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EDITORIAL
The FIERY CROSS Is published every Friday by tho Advertising Service of Ernest W. Reichard, Indianapolis, and will maintain a policy of staunch, 100 per cent. Americanism without fear or favor. Edited, not to make up people's minds, but to shake up people's minds;
to help mold active public opinion which will make America a proper place to live In. News of truth kills more false news and shrivels up more "bunk" than all the earnest arguments in the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on erious questions by serious people. The FIERY CROSS will strive to give the American viewpoint on published articles and separate the dross from the pure gold in the current news of the day.
LYONS SHOULD QUIT
ERNEST W.
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Entered as second-class matter, July 20, 1922, at the post office at Indi
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Send all News Items and Address all Inquiries to 578 and 580 Century Build Ing. Telephone, Lincoln 7467. Just What Is The American Unity League?
IS IN POSSESSION OF, AND HAS DEFINITE
lTa
THE FIERY CROSS
PROOF THAT: (1) The American Unity League, and its publication, called "Tolerance,'
are money-making enterprises and capitalize race hatreds and religious prej
udices, and has political ambitions. Associated in its staff, jre known mur
derers. (2) The Roman Catholic Church has never yet officially endorsed or supported the League, and at the present time a few individuals, and some lay organizations of Catholics are its only support. (3) Protestant and Jewish people have repudiated the League because of its Insincerity, and entire lack of honor, and its Irresponsibility, and for the same reason reputable newspapers throughout the United States are now declining to print news furnished by them, or reprint articles credited to Tolerance. (4) The League's claim of large membership and great influence throughout the state is not based on fact3, as it has less than 10,000 members. Recently, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, through the Mayor of South Bend, required Berry Scanlon, treasurer of the League in South Bend, to close
houses of prostitution that he was openly operating on Colfax St. in the city
of South Bend.
(5) Tolerance editors have no evidence of Klan membership against nine
out of every ten names which they publish as being Klan members, and a recent list published in South Bend Included two prominent Knights of Columbus. Its lists are secured by theft and bribery, and recently in testifying be
fore a civil service commission in Chicago, its Secretary testified under oath
that the Investigators employed by the League were in some instances
renegade Klansmen whose word and honor had been forfeited, and who would
double-cross the League the same as the Klan for a silver dollar,
(6) Agents for Tolerance have, however, stolen Klan memberships at the point of a gun, at one point in Indiana, and within the last forty-eight hours
an alleged agent of the organization, at the point of a gun, threatened an organizer of the Women's Organization at Columbus, Ind., and also threatened a representative of the Women's Organization, a woman, at Rushville,
and this woman, at the time of going to press, is unconscious and under the care of a physician after having been administered poison. (7) The League's Executive Committee conducts and encourages a boycott again0', supposed Klansmen, an Illegal method of persecution, and recent-
t South Bend, Ind., students of Notre Dame, in a riotous conspiracy, com
pletely annihilated, destroyed and aemousnea a oarDer snop on tne campus
of Notre Dame belonging to a man whose name had been published as a Klansman In Tolerance. (8) Radical members of the Unity League urged and carried out the adoption, in Chicago, of physical violence against Klansmen and caused injuries worse than those that have ever been unjustly charged to the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. These charges are based upon facts and are made without fear of having them officially denied and can be substantiated in any civil, criminal, or any other kind o action that the American
Unity League may now or hereafter desire to bring against the publishers of
this paper. (9) The list purporting to be a list of Indianapolis Klansmen and pub
lished In a recent issue of Tolerance, is taken from a mimeograph poll of the
Protestant citizens of Indianapolis, available to membership in the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.. This poll was taken and is cumulative, beino added to
from time to time, as Information is secured, tabulated and mimeographed. These mimeograph lists are then turned over to Klansmen for checking, for prospective members of the organization, and are mimeographed for the purpose of having large numbers of copies available for the different men engaged In organization work. The list stolen from the Indianapolis headquarters was one of these
mimeographed lists, and was stolen by a paid agent of Tolerance, to us known, and who Immediately rushed to Chicago and was paid his paltry $300, and is now hiding In the hills of Kentucky, evading Klan Investigators. The official records of the Indianapolis Klan are kept in a locked and sealed vault, the location of which Is known only to the Kleagle, and not a single card was secured in their damnable theft and raid of local Klan headquarters. It Is not the policy of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, to print or give publicity to doings entirely within the organization, and this exception is made only to enlighten the public and is made upon authority of executive officers of the organization, is entirely official and represents the true facts. Tho people of Indiana, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish, who were stunned and amazed at the recent so-called exposure of the Klan, will at this time, as In' the past, be governed by enlightened public opinion and will resent such reprehensible and damnable practices.
