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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
MENACE OF THE MOVIES
BY COL. BILLIE MAYFIELD

belled.
Little children in those states will
not be raised on the theory that viola
ton of the moral code is but venial
fault; little children, in those states,
will not be taught the roses and rap
lures of vice, in their character form
ing and impressionable years, as is
daily done in Texas.
The pictures of today defy the
priesthood and dam the Protestant
religion.
They are chock a block with propa-
ganda calculated to destroy the sane
tity of the home. Such plays as "Vir-
tuous Wives" "The Wife's Secret"
ellis Neighbours Wife," "Foolish
Wives" and kindred plays all glori-
fly the joys of broken marital vows.
One Hollywood magazine refers to the
marriage license as ian old-fashioned
document" All that propaganda is
continually emanating from screen
headquarters. Old Satan himself,
were he the reigning ear of Holly
wood, instead of an assistant, couldn't
design more soul destroying propa-
ganda than is daily coming out of that
great cancer on American life, with
approval of every censor board in
America save those of Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
No man can forever revel in the
salacious and debauching propaganda
of the screen without absorbing some
of it's evil influences.
When every state in the Union
forces on the screen clean pictures by
clean actors then will the step up
ward be taken, and not until then;
when every state in the Union bars
such drabs as Mabel Normand and
Edna Purviance, and all actresses
who are known to visit men alone in
their apartments, who figure in
drunken orgies and killing scrapes,
then another step forward and up
ward will have been taken.
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XXX
ORECON'S EXAMPLE
WILL Be FOLLOWED

Seattle, Wash.-Responsibility for
the initiative bill filed this week at
Olympia, aimed against parochial
and other schools, will be assumed
by the Ku Klux Klan cabinet, John
A. Jeffries, Khan lecturer of the realm
of Washington, declares.
Jeffries also declared that the five
Tacoma men who presented the
measure were members of the board
Of directors of the Good Government
League, Incorporated December 20,
1923, and that the league is an out
growth of the Klan.
81 have not seen the bill yet, but,
if, as I understand, it provides for
approximately the same law adopted
in Oregon, we (the Klan) will be be-
hind it," asserted Jeffries. "The bill
will be considered formally by the
members of the Khan and another
order, which also favors the school
bill.
"The Knights of the Invisible En-
pire now have sufficient strength in
Washington to provide from it's men,
bership more than the required $4,000
signers needed to place the bill on
the ballot for the general election
November 4.
IF the measure is adopted by
Washington it will be the first state
in the union to put such law into ef-
feet owing to the fact that it would
become effective in September, 1925,
as the measure adopted by Oregon
does not become effective until Sep
TENDER, 1921
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EDITOR DECLARES
KHAN DESTINED TO
REDEEM COUNTRY

Harrodsburg, Ky.-The editor of
the Harrodsburg Democrat, publish
ed here, again has come out with an
editorial extolling the virtues of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. It
must be remembered that he is not
a member of the organization, but
has been one of the most militant
powers supporting the organization
in this city and county.
His latest editorial is on claw
and Order"
After telling of some of the
causes why laws are disregarded in
the present day, he takes parents to
task for the gradual disappearance
of home life in this country. He says
the child, early in life, gets accus-
toned to doing as he pleases, with
out regard to the rights Of others
and this fact is largely due to the
parent, the father working all day
and half the night in a mad desire for
money and the mother spending her
waking hours discharging her social
duties. He says modern court pro-
ceedings too often are farces and
the delays permitted i'm criminal lit
igation too often result in the ac-
quittal of guilty persons.
His reference to the Knights of
the Ku Klux Khan is as follows:
eve often have thought that in
the hour of national stress, emer-
gency and crisis, the Divine Ruler of
the universe often raises up some
one or some agency capable of coun-
teracting whatever may tend to un-
dermine the good that is in a nation
or jeopardize it's forward march
along the path of what is right and
progressive, and in this connection
we are bound to say that such agen-
cies are at work in this land at the
present day. We have our churches,
our patriotic institutions and men of
force with the courage of their opin-
ions, and the battle is not lost by any
means. We have also, in these lat
ter days, a great movement, now
claiming millions of the best citizens
of this country, that in our opinion
is destined to make it's mark on the
history and life of the nation, and
that is even now sowing the seed that
will, in time, bring forth harvest
of patriotic men and women and
bring about a rejuvenated country
along the line of law and order. We
refer to the Ku Klux Khan organiza-
tion-a name that is even now a
watchword or national import and of
national significance. We wish it
we'll and a rich guerdon in the re-
clamation of this great land from
the slough of disorder and lawless-
ness. And we shall continue to live
in hope, disdaining pessimism and
cynicism from which, happily, the
kind editor of the Louiville Post has
recently exonerated u.s."
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Three years ago, and you will re-
member it, told you people that the
cause of this moral depression over
America was due to the movies and
had no connection with the war, to
which it has been attributed by many.
Today the American people are be-
ginning to learn the source of the
present day degeneracy.
The school of the movie is solely
and absolutely responsible for the evil
that saturated the social life of the
day.
I told you three years ago where
the source of infection was and beg
ged for an operation, and you laughed.
Today, students of social conditions
are beginning to realize that l was
right, and measures are being grad
ually taken to remedy the evil.
Ohio and Pennsylvania are the only
states in the Union that have censor
boards that censor. The one in Texas
is a joke, a positive joke. Any pic
ture on earth can get by in Texas.
1t is pitiable fact. have seen
them show "Creation," wherein max
ed women disported vulgarly under
the hypocritical and disgusting pro-
lection of an alleged Biblical story.
The worst type of sex stories are un-
folded to the children of this state,
under the protection of censor boards.
Ohio and Pennsylvania have taken
the lead in the matter of censorship.
BROAD minded" censors who see in
vulgarity touch of progress, have
no place in those two states.
tell you that not three per cent OF
the pictures made in Hollywood are
fit to be shown to the children of this
nation.
"The Woman of Paris" Charlie
Chaplin's disgusting production
wherein a confirmed rake is made a
hero and the prostitution of young
girl is glorifed has been barred in
those two states. The refined and cul-
tured people of those states have re-
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15

