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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
sBUNKIES' MEET
 AFTER LAPSE
 OF 62 YEARS

LEAvENWORTH, Kan, Feb. %. When David Proctor, private in Company I, Ninth Indiana infantry, was wounded in the battle of Stones River, Tenn, Dec. 31. 1862, he was sent to a field hospital and sepa- rated from his staunch friend, James Woods, of Company H.
 Two years later came the cessa- tion of hostilities and Woods re- sumed his search for his friend. Years of fruitless searching passed.
 Then last week, Woods gained en- trance to the national military home and was assigned to barracks six. The first veteran to greet him was Proctor. The Civil war com rades are ''bunkies" once more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
YOUNG TO BE TREID
 UNDER MANN ACT

HOUSTON, Texas. Feb. 25.--The case of Edward Young Clarke 6f At lanta, former imperial giant of the Ku Klux Klan, whose home is in Atlanta. was set today in federal court for March 10 over the protest of his lawyer, who stated that Clarke might be needed in Washington at that time in the PeddyMayfield contest. The case against Clarke charges violation of the Mann act.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26

toward the republican party, which he termed "oil welled." He said that now was a poor time for the democrats to nominate reactionary. He declared that no man has more consistently lined up with the vets than Underwood and added it was no wonder that the W. c. T. U. had called on Musgrove. He said Musgrove was the only man through whom Alabama could express its progressive tendencies.
 Senator Walter Brewer in, speech preceding Bryan attacked Underworld s stand on the bonus and his attitude toward Muscle Shoals.
 Bryan spoke this afternoon at the city school auditorium to packed house.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
PHILLIPS IS NAMED
 TO BELGIAN POST
Under Secretary Of State Will
 Succeed Fletcher

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-william Phillips of Massachusetts. now under secretary of satte, was nominated by President Coolidge today. to be ambas- sador to Belgium.
 He succeeds Ambassador Henry P. Fletcher, recently transferred to Rome. MT. Phillips successor here has not been selected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
THREE FANATICS KILLED Phillipine COnstabulary SIay Marau-
 derS In Mountains

MANILA, Feb. 2J.-(By Associated Iress. )-Three other religious fana tics have been kiDed by the constabulary in the mountains of Agusan Province rea. the scene of last weeks battle in which nine constabulary soldiers and 8 fanatics died. stated message re- ceived today at Constabulary headquar- ters here. The three slain, explained the message, had returned to the scene to await the resurrection of their dead comrades.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
NAMES HUSBAND AS
 THIEF TO POLICE
kansas Authorities Think He Is
 Leader Of Ia dit Gang

OVERLAND PARK, Kan, Feb. 9. Mrs. Carl Heslip, who says her hus- band for the past three years threat ened her life if she revealed his true occupation, has given police informa- tiOn which they believe will go far to- wards aiding them in breaking up q bandit ring which has been operating in the vicinity of Kansas City.
 County authorities declared late Mon day they were working on the theory that Heslip is the leader of the gang
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
CATHOLIC BISHOP
 TO BE CONSECRATED
Right Rev. J. E. Griffin, D. D.,
 To Head Springfield Diocese

CHICAGO, Feb. 25.-The Right Rev. James E. Griffin, D. D., will be conse crated here today as the Roman Cath ollie bishop of the Springfield, H., dio, cese. Archbishop Mundlein, Auxiliary Bishop Hoban and several visiting bish- ops and priests will officiate.
 The sermon will be preached by the Right Rev. Bernard Mahoney, bishop of Sioux Falls, $. D.
 Other church men who will partici- pate are: Bishop J. A. Floeren, Louis vile; Bishop Joseph Chartrand. h. dianapolis, and Bishop-elect Smith, Nashville.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
WILLIAM 7. HOPPE
 AWARDED DIVORCE
Champion Billiardist Alleged
 Infidelity By Wife

NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-A verdict in favor of William F. Hoppe, world s champion 1892 balk line billiardist, who is suing his wife for absolute divorce, was returned today by supreme court jury.
 The jury's verdict was reached on only one of the charges preferred by the billiard champion. This concerned a raid last November on a room in Hotel Imperial in which it was claimed Mrs. Hoppe, scantily clad, was found with Edward Exiner, a salesman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
I7-YEAR-OLD BOY IDENTIFIES
 AND KILLS SELF

