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$2.00 a Year 5c a Copy OMAHA, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1922 Whole Number 390 Vol. VIII—No. 26
r WE WISH YOU A HAPPY, PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR
HENRY FORD AVERS
NEGRO HAS PROVED
COMMUNITY ASSET
Autnmohlle King Tukos the Position
That Colored American Should Be
Given Opportunity for
Development.
RACE HATRED UHWARRARTED
“A Itare That Calls llself Superior
Can Only Prove Its Superiority
By Superior Ability to Help
Others,” Says Ford.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 29.— (Associated
Negro Press.)—The name of Henry
'Cord is undoubtedly household in Am
erica. Besides being one of the great
est employers of labor, he is one of
the most influential men in the coun
try.
.Mr. Ford has been mentioned for
president much in the last year, and
no one can tell what the future may
bring. It is known generally that
for a long time he had had before
congress an offer for the purchase of
the great Muscle Shoals properties.
Opposition has sprung up on many
sides, but it is hardly to be thought
(hat Henry Ford Is a quitter.
The attitude of such a powerful
factor in the economic life of the na
tion with reference to Colored Amer
icans is at once a most interesting
subject. Recently Mr. Ford set. forth j
his views in the Dearborn Independ-j
ent, his pergonal publication, as fol-j
lows: e
"There is no need of race hatred in
America, says Mr. Ford, even though
there is a race questlofh A race
question is primarily a question fori
the race that is being complained!
against. The complainant has no
way of settling it else it would not !
have stopped to complain. The qucs-1
tion between the white and colored]
races in our country is primarily a j
question for the white race. It Is
a question for the Negro, too, in so
Tar as he ought to Identify the enemy
of both colored man and the w'hite i
man, the common enemy that is try
ing to stir hatred between them. Des
tiny has placed these two races to
gether. Our modern industrialism,
changed-, will provide means to remove
to motives or public service every in
justice that gives soli for prejudice.
‘‘There is something to say to the
while man, too. The race that calls
itself superior can only prove its su
periority by superior ability to help
(others, and can only retain its ra
cial destiny as helper of the others.
The Negro is a human being, capable
of integrity, loyalty and domestic
peace and prosperity and as a human
being, lie is entitled to opportunities
to develop and exhibit those qualities
and to enjoy his natural human rights.
Where the Negro has been given op
portunity, he has proved a community
asset, his labor and his contribution
to the development of the country are
capable of being increased. Race cor
rection by education is always the
superior way, and not coercion. The
Negro should be given a chance, and
should be regarded with full humanity
and treated witli entire Justice.
‘‘To noth may be repeated what was
said above, that both are here by an
apparently purposeful destiny, and
the thing to do Is to identify and nul
lify the common enemies of both and
tackle the question upon the principle
basis offered this generation, namely,
the industrial basis.
‘‘When there are enough jobs to go
around in this country, when every
man shall have opportunity to go forth
in the morning to perform the work
he is best fitted to do, and to receive
a wage which means to secure family
life there will be no race question.
The Negro question is largely one of
unemployment and of Inexperiences in
handling the rewards of labor. The
Negro needs a job, he needB a sense
of industrially “belonging”, and thus
It ought to be the desire of our in
dustrial engineers to supply.”
thrilling plea against
LYNCHING IS FEATURED
“Wine, Woman and Song" at Gayety
Next Week to Present a
Novel Offering.
A strong plea against lynching is
f> -tured in the “Wine, Woman and
L show which comes to the Gay
ety Theatre starting with a matinee
Saturday, Dec. 30th. This occurs dur
ing the scene, “Plantation Days.”
There 1b a false charge of murder
against an old Negro. To hide the
real white criminal, a lynching 1b
irewing, when another white man
steps up arid delivers an ultimatum
with humanity, equality and freedom
as its theme, that carries weight.
There is much singing, dancing and
comedy. The piece was staged with
all its effects, and full details, bring
ing before your very eyes the planta
tions and the cotton fields of the
South. The company consists of 40
performers and the Gayety Theatre
management guarantees it to be the
greatest show seen here this season.
Daily matinees and night shows will
be given. Do not miss this show. A
Southern Jubilee is offered in the
“Plantation Days” scene, in which the
greatest story of a human race is told.
