Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1924 — Page 8

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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, April 4, 1924

Romans Ordered to Vote a for Al Smith and Walsh

Durbin, W. Va. Kditor The Fiery Cross. Dear Sir Permit me a few words of comment on one of the leading topics of the day, and to my mind the lending peril confronting the red-blooded American citizen. In the Catholic Citizen, under date of March 1, 1924, on its rank editorial page appears an article under the heading of "Walsh and Smith" jind in my opinion tho only sane thing in tho whole article is the plating of Walsh's name before

Smith's. Now, as you no doubt know, the Roman Catholic organization denies having any political ambitions for the overthrow of our government or the thought of dominating the present form of it, yet this very article referred ta advises and practically commands its readers to support Walsh or Smith for the Democratic presidential nomination and of course support either of them in the general election this fall whether the voter be a Democrat, Republican or a member of any other political affiliation, and this support is supposed to come from the fact that these two men are members of the pope's Roman Catholic sect and regardless of the possibility of more available and better presidential limber before the convention in New York City, which place is In the very heart of Roman dominance.

Real Service for Good An Editorial In the Marion (111.) Post

Manifestly Unfit Anyone at all posted on public affairs knows that "Alcohol" Smith would be the worst misfit in the 'White House of any president In tho history of our noble country. Peing tho henchman of Tammany

Hall, one of the vilest Jewish and ; Catholic organizations in the his-1 tory of the World and noted for de-j sorting the Democratic party at! every opportunity when their inter-( rsts can be bettered, Smith would1 be dominated entirely by this organ-; lzntion's wishes, providing they dirt not conflict with the instructions of the pope of Rome, and it is hardly possible they woulrt, as Tammany and the pope walk hand in hand, so to speak. Also everyone is acquainted with this Roman Catholic's viewpoint on the prohibition amendment and knows he would nullify this noble piece of legislation which is doing so much In the betterment of our country's morals even when so valiantly obstructed by bootleggers, thugs anrt public officials of the Smith type. As I understand it this amendment was passed by fortyKix of our states, yet Smith, representing the other two states, practically states the great overwhelming majority is wrong and that he

and the small minority are right. Isn't that great argument? IVould Investigate Protestants Down with this type of man for the great office of president of the United States of America. Furthermore, of late months, Smith and his friends have been asking for a public investigation of the Protestant

churches work In connection with the Anti-Saloon League of New York state. I hold no brief for men of the Anderson type, who evidently

have been guilty of fraud, but it does make my blood boil to see Protestant activities subjected to the Roman Catholic investigations when they (Catholics) defy every official to look behind the bolted iron doors of their convents where wickedness is carried on in its worst form against the young and unprotected girls just reaching the age of womanhood. Such things should not be permitted in this great democracy of ours. Do we want a man In the presidential chair who is strictly opposed

to our public schools and in favor of

the Roman parochial school, where

the poor ignorant child is reared to despise all things not Roman Catholic? Do we want a man in this high office who was taken from the slums of New York by Tammany Hall's vicious members and given offices of public trust? Why pick this man when other men of better qualifications are available, such as McAdoo, Davis, Cox or Ralston? Affects Every American These are pertinent questions affecting every real American and

should receive serious consideration

Surely the great Democratic party,

of which I am a member, does not want to nominate such a candidate as Smith and be overwhelmingly defeated in November anrt probably

wreck ourgreat party or tne soutn, where they absolutely refuse to vote for a whisky man for the presidency. I wish to ask a pertinent question which I think everybody can an

swer in the negative. Has anyone ever seen a Methodist paper advocate electing any man to be president just because he happens to be a staunch Methodist and command their readers and members to vote for him because he is a member of his church and regardless of other necessary qualifications? This same question can apply to all other large Protestant denominations. Yours very truly, "A WEST VIRGINIANS

