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SCOTT BROWN AND SAM HARRIS ALLEGED RIOTERS FREE Chicagoans Escape Clutches of Mob Two Hide in Red Hills of Missouri. Third Reaches Chicago Anarchy Rules South. Sheriff Takes No Step To Protect Prisoner The Whip is Published By Young Men Vol. 1.—No. 22. WIN Chicago Two Hide Anarchy Rules S Takes No Ste tect Pris By Henry Bown, Staff Correspondent MOBERLY, Mo. Nov. 16. A man said to be one of the four who held up and robbed Edward Thompson, a farmer on the outskirts of Moberly, Thursday night, was lynched in Forest Park here early this morning. It is believed, the sheriff knew of the coming of the mob, but made no effort to protect his prisoner and on the presence of the man hunters surrendered, give the keys without contest. Three companions of the man lynched made a daring escape from the clutches of the mob, but were later captured after putting up a game fight and are now held somewhere in Randolph County in custody unknown. One of the four is still at large and is said to be on his way to civilization. Man Hunters Rave Like Howling Wolves. The mob formed Randolph County was in a state of anarchy, mob frenzy was sweeping Randolph county like a windstorm. Things were reckless during the day and the night acted as a cloak to lawlessness. Men From Chicago. The men named as assailants of the old farmer, but their guilt has not yet been established, were from Chicago and gave their names as Hallie Richardson 18, 101 W. 31st St., Lee Adams 18, 2038 Federal St., James Anderson, 3122 Federal St., Chicago, and Sanford Taylor, E. St. Louis, Ill. Which one of the four was lynched is not known. Kidnapped in Night Clothes. After the remaining man was captured and taken to Macon County, Purdue Honors Chinese Students. Faculty and Student Body Attend Funeral LaFayette, Ind., Nov. 18.—Purdue University's faculty and student body paid tribute today to the memory of Charles Chin Chu, a Chinese student of the university, who died last Tuesday. Several hundred students and professors assembled at the West Side Methodist Church, where the funeral service was held. Addresses were made by several faculty members and a representative from the Chinese Student Society in American Colleges was here from Chicago to tell of the work that Chu had done toward the organization of this club. The body was placed in a vault in a local cemetery to await action of the Chinese government, which sent young Chu here to go to college. THE CHICAGO WHIP THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY A PAPER WITH A POLICY the mob heard of their action and motored there and demanded the shelter to deliver the prisoners. The men awake from their sleep only to find the strangulation of the lynchers rope about their neck and were taken away from the jail in their night clothes. Barn Fire Built. A large fire had been built in the public square. The Southerners intended to make this a Gala day of the week. The town turned out and in one instant a returned soldier (white) said: "We must do this to keep'em in their places" and on the mob surged so the inner of the big square standing room was sold for five dollars a square foot. The people stood there watching and waiting for the big show to start. Men Made Dash For Liberty. The fire could be seen for miles around and seeing this, the prisoners made a dash for life and liberty and took the nerve of the mob by clever battling. But finally a rope was placed over the head of one of the three and thrown over a near by limb. The mob pulled and the rope broke. The man started running as he fell, there came the volley of fire. The victim fell dead and there was the shame of it all. An American lynched on American soil, b Americans, for what? That's it, for what? A felt the pulse of sentiment there in regard to the Negro, and from morning till night the byword is 'he gettin' too wise'. Others Free to Safety. While the mob was riddling the both of the dead man, the others fled to safety and they hope to make their arrival in God's County once again. Seized as Night Burglar. Partner Robbed in Daytime New York, Nov. 20.—John Henry, a young and dapper Negro, was rested in Mount Vernon yesterday charged by the police with being the "night burglar" who has been operating in Westchester County recently. Several days ago the Mount Vernon police arrested Daniel West, an exconvict, who, they say, is the "day burglar" who worked with Henry. The police assert the pair looted fifty Westchester homes in alternate day and night burglaries in the last two months. Henry was arrested after eight homes in the Chester Hill section of Mount Vernon were robbed Wednesday night. More than $1,000 in jewelry was stolen from these homes. The police found Henry near the Mt. Vernon High School yesterday, but did not recover the stolen jewelry. Henry gave his address as No. 220 Prince Street, New York. Vincennes Hotel Bought By Popular Business Woman. Finest in America The Vincennes Hotel at 36th Street and Vincennes Ave. has been recently purchased by Miss Barnett, proprietress of the Pullman Restaurant, 31st and State Streets. The business men in this section regarded this undertaking as one of the marvelous of the age for a woman. One of the most prominent bankers on the south side (white) says: Miss Barnett has set a pace in the commercial world which if followed by others will mean economic freedom for the Negro. Most Modern in America The fact that Miss Barnett had any connection at all with the hotel is sufficient proof to every Chicagoan that it is a first class proposition. The lobby and reading room of the hotel, while not so spacious, are as unique exquisite in arrangement as any of the loop hostelries. The rooms are arranged into 1 to 5 room suites with telephone service in every room. The furniture is composed of bird's-eye maple and genuine mahogany not on any particular floor but from bottom to top. Cater To Best Mr. Lewis, the manager, gave out a statement to the press saying for years the idea of a first class hotel for first class colored patrons had been nursed by him. And that he would rather see every room vacant or the hotel rotted down than to have it a second class proposition. He said further: We are going to give the best of service and protection to the public and we would rather than accept loss. Colored Farmers Grows Sweet Potatoes Weighing 13 lbs. Biggest in History Special to the Whip. Temple, Tex., Nov. 20.—A sweet potato weighing thirteen pounds raised on his farm south of Temple was exhibited by Louis Deavers, a well known farmer, yesterday, who reports that he has a splendid crop of the tubers, but not all of this same weight and size, but all prize winners. The potato is of the Porto Rican usuallyqiapcezdntheorortffaaHst - j variety. Many farmers were unusually successful with potatoes this year, the high prices causing mohe to be planted than usual. Colored Deputies Acquitted Atty's Scott, Mollison and Pat. B. O'Donnel Make Able Plea for Accused One of the most interesting riot cases yet tried by the state came to a successful conclusion in favor of the defenders, J. Scott Brown and Harris, deputy sheriffs of Cook County. The jury was out only six hours. They were accused of shooting promiscuously into crowds of white citizens during the recent riot. Judge Crow Unbiased. Despite the vain attempt of the states attorney to have a conviction by appealing to the prejudice of the court, going so far as to say that if they were acquitted, another riot would follow, Judge Crow insisted that the jury try the case upon its merits. That his instructions carried weight is evidenced by the decision. Scott Brown was fined $1.00 and Harris was exonerated. Able Legal Talent. Able Legal Patent. In addition to the fairness of the court the defendants owe their free-dom to able legal talent they retained Att'y. Mollinson made it is said one of the most classical and convincing arguments the court has ever witnessed. Following his address Att'y. James A. Scott, nationally known as an authority on extradition and criminal procedure succeeded in tearing down the prosecutor's argument. White Lawyers Not Needed White Lawyers Not Needed. Pat. O. Donnel, the fighting champion for the cause of the Irish freedom said at a monster mass meeting at the People's Movement Club "the master defence put up by Messrs. Scott and Mollinson in this case, the fairness of most of the Chicago Judges, the department of colored lawyers of the new school led him to the conclusion that colored people did not further need the assistance of white legal talent." Cotton $1.25 a Pound. One Bale Is Sold At This Figu e To Memphis Dealer Pine Bluff, Ark., Nov. 18 — One bale of cotton was sold here yesterday by R. A. Downs, cotton buyer to A. Henshaw, Memphis dealer, for $1.25 a pound, the highest price in the State since the Civil War. It was one and one-half inch staple length. Phoenix, Ariz., Nov. 18. — Records for cotton prices were declared established when at eight valley gins, a price of 86 cents a pound for long staple cotton went into effect, an advance of four cents a pound. The new figure represents $430 a bale. MAN RUN DOWN BY SPEEDING AUTO Early this morning an unidentified man was run down by a speeding auto. Slightly hurt, the victim was so frightened he didn't get the number of the car Yancy Mills Facing Gallows ---Calls Mother With visions of the gallows before him yesterday, William Yancy Mills, colored, held for the murder of Isadore Gunski, Jewish tailor, and Tony Brizzolard, fruit dealer, is now waiting for the day to come which he will call life's finis. Not long ago Yancy was nothing but a schoolboy, running errands for the neighborhood surrounding his home in Palestine. But the scene has shifted. Now Yancy is in the county jail. He has committed murder. Like all other wayyard boys that travel the path of least resistance and wanted the world but would not put up an honest effort to obtain his share, he sought the wrong path, the path that led to the gallows, and now he calls to the only friend in the world, his mother, for assistance, to help him now. Coroner's Jury Finds Him Guilty Mills yesterday was formally charged with the double murder after a coroner's jury had heard evidence, and was found guilty beyond doubt. The Evidence Ganski and Brizzolard were both beaten to death with an iron pipe some weeks ago, each in his own place of business near Wells and Van Buren Sts. Testimony yesterday was that Mills' hat was found under Ganski's body and that Mills was seen wearing Ganski's velour hat and overcoat soon after the murder. Mills was a porter at 838 S. State St. He disappeared soon after the murders. He went to Annapolis, Baltimore, New York and Philadelphia, where he was arrested trying t osteal a yoman's pocketbook. Capt. Morgan Collins said he was identified thru his finger prints. Colored Slayer To Be Executed Anniston, Ala., November 20. (Special.)—Preparations are being made for the execution on December 5 of Edgar Caldwell, the negro ex-soldier who was convicted of the murder of Conductor Cecil Linton on an Oxford Lake car in in December of last year. Caldwell's case has been through every possible legal phase, efforts to save him from the gallows through appeal to the supreme court after a strong fight in the local court had failed to prevent conviction. Only clemency by the governor can now prevent his execution. The case became a noted one through the interevention of President Wilson, in a letter to Governor Kilby, when there appeared to be a question if the state court or the army should handle him. Threatening letters to Judge H. D. Merrill, who sentenced Caldwell, also featured the case. Sheriff Parker does not expect any interference now and bids for the scaffold have been asked and plans mode for enclosing the jail ward with a high board fence. Don't Read the "Whip" If You Are a "Half Man" DEA Condemned Colored Die, Says Arkansas G Ignores Trotter's D EATH colored Men Must Kansas Governor. otter's Demand DEATH Condemned Colored Men Must Die, Says Arkansas Governor. Ignores Trotter's Demand sale fashion; that they have been in Phillips and adjacent counties mercilessly exploited under a ruthless system of peonage; that these practices reminiscent of the dark ages have been winked at and even encouraged by the authorities; that, in short, Arkansas has seized the pretext fictitious organization of Negroes to commit wholesale and legalized murder. Trotter Makes Plea. Mr. Trotter, in his plea to the Governor, pointed out that the eleven colored men had been tried by a jury of eleven whites, in disregard for the fundamental principles of justice, be judged by his peers; that they had been denied 'habeas corpus' and that the verdict for the entire eleven had been returned within seven minutes after the jury had retired to make their mock deliberation. Colored People To Take Own Census New York, Nov. 19.—After hours of debate and pressure on the part of the various colored Welfare Organizations, Hon. Arthur D. Dore, U. nounced that in all districts where S. Supervisor of Census, has ancolored people dyell in majority colored census takers would be used. Southerners Object. As soon as the southern members of Congress and cabinet learned of the decision of the Census Department it is said they pledged to use every legitimate weapon possible to defcat the aim or M.Dore. MAN BUYS TURKEY WEIGHING 100 POUNDS. Hollandale, Miss., Nov. 17. -Silas Green purchased from Edward Jones a turkey weighing exactly 100 lbs. It is said to be the largest gobbler in the world. VERY LATEST BULLET J. Gray Lucas intends to sue the Whip? Tribune, Mr. Lucas? Ed. Wright's popularity for Ward Com same as Jack Johnson's for president. Mrs. Barnett's New Hotel is a credit to Mr. Lenard, the gentleman who was take train and horsewhipped a short time ago in Chicago and plans to go in business. A State Bank will be organized among before January 1. ST BULLETINS o sue the Whip? Why not sue the y for Ward Committeman is the president. tel is a credit to Chicago. man who was taken from a southern short time ago in Mississippi is in business. organized among the South Siders VERY LATEST BULLETINS VERY LATEST BULLETINS J. Gray Lucas intends to sue the Whip? Why not sue the Tribune, Mr. Lucas? Ed. Wright's popularity for Ward Committeman is the same as Jack Johnson's for president. Mrs. Barnett's New Hotel is a credit to Chicago. Mr. Lenard, the gentleman who was taken from a southern train and horsewhipped a short time ago in Mississippi is in Chicago and plans to go in business. A State Bank will be organized among the South Siders before January 1. The forecast points to a very dry season. Morris will run for Congress against Who is going to the legislature? It is rumored that Ed. Morris will run for Madden. It is rumored that Ed. Morris will run for Congress against Madden. Monroe Trotter, President of the Equal Rights League, has just received a telegram from Governor Brough of Arkansas, stating that all pleas for clemency or intervention on behalf of the eleven condemned martys convicted as the result of their proposed connection in the Phillips County riot, is useless. The Governor stated that he had personally visited the scene of disturbance and was convinced as to the guilt of the men. It is alleged, ridiculously alleged, that the Negroes had organized to "massacre the whites," upon the assumption, assured with all the capacity and capacity of the southner. The whites have caused through the program that is shocking in its disregard for the least intimation of justice. Information collected by the N. A. C. P. shows conclusively that Negroes there are being railroaded to death and prison in whole- Atlanta Police Intimidated Colored Vendetta Colored Confidence Men Warn Detectives To Keep Ayay Fform The Black Section. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.—As a result of unwarranted actions on the part of city Detectives Whitney and Powers against so-called colored 'Con men and 'flim flammer,' whatever that means,—these two officers have received black hand notes warning them to turn their attention elsewhere than upon the colored section in their search for a band of criminals who have been robbing discharged soldiers. The aw detectives hadjust finished grilling some fifteen men when they received their latest communications, threatening assassination if they persisted in their wholesale arrest. The colored organization is known to be powerful and their threats are expected to have immediate effect. PRICE FIVE CENTS Southerners Objec. Time already Set. — Special to The Whip. Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 16. About 8 P. M. on Tuesday, Nov. 13, Miss Sarah Cantwell, a young colored dress maker, was returning home from work. She had been sewing all day at the home of a local merchant and was tired out as a result of her exertions. As she crossed into street, within a block of her home, she was suddenly accosted by a young white man, who clasped his hand over her mouth, and dragged her struggling into the ally, where she was latter found bound and gagged, and clothes almost torn off. Miss Cantwell described her assailant as being a slight built, wearing an old grey suit with the coat collar turned up, a soft hat pulled down over his blue eyes. The man was identified later by shopkeepers who had seen him lurking in the neighborhood as one Carl Seaton. Two of Miss Cantwell friends took it upon themselves to encourage the girl and set out in search for Seaton and when he finally pushed open the door, reeling out in a drunken stemper, they pounced upon him. Seaton had been badly bruised when the ale house crowd, attracted by the voice and the scuffling rushed out, seeing two Negroes pouncing a white man, immediately leaped upon them with wries of 'lynch the niggers.' The cry was wildly echoed, a mole formed in the white section of the city and bound McCornicler and Johnstone together as if they were two logs, tied to a Ford car standing near by and in this fashion dragged them along the cobble stone to the outskirts of the city. Here they were stripped of their clothing, strung up head down and while the crowd stood around shooting with glee, swinging to and fro like a pendulum, various members of the crowd taking pots-shots as they swung. Then, as if tired of this, a red hot poker was taken, and accompanied by the odor of burning flesh a sizzling red line drawn from each eight across their bodies to their heads as if to complete the work. The poker was then applied to the eyes, the crowd yelling and cursing with pride as the poor victims screamed with pain. Parade Thru Town. Then the men were cut down, and again tied to the Ford and driven at a high rated speed right thru the heart of the town and finally stopped in front of the Lawrence Hotel, a fashionable hotel patronized by northerners, there they were left, dead and mutilated a pitiful sight, as if in testimony of the southern art. Colored People Protest. Horrified and moved to immediate action, the representative colored citizens of Jacksonville held an indignation meeting and protested to the Gov. against the outrage. These men including a numbers of bankers, merchants and professional men received as the answer letters threatening them with like treatment unless they broke up their business and with their families left the town within a specified time. That time has already expired and none have heeded the warning, and the whole colored population is on its tip toes, waiting for whatever action the whites intend to make. FRENCH GIRLS MARRY CHINESE. PARIS, Nov. 18.—The increasing number of marriages between French girls and Chinese laborers in France has resulted in the Minister of Interior warning French women that most of the coolies already have wives in China where, upon arrival with their husbands, they would be regarded merely as secondary wives. SUBSCRIBE TODAY Cut Out the Coupon Below--- Send Money Order or Stamps 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. Subscription $2.00 per year, $1.25 per 6 months. Gentlemen:—Enclosed find.....for .....month's subscription. Mob Forms. Prominent Mississippi Man Buys Mallory Barber Shop One of the most significant happenings of the week in the business world is the change of ownership of Cosmopolitan barber shop at 311 E. 35th Street. The purchaser is Mr. Drummond Lenora, and formerly of Yazoo City, Miss. Mr. Mallory who has been during business in this spot for years and built up one of the best clientele on the south side is going to remain with the firm but only in capacity of an employee. Opie Reed, former non-commissioned officer in the eighth regiment and a real tonsorial artist has also been retained by the ney owner. Prominent Citizens Of The South. Mr. Lenora is no novice in the torsorial game. For years he has been the proprietor of the finest barbershop in the south. He was also prominent in Fraternal and church circles. Like the most of the new comers to the east, north and west Mr. Lenora brings a highly cultured family which will serve as an asset to the community. The various civic organizations are beginning to solicit him and harness him with the elevating forces of the city. GEORGIA WHITE MAN ATLANTA, Ga., oNv. 20.—In the presentments of the Fulton County grand jury, recently made public, is a notation with reference to the treatment of chain-gang convicts, to the effect that "we are pleased to learn from the well-kept records that the number of whippings has been very greatly decreased." So far as it goes this is encouraging, in that it indicates progress from a custom and a practice that is inhuman and barbarous. It is good that "the number of whippings has been very greatly decreased"; but there will still be room for improvement so long as the most trace of this indefensible practice remains in our civilization to link it with the iniquitous days of barbary and human deprivacy. Physical torture never did and never will reform any man, or make him a better man. The tendency of it is only to embitter him and make him a worse man and a greater menace to society when he is restored to liberty. It is in no sense reformative, but only degrading; and, as Robert G. Ingersoll put it in his great lecture on "Crimes Against Criminals," "there is no reformation in degradation." Georgia can very well afford to do some radical reforming in this direction; and it is to be hoped that the time is not far distant when grand juries in every county in the State can truthfully report that the practice of flogging convicts has been relegated to the limbo in which it belongs. RY DETECTIVE KILLED COLORED MAN ACCUSED. Eighteen indictments growing out of the investigation by detectives and the grand jury of the murder of Lee Stringer, railroad detective, October 30, were returned in criminal court Thursday by the grand jury. Two men, Abe Spaulding and Earl McCoy, colored, were charged with the murder of Stringer, while more than a score of other persons, most of them colored, were named in indictments charging grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. The investigation of the Stringer murder led to the disclosure of wholesale thefts from railroad cars near the Yandesa street railroad yards, detectives said. The grand jury also indicted Jason Lee and Beulah Bass on charges of grand larceny, and George D. Wills alleged to have stolen an automobile, the property of the state of Indiana on a charge of vehicle taking. So Secretary Baker Finds After Inquiry Into Conduct of 368th Regiment in Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Washington, Nov. 20.—Secretary of War Baker issued a statement today covering an investigation ordered by him into charges reflecting on the efficiency of the 368th Regiment of the Negro troops in France. This was not Col. Hayward's regiment of New York Negroes, but another which was detached from the 92nd American Division on Sept. 23, 1918, and brigaded with a French division in the Neuse-Argonne offensive. One battalion of the regiment assigned to the advance, broke its line of Sept. 28, and withdrew twice from its battle position. Court martial resulted and reports were spread that the Negroes proved unreliable in battle. On the other hand, the defenders of the Negroes charged that the spirit and morale of the regiment were broken by race discrimination, that the white officers fell short of their duty, that the regiment did not have adequate maps, wire cutters or signalling devices, and that the withdrawals from front positions were made under orders. Investigating by Inspector General discloses that, as it had been without battle experience, the regiment was not expected to act primarily as an attacking force, but merely to maintain contact with combat forces on either side. In the development of the battle it became necessary to use the regiment in attack. The advance was extremely difficult, through a jungle of undergrowth, in which were masses of wire entanglements and numerous trenches. In addition, the action in which the regiment was engaged developed at times intense shells, machine gun and rifle fire. The regiment was not fully supplied with wire cutters, maps or signaling devices, owing to the confusion and exigenices of the battle. There was no general artillery support, and some of the friendly artillery fell short and caused a few casualties. "It is clean," Secretary Baker says, "that incidents arose in the midst of the battle in which the 3d battalion was advancing under most unusual conditions and where the judgment of officers untried in battle, however, well trained, might easily err; and as to the two withdrawals, there is strongly supported evidence that orders from some quarter were carried, forward by runners, directing the withdrawals, although orders had been given after the noon withdrawal that no withdrawal order, not in writing and signed by the battalion commander, should be obeyed. The investigation showed that no such written order had been issued. Many Negroes Decorated. "The circumstances disclosed by a detailed study of the situation do not justify many of the highly colored accounts which have been given of the behavior of the troops in this action, and they offer no basis at all for any of the general assumptions with regard to the action of colored troops in this battle or elsewhere in France. On the contrary, it is to be noted that many colored officers, and particularly three in the very battalion here under discussion, were decorated with Distinguished Service Crosses for extraordinary heroism under fire. "I authorize the publication of this statement in order that justice may be done to the officers, white and colored, and to the men of this regiment, and in the hope that a recital of the facts may make prejudice and distorted discussion impossible in the future." EDUCATED NEGROES WANT JUSTICE, NOT EQUALITY. Houston, Tex., .ov. 17.—In a declaration of principles and policies, The Colored Baptist Educational and Missionary Convention of Tennessee, in its concluding session here, declared the presence of elements that appear to be making headway in creating distrust between the races and went on record in a resolution declaring "that the idea of social equality so often construed as underlying the activities of the .egroes for the rights and privileges of American citizenship is utterly foreign from what is desired by our people." While not condoning crime committed by Negroes, the convention pleaded for a fair trial for members of the race and that their punishment follow only after their conviction by due process of law. BUY THE 'WHIP' NEXT WEEK JIM VANCE "SCOOPS" THE SPORTING WORLD THE CHICAGO WHIP Preachers Pay Raised 40% Minimum Salaries Established Throughout the Nation NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—An average increase of 40 per cent in the salaries of Methodist minister throughout the country to meet the mounting cost of living and establishment of "minimum salaries" were announced today by the Centenary Conservation Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church here. The new scale of pay will be in effect generally by Jan. 1, it was stated. The fund raised for the world program of the Centenary Conservation Committee will provide the money for the salary increases. Those ministers whose pay has been increased by their congregations to a sufficient amount will receive no added remuneration from the church organization, the bulk of the increases being for those whose salaries have remained unchanged at low figures. The average salary for Methodist ministers was $1111 in 1918. The new average will be approximately $1500. WAR CAMP COMMUNITY A RE- CONSTRUCTION NECESSITY The work accomplished by the War Camp Community Service during the war an its doubled work in this crisis of the Reconstruction evidence its continued necessity. The community has at no time had a center quite so well attended and generally appreciated as the one now conducted by this service. In its new and extended work it is the Community Service Incorporated. This is a national organization intended to take up peace time work where it was left off by the War Camp Community Service; it is confined to no party or creed; it calls upon everyone without regard to race or color, to native and foreign born alike to cooperate as citizens in the building up of their community. It does not propose to duplicate the work of the home of the school, but to supplement it. The opportunity for the training of girls in the fundamental principles of right living and in the amenetics of live while the community spirit is being created and developed is one that has been long neglected. Participation and sympathetic interest by our girls and parents will accomplish the good purposes for which the organization was founded. CHAS. B. TRAVIS FOR WARD COMMITTEEMAN. A meeting of Voters in Second Ward was held Thursday night at Headquarters, 22 East 31st Street, in the interest of Charles B. Travis, Republican Candidate for Ward Committeeman. Dr. J. A. Brockett, Superintendent of the Chicago Iron Workers Forum, Chairman. Calling the meeting to order, Dr. Brockett said, "Gentlemen, this City, its property real and personal, public and private, belongs to the people. In every community, large and small, there is a certain class or kind of property which of necessity is used by all of the people in common.. This becomes known as public property—meaning property, which by will of majority of the people, is set apart for the use of all the people. This common rule touching public property applies to all communities; the large as well as the small. A common rule, the wisdom of which has been shown through long usage, is,—that all public property becomes the object of the Public's care. No Man On The Moon By Prof. Charles Nordmann. Paris, Nov. 20. — The announcement from the United States that Professor Pickering of Harvard has discovered evidences of organic life on the moon fills me with surprise. It is not possible to detect the presence of small organisms with present day astronomical instruments. Researches by the greatest French scientists prove ther is no atmosphere on the moon; therefore, organic life such as we know could not possibly be supported there. Until a telescope has been invented which will reveal the most minute details of the moon's surface (it will be absurd to claim that living beings exist there, although from a purely philosophic and imaginative point of view we may be able to conceive the existence of organisms entirely different from anything known to munwithout air, possibly drawing vital dane science which could subsist elements from static electricity or radiumic energy present in the infinite ether. Hair Straightened Without Hot Irons Hair cut in any style, 5 chairs. No waiting. Razors and everything in Barber line for sale. 9 W. 29th STREET. CHICAGO BARGAINS: 3 Flats for Sale. 8- room each. Modern, good transportation. Rents for $188 a yer. Cash down $500. — 4 Flats; modern, nerr 47th St. Good renetr and investment.