Fiery Cross, Volume 4, Number 3, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1924 — Page 4
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EDITORIAL
Hie I-IKHY CnoRV is published enery Friday by The Firry Crus Publishing Company. Indianapolis, and will maintain a uolicy of staunch, Protestant Americanism without fear or favor. Edited, not to make up people's minds, but to shake, up L'.Vip minds; to help mold active public opinion which will make America a proper place to live In. "t truth kill more false news and shrivels up Iru.i-e "hunk" than all the earnest arguments In the world. Truth helps to clarify opinions on serious questions by srriouj people. The MKHV (nois will strive to give the American viewpoint on published articles and separate the dross from the pure gold in the current news of the day. The Klery C roats Publishing Co, Inc., Publisher.
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The positive program of the Knights of th Ku K!ux Klan is: To honor the one Flag. To promote the Public School. To serve the Protestant Church. To fight for the sanctity of the Home. To promote respect for Law.
Under Onm Weight V'!TII the last of the po-h0-, rr.(,irn, rf.r.tvd frorr W "'I tvir' the tTi't'l ti bvt th'"-r Is tn- "' ,'4 ''o '- !" - Ar-- I'V tlv all-.i ltersii n-mt!nir out of Fo-"e. Tb"-e l -'-bl"fr -rib'---)''t couM h-v" do-.-. r---- - y-i- sb-ot '' froii" r.f r""nt"!!it v-v A "H"'' i T n' than t- '" rt rpii J.y tli rni-p n" cv.. .v.- o p-sd. .n-
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th i-'-l,f v, fhnt ,f ... y,, ,-!,. ,n,..- ,1 rOT,13,, in o!Mral tTa'ti' on ! STIr!-.n'ly. '"lvs '-esritrient not on'v huH-d Davln nti.l T.a- T"nl I-tte. v-h-i lr,t r, rBr r, tn rhmrln:r vo. of nlienI h eiint lint thv rn;r-M- enon"c"1 th h'err-t P'ote-jfnn? orsrintmtfon In the v.r'd. isr.'cr r" nv.tlancb" of votes, hut eVipfn'l ?i nve'-v r -nt ai,'l cnor o' our '-!!t countrv who ore xtrrrr: !- (Hr conviction that Arirrl-;in nrtnelnVs must npfl will live. Tfr would tnke far too mir!! pp'io to enuremte ench unci "'vv place In which true- Amerti-ms v.ere swert Into 'i(Ti ". Air.ons th otitst.ini'intr fafrr"s. however flu to ihe fact that the nlisn ini,s's nut. ur stronir flirhts in tbono plrtces. ar 'hp elections li Tot . Indiana Col.irndo. Kenws and Ok'-.Thnma. In tVo !ntr StrUe Jnck AViiHon Mttcr opnonnt of the Klnn. ws beaten handilv ilcFnite the fact th.it th" h"lMnc"' of fh ticket on which bo nn was elected. Th fri'ova-.lo a Hnvevnor nnd n t'nltml States Senitor vnr e'ected In th" fi"e of a Miter fiirht hv thoio ou:n.He.l to rYotestants bavins nn orpaiiizatlon of their own. Tioth men are stronp: in tholi- faith in America. In Indluia where one of the hittei'st fiKhls for governor which was ever stnsred in the Tloosir State was foujrliTr Malor Ktl Jackson won by " hnndsome malorHy ovr hw opnonent who nn on fi. il;iti"r.rm which denounced the Kv Klu Klan. Every political trick known was i;s(l in Indian-) to defeat Jackson, vhotn the .lifns ciitimod v.i i KlanKir.an. In K;-ns:i8. Wllllani Allen White, one of the rninr "Klan v-UHf-rs" throuchnut the country, was decisively beaten fo- finvwnor by Bn Paulen. who h.-id the Iwick in of the staunch Anurk-an men and women of Kansqa Iowa wept into office candidates who sirongjy Ijecked Ameilcnn principles. Hut. ss was said, there is not space hero to even beprin to enumerate the victory of Americanism over alienism. Tho fa't Btands out. however, that Americans wfll not st.in-1 t'.i.-t.ition from a foreign source. Also, it brings fon ihly to the mind of all that, metropolitan newspaper? ere. to voice it with charity, laborine tinder an illusion when thry attempt to point out that Americans "do Hot wan? the KLifl." One ,,f th itirwt convincing t abulations is that of New York where A 1 Smith was elected, not hv the Americrn citizens ,,! Hie State of New York, hut by the millions of ii'.iwis in New York City. Without, that alien vote Smith w-.ui.l have been defended by nn overwhelming majority. It w;is demonstrated beyond all cavil that Al Smith can not rarry New York Suite outside of New York City. To be more exnet. Smith's much t.-ill-icd of popularity .-xlsts on the whole, chiefly among the foreigners in Now York City. The r-Kurris of tho election are most wholrrome readlnR for Htiviinch and red blooded Americans who love the inri.;::i flag above nil and who refuse to bend the knee to foreign dictators. The insidious propaganda built up by those opposed to true and unadulterated Americanism, has fallen of its own weight.
