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MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, JANUARY 5 Muscatine Journal AND NEWS-TRIBUNE BY JOURNAL PRINTING CO. CLYDE R. RABSDEAVX. Publiabei. D.

D. MICH. Managing Editor. The Established 1MO. The Establlanet) 1S48.

The Kews and merged JSS7. Journal and News-Tribune conjioJ Mated Sept. 3. 1913. ol PTMI.

TKW Preaii ia entitled to the uae £01 of ail news credited to it cr not otner crftdUtd in this paper and ai4o iocai hfcreln. sume, and sojne of them have taken a great deal unto themselves. Perhaps Judge Prewitt's ban on the Knoxville reporters shows why so many observers have protested against official conduct in Kentucky and why it has been said so tfften that the workers in the Kentucky mines are unable to obtain justice. The judge professes to be worried about revolution, yet he conducts himself in a manner more conducive to revolution than the speeches of agitators or the "red" literature distributed to the miners. There will be no revolution hi a land where justice is obtainable.

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When tor answers ask lor cjcruoii or department wanted. operat BARRING REPORTERS It is a far cry from the lofty sentiments expressed by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes of the United States supreme court in his opinion on the rights of the press to the action of a Kentucky judge who has barred from his courtroom all representatives of a newspaper which has dared to criticize him. In the famous decision on Minnesota's press "gag law," Chief Justice Hughes said: "The administration of government has become more complex, the opportunities for malfeasance and corruption have multiplied, crime has grown to most serious proportions, and the danger of its protection by unfaithful officials and of the impairment of the fundamental security of life and property by criminal alliances and official neglect, emphasize Jhe primary need of a vigilant and courageous press Said tho Knoxviiln, Term. News-Scntinal after a trial in the court of Judge Henry R. Prewitt: "As long as our courts permit themselves to be a stage for the tirades of political and social prejudice, they will not obtain the full confidence of those who believe in even handed justice." Said Judge Prewitt: "Until the News-Sentinel retracts its false and slanderous statements about my court and the courts of Kentucky, none of its representatives can sit in my court." The judge well knew that if the newspaper's statements were false and slanderous he had the same legal recourse that is granted to all citizens who feel that they have been libeled in print.

His domineering tactics in barring News-Sentinel reporters from the courtroom failed utterly to show whether or not the newspaper had characterized his official conduct properly. Such action simply put him in the li-ght of fearing to have representatives of that newspaper observe any more of his official acts. There is no good reason why the judiciary should be above the checks and criticisms of the press any more than a governor or other official should be. When a judge sets himself on a plane where his work is not to be scrutinized or criticized, then he is presuming that he is above and beyond the power of the electorate to which he owes his position. He is presuming more than any president of the United States ever dared to pre- MRS.

PINCHOT IN POLITICS i Mrs. Gifforci Pinchot's announcement that (she will run for Congress against ative Louis T. McFadden insures Pennsyl- vania of at least one contest that will be i packed with interest. I By any standard, the wife of Pennsylvania's g-overnor is one of the most interest- women in the country. Furthermore, I she is a good ran against i McFadden three years ago and came within votes of retiring him to private life.

iThe race will be well worth watching. It is quite possible that the majority of her fellow-citizens throughout the country will pulling for her, too. Representative Mc- Fadden's utterly absurd attack on President Hoover in Congress recently was hardly the sort of thing to promote a widespread desire if or THE HISTORIC PANTHER The papers printed an unusually interest- jing little picture the other photograph from a German shipyard, showing! workmen dismantling- the ancient German gunboat Panther. Intrinscially the Panther was just another erunboat. But historians will always remem- 1 ber it; for the Panther, through the machina- tions of international diplomacy, almost the World War three years ahead of time.

In 1911 there was a revolt in Morocco, where the French claimed to exercise a special sphere of influence. At the height of the trouble the Panther dropped anchor in i the harbor of Agadir to protect German interests and caused such a fluttering in European chancelleries that only prompt and i energetic action by England prevented the war from starting then and there. Now obsolete and rifety, the Panther is i being broken up. Few people recognize the i name; but for a few days, 20 years ago, it was the most famous warship on earth. "Quotations" Uncle Sam 1ms never passed a law that can't be enforced: I'm going to live long enough to see America so dry you u'ill have to prime a man to see him Billy Sunday.

