Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1924 — Page 4

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ELAN'S PROGRAM FOR 1924 1. Militant, old-fashioned Christianity and operative patriotism. . Back ts the Constitution. KtSro0 E,8hteenth Amendment so Ion, as it b a part

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The Golden Rule - There's an old story that meet folks have heard at some time or other lt.ii rT'n f0rgUen and " s this: After the world got houahTn a m ,0n,,itS feCt Bgain aft6r thS big smt folks thought they would build a tower high enough and strong enough to keep to bu. 1 h 7 Tr VOrM g0t dWn UDder again" So- the' started . ?. TU DW What haPPened- Everything went on peacefully mrh h a WlUIe; thn th6y aU g0t t0 fussin and barreling so much about the way in which it should be built, the correct measurements and so on. that the contractors simply had to give np the Job. A lot of people never knew what started the trouble. But this is what p happened. The architect in all of hi, drawings and plans used a very choice kmd of measuring tool known as the Golden Rule, and that is what ho recommended to the builders. As long as they used it, they got alonB first rate, but some of the hasty ones thought they could work a !- TJ feU0W had h'3 Wn n,le' 30 the de own, and by ajid by the crash came. Now the plans for that tower are still good and the Golden Rule is ying around somewhere in the rubbish. a little tarnished, no doubt but f folks would only find it, polish it np a bit and then start using itthat oner could still be built. The Klan is endeavoring to help folks of all types and minds to find that Golden Rule in America. It built the Fiery Cross by means of it.

As it9 patriotism waxes or wanes, a country lives or dies. Any general movement of the people or any section of the people, which increases the love ot country, admiration for its founders, respect for its laws and reverence for its flag, is a sacred movement-a divine builder of patriotism and in the imal count, a guardian at the gate of the nation. As long as such movementrospers, patriotism will blaze and the country will li,e The Is,, Mux Klan movement is life to patriotism. While it grows and spreads the country will live and wax strong.

To possess Klan spirit in Its richness of sacred adventure, we must do more than merely accent it we must flnnrfinn'oto If Ti' .a.

newness of Klan life and spiritual rI euoy - lhe utterly. Most women are stronger fnr hnnct

. euiuiaemeni man moat men. At the convention of the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement held in Washington women prominent in political, social and religious life avowed their attitude toward the Constitution and demanded better enforcement of law.

Law Observance, Citizenship From the Christian Science Monitor

. .t cuiuiceiutfui, or more properly law observance, and true citizenship, go hand in hand. It is encouraging that there has been undertaken a definite movement toward the enlistment of representatives of the leading colleges and universities of the country with those officials of the government jvho are striving to compel a more general observance of the laws, in a nationwide organization. Special emphasis has been placed, in the initial discussions of the plan, upon the widespread tendency to violate the proVisions of the Eighteenth Amendment and the statutes enacted to make that amendment enforcible. But the scope outlined is somewhat broader than this, although it may seem that for the time being this campaign will afford ample opportunity for all possible activity. College men, both graduates and undergraduates, naturally are convinced that any great reform should M its inspiration and impelling force in the colleges. They realize the potency of mass action properly directed. It is an encouraging portent, therefore, that the men, as well as the women, comprising this vast army, are disposed to' ally themselves with the cause of civic decency and national integrity. There have been whisperings to the effect that the tendency of college-trained youths is not in the direction of sympathetic support of modern democratic ideals. More specifically It has been hinted that the very law which organized college men now propose to aid in enforcing has been openly and flagrantly violated in halls and on campuses. trot tnere comes a time, in the! non to establish any great reform, when thoughtful persons, whether college men or laymen, realize that what seem to be increasing tendencies to trample upon and to defy the law, point to a possible grave danger. Even the loquacious parlor Bolshevist and the pale pink radical halt short of putting into practice the distressing and terrifying expedients which they sometimes recommend as panaceas for all social and political ills. When the time of actual test comes and a decision must be made between law and a defiance of the established order, reason and orartjr usually tip the scales. A4 so H seems to be in the

