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“life Essentials Unity"; In Non-Essentials Liberty; In All Things Charity” RALEIGH, N. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1925 $2.00 Per Year; KK! 5 Cents Glowing Talk to Klansmen . At Greensboro Tuesday Irish Protestant Givos Some Sidelights Upon r Attempts of Rome to Control Religious | , Work During World War—Klan Only Purely |V Protestant Christian Order.. - Denouncing the Roman Catholic Church as an enemy to progress, , education, and freedom,"’and declar ing that opposition to the Ku Klux Klan comes mostly from anti-Prot estants, thugs, bootleggers, the mor ally debauched and other lawbreak ers, Dr. A. O. Moore, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Salisbury, Tuesday night delivered a most forceful, fervent and eloquent ad dress to members of Gate City Klan ’*• and many invited guests at Greens boro. > ; “I am not going to challenge the > freedom of any Catholic to worship God as he sees fit,” declared Dr. Moore; ‘T am not intolerant reli giously, but I am not going to let ^Tth'e T*opd of Route interfere ^wrth I m me.” ■ ' A-— . Dr. Moore came into the Klan after long consideration. He is not, he said, one who feels that he must follow the crowd. For months he \vas opposed to the Klan. Then he began to love it for the enemies it made. He was convinced that there was good in an organization which incurred the enmity of those who were opposed to the enforcement of law, of those who violated every moral latf of God and man. Then he came into the organization to be come one of its most ardent cham pions and a force for the realiza tion of the ideals upon which the Klan is founded. Protestant Christian Order Pointing to the fact that the Klan i8 the only fraternal organization in America wholly Protestant Christian, the speaker said that it was his belief that no man could become a member and not be helped ' in character. The organization ^Should attract every man who ac knowledges Jesus Christ as the liv ing God and can subscribe to the oath required by the Klan—to be white, native American and Prot estant Christian, Dr. Moore de clared, and he believed that every such person would find his useful ness broadened and himself bettered. Dr. Moore was a chaplain in the army during the World War. . He > had been preaching to the young men' of his town, advising them to Volunteer for the defense of the world’s civilization. His own con science would not permit him to stay out of the conflict. He offered his services. His friends petitioned for his appointment as a chaplain. Meanwhile he went to Fort Caswell as an unattached camp preacher in order that the boys there might be ‘given the benefit of a Protestant minister’s presence. He distributed many tracts, one of which empha sized his belief that man’s salvation was within himself—that the church, the preacher, the priest nor (Continued on pace SI NATIONAL EDITION OF JEFFERSONIAN SOON TO BE ISSUED •»' i , Actual Work of Production to Begin Early Next f Week LEMMEL NO LONGER : WITH PUBLICATION Goes to Durham After Several Weeks of Work on Coming Work of actual production on the tremendous National Publicity Edi tion of the Carolina Jeffersonian will begin early next week, as soon as the composing room of the new Jeffersonian plant is prepared to re ceive the copy now being compiled. 1 Preparation of this copy is under the exclusive direction of Byron Ford, who has, until last week, had E. M. Lemmel, of New York, asso ciated with him as a solicitor of ad vertising for the edition. Mr. Lem mel’s connection with the edition ended last week. He has gone to Durham, where he is doing similar work for a newspaper of that town. Through its National Publicity edition The Jeffersonian will en deavor to present the progress and possibilities ‘of North Carolina in their most favorable light. There will be several departments in which will be treated the various phases of industry, education, politics, states manship, etc., of the State. So far the publication has been given excellent support. There still are many business and industrial concerns to be reviewed. The heads of these will be seen as soon as pos sible. All will be given an oppor tunity to be represented in the edi tion which will be sent to thousands of the leading men of the nation. An effort will be made to issue the edition this month, although it is a work of such magnitude that the management cannot determine the exact date of issue at this time. Not Delicate Enough “There’s been a great drop in prices.” “So? None of the seismographs have reported the shock, however, I’m sure.” "With the addition of Miss Helen Estabrook, specialist in clothing and household arts, to the staff of the Htmae Demonstration Division, club women and girls are looking for ward to more work in these studies. 4 HUN GETS CLEAN BILL OF HEALTH IN KANSAS COURT Supreme Court, Following a Two-Year Probe, Places Or ganization in Same Status as Other Fraternal Orders—Ex onerated of All Charges of Outrages — Associated Press Misinforms. After two years of rigid investi gation the Supreme Court of Kan sas gives the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan a clean bill of health and places the organization on the same plane as that occupied by the Masons, Odd Fellows, Pythians and Knights of Columbus—and all other fraternal orders, it is an nounced by way of special dis patches from Topeka. This comes on the heels of the Associated Press broadcast of the misinformation that the Klan- had been' banished from the State of cyclonic politics and climate. An effort really was made to oust the Klan from Kansas. It has. Governor Allen, owner of the most influential newspaper in Wichita, was not the least of these. While in Raleigh during the recent politi cal campaign, Governor Allen ad mitted that he had representatives in every meeting of the Klan in that state. The presence of these spies was a part of his program to “get something” on the Klan that would result in its banishment from Kansas. A most vigorous investigation of the Klan was made. Ouster pro ceedings were started. For two years the investigator's investigated. Now comes the decision of the Supreme Court that the Klan is no more menacing to the peace