Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 October 1924 — Page 4

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EDITORIAL

Mr. Davis said. In New York, after his Seae-lrt anench

that he had disposed of the subject of the Ku Klux Klan , as far as his own campaign Is concerned. He renewed hls attack on the Klan In his Denver speech. Referring I again to that Seagirt speech, Davis received messages of congratulation from many party leaders over the United ! Status. From far and near he was commended for his

denunciation of the Ku Klux Klan. Wouldn't It be interesting to know the names attached to those telegrams? Wonder why they were not given to the public? Such messages usually are.

The KIKIIY ROSS Is published every Friday by The Fiery Crosn Publishing Company, Indianapolis, and will maintain oolicy of staunch, Protestant Americanism without fear or favor. Edited, not to make up people's minds but to shake up people's minds; to help mold active public opinion which will make America a proper placa t" live In.

News of truth kills more false news ami shrivels up j tn..r.- "lunik" than all the earnest arguments in the world. j V Of7 f C J fl7 Ql AtffTT Truth helps to clarify opinions on serious uuestlons bv ' lvl-lx13 I tU, KjLUVl LLL

serious jm iple. The V1KIIY CIIOSS will strive to give the American viewpoint on published articles and s.parate the dross from the pure gold in the current news offthe day.

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THAT the present Immigration law, as passedrJby Con-' gross recently, came none too soon Is seen In tne I words of Dr. Carl C. Grlgham, assistant professor of i psychology at Princeton University. The Intellectual level : of Immigrants Is rapidly declining he says. His asser-! tion came only after a long and earnest study of lmmi-j gration statistics. "Our study of the army tests of foreign-born lndividu-l

ials." says Dr. Grlgham in a book recently published byl

Princeton University, "has pointed at every step to:

the conclusion that the average intelligence of our imml

grants is declining. This deterioration In the Intellectual

Send nil ea Item, and Aililrrmi oil Inquiries to 707 level of immigrants has been found due to two causes.

Kntered as pccond-class matter, July 20, posloillie ut Indianapolis, Indiana, under March II, 1879.

1322, the

at the Act of

AdrrrtlNlns Itatra Will Tie Furnlxhcd l")on Kcqneiit. Sabxrrlption Hntr, by Mall, 2.0O Per Year.

Century lluildint;. Telephone Lincoln 5S5.

The positive program of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Is: To honor Ihs one Flag. To promote the Public School. To serve the I'rotestant Church. To fight for the sanctity of the Home. To promoto respect for Law.

STATUS OF THE KLAN POLITICALLY "We will permit no group of politicians and no party to annex, disown, or disavow us. Where our conscience leads us, we will be found, regardless of who we find in the different political camps." Dr. Hiram W. Evans. t . - 11 1 - A Magnificent Precedent. THF, notion taken by the Imperial Klonvokation of the Ku Klux Klan, held at Kansas City on September 23, 24. find 25, in setting aside one-tonth of its total Income for humanitarian purposes, la an action of such magnitude that one falls to grasp Its meaning Immediately. "While the Klan has been active in this work eince Its inc-ptlon. and Individual Klansmon, ns well as the Klan as an organization, in tho many different communities have contributed much to charity and humanitarian woi k-rioverthelcss the decision to oxpend one-tenth of th.- Klc.n's income in aiding in this great work, sets a

magnificent precedent among fraternal organizations. When an individual, or an organization. Is aiding humanity he' is working for Christ and Is carrying out the Hibllr-al instruction to do so. In fact, the act of the Klon vocation in voting to turn over one-tenth of the Klan' income for aiding humanity, really means that one of America's leading organizations Is tithing. This, as stated before, sots a most magnificent precedent in the history of America. This action, too, means that the Klan Is sincere and that it Is carrying out those things which it teaches. The Klan has already done much for America; the action of the Kionvocatlon can only mean that it intends to continue. The Klan has grown and prospered despite the most terrlllo opposition which was ever brought to bear upon a fraternal organization. In Psalms 41:1 we read: "Blessed Is he that consideretli the poor: the I,ord will deliver him in time of trouble. Again in Proverbs 22:9, the Hible says: He that has a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bre.i.i to tl.e poor. Surely the Ku Klux Klan has "given of Its bread to the p. or." With each new attack, the Klan Is strengthened -with each new vlllincation from the pens of thoee who would rip this great Protestant organization asunder, tur Klan waxes stronger. Despite tho much good It has been doing. t,he Klan has decided to Increase Its good work among humanity. As time goes on and years roll by, the connivers will, one by one, lay down their pens, stop plotting and admit the Klan Is here to stay. The Anurioa:i people will then, if not before, realize that the

Klnn li the greatest organization in America that its

good deeds are legion anil that the stories of its "atroci tlas" were rooked up by those who fear the light of pub llcity; thore who seek to undermine America while plot

ting behind bolted doors arnT burred windows in Europe

as we'.l ;.s In America.