There is always more power In dolnp than In wishinthinps were done. In certain Middle West small cities there was an unusual amount of wishing on the part of K'.od citizens for yeHrs; but the rinssters and the gangsters nttd the shysters kept rl..ht on with thr crooked stuff. Then the Klan appeared and began to "do Instead of merely to "wish." You can tell the world what happened. And it happened rljht away. Cure for Disregard for Law. yyvHAT do you think about "modern" disregard for Law? ; JfIfn!"n do not wink at facts. They take them Bift tlietn. and deal with them according to their I'ght the lKht. Ik- it always remembered, from, a sacred source If you think law is disregarded, what is your opinion or the dein or the high official of Ring Sing' The warden of Sing Sing prison of New York is authority for th- statement that in :ir. recent years only 3 per cent of l kid homicides in New York ritv resulted In death sentences, and thnt ,V per cent more criminals wen- Killed l.y police titan by the eleotr'c chair during that period. Hi. eonr-lusUm is that we nre passing throng, i a p, r!o.; of disregard for law on all fides and by :! .ltKyes. that we nPe not auecesBfullv a-simiiatlng n.r.ny for Urn elements into our population, that lack of edit r.ti.,T, is fharael-ristic of most criminal., and tliat our mnho.ls of crl.-r.inal court procedure cro defective He Makes th- ineritaUc oomrison with the courts of J''"'",":'- ,7 " nu;Kt hp confessed that results obtained In I.land rtrc f.ir superior ir you think the warden la right, how do vo.t propose to xu about overcoming the disregard for law? Kow ahali you work IndirtdttJly lo ,tajn thc ent, for wMr-h Uw n ,. A staste thought tc::., you that your efforts must l, .-ru.s n u, tie,hat they must deal first of all it h better educational methods and. second, that you niu;t nevrc give up the fiKht to keep the cowrtry Amercan. Most or the laWrt failures and delays are caused bil peo.e ul;o arc not America nor by Americans who do uot appy the laws i,i an American way. Wrinkle our bre ws In a fine frenzy cf thought-there U no otheonswer to the rjuestlon.