— Price $10,000. Small cash payment. Matthew Ivens & Co., 4217 Indiana Ave. Phone Oakland 5629. 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The SUPREME LIFE AND D A carefully conceived campaign has been launched by the completion of the organization and the procy is the result of years of scientific study and actuarial actuaries; embraces the most advanced ideas of ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY New Methods for New Conditions Fight Fire With Fire The Negro's greatest Commercial achievement has been in Insurance. Reconstruction and industrial post war expansion and opportunity demand insurance policies which will meet these new conditions. THE SUPREME LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY is now being organized to meet these new conditions, which the older Insurance Companies do not adequately handle. When completely organized it will re-insure the business of the Fireside Mutual of Georgia and the Fireside Mutual of Ohio, giving at once an established business and agency organization. Incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio and AUTHORIZED TO SELL SECURITIES IN THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, the Company is now offering to the public a limited number of shares. Articles of incorporation and License for the sale of the securities of the SUPREME LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY have been granted by the State of Ohio and officially approved by the departments of other states. The Company has been formed for the greater development and expansion of Insurance along Casualty lines among our people, and for the acquisition by purchase and reinsurance, subject to legal and departmental supervision, health and health organizations in various parts of the country. Admittedly, our greatest interest is in Insurance. And, while our few old line legal reserve companies and our many health and accident organizations have shared bountifully in the tremendous industrial expansion, yet, our greatly increased wages and highly enchanced standard of living have outgrown much of the Insurance now in vogue and have created an urgent demand for policies better adapted to this period of reconstruction. The SUPREME LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY comes to answer that demand. A carefully conceived campaign has been launched for the nation-wide sale of these securities and will be followed by the completion of the organization and the presentation of the Supreme Life and Casualty Policy. The Policy is the result of years of scientific study and actual experience; has been prepared by one of America's most eminent actuaries; embraces the most advanced ideas of Casualty, Life and Group Insurance. The capitalization of the Company is as follows: CAPITAL SURPRISE Legal details pertaining to the upon by the Departments of Insurance Attorneys for Georgia. Correspondence cordially solicited SUPREME State Office INITIAL STOCK T. K. Gibson, Founder, Fireside Mutual. G. W. Hayes, U. S. Court, Cincinnati. C. R. Davis, Insurance, Cincinnati. C. S. Smith, Insurance, Chicago. D. C. Chandler, Insurance, Columbus. B. M. Roddy, Cashier Solver, Savings Bank, Pres. Roddy Stores, Memphis. R. Black, President Standard, Loan & Realty Co. Atlanta. J. L. Jones, President Central Reg. Co., Cincinnati. 17 Atlanta Physicians. BUY NOW! OWN SHARP PROMOTE A NATIONAL ORGAN EVERY SECTION OF THE CO. ECONOMIC WELFARE. Supreme L 330 CAPITAL SURPLUS Legal details pertaining to the formation of the Company by the Departments of Insurance and by A. Lee Bowers for Georgia. Correspondence cordially solicited. Address comma SUPREME LIFE AND HOME OFFICE, State Office, 3303 South State INITIAL STOCKHOLDERS, P. T. K. Gibson, Founder, Fireside Mutual. G. W. Hayes, U. S. Court, Cincinnati. C. R. Davis, Insurance, Cincinnati. C. S. Smith, Insurance, Chicago. D. C. Chandler, Insurance, Columbus. B. M. Roddy, Cashier Solvent Savings Bank, Pres. R. Black, President Standard Loan & Realty Co. Atlanta. J. L. Jones, President Central Reg. Co., Cincinnati. 17 Atlanta Physicians. H. A. Boyd, Nat'l Ba. W. S. Cannon, Reginald, Georgia. David T. Ho, Atlanta. B. J. Davis, Atlanta. A. P. Bentley, Solvent, Memphis. A. D. Hamilton, Atlanta. C. S. Cox, U. Atlanta. 7 Macon B. 10 Memphis. BUY NOW! OWN SHARES IN THE COMMITMENT A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO SERVICE SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. PROTECT OMNIC WELFARE. For further information Supreme Life and 3303 South State R Telephone CAPITAL - - - - - - $100,000.00 SURPLUS - - - - - - 100,000.00 Legal details pertaining to the formation of the Company and the issuance of the securities have been passed upon by the Departments of Insurance and by A. Lee Beaty, Attorney, Cincinnati. Dorsey, Shelton and Dorsey, Attorneys for Georgia. Officers collectively obliged Address communications to: SUPREME LIFE AND CASUALTY COMPANY HOME OFFICE, COLUMBUS, OHIO State Office, 3303 South State Street, Chicago, Illinois INITIAL STOCKHOLDERS, PROMOTERS AND ENDORSERS T. K. Gibson, Founder, Fireside Mutual. G. W. Hayes, U. S. Court, Cincinnati. C. R. Davis, Insurance, Cincinnati. C. R. Davis, Insurance, Chicago. D. C. Chandler, Insurance, Columbus. B. M. Roddy, Cashier Solvent Savings Bank, Pres. Roddy Stores, Memphis. R. Black, President Standard Loan & Realty Co., Atlanta. J. L. Jones, President Central Reg. Co., Cincinnati. 17 Atlanta Physicians. J. S. Pipper, Bishop. A. M. E. Church, Atlanta. H. R. Butler, Grand Master, Masons, Georgia. J. C. Logan, Grand Master Masons, Ohio. H. E. Hall, President Mammoth Life & Accident, Louisville. C. C. Cater, Cashier, Atlanta State Savings Bank, Georgia. C. S. Smith, Bishop. A. M. E. Church, Detroit. E. J. Turner, Gr. Med. Reg. K. of P., Columbus. 5 Cincinnati Physicians. 4 Columbus Physicians. BUY NOW! OWN SHARES IN THE COMING COLORED INSURANCE COMPANY AND THUS PROMOTE A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF OUR OWN PEOPLE IN EVERY SECTION OF THE COUNTRY. PROTECT YOUR RACE AND PROMOTE YOUR OWN ECONOMIC WELFARE. C. S. SMITH, Jr. State Representative --- PHONE DOUGLAS 6105 F.W.HARSH, Jr. 309 EAST 39th STREET CHICAGO NOTARY PUBLIC ONE DOUGLAS W.HARSH, Real Estate Renting & Insurance Loans and Mortgages Property Managed THE WORLD OF SPORTS JIM YANCE "Jimmy" Sims Famous Colored Jockey Of A Dozen Years Ago Arrested As A Dope Fiend Rated as a $20,000 Year Rider. Sims told the officials at the federal narcotic bureau: I began using dope to keep my weight down; finally I got so I couldn't get along without it. Then my heart went back on me, and I had to leave the track. Today Sims is a bootblack in a South Clark Street shop. From 1894 to 1902 he was considered America's premier jockey. During those eight years he won every important stake in America one or more times. And believe me you had to be a real rider to even attract ordinary attention. His horsemanship was wonderful and his marvelous ability can only be appreciated when you glance over his rivals during those years. Andy Hamilton, Tod Sloan, Sam Dogget, Fred Taral, Lynn, 'Soup' Perkins, Mark Overton, Jimmy Chon, Chevalier, D. Austin, W. Hicks, Battise, Chippie Bay, Henry W. Winkfield, G. Oden, T. Burnes, W. Shaw, W. Shieds, G. Fu Fulled Arbichou, Sewell, Sarhent, A. Williams, and an army of lesser lights. He was the star of the Dyyer Bros. stables when it was one of the strongest on the American turf; a stable composed of such star performers numerous others. At other times he had contracts with Harry Payne Whitney, August Belmont, and a host of millionaire owners. He became a jockey at the age of 13 when a rich New Yorker found him riding thorbreds on a Georgia plantation. 'Jimmy' as he was called around the stables remained eight years and retired at the age of 32; that was in 1909. During that time a conservative estimate of his earnings wil be a quarter of a million dollars. Since then, his health gone, Sims has lived as best he might. Shining shoes in his last stand. Here is a great object lesson to those live butterfly lives. Spend some, save more. USE FREAK BATS ON FREAK DELIVERIES. SAYS GROH. "If pitchers can keep on with artificial deliveries," remarks Heinie Groh, "why not let the batsmen in corresponding fashion? If a pitcher can roughen one side of a ball and smooth the other side, or use paraffin or emery paper, or even moisten the ball, why not permit the batsman. In other words, why shouldn't the batsman use a partially flattened bat if he wishes?" Quite correct. The batter should have as much leeway as the slabman. A fey vigorous swings with a flat bat would cure the average pitcher of any desire to use artificially treated spheres and drive the slab men back to straight shooting. POLLARD TURNS PROFESSIONAL All American Football Star Forever Lost to College Athletics. Fritz Pollard, the ex-Brown University colored star engaged in a game Football, Saturday last in Akron, Ohio. Pollard played with a professional team and it is said that under the rule of the athletic association that he is forever barred from further participation in the great game under college auspices. Pollard was one of the greatest if not the greatest backs that ever carried the pigskin. He almost beat Harvard and Yale single handed and was the idol of football circles. Pollard was still eligible for another year of college football inasmuch as he has matriculated in the University of Penn., and inasmuch as he could have played next season his friends are much disappointed at Fritz sudden jump to the professions. WORLD propels a roller skate invented by two Oregon men. --- ```markdown ``` WHISTLE SAVES CHICAGO. iowa on Maroon's One Yard Line When Game Ends. Chicago defeated Iowain one of the greatest football games ever staged on the Stagg Field by the score of 9 to 6. Ioya was the first to score early in the first quarter, Aubrey Devine Iowa's quarterback using the forward pass four times, with the aid of his brother G. Devine and Capt. Lohman crossed the maroon line but failed to kick goal. Early in the second quarter, Chicago discovered the left side of Iowa weak, marched down the feld for a touch down but Graham failed to kick goal. In the third quarter Graham kicked a field goal from the 25 yard line. Slater, Iowa's ginat colored guard had few opportunities to display his ability as his prowess had preceded him and the greater part of Chicago's playwere sent around the opposite side. McGuire of Chicago playing opposite Slater was sent over once early in the second quarter; after this scrimmage McGuire emerged yith a broken nose. Plays thru Slater ceased for the remainder of the game. O. Devine of Iowa played clearly as a quarterback. Harley of Ohio as a quarterback has nothing on him. Fouche colored end for Chicago sure played a whale of a game, his recovery of a fumble helping Chicago to get its first six points. On the Cuff. In England there is no more betting on horse racing than on any other sport. In most parts of the land of the free it is a humorous offence. If the league of nations will correct this condition, we are for it without reservations. It is not necessarily unpatriotic better over there. Germany received every punishment but prohibition. You must keep your eye on the ball—Babe Ruth. But how can you keep your eye on the ball, that has sailed over the fence? O Babe! A train of thought runs regardless of time tables. When a man has no more money to burn, his old flames soon desert him. Unless a man is capable of inventing excuses, he should remain in the bachelor class. Shortly after getting the political bee in his bonnet, the average man gets it in the neck. To many women look upon a marriage certificate as a license to operate a hold up game. Some people never change their minds because they are like the man with only one shirt. Trouble with many people who have backbone, is that it does not stop at the neck. Chicago has lost the Champion lazy man, he died of starvation because eating made his jaws tired. Dr Annunzio threatens to come here on a lecture tour. This flying, fighting poet with bloodstain on his thumb, claret stains on his flowing tie, and abstains on his sense of humor, ought to be in a riot in the South, where they are still fighting the civil war. Many a poor boot-black shiren in society. 