Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 26, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1924 — Page 8

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Why the Klan Is Needed and Is a Benefit to Any Community

Those who think that the purpose ot

: the business of the Klan is to oppose

(By W. C. Wright)

try of Texas there are comparatively anu nsnt negroes, jews, uainoncs tew negroes, Jews, Catholies and-and foreigners are sadly mistaken, foreigners. Kully 90 per cent of j and nave no conception of its Ideals the population are native-born, white, I and principles. True, we do not adGentile. Trotestant Americans; and m't these classes to membership; but a very large percentage of them are ! w make n ght on cea or re-

WISH PARCEL POST TO PAY WAGE RAISE TO POSTAL EMPLOYES

FORD SHOALS OFFER OPPOSED BY BURTON

Committee Members Agree on Increase and Seek Means to Obtain It

of pood moral character who believe

In law enforcement and the tenets of the Christian religion. In view ot these facts, we believe that to justify the existence of the Klan in this section would prove its necessity in auy community in America. The Khin a Vital ces.Itj We therefore undertake to show that the Klan has a distinctive place to fill, a special work to do, and is a vital necessity in every community. No organization hifs any right to exist, nor can it lay any Just claim' to the support of good men, unless it can ehow that it fills a distinctive place, and performs a specific service to humanity. Money extorted from the people to support an institution that renders no service in return, is a form of theft, and should be frowned

ligions.

Why Single Ont the Klan? Masons do not admit Ken who have lost an arm or a leg; but Masons are not ' fighting cripples. They simply demand that a man must be sound in body to beeligible to membership. We do not believe that the negro is fighting the white race because he

excludes the white man from his secret orders; or that the Jew is fighting Christians because ho excludes them from the B'nai B'rith; or

that Catholics are fighting Protestants simply because they exclude them from the Knights of Columbus. They have a perfect right to name these conditions of membership. Since the Klan is not fighting races or religions, the presence of

these elements in a community does

Postal Workers Criticise Jfevt In His Opposition to the Bill and to Increased Pay

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ON IMMIGRATION IS MADE BY REP. SCHALL

upon by all good men. Such an in- I not justify the existence of the Klan,

etitution Is a burden instead of a

blessing. We have often heard it said. "There are but few negroes. Jews, Catholics and foreigners In this community, and we see no need of the Klan."

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neither does their absence prove that

it is unnecessary. ';it ion-wide Problems First, it should be remembered that

the Klan is a national organization

land deals with nation-wide problems, J as well as local conditions. Even if jits activities were entirely local it i could not be truly said of any com- ! munity, "We have no need of a Klan here.' Rut since every community should be vitally interested in the public welfare of the nation as a

whole, and each one has special conditions with which the Klan deals,

it can not be truthfully stated of any place that there is no need of an organization that has to do with national problems and seeks to improve national as well as local conditions. Most of our problems are of national scope and directly concern every community in America. Of Interest to Every Citizen Take, for instance, white supremacy, law enforcement, free public schools, education. Christianity, constitutional rights of citizenship, protection of the home, chastity of womanhood, separation of church and state, liberty, the pursuit of hanpi-

WASHINGTON, April 19. A substantial Increase in the rates on parcel post mail to provide means to advance salaries of postal clerks and carriers is under serious consideraTRm by the two postoffice committees in Congress. Postmaster-General New has notified Congress that if this additional

charge on the postal service Is authorized, it will have to be met either

by direct drafts on the treasury or by increases in postal rates. He is opposed to the increase bills now under discussion and has recommended a salary readjustment that would add $43,000,000 to the payroll instead of $150,000,000 as provided in the Paige bill and the Edge-Kelly bill now pending.

