On September 6, 1921, the _World_ began the publication of its series exposing the Ku Klux Klan. Associated with the _World_ were thirty other newspapers covering practically the entire United States, and for twenty-one days the exposure of Ku Kluxism held over five million newspaper readers spellbound in their absorbing interest in the story of the organization. The series comprised twenty-one articles, and occupied the front page in the _World_ to the exclusion of every big piece of news of national or international importance. The exposure covered in the main facts and documents which I submitted to the paper. It fully substantiated and vindicated the charges made by me in my letter of withdrawal that the organization was un-American, that it was being propagated by spreading religious and racial hatred, that it was a money-making scheme for the benefit of a few insiders, that its oath was illegal and its ritual a sacrilege, and the various other matters referred to by me which are set forth in my letter in a previous chapter. With but few exceptions the entire American press agreed with my position in the matter by endorsing the _World's_ exposure, and a vast number of the most prominent men and women in America publicly expressed themselves as gratified over the action of the _World_ in showing up the Ku Klux Klan. One of the most interesting developments made by the _World_ in the course of its exposure was its publication of facts collected by the paper in connection with the relations of Edward Young Clarke, the Imperial Kleagle and head of the Southern Publicity Bureau, and his business associate Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler. On Saturday, September 10, 1921, four days after the _World_ commenced the publication of its series, Mrs. Tyler arrived in New York and engaged an elaborate suite of rooms in one of the most conspicuous hotels in the city. She had obviously been sent by Clarke for the purpose of securing favorable publicity for the Klan, and immediately upon her arrival gave a story to an evening paper as "bait" for the Sunday papers. Although her mission was but a partial success, she did succeed in getting her picture in a few papers, together with prepared statements deploring the "unjust attacks" that had been made on the organization, and expounding its "noble aspirations." She was particularly emphatic on the proposition that one of the main objects of the Klan was to "protect the purity and chastity of womanhood and to preserve the sanctity of the American home." She stated that women were to be admitted to membership, that she had been made the first woman member, and that she would have charge of the women's department. While she was in New York "Emperor" Simmons issued one of his typically bombastic proclamations, composed in pure Simmonsese, designating Mrs. Tyler as his "Grand Chief of Staff." This proclamation read as follows: