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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05
STURGEON, FORMERLY
MINNESOTA KING
KLEAGLE, IN MISSOURI.

That the Rev. o. L. Sturgeon, pas
tor of the First Baptist church, who
has resigned from that pulpit and will
relinquish the work after the conven-
ton of the State Baptist association,
has been called to the post of Exalted
Cyclops of Poplar Bluff Khan No. 4S,
Realm of Missouri, Knights of the Ku
Klux Khan, at salary of $4,000
year, was announced today.
Sturgeon too, confirmed the an
nouncement, saying that he had an
tawered the call and would be in
charge of the local organization.
In speaking of accepting this call
he said he felt he had taken up the
work of offering bigger opportunity
than any church in the community
could. GAS the leader of eight hun
dred men in a fight for civic right
eousness and 100 per cent Ameri-
canism there is real opportunity for
CHRISTIAN service"
The Rev. Sturgeon, who is a ma
tionally known lecturer, has been lee
turing for many months throughout
Missouri and Arkansas and during
the month of August was in the state
of Tennessee. This he will continue
to do as well as to occupy pulpits.
He will also be subject to the call of
the Atlanta national headquarters of
the K. K. K. in the national field of
lecturing.
The Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon states a
committee is now at work on plans
for the erection of large log cabin
klavern which will be finished in mis-
sion fashion and in which will be
found two large fire places. It will
be built in chapel style. On Sunday
there will be religious services and
Bible class at fixed hours in the day.
It was announced the Klan program
will also cali for some outside serv-
ices in it's general program for civic
righteousness.
The Khan owns forty-acre tract
of land on the st. Louis road, where
picturesque open air Klavern has
been arranged in valley with nat
ural ampitheatre overlooking it. The
Klan has put in Delco light plant
for the illumination Of the grounds
and it will serve in providing this con-
venience for the new building.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05
THREATS DON'T DAUNT
MONTANA kLANSMEN

Despite anonymous letters received
by officers of Lewiston Khan Number
8, Realm of Montana, which declared
that they would be killed if they at
tempted to hold any public naturaliza-
ton ceremony, the greatest meeting
of Klansmen ever held in Montana
was staged at Lewiston last week.
Announcement of the meeting was
made public a couple of weeks ago
and the threats started to pour in.
1t was openly stated by several boot
leggers and gamblers that the Khan
meeting would be assaulted and
broken up should it be held.
However, no attempt at violence
was made when three thousand Klans-
men gathered on the top of a hill
ten miles west of the city and initial
ed 282 aliens into Lewiston Khan
while fifteen thousand spectators
looked on.
The element opposed to the Khan
stood on the outside of the meeting
using vile language and cursing the
organization. Beyond this there was
no trouble. The great crowd was
served refreshments by Lewiston Khan
at the conclusion of the ceremonial
and fireworks display.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05
Il LEARNED ABOUT MOTHERS
FROM HER"
VIM. L. STIDGER.

VIM. L. sTIDGER.
A woman burned red as the sunset,
And weathered her face as an
oak;
A tiny papoose in her shoulder,
A blanket of fur for a cloak:
But a smile on her face and a light
in her eyes,
Like the kiss of the sun when the day.
time dies.
All, the laughter of love at her baby's
dear cries!
Then into my eyes crept a mist and
a blur,
AS I learned about MOTHERS
from her.
The city was painting it's life out,
AS it sweltered beneath the hot
sun;
A poor Hebrew girl of the Ghetto
Was nursing her little one:
anu ShC ySaIH oll IllIu IueI0 Will
look of despair;
Praying God for some comfort, some
hope in his care:
Praying God for a cooling of rain in
the air.
Then a light in her eyes as she saw
her babe stir
Made me learn about MOTHERS
from her!
Another I saw; on outcast she was:
A woman despised, with a babe
on her breast.
I saw her at eve as she sang it to
sleep,
While the kiss of the twilight
was deep on the West.
And I watched her face there, so
young and so fair,
And heard her sweet Groom drifting
out on the air;
And I saw the dear touch of her lips
on his hair.
"The Harlot," they flung at her
home with a slur;
But Il learned about MOTHERS
from her!
A memory day slips out of the
wears:
A woman of gray: All, why
falleth these tears?
My own, it was she who gave me
my life
Out of death and of darkness and
strife:
A hundred sweet twilights are throng-
ing me now,
And thousands of "good-nights" are
kissing my brow,
While my head and my soul in sweet
homage bow,
And he~ form and her face floats
out of the blur,
For 1 learned about MOTHERS
from her!-Ex.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05

