Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1923 — Page 2
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, THE CITIES REPRESENTED ON THIS PAGE ARE: ' Elwood, Anderson, Jonesboro, Bedford, Forest,' Danville, Broad Ripple, ' i' " Frlnhf ort, 'Alexan3rla, '
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Michigan City, March 5. The Berg-
hoff, Michigan City's Monte Carlo, is about to go out of business. The
Klan, so to say, has completely run it out of gas. Unable to get anyone
into this place of business except a few penniless loafers, the proprietor, Jim Vine, friend of the mayor's son,
ill either have to close its doors or
change the line of business. So the
Berghoff has been leased to the Ohming Drug Company and in place of
this cancer on one of the principal
corners of the city there will be a drug store.
Saturday evening, two young Prot
estants went into this place. While in there they were accused of being
members of the Ku Klux Klan. A
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bunch of ' anti-Klan roudies ot the
ne'er-do-well type : that hang out in
such places' as the Berghoff, cllqued together and, in defiance of the law,
beat these young men until their faces
were cut open and their bodies were severely bruised. This might be a good place for Mr. Burns to do a little investigating,' but this Monte Carlo will soon be no more. Thanks to the untiring efforts of the Ku Klux Klan, high school boys will be safe from the allurements of this gambling hell. Standing in the Lake Front park is a dancing pavilion called the "Casino." Among the principal stockholders are Jim Vine, Attorney Louis-Finske, the mayor's son and others. This dancing pavilion, through the summer, has run openly on Sunday nights in absolute defiance of the law. Women of the
painted world have danced upon its floor along side of the girlhood of this community. To the young womanhood of this town, its history has been one
of shame ' and tragedy, but the red
blooded manhood of this community
is being aroused. One hundred per
cent. Americanism is demanding 100 per cent, law enforcement. Not, as
pronounced by an ecclesiastical, but
as is written in the statute books of
the state. Klansmen are being
aroused . This dancing pavilion is
operated on a per cent, basis with the city. They question the right of the
city to go into business. They question the right of a dancing pavilion to exist in their park. They, demand that it be closed on Sunday; that the money changers be driven from the
park ; that it be given back to the people.
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SHOWS. STARTLING CONDITIONS.
Poolrooms Violating - Laws Openly Dance-' Hall - Conditions Are Questionable : Annual Sum- . rnary Set Forth. ,
? Officer -re-elected-to serve for the coming year'; were-sDr.r Frank-Nelson-, president; Fred Dearness; vice-presi
dent; Mrs. -John Mallick, .vice-president, and John; D.O'Connell, secretary treasurer. ' The board members
are Laurence C. Witten, Charles P. Taft II., Lesier Rothschild, Julian Hauh-, Sidney E. Pritz, the Rev. Ed
mund H. Oxley, John J. O'Donnell, the Rev. Mr. Nelson, Mrs. Mallick,
Raymond G. Fuller, Tylor Field, Earl Eubank, M,r. Dearriess, Miss Edith Campbell and Mrs. Homer D. Broyles.
Doc Moore Out of Breath
Last Thursday night as we were
printing the Gazette, Doc Moore came
into the office all out of wind to tell us that the fiery cross was burning in the pasture just at the west end of
town. The Gazette does not know whether that indicates that the Ku
Kluxers had an organization here or were having an initiation. Of one thing we are assured there is no menace to public weal in the organization. We do not think it necessary
to good behavior or as a corrective agency. Neither do wo condemn any man for joining any organization he sees fit, providing he don't owe any man anything to belong to (lie organization. So we look on the burning of the fiery cross as an incident along with many that have gonn on before, and possibly many that will follow. Oxford Gazette.
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Cincinnati, O. March 5. Are vice and delinquency among th.e youth of Cincinnati "increasing?
