Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 45, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1924 — Page 3

'Friday, September 5, 1924

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Current Comment on the Klan

Religious Freedom of America Can Not Survive Without Active Ku Klux Aid Will Hays Experiences Difficulty in Purging Movies . . t Philadelphia Cleaned .'"V

(By Felix Free) Senator Oscar Underwood characterized the Ku Klux Klan as a national menace. "It is either the Ku Klux Klan or the United JStates of America," the Alabama statesman declared. It wiirbe both before the present job is completed the Ku Klux Klan and the United States of America. The political and religious freedom of America can not survive without the active help of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Close observers of current movies fail to note any perceptible change in the character or quality of screen pictures. All of which suggests thesjnsuperable obstacles Will Hays is up against in his efforts to handle the moral phases of a Jew-controlled industry. Is Elder Hays really the arbiter elegantarum or merely a high-up church man employed to give respectable front to producers in pursuit of "freedom" and "liberty"? At Rockingham, N. C, a superior court judge decided that an admitted member of the Ku Klnx Klan does not commit perjury in swearing that he is "not a Knight of the Ku Klux Klan."

BUILD HOSPITAL IN TEXAS IN HONOR OF SLAIN HLANSMAN

Corpus Christi Klan to Erect Memorial to Late Member, Victim of Alien Gun

Purchase City Block Architect Working on Plans for Building Seek Subscriptions

WHOLESOME FUTURE SEEN FOR FARMERS Joint Stock Land Bank Speaker Paints Rosy Picture for Agriculture

The Apostles' Creed There Is dissatisfaction with the apostles' creed, according to the Rev. Josiah Abel, of Oklahoma, leading jlergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church. It is proposed to substitute the words "Christ's holy church" for the "holy Catholic church." "Catholic is applied in history to a church filled with bigotry and intolerance. LA FOLLETTE WAS THE BEST Fill END GERMANY HAD IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE DURINGTHE WAR. THOSE "WHO WANT THEIR BEER WILL NOT FORGET THAT HE HAS ALSO CONSISTENTLY OPPOSED PROHIBITION. IF LA FOLLETTE -'ETS ALL PRO-GERMAN AND ALL ANTI-EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT VOTES HE MAY MAKE A GOOD E HO WING IN NOVEMBER. Ruder to the Rescue

Mayor Kendrick wanted deplorable vice conditions in Philadelphia cleaned up. He appealed to President Coolidge for the loan ot General Smedley D. Butler. The President complied with the request of the mayor. "The Fighting Quaker" went to Philadelphia to tackle the task. He did such a splendid job of it thak General Butler soon found himself out of harmctoy with politicians of that city. They rebelled, but it did them no good. The general has been engaged for another year. If General Butler is not a Klansman he is surely built like one and acts like one. Pit was on net of magnificent courage when onr ancestors set up n nation wherein any boy may aspire to the highest honors. "That great achievement was not wrought without blood and sacrifice- Make firm yonr resolution to carry on nobly what lias been so nobly beguilePresident Coolidge. The sentiments might just as appropriately have been expressed by an ofticlal Klan lecturer to a gathering of Klansmen and Klansnomen. Who Wears Robes? Roman Catho'.ic priests find senilis fault with Klansmen because liiey use regalia in their parades ml public ceremonials. Who ever heard of a Catholic trying to pick a quarrel with a uetticoated priest?

And yet some prieatly robes are quite ornamentally decorated and practically all of them are exquisitely figured. In the August number of the National Geographic Magazine you will find masked figures resembling very closely pictures representing a Ku Klux Klan parade. On page 211 is shown a religious procession at Malaga. These processions pass through darkened streets at night during Holy Week, and are awe-inspiring in the solemnity and eligi'us fervor. Malaga disputes with Cadiz the honor of being the oldest seaport in Spain. Just why does the Roman Catholic hierarchy wisli to exclusively control and dictate the right to wear petticoats? WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST IS SAID TO HARBOR DESIGNS UPON THE POLITICAL SCALP OF

(Special to The Fiery Cross) CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Sept. 1.

Klan No. 225 of this city is planning

to build a great hospital as a memorial to the late Fred Roberts of Corpus Christi, who was shot to death while sitting in his car unprotected and unarmed. Roberts

was a Klansman and his chief of

fense seems to have been that he stood for clean moral and political

conditions in Corpus Christi.

