Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1924 — Page 3

Friday, August 22, 1921.

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What the Masons Are Doing

MASONIC CLUB PROGRAM LOS ANGELES, Cal. The Masonic Club of this city has arranged a most unusual series oC luncheon programs. Among the subjects to be discussed are "One of the Three Great Lights .of Masonry," by Rev. Alden L. Hill; "Sidelights on the Vice Court," by Judge James Pope; "Reforestation," by . George Harnes; "Fire Prevention," by John D. Maxfield, and "The Two Seas," by P. A. Behannesey. Other addresses will be delivered by

Rev. Bruce Brown, Breffnl Beggs, the boy actor, and A. G. Arnoll, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. The Masonic Club has a membership of over 2,000 master maeons and maintains luncheon and clubrooms at the Alexandria Hotel. At the luncheons certain tables are reserved for members of specific lodges. On Fridays the Masonic Club orchestra, under the direction of Dirk Bailey, thirty-second degree, K. C. C. H., plays. The chess club meets on Wednesday evenings.

START SEW TEMPLE MANCHESTER, N. H. Work Is to begin shortly on a new masonic temple on North Elm street in this city.

The lodge expects that the temple will be completed in a year.

SPEAKS AT TEMPLE HEIGHTS WASHINGTON Dr. B. T. McGowan, pastor of Brightwood Park

M. E. chiifch, was the speaker at the open-air services held last Sunday afternoon at Temple IJeights. The address was on the reality of religion. These services are under the auspices of tho masonic grand lodge of the District of Columbia.

ALIEN CRIMES COST

AMERICAN CITIZENS BILLIONS ANNUALLY

Statistics Show Foreigners Are Swelling Criminal Ranks to Costly Degree

PLAN MAGNIFICENT MOSQUE RICHMOND, Va. Acca Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, a planning a f 1,000,-

000 mosque, which is to rank as one of the finest in the nation. It is to have a roof garden which, it is said, will be the largest in the world. The building is to be of Mohammedan

architecture and will contain a tile

swimming pool, 75 feet by 18 feet; a gymnasium, 12G feet long, large enough for indoor baseball, basket ball and races, and two billiard rooms. There is to be an individual steel locker for every noble and a checking room large enough to accommodate the hat and coat of every member of the temple. The band, patrol, drum corps and chanters will each have private rooms, with separate drill rooms, showers, lockers and lavatories. There will be lounging rooms, card rooms, writing

rooms, a bie library, parlors, retir

ing and smoking rooms on eath floor and 1,002 bedrooms, each with private bath, all outside rooms, for resident

and transient nobles.

Law-Breaking Budget Denotes Great Losses by Theft, Burglary and Political Graft

LAY HOSPITAL CORNER STONE WEST CHESTER, Pa. Masons of this city recently laid the corner stone of the new Lewis Masonic Memorial Hosrital, tho gift of Pierre S. du Pont. Rev. Charles W. Clash, rector of Itnnianuel Episcopal church, Wilmington, offered the invocation; Rear-Admiral W. C. Braisted was the chief speaker, and the corner stone was laid by Mr. du Pont, assisted by Mrs. du Pont.

TO IMPROVE HOME

MIDDLETOWN, Conn.-St. John's

Masonic Lodge No. 2 has oversub

scribed the amount estimated as nec

essary to make improvements in its present home and add a new lodge

room. It was hoped to raise $40,000 and the enthusiasm of the members was shown by the immediate subscriptions amounting to $41,500.

GROTTO'S OUTING WASHINGTON Kallipolis Grotto held its annual outing at Marshall Hall on AiiKUst 12. The Grotto band gave a concert on board the boat in the evening. There was dancing in the new pavilion on the grounds, athletic events for the children and grownups, nnd a souvenir was given to cverv child.

TO DEPORT ALIENS WHO VIOLATE LAWS

PHILADELPHIA, Ta., Aug. 18. Unnaturalized foreigners convicted in the federal courts in this city will hereafter be subjected to an additional form of punishment by deportation, it was announced at the conclusion of a series of conferences between the prohibition and immigration officials and United States Attorney Coles.

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Keep on the Firing Line KLANSMEN! Patronize your friends advertising in your own paper, The Fiery Cross If you are a true Klansman you will patronize your owa ADVERTISERS and induce all of your friends to patronize them. " .

