St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 16

if ie ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1923. appears to be the order of the day. And to safeguard these rights Americans will be compelled to GOV. WALTON'S METHODS.

Gov. Walton of Oklahoma would do better in his fight against lynching and official lawlessness due disregard even such a vital thing as color. For i ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER Dec. 12, 187S.

PulUshetl by the Pulitzer Publishing Company, Twelfth Boulevard and Olive Street. to the criminal activities of the Ku Kinx Klan. if their own sakes, the strong must help the weak, or both will go down to ruin. there were less of the swashbuckler in his methods, less of the personal issue and greater care In the observance of constitutional limits. Whether the Governor la justified in putting the whole State under martial law and taking extreme military measures to Dut the klan out of the State Is a matter that cannot be Judged from a distance, but MORE COUNTER-REVOLUTION.

The present period appears to be one of counterrevolution. The triumph of Fascism in Italy and the overthrow of the agrarian government in Bulgaria are followed by a successful military coup d'etat in Spain. In each case a prudent King has been glad to get on the bandwagon. Control by a directorate composed of army Generals augurs 111 for popular government in we do not believe he was Justified in his press cen sorship. A public official who is fiehtinsr for law and order and the rights and liberties of the people rnder the Constitution and the laws should be ex THE rOST-IISITCH PLATFORM.

I know that my retirement will make no different- In It c-ardiniil principles, that It will always fight for pmarress and reform, never tolerate Injustice or corruption, always fight diinasopnrw of all tiles. iieTer bokonjr to any party, always opposo privileged classics and public Ilnnderers, never lack sympathy vlth the poor, always remain devoted to the public welfare, never he satisfied with merely printing news, always be drastically Independent never bo afraid to attack wrong, whether by predatory plntocracy or predatory poverty. JOSErn PTLITZER. April 1907. ceedingly careful to respect and protect the rights of all citizens, whether he thinks their opinions Spain.

In this particular Instance the issues are obscure; at least, they are not clearly understood here. Dissatisfaction with the conduct of the dis and conduct are wrong or not. The klansmen have as much right to express their opinion, so long as astrous Moroccan campaign, and complaints of too much politics In the Government, seem to t-ve been the outstanding reasons for the military upris they do not counsel violence and lawlessness, as other citizens. The Governor gives them an advantage to which they are not entitled when he attempts to suppress their actual rights. It is their ing that routed the ministry.

Nevertheless, while it may result in a temporary purifying of the ministerial departments, and a better discipline gen LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE erally, movements led by army Generals never take much account of the common people. Their slogans The name and address of the author are discipline and obedience. must accompany every contribution, but wrongs, expressed in lynching and lawless violence, that he should put down. The issue of law and order against lawless masked government which Gov. Walton has raised is a great Issue which must be settled whenever and wherever It arises.

It must be settled right. It must be settled in favor of constitutional government and its orderly processes. But official lawlessness on the part of those who are fighting the on rcauest will not be published. The era of counter-revolution Is due, generally, ters not exceeding 00 words will receive to a reaction against the growth of Socialism. preference.

strongly stimulated by the Russian spectacle. But it proves that the conservatives' reverence for con Rev. MeGehee's Veracity To Editor of th Post-Dispatch. stitutlonal processes Is precisely as deep, and less frank, than that of the radicals. When the con criminal activities of "invisible government" is THE Right Rev.

Dr. Hehee, abetted and assisted bv the Rieht Rev. Hot even worse than lawlessness, official or other servatives cannot maintain their position thrnna-h wise, under the prompting and control of "invisible t't-aw tirn vniinir Iflft npr rpnt un-Amer constitutional processes, they resort Immediately government." leans, are engaged in the small task of to tne avowed method of the radicals revolution rni Constitution day reminds us of the sacredness of driving- from our country so.ooo.uoo Catholics, putting: rings in the noses and segregating 10,000,000 negro Americans those rights and liberties guaranteed to all citizens irrespective of color, race or religion, which are abus ii was in Italy and Bulgaria; thus It Is in Spain. It is a sad fact that many people still believe in representative government only so long the soul of constitutional government. They are as It represents what they want.

the bulwark of our Republican institutions, and if they are weakened, the whole structure Is under mined. If they do not stand in exigencies which may arise when the temptation is strong to take PRISON'S AS SCHOOLS. Chaplain Reed of the Ohio Penitentiary has been conducting a rorrespondence school in that Institution for the last 14 months. The experiment extreme and unlawful measures against lawless ele ments, their force and effect are broken down. Being right in his main issue.

