Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 November 1923 — Page 3

Friday November-23, 1923

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WANT INVESTIGATION OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS

NEW JERSEY SCENE OF RAPID RLAN GROWTH

SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Nov. 20. The most striking proof of the fact that the good law-abiding citizens of San Antonio are "awakening from their long, long sleep was given to the public last week when a committee representing more than six hundred of the representative women of the city called on Judge W. W. McCory of the forty-ninth district court and presented him with a petition requesting that a fair and impartial grand jury be impaneled to investigate in a fair and impartial manner the charges against certain public officials, requesting further that men be put on this grand jury "who can and will have the courage to meet the situation that requires men of nerve and backbone in the enforcement of our laws."

Many Fiery Crosses Are Burned and Organization's Activities Are Increased

PATERSON, N. J., Nov. 19. A number of fiery crosses have been burnt in and near Paterson within the past few weeks and all doubt that the Ku Klux Klan is growing fast in this vicinity has been dissipated.

35,000 Alien Agitators Within United States Spreading Propaganda

SHOCK TROOPS The advertisers of the Fiery Cross nre the Shock Troops of Klnndom. They ypeet and deserve the patronage of all Protestant Americans.

Iast week nnp prnsa was humeri fin

the top of Garret mountain and an- turers, buccaneers', and nondescripts

(Continued ffom Page 2) In most other countries, immigrants enter as a special favor and remain on sufferance.' They must earn any favors shown them or privileges bestowed upon them. If given citizen

ship, it is granted as a recognition of merit and demonstrated fealty to the institutions of the country. The marts of Babylon in her prime weTe glutted with the diversified

commerce of the,worlft and adven-

other near Fulton place. Near Pas

saic, a fifteen-foot cross was burned at the old Clifton race track and was witnessed by many hundreds of persons who went to the scene. The activities of the Klan have been more and more pronounced in this community in the past few months and it is firmly believed that the organization has gained much strength recently. It is known that in other parts of New Jersey the organization is gaining thousands of members.

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from all nations mingled freely with her diversified and discordant populace. Furthermore, in all ages of the world and in every stage of civilization, cities have been the centers to which the vicious and depraved have been attracted. Of course, there

was diffusion, infusion, and transfu

sion until, in the course of centuries,

former national characteristics were modified and only the anthropologist can trace them. A drop of ink in a quanTity of water retains its identity for a moment, but soon loses its characteristics in the volume of the mass, and likewise a drop of water in a quantity of ink soon mingles its characteristics with the general fluid,

but in both instances, neither was what it was before and probably neither can be used for the purposes for which it was originally designed.

The result of such commingling of races was that they exaggerated each

others vices and infirmities. It is easier to imitate vice than to practice virtue. Amalgamation, or even the intermingling of races, frequently

marks the beginning of decline. and reverse development.

Bfylon is no more, here once flourished the arts and sciences, desolation now reigns and their works and splendors are buried in the drifting sands of the crowding centuries. The civilizations which flourished at Nippur, Ur, S'isa, Nineveh, Persepoiis, and othei ancient capitals as centers, passed over the same route to the same end. It takes the spade of the gravedigger and the eye of the archaeologist to fine1 them. - Inroads Are JMarked The -inroads of nations upon nations during the "jourse ot history have always been marked by an in

fusion, terfusion and commingling

of races, 4as wen as Dy a puiage ui property and a destruction of life among the better elements of all in volved, and each accretion usually left the people with less aspiration and surely with less homogeneity than they had before. However, the

mere deprivation of a people of their property alone does not debase "them. It takes more than financial loss to debauch the character of individuals and to degrade nations. It was not the seizure of government in these conquering movements that spelled the ruin of the people, but it was the destruction of their unity, the prostitution of their ambitions, the suppression of their " ideals, the paralysis of their vision and the debasement of their morals. When the common purposes, ideals and ambi

tions of a nation are gone, its days are numbered, for nations, like the individuals who compose them, must have ideals to inspire, hopes to en

courage and aims to attain. These conditions of disunion and chaos result from the mere contact with each other of peoples of different nationalities, speaking different languages and having but little in common. Amalgamation by intermarriage is an entirely different

phase of the subject. By reason of the mere contact with each other

lttical organizations with merely incidental, haphazard social infiltrations, with no attempt to harmonize the discordant social elements oi which they were composed. Theii experiences demonstrate that neither force nor fear can cement divergent populations into one people, noi permanently unite them for the com

mon good. Local hatreds, provincial prejudices, religious fanaticism and racial" antipathies have always been

sufficient " to dissolve any union brought about by conquest or by fear of a common enemy. "Where

there is no spiritual oneness, there is no unity. Spiritual onenessinecessarily involves a common motive, a common hope, one language, one flag, one country. Without these ele

ments there can be no solidarity, and without solidarity there can be no continuity. A study of past civilizations shows that they were destroyed by racial antagonisms and consequent corruption from within long Before they were conquered by force from without.

The burden of civilization has be

come appalling. .