ROLAND HAYES COMES HOME
New York, Dec. 29—Roland Hayeb,
accomplished soloist, has completed
his European tour and is now return
ing to America, where he will attend
the eleventh annual conclave of the
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity in Phila
delphia this month.
Hayes’ rendition of Negro folk
songs throughout the large European
cities won him passionate admiration.
He sang before royalty and other dig
nitsries.
ASK REMOVAL OF JUDGE
Roanoke. Va., Dec. 29—Leading col
ored citizens have asked the removal
of City Judge Beverly Berkley, white,
who kicked Miss Bertha Lawson, a
school teacher, out of his office in the
city hall. Miss Lawson entered the
Judge’s office by mistake and inquired
the way to the office of the Tax Col
lector.
MORE STUDENTS COMING
NORTH TO BIG COLLEGES
Atlanta University Head Declares
That Colleges Are Good Places
for the Amalgamation of
. he Races.
NUMBER STEADILY INCREASING
New Haven, Conn., Dec. 29—Ed
ward Twitchell Ware, president of
Atlanta University, Sunday declared
in a statement to Yale men that un
less adequate provision is made for
education of Negroes in the South the
universities and colleges of the North
will be called upon to accommodate
increasing numbers of them in the
future. Already the number of appli
cations of Negro students to Northern
institutions is growing, he said:
“This situation seems to be causing
some embarrassment in the North,”
Dr. Ware said. “To exclude lrom col
lege on account of racial inheritance
any otherwise qualified person is di
rectly opposed to the democratic prin
ciples upon which these colleges are
founded. There have almost always
been a few\ Negroes in the Northern
institutions, but when they come in
larger numbers it seems somehow to
change the situation. The embarrass
ment arises out of the reluctance to
take into the student body a group
which is socially unwelcome.
“It seems to me the situation can
be met with justice to all in the fol
lowing way: First, by refusing to
make discrimination against any can
didate for admission on account of
race; secondly, by strengthening and
developing the institutions for the lib
eral education of the Negroes in the
South, and where the demand justifies,
by creating professional schools in
connection with these Institutions.
“One great problem before this na
tion is to find the way of interracial
sympathy and cooperation. There
must be some places of contact where
our Negro and white youth can come
together on equal footing and with
mutual understanding. Where better
than in our universities? It is one
way of overcoming in our youth thp
provincialism to which their elders
are so prone. It is a good thing for
the Negro youth to compete in col
lege with the youth of another race.”
TEXAS MOB LYNCHES
AN INNOCENT MAN
Streetman, Texas, Dec^ 29—Unable
to find the person who is alleged to
have attacked a white girl, George
Gay was captured by a mob and before
2000 persons was shot to death. After
the lynching the local colored hotel
was destroyed by fire. The girl, who
is unhurt, said she did not think Gay
was the man who assaulted her.
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REPUBLICANS TOLD
INVESTIGATION OF
LYNCHING NEEDLESS
Proposal by Senators is Regarded as
Transparent Subterfuge to De
lay Action and Lull With
False Hopes.
FACTS BEFORE COHBRESS
Johnson Tells Senator Frelinghuysen
Substitute for Dyer Bill Will
Not Be Acceptable to the
Colored People.
New York, Dec. 29.—Proposal by
Republican Senators to institute a
commission for the purpose of inves
tigating lynching in the United States
has elecited a sharp letter to Senator
Frelinghuysen, author of the resolu
tion, from James Weldon Johnson,
Secretary of the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Color
ed People, in which notice is served
that a substitute for the Dyer Anti
Lynching Bill will not be acceptable
to colored people.
Mr. Johnson’s letter asserts that
the essential facts concerning lynch
ing in America are known throughout
the world, that a commission to “in
hvestigate” will be interpreted only
as a plan to delay action and to ‘‘lull
the nation and the Negro with false
hopes”. The letter In full is as fol
lows: •
December 21, 1922.
Hon. Joseph S. Frelinghuysen,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Senator Frelinghuysen: I
wish to confirm my telegram of to
day as follows: “Your letter with
enclosure received. Have given the
matter careful study. Am writing
you giving reasons why we do not
consider proposed measure adequate.
I request that you delay action until
you receive my letter.”
