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The New York herald., 1922-07-23
A Hebrew Version
of the Deluge
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A HEBREW DELUGE STORY IN
CUNEIFORM And Other EPIC
Fragments i'm the Pierpont Morgan
Library. BY Albert T. Clay. Yale
Z University Press.
DRoF. ALBERT T. CLAY has
written a new monograph
upon the cuneiform inscrip-
ton upon the fragment of large
tablet (now in the Morgan Library
which was translated number OF
years ago, but, as Prof. Clay notes,
owing to a faulty copy Of the text
originally presented, its importance
has never been understood"
The authors basis for his special
recognition of the Importance of this
story of the Deluge is that he con-
siders it will require that the prevail
ing view be abandoned, that the
Hebrew traditions were borrowed
from Babylonia. This inscription
was copied about the time OF Abra-
ham from an earlier tablet, and study
of its accurate text leads the author
to contend that "the Arabian origin
of the Semites living in ancient Syria
and Babylonia, including the He
brews, is baseless and that
the assertion that the culture and re-
Iigion of Israel were borrowed from
Babylonia is without any foundation,
The New York herald., 1922-07-23

which is still one of the most inter-
esting of its kind though written in
1869 attempts to show that one of
the early Church Fathers speaks of
divination by tables and rappings."
But the modern development is
nevertheless a thing by itself. Its
birth came at a time tnat was pro-
pitious: interest in Mesmerism,
clairvoyance and similar things was
already widespread when the Fox
sisters raped spiritualism into be-
ing. Shortly before that Andrew
Jackson Davis, a singular character,
had published a very curious book
called Natures Divine Revelation
which he claimed was dictated TO
him in a clairvoyant trance. ut
was, at least, less laborious method
than that chosen by the egregious
and tiresome Patience Worth
fancy the effort required to take
down a hundred thousand word
novel by way OF the ouija boardD
"
Our authors book covers the mid
die period Of this growth; in some
ways the least interesting of the
three eras, but also the one about
which least has been written. The
medium, Daniel Home twho will be
remembered partly because Of his
disagreement with Browning and his
probable share in the making of
"Sludge, the Medium") in his book
Lights and Shadows of Spiritual
ISM published in 1870 quotes Mrs
Hardinge's History of American
Spiritualism' TO the effect that the
most severe blows that spiritualism
has sustained have been those aimed
by unprincipled and INSCRIPTIONS
and avaricious mediums, who
practiced imposition" Our authors 9
book is a summary history, upon
that text. Ii is a curious. fact, how
ever, that the exposure of the me
dunn rarely upsets the mind of the
believer. Mr.. Wells has handled
that excellently in Love and Mr.
Lewisham," where Chuffey, the me-
dunn, emerges safely from exposure
The expert medium can even justify
il. AS "Sludge" observes:
Don't let truths lump rot stasnant foi
the lack
OF a timely helpful lie to heaven IT!
Put a chalk egg beneath the ciucklns
hen,
She'll lay real one. laudahly de-
ceived.
Daily for weeks TO come. I've told
my lie,
And seen truth follow, marvels none
of mine.
That suggests the obvious classifi-
cation of mediums, made by our au-
thor: those who are wholly crooked,
unbelievers. mere cbarlatans; those
who mix triekery with phenomena
not consciously caused by them. and
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THE CONSTITUTION OF TIL e
UNITED STATES: ITS SOURCES
AND ITS APPLICATIONS. BY
Thomas James Norton. Little, Brown
& Co.
n EOST Americans refer glibly to
N the Constitution but few of
us really know it and really
understand what il means. One rea-
son for this is that most works on
that document have been written for
lawyers and in two or three volumes,
two things that put them beyond the
range of the average man or woman.
In this volume Mr.. Norton has ap-
preached the Constitution from "a
different viewpoint. He has aimed
at preparing a work that will be
available for the average student,
since it is in one volume issued at
a low cost, and he has done this by
explaining the Constitution through
a note to every line or clause in it
that has a historical story or drama
back of it, or that has contributed
during the one hundred and thirty
three years of our life under this in
strument to the national or the in
ternational welfare of mankind. By
this method the text of the Consti-
tuition and the Amendments are left
in unbroken connection, SO that the
whole of its great design is to be
seen, and the explanation of each
line or clause appears in note i'm
mediately under the part to be ex-
planned.
The working ont of this scheme
has been admirably carried out by
Mr. Norton. His notes are extremely
satisfactory both as to their clarity
and terseness. Historic sources or
causes of particular provisions of the
Constitution are given and also ex-
amples of the application of the
clauses in great cases which have
arisen during our constitutional life,
these decisions of the courts being
brought down to the present day.
The author also shows how the form
of our Constitution has been copied
in whole or in part by other coun-
tries, including the Dominion of Can
ada, Australia, the Union of South
Africa, France. Belgium and Swift
zerland.
At the end of the text he gives
a table showing the length of time
which elapsed between the proposal
of each Amendment by Congress and
the proclamation by the Secretary of
State of the ratification by three
fouTths of the States. This shows
that the shortest period for such ac-
ton was for the first ten amend
ments, the Bill of Rights teight
months and twenty days), while the
longest was for the Sixteenth
Amendment, the income tax ttbret
years, six months and twenty-fouI
days).
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Manipulating
the Spooks