W0RBURN, Mass, Feb. 25.- Seventeen-year-old Walter Finithy couldn't stand .the idea of becoming an unidentified suicide.
 He approached Dr. Robert E. Chalmers in front of the Choate Memorial Hospital and handed him slip of paper, saying, Doctor here is my name and address"
 The next instant, the youth had shot himself ill the stomach, inflict- ing a wound which placed him on the. hospitals dangerous list
 Finithy's motive is unknown.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
COTTON EXPERT IS
 ;. INVITED TO TALK South Carolina Senator Wan6 Cotton Estimates Equalized N

WASHINGTON, Febr r'25.--Henry c. Hester, cotton statistician of New Or. leans, was invited today by Senatca Smith. democrat, South Carolina. to app pear before the congressional cotton conference, which is endeavoring to find a solution for the alleged ineqnalitiei now appearing in crop estimates. ThA census bureau, which has Jurisdiction over the preparation of the estimates joined in the request. E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
EXPECT WAR LORDS
 TRIAL TO BE FARCE
Witnesses To Avoid Testifying
 Against LudendOrff

MUNICH. Feb. 25.-(By the Asso- ciated Press. .)-Predictions were made in many quarters tonight that the trial of former Field Marshal von Luden- dorff and his associates for their part Ill the November putsch, which will be- gin here tomorrow, will last but a few days.
 Already there are reports that many of the witnesses have been taken ill and cannot possibly recover in time to give testimony in this particular case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
STIMULATE INACTIVE KIDNEYS

At times the kidneys become inactive and sluggish; do not perform their work diuretic stimulant such as FOLEY PILLS. J. D. Stephens. Samson, Ala, states: q was troubled with my kidneys. for several years, also had dizzy spells. I tried every remedy and at last FOLEY PILLS, and am now better off physically than I have been in several years" FOLEY PILLS, diuretic stimulant for the kidneys, aid in giving them thorough flushing Try them today. Sold everywhere-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
AMERICAN TELEPHONE & TELE GRAPH co.
 

The regular quarterly dividend of Two will be paid on Tuesday. April Is. 1924, to stockhoiders of record a the close Of business on Friday, March II. 1924.
 on account of the Annual Meeting of the Stockholders. the transfer books will be closed at the close of business, on 10 a. m. on March 26, 1924.
 Il. BLAIR SMITH. Treasurer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
COCA-COLA STOCK
 TO PAY DIVIDEND

ATLANTA. Feb. 25.-Regular quar- terly dividends of $1.75 on common stock, payable April ! to etorkholders of record March 15. was declared thu. afternoon at meeting oi the tcsra of directors of the Coca Cois cDmpsq qy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
Smith Honors Bishop

SPRINGFIELD, IT., Feb. 25.- "Gipsy" Smith, noted Protestant evangelist, conducting religious cam paign here, announced today that sery- ices for Thursday have been cancelled so as to give free course to the installa- tions of the new Catholic Bishop, Rev. James E. Griffin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-26
FALL IS FATAL

EVERGREEN, Ala, Feb. 25.- Especial Leased Wire. )-Unconscious for almost week following fall from her chair, Miss Robbie Amos, 82-year- old resident of Evergreen, was buried this. afternoon. She died Sunday night.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
The Nordic Proposition