The basic support for the proposed

memorial is coming from Klansmen.

A Protestant Board

GOVERNOR AL SMITH. HEARST

DOESN'T WANT SMITH TO SUCCEED HIMSELF IN OFFICE. This Is Freedom "We have freedom of speech, freedom of the press and a great school system," said Governor Richardson,

oi California, to a big audience of Christian Endeavorers at Long

ueacn. as regards "freedom of the

press, perhaps Governor Richardson had not read the latest news from Las Vegas when he made these remarks. The experience of Editor Carl C. Magee, of Albuquerque, is

now before him. Magee thought, like

me governor, that there was "free

dom of the press." In his paper, the New Mexico State Tribune, Magee

sain. Leany s court isn t a court.

ii s a slaughter house. I doubt whether a case, civil or criminal, has been decided there on its merits in

ien years. ADout once every two

weeks for a year I have accused him

of being a corrupt judge in the hope

mai l coma inveigle him into suing me for libel." When Magee appeared in his court. Judge David S. Leahy sentenced the editor to one year in jail and assessed a firie of $4,000.

Judge L,eahy is an Irishman who acts as if he might have come down to the twentieth cerftury from the days of the rack and the thumbscrew. Henry Hurwitz. editor of TIip

Menorah Journal, said to be the leading Jewish periodical of the world, has arrived in Los Angeles. His mission is reported to be "to advance Jewish culture in universities." The kind of culture Mr. Hnrwitz plans to advance may be better Imagined- than definitely- described. Tho American idea of Jewish culture may be wrong, but if it is wrong then "The International Jew," especially volumes two

ana inree ot that work, need revision. Perhaps Mr. Hnrwitz may find time to read this work and make some comment upon his findings. He should really do this at once. A Moral Victory Near Farmington, 111., citizens are reported to have been beaten up by a gang of masked hoodlums. The responsibility for these outrages, as it is quite the fashion to do, was charged up to the Ku Klux Klan. In order to give the lie to groundless rumors twenty-five automobiles loaded with robed Klansmen drove into Farmington one night. They

?ui ruimueu a crowded cate, unmasked, and shouted, "Here we are, men, look us over!" After opportunity had been given the crowd to look into their faces, the Klansmen drove away as silently as they had come. This incident not onlysilenced idle gossip against the Klan, but it made hundreds of red-blooded Americans join the order.

This hospital is under the con

trol of a board of trustees organized fundamental causes which are likely

CHICAGO, Sept. 1. "American agriculture has just turned a corner. It is the final turn to the right

that leads out of the slough of depression onto the high rpad of pros

perity. This prophecy was broadcast re

cently by Dr. David Friday, former

president of the Michigan State College of Agriculture, now associate editor of the Review of Reviews and director of the National Transportation institute, who was one of the principal figures at the convention of the American Association of Joint Stock Land Banks. "Agriculture has been in a state of depression for almost ijour years," feaiH Dr. Friday. "Crop and weather conditions here and abroad have once more produced a phenomenal rise in the price of cotton, wheat and corn. It is a hopeful sign for the future of agriculture that this increase has not come about as a result of

any ponucai action, . nutr or more

GANGSTEJIS OPERATE

UNDER ELAN'S NAME TO TERRORIZE TOWN

Abduct Freeport (N. Y.) Druggist After Representing Themselves as Klansmen

Victim Certain That His Kidnappers Were Kot Members of Order Will Remain in Town

September Dates in Masonry Nathan Hale, Hanged as a Spy by British, and Several Other Revolutionary Heroes Will Receive Tribute From Masonic Lodges During the Month (

under tho laws of the state of Texas, and consists of fifteen members.

These trustees were selected by the

local Klan, and are Protestant Klansmen. They are to handle this proposition for the memorial pur

pose, and for the benefit of humanity,

it Deing a ntting testimonial to a martyr of the cause of Klandom. All these trustees, under the law, are self-perpetuating. These trustees are members of the following Protestant churches: Six Baptists, six Methodist, two Presbyterians, and one Christian. "When finished, it will be managed by the trustees and also operated by them, unless by some agreement otherwise, with properly constituted authority. Until otherwise determined, the title of the property will be in the board of trustees. All revenues secured above operating expense will be used for the benefit of suffering Klansmen and their families who may be unable to pay. It is expected to continuously solicit donations for this purpose after the first unit is completed,

and as may be needed- to construct-

further units. Start on First Unit A city block has been purchased and paid for. Dr. M. E. Broaddus is -field solicitor, and is at work visi ing organizations throughout Texas.

