Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 24, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 April 1924 — Page 4

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THE F IE RY CROS S ' Friday, April 11, 1921

EDITORIAL

The FIRRY CROSS is published every Friday by The Fiery Cross Publishing Company. Indianapolis, and will maintain a policy of staunch, Protestant Americanism without fear or favor. Kditcil, not to make up people's minds, but to shake up people's minds; to help mold active public opinion which will make America a proper place to live in. New of truth kills more false news and shrivels up more "bunk" than nil (he tarurst arguments in the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on Krri'MiM oiu-stions ly serious people. The FIIOKY CROSS will strive to cive the American viewpoint on pub-

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KLAN'S PROGRAM FOR 1924 Militant. old-Vasliioned Christianity and operative patriotism.

'2. Buck to the ConMituilon.

X- Knfortement oi I lip eighteenth Amendment so long as it is a part l' (lie Constitnliun. 1. I nf'iiTcineiit f present immigration laws and enactment of more .triiip'iit Inns on immigration.

"Taken Under Advisement"

The discussion between the Anglican church and the Roman Catholic church is a fruitless one, albeit the subject continues -to attract the attention of certain of the Protestant organizations. The talk of reunion is silly, because it would mean nothing but the absorption of the English high church and possibly the Episcopalian body by the church of Rome. The conference at Malines did nothing save give the Romans

a sense of power and a feeling that any formal step' toward the reunion between the Catholic and "high" Protestants must be taken by the Protestants. In other words, it- pre

sented the enemy with an easy approach to a strategic point. Of course the attitude of the representative of the Protestant alliance evidenced square-shooting, as it is termed, to a certain degree. The memorial which he handed to the Archbishop of Canterbury pointed out that in no sense could it be

declared that those members of the English church who had been in the Malines conference represented the majority view 'of the Anglican

church. That was saying, naturally, that even the Protestants who wanted reunion were in the minority. The Barrier For the instruction of those who wonder what barriers the English

church must climb over to reach the point necessary to reunion with the

Sparks from the Fiery Cross By JOHN EIGHT POINT "The noblest motive is the public good." virgil

A Plea to the Citizen

On the theory that equality of I ited a large community of a great r

Neglect, Klansman, bolts the door of your great opportunity. Stop, professor, it Is our Bible we don't want it tinkered with so iti n r h ?

We need not be civil to the devil merely to prove to him that Klansmen are not bigots. It is remarkable how bad the weather is the evening you go to lodge or have a distasteful task to perform. You may carve your name as famous, With applause non-partisan,

But you're nobler when your name

is On the roll of the Ku Klux Klan;

Clear eyed, then, nor vague nor

flighty, Breaking superstition's bars, For our purpose, true and mighty Lifts us nearer to the stars.

A I'.i.u-o frank admission that it is the enemy of the Ku Klux Klan that Catholic church, the following may

( i'i -die .- r i mild not be made than was admitted last week by Mayor be named: Worship of the "blessed

!-o: ;" V. ( iri i l. of Cincinnati. H is morp than merelv nossihle that :; virgin

( an. I unwillingly made the admission, but nevertheless it was

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.Mayor

li;:i'l. Following, application made by Klansmen to hold a parade in Cincinnati 1'i-tt .), r.e. at which time Klansmen from several states will meet there, .M:iyoi- Carrel iiil in part: "I mid him (spokesman for the Klansmen) that I did not question that tli - n,i m'x rs oi Hit.' organization were law-abiding citizens, but that ii.iisn.ui li as J'-us. negroes and Catholics feel that the Klan is antagonistic

l" in. mrU a p::raae might precipitate disorder and, if masks were v ol ii. 1 1 n re would he no way to identify the offenders. 1 insisted ll.it there be no concealment o the features if a permit should be griiuleil." .'.kiy'ir Carrel also said that "lie would take under advisement" the iuesi ina of issuing a permit for a day parade of Klansmen without iscr ;.