The Ku Klux Klan is showing by its acts of mercy

and its kindness to all humanity that it is a Christian or

ganl.ation working for the betterment of humanity and

agalnsir no individual, regardless of his color or his re llglous belief.

Imperial Wizard Stirs Kansas City Meeting With Ringing Speech on "The Klan Spiritual9 Dr. H. W. Evans Brings Second Biennial Klonvokation to a Close With Splendid Address Reviews Founding of Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on Top of Stone Mountain in 1915 Sees Organization as Embodiment of Reformation Finds Its Principles Applicable to the Entire World Calls for Abolishment of the Hyphen in America.

The migrations of the Alpine and Mediterranean races

have Increased to such an extent in the last thirty or iforty years that this blood constitutes 70 per cent ori 75 per cent of the total immigration." I The foregoing words, it is easily Been, explode the, bugaboo held by those opposed to strict immigration1 laws that the races now being excluded help build

America. The truth of the matter is tJIat the sprinkling; of those races which had made Its way to America, before the Civil Wan, had nothing to do with the building of America. In fact, America was built in spite of them.:

To some, that might sound a harsh statement. How-!

ever, when one stops to ponder over the fact that they, have never "built" the country from which they come,' it Is hardly probable that they would do differently in this country. Progress is unknown in the countries from which they; come. To believe that they could throw off old-world-customs, beliefs and superstitions in a single generation! is to believe that the leopard can change his spots.' These races, as a whole, lack the intelligence to build a country such as America has become. In fact, at this time they appear as a menace to America's remaining, as it was bullded. To quote Dr. Grlgham further: " i "The representatives of the Alpine and Mediterranean1 races in our Immigration are Intellectually Inferior to the representatives of the Nordic race which formerly

maae up about fifty per cent of our immigration. In addition, we find that we are getting successively lower and lower types from each nativity, group or race." Thus it will be seen that the immigration of today is far from what it was. In other words, we are getting from Europe not only the least intelligent races in the. vast majority, but the Inferior of those races. Can any, person hopo to keep America to the forefront when she'

is being laden with such immigration? ! Is it to be wondered at that the United States stands eleventh in literacy? " Is It to bo wondered at that America's morals have dropped from what they once' were? If one had-raade no further study-of the lncreas-l ing illiteracy in the United States and the Increasing lax-f ity of morals, than the words of Dr. Grlgham, an under-i standing would bo forthcoming. i There were, however, and now are persons who wouldi open the gates to the ignorant of Europe and flood America with "progressively lower and lower types." These! persons attempt to point out that America "needs im-l migration." Just as they will point out that Belgium and; other nations of Europe need to expand "because of" dense population." If the time always comes where-j countries have such dense populations that part of! the population has to migrate, let us then save ourj territory for oar posterity and not load it up with the "intellectually inferiors" of Europe and in years to come have our children's children seeking a place to live ini Siberia or some other country. Let those in Europe wfio have tired of the laws and! the state of affairs they permit to exist there through their blind superstition and subservience to a political corporation operating throughout the world, migrate ,to Siberia where there is plenty of room to expand. Siberia Is twice as large as the United States and much!

or it is as tar couth as Virginia. At any rate let us keep America for Americans, re-; gardless of whether the immigrant wishes to go to Siberia or some other country. It is readily admitted that America is the greatest country, bit the trouble lies In the fact that the immigrant doesn't believe that strongly enough to attempt lo live as Americans and think as! Americans. The immigrant warfts to live and think as! Europeans. That is one reason why the country d-j' manded the immigration law Just passed last spring.

