Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 14, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 February 1924 — Page 6

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THE FIERY CROSH Friday, February 1, 1?24.

SIXTEEN FOREIGNERS TAKEN INBOOZE RAID 3,000 Gallons of Wine, 60 Gallons of Whisky and Nine ' Stills Found at Mansfield

JIANSFIRLD, 0., Jan. 26. William Appleraan, federal prohibition officer, with eleven assistants, swooped down on Mansfield Saturday and made sixteen arrests, including one woman, caught violating the liquor laws. All those arrested are foreigners. The sixteen -were taken before

Harry Palm, justice of the peace, near Belleville. About 3,000 gallons of wine, fiO gallons of whisky, and nine stills were presented as evidence. Fines ranging from the minimum of $200 and the maximum of $1,500, were assessed, the total reaching about $9,000.

FAKE SOLICITORS SAID TO BE BUSY IN" OHIO Represent Themselves as Authorized Collectors for a Klan Motion Picture

NEW YORK CENTRAL IS TO RAISE WAGES Virtually 5 Per Cent Increase, Railroad Says, Affects 18,000 in Engine Service

NEW YORK, Jan. 26. The New York Central Railroad system has announced it had reached agreement with its 15.000 engineers, firemen, hostler and hostler helpers on a new one-year contract to give the men approximately a 5 per cent increase. The men in return waived certain rules, the more important of which covered reliefs and extra-pay mileage allowances of some fifteen years' nt.-i ruling. The road has opened negotiations with its 17,000 conductors and trainmen and there seems rather general hope in rail circles that the one settlement would speed the other.

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 26. Warnings have been sent to every Klan in Ohio to beware of fake solicitors collecting money which they said was to be used in the production of a new Klan movie. It is not known here how exten

sively the swindle has been worked throughout the state, but according to reports received at headquarters, hundreds of dollars have been obtained from wealthy Klansmen active in organization and promotion work.

i ne ivian some time ago produced a picture, "The Toll of Justice," which is being shown throughout the state, and it is believed that the swin

dlers have taken advantage of the publicity in that venture to collect

some easy money.

"Representations that any one is authorized to collect money for such a purpose are false," said L. M. Graham, attorney for the organization, "and we are making every effort to apprehend the swindlers." An investigation is under way and detectives believe they will have little difficulty in rounding up the swindlers. In the meantime Klan

leaders urge members to be on their guard.

Unproven ' Charges Against Klan, Declares The Outlook, Are Unspeakable, Prejudiced "Solemn" New York Paper Comes Out With Justification of Mobbing of Klan Delegation Because It Tried to Place a Wreath on Soldier's Monument, Writes Stanley Frost

TELLS OF QUARREL IN THE GOULD FAMILY

Helen Shepard Says Her Brothers Sold Stock of Estate Without Her Knowledge

OHIO LOSES INTEREST ON AUTO TAG FUNDS

Treasurer Points to Law Requiring Weekly Deposits Brown Makes Explanation

NEW YORK, Jan. 26. Testifying for the second consecutive day at a referee's investigation of the accounting filed by trustees of Jay Gould's $85,000,000 estate, .Mrs. Finley J. Shepard the former Helen Gould disclosed that her brothers,. George and Edwin, secretly had sold millions of dollars' worth of their father's holdings. Mrs. Shepard's testimony related to the estate's sale of $18,000,000 worth of Western Union stock to the

COLUMBUS, O., Jan. 26. Circular letters sent to all state departments by State Treasurer Day, calling attention to the law requiring all money to be deposited in the state treasury at least once a week, has revealed that 'the state automobile department has deposited only about $300,000 in the treasury, although more than GOO. 000 automobile license tags have been sold. The 600,000 tags, at the minimum price, would be $4,800,000 worth of tags sold. Secretary of State Thad H. Brown, said that $1,600,000 would be deposited by him this week and that probably $1,500,000 more would be deposited later in the week. He accounts for the delay in making the deposits to the fact that local registrars have not sent in their receipts.