Another will make a six-months' trip
to new land and write volumes upon
the things that he saw. One man sees
only a narrow circle of things not
much wider than the circle seen by
the OK. He may live contented life,
but it is the contentment of the OK
that chews it's cud and knows nothing
beyond this. The circle of the edu-
Gated mans thinking is the outermost
rim of the heavens and his thought
pierces the burning core of the earth.
The degree of a mans education may
be measured by the width and depth
and delicacy of his appreciation. 1t
is this that measures ones wealth
and makes him rich or poor. The
world within is the real world; the
world without takes all it's color, all
it's beauty, all it's value from that.
What though the hands must toll
when the heart can sing? What
though the body lives in cottage
when the soul dwells in mansions?
What though others hold the title
deeds? We can own the universe if
we have room enough for it within.
Education puts a man into fellow
ship with all the ages. It enables
him to listen intelligently while all
the poets and the prophets and the
sages of the centuries talk to him.
1t multiplies his life in his own gen.
Grafton. 1t makes him at home
among any class of men. "a man
with limited education is in touch
with life in few points. Wide edu-
cation brings contact with life at
many points" 1t makes a man
manysided, He will live more in a
day than an ignorant man can live
in century.
One of the chief values of an edu-
cation is that it enables a man to be
so much better company to himself.
The trained mind can never be lone
some. Not only is the wisdom Of the
ages at his side to cheer him, but his
own thoughts are interesting. Never
can he want something to hear while
there is a bird song in the tree tops
or the music of the brook on the hill
side. Never can he want conversa-
ton while the spirits of the millions
of the past and present dwell within
his mind.
Rarely indeed has a man who has
graduated from college regretted the
time or the toll or the sacrifice. 1t
is impossible to compare life and its
value at the end of the college course
with life and its meaning when the
college course was begun. "The mer-
chadise of it is better than the mer-
chandise of silver, and the gain there
of than fine gold" The savage is
satisfied with his hunting ground be-
cause he knows no lands beyond. But
the happiness of the truly educated
man is as far above that of the saw
age as the monday sun is above the
will-o' -the-wisp. To the thoughtless,
sordid world these two men might
appear equally happy, but how does
the world appear to these two men?
Young People.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05
EDUCATION and HAPPINESS
By J. SHERMAN WALLACE, A. M.

Education is the preparation of an
individual to meet and to master
his environment. Of course it will
help man to make a living, but its
supreme purpose is to enable him to
make a life. When Aristotle was
asked how the educated man differed
from the uneducated, he answered:
GAS the living differ from the
dead" If one is never to be known
outside his own community he
ought to be educated, for it is only
thus that he is equipped for a hap
py private life. Four years in COL
lege will enlarge mans horizon
and reveal to him new worlds. 1t
will give an added richness and beau
ty to life. 1t will help him to know
the world in which he lives. The real
purpose of education is not to cram
the memory with facts, but be equip
the whole man to fulfil the purposes
for which he was created; not to make
the world, life, character, and service
seem greater to US.
If education consisted only in the
accumulation of facts, the material
for a liberal education could be Sc
cured for twenty-five cents in the
"World Almanac" The real purpose
of the college is to train the mind
to think. 1t is an intellectual gymna-
SUM. Knowledge is power" but a
disciplined mind is of more value
than knowledge. The facts one learns
in college are not so important as the
control of his own mind which is &C
quired while he is learning them.
What he learns may soon be forgot
ten, but the power of learning can
never be taken from him. The
trained mind will always know where
and how to get specific information
that it needs.
Education gives one the power of
attention. The best course of study
are those which train the mind to
concentrate and hold it's attention
upon an object until it glows with
light and interest; the power to mar
shall all the forces of the mind and
march them together to conquest and
victory. To be able to sit down and
focus attention upon one problem I'M
till it is thought through is a salts
faction that belongs only to the edu-
Gated mind. The man who can do
this will get what he wants, for the
world will always turn aside to let
the man pass who knows where he
is going.
Education gives one the power of
observation and appreciation. The
mind sees only that which it has
the power of seeing and enjoys only
that which it makes a part of itself.
The little child cannot comprehend
the things that are around it, for it
has nothing with which to compare
them. A company of Eskimo walked
through the streets of London unat-
tracted by anything they saw or
heard. Everything was so absolutely
strange that it had no interest for
them. One man will travel around
the world and see noting but crowds.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05

