Chicago Whip

"Keen Observer" Attends Hyde Park Meeting EX-SOLDIER KILLED IN COLD BLOOD Georgia's First New Year Outrage. Slain for Being Proud. Georgia's First New Year Outrage. Slain for Being Proud. A MILLION LASHES FROM "THE WHIP" Vol. 2.—No. 4 EX-SO Georgia's First New Slain for Being NEGRO SOLDIER KILLED IN ATLANTA. Slain in Altercation With Conductor On Street Car. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 22. — Georgia has started the NewYear auspiciously. She has already to her credit the murder of Sergeant Casey, a colored soldier recently returned from overseas. Casey was murdered in cold blood by Frank Douglas, a street car conductor, after the colored soldier had taken exceptions to the insulting remarks, made by Douglas regarding "nigger soldiers". According to witnesses, Douglas had just before Casey entered the car bodily thrown off a young colored boy for arguing about his fare. When some women expressed their opinion as to this outcome, he Douglas is said to have used husive language and had threatened to throw them off, too. He was still grumbling and swearing when Casey boarded his car. "And what do you want?" he said to the surprised soldier, who had scarcely taken his seat, before being addressed thus. Casey was of powerful build and might have easily accorded the conductor the same treatment he had meted out to the Germans in France. "You think that you are a big nigger, don't you, with that d... uniform?" "You think that you can come back here and run us white men with that d... uniform, don't you?" "Leave it to me and I'll put you back in the rags, Splendid Service Rendered By Huff's Pharmacy. Huff's Pharmacy has truly shown that this store is "your own Drug Store." The special attention paid to patrons and the personal supervision given to prescriptions has made all who patronize this store feel that indeed it is their "own store." Dr. Huff, the proprietor is widely known as a Mason, Odd Fellow, Forester and a stanch supporter of the Chicago Business League, and while identified with these organizations, he has devoted much time in developing a store for service, maintaining an all night service which has been called upon continuously in the last week on account of the great number of "flu" cases. Dr. Huff's Drug Store is located at 19 East 43rd Street and a call at Oakland 2120 will bring a representative to your door without the extra charge which many druggists impose for this service. His patronage which has grown so largely is handled by capable and efficient help who are always courteous and who are only thinking of your convenience. Such stores as this one of the race that give the best, are one of the best answers to many of the charges laid at the door of the race and Dr. Huff is still planning to make the Huff Pharmacy a greater aid to those who require a druggist's services. New Movement. The African Association of the New Jerusalem was organized in Chicago Sept. 4th 1919 with the Rev. A. Simons as presiding Minister. All readers of Swedenberg are invited to January Services at Odd Fellows Hall, Sunday January 25th at 11:30 A. M., 3337 S. State St. Subject: Christian Oneness, all united. Rev. A. Simons. (here the language is unprintable) your graden wore." According to witnesses, Cacey was so stunned by this verbal attack that for a moment he remained motionless. Then his righteous anger asserted itself. He jumped out, slashed out his right fist and knocked the conductor down. Then instead of jumping on him while he was down, as he had been taught to do the Germans, Casey waited for the conductor to arise. The colored women on the car were terrified. They say that the first thought to come into their mind was the spectacle of a lynching bee. They saw a rowdy white man sprawling at the feet of a gallant colored soldier and feared the consequences. They knew that would fall upon the head of the colored man. Casey killed in Cold Blood. When Douglas did scramble to his feet, a gun flashed in his hand. A report broke out. One report. Two. Six shots in rapid succession. The shoulders of the colored soldier dropped, the muscles of his face twiced, his magnificent form bent slowly at the waist and with a heavy thud he fell to the floor. Georgia had claimed its first victim for her 1920 record. Douglas arrested. Police immediately boarded the car and arrested Douglas while Casey, his uniform stained with blood, was hastened away to the coroner's office. Douglas is still held, pending trial, a remarkable thing in Georgia. Westbrooks Running Strong. People's Choice for Alderman Winning Great Factor. Atty. Westbrooks who is in the aldermanic race has had many come to him and offer support in his fight next February against the "old crowd" candidate. Sentiment is turning rapidly in favor of this progressive and "fighting" candidate of the "new crowd." His endorsement by the Independent Political League is another source of strength and their active support in his campaign makes him a formidable candidate. Many who have been waiting for a change are rallying to his support and Atty. Westbrooks is all smiles as he sees possible defeat staring his opponent in the face. Chinatown Cafe Shot Up By Gunmen. Two colored bandits, using three guns, shot up the chop sucey restaurant of Charles Mong, 2597 S. State st., today. They fired ten or twelve shots. Bullets smashed mirrors and tore chunks out of the plastering. When the smoke cleared the gunmen had made their escape with a total of $30 from the register. In the midst of the firing. Ah You, Chong Fong and Charles Mong himself were rushing about the place in terror. In their dash for "cover" some of the chairs and tables were overturned and the place looked like it had suffered a bomb explosion when Cottage Grove av. police arrived. The robbers began by firing a shot at Mong when he refused to hold up his hands. Ah You and Chong Fong came running from the rear. Then the robbers began firing at random and the Chinamen put on a dance more saky than the well known shimmy. CHICAGO, ILL., SATURDAY, JAN 24, 1920 Oath of Afro-American Youth I will never bring disgrace upon my race by any unworthy deed or dishonorable act. I will live a clean, decent, manly life; and I will ever respect and defend the virtue and honor of womanhood; I will uphold and obey the JUST LAWS of my country and if the community in which I live and will encourage others to do likewise; I will not allow prejudice, injustice, insult or outrage COWER MY SPIRIT OR SOUR MY SOUL; but will EVER preserve the inner freedom of heart and conscience; I will not allow myself to be overcome of evil; but will strive to overcome evil with good; I will help to develop and exert the best powers within me for my own personal improvement, and will strive unceasingly to quicken the sense of racial duty and responsibility; I will in all these ways aim to uplift my race so that, to every one bound to it by ties of blood it shall become a bond of ennoblement and not a byword of reproach. Mass Meeting of the Independent Political League. The hall was well filled and Atty. C. Francis Statford occupied the chair. Atty. Oliver A. Clark at the opening of the meeting read the platform and stated the objects of the Independent Political League. Att. Richard Westbrooks was then introduced and as a candidate in the field for alderman made a forceful and stirring speech denouncing "maehning made" men and sounded the new note which has been so hacking in Second Ward politics. Atty. Westbrooks stated that he was in the fight to the bitter end and that his efforts to break the heavy chains that held the average voter would be without stint or limit. He won applause from all sides, even from the "scouts" of the "old crowd" who had come to hear and see and perhaps learn. Atty. Westbrooks was followed by J. D. Bibb, Editor of the Whip. Mr. Bibb went over carefully each plank in the platform of the League and with brilliant analysis of the failure of the present system of Second Ward politics and clearly described the evils of the system and the hardship that it works on the race. He treated the "Harmony Feed" and all that it meant with searching inquiry and clearly stated the cause of the NEW NEGRO and the spirit that he represented. Mr. Bibb was followed by Atty, James G. Cptter who also turned the searchlight on the old time political scheme and called attention to the