The action of Lawrence Lyons in getting in and out of the Ku Klux Klan ruins his usefulness as chairman of the Republlcarr'party in Indiana. The
fact that he joined at all will offend
many In the party to whom the Klan is anathema. His withdrawal and the statement he has issued make him
persona non grata to the thousands
of Hoosiers and friends who are mem
bers of that organization. He has in
curred the disrespect of both sides
and shown a lack of discretion that disqualifies him from further effective service as Republican chairman. He should make way for some one with
a better conception of party leader
ship.
It is not necessary to discuss the
arguments that have been made for and against the Klan as an organization. It should have been sufficient to the chairman of a great political party to know that thee is a very strongly marked division of senti
ment. Mr. Lyons could not have been Ignorant of the fact that many Republicans in Indiana are bitterly opposed to the Klan and would resent the leadership of a man belonging to that body. Regardless of what might
have been his inclination, as a man, Mr. Lyons should not have forgotten his position as chairman of the Re
publican party in the state. It is a very different matter for Mr. Lyons, as an individual and as state chairman, to join any organization he might see fit and to resign as he
might take a notion. What any citizen does as an individual is his own
affair, but it is a party matter when
the state chairman affronts a large
element among the voters. Mr. Lyons
has offended two such elements. A
man in his position should nave
enough of poise to avoid becoming
identified with any organization con
cerning which there is controversy. A
man who showed such a lack of understanding of the fitness of things as to get into the predicament in which Chairman Lyons finds himself
is not one whose judgment the party should be asked to trust further.
Indianapolis Star.
they euphemistically call class and race consciousness, nationalism, and patriotism, but what in reality are
class and race hatreds and national
arrogance.
"There is only one cure for this
sickness of society, this falure of the
democratic ideal of fraternity, and
that is education the cultivation of reason instead of passion, of co-oper
ation in place of antagonism, of humanity rather than nationalism. Unless these centrifugal tendencies can be overcome, they will surely lead to the destruction of our civilization." If men could only see! If they could see farther than Franklin and Johnson county, and even America! The "Franklin" (Ind.)
OHIO ASSEMBLY KILLS BIBLE BILL
REFUSES TO EVEN DISCUSS IT ON
FLOOR OF HOUSE.
In the House of Its Friends
A PLEA FOR REASON
Who Injected Religious Issues?
, Apparently much to the amazement of the Chicago voting public, the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan are becoming an issue in the closing hours of
the campaign for mayor of Chicago, which closes this week.
Raymond Robbins, professional stump speaker and propagandist, Is tak
ing the matter very seriously, and calling the Klan everything that It has been called in the past, and using words which are entirely derived from the
bate dictionary compiled by the Knights of Columbus. On Feb. 17, 1923, Bishop Edward Hogan, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, ad
dressed a letter to very Grand Knight, and Knight of Columbus of the city of Chicago, stating that the issue in this campaign was for "the Democratic
party, our party in this election, to elect Judge Dever, a fine Catholic gen
tleman, unsurpassed as a candidate, who will be, TRUSTY AND LOYAL, AS
MAYOR." BiBhop Hogan further states in this letter, copy of which we have,
that:
(1) Our aim must be, and our program is, to secure control of the Chicago
police department, thereby smashing the Ku Klux Klan. (2) To secure division of public schpol funds for the aid of our schools,
(3) To remove all Klansmen and negroes from public offices and posl
tona of trust, and replace them with Catholics.
The letter closes with an appeal to every Catholic, "himself or herself,
to diligently work for the election of Judge Dever in the utmost secrecy,
thereby not needlessly offending Protstants, ngroes and Jews, who are not
- members of the Klan, upon whom we must depend for support."
Let me live In a house by the side of the road, . . Where the race of men go by The men who are good and the men who are bad, Aa good and as bad as I.
r would not alt in the scorn
Or burl tbe cynic's has
Let me live in a house
T
'a seat, -.
