New-York tribune., 1922-11-27
Clerical klan Chief Maps
Extension Program as
Ministers A Assail and
Defend the Organization
klokard Outlines
Purpose of Order
UpIolds Prohibition and
Opposes Birth Control.
Local Leader Asserts

AetYve organization of New York
slans viii begin within few days,
the Rev. Oscar Haywood, DID,, klokard
IN New York for the Ku-Klux Klan,
told newspaper reporters last night.
He admitted that he was awaiting the
arrival from Buffalo of e. d. Smith,
grand dragon for the state, before pro-
ceeding further with his campaign to
convert this city to klansmanship. He
said too that the purpose and aims of
the klan had been gravely misun-
derstood.
The first public defense of the Kian
from source outside it's professed
sdherents was made last night in
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church by
Canon William Sheafe Chase, rector of
the church. Canon Chase read q
lengthy statement of the ayowed aims
Of the organization, praised it as a
defender of Anlericanism, and charged
that the enemies of the Klan were
themselves more of menace to the
country than was the society which
1hey maligned.
Rabbis Assail Kian
DR.. Samuel Schulman, rabbi of Tenn
p!e Beth El, in u sermon last night
attacked the Klan, not by name, but
By inference, as attempting TO bring
about an alliance between church and
state. "There could be no greater
tyranny than such a union," he said.
Rabbi Wise, speaking at meeting
vision of the American Jewish Con-
gress, last night, said that the Klan
organization is phase of a worldwide
sHti-Semitic movement. The meeting
adopted resolution condemning the
Xlan.
The Calvary Baptist Church evange-
list who has jumped so rapidly into
he spotlight by reason of his activities
oa behalf of the self-titled invisible
empire" possesses in large degree
tbe ability to convey through word and
gesture an impression Of single
minded earnestness; but he has also a.
Keen sense Of theatrical valueas Con-
sciously or subconscieusly, he makes
up for his part.
DR.. Haywood looks as though he
might be an Evangelist; but he looks
even more as though he might be a
political bearer of flaming standards
Of the type of William Jennings Bryan;
and there are moments when he looks
as though he might be DIR. Munyon.
Seldom Appears Clerical
Perhaps the least evident of DR..
HayHood's many aspects is the view Of
aim as a Clergyman. For one thing,
there is his habit of chewing tobacco,
which is not generally INDUCED in by
New York wearers of the cloth.
1t is not for moment suggested that
the New York Rlokard, weighing all
10 nj Il iah oh no
pected to produce the required effect,
said at last to himself, 'l'll go these
cigar smoking parsons one better" be-
cause DIR. Haywood handles his quid
as one born to the plug.
The Klokard is Southerner-"Bo'n
in Moth Cah'lina," he said. The soft
accents of the traditional Dixie speech
are in every phrase he uses. He wears
the broad black sombrero of the circuit
rider which William Jennings Bryan
made SC peculiarly his own, and he
owns, too, q head of hair grown long
t9euri over the nape of his neck, which
Is distinctly Bryanical. He does not
display the Bryan bald head and gljs-
tening pate, but combs his long hair
across the crown of his head so that
anatural tendency to the sparseness
Thich comes with advanced middle age
e at least partially concealed.
DR.. Haywood is shrewd campaigner,
who believes in the quiet, non -rhe-
torical effect. and possesses sense of
values. Unexpectedly he displays
Consciousness of the worth of humor
One may kid him gently, without Civ
ing offense, for he wears about his
broad shoulders no frigid mantle of
dignity.
The possibility OF the formation of
women's auxiliary to the Ku-KIux
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