Exclusive Interview

with Babe Ruth

THEROAR

The Ku Klux Klan is Back

PlusWomen’s

Rights

A Look into the Cotton

Club

No More War!

Table of Contents

12AutomobilesThe story of the Model T

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A Night at the Cotton Club

Big names in Jazz

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The World of SportsProminent names in the Hall of Fame

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Babe Ruth InterviewBabe Ruth’s route to fame

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Women’s Voting RightsThe effect of the 19th Amendment

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2Briefing

Quotes and statistics of the day

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Letter from the EditorsCoverage of the Dawes Plan

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Letter to the EditorsLetter from citizens of the latest debates

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The Outlawry of WarHow WWI will never happen again

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The Rise of the Ku Klux KlanThe KKK’s effect on society

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A Letter from the

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This plan will also help increase the amount of interaction with European countries and the U.S., creating good relations between them. This will also give our country more experience in the global arena, helping to assert our position as a global power.

This might seem all fine and dandy, but a word of caution, in the long term Germany’s debt will continue to increase. Along with debt, the German economy will fall in on itself. Unwanted tensions will then be created.

We just got out of a world war and have experienced the horrors of what it can do, so tell me, why would we ever want to give another country any reason to want another one.

The Dawes Plan can be contributed to Charles Dawes, the budget director in President Harding’s administration. The main goal of this plan is to help Germany pay off their reparations from the war to Great Britain and France. To help, the U.S. Government will loan Germany money, playing the role of the helpful friend. But who is this plan really helping?

By the end of this, the weight of the debt will have shifted from Great Britain and France, to Germany. All of the money loaned by the U.S. to Germany will have been given back with interest, and all of the money owed to the U.S. by France and Great Britain, will have been paid back as well. So in giving, we’re actually getting.

-Catherine Ju and Alyson Kuennen

Wets vs. DrysRecently the 18th amendment

has been put into place, making the transportation, selling and consumption of alcohol illegal. I realize this is all meant for the “good of the country” but level with me, this amendment is baloney, and has done more harm than good.

To start off, there are still a very large amount of people in possession of moonshine. In the streets lift up a dress and you might find a flask of whiskey strapped to the leg; look under a shirt and you might see a hot-water bottle or a garden hose filled with hooch, wrapped around the waist. And for all the bars and pubs closed, just as many speakeasies have opened. And with the demand for alcohol so high, rag-a-muffins like Al Capone, have swooped in on the opportunity, and in the process increased mob violence.

So really, how much good is this amendment doing? I believe it is in our countries best interest to have this amendment repealed.

-Catherine Ju

New York City, New York

Letters

I am sure y’all know your onions about the 18th amendment, that was passed on. I sure agree that nobody should be transporting, selling or consuming any of that giggle water.

First of all, each time a bimbo gets ossified, he is going to commit some kind of crime. Even I have been mugged by a group of bimbos that were ossified. We must stop all this crime by enforcing prohibition.

Also, y’all should be worried about all those immigrants meeting up with highbinders in saloons. Those ossified immigrants are helping highbinders destroy the democracy of America. Saloons are breeding grounds for the corruption of our country. They must be removed forever.

Finally, it ain’t moral to be drinking all of this giggle water. In fact, I believe it is a sin. I think that the prohibition should be kept and enforced.

-Pranav Krishnamurthy

Babbie, Alabama

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Urban vs. RuralI can’t stand those city people

in those crowded places. They are always in those speakeasies drinking! The country people stick with our values and traditions.

-Alex Vaughn

Bird City, Kansas

Letters

I love the city!! It’s so great! I enjoy going out every night and having a blast. There is lots of music and dancing and the best part...DRINKING!

I get to dress how I want and get to do whatever I want whenever I want!

I don’t like rural because you don’t get to do what you want and it’s too open. You don’t get to drink and it’s so traditional, there’s no change!

The city is great and I LOVE IT!!!

