National Affairs: Vengeful

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.

So, last week, it was this Imperial Wizard, Hiram W. Evans, speaking in Atlanta, Ga., who laid down the dictums for his Klan for the next two years. One of them was a doom announcement on the subject of Gov. Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York. Said the Wizard-Dentist: "Georgia will have her revenge in 1928 for the...

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