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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
WE SAY, "AMEN!"

humanity ~ SIdSSCiCo Ny WIG
possibilities of another world war.
Homes in every land over which the
shadow of sacrifcial death still how
ers, are saddened by the prospect Of
still further heartbreak and suffering.
The people in these lands have al
ready given millions Of their sons in
the belief that their supreme sacrifice
would make the world safe for de-
mocracy, create a high idealism which
would make the world fairer place
in which to live, and end war for all
time.
"None of these hopes has been
realized. Men hate each other as in
tensely as ever. Chaos reigns in
every human relationship. Economic
and political conditions have sunk to
low levels. Nations have been guilty
of promoting selfish and ignoble 10y
alties.
efforts have been made to avert
the disaster which is inevitable If
present tendencies continue. Every
such method for adjusting these diff
culties has failed.
''The time has come to try Chris
tianity. It has never failed in any
field when given fair chance. And
civilization is entitled to every OPP
portunity to free itself from it's pres
emit predicament. There is an ines
capable obligation on the part of
every nation to make it's contribution
to consummate this desired end, even
at great sacrifice to itself.
"'The nations of the world must de-
part from selfish individualism and
inhuman isolation. They must unite
in creating new standards based upon
the teachings of Jesus. He must be
acknowledged as the Supreme Arbiter
in every national and international
difficulty, and loyalty to Him must
become the chief desire of the ma
tions.
"It should be recognized that ma
lions are accountable by the same
Christian principles which apply to
Christian men and women as indi-
viduals. There is no double standard
of morality and ethics-one for men
and another for nations. There is
only one morality, one honor, one
righteousness. We believe that the
state belongs to God, and that He is
the ultimate source Of all civil po-
litical authority. - .. .
eve believe that the divine right
of sovereignty and civil authority is
vested in the nation, and that the
nation is an intelligent moral entity
which God holds responsible for the
use Of the sovereignty and authority
which He has vested in it. .
eve believe that Gods judgments
can be averted only by national re-
pentance for sin and by national
obedience to the laws Of love and
brotherhood and fair play, as taught
by Jesus; and that such obedience
will bring peace to the world, and a
restoration of prosperity and happi-
ness to all peoples.
eve further believe that civil rul-
ers are His ministers as certainly as
are the rulers of the church, and that
these rulers are directly and imme-
diately responsible to Him for thei,
official conduct. ...
"It is because nations and rulers
have held themselves above all moral
law, becoming law unto themselves
as far as their civil lives are con.
cerned, that present day world con.
ditions have become so chaotic
DR.. Charles L. Stelzle. II.
We, as Christians, Americans
Klansmen, must say, "Amen" tc
every word. .E-
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
KANAWA FOLK SEE CROSS OF
XII KLUX.

Kanawa, Iowa.-A flaming cross
six feet high was burned near here
recently by the Knights of the Ku
Klux Khan.
The editor of local paper COM
ments that the growth of the Khan
indicates that it is worthy in spite
Of the fight that is waged against it
because of the masks. He says he
hopes the organization will rid the
community of bootleggers.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
PARADE. AND CEREMONY

POINT PLEASANT, w. Va.-Fol-
lowing recent parade Of Klansmen
through Point Pleasant, a natural
ization" was held on the highest hill
overlooking the city, after which a
cross was lighted, Frightening up the
surrounding country.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT
II In the United States:

Five hundred thousand people COM
NIT crimes annually;
One hundred thirty-five thousand
men and women are behind prison
bars;
Nine thousand people are MUIR
dered each year;
twenty-five thousand children are
kept in institutions of correction at
the present time;
The criminal population costs over
$500, 900, 900 annually;
Each year 100000 does not
cover the cost of law enforcement.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
$4,000 AT KHAN MOUNTAIN
MEET.

