Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 20, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1924 — Page 2

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JUNIORS ORGANIZE AT THE PLAINS, OfflO

THE "PLAINS, 0., March 8. A live organization of the Junior Klansmen was formed here March 1. The boys were assisted by Women of the Klan and Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The organization starts with representative membership of the finest young men of the community. A fine spirit of interest was manifested and the hearty support of Women of the Klan and Klansmen was pledged the Junior organization. An active field director for the Juniors is doing splendid work here in Athens county. A minister gave a lecture on "Building Character" at thn organ

ization meeting. Following the business of the evening light refreshments were served and a social time

was had.

Klansman's Creed Read

in Church by Minister

FLEASAXTVILLE, la., March 10.

Six members of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan entered the Methodist

Church here recently and after presenting the pastor, the Kev. E

Mitchell, with a purse of money, knelt in prayer. One of the Klans

men handed the Rev. Mr. Mitchell a

card on which was printed the Klansman's creed. This waa read to the congregation. While the assemblage sang "Onward, Christian Soldiers," the six Klansmen de

parted.

Ay OFFICER OF THE LAW

"When The Fiery Cross was sold

on the streets of Pleasantville, la.,

recently for the first time, the news boy was threatened by several indi

viduals not in sympathy with the

Klan movement. When the lad in formed the town marshal of his trou

ties the latter said: "You go back and sell your papers, and if they bother you any more they will find

themselves behind the bars."

MILLIONS WON

BY EX-WAITER WITH 'BIG IDEA'

G. F. REDMOWS GROSS ANNUAL

BUSINESS FROM 15 BUCKET SHOPS TOTALED $100,000,000

Places Closed by Federal Cenrt Had

More Than 150,000 Customers in Many States

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-Friday, March 14, 1924

Klansmen Pay Tribute to Slain Detective

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fifteen brokerage offices ot G. F. Redmond, Inc., the world's largest partial payment plan brokerage con

cern, nave been closed by order of Federal Judge Morton, of Boston. Action was taken under circumstances which classed the firm as a "bucket shop" and left indications of grand jury proceedings, both federal and state. More than 150,000 customers around the country will be affected by the action. Reports are that other firms also may be dragged in, for Redmond had many allies among the less reputable concerns. The offices closed were those in New York, Chicago, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland, Philadelhipa, Manchester, N. H., Hartford, Conn., Providence, R. I., and Massachusetts offices in Boston, "Worcester, Springfield, Ryan, Lowell and Lynn. $100,000,000 a Tear It is estimated that Redmond's gross business in his fifteen offices totaled on paper about $100,000,000 annually. These figures are given as "conservative" and are based on the nubmer of customers and the estimated average amount invested by each. Each of the fifteen offices

was connected by a private wire system with the head office in Boston. Statements issued by Redmond and by his assistants attributed the crash to "powerful financial interests fighting us." Back of those words is a romance of money and society. Redmond Starts as Walter Five or six years ago G. F. Redmond was a poverty-stricken waiter in a small Boston restaurant. He knew nothing of stocks and bonds. His only financial figuring dealt with the few tips he received. Since the days of the restaurant he amassed a fortune of $25,000,000, attained a certain social position, which he always strove to make "more solid." and boueht a. Sl.OAn.nnn

estate next to one owned by Secre- ; tary of War Weeks.

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authority on.r "'"rrgwhe has

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a possible

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Learned i nance From His Feet

The miles walked back and forth from kitchen to table gave Redmond broken arches, and he was forced to go to a hospital. There he conceived the plan of a gigantic partial payment stock and bond business. When he left the hospital he hired a girl, a friend of his, as stenographer. The two started the

WORK OUTLINED BY SPRINGFIELD KLAN

Steve Kendall, a Terre Haute detective, was killed by bandits in the robbery of a gasoline filling station at Terre Haute a few weeks ago. Kendall, a Klansman, died a hero. He was shot down in cold blood by one of the bandits when the detective tried to prevent the robbery of the office of the filling station. Kendall had the drop on the robbers, but refused to shoot, hoping to prevent bloodshed. The robber opened fire and several bullets from hia revolver took effect in the body of the detective. Kendall's funeral, in the charge of Klansmen, was one of the largest attended ever held in Terre Haute.