Of all the sore spots of Europe
there is none that can be more readily
healed, without political interference
of any sort, by the saving hand of the
American people, than Greece. Hav.
ing suffered collapse of her dreams
of territorial expansion, Greece finds
herself called upon to absorb sud-
den increase of population unprece-
denied since the days of the Argon
migrations. The Greeks are handi-
ing this situation to the utmost OF
their ability and their means. The
American people have rendered, and
are rendering, effective help, and
now your Henry Morgenthau has gone
to Greece to act as chairman of the
commission that shall find these re-
fugees new homes and speed them on
the way to selfsupport.
In their unfortunate military adj
venture the Greeks attempted to 60
over to their kinsmen in Asia Minor,
to answer the call of the descendants
Of the Greek colonists of three thou
sand years ago who were tenants of
the farmers of the near east long
centuries before the Turkish con-
querors arrived. Orthodox Christians,
they had learned to speak the Tur-
kish tongue, but they had resisted the
Moslem religion. In their attempt to
include these kinsmen in a greater
Greece, the Greek armies failed utter
ly. In their retreat they precipitated
instead an action threatened for cen.
turtles, the evacuation en- masse Of the
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
VAST TASK IN GREECE
Fridtjof Nansen in the Forum.

Greek population and their fight by
hundreds of thousands across the Ae-
gean to the old home of Hellas. Greece
utterly exhausted after 10 years Of
war and numbering only four and g
half million inhabitants, now finds
more than a million of these fugitives
within her newly compressed borders.
imagine the problem which would be
facing your United States, large and
prosperous as you are, if you sudden
~ found yourselves, in a single year,
confronted with an immigration of
twenty-five to thirty million people,
four-ifths of whom were completely
dependent on charity!
Refugees are still arriving from
Asia Minor. Vast numbers remain tc
be dealt with. If the reconstructive
scheme Of the loan, supported as it
must be by charitable relief, does not
succeed, the catastrophe which was
averted year ago will shortly take
place. In that case Greece will be
thrown into a financial and economic
chaos which will inevitably cause dis
turbances in Greece and also on the
Balkan peninsula. It should be re-
membered that all recent wars in
Europe started on the Balkan penin-
sula. There is, therefore, every rea-
son to wish that this source of danger
be removed. If the catastrophe is
averted by the reconstructive efforts
which have been described, Greece will
regain her place among the leaders
Of the civilization Of southern Europe.
Exchange.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
TEN WAYS OF HELPING
TAEPROTESTANT PRESS

1-Subscribe for a Protestant pa
per-if at present you read it
over the shoulder of your neigh
Dor.
2-Advertise in a Protestant pub
LEGATION.
3+When purchasing, try to patron
ize firms advertising in a Prot
- e-tant publication.
4-When shopping or selling, say
you saw the advertisement in a
Protestant paper.
5-Try to get new subscribers.
6-Send important news items to
reporter and an agent for the
love Of the cause.
when travelling ask for your
Protestant paper.
8-When you have read it pass it on
to someone whom it will do good.
9-Mark important articles or no.
tees to attract attention.
l0--Be an agent for your Protestant
paper. Open it in railway car
riages, electric cars, motor
buses, etc. Show people that
you enjoy it.-Exchange.
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XXX
Khan May be a Factor