Mr. New has outlined a plan under which this $43,000,000 may be raised

without enlarging the postal deficit. It provides for increases in the parcel post rates, slight increases in the second-class rates applying to newspapers and -increases In the fees for registering and insuring mail. Pay Increase Means Rate Rise To date the House committee has given little attention to increase in postal rates, other than those relating to parcel post. Department officials as well as leaders in Congress

are agreed that salaries should be advanced to figures more in keeping with the increased cost of living, but they are not in accord as to the method of providing the money. Congress leaders are disposed to get the needed funds by increasing the rates on parcel post, whereas the postmaster-general would make a general increase in rates on all mail matter except letter mail. He has warned Congress that the rates on parcel post deliveries proposed by the Paige bill, which had been given

a position or priority in committee,

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but national problems as well, which should demand the active co-operation and fearless support of all good citizens everywhere. Every citizen should be vitally and actively interested in the fundamental principles of Americanism American ideals and institutions irrespective of any local needs or dangers. If these great principles are attacked or endangered in any locality, and the danger is not checked, it is only a question of time when every community in America will suffer from the effect. All good Americans are interested in the safety and con

cern or the rights ot citizenship everywhere, and will not selfishly rest, secure in the safety of their own little locality, because they see no immediate local danger. A Benefit to Every Community The injury of one should he, and is, the concern of all. The apostle

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cies and might result in a loss instead of an increase in revenues.

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The Parcel Post Burden Statements in reply to New's statement have been made by officers of the postal employes' organization. The statements were made by Clyde Kelly, representative in the Congress from a Pennsylvania district, who introduced the measure bearing his

name, and Henry W. Strickland, secretary of the Railway Mail Association. "Parcel post rates are nothing less than a subsidy to the great mail order houses, at the expense of the

taxpayers, the other classes of mail and the underpaid postal workers," says the statement by Strickland. Representative Kelly's statement said that the postmaster-general had distorted the issue, which was whether the demand for an increase of the pay of postal workers would be granted. He said the bill which he introduced did not contain a word

applicable to the parcel post system, but was a salary classification .measure, framed on the principle

that postal workers should be paid enough "to secure the necessities of life lor themselves and families."

"WASHINGTON, April 19. Oppo

sition to the acceptance by Congress

of Henry Ford's offer lor the government power , site at Muscle Shoals is voiced in a statement made public here by Representative Theodore E. Burton,' of Ohio. Mr. Burton, who was for years chairman of the committee on rivers and harbors and has drafted much of the existing legislation relating to waterpower projects, declared that the difficulty in dealing with the

"so-called Ford proposal lies in the fact that the main issue is completely masked behind a smoke

screen of doing something for the farmer." Mr. Burton asserted that while ho is opposed to government ownership and operation he would rather see the Muscle Shoals project completed and even operated by the government than to give it to Ford under any such terms as are proposed. "If the government would turn the proposition upside down," Mr. Bur

ton continued, "retain title and con

trol of the dams and steam plants, sell power to Mr. Ford at wholesale rate on a twenty-year contract and let him do as he pleases with regard

to the manufacture of fertilizer, I would not care what kind of a deal it might make with him for the nitrate plants and connected property." Declaring that Ford would not make fertilizer without a profit and that the price obligated by the terms was ridiculously low." Mr. Burton went on to say the Ford offer was

"grossly inadequate." "He is paying $1,600,000 for prop

erty that cost $92,000,000 and that has a scrap value of $16,000,000," he ! said, adding that this gave title to steam plants, nitrate plants, quarries, transmission lines and thousands of acres of land including whole towns built by the government, in addition to the waterpower leases. "The millions upon millions of dollars of the money belonging to the taxpayers of the United States already expended are totally disregarded," he concluded. "A carefullyconsidered and well-tried federal policy of conservation is brushed

aside in a most irresponsible manner. The members of the House who voted for the bill have not heard the last of it."

Blind Congressman Makes Splendid Plea in Behalf of Americanism

Maybe Japan's Ambassador Was Wrong Senate Thinks So

America Is Being Swamped and Submerged, Minnesota Representatire Says

(Bureau Publication and Education) WASHINGTON, April 19. Representative Thomas D. Schall, the blind congressman from Minnesota,

made a splendid speech on immigration in the House a few days ago. Although, his eyes do not see, his mind is as clear as crystal when it comes to seeing the things America does not want and the things she does need. Read what he said on immigration: "Mr. Speaker, assimilation can not any longer keep pace with immigration. Slower than of old, because

the stocks are not so near of kin, because they do not mix as formerly with the land but maintain their own

race groups in cities. Highly illiterate, unskilled in labor, they are not the asset they used to be. The haven of refuge has been so crowded that it is ceasing to be a refuge for anyone. New problems are created

by the immigrant. Troubles exist

ing here are increased. Political power in the hands of these untrained people, not understanding or sympathizing with American ideals, is dangerous power. "We are finding out that instead of the foreigner becoming Americanized America is being swamped.

submerged. Certain lost their original

and are developing those of their predominant foreign nationality.