Stripped of theorizing, the Nordic
proposition amounts to this America
was founded and enormously develop
ed by people from Northwestern Eu-
rope. They have made, relatively
speaking, great success of it. Scold
as you please, there are now here
propOrtionately more persons well
fed, we'll housed, decently educated
and with fair hopes for the pursuit of
happiness than in any other large
country in the world. 1t is now de-
sired by these North European set
tiers to prevent their work from be-
ing swamped by increasing inroads of
Central Europeans, Mediterraneans,
Levantines and sheer Asiatics; in
other words to keep a population
made up now of blends of similar and
congenial elements from being altered
into heterogeneous collection of
races which in the Old World have
never assimilated, but have always
fought. Can these elements possibly
be tossed together in blanket here
into successful nation?
Does the Nordic argument imply
any offensive assumption of race su-
periority? Does it help the discus
sion to say that long ago Eastern
peoples developed their art and re-
lieion more than did those of the
West? The pertinent fact is that
now We are not getting any gains
in art or religion from the Eastern
lands, and have not for centuries.
What use again, to extol the sterling
character of the Lombard folk of
North Italy,, 1t is the Neapolitans
and Sicilians, the most abject peas
antry in Europe, that is storming the
steamship offices in Naples and
Palermo.
Are our political and economic in
stitutionss so secure that we care to
entrust them to folk who, whatever
their esthetic tastes, lauded idealism
and promptness to adopt American
collars and cuss-words, have learned
all their socia! and political lessons
under brutal absolutisms?
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ment of his peers 1t is a serious
problem enough when ;+he law of the
land is becoming subject more and
more to Interpretations by lawyers
and judges culturally alien to our
juridic life and traditions; but subt-
Ter danger is developing through the
cultural alienage of vast masses of
foreign born or foreign minded peers
who today sit in judgment in the jury
boxes of American courts. 1t takes
only sixty months residence in this
country (and that residence may be
in the non-American environment of
foreign colony" in our midst) and
the most SIMPLE of tests in the veneer
of 'Americanization' to make an Ana
tolian shepherd or Russian mujik
entitled to sit in judgement as
peer in an American court. 1t is
enough to state it to show not mere
ly the absurdity but the grave danger
of such free and easy system. And
those well-intentioned, but thought
less Americans, who are so anxious
to 'naturalize' the newcomers as
quickly and in as great numbers as
passible, ought to bear in mind that
such crude and surface citizenship
has it's repercussions not only on our
political institutions but on that great
legal system which, through the CEN
turtles, the Anglo-Saxons have care
fully built up as bulwarks of self
government of and by the people,"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15

But will not combining immigration
largely to "Nordics" build Chinese
wall around this Country and stunt
it's civilization? Not unless we pro-
hi. It foreign mails, the use of the
printing press, the visits of bona-fde
travellers and traders, and the free
exchanges of men of learning and
science.
Again, does history teach anything
about the admixture of unlike human
elements Emphatically it does, and
tells that while the blending of de-
cidedly similar peoples frequently
produces excellent results, as with the
old Celts and Germans in Northern
France, when genuinely alien races
are jumbled together the conse-
quences are not civilization but chaos.
Freely may it be declared that in no
land has this admixture taken place
and collapse or eclipse of culture
failed speedily to follow. The Greeks
of history may have come, after a
long interval, from a mingling of a
Northern race with an Aegean, but
we know that the first fruits of their
contact were centuries of renewed
barbarism after the downfall of the
myterious civilization of Crete.
1t is no assumption of superiority
to recognize the manifest biological
laws which keep great civilizations
strong. A certain race endowed with
extraordinary genius has, of course,
kept its blood pure across the ages.
Would that race have retained it's
genius, if its sons had freely married
outside their own people? Very pos
sibly Japan and China represent
many things America might we'll
initiate, but who proposes to get those
things by permitting a general influx
of coolie labor? For better or worse
Nordics" fit into our ways, accept our
institutions, and mingle with our peo-
pie vastly better than do undoubtedly
clever people of other races. There
is no use in sentimentalizing or but
ting ones head against stone wall
of biological realities. Minneapolis
Journal.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
UN-ANER|CAN POLITICIANS IN MANY
AMERICAN COURT BENCHES
We Must Purge Our Courts For The
Preservation of Our National
Gl0ries.