fact that he resigned from the position of Asst. Attorney General of the State of Illinois rather than compromise the race. This spirit is the spirit of the NEW NEGRO, who accepts no compromise and will not take the half loaf. Atty. A. L. Williams stated that he was in the fight with the League to help emancipate the Negro of the city of Chicago from the political slavery From "Out of the House of Bondage" By Kelly By Kelly Miller. Joseph D. Bibb is main editor of the "Whip". He's a very nice, quiet young man. I understand he's a graduate of Harvard in good old Boston town. But graduation does not broaden the minds of young men who have not been out and gone through hard experience. In an editorial of Dec. 27, of two editorials, his criticism comment on Lawyer Edward Morris was as bad as his second editorial was good. What I object to in the Morris editorial is that he has no primitive or exact cause for attack; nothing but comment. Surely Morris cannot be put down as a cold blunt failure. He has done what white men do. He got the money in a way we call honorable in these days without holding a man up. But philosophers don't quite see it in a lawyer's way and that is why they generally remain poor. But why need he remind Morris of his age. To tell Morris he hears' the cry of the toll taker is a little too previous and a little too stout in putting a man's obituary ahead of time. Morris may live ten years longer than the young editor and still be active. Who knows? No tongue can tell the wisdom of age accorded as God sees it. Bibb is young and has propped himself up in corner, where he will have cause for worry. "What Morris could have done," he says. Yes, Morris feathered his own nest, just what he sought out to do. Then Bibb says: "The race must be lifted out of the rut by her master minds and her accumulated dollars." That may be allright, but it takes a lot of experience and patience to deal with a lot of envious heathens and ignorant, swell-headed self-acquired rich. But Morris may yet give a helping hand. --- that the "old crowd" has seen fit to make the Chicago Negro endure. Mrs. E. Murray, in behalf of the women stated that the women were against political slavery and that they were in any fight that might help in freeing ALL RACES from class exploitation or bossism. At the close of the meeting many contributions of various amounts were made to carry on the fight, and the Independent Political League was successfully launched and a real fight begun. Expressions which vary from scornful remarks to actual expressions of fear are heard to come from the camps of the old crowd who are watching with bated breath developments. Their old tacies are in evidence and they have started their same old methods which have so thoroughly disgusted the real people of the city of Chicago. Arouse Negroes in U. S. British Brewers Urge. LONDON, January 18, 1920. The British brewing, interests, infuriated by the progress of the prohibition campaign again are urging that as a reprisal British emissaries should be sent to the Southern States to stir up trouble among the Negroes. The Financial News today editorially comments upon this scheme, which was formulated by Malcolm Higgings, Brewery Chairman, at a meeting of the company yesterday. The idea in such a move would be to bring a protest from Washington, whereupon the British Government might reply that when American prohibitionists are withdrawn from Britain, British inciters to Negro disturbances would leave the United States. Avoid the Lash of the Whip. Indianapolis Freeman Criticises Editor of The Whip. —From "Indianapolis Freeman". Race Man Sneaks in Property Owners Meeting. Discloses Their Dirty Tactics. The Hyde Park and Kenwood Property Owners' Association held their Second Meeting Monday, January 19th to further their antennae on the throats of the Negro. The First speaker began his dissertation as follows: The colored man is our burden and as such must be met with the proper kind of resistance. One of our great men said: "The greatest institution he knew of was the American home—let it be protected." A report was then read from the association East of Cottage Grove stating that in one year of "ruthless campaigning" all the negroes had moved out of that district, but it meant effort. We accomplished great work. All was not harmony. I remember one meeting, continued the speaker, when we had a very embarrassing situation, all those that were Christians were asked to stand up. Then we were asked all that believed in God stand up, and he added of course we all believed. What the embarrassing situation was I was too to comprehend as the God that bunch of "pious citizens" worship will excuse anything. You can't mix oil and water; therefore you can't mix races. Who brought the Negro here? The white man. Who gave him the same constitutional rights that we have? The white man. Therefore it is our duty to "lift" him out of his environments. (Bomb or Shot would have been a better term, but who could expect those "pious Christians" to be militant). Birds, trees, and animals arrange themselves in nature to their own liking, man must do the same. Lincoln said, "I am not in favor of social equality, intermarrying or mixing' of the races" (from the Douglas Debate) these are the words of the best friend the Negro ever had. I have heard some advocate force, he said, but that is wrong. Buy the Negro out. 250,000 fought in the Civil war, and over half of the 8th Regt. lie buried in France. They are patriotic, we cannot take it away from Negro Ejected from Hyde Park Meeting. S. G. Rhodes, 3433 Michigan Ave., attempted to attend one of the meetings the other night of the Hyde Park and Kenwood association. The Meeting was held in the American Club House, 445 S. Grand Blvd. As soon as he entered or attempted to enter he was told to get out "we don't want you near us". On the outside the unwelcome visitor lingered a while and observed the crowd, which was composed of men, women, children and now and then a baby. The crowd seemed to be made up of a rather shoddy clad bunch of common looking people with here and there flash and the mannerism of some who have quickly or accidentally gotten hold of more than they had been used to. Talking to some on the outside who were going to enter and gaining from their conversation to others, there seemed to be quite a number attending through curiosity or for some commercial effect, that did not feel the association would be justified or ever rea- REAL NEWS LIVE NEWS WORLD NEWS NEWS WHILE IT'S NEWS PRICE FIVE CENTS BLOOD meaks in Property meeting. Discloses Dirty Tactics. in. Prop- their January on the them, treat the Negro square so that the Stars and Stripes may wave over the land of the Free and the home the brave—Of course the gentleman by his introductory remarks vitalized every principle he claimed. The association had promised not to sell or rent property to colored people. We warned the property owner that he was fighting for his home, schools and churches. If you are not on the look-out he said—the greatest University in the World in a few years will be surrounded by negroes. Final Speaker: The final speaker was the challenge, Wabash ave., Calumet and Forest Avenue was at one time the most beautiful spot in the city. Look at them now inhabited by Negroes. We are not here to protest against the Booker T. Washington type of Negro but against, that class that would spoil the neighborhood. The real reasons are obvious to all thinking Negroes. We refuse to be swayed by their sychophantic oratory, by their panegyric praises for our "patriotism." A slave cannot be true to his Master, and patriotism means the love and respect and appreciation for a country in proportion for certain rights and privileges extended. When the war was on we were told to be impervious to German Propaganda. We were told this was our country, if it was then it is now. So we are just as willing to fight to prevent the purloining of our constitutional rights as we were to fit the Germans, that had not personally given us afront or insult. Apropos of social equality:— It means the privilege to select one's friends in proportion to the way they act as they do, implying no force think as they do, implying no force as to choice. So we believe in social equality. The whites evidently do also from the number of Mullattos, south of the Mason and Dixon line, but