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The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
ATLANTA KLAN UP
FOR CONTEMPT Of
COURT DECISIONS
BOlSheviSm Has Been FoS-
tered by Nathan Bedford
Forrest Khan
USED ORDERS NAME
Ex-Exalted CyclOps Was Seeking
Organizations Support for
Sheriff

ATLANTA, GA, March III. j.
Norton, ex-Exalted Cyclops of old
Nathan Bedford Forrest Khan No. l.
and other officers and members who
have been instrumental in fomenting
internal strife since July, 1923, have
been cited for contempt of court,
and will be tried March s. The allie
cations upon which the contempt or
der is based charge the defendants
with willful violation of DEGREES of
the court.
The serving Of copies of the pro-
ceedings in contempt, issued by
Judge George L. Ball, of Fulton su-
perior court, at the instance of the
national organization and state
ment tantamount to an admission by
the defendants of the wrongful use
Of the Klan's name, and the public
declaration by them of their inten-
tion to desist from further violations
Of the law, serve to break the last
thread that held the insurgents to-
gether in the conspiracy to wreck
the organization, and sounded the
death knell of local opposition to the
Khan which began when E. Y. Clarke's
contract was cancelled by Imperial
Wizard Evans in January, 1928.
The allegations Of the petition are
based upon the actions of the ex-
officers of the old Khan which dated
back to July, 1923, when the Grand
Dragon of Georgia suspended the
charter of Nathan Bedford Forrest
Khan No. for their failure and re-
fusal to make an accounting.
After the hundred day period had
elapsed, the Grand Dragon revoked
the charter of the Khan, for non-pay-
ment of dues and for failure to turn
over to the Imperial Palace funds in
their hands belonging to the Knights
of the Ku Klux Khan, Inc.
H. j. Norton, Exalted Cyclops, ct
al, obtained a temporary injunction
restraining the Grand Dragon from
revoking their charter. An order
was issued by the court restraining
the Grand Dragon from revoking the
charter until a hearing on the petit
ton could be had; and at the same
time an order was served on the Of
ficers and members of No. / enjoining
them from functioning as Klan ex-
cept for the purpose of accepting
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

dues, which were to be held in trust
for the knights of the Ku Klux Khan.
This last was for the purpose of
serving members who wished to keep
in good standing with the national
organization, and who were innocent
parties.
Notwithstanding the several court
orders, it is alleged IN the petition,
the officers and members continued
to "naturalize," disburse moneys,
adopt resolutions, accept Klectokens,
receive and expend money taken in
as dues, and give out publicity in the
name of the Knights of theKu Klux
Khan, while, at the same time prose
cutting a campaign of villification
against the national organization and
it's officers, using the trust money"
for that purpose.
Although Norton in a newspaper
interview a few days ago stated that
I'VE now disclaim any allegiance or
connection with the Ku Klux Khan,
and will so plead in the suit which
that organization has filed against
us" it is a fact that until Monday of
this week he was a candidate for
sheriff of Fulton county and held
himself out as a klansman and was
making a bid for support on that
ground. He has since come down,
probably on the advice of his attor-
neys because of the complications
that would surely arise should he con-
tinue to hold himself out to the pub
lie as a Klansman and enter a plea
of mot guilty" to the contempt pro-
ceedings.
The statement given out by the ex-
Exalted Cyclops, upon being served
with the citation for contempt, does
not gibe with many affidavits of per-
sons who have paid money to the de-
PENDANTS, thinking they were affiliat-
ing with the Knights of the Ku Klux
Khan.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
A Nations Life
(The Boston Transcript)


