball
Blue. S~nowy-white clothes viii be
sure to result. Try It and you will al
ways use 1t. All good grocers have 1t.
Advertisement.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
The ACES Of Woman.

The three ages of woman:
Fifteen to twenty-tiye-Tns middle
ages.
Thirty-tlye to forty-ive-The middle
ages.
Fifty on-The NEEDLE ages.-From
Life.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

The occasional use OF Roman Eye BslsAm
at night will prevent and relieve tired eyes,
wAtery eyes, and eye strain. Advertisement
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
In Doubt.

"What's the baby crying fort"
Dunno. I've tried him with every
thing In the house"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

little soft velvet cuff hat below 10 the
left Is a symphony In gray.
Chenille embroidery Is exploited In
the satin model to the right below
Whether It be In renting an apart
ment or buying al automobile or
a farm. the modernist demands
+latest improvements" When 1t comes
70 clothes, we are IN the same mind,
We seek the last word In fashion.
Manufacturers and designers, keen
TO this disposition on the part Of the
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
literaI.Minded.

"Did you break this dish, Norahf'
mo, mum; | only dropped it,
Boston Evening Transcript.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08

Few men are as ugly as they look.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1922-12-08
CHRISTMAS FRUIT

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Sweet and Juicy. a great uig standard box.
200 oranges, So. 9G grapefruit, 1850, cash
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The Washington times., 1922-10-08

and brought into being for the same pur-
poses. She was told in the note where to
meet those who would "initiate" her into
the organization" Curious to know what
it was all about, Mrs. Ramsey kept the
engagement.
On lonely road half mile from her
home just after dark had settled over the
hills and woods she met four women. She
was not surprised when she saw white
sheets over their heads. The sheets fell
loosely over thee bodies and were belted
about the waists. Sits provided means to
see. All that was as Mrs. Ramsey felt it
should be; and she was not at all fright
ened.
"Come with u.s." one of the women
said
The others were silent.
Slowly they walked to an open space
where other women, similarly garbed, sat
in a circle.
""We have organized to rid the COM
munity of persons who steal the love of
our husbands" the leader told Mrs.
Ramsey.
"But I am widow" she answered.
"Why should join?"
"To help the rest Of u.s." was the reply.
"Very-well, what do you want me to
do?" asked Mrs. Ramsey.
"Send your daughter Opal away" was
the quick answer. "She's the one that's
causing our husbands to forget u.s."
Never, never" cried the mother.
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

wrists tied, she would fall upon her side
and roll upon the steadily increasing num-
bers of loathsome captives. And then as
the bare flesh of back or breast shud-
dered at the contact, she would thrust her
head out of the little open square door of
the coop and beg for mercy from the
hooded women.
That's right, beg" they taunted her.
And then as they touched her face with
worm or frog, she would recoil and strain
again at the sides of the weird prison.
For an hour or more the passer-by, if
he could have stood it, would have
watched her torment. Then he would have
seen the women take sheets and go to
nearby bushes From these bushes upon
the sheets they shook myriads of ticks
burrowing, biting bugs.
Out of the sheets, down upon the girl
in the chicken coop, the masked woman
shook these insects, covering her with
them.
There's food for the night, chicken"
they said. And left.
For a time the means and cries of the
girl, whose fettered hands and feet made
it impossible for her to brush away the
singing pests, might have been heard in
the lopely, gloomy, dark clearing in the
woods. Then the clearing was silent.
The girl had tainted. Not until late
morning was she found and released half
dead half insane from shock and fright.
The girl was Opal Ramsey, the eigh-
teen-year-old daughter of Mrs. Sadie RAM
sey, well-to-do widow, who owns and
manages a large farm in the Red Rock
section.
The masked women who had admin
istrated to her the well-nigh unthinkable
torture were an organized band of re-
spectacle farmer women, well-placed
matrons. mothers of families, members of
ladies' aid societies, Epworth Leaguers
and all~good church women
Undoubtedly many of their husbands
or fathers or brothers are members of the
Ku Klux klan, and at first 1t was thought
that these women had simply initiated the
methods of their men in taking the law
into their own hands. But the beating
of another woman by a band Of Texas
ladies who left word for the authorities
that they were members of an organiza-
tion named "Women of the Invisible Eye"
and that this was the feminine branch of
the klan, throws a different light on the
Oklahoma affair.
Similarity Of methods and the fact
that in both cases warning letters we're
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

