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Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
...shared respect. The conditions: economic balance (poverty leads to despotism) and enlightenment. One flaw in Webster's abstract definitions: areas of despotism can exist in a democracy, and he doesn't say so. The film shows such areas of despotism within U.S. democracy as the Ku Klux Klan, a resort accepting only a "selected" (Christian) clientele...
Dealey gave Dallas the kind of personal journalism that Texans cottoned to. The News took on the powerful Ku Klux Klan in a death battle, and won. Dealey crusaded against gambling, turned down a fortune in oil stock advertising...
...TIME'S photograph of Evangeline Booth did not do her credit, and ED. said he would be happy to receive a better one. As usual, cantankerous Upton Sinclair was present-denying that he was, as TIME had said, a Bolshevik. He put TIME to bed with the Ku Klux Klan for seeming to support the candidacy of "the Klan Kandidate Koolidge." ED. allowed that the charge was baseless...
Died. William Joseph Simmons, 75, indefatigable founder of fraternal orders (Knights of the Kamelia, The White Band), ex-preacher and traveling salesman, fanatical first Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which he helped revive in 1915 and goaded on to a monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent...