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THE KLAN "BACKS" A COLLEGE

SSORTED EXCITEMENT ON THE SUBJECT of the Ku Klux Klan received a great boost when the press of the country announced that Valparaiso (Indiana) University had been acquired by the order, and would hence

belongs in the satirist group. Of course, admits this critic," the sheet itself and the fiery cross has been of great aid," but

To teach good citizenship and sound American principles it was necessary for the Klan to have at least one college in good working order.

The school, of course, will be "strictly non-sectarian." That is to say, anybody who wants to go may do so, altho because of lack of space no buildings are at present available for branches of the B'nai B'rith, the Knights of Columbus or the Young Men's Colored Republican Club.

The present plant of the University includes sixteen buildings and the property is said to be valued at $1,000,000. A Bible chair and a course in constitutional law, reports the Brooklyn Eagle, will be added to the curriculum. The University was organized in 1873. It was conducted for many years with such economy that a poor boy could get an education there, records the Boston Herald, "at a total cost for a year that would average about half the cost of the tuition alone for a single term of the recognized universities of the East." It then ranked as one of the most remarkable schools in the United States, says this editor, adding:

A university it was not, in the accepted or popular understanding of the term. It had no athletics, no Greek-letter fraternities, no "student activities." It was a place of study and nothing else, and if the student had no money the school

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forth be conducted as a "100 per cent. American institution," under the name of "The National University." Newspaper editors devoted columns of speculation to the matter, newspaper cartoonists prepared pages of illustrations. In the midst of this flood of comment, it was announced that technical difficulties would prevent the actual taking over of the institution by the Klan, but that, whether officially in control or not, the Klan would continue to "back" the university. This announcement was made by Milton Elrod, editor of The Fiery Cross, a Klan publication, in Indianapolis. Mr. Elrod, who had been conducting negotiations on behalf of the Klan, announced, according to a special report to the New York Times, "that the deeds and charter of the university provided that the affairs of the school could not be regulated and administered by any benevolent, charitable, mercenary or fraternal institution. This, he said, would prevent the school from being operated at any time by any particular group. But, he said, Klan officials had notified the trustees of the university that the Klan unofficially would give its moral support to the school and would give it all the aid it could to help put the institution 'back on its feet.'"

The idea of having the Klan back of a university is welcomed by pro-Klan editors, as well as by at least one neutral editor of standing, but, naturally, among the multitude of editors not particularly friendly to the Klan, there is a response ranging from rage to gentle satire. "The primary purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, which is the dissemination of sweetness and light, has suffered to some extent from lack of educational facilities," announces the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman Review, which

THERE'S NOTHING ELSE TO DO ABOUT IT! -Memphis Commercial Appeal.

gave him opportunities to work his way. At high level it had 5,000 students; in 1920, in spite of the rush to the colleges, it had a thousand less; last year it had but 1,500.

One wonders if changes in policy indicated by the introduction

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IT RECEIVES THE MORAL AND FINANCIAL BACKING OF THE KU KLUX KLAN This is the main building of Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, formerly called the "Poor Man's Harvard." Lately it has got into difficulties, chiefly due to lack of funds, and the Klan has come to its assistance.

of athletics and secret societies explain the falling off. Certainly its existence depended upon maintaining a great number of students, for it was administered upon strictly business principles, and every dollar counted. Students came and went almost at will, depending on their funds.

It may have been more of a huge normal school than a university in the strict meaning of the word. But it served a useful purpose and numbers of young people gained much from it which they did not have the opportunity to seek elsewhere. But the trustees and faculty changed its policies, and a split ensued upon their decision. Instead of staying by the plan which had "made" it, Valparaiso sought to become like other institutions.

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It encountered financial difficulties in consequence of the war, says the Boston Christian Science Monitor, which adds that its present owners plan to open it to "students of all races, creeds and colors, if they have the necessary qualifications." The announcement that no discrimination will be made on account of religious belief, race or color, is particularly stimulating to commentators. The Socialist Call suggests that, if the Klan is really in control, "maybe the negroes, Jews and Catholics are invited for laboratory purposes." The "Katalog" is not yet out, continues The Call irritably, but, if it is prepared by the Klan

It undoubtedly will provide a nice kurrikulum in lynching, tarring and feathering, plain and fancy regulation of other people's business, horsewhipping, and modern courtesy.

