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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1927-10-13
NEW YORK HERALD
James Gordon Bennett,

Office N. Nv. Corner of Fulton and
Nassau SITS.
Volume XXX 1O4
New York, Saturday, April Is, 1865.
ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
LINCOLN AND ATTEMPT TO
ASSASSINATE SECRETARY
SEWARD
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THE OFFICIAL DISPATCHES
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N. E.
TRACY
SAYS:
The Election of Judges
PresumeS That They Are
Amenable to Public
Opinion. Public Opinion
Cannot Be Formed With
out Open Discussion.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. g.
The Rev. Edward S. Shumaker,
head of the Anti-Saloon League in
this State, was held in contempt by
the Supreme Court on Friday,
To strip the case of technicalities,
Shumaker is charged with having
misrepresented decisions OF the
court in a report which he made
eighteen months ago, with having
accused the court Of judicial hair
splitting" with having criticised the
court in such a way as to create the
impression that it was preJudiced
with regard to liquor laws and with
having set out to intimidate the
court.
The complaint, which was filed
against him by Attorney General
Gilliom, nearly one year and a half
ago, refers to his political power as
"a member of the clergy and as
having been 1.-THE superintendent or
the Anti-Saloon League Of Indiana
for many years. -
Just what bearing a mans prori
inence or power in the community
has on contempt is a question not
vet answered by our legal author
tiles, but it appears to have been
given consideration in this instance.
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BY HERBERT NJ. JOHNSON
Manager, Chicago Civic Opera


MAGDEBURG, Germany, Aug. g..
"A few days in Germany is
sufficient to convince one that as
great a change is coming over the
German as had occasion to report
in the Italian population. This nag
tional change, however, is decidedly
for the better in every respect.
Here, on every hand, the visitor
is greeted with a smiling welcome,
prompt and efficient service and
scrupulous cleanliness, of course
1.-THE land of the feather bed" has
vastly improved through its brief
experience with democracy. The
country is prosperous. crops are
bountiful, and the land is hive Of
industry with trails of smoke curling
from every factory stack.
Tourists respond to the welcome
extended them and no small number
of Foreigners" have taken up sum-
mer homes in the sumptious quarters
where Teuton industrial princes
formerly held more or less medieval
court. Barron Collier, New York
er, and a prominent factor in the
advertising field across the con-
tinent to Los Angeles, affords an
apt Illustration, for this evangel of
more and better business is said to
now occupy the magnificent estate
of Bertha Krupp, whose family
throughout decades has had as its
slogan more and better artillery.
The great Krupp gun works, too,
may be referred to as a symbol OF
the new conditions in Germany.
They are operating full time turning
out adding machines, typewriters
and a host of products in no way
related to their original purpose.
Our group from Chicago delegated
to make a survey of European opera
houses to absorb ideas for Chicago's
new home for the lyric drama as
sembled in Stuttgart just before mid
July to enter upon its labors.
E. r. Graham, the architect, and
his immediate party motored over
from Paris, covering the trip by way
of the Vosges and the Black For
est in thirty hours. Harry w. Beatty,
technical director, and Edward H.
Moore, chief electrician, arrived
from Paris by train after an all-day
ride and Charles Moor; stage direc-
tor, came from Switzerland by air.
plane.
Almost every one flies in Ger
many. The Hanan line, which COW
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Chicago CiUic Opera Manager Scouts Through
Germany in Search of Ne1C Ia lent as Well as Ideas

