Chicago Whip
Thursday, August 21, 1919
Chicago, Illinois
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SOUTH BARS NORTHERN NEGROES
Make America and "Democracy" Safe for the Negro
Vol. 1. No. 9
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REPUBLICANS FUSE WITH DEMOGRATS
To Defeat Colored Candidates in 14th Ward
Fusion between the republicans and democrats, either openly or tacitly, is said to have been practically decided on in certain districts in the matter of selecting delegates to the constitutional convention. Several cases are reported where the republicans and democrats are reported as trying to get together, avoid partisanship and secure the election of representative delegates who will make a common sense basic law.
Not all of the men who plan to go to the convention are in the list of primary candidates, it is said, and the democratic county committee in particular is expected to make several changes following the party selections, by inducing nominees to withdraw and leave vacancies to be filled by the district committees. In the 15th district, for instance, which is the home of Denis J. Egan, bailiff of the Municipal court, it is understood that one of the men to be nominated by the democrats will give way to Egan. John F. O'Malley, in the 21st district, also is said to be planning to substitute for one of the men named at the primaries.
Little Heed to Party Lines.
There probably never has been an election where so little attention has been paid to party indorsements as the present one. It is possible that the organization will get busy next week and give their approval to certain candidates, though it is known that in a number of cases it will be a case of hands off on the part of the organizations. This is particularly true with the republicans of the 19th district, which is considered the strongest democratic division in the city, democratic leaders being unable to understand why the republicans should make such a scramble for nominations which the democrats believe to be mere honors. The Thompson forces in this district are said to be badly split.
The republicans in the 21st district, particularly in the 14th ward, are at sea regarding indorsements. The city hall has one avowed candidate, Charles S. Rasmussen, employed in the corporation counsel's office. George Lohman, deputy collector, also considered an admination man, is supposed to have the ward indorsement, but when it is asking the 14th ward Thompson leaders to support both Lohman and Rasmussen, the response is said to be somewhat chilly.
Four Colored Petitions
This is due, it is believed, to the fact that four colored voters of the ward have filed republican petitions, and the Thompson leaders do not wish to disturb present friendly relations with the colored vote by throwing their entire strength to two white candidates. The influx of Negroes to the 14th ward has been a steady movement, it is said, although this is the first time the colored voters have thought themselves strong enough in the district to make such a general effort to capture an office. The republican factions are said to have come to a general agreement all over the city in the matter of supporting candidates, the districts being recognized according to their representation in the county committee. There are several rough spots for the republicans to iron out, such as the 31st district, a Brundage stronghold. The Brundage organization has two candidates, Edward S. Day of the 25th ward and William H. Beckman of the 23rd ward. The Thompsonites have picked Eugene H. Dupee, attorney for the board of local improvements, and want to make a deal for Dupee and Beckman, both in the same ward. The 25th ward Brundage men refuse to listen to this and are demanding support for Day.
William D. Taylor, who directed the last three Mary Pickford pictures on her Artercraft contract and then enlisted in the British Army has returned to Hollywood after nearly a year's absence.
The CHICAGO WHIP THE DAWN OF A NEW DEO PAPER WITH A POLICY
Adopts Constructive Program R. R. Morton Elected President
St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 16.—The National Negro Business League held its twentieth annual convention in this city on August 13, 14 and 15, under the auspices of the local league, of which Aaron E. Malone, head of the wonderful and thriving Poro enterprise, is president. Promptly at 10 o'clock on the morning of the 13th the session was called to order by Mr. Malone, and after a most suitable and fitting address of welcome in which he told of the wonderful organization that had been built up in St. Louis through the enterprising effort and persistence of a few business men, he introduced the national president, J. C. Napier, of Nashville, Tennessee. Addresses of welcome were then made for the city by Mayor Kiel, for the Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Carl Baer, and by a representative from the Bureau of Publicity, the official city host. Many Delegates and Friends Present
The city was crowded almost to capacity by the attendance of over two thousand delegates and friends from twenty-six states and representing every line of activity in the agricultural, industrial and commercial world. There were bank presidents and cashiers, oil magnates, department store heads, college presidents, and indeed men from all walks of life, all teeming with activity and demanding by their every word and act a new and progressive order of things. They seemed to realize that the time had come when the National Negro Business League must either become a more virile organization, acting as a valuable stimulant to Negro business or it must die from uselessness. Among the prominent people who have been identified with the league during its twenty years of existence and who were present were the following: J. C. Napier, president; Perry Howard, of Mississippi; Chas. Banks, of that entirely colored community, Mound Bayou, Miss.; Dr. R. K. Moton, Emmet J. Scott, Monroe N. Works, Tuskegee; Chas. H. Anderson, Florida; T.J. Elliot, Oklahoma; Chas. Stewart, Col. Marshall and Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Abbott, Chicago; Col. Otis P. Duncan, Springfield; Editor Knox and L. H. Stewart, Indiana; Rev. Boyd, Nashville; R. E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Advocate, New Orleans; Mrs. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee; Mrs. A. P. Randolph, of the Messenger, New York City; Mrs. Dora Cole Norman, New York City, and many others prominent in the business life of their several communities.
President Napier Assails President Wilson
In his annual address, President Napier was very outspoken in his criticism of President Wilson for his failure to make any pronouncement against mob violence and his refusal to take any steps whatever to eliminate the spirit of lawlessness which is permeating the country. He scored the President for having seen cause to condemn lynching when a white man was attacked, while he has maintained a rather singular silence in the fact of all the barbarous attacks made upon colored men. He called upon Woodrow Wilson to show himself President of all of the people instead of one group. Referring to the Washington and Chicago riots he characterized mob violence as the institution of the white man, and said it is fostered and maintained by him, and when the white man sees fit he can wipe it off the map without the semblance of blood-shed. The president's speech was full of virility and sincerity and elicited much applause from an audience of nearly three thousand persons.
Outlines New Platform
It remained, however, for Emmet J. Scott, secretary of the league and at present secretary-treasurer of Howard University, to outline the plans for the future activities of the league and the new day which is in store. He began (Continued on Page 7)
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"CHICAGO TRIBUNE HE- SPONSIBLE FOR RIOTS"
Has No Plans or Policies Worth Consideration, Says Southern Newspaper
New Orleans, La., Aug. 21.—The Times Picayune, one of the largest publications in the south, in an editorial entitled "Criticism from the South," made an open, uncompromising attack upon the Chicago Tribune, denouncing it as illogical, irresponsible and without truth.
The editorial reads as follows:
The Chicago Tribune, having helped to stir up the race trouble in that city, now veers around and protests against what it styles "criticism from the South." That it has been virulent for years in its abuse of this section, irresponsible, illogical and without truth has long been recognized not only by the people of this section, but by many of its own people, and it has been compelled to come forth from time to time with explanations and modifications. The Times-Picayune has received frequent clippings from the Tribune about the South with suggestions that we call attention to the falsities or absurdities; but we have long since reached the conclusion that nothing is to be gained by this. The Tribune does not want to be set right. Its prejudice, animosities and bitterness are so deep seated as to render it a waste of time to discuss questions affecting the South with a man made mad by some personal grievance or self-interest. We have felt, too, that the very radicalism of the Tribune sufficiently answered its own articles of abuse as to undo much of the harm they sought to attain.
The Tribune has seen lately that its policy of hate was stirring up troubles and riots that have lately disgraced Chicago and cost it heavily, and it has taken to issuing warnings on the subject, but it has been noted that it has no plan or policy worth a moment's consideration looking to ending the deplorable conditions that it had helped to create in the "Windy City." It has been singing a different tune since the riots and advocates a policy of segregation of the races which the South has found the best way of preventing friction and race troubles. It has, indeed, gone as far as to say that "this is a white man's country."
It is unusual that a company could lose scads of money with a star, presumably because of too much salary and then have a half dozen companies offer the same star even more money, knowing of the experience.
Kansas City, Aug. 21.—H. P. Ewing, a Negro, and former Kaw Valley "Potato King" is now promoting with L. H. Miles a colonization scheme to sell 30,000 acres of Arkansas land to Negroes. Mr. Ewing has been a social worker among his people in Greater Kansas City and has the backing of Phil. Toll, the lumber king, in his newest enterprise.
Ewing is a man of ambition, visions and stamina, who sees a future for the black man if he can only be educated along the right lines. He at one time had more than 1,000 acres of potatoes in the Kaw Valley and in 1896 shipped 206 car loads of potatoes, the production from his farm which is twenty miles west of Kansas City.
He worked five years trying to stamp out the vice among the negroes of Kansas City. His work along these lines was also a success, as he succeeded in closing some of the worst places of vice in the city.
He has plans for the future that look as well as those of his work in the past. "I want the Negro to go back to the farm," he says, "for I know if I can get him away from the vice of the City and to understand the advantages of a country life that I will have done him a good deed and started him on the upward climb." It is his plan to split the 35,000 acres of cleared and timbered land in the Yell and Perry valleys of Arkansas into tracts of 40 to 100 acres, and sell these tracts to Negroes, only at prices varying from $10 to $25 an acre. He will erect a school of native hewed logs in which to teach the Negro better agricultural methods in order that they may make successful farmers. None of the land which Mr. Ewing has is more than three miles from the railroad and is said to be very productive.
The timber on the land, if cut and marketed, will pay for the land. Mr. Ewing figures that if he can make the Negro see the opportunity that all of the land will be disposed of by December. He will not try to get the Kansas City Negroes to take up this land as he declares they are Kansas City spoiled and could not be easily induced to give up the bright lights.
"If I could just pound into the Negro's head the difference between racial distinction and prejudice, I would have overcome a mountain," says Mr. Ewing. With plenty of enthusiasm he is tackling a big job for the betterment of the race.
Courts to Act to Avoid Trouble
Oakland, Cal., Aug. 21.—What is easily described as one of the most primitive, brutal and cowardly crimes in a supposed civilized community was the cowardly attack by white hoodlums upon Mr. William Harris, wife and daughter, who reside at 617 Jackson street, a so-called exclusive residential section of Oakland, Cal.
Harris Wealthy Citizen.
Mr. Harris is one of the wealthiest colored men in this section of the country. He owns valuable real estate in the heart of the city. His daughter is a student at the University of California and is said to be one of the most popular and brilliant matriculants.
Mob Attacks Twice.
The mob, it is said, made first an attack upon Mr. Harris, who was not reluctant about defending himself and his home. Their efforts to frighten Mr. Harris proving a failure, the savages feared to return in person. With the financial aid of certain white real estate sharks, it is alleged they hired some of the lower element of white women to attack Mrs. and Miss Harris.
Women Beaten.
In making a complaint in his request for a warrant, Mr. Harris stated that these women, without ceremony or provocation, came to his home, called his wife and daughter to the door and by a preponderance of numbers succeeded in giving them a severe beating. If the courts fail to prosecute the offenders it is reported that serious trouble will follow.
White Men Arrested for Fires in Riot Zones
A number of young whites between the ages of 17 and 20 are being sought by the police for being responsible for the fires during the recent riots. Many have already been taken into custody.
Fugitive warrants have been issued for those who might leave town before they can be located.
These mobs of young hoodlums took advantage of the excitement during the riots and set fire to homes and pilfered the belongings to furnish their clubrooms.
Ministers and others are censuring the authorities for failing to gather sufficient evidence against whites and blacks who have been arraigned before Judge Crowe.
The Whip is the only colored paper you can rely upon for clean, wholesome news. It knows no compromise with justice. It is the only paper that presents without reserve the cause of the new Negro. It gives you the facts without fear of consequence.
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"Club on Wheels" Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Alfred Long
New Orleans, Aug. 21.—Alfred Long was the guest of the "Club on Wheels." This club is the only one of its kind in America. Mr. Long has been in charge of the club rooms, which are a specially arranged car, "Beauvoir," since the institution was formed. The car is chartered from the Louisville & Nashville Railroad by men who have offices in the city and summer homes on the gulf coast. The members are all daily customers, and in congenial surroundings enjoy all the conveniences of a first-class club in the unique conveyance.
Long has been a great aid in making the club car both popular and famous. Tuesday was his twenty-fifth birthday, so the appreciative members prepared a surprise for him. Long prepared the car as usual for his guests and was waiting to give the service as before when the commuters arrived. To his surprise they came in and requested him to do his uniform and get into his street clothes. The faithful porter thought that this was a summary, dischar when lo and behold, he was thrusted the comfortable cushions of a reel of chair and showered with gifts.
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15th New York to Have Armory
New York, Aug. 21.—Action on the part of the Board of Estimate in the matter of an armory for the Fifteenth New York Regiment can be expected in the early fall. This was forecasted by Acting Controller Hahlo yesterday. Controller Hahlo stated that there were a number of offers received by his office for property located between 134th and 142d streets, between Eighth avenue and Lenox avenue, but that all offers so far were considered exorbitant.
“Our claim has already brought about considerable reductions.” Hahlo continued, “but not enough to satisfy us yet. It is reasonable to assume, however, that the matter will be before the Board of Estimate for final settlement in the early fall.”
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The Old Lady—(suddenly realizing that the soldier standing up wears three blue chevrons, but no red): Oh, you wicked man. You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
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Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21.—(Special to The Whip.)—Southern farmers and captains of industry at a special meeting planned a campaign to break the Mason and Dixon Line and invade the frigid elimes of the northern states to induce Colored laborers to return to the land of the "silver fleece" and "judge lynch."
Bar Northern Blacks
One of the ungainly palefaced exploiters drew a pandemonious applause from the audience when the arose and stated that all gladiators that are to be actively engaged in replenishing the depleted southern labor ranks "should take special precautions to bar all northern 'niggers,' because the South could not waste its valuable time in preparing necktie parties."
Before the v Handle Strikes. journed, a social method on strikes?" owns vals success permit peaceful picketing, but infabit yelling and singing, such as you thribe in Buffalo and New York," the uef explained. "No striker can put his hand on any worker. We even accompany workers on the street cars to and from employment.
"Any policeman who joins a labor union will be discharged. That question was settled here two years ago." While Chicago has had seven bank relatives this year, Philadelphia has not expenses from Chicago or overseas. "Y I groes, particularly negroes who have gone from Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee," said A. C. Lange, vice president and general manager of the Chicago Mill and Lumber company, which owns more than 70,000 acres of timber and agricultural lands in northeastern Arkansas. "I think it is safe to say that every southern negro in the north would be brought back without expense to him if southern farmers and plantation owners knew where and how to get in touch with the southern-born. We don't want and will not have northern negroes."
BLACK BELT URGED IN OAK PARK
Village Board Urged to Set Aside a District
E. H. Mundt, real estate dealer, Oak Park, suggested in a letter to George W. Pyott, president of the village board, that a zone be established where Negroes would be allowed to live.
More than 300 colored people sought refuge in Oak Park during the rioting in Chicago and are living with friends and relatives.
In his missive, Mr. Mundt pointed out that the colored people had been instrumental in bringing the war to a successful close and pleaded that they be given homes in Oak Park.
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Carey Makes Plea for Education at Stinson Rally-Lauds the Late Bishop Turner
Aug. 17th. At Quinn Chapel A. M. E. Church.
The congregation was prompt at 8:15. Dr. H. E. Stewart, Pastor of the church and his very efficient choir and Rev. Johnson, Assistant Pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church who led the Invocation, were all in their places when the big organ sounded its opening note. The singing showed culture, system, method and much of heart culture. A letter was read from Senator Samuel A. Ettelson, Corporation Counsel of the City of Chicago, stating his inability to be present.
Principal Richard D. Stinson, Atlanta Normal and Industrial Institute, in a few pithy statements, stated the object of the meeting and told of the school's needs to give a larger field to the very deserving boys and girls from 10 years old up and how the race could not hope to make substantial headway worth while if the hand, the soul, and the mind was not fully developed.
Mr. Charles Hatfield Dickerson, one of the best informed men of the race made a strong plea for education of all kinds for the colored youth and as near as possible give it in the same dose and along the same line it is given the masses of other people. Said he could not account how the Negro youth should be given a different brand of education to that of other American citizens and yet he was expected to do his work as well and as intelligently. Said the records show that the white child in Georgia has from $7 to $12 per year spent on him and the Negro boy and girl have but $1.75 to $2.50 spent on him, and yet it is too frequently said the south is the place for our ignorant masses and the industrial man of that
appeared as a slave and a hunfriend. Said and reaping nothing from its frie still enriched the coffers of the Soutates of the same commodity receiving a mercrem same time slowly but surely relinqu
lost poorly paid subject in the uss overaging 75 cents per day for 12 hours in food and raiment such as it was. Fail in the South's cotton fields, failing to a
cago District A. M. E. Church, made a strong and comprehensive plea for education, referring strongly to Bishop H. M. Turner, Richard R. Wright and John R. Hawkins, Financial Secretary, A. M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., as specimens of what training in the south from money of Christian philanthropists given in other days. He urged that our people in the north do as the Rev. Dr. H. E. Stewart, his officers and members of the church are doing. Said he, I've been in Chicago and in this section of the country from the state of Georgia, my birthplace, twenty years. I have never known a prominent Negro church of the caliber of Quinn Chapel to give a full Sunday night service to a Negro school, simply for the asking of the pastor to do so. And why has Dr. Stewart allowed this? Because, he is an educated, christian, broad gaged man, after the fashion of the men who built an extended African Methodist Church in other days. Rev. H. E. Stewart and his congregation show by this act that they are interested in our people everywhere to the end of giving a solid foundation upon which they must build. Do you ask me if anything good
Sings "Blues" to Prove He Is Colored
Bob Mayfield, prominent club man and beau brummel around town, had composed new "blues" entitled "I am a Colored Man." It was composed and sung extemporaneously at the request of a gang of south side hoodlums of color, who were in search of white meat in the recent unpleasantness. He was stopped at the corner of 35th and Dearborn streets on his return from his itinery, it is said, to get a scoop for a certain newspaper. Due to his fair complexion and blonde hair, the leader of the hoodlums called him to halt. The following conversation ensued: Hoodlum: "Are you white or colored?" Mayfield: "I'm Colored, Mister, look at my hair." The hoodlum becoming confounded with the nearness to which the texture of his locks resembled that of the Caucasian, caused the hoodlum to say, "the only way that you can prove to me beyond reasonable doubt that you are Colored, sing me a staff of some 'blues.'" As quick as a flash, out of an abyss of nothing, Mayfield sang with the melody and harmony of Ollie Powers, "I never was so near to Heaven or to H—— in my life." Whereupon the 'hoodlum' was satisfied as to what race Mayfield belonged, altho he had a way of showing it. Thereupon, field was released.
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can come out of the south? I only reply by saying, ask the ministers of both races who are the majority in filling the pulpits of Chicago and from what section of the country did they come?
Let's help to educate our people in the south because they are having a hard time along educational lines. And notwithstanding $10.00 is spent on the white child in Georgia for education and $2.25 upon the black child. There are Negroes creeping around Chicago for the want of information, experience and history, talking about segregation or separate schools and jim crow accommodations in other things. We will never have it as long as my head is warm and I am able to do a man's part. Help Mr. Stinson and his school. I went through building and grounds during the month of June. I was surprised at the great and good work he is doing with that class of our race lowest down in the struggle of life.
Many persons contributed and made subscriptions and they hope to make the collection $1000 during the week, as Mr. Stinson leaves returning to Atlanta to arrange for the opening of his school on Sept. 15th. The meeting will not soon be forgotten to those who were present and the impression made for good was in every way impressive.
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E. & W. H. WILL MEET IN KANSAS CITY
The sixteenth biennial session of the Supreme Lodge and Supreme Court, K of P. E. & W. H. will convene in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25-28, 1919.
The committee on arrangements are making gret preparations to make this one of the grandest and best sesions in the history of the Knights of Athias of the Eastern and Western W sphere.
excellent program has been ar-ted for the convention with many esting features. Sunday, August biennial sermon will be preached and Illustrated by Major Speneer Carpenter, of Brooklyn, N. Y., at the 2nd Baptist Church.
Tuesday evening, Aug. 26th, at 8:30 the Hon. Sir W. Ashbre Hawkins, Supreme Chancellor, of Baltimore, Md., will give a lecture at the Lincoln High School Auditorium, subject: "Why there are two faction of Knights of Pythias." The local lodge is expecting the largest delegation in the history of the order and arrangements have been made accordingly.
Prominent Educator and Minister Visits City
Dr. Patrick H. Thompson, former Baptist divine in Mississippi, now president of Western College, Macon, Mo., spent several days in Chicago in the interest of the school, which is one of the promising educational centers in the West. Sunday morning Dr. Thompson spoke to a crowded congregation at Bethesda Baptist Church, and in the evening at Olivet Baptist Church.
Dr. Thompson is the father of Mr. Charles H. Thompson, who graduated at the University of Chicago just before joining the 803rd Pioneer Infantry for overseas service.
Man Enters Homes in Hyde Park Through Windows
On account of many robberies which have occurred in the last few days by someone climbing through the windows of homes in Hyde Park, the residents have been warned to keep their windows closed. It is claimed that a tall, thin colored man wearing a derby hat would ease into open windows, pick up anything of value, then ease out again.
Mrs. Agnes Mahoney, 5236 Kenwood avenue, watched him enter her home, pick up $50 and step out of a window. A beauty parlor at 1342 Fifty-third and a residence at Fifty-fourth and Cornell were entered in the same manner.
In a speech before the Chicago Association of Commerce on the La Salle roof garden, Attorney General Brundage asked for quick punishment of the race rioters. Mr. Brundage also took occasion to defend the constitutional rights of the colored people against segregation. His speech follows:
"Americans are notorious in their disregard for law," he said. "This is the outgrowth of early days when the oppressed came here to escape too much law and then would not accept enough law. Mob violence is hard to explain. Men who would not do a thing individually will commit horrible depredations when part of a mob.
"I say, with all regard for the sheriff and the chief of police, that it is extremely unfortunate for Chicago that black men should be chased through the streets of this city and killed and no arrests made.
Prosecution Only Cure.
The sure antidote for mob law is a vigorous prosecution of everybody responsible for rioting. In 1917 there were similar riots in East St. Louis. When it was over not a man, black or white, was in jail, yet a vigorous prosecution sent sixty-one to the penitentiary or jail, and there has been no recurrence of race rioting there.
"There is nothing new in race prejudice. There has been prejudice between all races and the color of the Negro's skin makes him an easy mark in these outbreaks.
"The law apparently awakened a disregard for civil law and order. Men have become dissatisfied and life is being held cheaply.
"There is more than a suspicion in the assertion that white men in Chicago have contributed financially to destroy the homes of Negries. In Illinois the Fourteenth Amendment is going to be recognized. The Negro is no longer a slave and is now an industrial factor and common sense must be used in dealing with him.
Calls Negro Loyal
"One thing I wish to emphasize, and that is the loyalty of the Negro. He has always been true to the Stars and Stripes, and has never joined any organization founded with the intention of destroying our institutions,
"Segregation has been proposed. As long as there is any blood and bone in the constitution there can be no lawful restriction between citizens possessing equal political rights."
Husband Kills Wife Then Commits Suicide
Phoenixville, Pa., Aug. 21.—Mrs. Florence Cooper Tocus was laid to rest here this week. Mrs. Tocus was the victim of wounds inflicted by her husband, James Tocus, who was enraged from jealousy. The crime was committed in an apartment in New York City. After killing his wife, Tocus, who is an ex-soldier, slashed his own throat and jumped from a fifth story rear window, causing his own death. Tocus' body was shipped to Pittsburgh, Pa.
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The order affects the Choctaws, Creeks, Seminoles, Choctaws and Chickasaws, representing a combined population of about 100,000 Indians. Many of them have already won complete citizenship and more than 5,000 are directly affected by the order issued today, Mr. Sells said.
Daring Holdup of Delicatessen Store
New York, Aug. 21.—Toney Rida, who is employed as the bartender by Gaffney & Duffy, and Werner Pryor, of 135th street and 8th avenue, walked into Hammer & Klein's delicatessen store at 2547 8th avenue Saturday evening after finishing their daily toil for the purpose of making a small purchase and while sitting talking to Mr. Klein three bold hold up men entered and held up Rida, Pryor and Klein, relieving two of them of a hundred or more dollars and rifled the cash register of the delicatessen store, relieving that of the day's receipts amounting to about two hundred and twenty-five dollars. An automobile stood outside ready to fly with the men who hustled into having backed out of the store, their revolvers pointing toward abilit innocent victims on the inside best
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Solid South to Lose Representation in Congress
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 21.—There is a determined effort being made in Congress to force the issue with reference to voting colored citizens in the South Newspapers in every section are discussing the subject. A number of newspapers believe that every citizen regardless of race should be given the ballot. Some, however, are greatly alarmed over the possibility of the southern representation being cut down. With reference to this particular phase of the subject, the Birmingham, Ala., News says editorially.
"And Senator Poindexter has introduced*a similar resolution." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the leading Republican paper of the Central West, says that these resolutions "mean that the Republicans are determined to put through this plan if they can—that is to change the basis of representation in Congress from population to the number of votes cast.
Under this plan the Southern States would lose 64 representatives—Alabama 7, Arkansas 3, Florida 2, Georgia 9, Kentucky 1, Louisiana 6, Maryland 1, Mississippi 6, North Carolina 3, South Carolina 6, Oklahoma 2, Tennessee 2, Texas 9, Virginia 6. Of course there would be a corresponding loss of votes in the electoral college and thus the relative power of the Republican party, in electing the president and controlling the congress, would be established for an indefinite period.
Man Sent to Sing Sing
New York, Aug. 21.—Sentence was passed on Andrew Fawcett, 59, a porter in a store at 208 West 143rd street, by Judge McIntyre in Part 1 of General Sessions this week. Fawcett pleaded guilty of attempted grand larceny and was given from one year and three months to two years and six months in Sing Sing.
Clothing and gents' furnishings to the amount of $300 had been missing from Weber & Heibronner's store at 1503 Broadway, on June 10. Fawcett, who was employed there at that time, was suspected, but no charges were brought against him then by the management. It was not made known to him that he was suspected but was allowed to work a month longer, when he was caught carr, shop goods away. He was followed to y. home, where a trunk was found containing the sofen property.
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White Policeman Attacks Woman
New York, Aug. 21.—Joseph L. Horn, white, of the West Twentieth Street Station, lies in a cell in his own station, charged with the unmentionable offense perpetrated on the person of Mrs. Helen Dille, a young married woman residing at 302 West 121st street. He was immediately suspended by Third Deputy of Police August Drum Porter, who is acting commissioner.
Mrs. Dille was on her way down town to meet a friend when she was accosted by the bluecoat and questioned. After asking her an improper question, which she refused to answer as she wished, he grabbed her and forced her into an unoccupied building where she was attacked by the brutal officer.
After the alleged assault, she went to the Charles Street station to make a complaint against Horn and was directed to the West Twentieth Street station, where she entered the complaint.
