Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 38, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 July 1924 — Page 5
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HUMOROUS EDITOR PULLS ANEW ONE
(Continued from Page 1) cret organization, that "the organization seems to be making little headway in this section." The only trouble with that statement, it was
pointed out, is that things are not always what they seem. Inasmuch as he did not name the "section" where the "secret organization" was not progressing, and in view of the fact that he did say "this section," it is just possible that the worthy and careful editor must have meant the section of the office in which he was. writing his humor for that day. Magnificent Studies. Unfortunately for the editor, inasmuch as it evidently "peeves" him, the Klan is making magnificent strides in this section, just as it is in all parts of Michigan. If the editor could only have' attended the Fourth of July celebration by the Klan, held In Jackson, he could have used all
the "it is saids," "alleges," "it is pointed outs," "it is believeds," "It is thoughts" and other newspaper phrases, which he has on hand at this time. In the belief of Americans in this city, the "adroitly written" piece of humor will not cause the Klan to go out of business in America.
BIBLE IS ORDERED INTO CASS COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Growth of Klan Has Placed Holy Writ Into Hundreds of Schools in State
Program Is Outlined for First Week of Coming Term Resolution as Passed
DRIVE STARTS AS MURDER LIST GROWS
MAYOR JEZEWSRI IS FOUND GUILTY
(Continued from Page 1) chief distributer of the beer, was given a two-year sentence but escaped a fine. Woman Sentenced Bertha Johnson, owner of the
Hamtramck Inn and the only woman among the defendants, was sentenced to serve four months in the Detroit house of correction. Other defendants, Including Hamtramck saloonkeepers and employes of the National Products Company, received sentences that ranged from three months in the house of correction to thirteen months in Leavenworth penitentiary: A motion for a new trial was denied.
KLANSMEN ARE FIRED UPON FROM AMBUSH
(Continued from Fage 1) were frustrated in their designs by the night watchman, after they had made their way through two doors. They escaped in the dark after making a hasty retreat out of the building after they discovered a man on guard.
(Special to The Fiery Cross) LOGANSPORT, Ind., July 14. The reading of the Bible in all public schools in Cass county, outside the city of Logansport, was assured by the passing of a resolution by the township trustees here. Daily Bible reading has been In effect in other township schools and the resolution as passed will get the whole matter on a systematized basis. A program for Bible reading for
the first week of the coming term has been completed. The program follows:
First day. Creation of the Universe, Gen. 2:J-25; second day, The Creation, continued. Gen. 1:25 to 2:3; third day. Cain and Abel, Gen. 4:315; fourth day, Wickedness of Mankind, Gen. 6:5-22; fifth day, The
Great Flood, Gen. 7:1-24. The Resolution The resolution as passed by the trustees follows: "Whereas, the Holy Bible -is the foundation upon which public schools were founded, and "Whereas, the Holy Bible has been discarded fr,om our public schools.
"Therefore, be it resolved by the
county board of trustees of Cass county, Indiana, that the Holy Bible again be placed in our public schools and a portion of it read to the schools by teachers each day the
schools are in session; the same to le read without comment by the teachers and in accordance with a course to be prepared for such reading." List Grows Rapidly Those counties wherein the Bible has been ordered into the schools in Indiana are rapidly multiplying. With the growth of the Klan throughout Indiana, Bible reading has been making great strides in this state. Wabasluxounty ordered the Bible into the schools practically at the same time the Cass county offi
cials acted.
About 600 years ago, in England, the burning of coSl for fuel was forbidden because the gases were said to be detrimental to health.
SENATOR UNDERWOOD AGAIN REPUDIATED
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.. July 12. Five thousand candidates were initiated and thousands of Klausmen and their families enjoyed an all day outing here June 28, at a
mammoth Klan ceremonial held at East Lake Park, a suburb of Birmingham. Special trains brought Klansmen from all sections of Alabama, and from surrounding and nearby states. Prominent state Klan officials delivered addresses throughout the day on patriotic subjects and subjects of interest to the Women of the Ku Klux Klan were discussed. The meeting was the second public repudiation of Senator Under
wood held in his home city within the past few weeks.
POLICE SEEK NAMES OF MEN WHO THREW STONES Following the alleged stoning of the home of Joe Rohr, 50G W. Merrill street, police are endeavoring to learn the names of the five men who are said to have bombarded Miss Nora Davis, 559 West Merrill, wifh stones as she was entering her home. Rohr reported to the police that bricks were thrown at his home shattering window panes.