ers the country with its air lanes
carried some 10000 passengers last
year. The planes most frequently
employed seat five passengers and
fly at speed of about eighty miles
an hour at an altitude of 1900 feet.
We at home have long distance
to go to catch up with Europe in
this activity in which we should be
pre-eminent.
The Stuttgart opera was first to
command our attention. 1t is a
splendid plant, built in 1912 at a
cost of 100000 marks. about ST.
875,000. 1t embraces two theaters
the larger seating 1900 and the
ernaller 300 persons, and, like most
German opera houses, the stage is
larger than the auditorium.
1t is a very complete and eff
cient establishment lending its at
tractiveness to a public park, which
it faces. A building devoted to STU
dios, shops and workrooms connects
the two auditoriums. The shops
are very complete and the equip
ment turned out is excellent, espe-
cially the armor.
The institution enjoys a great
advantage in. that only six per-
formances are given each week, as
against an average of eight-often
nine-in Chicago and almost as
many in New York. The season
extends over ten and a half
months, during which a repertoire
of sixty operas are heard. Although
an excellent establishment, it has
little to offer in the way of ideas
applicable to Chicago.
Upon our return to the Hotel Mar
quardt, after the inspection, we en-
countered Judge Pam and his sis
ter, Miss Carrie Pam, both of Chi
cago, driving up to the door for a
short stay in Stuttgart. Every
where we have turned it has been
the same story, familiar figures in
American life enjoying their vaca-
tons in Germany.
Munchen was our next stop, the
principal attraction being the IA
nous industrial museum. 1t en-
braces something like twelve kilo-
meters-about seven and a half
miles-of exhibits and is immense
ly interesting, but through lack OF
time we were compelled to limit our
inspection to subjects of immediate
interest.
Munich next, and here we found
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Lac, and Justice
BY Dexter M. Keezer

A went to hotel where the proprietor
had been selling whisky to her husband and tried
to induce her husband to go home. In attempting
to discourage this endeavor the proprietor said to
the woman, "Get out of here. have looked you up
and in your younger days you good, and i
can prove it." The woman sued the proprietor for
SANDER and was awarded $3.50 He appealed from
the trial court decision claiming that his reference
to the womans conduct in her younger days. was
not SANDER because any offense to which it might
have referred had been eliminated by the lapse
of time
HOW WOULD YOU DECIDE THIS CASE?
The actual decision: The Supreme Court of New
Jersey sustained the award Of damages to the
words used referred to the distant past their present
significance such as to justify award Of dam
ages for Islander.
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Story of FIun Case

To begin at the beginning a man
named Flum was arrested for
violating the prohibition law some
years ago
His counsel objected to certain
evidence being admitted at his trial
on the ground that 1t was obtained
through a search warrant which
violated the bill of rights.
This warrant described the
premises to be searched as section
ID" Beech Grove.
Section 3D. contains eleven blocks
and some twenty-five DWELLINGS, not.
to mention three lumber yards anN.
other structures.
When Flum's case came before
it on appeal, the Supreme Court
held that this warrant did not
comply with the provision in the
bill Of rights requiring particular
description of the premises to be
searched, that it was void, that the
search was illegal and that the
evidence procured was inadmissible.
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2. On what occasion did Joshua
command the twelve men to bring
stones from the bed Of the Jordan?
8. To whom did Jesus give His
commandment on divorce, What
therefore God hath joined together
let not man put asunder?"
4. When Jesus rode into Jerusa-
lem before His betrayal, what was
His first act in the temple?
5. To whose house did King David
bring the ark of God after Uzza
was killed for putting forth his hand
to touch it?
6. How long did David rule over
Israel?
Z. What gifts did Solomon ask of
God after he had been crowned
king to succeed David?
8. How was David restrained from
building a temple for the covenant
of the Lord?
8. Out of what fisherman dis
ciple's boat did Jesus preach at Lake
Gennesaret?
40 Who was Ruth's mother-in-
laW2
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H/L. 81 BY Charles
NV Lux Fitzhugh
Talman
III I'D Authority on
wv RHL HKT Meteorology
TRADE WINDS AND COUNTER
TRADE WINDS