Ide ot the road
Wfc " . , ind W Mend to ta J'
This evening the Ku Klux Klan
will hold a public meeting in Frank
lin at which the "aims, purposes, and nroeram" of the organization will be
expounded by a representative ot the national headquarters at Atlanta, Ga. If the meeting takes the form that the meetings have taken elsewhere
and it will the speaker will state that the Ku Klux Klan is a thoroughly American organization, the purpose of which is to insure white Protestant supremacy in the United States. The organization is not
anti," his hearers will be assured.
If the speaker tonight docs not make such statements, he will doubtless approximate them. Such is the tenor
ot other Ku Klux Klan educational meetings.
And the majority of f ranklin and
Johnson county for they will all be
there will come away convinced that there is something to the Ku Klux
Klan, after all, if it stands for all the
principles of firm Americanism that the speaker has emphasized.
The Ku Klux Klan is thoroughly
American, at least to the extent that it is publicly for the United States of America first, last, and all the time, right or wrong. Whether George Washington met secretly, at night, masked, to do deeds of valor for the country he loved is evidently a moot question and whether democratic equality means the supremacy of any one, even American Protestants, is
another matter on which folk seem
ingly differ, but these things can, for the time being, be laid aside just as everyone who views the Ku Klux Klan with favor must intellectually lay them aside. The meat of the matter is deep and is easily overlooked, even by Ameri
cans accustomed to thinking thor
oughly, cooly and without passion on
mportant matters. On the surface
the Klan may appear to be worthy of
the support of intelligent people but on analysis there is a grave question whether it stands the test. There are below a few sentences from one of
he most authoritative and masterful,
yet humanly written, clear, and con
cise, books of recent months. The
Direction vf Human Evolution was writteir by Edwin Grant Conklin, professor of Biology in the University of
Princeton, and the author ot a number of books universally used as texts and authoritative references by men
of science and knowledge. Conklin s views on the Paths and Possibilities of Evolution. Evolution and Democ
racy and Evolution, and Religion
which are section headings in his books are accepted without a mur
mur by probably every thinking man in the country except William Jennings Bryan who, after all, hardly
occurs in that category. Let those who favor the Ku Klux Klan because of its ripe Americanism read what
Conklin writes:
"Race antagonism is almost always
the outgrowth of ignorance and bi
gotry, and it is never judicial or
scientihc. It is easy to hate and des
pise people whom you do not know; perhaps this is a survival of an ancient instinct to repel foreigners. On the other hand, knowledge usually brings sympathy. 'To know all is to pardon all.'
"As race antagonisms are generally the result of bad education, so they may be overcome by good training. Hope for the peace and progress of the world must rest largely upon the general cultivation of a spirit of tolerance and sympathy for other groups than our own, a realization of the fact that good as well as bad qualities are found in all classes, nations, and races, and a spirit of justice that is willing to recognize
and reward good qualities wherever they may be found. "The splendid ideals of personal
service and sacrifice, and of national and international co-operation, which attended the World War have now largely passed away and a spirit of
antagonism between classes, nations, races, and even religions has spread over the world Bigotry has taken the nlace of symoathy, selfishness of
service. . Thisi is partly due to a
natural reaction - from an unaccus
tomed Jdealismfibut -in part; it is .the result oCthe deliberate; efforts Lnarr row-minded leaders to cultivate what
The most severe critic of the Fed
eral Reserve System could hardly have delivered a more telling blow
against it than was administered in
the house ot its friends by J. 11
Newvahner, president of the First National Bank of Jackson, Ohio, in an address before the members of
Group 4 of the Ohio Bankers' Associa
tion, at .Portsmouth.
Taking a position as a friend and
advocate of the system, to which he
gives lull credit tor saving tne
United States from nobody knows what dire calamity during and since
the World War, Mr. Newvahner in
sists that his criticisms are con structive and for the good of the sys
tern itself and must be taken in that
spirit.
In this speech the faults of the Federal Reserve system are clearly
pointed out by the chief of a bank
which is a member by compulsion,
He calls these faults "weaknesses
which should be corrected although
the correction would be dependent upon the -very administration which
is responsible tor their existence.
