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PAGE SIX ENGLAND GETS FALSE STORY OF LILLY RIOT Reiter's Agency Garbles Facts and Manchester Guardian Prints Them It seems to be a great delight to news services, whether American or foreign, to malign the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Readers in England, for instance, must take just what their papers print about the Klan and its activities. The English reader who would inform himself truthful ly on the organization can turn only to his daily paper. In the United States there are Klan publications, like The Fiery Cross, which tell the truth and offset the mass of lies and fabrications spread by the wire serv ices and newspapers. Below, for example, is a story about the anti-Klan riot at Lilly, Pennsylvania, sent out by Reuter s Agency, one of the largest European news-gathering and disseminating organizations. It will be noted that the number of dead and injured are high, and that there were not 60 men arrested and the killing was not all on one side. The report follows: A Reuter message from Lilly (Pennsylvania) says that the greatest indignation has been aroused throughout the coun try by a trageuy which occurred last Saturday in connection with a Ku Klux Klan celebration, when four men were shot dead and 11 injured, some perhaps fa tally. The Ku Klux Klansmen came entirely uninvited, and held their ceremonies in an open field. Some of the more daring of the townsmen are said to have played a fire hose upon them as they re turned in procession from the field to their special train. In the shooting which followed none but townsmen were shot. When it was learned that the train came from Johnstown the police of that city were notified, and met it upon its arrival. The Ku Klux Klan delegates were searched, and 60 of them have been arrested on a charge of car rying concealed weapons. PRAISES V. S. GOVERNMENT GRAFTON. W. VA,May 12.- Speak- MK to an audience that filled the Tay lor county court house with one of the largest throngs that greeted a speaker here in years, a state lectur er for the Ku Klux Klan declared that the United States government is the best in the world and that it is not one-half as corrupt as some folk weuld have us believe it is. The Klan speaker was delivering a talk on “Americanism.” HARTLAND, ME.—C. W. Kline, of Ohio, delivered an address on the Ku Klux Klan in the First Baptist church here recently. He will speak again in a few weeks. Now Open For Business L. C LEONARD LUNCH Continuous from 5 a. m. to 12 p. m. Strictly Hlgh-class—loo% American Market 2116 420 Ninth St Dee Moines, lowa DE YOUNG BROS. Groceries - Meats Bakery Goods (Everything Good to Eat) Let Us Help Ton to Reduce the High Cost of Living WE DELIVER Phene Wat I*9* 2001 S. E. 6th T. H. BALDWIN PAINTER For High-Class Workmanship in House Painting A Interior Finish Call T. H. BALDWIN Walnut 3059 THE SPRING-HUB CYCLE COMPANY 516 East Grand Avenue, Des Moines, lowa NAVY CLEVELAND BAMBLEB Expert Bepalrinr—Tires—Sundries There Is no better time than NOW —Boy your boy a "bike” Lawn Mowers Sharpened Phone Market 2223 Jones’ Dairy PHONE WALNUT 1915 Jones’ Dairy Leads All Iowa! Highest Grade Milk and Cream MISS FRANCES PERKINS Miss Frances Perkins of New York city, member of the industrial board of the stats Industrial commission and one of the highest paid women public officials In America, has been named chairman of a committee of 12 Demo cratic women, each Interested In a different subject of general ooncem to the voter, who will formulate sug gestions for the platform of the na tional Democratic convention. Ignorance Never Wins Over Knowledge In Calcutta. India. 800 telephones went out of commission with one stroke of the ax, as an ignorant coo lie, making an excavation, mistook a telephone cable for the root of a tree. The telephone lines were immedi ately repaired, of course. It took the services of many skilled men for many hours, patiently to sort out the wires and match each with each. Mean while, 800 telephone users went with out the easy intercommunication which the telephone affords. What tragedies were thus caused will nev er be known. All that is reported is that in one instance, ignorance undid the work of many hours, and that many more were required to repair the damage. In the long run, ignorance never wins over knowledge. But it is the greatest weapon of ignorance that it may strike swiftly and do much dam age in a little time. One ignorant law maker may stop the wheels of progress for months; one ignorant school teacher may retard for years the development of the minds of fifty pupils; one ignorant action may undo the careful plans of philanthropy. Had the coolie known what a tele phone cable was he would not have cut through it. Did the ignorant teacher know better he would not hurt the little minds in his charge. Had the ignorant law maker been ed ucated or had a wiser choice been made at election, necessary legisla tion would not have been blocked. Education, knowledge, information, power to understand, and once again, education, are our needs! The chil dren of today are the citizens of to morrow. The knowledge they gain today will be used in