"wo have the spectacle of a mayor of an American city, "taking

advisement'' the issuing oi a permit for a bodv of American-born,

Protestant citizens to parade the streets of an American city, and 'in-' at the same time that he did not miestion their beine law-

ni'i i v.i; citizens. Mayor Carrel openly admits that he fears the trouble limn tli'- enemies of the Klan and therefore admits that he does not think i hem to be law-abiding citizens. .Mayor Carrel did not set a precedent by his statement- He did, howt t ".'. more emphatically place before the people who read his statement the fact that it is the enemy of the Klan that is responsible for certain

disturbances that are so readily laid at the door of trnrKlan organization by i heir implacable enemies. Mayor Carrel is. to say the leat, not criminal. He is following in the footsteps of hundreds of other executives who tear trouble by the enemies of the Klan not by the Klan. Ni'iiher is Mayor Carrel consistent, at least on the face of it. Did Major Carrel refuse those who sought a parade permit in Cincinnati, lor a St. Patrick's day, parade? It goes without saying that Mayor Carrel " "JUTfe lhaTlhose "vTno"' participate in such parades are most antagoT"!(ic to the Klan and that Klansmen are well aware of that fact. However, he did not refuse a permit because he knew ' that Klansmen were not in sympathy with St. Patrick day parades." He did know, however,

thai Klansmen respect the rights of others and that they would in no way in i em pj to hinder any one in the act of exercising their rights as citizens of ibis country even though they knew those citizens held allegiance to powers other than that of t lie I'nited States. The mayor of Cincinnati lias merely strengthened that growing convi' iiou throughout America, that it is the enemies of the Klan who are feared by officials as makers of disorder, and not Klansmen. Slowly, h.n surely, the people at large are gaining that understanding that they lai- nothing to tear from the Ku Klux Klan. Rioting, disorder and n.i iibing comes from the alien clement that element composed of aliens because of the fact that they have never become citizens of the I'nited

Slatei. and those aliens because their supreme allegiance is alien or their theories of life are foreign to American ideals and principles. Following along the same theory put forth by Mayor Carrel, there would be no parades held in America; even the police could not parade 1 c a use "gunmen, traffickers and bandits are antagonistic to the police."

doctrine of the immaculate

conception; celibacy of the priest

hood; auricular confession; adora

tion of saints and relics; partial participation only of the laity in the holy eucharist; and, finally, the spiritual and temporal claims of the tfope. Not only would the non-conformist organization recoil in horror at the acceptance of such Roman doctrines, but the mother church herself would find difficulty in acknowledging that she has been wrong all these centuries. One can fancy an American Presbyterian or Methodist being invited to accept all of the insuperable dogmas of traditional papacy. It would be like asking him to accept Mohammedanism and the

caliphate.

It will be seen without the aid of an interpreter that in all of these informal conferences Rome did not yield a single point or evidence the slightest desire for a reunion that, would mean the loss of a traditional tenet of the Catholic faith.

Must Face Ghastly Facts

History presents in lurid red certain ghastly facts which Klansmen

can only read with horror. If pop

ery wins, our liberties are gone and

the facts that once flamed in lurid

lights may repeat themselves. The 1924 race for the presidency will be a-tremendous run against organized

popery and red propaganda. But we may well remember that the Protestant steeds, exercised and ready for trail, will race away to victory with

these banners flying in the wind: Absolute law enforcement; a safeguarded constitution; a real public school bill that will assure each child in America at least a grammar school education; an Immigration bill with closely woven steel meshes.

toward the development of America aa a brotherhood of common-pur

posed and zealous patriots working ever toward general education of the masses by public schools and the

aggrandizement of a government founded upon permanent principles of liberty and justice, the Klan has

urged a microscopic scrutiny of political, moral and institutional life. Granting that an economic world-

union of brothers is in progress of formation, the Klan has stressed and

will forever stress the supremacy of the race, religion and nation that it best fitted to carry out the pro

gressive demands of civilization in

general. To the great majority of mankind the ethical laws of Christ will be the true basis of individual as well as national conduct. Upon this basis the Klan stands as it has stood since its inception. There must be a very general determination of all social processes to conform to the principles of the Protestant Christian. The ethical feeling, emerging positively in American life, is an energizing influence which

the Klan shall use in its constructive endeavor.

Let us not be Klansmen who tryto fill our organization by every means except that of preaching the grand fundamentals for which we stand.

The true Klansman's home is one

rights is the basis of civil govern

ment, a movement has been started at Elm Grove, W. Va., in resolutions embracing a plea to the American press to write a series of editorials, beginning not later than -April 1,

setting forth the privileges and limitations of purely American citizens.