At the state treasurer's office llA

was pointed out that the state has been losing several thousand dollars iu interest because of the failure of the automobile department to make weekly deposits. At the stn.e treasurer's office it is

revealed that approximately $600,000

(Copyright, 1924, by The Outlook Company and Reprinted by Special Arrangements Through Courtesy of The Outlook.) Though the sins of the Klan may be as scarlet, yet the- world will always owe it a little something for giving us the verb "to klux," with Its derivatives "kluxing" and "kluxer." They enricli the language. We have long needed some word to express the vociferous rounding up of the populace which is one of our great national activities. "Kluxing" does

it to a nicety; not merely because cf the barnyard suggestion in the sound of the word, but because of its brev

ity, its implied humor, its onomatopoetic fitness. Our American air is already reverberant with the ulaiations of various gentlemen, aiming at a majority of noses next June or next November; time, trouble and brain fag will be saved now that we can lump all their varied activities under the thrilling name of "kluxing." The Ku Klux Klan has brought recruiting to a point of efficiency which is almost scientifically perfect and far beyond any similar system. N'o matter how much credit is given to the appeal made by its ideals and purposes, these could not propagate

themselves. It is great skill in kluxing that has spread them so far and so fast.

Much of - the Klan propaganda needs very little mention as it is entirely in harmony with the ideals and professionsairendy reported. In the addresses of its leading speakers ;vnd in the columns of the publications controlled by it5 national officers, one finds unit that i tine and stimulating and little that can be cnstrued as an appeal t hatred even by Ihe most bitter critic. Its proposals and assumptions are of course

debatable, the foundation on "native.

white, Protestant snurentacy

American Telenhone and Teleerauh

company in 1909, and 152,400 shares ' had been deposited by this time by of Missouri Pac ific railroad stock iu ,he automobile department both lasl

1913 and 1914. The witness said each of these deals was made without her knowledge, although she was one of four trustees of the estate and had been guardian to her sister, Anna, now the Duchess de Talleyrand. Mrs.. Shepard testified that for months after the Western Union

year and the year preceding.

WOMFX OK KLAN ATTEND H KKAL AT WINAMAC

WINAMAC, lad., Jan. 26. Funeral services for Mrs. Melissa Loderback was conducted at the Chris-

stock was sold, the trustees' quar- tian church here by the Rev. Paul terly reports continued to indicate it Marsh, assisied by the Rev. Mr. Valremained the property of the Jay der, of the Presbyterian church. The Gould estate. ! funeral was largely attended by

is al

Mays present, but within moue bounds the appeal is to the best side of patriotism jin I religious devotion and there is no inconsistency and no siirn of hjpecrisy. It seems that the

effect of this form of propaganda must be on the whole stimulating and inspiring. It is far below abstract idealism but almost as far above average thought and practice. High Aims Appear But this is only one side of the Klan appeal. Thfcre is another side which fosters and stimulates tremendous evils. In fact, in turning from the theory and ideal3 of the Klan, with which these articles have so far been concerned, to its actual operation, we find the -e evils in every field. The actual practices of Klans and of individual Klansmen fall far short of the professions made; faults appear of which there is no hint In the plat

forms; there are discrepancies so great that it is very easy to discredit all talk of ideals and high aims as the merest camouflage. This verdict would le unavoidable it' it were not that evidences of biffh aims and idealism do also appear. The same thhig is true in soiuc degree of every or

ganization tli ere are many men who unite sincerely condemn- every church and Christianity s;s a whole on just these Toniids. The Klan is at least as fallible in its workings as the churches! Judgment will largely depend in the end on the point of view. It is possible to think of the Klan as actually an idealistic if often mistaken

splendid leaders, the Klan can hardly be expected to do better. Activity Still Improving One qualification should be made, not oSly in regard to this report on the Klan's recruiting methods, but in regard to all my reports on its actual workings. It. is possible to say that certain good or bad things have been done by the Klan, but it is not possible to strike an average. In. a body cf such size and such secrecy nothing

less than omniscience can determine on which side the balance stands, for no matter how much is learned there will always be much that has not been discovered. I can only say this

and I realize that it has too little

weight to determine even my own opinion that so far as niy own ob

servations co, and in spite of ths

cont'usiivi? iiiixture of good and bad

in many things, the useful notions of the Klan seem on the whole to utlitiiiiber the bad, and the 'general level of Khin activity seems to be

improving considerably.

This, cf course, is outside any questions of the good or evil an the Klan movement of itself. And also

it is aside from the fact that the Klan cau not escape responsibility for the

evils which exist, or at least for the

burden of proof of lack of responsi

bility, since it uses an organization

and a type of propaganda which make

those evils easy

The kluxing system of the Klan

was invented by Edward Young

Clark, the same whose huge proiits

were one of the main targets in the

congressional Inquiry two years ago,

whose departure from the Klan was accelerated when Dr. Evans and the

refcrm group losfe charge and who

recently offered to help President

Coolidge expose the Klan: Its simple

efficiency stamps him as almost genius.