Corporal Horn has a wife and children.
We are glad to state that no such charge' or complaint of this kind has ever gone on record against a colored policeman.
Colored Candidate Double Crossed by White Republicans
Louisville, Aug. 21.—The Republicans of this city may lose the vote of the 40,000 colored Republicans here on account of "double crossing" Editor Worley of the News at the recent election. Mr. Worley was a candidate for the legislature in one of the heaviest populated colored districts in the state. It is reported that the count was crooked and Worley was handed the double cross in every way. The whites who tried to buy off Worley will find at the next election that the entire colored vote will be thrown against the Republican party.
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The first arrest for the violation of this order was that of Mondane Jones, colored, who was taken into custody and charged with violation of the above law. Jones, it is alleged, was shipping people of his color to points outside of the state from the town of Bessemer. When arrested he was making arrangements at the depot of the Alabama Great Southern Railroad. A large number of men and women were at the station preparing to leave when the labor agent was taken in charge.
There were many labor agents in Bessemer who were doing a big business until this so-called law, violating the constitutional rights of the people, went into effect. The labor agents have all left town, fearing that they would receive the same treatment handed Jones.
Street Car Conductor Robbed and Arrested
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Letters from the People
The New Democracy
Se prs Ree ee ONE eT ae ome Cee Dee
the greatest stains ever left upon any
race is the great crisis we have just
passed through for which the white peo-
ple are wholly to blame; for if you
continue to kick a dog around he will
bite you after a while,
‘The white man or the white woman
who lost their lives in this great riot
did so at their own peril and for noth-
ing. The colored man or colored woman
who lost their lives did so for some-
thing.
‘The rights of the white man or
woman in America has never been
questioned or privileges ever been
marred, no matter whether they were
4 citizen or not, they had protection of
the law. It made no difference whether
they were right or wrong.
‘The Negro did not say he would not
live in the same neighborhood nor in
the same house with the white man no
matter how poor the white man was or
how rich the Negro was; it mattered
not to the Negro how poor or humble
the white man was, his home was pro-
tected and was not bombed beeause he
was a white man, but the Negro who
educated himself and raised himself
from the low levels to the higher plane
in life bought a respectable home in a
hetter and more respected neighbor-
hood, his house was in jeopardy and told
he would have to move,
I will ask any well thinking white
man if he does not think it is a shame
to ask Negroes to go to war to fight
to redeem them and to return to a
country where they are supposed to
have a home and find they have none
and denied the rights under the Stars
and Stripes to even spend their money.
The white hoodlums who start the
disturbances and trouble seem to be
backed up by the better elass of white
people, who set in silence iastead of
forming TheM@TS Th any one com
mittee to break this band of error.
Wren the head of our government
* , seggregating and mistreating the
© in Washington then the trouble
country began, Again I want to
wy sensible thinking white person
wey would not resent these condi
tions,
When a white man or woman came
down State street shooting at will in
automobiles three in two and five in a
truck, at anyone and respected persons,
a policeman sitting on a horse at Thir
ty-fifth and State street made no at
attempt whatever to apprehend them
until rua down by a Packard machine
With three colorpd men, Many other in-
cidents occurred by the police force
which caused trouble,
When the whites formed themselves
in big mobs in the city, they were bent
on taking the life of a negro without
any cause, When the Negroes were
pulled off the street cars at Forty-sev.
enth street and beaten into insensibil
ity, the better class of whites offered no
protection, and when the Negro tried to
protect himself he was called a des:
perado by the police force,
White people thinking of how the
jobs have been taken from them by the
downtown stores, I wonder if in their
own hearts they ever stop to think what
an American means when they are tak
ing the earnings from 75,000 Negrovs
who did not come to this country with
wooden shoes on as emigrants, Dut are
truly born Americans who could be
trusted in the time of war. They were
uot blowing up factories, poisoning
meats or guests in hotels, but were
ahting in the trenches as loyal Amer.
ts, even though they were hounded
mistreated in time of war by white
uiticers. But let me say to my white
brother, you have time to repent for
what you have done to the Negro. ‘The
reaction is bound to come, Let me
say to you so-called Americans, who
gave a club and gun and the law to a
man as police who ean not govern him-
self in Europe, how do you expect that
man to mete out justice to another race
who the so-called Americans are manu.
facturing hatred against,
I do not uphold anyone in wrong:
doing any more than f would the Chi-
vago Defender, whose agitation is be:
yond all reasons, and the weaker class
take advantage of such print known as
the mad house, The more you read it,
the more angry you become, and the
so-called leaders do not pnt a stop to
such inflammatory articles.
August 19, 1919,
The main serviees held Sunday, July
17, 1919, at Olivet Baptist church, 31st
and South Park avenue, also at the old
home church, 27th and Dearborn street,
were well attended. Overflow meetings
at the 31st and South’Park church were
conducted hy Rev. Raybon, last Sunday,
The ehureh has been doing relief work
in nfany ways among the people, such
as helping to feed, and house, We con.
tributed in various ways more than
4700.00. In addition to this we are op
erating ehureh autobuses,
Also aiding cripple soldiers at Fort
Sheridan.
‘The problem with the Olivet Baptiat
chureh is to find a building sufficient to
house people who attend the services
More than eight hundred persons are
turned away every Sunday. ‘The pastor
and officers have set themselves to the
task of rélieving the situation.
RESOLUTIONS FROM CAR
EMPLOYES’ LOCAL,
NO. 268
Whereas, there are thousands of men
employed in the Sleeping Car and Din-
ing Car Serview on the various rail-
roads of this country who are eligible to
and should be members of onr Union,
and
Whereas, the Companies that employ
these men have been instrumental in
forming other Organizations, dual to
ours, having in many instances finaneed
such movements to prevent men of this
class from becoming identified with a
bona fide Labor Union, and
Whereas, these men must depend en-
tirely upon their united effort in order
to inerease their wages and effect sueh
other changes relative to working con-
ditions that ean place them on the same
economic level with other workers,
‘Therefore be it
Regvet that it be the common un-
derstanding of ali delegates to this, the
‘Twentieth General Convention of the
HOTEL AND. RESTAURANT ~EM-
‘PLOYES’ INTERNATIONAL ALLI-
ANCE AND BARTENDERS? IN'TER-
NATIONAL LEAGUE OF AMERICA,
that every possible foree be placed in
this particular situation that will aid
and encourage members of SLEEPING
CAR PORTERS’ AND DINING CAR
WAITERS’ LOCAL No. 268 in their
attempt to thoroughly organize all
workers of their craft to the end that
thru the powerful influence and strength
of our united forees we can place our
eraft, ay well as other lines of em
ployment, in the same standing and
imbue in the minds of these men a spirit
of solidarity that will place them in a
position of self-respect and on a level
with other intelligent groups of wage
earners,
West Side Newsboys on
Strike
The five nowaboya of the Weatside,
employed by Mr. A. W. White to sell the
Colored Chicago weeklies, formed a
union sometime ago, elected a spokes
man and presented their demands to
Mr, White. The most important demand
being an inerease of a cent more per
copy for selling the papers
Mr. White was not inelined to grant
the inerease and when they found late
Saturday evening that they had the los
ing end and that the people were com:
ing after their own papers, they finally
capitulated. They also found that only
two of their number could be employed
at the old rate so they are about to eall
another meeting to see if the remaining
three can be put back to work on the
old asia,
4) CENTS FOR WHISKY BRINGS
POLICE RAID
Los Angeles, Aug. 23.—That they
‘*were charged 50 cents for a taste of
whisky’? and paid prices in proportion
for several other varieties of “hard”?
drinks, was the report made by mem:
bers of police ‘{Purity Squad’? follow:
ing a raid in W. Seventh st. More than
$10,000 worth of liquor was seized in
the raid, Joseph Frinalli, proprietor,
and two waiters were arrested,
© God! if T had only done my duty
when I were in the position to do so
the conditions would not be as they are
today, or would I have to die and leave
such a stain upon my family.
I ask the public to think the above
over and if you are too prejudiced to
be an American, at-least be a man,
G. W. Lambert,
3524 Forest Ave. Chicago, 1.
NEWS ITEMS.
By John Riley, A. F. of L, Organizer.
Charter for the train porters’ union
No, 16704 was delivered Wednesday,
August 13, 1919, by Organizer Smith of
the American Federation of Labor and
the officers will be installed Thursday,
August 21, at 3749 Vincennes Ave.
‘These men are beginning to appreciate
the benefits of organization, which was
exemplified in the interest shown in
the first meoting held after charter and
outfit were received. They are a real
live enthusiastic buneh of workers who
are determined to stand together and
effect such changes in conditions that
will be beneficial to them as workers.
Attorney John Condon, representing
the packers, made a wonderful grand-
stand speech August 13 for the benefit
of the Judge and packers in the arbi-
tration hearing and attempted to defeat
claims made by Pres. John Fitzpatrick
of the Chieago Federation of Labor in
placing the blame on the packers for
all the misunderstanding and dissatis-
faction that has occurred in the pack-
ing industry in the past year.
Judge Samuel Alsehuler was rather
pointed in his statements relative to
the responsibility of the workers inso-
far as he claimed that they had delib-
vrately violated the terms of the agree-
ment, Armour and Morris seemed to
be the only two that were opposed to
reinstating the men involved in the
walkout of Saturday, Mr. Brennen of
the Independent Packing Company wore
an expression of innocenee and at-
tempted to show how his company, being
an independent concern, had suffered
a material loss and the percentage of
profit had been greatly reduced.
At the business meeting of Loeal 651
held Friday night, August 15, 21 new
members were initiated and Mrs, Mer-
cor made an interesting talk on the
value of co-operation and the eneour-
agement of commercial activities among
colored people. A. K. Foote, Secretary:
Treasurer, was elected delegate to the
Wage Seale Conference of the Interna-
tional Union, to be held in Kansas City,
Kan., August 19. Resolution from the
Woman's Trade Union League was re-
leeived and adopted and its recommen:
ldations coneurred in,
Letter received from P. D, Campbell,
ldelegate from the Sleeping Car, Parlor
Car Porters’ and Dining Car Employes’
Local 268, to the 20th Convention of
the H. & R. BT A. and B. TL, of A.
held in, Providence, Jt. I, contained
many interesting nbtes Of encoutage-
Iment, and from appearance the two det-
legates have put the entire program thru,
Which will spell unlimited success for
that Local Union
W. H, Mumford, Seeretary of Fed
leral Labor Union 15,855, Beaumont,
exas, sends encouraging news from
his section of the country and states
that the power and influence of the or-
ganization ix growing steadily every
liny aud they are asking for closer co:
Joperation between the various central
bodies. ‘The Doek and Marine Council
are taking steps to stand closer to-
gether. They desire Chicago papers and
are anxious to keep in touch with the
labor movement of this section,
The issue of ‘The Chicago Whip”
of August 13 is their banner Labor
‘issue, It contains a group photo of the
delegates to the 39th Annual Conven-
‘tion of the A. F. of L. and the comment
‘by the editor, and the resolution of
fered at this convention by delegate
Wm, ¥. Kavanagh of the New Jersey
State Federation of Labor, together
with the editorial under caption
“Where Do We Go From Here,’? are
brimfal of interest pertaining to hu
manity in general.
Delegates from the Sleeping Car, Par-
lor Car Porters’ and Dining Car Em
ployes’ Local 268 to the General Con-
vention of H. & R. E.T. A. and B. 1, L.
of A,, held in Providence, R. I,, returned
to the city Sunday night the 17th, and
from all appearance the entire program
they presented was put over.
Secretary A. K. Foote of Butcher
Workmen Local 651, left the city Mon-
day night, August 18, to attend the
wage scale conference of the A. M. C.
& B, W. of N. A, to be held in Kansas
City, Kan. August 19, Mr, Foote was
elected to represent Local 651 after re-
coiving a majority of all votes cast at
the business meeting of Local 651, held
Friday night, Aug 15,
G. W. Downing, who has acted as
Examiner in Charge, U, 8. Free Em:
ployment Office at 2727 8, State St, at
the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Welfare Bu
reau, is expected to leave the city in a
few days with a commission for the
purpose of establishing a Welfare
League in the state of Mississippi, thru
which they intend to develop plans and
methods thra whieh compulsory educa-
tion can be applied to all classes of
people and improve the school systems
of the entire state until they ean alle-
viate many of the conditions that are
the direct cause of ignorance.
THE CHICAGO WHIP
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1 real | Will speak at the United Civie League | Bee
« who | in Odd Fellows Hall, Sunday afternoon, |"
+ and | August 24, at 5:20 2. MI Bee
that] ‘The subject of his audress will be|
ors, | ‘Phe Challenge.’? Marshall has always | Bec
fought for the great principle of ‘equal | t
ting | rights to all and special privileges to | Bec
rand: | none,’? and he will endeavor to show|
enefit| that the greatest noo of the hour is—| Bee
arbi-| justice to all men, regardless of color,| —¢
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satis! Mian in School Yard"
Little Rock, Atk., Aug. 21,—Miss Liz
zie Minnifield, young school teacher,
shot and instantly killed 1. H. Johnson
at the Riverview Colored School on the
Roberts plantation near here. ‘The kill
ing was witnesse:| iy many of the chil
dren who testified ‘bat the girl shot in
self-defense, This is the second killing
here sinee Saturday, Humphreys Pit
man, a colored farnicr, was killed Sat
urday evening ins dispute with another
man.
Mrs. Mereer, an intelligent colored
lady, of our city who has developed a
number of table delicacies aud formulas
for soft drinks, appeared before some
of the offieers of Vineulum Co-Operative
Society and agreed to become interested
in the co-operative movement by giving
the benefit of hey experience as a com
pounding chemist along these lines if
certain dispositions could be made agree
able to all,
“The Whip’? cracked last week and
the echoes were heard in many indus
trial centers outside of Chicago; then
‘*The New Majority’ with the Chieago
Federation of Labor's Proclamation
dropped in on the ministers of this city
and they are beginning to see a new
light and that is the light of freedom
for the toiling masses and its dazzling
brightness is gradually clearing away
the mist and new opportunities for fur.
ther development are being sought and
seenred for the workers thru various
Aigengies that are dedieated to, the in
‘terest of humanity thru the labor move:
ment.
A serious attempt will be made by
the officers and members of Loeal 651 in
spite of the handicaps to complete 100
per cent unionization in the Stock-yards.
We are being materially aided by a num
ber of agencies that think they are do-
ing us harm. Programs are being pre-
pared to further the interest of the labor
movement in such an effective way that
all opposition will be swept aside, This
is the workers’ only opportimity to safe-
guard all existing standards and add ma
terially to other benefits that they are
entitled to, That's why they are will.
ing to organize,
Many of the workers who haye been
thrown out of employment as a result
of the recent race riot, especially in
the packing houses, have been compelled
to dispose of their Liberty Bonds, Local
651 of Butcher Workmen has agreed that
the Seeretary-Treasurer of their organ
ization stand instructed to purehase such
bonds from the members of the organ-
ization at the prevailing market price,
which is a great deal more than they
could possibly seeure for « Liberty Bond
of any denomination were it disposed of
thru some of the profiteering, burglar
izing agencies who are attempting to
make usurous profits for themselves and
at the same time deliberately rob the
workers, If you are a working man or
woman and have « Liberty Bond for
sale and do not want to sell it to Local
651, kindly call at their office and they
will find out what the market price is
for the bond and give you all informa
tion possible to keep someone from svs
tematieally robbing you by trying to dis:
count these bonds and seeure a greater
profit for themselves than would be rea
sonable to expeet under the cireum
stances.
The Vinculum Co-Operative Society,
having secured the charter, has decided
to hold meetings the secon and fourth
Sunday of each month at 3 P.M, at
4358 S. State St, Wright's hall. It is
the aim of the Directors to make these
meetings as interesting as possible and
everybody is invited to take advantage
of this opportunity to learn and under
stand the great benefits that the co
operative movement is to the workers?
interest in general, EVERYBODY
WELCOME, WAGE EARNERS ESPE:
CIALLY.
Viola Dana has annexed a new leading
man in Kenneth Harlan, who recently
finishetl an appearance opposite Mary.
Piekford, in ‘‘ The Hoodlum’?
PRICES FOR ARMY FOOD SOLD BY
PARCELS POST
Washington, Aug. 21.—The Postoftice
Department today announced the prices
at which the surplus army foodstuffs
will be sold to the public through par-
eels post. The table follows:
per per
can, case,
Article Packed ote. ete,
Bacon, 6 12-1b, cans to ease.#4.15 $24.90
Beef, corned, 48 No, 1 cans
tO ANNO scevidendentionsy 58) 1808
Beet, corned, 24 No, 2 eans
$0080 s+ .eovveernees «D5 18:20
Beet, corned, 12 61b, cans
MORO orien ith (OL00
Beet, roast, 48 No. 1 cans to
BERS s ive rar ce cve ween 80) 104d
Beef, roast, 24 No, 2 cans to
GID) yes haaensecsrncees, “OB CIOAN
Beef, roast, 12 6-1b, cans to
CRUG oviconsy aan dpennc AO) OHS)
Hash, cored beef, 48 1-1b.
cans to case.........666 22 10.56
Hash, corned beet, 24 21,
CANS tO CAS. ...eceeeeee BT 8,88
Beans, baked, 48 No. 1 cans
AG times ivsacacwcong sc ab OLS
Beans, baked, 24 No, 2 cans
COEUR Nutreonseses SOU) Md
Beans, baked, 24 No, 3 cans
tO Lircrinrnongoran, OO 18L8
Beans, stringless, 24 No. 2
CANS to CHSC... cceeeees 09 216
Beans, stringless, 12 No. 10
eans to C080... AO 4.80
Baking powder, 24 1-1b, cans
th, Sino: eseertvi oases GOO 2A
Baking powder, 8 5:1b. cans
HOCSMID sdecieseseerteen SANT AG
Barley, pearl (1), 1001b,
f UARY SH onniiccnserrays cy Od NBGS
Beans, dry (1), 10h,
| DERN acevo vescaseens BAO (6:40
Cherries, canned, 24 small
| ams to ese... eeeeeeeee BL 5.04
Cinnamon, 48° 41h. cans
tO KCHNCeravess eeedvey A0% V BSE
Cloves, 48 YI), cans to case 14 6.72
Cocoa, breakfast, 24 Yl.
cans to Ca80........666. 18 92
Corn, sweet, 24 No. 2 cans
WHE escerserseere 00) (B16
Corn meal, white (1), 100-
Why BABE eeeeesecennnas 9.00 9160
Corn meal, yellow (1), 100.
Wertiegetsenaasessaqes 670) Sil
Corn meal, yellow, 30 2-1b,
fans to CMSC....eeeeeeee OT 2K
Constareh, 40 to eases... 04 1,60
Crackers, assorted, 48 to
GUAR reste er 0G) Bt
Crackers, ginger, 48 No. 1
tins to case............ 068 2.88
Crackers, graham, 48 No, 1
tins to case...t......6, 06 2.8
Crackers, soda, 48 No. 1
tins to case...cccccees 08 2.88
Farina, 48 No. Ltins to case 146.72
Fish, dried cod (1), 40 Ibs.
tO 0880's .sevessouvss 682) 6,88
Flavoring extract, lemon, 24
Zounce bottles to case... 10 2.40
Plavoring extract, lemon, 24
S-ounce bottles to ease... 33 7.92
Flavoring extract, vanilla,
24 Zounee bottles to case 10 2.40
Flavoring extract, vanilla,
24 Sounce bottles to ease 39 7.92
Flour, corn (1), 100, bags 5.24 5.24
‘Flour, edible, cornstareh
(1), 1001, bags... 400 4,00
Plour, graham (1), 1004b,
BAGS cose rice veces; 880 MBO
Flour, issue (1), 100-1b, bags 6.00. 6,00
Flour, oatmeal (1), 100-1.
HRSG sssecrasceveane AO 4.00
Flour, rice (1), 100-1b, bags 6.00 6.00
Flour, rye (1), 984b. bags... 3.75 3.75
Golatin, 144 to ease........ 09 12.96
Ginger, 48 14-1b, cans to ease .07 3.86
Hominy, coarse (1), 100-1,
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Chicago Authorities Could Learn Much From Them
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When Death Comes Into Your Home Don't Hesitate
CALL :
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Funeral Director
4821 South State Street
Successor to F. A. Rawlins
Calis Answered Promptly—Low Prices—E ficient Ser
EMBALMING A SPECIALTY
SHIPMENTS MADE ALL OVER THE Wi
Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 21.—This city
offers Chicago several suggestions for
the improvement of its police methods.
‘The police here have been on the look-
out for race trouble for two years. At
preseut they are hunting for a Negro,
claiming to be from Chieago, who at-
tempted to get certain colored persons
to arm, He spoke last Sunday in a
colored chureh after the services, From
several who heard him the police have
learned that he said substantially:
“Now is the time for colored people
to arm, Get ready. The white wan is
against you and you must prepare to de-
fend yourself.”?
Seek Race Not Agitators
**We would like to get hold of that
fellow, even if he claims to come from
your town,"? Police Superintendent Jas,
Robinson said. ‘We don't like that sort
of talk.’?
“What have you lone tu prevent race
riots?’’ was asked,
‘As soon as your trouble started, or
perhaps a little before,’? the ehief re
ORY LAW OOESN'T HIT
A “XIGK"
Worried Farmers Assured by
Opinion From Attorney
General’s Office
Washington, Aug. 21.—Farmers are
afraid to convert their apples into cider
lest they be arrested under the Probibi-
tion Law. Requests for « ruling from
the Department of Justice and the Bu
reau of Internal Revenue are being sent
to Congressmen,
Senator Simmons (Dem,, N. ©.) upon
receipt of a letter from a constituent
asking him whether he has a right to
make eider and, under the present law,
what disposition he ean mafe of it, took
the matter up with the A’ rney Gen-
eral.
“The present law prohibits the manu:
facture and sale only of distilled spirits
or malt or vinous liquors,’? was the re:
ply. ‘*Whether cider can be regarded
as a vinous liquor has been a matter of
| MRS. MILLER OFFERS $100 TO
| BURGLAR FOR HER CAPE
If the burglar who last month robbed
“Mrs, Charles C, Miller, 520 Diversey
parkway, of a valuable sable eape finds
the loot difficult to dispose of in these
‘warm summer days he may return it to
Mrs, Miller, receiving immunity from
arrest and $400 reward. Mrs. Miller is
even willing to let him keep the fox
skins he took if he'll only return the
cape. Mrs, Miller is advertising in the
personal columns of the newspapers for
its return,
BREWERS CALL CONVENTION TO
CONCENTRATE THE WETS
Atlantic City, Aug. 13,—Believing
the feeling against ‘‘air tight’’ Prohibi-
tion can be concentrated for a repeal
of the wartime liquor laws, the Brewers’
National Association have called a con-
ference for Sept. 28 at the Traymore
Hotel. The United States Brewers’ As-
sociation is in charge of the convention,
which will last for a week.
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plied, ‘‘we notified all dealers to stop
the sale of firearms and ammunition,
and they co-operated. We have doubled
the two night shifts of police in certain
colored precincts. We don’t allow
crowds to congregate in the aveas where
white and colored are liable to get to
talking.’?
“Have you had any race trouble???
“Some time hack when a colored
woman moved into a white residence
distriet we deemed it prudent to be
alert,’’ the chief said. ‘We gave or-
\lers to compel every one on the streets
in the threatening territory to keep
moving. ‘The brother and two nephews:
of a police lieutenant had to be beaten
up before they were convinced we meant,
for every one to move, One of these
young men had an arm broken.’?
Keep Curb on Radicals.
How do you handle the reds, L. W.
W.s and other radicals???
‘They caunot parade without a per-
mit,’? the chief said. ‘T preseribe their
line of march, ‘They eannot hold a
meeting in any hall before they obtain
our consent, give a list of the speakers
and designate in what language they
will talk. No one can speak who has
deen indicted in any city.
“*We have our interpreters and stea-
ographers present. Auy disloyal state-
ment or utterance suggesting violenee
or disturbance stops the meeting and
the leaders are arrested,
“*This will serve as an illustration:
We gave a permit for a meeting and a
parade, but not along the route desired
for the radieals. At the meeting one
speaker suggested that the crowd mareh
out of the hall on streets for which they
had no permit. At that moment our de-
tectives arrested twenty-nine and the
magistrate fined each $10. The judges
co-operate closely.”
How They Handle Strikes.
“‘Any special method on strikes???
was asked.
“We permit peaceful picketing, but
prohibit yelling and singing, such as you
describe in Buffalo and New York,’” the
chief explained. ‘No striker ean put his
hand on any worker, We even accom-
pany workers on the street cars to and
from employment.
“Any poliegman who joins a labor
union will be discharged, ‘That ques-
tion was settled here two years ago.’?
While Chicago has had seven bank
rakivestes this year, Ppiladelphi
had one in ———e
“IE we were TUN
the town would go wild, \a®-Buee
said, who has been in office seven years.
“T don’t remember that we have had
one in my nineteen years in the de-
partment.””
Two methods of curbing view are said
to have proven satisfactory. The woman
of the street, who is arrested, or her
male parasite, goes to the bureau of
identification to leave a photograph and
finger prints. A policeman is stationed
in front of 4 gay flat on whieh direct
and convineing evidence cannot be
readily obtained.
It is claimed that the finger printing
of gamblers more than a year ago eaused
the professionals to move away.
As an aid in recovering stolen auto-
mobiles, Penusylvania has just passed &
law requiring the purchaser of a ear to
make an affidavit and file it with the
police departinent, ‘The police have the
power to lift up the hood of a car and
get the number, and failure of a buyer
to file the preseribed afidavit subjects
him to arrest and a maximum penalty of
a bunk in jail. This afidavit describes
the car in detail and gives considerable
information regarding both seller and
buyer.
Jail Habitual Criminals.
There is another law which permits
the police to arrest any person on sight
who has been convieted twice before,
The penalty for getting caught is ninety
days. This act is the prineipal weapon
in ridding the city of habitual and pro-
fessional criminals,
On money saving methods the Phila-
delphia foree supply confirmation of in-
formation obtained in New York and
Boston, The house sergeant here also
acts as police operator, The turnkey
fre the boiler of the statépn, sweep the
walks and keep the tower of the station
clean,
‘The Chicago police committee motored |
from New York to Philadelphia. Maj.
James Miles of the efficiency staff and
Harris Keeler of the Chicago bureau ot |
public effieeney eame by train,
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Is Polite Comedy Polite? |[_ THE Gran | me
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It was carly in spring on a rather
chilly day in California, that Fay
‘Tineher was seen dashing out of a Holly:
wood costumer’s with a small package
in her hand. She stopped her blithe-
some tripping down the boulevard long
enough to say ‘‘I'm tickled to death!
