Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1923 — Page 4

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-EDITORIAL

The 1'IKHV CHOSit Is published every Friday by the Advertising Service of Krni'st W. Helchard. Indianapolis, and will maintain a policy of staunch, 100 per cent Americartism without tear or favor. Kdited. not to make up people' minds, but to shake up people's minds; to hilp mold activo public opinion which will make America a proper place to live in. News of truth kills more falsa news nd shrivels up more "bunk" than all the earnest argument In the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on serious Questions by serious people. The KIK11Y 'HOSS v. Ill strive to prlve the American viewpoint on published articles and separate the dross from the pure gold in the current news of the day.

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Our "Paramount Problem" In an a; lark on the Ku Klux Klan, a speaker in Ohio last week said: "It is our paramount American problem to learn to live with them (Roman Catholics) in peace and concord in' America, which our forefathers planned." In olhcr words, this speaker said that it is the duty of each real American to conform his ideas with those persons who receive their ideas of government from a foreign power. It is hard to conceive of the presumptiiousness of this"nian. A man who will stand openly before the public and ray that Americans should learn to live with those whose ideas are lin-A iiifrltni) : those who are unwitting tools of a power that would crush American institutions into the earih. must be mad. Did he ever stop to ponder that 1t is thoy who should learn lo Ike with Americans! He speaks of tho country "planned by our forefathers." And then has the audacity to tell red-blooded Americans that they should conform their views willi subjects or that power in Rome which is inimical to American ideals. If this worthy gentleman would read the Constitution of the United States he would find that "tho forefathers who planned this country" took great pains to see tiiat such conditions as existed In Europe, where Illiteracy, superstition and ignorance, together with tyranny, peonage and slavery, were rampant, should not exist in this country. However, this man (vTho, no doubt, calls himrtelT an American) says thai the descendants or those hardy men and women who came t6"seek an asylum in America where they could worship God as they wished, should

now learn to live with those who still swept- allegiance to that same power that dominated Kurope and made the conditions that existed there and

still exist in those countries which have The Roman Catholic population of entire population, and no one can Protestant country; they could not one could deny th,-.t Spain or Mexico no ui.iu u;ni presume uiat tne natives Roman Catholic, should "learn to live"'

there and to conform to the Protestant's way of thinking? Absolutely no!

r ranee is uonian catholic, and the -...L.r,., iu ti., in U:uku wie rrencn linn.

"'"U1". uns oriniani speaker would have Americans "learn to live"

im uio.se wno are stiujecm of a American ideals and an American form It Is not a "paramount nroblem" nf

, - '-' v. u li j live vwlu Liie Roman Catholics- it is the Ktman Catholic's place to "learn to live" with Hie Protestim!, because this Is a Protestant country, and the best governed and freest country on the face of the earth. The Highest Type of Collective Thinking The opposition, searching diligently, ns it undoubtedly has, could scarcely have found a more unfitting, more inappropriate characterization of the

Ku Klux Man than is embodied in spirit of the mob."

It is a fact that the powerful influence exercised by the Klan as an organization may be partly, and properly attributed to the compelling

lorce of collective thinking, but this collective thinking is the very antithesis of "mob thinking," as the mevican public has come to understand the psychology of the mob. The activity- of the moli. arises usually from the lowest, most primitive impulses of the human race, manifesting itself in actions which demonstrate a reckless scorn and disregard for those dearly bought, long established standards of civilization as represented by the law. It denies its victims the sacred rights and privileges bestowed by God himself, and fairly set forth in that great, intangible yet real thing, which we Americans call "The Constitution." The mob, unreasoning, unthinking, denies others the rights it arrogates to itself, and despotically administers what it calls justice. The unified activity of the Klan does not arise from these sources, and most emphatically does not manifest itself in lawless acts of violence. Its activity is but the outward, inevitable response to the highest, noblest inspirations of the civilized mind. There is a phrase often on the tongue of the unthinking, that "human nature is the same everywhere," which is in a sense true. However, the most unlearned recognize, and instinctively select certain types which have ben universally accepted as thejiighest forms of development in piunt. animal, and organic life. It is confidently affirmed by thousands of the most conservative and advanced thinkers in evry walk of life, that fie highest type of thought known to the world today, the highest idealism upon which to pattern our every day life as American citizens, is that exemplified in the teachings and principles of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and it seems there is

abunuant evidence, in the improved ohservel in communities in which

oneratim;, to substantiate this claim. At any rate, this impelling, beneficial influence, created and sustained by right collective thinking moves

hieamiy lorvaru, steadny onward, T.. It 1 ... ... i ... o-.noiauee or mance mat upproununi as tne assertion that it "Wi'K ....,!;..,. i !JL ...... ...... iuiu uoue, wiiu gives us to see the right, let us press