At the head of the kluxer3 is the

Imperial Wizard; each state is in

charge of a "King Kieagle" who em

ploys the field Kleagles. These men

each get ?-l a head for every member

enrolled; the King Kleagle3 get $2 a head and the balance of the $10 initiation fee goes to the Imperial treas

ury. Each pays out of this his own expenses. The Imperial government supplies high-grade speakers in large

number, paying their salaries. The

HOW THE KLAN SAVED SPRINGFIELD IS TOLD

Minister Reviews Conditions in Sermon at Belle Valley Just a Year After Reign of Terror

fore, the commission system really does not bring about the condition

that might generally be expected to

fellow. Further, the surest way tor

a Kieagle to make certain of his dis

charge would be to admit an unworthy man or to spread propaganda not in harmony with the principles

of the organization."

There is undoubtedly some truth

in this, but it fails to cover two

cases; iirst, places where the general

tone cf a community is so low that

the profits will be greater if the lower elements arc organized instead of

the better, and second, cases where a few extra dollars can be made by slipping in undesirables after the organization is well started. The evidence which has come to me all in

dicates that-both these things do occur, that a considerable number of

vicious types am admitted and that in some communities the Klan is

composed almost entirely of the low

er elements. As previously stated, I can net give the average, though it does seem to be improving, and is

much better in the newly-organized states.

Prejudice Not Appealed To The propaganda of the Klan takes Uiree main forms. First is that of the speakers. Such speeches as I have heard or of which I have full reports, are open to very little criticism. They follow the lines of the Klan appeal already reported better government, better citizenship, patriotism and religion in general and "native, white, Protestant supremacy." They have been fine, spirited, balanced, eloquent, but without any attempt to stir prejudice or ap. pea! to hatred except wliat conies from the subject itself. They are as good, or as bad, as the Klan move nciit at its best. The published propaganda the Klan.-Pess-is far different, however.

There are published some thirty Klan papers, with a combined circulation of more than a million another testimonial to the strength of the movement. The style of most of these publications is execrable, but perhaps no worae than the general run of country weeklies. Most of their matter is about the same, except that they add material along the lilies of Christian and patriotic

BELLE VALLEY, O., Jan. 26. A

year after the blackest episode in the

history of Springfield, the Rev. B. F.

McKimmon of- Springfield, gave an

address here at a revival he is con

ducting, entitled "How the Klan

Saved Springfield." He reviewed the unlawful raid by Chief of Police O'Brien and his "smashup squad" on the Klan headquarters, the arrest of

W. M. Courtner, Kieagle of the Klan, his incarceration in jail without a chance to give bond, the newspaper

campaign made of a pack of lies

and the threats and charges of what was going to happen to the K. K. K.

He recalled that the doors of the Klan headquarters were unlawfully

broken down, that private papers

private mail, the lists of membership and everything else loose about the headquarters was carted away, and

recalled that even the private keys of Mr. Courtner were taken from him in

the jail that the Catholic chief of police might enter his home and obtain his private mail from the box in the United States postoffice. Surely, it was a black picture one to make decent American citizens shudder. But succeeding chapters of this

story show what an organized American body of men and women can do. He pointed to the municipal officers now iu charge of the city's affairs just a short year after the first chapter was written. William Mahoney, city manager, has been removed to

where he will do no more harm; R. E. O'Brien, chief of police, fangs removed, now has time on his hands to reflect; Justin Altschul, Jew prosecuting attorney, has been shorn of his power; J. P. Maloney, "assistant prosecutor," has been quieted; N. J. Fisher, the Burns detective, is heard of no more. J. E. Furry, the mayor a year ago, too weak of backbone to stand for the principles of Protestant America, was the first man removed by the city commission swept into

office last November by an aroused electorate. Orin G. Rust is another of those in the race already run. Holloran, market master, and some others. This, in brief, outlines the facts contained in the chapters written in the year following the "darkest days of Springfield." It is the brighter side and should

hold out encouragement to Protestant

Samuel F. Hunter, the fire chief, who sent his fire department crashing

through a Klan procession on a falsa alarm, is marked to go. Others in his

class include George Cotter, superintendent of water works; Frank America.

At the conclusion of the talk by the

Rev. Mr. McKimmon a committee ot

Klansmen marched into the audi

torium and presented a letter to the minister. In it was a roll of Amer

ican money, contributed for the good of the cause, and it was gratefully received.