CONSERVATION has seized those who
are fighting to keep American gates
open to the flood of immigrants and
with the leading publications Of the
country taking up the fight on uure-
stricted immigration and which was
started by the Ku Klux Khan, there is
much hurrying and scurrying among
the pro-alien interests.
In the Worlds Work for January in
an article entitled the Immigration
PERIL" it is pointed out that it takes
only a sixty months residence in this
country for IAN Anatolian shepherd
or a Russian mujik to be entitled to
sit in judgment as peer in an Amer
lean court"
Magazines and newspapers are each
day bringing forth new and vital rea-
sons why the gates of the United
States should be closed against the
great influx of foreigners who do not
only bring themselves to America
but bring their theories along with
them. The pro-alien interests are
now realizing more than ever that the
battle started by the Ku Klux Khan to
keep America clear of European ideals
and practices, is one that cannot be
stopped.
Thousands of Alien Lawyers
In citing the fact that out of more
than eleven thousand lawyers in New
York City, more than 80 per cent are
of foreign birth, or foreign parent
age, the writer in the Worlds Work
says:
"Not so long ago, Elihu Root,
speaking before the American Bar
Association, dwelt on the many and
complex questions, such as the eff
fects of taxation, the social struc-
ture, justice to the poor and injustice
to the poor and injustice to the rich.
He hoped that these and divers other
important questions would be solv-
ed by the application to the now
conditions of the old principles of JUS
tice out of which grew our institu-
TONS But to do this, he observed, we
must have men who understand those
principles, their history, their reason,
their spirit, their capacity for extern
sion, and their right application In
other words, we must have a Bench
and Bar of the highest intellectual
and moral integrity, deeply versed-
stepped one might say-in the learn
ing and the spirit Of our laws and of
our Jurisprudence. Yet, as he point
ed out, very large part of our new
accessions to our legal profession,
particularly in the large cities, are of
young men who have come from the
countries Of eastern Europe, from
countries where there was highly
developed Jurisprudence, and having
necessarily, by Inheritance, all those
predictions and fundamental ideas
which differentiate the Continental
systems Of jurisprudence from the
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
COUNT ANOTHER POINT
FOR KHAN

Bureau of Publication and Education.
Washington, D. c., Jan. 24.-The
Ku Klux Klan is receiving publicity
nowadays that is helpful, constructive
and educational. The country is
opening its eyes to the fact that
often the Klan gets in and helps the
police clean things up, even though
the fellow who gets cleaned might
hoppen to be a member of the In
visible Empire. That makes no diff
ference if the fellow be an erring
member, he needs it and he gets it.
How the Ku Klux .Klan sided in
the arrest of one of it's members in
the National Capital who was in bad
has became known here when details
surrounding the apprehension of
Prescott Edward Haskell, former
policeman of Washington, on a charge
of bigamy, were made public.
It is charged that Haskell married
Miss Bertha Miller, of Massachusetts,,
in Baltimore nearly three years ago,
residing in Seat Pleasant, Md, with
her until some months ago, when he
sent her to a former home in Penn
sylvania. On December Is, when he
resigned from the police force, Has
kell is said to have married Miss
Margaret Dooley, keeping her in
ignorance of the former marriage.
Recently both wives became aware of
the facts, it is alleged, but Haskell
returned to Massachusetts, before any
action could be taken.
He is now in Jail on a charge of
bigamy. Score one more for the
Khan, which believes in righteous liv-
ing and abiding by the laws of this
country which do not permit any
men to have more than one wife at a
time.
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Press of the Country is Responsible
for the Great Growth of the Khan

out of the fire unscathed. On the very
blanks for application printed as hor-
rible examples of Khan activities in
the newspaper exposes and torn from
their printed columns came requests
for membership to Atlanta. Thou
sands of loyal men eager for their
countries good and set firm against
un-American influences Joined this
great order of ours. To their utter
establishment the newspapers found
that they had made US instead of
breaking US. That their vicious adj
Ivertisement had given us an impetus
which cannot be gainsaid. That they
were hoist with their own petard.
And the sad part about it to them was
that what was written stayed writ and
could not be erased. What they had
done could not be undone.
Too late many of them essayed the
second course, that of ridicule. They
tried to kid US about bed sheets and
pillow cases. They jollied us about
queer sounding titles. They cartoon
ed us and lampooned us. But too
many people had seriously studied the
Klan by that time and the fedgling
order which weathered the first as
founding storm of printers ink had
by this time become a moving vital
force in American life public and
private.
Some Tire of Fight
Just at present the press of the
nation seems to have no fixed plan of
campaign against the Khan. Individ-
ual Jews or Catholics owning and con-
trolling newspapers of course con-
tinue their rancorous attacks more
locally than nationally. Many news
papers, however, have got sick and
tired of beating their wings against
an invisible force and fighting
phantom foe. Some editors honestly
admit that they were wrong in their
first adverse impression of the Khan.
Down in the Southwest a great
newspaper which printed the World
Klan expose, and later lost half a
dozen elections fighting the Khan, has
gracefully retired from the arena
weakened by the loss of $4,000 sub
scribers which it is attempting to win
back by means of every circulation
getting dodge known to experts in
this line. This newspaper which a
year ago would not knowingly give
Klansman a job is now eager to get
them believing that their presence on
their pay roll will help counteract
the faux pas of their editors.
In other states, too, the daily press
in spots evidences an attitude of clay
ing off" the Khan. Circulation has
been impaired where Klansmen are
numerous and in particular have the
dailies with great calculations in the
rural districts felt the pinch in this
respect. The Khan has, of course,
never boycotted any newspapers what
ever they may have said or, however,
vicious they may have been. 1t has
just been that the individual Klans-
man has got tired of reading at his
breakfast or supper table newspapers
which consistently brand him either
as knave or fool. At first it was
interesting, but "too much is enough"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
From Here and There
) of More or Less Interest to Klansmen

