Fiery Cross, Volume 4, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 October 1924 — Page 4

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THEL FIERY CROSS

EDITORIAL

Th,- l'IKHV CIIOSS is published every Friday by The Fit ry c'rnsn Publishing Company, Indianapolis, and will maintain a policy of .staunch, Protestant Americanism without fear or favor. KditeU, 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 place to live in. News of iruth kills more false news and shrivels up more "bunk" than all the earnest arguiii"its in the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on serious questions by serious people. Tin- VIKHV CKOXS will strive to giv.- the American v'uv.l'o'nt on published articles and separate the dross from the pure gold in the current news of the day. The Fiery f'rbn.H 'ulllliiiia- Co.. Inc., I'nbliNher. Knlired as second-class matter, July 2, l'.C2, at the postotiicv at Indianapolis, Indiana, under the Act of -March .'!. is 7 :.

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Tlie positive program of the Knights of th Klan is: To honor the one Fiag. To promote the Public School. To serve the Protestant Church. To fight for the sanctity of the Hum. To promote respect for Law.

STATIC or THE KLAN: "Wff will permit no ptoud of politirnis and no rrtv to annx, rlisown, or disavow in. W'ere our conscience leads Us. w will K f'tTt!. rer'"'"ess of wVio we 6nJ 'n J:a.r-t- ro!it!cal camps." Dr. Hiram W. Evans.

p HCl-'NTLV a high public official addressed a national mcctlm; nf a whnllv Cithn'ie organization. N'r-rs papers th-onc-hnnt the 'ountrv rnrrid m:mv columns or now "iritier about it a"d tn'nn v pictures. Whnt the pulic f.fc.r.i.,1 aTirl wis cmVaroned nn front paces the lencrth pnd hwutrh of mir cmntrv. Kver.-tb'nc' which was s.ii'1 bv the Trent daUies wis of a lnidqtorv n-tlirp. Tiirn d-ivs nffnrward. a hitrh rudic nOl"i'l address'' n meetinc- of jvotostfintw frorn all parts of America. A' this tnectlnir were Protestants from each state in th' union and the nrcrre.'ito number ran into the sever0' thousand. The lareest convention h-" in the citv w" pneked at each session. Th" public nnT'ial who addressc "

the I'rotev'tants talked pmrii alone the same line as th public official who had addressed the meet ins of Horna Ca'holics. , I'.ut dM lie receive the same praise, the bier amount o' space" To the contrary, he was criticised by certain newspaiiers and the Protestant event was given sen"' recognition in the newspapers scant when ccmnared witv the public!' v siven the Roman Catholic convention. Tlie Human Catholic convention was that of the Ho'" X.ime Society, held in Washington and addressed hPresident Coolldpe. The Protestant convention was thaof the Ku Klux Klan. held in Kansas City and addressr " by Governor Clifford Walker of Georgia. Roth these of rials declared in their speeches their belief that religionliberty should prevail in America. Both, without doubt were sincere in their declaration. Now comes the uestion. why should Governor Walker be criticized because he spoke before a body of Protes tants? The daily press, three days before made much ado alwiut President Coolldge speaking: before a wholhRoman Catholic organization and never questioned his right to do so (nor should it have questioned the righO Hut. President Coolidere had no more right to sneak be fore the Holy Name Society than Governor Walker had. to speak before the Ku Klux Klan. To be more exact Governor Walker had the same privilege to speak before Protestants as President Coolidge had to deliver an ad dress before Roman Catholics. fine of the outstanding points about the whole matter Is that newspapers immediately construed President C'oolidge's words in regard to religious freedom as a criticism f.f the Klin when in fact Governor Walker speaking before the Klan. held that "religious freedom Ih one of the first blessings of the Constitution." and Governor Walker was given much applause by the vast assemblage of Protestants all of whom were member? of the Klan Has America reached the point where public officials arc to be glorified for speaking before Roman Catholic