tive to the Ku Klux Khan the Fair
mont Independent, presumably, we
hope, cropping for more light on a
movement that has been greatly mis-.
represented by a great share of the
press (Which claims to be Independent
but which, unfortunately, is not) asks
some questions which we are going
to touch on only briefly:
"Under the Constitution" the In
dependent asks, is Protestant given
preference over Catholic or Jew?"
This question is vague and am
biguous. If we are correctly in
formed-and we think we are-the
United States is only fifteen per cent
Catholic and yet IS per cent of the
public and political Offices of the ma
ton are controlled by Catholics. I'm
der the circumstances, why does the
Independent ask such misleading
question? The late President Hard
ing was Klansman, but we don't re-
call that he as Protestant asked or
demanded any preferences over Cath
olics.
"Who is -afraid?" is question num-
Der two.
The bootleggers, the blindpiggers,
the wife heaters, the law-breakers,
the tin horn sports who have no re-
spect for virtue, the crooked politi-
cians-these fellows are afraid. If
there are any others, claiming to be
American citizens, who are afraid of
the Khan, we don't know why unless it
is that they are afraid of their own
shadow.
Question number three: "Must the
Protestant Press support the Kan in
order to take an uncompromising
stand for pure and undefiled Ameri-
canism 2"
Most certainly. And just as long
as the Klan stands on such sacred
ground the Advance Standard will
support it. Is there one single soil
tary reason why the American Press
should not?
"What is the insignia of the Khan 2"
asks the Independent in question four.
The fiery cross. Haven't you seen
it?
"Is there Khan organization in
Martin county," Question five. Ac-
cording to news articles in that very
paper within the past few weeks
there surely is. Why ask?
Oh. yes IF one, why all this Sc
crecy?"
The Khan has no secrets outside
its membership. The Khan is not a
society of lodge. It is movement,
and that movement stands four
square for the Bible, the American
schools, freedom of the press, the di-
vorcement of insidious religious or po-
litical influence or dictation from Eu-
ropean monarchs or potentates, for
clean manhood and womanhood and
for the Stars and Stripes as the en-
blem of the free and the home of the
brave.
Does the Klan believe in taking
the law into its own hands ?" Cues
ton six.
Not at all. Those who peddle that
sort of bunk are the same fellows
who are peddling the bunk about
night riders, cut threats, drowning
artists and other bogy stuff that
comes in the same category with Dad
dy's Good Night Stories and other
fairy tales. No one is taken into the
Khan who does not take an oath to
stand by the Constitution and to up
hold the laws Of the land. The move
ment is based on the secret service
plan. There's where the secret part
of it comes in; but this secrecy is
necessary to the exercise of duties
that fall upon the members as cham
pions of law and order.
'Why not let the peace officers
themselves enforce the laws?" Ques-
ton seven.
Why not, indeed?
AS q matter of fact the AVERAGE
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xxx.
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xxx

Constitution? Constitution? Oh
y-e-s-s; yes. Guess we really have a
constitution, haven't we?
Daily Oklahoman.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-10-05

AS A BIRD TO YOUR MOUNTAIN"
The title of this dialogue might be
"Why Papa Believes in Corporal Pun
ishment:"
"Papa?"
"Well?"
as there a Christian fea?"
"Why, what on earth ever put that
idea in your head?"
""The preacher read it to-day from
the Bible-'The wicked flee when no
man pursueth.'
"Why, Tommy, that means that the
wicked men flee
"Then, papa, is there a wicked
women flea ?"
"No, no. 1t means that the wicked
fees, runs away"
"Why do they rum"
"Who?"
"The wicked fieas."
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
WAPELLO
LEFT from last week.

