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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-06

The Willing Workers will hold a
business meeting with Mrs. George
t. Gilmore OH Thursday evening,
March 81
Harry Cole is in town for few
days visit with relatives.
Ralph Miles. who has been passing
several days at home, returns this
week to his work as brakeman on the
NJ. G. II. r.
Mrs. George W. Sherman. who has
been quite i'll for several days with
the grippe is ginning.
Miss Una Drew of Ashland visited
over Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Sherman.
Harold Edmunds, who has been
Cry i'll for several days from re-
spse Of the grip. is suffering from
pneumonia and in the care of a
trained nurse, Miss Conner of nifty.
Two of the members of the build
ing committee for the proposed new
church George T.. Gilmore and John
Gee. We're in Harmony very recently
and purchased lumber for the build
ing. which is expected to be delivered
here April first.
Dow and Payne have begun to buy
and ship potatoes from tHeir potato
house at this station. This is the
first market the farmers have had
here for their potatoes this season.
and with the good travelling many
are being hauled in.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-06

gun to form the habit of mixing
finish" with red Spanish wine. But
even this mixture. il used too freely,
is likely to have Iaralizing results.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-06
Gard of Thapke

Card of Thanks
We wish to express our thanks TO
our ncighbOrs and friends for their
kind assis lance. and expressions OF
sympathy in the illness and death OF
our little daughter.
Mr. ana Mrs. Ralph Miles,
Mrs. Maude Miles,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Miles
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur McNally,
Air. and Mrs. Leroy Call,
Mrs. Owen Gould,
Mr. and Mrs Arthur Miles.
Burnham,, Maine, March ], 1923.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-06

EDGAR E. ROUNDS, Sec.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-03-06
INTERIOR WATERS

BURLEIGH MARTIN. Sc
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THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO
CONSIDER -HE COLE REPORT

JOHN r. WOOD. Sec.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

1. The Ku Kux Khan is militant organization that
nes and effectively working for the perpeuatn of American
ideals, traditions, principles and institutions. There
forces in the United States that do not love this country and
the very things that have contributed directly greatness
These imported forces hate the Kan because preventing
further encroachments national blessings and saving
the aons the alien vuures the gores
difference has left prey.
2. The Ku Khx Klan is Protestant organization. AS
before Professionalism united power in America
know there organized mnoes that do not want to
Protestants standing together solid phanx The Ku Kux
Khan has made possible seemingly impossible
operative Protestansmand is hated for what has
plshed.
g. The Ku Kux Khan is threatening the peace of corrupt
politicians and seeking cleaner politics. Those who have waxed
fat the spois of office naturally turn their avarcous
upon the Khan they shout Down with the Kan Gutton
greed with Kansmen the job is being driven out of the
temples of Amercanm and crushed under the heel of public
opinion Special privilege feels the goad of awakened citizen
ship and fees cursng the Knights of the Ku Kux Khan.
The Klux Klan stalking the hydraheaded monster
awessnes and making dangerous for the beas creature
live the United States The crooks thieves bootegger
keepers dves-a awvioaors big and little know well that
endangerng their safety So find all individuals
and organizations that live by violating law fighting the c
of the Invisible Empire at turn of the road
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
Higher Education and the Constitution

derful country of their election and
destiny?
And yet, back of this general in
stability of purpose remain, within
the hearts of a great people, the
ideals for which all reasonable pa
triots toll and from which they re-
ceive sustaining power. With these
ideals behind US as a living force the
truth becomes clear and beautiful.
We shall believe that it is possible
for American genius, education, and
patriotism to create a system of
great universities in which young
men and young women shall be
of their country-in which patriotism
shall be the motivating power be-
hind all class room effort; in which
liberty shall be the light Of all free
born youth and its ethical life; in
which the Constitution of the country
shall be the guide, the royal will and
pleasure and rule Of life, of proud
and glorifed young America!
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

