Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1924 — Page 3
Drastic Steps Needed to Pre
vent Decline of Intelligence
Ill-regulated Immigration Has Brought United States Face to Face With a Most Serious Problem
COLLECTS FOR POKE IN
EYE AFTER 32 YEARS
Ohio Man Finally Secures Ac
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Ill-regulated immigration, on the one hand, and insufficient fertility of mentally-superior stocks on the other, will contribute to the fall of the intelligence and good character of the people of the United States unless necessary steps are taken to turn the balance shortly in the proper direction.
There are two ways to combat the decay of a people that is composed of distinctly inferior and superior stocks. First, the fertility of the inferior stock may be diminished ; second, the fertility of the superior stock may be increased beyond the present average capacity. Of these two methods the best and most important method is to vivify the fertility of the superior stock to increase it beyond its present trend and tendency. To increase the fertility of the superior racial stock is a problem whichTonfronts America today. It Is a problem in which the Klan is thoroughly interested because it realizes, more deeply than any other organization, the imperative need that America shall produce more Americans of the true-type stock. National Future Jeopardized The future of the nation has been Jeopardized in the dim past by the
Importation of large numbers of slaves of the colored race, and later
by the admission of hordes of what authorities term "derivatives of inferior hereditary stocks." Until re
cently legislative policies' have favored proletarianization of the population and not the improvement
and development of the Innate superiorities of the common mass.
How many of these errors can never e overcome, hence it Is necessary
that corrective measures be ar
dently and immediately advocated end riskily applied, otherwise it will
be impossible to prevent the extinc tion of the best traits and con stituents of our racial stock mix tares. Warning Is Sounded
Warning has been recently
sounded upon this point by physi
duns and statisticians who are working seriously at the fundamentals of the problem. We are told
directly and without circumlocution that intelligent American women
must be made to realize that in their
hands lies the future happiness and
hope of America, of the human race
itself. "Our women's colleges must make their graduates realize," as
some one has said, "that only when women of the best type are raising families of five or more children can we hope for a country where in
telligence and character and sim
plicity shall be gaining rather than
losing." Statisticians solemnly point out that it requires four children in a family of this day and generation
to "keep up the number of a given stock." If we hope to increase that stock there must be at least five children in each family. The talk about
careers" must be made inclusive
enough to embrace the greatest of
all "careers" motherhood. Our cul
tured women must be made to see
that not only must their individual
vitality be raised beyond the "com
mon limit," but the actual task of bringing to birth increased numbers
must be undertaken cheerfully in
spite of economic conditions and the unworthy desire to "live easily and without the worry of large families." One child is not enough to combat
the danger two children are not
enough. Social service is no safe
sop to conscience in this matter
American children in goodly nurrf-
bers must be the fixed rule of racial
salvation.
The meat of the whole subject
boiled down is this: Even though
our present standards of easy living
have to be .changed, it is essential te fn f Ufa llhortv anjl hlrm rt f 11
w uu. . . . . , . n 1 J 1 u..v. 11 1 Jr V . .11 ture national hrppiness that the
average size of our typical Amer lean family shall be increased.
Dr. Butler, "Solipsist?
BUCYRUS. Ohio, July 10 Adolph
Binker, Bucyrus township" constable, can collect a debt and" enforce a judgment, even though it takes hiui
thirty-two years to do it.
In 1892 Adolph wast a runner for
the Dean hotel here and in an argument with the ballyhoo artist of a
rival hostelry over a prospective patron just- alighted from the train the
other fellow hit him in the eye.
Gets Judgment Only.
Adolph went to law for damages
and got a Judgment of $83.30 from
the jury. That's all he got, how ever, for the defendant was collec
tion proof.
After several years the judgment
was about to lapse when Adolph dis
covered that the contingent fee arrangement he had made with his attorney'Would be no good if the judg
ment lapsed, for he would then owe
a good-sized bill in attorney's fees.
