The Lampasas Daily Leader (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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Oscar Vitt, Cleveland manager,
was formerly a major league infield-
er. He isn’t remembered for his
outstanding ability as a player.
Rather he was a reliable performer
who played a steady game. So was
Fred Haney, manager of the
Browns, also a former infielder.
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make the grade as a big-league
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An Illustration from Harper’s Weekly for February 19, IMS, showing
two army officers posing in Ku Klux Klan uniforms captured at Hunts-
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A rare Ku Klux broadside warn-
ing, printed and posted in Tusca-
loosa, Ata.
yard. My headstone is so close
to my head I can’t rest good in
my grave. I want you to help
me move it.’*
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gin of the name, this is the story
“as told by surviving charter
members and its authenticity
.seems beyond question,” declares
Mr. Horn.
Just as the name of the organi-
zation was chosen by chance, so
was its official costume. Concern-
ing it the author of “Invisible
Empire” says: “Bubbling over
with the excitement of their new-
found plaything, the young mem-
bers of the new Ku Klux Klan
decided to make a public mani-
festation of themselves; so, bor-
' rowing the familiar idea of the
easy Hallowe’en disguise, they
wrapped themselves in sheets,
mounted their horses and gal-
loped through the streets of the
little town, greatly enjoying the
sensation they created—particu-
larly the alarm and dismay of
the Negroes, to whose supersti-
tious minds the sight of white-
sheeted figures suggested nothing
but spirits risen from the grave,
and who *
homes in
fled to their
laatellMr.**
In a short time this terror that
was created among the Negroes
began to create considerable talk
around Pulaski. **It was noticed
that prowling freemen who en-
countered the ghostly horsemen
at night were afterwards more
inclined to stay at home after
dark,; and this gave birth to the
idea that perhaps the Klan might
: be used as a means of subduing
the undue bumptiousness and the
nocturnal prowlings of some at
Evening Prayer”:
Now I lay ms down to i
I pr«v th««. Grant, my
Just lot ths Midlers round me stand
And drive away the Ku Klux band.
That I may have one nl<M of rest
With consciousness of safety blessed.
And though my conscience sting no more,
I think I may make out to snore.
A grateful song I then will raise.
Thy Midlers and thy grace to praiM.
Amen.
When Gen George Meade the ■ right.’~DeTBakerof thTrigi7,“w^
victor of Gettysburg, «as placed B eateber ta w. day, bat didn’t do
in command of one of the mill- ; jfijsr * - —
tary districts in the South, he is-
sued a general order calling for
the suppression of the Ku Klux
Klan and forbidding the news-
papers to print anything “fur-
thering the Ku Klux cause.”
Thereupon some unknown poet
printed in the Augusta (Ga.) Reg-
ister and Chronicle the following:
oknkxai, oaoaa no. sc,™
Lot ovary Ku Klux Klansmaa hood
Tto General Order of General Meade.
Hie Highness has received a fright
- And can not sleep by day or night.
He sees in C *
A member «t _____..
And every time a ram's torn toots
(Poor feDow) trembles in his boots.
Oh. tear) Oh. dearl how they annoy him.
Hence his orders to destroy 'em.
So tot every Klansman heed
The General Order of General Meade:
And aU observe this General Bule,
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to observe the frequency with
which the unsung and anonymous
but prolific poets of the Recon-
struction era were moved to lyr-
ical composition in connection
with the rise and fall of the Ku
Klux,” observes Mr. Horn. He
then cites the case of a Oarpet-
bag preacher, named Reverend
A. W. Cummings, who became
tax assessor and collector in
Spartanburg. S. C. When Presi-
dent Grant sent Federal troops
to Spartanburg" in 1871 to sup-
press the Klan, the local news-
paper, named the Spartan, print-
ed the following “impious gibe”
at Reverend Cummings, which It , , . .
called “A_Reverend Gentleman's thy’s fame as a player never spread
past the minors and his ability was
i never tested in big-time competition.
Success Stories /
Casey Stengel and Jimmy Dykes
were better than the average ball
■ player In their best years, bat nci-
1 ther of them were world beaters.
I Since they shed their uniforms
they’ve been doing bettor than all
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so well in the majors. That didn’t
prohibit him from becoming a good
manager.