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Co., Inc., Pablhthera. Be F.rnUked Ipon Req.e.t. Mll, $2.00 Per Year. tntent of more - venule ii, v c must, 16L r.n ft intention become a substantial part - Khin, we must-absorb ii; we must i A .. fundamental law of the land. It has become apparent that an increasing or continued violation of the Eighteenth Amendment will tend, unavoidably, toward social and political chaos. No law can be flouted and trampled under foot by one-third or one-half of the people of a nation without endangering the very foundations upon which the government oi that nation rests. The young men who are enlisting in the cause of righteousness and civic decency realize the important fact that there can not be true citizenship separate front willing obedience of the law. Rome at Hollywood Rome is sure making it hot for the American actors, and particularly for those who profess to be Protestant in tneir leanings. An actor who would profess to be a Klansman might just as well cut his own throat, because Rome would see that ne starved to death. The power of the Roman Catholic church has become so great in the moving picture industry that American actors are being refused employment in Hollywood now and the casts are being made up almost wholly of Roman Catholies from foreign shores. Rome is determined also to make the Protestant religion the laughing stock of the nation, and will see that pictures placing Protestantism in its worst light are sent everywhere. The situation in Hollywood has become so alarming that even the servile press, that ordinarily does what Rome dictates, is broadcasting stories setting forth the alarming conditions. But tactfully concealing, of course, in its cowardly manner, the Catholic church's responsibility West Texas Fiery Cross. THAT GEJTLiMEX'S PLIDGE SEATTLE, Wash., April 26. Luther T. Weedin, United States immigration commissioner, announces that a plot to smuggle Japanese Into this country has been unearthed, and that eighteen Japanese have been arrested in the last four days in western Washington as a result. The Dead Sea is so called because its water is so thoroughly impregnated with salt that no animal can live in it.

Tie Aim of English Roman Catholics

(The Irish Protestant) Cardinal Bourne, said at the interguild conference of the Catholic Evidence Guild in Stratford Tnwn Hall on Friday afternoon: "We, members of the Catholic Evidence Guild, are out to reinstate the pope; we want him to be the spiritual and ethical leadeT of this country, and we are not hiding the fact at all," continued the cardinal. "The first thing we have to do to bring this about is to let the people know about the pope, for if we only get the people of the country to know the pope, and submit themselves to him, then all the other difficulties we talk about will vanish. If we only succeed in getting the pope reinstated in the hearts of English people we shall have our hearts' desire." The signs of the times all pointed in that direction, said the cardinal. The days had long gone when, as he himself conld remember one saw such phrases as "Down with the pope" written on the walls in the public streets. Instead of that, let them nottce h nw nnvinna n.annlo were now not merely to respect the pope, but to have a lead from him as, foLexample, in matters that concerned the late war. Even within the last few weeks an ex-lord chancellor. Lord Birkenhead, in a speech at Glasgow, had referred to the pope as the greatest priest in the world enthroned in his Roman palaco. Cardinal Bourne said he believed that if they put their souls into the Catholic guild the spirit now spreading throughout England would have a wonderful effect in bringing back the Roman Catholic faith to Great Britain. Gen. Wood Sits in Judgment Governor-General Wood, cabling from Manila, again urges upon the American people, and upon Congress, what he declares to be the necessity ot maintaining, at least for the present, the status quo in the Philippines. He indorses and approves the stand taken by President Coolidge in a recent letter to Speaker Roxas of the Philippine House of Representatives, and insists that, with certain amendments, the present organic act "is adequate to carry out mis policy until such time as the final relations whirh tween the United States and the people of the Philippine Islands may be determined." There is nothing in the proposed adherence to such a program to encourage those -who have, courageously and perhaps unselfishly, committed themselves to the cause of independence for the Filipinos It is asserted by General Wood that these agitators who have been regarded as patriots are simply ambitious fomenters ot unrest He professes to believe, because of the absence of appeals to him in behalf of independence, that there is no popular movement hr that direction. In this respect he takes direct issue with those Filipinos who have besieged Congress in an effort to persuade it to comply with what they insist are the direct promises made in the Jones law. as well as the official declaration by President Wilson that, in his opinion, a stable government had already been established by their people. No or;e would hv th ii a UiilWWll to deny to General Wood the right to syeitK aecisiveiy ana more or less conclusively regarding the conditions which he discusses. But it must not be forgotten that he, unavoidably, reflects the militaristic, rather than the political or economic viewpoint. He sees existing in the Philippines a powerful and dominating military organization. Looking backward, he sees that this has been maintained since the year 1898. It would be difficult for him to imagine the .continuance of orderly government in that territory in the absene of the power which he represents. Looking forward, ba quite, naturally pictures industrial and social chaos as a sequel to the relinquishment of that control which conditions exist ing a quarter of a century ago made imperative. One would welcome from General Wood a fuller declaration as to those certain amendments" which he says should be made to the organic act which he finds to be still adequate for the orderly government of the Filipino people. He evidently intends this as a tacit admission that some progress in the art of self-gov ernment lias been made by those wnose welfare he insists he seeks to safeguard. By what gauge shall this progress be measured? It is not always safe, as recent events have proved, for one people, or the representatives of any established authority, to set themselves up as Judges of the fitness, ethically intellectually, or industrially, of other peoples for self-government. Christion Science Monitor. Ford Adds to Relics BALTIMORE, April 26. Henry Ford, Detroit manufacturer, has added to his collection of relics by the purchase of an ancient stage coach from an innkeeper on Blair road Maryland. The vehicle, which traveled the road of the White Mountains for many years, came into the possession of the innkeeper about six years ago. It was left at his place by & New Hampshire man who ra nn vi to California, towing the eoach bev iwuu ma auLomoDiie. in the vicinity of the inn the coach broke down and E. J. Ooettner, the innkeeper, bought it. According to Goett n pr Mr VnvA saw the stage coach when he stopped last September and hin ttJ hut ias rm .1 n mitninnuu .t . "r ii. me sale wan rerontlw completed, Goettner said, and the vehicle WU 8hind tn TVio,Mich.