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Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to loose. BOXING MATCH AND VAUDE VILLE SKETCH FOR EX- SOLDIERS. George L. Giles' Post to Present Novel Entertainment Features. Monday evening, November twenty-fourth, at the South Side Soldiers' & Sailors' Club, 3201 South Wabash Avenue, a six round boxing match between two local stars will be staged by the George L. Giles' Post of the American Legion. A vaudeville sketch, presenting some of the best talent developed in entertainment cycles of the American Expeditionary Forces will be another of the program, and as a final feature a whist tournament will be held. All ex-soldiers and members of the American Legion with their lady friends are invited to attend. LANGFORD KNOCKS OUT JIM JOHNSON IN 8 ROUNDS. Sioux City, Nov. 17—Before 7000 fight fans Sam Langford knocked out Jim Johnson in eight rounds after one of the fastest and clearest exhibitions ever staged in the northwest. Up to the knockout Johnson had more than held his own, but the Langford's fights. He only needs to fight is the same old story of all of connect once, then the flowers. SCRAPS It is generally asserted that women take more kindly to repetition work than men. In the first year of postplane service 7,720,840 letters were carried between New York and Washington. An aerial mail service soon will be started between two important coast towns in the Congo, seaplanes being used. Extensions that can be attached to the pedals of any piano have been invented for the use of youthful musicians. A sectional wardrobe frame, to be covered with cloth, has been invented that can be extended to any desired size by adding sections. In a gasoline plow invented by a Frenchman steel hooks carried on a revolving cylinder pulverize the soil to a considerable depth. For quickly clearing street gutters of snow an Englishman has invented a horse-drawn plow featured by rollers to guide it along curbs. By using from 50,000 to 60,000 oscillations a second a German wireless system causes musical notes to be heard in receiving instruments. An automobile horn and headlight have been combined by an inventor, the sound being produced back of the reflector and issuing around it. Two Virginia inventors have patented a razor of the regular type but with changeable blades, locked in place with a lever when inserted. The London Times stated recently that 14,000 passengers for South Africa were still in the United Kingdom awaiting steamer accommodations. It is said that boiling a cotton clothesline in water for a few minutes, and then drying it thoroughly before using will prevent it from stretching. In India military bands are forbidden to play "Home, Sweet Home," because of its pathos having so potent an effect on the English people who may hear it. Said a little girl in the Pittsfield (Mass.) library: "Mother liked "The Four Horses" and she says she wants the same author's new book. 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That is why St. Louis is going over the top, because the majority of people are real Americans, and the real syncopated jazz is doing this You say the people go to hear the music and not to see a lot of aerobic stunts of the jazz orchestra. Well, I think the jazz players got their idea from the leaders of the Symphony Orchestra through the country, by watching their long, untrimmed hair flying al over their heads, and their batons flying around like a monkey's tail. What do we care what England likes? What do we care what Queen Elizabeth wants? It's what the Aerican people want. Ragtime jazz is American music. Why not follow up American ideas in fashino as well as music? You say jazz is bad for the nerves. I haven't read about anybody becoming so nervous through jazz that they needed attention. Now, let's all get together and put jazz over the top with St. Louis. AN ARTIST AT THE PIANO WHO LOVES JAZZ COLORED PEOPLE CALL ON MAYOR Lincoln, Neb.—Oct. A committee from the Lincoln branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored people headed by President L. B. Smith, called upon Mayor Miller at the city hall Friday morning to volunteer cooperation in all efforts to prevent any possible trouble or race feeling in Lincoln, Nebraska, as has been common in other cities recently. Mayor Miller thanked them for their efforts and help and accepted the offer of information about any undesirable element of colored people that might begin a move to Lincoln. The committee reported that two places in Lincoln were Negro dives and that they were loafing places for the most undesirable element but outside of careful supervision they did not offer any suggestion as to the handling of these places. The colored people claim that there is no appreciable influs of Negroes from Omaha or from the Chicago riot districts, but say that within the past year many southern Negroes have been imported from the south by railroad companies and other labor employing firms and that these have constituted the most troublesome lot that Lincoln has had. The association has been inviting these men to their Sunday meetings to explain the difference in attitude and relation between the two races in the north and south and to warn them that they must not misake the greater liberties they have for license. "We do not want to justify any crime," T. McWilliams, former Lincoln high school student said. "We know that any crime by one of our race is blamed to all of us. That is natural and expected under present conditions. We want to help in the prevention of those crimes and in ferreting out the Negroes who do those things and get the whole colored population into trouble." The colored men's committee claims that much unfair publicity has been given race troubles in the north and lay the blame for that at the door of the southern planter, who they say, is short of Negro labor since the war and who is anxious to have the colored men return to the south either because they are forced out of the north or because the south is their natural home. Cotton in New Orleans Sold For 75 cents Pound. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 20.—The world's highest price for cotton was paid here Thursday, when 800 bales of long staple cotton from John M. Parker's Pantherburn plantation near Vicksburg, Miss., sold for 75 cents a pound. The cotton brought $450 per bale, or $360,000. This is the highest price received in over half a century. GOVERNMENT The care, management, improvement and o conservation of this class of property, by men chosen for those specific duties is called government. The people select such men for this work, whom they believe to be honest, of good character and who will safeguard such property for the interest of all the people and to promote the common good rather than the advancement of their personal interest. Armistice Week Celebrated By Play Dramatic Section of South Side Soldiers' and Sailors' Club Entertains. A patriotic play reminiscent of the "home fires" during the period of our Great War, was presented by the Dramatics Section of the War Camp Community Service at the South Side Soldiers' and Sailors' Club, Saturday evening, November 15. The play was one with a well defined point of emphasizing the necessity of organization to contacter the unrest of reconstruction. The performers were well trained and competent and exhibited a surprising case in handling the parts. The cast was as follows: Bly Barnard (S A T C)..... Gladys Prime His stage-struck sister..... Bernice Berry His Partiotic mother..... Ruby Jackson The wealthy grouch..... Henrine Ward The "done my bit" neighbor..... Beatrice Nicholson The beraved mother..... Edith Conwell The skeptical Celt..... Lillian Graham The Red Cross Nurse..... Mary Armstead The feature of the evening was the playing of Miss Glady Prime in the role of "the kid." Girls ranging in age from ten to eighteen years comprised the cast. "The Colonial Dream", featuring Miss Lillian Speed and Miss Irene Wilson, announced for November 19, will be postponed until November 26 on account of participation of a number of these ladies in the Mask of Colored America, to be held at Orchestra Hall on that evening. It is requested that all ladies attending the performance of the "Colonial Dream" November 26 dress in Colonial costume. BLOCKADE OF RUSSIA DE NOUNCED AT RALLY. New York, November 9.—More than ten thousand persons filled Madison Square Garden tonight to demand lifting of the allied blockade of Russia, but discussion was not confined to Russian affairs. American labor troubles and raids on radical headquarters came in for their share of attention. The meeting was arranged by the People's Freedom union. The presence of several hundred policemen and detectives in the audience was noted by Dudley Field Malone, who presided. "If the representatives of the department of justice and the Lusk committee are seated comfortably, we will proceed", he said. Cheers later greeted his assertion that "with all due regard to the process of law there is no court in the United States which can compel the striking coal miners to go back to work". James H. Maurer, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, was the chief speaker. He voiced a threat of a general strike in that state; declaring there is "no such thing as law and order in Pennsylvania, as the officials are not obeying the laws". Maurer declared "the first thing wee need to Americanize foreigners is to educate official Washington and Americanize the newspapers". Prolonged cheers greeted a telegram from Representative William E. Mason, of Illinois, who, after expressing regret of his absence, asserted presence of "American troops in Siberia without a declaration of war by congress is a violation of the constitution", and "the blockade which will starve women and children in Russia this winter is a crime against humanity". "I intend to keep up my fight in congress along these lines", the message said. BETTER SPEECH WEEK Observed The problem of securing better use of English, both oral and written, was attacked with great vigor, through the schools, during American Speech Week, November 3—7. The plans for the week's work were marked by originality and ingenuity. Pupils and teachers co-operated in the effort, which if prolonged, will undoubtedly raise the standard of the vernacular in our city. Prof. Percy Boynton of the Department of English, Chicago University addressed the teachers at Hughes High School, November 10th, at 3:30 O'clock. This was the culmination of the Better Speech Week which will help lay the foundation for a better speech year. 12,000 Colored Women In Y. W. C. A. St. Louis, Nov. 17—The committee on Negro york of the War Work Council of the Young Women's Christian Association reports 49 centers for Negro women and girls now in operation in various parts of the United States, seven of the centers being industrial ones. Total membership in these centers numbers 12,000 women, of which 4,000 are Girl Reserves—teen age girls—3,000 of the total number being industrial workers. During the last two years between 25,00 and 35,000 women have been reached thru three centers. This department of the Y. W. C. A. employs 100 workers, including hustess house workers, employment experts, industrial experts, girls' work, field brane and National secretaries. TRIPLE KILLING IN VALDOSA Valdosa, Ga., Nov. 11.—Valdosa, Ga., is in a gloom over one of the saddest events which has occurred there in years. The barbarous lynching of Negroes by whites has in the past justly aroused the rage of its colored citizens, but in this case a triple killing of Negroes by a depraved member of the race has raised not resentment, but rather a hopeless feeling of sadness. It is almost unbelievable that in these days of persecution, when every drop of Negro blood should be conserved for the struggle the NEW NEGRO is sure to make, a man should so ruthlessly go on a murderous rampage as did Frank Zanders. Zanders owned a barber shop in Valdosa, where, with the help of his wife, his business grew and grew until he came to be known as one of the rich colored men of the town. His wife, in the meantime, with an eye to the future, with hope in her heart to educate her four children, to give them all the advantages which both she and her husband missed, and against which they had both striven so hard before success became an accomplished fact, continued to work and economize. She held to her old the way laundry patrons, both in the university and in the town, and actually worked at the barber shop so as to save the expenses of a janitor. Zander was far otherwise. His actions should be a warning to all members of our race. Instead of following the virtuous example of his wife, he took to gambling, to running around with women, to incurring debts which little by little ate up his bank account. When bills came his wife paid them. When he mortgaged his shop to purchase an automobile it was his wife who lifted the mortgage. A week ago Zanders went to Philadelphia. His wife discovered later that he had taken the remnant of her savings. On top of this rumors came that he was frequenting cabarets, throwing away his money in crap games and on loose women, and imbibing generously of a peculiarly strong variety of liquor. Mrs. Zanders naturally heart broken and stated her intention of seeking a divorce. She was faced with the problem of either furnishing money to her depraved husband or of maintaining her four children, who were by now sadly in need of both clothing and food. Mother love and an honest nature permitted her to make but one choice. Her children must be considered before all. Zanders, when his money had given out, returned to Valdosa. His wife mutely received him, announcing after a time her intentions to divorce him. Zanders accepted the news with equanimity. He merely nodded, left the house and swiftly went to the shop of Mr. James Davison, of whom he borrowed a shotgun, explaining that he wished to go squirrel hunting. When he reached home again his wife was sitting on the front porch in a rocking chair, her baby in her arms. She was gently crooning a melody when her husband opened the gate. Slowly he raised his shotgun, took deliberate aim and with utmost coolness pulled the trigger. His wife jumped up twitched slightly, and fell back limply into the chair, a ghastly hole in her head. While the baby lay screaming on the floor he fired again, this time literally smashing to pieces the child's head. Neighbors who witnessed the tragedy then saw him place the butt end of the gun on the walk, put the muzzle in his mouth and proceed to blow off the top of his own head. Relatives of Mrs. Zanders were stricken. After the coroner's inquest they took charge of her body. She will be buried in Nancy, her birthplace. She is survived by her three children, Frank, Isaiah and Samuel, who, relatives have decided, will go back to the last named town. THE CHICAGO WHIP Underwriters Mutual Ins. Co. Underwriters Insurance Co. renders Monday evening, Nov. 17, at St. John's, 3434 Wabash Ave., a musical hundreds of hearts were made to throb with joy. The Underwriters Mutual Insurance Co., of which W. J. Latham is president, rendered a musical and literary program with its own talent that on the whole would have reflected credit upon any professional artist in the credit. Appreciative Audience. Rev. McCoo, the pastor and director in chief, made a few complimentary remarks which seemed to act magically in putting the minds of the large audience in a receptive mood. Lieut. L. W. Washington, an employee of high standing in the companies, directed the remaining part of the program. The soloist, Mrs. William Moore, exhibited rare ability in quality of tone personally and interpretation of their numbers. Paul Lawrence Dunbar, favorite poem 'When Malinda Sings' was never delivered by a more finished dramatic reader than Lieut. J. F. Mitcheon. A letter was read from President Lathan stating his regrets for his inability to be present on account of illness. Urban League To Hold Third Annual Meeting Urban League To Hold Third Annual Meeting Robert L. Bradby of Detroit to Speak. At Olivet Baptist Church, Monday evening, November twenty-fourth at eight o'clock, The Chicago Urban League will hold it Third Annual Meeting for members and friends of that orignization. Speakers will be heard on subjects of a character especially interesting in the present muddle of racial relations. Robert L. Bradby, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Detroit, Michigan, and prominent figure in social movements of that city, will deliver the principal address. Mr. Bradby represents a virile, intellectual type of leader. He is an extremely forceful speaker and possesses a wealth of information on the practical aspects of Negro life and racial policies and programs. He will speak on "Racial Adjustment." Other speakers will be Mr. Horace Bridges of the Ethical Society of Chicago and member of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Urban League. Carl Sandberg of the Chicago Daily News, and Rev. L. K. Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church. A brief report on the work of the Urban League will be presented by T. Arnold Hill, for the past year. There will also be musical numbers. Attendance of all persons interested in the discussion and prosecution of basic programs for the adjustment of our colored population to the institutions of this city is urged. Capital-Labor Term Defined By Gompers Capital-Labor Term Defined By Gompers (Excerpts from the American Federation of Labor Weekly News Letter.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—While the President's industrial conference was discussing the relations of "capital and labor," President Gompers struck this fundamental note: "Capital consists of tables—the tables and these chairs, these chandeliers, boots, shoes, pork, hides and cattle, machinery, wool, sugar, oil—anything that can be brought to your mind relative to the very things that I have encompassed in the term 'capital'—dead things, inanimate things, material things, things which can be sold and bought, things which are subject to barter and sale, capital invested for the production for still more capital, more inanimate things, material things. "And what is labor? Labor is the men and the women, erroneously and intentionally coined in the terminology of labor. It is laborers, workers, human beings, men and women and children, and when it comes to the question of determining what is of greater importance as to men and women and little children and dollars and things, the soul of mankind goes out to men and women and children, rather than to capital—the regulation of capital, the material things of life and the regulation of men and women and children. "If the old concept of labor and capital still prevailed in this year of strife you would find children in the textile mills of America working 12, 14 and 16 hours a day. "Talk of labor and capital and regulations both by the same yard-stick and rule!" THE INTERESTS OF THE SECOND WARD ```markdown ``` To both conserve and advance the people of the Second Ward, is the object of our meeting tonight. We offer to you, who are present and have not already done so, the opportunity of enrolling as members of a volunteer committee of citizens, who have selected Mr. Charles B. Travis, because of his sterling qualities of citizenship to be our next Ward Committeeman. Because of his fidelity and the efficiency with which he has discharged the duties connected with the public trusts placed in his hands, both by the State and Federal Government and because of his humane interest in the welfare of the people of the Second Ward, we accept these as un-failing indications that if the large public interests and responsibilities connected with the office of Ward Committeeman are placed in his hands, those interests and responsibilities also will be safely cared for in the interest of the people. These wards, by Dr. Brockett the Chairman, produced a profound and favorable impression on behalf of the candidate. Dr. Ralph A. Johnstone of the Lakeside Hospital and Chairman of Lonel Board No. 4, was introduced as the next speaker. Dr. Johnstone said, "I shall gladly volunteer my services to support Mr. Travis' candidacy and desire to enroll my own name as a member of this Volunteer Committee. I do this because I was associated with Mr. Travis for more than eighteen months in the most intimate business way. We were together every day and in many instances most of the night, and I, from personal observation know of the many powerful influences, which were brought to bear, to sway him from his trust as a public official. In not one instance were these influences successful in their insidious attacks upon this man's honesty and character; a mad whom I am pleased to own as a friend and fellow citizen. I shall not only support his candidacy but from now until election day, shall ask my friends to work with me to secure Mr. Travis' election as Ward Committeeman." Hon. Jas. G. Cotter, Attorney, was the next speaker, whose supplements supplemented those of the gentlemen preceding him. Mr. Cotter also paid a high tribute to the personal character of Mr. Travis and his fitness for the office sought. Brief remarks were also made by Attorney: De Armand & Jenkins, following which were brief remarks of appreciation by the candidate, Mr. Travis himself. A meeting will be held Tuesday and Thursday nights of this week to continue the work of organizing the Citizens' Volunteer Committee, at Headquarter, 22 East 11st Street. As the people we are proud of the City of Chicago. It is one of the greatest civ privileges of the world to be a citizen of this City. We are proud of its institutions whether educational or religious. We are proud of its high standard of journalism and of the exalted station the city holds as a manufacturing, commercial and financial center. We are proud of the fact that in no place and at no time, have such liberal opportunities been offered to us as a people, for the acquisition of wealth and advanced, intelligent citizenship as Chicago offers to us. This is true of Chicago as a whole, but our immediate interests, while we strive for the good of the whole, in common with all lawabiding citizens, must of necessity center in the Second Ward where the larger numbers of the people of our own race live. TIME LIMIT WISE No man in the Second Ward should stay in the office too long. Louis and Ed should be licked back into the ranks. It can be done. WIDE OPPORTUNITY FOR GOOD OR ILL. The larger the oemunity, the opportunity for good or ill in the discharge of their duties, by men who held office, is increased proportionately. In a great city like Chicago, there are ever increasing incitements for good. There are also numberless opportunities for ill offered to the office holders in direct opposition to the will of the people. The greatest care therefore should be exercised in the choice of men in whose hands the care of the public interests and public property are to be placed. Ethereal Diet The flying parson has demonstrated what a great many people have evidently believed, namely, that the minister could be supported on air. CLASSIFIED WANT ADS Bloom's Loan Bank Money Loaned on Clothing, Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry and Musical Instruments OVERCOATS!! OVERCOATS!! AND RAINCOATS!! We have the most complete line of the latest styles and best quality overcoats at very lowest prices. SAVE MONEY ON XMAS GIFTS. MAKE YOUR SELECTION NOW AND MAKE A SMALL PAYMENT. Bargains in Trunks, Suit Cases and Bags. Bloom's Loan Bank 3222 S. State St. Chicago A RELIABLE BUYERS' DIRECTORY OF BUSINESS CONCERNS WHO ARE ADJUSTING THEIR PRICES TO A PRE-WAR BASIS. — SAVE BY GIVING THEM YOUR PATRONAGE. C. L. REYNOLDS, The Tailor 3214 Cottage Grove Ave. Ladies' Tailoring, Men's Suits Made to Measure. Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing. We do Strictly Faultless Work. Ladies' Old Dresses Remodeled. Work Called for and Delivered. BEN ENTY Carpenter and Cabinet Maker 103 W. 31st St. Second Floor MRS. GFRTRUDE MITCHELL Hair Culturist Mme. C. J. Walker's Treatment 3336 State Street LITTLES & TRUMBLES Lake View Barber Shop 3214 Cottage Grove Trade At THE S. & M. GROCERY 2448 S. State Street Lowest Prices on Meats and Groceries Phone Orders Given Prompt Attention Douglas 1541. Blvd. 3681. Billiard Hall in Connection TIP TOP INN BARBER SHOP Newly electric equipped. First class service High grade domestic and imported Cigars Tonsorial Artist J. O. Bethells L. Brewster, Proprietors 4312 SO. STATE ST. Cranshaw & Anderson FASHIONABLE MILLINERY 3408 SOUTH STATE STREET Mme E. Marchand HAIRDRESSING Shampooing and Scalp Treatment Hair Goods Manufactured THE MME, C. J. WALKER SYSTEM 3902 Indiana Avenue Yergan Music House All the Latest Numbers in Player Rolls, Graphophone Records and Sheet Music 55 E. 31st St. Chicago, Ill. Dr. A.C. Brown, D.D.S. has resumed its dental practice again and will be glad to meet his patients at 128 E. 33rd St., Chicago OFFICE HOURS: 9 a. m. to 12 m; 1 to 5 and 6 to 7 p. m. Sunday by appointment. CANDY SHOP Home Made Candy Wholesale and Retail Prices cheaper than any other candy shop. 16 East 35th Street Bloom's L Money Loaned Watches, Diamond Musical In HOME KITCHEN RESTAURANT For Home Cooking Call at Mrs. C. Harris, Prop. Short Orders at All Hours. "ALWAYS OPEN" 3632 S. State St. Phone Douglas 9220 MME. EMILY M. SCOTT Provident School of Beauty Culture. 3611 S. State St. School—1956 S. State St. Chicago PORTER DRUG CO. (Not Inc.) H. PORTER, R. Ph. N. W. Cor. 35th & Dearborn, Chicago Phone Douglas 2858-2878. Will deal with you on a wholesale basis if bought in quantities. Phone West 6096 Ladies' Work Is Our Specialty. Work Called Por and Delivered. W. A. BLACKMAN Old Reliable Pressing Shop and Shoe Shining Parlor. Cleaning, pressing and repairing. 2229 West Lake Street, Chicago DR. A. C. JOHNSON Surgeon—Dentist 3518 S. State Street Phone Douglas 7585 Lace Curtains Cleaned, 30c pair MRS. M. JACKSON 2932 S. Dearborn Street MARTHA ELU SCHOOL of Dress making and Millinery is now open. Women's Glory system of scalp and hair culture. Send 10c for catalogue. 3634 Vernon Avenue Chicago, Ill. EXPERT DRESSMAKING — MISS Susie A. Davis, 33 E. 43rd St. Phone Drexel 969. Satisfaction guaranteed. MUSIC CALL J. A. RICHARDSON PIANO PLAYERS GRANDS VICTROLAS Douglas 752. Harrison 1656. The Place You Ought to Know J. W. HERMAN Billiard Parlor and Barber Shop 460 E. 35th Street Residence Phone: Seeley 2432 Business Phone: SEELEY 080 Mme. M.E. Mack Madame C. J. Walker System HAIR DRESSING Treatment, Shampooing, Dyeing and Bleaching, Hair Made Up to Order. Massaging and Bleaching. Manicuring and Chiropody. 1924 WEST LAKE STREET J. M. Brown PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 1753 WEST LAKE STREET loan Bank on Clothing, ands, Jewelry and instruments — ee RN UN en ~~ Pe ere we we m ~ 43 ass prere — Prrererey PTT Tree TT TTS er a TNT EON Ot oi " x eekiakeea ‘a cee tes eee ae cae ae wane ee (ieee 26000000000000000000000¢ Cincinnati, Ohio ee War Camp Community Center 8000000000000900000000000° Lieut. Oxley, Camp Sherman, wil fill the vacancy caused by Lieut. Gaw having been transferred to Pat- terson, N. J. ‘Two new clubs have been added this week, the Physical Culture and Dramatic, Art Clubs. ‘The “Better Housing Leaguel), has established a “Model Home”, West End, 4th and Stone. Dr. Coppin has been making some helpful visits to the fattories by giv- ing talks on Sex and Social Hygiene to women and girls, ‘The Y. W. C. A. held a “World Fellowship Week", object to ac- quaint the Community “with For- eign Lands”. ‘The speakers were Misses M. Bur- ton, Keil, Crouse, Taylor, Mrs. Franklin, Turner, Whittaker. ‘A most interesting Thanksgiving program has been planned by the Y. W. consisting of representatives from the Industrial, Domestic Serv. ice and other Clubs. A Training Course for Leaders will begin Dee, 1, 1919. All are cordially invited to join. Col. Chas. Young, U. S. A., on Armistice Day Celebration advised the ex-soldiers; instead of using the trigger — to join “The American Legion, to use the ballot properly, to join the National Association for the Advancement of the Negro Race, to settle by arbitration.” _ The ¥. M. was crowded with an Appreciative audience. Mrs. J. K. Codding, or Lansing Kansas,visited the Cincinnati schools last week, She made a careful survey of the vocational work for girls and women and praised the city highly at the extent and variety of this training. She gave special praise to the sewing trades school operated under the continuation department. Mrs. Godding is affiliated with the work done by the state of Kansas in uplifting the female inmates of penal institutions. ‘The construction of the Stowe School in the West End will begir in the very near future, It is to be erected at Seventh and Barr streets estimated to cost Seven hundred and twenty five thousand dollars. Miss Jennie Porter, Principal. School children of Ohio are to be given an opportunity to vote ever tho under the required age. Ac. cording to a plan promulgated by the Ohio War’ eee, division of “the treasury department, pupils may vote for the honor and glory of theit school. Fach pupil selling one War Stamf is entitled to one vote. If he sells 4 Treasury Savings Certificate he may east twenty ballots. ‘The school in each school unit, securing th greatest number of votes per pupi during the. election, will be awarde 4 beautiful bronze tablet. ‘The Optimist Club met at Thi Gordon. Hotel, Friday, Nov. 14. — Mea. Thorpe, Hostess. STOCKHOLDERS VISIT BLACK STAR SHIP. New York, Nov. 20.