In his statement on Thursday about
the immigration policy of the Unit
ed States, Representative Albert
Johnson touched on what is the key
OF the whole matter. We quote his
reported words as a concise express
sion OF his and many other Ameri-
cans opinion on a subject that unhap-
PLY has been too often obscured bv
what are really personal considera-
tions rather than national:
The public, however. should under
stand that II congress can be CO.
creed by threats from those repre-
sentatives of aliens to lay aside the
pending restrictive bill, so that their
followers may swarm into the coun-
try, the time will soon come when
the people of the United States will
have lost all control of their own af-
fairs"
In these words, Congressman John
son removes the discussion from a
plane where one racial group is de-
clared better than another, where
prejudice takes the place of reason
ing, and resentment is bred, 10 the
plane of the interests of the whole
nation as the great western democ-
racy. Though he may have had no
such intention, he does more, for no
one who looks at this problem in it's
present state can fail to see that here
is involved the standing of the Unit
ed States among the powers. Of
these, all that are old and we'll es-
tablished have proved to their own
that a reasoned nation
alism is a practical necessity in self
government. By theorists and by
those who love generalities, this may
De called selfish policy, but it has
experience for a hacker. The result |
of this Is that foreign governments
lake 1t as fundamental that the COM
position of their own citizenry shall
De matter purely under their own
control The rule is one of their |
u andards Of national self-respect and |
I is standard which automatically |
,hey must apply to the United States. |
Now then what, shall the Old World |
and foreign offices in
er IL they see an essential domestic |
policy affected and dragooned in the |
United States by what are racial
'roupsl Should such a thing become
reality it would be bold man who
would say that it left American di-
'lomacy and American influence as
trong Tor good as before. We do not
ay that this has taken place, and
onhdently pray that it may not take
lace, but IL, as Congressman john
on intimates, foreign blocs in Amer
ca should succeed in debating an es-
entail domestic policy, the world
'ouid witness a political tragedy, IL
'ouid behold O great nation not mas
or OF It's own affairs, its own destiny,
g own honor. The more calmly and
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
God and Peace Dwell
In Duck Greek VaLLev

there have been wars and rumors NJ
wars, including the Civil Spanish
american and World wars. Duck
Creek has been represented in them
all. Even in the Civil war, when ths
nation was divided against itself.
Duck Creek citizens practiced tho
Golden Rule and survived the war
without any great misunderstandingx
Duck Creek is three and one-haIf
miles from Lost Creek. Its popula-
tion is small. Less than 200 persons
reside in the valley. 1t is not on the
map. However, it is given up to be
an ideal community.
Sounds like Sir Thomas More's
Utopia-the imaginary isle of cxaui-
site perfection-doesn't it? Or, per
haps some will think it a valley i'm
the land of make-believe where only
those OF the cinema world dwell
However, ii is real place and is in
habited by real people.
Among Duck Creeks population
there are some who are Kiansmen-
and few who are not. There is no
record where citizens of Duck Creek
have ever been in court, but there ara
records TO show that there are Klans-
men residing in the Utopia-yet some
men of prominence insist that the
ku klux Khan is an outlaw organize
tion.
" no would believe that those QUIZ
ct, honest living farmer folk of Duck
Greek are outlaws?
The eastern press and eastern au-
thors have pictured native West Vir-
ginians as feudists, two-gun men and
criminals in general. 'Tol'able Da-
vid" and ''The Fool" two big time
plays, picture native West Virginians
as criminals and a race of poorly
clad, half-starved people.
Duck Creek is an example. Every
person residing in that community.
with the possible exception Of tive
families, are native West Virginians.
This community is only about one
and one-half hours ride from Clarke
burg. West Virginia.
While not all West Virginians ara
free from the stigma of having been
under arrest, the vast majority are
q fairly we'll informed, cultured. law
abiding people.
While 90 per cent of the native
nave ulllltu WITH the
hu klux Khan and thorough inves-
tigation has been made of their char
acter, the Khan press is endeavoring
to give the outside world few true
sidelights on the real character of
these so-called "mountaineer feud-
lists"
No person whose integrity is ques-
toned can be admitted to the Ku
klux Khan. Many things have been
laid at the door of the great Ameri-
IAN organization that the order was
not responsible for. The same in
true of West Virginians. If feuds do
exist here, they are the result of the
iriftwood and scum of other states
hat seeped in here during the flood
IF prosperity. -.
To Klansman, the argument that
West Virginians are lawless and I'M
educated, is preposterous. If they
we're, they could not have been adj
nitted to the great American or
ganization.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
The Moral Obligation
of Citizenship