rtAi:BNCn S. DAHROW. noted criminal btwyer. advancea.' in a magazine article, what he believes to be "the best method of getting rid of a bad law." The "method" as set down by Ml Harrow, is one If carried to a logical end. would result in a chaotic state such as was never before known in America. Mr. Darrow's "method would be that of "resisting bad laws until abandoned as Impracticable." This theory, tt might be noted, is In direct contrast with that of General Grant whe-believed1 that the best way to secure thd repeal of laws considered bad. was to enforce them. Howevf. Mr. Darrow would work in the opposite way from tho advocated by General Grant, end this fact gives or.' much food for thought. First. Just what are bad law; and who is to decide what law is bad. Mr. Prrcw s opposed to the prohibition law; therefore that, is n "bad" law in the eyes of Mr. Darrow and. according to his "nvrthod." everybody belieying: as- he does, should maice every effort to commit unlawful acts in their fight against the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of thc t'r.ited States. Without doubt, traffickers in women believe the Mann act. and all other law.i against white slavery, are "bad" laws. Carrying; out the logic erf Mr. Darrow, these thousands of panderers and their cohorts should redouble their efforts in their parttrttjar line of nefarious labor until it would be utterly impossible to enforce all laws -gainst white slavery. Then, unfortunately, we hare the dope ring with its narcotic peldlers and the appalling numlier of drug addicts. In their eyes the narcotic laws ire "lind" tews. And yet. have not these slaves of the h ug habit and the thousands eng-tgd in this evil business, 'he same right to forse a condition (if v-e are to carry out Mr. narrow's theory to a logical end) which would make it impossible to execute the laws, against the sale if narcotics? There is no taw which. In the eyes of many, regardlessof their station or avocation in life, is not a "bad" law. Logically that is if we follow Mr. Darrow-s- theory. he ring of thugs operating the machinery by which thouaaiMls of alien misfits, physical, moral and mental. re unlawfully bronght into this country should be expanded until the late Immigration law becomes null and vo because of its violation. Is not the-Johnson immigration act. following Mr. Darrow's argument, a "bad" law in the eyes of many thousands. Possibly, however. Mr. Darrow is setting himself up in the Judge of what is and what is, not a bad law. Counterfeiters of course, think the laws against counterfeiting vie "bnd" laws, hut as Mr. Darrow so far has only condemned the prohibition law as bad. the counterfeiters are no doubt, cent-ring their fire on the prohibition law untD x vote of the counterfeiters union can be taken. It would seem with the appalling number of deaths due, to automobile ;;peod maniacs that these maniacs hav already Irici out the theory of Mr. Darrow. It appears a point haa almost been reached tviere the speed laws are aliont ready for the scrap heap; therefore, according to Mr. Darrow's "method- the bars should be let down and the speeders he allowed to speed regardless of the number killed and maimed each day. The Initime tax law can hardly be called popular, but womrt Mr. Darrow advocate that tho citizens of the i nitcd States refu?e to pay these taxes? Where would tne Lnited States be in thirty days if beginning today eaeii end every group of persons within it would start in to l.iertk the laws which they considered "bad" laws, with the end in view of making the laws, unpopular in their eyo. nothing but empty words on the statute rooks. It would be a gala time for the bank robbers, panderen.-. bootleggers, burglars, bandits, automobile thieves and drug peddlers. General Grant, we bolieve. was much nearer tight than Mr. Darrow. If there should he a bad law. and in being rigidly enforred ft worked a hardship on the masses, th- repeal of that law would be most probable Mr. Darrow theory, carried to a logical conclusion could oniy mean a chaotic condition that would eventual! y end in the fall of the United States government.
You can walk the whole length of Lincoln Park in Chicago without hearing the English language spoken, unless perhaps with a muddy foreign accent. That is what immigration has meant to the middle west. That is what the sentimental peace-fool has done to America. Aliens in America Are you aware of the fact that when it comes to cold figures the aliens dominate the population of the rnrted States? At the present time 51 per cent of our population are foreign born. Only 49 per cent are of the native-born. Nordic strain that founded and built our republic. 'The Italian, the Pole, the Levantine, the Russian,, the Greek, the Mongolian are all here. We have made a grand s-tart hi the matter of immigration, but how shall we now dispose of the refuse left in our population? The Melting Pot has not been a success. There is too much dross in it. That is- why we have labor troubles, anarchy, and the various types of La Follettean sympathizers and workers. That is why we have dissatisfaction with governmental principles and wasters in every line of local as well as national endeavor. The steadv conservation that builds city and country, increases the industrial prosperity, and opens the national heart to spiritual and material progress comes from the old American stock, the Nordic and correlated
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Why Are Laws Passed? -p-TEKE has been so much written about the so-called fJlaev of "reforming ner.plp hv law" that one is almost forced to the belief that legislators never have in m.nd the curbing ofcrJme or thc protection of innocent persons against the vicious, when certain laws are passed. Whn a law. not fr.vored by a group of people. B-oee into effect. w immediately hear the c,-y sent up that 'Vuvs can't make people good" and many editorials T-n-ear alwut "th fallacy of re-vamping human nature !y the enactment of Laws." Many an actor, especially those who "do three a day " has brent l-d a sig" of relief when lanTing in a lown or city which has a law prohibit In the operating of theatres on Sunday. He has found relief from labor for one day at least and Ins a day of rest; and that day or rest is fuily appreciated because those who think an a-tors life is a sinecure are very ranch mistaken Peculiar as it may seem, the very persons who are dmanding "recreation" on Sunday by attending the theatre, are the very ones who demand that the tens o. thousands of actors throughout crur land, to say nothing of the many, many thousands of stace hands ushers, ticket-takers, olectrlcians, musicians etc at the theatres, work seven hard days a week. The Chisago Tribune states editorially that "in the long
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A writer has declared that "few wives love a fat man." That 1 proban ly because there are only a few fat husbands.