they believe in it after dark only. Harvey Saunders Aids Flu Sufferers. The popular and progressive South Side Druggist has added several valuable assistants to his staff at his store at 4750 S. State street, in order to accommodate his increased trade caused by the "Flu." His courteous and efficient treatment of his customers, his cut-rate prices and splendid delivery service have caused many "flu" patients to come great distances that they may be assured of clean, accurate prescription service at reasonable rates. A telephone call, Oakland 3126 will bring this efficient service to your door. Colored Man Arrested for Making Moonshine. de who giving from there attending commer- the asso- re rea Birmingham, Alabama, Jan. 21. Richard Barnett was handed over to the United States Marshall on last Wednesday on a charge of illicit distilling. His still was discovered by officers and destroyed. Barnett will appear before Judge Kenneth Charlton, U. S. Commissioner for a preliminary hearing. ee Se Te aca Bae fee) a Toe MRE OEP goon cy is 8 1 alee Negima eth pep tiem LN Le REL AUS RACE BUSINESS IS ON THE INCREASE! EFFICIENT HELP IN DEMAND PREPARE NOW TO SERVE EFFICIENTLY! The most modern and improved system of business efficiency and business methods taught by able and competent instructors. ( 4 ———— FE LALA To re ee Morvin J. Treadwell, L. L. B., Dean Andrew Jackson, L. L. B., Attorney at Law Carol McCoy, Charlotte Harris, ' Formerly with The Underwriters Mutal Ins. Co. Formerly 'of Washington, D. C, FP Brenographer, Quartermaster Corps, U.S. Av Bookkeeper, Underwriters Mutal Ins. Co. / | W. Harold Thomas, A. M., Secretary * Blanche Logan, J. E. Mitchem, Magdalene DeAcklin, Former Principal of Carbonale High School’ of:Ill. Teacher in the Chicago Public School System. Home Office Manager, Underwriters Mutal Ins. Co. Stenographer, Underwriters Mutal Ins, Co. ser as ale UM OI RR BG AAMC ee CRT Gl ay mm TES ees WATCH FOR THE OPENING DATE | Temperary Headquarters Northwest Corner E. 31st St., and Indiana, Ave. CHICAGO, ILL i fi PHONE: INQUIRE OF INFORMATION Rte a errr. gsgeees Mere ete Bee seecnm ee Mk ORT: Eo sie 8 OE en atte Bs ea Ns A ON Tg oe. aaah Ls A a a el a ei a 2 eae — MEXICANS ARREST AMERICAN NEGROES Agua Prieta, Sonora, Jan. 22. — Military authorities. of Carranza have arrested three American Ne- groes at San Jose, north of Guymas, charging them with supplying ammu- nition to roving bands of Villistas, necording to word reached here to- day. ‘Those arrested were Fred. Town- send, Wilbur Lochart and Paul Har- rison, all of New York City. The men, so it is reported, were caught after a wild ride through the hills. ‘They had just left a camp of the Villistas to whom they had taken a number of rifles when the Carran- zista soldiers spied their smat! pack train. They were traveling on horse ‘back and in addition had six mules. ‘The soldiers immediately set after them and after a ride lasting over two hours, during which time the mules were left stranded, overtook and captured the three men. Large quantities of war material have recently been landed. in the Wi- cinity of Meadano on the Gulf of California. From there they have been filtering into the hands of Yaqui Indians and Villistas. It is believed that these celored men are the ring leaders in the smuggling. In addition to their smuggling ac. tivities, the colored men are charged with having evaded the United States draft laws through flight to Mexico: They are being held pending in- ‘vestigation. Wave of Progress. The New Year seems to be ush- ered in by a “wave of progress” as regards the American Negro. A glimpse over the country would re- veal the fact along all lines of en- deavor gnd in nearly every phase of life there are signs of a new type of progress. Out in Richmond we observe @ block of two story buildings to be erected and occupied by Negroes at a cost of $6000 each. In Hartford Connecticut, stock is being sold by a corporation whieh is planning the erection of a large building which will be the center of the social and economic activities of the colored people in that city. ‘The Negro population in Connec- ticut is increasing very rapidly, but from all indications, the authorities are taking advent of the jmis- ws See ear aAuery have made in that they are prepar- ing adequate housing for the new- cee We find a remarkable item of progress in Atlanta, Georgia where a school for the illiteracy of col- ored people will be opened to stu- dents above the age of nineteen years. Sessions will be in the eve- ning and tuition and books are free. In Houston, Texas, a Polytechnic Institute is being established and has the hearty support of the white and colored people of that state. Above all we find that Governor Bilbo of Mississippi ordered out the State Militia to Vicksburg to pre- vent the threatened lynching of Jesse Watts, held in the Warren county jail on the charge of mur- dering Dr. David Alverson. The preliminary hearings for the Federal investigation of lynching and race riots began in Washington January 14, These almost un- dreamed of realities are the direct result of protest and agitation of persons and agencies that have been working for the emancipation of the Negro and the atiainment of his ful! status as a citizen. SO ee ee ee ee BOLSHEVIKS APPEAL TO COLORED PEOPLE Washington, D. C., January 21.— The Fall Committee, investigating the activities of the Reds in America has unearthed a document calling upon the Negroes of the country to join forces with Lenine, The article captioned, “The Negro, and War With Mexico”, is an appeal to the Negroes of the United States to re- volt against the government at Wash- ington. Among other things, it states that the American Negroes, constituting the most miserable and oppressed element of the American proletariat *have racial reasons as well as economical ones for imme- diate preparedness, not further mi- litary service, but to prevent it. They are not aware of this: “The Negro has hed sleeping sickness for many years, induced, first, by the vitiating tendencies of chattel slavery, but made even worse under the wage slaveny that followed slavery. The Negro is not sleeping, He will fight ‘no more wars for his tormentors and tyrants. Mobile, Alabama, Jan. 19.—Scores of whites are scouring the surround- ing country for an unidentified col- ored man accused of murdering H. FE. Nash, 95, a conductor on a Chi- casaw car, following an altercation over change, With feeling at the pitch it is now, colored residents are hourly waiting for Alabama's first lynehing in 1920. Ill feeling against Nash has been manifested for some time because of his unjust treatment of colored passengers, In this ease the unidenti- fied colored man who killed Nash, did so in self defense, according to eye-witnesses, ‘The colored man re- sented Nash's demand for the pay- ment of a second fare and in the altercation that followed was knock- ed down and jumped upon by the conductor. The motorman, C. A. Mousar, joined forces with the con- Gietor and attacked the prostrate man with his controller. ‘The colored man managed to get to his feet and after exchanging blows with his two adversaries, hit Nash a fatal blow over the heart. The man escaped somehow and is now at large. Work- men at Chicasaw and Whistler have quit work and gone in search of the man, who, according to a Mobile newspaper will “be dealt with sum- marily if captured”, Houston, Texas. — Screams from the colored cook as he dashed down the street foiled the attempt of three men to hold up and rob the Congress cafe, 2219 Congress avenue, early Sunday morning. ‘The men entered the cafe and drew pistols on Charles Knowles, the pro- prietor, and J. H. Smith, the Cook, as they demanded money from the cash register and safe. Smith dashed from the door before the assailants could choot and ran down the street screaming lustily, acording to wit- nesses, Fearing that officers would rush to the scene, the robbers left the cafe without taking any money or causing any demage. The police department was notified and officers started a search for the men. Dr. Robert R. Moton, principal of Tuskegee Institute spoke before the House of Southern Governors at Savannah last week. Dr. Moton was present at the meeting thru the in- vitation of Governor Hugh M. Dor- sey. In his address, Dr. Moton strongly denounced mob violence and lynching. He spoke strongly against “Jim Crow Cars” and urged that im- provements in traveling accommoda- tions for colored people be vastly improved. In referring to the current unrest and the imigrations north of ‘southern colored people, he stated that his people were growing rest- ‘less under the intolerable oppression of the South—more restive than they had ever been in the history of the SG Civimioe Ditesy ot Coorg, Gov. Cooper of South Carolina, Gov Roberts of Tennessee, Gov. Bickett of North Carolina were present. Colored Radicals Protest at Mass Meeting. Despite w blinding snow storm and zero weather, about a hundred proponents of the international radical movement assembled in Odd Fellows Hall, Friday night to voice protest of Second Ward free- thinkers, socialists, 1. W. W.'s, philosophical anarchists, ete. a- gainst the arrest of those of their comrades seized in the recent na- tion-wide raids. A half dozen offi- cers of the law crept silently into the hall and took places in the audi- ence. The speakers, KR. Hardeon, colored, and Dr. George Swarts, white, united in scoring the State's Attorney and the secret service for what they termed the “sacrifice of thousands of honest and intelligent men on the altar of political am- bition.” Hardeon referred to the of- ficers present as the “agents of per- secution” and told the colored vot ers to “see to it that Hoyne never gels another office as high as assist- ant dog catcher”. J. D. Howard Dead Editor Indianapaolis Ledger Dies. Indianapolis. — Mr. J. D. How ard, editor and publisher of the In- dianapolis Ledger, died last Thurs- day at the Waddy Hotel, West Ba- den, after an illness of ten days. Mr. Howard had been in bad health for sometime, but he took a decid- ed tern for “the worse after reach- ing West Baden. Mr. Howard was born in Shelby- ville, Ky., fifty years ago. He was well known in Louisville and had many friends there. He was a born newspaper man and made the Led. ger one of the most widely circula: ted Race papers in tfie country. He is survived by his wife. Good-byeto- Crowd is Waved from Gallows Bronson, Fla., Jan. 14,—Deelar- ing that the state authorities migitt wound his body, but they could not touch his soul, John. Cason, con- vieted of wife murder and sentenced to hang, walked to the gallows Thurs- day, waved his handkerchief to a crowd of spectators and said “good- bye”. A few minutes after his fare- well message he plunged through the trap to his death. This is the first time in 18 years that a prisoner has paid the death penalty. Cason killed his wife sev- eral months ago at Sumner, Levy county. oo THE CaIOaeo WHIP Secret Service Agents Discover Pamphlets Asking Support of the Race, Posses Pursues “Unindenti- fied Colored Man” SCREAMS OF COOK FOIL ARMED CAFE ROBBERS. OCC Ce eC at 5 i i ) ' ( } : ! I | 335 E. 3ist Street | : Phone Douglas 6701 ; ‘ rt } : $25,000 Reduction | ‘ue ! x Z Loy } i i ee iG ih ; cH i, £ ee cS ey ea } co _s S v 7 i J ‘Shoe Sale: << ———— } , Lowest Prices Ever Heard x of for High Grade Shoes : Men’s, Women’s and Children’s a e | Fine Footwear | : We are featuring the Douglas, ; : Emerson and Educator Shoes } t aT } _ 40% Below Cost | PROSPEROUS MERCHANT OF isis TEXAS; L. D. Lyons, | prosperous mer chant of Austin, Pex., is spending a few days in the city the guest of Mrs. Emma Moore, 23 FE. 43rd St. He was called to the cily on’ ac count of illness of his children here who are attending school. Colored Man Appointed Gov- ; ernor’s. Secretary Harrisburg, Paj Jan. 14.—Lieut. Gov. E. E. Beidleman has appointed W. Justin Carter, a colored. lawyer at the Dauphin eounty bar, his pri vate secretary, The place pays $1,500 a year, with little work attached. Carter succeeds Harry F. Oves, who was elected city treasurer, and his selection caused much comment at the capitol. Carter is a Harvard Uni- versity Law Sehool graduate. COLORED WOMEN APPEAL T0 DIRECTOR OF RAILROADS UNDERWRITERS MUTUAL INSURANCE COMPANY Incorporated under laws of the State of Illinois. THE BEST HEALTH AND ACCIDENT INSURANCE Live agents wanted in every city in Illinois. Write for terms of contract. Home office: 2 East 31st Street. Phone Calumet 875 CHICAGO — ILLINOIS Birmingham, Ala., June 20.—Ma- rie Blake, colored, sprung a surprise in the criminal court today. She is the wife of a colored man running on the Chesapeake & Ohio dining car. When arrested on a charge of a theft of a coat, she wrote a letter to Director General, Walter B. Hines of the Railroad Administration, ex- plaining her position and her marital relations. Mr. Hines referred the matter to U. D. Maher, Roanoke, Va., regional director in charge of oper: ation and the latter sent all corres- pondence to W. T. Alrees, local re- presentative of the road in Louisville. Mr. Alrees got busy in the case and proceeded to arrange moral and fi- nancia! support to Marie. Hence the surprise, Pt eee ee ee SE ES | 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. Reliable Detective Work § } "Transacted for Corporations, Attorneys and Individuals ‘ ; Shadowing a Specialty : } In connection with offices throughout the world. Maleand female | } operatives. All business strictly confidential. Consultation free. S. A. BRUSEAUX, Manager ‘ 1 Phone Douglas 3493 3333 South State St. | as es le eal READ THE WHIP Will reduce the high cost of profiteers | Prosperity and plenty for all of ! the working people can only come by co-operation. The Vinculum Co-operative So- | ciety is an intelligent organization. | ; : | Workers-are putting their.money..... to gather to enlarge their buying | capacity and eliminate the middle | man. ( Thereby reduce the high cost of” | living. . We have a few shares left at | $10.00 per share. Buy Today. | Ghe Vinculum Co-operative Society 4300 S. State Street Phone Blvd. 1857 | A mamoth project A Loyal movement It is yours. { Under The Lash of The Whip That house on Indiana Avenue, which has a sign on the window—"Apartments for WHITES"—Will you answer the door if a colored person rings? Dr. Moses Madden of St. Louis, because he wanted a separate state for Negroes along the Mexican border; another presidential candidate, eh? Dr., It can't be done. Chicago Real Estate Board because it congratulates Hyde Park and Kenwood Association on their efforts to get colored people out of Hyde Park. Local No. 2, Firemen's Association and Allied Civic Club of the South Side for their scurvy propaganda for segregation as shown in their model (?) constitution booklet prepared for all who will "be persuaded." Is that why they sent it to the members of the constitutional convention? That Political Boss in the loop who instructed Mrs. Montgomery, B. W. Fitts, Mr. Lewis and others not to attend the political mass meeting of those who are trying to make the second ward the mecca of colored Progress. Edward Wright, Lewis B. Anderson and Robert Jackson for being "so uneasy" over the activities of the "New Negro." Gee Whiz why not get uneasy over the "Solid South," Boss rule, dir politics and the Hyde Park Association. The Catholic Church claiming Christianity yet drawing Color lines and setting up standards that bar the Black man. The Hyde Park and Kenwood Gang for having policemen to protect their nefarious meetings! 1,000,000 lashes for them because they claim to be 100 per cent American. 10,000,000 Lashes on the back of the first Negro that sells us or and holds up the Dollar sign to Hyde Park. Those fossilized politicians calling themselves "The Big 4". How long will the people be fooled and exploited by ignorance and avarice. All those colored people who say they have no time to consider the affairs of the people, which is the meaning of the word politics. They have time to be Jim Crowed, harmonized, and sold out. Wake up. Wake up! Brethren. The race needs your moral and political support. Let's break the heart of the Solid South. Let's start here in Chicago. Let's start now to follow the new crowd. The old crowd will be whipped and lashed in to the lake of oblivion. 