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Tha FURY CR088 (fonnerly FACT) Ii published every Friday by tne Advertising Serrlce of Ernest W. Relchard, Indianapolis, and will maintain a policy ot staunch 100 per cent Americanism without fear or favor. The FIERY CROSS will reprint Heme from other parts of the United States which w believe readers in this state should read. It will strive to give the American viewpoint on published articles and separate the dross from the pure gold la the current news of the day.

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Ballots, Not Bullets; Pressure, Not Anarchy. The city schools of Indianapolis have been and still are in peril. We owe them our nllpgianee, our best efforts in sustaining and improving them. The school came with the Bible, the school came with the Pilgrims, seeking a home for religious freedom in America. Side by side on the same hilltop were erected the school and the church. They came here, they said, because, "We want religions tolerance, religious freedom and power to educate our children without the domination of any particular church," and out of this desire has come, in these modern times, a great influence for the development of American character, the public school system, of America. America ia big, and as a part of America, Indianapolis is big, but Indianapolis is dwarfed in its school system, it is paralyzed, and it is stunted because of religious influence in the matter of the education of its children. There is a menace, a real menace, existing in Indianapolis today. We think every Protestant Indianapolis boy and girl ought to be taught under American influence, under American auspices, under and by the virtues of the principles of the Protestant church. We have a definite business at hand, a duty to perform, and that is to put and keep in places of authority, men and women who will see the necessity of educating our children under American principles, and by American teachers. Protestants don't teach in parochial schools; no one ever heard of such an unheard of thing. We witness the spectacle today of a certain church trying to foist upon the school city certain officials who have been blocking the steps of progress in the city schools for years, and while Mocking the development of our City schools have made constant, steady and definite strides in the development of the parochinl school system. Comparison between parochial school advancement and Public school advancement in Indianapolis today must make a Protestant blush with shame. The most pathetic thing that has ever come to our notice is a letter that Is a plea and a cry or anguish from a terrified mother in South Indianapolis, who for lack of adequate city school facilities had sent her five children to a parochial school, where they and her husband have embraced the Catholic faith. It is a cry of anguish, and it is a plea for religious freedom. There was no Klan in Indianapolis and Indiana when these men were Placed in power, but by the Living God there is now, and an influence will be brought to bear for the removal of those in power who are blocking the progress of our schools. This influence will be so great that every official and every newspaper will feel Us power. There will be no acts of violence, but a most terrific pressure, a pressure that is definite and certain, is now. and will continue to be brought to bear. A challenge has been made, the gauntlet has been thrown down, and we have accepted it. It will be made a battle of ballots, and not bullets, of pressure and influence, and not anarchy.

We prefer that the confessiona of Indianapolis school children be made e parents.. -We pretes Uutt the secrets of the hom shj.ii ? ,h

bosom of the home. We prefer fhat Protestant lathers and mothers and Protestant school teachers shall direct our boys and girls, in our public schools, and that they shall mold and help them in their development. Are the people of Indianapolis with us? We know they are.

Coordination, Unity Then Militancy Protestantism has found its chief inspiration in the prophetic section of the Old and New Testaments. It has held tenaciously to the right of individual thought, yet it has been unusually open to the reception ot new truth. To weld into an unbreakable force he many varieties of Protestantism requires a vivid imagination. In this age of co-ordination and co-operation, the ratal effects or sectarian division are becoming ever more glaringly apparent. That there is hope and life is seen in the activity or more than forty towns In the old New England State of Vermont, which through the wise policy ot open-minded leaders of the Baptist, Methodist, Congregational and other churches have blended their resources. The resultis the establishment in each town of one strong local church, that secures the co-operation, rather than the criticism of the natural leaders of" the community. While still in the germinal stage, this movement has far-reachine possibilities. Within the Protestant' denominations themselves arc found many vital forces working for Christian unity, and there are unmistakable indications that they will bring the elimination of bickering among themselves, or petty rivalry, and the elimination of distrust. There are unmistakable evidences and indications that we are passing through a great transitional period, out or which will emerge a most inspired, a more spiritual, and by all means, a stronger Protestant influence.