Barber Becomes Desperate. ''T"?-'t , Drsjrg-sd Down Alley Ah Bcfcfced - screams a bis beadBse Wtaefc may or amy not b? a tyt graphical error.
.-L3 WHERE THB POLICE Iii:LPIIJA "ALA KM ' 13 encouraging to 5ov that the police are kmkS. aurmed over
An advertised booh tells hew to nse common sense. The boa woald be oseless to an anto speed maniac. The fact that ftpport unity knock ireit oace-seems to assure th world inat it (ras nothfng hi common with automobile engines. TTTST ABOUT THE TIME THE Ni3XT INSTALLMENT OF INCOME IES BECOME DUE. "DO TOUR nIRISTMAS SHOPPfNTG EARLY " SIGNS WILL BEGIN TO APPEAR
A motorist arrested in Chicago for speeding made the escusa that he had left his glasses at home and couldn't read the speedometer. When the arresting copper stopped him however, he probably was able to see his finish.
An exchange says "to make fun of things you do not understand 13 not only in poor taste, but is a gad display of ignorance." Never again will wo Jest about the income tax.
Says a headline In the Ohloag (111.1 Oracle. "Oblong Man Married Circleririe Girl." If an eternal triangle over turns up in thai family somebody wil' have to page the Shade of Euclid.
Americanisms By JohH Eitrht Point
Salvation doesn't defend nn much upon what the head thinks about the Klan as what the heart is doing with the K lan's Master.
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per cent has a iienous sound in the ears of a board of directors; it has an omnious sound in the ears of a native American.
only, that Instead of such a law. the counterfeiters were merely taking "moral instructions." It may be tru and undoubtedly is. that authority of law cannot be substituted for virtue, but Is i.-equally true that ai.!ho-ity f law has saved virtue innumerable times It is fooMh to assume that laws agninst vice and which would lessen vice, either through fear of running ;i,oul the law or otherwise, are passed with the view o reiormlng the people." It can hardly be denied that aws are chiefly passed to protect the innocent against
' -"-'"s virtue, would mistreat them It is not likely that those who voted for the law against Mhot.Be. expected to reform those who would commltl sabotage; rather, it is most nrntahlo th,! ,t, ,i ,.x !
I in mind was to protect men who would beonm ,.tt. i
of sabotage were there no laws against that particular I act of vandalism. It Is true that much of the flOiril tfnn nr,r..it " r
tng people l.y !,iw has come :,boui since the adoption y .lender bridge wkn it re
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IiOW. OH. KLA.XSMEiV. TH VT THK FlnVMK OF ADVEUSITV WITHERS FALSK FIIK. DSHIl'S vr wm.ns trik oe:s out of THK FIRK OF TOnt HTKtOtiLES TO IPHOtn PATRIOTISM WILL COHE THK PKIKN!SmPS THAT Will, (ilVK YOi; STRE(iTH TO KKSTORK AXD TO HOLD THE I1ALAXCK OF GOOD (iOVKH.VMKST.
The Klansman who attempts to climb without lifting may get his personal self somewhere, but be will be as lonesome as a Maine Iemocrat alter the election.