—At noon yes- terday, at 135 street and the Hud- son river, a reception was held by oificials of the Black Star Line, or- ganized in the interest of Negro trade, for the stockholders in the new steamship company. ‘The many subscribers had been in- vited to inspect the first ship of the line and they yent in style. Auto- mobiles of every description were lined up and the pier was thronged. It has been announced at a mass meeting of Negroes in Madison Square Garden, Thursday night — where Marcus Garvey, President of the Universal Negro Movement Asso- ciation, spoke, that the first steam- ship was the Frederick Douglass. The vessel turned out to be the small Yarmouth, which was built thirty two years ago and ran for years be- tween Yarmouth, N. S. and Boston. The name Yarmouth is still painted on her bows and she is under British registry.. While the Black Star Line Flag flew from her mainmiast, Har tiss, Magill and Co., still own her. ‘They have chartered her onlly te the Black Star Line. Capt. Joshua Cockburn, a colored master with a British license, com: mands her. He yas busy showing the stockholders about the ship yester. day, but another officer in a brigh new uniform said he did not knov when the ship would sail or where. Read The Chicago Whip Excerpts From The American Federation of Labor Weekly News Letter Why the Right to Establish a Trade Union and Keep It Alive Takes Precedence Among Wage-Workers to the Alleged Right of the Non- Unionist to Compel Union Members to Work with Him. to Work with Him. Asserting the legal or moral right of preached of Mormonism to occupy 1 Presbyterian pulpit is obvious. In like manner, the unrestricted right of the wage-worker to work al any,frade, in any circumstances, with any and all classifications of other whge-workers, is customarily denied by law. Statutes are enforcible for the protection of a body of workers against individuals who may put in jeopardy the safety of their fellows with respect to life, ‘limb or health. The state recognizes as valid con: tracts between employers and em: ployed under which the latter pass upon the occupational fitness of either apprentices or journeymen seeking to work among them. ‘Amid the confused list of rights recognized by the capital group, the fundamental concrete and practical declaration is incontestibly the right of wage earners to organize in trade and jabor unions, and hence to bar- gain collectively and to be represen. tatives of their own choosing. Once this foundation right is in good faith accepted by employers, they take upon themselves the obligation of modifying all alleged abstract rights tof wage workers in general which are inconsistent with it as a basie and encompassing principle. In accepting ‘this right they concede to an associa. ‘tion of wage workers the right of its ‘self-preservation, and this includes the right when necessary to that end to refuse to work with persons whose acts would tend to destroy the asso: wiation, When non-associated indi- viduals, asserting their right “to re frain from joining any association’ and “to deal directly” with employ- ‘ers as they choose, decide to accep' ‘wages lower than an association scale, to work longer hours than the established workday and to put up with working conditions of a worse standard than those obtained by the sassociation, they »initiate a competi. Lion in the work shop which tends te disintegrate the association. Thereupon, in the absence of or- ganization, competing workers lower the level of living for the mass tc the grade of the most necessitious and hence finally injure society in general through the helplessness of ‘all to stand up for even the right to live at civilized standards. Prior te the world war, during which the ces sation of immigration caused a rela. tive scarcity of labor in this country the colossal monopolistic industrial corporations systematically reduce¢ their common labor approximately tc that level. They unremittingly drew upon the vast reservoirs of Europe’ underpaid and casually employed workers to supply the enormous turn: ‘over of labor at their plants conse ‘quent on the 12-hour day, a studied scheme of part employment, a wage below American labor, and living con ditions intolerable to human beings In other branches of American indus try in which oceasjonal competition “for labor among employers had no} | been superseded by combination, an¢ in which trade unionism had no| established collective bargaining, la bor competition led to similar injuri ‘ous social consequences. At the sam time, employers in general, aside from those forming an economi oligarchical menace to our republic were learning to depend upon th trade unions, through uniformity it contractual terms, for the mainte nance of standard occupational train ing and the general conditions of in dustrial stability. It is submitted that these consid ‘erations establish the fact that th assumed right of any and all wage workers so to act as to bring rui to the labor associations, which a the present stage in the developmen (of society are the sole bulwor against the economic degradation o the masses, cannot be recognized a under all conditions valid. The al stract right of the non-unionist “t deal directly with an employer as h | choosed” does not give him the cor | erete right which compels unionist to work with him, His alleged rigt to make any contract whatever wit an employer is, in the absence of | trade union, amere fiction hiding th truth that the employer may play on “free” unemployed — wage-worke - against another, Phone: Drexel 2324 “i MUSICIAN. VIOLIN. & CORNET BB local No, 208 A. F. of M. H] Also proprietor yt of the N Sy) VELVET pockeT Pe Mad witiiann Room 49 E. 43rd STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Southern Delegation Defeated On Question Of States Rights strated the straight forwardness of ‘policy and sincerity of intention on ‘which principles it was founded. Con- siderable anxiety was felt before the opening of the meeting on the ques- tion of eligibility of Negroe to mem- bership in this body in states of the ‘South, where the establishment of Negro posts or the admission of Ne- ‘goes to memberships in posts, was determined by State posts. It has been practically impossible for Ne- groes to stcure membership in such # body in states like South Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, because of the restrictions of State posts of eligible members. C. C. Middleton, of Victory Post No. 2, Savannah, Georgia, has for severa months atetmpted to secure a charter for this post thru the Geor- gia division of the American legion. ‘The final ejection yas sent with checks and application for charter and an ultimatum to the effect that “applications for charter can be made by posts composed of Caucasians.” A representative number of col- ored delegates were present; R. C. Long, Omaha, Neb.; €. M. Cain of Atlantic City, N. .; William Wallace, Shreveport, La.; Walter Fearouer, St. Louis, Mo.; Martin N, Marshall, De- trot Mich.; J. M. Whitmore, Little ‘Rock, Ark.; F. W. Perkins, Denver, Col.; Alex Mann, Washington, D. C.; Allen R. Farrel, Philadelphia, Pa. Ernest R. McKinney, Pittsburg, Pa.; Charles C. Middleton, Savannah, Ga. ; Thomas David, Little Rock, Ark.; Ed- gar A. Love, Baltimore, Md.; F. R. Stewart, Fort Wayne, Ind.; James Richards, Chester, Pa.; A. W. Prior, Boston, Mass.; Henry J. Walker, St. Paul, Minn. ‘The southern delegation in caucus drew up the resolution for presen- tation before the body, proposing sub- posts for Negroes which would act as auxiliaries to regular posts, The officers of these posts were to be white and only white persons would be permitted to represent these posts in conferences. ‘The committe on eligibility headed by Major J. S. Spingarn of New York, after consultation with the southern delegation ‘received from them what they termed a “gentle. men's agreement on their yord of honor as southern gentlemen” that as a compromise they would not bring up the question of eligibility cr present their, resolution. The sin- cerity of this proposal was questioned immediately by C. C. Middleton, col ered physician from Savannah, and counter resolutions were drawn up. ‘The fight for eligibility of Negroes ‘was waged with the support of the entire Negro. representation, espe cially from Pennsylvania and the de legation from Illinois, headed by Co! Foreman, Commandant of the Ilinoi | Division. The report of the eligi Pitty eomstteas ae accepted as fol lows: SECTION X. Any person shall be eligible fo membership in the American Legior | who was regularly enlisted, drafted | inducted or commissioned, and wh¢ served on active duty in the Army Navy or Marine Corps of the Unite: States at some time during the perio betyeen April 6, 1917 and Novembe 11, 1918, both dates inclusive, or who being a citizen of the United States at the time of his entry therein served on active duty in Naval, Mili cary o Air forces of any of th Governments associated with th United States during the Great War provided, that no person shall b entitled to membership (a) who be ling in the Army, Navy or Marin [Corps of the United States durin said period, refused on conscientious political and other grounds, to sul ject himself to military discipline o “unqualified service, or (b) who, be ing in such service, was separate therefrom under circumstance discharge and has not subsequent! | been officially restored to an honor able status. SECTION 1. || There shall be no form of class o | membreship except an active mem | bership as hereinbefore provided. J. J. MeSWAIN, chairman. A. DONALD SLANEY, See. The support of Colonel Forema The support of Colonel Foreman merits great praise. Mr. Middleton was admitted to the Legion by a let: ter from the Illinois Post and received from the Post most corteous treat- ment and full support in his conten- tion. It is significant that in the final elections, Franklin D'Olier of Pennsylvanit was elected first Na- tional Commander of the American Legion; Allen Turkay of Nebraska, Jones O'Brine, Col.; Joyce P. Lewis, Minn.; A. R. Chambers, Mass; Wm. Follet of Oregon were elected the five National Vice Chairmen, A new bonus was urged by the convention and policy of American- ization. yas declared with the purpose in view of scourging the country of reds. Membership dues were also increased. Charleston Labor News By A. F. of L. Organizer CHARLESTON, S. C.—Janitors’, Helpers’ and Laborers’ Union No. 16034 held an all-day meeting at the Six (6) Mile Junction, Sunday, Nov. 9, 1919, for the benefit of the same. The prayer meeting was opened by Brother T, Grant. Hymn No. 604, CM, was sung, “Iam a Soldier of the Cross,” and “Follower of the Lamb.” The prayer meeting was closed at 11:52 a, m. Brother Simmons read the 25th chapter of St. Matthew for our morn. ing lesson, and Hymn No. 673, C. M., was sung, “On Jordon’s Stormy Bank I Stand.” Brother €. H. Butler, the Vice- President of this Union, delivered a noble sermon to the congregation at 12:45 p. m., Genesis 19:17. Subject, Eseape ye to the mountain unless thou be consumed.” Hymn No. 295, C.-M. was sung by the President, J. Middleton. Prayer by Brother J. Kearse, The collection was lifted by Brother B. Benson and Brother J. Kearse, Amount taken up $22.85. Recess at 2:15 p. m. The next prayer meeting was opened by Brother MeCalvin. Hymn No. 110, C. M., was sung. Prayer by Brother J, Brisbaw and Brother J. Gethen. ‘The prayer meeting was closed. Brother Robinson preached the 3:30 p. m. sermon from Daniel 8:15, Subject, “Phe God that I serve shall deliver me from the hands of the devil.” After preaching, Brother Simmons read the 20th chapter of Matthew, and Hymn No. 516, L. M., was sung, ‘Jesus, Thou Art a Sin net's Friend,” Prayer by Brother J Kearse. The President, J. Middleton, delivered the closing address, Mat- thew 20:6, Subject, “And about the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, why stand ye here all day idle?” ‘The President made a beauti- ful 50-minute speech on Labor. Prayer by Brother T. Grant. Collee- tion was $12.25. The collection for the day was $84.48. Closing hymn, “God Be with You Till We Meet Again.” Benediction by Brother Simmons. J. MIDDLETON, President; T ) PVANS. Paris Strikers Riot Paris, Nov. 18. — Two thousand noisy strikers of department stores gathered this afternoon at the Gal. feries Lafayette, one of the largest stores in Paris. Two attempts were made to invade the store, but the police drove the strikers back and formed a cordon around the building. The crowd made a determined ef- fort to break through the lines. This resulted in fist fighting. A delivery wagon load was overturned and it: contents looted. Fifty one jersons were arrested. GIRLS’ PATRIOTIC SERVICE LEAGUE Organized ten months ago among colored girls of Chicago, Maywood, Evanston and Glencoe, the Girls’ Patriotic Service League of the War Camp Community Service now has twenty units with a membership of more than fifteen hundred girls. Organization is aecomplished by grouping the girls according to age, the Sophomore unit being composed of girls from ten to fourteen years of age, the Junior unit of girls between fourteen and eighteen and the Senior unit from eighteen to twenty-five. ‘The original object of this organi- vation was to mobilize the girls of the country. for service to the sol- diers, the community and country under the stress of the war. To pre- pare girls for this important work three departments were arranged: Service, Edueation and Recreation. ‘Training in these was intended to provide for the girl physical de. velopment as well as desirable men: tul, moral and spiritual equipment Her mind and hand were kept busy her body fit and her soul alive to the tremendous changes being forged ir the struggle of armies and the suf. ferings of men. The organization has proved s benefit to these girls, Their wonder ful services to the tired and worr soldiers of the great war will be re membered in loving gratitude, Dr. Wm. B. Buchanan 361] State Street | Offic Residence | Douglas 2117 Douglas 1284 Many Attending Con- ference ee ee ae ee ‘The Lake Shore Hotel and Investment Co., Idlewild, Mich., ‘incorporated under the Laws of Michigan. We have 5,000 lot owners in Idlewild, and none of them have yet planned to build a hotel. Idlewild Resort Co. is composed of White men, and they do not employ our colored girls to work in the office, but they are spending our money. ‘They are the only ones making money at our popular resort and town section. They are charging us 7.00 per week for a one-room cottage, Everything that we start the white man tries to get in at the head of it, but he he will never get at the head of this hotel, and nothing else at our BW town if my race stands by me. I have signed the contract to build this hotel in early spring. On five or more shares we accept $20.00 down and $10.00 per month, no interest; shares $10.00 each, Make all checks and money orders payable to THE LAKE SHORE HOTEL AND INVESTMENT CO. Care R. W. Hunter, State Bank, 1828 Broadway, Gary, Ind. 'W. M. BELL, President Main Office 1921 Park Ave., CHICAGO, ILL. BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Nov. 18.— Approximately 500 delegates and vis- “itors of Alabama are attending the ‘Forty-third session of the North “Alabama Conference of the African Methodist Episcopal Chureh at St John's Church, Third Avenue and Twenty-I'fth Street, as well as a large number of general officers and aspirants for office from other states. Bishop B. F. Lee is presiding over tho cession. In his address Thursday morning, Bisop Lee reviewed the activities of the American negro, He spoke briefly of the after-war condi- tions, and said in part: “Problems are the same now as before the war. We have nothing new with which to con- tend. All of our problems can be solved, not with war measures or war practices, beeause these mean the wiping out of the human family. The solution lies in arbitration and a re- gard for the Fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man.” He urged upon the conference that each mem- ber learn his rights, where they be- gin and where they end. Rev. J. R. Burghes was affirmed as chief sec- retary; J. R. Brice, recording sec- retary; Rev. P. T, Matherson, statis- tician; marshals, 8. P, Bell and J. L. Miller. The following committees were appointed and set at work: Committees Named. Committee on statistics: P. 