Adolph on the Job. Rather than be liable for this debt he had the judgment revived, paying all costs, and thenceforth had it revived every five years for three decades. Recently he learned that his debtor had inherited property and at once moved to have an execution issued. , As the result of the thirty-two years' delay Binker will collect 1318.30 for his judgment, with Interest compounded. But of this, onehalf will be due his first attorney and at least half the balance spent in court costs and subsequent attorneyfs. Constable Adolph will realize about as much as the original judgment.
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Breadth and Tolerance
A few Klansmen have had something to say from time to time
against Protestant sentimentalists
that is, people who sob and sigh
and fear that the Klan is not willing to let people believe as they choose in religious matters; people
who think that the Klan should not,
as an organization, be . over-intol
erant" toward the Roman Catholics who certainly "ought to have a right
to worship God as they choose,
Yet, if the Klan had not stood firmly and forcefully for strict and rigid
Protestantism within the past few
years, there is danger that the
growth of popery (that most into!
erant and unyielding of all religious faiths) in this country would have
been more than doubled.
That Silly Xotlon
The Klan calls upon the people In general to get away from the
silly notion that the Catholic church.
Should ever be handled with gloves. If Protestantism Is to exist, it must fight for its life now Just as it has
bad to do in past centuries. If
anybody imagines that popery is whipped to a sense of righteous
fairness let him disabuse himself of the thought. The old enemy is standing out against the skyline as robust, as stern and uncompromising as ever. The Klansman need not treat him to the candy of kind
ness by what is mistakenly called "breadth and tolerance." The Catholic church knows not the meaning of the word and must be faced forever as a deadly enemy. A Worse Evil This fact is brought out very
clearly in the following quotation from the New World, a Catholic publication, and it ought to be read thoughtfully by every. Klansman in the country: "An old adage has- it that where there is a will there is a way. Justice always finds the right way out. It may be walled about for a time but finally it triumphs. The
church has this god-like quality that
it has almost infinite patience. Time
means little to an immortal institution. It can afford to wait. In the
year 1870the temporal power of the papacy was destroyed . by the alleged necessity that it interfered with the compactness of a united Italy. The loss of temporal power brought in its train that which was a much worse evil, the threatened loss of the liberty of the pope him
self. Whether men like it or not the pope is a sovereign ruler with or without temporalities. He guides the destiny of 300,000,000 people. For this reason he must of necessity have the completest liberty to deal with his subjects without interference from kings, emperors or prime ministers."
The Christian Science Monitor has been having a little chaste fun with ' Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, the university head proponent of booze-hoistera. The editorial is a model-that might be used in the classrooms of every college that offers courses in Journalism. Probably -Dr. Bntler-will still hold that the eighteenth amendment ought to be scissored out of the constitution. He will still', be a "solipsist." . ' - The Monitor editorial fallows: . "With some eagerness the Monitor has been- awaiting the reply of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butter to the cruel thrust of Professor Farhum; of Yale University, who declares the distinguished Columbian is 'expressing
the views of a solipsist.' Accustomed to the more restrained epithets employed in journalistic controversy, the Monitor has been disquieted by this evidence of acrimony existing in university circles. That Dr. Butler
expresses the views of a political wet, or of that eminent dramatic character, 'The Old Soak,' or of the bootlegging fraternity, or of the large pack of boozehounds, is, readily un
derstandable by the mass of newspaper readers. But when one col
lege professor comes out and calls
the president of a rival institution a
'solipsist! something ought to be done about it. Had such language been employed in an editorial, we should have called it to the attention of the committee on ethics of the American Society of Newspaper Edi; tors.
Finally Located "We have sought diligently for
light as to the significance of this provocative epithet. Failing to find
it in either the Dictionary of Slang
or the Bartender's Guide, we ran it
to earth in the Oxford Dictionary.
Shorn of the verbiage of the lexicog
rapher, this definition is presented:
Solipsist One who believes in his own existence only.' "If Professor Farnum is right In
attributing this quality to Dr. Butler,
much that has seemed inexplicable is
made clear. One who believes in his own existence only would naturally be oblivious to the want and sorrow and degradation that liquor has
brought upon uncounted tens of thousands of homes. Believing only
in an existence spent pleasantly be'
iween a presidential omce, a com
fortable home and luxurious clubs,
he is not concerned with the tre
mendous efforts made by the Amer ican people to rid themselves of the saloon by means of the eighteenth amendment, which he would now de
stroy. The true solipsist can -never be moved by altruistic motives, for he knows none other than himself to exist which makes us wonder for whose benefit Dr. Bntler wants the
taps turned on once more. Mistaken Again "In today's New York papers Dr. Butler is quoted as saying 'no attempt to answer my arguments has been made by anyone. Within ten
days The Christian Science Monitor has printed answers to Dr. Butler from a number of distinguished publicists, among whom may be mentioned Dr. Charles W. Eliot, Presi
dent JSrnest D. Burton of the Uni
versity of Chicago, Governor Kendall
of Iowa, Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt,
Walter Dill Scott, president of North
western University; Josephus Dan
iels, and the Hon. Horace G. Taft It would seem to us that Roose
velt's 'shorter and uglier word' is more applicable in this instance than
'solipsist.'
"But what an epithet that is for
one college professor to hurl at an other! Was it Dr. Johnson who re
duced a Billingsgate fishwife to tears
by calling her a 'tetrahedral paral
lelepipedon'? 'No one never called me such nasty names in the fish market before!' cried the outraged
harridan. The higher learning in
deed has controversial weapons de nied to the mere journalist."
BELIEVE EDUCATION
MEASURE WILL PASS
Ultimate Success of Bill Confidently Expected by Educators
The Bible Rises Above the Sceptic and Purist
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 14. The annual convention of the National Education Association, meeting in Washington with twenty thousand teachers and educators in attendance, expressed confidence in the ultimate passage of the educa tion bill, which provides for a department of education with a secretary in the President's cabinet. Miss Olive M. Jones, as president of the association, said: "I feel certain' that by this time
next year there will be a secretary of education in the President's cab
inet. The education bill is favorably regarded by both senate and house
committees; the fact that it was not reported before the adjournment of
Congress was due to the last min
ute crush of legislation. It will be placed upon the calendar early in
the December session, and there is
every indication that it will pass
when brought on the floor of the
senate and house.
Marshaling1 Public Opinion "But educators are going to use
every minute between now and that
time marshaling public opinion in support of the bill. The constantly
growing sentiment for it will be strengthened in the interim. The Washington convention will lay the situation before the delegates, saying to them in effect: 'Go back to your own districts and see to it that every representative of the people in Congress is made to realize the demand for a department of education." " For the five days of the convention, Washington bent ajl its energies toward entertaining the delegates
Government departments were
thrown open for their inspection special trips were arranged through
such places of interest as the national bureau of standards, the Smithsonian institute, the Carnegie
institution, and the government ex
periment station at Arlington. Mon
day afternoon, June 30, the delegates
explored the Capitol, and July 4 was set aside for patriotic pilgrimages to historic shrines Mt. Vernon, the
Lincoln Memorial, Arlington.
After all the criticism of sceptics and purists, the fact remains that the Bible is one of the great lights of modern civiliza-" tion. Those nations stand the highest where the Bible is most honored. Read your histories and you will find that, wherever a nation has struggled for freedom against ecclesiasticaFdes-: potism or political tyranny, thejpening of the Bible, the giving of the Word to the people, always has been the sign of victory for popular rights.
The splendid literatures of Christendom are saturated with Bible lore. Every influential writer of modern times- frankly admits his debt to the Bible. The hero souls of the nations from Washington to Lincoln, from Hampden to Mazzini, have rendered eloquent tributes of appreciation to the Book of Books. "It is not an accident that the Bible rests upon the
altar In every Masonic lodge in America.
The prevailing ignorance of the
younger generation concerning the
Bible is most deplorable. A recent survey of students in high schools and colleges discloses a most regrettable state of affairs. Many thought
Paul was a book of the Bible, that Ephesians was a province in Asia Minor, that Leviticus was a disciple
of Christ, that the epistles were the wives of the apostles, that Hezekiah
was one of the prophets, that Peter wrote the Sermon on the Mount, and
GRADUATES GET PRESENTS
FORT WORTH, Tex. E 1 e v e n
young people graduated from the Masonic high school recently, ten
young women and one young man
The diplomas were presented by Superintendent Thomas Fletcher and
Past Grand Master Nat M. Washer, president of the board; the prin
cipal address being made by Mr
Washer.