Mr. Newvahner's first point, conceding his opinion that a central re
serve system is needed, will appeal to every citizen. It is that the system
should be run merely "to relieve distress and not for profit." Calling attention to the fact that in the first four years of the system its business was not large, the banks were able slightly more than to pay expenses and dividends, but that in 1917 the Federal Reserve banks cleared 18 per cent on their average capital, in 1918 they made 72 per cent, in 1919 they made 98 per cent,
and in 1920 they made ONE HUN
DRED AND SIXTY-ONE per cent,
he protests as do all who have been
compelled to bear the burden ot depression and distress that has accompanied this most highly protected
form of financial piracy. This flood of profits, says Mr. Newvahner, justly, led to untold extravagance in administration, and he severely criticises the expenditure of
$80,000,000 in new bank buildings, the establishment of branch Federal Reserve banks, the increase in number of employes and the giving of large salaries. Let us digress hejre to suggest a point of especial interest to the public which the speaker may not have
thought of or may have considered without relevancy in his remarks. Of
every dollar of extravant or useless expenditure ninety cents was not the
property of the Federal Reserve Sys
tem, but was the money due the United States as a franchise tax for the privilege of doing business. If $80,000,000 has been spent for real estate now owned by the Federal Re
serve System or the Federal Reserve banks in their individual capacity, they have invested but $8,000,000 for it. The people at large have paid the other $72,000,000. -This fact cannot
be controverted.
Mr. Newvahner proceeds to dem
onstrate with convincing clearness the
injustice which results from shoulder
ing the burden of this extravagance on the country banks. He also challenges the policy of the sys
tem in assuming the function of discounting and purchasing bills in the open market as an invasion of the general banking field in competition with its own member banks and those outside the system. He is also opposed to par collections as removing from individual banks a source of considerable revenue. These latter matters are purely of
i protessionai nature, and concern
banks rather than the public.
Ihe last criticism, however, relates
to the autocratic coercion applied to state banks which do not become
members and to small banks within
the fold. In this matter the admin
istration of the Fourth District Fed
eral Reserve Bank, in which jurisdic
lion Jackson is and of which the First
National is a member, is a chief offender. Readers will remember the story .of the intimidation of the
Catlettsburg bank and the scoring which the Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank received at the hands of the
Federal Judge.
Does it not occur to a man of President Newvahner's independence and thoughtfulness that the best way to cure the evils is to make the United
States Treasury the reserve agency, government bonds the basis of cur
rency, and leave the banking business to all incorporated banks. That is, to
do away with extravagance and use
less expenses, liquidate the Federal Reserve System. Dearborn Inde
pendent.
WASHINGTON POST OPENS
OX MAYF1ELD CASE
AS PREDICTED, SYNDICATED ARTICLES SPREAD BROADCAST.
HYLAN HOUNDS SMELL THE TRAIL
CAN'T DISTINGUISH BETWEEN MASON AND A KLANS
MAN.
Columbus, Ohio, April 4. The rules
committee of the house of represen
tatives of the Ohio general assembly killed the Buchanan bill requiring the
reading of the Bible in the public
schools daily, by refusing to admit it
for discussion on the floor of the
house Friday. During the period that
the bill was hanging fire much discus
sion on its provisions was heard in
all narts of the state. Had it come
to a vote there is no question tnat
there would have been a heated con-1 test.
At Cleveland, the Teachers Federa
tion of that city went on record as opposing the Bible in the public
schools, but favoring the teaching ot
ethics." Miss Anne G. McCarthy
of West High School was the chair
man of the committee which drew up the report for the federation oppos
ing the Buchanan measure. Whether
Mohammedan, Confucian, Hottentot
or Christian ethics were to be taught
in this new "character education,'
Miss McCarthy does not make, clear
in her report. Although the clauses of the Bu
(Special to Fiery Cross.)
New York City., April 3. Amazed
(Special to Fiery Cross.)
Washington, D. C, April 3. The
Washington Post, the morning pa- that any should have the temerity to
per in this city which printed the "ex- defy John F. Hylan, mayor of all
pose" of the Mer Rouge affair, in New York, his hirelings on the dewhich it stated that Gov. Parker had L: c;r,;
- a. fir . . i i -w-i m,uvc iuivc v. v j
come v.o wasmngion 10 ass tne rres- narva tn Wnf thos(, fifteen on th
rTf ih T k 6 s0. police force who so far forgot themof the state because of inability to r,. xr m
launched a new attack ffinS to Jw m said that they
4.ov. ujat uui. iuvci uciucu mc TU ,lAv,tV,t, a foolino, that-
Post's story did not deter it from ",," " "t " "a" it Tt rott43 aRttaCk the rePr1 StS&SSoffStS S?ff-fa& R,ouge case were most with anything like that when Hiz-
zoner banished the Klan oeyona tne
flagrantly biased
the new attack is aimed at Senator
fcarle B. Mayfield, whom the Post L ki v -hances They're eoinc
Ku Klux Klan in Texas." The arti-
to get action if possible.