Portland, Ore. - Fifteen thousand
knights of the Ku Klux Khan and
about 5000 spectators attended
magnificent outdoor initiation cere-
monial staged by Portland Khan No.
upon the lofty summit of scenic
Mount Scott.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
Down WITH
LAW[ESS DRINKING

By JUNIUS CLAIMING QUINCY.
During his westward journey en-
route to Alaska, President Harding is
creditably reported as having said
that all drinking of intoxicants is
now lawless and that he, himself, has
become total abstainer.
This is the best news which could
come to the dry forces of America.
No one has ever doubted Warren G..
Harding's official determination to en-
force the Volstead act and support
the 18th amendment to the Constitu-
ton of the United States. This was
his sworn duty and he could not
falter.
But his private example is as eff
fective as his public declaration.
And when he says that the people
who had accumulated stocks of liquor
previous to the enactment of the pro-
hibition laws, are still morally to OBJ
serve the laws; he says what has
been manifest to the best minds
among the dry forces every day
throughout these five trying years.
When a rich man with a store of
liquor procured previous to the en-
actment of the law, now indulges
himself in drinking, he incites to an
ger and law-breaking 10000 people
who did not have his opportunity to
"stock up" Much antagonism to the
enforcement of the law has arisen
from the fact that the rich man could
drink lawfully" while the poor man
had to violate the statute in order
to get his. And probably hundreds
of thousands of people have taken ar
illicit nip of whisky who never would
have thought of drinking except that
they wanted to show that they had
as many rights in America as any.
one else had.
President Harding's declaration has
put this case into the clear. AL
drinking is now "lawless drinking
from every moral viewpoint. And 6
Western newspaper quotes the Pres
ident as having said that ne, himself
will not use any intoxicating bever
age under any circumstances, al
though formerly he took a sociabl'
drink once in a while.
There is no other domestic reform
so important as the enforcement o.
the Volstead act and the support o.
the 18th amendment. It is not alone
because of their intrinsic worth ant
their vast Importance in the socia
life of this country; but because
upon the power of the country to en-
force these measures and upon tn
willingness of the people to ODE.
them, depend all the law and orde
of the nation.
If we cannot sustain the 1Stl
amendment and the statute whicl
was passed in a constitutional wa.
to carry out its provisions, then al
law is injured. If we cannot keeI
rich and poor alike within the term
of the statutes and the Constitution
then chaos has come again.
President Harding, if he has bee
quoted correctly by the Wester
newspapers, has spoken in the brav
est and most straightforward way
] Formerly he took once in while
sociable drink; but now as a
exemplar to all his fellow-citizens, h
will do no lawless drinking, and b
personal example and by the force Q
his great Office he will bend ever
energy to the maintenance of tn
18th amendment in all it's sanctitie'
His word had teeth in it; for h
notified the country that no one liz
ing would ever see a repeal of tn
18th amendment.
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HIGH SCHOOL GETS A
NEW FLAG AND POLE

BLOXOM, Va, July 2.-The Blox-
ON high school is today in possession
of new flag pole, following a gift
from the Ku Klux Khan. The pole is
forty feet high and flies the flag do
mated by the Klan when the school
was presented with the pole.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
MORE ABOUT HENRY FORD.

Omaha, Neb.-The Henry Ford
boom for President has excited all
Jerusalem and it insists on hooking
the multi-illionaire automobile manu-
facturer up with the Ku Klux Klan.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27
ROBERTS SAYS NEW YORK HAS
SECEDED

Griswold, Iowa.-"There are only
AZ states in the Union. New York
has seeded by refusing to enforce
the dry amendment" Tom Roberts,
Imperial Klan Lecturer, told a large
audience in the city park here.
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"An7ericu''
The complete poem as originally written and sung

My Country tits of thee,
Sweet land Of liberty,
OF thee ] sing.
Land where my Fathers died!
Land of the Pilgrims pride! Z
From every mountain side,
Let Freedom ring!
My native country thee
Land of the noble free
Tehy nam I love: ~
I love thy rocks and rills,
Thy woods and tempted hills:
My heart with rapture thrills,
Like that above.
Let music swell the breeze,
And ring from all the trees,
Sweet Freedoms song;
Let mortal tongues awake;
Let all that breathe partake;
Let rocks their silence break
The sound prolong.
Our Fathers God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
To Thee we sing:
Long may our land be bright
With Freedoms holy light;
Protect US by Thy might,
Great God, our King.
Why were the last four sta
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-07-27