An architect is now at work making up plans for the building. As soon as $100,000 is secured the erection of the first unit will begin. Klansmen are responding liberally.

KLAN -AND ENEMIES -ARRIVEAT TRUCE No More Fiery Crosses or Flaming Circles Will Be Burned in Niles Streets

The use of light colored inert mineral powders for "dusting" coal mines to prevent dust explosions is now extensively employed in Europe.

One of the world's largest dams is being constructed in India to control the waters of the Indus for irrigation of vast tracts of land now unproductive.

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 own ADVERTISERS and induce v all of your friends to patronize them.

NILES, Ohio, Sept. 1. -No more fiery crosses nor flaming circles will be burned in the streets of Niles, either by the Ku Klux Klan or the anti-Klan faction, it was announced

by Sheriff John E. Thomas follow

ing a conference of Klan represen

tatives with members of the so-called

b laming Circle. The parley was called by the sheriff after several threatened clashes due to the burning of the emblems on the donwtown streets. The immediate reason was the destruction of a fiery cross recently by the Flaming Circle members who proceeded to burn an anti-Klan emblem on the same spot. Mob Attacks Klansmen The situation has been unusually teirro since a bitter anti-Klan demonstration several weeks ago-when a mob of foreigners and Catholics attacked Klansmen and women who were attending a Klonklave in this city. Stones, , clubs and other weapons were used by the anti-Klan hoodlums and several women were among the victims, one young woman having been dragged from an automobile and brutally slugged. At the request of the sheriff, both

the' Klan and opposition appointed representatives and it was agreed that both sides would refrain from

further demonstrations of the kind. However', it is understood that the Klan will continue to burn crosses in its ceremonials. Burning 'ot Authorized It was pointed out that the indiscriminate burning of fiery crosses was done by individual members without official sanction, but leaders pledge .themselves to enforce the agreement. Sheriff Thomas presided at the meeting, end he was given a vote of thanks b both factions at the conthcion of the "truce."

to continue for some years

Bases Predictions on Past "We have to look into the past to getthe basis for our prediction for th,e future. Agriculture began a new era in 1900. We had come to the end of the unprecedented expansion which characterized the thirty years from 1870 to the end of the century. More than 3,000,000 new farms were settled during these three decades. By- 1910 we had added another 24,000 farms, but this addition was no more than to keep pace with the population. The gross value of all farm

products, excluding crops fed to live stock, had stood at $2,904,000,000 in 1897; by 1900 it amounted to $3,549,000,000. In 1910 it was $6,607,000,000. Despite the fact that the price of the things the farmer purchases rose, the total purchasing power of all people engaged in agriculture had increased 70 per cent during these thirteen years. "In 1910 the number of farms actually decreased. There are today fewer farms and fewer persons engaged in farming than there were fourteen years ago. It is clear, then, that the demand for agricultural

products is on the increase as it

was In the seventeen years which

preceded tne revival of prices and business in 1897. It also is clear that unless there is an unusual increase

in the supply of agriculture prod

ucts, the prices of farm products

will hold the advance they are now

making and will rise further. Opposite Trend "Every single group of commod' ities except farm products has de

tuned. What will be the effect of

thiapn farm land values? . . The mosFHramatic effect of the rise in

prices from 1900 to 1910 was the

increase in the value of farm lands

exclusive of buildings. This rose from $13,000,000,000 in 1900 to more than $28,000,000,000 in 1910. Today, after the decline of the last four years, it still stands at approximately $40,000,000,000. Land values in Iowa alone rose $5,400,000,000 between 1900 and 1S20. They are still $3,500,JHIO.OOO above 1900. If what has been predicted here about the prices of

farm products holds true, we shall see a maintenance of Present aeri-

culture values for good land and

some gradual and orderly increase for the future."

(By a Staff Correspondent) FREE"PORT, N. Y.. Sept. 1. Ef

forts of the Klan's un-American enemies to throw discredit on the organization came to light here last week when five men,- posing as Klansmen, kidnapped Ernest S. Louis, a-local druggist.

The first evidence that an or

ganized gang was endeavoring to

bring public disfavor on the Protestant organization came when a group- of ten rough-looking men en

tered Louis' store ten days before and demanded that he leave the vicinity. They represented them

selves, Mr. Lotris says, as Klansmen, but the druggist is disinclined to

believe that they were. "The men

who kidnapped me," he said, "were not masked and I could tell by the

way they behaved that they never be

longed to the Klan organization."