With so many players of average
ability making the grade as man-
agers, it seems more than coinci-
dence that the stars fail in an exec-
utive capacity. It seems, though, a
waste of sympathy to shed tears
over a great man whose playing
career is drawing to a close. He
has made money, has a host of
friends and admirers and has led
„ k ....... the kind of an existence he wanted.
Southern m»n Because baseball doesn’t offer him
M tto Ku Khix Klan. ,a manager’s Job it doesn't mean that
moguls of the game are hard-heart-
ed Wretches, casting off a man when
his usefulness is over. A man may
be a great ball player, but lack the
essential qualifications of a good
manager.
Fortunately, ball club owners real-
ise that.
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OSCAR VITT
be rewarded. What can we do for
was asked, | him? The fact that the big sports
“Have you got a mattock?” Upon figure may make more in a week
replying that he had, he was told
by the ghostly visitor, “Well,
j-.’M'' 'v’’
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Secret Club Formed by Six Fun-Loving Young
to hear the sound of its sinister
syllables. Even the initials, in
their alliterative attractiveness,
were an asset.”
Curiously enough, this name,
which was to help the society be-
come historic, was chosen quite
by chance. In those days Greek-
letter fraternities were becom-
ing popular in the colleges and
universities of the country so it
was only natural, perhaps, that
the founders of the Klan should
turn to the Greek vocabulary for
a suggested name. It was Rich-
ard Reed who first suggested the
name “Kuklos,” from a Greek
word from which our “circle”
and “dycle” are derived. His
companions liked that name but
Kennedy, who had an ear for al-
literation, suggested that another
“K” sound be introduced into the
name by adding the word "clan.”
So, at first, it was spelled “Ku-
kos Clan,” then “Kuklux Klan”
and finally it emerged as “Ku
Klux Klan.” Although there are
hitter in a pinch.
Nor does he play baseball for
the money involved. He has been
a well-paid player, and in addition,
is a member of a New York law
firm, and a director of two New Jer-
sey manufacturing plants. . e i
Sport Shorts
AFTER losing the first heat In
n which she started, Nancy
Hawks, first trotting horse to beat
2:05, won 45 straight and never lost
another race . . .
Carl Hubbell nev-
\ er argues with
umpires, believ-
“mg it to be bad
W luck. That’s prob-
ab'y the reason
-Wt* iRMBL Umpire George
J? Magerkurth says
' ’ .Z/ Hubbell is the
easiest player in
baseball .to get
along wi*i . . .
Manuel f Salvo,
Giant] pitcher,
was a F
er in a E
cisco department store during his
off seasons there . . . George Sis-
ler, member of baseball’s Hall of
Fame, recently traveled a thousand
miles to deliver one pitch. Guest
of honor at a Wichita semi-pro
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(RalMMd by Western Newspaper Union.)
Z^\NE December evening
( 1 in 1865 six young men
were sitting around the
fireplace in the law office of
Judge Thomas M. Jones in
the little town of Pulaski,
Tenn., idly gossiping ’about
the affairs of the day. Event-
ually the talk turned to how
■dull life seemed in this little
town after the thrills and ex-
citement they had known as
soldiers in the Confederate
army.
What could they do to
* amuse themselves and help
pass away the time while ad-
justing themselves to the
new order of things? Some
one—it may have been Judge
Jon"s’ son, J. Calvin Jones,
or it may have been any one
of the other five, Capt. John
C. Lester, Capt. John B.
Kennedy, Capt. James R.
Crowe, Frank O. McCori^or
Richard R. Reed—suggested
that they might organize a
new club or society. In the
absence of any better sug-
gestion, they decided to go
ahead with that idea. *
The next evening they met
again in Judge Jones* office and
formed a temporary organiza-
tion. They elected a chairman
and a secretary, committees
were appointed to select a name
for the new organization and to
draw up rules and a ritual for
the initiation of new members.
Then they adjourned, to meet a
week later to perfect their or-
ganization.
Thill was formed the famous Ku
Klux Klan of the Reconstruction
era, a secret organization that
was at the same time lawless
and law-preserving, that success-
fully defied the might of the fed-
eral government of the United
States and that wrote into our
history one of its most thrilling
chapters.
The ’Invisible Empire.*
A complete history of the Ku
Klux Klan would fill volumes (it
took 13 of them to hold all the
testimony given before the joint
congressional investigation of the
Klan that began in 1870) but
present-day historian has com-
pressed into one volume most of
the essential facts about it. He
is Stanley F. Horn of Nashville,
Tenn., editor of the Southern
Lumberman, whose ‘“Invisible
Empire—The Story of the Ku
Klux Klan. 1865-1871,” based
upon years of research, was pub-
• lished recently by the Houghton
Mifflin company. It is easy to
understand how difficult was his
task of piecing together the frag-
ments of the story into an authen-
tic and interesting narrative. For
the Klan had no written records
and the surviving Klansmen— •
even years later when there was
little, if any, reason to fear re-
prisal—refused to talk.
“The objects of the new soci-
x- ety being purely amusement and
relaxation aU of the original
plans and arrangements were de-
cidedly on the burlesque and gro-
tesque side,” says Mr. Horn in
his chapter on the origin of the
Klan. "The names of the offi-
cers, as specified in the report of
the rules committee, were unusu-
al and unique, the prime consid-
eration being to get as far as
possible away from familiar mil-
itary or political titles.”
Having decided to call their
meeting place a “Den.” they
gave their chief officer a name
appropriate to that—the “Grand
Cyclops.” The next important of-
ficial was called a “Grand Magi”
and there was a "Grand Turk”
to greet all candidates for admis-
sion. The secretary was called
the “Grand Scribe” and there
were two messengers called
“Night Hawks” and two guards
called “Lictors.” Ordinary mem-
bers were referred to as
“Ghouls.”
"The titles had no meaning or
significance, being selected arbi-
trarily and solely for their weird
and» supposedly impressive
sound,” writes Mr. Horn. “It
was just another local secret so-
ciety of fun-loving young men
looking for an outlet for their
unemployed energies such as has
been formed hundreds of times in
the past without any particular
purpose. In all probability it
would endure but a short time
until the attention of the mem-
bers was directed along other
channels. Aside from the condi-
tion of affairs and other factors
/involved, the thing that caused
the new organization to attract
attention and later to spread be-
yond any dream of its organizers
** teas toiouestionablv the impres-
‘’SSk treated and the curiosity
aroused by IM rtiysterious, sonor-
ous name. It was the kind of
name people liked to repeat, just
Jack of All Tradei
ONE at basebaU’s sensat
V' not tax his playinj
-7,—"ris (Moe) Borg, sc
gentleman ana ^a«_..^r for th<
ton Red Sox.
Not that Moe isn’t a good
ball player. He is. f
a versatile individual that his ac-
complishments in other fields tend
to awe the average onlooker.
To begin with, Moe ean talk fast
and furiously in five different lan-
guages, and has a working knowl-
edge of about ja dozen more. Ho
studied Romance languages at
Princeton, graduating in 1923. He
originally planned on going to the
Sorbonne in Paris to study phonet-
ics, but decided to finance his con-
tinued education by playing ball
with Brooklyn. He played the sum-
mer of 1923 and then went to Paris.
When he came back the follow-
ing summer the Dodgers weren’t
particularly impressed. The winter
spent in study hadn’t helped his hit-
ting, so he was sold to Minneapo-
lis. From Minneapolis he went to
Reading in the International league,
and from there to the Chicago White
Sox in 1925.
Deciding on further education,
Moe enrolled in the taw school of
Columbia ufiiverstty. He passed
the New York state bar examina-
tions in 1929. His comprehensive
knowledge was ably demonstrated
recently when he appeared on a quiz
program over a nation-wide hookup.
He astonished even bis fellow broad- |
casters with his rapid-fire answers
to the brain-stumping questions.
In addition to his other accom-
plishments, Moe is familiar with the
scores of several operas, and is a
lover of the drama. A real gourmet,
he knows the best restaurants in
all the cities on the big league route.
’ Moe, despite his amazing versatil-
ity, is primarily a baseball player.
He doesn’t want to be known as a
lawyer or a linguist, he wants to be
looked upon as a conscientious,
hard-working catcher.