Our glorious land today
Meath education's sway,
Scars upward still!
Its halls Of learning fair,
Whose bounties all may share,
Behold them everywhere
On vale and hill. d.
Thy safeguard, Liberty,
The school shall ever be
Our nations pride!
No tyrant hand shall smite,
While with encircling might
All here are taught the right,
With truth allied.
Beneath Heavens gracious will
The star of progress still
Our course doth sway!
In unity sublime, .
To broader heights we climb,
Triumphant over time,
God speeds our way. 49,.
Grand birthright Of our sires
Our affairs and our fires
Keep we still pure; =
Our starry flag unfurled,
The hope of all the world,
In peace and light impearled.
God hold secure.
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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
MINNEAPOLIS SENTENCES IN
TWO HOURS TOTAL 2o40 DAYS

Within two hours recently, Federal
Judge John F. MCGEE, of Minneapolis,
imposed 46 sentences on liquor law
violators, totaling 2,940 days imprison-
ment, and fines aggregating $4,000.
According to the prohibiting director
of Minneapolis, scores of persons
charged with liquor law violations
have left the state, rather than face
Judge MCGEE.
On the first Sentence day" of the
fall term Of the federal court, stiff
prison and Jail terms and fines were
melted out to 81 men and one woman,
fines aggregating $20,700 and in two
cases where defendants failed to ap-
pear bonds aggregating $4,000 were
forfeited. The heaviest sentence was
six months in jail and a fine of 81, 200.
Efforts of Judge MCGEE to speed up
trials resulted in a jury which was
chosen in three minutes returning a
verdict after thirty minutes delibera-
ton.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
PROHIBITION INSIDE OUT" BY COMMISSIONER
HAYNES INFORMS and ENCOURAGES DRYS
By J. H. Larimore

Back of the Eighteenth Amendment
today he finds there are great forces
that were not there twenty, ten or
even one year ago, or even six months
ago for that matter. The greatest of
these, he says, is a public conscious
ness crystallzing and in action.
"The lines are being drawn at last,
social, political, religious, economic"
says the book. Some see them clear
ly, others hazily. To the great mass
of loyal Americans they are becoming
more definite in their outlines with
each passing day. No short-sighted
human eyes can read the whole future,
can grasp the full significance to us, to
the world of the struggle we are pass
ing through. That is impossible. But
it is not impossible to try. And the
promise of the future is that America
is trying. Public consciousness is
awake. This much we see now: the
issue is no longer purely moral one.
The issue is not the adoption of ma
tional prohibition. That is a fixed pol
icy of American government. The is
sue is one of individual observance of
the law of the land. And in the STRAIT
egg OF the opposing forces the lines
are being drawn there
Major Haynes book winds up with
this significant sentence: land we shall
not fail" In this sentence he refers
not only to the success of prohibition
law enforcement in the United States
but to the movement for making the
whole world dry and free from the
liquor evil. This great book is by
Doubleday, Page & Co., of New York
City.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
IMPORTANT COURT DECISIONS
Edited by Boyd P Doty
Attorney World League Against Alcoholism

means of penalizing him, the act of
an officer apprehending citizen on
the highway for the purpose of dis
covering evidence to penalize him, and
the act of arresting one who is threat
ening breach of the peace, or at the
time engaged in violation of the law.
Where the action of the person or
persons and the surrounding circum-
stances are such as to indicate to the
officer a threatened breach of the
peace, or where it appears that one is
violating the law, the officer may law
fully arrest without a warrant, either
to prevent a threatened breach of the
peace, or to apprehend the one who is
violating the law. Shannon's Code Sec.
69o7, HUGHES v. STATE, AS Tenn,
ST., STATE v. REICHMAN, 1875
Tenn 652.
In this instance the observation OF
the suspicious package concealed I'M
der FARMERS rain coat, coupled
with his and Underwood's flight, JUS
titled the officers in following them,
and coming upon their car, and seeing
the broken fruit jars and the whisky
flowing from the car, warranted the
officers in making the arrest under the
authorities quoted.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
SURROUNDING GIRO M :
STANCES MAY JUSTIFY
ARREST AND SEIZURE
WITHOUT WARRANT

