KU KLUX KLAN: Washington Splurge

It is the custom of the Ku Klux Klan in recent years to make an annual splurge in Washington, D. C., so that mere laymen can gaze on the marching "brothers." This festival on Pennsylvania Avenue has come to be a barometer by which the relative annual potency of the K. K. K. may be judged. In the eyes of "Mr. Average Citizen," who thinks of crowds in terms of the several 100,000 Manhattanites who welcomed Gertrude Ederle and who fought to see the corpse of Rudolph Valentino, the K. K. K. performances...