(Bureau Publication and Education,) 1 WASHINGTON, April 19. Hasn't the United States a right to fence Itself in and keep out the hordes of foreigners who demand to Come here, undesirables and incompetents not wanted, without provoking war with some foreign nation? That's the question that Japan is trying to force us to acknowledge and some people are so weak-kneed that they pretend to say that the United States is on the brink of a great crisis on account of

sent the letter to congress and It caused indignation throughout the capitol. Hence the senate took up the threat implied and acted at once and the result was almost unanimous. -; The senate claims that the Japan ambassador's letter contained a veiled threat and the United States senate does not propose to be threatened or coerced by any one. It even resents the use of the big stick which President Coolidge is

the exclusion amendment tacked on trying to wield on the upper branch in the senate to the immigration bill. ! ot congress in order to force legisTfie house in passing the Johnson ! aRnd !,Lt?l8'nlrveBtJfat,n immigration bill by the big majority ""tw TLtL e L I

of 322 to 71 barring all aliens not 1 , "VT ". V ,, V . .

do about our own immigration busi

ness. And it is not going to yield

eligible and holding the quota down

to 2 per cent'on'the basis of the 1890

census Was an expression of an1 American sentiment indicating the feelings of the people of this country.

Japan, through its American am-

to any threat.

Only one voice was raised in the senate In behalf of Japan and that was that of Senator Sterling, of

South Dakota, who was recently de-

bassador, has entered an emphatic , feated for renomination. He took

the position that the Japanese ambassador did not mean his protest as a threat and argued that our position taken in the senate would tend to disturb business relations between the United States and Japan. Senator Sterling and Chairman Colt, of the senate immigration committee, of Rhode Island, were the only two negative votes cast in the senate. No one can say just what is going to happen but the writer is not an alarmist in any sense of the word and does not believe that Japan will construe this exclusion act as unfriendly. Secretary Hughes tried his best to stem the tide more than a

month ago, but failed as the big ma-

protest because the senate emphatic

ally abrogated the previous 'gentlemen's agreement' so-called, by the almost unanimous -vote of 76 to 2. Japan claims that she has lived up to the spirit of that agreement, but the people of the Pacific coast who are mighty well Informed on the question assert that Japan has not done so and has violated the agreement right along. The Japanese immigration to this country has more than doubled since that agreement was entered into, if the people of the Pacific coast know whereof they speak.

The Japanese ambassador claims

in of Pioneer Scout Is to Be Town's Guest of Honor

KANSAS CITY. At the centennial celebration of the Cache valley at Logan, Utah, in July, Mrs. Hahn, of Kansas City, Kas., granddaughter of Jim ireOsfiSi noted pioneer- scout-and guide in the region at its settlement, will be the guest of honor. Mrs. Hahn came into prominence recently by filing suit for $1,000,000 against producers of the films, "The Covered Wagon," for depicting Bridges as an undesirable character, it is alleged.

FIGHT ON INACCURATE TEXTBOOKS PLANNED

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Governor of Washington Says Glaring Errors Are Being Taught Children in Schools

PRINTING that PLEASES Wo rt erjnipppd In handle all kiruls i,f rnmmfiH;il printing in a firnmpt mul :itisf:trti"ry manner. 1'rli i- for "Qu;ility I t in t i i.b" on apiiUcii lion. All work confidential. Mull iirniph Pepart nient Our M ult i' r;i pli dp:i rt ni-nt is prp-p.irf-u to dHivrr your form letters ith promptness mul dispatrh. AVrite us for in f orniiition and prices on your work. NATIONAL PRINTING CO. I'lionr 1.1 nroln 4:15 Crnlury llltl.

