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(Continued from Page Vf fighting arm dangerous to us, the Ku w 0f course some witnesses at Mer Rouge were afraid to- face the court for fear of perjury, but it looks as if there has 'been sufficient evidence created from which propaganda can be devised to crush the Ku Klux 1924 " America Catholic in Coming simultaneously with the attack on Senator Mayfleld's election as senator in Texas, now being waged in Washington, and with the "frame up" at pringfteld which has hpon mot and defeated, the "All Nations' Rally" at Chicago will go down in history as " wuu seep on Dehalt of the Knights of Columbus to crush the Ku Klux Klan. Nothing will be Rflifi nf th Tannic of the National Coucil, and its vast Efflcimnv Tim-o.. located at Washington. Nothing will be said of the plans to secure in the i-resiaenis uamnet, a new Department of Education and Welfare, dominated by Catholic influence Ani? nan. sonnel. Nothing: will hps flftirf rf trio plans to form a Roman Catholic political party in America durinz 1924 a political party functioning under the uue 01 me National Catholic Welfare Council, and organized for the purpose of influencing and controlling legislative and political affairs of the country and our civic and school affairs. Nothing will be said at the "All Nations' Rally," from the platform in the Coliseum, pertaining to this, but undoubtedly there will be discussions in secret, in the -private rooms of the Lexington hotel. Governor Parker will not discuss from the platform the co-ordinated efc forts of the council that have brought about 9,714 Catholic Men's Societies and 4.959 Catholic Women's Societies, a total of 14,673 Catholic organizations fused together as the National Catholic Welfare Council, all during and since the World War. Governor Parker will not discuss the direct and established contact between the United States government and 173 Catholic colleges, aiding in uisauizauon anu direction of 45 student army training camps. Senator Percy will not discuss the fact that the National Catholic Welfare Council owns 152 pieces of property in Washington exempt from taxes, nominally valued at $9,000,000. In addition to this exempted property he will not mention 84 other pieces of property valued at 1246,000 on which a tax of $4,800 is paid, but on winch the actual valuation is over $100,000,000. He will not discuss the fact that Cardinal Daugherty, head of the department of laws and legislation of the National Catholic Welfare Council, has a well-organized legislative lobby in 42 legislatures out of 48 states that are now in session, working for Catholic educational laws and lighting any legislation "that benefits any church, religious denomination, religious society, institution, school or undertaking which is not wholly or in part sectarian and under Catholic control." Bishop Michael Gallagher of Detroit will not tell those in attendance at the -Rally" that Bishop Joseph Sehrembs of Totedo, O., Is attempting to secure control of the Boy Scouts movement in America, or that Bishop bclirombs himself says that "From the popular organization known as the Boy Scouts is secured Catholic leadership for Catholic boys' troops and the salaries of these leaders are Paid by the national Boy Scouts organization. Also we have succeeded in having all literature issued bv the Boy Scouts supervised by one of our priests." . No mention will be m$ide at the Rally" of the fact that under the direction of a department of the National Catholic Welfare Council a summer, school for scout leadership has been inaugurated at Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind., and that students trained in this school will take positions in Boy Scout troops throughout the regular Boy Scout organizations of all denominations in the United States. No mention will be made at this All-Anierican Rally" (?) 0f the fact that Aarchbisliop llanna openly boasted that the "administrative department of the National Council for Catholic Welfare was officially recognized and consulted before any important step on matters affecting the religious and moral interests of the United States is taken." That he Archbishop Hanna, is to "present to President Harding information on Catholic affairs and conditions in the Philippine Islands." Nothing will be said of the fact that the Rev. Russell, in charge of the Press and Publication 'Department of the National Catholic Council of Welfare claimed that the Associated Press distributed an attack on the Catholic church to which the department protested, and for which the manager of that organization was forcod to make a public apology. That the resultant effect, which has been evidenced, in the newspapers of the country showing great