The Ku Klux Klan promises to be
a big factor in both the Republican
and Democratic national conventions
this year according to a writer in the
Washington Post who goes on to say
that the Khan may be the deciding fac
tor in the choice of a nominee in the
New York convention.
R. B. Creager, Republican national
committeeman from Texas, threatens
to bring up the subject in the Cleve-
land convention by making an effort
to insert an anti-Klan plank in the
platform, but every one agrees the
gentleman from Texas will not get
very far with his notion. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that the Republicans
will sidestep the question and not
touch it under any circumstances but
with the Democrats it will be different.
At the New York convention it is
likely to develop into a big scrap.
Already the opponents of Mr.. McAdoo
are openly asserting that he is the
candidate most favored by the Khan
and they are branding him as a Khan
candidate. On the other hand Sena-
tor Underwood has come out openly
against the Klan and is making no
concealment of his attitude in his
speeches over the country. He is in
fact, making his campaign on the idea
of having his party 60 on record
against the Invisible Empire" And
this is some more politics.
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XXX
ORDER BIBLE READ
IN OREGON SCHOOLS

Broadbent, Oregon.-By order of
the school directors in this district,
the Bible was read in our school for
the first time on Wednesday and the
reading will be continued every morn
ing by each teacher. ......
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
ROMAN CATHOLICS
IN UNITED STATES

The government census on the
church membership of the people of
the United States gives the percent
age of Roman Catholics in each state
as follows:
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15

The only thumb that is welcome in
the pie Is the thumb that is black
and greasy with service.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
XXX
Are After The Farmers

Farmers of the great Northwest
have been invited by group of Sena-
tors to get together and tell Congress
exactly what they want in the way of
relief and legislation. Nine senator's
made up of Republicans, Democrats
and Farmer-Laborites have sent out
the call.
eve believe the Norris Sinclair will
meet the situation, help the farmers
and reduce the cost of living" said
the message. eve want your opin-
ion." Congress wants to know what
the farmers really want. Will you not
tell them"
eve urge that meetings be held by
farmers in each precinct, not later
than Saturday, February 9. If you
are interested, get together, adopt
resolutions, sign petitions and send
them to Washington as soon as posi-
BILE. Let US hear from you"
The message was signed by Sem
ators Ladd and Frazier, NorthDakota;
Brookhart, Iowa; LaFollette, Wiscon-
sin; and Howell, Nebraska, Republi-
cans; Wheeler, Montana; and Dill, of
Washington, Democrats; and Johnson
and Shipstead, of Minnesota, Farmer
Labor.
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To Make Big Bonfire

Uncle Sans wooden war fleet,
which cost $3OO,OOO,OOO and was sold
for $4,000, is to be hauled up on the
shores of Virginia, not far from
Washington, to make the biggest bon
fire ever known.
This fleet of 226 wooden vessels
was purchased in the summer of 1922
by the Western Marine and Salvage
company. These dismantled bulls
were at first proposed to turn into
scows but there being no ready mar
ket for same they were lowed to an
anchorage in the Potomac about 40
miles from here, there to wait their
turn in the pyre which will consume
them. More than 100 of these vessels
are now at anchorage and the burn
ing will start in about ten days, it is
reported.
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Daughter of Her Father

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth
almost lives in the galleries of the
Senate and the House. She is al
ways there when big debates are on
and matters of historic import are
under way. And she enjoys it, too.
You can tell that from the way she
sits and listens. When excitement is
on and she is greatly interested, she
violates the rule of the Senate gal
leries and puts her elbows on the
railing and gets her head down in
her hands, one hand on each side of
her face. And in that position she
takes in every word that is uttered.
And she doesn't miss a thing that is
going on that's worth while.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
WASHINGTON NOTES
Bureau of Publication and Education.
Not Lodges Keeper

Not Lodges Keeper
Woodrow Wilson only last August
was waiting in his auto at the White
House to take his place in the Hard
ing funeral procession. An army
officer, who should have known the
former President but evidently did
not, approached Mr.. Wilson and asked
him: Il
"Can you tell me if Senator Lodge
has arrived YETI"
President Wilson looked him cold
ly in the eye for an instant and then
realizing the innocence of the ques-
toner, replied:
Il don't know; Pm not his keeper"
XXX
Sees New Alien Law
Representative Samuel D. McReyn-
ODDS of Tennessee, member of the
House committee on immigration, is
out with statement to the effect
that with the expiration of the pres
ent law, June 80, Congress will pass
more stringent immigration law
than we have ever had before in this
country"
That sentiment will meet with
hearty amen from the whole country
where red-blooded Americans live.
It's the answer to the demand which
has come from the Knights of the
Ku Klux Khan all over this nation.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
Five Years Ago

Just five years ago today Woodrow
Wilson spoke in the French Chamber
of Deputies at Paris the hopes and
convictions he held for the world.
Here is what he said:
$50, as we sit from day to day at
the Quai d'Orsay, l think to myself
we might, if We could gain an audi
ence of the free people of the world,
adopt the language of Gen. Pershing
and say:
Friends, men, humble women,
little children, we are here We are
here as your friends, as your cham
pions, as your representatives.
eve have come to work out for
you a world which is fit to live in
and in which all countries can enjoy
the heritage of liberty for which
France and America and England and
Italy have paid so dear"
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Seven Years Ago

