Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1924 — Page 2

THE FIERY CROSS

Friday, June 27, 1924 Tammany and the Schools PREDICTIONS MANY

What happens when the hierarchy gets control of the public school system is being demonstrated in New York City. . The great metropolis has a public school population of 1,000.000 pupils, the largest school population in the western world.

During the past year a series of events has shown a disposition on the pari of the Hylan administration, which is synonymous with Tammany

and the Koman hierarchy, to "drag

the schools each year a little deeper into the mire of congestion and part time schooling." This according to the Christian Science Monitor. In December, 1922, Miss Margaret J. McCooey, an obscure principal in a Brooklyn school, but sister of "Boss" McCooey, was elected associate superintendent of schools. Other similar appointments were Wade. "In March, 1923, an effort was nade to induce the state assembly to put through a measure popularly known as "the Spoils Bill," the purpose of which was to undermine the merit system in electing teachers. , It is charged that Tammany Hall la. out to make the school department an annex to the organization. .r..-. ;;v Voi k " jrrliiciiiHis Association has raised a protest in vigorous resolutions. So bitter did the fight become that Dr. William MeAndrew, associate superintendent of schools, and one of the best known and most progressive educators in the country, resigned and accepted the superintendency of the Chicago schools. Meanwhile part-time schools have trebled and a gradual demoralization of the school system has set in. Now the news comes that Dr. William Ij. Kttinger, the superintendent of schools for forty years, who holds a national reputation as an incorruptible educator, has been forced out to make way for a superintendent of the Roman Catholic faith: Dr. Willinm J. O'Shea. who was educated in Jesuit universities.

It is a tragic story and the children of the city are the victims. It looks as though the former tactic of direct attack upon the public school system is to be changed to demoralization from within. Wherever the church obtains dominating influence in the schools, whether it be in New York or in San Francisco, the system begins to disintegrate. While building up an elaborate system of parochial schools for the education of its own youth, the church is seeking to dominate and then disorganize the public schools.

Sunday School Leader Speaks

"The supreme Importance of education to the life of our nation is conceded by all thoughtful persons,

and yet our federal government

shows a greater interest in many other subjects," said Hugh S. Magill,

general secretary, International Sun

day School Council of Religious Edu

cation. Agriculture, commerce and

labor are each represented in the president's cabinet. No satisfactory reason can be given why education should not be accorded the same rec

ognition. To deny it is to hold that the training of the future citizens of our republie is of less importance from a national standpoint than the development of the material resources of our country."

AT BIGJMVENTI0N One-Third of Underwood Dele- . gation Refuse to Vote for "Anti-Klan" Plank

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xnkw YORK, June 20. Four or five days before the Democratic national convention opens is given mostly to predictions and here goes for what the writer believes is going to happen. Aside from candidates there are going to be three bitter fights, viz., a fight over the effort that is always made to abrogate the old two-thirds rule in making nominations; second, a fight over the Ku Klux Klan; and a fight over prohibition. These three matters hold the center of the stage at this time and will continue to do so until each one is finally disposed1 of by the convention. A survey of the opinions of Democratic leaders now in New York indicate light now that the platform will ignore all of these problems, especially the latter two. The chairman of the resolutions committee is going to find among members of that committee men who will put up a finish fight for a plank which will excoriate the Ku Klux Klan and the principles of that well-known organization. Klan Friends Will Win But outnumbering the antl-Klan members of the committee will be

those who either are in sympathy with the Knights or who deem it politically expedient to be neutral! The delegates from the west and south, where the Klan is powerful and exercises great power, do -not want to go to the voters of their states with a platform that says

thumbs down to the millions of

Klansmen throughout the nation. The final result will be, it is freely predicted here, that the resolutions committee will not mention the Klan, but will be content to adopt a paragraph very similar to the one embodied in the Republican platform. On the other hand, the Smith and

Underwood, forces will bring all the

pressure they can to have an anti Klan plank incorporated in the plat

form, but the delegates pledged to

McAdoo and the numerous "favorite

sons" and "dark horses'" will have nothing to do with it. And they are in a majority. Underwood Makes Peace Senator Underwood has approved the Alabama delegation in its entirety, although about one-third of them have refused to endorse his stand for an anti-Klan plank in the Democratic platform. This information was contained in a letter re

ceived by Chairman R. B. Evans, of the Alabama state executive committee. The delegates who refuse to endorse the Klan fight are among the

named by former Governor B. B.

Comer, a dry leader, under agreement with Underwood's campaign manager. Underwood, in his letter,

expressed surprise that delegates

would be named who were not in full accord with his views. He, however, expressed the hope that the Alabama delegation would vote as a unit on all matters. Cardinal on the Job Cardinal Hayes, the leading Roman Catholic prelate in New York, is scheduled to deliver the invocation at the opening of the Democratic convention. Klan officials

deny the reports spread broadcast in New York today that a fiery cross will be burned Just across the street from Madison Square Garden while the cardinal 6ffers prayer. The "keynote" speech that is to be delivered by Senator Pat Harrison, of Mississippi, at the opening of the convention is likely to be postponed until the night session in

order to enable a larger number of

radio enthusiasts to hear it under better conditions than would be possible if the speech were made at a day session. TvJs matter will be re

ferred to the convention itself for

decision. Members of the committee

on arrangements are said to be favorable to the suggestion but they believe that the convention should

make the decision. Klan Reports Gains

One thing that is having a big influence on the Democratic conven

tion is the report coming out of Atlanta that the Atlanta branch of Ernst & Ernst, A. N. Patton, manager, last year made an audit of the books of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan to ascertain the financial standing of the order, acting on Instructions of national officers. The books are said to show a large

increase in receipts from both initiations and dues. Copies of this report are said to have been sent to a large

number of local Klan3 all over the

country. The news has reached New York at the right time.

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