Senator James A. Reed, of Missouri
has tossed his hat into the President
ial ring, and he is going after the
Missouri delegates to the Democratic
national convention hammer and
tongs. He made this announcement
after a long conference with $50 of
his followers from the "Show-me'
state at St. Louis. He did not lay
down in his platform whether he is
going to fight the Ku Klux Klan OF
not like Senator Underwood, of Ala
bama did, but those who know the
Missouri senator give him credit with
being too shrewd a politician to make
a serious mistake like that in his
opening announcement. Senator Reed
will make things somewhat merry in
the Democratic camp as he is great
campaigner and a most effective
speaker. He may not get very far in
the race but he will raise lots of dust
while he is at it. And again, that's
politics.
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xxx.

Youngstown, O.-Chief of Police
Powell has issued orders to his de-
partment to enforce the state law re-
quiring every public and parochial
school to display the American flag.
All the public schools now have such
flags, it is said, but the parochial
schools have steadfastly refused to
obey the law. Prosecution will fol-
low, the chief says, If the order is
not complied with Immediately.
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xxx

Oklahoma City.-"Mad Jack" Wal
ton, impeached governor of Oklahoma
who was recently expelled from the
Masonic order and now faces tria
by the Elks lodge of this city, has had
another disgrace heaped upon his I'm,
American shoulders.
The Kiwanis club has accepted his
resignation. Officials of the club re-
fused to confirm or deny reports that
his resignation had been requested by
the Kiwanians, but authentic reports
has it that Walton was expelled.
Probably the Roman Catholic church
will permit him to join it's fold, and
then he would be eligible to member.
ship in his beloved Knights of Col
umbus.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-15
EVERY ORGANIZATION
HAS ITS JUDAS

The Church of Christ, the greatest
institution known today and for CEN
turtles past, has been divided in be-
liefs, had it's scoffers, been betrayed
and suffered from attacks from with
in end without. Yet we believe in it.
| We recall that Jesus chose IL dis
ciples to follow Him. One of this
small number was a Judas, who be-
ftrayed Him for few pieces of silver
Another one doubter; still another
at one time denied Him. Yet His
Word is still gospel to US.
Was there ever an organization
that did not have its Judas, it's doubt
ers, it's enemies?
Is it to be expected or hoped that
the Knights of the Ku Klux Khan,
reorganized here in the Twentieth
Century, time when men are money
mad, and had the growth, the almost
phenomenal growth, into millions of
members in the short time of seven
years, does not have it's Judas who
will sell it out Cor attempt toy for
few pieces of silver? Do we ex-
pect it's officers to be perfect, it's
membership all loyal, and reading the
daily papers, too, is it more to expect
than of the Church itself?
Klansmen, we suggest to you: Rea-
son with yourselves as above. Note,
of all those who have been charged
as Klansmen with breaking the law
of the land, how few, if any, have
been found guilty. A man may be
a member of many other orders-the
church, or what not and if it hap
pens to be believed he is Klansman,
and has transgressed the law in the
lightest, he is heralded far and near
as a "heoded law-breaker," saying
nothing of any other order to which
he might belong. This fact that he is
a Klansman is warranty for a double
header write-up.
Now, from the Church down, every
organization has the right to fix
standard for membership, and to
choose it's members according to it's
own manner, except the Khan, which
has not the right to say who shall
be accepted or who not, or the right
to keep their membership a secret
known only to Klansmen.