finally. a small remnant of nom
professionals who are really sensi-
tives, or, in modern slang, "psychics."
and are merely receptive. IL may be
noted that the last class rarely pro-
duces anything very striking.
Although bit aside from our book
it may be worth noting that what
little soundly scientific investigation
there has been has shown only mega
tive results. The French doctors
examination of Eva" and ectoplasm
tas yet Only. reported in brief news
paper dispatches), appears TO have
resulted in a Scotch verdict of not
proven" There is, as yet, no slight
est basis for postulating any super
mundane force TO explain the pheDo-
mena. That is always purely graf
uitous assumption, a sheer jump
into guessing. AS Prof De Morgan.
i'm 1863, summed il up-although he
was favorably disposed 10 a spirit
ual hypothesis"
IL l. were bound to choose among
things which i can conceive,
should say there was some sort OF
action or some combination of will,
intellect and physical power Thieh
is not that of any of the human
beings present. But. thinking Il
very likely that the universe may
contain a few agencies-say, half a
IL.
anything, | cannot but suspect that
a small proportion of these az en-
cies-say, five thousa nd-may be
severally competent TO the prodUc-
ton of all the phenomena.
Experimental physics and expert
mental psychology have taught us a
great deal since that was written,
but If remains = valid generalization;
in fact it gains weight with the new
discoveries
VI
Finally, our anonymous. bitter.
skeptical author affirms his own flu
belief in some elements of spiritual
ism, in immortality and the possibll-
ity of communication with the living.
But he adds, eharacteristically
IL the writer can return 10 earth
and visit those he loved he is posi-
tive he viii not do so through per-
forming feats with heated amp
chimneys, or controlling "A lecturer
and attempting TO deliver an inn
pressive GRAFTON in the language of
a coal HEAVIER. He does not
believe that he OF any other spirit
can or would return through the
organism of any man who is a ha-
bitual drunkard and depraved in
other ways. nor through a woman
who - worse than common pros
titute. IL is not at all probable
either, that he would go into tie
business of materializing lace for
the entertainment of sitters at
fifty cents a head
To this passage the editors append
the aneedote from a London paper:
Investigator: is this the spirit of
William Ewart Gladstone speakinE'e"
Shade OF tie G. o. NJ: ~YUs. I'm
aml" GEORGE WOOD.
~ sa 81 - ~ns sfis s,s<s
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The
Constitution

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
UNITED STATES: ITS SOURCES
AND ITS APPLICATIONS. BY
Thomas James Norton. Little, Brown
& Co.
n n OST Americans refer glibly to
N the Constitution but a few of
us really know il and really
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Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
AT UNION COLLEGE

