Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 12

WILL URGE 6.0.P. CONDEMN KU KLUX R. B. Creager Wants Anti- Klan Plank in Republican 1924 Platform. The Ku Klux Klan question was presented forcibly to the republican national committee vesterday by R. B. Creager, Texas committeeman, who sent letters to all committee mem- bers urging them to take a vigorous stand against the Kian. The Kilan already controls the political machinery of more than one democratic state,” sald Mr. Creager, who has been a White House guest for several days and has bcen men- tioned prominently in connection with the appointment of an ambassador to Mexico. “It is reaching out for the control of other and republican statcs. Some of the Kian leaders boast of their aspirations for national Mr. Creager gave notice that he would attempt to insert a plank in the 1924 platform condemning the Xlan, but leaders said they did not Believe the issue would come now before the national committee's ses- sions. Sees Challenge fn Doctrine. ince the last mational conven- T * Mr. Creager said, “and since the Jast national platform of the repub- lican party was written, there has| crep¢ into natlon-wide political prom- inence a secret order known as the Ku Klux Klan, espousing principles and propagating doctrines that con- stitute a challengo to organized gov- ernment. “Professed by its founders to be ymerely a patriotic, fraternal society, 3t has, nevertheless, with growing membership, projected itself as an insidious and ever increasing force in political affairs in many sections of the country, until today it has be- come, unquestionably, a secret politi- cal incorporation striving to impose its ideas and principles upon state and_nation. “Originating in the democratic south, its principal strength still lies there, though it has spread into and gained strength in other states. “The Ku Klux Klan bases {ts strong- est appeal on raclal and religious prejudice. Its membership is limited 0 white, Protestant, native-born citi- rens of the United States, for whom it claims un exclusive 100 per cent Americanism. Its claim and teach- ing is that no person can be @ true, 100 per cent American citizen who is not Protestant and native- born. “It classifies Catholics, Jews, for- elgn-born and negroes as ‘alien.” Sundesirable,” ‘“non-assimilable” and #inferior.” Citizens Are Proscribed. “However worthy and patriotic he may be, the American citizen who is of the Cathollc or Jewish faith, or Seho is foreign-born or negro, is pro- woribed by this secret oligarchy, Sehich holds and teaches that, beca of his race, religion, color or acci- dental birthplace, he is less worthy than and not entitled to the same Fights and privileges as his fellows “A new Americanism —a peculiar commixture of geography, religion and color—is carved out of the plain eitizeanship of these United States and e made the test of cltizenship in a muper-government, committed to a stealthy crusade directed against the elvil, religious and economic equality of other citizens of our country. “Proscription of the classes named 4s inevitably leading to proscription 2s well of those who, while not of these classes, protest against or re- fuse to join in the proscription. “As an inescapable and necessary consequence, our citizenship is being @ivided into conflicting groups and classes.” MELLON TO CONFER ON TAX PROPOSALS Tax reduction and fiscal matters generally will be discussed with Beoretary Mellon tomorrow by Repre- mentative Green of Iowa, prospective dhairman of the House ways and means committee, and Representa- tives Hawley, Oregon, and Treadway, Maosachusetts, ranking republicans on the committee. While both republican and demo- cratlo members have been selected. the committee will not organize until { its minority members have completed | their task of assigning democrats to other House committees. Mr. Green | predicted the committee would begin functioning early next week. He has indicated that the tax question will be considered first, tomorrow’s conference having been arranged for the purpose of exchanging views on Secretary Mellon’s proposal that taxes e reduced approximately $323,000,000 annually. Some democratic members of the ways and means committee are un- darstood to be of the opinion that changes should be made in the tariff Jaw during the present session. but Mr. Green indicated today he and his Tepublican colleagues would oppose any efforts to amend the statutes. RIGHT TO CUT FARES DENIED BY COUNSEL Corporation Counsel Stephens today rendered an opinion upholding the Public Utilities Commission In its re- cent decision that it had no authority to order half fare for school children. The question was referred to the Yegal adviser to the commission be- cause William McK. Clayton, spokes- man for the Federation of Citizens’ Associations, raised the point that the commission had & legal right to order such a fare. Mr. Stephens gave three reasons for the conclusion he reached, s follows: “First, that the service required in the transportation of school children is not materially different from that required in the transportation of other children and of adults; second, that the commission was not granted the authority to order such reduc- tion as a speclal tax under the police power, and, third, that the commis- clon does not have the power to grant such reducticn as an amend. ment to the charter of the street rail- w ;:l‘; companles.” "he corporation counsel says he understands & bill has heen broparcd for Congress to establish a speclal rate for school children and expresses the bellef that if such a rate is de- sirable it should come through con- gressional legislation. The opini 1 went Into a lengthy discussion of all court cases relating 10 the question under consideration. COURTS TO ADJOURN. The justices of the District Su- preme Court will take a Christmas recess of two weeks. The business of the court has been so expedited dur- ing the fall term that the justices feel they arc entitled to the