On Trial

Recently a prominent Indianapolis man was heard-to say that the Ku Klux Klan was on trial. -On trial?" By whom? Before whom? and what for? Having committed no crime, the Klan is not arraigned before the bar of Justice. It is only arraigned before the bar of Public Opinion, whose decision, when it is handed down in final, the Klan will accept. In all well-conducted cases of prosecution, or persecution, the state or prosecutor, has first "innings," and submits its evidence, good, bad or indifferent, "framed," or "unframed," as the case may be. Then follows the defense, or setting up of facts as they may exist. Any lawyer would appreciate the unwisdom of setting up his defense in advance, and so it Is with the public, before whom the Klan is on trial, if such might be the case, shall and will withhold its decision until the evidence is all In.

Tut! Tut!

It Is more than 3,o6o years since King Tut-Ankn-Amen was laid to rest in his tomb, surrounded by all the accessories deemed necessary to an unusually long and comfortable journey. It seems that King Tut-Ankh-Amen became Involved in a religious war between the factions that desired to worship the sun disk and those who deSired to worship the sun god. For years before his death he tried to vacillate between these two religions, with his inclinations always toward Amnion, the sun god. The result was that upon his death he was buried so deep, and with such perfect concealment or his tomb, that it took 3,500 years to dig him out.

Now That He Is Gone

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Mural Indiana

Amidst the misrepresentations of Truth and the insults of those who would overwhelm us comes the sense of satisfaction in the approving voices from the rural towns. When the sober approbation of the farmer, of the big mtjloors mingles with the cities thousands it becomes a source of gratification of a higher order. - t.

A DEFENSE OF THE KU KLUXgLAH T

(From the Literary Digest) The Ku Klux Klan has been charged "with all sorts of crimes and misdemeanors, but so far not one charge has been proved," we read in the Montgomery (Alabama) "Journal." In last week's issue of "The Digest," for instance, Louisiana members of the Klan were charged by Louisiana editors with the murder of two young men of Mer Rouge, named Daniel and Richards, and while there was denial on the part of Ku Klux officials that this horrible crime had been committed by members of the Klan, there was no specific defense of the murderers in particular or the Klan in general to be found in either northern or southern newspapers. We heard, on the other hand, that the Klan had usurped the Government of the State, but4his is denied by the Baton Rouge "State Times," published at the capital. "As a matter of fact, the Klan's political influence in Louisiana has been greatly exaggerated," says this paper. Let us, then, in a spirit .of fair play and for the information of both friends and foes, examine the claims of the Klan and its friends, just as we have presented the severest antiKlan criticisms in previous articles. The Klan, briefly, is said to have fomented religious and civil strife; to have attempted to divide Americans into two classes one to rule and one to obey; to be a purely commercial proposition. H is charged with having interfered with the United States mails; with being not merely a secret but a clandestine organization; with endeavoring to set up a ".super-government"; with seeking to prohibit the free play of opinion; with being cowardly in its punishments and other acts, and with being a dangerous menace to established political parties. The Masonic Grand Lodge has announced itself as utterly opposed to the Ku Klux Klan; members of New York's State Legislature say they will support a bill calling for publication of the Klan's roster of names; one United States Senator has demanded of At torney-General Daugherty that the Klan be disbanded by Presidential proclamation; Governor Olcott, of Oregon, is sure that if the Klan is not checked, open religious, civil war throughout the country may be expected, and the Ktate of Kansas is seeking an injunction to prevent the members of the hooded organization from continuing their activities in the state. All this indicates to Mr. Bob Shuler, editor of "Shuler's Magazine," that "a nation-wide crusade ia being made by somebody against the Ku Klux Klan'; that "somebody is behind this attack," and that "when that somebody is located, a great light will shine." In an article reprinted in the Eugene (Oregon) Register as a Ku Klux Klan advertisement, Mr. Shuler comes to the defense of the K. K. K. and at the same time kicks another organization on the shins. As we are told in the Ku Klux ad: "This editor has repeatedly affirmed privately and publicly that he is not a member of the Ku Klux Klan or any other secret organization. Bin when it comes to secret societies, he sees no difference absolutely between the Ku Klux and many others, the Knights of Columbus, for instance. The Knights of Columbus has an oath, just as binding, or more so, than the Ku Klux oath. Moreover, the Knights of Columbus' oath is not one-half so American as is the Ku Klux. if you charge that the Ku Klux has put over mob., I answer that Knights of Columbus has put over two mobs to where any other secret organization on earth has ever put over one. "This editor has been favored recently by being permitted to look over documentary evidence as to the tenets, principles and aims of the Ku Klux Klan. He finds .that this organization stands with positive emphasis for Americanism as opposed to foreign idealism; for -the principles of the Christian religion as opposed to Roman Catholicism and infidelity; for the American public schools and for the placing of the Holy Bible iu the school rooms of this nation; for the enforcement of the laws upon the statute books and for a wholesome respect for the Constitution of the United States; for the maintenance of virtue among American women, sobriety and honor among American men, and for the eradication of all agencies and influences that would threaten the character of our children. So the principles of the Klan are not so damnable as pictured it would seem. "This organization is opposing the most cunning, deceitful and persistent enemy that Americanism and Protestant Christianity have ever had the Jesuits. Speaking of 'invisible empires,' of forces that creep through the night and do their dirty work under cover, influences that are set going in the secret places of darkness, the Jesuits are the finished product. They have burned, killed, defamed, blackmailed and ruined their enemies by the hundreds. History reeks with it. Though I disagree with the logic of the Klan, the members of that organization declare that they can only fight such a foe by using his own fire. t "As to the charge that the Ku Klux Klan has functioned in mob violence in their efforts to correct conditions, t have this to say; I am convinced that most of the mobs re ported have not been ordered and directed by the Xl&a as an organiza