care in the publication of any anti-Catholic news and comment. Judge McKinley, whose place is on the criminal bench in Chicago, and uot in the Coliseum, will not bring out or make known the fact that the National Catholic Welfare Council, through the effiorts of Joseph P, Tumulty, was given $100,000,000 of the War Chest fund collected from all the people of the country, regardless of politics or religion, and that $7,000,000 of this money was retained in the treasury of the Knights of Columbus up until a. short time ago, and that $1,000,000 of the amount left over was sent to the pbpe to be spent in Rome to meet the influence of the American Methodist development there, and that there still remains in the Knights of Columbus treasury more than $6,000,000 of this War Chest fund. Nothing will bo said as to why, while all this was going on and the National Catholic Welfare Council was being showered with favors that the Masonic fraternity was barred from extending its services to the United- States government as an organization. afty time for special study and carry No explanation will be made that representatives of the American Unity

League - wltf" be'6n ""nana in South Bend, St, Wayner , Indianapolis, SL Louis, Minneapolis, - Detroit." and al! cities throughout . the central 'and. western states to see that local newspapers, under terrific- pressure of Catholic and Jewish advertisers are required to print the propaganda ex pounded and put forth by the "All Na lions' Rally" at the Coliseum in Chicago this week. The only Americans at the "Rally" will be on the "side lines," looking on and there are several hundred thou sand of them in Chicago today. "Eyewitness" came here to see the "Rally" but is going back home to night. Back to Indiana, going back in the full knowledge that the public will see in this "Rally" more plainly than he can, pen, the influences that are fighting the Klan. Pressure Causes Withdrawal School City Bill ' (Continued on Page 5.) It would just about have put the school board out of commission entirely, and to anyone with inside information it is another evidence oi the "invisible influence" ever on the alert for an opportunity to strike an unsuspecting public, and a further indication of an extensive, organized movement to throttle and destroy Protestant school development. The bill would have put the entire supervision of the deDartmPtit nt buildings and grounds under the business director, making the superintendent of that department, which now is independent, subordinate to the business director. It also that the votes of four of the five members of the board be necessary to dismiss the business director, librarian or superintendent of schools, and that lour votes De necessary for the board to overrule the business director's veto on on expenditure. Under thf present law only three votes are necessary for any of these things. Board Uninformed Members of the board said they had no knowledge of the bill until after it was introduced and that they did not know who was behind it. They said that they did not know why it was withdrawn. The measure was said by those interested in the local school board situation to be an effort to strengthen the position of Walter J. Twiname as business director. His position has not been secure since the break between Charles L. Barry and other commissioners who were elected on the same ticket. faenator Miller introduced the bill shortly after a sub-committee of the committee on education of the Chamber of Commerce adopted resolutions charging three members of the sc.honi board with failure to carry out their campaign promises, extravagance, lack of harmony and demanded their resignations. After the three mem bers under fire, Dr, Marie Haslep, Adolph G. Emhardt and Bert S. Gadd, appeared before the committee and defended their acts, the', committee decided not to ask for their resignations, but to cc-operate in improving school conditions in Indianapolis. However, rporgaa&atlon" of the state board f duration bobbed. uj in the legislature again Wednesday when Oscar A. Ahlgren, Republican house floor leader, and Senator Alonzo H. Lindley, introduced identical bills carrying proposed, legislation for the organization of a new state board of education. These measures are, with slight changes, identically the same as a bill previously introduced in the senate, and which was killed. - They provide that the state board of education shall consist of nine members, five to be appointed by the governor, and the other four by virtue of their offices, being state superintendent of public nistruction, the presidents of Indiana University, i-uraue. and the State Normal school. This bill is also fraught with dan gerous possibilities, and is an attempt to put our school system in the hands of politicians. It marks very clearly the state school board as a political asset during any political campaign and subject to control of block, or organized polling strength. Friends of the movement to Americanize our schools and keep them free from political or other influences are alert to the situation and are resolved that this bill like those formerly introduced, will be killed. CALLING A SPADE A SPAOE (Continued from Page 1.) Here i3 the damnable program of oostruction, and the first paragraph snows the tirst step in the fight against the securing of proper schools and the carrying out of any improve ment plans. First. Blocking the present School Commissioners through Philip Zoercner s state Tax Board, by petty per sonal news to foster public sentiment to support the Tax Board in its re fusal to approve the forthcoming ap plication for a bond issue. Already the "Indianapolis News" is carrying articles indicating a plan to develop beuumem against this bond issue. Second. (a) By securing the passage of a measure through the present legislature, limiting the Donding power of the school city. in) A reorganization of the State School Board, placing it in the hands 01 politicians, and authorizing Gov erner McCray to aonoint three mm bers to the State Board of Education, which bill is now pending before the legislature. (c While at thosame time another bill' is pending which wouia place the power of the handlinar of our city schools in the hands of waiter Twiname, agent and adher ent or Barry, " acting as business director of the Indianapolis' School Board. This bill would practically einp me Doard members or any now er at all, because they would not control the finances, and all power would be placed in the hands of a business Director'" a Barry adher ent. The ' third ' and next steo. if sm other measures fail, Js filing In court charges and ' demands for the impeaenment of Mesr; Gadd and Em-

Tiardt, and Dti Haslep, as members of

or - the board, not anticipating 'tfcat uBh. impeachment proceedings would secure their removal, but by this method delaying the entire matter while the board should have Its hearing in the court, and make possible the securing of injunctions, and prohibiting them from any constructive school work in the meantime. This third step would have been acted on immediately following the Chamber of Commerce fiasco last week, had it not been fully anticipated, and correctly so, the public opinion would not stand for it. Fourth and last in the plans of the Catholics, represented by Charles L. Barry, presentation In the newspapers of adroitly colored news tending to show the magnitude of the financial, undertaking of rehabilitating our city schools, sending a plea through the "Indianapolis News" for greater deliveration, more delay, the employment of "experts" to make "additional surveys," and by the obstruction in every possible manner of any sort of action until it had been carried on so long that they could come before the public and point out THAT THE PRESENT SCHOOL BOARD HAD ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING. Bert S. Gadd, in his statement before the Chamber of Commerce said that since the building program of 1923, concrete plans have been the uppermost topic in official, civic and educational circles. Plans, nlana plans. We believe that the building o.iuuiu ue aciuany commenced now We are willing to lend our support, and will accept MORE EXPERT ADviL,J, AND MORE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING. PROVIDING SUCH PLANNING BE DONE IN ADuriiu.N TO, AND NOT INSTEAD OF, THE ERECTION OF OUR MOST URGENTLY NEEDED BUILDINGS." it is well known that parochial schools furnish adequate grade school facilities for Catholic children, but that there is a strong Catholic influ ence for a north side hitrh Philip Zoercher well knows but that for the action of his own Tax Board in 1921, in blocking the School Board aided and abeted by Charles L. Bar ry, construction work on the first unit ot me new north side high school would now be nearine comnletinn Both Mr. Zoercher and Mr. Barry nprovea tne selection of Messrs Snider and Rotz. themselves recom mending them as architects for the School Board, which action they now so rouncuy crticize. nve years ago the Chamber of oiumerce itseit, with its nrpsidpnt as spokesman, endorsed with nthiisiasm the Magonogal plans for the development of the Arsenal Technical mgn ocnooi, which is now under way id wnicn is roundly and bitterly condemned by Mr. Zoercher. Mr Zoercher and Mr. Barry are for this school yesterday, and against it today, and vice versa tomorrow. Truly ia iur. uaaa has said, 'they are head ed north when they say they are so mg south." Whatever thpir