Looked Like Foreigners On the night of his abduction. Mr.

Louis locked his store and started for home with his wife and brother-

in-law. As they neared a cross street, the street lights were

switched off and five men approached

them from an automobile standing at the curb. Mrs. Louis was pushed aside and her brother was held while Mr. Louis was pulled into He automobile.

Mrs. Louis rushed to the police station and broadcast an alarm. County officials gathered a posse and went in search of the kidnappers. They were told by Mrs.

Louis that two of the men were young and that three were middleaged. She said that two of them spoke in very broken English and that all of them had the appearance of foreigners. A few hours later Mrs. Louis was called to the 'phone and told that her husband was safe in Hicksville, where his captors had freed him. Druggist Will Stay Today Louis declared that he would stay in Freeport and continue to operate his drug store. Police have placed a guard outside his" store. Meanwhile local Klan authorities are seeking the five enemies of the Klan who sought to terrorize the local druggist under the name of the organization. Klansmen here believe that Louis' abduction is part of -a plot on the part of Roman Catholics to throw discredit on the Ku Klux Klan.

September is a month especially rich in Masonic anniversaries Masonic lodges will pay tribute to the great men whose birthdays will be remembered at this time, and also pay the tribute of loving memory to men the anniversaries of whose deaths occur in this month. In addition events of great importance in Masonic history have taken place in September. One hundred years ago, in 1824, Lafayette made his famous visit to the United States. It was in truth a Masonic pilgrimage. He was feted by Masonic grand bodies throughout the country and was the recipient of many honors from the fraternity. His birth on September 6, 1757, will be honored His eldest, son was named George Washington Lafayette. Lafayette, according to Masonic tradition, was made a Mason in one of the lodges in the Continental Army. Upon his return to Paris after the war he became a member of Union lodge of that city

cpeaKing 01 masonic visitors, at

STURDIEST YOUTHS

LIVE IN THE WEST

tenuon is airectett to the coming i visit of the Prince of Wales. The ! Prinse is a member 'of Household Brigade Lodge No. 2614, London, in which he was raised a master mason June 24, 1919. Recently the honor of senior grand warden of the grand lodge of England was conferred upon

mm and in July of this year at Central Hall, Westminster, he was Installed as masonic provincial grand

master for Surrey before an immense

concourse of English masons. In Revolutionary Days Many of the men prominent in revolutionary days were masons. Nathan Hale, who was hanged as a spy by the British in New York on September 22, 1776, was a member of St. John's Regimental lodge of that city and although barely 21 years of age had received recognition as a mason. John Marshall, who was an officer in the American revolution and later became chief justice of the United States, was grand master of the grand lodge of Virginia in 1793. He

was tne most famous lawver and

master of jurisprudence in American

history and served on the Supreme

court bench for thirty-five vears.

John Marshall was born September

24, 1755. General Joseph Warren, who was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill, and in whose honor the famous Bunker Hill monument was erected, was a member of St. Andrews lodee

of Boston, having been initiated on

September 10, 1761. In 1770 General Warren was the grand master of the grand lodge of Massachusetts. Martyred Presidents Two martyred presidents of the United States will be remembered in September. President Garfield died September 19, 1881, and Presdent McKinley was shot by an assassin at Buffalo September 61901. Both of these were masonsl9cKinley being a Knight Templar and a member of Winchester Hiram Lodge No. 21 of Winchester, Virginia, and President Garfield being a Knight Templar and a fourteenth degree

Scottish Rite mason. His symbolic lodge was Magnolia Lodge No. 20 of Columbus, Ohio. In connection with masonic presidents, it is interesting to know that the only living ex-president of the united States, William Howard Taft, who is now chief insti nt ,,

United States, is a mason. To him was accorded the-unusual honor of being made a mason at sight by the grand master of Ohio at Cincinnati on February 18, 1909. The same evening he was present and witnessed the conferring of the master mason degree by Kilwinning Lodge No. 356. President Taft was born on September 15, 1857. Father of American ISajj Masonic names are Conspicuous on the pages of American history. Captain John Paul Jones commanded the U. S. S. Bonhomme Richard forty-two guns, 304 men in the naval battle of September 23, 1779 with the British frigate Serapis fifty guns, 320 men which resulted in the most famous American naval victory of the revolutionary war. John Paul Jones's masnnir- Mri