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tion. I am moreover convinced that many of them have been put over by forces opposed to the Klan for the purpose of seeking; to place th'guilt for mob rule upoa the Klan. The most of these mobs have been, according to investigation, not Ku Klux mobs at all, but gathering of indignant citizens, bent on correcting conditions that the officers of the law refused to correct. The way to cause the Ku Klux Klan to retire from the field is for the officers of the law to take that field and occupy it. "The Ku Klux has the same right to exist so long as it obeys the law that any other organization has. We have not heard of any investigations of the Knights of Columbus, although the un-American oaths are historic and their mob activities have been repeatedly published and heralded from platforms far and near." "If the American people knew the truth about the Ku Klux Klan! the opposition and apathy toward it would cease immediately," writes "iiaiKNOiOK" in "Brann's Iconoclast," formerly of Texas but now published in Chicago. Continues this writer: "The Klan is neither partial nor antagonistic to any sect or creed as such. No, it is not because the Klan would deny them their religion and the Inalienable right to worship as their own convictions or consciences dictate that aroused and engendered the hatred and opposition of the leaders in the Catholic Church. But it is due to the fact that the Klan is pledged to maintain inviolate and perpetuate forever the principle of complete separation of Church and State, and the Roman Catholics fight this, because no sincere and devout Roman Catholic does or is permitted to believe in the separation of church and state. The Roman Catholic church is first, last and'forever opposed to the separation of church and state and in favor of the absolute control and domination1 ef the' State by the Roman Catholic church." From the Imperial Wizard, himself, comes still another authoriaative dclaration. Said he to the Washington correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. "The Knights of Columbus admit only good Roman Cathbties to their ranks, and under the laws of the land they have a right to prescribe regulations under whiclthe6r. members are admitted. This' right is not questioned by Klansmen. "B'nai Brith and Brith Israel admit only men of Jewish lineage. In this the Jewish people are sustained by legal rights not challenged by Klansmen. "The African Blood Brotherhood restricts membership to men f the colored race only, and in this restriction they are not opposed 'by the Klan. The Klan does not take issue with them because they are also within their legal rights. "By the same method of reasoning the Klan exacts from these people the right to organize and assemble into an organization only a particular class." DANIEL SENT THIS TO THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS WE GIVE IT CIRCULATION BECAUSE WE ARE FOR IT. To the Editor of The News: Sir We see that there are bills legalizing the teaching of the German language in grade and high schools of Indiana, ready for final consideration in the house of representatives, with every indication that they will pass and be sent to the senate. Look back only a few years, when German was made an established credit in the high school course for the American child to learn, and see how useless it was in every sense, as well as being a club to strike the pupil in the face who was born of real American parents. How easy it was for the pupil that had its early German training at its mother's knee to pass the German credit and enter coilege; leaving behind the unfortunate pupil and classmate that had been born and taught the American tongue by an American mother. The average pupil of. today enters high school at the age of fourteen to sixteen, and it looks as if a more logical and practical course within the scope of the American language could be mapped out for the public schools, and leave foreign languages to a collegiate course. : The public should notMie still on this subject, but speak out,; speak with reason. The organizations of this country that claim much for their Americanism, should come forth and throw the strong arm of protection around the tender youth of Americanism. DANIEL C. BRACKNEY. Greencastle, Ind.'' TIFFIN MAYOR ORDERS ARREST OF KLANSMEN Tiffin, Ohio, Feb. 20.Orders to arrest at sight any Ku Klux Klan. organizers or Klansmen appearing in Tiffin'- toom a. A , , ronger.yesterdayi.vjhe ofdersatao eiAuuuaea eatings.."?