governing them selves tomorrow. let us. all of us who claim some small measure of wis dom as our part of life’s winnings, see to it that the most precious gift of man to man. of father to child, of government to citizen, be given in full measure, pressed down and run ning over; let us give our children the best of schools, the best of teach ers, the best of knowledge, that when they, too. become men and women, they will be among those who repair the telephones, not those who cut communication. ATTEND CHURCH ANNIVERSARY CLARKSBURG, W. VA.. May 11 Approximately 500 members of the Ku Klux Klan. attired in full regalia, attended the eighth anniversary serv ices of the Stealey Heights Methodist Episcopal church here Sunday eve ning and made a substantial cash do nation. The church was packed to capacity. (Wholesale) WITH MPROVED UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL Sunday School * Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B. FITZWATBR, D.D., TMchvr or Eiwliab Btblo la tho Moody Blblo laMl tut* of Chicago.) <*. 1014. Wootora Nowapopor Union.) Lesson for May 18 ISAIAH AND THE ASSYRIAN CRISIB. LESSON TEXT—Isa. St. 17. GOLDEN TEXT—"God la our rvfugs and strength, a very present help In trouble.” —Pa. 4t:l. PRIMARY TOPIC—How God An swered Their Letter. JUNIOR TOPlC—lsaiah and the Boastful Assyrian. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP IC—How Isaiah's Faith Saved a City. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP lC—4salah’a Service to His Country. I, Tka King of Assyria Invadss Judah (Lsa. 36). 1. Rabshakeh Meets a Deputation From Judah (vr. 1-21). Rabshakeh was a representative of Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, whose mission was to Induce Judah to surrender. In order to accomplish this he: (1) Tried to bully them Into sub mission (vv. 4-9). Ha taunted them with their weakness and told them that Egypt was a broken reed that would not only fall of support but even pierce the hand that reached out to it. He challenged them by offering 2,000 horses. If they would furnish riders for them. If they ceuld not furnish this small number It would be futile for them to attempt to withstand the great Assyrian army. (2) He asserted that It was use less for them to put their trust In God (v. 10). He even declared that the Lord had sent him to destroy Judah. (3) He tried to create a panic among the people (vv. 13-21). Fear ing a panic among the people the deputation of the Jews urged Rab shakeh not to speu!: In the Jews' language. Taking up the suggestion he spoke loudly in the Jews' language, warning them against trusting In Heze ktek. (4) Re promised them plenty In an other land similar to their own (vv. 16, 17). He urged them to make agree ment with him and upon his return from Egypt he would take them to a land of plenty, but the people were loyal to Hezeklah, for they knew that the cruel Assyrians could not be trusted. 2. The Deputation Reports to Heze klah (v. 22). They rent their garments doubtless In fear and dismay over thalr perilous condition, for the crisis long before predicted by Isaiah had now come upon them. 11. Hazekiah’s Behavior (Isa. 87: 1-36). 1. Resorted to tha Houaa of tha Lord (v. 1). This is a sure resort of God's people In time of distrees (Ps. 73:16, 17; 77:18). This action was prompted by faith, for God had prom ised that those who In time of distress resorted to His house would be heard by Him (II Chron. 7:15, 16). 2. Sent Isaiah (vv. 2-7). The logical and natural thing for the king to do under such circumstances was to send for God's prophet. The prophet sent back words of encouragement to Hezeklah, assuring him that God would bring deliverance. 8. Hezekiah's Prayer (vv. 14-20). Rabshakeh, who seems to have with drawn from Jerusalem for a little while, now returns from Sennacherib with a letter warning Heseklah against trusting God for deliverance, assuring him that he would be deceived for no god waa abla to stand against the As syrian array. He spread the letter be fore the Lord and prayed. (1) He recognized God's throne, making It the ground of his plep (v. 16). (2) He recognized the peril which threatened the people (vv. 17-19). Sennacherib had indeed laid waste the HTTMERac Battens, but that min re sulted because the gods of the nations were not real. (3? He asked for deliverance (▼. 20). He desired that deliverance would come In such a way as to vindi cate and honor the Lord. 4. Isaiah's Message to Hexekiah (vt. 21-35). (1) That Sennacherib's sin was blas phemy against the Holy One of Israel (vv. 2123). (2) That Sennacherib had forgotten that he was an Instrument in God’s hand (vv. 24-28). (3) Judgment upon Sennacherib was imminent (vv. 20-35). Deliverance would soon come and that through the energy of the Lord of hosts. 