I’m going back into comedy—society
comedies, too, if you please. You know
Christie Comedies, don’t you? They re
nice, refined little human dramas. They
don’t throw pies, they don’t get you all
mussed up, you know, real high-class
stuff, These are going to be special
two-reel comedies. Look, L've got my
costume in my hand,’’ and she waved
the little package, which was about the
size of a half pound of coffee. ‘I’m
going to play a chorus girl.’’
In her first Christie Special, ‘Sally's
Blighted Career,’’ Fay played ‘Sally.”?
The first thing they did to blight her
career was to kick her off the runway.
A runway in musical comedies is an ar-
ticle designed for the light tripping of
dainty footed chorus girls over tiie heads
of the audience. Fay tripped, all right,
but neither lightly nor daintily, In her
capacity as the prize boob chorus girl,
it was so ordained by the scenario por-
son who thinks up foolish things for ac-
tresses to do, she fell with a dull thud
upon the unfortunate head of Scott Sid-
ney, one of the directors who had been
impressed into service as atmosphere be-
cause of the possession of a bald head.
‘Miss Tincher finished the scene with
three bruises. Mr. Sidney had some also,
Chicago Negro Soldiers
Jazz Joyfully to Port
New York.—Although there were
moro than 700 Negroes among the
3,600 troops on the transport Kroonland,
there was no evidence of racial animos-
ity when the ship docked. Radio mes
sages had kept the soldiers posted on
the Washington and Chicago riots, but
harmony reigned. Perhaps the jax
P What revi HA. Limwor Thfantry, a
“tug ysetign whijentcasebres of Chicago
boys in its ranks, had something to do
with it. Certainly the Negro musicians
furnished plenty of harmony.
‘The band jazzed morning, noon and
night and wound up by jazring Men
delssohn’s ‘‘ Wedding March’? for the
benefit of fourteen French brides.
A Move in the Right
Direction
The Lafayette players, who are all
colored, are one fine aggregation. They
are composed of intellectual people who
are all heart and hand with movements
for the uplift and betterment of the
race. As actors their respective abili-
ties cannot be questioned. The players’
vontracts are made with colored men
who are at the head of the Quality
Amusement Corporation.
Tt is a pity that with the capital pos-
sessed by the race, that we cannot build
or Jease a playhouse where these actors
ean be placed, instead of having the
money go into the pockets of such men
ag Forrest and Weinberg, who will not
even spend a nickel of the surplus money
to install a ventilation system or deco
rate the stuffy place which they call an
up-to-date theater. ‘These men may have
been mazagers once upon a time, but, as
the orators would say, ‘‘a new era has
dawned’? and with improvements pro-
gressing on all sides, they are back num-
bers. ‘They could at least install a few
comfortable seats and have the place
cleaned up so that it would have a ploas-
ing interior appearance.
* A South American Boy
Piano Virtuoso
e hie New York, Aug. 21—The New York
sian PUblie will soon be given the opportu
nly nity to hear a new pianist in the person
ona,of Mr. Noil O’Jon, who comes to us
o} from South America with a brilliant
pin Teputation as an artist. Only 16 years
py: of Age, hile playing has the air and ehar-
he weter of a full-fledged virtuoso. His rep-
oweettoire ix extensive as well as varied.
+ to 4 Will be well for music lovers to hear
he ‘hoe EW comer, who will appear for the
ympt time with our great tenor, Senor
»,n Loneke, in joint recital.
field See
t is more than likely that Mrs.
rles Spencer Chaplin will return to
' sereen this fall, despite the state-
aw \ of Mr. Chaplin at the time of the
He oe that his wife would retire per-
ar, thy.
but that has nothing to do with the
story.
At the witching hour of nine o'clock
the next morning Miss Tincher having
anointed herself with much ‘‘pain kil-
ler’? arrived at the studio to do the sec-
ond episode of the picture, Tt was a
burglar scone. Harry Edwards, the
burglar, was inside a trunk, Sally sat
upon the trunk, endeavoring to keep the
burglar from burgling. Harry’s mus-
cular shoulders bounced the lid of the
trunk up and down several times while
Fay hung on for dear life. Direetor Al
Christie shouted, ‘Do your duty,
Harry!’? Fay did not know that when
Al Christie says ‘do your duty’? he
moans the exeeution of the scene with
the greatest possible vim and vigor.
Harry did his duty right lustily with
the result that the unfortunate star
landed violently on the back of her neck
‘beyond the protecting softness of a
mattress which was intended to break
her fall, but which failed to do its duty
at the erucial moment,
‘Sally ’s Blighted Career’’ came to a
close with Miss Tineher swathed in
bandages. In ‘*Rowdy Ann,’? which
‘introduced Miss Tincher as a rough and
western cowgirl almost too skittish for
the open range, there were also numer-
ous calls for the first aid kit. The first
time it was for stepping off a train at
Burbank, where the limited merely hesi-
tates and does not stop. How was the
conduetor of the limited train to know
that Miss Tincher was not getting on the
train, but endeavoring to get off, so’ as
she stepped lightly from moving train
he detained her with an iron hand,
‘Let me go,'? she shouted as she wig-
gled loose—and fell. As the train gath-
cred speed, Fay picked herself up from
where she had fallen—a few inches from
the moving wheels. She walked up to
Al Christio and said, ‘‘Well, don’t I
get a little sympathy??? Mr, Christie
replied, ‘Oh, yes, yes, of course. I was
just thinking if you had fallen under
there, how I could have put in a title
and finished the picture.’?
Masons Entertain Billy
King & Co.
New York, Aug. 21.—Billy King, of
Chicago, with his unparalleled aggre-
gation of De Luxe Players, was highly
entertained at a banquet given in his
honor by Medinah Temple No. 19 of the
Mystic Shrine at the Lybia on Satur-
day evening. Tho affair, which was ar-
ranged by Nobles Winfred P. Carr, Jas.
MeCadden, Thomas H, Wright and Fred
8. Langston, was pronounced by all
present as a howling success,
Past Grand Master Wm. Osear Payne
presided with dignity. He introduced
many visitors who are prominent in Ma-
sonic circles. They all responded with
brief and witty sayings. Noble Billy
King made a brief, amusing, pointed
speech, Among the guests were Jas, H.
Anderson, editor gf the Amsterdam
News, New York’s leading weekly; John
H. Bowman, Edward E. Rainey, 32d W.
0. Murphy, John B, Anderson, Marraci
13, 33d Clar, E. Dunlop, Persian Temple
No, 46, Indianapolis, Ind.; 33d J. M.
Morris, 33d Wm, H, King, Arabie 14,
33d Wm, O. Payne, 334 Thos, H. Wright,
33d Jas. MeCadden, 33d Chas. TL, Robin-
son, Harry Knight, Clarence W, Baxter,
Persian Temple No. 46, Indianapolis,
Ind.; Granville O. Paris, Emery W. Wile-
man, R. D. Brooks, J. Wesley Smith,
Hillon A, Joseph, W. P. Lassiter, Wini-
fred P. Carr, Sidney Helen, Samuel L.
Carr, Ollie Burgoyne, Gertrude Saun-
ders, Mrs, Belle Davis Whaley, J. Berni
Barbour, J. H, Anderson.
| ALL ABOARD FOR DIXIE
Al Bernard, known as the boy from
Dixie, left New Yor< Saturday, August
9th, for a trip to New Orleans, his home,
he will bring back sone new ideas from
for a week’s vacation, and Al says that
the land of jazz. Bernard is the writer
of ‘‘Shake, Rattle and Roll’’; ‘That's
the Feller’? and ‘‘Big Chief Blues,"’ all
numlers from the Pace & Handy Cata-
logue.
et Be
Allegedly the highest amount paid for
film rights to a story so far this year was
that given by Louis B, Mayer to Harold
MeGrath for ‘The Yellow Typhoon,"?
whieh ran serially in the Satevepost.
Mayer paid $30,000 cash for it with the
intention of having Anita Stewart use
it as a First National vehicle, following
‘In Old Kentueky.’’ We dare say, off-
hand, this is much more than the amount
paid McGrath for the serial rights, yet
aceording to Mr, Pollock—the poor au-
ther—bot what's the use?
on, i
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THE GRAND |
‘There is a good bill at this playhouse
the present week, Much local talent is
on display; in one of the numbers it
looks as if all the old timers of the
stroll has been thrown together. One
fact and one personage that should have
special mention is that of Downs and
Knox. Lucretia is really a headliner on
this week's bill.
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Charles Ray, with the Lafayette Players,
Now Playing Avenue Theater.
New York, Aug. 21—Quintard Miller
Co. No. 1 opened at the Putnam Theater
for a two weeks’ engagement. The com-
pany is headed by Perey Harris and Lil
lian Gillen. The company is known as
the Brown Skin Burlesquers.
Quintard Miller Co. No. 2, with Anna
Panky Cook and Archie and Walter
Jones, opened the New Royal Theater,
Asbury Park, for two weeks’ engage-
ment. The company is known as the
Brown Skin Burlesquera No. 2.
To the Editor of The Billboard.
Dear Sir—Mr. Wolf has really done
the public a great service in writing you
that letter about musie publishers and
their staf of writers, and so has The
Billboard done a great service to the
people in publishing his letter, and let
me say that if some of these publishers
would send one of their agents down
and in the back alleys of the City of
Baltimore or Washington or any of these
Southern cities and hear the songs that
are sung and written by the negro pop-
ulation of these places for thelr own
use it would make these publishers and
their staf! look small indeed. This
world is full of poets and song-writers
and good ones, but none of them are to
be found on Broadway, because good
songs are not what is desired,
T would like to run about one or two
hundred of my songs in a song writers’
contest against as many that are written
by these so-ealled staff of writers from
the publishers around 47th and Broad-
way just to see how many of their songs
would go thru, and I'll beat every one
of them. This is no bluff, but real
straight forward business proposition.
All I would like to see is the best man
win, so if any of these gentlemen are
looking for a chanee to earn both fame
and fortune this would be an excellent
chance to show the world what they can
do, Very truly years,
NATHAN L, LEWIS,
123 E, 88th St., New York City.
THE CHICAGO WHIP
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At last we are to have colored films.
While the entire industry has been
awaiting the perfection of a color proe-
ess, along comes a company in Los
Angeles and starts right in making ’em
without any blare of eornets, ‘The name
of the concern is the Democracy Film
Company and all of the players are col:
ored, Dramas of particular import to
the colored race will be made and also a
brand of funny films whieh will be called
“Chocolate Comedies. ??
Charles Clary, whose name in the
prints is usually followed by the words
‘that sterling player,’? missed the flu
but the matrimonial germ got him. The
bride was Miss Margaret Bechtel, who
unblushingly gave her home city as
Pittsburgh when they applied for the li
cense at Santa Ana. Patrons of the Q.
and A. department will take notice that
Mrs, Clary is not of the profession.
Death claimed three well-known actors
during the last few weeks in California.
The first was George Gebhardt, who
played in the original New York Motion
Picture Company's initial Western thril
lers and who became one of the best
known screen character men. Daniel
Gilfether, the ‘grand old man’? of the
former Balboa company, was called soon
after at his home in Long Beach, after a
stage and picture career eoyering nearly
a half century. The last’ of the trio,
Lamar Johnstone, died suddenly at Palm
Springs, California, while on location
with William Farnum, He was well
known to screen followers as a leading
man with Selig and other companies
‘Tom Meighan has finally been elevated
to unqualified stardom, having been
chosen to play the title role in Cecil B.
deMille’s pieturization of the famous
stage vehicle ‘The Admirable Crich-
ton.’’ Most of the outdoor seenes for
the play were filmed on Santa Cruz Is-
land, and there was some delay owing to
the fact that Tom was engaged in play-
ing the lead in the William deMille pro-
duction, ‘Peg o’ My Heart.'?
Milton Sills appears to have gotten
himself regular job as Pauline Fred-
crick’s leading man, He is on his see-
‘ond photoplay opposite the Goldwyn em-
oter who is now being directed by Reg-
inald Barker,
Idaho recently entertained a Famous-
Lasky company of players for more than
a month. ‘The battalion was headed by
Major Robert Warwick and Director
George Melford, making exteriors for
an all-star production of ‘Told in the
Hills.’’ Monte Blue and Eileen Percy
were also in the company, whieh divided
its time between Kamiah and Lewis-
een,
There is to be another ‘Lone Wolf’?
story picturized, this time with a wo-
man star. Louise Glaum is to be starred
in ‘The Daughter of the Wolf,’? an as
yet unpublished novel by Louis Joseph
Vance, the rights for which were bought
by J. Parker Read, Jr., who produced
Miss Glaum’s first independent produc
tion ‘‘Sahara,’? Vanee wrote ‘The
Lone Wolf’? first and Bert Lytell starred
in it.. Then came ‘‘The False Faces’?
and Henry Walthall played the leading
role.
Enter the new Western hero, Fred
Stone, No attempt was made by the
Zukor people to specialize with Fred,
but because of his facility with the rope
and his clecerness with “hawses,’” Fred
has decided that he should stick to West-
erns. So he is making his first film under
his own auspices at the Brunton studio
with Andrew Callughan, once of Bssan-
ay, as manager of the company. Milli-
cent Fisher is leading woman in his first,
& story by Jackson Gregory. Frank
Borzage, one of the best of the young
directors, in telling Fred how/ip do it.
White Policeman
WHAT THE SOUTH AAS 10. OAY
ABOUT NORTHERN AACE CONFLICTS
about the naygur whin he lives among
his opprissors as I am whin he falls into
th? hands iv his liberators.’’ Strike out
‘Copprissors’’ and substitute a word im:
plying regulation, restraint, and benevo-
lent discipline and you have the South-
ern point of view to a nicety; what
Northerners call ‘‘oppression,’’ in the
South the Southerners regard as meas-
ures essential to the welfare not only
of the whites but also of the blacks;
they believe that Northern freedom
from restraint injures both races, and
the Houston (Texas) Chronicle, com-
menting on race riots in the North, ob-
serves: ‘The immediate cause, like the
immediate result, is an old, old story,
but both are rooted in a background
of silly pampering whieh leads, and will
always lead, to atrocious acts on the
one hand and to illogical spasms of tem-
per on the other.’’ So it is natural that:
race riots in Washington and Chicago
should be widely discussed throughout |
the South. To the Southerners? way
of thinking, they demonstrate the fal-
lney of the Northern attitude toward
the Negro. ‘The Chronicle maintains
that ‘in Washington, more than
other place, Negroes have been petted
into an attitude of Inzy conceit,'? and
that ‘the uniform has been permitted
to give them an unprecedented degree
of protection and consideration,’” while
“high wages and allotments have tend-
ed to make them shiftless and #rrespon-
sible,’’ And when Southerns declare
themselves ‘‘the Negro’s best friends,’?
there is no disingenuousness about it.
They are skeptical when Northerners
lay claim to a more generous regara for
the Negroes, and the Memphis (Tenn.)
Commercial Appeal speaks for the
South in general in asserting: ‘‘The
clash of whites and Negroes in Chicago,
coming hard on the heels of a similar
disturbance in Washington, should he
a warning to the Negroes of the South
that the supposed benevolent treatment
of their race in the Northern States is
largely a myth.’ As The Commercial
Appeal informs its readers:
‘The searcity of labor in the North
during the war eansed the big employ-
ers of labor there to turn their atten-
tion to the Negro labor of the South.
They imported a number of Negroes
from the Southern States, who were
paid big wages. The Negroes‘ were not
so informed at the time, but it has de-
veloped that their employment was
merely temporary. When the white
soldiers began to return, the Negroes
were let out. With the usual African
improvidence a great many of these
Southern blacks spent practically all of
the money they made on city luxuries,
so that when their employment was
taken away from them they were pen-
niless,
“Fearing privations and want, a
number of these negroes turned erim-
inals in order to support themselves.
‘There was an outbreak of robberies
and other crimes by these imported
colored men, and the result was that re.
sentment of the white people was
aroused. The supposed friends of the
black man became his worst enemies
and the war of races was the inevitable
result. It has been pursued with a re-
lentlessness that could not be possible
in the South,
“(As bad for law and order as lynch
ings may be, they can in no way com-
pare with the racial outbreaks that
occur with a persistent frequency in
Northern cities housing a considerable
Negro population, Mobs in the South
vent their revenge only upon the Negro
who has been guilty of some foul crime.
The innocent seldom if ever suffer. Of
course, any mob law is bad, but it is
infinitely worse when this develops into
a clash of. races where the innocent suf.
fer with the guilty. Such racial dis-
orders as have occurred during the last
few weeks in Washington and Chicago
are possible in the Southern States, but
they are hardly probable.’?
Such is likewise the contention of
the Southern press in general. As one
Southern paper puts it, ‘‘too often, atas,
in our own section is heard from mobs
of white men the shout of ‘Kill the
coon!’ but never ‘the cons.’ ?? The
Mobile (Ala,) Rogister meanwhile re-
marks:
“Tt is characteristic of mobs north
of Mason and Dixon’s line to class all
of the colored race as offenders, and to
beat them up indiscriminately. This
x the. saculé a? dealal. kebareeee Fe.
vengeance upon the offender 0% viriu®.
‘The Northern mob does not stop there,
but directs its lawless attacks on the
race. Both mobs are lawless, and the
press of the South have condemned
them as such.’ :
Somewhat less sweeping in its claims
as regards the South, but not Tess con-
vineed in principle, the Norfolk (Va.)
Ledger-Dispateh says:
‘phere have been times when race
riots of varying sizes have taken place
in a few Southern communities, but
they have all been due to flashing out-
breaks against an individual or several
individuals, and occasionally these out-
breaks have spread before they could
be checked. But conditions have never
been of such a character as to lead any
considerable part of the population to
indulge in what the calm and uncolored
Associated Press deseribes as ‘an orgy
of hatred.’ ’?
The Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal and
‘Tribune, after calling the situation in
Chieago ‘an utter disgrace to that city
and a shame to the nation,’? marvels
that ‘there are those with white faces
and black hearts who would perseente
a Negro because ho is a Negro, and who
give the law-abiding Negro no consider-
ation, lumping all together as a whole
fas having no rights the white eriminal
need give any respect,’? and the Char-
notte (N. ©.) Observer says that:
“Tn race troubles in the South always
some sympathy is developed for the
Negroes and there is an clement that
is ever inclined to give them protec
tion, In Washington not a hand ap-
pears to have been raised in their be
half and for the whole of one night
they appeared on the streets at their
own peril. Whon the Negro gets into
trouble in the North he is in trouble
bad. The whole population turns on
him and the disposition is to ‘clean him
up.’ If it should develop that during
the troubles in Washington any man
‘came to the rescue of the Negro we are
going to venture that it was a white
man from the South.?”
Very little in the way of rancorons
or abusive comment appears in the
Southern press concerning the outbreaks
at Washington and Chicago, and if the
Nashville Banner has something to say
about Northern ‘hypocrisy,’ the
charges are tempered by a willingness
to understand and forgive. Says The
Banner:
“The Northern people have main-
tained a hypoeritieal attitude in re.
spect to Negrocs, and outbreaks like
that in Chicago, now that Negro popu-
lations are becoming uncomfortably
lnrge there, tear off the mask. The
hyprocisy in a great many instances
was unconscious. A large number of
Northorners had hereditary prejudice
on the subject arising out of the old
crusade against slavery and the Civil
War. They didn’t reeognize the inevi-
table race antagonism whereever a dark
race obtrudes on the white man, and
tho difficulties under which the South
labored in keeping that antagontam
within bounds."’
However, the Vieksourg (Miss.) Her-
ald takes a shot at Unicago in an edi-
torial entitled, ‘Chickens Coming
Home to Roos,'? and asserts that—
“yo all with understanding the
bloody Chicago race clash was forceast
| by the following story in the Chieago
News two days before the riot:
| {Not only is Chieago a receiving
station and port of reruge for colored
people who are anxious to be free from
the jurisdiction of lynch law, but there
has been built here a publicity or prop-
aganda machine that mreets its appeals
or carries on an agitation that every
week reaches hundreds of thousands of
people of the colored race in the South:
ern States, ‘The State strect blocks
south of Thirty-first street aro a ‘‘news-
paper row,’? with The Defender, The
Soareh-light, The Guide, The Advocate,
‘The Whip, as weekly publications, and
there are also illustrated monthly maga-
zines such as The Half-Century and
The Favorite.’
“The ‘propaganda’ of titis ‘*recety-
ing station and port of refuge,’ the in-
evitable preeursor of race war, cut both
ways. Its poison indeed is more deadly
upon such Negro centers as Chicago and
Washington than with the Negro masses
of the South.’”
Far from contenting itself with
merely tracing the Northern race rtots
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Editor’s Mail
Mr. W. C. Linton:
Dear Sir:—Please allow me to ¢on-
gratulate you as an editor who knows
what to say, how to say it, when to say
it and when not to say it. Glad to see
that you are conducting your paper
along the right lines. The people in St.
Paul and Minneapolis are all well
pleased with the sheet.
Yours very sincerely,
©. H. LOGAN,
St. Paul, Minn.
TION OF ‘76?
BOOZE, AGED 100, 18 RESURRECTED
New York,—It was an old brown bot-
tle—100 years old, or thereabouts. It
reposed in the cellar of the old Sammis
Hotel in Hempstead, 1., 1., where George
Washington is said to have stopped onee
overnight. No scholarly historian has
as yet advanced the opinion that the
bottle was the cause of the Revolution
of 76, but take a look at the revolution
it caused.
A wrecking crew was tearing down
the landmark (the hotel, not the bottle).
In the cellar they found an old gun, a
solid shot and the brown bottle. Albert
Voight of the wreeking erew sensed an
exquisite aroma, some of that forbidden
fruit stuff, Albert immediately shouted
that the erew had struck whiskey—
real, aged in bond, 100 years old and in
a brown bottle, There were fifty men
ahout him, but none dared taste the con-
tents,
In stalked Cutie Gardner, who is noth.
‘ing more or less than a cop, and nothing
‘more or loss than four foot four and of
ample girth. Cutie lifted the bottle—
the 100-yearold bottle—and drank
deeply.
“Whisky!’’ he ejaculated.
Twenty men sent longing pairs of
arms in the general direction of that old
brown bottle. Cutie snorted and
clutched the bottle desperately, The
twenty pairs of arms entangled and
uppercuts and just plain broadsides
went whizzing among the thirsty
twenty. Cutie’s arms were pinned to
his side. ‘There were some more upper-
cuts. And then——
The old brown bottle—the 100-year-
old bottle—fell with a erash to the
floor.
Colored Woman Sues
Southern Owner of
Picture House
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21.—Mre. Lola
Porter has brought suit in the eireuit
court against Samuel Zerilla, owner of a
colored movie show at 330 Beale avenue,
for the sum of $5,000. Mrs. Porter claims
that negligence of the operator of the
projecting machine eaused a loud and
terrifying explosion, which demoralized
the spectators, which resulted in a stam
pede for the exits. In the panic Mr
Porter states that she was knocked down
and trampled upon by the frenzied
crowd.
Richmond Negro paper, The Planet.
Says the editorial:
‘Determined that the good sense and
good will of the better classes shall
prevail, Richmond people ‘have agreed
upon a very definite policy. ‘The pre-
cise details of this we shall not, of
course, disclose; the main facts should
be set down here and now that every
man may understand Richmond is to
do striet justice, but is to suppress with
the utmost severity every disturbance,
If white rowdies pick a quarrel with
Negroes, they are to be punished in-
stantly. If Negroes should start trou:
ble, precisely the same punishment will
be meted out to them. The News-Leader
expects Colonel Myers to instruct his
men to shoot without hesitation into
the ranks of any mob that may start.
‘We expecté him to use all the reserve
forces at his command and to continue
as long as may be necessary the prudent
arrangements made in recent days. We
expect, further, to xeep the machine
guns present, so that if trouble starts
in any street, the machine guns may be
Drought up instantly in the waiting
motor trucks and after warning has
been given can be used to sweep the
street from end to end. We indorse alt
the director has done in preparing to
nse fire apparatus, but we are frank
to say we do not expect him to stop
with water, if any mob opens fire, For-
tunately we need not call upon him to
avoid the mistake made in Washington
of placing a single officer or a single
sentry on a street corner, We have
enough forces at hand to throw a cordon
around any district where disorder may
start and then to seour every street
and every alley.
“But, above all else, Richmond peo-
ple insist that precisely the-same treat-
ment he measured out to all that may
‘attempt trouble.’”
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Tender Pink and White Buds. The Hat Is a Creation of Pink Georgette and
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Dancing Blue Ostrich Feathers That Curl and Cling to the Unusual Shape.
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Ostrich Tip Trimming.
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Information That May Lead tO) veivet and tiny ostrich tips, artisticall
Prospective Buyer Making | combined, ‘This hat illustrates. sti
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a Wise Decision. | sminil curled tips. Not so new a treat
= ae ment of ostrich but always a pleasin|
a | and satisfactory one, especially if on
TAM KEEPS ITS POPULARITY | takes advantaze of the modern proces
jot shower proofing that insures thi
eee beauty of the feather against all mois
Feather Trimming 1s Employed on | ture whether a fog or rain.
Model That Almost Every Woihan If you are not familiar with tht
Can Wear With Good Bttesh.— very commendable innovation in appar
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Some Effective Turbans. jel te eee ee Nets Blain ti ake
What can stimulate interest In
fashion at this season of the year like
a little glimpse at new hats? For hats
are always interesting and hats are the
first new thing a woman buys at the
beginning of a new season.
In fact, we buy new hats regardless
of seasons and wear them, too, without
consideration for their fitness for a
particular season; straw hats in Jan-
uary, velvet In July.
And there are velvet hats and others,
advanced models to excite your curlos-
ity, stimulate your interest and help
you to decide your first new autumn
style.
‘And my! what a good effect a new
hat has upon the average woman, both
from the material aspect of 1 pleas-
ing appearance and the less tangible
but nevertheless definite aspect of men-
tal stimulus, of renewed interest in
lige in general, comments Edith M. Bur-
tis in the Philadelphia Ledger.
Sometimes, as 1s usually the case
with children, a woman trends life's
path more gayly when she puts on new
shoes, but more generally it Is a new
hat that helps over a period of mental
depression, of world weariness, of dis-
interest, for hats don’t hurt and new
shoes do, more's the pity.
Let me depart from the subject in
hand, new hats, just long enough to
ask why do so many girls foolishly buy
shoes just a ttle too tight?
Many Ills From Tight Shoes.
‘This practice does not improve the
appearance of the feet; rather Is the
effect deteriorating and the discomfort
one suffers often distorts the face, al-
ways mars the poise and the walk and
prevents the absolute attention to the
conversation of a companion, the giv-
ing of the entire interest to the plens-
ure at hand that makes folks say
“Phere is an attractive and likable
girl,” the opinion of friends and ac-
quaintances that establishes a girl as a
Zavorite.
