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Klan Activity in Indiana
PETERSBURG, Ind. The Klans- i was present and assisted with the men and Klanswomen of Pike county I work. The interest was unusually gathered in a body and visited the strong and a very enjoyable time Methodist church on April 20, pre- was "had. renting a liberal gift to the trustees of the church. The long line of, BLOOMINGTON, Ind. In spite of marchers attracted much attention the fact that activities have been and favorable comment. The spon- J quiet during the winter mouths, innors of the organizations made brief sofar as the public knew, spring
tulks on the principles and purposes finds the Monroe county Klan look
CALIFORNIA PLANS A BIG CELEBRATION Fresno Klan No. 2 to Have a Ten-Day Outdoor Affair, Beginning May 17
WETS BEGIN ATTACK IN WASHINGTON ON THE VOUSTEAD LAW Time-Worn Arguments Used by Boston Delegation at the Hearing
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of the Klan. Interest is being manifested throughout this entire community. - . VKLPEN, Ind.- There was a great outpouring of people to hear the "Principle's of the Klan" discussed by one of the leading ministers of Petersburg on April 18. The Klan unit, recently organized here, is developing its work splendidly and
ing torwartt to the tirst open air meeting and making extensive plans for the coming season. Many new candidates were taken into the order during the winter and the boys are now ready to accomplish big things. TERRE HAUTE, Ind. Mardiing
in a pouring rain to the tune of "Onward, Christian Soldiers," 200 men and women of the Ku Klux Klan
will soon be one of the strongest ' paraded to the Lange school north of units in Klandom. j Twelve Points Friday night and prei sented that school with fifteen WINSLOW, Ind. Extensive prep- i bibles. The presentation was made urattons are being made for a big S by a minister and the acceptance demonstration by the" Pike county 1 speech was made by one of the Klan on May 10. There will be fire-I teachers of the schools The audiworlis, bands, parades, speaking and j torium was filled to overflowing by 'many other features to make the oc- the members of the Parent-Teachers casion a memorable one. Klansmen Association and Klan organizations, will gather at Winslow from all j Bibles were presented the Parent-
southern Indiana. ROCKPORT, Ind. A special en
tertainment was the added attraction
Teachers organization of the Fort Harrison school Friday night. Due to the fact that the school was small and crowded to capacity with
of a weekly meeting of the Knights ' parents, only ten Klansmen took
of the Ku Klux Klan on April 19, when n large class of new candidates was initiated into the order. A representative from Evansville
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part in the presentation of the three
bibles, one for each room. For the
last two months the local Klan has
averaged better than one Bible pies entation each week.
KNOX. Ind. More than eighty Klansmen participated in the funeral rites of Harry Edward McCormack. who passed away at the Lakeside Hospital, Chicago, April 18. The funeral was held at the Knox Methodist church. Klansmen acted as pall bearers. i FILLMORE, Ind. Women of the ; local Klan presented a well-filled i basket of clothing to a little girl, I Gertrude "Walker, who is confined in .the hospital. A letter of thanks has been received from her parents.
GREEXCASTLE, Ind. On the j night of April 23, the women of the j Putnam county Klan received their j charter and an all-night session tookj
place. More than 500 women were present. All work, both local and national, is well under way and if j big things do not happen in Putnam county, it will not be the fault of the
women.
FRESNO, Cal., April 23 Fresno Klan No. 2 will leave no stone un
turned to make a huge success of the coming Klan frolic at the Fresno county fairgrounds daily except Sunday, beginning May 17 to May 28. Co-operating with the parent or foster Klan No. 2 of Fresno will be Dinuba, Selma, Clovis and Tulare
Klans, which originally were a part of Fresno No. 2, but have since be
come individually operative. Bakersfield and Taft will lend special assistance with these other-cities to help put it over. A novel feature will be a Klan wedding. The names of the couple
will remain a secret until the open
ing nignt. i'resno i.ian ino t win present the couple with a five-room bungalow. For realm sport there will be a Kangaroo Kourt, where everyone on some pretense or other will be brought before the kourt for trial and fined. This novelty is a great fun producer and gives each one a chance to prefer a charge against a friend. Each Klan is to have a queen entered in a contest and will strive to bring the honor to their favorite. The first prize will be a $350 dia-
Jjnond ring; second prize, $200 phono-!
graph, and third, $75 wrist watch. There will be public speakers from the valley and the big event will be three lectures by Dr. Bronson. Captain G. W. Price, imperial representative, Realm of California, will be present. Thousands of Klansmen from the length and breadth of the state will he present to attend the three initiations, the first on May 10 for men and the 24th for women, and the monster occasion will be the final night.