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Uncover when tn ,, v.,. It is the blood-stained ark of every American covenant. Are you out of the Klan? It's not cate you are buying it is patriotism you re trading for lies. The clarion note, As from trumpet blown, Is the call of the Klan No uncertain tone. It speaks the thought, As when Jesus fed The hungering hosts With heavenly bread. The Japs think it very cruel that we are barring Japanese laborers from coming to America, and yet she is shutting Chinese laborers out of Japan and China is right at Nippon's dOOT. Keen vr. - Jap, Klansmen, because he is likely - u,a oia Mongolian-Sibtric There is no more eloquent thing in the world than a Klanaish life. The people who walk in the dark are those who fear the sparks from the fiery cross. The Klan's wort can never be too weak for your strongest powers. The achievements of white civilization attest the supremacy of the white man's mind; bnt they do not attest that those achievements have been made without the co-operation of all races and types working as a unit in the bodv nf himon n ti.. colored man has come to know that A Klan is his friend and that the righteousness of law regulates both white and negro in" all their relations toward civilization. It is not the Klan that exalts fundamental differences in type. The Klan attitude has been described as "uncritically patriotic." We think it better to be "uncritically patriotic" than critically unpatriotic. Klansman, tell your friend the unadulterated truth always you are not a true Klansman if you do not You know that there is nothing in our ritual that shmi!rt :nhi) "uujLV, 1 1 Ul us to unkind, impertinent criticism You know that all of our official documents ind.ir.ate in rir equivocal language that the Kian Is iiuic, naiernai ana patriotic organization pledged to good government, distinctive American institutions, and the "constitutional rights of free speech, free public schools free press, and the separation of church and state." Tell your friend that tell him so he will understand it. Adviee Go breathe yotrr prayeri Go sing your song; Go help your friend Bear truth along; Go spend your life In Klannish deeds You have no time To fight o'er creeds. Build your best life Upon the Klan," 'Twill tell the world You are a man. Schools, reform schnnia taiia penitentiaries is there any progressive relationship? What do you think. Klansman? Schools are built to INform, reformatories to REform and penitentiaries to UNIform. If schools did more FORMiag instead of so much INFORMIng, it is conceivable that there would be less need for REFORMdng and no need for UNIFORMine. type our early educators dreamed could empty jails; colleges like the Fathers planned and visioned could close penitentiaries. Klan-planned schools and colleges, living up to the prophetic ideal, wnnin imnn tv. i citizenship and consequently a nobler Remember. Klansman, "the fox has many tricks, the hedgehog only one" beware of both! It was Ibsen who said that one should never put on one's best trousers to go out to fight for freedom. Certainly not. One should wear battleplata and sixteen-inch gnns, not forgetting the sword of the spirit and a little one hundred per cent, old-style patriotism. The Klansman does what he ought to- do, and seeks no praise because it is his duty. Shooting They've shot the Klan with guns and They've shot the Klan with stones and, sticks; They've shot the Klan with twisted rules; They've shot the Klan with Rometaught schools; Bnt the ammunition that's hurt the worst, In all the hate campaigns accurst, Has been the festered falsehoodslies They shot across the Klan's clean They shot that bolt of mean refuse nnen tney said: "You know the Klan hates Jo And it's stmply awful th way the Is down on the harmless color man." And again that clumsy lie of old. : .. "The Klan is out to get the sold." And this doublo -H that almost smokes: : ,Thfolksa" U SCar'n and Wppir vL? tleJw.orld' Its lanW TouTi fad in Jt-wec pipes and -Brains The poison gas some Iov tfr spray