94,000 natives of South Africa went to war. 44,000 were burried beneath the sod of "No Man's Land". Those who returned are debarred from purchasing land and from joining the Dutch church. The African fared better during Bible times. That Drug Store on the corner of 35th and State for not considering favorable a colored manager. The Graham Sedition Bill that is intended to stop he publication of all Negro Papers, because they are intended to incite riot spirit. Wonder will it also silence the rabid lynch spirit of the South. WE HAVE OUR EYES OPEN. The Graham Sedition Bill that tation of all Negro Papers, because riot spirit. Wonder will it also siler the South. Negro "Y" Workers Overseas Of the large group of "Y" workers who went overseas 84 were Negroes, and 23 of these were women, only three of whom were in France during the actual fighting; not until months after the armistice were other Negro women sent overseas. There were never more than 75 Negro "Y" secretaries in France at any one time, and they were scattered among nearly 200,000 Negro troops. Many times Negro men were met in France who had never seen a Negro "Y" worker, and had not received service from any "Y" worker. These 75 secretaries served with the fighting units and with the troops in the Service of Supplies and in leave areas. The fighting units of Negro soldiers were the 92d and 93d Divisions, the latter comprising four regiments brigaded with the French. It was in these units that the secretaries won well-deserved praise for faithful service and unfaltering courage. The airplane raids, bombardments from enemy guns, and bursting gas shells did not slacken, their ardor to follow the men wherever they went. This work was well summed up, in a tal kgiven to Negro secretaries at a banquet in Paris by Mr. E. C. Carter, head of the Y. M. C. A. overseas, who said, 'No group of secretaries has been more successful nor has any work been on a higher level. I have been impressed most by your spirit. Sometimes you have met with difficulties and have been insulted by workers with the red triangle on their arms, but in it all you have shown the spirit of the Great Master". Treadwell Starts Great Business College for Colored On Jan. 19th in 1848 gold was discovered in the Coloma Valley, which caused the wild ruch for gold in 1849. In 1920 on the 19th day of January, Norvin J. Treadwell, a young man who for sometime past has been attracting attention of the business men of Chicago for his business efficiency and ability to handle many of the business problems of the day, per fected the organization of a business college which promises to be one of the most modern in equipment and methods of instruction, as well as offering for the use of the public a force of able and competent instructors. The college is to be known as "The Treadwell Business College" and has comfortable temporary headquarters on the northwest corner of E. 31st Street and Indiana Avenue. It was here that the faculty met for the purpose of discussing plans and curriculum. Mr. Treadwell promises to give these to the public within the next few days. Any information desired relative to the college and its plans may be secured at the temporary office of the college. The Treadwell Business College will fill a long needed want in the affairs of the Chicago Colored man and it is expected that the school will be as popular as was the gold rush of 1849. Upon being approached by several reporters, Mr. Treadwell made the following statement relative to college: "What is opportunity to a man who can't use it? Many of the leaders may be heard each day telling us of the many opportunities which are open to us at the present time. They fail to tell us that so many of us are unprepared to use, those opportunities. An opportunity which we cannot use is as an unfeecundated egg, which the waves of time may wash away into nonentity." There are three mail order houses in Chicago making every available effort to get intelligent and competent colored girls to do clerical work is competent they get. These houses in their offices. These houses are paying huge bonuses for every girl who are Montgomery Ward & Company; Sears, Roebuck and Company; and Butler Brothers. To-day I was asked if I could secure three stenographers for our own business men—and I too am eager to secure the services of a competent stenographer. I was informed it was impossible to get them and the reason assigned was that we had them but that these girls had been submerged in other lines of work. I believe this to be an answer evading the issue. The purpose of Thirsty Americans May Soon Ride the Sky for a Drink By Leased Wire to The Houston Post. WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. — All aboard for Havana—the oasis. Out of dry America and get all the drinks you want in about an hour. That's the time it takes to get from Key West to Havana by airplane. The airship specials into wet Cuba are soon to start. The pilots were at the state department yesterday getting their passports. This is the tourist season in Florida, when the men of wealth—and with thirsts—flock to Palm Beach, Daytona, Tampa, Miami, Key West and the other resorts of the pleasure seekers who can afford it. It is the open season for those who would like to and can afford to make a quick run to Havana for a few drinks. The long line at the state department waiting to get passports to Havana during the last week testify to the number who will be eager to patronize the air route. Representative "Joe" Sears who represents the district, which includes practically all of the east coast resorts and Key West, admitted Sunday night that he had been working for several weeks on the proposed airship line to Havana, and that he and other members of the Florida delegation in congress have been striving to make it easier to get passports to Havana. Eventually there may be a glass bridge from Key West to Cuba built up corallike from the bottles dropped overboard from the returning airships. Seventy-Two Bottles of Amber Fluid Destined for Oil Fields Seized by Clever Ruse By blacking his face and impersonating a negro Pullman porter, an agent of the Department of Justice was enabled to seize 72 bottles of whiskey the other day in a little oil town in North Texas, according to reports received by the San Antonio office yesterday. The whiskey was brought from St. Louis in a drawing room on the Katy Flyer. The two men who were custodians of the valuable cargo, evidently destined for sale to the oil men, who, it is said, are willing to pay fabulous prices for the now comparatively rare amber fluid, left the car upon arrival at their destination, bribing the porter to lock up the car as soon as the passengers were out. About this time two Department of Justice agents arrived upon the scene, knocking for entrance, but the porter remained silent. By reaching through the transom they succeeded in unfastening the door. The porter professed ignorance of the presence of the liquor. One of the agents hastily blacked his face, arrayed himself in the porter's cap and jacket, locked the porter up in the smoking room, and was waiting for the whiskey kings upon their return". "Got the whisey safe?" one of the men asked. "Yes, suh, yes, suh; have you got a car to fetch it away, suh?" the agent asked in his best negro dialect. But, just as they were about to leave the car with the 72 bottles, the "porter" flashed his gold badge, and placed the two men under arrest. Will Welcome Prohibition KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 13. (Special).