May 28, when it is estimated that 2,000 candidates will be initiated. There will- be soloists, duets and quartets,' and a drill team to add to entertainment features.
A tent 1S0x250 -"will be used for old-fashioned dances featuring the quadrille and Virginia reel. Klansmen everywhere are invited to attend.
Gompers Admits Organized Labor Can "ot Be Labeled as Opposed to Prohibition
Brookhart Wishe to Get Con
tempt Charges and Bank Papers Before Senate
Brazil to Take Japanese in a Colonization Scheme
"WASHINGTON, April 26. Reiterating many time-worn arguments of the liquor interests against prohibi
tion, advocates of 2.75 per cent beer.
as a first step toward breaking down
completely the eighteenth amendment to the constitution, appeared
Monday before the House judiciary
committee in support of the fiftynine similar bills which were recently introduced for the purpose of restoring the outlaw liquor traffic to
the extent of "light" wine and beer. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, took occasion to defend himself against charges that in favoring repeal of the Volstead act, he was not expressing the sentiment of organized labor.
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I FT. WAYNE, Ind. The women of j the Ku Klux Klan of Ft. Wayne are doing good work. They are advanc- ! ing with great strides and are al- : ways on the job. A result of this V ! will be seen at the primaries May 6.
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I . . . i ELWOOD, Ind. The women of the ! Ku Klux Klan of Elwood and Tipton were grieved to learn of the j death of Miss Theadosia Cook, a i member of the Tipton organization, j April 19. The two organizations united in showing their sympathy and respect by carrying out her wishes in holding a Klan funeral.
Services were held in the Christian
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De Miller in charge. He paid a beautiful tribute to the life of the young woman and also praised the order with which she was connected. Burial followed in the Cook cemetery near New Lancaster. There were fifty-four Klanswomen ' in charge and the services at the
cemetery were very impressive. Mrs. Gaunelle Murray, promi
nent Klanswoman of Elwood, passed away on April 22. The funeral service was held in the Christian church, with the Rev. Mr. Whittauper in charge. Forty-four Klanswomen took charge of the services at the cemeterv.
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The General Motors Company has declared the regular quarterly dividends of 30 cents on the common stock, $1.50 each on the preferred and 6 per cent debentures, and $1.75 onfche 7 per cent debentures. President Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., said after the meeting that preliminary figures
for the first quarter indicate net earnings available for dividends.
after depreciation, reserve and tax reserve, of $19,280,000 against $19,406,000 one year ago. After deducting preferred dividends this is equivalent to 85 cents a share on the common stock, or at the rate of $3,40 per annum, but does not include the earnings of the Fisher Body Company in excess of dividends paid.
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Daddy Swiped Our Last Clean Sheet and Joined the Ku Klux Klan THAT KLEVER, KLASSY, KOMICAI. 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 j
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Klandom. They expect and deterve the patronage of ail Troti ettant Americana.
Attention has been called to a bill introduced in Congress ostensibly to provide for compulsory school attendance in the District of Columbia, requiring that all children between the ages of seven and sixteen years shall be regularly instructed in a school. On the face of it the bill is merely the usual law providing for compulsory education. A closer reading of the bill disclosed an unusual word
ing. It states that "said child"' shall be "regularly instructed in a public school or in a private or parochial school." The bill further provides "that instruction given in such private or parochial school, or pri
vately, is deemed equivalent by the board of education to the instruction given in the public schools."
The purpose of such wording is at
once apparent. It is to grant formal,
official recognition of the parochial schools as the equivalent of the pub7
lie schools. The program is clear. First, obtain official recognition of the parochial schools as equal to the
public schools. Second, demand that public funds be appropriated in support of parochial schools tlit recognized. We do not believe American citizens are ready to admit that education in a sectarian school is as good a training for the children of a democracy as the public school; nor thatsectarian Instruction Is to be recognized as standard; nor that the appropriations and public funds for parochial schoois is in harmony with
the genius of American institutions.
