The Washington times., 1922-10-08

A Photograph Of a Meeting of
Members Of the Ku Klxx klan.
! The Oklahoma Police Believe That
>the Women Who Maltreated Miss,
Ramsey May Have Been Members
of "The Wemen of the Invisible
Eye," the Newly Formed Women's
Auxiliary of the klan.
"Dedve this week or suffer the conse-
quences," the note said.
The girl decided upon a ruse. Carry
ing a suitcase, she trudged to town and
boarded train. She believed she would
outwit the women. At the next station
she left the train to slip back home. A
person in rough clothes, who had been re-.
naming in the background and had not
been noticed by the girl up to that time,
also left the train. Opal made inquiries
about obtaining a motor car to take her
back home. She insisted upon a closed
car. She planned to return at night.
The stranger stepped up and volun-
teered to find her a car. Unsuspcctng,
a small sedan appeared and the girl
entered it. But hardly were they out
side the limits of the small town than the ,
car stopped.
"What is the natter" asked the girl.
''Now you just sit still and do as I,say.
or you'll die" the driver said
The voice was that of a woman.
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closely at her volunteer keeper And now
she saw that the driver had no beard and
had hands too slender to go with the,
rough suit of clothes .''he" wore.
"A trap" the girl said to herself
They've caught me"
And now Opal Ramsey herself takes up
the story. p.
''The driver pointed me to 60 ahead of
him." she says, "along dim wood path
l went. had to. He held revolver.
What else could I do?
"And after ten minutes of walking over
piled paths of the fallen leaves of many
Summers past ! came into an opening
where the strangest sight had ever seen
was spread before me. Six women, sitting
in circle, dressed in formless white. each
of the six holding a flaming torch in her
hand, received me with Kisses. Behind
them were other hooded, draped FORMS
"My driver bowed.
"'By the command of our leader, said
she, 4 have brought the disturber be-
fore you for trial. Bow-bow-you mis-
chief maker said the woman in mans
clothes to me. And she prodded me in
the ribs with the reverse end of an un-
lighted torch which somebody had handed
her. OF course had to bow; there is
only one thing any sensible girl would do
when in the power of maniacs. That is to
humor them in all things. So bowed.
Now and fat, undulating, sheeted
woman, to whom they all referred as our
leader started to speak. Now we don't
need to take long, young woman, to dis
pose of your case. You have been
warned, judged and sentenced. -
".You buy yourself city hats, with
flowers and ribbons and tassels in bright
colors. And our husbands see you in
church and come home and say to us,
"How good looking is. that Opal Ramsey!
How pretty and perky she's become since
she took to fixing herself up" That's
what our husbands say to us-the/ fools.
But we are not fools. We don't spend
our husbands money on perky hats and
the latest patent-leather strapped ankle
ties. Move are Christian women, and
we wear our old clothes so our husbands
can buy extra cows or clear away more
of the wooded Md forRew pastures. =
"'And because we don't fix up we
suffer-at your hands. But we won't
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cities they have a name for girl like you
who attracts other wnmen,a hnshands-