Evening capital. [volume] (Annapolis, Md.) 1922-1981, 1922-11-01

Christ The activities Of individual
'rotestant ministers Who are trying
- further their petty church inter
,sts through Khan hallyhoo may give
&c impression that Protestant Chris
saJonl has taken up the Khan, hut
Ieh Is not the case. The Federated
cRncI OF tie Churches or Christ
has declared that the ku Klux Khan
las no right or authority TO 50 use
AID disgrace the Protestant religion.
There is still some Christianity in
Professionalism. Not only has Protes-
tant Christendom Officially regulated
Nluxism. hut TO their credit be 1t said
here are individual Protestant min
STEERS even in this county who Will
not have the Ku Kiux visit their
churches even though they may bring
sealed offerings.
The 23rd OF October is the ami
yersary of the day my young brother
gave his life upon the battlefields of
France He was an Annapolis High
School boy. and with other Annapolis
roys OF all races and creeds, he glad
ly volunteered to give his all for the
| ideals OF America. And / am glad
md proud that he did, even though
he is always missed in our home
whero his absence viii be felt for life.
There was no ku KluX Khan Offering
themselves for sacrifice and service;
| there was no sncaking and spying
because of creed or color. no distinc-
| ion or discrimination because of a
mans religion. no question Of Jew or
Gentle. Catholic or Protestant, but
| luddies" in the trenches and al
home. The spirit of those days was
.abor, love, sacrifice, united in one
brotherhood for the cause OF Amer
| ca. And did not the victory of Am
erica show What united Americans
:an do. Can this glorious thing he
30 easily forgotten? And when VIC
remember and live over those days
| Ind recall what the "doughboys" told
Of the way they we're treated by tho
/ iifferent relief organizations. II
must be remembered that they had
nothing but praise for the Salvation
Army, the Red Cross, the X. C.'s, tho
Jewish Welfare. but Wholesale com
plant for the ~" which is neither
Catholic nor Jewish nor negro. but a
Protestant auxiliary. ! bring this ~
not TO depreciate the ~" wholesale
which is wonderfully good and use.
ful organization, and cannot bC
blamed for individual pro6tcorine
lone by "Y' war-workers, but Il
1oint out TO Professionals the fallacy
If tho 1lu KIuX idea OF self-sanctif-
cation and snobbery, in arrogating &c
themselves pure Amcrlcansm" an(
puro Christianity - GOD forgive the
sucrilcgc,
Aside from tho fact that tho III
Nlux Khan is anti-Catholic. anti-Jew.
ish and anti-Ncgro, the mob intcntior
If the thing is intolerable 1t is al
insult to American police institutions
an aifront to American laws Their,
nay be corruption in our police
abuse of our laws, but the way e
correct that is not by outlawry. Am
orleans must stand by their institu
tons and correct wrongs from within
according TO the law, not by mob,
from without
We need efforts to bring people
closer together, not drive them apart
we need harmony and cooperation
sympathy and friendship, not jeal-
ousy, bigotry, suspicion and hate
Take Annapolis. with its small sub
urls and little country districts where
people have lived together. done bust.
less. inter-married, lived. worked
| lied together III neighborIiness fol