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. Statistics showing that the ranks of crim

inals are recruited very largely from

aliens who come to America with

but little or no respect for the laws

of the country, assume a decidedly economic interest when it Is known

that criminals and the crimes they commit are costing the nation at least $10,000,000,000 annually. American patriotic and fraternal organizations give the subject of immigration their attention, but seldom dwell on the cost which the entrance of alien criminal hordes imposes on the people. Statistics just compiled show that every criminal

costs society annually $10,000, and as the criminal population is given as 1 per cent, it would seem that despite the almost unbelievable figures criminals are costing the country the stupendous sum of $10,000,000,000. With such an impressive cost showing it would seem that the appeal to admit to this country only those who are apt to become good, assimilable citizens, is the best possible economy for the government as well as it ia

true patriotism. None of the items of this enormous crime budget is definitely ascertainable, but the experts have aT sound basis upon which to figure. In the fust place, from close scrutiny of national, state and municipal expenditures they learn that the detection, prosecution, punishment and prevention of crime cost taxpayers from $3,000,000,000 to $4,000,000,000 annually. This includes the expenses of maintaining police systems, courts, jails, prisons, penitentiaries, reformatories and other institutions for the

care of defectives and delinquents. All Kinds of Graft Tht toll which the. criminals take from society by one form of theft or another is estimated at another $3,500.000,000. The largest item fT this is the loss through speculative en

terprises essentially aishonest in character fraudulent stocks and bonds, bucketshop operations, land swindles and other confidence games. It is variously estimated at from $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000. Burglary losses total $525,000,000 and embezzlements $125,000,000. Forgeries and worthless checks that are

cashed by merchants aggregate $200,000,000, bad debts are placed at $1,550,000,000 and the losses due to fn-.udulent bankruptcies and dishonest business failures are estimated at $400,000,000. Polities! graft of various kinds, including land-grabbing and exploiting of public resources, is lumped at $200,000,000. When it comes to computing the loss due to violations of the prohibition amendment and enforcement laws teal exports are so conservative that they will not deal in figures, i They merely point out that the

I yearly consumption of illicit liquor J

runs from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 gallons, and possibly more than the latter estimate, and let the average citizen do his own. figuring based on his personal knowledge of what the bootleggers charge JLor Jheir wares. Then they tell you to add to that what the efforts to enforce the law anrt'to punish violators cost, and to complete your computation with your best guess as to the indirect cost to society of violations of the prohibition law. Loss to Society The last item in the crime budget is the loss to the social organization due to the fact that at least 1,000,000 people are not usefully employed or engaged in undertakings that contribute to the general welfare. If each individual be rated as having an annual productive value of $1,500 it is seen that this item runs to another $1,500,000,000. There is still another item that

might be included in the budget but experts agree that it is entirely too indefinite to be even estimated the loss occasioned by crimes that are never discovered. From two to three-fifths of the total number of crimes are so-called economic crimes, or crimes in which the economic factors predominate, j and these economic factors have j much to do with causing other crimes. For instance, a man is hun

gry and out of work. He -undertakes a burglary and while in the act is

caught and commits a murder in his effort to escape. Political Influence It is also to be noted that by far the largest number of criminals come from the poorer classes and from the occupations of the poorer classes. Even in the case of professional criminals it is found that economic pressure early in life in the form of a struggle for existence or

for a higher standard of living usually has been responsible for their first crimes. Political conditions are also known

to have a far-reaching effect upon crime. Inefficient and eorrupt gov

ernment! are invariably marked by a-k

snarp increase in crime, tor it seems

THE UNITED OPPOSITION The widely-disseminated statement that there exists in the United States united opposition to the' further development of American public schools led by "tax dodgers, heartless rich, big interests and an arrogant aristocracy" is only half true. The most insidious opposition comes from the supporters of the parochial school idea, and the means used by these enemies of the public welfare are so crafty that the mass consciousness of America can not recognize the danger or realize the source from which it comes. Even the Protestant Lutherans, who are fiercely fighting for their own parochial schools, do not seem to know that they are working hand and glove with the sinister forces of the church of Rome. Every time a Roman Catholic teacher is placed in our public schools the papal principalities and powers have scored a point in the battle

for the domination of Romanism. The real opposition is not from

the selfish tax dodger or the arro

gant aristocracy it is from the

deadly and determined Old Man

of Rome and his sycophantic ma chine in America.