AM I HY BROTHER'S KEEPER?

The following is from the "Indiana Catholic Record," and, while it threatens "test suits" of the bill in question if passed, it also points out some things to think about. "The Record" says under a heading of "The Bible in the School:" As a natural consequence of the widespread opinion that there should be some religious instruction in our public schools, it is not surprising that at least one bill has been introduced in the Indiana legislature asking that ten verses of the Bible be read to the pupils by each teacher each morning. We don't know what inspired Mr. Livingstone's bill now before the Indiana house, but we will give him the credit of good intentions and the desire to respond to what he feels is a general demand. All Catholics believe that religious training should be imparted to the youth of the land in the school. In all of our Catholic schools Christian doctrine, Bible history, and approprite selections from the holy scriptures are taught to the children. Unfortunately many of our Protestant friends don't seem to know this. Air. Livingstone's bill calls for the teaching of the Bible. Of course the important question arises which Bible? And there the rub comes in. There are several Protestant versions of the Bible. All are not alike. The Catholic Bible that is the Douay, is in universal use amongst Catholics. There are in it hooks and chapters that are not found in the Protestant versions. Which Bible does Mr. Livingstone want in the schools? The original or the abridged? Another trouble is our public THE CHICAGO DISCLOSURES Chicago is undergoing exposure, not of the natural weaknesses incident to human nature, but to the calculated crime of those who make the sins of others their business and commerce. It is to be hoped that the real Chicago not the Political Chicago, nor the Newspaper Chicago will rouse itself to the effort of making the. exposure complete. Exposure is a thoroughly cleansing agency in itself. Not for the sake of "getting" any individual, and certainly not for the sake of using public indignation as a lever for dislodging one set of officeholders to seat another set of office seekers, but for the sake of fumigating the life of all our big cities, the exposure must be complete. There is danger just at this writing that, in return for an orderly retreat and enough martyrs to save the "men higher up," the attack will cease. That is, such an attack need not have as its motive the good of the city, but the disoomforture of political enemies. In this kind of ah attack the desire is" not to end the conditions themselves, but to dislodge those who are. at present profiting by the conditions. Chicago must prevent such an abuse of public power and public opinion. The negroes of Chicago are to be congratulated on the forthright manner in which they have met their responsibility in the matter. The negroes are very far from being the most culpable element in Chicago's shame; from information at hand it is even possible to say that they have shown themselves to be least culpable of all; but this they have done recognizing the racial elements involved they have taken up their own racial duties in a direat and manful manner. The negro refuses to stand behind the negro who besmirches the name of his race. Let the Chicago Jew do likewise. In Chicago, as in every city in the land, the vice monopoly is owned and operated by Jews. Prostitution is a Jewish commercial operation throughout the world." Not that all the Jewish people are involved not by any manner of means but most of those involved are Jews. And Jews have always defended their peo ple thus engaged. The New York Kehillah was organized in just such an exposure as is now taking place in Chicago. If Chicago Jews will show the good sense of the Chicago negro and pronounce their racial anathema upon those Jews who have besmirched the name of Jew, it will mark s forward and hopeful step in the history of the Jews in America. Chicago presents an opportunity to take advantage of which the Jews would be well advised. Dearborn Independent. Presented Without Comment The Hole in the Doughnut (From The Indianapolis Star) That Chamber of Commerce subcommittee unwittingly accomplished an important public service by its report 'demanding the resignations of School Commissioners Haslep, Gadd and Emhardt. The response of those majority members of the board has uncovered what has been back of the situation the committee designated as "the most deplorable condition in school affairs." The whole mess is out in the open now. The public may examine the statements of both sides and decide for itself the extent to which even that Chamber of Commerce subcommittee has been made a cat's paw to pull out of the fire the chestnuts of those who have insisted on dictating in the affair of the school city. There was no secret about the disturbing element back of the bickerr ings and wrangling that impaired the usefulness of the old board. The members retired at the last election were berated In season and out and successors were chosen by the people in the hope that there would be an end to controversy under a new.! deal. Conditions have been, worse, if anything, since the new board took charge. Commissioner Haslep shed -a flood of light oa the situation, vh en she explained to the Chamber f Com meree eomatftweaea; tfcat ab-wasl