In a primitive state of society, the limit of productive effort and indus

trial ambitipn and endeavor is the providing of a mere living. The means employed are usually hunting., fishing, herding or husbandry. Around the first two of these pursuits there hovers an uncertainty, expectancy and romance, and sometimes they are attended with danger. Therefore, at an early age, the boy is attracted to them. In their

simplest form, trapping and fishing

with a line, the amount of skill re

quired is reduced to a minimum, and

the merest child is able to contribute to the support of the family and thereby relieve the burden resting on

the shoulders of his parents. As a result, the child soon" becomes selfreliant as well as self-supporting, and learns the responsibilities of life as exemplified in the community. He is an economic and moral asset. His opportunities anticipate his wants; the community has not appropriated the meansby which his necessities are obtained, and there is no occasion for him to violate the conventionalities of society in order to meet the requirements of his expanding desires. GreatJDifference Is Seen How great the difference -with the child born into a civilized community! Here society creates many

of his necessities, but makes no adequate rational provision for supplying them. Children will grow. Boys and girls

will bec'ome men and women, with

the wants, the habits, the passions

the frailties, the desires, the foibles

of men and women. In this transi

tion they pass from a condition of

irresponsible dependence to re

sponsible independence. In the

natural sequence of events every person at first is dependent upon others for the supplying of all his wants, but is expected, in time, to be not only self-supporting, but also to be able to contribute to the support of the members of the coming and the relicts of the past generation. The' transition is gradual, but

the change is extreme. .No general plan has ever been devised or even attempted to bridge this period of transition. In this transition from boyhood to

manhood, wants and resources to sat

isfy them do not go hand in nan

Under existing social, industrial and economic conditions, in the cases of most, youths, the necessity to spend arises long before the opportunity to arn. Usually, where the necessity is greatest the opportunity is least. The business world- has forgotten the boys. The social, industrial and eco

nomic conditions surrounding youth

of nationalities having radical racial should be such that their opportuni

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differences, conventionalities, refine

I ment, good taste and even basic morals are dumped into one cesspool of abandon. Under such circumstances leadership islost, continuity j of purpose rs impossible and united i action for a common end can not ! be attained. Such has been the uni

form experience of the past. The customs, habits and experiences of many immigrants during the last half century are so different from ours that upon arriving here they are unable to take any partor even manifest any interest in the community life of their environment,

and, as a result, the collect into groups of their respective nationalities and tongues and continue the social life of the localities whence they came. The resultant maladjustments are tragic in the extreme. Unrest, turmoil, disorder, conflicts are the inevitable results, and in our polyglot cities life and property are in greater jeopardy than they are among the most barbarous tribes of the Pacific islands. Where there is j such continual clashing of race ha- ' treds, polarized through generations I of strife and of religious prejudices, I fostered by primordial ignorance and ' superstition, harmony is impossible.

j Sometimes these immigrants do not I recognize any fealty to our institu

tions and do not even look to our law for protection, but, as in the cases of many from southern Italy, resort to their own vendettas, based on the law of private revenge, for their protection and security. Such communities have the same relation to our body politic as an infected tumor has to-the animal organism. Solidarity Is Essential The first essential of good government is local harmony, order and peace. Environment makes for hap

piness or misery, according to the way it reacts upon us. In only a

few respects -are great combinations of peoples and communities essential to the highest development' of either the individual or the community. A

civilization is determined not by the extent of the dominion over . which certain laws prevail, but by the harmony which maintains in the local communities of which it is composed. Solidarity is essential to greatness. ' The mighty empires of the past were merely military organizations

without a union of the people and disintegrated into their original ele

ments on the death of the men whose

military genius developed them.. To:

the sociologist they were largely po-

ties toearn money will keep pace with their necessities to spend money. Community efforts should be directed towards co-ordinating necessity and opportunity in the lives of the young; by rational direction, intelligent supervision and sympathetic control of their energies. It is easier to direct than to restrain desire or activity. It is easier to lead than to drive. It is Vasier to control by anticipation and suggestion than by opposition and command. As soon as a child manifests a disposition to

choose the means of satisfying its wants and its amusement and instruction, the period for useful, help

ful activities has arrived, and the

basis k- for determining the lines of activity to be pursued. The .average "age at death of all who are born into the world has been estimated at about 15 years. Every child born in this country must spend a greater period in intensive training for the responsibilities which will rest upon him as a citizen if he is to be a factor in the community life about him." Preparation for profesisonal activities in the United States requires

about three-eighths of the active life of the narty. under circumstances

which rarely give him opportunity of self-support during the period of preparation. The result is that the present generation has the burden of

supporting the relicts or tne past, and also the infinitely greater load of maintaining and preparing for serving the coming generation. Tuition Charge Advanced Forty years ago the average expense of maintenance and tuition at our leading colleges and universities was less than $500 per annum per

student, and many maintained them

selves in comfort and dignity iOi

Iprs than one-half that amount. At

present, accprding to estimates which

oughtto be substantially accurate, more than $1,000 each on an average is expended annually by those in attendance at the same institutions.