i Kv a Staff rnrennnJa.n

KANSAS CITY, Sept. 25. The close of the second biennial Klonvokation of the Kniehts of the Ku Kluv TClan wa tho itnTL: l?Plendfd 0Tal0rlia 1 effort by the Imperial Wizard, Dr. H. W. hijs Dr EvLn work accompl shed here by representatives of every Realm in the Invisibft Empire. rpnrSln w mewed hefoundingofthe organization on the top of Stone Mountain in the midst of a slashing apSv nr?t to Tr.,helnfC11ifd &lthe eSSntial PrinciPIes of e Reformation and said that its purpose! AmSri?n 21 ? t ' b? ,the entire world It was a thoroughly American theme and in touching on foreign Af tit , f he,c-Ied for uthe abolishment of the hyphen in race and politics, nationality and religion. forminvSSnh5if Xw deafeiln b?rs of applause swept through the meeting hall, the demonstration lasting wIzSad?yeSJng tSlo5Sk WWW SUbSld6d' the ddegateS t0 the onvokation pressed around the Imperial n' ETlawldTd -the klonvokation several times this weak, but the theme, "The Klan Spiritual," was out of the ordiKnJLZlZT &Z " ? ?s aching he has eveY expressed. It. was the regret of every

liverv of 3f ;T0Vr mvT"?L "? "e Pre?ent to get tne vision as presented personally in the de

stw Ku "Z,r: A:iZ: "Vr;?:" .uA" "ie Vn s tmB speecn is available to every Kiansman in America.

4. 1 , . uic nidi ui mis great speecn ne wm De the loser.

j. iiv is given nere in iun

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Faithful and Esteemed Klansmen: I greet' you in this final session of our great inspirational Klonvokation with' a message of transcendent importance. At midnight Thanksgiving, 1915, sixteen men, who had braved chilling wind and cutting sleet, stood about an altar on the summit of Stone Mountain, DeKalb county, Georgia. The altar, comprising sixteen boulders dropped into their place from the shoulders of the weary pilgrims, had spread upon It the American flag and on the flag lay the Holy Bible open at - the twelffc chapter of Romans. At the

conclusion of a brief ceremony, which declared that the Bible and the flag should be forever paramount in their hearts and lives and in the hearts and lives of all who might thereafter take the solemn, deep-seated, comprehensive, whollybinding oath they had then and there taken, the men silently and reverently descended the mountain and wended their way back to the world from which they had been temporarily, but completely, separated. The future historian will elaborate upon that momentous occasion, and announce tcr his public that it

was the beginning of a movement a movement which adopted the historic name, "Knights of the Ku Klux TClan." However, the historian will have arrived at an erroneous conclusion the prevalent belief that recorded history is correct In every detail to the contrary notwithstanding. That ceremony on Stone Mountain was the visible and audible manifestation of a reincarnation one of the many, perhaps numberless, reIncarnations of a movement, a force, which has wrought upon life in men and tribes and nations down through the ages.

Relations of the Catholic ChurZh to the United States Government Political Policies of the VaticairSeen as Un-American by an Episcopal Minister Catholicism Played Only a Minor Role in Winning the American Revolution Ninetynine Out of Every 100 Soldiers in Struggle for Political Freedom Were Followers of Protestantism

(By An Episcopal Minister) Protestants have made the United States what it is. The first census of the United States in the days of Washington shows that about 1,800 Jews lived in the United States at that time. Bancroft, the historian says that the Roman Catholics were less than one in every seventy-five of the population, and Senator Williams, in a speech in the senate, March 15, 1922, said, in reference to the Papal-Irish who accused him oi drawing them into the discussion of what is known as the four-power treaty on March the 14th- "I was accused yesterday of having unnecessarily and unprovokedly dragged the Irish-American citizenship of America mto this discussion. The charge, if it be a charge, the insinuation, if it be an insinuation is false Nobody has a right, as a so-called hyphenated American, to erect himself into a power wlVhin America and to attack the motives and the courage and the patriotism of everybody who differs with htm without expecting some return in kind. I did not bring these people into this controversy; they brought themselves into it " Continuing, he said: "Twenty years after the Revolution, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic church a Carroll of the State of Maryland, mentioned the fact that there were at that time but twenty-six Roman Catholic priests in America, and 26,000 communicants. Who fought the battles of the Revolution? They were not here to fight them. Most of them came over in the potato panic and starvation period of 1848 and 1849 long after the war of the Revolution was over." '

Al Smith "Idol"

The pollen rule is correct, trouble measuring with it.

but a lot of people iiave

Krom I bo flood tide of political slander may the good Lord p-iMi'how doilver uh.

