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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
WOULD CURB POWER IN CONTEMPT SENTENCES

Washington, d. C.-The sixty-day
Jail sentence for contempt, imposed
against Comptroller Charles L. Craig
of New York and affirmed by the
United States Supreme Court, will
result in demand at the coming ses-
sion of Congress for legislation to
curb the power Of federal judges in
contempt cases.
Senator Norris, Republican, men,
Der of the Senate judiciary commit
tee, who formerly was a judge of the
Nebraska state courts, said:
"The almost unlimited power of
federal judges to hold in contempt
persons against whom they may take
offense because of some word or act
displeasing to the court ought to be
curbed.
Walsh Also Favors Move
"In fact, I am strongly for curb
ing the broad powers of the federal
courts in a great many respects"
Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Mon
tana, also a member of the Senate
judiciary committee, said he would
favor legislation by Congress to re-
quire trial by jury of alleged con-
tempts, not committed in the pres
ence of the court. The Craig case is
such an example.
Senator Walsh recalled the fact
that such legislation has been advo-
Gated from time to time for the past
fifteen years.
He cited House Bill 1867, before
the Sixty-third Congress in 1914,
which sought to put into effect the
right of trial by jury in cases of in
direct contempt. This bill passed
the House. but died in the Senate.
Demands Trial by Jury
The Senator said:
81 have long contended that in
cases of alleged contempt not COM
mitted in the presence of the court,
so as to act as an obstruction to a
trial while in progress, the right Of
trial by jury should be accorded. I
shall support legislation to that end"
, Senator Walsh made a vigorous
speech on the floor of the Senate in
support of the House bill in 1914
when he said:
"It can be easily demonstrated that
such a departure, instead of weaken
ing the administration of justice,
would extend the power and infiu-
ence of the courts by assuring to
them in greater measure the esteem
of the people invited to cooperate
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

1T is estimated ON competent au-
thority that there are 100000 radi-
Gals in this country who are clamor-
ing for n change in the nature Of our
government from its present form to
one Of various degrees Of communis-
tic state" says R. E. L. Saner, presi-
dent Of the American Bar Associa-
ton. "It is said there are 400 news
papers and periodicals that repre-
sent similar views and that they are
read regularly by 100000 people.
It is also said that $3,000,000 was
spent during the last year in behalf
Of red propaganda.
ave submit that the time has
come when members of the bar
should bestir themselves in a unified
effort to meet this challenge. Such
unified activity has, as a matter Of
fact, been already too long delayed.
Thinking men zee at the present
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

in enforcing their. DEGREES.
"The power to punish for contempt
is said to be arbitrary in it's nature
Recognizing the liability Of judges
who are only human, there is scarcely
state in the Union that has not leg
islated to restrict and limit the exer-
else Of it.
Argument Was Answered
"The fact is that trial by jury in
cases of contempt has long prevailed
in the state of Kentucky.
"There is not an argument that
can be advanced in opposition to
trial by jury in contempt cases that
is not equally an argument against
the jury system as we now know it.
ut has been advanced that Con-
gress is without power to make such
provision for the trial of cases of
indirect contempt.
"But that question is set at rest by
the decision of the supreme court in
Elk Parte Robinson 10 Will, 505), a
case in which the famous contempt
statute of 1881 was considered.
"The attack having been made
upon the law as an invasion of the
inherent power of the court, it was
pointed out that the inferior federal
courts are not created by the consti-
tuition, which simply authorizes Con-
gress to establish them.
Congress can give to them such
jurisdiction within the limit fixed by
the constitution as it sees fit"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
WARNS AGAINST TIDE OF RADICALISM y

time the issue being very clearly
drawn in our country between sta
bility and radicalism; between the
forces Of real progress and retro
erosion; between government under
a written constitution as established
by our fathers and a government by
the mos. The conservative influ-
ence Of the American bar is sorely
needed and should by all means be
exercised to its fullest extent in
meeting this ISSUE"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