Startling statements pointing to
the prevalence of immorality and to the countless opportunities for questionable practices by minors in this
city are made in the annual report of the Juvenile Protective Association of Cincinnati, published yesterday. According to this report, the juve
nile association, with its very limited resources and staff, investigated a total of 909 cases of this kind. The total shows an increase of 23 cases over the combined totals for 1920 and 1921. There were 100 more centers of delinquency dealt with in 1922 than in 1921, it was reported by the association. Twenty-two dance halls of the city were marked as tolerating harmful i and questionable conditions. Twenty-
one roadriouses in Hamilton County permitted the presence of minors, and fifteen of them maintained conditions extremely hazardous to minor girls and boys. Thirty-seven places of immorality, where minors were accustomed to go, were reported. Eighty-three poolrooms were found to be violating laws openly.
Forbidden Articles Sold Thirty-one places were discovered to be selling various forbidden arlic.les to minors. Twelve movie
houses wer found to encourage truancy. A total or 151 centers of serious delinquency were unearthed during the past year, according to this report, which was submitted by Lulu May Aler, director of the association. In their investigation of the dance halls of the city these juvenile protective workers found the consumption of intoxicating liquors to be
prevalent in eleven halls. Liquor was found to be sold in six of these places. Four convictions . of operators of these halls were obtained through federal agencies. "In one of the smaller dauce halls
the scene of drunken orgies involving a very young crowd was found to he run in connectiqn with a house of sin, both being under the same management," the report said. In lifteen oft lie roadhouse's visited "intoxicating liquor and its perverting effect on dancing and conduct were outstanding." Gambling was openly conducted in seven of these places, while three of them had the
reputation of being houses of illfame. Three of these houses mentioned have been riosed by order of the United States District Court, the report says.
Camps Are Mentioned In speaking of the places of immorality investigated or reported the report refers 10 the "disorderly houses frequentel by minor girls and boys, cafes frequented by young girls drinking and carousing with men,
hotels harboring prostitutes who introduce young girls to men with evil intent, disreputable camps visited by young boys and girls, questionable suburban restaurants patronized entirely by men, but visited at intervals by young girls and taxicabs rented to boys and girls for immoral purposes." Of the twenty-seven theaters in
vestigated, numerous bills, including burlesque shows and vaudeville acts were remedied. One theater was closed for a time. Children were reported begging near five theaters, ostensibly for the price of admission. One eight-year-old boy was found to be begging in order to get money to run away from home. The exploitation of children with
stage ambition was said to be a serious menace to the youth of the city in Miss Aler's report. Complaints against thirteen theaters and seven booking agencies were received. In one instance a worker found seven children under fourteen years of age competing for money prizes. Untrained in true dramatic art such as more-favored children might. develop
in legitimate schools, these children
generally depend on crude and sensual appeals, said Miss Aler. Tells How Child Won Prize "In one of these contests a frail, untidy- seven-year-old girl won first prize for a soug containing such lines as 'I've got no future, but, oh, what a past,' accompanied by a vivid demonstration of the shimmy and an Oriental dance," the report reads. Vigorous action on such cases
through the inspector of the Department of Industrial Relations resulted in, an improvement of the "amateur night" situation throughout the
city, it was said.
Deplorable conditions surrounding
the early life of thousands of children
in Cincinnati who came in personal contact with workers of the Protec
tive Association were referred to in
this report. Street beggars, child
gamblers, "amateur night" performers, depredating gangsters, fiance hall
girls, poolroom loafers, habitues or
places of immorality scores of children are being found each day in
environments which preclude any fu
ture but that of vice and crime, It
was brought out in the report. . The treatement of the cases ban died varied according to the circum
stances of the cases. They were re
ferred to agencies doing constructive work, to the Juvenile Court, .to
Big Brother and Big SiBter groups
and in manv cases the home environ
merit was bettered. A total of 2 7 (J
children were studied by the association.. .. , The report was submitted te the Board of plrectors of ,tha association at Us annual meeting yesterday;
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AT VALPARAISO
IGNORANT MINISTER MISLED BY OPPONENTS OF KLAN AND CHURCH.
