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'BOOTLEGGERS, MINISTERS LEAD RACE', STUDENT SPEAKER SAYS LATE AFTERNOON EDITION ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With I. B. P. O. E. News VOL. XVIII. NO. 39-D. Current Comment By WILLIAM PICKENS Anthropology Plus Reason It is apropos that we add an idea or two to the address by Prof. Metville Herskovits of Columbia University, heard at the Pan-African Congress, on the development in America of an American "Nero type." If one would know the Negro thoroughly, he must know something besides skull measurements and something more than the answers given to inquiries about the "colors" or "relative colors of the parents of students of Howard University, or anywhere else. Hereowls inquired of several hundred Negro students which of their parents was the lighter-shinned, and says that 15 per cent of them answered that their parents were the same color"; 25 per cent that the father was the lighter; and 6 per cent that the mother was the lighter. This might lead Herskovs, or any other white person who did not know some other things about American Negro life, to ascribe this whole phenomenon to some mysterious biological selection, when it is to be explained by social, physical and other very obvious facts. For example: 1. There is a greater proportion of light-skins among American Negro women than among American Negro men. Nature tends, to even up the sexes in births, but other factors operate—such as these— 2. Women stay inside more than men, so that a brother and sister may be born the same color, but the brother in later years may become the darker of the two. White women are fairer than their men. 3. Women use more powders and other skin-lighteners than men. Many normally brown-skin women are made milky and pink by these processes and treatments. 4. More mulatto women "pass over" into the white race than mulatto women. It is easier for the men. The women are more dependent on their families for support and protection. Women have less chance for survival in such adventures. The men can hide much better. The consequences are always more terrible for the women when they are "found out." Besides, to "pass" successfully, one must usually migrate from his home and birthplace to some locality where there is no one, white or colored, who knows him. That is easy for men—difficult for women. In order to interpret anything so complex as social fact or condition, the interpreter needs to know something besides mere mathematical anthropology. It is easy to see how, left to themselves, the biggest liars in the world are statistics and measurements, and other "countings." Just as there is no singleness of motive for a human action, there is no singleness of cause for a social phenomenon. A white man once said to me: "colored people do not respect their own people; they despise each other." I asked: "What made you think that?" And then he explained, like the average scientist, by giving his data: he told me that he kept a secondhand store; that a colored working woman came in to buy a pair of shoes; that just as he was about to sell her a good pair cheap, he casually remarked that the shoes had come from another colored woman, calling the woman's name. Immediately this customer decided not to buy those shoes—and just as immediately our secondhand scientist concluded that she scorned to wear the shoes of another colored woman. I had to call to his attention the simplest human fact: That the power woman perhaps belonged to the same church or club or lodge to which the better-off woman belonged, and that it was ordinary "human pride" and not a "Negro characteristic" which made her unwilling to let the other woman see her wearing that other woman's cast-off shoes. She would prefer the old shoes of some unknown white person, not because the person was white, but because she would be less likely to be (Continued on Page 7.) FOREIGN World Salvation PARIS, Thursday—World peace depends upon loyal friendship among France, America and England, say Paul Chaudel, the French Ambassador to the United States. for Coolidge PARIS, Thursday—C. Bascom Slep, former secretary to President Coolidge, declares that Mr. Coolidge would be a candidate for the presidency in 1928 if the Republican party offered him the nomination. Published Daily by The Amsterdam News (a corporation), 2293 7th Ave. OTLEC ACE', S TRA ED TO DEATH EARLY THIS MORNING 5, 6 West 138th street, was stabbed morning at 30 West 133rd street. Carlem Hospital, where Dr. Fleming died within an hour after he was cut. whose address is believed to be at has been accused of the cutting, ent between the two men shortly laced under arrest, and will be ar- nicide Court on a charge of homi- were notified of his death. Old Thief Elks Thank Daily Press Robert Cooper, 29, 6 West 138th street, was stabbed to death early this morning at 30 West 133rd street. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where Dr. Fleming treated him, but he died within an hour after he was cut. Fleming Battle, whose address is believed to be at 30 West 133rd street, has been accused of the cutting, following an argument between the two men shortly after midnight. Battle has been placed under arrest, and will be arraigned today in Homicide Court on a charge of homicide. Friends of Cooper were notified of his death. White Man Held as Auto Thief Car's Owner Sought to Have Charge With-drawn. Held in $10,000 bail for grand larceny, John J. McCourt, white, 801 Columbus avenue, was denied his freedom in Heights Court yesterday, when the complainant, Weah Allen, 200 West 134th street, sought to withdraw his charge, and pleaded for mercy for McCourt on account of his wife and children. Magistrate Flood reminded McCourt that thoughts of his family should have deterred him from already having three arrests to his discredit. McCourt was arrested last Thursday for reckless driving by Patrolman Graham of Traffic C at 135th street and Lenox avenue. At the West 135th Street Police Station it was disclosed that the car McCourt was driving was stollen property belonging to Allen. The grand larceny charge was then lodged against him. Bail was continued for a hearing before the Grand Jury. Picture on Wall Hides Whiskey Twenty-Foot Pipe Led Through Wall to Keg in Attic. RALEIGH, N. C., Aug. 24.—One of the cleverest ways of keeping whiskey concealed was uncovered yesterday by police when they visited the house of Jerry Davis, 728 Manley street. Davis was arrested and placed in jail in default of $200 bond. The officers answered the call on a tip given them. Behind a picture hanging on the wall, an innocent looking tube was found projecting from the wall. Removing a small clip on the tube, the officers found that whiskey ran out. In the attic was a five-gallon Coca-Cola keg, the tube connected to it. The tube was run inside of the wall until it came to the picture, where it stuck out. It was about 20 feet long. Davis admitted that he put the contraption there, saying that it took him five hours to complete the job. He said that he had been dispensing whiskey in this manner since February and 105 half-gallon empty fars were found in the attic, along with 30 plum bottles. Davis said that he usually bought from five to ten gallons at a time. Only three quarts were found in the keg, and the Negro declared that he expected another load to arrive last night. Man Found Dead Moses Allan, 35, a well-known Odd Fellow, was found dead at eleven o'clock Monday night in front of his residence, 200 West 113th street. The police said he had evidently fallen out of the window. Upon the arrival of an ambulance, Dr. Lynch of Harlem Hospital pronounced Allen dead. THE NEW YORK Amsterdam News Also Express Appreciation for Co-operation of Press. At the session of the grand lodge held Wednesday, W. C. T. Ayers, chairman of the press committee of the Elks' convention, read the following report, praising The Amsterdam News for the aid given the convention through its news columns. The report follows: The Grand Exalted Ruler, Grand Officers and Members of the Grand Lodge— Greetings: It was the duty of this committee to give to the press of New York City and through it to the world the news of the splendid reception accorded to the Grand Lodge, I. B. P. O. E. of W., by the State of New York, New York City, Manhattan Lodge, Imperial Lodge, Monarch Lodge and a host of the lodges and temples of this vicinity. The courteous treatment and co operation given by the police and traffic bureau has been of great value and is to be highly commended. Great assistance has been given us by the metropolitan press, especially the Daily News, the Herald Tribune, The Amsterdam News and the World. The chairman of the committee was called on this morning by Mr. Sebright, representing the Tribune, and Mr. Purnell of the City News Service, and was assured by them that the grand lodge would receive at the hands of their newspapers all publicity compatible with the space allotted to news of that character. The attitude of members of the press of this city toward members of this committee is to be commended. Cordiality has prevailed in all our contacts. W. C. T. Ayres Sr., chairman; Robert Nelson; Edward Lawson; secretary (reporter of convention) "Bojangles" Again Backward Race Winner William (Bolangles) Robinson, well-known theatrical man and a prominent member of Monarch Lodge No. 45, repented his performance at the Richmond convention two years ago, when he again ran a race backward, yesterday afternoon on 135th street. The police closed 135th street, from Seventh, half-way over to Lenox avenue, shortly after 1 P. M., and F. H. Townsend, athletic director of the 135th Street Y. M. C. A., took charge of the race. Competing against Bolangles were the following, all members of the "Y": M. Mays, R. Minnott, H. Payne, B. Turner, R. Shaw, B. Henderson, M. Houchen and C. Fisher. They ran the "orthodox style, 100-yard dash, while Bolangles started from the 75-yard mark, running backward. He onceally defeated the entire pack, while a big crowd looked on and cheered. Light Fell: Man Hurt When an electric light fall down on him at 29:39 West 133d street, Thomas Bannofield, 16, 14 East 114th street, suffered contusions of the back and abrasions of the elbow. NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 DR. WILLIAM PICKENS, FIELD SECRETARY N.A.A.C.P. DR. WILHELM MENSCHING OF GERMANY, DELEGATE FROM CENTRAL AFRICA EUGENE CORBIE, N.Y.C. PROF LEO WILLIAM HANSBURY OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY ROBERT W. BAGNALL - DIRECTOR OF BRANCHES N.A.A.C.P. L.M. HERSHAW, OF U.S. BUREAU OF EDUCATION - WASH; D.C. BISHOP RANSOM, N.Y.C. W.E. DU BOIS, GENERAL PRESIDING OFFICER AND FOUNDER OF THE PAN-AFRICAN CONGRESS PROF. GEO. W. COOK, FORMERLY OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY - A. U. CRAIG, N.Y.C. GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN GENERAL NEWS BULLETIN Held for Trial in General Sessions Pair Whom Man Shot Freed by Magisstrate. Harold Jones, 2777 Eighth avenue, was held in $2,500 ball for trial in General Sessions by Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday, and an additional charge of felonious assault against him was dammissed. Jones' wife, Maggie, and Harold Brown, 35, 30 Boyd street, whom Jones shot, were also dismissed on charges of having dangerous weapons, Brown a knife, and Mrs. Jones a gun. Jones testified that Brown came to his home and taunted him about having lived with his (Jones') wife for a year in Orange, N. J., at which time Jones said Brown GENERAL NE Postal and Radio Service to Be Linked Announcement was made yesterday by George V. McLaughlin, vice-president of the Mackay companies, that the Postal Telegraph-Commercial (Cables Company), by taking over the Federal Telegraph Company, is to enter on a large scale into the field of radio communication. American Girl Wounded in Mexico WASHINGTON, Thursday—Miss Florence Anderson, d. White Ameri- can, was attacked yesterday on a train by bandits and "seriously came in his absence and removed all his furniture from the house. "He told me that he had his gun with him," Jones testified, "and reached back into his back pocket and brought out a knife. I ran and got my gun, and shot him," Jones concluded. Ernest Jones, his brother, was questioned by Magistrate Flood, but he testified that although he was present at the time, he was looking out the window when the shooting occurred. McKinley Cropper, a lodger in Rose Moore's apartment across the hill, testified that Brown came into Mrs. Moore's apartment with his arm bleeding, and asked for as last st. Ars. Moore took the stand, and told of Mrs. Jones hurrying into her apartment with a gun in her hand. "She handed the gun to me," said Mrs. Moore, "and said, 'Here, keep this,' and ran out of the apartment before I could answer." Mrs. Moore also told the court that Brown had dropped his knife in her apartment, and that she gave it to Detective Coogan of the West 135th street station, when he came to investigate and to arrest Brown and the Joneses. WS BULLETIN wounded" just south of Acaponeta, Mexico. BOSTON, Thursday—The city health commissioner here gaysy official sanction for holding the funeral of Sacco and Vanzetti on Sunday at 2 p. m. instead of Friday. ATLANTA, Thursday — Earl Carroll, who is now in the Federal Penitentiary on a charge of perjury, has been transferred to the prison honor farm. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 23. Phillip R. Cheek, 3 Murdock street, was found hanging by a rope in a room at his home yesterday afternoon, by his son Edgar, 22, of Boston. Police say that Cheek evidently committed suicide a few hours after he was released by the police Sunday morning. He had been locked up on a charge of drunkenness. More than once before, Check, who is mentally unbound, had attempted to take his own life. Two years ago he escaped from a home for feeble minded where he had been confined. A general alarm was sent out and after a thorough search he was rescued from the Charles River, into which he had jumped while in his night clothes. Mr. Cheek's wife and two daughters, Olga and Hazel, both students at the Cambridge Latin High, are in Maine for the summer, and his sons have also been living away from home. He has a married daughter who lives in New York. FATHER KILLED; SON INJURED BY BULLET NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 24. (By The Associated Negro Press.)—Shot in the back as he attempted to run into his house as three men approached. Jess Johnson died in an ambulance on the way to Charity Hospital, Nanch Johnson, his 5-year-old cousin, was wounded above the right ankle by one of the slayer's bullets. Police are seeking the trio. EXTRA LATE AFTERNOON EDITION THE WEATHER—Fair today; tomorrow cloudy, not much change in temperature. Temperature yesterday—Max. 72, Min. 61. EIGHT PAGES—5 CENTS A COPY LEAD R SAYS MENT HAS LIKE EFFECT CONGRESS' MEET Does Not Feel That He Is One of Herd — Bishop Ransom Answers Him. S". SUBJECT DISCUSSED AT CLOSING SESSION thing of Germany Leads Topic— or of "Tom Tom" Also. STATEMENT HAS BOMBLIKE EFFECT AT CONGRESS' MEET Intelligent Negro Does Not Feel That He Is One of Common Herd—Bishop Ransom Answers Him. "SPIRITUAL VALUES".SUBJECT DISCUSSED AT CLOSING SESSION Dr. William Mensching of Germany Leads Topic Author of "Tom Tom" Also a Spaeker. By CLIFFORD L. MILLER F. E. Croly, a student morning's session of the Pan-clared the leadership of the X to bootleggers and ministers, the intelligent Negro does not common herd." The condition States was the topic for consid W. E. B. DuBois, had opened explaining several charts show student hurled a bomb at yesterday the Pan-African Congress when he deof the Negro race is left too largely nisters. "The fault," said he, "is that does not feel that he is part of the condition of the Negro in the United or consideration. The presiding officer, opened the meeting by exhibiting and arts showing racial progress. F. E. Croly, a student, hurled a bomb at yesterday morning's session of the Pan-African Congress when he declared the leadership of the Negro race is left too largely to bootleggers and ministers. "The fault." said he, "is that the intelligent Negro does not feel that he is part of the common herd." The condition of the Negro in the United States was the topic for consideration. The presiding officer, W. E. B. DuBois, had opened the meeting by exhibiting and explaining several charts showing racial progress. Twenty Thousand Attend Grand Ball Twenty Thousand Attend Grand Ball Armory Transformed Into Beautiful Reception Twenty thousand people stormed the 369th Regiment Armory last night to attend the grand ball, one of the main features of the Elks' convention. The armory was transformed from a drab military home into a beautiful reception ball and showed the excellent care that the entertainment committee of the local convention committee went to in arranging the armory for the grand ball. The huge crowd milled around mainly renewing old acquaintances, seeing and hoping to be seen. Many tried to dance, but there was not much tripping of the fantastic possible in that big crowd. Two orchestra were used to provide the dance music, one an augmented one under Lieut. Simpson, made up mainly from Lieut. Simpson's Monarch Band and from members of the Manhattan and Imperial Lodge band. In this orchestra were one hundred men. Lieut. Porter's Fifteenth Infantry Band also played. All of the visiting Elk dignitaries were present including the grand exalted ruler and his entire staff, who occupied a box in the second tier. Notwithstanding the immense crowd, perfect order was maintained and little difficulty was experienced either in the entrance or the exit of the people. Birmingham to Have Playgrounds for Kiddies BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Aug. 22.— (By the Associated Negro Press). A drive to raise $2,500 for play- grounds for Negro children was launched here this week in a citi- zens' committee composed of the leading professional men and women of the city. The city has agreed to match, this sum, dollar for dollar, for the purpose of leas- ing and equipping the parks. Today's News Index Editorials Special Articles General, Local and National News News of Society and Women's Activities Shorts Classified Section Financial and Miscellaneous Music and the Drama Alonzo Johnson, 22, 113 West 132d street, is said to have been shot last night by Ernest Robinson, 119 West 134th street. He was rushed to Harlem Hospital, where he was treated for a gunshot wound in the leg. Detective Burns of the West 135th street station has been assigned to the case. Hall. Some of the arresting facts are that the Negro population is still predominantly in the South; the death rate has been reduced and will be reduced lower and lower—death rate is not a racial but an economic thing; fifty-three per cent of the race of school age are in school and colleges are graduating a thousand each year; women are outstripping men in receiving education; the response to economic pressure of the South has been slow but certain. SESSION CLOSED LATE LAST NIGHT. The closing meeting of the congress was a fitting climax; it considered "The Spiritual Values of the Art and Literature of Africa." Dr. Wilhelm Menschung of Petzen, Germany, who made a thirty days' journey in Central Africa and lived there four years, said at the Abyssinian Baptist Church: "I am thankful to Africa and the Africans for the great benefits bestowed on me." Unlike most Europeans he did not find the natives crude, but teachers of great spiritual values. "The fruits of love as outlined by Apostle Paul grow in the soul of the African." Dr. Mensching read his well prepared address, revealing the native African's conception of deity, which is monotheist. His natural temperament is childlike. He is good natured and humorous. His sex life sets a standard the Western World would do well to imitate. "The African will make a great spiritual contribution if he remains true to himself." "TOM TOM" AUTHOR ADDRESSES CLOSING SESSION. John Vandercock, author of "Tom Tom." was the next speaker. He held that the greatest art is the art of living. He cited the Negro group of forest dwellers in South Africa as his ideal of a people who had mastered the fine art of living—they live long, they live happy, they live healthy. He regarded as the most insufferable idiot that European who invented the term of heathen mind. The glory of this tribe is that it has not made up its mind on anything. The defect of the European and American mind is that it is closed and has supreme contempt of what 6 PLACES RAIDED IN ATLANTIC CITY Vice Squad Swoops Down on Alleged Bootleggers and Gamblers Vice Squad Swoops Down on Alleged Bootleggers and Gamblers ATLANTIC CITY, Aug. 24.—The vice squad swooped down on the North Side the early part of this week and staged a series of spectacular raids on alleged liquor joints and gambling dens, resulting in the arrest of six proprietors and twenty-two material witnesses. The raids were staged with a suddenness that gave the raided places no opportunity to remove the signs of liquor or gambling devices. Two patrol wagons were kept in action, enabling the raids to be carried out in different sections of the North Side at the same time. Liquor and evidences of card playing were seized in some of the places, and those found inside were unceremoniously bundled into a waiting patrol wagon outside and hurried to police headquarters. The places raided, together with their alleged proprietors and the charges entered were: 719 Baltic avenue, Eddie Mills, 26 years, selling liquor and gambling; 1608 Arcelle avenue, John Roberts, selling liquor and gambling; 233 North Michigan avenue, Edward Ringgold, selling liquor; 106 North Ohio avenue, Noah Hopkins, selling liquor; 106 North Tennessee avenue, not proprietor found, crap game in progress; 250 North Kentucky avenue, Louise Williams, 27 years, giving home address as 1205 Robinson avenue, selling liquor. Those taken by the police as material witnesses in the raided places were: James Taylor, 207 North Pennsylvania avenue; James Bottright, 717 Baltic avenue; Clarence Braithwaite, 7 Plymouth place; Frank Mitchell, 127 North New Jersey avenue; Victor Lennoo, 122 North Maryland avenue; Joseph Thomas, 239 North Connecticut avenue; Ernest Bell, 231 North Virginia avenue; Earl Williams and Robert Moore, samo address; Joseph Amos, 1608 Arctic avenue; Samuel Carter, 232, North Michigan avenue; Harry Hamel, 119 North Pennsylvania avenue; William Ferebee, 913 Keenan avenue; L. B. Walker, 235 Arctic avenue; James Upshur, 1310 New Gretna avenue; Thomas Hawkins, 2324 North Indiana avenue; Thomas Mann, 221 North Ten- Deposit Your The Citizens Bank an Com The Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company The Largest Bank Owned and Controlled by the Colored People in the North Depository for the Elks of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania Federal Government The Citizens Bank and Com The Citizens and Southern Bank and Trust Company R. R. WRIGHT, Sr., President 19th and South Streets PHILADELPHIA, PA. TWO nissie avenue; Clarence Edmunds 1110 Mediterranean avenue; Ernest Brown, 215 North Pennsylvania avenue. Recorder of Deeds Presidential Appointee WASHINGTON—The salary of Hon. Arthur G. Froe, Recorder of Deeds, is not subject to deductions under the Civil Service Retirement Act. It was decided by the General Accounting Office of the Federal Government recently. Robert W. Ditton, deputy recorder and disbursing officer, had deducted the customary percentage from Mr. Froe's salary, but the latter raised the question of the propriety of the deduction, pointing out that his was a position of presidential appointment, not within the classified civil service. Freed of Whipping Charge Mrs. Amelia Fuents. 