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Show ABOUT THIS; I THAT AND T'OTHER ByP. J.G. t: Od yoar ago tho newspapers had just completed a sensational attack on tho Ku Klux Klan, during which the wholo lnvlelblo empire was supposed to have been exposed to full view of the critical public After this piece of work, the edttors sat back in thotr chalra believing they had sent thr I klansmen scampnrlng in their rhemlses. But now tho band seems to bo stronger than ever and state authorities au-thorities have taken up tho fight where thr newspapers left off It Is Interesting to see how they come out. The anll-klan organization In Chicago Chi-cago seems to be making tho moHt Hurcessful headway. This orgnniia-i tlon obtained the names of several thousand Chicago members of tho l;lun and published their names In I their official paper. The Cntholies. Jews, negroes and foreigners did the rest. The New Vork Times In describing de-scribing the effect of the boycott gave ih nam Of one young bank preel-tent preel-tent v. ho had to roslgn because of iii. fact thai his name appeared as aj I klnnsman and this brought wholesale I withdrawal of deposits from the bank, j Notwithstanding what has been said I about taking the. law into one's own hands mid becoming JudgOH, Jury and, i executioner, there arc quite a few of . us who would join one of these ! ! Mother Hubbard lodges If the masked I boys would center their activities against the following types of pests:, The person who brings a bag of popcorn Into the movies and sits next to you munching the corn through-: I out the picture. The persons who stop In the center of the sidewalks on a busy downtown street to do their conversing Th person who writes letters to the newspaper and is afraid or ashamed to sign his or her name to the sentl-tnents sentl-tnents set forth. The vocalist who Insists on singing "KlBS Iffe Again," but never can quite reach the final high noto. The propagandist who, when he finds he cannot get freo advertising from the newspapers, vamps the program pro-gram committees of luncheon clubs and takes up valuable time with his remarks. I 1 he vaudevilllan who goes after the eppluUSO of a considerable proportion .f the audience by off-color Jokes and ( songB' ah public performers upon tne xylophone, all ventriloquists and ai persons with animal acts. I met an old gentleman friend of mine at the Elk's club a day or so ago . nd naked him why It was he had not gono to California for the winter like he did a year ago. His answer .an Illuminating and I ntee rating: "My Wife and I had heard about California's delightful climate," he said. ' We had become more and more tired of living In our cold old-fashloned old-fashloned home In the winter. Wo thought we Just couldn't stand another v. inter in this climate, so away we went to California last November. 'e rented a furnished apartment and looked forward to a happy, warm winter in the much-advortlsed sun-shlne sun-shlne But wo soon ran up against the fact that Los Angelas folks are ashamed to burn coal. They think It a reflection on the climate that a gtpvi Is necesnary in winter To our surprise we suffered from the cold In .i climate we had thought was always al-ways balmy. "When we went to visit homes of friends we found thorn huddled over coal oil stoves. In fact. I never saw eo many coal oil stoves or created so much coal oil fumes as we did In Los AngeUs lart winter only a few homes have furnaces and they arc ashamed, as I said, to make a fire in them A few have fireplaces, but there is seldom a fire burning While we were out of doors and the sun was shining we wore comfortable, but it was seldom comfortable Indoors. "So we rame home early in the spring, and I tell you It felt good to be In our drafty old houso and sit- , ting around our old coai heater. This summer, my eye was struck by an advertisement of a furnace for a home . like ours Mother ami I deelded would spend our money for a furnace ' Instead ot for railroad tickets to California. Cali-fornia. We got the furnace put in and a cctlar full of coal and we had weather strips put on the doors and windows. Our old place la as comfortable com-fortable as any one would wish. It's not much trouble to fire the old furnace fur-nace Tn fact. I enjoy puttering .(round In our cellar now. And we doh't care how cold It Is. It Is going to be much more comfortable In our nornfe than any place In California and we are still here whore wo can see our friends occasionally." Speaking about furnaces there Is a man in Ogden who knows more about stoking the things than anybody I have ever met. He Is R. L. Tomlln-son. Tomlln-son. Tomllnson admits he Is a nut on the smoke question, furthermore, I e contends that the smoke nuisance can b Eliminated by prope.r stoking and I prove his statement he asks you to look at the stacks of bolleM he attends and note the lack of black Binoke. Tl.ls expert contends that soft coal can be fired Id all kinds of stove9. boilers or furnaces without black smoke, provided a little study Is given to the question A placing the fuel anl watching the drafts and dampers. Tho question as to how prehistoric man learned how to make a fire always al-ways had Interested mo and I found a most reasonable explanation In a book I am reading on the subject of the prehistoric human The writer quotes an expert on the subject f forests In India- This expert says that there Hie eases on record In Indl where fires were .starti-d from the of-' feet of wind blowing two pieces of bamboo together until tho friction brought forth a blazo. The author of tho book thinks that It Is reasonable reason-able to suppose that early man saw fire-produced In this manner and was uuick to seo that he could make fire tn a similar way by rubbing sticks together. nn |