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The above photograph plctu-s the members of the Women's Organization at the burial of Mrs. Helen Fletcher, with full ritualistic

near Daleville, Indiana. The services took place on April 27 and were

uie iirm oi tneir Kina neia in Indiana, although it had previously been

stated mat a line service had been bers too part in me services, eight

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Mail. $2.00 Per Venr not yet thrown off the yoke America is less than one-eighth the deny that the United States is a deny it any more successfully than is a Roman Catholic country. Would or France, which is overwhelmingly with the few Protestants that are Protestant in France has no right Koman catholic "learn to live" with power that is unalterably opposed to of government. A m prion n i f 1 loom n t:.t i , Uie statement that it represents "the social, moral and civic conditions the Klan is strongly organized and AND WILL, REACH ITS GOAL. would cast upon the Klan such an represents "the mob tspirit?" ... ... cnai.iy toward all, doing right as God on." i tat first in this state. Thirty-seven mem or them actinic as Dall bearers.

Traffic Problems in the Cities With the announced increase in the output of motor vehicles in the United States there is impressed, in all the larger cities of the country, the necessity of providing relief from traffic congestion, serious enough already, but almost certain to be more pronounced as the summer progresses. It seems reasonable that the problem should be dealt with just as any great production prob lem is handled in a mill or factory, or even in an office or publishing plant, where the need is for in creased or doubled production with existing facilities. The factory man ager or publisher very naturally solves his problem by duplicating, not thenumber of his machines, but the number of working hours. He doubles his output by keeping the wheels turning sixteen hours instead of eight, or twenty-four hours instead of twelve. The streets of the cities, like the equipment of a manufacturing plant, are limited in their capacity and can not be utilized beyond a given point. Liearly the thing to do under present conditions is to provide for the continuous use of the streets instead of- forcicg.,them to carry, in ten or twelve hours, a traffic which might be spread out over twenty-four. The classification, or segregation, of the traffic falls into logical and natural lines. Of course the business men and shoppers who now are too much inclined to congest down-town traffic during the day by the use of motor cars for personal errands, as well as the mere pleasure tourist who rides about leisurely, must confine their use of the streets to the daylight and early evening hours. But it would be interesting to study, practically, the proposal that the movement of heavily laden trucks used in transporting merchandise and other bulk commodities be confined, by usage or by ordinance, to the hours between 8 o'clock in the evening aud S o'clock in the morning. nieie noma ue, or course, some unpleasant noises in those streets over which this traffic was routed, iuit it would be endurable to the end that an emergency, which is liecoming more and more acute might be met. It is admitted that the limit of capacity in the .business streets has been reached, even if it has not actually been passed, safety and economic factors considered. The heavily-laden truck in a narrowthoroughfare slows up all traffic for a distance of blocks at times. The work done can be accomplished more expeditiously and more economically at night than by day. In the summer, at least, horses can be used at night advantageously, and those who drive them probably would not object it required to adopt a night schedule. The problem is one which every city of considerable size is seeking to solve. It would seem that if there can not bo wider streets, the logical method is to utilize the present thoroughfares continuously. Monitor. THE PRICE OF PERSONAL LIBERTY" In confinement for a term of not less than six yeai-s, in a Pennsvlvania penitentiary, a Philadelphia man of good family and high busi ness standing is today- reflecting upon what has come to him from using what some people regard as the inalienable right and personal liberty lu ger. uninii. Having round a way to violate the prohibition law of the land, he did itjso effectively that on his way home in an automobile he killed three people, 'and is now un der sentence of murder in the second degree. The judge, in sentencing him, said truly: -The very worst punishment this man can suffer is the constant thought he has snuffed out three lives. In Pittsfield, Massachusetts, a man whose friends said that he had ' three or four drinks of -moonshine," is in jail, charged with second degree murder, two persons having waid with their lives the penalty of his oitense. The Monitor has no desire to en large upon the pathetic phases of these cases. The simple fact that live people in all were killed, one lit tie child being bereft of a parent, as a result of the criminal traffic in liquor, now prohibited by the law, tells the story sufficiently without any elaboration of its details. With tnese facts fresh in consciousness, it seems incredible that there ehould be found in the nation, as there are men and women of good repute and of high social standing, willing to de fend aliKe the men who drank the liquor which made them murderers and the men whef sold it, on the ground that both were exercising an inalienable right and liberty. The law Is, of course, insufficient in that it does not go to the real: source of these crimes in its effort to rout out and punish" the criminal. The liquor seller was the true criminal, and those who are conniving at and excusing the illicit traffic in a.1--eohol were In the highest moral sense accessories before the fact. If it were possible, as it should be, to discover the bootlegger from whom these unhappy men obtained the poison that dulled their minds-and made them a public menace when at large, those sellers should be prosecuted quite as sternly as the actual criminals now under duress. Beyond doubt it will yet be recognized by lawmakers that in cases of this sort justice has not been complete,, nor the end of justice, which is to deter others from committing a like offense, duly attained, until the purveyor of the poison is punished equally with the man for whose crime he is fundamentally respon aible. Monitor,