20 East 131st street. who was charged some time ago by Theodore B Raderick of the Children's Society with boating twelve-year-old Nelle Taylor with a rood made of electric wire, was discharged by Magistrate Farrell in Harlem Court yesterday on a charge of disorderly conduct. Today Mrs. Fuents will be arranged in Children's Court or charges of improper guardianship and Nelle will probably be placed in another home. Money With and Southern and Trust pany --- and Southern d Trust pany --- Bob Nelson Rise Expected in Elkdom M. One of the big men attending the Elks' convention is Robert J. Nelson of Wilmington, Delaware. When the smoke of the present session has blown away, Nelson is likely to be even a bigger factor in the affairs of Elkdom than now. Bob, as he is known throughout the country, is president of the B1 State Association, J. B. P. O. E. of W. of the States of Maryland and Delaware and managing editor of the Washington Eagle. In the inside circles of the present administration he is playing an important part. Throughout the South, Pennsylvania, New York and the New England States, where Nelson has a wide acquaintance, his host of friends are watching the political side of Elkdom, trusting to see Dob advance. Eggs Ten Times More Valuable Than Gold WASHING. The total production of gold, during the year 1928, in the United States and the Philippines, was valued at $48,203,600. In 1924 the total value of crops, dairy products, wool, eggs and chickens in three counties, Arcecook, Maine; Lancaster, Pa.; and McLeenan County, Ill., amounted to $63,422,000, or more than $15,000,000 in excess of the gold production. The total value of the crops alone for three three counties was approximately $50,700,000, or several million in excess of the value of gold mined. For the United States as a whole, the value of chicken eggs produced on the farms during 1924 was $579,938,000, or more than ten times the value of the gold production in the United States and the Philippines combined. Leper to Be Tried for Murder of Leper BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 27. By The Associated Negro Press) - Indicted by the grand jury while - under a gid quarantine in jail at Plaquemine for the murder of Lloyd Richardson, a fellow inmate of the leprosy sanitarium at Carville, Edward Peyton, leper, has been returned to Carville under guard to await trial for his life in the state court at Plaquemine in October. Authorities here believe this will be the first trial of its kind to be held in a Louisiana court. Peyton is charged with having slain Richardson with an automatic pistol on Aug. 5. He was said to have emptied his weapon into the body of the other, sending nino bullets through him. Peyton explained after the shooting that the other man had been a bully and that he could not escape from him because of the confinement. The weapon was believed to have been smuggled in by some friends who had visited Peyton. What a Grand Lodge Is Not By GERALD HAMILTON A GRAND LODGE is not it is one which you a people go. They go b A grand lodge is not he the summer. I don't know don't know, either, A GRAND LODGE is not a meeting you don't go to. It is one which you attend. You go because other people go. They go because you go. A grand lodge is not held in winter; it convenes in the summer. I don't know why. A lot of delegates don't know, either. Sec'y Kellogg Quizzes Mexico on Execution SHREVEPORT $ _{1} $ La. Aug. 24.—(By The Associated Negro Pross)—Secretary of State Frank Kelley, acting upon the request of local Federal officials, has instructed the American counsel at Juarez, Mexico, to investigate a report that Harry Honore, a Shreveport resident, is under sentence to be executed in Mexico for shooting a Mexican guard near El Paso several week ago. It was indicated in a telegram received here. Honore's father reported the matter to local Federal officials stating that a man who worked with his son in a hotel at Rankin, Fresno, had told him of the incident. The Shreveport man, it is reported, while on a visit across the border, shot the Mexican guard and was arrested and sentenced to death. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 Put Boston Cop Back on Force Put Boston Cop Back on Force Protest of Citizens Saves Scalp of Lucius Banks. BOSTON, Aug. 24. — Luchus Danks, suspended from the police force several months ago, has been reinstated. At the time of his dismissal, a bitter controversy was waged before Police Commissioner Herbert Wilson by Attorneys William H. Lewis and Butter Wilson. The specific charge against Danks then was that he had failed to pull a box on his beat at a particular time. His attorneys argued that such a charge was too filmy to warrant such drastic action. In view of the testimony of his past superiors that he had been a most efficient official. Citizens sensed a scheme in the action to rid the city of all Negro policemen, since several others were at the time under fire. Their continued requests for Banks' reinstatement resulted in the commissioner's change of front. Banks was stationed at the Charlestown prison to guard against Sacco-Vanzetti sympathizers. Judge Says Prison Is Chauffeur's Home The meeting in General Sessions Court Tuesday between Juice Stain, chauffeur, 101 West 126th street, and Judge Levine proved an affirmative answer to the question, "Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" Judge Levine remembered that back in 1920, when he was a magistrate, he made Stain's acquaintance when he gave him a six months' vacation in the workhouse. Stain remembered it, too. Tuesday's meeting grew out of a little matter of a wallet containing $4 which Stain is said to have made an effort to extract from the pocket of Sandy Gale, 135 West 127th street, the night of July 17. On the basis of previous acquaintance, Judge Levine offered Stain his choice of domiciles. "You can go to Sing Sing," he said, "where you can see the shipla pass and watch the baseball games and the movies, or you can go to Damnemora for a little mountain air, which I think will be very helpful." "I'd rather go home," said Stain. The judge beamed friendly upon him. "Then I'll send you home—to the penitentiary." Stain's term is indeterminate. Negro Hospitals Said to Be Deficient Negro hospitals in this country are very old-fashioned and inadequate, according to the American Hospital Association, which is joining with leading Negro doctors in an effort to improve conditions. A conference was held Saturday between members of the national Negro Hospital Association and Dr. M. T. MacEachern of the American College of Surgeons; Dr. N. P. Colwell and Dr. William H. Walsh of the American Hospital Association, and other prominent white physicians. There are nearly two hundred Negro hospitals in the country, only ten of which are recognized as proper for training nurses and twenty-five of which are said to be suitable for the training of nurses. For the preliminary fund work a fund of at least $10,000 is needed. A delegate is a person who is sent to a grand lodge. Some are not sent—they just go, I don't know why! they often don't, either. A grand lodge is not a convention where you do not parade. Many go for this reason. I don't know why. A grand lodge is not a meeting where they don't have dances. Many of the delegates take their wives. Many don't I don't know why; neither do the wives. For the rest of the year this is discussed by the wives. The husbands don't know why. But somehow the wives manage to get to the dances. I don't know how. Some delegates don't like grand lodges where a fight is sure to some off. Others do. So do I. Who wants a mild, tame, kickless grand lodge? I thank you. Identified as Man Who Burglarized Apartment Nelson Macoy, 20, 166 West 120th street, on complaint of Edmund Pittman, was arraigned on a charge of robbery in Heights Court before Magistrate Flood, who sent the case to the Grand Jury and denied him ball. Macoy was arrested by Detective Joseph Brown of the West 135th street station Tuesday night. Pittman told Brown that he positively identified Macoy as the man who burglarized his apartment on August 10, taking clothing and jewelry valued at $185. The door of his apartment, Pittman said, was pried open with a Jimmy. Macoy is said to have had an accomplice. According to Detective Moore, Macoy said, "I went in, and the other fellow gave me a suit and kept the rest." He named one Allyn Watts as his alleged theft partner. Snatched Watch, Ran; But Not Fast Enough A bit of a thrill was accorded by standers at 123d street and Lenox avenue, when Lewis A. Love, 28, 222 West 122d street, marathoned with Policeman Voneschen of the West 122d street station a close second. Love is said to have snatched a pedestrian's watch and chain and ran. In Helights Court yesterday Love was arraigned before Magistrate Flood, who held him in $1,000 ball for the Grand Jury. William Olney, 24, clerk, 42 East 129th street, testified that as Love passed him he snatched his watch and chain, which had a knife on the end of it, and began to run Olney shouted and began the chase, which was joined in by by standers and Patrolman Voneschen. Love ran to Seventh avenue and into a hallway, where he was captured, Voneschen said. The watch is said to have been found in his possession. "2,500 Haitians Have Been Killed by U. S." WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. Aug. 24. — "More than 2,500 Haitians have been slaughtered by American marines since this country's ruthless occupation of the little republic," declared Horace J. Knowles, former American Minister to Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic and Bolivia, at the round table of the Institute of Politics here Monday. The former minister's castigation of America's Latin-American policy brought forth a bitter controversy in which a number of notables were incited to fly in defense against his attack. So much animosity was evident, that Prof. William R. Shephard, leader of the round table, called an extra session for the following day to thrash the matter out. Commander John F. Shafroth, U. S. N., led the defense of America's policy. Three Charged With Hatchet Murder of Child ANNISTON, Ala., Aug. 24.—(By the Associated Negro Press). Harry Young, an aged man, and May Holt, age 9, and Robert Lee Irages 7, are being held in connection with the killing of John Elmer Harrison, age 6, who was found dead in a pasture Thursday afternoon near this city. Young is charged with the murder on the testimony of the children, who declared that they saw the aged man kill the white boy with a hatchet. The children also identified the hatchet found on Young's place as the weapon with which the assailant crushed the skull of the victim. All are being held without bond. Stuck by Automobiles Louis Merkel, 30, 412 West 136th street, was crushed between two taxicabs as one of them backed against the other. He suffered contusions of the abdomen. The car of Cyril A Green, 2484 Eighth avenue, is said to have crushed Merkel against the car of John W. Emby, 231 West 138th street. Thomas Jones, 7, 844 West 149th street, was struck by an automobile while playing ball in the street, but suffered no apparent injury. Hattle Parker, 49, 454 Lenox avenue, is said to have suffered a stroke at her home yesterday. Dr Lynch arrived with the ambulance and removed her to the hospital. Lawrence Anglin, 7, 157 West 133d street, was bitten by a dog belonging to Pasquale Benedict, 151 West 133d street. He was treated by Dr. Lynch. This is the second time, it is said, that Pasquale Benedict's canine has chewed a child. Ada Chisholm, 48, 74 West 134th street, said to be suffering with pneumonia, was removed to the hospital in the ambulance by Dr. Lynch. GUN BRANDISHED IN ROBERT VANN'S OFFICE PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 24. A accused of entering the office of Attorney Robert L. Vann, editor of the Pittsburgh Courter, and threatening her husband, William Bradley, 40, of Center avenue, with a revolver, Mrs. Hattle Bradley, 38, 2826 Center avenue, was arrested and lodged in Central Police Station yesterday on a suspicious person charge. Howard Students Freeze Out Workers Students from the States Preferred as Porters By DUTTON FERGUSON WINNIPE3, Can., Aug. 24.—Union labor here and large groups of citizens in the Canadian West claim that the Canadian National Railways have shown no consideration of the rights of Canadian labor and their organizations. The Canadian National Railways, they claim, have shown a decided preference to everything from "the other side" and continue to show a hostile attitude towards Canadian labor. The Union Bulletin of Winnipeg says the most glaringly provoking incident, the displacement of regular union men by Howard University students as porters, has been called to the attention of the Minister of Railways. "Early, in June the Canadian National Railways imported fifteen students from Howard College (Howard University), a college for colored people in the southern eastern states, to work for them as sleeping-car porters for a period of three months. These boys underwent the same course of training as the other porters, with this difference; they were paid while training, and provided with room and board to boot." Added to this grievance, the Canadian citizens who first underwent training were soon laid off because, the officials said, work was slack, although the college students were kept on. Also the starting wage for porters is $17 per month with uniform provided by the company, and meals while working. Citizens who take these jobs have to provide themselves a home and meals while not on duty. The college students, however, are provided with room and board all the time they are in the employ of the company and are paid the regulation wage beside. This, in the mind of the union workers, raises a very important point in so far as the company has pleaded on several occasions, when the porters have asked for an increase in wages, that they could not afford to give them one. Harvard Adviser Now Dean of Spelman ATLANTA, Aug. 24—(By the Associated Negro Press), Miss Miriam F. Carpenter, for the last six years registrar and adviser of women in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, has accepted the position of dean of Spelman College, this city, for the coming year, according to a statement from Miss Florence M. Read, the new president of that institution. Miss Carpenter received the degree of A. B. from Colorado College in 1905, has taken graduate courses at the University of California and at Harvard, and has the honor of being one of the three women who hold a corporation appointment at the latter school. From 1906 to 1910 she was secretary to the dean of the Harvard faculty; from 1910 to 1913 secretary to the dean and later acting dean of Mount Holyoke College; from 1914 to 1917 executive secretary of Central Presbyterian Church, Montclair, N. J., and from 1917 to 1920 secretary of the Division of Education at Harvard. How to Get Best Out of Gas Stove Approximately three-fourths of all the food prepared in New York homes is now cooked on gas stoves, according to the New York State Committee on Public Utility Information. "A gas stove, like any other labor-saving appliance, can be used to the best advantage, or can be used carelessly. To get the best results, certain general rules should be followed," says the committee, which makes the following suggestions: Bolling water and soda applied once a month will keep burners clean. A small blue flame is the most efficient. A smoky yellow flame is wasteful. If your burners need adjustment, your gas company will be glad to make it for you. When possible, use the smaller burners. Gas is no hotter ten minutes after it has been lighted than when the match is first applied. A standard gas range in proper condition will use gas about as follows: Cubic feet an hour—Broiler, 50; even burner, 40; giant burner, 20; medium burner, 15; simmerer, 5. Held Suspect in Slaying HOMESTEAD, Pa., Aug. 24. James Johnson, boarding at 505 Fifth avenue, was being held by county detectives late yesterday in connection with the slaying Friday of Mrs. Ella Bryant, 43, 505 Fifth avenue, who was found in her room with her throat cut. Johnson gave himself up to Center avenue police yesterday, saying he had learned they were seeking him in connection with the murder. He declared any knowledge of the crime. Bernard Coleman, 26, 203 West 120th street, charged with carrying a dangerous weapon, and who was held in $500 bail by Magistrate Flood Tuesday, was discharged in Heights Court yesterday, when Lieutenant Colonel Grimley of the 363rd Regiment interceded for him. Coleman is a night watchman at the armory, West 143d street, and had taken the gun with him when he left the government premises. Neoverne Dorzin, 46, 108 West 141st street, was held in $500 bail for Special Sessions on a charge of possessing policy slips when arraigned before Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday. Similar disposition attended the case of Lillian White, 38, 49 West 145th street, who was released on bond. Thaddeus Phillips, 26, 339 Spring street, was arraigned in Heights Court yesterday before Magistrate Flond, charged with larceny from the person of Daniel Graham, 432 West Forty-seventh street, who in turn was arraigned on a charge of intoxication. Both men were held for a further hearing. Cecil McKenzie, 16, 2238 Seventh avenue, arrested by Patrolman Hartman of Prechnet 10-A on complaint of Aunna McKenzie, was remanded for investigation when arraigned in Heights Court yesterday on a disorderly conduct charge. McKenzie was characterized as a wayward minor. Earl Nichols, 26, 301 West 147th street, was dismissed on a charge of disorderly conduct preferred against him by James Tyson, 3140 Broadway, in Heights Court, yesterday, before Magistrate Flood. Nicholas was arrested Tuesday night by Patroiman Scantleberry of the West 135th Street Station. Napoleon Robinson, 36, 58 West 148th street, and thirteen others, were arraigned in Heights Court yesterday before Magistrate Flood, charged with disorderly conduct during the progress of a game of cards the night before. The raid was conducted by Patroiman Bacchini of the Sixth Division. The TEASING TEASING BROWN BLUES TROY Sally Roberts sings to a guitar accompaniment by Sylvester Weaver NO. 8485 10 in.—75c. "TEASING BROWN BLUE" "GONNA RAMBLE BLUE" Teasing Brown Blues is the "scare" record Okeh has ha NO. 8485 10 in.—75c. "TEASING BROWN BLUES" "GONNA RAMBLE BLUES" Teasing Brown Blues is the best "scare" record Okeh has had in a long, long time. They'll be playing it in all the Okeh dealers' stores. Stop in yourself and have them put it on for you. men were found not guilty and discharged. Said to have admitted ownership of a gambling house, Joseph A. Tanner, 53, 19 West 130th street, was discharged by Magistrate Flood in Heights Court yesterday. Patrolman Bischof of the 18th Division arrested Tanner at 2361 Seventh avenue last Sunday, where several men were said to have been gathered around a table gambling. Upon being questioned, Patrolman Bischof said that Tanner replied: "Yes, I run this place." Charles Duncan, 4, 28 East 134th street, was found guilty of intoxication following his arrest by Patrolman McFadden of the West 135th Street Station. In Heights Court, yesterday, Magistrate Flood released him on a suspended sentence. Arrested in a crowd, whom they were accused of jostling, Howard Swinson, 22, 328 West Fifty-ninth street, and Auburn Woolen, 21, 31 West, 135th street, were held in $5,000 hail each by Magistrate Flood in Heights Court, yesterday, on complaint of Detective Kiley of the pickpocket squad of the Seventeenth Division. Charged with forgery and attempted grand larceny, Melvin Taylor, 34, 2384 Seventh avenue, was sent to prison without hall to await the action of the Grand Jury. Taylor is accused of robbing mail boxes in downtown apartments of checks, and of having them cashed in Harlem. Lillian O'Connell, 30, 439 West Fifty-first street, suffered abrasions of the elbow when an "L" train window fell down on her elbow. To Hold Meeting The Sons and Daughters of Barbados Society, Inc., have issued a call to all British colonial societies of New York and Brooklyn for a conference to be held the early part of September. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss and attempt to solve the mutual civic and political problems of the various groups. ROWN BLUES TROY Weaver 10 in.