Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 34, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 July 1923 — Page 10
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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, July 6, 1923
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WASHINGTON, D. C, July 2. About three months ago an incendiary fire which broke out in the dead of night damaged one of the buildings of the Catholic university at Washington, B. C. Sixty young pie6ts, lacking time to don their petticoats, scuttled out into the snow clad only in their nighties. Immediately the newspapers of the country with their customary fairness wrote long articles reporting that the fire had been caused by a band of masked men, armed with
pistols, who broke into the building and set it on fire. Catholic authorities of the college slyly fostered the idea that the work was that of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and many wind-jamming editorials appeared giving this order credit for the outrage. A Bunk" Story The following story was sent all over the United States by the United Press and is typical of the manner
in which this "bunk" was headlined all over the country:
"Masked men fired a portion o the
Catholic university here early Sun day.
"Holding up a negro orderly at the
point of a pistol they distributed
kerosene-soaked rags throughout Caldwell hall and made good their escape before the flames swept through the building, causing damage estimated at $1,000. Monsignor George A. Dougherty, vice-rector of the university, making a report on the fire, directly charged it to incendiaries.
Clad only in their night clothing, sixty student priests, who lived in the building, were forced to seek other shelter in the night while firemen fought the blaze.
"Authorities say a similar attempt was made on Trinity college, national Catholic girls' school, several weeks ago. Trinity jjollege adjoins Catholic university, which is considered the greatest sectarian university in the country"The rooms in which the fire was started were occupied by a priest who was out of town. His apartment is on the third floor. There are two rooms to the suite. In the closet cf one was found rags saturated with kerosene. "The bed in the chamber was soaked with inflammable fluid and
a closet adjoining was packed a
large quantity of some ignitable green substance which encouraged the flames.
"The gunmen, after thei
the report of the fire in the newspapers they got busy and investigated. They discovered that the "masked band" existed only in the vivid imagination of some anti-Klan newspaper writer. Charlie Johnson, negro, a janitor employed by the university, was the "masked band." This man was arrested, indicted by the- grand jury and has been sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary on charges of arson. He set fire to the building
to cover un some thefts which he
had committed.
Did the newspapers print a correction and tell the true facts in the case? They did not!
One Fair Editor
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The Silly Season in Plays (From The Saturday Evening Pott)
It is perhaps unwise to attach too much importance to the danger involved in the presentation of immoral and freakish plays in New York. After all, these absurd productions seldom get away from
Broadway, and those who see them there are for the most part people who are looking for just that sort of thing, anyway. The visitor who takes in a show of that kind regards it as part of the wickedness of a great city and probably keeps mum about it at home. If it happens to
be a propaganda play, he leaves the theater thoroughly puzzled, and probably, also, disgruntled at having wasted an evening. These plays are not sent out on the road. The recent conviction of a producer and a company of actors for pre
senting an offensive play throws the spotlight on the fact 'that we have just emerged from what might not unfairly be termed the silly season in the mimic world. Some managers have vied with one another in putting on every variety of advanced plays as well as those designed to teach something. We have had plays that taught the futility of life, the
absurdity. of marriage, the common sense of divorce, the selfishness .of modern conditions, the inevitable extinction of the human race. In addition to the usual varieties of the sex play, such as the cheap triangular thing translated from the French or the highly farcical home product, we have had a surfeit of highbrow immorality. Sex stuff is bad enough when done in light farce form; but
att-v i steep it in gloom, flavor it with de
generacy ana ltey it to tne encap intellectual's conception of realism, and the result is nauseating. The theater-going public has had a surfeit of the work of misanthropes
The following editorial appeared In a recent edition of the Daily Progress, Charlottesville, Va.: "While It may be true in some respects that the much-discussed 'Ku Klux Klan' has proven itself to be obnoxious In some parts of the country. It is just as true that some of the steps taken to suppress its activities in general, are just as obnoxious to the fundamental principles of American rights and sense of
justice. The recent developments at the national headquarters in At
lanta, Ga., go to show that there has been a very determined and thoroughgoing -renovation of the organization, as well as a drastic housecleaning, and the order bids fair to gradually remove the stigma which hitherto had adhered to it, mainly because of the wild and unauthorized actions of chance members here and
there. And It can be recognized as a definite and very positive fact, that
the deep-laid and settled efforts of certain elements in this country to suppress it as renovated and reorganized, will meet with conspicuous and entire failure. "But the particular instance of unAmerican hostility we have In mind, and against which strong protest has already been made and voiced in the press, is the foolish and drastic statute adopted by the New York State legislature, and signed by Governor Alfred E. Smith, requiring that all secret orders shall file with
the secretary of state the names of the members. This is the extreme of legislative usurpation and inter
ference. It must be admitted, and the
members of the Ku Klux Klan have a perfect right to protest, as
well as to refuse to comply with such
an absurdlv unconstitutional enact
ment No matter what the Ku Klux Klan may do, or may have done, that
does not justify the arbitrary inva
sion of the rights of privacy and peaceful assembly in this great country. "Governor Smith has already done several questionable acts affecting the rights and privileges of the majority of the people, but if he thinks
that he will be able to gain favor by becoming sponsor for such an unnecessary and un-American regulation as this latest one aimed at the Klan, then he had better abandon his lofty ambitions to advance in national affairs and politics, and confine himself to direct work and activity for the people he is catering to in allowing this iniquity to be put upon the statute books of the greatest state in the Union."
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The Klansmen shown above are part of those who attended a funeral ceremony in Clarksburg, W, Va., on June 21, 1923.
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on the negro orderly, vanished
the hallway and escaped. "A thorough investigation has been ordered by the powers at the nnivpritx. Tt is pa rnpstlv hfiltpvprt
hv ihem that, an ant.i-Cat.hnlin motive I and degenerates. Isn t it aDout time
me producers wno put on mat. sun of stuff called it a day on dirt and also stopped drugging the cup of
is to be blamed for the deed.'
Make Investigation. When the Washington office of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan read
public Entertainment with the poison of propaganda?
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