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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
WOULD have CATHOLIC
FOR U. s. PRESIDENT
Religious Publication Would Like
to See Argument Tried
Out in Nation
(Bureau Of Publication and Education)

(Bureau Of Publication and Educ ation)
WASHINGTON, d. c.. March 81
The Catholic Citizen is becoming bold
in its enthusiasm for it's own cause,
and says: ut is the 'defeatist' ele-
ment among Catholics who echo the
notion that no Catholic can be elect
ed president of the United States. 1t
is the CRATER type, the corner gro
Gerry prophet, the habitusl down-and-
outer cynic who supports this shabby
notion. Let US help nominate some
body and try the issue out"
The Catholic organ is chosen be-
cause some Catholics have gotten in
to office. 1t harps a good deal about
Governor Alfred Smith, Of New York,
being Catholic and getting elected
to office. Here is some more Of its
reasoning:
Senator Walsh, of Montana, has
twice been elected United States
senator. A few years ago it was said
that no Catholic could be elected
United States senator. Now we have
several Catholics in the senate. In
1880, most of the New York dailies
said that no Catholic could be elect
ed Mayor of New York, And it would
weaken Hancock's chances to carry
New York if Grace was nominated for
mayor. Grace was elected but Han
cock was not"
The nearest the Catholics ever
came to having one of their faith in
the White House was when President
Wilson was sick abed and Joe Tumul-
ty ran things around the executive
offices. And there is no question
about it, he ran things, too.
If the Catholic Citizen Is so boast
full about this proposition, let the
Catholics try to persuade the demo-
Gratis to nominate AL Smith and try
out the issue as it says.
And then people ask the question,
"Why the Klan?"
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
EDUCATION PROGRAM
BEING CARRIED OUT
Wizards Plan Being Fulfilled by
South Carolina Khan
Members

COLUMBIA, S. c.. April RE
ports being received at the Grand
Dragons office show that the nation
al educational program recently pro-
mulgated by the Imperial Wizard, is
being generally carried out by the 10
cal klans throughout the state. Some
of the Klans have their speakers en-
gagged for several months ahead, with
dates fixed, and have issued printed
programs to the members.
Some of the leading men in the
state are engaged in the work, and
the results have been gratifying to a
remarkable degree. While the work
is being put on, there is an increased
interest in the Klans, and the attend
ance in some places has become so
large that present accommodations
are entirely inadequate. Several Klans
are planning for larger Klaverns, and
in two or three instances committees
have been appointed to devise ways
and means fo securing exclusively
Klan buildings.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
Anti-Kfan Candidates
on Fairmont Tickets

FAIRM0NT, w. VA, April THAT
Frank r. Amos, prosecuting attorney
for Marion county, will be a candi-
daate for reelection, is the substance
of story going the rounds in political
circles here. Amos, it will be re-
called, has repeatedly announced that
the Ku Klux Khan is a "lawless ele-
ment." 1t is not known whether or
not he will run on an anti-Klan plat
form. Marion county is said to be
one of the strongest Klan counties in
West Virginia.
Rumor also has it that Judge EN-
met M. Showalter, judge Of the Ma
rion county criminal court, who re-
Gently became notorious on account
of his attacks on the Klan, will be a
candidate for reelection. Although
Judge Showalter has not publicly an
nounced his candidacy. dopesters de-
clare that the announcement is immi-
nent. Any good American who can't
get a good hearty laugh out of that
ought to see a chiropractor, local
American voters say.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
kLAN'S DEMANDS ARE
ENACTED INTO LAWS
South Carolina General Assem-
bly, Takes Favorable Action
on Many Points