1t is not to be wondered at that
human nature, always perverse, re-
CARDS every law, self-imposed or
| otherwise, as having been enacted
only to be broken. Opposition TO law
is engendered and excused on the
ground of what is supposed to be
self-interest. Evasion of the law is
regarded by the transgressor as offer
ing possible opportunity to gain a
selfish advantage, or to be privi-
lodged to do something which, for
the good of all, is forbidden to all.
Were not this human tendency domi-
nant and aggressive, there would be
no need to enact laws forbidding the
doing of certin things and providing
penalties for their violation.
1t may be insisted that, in the
manner of so-called human laws, one
person has as much right to ignore
or violate a statutory injunction as
another, or a number of others, has
to impose it. But this postulate can
hardly be maintained by reasonable
argument. First of all, it is con-
coded, especially under every demo-
cratic form of government, that the
deliberate judgment of the majority
properly proclaimed or enunciated
governs all. The minority can re-
verse that judgment or authority
only as it becomes the majority. This
transition is quickly made whenever
it is apparent that right is on the
side of the few, rather thar on that
of the many. Wonderful advance
steps in civilization have been made
by just such processes.
A second and more convincing test
fully applied. Gradually there has
come to the peoples of each succeed
ing generation some additional light,
perhaps in the form of revelation,
possibly through education, and I'M
deniably through experience, which
has made clearer the way of true
progress. Now it requires no stretch
of the imagination to be prepared
for the conviction that, in this adj
vanced day of human thought and
really purposeful accomplishment
along other than purely materialistic
lines, there may be, behind and sup
porting even human or man-made
laws, something higher and more
powerful than the mere will of the |
majority as that will is expressed in
numbers and physical power. Man.
kind certainly is advancing toward |
a better understanding of its rela-
not only to it's Creator, but
to itself. Some progress is being
made. Thus considered, what once
might have been regarded as a mere
Interdict, a blunty phrased thou
shalt not" becomes the inspired and
sound announcement, the
clearly defined policy of a people
and wisely self-governed.
There is no appeal from such final
md enlightened judgment. Nullif-
cation of laws thus enacted is i'm
possible by the processes commonly
employed, simply because evil ignor-
Ince, and selfishness are powerless
gainst enlightenment, unselfshness,
nd right understanding. Law which
S more than a mere ukase or a mere
rbitrary interdict becomes at once
established, because it represents, or
effects, in any critical analysis,
higher than mere human
yill.-The Christian Science Monitor.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

In Honolulu, Hawaii, during Febru-
airy, 1925, Pan-Christian conference
will meet TO discuss a Christian pro-
gram for the countries of the Pacific.
The 7. M. c. A. will have in charge
arrangements for the meeting. The
program, as tentatively outlined, in
cludes discussion of the Christian
solution for the many racial and ma
tionalistic problems that lie at the
basis of the unrest in the East.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

