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Georgia. Atlanta, the onetime Imperial City of the Klan, is nearly deserted so far as the Klan is concerned. The leadership of the Klan was lost when the Simmons and Clarke dynasty was overthrown by the Texan dynasty of Hiram Wesley Evans. The palace is deserted or nearly so, and the home it gave to Simmons was sold when he went forth to found the Knights of the Flaming Sword. Clarke has founded the anti-evolution society?the Supreme Kingdom (TIME, Feb. 1, EDUCATION). No more are great national meetings held in Atlanta. It still is powerful in small cities...
...Speaker Satterwhite, the leader of this fight, who is a big West Texan with more ambition than sense, came into this office and impudently threatened to call a special session of the House for impeachment purposes if my wife did not convene the Legislature...
...University of Texas thought that it was not worth so overwhelmingly much. The land, mostly in western Texas, was about to be sold for a song-almost any song. Then suddenly an enterprising alumnus suggested that the property might contain oil; events have proved that it does. Texan newspapers are already headlining UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RICHEST IN WORLD...
...guards were detected in a lapse of duty. Captain Adolphus ruled that one of the men, Corporal Andrew Chantos of Cleveland, should have the benefit of certain doubts as to whether he was at fault at all. He was allowed to go scot free, and Private Clarence Key, sommolent Texan, "convicted of inefficiency and neglect of duty while on post at White Court," was sentenced to one month's confinement, to lose...
Outside afterwards he was cornered by reporters and asked what he had learned. But the Texan, lean of face was lean of words on the topic. He talked a little though. He recalled the day several summers before when he had drawn the first draft of the Leauge of Nations Covenant at Magnolia under the direction of his good friend Woodrow Wilson. He said that eventually the U.S would have to become an "associate member" of the Leauge and adhere to the World court. He hoped that the League question would never more be dragged through the arena...