Z TOT many nights ago If anybody had
IN been passing along a deserted wood
road about four miles outside of
Red Rock, Oklahoma, he would have
looked upon a scene that would have made
him doubt whether he was awake or
dreaming.
The wood road led into a clearing,
pressed on all sides by the thick trees. At
the back of the clearing was an abandoned
farmhouse, gloomy and ruinous. In the
centre of the clearing stood chicken coop
about six feet long and four feet high.
Around this coop were dozen or more
sheeted and masked figures, their DISCUSSES
roughly aping the ghostly robes of the. Ku
Klux Klan. But the white robes showed
beneath them the bodily contours of wo-
men, and it was women's voices that came
from beneath the face-covering hoods.
That's good fat worm. Drop it in.
Chickens like worms"
"Fine! 1t went right down her neck"
"Now for the snails."
What were these women? the passer-by
would have wondered. Philanthropic
ladies bent on an errand of mercy to
fowls left behind by those who had gone
from the farmhouse? If so-why the dis
guises of robes and masks? Yet if they
we're not-then why their apparent solici-
tude for nice worms and snails and other
creeping horrors that chickens like to
eat?
If the observer could have pushed his
way through the circle of the women and
looked into the coop all his questions
would have been speedily answered. And
it would have been what he would have
seen there that would have aroused his
doubt as to whether he was awake or in
some fantastic dream.
For in the coop crouched a girl!
Almost naked, naked indeed to the
waist; her hands and feet tied together
by strong cords on her white back
smears of blood and the weals of lashes;
she strained against the side of the coop,
half insane with loathing and terror as
her tormentors thrust into her through the
Stats and dropped down upon her worms
and snails, bugs and small snakes, frogs
and whatever other creeping, crawling
things they could find whose touch is to
most women a horrorl
She would shrek like q mad woman
as some frog or snake or worm, trying to
escape the confines of the coop, crawled
over her ankles or knees. She would try
to draw the bound legs up beneath her
and away from them. Then, helpless to
keep her balance with both ankles and
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

"Opal is good girl and bothers no one."
"Will you send her away-or must we
give you what bad men have been given
by the Klan in this country?" asked one
of the women.
"I'll never send my own daughter away
from home," replied the mother.
The women, on signal gathered
around her. Quickly she was tied hands
and feet. She was lifted up and carried
to large tree. She was tied to the
trunk of the tree in a cramped sitting
position.
"Now will you do as we say?" she was
asked
"No," she answered.
Two women, largest of the group,
stAhed forward. In their hands were
long switches, broken from trees in the
woods. signal was given and they be-
gan lashing.
The blows were few and light. The
whipping was more of a humiliation than
a punishment.
Then Mrs. Ramsey was released.
That's just to show you what your
daughter will get if she. doesn't go away"
said one.
They disappeared down a road and
Mrs. Ramsey, weak with fear and anger,
stumbled to her home.
Next day came a note to Opal Ramsey
On it was painted a cross, flames bursting
from it. 1t was the fiery cross of the
Ku Klux Klan.
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

bugs. Say, nobody but a woman could
have thought of that. A man is just
plain ddmbbell, who takes it out in whip
pin or hangin' bit. A man couldn't
a-thought of the chicken coop, and man
wouldn't have had the--well-call it
nerve to put it through if he had thought
of it. Well, who was that feller who said
the female of the species was more deadly
than the male? Well, anyway, whoever
he was he was right"
The crime for which Opal Ramsey was
punished so outrageously was apparently
talking to the husband of neighbor over
the fence and wearing "city clothes" that
aroused the admiration of other husbands.
The wife of the neighbor talked to over
the fence was jealous The other women
were a bit jealous, too.
= Hence the whipping,and the torment by
bugs
The woman to whose husband Opal
talked over the fence is named Mrs. Lii
lian Dunivan. The girl asserts that she
recognized Mrs. Dunivan among her cap
tors and she has been arrested. So too
has Mrs. Goldie Weinstein, another neigh
Dor, whom Opal claims to have identified
among the band.
The first movement of these Oklahoma
imitators of the Klan was made against
Mrs. Ramsey, the mother. One day
she received a note inviting her to be-
come a member Of a new organization
of women, similar to the )Ku Klux Klsn
The Washington times., 1922-10-08

received by the VIC
Tins bearing the sign
of the "Fla m / ng
Cross"-the~symbol Of
the Ku Klux-make
the Oklahoma police
think that the women
who tortured Opal
Ramsey were also of
"The Invisible Eye" Z.
"If what. those wom-
en- did to Opal is a
sample of the way the
women Klansmen are
going to work, why
then the women are
going to make the men
look sick, believe me-"
said the sheriff, who
had been called to in
spect the chicken coop
in which the bound
body of the girl had
be9n imprisoned. "You
oughta seen the ver-
min in it. And the
dirt. And then all the
nasty critters and the
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
investigate Morosco,s MARRIAGE.