The Nlcholasville News has the
following complimentary note on the
work OF Mr.. II. M. Campbell, who
is director of the choir at the Chris
tian Church OF that place.
"Mr. Campbell is dellghting our
people with his splendid chorus work
and delightful solos. His voice is
well trained and musical and he puts
his heart into II. In all of HIS work
there is an appealing sympathy and
passion that grips HIS hearer."
Mr.. Campbell has been engaged to
assist with the operettas which will
be staged under the direction of Mrs.
F. A. Nunvar at Union College on
December 18th. These operettas are
a high quality of music and Mrs.
Nunvar was unable to secure a suit
able baritone here.
Wen Have to Mortage the
Farm" and "Muffs, or a Husbands
Mistake" are the two operettas that
will be given in costume and the
musical comedy, THE County Fair"
Mr.. Campbell will also give some
excellent solos and there will be
other features presented on a most
entertaining program.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08

EG O'MY II + A II T.
(By j. Hartley Manners)
At UNION COLLEGE
Monday, Dec. 18th
The Best Play Ever Put On At
Union College
The BarbOurville Band VIII Play
Admission 25c and 15c
Grant your imagination full sway.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08

ing every influence to prevent
hitch in the good roads program and
thus far he has succeeded. 1t is safe
to say, however, that Senator Moss
will not be contented with what has
been done to date, but, with other
proponents of good roads, will help
map out a program that will lift
Kentucky out of its ruts and bogs.
When this is done, the State Will
enjoy measure of agricultural pros
perity, social intercourse, larger edu
cation and general Improvement that
will put Kentucky on. level with
those states which, thru economic
conditions, have outstripped her.
A little Imagination viii carry the
mind to a condition in Kentucky
where good roads, the arteries of
agricultural success. social happiness
aud religious growth will run over
the length and breadth of the State.
With this in mind, too, It is good
news TO hear that Senator Moss. the
biggest good roads "crank" will
again be at the helm in the Assem-
bly,. There are enough other cranks
In the mountains TO send him there
with orders TO go get 'em.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
WHY. SURE!

Mr.. ]. N. r. Francis, j. p, fire.
quent visitor to America from Eng
land, has just issued a statement in
that country saying that he saw moth
ing of the discomfort alleged to ex-
ist in America because of prohibit
tion. 4 am bound in all honesty to
say that during my short visit the
discomfort which l expected to find
in no way came under my notice, 4"
said Mr.. Francis. Mr.. Francis COM
planned Of the high price of soft
drinks in Great Britain. what
makes prohibition work smoothly in
America" he says, sis that you can
always get cool, clear glass of
water for nothing"
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08

at home. We must save America If
America is to save the world.
81 am looking beyond the men
who go to Jail to the other mountain
homes where they want to do right,
to the women and to the children.
Shall the mocnshiner go back and
destroy them? NO! Women come to
my Office and beg for relief They
say these fellows will burn our
homes and kill our husbands. We
are going to make it safe for them.
81 want to be able to say from my
soul, The Sun Shines Bright on My
Old Kentucky Home in Knox county.
You do your part and we shall sue
ceed."
Rev. John owen Gross said the
sun always shines bright after the
moonshine is gone and appealed to
each man present to give of his time
for jury service when called upon.
Then give the moonshiner what is
coming to him. Stand by law and
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
OLD ONE, BUT ALWAYS
GOOD FOR ONE LAUGH

The Hazard Herald says that ]. H.
of Louisville wants to know II he is
his own grandfather.
Listen to this:
II married a widow who had a
grown-up daughter. My father Wis
tied our home and fell in love with
my stepdaughter and married her.
My father became my son-in-law, my
stepdaughter my mother because
she was my fathers wife.
Afterward. when my son came,
he was my fathers brother-in-law
and my uncle, for he was the brother
of my stepmother. He was also my
fathers grandson.
My fathers wife, that is, my
stepmother had son. He was of
course my brother, also my grand
son. for he was the son of my daugh-
ter.
"My wife was my grandmother be-
cause she was my fathers wife's
mother; that is, my mothers mother
So at the same time l am the hus-
band and grandchild of my wife
and as the husband of a persons
grandmother is grandfather it
seems l have a right to become my
own grandfather. Am right
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
XIV A MS TO MIG II
JONES HOTEL
$3.50 O'Clock
BE THERE!
AS TO GOLF