-75c. OWN BLUES" MBLE BLUES" Blues is the best Dkeh has had in Elk Visitors Put at 40,000 Pre = Convention Controversy Account for Small Number. That the controversy waged so bitterly between the grand exalted ruler and New York Elks as to whether the convention would be held in New York has affected the attendance was plainly evidenced when the session officially opened yesterday morning at Mother Zion Church. The rush of delegates and visitors that started Sunday night and continued Monday suddenly stopped and the crowds now in New York for the Twenty-eighth Grand Lodge session of the I. B. P. O. E. of W. are less than those that have attended any Elks' convention for the past five years. New York officials estimate the number of visitors at 40,000, whereas it was confidently expected that more than 100,000 would come to New York for the convention. Many lodges entitled to several delegates have sent but three or four as their entire delegation. In that respect, at least, this session has started off as a disappointment and the outlook is that the three New York lodges which are hosts to the grand lodge will be out a considerable sum of money when the bills are paid that have been incurred in bringing the Elks to this city. DELEGATES RECEIVED. Yesterday morning the session was opened and the delegates' credentials were received and badges distributed; the men at Mother Zion Church and the women at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Following the appointment of the various committees, both sessions adjourned for the big parade. Convention politics are now being played full force and the campaigns for exalted ruler waged by the three contestants for the crown of J. Finley Wilson are in swing. Sidelights on the Elks' Convention By CHARLES T. MAGILL Pride of Camden Lodge, of Camden, N. J., one of that state's crack lodges, with a crack band, has headquarters at 207 West 130th street. They have a big delegation present, including a number of charming Daughter Elks. Mrs. Mira Willis and Mrs. Metta Rowe of Rochester and P. E. R. Robert, W. Whitney, S. of Camden, N. J., were visitors at the headquarters of Brooklyn Lodge, 146 West 156th street, Tuesday night. The Brooklyn boys showed the up-staters how they entertain in Brooklyn. "Hello. Bill!" is the name of a motion picture now being made under the supervision of Lee Whipple. Two directors, Tracy Higginz and John City Lodge, No. 17, of Pittsburgh, have attracted considerable attention throughout the session in their eccentric dress. Pretty little Miss Floyd-Hunter, a member of Manhattan Temple, No. 93, plays a part in the picture and a vast ensemble embellished as seen. The picture portrays an Elks dream and is said to be a very interesting one. Lient, W. C. T. Ayres Sr., of Columbus, Ohio, chairman of the press committee, is another of the distinguished visitors now in this city attending the convention. Leut. Ayres was a postmaster at the House of Representatives, State of Ohio. He was formerly a newspaper man and worked on the Ohio State Journal. The editor of that publication has furnished a book with a fine letter of introduction to all the big dailies in New York City. Dr. W. W. Purnell, of Oakland, Calif., just got in yesterday. The doctor, who is regarded as the founder of Elkdom on the Pacific Const., is representing Athens Lodge, No. 70. A new grand lodge office, that of statistician, will likely be created at this grand lodge session. If it is, the first appointment will go to Charles Along the Elks' Battlefront Jumor has it that James T. Carter, grand treasurer for a number of years, is tired and wishes to get out. Carter, who halls from Richmond, is said to favor the election to his office by the president. The son of C. Tiffany Tolliver, of Roanoke. Tolliver may even be placed in nomination by Carter, so the rumor goes. Tom Fleming, of Cleveland, seems to have the administration label, however, for the grand treasurer's office. He is said to be the wealthiest man of the race, was grand legal adviser of the order during the administration of George E. Wilbscan as grand exalted ruler. Charles Marshall, secretary to J. Righton Wilson is bubbling over with confidence as to the re-election of his chief. Marshall, who reigns over the affairs at the Wilson headquarters in the Association of Trade and Commerce Building, says emphatically that there is no chance to be removed away from Mr. Wilson this year or any other year, so long as Finley wants it. Certain it is that all indications are that Wilson will succeed himself, as cautuses held by the Wilson forces tend to show a vast preponderance of the prize, the grand, engated ruler. But the game is not won until the last man is out, and, in view of the secret ballot this year, there could be an upset. The J. Dalmus Steele forces go steadily on, and he has no contend with the New Yorker will be the next grand ruler. The Steele forces claim that not all the votes now placed by Mr. Wilson will go that way when they are really cast. They pin their hopes on the secret ballot. Likewise, those who are working in the interest of George E. Wilesan express confidence that their candidate will win. The Brooklynite seems to lead skillfully, and it will that man will have guided much to his strength by the time the balloting begins. --- Indications are that a bitter fight will have been fought on the floor of the convention. hall before the grand exalted ruler is elected for the next year. Wilson forces are confident of winning and expect little trouble. Likewise, J. Dalmus Steele claims that he will beat Wilson surely this time and George E. Wilbecan claims to have the promises of enough delegates to again make him grand exalted ruler. If Wilson is beaten this year, it will be the breaking of an almost perfect machine which he has built up within the five years that he has been at the head of the order. Judge Edward H. Henry, the third candidate for grand exalted ruler, feels certain that this year the order will want him and will accordingly elect him. Throws Out Liquor; Herself Thrown Out BOSTON. Aug. 24.—"Do you liquor as you would have liquor do unto you" is the motto of Paul Moylan of 102 Zeigler street Roxbury. Mrs. Lillian Moylan, his sister-in-law, threw a painful of liquor out the window of her house on Haven street. She followed close in its wakes when Paul, returning the compliments on behalf of the liquor, threw her out. She alighted on the ground nine feet below. In Municipal Court Friday morning. Moylan was sentenced to a year in the House of Correction. His sister-in-law testified that Moylan and her husband, Matthew, had made the liquor in opposition to her protest. Paul and Matthew Moylan told the court that the trouble was a result of the husband having lifted his hat to a passing woman. They denied manufacturing liquor. Paul testified that he was in his brother's house twelve and a half hours and that he had put up four window screens during that time. Savory Heads Examiner Savory Receives Examiners At the annual meeting of the National Medical Association, which convened in Detroit, Dr. P. M. H. Savory was elected president of the life insurance examiners of the Association. Dr. Savory succeeds Dr. P. M. Murray, also of New York. E. Hall of Washington, D. C. The genial and well-known Charlie is in town attending the present convention. He is connected with the United States State University Census Bureau, and is noted there as one of the Government's best statisticians. William C. Matthwae. Assistant U. S. Attorney General; Harry Jones of the decoration of the Census Bureau inington, D. C. and Mrs. George S. Williams, Republican National committeewoman from Georgia, are attending the convention. The latter is wearing Mr. W. and Mrs. Merrick Milley of 246 Ward 1324 Merrick Milley of 246 Ward 1324 Merricks are also entertaining Mr. and Mrs. J. Finley Wilson during the term of the grand lodge session. Dr. H. T. Williams of West Chester, Penn., is in charge of the headquarters of Capt. Lexi M. Hood Lodge No. 159 of that city, at the Florentine Court in West 129th street. With two other members of Capt. Hood Lodge, Prince Morgan Arthur Glassco, Dr. Williams believes in open house, and visiting brothers are certain of a roat cordial welcome when they visit the West Chester Elks. Harold E. Thompson of Philadelphia to assemilharah of the Quaker City Lodge repurchase of the rade Tuesday, said yesterday that his lodge felt very proud of a record in Elkdom that has never been equaled. But nine months old, Quaker City Lodge, Philly's new organization, has membership now of 699, among whom are 100 best known citizens. There is at present a waiting list of 300 who wish to join Quaker City Lodge. They have fourteen delegates here. An excursion around New York was enjoyed by the delegates yesterday afternoon on the steamer American Legion. The boat left the 132d East River, pier around 3 pocke and ruined at the "Grand" and Mrs. Wilson and all the grand lodge officers were on board. There is a possibility that the opposition may combine on George W. P. McMechen in an effort to wrest the head of the order from Mr. Wilson. McMechen, who is a past grand exiled ruler and hall from Baltimore, will be willing to make a race again as a compromise candidate. But even with such a solidification, of forces the Wilson men express a firm belief that their candidate will win again, and win easily. One reason for this utmost confidence is the perfect machine that the imitable J. Finley has built up around him during the past five years in which he has been in office as ex-CEO of the Wilson company, with Wilson has created stretches over the entire country. Working with the grand exalted ruler will be found men in all walks of life: clerkymen, professional men, business men of various successes, and businessmen are in moderate circumstances and men whose condition in life might be termed questionable—all will be found on the Finley Wilson bandwagon. W. J. Jackson of Quaker City Lodge, Philadelphia, will fight it out, with William A. Turner for the office of grand esquire. Unquestionably Turner will retain his present job. George E. Bates of Newark, grand secretary, who has repeatedly been elected to that office for the past eighteen years, is said to be in for a real fight this year. The administration forces are declared up a miniatur of their group who is particularly strong. There is a possibility that this year might be Bates' Waterloo. John Duncan, New York's candidate for grand trustees, a member of Monarch Lodge, appears to have an excellent chance of winning. Because of Monarch Lodge's endorsement of Wilson, the administration forces will likely be thrown Duncan's way. Not much can be heard concerning the candidacy of Charles M. Hanson, secretary of Imperial Lodge, who wishes to be educational commissioner. Hanson claims that of the local convention committee have kept him so busy he has had little chance to campaign. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 JEROME P. OTTLEY Vice-Chairman 1927 Convention JOSEPH BROWN C Lieutenant FRED W. SIMPSON ```markdown ``` Chancellor Invincible (FOLL) 2 for 25€ THREE C. M. HANSON Secretary Convention Committee J. DALMUS STEELE IT has been good to have you with us, and we hope that every day of the Convention has been a glorious success. Every Elk who attended certainly had a great chance to get acquainted with a real cigar—the official smoke of the Convention THOMAS BROWN Exalted Ruler Chancellor Panetela 3 for 25¢ AND when you get back home, just stay with this great old smoke. Unequalled for flavor, preferred by experienced smokers for over fifty years, CHANCELLOR is on sale all over the country, making new friends every day because of an indescribable something, supremely satisfying, THE NEW YORK Amsterdam News Published daily by The Amsterdam News (a corporation), 2288 Seventh Avenue, New York, N.Y. A range of range James H. Anderson, Vice-President; Sidra Warren-Davis, Treasurer. Address all communications and make all checks and money orders payable to The New York Amsterdam News, 2233 Saventh Ave., New York City Thursday, August 25, 1927 Wherever possible Trade With Practice Discrimination in the Possible Trade With Stores in Harlem Crimination in the Selection of Them Wherever possible Trade With Stores in Harlem That Do Not Practice Discrimination in the Selection of Their Employees Study of Negro History Dr. Carter G. Woodson gram and an increased stair Study of Negro Life and association is more import- One of the Negro's great other races is his lack of Other races have their their cultures, extending fa- in their own terms and They realize that one of t ing the pride, the self-res- a glorious tradition, fashion historians. The Negro has had to about himself and his ance for soul-stirring traditions, and until recently no one h it. Too many Negro chil their race has never done Too many of them are taug the eyes of the white South There are or have be- groves whom every Negro For him or her the lives a ass and Toussaint L'Ou- thoose of Gladstone a Duilois than Bernard Sh will lend a hand in Dr. W like charity, should begin Harter G. Woodson has announced that an increased staff for the Association Negro Life and History. The work is more important than most of the Negro's great disadvantages in its is his lack of background. Traces have their histories, their lives, extending far back into the past, terms and from their native size that one of the greatest forces, the self-respect, the morale of tradition, fashioned and fostered by Negro has had to rely on aliens for itself and his ancestors. He has stirring traditions, but it is barely recently no one has tried to find a many Negro children grow up that has never done anything useful or of them are taught to look at them of the white South. Are or have been at least twenty from every Negro child should know her the lives and work of Fred Toussaint L'Ouverture are more of Gladstone and Cromwell, andhan Bernard Shaw. Every thing a hand in Dr. Woodson's work, try, should begin at home. Dr. Carter G. Woodson has announced a new program and an increased staff for the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. The work of this association is more important than most of us realize. One of the Negro's great disadvantages in coping with other races is his lack of background. Other races have their histories, their literatures, their cultures, extending far back into the past, recorded in their own terms and from their native viewpoint. They realize that one of the greatest forces in sustaining the pride, the self-respect, the morale of a race is a glorious tradition, fashioned and fostered by poets and historians. The Negro has had to rely on aliens for information about himself and his ancestors. He has the material for soul-stirring traditions, but it is hidden or buried, and until recently no one has tried to find and proclaim it. Too many Negro children grow up thinking that their race has never done anything useful or beautiful. Too many of them are taught to look at themselves with the eyes of the white South. There are or have been at least twenty great Negroes whom every Negro child should know all about. For him or her the lives and work of Frederick Dougass and Toussaint L'Ouverture are more important than those of Gladstone and Cromwell, and W. E. B. DuBois than Bernard Shaw. Every thinking Negro will lend a hand in Dr. Woodson's work. Knowledge, like charity, should begin at home. An Object Lesson From Africa Fifty-two per cent of the West African Gold Co. government reports. It is greatains, whose plantations existent. They have been used their cocoa because of the British African and Eastern. What are they doing and wring their hands? Organize, they pool their res agent all over the world to fight the monopoly. And has just borrowed $2,000,000. Men like Mr. Tete-Ans are a good object lesson for ful of black men in Africa war against a great color two hundred thousand in business of their own company. America sends mission. It is time for Africa to see the Americans. COLORFUL By THE C PRESTON N two per cent of the world's cocoa in African Gold Coast, according to IPS reports. It is grown by African in those plantations extend far back in they have been unable to get a fa- a because of the price-fixing mo- african and Eastern Company. are they doing about it? Do they their hands? Not for a minute they pool their resources, they send over the world to raise capital with monopoly. And this agent, Mr. borrowed $2,000,000 from New York, make Mr. Tete-Ansa and the Africa object lesson for Harlem Negroes. kick men in Africa can unite for a great colonial corporation. feed thousand in Harlem unite and of their own community? a sends missionaries to teach the for Africa to send missionaries he canns. LORFUL "MOVIE By THE CAMERAMAN PRESTON NEWS SERVICE Fifty-two per cent of the world's cocoa comes from the West African Gold Coast, according to British Government reports. It is grown by African feudal chief-taints, whose plantations extend far back into the continent. They have been unable to get a fair price for their cocoa because of the price-fixing monopoly, the British African and Eastern Company. What are they doing about it? Do they sit down and wring their hands? Not for a minute. They organize, they pool their resources, they send a financial agent all over the world to raise capital with which to fight the monopoly. And this agent, Mr. Tete-Ansa, has just borrowed $2,000,000 from New York bankers. Men like Mr. Tete-Ansa and the African chief-taints are a good object lesson for Harlem Negroes. If a handful of black men in Africa can unite for commercial war against a great colonial corporation, why cannot two hundred thousand in Harlem unite and control the business of their own community? America sends missionaries to teach the Africans. It is time for Africa to send missionaries here to teach the Americans. "Caucasian Superiority" B. JAMES (white) writing from Lexington, Va., in section of Virginia which is overgentea), after Caucasian intelligence, after referring copiously to the "catactrophe of miscegenation which has fallen his brethren of the South," says "the colored races have been on earth thousands of years longer than aborigians and have never been aborigians lish a civilization nor even to maintain one established by the white race." Philosophers of Prof. James' type have a peculiar way of misfitting effects to causes. As a matter of fact, everyone knows, though few Caucasians will admit it, that the "catastrophe of miscegionation" which has befallen Prof. James' brethren is misnamed. The "catastrophe" in truth has taken, and is now taking, its toll, not from the Caucasians, but rather from the Negroes, as to whom the U. B. Congress reports show an increasing growth each year in the number of mulattoes in Virginia and her southern sister states, which have serenely enacted miscegionation laws to "protect" Caucasians from the rigors of the English Common Law, as it once existed in Virginia and elsewhere in the South, prior to revision by state legislatures. Prof. James again errs when he states that the colored races are not maintaining the civilization which has been established in America. They are not merely maintaining it, but are, indeed, exceeding it, and especially as to Virginia, which with its vast resources has been one --- FOUR Stores in Harlem That Do Not Selection of Their Employees. has announced a new pro- for the Association for the History. The work of this pro- but than most of us realize, disadvantages in coping with background, histories, their literatures, back into the past, recorded from their native viewpoint. The greatest forces in sustain- act, the morale of a race is id and fostered by poets and rely on aliens for information actors. He has the material but it is hidden or buried, he tried to find and proclaim, then grow up thinking that anything useful or beautiful, it to look at themselves with at least twenty great Ne- child should know all about, and work of Frederick Doug- ture are more important. L. Cromwell, and W. E. B. B. Every thinking Negro Godson's work. Knowledge, at home. the world's cocoa comes from it, according to British Gov't by African feudal chiefs, send far back into the con- table to get a fair price for the price-fixing monopoly, the in Company. out it? Do they sit down not for a minute. They or- urces, they send a financial raise capital with which to this agent. Mr. Tete-Ansa, from New York bankers, and the African chieftains Harlem Negroes. If a hand-can unite for a commercial corporation, why cannot Harlem unite and control the community?aries to teach the Africans. missionaries here to teach "MOVIES" AMERAMAN NEWS SERVICE of the most backward states, economically, scientifically, industrially and educationally in America. We are living now, not in the age of Usesar and Pompey; not in the Middle Ages. We are living in the age of enlightened democracy, which has grown to be the master of civilization. immaterial and treovleant are fond theories of superiority and inferiority. We are all here doing America's job. And just how well it will be done is a problem for democracy, not civilization, to solve. The civilization phases have long since been disposed of and Prof. James ought to take cognizance of the fact. EXPRESSED BY OUR CONTEMPORARIES Negro Housing Bad (From the Boston Traveler.) There is need for drastic improvement in the housing conditions which surround Boston's Negro population. The greater number of these people are compressed into a district between Massachusetts avenue and Rugles street and between Columbus avenue and Washington street. Too often their houses are crowded, out of repair, unsanitary. For verification of this, view the actual situation or consult the report on housing made in 1926 by the Boston Urban League. The particular point to be noted here is that when the white tenant moves out and the colored tenant moves in, rent WHAT a contrast — 1683 and 1957! Then the nation was torn with warfare and the chains of slavery were being shorn from the limbs of the blacks; today one walks along the streets of Harlem and observes hundreds of thousands of well-dressed Negroes strolling along leisurely or rolling along the pavement in expensive motors gaily bedecked with flags and ornaments. One listens to their conversation and its differs from that of American citizens of lighter hue only in its greater softness and lack of nasal tones. Here are people, cultures of them, of education, culture and refinement; people who look-well, dress well, live well, and yet, people the vast majority of whose grandparents or great-grandparents languished in charitable fact and very ample proof that truth is stranger than fiction. There is nothing anywhere or any time in history to equal it. To stand and watch the serried ranks of gaily uniformed thousands swing by to the strains of martial music! How it thrills one and moves even the most phlegmatic individual to enthusiasm. Here is a great organization with members in every nook and cranny of the country. One can hardly go anywhere without running into a member of the L. B. P. O. E., it is progressive, as Negro fraternal organizations go, and among its members can be found some of the most prominent citizens of the country. It is one of our greatest organizations, it has numbers and money. What it needs, along with the other fraternal organizations and the church, is a constructive program in accordance with the realities of the Negro's situation in the country. Uniforms, flags, speeches, music, election of officers, dancing and the usual activities of fraternal organizations are all well enough. Everybody likes to enjoy life as much as possible and everybody should do so. However, there are other things of great importance facing the