The process is to ask the opposition to forego every partisan consideration and then to acclaim the result as a Hoover Robinson, Democrat, of Arkansas. The bright ones will get along without a college education. It is the slow ones who need Nichols, Noted American Avla- trix. If people keep bowing their heads for Rockne at games, they will soon call him St. Professor Hulsey Cason of Wisconsin U.

If I'm lots of MacDonald, Movie Actress. OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS ELIEVE IT OR TVOT BY RIPIJEY V. S. Pat Off.) Side Glances by George Clark (F IT WERE POSSIBLE To BuKN COAL SO COMPLETELY WAT WEfTHER SMOKE, CINDERS A LUMP Trit SHE OF YOUR FIST WOUtO KEEP THE V4HOLE UNITED 5TAtt5 HOT FOR A WEEK THIS WORD OF -1 LETTERS SAMUEL WELLS Born 1824-Dud- THEvicfiMOFA DISHONEST WOMAN MVLES STANDtSK LIVES APARTMENTS ON PiYMOUTH HAS WORN THE SAME. OVERCOAT NEVER HAD A CHILD Of HIS OWN BUT LOVED OTHER PEOPLES LITTLE ONES I I AND THE SAME ROBBERS YEARS hi tf I "I just laughed in his face and told him that all the money in the world wouldn't make me work for a guy like him." it AS YOU WERE" (FROM THE JOCRNAIVS FILES) AFRICAN BUi.LF«OGS WEIGH POUNDS r-s EXPLANATION OF YESTERDAY'S CARTOON THE FASTEST discovery of a nebula far out in space, which Is rushinjj eway from the earth at the rate of 11,000 miles per second, was made by Dr.

Milton L. Humason of the Carnegie Institutions Observatory at Mount Wilson, California. It ia estimated that the nebula ts 120,000,000 light years away from the earth, or 120,000,000 times the distance that light travels In a year Ogiit travels 186,000 miles per second). FOURTEEN TIMES A Oudette Grappin died at the age of 134 years on January 5, 1841, at the White Peacock in the town of Grez, in the old Province of Fronde Compte, France. According 1 to the death certificate signed by the Reverend Francois Brinbur, cure of the Saint Paul Cemetery, Mme.

Grappin's last husband was Francois Le Brun, fiscal procurator of tho Lords of Beaumont. She had married fourteen husbands prior to her last matrimonial venture, and hztd been widowed an equal number of times. TOMORROW: "THE GREATEST FARMER OF ALL TIME." "Sunny Jim" Is Handy Man California Governor. Who Holds Fate of Tom Mooney, Can Ride Broncho, Drive Street Car, Milk Cows and Run Steam Shovel; He's Well Decorated FIFTY VEARS AGO TODAY Brennan and Jayne. a Muscatine law firm, moved Into rooms in the Smith block on Iowa avenue.

Petitions were circulating through Iowa asking the legislature to pass a new law for the Introduction of temperance books in the public schools. TWEXTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TOOAT 1. S. Pepper of lluscatine was elected president of the catine Rifles at the annual meeting in the armory here. Arleifk Ruckdeschel was named vice president.

Mrs. Albina Plate was elected president of the Degree of Honor Industrials at the annual meeting in Muscatine. Mrs. was named vice president. Fred Beitel was elected president of the A.

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Schoenig was named vice president; TEX YEARS AGO TODAY board of directors of the Muscatipe Welfare association acknowledged the donation of bed for Juvenile at Her- shcy hospital by members of the Muscatine Rotary club. The Muscatine county Farm Bureau was voted ta appropriation of $2,500 for 1922 at a meeting of the board of The Muscatine independent basketball' team defeated the Cedar Rapids All-Stars, 59 to 14, on the armory floor. Lehr, forward, was high scorer for the Muskiea. local bank. The mother died In Rolph's early youth.

He helped an aunt raise the family, sold papers, finished public school ajid a small college, and entered in delivery lor an export and firm. A few years later, he was cashier. Then he formed a partnership and went into shipping. Turbulent local conditions caused Rolph's acquaintances to run him for mayor in 1910. His first act after election was to name Thomas P.

Walsh, a popular policeman in the financial district, as sergeant attached to the mayor's office. Tom remained there until his retirement. He also named Walsh as police chief during a three-day interim, between two other appointments. Although an honorary member of man unions, Ralph never won the official endorsement of organized labor in San Francisco except in his gubez-natorlal race In he lost. He seemed able to cut in on organized opposition through his following In the rank and file.

