Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 37, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 July 1924 — Page 8

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THE FIERY CROSS

Women at the Convention

It is not sufficient to say that women were greatly in evidence at the Democratic convention; they were there officially some 500 strong. It goes deeper than that. It was not mere femininity that was gratefully recognized by the tense, sorelystrained men, but womanhood itself.

Witness the demonstration which called Mrs. Kate Barrett back to the platform after her spirited, sensible address seconding the nomination of Carter Glass. In a convention overwearied with much speaking this in itself was a tribute indeed.

very few of the masculine contingent heard what she said. Mrs. John H. Wilson, of Honolulu, waved a native fan during the convention that was the envy of all beholders.

IDEALS MUST REMAIN WITH US, SAYS MASON

Valley Forge Typified Spirit of Vicarious Fortitude, Speaker Declares

Mrs. Rarrett is a typical grand damn of Virginia. She is a grandmother, and lier glorious white hair is like a crown. She suggests the stately home in Alexandria where she is queen and dispenses hospitality that Is far-famed. There can he no doubt that American homemakers are waking up to the fact that they must enter into the affairs of government that so vitally affect the home when such women as Mrs. Ilarrett enter the list. The Mire of Politics Wo have been told so often of the "mire of politics" that we have come to believe that it is, somehow, nn evil that must bo endured. U was an argument voiced often during the hectic days of women's Miff rage. "Woman must not come clown from her pedestal into the 'mire of politics.'" We heard it on all sides. It was preached to us in all sincerity by husband, father, brother, and friend until it was hard to lieu r our own still, small voice which hade us act on the principle

of abstract right and wrong and let the mire question work itself out a mere matter of detail. From the look of this convention it Is not unreasonable to predict that women are b'usily graining the iniai-.mic political swamps, and the first thing we know we will have them perfectly safe for women, and. what is more, for men; the bog will have been reclaimed and dedicated to service. , West Virginia rivals Virginia when it comes to being proud of Its women; for the speech of Mrs. Izetta Jewell Brown nominating John V. Davis, of West Virginia, is regarded by many authorities to be the speech of the entire convention. In fact, if Mrs. Drown is. as wo suspect, the author of the joke she told about the little boy who went to Sunday school and discovered that Cod put Adam into a deep sleep, then look his brains and made Eve, we move that, she is immediately elected President of the United States by acclamation, for we have never heard an account of our creation so pre-eminently satisfactory. A woman who is capable of finding such a tine needle of truth in the haystack of the ages is manifestly capable of making her way lafely over the loose, jumpy planks f the Democratic platform into an honorable reign at the White House. We rend in the Scriptures of the peace and prosperity of Israel under the rule of the woman judge. De

borah; so we have a precedent already established. It was the courage and quick wit Of the women that saved the standnrd of Missouri from being carried Into the parade in the anti-Klan demonstration. John Kecgan, of St. Louis, seized the standard, Mrs. A. ( Parsons, of King City, rushed to save it. and was joined by Mrs. Milford Kiggs, of I ronton, who mounted a chair and got a higher grip on the standard than the two men. The police intervened and the standard was put bac k into its place. On all sides comment is heard on the beauty of the convention women und their lovely gowns. It is evident that woman in politics today does not run true to the forms of tradition as to neglecting her u ppearam e :-.ineo entering the political arena. They seem to be filled with the spirit of the I.a'dv of the Decoration

who went fortli as a missionary, but vowed that she would never dress the part. Among the interesting women neteil were: Mrs. Itosa McKay, of Arizona, serving' her third term as n member of the state legislature; Mr. Nona Lawrence Smith, of Ashbui ti. Ga , the editor of The WireCrass Farmer, and Mrs. Myrtle Taliaferro Dixson. of Illinois, a director ot the First National Bank of Rosevill". Missouri seems to abound in rFourceful women, who were all for McAdoo. During the blatant Smith demonstration Mrs. Parsons, of I'utonvllle, Mo., rolled up balls of pap"r and dropped them neatly into the largest born each time the big wind Instruments came by. The bandsmen tame to know her before the demonstration ended and good-naturedly held up their horns so che could choke them more conveniently. Mrs. Lrroy Springs, of South Carolina, who w.-e; delegated to read the report of the credential!) committee, was ho pretty that it is said that

While the men were hanging on the results of the balloting there are lots of women who still are curious to know how Miss Mary Archer, of Reading, will finally even up with Mr. Guffcy, who withheld her allotment ot tickets. If she doesn't get the last word by some hook or crook, wo will all be disappointed.