nrivnt. life may be, in this situation they aie ijyicai ut. jeKyeiis and Mr. Hydes, men of dual personality. Agitation coming at this time condemning Arsenal Technical High School is just partr.of their smoke screen, and not to d taxen seriously at all. Let not the public be confused, and Jet. them stand firmly and squarely in carrying out their present program. There is no need for more "planning." There is no need for "expert surveys." There is only need for action, and the pudiic wants and is going to have it. The public is entirely familiar now with, and have had Dlentv of educa tion as to the insidious and damnable influence that they and the present sonooi Board have had to contend with. Jsow, let the public keep in formed, and let them realize that the sum total of the situation is the ob struction of the Indianapolis school system, and the disorganization of the unit as a whole, by Catholic in fluence and Catholic interests, and that many good citizens are being made pawns in the game. Let them ' watch their step." The present bills before the legisla ture will, like the first, be taken care of, and killed by American citizens in the legislature, who demand that our schools be kept out of poli tics, racial and religious factionalism. The present School Doard will pro ceed with its program, supported by aa enngntenea and thinking, sober minded public, unbiased, and uninfluenced by "Indianapolis News" propaganda, or Catholic influence. We demand a hands off policy, and are going to see that it is carried out. CENTRAL LIBRARY NOTES It is one thing to have a good piece of work in one's community, and another to have it appreciated. Indianapolis has both in its public library. Constant expressions of gratitude for the book service which its offers its 85,000 patrons may well remind others of the great book world as yet unexplored by them. How Lincoln would have revelled in these library opportunities which three-fourths of our Indianapolis citizens have not yet found. Very soon the Indianapolis Public Library hopes to have 100,000 persons on its register. Every oitlaen of Indianapolis is entitled to a library card. He need only go to the nearest library and claim it. MEN'S BROTHERHOOD MEETS The Men's Brotherhood or the Brookside Park U. B. church, held its regular monthly social meeting Wednesday night at the church and heard an address on "Americanism," by a speaker introduced as ah "American Englishman."

Hawk Really Farmer's Friend. From early ' times in the eastern (tatted States country boys, and evefl iportsmen, have held "hawk shoots" luring the autumn flights, making iielr ambushes at places where woodland gives way to fields, and particularly where the fllghMlne is determined by an adjoining body of water. Such nuntlug Is in general rather senseless, or worse, for most of enr lawk are beneficial burda. xchBg ' T' '-" - ' , 1 -..'ft 'f . '- "

llE OUGHT TO BE BUSY DAY AND NIGHT ITS NOTHING TO BE PROUD OF IN INDIANA Hooslers Don't "Accept" Eighteenth Amendment But Just Dodge It i Washington. Enforcement nf na tional prohibition requires less of the time of Homer Elliott, United States district attorney for Indiana, than that of most district attorneys of the United States, according to a statement of the department of iusMce This is interpreted by government officials as indicating that the Eightteentn amendment is acceptable to Hoosiers. When appropriations for the dpanment or justice were undor mn. sideration question was raised as to tne percentage of time consumed in the offices of United States district attorneys in the various branches of official business. Answer to the question not being available, each dis trict attorney was asked to make a report.- An analysis of these reports has just been made public Average of 44 Per Cent. It reveals that 44 per cent, of all United States district attorneys and their assistants is devoted to prohibition enforcement,' 10 per cent, to internal revenue cases, 11 per cent. to cases arising In the postal service, 7 per cent, to acts to regulate commerce and 28 per cent, to all other business. The report of the United States district attorney's office of Indiana showed considerable departure from tne toregoing averages. Mr. Elliott reported that only 35 per cent, of the time of his office was devoted to enforcement of prohibition. If the prohibition officer for Indiana would show some efficiency, it is pointed out Mr. Elliott would be running a "night court." High Tribute to America Monon, Ind. 3lev. B. R. Nesbit gave a lecture on the Ku Klux Klan at the local Methodist Church last Sunday evening. Nearly all of the seats in the large auditorium and annex were occupied by a representative audience, largely of men, who were held spell bound