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THE FIERY CROSS Friday, August 1, 1924"
ZAMROWSKI DEFEATED IN SCHOOL ELECTION
Roman Influence Gets Setback in Michigan Klansmen Take Active Part
NEW' JERSEY PASTORS
TO PAY KLAN HONOR
Ministers Set Aside August 14 as "American Day" Many Thousands Expected
MANISTEE, Mich., July 27. A surprise took place here on July 14, when school heads were selected. Mrs. John L. Sweetnam was elected
to serve on the board and William
Zamrowski, whom all thought would he elected, was overwhelmingly defeated. The school board is said to have been run lor years under Roman Catholic influence, and although Americans were trying to change these conditions, it was found impossible until the coming of the Klan. The wonderful and thoroughly efficient system of the great American order was shown at the election, however, and it is reported that the local school system is now headed by those who believe in public and not secular education.
Women Behind Mrs. Sweetnam Women supporters of Mrs. Sweetnam were numerous, and a drive for votes at the last hour clinched her election. Speaking of the activities of the women, the News-Advocate says: "The coup for Mrs. Sweetnam was carefully planned, for when the time for serious voting came long lines of women patrols at the Woodrow Wilson and Washington schools were circulating her slips and urging her claims to the office. In the north side precinct at the Washington
school, and the second school district precinct, comprising the IV-ri, fourth and fifth city disrticts, Mrs. Sweetnam piled up a heavy majority which the vote from the sixth and seventh city districts, in favor of Zamrowski, the regular nominee on the ballot with Oscar Larson, was insufficient to overcome." Charles E. Bigge, in whose behalf the campaign was started by some unidentified persons, had refused to make the race, and had made the rounds of the polls announcing that he was not a candidate. Bljrfro Retiring Member Mr. Digge was a retiring member and was largely instrumental in obtaining the enactment of new voting rules, which called for the filing of petitions by candidates before a certain date.
Oscar L. Larson, the other regular
candidate, with Mrs. Sweetnam and
Zantrowski, was elected by a large majority also, and for the first time in years, it is said, Manistee has an
all-Protestant school board.
Many voters were indignant over the fact that Roman Catholics run
for offices connected with the public
schools, when all the literature is
sued by the Roman .corporation is directly opposed to the American system of education. "When a man
Is against a certain principle," vo ters agree, "he can not but be harm
ful when he has authority vested in him to vote on its affairs." With combined Roman forces working against the public school, no Roman Catholic can run for one of its offices without branding himself a hypocrite before the world, it
(Special to The Fiery Cross) WOODBURY, N. J., July 28. The
board of pastors In charge of the big camp meetings in Malaga taber
nacle, Malaga, N. J., has given recognition to the Ku Klux Klan, by setting aside Thursday, August 14, as "American Day." This is a decided tribute to the influence of the Klan and the impression it is making upon the minds of the Protestant people of the state. The tabernacle is a huge affair and is capable of seating several thousands of people. The sides of the building are removable so that
thousands more can be seated In the open and still hear what is said
from the rostrum in the building. It is expected that fully 20,000 people will be present on "American Day." Klansmen, Klanswomen and Junior
Klansmen from Gloucester, Camden
Atlantic, Cape May, Salem and Cumberland counties, have been invited to attend the meetings in a body, in uniform. It is understood that every effort will bo made by the Klans in these various counties to send banner delegations In order to show the aliens who attend that there are a large number of people in this state who believe in American ideals and principles and have
the courage to enlist in a movement
which is fighting day and night for their preservation.
The Malaga meeting is expected
be one of the red letter days
KU KLUX KLAN LEADS FRATERNAL ORDERS IN RAEID GROWTH Masons Show Steadily-Increasing Membership- Great Volume of Business
Survey of More Than Two Hundred
Organizations Is Taken Total Assets Enormous
MADPAT0D0
. AGAMJNLIMELH5IIT Is Employed to Defend Those Accused of Grafting in Public Schools of Chicago
AMERICANS PLACED
ON SCHOOL BOARD
Romans Fail to Pack Body at
Elections Bible Is. Ordered Read
to
in Klandom in New Jersey, and every
Klansman and Klanswoman in the southern part of the state is plan
ning to make an extra effort to be present.
was pointed out, and the vote to put in a Protestant school board plainly
snowed that Americans are Urine
of the continued attacks of the Ital
ian potentate and his agents.
Pleased Over Election Klansmen and other Americans are pleased over the reuslt of the
election, and a meeting was held
at which a Klan lecturer made an address on the principles of the order. The talk was received with unbounded enthusiasm by a large crowd. He said the school election was a great victory for the organization, as it was just another step toward the fulfillment of American principles. The stock in Klankraft took a great spurt when it was shown how staunchly those Americans stood by their principles, and applications
ior memDersnip in me order are coming in at a rapid rate.