111. Destruction of the Assyrian Army (vv. 36-38). The sngel of the Lord went fortli and amote in the camp of the As syrians 185,000 men, so Sennscherih was turned hack by the way he came. He did not enter Jeruaalem and after thla defeat he went back to Nineveh to live and while there worshiping in the house of his god lie was as sassinated. HOLD AUTO PARADE TUSCUMBIA, ALA. —Klanamen of Tuscumbia, Sheffield, and Florence, Ala., held an automobile parade re cently, the procession starting from Sheffield and going to Tuscumbia and Florence. Streets of the three cities were crowded with spectatlors, AMERICANISM ADDRESS GIVEN YORK, NKBR. Judge Plummer de livered an address on Americanism to an audience of 800 recently. No disturbance was noted with the ex ception of one man who called the M|*eaker a “liar." THE FIERY CROSS lowa News \ \ 4 iJ items of Interest for /mV\ Busy Readers. Seven dirt farmers are playing golf regularly over the course at Orient. Don't start a garden this spring that is too for your wife to finish. Emmet county is making plans to bare all roads in the county graveled. A new source of revenue has been found by the city council of Oskaloo- No fire works will be tolerated in Des Moines before the Fourth of July. Contracts have been let to gravel the Lincoln highway across Carroll county. Leßoy Vaughn of Clarion haa a plane glider that will carry six pas sengers. A cook book publishel by the New ton Women's club has netted the or ganization |l,lOO. Contracts for additions to three Des Moines schools It is estimated will amount to f 225,000. The forty-eighth commencement of the State Teachers college will be held May 30th to June 3rd. The administration of Cornell col lege plans to have all co-eds’ rooming quarters under control of the institu tion. June 7th was set ss the opening date for the Camp Dodge swimming pool at the meeting of the Playground as sociation. At Drake stadium the third annual field meet of the Des Moines Boy Scouts will be held May 17th, It la announced. Sioux City Is the largest hog mar ket center in the world next to Oma ha and Chicago receipts at the stock yards show. Seeley township is next in order for T. B. eradication in Guthrie coun ty, 92 per cent of the cattle owners having signed the petition. More corn will be planted this year than last, the department of agricult ure declared due to the fact the cribs are empty nearly everywhere. Well, lowa Is to have a new code and most of us will know as little of it as we did of the old one and pay the same attention to its provisions. Leslie M. Shaw, former secretary of the treasury, will give the commence ment address at Teachers' college June 3. The college will have about 500 graduates. A letter in a laundry package prov ed expensive for a college student In Des Moines recently. He put a letter in with his laundry which he sent home. It cost him 910. The City council of Des Moines has been notified officially by the team sters union that the scale for labor has been raised'from $8.50 to $9.20 a day for an eight hour day. Increasing this year's premiums to a total of $137,962. nearly $15,000 more than last year, the management of the 1924 lowa State fair has an nounced its premium list for Aug. 20-29. Judge Jackson, in district court, fixed Sunday, May 31st, as the date (or the sale by the sheriff of the property of the Muscatine, Burling ton A Southern railroad, long In re ceivership. Polk county supervisors hsvs set June 2nd as the date for the road bond election which, if favorably acted on by voters, will authorise bonds of *l,- 500,000 to complete the county’s pav ing program. A condemnation of war and Indorse ment of the world court were em bodied in resolutions sdopted st the closing session of the 109th stated meeting of the Des Moines preby terv at Colfax. The state board of the lowa branch of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teachers associations vot ed against the use of public schools (or the promotion or the citizens’ mili tary training camps Dr. Ozora 8. Davis, president of the Chicago theological seminary, widely known aa a preacher and educator, is to deliver the baccalaureate sermon to lowa State college’s graduating class Sunday, June Sth. The West Liberty Fair association voted |l5O for girls’ club work this year. Of this SSO goes to defray ex penses of the winning team and chaperone to the state fair where the team will represent Muscatine coun ty. Exhibits of work in either nutrition, house furniahng, household manage ment or clothng, from 30 conntiee in lowa will be entered in the 1924 coun ty-wide project contest at the Btate Fair to be conducted in the women’s building. A Humboldt farmer, Daniel Van Driest, Is growing nuts profitably In this county. He has beechnut, chest nut, Missouri hickory, filburt, Japa nese walnut and several of the bet ter varieties of the common black walnut. Some of these trees are 8 or 12 to 16 years old. Thousands of lowa fanners, who are raking and burning old corn stalka to make way for the corn crop this year, are wasting valuable plant food and organic matter and robbing the soil of the material eo vita! for further crop production. The state board of the lowa branch of the National Congress of Mothers sod Parent-Teacher associations In executive session recorded a unani mous vote against the use of public schools for the promotion of the citl sens military training camps through rnmpetltlva assay wrtUlng or other contests Efforts failed to cap.ur© a deer u. strayed Into the s.. u'td o» 1 c*;. r.Ji Plans have been mawn for a laU dry on the cam*) is oi the lor*a S.l College at Ames. The building w. cost approximately fcIT.UUO. The town of Yale is doing awn with telephone poles on Main sir*.. 