COLUMBIA. S. c., April g.
While the Ku Klux Khan was not
mentioned in the debates in either
house of the general assembly which
has just closed it's session here, some
Of the things demanded by the Khan
were placed upon the statute law of
the state.
The outstanding legislation, per-
haps, this year, was that relating to
the public schools. Provision was
made for giving every child in the
state a school term of as least seven
months. While the cities and larger
towns and a few Of the rural COM
munities have had a nine months
school for years, many Of the rural
communities have been sadly neg
lected.
Several months ago the Grand ORA
gon of the state, in an official pro-
clamation to local klans called upon
the entire membership to call upon
the members Of the legislature that
something be done for the improve
ment of the common schools. He de-
manded no half way measures, but
insisted that real constructive work
be done, and the legislation that has
followed is almost revolutionary in
it's character. The school appropria-
tion has been greatly increased, of
course, but nobody is complaining
about that. There has been no in
crease in the tax rate, as additional
revenues were secured by the i'm
position of certain forms of special
license taxes, occupational taxes,
etc.
The victory in school legislation is
regarded as a great achievement for
the Khan.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
OFFICIALS ACCUSED
OF Being KLANSMEN
Frank Curry, Democratic Chair.
man, Gives Out Doubtful
Interview

TOPEKA, KAN, April defeated
in his efforts to pack" the Demo
cratic county meeting here, Frank
Curry, chairman, gave out an inter
view to the newspapers in which he
accused Gov. Jonathan M. Davis and
Carl Peterson, state bank commits
sioner, of being members of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Khan.
The story of this meeting has been
written in many other county meet
ings this year. Curry is said to have
openly boosted that he had the
meeting securely packed" against
Governor Davis.
But when the hour for the meeting
arrived it was discovered that the ex-
pected attendance was increased by
about 200 men. Curry however, fail
ed to notice it, and attempted to run
things himself. His chagrin increas-
ed as the motions of his gang" were
defeated. The meeting ended in the
utter defeat of the political bosses
and a victory for Americanism. 1t
was then that exasperated Curry
rushed to the newspapers with his
denunciations. He has the reputa-
tion of being strongly anti-Klan.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
INChS WIPED OUT
FOR THEIR GOLD
Used Precious Metal Even For
Cooking Utensils-Were
Great Runners

When the Spaniards first came to"
the highlands of South America, they
found many strange things being
done by the couple of million inhab-
itants who lived all the way from
what is now Ecuador to the northern
part of Chile, says Adventure.
These people smelted copper, wove'
cloth, built houses or heavy masonry,
embalmed dead bodies and used gold
for household cooking, eating and
drinking vessels. This last was their
undoing, for while they put avalue
on gold only as something to use like
any other metal, the Spaniards priced
it as we do, and went crazy over it.
These people had a large sheep
they used for packing; but it was too.
small for riding animal, and not
very swift, so all the swift errands
were performed by runners. 1t is
said that the Inca king each day ate
fresh fish caught from the sea and
hurried to him by relays of fast run
ners.
Wonderful Runners
Incredible records were made by
these men, who had been trained
from birth, almost, to run. The high
altitude developes huge lung power,
after generations have been bred i'm
it, but for you and me it makes for
short windedness. But the people
who are born and brought up in the
rarified air are short and stocky and
with very large lungs They lived in
a country ranging from 10000 to A.
900 feet high, with mountains run
ming up at intervals to over $4,000
feet.
All were-and are yet-inveterate
users of cocoa. This is leaves from
the tree of the plant from which CO.
caine is extracted. For long feats Of
endurance they took small pack
age of these leaves and constantly
kept a wad of them in their mouths
wrapped around a small bit of un-
slaked lime to free the cocaine AND
other alkaloids contained in the Cocoa
leaves.
Increases Endurance
One American doctor who investi~
gated the subject and wrote large
book on it, and famous American
writer CDR. Mozans), claim that CO.
caine used in this fashion appears to-
free great reserves of strength, and
is not attended with the pernicious
results following the use of the drug
cocaine, which has not the balancing
chemicals found in the entire leaf.
Be that as it may, the Indian runners
and packers used and still use this
leaf when on their long jaunts.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11
WOMEN, OLD AND NE
By ROBERT GORDON