He played on the 1933 Washington
team, under Manager Joe Cronin,
and Cronin, Berg’s boss now on the
Red Sox, will attest to Berg’s value
to the team which won the Ameri-
can League championship. He
plays a steady, consistently good
game, and though no second Babe
Ruth, manages to be a dangerous
those who seemed incapable of
using their new-found freedom
discreetly.”
It must be remembered that
these were uneasy times in the
South. Its traditional social struc-
ture had been overturned by the
liberation of the slaves and these
freedmen, suddenly unrestrained,
were inclined to make the most
of their new irresponsibility, es-
pecially since they were encour-
aged by Northern Carpetbaggers,
who had swarmed into the South
to take advantage of its demor-
alized condition, and by Southern
Scalawags. It must be remem-
bered, too, that for years the
dread of a slave insurrection had
been the secret fear of nearly
every Southerner. Now with dis-
orders increasing the minor
transgressions of the newly lib-
erated blacks seemed to be only
a prelude to something infinitely
worse. So anything which could
hold them in check and avert
that possible disaster was not to
be lightly dismissed without a
trial, at least.
The Klan’s First Stage.
“But all this innocent frolic
and horseplay on the part of a
few small-town youths constitut-
ed merely the first stage in the
existence of the Ku Klux Klan,”
writes Mr. Hom. "Throughout
the winter of 1866-67 the Ku Klux
Klan outgrew the confines of Pu-
laski and Giles county. Also it
began to take on a more serious
purpose wherever it had been
established. It had grown out of
its swaddling clothes and, almost
before its organizers realized
what was happening, they found
1t on the eve of branching out az
a force of regulation whiefy was
to affect the destiny of the whole
South. Pulaski, however, re-
mained the nerve-center of the
Ku Klux movement. Here was
dropped into the pool the pebble
' whose ripples spread so far.”
Just as Pulaski remained the
nerve-center, so did the state of
Tennessee become the “brain”
of the movement. This was due
largely to the genius of one man
—Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest,
known as the “wizard of the sad-
dle,” when he was leading Con-
federate'cavalry during the late
war. He became the “Grand Wiz-
ard” of the Ku Klux Klan and un-
der hia direction the Klan was
used as the only weapon which
the prostrate South had left to
prevent itself from being ground
into the dust by the hatred of the
Northern Radicals. Then when
the control of the Klam began to
slip away from the original lead-
ers and thieves and other des-
peradoes began to use its masks
and robes to cloak their own evil
designs, it was disbanded.
The story of all this turbulent
period is told in "Invisible Em-
pire” whose author concludes his
book thus:
“So lived and so died the Ku
Klux Klan. It made its name a
symbol of terror and despera-
tion. There are today many thou-
sands of Americans who think of
it as an indefensible gang of out-
laws and murderers. But ask
any person who lived in the South
during that wild nightmare called
the Reconstruction and who saw
the Klansmen as they went about
their self-appointed, task, ask
such a one and from the light in
his eyes it will be easy to see
that the Klan in his memory is
clad In shining armor, sans peud
et sans reproche.”
DoetHr
Speaking of Sports—
Baseball’s Best
Pilots Played
I‘Average’ Game
By ROBERT McSHANE
A NOTHER major American cri-
sis developed not long ago when
------2—i” Gehrig benched
himself after establishing what may
be an all-time record for consecu-
tive games. Plainly the iron man
was nearing the end of the trail.
Huge, salty tears were shed over
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T I Tennesseeans Became One of Most Powerful
H >1" f r Is F S II I Ml
train for home . . .
Bad news item:
Tommy Farr says
he is coming back to
America to fight
Max Baer again ... '
Billy Conn recently
announced that he 1
will not become a
heavyweight fighter,
but will content him- Tammv Fan
self with being the
best light-heavy . . . Warner Broth-
ers expect to sign Spencer Tracy to
play the lead role in “The Life of
Knute Rockne” ... The Philadel-
phia White Elephants were renamed
the Athletics when Connie Mack
took over the club in May, 1901.
Hated Chore
SOUTHERN football coaches have
° revealed that they would like to
eliminate spring football practice—
but like the man who held on to the
tiger’s tail—they don’t dare let go.