'T. Ma- therson, C, 8. Woods, J. S. Brice, H. ©. Terrell, 1. H. Hall and B, V. Bue- kett. Board of examiners: L, G. Dun- can, C. B. Mosley, B. F. Mallard, J. B. Carter, E. H. Hundson, R. H. Haines, E. 0, Woods and P. H. Der- rick. Committee on judiciary: C. W. Warren, J. T. Allen, L. R. Day, W. P. Driver, G. R. Polk and 1. T. Walker. Committee on appeals: H. W. Mit- chell, A. C, Calhoun, 1. R. Williams, ©. HL. Newby, B, W, Bowman. Cireuits, stations and missions: All presiding elders and R. Gray, A. C. Calhoun, ©. B. Mosely, R. D. Polk and H. Y. Jackson. Committee on temperance: B. F. Mallard, Sum Hill, A. H. Harris, C. B. Flowers and W. H. Sledge. Memorial committee: J.T. Allen, S. Mall, N. J. Adams, T. H. Russell, F. K. Roper Committee on assessments for pre- siding elders support: All presiding elders, Pastor G. W. Mitchell, R. H. Haines, J. H. Davidson, S. T. Groves, J. 1, Miller, Committee on dollar money: W. H. Mixon, E. W. Williams, T. W. Coffee, D. C, Edmondson, D. P. Moore, H, D, Crutcher, ‘A special finance committee was elected and is composed of B. F. Mallard, A. Jones, C. B. Mosely, R. Gray, pastors, and J. H. Elliott, lay- man. 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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Foreign Dignitaries Attend Howard University Inaugural WASHINGTON, District of Col- umbia, Nov. 18.—The formal instal- lution of Dr. J. Stanley Durkee as President of Howard University took place Wednesday in Andrew Rankin Memorial Chapel amid ceremonies that were impressive to the last de- gree and in the presence of one of the most distinguished gatherings of educators and men and women of af- fairs ever assembled in this country. From every section of the country came accredited representatives of noted colleges and Universities of both races, and in several instances, forcign Universities gave credentials to scholars to act as envoys from these famous institutions of learning. ‘The Mexican Ambassador, the Minister from Bolivia, the Liberian Consul-General, and U. S. Consul to Madagascar, accepted invitations to be present, and gave diplomatic recognition to the ceremonies. The installation was a “red-letter event” in the long career of Howard Univer- sity and memorable from every point of view. Dr. Durkee, came to Howard University a year ago, having been vlected president by the unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees. Through a fine sense of duty and ‘opportunity for service, he relin- -quished the pastorate of one of the largest churches in New England to tke up the much-needed work of reorganizing and rehabilitating his- toric Howard University, founded ‘by General 0. 0, Howard # half cen- tury ago for the higher and profes- «ional education of colored youth. Dr. Durkee has aecomplished won- ders in the short period he has been at the Head of Howard University, | and so effective have been his labors and so deeply has he imbedded him- self in the love and confidence of the elements with which he has had to deal in connection with his great trust, the exercises of the week took fon the form of # jubilation as well fas that of an inauguration, Dr. Dur- kee enters upon his sacred missior tinier auapican. that inanie euceoss: Made of Natural Human Hair, dil wavy or crimpy. Can be combed and, & dressed the same as your own-hair. I ~ do not sell to dealers, but the people js ae direct. Write for a Free Catalogue. cae WG The reason stage performers prefer On mt . my wigs is that they can also be worn i Che \for street wear. > ALEX. MARKS 662-P 8th Ave. NEW YORK CITY Expert Secret Service Dictagraph Service KEYSTONE NATIONAL DETECTIVE AGENCY Let us find out what you wish to know. Expert Secret Service, Private and Criminal Investigations. 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Phone: Doug. 3216 Phone Drexel: 2833 Hours: 10 to 12 al m2 to 4 p. m.; 7 to 9 p. m. DR. H. R. WILLIAMS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Special Attention to Diseases of Women, Children, and Venereal Diseases Office and Residence 4456 Cottage Grove Ave., Chicago Sunday Hours: £ to 10 a, m.; 2 to 4 p. m,, and by Appointment LEFUSE TO GIVE COLORED CITIZENS RIGHTS; SAY THAT COLORED PEOPLE ARE SATISFIED (Special to the Whip.) Noy. 17 Congress refused to abol- ish that Jim Crow law in the South. The southerners, aided by Repre sentatives Snyder of New York, who said that the colored people do not object to Jim Crow cars, and that Representative Madden was not in- troducing the bill because colored people had requested it, but merely to get into the limelight. ‘The amend- ment offered by Representative Mad- den of Mlinois, which would abolish Jim Crow cars in the south was de feated in the house by a vote of 142 to 12, Madden speaking of the cost of Jim Crow cars said that the sep. urated accomodations provided by the south were extravagant and were undemocratic costing $20,000,000 per yer nd intolerant suffering to col- ored people. Dixie Congressman Navin Mad. The charges of congressman Mad- den enraged southern representatives and rep. Stevenson rose to the floor with a flushed face and husky drawl- ing voice, demanded: ‘What have Mlinois done for the colored people” He referred with scorn and sarcasm to Chicago's riot and condoned the south's lynching and mob violence He said ‘Negroes are lynched in the south because of the unspeakable crime while they were killed in the north because they were black.’ Colored People Disgusted. Colored people expressed them selves of being disgusted rather than disappointed. The disgust foment ing primarily because of the over whelming vote against the Madden bill. One gentleman was heard to remark that Russia was a good plac to live in and that he would begin correspondence with the Russian am bassador at once. Riots in Wilmingten. One Policeman Killed. Several Wounded Wilmington, Del., Nov 19.—Two nolicemen’s attempt to search col. ored men for arms under the guise of looking for criminals and burglars led to a shooting meele in which one policeman was killed and another was pase White Form Mob. As soon as the white population learned of the affair they formed several mobs and marched military style to the colored section of the city. Colored people learning of the advance soon made formations to disperse the enemy. The clash cam —the leaders of the respective armies gave orders to ‘start firing’, throwing and pulling hair. ‘The battle lasted for about two minutes and one col ered man and one white man wa killed and several wounded, Just he fore the police reserves arrived to intervene with orders from their re- spective leaders each goup started sereaming, for there were saveral women in the mob on both sides, whose hair had been virtually pulled out, UNITED SPANISH WAR VETER. ANS IN GREAT DRIVE OF NATIONAL SCOPE. Every Veteran of the Spanish War Must Get Into the Organization. Camp John R. Tanner No. 11 U. S. W. V. inaugurated a drive by which they hope to get every Span- ish War Veteran in Chicago and vieinity to become a member of the camp, by having a camp fire in ad- dition to their regular montply meet- ing. Seventeen comrades were brought into the camp. It was the largest gathering of veterans in some time. Past commander Donahue, editor of the S. W. V. weekly ad- dress the camp. On the vitay im- portance of every Spanish War Vet- eran becoming a member of the camp, because of the legislature now under way in congress. John R, Tan- ner camp meets the third Monday of every month at Palace Hall, 461 f, Bist St. Dispensations is now on the fee is one dollar. Dues twenty- five’ cents a month. Next meeting dreskes by Capt. James Smith S. W. Monday, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. Ad- VY. and one of the heroes of the world war. Lieut. Col. Johnson vet- eran of the Spanish and world wars. Maj. R. R. Jackson S. W. V. and Col. Marshall 8. W. V. ‘TELEPHONES: Offive, Deexet 410 Res. Douglas 470 OFFICE, HOURS: Ha, mi fo) p. ma 4 to-6 and 8 to 9 p,m, Dr. BENJ. R. BLUITT 4100 8. STATE STREET Residence 3162 Lake Park Avenue THE CHICAGO WHIP Stay of Execution Asked ‘p)" for Arkansas Rioters. sn Equal Rights League crn Comes toHelp «.»- Helena, Nov. 20. — Following closely upon the heels of Gov. Brough telegram to Monroe Trotter refusing to reconsider the verdice rendered sondemning 1 teolored men to death, The N. A. A. C. P. sent a telegram to President Wilson asking immediate investigation of the recent race riot. The evidence collected by the asso- ciation is substantially worded by Mr. Mr. Trotter. The telegram reads: The National Association for the Advanecment of Colored People, in the name of 12,000,000 Negroes of the United States respectfully urg- 's the danger to America and its ideals of the conditions prevailing in Phillips County, Arkansas. Eleven Negroes, have been sen- tenced to electrocution in Phillips County, six of them having been con- vieted in seven minutes, according to press reports, by a jury of which no colored man was a member. Fifty- four Negroes have, according to the press, been sentenced to terms of from one to twenty-one years in the State Prison. No word has come of the proceedings agaist white men al- thouzh upwards of twenty-five Ne- sroes were killed in the disturb. ances, A representative of the National Ascoviation for the Advancement of Colored People visited the Depart- ment of Justice in Washington on Saturday, November 1, and placed in the hands of Mr. G. F. Ruch of that Department inform:jtion giving vrounds for belief. 1.—That not only had no “mas- sacre of whites” been planned by Negroes of Phillips County, but 2—That the Negroes in Phillips and adjacent counties have been mercilessly exploited under a ystem virtually of peonage, and 2.—That the Negroes had organ- ized not to “massacre whites” but to obtain legal redress by peaceful and lawful means. If our information is correct, le- xalized wholesale murder is being committed in Phillips County. May ve, through you, request an imme- diate Federal investigation? James Weldon Johnson, COLORED FARMERS PAY $225,000 FOR MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION. Co-Operation of Federal Land Bank In Makind Deal. New Orleans, La., Nov. 20.—Those who watch the advance of the col- oved race in the Souith can find almost daily instances of their progress, especially in agricultural pursuits. ‘There has just been closed in New Crleans a colored interparish fair, which were displayed many farm- ng accomplishments of the Negroes £ this section, all of which were very encouraging to the colored men, who are endeavoring to lead their reople back to the farm and to a less frivelous outlook on life and its responsibilities. As a sequel, so to speak, of this fair, the Federal Land Bank here an- nounced yesterday that Negro tenant farmers had hought their second large plantation in Mississippi, the first being a tract of some 1,200 acres in Sunflower County, bought by a combination of nine enterprising volored men of that section, and the last 2 3,000 acre place near Isola, in Mumphroys County. The latter was purchased by 25 Negro farmers for , sum that many people might con- ‘ider beyond the realm of possibility for the Negro of the South to pay 322,000. ‘The piece is to be cut up into 110 acre farms, and some of the Negroes took several units each. Both of the plantations are cotton produc- ers, and on the first one named the Negroes received 51 cents a pound for their cotton last year, ‘The two deals were handled with the Federal Land Bank by A. B. Reese, cashier of the First National Bank of Itta Bena, Miss., who is.pro- moting the movement for colored colonization in Mississippi farm lands. AUTO BANDITS ATTEMPT TO ABDUCT SYLVESTER RUSSEL. An auto party, all white, passing 26th and State streets, on Sunday last attempted to capture Mr. Syl- vester Russell, the popular theatric- al man, A machine stopped in front of the old Pekin and invited Russell to have 4 ride. Russell’s suspicions were immediately aroused but before he could sidestep he was seized but wrested himself from his would be abductors and reported the matter to officer Williams: ‘Thru presence of mind Russell was able to copy the number of the mysterious machine, the authorities are investigating the matter an dit ig said that a clue hae been discovered, aN Chicago Y. M. C. A. News DOUGLAS 1583 BRANCH OFFICE 4724 S. State Street PHONE BOULEVARD 1359 JESSE BINGA BANKER Real Estate, Renting and Loans 3033 STATE STREET CHICAGO Safety Deposit Vaults---Boxes $3.00 Per Year Hundreds of men in Chicago, who connot read and write sufficiently, will be interested to know that the Y. M. C. A. will open its evening school next month. Now is the time to register. Employment Section: There were 43 calls for employees last week, only 23 of these were filled, There is plenty of work on hand and only a few men to take the jobs. Boys’ Section: Last Saturday 85 boys took a 15- mile hike to the Ilinois Forest Pre- serve, A number of Evanston boys were in the party. ‘The boys are rehearsing for a play under the direction of Mr. George Johnson. Closer cooperation between the “Y" and ‘the High School will result from plans now under way. Mr. Stone states that an Off-the- Street Boys’ Club in the locality of 30th and State Streets will answer a great need and serve as a construc- tive character building force. UEUEEOOEUGVUEDOGUEDUEEDOEEOOEU EEO EEOUETEOUE EDIE EEO AUOEOUA ROE OOEO ETE EU EAE CHO OEE EE DUE N ANE Warated ( Q HINE Varad arrantes as farranted Wome POLISH eT Wyo JETTO SHOE. DYES : C. H. 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Compe- tition is keen and the other games played will be just as interesting. A Basketball game has been scheduled to be played in Atlantic City with the Vandals. Mr. Cain, their man- ager, and secretary of the Y. M. ©. A. in Atlantic City, is now in Chi- Gniie. AAe] 109. Gnd. OL” Milady’s Style Shop If you want to reduce the high | cost of dressing and at the same time have your clothes tailoredto taste, visit our SHOW ROOMS. | We make Corsets, Evening Gowns, Aprons and Theatrical Attire 'MRS. E. MURRAY, Prop. | 3153 So. State St, CHICAGO Activities Section: The Thanksgiving program will be the best for many years. The hike which has been planned will leave from the Y, M. C. A at 6 A. M. for the beach at 63rd and the lake. In the afternoon a turkey dinner will be served, and at 8 o'clock all will attend the social at the Y. W. ©. A. ‘The Men’s Meetings are largely attended and have a new inspiration for all those present. Mr. E. C, Smith is chairman of the Religious Com- mittee. ‘Mr. George R. Arthur, Secretary in Charge, is in Detroit representing the Wabash Avenue Department at the International Y. M. C. A. Con: vention. WOMEN VOICES PLEA FOR COLORED. Nearly } Everybody | Goes to | “reek aaa) (DREAMLAND } Seating Capacity 500 | Electric Fans Make This : CHICAGO’S COOLEST SPOT ! 