York city, contains ridiculous statements
lowing and laugh The overwhelming number of voters of Ger
extraction who held the balance Of in Minnesota
moved by the plight of their Fahern distressed by the plant
of their kindred who their national existence slipping into
history boted their party and sought the only out that
they could visualize through the Of third party They
charge the Democratic party with having brought the
with Germany and the Republican party with standing in the
of Germanys rehabilitation The controlling purpose behind
the organization of the third parand you may believe that
the third party has been organized and to the
balance of which would enable them help Germany
establish herself the Ruhr and back her feet
No one knowing P. j. Orn would of being pro-
German for second but certainly will say here and that
the statement by Mr.. Hervey nothing less than
dirty lie When read the quoted statement thought had
copy of Life Puck" before It certainly hard to
believe when looked second time the of the
magazine and in big red letters the word Success and
noted that Oon SWEET Marden still of the pubca-
ton. -. .~..
don't know who this Hervey and can't find poit-
cal writer politician who does Anyway political ober
Harrison Hervey codstorage He knows
much about Minnesota politics Australian bushman. Mr.
Hervey missed accurate explanation of Magnus Johnsons
election the United States Senate far that he stands quail
fled writer of Charlie Chaplin fooishness.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

a new school of moral or immoral
prophets j. in control.
Judge Thomas is convinced as a
result of extensive study that the
great single need is for uniform law
throughout the country governing
marriage and divorce. He would
erect legal barriers in every state
against marriage by the immature
and the unfit. He is right, however,
in adding that we cannot look to
statutes, federal or state, as a COM
plete solvent for the divorce evil.
Right ideals of marriage and parent
hood and of the accompanying re-
sponsibilities and obligations must be
inculated in the youth of the land.
There must be education to the end
that marriages shall be undertaken
with something of the good sense
and understanding that is applied to
everyday dealings.
If the home lies at the base of a
Christian nation, then it follows that
that nation, if it hope to survive.
must preserve the integrity and
sancitity of the home. There must
be an acceptance of domestic re-
sponsibilities and a thinking of sex
in terms of potential parenthood,
and not in terms of animalism. Ear
lier civilizations went to ruin largely
because they did not sustain the
proper sex relationship and because
they let selfishness and the -carnal
senses dislodge regard for the home
as a sacred and basic social institu-
tion.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
FROM MR.. FORD'S PAGE

If our officials feel that they are
able to go over and straighten out
Europe, what can they do for the
United States? Unselfishness should
begin at home. This country has a
number of problems to solve and it
does not look well to run away from
them nor to obscure them with a
smoke-screen Of foreign politics. A
swing around the country would re-
veal that nearly every section has a
serious, unnecessary and unjust bur-
den to carry. Not merely a political
dissatisfaction, a partisan prejudice
nor a conversational crouch, but a
daily painful burden originating in
some form of government action or
neglect of action-and nothing is be-
ing done about it. While Europe is
getting into the shape where it will
accept the only kind of help that will
really help it, our officials should
keep their hand in by doing some
thing for the United States.-The
Dearborn Independent.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
THE CLIMBING DIVORCE RATE
AMERICAN HOMES BEING TORN
TO PIECES
xxx

The American home is getting
more hard wallops than the one that
is involved in relaxed supervision of
parents over their children, and the
ones that are being delivered by the
ultra-radical Russian cult. One of
the stiffest assaults it has to stand
up against is the divorce business.
We have it from Judge w. H.
Thomas, former associate justice of
the California District Court of APP
peals, that the rate of increase in
divorces between 1870 and 1917 for
the country was exactly 400 per cent.
In 1870 he informs US, there were %
divorces for every 100000 population.
In 1916 the ratio was 112 for each
100000. Divorce has grown three
times as fast as the population. The
annual output of divorces is now
about 100000, or at the rate of one
divorce each four minutes.
In all Of Canada in 1913 there were
SO divorces, and Canadians have So
cial, political and governmental ideas
very like our own. The United States
has only one competitor in its class
Japan, where the recognized code
of morals is not acceptable under the
ostensible American test. Divorce in
Europe was greatly stimulated by
war and it's aftermath, but it hasn't
any such dizzy pace anywhere across
the Atlantic as it has gained here,
unless it be in Soviet Russia where
Continued on next solumn)
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

