Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1923 — Page 8
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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, Jane 29, 1923
CEREMONIAL IS HELD l AT CONVERSE, IND. r CONVERSE, Ind., Juno 22. ConTerse is not to be outdone by other Indiana towns and last Friday night staged one of the most attractive Klan parades that has been seen in this vicinity. In the attitude of the great crowd which assembled In the downtown streets wa3 reflected the
spirit of an almost solid Protestant community. Delegates from Elwood, Wabash, Marion, Peru and Kokomo took part in the parade, which ended at the fair grounds where the naturalization ceremonies were conducted. The crowds in the Infield and the grandstand became silent as all lights were extinguished and an immense blazing cross flamed forth illuminating the kneeling circle of neophytes. At the conclusion of the ceremony a beautiful aerial flag was exploded one thousand feet in the air. As the
band played patriotic selections the crowd quietly dispersed,, each wit
ness taking with him the unforget
able memory of a beautiful and im
pressive ceremony.
100 Robed Klansmen at Funeral Services
COLUMBUS, Ind., June 82. Funeral services for Leland Lazzell, prominent local church worker, who was drowned here Sunday, were held from the Tabernacle Christian Church on June 19. One hundred robed Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participated in the funeral of their
departed brother. Young Lazzell had been a member of the organization since shortly after It was formed
here and took a very active part In all Klan activities.
The largest crowd that has Jammed
Its way into the local church for some time filled it to overflowing and
listened attentively to the words of
praise uttered by the Reverend Book. He took as his text for the sermon the twelfth chapter of Romans and during his talk showed how the life of young Lazell had been but the carrying out of the teachings of the chapter. The dead youth was preparing to enter the ministry through Johnson's Bible School and was president of his Sunday School class, leader In the Christian Endeavor,
secretary of the District Association of Sunday Schools and a delegate
to the state Sunday School convention, which he had planned to at
tend today.
WOMEN OF KLAN OPEN A NATION WIDE CAMPAIGN
RECOGNIZED BY IMPEBIAL KLONCILIUM, AMERICANS RENEW EFFOBTS
MORAL PRESSURE OF KLAN BRINGS RAIDS
Law Violators at Greenfield, Ind., Getting Close Attention of Local Authorities
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Protestant Organizations Get
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Prominent Indianapolis and Indiana women are today busy in Indiana's part of tfie nation-wide campaign to advance the principles
of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan, which has been endorsed by the Imperial Kloncilium of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. This women's auxiliary to the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan consists of a combination of all organ
izations of Protestant American
women which have been successfully
luncuoning in the United States.
The order will be strictly by, for and of Women and will have local branches known as WTomen's Klans
and will have a ritual very similar
to that of the Ku Klux Klan.
Mrs. Lula A. Markwell of Little
Rock, Arkansas, is the imperial com mander of the new order. Mrs
Markwell is one of the best known
women In the country In club circles
and m work for Protestant American
principles. She is now actively engaged in arranging with prominent women in all parts of the country to handle the extension work of the
order. No men will hava anything to do with this work, the women having complete control of this organization. No man is exploiting it for his Individual gain. Particularly Strong in Indiana The organization is particularly
strong in Indiana and Ohio. The
other states in which the organiza
tion is strong and has made great
strides are Louisiana, Washington, Texas, Maryland, Oregon, California, Delaware, Oklahoma and Arkansas
Those organizations which are now combined and affiliated with the
women or tne rui Klux Klan are
The League of Protestant Women
Ladies-of the Golden Mask, The
American Women, Ladies of ihe
Golden Den, Puritan Daughters of
America and Ladies of the Invisible
Empire.
The organization will hold a big
organization meeting within the next
few weeks at either Little Rock or St. Louis. From that time on the
organization will rally Protestant
American women to Its standard in every state In the Union. The
women will fight for the same prin
ciples as those on which the Knights
of the Ku Klux Klan is founded and at the same time will be active In other lines peculiar to women's organizations, such as social welfare work, the prevention of juvenile delinquency and other affairs of a kindred nature. It is planned to increase the membership to one million members in the next six months. Women Planned Amalgamation The women themselves planned the amalgamation of the different organizations as mentioned above
and then petitioned the Imperial Kloncilium of the Ku Klux Klan for recognition, the permission to use
part of their name, sections of their
ritual and constitution. This was
granted by4.he kloncilium on June 2, it being the first women's organization ever recognized officially by the Klan, although orders of Protestant American women have been in existence almost ever since the time the Klan was organized.