A group of men carrying suitcases
cie tries io prove tnat senator May-ftMn th(k r.e of sion o
neid will be ousted from the Senate H" , u , j;..to dtv
when it meets in December. The
a few of the now-desperate sleuths
a short time ago, and to the trained
writer attempts to give a noil of the i r v, a
Xf r j- t":i"a"' X tect ves this meant but one thing, a mng of the directory rather than-an . nf Kinnsmfn hout to don their
actual personal quizzing. He declares nT1(1 annph forth on some
that 5 Republicans and 27 Democrats
chanan bill said nothing about the j jt Democrata and 1 Indenend- Therefore the sleuths started to readine of the Bible in the narochial allsL1..e,mocrats and 1 lndePend- trail them. So eager were they m
r.Virnia 99r. Holoiratoa ronroapnUinF L . . . . ' . . . their search that somehow or another.
60 parishes attending the quarterly L-ft""'S y l?-t track of the group and the
meeting of the Archdiocesan union of ttasSSto are mmt went on thelr Un'
lv. denounced the measure. The J!"1 rcla,rel",a.oenaw,r!.'- The saddest part of it, all their ef-
legislative committee of the order Um" were wasted on trailing the
was instructed to take
thf hill, and make known to renresen- L: o" -l" 7 ' . , , , Sonic lodge out paying a Visit to a
: 7 , V, nous otnaior oneppara ana leaves -v,l; ij tntivp lhf attitude nf the HnlV Name i: , , . .... neiehDOrme lodge.
mm men ana ary ny savine tnat ne j xir -1:11
lies nprwnpn T.wn -mrfe k inn n-nn . ...
Saying that he doubted whether ... al0P? eir w.av qisturmng no one
rc afai" "c doubt of some sage. The third Sena- " the public schools Of all States, Dr. Ur mer.tmr.eH i R,ltnn The 0J
W. C. Hartinger, pastor of the First Uher nf tv.Q ort;i. j.i,0 tv,;, niVTftU IP POCUC
M. E. church here last Sunday assert- memher is an nrirnr for tho Proa. iuai lun 10 outne
ed that the solution lay in the de- idency and would hardly care to comvelopment of the Bible schools. we Lit rHincoH' V,iie nr. th tv,e .n
should not confine our instruction in the voters nf hi state are rWiareH
rengiuus euucauou 10 a uau-uour on to have shown decided Klan leanings.
bunuay mornings, but should give it On the strength of no more supon week days as well," he declared. Dort. 0r at anv rate known snnnort
While considerable attention was than this, the Post seeks to deelare
given 10 uie proposed tfiDie. law, mue that Mayfield will be ousted from-of-
was heard about Representative Bren- fjce. Those in actual touch with the
ner's measure to close all parochial situation sit back and smile. MavfieU
and private schools, compelling at- himself seems to lose no weight by
wuuaute ul uib puuuu suuuui, uum 11 worrying.
was posiponea lnaenniieiy Dy tne
uiuiimiee uu tuuimuu suuuuis. men An 1
law was in some respects very simi- U, 0f bOY6minBnT ACllOll
iar 10 tue wreguu law, uui commiuee
members were evidently afraid to al
low it to reach the floor of the house
for debate.
OF FIERY CROSS
CROWDS ARE WARMED BY FLAMES BOMBS ARE EXPLODED.
Meets Witt) Disapproval
SCHOOLS OUST
SECT'S LEXICON
ROMAN CATHOLIC ENCYCLO
PEDIA REFUSED IN NEW JERSEY TOWN.
Dayton. Ohio. April 3. Persons re
sponsible for the weekly burning of fiery crosses, supposed by many to
be members of the Ku Klux Klan left the hills Saturday night and penerated closer to the city's center, daring to light a massive cross in Library park. The huge symbol was set ablaze shortly after 8:30 o'clock and as the flames illuminated the park, bombs were exploded and reverberated through the downtown area. From whence came the cross bearers could not be learned from the erowds which congregated- about
brilliant torch, the pinnacle of which
(Special to Fiery Cross.)