‘There is never a season when some
form of the graceful and generally he-
coming tam 1s not in vogue and this
will be the case this season as in all
others. ‘There is one style especially
attractive, a between-seasons tam on
new lines and interestingly developed,
of taffeta and sontache brald in two
colors, to say nothing of an effective
feature trimming that lends the last
note of smart fashion to this time
established model.
‘One excellent quality of the tam
shapes is that almost every woman enn
wear one, all young girls ean and most
women of more mature years, provided
they select the right model.
Strikingly unusual is a hat of vel-
vert with trimming of glycerin ostrich
fn a sort of shower effect over the up-
turned brim. ‘This may seem an ex-
treme model, not 60 much in shape as
in this arrangement of a popular trim-
ming. And while not every woman
can wear this hat or want to, never-
Woman’s Page
theless It portrays a certain new and
Interesting fenture of autumn millinery
that you should be glad to note,
Ostrich Tip Trimming.
Quite the reverse from the extreme
fashion standpoint, yet nevertheless
smart, despite its conservative tone, ts
the becoming turban of rich brocade,
velvet and tiny ostrich tips, artistically
combined. This hat illustrates stil’
another use of ostrich, the regulation
small curled tips. Not so new a treat-
ment of ostrich but always a pleasing
and satisfactory one, especially if one
takes advantage of the modern process
of shower proofing that insures the
beauty of the feather against all mois-
ture whether a fog or rain.
If you are not familiar with this
very commendable innovation in appar-
¢l Insurance ask your milliner about tt
or the shop where you buy feathers
for the hat you trim yourself.
And here let me digress once more
for a moment to register the sugges-
tion that a technical knowledge of mil-
linery is well worth the time and the
sraall price it will cost a girl oF woman
to acquire this knowledge.
Very smart and modish is a trim,
close-fitting shape of velvet effective-
ly trimmed with uncurled ostrich, and
this hat is still another evidence at-
testing to the fashion value of ostrich
as on autumn trimming of smart hats.
Model for Autumn.
Another new autumn hat, lke most
of the new models, is of velvet, turned
up sharply in the front and trimmed
only with a rich cluster of silk flowers
and foliage. It is an excellent model
fer first cholce in the development of
your autumn wardrobe, for it can be
worn now—right now—and that's what
niost of us want to do with new things
—put them on and enjoy them immedl-
ately.
‘A costume that has been much ad-
mired is a simple, dignified dinner
gown of charmeuse, with underskirt of
contrasting color, simply trimmed with
ribbon In two widths and colors, mod-
eled after the beautiful nes of the
early Greek costume. This is the sort
of gown that is not dependent upon
any whim of fashion for its accept
ance. It is the kind of gown that can
be worn until it is worn out, and this
is a feature that appeals to many wom-
en not éntirely from the standpoint of
economy, but because many of us must
be well nequainted with our clothes
hefore we are quite comfortable with
them. Like old acquaintances, we
must feel that our clothes wear well.
and not from the standpoint of actual
wearing service, but from that of pre-
senting us in the best possible light,
of helping us appear at our best.
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Wardrobe.
JUST THE THING FOR CORNER
Pretty Decoration for Holding Flow-
ere or Fern May Be Put To
gether at Small Cost.
Suggestions for filling up even the
corner of a room in these days of
high prices will be useful to many of
our readers who may be furnishing,
and the pretty corner decoration of
which we give a sketch can be made
et a very small cost.
It is composed of eight pieces of
bamboo arranged in the manner shown,
and hung across the corner of the
room by means of two picture rings
serewed Into the bamboo at the points
indicated by the crosses in the sketch.
Suspended from the top bar in the
center is a small pot containing a
fern; but if preferred, of course flow-
‘ers could take the place of the fern.
"The bamboo should be fastened to-
gether with thin, sharp nails, and,
where necessary, the ends of the bam-
boo should be plugged with little
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pieces of wood. The horizontal pieces,
too, must be cut to fit against the sides
of the upright pleces. Into the ends
of the upright pieces small brass batls
are screwed, and suitable articles for
this purpose can be obtained from any
hardware store at a small cost.
‘The pieces of bamboo that are fas-
tened across the corners of the frame
should be about half the thickness of
the other canes. ‘The ends of these
canes must be cut to fit into their
places, but can be fastened in place
withont plugging them. ‘The ends of
all the other pieces must be plugged
with wood
SMALL GIRL NOT FORGOTTEN
Frocks for Little Maid's Adornment
‘Are More Than Usually Charm.
ing and Practical,
Frocks for the small girl are both
quaint and practical, The ginghams
are attractively combined with plain
one-tone material, or have collars, cuffs
and chemisettes of sheer white mate-
rials, Plain pink, blue, green, yellow or
lavender chambrays are also made
dainty and becoming by collar and cuff
sets of white organdie, dimity, batiste
or linen lawn.
One Chicago house which makes a
specialty of children’s clothes shows
numbers of quaintly charming frocks
made from imported dimities, cham-
brays and swisses.
‘Two of the models in an exhibit were
made of chambray, one being in a clear
apple-green tone. There is a plain
short-walsted bodice belted with a two-
inch band piped with black, ‘The belt
is embroidered with colored posies and
green leaves, The sleeves and neck are
piped with black. Another frock is of
pale-pink chambray, with the sheerest
of scalloped white collars and cuffs.
The frock also has a short-waisted bod-
ice and a very full skirt Is attached to
the plain little bodice, the joining line
being defined by « piping of color, Em-
broidered posies, uneven in height, rise
from the piping and embrotdered lines
to about one-third the bodice length.
‘The skirt is also trimmed with em-
broidered lines.
BLOUSES IN WIDE VARIETY
Wash Fabrics Figure Prominentiy
‘Among Materials Employed—Pend-
ant Decorations Highly Favored.
‘The shops are really alluring in their
Aisplay of overblouses in fabrics and
styles suitable for summer wear. It
Is perhaps an Interesting thing that
wash fabrics have been made to serve
so admirably for these blouses—for
there was a time when it seemed that
only chiffon and georgette and soft
erepe would do for them.
But now linen, organdie, batiste, ra-
tine—lots of ratine, too, which Is an-
other of those interesting evidences
of a return to favor of a fabric or style
that has seemingly gone by—all these
and other summer fabries, heavy,
homespun, crashlike-looking things, are
used for the overblouse.
One thing that marks many of the
blouses {s little tassels and hanging
buttons and fringe. ‘There are all sorts
of these pendant decorations, from
sleeve ends and hems and just hang:
ing down from any other part of the
blouse Itself.
ADAPTED TO SHOPPER'S NEED
Strong Bag That Will Hold a Variety
of Purchases, to Be Constructed
of Remnants,
Nowadays it is absolutely necessary
to take a strong and roomy bag when
doing the daily shopping, and our
sketch shows « very handy type of
bag for this purpose.
It can be carried out with a rem-
nant of thin stair carpet or any other
strong material, and can be made in
any size to suit diferent requirements.
The diagram on the right of the illus-
tration roughly gives the shape of the
piece of materia! that will be re-
quired; it is folded at the point
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marked by the dotted line, and sewn
together at the sides. The opening
of the bag is bound with braid, and
just below this « number of eyelets
are let in, and through these eyelets
‘a plece of strong blind-cord is thread-
ed, by which the opening may be
drawn together, and also by which
the bag may be carried.
Sewn on in front of the bag and
bound at the edge with tape is a
small Hnen pocket, Into which bills
may be slipped.
STRAIGHT LINES HOLD SWAY
Good Thing to Remember Now That
It Ip About Time to Plan
for Fall Things.
Interest in summer sults is natur-
ally waning somewhat at the present
time, with fall so near at hand, and
the woman who js planning a fall suit
must bear in mind the fact that re-
gardless of dress silhouette, straight
lines hold sway in suits, No matter
what material is used or what trim-
ming embellishes it, the smart suit
will have a straight, semi-fitted coat,
thirty to forty-five Inches in length,
with narrow shoulders and long, tight
sleeves, Suit skirts are shorter than
those shown with spring models, and
while by no means full they are a
trifle wider. Soft velours are very
popular and a great deal of fur trim-
ming will be used, ‘This fur trim-
ming {s usually only in the form of
generous sized collars and revers and
sometimes cuffs, ‘Trimmed skirts or
the elaborate fur peplums used on
suit coats last season are not in evi-
dence so far. Embroidery and fancl-
ful braldings appear on many smart
suits.
For first fall wear strictly tailored
models of cheviot and smart wool mix-
tures are being brought out.
SASH KEEPS ITS POPULARITY
Far From Passing, It Bids Fair to Be-
‘come Even More Important Ar>
ticle of Dress.
We keep hearing the rumor that the
vest is passe—certainly it is passing, if
we judge by the signs of the times,
and unless it has a revival will not be
here at all by fall, ‘The sash, how-
ever, has taken on a new lease of life
and is to play an even more important
part in our costume than ever before,
As to fringe, it is to be more extensive-
ly used than ever—in every depth and
wherever possible, ‘The fringe band-
ing Is often seen trimming satin capes,
coats of camels’ hair and dresses of
taffetas and satin, ‘This banding is
made by stitching the fringe on a strip
of satin at top and bottom, so that it
has the appearance of insertion when
used as trimming. Now and then one
finds a color different from the dress
or cloak showing through*the threads,
but this is not nearly so often used
as the plainer colored banding in blue
or black.
Children’s Fall Styles.
Mothers are glad to see guimpes
coming into fashion again for the lit-
tle folks, They give a dark dress a
“dressed-up” appearance, and are a
great saving in the laundry, They are
decidedly fashionable this summer
and autumn, being made simply and
trimmed with either a bit of Val lace
or a frill of plaiting of the sheer white
material from which they are made.
One mother has made a half dozen
of these useful guimpes for her small
“tomboy” daughter who is in the sec-
ond grade at school, deciding that it
fs easiex to wash several guimpes
than act whole dresses, since it is
the sleeve and collar that are soiled
first. \
Y. M. C. A. News
‘A new style of entertainment was in-
troduced to the musie lovers of Chi-
cago, Sunday, August 17, in the Y, M.
C. A, Assembly room. The occasion
was a Supper Musical which consisted
of vietrola music, special reading ana
solos, After a large number of mem-
bers and their friends had dined in
the eafeteria they went upstairs and
enjoyed a most unique program. A num-
ber of new records had just been pur-
chased and were introduced at that
time, among them were quartet from
Rigoletto by Caruso and other famous
singers, selections from Samson and
Delilah by Madame Homer, Mother ’O
Mine by John McCormack. Most re-
markable of all was the special ac-
companiment by Prof. J. A. Mundy, who
displayed wonderful knowledge of har-
mony in his ability to play with ease
in the most difficult keys, A large num-
ber of men and their lady friends was
present and we expect this to become
one of the regular monthly features,
Mr. W. G. Rogers read from Dunbar
and Mr, Donald Heywood gave several
piano selections.
Se ee Seen Sone eee
A large number of Negro business men
representing all professions and kinds of
usiness were in the city this week, en
route to New York from St, Lonis, where
they held their convention, Among
them were: Mr, J. G. Lemon, attorney
for the Wage Earners’ Bank of Savan-
nah, Ga., which is a remarkable institu.
tion; it is significant to note that when
they began business in 1900 the com-
bined assets at the end of the fiseal year
were $102, and on August 6, 1919, wero
$755,311.57, Mr. Lemon says that they
are now negotiating the operation of
theaters of large cities throughout the
country which will require a capitaliza-
tion of more than a quarter million dol-
lars, Mr. Chas. H, Anderson, president
of the Anderson Bank, Jacksonville,
Fla; Dr. W. A. Hughes, New Orleans,
La,; W. A. Jordan, Richmond, Va.; F.
, Blackshear, assistant cashier of the
Wage Farners’ Bank, Savannah, Ga.;
J.Mf, Batler, Savannah, Ga.; 1. Iu Jack
son, Athens, Ga; GW. Hutchins, a
prominent attorney and owner of the
Hutehins Building, Tulsa, Okla.; Bert
M, Roddy, of the Solvent Savings Bank,
Memphis, Tenn,; Walter Cannon, St
Louis, Mo.; R. E. Jones, New Orleans,
La, and Prof, W. J. Hale, president of
[the State Normal School, Nashville
ne
A Soldier of the Land
His skin was the color of his 0. D.
blouse,
His hair was kinky and black;
He came from the land of sunshine and
cotton,
His home was a vine-covered shack,
He heard the eall of the flag that he
loved,
‘And he marched away like a king;
If we but knew half of the things that
he did,
This land with his praises would ring.
Tn the midst of the fray at Argonne he
fell,
And died like a true Yankeo son;
With a smile on his faee and joy in his
heart,
And a knowledge of duty well done.
His skin was the color of his 0, D,
blouse,
But his hair had turned to gray,
For he’s gone thru hell for humanity's
sake,
Before they laid him away.
—C. H. EL
HOMESICK FOR ARCTIC SNOWS
No Affectation About the Longing for
Far North That Is Experienced
by Explorers.
If you are of ordinary health and
strength, if you are young enough to
be adaptable and independent enough
to shake off the influence of books and
bellef, you can find good reason to be
as content and comfortable in the
North as anywhere on earth.
If you remember that all of us who
have spent more than a year “living on
the country,” are quite of the Eskimo
opinion that no food on earth is better
than caribou meat, and If you have any
experience in your life as a hunter any-
where, you will realize that in the eve-
nings when we sit in these warm snow
houses, fensting with keen appetites on
unlimited quantities of boiled ribs, we
have all the creature comforts.
What we lack, if we feel any lack
at all, will be possibly the presence of
friends far away, or the chance to hear
opera or see the movies, At any rate,
ft Is true that today in the movie In-
fested clty I long for more snow
house evenings after caribou hunts as
I never In the North longed for clubs
or concerts or orange groves. And this
is not peculiar to me. The men who
have hunted with me are nearly all
of the same mind—they are either In
the North now, on the way back there
by whaling ship, or eating their hearts
out because they cannot go.—Vilhjal-
‘mur Stefansson in Harper's Magazine.
SOCIETY
Corterie Club Stages Big
Dance at Appomattox
Club
The Saturday afternoon dance at the
Appomattox Club, given under the aw.
spices of the Corterie Club, of which
Mrs. 8. A. T, Watkins is president, was
largely attended by society belles from
all parts of the country. Miss Etta
Moore, the popular dancing instruetress,
staged several new dances that were
met with hearty responses from the
terpsichorian artists who were out in
large numbers, Among the out-of-town
guests were: Misses Mabel West, Cleve-
land, Ohio; Scorgia Walker, Nashville,
Tenn.; Anita Smith, Memphis, Tenn;
Miss Marion Vance, Memphis, Teun.;
Olivia Jones, Cleveland, Ohio; J. L, But
ler, Indianapolis, Ind.; W. E. Sewall,
Washinton, D. C.; A. Carter Simmons,
Tuskogee, Ala.; Gwendolyn Smith, New
York City; Inez Turner, Pittsburgh, Pa,;
Mrs. G. M. Styles, Washinton, D. C.;
Mrs. L. Beasely, Cincinnati, Ohio. Oth
ors were: Mr. E, Gosain, Mr, Caldwell
Watkins and wife, Mr. Ralph Elliot, Dr.
Foulkes, Mr. Howard Thompson, Mr.
Cleo Harris, Mr. James Smith, Mr, W.
Johnson, Mrs. George Holt and Mrs. Wil-
lie Whitfield,
Miss W. E. Sewall, of Washinton,
D, C,, a teacher in the publie schools, is
isiting Dr. and Mrs, Myers at 4435 Indi
ana avenue, Miss Sewall is considered
one of the most beautiful and popular
teachers in Washinton,
Mr. C, A, Burris and wife, of 15 Bast
Woodbride street, Detroit, Mich., were
visitors to the Whip office this week.
Mr. Burris, an old newspaper man, spoke
very highly of the Whip, Mr, Burris and
wife are on a business tour of the west
ern states.
Mr, John Taylor, 1645 Futon street,
has purchased a most elegant two-flat
building at 6450 Evans avenue, through
J. M, Johnson & Son, 151 N. Paulina
street, Mr, Taylor and his mother, Mrs.
Lee Taylor, expect to move in their new
home some time in the early fall.
Mr, Milton Meredith, a valued em
ploye of the Santa Fe Railway, 50 West
Thirty-first street, was a caller to the
office of the Whip. Mr. Meredith was
highly pleased with the policy of the
paper.
The lawn fete given by the Galilee
Circle of Olivet Baptist Church at the
home of Nora Rivers, 3725 Forest ave-
nue, Tuesday, August 11, was attended
by a large gathering. Mrs. Rivers, the
popular president of the circle, was very
generous in her thanks to the many
patrons,
Miss Nora Clinton and Miss Mable
West, of Cleveland, are visiting Mrs, Al-
vin Drayton, 4814 Evans avenue,
Miss G. Smith, of New York City, who
stays with Mrs, Grace, of Kellogg, N. ¥.,
is visiting Mrs, Webb, 4915 Champlain
avenue.
Mr. Floyd Snelson, Jr., has left town
to spend a fortnight at Delaware Lake,
Wis.
Dr, Ned Chesnut has left the eity to
enjoy a quiet rest. His popularity with
the ladies would not permit him to di
vulge the place chosen for his repose,
Mrs, Julia Farrar, 3035 South Park
avenue, has recovered from her recent
iMness and is contemplating « trip to
the great Northwest.
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N a 2
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; ss Bae
A Striking Combination of Black
and White ts Successfully Combined
In This Embroidered Tricolette Cos-
tume.
IN TRICOLETTE
Milwaukee Belles Visit
City
Sunday eve last the eyes of Chiengo’s
beau brummels were focussed upon Miss
Pauline Stewart and Miss Zora Hard-
wick of Milwaukee, Wis. If any of the
popular local society misses or young
brides suffered a nervous collapse from
‘broken engagements, these Indies were
indirectly responsible. They possessed
every external quality for which men
fall.
Mr, Fred Johnson, a prominent young
real estate dealer of the West Side, vis-
ited the Whip office this week. Mr.
| THinson is considered one of the most
prdhtetedt yohag sensi HERE,
ce TETY EPITOR
Miss Malinda B. Jones, who graduated
from Provident Nurse Training School
last March, has returned from an exten-
sive tour in the South, where she has
been visiting friends and relatives, She
is back in Chicago to resume her prae-
tice and is to stop with Mrs. Mudson,
6447 Evans avenue
| Mr, If. R. Crawford, physical director
of the Y. M. ©. A., is spending his va
Jeation at the McDonald Home.
Mr, Ashby Carter, of the Chicago post
office, is heading a party who will spend
a week at beautiful Idlewild.
Miss Josephine Wynn, one of the pop-
ular young ladies of Atlanta, Ga., is vis-
iting her cousin at 3146 Vernon avenue,
Lieut. Henry H, Proctor, of Gary,
Ind., was a visitor to the Whip’s office.
Lient. Proctor made miany Germans bite
the dust in the world war.
‘Miss Vernona Dickerson is visiting
Mrs. A. C. Leftridge, of Clear Brook,
Va. On her return she will stop off at
Atlantic City, N. J., and Washington,
DC.
Mr, Walter White, of Atlanta, Ga., is
in the eity fora few weeks. He is field
secretary of the N, A. C. C. P, and is
doing a wonderful work in assisting the
innocent riot vietims.
Miss Virginia Murray, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs, E, Murray, 3159 State
strept, uas just regggyhd from an. ex-
tensive tour = —eeeeseiegs amt
Michigan, Mnw 2" tent of
Wendell Phillip’s High Sehool and very
popular among the younger set.
| Mrs, J, R. Read, of Memphis, Tenn.,
spent a fow days of the past week vis-
iting her daughter, Miss Susie, 3534
Rhodes avenue. She left Saturday for
Detroit, Mich., where she will visit her
other daughter, Mrs. Crain. After visit-
ing New York City, she will return to
her home in Memphis,
Mr. Leslie Wells, of Champaign, IIL,
stopped off in Chicago, en route to
Seattle, Wash,, where he will work for
the American Steel Company, running
an electric erane.
Mr, M, B Hubbard of Butte, Montana,
is visiting his daughter, Mrs. George 1.
Leftridge, 4331 Dearborn Street.
Major Sam T. Arnold passed through
the city this week in quest of two
musicians to agument his now famous
orchestra at Manitowoc, Wisconsin,
While in the city, Mr. Arnold was high-
ly entertained by Messrs, Billy Ledman,
©, Jefferson and Charles Long.
GOOD WORK WITH CAMERA
Explorers in Northwestern Canada
Have Photographic Studies of
Wilderness Wild Life.
After a three years’ hunt with the
camera in the almost unknown Laird
river district In northwestern Canada,
H. A. Stewart and John Sonnickson
have come back to civilization by way
of Peace civer, Alberta, bringing sev-
eral thousand photographic studies of
the manners and customs of the wild
life of those remote woods and
streams, The explorers, for they well
deserve the pame, worked into the
wilderness by way of Hudson's Hope
and the forks of the Findlay and
Parsnip rivers as far as Fort Gra-
hame. Their negatives fustrate the
habits of the ptarmigan, moose, beay-
er, Canadian wild geese and other an-
tmals and birds that have seldom been
observed with anything like thorough-
ness by means of the camera, ‘The
travelers had devices of various sorts
whereby thelr subjects were enticed
to spots upon which the hidden lenses
were focused; and upon reaching
these spots an ambushed camera man
“snapped” them by twitching a tong
cord attached to the lens shutter. /
single negative of some specially
animal was often the only frult
many hours of patient waiting. S« :
times for days the explorers wot
wateb a single spot through their
glasses awaiting the favorable
ment to “shoot.” But it was
worth It.
A Business Stimulant That’s Most Surprising—Is a Regular Dose of Advertising
WHITE WOMAN BRUTALLY MURDERED
Colored Sweetheart Held—Pleads Innocence
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6
Watkins, 55, white, in Railroad avenue
‘Tuesday night led the police to search
for Tommy Hamilton, colored barber,
1906 Railroad avenue, who it is alleged
had an uncanny control over the Roa
Hamilton, it is said, for the past seven
years has maintained an influence over
the white woman, causing her to obey
his every wish,
He had Mrs. Watkins under such con-
trol that she would visit him at any
hour of the night, if he so desired, and
would wait on the street corners for
him for hours in order to cateh a glimpse
of him,
She took out life insurance, naming
him as beneficiary, Wrote and tele:
phoned him assiduously, Making use of
special delivery stamps ou her letters,
She always wanted to know if he was
feeling well and if in good spirits, It is
said that when he was in a game of
chance he would run her away from
him, telling ber that he did not want to
be disturbed.
Tuesday night he had an appointment
with her at the Davis Strect station,
‘The hour was 10:30. Hamilton stated
that on account of bemg drunk he failed
to meet her. More than 300 empty
whisky hottles were found on the prem
ises where Tom lives,
Tom says that he was in bed at eleven
ovelock and that he had not seen Mrs.
Watkins that night.
Mrs, Watkins, it is elaimed, was killed
at approximately 11:45. The scene was
on Railroad avenue, less than two blocks
from Tom’s residence, Witnesses say
she appeared to be running from the
direction of Tom's home toward the
station.
Many of Tom’s pals state that Ham.
ilton’s story is untrue.
‘They say they were with him at in-
tervals up to the hour of the murder,
He was drunk. He had bragged of his
engagement with Mrs, Watkins,
He left them about this time, then
reappeared near Mason’s restaurant on
Main street. When a cabman saw him
he was in bad shape, leaning against a
pillar. He was put in a eab and driven
home shortly after 11:35.
The driver claimed they went past the
spot where a crowd surrounded the body
of the slain woman, The driver wanted
to stop, but Tom insisted that they go
on, The driver let Tom off at his home,
then returned to find out why the crowd
chad assembled. y
GTHstheeths Bk PE uthe above evi
dence. “Rammortoes not seem to be
much wrought up over the killing, but
he insists that the mystery of the mur-
der be cleared.
Mrs. Watkins’ daughter, Mrs, Trent,
1833 Heath avenue, when informed of
the death of her mother, advanced the
theory that the murder was the outcome
of revenge of a jealous rival for the
affections of Hamilton, who had been
seen with Tom on many occasions,
‘The authorities, after entering Hamil-
ton’s home and taking him into custody,
searched his effects and found many let-
ters from the woman to Hamilton under
different dates. The following letters
were found:
Among the earliest of the letters ad-
dressed to the Negro by Mrs. Watkins
is one dated February, 1915, in which
she wrote:
“Thank you for your splendid letter.
T will have to disappoint you tempo-
rarily about the money. It's hell to be
poor.
“I will get over to see you Monday
at 9 o’elock, Be waiting for me, for I
want to ask your advice about many
things and to give you the money which
I wish I might give you today. Don’t
disappoint me. Good night and God
bless you.’”
Ina letter of September 27, 1918, Mrs.
Watkins wrote:
“<I was simply stunned last night
when I realized that I could not come
out to see you. What must you have
thought? What did you do? Don't be
angry with me or send me angry letters,
for I will come out Tuesday at 9, just
as sure as I am alive.’’
“Helpless Without Him’?
‘A letter dated March 21, 1918, reads:
“Today I did not get a letter from
you and I am walking around just like
a child, not knowing what to do about
anything. You always tell me just what
to do and I feel so helpitss when I do
‘not have your advice or have you near
pect. I know you feel just as badly as
I do, but don’t worry. Please destroy
this letter. Your BEEF.”
In March, 1919, Mrs, Watkins wrote:
“What was the matter? T waited on
the corner just as you told me and you
did not come near me, Is that the way
you want to treat me? I got there at
9 o’elock and I waited around and asked
friends where you were until 1 o’clock
in the morning. Can you imagine how
Twas feeling by then? T can’t tell you
how I feel tonight, It seems as if every-
thing in the world is going wrong.
Please write and tell me that there was
some good reason for that. BEFF.’?
Always the letters contained solie-
itous inquiry for the health of the Negro.
In a letter dated February 22, 1919, Mrs,
| Watkins wrote:
“T have worried about you all day.
You are subject to colds, and I am
afraid that you will go out with light
clothies while you feel so badly. Please
take good care of yourself until I come
up Tuesday night, and I will bring the
best cough medicine T ean buy. I will
cook some things I want you to have,
too, Now please bundle up and be very
eareful,”?
Again Mrs, Watkins wrote:
“Between my mother being soil
and you with a heavy cold, Lam worried
almost to death, You have been so kind
to my mother and she is so near being
well again that I don't want anything
to happen to you, now that everything
seems better. Do be very careful about
taking your medicine and ggod hot
baths and you will be the same as ever
very soon.’?
One of the last letters diseovered in
|the vast assortment contained the para
graph:
| ceyhat X would have done without
you during these last two years 1 don’t
know. Trouble came so thick and fast
that I will never be able to thank you
for your @ne help and kind advice. 1
am proud of your record of friendship
and honor.’’