1 and is placing all wires of the tel* phone company underground. Plowing for corn in Bremer count> is about 80 per cent completed, 1 was estimated here today. All earl> oats are up three to four inches high Examinations totalling 13,508 were made at the Des Moines Health Ceu ter In 1923 as against 12,674 in 1922 according to the report of Dr. A. D McKinley, medical director of the in stitution. Lieut. Gov. George Richard Lunn. of New York, who sold papers on the streets of Des Moines thirty-eight years ago, was a visitor in the city recently for the first time in that number of years. An art exhibit is being sponsored by the Des Moines Federation of Col ored Women's Clubs. Proceeds of a sale of handicraft will be donated for the benefit of the colored girls’ dormi tory at the University of lowa. With a total of 304 permits, issued and representing a total valuation of $964,000, the month of April has set a new record in number of building permits issued. The best previous record was 295 permits issued last May. At a recent meeting of bus opera tors June 12th was set as the date for the Fageol safety coach to leave Des Moines for a twelve-day trip of 2,000 miles through northern Minnesota. Twelve couples have made arrange ments to make the trip. Sniping rats with a 22-caliber rifle in the city dump as snipers fire on enemy soldiers at the battle front, E. R. Waliser of Des Moines won The Register’s fourth annual rat killing crusade with a total kill of 1,883 rats. The total killed In lowa is estimated at 1,500,000. Railroad men’s unions comprise the latest group to enter active opposi tion to the expansion of bus line transportation In lowa. These un ions are said to have joined with the railroads, chambers of commerce and boards of supervisors in arguments against the granting of a bus line per mits to companies which desired to operate between Des Moines, Boone and Fort Dodge. Popples made by disabled veter ans of the world war will be sold in Des Moines on May 29 by Veterans of Foreign Wars. The proceeds of the sale will go toward the aid of service men and their dependents, the pur chase and upkeep of burial plots, military funerals, hospital relief and entertainment, and service bureau work. The one hundred and forty-fourth anniversary of the birth of Chief Keo kuk from whom Keokuk takes its name, will be celebrated by local citi zens this month. Although the ex act date of Keokuk’s birth has never been established, historians and re search workers are practically agreed that the powerful chieftain first saw light of day in Illinois in Rock River in May 1780. Supporting evidence of the beet sort that lowa la on a fundamentally ■ound basis and one of the real lead ers of all the states is supplied by the recent tabulation of national wealth of the federal census bureau —the first in ten years. lowa furnishes more than $10,500,000,000 of the total na tional wealth of roughly $320,000,000,- 000, represented in tangible assets of all sorts, being exceeded by only eight other states. Speakers at the meeting of the Gas association of lowa, at Atlantic, have been stressing the fact that the utilities of the country, the light, power, telephone and traction com panies. as well as many others which furnish service to the people, are passing into the hands of the people they serve, who are buying their stock and securities and are partici pating in the profits of the business their own patronage has built up. The acreage of early potatoes was reported to be 96 per cent of that planted last year and 98 per cent of a normal acreage by the lowa weather and crop service of the state depart ment of agriculture there recently. The report states that peaches in most sections of the state were bad ly injured by winter freesing and blackberries were also damaged in some sections of the state. There will be 3 per cent more orchard spray ing done this year than in 1923, the report estimates, and about 8 per cent more orchard spraying done than us ual. The complete premium list for the 1924 lowa state fair, Aug. 20-29, con stituting an unusually large array of cash offerings is announced by the fair management. This year's premi ums total $137,962.25, or $14,847 more than the amounts offered in last year's fair and the second largest ever an nounced in the history of the lowa ex position. The cash offerings of the fair board were increased $6,456 and the money added by the record and breed associations was increased SB,- 391. The increases announced affect practically every department of the fair. Des Moines physicians donated more than $52,000 worth of profes sional services to the poor and needy of Des Moines during the last twelve months through the health center and public welfare bureau. ************* ★ * * VEB, IN IOWA * * tbe state's dairy products for * * the year will run $125,000,00, * * her poultry and eggs $70,000,- * * 000 and her wool approximate- * * ly $2,000,000 * ************* MOTION PICTURES HAVE NOT YET ATTAINED PLACE IN EDUCATION (Scottish Rite News Bureau) WASHINGTON. D. C„ May 12. That the