LEFT from last week.
A number of people attended the
play, Southern Cinderella" given by
the Primary Officers last Friday ev-
ening. A free dance was given after
the play.
Mrs. Henry Felt and Mabel Folk
man spent the weekend here with
relatives.
]. D. Jensen, George T. Cobbley
and Farley Price and w. C. Sollen-
berger, of Blackfoot, were business
visitors in Idaho Falls last Monday.
Last Thursday evening the Parent
Teachers Association gave the play,
can Old Fashioned Mother" in the
Firth Theatre. Next Friday evening
it will be given in the Tabernacle at
Blackfoot
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Scott enter
tanned Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Wilkins
last Sunday.
Wednesday evening debate was
given by the NJ. 1. A. The question
was, Resolved that spendthrift is
better for community than miser."
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
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DARE THE
IMPOSSIBLE

| 1t is a common practice to blame the world and
not ourselves for faiings Look deep enough and
you will usually find that it Is not the world that
stands in your way, but you yourself.
II there Is any evil In u.s. bad habits will develop
It, And there Is evil In all Of Put your strength
to the test but never weakness Dare to try the
apparently impossible tasks II they tasks for good
never fear failure-all the world loves good loser
and when you fail In the right defeat is only the
beginning Of final victory.
Day by day civilization is demanding more of each
one Of us-more that is pure and strong. Twentieth
century society tolerates weakness faint In In
dividual workers. Today every man must be above
suspicion. Each of must be proof against
calumny. Everybody is lied about-sometimes by
envy, sometimes by ignorance. Never resent false
hood about yourself-after all 1t is test Of your
reputation. Let your life, not your words be your
rebuke to Islander. You defeat yourself when you
stoop to the sanderer's low level.
Noble living is all the you need to
Silence is the most eloquent that be made
to the slanderer and is the searchight that
will reveal the slanderer's shame and put him in
complete disrepute.
Be true to yourself that you never need to fear
yourself and you will need to fear the world
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09

to pass on these findings and make
the necessary decisions. This means
that every veteran suffering from tu-
berculosis will be given an opportun-
ity to have his disability connected
with war service regardless of the
time the first examination was made"
Announcement was made that the
new measure will mean a material IT,
crease in the activities of the Veter-
ans Bureau for many months both
in awarding Of compensation claims
and disqualification.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
WAR VETERANS WILL BENEFIT.

Tubercular war veterans of this
, district whose claims for compensa-
ton and disqualification have oeen
disallowed by the government will
benefit greatly by new federal order
calling for extension Of proof period
following separation from service and
the formation of district tuberculo-
sis board to consider service connec-
ton of cases after observation in the
hospital, according to an announce
ment made by l.. G. Joseph, north
west district manager Of the United
States Veterans Bureau. Hundreds
of ex-service men Of the Pacific
Northwest will be directly affected by
this measure and every tuberculosis
case will be automatically reopened
for consideration. Development of
tuberculosis from war service is in
creasing rapidly, it was stated.
The new instruction states that
"active tuberculosis, minimal state,
shown by competent proof as existing
within 80 months from date Of sep
aration from active service, shall be
considered as having been active and
Of 10 per cent degree within two
years from discharge" The period
of proof is extended three months in
this instance and also to veterans
suffering from tuberculosis, moder-
ately advanced, who are allowed SO
months after discharge to show tuber-
culosis. The period for proof for tu-
berculosis with cavity formation or to
the extent of two entire lobes is ex-
tended four months, giving the veter-
an SO months after separation from |
service to show tuberculosis develop
ment.
1.-THE cases of all war veterans of
the Pacific Northwest suffering from
tuberculosis whose claims have been
will be reconsidered and
given the benefits of the new regula-
tion," said Mr. Jesseph. 1.-THE new
order gives US another opportunity to
help the tubercular war veterans who
heretofore have not been entitled to
federal aid. Where active tuberculo-
sis Of 10 per cent degree has not been |
diagnosed during the two-year period '
ollowing separation from war service t
ind does not come under the 30, 33 or
Is months provisions, the claimant r
hall be referred to a hospital for a C
'eriod of observation and a report a
made by three medical officers. il
'This special board shall report the a
xtent and character of the pulmon-
ry lesion as disclosed by the X-ray
nd physical findings and shall record
careful medical history to the length h
time the disease had previously
xisted. A district board of three
TENDERS will be named by the dis
'ict medical officer within few days "
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09