I have carefully examined your pro
posed Joint Resolution establishing a
commission for the purpose of con
ducting a general inquiry into the sub
ject of lynching in the United States,
including the number occurring and
the cause thereof. '~
We would interpose no active oppo
sition to any steps leading toward the
abolishment of the crime of lynching,
but the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People in this
case as in a half a dozen similar pro
posals in the past is unable to see any
necessity whatsoever for such a com
mission, nor can we endorse the pro
posed measure as a substitute for the
Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. Such a com
mission as you propose could gather
only statistics and facts such as have
already been presented by this Asso
ciation and other agencies and which
have been repeatedly and at great
length read into the Congressional
Record, where they are available to
the United States Senate as well as to
other citizens.
The essential facts in regard to
lynching are well known and undisput
ed. The gathering of such facts for
an additional year would have no ap
preciable effect upon the question. We
would, therefore, view this commis
sion plan, with its year of investiga
tion, only as a further delay to the
one thing we believe to be essential
in the circumstances, and that is leg
islation giving the Federal Govern
ment jurisdiction where States fail, as
they have failed in the past thirty
five years, to secure to persons ac
cused of crime trial by due process of
law, or to prosecute and punish mem
bers of mobs.
This commission plan, therefore,
seems calculated only to delay action
or lull the nation and the Negro with
false hopes.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People will
not be actively interested in a com
mission to investigate lynching. Rath
er, we insist upon a revision of the
Senate rules of procedure and the
passage of the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill. Yours very truly,
(Signed) James Weldon Johnson,
Secretary.
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WELL KNOWN ATTORNEY DIES
Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 29—Attorney
J. Wilfred Holmes, 52 years old, died
at his home last Friday of pneumonia
following an illness of three days. He
*s survived by his widow, who was
Miss Emily Waring of Washington,
and two sons.
.IIM TROWED PASSENGERS
DIE IN RAILWAY WRECK
Houston, Tex., Dec. 29.—(Associated
Negro Press.)—Seventeen personR
t
were cooked to death by live steam
and twenty-five others burned, many
probably fatally, when Houston East
and West Teras passenger train No.
26 sideswlped a switch engine near
the depot at Humble.
The living, hissing steam transform
ed the smoker filled with colored men
and women into a cauldron.
Seven of the victims lingered until
morning before death ended their suf
fring. Bodies of teh dead were re
moved to the morgue at Humble, while
all of the injured were brought to
the Southern Pacfic hospital here in
ambulances.
OVER 16,000,000 CARELESS AND
STUPID USERS OF THE MAILS
Washington, Dec. 29—If Uncle Sam
were as careless with the mails as
those who use them, there would be
chaos in the world of affairs in this
country. The report of the Dead Let
ter office for the last year shows that
because of inaccurate or insufficient
addresses 16,586,419 letters and 629,
000 packages were not deliverable.
Thousands of these letters contained
money or money orders and thousands
of the packages contained very valu
able matter. To illustrate the utter
carelessness of the public, of this num
ber of letters over 140,000 were placed
in mail boxes or postoffices without
any address whatever.
FRANCE NEEDS MEN,
NO MATTER WHAT COLOR
Worried Over Shrinking Birth Rate,
All She Asks is For Men Big
and Husky Enough to
Defend Country
IN FEAR OF GERMAN INCRESAE
(Associated Negro Press)
Paris, Fiance Dec. 29.—France
needs men. She does not care what
the color of their skin is just so long
as they speak Frencn and are big and
husky enough to bravely defend I
French soil from the invasion of en
emies. The contention is that the j
French language possesses enough of j
potentiality to preserve the traditions
and national spirit of the French
people. The Senegalese fought like
valiant Frenchmen in the late World
War and therefore are worthy to be
included in the national scheme oi
French civilization. Frenchmen, white
and black, if* necessary, is the cry ot
the hour. Some 70,000 fewer children
were horn this year than last, accord
ing to statistics compiled and an
nounced last Monday by the National
Allianc e for the Increase of French
population. The figures point to this
conclusion. In less than fifty years
there will be 93,000,000 Germans as
against 43,000,000 French unless old
Father Stork, who is the national bird
of restored Alsace, makes more
regular visits to the average French
household. To the mind of the still
feared French, a German popualtion
more than double their own would
mean nothing more nor less than al
most certain annihilation in event of
another war. Herein lies th ecrux of
France’s concern over her shrinking
birth rate.
