In spring of 1922, Harry H. Mayer, contributing editor of Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, commented on an insidious poison that has been working in veins of people. That disease was Klux pernicious germ of class hatred and class tyranny whose chief symptoms included defying constituted authority, clashing with state and city officials, invading homes, and violating there right of individual to regard his home as his castle. This contagion which had fastened itself to us with alarming results could be found primarily in Texas and California.1 Yet recently, it had infected occupants of Armory Hall at Ninth Street and Minnesota Avenue in Kansas City.2 This Kansas Klan, identified by some as Wyandotte Klan No. 5, had solicited members and publicized its activities through series of church donations.3Harry Burton, mayor of Kansas City, Kansas, was not pleased to see Klan, a mistake . . . [that] should have no place among us, in his town. He soon publicly denounced Klan and ordered all city employees affiliated with it to resign their positions.4 Burton stood his ground on issue, and even agreed to debate Klan lecturer at London Heights Methodist Church in 1922, but despite his best efforts, invisible empire was entrenched in Kansas City.5 Though acknowledging that Burton had been initially unsuccessful in providing an antidote for Ku Klux Klanitis, Harry Mayer felt confident that American people w[ould] certainly not tamely submit to Klan.6Harry Mayer's warning against Klan offers an interesting glimpse into response of local officials in opposing spread of white supremacy and intolerance in their communities. Mayer, writing for Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, was not alone in his use of press to voice his concerns over hooded interpretation of 100 percent Americanism. Newspapers across Missouri, particularly The Call, The Catholic Register, St. Louis Argus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Church Progress, and Democrat-Tribune, devoted extensive coverage to dangers posed by violence and moral vigilantism of Ku Klux Klan. Included among these newspapers were The Jewish Voice and The Modern View, published in St. Louis, and Kansas City Jewish Chronicle. While mainly discussing topics important to Missouri's Jewish population, these three publications also served as form of protest against intolerance and antisemitism around world. Exposing Ku Klux Klan became common subject in pages of newspapers in early 1920s, usually featured alongside information related to activities of local synagogues, refugee crisis in Europe, and Henry Ford's comments on the international Jew in his Dearborn Independent.7 By mid-point of decade, however, newspapers, citing need for white Protestants to take lead in fighting Klan, made notable switch away from overt anti-Klan activism. Despite this change, Missouri Jewish press, by keeping constant eye on movements of Ku Klux Klan, served as powerful voice against dangers of intolerance and aided in successful repudiation of Klan in state.In looking at The Jewish Voice, The Modern View, and Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, major English-language Jewish newspapers in Missouri, it is important to note different paths these publications followed during 1920s. Created in 1880s, The Jewish Voice served as an important source for news on and St. Louis Jewry during its publication history. Managed and edited by Rabbi Moritz Spitz of B'nai El Temple, newspaper provided its readers, according to Walter Ehrlich, an immeasurable service to community. When Spitz died in 1920, The Jewish Voice struggled to keep up with St. Louis's secular press and with local Jewish newspapers such as The Modern View and Der Yiddishe Record, and ceased operation in mid-1920s. …