The adroit showmanship and smiling, bowing mayor In Palm Beach suit and straw hat, and UM show was his. An elderl woman who cleaned the mayor 1 office waa ia aa she watched her hero betaf photographed upon his entrance Into the race. Rolph her, (topped the (how until ilM came into range, paid a trlbuU to her faithfulneu and kiaMd Did the caiueras mlM that? Radical arranged a march anj a demonstration at the city hall. Police were at mobilization point. Instead of interfering, escorted the paraden to the city chief walking with UM parade At the dty hill, instead of riot squada.

then waa a flag-bedecked platform, complete even to loud speaker. Tha leader voiced their determination to voice their demand. It perfectly right," replied the mayor. "Our constitution you that right, under the protection of that American flag that waves above The demonstration frtturcd out. Rolph and San Francisco CalUornia's handy man is just an much at home In -norking clothes as when he Is wearing a silk topper and white boutonniere.

In the center you see Governor Kolph all dressed up, while the other pictures show him, from left to right, at the wheel of a motor bus, as a locomotive engineer, "filling 'er up" at gusoline station and operating an electric drill. political shrewness of Rolph' an organiationa were at equal to tis friendliness and his memory lor any favors extended him. Los Angeles' dedication, of Its new city hall Included s. parade with miles high-hatted, over- coated dignitaries in closed autos. It was early March.

Along came Rolph's open car, containing a on tome polnta with the $6,000.000 war memorial. Each side wai to present Its case to the board of mipcrvlBon, with whom rested dedatoa. Ralph appeared that evening. In tuMdo. adjusted his arranged notes, and It was 17 later before he finished nU speech: OUR BOARDING By PHILIP 3.

SINNOTT 'NEA Service Writer. I (Copyright, NEA Service, Inc.) i ACRAMENTO, Calif. Gov. James H. Rolph, of Cali- fornia, who completes his first year in office in January, com- bines a touch of genius, political sagacity, brazen showmanship and kindliness in one of the most remarkable personalities of the present day.

He achieves sartorial elegance the diplomats coming from lands where that's done. the i a civilian and civil been decorated with 11 medals by nine countries. He boasts that he carries more union cards than any other San Franciscan honorary memberships in locals. Also, he never has worn always hand made, highly polish- boots. with his silk topper, white bou- Sixteen to 18 hours' work a day tonniere and polished high boots, is usual schedule.

At 62, he but he can ride a bronco, milk a has sophomoric enthusiasm over cow, wield an ax, run a steam i novel situations, shovel or operate a street car in radio's earlier days. Rolph with the best of them. spoke at a station dedication. He Smiling' "Sunny Jim" has be- wondered who heard it, and coine a habit with, many Califor- where. nia voters.

He served as mayor i -I wonder how far my words of San Francisco continuously I are carrying," he interpolated for two decades before he was elected chief executive of the state. Governor Rolph Is now in the national spotlight as the result of the newest effort to liberate Tom into his speech. "Just write, or wire me collect." The response extended from beyond the Arctic circle to Samoa and Porto Rico. The station, seeing the avalanche of collect wires. Mooney, the labor leader whose agreed to pay for all addressed I fate rests in Rolplrs hands.

I California has few flashier horsemen than He has stolen scores of parades, rodeos. fiestas and horse shows bv his gallant appearance atop a spirit- in its care. his share. Rolph paid J2 I 000 for THE LAST STAND t-5 As mayor, he went to New York to greet a returning San Fran- cisco regiment. Addressing the boys at Camp Merritt, he re- marked that it might cave been steed or handling a spaiitdng a.

long time since payday, and "if evem eight. any of my friends need a little Few governors are better lift milkers of cows. His baseball ex- It had been a long time since perience covers over 20 of payday. Rolph basil peeled off i opening- seasons. CootintKnis S5 bins for all who participation in expansion of the municipal street car system have Rolph was the oldest of seven made him a capable motormaa.

children, born in San Francisco of He can swing a mean steam aa English mother and a Scotch' properly embrace father, the latter a in a rT WAS OFF CrfAWdES THE ARC rf MAY ciF MUCrt rr Aiusrf-r Be VOU Wrf ArT, 5EUI- VoU EACH A -THIRD.