Gov. Walton should been so successful that the general adoption of the see to it that he is right in his methods and that the issue is bigger than any personal interest that pian seems likely. Many wardens and chaplains have already indorsed it. The Governors of 45 states have approved it. A similar school has been established in the Federal prison at Atlanta may be involved.

He should set an example of re and circumscriDing me rignt. to noiu 01-lices of emolument and honor of Jews. They are asking that 40,000,000 naturalized Immigrants and their Immediate descendants buy reserved seats for the medieval celebration in 1924, when Hehee and Hot Craw, seated on both arms of a fiery cross. Illuminated by the 1'nion Electric Light and Power shall proclaim the triumph of the invisible government over the constituted authorities of our poor little United States of America. It seems that, not content with this program of emasculation, machination and mummery, the Right Rev.

Dr. Hehee was admonished by the presiding" bishop of the Methodist Church ot Missouri to abstain from using the house bf God as a circus where performing clowns, dressed in mother-hubbards. were putting on show for which $10 admission was charged. Surrounded by disciples of the High Kyoodle of Atlanta and Worshipful Puppylites of lesser degree, It has been the custom of the "Rev. Hehee and the straint and of lawful procedure which may be fol iff lowed with success In oth effort has the backing of a New York publisher who contributes $2500 to every school founded It is called the Tnt lawlessness is rife and where the klan has gained or is seeking control of the visible government to vv.

VAiuuctJ ocnooi. Of the 2500 prisoners In the Ohio Penitentiary caxry out its intolerant and lawless purposes. 1600 are enrolled. The system of instmrtinn The outcome of the issue rests with the Deonle that used by recognized correspondence school of Oklahoma and the people of other states whem St If 5 i 9 I 3 similar conditions exist. They must decide In th Of course, a special element must enter Into pris end whether they shall be governed by the Consti on education the sympathetic understanding which can instill hope in hopelessness and fir witt, tution and the laws, or by a masked organization which spurns both.

ambition men who in many instances have all but Rev. Hot Craw to jump In the air. kick their heels together and defy 30,000,000 quit. The Ohio Penitentiary chaplain seemingly possesses this genius. Whether the plan win Catholics, 10,000,000 negroes, 6,000,000 RACE PROBLEM IX JOHNSTOWN.

Grasping the nettle and taking the bull by the work as well where this endowment is lacking may be a Question. Jews and 40,000,000 foreign born and descendants of foreign -born parents. This unmolested and terrific defl to American citizens belnar unan- In the Ohio prison a rivalry has davAinn ewered, the Rev. Hehee sought to take trr mnA dlrnt the affairs of the Meth- morale has been created which would gratify the principal of any school, or any conscientious teach SFOET. dlst Church, to discipline the bishop and control his wayward conduct.

er. When a man in a cell can be heard boasting about getting "95 in arithmetic today" regeneration is at work. There is a future for students of such I The bishop, being a Christian gentle The MIRROR norns appear to be child's play to Mayor Joseph Caulfleld, of Johnstown, who has notified all negroes who have resided in that city less than seven years to get out, has forbidden any others to settle there, and forbidden negroes from holding any public gatherings or assembling In numbers except to go to church. The American Civil Liberties Union Is asking Mayor Caulfleld by what authority he has taken these drastic steps. And the country will watch with Interest the outcome of this attempt to solve i most difficult problem by the mere use of JUST A MINUTE 1 I Rg-.

