Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 September 1923 — Page 9

Friday, September 14, 1923

THE FIERY CROSS PAGE NINE

BIGGEST CROWD EVER THRONGS TEXAS TOWN

Ferris Entertains the Largest Throng in History to Witness Klan Procession

KLANDOM Will MEET AT MILWAUKEE, WIS.

FERRIS, Tox., Sept. 10. A parade wich was participated la by more than 600 Klansmen in full regalia was held in this little Ellis county town Saturday. This was the first parade of the organization held

in mis section or the county and a crowd estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000 people crowded Ferris to witness the spectacle. Dallas Band Leads Parade The parade was led by a big band from Dallas, and then came the fiery cross and the robed marchers in columns of two. Every available inch of space along the line of march was occupied by eager spectators and the marchers were given an ovation all along the line. It is said there were visitors present from every section of Ellis county and many from the southern part of Dallas. Old settlers of Ferris declare there were more people In Ferris Saturday

than ever before in the history of the town. The parade went off with

clock-like precision. It started at 8 o'clock and was over by 9 o'clock but at a late hour Saturday night the streets of Ferris were still crowded with visitors and the demonstration by the Klansmen was the sole topic of conversation.

MILWAUKEE, Wis.. Sept. 10. September 19 will be the big day for all Klansmen here and a gigantic Harvest Festival and barbecue "will b held at Pleasant Valley parte where one thousand candidates will be naturalized in the initiation ceremonies of the Invisible Empire. The meeting will be open to the public and plenty of entertainment will be provided for alL A magnificent display of fireworks will be the

feature at night.

WOMEN PLACE BIBLES

AND FLAGS IN SCHOOLS

TIPPECANOE CITY, O, Sept 10,

At the opening exercises of the public schools on Labor day, the

Women of the Ku Klux Klan of Tip

pecanoe City, Ohio, presented all of the grades with a Bible and to the

high school was given a large refer' ence Bible.

At the same time the local Wom

an's Relief Corps presented each grade with a beautiful silk American

flag.

Superintendent Smith and his corps of teachers appreciated the

Kifts and assured the donors that

thev would be properly used and

preserved.

This same organization during the

month of June presented a reference Bible to the public library of this

city.

Sparks from the Fiery Cross (Continued from Page 4)

SEDUCTION OF TAX A RESULTS IN SPLIT

era advices, Father Curran, a Catho

lic priest, was understood to be on hia way to Atlantlo City to confer

with John L. Lewis, president of the

United Mine Workers.

Following in the footsteps of Mar

garet and obeying the suggestion of Carlyle one seems forced to accept

the coal adjustment situation be

cause "he d better." A loyal Klans-

man, however, may think as he

pleases. Are yon drifting, Klansmen, with

the tide, Watching beauties, as yon elide?

Stemming not the torrent swift,

uariess in the dizzy drat!

There are rapids Just ahead,

noes to till your soul with dread.

Storms to fight and stones to shock

Klansman, shun the deadly rock!

Do not drift with frightful speed,

Kally to yonr greatest need. Grasp an oar there at the side.

HELP US ROW AGAINST THE

TIDE! It Is a most encouraging sign that a branch of the Klan has been organized at Auckland, New Zealand, the purpose being to combat certain Asiatic troubles. It is asserted by a cable from Melbourne that the lodge already has a membership of nearly 1,000.

President Coolidge Opposes Any Cut at This Time Is Backed by Smoot

Klan life will be a continuous bat-

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TRIAL FLIGHT OF ZK-1 TO BE IN SEPTEMBER

First of Its Type Ever Built in - America May Fly to North Pole

WASHINGTON, Sept 8. The plan

of Chairman Madden of the House appropriations committee for exten

sive tax reductions by the next Con

gress ran against a snag when he laid it before President Coolidge.

Representative Green of Iowa

slated for the chairmanship of the House ways and means committee,

which has Jurisdiction, over all tax

and revenue legislation, returned to the capital and announced his oppo

sition to any program far modifica

tion of the tax law at this time.

Chairman Green stated that he

would go to the White House Friday

to submit his position to the President.

Smoot Also Opposed

Already Senator - Smoot, who is scheduled to become chairman of the Senate finance committee, which likewise has jurisdiction over all tax legislation in the upper branch

of Congress, has declared his oppo

sition to proposed tax cats. He has

presented his views to the President

at two conferences.

Ordinarily, opposition by the

chairmen of the two committees hav

ing jurisdiction over any given leg

islation is sumcient to kill it.

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tie for years. Don't think that yon Uentative Madden's Influence In sup-

j- ; lY .r v Port or his proposed revenue meas-

... se uenBM iuo BQr. urei under the customary proceed

u i lne uay. xu wm m oesei lng3 be that of a mere member

wj uiusj ui. euuu ffuxc. xuur iuo may i Df the House often be in danger. Bnt the prize I

yon toll for a great, clean nation meets voouage

hum, utes near w ui meats oi tne Renresentative Madden laid hia

-ainers win oe worm au oi tout uion vofm- tho Procter i

enorcs ana an oi yonr pains. Ana pen era l wnv Howpvot ho 9rr9no

remember that the Klan expects con- an appointment to see Mr. Coolidge stBBcy ot you. Anybody eonld be a at the White House to submit his

uKiiur ior a uonar s sane, xne true proposal in detail.

4hn4- 4-V. J i i Hift it7gLSia.Ll.ULl lUO-l Will l U LUillaLltJ-

life is not wholly yonr own to deJ ..iuur""" 1" !.-tmo"" 8ur"

TZ "J?? " frJSZ! the treasury at the end of

V, AnAtiJ, Z . ,11 """'" each fiscal year. By his plan Rep

ftT :f r 1 T T resentative Madden hopeg to lower try. One of the greatest demands thtt tOToa nf thA norann r,t

come.

Representative Madden also favors

the plan of Secretary of the Treas

ury Mellon to cut the taxes in the higher brackets, on the theory It

would release money not tied up in

tax-exempt securities for commer

made by Klan life is SERVICE. Ton

mnst prepare yourself as a farmer prepares hisv soiL The seed yon

must sow win nave to do with sacrifice.

Hylan's "All Wet" Anyay

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BARNESVHIE SEES FIRST ELAN PARADE

Large Class Is Initiated Into the Organization- Crowd of 10,000 Present

WASHINGTON. D. C Sept. 8. With favoring weather conditions the first trial flights Of the United States

navy's new air- monster, the ZR-1,

will be made this month, and If the

hopes of the builders are realized

and the plans of the operators do

not go awry these flights will be ex

tended gradually until within a few

months every important center in

the United States will have been

visited. The people in all sections of the country wilL thus be given an opportunity of seeing the first rigid

airship of its type ever built in

America.

Later a flight to the north pole re

gions may be undertaken. Sucji a venture is under consideration and tentative plans to that end-have been made.

The other dav a man was fined at clal a110" industrial development and

New York for wearing a bathing suit thus bring in increased revenue from

at Coney Island which was deemed 10080 sources.

'improper." In his defense he sub- Mellnn Wa.it- T,wer Tax

mitted a nhotne-ranh nhnwlnr tho I - "

great and puissant Mayor Hylan ar- The MeUon Plan c1113 for reduc

rayed in a similar suit at Palm "uu ul ul uu w w-

Beaeh. The answer to the perplex- comes 01 s.00 op more a itv. of course, is that lomtinn Aa. from the present 63 per cent to 83

termine m-onrieties ami imnrnnrlo. Per cenl ano lower oraciew m pro

ties or the legal interpretation of DOrtlon-

them. But do they? Kepr sentative oreen holds the

view tnat tne revenue is too uncer

tain as vet to warrant anv reduction

Bullet? and Trees in the tax rate.- His idea is that the

Many wise and good Americans present revenue law should be given

believe that our entry into a world a thorough trial before tampering court would prove to be a panacea with it. potent enough to rid the world for- There re others who hold the

