The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, November 27, 1929, Page 2

{City is D. C. Stephenson, serving q a * |life term for murder. It is reported | | that in the course of the next year or 1 |so, Stephenson will be released. But “ =) nobody, ow is very excited : bout it. Nothing coul1 better illustrate the new situation ‘han this changed at- ;titude toward Stephenson, the man who built up the klan in Indiana, the {man who controlled the entire state | government, the man who, when he boasted “I am the law in Indiana,” , Was not lying. Stephenson's Power Ends Stephenson. whether he gets out of prison or not, is finished. He can never again wield any authority in this state. As a matter of fact, he had lost his grip on the klan before he went to prison, The order held a secret trial, in which Stephenson, absent, was accused and convicted of varying crimes and misdemeanors; and when he went into court to stand trial for .aurder the klan was already out of his control. Nor is there much likelihood that Stephenson can make any further disclosures that would affect promi- nent Indiana politicians. Bovd Gur- ley, the fighting editor of the Indian- apolis Times, dug up all the essen- tials of Stephenson's knowledge ot crookedness a year and more ago, and by printing it in his paper helped, more than any other one man or group of men, to bring about the recent overturn. Stephenson has nothing much left to tell. This man Gurley, incidentally, comes close to being Indianapolis’ most influential citizen right flow. vas the first man to fight the crooked ring here, and ho kept up his battle, week in and week out, until he had *on it. He won the ‘Pulitzer prize for his efforts, and he won somethir else that. one im- jagines, means a good deal more to “Triumph for Government’ him—the sincere admiration and re- “It has been a triumph for popular { spect of everybody in the city. government,” he says. “The people, Indiana, to conclude, ha have discovered that it's perfectly “simple to turn out a corrupt gover ‘ment, if only tuey'll take time to go 'to the polls and vote. > “Indianapolis has always been a hard-boiled Mepub'ican town. The f average man here seemed to feel that ‘the worst thing a Republican could do was considerably better than the best any Democrat could do. | 1 it the people just naturally got Pdisgusted. The ring that controlled | hings here made Indianapolis no-| torious all over the country. fered. I know, for instance. of large industrial concern that Todlannpolic itt hadnt been for the | _¢ 4s the Dickinson Credit Bureau, city’s reputation for corruption. We | Opened te ated "had one governor sent to prison, an a aed sate Py mH beuanced ‘ « other governor indicted, a mayor and investigatitig. (he operation. arm Pa flock of councilmen indicted—well, peopel the Bismarck-Mandan You know the story. It simply €0' |" The Dickinson bureau is modeled P unbearable. “Bo, 7 Ss .; after the Bismarck-Mandan institu- eee the conscientious Re tion. A bulletin of address changes publicans decided the only way they | fembvals, chattel “ Tidrta y here we ‘als, ges, filiny could clean up their party here Was | win be issued regularly with warn- by knocking it out of power, They | | arly : . | ings against check artists and reports "went to the polls and voted the Dem: tod: HUReRMenKctiinda etieeks: cratic ticket. see sania all.” si ‘The tire state of Indiana is shar- | FEE RTE nthe new Lefor Catholic Church And School Dedicated ing in the new atmosphere that has arisen out of the last election here. Mott, N, D., Nav. 27,—Dedication of the new $50,000 Lefor Catholic | ‘The Democratic victory here was ac- church and school was made here r companied by similar victories all over the state; and the ultimate effect on Indiana politics is going to be far-reaching. 