5,000 MORE RIFLES SOLDJTOOBREGON American Army Supplies Turned Over to Mexicans Bring the Bill to Near $700,000

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. The American government has made another sale of 5,000 Enfield rifles and 2,500 Colt automatic army pistols to the Obregon government, which the

state department is strongly supporting with a view to crushing the revolutionary movement in Mexico. This brings the bill of Mexico for American arms to nearly $700,000. No official announcement of the sal of more arras was authorized by the state department,' but it was confirmed in a high administration quarter. The sale of the second lot of 5,000 Enfields was based on the original request from the Mexican government, which included an application for 10,000 Springfield rifles, 10,000,000

rounds ot ammunition, a number of airplanes, spare artillery parts and two protected cruisers' The general staff of the army was strongly opposed to the sale of any of our army Springfields, while the navy department was not in favor of the sale of its cruisers, which, in addition, would be barred by both the letter and spirit of the naval limitation treaty signed at the Washington arms conference. Consequently the request for protected cruisers was rejected.

She herself did not learn of the deal, she said, until her brother George told her she was at liberty to sell the Western Union stock she personally owned. She sold it through George in 1900 and learned in 3916, after the accounting suit was filed, that he charged her $3.50 a Fhare commission, she added.

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Women of the Klan, -who accompa-1 body, struggling to maintain its nied the body to the grave, where j high aims against the faults and misthey conducted services. A fiery I takes and selfishness and sometimes cross, made of carnations, was downright criminality of its agents placed on the grave by the Women I and members, and wrestling with the

of the Klan.

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CEDAR RAPIDS, la., Jan. 26. The ministerial association of Cedar Rapids has gone on record as approving the work of federal prohibition agents and local newspapers in vigorously waging a city-wide cleanup. The stand was taken following the arrest of Dr. Rudolph A. Vorphal, Linn county coroner, and Dr. Paul John Redmond, local physician, for selling prescriptions for whisky.

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any organization if it is to gain the strength for effective action. There are always such compromises; a recent similar case was that of Roosevelt, "Who in organizing his Progressive party used many discredited politicians, riffraff, down-and-outs and "the lunatic fringe." The, Klan has all these elements in it. It is just as easy, because of these same facts, to decide that the Klan's professions are purely hypocritical,

that its hidden purposes arc as evil as imagination can concieve, that the real control lies with the most vi

cious elements, that all its decent ac

tions are dust thrown in the eyes of

opinion, and that it is only in its

worts deeds that it has dared to drop its disguise and act as it really desires and as It would act everywhere if it dared. This belief Is, of course,

very common; it seems to have about

the same degree ot reason as the one mentioned in the last article, that the

Catholic church will resume burning Protestants at the stake whenever it

dares. The fact seems to be that the

Klan, like every other body, has both

idealists and crooks, and that there

is struggle between them

It is certain that, Just as the Klan

appears at Its best when talking of

ideals and purposes, it appears at its

worst in Its day-to-day workings,

The compromises or revelations, mis

takes or vice you can take your

choice which, show in actual opera

tion are far below its own standards

Farthest of all, perhaps, is its work

of recruiting its "kluxing." Re

cruiting seems to be a business which always does bring out the worst in any man or organization, since It Is so easy to believe that almost any

kind ot support is worth getting tor the sake ot "the larger cause,", and

that almost any means Is Justified,

also for that cause. I recall one utterly devoted head of a missionary college who will be damned for all eternity if half the stories told of his

lies and subterfuges In enlisting

workers are true! I have known ot

no leader of any cause who ever re

fused support, however vicious, If only it would actually work for the object he aimed at. Since this Is tree ef admittedly great moveneats . and ef

King Kleagles pay Ihe expeirses of j i'ilism of about the intellectual

tlie speakers m their territories tne salaries and expenses of minor speak, ers, office workers and organization in genera); the Held men pay their own cost?. The whole array is spurred on and trained by special instructors and scaools,'along the Hire of any modem selling organization.

The system is naturally immensely effective, far more than any system

of paying straight salaries would be. It keeps each man on his toe3 every minute, stimulates his salesmanship and ingenuity to the utmost, eliminates unsuccessful men promptly and leaves no room for discord. It ha? resulted in what seems the best selling organization in America. Enormous 'Profits Urdrne From its very nature it has two great faults. The first is the chancs that some of the Kleagles will make

enormous profits, that tne whole sys

tem will appear as a profit-making scheme, mulcting the "suckers" of their $10 '"klectoken" and providing comfortable living for a large num

ber of loafers. This is at least onlyhalf true, but then every organized

movement is more or less open to

the same charges the Red Cross, the

charity organizations, Y. M. C. A. and all the rest are accused in the same

way. The acinal profits of the Klea-

yles do not seem to be very large.

klansmen tell of three or fonr who have made around $50,000 a year by unusually successful campaigns but the average Is stated to be under

$5,000. I can not, cf course, guar

antee these figures, but they check up fairly well with what I have been

able to learn of the number of enrollments.