U. S. Pat. Off.) purpose and training. Business has subscribed to this tilan ployers of labor in many sections of the country PUBLIC OPINION STABLE AND FLEXIBLE TARIFFS From the New York Sun NO BANANAS.

ua.o asreeu io give a jod to every Intra-Wall school man properly vouched for. The liberate fiwuucr, therefore, stens Into mat fi Rnw tV. Trr. ft. iu live and police power.

It Is a danirerons Tr, reai cnance wo "nicui ariii Association, iff J- rPSPnt 1 It is aald fryn i to make good. ment, sure to arouse a worse feeling between the races than would otherwise exist. It will v. icnt-i luau xi wesuru states, comes a pic intive 'appeal to President Coolidge in behalf of tahi tarfrf t-ofo. an.

ine idea has been described as "th Ar aV4 posed to the flexible schedules which the Uritt edly be carried into the courts, which forward in prison work in years." The appraisal seems Just. In anv event th such action unconstitutional, if the Constitution Is commission was called into being to provide. What these Droducers of sn c- anA vl oiiapiain Reed deserves a place on the roster. ionir to stand. CI 1 WW want, is protection they can figure on for, kit the names of Tynan, Osborne and others who have Invasion of personal and constitutional rights wine bo mat tney can go on unhampered if un neipea io aeDrataiize prisons.

certainty and unhalted by fear. The policy of the commission "in dignifying by official comid-eration requests for decreasing rates and in reopening basic schedules on application for a decrease made bv thos whn nnan1 Vi natal ttA. THE LATEST ADDITION TO THE FORCE. (In the approved Russian style.) Characters. Sonia a young widow whose soldier husband drank himself to death in a soldierly man-ner, leaving herva 2-year-old child.

Petrovlch whose scientific learning has baffled Russia's best minds. Olga Sonia's aged mother, hence, under the soviet system, the grandmother of Petrovlch frult Peddler. with a stand in Nevsky Prospekt, whose fiery love is returned by Michael the evil one, a policeman, "who, enraged at Paul's success with Sonia. takes his revenge by pinching the best fruit off his stand. Act 1.

The scene is Sonia's efficiency apartment, racing on the Nevsky Prospekt. Olga aits by tne window looking out over the Prospekt. bonia paces the room nervously. There Is a famine and none has tasted food for three weeks. Little Petrovlch alone is contented.

He sits upright In his crib munching noisily on an ikon. Sonia (gloomily): There Is nothing to eat! Olga: Nothing. Sonia: And no prosnect of a-tttn anvv.in Prom the Memphis Commercial Appeal. man and having been selected for his high office by the votes of the leadinj Methodist ministers of this State, naturally resented the threats of the Rev. Hehee and had the temerity to request that the Rev.

Hehee should choose between Christianity and the Constitution on the one side, and the mother hubbard, the fiery cross and the $10 bill on the other. This the Rev. Hehee refused to do. The, bishop remained firm. Thereupon the Rev.

Hehee became vociferous and threatened the bishop. Much to the astonishment of the Rev. Hehe, according to his own statement, the bishop first railed him a liar and then punched him in the Jaw. The bishop, being a man bf peace who found his greatest strength In moral suasion, apparently did noi have back of the punch the moving power of a ffulllvan, Jeffries or Dempsey This was unfortunate. The whole community wished more power to the bishop both In his high moral courage and in his good right arm.

So the Rev. Hehee suffered more from wounded vanity than from physical pain, and he therefore applied for a warrant for the arrest of the presiding bishop of the Methodist Church, purposing to hale him Into com with crapshooters, prostitutes and thieves so that the High Kyoodle and the other kyoodles might have their dignity restored. All of this Is merely Introductory to the inquiry as to whether the blsho.p. was right when he said that the Rev. Hehee was a "liar." To have made such a the bishop must have indisputable proof In his possession.

However, the morning paper reports that the Rev. Hehee last night at North St. Louis Turner Hall made the following state fore the committee of the House an tne present tariff was under consideration" they regard -as "detrimental to public welfare and unfair to the producers." The protest is aimed, of course, at nothlne- than tv. whi steps forward, putting him where he was before. He seems to be paralyzed.) Paul: Bananas? Bananas? (Begins to understand.) Sonia: Yes, Paul, bananas.