PONCA CITY, OKLA.-The joint
Masonic bodies of Ponca City have
broken ground for a Masonic temple,
and work on the building will 60 for
ward at once. The building will be
six stories high, and all but the top
floor will be used as Office suites,
George H. Brett is chairman Of the
committee which worked out plans
for the erection of the temple.
There are 500 Blue Lodge Masons
in Ponca City, 200 >Shriners, 200
Chapter, $50 Commandery, and $50
members of the Scottish Rite club.
Alfred Marland lodge, No. SOB,
named for the late Alfred Marland,
oil magnate, is working on plans for
the erection of a temple to cost $780,
900. The site and 100000 were the
gifts of E. w. Marland, son of the
man for whom the lodge is named.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

New Notwithstanding indeed, to
the uniformed was the news which
delegates brought here to the fif-
teenth annual National Inter-Fra-
ternity Conference concerning the
swift growth of the Ku Klux Khan
in all American universities and col
leges not dominated by Catholicism
or Jewish influences.
"The Ku Klux Klan," declared DR..
Thomas Ankle Clark, dean of the
University of Illinois, in his report
on organizations actively related to
school life, whatever may be said
for and against it, is gaining re-
markable foothold in our colleges
both North and South. It must be
given consideration in this confer
ence, in my opinion"
"Swarming With Klansmen"
More emphatic still was the state
ment of an Iowa delegate. "The
middle West colleges" he reported,
"are simply swarming with young
Klansmen. They are in every de-
partment of university work, and
they usually represent the very best
elements of the student body. AS a
result of Khan work among our
young men, we are having a revival
of study of the federal Constitution
and of American history such as !
have never before known. It is my
sober opinion that this country is
on the verge-if not already enter
ing-the most stupendeuos patriotic
crusade ever marking any nations
history"
More Power Yet Coming to Khan
A college president from a South
ern school, who was at the confer
ence because in New York on bust
ness, and who insisted he spoke
without relation to fraternal bodies,
gave it as his opinion that the en-
trance of Ku Klux Klanism into
American colleges is only beginning
to make it's power felt. ut is al
most the first attempt in our ma
tional history" he said, Ito interest
young citizenship in good citizenship
outside periods Of war. I would not
have believed that the undertaking
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16


three or. four hundred words by
mail, to be released at a certain date
to every daily throughout the United
States taking the Associated Press
service?' He agreed to do So"
The effort of this story in the As
ISOLATED Press was described by Mr..
Brewster, another coal mine owner,
who spoke after Mr.. Peabody had
concluded. Mr.. Brewster said:
81 saw an example of the benefit
of this particular publicity. The
matter that Mr.. Peabody had sent
out by the Associated Press appeared
in the St. Louis papers, and each
one of the papers wrote an editorial
on it.
"The next day after these edi-
torials appeared five contracts were
delivered to our Office which had
been hanging fire. We were stand
ing pat on certain prices, and the
people were inclined to lock horns
with US.
"Those editorials reminded those
particular customers, who had ex-
pected a much greater reduction in
the price of coal than we were will
ing to give them, that there was 60
ing to be difficulty in getting coal
this winter.
GAS I said before, here were five
contracts mailed into the Office with
letters stating that they had read his
story in the papers and thought they
had better get back under cover"
Jenkins confidential Story
LaFollette's also qoutes a letter
from Mr.. Jenkins, vice president of
the Hutchinson Coal Co., written in
October of 1920, in which Mr.. Jen-
klns explains how he "doctored" the
story sent out from Cleveland by the
Associated Press.
The Associated Press carried a
news report of over 1000 words to
it's $500 CIR more newspaper plants
written by it's Cleveland manager
after consultation with the publicity
director.
It is not straining the fact-and
this is impaired in the utmost con-
fidence-to say that the Associated
Press story was, to very large ex-
tent, the word-to-word product of
the publicity department.
The great advantage of this re-
port from the operators viewpoint
lay in the fact that the National
Coal Association nowhere was quot
ed as authority for the Associated
Press making them on its own re-
sponsibility.
In this way they were of more
convincing effect than had they been
qualified with the inference of par
tisanship.
Commenting on these revelations,
LaFollette's Magazine says:
"The people should bear in mind,
however, that while this campaign to
educate them was in progress, and
while they were being urged to buy
coal on account of a shortage, the
shortage reported by the press had
no existence in fact"
In support of this LaFollette's
quotes from the report of the Calder
committee on the Senate. This re-
port showed that the country had
produced 556,563,OOO tons of bitumi-
nous coal in 1920, as compared with
ASS, O63,O in 1919 and that the rail-
roads had moved rs per cent more
coal weekly in 1920 than in 1919.
$50 there was no coal shortage or
coal transportation shortage" de-
clared the Calder committee, which,
it will be remembered, was headed
by stanupat senator from New
York.
If there was an investigation, the
Sergt. wonders what the findings
would be.-Sergt. Dalton's Weekly.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
NOTHING NEW.

