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    1. Falmouth Outlook 7 Sept. 1923
    2. Falmouth Outlook Friday 7 Sept. 1923 Vol. 17 No. 14 Pg. 1 Col. 2 COMING TO A GOOD COUNTRY Mr. & Mrs. James Oral Cummins, (nee Garnett Brown) of 1332 Clay St. Cincinnati, OH are overjoyed over the arrival of a 7 1/2 pound son, on Sept. 2nd. The little man will be known as Victor Emerson. Falmouth Outlook Friday 7 Sept. 1923 Vol. 17 No. 14 Pg. 4 Col. 4 TRAGEDY INVITED The stage was set for tragedy when the Ku Klux parade formed in Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb, and klowns, openly armed, appeared as directors of automobiles in the parade. The greater violence seems to have been upon the side of the mob which objected to the parade, but the fact that ten klowns were fined $10 each for "illegally carrying weapons" shows where started the lawlessness that ended in a pitiful tragedy for which, no doubt, somebody should swing for murder, and resulted in klowns with minor injuries procuring medical aid and leaving the physicians' offices with their regalia tucked under their coats. The ungowned mob in Carnegie deserves no defense. It would be fortunate if a conviction should follow the killing of the misguided buffoon in the bed sheet whose adventure ended in the morgue. The conviction might be a salutary lesson to other hot heads, as well as justice. But it is true nevertheless that men cannot band together and swagger in the streets with pistols displayed, wearing the regalia of an organization which, in public opinion represents race prejudice and intolerance, in a country pledged by its every tradition to tolerance, without provoking rioting and murder. Setting the state for lawlessness, and opening the play, invites the climax. Louisville Times ============================== Items of interest to: Doug Harper Biloxi, MS

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