3 Marks Passing of Klan cently by the Right Reverend Vince! ‘The election marked the final pass- | Wehrle, bishop of the Bismarck dio- ing of the Ku Klux Klan as & power | cese. in Indiana. The new building is of brick, 42 by 140 feet. The school in connection is 60 feet wide. The church has a seat- ing capacity for 540. The school has four class rooms, two dormitories for To be sure, the religious prejudices | that made the klan possible still lin- | children, and living quarters for the Sisters. | ger. But the men who rushed to join the hooded outfit a few years ago! It has electric lights, running wa- ter. and bath facilities, have learned something. The klan 4s dead as far as Indiana is con- cerned. The first Catholic church of Lefor was erected of sod in 1896 and the indiana Senator’s Machine Smashed by Losing Con- trol of Municipalities E <LAN IS FACTOR NO LONGER 4 Sighting Indianapolis Editor Credited With Overthrow- ing Crooked Politics —"So the men clubs and the women zot out their brooms, 4 Indian- tpolis had 2 real house cleaning.” In that sentence Meredith Nichol- son, famous novelist, summarizes the affects of the recent election in In- diana’s capital, where the angry vot- ‘rs smashed to fragments the Re- oublican political ring that had made Yopular government in this cily a woeful farce. Nicholson has a right to comment. Not only is he, an author, one of In- diana’s best-known citizens; he is a member of Indianapolis’ city council Pout there a 3 ago when the first wave of ntent with mis- government began to make itself felt. He is jubilant over the last elec- tion, in which this normally Repub- dean city made Reginald H. Sullivan, Fa Democrat, its mayor by an over- | Whelming majority. haken |trolled it so long. Indianapolis is j about to enter a new phase in mu- nicipal government. The old condi- tions that were so long a disgrace to city and state have come to an end. The Hoosiers have proved that they ‘are quite capable of putting their ‘own house in order. Brown Opens Credit Bureau at Dickinson ! Dickinson, N. D.. Nov son now has a credit burs Business Don For another thing. the election has been a serious blow to the political Machine bfilt up by Senator Jim Watson. Watson's machine gained _ its strength largely from the fact that it held control of the various Indiana Municipal governments. These, to a ‘Breat extent, have been lost. It is ‘taken for granted here that Watson priest. A large church of native stone was built in 1903. Father Gre- gory is in charge of the Lefor par- ish at present. ‘ FVER 'STATE’S 4-H CLUBS HAVE 4 | San POWER war _POTS AND GIRLS ENROLLED. NOW off the grip of the ring that con-; Dickin- ; present Bishop Wehrle was its first |Night Kid.” THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1929 force her to pose as a “Saturday Night Kid.” namely a girl who has a date with a different “guy” on each succeeding Saturday night; in other words, a gitl without a “steady.” But her reputation as a gay philanderer is dissolved later in the plot when the true test of aa 4 ; Harry E. Rilling Reports More Than 300 Will Participate in Achievement Institute love comes. One of the high spots of comedy | in this Paramount all-talking bang- up, slang-up laugh-romance is the pageant given by the.employes for the Welfare Fund. Clara Bow is cast as Duty in the pageant. James Hall is Everyclerk; Jean Arthur is Pleasure; Eddie Dunn is Time, the dog; Leone Lane is Late Hours; Jean Harlow is indolence and William Bow is made up in ghastly fashion to represent Corruption of the Flesh. The page- ant. presumably, was written and di- rected by Edna May Oliver who ts forewoman in the Ginsberg store and who plays The Spirit of Ginsberg. Other attractions on ‘the Para- mount program for the last half of the week are News Events, Aesop Fable, Paramount Screen Song and an all-talking comedy, “Cold Shivers.” 9 Mountrail County Junior Club Members Travel to Institute When more than 300 4-H club boys and girls assemble at the North Da- kota Agricultural college Dec. 10 to 13 for the twentieth annual achievement institute, they will also celebrate a record growth f their organization. During the past year more than 60 new local 4-H clubs were added, ac- cording to 1. E. Rilling, state club leader. The total number of local 4-H organizations in the state is now 405. There are now 4,346 boys and girls in 4-H club work in North Dakota, and from this membership between 300 and 400 have been delegated to attend achievement institute. This meeting is a combination of work and recreation, and it is at this time that the boys and girls elect their state officers for the year. Much of the program is conducted by the club members themselves, with but a min- imum of assistence from club leaders and official: “It is surprising.” declares Mr. Rill- ing, “how well the boys and girls handle their share of the program. Last year