organizations, and condemned for addressing Protestant organizations1 Just who are those persons who declare that public officials may address Roman Catholic societies and can not address Protestants orders? Just who is it that assumes the right to say that Protestants are no' to have the privilege of hearing public officials speak and that Roman Catholics only are to hear addresses by public officials. It might be of interest to the reader to know that Governor Walker said during his address that Georgia had had less mob violence since the formation of the Klan as it now obtains in Georgia, than at any time in the history of the state, and statistics bears out his assertion. It is painfully noticeable that those very persons who are declaring the Klan to be bigoted, are those who are praising tlie President for speaking before a Roman Catholic organization and condemning a Governor for addressing a Protestant order. It has been said that consistency in a jewel - It is. except when the consistency consists in being Inconsistent as in the cases referred to above and thouands of others of like nature.

rhe Baby and The Airplane TAST WEEK Governor Al Smith, of New York, delivered n snpecb in which he again denounced t" "lan es h'troter! intolerant, and. according tA Ti" '"w York Times, his words were met with "plrno-' -i-sterinri aimipuse." Refnre beginning bis dennncinf,o,r the UVan. the governor declared that he was rr."fo express his oninion vigoronrsK- nhont the Klan." Th 'o all hat the denunciation was morelv th" ""'nion of tt.e fraker or at least his proesed opinio"

-and that not one concrete reason as to why be asserted 'ho Klan to be intolerant and bigoted, was made bv him Turning from the storv of Governor Smith's speech '"it on the same pace and onlv two onbimus removed --e find a headline vhtch reads: ""BiiUet "From Krimv "-ings Povrr, Klan Plane." The bullet was fired In "'orcester. M assachusetts. where the Klan was holding larce meeting, at the verv t'rne Smith was denouncing 'he Klan -s intolerant. According to thu Times sorv -f the affair the plane w"s forced to the ground, after ' cine: Tired upon, by a "punctured fuselage and a crippled "rgine." This dastardly act. however, is tolerance in the eves of Mr. Smith. Or at least we are to assume as much -"oe h has not denounced such murderous acts against T'lansrcn as into'erant. T"ortunatel- the driver of the "'iip escaned death and srious Viiurv but that does not lessen in anv way the fact that a man was fired unon "while in an airnlane manv hundreds of feet In the air. Mr. Smith, after telling of the m-r!steninf of a habv hv " minister who is a member of the TT'an. while the babe's i trier, also a Klansman. held it. said: "Here is a disciple of the Christ of love end peace breathing into the heart and sonl of an i-fant child -he sn'rlt of hate and war. dedicating an infant to the hatred of millions of its fellow-men and dnmg it in the "ime of Christ." Such a statement hv Smith or any -Nther person, is lust so much dwaddte and can be prompted hv nothing but hatred or no'itical bombast. Tf nn Chrit;nn un-American, unfounded? and hv intelli-

"""i neonle ,s unbelieved. To say that the Christening

a babe h.ms" it was done by a Protestant American

nnoe nemo- nu, ln tfie arms or it s rather, a

'ansn'an is instiling hatred Into lti boti! nnd heort

nnro-rtng on the sacvillg'oiis. Can a man make such

a statement without revealing th deep.rooed hatred bold in his heart for the organijat'on of Protestants

orn in our oountrv" And he made the statement while

'c'-tarlng that the Klansmen hate.

..ow. we mav again turn to the article under the

orceste,- rite line concerning the Klan meeting which

"as under way there as Mr. Smith told in Bufalo. nf

Klan "intolerance." (Of course. Mr. Smith didn't sight

specnic instance of it. but voiced it as his opinion.)

ne orcesrer story, after saying the Klansmen onened heir meeting with hymn-singing, said that "although no