In the case OF FARMER ct al, v.
STATE, the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee in an opinion filed October 6,
1923, recited the following facts:
Certain officers observed defendant,
FARMER, going from an automobile
to house of questionable reputation
with a package partially concealed
by rancoat When the defendants
saw the officers they fled The off
GERS pursued and overlook the de-
PENDANTS and at the time observed
three or four broken fruit jars in the
car and whisky dripping from it. Up
on trial and the verdict OF guilty" the
case was appealed to the Supreme
Court. The latter said:
There is a very clear distinction
between the act of an officer entering
a mans home to discover evidence as
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
SOUTH CAROLINA PROFFERS
REAL COOPERATING WORK

Federal Prohibition Director George
C. Bowen of South Carolina advises
Commissioner Haynes that satisfac-
tory cooperation is being secured in
practically all sections of South Caro-
lima. "Our agents are always able to
find two or more officers in any coun-
ty of this state who will lend honest
cooperation" said Bowen. 81 am con-
fdent that fully sixty per cent OF the
state, county and municipal officers OF
this state will lend full and satisfactory
cooperation. Very little liquor is
stored in the state of South Carolina,
and all that is in storage is being
stored in federal buildings. No rental
for storage of liquor has been paid
since | assumed the duties of Office
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
ANOTHER MARTYR TO DUTY
Prohibition Agent Meets Death at
Hands of Bootleggers While at
Work

Federal Prohibition Commissioner
Roy A. Haynes has been notified by
Divisional Chief r. Q. Merrick of New
York, of the death of General Prohi-
bition Agent George H. Stewart, after
he was rdded by nine bullets fired
from automotic. pistols by two as
sailants. The shooting ended Stew
arts all-day effort TO corral gang of
rum runners. He has been in the pro-
hibition service since July 1S, 1922.
The killing of this agent on Armis-
tice Day recalls the death of Agent
John Watson at Anthony, N. NJ, in a
battle with whisky runners, May 3,
1921. Watson was an ex-service man,
having been one OF the first to enlist.
He took part in practically all of the
big engagements overseas and never
received scratch. However, he was
killed by whisky runners in less than
a month after he had received his
commission in this service.
"These agents gave their lives for
their country as truly as though they
had died on the field Of battle said
Commissioner Haynes. "The fact that
since the National Prohibition Act
became effective, thirty-four federal
prohibition agents have sacrificed their
lives that this law might be properly
enforced, and numerous others have
been seriously wounded in line of
duty, should stir every citizen of this
country into immediate action against
the outlaw who is responsible.
"Whcn an officer of the law is killed
by moonshiner, bootlegger or rum
runner, the verdict should be such as
to strike terror to the heart of such
slayers. All murderers should be pun
ished, but the people owe it to them
selves to extend the fullest protection
to the officers who risk their lives in
the enforcement of law, for it is the
people themselves who benefit through
law enforcement"
This is the first fatality in the fed
eral force since Agent ]. Leroy You-
mans was killed near Huntsville, S. c,
on April 3, 1923.
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(The Outlook, October 81, 1929
WHO'S HOOCH?


