The Wilmington morning star., 1946-05-11
K. K. K. Is Hitler Stuff
BY L MCGILL

z trust the FBI is keeping an eye on the
Ku Klux Klan, promoters o. which are out
beating the bushes for suckers who will pay
them $40 each, a net of So going to the
brother who brings in the suckers. This 30
explains the passionate zeal of the solicitors
who go around throwing scares into as many
boobs as possible. Very often the promoters
make ds much, even in these days of slim
pickings, as 500 a week.
They live very well, eating steaks and wear
ing expensive suits. They are quite proud OF
their suckers and keep them needed up by
holding meetings and assuring them they are
saving their country and themselves from the
menace of the Pope of Rome the Negroes,
Communists and Jews. The fact that they
nave to explain, locally, that the Rome they
are talking about is one of those foreign coun-
tries and not Rome, Ca, is a complete char
acterizer of about two-thirds of their men,
bership.
But anyhow, the promoters who get the $40
from the suckers are working hard and this
makes up hope the FBI is on the know. AS
I guess they are. The outfit is disbanded,
theoretically, to escape federal action, and its
top boys shut up. shop and LETT town. 1t was a
hard choice to quit living in ease off sucker
money and 60 back to making a living like
anyone else, but they are supposed to be
trying it. Their lieutenants haven't quit.
Anyhow, there are weekly meetings of the
boobs and their betters, who milk them for
small change as dairynen milk cows. It is
done in and by the name of the Ku Klux Khan
and I hope the U. S. District Attorney in
each State will have a look.
They don't amount to much. They are a low
grade lot generally, with a few exceptions in
the top brackets where the living is easy.
They have been "practicing" a few runs to
see how quick they can reach East Points
group, some of their tsxicab members sup
plying the cabs and gas, neither of which
was theirs to supply. They have relatively
few members who attend meetings, five of
which are held in our area. Three other groups
meet in smaller Georgia communities.
They have a couple Of BOBBY matches in
Birmingham, replete with the Night Hawk,
Kilgrap. Kleagle, Wizards, and so on. Knox
vile, Tenn, has a couple and adjoining Mary
vile another. Chattanooga, Tenn, has a cou-
pie.
The Tennessee chapters are reported to be
the very best of all, ones in which the other
boys take great pride. In Tennessee they have
managed to get more downright hoodlums in
membership than anywhere else, although I
would not wish you to think they are not try
ing in other places.
In Tennessee they follow, as elsewhere, the
Hitler SIS storm trooper methods. The brave
hoodlums SO inundated a lone, poor Jewish
woman who had had the audacity to start a
small store in Redbank, a suburb Of Chatta-
nooga, that they scared her right out of the
community and burned a big cross to cele-
brate their Christian manhood. The Klan, it
must be kept in mind, was very friendly with
the German bund in the East up to the time
of the war.
They are manly fellows, good at burning
crosses and soaring people. Burning the Chris
tan cross is one of their most ironical deeds.
I often have wondered at the psychology of
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child is pleased to be shown a toy.
You can put 1t down that no real Christian
can be a member of the XXX. It Just isn't
possible. The Khan stands not for American
ism but for the Hitler technique of a secret
organization which can carry on violence
against individuals. That promoters, to make
money for themselves. should inspire men to
violence in the name of Christians, is revolt
ing.
1t is Hitlerism exactly as Adolf planned it.
1t tries to attract policemen, deputy sheriffs
and others in any official capacity. So did
Hitler. This is dangerous because it means
law enforcement is partially corrupted and
degraded.
I do think the police commission ought to
order policemen not to attend meetings in
uniform, as they have been doing. Pictures
have been made of them. The new film which
permits taking pictures at night without lights
is wonderful.
In Miami the Christian ministers have de-
nounced the Khan. So have the civic clubs
OF that city. They were anxious it be known
the K Is neither Christian nor Protestant.
The same action should be taken in every
State and community. That a lot of hoodlum
Hitler-like storm troopers should burn a Chris
tian cross and claim Christianity is obscene
and sacreligious and all of US ought to join in
so saying.
The Khan is just a skeleton organization.
but its promoters are sweating and trying.
No courage is required to denounce Hitler
ism. 1t isn't important whether Hitler is dead.
VIVA is important is that his philosophy be
dead. It isn't.
The Khan stands for a revival of all Hitler
stood for. Let's all recognize that fact and
say so in so many words.-Atlanta Constit,1.
ton.