schools, paid for by all the people, are supposed to be non-sectarian, lor the children, of Christians and Jews, and infidels all on the same basis for public instruction. A teacher of one denomination or the other required to read the Bible to the pupils would be asked many questions and would naturally interpVet the good book according to her own lights. There is where the trouble would come. We Catholics have no desire to prevent Protestant children in the public schools from getting the benefits of the word of God as it appears in the same Bible that their fathers and mothers read In their homes or in their churches. We recognize the crying need of religious training for the young, and we ourselves prove our recognition of that need by digging down in our jeans and maintaining our own schools so that our children may have a religious training. But how are the Protestant sects and our other fellow citizens, the Jews, and non-believers going to come to one mind on the subject of the teaching of the Bible in the schools, It has been ruled in several notable cases that the public schools are absolutely non-sectarian and that the teaching of the Bible in the schools is contrary to that idea. We have no doubt if the bill now before the Indiana legislature is passed there will be several suits and test cases, just as there have already been in other states. But the introduction of the bill is another proof to us that the public-at-large is coming to the conclusion that the Catholic church is right in her time-honored stand for Christian education which takes rtnto consideration the soul, the heart and the mind.

told "she would find her term pleasant if she voted as the Indianapolis News dictated to her, but that if she did not she would find her term hard and difficult.'.' She said that "Mr. Barry told her that the News would stand by him." lne statements made by the commissioners on both sides of the controversy disclose what has been behind school board troubles for years. The people may form their own opinions of the double-crossing and petty personal politics that have interfered with the administering of school board affairs. Obst acles hnvn hpon put in the way of progress and then me memoers nave been charged with doing nothing. They have been encouraged to go ahead along other lines and then accused of extravagance or incompetence when they did try to do anything. And all because the majority on the board has refused to accept dictation. The members of the school board were elected by the voters of the city and are accountable only to the people. They have placed the facts in the present controversy squarely before the citizens of Indianapolis, who should take the trouble to read and iudere for themaelven . Tha iimolio-Vi the Chamber of Commerce corn mire turned on the affairs of the board has disclosed the Ethiopian in the woodpile. Now that the situation is cleared to that extent the people should see to it that the school board is permitted to do the best it can unhampered and unafraid. MILLIONS FOR THE WET CAUSE FRANTIC APPEAL FOR FUNDS OR CAUSE IS LOSTWIN NOW OR QUIT. Washington, D. C, Feb. 18. If money can buy the repeal of the Volstead act in 1924, liquor interests are out to accomplish it. Leaders in the fight against prohibition are launching the 1924 campaign for the overthrow of Volsteadism with an appeal for a tremendous war chest fund amounting into millions of dollars. "If we do not win now, our cause is lost for all time," is the warning note sounded by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment sent broadcast to its membership in every state. Attached to this warning note is a strong personal appeal for $50 as each member's contribution to the campaign for reopening the saloons of the country under the guise of legislation permitting the sale and manufacture of "light wines and beer." $7,000,000 for a Starter Placing the lowest possible estimation of the association's membership at 140,000, though admittedly higher, the liquor leaders are asking direct contributions of $7,000,000 as an initial fund to help defeat the will of the people as expressed by their representatives in congress. "We need money now in order to take quick advantage of our gains, while the time is ripe," reads the appeal issued under the signature of Q. C. Hinckley, national secretary -of the organization. "Bear in mind that the Anti-Saloon League. Btung by its defeat, will now redouble its efforts to keep in full force the tyranny of Vol? steaiism." Child Labor Statistics (Rockford Register-Gazette) The extent to which child labor is employed in this country is shown in a pamphlet just issued by the federal children's bureau. ' The 1920 census, the bureau reports, showed more than 1.000.000 children 10 to 15 years of age were gainfully employed, of whom 378,063 were less than 14, years old The figures indicate considerable decrease from id 10, but it is asserted that a large -part of the decease ftSttoaiv ent father than real, since it was due primarily to a change in the census date from Aoril. as in 1910. to Jann. ary.; In a number of .occupations w vuuurei -are mpioye in m ter 'than in spring, .-: t , - sv