an entire evening was al- lotted to club delegates, the whole | problem of providing entertainment ; being left up to them. Not only was the program carried through without a hitch, but the entertainment itself made such a big hit that plans were made to tur: over an evening this year for club stunts and acts.” Every year a larger share of the institute program is taken over by club members. Many of the boys and girls exhibit livesteck at the show and sale held in conjunction with the achievement institute program. The proportion of boys and girls in ‘the clubs over the state runs about half and half, Mr. Rilling says. Ok | AT THE MOVIES | ° eo | CAPITOL THEATRE } “Believe it or not,” as Ripley | would say, but there is a well defined notion in our minds that Raoul , Walsh has surpassed, directorially and in many other ways. his former worldwide success, “What Price | Glory,” with his current production, | “The Cock Eyed World.” In fact, the latter. which opens today at the Capitol Theatre, might well be called ‘an all talking classic of the ‘Devil | Dogs’ in so-called peace times. There are many contributing rea- ;sons for this prediction: For with the advent of talking pictures, there is a marked breadth of technical ad- ; nce in picture production as dem- onstrated by the results achieved by Walsh. Sianley. N. D., Nov. 27.—Nine mem- bers of Junior 4-H clubs of Mountrail county are busy making plans to tend the Annual Achievement Insti- tute at Fargo Dec. 9-14. These delegates were voted the out- standing members of their clubs. Two of the boys, Neal Crary and John Tweet, Ross, are being given the trip as a reward for being on the win- ning stock judging team at the Minot fair last summer. The other dele- gates and their clubs are: Lila Ol- son, Sanish clothing club; Walter Egger, Coulee beef club; Bernard Skifton, Van Hook beef club; Doro- thy Ott, Coulee clothing club; Walter Bieri, Blaisdell beef club; Mildred Molzhon, Manitou beef club; Ruth Thronson, Ross clothing club. This will make the largest number ; of delegates ever to attend the insti- tute from Mountrail county. Two outstanding head of baby beef stock will go down also, products of the fat stock from all over the state and sold at auction on the last day. Beulah Arranges for December Chick Show Beulah, N. D.. Nov. 27.—A tri- ‘county poultry show will be con- ducted here Dec. 11 by the Knife River Poultry association. Poultry raisers in Dunn, Oliver, and Mercer counties are requested to enter exhibits, according to C. B. Liberal premiums will be given on all classes of chickens and turkeys, and judges and lecturers from the Nor will anyone deny that both Ed- North Dakota agricultural college mund Lowe and Victor McLaglen | ™’ = have climbed many steps up the lad-' -. | der of cinema fame since their form-| American Legion at \er effort by reason of commendable M ott Elects Strang | Portrayals in other important Fox pictures. But in none have they ap-/| peared to better advantage than in! Mott, N. D., Nov. 27.—J. L. Strang this epic of the Marines. ‘has been elected commander of the ;. And Walsh having mastered the) William C. Taylor post of the Amer- | technique ef sound aires makes} ican Legion here. | this another important factor which ; we must consider. | “The Cock Eyed World.” adapted from a story by Lawrence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson, is a child of, ; Walsh's brain, so to speak, for he not E£. Bope, historian; P. G. Wick, serv- only directed but wrote the scenario. | ice officer; and William F. Rueter, sergeant-at-arms. Drilling Is Begun at First Mott Oil Well Mott, N. D., Nov. 27.—Mott's first test oil well is being drilled about six miles northeast of the city, near the | B.C. Phillips farm. ‘ Drillers hope to strike oil at a depth of 500 feet and expect to reach this | depth by Christmas. | PARAMOUNT THEATRE | | Clara Bow is coming to the all-; | talking screen at the Paramount for} Thursday, Friday ond Saturday—this | | time in the role of an ambitious and! hard-working shop girl in a play of department store life, “The Saturday She falls in love with a clerk in ithe store, James Hall, and dreams of the day when they will be married ;When a series of upsetting events will never again have the power that “he had up to f. few weeks ago. 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