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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24
By OTIS L. STURGEON

There is a Protestant honor as
everybody knows. I am not saying
that it is always the same or always
of the same measure. We have it in
varying proportions and many times
it takes on the semblance of a COM
munity conscience, if you know what
that is. I frequently come in contact
with it. Protestants differ in their
estimation of things and their enthus-
iasm about things. You just cannot
get them to believe the same thing
nor will they have the same apinion
about matters. They are free and
frank to express their thoughts and
my, how they vary. Protestants will
denounce Protestants. Sometimes in
the right and often in the wrong.
But it matters not as to the side a
Protestant takes he has come out in
the open, often, and let himself be
heard and known on great and vital
issues. It is highly honorable to con-
fess wrong and to stand for the
right. A man with. honor will always
declare himself and stands not afraid
of anything or anybody. He has no
trick cards to play and when he bias
declared himself you can generally
place him and at once know where he
stands. Not so with Romanism! Take
anything in which Romanism figures
and they will stand together as one
man. And no matter how wrong the
thing is it makes no difference with
Church. Did you ever hear Roman
Catholic denounce practice of their
Church? Did you ever hear Roman
Catholic say aught against the un-
American writings contained in their
newspapers They have done many
grave and lawless things in the past
ten years, but where is the Roman
Catholic that you know Of who has
openly came out and disavowed these
outrages committed by Knighs of Co
lumbus? They have mobbed and
bruised and killed Protestant speak
ers in the last ten years, but never
once have you seen or heard one
word of protest escape their lips. AL
ways from their papers they have
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24
PROTESTANT PREACHER
SPEAKS ALPHABETICALLY

XXX
SCORES CAIRO BULLETIN" AND
I. DECLARES HE WILL STAND
BY ORDER so LONG AS UNIT
ED STATES GOVERN ENT
DOES NOT INTERFERE WITH
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Cairo, Ill.-Upholding the Ku Klux
Klan, and severely arraigning the
Cairo Bulletin" for it's attitude
towards the organization, the Rev. w.
P. Anderson, pastor of the First
Christian church, preached to an
overlooking audience here on a re-
cent Sunday night at his church, on
"A Liars Fate"
Rev. Anderson declared that he
had abeen in a town where the Ku
Klax is strong and that it had done
wonders for the moral atmosphere of
that town, Springfield, Mo-, he said,
was rotten until the Khan organized
and the burlesque shows were closed
on Sunday and other reforms insti-
tuted, through the influence of the Or
der. "What are the newspapers of
this city doing for it's moral uplift 2"
he asked.
The editor of the Bulletin" said
Rev. Anderson, should not condemn
an organization about which he has
no inside information. He suggest
ed that the editor read Chapter 81
of Matthew and put them into prac-
tice.
"It is nobody's business" said
Rev. Anderson, what the Klan does
with it's ten-dollar initiation fee.
"The Mason's fee is $50 dollars and
up and it is nobody's business what
they do with their money, either"
$50 long as the federal govern
ment does not interfere with the or
ganization, any citizen may feel JUS
titled in defending and belonging to
it," Rev. Anderson declared.
politicians are so rotten" he de-
clared, "that even the newspapers
are being used by cheap politicians
to play their dirty games.' A good
man will not run for Office for fear
of newspaper lies that will be cir
culated. The Khan is not a partisan
organization. It stands for clean
politics, and every decent citizen
who wishes to play the game on the
square and to be honorable, ought to
belong to it, if he is eligible"
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By the Grand Dragon of the Realm
l..E of Arkansas,