GOV. ALLEN JOKES ABOUT KLAN WHILE HIS PAPER DODGES

Wichita Publication, in Klux Territory, SoftPedals issue

Ku

POLICE READY TO . STOP KLAN PARADE

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Roman Catholic Official Holds Department in Readiness to Arrest Klansmen

KEY WEST B STILL FIRST FLORIDA KLAN

Kansas Editor Predicts That Organization Will Not Survive the Fall Campaign

KLAN MADE ISSUE FOR OKLAHOMA BY

WALT0NCAMPAM Ousted Governor Nominated for Senate Catholics to Aid at Polls

Impeached Official Arouses People by Statement Attacking Protestant Ministers of State

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., August 19. The cause of Protestant Americanism will be carried to the poll? of Oklahoma this fall. The Ku Klux Klan has been made the issue of the campaign in this state and on election day the forces of free America will be pitted against the

sinister influence of Rome, as represented by J. C. Walton, who was impeached by representatives of the

people of Oklahoma after he had tried to run matters of state -with a high hand. Walton, who was removed from office when he declared martial law and tried to become literally the czar of Oklahoma, appears to have been nominated for the senate in the Democratic primaries. His nomination and that of,W. B. Pine, a Republican, who has the backing of members of the Ku Klux Klan, place the senatorial fight in this state purely on the Klan and anti-Klan

basis. Already the forces of Rome and the emissaries of the pope -are preparing to flood the ballot boxes of this state in an attempt to send Oklahoma's ousted governor to the United States senate. Feeling among Protestant Americans of Oklahoma was recently fanned to fever heat by a slurring statement of Walton, who said that the Klan in Oklahoma was a bad influence and that virtually all the Protestant ministers of the state were backing the Klan movement.

TOPEKA, Kan., August 19. People of Kansas who are interested in affairs beyond the border lines of their state note the fact that Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kan

sas, does not lose an opportunity in

his addresses outside the state to

condemn the Klan, while his Wichita newspaper is busy from day to day in soft-pedaling the issue. Far be it from his friends that they should accuse the brilliant

Kansan of attempting the always more or less difficult feat of carry

ing water on boih shoulders. Per

haps, in the absence of the editor of the Wichita Beacon, the business

office has a directing hand in the

policy or me paper, ir this be so

it would account in large measure

for the different attitude which

Henry J. Allen assumes in his pub

lie utterances outside the state, and the policy his paper pursues in the

Wichita territory, where Klansmen

and Klanswomen are more than nu merous. Allen Attempts Ridicule

In a recent speech Mr. Allen made

in Colorado Springs, Colo., he

brought ridicule into play in dis

cussing the organization in which

so many Kansas people take . great

pride. Commenting on it he said

"The farmer, of all men in the

United States, sees the joke in the Ku Klux Klan. He lives close to his neighbors and social life in the country is a simple life. He knows

all the idiosyncracies of his friends

and when one of them suddenly puts on a night shirt and a pillowcase and calls himself a 'kleagle' or an

'imperial wizard,' the absurdity of

it appeals to the sense of humor of

the neighborhood and does not get very far. The Klan only becomes a

matter of - serious consideration when it grows in an atmosphere

where there is a competition of race

and religions. There is no such

competition in the country." -

Mr. Allen in the same speech pre

dieted that the Ku Klux Klan would

not survive the fall campaign. Evi

dently Henry had not heard, or at

least analyzed, what happened at the

conventions of the major politica

parties, where the events-in at least

one of these gatherings proved be

yond all doubt the absolute neces

sity for the Protestant American

order.

CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 18. The fear that the Klan of Hamilton county may attempt to hold a parade in this city has caused Catholic city

officials no end of sleepless nights'

and worried days. Recently the ru

mor was circulated about the city that the Klansmen were planning a demonstration and the Roman Catholic safety director is said to have

kept the police and fire departments ready for "action" in the event the Klansmen tried to march. .

The fact is that no parade, at least

m the immediate future, is contem

plated by the organization. How

ever, the safety director has been the

indirect means of the movement receiving much publicity in the Cincin

nati newspapers.

CATHOLIC WOMEN WAR

ON KLAN NEWS AGENT

DETROIT. Mich.. Ausr. 17. News

boys selling the MichiganKourier are continually attacked on the streets here.

Last week, two women approached

a Klan newsboy and after a long harangue about how the poor Italian

pouucai-ecclesiastical system was being abused, one- of them tore a

paper from the boy's Dack and th

it to the sidewalk. The brute in

stinct of Roman training was further

carried out when the woman jumped

up ana aown on the paper with incoherent cries of anger and rage.

ine Doy am not answer anv of the

abuse, and after the women had

vented their wrath, and had zone on

their way, he continued selling the

papers with a better idea of why it

was necessary to sell Klan literature.

lhe women are said to be promS

nent workers against the American

oubhe schools.