Encouraging News.

Till-: iKHH that the number of JBibles purchased and distributed last year almost doubled the number during th previous year. Is indeed gratifying news to Klansmon and Klanswomen. Figures show that during the last e'.cht years a total of 240.000,000 Bibles have been old. The Kreat increase in the past two or three years, in the snlo of the Bible in America, has a most heartennjr ton mcardless of the scare headlines of crimes in the daily newspapers. Th experlones of a fashionable hotel In Chicago, as tr.ld by the Houston 1'ost-IJlspatch, gives one a fair idea of the leioand for the teachings of Christ .Tessas as found within the covers of the Testament. Ths story is as follow-: "The management of the establisnment refused to accept the Billies from the Gideons for Its guest-rooms on the ground that the patronage would be of such a high type that they would not be needed. But soon the patrons of 'such high type-" made so many complaints about tho absence of Bibles In the rooms, that the management found it necessary to supply them." It Ih ruilte posKible that the very fact that there has been an Increase In crlrno in America Is why there has been an increased sale In Bibles. In the final count there Is but fine source to which one may turn for true happiness. In it not possible that hundreds of thousands of persons, tired end Jaded by the pace set at this time, and seeking freedom from worries brought on by indul

gences, from which the tinsel has worn and brought to light the crude outlines of materiality, sought surcease In lingering over the words of the Master? The greatly

lncreaKen ale or Bibles would indicate this

It is only natural that Klansmen and Klanswomen.

members of an organization opposing vice In Its every form, are gratified to know that the Bible is Increasing in circulation in America. The continued spread of tho

gospol can but react to the best interests of America

and the American home. Tho Klan la eager to see Amer

lea s morals returned to the once high standard from

which they were dragged by an Influx of peoples who were both mentally and morally unfit to take their places beside tho higher type American. The Klan knows that

with tl.e spread and the teaching of the Holy Bible that only good can result; that as rver a greater number of perponrt follow the teachings of Christ, the morals of America will go up and up, and that vice will grow less

and lens.

The almost doubled salo of the Blbl6 last year, over the

ate In 101:3. gives iositive proof that more and more

are turning to find solace in tho Holy "Writ, and that those persons will ho added to the ranks of thotM who

are now striving for a better America, spiritually, trior ally and in every other way.

The Kiansman who controls himself fights a battle that la watched from high heaven.

Klan honesty is our, organization' beat and only policy. Not until we know the Klan do we become acquainted rtth wit

IX AN editorial in an Kastern newspaper, which carries! much fulsome flattery, of AI Smith, Governor of New, York, it was stated that Smith is "the irinl of Moor'

Yorkers." The citizens of New York City, according to the editorial, "love Al Smith." Naturally, this causes one.

to wonder, and to try to find out why Smith should be

f.o looked up to In New York City and why the rest of the country, taken as a whole, thinks so little of him.

As in everything else, there is a reason. In New York

City there are 2.000,000 foreign born persons. In addition to these there are 2,300,000 persons whose parents

Were born in Eurooe. With annroyimntolv four ont

one-half million people in a citv. who were either bom

in Europe or children of parents who were born thece, is it any woudor that Smith, representing European thought, is looked up to by the mass of population represented by the foregoing figures?

According to James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, it, is estimated that there are 3.000.000 aliens in the United; States who cannot speak the English language and that, there are 3.000.000 others who can r.ot read it. This is

almost one-half of the 14. COO. 000 fareign-born which the

1920 census show there are in America. With 2,000,000 foreign-born in New York City, there are, figuring by: the same ratio, approximately 800,000 persons in thati city who eltheV can not speak, or can not read, the English language. To say the least, it is a questionable honor to be the idol of the citizens of a city In which such conditions exist. The fact, however, that Al Smith is an idol. Is not nearly so important as to know why he is an idol. "Who descended liito this mass of humanity with its ignorance of Americanism, to tell them of Al Smith? What brought these millions of aliens and children of foreign-born so solidly behind Al Smith? What agency waa used to float Smith propaganda among the hordes of aliens? Smith is a member of the largest secret organization on earth; is It possible that that organisa-,