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EDITOR'S COLUMN

O. D. Q Lebanon, Ind. Yes to all your questions. ..... y Just You Wait 'M ; We acknowledge thanks from Mrs. Michael Schenk. But just you'wait till you really hear from the" local Klan. Acknowledgment We acknowledge thanks from Mrs. Maud M. Wood and sons, Orvllle and John. To "Old Hickory" We thank you, "Old Hickory" of Columbus. The Editor comes from "them there parts himself." W. A. S., Conductor You caii be assured we are entirely familiar with Mr. Barry's actions on the school board. Every one of them. We Are Too Modest Mrs. P. A. H. writes and wants a sign board erected in every community 18x24 feet telling of the good work of the K. K. K. Never mind, Mrs. F. A. H.; "By their fruits ye shall know them." The Editor. Give Him the Air A Klansman writes what should be done with a Klansman who talks too much and gets into religious arguments and wants an answer. Our answer is to file charges and "Give him the air." Open doors or tear out the back end of the assembly hall, if necessary, so he can get out with lots of freedom. The Editor. actual decrease they are still unpleasantly large. In this land of pro verbial plenty we ought to be doing better by the coming men and women. In one state boys 12 years of age are permitted to do factory work, and in two others there Is no age minimum. Burn 'Em Out if no Other Way Baltimore, February 17. Burned newspapers piled against a scorched door of the home of the Thomas Dixon Chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, discovered by J. D. Ford, exalted eyclops, Friday, revealed an attempt to burn the building, Mr. Ford said. The home is in a former Presbyterian church, at Madison avenue and Biddie street. The door and sills were scorched halfway up, but at no place had the wood ignited. The flour is concrete. Police, after an investigation, said no inflammable liquid had been used. Ford told police that members of the Klan were in the building until after midnight. He personally lacked the building and. left e very thing. &Tgood order, he said. H KsIiavm was sougjit to destroy valuablS-KIan entrance into the building, had.he.en obtained by prying off the lock of a door not used by the Klan. The records, Mr. Ford said, contain the complete rolls of the local organization and all the data since its organization. They could not have been replaced, he said. They Need More Ameri- ' canism at Needmore Bedford, Ind., Feb. 17. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Needmore, three miles north of Bedford, gave the high school a large flag to be hung in the hallway or auditorium. The school principal was very glad to receive the flag and promised to teach more Americanism to the pupils of the school. It is generally'conceded that there are about 500 Klansmen in Bedford and around Needmore. Louisiana Klan Pays its Taxes and Keeps in Good Standing Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17. Editor The Fiery Cross: You are advised by the Imperial Palace that the Realm of Louisiana, ,the state that has been so vigorouslypersecuted by the enemy, has in proportion to its percentage of potential Klansmen, more Klans in good standing with their taxes paid than any other realm in the Invisible Empire. Monster Meeting at Mitchell Mitchell, Ind., Feb. 17. The largest crowd ever known to pack a Mitchell auditorium was held last night at the opera house. Rev. Blair, a noted speaker, and a Christian minister, delivered a lecture on "The Principles of the Ku Klux Klan." . The speaking was scheduled to start at 8 p. m. and the house was completely filled at 7:15. About 500 were turned away. There were ten-robed1 men stationed around over the house -among the crowd -end twb hrere at each end of the stage platform. ' "- !- Here's Your Chanel Do you want to be assdeiateff ' with a real American, newspaper At the same time you could mate good money, and be promoting a ... ,- cause that is foremost fa the pub11a mind. Territory open Iff tteirf .atate in the Unlled StateaTrftft', BOW.- . " VV-v-iv . v lpdtenapoli,4nd. ,-'578 Wiury-'Buildlne. V

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