Friday,
ESTfllUS, ROIM CATHOLICS 10 THE GOVERHftlEMT DF THE UNITED STATES Who Fought the American '
Revolution
(By Aa Episcopal Minister) Tbe PapaHrfsh. On Tnewfay and Wednesday. March 14 and 15. 1922 r?l0r-i hari of Mississtni delivered wL r.f tbe Cnted States Senate the most rmf"1!,JLa patrtotIc reiuko of the pernicious ac tlvities of the PapaJ-Irish in this country that has been heard in a legislative hall in many a day. His remarks are a classic of truth, humor and patriotism. Draerossing what is popularly known aa the four power treaty on March 14. he spoke in part these words. three Parties this treaty are Japan tf nc?a?iGpeat Braa,n' By the It te a srat pUy that Great Britain is a party to it. beeause. a r W6re nt' a" th man.Amcrican and Irish American opposition to it would have ceased long ago. IU ?i? th,at CrPat Brrtain oxist3- 11 Py that she and her aw and her language and her literature and her civilization and her commerce can not be W T th,,inflnJte cth' and gotten rid of somefhe T'X S?"ld Eat.!sfy CCrtain extrems elements in the Lnited States who want no further Justification EngUnd. n ,hCy hafPCn t0 take tba" hatr of That Just denunciation of the Roman propagandists nfoT,t r En?fnd an4 f Anglo-Saxon democracy TJ Ivtnf0"1 the Pats the chars, that. Sen 51, ff!3 I1'351 lhe PaPaMrish into the Senate debate and had attacked them. The chares caused him on the following day to deliver additional "Z-1 from whlch thc fonwrtn ex"Mr. Preirident. I wa acctsed yesterday of having unnecessarily and unprovoked dragged the Irish-American citizenship of America into Uiis discussion The charge. If it be a charge, the insinuation, if it be an insinuation, is false. Nobody has a rteht as a called hyphenated American, to erect himself into a power within America and to attack the motives and the courage and the patriotism of everybody who d"f fersvith him without expecting ,ome return Tn iUnd t ' ?f ntTS tf!eSC Pepte lnto this controversy; they brought themselves into it. I have been receiv
es, as an Senators have been receiving, an almost r?! XT"?'' from th 'friends of Irish Freedom e? Z National Bureau of Information in the City ,f.3h,!nto"- 1 have been reading these communications, in which they attack me and every other man LJS supporting these treaties as being disloyal ta f a. sort of hired agent of Great Britain until I got tired of i ".t "The Americans who fought the War of Independent w:,Scoteh and E"tWx-an Welsh and Scotchi V ctrowd' now howling and pleading the baby act. had nothmff to do with it. Twenty years after the Revolution, a cardinal of the Roman Catholic cnurci a Carroll of the State of Maryland, mentioned , I. . at ther3 werfi at that titKe but 28 Catholic priests In America and 26.000 -communicants. "Wl-.o roueht the battles of the Revolution? They were not here to fight them. Most erf them came over in ths Pfat PanIc and staicvatJon period of lg48 and 1849, ton after the War of the Revolution was over." Continuing Eenatos- Williams said, fn answer to who fought the American Revolution: "George WashingtonEnglish every drop of his bloodThomas Jefferson, Welsh and Scotch, every drop of hfc ' blood: the Randolphs. Scotch with a little sprinkling of English: the Adamses. English all the way through, from Old Samuel down to John Quincy and the mod--era family of th..t name; the Livingstons, Scotch and English. And. by the way. I picked up a paper this morning which referred to Andrew Jackson and Patrick Henry as being Irishmen. Patrick Henry's father and mother were born and raised in Aberdeenshire Scotland, and neither he nor his father or mother ever saw Ireland In all their lives. And somebody vesterday suggested the Duke of Wellington was born in Ireland, "i es. he was born, in Ireland, and was a member of a Norman family in the "English garrison" In Ireland. And then the "Right Rev. Michael J. Gallagher" Michael J. Gallag,er. the right reverend makes a little speech, too. out at Detroit. There is nothing Irksri about him. There Is no Roman Catholic retigiousisnt ik him. He closes his magnificent "American" oration Inthe name of "Michael J. Gallagher," bishop of Roirie and subject to Rome, with these words: "Yet we are going to repudiate the traditions of Washington, the guiding star of our Nation for decades." Imagine George Washington being the guiding star of a Ro man Catholic bishop!
C URRENT COMMENT
By FELIX FREE
Let us make thus a land of liberty in fact as well as in Se' Linc?ln- A splendid admonition to start a column with Americans of today are not much concerned about the Constitution. '--Governor George S. Silzer, of New Jersey m a speech delivered at Chicago. Excellent incentive to Ivlansmen for an intensive drive in New Jersey.