IN HE line of demarcation between
the old woman and the new, can
not be set at any one period In
the history of civilized mankind. 1t
runs through all ages in all countries.
1t is our purpose then to discuss some
Of the characteristic of the old wom-
group of women together and label
them as "old;" nor on the other hand
can we mark another portion of the
female population being that por-
tion which in itself constitutes the
"new." The difference varies as do
individuals. The distinction is more
or less arbitrary.
In the United States for the past
hundred years, ever since the prin-
ciples of the feminist movement be-
gan 10 take root there have been
women. who being different in their
ideas and modes of life from the ma
jority of women, were called "new
women" Many claim, that since
women have received the vote and
political and legal status equal with
men, the day Of the new woman has
arrived They infer that now the
majority of women in this country
can be classed as new women"
Egypt, on the other hand, has few
women who can be justly described
as new women. At least that appe-
lation would not apply to them in
the American sense. In that coun-
try, the condition of the majority of
women has not changed or progressed
since the time of Pharaoh Tut-Ank-
hamen, thirty-four centuries ago.
Grace Thompson Seton, writing
some time ago in The Century Maya
zine gave a powerful pen picture of
the life of the average Egyptian
woman. They toll long hours in the
fields, work in drudgery, amid the
most squalid surroundings in their
mud houses-in short, they do the
same a their ancestors did fourteen
hundred years before the time of
Christ
Mrs. Seton pictures one extreme in
her remarkable article. The women
of whom she relates probably repre-
sent the lowest development to be
found in any so-called civilized
country. The other extreme, and
often wonder which Of the two is the
more desirable, is found in the Unit
ed States and in western Europe.
refer to the iapper, as she is known
in our country, or the garconne, as
she is called in France. Here is the
ultra modern, pleasure seeking, jazz
loving woman, a product of our high
"higer" civilization.
A flapper, in the most widely &C
eepted sense of the word, is a young
woman, whose interests center no
where, who is jumping from one fad
to the next, to occupy her shallow
mind. She is one whose power OF
reasoning and logic changes like the
cameleon, and whose horse sense has
long since galloped away. But then,
following that definition, flappers are
not always young women.
That is why a doubt arises as to
whether the condition of the burden
ed woman of Egypt is not just as
desirable as that of the ultra-mod-
ern young American. The former has
much, l believe, that can be said in
her favor.
But between those two extremes, we
find in most countries, and especial
ly in English-speaking nations, a
medium type. A woman who repre-
sents modern life, whose ideals are
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11

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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-04-11

In 1910, when the Worlds Mission
airy conference adjourned in Edin-
burgh, it was planned that another
such gathering would take place in
1920. The war prevented the carry
ing out of this plan. But, however,
the Foreign Missions conference Of
North America has planned its North
American missionary conference in
1925 which, in the scope Of its pro-
gram. will be, perhaps, one Of the
greatest religious gatherings ever
held.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
BOOZE OR HUMAN LIFE
California laboratory

appalling of human life accidents finally
a for the protection OF
enforcement of the vehicle law by the police and the ~
education
a of their responsibility w
materially decreased of life
enforce automobile
the law
Police show that booze
life n automobile accidents
campaign directed by the organizations require enforcement
the prohibition the police public
would
The disclosed
h of booze and the sacrifice of life. Which will
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
BETTER ENFORCEMENT NEEDED TO PREVENT ACCIDENTS
Continued from Page u

was not drunk, only drank little
beer" or Judge, | was not drunk. l had
taken only little wine," is very fire.
quently the defense when the drunken
driver is taken to court after wreclxing
some other automobile besides his own
or perhaps causing the death of someone
else on the highway.
Beer Propaganda Influences Drivers
In view of the number of accidents and
casualties caused by beer and wine in
connection with automobile driving, the
propaganda for these drinks must be
held largely responsible Drivers who
read the Chicago Tribune, for example,
are made to believe that beer and wine
do no harm. This encourages the con-
sumption of intoxicants in this form and
doubtless leads to many automobile acct
dents that would otherwise never occur.
Automobiles or booze, which? is a
question that presents itself not only to
the individual drivers, but to every COM
munity and the entire nation. Arresting
of DRINKS will prevent many automobile
accidents, but the final remedy must be
the total humiliation of the illegal liq-
uor traffic"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
BOOTLEGGERS PAY $4,000
TO SCHOOL FUND OF COUNTY
States Attorney Turns Over More
Than $4,000 to Treasurer at
One Time
(Sparta Plaindealer- News)


Claims that prohibition enforcement in
Randolph county is costing the taxpayers
lot of money, proved to be without
foundation one day last week when
states attorney, L. F. Hachman, turned
over to County Treasurer Abe Harris
one check for $5,005, representing fines
paid by bootleggers since last March.
This settlement with the county treasurer
was made in preparation for the states
attorneys regular report to the circuit
court when that body convenes at Ches-
ter on September %.
In addition to the sum of $5,005 about
81 800 still remains to be collected from
convicted bootleggers who are paying
their fines or the installment plan. When
these fines are paid there will be total
of about $4,000 in the states attorneys
fund in Randolph county
Wet sympathizers have been spreading
the report that the county does not re-
ceive any of the bootlegging fines col
lected in county court. This is a rank
misstatement of facts. The states attor-
ney collects the fines, turns this money
over to the county treasurer who creates
torney's fund. From this fund is paid the
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19

states attorneys salary and the balance
remaining goes into the school funds of
the county. To date fines collected from
bootleggers have not only paid all of the
states attorneys salary during this four
years term, but balance of about $8,-
900 now remains in the states attorneys
fund. 1t will thus be seen that bootleg
gers pay the salary of the states attor-
ney and also contribute 10 the upkeep of
the schools.
The prohibition act is the only law on
the statute books which pays for its own
enforcement.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
WOMEN WILL ISSUE VOTERS GUIDE

The Illinois League of Women Voters,
308 N Michigan Avenue, Chicago, is pre-
pairing to issue, the cid of September,
special de luxe, elections edition to their
monthly bulletin. 1t will be filled with
prediction information of great value to
the voters of Illinois.
1t will contain pictures of presidential
and vice-presidential candidates, brief his
tories of the political parties, national
party platforms, stories of the outstand-
ing issues in the national campaign; it
will have pictures and records of guber-
material candidates rs well as of candi-
dates for Congress ard General Assem-
bly,; stories on state platforms and state
issues road bond and gateway amend
ments referenda; series of graphic
charts; job analysis of each office to
be filled, ETC. 1t will be valuable hand
book of information which the average
voter may use as background on which
to base his or her political decisions.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
THE MOTOR MENACE

(The Vanguard, New Zealand)
Increasing numbers of fatalities
and accidents with motor cars due
to drivers in an intoxicated condi-
ton make the drinking motor
driver a menace.
A man does not need to be Wis
IDLY drunk when driving a Car in
order to become a danger to all on
the road.
Probably many accidents not re-
sulting in police prosecutions are
due to the drivers keenness being
dulled by a spot" that he thinks
does him no harm.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19

Public opinion has crystallized rapidly
in favor of prohibition and law enforce
ment in the United States. The activities
of the bootleggers and poison vendors are
becoming more hazardous every day.
Their profits are smaller, their risk great
er and their patrons fewer in number
Editorial, Washington Court House
1(Ohio) News.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19