Time works wonders and often it
does not take long to do it. Seven
years ago today the United States
severed diplomatic relations with Ger
many at the instance of the then
President Wilson, who now lies dead
at his quiet home in this city. This
break was followed closely by the
declaration of war in which Mr.. Will
son had his all, running his health for
the ideal he said, "a war to end war"
New Britain herald., 1924-01-11
25 Fears Ago To-day
aken from Herald Of that date

4 carriage belonging 10 William Chester. a farmer, was wrecked on South Main street this morning when the rear axle broke.
 One of Gafney Eros. delivery teams was nearly run into by a boy on a sled on Main street today.
 The hearing on the condemnation Of the slot machines seized in the raid in town a few days ago will be held in the police court tomorrow morning.
 4 horse attached to one Of the teams of Newton. the West Hartford milkman. slipped on the ice while going up Washington street at a lively canter and fell. When the horse was gotten onto his feet again it was found that he vas uniniured.
 H. 4. Travers polo team defeated the Corbin Lock room again last evening at the Casino by the score of to i. It was a good game all the way thorugh and Bancrofts are on the list next for the Travers men.
 Bernard l.. Pagan sang a soft at the public installation Of the officers Of Valiant Tent Knights Of the Msecabees last night
New Britain herald., 1924-01-11
Observations on He Weather

Forecast for Eastern New York: Rain today probably colder tonight, changing to snow in north portion. Saturday fair and colder. South to west gales diminishing by Saturday morning.
 Southern New England. Rain this afternoon, possibly cloudy and much colder tonight and Saturday: south shifting 10 west gales
 For Connecticut: Rain this after noon; partly cloudy, and much cold CT tonight and Saturday; south shift ing to west gales.
 Warnings for high winds are dis played on the coast.
 Conditions: The western storm has moved rapidly eastward during the fast 24 hours and is now central over Ontario. It will probably pass out the st. Lawrence valley tonight. It is causing unsettled weather with rain or snow in the Lake region and along the north Atlantic coast from Maine 10 Florida. The temperature is high in the eastern districts but falls ra- ridiy from Ohio northwestward.
 Conditions favor for this vicinity: Cloudy and raihy weather followed by fair and colder.
New Britain herald., 1924-01-11
PERHAPS HlJACkIsRS

There is the thought of poetic jus tice in the mental picture of highway men holding up trucks carrying loads of liquor. Everyone knows that this practice is not unusual where trucks carrying the contrabrand liquid come from the Canadian border. The high waymen arc not ordinary highway men. An no; far from it. They are so distinct and separate from the ordinary highwaymen of whom we have read and heard, that a new name has been given them-"hijacke |" And the beauty of their game is that the attacked do not dare call for as- sistance from the police for they, too. are carrying on an illicit business, the transporta ton of liquor. The fight is an outlaw fight. and while Greek does not always meet Greek, certainly criminal meets criminal.
 Highwaymen were busy on the post road the other night near Darion. The driver of truck for the Beacon Falls Rubber Co.,, says that about a. m. two men with guns tried to bold him up, but he kept on and lNard six shots aimed in his direction. Perhaps the highwaymen did not recognize what a proper business the truck was engaged in Perhaps the highwaymen were hiiackers and hoped that the perfectly reputable driver Of the truck was trying to do little business on the side and had a bit of liquor tucked in the truck for sale on his own &C., count Evidently he did not have it. and probably the highwaymen's suspicion Of him was entirely without foundation. But it is safe to say that the highwaymen would have been more than pleased" if they had found that. instead of valuable rub bcr the truck was carrying the liquid so in demand and so difficult to ob- tain.
 Whats to do about it? Apparently nothing in this state where the dry officials declare there is such splendid enforcement Of the prohibition laws. An is being done that can be done, according to reports. And yet on the highways of Connecticut, the home of w-obedienee and steady habits, highway robbery has been revived. It Is not all Mr. Nolstcad's fault, Of course, but the revival of this crime of highway robbery is another eyi- dence of the strange wave of disorder that is sweeping over the country
New Britain herald., 1924-01-11

walks clear often briug . financial burden upon others by their failure to clean their walks. The burden may be paratively small when divided up among all who pay taxes here, but it is burden nevertheless unjust burden.
 The point should be emphasized again that the walks should be clean cd at the first fall of snow or the first gathering of ice upon il. If this is not done the subsequent cleaning becomes more difficult, and the claims against the city multiply. The open winter has thus far helped us all. If may or may not continue to do so, but in the matter of cleaning walks the motto should be Do it Now