The time was when students at
colleges and universities were taught
to reverence and obey the Constitu-
tion-all of it-whether they agreed
personally with it on all points or
whether they did not. Now deplor-
able condition exists in many of the
large institutions of learning con-
dition that calls for the exercise OF
intelligence as well as stubbornness
upon the part of our patriotic citi-
zenry. It is a fact beyond dispute
that class reunions connive at the
serving of liquor at their dinners
and wink at practices which occlude
the working of good government in
connection with the enforcement OF
the 18th amendment. Nay, more,
even the alumni shield themselves
and their fellows, it is said, from the
results that should follow certain
lawless and unpatriotic performances
in which wine and whisky flow to
tickle the palates Of those who have
lost sight of the fact that the break
ing of single line of the law of the
Constitution is as bad as kicking the
whole document into the wastebasket.
Is it not really true that many of
our colleges are not preparing men
to live, but are merely teaching them
to make a living - regardless OF
ethics and morals, and with "pleas-
ure" the uppermost thought in mind ?
Is it not true that in broad sense
the life of the average undergrad
uate is little more than dull, stupid,
meaningless, save where 1t is
Enlightened" by athletics" and civ
ened" by the false hilarity that
grows out of "wine whizzes" and
like violations of federal laws?
Universities, it would seem, are
enlarged nowadays to provide an ar
tificial life for young people, life
where originality Of thought is not
so much encouraged as an original
and strained mode of living. Infor-
nation seems to be ladled out like
soup at a cafeteria, as some one has
said, and the entire force of the
teaching staff of many a university
appears to be spent upon superficial
and vain studies of questionable cul-
tural value rather than upon those
leadings and lessons which will make
good citizens out Of the youths that
are ground into the educational ma
chine.
Is it not true that a considerable
number of our successful (?) univer-
sity graduates have so far failed in
absorbing true ethics, that they APP
pear to be more interested in their
own stolen or perverted pleasures
and modes Of life and support than
they are in the eternal welfare Of
their children and that Of the won
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
HE KREED OF THE KHAN

THE KREED OF THE KHAN ..
Klansmen, have you pondered the
meaning
OF all you have heard and beer
told? ..
Have you strengthened your heart fol-
its weaving
From the voices and faults loved
Of old? ...
Will you honor in hours of tsmpta.
ton ... 49,.
Your promises, noble and grand?
Will your spirit be strong to do bat.
-" tie with wrong,
"And, having done all, to stand?"
Will you ever bs true to your brothe,
In actions as well as in creed?
Will you stand by his side as nc
H.. other ..."t.E:
Could stand in the hour Of hfs
need? 49,. ...'
Will you boldly defend him from peri
And lift him from poverty's curse
Will the promise Of aid which you
willingly made ...
Reach down from your lips to yohi
purse? .a..
The worlds battlefield is before you;
Let Wisdom walk close by your
side;
Let Faith spread her snowy wings
DER you;
Let Truth be your comrade and
guide;
Let Klannishness, Charity, Christiani-
ty, Il
Direct all your conduct, and then,
Let each word and each act tell the
world the proud fact,
You are worthy the name Of
KLANSMENl
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