It is Indeed gratifying that so many of the best business men In Marion and good leading citizens of the county were ready and willing to go-on the bonds of those indicted by the" special grand jury at Herrin a short time ago. The Post believes the bonds were excessive and unreasonably high, but had they been

twice or thrice the amount, they could have been filled and not an indicted man would have been placed in Jail. Many of Marion's strongest financial men, perhaps ag

gregating $3,000,000, went to Herrin

Thursday but arrived too late to get

on the bonds. This all shows in a

most telling way that Williamson county is not so bad after all and that we have some of the best people

in the world living right here in the county. The Post believes that Williamson county is the best county in the state and that Marion is the best city south of Springfield. There

is no neutral ground between right and wrong. We are either on one side or the other. Of course, people differ in their views as to what is

right, but in our struggle in Williamson county, the Post firmly believes that it is the duty of every citizen

in the county to stand four-square against lawlessness and against the

elements in the county that would

foster crime in any form. People

in Williamson county MEN and

W'OMEN now is the time to do

real service for good government

The Post will try to do its little

part.

Those Poor, Deluded Boys

Former Queen of Bank Looters, Victim of Robbers, Has Only Pity for Three Young Bandits

0MANBT THREATENS LIFE OF A SALESMAN

Terre Haute Man Calmly Looks

Into Barrel of Revolver and Refuses to Be Stampeded

The Man Without a Country Grover Cleveland Bergdoll

As an illustration of who the boy-

cotters are and the methods used

against members of the Knights of

the Ku Klux Klan, a story comes

from Terre Haute in which a sales

man for a wholesale house was not

only boycotted, but his life was

threatened at the point of a revolver

in the hands of a man who had been

a former customer of the salesman.

The merchant is C. W. Daugherty,

owner of a soft drink bar at 1723 Lafayette avenue. Daugherty, a Ro

man Catholic, had heard that the

salesman was a member of the

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He accused the salesman, who neither

admitted nor denied affiliation with the Klan organization. Daugherty accepted his silence as proof that

the salesman was a Klansman. The

salesman voluntarily agreed not to enter the store again in an effort to sell goods. Daugherty's wife owns and conducts a candy store and soda fountain in another room in the same building. Mrs. Daugherty had no quarrel with the salesman, and continued to buy goods from him. On one of his trips to the store of Mrs. Daugherty recently, the salesman was attacked by Daugherty, who drew a revolver and threatened his life. He didn't shoot, however, and the salesman did not run out of the store, as Daugherty evidently

thought he would. Klansmen have no quarrel with individual Roman Catholics. If Mr. Daugherty thinks he is right, that is his affair.

Ford in $10,000,000 Coal

Mine Deal, It Is Reported

Bobbing and Baldness

rontiv means bad

business for the hair dressers. But all the devices of that fraternity, or sorority, to shout it down and drive Jt into exile hitherto have met wtih failure. It returns with renewed zest as the ally of beauty, sanitation anrt convenienee. It simplifies the toilet anrt the shampoo. It lenrts itself to individuality and the mutations of mode. But the girls have yet ta face the worst hobgoblin from the bag of horrors. Comes now one Joseph Byrne, editor of a beauty magazine, and says bobbed heads are doomed to baldness. Tight hats upon clipped heads, he declares, will kill women's hair-as it has men's, and with a few more years of bobbing we shall have a generation of stodgy matrons wtih bare, lustrous domes. If this package of intimidation will not produce the desired hysteria and restore the

LITTLE GRAFTERS WORK

Formtr Federal Employes Solicited Bfg Tax Cases, Committee Is Told

WASHINGTON, March 29. Activities as "tax experts" of former internal revenue bureau officials have been further explored by the Senate special committee investigating the bureau.