_-- Sean Clothes for Blood Spots
Assistant State’s Attorney John K.
‘Murphy instructed Chief of Police Let.
gett of Evanston to bring to his office
‘clothing of Tom’s to be gone over in
search of blood spots. On one of the
fifteen suits which were owned by Ham
ilton spots of blood were found, but
they had no particular bearing on the
case; they were found to be very old.
Assistant State's Attormey Murphy
tore the prisoner’s alibi to shreds by the
evidence of one of Tom’s friends, who
stated that Tom left them for about
forty-five minutes at the time the mur-
der occurred, inquiring first had anyone
seen Mrs. Watkins. Previous to this
Hamilton's friends had clung to a story
that they were with Hamilton at the
time of the murder.
Officers are searching for a woman
named Florence who is said to have been
a rival of Mrs, Watkins for the barber’s
attention. A woman told one of the
Prosecutors that Mrs, Watkins had said
she was going to Evanston to recover
Jewelry and Liberty bonds she had given
Hamilton, Jealousy presumably led te
her decision, Florence is said to be at
Pes haired woman, sister-in-law to ¢
druggist.
The ¥. M. C. A. building has been
the seene of informal conferences, This
‘Week groups of men returning from the
Negroes’ National Business Men’s Con-
vention, which was in session at St.
Louis, Mo. Many of them and other
prominent men are stopping at the Y,
M,C. A. Following is a partial list of
whom may be seen: H, F. Gitzman,
‘New York City; Chas. H. Anderson,
Jacksonville, Fla.; T. A, Horne, Jack-
sonville, Fla; W. A, Hughes, New
Orleans, La; W. A. Jordan, Richmond,
Va.; E. C. Blackburn, Savanah, Ga.;
W. J. Hale, Nashville, Tenn.; J. H.
Butler, Savannah, Ga.; R. E. Jones, New
Orleans, La.; L. L, Jackson, Athens,
Ga.; G. W. Hutehins, Tulsa, Okla.; Bert
M. Roddy, Memphis, Tenn.; Walter
Cexznon, fit. Louis, Mo.; W. E. Rober-
son, trersurer of the Unity Industrial
Life Insurance Company, New Orleans,
and Arnola U. Moss of the Geddes &
‘Moss Undertaking Establishment, New
Orleans, La.
We are proud to have our old dormi-
tory members return from over seas
service. The most recent ones are Lt.
‘Warren Williams, who is enroute to
Camp Dix to take up new duties, Pvt.
H, J. Prinee, Sgt. C. H. Thompson and
Sgt. James L. Johnson,
The Gym is undergoing repairs and
will soon be ready for our fall program.
Mr. H, R. Crawford, Physical Director,
is now on his vacation and says he has
some big things in store for the coming
years, especially for the younger men’s
group.
MARSHALL FIELO & GO.
AGAIN REFUSES TO SELL
TO COLORED GIRL
Miss. Viola Penn, 4226 Indiana Ave-
nue, visited the dress goods department
of Marshall Field and Company in or-
der to make a purchase, After falling
to get the attention of any of the cierns,
she appealed to one of the floor walkers
as to why her wants were not attended
to. She explained that she had been
standing at the white goods counter for
some time and that many people had
been taken eare of while she was com-
pletely ignored. ‘The only satisfaction
she received from this self-important
personage was to keep on standing.
‘This discriminatory act was brought
to the notice of the Whip and it has
taken the matter up with the manage-
ment of the store, to find out why our
people cannot spend the coin of the
realm in their establishment. The
proper city and state authorities have
also been appealed to. Miss Penn, per-
sonally, intends to bring suit against the
‘firm,
JEU WING FIRST CHINESE IN
| STATE TO PAY AUTO TAX
Baton Rouge, La., Aug. 11,—Shades
of Confucious! What would the an-
cestors of Jeu Wing, Baton Rouge
Chinese, think of him now?
Wing Monday was granted a license
for his new automobile, ‘This is the
first time a Chinese has taken out an
automobile license in Louisiana, in the
memory of the automobile Meense de-
partment of the secretary of state’s
office.
Jeu Wing is running a laundry in
Baton Rouge and has been in America
‘a long time. He believes that his en-
trance into the ranks of auto owners
stamps him as a real American and
proves the efficiency of the Melting Pot.
Wing also drives his own car and traffic
officers say they would not be sur-
prised to capture him for speeding some
day. His license is number 465,751,
At eight o’elock Monday morning,
over fifty boys left the “Y’? with their
packs and bundles containing camping
outfits, They were on their way to the
Sand Dunes where they expect to spend
six days of outdoor life, Seeretary R.
©. Bryant is supervising the group.
Mr. G. M. Durden, who has been serv-
ing in the capacity of War Service
Sceretary, is planning to leave Chicago
the first of September to continue the
study of law at Columbia University.
He will be missed around the ‘*Y.’?
Plans are being made for a member-
ship campaign which will be launched
in September. We are out for 2,500
new members and solicit the aid of
everyone to accomplish this.
Seratch Mv Head
New puzzles never bother me. I solve
vem all.
I’ve never seen a mystery that ever
had me stopped at all.
T know about whatever's hid. See
me. I'll put the dope across.
I know De Priest’s middle name,
And how much beer within a year
(providing things are still the same).
Will be on tap not far from here.
I'm hip to Virgil Williams age.
I’m fixed to speak in French or
Greek.
But here my mind’s not worth a
dime.
‘The blooming news
Presents no clews
I’m stumped whenever
T seek to learn
How Ford will spend six copper sous.
‘The girl: ‘‘T-am within the law. I
have a combination suit, a jersey and a
eap.??
Officer: ‘Yes, but most of the ma-
terial is in the eap.’?
After this I will look at ballgames.
Pretty warm in the bleachers, but lots
cooler dnd less exciting than on the
beaches,
Ford gets 6 cents, moral vietory, so he
claims, That ‘mus’? be something like
a strategie retreat or an artistic sue-
cess—it’s something to brag about, but
don’t get you nothin, It is going to be
expensive to eall guys names. Every-
body is a gentleman from now on with
me. If Ford had sued for $5,000,000,
he would have had enough to buy a
bleacher seat at Foster's Park,
‘Walter Johnson in his second year in
the American League, pitched three
successive games, played by the Wash-
ington Club against New York on Sep-
tember 4th, fifth and seventh and did
not allow a run in twenty-seven innings.
THE CHICAGO WHIP
60 :AL SHAN A SACRED PLACE | FIND
| Chinese Mountain Said to Be the | Dredg
| Oldest Permanent Place of Dis
| | Worship on Earth.
| There are five sacred mountains in
China, and the most sacred of all is
‘Tal Shan, the Great mountain, said to
‘be the oldest permanent place of wor-
ship in the world. “In 2000 B. C. Tal
Shan's crest had been a regular scene
of sacrifices and prayers for nobody
knew how long. Emperors and lesser
officials, even Confucius the Wise,
journeyed up the long, narrow trail of
‘Tai Shan to come near to the God of
Heayen and Earth and made their
prayers before Him.
Since those days of simple worship,
many temples and shrines have been
built on Tai Shan’s slopes. Buddhism,
Taoism, Confucianism, all are repre-
sented, and there are temples, too, to
the Lady of the Mountain, who 1s
called by some a fairy, by others a
goddess, and by others the spirit
or soul of the mountain. Whatever
her character, the lady is well repre-
sented on her mountain top and her
shrines are popular,
| The journey up the mousitainside is
accomplished by the traveler partly in
a swinging chair supported by Chinese
bearers and partly on foot. The “Way”
“consists of a granite walk, interrupted
every little while by filghts of steps
“which stretch on and on and become
steeper and closer together until the
pilgrim has mounted 6,600 steps and
the peak of ‘Tal Shan Is reached.
| Here there are more temples and
thick incense and grave old priests
who announce a pllgrim's presence to
the gods by ringing deep-toned bells.
A little way off {s pointed out a rock
overhanging a sheer precipice. From
| this rock, called “The Rock of the Love
| of Life,” persons who had sick rela-
tives used to fling themselves, hoping
that the sacrifice of one life would
appease the gods so that the other
would be spared. Now the dangerous
| cliff is barred, and pilgrims are forced
to appeal to the gods in the conven
tional Chinese methods,
REMAINS OF ROMAN SMELTER
Intensely Interesting Discovery Said
to Have Been Made in the
North of England.
A lady member of the Cumberland
and Westmoreland Antiquarian so-
ciety of England has had the good for-
tune to discover what is belleved to be
a Roman bloomery, or ancient smelt-
ing furnace. Her attention was drawn
to the place by the work of moles,
which recently exposed some of the
remains, and again later by the burn-
ing of the whins formerly concealing
the hearth and other features of the
bloomery, near Forest How.
By some exploration with a spade,
she traced the foundations of a large
hearth, twelve yards in diameter, and
a number of heaps of cinders, slag
and ore; and she also turned up spec-
Imens of Roman tiles, with pottery,
slag and hematite. The size of the
hearth of the Forest How bloomery
marks it as quite different from the
ordinary north-country medieval iron
furnaces, which run from seven to
nine or ten feet in diameter, for the
one just found is twelve yards across.
‘This appears to be worth further ex-
Moration and probably money for that
purpose will be found.
Quite Comfortable, Thank You.
A comfortable widow is Mrs.
Amanda Jackson, colored. She 1s
drawing three $57.50 pensions, or
$172.50 a month, for the loss of three
husbands during the war, and will
draw that amount for 20 years. Mrs.
Jones’ husband died of spinal menin-
gitis soon after entering the service
and taking out a $10,000 insurance
policy. The widow married one
Smith. He took a maximum life in-
surance policy In her fayor and was
killed in action, ‘Then Mrs. Jones:
Smith married Private Jackson, a re-
turned soldier, who also named her
in a $10,000 policy. Influenza made
her widow a third time in less than
two years, The war risk bureau de-
clines to make known her address,
doubtless fearing that she would be
inundated with offers of marriage.
Gpaniah Birth Rate.
Now it is in Spain Wat wey Ste
beginning to worry about the rising
death rate and the falling birth rate,
Dr. Gomez Ocana presents in El Siglo
Medico (Barcelona) statistics for sev:
eral years, showing that in 1912 the
death rate was 21.6 per 1,000 popula-
tion, and that by 1917, before the ad-
vent of the pandemic of influenza, It
had risen to 26.16. And the birth rate
fell from 31.60 per thousand in 1912
to 29.2 in 1917.
Official figures for 1918 are not yet
available, but in the elty of Madrid
the death rate rose in that year to
30.37, while the birth rate fell to 26.70
‘The figures for 1918, however, are ab-
normal because of the pandemic,
High Minded.
‘The teacher was impressing upon
her scholars the need of saying thelr
prayers. To illustrate the lesson she
showed the class a pleture of an Arab.
with head between his hands, and
looking upward. “Now, Billy Cubbs,”
she said to a boy who had not been
paying close attention to her words,
“what is that man doing?”
“Er—er—please, teacher, _he's
‘a-lookin’ for—er—planes,'—Blighty,
FIND STEAMER LONG BURIED
Dredging Operations in the Mersey
Disclose Remains of Vessel That
Had Been Forgotten.
For some time past the Mersey
docks and harbor board has been con-
ducting dredging operations im the
neighborhood of the Burbo bank, one
of the huge accumulations of sand
which finpede the navigation of the
Mersey entrance. and these have re-
sulted in a “find” of remarkable in-
terest.
It is the remains of a steamer which
have evidently been embedded for
generations. Her date is long ante-
rior to that of iron shipbuilding. Of
sound English oak were her timbers
and framing, to which circumstances
doubtless is due the fact that they
still retain cohesion and shape, and
have so wonderfully resisted the forces
of decay as to supply an abundant
quantity of material for the souvenir
manufacturer. Her beams, in point
of fact, are described as being as
hard as iron.”
‘The machinery has practically per-
ished, but the engine bed-plates and
the funnel remain, and relics of pot-
tery and other articles are plentiful.
‘The vessel, cleared of superabundant
sand, is not only visible, but accessible
at low water, and has been visited and
examined by many interested people.
The prevailing opinion {s that she
fs the William Huskisson, a paddie
steamer belonging to the City of Dub-
lin company, and trading between Liv-
erpool and the Irish capital, which on
the 12th of January, 1840, was wreck-
ed on her passage to the Mersey. She
had 120 passengers on board, of whom
95 were rescued by the ship Hudders-
field, and the remainder perished.
Captain Clegg of the Huddersfield
subsequently received handsome pres-
entations from the citizens of Liver-
pool in recognition of his good work.—
Manchester Guardian.
PETE HAD OBEYED ORDERS
Literal-Minded Soldier Came Near Get-
ting His Commanding Officer
Into a Bad Mess.
‘There is a certain young officer who,
according to his own story, is thanking
hs stars that General Pershing had a
sense of humor.
“Some of my men were Polish, and
better soldiers never lived, but T guess
in Poland life has been one long, sad
story,” sald the officer, “Anyway, T
never ran across a bunch who took
things so literally. One night the Gere
mans sent out a three-Inch shell that
landed square in the trench. In the
morning I told one of my men, Pete,
we called him, to take it away.
“‘Where shall Itake it? he, asked.
“Oh, anywhere, T answered peev-
ishly, ‘put it to bed in Pershing's
tent.’
“A little later a brother officer came
along and said: “The old man wants
you, and there’s something doing.’
“I couldn't imagine what was up un-
til I stood before the chief. He eyed
me sternly and then pointed to his
bunk, and would you believe it, there
was that blamed shell. Pete sure had
obeyed orders, Well, I thought T was
in for St, but Pershing suddenly be-
gan to smile. He said: ‘T just want to
caution you not to order Pete to eap-
ture Berlin until the rest of us are
ready to go with him, He might go
and do it, you know.’"—Rehoboth
Sunday Herald.
Hadn't Seemed to Work.
An oldish man In rasty-brown clothes
and with a rusty-brown beard met up
with a pin, It was shining sharply
bright on a flagging, and he stepped
to pick it up.
He had stiff Joints and his fingers
were in that state informally known
as bungly. So he had trouble picking
up the pin.
A young man paused to offer his
services, but the old one refused. He
just grunted and grumbled until at last
vietory came his way. Then he
straightened up his rickety Joints and
put a hand on his back.
“I'm not as young as I used to be,”
he admitted, as genially as his joints
would allow. “But you know the old
saying:
“See a pin and let It lay, you'll
have bad luck all the day. See a pin
and pick it up and you are sure to have
good luck.’
“So T never pass one by.”
And yet he didn’t look as lucky as
A man ought to be who bad made
life habit of picking up pins.—Wash-
ington Star.
Breather to the Meeauite.
The prolonged drought has produced
fa prolific host of insects, and certein
species of gnats are developing a dls:
concerting interest in ankles, says Lon-
don Pally Mail, Some women are
wearing linen bandages as a protec:
tion.
‘An official at the Natural History
museum, South Kensington, states that
the chief offender is a tiny Insect bear
ing the long name of Ochlerotatus dor
salis, which breeds in estuaries and
explores Inland, It is to be found all
around London, especially on the Sur
rey downs.
‘Another bloodthirsty gnat Is the
Pullearis, which is labeled at the mu
seum as “particularly troublesome tr
the evening. Its bite is severe, an¢
with many people causes bad sores.”
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WHO FIRST GROWS OLD?
‘The woman of the arts or the woman
of private life? In non-professional life
we believe that women grow old, with
that age which is not of years, much
sooner than men. Men in the last ten
years have learned that their boyhgod
is largely limited by their own will in
the matter. Men have worked harder
in the past decade than ever before, it
may be, but they have also played more
and have eaten less, Indolence bears de-
struation as its reward, and with the
access of great prosperity to our cities
and towns there have been many more
indolent women than men; and these
have faded like hot-house flowers.
The professional woman—and this is
especially true of the picture actresses
—leads a far healthier life than her
non-professional sister who laments, and
hates, regrets, and sits around waiting
for the calendar to eateh up with her.
‘The professional woman's thoughts are
usually constructive and cheerful, and
she has bustling endeavors and hard,
long hours to keep her in physical trim.
The disasters of life come more fre-
quently from ease than from difficulty.
The non-professional woman who de-
termines to keep the litheness of youth
and the thoughts of youth and youth’s
associations, and sticks to those deter-
minations ean, of course, challenege the
universe, But one of the facts of life is
that we usually do, not what we ought
to do, but what we have to do.
Therefore the industrious, intelligent
actress of fifty is a much younger person
than many a Jay-woman of forty—
merely because the necessities of her
profession have compelled her to keep
young,
FOR NEWS WHILE
IT IS. NEWS READ
THE WHIP.
WE MUST HAVE CLEAN BILL-
BOARDS
‘The motion picture manufacturers did
‘a staunch, fine, and rather disinterested
thing when they formed their vigorous,
energetic and rigidly self-correetive
clean pieture organization in New York
recently.
They should carry their determina-
tions and deeds just one step farther:
they should make an exhibitor who per
mits suggestive or improper advertising
in any manner, on the billboards, on his
electric sign or in the newspapers, an
outlaw, banned even from getting pic
tures for further Iusiness.
But what should they do to the man
pfacturer himself, piously in their
midst—and permitting his press agent
to get out paper with misleading illus:
tration or suggestive legend? Our opin
ion is that his fellows should turn to
‘the Celestial books and select some
‘quaint Chinese punishment.
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- PREE CONCERTS FOR JAPAN
For the benefit of the-masses free
concerts are being given in several of
the largest cities in Japan. ,The Mar-
quis Tokugawa recently ereeted « hand:
some music hall and library for the em
joyment of the people.
Spanish War Veterans
All Spanish War Veterans that are
not members of a Spanish War Veter
‘ans’ Camp in good standing, please com:
munieate with the editor of the sport
ing page; something of vital importance
to your interest.
‘The greatest baseball catcher in the
world, Ray Shalk, Chicago White Sox,
is an iron man for consecutive work be
hind the plate. This catching wizard will
set up a world’s record or rather prolong
a world mark when he appears behind
the plate today. It will be Shalk’s one
hundredth game of the season and will
be his seventh consecutive season to ac-
complish this marathon fete.
Bill James, pitcher of the Boston Red
|Sox, secured by the White Sox by the
waiver roule:
"How Can I Miss When I Have Dead Aim"
Two Men Charged with Theft of Tires
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21.—George Greer and Aaron Hale, colored, were charged with larceny and receiving stolen property yesterday. The accusation was made by the police following the return of stolen automobile tires. The officers claim that the men took possession of an automobile belonging to the Sherry County Industrial School, Bartlett. The tires were later removed and sold to the Superior Rebuilt Tire Company, South Second street, it is alleged. H. Kisher, proprietor of the rebuilt tire concern, was also charged with buying and receiving stolen property. It is stated that he purchased the tires from the colored men. T. D. Gaines, of the Industrial School, is named as complainant in both cases. Kisher is at liberty on bonds.
Bad Aim Causes Death of Onlooker
New Orleans, La., Aug. 21.—A shot that was meant for another was the cause of the instant death of Mrs. Carrie Grayson, 43 years old, First and Saratoga streets. The shot which was intended for Virginia Jackson, 2115 First street, was fired from a revolver in the hands of Anna McAllister, 35, 2117 First street, according to police reports.
The woman made good her escape and so far has not been taken.
The McAllister woman was washing off the sidewalk in front of her home when some of the water fell on Geneva Braxton, 13 years old, a deaf mute living with Virginia Jackson.
The above brought an argument between the McAllister and Jackson women. The McAllister woman rushed into the House and returned with a revolver. In her excitement she fired into a crowd of curious spectators who had gathered, hitting Carrie Grayson. The bullet lodged in her abdomen, causing her death before the arrival of medical aid.
Nephew Stabs Uncle
New York, Aug. 21.—William De Mont, age 43, of 469 Lenox avenue, was seriously wounded by his nephew, Braddis Evans, same address. Evans accused De Mont of stealing some money from him. It is said that the former is a victim of the drug habit and that he was under the influence of some narcotic when he wielded his trusty blade on his uncle. De Mont, who was rushed to the hospital, is resting well.
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Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 21.—Thomas Wingfield, town marshal of Whelen Springs, Ark., was shot and killed, it is alleged, by two colored men here this week. It is stated that the men boxed the ears of the marshal's young son. The upholder of the law swore vengeance against the two. Locating them, he fired upon the men, the fire was returned, one bullet going clear through Wingfield's heart, causing instant death. The two colored men fled to the woods and posses are securing the near-by vicinity for them.
The two colored men are said to be brothers and that they recently came to Whelen Springs from Louisiana. Sheriff Golden, who is conducting the search for the men, says that he expects them to make a last stand when found, but did not expect race trouble to develop from the shooting.
Colored Girl Saves Life of White Child
New York, Aug. 21.—A five year old white child was snatched from the jaws of death by Adele Mason, 16, of Grant avenue and Bronx.
The child, Mamie Fortune, had escaped from its nurse and attempted to cross 161st street, when a rapidly approaching car bore down on the small child. Adele, realizing the child's danger, knew that it meant quick action if the infant be saved. Running directly in front of the approaching car, she grabbed up the baby just in time to save the Fortune girl from the death-dealing wheels of the trolley.
The child's parents gratefully rewarded Miss Mason.
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He may be seen in the office for consultation daily between the hours 9-10 A. M., 1-2 and 7:8:30 P. M. Sundays, 3-5 P. M.
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Racial "Superiority"
If one race possessed rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" superior to all others, the race conflicts that occur might be explained on national grounds. The belief was once held that certain peoples were created to be servants and should be under the dominion of those who esteemed themselves of a higher type. Since no one makes a personal choice of his race, there is no basis for elation if one happens to be of a race that holds itself superior to others. Neither is it reasonable to deny to another the privilege as a human being to have aspirations to better his condition in life even if he happens to possess a skin of somewhat different color. And nationality is often as potent as color to provoke race riots.
To form an antipathy to one because brought up under an environment different from our own is a common expression of race dislike, yet such a position is an indication of an intolerate and narrow mind. It is this bigoted spirit that applies the term of "dago" to one and "hunky" to another. If there are those who because of race or nationality have not had the opportunities that we possess, instead of repressing or ostracizing them, would it not be better to give them a lift rather than to beat them with a club?
It is unjust to indict a race for the actions of a few of its members, yet that is what is sought in making indiscriminate attacks on Negroes because some crimes have been committed by Negroes. Yet when a race riot against Negroes starts, a black face is the only identification asked of the man the mob seeks. A race riot is a denial of civilization. It is a reversion to savagery, and those whites who engage in it are not upholding the dignity of the white race, but advertising their disgrace of it. If the white race is superior it should offer a helping hand to inferior peoples. To attempt a display of its greater virtue by the use of mob violence is to cast doubt on its assertion of superiority.—Tampa (Fla.) News.
Many feeble attempts are being made to off-set the wonderful stride that progressive workers are making toward complete emancipation of wage earners from industrial slavery. Those who are trying to hinder progress are certainly doing more injury to themselves than to the cause of humanity by acting as emissaries to the profiteering capitalistic slave-trading establishments.
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National Negro Business League
his address by saying that the league had reached its maturity and is now able to direct its own destiny. He stated that it no longer had the magnificent personality of Booker T. Washington, the founder of the league, which served as a drawing card, and unless suitable means were devised to secure a grip upon the large following of the organization, it must necessarily go into discard. The Business League, he said, has served the purpose of its original creation, that is, to stimulate business initiative and development among the people. The race has passed the kindergarten ten stage in business status and development, but the annual conventions are still conducted along the kindergarten lines. The local leagues must therefore give more support to the national organization and assist it in the greater activities. These activities to which Mr Scott referred and which were later adopted unanimously by the organization follow:
1. That national headquarters be established at Washington, which shall act as a sort of Central Board of Trade or Chamber of Commerce, similar to those at present existing in Washington among the white people and into which Negroes are rarely if ever admitted. This central body will act as a national clearing house for the collection, compilation and distribution of such news, information and data as will be of value to Negro business all over the country.
2. That this central body keep both the Negro press and the white press properly informed of the past and current achievements of the Negro race, and to exploit and assist all worthy racial endeavors, mercantile and otherwise, thereby moulding a healthy public sentiment at home and abroad and creating and increasing racial pride and racial progress.
3. To make a special effort to locate industrial, manufacturing, trade, professional and other kinds of opportunities for Negro men and women, and to seek to encourage ventures in a more diversified number of business enterprises.
4. To serve as a clearing house for all kinds of skilled and unskilled labor, including teachers, farmers, business managers, insurance agents, stenographers and all kinds of employment. To find suitable opportunities for this help and
6. To seek to constantly compile and publish new methods of managing and building up various kinds of business and distributing to business men, practical hints and suggestions, through the National Negro Press Association, thereby coming into closer relation with the several hundred Negro newspapers, to the end that the local leagues might loyally support their news publications by advertisement and so forth and that the publications themselves might be inclined to grant more liberal space to the publication of such propaganda as the Central body might spread for the upbuilding of race enterprises.
7. To make a special campaign in various cities which now have no local league for the purpose of building up organizations in those cities and that the young business men should be specially encouraged to give their support. 8. To raise a fund among the members and friends of the League for the purpose of ultimately assisting worthy colored men in business. This fund to be administered by a Committee the details of which would be worked out later.
Among other things Mr. Scott recommended that a School of Commerce or Commercial Department be established in all our colored colleges and that experts along the lines of business management and salesmanship be employed to teach these subjects. After all, he said, a business education is an essential for the colored boy and girl. Mr. Scott intimated that there are too many ministers and not enough men engaged in upbuilding occupations. He said there is a colored minister for every 562 persons colored in the United States while there was one physician for every 3,194 persons.
The principal officers elected for the next year were: Major R. R. Moton, Tuskegee, President; Chas. H. Banks, Mound Bayou; Fred Moore, New York, Vice-Presidents; Chas. H. Anderson, Florida, Treasurer; Emmet J. Scott, Washington, Secretary; R. E. Jones, New Orleans, Chairman Ex. Com.
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NOT ON THE CORNER but Located at 4704 South State Street
DR. NEWELL, The Dentist, who has just returned from FRANCE,has opened a MODERN SANITARY DENTAL OFFICE at 4704 SOUTH STATE ST.
4704 SOUTH STATE STREET (Not on the Corner) Just South of 47th Street
Procrastination is the thief of time.
And when applied to your mouth means the loss of your teeth and your health.
So why wait until your teeth become abscessed —which often necessitates a surgical operation?
I examine your teeth and give you an estimate free. You are in no way obligated for my professional advice. NEWELL DENTAL TREATMENTS ARE GUARANTEED PAINLESS
"Marcus, you're a poor employment manager, so after this I'll do all the hiring," Mandel Mandel, owner of a restaurant at 29 S. Halsted street, told his son.
So Mandel put out a sign, "Dishwasher Wanted." A half hour later a Negro shuffled in with the sign under his arm.