81 see that Marconi has invented
a device by which you can see
through brick walls"
Somebody invented that long ago."
"Who was it, I'd like to known"
"The man who first thought of
putting windows in 'em."-The Amer
lean Boy.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16
TELLS HOW PRESS EDuCAIES PEOPLE

You often hear Of how accurate
the news dispatches furnished by the
Associated Press are and how any
intimation that some of the dis
patches might be little doctored or
that certain details are suppressed are
hooted at by the newspapers main
tanning this service. In this section
of the state we had a little first
hand knowledge of the Morehouse
affair and were in position to check
up on the accurate" news sent out
about it. Some of you who heard the
testimony at the recent misdemeanor
trials were no doubt surprised to see
how little of the testimony favorable
to the defendants and "agin" Gov
ernor John MS little comedy-drama
was published, and your conviction
that certain news associations were
not always non-partisan were
strengthened.
To date there has been no sena-
torial investigation into the attitude
of the Associated Press towards the
K. X. K, but there has been an in
vestigation along another line that is
enlightening, as witness the follow
ing:
How the Press "Educates" the Peo-
pie to Please Chiefs of Big
Business
Especial Correspondence
Madison Wis.-In the October issue
of LaFollette's Magazine the follow
ing charge is made:
"a coal operator appearing before
the Calder committee of the United
States Senate admitted that the ex-
tortionate prices charged the Amer
lean people for coal in 1920 may
nave received 100000 in Excess
5ive profits.
"This is an operators estimate of
what the educational campaign of
The National Coal Association in 1920
conducted through the columns of
the daily press-cost the people of
the United States"
LaFollette's gives history of this
educational campaign, based on the
hearings of the Senate committee on
manufactures.
How Newspapers Were Bribed
Early in 1920 the members of the
National Coal Association were fac
ing a most embarrassing situation.
There was a surplus of coal, and the
coal mine owners were in a guam
Diary as to how to dispose of it with
out cutting prices.
An advertising fund of 100000
was raised through an assessment on
the members of the association, and
the money was spent with daily
newspaper all over the country.
The object of this advertising cam
paign was to convince the people that
there was shortage of coal instead
of surplus.
The newspapers not only printed
the advertisements but supported the
claims of the coal mine owners in
their editorial columns.
The Associated Press was induced
to become a party to this effort to
"scare" the people.
Reaching the Associated Press
On that point LaFollette's quotes
from an address delivered by Francis
S. Peabody, zone of the principal
operators of the country" before a
secret meeting of the National Coal
Association held in Cincinnati. Here
is the story Mr.. Peabody told his
fellow coal mine owners:
"After our last directors meeting
in Chicago I was able, through my
personal acquaintance and friendship
with Mr.. Melville Stone of the As
ISOLATED Press, to get his assistance
in Chicago.
81 called him up while we were
holding our meeting, told him what
we were doing, and asked him, AS a
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-01-16

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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21

Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Wolverton are
the owners of new Chevrolet tour
ing car which they purchased this
week
The large pipe organ for the ST.
Paul's Lutheran church arrived Satur-
day and workmen are at present in
stalling the new equipment. The or
gan was manufactured by M. P
Moeller of Hagerstown, Maryland, and
cost approximately $4,000. The work
of erection will be completed in about
a week and the new organ will be
publicly heard for the first time at
the church dedication on June l.
Springfield Advance Press.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21
Church of Christ
N