Point, which saved New York from
annexation to Canada. The Masonic
Fraternity has appreciated the i'm
portance Of Stony Point enough to
erect monument there, and Con-
gress deemed Wayne worthy of a
special medal. But modern historical
revision eliminates both. ...
Masous in History Seem to Have Been
Purposely Omitted
Gen. Daniel Morgan, though admit
ted by both Barnes and Guitteau to
have crushed Tarleton and freed the
south Of the British and Tories, and
also admitted by Barnes to have
played a leading part in the capture
of Burgoyne, is not mentioned by
either Of these elsewhere, nor at al
by Hart, or Mclaughlin and Var
Tyne or Muzzey, or West.
There is little mention of Gen
Nathaniel Greene, Gen. John Stark
Gen. Philip Schuyler, Gen. Nicholas
Herkimer, Gen. Peter Gransevoort, OF
Col. Ethan Allen, in any of the ter
revisions. They were all Masons.
Barest mention, if any at all, il
made of the invaluable assistance
rendered by Steuben, De Kalb ane
Observation-Disclosures all.
All the names cited were illustrious
ones in our old-time school histories
It cannot be said that their services
were not of sufficient Importance tt
justify their continuance. There is
some other reason for the almost
simultaneous and uniform defama'
ton, intimidation or elimination Of
all these heroic patriot and Masonic
characters.
Few studies are of more impor
lance than history in molding thu
character of boys and girls into the
kind of men and women that they
should become. The memory Of
heroes, the brave men and women Of
the Revolutionary period, as taught
in the histories of the old school days
has been a greater incentive for max
ing the best class of men and womer
than almost any other force thai
could be mentioned.
What kind of histories are youl
boys and girls being taught? Have
you read them yourself? The safety
of this republic lies in its schools, ane
it is the duty of every citizen tt
watch over them carefully.-Nev
Age.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
Uncle Sans Acres Vanish

BY 1888, if the present rate of de-
crease goes on, the last acre of the
once immense "public domain" of the
United States will have been allotted.
In the last fifty years there has been
a decrease from 1,16o, zoo, 900 to 1872
100000 acres, and the remaining
acreage is being disposed Of either
through the establishing of reserves
or by land entry at the rate of TO-
100000 acres a year.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
WHAT KIND OF SYMPATHY?

England reports that the twelve
mile limit is being sympathetically
considered. The nature of the SYM
patty is not precisely defined. Many
sailors would sympathize with any,
body on shore who is twelve miles
away when the hour efor grog ar
rives.-Washington Star.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07
righteousness a Direction
-K-K-K-
THE PURITAN AND A MODERN
5 MAN.
XXX

Robert M. Gay, one of the pleasing
essayists of the Atlantic Monthly,
thinks it must have been delightful
to live back in an earlier day, when
moral standards We're so fixed and
clear. To the Puritans a thing was
either right or wrong, and there was
an end to it. To them it was right
for father to use the rod, lest he
spoil his child. The modern father,
on the other hand, has more COM
Functions about it. In deciding
whether a thing was right or wrong,
the Puritans had no modifying con-
siderations delivered to them from BIZ
ology, psychology or sociology. They
had little trouble about heredity, en-
vironment or the neurotic complex.
But to the modern man, right and
wrong are far more complex affairs.
He may think he knows what the
right is, but at the same time he
must know what Freud says on the
question, and Nietzsche and William
James. Even theology has become
somewhat scientific and morality
hobnobs with the new psychology.
Much is confused, uncertain and de-
batable.
Much of the thought of the world
has been spent trying to map the
exact lines where right ends and
wrong beings. The idea has been
that right and wrong were distanct
territories divided by definite bound
airy lines. On this theory it was
safe to approach close to the territory
of wrong, if one did go too far. So
men who did not really want to be
thieves, did not hesitate to take ad-
vantage of their fellows when they
got chance. This theory has been
responsible for much of the half
hearted goodness, honor and courage
in the world. Many were lured to
view the territory of evil, even if
they did go clear over.
1t can hardly be said that people
today are less moral than the Puri-
tans, although they are moral with
different vision. Boundary lines are
no longer so hard and fixed. Is there
an exact line that can be drawn in
the matter of truth-telling, for ex-
ample, or of temperance in all phases
of life? A mans first duty is to be
self-supporting, but when does this
become selfishness? 1t is evident
that good and evil shade into each
other by degrees, and yet in the end
they are as far apart as light and
darkness.
In modern thought righteousness is
direction, rather than a position or
territory as it was with the Puritans.
The test of conduct is its drift, its i'm
plications. Would a deed, if general
ly repeated, conduce to the general
good and welfare? If it would, then
it is safe and sound. If it would not,
then something is wrong with it.
Righteousness, in other words, is
not a position or a location, but a
tendency, direction. It is not static,
but dynamic. 1t is not narcotic, but
motive power. 1t is not so much a
matter of condemnation or self-pride
as challenge and an inspiration. It
is a moving ideal, flying goal. The
prophet Daniel summed the thing up
when he said: 81 set my face unto
the Lord God" The life set forward
honesty, kindness, unselfish service
cannot go far wrong, because it is
moving in the direction of the great
est good, the greatest righteousness.
Minneapolis Journal.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-09-07