KEY WEST, Fla., Aug. 17. John B. Gordon Klan No. 24 was the largest Klan in the Realm of Floridawhen the Realm was organized, and at the second Klorero in Jacksonville on August 14, it was found that John B. Gordon No. 24 remains at the head of the list, although closely pushed by Jacksonville No. 1. John B. Gordon, has ceased counting its members by the hundreds and now uses numbers of fourfigures in designating its membership. The enormous membership of this Klan has necessitated the hiring of a fulltime Kligrapp, and a suite of offices is maintained by the Kligrapp, so that the business of the Klan can be handled efficiently.

This Klan boasts of a large Klan band, a foot patrol, which has been drilled to perfection, a horse patrol and motorcycle patrol. The effect of these various bodies in a Klan parade is both beautiful and spectacular. The Klan is well organized along military lines, which adds greatly to its efficiency, and wbich enables the officers Qt the Klan to keep con

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ESCAPEATHOLICS Candidate for Governor Misses Collision With Parochial Gangsters

DETROIT, Mich,, Aug. 17. Stock in the public school amendment took a sudden rise when an attack was made on. James Hamilton, Republican candidate for nomination for governor at Petoskey, last week. Hamilton was held inv such favor by the intelligent citizens at Petoskey that fear was felt in anti-public school circles that It might lead to disaster for their foreign plans. So brute force was resorted to, which led to an automobile accident in which the car thought to contain the candidate for governor had one of its

wneeis lorn ou. Assailants Follow Car Several autos followed Mr. Hamilton's car after he had made a bril

liant speech for the public schools and although the driver of Hamilton's car tried to lose the ruffians, the pursuers were set with such a determination to make trouble that they could not be shaken off. The followers were said to have . been made up of Roman Catholics, and some of them were said to have contained a number of the regular hired

papal thugs, parochial school trained. Hamilton had delivered a speech on the courthouse steps to an enormous crowd and had been cheered to the echo. Time after time during his talk he was Interrupted by bursts of cheering and fiandclapping.

The mere handful of papal dogma adherents that slunk about In the

background during the time something encouraging was being put forth for America, made no attempt at trouble until they had the candidate outnumbered twenty to one. This was after the meeting had come to a close and the American audience had dispersed. Aliens Err

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COURT DISCHARGES ANTI-KLAN RIOTERS

LOGAN, la., August 19. The justice of -peace dismissed anti-Klan riot cases here on the grounds of insufficient evidence. The original charges, grew out of a holdup ..and robbery1 of R. D. Grauel, Klan organizer, and Rev. J. F. McKay, pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal

Church. The Ontaha World-HeraM was on the streets by noon the day of the hearing with an edition stating that the twelve men had been released and at that time the trial had hardly begun in the courtroom. Many honest people noticed this glaring example of present-day

newspaper methods and are of the opinion that some understanding was arrived at before the hearing. It is a question in the minds of many here whether or not the trial was conducted exactly according to Hoyle.

The spirit of the Masrna Charta is in the constitution, bnt it will be a chained spirit unless every Klansman does his duty.

In Italy a system of compulsory accident insurance for agricultural workers is in operation for a fiveyear period.

KLANSMEN!

T7e appeal to yon to patronize the persons and firms advertising in The Fiery Cross. True, not all such advertisers are Klansnien. Yet, they are friendly to as, or they would not advertise in our publications. Some are not members because of our own restrictions as to nativity. We would not, If we knew it, accept an advertisement from any one Mho is larred by onr moral restrictions. Before making yoninext purchase scan the columns of The Fiery Cross and any other Klan publication that yon may have at hand, and see if yo'u can find what yon want advertised In The Fiery Cross. Then, when niflking' your purchase, endeavor to let ii be know the advertiser where yon saw IilsadTcrtisement, and thus show him that yon appreciate his friendly Interest in onr organization, whether he Is a Kla us man or not. It is constantly drilled into ns through lessons In Klartkraft that we should "Return Good for Evil." Let's do that, bnt, at the same' time, let ns return good for grood, and patronize those who patronize us.

neiray me pudiic irusi it is a case of every man for himself and the devij take the hindmost. In other words, respect for the law, is decidedly conditioned upon respect for the administrators of the law.

i-mn pars rflTl tfl In in tr tho TTaTrUfT

that many men think thai if officials Lparty, and it was only through an

Apptnnp 1r a mnnt imnnrtant am:

ileal solvent, being mlscible with

waier auu uiuer nuiveuw, ana noi burning readily.

error that the candidate escaped bod

ily injury at the hands of the ruffians. The car in which Mr. Hamilton left Petoskey was not the car he

was in when the wheel was taken off. He had changed cars Just before

the. thugs bore down upon the one

tney tnougnt ne was in. wnen the

mistake was seen, and the hoodlums saw it was Impossible to lay hands on the candidate, the chase was

given up.

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