1t was reported Monday that j.
q. Redding was killed at the 18th
hole on the golf links one day last
week and died a horrid death. ALI
cations have been made by certain
alligators that the crepe which sig
nifies mourning was hung on his
door, whether by the alleged alli-
gators or by ]. Q. aint exactly clear,
but said alligators state that j. Q.
has been offered a reward, amount
unstated to the Advocate, to appear
at the drug store and talk golf.
Knowing Texans as we do. we
solemnly assert our belief that ]. Q.
aint afraid of nuthin' from a cayuse
down to frozen EsQuimaux and
also that If he feels like talking, he
will talk and no one can stop him.
No Texan we have known has been
dumb and furthermore, he has let
the world know 1t. This is a SER
ious matter, but we believe that ].
Q. will despise the allegation and
scorn the alligator. Let the Lone
Star flag wave.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
WHITE l.. MOSS AGAIN
ASPIRES TO SENATE

Senator White l.. Moss was in
Barbourville Thanksgiving accom-
panied by Mrs. Moss and the Advo-
cate reporter had the pleasure of
hearing from Senator Moss that he
would be a candidate to succeed
himself. He also states that the grad
ing and ditching contract for the
Barbourville- Corbin road will be let
by the State Highway Commission,
Dec. 20, thus ensuring the speedy
building of the highway between the
two cites.
Senator Moss has those qualities
which make for success in what he
undertakes, among them the Anglo
Saxon virtue of bulldog tenacity that
puts things thru instead of merely
talking about them. Happily, his
hobby is the building of good roads
in Kentucky and toward this fine
ideal he has bent every energy.
While the Assembly was in session
he worked like a trojan for good
roads and. after the session had
closed down. he was on the job us
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08

swallowed up in this thing. One
man who was being prodded by the
Commonwealth and County Attor-
neys to make him tell, put his arms
around my neck and begged that
they do not force him to tell because
they (the moonshiners) would kill
him. said. No, tell who you are
afraid OF and I will see they don't
burt you, and inside of an hour |
had fivc OF them under $4,000 peace
bonds
where II was known men had
threatened, your executives acted
and W. II Green took them before
the Federal Court where they were
put under $4,000 to $500 peace
bond and when they get thru they
will be satisfied and no one need be
afraid cf them.
"'Justice delayed is justice de-
nied.' Circuit courts are too far
apart; there is too much on the
docket to try in sixty days. l have
been watching courts of the land for
number of years and have seen
men of influence get into trouble. A
number of friends and big array
of lawyers are present and II the
man has money they will try and
wear the case out. A murderer finds
friends, money and resources, but
who comes to defend the widows
and orphans. In our own court l
saw a poor man fastened to trial
and quickly sentenced, (justly, l
think,) and in the same court, men
with influence and money got their
cases put off. l am not criticizing
the Circuit Court That's their bus
mess, not mine.
81 am sorry for those who go to
jail and part of the blame is ours
for not contributing the Gospel of
Jesus Christ. These people will be
reached only when they hear those
who preach the gospel publicly and
the devine spirit of God enters their
hearts.
"Only when we get public senti-
ment, judges, officers and juries be-
hind this thing shall we clean it up.
A short time ago we learned that a
man was coming in by auto carrying
liquor and another man with him.
He was arrested and asked to fill
bond, couldn't, but asked that the
other man take his auto back. He
was put in Jail, the car locked up
and officers went to his place and
found a still and a gallon of whis-
key in three hours. There may be
some deputies who are not all right
and some magistrates who are not
trying to protect the public but
they are a minority.
81 have given instructions to the
sheriff to select for jury service
men and women of intelligence who
can see the right when it comes be-
fore them and do the right when
they see 1t. The bootlegger and the
moonshiner will get no mercy from
me while he continues to sin.
''If the Circuit Court will do its
best we can clean up the trouble. If
it does not, then we are going up
every hollow and sweep 1t clean,
bring them in and then go after
them.
"Those U. S. legislators who do
not believe in prohibition should be
sent to the interior of China and
missionaries be sent to preach to
the heather. While l believe in
missions, we are overlooking work
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08

Grant your imagination full sway,
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
order or let us keep still about con-
ditions. We get just what we want.
BRIGHT HOME BURNS