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WOUNDED ROBBER Klan Shows Appreciation of Act That Ends Career of Bank Thief CHILLICOTHE, Ohio, May 26. Officer Dan Gerrett of the local police force, is today in receipt of. a huge bouquet of flowers with a card announcing that it was sent by the Ku Klux Klan. The card expressed the sentiment that the Klan 1ield in respect an officer who performed his duty. Officer Gerrett suffered a severe gunshot wound when attempting to arrest a negro, who committed suicide after having been shot by the omcer ana then shooting Gerrett. Identified as Robber The officer first saw the negro when aboard a traction car with another prisoner, and suspicioned that he was one of two men who had robbed a bank at this place earlier in tne aay. Following the negro from the car he placed his band upon his shoulder when the negro turned and tired, his first shot going wild. Offi cer Gerrett returned the fire and dropped the negro, who shot from the ground, striking the officer in the lung. More than $2,000 were found in the pocket of the dead "negro, who was identified as one of the bank robbers Quartet Makes Hit at Meeting in Paoli, Ind. PAOLI, Ind., May 26. The speaker who delivered an address in favor of the Ku Klux Klan at the courthouse last Tuesday night was met with an overflow audience. It was quite evident that he made a most favorable impression witb. those who heard him speak. The male quartet irom Logansport rendered several numbers which were well received. The F iner Aesthetic Qualities "One can make cheap, rapid car3. but they do not have to be ugly," ia the opinion of M. Citroen, the one little rift in the appreciation of Mr. Henry Ford which he gave to the press. "Nothing about Ford or his plant suggests a trace of the finer aesthetic qualities," he regretted, and in saying this he was, without knowing it, criticizing one of the great evils in American enterprise as it is today. We know the Ameri can excuse. This is an industrial age, and industry is the main thing to consider. What we are apt to forget is that it is an industrial age for France as well, so much so that it looks as if Mr. Ford would presently find a formidable rival in M. Citroen, who proposes to build some of his cars in a big new plant near New York. There is. however, the difference to be remembered, that in France the business man can not free himself from tradition, and the tradition there is that beauty art is one of the chief essentials of life. At times he is guilty of betraying the tradition he would not be human if he were not. There is Ugliness in France, in industrial districts beauty is jiot always the most salient quality. But few things are manufac tured in France that leave out the possibility of beauty. "Life is ugly enough and your 12,000,000 automobiles are really a part of your life. Embellish them, and give them beauty and form," is the excellent piece of advice with which M. Citroen con cluded his criticism. And there is no question that, in France, at least, the endeavor is to practice what many besides M. Citroen preach. To embellish life is hardly as yet an ambition of the American manu facturer. To make things quick, to make them cheap, to make them household words through billboards and every variety of "ads," "to get them over" with the public here you have the creed in a land where some of its officials have been known to draw a line between the "art artist" and the other kind, whatever the other kind may be. It is the secondary place assigned to art, to beauty, that brines about the curious anomalies in American life ; the marvelous invention and development of the things that contribute to the ease of living, and their frequent hideousness of form and vulgarity of color; "the amazing contrast between tne extremes of fastidious luxury and sordid slovenliness; the eagerness to achieve what is fine and the indifference to preserving it. The manufacturer of automobiles prob ably laughed when he read the Frenchman's criticism. An automo bile is something to drive in, not to look at. It is to ba- doubted if M. Citroen will convert him to beauty even by turning out automo biles that are pleasant to the eye as well as triumphs of machinery, But, after all, the United States has scarcely more hundred years behind it than the countries of Europe have thousands, and its traditions are still in the making. Patriotic Meeting Is Held at Vevay, Ind. VEVAY, Ind., May 26. A patriotic meeting was held here on last Monday night and was well attended. The big audience Interrupted the speaker oflten during his talk by enthusiastic applause. The meeting was held in the Christian church. ' The pastor and members of that church had kindly extended an Invitation to those in chares of ths arrangements itor the meeting.