Similar laws are being introduced
in the legislatures of certain states
1 and it behooves the friends of demoI cratic, non-sectarian, American edu-
; cation, to be Vigilant.
Popular, secular, state-supported
i public schools are a distinctive
American Institution and they must
j be jealously guarded.
(Copied from The ("itizen, Hopkins, Minn.) . Our national song, "America," was first publicly sung July 4, 1832, at
Park Street Church, Boston, and originally there were eight stanzas, four that have become familiar to all and four that for some reason have been neglected. These four stanzas are presented as follows:
Our glorious land today, 'Neath education's sway, Soars upward still; Its halls of learning fair. Whose bounties all may share, Uphold them everywhere, On vale and hill.
They safeguard Liberty, The school shall ever be Our Nation's pride; No tyrant hand shall. smite, While with encircling light All here are taught the Kight, With Truth allied. Beneath Heaven's gracious will The stars of progress still Our course do sway; In unity sublime To broader heights we climb, Triumphant over Time, God speeds our way. Grand birthright of our sires. Our altar and our fires Keep we still pure! Our starry flag unfurled. The hope of all the world. In Peace and Light imperiled, God held secure!
Labor Sentiment Divided William W. Larsen (Dem.), representative from Georgia, remarked that there were many laborers who did not favor modification of the liquor law, and said that his constituents were in favor of the Volstead act. Mr. Gompers, in reply, admitted that labor was not unanimous in opposition to prohibition. Declaring that he was advocating
modification of the Volstead act "to avoid a great calamity," the labor leader said that if 2.75 per cent beer is allowed by law, it would transform the people of the United States from a whisky-drinking people to a beer-drinking people. Julian Codman of Boston, representing the Constitutional Liberty League of Massachusetts arrd- the
Modification League, Inc., told the committee that he was making his plea for 2.75 per cent beer ou the
ground that it would be more "palatable" than the present near-beer allowed under the constitution, and not J)ecause he wanted liquor with a "kick in it." Mr. Gompers frankly told the committee that the kind of liquor needed is stuff with "warmth" in it and he said alcoholic content was needed to provide this "warmth." Asked by Mr. Larsen whether he would favor repeal of the eighteenth amendment, Mr. Gompers replied: "I realize how utterly impractical any suggestion would be to repeal the
eighteenth amendment." Mr. Gomp
ers also took occasion to deny that
he represented the "liquor interests,' which he said had been alleged. "At present there are no brewery interests," he said, "and the hard-liquor manufacturers do not want 2.75 "per cent beer. Organized labor has done more to advance , the cause of temperance than all of the goody-goody uplift societies combined. No one wants to see the saloon, with its attendant evils, returned." That "Fanatical Minority'' Some excitement was caused at
the hearing, when members of the
committee questioned a remark of Mr. Codman that the prohibition law was "forced through Congress by the fanatical minority, with a big bank roll, at a time when millions of our young men were either serving with the army in France or were at training camps." When John N. Tillman (Dem.),
representative from Arkansas, asked whether Mr. Codman desired to convey the impression that there had
been corruption of public officials to accomplish prohibition, the witness said that he did not know and did not wish to make any charges; that he was only repeating hearsay. He quoted Wrayne B. W7heeler, general
counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, as saying that $35,000,000 had been
spent by prohibition organizations
to bring about prohibition.
Mr. Codman described conditions
throughout the country as being de
plorable, as a result of prohibition, saying crime had increased, drinking had increased, bootlegging was general; the nation was one of homebrewers, and disrespect for law was general. .Enactment of 2.75 per cent
beer would tend to decrease these tendencies, in his opinion. He continued i "The hysteria for law enforcement that is sweeping the country and of which we had a recent example in the woman's convention In Washington, is misdirected insofar as its
only object is to enforce one law, namely, the Volsteaif act, and its failure to recognize that in attempting to enforce this one law, rights of
Lfar greater importance are in danger
of violation and are, in fact, violated every day. The theory that the best
way to get rid of a bad law is to in
sist upon its rigid enforcement can
be, in practice, carried a great deal
too far."
