Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 19, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1923 — Page 8
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THE FIEEY CROSS
JESSE GREEN AND CLAUDE BOWERS ATILT ON LYONS
EDITORS VIE WITH EACH OTHER IN SARCASTIC RETORTS. Fort Wayne. April G. What Re publican editors think of State Chairman Lyons may be condensed in the following; editorial sally by Jesse Green, Fort Wayne News-Sentinel: Well, Lawrence Lyons should be happy. -This blundering ass loves the spotlight and he surely is occupying it now without any competition. If there were any gracefulness in the man one might expect him to resign his position as chairman of the Republican State Committee, but this is almost too much to hope for. Replying to the Fort. Wayne Journal-Gazette, Editor Green concludes his reproach by calling Lyons a fat head. Gentle sarcasm, this: Says the local torch bearer of democracy: "Republican State Chairman Lyons joined out with .the Ku Klux Klan Klansmen, Notice! HaTe you a little Klahsman in1 your home, if not, did you know, we have the prettiest I'ttle statue you ever saw? It stands about 20 ' inches high; an exact representa tion of a Klansmau in full regalia. 1 Is a beautiful piece of art for your home and the price is very low. i CHARLES PAYNE 116';, W. Second St. OKLAHOMA CITY - . . OKLA. See W. L. BRATTON for LIFE, HEALTH, ACCIDENT, FIRE And AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE 2031 Dexter Street Belmont 2512 INDIANAPOLIS It's Spring Hat Time! Ws have them In all tha latest styles and colors. $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 And CLASSY SPRING CAPS fUO f2.00 Reliable Hatters C2S Massachusetts Ave. First Block Op. K. of P. Bids. Ntw Honeycomb Ford Radiator, nainrorced, Complete, 913.50 Repalra on all tnakea radlatora. LNaw Corea for same. til N. Illinois 8tret GUARANTEE RADIATOR CO. Circle 1163 H N. Illinois St. INDIANAPOLIS If. A. Jar vis CARPENTER AND BUILDER Will build any place or anywhere. 1731 Hawthorne Lane, Indlanapolla Webster 583S F. E. Ayres Transfer Co. TRANSFER and BAGGAGE To All Parta of the City 1111 E. RAYMOND STREET Phone, Drexel 7495 uiiiaiuaflnaamii 'iiniiniimiLniiiiBiiiimuiniDiiiiijnanniu J. W. Goodpasture Contracting Tin and Roof Work All Grades of Composition Roofing Repair Work a Specialty Draxel 7174 148 Virginia Ave. nntnrftffffnvnii
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because, takinir his own worrt fnr if. he expected to be able to hook up that organization with his party in useful political fashion. What others were in on that? Surely, Chairman Lyons was not taking a step so important without consultation, advice and approval. With whom did he consult, from whom take advice, from whom receive approval? It will be a wonJiOua story when all of it is told, doubt not that." The foregoing evidences that its writer does not know Larrv Lyons, if he thinks that delightful fat "head ever took advice from any one. APPROVAL OF FIERY GROSS AT FULTON Fulton, Ind., April 7. A large fiery cross was seen burning near the railroad last Wednesday night. Many citizens were out to sifently view the spectacle and all whispered their apnroval as to the true meaning This is the first public activity at this place aim oi course several wise heads think they know all about it and just how it happened but when the truth is known it will be found many of the best farmersand citizens here are standing for the principles that the cross represents. File Suits to Close Five Gayest Gotham Cabarets New ork, April ".Suits to close five of Broadway's most famous nightlife cabarets were begun Tuesday by federal authorities, in compliance with Prohibition Chief Palmer Canfield's threat to make New York "safe for a camel." Injunctions padlock the cafes for a year for sale of liquor on the premises were asked by Assistant United States District Attorney Cohen. Owners, managers and waiters were named as defendants. The live cabarets are the exclusive Club Royale, Murray's Roman Gardens, Gypsyland, the Ringside and the Three hings, all within a radius of a few blocks in the theatre section. The actions are similar to those instituted against Reisenweber's, which was closed a short time ago. Injunctions were also recently served on Shanley's, the Little Club and the Knickerbocker Grill, the first two named closed immediately. Pll1ri9MllirillBtBm HAIR CUT 25c Stubbins Hotel Barber Shop Corner Georgia and Illinois Streets Wm. E. Haywood. Proprietor a MJm'mcmznzmzm'mMmwmm'mm ! iillil G. R. McDavitt Insurance Agency 1215 Merchants Bank Bldj. Clrel 0184 Rea., Randolph 1313 Investigate the Klean Kut Koverage Special Auto Insurance ANNUAL PREMIUM Rlflht Rate Personal Service Prompt Settlement Chiropractor? Day m EvtnlDf Classts Ntw Ftraiij. Nm,&SSLSrt'- Room 604 H. HI. JONES OPTOMETRIST Eyes Eiamlntd, Glasses ntt4 132 Mass. Ave. Main 6136 a4 CANDY GO. I AT LOWEST COST WASH, 0t4l
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CLEAN THE SPEW FROM THE POT
Twentieth Cintury Sodam Takes New Lease On Civic LifeWith New Influences at Work Wilt Become Fair Industrial City of the Dunes.