Church of Christ
E. P. Gabriel, Minister.
Morning Worship HOO A. NJ.
Union service of the Presbyterian,
Episcopal. and Church of Christ.
This will be the regular Memorial
service. Brother Prosser, rector of
the Episcopal Church, will give
the Sermon.
JUNIOR and Senior Christian
Endeavor- 700 P. M.
Evening Service 500 P. NJ.
Mr. Gabriel will deliver the BAG
calaureate Sermon at this service.
His subject will be, Goods Master
piece" There will be music fur
nished by the Male Quartette.
The Industrial Society will meet
May 81, at DR.. Alexander's residence
at 3 P. M. Every member is urged
to be present as very interesting
program has been prepared.
There will be prayer meeting in the
church Thursday at 500 P. M. 1T is
wished that everyone be present.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21
foreign Advertising Representative
THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
4 X X x X x x K X X x
= City and County.

D. o. Alexander of Vesta was &
Monday business caller here.
VIM. G. Frank of Springfield was g
Monday caller in Redwood Falls.
A. j. Praxel of Lamberton was g
Monday caller in Redwood Falls.
H. L. Belshaw of Vesta was {
Thursday caller in Redwood Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred r. Orth were
Saturday business callers at Mankato
Mr. and Mrs. Boiler of Tracy were
Thursday callers in Redwood Falls.
J. Christianson of Clements trans
acted business Monday in Redwood
Falls.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bendix Of
Vesta were Sunday callers in Redwood
Falls.
Miss kotten was Sunday visitor
at the Otto Gerstmann home at Gle
merts.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Amends of Wa
basso were Saturday callers in Red
wood Falls.
Miss Margaret McNaughton O.
Sltepy Eye WAS the guest OIL ne
parents over the weekend.
.Vern Larson of Bird island was {
weekend guest at the home of hi.
parents Mr.. and Mrs. L. P. Larson.
Mrs. Adella Robinson is expected
to arrive this week from Los Angeles
Calf. for a visit with Mrs. E. o
Chapman who is i'll.
Clerk of Court w. G. Weldon ISSUED
marriage licenses last week to: AL
bert G. Akre and Mabel Helgeson anc
Ray T, Metcalf to Dorothy Miller.
Mrs. Fred Orth returned Wednes.
day from short stay in Minneapolis
She was accompanied here by hel
cousin Miss Lois Caine who was a
guest at the Orth home until Friday
DR.. and Mrs. j. W. Inglis and sons
and Miss Maude Blanchard and Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Hicks of Tracy motor.
ed to Pipestone Sunday and were
guests of William Hicks and Mr.. anc
Tracy Hicks. Miss Blanchard was 8
guest at her home while there.
A. A. Kosmoskie of Ivanhoe and L
Callaghan of Marshall motored here
Monday afternoon and in compny with
Lynn Sheldon motored to Mankate
wheer they will attend the South
west District Convention of County
Agents which is being held there this
week.
A. P. Falk and DR.. A. w. Ross mo-
tOred to Sleepy Eye Monday morning
From there DR.. Ross left for Grand
Rapids, Michigan where he will spend
the week attending the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church
of the United States which is being
held there.
Mrs. A. w. Rebel of Mankato was
the guest of her sister, Mrs. ]. c
Budik last week from Monday unit
Friday Mrs. Budik returned with
her for short visit at her home
DIR. Budik and Elvin Leverson motoret
there Sunday and Mrs. Budik return
ed with them
Harold Aune returned Friday from
Minneapolis in the Aune car. He wa.
accompanied here by Mrs. Shumake
who was guest at the home of he
sister Mrs. Aune until Sunday whel
she left for Lamberton for visi
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
George Grimm.
Phone your milk orders to LAKE
!, SIDE DAIRY. James Whittet
Phone 8L551. 44-2ts. pd
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21
Church HeWsi
ano notes
Methodist Episcopal Church