By the Grand Dragon of the Realm
l..& Of Arkansas.
The very mentioning of the wore
woman" always arrests the atten'
ton of every true man at once
Whatever else the human heart may
forget in the rough experiences Of
life, it cannot forget it's mother.
"That sacred word is ne'er forgot
No matter where we roam;
The deepest feeling of the heart
Still cluster round our home"
Of all human appellations, the
tenderest, the most endearing, in,
|spiring, and enobling are mother
sister, sweetheart, wife and daughter
Some of the noblest lines in all the
best literature are tributes which
great men of the world have paid to
their mothers and wives.
1t is said that ancient Greece and
Rome boosted of fond mothers, who
nobly trained their sons to the service
of their country.
Napoleon Bonaparte, as he looked
into the secret of his impending
Waterloo, said, 1.-THE great need OF
France is not men, but mothers"
The strange, wierd Mohammed
said, can ounce of mother is worth
a pound of clergy"
It is too commonplace to quote
the familiar tribute of the immortal
Lincoln to his mother, Gall that ]
am, all that 1 hope to be, I owe to
my sainted mother" Was it not
John Randolph of Virginia who said
that when he tried to become an
infidel he was always intercepted by
the memory of his mothers hand
upon his head, and her loving, trust
full voice, as she taught him to pray
"Our Father Who are in Heaven"
When the eloquent S. S. Prentiss
was elected to congress, Mrs. Judge
Prebble said to him, 81 have been
very anxious to meet your mother
since your election to congress in
order to congratulate her on having
such son." But he bowed very low
and said, MADAM, you should con-
graduate the son on having such a
mother"
Can we ever forget the tribute
Garfield paid to his mother at his
Inauguration? When he had taken
the oath of Office, and was proclaim
ed president of the United States, he
turned to his grand old mother, who
was sitting near him, planted kiss
upon her lips, and said that all the
honor was due her?
Throughout the old testament, and
all history, great women now and
prominence, despite the ignorance
prejudice, and superstition which
relegated them to the realm of the
unnoticed.
But it remained for Him, who
turned the world upside down, to dis
cover woman, and start her on the
upward road, which has eliminated
in her present emancipation in
America.
Work for Christianity
Much has been said about what
Christianity has done for women
many books have been written on
this enchanting theme, but it re-
mains for some great pen to fully
tell the story of what women have
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AN APPEAL TO CATHOLIC HONOR

offered an excuse or deliberately
printed lie. The writer of this ar
ticle was mobbed in Denver on April
5, 1923, by $50 Knights of Columbus
and left for dead on the prairies of
Adams County, Colorado. He passed
through ten other minor mobbings
that same year but he has yet to hear
of one Roman Catholic who expressed
himself as regretting the circum-
stance. Instead the writer can show
letters, always unsigned, of course,
offering to finish the Denver mob
bling.
One letter with a dagger drawn
thereon with red ink and drippings of
ink to represent blood, with these
words below it, "we'll get you yet"
Another with the words eve have a
pot of tar and feathers ready for you
when you arrive in this town." The
fact is from the least to the greatest
from the youngest to the oldest, they
all think and believe the same thing
and within their breast is not the
heaving of one sigh in sympathy to
the victim who has fallen at the
hands of their militant crowd. They
killed Black in Marshall, Texas, in
February 1915, and how many letters
of sympathy do you imagine his wild
ow ever received? Klansman Alb
bot of Carnegie, Pa, sleeps in grave
having been killed by McDermot, the
Knight of Columbus undertaken. But
do you suppose that Mrs. Abbott ever
received one word of sympathy from
that crowd? One would naturally
think that these actions of theirs
would at least drive some one out of
the church and into the open to ex-
pose all of this. Nay, not so! In
stead they huddle closer together.
Look up your files of The Memphis
Commercial Appeal of the year 1914
in the month of April and see how
much the editor had to say about the
Sturgeon mobbing in Denver or in
February, 1915, of the Black killing
by Knight of Columbus Copeland, q
bank cashier? And listen, my patient
reader, they are the ones that today
are doing the lying on the Ku Rux
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.K-K-K-
JUST so