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On the Klan you read about each UtXJ. Go up the world, go in and out Where peoDle nasa anr-y, otw i 4. . ... ovuu auuuL And you 11 note the war these rebels picas On the Klan that strives for right eousness. But it matters shoot. not what foemen The Klan'3 entrenched from head to foot ; Its robe and visor protect it well Against the fumes of Romish hell And those who dwell in Wisdom's booth Can quickly learn, the naked truthNo matter how they shoot the Klan It is Simon Pure American! If the Klan shmiiri n t, i ough and genuine not alone would urbanization saner, but the country as well even the enemies of the Klan as units in the commonwealth We do not "live unto ourselves" there is a kind of amalgamation in nature that fnrhida oo-.-.m tendencies. They used to call the Ku Klnx Klan the "salesmen of hate," but .it WOUld be difficult tn fin v,. w ..ui nun ut where this phrase could apply Ask te,-lt,rUS8lins Dagtors of hundreds l nuc cuurcnes who have received aid ask the thninmnili families, white and black, that have been the recipients of fclan charity and helpfulness. "Salesmen of hate," Indeed! - . Cramming Ronttsh theories and predigested, pro-European opinions down the gullible throat of American youth is not education. Schools and school children do not exist primarily for the exploitation of biased textbooks gotten out by warped authorsand subsidized publishers. Besides, thinirs rhan an adays that by the time teachers and pupils have examined the title page and learned the name of the author of any one book, there is a new text out exploding all the conclusions reached by the former author and setting forth an entirely new doctrine. Children learn all about gravitation, only to have Einstein come along and tell them It was all a lie. As Klansmen, we believe in the teaching of facts without bias or prejudice. Back of this we desire that children shall be trained to think things out for themselves. As teachers, we shall not require children to memorize perverted facts but shall show them how to study true principles and formulate their own opinions. Our Duty to Oar Fla Our duty to our flag Is not what dutv It's more than idle shoutsIt's more than empty dreams ; It's more than promises; It's more than braes If you want to know just what it is, i-ume ass our Klansman hosts. Our duty to our flag Is not flap-doodle spread; It's not the hectic speech. Nor double-column "head"; It's more than fireworks, too. Ay, more than voting booth If you want to know just what it is, Get a Klanaman's view of truth. Our duty to our flag Is not in light alarms; It's not alone response When loud the call to arms. It's in loyalty down deep In body, soul and all If you want to know jHst what it is. Come, heed our Klansman call. Our duty to our flag Is not alone in death; It's not alone the cannon's roar! Or the warrior's lab'ring breathIt's fight when fight must be. And it's living life the best If you want to know just what it is Our Klan will tell the rest. A KLANSMAN'S CREED betievt in Gad and in the teneU f the Christian religion and that a godlest nation can not long prosper. I believe that a church that is not grounded on the principles of moral' tty and justice is a mockery to Cod and t man. I believe that a church that does not have the welfare of the common people at heart it untttorthy. I believe in the eternal separation of Church and State. 1 hold no allegiance to any foreign government, emperor, king, pope or any other foreign, political or religious power. I hold my allegiance to the Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone. I believe in just laws and liberty. I believe in the upholding of the Constitution, these United States. 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 cttixenship. I believe in. freedom of speech. I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religious sects. I beiieve in law and order, I believe in the protection of our pure womanhood. I do not believe in mob violence, but f do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence. t believe in a closer relationship ot capital and labor. I believe in the prevention unwarrastted strikes by foreign labor agitators. I believe in the limitation of for' t 4 AC a njliimi-kmmm f men and I bebeve my rtghtr in this country are emyertor to those of for etgnert.

