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LEWIS #099 3:1:74 that they also take in the girls. But that is a point of it wa& helping the children out to go along. In other words, we sponsored baseball games and basketball games, But some of the children can't get equipment, so you don't embarrass a child if he's not in position to get it: we always arranged some kind of a deal that he won the equipment he needed, him- self. Things that you do - and make them feel good. A child gets out and learns- Now, most parents are busy making money for their children and they don't really enjoy their children, and when they come out with the men it gives them a chance to see what they can do when they go out, I've had children setting next to me didn't know they how to . . . at the dinner - and I supervised and look after them, and I didn't have no trouble with them. Later on, 3 met them different places out and they always came around me. But the parents give them money and all that, a lot of them. But they just don't have the the to take care 05 them or take them anywhere. Harvey: Is it accurate to say then that the new clubs are more social clubs, wheras the old lodges dealt more with moral and political things, and that there were more rigid requirements for getting in? Lewis: That's right. Harvey: What kind of requirements did they have fox getting in to, say, the Junior Order of Mechankcs? Lewis: Well, those days you had to be clean character. You couldn't have no police record and you had to be a church- going person. And then, even then, something that maybe a
LEWIS: 099 111:1:75 lot of people didn't know - we could blackball them, And it wasn't three blackballs . . . one blackball. And they blackball you and that's all there was. And nobody knew why you were blackballed or anything else, you were just blackballed, that's all.And you seen things happen surprise you: 1 seen things happen. Harvey: Did y ~ have u to be Protestant to be in the Mechanics? ~ewis: Most of them, yes. Knights of Columbus was the Cath- olics, see. It wasn't so much them organizations wouldn't take Catholics - Catholics wasn't allowed to join then. Their own faith wouldn't allow them to join. I mean, you hear a lot of this story about Catholic this can't do this; Catholics can do it but the faith don't believe in it and they don't do it. Harvey: You said a f ew times that the lodges worked against immigration, What kinds of things did they do? What did they do? Lewis: The Congressmen and senators. They spent money in political campaigns and stuff like that for congressmen and senators to keep them from coming in here. And there was always a certain amount. But that's how our country become over-populated. Now they're bringing them in. You figures a thousand of these coming in and children and all. Harvey: Were there other political issues that those lodges addressed themselves to? Let's say World War I. Lewis: Well, they were all against that. Wilson, right be- fore he was . . . w ell, during the election absolutely it wasn't going ko war; no, sir, peace - it was absolutely for
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