More Censorship. Dr. French Oliver preached a. sermon over the radio from the Los Angeles Bible Institute. The sermon was made the subject of investigation by United States radio Inspectors, Dr. Oliver had criticized certain religious organizations. It appears that his comments were construed to be "personalities." The censors bar certain kinds of denominational "personalities." Now, who are the censors? It is the radio, latest means of disseminating honest views ' and distributing important news, in the hands of censors working under instructions by interested propagandists?
In Desecndancy. Addison P. Monroe, of Providence, announces that the descendants of thoso who came over in the Mayflower are increasing. You wouldn't suspect it. Judging by things which happened in that Rhode Island legislature a few months ago one might conclude that descendants of Mayflower stock had entirely disappeared.
A Protectant fraterally in crtKiii
mind that tho laws
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s are not passed to 'vr.y.v. v.,,
i i ., , potential victims from vicious inI dividual or systems. It is well onon-h i ..
protection while persons bubbling over wftn v,.,,..
'"tM,c- '. . Ltimirrr Classes rtf i.
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lusea to Ktand tin for rinf.-ilc
In the face of slander. A LITTLJi SIN AGAINST THK GOOD GOVERNMENT OF YOl'K 'ITY HAS AS Mt'CH DESTRUCTION" IN IT AS A BIG ONE.
Th. ,:OMnVHvo in h room. Thts h) Home of the vice sections In certain cities have been washed out of tho map. That is also the reason w.ijr uch a stream of ab1W! an4 opposition has been olr-cted at the Klan. Ask your neighbor which lnt' he s on.
There is a certain class of neonle i,i
Americanism to be above reproach who will work lite
-aors m church or lodge hx.can tv,,
where everybody will seen, them. In the IUan the Kerio
f ,k V , "er ret eood work, is a pleasing lew that bears good fruits both politically and spiritually Goodness. Benevolence. Charity-thews and kindred atI tributes are not on the list -of-the Competitive. We wel
"'"I,, enis mat are spiritually constructive and are at heart nnselflsh. "Not for self, but for others." Prove that there is no devil, and how can you explain L,gh eenth Amendment law-breakers and Constitution smasliers. 11
Fighting constitutional amendments i an attempt at national suicide.
St; kicking the Klansman and uxe your -nergy an the enemies of good Amrrimn areveritmeRt. The Klansman owes no dual allegiance. His genuflecting is done to his God and his country only.
The Klam Kpeakn- wfce taken a dead aim at blmseif win proHnMy also hit a few others.
The religion of the Klan is the only one whose eorrarstone was lafal by . a .Master Builder In the cement' of brotherly love.
"Piihlh- school teachers in Mexico strike." Trobably they hud more than unpaid salaries In their grievance some teachen do have many things to strike about. It not easy to teach the young flower how to trow usfol and beautiful. The tank 1 a bit easier in the United States than In Mexico. Here we know what edncation is for; in Mexico they are mill guessing, having been sa long under the baleful influence of prn! clous churches and parochial schools.
Th golden rule is correct, but a lot of people kiN trouble maaatirlna; with 1L
, Very '"'resting news has come from Japan. Read this: 'Plans for the reorganization of the Japanese army submitted by the war council provide for the aTioli- ; tion of four division S nnd Honir. minor nnif rr.vifltn- I
a saving f 18,009,000 yen about ,8O,00O. Most of the sum saved will be used to establish twelve air squadrons, a tank corps, antl-alreraf t units, motor transports and a school of chemical warfare and research. It is also
pianneu to make a study of 'death rays.'
Tie devil Is Puzzled to kion Just- kow to mrtndle a man who Is Klitnnixft vrfth his money.
lion About Porlo IUof
What do you know about Porto Rico? Nothing, prabably, except that it is a mere dot on a six-inch globe. Nevertheless people live there. And the Storv of the nnnt rniart;r rtf n
That dnesn't . . .. r. , . 1 .