to life by punishment of the drinker, no
matter how severe that punishment
might be made The remedy for drunken
driving must be one that prevents injury
TO life and limb and prevents the destruc-
ton of property. Two things can be
done to apply this remedy. Both should
be done.
Arrest DRINKS Before They Drive
The first remedy is the arrest of
DRINKS before they drive. Too many Of
fcials are responsible for accidents by
their failure to arrest DRINKS. If intox->
icated persons are placed under arrest it
will not only prevent them from making
a deadly weapon out of an automobile but
will prevent them from using other
means to endanger the lives and proper
ty of other persons. The automobile is
only one of the Developments of modern
civilization that makes the actions of
each affect the safety and lives of other
individuals. But the automobile empha-
sizes the importance of placing persons
who have lost self-control through drink
under control of the law so as to pre-
vent injury to innocent persons.
Better Enforcement Best Code
The second remedy for drunken driv-
ing, and the fundamental remedy, is bet
ter prohibition enforcement. The alter
native to better prohibition enforcement
Is the return of the licensed liquor traf-
hc. No one seriously considers this al
formative in view of the automobile traf-
fic of the present time. With open sa-
looms as in the old days the tragedies OF
drink in connection with automobiles
would be hundred times greater. The
problem therefore is to reduce lawless
drinking to minimum, because unless
the automobile is to go, the legalized
liquor traffic can never again be toler-
ated in this country. Every citizen and
Lax Enforcement Chief Cause
every official in every county should be
brought to realize that lax law enforce
ment is the primary cause of drunken
driving When a drunken driver does
damage it means that some official failed
to arrest the drunk before he became a
driver and that some official failed in his
duty to suppress liquor lawlessness. The
exceptions to the above statement are
cases of intoxcation when the drinker
has legally acquired his intoxicants.
Some drunken driver becomes intoxi-
Gated through drinking private stocks
acquired before prohibition. Others be-
come intoxicated by liquor acquired ie-
gally through the prescribing of whisky
by a physician. Legally caused cases of
drunken driving will gradually diminish
Drunken driving will aid in directing at
tention to the dangers of the drink evil
even when violations of the law are not
involved.
Beer and Wine Most Dangerous
A study of the drunken driving evil
shows that in great proportion of the
accidents caused by mixing alcohol and
gas the alcohol was consumed in the
form of beer or wine. The railroads
learned long ago that the beer drinker or
the wine drinker was the most danger
Gus locomotive engineer. He would
drink just enough to spoil his judgment
and control but not enough to become
v;e;hfv ;ntoxirated and thereforA barred
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1924-09-19
WOMEN RALLY TO EGHT
FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT
In STATE AND NATION
CONTINUED from Page y

movements being carried forward by the
organized womanhood of America. This
campaign is under the direction of the
Enforcement of which Mrs. Henry Pea
body is chairman. A mailing card being
sent out by this committee presents the
prohibition enforcement situation as fol-
lows:
The Battle Lines
THE PLAN OF THE ENEMY
l. To build up Congress, even if it
takes ten years, that will repeal the 18th
: Amendment. Liquor interests OF Eu-
rope will help with funds).
2. To pass as soon as possible one of
the So beer bills now before Congress,
thus bringing back breweries and beer
and making prohibition farce.
3. To repeal all state enforcement
codes. Such repeats place an impossible
burden of enforcement on the federal
government. To-day one state has re-
pealed its code, New York. Two states
have no code, Maryland, Massachusetts.
LII N1dSSdCuuScllS VIII DC On
ballot No. 4 as Referendum No. 81.
TO ROUT THIS PLAN ON THE
ENEMY
l. Get every last candidate for Con-
gress pledged to keep the definition of
what constitutes an Intoxicating liquor
where it is now, at u of per cent al
Il
shown this to be the only enforceable
definition.
2. See that your Congressman and
Senators push for the immediate passage
next December of the Cramton Bill, es-
tabishing a separate Prohibition Bureau
and putting prohibition agents under
Civil Service, thus removing prohibition
enforcement from politics. This bill
passed the House in the last session but
did not reach vote in the Senate.
g. ELECT DRYS for all state Off
GERS, men and women pledged to pass, to-
keep and to strengthen state enforcement
codes, thus freeing for the fullest posi-
bic activity all state officers and putting
backbone into our courts.
4. Be active in municipal elections,
seeing to it that your town has dry
mayor, dry alderman This little munic-
ipal end is just as important for purposes
of enforcement as the big federal end.
Later, women must take up the snug
Cling situation.
Now focus on electing DRY LEGIS-
LATURES! A DRY CONGRESS! ON
TO THE POLLS!
League Has Woman's Department
The Anti-Saloon League of Illinois is
giving fullest cooperation to various
movements of women in support of en-
forcement through its woman's depart
mcnt of which Mrs. Lena B. Mathes is
superintendent One of the recent great
victories to whNh the Woman's Depart
ment of the League contributed much
was the nomination of Mrs. Rena Elrod
of the 18th district in Chicago. Prohibi-
ton enforcement is dependent upon main
tanning a dry majority in the state legis-
lature and in Congress and electing Off