ELW00D KLANSMEN AT BAILEY FUNERAL

ELWOOD, Ind., March 8. The funeral of Marshall Bailey was largely attended at the Methodist Protestant Church Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Bailey died at his home in South A street Monday. The funeral, conducted by the gev. C. J. Kerlin, was attended by members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and the Ku Klux Klan, of which organizations Mr. Bailey was a member. The body was taken to Alexandria for burial.

business which in a year or two was to employ thousands of persons. Their "racket," so the charges against them state, was simply this: Never mind about stock exchange memberships. Never mind about theoretical commissions. Get control of certain minor stocks. Sell them on time payments. If the stock dropped, it was the house's profit, doubly so, in fact, for the buyer probably would quit making payments and all that had been paid in could be pocketed. It the stock rose, pay off the customer, but persuade him to put the profits into eomething else and keep doing this until a stock was found that "cleaned him."

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SPRINGFIELD, March 8. Plans for greater activities were outlined at a meeting of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan last Tuesday evening at the Lagonda United Brethren church. It was reported that the organization Is growing rapidly, both in the city and county. A series of religious meetings is being conducted at this Church bv the Klan members

the first of which was held Fridav hv

the Women's Auxiliary.

Tuesday's meeting was under the auspices of the men of the organization. A meeting of the junior order of the Klan will be held at the Lagonda church Friday evening. Rev. Armstrong said.

KEAN GIVES OS AID TO COMMUNITY WORK

FREETOWN, Ind., March 8. The three Protestant churches the Christian, United Brethren and Methodist Episcopal have joined in a Community Relief Fund. Practically every Protestant in the community has indorsed the movement and is assisting in the work. Recently, at the second quarterly meeting of the organization, a delegation of Klansmen attended and ure-

sented a goodly cash contribution for

tne work, xae money was gratefully received by the officers of the organization.'

The attitude of many a man who thinks the Klan is a ferocious creature is well expressed by the old comic quatrain: "The reason I don't like thee, Dr Fell, Is one of two: (a) I don't know thee very well, Or (b) I do.

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Got Trade by Telegraph Later, as she business grew, telegrams would be sent by the thousands to unknoislL people urging purchase. o? sT stock?'

TrUndreds o "telepiiOu . sales-

meu were employed to call- Jorp

(yrospecis an aay long. That's a "personal contact" approved by bucket shop methods. But not once break the law. The most he d was" to evade it. ReJraordBtivied-.tft-ifTe of men ot finance Ford, Morgan, Rockefeller and Vanderbilt. He wrote a book on them called "Giants of Finance." Through It was expressed the dream of Redmond in the language and with the grammatical constructions by which the waiter that had been peered out at the "financier author." The former waiter married his girl pal his stenographer. The two had wealth, leisure and lore, but they lacked happiness. Hunt for Social Position The thing they wanted was social

position. So Redmond, to satisfy the desires of his wife, built a great estate at Newton, Mass., next to the home of Secretary of War Weeks. Money brought some social recognition but Newton Is near Boston and the atmosphere is one of social caution.

"Money will get it it gets every-

tning, tnought the ex-waiter who

naa minions. "I'll get more

money."

Redmond spread his business to

town after town. He established

connections with certain copper and

gold mine promotional interests in

the west and he sold millions of shares of their stock at enormous

profit to himself.

Then Wall street, as well as those of inherited wealth and social position, took more notice of Redmond.

His Money Talks Back

So the ex-waiter faced exposure

of his methods, his ancestry and

his ambitions, but he fought money with money. Two years ago, when brokerage shops orer the country crashed, he paid out $6,000,000 cash

in claims and then sent thousands of telegrams to customers pointing out how he had made good to his

customers.