Each graduate received a ten-
dollar gold piece from Past Grand
Master Mike H. Thomas, a five-dol
lar gold piece from the Grand Chap
ter, Eastern Star of Texas, and an ap
propriate present from the Scottish
Rite of this city. -
that "Sunset and Evening Star" was a psalm of David. Much of the information elicited was absurd and grotesque, showing an ignorance or a confusion of thought that might be expected in response to questions concerning the Bhagavad-Gita or the Koran. When the laugh provoked by the 1 ridiculous answers dies down, we might well contemplate the personal social and political effects springing from such woefu! ignorance concerning the Book of Books. There are many sincere citizens who profoundly regret that sectarian ' jealousies and animosities have kept this sacred book away from the children so long. Some day, they hope, this condition may be overcome, and studies in the most splendid liters ture in the English language b made available to the children a) part of their course of instruction. The New Age Magazine.
KLANSMEN!
We appeal to yon to patronize the persons and firms advertising in The Fiery Cross. Trne, not all such advertisers are Klansmen. Yet, they are friendly to us, or they wonld not advertise In onr publications. Some are not members because of onr own restrictions as to nativity. We wonld not, if we knew it, accept an advertisement from any one who Is barred by onr moral restrictions. Before making yonr next purchase scan the columns of The Fiery Cross and any other Klan publication that yon may have at hand, and see If yon can find what you want advertised In The Fiery Cross. Then, when making yonr purchase, endeavor to let It be known to the advertiser where yon saw his advertisement, and thns show him that yon appreciate his friendly interest In our organization, whether he is a Klansman or not. It Is constantly drilled Into ns through lessons In Klankraft that we should "Return Good for EtD." Let's do that, bat, at the same time, let ns return good for good, and patronize those who patronise ns.
J. CLAUDE KEIPER MADE
MASONIC SECRETARY
WASHINGTON, D. C, July 14. J. Claude Kelper, past grand master, has been appointed and installed as grand secretary of the Grand Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, grand
secretary of the Grand Chapter of
Koyal Arch Masons, and grand re
corder of the Grand Commandery of Knights Templar, all of the District
of Columbia, in place of Arvine W,
Johnston, who has . served these grand bodies for many years, who
resigned these offices on account
of ill health.
Brother Johnston has been madr
emeritus grand secretary and emer itus grand recorder of the above
named bodies, with full salary for
me. Grand Secretary Keiper is at pres
ent secretary-treasurer of the
George Washington Masonic Na
tional Memorial Association, and has
served in all branches of masonry
ior many years.
That nation which employs the
best teachers with the highest pay
and as a Dart of the het nchnnt
system will b'the best governed and therefore the greatest nation.
H. A. L. Fisher.
Religious Illiteracy
There are twenty-seven million
children and youths in this country who are receiving no systematic religious instruction in any church. This information is the result of a
survey made by the Institute of Social and Religious Research of New York. Only three out of every ten of our young people are enrolled in
any church or private school to receive religious instruction.
This condition is not a reflection
upon the public school system, because it is not the function of the schools in a democracy to Impart in
struction in religion. Their duty is to teach children in those scientific, academic, civic and ethical subjects noon which all well-informed and
educated people agree. TheMisputed
subjects of religion and theology are
properly . left to the home and the
church.
The mere reading of a passage of
scripture every day without comment does not constitute religious instruction, nor does the teaching of ethics. Admirable as these things may be Jn themselves, children may
hear them and yet pass out of the
schools' little better than pagans. No magical effect is produced upon rea
son or conscience by simple reading
of the Bible. Upon the home and the church must rest the responsibility of imparting religious instruction. Parents, priests and ministers can not evade their responsibility for the religious education of the youth. Primarily it is the work of the church, and unless the churches call a truce in their sectarian controversies and denominational quarrels, and apply the united intelligence and devotion of all the churches to meeting and solving the stupendous problem of the religious education of the youth, one can contemplate the future of the church in America only with mis-
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