The resolntion sent to The Fiery Cross by Virgil McCuskey is going to many hundreds of daily and weekly newspapers in the United States. The resolution urges these publications to write an unbiased editorial each week to arouse the voter to action ; to awaken him to

many of the false representations being made by political leaders and candidates who represent one or the other of the great political parties of

the nation. The startling revelations coming out of Washington indicate that something should be done to stir the voter out of the lethargy he has gradually slumped into. Misrepresentation seems to- have gained a surprising hold in political affairs of the nation. The great majority

of people have little faith that anything of a concrete nature will come

out of

state of the Union. The tact that a

"special grand jury" indicted these men will in no way deter them from action. They are in earnest and will carry on until Justice is again seated on his throne. What the citizens of Marion and Herrin did, the citizens of New York City, Detroit, Chicago, Louisville, Indianapolis and every other city, town and county of the nation is privileged, to do. The ballot will do it. Where the officers refuse to do their sworn duty, the ballot may be resorted to to remove them and replace them with MEN WHO WILL DO THEIR DUTY.

GOV. SMITH'S "SlMERITl"

"Politics makes hypocrites with more certainty and celerity than any other existing force," says the Continent. "Consider Governor Smith, of New York, who called together the county prosecutors of the whole

state and a numerous assortment of

the many investigations in ! other officers of the peace and sol-

Washington. As the Teapot Dome affair drags on from day to day, the great army of citizens gradually is being led to fear that a lily whitewashing job is being administered. The voter is in no temper to accept complacently such a verdict. It will be a sad day for partisan politics if such a verdict is rendered. The time is approaching is here when the voter is going to do some investigation on his

of the greatest foes the old devil has own hook. The independent voter of

The difficulties in getting fujl co-operation with Canada to stop liquor-smuggling are caused by Canada's lax ideas toward prohibition. This attitude is the result of provincial rather than federal action. There

seems to be no real cure for the Canadian side of the distemper until Canada acts strongly in the right direction. ' The Whirlpool oi Anger Even the enemies of the Klan point out that in the battle between the "drys" and "wets" at Herrin, the Klansmen have been unalterably opposed to the "wets." We do not mind, therefore, that high-brow professors refer to secret societies as a

"phase of elementary human nature" and consciencelessly call our action "gang force as opposed to the operation of law." We know that

whatever "gang force'' we possess is not opposed ta the operation of law but is a conservator and helper of law itself. To the child-mind of certain universities and the malicious-mind of foreign religionists we may possibly classify with the Tagalogs of the Philippines and the Tongs of China; but we are willing to labor and to wait, content if the

(Bureau Publication and K duration) ! nation shall emerge, as emerge it

W A 9iH I Vr.TOX n C Anvil 7 must, from the whirlpool of an

The Catholic Citizen is becoming ! angry and complex national situabold in its enthusiasm for its own j "on into a stronger and nobler incause and savs: "It is the 'defeat- i terpretation of the free government

Normal Protestant Wonders In view of this the normal Protestant can only wonder why those Anglicans, who seem to desire reunion so much, do not at once join the Catholic church and have done with the matter. Official recognition on the part of Protestants of these "conversations" between Protestantism and Romanism is productive of much harm. It widens the brook that already flows between the Anglican church and the rest of the Protestant world.

on earth. That is why we struggle

to keep that nursery of faitU and liberty sacred and inviolate. . Teach the children in the public schools how the ballot should be used and when they become old enough to use it, they will remember the Klansman's teaching. Discredited public officials who are

on the way to the oubliette will find j graft and selfishness as the stum-1 bling- blocks that tripped them in j

their early endeavors. Perseverance in pursuit of duties that are thoroughly "and truly Klannish is commendable and desirable, -and will work wonders, but it will not make a bad egg hatch and there are always bad eggs to deal with. If we in America think the right way, 'as Protestants and Klansmen.

we shall survive and our nation shall wax strong, no matter how many think the wrong way in Europe.

Alien Organ Gets Rather Chesty

Helps Its Emigrants

Sunshine on a Drab Picture

Unfortunately, the daily newspapers "play up" only the more distressing incidents of the day, while the countless good deeds, the conversion of persons to good and other great moral victories arc cither not recorded or jim- given scant space. For instance: If Susie Brown should conduct a

mission for one year and during that time set scores of unfortunates first to thinking and then into the paths oi righteousness, not one word of her a hie einent for good would appear in the papers. But let Susie Brown go i.i a "wild party" and become intoxicated and hit a taxi driver, she gets