"I'm hired," he said.
"You are," said Mandel.
Frank dishwashed his way to promotion in a week. He was appointed "all night man," a combination of porter, night watchman and manager.
Yesterday morning Mandel gasped as he entered the restaurant. The door was open. So was the safe.
He told the Desplaines street police
the following things were gone:
Frank.
Eight hundred dollars in cash.
One diamond ring, valued at $1,400.
Five $100 Liberty bonds.
One $50 Liberty bond.
Whereupon Mandel called his son.
"Mareus," he said, "you'll do all the
hiring from now on."
Obituary
One of the first to fall in our recent race riot was one of our noble heroes, J. W. Simpson. Simpson was born in Winchester, Ky., January 11, 1889. When two years old, his people moved to Cincinnati, Ohio. Simpson stayed in Cincinnati until about ten years ago when he left and came to Chicago to make his permanent home.
Simpson passed the Civil Service examination for policeman with a high mark and was readily put on the force where he stayed until he enlisted in the army and left Camp Grant for France with the 365th Infantry, as supply sergeant. After he received his honorably discharge from the army, he went back to his position on the police force. He stayed there until he met his untimely death doing his duty during the race riots.
He bore an excellent reputation; was from a family that stood second to none in his birthplace. He made friends of all whom he came in contact with. A noble son was he to his mother. He was our pal and we miss him just as
Do Your Teeth Need Attention?
Head of Baptist Publication Society
Addresses California Business Men
Oakland, Cal., Aug. 21, 1919.
Dr. S. N. Vass, a colored orator of unusual ability, will appear in the Civic Auditorium in Oakland tomorrow evening at 8 p. m. under the auspices of the Negro Business League of Oakland, Inc., and the Beth Eden Baptist Church of Oakland.
Dr. Vass is an orator of unusual ability, being superintendent of colored work of the American Baptist Publication Society for twenty-five years, and conducting Bible institutes throughout the country.
In addition a splendid program has been arranged, which is as follows:
Selection by Strather's orchestra.
Duet by Prof. J. Williamson and Miss Inez Sloan.
Violin solo by Prof. W. Black.
Selection by female quartet by Mesdames Smith, Stafford, Henry and Johns.
Selection by Strather's orchestra.
Introduction of Dr. T. B. Holmes, president of the Board of Directors of the Northern California Baptist convention, by E. Marshall.
Introduction of Dr. S. N. Vass, of Raleigh, N. C., by Dr. T. B. Holmes.
OKLAHOMA POLICE STRIKE;
CITIZENS PATROL STREETS
Muskogee, Okla., Aug. 11.—Fifteen Muskogee business and professional men tonight are patrolling the streets and alleys of the city as a result of the strike Saturday of the entire police force.
The description of Mayor J. L. Wisener to reorganize the police department was unanimously endorsed by fifty-seven men who attended a meeting today and signed a pledge to back the mayor and new chief to the extent, if necessary, of "walking beats."
As star, adapter, associate director and film editor, Nazimova devoted five months to the making of her newest production, "The Brat." Besides playing the stellar role, the Russian actress collaborated with Charles Bryant in translating the play to the screen.
if he was one of the family.
He leaves a mother, father, sister and brother and a host of friends to mourn his lost. Gone to the unknown Rest, we hope, to see him there as we did here, in the sweet Bye and Bye.
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Pyorrhea—a gum disease, producing pus continuously—this poisonous discharge passes into the stomach and then into the blood, causing Rheumatism and Indigestion.
Many people are afflicted with this terrible disease and don't know it.
GOLD or WHITE CROWNS, $3.00 FILLINGS, 50 Cents and Up
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Bottoms Catches Burglar in Basement
After Cash Had Been Stolen
The Dreamland Cafe, 3520 State street,
was the scene of a robbery the past
Thursday morning at 5:30.
The resort was closed at the usual
hour and all the guests, supposedly, were
ushered out. One unwelcome visitor remained,
hiding in the basement, with an
automatic revolver and a bottle of chloeform. The latter he intended to use
on Edward Bottoms, the watchman of
the place, as soon as he began to take
his nightly roll in the arms of Morpheus.
Mr. William Bottoms, the owner of the
pleasure resort, for some unaccountable
reason lingered with Ed until the wee
small hours, thus causing the prowler to
hesitate about carrying out his plans.
Between the hours of five and six the
proprietor left for home; the watchman
stepped across the way for some coffee.
As soon as the thief found that the coast was clear, he rifled both drawers of the cash register, taking thirty dollars in small change. The guardian, who by this time had finished his Java, leisurely walked across the street. Reaching the sidewalk, he noticed a man come hastily out of the front door of the Dreamland. Securing the services of Officers Jackson and Harper, they entered the cafe and searched the premises. In a storage room for near beer they found Walter Hill lying stretched out behind some barrels. Bringing him out, he confessed to the robbery and also said that he had an accomplice on the outside, who was to be let in by him to open the office safe, but who was frightened away at the approach of the watchman. The cash, two revolvers and a bottle of chloroform were taken by the officers as evidence against Hill.
Ohio Governor to Bar Riot Pictures
Urges Censoring of Films to Aid Friction
(Special to the Whip.)
In an official order sent to the State Board of Censors, Gov. Cox, urged that a ban be placed upon all pictures offered for exhibition showing the scenes of the Washington and Chicago riots.
His reason for such an edict was that it might serve to incite prejudice and ill feeling among the lower element of both races.
The corporation of the news picture producing companies and local motion picture house managers was also solicited and secured to assist the authorities in this work.
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Complaint Filed Against Real Estate Dealer Charges He Increased Rental $20
A complaint was filed with Commissioner of Public Service Reid against Henry W. Paschal, colored, because he advanced rents $20 a flat after purchasing an apartment building at 22 East Forty-sixth street. The complaint was filed by a white tenant, Mrs. L. Harrington. Mr. Paschal, she claims, after raising the rents gave the tenants, who are all white, no assurance that they would be allowed to reside there if colored people were found who would rent the flats.
Wilson's Lucky No.13
According to a recent story, President Wilson's lucky number is 13, and most of the important things he has accomplished were done on the 13th of the month.
But our President is not the only one whose real life experiences disprove the superstition attached to that hoodoo number. Sidney Blackmer, who is playing one of the leading roles in "39 East" at Maxine Elliott's Theatre, has become a "13 fan." And here are his reasons: He was born on the 13th day of July; left home for boarding school at the age of 13; made his prosessional deput on the 13th of February and played in "The 13th Chair." After being rejected as a volunteer in the United States Army, he was accepted in the draft, finding himself number 13 in the classification. He waived all clams for exemption and became installed in the 13th Company of the 156th D. B., Camp Jackson. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Field Artillery on the 13th of October, 1918. Because he was discharged on a day other than the 13th, Mr. Blackmer thought that at last he had dodged the lucky number. But on totalling the number of digits in his discharge papers, he found the sum to be 13.
Army Record Saves Colored Man from Getting the Limit
Memphis, Tenn., Aug. 21.—In looking over the army record of Joe Williams, colored, Judge Richards found that it contained many daring deeds causing him to be decorated for bravery. Williams was brought before Judge Richard for carrying a pistol. He pleaded guilty and was fined $50 and costs instead of receiving the limit.
Know Your Condition by Consulting Me at Once and Having Your Teeth Examined FREE! I will accept your Liberty Bonds in exchange for dental work and pay you full value. I guarantee all my dental work for ten years, and if properly cared for, will last a lifetime. I have installed the most modern Gas Machine on the market, enabling me to perform all operations Absolutely Painless!
HORSE IS RESCUED FROM LAKE
Wanders Too Near Edge and Goes Over Top of Embankment
Old Dobbin enjoyed his hay and oats again at noon today.
A few hours earlier Dobbin thought he would never see the old barn at 476 West Chicago avenue, or his owner, Fred H. Hart, again. The horse had wandered too near the edge of the lake embankment and had tumbled into the water.
It was only energetic work on the part of Capt. John Anderson and his life-saving crew that saved him. They fastened ropes about the swimming animal and towed him to shore.
Drury Lane melodramas to be put into the movies are: "The Best of Luck," "Hearts Are Trumps," "The Hope," "The Great Millionaire," and "The Marriage of Mayfair."
Have you Lame Feet?
The foot has twenty-six delicately suspended small bones. Weak feet, fallen arches, flat foot, buns and callouses are not natural to normal feet and will disappear thru corrective treatment and adjustment of the bones—then wearing the proper shoe.
Many continue to suffer from foot troubles thru trying such makeshifts as ready-made arch supports or so-called corrective shoes which cannot fit properly the vastly different shapes of feet—may as well wear ready-made eye glasses or false teeth. Misplaced bones or stretched ligaments adjusted or corrected by a system which admits of no failure.
It costs nothing to call and talk it over.
Free advice upon the correct shoe for your feet Often a smaller shoe may be worn, we have no interest in any shoe for sale
G. Edward Taylor
FOOT CORRECTING SPECIALIST
Maker of Featherweight Arch Supports to Individual Impression. (Process Patented.)
Address 7230 Wentworth Avenue
Phone Vincentnes 4304
Do Your Banking with Your Own Institutions
R. W.
HUNTER
& CO.
BANKERS
The Largest Colored Banking Institution in the World
4757 South State Street
3003 South State Street
1801 West Lake Street
They are the only banking institution in the United States that employs 46 young colored American citizens, as clerks, tellers, cashiers, brokers and investors. They hire young colored ladies and men for clerks, and not janitors. One dollar starts a savings account. 50 dollars starts a checking account. They do general banking the same as any bank in the United States. Their checks are honored all over the United States, and their drafts on all parts of Europe.
Attorney J. P. HARDEN
General Manager
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Chicago Citizens Rally to Sup- | WOMEN AND CHILDREN OF LILLE WELCOME LIBERATORS Fund to Improve South | LIEUTENANT IN RADIO CORPS
port of Relief Committee ae Plan &2NNN ANN T anan a PnnaWwING CRCNCU WAR IOAN
Pe aR ane ae TPR ee, oT ncn ene e!
Ward, composed of Virgil Williams,
Charles B. Travis, Aldermen, and Robert
R, Jackson, with headquarters at 3333
State Street, deserve great credit for the
splendid work done during the recent
time of distress among our people. As
soon as it became a known fact that
many of our people were suffering hard-
ships from the lack of employment,
these men organized themselves into a
Relict Committee to do whatever was
possible toward bettering these condi
tions, They immediately set to work
and there are many to testify to the
wonderful work done by them,
Tickets were distributed among fam-
ilies in need of assistance. Persons
holding these tickets were lined to
await their turn, Upon presentation of
this ticket, each person was given a
basket of food in proportion to the num
ber in the family. A basket contained
enough to last the family two days. The
skillful and systematic manner in which
this work was carried out is worthy of
special mention. One thousand tickets
were taken in each day, whieh averages
three thousand persons fed from this sta-
tion daily.
Mr. 8. 8, Eckstone, representative of
the Packers, worked very faithfully
from morning ’till night, and showed
an interest and sincerity in the work
which was really gratifying. ‘The
Packers could not have selected a more
fitting representative, The assistance
rendered by the Red Cross Workers un
der Mrs, Juanita Hawkins, was highly
commendable,
The Committee wishes to thank the
public in general for the support given
them in this move. The following is a
list of donations:
Driver, Schultz Baking Company.# 1.00
F. Selton, 3338 8. State St . 500
Cunsumers Supply Co. 8. Cull
berg... ae 5.00
Mone Multach; 3400 Stute St 5.00
Emil Meyer . 1.00
Anonymous... » 100
SS. Eckstone. t 1.25
Mareus Niermann, 3130 State St.. 50.00
Hii Niermann, 3020 State St 50.00
Ar mous, . ease 1.00
1650 Wabash Ave 1.00
an, S249 Wabash Ave 5,00
alee, 215 E. Sist St 1.00
ao Brash, 54 W. S4th St 5.00
er Cohen, 2976 Indiana Ave 10
oseoe Simmons, 6257 Indiana
Ke, ; 25.00
Chas. C, Wish, Stony Island Ave. 19.00
John Schorling, American Giants ;
Ball Park ages ioy eaneOne)
Sterling A. Yaney, 326 River St. 1,00
Anonymous Cash from Franklin
Bank doen RROD
Total cash donations $546.25,
Other donations as follows: BR. J.
Mustin, 2 sacks coffee; 8. Kichenbaum,
M411 Halsted street, 40 loaves of bread;
Dan Brothers, 100-1b, sack meal, 1 sack
potatoes; Anna Wicks, 907 Grove av
enue, vanston, 3 Ibs, sugar, baking
powder; Marie Cherry, 3626 Calumet
aveue, T Ib, prunes, 1 Ib, riee, 1 Ib,
sugar; Mrs. Thos, W. Brown, Mrs.
Marie Jones, Mrs. Marshall Craig, Glen
coe, TIL, 1 basket vegetables, 1 basket
tomatoes; Mr. A. Morgan, 4538 Hvans
avenue, 2 tbs, rite, 20 Ibs sugar;
Arthur Perry, 1 sack flour; See & Co.,
1,500 paper bags, 240 cans pork and
beans; Mrs. Hock, 1344 East 47th street,
10 Ibs. flour, 4 Ibs. sugar, 2 cans beans,
Ibs, coffee,
Diamona Cut Diamonds.
In Bavaria, where the crown prince,
snd indeed all Prussians, are hated,
they tell a story about a burglar.
‘A furglar, the story runs, returned
home in the dawn Hight In a dreadful
temper.
“What's the matter?” sald his wife,
“Didn't you have no luck?”
“Luck? Naw!" snarled the burgiir,
“{ made a mistake in the blackness,
and tried to burgle the palace where
the crown prince lives. He was home,
too.”
“Oh,” sald the burglar's wife, “what
@ misfortune! 1 was wonderin’ how ft
was that you come back with nothin’
but your underwear on.”
Typical Reformer.
‘Traveling Salesman—Has the awal-
‘ened conscience yet made its appear:
ance In this vieinity?
Crossroads Storekeeper—Partly, For
instance, old Si Hubbard, who owes
me $9.87 for the last nine years, 1s
a-boastin’ that never agin will he ae
cept free seeds from any danged con
gressman.—Butfulo Express,
Coat of Mail Tunice.
There are in the smart shops some
interesting tunics made of a fabric re-
sembling coat of mail—chain armor,
really. ‘These tunics are worn with
skirts usually the same color but in a
different fabric, one of the heavy silks.
‘The fabric is in silver and gold, and
the tunics are made with short sleeves,
a plain neckline and a narrow belt to
hold in the waistline a little, ‘The
tunics drop well over the hips,
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“rhis British official photograph shows a part of the crowd of women and children that gave the Liverpoollvish
soldiers such @ stirring ovation when they entered the town,
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ivaders, sire holding suiliiory demonstrations of peace times. General Maistro decorates the heroes of the campaign for
Hor ‘The cathedral, clovked In wartime habiliments of sand bags, presenting a more cheesy aspect, looks silently on.
The Jinx of Business Forever Ltenies Those Who Neglect to Advertise
All That Affected Her.
That the Empress Engenie Is not
prone to brood sentimentitly over the
past Is evidenced by an incident that
oveurred some years age, She visited
Windsor castle, a palace in which In
the golden days of the empire she wns
received as an honored guest, Those
who accompanied her on this: second
visit, hovered near her, fearing thet
she would he overcome with the con
trast between the past and the present,
especially when she viewed the apart
ments fitted up for her use and whieh
had not been changed. Rut it was
merely her artistic sense that was of
fended, The hangings of the huge
bed were of imperial purple with the
green of Napoleon, and the ex-empress
remarked disgustedly, “Toujours ces
afrenx rideaus!” “Always those
frightful curtains.”
Probably Envious.
“After a few months in other states,
J owas returning to Indianapolis,” re
inatked @ traveling salesman. “and 1
don't mind telling you T owas glad te
he getting back home, As T aut ilown
beside the stranger 1 told. him. how
good! It waste. be hack inthe lind of
cornfield
“So we started to tulk about the
heauty’ spots of Mother Nature, It
Is nothing more than natural for any
Hoosier to talk about hils own slate
And T had to ask him whether he had
ever been In Brown county
“The stranger looked out of the
car window a minute, say!ng softly to
himself: ‘Brown county, Brown coun-
ty!’ When he looked around at me
again he said:
“Yes, TI have been there, That's
the place where the squirrels have to
carry a lunch with them when they go
across the county, is It not? "—In-
dianapolis News,
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Dealer in all leading brands of
Cigars, Cigarettes & Tobacco
Soucheast Cor. 31st & Cottage Ave.
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WHITE SOX TAILORS
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Cleaners and Dyers
Work Called for and Delivered
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ERNEST H. ENGLISH, Prep.
WORDS OF WISE MEN
A common danger produces
unanimity—Latin Proverb.
Darkness has no shame.—West
Indian Negro.
A daughter is an embarrassing
and ticklish possession.—Me-
nander. i
Ideals create standards, stand-
ards determine moral action, and
moral action leads to necessary
law.
I dare do all that may become a
man.
Who dares do more is none.
—Shakespeare.
Elsie — “My grandpa has
reached the age of ninety-six.
Isn’t it wonderful?”
Bobby — “Wonderful nothin’!
Look at the time it’s taken him
to do it.”"—Boston Transcript.
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Harry Weinstein and Harry from State St
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124-26 E. 35th St., nr. Indiana Ave.
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tHeingt Sd 459 East 31st’Street
Sea rane PHONES DOUGLAS 146 AND 147
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yo ho" PROMPT, FIRST CLASS, COURTEOUS SERVICE
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| Some unusual bargains in flat buildings;
\ sizes ranging from 2 to 12 flats. Prices
\ right. Terms reasonable. Very attractive
iN bargains in homes. Splendidly located.
T.W. CHAMPION & COMPANY
5107 South State Street Drexel 3244
WORTH REMEMBERING
Dried white nuttberry is one of the
principal articles of food in Afghan.
istan,
‘The Japanese lover presents to his
sweetheart a beantiful: silk sash Ine
stead of an engagement ring.
A folding rack that can be attached
to an oil or gas stove has been invent-
ed for drying small articles ef eloth-
ing.
The Prench Academy of Sciences
has created a new department to con-
sider the application of seience to in-
dustry,
‘There are move than 200 specinens
of silk-producing Insects, though very
few of these are of any practical value
Fund to Improve South
Plan $3,000,000 Loan
Side Property
To Be Offered by Both Races—
Corporation being formed with #5,
000,000 eapital,
The Chicago Real Estate Board and
the Association of Commerce met jointly
and drew up a plan whereby it will be
possible to wreck the tenements now oe
eupied by Colored people and put up
new, sanitary, fireproof buildings in
their place,
Tt was planned to form a corporation
of Chicagoans with $3,000,000 eapital,
“Tt is not a philanthropic move,”
said Ivan 0, Ackley of the real estate
firm of Ackley Bros, ‘but an organiza.
tion for profit bent upon solving the race
housing problem in the most sensible
manner. Leaders of the Negro race want
to co-operate with us and we ure certain
of success.”
“The housing question for Negroes
must be settled without delay,’? said
Mr. damme, “We have been at this
thing for years and it iy time we had
done something. ‘The Association of
Commerce is Iucking the Real Estate
Board in this to the limit.”
Would Lessen Race Trouble.
“Tf we can settle the housing prob:
Jom we ean dispose of 90 per cent of race
dificulties,’? said Tyan 0, Ackley, pres
ident of the Real Estate Board.
‘This racial strife has east a dark
shadow on Chicago, and the only way
we can get rid of it is to have better
and more housing facilities for Negroes,
‘The Negroes are necessary for our in
dustrial development and they are en
titled to clean and sanitary comtitions,
such as the white man is accustomed to,
++ We must rehabilitate the old homes
aud build new quarters for Negroes.
Our plan is to raise money with which
the Negroes can buy small homes and
pay us back on the installment plan.”’
Many Homes Unfit.
© During my investigation in the Ne
gro distriet,’? said ©. R. Bixby, field
agent for the bureau of industrial hous
fees renee, “1 found that
“some Negries’ homes were unfit for 1
‘dog. You certainly cannot have decent
law-abiding citizens from jwople whe
are living under sueh conditions,
SPhere are 125,000 Negroes here,"
continued Mr. Bixby, ‘and the only
thing we can do is to see they have
decent homes.’?
After the speeches members of th
Bes! state Board began discussion o
the problem.
“T move that we appoint a committee
to confer with Negroes on segregation,”
said one member. ‘The president said he
would appoint such committee,
“The law does not allow. segreg-
tion," suid President Ackley, ‘but if
we settle this housing question satis:
factorily, segregation will come of its
own accord.”
A majority of the members who spoke
were in favor of segregation, but owing
to the fact the special meeting had been
called on the housing problem, the seg:
vegation question was temporarily
dropped.
No definite steps were taken, but C.
R. Bixby, who is making a personal in-
vestigation of the home conditions of
the Negroes, will report at the next
meting,
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Who has just been appointed a second
lieutenant m the radio corps of the
signal department of the army, Miss
Reed is one of the most capable women
electriciins in Maine. She tins done
excellent work in radiy operatines bav-
ing qualified in & Boston sehoot
The Remedy.
Diseussing the intluenzs cpidetie
and the many so-exlled intluenzit cures,
Dr. Horace Whitney Williams said in
a lecture at the University of Chicago:
“Isolation, warmth and perfect exe
are the only treatment. The so-called
cures remind me of a story about a
grocer. To this grocer a patron
brought back a pound of butter,
““L want to complain about this but:
ter. 1's awful,’ the patron said
“The grocer sniffed it, ‘Smells
sweet enough to me,’ he observed
But it's full of hair’ suid the
patron, “TE counted eight oy nine hairs
in it, Yes, sir, this butter’s full of
hair, and T want te know what you're
going fo do about it
WOULD CENSOR LOBBY DISPLAY
Seuttle, Aug. 2.—Alice Lord, seeretary
of the Seattle Board of 2” ter Censors,
has asked Mayor Ole Ha on for juris:
diction over the fntee| bby advertis:
ing in this city, The board desires that
the present ordinance governing theater
censorship be amended so as to give it
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Two statues at the entrance of the
‘Tuileries gardens have heen protected
ly sand bags since last winter, Now
they have another cont of some thou-
sands af captured German helmets to
stimulate the French war loan,
Winnipeg's Great Growth.
It ix forty-nine years sinee Louis
Riel, self-styled “president of the pro-
visions! governinent at Red River,”
took possession of Port Garry, appro-
printed its contents, and began. his
ten months’ reign of anarchy over @
considerable portion of southeastern
Manitoba. ‘This was Biel's first gam-
ble for power, [ended in tight, The
second ended on the sentfold,
There was ne city of Winnipeg for:
ty-nine years age. i fuct that reminds
one of the energy and industry put
forth by the Canadians whe went West
4 generation oF so ago, and of the
richness of the country to which they
went.
the necessary authority, The board
claims that theater managers resort to
a lot of fake advertising in lobby dis
plays and wants censorship over this
matter so that Mr. and Mrs, Publie may
see and enjoy exactly what they pay
their money for. The mayor referred
the matter to the City Council.
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THE HIGH COST OF BEING A NEGRO
THE WHOLE WORLD IS UP in arms to combat the high cost of living. Of course they have started wrong and the results obtained will be only temporary. All of the hoarded food in the country would not feed us for ten days. Everybody, especially the laboring classes, are affected by the high cost of living. No one possessed of ordinary intelligence expects to escape it. It is obvious that taking millions of men from productive tasks where they were assets and engaging them in destructive occupations, making them liabilities, that the citizens who are joint stockholders in the body politic would suffer the inevitable losses.
The negro has not been a conspicuous figure in this organized clamor. It naturally creates a question in the analytical mind because the reduction of the high cost of living is of as much importance to the welfare of the commonwealth as the sale of thrift stamps and liberty bonds. No one will deny that the colored people, as a group, did their share in making these a success. Why is the negro not so conspicuously sandwiched in the international army that is charging the profiteers to reduce the high cost of living?
THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE. HE IS TOO BUSILY ENGAGED IN REDUCING THE HIGH COST OF BEING A NEGRO.
The white workers who for the most part are members of well organized labor unions, have wrested from the pockets of capital sufficient wage increases to greatly offset the diminished purchasing power of the dollar. Wages or items of expense, and it is useless to say when the expense of big business is increased that they will increase the price of their commodity or service, AND THE NEGRO IS PRINCIPALLY THE GOAT JUST BECAUSE HE IS A NEGRO. The antipathy of union labor toward colored men, coupled with the threatening big stick that the capitalists holds over his head, the negro is now thrown between the "frying pan and the fire."
We are not condemning the white workers for striking. They are justified in me and we miss him just as here, in the sweet Bye and we are justified in most of their demands for better pay. THE RECENT STREET CAR STRIKE, OUT OF WHICH THE EMPLOYEES HAVE GOTTEN FROM 20 TO 60 PER CENT RAISE, THE NEGRO IS FORCED TO PAY IN EXCESS FARES OVER $2,000,000 PER YEAR WITHOUT GETTING BACK A PENNY IN SALARIES. HE IS NOT A MOTORMAN, CONDUCTOR OR INSPECTOR, BECAUSE HE IS A NEGRO.
In the textile industries in New England, salaries have increased 60 per cent while the salaries of Negroes who make their jobs a possibility are only raised 25 per cent. White men doing the same work are getting twice the amount in salaries. The articles manufactured are put upon the market and the negro has to pay the same price for them as the whites who are getting better wages.
IN CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY, NEW YORK AND DETROIT WHERE NEGROES ARE WORKING, GETTING THE SAME SALARIES AS THE WHITES, THEY HAVE TO PAY TWICE THE RENT, AND IN NIGHBORHOOD CLOTHING AND GROCERY STORES, RECENT INVESTIGATIONS SHOW THAT FOR THE SAME GRADE OF GOODS, THE NEGRO HAS TO PAY, BESIDES THE RAISE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE JUSTIFIED BY THE GENERAL CHANGE IN ECONOMIC CONDITIONS, AN ADDITIONAL COLOR TAX, SOMETIMES AS HIGH AS 50 PER CENT; THUS HIS NET EARNINGS, IF ANY AT ALL, ARE 50 PER CENT LESS THAN THE WHITE WORKERS. BY PERVERTED SOCIAL CONVENTION, BOMBS AND RIOTS, HE IS FORCED INTO A CERTAIN TERRITORY WHERE HE IS BLACKJACKED OUT OF HIS EARNINGS.
Very recently in some of the larger cities, anti-negro propaganda has been spread by scheming criminal and low white real estate men for their personal gain. In such districts, white business men have been threatened with boycott if they did not discharge colored help. Several hundred colored people have been thrown out of profitable employment on this account. Just because they were negroes the sequence is that the whole race has an additional ensense. In the political world, which to a great extent overlaps the industrial and economic, his status is the same. It costs him to be a negro. In the Second Ward alone, where he constitutes 85 per cent of the majority of the population, he only gets 15 per cent of the patronage, including the civil service. Therefore, he is robbed of the difference between the 15 and 85.
