From The Indianapolis Times, Friday, December 28, 1923: Needy Indianapolis families had an abundance of Christmas cheer with almost 2,000 baskets of food and provisions given out through the benevolence of several different organizations earlier this week. To avoid duplications, the Christmas clearing house supplied lists of poor families to various groups. Shriners of the Murat Temple distributed more than 600 baskets of food, a Shriner being in charge of each personal delivery, while the Salvation Army gave out a similar number of baskets from its South Capitol Ave. citadel. Robed and hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan delivered 812 Christmas baskets and 60 tons of coal to disadvantaged families. Klan officials claim that no color or religious lines were drawn in making the deliveries. Local Klansmen donated money in two collections to purchase items for the gift baskets.
From The Indianapolis News, Tuesday, January 1, 1924: Equality of opportunity for all races and opposition to war as a denial of Christian principles was the general feeling among the more than 7,000 Christian students from the major American educational institutions attending the ninth quadrennial convention of the Student Volunteer Movement at the Cadle Tabernacle. The race problem and war were the two questions discussed more generally in the 49 discussion groups which met during the convention. The third question receiving the most consideration was whether Western civilizations have any right to impose their type of life and thought on foreign peoples, but no summary of this question was presented. The five student speakers who summarized the views of the discussion groups were men because it was impossible to find women students whose voices could be heard throughout the auditorium.