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.(By Special Investigator.) Gary, April 7. Gary, blackened in character and in name by the most deplorable conspiracy of public officials ever fallinc in tVio lot nf an American city, has taken steps to remtu.v me cuiiuiuuns complained oi. The public conscience has been rudely awakened. The call has goneout to marshal the better element (such as the city can boast of) and a positive endeavor will be made to "clean house" and demand a strict enforcement of law. It is one thing to know that conditions are not as they should be, that bootleggers and gamblers are permitted to go free and little or no attempt is made by public officials to enforce the law. It is another thing to have your city condemned as not a part of the United States, portrayed as a twentieth century Sodom and to be told your next door neighbor is a grafter. The good citizens of the community were stunned at the immensity of the exposure. Fifty-five Lake county residents, the majority living in Gary, were louna guilty in federal court.
As a result, there is a visible change , actT MaYor Johnson, Wilof sentiment. " j 1'amJ M- ty judge; Dwight
There are several nnA vnA nfn tient reasons whv neonle determined to involve a program "dealing with public morals. One is that tncy do not like the appellation of "ui"u'v, as one oraKeman on 3 mrougn passenger, forgetful of his professional courtesy, called it. Ancuner reason is that the verv rntton. ness of conditions, as brought, out in the Indianapolis trial, is found galling. Business men, the clersrv and the people standing for good 'citizenship j S drawn together by a common bond. The first group is aware i that business has been hurt, that out-: smc capital threatens to withdraw itself. Out-of-town customers do not find Gary the same cood nlnee in trade. Business men declare that fho things that have brought reproach upon Gary must be abolished. The ministry, long tolerant of growing immorality, follows the lend hv v. horting' the laity to active vigilance duty. The public (there are some good people in Gary, press reports to the contrary) were mindful xf the shackles that bound them into passive submission. Now the opportunity avails itself. Thev m-nmUp tn do things.. the Post-Tribune. never before Known 1o make a sincle protest against the Johnson city administration, has had a complete change of neaii, anci is now the chief mvmmt : tor a campaien aa-ainst booMpcD-inc gambling, vice and otner onenses - i against the community. tays this newspaper: "This country outrht to he nw-nud by the good citizens of the -countv and it could be if they were nronerhorganized, if they would band to gether, adopt a policy and then support it. They could take control of this county and thev would nut into othce those who would be capable of doing the work efficiently." vigilance committees. There must be no "repetition of this scandal." thev '-iiu mv- iiijiuMiv cans lur eiLizen decry, insisting that the duty of every good citizen is to not. only himself be law-abiding, but that he should see that others uphold and do not violate the laws. The Indianapolis federal court scan dal has struck a smashing blow at the tace ot every respectable citizen in Gary and Lake county. I he Ku Klux Klan has formerly been an unknown factor in Gary's order of things. Against the large foreign clement and a 75 per cent Catholic population, its Jewry and negro residents, there was left a very small minority from among whom the Klan could enroll a workable organization. Before, the ineligibles had a grip on Garys throat. Now, the Protestants of the city welcome the Klan as a means of doing things they know to be for the best interests of their community. The minority is determined to make itself felt, and become a power in the city's affairs. They will solicit the citizenry in a spirit of retaliation against the grafters and put a stop to outlawry. They are solidifying themselves, organizing under the banner of the flaming cross and enrollment in the "Invisible Empire." The edict has gone forth that gambling houses must close, bootleggers prosecuted and the laws enforced. Shamed because their city has been held up to scorn and derision of the state and nation, writhing under the sting of sneers and ridicule Contained in editorial comment the country over, the good people of Gary are incensed, certain to do their utmost to get the melting pot boiling. They will put Gary back in the United States. They will have a different ilk than the Johnson crowd in public office and, further, insist that the Slavs, Serbs, Hungarians and Poles respect American laws. "If the undesirable do not care to abide by the law, they will have to get out of town," declared a prominent Gary citizen, reminding of the fact that the steel industry was in need of men at honest employment, and the loafers, card sharks, bar moppers and underworld denisons would have the alternative of jail or go to work. On every hand you will find men who insist upon a new order of things. They are tired of iniquity and vice, protected booze and dope venders and the not small army of the unemployed wno believe the world owes thenf living. "Gary and Lake county need a cor roslon of Jyej not ,to destroy them, bat to give them a good cleaning-,," is