'ciuni outnrak took place tonight, crowds in increasing numbers collected after S:30 outside the fence surround-

the broad grounds to exchange words with Klan

uonorters." From this crowd was fired the shots which brought 'own the airplane although "no actual outbreak toot 'ace." It is evidently not "an actual outbreak" unti' 'ansmen are mohhed and beaten, as at Haverhill, in th" ame state, several weeks ago when a mob of aliens and importers of Al Smith gathered and attacked the Klansoen when they left the meeting that was heing held"

muer tne protection guaranteed by the T'nited States Constitution. Are we, to presume that the Haverhill disgrace was insnired by love? No one-has yet shown nny-mncrete evidence of whore he Klan is a hating organization. It is ouite true that or propaganda to be spread to that effect leads to illusions about the Protestant organization, but it is merelv -.sortions. allegations and declarations. Just as AT Sm-ith makes the ridiculous Ptatement that Christening a babe nstills hatred into its heart, because the Protestant minuter who performed the ceremony belonged to a whollv "rotestant organization, others have made assertions wholly absurd. Dealing in generalities and relying on the magic of aratory. Al Smith threw his audience into "almost hvs 'erical applause" at a time when a peaceful meeting of Protestants was surrounded by a surging mob of aliens from which shots were fired at an airplane with murderout Intent because the" aviator had been employed bv Protestants, Al Smith's inane utterances, even though delivered in flowery oratory and bombastic political stvle, can not conceal the dastardly acts perpetrated against Klansmen day in and day out. Vapid mouthings in the abstract can not dare hope to compete with established facts. Bullets are lonorete evidence and they were fired by alien hands, the owners of which grow "hysterical" at the abstract utterances the "idol" of those "to whom "The Sidewalks of Nev York," is the national anthem

The Outpost OUR rLATFORM LITE PRESERVERS FOR SINK--ING FUNDS

i.shevists ban fairy tales. It" thai in was put into practice in Amera it would work a hardship on the vriters of political platforms. She'!! Get Over It. -ttirjory "There are always twics to every question." Mazle "I used to think that unti '".oard Gladys describe her fiance."

NO. 4 - fji

OTESTANTS, ROMAN GATH0L1GS GOVERNMENT OF THE U

AND THE NITEO STATES

i nevspapcr in a western city i ering a prize for the best slogan ii ; r.tnpaijrn to decrease auto accident-. " offer "Leap and Live."

Famous Hoes We Have Met. Ivan down The man with the tel Hard row to bo Ida .

May "How do you intend gettinp, ip report spread so quickly." Fay "I'm going to tell it to each member of the Sorority as a secret." With the three-cornered fiffht on foi ie presidency, some one is going to ump his head on one of the corners

IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THF NXIETY SOME MEN SHOW T( iAVE THEIR WIVES CURED Of NSOMNIA IS BECAUSE THEY ' " ANT THE WIFE TO BE ASLEEP '.VHEN THEY '" ' E HOME.

Nursery Jingle Down to Date. 'en little flappers sipping tet and wine, 'ne read H. G. Wells then there were nine. Cine little flappers going an awful gait, )ne let her hair grow long then there were eight. ;isht little flappers thinking nausiv of Heaven, ut one got religion then there were seven. even little flappers using their lip .sticks, ne rolled up her stockings then thcr were six. ix little flappers all went to take : drive, Jne refused to walk back home then there were five, ive little flappers with sweeties b the score, ne got married then there were four our little flappers as happy as could be, ne met Prince Charming then there were three, hree little flappers concocted some home brew, ne took a sip of it then there were two. wo little flappers still having fun ne had a chang& of heart then there was one. ne little flapper met a rich mail's son,

A MAN IN MEXICO IS REPORT :i TO BE 122 YEARS OF AGE. IT EVIDENT THAT HE NEVER AT EMPTED TO VOTE AT A MEXI AN ELECTION.

Americanisms By John Eight Point

The wrangle over Wrangel Island seems to have sub sided The Russian soviet has raised its flag over It nd tlie United States, mir.dful of business at home, ha diHmlased the incident from mind. Oreat Britain grins contemptuously, and announces that the Russians may have it. She, too, has business at home. AU nations have more work to do in their own laundries than in other iople'.i basements. To mind one's own business Individually and nationally is good Klan doctrine whether practiced in the United States, in England, or on the North Pole.

A good many old-fashioned people are -isKIng, "What is the matter with the church?" Optinv'.ts sav 'there i nothing the matter with it depression -omes and goes Pessimists say that it is headed to th( ash-heap. People on midground are perplexed. Meanwhile, secure in thefr pulpits, men like the distinguished Dean Inge of St Paul's in London, tell you that one of the great apostles had no heavenly visions he was merelv" an epileptic gentleman who threw fits. And here is the answer to the question doubt in the pulpit. Doubt Is what i wrong with the church. Until doubt is put away and the church is respirituaiized there will be "something wrong" with it. To help Protestants spread her ancient and divine doctrinesto keep her Bible safe to fill her with new faith and life is a Klan dream. Klansmen believe in the P.ook of books.

You can't buy Klankraft with an election promise.

Lincoln') Wisdom No Klansman worthy of the high and holy principles of his order will ever forget these infrequently-quoted words of Lincoln: "Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear v the blood of the revolution never to violate in the least particular the laws of the country, and never to tolerate their violation by others."

5 it Was of Old

A Fireside Privilege ONE PONDERS on the aplteful utterances of poll flctann who are tolling to draw the net about Americanism, as If to throttle Independent judgment healthful critlclum of public affair!, and the normaUlib rty of action and speech, one recalls a pannage from Webnter oration, now little known and seldom quoted but certainly Klannlsh In itpirit and grandly worth re memherlng: "It is the ancient and constitutional rigbof this people to canvass public measures, and the meritof public men. It Is a homebred right, a fireside privilege It haa ever been enjoyed in every houae. cottage and cabin, ln the Nation. It la not to be drawn Into rontrn veray. It U a undoubted as the right of breathing th' air and walking on th earth. Belonging to private rhV a right, it belongs to public lif as a duty; and it ir the last duty which those whow representative I am ahall find me to abandon. Thia high constitutional privilege I nhall defend and exerc.lae within thia House, and without thla Houae, and ln all places; ln time of war In time of pwlc. and at all times. Living, I will assert It; dying, I will assert It; and. ahould I leave no other legacy to my children, by the bleaaiog of Ood I will leave them the Inheritance of free principles, and the example o manly. Independent, nnd constltuione.1 defense of them:" Thoa who have doubted the right of Klansmen to In pert. Individually and aeverally. tbe public measures upportlng those that are deemed beneficial and an null tag legally, when It has been poealble to annual, those that were seen to be dangerous to our government, have hers the solemn voice of tbe nation's defenders uplifted bi defense of those who ha-vs dared to be as outspoken and as true as the older statesmen.

ALL GRr:A-T moral powers drive humanity toward the open. It is equally true that all scientific inventionand their outgrowths contribute to humanity's freedom rom bondage. As some one has said. "The church is a democrat: the airplane quivers in the ethor with the nowers of liberty." Also, at this moment, the radio he newest pet of science, writes upon the walls of the world its message to despotism -and tyranny, the old "Mene. mcne. tf-kel upharsin" not different in a single syllable from the flaming rubric that chilled the heart or 'he last king of Babylon. The Klan. a pointing finger, index of the spirit of fraernal Protestantism at this notable stage in the nation's history, also writes the lines for another prophetic Daniel o read. "If the country," says the Klan. "does not re'urn to the spiritualizing influences of religion, uniting with it the force of all practical utilities, it may sit at another feast of Belnhazzar and hear wth misery the tramp of discordant and furious enemies." To teach that religion and all of the physical principles of nature, as

oeveiopeo py science, are at work and must be kept at vork in behalf of freedom, and that these great funda

'-nuns must aiso ue braided into the lives of our citizen ry. Is one of the tasks the Klan has set itself. When one contemplates the vast potency of a newly -ipiritualized church and sees it link its force with physi al powers for the freeing of man. one Is anew reminded f the old verse that should be inscribed on the altar? f those who look to religion and to nature to guard this republic ind the cause of democracy in the world: "Live and take comfort. Thou hast left -behind Powers that will work for thee; earth, air, and skies; There's not a breathing of tbe common wind, That will forget thee; thou has great allies; Thy friends are exultations, agonies. And love, and Man's unconquerable mind."