1 OLOKEO MAN GETS $50 FOR EX
CLUSION FROM SWIMMING POOL
New York, Dec. 29.—A colored citi
zen of New York, James Pilcher, who
was excluded from the Madison Square
Garden swimming pool, took the case
to law, upon the advice of the Na
tional Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People, with the re
sult that the swimming pool settled
the case out of court for $50. The
case was undertaken under the Civil
Rights law of New York state.
Mr. Pilcher consulted his attorney
In August of this year. On November
22, a check for $50 was in his attor
ney’s hands.
The exclusion at the Madison
Square Garden pool was upon the
pretext that Mr. Pilcher was not a
member of “the club”, and could
therefore not use the swimming pool.
However, Mr. Pilcher was accompa
nled by a white friend who gained
access to the pool upon payment of
the admission fee, without being a
member of “the club”.
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TO CROSS SAHARA
IN AUTOMOBILE
Tuggant, Algiers, l>ec. 29.—(Associ
ated Negro Press).—A party of French
pioneers set out from here in a “cater
pillar" automobile, manufactured by
a Paris company, to carry out the
long-heralded journey across the Sa
hara desert. It is hoped that the par
ty will reach Timbnetoo on the Niger
River in the early days of January.
FAMOUS SINGER
SUCCUMBS AFTER
BRAVE STRUGGLE
Mme. E. Azalia Hackley, Well-Known
for Her Concert Work in Europe
and America, Dies at Home
of Her Sister.
INVALID FOR SEVERAL YEARS
Assisted Many Prominent Musicians
of Race in Winning Their Place
in the Musical World.—Was
Also an Author.
Detroit, Mich., Dec. 29—Mme. E.
Azalia Hackley, “our Azalia” as all
old Detroiters loved to proudly call
her, died here at the residence of her
sister, Mrs. Marietta Johnson, Dec.
13th, after' an illness of several
months. In fact, she had been an in
valid for several years, but with the
indomitable fortitude and will she kept
at her loved work until through physi
cal weakness she was compelled to
give up. The funeral was held from
St. Matthew’s Episcopal church, Sat
urday, December 16th.
Mme. Hackley was the older daugh
ter of the late George and Corilla
Beard Smith of this city. She was
reared and educated in the public
schools here, graduating from the high
school and taking a normal course,
she was assigned at the age of eight
teen to teach in the Clinton street
school. She inherited a talent for mu
sic from her mother, and while attend
ing school she not only studied music,
but helped support herself by being
the pianist for Finney’s orchestra.
After teaching for six years in the
Detroit public schools, she was mar
ried to Edwin H. Hackley of Denver,
Colo. She graduated from the Denver
College of Music with distinction.
Subsequently she and her, husband
moved to Philadelphia. Later she
studied in Paris. Her beautiful well
trained soprano voice soon brought
her into prominence in Europe. Re
turning to America she had a suc
cessful concert tour here. Filled with
a desire to help talented and aspiring
young musicians of the race she gave
of her earnings to establish “the Azal
ia Hackley Scholarship Fund,” which
enabled some of our prominent mu
sicians of today to study in Europe.
The firs beneficiary of this fund was
the well-known violinist, Clarence
Cameron White. She strove, though
unsuccessfully, to have this fund in
creased and continued to help deserv
ing pupils who showed unusual talent.
Anxious to help her people she visit
ed and trained choruses in the schools
and colleges of the Southland and in
other sections of the country with
great success and gave most helpful
courses of lectures. Added to her
many duties she found time for writ
ing magazine and newspaper articles
and also published a “Guide to Voice
Culture” and a fascinating book en
titled the “Colored Girl Beaurltul,”
which every yopng woman should
read, and In which the author holds
up the higehst ideals.