A far more serious fault is the

pressure which this system puts on Kleagles to take in every member they can get and to use every kind of an argument that may worlc Apparently they do. I have not learned of a single case where a Kieagle re

fused a member who had $10 no

matter how vicious or dangerous he might be. And there are reports,

wherever the Klan organizers are active, of the use of the most abominable forms of appeal. In every case I have known of. when such condi

tions were reported to headquarters.

prompt action was taken. But tne system of Itself stimulates Just such

abuses. It is needless to point out

that they give the lie to every ideal the Klan professes.

Dr. Evans declares that these evils

carry their own corrective. He says:

"This is a matter that has been a

problem to all executives, and even

today there is debate as to the better

form straight commission, salary and commission or salary only. Pos

sibly the present system has a tendency to make Kleagles accept undesirable Individuals. But it has been our experience thus far in the new

order of things, that Kleagles very quickly learn that the successful derelonment of a nartieular unit of or

ganlzation depends on the nigh class of the Individuals that form the nucleus around which they bnlld. Many

ot them have found, much to tneir re

Bret, that they have inadvertently let

an undesirable individual slip in. Immediately they have found a slowing

up m their organization worn ana

sometimes we have had to send other

Kleagles before we found the cause,

"The experience of the Kleagles

has been and this is quite truethat they guard the membership very

closely, reaming that snaesiraoie m dlv Idaals retard propagation. There

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!--vei of a Brisbane editorial.

i:i addition, however, almost all of iiiein carry very definite appeals to hatred and prejudice, almost always against the Catholics. This i.s . crude, raw, - sometimes indo-

ccSTT A few samples will illustrate..;

"The Protestant : Standardof Merryville, La., carries these headlines; "Klan Calls Rome's Hand in Oklahoma. Jesuit Jndases Jeopardize American Life and Liberty. Pope Uses Walton in Effort to Bring Back Inquisition of Dark Ages."

The text shows that lis is-merely j having the Klan investigated by i courts-martial. j "The Good Citizen" of Zarephath, ; N. J., says in its editorial on "The j Rising of the Ku Klux Klan: . ; now Rome has come across the I

great sea with her un-American

hordes, to sweep away Protestantism

as with a flood. For a time she was j

restrained, but she grows bolder in her assaults on Protestant institutions, in her efforts to make this country suHserve the purposes of the Vatican." "The Patriot," published in St. Louis, tells how "Syracuse, N. Y.,

Patriots Rally to Defend Public

Schools from Rome-Controlled Politicians."

"The Arkansas Traveller" of Lit

tie Rock, prints under the caption

of "Lincoln's Warning," a statement

beginning: "I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet

see . a very dark cloud on our

horizon. That dark cloud is coming

from Rome. A cyclone such

as the world has never seen will

pass over the country,- spreading ruin and desolation from north to south." There is nothing to show

that "Lincoln" said this, or where,

Since The Outlook is involved, I

will finish the sampling with an

item from "The Texas 100 American." It says:

"LIES LIES LIES." "Now comes the Catholic News of

New York and tells the edUror of The Outlook that he lied when he

used the phrase "with the dreadful doctrine that the end justifies the means, the Catholics are -ready to

use every extraordinary means."

The paragraph was used in reference to the attempts of the Roman Catholic hierarchy at any cost to prevent the Methodists from establishing their school on Mt. Mario

overlooking the Vatican.

"Reverend Sir

"Now, Reverend Sir, you who

wears his collar backward like a mule, that you have denied that the Jesuit Order or the entire Catholic

world for that matter, does not hold to the doctrine that the end justified the means, we should like foryou to deny some other things.

"Did -Your Church Cremate Joan of Arc? "Was Joan of Arc burned .as a

heretic by your fanatical followers,

or rather those who led your church in the centuries past? "Deny that if you can. "Then, after she had been burned at the stake for being heretical.

why did your church In these latter days canonize her T "Come on, Rome, we are asking you!" There is any quantity of such stuff. It reminds one somewhat of the propaganda of the Know-Nothings, though it is far milder, for they filled the country withjsupposed conv (Continued on Page 7)

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