In the 1920s he was in the real-estate business and was on a committee that worked to bring UCLA to its present home in the Westwood district of West Los Angeles [REF].
In May 1922, Barthel was among forty-six "asserted Klansmen" who were questioned by a grand jury investigating the Ku Klux Klan in the wake of the shooting death of a police constable during a Klan terrorism incident in Inglewood, California [REF].