The beautiful World Service
volumes presented last Sunday morn
ing were received with avidity, one
copy each finding its way into prac-
tically every Methodist household.
Those homes not represented will be
given an opportunity to purchase their
copies this week. Mr.. and Mrs. B. j.
Parson and Mrs. Macs deserve great
credit for the impressive and color
full way in which the young people
were drilled and costumed.
The prayer-meeting for this week
will gather in the home of Mrs. Bess
M. Wilson. A new type of Psalm, the
Imprecatory Psalms, will be studied.
On Sunday morning our services
will carry on as usual, for those who
so desire. The topic will be; '"World
War or World Disarmament"
On Sunday evening there will be
no service.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21

The lady friends old of Miss Mar
garet Gallery gathered at the Work
man hall on Tuesday to tender her
parcels shower The hall was
decorated with pink and white stream
ers for the happy occasion. The
bride-to-be received many beautiful
and useful gifts. Refreshments were
served at eleven o'clock. Franklin
Tribune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21

Protestant Episcopal Church
Rev. Eugene c. Prosser, Rector.
Fifth Sunday after Easter.
"The Lords Supper 900 A. M.
Memorial Service at Christian
Church 1890 A. NJ.
Baccelaureate Service at Chris
tian Church 500 P. M.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1924-05-21
BARRED ROCKS, RINGLETS
AND ARISTOCRATS.

Matching eggs and baby chix
from special matings and Grand
Champion winners. After June
1st one half price on all pens.
From fiocks SIPS per setting
or $500 per hundred. Baby
chix from flock $500 per hun
dred, from pens $4,000 per hum
dred. Dark matings only.
Deep narrow barring and strong
vigorous birds, culled for eggs
and standard points.
Strawberry plants, Senator
Dunlap and Everbearing, 1 ct.
each.
MRS. E. E. MOSIER,
Phone 1887
Redwood Falls, MINI.
The Washington times., 1924-04-03
WHEN DIDW
HAPPEN?

when was the famous statue
OF Hermes, by Praxiteles, dis
covered?
2-When did Shakespeare write
''The Tempest"
3-When did the Moors bring
silk.worms into Spain?
when were metallic pens
first made?
5-When did Fieschi throw a
bomb at Louis Philippe Of
France?
Answers to These Queries win.
Be- Printed Tomorrow.
ANSWERS
to Yesterdays Questions.
THE present boundaries Of
Wisconsin were fixed in 1888.
2-Lincoln called for 800, 900
volunteers July /, 1852.
S-The Pantheon in Paris was
built between 1854 and 1890.
-The first piano was made
by Christofori in 1909.
6-The battle of Tewkesbury,
England, was fought in 1471.
copyright. 1924, by King Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1924-04-03
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
BOBBYS FLIGHT IN SWITZERLAND

: great leaps, and bounds over
places / could not possibly have
climbed.
Don't worry, Foxy Grandpa!"
he shouted, over his shoulder, as
watched him jumping up over
the rocks. 'I'l get him."
/ waited breathlessly helpless,
": I was stunned. / was sick.
How long those minutes
seemed. Each minute was a
year. I was so helpless. What
could ! do for my poor little
Bobby?
But. after a while. my heart
gave a leap and the tears rushed
to my eyes as I saw Bobby care
fully threading his way down the
mountain as that blessed little
rabbit picked out the path for
him.
Foxy Grandpay" sobbed Bobby
as he threw himself into my arms
when he was finally down safely.
"Bobby!" / gasped.
Bunny hypnotized that eagle"
Foxy Grandpa. "As soon as
Bunny appeared. the eagle let
go Of me-. What would have
happened to me If Bunny hadn't
come to my rescue"
II didn't hypnotic the eagle
at <all. Bobby. I just said you
were my friend and the friend Of
all animals and birds
'swell." said Bobby. II said I
wanted to go up. But I didn't
want to go up that badly!"
Copyright, 1924. by international
: News Service.
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