Washington, D. C, April 3. The
action of the State Department in interfering in the case of the Catholic
Archbishop and priests convicted in
a Soviet court of actions detrimental
to the best interests of the govern
ment has met with much disapproval reached almost to the tree tops. The in circles here that are alive to the base of the cross, constructed of large
attitude 01 the Catholic interests pieces of timber, was imbedded neatly
wnen tne cnurcn comes into connict m the ground on the bt. Clair it. with the state. The feeling that the side of the library lawn. . ' United States should have taken no Autnmnhiles soon lined the curbs
New York, March 31. The New part, indirect as this part has been, alone Third and St. Clair Sts. Their
York Sun, in a dispatch from Belle- in the affairs of another government occupants for a while remained in ville, N. J., says: which is deciding for itself who shall their cars. Pedestrians flocked to the
The Roman Catholic Encyclopedia rule, is emphatically expressed. sidewalks alone the nark. As the
will be taken out of the public schools The Soviet has stayed the execu- flames ate away the outside covering of Belleville and placed in the public tion of Archbishop Zepliak and Mgr. of the beams, which was wrapped library, as a result of a stormy meet- Butchkavitch pending further con- with a filmy material ,the throng
ing 01 tne local Doaru 01 education versations alter protests lrom t? oland came nearer the blazing cross. Day-
last night, at wnicn repr sentatives had been made. ton Daily News.
of the junior Order united American in the trial 01 the two prelates and
Mechanics, the Daunghters of tne the lb priests, the latter having also
American Revolution, the Royal Rid
ers ot the Red Robe, the Ladies of i the Invisible Empire, the Patriotic Order, Sons of America, and other or
ganizations protested against the action of the board in accepting the book for use in the Belleville pnblic
schools.
The encyclopedia, In 19 volumes,
was a gift to the schools from Sancta
Maria Chapter, Roman Catholic Daughters of America, after that organization had obtained permission of the board of education to place the books in the schools.
At the board of education meeting
last night, 15 delegates of various or
ganizations were present to protest against the work being in the schools. David Clearmrfri, president of the board, said the encyclopedia had been
accepted in the belief that such action would not stir up religious strife.
John Maher, one of the two Roman
Catholic members of the five-man board, moved to withdraw the encyclopedia from the schools, as he said he wished to avoid such controversies.
The board finally decided that the books should be taken out of the schools and placed In the public library.
Open Air Naturalization
LARGEST
EVER HELD PECTED.
IS EX-
FARM BLOG CHIEF
TAKES DRY STAND
WARNS GOV. SMITH HE IS READY
TO FIGHT MODIFICATION AS A POLITICAL ISSUE.
Big Meeting at Noblesville
Noblesville, Ind., March 31. One of
two things was demonstrated clearly at the public meeting held in the
Olympic theater Sunday afternoon! under the auspices of the Ku Klux
Klan. Either that there Is a very large membership of the organization in this locality or a large number of people are indirectly interested in the
teachings of the organization for the
largest crowd with possibly one or
two exceptions that has ever attended a meeting In this theater heard Rev. Williams. This structure has a seating capacity, of close to 1,500 and all of the seats were taken. Only once or twice has there been such audiences in.,, the -building since it was completed four years ago. , Rew Williams's . home Is In Ken
tucky: but toe is not stranger , to the
people p Hamilton cFVntyR being pas? tor o the e&Btist. cM Jen la he. north.eastern part of the Jjunty, where lie
has been preachlngTor some time. .
lg aiSO 1 111
been convicted and sentenced to jail, Ufl ID LllTIZEIlS IJ ildBB
action was brought out. The con
victed men were accused of teaching
religion in school to children beneath the age of 18 which is forbidden in
the schools of the Soviet and of attempting to poison the minds of the
children against the Soviet form of
government. This charge was denied but was nevertheless nroven to the
satisfaction of the court; Columbus, Ohio, April 4. In a field.