Last summer he paid out another

$3,000,000 in a coople of days as bucket shofs in many cities went to

the walL He told the world by tele

graph the story of his solvency.

Then came the evidence sought for years. The Detroit office sold a bond in a firm that had no such

bonds. "Error" Closes Detroit Office

A clerical error, Mr. Redmond said, but the office was closed The New York office made some more "clerical errors" and was closed Then the crash, that elosed all his

offices, came.

"The financial interests teem to have gotten me," Mr. Redmond said in Boston, as if explaining that an unsatisfactory dish was the cook's fault, not his. "Ill pay off aa I did

before and III make more millions,

Just aa I did before."

But Harry Ramlin, assistant United States attorney In Chicago, has prepared to go before the federal grand Jury to seek indictment on

charges of raring the mail to dafraud. The same aotlon is planned In Boston and New York. -State grand Juries In many jplace are

WASHINGTON, D. C, March 8. I Congress will keep "hands off" the investigation of charges that two members of the House of Representatives accepted bribes to obtain executive clemency for prisoners, and leave the prosecution entirely in the hands of the department of Justice. This decision was reached by the House rules committee, which had an investigation under consideration. Everyone is now anxious to find out who the two members are. One congressman says it isn't fair for the entire House membership to rest under a colud or a suspicion when only two men are charged as being guilty. So every fellow is trying his best to find out who the two men are and it is bound to come out in a short time. A grand jury probe will start at once, under President Coolidge's orders. It was announced at the White House that in addition to the charges that two congressmen accepted money improperly, the grand jury would be asked to investigate charges that certain government officials used official information for stock market speculations, that money wae collected for obtaining liquor permits and that persons not connected with the government had possession of confidential departmental files. President Coolidge Is determined that the housecleaning going on in Washington shall not be half done. Hence he is asking for investigation and punishment all along the line i guilty parties be convicted.

The Philippines will not be grant-

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endence at this time, Presi

de today wrote Manual

of the Independence

"IThi -government hss

tun confidence icf Governor-General Leonard Wood's administration,"

Coolidge wrote. The president said further :

"If the Filipino people can not co

operate in the support and encour agement of as good an administra

tion as has been afforded by Gover

nor-General Wood, thear failure will

be rather a testimony of unprepared-

ness tor the rull obligation of citi

zenship than an evidence of patriotic

eagerness to advance their country.

One year from March 4 there will

be another presidential inaugura

tion in Washington and a man could

make a million or two now if he

knew the man who is to ride up to

the United States Capitol, take the

oath of office and become the next

president of the United States on

March 4, 1925.

At any rate the members of Con

gress on Capitol Hill are beginning to think it over and to speculate on

wnicn party will win. They are also beginning to wonder whether this session of Congress is going to be over in time to give them an oppor

tunity to attend the national conventions of both major parties in June as they will want to do.

Warning was given in the Senate

by Senator Warren, of Wyoming

chairman of the Senate committee

on appropriations, that prospects of

adjournment of Congress by June or

even July will be out of the question unless the Senate begins to function

as a legislative body soon

The senator from Wyoming did not

seek to criticize the Senate for its actions in the last few months, but

sought merely to call attention to

the situation Congress is in. Last

year, at this time, all the appropriation bills had been passed. This year none has been passed.

That virtually all recommenda

tions for constructive legislation will

have to be sacrificed is conceded in

many quarters, especially as the pro

gram of the coalition between the Republican insurgents and the Democrats, who are in control, is in opposition to the measures by means of which the administration supporters had hoped to provide benefits for the people and relief.

It is essential that the appropria

tion bUls be passed, and it looks to many now as if there might be difficulty even in getting this essential

work done.

Speed up the program, Is the slo

gan in Congress nowadays.

The administrative committee of

the Federal Council of Churches (a

Protestant organization) is out fight

ing the proposed immigration bill in

this Congress on the ground that it is a "flagrant violation of accepted principles of courteous and friendly international relations." This organization has sent an appeal to each

representative and senator request

ing a change in the bill.

