The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1923-11-28
NO FOREIGN SCHOOLS
FOR OKLAHOMA NOW
Petitions Start in "Oregon Law
Movement, and Hot Battle is Seen
Ahead With Ku Klux Klan and
Masons Standing for Amer
lean Plan of Education
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lean Plan of Education
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Oklahoma City.-Oklahom will be
the-second state to sound the death
kneel to parochial schools within it's
borders!
Petitions under the initiative law
already are being drawn up and it is
predicted there will be little or no
trouble in obtaining the $4,000 sig
natures required here before the pro-
posed measures can be filed with the
Secret"ry of State. ~
Catholics in Oklahoma can thank
Aldrich Blanke, "Czar Jacks" former
right hand man, for starting the
move! '~ 49,
Indignant over Blake's activities,
intended to force Knights of the Ku
Kulx Klan to dispense with their
regulation uniforms, Klansmen and
Protestants in general are preparing
to "hit back" by introducing the
measure which will abolish parochial
schools in the Sooner State. @
The measure has ben drawn up
by leading attorneys of the Invisible
Empire and is said to be "air tight
and will stand all constitutional at
tacks made upon it.
1t provides for the compulsory at
tendance at the public schools of all
children until they have finished the
eighth grade. .~ --. , -
= Admit Klan Can Do It.
The power of the Klan in such an
initiative petition possibly would be
greater than with any proposition
that might be advanced by the Invis-
ible Empire. It would not be neces-
sary to go outside the Empire in Ok
lahoma to obtain the required $4,000
signatures to place the measure on
the ballot and put it to a vote.
The bill also would have the back
ing of thousands of Protestants, not
Klansmen, who are opposed to paro-
chial schools.
A similar petition was launched
two years ago, but the plan was not
decided upon until too late to cir
culate the petitions and collect the
required number, of signatures to
place he question on the ballot.
"Beat Minnesota to It." Cry of
Oklahoma
While similar school measures have
been getting under way in Michigan,
Ohio, and Indiana for more than a
year, il. appears that Oklahoma will
beat the others to the honor of being
the second state to make public
schools paramount. .--.-
This step was first accomplished
two years ago in Oregon, when the
measure was submitted to a vote of
the people and adopted by a large
majority. e.
The fact that the measure carried
at the time that Klansmen were
swept into Office leads many to be-
lieve the bill was sponsored by the
hooded organization. This has never
ben denied by the Klan, although the
petitions were circulated under the
name of the American Liberty
League.
AS fact, Masonry led in the Ore
gon movement and supports the plan
elsewhere, as it will here.
AS soon as Oklahoma obtains the
required number of signatures (and
it is predicted that will take less than
two weeks) the bill will be filed with
the secretary of state and probably
,resul in its being voted on not later
than next November.
"Get busy, Minnesota, or we'll beat
you to It'll" Oklahoma Klansmen say.
4 -K-K-K---
It was in Czecko- -Slovakia. The
lights were dim. Suddenly man
came running out of side street.
"What's the matter?" asker Curl
GUS policeman. 4
II am frightened" gasped the run
ner.
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