The Women of the Ku Klux Klan i
was chartered solely as a woman's organization under the laws of Arkansas. The order is a corporation and every woman who joins has a vested right in all properties and monies of the order. In this it is distinct from any man-owned or manpromoted woman's order conducted for the financial benefit of certain private individuals. The kloncilium at its meeting ruled that women's orders promoted by men were not desirable. No such promoters of such orders seeking their own financial gain should, the kloncilium ruled, be permitted to propagate through the medium of the Klan.
GREENFIELD, Ind., June 25. The moral pressure of the Ku Klux Klan Is being telt here and continued raids
are being made and arrests effected by the local authorities in connection with, bootlegging. Last week a raiding squad, composed of ten men, confiscated a thirty-gallon still, testers, coloring fluid, a large quantity of mash and many other articles connected with the manufacture of liquor. Some bonds on which bootleggers
have been released have been set at high figures, one bond being $3,000. This was in the case of Walter Deery,
at whose place mash, bottles and corks were found. One arrest was
effected on the charge of transport
ing liquor, the prisoner being caught
on the National road. A woman
companion, who. denied all know!
edge of the liquor, and who claimed to live in Indianapolis, was released.
LIMA, O., June 25, Several thousand members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan gathered on a farm east of here Wednesday night and conducted naturalization ceremonies for several hundred candidates. Three fiery crosses with three K's, erected on each side of the crosses, were burned, making a total of nine burning emblems which furnished
light for the initiation and at the
same time threw a weird, fantastic
blanket of light over the throng.
Thousands of machines blocked the road for two miles in each direc
tion from the farm, making it neces
sary to press several robed men into service to clear the blockade so as to allow members to reach the place of meeting.
NOBLES' PARADE WAS A BIG EYE-OPENER
"Little Red School House" Float Brought Lusty Cheers in Procession at Capital
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OOLITIC WIDOW
Net Pulled Tighter Two men were arrested for speeding and intoxication while others are being picked up on other charges connected with the booze game. The
net is being pulled tighter and tighter
by the local authorities who have de
termined to bring the handling of booze iri and around Greenfield to a
stop. The decent and law-abiding citi zens are tired of the many infrac
tions of the law and they are aroused
to the point that they will stop at nothing to stop the criminals. That
they are being backed by the officers is seen in the many raids and arrests being staged at this time.
OOLITIC, Ind., June 25. Mrs. Emma Dicks, a widow, Is today grateful to the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, of Lawrence county. On
last Saturday night Mrs. Dicks was
visited by members of the Klan and
given a substantial gift of money. In addition groceries were taken to
her home by the Klansmen. The groceries were worth about 150.
Among the groceries was the following note: "The eye of the Klan hath seen and our hearts beat In sympathy for you. Accept this gift as a material aid In your present adversity as coming from Him who sees all things and knows our every need. May He see fit to lighten your bur
dens is our prayer. KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN.
(By Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON. D. C, June 25. The annual convention of the An
cient Arabic Order Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine has just concluded
one of the most notable of its con
ventions. It was particularly notable
in tiat it opened the eyes of Catho
lics and others to the power that
Masonry really has in this country
if it be directed toward the preserva
tion of Americanism. A historical
pageant was held as the last event
of the program. In the floats repre
senting the outstanding incidents in
the founding of the country, pupils of the public schools learned for the first time the part played by Masons
in the stirring days of the Revolu
tionary period. Fear of offense to Catholics has, no doubt, kept this information from being given In the histories studied by young Americans. Washington Was a Mason It is well known that Washington was a Mason, but not so well known that Paul Revere, Gen. Warren, Patrick Henry, the men who com
prised the Boston Tea Party, that
all but one of the signers of tb
Declaration of Independence, th
first chief Justice of the United States, and other leaders also were Masons.
With this well known, and with
the absence of Catholic elements
from the founding of the country, founded tor religious, freedom, also obvious, children of " Washington have at last been given the groundwork for them to build upon in the
before them to vote for a member of an organization that stands for what
Americanism stands for.
The orderliness of the crowd of 200,000 or more, was also an eye-
opener to many who had expected a certain amount of rowdyism to go
along with such a gathering. The gentlemanly bearing of. .the city's guests created a wonderful impression. The Little Red Schoolhouse The gentlemen on Sixteenth Street heights who came over here from Rome, must have found It a bitter pill to swallow, when the float
In the parade bearing the "Little Red School House," one of the two "aims" of the Shriners, went past. He would have been more chagrined If he could have followed its prog
ress down the mile from the Capitol
to the White House and heard the roars of approval that greeted the float over its entire journey. The Papal envoy has something to think about. If he could see a parade of the Ku Klux Klan, in Its entire strength, he would think some more.
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