Detroit, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
residence of Oliver Morosco, theatri
cal producer, who was married al
Santa Ana, Calf, to Miss Selma
Paley, Los Angeles actress, only three
days after he was granted a divorce
here from his first wife, has been or
dered by Circuit Judge Harry J. Dinge
man of Detroit. Edward Pokorney
friend of the court, was instructed tC
make the investigation in an effort tC
learn whether colluSion existed.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
MANY INQUIRIES CONCERNING
AVAILABLE FARMS REACH
SECRETARY FALL.
VETERANS SEEK LAND
FORMER SOLDIERS REQUEST OP-
PoRTUNITIES TO GET BACK
TO SOIL.
western Newspaper Union News Service

Observation-Disclosures of the desire
the farm constantly is reaching the In
terror Department, Secretary Fall has
announced here, adding that more
than 100000 such applications have
been received for employment in de-
velOping land. In addition, inquiries
concerning available land are coming
in by the hundreds of thousands, the
secretary stated.
The correspondence is largely from
farm-trained men who are mot ap-
pealing for a gratuity," he said, 'but
are seeking an opportunity to acquire
home on the land by utilizing their
labor and experience.
''It is significant that the bulk of
these inquiries generally come from
states wherein the price of land has
ties for men of small capital to acquire
a home are extremely limited. Among
these states, Illinois ranks first, with
$4,000 inquiries and applications for
land.
Farm land prices in this state aver
age among the highest in the Union.
Conditions are much the same in
Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas
and Nebraska, where land hunger on
the part of the war veterans is shown
by 45,620 inquiries received. OF these
26,900 made application for work in
order to secure a home.
'The arid and Semi-arid states show
up with a total of 61,340 eX-service
men interested in home making on the
land. The Southern states are repre-
sented by 27,7SO and the Eastern
states, including Pennsylvania, by D..
900. In the Northern states of Michi.
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and the Da-
kotas there are 14,460 veterans who
have indicated a desire to obtain a
farm home"
The reclamation service, Secretary
Fall said, during the past two years.
has been able to offer former soldiers
only 400 farms, although $4,000 in
quiries were received and 7,480 serv.
ice men applied for farms.
In none of these cases, he asserted,
could the government offer financial
assistance, and the successful appli.
cantS were required to put up from
$3.50 to $500 per irrigable acre and an
annual charge of upwards of 81 pei
acre.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Deportation Measure Passes House.

Washington.-By a vote of more
than three to one, the House late to-
day passed and sent to the Senate a
bill authorizing the deportation OF
aliens convicted in state or federal
courts on charges of having violated
the narcotic and Volstead acts. Rep
resentative Mann, Republican, Illinois,
warned prohibitionists that they were
going too far, that there was danger
OF disrupting the whole system Of law
enforcement and that jurors would be
unwilling to convict those who ought
to go to Jail, if it also meant deporta-
tiOn.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Master Mind Rules Crooks

New k.-Detectives assigned to
the 100000 jewel robbery in Washing
ton square have been struck with the
similarity that has marked spectacular
coups made on the homes of he
wealthy within recent months and are
seeking to determine whether New
York Is infested with a band of super
criminals. The police incline to the
belief that the band comprises mem
bers, each specialized in one form of
criminal pursuit, working under the di.
rectiOn of q master crook.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
N. Y. Income Tax Collections Drop.

New York.-Income tax collections in
the New York district for the first
quarter Of 1922 reached $685., ,95S.S7
drop of. 35.3 per cent from the
amount received during the cores
ponding period in 1921, Collector
Bowers has announced. Collector
Bowers estimated income taxes re.
turned here during 1922 would exceed
$326,0O0,000, compared with q little
more than $505,0OO,0O0 last year.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Shaw and His Critic.

Shaw and His Critic
Bernard Shaw is not the Hu'
skeptic that he has sometime
called. He Is full of gOOu
Some time ago he was readlns'
ticularly bitter attack on "
brought to him by one of DIS y
He read the clipping attentl'e'
then, turning to his trlenu
SLOW appalingly this fellO"
tuates his sentences"
AS a man grows older ne s"''
Ideals for ideas.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Adroit Publicity,

"You once told me you weF
much interested in the theory
luton"
Il am" replied the member
legislature.
'Then why did you introduce
to prevent it from being Studi
people seemed to be torgettl
about it. 1 thought it would bel
idea to bring it back to popular
tion."
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetabla
pound Tablets and Lydia E. p;nl|
Blood Medicine and improved evsS
/ do all my own work now eYSa9I
washing and do it with ease. IN
complish as much in a day noS'
would have taken me a week IN ~ \
winter and / try to get every onsII
to take your medicine to build S1
You are welcome to use this letts
testimonial if you like. Mrs \
BAKER. q Spencer Ave-, HorneI
In almost every neighborboMl
are women who know of the VII
Lydia E. Pinkham's VegetabsI
pound. They know because tbe,|
taken it and have been helped,
don't you give it a trial?
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14

