Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 35, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1924 — Page 6

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MASONS WIN FIGHT , FOR SCHOOL BONDS

Los

Angeles Approves Issue by a Vote of Twenty to One

ROCRPORT TO HOLD JULY FOURTH MEET

LOS ANGELES. Cal., The electorate of this splendid majority of 20 approved a bond issue school sites, buildings

June 23. city, by a to 1, have for public and equip-

Initiation of 500 Candidates Into Klan to Feature Pleasing Program

mem or $34,t4U,wu. This makes a total bond issue within two years for school purposes of over 152,000,000. The campaign was supported enthusiastically by the Masonic lodges and clubs, and civic organizations, the Masons being especially active. One Masonic club made a house-to-

house canvass urging citizens to vote for the bonds. Los Angeles schools have increased approximately 30,000 In school attendance this year. The increase of daily attendance for the first month of the school year of 1923-24 over the corresponding month In the previous year was greater than the combined increase In averago daily attendance of New York, Boston, Buffalo, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, San Francisco and St. Louis. To Erect New Buildings From the proceeds ot the elementary school bonds 110 new buildings will be erected In various sections of the city, of which twenty-five will be on new sites. These school buildings will vary in eize from eight to thirty rooms; thirty-two additions will be made to buildings now in use. The money from the high school bonds will be devoted to the erection of nine new junior high schools, construction of additions'or new buildings at ten of the present junior high schools, building of eight entirely new senior high schools and additions to the seventeen senior high schools already in operation.

THE FIERY. CROSS

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Friday, June 27, 1924

SHAM BATTLE TO BE

FEATURE OF DISPLAY

Veterans of Foreign Wars to Hold All-Day Celebration on July Fourth

(Special to The Fiery Cross) ROCKPORT, Ind., June 23. The Spencer County Klan has practically completed all details for the great

celebration to be held here on July Fourth when, in addition to a

patriotic program, there will be run

nlng, trotting and pacing races, bicycle races and a number of freak

races. The Rockport and Evansvllle bands will render concerts both in the afternoon and evening.

The feature of the entertainment

will be a brilliant display of fire

works which will be one of the most

gorgeous displays ever Btagea m tnis

part of the state. During the afternoon a baseball game will take place between two ail-American teams. In the evening a ceremony will be held In which approximately five hundred candidates will be initiated Into the Klan. The ceremony will be followed by a parade. The public has been Invited to witness the ceremony. It has been announced that all attractions will be free. A prominent and gifted speaker will deliver a patriotic address as a part of the varied program which has been arranged.

A sham battle, depicting the battle of St. Mihiel, will feature the brilliant display of fireworks on the program arranged by the Veterans of Foreign Wars for their annual celebration which will be held this year at the fairgrounds on July Fourth. In the afternoon there will be ball

games, horse racing and the presen

tation of colors by the different posts throughout Indiana. The gates will

be opened at 10 o'clock in the morning and "an old-fashioned all-day affair" will get under way. It has been announced that in the sham battle one hundred and fifty pverseas veterans will take part. An ambulance corps conducted by ladies of the Overseas League will also play a part.

Don't Give Up the Ship V

JUDGE AROUSED OVER PAROLE OF GIRLS

FICKLE WOMAN PEORIA, 111., June 20. Discarding one man who was waiting at his home to marry her, Mrs. Pluma Hailey, East Peoria, met an old school friend of twenty years ago, and, at his suggestion, changed her name to Mrs. Henry Dewester. The losing lover is James Bacheller.

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DANVILLE, 111., June 20. Protest against the paroling privileges exer

cised by Mrs. Lucy D. Ball, managing officer of the State Training

School for Girls at Geneva, has been

made to C. H. Jenkins, director of

public welfare, by Judge Thomas A. Graham of the Vermilion county juvenile court. Judge Graham's protest is particularly against paroling girls sent from his county to Geneva to strangers in Chicago ior labor. "To take a girl from a rural community and put her among strangers in a big city who have no interest in her welfare, other than the labor

sne is able to perform, ne says, "is

fundamentally wrong. These girls should be paroled to those who have

more than a monetary interest in them and they should be returned to

their friends and relatives."