Pone Pius has asked the Soviet to "somewhere near Columbus on
liberate the imprisoned men. It is Saturday night, April 14, the largest
recalled that the Pope was in War- open-air gathering of Knights of the
saw as apostolic visitator at the time Ku Klux Klan ever ncia in unio win
of the trial of Met. Robb on a imi- take place. The meeting win ne pro-
lar charge and obtained his release, ceded by a parade through the streets At that time the present Pope pleaded of the city ot at least 5,000 robed
that the monsignor, being a member Klansmen, ueorge wunam wut.
of the heirarchy was a subject of the exalted Cyclops and past grand Klea-
Pope and therefore not subject to the gle of Columbus Klan to. 1, ueaim 01
laws of the country. Ohio, announced today.
This brings the matter right down From this time on, an naturanza-
to the point of whether or not in tion meetings will be held In the out-
this country the same question could of-doors, it was announced. At the
be raised. If members 01 the heir- last Indoor meeting held last Tlday
archy are not subject to the laws of night "somewhere in Columbus," 150
European nations it would be natural citizens were taken Into the Invisible
to assume that the same claim might Empire.
be raised here. It is believed by many This weekly average has been
here that the issue should be settled maintained by the local Klan for the once for all and that legislation past six months, Cyclops Witt do-
should be enacted along these lines, clared, and is indicative of the atti
tude toward the .organization held by
residents of Franklin county.
The parade will be. one. of the most
unique ever witnessed In Columbus, the Klan official declared, and will be
orderly from start to finish. 'If-is
Bedford, April 3. A jury of four hoped, that several hundred men will
women and two men in police court be taken into the bounds of the- Jn-
recently found Stanley Torphy and visible empire at the naturalization
Sam Cline guilty of illegal possession ceremony that will follow the parade.
of liquor and' assessed each , of their
Washington, March 31. One of the
most nearly complete arguments of
recent months against any weaken
ing of the prohibition law has been drawn up by Arthur Capper (R.), Sen?tor from Kansas, and leader of the arm bloc in the senate, In the form
of a letter to Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, protesting against the
resolution of the New York legisla
ture favoring light wines and beer.
Senator Capper indicates that he Is speaking for the agricultural forces
of the Nation and that he is prepared
to take aff- active part in the, fight against those who are making a political issue out of the "beer and light
wines" proposal. This follows closely on the heels of a letter to Governor
Smith by Simeon D. Fess (R.), sena
tor. from Ohio.
: In an eight-page letter to Governor
Smith, Senator Capper points out the fallacies In the arguments of the wets
for, amendment of the . Volstead law ind "brands the pl&n advocated 5bY the
New H Xorte-jtjsiJsiatgre, iasA4Sto,eo'
utenc ana . impractical."
Boozers Get the Limit
fines at ?o00 and costs to which was
added six months on the penal farm.
The cases were appealed to circuit
court.
The jury was made up of Mrs. Fair-
flax Morgan, Mrs. Charles Reach,
Mrs. Hattie Blackburn, Mrs. Virgil
Bruce, Carl Hall and O. I. Jackson.
The cases were recently tried by a est Ku Klux Klan funeral held In
jury composed of all men and theyj Franklin county was the one of Wal-
were unable to agree.
Walter Stewart, Klansman
Buried at Home Cliy.
Columbus, Ohio, April 3. The larg
Linden Burns a Fiery Gross
ter M. Stewart, who was buried at tbe
Silent Home cemetery at Reynolds-
Pburg, 11 miles east of here, on
Wednesday, March 2. Twenty-four members held a service at the grave.
Rev. Charles O. -vVooGwara of the
Broad St. Church ot Christ, whose
Linden, Ind., March 31. The burn-1 name was brought out prominently In
ing of a fiery cross in Linden, Ind., the trial of Kleagle W. MLCowtaer at Saturday night Is the first public 4c-f Springfield, officiated at the service at
tivity that the Ku Klux Klan hatHne Reynoldsburg M. E. church. The
shown in Linden. v Approval' was, popular sentiment of -alhe. spectators and whisperings circulated among the
throng as to the meanings-It is a cur
rent rutnor that the Ku KJux; Klan ?s-l
s utrratfsar-' in Linden satfl
w'censinf s . -s v b""" -
Odd Fellows lodges Also participated
In the service. - - . -C ' Stewart, who -was SI year of age. ? died at McKinley- hospital in Coram- r j bus Ho Is survived by his widow and A ;three-schillrtt,:AgH8, aged: iTna! I
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