Daddy Swiped Our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan THAT KLKVKR. KLASSY. KOMK'AI, KLAN SONG P.y Helen Marcell First sung by the (iris' dee Club of Kansas University and was Broadcasted by the Kansas City Star. Send Thirty-Five Cents to K. C. MAKIKLL, (Ktuwn, Kan. Music Dealers Write for Quantity Prices

Thi ignorant textbook writer and the inaccurate school book are to face a vigorous fight when Governor

Louis i. Hart, of Washington, erets

! through in office. Governor Hart is

not ar-windidato for re-election, and intends to devote much of his time when relieved from the cares of

office to combating the use of inaccurate and misleading textbooks. "Some of the statements I have found in our school books are so preposterous and inaccurate as to be almost amusing," he says. "Neverthelessit is a very serious thing that our state should be so much misrepresented and its resources touched upon with such careless disregard of .facts. It is wrong, in the first place, that the children in our own schools should be expected to depend upon such textbooks; but when we remember that the same misstatements are carried into the schools in many other states, we get a better appreciation of the magnitude of such misguidance."

SHOCK TROOPS , The adrertlsers of the Fiery frost are the Shock Troops of Klandom. They expect and deerre tbe patronage of all Protestant Americans.

DAI GHEKTY I LIBEL CASK ASHEVILLE, N. C, April 19. Charging that the Senate committee investigating his administration of the department of justice had pigeon-holed his report on wartime

fraud suits for $60,000,000, Harry M. Daugherty again struck back at his accusers in an interview given out here. He also made known his intention to appear for the owners of the Marion Star in their suit against Frank A. Vanderlip growing out of the latter's celebrated Ossining ad-

i dress, and reiterated that he would support President Coolidge for the , Republican nomination. 'The war fraud suits," Daugh- : erty said, "already have brought the government at least $8,000,000," and he predicted that $16,000,000 more would be collected as a result ot ; these proceedings within a year.

"Working of System The statement goes into the working of the parcel post system, asserting that it is not self-sustaining, although nearly 70 per cent of all mail

is of that class. This percentage of

the mail, however, brings in only 35 per cent of the revenue of the postoffice department, although it congests the mails and causes expense for additional rent in postoffice buildings, the statement says. "If parceHpost mail were compelled to pay the same part of the revenue it takes in volume, there would be $150,000,000 immediately available to pay just wages to the

workers who make the postal serv

ice possible. That is exactly what

the law required in the beginning.

The postoffice department is respon

sible for the present situation in vio

lation of the law," the statement says. Any assertion that Kelly and other congressmen are favoring the express companies in their fight for higher wages for postal workers is "made for purposes ot brazen deception," the statement says. If the postmaster-general could prevent a wage increase, he could destroy the postal service, it says. Strickland Statement in Part The statement from Strickland is in part as follows: "Ic is preposterous that anv re

sponsible postoffice official would

seriously charge that there is a plot to turn the parcel post over to the express companies or that a nominal increase in rates would destroy it." During the hearing before the postoffice committee last month. Representative Paige, of Massachusetts, brought out the fact that parcel post

rates could even be increased 100 per

cent, if necessary, in the first three zones and still be 50 per cent less

than express rates. The present par

cel post rates for the first pound within the fourth zone, or 600-roile

limit, averages less than 6 cents a-

pound; and additional pounds are at a much lower rate. The minimum express charge is 29 cents. "It is obvious that even if there were sharp Increases In parcel post rates in these zones that there would be no competition from the express companies. But" only nominal Increases in parcel post rates would be

jiecessary to raise postal revenues

gress decides that this Is the proper

way to raise funds. At the postal hearings last month, Joseph Stewart, representing the postmaster-general, stated that the postal system han

dled over 4,000,000,000 pounds of parcel post last year. If this is true, then an increase of only 2 cents a pound on parcels would increase postal revenues approximately $100,000,000 annually or more than enough to provide a living wage for the postal workers. And it is ridiculous to contend that a nominal increase such as this in parcel post postage rates would curtail or destroy this widely-used postal facility."

