Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1923 — Page 10

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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, April 27, 1923 t

BEGINS THIS ISSUE

THE MAIN STREET OF KLANDOM THE BOOK OF THE IEAR

Better than "Inside the Cup," as

rood as "Conistan" and the first

piece of Klancraft combined correct

ly with pencraft 1 have seen. It is juBt what we have been hunt

ing for to give to the world In fiction

for a real idea or the Klan. "THE BOUNDS OF THE LAW

By J. Walter Greep, of Carlisle,

and that will appear in serial form beginning this week. I cannot endorse it too highly and predict it will cause a sensation. The firat installment appears this week and readers should be assured of receiving every issue by subscribing now. EYEWITNESS.

IAPOBTE PAPERS REFUSED AMERICAN AOS

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Accepted Money, Later Returned After Allen Influence Pat On Pressure Laporte, Ind., April 21. Paid ads

announcing an Americanization meeting at Loyal American hall were returned here today after being accepted by a local paper. The announcement was for a meeting to be addressed by Rev. Blair, who has spoke" on 100 Americanism all over the central

states. Return of the ads and money was brought about by pressure from Jewish and Catholic advertisers, it is said.

HOOSIES AROUSED OVER HISTORY BOOK SELECTION

Unusual Interest in Situation Brings Heavy Demand

for Information to School Book Editor

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(By the School Book Editor.) Numerous letters from all parts of the state are pouring into this office asking for information regarding the selection of history books -which, together with those of all other subjects, have been submitted by the various publishers before the State Board of Education. The formal

selection of these books for use during the next five years in our public schools of Indiana will occur on April 30.

All these letters contain vigorous protests against the teaching of European History favorable to the Roman Catholic Church as well as to the injection into these books of the teachings and catechism of the same faith.

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Why the Change?

Twenty years or more ago the

Roman Catholic Hierarchy were vig

orously denouncing our free public

schools and branding them as hot

beds of vice and nurseries of hell whose history books were placed un

der the ban of the Roman church

as "profane history." No Roman

Catholic was permitted to read or

"study these books under penalty of

' mortal sin." The Bible at this time

was read every morning in most of our public schools. This practice also met with the disapproval of Rome as being profane and sacrilegious and Roman Catholic parents were forbidden to allow their children to attend these schools. Today, after a lapse of twenty

years or more, we. nna large numbers of Roman Catholic children attending our free public schools and further than this that In twenty thousand of our public schools onehalf of the teachers are members of the Roman Catholic church. In

the cilies of New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Toledo, St. Louis, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston,

per cent of the public school

be the one and only chm;ch on earth founded by Christ Jesus Himself and

handed down from the apostle Peter

through the popes of Rome unto the

present time.

One such reference reads: Page 348, "Christian tradition very ancient and very generally received, declares

that Peter also labored in Rome

where he met a martyrs' death. Per

haps under the reign of the Emperor

JNero." And again on page 349, "The

claim or the Roman bishops to su

premacy over the Christian world

had a double basis. Certain pas

sages in the New Testament where St. Peter is represented aa the Rock on which the church is built, the Pasture of the sheep and the lambs of the Lord and the Doorkeeper of the Kingdom of Heaven, appear to indicate that he was regarded by Christ as chief of he apostles. Furthermore, a WELL ESTABLISHED

TRADITION MADE ST. PETER

THE FOUNDER OF THE ROMAN CHURCH AND ITS FIRST BISHOP."

E. TJ. Graff, Sunt Indpls. Public

schools.

W. 1 Bryan, Pres. Indiana univer

sity, Bloomington, Ind.

L. N. Hlnes, Pres. State Normal

schools, Terre Haute, Ind.

L. P. Benezet, Supt. Evansvllle

schools.

Louis C. Ward, Supt Ft. Wayne

schools.

Geo. R. Grose. Pres. DePauw uni

versity, Greencastle, Ind.

Clifford Funderburg, Sunt Hunt

ington schools.

H. L. Fidler. locomotive engineer.

4231 Central Ave., Indpls. Ind.

Mrs. E. E. Olcott, teacher. Normal school, North Vernon, Ind.