Lis well known. His victorv of thi

date enormously increased the prestige of the young republic in Europe. The continental congress met on September 15, 1774, at which time the American union actually came into existence, when the delegates from eleven colonies met in conference at Philadelphia. Most of the men conspicuous in this famous assemblage of liberty were masons, including Peyton Randolph of Virginia, Patrick Henry, and George Washington.

on beptember 3, 1783, the treaty of Versailles between the United States and England ending the revolutionary war was siened. Nobt-w

two years had elapsed since the evac

uation or Yomtown. The treaty bore the signature of Benjamin Franklin, who was provincial grand master of masons of Pennsylvania In The corner stone of the capital at Washington was laid with masonic ceremonies by George Washington on September 18, 1793.

SEEKS HARDY PEAR IN ASIATIC LANDS Agricultural Explorer Is Going to Siberia on Behalf of South Dakotans

TWO GOOD LIBRARY BOOKS "So Bie." by Edna Ferber, is the story of tli-; son who never grew quite so big as his mother dreamed he m.'rht, but mostly it is the story of the i.r.ther, Selina. Selina, full of imagination and love of beauty, starting life in community of stolid, sileut, unresponsive Dutch. Yet, even r.vfier life had had its way and left her In desolate places, she retained the precious gift of seeing beauty in fields of red and green cabbags. AnoMier good book at the library is "Galapagos," by William. Beebe. Tho illustrations are exceptionally beaith'vl. Fishes of unbelievable colors feaze in a bored fashion at the reader, while scaly and hungrylooking lizards sprawl in a terrifying vunner across the pages. The text is written in Beebe'a extraordinarily entertaining style. This book; picked up, Insists on being read from cover to cover. These books may be borrowed from, the public library - . .

BROOKINGS, S. D., Sept. 1. N. E. Hansen, South Dakota's "agricultural explorer," whose trips to Asia in search of fruits and plants adaptable to the climate of the northwest have paid high dividends to farmers of the Dakotas, is embarking upon his sixth trip to the Siberian steppes, this time in quest of a pear hardy enough to withstand the South Dakota climate.

ur. tiansen is preparing to em

bark for Vladivostok, financed by a j $20,000 appropriation of the South ! Dakota legislature. j Already the contributor of the Cossack alfalfa and of the hardy Hansen hybrid plum, which has been developed to mature in Dakota's short

summers, Dr. Hansen declared that

the cold fastnesses of northern Si

beria hold various other fruits and agricultural species which may be adapted to this climate.

Previous Journeys Productive His five previous journeys of exploration have resulted in the intro

duction to the uprthweet of the

Turkestan, Siberian and other alfalfa :

breeds, a host of hybridizations ofj orchard fruits, and several 'varieties

of hardy roses.

When he returned from Siberia in 1913 he brought a product outside his specific province, a Siberian "fatrumped" sheep, which has shown itself capable of surviving the rigors of South Dakota winters. Suro His Pear" Is There Cossack alfalfa, which is regarded as Dr. Hansen's masterpiece, now widely grown in the northwest, was developed from a spoonful ot seed In 1906 to more than a thousand bushels of seed in 1916, and its culture is spreading as rapidly as seed Is available. Dr. Hansen is certain his present quest for a hardy pear, adaptable to Dakota climate, will be successful. "I know it is there," he said, "it is only a question of finding good speci

mens ot a variety known to exist, and of developing them to resist blight. "South Dakota has failed to raise pears chiefly because of this blight It kills the tree ''

CHICAGO, Sept. 1 The cream of the country's manhood is west of the Mississippi river, according to tests made at the citizens' military training camp, sixth corps area. The tests of 22,000 young men were made in 1923. They consisted of the 100-yard dash, running high and broad jumps and bar vault. Points were compiled by states. The average of the United States as a whole was 51.9, but the western, southwestern and central states showed an average of 55, the southeastern states 51, new England 50, east central 47', and eastern 45. Arkansas led the list of states with 67. Kansas came next with 65, and Arizona followed with 64. The tests for Iowa and Nebraska showed 37 and 41, respectively, but are rated inaccurate because of adverse weather conditions during the tests. These were the lowest marks, New York and Vermont coming next with 44 and Delaware and Virginia with 45.

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