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ze n,' a merchant. Somewhat similar acknowledging the fault and expressing the desire for a complete change. One man. prominent in hnsinps affairs of Gary, speaks of the situaSccdSnlseVhe city. (i "For several years," he is quoted, ' we have been endeavoring to interest outside capital in Gary. Some of the large eastern financial institutions, like the big insurance companies, came in here and lent money in large amounts I think last year they lent nearly $3,500,000 in Gary. Now we have been notified that we must clean up our city or the eastern concerns will not lend any more money here and -will collect their loans as soon as they can do so legally. I understand that the Gary Land Company (a U. S. Steel subsidiary) last year lent the employees of the various steel industries nearly $5,000,000 to be used in home building, but it is reported that the company will refuse to lend any more money until Gary is put in the list of decent cities." That a change has come over the spirit of the better element in Gary as the re'sult of the exposures in Kinder, prosecutlMS- attornp- and the others, is evident to the most casual visitor. The Gary Post-Tribune, a newspaper which never was known in mrttnet Qnoint 4-1.. I . . : 0f Mavor Johnson- has tr, n v, furht for a chnnirp "Lake county, with Gary at its center, has been pictured to the state and the nation as a community of almost unexampled criminal lawlessness. 'What are we going to do about it?'" asks the Post-Tribune in a first page editorial. "Are we croinir to do anvthing? Or shall we sit still as wc have in the past, and let a few politicians keep us where they have put us? In the eyes of the world we have sunk into the depths. Now we must decide if we arc content to stay there. "This county ought to be owned by the good citizens of the county and it could be if they were properly organized, if they would band together, adopt a policy and then support it. They could take control of this county and they could put men into office who would be capable of doing the work efficiently. "Lake county has long outgrown its methods -of choosing officials. Long ago the slip-shod methods of conducting the public business, which were disclosed at lusJianapolis, ought to have been discarded and they would have been discarded if more of our reputable citizens had evidenced a more active interest in politics. "THo ; uv v... ... -e u.. t... v. jiaw umy .teujiuus Ul tile deenest sorrow for mir nnfnptiinat neighbors who have been more the vicitms of a rotten system than thev have been desirous of iniurving their community. But if any start is to be made toward a new deal that time is at hand. "What do the good citizens of the county, those who have nothing per they think it is worth while to try to wiri bark that, resrwetnhilitv sonal to gain Irom politics, think? Do lost? If they do it is time to speak out." This editorial represents the aroused sentiment of the better element in Gary. This sentiment has been a long time coming, but has I finally arrived. It is asserted that Gary will have a cleaning up that i would never have been dreamed of except for the evidence given in the Indianapolis trials. Minnesota Town Hears Xlan Speaker Montevideo. Minn., April 7. A representative speaker of the Ku Klux Klan spoke at the Montevideo Armory . Thursday night. Among other things he said: "Seven years ago last November, Thanksgiving Day, sixteen men of sterling worth climbed the winding path to the summit of Rock mountain, the largest rock in the world, and there these courageous and determined men built an altar by rolling together sixteen granite boulders. On the altar Old Glory was spread and on the flag the Holy Bible was placed Then the fiery cross was erected and in its glow sixteen men consecrated their lives to a service that will place America and her worthwhile institutions on a foundation as strong as the eternal rock. From this small beginning the Klan has grown to a membership of nearly six million people." Refused Use of Armory Second Ts'ight Forced to talk in theoperi air because local National Guard officers refused the use of the armory, a representative speaker of the Ku Klux Klan spoke to a large audience last night. 'The speaker said that "under the r: jht of the Cdnstjtution Americans have the right of free speech, , but that that right we do not fully enjoy because an oganized minority has takerfeupon itself to suppress or muzzle the right of free speech."' How Many Grosses at Burket tfurKet, Ind., April 7.-r-Kecentiy a fiery cros3 was burned in front at the office of .la - prominent , business man who, with some friends, were: engaged in , a party where ?rhite mule", was plentiful.! Whether there were one or nvefe crosseirts (still a much -JtJl9'