motion picture is an educa tional force of great, if static pow er, is generally recognized by educa tors. A. W. Abrams, director of vis ual instruction in New York state schools, says: “Visual aids to instruction are physical equipment. Like the appa ratus for natural science classes, ma terials for teaching drawing and tools for vocational instruction, projection apparatus and pictures of various kinds for class instruction must be provided by boards of education as an essential part of school equipment, or we shall make little progress. “We do not have at present even a good beginning of an adequate sup ply of pictures that meet education al standards for the schoolroom. In the field of motion pictures we find announcements of business concerns that claim to furnish a large number of films on all subjects. But on ex amination these have at best only a popular informational or entertain ment value, not related closely to the school course. “In confirmation of this idea that films are far from educational stand ards. comes word from the Los An geles superintendent of schools, who, while believing in films as a means of instruction, thinks the obtainable educational films arc few’ in number and poor in quality. She puts the case before the educational world in this way: “The list of instructional films is meager. The scenario maker has ev er in thought a situation which will catch the public fancy; the edu cator requires a scene true to fact. The scenario writer plays upon the emotions; the educator tries to in fluence the judgment, to develop dis criminating thought and a fine ap preciation. “The imagination of the teacher must interpret this material for the child. She must see the significance MASONIC GRAND LODGE TO MEET JUNE 6 -12 School of Instruction for lowa Masons to Be Held in Des Moines The eighty-first annual communi cation of the grand lodge of Masons of lowa will be held in Des Moines from June 6 to 12. The school of in struction is scheduled for June 6 to 9 and the lodge session will be held from June 10 to 12. The ceremonies and session will be held at the lowa theater, and the lodge headquarters will be at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. The board of custodians will con duct the school. The board is made up of the following men: P. G. M. Charles C. Clark, chairman, Burling ton; David R. Tripp, Colfax, and John T. Ames, Traer, secretary. They will be assisted by district lecturers. All Masons who have been mem bers of the fraternity for 21 years or more are eligible to membership in the Masonic Veterans. This body will on June 11 hold a banquet. John W. Wells, Marshalltown, is secretary and treasurer of the body. Committee chairmen in charge of the grand lodge in Des Moines are as follows: Executive —D. C. Shafer, chairman, C. A. Robinson, secretary, C. D. Roy al, Fred Alber, Thomas W. Mathews, Roy Sheets, Cliff Rist, T. B. Throck morton, L. B. Van Housen, Dick M. Vawter, Evan B. Lilly, Joe Slate. Press and publicity —Harry T. Watts. Finance- Joe Slate. Badges- Paul M. Payne. Entertainment —George E. Hamil ton. Reception —Evan B. Lilly. Hotels—A. L. Cook. Decorations—J. A. McChesney. Printing—Dick M. Vawter. Automobiles —L. B. Van Housen. Visiting Ladies- T. B. Throckmor ton. Masonic Veterans- Sam Baker. Emergency —John Eckenbaum. Milo J. Gabriel of Clinton is grand master. Patronize Fiery Cross Advertisers Laundryette Electric Washer « Washes, blues, rinses, and then whirls a whole washerful of clothes wringer dry in one It will not break or tear off It will not put any creases in the clothing that are hard It is the only washing ma chine with which you can do a whole washing without put ting your hands into the water, hot or cold, clean or dirty, or handle any hot, soppy clothes. Washes heavy bed comforters as easily as the ordinary family washing, and then whirls them wringer dry in one minute. Ask for Demonstration Sold on Easy Monthly Payments Laundryette Sales Company 526 West ltth Street Pkooe Walnut 5718 lust north of Um 4 Avenue Friday, May 16,1924 of what is shown on the screen. Af-’ ter all, even visual education fall* short without teacher presence and power. We must be sure that the teachers themselves see, for how shall the blind lead the blind?” “It is to be noted that what “teach er prescience and power” may inter pret a poor film to some good end, poor pictures, which need interpre tation, are not as good, from the ed ucational standpoint, as no picture# at all. In the latter case, the teach er of interpretative power can draw a mental picture in the minds of her pupils which is at least accurate, if not beautiful. Educators are doing much to im prove educational motion pictures by vigorous representations to picture makers regarding the character and quality of films needed for classroom use. SLATER, MO.—More than 1,000 Klansmen attended an open-air meet ing here last week, the largest ever held in this locality. A. T. McHAFFIE Prescription Drifgist 8700 Sixth Ave. — Highland Park PHONE MARKET 898 KOESTER DRUG GO. The Drug Store that Serves South' west Des Moines. S. W. 9th A Park Walnut 428 f ZISKA TRIMMING GO. 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