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(Continued From Last Issue) They had now reached the negro section. This part of town exhibited a considerably better front than the Mexican quarter. Though there were cabins galore, there were also several rather nice homes and respectable business houses. There was the general appearance of prosperity. In front of a cottage, which was surrounded by a well-kept lawn and neatly trimmed hedge, they stopped their car. Taylor knocked at the door. A young negro matron appeared, well dressed and scrupulously clean. "Good mawnin', Professah!" she said cordially, with no more accent than is used by a great many Southern whites. "Come right in. Glad to see you." "No, thanks, Mrs. Thompson. I came to see about , your children. They are not in school." "No sah, no sah, that's true," she said, grinning sheepishly, "and I suspects you'se heah to fine me for not sendin' 'em. But, laws, Professah, I'll tell you the truth: My boys won't go and set by them dirty little greasahs, Th' other mawnin I fixed my boy up in his new Palm Beach suit and sent him to school, and when he come home, Land Sakes, but he was a sight! He had to set by a greasah who had his pockets full of tamales, and he put his greasy han's all over my boy's suit and jest ruined it! Professah, we have some mighty nasty niggers heah that we don't mix with, but mem Mexicans is all dirty. And you would like to send vour Doys nacfc to their own school?" "Shuah, shuah, that I would!" "Alright, send them back Mondav. uooa aay." "Good day, Professah." Now, how about it?" Tavlor asitea nis assistant. "On the surface of things it looks like your argument has won," said Cameron. "But. Tavlor. tell me wny that woman, intelligent, clean seemingly cultured, is not the social equal of you or me?' Does social equalitv imnlv the giving oi the right to intermarry?' Certainly, if marriage is neces sary." "Then I will close the argument. i usi woman, you noticed, was nearly white. Her husband is even a lighter mulatto than she. But their little boy is as black as the ace of spades! It is the scientific law of tne reversion to type. White blood and colored intermingled always re vert uacic to the colored, even in the third or fourth generations." Well, what of it? Because man's skin U black, are you going to beat him, scorn him, murder him at will? Remember vour Ku Klux Klan." Which wasn't -'so bad as pic tured," concluded Taylor. "It was temporary. It filled its mission and passed on. We don't need a Ku-Klnx Klan now. The North was trvine to do for the negroes in two years what the Anglo-Saxon race had done for itself m two thousand. They couldn't do it. Things were terrible. The Ku Klux arose and put it down and now, gradually, the negro is coming into his own. The Ku Klux "Klan was nothing more or less thau the indomitable spirit of the Caucasian race asserting itself. Anglo-Saxons win stand so much and no more. If conditions ever become so intoler able in America that some unscru pulous element gets in control, we win nave another Ku Klux Klan. and it will be composed of the same brand of unconquerable Anglo Saxons as the other. But, changing the subject abruptly, you had better consult me or the Board before try tag any more experiments. These children have been out of school for a week. Conditions down here are different from those in the North and you'll have to apply different meth ods. Leave off the experiments Cameron smiled a smile that was half a sneer. As a matter of fact his experimenting had only begun. CHAPTER V The Mission of a Prophet George called on Gene on Satur day evening. It was only after pro longed persuasion that he consented to attend a motion picture theater Still stinging under the lash of his pupils' criticism, he felt a reluctance at being seen at some of the theaters against which he had so earnestly warned them. But Gene was deterrmined and they decided to go to the Bijou to witness "the wonderful super-excellent, transcende n t a 1 1 beautiful, crowning creation of the cinema art 'The Stairs of Sacrl flee'." Fortunately they came in at the beginning of the picture and he was enabled to see the gradual unfolding of its4ntrinsically wovenJ plot. Its stunning characterizations and Ihe surpassing wonder of its scenery. As seemed -to be the vogue of late, a man played the leading role. He was dark and handsome. of debonair bearing, and a past master at the art of love-making. His eyes were magnetic, his hair slicked back In 'a graceful pompadour and Ms upper lip was adorned with