Commenting on the criticism of the
way industrial alcohol is handled by
the Alcohol Trades Advisory Commit
tee, the editor remarks:
Industry must have alcohol in great
quantities. Yet from these supplies
there are leaks which constitute one
of the important sources of bootleg"
liquor. These leaks may be small in
comparison with the total quantity of
industrial alcohol used but they are
large enough to cause much trouble
for the enforcement official.
Undoubtedly there would be advan-
tages in having industrial alcohol han
died by specialist in that line, acting
under the Commissioner of Internal
Revenue. Very likely Bureau of
Prohibition Enforcement could enforce
the prohibitory feature of the law
more effectively if it were relieved of
responsibility as to the permissive fea-
lures of the law. Both suggestions
are probably good. Both may be
adopted. Why not?
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30
(The Saturday Evening Post,
November 10, 1929
OTHER PEOPLES TROUBLES
BY Kenneth L. Roberts

After setting forth in somewhat
ironical vein the current belief of
some people" that "all the troubles
of the United States of America at the
prent time are due to the fact that the
citizens of this great and glorious
country are not permitted to daily
with beer and light wines whenever
they are so inclined" Mr. Roberts ex-
hibits the picture of Norway's trou-
bles:
A prohibition law which is very
similar to the sort of prohibition law
that the hearty drinkers of America
would dearly love to see written on
the statute books. 1t is prohibition
law that permits light wines and beer
to be freely drunk, and that also per-
mits access to more potent liquors in
sundry roundabout ways. AS prohi-
bition law it is distinct frost, but as
source of information for those who
wrangle over the evils and the bene-
fits of open indulgence in beer and
light wines-to say nothing of wines
that are not so light-it might sketch
lily be characterized as what the doc
tor ordered.
One of Norway's troubles is SNUG
Cling.
The fact that beer could be obtained
in unlimited quantities has had no eff
feet whatever on liquor smuggling.
All Norwegian drinkers drank beer,
of course, but they wanted stronger
stuff; something that would ketch
holt. so to speak; beverage that
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1923-11-30

would affect the human system like a
couple of angry bobcats pursuing each
other passionately down the throat
and settling their difficulties with a
death grapple in the stomach. The
smugglers strove to assuage this crav-
ing on the part of the Norwegians;
and they were sufficiently successful
in their strivings to work up more of
a reputation in Norway than Ameri-
can bootleggers have been able to
work up in America, which is saying a
great deal If their estimate is cor
rect, more than 10000 persons en-
gagged in the liquor smuggling bust
small country in point of population
slightly less than half the size of New
York city.
Another trouble is
As a result of the desire on the part
of Norwegians for beverages more po-
tent than heavy wines, light wines and
beer, the apothecaries of most Nor
wegian cities spend most of their time
wrapping up whisky and cognac bot
ties for their customers to take home
It is fruitless, however, for the stranger
to wander into an apothecary shop
and ask bluntly for quart of Haig &
Haig or Black and White. Without a
doctors prescription he can't get it;
and to attempt to do so is merely a
waste of breath.
Norwegian doctors. however, are not
| overstrict in the matter of issuing
| prescriptions for the cure of illnesses
that will yield only to the internal ap-
| plication of Scotch whisky. And if a
Norwegian happens to feel an imme-
date need for couple of slugs of his
| favorite beverage, and isn't in the heart
of big city where the prescription
can easily be checked up, he will fire.
quently write prescription for him
self on the back of an old letter or the
] hyleaf of book or a cigarette paper
or anything else that can be written
on. There is a certain element OF
danger. however, in such acts, and
most Norwegians prefer to carry reg
ular prescriptions rather than to write
their own.
The conclusion of the writer's ex-
tended observations is:
The fact remains, however, that if
the Norwegian liquor situation means
anything at all, it means that the best
way to prohibit the drinking of alco-
holic beverages is to prohibit the
drinking of alcoholic beverages. Peo-
pie always want what they can't get
until they get tired of wanting it.
or have to work too hard to get it,
or have to pay too much for it
Norway, with all sorts of unprecedented
drinkables from which to choose, is
pestered half to death by smugglers
who food the country with the few
prohibited brands of hooch. She
couldn't be more violently pestered il
she had put a more rigid ban on all
liquids containing more than one-half
of l per cent of alcohol. This ought
to carry some sort of meaning for
the Americans who spend their days
moaning for light wines and beer; but
it probably won't.