Negro, individually and collectively, that cry for attention. These are real serious problems which our fraternal and religious organizations could readily solve within a few short years if they would be given attention to them. True, they have given scholarships to colleges and have hold oratorical contests on the Constitution, but these things are not important. What is the sense of concentrating on giving scholarships when the college graduates we have are barely able to make the grade? Our big urban centers are overrun with sunward physicians, dentists and lawyers. The most important problem facing the Negro in America today is how to break down the bars of color in the field of industry in order that he and his children may have the same opportunity to advance in the economic and social scale that the white citizen has. The next most important problem facing the race is what to do in the meantime that will enable us to gain more expeditiously greater control over our economic life. We are still far too dependent on the good graces of white people for our bread and meat. And we cannot alter that condition by holding orartical contests, sending two or three more Negroes to college or erecting costly fraternal halls and office buildings. As a matter of fact, Negroes hardly need an office building yet. What they do need is more hope, more diversified employment and more material wealth. The fraternal organizations and religious institutions have the people well organized. They can organize a ball or a picnic to which every member goes, but seemingly they cannot operate a grocery store, a meat market, a shoe store, a dairy farm, a shoe factory, a hat works, or any other necessary business where every member will trade. If the members of fraternal organizations insist upon Negro officers and greggmen, why not insist upon Negro farm-ture men, grocers and butchers? Here is an educational campaign that could be started at once whose results would be far-reaching. In the meantime we parade the streets. go up. High rents, on the one hand, low wages, on the other, make for poverty and poor citizenship. The remedy is plain, though not particularly easy to bring about all at once. There must be a realization on the part of intelligent people that the problem of the Negro is the problem of the community; that had housing in any one section or among any one race affects the health of the whole city; that discrimination in rent or wages in the ened is unsound. Most important of all, the Negro must be given fair play in industry and a chance to engage in any work which he shows himself fitted to do. When his economic status is improved, the housing problem, so far as the Negro is concerned, will he freed front most of its difficulties. By Arthur H. Morse, president, Boston Urban League. Can You Tell? a information gap between the races illegal in the United States? (Answer on Back Page.) NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS. THURSDAY. AUG. 25, 1927 Intimate Glimpses of Harlem Negro Worker Reaches Out for Power TWO YEARS AGO, in the basement of the Imperial Elks' Hall, located in the heart of crowded Negro Harlem, a group of Pullman porters assembled at the open invitation of A. Philip Randolph, editor of the Messenger, to consider ways and means by which they might find escape from the well-nigh intolerable conditions of their employment. The gathering was addressed by several speakers, including the writer, who was at that time executive secretary of the Trade Union Committee for Organizing Negro Workers. At the close of the meeting the breath of life was blown into what had until then been only an idea. The Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters was born and a new chapter in American labor history begun by the Negro, America's most exploited and despised worker. THE population of Harlem, as has been already hinted, is made up of all of the colors known to humanity. And it manages to effect in clothing perfect chromatic harmony with its complexion. If one were to stand on any of the corners any day, but especially on Sunday, when the town is out on dress parade, one would see that here were a people who, whatever their shortcomings, are masters in the art of gay dress. The styles of Broadway are seen on the streets of Harlem almost as soon as they are displayed on Broadway. The glaucer bodies of these: black, brown and yellow people seem to have been made especially for the cut and trim of Anglo-Saxon garments. The more prosperous ladies, such as the wives of the professional and business men, and the wives and kept ladies of the gamblers and other loffers, may be seen sporting bizarre jewelry riding in high-powered cars and generally exhibiting themselves on the streets and avenues of Harlem. Negro Work TWO YEARS AGO, in Elks' Hall, located in Harlem, a group of Pu open invitation of A. Philip senger, to consider ways and find escape from the well-their employment. The general speakers, including the executive secretary of the Tganizing Negro Workers. A breath of life was blown in only an idea. The Brother was born and a new chapter gun by the Negro, American worker. Few of those who were present that night, in August, 1925, possessed the necessary vision to foresee the singular significance of the occasion. Nevertheless, an important labor baby was born; one destined to grow into busy manhood and play a most important role in revolutionizing the status of the workers in the United States and in providing for good their relations with their white fellow citizens. Three hundred years ago the Negro was transported from his ancestral home in Africa to the new world, to begin the laborious task of clearing the forests, tilling the soil, and generally laying the economic foundation upon which has since been erected the richest nation in the world, with an attendant powerful and ruthless ruling class. It was largely the labor of the Negro in chains which, magellike, touched the soil of the United States and made it yield forth cotton, rice, tobacco and sugar. It was also in the midst of the fifth, squalor and oppression of chattel slavery that the Negro opened the windows of his soul, turned his agony into song and thereby contributed to the cultural storehouse of America what is now recognized as the nation's only original music. While chattel slavery was rolling on toward that inescapable point of diminishing returns, rolling on toward the day when as an economic system it was bound ungratefully by the national picture because of the resistless march of industry, a few people who possessed a clearer social vision than the others sought to hasten the triumph of the new order over the old by means of a perseverant and largely efficient campaign of agitation and education. The result of the efforts of these Abolitionists soon began to reflect itself into the politics of the nation as well as into every other phase of the nation's life. With the election of Lincoln to the Presidency things began to move swiftly; the conflict between the South with its program of maintaining and extending slavery, and the North with its final ramp up, finally jump out the institute reached a stage where the sea of bloody warfare was embarked upon. The Civil War engaged. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Sacco-Vanzetti To the Editor of the Amsterdam News. My dear Sir: Your editorial, "The Case of Sacco and Vanzetti" expressed the thoughts of many colored people. You took your time to speak of it. But when you did it was well worth waiting for. You surely spoke fearlessly. I have always liked The Amstodam News; now I love it. Keep up the good work. Yours truly, BROOKLYN YOUNG MAN. OPPORTUNITY Countee Cullen, Asst. Editor Noah D. Thompson, Business Mgr. 17 MADISON AVENUE—NEW YORK CITY "A magazine which should be followed by all who are intellectually curious and interested in American's cultural advance."—Boston Transcript. "40 ONE of the most interesting magazines published in the United States."—New York Herald-Telephone. 15c. PER COPY SUBSCRIBE TODAY. By EDGAR M. GREY On Saturday evenings and all day on Sundays the streets are filled with the residents of the community, and on every corner may be seen occasions of them milling about each other and often, stepping into the street to converse, blocking sidewalk traffic, laughing, shouting inertily without worry or awareness of their plight. The most interesting of these are the West Indians, who, like their Cuban brothers, gesticulate with hands and head in ordinary conversation. They have brought their tropical life to the metropolis of mongrels, and lack the sense of humor to enjoy it; they are restless, wondering what of the future, while the native laugh and poke fun at the evident nirousness of these strange people. These West Indians constitute, mostly, the small shopkeepers and, apart from the Jews, do almost all of the small trading of every sort. The Southern Negro, with his tragic background, his soft voice, with its metallic ring, lends a certain charm to the harsh personality of the black, brown and yellow foreigners, who, with him, constitute the population of Harlem. The Harlem Negro is a small town man — the kind that earns his living doing odd jobs for er Reaches O By FRANK R. CROSSWAITH the basement of the Imperial the heart of crowded Negro man porters assembled at the Randolph, editor of the Mesme means by which they might high intolerable conditions of hearing was addressed by seyewriter, who was at that time made Union Committee for Ort the close of the meeting the to what had until then been mood of Sleeping Car Porters in American labor history be most exploited and despised Out of the conflict emerged the liberation of the Negro and the destruction of slavery. The Emancipation Proclamation was issued and Lincoln became immortalized while the Negro was thrown into a new sitting to face a hostile South and an indifferent North. The Negro was with little or no education, the newly emancipated Negro drifted into the realm of domestic and personal service. The Pullman Company, of which Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert T. Lincoln, was later to become the head, began to employ Negroes as porters. What the Negro had done for the nation generally he was about to do for Pullman Company specifically. From the unpaid labor of the Negro slave America had grown opulent and arrogant. From the unpaid labor of the porter the Pullman Company was to grow rich and brutal. Human history holds no stranger contrast than the case of Abraham Lincoln, the Emancipator of the American Negro, and his son, the head of a perfect monopoly which all but re-enslaved a portion of the race freed by his torment for fifty-nine years the Negro has been identified with the Pullman Company and is the acknowledged pillar upon which the immense force of his powerful company rests. All that the company offers to those whose its cars is the efficient and faithful service of the Negro porter. The Pullman Company is not a newcomer in the arena of organized labor and capital. The history of our modern labor movement almost begins with the triumph of the company over the American Railway Union in 1894, and the imprisonment of the immortal Eugene Debs, leader of the union. A leopard might changes its spots, but apparently not the Pullman Company. Its opposition to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters has been, and still is, as vigorous and as unreasonable as it was against Gene Debs and the ill-fated A. R. U. After thirteen months of spectacular and whirlwind organization the Brotherhood has succeeded in enrolling more than fifty-one per cent of the porters and maids in the employ of the Pullman Company, thereby establishing a record never before reached in the annals of organized labor in the United States. OPPORTY JOURNAL OF Published by the New Charles B. J. Countee Cullen, Asst. Editor N 17 MADISON AVENUE "A magazine which should be nally curious and interested in An- Transcript. "ONE of the most interesting States."-New York Herald- 15c. PER COPY SUBSCRIBE $1.60 FOR SPECIAL EIGHT $1.50 FOR ONE YEAR'S SUB whites, whose existence primarily depends upon his wife, and whose change to the life of the city is strenued with mishaps. He has not as yet reached the stature of his brother in the South, who maintains his economic balance by trading with his own people. The white men earn millions annually by a certain credit system which permits elevator and hack drivers to furnish their homes like brokers and bankers. This credit system is to a measure unique; it always leaves the Negro in debt, but at the same time increases his tastes and social deftness. There is hardly an artisan class as yet; the work of building and repairing is still performed in the main by whites. The colored man is still so far behind that he is of the profound opinion that work performed by a white hand and planned by a white brain is and must be superior to that done by the hand and planned by the brain of a black man. The artisan field in which the colored man is popular is that of painting and white-washing. But the shoemakers, carpenters, plumbers and other very skilled workers are white. This is so partly because of the ownership of the houses by whites and partly for lack of race confidence. The membership of the Brotherhood today embraces over seventy per cent of all porters and maids. Having secured this advantage over the company's union—euphmetically labeled "The Employee Plan of Representation"—the Brotherhood advanced its claim to supplant the company union and settle the grievances of the porters and maids before the United States Board of Mediation, a Federal body which was created by the Watson-Parker Act to replace the old Railroad Labor Board in handling all disputes between railroad workers and executives. After several months of delay, occasioned mainly by the urgency of other cases which threatened to interrupt transportation service, the Mediation Board deputed one of its members, former Governor Morrow of Kentucky, to handle the case of the Brotherhood Car Porters vs. the Pullman Company. In one of the most palestaking and extensive investigations ever conducted by the board the record of Brotherhood was gone through and its membership checked back by the chief statistician of the board. After this investigation mediators became convinced by the evidence that the Brotherhood of eleven elderly men might be mighty organization which neither the Pullman Company nor the board could afford to ignore. Accordingly, conferences were held by Mediator Morrow; the company's side of the dispute was repeatedly站 as well as the side of the porters. The result was that on August 12 the board recommended that the dispute go to arbitration. This decision of the board does two things: in the first place, it unequivocally rules out of any further consideration the "Employee Plan of the Company." Under the law this outfit can have no standing; and in the second place, it accords to the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters the same status as enjoyed by the other and older railroad unions. This is a victory of far-reaching and tremendous import to the Pullman porters. The final triumph of the porters' union will mark the first dehnite and complete defeat of the company union, the bane of the American labor movement, and will undoubtedly establish the Negro workers in the ranks of organized labor to fight side by side with the other workers of the nation for industrial democracy. The demands of the Brotherhood include: (1) Recognition of the right of Pullman porters to organize a union of their own instead of the "Company's Union." (The United States Mediation Board by its decision has now recognized this right); (2) a living wage instead of $12.50 per month which they now receive; (3) the abolition of "tips" as a reward for "labor"; (4) the abolition of "preparedness"; i.e. time used by theporter to making ready for a trip, which in many instances is as much as five hours, for which he receives absolutely no pay; (5) pay for overtime; (6) modification and Middle Life - A Time to Be Careful AS the middle period of our lives, forty years, approaches, increased nervous activity results. At this time, too, there is lessened physical exercise. This is so because of the increased demands of business, professional, social and domestic cares. There is at this time of life both a conscious and unconscious desire to make good at some particular line of endeavor. We are at this time enmeshed in a high nervous tension. It is the climacteric in both men and women. This mental strain produces, therefore, an increased death rate, by lessening the resistance of the vital organs, the heart, the blood vessels, the kidneys. ABOUT BOOKS A Stage Poet This is the time of life in which definite principles of right living should be followed. Diet is of paramount importance after forty years of age. Flesh foods should be reduced, while fruits and vegetables are increased. Lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, turnips, oyster plant, greens of all kinds, celery and parsnips should be eaten frequently. These are bulky foods and they stimulate the muscular more- MELLOW MUSINGS. By Salem Tutt Whitney, Published by the Colored Poetic League of the World. When that delightfully crazy book "Alice in Wonderland" was published everyone wondered who the author, Lewis Carroll, could be. No one knew him, no one had ever heard of him. When they finally climbed him down they "felt" that his real name was not Lewis Carroll, that he was not the wild-eyed, romantic vagabond they had imagined. He was a professor of mathematics, the last man they would have expected to turn out such beautiful nonsense as "Alice in Wonderland." It is the same way with the writing of poetry. You know a man for years and he seems so practical, so matter-of-fact that you wouldn't dare mention poetry to him, much less admit that you were guilty of writing it. Then one day when he's drunk or in love he suddenly pulls a wholeream of it out of his pocket, all written in his secret hours and guarded from the world. When J. Pterpont Morgan died it was divulged that in his youth he had written a volume of verse. Salem Tutt Whitney has been famous on the stage for years. We've seen his shows, good ones; we've laughed with him again and again, but we've never thought of him as a poet. But here he is, one hundred and twenty-six pages strong. He makes no claim to serious literary merit, yet merit is in his book. One feels that if he could have given as much time and energy to poetry as he has given to his profession he might have been one of our salient poets. As a general thing, the great poets of the world have not had to work for a living, certainly not in the exacting theatrical profession. Salem Tutt Whitney has the poetic sense, the instinct for meter the eye for truth and poetry. He has not that master of the mechanics of verse that only study and practice can give. The ear for rhyme and the knack of precise diction come with training, and this training he has not had time for. In dactylic verse, however, his instinct triumphs over technical obstacles and he is at his best. Several poems in this volume deserve a second reading. "Watch Yo' Step, Miss Lindy" is reminiscent of Paul Dunbar in more than the dialect. The true lyric beat is in "Supplication," "Little Girl! Little Boy," "What Will You Say to Your God" and "Twin Poems, Passion and Love."—A. B. regulation of "doubling"; (7) a 24-hour work month like all railroad workers, instead of the 400 day work which is based upon an 11,000-mileage schedule; (8) abolition of the elaborate spy system organized and maintained by the company to keep the workers in continued submission and subjugation After twenty-four months of heroic struggle against all manner of obstacles, including race prejudice and intracultural opposition inspired largely by the gold of the Pullman Company, the Brotherhood today stands on the threshold of victory. The Pullman porters seem chosen by fate to be the group which will build a monument to serve as an inspiration and guide to the millions of Negro workers in the United States as they struggle against injustice, social and economic, for a man's chance in the land where the Negro's greatest contribution to modern civilization has been made. They should receive the whole-hearted support of every right thinking Negro in the land. 800 NEGRO INVENTORS. More than 800 Negroes have taken out patents on inventions through the United States Patent Office in Washington, D. C. Young's Book Exchange The Mecca of Negro History and Literature 255 WEBT 144TH 8T. NEW YORK Buy a Book Fit S, M.D. Time to Be Careful Of our lives, forty years, ap- pous activity results. At this tened physical exercise. This demands of business, profes- res. There is at this time of conscious desire to make good deavor. We are at this time extension. It is the climacteric This mental strain produces rate, by lessening the re- the heart, the blood vessels, This is the time of life in which definite principles of right living should be followed. Diet is of paramount importance after forty years of age. Flesh foods should be reduced, while fruits and vegetables are increased. Lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, turnips, oyster plant, greens of all kinds, colery and parsnips should be eaten frequently. These are bulky foods and they stimulate the muscular movements of the intestines and thus prevent constipation, especially if plenty of water is taken between meals. Bathing in the proper way is necessary to establish the proper circulation. The hot or warm bath followed by a cold spray is the right method. Cold bathing is not necessary and should be avoided by people suffering with high blood pressure, heart trouble or kidney disease. In middle life, strenuous exercise is positively injurious. The strain is too much for the heart and blood circulation. Walking, golf, hunting, fishing are the outdoor exercises fitted for this time of life. The brain and nerves must have some relaxation in middle life to maintain fitness and play will snap the blood of life hours of change with some hobby will relieve high blood pressure and brain fog. Patience, temperance and enough hours of sleep are the other necessities for continuing a healthy middle life. Pen Pointers A careful Harlem driver came in sight of a pretty Atlantic City bathing beauty and sighed, "Alas! the dangerous curves." Divorces betray the nightmares of our social order. Knickerbocker says. "At twenty we know it all, at thirty we doubt, at forty we begin to suspect our folly, at fifty we know beyond all doubt that we are fools, at sixty we begin to learn, and at seventy we have lived our allotted span of life." The end of a worthwhile vacation is to put us in good form to give life a knockout blow. Every time one of our group displays on the highways a Packard, ten philanthropic white people close their purses forever to our racial needs and appeals. Most of us go through life half-cocked; if not by "white mule," we drug ourselves with pride and prejudice, fear and folly. The conquest for the highest means perpetual struggle. Homely Philosophy BY GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Look Up at the Sky STOP and look up at the sky occasionally. Gaze long and forget the puddles and pobbles that harass your feet. If you look long enough, you will find that a strange calm will steal into your troubled mind; a cool stiffness will replace the fevered tumult of your pulse. When at last you turn your eyes earthward it will be as if you had taken a deep draught of God's lifesaving eternity. It is well to look up to the sky occasionally. THE POETS' CORNER Poems submitted for publication in "The Poet's Corner" will not be returned unless accompanied with a printed and stamped envelope. THE moonbeam's kiss On the shumbling lake; The soughing wind In the sweet carbra; The cuckoo's call At the twilight glow; And stunndust spread On a virgin snow; The dow's moist kiss On the violet; A night bird's song To the rivelot; A hoary twain Who at life's sunset Gaze untainted And are sweethearts yet. SALEM CULTU WHINENY --- 1 Love APEX Leading Beauty System World's Best Products TIME: SARA SPENCER WASHINGTON TRADE MARK THE APEX AGENT Renders a service of unequalled distinction PATRONIZE HER Apex system excels others because it makes your hair look better and stay nice longer APEX PRODUCTS Are of the highest standard and produce amazing results—Buy them from your hairdresser BECOME INDEPENDENT—LEARN THE APEX SYSTEM Borough course for a reasonable fee—Small down payments—Balance in installments—Diplomas awarded—Positions always open APEX COLLEGE Harlem Center Building, Room 110 Edgecombe 9860 200 W. 135th St., Cor. 7th Ave. New York City . Side Lights on SOCIETY Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Hawkins entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Garrell and Mr. Mary E. Graves of Danville, Va., at their country home in Lutherford, N. J., during the week. Ols M. Brown, S213 Botanic avenue, Philadelphia, Pa., who was here for several days attending the Elks' convention, returned last night. Mr. Fred R. Moore, Mr. and Mrs. H. Bouchet Day and Miss Martha McAllister have gone to Stone House, Ruxbury, N. Y., for two weeks. Walter Creth of Petersburg, Va. is visiting his daughter, Margaret, at 153 Edgécombe avenue. Mrs. Creth is the assistant supervisor at the nursery center in West 136th street. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Porter and Mrs. Loon Marshall returned this week after a motor trip to Troy and Saratoga. The Porters gave a party last night at their residence, 115 West 141st street. Present were the following: Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Meachan, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Moore, Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Louis C. Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Cyril Mickens. Mr. and Mrs. John White of Cambridge, Mass., were the guests yesterday of Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Brown. 63 West 139th street, en route to Cape May. Mrs. Marle A. Mickens, 115 West 141st street, has returned to the city after a two weeks' visit in Tampa, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. William Pold of Petersburg, Va., are attending the Elks' convention. Counsellor Thomas F. Rold of Portsmouth, Va., is spending the week here. He is the general secretary of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. Arthur G. Froe, recorder of deeds in Washington, D. C., is living at 2165 Seventh avenue while he is here attending the Elks' convention. Augustus W. Gray, attorney at law in Washington, is spending the week here. He lives at 242 West 137th street. William Joyce of Washington is the house guest of Mrs. Marie Watson, 140 West 142d street. Mrs. Nobile E. Gilmore, a delegate from Chicago to the Elks' convention, lives with Mrs. A. Lankford, 140 West 142d street. The house guests of Mrs. Laura Gibbs, Ingraham, 90 Edgecombe avenue, are Mrs. Hester Wilson and Mrs. Daisy Brown Martin of Chicago. Mrs. Jennie Mason Livingston of Mme. Celestine Beavers Daughter Elk— Eureka Temple No. 22 Hair Culturist.Poro System Manilening—Facial Massaging 203-5 WEST 145th ST., near 7th Av. Shoppe Phone 6933 Bradhurst 1515 Bradhurst 6933 Bradhurst 1515 Bradhurst Mme. Hilga Snapple, Mme. Jourothy Boakie, Mme. Ehiel, Wollincox, Mme. dortrude, Blackette, Mme. Landese Black, Mme. Lein Ruff. —Miss. Agnes W. Steber— For the first time in the history of Camp Louise Andrews, East Northfield, Mass., a Negro girl was permitted to attend this summer. Miss Agnes W. Steber, 224 West 12th street, was chosen, and for two weeks she lived and camped with this experimental group. On the night of the special program, Miss Steber read from Alain Locks's "The New Negro." Jacksonville, Fl., arrived here Tuesday morning from Chicago. She is visiting her sister, Miss Wilma Mason, 660 St. Nicholas avenue. Miss Edith Murray, charming little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Murray, 24 Claver place. Brooklyn is the house guest of Miss Marjorie Brown, 2656 Eighth avenue, for a few days. Arthur J. Gary, editor of The Chicago Daily Times, was here yesterday. He plans to be East until September. Sterling Williams and Dexter Johnson of Philadelphia are at 152 West 135th street while in the city. Miss Jessie Smith of Chicago, who was the guest of Mrs. Lucile Nall, 150 West 142d street, returned home today. Many parties were given for her during her stay here. Miss Hazel McBeth of Baltimore, Md., lives with Mrs. Minerva Harris, 201 Edgecombe avenue. Miss Adah Walls of Atlantic City is spending some time in the city. Roger Chaney and his mother, Mrs. Ennice Chaney, returned home last week from North Carolina, where they visited relatives. The Heyliger family, 54 East 131st street, received a cabel- gram Monday telling of the death of the father of the family in Bermuda. Miss Carolyn Dublin is to meet Miss Roberta Bosley in Baltimore this week. For a month Mrs. Nina Davis of Jacksonville, Fla., will be visiting here. Miss Thorpe, 226 West 136th street, has returned from her vacation spent in Plainfield, N. J. Long Island and Connecticut. She leaves next week for New London and Fairfield, Conn. The Rev. F. A. Cullen, father of Counteg Cullen, motored here Tuesday from his summer home in Pleasantville. N. J., to attend the evening session of the Pan-Afri- NATIONAL BEAUTY CULTURIST LEAGUE Eighth Annual Convention Aug. 30-31—Sept. 1-2 ABYSSINIAN BAPTIST CHURCH COMMUNITY HOUSE Public Sessions Every Afternoon Colfure Review and Dansante Friday, September 2, 1927 Sponsored by Local No. 28, No. 33, No. 41 and No. 48 EX World's Best Products- NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 Radio Highlights WJZ -- 6:50 p.m.—B WGY -- 7:30 p.m.—"C WNYC -- 7:45 p.m.—C WCGU -- 8:00 p.m.—"T WGBS -- 8:30 p.m.—"T WKBQ -- 8:30 p.m.—C WOR -- 9:15 p.m.—T WEAF -- 10:00 p.m.—"L WHN -- 11:00 p.m.—V WMCA — Midnight—B Try Your H The one meat "standby" is it, it can be made appetizing. "T you'll like them! 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Chop corn, drain and add dry ingredients mixed and sifted, then add ham and yolks of eggs, beaten until thick, and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Cook in a frying pan in fresh hot lard. Drain on paper. This recipe serves six—takes 30 minutes to prepare. HAM TURNOVERS Holl pastry thin and ept in finely chopped ham moistened round. Brush each piece with edge. Fold like a turnover and hot oven 400 degrees Fahrenheit eight; takes 35 minutes to prep Holl pastry thin and cut in rounds. Place one tablespoon finely chopped ham moistened with thick white sauce on each round. Brush each piece with water half-way around close to edge. Fold like a turnover and press edges together. Bake in hot oven 400 degrees Fahrenheit for 15 minutes. Serves six to eight: takes 35 minutes to prepare. can Congress. With the Rev. Cullen was his nephew, Reginald Pernell of Philadelphia. Henry Slaughter, who spent his vacation at a cinn up state, is home again. He plans to enter New York University this fall. The Emmann Social and Athletic Club issued invitations yesterday to their autumn frolic at Bowman's Studio. 132 West 121st street, on September 5. Offices of this club are: James Tumer, president; Oriel Parker, vice-president; Miss Mildred Coards, financial secretary; Miss Alma Simmons, recording secretary; Miss Elsie Reid, treasurer; Rudolph Johnson, business manager. Brooklyn and L. I. Society News The Students' Literary Guild gave its initial tea at Tri-City Studio Sunday afternoon from 3 to 5 o'clock. The hostesses at the tea were Misses Julia Dotson, Marjorie Parsons, Madeline Elder and Floria Pickney. Among the guests present were: Misses beatrice Henderson, Elizabeth Hickman, Corinne Jordan, Thelma McLinden, Hortence Thompson, Aida Vaughn, Lillian Robinson, Stella Fleming, Helen Howard, Fannie Potter, Helen Mayo, Thelma Parson, Dorothia Mason, Hazel Thomas, H. Goods, L. Phillips, Nelle Verchials, Carrie Hill, Lillian Johnson, Louise Powel, Helen Helen, Willie Moos, Elaine Callendae. Also Edward Batten, S. Blount, Egbert Brown, Ralph Coban, James Farrar, Middleton Harris, E. Killingworth, Fred McTear, G. Pinkney, Raymond Turner, E. Henderson, William Kirby, Charles Smith, Eugene Williams. The Rev. and Mrs. H. H. Batten, Mr. and Mrs. W. Wilkins, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Edward McCormick, Mrs. Bessie E. Snow, Mrs. W. Dillard, Mrs. Lottie Henderson, Mrs. O. Hickman, Mrs. L. Hightowers, Mrs. Will- ham Moss. Napoleon Dotson, 465 Halsey street, announced the engagement of his daughter, Julia, to Ralph Coban, 532 Dean street, at a recently party at his home. Miss Dotson recently returned from the girl's reserve conference, Poland, Me. For a number of years she has been interested in the work at the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Coban is a student of dentistry. The wedding will take place in the early spring. Mr. and Mrs. Walter M. Potter of Evergreen, I. L., entertained a number of guests during the week-end. Among them were: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas of 200 W. 148th street, Miss Myrtle Raylall, of Chicago's city museum, Henry Jackson of Cleveland, Ohio; Duckie Fisher of Newport News, Va.; Miss Mona Smith of Oakland, Calif., and Miss Marion Allen of Washington. Mrs. B. B. Landis, matron at the Lincoln Settlement Day Nursery, and her daughter, Mrs. B. B. Summerall, and children are visiting relatives in Atlantic City. Marriage Licenses Issued Yesterday Bufford, Charles, 420 St. Nicholas 321 St. Nicholas, James, 321 St. Nicholas, Nathalie Cooper, Alexander, 38 West 138th street; Miss Sarah Huffin, same address. Jackson, Albert, 206 West, 146th strict; Miss Patty Pulga, 244 1/2 cup lard 1/2 cups flour 1/2 cup water Baseball Scores The Story of America" Civil Service Announcements Negro Poetry," Beatrice Henderson Business as a Profession" Opera," Lucia di Lammér- por" The Collegians Our Government," Davis Lawrence Laudeville Period Broadway Night and at These Sham. No matter how you serve try your hand at these recipes— ERY ingredients mixed and sifted, beaten until thick, and whites frying pan in fresh hot lard. Serves six—takes 30 minutes to SERNOVERS 2 cups minced ham ½ cup white sauce salt in rounds. Place one tablespoon with thick white sauce on each water half-way around close to press edges together. Bake in oven for 15 minutes. Serves six to cure. Beauty Hints By MINA TEMPLE Nice Points About Stockings Everybody wears silk hose nowadays, but few people know how to get full value in appearance from them. First place, a stocking should be washed after each wearing. This keeps the snugness and trimness about the ankle. And next the seam that is supposed to go up the back should be perfectly straight and not curving around or zig-zag. Watch the next ten women you see and count the uneven seams. Have a care for those two points if you would look a hundred per cent in your fine hose. Thearcher Says August 24 is one of the best birthdates in this week. Success will be slow in materializing owing to the adverse aspect of Saturn, but with good judgment these people should gain much in this birth-year. August 25 is a very adverse birthdate for those who are in the real estate business, and for those who are buying homes. Caro should be taken that all deals are perfectly legal, or there may be loss of homes, property and money. This date may bring some disaster with much injury to children, or reforms in legal and governmental affairs. These aspects will begin to manifest before this date. These children should be careful in everything, and should not take any risks. Key to Culture By LEOLA LILLARD "Good to Look at" THE first mark of good breeding that strikes the observer is neatness in personal habits. Not that a dandy is always a gentleman, but a habitual gloven cannot be. Clothing worn at work may be unavoldably soiled—as also the hands and face, but "a little-water clears us of this dead; how easy it is then!" The whole world wants youth and beauty. Don't be ridiculous, but look it and act it as far as possible. Avoid this scene from your outside act: Scratching the head and ears, picking the teeth, excessive gum chewing, careless splitting, nose blowing bolstorous laughing and swearing. Give the public the pleasure of looking at your neatly dressed hair, fresh clean skin, well-kept teeth, smooth polished nails, spoilous clothes, tidy shoes and gentle mannerism. The observer will have a pleasing eyeful. West 138th street. Lewis, Hubert Umbstone, 307 West 146th street; Miss Iarene Burns, same address. Montgomery, Henry. 2545 Eighth avenue; Miss Eloise Zylk, same address. Nurse, Arthur, 538 Broadway, Schenectady, N. Y.; Miss Doris Prudhomme, 304 West 151st street. Rolston, Nathaniel, 54 West 129th street; Miss Marian Parris, same address. Simpson, Willie, 2578 Eighth avenue; Miss Dorothea Alexander, 12 East 132d street. Sina, Edward, 214 West 121st street; Miss Anna E. Jones, 227 West 121st street. Swales, Robert, 766 St Nicholas avenue; Miss Equa Myers, 267 West 121st street. From a Disgusted Student Egypay Ann: Why don't you women be yourselves? I'm sick of all of you. You're artificial and selfish. If there wasn't any women we men would be a lot better off. You're out for all you can get. Where do you think we Negro men get our money from? Too bad we can't have Aladdin's lamps. And let me say a word about petting. Girls are selfish in that, like they're selfish in everything. Lead a fellow on, make him lose his head, taking care to keep theirs, and when he tries to make further advances they indigently reply: "I'm not that kind of a baby." And they wonder why we leave them for someone who understands! Women cause all the evil in the world. They deliberately make it their business to ensnare some unsuspecting men, just for what they can get out of them. I don't expect you to print this letter. That would be giving the men too square a deal. DISCUSTED STUDENT. Disgusted Student: Evidently you've fallen good and hard for some dreadful female creature, and she just "nint done right" by our little student. And he wants to take his spite out on the entire female sex! Now, son, you'll get over that. It won't be long now before you fall again, and harder still, for a pair of bright eyes, or a sweet feminine voice. Our girls can't help it if they are naturally charming, can they? Of course, I don't agree with you that women cause all the evil in the world. Low and selfish desires of men are what do it. As for petting, I suppose most boys don't believe in it or like!! I suppose you don't call a girl an antique sister if she refuses you liberties! I suppose you continually call to see her and take her out if she talks intelligently and makes you lay off the mauling stuff! Think that over, son, Introspection is what's needed! Out of Town Society News Washington, D. C. The local summer chapter of the Omega Phi Phl Fraternity gave an informal dance at the fraternity house in honor of the Omega men of Washington returning from the national tennis tournament at Hampton, Va. Dr. Percy Richardson of New Rochelle, N. Y., was a visitor last week-end. Prof. Tandy Brown was host at a very enjoyable party at his summer cottage at Eagle Harbor last Saturday night. Among the guests were: Mrs. Alada Jones Campbell, Miss Adena Young, both formerly on N. Y. Phil, Misses Elizabeth Anderson and Antiolette Wilson, Louis F. Campbell, John P. Davis, Charles Gibson, William Russell, Clark Carson, and several others. Mississippi Geraldyn Hughes, Lucele and Frances Taylor are spending the remainder of the summer at Atlantic City. Mrs. May Howard Jackson, who spent the summer in her home on the Hudson, is expected back in a week or so. Waring Cuney is visiting his mother and brother on Florida avenue. He was given a party in his honor this week-end. Mrs. Clarissa Scott Delany continues to improve. Miss Constance Josephine Rilley, head resident at the Robert Gould Shaw House, was married to Attorney Jesse Solomon Health of You can come as near perfection in the development of YOUR BEAUTY. If you will always use ETHEL'S Beauty Preparations. If you would know just how very satisfactory our BEAUTY SERVICE is, ask any one of our many customers EGYPSY ANN. Boston Pets Toledo, Ohio, at high noon on Tuesday. The ceremony was solemnized at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Thomas, cousins of the bride, 168 Chestnut avenue, Roxbury. The Sidney Lovett, president of the Simmons House Council and pastor of M. Vernon Congregational Church, was the officiating clergyman. Mrs. Heslip, who attended Simmons College, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ulysses A. Ridley and granddaughter of the late Judge and Mrs. George T. Ruffin. Judge tuffin was the first Negro graduate of the Harvard Law School, finishing in the class of 1869. At the time of his death in 1839 and for a long time preceding he was judge of the Municipal Court, Charlestown, Mass. Mr. Heslip is an alumnus of Howard University, Washington, and a graduate of the Harvard Law School, class of '22. He is practicing in Toledo. Only the immediate family and a few close friends were present at the marriage ceremony. Mrs. McClennan Mickey, the bride's cousin, was matron of honor; George Ruffin, uncle of the bride, gave her way. Dr. Louis R. Middleton of Waltham, Mass., the man man. The wedding march was played by Mrs. Oliver A. Randolph of Newark. Those attending the ceremony were: Mr. and Mrs. Carrol Thomas, Mrs. Ulysses A. Bidley, Mrs. Hattie Ruffin, Mrs. Ida McCleenn, Mrs. Marion Wilson Beasley, New York City; Mrs. B. McGraw, Mrs. Francis Grant, Bordentown, N. J.; Eolyn Klugh, Mrs. Florence Terry Lewis, Mr. and Mrs. Butler, R. Wilson Jr. Attorney Oliver Randolph, Newark; Homer C. Jarrett, Dr. Benjamin Robinson, Marion Ford, Mr. and Mrs. William Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newman, a wedding luncheon was served, after which he helped left for New York, where they will spend a part of their honeymoon, then to Atlantic City and Washington, D. C. They will be at home at 513 Belmont street, Toledo, on September 7. Harold Martin, football coach at Shaw University, Raleigh, N. C. is confined to his home, 52 Harold street, Roxbury, with influenza. Mrs. St. Clair West, wife of Attorney West, S6 Mayozine street, Cambridge, left today for Baltimore and Atlantic City. Miss Helen Hayley entertained friends in honor of Dr. A. 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Nelson's Hair Dressing is sold by druggists everywhere. NELSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Richmond, Va. NELSON'S HAIR DRESSING Be sure you get the original—Nelson's. Packed in a metal box, in a cardboard container. satisfactory our BEAU for many customers Avenue, N. Y. C. Mud Packs Facial Massaging and--- CHIROPODY THE STATION FIVE gun officers commissioned during the war. Attorney H. A. Macbeth met his brother, Arthur L. local photographer, after an absence of twenty years. Attorney Macbeth lives in Cleveland, Ohio. Pilar Rodríguez, commissioner of education and attorney-at-law of Forto Rico, was the dinner guest of Prof. and Mrs. Joshua Maxwell, 584 Pressman street, last week. SAITCH WINS AGAIN AT HAMPTON APARTMENT houses meeting the needs of a fast growing community are serving to deny us the opportunity of witnessing various form of sport which would draw large numbers of colored fans to see our own in action. TO see a good baseball game in which colored men engage you now have to travel miles out of the district. In the days when the McMahons operated at Olympic Field with the then famous Lincoln Giants, thousands of colored fans looked forward to the week-end with pleasurable anticipation. Now it takes a dyed-in-the-wool fun to make up his mind to travel all the way up to the Catholic Protectory Oval. TENNIS had just started to get wedged in right when grounds were lost in the rush of progress. Today tennis fans are forced to go outside of the state to witness the championships and from the looks of things it would seem that it is going to take many years before any championship games between colored players are singed within reasonable distance of the big city. Possibly the tennis moguls can be induced to turn their eyes toward Flushing. Jamaica or Corona before all the lots are gone. THIS, to our way of thinking, is the only hope for those with a love, for the game and in the game. Give up meaning about the loss of the grounds right in the heart of the city and start trying to educate the cliff dwellers to going just a little way out for those big marches. Like basketball in the early days, a clientele was being built up for the game in these parts which can be depended upon to make the quick journey to any of the above named towns. Truth to tell, it is much easier making connections for one of these towns than going uptown to see the weekend game. THOSE series of games between the Homestead Grays and the Lincoln Giants gave promise of arousing the almost dormant interest of hundreds of baseball fans in Greater New York. We believe that another series can be arranged and will prove just as successful as the one which the weather killed as the boys came into the home stretch. Enough interest has been worked up in the teams to warrant another series. There are many fans in Gotham still believing that the Lincoln Giants can whip the Homestead Grays. We know this by the great amount of alibi's furnished for Capain Lloyd and his men by the faithful. WITH the closing of the Commonwealth Sport Club in Harlem some time ago, the fighter making a bid for prominence and new to the game seemed to have been forgotten by our contemporaries. As you have no doubt noticed, by reading the columns of the Amsterdam News, a number of the boys are showing in the Brooklyn clubs. You will also notice that the promising amateurs are not forgotten in these columns. Great stuff to turn off reels of opinion, but the boys want to know what their friends are doing in the roped arena. SOME splendid pictures of Al Brown with his Oat friends, both men and women, appeared in "Sur La Rivière Normande," a magazine published in Deauville, that world famous watering resort to which the millionaires and others not millionaires flock when they make the pilgrimage to Europe. All is seen enjoying the smiles of the Parisian (and other) beauties of the opposite race. In one picture he has obligingly taken one on the jaw from a beautiful young lady. Phew! if you saw the lady you would be willing to be knocked cold every day by the same hand. THESE pictures were all taken on the beach and everybody appeared in their bathing costume. The noticeable absence of the color line is really refreshing and we are going to ask Al all about it upon his return to this country. Socially and fastly speaking, Al Brown has been a howling success in Europe and while he is enthusiastic about the plans for his meeting with Bud Taylor, we suspect that he will register some regret at being forced to leave such pleasant surroundings to return here and be constantly reminded that he is a member of a proscribed race. WHITE FANS "BOO" REFEREE OF BOUT LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 24. (By The Associated Negro Press). —White fans at the Olympic Auditorium, Aug. 10, booed, yelled, cat-called and threw programs as the referee held up the hand of Ernie Owens, white, after his ten-round battle with Jake Kirklin. Kirklin was the aggressor throughout, and although he ran into a couple of Ernie's touted right hand punches in the first, which reeled him around the ring, he came back in the remaining rounds and more than endured up the battle. SAY PIGKNUCKLE LET ME HAVE FIVE BUCKS? ALL RIGHT- REMEMBER I MUST HAVE IT BACK THIS EVENING MY ROOM RENT IS DUE, YOU KNOW MY LANDLADY! OH! BOY 202 LOOKS, LIKE A FAVORITE IU SLAP FIVE ON IT I JUST GOT THIS JACK IN TIME. 3 Hrs LATER SAY PIGKNUCKLE WHAT WAS IT? 666 AND I LOST! TWO BUCKS. YOU MEAN SEVEN! BUCKS! Chas. H. Robinson. HAMPTON A RIOT OF COLOR By Arthur E. Francis HAMPTON INSTITUTE, Va. Aug. 21.