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...every province of Canada was represented. Seventy-five thousand new members joined the order during the past year, bringing the total membership up to 800,000. A feature of the convention was a speech by Supreme Knight James A. Flaherty, in which he challenged the Ku Klux Klan and other K. of C. detractors. He declared that the K. of C. would combat all combinations which seek to inject religious or racial bias into governmental or social life. He then sketched the vast educational work of his order: hospital work for 30,000 disabled soldiers; national correspondence school for members...
...also have extreme Nationalistic societies like the Ku Klux Klan, which is constantly threatening Jews, Catholics and other minorities. You even have Presidential candidates making violent attacks upon Jews and other minorities...
Spurns charge of church favoritism made by Klan official...
...Elks and the Moose having refused to buy the 15 buildings of Valparaiso University, at Valparaiso, Ind., to save the University from financial collapse, the buildings have been offered to the Ku Klux Klan in solemn Konklave at Kokomo. In the meantime Henry K. Brown, formerly President, son of the founder, and member of the realty company which owns all the stock in the school, has commenced proceedings to regain control of the buildings. The Invisible Empire says nothing...
Meanwhile Ku Klux Klan posts in neighboring towns had notified Port Arthur officials that they "sanctioned and approved" the town's action. The Texas Commander of the American Legion telegraphed that the Legion would support the town in all lawful ways...