|
written I'm Duck Greek, abOut ybicI
IL tells.-EditOr)
CNUGGLEn securely among the
- picturesque hills of upper Harri-
son county Is Duck Creek-a peace
full, Utopian valley where quiet, God
fearing folks have lived 100 years I'M
disturbed by peace officers.
When one visits Duck Creek and
stands atop one Of the majestic emf
nences which surround the placid lit
tie valley, he sees a long stretch of
country road, by which flows a creek
OF clear, sparkling water. Here and
there one would observe an occasion
al farmhouse and in the distance a
typical country church. In summer
1t is not uncommon to see great
droves of sheep lazily grazing on the
adjacent hillsides. Everything every
where speaks of peace.
The little creek which flows plac-
idly down the valley and from which
the ideal community derived it's
name, reflects peace as truly as it
mirrors the azure skies. And, why
shouldn't it? A law suit never exist
ed between. any of the citizens of
Duck Creek; no citizen has ever been
arrested and a peace officer of any
kind has never been in demand here
since the community was settled more
than 100 years ago by Charles Hor-
ner, sage of this community.
The Golden Rule, "Do unto others
as you would have them do unto you"
is the slogan of Duck Creek folk, and
and is the keynote of their harmoni-
Gus existence. Duck Creek folks, not
unlike all good Klansmen, believe in
the tenets of the Christian religion.
which means that they have accepted
Christ as theii criterion.
On the first and third Sundays of
each month, the Rev. c. d. Thorpe,
pastor of the Methodist Protestant
church, Lost Creek, comes to Duck
Creek and holds religious services in
the quaint little church. It is al
white, wooden structure, sans the adj
vertising boards that adorn the outer
walls of city churches. There is no
pipe organ or uniformed choir. Not
even a piano has been installed in
the place Of worship. The congrega-
tion does the singing, while an hon
est, God-fearing woman operates an
old-time organ. Among the songs
they sing is, "The Church in the Wild
wood" Il Love to Tell the Story"
and scores of similar songs that have
furnished the inspiration to a truly
religious community.
Here these honest farmer folk gath
er twice a month and praise God for
His goodness and hear over and over
again the Beautiful story Of Jesus
and His love. 1t is in this little
church that the minister brings be-
fore them the age-old law of "Do un-
20 others as you would have them do
INTO you"
Since Duck Creek has been settled
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
Progress of
the Churches

Christian opposition to child la
Dor in the cotton mills and silk fac
tories of China is proving effective.
A Chinese Christian mill owner re-
Gently led in movement among the
cotton mill owners of Shanghai to
discontinue, completely, all labor by
children under IL years of age. The
National Christian conference of Chi
ma previously had set up a proposed
labor standard for these establish
ments, and it is now announced that
this standard has been accepted by
the Chambers of Commerce at Pc
king.
Church interest in Canada still CEN
tiers about the proposed union of the
Presbyterian, Methodist and Conpre-
gational denominations. Opposition
is heard, chiefly from a small group
of Presbyterians. Bills which are
soon to come before the Federal Par
lament at Ottawa and the legisIa-
lures of the various provinces will
bring the question to an issue. Mean
while, it is interesting to note that
the Manitoba legislature, Feb. Ia.
passed the second reading of the |
Nhui I'll Oiiioll Olil WITH PERIODICALLY |
no opposition. The feeling through
out the country is that this action is |
indicative of what will happen gener-
ally when the measures come up be-
fore parliament and the legislatures.
The final union, if this is an accurate
forecast, will probably come within
a year.
1t is encouraging to note that the
responsible for the Brit
ish Empire Exhibition at Wembley
Park, London, during the next sum-
mer "have decided that the exhibition
shall not be open to the public on
Sundays, except for special services to
be held in the stadium, such as the
Empire Sunday Service"
Madras, India University, a mission
airy institution, has a student senate
which exercises certain control over
the affairs of the school. 1t was
Of an innovation, even in {
he student politics Of India, when,
the first woman to hold {
such an office, Mrs. Radhabhai Sub {
,rayan was elected to membership in
he senate. {
A proposal of a Union Christian I
in the city Of Mexico, sim 7
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07
South Carolina K1anS
Hold Outdoor Meeting

BAMBERG, S. c., Feb. 2S.-The To-
cal Khan, Bamberg Provisional, put
on a parade and outdoor ceremonial
on Wednesday, February 9th, fol-
lowed by a barbecue. Special trains
ran from Columbia and other parts
of the Realm. This was the first
spring open air ceremonial in the
state, and unusual interest was dem
onstrated.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

the more judicially this question is
considered, the more Americans can
see the real and only issue, whether
the "massy gold" of the great prom
Use of our land shall be guarded and
preserved, or surrendered amid the
smiles of the Old World.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