vaca- tlon. The continuity of the recess will be broken for Justice Balley, who presides in Criminal Division 1, as he will be required to hold court Wednesday, January 2, to qualify the grand jury and select the petit ju- i for duty in the, various branches of the court during January. The recess will begin at the close of business, December 21. The courts will reconvene January 4, 1924, white, { { | { publican, Idaho, was informed today Heads Optimist Club LEE L. HERRELL, OPTIMISTS READY TODINE AN DANGE Social Session Planned To- night at Inauguration of New Officers. Incident to inauguration of new of- ficers of the Optimist Club, a musical and dinner dance will be held tonight at the City Club. The new officers are as follows: Lee L. Herrell, president; Frank T. Par- sons, first vice president; George F. Killlan, second vice president; G. E. S. | Williams, secretary-treasurer; L. Higgins, sergeant-at-arms, and Fisher and A. E. Nesbitt, members of the governing board Committee appointments will be an- nounced by the board of governors at the regular meeting tomorrow. The dinner dance tonight has been arranged by a committee under the chairmanship of F. L. Higgins. It/ Will start at 6:45_o'clock. A tribute to the late Warren G. Harding will be paid at tomorrow’s meeting of the club at 12:30 o'clock in the City Club. as a mark of ob- servance of Harding Memorial week. | “Harding, the Man and the Citizen," will be the topic_of an address by Optimist Joseph Burkart. A survey of the club shows that it had Increased membership to a few less than the one hundred mark at a recent meeting, and that the general average attendance at weekly lunch- eo of the organization was running exactly $1.3 per cent during the past six weeks. —_— BORAH TOLD PARIS 1S SILENT ON DEBT Mellon Writes No New Pro- posals to Pay U. S. Made Since 1922. — France has made no proposals or representations concerning the re- funding of its four-billion-dollar war debt to the United States since the visit here in August, 1922, of its spe- cial commissioner, Senator Borah, re- in a letter sent him by Secretary Mellon, chairman of the American debt commission. “Answering your inquiry as to what assurance the commission has of the intention of the French government to adjust the debt,” the Secretary added, “I have to eay that such as- surance is furnished by the conditions and stipulations upon the part of the French government contained in the obligations evidencing the debt, and the statement of Mr. Parmentier (the French commissioner).” Mr. Parmentler tvas quoted by Mr. Mellon as having told the commis- sion( in August, 1922, that it was his government's desire to postpone for an indefinite perlod censideration of debt refunding until the financial situation of France should become more olear. particularly as to repa- ration receipts from Germany. MYSTERIOUS BLAZE FATAL TO WOMAN Mrs. Lula Haines, Forty-Six, Found Burned to Death on Kitchen Floor. Mrs. Lula Haines, colored, forty- six years old, a widow, was burned to death in her home at 222 B, street southwest about noon today. She was alone in the house when she died, and police of the fourth precinct and officials of the fire department were unable to determine the origin of the fire. Mrs. Susie Smith, colored, occupant of the adjoining house, discovered smoke lssuing from an upper window of the two-story structure and sum- moned Joseph Lee, a nearby resi- dent, who forced open the front door, entered and found the dead body of the woman crumpled on the kitchen floor. Condjtion of the two rooms made it appear® that Mre. Haines’' clothing ignited while she was on the sofa in the front rggm, and that she made her way to the adjoining room, and that she was unable to make an out- cry or extinguish the fire in time to prevent the fatality. Mrs. Haines resided in the house with her nephew. Benjamin Hill, and a young niece. They were away from home when the fatality occurred. The body of the burned woman was taken to the morgue, and the police will try to soive the mystery of her death. FAVORS GERMAN AID. President Coolldge is most 'earnest in his desire for the extension of aid to the German people in the matter of food supplies, but that he does not want this aid extended as charity from the United States government, but to be made on the basis of a business propostion if po-sible, it was said at the White House today. It was stated by a spokesman for the President an investigation is now being made and proposals considered with a view to extending a loan of probably $25,000.000 to be used for purchasing food supplies In this country and in Great Britain to save many thousands of Germans from starvation during the coming winter months. istick, or repression, THE EVENING CARAWAY ASKS DELAY ON BUREAU PROBE PLAN Senator Requests Resolution Lie Over for Later Action With- out Prejudice. When Senator Caraway's resolution requesting the President to send to the Senate Information regarding the dis- missal of twenty-elgnt émployes of the bureau of engraving and printing in March, 1922, was reached In the Senate today,’Senator Caraway asked that the resolution be allowed to lle over with- gut predjudice and this course was fol: braska offered solution asking President to inform the Senate investigation has been made in connection with these dismissals By government officials and what action, if any, had resulted therefrom. His amendment was allowed to lie over along with the Caraway resolution. Senator Caraway expected to call the matter up for discussion at a later MUSSOLI DS OWN DITATORSHP Obtains Decree Closing Chamber—Wants to Con- vince World of Support. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 11.