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Once, in Dallas, Tex., there was a mediocre dentist with ,an eye for business ventures. He joined the Ku Klux Klan; now he is Imperial Wizard; he knows he has money and he thinks he has power...
...rest on. Most of the major Forecast errors of the past two years have been made in regard to Yale. There is something unpsychic, if that is what I mean, about the Elis. They always do what is least expected, even when on Harvard's one-yard line. So, wizard though I do not mind being called, I am a bit worried about this Yale-Army business. I'm going to dope it a tie--at any rate I can only be half wrong...
...Stephenson had really lived in Dallas, and so had Hiram Evans, dentist, salesman, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. They used to work together. The Wizard told Mr. Stephenson the system and the blurb of the K. K. K. They hatched a scheme. For four years after that, D. C. Stephenson moved among the virgin fields of Indiana, getting members for the Klan. For every $10 initiation fee he was paid $4. He took in several hundred thousand members and made so much money that he got into trouble with the national Klan.* He was ready, he thought...
...Klansmen attention: Remember your solemn oath to obey all edicts, mandates, rulings, and instructions of the imperial wizards. It is the order of the imperial wizard that all klansmen work faithfully for the nomination of our brother klansman, Major Jackson...
...Later, in 1924, Mr. Stephenson was ousted from the national Klan because he had violated his oath of allegiance and had been "disrespectful to virtuous womanhood." He had already organized an independent Klan, had himself chosen Grand Dragon; and then replied to his old friend, Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans: "The present national head is an ignorant, uneducated, uncouth individual who picks his nose at the table and eats his peas with his knife. He has neither courage nor culture...