This goes to show how even some

Protestants are deceived and misled nowadays on the immigration question. The letter sent to all members of Congress was signed by Dr. Charles S. McFarrand, general secretary, and asserts that the clause

'proposes to abrogate the treaty

with Japan and to annul the 'gentlemen's agreement" without conference, or consultation with the government of Japan." The letter inclosed reso

lutions objecting to the clauses.

Dr. Sidney L. Gullick, secretary of

the commission on international justice and good-will of the Federal Council of Churches, has also been issuing statements on the subject in

which he characterizes the immigra

tion bill as "a wanton affront to Japan."

All of this attitude is about the same as that recently expressed by Secretary of State Hughes. This Federal Council of Churches even goes so f.ar as to say that "Japan has done its part faithfully. Congress has thus far done its pa t faithfully. But the Pacific coast s fates have not done their part." That sort of doctrit p is rot going to get very far nowadays with redblooded Americans. The people of the Pacific coast know this subject better than does the Federal Council of Churches and it i? about time for all good Americans to stand together and preserve this country and its American school system for Americans. The way to start is to restrict immigration so that foreigners will not come over here with their world-war-torn dissensions, and inoculate the people of this country with their foreign ideas and principles to snch an extent that the aliens soon will be running this government and this country, or at least trying to, which has been their ambition all the time. Let's make America a haven for Americans.

Display of the American Flag

Many inquiries have come to The I

Fiery Cross regarding the law regulating the use and display of the

American flag. Sections 6413 to 6416, inclusive, vol. 3, Burns' Indiana state laws, 1914, which are in full force, are given below:

6413. FLAGS FOR SCHOOLS 1 . It shall be the duty of the township trustees, boards of school trustees and boards of school commissioners of the various school corporations of this state, upon the petition of a majority of the school patrons of any district school, to procure a United States flag not less than six feet long for each school under their supervision. (As amended, Acts 1911, p. 45-3.) 6414. DISPLAY OF FLAG 2. The township trustees, boards of school trustees and boards of school commissioners of the various school corporations in this state shall cause the United States flag to be dis

played upon every publio school building under their control on every

school day such school Is in se

sion: PROVIDED, that the weather

conditions permit Bach trustees

and boards shall establish rules and

regulations (or the proper care, custody and display of the flag aad when

for any cause It is not displayed, It shall be placed conspicuously In the principal room or assembly hall of the school bonding. (As attended.

Acts 1911, p. 453.)

-, AAisL, smaamnwitai aa. xrrnni.

LATION 3. It shall be unlawful for any person to mutilate or destroy

any flag so owned by said school corporation, or to mutilate or destroy any flagstaff or appliances belonging to said school corporations

as aforesaid.

6416. PENALTY 4. Any person

violating the provisions of section 3 of this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be

punished by a fine of not less than $25.00 for the first offense, and not more than $100.00 for the second of

fense, to which may be added im

prisonment for not more than thirty days.

Chinese Flappers Bob Hair, Wear Rumps, Like Jazz Jascha Heifets, the brilliant violinist, who was but recently doing concert work in the Orient, says that the young women of modern China are bobbing their hair, wearing pumps and .dancing to American jazss. The slavery te ancient customs Involving the hair and the feet no longer exists, and the new girt is not only given a chance to prove her Independence, but takes it The violinist is not knocking Jazz, at that. He Is perfectly able J,o endure tt If cthar peojde ml China can keen Btes with lass it will mean

a Jot of j?rogrej3g ior spmetadyjos

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Bill Prohibits Use of Wooden Cars Except at End of Trains WASHINGTON, March 8. Use of wooden railway cars between steel coaches is prohibited in a bill approved by. the Senate interstate commerce committee. The bill would compel the railroads which use wooden passenger coaches to use them on the rear ends of their trains. The bill is designed as a safety measure.

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