The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-14
SLUMP-BESET,
BIG FRY K. K. K.
IS FLOUNDERING
Better America" Order
Declines Apace


ended June 30, 1925, showed a marked
falling off of subscriptions to the Bet
ter America Federation, which has its
headquarters in Los Angeles and ad-
vertises that st operates in 3S states
Figures indicate decline of Al per
cent as compared with the preceding
year.
Because Of the unfavorable show
ing, the organization is frantically
seeking funds. It is carrying on eren.
zied advertising, urging on prospec-
tive subscribers the need of contribut.
ing to counteract Bolshevism. It's
weekly news letters" almost concede
the speedy overthrow of the govern.
ment by the Reds.
The $4,000 inTprizes recently given
to boy orators by the federation for
landing the constitution brought in
many times the amount in free aSver-
Using through the Los Angeles dailies
but did not bring in subscriptions tc
correspond. Heads of the organiza-
ton act as tho they feel that they
have yet to get their moneys worth
ont of the $4,000 given away.
Causes Of the Falling OF.
If the coming year goes like the
past, the federation will have cause
to lament the building slump of 1924,
the expansion of the ku klux khan in
southern California and the election
of Coolidge. These three events caus.
ed the trouble. The building depres-
sion closed the purses Of many sub.
scribers. II. e. Haldeman, son of
Harry M. Haldeman, head of the fed
Grafton, took charge of the K. K. X.
in Los Angeles county and increased
khan membership at the cost of the
rival order. When Coolidge, support
ed blythe B. A. f., was elected BY a
prodigious majority many subscrib-
RS, reasoned that all danger of radi-
calism was over and that there was
no use contributing any more to the
federation.
The worst blow was the expansion
Of the X. XXX This took thousands
of 81. 50, and SIS month subscribers
away. It also established the identity
of the B. A. F. and X. X. K. as STA
mese twin vipers. With Father Halde-
man as head Of the former and Son
Haldeman Of the latter the two or
ders looked like one family affair
Many dupes sgtpertsd that the or
lders we're bsine worked for money
making purposes BY the family most
concerned. - s9is
7 Operations Must be curtalIed.'
z As rich mems ku klux khan, the
B. A. F. spent from $150,OOO to $780,
600 year, principally on persecution
1t listed I. w. WIS, ETC., trailed them,
drove them to- starvation, prison and
suicide. Doctors, dentists, nurses,
landladies, cooks, kitchen wenches,
etc, were In its pay. Its spy sys-
tenn included detectives at $40 day,
hotel clerks at So month and cham
bermaids at, 81 month The meth
DDS charged. to the. Jesuits in France
were improved upon by the order.
Many are the tales of horror told of
doings Of hirelings.
Retrenchment must come. The lux
uries will first be dispensed with
There will be less employing of de-
tectives, surgeons, etc. and more Of
hotel clerks and chambermaids.
Eavesdropping, violation of CORES
pondence, pumping, ETC., must be re-
sorted to.
Several Los Angeles firms have
been contributing $4,000 and $4,000
year. They drove competitors away.
But they have no present need of the
federation. If they require help they
can get it from the X. X. X. at bet
ter terms. That means more retrench-
ment for the plutocrats' organization
Beginning Of the Wind-up.
The head Of the B. A. F. resembles
medium-sized hog, with black bris-
ties. He stands on two feet as tho
he isn't used to 1t. He looks as tho
no is disposed to bountiful repasts
and Brights disease. His usefulness
is of the past. 10 S. Joplin, manager
of the B. A. f. is an importation from
Kentucky and typical A. P. A. If
properly tonsured, he would easily be
mistaken as a Dominican monk of the
Spanish inquisition He has the blood
less face of a bigot with craving Cor
money. Three OF the boy orators who
won the b. A. r. prizes were Roman
Catholics, students of Jesuit colleges.
They we're banquted under the beam
ing smiles of .Haldeman and Joplin.
ku klux klanners at heart.