The name of the trade winds i'm
plies that, according to the old nau-
tical phrase, elbow trade" or con-
stantly in one direction. 1t has
nothing to do with their benefits to
commerce, though this was very
very great when sailing ships were
universal. These winds are, how
ever, hardly so steady as their name
implies. Though they blow almost
always from an easterly quadrant,
their direction at any one place is
subject to a good deal of variation,
and their force is even more vari-
able.
The northeast trade over the At
lantic has an average velocity for
the year of about 10.5 miles an hour,
varying from a mean of rs miles an
hour in October to a mean of 1875
miles an hour in April. The south
east trades of the Atlantic average
about fourteen miles an hour for the
year.
In view of the prospective require
mentS of aeronauticS, it is a fact of
much interest that the trades are
rather shallow winds. Their verti-
cal thickness has been found, by
observations with pilot balloons and
otherwise, to range from less than a
mile to two or three miles. Some
distance above the trades there are
winds called counter trades" which
blow from a westerly quadrant. Thus
aircraft flying between southern
Europe and the Caribbean will find
it advantageous to use the trade
winds for the westward journey and
to rise into the counter trades when
flying eastward.
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No Brief for League

I hold no brief for the Anti-Saloon
League in the State Of Indiana or
anywhere else, but law is law, and
the way it has been applied in the
Rev. Shumaker's case interests me,
because it could be applied the same
way in other cases. Shumaker did
criticise the Supreme Court OF In
diana, did make statements that
we're extravagant at least, did APP
pear to put words in the mouths OF
the judges that they never said, but
making due allowance for all that,
his criticism was primarily OF a
political nature.
In this connection it is worth
remembering that the judges are
elected in Indiana.
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Questions and AnSzOerS

committed, the plane would be back
on her course again. This inductor
compass was sc. accurate that Lind
bergh said he needed no other guide.
Where is Kiev located? Is 1t the
capital of Russia?
Moscow is the capital of Russia.
Kiev is a city of European Russia
situated on the bank of the Dnieper,
$40 miles south of Leningrad and
400 miles southwest of Moscow.
Is the term "courtmartialed" used
only when a man is convicted in a
military court?
To be courtmartialed means to be
subjected to accusation, arraign-
ment and trial in military court.
1t is equivalent to the term in civil
use Ito be tried" In a civil court a
man is tried" and may be either
acquitted or found guilty. Similar
ly in military court man is court
martialed," or tried, and may be
found either guilty or innocent. He
is, nevertheless, "court-martialed" in
either case since the term essentially
means, Ito be tried for an offense
in a military court"-not necessar-
lily to be found guilty in military
court.
How old is John Coolidge, the
son of the President?
He will be 81 years old Sept. 7,
1927,
How high are the highest water
falls in the world?
The stirling falls of New Zealand,
1904 feet, are the highest.
How should a chamois skin jacket
or windbreaker be washed?
Wash it in warm soda to which
household ammonia has been added
lin preparation about teaspoon to
a quart of water. DO not rinse toe
much. lStretch it to shape while it
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Committee Decision

Because of this and several other
excerpts from his report. Attorney
General Gilliom charged him with
contempt in March, 1926.
Instead of deciding the case inn
mediately on its own motion, the
Supreme Court called in a COM
mittee of six lawyers to render an
advisory opinion.
The committee decided by vote
of five to one that Shumaker was
guilty of contempt
That was year ago last July,
since which time the case has rested
in comparative quiescence.
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is damp. If the jacket is an expen-
sive one, it would perhaps be best to
send it to a professional cleaner.
What is the rest of the verse be-
ginning "Shirs that pass in the
night, and speak to each other in
passing?"
The verse is from Longfellows
"Theologian's Second Tale. Eliza
beth, Canto 4, Part g." and reads:
"Ships that pass in the night, and
speak to each other in passing,
Only signal shown, and a distant
voice in the darkness.
So on the ocean of life. we pass and
speak one to another
Only look and a voice, then dark
ness again and silence
What States produced the finest
physical types Of drafted and en-
listed men in the World War?
The middle western States. The
following passed from 70 to 80 per
cent of the men examined: North
Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming,
Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas,
Oklahoma. Arkansas, Texas, New
Mexico and Kentucky.
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What Shumaker Said

Taking these two cases and sew
eral others of similar character for
his text, the Reverend Shumaker
declared in his 1925 report:
This court in the Calender case
from Elkhart and more particularly
the Flum case from Beech Grove,
in Marion County, and these REIN
forced by number Of later de-
cisions, has held that no matter
how guilty a person may be Of vio-
lating the prohibition law, even
though he might have as many as
three stills in his home and be en-
gagged in manufacture of white
mule that is poisonous and deadly
in its effects, should there be any
mistake in the search warrant, such
a person must be turned free"
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Search Evil Grave