Mrs. Alexander Thompson, of Ort

gon, was the first woman to address the convention. In sxn excellent speech, well-delivered, she seconded the nomination of McAdoo. Although continually heckled by cries from the gallery, she retained her poise and maintained her dignity in the face of a trying situation. Peculiarly effective was nor use of the stirring poem, "God Give Us Men!" She voiced a prayer that found a fervent echo in thousands of anxious hearts. "God give us men," indeed! There was never a time iu the history of our nation when a troubled people had such need of leadership.

ODD FELLOWS HAVE CHARTER GRANTED

TIFFIN, Ohio. July 7. One new Canton was chartered and plans for Reviving two others were made by Ohio Patriarchs Militant. Independent Ociler of Odd Fellows, at the opening of the annual state convention here today. Steubeuville received the charter. A recommendation for revival of cantons at Sandusky and Norwalk was submitted to the convention. Among the resolutions submitted to the convention was one limiting the membership of the women's auxiliary to mothers, wives and sisters of members. It has not becnacted upon by the convention. Nearly GOO delegates are attending the convention of the Patriarchs and auxiliary branches of the Odd Fellows.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa., July 7. "We know," said Hon. Robert E. Lee Saner, 33d degree, president of the American Bar Association, in his address at Independence Hall Friday, "that the Declaration of Independence was not so much the mark of severance between England and America as it was an evidence of

the advanced position taken in the conflict between the rule of the people and the divine right of kings. And as such it becomes, along with Magna Charta, the Petition of Rights, the Habeas Corpus Act and the Bill of Rights, one of the world's great charters of Liberty. "We know that Valley,-Forge is not the shrine where all men bow in silent, tender emotion, because it was the place of preparation for a victorious campaign, but because it typified the spirit of vicarious sacrifice; because it furnished an example of fortitude, of self-reliance, of patriotic resolve, of undying de

votion, of self-sufficient, but unassuming Americanism, that menand women of today might follow with honor to themselves and credit to the country which gave them birth. Same Spirit Reigns Supreme "In this city, where the Old Liberty Bell first rang out with glad acclaim, let her voice again be heard, announcing to the world that the same -spirit that animated these streets in 1776 still reigns supreme throughout all America; that in the halls of Congress, in our churches, in our homes, in our inmost souls there shall be a rededication to the

ideals of our Revolutionary Fathers as expressed in their lives, their acts, and their institutions, not merely for love of ancestry, nor for blind tradition, but because those ideals were, and are, and must continue to be, right."

BRYAK'S ARGUMENT TSWW YORK, July 6. "The Catholic church, -with Its legacy of martyred blood and -with all the testimony of its missionaries who went Into eTeryland, does not need a great political party to protect it from 6,000,000 Klansmen. The Jews do not need this resolution. They have Moses. They have Elijah, who was able to draw back the curtain and show upon the mountain tons an

rinvislble host greater than 1,000

Ku Mux Klans." The above was the nnanswerable argument of William Jennings Bryan on the convention platform.

AMERICAN SEAMAN IS UNFAIRLY TREATED

Union Makes Formal Complaint ! Discrimination Is Charged

MASONIC SUPREME TO MEET SEPT. 24

Gathering of Thirty-third Degree Body to Be in Charleston, S. C.

'As Above, So Below'

WASHINGTON, D. C, July 7. The next meeting of the Supreme Council. 33d degree, A. & A. S. R., S. J., will be held at Charleston, S. C, beginning Wednesday, September 24, at 10 o'clock. The meeting this year has an unusual sentimental interest in that this Supreme Council, which is known as the "Mother Supreme Council of the World," and from "which all other supreme councils receive their recognition and warrant, was established In Charleston, S.C, on May 31, 1801. Today Scottish Rite Freemasonry covers the wrorld.

According to the regulations of

the Supreme Council the annual meetings in the odd years are held

at the House of the Temple, Wash

mgton, but tne meetings m even years are held in other cities. In

1920 the meeting was held at Colo

rado Springs, Colorado, and in 1922

at Salt Lake City.

Elections to the honor of the

thirty-third degree are held only at

the Washington meetings.

Convention Sidelights

The Democratic convention started out like a real convention but has turned Into a college full of cheer leaders.

Something wrong. The world was made In six "days. This convention is on its seventh and nothing finished yet.

New York hotel bills are so high that most of the delegates will walk home.