-Tori, StielowChicago, Illinois

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Religion vs. Science

I think religion is important

because we should have left it the same and no dill with all this monkey paw court thing and we don't need the scientist calling us monkeys and that made everyone mad because they were calling us monkeys and it was not true at all and they need to know that. and this was not right and people were mad and they thought this was wrong.

-Davonte Levy

Arnoldsville, Georgia

Letters

I think that this “Monkey Scopes Trial” is a big ruckus over nothing. It’s very apparent that Charles Darwin was able to prove his theory of evolution in his book, On the Origins of Species, and that his theory that humans were once apes, is true.

In fact, don’t we want our children to be educated citizens that will one day help the world? Or do we want them to be uneducated and not expand our intellect as a species?

Personally, I think that if this continues, an illogical belief will spread like wildfire and every citizen in the United States will be a potato, tomato, or go to jail for admitting the truth.

-Alyson Kuennen

Boston, Massachusetts

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As of August 28, 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact has been put in place. The Kellogg-Briand Pact bans the use of war to resolve any kinds of conflicts between the countries that have signed it.

First created by a French minister, Aristide Briand, in order to calm Americans’ concerns derived from France not attending the Geneva Naval Conference, it was a simple alliance between the United States and France. When the United States received that treaty, American secretary of state, Frank Kellogg, proposed an alternative to the alliance. This formed into the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which was later signed by 62 countries, including the United States and France. It states that nations must “condemn recourse to war for the solution of international controversies, and renounce it as an instrument of national policy.”

The Outlawry Of War

However, before the Kellogg-Briand Pact was finalized, many amendments were added to it. The United States added amendments that allowed a country to use war as a tool of self-defense. They also added ones that allowed the United States to use war to uphold the Monroe Doctrine and to protect national interest or honor by using war.

Finally, the signatories released a statement, “Now that we have agreed upon the Kellogg-Briand Pact, there shall never be a war like World War I ever again!” Some may disagree with this statement, but it is up to you to decide.

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BY PRANAV KRISHNAMURTHY

The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan

Easily recognizable in their long white robe and cap, this group of about four million is made predominantly of Protestant, Republican, white, Southern men who see themselves as the ones who have the responsibility of upholding American moral standards. But what does this mean?

These messages have been directed towards blacks, Catholics, jews, and immigrants, whose numbers have been increasing every year until recently when the quota system was put into place. This system allows for only 3% of a foreign country’s population to enter the United States. Setting the total number at 375,000. Even after all these cuts though, many nativists are still pushing for lower immigration numbers.

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In recent years after World War I, the second revival of the Ku Klux Klan has become increasingly popular. The film, Birth of a Nation, which came out in 1915 has also helped fuel the popularity of the group. It portrayed the Klan as a group that was needed to protect society from the “unjust.”

“The Klan is intolerant of the people whoare trying to destroy our traditional Americanism. . . aliens who are constantly trying to change our civilization into something that will suit them better,” said Hiram Wesley Evans, a Klan leader.

While preaching a message of pure, Protestant values, the Klan has taken part in many lynchings, tar-and-featherings, and rapes of individuals that may have knowingly, or unknowingly gone against the Klan. Moreover, the Klan has been known to show their presence or position by burning a large cross, and even leading marches in Washington D.C., showing their political power.

BY CATHERINE JU

Long Live Ford

As Henry Ford’s automobile company begins to stop making the Model T, let’s take a look back at what the invention of the Model T and Ford has done for us.

At the beginning of the century cars were not affordable and now, almost every family owns one. Families are able to visit places in a short amount of time.

Not only has Ford’s Model T helped families, it has greatly helped farmers as well. Farmers are now able to sell more food faster than before. And there's now a pack that you can by to turn your car into a tractor for only $178! Farmers can harvest their crops much. faster than they could by hand.

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Henry Ford is a great American.He has helped mobilize people inthe city and the country and made their lives easier. Lets remember what he’s done for America. Long live Ford.

BY ALEX VAUGHN

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A Night at the Cotton Club

Whether you own an old jalopy or not, anyone who’s anyone knows how to get to the 142nd Street Cotton Club, in the swanky Harlem neighbourhood.