Now, more than eighteen months
after Mr. Shunaker published his
criticism, the Supreme Court holds
Shumaker in contempt by an opinion
Of three to two.
The court is to be admired for
trying to protect people against un-
reasonable search and seizure.
Unreasonable search and seizure
is a most dangerous power.
1t was one of the causes Of the
American Revolution. 10 one can
question the desirability of prevent
ing it.
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You can get an answ o.o to "a any wG cues,
Sure en1 i is22 New HSVi' York Ave-. wash
sasD: or S G %edEca e esaf' ahd
extended research be undertaken. All
other questions will receive personal
reply. Unsigned requests cannot be
answered. All letters are CONFIDENTIAL
Editor.
Must the president of the Cuban
republic have the approval of the
United States Government before
he can take office?
The American government has
nothing to do with the election of
the president of the Cuban repub-
lie. The Cubans can choose their
president without interference from
this country.
What is the principle of the earth
inductOr compass?
1t is based on the principle of the
relation between the earth's mag
netic field and the magnetic field
generated in the sirplane. When
the course has been set so that the
needle registers zero on this COM
pass, any deviation, causes the
needle to swing away from zero in
the direction of the error. BY flying
the plane with the needle at an
equal distance on the other side of
zero and for about the same length
OF time that the error has been
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Times Readers
Voice ViezgS

Editor of The Times:
I have been regular subscriber
to The Times since 1913 and GER
tainly appreciate the courageous
fight which it has waged and con-
tinues to wage In behalf of the peo-
pie for clean government, free
speech, freedom Of the press and
many other things which have been
of vital Importance to the people
from time to time
JESSE E. FRANKLIN,
1920 Spann Ave-, City.
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Public Must Talk

But holding people in contempt
of court for criticism that is one
year and half old, that had to
do with cases already decided and
that was made in a State whe.~S
judges are elected. even through the
criticism was mistaken and mislead-
ing, is also a dangerous power.
The election of judges presumes
that they are amenable to public
opinion. Public opinion cannot b
formed without open discussion.
If Mr.. Shumaker, or anyone else
who might head such an organiza-
ton as the Anti-Saloon League
could intimidate courts by mistat-
ing their decisions. it logically fol-
lows that courts could stifie discus
sion by holding critics in contempt.
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Calender Case

A man named Calender was ar
rested for violating the liquor law
at about the same time.
The search warrant in his case
had been issued by chief Of police
who had no authority to do so, and
the Supreme Court held 1t void on
this account.
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Do You Km0U

That the Community Fund
supports four agencies which
have taken care of 826 neg
lected and dependent chill
dren in the first six months
of the year? These agencies
are the Family Welfare So
ciety, the indianapolis Day
Nursery, the Indianapolis
Orphans Home and the So
ciety of the Good Shepherd.
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Brain TeaserS

Answers to today's Bible Quiz are
found on page COO
/. What incident from Old Tesla
ment history is represented in the
sketch below?
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/ everything in a state Of prepara-
/ ton for the annual Wagner and
Mozart festival which extends
throughout a month. The Wagner
ian works are presented in the
Prince Regent Theater and the Mo-
Fart works in the little Residence
Theater, connected with the State
Opera House.
The Munich opera season there
fore lasts about eleven months. 1t
had little of practical nature APP
plicable to our problems to offer us
save a chance to increase ac-
quaintance with the splendid work
of Leone Krouse, American So
prano, who has been a leading
artistic here for three years and also
a feature of the festival, delightful
artistic, who doubtless will before
long come into her own in her
native land Strangely enough, this
popular and successful artistic has
not been heard in opera at home.
Most of the German artists at.
operas of this type are engaged on
an annual salary, with generous
vacation period provided for and
certain designated periods when
they may add to their prestige and
incomes by appearing as guest
artists elsewhere. In a land of long
season and many opera establish
ments the plan works out splen,iidly.
| The Irvington School of Music is
presenting Bessalee Reavis in a
pipe-organ recital Monday, Aug. 8 at
s p. m. at the school. Miss Reavis
is pupil of Mildred Smith and she
will be assisted by: Alice Cooper,
reader, and Marjory Mccullough,
cornetist. They will be accompanied
by Adelaide Conte at the pipe
organ.
The following program will be
given:
! ,Nocturne' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Chopin
Song orSeG Of India NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Bessalee Reavis
At DaWnlng ...'''..'.........C adman
., Lazy Msrriortys Mccullough. 90 % AlHD'i
'scmewhere Voice is Calling ... rate
by the Waters of Minnetonka" ;.......
Bessaiee Reavis
''That Old Sweetheart of Mine" Riley
Alice Cooper
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Mr.. Fixit
Weeds Should Be Cut to
Prevent Hay Fever

