The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-05-21
KINANIANS OF
DIVISION RAP
NAzlS IN j. S.
200 Members And Wives
( hear Address ByaS
Haltiwanger

- Several Hendersonviile Kiwan-
ians and their wives attended a
meeting of clubs in division Ne. /
of the Carolinas district in Ashe-
vile last night and participated in
adoption of a resolution condemn
ing "Nazi, Fascist, Communist or
any similar movement in;s the
United States. ~
More than goo persons attend
ed the meeting, which was ad-
dressed by Ames Haltiwanger, of
Columbia. S, c., district. governor.
James Pritchett of Lenior, lieut.
enant-governor, had charge of the
program, and DR.. Jos. r. Sevior,
of Hendersonville, immediate past
governors introduced Governor
Haltiwanger. .-..E.,i 80.
In. addition to Dr.. and Mrs.
Sewer, those attending from Hen
Jacksonville were DR.. and Mrs. j.
G.. Bennett, Mr.. and Mrs. A. F.
Barber, Judge and Mrs. R. H.
Station, Mr.. and Mrs j. H. Rea-
ben and Mrs. and Mrs. c.. M.
Ogle.
Kiwanians from Brevard, Nor
canton, I.enior, Marion, Tryon,
Shelby, Hendersonyille and Spar
tanburg. S. c., attended.
Mr.. Haltiwanger's talk was on
Ideals of Kiwanians." Deck Hull,
of Spartanbdrg, invited the group
to. attend the district. convention
in Spartanburg, Oct. 1926,
TEXT OF, RESOLUTION
The resolution, on the sun
American group follows:
t"In America today when "Heil
Hitler. may be heard to come
from the organized ranks of uni
formed youth marching to the
strains of the German National
anthenf, and the waving of the
swastika instead of Old Glory may
be seen in parades and celebra-
tons throughout the land, and
when Fritz Kuhn, the bald and
brazen fuhrer of the thousands of
German agitators and sympathiz-
ers in America, sits sdefiantly in
his. office and says that the Nazi
movement in, America is no secret
and no longer Owes an ,explana-
ton 4 to law and Snthatity, and
when we are beign continually i'll.
formed that. NAH influence and
propaganda lis; Spreading tot the
four corners of our land through
a.. nationwide plan to establish
camps and centers in every part
Of the country, each with its lead
Grand. Hitlerized newspaper to
scatter its message of the totali-
tarion Utopia, and when peaceful
communities are being subjected
to TERRORISM and even bloodshed
due to this insistent and determin-
ed 'trespassing- upon American
rights and liberty, lit lis time that
America . should follow the ex-
ample, of many = other OF the
,dempcraeies of the western hemls-
phere ana demand that this EN-
croachment upon our rights as.cit-
liens and this imposition upon our
IDEAS Of liberty and freedom be
stopped, -, s. +: I'D ~ -
'sAnd Whereas:
"a careful consideration. and
thorough Investigation shows that
these groups in the United States
seek to impose upon our people,
and practices contrary to
our institutions and traditions,
doctrines that will deprive indivi-
duals of their freedom of speech,
freedom of religion and freedom
of thinking through controlled
press and radio,
,"These United States of Amer
lea were founded as a government
of the people, by the people and
for the people, and established
upon. the principles of justice,
freedom and democracy,
Therefore be it resolved: :.
."That the, Kiwanis club of divi-
sion No. 1, Carolinas district,
hereby condemns the Nazi, Fas-
cist, Communist or any, similar
in. our country, as be.
inc un-American and calls on all
Kiwanians to uphold and defend
the constitution of the United
States, of America. That we re-
quest and urge the Carolinas dis
trict of Kiwanians and kiwanls
international to adopt, at their
respective convention this year a
designed, to. help defeat
such vicious movements SO that
America may be the home Of