We have eaten nothing for weeks! We aje hungr! (Paul gropes blindly. He staggers with hand to forehead.) Paul: Bananas, Sonia? Michael (with an evil leer) He ain't got none! Ha! Ha! My good gal! Sonia: What! Paul, Is it true? Tell me. Paul! Paul: It is true. We have no bananas today! He (pointing to Michael) has eaten them all! (He dies.) (Sonia dies of grief. Olga dies of hunger? A soviet marching song is heard off-stage and Michael, rushing toward the sound, slips on a banana peel and crushes his skull.

There Is a long silence. Then a horrible eound floats across the Prospekt. It is Petrovlch. He has choked to death on an ikon.) Music: "Yes, We Have No Bananas." Curtain j. x.

BOMBAST. Of unusual interest is the derivation of the word bombast, meaning inflated speech or conduct. In its original meaning the word bombast -(Latin bombyx) meant the cotton plant. Its present meaning came to be by way qf women's fashions. In Queen Elizabeth's time it was" the cus-, torn for women to inflate their costumes by means of cotton wadding.

Thus a thin woman acquired, outwardly at least, an appearance of expansion. This stuffing or lining was usually of cot- ton. Henoe the process itself came to be called, bombast. The transition from this physical meanine: of stuffine. to th of a' flexible tariff.

U'l 1 HO- 1(10. M.Q Deiween common sense and common need. xiUt even morn gnrnrlln. n. piio.iig man iiio jinpwa ance of something very like a consensus ot pub-' Start 'ometmim' on mis point is the challenge to view that the wt i it requires and can't collect them on what It hu come Bok is needed to stimulate in behalf of between two tariff schools.

A DERBV wrvvrp'E nvrrn I roni t. New YnrL- Tlar. 7 A THE details Involved in bringing Papyrus, the winner, to this country to no our best 3-yeAr-old are complex. The Jocktf t-iube representative. Mr.

FitzGerald. took Amer-. lean water and fodii. cr Papyrus. Mr.

Irish, might determine i they would suit his colt. Now it appears that ments: 1. That there were 78 Ku Kluxers In the United States House of Representatives. 2. Sixteen In the Senate of the United States.

3. Several in the President's Cabinet. 4. That Henry Ford Is a Ku Kluxer. These four statements present four distinct issues of the veracity of the Rev.

Hehee. The blihop must have heen rl-ht ori ether matters, and If your pnpr wants t. raise the question of "-port the bishop, why not ask nv. Hhee to name the Senators, Ccrgreis-rnen and Cabinet officers wno of the Klnn? He can An It. j.

fead of polluting the Turner Hall In Ni-rth St. Louis, may I reipecif-illy sUg. list that the next revival hold hy Hehee of inflating one's personality by means of bluster or inflated, grandiloquent or high-sounding speech, was naturally affected. TAKING THE PLEDGE. In that time which Is now sometimes referred to as "the good old days." Pat and Mike had bn imbibing entirely too much.

Father Reagan met them on the' street and made them promise to go to his house the next day to take the Early the next morning Pat met Mike; they linked arm. and started for the prleafe abode Their way teok them pat a saloon "Hist. Mike!" Pat. "What we htep In an' have Just wan more before we sign the pledge?" "N'aw," replied Mike! "The Fayther might smell our breath. Watt tit oeer; not exclusively but to onsjderable extent.

What can be done? Pf naps the Volstead act was never intended to 0 Jt kut It cannot be amended beore uct. 20. when the international race will tak Belmont Park. It has been sugferttl tuat beer might be prescribed for Papyrtm. would the quantity be large enough forbisneedi? a way out remains.

Papyrus comes as the rtsentatlve of equine England. Let the State partment extend to him the privileges accord ZJl Then he can bring his IT and happy. Suppow Tl Jn ehould defet Zev. which never had 4 per cent foam upon his proud t- TAKING OATH OF OFTICB. From the Boston Commercial BulleUn.