OILY WEEK leads us through the
deep shades of penitence and sor-
row to Gethsemane, the Last Sup
per, Good Friday and the Cross.
leaving us in silence and darkness
at the sepulchre. But now. 10. as
at Christmas, an angel brings joy
full tidings to them. Here again an
angel voices the greatest, gladdest,
most blessed truth that ever thrilled
the ears and elated the souls of
Glen: Christ Is RiSen."
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
Delegates Show Interest in Lenine

Genoa.-Premier Lenine of Soviet
Russia is more talked of in pre-confer
ence conventions among the Genoese
than any other man who will have any,
thing to do directly or indirectly with
tre economic conference.
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14

the matter VsTi3||
Il was tired "
over anditw,y,
fort for me ~
l was irritsSS9
couldnotslessSS'S|
and had trOuB9
my bowels asi3,1| M
periods. Il N
thatnearlyeTSs
around me h.
your mad;o:
wanted me toS III
so at laotT1
The Snowflake herald., 1922-04-14
NOW DO MY
WORK With "A
Because Lydia E. Pinll.
Vegetable COMPOUND )
stored My HeaItb

Hornell, N. Y.-"T was inh !,
but there didn't seemto be ann N 0aa
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-08

mOn pfTp1v frTfJI and oDrIDUIn ,,.I,I,
yoljs or bsrd' 'hoiIsd eva wbicb h,s
bsen forced ,brnneh .,ra,rar
Garnish with lemon quarters and
spriga OF parsley.
Toma,o p,sonc
,,,..
MIX one ana ohe,hait cups canned
.uiua'oos; Vho-hull neuluh-sized
onIoh' blceu' lour cloves, oight
pePPSrCoihs' ono sprls parsley ana
one pay leaI, pllhg 70 thc bolilnB
point let sumner ~ minutes, then
.noon s,t,ar 'to,,r,i, ,na.,,,'.',,
snJa ,rd n,,o ,o,snoos Ell. vi,
tbrea tai,ioenoors b,,,,nr GA hianS
win q tbron tsbiosnoons ,inrr ga
nour on while cons,ortty .t,rrins
the hot n,ivt,ra POM ,nto ono
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-08
HIGH SCHOOL TO
DISCUSS ZONING
Tulsa's Scheme for City
Planning to Be Given
Thorough Try Out

How hlgh does Tulsa's down town
district rate for beauty OF It's build
ings7 What are tho clty'A needs in
regard to parks and boulcvards?
What good would Yonlng ordi-
nance, such as that proposed by the
new city plan commission, do2
These are q few OF the questions
that will be discussed IN the study
Of Tulsa that Is going to he con.
Quoted by Miss Ada Robinson. d.
rector OF the art department at Cen.
tral high school this year. Civic
appreciation is n phase Of the course
In art appreciation that is being add
cd 10 the curriculum this year. and
the subject will be taught in classes
for boys every Wednesday. To aug
mcnt the work done In class. the
boys will take pictures Of Tulsa
buildings, parks, residential dis
tricts, etc, and with Miss Robinson
will make tours OF inspection OF
business blocks, stores. and other
places where principals and appli-
cation OF design can be best Illus
trated for them.
street planning IN relation "a
grading, width, connecting streets
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-08

proximity 20 railroads, etc. will be
a part OF the course. Tho archi-
tectursl style Of buildings, their re-
lation to one another, their furnish
inge. maintenance and care Will he
discussed. and tho aesthetic values
" a business block I'm It's architect.
ural phases, Nistas, etc, considered.
Parks and archwaye. illumination
OF streets, buildings and places of
business, landscape gardening, the
relation OF one residential block to
another statuary, boulcvards--these
ana similar problems will be consid.
cred.
"Tulsa's business blocks have
some beautiful buildings but their
beauty Ii often detracted from by
the buildings that they are In ptoX
nifty with" Miss Robinson said IN
discussing her plans. Il think that
this In not 30 much question of
money as Il In u lack OF under
standing OF the actual value Of beau
ty I'm buildings. There In not q
einglo block down town that would
receive y very high rating from an
artistic viewpoint and we want to-
study them and learn the reasons
why. We want our young people TO
understand what IL IL that the men
OF Tulsa's city plan commission, Tor
instance, arc going otry and do for
Tulsa"
The accomplishment OF other
city plan commissions will be used
In the class work "a "a basis for
comparison. hut Miss Robinson
stressed tho fact that the course
centcrs In Tulsa and viii make the
study It's major objective. The boys
have already begun the class worl,
ana for the first few weeks are
The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-10-08

Cut stale bread In one fourth inch