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The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
The Present Moment

We have no right to live in a coun-
try if We are not willing to spend Some
of our time and zip in improving gen
eral living conditions about US and in
trying, to the best of our ability, to
lift high the standards of religious
and secular education and training.
We shape the commonwealth of to-
morrow by the good things we do
today. This statement of fact may
sound platitudinous. In reality there
is no more tremendous urge before
the general good citizenry than the
impulse in the heart Of this apparent
commonplace. And the vitality of our
national life depends almost wholly
upon our Klannish Interpretation and
our Klannish working out of the deep
principle involved. The structure of
tomorrow's democracy depends upon
the subtle right endeavor at the pres
ent holy moment.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
A kLANSMAN'S CREED,

believe in God and in the
tenefs OF the Christian religion and
than q Goddess nation can not long
prosper.
believe that a church that is
not grounded on the principles of
morality and Justice Is nockery
to God and to man.
I beliere that q church that does
not hare the toeltare of the COM
mon people at heart Is unuorthy.
I believe in the eternal separa-
tion OF church and state.
hold no allegiance to dny for.
etgn government, emperor, king,
pope or any other foreign, political
or religious pocer.
hold my allegiance to the Stars
and Stripes nert to my allegiance
to God alone.
believe In Just ldtcs and liberty.
belieue In the npholding of the
Constitution Of these United States.
believe that our free public
school is the cornerstone of good
government and that those toho
are seeking to destroy II are enc
mics OF our Republic and are en-
,oorthy of citizenship.
believe In freedom of speech.
believe In free press uncon-
trolled by political parties or By
religious sects.
belieUe In ldp and order.
believe in the protection Of our
pure toomanhood.
do not believe In mob violence,
but ! do belieUe that 'laws should
be enacted to prevent the causes OF
mob piolence.
behepe In closer relationship
of capital and labor.
! believe In the prevention of an.
todrranted strikes by foreign labor
aOitdfors.
believe In the limitation Of fov.
etgn immigration.
am ndtipe.born American
citsen and ] belieps my rights In
'his country are superior 20 those
NJ foreigners.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
LEGAL WORKING AGE

Efforts to lower the legal working
age from 1S to 16 in the proposed
constitutional amendment now be-
fore the Senate were denounced by
Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation of Labor, as be-
Ing the result OF inspired and mis-
leading propaganda. Mr.. Gompers
said he believed President Nicholas
Murray Butler. OF Columbia, had
been mislead or he would not have
written to Senator Wadsworth, of
New York, that the motion that
every boy and girl should be kept In
school until IS years." 10 "Sheer
sentimentality.
The constitutional amendment
would not provide anything OF that
kind. Mr.. Gompers pointed out. The
amendment itself merely gives Con-
gress the right to prescribe the labor
of children up 10 ls years of age and
In enabling legislation II will pre-
scribe these labors In accordance
with the demands OF people at the
time the legislation 10 passed, he
said.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
THE FOUNDA TION
STONES

The klan draws much of it's life
blood from the old American stock.
This stock by tradition as we'll as
training occupies a strategic
stronghold in the American com.
monwealth. II has a right to as.
sert that it can furnish the nation
with the best basis for a demo
cratic ruling nucleus. In a prac-
tiea' sense this nucleus speaks for
the whole foundationaI middle class
the thousht-making elass-be-
cause it has prepared itself to do
so. There are no better spokes.
men for Americanism than those
who have grown up under the
conscious protection of the Amer.
lean flag and the recognized safety
OF its principles and promises. The
klanAis built on the solid rock of
good opinion of those who have
right to opinion.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
WELFARE OF COUNTRY"

Ihe Francis Beidler will is
those Rlannshy
carefully divided Beder
Be school is to he given
one copy each OF the Constitution the Declaration
War also asked that his chill
oren reject material accumuations
De ancestors and their for the
for the development
hyptca might children to do what he
oidn DO hser but the basic principle
pretty sound anyhow who
be given the Constitution be forced
those at a year
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