3520 So. State Street | WM. BO? TOM’S : Babe and 2206 | SUPUCUPUEUPUPUPUS YEUELEUEUBUPUEUPUEUS UE Ue UB UeuEt| Grand Rapids, Mich., . ov. 20.—A plea for the Negro race was voiced here Wednesday by Mrs. Daisy Me- Lean Buckley, nationwide worker for the Freedmen’s Conference, in an ad- dress at the State Women’s Misison- ary convention being held in the First Methodist Church, She appealed to the 60 delegates for aid and support of the home missionary work in the south. “The average Negro child gets about 30 days’ training a year in the schools,” she declared. “In the rural schools it does not exceed three months, ‘The speaker laid the Negro’s temp- tation to help himself and perhaps become unlawful to the unfairness of old masters in slavery. The immor- tality, she declared, came as a part of his miserable inheritance after 245 years of slavery. Every race has its criminal element, she said, and it also has its proud element. Ella C. Hartshoen from the Dea. coness’ home, Grand Rapids, spoke on Camp Dix at the evening sessions. Mrs, W. H. Peck of, Klamazoo has been elected president to succeed Mrs. C, W. Greene. LANSING TO HAVE URBAN LEAGUE. Mr, T, Arnold Hill, executive secre- tary of the Chicago Urban League and organizer for the western dis- trict of the National Urban League kas just returned from a trip of in- spection to Lansing, Michigan, where after a brief survey of the field and interviews with public spirited citi- zene, it is planned to have established there a branch of the National Urban League. The support of a number of large thanufacturing concerns has been pledged and arrangements will be made at a very early date to com- plete the details of organization. Lansing is a small city wiht a grow- ing Negro population and few civic organizations devoted to the inter- oetst of Negroes and in need of such an institution for the adjustment of its Negro population. Chatged With Murdering Soldier. * Sam Wilson, charged with the mar: der of Corp. Luther Barls, Company H., Fourth Inf, who were among the doldiers’ from Cathp Pike sent to sup: pres the ‘prising. A large mumber of men under indietment’ are tried on charges of supposed assault. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CHICAGO WHIP JOS. D. BUBB, L. L. B. { Editors WILLIAM C. LINTON } All unsolicited articles, manuscripts, letters and pictures sent to the CHICAGO WHIP are sent at the owner's risk, and the CHICAGO WHIP expressly repudiates any liability or responsibility for their safe custody or return. All communications must be sent in the name of the CHICAGO WHIP. No attention whatever paid to unsigned matter. Stamps must accompany all queries and manuscript. Terms of Subscription (Payable in advance): One Year. $2.00 Six Months. $1.25 Three Months. .750 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION WITH DUE REGARD FOR RIGHT, WITH PURITY OF MOTIVE IN OUR EXPRESSION, WITH CONSCIENTIOUS COMPASSION FOR STRICKEN HUMANITY, WITH UNSTINTED CREDIT TO THOSE WHO MERIT, WITH TRUTH AS OUR GUIDE POST AND LOVE AS OUR INSPIRATION, WE HAVE COMMITTED OURSELVES TO THE WORLD OF JOURNALISM. WE HAVE DEDICATED OURSELVES TO PUBLIC SERVICE. The Price of Progress. Observing the recent attempt of the colored race in America to create a new stability and a 'new solidarity,' it is interesting to note the terrible toll that the race is forced to pay. For every advancement made, for every achievement accomplished, for every goal attained. It can be found that somewhere in the course of affairs that he has paid dearly for it. That someone's crimson tide has ebbed as the sacrifice. For the military accomplishments in the late war the resentments were evidenced in antagonistic sentiment and cold blooded murder of black veterans. For religious accomplishments and beautiful churches, the resentment has been evidenced by BURNING; iconoclastic revolts and tentative segregation. For educational ameliorations donations have been denied, large universities closed, achievements ridiculed, positions refused, recognition scorned. For economical and industrial progress, Jim Crow laws have been invoked. Further advancement has been traversed. Further opportunity disallowed. Competition stiffened. Underhand schemes inaugurated. Property confiscated and destroyed. Individuals lynched, burned and put to flight. THERE IS A SURPRISING ECONOMIC BASIS FOR LYNCHING AN DMOB VIOLENCE. For cultural and ethical evolution, resentment has been met by the raising of new bars, the building of new barriers by the fling of new sarcasm. By the outcries of new stoics and cynics and the added intensity to old hatred. Reaching a philosophical conclusion from out of the labyrinth of these facts, it appears clear and plain to us that after all, these corollated barriers and antagonisms and insults are only the income taxes on progress. "From time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," men have had to pay the price of progress. Only the weaker races have been emasculated. The stronger have kept on and on until their assets were greater than their liabilities, until their achievements were more monumental than those who extracted the price and received the toll. Adversity has always been the saving grace of mankind. The collapse of all great kingdoms, the degenerations of all great leaders can be traced directly to the overplus of wealth, achievement and glory, and the minimized tax or price paid on their progress. The great eastern Roman empire decayed because the price paid for progress was not high enough. Charlemagne's Middle Europe became too luxuriant and the ravages of time ate up the accumulations of centuries. The price of progress was not exorbitant enough to renew and invigorate a nation that was being cuddled in the lap of luxury. So the story runs down thru the turbulent ages. In America the Puritan settlers battled with the elements of nature; the Indians and the autocratic religious rule of England. Adversity conspicuously measured in their early advent. The colored race of America is GOING thru the formulative period that all great people have gone thru. The colored race is paying an unwarranted, unprecedented and unparalleled price for progress. The degree of oppression cutweighs the degree of progress. The question at issue is, Shall we cease to progress and thereby lessen the aggravated price we pay? Or, shall we use intelligent methods to overcome the oppression and at the same time go forth? We have decided that this race shall take no steps backward. That the price imposed on progress must not be punitive. Too much adversity will sap the vitality of emulation and ambition. Therefore closer alliances with each other must be found. Firmer solidarity must be created. In our battle with the inevitable forces of fate; with firm determination, we must cement our financial, our political and our social efforts into intelligent alliances, in order to be able to withstand the overhead price of our progress. Shall we continue to live in America is for us to answer with the young people of our race breasting the tape and seizing the reins of new enterprises. The outlook is encouraging. The day dawns, the hour is here. In order to survive and avoid destruction by taxation on progress we will continue to progress until the price paid will not be felt, and when upon the pinnacles of success glittering with glory we will realize that the Price of Progress cannot destroy the strong. THE CHICAGO WHIP The Right to Hope WEEK'S BEST EDITORIAL. LOUISVILLE NEWS. The "Arkansas Idea" is commended and recommended by the Louisville Times. What is the "Arkansas Idea?" This is the idea: To hold its Colored citizens in a slavery almost as abject as that before the Civil War, to take their labor and the fruits of their labor and when they try to throw off that bondage by peaceful, legal means to execute and imprison and cower them. That, in a nutshell, is the "Arkansas Idea." We publish today the report of Mr. White, official investigator of the N. A. A. C. P. It tallies exactly with the report of an investigator sent to Arkansas by the Omaha Monitor, a Race paper. Both investigators emphatically deny that the Colored people of that state were in an "uprising" either organized or unorganized. What use of fire-arms was made by them was purely in self-defense. Their whole and sole crime was to organize into a protective association and employ legal talent to secure justice in the matter of labor and wages. For this "peaceful rebellion" they are railroaded to the electric chair and to the prison. This outrageous injustice is the "Arkansas Idea". This is what the Louisville Times recommends to other states. WEEK'S WORST EDITORIALS. ARKANSAS GAZETTE. AN INJUSTICE TO ARKANSAS. The National Equal Rights League, with headquarters in New York has sent a telegram to Governor Brough, asking him to grant a stay of execution in the cases of the 11 negroes "condemned to die for participation in the Elaine (Ark.) race riots." If Governor Brough gives any answer whatever to the request of the National Equal Rights League it should be a curt no. The Equal Rights League is piling another injustice on the many injustices done to Arkansas by some Northern newspapers and organizations since the trouble at Elaine. The Equal Rights League knows, if it has kept up with the matter, that the trouble at Elaine was not a race riot but an insurrection in which ignorant negroes, led by vicious and designing members of their own race, organized an insurrection the purpose of which was to murder the white planters and confiscate their property. When the insurrection came the Gazette and other newspapers sent reporters to the scene of the trouble. The accounts of every reporter agreed that the trouble wan an organized and premeditated insurrection and not asporadic race riot. This information was sent to the newspapers of the country thru the Associated Press, but in the face of it many papers in the North editorially poohoohed the idea of insurrection and published a statement from a Northern organization, organized ostensibly to aid the negro in the South, that the trouble came because white planters were trying to defraud negroes in the annual settlements for the cotton crop. At the trials of the negroes arrested the facts concerning the insurrection were brought out, but these papers and organizations in the main refused to give credence to the testimony produced at the trials and some of them suppressed the truth entirely. The fact that accused negroes admitted membership in the organization which brought on the insurrection, admitted taking part in the insurrection and pleaded guilty to the charges against them made no difference. These papers and organizations were determined to believe only what they wanted to believe. The Rev. A. C. Millar, editor of the Arkansas Methodist, desiring to have first hand information, went to Phillips county and made a personal investigation of the Elaine affair. As a result of his investigation he publishes in this week's Arkansas Methodist an editorial headed, "Not Rioting, but Insurrection," in which he shows that the trouble at Elaine came because the negroes were organized against the whites to murder them and to confiscate t heirproperty. He concludes his editorial with these words: "It is positive slander to class this insurrection with the bloody affairs at East St. Louis, Chicago and Omaha." BECAUSE IT IS THE ONLY PUBLICATION OF ITS KIND IN AMERICA BECAUSE IT IS OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY YOUNG MEN BECAUSE IT IS A MARK OF DESTINCTION TO BE A READER OF THE PUBLICATION BECAUSE WE GIVE YOU THE NEWS WHILE ITS NEWS BECAUSE WE HAVE A STAFF OF REPORTERS THAT COVER THE CITY LIKE A MORNING DEW BECAUSE OUR EDITORIALS ARE INSTRUCTIVE, FORCEFUL, AND UNCOMPROMISING BECAUSE WE SPARE NO EXPENSE TO GIVE OUR READERS THE BEST IN JOURNALISM BECAUSE WE ARE THE UN DEFEATED CHAMPIONS OF THE RACE, AND YOU OWE THIS MUCH TO THE RACE'S FORMOST PUBLICATION Health Hints By Dr. H. A. Massey. The disease unlike most others, runs a definite course, the infection being generalized, all symptoms are systemic and localized. The course of this disease is divided into three stages. The first stage the incubation from the lime of the infection to the appearance of the initial lesion, coming in the form of an ulcer, called the Chancre, a cutaneous lesion being nearly always single is present in a variety of forms. It is prolonged by hot weather and shortened by cold, having a longer and marked effect in poorly nourished subjects. It steals on one as a thief giving no warning, no constitutional symptoms, but with an indulgent painless, angry looking ulcer being either of hard of soft type, and the individual is usually aware of its presence but seems little or not worried of its results. Not every ulcer, sore or eruption found on the lips, tongue or fingers is a chancre, nor is every cold sore or ulceration free of infection for the secretion of many are indefinitely auto-inoculable. The ulcer occurs as a superficial oval, with a smooth red surface becoming after a few days, covered with a grayish membrane or as a deep ulcer with a sharp cut edges and indurated base, or as a dark slightly red scaly hard papule or nodule. Most of the initial lesions are generally found on the genital organs or adjoining mucus membrane, other sites are the tongue, lips, cheeks, chin, tonsils, thighs, abdio men, eyelids, breast, arms and fingers. Those lesions on the lips, tongue are generally caused by kissing, using of common drinking utensils, on the finger because the exposure of the hand in handling articles formally used by one having the ulcer. This has been the history of many that have been innocently exposed. The resistance of syphilic poison to external influences is shown by the fact that there are so many authentic instances of the disease being communicated by contaminated pipes, cups, spoons, forks, towels, sponges and articles of underwear as well as by under clean surgical and dental instruments and razors. Careless physicians in making examination without rubber gloves have suffered its fate. The lesion lasting from twelve days to six weeks. The risk of infection with syphilis is so real and people affected with the disease are so careless and so ignorant (for they often believe that they can only be infected by sexual congress.) Every individual should be warned of his liability to spread the disease and should be definitely instructed in the precautions necessary to prevent them from so doing. The United States Public Health Dept., City Health Department, by movies, lectures and drastic laws have attempted to stamp out this scourge. Hygienic condition has a marked effect upon the patient in this stage, this is not merely given for protection of his, but others, to safeguard their health because syphilis is no respector of persons, as it is acquired or inherited. Acquired syphilis is always due to direct inoculation and the seat of inoculation being marked by the stage the Chancre. (To be continued.)