Elwood Haynes, Haynes Automo

bile Co., Kokomo, Ind. -

Edward C. Elliott, Pres. Purdue

university, Lafayette, Ind. Mrs. Marie S. Edwards, Peru, Ind

membership of one hundred bad been

reached, while others contended that it was a distinct warning to all bootleggers and evildoers to stop their vile practices. Still others' were

heard to remark that, as the cross in blazing casts about Itself a light that reveals all things, in Just such a manner would the light Trom the Holy Scriptures reveal to him that seeks all things truthful. Mayor Frane, who was among the spectators, Inquired as to the origin of the cross, but as there were none present who saw it erected, its nres-

ence could not be explained. He re

marked, however, that it was a good America.

job and the most beautiful cross that he had ever witnessed. William Schneider, who also witnessed the event, is the marshal of Osborn. He soon decided that his presence was not needed in the lawabiding and peaceful gathering and departed to resume his beat In his usual efficient manner. The great increase in membership in the Osborn Klan is a good indication of the approval of the local citizens. Many prominent citizens are suspected of being members and others are of the firm conviction that

it is indeed an organization for

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teachers are Roman Catholics. These facts should cause serious minded American people to pause and think. JUST WHAT IS THE REASON BACK OF THIS CHANGE? One has not far to go along this line in order to find that the school

book industry of this country has gotten into the hands of the Roman

Catholic church, and that "while we

all slumbered and slept" the Bible

has been quietly removed from the public school room and the history

books in both grade and the high

schools have been ingeniously

worked over. Six hundred public schools use Roman Catholic readers,

which teach the Roman Catholic

catechism.

A few more years of this sleep

on the part of one hundred per cent

Americans will result in a complete transformation of written history by the Roman Catholic church - and TRUTH will again be strangled by the hand of the Jesuit. This infection of history books is found to

exist not only in our free public schools but has spread into many of our colleges and universities as well as public libraries throughout the country.

Refute Roman Catholic Teaching. Protestant people do not accept any "well established tradition," that the apostle Peter founded the church of Christ In Rome. On the contrary Protestant people accept no authority but the Bible In such, matters and know that within these pages is not a single word to be found which

would lead one to believe that Peter

ever visited Rome much less found

ed an apostolic church there. Protestant people understand that the

spiritual discernment of the Christ teachings which Peter had acquired and which should be acquired by all

His followers was the Rock upon which Jesus meant to build His church and not upon the personal

Peter. Protestants who study the

Bible for themselves and refuse to have their religious beliefs decided

for them by a man sitting on

throne in Rome, know THAT THE

REAL, CHURCH FOUNDED BY

CHRIST JESUS was a spiritual

structure to be enthroned in the

hearts of men and not an interna

tional ecclesiastical despotism with its head in the city of the Caesars. Protestants who are informed on the subject know that Christianity with its simple teachings as taught by the Master and His apostles and as held by the early church began to wane when in about the third century the crafty Constantino then Emperor of Rome claimed convertion to its teachings. Church and state became one and Christianity was slowly but surely swallowed up by pagan Rome.

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man who runs amuck is dangerous, and has usually been accorded the same treatment as a dog with the rabies. He is no more dangerous than

the Inebriate who drives an auto

mobile, swinging from curb to curb

at the driver s wheel, when he s

drunk and seeing double.

Recognizing this, the Indiana state

legislature fastened a minimum jail

sentence of thirty days for driving an automobile while Intoxicated.

Previous to the passage of this law the maximum penalty was a fine of

$50.

Booze and automobiles do not mix

and there is a certain satisfaction

in the method now in use in city

court, this city. To Judge Chester L

DuComb has come the credit of put

ting the first drunken driver in jail

Following the course pursued in meting out a jail sentence to Stanley i Czarnlck appending a $25 fine, the magistrate within a week has ordered three other drivers to jail. Asa Bennett was ned $50 and costs, as were Adolph Francis and Claude Cookey, in addition to thirty days in the hoose-gow. But the judge, like a good many police court judges, is inclined to be a little too kind hearted. He likes to smooth things over and listens with sympathetic interest at the hard

luck stories and mock excuses by offenders who wish to escape the censure of the law. If the local jurist and some others) would remember that the law-making body has placed maximums as well as minimums for criminals, they would be speaking the major senti

ment of their communities if they would make their judgments feared instead of jeered. The editor wired his o. k. for editorializing in this one instance.

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History Now Taught. A careful examination of "Early European History," by Hutton Webster, published by D. C. Heath & Co., which is now being used in our pub

lic high schools and which is again offered for selection among others

of similar nature for the next j ve

years, is a clear illustration of this

fact. Any one who has in his possession a history book in use twenty

or more years ago in our public

schools would be interested and enlightened to compare the two. Free born American school chil-

drenhave a right to be taught the

true facts of early European history

without the censorship of the Roman

Catholic Hierarchy whose method has always been to keep her people

in darkness and ignorance. These

history books now used and all of

them submitted with possibly one

exception (Modern Times and the

Living Past, by Henry W. Elson American Book Publishing Com

pany), do not tell the truth as to the

political history of the Roman Cath

olic church nor the real part played

by her through the centuries of wars,

bloodshed and misery which dark

ened the whole of western Europe

and for which she alone is respon

sible. These books, while admitting corruptions In the early Catholic

church in Europe, contain the Roman

Catholic side of the story and are

intended to mislead the student into

believing the very opposite of that which is true. These books, taken as a whole, are clearly a defense of the Roman Catholic church, its history, doctrine and practices, and are Intended to instill in the minds of American children sentiments of admiration and' love for the church of Rome. On page 349, Early European

History, by Hutton Webster, is to be round the following: "To Rome

as the Great 'Mother Church' her daughters in Western Europe would turn henceforth with reverence and affection; they would readily acknowledge her leading place among the churches and they would seek her advice in disputed points of

Christian belief or worship. Teaches Roman Catholic Doctrine.