Duty as Americans j "Our duty as Americans, as guard- I ians for posterity, is to maintain ! strict watchfulness over the strains ; which will compose our future citi- ; zens. We are too prone, some of us, ! to consider the assumed rights of J

outsiders. Because Europe s warbeggared millions are crying "Sanctuary!" some feel that this claim gives them a paramount right as

against those who look upon America as their own land. They would let down the bars through a sentimental but unwise impulse as dangerous to our well-being nationally as is indiscriminate charity. It may make the person who indulges in this gratuitous display of world love

feel high and inspired as the carelessly-given coin brings a self-righteous glow. Why give away that

precious thing, American citizenship, to those who neither appreciate it nor will help to keep up its high standards, who have respect neither Tot Iaw"n6r government, whose moral standards are not our standards. "Our own people do not seem to realize that it is for us to give or to" withhold the precious privilege of coming into this, our land. There would not long be any America if we, the people's representatives, lost the courage to say, "Be worthy or

America has stigmatized Japan. In !

I fact, the phraseology of his letter I jorities show. California insists : was unfortunate and indicated con- j that the Japanese immigration has

localities have siderable feeling. Secretary Hughes ; become a menace to the Pacific coast characteristics -land that instead of Japan carrying

j out its contract to see that the

United States was not deluged with Japanese that the immigration from that country has more than doubled previous figures under this so-called

"gentleman's agreement."

it that it is not what the Spanish-

blooded people want. To get so far ! out of your orbit as to be unable to j consider things from the viewpoint j

you can not come in." The true American is aghast at the eating from within that has so changed a large part of our countrymen that they consider it some kind of cardinal sin to be patriotic, to look out for our own. They think it betrays a narrowness to love the old ideals and long to keep them, to preserve our hard-won individuality. What the foreigner wants, that is the concern to them, not what Americans want. A would-be leader of thought in attacking the Monroe doctrine

States is to cease to be an American. We are not a conquered nation, to be overrun, despoiled of our treasure of nationality. Nation Has Made Progress "We have made progress toward

greatness as a nation. We are work1 ing toward a distinct American type,

i with well-made bodies, fine features, quick intelligence. If we take in more heterogeneous material than we can assimilate, and assimilation is a slow matter, we shall lose all we have gained and be reduced to

unlike masses and hopeless disunion. The honest, wholesome, frugal decent American deserves that we should guard against his being supplied with a mass of undesirable

neighbors. He and his children have earned a right to consideration. ""We have set ourselves an ideal in government. If we attain it, we fulfill our mission. If we so load and fetter ourselves that we are incapable of attaining these ideals, jt we clog our streams of national life with those who can not or will not come up to the standards, if we make of ourselves a harbor for the failures and outcasts, the diseased, and

criminal off-scouring of other coun

tries, we are neither helping these

glibly cites as an argument against I fortune."

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others nor" sei'ving our purpose in the plan. Real patriotism, real humanity, real world mindedness consists in keeping this land of ours true to its ideals, clean, vigorous, healthy and united. "We are subjecting American Tabor to unfair competition.

"The foreign invader is not most

dangerous when he comes as a hostile army, but when he comes into the field as an army of labor. So

have all the nations of the past gone

down. Let us profit by their mis-

The next move in this controversy-

is up to Japan. Dispatches from Tokio indicate that there is grave concern there over the matter. Congress has spoken and there is some talk that the Japanese ambassador may be recalled by his country on the theory that he pulled a "boner" in

his threat letter. At any rate there are mighty few people in Washington who profess to see anything like severing ot diplomatic relations or going to war over this matter. Japan's heavy losses from the recent earthquake, to say nothing of her crippled condition financially on account of other wars in which she has been engaged, will likely stay her hand even if she la

aroused over this Japanese exclusion act. It all reverts back to the original question. If the United States, feeling as it does about this immigration question, seeks to put a stop to It or slow it up so as to protect America herself, what's wrong about that? To whom does this country belong

anyway? And why haven t we a right to have our say about who shall come here and how many? There are too many foreigners in this country anyway and ..we have too many men in congress of the LaGuardia type who seek to gain control and run this government according to his . foreign ideas. He forgets this country belongs to Americans and that Americans have some rights that are bound to be respected.

ROBERT LANSING NAMED WASHINGTON? D. C, April 16. Robert Lansing, former secretary of state, has been selected by President Coolidge as one ot the American members of the new Mexican claims commission.

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