twirling make-believe mustache, evi

dently waxed and perfumed. Maidens ten. tor him by the score. Old ladies, attired in shimmerine eowns and balancing lorgnettes on their" aquinue noses, rawned upon him. There was the atmosnhera' nf luniir plendor. Furniture rich bevond imagination' in polish and design. Mirroring floors over which seminude women danced with other women's husbands while their own husbands clinked champagne glasses or piayea silent poker behind the curtains. Through it all, ever preeminent, ever bold and brazen, was tne elemental appeal of sex. The women, with their abbreviated attire, their perfumed and nainted rug-store complexions, had no higher purpose than to fascinate the men with their charms. The men mere puppets in immaculate eveninz dress cast bloodshot, ravenous eyes at tne figures of the women, gliding airily across the floor, In the embrace of other men. Bye and bve the dance ended aud they separated into couples. Wine was served. The primeval mounted in the. men. The women yielded to their delicious caresses. Girls were led awav into the shadows. Men seized them and held them in their arms kissine them until their writhing, tremnnng torms rested in placid inditterence. The plot was too stale for reDeti tion. It was the old rehash of th girl who paid the price. Between scenes, as a sort of comic interlude, a Protestant preacher was trotted -out to make sport for the crowd. He was shabbilv dressed in a long troclc coat, baggy trousers high silk hat an big-rimmed glasses. He tripped over a mat, fell over a chair, mashed his hat. me audience went wild with laughter and cheered. Then the hero came on the scene again, this time as a villain. He seized his victim the nroverbial helpless, unsophisticated girl. He held her in his embrace and showered her with kisses while she lingered on the high peaks of Rap ture. The audience screamed and veiled. uray-haired mothers and stately fathers leaned forward, craning tiieir nefKs, lest they miss one moment of the vital, thrilling action Young girls threw their arms about each other and shrieked with enthu siasm. Boys kissed their sweet hearts openly. Pan d e m o n i u m reigned. The whole assemblage thrilled with the tenseness of the moment. Then came the anti-climax and the conclusion. The girl was ruined forsaken: friendless and alone. She started to the river to end it all But on the way she had to pass bv the Mission of the Sacred Heart. She was entranced by the wonderful crucifix over the door. She knelt before it. While she was kneeling kind-hearted old Father Dunlavey came out of the door. His hair was snow-white and he had the face of an angel. He put his hands gently on her shoulder and pointed her to the cross. She arose, and with a look of consecration and contrition confessed her sins. He advised her to give her life as an act of peni tence ror the wrongs she had com mitted give it in service for others And so she entered the sacred por tals of the convent, where she took the veil. the audience was in tears, vet they applauded this tender finale and many of them, as they left the theater, told the manager that it was the finest picture they had ever wit nessed. George had a sickening feeliner of disgust, it was not the best pic ture he had ever seen. It was nrob ably the best pictorial representa tion of the picture he had seen an hundred times. The same setting the same plot, the same personnel or characters. The eternal sex an peal always. The comic preacher always the joke of the party; the same people in evening suits and himy gowns; the same priest who on rarest occasions, was made ridi culous by some adventurous and blasphemous producer who dared tread on holy ground. But most oi them did not dare. They feared the indignant protest of twenty million catholics who would not permit their spiritual counsellors to be held up to constant ridicule. It was safer to make sport of the evaneeli cai ministers whose seventy million supporters would only laugh and join in the applause. They came out into the cool air. Gene noticed that her escort's face was flushed red and his. eyes flashed nre. "Why, George!" she inquired in surprise, "What's th matter?" "Oh, nothing," sullenly, "Are you sick?" "No. "Are you mad at me?" "No." "Then what is the matter! "Let's go for a drive," , he sag gested. They climbed Into the car and sped down the pike. Soon they were out of the city and headed Into the open country.- The night was too yrarm for the time of Ahe year great yellow moon hung overhead like a CliiiuM taatAgg. veiled la

mist and circled In a halo. Th road lay, like a white ribbon, before them. On fiither side stretched the hazy