Any information forwarded to The Fiery fross, and which is considered confidential by the writer, will kindly he addressed to 767 Century Building, Indianapolis, Dept. 1.
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ROCHESTER, N. Y., July 28.
Fratcrnalism in the United States is
enjoying the greatest prosperity in history, according to a survey just completed of 200 leading fraternal benefit societies. According to these figures, the fraternal benefit societies have increased In membership at the rate of more than one million a year for the past three years. As these figures do not cover Freemasonry (except the Widows
and Orphans Fund feature of the Shrine) and the Ku Klux Klan, because these two societies do not carry a fraternal benefit policy, It Is safe to estimate that fraternalism in
the United States has increased at
the rate of more than two million a
year during the past few years.
Klan Increase Sensational Masonry has shown a steady 4n
crease in menioersmp nut not a sensational increase, while the Ku
Klux Klan has gained several mil
lion members since 1920, when its
existence first became generally
known to the public. Although the 200 fraternal societies that are in
cluded in the survey just com
pleted include a few Catholic orders
tne great majority or tnem are Protestant and come under the papal bulls of excommunication
against "secret orders" that have throughout history refused to bend the knee to the pope and allow him
to reap harvest from their treas
uries.
The income of the 200 societies
included in the survey in 1923 was $221,781,644, which represents an in-
crease of $14,330,909 since 1922. Disbursements last year were $170,-
129,567, which included benefits to
members and beneficiaries of $127,-
141,669. The mortality rate was a little higher than in the preceding year, and the natural increase in the business outstanding caused the gain in disbursements over 1922 when they were $161,021,734, with benefits paid of $122,711,363. Membership Increases The new business of 1923 was the greatest volume of any year except
1919, which was the crest of life insurance writings in all lines. Members admitted in 1923 numbered
1,205,762, with insurance Written and
increased amounting to- $1,253, 836,933.
The fact that each year the fra ternal system received over a mil
lion new adherents and covers their
lives with over a billion dollars of
insurance is evidence of its forward
movement. In 1922 the new members were 1,034,045, and the new
insurance $1,199,334,570. The production increase of 171,
717 members means that fraternal
field workers are taking renewed
advantage of their opportunities
Total assets of the societies on
December 31, 1923, reached $581,
118,980, an increase for the year of
$40,000,000.
The membership of the societies showed an increase last year, reach
ing 10.195.017. At the close of 1922
the membership was 8,816,285 bene-
nc memDers, 811,174 social and
226,937 juveniles.
CHICAGO, July 27. Patrick H. O'Donnell, ex-president of the de
funct and discredited un-American Unity League, and Michael L. Igoe, one of the bitterest of the Klan's un
successful oDDonents at the Demo
cratic convention in New York, are
to defend school board officials who
were suspended here a week ago
for plundering the public school funds. Both lawyers are Roman Catholics, as are the men whom they
are to defend.
Once Disbarred
O'Donnell was once disbarred for
jury fixing and escaped a peniten
tiary sentence only by a legal
technicality. This infamous affair was
described in Grady K. Rutledge's
book, "The Flag Draped Skeleton."
Hearst's Chicago Evening Ameri
can, bitter anti-Klan organ ana
supporter of O'Donnell and igoe
though it is, carried the school graft
story on its front page. Among other things, this story charges:
The board of education is again
rocked by charges of graft.
"New irregularities which have
been hidden under a veil of Secrecy
today were revealed, with intimation that the 'graft" may amount to many, many thousands of dollars.
"According to theauthority of a
member of the school board, one confession and. one verbal statement are in the hands of the president of the board of education which involve John P. Kiely, clerk of the bureau of finance and former chief clerk of the bureau of engineering, and Robert E. McNamara. engineer custodian of the Willard school.
FOWLERVILLE, Mich., July 27.
American citieens, indignant over the action of the school board in re
fusing to permit a lecturer for the Ku Klux Klan to speak on the school
grounds, turned out en masse Mon
day when new school officers were
elected, and as a result, a large ma
jority of the school board is now un
questionably Protestant and Amer
ican.
Get Lesson From N. Y. Convention, Warns Santa Barbara Press
Alleged Confessions "Both have been suspended pending investigation of the charges.
According to the confessions,
Kiely and McNamara had been collecting $300 from each successful
applicant for jobs as engineers and
engineers helpers in the public
schools, this member declared.
"According to the school board
member, the scheme of graft was
systematic and collected Its toll from every one who wanted a job in
the engineering department."
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Louisiana Passes a Law It Is to Laugh
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From Boston What do you call fulsome flattery
and flamboyant praise? The Bos
ton Post coos thus about the no
torious Al Smith, prince of wet wire pullers: "His personal and political
record is as clean as a hound s tooth. His personality is lovible beyond
words." Ugh! Ugh! The gurgle of
molasses from the jug? - -4
A resolution was adopted that the
Holy Bible be read in each school room for at least five minutes each
day, and that the American flag
should be properly saluted. Rome Complains It is said that Roman Catholics entered a complaint to the old board when it Was learned that there was to be a speaker for the Klan on the
school grounds, and that the board immediately took steps to stop the organization formed to protect the very school the board was supposed to be upholding. The Klan lecture was given, how
ever, on the night advertised and a large crowd was present to hear the address. The discourse on Klan principles and ideals took place on one of the village streets and the sentiment of the crowd that gath
ered was unmistakably with the speaker.
Two men on the old school board who were carried through for another term, were said to have voted against the resolution that called for the reading of the Bible, but the new
regime took the American view of things and brought about the change regardless of the well-laid plans of the papal syndicate to disrupt the
American system of education here. Defense League Stirs Aliens Adherents of the foreign system say they were forced into their efforts to stop the Klan meeting on
account of a recent speech by a
well-known speaker for the Michigan School Defense League, who, they say, put up such a wonderful argument for the public schools that the speech by the Klansmen which followed closely would have clinched things for the Americans and would have made the American school even more popular.
Not being able to stop an American
from speaking in America for American principles, they say, resulted disastrously for the Italian-headed corporation.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. The
Santa Barbara Morning Press of racent date, stressing its hatred of
religious bigotry, made editorial reference to the Ku Klux Klan.
Those who direct the destinies of
the Klan," the Press remarks, "may
well take a lesson from the Madison
Square Garden proceedings." Those
who direct the destinies" of the Klan
have very likely taken careful note
of the proceedings of the Democratic
national convention. Here are a
lew facts for the information of the
editor of the Santa Barbara Press:
The Democratic national committee
is controlled by J-ews and Roman Catholics. This committee located the convention in New York, a city dominated by Jews and Roman Catholics. In New York white
Protestant Americans are in the minority. To all intents and purposes it is a foreign city. The convention might have been held in Rome, in the south of Ireland or in Jerusalem so far as local color is concerned. Permanent Chairman a Roman The permanent chairman selected for the convention was Senator Thorn .xs J. "Walsh, of Montana, a Roman Catholic. When he had oc
casion to step aside temporarily for a little recreation he handed the
gavel over to Senator David I. Walsh, of Massachusetts, a Roman Catholic. The New York candidate for president, Al Smith, is not only
a wet, but he is also a Roman Cath
olic. Governor Smith's floor leader
in the convention was George E
Brennan, of Chicago, another city dominated by Roman Catholics and
Jews. Brennan himself being an
Irish Catholic, wet to the skin. Brennan's first lieutenant, both on
the platform and on the floor, was
Joseph P. Tumulty, a Knight of Columbus, for eight years private
secretary to President Woodrow
Wilson. It was largely through con
fidence reposed in this Irish Cath- ' olic by the president that Tumultj
was enabled to honeycomb strategic positions of the government with
Irish Catholics and Jews. It may
easily be seen, therefore, what an
effective leader Tumulty is when maneuvering for his Roman Catholic candidate for president, A Lawless Setting -With such a setting, backed by lawless wets and Irish Catholics packing the galleries, is it any wonder that decent men like McAdoo and Bryan were hooted, hissed and insulted? The sub-committee ef the committee on resolutions consisted of eleven delegates. Eight members of the committee decided that the Klan should not be named
m the draft prepared. The Roman
atholic minority insisted that the
Klan should be named. The matter was referred to the full committee. Thirty-four of this full committee
decided against mentioning the name, fourteen voted in favor of do
ing so. Still the Roman Catholic minority pressed on in Its defiance
of precedents and good order. We
ill know what happened when the
resolutions came before the conven
tion. This writer trusts that the sditor of the Press has good Amer
ican blood in his veins and that he will take a little time and energy
and bestow a little earnest thought
upon this question before he "goes off" again half-cocked.
Wallace W. Atwood, president of
Clark University, at the recent commencement exercises, announced the
solving of the problem of an explosive for the Goddard rocket, using a liquid to give propellant force without overheating the projectile, a model of which is completed and will be sent up this summer. This is the rocket which, it Is asserted, built on a large ' scale, could reach the moon.
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path, public street, public passage
way or any public place of any character whatsoever, or in any open
place in view thereof, in the state of Louisiana, a hood and mask, or a hood or a mask, or anything in the nature of either, -or any facial dis
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to prevent his being readily recognized, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be punished by Imprisonment in the parish prisoirfor not less than six months- -er more than thee years.'
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covering or garment for the head
and neck, often attached to a robe or mantle or having an attached
cape; esp.: a garment formerly worn
by men either nnder the hat or falling behind the shoulders. Mail for the head or attached to a steel cap and covering the neck; etc., often
worn under the helmet. The head covering of an ecclesiastical garment; esp.: a monk's cowl.
"This act outlaws the wearing of
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