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BILL TO BAN PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO BE ASKED (-- ANNOUNCEMENT OF- PLAN FOLLOWS STORMY DEBATE ON CAIN ANTl-MASK PLAN. St. Paul, Minn., April 7. An at tempt will be made to introduce in the Minnesota Legislature the much discussed Oregon bill abolishing all parochial and private schools, according to a statement made at the Capitol Wednesday. tr. J?. Clarke, who said he was neLLe A-JLl tive in putting over the campaign for the Oregon school bill, was responsible for the announcement. He said he would see Governor Preus todnv and ask him for permission, for introduction of the bill. - : The announcement followed a stormy session before the committee on general legislation of the Senate in which an amendment was suggested to Representative Myrtle Cain's bill prohibiting the wearing of masks in public places. The meeting of the committee was preceded, interspersed and followed by arguments over the merits and demerits of the Ku Klux Klan, led by Senator Michael Bovlan on the one side and Mr. Clarke and others on the other side. Bill Recommended Unchanged In the end, the committee recommended the bill for passage without amendment. That did not stop the arguments, however. After it was all over, Mr. Clarke said the "fight is just beginning in Minnesota." "This Cain bill has been put through the House and advertised in the papers as a slap at the Ku Klux Klan," he said. "It is a piece of publicity purely and simply. Further, it is a piece of class legislation directed at one organization. "Now, that this kind of thing has been started, we propose to give them what they want. We are going to put over the Oregon school bill in Minnesota. We have been organizing throughout the state for three months. We propose to make this an issue in Minnesota two years from now." Rain Only Interference at Michigan City Parade STAGED BIG DEMONSTRATION LAST SATURDAY NIGHT (By Staff Correspondent.) Michigan City, Ind., April 8. Saturday night Michigan City witnessed its first parade of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The demonstration was orderly and impressive. More than 1,500 Knights took part. There was no interference, except from a drizzling rain that threatened momentarily to break out into a torrent and drive the usual Saturday night crowd from off Franklin St. The procession wended its way up the city's principal artery, to within a short distance of the lake front, turned off and returned to assembly grounds, a mile distant, south of the city. ; t'ollowiner the narade a hueo cross was burned which was visible many miles in every direction. The demonstration was e-iven a great deal of publicity, Sunday, news(lapeis wimin a nity-miic radius of Michigan City, carrying screaming banners to the effect that the "Klucks Invade Lake Citv." SDecial trains and interurban cars were routed to and from Michigan City to accom modate tnef crowds that were brought to the lake port to witness the muchheralded event. There was no interference from city officials despite advices carried in iuicnigan Lity dispatches last week to the contrary. PUNCH BOARDS HIDDEN AGAIN RECENT RAIDS THROW FEAR OF ARREST INTO OWNERS. Peru, Ind., April 9. Cort Shively, manager of the Bearss hotel, was fined $23 and costs in Justice Matt's court yesterday when he plead guilty to the charge of exhibiting a gaming device. A punch board was found in open operation at the hotel Thursday night when a party of deputy conconstables raided the place and confiscated the device containing $27.50 in gold coins. The raid was a part of the "Clean-L'p-Peru' campaign that has been launched by citizens who have had themselves deputized to fer ret out liquor joints and gambling haunts. According to the deputies this morning the board they attached was the only one in operation here Thurs day night although they say they are aware several others have been in constant use. When asked w"hat ef fect the confiscation had on other punch-board operators the deputies said all the illegal contraptions had been discarded at the places they were known to have been operated. ELWOOD KLAN HEARS WALLACE EVANGELIST DELIVERS STIRRING ADDRESS. Elwood, In4.t April 9. Evangelist Virgil Wallace, . delivered a stirring address to men at tha E. Main St. Christian church on the subject, "The Destiny ot Ameriea." It was one of the largest meetings of the Vind ever held in Elwood. Rev. Wallace made a plea for. stanch Americanism,- apd for the upholding of American princi ples and Americaa cittzess&ip, . as
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