If all of the data relative to the additional expense and disadvantages that are singular to the negro besides the general disadvantage all have to suffer, a brain devoid of anything but density could easily perceive why the high cost of living as it affects the general public pales into insignificance in comparison with the high cost of being a negro. IN FACT, THE COLORED MAN HAS SO MUCH TOLERANCE AND ENDURANCE ABOVE THAT OF THE OTHER GROUPS, THERE ARE VERY SERIOUS DOUBTS IF HE WOULD KICK AT ALL IF HE WAS ONLY AFFECTED AS THE REMAINDER OF THE POPULATION. The high cost if being a negro is one of the most pathetic incidents in the universe day and along the lines of general democracy unless the cost is sened "the heart of the world will be broken" and especially the gro's own heart because "he is on the operating table, but without anaesthetic." (Aid the Belgian relief and feed starving France.)
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HAS THE NEGRO BEEN FIGHTING FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY?
The publications of our country seem to be much concerned and perturbed by the advent of the new negro. Every little weekly, daily and monthly, has had a few glances and views upon the recent racial frictions, and it appears that some attempts at solutions have been conscientiously given. However, to our way of thinking the minds of these good Samaritans have been clouded with subconscious prejudices, and swayed by self sentiments to such an extent that the truth sas been obscured, and the issues have been tied into Gordian knots.
We do not claim that we can set the minds of our interested friends on the pathway of right thinking, but we can at least lay bare a few facts and queries.
From our "friends," the editors of the Southern dailies, Senator Medill McCormick, Proft. Taft, Maclay Hoyne, the Chicago Tribune and from the excerpts of the Literary Digest, THE PARAMOUNT EVIL THAT CONTAMINATES THE NEW NEGRO IS HIS DESIRE FOR "SOCIAL EQUALITY." We have made an accurate survey of the claims of the new negro. We have censored his activities since his return from France. And we even aided the investigators of Chicago dailies as they followed the color line. We have gathered first hand information from Washington, D. C., as to feeling of its colored people. WE FAIL YET TO OBSERVE WHERE THE NEGRO HAS MADE ANY FIGHT FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY. ONE OF OUR QUERIES is what has the negro done in fighting for social equality?
THE NORTH SEEMS to be solid in its vociferation that negroes will not be denied political equality. What is political equality if it is not full right of citizenship? What is the full right of citizenship? The constitutional fathers aided by John Marshall, Chief Justice, have already interpreted it for us and even the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments have by their worst enemies been construed to give the right of life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, to negroes. PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS HAS BEEN DEFINED BY OUR MOST EMINENT JURIST AS THE "RIGHT OF PROPERTY ENJOYMENT." Yet they claim the negro is fighting for social equality when he buys property in sections where before he was a stranger. THEY CALL THIS AN INVASION. Invasion popularly defined means the act of invading or the first attack or conquest of something hurtful. Where the harm lies is in the hypersensitive, vainglorious Caucasian who does not want the negro to be given the full rights of citizenship.
They also said that the negro is imbued with the idea of new freedom. The whole world wants to be free. The wrold is writhing today under the iron hand of technical slavery and is fighting to be free. Why censure the negro?
Medill McCormick claims because a negro boy in Washington refused to take off his hat in an elevator with ladies, was impudent and failed to act according to standards. In the South, white men never lift their hats in the presence of colored ladies and the boy's soul was poisoned by the attempt to leprorize his womanhood. Taft says the negro cannot get social equality by fighting for it. The Negro socializes that authorities and was fined $50 and costs instead of this work canizes that miliancy will not create "Utopia within this world as well as Mr. Taft. The only instance that we advocate miliancy in our claims for social equality is in the protection of our women from WHITE MEN WHO VIOLATE THEIR SO-CALLED ACCEPTED STANDARDS THAT THEY MAKE.
We admit that the Negro is tired of being a "half man." We admit that he is tired of the heel of white oppression. We admit that he has been pushed to the wall and even he now stands and shows his teeth. We even admit that the Negro desires social EQUALITY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT. BUT WE CANNOT BE INTELLECTUALLY HONEST AND TRUTHFULLY ADMIT THAT HE HAS MADE ANY FIGHT FOR SOCIAL EQUALITY. HIS FIGHT HAS BEEN A DEFENSIVE ONE. THIS SEEMS SURPRISING AND ALARMING TO OUR WHITE FRIENDS, WHO SEEM TO THINK THAT HE SHOULD BE PASSIVELY SUBMISSIVE.
WE KNOW HOW American soldiers and sailors infested France with their damnable prejudice. We know that the Negro's soul has rankled with hate and resentment. We also know that white solddeirs and marines led the mobs in Washington. Lest we forget, the mobs in the loop were commandeered by sailors and soldiers.
Did it ever occur to you that our white friends really fear that the Negro is breaking his shell and beginning to bask in the sunlight of real manhood?
IS IT THE DESIRE OF THE WHITE AMERICAN TO KEEP THE NEGRO INFERIOR AND SUBTERFUGE HIS EVERY ACT ON THE GROUND OF SOCIAL EQUALITY?
THE COOK COUNTY BOARD AND BOLSHEVISM.
The Cook County Commissioners, commonly referred to as the County Board, a few weeks ago was spoken of as being the vermiform appendix of the County Government. It has certainly lived up to its reputation in its recent attitude towards the Colored population of Chicago. (If reports are true.) The County Board holds a conspicuous place in the scheme of our civic forces. It has the power to make appropriations necessary to the proper functioning of the county offices which are held to strict accountability for the peace and safety of the community. Since the present Board has been in power the only thing it has accomplished was to run a bankrupt County further in debt, by raising its own salary. As taxpayers, the hundred and twenty-five thousand colored voters did not raise one finger of protest. In fact they were willing that the Board should take an additional bonus, thinking that it would so replenish the economic indigence of its members that they would be in a better mood to deal impartially with American citizens, regardless of color. That they have lived up to their reputation as being vermiform appendix to the County Government, and that they have also maliciously betrayed the confidence placed in them by both fair-minded colored and white citizens, is evidenced by their refusal to make an appropriation to the sheriff's office to employ special deputies to protect the lives and property of law-abiding citizens from the onslaught of "irresponsible hoodlums" BECAUSE, THE SHERIFF ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION OF INCLUDING EX-COLLORED SOLDIERS AMONG HIS SPECIAL DEPUTIES.
To the analytical mind, only the following motives could have been in possession of these commissioners to allow them to stray
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THE AGE OF USEFULNESS
A favorite question for discussion has always been concerning the age at which a man is most productive. Is he worth more to the community when he is young, ambitious, virile, imaginative, full of initiative, hopeful, resourceful, or when he is mature, thoughtful, moderate, sedate, calm, practical, or is when he is old and wise, experienced and tried, meditative and deliberate, steady and full of conviction? In regard to this interesting question it is of significance that the medical profession celebrated during the month of July the birthday of Sir William Osler, undoubtedly the greatest living physician in the world. A decade ago Dr. Osler made the daring statement that when a man reached the age of seventy he should be chloroformed because his life of use
so far from principles of justice and fair play: FIRST, to show to the world all men of color were either actively engaged or in sympathy with the hoodlum element that had taken the law in their own hands; SECOND, to discourage the progressive element of both races who insist upon absolute justice and equality from all branches of the government; THIRD, they realized their inability to do any constructive work to hold them in the esteem of the white voters, so they desired to play on their weakest point, "keep Negroes down," in other words to play "gallery politics." We apologize for even making a comment or offering any defense for such cowardly prejudiced reasoning as evidenced in the first two motives. THE NEGRO'S RECORD FOR LOYALTY TO THIS GOVERNMENT IN ITS INTERCOURSE WITH OTHER NATIONS, AS WELL AS THE PRESERVATION OF INTERNAL PEACE DOES NOT WARRANT DEFENSE. THE VIRTUE OF THEIR ACTS DEFENDS THEM. WE ARE SIMPLY MAKING THIS COMMENT, TO LET THOSE MEN KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE EYES OF ARGUS, AND THE MEMORIES OF ELEPHANTS. AND THAT NO INSIDIOUS JUNKERISM WILL BE PULLED OFF ON COLORED PEOPLE WITHOUT STRIKING THE CENTER OF OUR OPTIC NERVES, AND BEING ENCOUCHED IN OUR REFENTIVE MEMORIES. The County Board has missed its mark. Instead of discouraging and weakening the organized, determined efforts to secure equal treatment, they have helped to strengthen them. White men who have not given the race question any serious concern have suddenly seen the injustice of it all, and have joined our ranks, besides Negroes who have been anesthetized, have come from under the chloroform of political bunk.
THE BOARD has allowed their prejudice and petty politics to delude them into striking a foul blow beneath the belt, which has done more harm to the city of Chicago, and the County of Cook, than the most elastic mind can measure. This foul attack has fertilized the minds of the lawless element for the growth of helplessness and anarchy. The Board allowed their prejudice to clog it lower than any man of color would ever stoop. They have proven their incompetency as government custodians, with this typical "puerile malicious small town hunk." Their serious force
conclusions of the orator who called them the vermiform appendix of county government. Though we are injured, and our hearts are bleeding, our heads are not bowed. We are consolated in the fact that the appendix has no vital duties to perform. Science has made it possible for this useless, valueless organ to be removed without vitally affecting the other organs of the body. GENTLEMEN, BEWARE!! PREPARE FOR THE OPERATION AT THE NEXT ELECTION, AND REMEMBER THAT NEGROES WERE SOLDIERS AND SHERIFFS, RISKING THEIR LIVES FOR THE PROTECTION OF THIS COUNTRY, WHEN MR. RHINEBURG WAS ON THE RHINE.
fulness is over. Had Dr. Osler's theory been in vogue even for so short a time as the last century there is no way of estimating the loss to the world and posterity. And it is of interest to note that some of the greatest work of Dr. Osler's busy career has been done since he reached his sixtieth year. He who places stress on age limit for accomplishing things has only to look over the recent list of names of men who played a conspicuous part in the world's greatest war: Clemenceau (physician), 78; Woodrow Wilson, 63; Foch, 68; Joffre, 67; Petain, 63; Lord Kitchener, 73; French, 61; Col. March, 65; Admiral Sims, 61; Arthur Balfour, 71; Admiral Jellicoe, 60; Col. House, 61; Von Kluck, 72; Von Hindenburg, 72; Von Zeppelin, 78; Von Mackensen, 70; Von Moltke, 64; Kaiser Wilhelm, 60.
It has been frequently stated that the war could not have been carried on without these men. In previous wars men of the ages mentioned have been left at home, but in the world's war these men showed the staunch stuff of which they are made. In truth, the matured mind in this great war was one of the biggest elements that played the winning part.
Again let us glance superficially over a few of the characters in other walks of life and review briefly some of the military leaders, statesmen, artists, sculptors, scientists, authors and actors who have played a leading role in life's drama and who achieved fame after 60 and many of them after 70 and still others who were at the zenith of their fame even after 80 years of age. Here are a few of the most conscious.
Lord Roberts, in harness at time of his death at 82; Wm. E. Gladstone, statesman, 89, did some of his best work after 80; Elihu Root, head of the American Mission to Russia, 74; Cardinal Gibbons, noted prelate, 85; Herbert Beerbohm Tree, 63; Joseph H. Choate, 85, a factor in American life until he was 80; Thomas A. Edison, 72; Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, 92, did his greatest work in the last 15 years; Mrs. Humphrey Ward, representative woman novelist, 68; Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and reformer, 82; Sarah Bernhardt, celebrated actress, 75; Giuseppe Verdi, Italian opera composer, 88; Julius Mussenet French composer of operas, 70; Elli Flagg Young, head of the Chicago pub school system, 73.
This list of great men and women illustrates beautifully the statement that it is never too late for success, provided the will and desire are there.
Dear Doctor: I have had a goitre since I was 15 years old and I am now 23. I have been told that if I will wear a string of beads around by neck the goitre will disappear. Is this true? What medicine would be good for it?
Reply
There is no foundation whatever to the common belief that a string of beads around the neck will reduce thyroid tumor. You may try taking 2 grains of the iodide of potash three times a day.
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Pretty little dress of pink organdie with coral velvet ribbons and a dainty frill of lace at the throat; just the thing for a young girl's party dress.
TO PROTECT THE SLEEVES
Most Serviceable Coverings May Be Made From Men's Handkerchiefs of Cheap Materials.
Nearly all business girls wear over-sleeves while at work; but if the sleeves are made of the usual black or dark material, they give a severe look to any dress.
It is a good plan to make the sleeves from men's handkerchiefs; the cheap ones, sold for ten cents, answer the purpose. Perhaps the most serviceable kind is that with a white center and a colored border. A center of solid tint is pretty, and may show the dirt less; but the tint is likely to soon fade, and the goods on which it is used is likely to be more expensive than the white handkerchiefs.
Fold the handkerchiefs diagonally twice, to form a right-angled triangle, four folds in thickness, with the edges of the handkerchief as the hypotenuse. Then cut off one of the corners or acute angle, somewhat on a slant. The wrist of the sleeve should be about five inches before it is bound. All seams must be French ones so that there shall be no roughness.
Gather the wrist slightly, and bind it with a bias strip from one of the pieces that were cut off. It should be from three and four-fourths to four and one-quarter inches across when finished, or just large enough to slip the hand through easily. A narrow edging of lace may be added; it gives the sleeves a more finished appearance. Folding twice, of course, gives a pair of sleeves from one handkerchief.
When the sleeves are in use, the seam comes on the inside of the arm, and the point is pinned on the outside just above the elbow. That will hold the sleeve comfortably in place, and the strain being on the bias of the cloth, it gives with every motion of the arm, and fits more closely than a sleeve made on the straight would. Such a sleeve can also be worn by any housekeeper when she is at her work. They can be made and laundered so easily that they commend themselves to the practical girl.
PRETTY THINGS IN FOULARD
Parisian Dressmakers Are Turning Out "Creations" That Are Much More Than Ordinarily Attractive.
An excellent piece of advice for the summer is: "When in doubt, choose foulard." Foulard has again come into its own kingdom; never has this delightful silk been more lovely, never has it been produced in more delicate and original colorings. The Paris dressmakers are doing rather wonderful things with spotted foulards. They are using the spots as a groundwork for silk or wool embroideries and producing really amazing results by simple means. For example, a little chemise dress of black foulard was dotted over with large white rings. At the hem, for a depth of twelve inches, these rings were worked over on the outside with japonica pink silk and covered—that is to say, the inner round—with a miniature lattice of silver threads. The same embroidery was applied to the front and back of the bodice and the sash was made of japonica pink satin ribbon with black and white tassels. It was charming, this little dress, and so simple; any one could achieve it. Rings or stripes may be decorated in this way with colored silks and metallic threads. Irregular designs, too, can be outlined or filled in.
PAINT FADED HAT
Some Effective Hand Touches for Headgear.
Any Number of Simple Designs May Be Worked Out by Woman Who Is at All Clever With Brush and Colors.
If it's the old straw hat that is looking pretty much the worse for wear, but still has possibilities to carry it through the rest of the summer, you might treat it with the paint brush.
Usually the hat that begins to look seedy so early in the race is a light hat. So the first thing to do is to give it a brand-new complexion. Cleanse it, and then let it go at that—as far as the background is concerned—or treat it to any kind of hat dyes on the market. The painted hat is most effective when it's first of all a black hat, as witness the stunning examples in the millinery shops. So you will do well to let the new coat be a black one, or at least a deep blue or purple. One appreciable thing about this fad for trimming a bit of headgear with oi colors is the effectiveness of big, simple, rather splashy designs as compared with the insignificance of more tedious decoration, particularly if the hat be sport and the straw rather of a coarse variety. Colorful conventional fruits and flowers are excellent choices. They may be placed precisely or with new art freedom on crown or brim, wherever you choose, or wherever they are calculated to be most becoming.
Delightful in an entirely individual way are the bird and animal motifs for the brims of hats for the wee people. If you apply them where hat bands usually go, you can make a stencil band and expedite them with almost lightning rapidity.
But maybe you would like to get a bit ahead of the season. In that case you will treat yourself to a chapeau in a pastel velvet and treat the velvet to some straight-stitch motifs, worked up in tinsel, or to a stunning embossed effect that is achieved by cording a design in all-over effect over the whole surface of the hat.
COMBINE COLLAR AND GIRDLE
Attractive Feature of a Frock That Meets With Favor Among Many Women.
Navy blue and white organdie combined with bright-toned blue and red embroidery fashions an unusual little frock. Its very attractive feature is a high surplice collar, which is prolonged into a girdle and fluffy sash bow of navy blue organdie. This comes also in combinations of brown or rose with white organdie.
Finer than calico but invested with all the quaintness and charm of that material are the new English prints of the type which one frock represents. Almost any of our grandmothers might have worn just such a dress with its square neck and elbow sleeves, but the modern young woman who wears this frock does not look in the least like anybody's grandmother. Bands of plain white broad emphasize the simplicity of the design and the material, and a band and bow of contrasting ribbon velvet is tied over the print sash. The flower design comes both in rose and in blue.
Garter Fancies.
Some garters of the present day are quite elaborate. They are made of all sorts of silks, ribbons, laces and embroideries and are ornamented with bows. One pair is made of blue silk fringed at either side and embroidered in lavender and pink.
MANIFOLD USES OF THE OX
Animal May With Truth Be Said to Be Most Useful of All the Domestic Animals.
Of all our domestic animals the ox is certainly the most useful, writes Henri Fabre in Our Humble Helpers. During its lifetime it draws the cart in mountainous regions and works at the plow in the tillage of the fields; furthermore, the cow furnishes milk in abundance. Given over to the butcher, the animal becomes a source of manifold products, each part of its body having a value of its own. The flesh is highly nutritious; the skin is made into leather for harness and shoes; the hair furnishes stuffing for saddles; the tallow serves for making candles and soap; the bones, half calcined, give a kind of charcoal or bone black used especially for refining sugar and making it perfectly white; this charcoal, after thus being used; is a very rich agricultural fertilizer; heated in water to a high temperature, the same bone yields the blue used by carpenters; the largest and thickest bones go to the turner's shop, where they are manufactured into buttons and other small objects, the horns are fashioned by the maker of small wares into snuff boxes and powder boxes; the blood is used concurrently with the bone of black in refining sugar; the intestines cured, twisted, and dried, are made into strings for musical instruments; finally, the gall is frequently turned to account by dyers and cleaners in cleaning fabrics and partially restoring their original luster.
OFFERS EVERYBODY A CHANCE
Philanthropic Seattle Man Throws Open Hall for Absolutely Free and Uninterrupted Speech.
A philanthropic fight promoter—one of the enterprising gentlemen who has been in the habit of putting on a boxing match every week or two—is much annoyed at the spasmatic interference of the officers of the law in his business affairs, and is proposing to throw open his hall for a weekly forum of free and uninterrupted speech, in place of the boxing bouts.
"I want every guy that has anything to say to come over and say it," said the promoter, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, "and I'll give him ten minutes to spiel, and then he must shut his trap. I don't care what he is; any kind of a nut can come over and say right out what is on his chest. My luck has been so bad, and my spirits so depressed, that I want a laugh, and I believe a nut gathering of this kind would equal anything the Orpheum circuit or Pantigues or the best of them ever put on. You know, nature keeps playing jokes on humanity all the time; she mixes together some queer patterns in heads, and a lot of fellows can't help what they think; some have a hunch for one thing and some for another; I suppose we could get a few startling facts on anything from religion to chess in these verbal tournaments. And it will be absolutely free; I might pass the bat around at the close of the entertainment to square me on the hall rent, but for the rest I wouldn't want a cent to pay outside of the entertainment I get out of it. As soon as I can pull a jazz band together to fit in with the speechmaking I will announce the details, and we will be sure in for a summer's entertainment, if the sheriff don't close us up."
A Filipino Vassar.
What the occidental ideals of universal opportunities of education are to mean to women of the Orient takes on a large significance with the establishment in the Philippines of a university for girls only. This university is to be part of an educational group called Centro Escolar de Senoritas, where until now the instruction to girls has been only in the primary, secondary and intermediate grades. That this Filipino Vassar will develop traditions characteristic of girls' colleges in the United States cannot be doubted by anyone who has observed how wholeheartedly though shyly, girl students from the Orient have entered into the undergraduate studies, festivities and pastimes at American colleges.
WILL BE WONDERFUL ROAD
Highway of Solid Granite in the Rocky Mountains a Rival of the Appian Way.
Taking example from the famous Appian way, which has the name of being the first great road undertaken by the Romans as a public work, the state of Colorado, with the help of an appropriation by the United States government, is building a highway of solid granite in the Rocky mountains. No other highway in the world, it is predicted, will provide travelers with so magnificent a scenic setting, close to a sheer fall of 3,000 feet on the other side of the great concrete posts and cables that will safeguard vehicular traffic. One gets an idea of the road from the practical statement that it is costing $25,000 a mile to build. Like the Appian way, on which long stretches of pavement first traveled over 300-old years before the Christian era, still remain practically perfect, the chairman of the Colorado highway commission believes that Colorado is creating a work which will defy the centuries and stand, on completion, as the most wonderful road in the modern world.
Flax in the War.
With the restoration of industry on a peace-time basis, cotton once again, according to recent authoritative statements, forges ahead of linen in the world's favor. The exigencies of the recent conflict raised flax to the position as leader among fabrics, a rank which it had held for centuries but had lost almost simultaneously with the advent of the cotton gin. With a realization of the importance of cotton in the making of munitions, there came a speedy reversion to linen for the more commonplace usages—waistcoats, sails for ships, even "wings" for airplanes having lately consisted of material woven from the sun-hued fiber. But flax has reached the end of its days of monopoly. King Cotton now rises to the fore in ordinary pursuits, and linen once again becomes the aristocrat in this field of supply.
Coquelin's Memory
"How many parts do you know well enough to play tonight if need be?" somebody asked Coquelin. He took a sheet of paper and wrote down the names of 53 plays of his repertoire. His friends laughed.
"You are boasting surely, mon ami?" said the Viscomte de Lovenjoul.
"You have every one of these plays in your library," said Coquelin quietly. "Get them all out and put them on the table." The viscomte did so. "Now," said Coquelin, "let anybody select a cue from any one of these plays at hap-hazard and give it to me."
They tried him with 16 plays out of the 53 and he never missed a single cue or made one mistake.—Fortnightly Review.
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IN SPORTS SUITS
Splendid Assortment for Woman Fond of Athletics.
Pastime Apparel Very Much English in Cut and Fabric—Knitted Suit May Almost Be Called In-
It is established that our most delightful fashions come from Paris, and it is becoming equally well established that our sport apparel is English in cut and fabric. We come to speak of the English walking hat, meaning the rather close-fitting hat with a tall crown curling up at the sides. English tweeds and flannels are a part of every sportswoman's vernacular, as suits of these materials are of her wardrobe. We differentiate between the onlookers and the real adherents, and recognize the rights of the latter to be as plainly and unbecomingly dressed as the most rigorous exercise demands.
During the last year of the war the knitted sport suits made by hand appeared, first in Switzerland at St. Moritz and such places where winter sports abound. They were instantly accepted and were a boon to French and Swiss makers also, who could thus employ remuneratively their long winter evenings heretofore given over to lace making or the fine embroideries, the demand for which was interrupted by war. Now the knitted suit is indispensable. The great vogue over here for tricolette and jersey cloth has further stimulated this demand.
The wool jerseys are ideal, for they do not rumble or crush and come in such splendid colors that every taste may be gratified. Hunters' green is a favored color for some reason—it always looks well and does not always fade as do other brilliant and decided shades. Nothing is more picturesque than the fashion of topping white skirts with Jersey coats of the most brilliant tones imaginable—green, yellow, and scarlet seemingly preferred. Undeniably they make gay color splotches on the landscape and add to the summer picture.
Less serviceable than the wool jerseys are coats of fine faille and silk poplin. They are as delicate and refined as the most conservative woman could ask, and come in such pretty, soft colors as French blue and pale rose. The coat usually has rather wide sleeves which open over the blouse sleeve underneath and are not too tight. Deep revers cut away in front as a man's dinner coat rolls back at the sides and now and then one finds a sash finely fringed and belting in the waist—New York Sun.
Gleaning the Stumps.
The rapid decrease in the number of tall stumps which have been so familiar to the traveler through the coast hills of Oregon, is regarded as an indication of their approaching extinction. Hitherto some 20 feet of each stump has been left standing, silent relics of former monarchs of the forest, too thick for most saws to compass and too full of pitch to suit the sawmills. But now the need for timber is greater and men no longer climb high up on to boards thrust into notches in the trunk to suit the saw and the sawmill. They have learned thrift and they cut low down lest good lumber be uselessly wasted. Only as a record of past wastefulness are the tall stumps with their deep notches still visible.
HAIL THE GEORGETTE GOWN
Always More Popular Than Any of the Sheer Lingerie Materials and Launders Easily.
A gown or blouse made of white or light-colored georgette, particularly if it is a one-fabric affair, will usually be found more serviceable than a similar garment made of one of the sheer lingerie materials, such as organdie, cotton volle, etc. The georgette garment can be washed with soap and water, but it does not require the vigorous treatment that a cotton fabric needs to make it look fresh and new, and certainly the amateur laudress can handle the georgette more easily than one of the cotton fabrics.
Tunic and tier effects are being featured in the styles now appearing for fall and winter. These will vie for honors with the redingote and barrel sillhouette frocks, but fortunately there need be no real rivalry, as the redingote dress especially is distinctly a style that belongs to daytime apparel.
Godet Fullness in Frocks
Godet fullness is being introduced into new frocks by Paris dressmakers. The bodice extends far down into the skirt in long godet points and the skirt flares out between these flat godets in the new bouffant manner. The underskirt is very narrow and slim. Such a frock is of turquoise blue faille, in bodice and godets, the flaring skirt of gold tissues and the narrow underskirt of lace flouncing.
Smock and Hathand to Match
Smock and Hatband to Match.
If you wish to make an otherwise miscellaneous costume harmonious, trim your smock in blanket stitch in lavender and use the same decoration for your hat, adding to both an appliqued design of leaves made of lavender or several smaller motifs will suit this scheme.
DIME NOVELS COMING BACK
In Eighteen Months "Nick Carter" Has Had Sales That Have Been Record Breaking.