When n ma n ireta KlnnninhneiVM in

hi. mental ensrine the carburetor will always lvork.

People who would do so and so if they were in the Klan are not apt to get there.

IF MONEY COtjLI) BUY KLANK RAFT, GOLD WOULD ALWAYS BE AT A PREMIUM.

Cut the "kl" off kleagle and youf

na-ve ine Aniencan oiru or uesnuy, leave it on the word and you have a plain American patriot.

The richest Klinxman is the unr who can t;ive awny the most money to needed charity without regrettine it.

Something K1m Again It is too bad that no eminent paragrapher has yet connected Kid McCoy with the Klan one could spell the name with three K's. Evidently the ex-pugilist is a murderer and a thief, and there are still those who associate such high virtues as theft

Roman Catholic Attack On Public Schools

Editor's Note: fh-s U the fourth of a series of articles under this bend; the fifth will follow next week. (By ROME DEXIKS Tirr: T7Tr-iiT ni? r1JV, TE TO

r.iu UATK ITS CITIZENS

j NOTHER attack of pome t r. k

schools. It denies point plank the right of the State y, educate its citizens tho-iTh it demands that schools be established and

b,. -v. "-""'"'". at pumic expense but conducted m, the church of Rome. In 1912 the Roman Catholic publishing house of Benz.ger Brothers. New vork. published a work by tt 'rns on the "ratholic School ' Rvstem in the Lnlted Ptates." The work is mihlishd with approval of the late Cardinal Eorley as evidenced bv his 1mmT1, ,n P"" 223 the a':,hor quotes' with an-pro-ial a declaration of the nanal attitude towa-ds puhhc schools and the r.ght of the State to educate. ny nr. Brownson. in these words: "We deny, of course, as Catholics, the right of the civil government to educate. for education is a f,mcand th , S?1Hn,a' " much so as m-eahng and the administration of the sacraments, but w do not deny to the state th. right to establish and maintain schools. ... It may found and endow schools and Pay the teachers, but it cannot dictate or interler with the education or rliseinline of the schools " There is the statement and summary of the whole Konian Catholic doctrine of education. It- explains the determined and ceaseless nnno tion of the papal hierarchy and clergv to the SnvthTowner school bill whoso enactment they have prevented in Congress now for number of vears The opposition is born of th" alien and totally un-American hostility of the panal system to anv schools except Jesuit colleges nnd universities of the church of Rome. In his famous bull. Unum Rancturm. Pope Boniface IIT gives this declaration of the moral dutv of every Roman Catholic: "This we declare, affirm, define and announce that it is necessary for the salvation of every human creature that he should be spbiect to the Roman PonU'rf The doctrine set forth in that hull is reiterated again and again ln lcter official utterances extending' to our own day. When the hierarchy of Rome demands religious teaching in schools, it is such teaching that the prelates have in mind. It is that doetrine which they force into all schools under treaty stipulations with Roman Catholic lands. The present condition of Mexico exemplifies the ripened fruit of that policy continued for four hundred years. Should the papacy become dominant here, as the Knights of Columbus declare that it must, our educational condition might well be reduced to the Mexican level. The "Religion" It Wants Taught. Let no honest citizen he deceived by the ceaseless demands of Roman prelates for the teaching of religion in the public schools. The religion they demand Is political papacy. In 1917. John Joseph McA'ey. a Roman Catholic, published the twenty-soventh edition of his text book known as a' Manual of Christian Doctrine, written by a seminarv professor in the church of Rome. The book is published with the imprimatur of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia and is therefore official and authoritive. The preface contains this information: "This book is intended as a manual' of religious Instruction not only in the Novitiatess and Scholastics of teaching Congregations, but also In the class of High School, Academies and Colleges." It is, therefore, designed to impart the kind of religious instruction that the papal system demands. The fact that it has run to the twenty-seventh edition indicates the wide use made o" it in schools under Roman Catholic control. It will be edifying therefore to look into its pages and ascertain what Rome means by religious instructin in our scheols and what the hierarchy is having taught in schools chartered and controlled by the papal throne in the United States. A course of lessons on the Constitution of the Church in the form of questions and answers begins on page 122. On the following page this matter annears: ."Why is the Pone called the vicar of Christ" "Because he holds Christ's place and represents Him upon earth." That is the starting point of the religion and morals that Rome instils into several hundreds of thousands of boys and girls in this country year after year. But that is perfectly orthodox Roman doctrine. Pone Leo XIII said of himself. "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty." Great Enclycllcal eLtters, page 304. But on page 2S of th Manualof ChristlartF'tooctrine this illuminating declaration appears: "Does the Pope possess none but spiritual power?" "He also possesses temporal power in the States of the Church." On pages 131 and 132 this appears: "Why Is the church superior to the state?" "Because the end to which the church tends Is the noblest of all ends.".