Gossip Along the Way

Somewhere tn the Klan a place is waiting for you you with your .own iCuui, jour own ambitions for patriotic service, and your own high possibilities. The place will wait for you because the Klan is strong and can not fail it will wait for you, but you should prepare yourself for it, seek it, step Into it. Modify the Volstead law? Well why not modify the law that makes' it a crime to go out and burn your neighbor's property? We might change the law enough to permit light arson and near murder," you know, so that a fellow could burn just the upper story off a man's house and knock him senseless if he wanted to, without being amenable. It's easy enough to see where that would- take us. Those fellows that harp so much on "modification" really want niillifiratfen. It took a civil war to settle that theory bnt it was settled for all time so far as the United States of America is concerned. Though the old rule still holds, no doubt, that A "wet" convtnppil is of the same opinion still. The Klansmnn'a cr.nl w.u ,o aa niS iaCe Shnwa tho . UttVCO UL JUS proud origin. Klan observpra nnta Inot tt..early drift toward potentialities has ceased. In point of fact the racial instinct of the old world is always '""'u mouarcny. it is no wonder that Afghanistan and Tron .i; the sceptre of kingly right it is no wonder that Persia who flirted with republicanism returned finally to the idea of monarchial will. They are mai way, ana as God created them so let them stand. ' The Klan issues an urgent call for men not for its sake but for the sake of those men. It offers to the average wnite American release trom the defeat of mediocrity, showing him that he possesses a share in a government that is worthy of his highest iovaltv nH dividual endeavor. It offers to the American of career a cause worthy of his noblest standards, a possibility for his ripest intelligence. The Klan stimulates every man's latent idealism: To the wage slave the organization offers growth to rebuild a dwarfed and starved personality to the man of means it presents an everwidening vista of ennobling opportunity reaching to a future radiant with hope. In Klan fulfillment, as in Klan possibility, bads the promise of celestial worth. The richest Klansman is the one who gives away the most in service to the cause and talks the least about it. The Klan believes in set purpose and thoroughness along alLJines It puts men in jail, but it doef not forget to see that the jail Is well-roofed and that the bars across the windows are made of iron rather than inuuieu WOOa. Many extremely large eastern papers have espoused Al Smith's cause To their way of thinking he is an effulgent figure" to the Democrats of New York state. If this be true he will probably lose a great deal or his radiance when other states are heard from. According to the New ork Times, "the circumstances of his career, his maoto stir the imagination of the American irrZL J.1 i&- PerhaPS, a sad thing that the Times' prophetic utterances possess about as much truth and value as the toothless murmurs of an o) a maid conversing earnestly Urfrn I. ..... . ... wi rut.. Breaking the laws of your land is pretty much like breaking your own eck. The government, backed up by OUT little nW Mai;,(i a..,. the bead; and the public, the folks A c. oey tne laws they are the body. Now, the head wouldn't amount to much if there wasn't a body fastened to it somewhere. And the body wouldn't be worth a row of Pins if t didn't have a head on it So there you are. The neck fastens them together, that's, all. Most of us Klansmen have got too much sense to break off our neck for the purpose of hurting our head, and we are trvlne: tn trot oil k to know that breaking a law to spite &u.cniiueat iS aDOut the same tnittg. And whan -trn,, . down to brass tacks" as the saying goes the kind of head a fellow has usually matches his body pretty well anyway. It must be a matter of satisfaction to Klannish Americans that the Senate threw off all restraint and came bluntly to the point in the recent fight on the immigration bill. Pallid diplomacy may work well among hars and thieves, bnt it is not American In purpose and effect where important problems of national scope are considered. Fortunately, the senators made the point clear that immigration is a domestic problem and that what the rest of the world a 0UT position of the """J aoes not matter a tinker's swear-word. Can't voi -hint nwtu , i i ttStea old natriarnk .. .. j - millUft U LI sua slapping Moses on the back and anuuung out tor all Israel to hear: Now; Moses, this law business is alright, I'm for it. Fact is, I never did steal much of my neighbor's manna anyway. But when you make it a law that a man mast not steal, why don't you see, all the young nabobs In the desert are Just naturally going to go out and steal. Of course, it's not right to steaL but if a man sees a fellow with a better looking piece of manna than he has, why It's his business, if he wants to w1"1 set ?'.Yott Interfere with- personal liberty. And, besides, Moses, yoa caul enforce such a law ThereH bo more stealing than there fa now, mark my word." Human nature hasn't changed much, has it. Klansman