WASHINGTON, April 26. One of
the next battles In the senate will be the disposition of the contempt cases against. Mai S. Daugherty, brother of the attorney-general, and Howard Mannington of the "little green house on K street" fame. The resolution for the contempt proceedings is being prepared by order of Senator Smith W. Brookhart, chairman of the Daugherty investigating committee. The Brookhart plan is to bring Daugherty to the bar of the senate and keep him con
structively in custody until he agrees to produce the books of the bank in Washington Court House, where
secrets of the Daugherty family
nnances are held.
A counter resolution citing the
case to the district attorney, as was done in the Harry Sinclair case, also Is in sight, with a battle on the
senate floor certain. The question involves the whole power of the sen ate in the investigations and is a case with few, if any, precedents. The committee has refrained Washington lawyers to prepare the resolutions and arguments. The Brookhart committee is showing no disposition to shorten or stop the Inquiry, and another month of testimony is in sight before the "defense" will have a chance.
No More Backtracking
WASHINGTON, April 26. Under the auspices and at the expense of the Japanese government, thousands of Japanese men, women and children are to be sent to Brazil and other South American countries.
Mr. Tomita, an official of the social welfare bureau of the Japanese department of the interior, is now en route to Rio de Janeiro to inspect
conditions in Brazil and make preparation for the immediate arrival of the first detachment of Japanese. During April it is hoped to send 2,000 to South America, and to dispatch other contingents more or less regularly throughout the year. The Japanese governmenthas appropriated $100,000 to aid quake-stricken families in colonizing in the Latin republics.
California's spokesmen, who have just made urgent representations to the Senate immigration committee
m tavor of Japanese exclusion, see unanswerable arguments in favor of their viewpoint in the governmentdirected Nipponese migration to Brazil. Californians believed there would be a wholesale exodus from Japan as a result of the earthquake, but from Japan came word that reconstruction would keep all hands busy for years to come. That has not turned out to be the case. "Overseas Development Co. The latest reports show that unemployment in Tokyo is on the increase. The government employ
ment bureau is unable to find jobs for more than one man out of every
forty that apply for wsprk. To meet this situation a concern, called the
"Overseas Development Company,'
entered into negotiations with the
government of Brazil to receive Jap
anese settlers, and emigration is
now to -be organized under official
Japanese supervision. Nowhere in North or South America or Australasia are Japanese immigrants received without restric-i tion except in Brazil and Peru. In Brazil already there are 40,000 Japs nese, while in Peru some 10,000 are settled. The majority are contract
laborers and their arrival is welcomed. Up to 1918 and 1919 there was a steady flow of Japanese emigrants to those two South American countries, but since the war it had receded. Now the Tokyo government will do its utmost to interest
young Japanese in the Latin repub
lics as places where a more assured existence is possible than in overpopulated, disaster-stricken Nippon. The plight in which the Japanese find themselves is frankly set forth
raised In the United States, urgin that wholesale emigration of Japanese to Central or South American countries can become a "menace" to the United States. Alleged plans to obtain a territorial foothold on the west coast of Mexico are heard of from time to time. Brazil, does not appear to be alarmed over the prospect of a systematic or even a subsidized emigration from Japan. Indeed, according to Japanese authorities, the Rio de Janeiro government is even advancing colonizing funds to Japanese immigrants, payable on easy terms after they have become properly established as artisans or tillers of the soil.
Gallivan, the Mucker
Senator Pepper, late keynoter at the Maine Republican convention, has introduced a resolution for a world peace conference for the consideration of further reduction of armaments, for the advancement of international law and for the establishment of a world court separate from the League of Nations. After
some heckling of the senator by Democrats and bo-encouragement
from the organization Republicans the resolution was consigned to the j "mausoleum" of the appropriate committee, where it will repose until resurrection day, some time after the November election. While the measure is not regarded as an administration proposal, it may, nevertheless, have been a feeler from that quarter. If so, its reception was conclusive. It is the same old hokum proposition of something-just-as-good but not the same as
that now functioning for the rest of in Yorodzu, an important Tokyo na-
the world. It is the "association of nations" will o' the wisp over again, we ourselves being the only nation refusing to associate in a going concern. It strikes the same priggish pose which ignores all that other nations have done at heart-breaking effort Without onr sorely-needed.help and inviting them into our councils to undo it. It is the road of arrogance of a power too superior to re
spect the institutions, the achievements and civilities of others. President Harding followed this route to its sterile end and finally
compromised by advocating a League of Nations creation, the World Court. The reception of the Pepper resolution in the Senate shows there is no sentiment for any further backtracking. That kind of politics worked in 1920. A great many things worked in 1920 that won't work in 1924. St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The automobile pays more in license fees than is spent on good
roads in this country. - The nation can afford more and better roads; it can afford more and better schools. Good roads everywhere mean good schools everywhere ; both together mean good citizens everywhere.