ironl page publicity. Kilil at this time Hie papers are filled with many stories of the "terrible P-.-M" in the Irote:-.tant churches between the fundamentalists and the ii. i. demists. Dire things are prophesied by either sensationalists or persons w t ill minister motives, of just where the "terribleTight" may lead the J'lotestant church. Cut no glaring headlines tell us that the Protestant i lunches have gained millions in membership in the past few years. To learn that the Baptist church alone had gained approximately 200,000 member.; during the year of one would have to write to a "Question and Answer" editor. The .Methodist church lacked but a few thousand of having gained a total of luu.OOl) during the past year. These churches are but

two oi the many rroiestant cnurcnes, an ot wnicn snowea a most neaitny caiu in membership. The year 1923 showed a gain of 2,884 in churches mid at the close of the year an additional 2,733 ministers had been added, bringing the total to 237,404. The figures shown in the foregoing paragraph really constitute big jii'ws: much higher news than the fact that a foreign potentate gave a red

bat to each of four men whom he elevated, according to the newspaper dispatches from Rome, to American princes. The figures on the increased church attendance throw a ray of sunshine Perots the drab pictures painted by the newspapers by their ever playing up the lewd, the sensational or the immoral phase of life. It would be foolish to say that there is not now a certain laxity In morals, especially among the young people of America, which should not exist, but the fact that, hundreds of thousands are becoming church members as the months roll by, does much to dispell the gloom ot those who feel that the world is

'j;oing to the dogs." If so many persons are joining the church as shown by the figures given here, just think of the mammoth increase in church attendance that must be necessary to secure the gratifying increase in membership. For more than one year reports have ever been received showing that where the Klan shows strength that increased church attendance and church membership has always followed. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan can well be proud of this achievement if there were no other .acts to which it could ptint with pride. Aside from these other many acts in which the Klan takes pardonable pride, increased church attendance and church membership would alone prove the worthiness of that organization and serve as criterion for other organizations.

ist' element among Catholics who echo the notion that no Catholic can be elected President of the United States. It is the grafter type, the corner grocery prophet, the habitual down-and-onter cynic, who supports this shabby notion. Let us help nominate somebody and try the is

sue out." The Catholic organ has gotten

cocky because some Catholics have i

gotten into office. It harps a good deal about Gov. Al. Smith, of New York, being a Catholic and getting elected to office. Here is some more of its reasoning: "Senator Walsh, of Montana, has twice been elected United States senator. Thirty years ago it was sartf

that no Catholic could be elected United States senator. Now we have several Catholics in the Senate. In 1SS0, most of the New York dailies said that no Catholic could be

elected mayor of New York, and it would weaken Hancock's chances to carry New York if Grace was nominated for mayor. Crace was elected but Hancock was not." The nearest the Catholics ever came to having one of their faith in the White House was when President Wilson was sick abed and Joe

Tumulty ran things around the executive offices. And there is no question about it, he ran things, too. If the Catholic Citizen is so boastful about this proposition, let the

Catholics persuade the Democrats to nominate Al. Smith and try out the issue, as It says. And then some people ask the question: "Why the Klan?"

Paris Would Tax Aliens

PARIS, April G. The city council recently discussed the project of M. Fernand-Laurent to tax foreigners staying In Paris longer than 48 hours, and, at the request of its sponsor, referred the subject to a committee for study.

Michel Mlssoffe. president of the council, disclaimed any prejudice against foreigners, and said the council merely desired them to bear a share of the expenses their pres-

rence entailed.

Count d'Andlgne and Joseph Denals also supported the plan, the latter proposing in addition that the foreigners' cards should be subject

to a visa tax, payable every three months at the police stations. It is estimated that Paris ha? about 400,000 foreign residents and that fully 700,000 tourists visit the capital annually.

toward which our founders always labored. History Will Prove It The chief difficulty faced bythe Klan will always be the effort of

subtle opponents to join with it and undermine its highest purposes for the sake of presenting the organiza

tion to the world as a warped and factional impulse. By this plan these clever enemies will seek to discredit the order with the easily-

gulled, improperly-informed and superficially educated. But there will always be an unrelenting public opinion in America which will care for those who have unselfishly striven toward good and noble ends. At the final count the Klan will be

understood and its relation to true American growth will be seen. It will then be observed that instead of being a spiteful demon in a fairy

story, the Klan will be a guardian angel on the pages of historic record. Washington's Wisdom The wisdom of George Washington and his colleagues in warning this

country away from political and social entanglements becomes clearer every day. France has strengthened herself in the Mediterranean by the

Tangier settlement and she has allied the Slav by her Czecho-Slova-kia understanding. It requires no prophetic vision to see a Slav-bloc in alliance with France. England

can not but realize that she wasted a great deal of sentiment upon France during the war. She must feel deeply disquieted. Meanwhile America sails on gracefully and the warnings of Washington thunder helpfully upon our national ear. The Klan need not worry, provided it can get all true Americans to understand where our treasures lie.