tion was used In telling of what a great man Al Smlttrf

is? And t.at he held th.eir ideas instead of American ideals? When one leaves New York City and begins a journey toward the Western coast. -Al Smith fades into insignificance except where aliens and Roman Catholics are encountered. However, in the great stretches of the West and in the American- cities of the Middle West where Americanism Is uppermost. Al Smith means nothing except, of course, among Roman Catholics. They, like the aliens of New York City, laud Al Smith. Why? Because he, too, is a Roman Catholic and believe the Pope of Rome should own the million upon millions .of dollars worth of property in America which he does own at this time. He believes in the Roman Catholic doctrine which is diametrically opposite to that of American ideals. He believe that Protestants should not have an organization to which none but American Protestants are eligible. He grants the Roman Catholic the right to have organizations to which none but Roman Catholics may belong, but shows hla intolerance in denouncing 7,000,000 Protestanta because they have' an organization. In which only Protestants can find mem-' berehlp. Al Smith believe that The Bona of Italy, an oraniza.

tion to which none but Italian may belong and then' they mint speak the Italian language fluently may! openly operate la America, but that native-born Ameri

cans can not nave an organization to which none but Americana may belong. Th whole intolerant attitude reflect that eplrit held by the Roman Catholic Church, a foreign corporation operating in America, and aptly illustrate why Al Smith is an idol in New York City. Al Smith bold that European attitude of intolerance hence, among th alien of New Tork City he Is an IdoL

Estimating the population of , America as 3,00.0,000 during the revolution, the Jews as 1,800 and the Roman Catholic Irish as 26,000 less than one per cent were combined Roman Catholics and Jews; ao that the Protestants 'were 99 out of every 100 men in the colonies, which proves my statement that that government and its ideals of political and religius liberty, and all the other glories of our constitution were exclusively made by Protestants. Only Protestants Can Preserve It No other people in the world w;ere capable of making such a government as we have, and no other people in the world are capable of maintaining it. This is a he-man Protestant job. If we do not do It, we had just as well kiss goodbye to all that our fathers have given us, which may be summed U3 as follows; "The fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, the soul of which is liberty, equality, and fraternity, enacted in the constitution of the United States, which interprets, our laws, applies and enforces them, between man and man, and between the state and its citizens." Protestants would have no Quarrel with Roman Catholios if they were nothing more than a church, and not a political organization disloyal to this Protestant government of ours, which It will always do as long as this is a part of the oath every priest must take: I do renounce and disown air allegiance as due to any Protestant kin, prlnee, or atate, or obedience . to nny of their Inferior officers. I do further deelare thnt I will help, assist, and advise all or any of bis hollneaa' ngents in any place wherever I shall be. and do my utmost to extirpate the Protestant dortrlne nnd to destroy all their pretended power, legal or otherwise." The Roman Catholic can not be a. loyal subject of this government of ours as it Is at present constituted and at the same time uphold the temporal power of the pope, which they do, as the following quotation from a Roman Cath

olic prelate states; The statement quoted was made by Msgr. Preston, rector of St. Anne's Roman Catholic church, New York City, at the Jubilee of Pope Leo XIII, as reported in the New York Herald. January 2, 1S88, page i. The report describes the rector a "clad In his scarlet clericals, emblematic of his rank in the Roman Catholic church." Catholic Mast Obey In tjy sermon of the day, the emmentprelate declared : "It Is said that, politics is not within the province of the church and that the church ha omy Jurisdiction in matters of faith. Too say, 'I will receive jny faith from the pontiff, but I will not receive my politics from. Mm.' This assertion is disloyal and untruthful. Of course, it Is not hia business to tell you whom to vots for, but whan a question arises which concern. society it is the duty ef the pontiff to speak and it is the duty of th Catholics to obey. "You must not think as you choose; you must think as Catholics. The man who says. 'I will take my faith from Peter, but I will not take my politics from Peter,' is not . a true Catholic. The church teaches that the supreme pontiff must be obeyed, because he is th vicar of the Lord, Christ speaks through him.