One sentence taken from this volume
expresses the philosophy of Azalia
Hackley’s life. It is this: “By help
ing others we help ourselves. We
must learn to give, give, give, in order
to receive.” And how fittingly do the
closing words of this book apply to
her::
“The peace and contentment that
comes from having done her whole
duty gives her a spiritual beauty of
countenance that comes from the oth
er world; the habit of right living,
through right thought, reflects in her
face and gives her a physical beauty
that comes in no other way. And
at the last the Still Small Voice
whispers, ‘Well done, thou good and
faithful servant of a persecuted race.
You have done what you could. No
one can do more. Receive your eter
nal reward,? and the face is illumined
with the beauty that shall endure for
e\er. ”
Mme. Hackley sang in Omaha twice,
her last visit here being about four
teen years ago. Mrs. Florentine F.
Pinkston, the talented Omaha pianist
and teacher, received her first lessons
while a child in Denver from Mme.
Hackley.
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BANK DISTRIBUTES $100,000
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 29.—The Metro
politan Hank and Trust Company
mailed to the 6,000 members of Its
1922 Christmas Savings Club checks
for $100,000.
MINISTER CHARGED
WITH BIGAMT
Pine Bluff, Ark., Dec. 29.—Rev. H
Jeffries, a Baptist minister here, is
held in jail here on a charge of big
amy. According to reports, the Rev.
Mr. Jeffries wrote his name once too
often when he signed a marriage li
cense application in the county clerk’s
office recently.
When word reached Mrs. Jefrries,
No. 1, who resides at 213 Arch street,
she called at the sheriff’s office and
swore out a warrant for husband’s ar
rest. The minister was arrested and
lodged in jail on a charge of bigamy.
PERPETUATE MEMORY OF
CIVIL WAR WOMEN
Washington, D. C., Dec. 29.—The
memory of the “faithful colored mam
mies of the south” would be perpetu
ated in enduring bronze or granite
under a resolution introduced by Sen
ator Williams (democrat, Mississippi).
The measure would direct the chief of
engineers of the army to select a site
and permit Jefferson Davis Chapter
No. 1,650, of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, to erect such a mon
ument in Washington as "a gift to the
people of the United States”.
OMEGA PSI PHI TO MEET
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 29.—Chapter
of Lincoln University and Philadelphia
are the hosts at the tenth national
convention of the Omega Psi Phi Fra
ternity being held here December 26th
and 30th.
WILL ORGANIZE NATIONAL
SOCIETY FOR STUDENTS
Two Hundred Fifty Schools Have
Been Asked to Work Toward
Union of American
Students.
PLAN TO HOLD CONFERENCE
Lincoln University, Pa., Dec. 29—
The attempt is being made to unite
the colored students of High Schools,
Colleges and Universities throughout
the country.
The effort is an outgrowth of the
Students Anti-Lynching League. Last
June while appearing before President
Harding at the White House in the
interest of the Dyer Anti-Lynching
Bill a delegation of students from the
League informed the President that
the colored students today were work
ing to promote the highest type of
American Citizenry. During the last
Summer at Atlantic City, still warm
ed by the fire of the Washington Con
ference, students attending Howard,
Yale, Lincoln, Cornell, Tuskegee, Dow
nnington, Mount Claire Normal, the
Atlantic City High School and those
who anticipated entrance to similar
schools during the coming year created
an executive committee to invite the
Colored American Student to a Na
tional Consideration of racial pro
gress and the means of furthering it.
Plans are being made to have a
national (and eventually an interna
tional) yearly conference of students
for such purposes of promoting coop
eration, stimulating race pride, en
couraging education, promoting a
higher racial culture, and giving in
telligent consideration to the race pro
blems.
The chairman of the Kxecutive
Committee, I. J. K. Wells of Lincoln
University, states that two hundred
and fifty High Schools, Colleges and
Universities have been invited to work
in achieving the union of American
students.
RED ARMY CALLED
FINEST IN WORLD
Berman Traveler Claims Tlmf Russia
Could Muster <5,000,000 in “Walk
Through Europe”.
Beilin, Dec. 29.—(Crusader Serv
ice.)—Interesting details of the
strength, equipment and morals of the
Russian Red Army at the present time
are contained in a an article published
here by Dr. Robert Fluhr, a mining
engineer of this city, who left for
America a few days ago after making
an extensive tour of Russia. In Dr.
Fluhr’s opinion Russia is in a stron
ger condition today than she has ever
been in all her history, not only in the
army and navy, but in the civil ad
ministration as well.