liar to Robert college, Constantine
pie, or the Syrian Protestant college
in Beirut, is contained in the report
of the special commission on Mexico
of The Federal Council of Churches
of Christ in America This commits
sion has spent several months in
studying the situation in Mexico, and
its report asserts that the establish
ment of such an institution is, per-
haps, the greatest contribution that
Christian people could make to the
progress of Mexico.
A Race Relations committee. SINH
lar to the Commission on Inter-racial
Cooperation which is working effect
lively in the South to remove misun-
derstandings and prejudices that ex-
list between negroes and whites. has
begun work in Greater Boston. The
committee is under the auspices of
the Greater Boston Federation of
Churches, and will undertake imme-
diately study Of the racial situation
in Boston, to the end that, by joint
educational campaigns
and cooperative undertakings the en-
tire racial situation may be i'm
proved.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

is one of the best examples of an
cient Carthagian art known to archie
ologists. 1t was against Carthage
that Rome waged a century-old war,
involving some of the greatest gen.
erals and most famous battles both
on land and sea, of ancient civiliza-
tion.
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

Count Byron Kuhn Prorok, noted
author and archeologist who for some
time past has been conducting ex-
cavations on the site of ancient Car
thage recently uncovered the beauti-
full and intricate mosaic floor illus
trated in the photograph above. It
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

(The following story was written
by the editor Of the West Virginia
edition Of The Fiery Cross. and gives
true picture Of conditions as they
exist back In the hills Of West yir.
GINA. 10 shows that the movie char.
acterizatiOn OF West yirginiaps II
rot altogether true. The story WAS
written In Duck Greek, about which
ID tells.-EditOr)
The Minnesota fiery cross. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1924-19??, 1924-03-07

A proposal of a Union Christian
in the city Of Mexico, sim
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-27
GENERATIONS
Texas Lady Says Her Family
Has Been Taking Thedfords
Il BIack-Draught, When
i Needed, for Many Years.

b Alto. Texas.-"We inherited the use
AZ Black Draught in our family" says
Mrs. Mary Shuptrine, who lives near
here on r. F. d. 2. "My grandmother
was an old woman when she died
about ten years ago, and she had been
using it literally ever since l can re-
member. She gave it to her children
and grandchildren for billousness ana
stomach complaints, so when | Went
TO housekeeping we just naturally USED
It, too. ,, r.
nurgative whenever they need one,
and we are never without it. Made
into tea, it surely is fine. It's the best
home remedy for headache and consul
patton l know of"
During over 80 years of its con-
tinued popularity, Black-Draught has
become the standard liver medicine IN
many thousands of homes, where 1t
has been found of great benefit IN the
treatment of constipation, biliousInness'
indigestion and other common hver'
stomach and bowel complaints, len
million packages of Black-Draught are
now sold a year, as more and more
neople are learning of the value OF
this well-known remedy;
) Insist on ThedfOrd's, the. only g,enu-
lre Black-D raught powdered liver
medicine, At all dealers ifNC-l0'
So
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-27
HOKE SMITH OPPOSES
LATEST AMENDMENT
Former Georgia Senator Says
Legislature Should Reject
Child Labor Proposal

ATLANTA, June 27.-Declaring
that the goth amendment recently
proposed by a two-thirds vote of
congress would furnish the most re-
volutionary interference with the
relation of parent and child that has
ever taken place in this country,
Former U. S. Senator Hoke Smith
of Georgia, in a statement made
public here, calls on the Georgia
Legislature, now in session, to
promptly reject it.
"Forty-six of the forty-eight
states have already passed Child La
Dor Laws, and in nearly all of them
the legislation amply protects chill
dren from injurious labor" said
Smith. IF the Legislature of Geor-
gia acts promptly, rejecting the
amendment, it will set an example
which will contribute greatly to pre-
venting its ratification"
The suggested amendment reads
as follows:
Congress shall have power to
limit, regulate and prohibit the la
Dor of persons under eighteen years
of age"
Senator Smith calls attention to
The dangers ahead if the amend