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History tends to prove itself. Many years ago- Washington and other mighty Americans urged this count0 remaln toe from all entangling European alliances. The other day Japan tried to tell the United States Senate who should be admitted into our country as immigrants. The Senate rightfully answered the insult by excluding the Japanese Immigrants. If we wera members of the Leacm nf M-unn-this question would come up before that body and it, no doubt, would uphold Japan and we would still bo confronted by the "yellow peril" in greater magnitude than before. The Klan idea is that we still reserve the right to be our own sovereigns, Francis Beidler left a will that in some ways is a model for those who are Klannishly minded. The fortune, estimated at $3,000,000. is Mr. fully divided. Beidler requests that his children devote their Itves "to the welfare of their country and humanity." The sum of $l,60fl,00 is left m trust for charity. And every graduate of the Beidler school is to be given one copy each of the constitution, the Declaration ot Inde pendence, a standard history of the revolutionary war, a standard history of the Spanish-American war and a standard history of the world war. He also asked that his children reject "material accumulations so they conld thereby pay the debt of their ancestors and their own for the opportunities afforded by their country for the development of themselves and their material accumulations." The hypocritical might point out that Beidler asked h s children to do what he didnt do himself: but th hacH i!L ld man 3 suggestion seems pretty sound anyhow. He should have requested that the students who are to be given the constitution and other documents ought to be forced to read those papers at least once a year. No doubt the recent college and university students' conference ia behalf of law observance will help arouse a sense of responsibility in athletic circles in college; and, no doubt, also, there is considerable room for such a sense to be aroused. The resolutions adopted by the body were form slated to "inform students and faculty members concerning tha facts about the passage of the eighteenth amendment." And a most necessary resolution ft was, too. because stadents of ail degrees of scholarship have appeared to be almost blank mentally oa the subject of the Volstead act. Their dullness upon this point has resembled the mental obtuseness of the wiekeil spirit mentioned in the Arabian Nights, who was confined in the dungeons of Caucasus and condemned Ar i6"1 by beart the entirc Koran. Although this unfortunate jinni had been studying for thousands of years he had only memorize. ri now v first line. ... .. When y drive ttio Aii t your schools, see to it that he doesn't '"to your lodge and church. The Klan can guard against holdup men and insure against fire, but it has little protection gossip. Klannishness is like religion you cant keep any more than you can use. The lawbreakers can not understand that more Aran one eye seea their acts and that justice finds them out. The eyes of the Klan are penetrating and ubiquitous. i . Instead of taking Hp the fiery cross and following it to safety a good many people get into trouble by trying to follow a non-illuminat. mg cross of their own poor making. Japan's naval display in China is too tar away to impress the one hundred per eent American. There are more than 18,900,00 Roman Catholics in the United States. They can not be Christianized. They will Hot hold the true American idea of public schools and freedom in religious worship. What are yoa going to do with them? Turn over to them the reins of local and national government? There is something wrong with a Klansman when he forgets that tha first and greatest Americans had a place in their hearts for prayer aa well as politics. Wall Street is betting on AI Smiths chances. A bet on tha scarcity of bananas would be safer. A headline announces that "Poles ?,d ..pe Revlv Bigotry in the Old World. A ennrrt in ty fn l, ti - - r iuc aiau way of thinking, the old world is the best place to revive it if it must be revived. Hearst's "etnmw" nf th irjo t.. fizzled to nothing. It is as puerile as Capt. Wm. Morgan's attempt a century ago to "expose" the Masons. Since the Klan came into real Ufa and being there has been a new vjgor ia Protestantism a kind of stern and hopeful righteousness and a fresh striving after the fruits ot the spirit. Throughout the Protestant chBTcft, it is said, there has been aa almost unbelievable Increase in membership and practical -.interest h eharch work. The church, as well as Protestant fraternaBsm, can hoBor the Klan for the splendid attempt it baa made to organize tha militant spiritaal life of the country Into a service that -builds not only right religion ht Pii.t..t ..... tion and training in school and home. . "Mule" and "mou" M.t v - MW MVBV or many who do not walk the Klan'a

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