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J. J. HASSELD CHOICE MEATS
(Continued from Page 1) within two or three o a half hundred. Chief of Police Rikhoft , whom Mayor Shank refuses to remove from office, has been embroiled In internal dissension sihee taking office. One of the chief things which has gone to
disrupt the police department, under Chief Rikhoft, is the latter's stand against certain Protestants on the police force. At one time fifteen Masonic Protestants were either dis
charged or demoted. Why Not the Gamblers? Just what Bill Armitage, "chief advisor" to Mayor Shank, has to do with the present drive on minor criminal operations in Indianapolis is not known. Armitage is known as an ex-professional gambler and the fact that certain gaming rooms have not been touched on this drive seems, in the opinion of many, to be signifi
cant It has been pointed out that despite the number of arrests made which, it is admitted, looks like a sincere drive against crime by those uninitiated none of the reputed
gamblers and bootleggers, operating i on a big scale, have been caught in the net thrown out by the police. It was charged Monday that many innocent persons have been caught in the drive by the police, who seem bent on making the arrest total large even though that total does not include the worst offenders against law and order in Indianapolis. Professional bondsmen, however, reap a harvest just the same whether or not the men and women arrested are really guilty of serious. offenses. Stabbing and shooting affrays have become the rule rather than the exception. One of the most notable
among these was the shooting affair in a quiet residence district about one week ago when a number of men
and women were implicated, and although all were arrested, practically nothing was done about It. Bootleg
liquor figures in the vast majority of these cases, but a drive against bootleggers is conspicuous by its
absence. Chief Rttlioff in Canada
Mayor Shank has denied that the
raid during the absence of Chief
Rikhoff. who was a tailor before be
ing tendered the position as chief of
police, while experienced men in the department were not even mentioned
for the place, is no reflection on that
officer. Much criticism has descend
ed upon the head of Chief Rikhoff during his administration but Mayor
Shank has refused to remove him
although the mayor took a prcmi
nent part in the discharge of McGee
and Bedford, two officers who had
worked night and day to apprehend a criminal, and who were in the bad
graces of Chief Rikhoff because of their alleged affiliation with an or
ganization made up wholly of Prot
estants. Chief Rikhoff recommended
their discharge because of their ac
tivities in attempting to place under arrest, a man whom they suspicioned
of one of the many murders under the regime of Chief of Police Rikhoff, who is in Canada while the department attempts to curb crime in this city. The administration of Mayor Shank is now under a probe by the city council, which body has resented certain practices indulged in by Mayor Shank. Mayor Shank is most bitter- against those who suggest changes in his police department and
just recently wrote a caustic letter, a copy of which appeared in the daily newspapers, in which he denounced an expert who had suggested certainchanges as an aid to the police department. With hundreds of arrests within a few short hours, citizens are wondering how the mayor can reconcile his statement that the police department, under Chief Rikhoff, is performing its duty, and then it is shown that
that same department can, when galvanized into action, go' right to scores of places and drag out approximately five hundred persons. It
is ridiculous to believe that all of
these places and persons material
ized in Indianapolis in the short space of a few hours and that the
police were directed there by some miraculous and unseen power. Mayor Substantiates Fiery Cross Mayor Shank, by his drive, in the absence of Chief of Police Rikhoff, has substantiated the charge by The Fiery Cross that the city is infested with crime and law violators and that his police department has not exerted a proper activity in ridding the city of these offenders. Also, Mayor Shank will convince the citizens of Indianapolis of his sincerity only when the notorious bootlegging and gambling establishments have
felt the hand of the law in the "citywide roundup" now in progress.
APPLETON TEACHER -FAILS TO CONVINCE BY ARGUMENT .USED
College President Now Writes Articles Against the Ku Klux Klan
Foreisrn-Born Resident Offers Field for Klansmen to Hold Ceremony
MODERN PROGRESS HAD PART IN THE DEFEAT OF SMITH
Backers of Governor Still Groggy Over Terrific Beating Handed Their Favorite
ew York Papers Abounded In Insults to All Those Who Opposed the Roman Catholic
(Special to The Fiery Cross) APPLETON, Wis., July 12. One of the largest Klan meetings to have been held in this locality was held
here on the night of July 5, when a ! large crowd gathered to view from a distance the Initiation of a large class of candidates into the Klan organization. Despite bitter opposition, the Klan "goes merrily on." The growth of the organization is most gratifying. One of the peculiar features of the meeting was that it was held on the
grounds of a foreign-born resident who offered his field for the occasion when trouble was experienced with securing a - plot of ground large enough for the event.
One of the chief opponents of the
Klan in this section is Dr. Samuel Plantz, who has gone to the trouble of writing lengthy articles for the
newspapers upbraiding the Klan or
ganization. Dr. Plantz is president
of Lawrence College, situated in Ap
pleton, and. is evidently much disturbed over the fact that a large
number of students are members of
the Klan.