Bookman Denies Agencies Were In
formed City Didn't Curb Vice
" At no : time nor .in any manner
have we been officially informed by any agency of any lack of co-opera
tion on the part of the city adminis
tration," said C. M. Bookman, Exeeu
tive Secretary of the Council of Social
Agencies, in a written statement is
sued last night after charges had
been made that city and police offi
cials were not . curbing vice in the
West End. -
The charges came to the fore yesterday, and are said to have had their beginning in a meeting of social workers - in the Council of Social Agencies, East Ninth street, on Thursday, during which a negro social worker is said to have questioned Froome Morris, vice-mayor, speaker at the meeting, about pur
ported existence of vice in a territory west of Central avenue, Mr. Bookman's statement follows: "We k,now absolutely nothing about any such statement in this office. At no time nor in any mannor have we been officially informed by any agency of any lack of
co-operation on the part of the city
administration. The workers of the various agencies meet at intervals to discuss their problems. If one of the workers from an outlying district made such .a statement on his own responsibility we know nothing about it."
'CATHOLIC WELFARE PROGRAMME" FAILS
-Valparaiso, Ind., March 5. The past
week in this community has been Ku
Klux Klan week, a week of "cussing and discussing," occasioned by the announcement that a national speaker
was to visit Valparaiso Wednesday and deliver an address at the Christian church. Immediately following the announcement enemies of the Klan, including all our prominent Knights of Columbus, and bootleggers, got busy, and Valparaiso Witnessed the humiliating spectacle of Knights of Columbus and bootleggers thwarting and
blocking the holding of an Americanization meeting in a Christian church. The pope's emissaries brought sufficient pressure to bear that when the board meeting was called to decide whether the meeting should be held in the church or not, md after the matter was discussed there was a vote
of 12 to 9 against holding the meeting.
Arrangements were then made for the meeting to be held at Odd Fellow hall, at which time evervthinsr was
lovely, the hall being packed to the doors and into the stairway. Further fuel was added to the flame when the Rev. C. E. Burns, pastor of the Christian church, listened to the voice of Rome and the influence of the
bootleggers and roudy element of this
city, and was so undiplomatic that he unfortunately preached a sermon Sunday, denouncing the Klan, but asking
it to assist the church in all the different phases of its work.
He asked that it hold the kindest
feelings toward the minister, yet not
intimating that he had made any in
vestigation of the Klan, or had even ; known what its Drinclples were, or
what.it stood for. : . ; Common ordinary horse sense
wonld seem to indicate to Rev. Burns
that if he is not in sympathy with the aims of the Klan ha is allying himself with very undesirable company against members of his own organization, with those who are not members, and do not even tolerate his religion. There is no tendency on the part of the Klan here to blame Rev. Burns for not belonging to the organization, but they do blame him for failure to speak well of the Klan, or in his ignorance.
to Keep suit They certainly do not
expect him to lick the boots of the ele
ment that would oppose them in Valparaiso.
Orleans Hears Patriotic Address
Orleans, Ind. The Rev. T. J. Wilson delivered a stirring address here Sunday In the Christian church. Rev. Wilson's subject, "The Broken Law," attracted considerable comment and is being widely discussed among Orange county Christians.
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Cleveland, March 5. Unreserved
indorsement will bo given the Town
er-St.erling hill by the department of
superintendence of the National Education Association, and no other measure for a federal
department in which welfare
would be added to education will be mentioned in the report of the resolutions committee before the
convention Thursday evening. The
Christian Science Monitor is in a position to state on unquestioned au
thority that this is true in spite of the fact that President Harding sent John .1. Tigert, United States Commissioner of Education, here as his special messenger to urge the compro
mise scheme. An aggressive legislative campaign for a federal department devoted solely to education has been adopted by National Education Association leaders, who are holding a series of committee sessions here, in connec
tion with, the annual convention of
the department of superintendence. The campaign is to be headed up by Miss Charl O. Williams, field secre
tary of the National Association and
former president of the organization
In an interview for The Christian
Science Monitor, Miss Williams d.e
clared that the educators "are stand
ing together in' a solid phalanx with
the other national organizations who
are absolutely pledged to the Town
er-Sterling bill for a department of
education."
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