and dignity of Kansas than is any other i rater nai organization. At the time the ouster was filed the Klan was charged with many outrages. The decision following so rigid an investigation completely exonerates the Klan and recognizes it as being just exactly what it pro fesses to be—a fraternal order in tent upon preserving American ideals and upholding the law of the land. “This was just the point which concerned Klansmen,” declares the Mulberry (Kansas) Independent;; and that paper continues: “In dif ferent parts of the state the Klan was charged with law violations, in the matter of taking the law in its own hands, etc. The decision ex onerates the Klan in every part of the state of any and all charges. The famous Liberty whipping case becomes an episode—an incident where the accused rises in public estimation over the accuser. “It naturally follows that if the Klan must charter, so must all other organizations in the state. Should such discrimination be shown as to single out the Klan from the others, after this decision, it is a very simple matter for the Klan to con vert the Kansas order into a strictly Kansas Realm, and buy all supplies here, “with, or without, profit.” h & > (Continued on page 5.) Newport News Physician Tells University Students Order Is the Work of Almighty God Head of Federal Council Who Declares That Protestant Churches Are Blind to Dangers Confronting Them. Protestant Church! Blind To Danger Confronting It, Federal Council Head Says Great Defect in Religion is Lack of True Church Consciousness, Dr. S. Parkes Cadman Says Xew York.—“Humanism is more! important than patriotism. “The essence of religion is in life, not in doctrine.” These disconnected sentences ut tered in conversation by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman reveal his faith in a brotherhood of all men which is a basic element of his personality and his philosophy. This faith, per haps, is an explanation of the power which makes him the predominat ing religious leader he is and which is recognized by his recent election to be president of the Federal Coun cil of Churches of Christ in America, Dr. .Cadman began close to hu manity as a lad in an English coal mine. He has retained the sympa thetic touch during his quarter of a century as pastor of Central Con gregational Church, Brooklyn. The visitor soon gets this impression in watching the burly figure with the shaggy hair and keen eyes. The millions who hear him over the radio on Sunday afternoons get it in his reverberating tones. “The fact that the church is bound to be universal has never dawned on millions of Protestant Christians,” Dr. Cadman says. “The church was in existence long before our modern states, and I ven ture the prophecy that it will be here long after they have fallen. The point of synchronization for nations and for humanity is in their common ideals. “Nationalism cannot be the last phase of human society. Yet men attribute to democracy a virtue al most talismanic. Democracy is the modern god. “If you tell 500 men that the church is in danger, they are no more concerned than if you said it was going to rain. If you tell them the state is in danger, you see them rushing to arms in its defense. The distinction is in what men actually believe, and not in what they be lieve they believe. “The state cannot produce moral ity and spirituality. It lives on the morality fostered by religion. Men are always critical of the church. They forget that it is the only or ganization pledged to morality and spirituality. 1 “Our Protestant churches are suffering from their lack of a true church consciousness. It is their (Continued on page 5) Tells Truce of Dr. Ham lett in the Debate at Chapel Hill With J. W. Bailey. “If the Ku Klux Klan is an or ganization of mercenary men, in tent upon accumulating wealth and political prestige, it would have died long ago; but, if it is what I believe it to be—the work of Al mighty God—it will live and flour ish forever, or until the need for it in-, these United States has passed,” declared Ur. J. H. Hawk ins, a Newport News, Va., physi cian, who as national lecturer for the klan, was pressed into service at Chapel Hill Friday night to fill the time allotted to Dr. Hamlett, Atlanta editor, in the first leg of a near-debate between a klan defender and Josiah William Bailey, klan opponent, who is to give his rea sons for opposing the klan in a re joinder Friday night of this week. Planned by the Dialectic Society of the University, the “debate” originally was to have been between Mr. Bailey and Judge Henry Grady, Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the Realm of North Carolina. Judge Grady could not see why he should be called to de bate with a person who by any rule of reason could not possibly- know anything of the Ku Klux Klan. He declined. Dr. Hamlett was invited to combat Mr. Bailey’s onslaughts. When the time came for him to come to Chapel Hill, however, he was in Florida. Heavy floods in that State had so interfered with rail traffic that he found it impos sible to reach the University in time to fill his appointment. Pinch-Hitter for Hamlett Then Dr. Hawkins was pressed into service. As a pinch-hitter for Dr. Hamlett he was a success. He registered a home run. If Mr. Bailey has any argument that can disple the good opinion Dr. Hawk ins has created for the klan in the hearts and minds of the more than one thousand young men who crowded Memorial Hall Friday night, he certainly must have pro cured it from some source which has no knowledge of the ideals, aims, aspirations and activities of the Ku Klux Klan in North Caro lina. Recalling that the klan had been termed a criminal organization and its members criminal, Dr. Hawkins reviewed the high spots of the oath administered by those who become members of the order. If the prac tice and teaching of Americanism, if the protection of American womanhood, American homes and American institutions, if honoring the American flag and pledging one’s life-blood to its defense, if be lieving in the Christ who died on Calvary—if these things be crimi nal and un-American, the Ku Klux Klan is a criminal and an un American institution, and I am (Continued on page 7)
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