BRUSSELS, April 5. Inspection of Belgian emigrants bound for America has been undertaken by the government to aid the American authorities and to save the travelers

from the misfortune of being sent back from Ellis Island. Three commissions, administrative, medical and legal, have been created with headquarters at Antwerp. The emigrants will be examined physically and mentally and their papers scrutinized, so that when they sail they may have the assurance that they can enter the United States provided the quota is

not filled.

Lawndale, the Bridewell, Jail Equipped With Radio

CHICAGO, April 5 Radio outfits are being placed for the benefit of the patients of the Lawndale hospital and the prisoners of the county jail and the Bridewell. Dr. J. P. BrushiDgham, secretary of the morals commission, announced after a meeting of the commission.

The Emerging Influence

There is implanted in the heart of

man, particularly that of the white

Aryan, an ethical feeling which has grown up as the result of historical experience, clarified and intensified

by operative religion. This feeling is the best product of centuries of

effort on the part of the best men of the race. It regulates our acts

toward our fellow man and its dis

appearance would mean the triumph

of morbid and colossal selfishness both in the individual life and in the

national existence.

Recognizing this, the Klan has steadfastly combatted every effort toward political crookedness and

commercial treason. With an eye

A KLANSMAN'S CREED believe in God and in the tenets

of the Christian religion and that a godlett nation tan not long prospei.

I believe that a church that ts not

grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to Cod

and to man.

I believe that a church that does

not have the welfare of the common

people at heart is unworthy.

I believe in the eternal separation

of Church and State.

I hold no allegiance to any foreign

government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or relig

ious power.

I hold my allegiance to the ilars and Stripes next to my allegiance to

God alone.

I believe in just laws and liberty.

I believe in the upholding of the

Constitution of these United Stales. I believe that our Free Public

School is the corner stone of good

government and that those who are seeking to destroy it are enemies of

our Republic and are unworthy of

citnenship. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncon trolled by political parties or by religious sects. I believe in law and order.

I believe in the protection of our

ture womanhood.

I do not believe in mob violence,

but I do believe that laws should be

enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence.

I believe in a ttoser relationship of

capttal and labor.

I believe in the prevention of un

warranted strikes by foreign labor

aattators.

I believe in the limitation of for

eign immigration.

I am a native-horn American citi'

zen and I believe my rights in tkts

country are superior-to those of for

eigners.

America makes up a vast army an army that can swing the result of any election. The army is becoming a unit, instead of an unwieldy herd. When headed in the right direction this army may accomplish whatever it sets out to accomplish. The politician is the most uneasy, the most restless, the most harried individual in the states today. He will tell you'frankly that lie is mys

tified, unable to "get the ground swell." He knows there is one; he admits it, but he frankly says he

doesn't know which way it is rolling. Not all politicians will admit this, but some are honest enough to if they think they will not be quoted in the public print. With this condition admitted, it is

time the voter sought some information of his own. To seek and obtain information seems, to some a task they are unable to perform personally. Granted, it is somewhat difficult, still there are ways open. When one awakens to the need of some

thing, his energies are bent in the

direction of obtaining it. If he is an aggressive citizen he usually succeeds in reaching his goal. The goal now should be with every citizen of the nation to place in office the man and not the partisan or the politician. It isn't a hopeless task to find the right man for the right place. Find that man in your community, your ward? your district, your state and

your nation. Be sure of him, and then vote not for the party but for the man. You may think it is an individual affair, that you are going it alone. You may at times become discouraged, but you will be surprised when the smoke of the battle of the ballot in the coming year at the primaries, the local elections and finally the state and national elec

tions clears away and you get a clear vision of the results. You will know there was a mighty army of independent voters seeking and finding in just exactly the manner yon sought and found. Be guided only by your judgment of right and justice and you can not go wrong. Set

aside all prejudice, all hatred, all wrangling, all strife. Vision is dimmed if either of these is permitted to come in. With eyes open and the single desire to aid yourself and your fellowman, wonders may be accomplished can not help but be accomplished. In the plea to the American press sent The Fiery Cross by Mr. Mc

Cuskey reference is made to the

Declaration of Independence, in which it is set forth "that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights, and to secure these rights governments were in

stituted among men."