George L. May, a public accountant, of Southport, Conn., said he had been told by C. S. Ashburne, comptroller of the Remington Typewriter Company, that a former bureau official had solicited the company's case before the bureau in an $800,000 proposed assessment item, on a 10 per cent contingent fee. This was the first knowledge the company had of

the proposed assessment, May said

DETROIT. March 29. Three nat

tily dressed youths held up a little

lunch room here, shoved a woman

the only person in the place except the proprietor, under the table and

escaped with $50 and the proprietor's watch. The woman, roughly

i brushed aside by the youths, was Sophie Lyons 3urke, former famous confidence woman, and a member of a bank robbery gang which ranged

the world in its hunt for loot. Mrs. Burke, who has served many prison sentences, lived as the wife of two famous criminals, and was a member of a gang which police say obtained $3,000,000 in one theft from

the Manhattan bank in New York, expressed sympathy for the three youthful robbers and their petty lunch room holdup after the robbery. "Those poor deluded boys," Mrs. Burke said, "I pity them so. If I could talk to them for five minutes I know I could make them see that crime never will pay. I've proved that in my own life." The little gray woman, 76 years old, who is author of a book entitled "Why Crime Doesn't Pay," and, according to her own statements, has probably forgotten more about crime than the youthful bandits who held her up ever knew, turned from criminal activity about 40 years ago and is now doing evangelistic work in Detroit's underworld.

Those who have read that remarkably affecting book, "The Man Without a Country," can not avoid being reminded of it by the story of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll. Left without a bond of patriotic attachment, the "hero" of the book, separated from the land f his birth, finds nothing but uncomfortable and disturbing shelter anywhere else. He is "the hero" not because of any lofty ideals

or any noble or inspiring achievements, but because he is the tragic victim of his miserable self. There was no place in which he could find more than shelter or from which he

could escape the recollection of his infamous betrayal of his country's flag and government. The difference between "The Man Without a Country" and Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is that the first named had received his sentence and was paying the penalty. Bergdoll is in flight to escape these, and he has not shown that he has the courage of "The Man Without a Country" to face the penalty.

There is much being told of a

decision of Bergdoll to return to the United States and submit himself to law and justice. He must do this

to prove that he has the courage of that other wanderer over the earth. A long term in Atlanta penitentiary is not an attractive alternative to a safe hiding elsewhere. It contrasts unpleasantly even with the worldwide roaming of "The Man Without a Country." Yet it is the only way in which Bergdoll can, in the end, pay the penalty or free himself of a lifetime of -wandering and of hiding. It is the only way by which he

can secure, nnaiiy, tne ireeaom to wander. In neither case can he ever escape the everlasting penalty of his

shame and the scorn of his countrymen any more than did "The Man

Without a Country." Cincinnati En quirer.

Incredible Facts

TFNIONTOWN, Pa., March 29. It Is reported In financial circles here that Henry Ford had closed negotiations with the Davison-Connellsville Coal Company for the purchase of

3,700 acres of coal land in Fayette oounty, Pa., and Monongahela county, W. Va. The price will reach $10,000,000, It is said. Representatives and engineers of the Ford interests have been on the ground some time inspecting the

property and the mines which are in operation. Practically all of the Davison-Connellsville coal in Fayette county is of the best Connellsville region coking grade. The West Virginia coal, while of only fair coking value, is without peer for fuel or steaming purposes. Ford, it is said, wanted the lands to provide fuel for his glass and subsidiary companies in the Pittsburg district.

Mary Roberts Rinehart says of the public library: "I am constantly amazed by the efficiency of the reference department, on which I have made frequent demands, and which has never failed to give me more than I requested. I have taxed it sometimes, but there seems to be no subject from clothes to cannibals, from dogs to dogmatism, from zoology to zymotic diseases (which is the last article in the Encyclopedia Britannica), which the library can not supply. It is a storehouse of frightful and incredible facts. It knows a tremendous amount, and quite frequently I take what it knows, twist it about a bit and sell it as original

material by Mary Roberts Rinehart."

New Polar Voyage Will Start in a Few Weeks

Camp Meade Builders Sued for $7,000,000

WASHINGTON, March 29. And here we have another "war fraud" case coming up. The long list has

been extended to the builders of

Camp Meade. United States District Attorney Woodcock has filed suit to recover $7,000,000 from Smith, Hauser and Mclsaac, New York contractors. They "wantonly, recklessly and fraudulently wasted the government's materials and money," in

building the cantonment, it is charged. The camp cost the government $18,000,000, according to the complaint. ,

ATIONAL LECTURER PRESENT

PATRIOT, Ind., March 29. A national worker for the cause of the

Women of the Klan was here Mon

day and Tuesday in consultation

with the Women's Organization of

this community. She made a public address Monday night in the Baptist

church which was highly profitable. Sunday night ten Klansmen visited

the M. E. church here and left a contribution of money to aid in ad

vancing the work of the church.