—With the largest gallery of tennis players and fans ever gathered together to witness this classic battle of tennis giants amid the beautiful setting that the wonderful campus of Hampton Institute affords. Ted Thompson of Washington. D. C., national champion in 1925, came back to his own, when he defeated Eyre Salch of New York, who wrested the championship from him in 1926 at St. Louis, Mo. Taking the tip from Thompson, Miss Eula Ballard of Philadelphia, Pa. 1925 Woman's Singles champion, downed Miss Isadora Channels, formerly of Chicago, now of Roanoke, Va. who held the championship in 1922, '23, '24 and '26. Miss Ballard won in 1925, only to have it taken away from her in 1926 by Miss Channels, but today she showed the tennis fraternity that she is the best woman tennis player in the country by her easy victory over the four times champion. With a record entry list of 318 players in the six contested events, play started on Monday with nearly every tennis player of note in attendance, and hundreds of tennis fans and lovers of the game looking on. With the large tennis gathering, and nearly seven hundred Summer School students, the pretty and spacious grounds of Hampton Institute teamed with activity all during the week. The entry list in the various events were as follows: 135 Men's Singles, 63 Woman's Singles, 61 Men's Doubles, 16 Woman's Doubles, 23 Mixed Doubles, and 21 Junior Singles. With such a tremendous entry, Dr. D. Ivison Hoage, the referee, and his assistants, Dr. W. H. A. Earrett of St. Louis, and Dr. Wm. H. Wright of Baltimore, were put on their mettle. Of the 1926 National Champions, the following were found defending their titles, Eyre G. Saitch of New York Men's Singles; Miss Isadora Channels of Roanoke, Va. Woman's Singles; M. Hill of Indiana, Junior Singles; Miss Lulu Ballard and Miss Ora Washington, both of Philadelphia, Woman's Doubles. The Junior event brought together a score of youngsters with exceptional ability and bright futures, and the woman's singles were featured by the brilliant playing of Mrs. Lottie Wade of New York, who once dominated New York woman players. Mrs. Wade went down to the semi-finals before she was put out by Miss Lulu Ballard. Miss Frances Gittens of New York sprang a surprise on the gallery when she defeated Mrs. Estella Alston of New York, No. 6 national ranking woman's player. The men's singles event between Salitch and Thompson, though going the full five sets, was disappointing. Salitch showed complete superiority in the first set, winning at 6-4. Thompson came back and won the second set by the same score, but soon after the start of the third set Salitch sustained a bad fall and was injured; he offered to withdraw, but realizing that this would disappoint the crowd, he carried on after a brief rest, and gave his best under the circumstances. It was plainly evident, however, that his game suffered by reason of his injury, and though he won the fourth set to square the match at two sets all, Thompson ran out the last and deciding set at 6-2, for the championship. Louis Jones of New York, and Miss Blanche Winston of Atlantic City and New York, won the mixed doubles championship, defeating L. C. Downing of Virginia, and Mrs. C. O. (Mother) Seams of Chicago, at 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Holmes and Thompson, both of Washington, D. C., won the men's doubles event, defeating A. Davis NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 The "Duke of Leiperville" M. With the Coming of George Goudrey Into the Heavyweight Challenger Class, Jimmie Dougherty, His Manager, Takes the Spotlight in an Attempt to Induce Paolino, Sharkey, Delaney and the Rest of the Bunch to Face "The Dark Shadow." The Picture Shows Dougherty a Few Minutes After Godfrey Had Knocked Out Maloney in First Round. and Sterling Brown of Washington, D. C., 7.5, 6.1, 8.6. Douglas Turner of Chicago defeated E. B. Ashe of Philadelphia for the Junior Championship, at 4.6, 6.2, 6.3. In this event the most brilliant playing of the tournament was always in evidence, and New York City's entry of Reggie Wolr and Gerald Norman, Jr., gave a good account of themselves, the former playing exceedingly brilliant, and was only defeated in the semifinals by the present champion after a hard fought match. Attempt Will Be Made to Repeal Boxing Law Suspicion Gaining Ground That Gamblers Are In on Recent Bouts Ended by Fouls State Senator Alfred J. Kennedy of Flushing indicated last week that he will be the standard bearer in a long expected attempt Lulu Ballard and Ora Washington of Philadelphia, National Doubles champions, retained their title by defeating Miss Channela and Mrs. E. Wilson of Masachusetts, at 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Of the 318 entries in all events, New York contributed 60; a little less than one-fifth, which showed splendid co-operation by the players of the Empire State. Men's Singles. Semi-finals: E. Sallah defeated J. Wilkinson 6-3, 5-7, 6-3, T. Thompson defeated E. D. Dowing 6-1, 3-6, 6-3. Finals: Thompson defeated E. Sallah 4-6, 6-3, 8-4, 6-2. Women's Singles. Semi-Finals: L. Ballard defeated L. D. Wado 6-4, 6-1, L. Channels defeated W. Bellingham 7-4, 6-4. Finals: Ballard defeated I. Channels 7-5, 6-2. Men's Doubles. Semi-Finals: Holmes and Thompson defeated W. L. Kean and Golf defended Wilkinson and Smith 6-1, 6-3. Finals: Holmes and Thompson defeated Davis and Brown 7-5, 6-1, 8-6. Mixed Doubles. Semi-Finals: L. Jones and B. Winston defeated E. Ashe and A. Ballard 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, L. C. Downing and L. Junior 6-0, 1-6, 6-3. Finals: L. Jones and B. Winston defeated L. C. Downing and C. O. Seamans 4-6, 6-0, L. C. Downing and C. O. Seamans 4-6, 6-0, L. C. Downing and C. O. Seamans 4-6, 6-0. Women's Doubles. Semi-Finals: I. Channels and E. Wilson defeated C. O. Seamans and D. R. Ewell 6-2, 5-3, L. Ballard and O. Fitzgerald J. Junior and E. Fitzgerald 6-2, 5-3. Finlals; L. Ballard and G. Wash- ington defeated L. Channels and E. Wilson 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. Junior Finlals. Sem-Final-L. Ballard defeated R. Weir 7-5, 8-4. E. H. Ashe defeated T. Calloway 9-7, 6-2. Finals: D. Turner defeated E. H. Ache 4--6, 6--2, 6--3. "GENTLEMAN" JENKINS BATTLES TERRY LOS ANGELES (By The Associated Negro Pres.)—"Gentleman" Ham Jenkins, the Rocky Mountain welterweight champion, is slated for a go with Young Terry, as a runner-up to a bout with Ace Hudkins. Attempt Will Be Made to Repeal Boxing Law by Fouls State Senator Alfred J. Kennedy of Flushing indicated last week that he will be the standard bearer in a long expected attempt to repeal the existing state boxing law. Declaring that the prize fighting game as run today had failed to clean house, Senator Kennedy said he will introduce legislation next winter to repeal the Walker boxing law. "There seems to be no chance that the game will be run without scandal," said the Senator. He also stated that he is acting solely in the interest of clean sport, and that he counts on considerable aid from the members of his own party. He is a Democrat." "Every important bout that is now pulled off has something about it that makes it look suspicious." added Senator Kennedy. "The impression is gaining ground that some-thing gamblers have control of the game. If they haven't some one is handing them something, because every raw decision works to their advantage." Lawy Gains, one of the best of the recent heavyweights, but who is being denied a chance at the game as conducted in this country, primarily because he happens to be colored, defecated Martin Burke of New Orleans in ten rounds in Toronto, Canada, Friday night. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 24 (By The Associated Negro Press). —"Young Ford," a Negro middleweight, who made good headway in the boxing game, has been indefinitely suspended for what they thought was a weakness of Ford's right eye. The fact is that Ford's right eye has gone totally blind, but he had concealed it from the boxing commission, hoping to box on long enough to obtain money for an operation with, hopes of restoring its sight. Punches of Jack O'Brien are said to have injured the optic so that it became sightless. Prettily Decorated - Large Dancing Space Books Open for Dates for Clubs, Receptions, Etc. ONLY $25 PER NIGHT-FOR MEETINGS $15 A NIGHT Capacity 600 to 600 Persona. Booking Office: 650 Lenox Ave. L. SOVINA, Edgecombe 2030 211 WEST 127TH STREET, N. Y. CITY TABLE DE NOTE AND A LA CABTE SERVICE PHONE—9406 Morningside R. H. WEEKS, Prop. FURNISHED ROOMS FOR RENT BY WEEK OR DAY HELLO, BILL! WELCOME TO The World Tea Garden HARLEM'S FINEST RESTAURANT LENOX AVENUE AND 140TH STREET QUALITY FOOD EXCELLENT MUSIC DINING — DANCING POPULAR PRICES ISLAND TEAM BEATS MARINES ISLAND TEAM BEATS MARINES Line Lowered in Hope of Getting Revenge—Natives Stand Out. ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands—(Special to The Amsterdam News)—Uncle Sam's Marines stationed here lowered the bars erected against the natives in baseball recently and again suffered at the hands of a native element which, making the jump from cricket to baseball almost overnight with the arrival of the Americans, became a thorn in the side of the marines because of the inability of the latter to play their own national game with enough proficiency to defeat the Virgin Islanders. It was the pick of the naval outfit out this way that asked to meet the best produced here, but instead of the natives having sense enough to go lightly with their overrids, hoping thereby to receive more consideration at their hands, they made the game one of the most one-sided contests ever witnessed anywhere and lambasted Uncle Sam's sea soldiers and their associates to the tune of 9 to 1. Of course, there were many "wise" Americans who placed their money on the natives in the wave of betting which preceded the game, and quite a lot of money exchanged pockets when the shades of night were drawn o'er this little tropical isle. The battle was to decide the championship of the Virgin Islands, with the men of the service being forced to concede the palm to the St. Thoumlans. Plans of the gentlemen of milk-like complexion call for the arrangement of an inter-island match between Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The last time this happened in their search for revenge St. Thomas also hung it upon the former subjects of Spain and it is most likely that the search of the Americans for a service team to defeat the Virgin Islanders will lead them to Cuba, Hailit, Santo Domingo, Nicaragua and possibly the United States. Unseifed weather conditions kept the Lincoln Giants idle last Sunday, August 21, but a very good attraction has been arranged for this Sunday, August 23. The Harrowgate nine, the leading semi-professional team in Philadelphia, will be the attraction. They play the Lincoln Giants a double header. Kector and Chambers will pitch for the local team. LOS ANGELES (By The Associated Negro Press).—Negro athletes of U. C. and U. S. C. have mutually agreed to throw their best efforts toward making a better representation in track, field and gym activities than ever before. Greater incentive has been given to this decision from the fact that for the first time in the history of the city there has been a well equipped "Y" gymnasium at the new Twenty-eighth Street Y. M. C. A., which has served to keep the boys fit and in trim for the winter activities. With the example of such men as the great Brice Taylor, who finished college last year, many local football players, not only at the colleges, but also at Jefferson Manual Arts Polytechnic and L. A. High School, are going after high honors on the mixed football teams. All these high schools have a large percentage of Negro students. ST. LOUIS DEFEATS STARS IN SUNDAY BILL ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 24 (By The Associated Negro Press). Before one of the largest Sunday crowds of the season, the St. Louis Stars defeated the Cubans here by the score of 7-1. Dlaz and Davis started as the opposing pitchers and attempted to redeem themselves of yesterday's debacle, when both were driven from the mound. Dlaz could not stand the gaff and after being touched for ten hits and five runs, turned over the job to Gomez, who gave up five hits and two runs. CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 24.—(By The Associated Negro Press)—Tiger Flowers and Chuck Wiggins of Indianapolis fought a ten round draw here Wednesday night at Taylor Bowl. The Georgia Deacon, weighing 173, displayed plenty of action but could not overcome the 13-pound weight advantage which his opponent had. WE SUGGEST The Spar Restaurant 464 Lenox Ave. N. E. Cor. 133rd St. NEW YORK CITY McCLEAN & WATSON Proprietors ELEVEN SCHEDULED EVENTS, INCLUDING MEDLEY RELAY RACE FOR THE GEORGE B, WIBECAN TROPHY AND TUGO- F-WAR BETWEEN BROOKLYN AND NEW YORK FOR THE HARRY WILLS TROPHY EVERYBODY GOES TO Al's Billiard Parlor 2493 SEVENTH AVENUE Bet. 144th and 145th Streets Phone Audubon 9989 Refreshments of All Kinds High Grade Cigars and Cigarettes The Place to Meet Your Friends ALBERT M. SMITH Something Doing Every Minute from 7 A. M. to 1 A. M. GIRLS PLAY LACROSSE LOS ANGELES (By The Associated Negro Press).—The strentuous game of lacrosse has become very popular with the colored girls of the coast. Two teams were formed last season and more are to be organized this winter. Cubans Win Slug Fest From St. Louis ST. LOUIS, Mo., Aug. 24.—(By The Associated Negro Press)—The Cuban Stars won the opening game of the five-game series from the St. Louis Stars here Saturday by a score of 9-8. The battle was a slug fest from beginning to end and both teams used two pitchers in the effort to silence the bats of the boys who were evidently endeavoring to fatten their batting averages. Roselle and Davis started the fracas but soon gave way to Diaz and Williams, who finished the game. Those who like to see plenty of hitting got their fill Saturday as the boys drove the pill to all corners of the lot and only stellar work of the fielders kept down the score. and the cooking and service are fit for a king LIONEL LOUISE DINING ROOM Home Cooking Exclusive - Refined 113 WEST 127TH STREET MRS. MARIE FRANKLIN Proprietor Phone Morningside 7499 A CORDIAL WELCOME TO ELKDOM McVEY LEAVING FOR BIG BATTLE K. O. Artist on His Way to Cleveland to Meet Pete Latzo. Looking the picture of health and naturally satisfied with his showing of the past few months, Jack McVey blew in today to give us the once over and incidentally reminded us that one of the most important hints of his career will be taking place in the near future. Jack will leave town Sunday night for Cleveland, Ohio, where he is matched to meet Pete Latzo at the Taylor Bowl, one of the biggest fight arenas in the country. Even if McVey puts up an impressive showing against Latzo it will mean much to him, for Pete is also a mighty good fighter and we hardly look for Jack to continue his knockout run on the white boy. McVey's manager will challenge Mickey Walker and Joe Dundee immediately after the fight if the colored lad is successful in this battle. It is also said that Jess McMahon can be induced to put on McVey against Dundee in the event of a victory over Latzo, who won the title from Walker and lost it to Dundee. ANNOUNCEMENT The Moonlight Excursion to have been given by St. Luke's Mission Wednesday, August 24, has been postponed until Thursday, Sept. 1, on account of the Elks' convention.—(Advt.) Welcome I. B. P. O. E. of W. Bell & Delany, Inc. 202 W. 135th St., Near 7th Ave. The best that New York City affords in men's furnishings have been secured for the convenience of the visiting Elks at REGULAR PRICES. Ide and Phillips-Jones Shirts Arrow and Van Heusen Collars Beautiful Assortment of Ties QUALITY SERVICE FAIR PRICES HARLEM'S ONLY NEGRO HABERDASHERS Read This First Read T By Trish T. Brennan of New York, who is spiking the summer at an old brick building. Wants to meet Elizabeth Ting of the Philadelphia banker. Wants she shares this win in a competition. While swimming in a pool, she drowns from drowning by someone young man who tells her he is in Philadelphia whose picture he is not. She wonders whose picture she sees and decides to watch SHE went down to dinner. She found three at the table, the honeymoon couple and the so-called Hannibal Thorne. He greeted her as if nothing had happened. "Miss French," he said gayly, "you're late. I was about to ask Mrs. Hall for your share." "It wouldn't surprise me, Mr. Thorne." "Ah, you have my number, as the saving is. There's nothing like being understood." The male honeymooner, a young Mr. Williams, now felt it incumbent upon him to impress the company and his bride with the seriousness of his outlook on life. He cleared his throat, assumed a businesslike expression, and solitely addressed Mr. Thorne. "Mr. Thorne, what is the present situation in the banking business?" "Oh, Mr. Williams. I'm on a vacation now." "But, persisted Mr. Williams, I heard last week that you had just merged three banks into one, and I thought you might tell us how it was done. We don't often have a chance to hear big bankers." "You won't hear one now, Mr. Williams," laughed Mr. Thorne. When I return to Philadelphia, if I are still interested, I will mail a descriptive pamphlet of my life and its history." "You don't happen to have one of you?" "No, the only thing I have with this pertains to the bank is its resident. To be quite frank, I see this quiet place for my vacation because I thought I'd never hear the word bank." "Mr. Williams subsided, perhaps because of a monitor prod from his wife's foot." The clever faker!" said lvy to her. "That's his scheme for causing embarrassing questions. "The Greatest Artist of —Ashton Steve ETHEL IN EARL "AFRI With GLENN The Greatest Color "Ethel Waters Is the Most In ever Their Race, Age or Sex —Harriet This Great Sho Shubert NAT 41st St., W MIDNITE SH EVERYBODY The Alhamb "The Greatest Artist of Her Race and Generation" —Ashton Stevens, Chicago Herald Examiner. ETHEL WATERS IN EARL DANCER'S "AFRICANA" With GLENN and JENKINS The Greatest Colored Revue of All Time "Ethel Waters Is the Most Intreducing of All Comedians, Whatever Their Race, Age or Sex, on the Stage Today." —Harriet Underhill, N. Y. Herald Tribune. This Great Show Has Moved to Shubert NATIONAL Theatre 41st St., West of Broadway MIDNITE SHOW THURSDAY 126th St. and Seventh Ave. ENTIRE NEW MUSIC AND COMEDY BEGINNING MONDAY, FOR ONE WEEK The Harlem Round Immense Success of the Merry Trou TIM MOORE ENTIRE NEW MUSIC AND COMEDY REVUE BEGINNING MONDAY, FOR ONE WEEK ONLY The Harlem Rounders The Harlem Rounders Immense Success of the Merry Troubadours TIM MOORE GEORGE W. COOPER ROSA HENDERSON TROY BROWN LOLLIPOP JONES CLARICE MUNDIN IDA BROWN, Baby GEORGE BOOKER GERTIE MOORE ANGELINA MITCHELL GEORGE GREEN GEORGE PHILLIPS AL, F. WATTS 20 — SUNKIST SWEETIES — 20 EDGAR HAYES' SYMPHONIC HARMONIS Monday to Wednesday SANDOVER The Dog Star in "Avenging Fangs" —and Thursday to Sunday EDITH THORNTON LOU TELLEGEN in "The Little Firebr EDGAR HAYES' SYMPHONIC HARMONISTS CHARLIE CHAPLIN in "A Dog's Life" Midnight Ramble And he carries it off as naturally as a great actor." She raised her eyes and gave him a long, sardonic look. "H-m, h-m," he murmured. "I see there's no moonlight stroll for us tonight." "But I've just met you this afternoon," said Ivy for the benefit of the other couple. If anything unpleasant happened she wished them to know and testify that she had had no previous knowledge of it. "How many afternoons is it necessary to meet Miss Trench before she consents to go walking?" "Well, at least enough to get acquainted." "And we're not yet acquainted? You must be English." He turned from her and began to talk to young Mr. Williams. He drew him out readily, for Mr. Williams was eager to show his right to be taken seriously. Mr. Williams was a postal clerk, with pronounced opinions of everything. He knew the lins and outs of Wall street; he knew just which Senators in Washington were being bribed by great corporations; he knew who was to be the next nominee for the Presidency. As Ivy listened she wondered how he could have acquired such a mass of misinformation. She knew that the throne of Mr. Thorne must be laughing inwardly, but he gave no sign of it. He listened with grave politeness and drew Mr. Williams from one absurdity to another. When dinner was over Mr. Thorne made for the veranda. Mr. Williams, who had expressed only half of his opinions, would have followed him, but his bride's quick glance reminded him that he was on his honeymoon. Ivy went back to her room, but was so restless that she soon came down to the veranda, just in time see Mr. Thorne shut the front gate and stroll leisurely toward the beach, smoking a pipe. She was disappointed, though she hardly admitted it. She wanted to stroll, too, but only after he had plended with her. But he walked away as peacefully as if he had never seen her. Weren't men provoking? Give them a pipe or a bottle and they forget all about women. The next few days were a continuous vexation. The self-called Mr. Thorne never renewed his plea for a troll, she could not encounter him on the beach. As she was going down she met him returning; it she was returning she met him going. He would speak pleasantly enough and either ask her or tell her how warm the water was, and continue on his way. At dinner he always included her in his remarks, but they were always impersonal, and at the table or on the veranda he was never alone "Her Race and Generation" ars, Chicago Herald Examiner. WATERS DANCER'S CANA" and JENKINS Red Revue of All Time Attriuing of All Comsdians, What- t, on the Stage Today." Underhill, N. Y. Herald Tribune. Now Has Moved to NATIONAL Theatre Rest of Broadway NOW THURSDAY IS HAPPY! Obra Theatre AND COMEDY REVUE FOR ONE WEEK ONLY Rounders the Merry Troubadours MOORE ROSA HENDERSON LOLLIPOP JONES IDA BROWN, Baby Blue GERTIE MOORE GEORGE GREEN AL, F. WATTS SWEETIES - 20 PHONIC HARMONISTS Thursday to Sunday EDITH THORNTON and LOU TELLEGEN in "The Little Firebrand" HARRY LANGDON in "Saturday Afternoon" Every Wednesday BY AUBREY BOWSER Author of "The Man Who Would Be White" and Other Stories naturally and gave et. "I see all for us this after-benefit of thing un-wished that she wedge of that" with her. If she could have felt that he was purposefully avoiding her she would have been satisfied, but he was not. It just happened that wherever she was he was some-where else. "It's not that I care a snap for him, the faker!" she told herself. "It's only that I want to get one or two shots at him. He's had the best of it so far, and I've just got to get back at him." "Beauty without class!" I could hang him for that. Then she found herself going to the beach earlier and staying longer, waiting to get a shot at him. One day when she renched the place where he had saved her life she felt a fierce leap of satisfaction. There on the sand were his coat, his pipe and the straw farmer's hat that he wore on sunny days. But where was he? She looked all about her and found no trace of him. She turned cold with sudden fear. At last, far out in the water, dangerously far out, she caught the flash of a brown arm in the sun. It was he, swimming toward the shore. He was coming in rapidly, with long, easy sweeps. "He swims better than I do," she admitted. "He does everything well, the taker!" He was about fifty yards from the shore when suddenly he seemed to be in difficulty. The rhythm of his stroke was broken, then she realized that he was trying to swim with one arm. Remembering what had happened to her, she crisied out, "Hold up, I'm coming!" and rushed into the water, swimming as she had never swim before. Then she saw his head disappear. She struck out furiously, and in a moment his face came up about ten yards away. Even in her frantic stroking she saw the dazed look in his eyes. His head was sinking again as she snatched his upraised arm. She got behind him, grasped the nape of his neck and laboriously heaved him toward the shore. When she rolled him up on the sand she fell beside him, panting, almost ready to faint. Then, realizing that she must do something to revive him, she turned over. Astonishment took way her fatigue. The man was slitting up, fumbling in his coat pocket for his tobacco. He turned and saw her speechless amazement. "Thanks for the ride," he said coolly. (Continued tomorrow.) Current Comment Current Comment (Continued from Page 1.) humiliated by having to "meet" that white person. It is the same with the so-called "unwillingness" of Negro servants to serve Negro people. The Negro does not even yet have a rich, leisure class "society" big enough to be self-sufficient and every intelligent colored woman, for example, who wants to "lead" anything, will find herself in a club or society or association with colored working women and women of much less education: Therefore, a Negro servant for Negro people is always afraid of "losing caste" in lodge or club or association. So far, there is not a large enough "upper class" of Negroes to live by itself: it must exist for and with people of the lower economic, educational and cultural orders. That is one of the bad effects (2) or racial segregation in America. A Negro servant instinctively feels that he cannot clean the cuispidors in a wealthy Negro's house, and then feel comfortable to be called "grand master" by that same wealthy Negro in the lodge. That creates an abnormal situation and a strained condition in the matter of American Negro servants for Negro people. The same feeling would not be found in Haiti or Liberia, where Negro society rules in classes, nor in Mexico or Brazil, where the colored "upper class" and intellectuals would be in a group with the whites of the same rank, and would therefore not have to be "fellow-members" with their servants. In such civilizations, the colored servant will feel as comfortable working for a Negro as for any other race; for he would not be fearful of the em- WELCOME! Brother Elks and Daughter Elks Thursday, Aug. 25; Friday, Aug. 26; Saturday, Aug. 27; Sunday, Aug. 28, and Monday, Aug. 29 LON CHANEY Do Not Fall to Visit the Only Theatre in Harlem Owned and Operated by Colored People No Advance in Prices NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927. arresment of their other social connections. This annoying attitude, then, of Negro servants for Negroes, so far from being an effort to avoid their own race, is fundamentally and essentially an effort to stay with their own by maintaining social equality with their own and keeping "in caste." But it takes some sense and experience outside of anthropological measurements to reach such a conclusion. The thing is so plain that a wayfaring man, though a fool, can understand it—after he understands it. Where to Go in New York PARKS. Central: Take Seventh avenue bus to 110th street. Bronx: Take subway express at 135th street to Bronx Park; also Zoological Park (Free except Mondays and Thursdays, 25 cents.) Prospect, Brooklyn: Subway to Times Square; B. M. T. subway to Prospect Park. FURNISHED NEWS 132D ST., 69 W. finished rooms; Call evenings lem 9675 118TH ST., 15 W. by furnished rite or single rite 5734 141ST ST., 200 W. front room, fring 7th Ave. 123D ST., 157 W. furnished rite Pan-African Congress Closes (Continued from Page 1.) is not born in it. The truly civilized should be the one with the most curiosity. With the exception of the opening session there had not been any singing until Miss Minnie Brown sang with spiritual fervor, "Go Down Moses." Maude Cuney Hare of Boston accompanied her. Mr. Logan again went through a sheaf of letters and telegrams from the ends of the earth, which brought greetings to the Pan-African Congress. Governor Smith and Mayor Walker of New York State and city and Emmett J. Scott are among the national characters who sent greetings. Twenty-one states and thirteen countries were represented at this fourth congress. The chief address of yesterday morning's session was delivered by Robt, Bagnall, field secretary of N. A. A. C. P. Much of the material he used had been treated by the charts, but he held the audience as he told of the conditions that environ the Negro today both in the North and the South. After all, his address revealed, the Negro is only ten years behind the white in his death rate, and every day it is being reduced slightly. He deplored the poor equipment and unprepared teachers so often found in many of the so-called colleges. He praised the forty-eight scholarships granted by the Elks as an awakening to a great need. The migration he considered as the one thing changing the economic and psychological life of the Negro more than any other. The caste system works harm for both races. In the South there are great changes politically, which are making us a factor to be reckoned with. Many sprung to the floor for the discussion period, but only four were fortunate enough to get a hearing. It was than that Mr. Croly revealed the futility of education that does not stimulate the educated man to serve his brother. The West Indian, he holds, is outstripping his American brother in the promotion of business because he has got his capital and experience, through organization. This remark brought Bishop R. C. Ransom to his feet in the defense of the part that the church and its ministers have played in making possible practically all our professional and business men of last generation. He praised the leadership of Marcus Garvey because he had large numbers of followers, and challenged the brilliant young men of today who scoff and sneer at the backwardness of the race to take over the leadership. Said he, "The job of leadership is open! Why do not some of you high top intellectuals take it over?" Mr. Moore of the Industrial Congress took the floor to remind the Congress once again that without organizing all the Negroes of the world in labor unions all of its work is in vain. A brave woman speaker showed how the Sunday schools gave the college bred Negroes a chance to make followers. RAYFORD LOGAN HEARD IN ADDRESS Rayford Logan as his own interpreter made the principal address at the afternoon session of the Pan-African Congress. The greater portion of the afternoon was devoted to listening to the discussion of the resolutions and suggestions for the amendment of the same. Dr. DuBois, the chairman of the Congress, stated that during the entire session no fundamental differences of opinion had existed. The Reverend Walker, pastor of the St. James A. M. E. Church of Cleveland, O., expressed the idea that the body ought to ask clemency for Marcus Garvey. The idea was roundly applauded. H. H. Phillips, professor at Cheyney Normal School, spoke on "Negro Life and History." The Rev. Dr. George Frazier Miller, who was to speak at the morning's session, was called upon for a few remarks. He endorsed the program as outlined by Rayford Logan and defended the heroism of missionaries laboring in Africa. Mrs. Cannady of Portland, Ore., assistant editor of The Portland Advocate, told how her race had succeeded in getting Negro books and magazines in many a home of the whites and Negro history in the grade and high schools. In point of attendance during the day this session proved the best. DETECTIVE AGENCY, 285 Lenox Ave, Phona Morningside 58785 Established 40 years; strictly confidential, Frank Hook, Aug.20 WHY WORK FOR LENSI Write or come to the largest and original Hindu Toul Article Manufacturers. We want male or femal part or full time workers. All of our agents are making man- with us then they have done any where. Why not you? Experience not necessary. Free sample case Remember, you make visits with us. HINDU PRODUCTION CO., Dept. D 2310 B. State St., Chicago, Ill. SPECIAL SALE --- Monday, August 22nd, to Monday, August 29th Sale on Two-Family, on Plot 05x100 — Private Driveways — Streets Paved — Sidewalks and Curbing All Modern Improvements — New Section Opened for Colored — One Block From Subway $1,000 Cash, Balance on Mortgages WALTER E. REIFER, Inc., 100-13 Northern Boulevard, Corona, N. Y. Call Newtown 2121 PARKS. Central: Take Seventh avenue bus to 110th street. Bronx: Take subway express at 135th street to Bronx Park; also Zoological Park (Free except Mondays and Thurs- days, 25 cents). Prospect, Brooklyn: Subway to Times Square; B. M. T. subway to Prospect Park. Statue of Liberty: Subway to South Ferry, boat to Bed loe Island. Museum of Natural History: Ninth or Sixth avenue "L" to Eighty-first street. Aquarium, Battery Park: Subway to South Ferry. Botanical Gardens: Third avenue "L" to 200th street. Metropolitan Museum of Art: Seventh avenue bus to Eighty-second street. (Free except Mondays and Fridays. 25 cents.) Van Cortlandt Park Museum: Subway to Ninety-sixth street; Van Cortlandt Park subway there direct. (Free except Thursdays, 25 cents.) Grant's Tomb: 125th street trolley westbound, cross-town, to end of line. Columbia University: Subway to Ninety-sixth street; Broadway subway (uptown side) there to 116th street. City Hall: Brooklyn subway to Park place. Chinatown: Third avenue "L" to Chatham Square. General Post Office: Subway to Pennsylvania station. Custom House: Subway to Bowling Green or South Ferry. Lincoln Hospital: 138th street crosstown car to Southern Boulevard. Elks' Convention at a Glance CONVENES officially 10 a.m. Tuesday. ACTIVITIES began with annual events, including p.m. at Mother Zion Church. MALE sessions at Mother Zion Church. West 137th street, between Seventh and Lenox avenue. FEMALE sessions at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church. Lenox avenue at 129th street. DELIGATES expected: Males be- came 300 and 1,100; females, 300 to 500 PULIC meeting today, 1:20 p.m. Eldgcombe avenue, 135th street PARADE Tuesday, beginning at 1 p.m. Line of march: From Sixteenth street, and Fifth avenue north to 16th street to Lenox avenue; north to 12th street on Seventh avenue; north on New York Oval, 11th street to New York Oval, where the parade will disband. NUMBER expected on parade, 65,000. CANDIDATES for grand exalted ruler [known]: *J. Finley Wilson, Dalman, Steele, Judge, Eward, Pearl, Judge, "dark harriers"; George E. Wibecan, Col. John R. Marshall. For grand daughter ruler: *Mrs. Ella G. Berry. CHAIRMAN local convention com- mender, Hudson, J. Olivier- secretary, Charles M. Hanson, treasurer, Samuel J. Battles. Temple Committee chairman, Mrs. Ethel Fraser. CONVENTION headquarters: Im- partment Home, 160 129th street ENTERTAINING lodges: Manhattan, Temple, Manhattan, Invincible, Temple, Manhattan, Invincible and Eureka. *Present incumbent.* Superb Laundry Company, Inc. 8 West 140th St. Phone Bradhurst 4309 WET WASH, FLAT AND FINISHED WORK 1926 1927 WELCOME, ELKS! WILLIAM H. WALLACE ASSOCIATION TO FOREST VIEW GROVE "ON THE HUDSON" Thursday, August 25, 1927 TICKETS, ROUND TRIP, $1.50 Made by the 18th Regiment Infantry Band Steamer leaves Jewel's Wharf, foot of Fulton St., Brooklyn, 9:30 A. M. sharp. Directions to Ferry: From New York, take East Side or West Side Railroad to New York. Take Fulton Street Trolley marked "Fulton Ferry." Get off at last stop. W. 15, Wallace, 81 Fleet Street, Tiverton station. Take bus phoning Triangle 9348 or Bushwick 4871. SPECIAL SALE Sale on Two-Family, or All Modern Import $1, WALTER E. FURNISHED ROOMS NEW YORK 182D ST., 69 W. (Apt. 5)—Furnished rooms; quiet, homelike. Call evenings. Telephone Harlem 9075 Aug.22-3-4-7 181TH ST., 15 W. (Apt. 2)—Nearly furnished rooms; refined couple or single person. University 5734 Aug.22-3-8 181ST ST., 200 W. (Apt. 15)—Large front room, furnished, overlooking 7th Ave. Aug.25-26-27 183D ST., 157 W. (Apt. 14)—Nearly furnished room to let. Morningside 6429 .291H ST., 16/7 W. (Apt. 10)—Furnished rooms to let; call evenings. Du Suzu. 183D ST., 279 W.—Furnished rooms, large and medium, all conveniences. Audubon 9088 Aug.26-6 133D ST., 312 W. (near St. Nicholas Ave.—2 front rooms, with use of kitchen; steam heat, electricity, hot water; electricity and gas free, $11 a week; 2 rear rooms, with same accommodations and privileges, $10 week. Inquire janitor on premises or Sherrill, landlord, 264 W. 130th St. 123TH ST., 42 W. (Apt. 41)—Elegant furnished room. Aug.25-26-27 140TH ST., 101 W. (Apt. 55)—Nicely furnished large, comfortable private room, reasonable. Edgecombs 5891. 143D ST., 146 W. (Apt. 29)—Furnished room to let, all privileges. Couple or single, $6. Call all week. 145TH ST., 320 W. (Apt. 4)—Furnished rooms from $4 up. Phone Bradhurst 0542. 153L ST., 300 W.—Light furnished rooms, large. $6. Williams. 4TH AVE., 2413 (Apt. 31—rooms, furnished, for rent; all conven- lences; men preferred. EDGECOMBE AVE., 165 (Apt. 12A)—Nearly furnished room for men. Call after 5 oclock. Jackson. EDGECOMBE AVE., 38—Large basement room, private house, parquet floor, electric lights, unusually attractive induce- ments. M. MICHAELAS AVE., 574 (Apt. 68)—Large, comfortable room for couple. Call Audubon 3054, after 6. LARGE, strictly private room facing street, running water in room, suitable gentlemen, hard- dresser or dressmaker. Brad- hurst 9772, all week. Marriage Licenses Issued Tuesday Adams, Rilton, 64 LaSalle street; Miss Nellie Johnson, 235 West 129th street, Everett, James, 209 West 130th street; Miss Helen Owens, 1975 Seventh avenue. Hill, Joseph, 22 West 134th street; Miss Eud Woodborom, same address. Joglens, Vivian E., 226 West 140th street; Miss Valeria Outerbridge, 676 St. Nicholas avenue. Kingralky, Emile. 22 West street; Mise Estere White. 321 West Fifty-ninth street. Malan Gardner. 105 Liberty HELLO, BILL! Don't leave town until you see the Root man. KOLES HERB TEA CO. 151 WEST 182nd ST. Diamond Floor West ROOTS, HURON BARKS, LUCKY INCENSE Morningside 1922 R R F THE WORLD'S GREATEST BLOOD PEP A DRUGLESS TREATMENT KIDS WELCOME TO THE WORLD'S GREATEST DRUGLESS TREATMENT THE ALBO THE BLOOD PEP THE HEALTH RESTORIES AND RESTORANTS REYNOLD'S HEALTH BUILDER SOLD IN ALL DROUG STORES PRICE $1.00 NOT FOR SALE AND NOT FOR PRESENTATION WRITE R R F LABORATORY 100 WEST 100 STREET CORNER TWINHAVEN AVENUE NEW YORK CITY "The H. P. Dream Book" Welcome 736 E --- Monday, Aug Plot 05x100 — Private Drive Improvements — New Section C 1000 Cash, Bala REIFER, Inc., 100-1 Call New 115TH ST. 76 E—Five rooms; bath, electric, white sinks, hot water; concession; $35. Ashland 2124. Aug.22-21 131ST ST. 200 W. (Apt. 15)—Large front room overlooking 7th Ave. furnished. Aug.23-41 134TH ST. 306 W.—First-class 6 room apartment, all improvements. Ground floor, middle floors and fourth floor. Aug.23-30 ST. NICHOLAS AVE. 182 (Hotel Grampion)—Completely furnished dining room in hotel to let at moderate rental. Inquire Manager. ST. NICHOLAS PL. 80 (Florida Couple)—New house, just designed and responsible color people; 3 + 4 rooms, all improvements, each room private; near 155th St. and Polo Grounds. Phone or inquire Supt., Audubon 2300. Aug. 22:3-4:5-67 PARLOR FLOOR for business or professional; best section in Harlem. Edgecombe $800-$900. Shapiro. APT. TO RENT NEWTOWN 2121—Three and fourroom apartments to rent. Rising Sun Realty Corp., 100-15 Northern Blvd. FOR SALE 2-FAMILY brick houses for sale at cost by the Rising Sun Realty Corp., 100-13 Northern Blvd., Coronla, L. I. Phone Ntownt 2121. MASON & HAMLIN ORGANS $35, payer organs $140 up, unhoghny pianos $60 up, victoria one-mall price; payments. We do repairing; also buy pianos. Yetts, 20 yrs. at 239 W. 145th St. Audubon 7192. Aug.22-41 112TH ST., 9 W.—Five rooms and lath, steam heat, hot water and electric; $5. Janitor. The Braun Advertising Agency, 150S Lexington Ave. Aug.25-23 183D ST., 312 W. (near St. Nicholas Ave.) Five-room front apts; furnished; steam heat, electricity, hot water, $17 and $18 a week. Inquire janitor on premises or Sherrill, landlord, 263 West 130th St. Female Help Wanted 1263H ST., 202 W.—Experienced chicken pickers. Industrial Department. New York Urban Lengue. Aug.25-26 McCarthy, Louis Aulston, 310 West 142d street; Miss Beulah Nesbet, same address. Parker, John, 57 West Ninety- eighth street; Miss Frances Abbott, 1777 Third avenue. Pilgrim, Winston, 2508 Seventh avenue; Miss Gertrude Richard- son, 69 West 118th street. Rice, Aaron, 456 St. Nicholas ave. 145th street by Smith, 355 West 145th street. Webb, John C., 219 Edgecombe ave; Miss Effie Mason, Whittier Depot, Williams, George. 336 West Fifty- ninth street; Miss Lizzie Fisher; Miss Lizzie Fisher. Woodson, Ellsworth P. 496 Ocean avenue, Long Branch, N. J.; Miss THE HOTEL 182 St. Nicholas Ave. is now open Apartments of 1, 2 and 3 room service, can be had at moderate received for first of September THE HOTEL GRAMPION 182 St. Nicholas Ave. is now open to receive elite colored guests. Apartments of 1, 2 and 3 rooms, with private bath and full hotel service, can be had at moderate weekly rates. Applications now received for first of September occupancy. APPLY DAY.OR NIGHT HOTEL GRAMPION 182 ST. NICHOLAS AVE Univers MOVE TO T MODERN TWO- MOVE TO THE PELHAMS Heat --- Electric --- Oak Floors Tile Kitchens and Baths Overhead Showers Terms Sale $15,500 --- $2,500 Cash APPLY OWNERS 512 Sixth Ave., N. Pelham, N. Y. Telephone 1657 Pelham street. Long Branch. NEWTOWN 2121—One and two family brick houses for sale, in good locality. WANTED BROADWAY, $21—Colored girl, light pressing for seams, $15 per week. Apply Mutual Bias Blinding Company, $21 Broadway, 8th floor. 142D ST., 153 W.—Elk hoof wrapped in purple ribbon; lost Monday about 2 A. M. Took taxi on 7th Ave. and rode to 2137 Madison Ave. Finder return to Secy of Imperial Lodge and get reward. Aug.25-26 LOST on 8th Ave. "L" photo book, Erlstol, Tenn. Reward if returned to Amsterdam News office. Aug.25-26 JAMAICA--6 rooms and sun parlor; all modern improvements; streets; sidewalks and stores; plot, 30x10x1; 5 blocks from railroad station. Price, $6,950; cash. $500. Bass & Berger, 95-05 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, Republic 5048. MORTGAGE LOANS FRANCINE HOLDING CORPORATION 2115-9 NEYKETH AVENUE NEW YORK At 127th St.