But the burden doesnt end there. At many state and endowed institutions the student is given more than he pays for. At a leading state university, for the year ending June, 1922, every student cost the state

lover $4S7.00.

The danger in this situation, if continued, lies in the fact that here

after the learned professions will be recruited largely from the homes of the rich rather than from the ranks

of the intelligent. The solution ot the difficulty consists in the co-ordi

nation of our industrial ana economic life with our educational system, so

that the youth whose only financial

asset is an'abihty and desire to worn may be enabled to capitalize that

ability and thereby be enabled tc bear the burden of his preparation for the profession he elects to follow. When opportunities to. prepare fall short of social, political, economic and industrial demands on the intelligent and ambitious, trouble to

society and the nation is jnevitaDie. Youth should have the opportunity to capitalize its ability and apply it to productive efforts at as early a date as possible. The social and industrial organization which does not make provision for such service and give them the opportunity to indulge and develop their creative instinct and inventive impulse is fatally defective in its underlying philosophy. The population of the United States in 1890 was about 76,000,000 and in

1920 about 106,000,000. The enrollment in our elementary schools in 1890 was about 13,000,000 and in 1920 about 22,000,000, while in the high schools the number enrolled in 1890 was about 200,000 and in 1920 about 2,000,000. The total enrollment in 1S90 was about 13,200,000 and in 1920 about 24,000,000. In 1890 the total cost of the public schools was about $140,506,000, while in 1920 it was over $1,039,000,000. The salaries paid for teachers in 1890 was about $91,836,000, while in 1920 it was approximately $569,460,000. The total cost of the common schools per capita of population in 1890 was $1.S4

but in 1920 it was $9.80. The total cost per capita of enrollment in 1S90 was $10.60, whereas in 1920 this cost advanced to $43.30. The amount paid the teachers per capita of population in 1890 was $1.20, but in 1920 it had advanced to $5.37. While the amount paid the teacher per capita of enrollment in 1890 was $6.95, that item had

advanced in 1920 to $23.73. If av

erage daily attendance be used as a basis of calculation, these figures will, be increased by about 35 per cent for 1S90 and 30 per cent for 1920. Thus, the cost per capita of average attendance 'in 1890 was $17.23 and in 1920 $64.25, and the

amount per capita of attendance paid to teachers in 1S90 was $11.26 and in 1920 $35.59. These advances are greatly in excess of the deprecia

tion in the value of money for the

period. Tax Rate Increased

In 1919, in forty-one states, taxes were 82 per cent higher than in 1912, and in all states there was a great

source will be 'absorbed" in the payment of taxes. These startling, facts can not be entirely accounted for by the direct burdens flowing from the world war, combined with the depreciation in value of money. They denote a saturnalia of government extravagance, local, state and national, which spells ruin to our civilization. The continued assaults on our constitution and laws by agitators and demagogues are the direct consequence of the introduction among us

during the last generation of multi

tudes of aliens who know' nothing

of its origin, nothing of the sacrifices by which it was attained, nothing of the underlying philosophy ot self-

government and less of the political

philosophy which that constitution

represents and exemplifies.

The general unrest which prevails in our political, social, industrial and

financial activities can not be en

tirely accounted for as an incident to

rehabilitation from the disorganiza

tion incident to the world war. Much

of it is the result of the deliberate

propaganda of discontent and revolu

tion - fostered -b"y those Whd'rouH destroy the' existing order-of things and substitute therefor the beneficent ,

reign of Bolshevism and Sovietism.' Do we want to try the experiment?

According to official information, believed to be approximately correct, from November 7, 1917, to December

31, 1921, the Soviet government in Russia executed 1,766,116 persons, classified as follows: Farmers 815,000--

Intellectuals 365,250 Soldiers 260,000 Laborers .192,350 Officers 54,650 Gendarmes 48,500 Property owners 12,950 Police oiEcers 10,500 Physicians &0Q Professors and teachers 6,775 Priests 1,215 Bishops 28 America is distinctly the home of philosophic constitutional government. Here conditions and political sentiment were distinctly favorable to its organization and development. I (Continued on Page 5)

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time for guidance and discipline is 1 advance, not only in the amount col . . . 1 j, 1 a. a.1 ii i.i t 1 n o i

at hand.

The selection of a vocation is usually a matter of accident or chance. The predetermining in

fluences in the choice often have no reference to the special fitness or

has had little or no "opportunity to

demonstrate or develop these faculties. The experience acquired in efforts at self-support may be of inestimable value in furnishing a

lected, but in the rate levied. In 1920 they increased 21 per cent over the

preceding year, and in 1921 an ad

vance of 12 per cent over 1920 was registered. In 1917 our taxes

amounted to $5.97 on each $100 of

qualification of the boy, because helgross income. In 1921 they had

mounted to $14.32 on every $100 of income. This represents an average yearly increase in taxes of $1.67 per

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