Outstanding Error
While many of the utterances of
Dr. Plantz, in one of his latest ar
tides, would not stand the severe
test of logic, one of the most out
standing and glaring errors con
cerns negroes. Dr. Plantz states
that hundreds of negroes have been
frightened by Klansmen in the south
and for that reason "thousands of
them have migrated to the north
That statement is ridiculous when
one takes into consideration that
there are more Klansmen in the
north than there are in the south. Many of the negroes, wh) migrated to the north, due to certain industrial conditions immediately after the war, went to Indiana. In Indiana there are more Klansmen than in any state in the Union, the total, including Women of the Ku Klux Klan, being near the million mark. And yet. Dr. Plantz says those ne
groes came north -to escape Klansmen. The statement is so ridiculous on the face of it that there is even no attempt to contradict it by Klansmen living in Appleton. . However, with the rapid and continued growth of the Klan here, Klansmen are giving little worry to wild statements by its opponents.
(Special to The Fiery Cross) NEW YORK, July 14. Modern progress aided in defeating papal conspiracy to put the pope's repre
sentative at the head of this nation.
That in a nutshell sums up the
tremendous fight that was made in
the Democratic national convention
in this city. P And it was, a fight to the finish. New York Catholics, used " to having their own way in
things here, held up their hands in holy horror to think of anything opposing them or interfering with them in any way. That was religious interference, so they say. Of course, the insignificant Protestants
are not to be reckoned with at all, and that's just where Rome slipped
and is slipping today in America because any organization like the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan dare
not organize Protetsant America
and get the Protestants working to
gether for their own good. For once the pope met a fight in America and he knows it, although Catholic
New York is now aware that it received an awful drubbing.
It was rather amusing to hear
New York newspapers rave about
the . Hicks and Hill Biilies of all
other cities, the mountains and the plains listening ta by radio on the
proceedings of this convention. It isn't right, it isn't fair, according to Catholic New York. What business lias the rest of the country knowing what's going on anyhow? That seems to be the spirit here. And the very fact that the rest of the United States listened in kept posted on events here and then the Protestants
wiring in here for all their delegates and alternates to sit tight and urging them to fight it out on that line if it took all summer. "Why that
sort of thing produced consternation in this Catholic, pope-ridden community and they thought it awful for the rest of the country to interfere. That is something that never entered their heads before. But thanks to our modern progress, radio, the rest of the country was
well posted on the late convention as were the thousands of Al Smith
rooters who hogged all the gallery seats and booed at the Protestants when they dared to open their heads.
Radio Helped Radio has done a wonderful thing
for the Protestants of America, in keeping them posted. . It enabled
them to keep tn touch with their Protestant leaders oh 'the Job and helped them to sit tight and fight it out, no matter how long it took. It was either fight or get licked and Protestant America had decided to fight and fight to the finish. Every Catholic, every wet candidate and his wet friends were linked together and proposed to stick together and lick the Prot
estants and the drys on the other
side, if such a thing were possible. Every move they made and had been making here for two weeks before the convention justifies this assertion. There was no straddling, no middle ground, a fellow must get on one side or the other, as the fight went on. After seventy-seven ballots had been taken and voting down motions and resolutions galore to adjourn
the convention to some other city and to some other time. It was
finally gotten through a motion to
adjourn over Sunday and a resolution calling upon the managers of all the candidates to get together with National Chairman Cordell
Hull and ' Permanent Chairman
Walsh, of the convention, to try and see if some way out of the difficulty could not be reached. And the first thing attempted when they mt was to ask Mr. McAdoo, Protestant candidate, to withdraw and get out of
the wa7 so Governor Al Smith, Catholic, could be nominated. "It seems ludicrous," Campaign Manager Rockwell said, "to suggest that the high man, who has been the high man from the first to the
seventy-seventh ballot should be
asked to withdraw,"
"This conference was not put up
to me as one of elimination of can
didates." Mr. Rockwell said. "The
purpose is to lay down some broad principle of procedure that may offer some solution of what appears to be a deadlock convention. We have not a right to sit down and eliminate candidates. Likewise we
are not meeting to deal out the nomination. The delegates were sent here to do that.
straggling hamlets. The Ku Klux . Klan was conceived in the ignorance of the cracker nests of Georgia and it has flourished wherever there is ignorance, wherever there are men and women with small brains and crooked faculties." A Daily Sample The above was a daily Sample of
wnat some New York newspapers dished out to their one-sided constituency. They thought that smart jornalism the kind that stings and wins. They had another guess coming. That fellow out in the middle west who not so long ago wrote that the average New Yorker doesn't appear to know there is any United States west of Jersey City, hit the nail on the head. The New York newspapers, with few exceptions.
have much to learn about their own country and its people. The average New Yorker is about the most
selfish, narrow-minded creature that lives on God's footstool today. And there's a reason. It is his teaching. They don't know any better and they
really are to be pitied rather than censured.