July the Fourth

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Flag-waving and twisting the lion's tail, the popular sport of- Independence Day let us honor the custom in the breach this year. Bombastic fustian and flamboyant braggadocio

belong to the age of childishness

Now that, as a nation, we have grown

up, let us give up the amusement of morons and act and talk like mature

men.

Bunker Hill was not fought with

high-sounding words. The sublime courage of Valley Forge did not spring from magniloquence and

boasting. Yorktown was a triumph of consecration, high idealism, per

severance and all-conquering hernicm The day shoiflcTbe a profound me

monal to the noble spirits whose

sacrifices made our nation possible

a proclamation of those immortal

ideals of civic virtue for which they

fought and died and a reaffirmation of those principles that alone shall make our nation great. Complex problems press upon us. Apathy and indifference afflict our citizenry! Corruption in high places has shocked us. Foes within our borders boldly assail our institutions.

Friends of education, disappointed and disturbed because of failure to gain immediate consideration by Congress of the education bill, creating a department of education with a secretary In the President's cabinet, must not be discouraged because of lack of Immediate action! No great reform was ever accomplished permanently and peacefully, in a hurry. Great bodies move slowly. . There can be no question that the

education bill will eventually be passed, if its millions of friends

stick to it and do not become dis

heartened because success is not immediate. Congress invariably responds to the will of the majority,

given time enough to make it plain that It is the will of the majority.

After all, Congress is the servant, not the master, of the free people of this nation. What we really want,

e will assuredly get, in the end Education Means Prosperity

ine proposed legislation Is, in some ways, revolutionary, since it

gives governmental recognition, to the fundamental character of education, which recognition is now withheld. We have a great department devoted to agriculture; a great department devoted to labor; to com

merce we have a small bureau de

voted to education. Yet without proper education the farmer may not prosper, the laborer receives small reward and commerce languishes.

Without education there is neither patriotism nor progress. That this government shall foster and further education, and make of it officially

what it already is actually, the most important development of the body

and-soul of the nation, is absolutely inevitable.

"Don't give up tire ship!" Im

mortal words spoken when all was

ended for the speaker. Let us not give up the ship of education, the hope of knowledge, the intention to

make this great nation govern-

mentally responsible for the aid and

spread of knowledge among its peo

ple. Tne education bill will pass. Sooner or later it must be law. Its

friends can afford to be patient, to hold their enthusiasm and to keep up their courage in the fight waged against it and true progress, by those implacable enemies who have so far

delayed its passage. Carl H. Claudy In Cathedral Calendar, Washington

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Program Announced Will Be

Varied Parade and Fireworks in Evening

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Asa G. Candler Seeks Divorce

From Young Wife in Atlanta, Georgia

VALPARAISO, Ind., June 23. Valparaiso is all set to go and is impatiently awaiting July Fourth when the Ku Klux Klan will stage

a monster ceie oration and a mam

moth parade in the evening. The celebration will be an all-day affair and will be replete with amusements in addition to a patriotic program. Several bands will render concerts throughout the day and addresses on Americanism will be on the program. There will be horse racing and contests and many other amusements. Food and refreshments will be plentiful on the grounds. A brilliant display of fireworks will be given in the evening. The parade

is scheduled to move at 7 o'clock.

ATLANTA, Ga., June 20. Alleging cruel treatment, Asa G. Candler, Sr., retired millionaire soft drink manufacturer, has filed suit for di

vorce from his wife, Mrs. Mary Little Ragin Candler. The papers were served late Thursday, news of the

suit becoming known today. Mr. Candler, who is 72 years old, married Mrs. May Little - Ragin, a young widow, on June 20, 1923. She had been a public stenographer in the Candler building in which the aged millionaire maintained his office. She had two children, twins, by her first marriage. Mr. Candler

was the father of five children by a previous marriage. Separation Last February -The petition for divorce sets forth that the couple separated February 9, 1924. "She left petitioner's home at petitioner's demand," the suit says. It alleged that although Mrs. Candler before and at the time of the marriage, declared her love for Mr. Candler, she -soon showed she had no love for him, never had loved him, and had married him "for other motives." "She paid not the slightest attention to making a home for the petitioner," the suit charges. It also alleges that Mrs. Candler would

leave home early in the morning each day, remaining out until .night. She "spent a large part of the day driving in an automobile in the country with a man whom she would meet at various times and places," the document relates.

