The Glenwood post., 1921-10-01
WOULD BAR THE :
ku kLUx KLAN
Investigations Into This Weird
Organization Indicate
II is a Menace
ARE MANY COMPLAINTS

Washington, Sept. 27.-Prominent
men and women in various parts of
the United States are volunteering to
appear before department of justice
investigators of the Ku Klux Klan.
Some Of them will be heard within a
week or ten days. The Worlds array
of information has made enemies of
the Atlanta organization more cour-
ageous and bolder. For several years
here and there lone man or woman
tearing the worst from the hooded
night riders, has called upon the
White House or the department Of
Justice for action against the Klan,
but those offering to give important
testimony now are of the more deter
mined type.
Attorney General Daugherty has
taken up the question of whom he will
summon. He contemplates calling a
long list of persons, including the
"Big Three" of the Invisible Empire.
1t was stated that no offer of the
Klan has signified to the attorney
general willingness to come to Wash
ington to answer questions. Mr..
Daugherty, it was said, will probably
not reach formal decision on his wit,
ncsses until next week. He will leave
the city tomorrow and take up the
question with departmental advisers
when he returns.
lntimations have been received that
the internal revenue bureau has been
alive to the charge made in the South
that persons working under the guise
of membership in the secret order have
made things difficult for prohibition
officers and there are indications an
inquiry will be started.
Another movement is shaping itself
This movement, it was learned today,
arose in what is known as the "Lily
Black" section of the Republican party
in Virginia. The Virginia negroes
have started petitions ali over the
country for convention Of negro
voters in Washington early this fall to
take up the Ku Klux Klan and pro-
test to the president and congress
against permitting the order to exist
Shelby ]. Dawson, secretary OF the
National Association for the Advance
mcnt of Colorcd People, announced to-
day that organization would stand be-
hind the request for such Q conven-
'tion He said the move is backed by
sensible, intelligent people the coun-
try over, and that the petitions are
going particularly well in Indiana,
Ohio, New York, Virginia and some Of
the border states.
The association has asked for an en-
gagement at the White House, at
which the situation can be called to
the attention of the president.
A movement to have all Protestants
withdraw from the Klan in order to
promote peace and harmony has been
started by DR.. Wilbur F. Crafts, su-
perintendent of the international Re-
form Bureau, Inc. He hopes President
Harding will issue proclamation call
ing for disbanding of the Klan. He
regards the methods Of the Klan as
tending to performance Of deeds that
usurp the law, and foster violence and
bloodshed.
Dr. Crafts said today he has been
crusading for fifty-five years against
many wrongs, "including tn grave
robbers who have scrambled the bones
and ashes Of the A. P. A. (American
Protective Asscciation) and Ku Klux
Ran.!n he made this appeal to
Pnotestants.
Gas no negro, Catholic, Jew or 9th
cr foreigner is eligible to membership.
manifestly IL is Protestant Americans
who are guilty Of the folly and sin OF
this profitcering IN hate and bigotry
and, therefore, intelligent Protestant
Americans, through their pulpits and
religious papers, should take the lead
In unwilling and breaking up this con
spiracy against democracy and public
pesee.
"Let all Christian Protestants and
all American Americana ask the presi-
don't In their behalf, to call upon all