Spring football praetiee to a
dreary spectacle. The players have
never been enthusiastic about It, but
turn out because they’re afraid I
some hard-pluggtag individual, who
may have less ability but who shows
more interest in the game, will bo
on the first string line-up hl their
place the next fall.
Coaches probably don’t deservo I
much sympathy. They are paid
for year around work, but the play-
ers, at least theoretically, receive
nothing for their services.
The Southern coaches, nev<
leu, have a good point. Natu
spring practice gives the sqt
head start on signals and fi
tions. But if all schools aban
the spring practice season
started from scratch they all
have the same chance. And it
relievo the possibilities for i
durmg^the early season.
“The theory that the Ku Klux
| were Confederate ghosts was
| readily accepted by the Negroes
generally as being entirely rea-
sonable and credible, and when
the Klansmen started to making
moonlight visits of a regulatory
nature they took their cue from
this,” says Mr. Horn. For in-
stance, the leader of the Klans-
men, after calling the Negro out
of his cabin, would complain that
he was thirsty and ask the black
man to bring him a bucket of
water. Usually he would bring
the bucket and a gourd dipper, j “Columbia Lou'
thereupon the ghostly figure
would throw the gourd aside and,
raising the bucket to his lips,
drain it to the last drop. (The
Negro didn’t know, of course, that w . w. w,w.
’ Kl*nsman had a funnel in- G^rig’sImpending doom.”What’did
-w. to----v . baseball intend to de for the man
, . . . . . . . who has done so much for it? Who
cloth bag under his flowing robe.) wonld reward Um with a manaferi-
Having drunk, the white-robed al Job? Forgotten was the foot that
figure would smack his lips ap- Gehrig hasn’t yet retired, that ho
preclatively and exclaim, “My, isn’t a decrepit individual requiring
but that’s good. That’s the first a guiding hand to steer him to the
drink I’ve had since I was killed closest relief agency.
at the Battle of Shiloh; and you . But the Amei^can iports-loving
get mighty thirsty down there in pubnc like that. Let one of its
heroes start slipping and the hue
A Standard Joke. and cry is nation wide. He must
“This became the favorite and
standard joke of the Ku Klux
everywhere during those early
days; it was almost the hall-
mark of a Ku Klux raid—none
genuine without it,” declares Mr.
Horn.
But it was not the only stunt
which the Klansmen tried to
frighten the superstitious Ne-
groes. Sometimes the leader
would put a false head, made of
a gourd with a mask attached,
on top of his head and wear his
robe up over this false head. Dur-
ing the interview, he would thrust
the masked gourd at the Negro
saying “Here, hold my head a
moment." The terror which this
request inspired is easily imag-
ined. Sometimes he would ask
the Negro to shake hands with
him and when the black man
reached out he would be met with
a hand made of wood and paint-
ed white so that it looked exactly
like that of a skeleton.
During one such visit in Missis-
■‘PPii the i him? The 'fact that the big sports
. than the average person does in a
— ....... , year is seemingly beside the point,
com. .loot with m. to th. «r.v^ „ g b„ek m,rk
ball, according to calamity bowlers,
that Babe Ruth wasn’t given a man-
| ager’s job when he retired. He was
| the game’s most colorful figure,
packing the stands wherever he ap-
pt-a red and giving the beat years of
| his life to the diamond wars. Ruth
<ras the highest paid baseball play-
fl er in history, signing contracts at a
top price of 880,0M per year. That
total didn’t include income on royal-
ties and syndicated newspaper sto-
ries. Yet Ruth’s failure to find an
executive
| spread wi
I Unsung Heroes
Overlooked is the fact that each
I year a lot of fast, smart ballplayers
I go by the boards. They, too, have
devoted their best years to the
game, but when the final day rolls
around they cast an agonized eye
over the bank book and wonder
where they’re going to open a filling
station or lunch counter. They did
a lot for the game, but they weren’t
heroes.
There seems to bo some good rea-
son why groat baseball stars aren’t
usually picked when managers are
appointed. Some of them have, such
as Tris Speaker, Cobb and Walter
Johnson. But they didn’t last. The
most successful managers seem to
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