"Tn what orer or respect is the state sul-oriiinnto to the church?" "Tn th- sviritual o-dT and in all things referrins? to th-t order. "AVhnt right has the Pope in virtue of this supremacy?" "The right to annul those laws or acts of government that would iniure t'm salvation of souls .or attack the natural rights of citizens." rffc-ct of Wrong Teaching. Tn order to get the f1;n force and significance of the fsreg:"!T it is necsra-v. to bear in mind that the pone c'nims to stand in the place of God Almightv and to be the sole judge of what does iniure the salvation of rotiis or nttnet; th" natural rights of citizens. This teaching therefor? clothes him with absolute and irresnonoib'e power' to annul any law that meets his personal dis.ativ-.roval. Shall that kind of religion be taught In public schools0 - r-t-,.-ts a-" T-.--t.t n.-t jrt. rhrty is VOT in r- T-M to C,.r,n,.f fl, pKV,o S"boo's. No c!o-re- s'alement of tbe nos;tio- or Po-"e on the public schools has been gi--en than the following statement from a Jesuit nr'.ot. P-ul T,. Rlakely nnthnr of "The rs Against the Towner-Sterling Bill" which is conid from th October. Ifl'M. issue of St. Lo's Montb'v. a Jesuit nublication edited and iss"", by the Eethers of St. Leo's Tnonn-m. Wash., and whieh was renrinted with scathing criticism in the New Aw Magazine n Masonic organ, for May. 1922. The article is entitled. "Our Duty in Education." and reads as follows: "Our first dutv to the public school is not to pay tares for its maintenance. We nay that tax under protest not because we admit nn obligat'on in justice. Justice mr-ot -oh'ige the snnnort of a system whifh w arc forbidden in onnsince to use; nr a system which wo conscientiously hold to be bad in Principle and h".1. in its ultimate consequences. And if one point is dear in the decisions of those who rule as by the .authority of Cod it is that we cannot approve a system in whi-h religion is soarate.d. from education. We have paid our taxes in the past, and the least of the apprehensions which anv State officials can have is that we mav refuse to nay them. But there neither is nor can be anv obligations for any American. Catholic r non-Catholic to approve either as hest for the common good or toWable as an educational system, schools which exclude all training in religion. 1 The first duty of every C-rholio father to the ,,,. lie school is to keep his children out of if. The frt duty of everv Catholic Aei-ir-m to education is general is to support the Catholic school. It is true that be cannot regard the spectacle which public education In this country now presents, and its probable effects upon the coming generation, with indifference. But he will not improve matters by cornr.rr.-nisir.e- -jth the shortcomings of that system, much lePS by imitating them. His bcrt contribution to the solution of the problem of what shall be done with our unchurched children is his support of the schdel which recognizes that the child lias a soul as well as a brain, and trains him for eternal happiness as well as for temporal success. But we need not g-eat!v concern ourselves with our duties to the public sc'ol until we have more closelv approached the renlis&tion of tho Catholic ideal: 'Every Catholic child in a Catholio school.' " Source of Opposition. In this quotation we have the source of oinosition to our free public schools. Whether in New England or in the New West, wherever Rome controls, there Is opposition to the development of free schools. Protestantism, in New England especiallv. should recognize that behind the subtle attacks on the TownerSterling Bill, and other attacks on our free schools, is the unseen but ever-busv hand and brain of Rome! Leaving entirely out of the'question that any State of the United tSates is in any way seeking to limit the education of children to one set of sehoo!s. or to force a certain relgious atmosphere on any school is a total misrepresentation of what hs actually proposed, the flaunted difiahce of law clearly and distinctly proves that "real Romanists are beyond question unfit for American citizenship. " The Roman Catholics might iust as well face tha fact now as later, that all children of all faiths must before long attend American pubic schools. What other schools they attend (after public, school hours) will be of no interest to the authorities, unless it can he shown that theso other schools r,re teaching doerines that will lead to undermining the State. Tho acid test of Ainericani cifrzensii is, are yoti rriln? tA send your children to the American nuljilc seboo's where they will-learn the American lartmsee and their duties as American citizens? If not. what foreign allegiance prevents this? Then why do you wish to become American citizens? We should say to Rome. "Hands off our public school!" say it in no uncertain terms. We do not want America, to give way to a parochial school system that gives a percentage of 40 to !)6 per cent of illiteracy, as it has done in all Roman Catholic countries. America shall never become subservient to such a power as long as we have Americans only on guard.

and murder with Klan membership. The fact that McCoy . is a Roman Catholic has "nothing to do with the case, Ira la, has nothing to do with the case!"

The corner stone of national sin is failure to believe in tlie principles taught and lived by the Klan.

A Klansninn's Tnxk ' Let the Klansman tell his mission. Spread our noble, trusted creed. Teach the nation its condition By wise words and loyal deed.

It will pay you to take as much interest in the Klan as you do in your business.

Philosophs' lights no candle in tha night of death; but Klankraft Illuminates the Cross lri. the Valley-'bf tha Shadow.

No doubt there will be plenty of alien brlcftbats close Ko the polls on election day when Klansmen gather to show their Americanism.

The head of the government of Albania made a speech eforc the League of Nations. In this speech he jested about the League and made fun of tho Dawes reparations plan. Then he asked for a lean for Albania. To say that Bishop Fan S. Noll that's the gentleman's name Is the world's greatest humorist, is sarcasm that nas lost its yeast. The gentleman Is mer'ly an impertinence. He should have been given hla crfare that is often the best sort A loan to make to impudence.

CURRENT COMMENT

By FELIX FREE

Loyal Klansmen who have reasons for the faith within them feel too big too charitable, to stoop to smiling or winking at infractions of the law. as "a means to an end." The crookedest 'tind of a crook need not fear mob vin 'ence at the hands of Klansmen Clansmen, if they are right, practice what -they preach. They obtain re ults through the orderly process of law. Very naturally, as good citlsens Klansmen get riled up at amazing acts -if injustice and loose law enforcement. But they never taka the law into their own hands.

It was the stupidity and Ignorance of Roman Catholic cardinals that sent Galileo to Jail. It has been the stupidity, ignorance, and viclousness of the so-called Holy Catholic chnrch during the past thousand years that delayed the advances of science no less than those of moral and ethical culture.

Klansmen will remember that we can only have government of the people, by the people, for the people if they exercise their right of franchise at the polls.