The petition then continues: "Gov

ernment is then, in a sense, an in

stitution of God, designed and intended to preserve and protect the equality of the rights of men, or to enforce the natural moral law. But

the moral law can be enforced upon its own standards only, not on some

other standards.

"This being true, the people, in

the administration of civil government, have no choice between right and wrong. God has made the choice for them and no policy of civil government can be harmonized with the purpose of organized society, unless it be directed to the enforcement of the right on the one hand and the prohibition of the wrong on the other." The state of affairs in Williamson

county, Illinois, where duly elected officers of the law refused to do their duty, is only oue incident. It became a little better known there than in other places "where the conI ditions are probably as bad. The 1 cleanup by an outraged public surely

should be encouragement for other

communities. Marion and Herrin now are fit places in which to live. The lawbreaker has been frightened

, if not entirely stampeded. He may ; not yet be willing to give up, but ha i is cowed and he is inactive just now. The determined body of citizens, led j by a federal enforcement officer del ter mined to do his duty, and aided I by preachers, business men and i Klansmen, is still militant. This I body of citiienship is sworn to con-

II l til UC IUC ftUI A SUU BCC Ulttl V1IC muntty is kept tree from the element which disgraced and disercd-

emnly bade them all to enforce pro

hibition. The prosecutors formally, and the police authorities of New York City informally, told the governor in return that it couldn't be done at least, not done right unless the state enforcement act which he allowed to be repealed was put back on the statute books. The prosecutors had a new enforcement bill drafted and asked the governor to recommend its passage. It would be passed quickly it the governor would only say the repeal was a mistake which he desired to correct. Saying that, he would make good on his enforcement speech. But he

won't say it because his enforcement speech was just talk. However, there is this comfort if Governor Smith didn't know that the country at large is stoutly for prohibition he wouldn't bother to be a hypocrite on the subject." The Continent is partly right in this flaming editorial. It is wrong upon the point that politics makes hypocrites with more certainty and celerity than any other existing force. There is another force which Governor Smith knows about and to which he listens, and this force makes hypocrites quite as rapidly aa does politics. It is a force which no

doubt had its effect upon Governor Smith when he acted as described. Br is the sinister force which tha smallest schoolboy, if properly instructed, can see crawling across thei pages of his history. It is a fores

that reaches across the wastes of trackless deserts and the wide waters of the ocean. Considering it as a mighty hand, one , can see the fingers tighten to a mighty fist an angry, shaking fist. America today faces this fist and Governor Smith's position on the subject discussed iss no doubt governed, as is every act of his life, by it.

Clearly Defined

A keen observer outside of the Klan says that public opinion has been aroused from extreme lethargy on the subjects in which the Klan is interested to extreme activity in fighting supposed fire with fire intended to be of the same sort. If that statement be true, and we feel that it is true, the Klan needs no apologist, because it has accomplished a noble purpose and won an outside recognition due it. In point of fact, the revival generally in tha direction of good citizenship can be traced back to Klan effort. The or

ganized opposition to things that are of evil growth and intention and which make for chaos of religious as well as ethical and political opinion, has1 been effective and the good offices of the Klan may be seen without difficulty. What is not generally observed by some is the fact that the Ku Kins Klan of today is not quite the Klan of yesterday an organization witli a more local significance and a less general appeal. Its intention is more clearly defined than that of the old Klan, and its mode of oper

ation is more highly charged with united good will and unlimited comradeship. It is most vehemently opposed to all forms of physical violence, and it is eternally on the job to bring swift justice, legally, to those who escape or evade foundational law. It does not take law in its own hand, but it conserves with faithful spirit the law of its state and nation, holding up the arms of, government by obedience and all tfu assistance possible to good citizen

ship. It" is more than ever Interested in the building of the true American school, and it is active in a country-wide effort to place the pop-, ular American mind again upon the mental plane where a proper appreciation of distinctively American teachings may be found. In the final picture, its charity and altruism are noble outstanding features.

Church Dances Itself Out of Episcopal Diocese

NEW YORK, April 5. Bishop William T. Manning, of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York,

has informed Rev. William Norman Guthrie, rector of St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, that his church would remain "without episcopal visitation or ministration for its rector's refusal to discontinue eurythmic dancing In connection with services at tha church. On two occasions last December and again on March 14, Bishop Manning expressed his disapproxaL-pt the ritualistic dances. Dr. Guthrie insisted they were'not banned by church law. The dancers were presented in the church laat Sunday.