The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-13
INVADE. CHURCH
 MASKED
Ku Kluxers Interrupt Service at Summer field Methodist Church and Present $50, Wrapped in Flag, to Pastor.

The Ku KEux KIan, with its
 Grand Goblins, Cyclops, etc., etc.,
 made formal entrance into the
 city of Bridgeport last night. more
 particularly into the Symmetrical
 Methodist church, where a Sur-
 priscd congregation was present.
 ed the sum of $15O, wrapped up in
 a silk American flag, to go toward
 the SummeI-field ChuIFh building
 fund.
 The Ku KIuxers. who were
 masked, made good their retreat
 and well covered their tracks.
 t'They disappeared as suddenly
 as they appeared,' Dr. Charles A.
 QuigIey. pastor of the church, said today, commenting on the
 rather abrupt interruption Of his
 service las might.
 Will Accept It.
 Their contribution of $150 being gratuitous1y given I certainly shall gladly accept it." Dr. Quigley con tinued. 'fThe K1an men were cer- tainly fine apeciments of Americans. The four men were all six foot tall. I wish they left their card so that tlsey could be called upon for further lih- eral contributions. I believe that they came as they did because of the patriotic sermons that ' have been giving in the church of late. Their surprise was delightful
 The four Klen men, represented as CycIops with ha1os of mystery about them, entered the church as the con- gregatton had finished singing the sec ond stanza of "Ameri:s." The church was filled to capacity. Silently they marched up, their robes trailing be- hind them on the rug covered. aisles, to tae front of tha pulpit. The con- gregf.tion awed stricken stI:ped sing ing. The Klansmeu, shrouded in more mystery, handed a letter to Dr. Quigley who was standing in the pull pit. With the letter they also handed a silk flag with a sum of money in it.
 C1ansnen's Letter.
 The letter that Dr. Quig1ey read was as follows:
 To the S11mmerfie1d Methodist Epis-
 copa1 Church. Bridgeport. Conn. Greetings
 We. the members of the Ku K1ux Klan, knowing that your people are busy constructing new church, we therefore take great pleasure in hand ing you herewith, the sum of $15o.
 We always desire to lend helping it give us pleasure to present this to our friend and brother, a. 100 per cent. American, Dr. Charles A. Quig- ley.
 After finishing the reading, the I1ansmen sped from the church. No one was inquisitive enough to follow to see if the Ku Kluxers entered a car or whither they were bound.
 During his sermon Dr. Quig1ey at- tackled the age old fact that Colum- kus discovered America. He declared that school children were being taught an untruth when they were being told that Columb bus dis covered America. Continuing he seId:
 America's Discoyerer.
 ''If I were to tell you people to- night that I discov cred the North Pole. you would say ] was lying" he said. Not in the gI eater sense than the fact that we are constantly lying to our school children by telling that Columbus discovered America. America. If he discovered America, then I am the discoverer of the North Pole"
 pr. Quig1ey said that Lief Brick son, of the Norsemen, discovered America in the year of 1000 This discoverer, he said, came of Nordick stock of the Anglo-Saxon race. Dr. Quig1ey said that Columbus never set foot upon North America.