Here you’ll find flappers, hoofers, and lounge-lizards, but most indefinitely, jazz. It’s rich, odd tunes are found in every nook and cranny of this New York night club. Colorful lights and wailing melodies ripen the air as people flood the Cotton Club every night, and dance the Charleston, as some of the best names in jazz take the stage.

Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and his orchestra move people with innovative rhythm and endlessly creative solos. Throughout a wild night, Satchmo’s gravely voice is influencing vocal music with a unique singing style, never before heard, and never to be forgotten. Duke Ellington is building a musical legacy beyond compare that even a flat tire of a man would bobb

his head to. This remarkable band leader rivals Armstrong, with swanky ensembles such as “Satin Doll” and “Mood Indigo”. Walking out of the Cotton Club will certainly give you the heebie-jeebies.

Once the “Empress of the Blues”, Bessie Smith, plants her feet squarely in the limelight, her kisser will not wait for music before she fuses country blues with jazz to produce record selling novelties and outstanding memories of any onlooker. Not even a stab wound resulting with a previous argument,

kept her from performing and saturating a room with dense lyrics.

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BY ALYSON KUENNEN

The World of Sports

The attendance in the sports these people started to break records and more people knew baseball players than their own president and this was very big to some people also people said if Jack Dempsey was alive he would no babe ruth and babe ruth would no all his wins and his records.

The big game was when Jack Dempsey was about to fight in the world heavyweight championship. This was one of the biggest fights for Dempsey. Many people were going to be there with thousands of people betting that Dempsey would win and take the belt. He did, and that was all people talked about that month.

Jack Dempsey was the best fighter in the world, and he was going to do one thing-become the best fighter of all time setting world records, just like Babe Ruth. Moreover, to become the most well know person in the Hall-of-Fame ever.

This is the biggest swim meet that all the swimmers from all around the world will come to, showing people that this a very big deal.

BY DAVONTE LEVY

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Q&A with Babe RuthHello Babe Ruth, I’m Davonte Levy, and I’d like to ask you a few questions:1. How did you get into baseball and do you like playing with the team?

Well, I like playing with my team and I love the game of baseball. In 1914, that was the first time I became a famous baseball player and I played on the Boston Red Sox.

2. How do you feel to be the best baseball player of all time? Well, I think it is an honor that people think I am, but I'm another guy that’s just trying to play some ball.

3. What was the first reaction that you made when you went to the pros? Well I was like, I am gifted and I would love every bit of it.

4. How do you think people will look at you because you are a famous baseball player? I think that they would look at me like I'm a hero and the kids would love me to.

5. Since you’ve become famous, what will you do with all of that money you have? I’d like to give it back to my community, my mom, and the people I love.

6. What will you do after the pros ? I will tell my grandchildren how I was the best baseball player of all time and how lots of people loved to see me play all the time.

7. Tell me something that you love about baseball. Well the reason I love the game of baseball is because it lets me express my self.

8. How will you make your last time the best, in the pros? I hope to make my one hundredth home run.

9. Do you think you will be in the hall of fame? I don't know, we will have to see, and I hope I do so people will know that I was a good baseball player.

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Women’s Voting Rights

Excitement is building for the November elections! The Senate passage and ratification for the 19th Amendment has finally resulted in equal voting rights for both genders, but more importantly women.

The hundreds of campaigns, conducted by hundreds of thousands of American women over the course of 72 years, is finally paying off.

During World War I, it was the women of this great country that kept the factories running while our brave men were fighting alongside the Allied Forces, to defeat Germany.

Women’s roles in American society are continuing to change with the times. Traditional roles for women as wives and mothers have expanded considerably to the modern workplace. Advancements in technology and communications also contribute to a break with the traditions held by the previous generations.

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BY TORI STIELOW

The mass distribution of new tabloids and magazines, geared towards women have also helped shape this new generation.

American women are now gaining more independence as more start holding jobs and supporting themselves than ever before.

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