The Facts of History. In place of the simple teachings of its founder were gradually substituted all the pomp and splendor, the rites and ceremonies, the gorgeous vestments and the burning of

incense, the observance of feast days and the superstitions and customs of

heathen religion. All power passed

from the hands of the people Into

that of the hierarchy. The Roman empire of the Caesars had apparent

ly fallen, but out of its ruins there arose a new creation of the old sDirit

the Roman Catholic church. The

pope took the title of SUPREME

PONTIF (Pontifex Maximus) once

given to the head of the Roman state religion. Latin, the language of the

Imperial Rome, has continued to be the official language of Roman Catholicism. The gods and godesses of

Roman mythology found a reincar

nation in the saints of the Roman Catholic church, the temples dedicated to and named for the gods and

godesses were exchanged for churches dedicated to and named for

the saints. The idea of the Vestal

Virgins dwelling in seclusion from

the world and attending the Holy Fire3 in the temples of Vesta and

Diana found themselves again in the

idea of convents and monasteries,

The idea of Imperial Rome, of her

universality, of her eternity and of

her proud boast to dominate the

world has lived on In the Roman Ca

tholic Church down to the present

day.

We Protest

Protestant people, one hundred per

AURORA BRINGS

UP KLAN ISSUE

Aurora. 111.. April 23. The Ku

Klux Klan issue was brought into the Aurora campaign for mayor at the eleventh hour last night by Representative Frank McCarthy, of Elgin, who came to Aurora to speak for Charles Townsend, assistant director of labor, who is a candidate for mayor in today's vote against Mayor Charles Greene, an overseas

veteran. Speaking in a Catholic district known as Pigeon Hill, Representative McCarthy intimated that

Mayor Greene was a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Hardly had he finished his speech

when friends of Mayor Greene ar

rived to denounce him to the crowds he had just addressed. John Hart, soldier representative of Aurora in

this legislature, and Assistant United

States District Attorney Arthur Muroy were the speakers. They said Mayor Greene had been offered an

honorary membership in the klan

and had refused it. McCarthy having referred to the fact that he was

a member of the Knights of Colum

bus, Milroy retorted that he was

grand knight of the Aurora chapter

of the Catholic society. The crowd,

which had shouted as McCarthy spoke, wildly applauded the men who

condemned him.

In the night circulars calling Mayor Greene "a traitor, a double

rmsiatv Ann n. Ku KliiTiar" wpta

cent Americans, do not want History lowered In the Catholic districts of

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Pages are devoted to the lives of the Roman Catholic saints, to the teaching and explanation of the seven sacraments, to her traditions and dogmas as well as to the quotation of various verses from the Bible explaining the Roman Catholic interpretation of the name intended to prove and substantiate "her claims to

books taught In our public schools

which have been censored and worked over by the church of Rome

and which are used as channels for

her teachings. One hundred per cent

American people acknowledge allegi

ance to no foreign potentate but acknowledge and uphold those great

principles and Ideals which were

brought to these shores by our puritan forefathers and which later found expression in the Constitution of the United States. Free born American people, you who stand for the separation of Church and State, lift up your voice. The membership of the State Board of Education, those who have

the responsibility of this selection

of history books on April 30th is

given below.

In reply to the many letters which

are daily being received by this of

fice asking for information on this subject, we would advise that peti

tions be immediately addressed to these members and signed by one hundred per cent, Protestant Ameri

cans of Indiana, protesting against

the use in our tree public schoola

of history books, parts of whose contents have been censored or written by members of the Roman Catholic Church and used for channels for its

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OLD

EN

the city. No name was signed to the

dodgers, although they bore the

words, "Signed, a Bunch of Ku Klux ers."

Mayor Greene was commander of

the 129th Illinois Infantry at the outset of the world war and was later

in command of a great camp at Bor

deaux, France.

LATER

Mayor Charles H. Greene, overseas

veteran, was re-elected mayor here

In this week's election with a major

ity of 2,817 votes In a 14,000 vote. Despite the fact that the opposition

declared Greene was a Klansman, he

carried 24 ont of 27 wards In this city.

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citizens were upon the streets to

gether with many visitors from the

Surrounding country, a large cross

mysteriously appeared In full braze

in the public square.

The appearance of the cross in the business district, together with the

explosion of bombs, caused much

comment among the spectators.

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