Tuesday evening an important
meeting of the Commercial Club was
held at the school house. Several
important subjects were discussed.
Monday afternoon the Primary Of
ficers gave their play for the benefit
of the school children. The trus-
tees paid the admission for all the
school children in this district. A
number of parents were also present.
Miss Leona Williams, who has just
graduated from the Albion State Nor
NAL school, has accepted position
as a primary teacher in the Silver
City schools.
Mrs. Willard Homer is on the sick
list.
Newell Robinson has gone to Po-
catello to work.
Mr. and Mrs. w. T. Ormond and
Margaret, visited in Blackfoot last
Thursday.
William Hyde, Sr., left for Salt Lake
City last week, where he has work
for the remainder of the winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. r. Christensen
spent Saturday in town on business.
A number of people from town at
tended the banquet and dance given
by the Commercial Club.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Ramsey attend
ed the funeral Of their nephew in
Firth last week.
A new Edison Photograph has been
purchased by the trustees for the
school.
Mrs. J. H. Bithell was a Blackfoot
visitor last Monday.
Mrs. George Davis, of Pocatello,
was the guest of her sister here last |
week.
Miss Goldie Dickinson, who has |
been staying at the Williams home |
'or the past few weeks, returned to
her home last week.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
RIVERSIDE

The senior boys basket ball team
met their Waterloo at Blackfoot las
Wednesday night in a game with thu
Blackfoot Town Team.
The High School boys played thu
Freshmen of Blackfoot Friday nigh
in the home gymnasium and scored
a winning of II points against 6.
Mrs. Felix Maynard, Of Blackfoot
spent the weekend with Mr. and
Mrs. Vern Peterson.
j. #. Bischoff from Pocatello, Wis
tied with Mr.. and Mrs. Bolton Gooch
recently
H. M. Wray and Ray Taylor have
purchased purebred Holstein bull
calf from the asylum.
A dance will be given Friday night
by the M Men.
The dance held last Friday night
in the gymnasium was well attended
Mr.. Fullmer, of Darlington, was
guest of John c. Greer and family for
a day or two, stopping off on his way
home from Utah.
The program for Mutual Sunday
night was furnished by the Senior
girls. Don c. Smith gave talk on
the little thinks of life.
Miss Lula Homer was called home
for few days on account Of the ILL
ness Of her mother.
Mrs. Phillip r. Helm and Mrs. ]. c.
Osguthorpe entertained a number Of
friends at the home of Mrs. Helm, in
honor Of Mrs. John e. Lee, who re-
Gently returned after being in Black
foot the past nine months.
Mrs. Hazel Osborne entertained her
class in English at her home Satur-
day night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex PETERSON are the
proud parents of a baby boy, born
February LIST.
The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. |
Thaddius Helm was blessed in church !
Sunday afternoon.
A play will be staged next week |
by the Home Dramatic Association
n the ward hail.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-02-09
ROSE

The Romania Girls met at the home
of Elverda Chaffin Friday evening for
practice.
Mr. and Mrs Frank Chapman spent
Sunday at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Edgar Moody.
Mrs John Norman and Mrs o. A.
Taylor spent Thursday and Friday in
Blackfoot, taking the guide pattern
lessons.
Miss Mildred Butterfield, Rosco
Gardner and Ellis Jackman took din
ner Sunday at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Wesley Thompson of Blackfoot.
Mrs. w. D. Stolworthy and Mrs.
Frank Krutzell had their babies chris
tened Sunday.
Miss Elverda Chaffin spent Sunday
at the home Of Miss Marie Johnston
Mr.. and Mrs. Delbert Taylor are
entertaining Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Morgan and Mr.. Anderson, of Wa
pello, this week. /.