Anti-VJan propaganda scattered over he country by metropolitan paper nay, in part, at least, explain why sc iiany editors must use hair tonic. It mrely rpfjnireg a lot of crust to work up falsehoods and make scare head ings to watch. The Ku Klux Klan stands out proninently ns an earnest exlwtatlon tr '11 patriotic Americans to maintair he liberties of the people. 1 it pos ilde for an organisation to '.coinot r for a newspare to dvtend a noblei

"It is with renewed faith in America that I welcome you," the President said to Lieut. Lowell Smith and hi" companions, wlien the world flyer called at tlie White Home. So say ing, Mr. CooSdR offlcialfy recognister the Mttgciljuis of the air who. by tietr hnrd-won letory. again justified anr emphasized chiiinu made on behait yt white- supremacy.

"Service is the greatest gift a mar can give to his country," says Gen aral -Pershing. And Genera Persh '.ng is right. When a soldier "goec over the top" he doesn't ask. "What is there in it for me?" The General Is correct. Let Klansmen profit by the sentiment he expresses.

Dooble-rrossine politicians who fighl 'he Klan are simply "biting on gran te." The Reptibliran national plat nrnt does not denounce the Klan Seithcr do? the Deirorratie nations latform. .Vet, in the face of tlri

act, randidatea go out of their way s they roaw about tlie country char cterbslnr th Ku Klnx Klan an r and of "hooded outlaws" and all that ft of thing. Just why men who pre .end to be good citizens Heedlessly op

se the. only miMtant secret or: hich gives strenjrth and potentir v to fundamental American primles is a problem for intelligent K3am ncn to cipher out to suit themseTvef

John Spargo discusses, the Jewis "Protocols" in his latest book. M' 'pargo is "opposed to all attempts t livtde our citizenship along racial r eligious lines." In this respect h' .'icwa harmonize with the aims of th Cu Klux Klan. The Klan simply h lsts upon every citizen living up t he laws. The Klan teaches respei "or the American Constitution, an or our flag. Isn't this the thing t '.o? Does Spargo objeet to the eachlng-s? If Spargo doesn't star "ir these things, what does he stan 'or? It isn't a question of divisio along racial and religious Itnea." Th Hvision is crested by a class of pet "4e in this country who -want to pic' ut the laws they wish to, obey, fo' owing their own inclinations wit' reference to others. Racial or reiip 'ou ties or affiliations have absolute y nothing to do with the case.

ntng ir yon conWi hae all your ' i.dren learn French and Italian nd Tarnish." This writer would be ambarrassed he were classified as a "pin-head." Towever. it occurs to him that in merica we should lay particular 'ress upon the importance of first aching 'English. AVhen the boy or irl in a finished scholar in the Engsh language. It -will then be ample 'me to take up French, or Italian, or nanish.

'Thoughts are things." "As a mar '-hinketh In his heart so is he." I a important to think good thoughts

"Hie Steuben Society of America iwouraging the study of the Ger nan language in nr nrhooi. Th mly apposition which they will eiounter will come from pin-heads,' nys Hruno Leasing, Syndicate writer 'who are eager to advertise thcii atriottsin. . It would" also be a splen-

Two hundred thousand, people in alifornia are said to rely chiefly upn foreign -language papers for inirmation and guidance;

t a copy of GenerioVDawM' speech id read it carefully. It will molt '-ely be printed ha full lor campaign ircoiation. Do not be satisfied with :e abridged form. ,Mr. Dawes paya ie organization a very ftrw eenipHent. He "rings in" ftkjahasna and Ul'.laruson County, Illinois. No dent American who Knew conditions t Oklahoma or Williamson County. "fore the Klan "took bold" finds mlt with conditions there now. The rape's anointed try to 'show Itat the Klan Is opposed to Indfvidtls. ftach is not the case. Klans tew hare no quarrels with Catholics x Individuals. Klansmen do strcnnsjy abject to the rfforta of Kama dominate oar srhoo's and oar pollica. Only hostile propagaadHta ara Dreading the idea that the Klan is .gainst Cat hoi ics as individuals.