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR OF SEATTLE PREPARING
Triennial Conclave to Be Held in That City in 1925 Elaborate Plans i
Trained Teachers
"Why Not Smith r "There are candidates before the convention who have developed no appreciable strength," he said. "And yet they Stre holding away from McAdoo votes that will go to him. Until those votes are released there can be no talk of the veto power."
The Smith crowd did not count like that. They had thought they
could bluff McAdoo out of this nomination and get him to withdraw
All Protestants were rising up and
asking Protestant delegtaes to sit
tight and not permit the pope to
dictate the nomination. He had al
ready done too much dictating for
the good of this country.
Think of newspapers of a convention city openly denouncing any candidate before the convention as
a crook and the outside delegates
and alternates as "hordes of igno
rant, unwashed, illiterate, and ab
normal fanatics, who are creeping
out from the rank villages and
SEATTLE, Wash., July 12. Working with well-organized regularity; the various committees of Seattle
Knights Templar already are making elaborate plans for the visit of the Templars of the country to Seat
tle in 1925 for the Triennial Conclave
of the national organization.
Fred R. Harrison, chairman of the
escort committee, is a past com
mander of Seattle Commandery No. 2 and was for sixteen years a member of Nile Temple Drill Team. Drill teams in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana will assist Mr. Harri
son's committee in receiving and escorting visiting delegations to their
hotels. John C. Slater, of Seattle Commandery, has been elected to the office of secretary of the general executive committee to succeed James N. Hamill. Committees have been appointed and are working to insure the comfort and entertainment of every visiting delegate to the Triennial Conclave. One will supervise the hotel accommodations; one will provide various forms of entertainment; another will visit any member who be
comes ill; another will provide tne services of physicians in case of illness and still others will direct the Sir Knights about the city, meet them as they arrive and escort thenj to their trains as they leave. Nothing to add to the general enjoyment of the occasion will be omitted.
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BISBEK, Ariz., July 12. A joint
meeting of the Ku Klux Klan of
Bisbee, Douglas, Tombstone, Fairbanks and Wilcox, was held on the desert between this city and Douglas, on the evening of June 27, a large class being initiated by the drill team of Bisbee Klan, No. 15.
The meeting was one of the largest gatherings of Klansmen in the his
tory of the Klan In this section. Following the initiation cere
monies, the . Gfand Dragon of
Arizona addressed the Klansmen
and outlined plans for the state celebration of the first anniversary
of the Arizona Klan, held July 6
Klansmen of Arizona believe that
the credit for the success of the Klan in the state during the past
year goes to the untiring efforts of
the Grand Dragon of the Realm and
his staff of assistants.
i aon i care now mucn a community spends for school buildings, if the teaching staff is not compe
tent, the school is worth very lit
tip. THE TEACHER MAKES THE
SCHOOL EITHER GOOD OR BAD.
The more thoroughly the American
people come to understand this fact,
the better schools, we will provide
ror American boys and girls. Too much stress can not be placed on the importance of efficient teachers in the public school.
The teacher works with the most wonderful thing in creation the mind of a human being'. Yet we permit meaand women to serve as teachers who are absolutely unfit for the work that a teacher is called upon to do in the schoolroom of the nation. By our shortsighted policies we are driving good teachers
into commercial fields where the remuneration is more satisfactory. Frequently we force the "teachers of this country to work and live under conditions that do everything but make the teaching profession attractive. I have served as a teacher
and school executive, so know whereof I write. It is shameful the way we Americans have compelled teachers to accept mountains of discouragement, overwork, uncertainties of tenure of office, and wrecked nervous systems with premature old age, for monetary returns that continuously suggest the poorhouse or charity. Do you suppose for a minute that red-blooded men and women of ability are going to continue in the profession of education with an outlook that is no better than that of the coal 'miner
or the ignorant millhand? What is
the result of our foolishness? Con sider the following facts:
Thirty thousand teachers in onr
public schools have no education be
yond the eighth grade in the elemen
tary school.
One hundred thousand teachers
have had less than two years of
education beyond the eighth grade.
Two hundred thousand teachers
have less than a high school educa
tion. Three hundred thousand teach
ers have no more than a high school education. Three hundred thousand
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tion for the work that they are attempting to do in the schoolrooms
of the land By a Teacher.
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JOINT CEREMONIAL
ai.ranY. Ore.. July'-12. Masonic
lodges and Eastern Star chapters of
Linn county heia a joint memorial
and religious ceremony at the Masonic ' and " Eastern Star Home In
Forest Grove, July 6. The event brought hundreds of Eastern Stars and Masons from all parts ot the
state.
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