"Leo XIII is not only the prince of princes, but the king of kings. He is not only a spiritual ruler, but a temporal ruler. In tones as strong as those -of Pius IX. Pope Leo has said, I will never yield; I will never give up my temporal principality.' And God in his own time, will bring it back to him." The following dispatch from Rome was carried by the Associated Press under date of September 10, 1&24: ROME, Sept. 10. The pope, receiving a party of university students who had returned from the eucharist congress at Palermo, addressed them yesterday concerning religion and politics. Replying to those who affirmed that the pope should not concern himself with politics, his holiness said: ""When politics comes near the

altar, then religion, the church and the pontiff have not only the right, but the duty, to give directions and indications to be followed by Catholics, the supreme one of which was given by the divine Master, namely: 'Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto Cod tho things that are God's.' " After emphasizing tho 'necessity for preparing a serious policy, the pope repudiated the doctrine that, provided It was for the public good, co-operation wrth evil would be justifiable. He declared that such collaboration could be justified only by an irresistible need to prevent a greater evil. The pontiff regretted to see Catholics divided among themselves and adhering to the activities of a party which boasted its opposition to every religious creed. Good-will Committee In view of these statements how can Supreme Knight Jame' A. Flaherty ask co-operation in a movement of the Knights of Columbus to organize a "good-will committee" which will attempt to bring about more friendly feelings between masons and Roman Catholics. The masons of the United States are almost exclusively Protestants, as the Roman Catholic church has excommunicated all of Its members who have joined the masons. For years the papal-Inspired press has poured out Its slanderous venom upon Protestants and masons. Rut If you will change masons and Protestants to the government of the United States, you. will understand the animus of these attacks by the RomanaCatholic church, for the teachings of both masons and the government of the United States are the same so that without attacking the other one can not be attacked. At last under these bitter, .slanderous, and envenomed attacks thd masanio worm turned, and thus through one 'of its Journals answered this "goodwill committee" idea: "Sueh'an effort deserves consideration and a frank answer. There are three obstacles standing between the Roman Catholic church - and masons, - , Kamer 1 . ."Ask your Knight of Columbus friend to read the papal bulls against freemasons, and ask them to. think of the men in their own acquaintance that these maledlc. ' tions and vituperations apply to; men who have a right to resent

such statements and to be angered I

by thstn. . They, are uncalled for and no man can, hope for religious good feeling; on our part until such official documents are. recalled,, repealed, or annulled.

"IVnmber 2 "The law known as Ne Temere which nullifies the civil law. The Catholic does not recognize the cere mony of marriage by a Protestant minister, it must be done by the

Catholic priest, who declines to do it except both parties promise that all the children' born of the marriage be reared in the Catholic faith. "The non-Catholic promises not to interfere in any way with the religious life of the Catholic, or to try to separate him or her from their church. "The Catholic promises to do everything by prayer, example, persuasion, and instruction to bring the non-Catholic into the true fold. "So long as this law endures just so long will this religious animosity continue. We know whereof we speak. "Nniaber 3 "The Protestant and freemason interested in the public schools feel that much of their efforts to improve those schools Is directly or indirectly hampered by the Church of Rome. When the Roman Catholic boy, the Protestant and the Jew, can mingle in their daily life, meeting each other on a common footing, in studies and in sports, the foundation stones for future understandings are laid. "We do not know whether there is any hope of these three obstacles being overcome by the efforts of Mr. Flaherty and his organization. We know that if these three obstacles remain, no comment, plan or scheme can be organized or devised, which will prevent a rapidlyincreasing feeling and action in the Protestant and masonic world, and there is no hope of any permanent improvement while these obstacles remain in the way. "We fear that this overture is nothing but another of many attempts to deceive. We have far more respect for, and friendly feelings toward a Roman Catholic who fights us openly and fairly than for these Jesuit-controlled 'friends and brothers' who wear the mask of professed friendship and strike In the dark when they have disarmed all suspicion. 'What Protestants Must no "The question naturally arises in the mind of every brother mason: 'How is It possible for us, as masons, to 'do anything, when we are bound to the broadest religious tolerance?" There is not a member of the craft today who would hesitato a fraction of a second to act as an Individual, or as an American citizen, if he saw a traitor in the ct of betraying his country to any foreign power. He would not stop to argue whether the foreign power were Russia, Japan, or England, or

the Church of Rome. Neither would he debate the question as to whether the traitor were Mohammedan, a Jew, a Protestant, or a Roman Catholic, Nor would he pause long enough to Inquire whether the act came within the Jurisdiction of the masonic lodge His conscience would tell him with the swiftness and force of a stroke of lightning, that this is -a case involving the life of tne nation, and it calls for patriotic action. And he would act, "And herein is the answer to the foregoing question; The political policies of the Roman church in this country are un-American, unjpatrlotlc, and all center about the edict of the Vatican and the purposes of the order of Jesuits, as expressed in the papal command to 'Make America Catholic.'"