The latter course will in all probability include laboratory work in treating a lady with deep and punctilious respect, until it is discovered that she has opinions of her own that differ from those of William J. Bryan, William J. Simmons, William J. Burns, and the members of various Southern legislatures. Then the course will develop ways and means of persecuting and torturing her and publicly insulting her in the best and most approved Koo Koo way.

There is to be a domestic science department for the sewing of nightgowns.

Jews will be invited to enter the kollege, no doubt, in order to show the nordics how to be cruel and savage and at the same time to maintain a calm and courteous exterior. Negroes are to be invited to come in, so that the gentlemen of the Invisible Empire may learn how to keep them in "their place," that is, licking the boots of their persecutors. Catholics are to learn what red-blooded Americanism is like by being subjected to whispered hatred, suspicion and a barrage of lies.

Any one who discovers a fact in American history to disturb previously held theory will be expelled.

In athletics the principal games will in all probability be Intercollegiate Lynching, Kompetitive Kowardice and Championship Murder. Gold medals will be given for cruelty, and

students will be disqualified from further competition if they display fairness, decency and consideration for others."

The New York World, which lately led a brigade of newspaper editors all over the country in a concerted attack on the Klan, is quite as skeptical as The Call. "As usual, in the most modern institutions," suggests the editor:

Instruction in theory and technical detail may be combined. "Reasons for Anglo-Saxon Supremacy" will fall in the former classification; "The Melting Temperature of Tar as a Medium for Affixing Feathers" in the latter. And, so that Valparaiso traditions of mingled work and study shall not be wholly lost, students will no doubt improve their grasp of practical details by "laboratory work" in actual lynching parties under experienced leaders. In the great field of public education this design displays energy and initiative.

The Brooklyn Eagle, which is particularly anti-Klan in precept, suggests that the curriculum should include a course on torture. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, also strongly anti-Klan, adds that:

In several cases persons who were whipt or otherwise reformed have been killed or permanently injured. This is directly attributable to a lack of anatomical knowledge. To flog a woman within an inch of her life, and yet inflict no fatal injury, requires a profound knowledge of physiology, as well as a high degree of skill, and these things can be obtained only through study and preparation, regardless of the flogger's natural gift for the work. Classes in tarring and feathering, too, would enable the students to get the maximum effects with a minimum expenditure of materials.

The Philadelphia Record suggests that the University might fittingly substitute, "for the academic mortarboard, the mob cap." Another Philadelphia editor, writing in The Public Ledger, suggests that the college yell should be one of "unprecedented savagery," and objects that the Klan remains "the most atrocious caricature of an ideal, the baldest system for commercialization of sentiment and the most efficient hate-making machine ever devised in the United States."

In the meantime, however, reports a staff correspondent of the New York Herald, more than 425,000 members have enrolled in the Indiana branch of the Klan, and 90,000 in Kamelia, the woman's auxiliary. It is shown to be a big factor in politics in this State where it is "backing" a national University, and "its power is growing," according to this report. It has a tremendous appeal, undoubtedly, says the writer. for the Hoosier population. "Unlike the majority of

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Klan centers in the North and Middle West," continues his report:

Men and women alike openly avow their loyalty to the "fiery cross" throughout Indiana. There is hardly a person born in America and of Protestant faith who has not been solicited in Indiana by "salesmen" or ardent members to become affiliated with the order, which is strong financially, politically and religiously there.

Talks with Klansmen in different sections of the Hoosier State reveal the fact that while the order is opposed to Jews, negroes and Catholics, its main opposition is against the Catholic faith. This religious prejudice is played up to the limit, inducing prospective members to join. The results have been beyond the dreams of the Kleagles and the different Wizards at Atlanta.

As an illustration of the strength of the Klan in Indiana, on the Fourth of July last, in Blaffton, near Kokomo, more than 200,000 Klansmen gathered to celebrate

the day. They came in automobiles and trains from every part of the State.

A systematic effort by opponents of the Klan was carried out with precision to inconvenience motorists who were not familiar with the roads around Kokomo. Klansmen were delayed in reaching the city for the reason that road signs were so changed as to misguide hundreds. The spurious signs were torn down by Klansmen parties of who learned of the plot.

The Indiana State edition of The Fiery Cross, the official organ of the realm of Indiana "First in Klandom," published in Indianapolis, is sold on the streets and newsstands throughout the State. It is published every Friday and is a twelvepage affair, claiming a circulation of between 125,000 and 150,000. There are four pages of advertising scattered through the paper.

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At the recent convention of the Rainbow Division Veterans Association in Indianapolis, records this correspondent:

The delegates from twenty-six States were shocked when their senior chaplain, Father Francis Patrick Duffy, became the target of members of the Klan. Father Duffy passed through many baptisms of fire on the battle-fields of France with the old Sixtyninth Regiment of New York. He is beloved by men of all religious beliefs.

On July 15 last, the fifth anniversary of the battle of Champagne, in which the Rainbow Division took part, a memorial service of the soldier dead of the division took place in the Cadle Tabernacle in Indianapolis, attended by 12,000 persons, including the Gypsy Smith Choir of 1,200 voices.

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To combat The Fiery Cross, an unofficial Catholic weekly called Tolerance is also sold on the streets of Indianapolis and other cities throughout Indiana, but is seldom seen on newsstands, the majority of which are owned or controlled by members of the Klan.

Under the caption of “A Klansman's Creed," which appears in each issue of The Fiery Cross, is the following:

"I believe in God and in the tenets of the Christian religion and that a godless nation can not long prosper.

"I believe that a Church that is not grounded on the principles of morality and justice is a mockery to God and to man.

"I believe that a Church that does not have the welfare of the common people at heart is unworthy.

"I believe in the eternal separation of Church and State. "I hold no allegiance to any foreign Government, Emperor, King, Pope or any other foreign, political or religious power. "I hold my allegiance to the Stars and Stripes next to my allegiance to God alone.

"I believe in just laws and liberty.

"I believe in the upholding of the Constitution of these United States.

**I believe that our free public school is the corner-stone of good government, and that those who are seeking to destroy it are enemies of our Republic and are unworthy of citizenship. "I believe in freedom of speech.

"I believe in a free press uncontrolled by political parties or by religious sects.

"I believe in law and order.

"I believe in the protection of our pure womanhood. "I do not believe in mob violence, but I do believe that laws should be enacted to prevent the causes of mob violence. “I believe in a closer relationship of capital and labor. "I believe in the prevention of unwarranted strikes by foreign labor agitators.

"I believe in the limitation of foreign immigration. "I am a native born American citizen, and I believe my rights in this country are superior to those of foreigners."

-Walker in the New York Call.

Kollege?"

"You go to hell; Father Duffy was in the Rainbow and this division knew no question of creed. He is one of our buddies, and he is going to speak, and if you people don't like it you can get off the stage, and that's that!"

The Father Duffy incident is only an illustration of how "drunk with power" the Klan is in Indiana.

The possibility that the Klan may become more tolerant, that its activities in Indiana may be rather pro-American than opposed to American institutions, is suggested by the editor of the New York Tribune, who writes on the new National University" under the title of "College or

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The Ku Klux Klan has picked up Valparaiso University at a bargain and intends to run the Indiana college, if reports are true, in a manner to which even those who think all evil of the Klan can not take exception. It will be an astonishing announcement to those who have been persuaded that this organization existed largely for the purpose of promoting intolerance that Valparaiso, under the new name of the National University, will be open to all students regardless of race, color or religion.

Altho fallen on evil days "the poor man's Harvard" has still a fairly large and representative student body which the Klan management evidently hopes to retain, offering a full college course, and promising enlargement and betterment of the plant. Probably there is not a son of a kleagle or grand titan at present in the institution. They may arrive in force at the fall term. It would be remarkable if the college should not turn into a Klan nursery, with Klan doctrines a major study in the curriculum.

The sheeted knights have made themselves obnoxious in a number of States by ruffian actions, by bullying and persecution of those whose conduct, morals or opinions they disapproved. They have not increased their good repute in New York by their sleight-of-hand with their certificate of incorporation, leading to its rejection by a Supreme Court justice.

For all the high professions of the Ku Klux Klan, how much that is sinister do the veils and pillowcases of secrecy conceal? There is the riddle that worries fair-minded Americans anxious to do justice to the Klan in so far as it is a benevolent propagator of Americanism. Nobody can find fault with a perfectly open adventure in higher education. In the Valparaiso enterprise the Klan is putting its best foot forward, and its true friends and supporters will hope that the new adventure marks a beginning of better things.

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