Pres. Harding addresses the Shriners’ convention, in preparation for which the feds have been cracking down on bootlegging in DC. Harding attacks the Ku Klux Klan without ever actually naming it: “Secret fraternity is one thing; secret conspiracy is quite another. ... In the very naturalness of association, men band together for mischief, to exert misguided zeal, to vent unreasoning malice, to undermine our institutions. This isn’t fraternity; this is conspiracy. This isn’t associated with uplift; it is organized destruction. This is not brotherhood; it is the discord of disloyalty and a danger to the Republic.” But other fraternal orders, like the Fez Bros, are fine.
Not to be out-fraternal-ordered, NY Gov. Al Smith joins the Elks.
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