The peak of the so-called "wave of antagonism to all things foreign" was not reached in 1S20, as many wise "interpreters of things they know nothing about" declare. It continues; it increases in helpful potency. It was a natural reaction against European pressure, in government and in rrrorals, and came as a movement of slf-protection a kind of subconscious "saving instinct" in mass consciousness just as the human body protects itself by certain laws within the blood against "foreign invasion." In this very effort of the nation to protect itself is seen the operation of the old truth: "As above; so below." The campaign has never been dominated by blind emotions. It has ever followed a leadership as clearvisioned as any in modern times. Calling the Klan names has only created within the Klan a protective instinct. To say that the Klan is an outgrowth of "fear psychology" is Freudian and foolish. The Klan has

merely resisted adverse pressure. Fifty years ago competent investigators saw and asserted that the native American was voluntarily eliminating himself and his descendants by bis "wide-open-to-all" nollcv. Todav

j the Klan s?es the same thing is forced to see it by the action of J Europe. . I There is no other honest way in ' which to contemplate the suirject

no other deduction to makoe We do well to distrust all things foreign, because at its core foreign customs and thought are inimical to true Americanism. The Klan leads the van in ltsmiggle for national salvation. There j3 no cowardice in it nor in native America.

If this thing keeps on keeping up Coolidge will be elected and inaugurated before the Democrats can even make a nomination.

Thirty-six ballots taken. Then all arise and sing that sweet, young ballad, entitled: "We are-Tight until we are exhausted."

One delegate from Florida voted for Al Smith and took the first train

ior Canada. He was afraid to go home either in the daytime or the

dark.

A deadlock is a stranglehold, of the candidates here have it.

Two

Harry Thaw is here and so are

a lot ot others.

As far as noise goes, the New York

convention is a real one.

If they ever get a nominee for president they are talking of glutting a woman on the ticket in second place. Think of a woman taking

second place or playing second fid

dle for any man. Nothing doine

That woman will find some way to get in the White House.

PROGRESSIVE VILLAGE

Hibbing, Minn., a village in the ron ore district of Minnesota, which

thirty years ago had but a single

teacher, has just put into use

$4,000,000 high school adequate for

3,000 high school and junior college

students. Though the village has a population of only 16,000, and the

school district 22,000, its eagerness for education is typified in one of the

finest school buildings in the United States.

Friday, July 11 1924

CHICAGO MOTHER IN SEARCHF0R BABY With Funds Low She Seeks Aid of Court Husband May Have Child '

WASHINGTON, D. C, July 7. That the Lafollette Seaman's Act, which provides that 75 per cent of the crew of American vessels must

speak the language of her officers and 65 per cent of them have able seaman's certificates, Is constantly violated, not only by private shipping interests bnt by the government which passed the law, is charged by

me racinc coast Division of the

International Seaman's Union, which

has made formal complaint to Sec

retary Hoover of these alleged con

ditions.

According to a report made to the

Commonwealth "Club of California,

regarding shipping conditions as

they affect annullment of the

Chinese Exclusion Act, the United

btatesc is as bad an offender as

other ship owners. The report says

in part:

"The Saddest Part" "Perhaps the saddest part in con

nection with resultant migration of Orientals has been the fact that ships owned by the people ot the United States and - allocated temporarily to private operators have been the worst of offenders in this re

spect.

"For example, a recent examina

tion of the crew list of the steamship

r-resiaenx Cleveland, a Shipping Board vessel, operated by the Pacific Steamship Company, showed that out of her total crew of 237 no fewer than 134 were Chinese, 56 Filipinos, the percentage of Americans being only 18.5. Promise Is Suspended

More than two years ago the

snipping tsoard Issued an ordeY promising preference in employment to American seamen. This promise was suspended the day it was made.

Ihe usual excuse was offered that

a large percentage of American sea

men are disorderly when in foreign

ports, it tuts alibi Isnot readilv ac

cepted then it is said that American seamen are not obtainable when wanted. It is useless to reply to .these excuses because the men who offer them never employ white men, much less Americans, unless compelled to do so. The result is a rapidly deteriorating merchant marine, loss of white personnel and increasing passenger hazards at sea

We propose to do our part that the Lafollette Act be better enforced and obeyed."

CHICAGO, July 7. A year ago Marjor-ie Anne Wilson, four years old, disappeared from the home of her grandmother, Mrs. D. P. Scharlach, at Kankakee, 111. The child's father visited her, and is thought to have run away with her. The mother, Mrs. Fern Wilson, working in Chicago ;and visiting her every two weeks, was sending money for her support to the maternal grandmother, Mrs. Scharlach. "I couldn't find her. I hadn't money enough to hunt for her," said the mother as she told her story to the court of domestic relations complaint department. "Mr. Wilson and I separated a year ago, but we lived in Hammond, Ind., then, and

hadn t been there long enough to establish a Residence, so I couldn't sue

for divorce though I had cause.

My husband promised to .give me

$20 a week. He didn't do it, so I had

to shoulder a debt of $800 which I

have been working to pay and took

the baby to my mother."

The relatives of the husband. H.

Lynn Wilson, live in Concordia.

Kas., but the baby and the husband

are not there.

Yesterday Mrs. Wilson's residence in Illinois was established and she

will visit the Legal Aid Society and ask it to help her with her divorce so that she may recover her child. She will then begin the hunt for it. Legally the father can not kidnap his child, so until the divorce the mother says she can do nothing.

POLITICIAN FAILS TO HALT KLAN GROWTH

WINCHESTER, Ind., July 5. A. series of open air meetings by the Klan in Randolph county, the first of which was held two weeks ago hear this city, are meeting with great success. Last week the meet

ing wa3 held near Modoc. Modoc is in the southern part of the countv.

The Klan in RandolDh countv 1st

gaining much strength despite the efforts of the opposition, led -by a well-known politician, and the growth has been pronounced during the past few months.

EMISON LADS BEAT LEAGUE PITCHER EMISON. Ind., July 5. The Junior Klan baseball team of this place is sailing right along and proving mighty hard pickings for their opponents. One of the hardest fought games was won by the local team recently when it beat the Vincennes Grays with a league pitcher in the box. The game went fourteen innings. July 13 the locals will cross bats with the Fritchon Yankees and will tangle with the Decker Junior Americans on July 20. Every player on the Emison team is a regular attendant at Sunday school and is pledged not to smoke, swear or argue during games.

CONSTRUCTION STARTED KNOXVILLE. Tenn., July 7. Work has started on the Southern Railway's new $2,000,000 yards and shops at Caswell, a few miles east of the city, it was announced today by a representative of the Foundation Company ot New York, which has the contract.

USE YOUR CREDIT Go to GH AS. C. PEEK for Jewelry 523-524 Occidental Bldg., Illinois and Washington Sts. We repair any kind of Jewelry ; when the other fellow can't fix it, bring it to Peek's.

George Whute has some new scandals up in New York. So has the

Democratic party.

Loyal to Spiritual Things

What will the New York newspapers do when this convention is over and the Ku Klux Klan gets off the front page? j

PUINTING that PLEASES We arc f(tiippfd to handle all kind of rorifmiTf.al piintrng in a prompt nnd t isf actory manner. I'ri'-r for "Quality I'rinlire" on implication. All w orV confidential. Mulliifraph Department Our Multi(fraph U'partmont I prepared to deliver your form letters with promptness and dispatch. Writ us for Information and prlcea on your work. NATIONAL PRINTING COT Pkoae I.I ncoln (1.157 435 Onlory Bids.

George Washington declared that, "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports." All the great leaders of our country have emphasized the spiritual nofe. When Roosevelt was asked in Los Angeles for his favorite sentiment, he wrote this verse of Scripture: "He hath showed thee. O man. what is good: and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (.Mitah 0:8.) The late Woodrow Wilson declared, "Christianity gives us the secret of national, social, and individual well-being." The late Warren G. Harding, shortly before his inauguration, said: "I want you to know I believe in a religious republic. I do not seeTibw avjust government can

exist in the world without coming in

contact with God. I gladly go to God for guidance in the rei gponsibilities that are coming to me." ! President Calvin Coolidge declares: "We need faith In the Unseen: that faith in moral forces ; without which all else is vain! The i defenses of our nation are not maI terial, but mental and spiritual." j Loyalty to country to law to i Cod.

It's a cold day in June or July i

when the Klan, isn t smeared all over

the front pages of all New York

rrerwspapers in flaming headlines

The Georgia and Texas delegations j don't stampede worth a whoop. So

the Smith rooters found out.

The Klan has gotten a million dollars' worth of advertising in New

York tor notinng. iew York is a

great town for bargains.

Dr. Evans is the hardest man in

the world to reach, so say all New York newspaper men. They never did find him. i

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EXETER, N. H.. July 4. Two men, I one of them a policeman, were shot i to death here last night while attempting to quell a disturbance . caused by boys. Parker McDuffey, ' an aged man, near whose home the j shooting occurred, was arrested, j

charged with murder. The dead are Patrolman Albert L. Colson and Arthur C. Bentt. Colson went to McDuffey's home to quiet a number ot boys who had assembled there to tease the old man. The officer had taken Bentt along to assist him. It was reported that McDuffey came out ot the house with a pistol .when the two men approached and hot them. McDuffey la 70 years olO.

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