They met on a bridge. Each held
out his hand, and they shook, and in
stantly realized that they were utter
strangers. Had not one Of them
been a genuine Hibernian the situa-
ton might have been embarrassing.
"Begorra, that's quare," says Pat
when we wor so far off that we
couldn't see aich other I thought it
was you an you thought it was me
and now we're here together it's nay
Their of us."-Tit-Bits
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1 TRIBUTE and A CHALLENGE TO THE. ]
WONDERFUL WOMANHO0D OF AMERICA

done for Christianity. Through the
elevation and inspiration which Chris,
tianity has given women, they have
functioned for the benefits Of sol
ciety in all the realms of life.
Because of the Mariaolatry of the
Roman Catholic church, the name OF
Mary, the mother of Jesus, has al
most been a forbidden theme in Prot
estant pulpits. But under the present
process of Kidding America of Catho-
lie ideas, the true evaluation of the
mother of our Lord will take place. r.
The women of the new testament
form a circle of representative wo-
men, and are prophetic of the evolu-
ton of sentiment and judgment which
we witness today. The process of
working of the leaven has been slow
but sure.
Glance at the group: the Marys
Elizabeths, Anne, the daughters OF
Philip, who prophesied, that group
which formed the first ladies' aid as
ISOLATION, and ministered to Jesus
Priscilla, who was a part of the
faculty of the first theological semi
nary, Phoebe, Dorcas, and all the
rest. Jesus. called these out, even in
the day in which He lived, and they
stood out, and it was impossible to
keep them down. These, indeed, as
1 have said, were representative
women in the highest sense.
What Jesus said to Dorcas, Chris
tianity has been saying to women
ever since-"What hast thou in thy
hand?" This quiet, modest, well-to-
do widow said, 81 have a needle in
my hand" and He said, "What will
you do with it," She said, 81 will
consecrate it to Jesus" And from
the shining example of this modest
widow of Joppa has come forth all
the .women's societies, guilds and
clubs, all through history.
Jesus is saying today, woman.
what hast thou in thy hand?"
No longer will man say that in
the hand of woman rests the necessity
of rocking a cradle only. She has
within her hand the power to rule
the world.
But 1 must leave this inviting
field, and fix your minds on American
women.
In the cabin of the Mayfower, the
compact of self-government set forth
was as much an Interpretation OF
those noble women as it was the
forty-one men who signed it.
Shape Americas Destiny
The American woman has had as
much to do with the shaping of the
destiny of America, as the American
man. The same desires which burned
in the hearts of the Pilgrim fathers
for a place to worship God without
interference, burned in the hearts OF
the Pilgrim mothers. The burden OF
rearing children and bringing them
up in the nurture and admonition of
the Lord in a free and independent
country was upon the heart of the
mother more than it was upon the
heart of the father. They were not
only help-meets, but help-mates to
their husbands. Their holy hands
helped to build out of these forests
homes, churches and schools.
In times of peace, she has shared
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24
TEXAS KHAN TO build
100000 KLAVERY

Fort Worth Khan No. 1O1, Realm
of Texas, is planning the construction
of a klavern building which will cost
100000. Thi Khan is in excellent
financial condition, having recently
disposed of some valuable property
holdings and it's membership of sew
eral thousand is enthusiastic and
ready to 60.
Plans for the magnificent Klavern
were discussed at great Khan rally,
naturalization and barbecue held
Sept. %.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24

Ine glow anu glory OIL the ure-siue.
In times of war she "stayed by the
stuff" A noble woman is the en-
bodiment of loyalty and love. She
will stand by her husband-right or
wrong. She shares both SORROWS and
joys. In sunshine she is vine and
flower. In storm she is rock and oak.
As go the women, so goes the world.
They are the Goddesses of Liberty,
enlightening the world.
In the pioneer days of American
history the Pilgrim mothers not only
endured the hardships of the Pilgrim
fathers, but, what wasa greater bur-
den, they had to endure the Pilgrim
fathers. American women are the
uncrowned partners of American
men.
7 In modern times they have taken
their places in the thick of the fight
and ministered to the bodies and
spirits of the soldiers in the trenches.
The time has come when women
can no more be limited to home ac-
tiyities. They must, and will, take
their places in the broad activities
of national life.
In literature, in art, in music, and
in the varied professions, women who
have elected to excel in any of these
lines have demonstrated their ability
to stand shoulder to shoulder with
men.
Women And The State
The exercise of women's rights in
the affairs of state is inevitable. The
women's day is here. The right to
vote carries with it the obligation
to vote. The power of the ballot now
granted to women is a challenge to
our real one hundred per cent Ameri-
can women to join the men of the
nation il laying the axe of the ballot
at the root of every American tree
which does not bring forth American
fruit.
Ponder these statistics: In 1920
there were 81, 1928 men and women
in this country entitled to vote in the
presidential election. Only 26,7O5,246
voted. When you reflect that we
punish crime by DISTINGUISHING peo-
pie, somebody is guilty of the crime
of DISTINGUISHING themselves. Who
is alseep?
There are many great organiza-
tions among women, local, state and
national in their scope; but it remain
ed for the Women of the Ku Klux
Khan to set up and set forth the
only organization known to women in
which only one hundred per cent
American Protestant white women
can function.
Gentlemen, out of a heart filled
with tenderest recollections of a
mothers solicitude, and love, and out
of the constant inspiration of wife's
undying affections, I have offered
these remarks as a simple tribute of
my own heart, and challenge to the
women of America to arise and
claim their rights and take their
places alongside of the one hundred
per cent American men in their stride
across history to restate and reinstate
great American principles in this, our
God-given country.
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CONDEMN WALTON

