File:Arthur Hornbui Bell (1891-1973) in The News of Paterson, New Jersey on August 9, 1940.jpg

A untt4 AmericA.. -deyold of byphnnalnil socletlei and group, and on pledged to defend and maintain tha Union wa atreaaed laat evenlog by Arthur Bell. State head of the Ku Klux Klan et .a-meetlng held et the Trl-Cour.ty -Clubhouse, Black Oak Ridge road. Wayne. . . We have no-place lit this-country - for -hvphenetion,. Bell said. Our Job Is to remember that we are American rltlxena, ewe allegiance to the United States, and consequently cannot be concerned with' other countries. There It loo much memory of- the mother-land with IU Intrigue,, bates, rivalries and century-old teude. Unfortunate ly, aoroe people, -and particularly nowadaya the Fifth Column, would bring them here. The Klan aaya they mutt be abolished. On the other' baud, Unknowing resentment of foreign-era 'too, T unfair. -Them are many good, loyal ' people In thli country who today are -being, passively persecuted because -they beer a foreign name. Theae things must go.' The unified people who glory In their homeland. They must be a militant people, ready to defend It. and a prepared ople, able 10 fight.- The Klan of today la awake to the need, end every effort of our leaders and members will he to end." BelUe talk followed a social gathering of the Ku Klux Klan held In the clubhouse. Questioned as to the-Klanls pur-- pose In. leasing Camp Nord-landr Andover, for e meeting August IS, he said that hla organisation considered Itself fortunate to rent the grounds, and that every effort will be made to advance principles of Americanism oa tha grounds now held by a foreign group. Our meeting. Bell eald, will be open to the public. We shall , say -what we think should be done for the eoun-, try, and- naturally one of the' first requisites la to forget national strife end unite In the face of e common danger." Tbe group at laat evening's' meeting appeared Jets.-Short .'religious services, ware held late in IK' evenlngrRgfreah-ments were served.

Wayne Klansmen Told They Must Help Abolish Fifth Columnists in U.S. A united America, ... Refreshments were served.

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