Mr.. Fixit, The Times reporter at city
hall, will be glad to present your COM
plants to city officials. Letters must
will not be published.
Dear Mr.. Fixit: Last year In
diana paid a costly Legislature to
make our laws.
One was the "hay fever" law, in
which property holders would be re-
quired to keep weeds cut within a
radius of five miles of the city
limits.
All summer we have been watch
ing a most luxurious crop of weeds
grow and blossom. They are now
about ready to throw off their pois-
onous pollen for the benefit CD of
hundreds of person who suffer an
nually from hay fever.
Indiana has more such persons
than any State in the Union. And
now that we have law to help, if
not actually prevent, why can't it
be enforced? ? Imposing a fine on
guilty property holders might help
out the depleted treasury of city
and counties, and give the weary
motorist a chance to rest.
ONE WHO KNOWS HAY FEVER.
officials will investigate this
condition and do the best possible.
They say the law does not desig-
nate a f1ve-mile radius from city
limits.
Mr.. Fixit: Reading your items in
The Times has become quite hobby
for me. Now I am asking you to
get me and my neighbors some re-
suits in regards to our street, REM
brandt st. between Indiana Ave. and
Eighteenth st.
We wanted it paved. Can't get
it. We wanted it graded and oiled.
No luck. Now Mr.. Fixit, do your
stuff. Please. H. F.
Street commissioners Office has
a record of your request for grad
ing and oiling. They have no oil
at present, but promise to do
something about this. If residents
along this street want it paved, a
petition may do some good.
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Mae Murray is suing because someone sold her a
house that she says is beginning to fall apart We
didn't know the people of Los Angeles ever sold
houses to one another
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Gene Tunney says he'll quit fighting as soon as
he gets married. Maybe so, Gene, maybe so.
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Finale-"Triumphal March" from Aida
The recital will be followed by
moving pictures which will be ac-
companied by Bessalee Reavies at
the pipe organ.
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Mr.. Fixit, The Times reporter at city
hall, will be glad to present your COM
plants to city officials. Letters must
bear writer's name and address. Names
will not be published.
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general as pending when he charged Shu-
maker with contempt.
Were there timid judges upon the bench
Did they write their opinions in fear? Were
these other defendants victims of opinion
created by Shumaker?
1t is also entirely proper to call attention
to the fact that there has been an election
held since Shumaker was called before that
court and since the six lawyers called in to
advise the court told them that he was in
contempt.
1t is entirely proper to call attention to
the fact that session of the legislature has
been held since that time
Seward daily gateway., 1927-01-03
J. $. DESTROYER SENT
 TO SAVE U. $. CONSUL
DISPATCHED FROM SAN DIEGO AT FULL SPEED TO
 MEXICO

SAN DIEGO, Jan. 3. (P)-The U. s. destroyer Farragut steaming out of the harbor here at full speed for En- senada, Mexico, in a thrilling race to save the life of Leighton Hope, Amer ican vice consul there, was revealed recently.
 No merchant vessels for San Diego, were sailing from Ensenada, and an appeal to the local naval base was made. The Farragut made thirty knots an hour down to Ensenada and 32 knots coming back with the sick man.