uoiUB, oiacg, nca acres, covered With cotton stalks and mi tut a l flowers. The air was sensuous, balmy. The motor hummed and the wind whistled through the windauieiu. xney said nothing for some time. She broke the painful silenc. George, before we go any further. you ve got to tell me what's the mat. ter with you!" "How did you like that oictura tonight?" he asked. "Oh, I though it was wonrterfnl! Didn't you?" I did not. It wa3 rotten. Gene. ve discovered that I have eves and ears and I am seeing the fundamental failure of our modern life more every day. That picture was but a passing example. Gene, was that true to life?" "Certainly, to a certain phase of it." - "Yes, and to a very limited nhasa of it and a limited element. That eternal appeal to the sensual lusts of people, that play upon their emotions to get them ready for the final puncn, 13 rabid propaganda. That whole play tonight was designed for only one reason to elorifv tha Catholic faith. I noticed that vou laughed when the Protestant miuisr ter was made ridiculous, and wept over Father Dunlavey's kindness. And yet you are a Protestant. That audience was overwhelmingly Protestant. And they all did the same. Now I am not becoming a bigot. Gene. But I like fair play. I would not consent to seeing Catholic priests made the butt of jokes on the stage and screen. I respect any man's religion if he is sincere. But this is not fair play. There are three times as many Protestants in America as there are Catholics. And yet the Protestant preacher always ap pears in the role of a fool and the priest as a saint." Why, George!" she exclaimed.

I believe you are becoming narrow. ,

it tnere is anything we have no room for in this cotintry, it is religious prejudice." No, I am not becoming narrow." he stated calmly, "But, as the darkies say, I want them to tote fair. If a Catholic defends his religion it is called religious zeal. If a Protestant defends his, it is called bigotry. There are thousands of high-minded, broad-visioned Protestant preachers. Why not use one of them occasion ally as a type?" "George, you do not understand." she argued, "You see things through narrow glasses. The producers are busy men and haven't time to fool with the different denominations into which Protestantism is divided. If they should show a Methodist preacher, the Baptists would be wroth. And so it would go. There fore they take a TYPE of religion . and match it against a TYPE of worldliness. They choose the Catho lic church because they are united and spiritual and Protestantism is divided and quarreling. It Protestant preachers would spend more or their time cultivating spirituality among their people and less fighting every form of amusement they would be as successful as the Catho lic priest3. " "I think your deductions are wrong," contended George, "first, because there is not enough difference ia the basic doctrines of Protestantism to cause ' any trouble. They might put a minister on the screen and call him simply a minister and no one would know or rare tn what communion he belonged, Onry the Catholic and a few other communions wear distinctive garb. And as for a type it seems -to me that the virile, militant evangelical is tar more typical of Christianity thanthe static priest. The former has'' the dynamic voice of the ProDhet. the latter the decile resignation of tne Hebrew scribe. The one con demns sin and hypocrisy, the other condones it. There is no argument in your aetense." "But, George, these Dictures all have a lesson," she continued; "Personally I never go to the Catholic church and rarely to any other. I get my spiritual food from wholesome motion pictures." George exploded with laughter. ''Well, old Smarty, you may laugh if you want to," she said, "But it's true." "So I thought. But seriously. Gene. Constant propaganda will produce results. That is my favorite axiom. Most of those who attend these shows are Protestant children. Here they learn to laugh at their own ministers' and to venerate th Roman priests. There can be but one result: they will grow up to disrespect the faith, of their fathers and to respect the Catholic faith. Thus Protestantism, liberalism, freedom of thought, will give way to an inquisition of thought,, and a religion of tyranny." , -. : "Well, what else is" wrong with this modern world' of ours?" she

asked, rather flippantly. "A great many things. The' glaring delinquency of our younglpeople ia appalling. The salacious aha and stage act has contributed to this. Dirty books, glorifying sensuality, adorn our library shelves. A number of our modern magazines are' hardly fit to read. Materialism and infidelity are being taught In our colleges. Not the challenging infi-5" ' delity of Voltaire and Ingersoll, but the sort that simply sneers at re- ' ligion and passes It by. Law viola-: tions are taken as jokes, something; to be laughed at, the subject of newspaper puns. The vaunted trial by jury has become, in many instances, 1a mere farce. Real chivalry is dying. Our women are not respected . any more. The sacred precincts of the home .have been Invaded byjtliis spirit of modernity - PTo Be Continued) The next installment of -TThej A Bounds of the Law will appear b -this space next weelt , r .