An exchange remarks that the
bringing out OF dark vault and the
putting on public view OF the Declara-
ton OF Independence and the Const.
tuition OF the United States was a gooC
idea because some people had seemed
to begin to doubt our possession o.
these documents. And there Is mucl
truth In the quip. We had drifted al
most immeasurably from our early
vision OF these sacred documents q
few years ago. II the Ku Klux Kan
had not begun 10 draw us back towaro
the guidance OF the fathers we nigh
have run amnck In the red sea OF u
sanguine socialism or Bolsheylsm.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
It Can No Be Spoiled

A certain editorial writer of guided
conscience fears that the revolt
against corruption and wrong doing
in high places may go too far. AS
if that could be possible! Better chaos
from which a new and nobler struc-
ture might rise than this ceaseless
temporizing-this buying of the bliss
of the present moment with the Sc
curity of compromise and the jewels
OF dual policy. The Klannish leaven
has been working so gloriously for
good in our commonwealth that the
loaf cannot be spoiled no matter how
highly 1t may be "proofed."
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
SAMSON AND DELHAH
An editorial by Wingfoot it appeared in The Fiery
Cross of May 25 1928 and reprinted here by request

Those who familiar with the Bible readily the
Samson and Delah OF how the strength of his
and how eacherou Deah after ung Samson Sleep had his
shon and with his strength he for the
Phistines
Although this parable written thousands of years it
could not have tngy depicted the condition
country today America the Samson of today Deah
sinister that trying wreck public
wherein lies the strength of America.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

doubt the recent college
of in be,c ces
IN college, and doubt for such
10 be aroused The resolutions
INFORM students and faculty
sage OF tho Eighteenth Amendment"
was o because students all appeared TO
almost blank mentally the subject Their dunes
upon this point has resembed wicked sui
mentioned In the Arabian Nights confined in the
Caucasus and condemned Koran this
unfortunate nn had been studying
memorized o he line - -
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

To quote the Chicago Herald-Ex-
aminer: There are enemies of the
public schools that oppose it and
constantly seek to control because
they do not believe in American
principles upon which the public
school is founded" Embodied in
the same editorial, the writer also
says that, What we are today we
owe to the free and democratic in
stitution Of education - the public
school,"
No truer words were ever written
than those quoted above and is there
any reason why true blooded Ameri-
cans should not fight the enemies of
these schools that bestow upon man
his greatest gift-that of an educa-
tion? America has become great,
mighty, enlightened, through a sys-
tenn of public education. The world
had practically stood still for CEN
tury after century under the rule
that fought education. In four hun
dred years America had accomplished
more than the combined countries of
the world had done in many times
that number of years. And, in the
meantime, some of those other coun-
tries began throwing off the yoke of
that power and followed in Americas
wake. The world progressed.
And Samson said unto her: II
they bind me with seven green
withs that were never dried, then
shall ! be weak as other men.
Judges 1922.
Peculiar 1t is that Samson said
seven green withs. Peculiar mas
much as that power that has always
fought education has its headQuar-
ters in the city that is bnuilt on
seven hills. 1t is the Delilah, plot
ting, planning to shear America of
its public school system, that its
strength might be gone.
Ever denying the allegations that
1t does not believe in education, de-
spite the absolute figures that coun-
tries under it's control reek with il
literacy, this power plots to control
Americas public school. The fig
ures, prepared by the Census Bureau
OF the United States government, es-
tablish beyond cavil that this system,
emanating from Rome, is the worlds
arch-enemy of education.
Space precludes the possibility of
going into a mass of figures at this
time, although a comparison, drawn
from authentic figures and from the
source spoken of above, would not
be amiss. We will choose eight
countries, dominated and controlled
by that rule, which openly states in
the face OF these figures that 1t be-
lieves in education, and give the rate
OF illiteracy in them:
Argentina, 54.4 per cent; Brazil,
SS.2 per cent; Spain, 58.7 per cent.
Bolivia, 82.9 per cent; Chile, 49.9l
per cent; Portugal, 68.9 per cent.
Columbia, 70 per cent; Mexico, 7O.7
per cent. The total shows an aver
age of 6S.1 per cent.
Eight countries free OF the dicta-
tions OF this foreign power, with
their rate OF illiteracy, follow: Eng
land, 1.8 per cent; Australia, Isl
per cent; Holland, s per cent.
United States, III per cent; Dem
mark, 2 per cent: Scotland, 1.6 per
cent; Sweden, 2 per cent; Canada,
III per cent. This total OF illiteracy
reaches only 81 per cent. II must
be taken into consideration that the
seven and seven-tonths iiiiteracy, as
shown In America, includes the
hordes OF aliens In our Industrial
eenters. and practically all Of whom
're subjects OF this same system that
Us hghting eduaaiion.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
Hate Beqets Hate