If Lloyd George would get a haircut he might at least get the backing of the barbers' tunion.

Open Schools: Close Jails

A man in state's prison is now serving the first of four sentences to life imprisonment. He was convicted of four murders and got the

limit for each crime. Tests proved him to be very dull and slow to learn. The teachers had to tell him

everything five times over. But he had mechanical ability far above the

average. A wise warden stonDed

treating him "as a dangerous beast and trained him for certain machine

work. The man now, operates two machines where the average outside

workman operates one. Instead of

costing the state over $300 per year, he earns his own keep. From eight years old this convict has spent nearly all his life in institutions and jail's. It has cost the state a great deal of money to arrest and jail him. One per cent of that money, spent on the right sort of schooling, might have steered this four-times murderer safely into a decent, useful life in the work that he loves and can do. Collier's.

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INVITATIONAL MEET HELD AT LAFAYETTE

LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 21. The first invitational meeting to be held this spring by the Ku Klux Klan was held here last week when a joint gathering of Klansmen, Klanswomen and the Junior Klan staged a most successful meet at the Tippecanoe fiHre-ro'-inrta nnroTlfOtelV 2.500 persons were in attendance. A band concert by the Tippecanoe band of thirty pieces was a part of the program. The Rev. Kern, of Covington, Indiana, delivered a most forceful address and was accorded much applause. The meeting was the first of a series of like meetings to be held in this county. A fifty-foot fiery cross, said to be the tallest cross ever burned In this county, was lighted during the meeting.

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remained a lemur, or a bat, or a bear, or some other creature that now offers only a faint suggestion of what the ape has become." The elephant and thetrpe, among our humble animal brothers, appear to have reached their limits of possibility in the way of educational development. They Btill remain, and always will remain, vastly inferior to their microscopic comrades the ants and bees and other insects. The human race has barely begun the systematic study of the problem

of application, and systematic application, of the truth discovered and agreed upon. In proportion to our stature and possibilities we are hide

ous ignoramuses compared with the ant in "the garden path. Wealth Regulates Education The education of children is regulated, not by their brain formation and possible development, but by the wealth of their parents, the par

simony of municipalities, the baleful influences of tradition and the colossally stupid idea that thorough

brain cultivation is In some way antagonistic to material success. The greatness of a nation depends upon the average nrental power of the nation's citizens and mental power depends absolutely upon education. The ignorant man who has succeeded through natural force and lucky opportunity is fond of asking

these questions: "What is the good of education? Of what practical use! is scientific knowledge?" These men are admirably answered by Herbert Spencer, to whose work they are referred. A collection of Englishmen ruined themselves in the sinking of mines

in search of coal. They might have saved their money had they known that a certain fossil which they dug up in abundance belongs to a geological stratum below which no coal is ever found. They Went on- digging cheerfully and wasting their

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Some individuals spent one hundred thousand dollars trying to save the alcoholic by-product that distills from bread in baking. They would have saved their money had they

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mentation.

The study of biology is essential In

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An entozoon" seems to the prac

tical man a foolish, imaginary crea

ture. But millions of sheep have been saved by the discovery that one

of these fancy scientific entozoa,

pressing on the brain, caused the sheep's death. When you know the entozoon you can dig him out and

save the sheep's life. "My son's going to be an artist," says one proud father. "He does not need to study a lot of. scientific rubbish." Ignorance of Principles This parent does not know that

the difference between a good and bad sculptor or painter is often based on knowledge or ignorance of anatomy and mechanical principles. Education is important to the individual because it means development of the brain, development of

the capacity for production, and increased chances of success. Education is important to the state because it means not only competent citizens, but moral citizens. The animal In us yields to the influence of education. Knowledge and

brutality are enemies. They do not dwell together. The most Important institutions are the public schools the gynasiums of human brains. The most important citizens of the nation are the teachers.

The greatest criminals are the employers of child labor, because they

deny education, cut. down in childhood the citizen's chance of progress and success. Work and vote tot

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