Tulsa, Okla.-Bitter condemnation
of Governor Walton's martial law
tactics and his discrediting of city
and county authorities in his attack
on the Ku Klux Khan is contained in
resolutions adopted by the Tulsa
chapter of the Knights of Pythias,
the Tulsa Advertising club and the
local chapter of the Confederate Vet
Grams.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-24

At one of the last exams at L. A.
high, before graduation, one of the
boys forgot his pencil and was
promptly taken to task.
"What would you think of soldier
without gum" demanded the irate
teacher.
"Why," stammered the boy, who
happened also to be in the 3. o. T.
c., "I'd think he was an officer, sir"
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---K-K-K-
CEREMONIAL

UNIQUE CEREMONIAL
BY HARRISBURG KHAN
Clarksburg Khan, Realm of West
Virginia, staged a great open al,
ceremonial at Jackson's Mill near
that city last week, naturalizing over
five hundred aliens. The Grand Klo-
kard of West Virginia officiated.
Three thousand Klansmen in full
regalia paraded before a gathering
of about ten thousand interested
spectators. e They formed themselves
into an immense human group of
letters reading "Ku Klux Klan" be-
meath the light of three large fiery
crosses. The spectators cheered them
to the echo.
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Does Your Roof
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Work for Christianity
Much has been said about what
Christianity has done for women,
many books have been written on
this enchanting theme, but it re-
mains for some great pen to fully
tell the story of what women have
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-12-21
SECRETS OF HEALTH
BY CHARLES A. L. REED, M. D.

protruded, if it is brown and dry
with a tendency to show super
ficial cracks, and If it is slowly
retracted, he will realize that you
have profound exhaustion from adj
vanced blood poisoning, and that
there is but little hope Of recovery.
If your tongue is very red with
little red elevations surrounded
with little circles of white, he
may say: ''Umph. scarlet fever
we'll see the skin eruption by
tomorrow"
If the under surface of your
tongue is yellowish it shows him
that you have a very sluggish
liver, or obstruction of the bile
carrying apparatus, and that the
bile that ought to have been car
ried off is now in your blood.
If it Is enlarged it may mean
that you have an inflamed tongue
or that it has been subjected to
some violent irritation as from
heat, or that it has actually
grown as the result of disease of
the ductless glands, or that it, is
the seat of a tumor which may
be either cancerous or noncancer-
Gus.
If your tongue is colored black
or brown but without other de.
posted coating the stain is due
to something taken into the
mouth, such as bismuth, iron or
charcoal which make the tongue
black, or licorice or chocolate
which make it brown.
There are many other condi-
tons of the tongue that impart
valuable information to the ply
sician.
So you see that, under his eye,
your tongue may tell many a tale
without a word being spoken, and
that it does not take very long
to tell 1t, either.
Copyright 1923. King Features
Syndicate, 1nc.)
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YOUR BEAU TY