—To show the world that Italy is ruled by the will of the majority of the Italian people and to obtain a parliament which co- incides with the wishes of the elec- torate, Premier Mussolini, with the consent of ‘the cablnet, obtained yes- terday the signature of the king to a decree closing the present session of the chamber—an act which inevitably leads to dissolution and new tions. The decree signed by King Victor Emmanuel closes the present sos- sion of parliament, but before final dissolution of the chamber the is- suance of another royal order will be necessary. Dissolution will probably elec- take place the early part of January, | and in that event held in April. Ends Dictatorship. The premier's bold, decisive step ends voluntarily his own dictatorship and re-establishes the government along the usual constitutiunal lines. There is not the slightest doubt that Mussolini had the present chamber well under control; he had only to ask for full powers for anothsr year, and these would Rave been granted by an overwhelming majority. As little or no opposition was manifested against him, his retention of power could have been prolonged until the present chamber died a natural death in 1926, when by the consii:ution an- other election would take placs auto- matically. Trusts in People. But the premier chose this time to prove that his rule was not de- rived from the lavish use of the big but was based upon’ acceptance of his program by the Ttallan people as a whole. In addition, it was the premler's desire since elections were recently held in England and will_soon be held in France, not to have it believed abroad that he was unwilling to re- fer the policy of his government to the vote of the people. The Corrlere d'lalla says that Premier Mussolinl in requesting the king to end the session of the cham- ber desired to remove the ambiguity existing between the chamber and the government since Mussolini’s mareh on Rome. The Mondo, organ of the opposition, declares that if the decision to close the session is the prelude to meas- ures destined to clarify the political situation it willingly consents to the step. The Tribuna says the decree is the actual prelude to dissolution of the chamber and that it destroys a situation which was untenable. elections will be STAR, WASHINGTON, D. URGE UNITED FIGHT FOR TEMPERANCE Leaders of Societies Meet to Work Out Plans for Co-Operation. Leaders of national temperance or- ganizations met at the Ralelgh Hotel today, under the auspices of the Na- tional Temperance Council. The sense of the meeting was to adopt uniform measures for all bodies which are working for the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment. Confusion now exists among supporters of pro- ¢ hibition concerning the difference be- tween the organizations working for the same thing. Mre. Lena Yost, head of the legis- lative department of the' National Women's Christian Temperance Unlon, led the discussion. Dr. D. Lelgh Colon of New York | city and & member of the national | legislative department of the Flying | Squadron Foundation sald that in order to obtain the needed co-opera- tion it would be necessary for some of the organizations who stood for the most intense form of prohibition enforcement to “drop back” to the standards of others who were in favor of milder pollcies. Likewise, he pointed out. it would be neces- sary for others to adopt more in-| tense policies. B. Wheeler, president of oon League, stressed the | tmportance of all organizations get- ting together on matters pertaining ive questions which are to be presented fo Congress Among these, it wae asserted, will be higher penalties asked for the first violallion of the eighteenth amendment, the de- portation of allens who have violated the prohibition act and an increase of the coast guard Among others attending the meet- ing this morning were: I H. Cher- rington, general secretary of the World's League Against Alcoholism: Dr. Charles Scanlon, general secretary of the Board of Temperance and Pub- lic Morals of the Presbyterian Church; Dr. A. J. Barton, chairman of the Temperance Board of the Southern Baptist Church; Miss Anna A. Gordon, national and world's president of the W, C. U.: former Representative Charles H. Randall of California; Mrs. Margaret C. Munn, national treasurer |of the W. C. T. U.; Dr. Robert Watson, president of the World Prohibition and Reform Federation, and others. Both the national temperance coun- cil and the legislative conference will Tiold meetings tonight and tomorrow. PRINCIPALS TO PUSH PHYSICAL TRAINING Plans for Program in High Schools Discussed at Meeting Yesterday. A program of physical training in the high schools, designed to benefit a major portion of the student bodles, will be developed by the board of high school principals. Plans for the program were discussed at a meeting of the principals yesterday afternoon in the Franklin School. Another meeting will be held Monday to con- eider the subject. The principals went on record in ! favor of home hygiene and nursing instruction in the high schools, pro- viding it 1s incorporated into the general plan of physical training. If it were made an independent subject, it was pointed out, the course might have the aspect of an elective sub- ject and thus might not reach all students. Midyear graduations in the highl! schools, the principals decided. will Dbe held on the last two days in Jan- uary. The Time to Buy Boots Now is the time to be get- ting ready for bad weather. ‘Think of all the things you most need in boots; protec- tion against dampness and chill; comfortable walking and long wear. Tivestone You have them all in any Firestoné rubber boot. They are all of finest ma- terials—scientifically com- pounded rubber, and selected and inspec- ted fabrics, made by master craftsmen in the business. The Demand Has Increased 245% in One Yem It is no wonder they are so popular. Strong, sturdy, carefully balanced apd reinforced just where the wear comes, they are the right boots for all-around hard wear and trustworthy service. Firestone-Apsley RUBBER COMPANY Rubler Clothing HUDSON, MASS. Abraham. A., 622 Pa. Ave. S.E. Blondheim, 510 King St., Alexandria, Va. Bricuglio, 1500 E. Capitol St. d T Sts, N, Di Francisels, 1 5 Del Uea, G., 4505 Wis. Ave. NW. 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