‘‘The Red Army, as the active force
is called,” the doctor said, “is com
posed of 1,500,000 troops well drilled
and equipped with every kind of mod
ern weapon, including light and heavy
artillery, bombs and airplanes. These
soldiers are all young men who did
not fight in the World War and there
fore are not tired of fighting, like
the men in the other armies of Europe.
It is not any exaggeration to state that
the Red Army is the finest in the
world at the present time.
“At least six million officers and
men are included in this army, and it
could walk through Europe In a short
time.”
THE RISING TIDE
OF COLOR STRIKES
ISLE OF JAMAICA
Natives, Resentful of Dishonest and
Supercilious Governor Urge Him
to Remove His Presence
Elsewhere.
ACTION IS QIITE SIGNIFICANT
West Indian No More Than American
Negro Inclined to Surrender
Hard Won Rights of Rare
in Native Land.
Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 29.—(Cru
sader Service.)—That the "rising tide
of color against white domination” is
not confined to the east, but is’ re
vealing itself in the west as well, is
proved by recent action of the four
teen elected members of the Legis
lative Council in unanimously voting
the lack of confidence of the natives
of Jamaica in the administration of
the present governor, Sir Leslie Pro
byn. The electorate is overwhelming
ly Negro and with two or three ex
ceptions the elected councillors are
members of the colored race.
The drastic vote was occasioned by
the action of the governor in granting
Major Thomas, the newly appointed
director of railways an honorarium of
1,700 pounds (being about $8,000)
without the consent of the council
which act is a clear violation of the
constitution granted the island by
lord Derby in 1884. The situation was
aggravated when the Colonial Secre
tary, Col. H. H. Bryan, deliberately
sought to deceive the people by omit
ling to read to the Council the com
munications bearing on the matter
hat passed between the local govern
ment, Major Thornes and the secre
tary of state for the colonies, Mr.
Winston Churchill. This clumsy piece
of trickery was discovered and its au
thors were denounced by the legisla
tors led by Barrister J. A. G. Smith,
H. A. L. Simpson, P. I. Wint and Rev.
G. L. Young (all colored). With un
daunted courage these men treated
"His Excellency”, the representative
of the king, to severe dialectical cas
tigation and invited him to cease pol
luting the community by betaking
himself to some place where his talent
for dishonest methods might have full
play. Although at no time the race
question was raised, still it is easy to
realize that the denunciation of the
Colonial Secretary and Major Thomas,
i particularly the latter, who is lately
i from South Africa, was due to their
' contemptuous attitude towards Ne
I groes. Having had their first contact
' wiith Negroes in Africa, these men
| have sought to treat Jamaicans with
the super-ciliousness and reprehen
sible methods that characterized white
I officialdom in that unfortunate con
| tinent.
The action of the elected members
is unique and will have a bearing upon
the future of the island' inasmuch as
these same men (natives) were the
recipients of enconiums from the un
der scretary of state for the colonies,
Major Wood, who recently headed a
commission to the West Indies and
in his report advised the granting of
a greater measure of political self
rule.
Not only was the administration de
nounced but no longer did (he natives
show the usual timidity and unnatural
deference to Europeans. These latter
were told to "shut, up”, "sit down”,
you are wasting time”, with trucul
ence that bodes good for the manhood
of the race and gives the lie to Ignor
ant and misguided mountebanks who
tell Negroes that (hey must give up
what rights they have in the western
world in order to get greater rights
in Africa.
CONGRESS ASKED TO IN
VESTIGATE KC KLIJX KLAN
Washington, Dec. 29.—Investigation
of the Ku Klux Klan activities by a
house committee which would be di
rected to "recommend, if necessary,
proper disciplinary action,” was pro
posed in a resolution introduced here
by Representative Ryan, republican,
New York. (
The resolution also called for an
examination of the financial condition
of the organization "in order that. Just
and proper returns be filed with the
collectors of internal revenue” and
provided that all such organizations
must file with the Postmaster General
semi-annually the names and ad
dresses of officers and members.
It. was declared in the resolution
that the Klan was “un-American” that
it had expended "large sums for the
building of palaces” and had issued
"propaganda of religious bigotry and
racial hatred.”