1 nonnsical claim of-a sensational atw-trtPPer that th oatn takn President Cool- in this neighborhood. Olga: A helluva prospekt, I calls it. (Cackles hideously.) (There Is silence for 10 minute while Sonia recovers from this one. Petrovich's munching grows more terrible.) Olga (ferociously): Lay off munching that ikon, chit, or I crush thy bloody bones between these teeth! Petrovlch: Nonsense, old woman! Ikons will save Russia! Olga and Sonia (in unison): God save holv Russia! Petrovlch (continuing): With the help of modern science, of course. Ikons have been shown to be a health food and when properly prepared form a most delectable diet, rich in vitamlnes and red-hot with calories.

They are composed of 16 per cent butter fat. insuring the production of pink globules in the blood which are largely responsible for the formation of red corpuscles. Scientists declare moreover anS Sonl (in uniso): The brat is daft. (They scream to drown him out. Petrovlch mumblea beneath the din.

Soon they all cease by common agreement. Petrovlch resumes his munching and they all concentrate on the problem of obtaining food.) Sonia after a long pause): Bananas! Banana! We shall have bananas, mother! Paul has bananas! Enough for us all! Oh, Paul! Paul! (dashes madly off stage in direction of Paul's fruit stand on the other side of the Prospekt. Olga follows with a wild shriek "Petrovlch remains In his crib munching his Ikon terribly, terribly.) Act 2. The scene centers around Paul's fruit stand Paul hovers over his stand In a dejected attitude. He Is pitiful to look at.

His is a great disappointment. Michael stands at one side with a look of triumph. He carelessly tosses a banana skin to one side, and another, and another. Paul is helpless. A noise is heard off-stage.

Olga rushes In ahead of Sonia by two lengths. Paul turns around in terror Sonia: Paul! Paul! (they embrace) I ani so hungry. Paul! Give me Just one banana, just one, Paul, dear! beoo1m nsia- He take, two step. Uokwmrd. And then one, frontward.

And then ont backward again. He take, two more nd not Craw be conducted in the pound? PROOF FOR THK RISJlop back." Everybody. Magazine. -b raises me question or wny rW, ncesary. When a citizen Is elected to public office it i.

customary to put bin? wi dUim "itmifying that he accept th io wnicn ne has been 868 to the duties to thebtx of his ability. In administering the oath of of ProtetJ Street- Cots. To th Elltor ot the h. THE gTanlte blocks on South roadway were taken up. broken in two.

half were used and the other half liiled away. For breaking the blocka purttnit them bark tax of f-r front foot Is rhnrFr.1. Ther wis ro tiew curbing tlH rh.irg I- not a hoUlup and a then bank robbing Is 'honorable. poor peoplA Vith 25 feet front are asked to pay Vhls will cause us to lose our properties -'o vicet-resment or Governo the net WBd wm of the higher of flee1 In cM death, or disability of his chief would be a simpler matter to aA i fc The only. time England can use' an Irishman is when he emigrates to America and vote.

for Free Trade. Irish Proverb. To A- Go, find your peace, arid I Bhall seek my own In realms of nobler thoughts and Joftler heights Than those- we reached together I alone Your shadow fades: the distant, lowly lights The rising mists no longer penetrate Downward I gas on darkness, stlllnesa, nignt! Grief the lonely Jeart-I hesitate AM tlowly turn to climb Into the light. vi BORIS ft cn.inge. Then, aner death In office of the chief executive officer of r.Arlnn a 4m irooaw.y was fine condition no not smooth for fast oiaie, mere would be no look for fint.M.

i wnt you ran An ua. AN OLD-TIME READER. uuunj iiuonc or justice or to administer a fresh oath, and there would no chance for a newspaper seeking notoriety to -publtoh big headline, that the President a ing Jllegallr btmnw trurr: wiu tnviu in the form nmty. A a A It was taken,.