The Catholic Forester says: "A
SANITY Bishop of Amiens in preparing
for confession, always meditated first
on He'll, where sin leads; next, on
Heaven, which sin loses; finally, on
Calvary, which sin caused. And ha.
tired for sin would enter his soul" How
much better II the SANITY Bishop"
had meditated first, last and all the
time on Calvary. II the soul is filed
with good things there is no room for
sin and no need for hatred toward any
thing. Meditation on hell would as
suredly fill the mind with hell and
require considerable cleansing proc
ess afterward.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
No Monkeyine

Kipling spoke derisively Of the
Bandar-log. His idea of the monkey
people was not fiattering. OF all the
jungle denizens the monkeys were the
most vapid and useless. They were
always trying to do something great,
but they forgot what they started out
to do, and at the height of their en-
deavor they forgot their purpose and
raced of to do something else. They
lacked ultimate perseverance and will
to carry through a great intention
They were so like many people that
in the toss-up they might be mistaken
for large class of humans. Our re-
public may be destroyed il the "mon
keying' class is permitted to have its
way.
The kiansman does not believe ir
whipping the devil with mere pIati-
tudes-stronger language must be
used.
The Klansman who walks straight
keeps a good many non-Klansmen from
wobbling.
In the scales of the Klan, a poor
mans best weighs just as much as
rich mans best.
=
The man who does wrong In the
hope that good will come will not
make a good Klansman though he
might do for Jesuit.
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The Klansman who studies the Bible
OF the builders Of his nation as closely
as business men study the markets
need fear no panic.
y
The citizen who gets down to
business and tries to help answer his
own prayers for his nation is apt to
see practical results in the life of the
people around him.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

These figures present a withering
and conclusive indictment of that
system that would ruin our public
school system. 1t thrives best where
there is little or no education. There
fore, is it not only natural that it
would stitie education in these
United States? Let every American
be on his guard!
And she made him sleep upon
her knees; and she called for a
man and she caused him to shave
the locks Of his head; and she
began to affict him, and his
strength went from him. Judges
16:19.
Delilah first lulled Samson to sleep
before the attempt to take from him
his strength. Then she began to
anlict him." and his strength went
from him." America is lulled to
sleep by propaganda by that foreign
political ring, just as Samson was
lulled to sleep that he might be
shorn Of his strength. Now that
America has been made to sleep, the
process of affliction" has begun.
The schools are flooded with his
tories that belittle that movement
which first broke the hold of that
political system that fights educa-
tion. Histories are being distorted
to hide the crimes of the past that
were perpetrated in the name of
that system. Speeches are made de-
crying the acts of those who would
save the schools; volumes are printed
calling these same defenders bigots.
A hue and cry is raised that those
who stand for American principles
are creating strife, destroying friend
ship, stirring up race prejudice and
creating dissension. Is the man who
suddenly finds his home being rob-
bed, and grapples with the burglar,
to be accused of stirring up strife
because he could, IL he wished, stand
peacefully aside and permit the rob-
berry? Who is to be blamed for the
resultant fight? The one who would
steal or the one who would prevent
it?
America has been lulled to sleep
and is now being afflicted"
Howbeit the hair of his head
began to grow again after he was
shaven. Judges 1922.
There has now come iuto exist
ence, an organization which is fully
aware of the attack on our public
schools. Its ranks are being swelled
by thousands each day. This organ
ization, the Ku klux Klan, stands
for free public education; free press
and free speech. It believes in
America for Americans, and its men,
bers are bound by oath to guard its
dag and its Constitution.
The enemy has fear In its heart,
and in turn is spewing venom; print
ing untruths and using every artifice
known to It to belittle and kill this
organization that only too well
known its past history as we'll as its
present activities. This organiza-
ton Is founded upon the fundamen-
tails by which success Is always at
Lained. II Is founded upon Chris
Lianity, loyalty to God and to coun-
try and enlightenment.
Despite the rancid utterances; de-
spite the propassnd despite the
bitter hght now being waged against
Il by those who v ,uld take America
from Americans. nc Ku Klux Khan
has already won success and those
gains from this W on will be but
added successes.
The hair has again begun 10
grow,"
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