Nick Carter has come into his own again. The king of the "paperbacks" has made a record-breaking return to popularity. About eighteen months ago his sales began to mount steadily until the entire supply of Nick Carter books was exhausted, says the Sun. His return to fame was unexpected. It was not the result of an advertising campaign, for the publishers of the paper-bound books do not advertise. They depend instead for the sale of their books on the lists printed in the back pages of each volume. And Nick Carter was not the only member of the "paperback" tribe to return. All the old favorites—Laura Jean Libbey, Bertha M. Clay, Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth and Augusta J. Evans—have "come back" surprisingly.
Five years ago everyone was willing to predict that the movies had killed the production of cheap books. Thrills could be absorbed more quickly from the screen than from the printed page—and the price was the same. Publishers of the paper books are uncertain whether their old reading public has tired of the motion picture or whether a new class of readers has arisen. Of one thing they are certain, though, the demand for the 16 and 15-cent book has increased fourfold. If it were not for the increased cost of production these publishers would be reaping the harvest of their lives.
Stories of American life—as seen by Bertha M. Clay and other writers of her class—and detective stories are most in demand. Fortune-telling books and letter writers also have a large steady sale. "Dream" books were never so popular as they are today, their publishers say.
HAPPY NATIVES OF SARAWAK
Under Wise Government, People Live
Easy Lives in Their Gloriously
Fertile Country.
The tribe of Kayans, inhabiting the head waters of the Baram and Rejang rivers of Sarawak, have lived for unknown generations almost isolated in the interior of the island of Borneo. There are many reasons for believing them to be originally of Caucasian origin. Many of them have very light skin, and they probably reached Borneo by way of the Malay peninsula from lower Burma. Rigid discipline is characteristic of the domestic menage, resulting in good manners and recognition of authority.
For a good many years Sarawak was under the independent government of a white rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, who controlled his mingled subjects with unusual wisdom and sympathy. Among other far-sighted edicts he instituted stringent game taws, so that the island is one of the best protected parts of the world in this respect. Birds, beasts and butterflies are protected, not more than two specimens of any one species being allowed to the collector. In this way the very beautiful and rare trees and insects of the country are being maintained for the enjoyment of future generations.
Another wise move of the rajah was to continue the native costume—what there is of it—in place of introducing the unsuitable, ugly and artificial modern clothing of Europeans. This, as Stevenson points out, has usually exactly the opposite effect from that intended by well-meaning missionaries, and the happy natives of Sarawak are very well off as they are.
CAUSED A CHANGE IN MIND
Circumstance That Made Mill Owner Somewhat Relax His Ideas About Strict Discipline.
"I personally began with the idea that people might be hired and good work gained from them," Julian S. Carr, Jr., in System, writes. Mr. Carr, who is president of the Durham Hosiery mills, goes on: "I thought in my youth that rules made order and that a certain military discipline was essential; that it was foolish to humor people and all that, nor was I going to recognize certain local traditions about days on which no work should be done. For instance, I made up my mind that quitting work to go to the circus was not in accord with the best industrial practices.
"The first circus came to town about three months after we took charge of the mill, and I was keen for the test. We posted positive orders that the regular hours of work were to be observed on that day, and that any person who went off to the circus would be discharged. The full force reported as usual on the morning of circus day, and I went home to dinner confident that at last we had brought order. It gave me a bit of a pang, for I should have liked to go myself!
"But duty is a stern master, and reflecting on that fact I hurried back to the mill. Noticing a crowd in a side street, I stopped to look. It was our whole mill force wending its merry way to the magic tent! I went along myself, and resolved that, although abstract rules were well enough, a bit of common sense and knowledge of human nature might profitably be blended with them. How much of our labor trouble generally is due to enforcing countless rules with military exactness?"
"Yes, I'm going on the stage. I hope to play Juliet."
"Well, think twice before you act once."
SHE HAD ME ACCEPTED WEEKS BEFORE I ASKED HER.
I HEAR BESSIE HAS ACCEPTED YOU.
HELPED SOME
C. W.
The Police Magistrate—How is it that you are able to pronounce these Bohemia and Polish names so well? Police Captain—My upper teeth are false.
A
Bangs—it's a fine day for riding—overhead.
Wangs—Yes. We ought to have an airship.
AND GOT COLD FEET.
I sent my daughter to a cooking school to fit her for marriage.
Was the experiment a success?
No, the man she was engaged to found it out.
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Mrs. Henpeck (during the quarrel)—
Oh! I wish I had been born a man.
Mr. Henpeck—So do I.
Mrs. Henpeck (during the quarrel)—
Oh! I wish I had been born a man.
Mr. Henpeck—So do I.
MUST BE BOSS
He—Won't you be my partner for life?
She—Will you incorporate and give me controlling interest?
HIS WAY OF LOOKING
SIR JOHN HENRY
The Preacher—I suppose you consider gambling debts debts of honor! The Gambler—That depends. When they are due me I certainly think they are debts of honor.
CRAMPED
Baker
Visitor—How did you feel sleeping
In the upper berth on the railroad
train?
Willie (aged five)—I felt like I was
in the top bureau drawer.
A RAVEN AND A RABBIT
Bunny—Why did you divorce your husband?
Mrs. Crow—Oh! for "caws."
THAT WOULD SEASON HIM.
So you've seen papa. Did he say anything about you being too young?
Yes; but he said when I once began to pay your bills I would age rapidly enough.
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Jack Johnson gained the championship by double crossing Tommy Burns and Jim Jeffries. Neither one would have signed the articles of agreement to meet him, if he had not agreed to lay down. Plain as the nose on your face if you have followed the fight game. Burns and Jeffries were whipped before they entered the ring. That was Johnson's style of doing business, warning them both just before the fight he would not lay down. Each one knowing within himself his inability to whip Johnson too late to run out of the match, went into the ring a beaten man.
Johnson's next move was to eliminate the colored contenders by the propaganda "no money in fighting a colored man." How did he know? There had been no colored heavy weight champions before. Colored champions of other classes had made money fighting colored opponents; at least their managers had. He was his own manager. With the colored brother eliminated and the propaganda of the prejudiced press, the quest for a white hope was begun. Two scheming promoters, Tom Jones and Jack Curley, seeing how easy it would be to get by with any white man, sat out to find him. They found him in the person of Jess Willard, a big bum who was running from twelve to eighteen hours behind with his meals. His only qualifications was that he had size, knew how to put on a pair of gloves and had fought a few fourth raters. The next thing was to fix Johnson. Jack Curley knew him personally; had done business with him when the two of them promoted the Jim Flyn-Jack Johnson fight at Phoenix, Ariz. Jack set out to find Jack. Two Jacks, that enough to open any pot or promote any fight.
Quick as a flash of lightning out of a clear sky came the news to startle the world that Jack Johnson was to fight Jess Willard. The prejudiced fight public took it as a joke. What on earth had Willard done to warrant a match with the champion. The next move was to find a couple of men who knew less than Willard about boxing so he would not get killed before he got in the ring. After a very long and diligent search, two such men were found. Willard was such a clown that it took Johnson twenty-six rounds before he could possibly lay down. Johnson got all the money. Willard got the championship. Back to the States he sailed. He landed in the South, where they always let their
Perry Quits Athletics
Scott Perry has added himself to the list of major league athletes who, when their employers refuse to trade them from second division ball clubs to pennant contenders, make themselves an individual hegira and go hence.
Perry abandoned the Athletics one week ago and has not been seen by his playmates since. Also Connie Mack, who half owns and presidents the A's, has adopted a Harry Frazee method of treating the absent brother. No word of suspension has been printed, neither has the Athletics club admitted that Perry ducked.
Follows Mays Case.
Follows Mays Case.
This is in keeping with the preliminary incidents of the Mays case.
According to members of the Athletics, Perry has not been seen since the last game he pitched against Detroit in Philadelphia, a week since.
The White Sox bid for the services of this man the last time the Athletics were in Chicago, but did so decently and privately, doing business with Mr. Mack. He declined to make a deal.
Mays Sets Example.
Possibly Perry was spurred to desertion by the ultimate results which attended Carl Mays, who quit a second division outfit and was traded to a first division team, got fixed up by the courts so an umpire could not even put him out of a game and is pitching in clever.
$100,000 Stake for
2 Year Olds
Soratoga, N. Y., Aug. 15.—(Special.)
—Plans for a race for 2 year olds to be known as the Maryland Futurity, and which will be the richest event on the American turf, were announced here today. The race is to have $60,000 added and with the various subscriptions and declarations probably will be worth more than $100,000 at the time it is run. The first running will be in 1921.
The plan was suggested by R. J. Walden and was taken up by the Maryland Jockey Club. Each of the Maryland racing associations, those controlling Pimlico, Havre de Grace, and Bowie, will help to make up the purse, each contributing $20,000. The place or the first running will be decided by
THE WORLD OF SPORTS BY JIM VANCE
prejudice get the best of their judgment, and there he gathered in the loose change to the tune of an eighth of a million, and there’s where he shook off his two discoverers for the time being. They knew if he ever fought again he would have to come by them. After clowning around the country again and again and one burlesgue match with a second rater sandwich, Tex Rickard signs him up to fight on July 4th. Reenter Tom and Jack. The minute all arrangements are made a settlement was made with them by Willard. Johnson could not get in tins country to demand his, so he lets out a long distance yell from Mexico City. But the old press agent of the impending fight quickly snuffed it out. Jack Dempsey was chosen as his opponent; hailed as the only living man who had a possible chance with Willard. Of course, Harry Wills and Sam Langford were dead so far as the prejudiced sport writers were concerned. So the great game of kidding enough fight fans to Toledo, Ohio, was begun. Jess Willard the color line in training, something never heard of before in the history of prize fighting. But there was a method in his madness. He knew his limited ability, so he resurrected the same two clowns who had never trained anybody but him. It was a tough proposition to get a crowd at the prices and the caliber of the attraction. I talked with a number of fight fans who said they would not go to see it at any price. The press thought they were kidding the public and that the house would be sold out. But they found out that they were only kidding themselves. Twenty thousand fans were all they got—about a couple thousand real fans and the rest consisting of those who got their railroad fare paid or admission paid or both, and the other class that go just to be going, know nothing about the game, and have more money than sense. What was the result? The most humiliating and nauseating defeat ever given to a champion of any class in the history of the prize ring. He was actually knocked out in the first round. Now who whipped Willard? The greatest fighter of all times, the champion of champions, says the prejudiced press. Let’s throw the searchlight on him. Who did he ever whip? Everybody he ever fought. Who did he ever fight above a third rater? Billy Miske. Did he ever stop him? Not up until this time. Billy Miske weighs fifteen or twenty pounds less, still he stayed ten rounds twice with the greatest of all living fighters. How long did Billy Miske stay with Kid Norfolk? And you all know what Langford did to him when they had the benefit for the Red Cross down east. The place was packed with patriotic citizens. All the champions and near champions of all classes had donated their services. Dempsey’s opponent failed to show. Old Joe Jeannette climbed through the ropes and offered to go on just to give the fans a run for their money. This champion of all champions, greatest fighter that ever lived, drew the color line.
Here is hoping that some foreigner who believes in fair play knocks his block off.
Grand Reunion in Bleachers
Grand reunion of the center field bleachers fans on the occasion of the second invasion of the eastern teams was held at White Sox Park, August 14, 1919. Wit, sarcasm and good natured railery flowed in an uninterrupted stream for more than two hours and a half. That's the place where the 33 degree fans of Chicago roost, ninety per cent of them moved over from 39th street with the team. You will find them there the hottest day in July or the coldest day of October. Say, Brother, if you don't know the game, keep your mouth shut. The average fan in that section attends ninety per cent of the big league games played in Chicago and about ninety per cent of the semi-pro games. They know every ball player the minute he gets out on the field. About 10% are actors and railroad men, who attend games in other big time towns during the season.
Langford and Tate Plan Light Work for Final Week
The fans of Grand Rapids, Mich., are promised plenty of action Saturday night, when Sam Langford and big Bill Tate, heavyweight boxers, mix in a ten round bout before E. W. Dickerson's club. Sam and Bill, who are doing their training in Chicago, will do only light work during the present week. The winner of Saturday's bout will get a match in Tulsa, Okla., with Jack Thompson of Philadelphia for the colored heavyweight championship.
American Giants Take Twin Bill in Gotham
New York, Aug. 17. — American Giants of Chicago won a double header from the Guy Emphems “treat-'emough’” team today, 8 to 1 and 9 to 7.
Scores:
Emphems ..... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 1 2
Am. Giants..0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 — 2 8 0
Batteries — Tesreau, Grieber; Williams, Dixon.
0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 2—9 10 2
Batteries—Pol Perritt and Grieber;
Charleston, Johnson, Brown and Dixon.
JOLIET, 2; UNION GIANTS, 0
Joliet, Ill., Aug. 17.—A sacrifice fly and Jacobs' theft of home gave Joliet a 2 to 0 victory over the Union Giants in an abbreviated combat. The game was stopped in the fifth inning by rain. Middleton allowed only one hit. Score:
Union Giants— AB. R. H. E.
Bluett, cf. 1 0 0 0
Peters, ss. 1 0 0 0
Brewer, 1b. 2 0 0 0
White, c. 2 0 0 0
Davis, rf. 2 0 0 0
Lee, lf. 2 0 1 0
Brown, 3b. 1 0 0 0
Ward, 2b. 2 0 0 0
Simpson, p. 2 0 0 0
Totals 15 0 1 0
Joliet— AB. R. H. E.
Wright, 3b. 2 0 0 0
Winkler, ss. 2 0 0 1
Swanson, rf. 2 0 1 0
Wakefield, 1b. 2 1 1 0
Jacobs, c. 2 1. 2 0
Bullen, 2b. 2 0 0 0
Bermele, cf. 0 0 0 0
Spehn, lf. 0 0 0 0
Middleton, p. 1 0 0 1
Totals 13 2 4 2
Union Giants 0 0 0 0 0—2
Joliet 0 2 0 0 *—2
Struck out—Middleton, 2; Simpson, 1. Bases on balls—Middleton, 1; Simpson, 1. Stolen base—Jacobs.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
W. L. R. H. E. LB.
Cineinnati . . . 6 3 27 69 9 68
New York . . . 4 5 25 70 18 56
Chicago . . . 4 3 15 42 6 37
Brooklyn . . . 3 6 16 63 13 42
Pittsburgh . . . 4 3 24 73 9 38
Boston . . . 3 3 18 54 10 50
St. Louis . . . 5 2 32 60 12 35
Philadelphia . . . 3 5 29 59 17 43
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
W. L. R. H. E. LB.
Chicago .4 1 37 53 4 42
Detroit .4 1 36 61 4 35
Cleveland .3 2 27 44 20 44
New York .2 4 28 58 9 38
St. Louis .2 2 28 52 7 31
Boston .2 3 30 55 3 40
Washington .1 3 10 27 0 22
Philadelphia .1 4 20 44 12 39
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
W. L. Pet.
St. Paul .67 41 .620
Indianapolis .63 45 .583
Louisville .61 48 .560
Kansas City .57 50 .533
Columbus .53 56 .486
Minneapolis .52 57 .477
Milwaukee .41 69 .373
Toledo .40 68 .370
W. L. Pet.
Vernon 76 52 .593
Los Angeles 76 52 .593
Salt Lake City 67 53 .558
San Francisco 64 64 .500
Sacramento 59 62 .488
Oakland 60 69 .466
Portland 54 71 .432
Seattle 45 78 .366
W. L. Pet.
Atlanta 68 47 .591
New Orleans 67 47 .587
Little Rock 56 50 .530
Chattanooga 56 56 .500
Mobile 54 56 .483
Memphis 52 62 .456
Birmingham 49 62 .441
Nashville 49 69 .416
An ex-big league pitcher, in 'glee "Pol
Perritt" cried "no one steals bases on
me." But when Charleston stole two
bases, his glove and shoe laces, he said,
"The kid's clever, oh, gee."
THE CHICAGO WHIR
F SPORTS E
My gracious, said a reader recently, you must know a lot of prominent sporting people, judging from the way you refer to them. Well, modestly speaking, we know a few, for example, while entering a State street car yesterday morning who should be seated there but Frank Preer, owner of the Deluxe Billiard Hall. He had gotten on at 35th St., before we could utter a word, he said good morning so everybody could hear it. We thus have witness to the fact that we know one. We also have shaken hands with Teenan Jones, Art Cadozae, Alderman Anderson, Isadore LeVine, Alderman Jackson, Sam Langford, Sam MeyV, Jack Johnson, Rube Foster, Bill Bottoms, Bill McCulloch, Juli Jones, Lzy Shaw, Virgil Williams, Jim Griffin, Cib Cowan, George W. Holt, Walter L. Cohen, Bob Church, Jr., Doc Anderson, Doctor Johnson, Doctor Julius Green, Dan Jackson, Bill Lewis, William Buekner, Cary B. Lewis, S. B. Turner, Roscoe Conklin Simmons, Oscar De Priest, Jim Brewington, Jim Russell, Pat Preset, Johnny Brown, Homer Ross, Eddie Holt, Shep Allen, Billy Marshall, Giver Jones, Bob Harp, Jimmie Williams, Clarence McFarland, Bat Lewis, Walter Ball, Joe Green, but why continue, enough is enough, Read the Whip next week.
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THE CHICAGO WHIP
BASE BALL CATECHISM
Lesson 1—Babe Ruth
Oh, see the man! Isn't he a big man? Yes.
What is the man doing? The man is going to the plate.
Is he going to bat? Yes, indeed; you can tell that by the way the fielders are going to the fence.
Can this man hit this pitcher? You said it. This man can hit any pitcher. His name is Babe Ruth.
What makes the fans in the pavilions move away? They are moving away because they know if Ruth fouls one just right and they are there to meet it, they will see their next game in heaven.
What does Ruth hit? Ruth hits home runs.
But does Ruth always hit home runs? No, Ruth does not always hit home runs. Some days he gets his base on balls, and other days the game is called on account of rain. Why are the pitcher and catcher talking to each other? Is the game over? No, indeed, with Ruth at the bat, the game is just begun. The catcher wants to feed him one on the inside, and the pitcher wants to pitch one outside. Will it make any difference which way they pitch? Yes, it will make a little difference. If they pitch outside, Ruth will hit the ball over the left field fence, and if they pitch inside, he will slap it over the right field. Oh, see the pitcher throw the ball. Isn't it coming in fast? It is, but not so fast as it is going out.
Did the ball have anything on it?
Yes, indeed, the ball had Babe Ruth's bat on it.
My goodness, what a loud crash. Was that an explosion? Yes, it was an explosion. Ruth's bat exploded and blew in four runs.
Is the game over now? We'll say it is—for the pitcher. B. V. D.
Federal League Suit
Those who love baseball and wish to see the National game prosper are still more or less stunned by the decision of that jury at Washington, D. C., awarding damages to the men who had money invested in the ill-fated Federal League at Baltimore. Was the decision of the jury based entirely on law and facts? Let us hope so. The finding of that jury composed of eleven white men and one colored man may mean a lot to the future of professional baseball.
Pal Moore in Paris to Fight 2 Bantamweights
Paris, Aug. 21.—Pal Moore, popular American bantam, is arranging to meet two French bantams next months for a purse of 75,000 francs. They are Engene Criqui and Charles Ledoux. Nate Lewis, Moore's manager, says Jimmy Wilde, who recently received a decision over the American, refused £5,000 to meet Moore again in England. Moore and Lewis are now in Paris.
WILD LIFE ON THE CHICAGO
GIANTS BENCH
Dialogue between Joe Green and one of his men with interruptions from other players. The object of Joe's wrath has just struck out in the ninth with the bases full, two gone, one to tie, and two to win.
Green: You——you——who told you you were a ballplayer? The sinner: The same guy that told you you were a manager, you——you——you——! Green: Whadda ya think of a——like that? Fine piece of cheese, ain't he? The sinner: I can bat as good as any of them if I get a chance. What chance do I get, anyhow? Green. More chance than you deserve, you——! Walter Ball: Who in——could bat, or pitch, or do anything, the way you give orders, you——? Green: Aw, go to——, all of you, you——!!! General chorus of whole club: Go there yourself, you big——!!!
When Bender, the famous Indian pitcher, was with the Philadelphia National League team, he was asked how he liked the manager, Pat Moran. "Pat's a bird," remarked the chief. "He is an easy boss when you give him all you've got, but you can take it from me he's one rough talker when you don't. If you treat Pat right he will treat you even better, but if you don't, he'll treat you even worse."
When Ruth knocked the ball in the right field bleachers on August 14th at White Sox Park, he broke the American League record for home runs that has stood since 1902.
The May's ease making a mountain out of a mole-hill.
Is It Superstition?
Just superstition, of course, yes, yes, but every ball player in the big leagues who becomes a hero in a world series gets the can tied to him the next year. Except with one exception, Red Faber, it took the White Sox eleven years to win a pennant. George Rho, after being the hero of the 1906 World Series, was turned back the next year. Looks like Comiskey had that thought in view when he kept the 1917 team intact for
Invite Prince of Wales to Detroit Gold Cup Regatta
Detroit, Mich., Aug. 21.—(Special.)
—The Prince of Wales has been invited to attend the gold cup regatta here Aug. 29 to Sept. 1, when the world's motor boat championship will be decided. Capt. E. V. Rickenbacker, American ace, has been named one of the judges, divided into three heats. Miss Detroit III will defend the cup won last year. The challengers include Miss Detroit II, Miss Minneapolis, and Arab IV from Buffalo.
SPORTING EDITOR HAS WIDE ACQUAINTANCE
After Babe Ruth's record breaking home run, August 16th, I thought I would stroll down to the 26th Street Beach, cool off and interview my friend, Kid Dixon, life saver. Just as I arrived at the beach, the police officer on duty and Kid Dixon were talking about the ladies bathing suits. Kid Dixon: "Seems that all the chickens used all their wool knitting sox, car muffs and sweaters for the soldiers. Now they haven't any material left to make a sack frock out of, but dropped stitches, which is what most of 'em seem to be constructed of. Incidentally, some of the stitches dropped some distance." The first thing the officer saw was a chick in a one piece suit. He took three looks, the last two to verify the rumor started by the first look. He stated that the three looks were taken as an officer, not as a married man or a citizen. He saw she had on a one-piece suit, which is a violation of the law by nine inches. He ordered her' to take it off.
Baseball pool magnets should cut out the "snitchen and bickering." That's wrong all over like a giraffe with a sore neck. Every one in the game is making more "Jack" than he can make doing anything else he knows. The players are satisfied and would hate to see an absolutely square pastime killed. Remember State Street looks better than the concrete jig with the steel portiers and the key tied to a rabbit.
Kid Bevo now batting for Old Taylor. He can't hit .275.
Pitchers Perry and Rodgers of the Athletics have jumped to a semi-pro team of Franklin Pennsylvania.
Player Wilhorti, leading batter of the Western League, has been purchased by the Boston Red Sox.
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the 1919 season. In 1909, Jake Abstein played a great game for Pittsburg in the world series against Detroit. But he got the hook the next year and Pittsburg has been amongst the also rans ever since. Look what the Red Sox owners did to George Whiteman. He was counted as a substitute out fielder all last season, did tremendous deeds in the annual classic. His hitting and fielding saving the Red Sox again and again, but he got the hook before the season started. Maybe that is the reason that the Red Sox who on paper ought to be up with the leaders, are being kicked around from pillar to post.
CICOTTE'S OFF YEAR
So great is the number of baseball writers who continually harp about 1918 being an off year for Cicotte, that I, as a student of the game, refer them to the book. I well remember a stretch of five successive games last year that he lost by the score of 1-0. The sixth game he won by the score of 1-0. In other words, the White Sox seceded just one solitary run for him in six successive games, one of them an extra inning affair. How many games are you going to win on that working margin? As a matter of fact, he won the only one of the six that they gave him anything to win with. Walter Johnson, Dick Redding, Withworth, Sothern, Jess Barnes and Alexander combined can't win games when no runs are scored. I suppose this showing indicates a slump, but if he never slumps any worse I shall be satisfied. In my opinion a game lost by the score of 1-0 ought not to count against the losing pitcher. It is unfair to figure otherwise, because he had absolutely no chance to win. The fact that he held the opposing side to a single run indicates that he pitched a star game. He pitched well enough to deserve to win. It is not his fault his own teammates failed to score. That is their look out. The pitcher himself pitched winning ball, and if he is cheated out of a victory he should have had, certainly that is penalty enough without chalking up an undeserved defeat against his account.
On Saturday, August 16, Bill Bottoms, owner of Dreamland Cafe, had his car parked in the rear of the White Sox's Park. Babe Ruth hit the ball over the right field bleachers and it dented the hood of Bill's car. Ruth must have known that Bill is a White Sox fan, because there were 99 other cars in the place.
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Someone said that Jimmie Griffin, of the Royal Gardens, was not the best informed man on thoroughbreads in town. Yes, both kinds. We can tell you, ask us.
That the man who does the most business does not advertise. Poor simp, he is always "singin em" about hard times.
That you can't get a drink with a kick in it. You can get one with two kicks.
That Frank Preer hasn't got the finest billiard tables in Chicago. Well, he's got the most gentlemanly players.
Someone said that Oscar De Priest and Virgil Williams were going to lock arms in defeating the next candidate in the Aldermanic campaign. "It's all right, but there's nothing to it."
That the Whip was afraid to talk about our fake, self styled leaders. Idle talk.
That Harvey Saunders did not sell the best drugs and hair oils cheaper than any of the white druggists on the South side. We know better.
That the Armory is the best place to hold a business exposition. It's the biggest place all right.
Milwaukee, Wis., Aug. 21.—(Special.)
—Jack Sharkey of New York had little trouble in winning a popular decision over Bantamweight Champion Pete Herman of New Orleans in a ten round bout here tonight.
The champion did not open up until warned by Referee Houlehan in the fifth, and for a few minutes gave Sharkey everything he had in stock, but for the remainder of the fight Sharkey scored a lot of points on open glove slapping.
Chicago National League and Brooklyn National League on August 14th broke the league record for playing double headers when they finished both games in two hours and twenty minutes; taking one hour and ten minutes for each event.
On August 14th, when Gleason used the "hook" on Cicotte, it was the first time this year the said instrument was used on said person. Let's hope it will be the last time.
"Along Came Ruth" is a play that is very unpopular with American League pitchers.
Reading about the late imitation of a packing plant held at Toledo, Ohio, July 4th, one of the officials, Jack Skelley was referred to as a former feather weight champion of the world. In July, 1892, Tom O'Rourke, manager of Geo. Dixon, feather weight champion of the world wrote to Jim Vance, Sr., and asked him could Dixon get protection in New Orleans. He replied, "Come on down; protection is assured." Tom O'Rourke, Dixon and his trainer, a small Irishman, about four feet in height arrived the next week. Dixon's training consisted of visiting all places of interest and your humble servant was the guide. Three fights were held in one week, feather weight championship, light weight championship and heavy weight championship. Jack Shelley was billed as the Jersey skeeter and he lasted just about as long as one; 8 rounds is as near as he ever came to being a champion.
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