TnZt ZZrS-ZF'X a,flQe bable,t0 IthaTcoony full of Vomal bor ,neet news of thls-ort with a line like this: "America and self-saeriflce
rr."n"e" ner..alr-?eet9 and multiplies by ten her avia- when the Stars and Strines wer
fiiiicu wuuiu avuiu war, hosted In Pnrln ? .
tion equipment."
for tha nest twenty years, she should increase her army of aviators and. decrease her -army of professional pa-
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Jesus ate with publicans and with sinners, but ft is nowhere on record that He went to a meal with hypocritesnor will the Klan If it knows itself.
Motto for American clubs: The Ktan can.'
a country
bound for centuries upder Spanish
ruie, a new day had dawned. Some Christian missionaries arrived to spread the message of Protestantism. So strong were the entrenchmsnts of Roman Catholicism that it was some time before great Rains were anAUtfwf . ln . ....... , . . . ..4.
ief JrJteat.Tti. ratio.
Immigraiion Figures. One third of the immigrants coming to the United States are from Ca-nada and Mexico. The total net immigration for four vears, 1920 to 1923. was 1.710,402. These figures were gathered by the National Bureau of Economic Research. British North America supplied 306,611; Italy, 25S,32G; United Kingdom, 244,780; Mexico, 167,497; Germany, 126,974 and Poland, 83.D20. The next four years will undoubtedly show a different state of affairs. There will be fewer immigrants but a notable improvement in quality. This is the result of one big piece of constructive legislation in which the Klan takes pardonable pride.
bocker! It is enough to make the ancient Dutchman roll over In his grave. Hidden In the back pages of her dailies are secreted items of importance to taxpayers. Here are some of the things the city administration did one day: Appropriated S200.000 for additional mechanics in the street cleaning department; $300 -000 for 200 regular and 100 evtra street sweepers; $500,000 for fifty a-ton and fifty 2-ton trucks; $200,000 .or a crew to man the new disposal station; $200,000 for paint to touch up the river bridges and J500.000 for new snow plows. These are but a few of the items of the budget passed with only three hours' consideration It took but fifteen minutes to raise the salaj-y of Mayor Hylan to $25,000 per year.
Louisiana, killed five men, three of whom had befriended him. He was hanged in Evangeline Parish. Vidrlno attended a parochial school. A Catholic priest was on the scaffold t cheer the condemned man on his way into 9 ernity. Did the daily newspapers hippodrome the atrocious murders committed by this man? Did. they picture the priest on tire scaffold, as he gave his sympathy and hope?' o
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The Last Shall be First. October 13 is observed in some States as Columbus Day. Lelf Ericson is yet to come Into his own. Students of history know that Columbus never set foot on United States soil, while Ericson actually landed Sept. 29, 9S2.
An Kast Side Product. New York's lower Ea3t Side is known to most Americans. Here are seen oppressive squalor, filthy streets, dirty children and sums of the most offensive-looking individuals that the mind can conjure. Al Smith grew up in this environment. He ia proud of it. This is his privilege. But he doesn't stop there. He has a hearty contempt for anything that i3 not of East Side breeding. "His hat cocked on one side," remarks a close New York observer, "a big black cigar in his mouth," the Governor is talking about the "treat 'em rough" metho-V The tart that Rmith w-o ...4
only by the aliens of New York City
13 1-LU. "Of Two Evils" The California Stale Board of Education refused to drop Muzzev's history of the United States from the list of school textbooks. Florence O'Brien, alleging this book contains British propaganda, led the fight igainst it. Her motion was defeated. The writer is not familiar with the fetalis of this controversy. However, ts a general proposition, a pro-FU-itish textbook is rather to be chosen than propapal propaganda. Iiizoner Gets Rated; Rome runs Tammany. Tammany run New Yovls. . Poor okl Knlcker-
A Difference. A Protestant minister in a little Illinois town poisoned his wife that he might be free to marry a woman who had poisoned her husband. The disgraceful affair was paraded all over the front page of the metropolitan press. Editorials emphasized and needlessly exaggerated the importance of the tragedy. Euzebe Vidrine, described as the most coldblooded murderer in the history of
A radio set Is Just like a baby; it does the CUTEST things after tha company haa gone! At any rate, radio is teaching a lot of people who never did it before, t keep still and listen. The modern home is too often merely a place where the members stop every now and then to change their clothes. ' 9 We ahouldn't say it, but we wonder if there is a bark to a dog's familytree? " The yellow peril -was once believed to be due to the Mongol races-. Now, it seems to be the taxi races. Few modern girls can be called pensive without perfixing the "ex." Ferhaps the best excuse a man can offer far being a bachelor is that ha was born that way. Most men are brilliant only in spots. Sir Isaac Newton was a man of stupendous intellect, one of the world's greatest mathmeticians. And vet;, we are told that he cut two holes in his barn door for his cats to pass in and out a big hole for the big cat, and a little hole for the little cat. . . .. No doubt, if a hog could pra'v," hia entire supplication would be for a larger mud puddle and more swiH. , Finding a job isn't so hard tb hard part comes in finding one that measures up to the job-honter'a dig nity.
"THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER"
"The Star-Spangled Banner" was composed under the following circr.irstances: It was on the evening of Septembes 13. 1814, during the "War of 1812' that a British fleet was anchored ir Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Beanes, an otC resident of Upper Marlborough. Md had been captured by the British ami sent as a prisoner to Admiral Coch rane's flagship. Francis Scott Key, a young lawyei of Baltimore, hearing of the misfortune of Dr. Beanes, who was his per sonal friend, hastei.2d to the British
; commander to endeavor to have hia
friend released. The enemy was about lo attack Fort McHenry, so refused to permit Mr. Key and Dr. Beanes to return until after the lort was captured. Through the night of September 13 the bombardment was kept up. and in thc light of the "rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in air," they could see the American Hag still waving over the old fort. And when. In the first rays of dawn of September 14, he still beheld th same glorious banner waving from its accustomed mace. Francis Scott Key wrote the words of that wonderful song, "The Star-Span-gled Banner." The next day Key went a shot e,. and after copying his poem. showd it to Jude Nicholson, n frt nd rela
tive, who saw Its worth, and at his suggestion it was printed. Soon after it was adapted to an old English air, "To Anacreon in Heaven." the composition of which is accredited to John Stafford Smith, who is supposed to have written the music between 1770 and 1775. "The Star-Spangled Banner" was first sung in public by Ferdinand Durang, an actor, n a tavern, near the Holiday Strea: "heater, Bui-' timore. The flag at Fort McHenry which in-i spired this song -is still owned a.kept by Eben Appleton, of Yonkers. N. Y., whos grandfather was one of the soMiers of the fort. This flag waai made by a daughter of Rebecca Young, who had made the first fta carried by tbe Revolutionary soldiers., and in commemoration of the 100th' anniversary of the writing of the songa buoy, on which ts painted "red and! white stripes and white stars on , blue field," has been anchored In Bal4 timore harbor near the place wher' Mr. Key, on the British ship, verot the song. Francis Scott Key was. the son oft, John Ross Key. an officer of the Revolutionary army. He was born August 1. 1779. and died .Janttary lat 1&4. leaving "The SUr-Spar.gled Banner" as a monument to his patrtotki spirit and an inspiration to hu couoTvTTiefl.
There was only one small Struggling Episcopal church in 1S9S, but by 1909 at least four of the leading Protestant denominations had started activities, and others were organizing to enter the field. Today eight or nine denominations ar represented each "doing a dtstittctry useful and constructive work, and all toiling harmoniously under the American flag. It seems a splendid thing to the
average American that where the flag goes Protestantism follows, and where both go there is always a change for the better. Under Spanish CatholU rule Porto Rico was a helpless, hopeless place, sanitary conditions were of the worst, and there were unthinkable practices in the manners and customs of the people. Now, under the glowing glory, of the American flag ' Porto Rico la a better spot to
live in.
All of which points the nsnal moral for the Klansman when left to Ro-' man Catholic missions aad influence a country ts bound to degenerate and to decay. If we would do our ahara in world building, we must see to It that th missionaries .who follow-in the wake of the Stars and Stri peg -ara-Prptestant ones. It Is tn.,t,B..fiiat
iiuuvij io vwRtroi rrv type- or ' tutsstonary that shall labor ttader thA.
American najr.