respect, as the human system
needs only small amount of salt.
1t is said most persons salt their
food too much.
Salt is a cleanser of undeniable
value.
Try brushing your teeth with it
once day instead Of using pow
der or paste twice each day
Moisten your brush with water,
then dip it in salt and you will
have a safe and effectual cleanser
for your teeth and mouth. Then
when you rinse your brush, pack
it in salt. This will give it a
thorough, antiseptic cleansing.
There is no better mouth wash
for children or adults than warm
water with a pinch of salt added.
And the same mixture makes an
excellent gargle. Both mouth
wash and gargle are identifying
because they are cleansing to the
mouth and throat and cleanli-
ness is the foundation Of health
and beauty.
Do you wish to vary your daily
hot or tepid bath? Then to the
tubful of water add a pound of
table salt and a dash Of violet
ammonia. This makes a delight
full bath mixture.
For still another variation mix
pound of sea salt with half a
pint OF aromatic vinegar.
Most of US know from experi-
ence the invigorating, refreshing
effect Of sea bathing. But have
you ever tried rubbing handfuIs
of table salt on your body before
jumping into your tepid morning
bath?
A world-famous actress and
beauty used the following skin
tonic. which is adapted, however.
only to naturally moist and
oily skin:
bolllng water. .........1 quart
Oed salt .5 ounces
AlcohoI -'.'....... IL pint
Spirits Of CamphOr 2 ounces
Spirits of ammonia. q ounces
A pinch Of salt added to an
eyeglass Of cold water makes an
invigorating, cleansing eyewash.
Warm salt water is very COM
fOrting to tired feet, and will help
to soothe away tired lines from
your face by resting your feet.
There are ever so many more
good beauty formulas with a salt
basis, but these few / am SURE
will convince you that it is wise
to keep a small jar Of salt on
your toilet shelf
Another valuable article ON
Monday.
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the same; but isn't that what we
have been doing all along?"
y "Then don't see that we have
gained anything"
Haven't we? Why not? Aren't
we doing it openly? Think of the
moral upIift!"
Mrs. Whittier shook her head.
81 don't agree with you," she
said. IT think it would be much
better for us to select ourselves
the presents we want. If you
like, you can come with me while
get mine"
Nonsense! That won't do at
all. It is absolutely necessary
for us to carry out the element
of surprise. There is some con.
temptible trait in human nature
which makes us want, once a
year, to surprise others. That
is at the basis of all Christmas
giving.
Its a kind of impulsive, ire
, sponsible attitude which impels
US to buy something that we de.
lude ourselves into believing the
recipient is crazy for, while all
the time we ought to know that
it's probably the last thing on
earth he or she wants. Would
you rob us both Of this fiendish
pleasure? Never! The only
thing to do is to be natural. I
therefore announce to you that
1 am going to surprise you with
d present, and you must promise
to do the same with me-"
Mrs. Whittier considered.
"WeII. she said at last, "I
suppose that is really the best
thing for US to do, and 1 hereby
agree to do it,
When Christmas came, there
fore-the time when the Whit
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A Delightful Sequel to when Girl Marries" Which
Scored Such Tremendous Success Throughout
the Country.

of domestic life 1t was a great
relief to me to dine at home
evening after evening, but I had
an underlying fear that Jim might
grow restless and want to break
out into wild gayety in direct con.
trast to our pleasant domesticity.
So when Mabel telephoned one
evening just as dinner time was
approaching, I welcomed her as a
pleasant diversion for Jim and
promptly asked her to hurry over
and dine with us.
1--WE hypnotized you" laughed
Mabel. ''I was telephoning TO
hint for an invitation in case my
courage gave out, and couldn't
make direct request for a bid.
I'm-I'm pretty lonely, Anne"
Shall 1 send Jim over for
you?" I asked with an underlying
consciousness that this would be
a sure way to find out her ad-
dress, which she had carefully
or thoughtlessly-neg to
give me.
Don't bother, I'll be right
along,'' she said. THE car is at
the door,"
1 couldn't tell whether she did
this to preserve her mystery or
to save Jim trouble. I told Jim
as much when 1 went to an
nounce that we'd have a guest
and be trio instead Of our usual
duet.
Fine" said Jim. II sure am
fond of Mabel and I'll be glad to
see her. Don't get any silly no.
tions that she wants to keep her
address a secret. Mabel's direct
like a man. She hasn't any intri-
cate windings in that fine brain
of hers"
While we were waiting for