from beginning to close. There were many persons seldom seen in church and no doubt quite a number was attracted on account of the subject. Those who came to witness something sensational or dramatic were doomed to disappointment. The speaker said he was not a member of the Klan and therefore his opinions were based on observation and research and while presenting what he belived great truths that he would not assail those who differed with him, but on the contrary concecfea to his hearers tlie fight to" differ with him. He had three questions to submit impartially with the warmest regard for those of other faith. They were, "Who built America?" "Who will uphold and perpetuate America?" and "Do we need the Ku Klux Klan?" Law That Never Fails. Short measure in the market-place mny slightly Increase the Dank account for the time being, but will not in the long run. For out of human experience came the admonition: "With what measure ye mete, the same shall be meted unto you." Men are finding this so today. Grit Vail Had a "Blind Spot." I have a blind spot; when I want to do anything, I cannot see anything in reason or in argument offered against it. That blind spot has cost me a good deal of money. T. N. Vail quoted "In One Man's Life." Isn't Nature Wonderful. It Is said that the coconut palm will supply about every physical need of man food, drink, shelter, fuel, utensils and If need be, clothes. A South American proverb runs, "A coconut tree is a bride's dowry." Boston Transcript

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HE ISN6T A RtXNiMAir r The HoVAIr Man ' ; I know a man of quality, who's full ot mirth and jollity, " Who never says a mean, ungenerous word; ., He speaks of this one praisingly and lauds that one amazingly, . A caustic speech from him is never heard. His pleasantness is laudable, his flatteries quite audible, His kindly greeting has a genial ring; His eloquent verbosity is full of generosity. And yet he never does a generous thing! He dresses quite expensively, ho travels quite extensively, But if a cause you ask him to assist. He laughs it off quite airily, or makes an exit warily, And doesn't put his name down on the listHe'll eulogize a charity, admire its solidarity.

And praise the object it is meant to aid; He'll say it's meritorious, its whole campaign is glorious But not a single penny has he paid! Im sure that you must realize although we all idealize The beauty of the speak-no-evil creed, He is not so commendable who holds this rule unbendable, And yet he never does a generous deed! Carolyn Wells. FAKE TELEGRAMS SENT TO HARDING AND WATSON ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ARREST AND CONVICTION OF FORGER WHO SENT THEM. Some impostor purporting to represent the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan recently sent a communication to the President of the United States and Senator James E. Watson of Washington, stating the Klan was opposed to the appointment of Harry S. New. The telegram was a fake and the man purporting to represent the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was an impostor and forger. The Klan did not, has not, and will not take any action in the appointment or rejection of Harry S. New as Postmaster General. Anyone pretending to represent the Klan on this subject is a false prophet. The man who signed the telegram has no right to represent the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and if he is a member he will be arbitrarij uaiusueu upon me lniormation proving his guilt. While the Klan is inclined to the opinion that once a man is defeated at the poles in his state, it is an expression of the will of the people and indicates they do not care to use him further as an employe; yet if the Republicans have some fight in theTr ranks over Mr. New and ho is entitled to the appointment to the President's cabinet, then that is a ma'tter to be settled by them. , Whoever j tryin? to drag the name of the Klan into this matter is unworthy of the mother who bore him and the Klan will pay $1,000 for the arrest and conviction of any man or group of men who instigated any movement that would show me ivian sent tnis telegram to Senator Watson or to anyone else in connection with the proposed appointmcui 01 narry xsew. Shakespeare Up to Uate. Some men are born great, some acquire great neB. ncl other put uj a -.,-.,,. i M.'.f -I'MffMiiliI-. t,-nrd The Fiery Cross Is Growing Rapidly And you can grow with it, provided you can promote the circulation in a way to coincide with its policy. Write for representative's terms; requirements, 100 honest men. C. B. SALTER, Indianapolis, Ind. 57S Century Building. 3706 E MICHIGAN STREET mm ma IftTf 8rtnl

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