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...Frank S. Persons II, Bastrop, La.: Church people "are worshipers of archaic patterns of thought. We have erected temples of the mind and enthroned on their altars certain banded-down ideas which we are as afraid to displace as any African tribesman his equally homemade and static wooden gods...
...Flood water swamped Mer Rouge, La., scene of famed 1924 Ku Klux Klan-Captain Skipworth trial. Bastrop, La., also scene of Klan sensations, was threatened by advancing waters. The flood also menaced St. Martinsville, La., whither traveled Longfellow's Evangeline, where stands the famed Evangeline...
...Town Talk, a journal of Alexandria, La., is to be believed, Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Swede Risberg and Buck Weaver (who were ousted from organized baseball in (1919) have been earning an honest wage as members of the Bastrop, La., semiprofessional nine. "The team has been cleaning up in Morehouse Parish and has walloped almost every club it has met in north Louisiana and south Arkansas. . . . Members of the Alexandria club say that Jackson and Cicotte are still with the Bastrop team, but Risberg and Weaver have gone elsewhere. . . . Cicotte is playing under the name of Moore...
...Skipwith, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan at Morehouse, La., said that he was "highly elated " over the result of the trial of certain Klansmen in Bastrop. For the Klan has won a marked victory. The blackhooded night riders who last August tortured to death two of their opponents and hid their bodies in Lake La Fourche have not yet been convicted. The Special Grand Jury which tried suspected Klansmen dismissed the case on grounds of insufficient evidence, and, although 125 witnesses testified to various criminal activities of the Klan, including murder in their charges, the Jury referred only...