-ever of the noxious plague of Mars, view that if the present tax rate is

out mese deluded patriots fail to brinsrine in a substantial sumlus of

grasp the fact that the attitude of I revenue over expenditures it should

we united btates upon matters be applied toward reducing the which are really none of our business bonded indebtedness of the govern-

wouio oniy give tne European diplo- ment and cutting down heavy Intermats a little more trouble and in the est charges, rather than cutting the end would mean less to the strig- tax rate to save a few cents or dolglinsaetions of the old world than lars to the individual taxpayer. They

the corner hold that the taxpayer would be

more benefited In the long run by this plan than by a tax rate cut.

Mammoth Hangar Mammoth," "m onster" and

'giant" are the only words that are

at all adequate to describe the new

airship and the hangar at Lakehurst,

N. J., where she has been assembled

and is now housed. Even they do

not convey concrete conceptions of

size and the dimensional figures ; when they are stated are more be

wildering than impressive.

When we are told that the ZR-1 is

680 feet in length and that the hull has a diameter of seventy-nine feet

with a total gas capacity of 2,115,000

cubic feet, we know that she is big, but as to Just how big the mind re

mains a bit hazy.

When we are informed that the

Lakehurst hangar's inside dimen

sions are, roughly, 800 feet Jn length by 250 feet in width and 170 feet in height, we know that it Is immense, but the figures still leave us with only a vague idea of what they

mean.

A Mental Picture

However, when it is stated that

the ZR-1, if brought down in a suf

ficiently wide city street, would

overlap considerably two standard

city squares in length and would

tower to the height of the ordinary eight-story building, we may get a

mental picture of the airship that

conveys approximately a real idea

of her size.

And when we are told that the

hangar would cover almost three

city blocks, that two average twelvestory office buydings could be pushed through its doors side by

side and lost in the interior, or that three baseball games could be

played within it at one time with

out one encroaching upon another in the slightest, we begin to realize

what "mammoth" means when the

word is applied to the Lakehurst

structure.

BARNBSVILLE, O., Sept, 8. The citizens of this city received their first introductjpn to the activities of the Ku Klax Klan, when the Klan marched through the principal streets in white robes. A tremendoas gathering witnessed the initia

tion of candidates at the city park. Two fiery crosses lighted the scene of activities. The crosses were fifty

feet high. There were 10,000 Klans

men and spectators present at the

ceremonies, and a large number of

candidates.

It would be difficult to estimate

the size of the crowd, although some thought that there were, 10,000 Klansmen and spectators at the cere

monies on the park grounds. The grandstand was filled, while the race track, and the circle inside for a distance of several feet and the grounds outside the fence were thronged. Automobiles Jammed practically every bit of parking space at the grounds and backed up on North

Chestnut street clear to the railroad. ' Klansmen made their first appear- -ance about 5 o'clock Saturday evening, taking up posltkHui along Mala and Chestnut streets to direct traffic ' and to give information. Some of them took positions on prominent corners and with loided arms stood

fixed like statnes except when some one asked them questions. Several also acted as traffic cops. The parade was not as large as expected, requiring eight minutes to pass a point. At the head of the parade two men withyisors ip. evidently high Klan officials, rode on horseback. Behind them came a band playing "Onward, Christian Soldiers," and hehlnd the band, robed Klansmen, another band, a number of women and antes filled with robed Klansmen. One of the antes carried a large cross lighted with red, white and blue, bulbs. Placards, setting forth things tor which the organization stands, were carried. Following tee initiation, two speakers gave addresses and one of

these was loud enough to be Heard in part as far away as Walton avenue. A brilliant display of fireworks concluded the "Klonklave," In martced contrast to riots at Springfield. SteubenvUle, Carnegie. Pa and elsewhere, there wasnt the semblance of any trouble in Barnes-vUle.

Why should Henry Ford be elected President of the United States? Be

cause he has the "makins" of an

other Lincoln!

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melting snowball on

cookstove of the devil.