The home of Mrs. Susan Bright
was destroyed Saturday night and
the fire created considerable excite
ment, since, being across the track
from the L. & N. depot, it was at
first believed by many that it was
the depot itself that was on fire.
The fire broke out toward o'clock
and Mrs. Bright had to be rescued
thru a window as she was cut OFF
from egress thru the door. Hiram
Jones also found himself in the
same predicament. Being a some
what flimsy structure, the flames
spread rapidly and the water thrown
on the blazing home had but little
effect. The restaurant next door
was saved.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
ENTERS NEW FIELD

S. H. Jones has bought the stock
yards at Richmond and will move
his family there shortly.
While it is to be regretted that
we are to lose this family it is hoped
by their many friends that their new
home will prove a pleasant one and
that Mr.. Jones will meet with sue
cess in this larger field of activity.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
GIVE THEM A SQUARE DEAL

The L. & N. r. R. is spending mill
lions of dollars to promote business
thru this section and give Eastern
Kentucky an outlet for its vast de-
potts of coal. Give the Company
square deal in the matter of right
of way and do not force condemna-
tion proceedings, which may leave
bad feelings on both sides.
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
Law ENFORCEMENT MEETING
Judge stamper Announces Drastic
Policy

A meeting OF prominent citizens
was held at the ME. Church Sunday
afternoon to hear c. A. Ellis, field
secretary of the Anti-Saloon League
for Kentucky of Paris, and Judge J.
t. stamper tell of bootlegging, moon
shining and its suppression.
After singing Nearer My God to
Thee" Rev. A. A. Ford of the Chris
tian Church, led in prayer. Rev.
John owen Gross spoke briefly on
the Anti-Saloon League and said the
church must not fail in its support
Of that oranization.
Mr.. Ellis said the Anti-Saloon
League is an organization OF the
church founded in 1908. During the
past two years the organization has
done much to awaken the churches
to the danger embraced in the well
oranized liquor traffic forces which
are striving thru the beer and wine
admission move to bring back the
saloon. The League, he claimed, is
responsible for the passage thru the
Assembly of the prohibition act with
teeth in it, including heavy fines,
peace bonds and hard labor. He
said that French wine makers sup
piled S4.000,O0O to be used by the
vets in the November election and
showed how the latter had lost out
in the election. He said that most
of the opposition to prohibition
comes from foreign population
other than Anglo-Saxon, and un-
American.
Rev. John Owen Gross In intro
ducing Judge Stamper, thanked God
that we have one judge who will do
his duty. -
Judge Stamper said he wished to
speak on things nearest his own
heart and was disappointed that he
did not see some present whom he
hoped to see there. He found great
encouragement for the nation in the
] fact that President Harding had an
kounced his intention to put the full
liver of the government behind the
bhibition forces, and that "his-
Hrs'' are as much to blame as boot
1eggers.~
The speaker said every Office
should be willing to lay his life on
.Sshe altar of duty to defend the Con-
'sttitution of the United States.-
when 1 find a man who is against
the Volstead act I do not find the
best type and those who defend
them are not the best element. The
liquor law breakers are organized
and instead of "a black hand they
have a Black Ring, sworn to and
proven by men in my office. If one
of them should try and break the
ring they will try and swear him to
the penitentiary, or, in their own
words, send him to hell We have
broken the Black Ring and have
most of them in Jail"
Judge Stamper commended the
county executives who with w. H.
Green. enforcement officer, have be-
come regular bloodhounds at track
ing the path from the still to the
house, after which they arrest the
moonshiner and take him in.
1.-The people are afraid to come in
and tell facts and can you blame
them since whole communities are
Mountain advocate., 1922-12-08
BIRTHDAY DINNER

Mrs, w. D. Clark entertained on
Wednesday with a chicken dinner
in honor of her daughters birthday,
Mrs. c. F. Heidrick. At the table
with Mr. and Mrs. Clark and Mrs.
Heidrick were Mr.. and Mrs Milo
Richards, Mary Agnes, Charles and
Bob Heidrck, Pat O'Hara and F. A.
Steffaniak.
Dougan Riley and Bob Riley, of
Harlan, spent the Thanksgiving
season with their sister Mrs. Glib
Lusk, of Barbourville, and Mrs.
Grover Lanham, of Corbin.
Mr.. and Mrs. Glib Lusk, son and
daughter spent Thanksgiving with
Mrs. Grover Lanham in Corbin.