BY the way, where do we get
the idea-why is there a foreign
bloc in the House? Wholly Amer
ican timber makes the most sat
isfactory building 1t is through
the foreign blocs and alliances
that the cold air of the papal
storm blows.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
The Memory Drill

The gentle old lady who gave Oscar
Underwood sharp memory drill at
a recent banquet deserves a bouquet
of American Beauty roses She lacked
no courage as a good citizen when she
pointed out, to the discontinue of the
senator, that all that Mr.. Underwood
was or hoped to be came through the
klan which he has denied and bias
phemed, so to speak, with blows and
curses.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
Myself

My self is a curious chap. | know.
| live with him-where he goes | GO
whatever | do, that fellow does;
When | hump myself, he makes things
buzz.
When l lag and shirk, he loafs with me,
And mocks my doings continually.
| have a JOB that sort Of hate;
He hates 1t, too. as sure as fate
have Il task that Is easy-then
He tears right in like a thousand men.
When | get angry or show my spite,
That fellows actions are far from right.
This strange Myself Is a curious man.
one night he went and Joined the klan,
And he swore an oath to be faithful, true,
And to do the things good Klansmen do
But when he got home he said: My land,
This klanSman's job takes a lot Of sand.
My country" he said. els q good old
place;
| never will bring her 10 disgrace;
But forever helping our fellow men
Il asking a lot Of a citizen;
TO live the dag as well as march
In big parade takes a lot Of starch.
And so Myself, in a grumblers way,
Grouched around until the other day,
When / got up with might and said:
NO slaCkers here! The cause is bread
To the soul OF the race. We dare not
shirk."
So Myself and | have gone to work,
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

Don't leave the Klan idea behind
you when you travel Carry it along
and tell all the folks about it,
The ku Klux Klan moved a great
mountain by its faith, but it did so by
carting away the pebbles of opposition
one by one and establishing local or
ganization in their place.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

NO dying man has ever been sorry
he was a Klansman.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

Here Is a Klannlsh precept
Presented for your sake;
You cannot climb TO heaven
On a ladder of YOUR make
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

The klan stands for clean living, be
cause it knows that double life can
not have a single virtue.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

You warm your hands at the DEVILS
nre every time you listen without pro-
test to an attack on the Klan.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23
Sparks from the Fiery Cross
By John Eight Point
"The noblest motive is the public good" "-.-Vrgil

Every Ku Klux Klansman is some
American boys hero.
The Minnesota fiery cross., 1924-05-23

The quickest way for man to learn
What klansmen think Of him,
Is just to run for Office
With morals rather dim.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
ORDER OF PUBLICATION Wm. Purnell Hall, Solicitor, Knickerhocker Building.

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTI-
 MORE CITY-(B-587-1924 )-CAR-
 RE WALDORF 4BLUMBERG vS.
 MILTON A. BLUMBERG.
 The object of this suit is to procure a divorce a mensa ct thoro by the plaintiff, Carrie Waldorf Blumberg, from the defendant, Milton A. Blum berg.
 The bill states that the parties were married in Baltimore City on the 26th day of September, 1921, and excepting for short period of time, the parties have continuously lived in the City of Baltimore until on or about the 8th day of April, 1924, when the plaintiff was abandoned by the defendant; that the conduct of the plaintiff has always been kind, affectionate and above re- proach, the defendant without any just cause or reason having deserted her and their infant child and has declared his intention to live with her and their infant child no longer; that the only excuse given by the defendant for abandoning and deserting the plaintiff and their infant child was business diff ferences with a member of her family; that there was one child born of said marriage, Waldorf Harry Blumberg, who was 2 years old on August Il, 1924; that this complainant is desti- tute of means of supporting herself and infant child and is entirely de- pendant upon the charity and generos- ity of her father The defendant at the time of the abandonment stating that he would not contribute cent towards the support of the plaintiff and the in- fant child; that the said Carrie Wal dorf Blumberg has been a resident of the City of Baltimore, State of Mary land, for more than two years last past, and that the defendant, Milton A. Blumberg, is now a nonresident of the State of Maryland and when last heard of was in Birmingham, Alabama.
 It is therefore ordered by the Cir cult Court of Baltimore City this 26th day of August, 1924, that the plaintiff by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in some daily newspaper pub lished in Baltimore City once in each of four (D successive weeks before the 18th day of September, 1924, giving mo- tice to the nonresident defendant, Mil ton A. Blumberg, of the object and sub stance of this bill warning him to be and appear in this Court in person or by solicitor on or before the 14th day of October, 1924, and show cause, if any he may have, why the decree sought and the relief prayed should not be granted.
 ELI FRANK. True Copy-Test:
 CHAS. R. WATERFORD,
 Clerk. Age Herald, Sept. IA, 1924.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

 BUSINESS HOPE,
 GARY DECLARES
Capital And Labor Equal ly Dependent, Judge
 Believes

Copies of an address delivered by Judge Ebert Henry Gary, chairman of the United States Steel corporation, en- titled Workers Partnership in Indus try" are being distributed to those in terested in Birmingham|
 The co-partnership, existing between the man who works and the man who supplies the finances to create work, is the subject matter of the article which has created intense interest in all parts of the United States. E--Speaking of organized capital and or ganized labor, Judge Gary says that ''black sheep are just as likely to be found in one group as in the other, and therefore laws, conditions and regu- lations should control both equally" He suggests that effective cooperation in industry, benefiting property, labor and the public, results when condi- tions both of employment and service are satisfactory.
 ''The employer is responsible for conditions of employment and the em- pleye of the service" says Judge Gary. Therefore capital and labor are de- pendant upon each other for successful business enterprise"
 Judge Gary declares the employe should be paid a reasonably fair and liberal wage. He should have healthy and safe working conditions. His strength or endurance should not be taxed to the point of danger to his health. The conditions of his family, including the privileges of churches, schools and gardens should be adequate for comfort, health and education and should create and sustain confidence in the employer and the country.
 Employees Buy Stock
 Judge Gary refers to the vast pur- chases of steel stock by employees and suggests that such purchases go long way toward cementing the feeling of co-partnerhip which is most essential and valuable.
 He speaks with obvious pride when he says that 90. per cent of the men who are today directing the work of the Steel corporation began in minor ca pacities.
 And he continues:
 "Many years ago they could be found in mills at tenders or water boys, Tn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

in mills as tenders or wate rboys, in shop and plant at any one of the nu- merous lowly tasks which make up the business of steel. At that time they were the sort of partners who sub scribed to the one snare of stock. It was their own ambition, their own brains, their own initiative that brought them to the top. They had the good sense to know that the way was open to them up to the point where they reached the highest service they could give. There they stopped and the big ger man, the greater partner, forged ahead.
 And the laborer who subscribes to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14

one share of stock today knows this. He is no fool. He asks no favors of pampered and coddled. He wants to take part in the industry of which he is member only to the degree that his work is important. When he is told that he and the president of the company for which he is working are equals in the sense of industrial strength,s he knows it is untrue. They are not, He'd rather have the square deal and the truth which tells him that each has a definite, constructive part in the sue cess of endeavor, but that one is vastly more important than the other. Both belong" both are necessary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-09-14
REAL ESTATE-SALE K AUTO FOR EXCHANGE 10

Wanted to sell or exchange suy- face of southeast, quarter of southwest quarter, section g, township 1s, range 5, west (4U acres) for property near Bir- mingham of in Bessemer; will adjust difference in values on cash basis. Address Box 134, Birmingham.
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