An article entitled minnesota Spills the Beans by one Har-
rson Hervey described political Observer appears in the
September issue Of the Success magazine published in New
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-02
Mitchell Farmer
Makes Good Cotton
Despite Boil Weevil

PELHAM, Ga, Sept. 29.-Perhaps
the most successful cotton farmer IN
Mitchell county this year is T. A
Branch. who lives near Sale City
Mr.. Branch is one Of the large farm
ers of the county and has demon
strated that energy, perseverance
and intelligent hard work bring re-
suits in the fight against the boil
weevil, just as in every other line
Of endeavor, and this demonstration
was made in one of the wettest years
in recollection of most Mitchell
county citizens. Mr.. Branch had one
field of seven acres on which ne
saws he made six standard bales OF
cotton. One or two small fields ne
made one bale to the acre. His gen
eral average of cotton. it is said. Is
well above 1000 pounds of seed cot
ton to the acre.
Mr.. Branch planted his cotton
early, cultivated it and applied nj
trate of soda to hasten the maturl-
ty. He applied arsenic in the form
of a homemade molasses mixture
during the early stages of the crop
when the blooms and squares were
first appearing. AS the weed became
larger he discarded this method and
applied the arsenic in the dust form.
He says he is convinced this Is the
right method to pursue.
In June he cut off the top OF the
stalks to permit the sunshine reach
ing through the foliage to hasteN
maturity of the bolls. These simplt
methods coupled with his natural
ability as a farmer and handling
labor seems to explain his success
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-02
MACON FLOGG|NC
TRIALS To CD OVER
UNTIL DECEMBER

MACON, Ga, Sept. 29.-(By the
Associated Press1Sixty-eight hours
and forty minutes after they had
taken the case Of DIR. c.. A. Var
brough, charged with riot in con-
nection with the flogging outrages
here, the members of the jury in
the second flogging trial here were
discharged by City Judge Will
Gum. The jury since yesterday
morning had stood to 3 for con-
Viction Of the dentist who the state
alleged was the leader of a gang of
men who used the lash as means
of furnishing men reported to them
as having committed indiscretions
or broken laws.
The trial of the case, the second
Of series of six in which the den
fist is accused, was started last
Monday. Taking Of evidence and
arguments were concluded Wednes-
day afternoon and the case went to
the jury at 4:29 p. m. DR.. Var
brough was charged with taking
part in the flogging of w. o. Bar
nett.
The first ballot, according to jul
rors, stood and 6. The next three
showed changed, but after the
fourth ballot the jury at all times
stood to for conviction. Jurors
declined to say how many ballots
were taken, but added that -four or
five votes a day were had.
City Solicitor Roy w. Moore to-
day said that it was probable that
no more of the flogging cases, in
which nine defendants have been
named, will be heard before the De-
cember term of court. For the
next two weeks civil cases will be
heard and during the last half OF
October superior court will be held
in the courtroom. 1t is possible, it
was said, although improbable, that
Judge Gum might call a special
jury and start hearings on other
flogging cases during November
Solicitor Moore said this afternoon
that the Yarbrough case would be
tried again