tionalist newspaper, as follows:
Emigration is a matter of urgent necessity for us. Japan's population increases every year by 800,000. If this rate is maintained, the number of our inhabitants will soon be doubled. It thus becomes a question how the Japanese can sustaih' their aallyIifei, . ' Foodstuffs Imported Our yearly rice crop is not enough to meet the demand. Accordingly, millions of pounds must -be imported, because the extension of our rice-growing fields is not keeping pace witty the growth in population. This is a grave menace to our national existence. The commotion in the world of thought comes mostly from unrest in daily life. To appease this unrest, the solution of problems regarding foodstuffs is indispensable. Problems of foodstuffs are closely related to population questions. This issue is fraught
with such vital importance for Japan that the government ought to create a special investigation commission, to determine the best conditions for emigration of our people to foreign countries. Now and then alarmist voices are
In the-lebate on the Johnson im
migration restriction bill, in the House of Congress April 8, James A. Gallivan of Boston bv his action
added one more reason why immigration should be restricted to the vanishing point, when in his muckerish, un-American and unassimilated vile-mouthed way, he spoke insultingly to and called Congressman Watkins of Oregon names too vile to print and spoke to him indecent language too scurrilous and obscene to print and send through- the mailsv Watkins, a true gentleman, hit Gallivan in the face with his open hand and started to give Gallivan a good pummeling when Congressmen pulled Watkins away and off the Boston mucker. This is the same Gallivan. a K. C., who in 1915 and upon other occasions denounced every patriotic or
der supporting the Burnet illiteracy
test bill. He made his speech, or
rather made a little of it, and then slipped in his scurrilous attack on
American patriotic orders under spe
cial leave to extend and revise his remarks. Among other things, Gallivan, the mucker congressman from Boston, said: ' "I can see influences back of this proposed legislation (immigration restriction) other than those exercised and controlled" by organized labor. I can see influences which dare not come out into the light of day, but which under cover of an inky, slimy darkness,
masquerading in the guise and garb
of so-called patriotic orders, are ceaselessly endeavoring to divide the
great body of American citizens along lines of racial and religiour
prejudice."
This is the Gallivan who had in
troduced a bill to exclude from the
mails each and every paper and let
ter which criticised in any way the
Roman Catholic church or said any
thing truthful about it that the pope didn't like That is what his bill
amounted to, and when the hearings were held, Gallivan refused to say
in answer to a question whether ha owed superior allegiance as a Ro
man catnouc ana iounn uegrea , . 1 . f . . 1 . . . .. , I f .. -. . rrri
ivnigni ul buuuuuus t-u ouj Luid&u potentate, in answer to a question
put to mm oy an ayiscuyiii wiuwici who appeared before the committee
with hundreds of other persons m opposition to such a bill the bill never being reported from the committee on account of the storm of protest it aroused.
PIK WILDCATS IN TEXAS LAREDO, Tex. Pink wildcats have been seen along the banks of Tiger creek, in Zapata county, Tex., according to Roy Campbell, United States collector of customs, stationed at Laredo. Campbell has a tanned skin of one of the pink wildcats and has offered it to the Smithsonian institution.
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Just why these four stanzas have been lost all these years is something which no one seems to be able to explain. The Fiery Cross is publishing them so that our readers may clip them and paste them in their
song books, so that they may be
sung if so desired.
73 DAYS IN OPEN BOAT
HONOLULU, T. H., April 26. Ira Sparks, who left here January 9, alone, in a 23-foot boat, en route "to
the Holy Land to take up the work
of Moses," landed in the Philippines,
Island of Mindanao, March 22, ac
cording to a special dispatch to the Star-Bulletin. The dispatch said
Sparks was on the open sea seventythree days without sighting land. SparkB, a carpenter, from Indiana,
attracted attention last year by shipping himself in a packing box from San Francisco. He was found several days after the vessel left the California port and put off at Honolulu. Here he built a boat and continued the journey, x
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