LONDON, March 29. A projected new expedition to the North Pole is reported.

Tulsa Republicans Name Anti-Klan Candidate

TULSA, Okla., March 29. John R. Hadley, Republican candidate for mayor, supported by the Daylight Republican Club, an anti-Klan organization, won the nomination" for mayor in the city primary here over . William B. Weston. On the Democratic ticket, Mayor

Herman F. Newblock, Klan-sun

The Westminster Gazette says a ported candidate, won the nomina

young Icelander, Grettir Algarshon,

will start for the Arctic early in May on a preliminary trip to Nova Zem-

bla and Franz-Josef Land.

Algarshon proposes to pass six

months exploring Nova Zembla and

Franz-Josef Land, ending his trip at New York in October. The party will number ten, including three scientists. The Traveler Beltai now is being fitted at Shoreham and shortly will be brought to the Thames. The expedition is a prelude to another in 1925 under Algarshon's leadership, the object of which will be the Pole.

tion over Dr. G. S. Long, also pro-

Klan. Newblock got 5,478 and Long 1,030 votes.

Liquor Buyer Guilty, Too

Veteran Fire Horse Is Saved

adding that the actual amount of the

petty kingdom of the hair dresser, j assessment as finally determined by

the bureau was $50,000.

then bobbed hair will stay until it

has been fully tested in the forge of time.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Underwood Outdistanced

by McAdoo in Georgia Race ; through its regular representatives.

May said that to his knowledge, other large corporations had been similarly solicited. The typewriter company, he said, rejected the offer

of service and handled the case

PHILADELPHIA March 29. The purchaser of illicit liquor was held equally KUSitliJhe seller by Federal Judge Thompson, who imposed a fine of $50 on William T. Turner of Sandusky, O., one of the "customers" of Isaac Bulifant, alleged head of a gigantic mail order bootleg scheme. The technical charge was conspiracy to transport illegally bootleg

whisky.

$13,243,448 Certified as

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ATLANTA, Ga., March 29. The first county complete heard from in the Georgia presidential perferential primary in the northern part of the state gave McAdoo 79 votes to

nine for Senator Underwood.

Those Uneasy Feet

CLEVELAND, O., March 29. Municipal Court Judge Alva R. Corlett,

Unofficial returns from Buchanan, I o has dealt out many of the stif

Ga., said that McAdoo hart carried

Twenty-five years of loyal service to the town of West New York won its reward when the board of council there heard a petition signed by more than 300 citizens and decided to pension "Harry," a veteran fire department horse. For seventeen years Harry helped haul the fire apparatus. He was the first horse purchased by the department. Eight years ago, when the fire department was motorized, he was transferred

to the street cleaning department. Recently residents learned that the old horse was to be sold with other cast-off municipal property and was likely to end his days in drudgery.

A petition was drawn up and quickly signed, for nearly every young man in West New York had raced beside Harry to fires years ago. So the old horse's future was assured. He will spend his winters in the city stables and in the summer will be sent to a farm.

Haralson county by more than 10 to 1 over Underwood. This county has two votes in the convention. First reports from the country districts of Fulton county, in which Atlanta - is situated, indicated that

McAdoo was getting three votes to one for Underwood. McAdoo gained two more convention votes when Jasper county in middle Georgia was reported in his column. Complete returns from Jenkins county gave McAdoo 141 and Underwood 29; Effingham county, complete, McAdoo 196 and Underwood 62. Indications based on early incomplete figures were that McAdoo has carried Coffee county by 300 votes and that he polled a majority in Chatham county. First precinct at Macon gave McAdoo 72; Underwood 13.

fest sentences to automobile speeders, has sent the following letter to a Cleveland newspaper: "Spring is here.