It is a far better idea, now that we

are out of this foreign-fomented lr&cas, to stay out of it, permitting Eu

rope to take care of her own, while

we use our energies in building good

roads and new public school build

ings.

We have our own problems to take

care of. In a country where Protes

tant fraternal organizations are as

sauitea, wnere puouc scnoois are sneered at by an ignorant class of foreigners, where the constitutional

privilege of "assembly" is proscribed, where a harmless parade is the sub

ject of attack by a hellish mob

where it is a criminal offense to read the Bible at "morning exercises" in

our schools, where even the police

men and firemen of a city are unable to control the vicious swarms of people bent upon injuring a peace

ful meeting of the Klan in an Odd

$210,293,922 FORD

BALANCE IS SHOWN

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Total Assets Are Listed at Vast

Amount of $597,000,000 Is

Greatest in History

SELHOMT 1SHS

LADY ATTENDANT

WM. D. BEANBLOSSOM FUNERAL DIRECTOR 1SS1 W. Ry Street INDIANAPOLIS Opem Day mnd NiCBt

NEW YORK. Sept. 10. The Ford

Motor Company on June 30 last had

a total cash balance of $210,293,922,

assuming tr.e good win item unchanged at $20, 517,986, according to

a compilation made public by-JDow,

Jones and Company. This is the

Fellows' hall, where vice runs the largest sum ever publicly disclosed street wearing a foreign face, where by Detroit motor concern and is

all of the disinteeratine forces of a "s largest casii uu.uing ever re

very oltl enemy of the Christian

church flare up to do their unspeak

able work of destruction is it not

wise that we spend our energy at

ported by any industrial concern in

the world

The minimum profits indicated for

the four months ended June 30 by a

home where our efforts will actually comparison of profit and loss sur

plus of the company s June .30 re-

i port and with a more detailed report

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Belmont 408S

mean something to the race?

America would serve our children nlea ln ,o0t,-

better than ten billions of bullets

planted in the battlefields of the old

world fields already dyed crimson

by wasted human lives.

It is not that we should refuse the

560. Allowing for moderate depre ciation, earnings on the Ford cap!

talizatlon of 172,645 shares of stock

are now placed in the "four-tgure

class." All these profits accrue to the

Ford family, in which the entire

hopeful service of brotherhood the ergn, of the company is veatea nn i t n n4n Kin n. olT1iiiaTlV 1 n mi 1 a A 1

iLluxi.ciuii.at tan, aiki iu.oi.fti iiuuioa i

God forbid! It is simply that we Total Assets is7,0MM

should clearly recognize what best Total assets of the Ford cornconstitutes actual humanitarian ef-1 pany are $597,000,000, compared with

tort, uur amy aiways Degins at ies3 than sioo.ouo twenty years ago,

home no matter how far it ultimate- when it was organised in the state

ly reaches. To strengthen our re- 0f Michigan. At that time Henry

public, to provide for the education of Ford's total capital Investment was

our children, to- build oar commer- nlv $28,000. some of which had

cial as well as military defenses, are been subscribed by friends of the

things that concern us more than present "giaaf oc the motor Indus amine nn a dhikv throna-ehair with I t-w

a bunch or amity ngtrreneaas or na- The present surplus account of

tions who have no more interest lnicuA 19.9 ik comnarea with 8E9..

our wishes than has a drore of l7rr kbr t-mtarted on February 28 last.

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comets m enuieB Bpatu. t340.47B.736 on tne correepoaaing

It Is a poor charity that robs one's own children to feed a turkey buszard!

date of the preceding year, 1182,877,

The Famous Logansport Klan Quartet

:Mf-J W iff f'M&

H. A. Weaver Furniture Store 229 West Washington Street Indianapolis, Ind. W Also Hove Th Bright Fiery Crott Record. Klan Song Book by Logansport Quartet

Marlon County Dealers Address H. A. WEAVER 329 West Washington St.

Dealers Outside Marlon County Address EARL ROTHERMEL 433 Grore Street Lotaaapott, leA

9f on April so. mi, ana wsd.oyj,' 183 on June 30, 1920. .