The Reformation Wickedness abounds everywhere in society, in business, in politics (national and International), and even In religions. No matter how charitable our eyes, they can not escape the fact that evil Is in every corner of the earth, and, to a greater or lesser extent, In every adult life. Nevertheless, it is impossible to think that the human race is headed for eternal perdition. Moreover, the Bible is explicit in its prophecies of world redemption. The Alpine summits of thinking and living will be ascended again. Things do not just come to pass. There has ever been, and must ever be, a means to an end. From man's fall unto the present, reformation another name for "restoration" has been necessary. And reformation will be necessary until the world enters, its Golden Age, when "the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose" and "all the trees of the field shall clap their hands." We speak and read of "reformations" as though they were many. While it is many-sided, and has gradations and phases, the reformation of the world is an age-long, continuous, intensive movement. To put it another way, the. Reformation started at the fir?t altar that declared for righteousness (right living) has been, Is and will ever be one cumulative urge toward Paradise Regained. Power directed by intelligence, and for a given purpose, never runs wild It has a vehicle, something to conserve it and carry it to center. The power we call "life" has bodies, and we see these bodies every day we call them tree?- animals, men. Is it, therefore, farfetched to assume that the greatest and most important power in the world must incarnate itself to accomplish its purpose? The Reformation functions through multiplied, extensively multiplied, bodies. This is resultant upon changing conditions and the complexity of human society, plus narrow thinking upon the part of reformers the world around. IAU who strive to live right and to lead their fellow-men toward the right are, in sne way, identified with the Reformation of the ages and are, therefore, reformers.) Embodiment of the Reformation

The Reformation could, Undoubtedly, function more rapidly and better through one vast, perfectly-organized, accurately-directed body. However, the ideal day of its activities seems far in the future, and until that day approaches it must deal with situations as it finds them. The church is the logical body of the Reformation; but, owing to human frailty, mental and moral, tho church of today, as it has been for centuries, is hindered in its work by materialism and division. The church, as a whole, is anything but sacrificial, and instead of one body "The body of Christ." about which we read in the New Testament we see in the church over two hundred bodies! Can the skepticism, so prevalent, be wondered at? Ultimately, the church will be triumphant because it will, in purpose, he wholly righteous and it will be united. The Founder of the chureh prophesied that it should never be destroyed, nor will His prophecy come to naught. The Reformation, awaiting its time of greater opportunity, operates through (resides in arfd works out from) the various religious denominations and likewise a multiplicity of agencies called "secular," "social," "moral," "intellectual," etc. It Is ever In quest of embodiment to serve the cause of human uplift. When possible, as history and current events prove beyond doubt, the Reformation combines either consolidates or in some manner coordinates several, sometimes many, organizations or movements (bodies), and operates through the one great agency upon an extensive, sweeping scale. Also, the Reformation appears to be continuously . searching for an organization or movement (body) which comprises much idealism and the possibilities of extended and diversified anpltcation a body through which It can touch and rectify a wide area of irregularities and complications. The Body Recently Aeenlred The angels that have anxiously watched the Reformation from its beginning must have hovered about Stone Mountain Thanksgiving night, 1915, and shouted hosannas to the highest heaven. For there on that rock, the largest solid granite formation in the world, a body, ready for Immediate and tremendous service, came forth a body whose comprehensive possibilities were probably not fully realized by the men who then composed It and are probably not fully realized by anyone "of thamiUions who now compose.lt. The Knights of the Ku Klux' Klan, founded on the Living Word, and especially on the twelfth chapter of Romans (which is. as a matter of fact, a compendium of the Bible), has in it the possibility of universal and rock-bottom reform.' Its watch phrase, "Xon Slllin Sd Anther," is the heart throb of the Reformation. And the principle set forth in Its literature, especially by the "A'im sllba Hed Anther card, would, If universally applied,, revolutionize th civilized world within the life of a generation. Apparently, the Klan is for America a few of it principles are, perhaps, for. the. present applicable in th United States only. Nevertheless, (Continued on Page 8) -