"Sunshine and spring breezes seem to have a pertinent influence on motorists, making their feet a

little more uncontrollable than usual

so far as accelerators are concerned. "If the traffic department will put 50 or 75 motorcycle policemen on the streets and bring in speeders, I'll see that they plant summer crops at Warrensville workhouse farm. "This court intends to do everything possible by meting out substantial punishment to curb speeding anrt consequent death on the streets of Cleveland."

Boozy Bon-bons Found

WASHINGTON, March 29. The

Interstate Commerce Commission has certified to the secretary of the treasury that the Missouri Pacific railroad is entitled to $13,243,448 in full payment of the "guarantee of earnings" given this road for the first six months following relinquishment of government control of railroads.

Of this sum all except $660,448 has been paid to the Missouri Pacific and the final payment is to be made soon.

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BROTHER-IN-LAW SUES INCE NEW YORK, March 29. Ralph Ince, motion picture director, has been served with papers in a $50,000 damage suit fijed by his brother-in-law, George Stewart, brother of Anita Stewart, film actress, as the aftermath of a fist fight between Ince

and Stewart last August. The fight,

Stewart charges, occurred in a lonely spot on. the Boston Post road,

while he, Ince and several other3

were motoring to New York, after visiting roadhouses. Ince is alleged to have ordered the driver to stop the car and to have directed Stewart to alight. The fight followed. Stewart said be was confined to a hospital for three weeks after the encounter.

Rank and File of Miners

Ratify Wage Agreement The rank and file of the United Mine Workers of America have ratified the new wage scale agreement, assuring peace in the bituminous industry for three years, by an overwhelming vote. The vote was 164,858 to 26,253. The new agreement, which was

negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., last month, will continue present wages

and working conditions in effect for another three years, beginning April 1. While the contract embraces only

the central competitive field, comprising Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, all other coal

mining contracts are based on it. Almost half of the vote, 13,032, op

posing ratification, was polled in Illi

nois, District No. 12, which also had

the largest vote in favor of the agree

ment, 43,180.

NEW YORK, March 29. The source of "boozy bon-bons," which have become the latest refreshment at certain New York dance halls, was believed by prohibition agents to have been found following a raid on the Begue Candy Company, West Broadway. Quantities of candy cocktails slender glass tubes of liquor, chocolate coated and packed in ribbontied bon-bon boxes were seized, as

well as several gallons of cognac,

380 quarts of alcohol in cans and two

cases of alcohol.

The manager of the establishment

was arrested, scores or girl em

ployes were sent home. Prohibition agents received a tip from a dance hall, where girls offered them refreshments from boxes of "boozy

bon-bons."

CHURCH FUND CAMPAIGN ON ST. LOUIS, March 29. The first week of solicitation for the $10000,000 superannuate endowment fund for pastors of the Southern Methodist church has brought results in

dicating complete success for the

campaign, Dr. Luther E. Todd, sec

retary of the board of finance directing the drive, said. The Memphis district has already oversubscribed its quota, Dr. Todd

said, and other cities probably will do so within the next week. The St. Louis district, with a minimum quota of $64,442, will greatly exceed that amount, he said. St. John's church alone has raised $24,000.

In olden times Chinese men wore

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Daddy Swiped our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan THAT KLEVER, KLASSY, KOMICAL KLAN SONG By Helen Marcell First sung by the Girls' Glee Club of Kansas University and was Broadcasted by the Kansas City Star. Send Thirty-Five Cents to R. C. MARCELL, Ottawa, Kan. Music Dealers Write for Quantity Prices

OSCE CIRCUS STAR HELPLESS NEW YORK, March 29. News

that Billy Showles, once champion

bareback rider or the world, lay

helpless at Bellevue hospital,

brought a score of circus folk to his

bedside.

Billy Showles was the featured attraction with Barnum & Bailey, Ringling Bros., and Forepaugh-Sells and made $400 a week. For 35 years

he was the envy of his profession. A few days ago hospital authorities found "William Showles, elevator

operator," suffering from an incur

able disease In a tiny east side flat

Showles' wife, Kitty, herself once a star of the bareback clan, was at his bedside . .

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