-Morningside 8163 Cull or write Consultation Free WELCOME To New York, Elks of the World! If you like the city and you want to stay, we will help you find your home CONSULT US FOR ANYTHING IN REAL ESTATE Wilfred R. Bain (Licensed Broker) 2350 7TH AVENUE N. Y. City EDGECOME 6197 Room 202 GRAMPION n to receive elite colored guests. with private bath and full hotel weekly rates. Applications now occupancy. E PELHAMS AMILY HOUSES SEVEN LOST Near 119th St. Among Noted Negro Musicians: By Minnie Brown “Have you heard Mel Chariton Play?" asked Leon Adger of me in Philadelphia several years ngo. “Don't miks such a rare treat,” sald the, While 1 met Mel Charlton, {t “was even after 1 had heen priv ieged to havo him accompany me ‘In song before I had the treat of hearing him play on his heloved or: gan. That came when Abyssinian Baptist Chureh invited him to dedi- onte the new organ in her new eburch. Wo did have a rare treat, Dr. Chariton can best he known through sertiments and — cumplt- ments expressed by musicians who have each in turn achieved, Cat eridge-Taylor says: “In remem hrance of the delightful visit in Pittsburgh, on which occasion | hod the great plensttre of hearing Mr. Charlton's splendid playing on the organ tn the Carnegie all with sincere admtrat{on,” Dr, Clarence Dickinson, profes: sor ot sacred music In Union Theo: logical Seminary. says: “Dr. Mel: vile Chariton sa brilliant organ- Ist, wath the qualfty of attractive. hesg in his playing, as well as thue mogeianship. His’ range of read: fox along all lines {9 wide, und “is Knowledge of music untsually extensive.” Dr. Mary T. Burleigh says: “With sincere pride T embrace the rare privilege of saying that | con sider Melville Chariton the great- oxt organist we have produced. Ie is casily and unequivocally that. hut he is xo much more. Here sm musiclan so bouateonsly equipped im technique, temperament and In: "telligence that he stands in the first rank ns an artist, Upon the solld foundation of varied and com Petent study he has reared «meth. 6d of Interpretation which is strongly individual and which pos Bosses potent spell for hearers of sensitive fancy. His playmg wl ways leaves behind him a convic. tion of n sincere self-effacing art.” Melville Charlton bas been ac- claimed by the miost ertleal listen ers as one whose whole Ilfe has heen spent in tho expression of the race's highest thought, the race's Uuest Idealism and’ thal, to my mind, is reul greatness, And Dr, George A. Coe, profes: sor of eilieation at Columbia Unt versity, adds: “To Melville Chart ton, who hus contributed so much to religious education through music.” Dr. Chariton proudly (ells that Mra, Virginia Hunt Scott was his Arst plano teucher. She was at that time organist of “Mt. Olivet Baptist Church ond Is now organ. ist of Bt. Paul's Baptist. Church. His uext teacher was E. B, Kin. ney. He then won @ scholarship through competitive examination at the National Conservatory and xtuilled ‘organ and composition with Charles Helnroth and musica} ap- proclation under Henry T. Piack. He was the first Negro in New York 10 pass the examination for the American Guild of Organists. Howard University conferred the Uonorary degree of doctor of mu- ale upon him June 6, 1924, He has heen organist and niusteal director ofa Jewish Temple for fifteen Years, and for sixteen years has heen organist of the Religlous School of Unton Theological Sein- inary. America's leading white xeminary. No other organist in the metropolis has had such distinction in holding two such important po: sltfons. Hils mother, Mrs. Anna P. Charl: ton, tells thls story, which illus trates his early love for the orgau: = SLEEPING CAR PORTERS INVITES VISITING ELKS’ TO ITS HEADQUARTERS 2311. Seventh Ave., New York City Open From 9 A. M, to 5 P. M. ee 2 BROOKLYN LODGE NO. 32, |. B. P. 0, E. OF W. extenda a, walcome ta the vlaltng seemivrs of Eko “ha fuses 100 FULTON STUE HT, BROOKLYN, SY, One nome Will bw uben fret entertainment eu! pleasure of sheared ve ia pert eae 2 a TaMGKCTIONS "TO HOME: Brom Hlariom, thks subveay to, 135th see cere ta aM ioge mre, eam take Paton OPEN HOUSE NIGHT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 ‘Cahuret, Mhaneing, Dink, Reaotltal” Kurrounitons Do Not Fall to Viale Now York X{ato'e Oldest Linge Hetore Jeastng BROOKLYN LODGE NO, 32, |, B. P. 0. E. OF W. sais Peel a, Wea He Phone: Hari 6389 “Ask Anybody” RAYMOND, ROSE Prop, Rowe are red, violets are {t's Harlem's Oldest Favorite || ve ‘ 7 Rose's, why don't Vent at, jose's, why dan ROSE Ss ESTABLISHED 1910 : on Restaurant and Dining Room 430 LENOX AVENUE _ .. .Bet..1aist.and..f82nd. ste, Harlem 3322 J. W. ROSE & SON, Proprietors THE IMPERIAL BARBER SHOP “The Utmost in Sanitation” 432 LENOX AVENUE, Bet, rgtst and rgand Sts. New York city” GEO, W. McLAIN, Mgr. . fwo Manicurists Beauty Parior | Nine Chalrr—No Waiting EIGHT vee es eS ee gigs naan oo Soe | ee F Geis teed WEP Ra i ree Re acacia ea Sa Ratectnce eit Siete SRS pei? eens —Melville, Chariton —— He slipped into: Trinlty Chapel to hear Dr. Gilbert, the — organist. practice, and was so enraptured thot he never remeiberedd when Dr. Gilbert left, ‘The sexton locked the church and went nome. in the menniime Melvitie was missing In his own home and the polico were asketl to help find tim, it hap- pened church official, had bust: ness at the church that evening. and upon unlocking te — ¢hitreh found the Iitile boy, He was re- Curned 19 Ils Iittle brothers and sisters. who had spent the time erying and praying for his return. Dr. Charlton, for all his great musie gift, Is not one-sided. His great hobly Is reading sclentife ilterature. He was porn in New York City, finished public school and entered the Clty Collese of Now York, where he had a phe- numenal scholastic record, Visiting Elks and Friends You Are Welcome at the Headquarters of Henry Lincoln Johnson Lodge No. 630 321, West 126th Street Open House Always The Members of New York’s Youngest Lodge Greet With Characteristic Cordialness All Elkdom and Wish the Visitors a Pleas- ant Stay. NEW YORK AMSTERDAM NEWS, THURSDAY, AUG. 25, 1927 Mother Honors Her Two Sons 'Both Died Martyrs to De: | mocracy in World War. A modern brick Dullding fn-one Jot the best districts of the city ts Ute inemortad erected by Mrs, “Ma- tilda Grin of Columbia, S. 6. to her two sons killed tn the World War. They were Sergeant Sam- vel il. Grifin and Private Clifford Grin of the Supply Company, SLlth Pioneer Infantey, Sergeant Arlfin was Killed in France Nov. 14, 1918, Mrs, Grifin put up the billdlug one year ago because she wanted A memorial that would be used as well as seen. It ts now worth $7 ALO and goo will be worth mare. On the plate in the cornerstone 1s the following statement from Gen- eral Pershing: The United States Army, tn ‘memory of Sergeant Samuel 11. Grin. Supply Company. | S1th | Pioneer Infantry, who died Navent- her 14, 1918. He bravely Infd down his life tor the cause of his conte iry. Hk name will ever rematn fresh in the hears of Ms friend; and comrades. The record of his ‘honorable service will he presery- jed In the archives of the Ameriean Expeditionary Force, cco 4 Persting, Commander. Lin-Chief, Mrs, “Matilda Griffin is now In New York visiting her daughter. Ara. Walter Williamson, “of 117 West 125th street. ‘She hias another daughter In New . York, Mrs. Marule Goodrum. Her som-in: inw. G, Lee Ratellff, ts president of the South Carolina Association of the Elks. Pan-African Close-Ups } Monroe ‘Trotter, the stormy pet rel for Negra rights, Seemed to ch Joy Ihe Impass.oaed plea nt Itet Jant H. Meare far full rights ot those ‘of Agriean descent. Miss Nadine Wright of Cam. oridze, a grduate of stadelitts Cal ‘ge, holds her education asa trust lo be administered for the go0d of Ner ‘rare, s0\ she has pit “sassa- Hhusetts on the map at the Con- areas, Vorhaps Helen Curtis fs the mast widely travelled woman a the Congiess.. Having: teen her broth- ers under every aun, she te tn- ‘spiced to work for his place in the etn. . [The church Ig represented. com- ‘mendably at the Congress by: ish: Ops. secretaries, miaisters and mis- Monaries and ‘a chaplain of the arms, Addie Hunton, the power behind the throne, fap daub a deacert: ant of oné of the Kings of th opin ‘wa Well as. of Pocahontas. Mra. A. P. Canpbor ts the widow of the late ‘Bishep Camphor.” She as spent’ a number uf years ih Africa, Bishop Ransom, leaning on a heavy rane, beained upon the aud Lonee, Inisonn disappeared betore ihe could be heard on the subject of | Afriean Missions, Christianity seems to be on trial Someone said.” “Christianity — has male us virtual cowards.” Rayford Loxan Is the handy man of the Congress. “Ile saw service in France, was gasved. und reco. eredand served tite goldiers tn the Service uf Supply with distinc tion, He Ie one of the few. Ne groes demoblitzed in France, where Se lived a few yearn before return: ine to hia homeland, “He is now Zeaching at Cuion College,” Rich: Bond. Va. te has won for him elt high praise as an taterpreter, William Pickens holds his own Bm ise folon bs saving, =o friend in the, world will refuse to sat with you." The chalr referred to the two \iricaw children as_more precious han Corelia's jewelx, Richard 1, Moore, national or sanizer of the Amertean Negra ‘abor Congress, knows how fo atit sho waters when they’ are placid, Those of the audience who knew French showed It by the heartiness of thelr applause during Relle- Delegates and Visitors Beware of Crooks BOULIN'S DETECTIVE AGENCY MO EAtT TREE Harlem 5342-5656, em me ng comme nnrnereeitie Grand Opening 1724 THIRD AVENUE Cor, 97th St. All Meats and Poultry Sells 6c Ib, Less Than Elsewhere ALL CUSTOMERS GIVEN FREE SOUVENIRS Griffin Memorial Building Oe SS OS IIe read sab i TES om AY Baie ae Ge BR gE NR eat Doren re ee. Bae ela eM ee 2 Pee ate beeen ap oot |i Fee Ss ee eee anes a Pee eat are, Beaacere a sae ee ae ee bt cele ie cee eho Bete Fee Cone Cae ae Ree Ct Be PS see Bs FE RS ue lee ere eee eee een are ed TE Rhy Hep Ee» Be ae tee eae meant Ss eo 9 : Pere ts ieee ae sage + Sri ee ett eee —Mrs. Matilda Griffin— sult_of the contagion of applause. The salvation of Atrien is. of dvep aud “serious concern, Judging trom the notetaking and close at tention of most of the audience, Conservative Boston is well rep- resented with her notebies, thanks to the energy and enthusiasin of Miss Wright. ‘The Fiks have been noticeable and conspicuous by thelr absence from the Congress meetings and lees presence on the streets. | when black men talk about their ‘rights the whtle man flees, hence ‘the pavcity of attendance by wnses | othe hostesses that have pushed ‘the Congress. hard are Mesiames Pearl Bell, Newark. N. Ju: May- |ielle fasion, Milwaukee. Wis.: iGeorgin fond, Wasliingion, D.C: iReutrive Cantindy, Portiand, Ore; [Latte Cooper. “The Granges.” N. Jit Bildie W, Dickerson, Philadel: phia; Lizzie Foure, Lexington, Ky.i Bessin Payne, Poushkeepsle No ¥.r Mrs, Blunche Stubbs, Wil: liningion, Del: Dr, Yada Somer: iullle, San Francisca, Calif: Miss Viotet Jolson, Summit, NJ: Miss Wright, Cambridge, Mass. Pickens asked the _ question, “Whose going to wield the clubs fn the finality?" L Gaovee, i, Hap, iin 8 that If we inad Known our anthro pology. slavery could not have een Justified hecause of a theoret feal inferlority. . Clement Morgan presided with the dignity and firmness of @ Yan kee at a session which would have gone on interminably. ifuman nature is strange. A minority. gronp found the abstract Alscussion of the future ot Atrles fof more interest and. Importunes than the majority group found the Elks’ parade. Every momber of the Congress seems to havo agreed that tho Bn ronenn hatlons are in Africa no for what they can give, but fo ‘what they 50h asl, Community Councils Going on Outing ‘Through the courtesy of the Keunshing Steamboat Company, the Community Counetta uf the City of New York will give an out: Ing to 500 mothers and children of tha settlement. Mouser on August 30. ‘Tho following day about 1,200 members of the counella will spond a ilay at Keanshurg. Musie will be DS through tho courtesy of E. F, Albee of the Kelth-Alhee eireult, Pour Uekets are being given to each of the 103 playgrounds which were opened by them. ‘Thin will enable two children and their parents to attend the outing on Augnst 31, P. S. 136 TO HOLD FIELD DAY EXERCISES Vitentlon Playground 1860 will hold its: tual Held day Friday, Prizes will be given for dashes, ro- lays, potato races and other athlotle ovonta, The playground will elnae Wed- nealay, Aucust 31, with a demons Hatton phagran of the ath ilew cearrled on thks summer, RP, Welcome, Elks, to New York TREAT YOURSELF wt ‘Have Your Eyes Examined . Scientifically CS Eye-Glasses Fitted and MADE THE SAME DAY x PRICES LOW M.D.Ruderman Registered Optician and Optometrist- 478 LENOX AVE, --- Cor. 134th Si. ‘Bar Association to Fight Color Bar National Body Working Out Plan to Combat Jim-Crow. | ST. LOIS. Aug. 22 (By The | aseuctated Negro Press).—An in vestigation of the Jim-Crow ca ‘laws of the South and ways o! [means of seeing that they are re ‘moved ts expected to result irom "a regolntion passed dy the Na ‘onal Bar Assoélation tn this jelly recently, "In working out ¢ [program of detlon, about” seventy delegates, mostly from —intddle western states, concluded that tha Jobjective should be the chlet goa ‘ot the assucfation duriug the com ‘ing year. ‘The two-lay session in the People's Finance Building was ful of activity, centering ground a program und a cunsolidatton ot the ‘organtzation Ideals, thle con vention being the third since the assocation came Into being. Amonk those present and most active Ip the sessions wns George H, Wood sot. pioneer attorney of Des Moines and founder of the asso: elation. Many brilliant and constructive udresses were made and discus sions held, Hon. J. J, Bruce, Mus kogee, Oki. led in a discussion on the “Dinslyation of the Estates of Minors In the State of Oklaboma.” and C. Francis Stradford, in addi Von {0 introducing a resolution pulting the association on record as favoring the Brotherhood _ of Sleeping Car Porters. delivered significant adress on the repeal of discriminative legislation. | Two of the most powerful speeches duriig the convention were made by United States As jsistan! District Attorney — Cotter jot Chicago, ‘Phursday morning Cotter made an elogtent defense ‘of the motives of the National As sociation far the Advancement al Colored People, after several law yers had commented on the a sociation’s employment of whit attorneys. and Friday night Col ter traced the history of the ian and place in {ts modern settin and the service tt must perform {1 Ufting the burden of the Negro. Thursday night the detegaies were guests of the Harlan State Bar Association and the Moun City Ber Association at a dance in the People's Auditorium, Homer G. Phillips. one-time can didate for Congress, was clecte president to sticceed Charies Cal loway of Kansaa City after a spit Ned fight in which Attorney Bled s00 of St. Touls attacked S. E Garner. Phillips’ opponent for th prosidency, for defending — Judge Moses Hartman tn an iasue involv Ing segregation sometime ago Bledsoo cinimed Garner had sol his birthright for a mess of pot tage, Clarence Matthews, _assistan Uultoll States attorney ” genoral Was nominated for the presidency hut declined to run because of hii “Disfranchisement Hurts White South” White Virginian Says Ne- groes Don't Care for Politics. WASHINGTON, , Aug. 24.—(By the Associated Negro Press), Ac cording to @ report made by te Associated Press, Col, Henry W Anderson, @ Republican leader {o Virginta, ‘aud onetime candidate fof Governor, declared before the Institute of Public Affairs atthe University of Virginie, while male Ing an address on the "Soltd South,” “that there are no real o effective political parttes in the South today.” : "The dominant party, he ex plained, “consists of office holding ollgarchigs in the several alate: whieh dictate its polleles and se lect {ts candidates, while the devel ‘opment of a minority party 18 pre vented by repressive and diserim fuatory laws,” Predicting the separation of the Negroes from politleal “matters Mr. Anderson auld: ed “They -have realized that tholt future Is not in politica and that political agitation of the rave ques tion only reacts to thelr injury They have thus abantloned any thought of control of political ugen clen and nre devoting themselves to the task of Improving thelr so: cial and ecoromfe status ant of bullding within the communities o whlch they are @ part of thelr own separate rocinl, economic and re gious organizations, “This attitude ani these efforts are recelving the sympathy and ac tIve support of the white people of the South.” He discussed the distranchise ment of the Negro and sald: “The process of disfranchisement did no! stop there. The, machinery of dls. erlmination, devised primarlly for this purpose, was employed hy the dominant party organlzation to ef. fect a disqualification of a large proportion of the white population opposed to that organization, white unchallenged control of one’ polit cal group permitted of encouraged political corruption. “As & result of these measures, the Yolo qualified or cast In the southern states has been so re- duced that {t includes only a small minority of te population. So emall Is this vote that the state and local authorities constitute or easily control a majority. Gover- nora and other slate officers are sometimes elected by less than ten her cent-of the population of vot: ing age.” ‘The pollticallys Solld South is thus maintained, but at the price of polltival freedom. he declared: ponular government has been de- stroyed and there have been substi- tuted selt-perpetuating political oligatchles, controlled by the office holiing groups In the several states, who are obedient to the party organizations and use the agencles of Fovernment and the taxing power te maintain the con- trol of these organizations. | CAN YOU TELL ANSWER. | In twenty-nine states of the ‘Union intermarriage between the races Is illegal. continued residence on the Pacific Cone Other officers elected were: J. Q. Adams. Omaha, Nebraska, _rice- president; €. Francis Stradford, Chicago, secretary; Georgia Ellis. Chicago, assistant secretary; Alva Bates, ‘Chicago, treasurer. Chicago was chosen as the place of tieeting for next year. erent creases |MODEL SCHOOL oF Shorthand and Typewriting ‘Teaches Pitman's American System and Touch Typewriting | Individual Instruction 357 Lenox Ave. near 128th St. * ‘Tel. Morningside 4927 | Geo, F. Henderson, C. S. T. } Director DR. POLK Surgeon Dentist 488 LENOX AVENUE %2,,0" GAS EXTRACTION Phone SPECIALIST Hariem 2333 5 7 * OFFICE HOURS Plated repaired while you wait. Dally 9 A. M. to 10 P. M. . Free examination. Sundays 9 A, M. to 1 P.M. ernie IS ‘Sass > A JOB SZ PRINTING 4 , ) (peer ae Rs When yon wish Komo spectal printing correctly KA veorotulty done, Phone Dradhuret #162. Not only ean we do the work in the Hest manter, but we have a splendid colieetion of pletures with whieh (o Mltatrate tt and give the work added pulliue power Telephone: Bradhurst 6152 131 WEST :3sth STREET “The Elks’ Parade” N%, withstanding the rain— The Elks in order came. ‘Trampling the wet paved street While thousands stood” to greet, New York led the line With {ts Monarch Band, 80 Ane, Playing quito a lively alr, Just as though the weather was fair. | Others from everywhere Cavebl. too, the spirit of cheer; And through the pouring rain Pealed forth thelr sweet re- frain! ¥ The parade, indeed, was grand! ’ Worth each minute we had to stand, : Tt was unique and full of grace, Giving honor and praise to our race. —JOSIB LEE TIMBERLAKE, Vacation Playgrounds Give Joint Entertainment ‘The joint entertainment given by ‘Vacation Playgrommds No. 119 anil |No. 136, Manhattan, last Friday jatternoon was & great success. F P. Robinson, principal of No. 136 welcomed the Visitors, teachers and children. Those participaling in the pro: gram were: Marian Farrell, Earl Reubel, Orlessa Johnson, Rufus Kent, Huskins Benton, Efleen Cor. lss, The kindergarten. physical training, junior and senior depart. ments of Nos. 119 antl No, 186 were neen in various dances and plays which were indeed very Interest- ing. ‘The closing exercises of the svhool will be held on Wednesday, August 31, Tuskegee Institute Gets New Photographer TUSKEGEE, Aug. 23.—(By the Associated Negro Press). Leon- ard G. Hyman of Washington, D. C., has “accepted the position of head of the photographie division of Tuskegee Institute. Mr. Hyman for seven years maintained a stu- dio in the capital clty, which he has given up for the work at Tusk- eee, He recetved his tratning in pho- tography at the Brunel Photo: graphic College. New York City. He Is also a’ graduate of the Minor Normal “School. Wash ington. where he received his taining in education, Mr. Hyman fils the position made vacant by the death of C. M. Battey last spring, | Sept. MON. EVE, 13; Begins the Fall Term of BRAITHWAITE BUSINESS SCHOOL 2376 7TH AVE. (AT 129TH ST.) ReeIsTER Now Sew ater, Seater Gallente NeW inecemation "rete Aumann art ~ Hello, Bill! JIMMIE 2175 Seventh Ave. Welcomes You Film Made of Prominent Elks? Staff of canie%amen Cover All Activities of 1. B, P.O. E. of W. Motioh pletufes wera takea ‘Tuesday of the exalted ruler of the srand lodge, J. Finley Wilson, ang his grand lodge staff of officers, to. gether with the delegates, at the ‘opening of the grand lodge sensiog at Mother Zion Church, Remark able pletures were taken of the In terlor of the church, showing str, Wilson addressing the delegates and welcoming them, Prominent people’ noted at tly session were: G. Lee Ratelig, president of the South Caroli, State Assuciation: Joo i. James Jr., assistant postmaster of Coltiny bus, Ohio: Dr, ©. Bi Freeman of Jacksonville, Fia,,” president of th National Medicai’ Association: Dp Manley M. Taylor of Columbus, Ga.,_with ‘the Georgla delegation; ¢. "Tiftany Tolliver of Roanoke, ‘Va. who Is again candidate for grand treasitrer; Judge Hueston of sary. Ind. Commissioner. of Ey rention of the 1. 8. P.U. E. of Wi Arter D. Frye, Recorder of Deadi, Washington. D; C.; Nebraska Wit Hams, “16-year-old” Reholboy who walked from Shreveport, La. to Boston with his dog selling photos ‘as lifs means of livelihood and 1p complete his education at the Unt versity of Michigan; Clarence Lor raine, aViator, who proposes to ty in an Ansonia monoplane frog New York to Liberia. 3 The start of cameramen wen fortunate, in securing, the wonder fol movinig pictures of the open! at Mt, Ollvet.. Church at 12016 street’ and Lenox avenue, of th grand exalted daughter and her ot ficial staff. ‘From Mt, Olivet Church the stat of camermen were then assigned ta various locations along the ling of parade. 3 : ‘At the band contest of the vath ous Jodges at Manhattan. Casino moving piclutes were made show Ing the winners. This ended. the activities of the staff of camer men for the. day. Yesterday pictures were taken in and about the streets of Har Jem showing various activites of the delegates meeting with thelr old friends and discussing the Te tious phases of the convention. | FREE CONSULTATION Er 5-5, Lee Dr.0. Kaplan GPTOMETRIST For 2) Years at 531 LENOX AVE. Meee ieree Are You Lonely? WASHINGTON. SOCIAL LETTER CLUB! Receive lots of letters from oon Rete | write tet Otice Box 32i3 Washington, 0.C. *