—Knoxville citizens are planning to take part in the great demonstration to be staged here Thursday afternoon to mark the advent of national prohibition under the eighteenth amendment, which becomes effective at midnight January 15th. The plans for celebrating the passing of John Barleycorn include a great parade to be held at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, followed by a mammoth mass-meeting in the city auditorium. The parade will be headed by a huge American flag, and the line of march will include the principal streets of Knoxville. It will be led by a white automobile carrying the president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Tennessee and members of her executive committee. In the parade will be the mayor of Knoxville, the chiefs of the police and fire departments, with platoons from each department; floats from every business house and manufacturing concern of importance; the men and women's Bible classes of the various Sunday schools, children from the high and grammar schools, Boy Scouts, civic and patriotic organizations, the Non-Partisan Political club, a woman's organization; Rotary and Kiwanis clubs and many others. this college is to prepare our girls for this work by giving them a thorough and practical business course under able and qualified teachers." THE CHICAGO WHIP 5,000 Quarts of Whiskey Seized in Delaware WILMINGTON, Del, Jan. 11. Five thousand quarts of whisky valued at $75,000 and said to be consigned to New York from Baltimore by motor truck, were seized Saturday night under a law prohibiting transportation through the State of intoxicating liquors in excess of one quart at a time. The truck driver was held. Some of the whisky.,liquor dealers say, is worth $20 a quart. Sees Menace in Liquor Shipments from U. S. to South Americans The growing liquor traffic from the United States to South America is a menace to the young republics there that American womanhood should combat unrelentingly, declared Miss Hordynia K. Norville, noted temperance worker of Argentina, in an address that featured the Monday afternoon meeting of the Atlanta Woman's club. The speaker described how this nation's prestige in the Latin-American nations had been vastly increased through America's record of unselfish service in the world war and she appealed for the preservation of this newly created spirit of good-will through a concerted effort to curb the evils of the liquor trade. Miss Norville brought news of a movement for the adoption of South American orphans by Americans and explained the plan by which annual subscriptions of $25 and contributions of clothing are used for the benefit of unfortunate children. Further information on this topic it was announced, may be obtained from Mrs. Lella A. Dillard, state president of the W. C. T. U., Emory University, Ga. The coming world convention of the Women's Temperance League in London next April, was discussed at the meeting. Presiding at the convention, the object of which is to institute a world campaign against all forms of vice, will be Countess Rosalind, of Carlisle. Forty-two nations will be represented. An address by Mrs. Irving Thomas, president of the Atlanta Woman's club, in which she reviewed past activity of the organization and outlined plans contemplated for inauguration when the club's new building on Peachtree street opens in February, was an interesting feature of the meeting. The program enjoyed by a large attendance included the reading of a one-net play by Mrs. Fred White, and the singing of two solos by Mrs. James Harris Johnson. Discovery of Body Brings Threats of Lynching "Suspect" EDITORS NOTE: From Georgia and Alabama come stories of blood lust and lynchings. Both states have inaugurated auspiciously the New Year. Here then is the story from Mississippi, sturdy sister state, who is determined not to be outclassed is about to lynch a colored man. Vicksburg, Miss., Jan. 21. — Discovery of the body to-day of Dr. D. S. Alverson, physician, who was murdered Tuesday night, brought open threats of lynching Jessie Watts and Reuben Winbush, colored men charged with committing the crime. Watts is white and when accused, stated that not he, but Winbush was guilty. A 'mob immediately formed and it was only thru the quick work of the officers in spiriting the man away that the crime was not committed then and there. Winbush is being held at Jackson, but it is expected that the feeling there will soon result in the man being lynched. C. C. 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Monday night Dr. Chas. E. Bently of the Chicago Branch of the National Association for the advancement of Colored People and Mr. T. Arnold Hill of the Urban League, addressed the Woman's City Club at the Rooms in the Stevens Building. Dr. Bently spoke about he work of the Association, and the recent riots in Chicago, while Mr. Hill gave an account of the work of the Urban League. Mr. Carl Sanburg of the Daily News also spoke. Miss Mamy McDowell is chairman of the Committee of the Woman's Club which plans to cooperative effort between the races for better social and civil conditions and opportunities for children on the South Side. Col. Otis B. Ducan was he guest of Lt. Col. and Mrs. J. H. Patton, Sunday at dinner. Mrs. E. Bowser of South Park ave. is slowly recovering from a bad case of pneumonia and influenza. Mrs. Harry Brown of Calumet ave. had a fall on the ice resulting in a badly fractured arm. She is gradually recovering. Col. Otis B. Duncan is visiting the city for a few days. He subscribed to the Whip while here. Capt. Lloyd L. Wheeler has recovered from the gripe and is able to be at work again. Dudley Goodwin, husband of Victoria Bond Goodwin, passed away Monday morning at 4 A.M., after a brief illness of three days. Andrew Jackson, LLD., formerly Howard University, Washington D.C. will be associated with M. J. Treadwell in the Treadwell Business College. Dr. F. L. Robinson who has been indisposed this week with a bad cold, is much better, to the delight of his many friends. All the members of the firm of Clanton & Clanton & Jones have been away from their offices on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of 3915 Dearborn Street gave a delightful party for their son, Master James Johnson last week. Friends of the family and school friends of Master James had a very enjoyable evening. Appreciation of Negro Music. In a Christmas program full of wonderful music Dr. Damrosch gave place to two Negro Christmas "spirituals", arranged by Natalie Curtis Burlin from old melodies heard on St. Helena Island—"Dar's a Star in de Eas" on Chismus Mo'n" and "Mary Had a Baby". In speaking of the reception given these songs by the vast audience, Mr. Krehbiel, "the most authoritative music critic in America", says in the New York Tribune: "Despite the rude simplicity of the words and the incongruous blending of the refrain, "De people keep a comin' and de train done gone', the effect was not at all humorous, but impressive, even electrifying. Indeed, the last song aroused such enthusiasm that the audience, a numerous company and fine in character, refused to leave the hall until there was a repetition. It was a new experiment, for we had 'spirituals' at a concert of the Society two years ago, beautifully and reconditely arranged by Mr. Burleigh, but Mrs. Burlin made a good and convincing demonstration of the proper treatment of folk-songs of this character. How a good folk-song can be spoiled by too much sophistication was illustrated in the setting of the North Country number". Natalie Curtis Burlin, who "is perhaps the most inspired folk-lorist in America", has been working for many years with unfailing zeal for the recognition of Negro art, and is much gratified that prominent musicians like Dr. Damrosch and Percy Grainger are now showing an appreciation of its value by including it in their programs. —Southern Workman. CHURCH NEWS. Olivet Baptist Church, Dr. Brand (white), Superintendent of Missions, preached at the eleven o'clock service at the church at 31st and South Park Ave. Rev. Wilson spoke for Rev. M. M. Fisher who administered the rite of baptism at old church at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Assistant Pastor Branham delivered the sermon for the morning congregation at the old church. Dr. Williams, pastor, spoke at night for the new church congregation. 4 CINCINNATI NEWS Mr. George W. Teeters of Kansas City, Missouri and Miss Estelle M. Burrell were quietly married by Dr. William H. Peek at Poro College, Thursday, December 25th at 2 p. m. Mr. and Mrs. Malone were witnesses, 2420 Montgall Avenue, Kansas City in They will make their future home at the near future. Mrs. Teeters it at present in the employment of the Health Department as a school nurse and is a graduate of Provident Hospital, Chicago, Illinois. Dr. John H. and Mrs. Howard Washington, well-known composers and vocalists, gave a recital at Brown Chapel, Christian Endeavor, Sunday, January 8th at six p. m. Many were present. The Federation of Women's Clubs met at the Friendship Home, Tuesday, January 20th. Much is good is being done by this organization. Mr. and Mrs. Edward E. Minnes tendered a few friends a most enjoyable dinner party on last Saturday evening. Rev. J. F. Augustus, Evangelist, of the Chicago A. M. E. Conference, is having a two weeks' meeting at Brown's Chapel. Rev. Blackburn is pastor. Mrs. Estelle Burrell Teeters of Douglas School was presented with a chest of handsome flat silver by the teachers as a wedding present. Mr. A. E. Gamblee, physical director at the Douglas School, who married Miss Arinta Briggs of Belle Center, Ohio was also the recipient of a case of silver. It has been announced from the Office of Ohio War Savings Committee that a week's lake cruise is to be given free of charge to the teachers in Ohio making the best record during the first five months of 1920 Thrift Stamp Campaign. An informal reception and open house were given by the Community Service Workers on last Saturday, from 2 to 10 p. m. at 53 West Ninth Street. A short program was given. Mr. Alexander Mc Garriey of Cleveland, Ohio gave a smoker in honor of William H. Brown. Mr. Robert Fowler of Chicago was toastmaster. Guests in the city are Mr. James Mosby, Mrs. Alice Hide, Detroit, Miss M. Johnson, South Carolina, Mrs. Fray, Dayton, Ohio. Mr. Charles Tucker was royally remembered during the holidays by Mrs. Cahrles Fleischman, who gave him 25 in cash and $1000 worth of Liberty Bonds. PHILADELPHIAN FLAYS SOUTH - LAUDS NEGRO PRESS. In a recent debate in the Senate for the Sedition bill, Senator Overman made reference to the literature being sent thru the South urging Negroes to rise and acquire the land. In answer to this Mr. Benjamin Alvin Arnold sent a letter to the editor of one of the Philadelphia papers and says that, "a careful reading of any colored Negro newspaper or magazine published in this country will show that far from advocating violence these writers are urging their readers to be thrifty and economical, to acquire land and become economically independent. It is quite true that many of them are urging Negroes to stand up for their rights as American citizens and to demand the ballot which is the only legitimate weapon in a democracy." Further he states, "We hear a lot about law and order and the constitution. How can any honest American expect either Negroes or whites to respect the constitution so long as the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments have no standing in any of the former slave states? It would look much better for the country if both were repealed." Lastly he says, "In spite of all the un-American treatment of the Wilson administration, the Negroes have not been stamped against the Government and still have faith in America. Let us hope that they will not be driven to the radicals by further ill-treatment at the hands of a reactionary Southern-controlled government." Read this Page. For Social News. THE CHICAGO WHIP Will Promote A Full Growth Of Hair, Will Also Restore The Strength, Vitality And The Beauty Of The Hair. IF YOUR HAIR IS DRY AND WIRY TRY EAST INDIA HAIR GROWER If you are bothered with falling hair, dandruff, hair scab, or any hair trouble, we want you to try a air of East India Hair Grower. Captain to com- Osceola pany — and 2nd leton; 1st Stokes, ant Wil- adjutant; Stewart A. reutenant million Ad- dor Ro- Compa- ones and use; Com- lexander K. John- 206 E. 31st St. Phone 211 in Samu- nt Harry nt Win- l—Cap- nd 2nd a.; Com- mes and dell; Co. eler and obinson; bert W. James W. 8th Regiment Notes Colonel Otis B. 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Also a proprietor of the VELVET POCKET BILLLIARD ROOM 49 E. 43rd STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. ances a Big Sale. Public the Best Mer- ered at Cost. [ere Sore re I ; I I “ ” aE NS Seaman Dee NR TOCA, Na Ne eee ae BASKESBALL SCHEDULE |SAM LANGFORD 10 PARIS|JACK JOHNSON JAS “GOOD AS 4 ( re — ——— | __ WHITE MAN” IN MEXICO Jan. 19th— Lincoln U. vs. Victory| Famous Heavyweight Will Sail For a . P. C. C., Manhattan Casino. | France With Manager Carr Late in > ae Jan. 21st—St. Christopher “Red] February—Three Bouts at French Going Great, Senate Told; Cabrera’s Satire. and Black Machine” vs. Spartan] Capital—Carr Accepts All Terms. SET “Braves,” Manhattan Casino. mat Reprint from CHICAGO TRIBUNE. | which it was sent, that is to say, ajn. 22nd— Orientals ve. West pempsey MAY LOSE ae [reat sincere and candid invitatic chester All Stars, Mt: Vernon High] CHANCE FOR BIG PURSE.| San Antonio, Tex. Jan 17.—Jack| that you would visit and see ot ‘ He Made Good. School. | Jolinson,, once. heavyweight boxing | eountry. Mrs, Newlywed—John, I haven't} Jan. 23rd—Spartan “Hornets” vs. | x champion, has acquired a certain so-| “Your telegram declining my inv an ounce of sygar in the house.|St- Mark's “Flashes,” St. Mark's) | Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 14.—There) (1 status in Mexico, C. L. Gardner| tation is nevertheless the most ill Please go and get some, even if you| Hall. is a possibility that Jack Dempsey) (> a6 Springs, Ark., today told the| minating document that could hav are compelled to buy coffee or tea| Jan. 24th—Triangles vs. Melrose| may lose out for the chance for the| Oa “auycce'atttce ‘nnatigating | heen wetter nee it elves ot the with it, But whatever you do, don’t] of Bronx, Moose Hall, Williams-/ quarter of a million dollar purse} ¢s4 Mexican situation. Johnson did| portunity of knowing the purpose ¢ dare come back without the sugar. | bridge. | providing plans of Monsicurs Vienne] ith fe assistance of group of| the investigation that you are carr; Hubby. (returning with brond| Jan. 26th—Baltimore Y. M,C. A,|and Decoin, French promoters, ma! 104 Cawenva army officers, the|ing om smile after two hours’ absence, em-| Big “5” vs. Alpha Big “5,” Man- terialize, acocrding o B. F. Steinel witness explained. Could Not See Rebels. pty-handed)—Well, I got it! ape ee: Milwaukee, representative of the!” Johngon, who, the witness said, is| “The fact is, that the governmer Mrs, Nfl (eyeing him angrily)—| Jan. 26th—Spartan “Braves” vs.| French promoters. now something of a hero in Mexico|of Mexico could not invite you t Where is it? Brooklyn “Lightning 5," Labor/ Howard Carr of Chicago, manager| City, one day in July, 1919, entered| come and have conferences with th Hubby—In the coffee. Lyceuin, Brooklyn. Jot Sam Langford, colored hetvy-|an American owned drug store and| rebels, but we invited you to trav Mrs. N.—But where is the cof-| Jan, 29th—Loendi of Pittsburgh] weight, was in Milwaukee January 6] demanded service in the café divi-| and see the country and I can assu1 fee? vs. St. Christopher “Red and Black| conferring with Steinel and. while| sion, tea that thare\ie cobasealloapill Hubby—In me. Machine,” Manhattan Casino. here, accepted the cable offer of the! ‘The American woman serving at] here you could not go in a speci ea Jan. 20th—Columbia “Cubs” vs./ French promoters to bring Langford| the table he sat at refused. to iat |ene aoder the piotsetion Gr 6h endemic Nerve, St. Mark’s “Flashes,” St. Mark’s|to Paris for a series of bouts, which] hie oeday Inhnean acearding te the| troons College President—How much salary did you say you wanted? Professor—Fifty dollar a week. College President—What do you think you are, a bricklayer? Mildewed Sometimes when public opinion is very hard to mold it is just because it is already moldy. Wasted Effort “How did the fullback get hurt?” “He ran into one of the bubly water fountains that the health de- partment ordered us to install on the field in place of the unhygienie water pail.” Plausible “How did you raise that fine crop of hair? The last time I saw you you were almost. bald.” “I applied a bottle of hair remover by mistake.” hia ila Rastus—Dat gal of mine gure does love some, Sam—I'll say she does! Rastus—What's dat you say, nig- gah? Sam--I-I-I mean, doe® she?— Punch Bowl. ~ nies sienna altho 2 Visitor: * am collecting for the poets’ hospital. Will you eontribute?’’ Editor: ‘With pleasure. CaM tonight with the ambulance and I'll have a poet ready."? She (to her returned soldier): — “You've been making lyve to those French girls? He: What makes you thing 302"? She; “Beeause you have improved A Swede came down from the woods and, entering # saloon, ealled for a drink of good old squirrel whiskey. Said the bartender: “We're all out of squirrel whiskey, but we've got some good Old Crow.” “Yudas Priest!’ exelaimed — the Swede, I no want to fly, I just want to hop around a little’? Kister’s new beau had hardly got seated on the parlor sofa when little Drother brought®him a glass of water and tendered it to him very politely. ‘The young man drank it and returned the glass to the small boy, who looked disgusted. “He don't either,” he said to bis sister, “Don't what, deart’? “Why, he don’t drink any different from anyone else, and pop suid he drank like a fish.’? “You're in a bad way, my friend,’’ announced the doctor to the young Trish Ind in the hospital, “Would: you like to see the priestt’’ “Dil ye say 1 have scarlet fevert?’ asked the boy. “You have, and a serious ease." ‘phen send in a rabbi, Do ye thing I want to give the fever to a priest?’? 'The discharged soldier hastened gladly home to see his wife. He found her polishing the kitchen stove, and slipped quietly up and put his arms around her. “Two quarts of milk anid a pint of cream tomorrow,’? she said without Set ee a from Howard University, Washington, D, C., will be associated with M. J. a flash and the mangerism of some who ciation would be juStified or ever real WATCH FOR LASHES AND FLASHES OF THE WHIP BASKESBALL SCHEDULE Jan. 19th—Lincoln U. vs. Victory P. C. C., Manhattan Casino. Jan, 21st—St. Christopher “Ret and Black Machine” vs, Spartan “Braves,” Manhattan Casino. aJn, 22nd—Orientals vs. West chester All Stars, Mt. Vernon High School. Jan, 23rd—Spartan “Hornets” vs St. Mark's “Flashes,” St. Mark’: Hall, Jan, 24th—Triangles vs. Melrose of Bronx, Moose Hall, Williams: bridge. Jan, 26th—Baltimore Y. M. C. A Big “5” vs. Alpha Big “5,” Man: hattan Casino, Jan. 26th—Spartan “Braves” vs Brooklyn “Lightning 5,” Labo Lyceuin, Brooklyn. Jan, 29th—Loendi of Pittsburgh vs. St. Christopher “Red and Blach Machine,” Manhattan Casino. Jan. 30th—Columbia “Cubs” vs St. Mark's “Flashes,” St. Mark's Hall. Feb. 6th—Brooklyn “Lightning 5” vs. Spartan “Braves,” Manhat tan Casino. Feb. 12—Spartan “Braves” vs Titans, Orange Armory, N. J. One of the Oldest Men in the World Passes Away William Peyton, Born a Slave, Served One Family Tru Six Generations and Dies at the age of 128 Years Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 14. — William Peyton, colored, one of the oldest men in the United States died December 26th at Little Hocking, O., near Parkersburg, at the age of 128 years. i As a slave and a freed man, he served one family through six gene- rations it is said. Peyton was in full possession of his faculties until with- in a few weeks of his death. , ‘ Woman’s Stocking Unsafe for Money Columbus, O., Jan. 14.—Although not; seriously injured when she was struck by an automobile at Ninth avenue and High street last Wednes- day evening, Mrv. Millie Myles, aged 60, colored, lost $8. The money was wrapped in a handkerchief tucked in her stocking and her hose was torn when she was struck by the machine. The money could not be found. Separate Negro State Pro- posed in House Hearing Washington, D. C., Jan. 15.—Es- tablishment of a separate state under the protection of the United States for the segregation of the nation’s Negro population was advocated be- fore the house judiciary committee today by representatives of the Ne- gro race, The committee is consider- ing a resolution by Representative Mason, Republican, Ilinois, provid- ing for the appointment of a com- mission of nine persons to “outline @ plan to promote more harmonious relations between races dwelling in the United States.” Dr. Moses Madden of St. Louis told the committee a state should be established along the Rio Grande river, on territory ceded by Mexico and the state of Texas, and that it should be inhabited and administered entirely by Negroes, under the gen- eral protection of the United States. Dr. W. H. Wilson and Dr. Nevil Thomas of this city opposed the plan as tending too much toward race dis- crimination, which, they said, was already too evident, especially since the world war. The Rev. R. D. Jones of Phila- delphia advanced a plan for concen- tration of Negroes in Liberia. Ship Named for Fillipino Jose Rizal, Fillipino hero and mar- tyr, has been honored by the United States navy, A destroyer has been named after him and is now attached to the Pacific fleet. The U.S.S. Jose Rizal was built at a shiphailding yard on the Pacific coast, and in further honor of the famous island patriot is manned almost entirely by Filipinos. ‘The Rizal is not the only ship having Filipinos among its complement of men, several having Filipinos among their crews. As a rule they are very ambitious, prompt and quick in the discharge of their duties and study hard, it is said. Advertise in the Whip ; ‘ It’s Worth While. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS FROM 5 to 8 O’CLOCK Statement of Condition Lincoln State Bank of Chicago 3105 SO. STATE ST. | (UNDER STATE GOVERNMENT SUPERVISION) | AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS, Dec. 31st, 1919 RESOURCES LIABILITIES | TPiningled ananproved by oure "7 Capi Stet dare tat 20000000 Hi geESeh SERS tc re gam rote tenant | First-class Municipal, State and Surplus Aner ane, 20,000,00 Corporation Bonds, | i Additional protection to deposits Sse Lingle Safety Vale Co .9gnen |] Undivided Profits vossasscvvsss 440412 Furniture and Fixtures......... 9,861.50 Reserved for Taxes and Interest. . 9,916.89 Other Resources............... 40,496.14 + Other Liabilities ............4.5 7,441.72 | Cash on Hand and Due from Banks 522,593.81 DEPOSITS .........++4.++++++ 1,987,680.09 b Total .. se eeeeereenee 2y199,40882 Total occ cccescescesvene 2190,002.09 | Increase in Deposits $811,199.04 Since January Ist, 1919. j A Bank of Strength and Durability 3% Allowed on. All Savings Accounts SAFETY DEPOSIT VAULTS---BOXES $3.00 PER YEAR AND UPWARDS Safety Vault Space to Owners of Liberty Bonds---FREE SAM LANGFORD TO PARIS ok Heavyweight Will Sail For France With Manager Carr Late in | February—Three Bouts at French Capital—Carr Accepts All Terms. eee MAY LOSE CHANCE FOR BIG PURSE. Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 14.—There is a possibility that Jack Dempsey may lose out for the chance for the quarter of a million dollar purse, providing plans of Monsieurs Vienne and Decoin, French promoters, ma- terialize, acocrding o B. F. Steinel Milwaukee, representative of the French promoters. Howard Carr of Chicago, manager of Sam Langford, colored heavy- weight, was in Milwaukee January 6 conferring with Steinel and while here, accepted the cable offer of the French promoters to bring Langford to Paris for a series of bouts, which it is expected will lead up to a battle with Georges Carpentier. Manager Carr will leave late this month or early in February and in addition to Langford he will take George Wilson also, another heavy- weight Boxer, to France. According to the present plans, Langford is to engage in three bouts in Paris, the first one with Niles, ex-heavyweight champion, the second with Paul Hams, present title holder, and the final bout with Carpentier. The French promoters have named the erms under which Langford is to box and Carr has accepted all of them. Jack Kearns, manager of Jack Dempsey, in a letter received by Steinel said that he had the numer- ous offers junder consideration at present and that he did, not intend to close with any one for some time to paisa. 4 University of Wisconsin Now Has 86 Foreign Students Madison, Wis., Jan. 21.—Exactly eighty-six foreign students *represent- ing fifteen countries, are attending the University of Wisconsin this year making 1 per cent of the total enroll- ment, according to figures just com- piled. China leads the list with twenty-four students; Norway is sec- ond with seventeen, and the ‘Philip- pine Islands rank next with fourteen, Canada sends nine; France, , five; Japan, five; India, two; Peru, two; Porto Rico, two, and Armenia, Brazil, England, Guatemala, Columbia and Iceland, one each. Iceland has never sent a student to Wisconsin before. The largest number of foreign stu- dents heretofore enrolled at the uni- versity was sixty-nine in 1916-17, In the year 1917-18, fifty-three foreign students attended the university. Colored Man Asks For Citizenship Birmingham, Ala., January 20, — George Mathews, a negro, filed application for citizenship papers Wednesday in theUnited States court here. Thomas J. Kennamer, chief clerk of the naturalization depart- ment of the court stated Wednesday that Mathews is the second negro who has asked for ejtizenship papers within the last 10 years. He is a British subject and was born at Port of Spain, Trinidad. He has been a resident of this country for six years, THE CHICAGO WHIP "= JACK JOHNSON AS “GOOD AS A _,. WHITE MAN” IN MEXICO _ ‘Going Great, Senate Told; Cabrera’s Satire. a > 6é *. 93 Don’t Read ‘‘The Whip > if you are a Half Man rw é. : ; Your Patronage is the Encouragement That Counts ee eae AATOBAR EIS Ue EMC ONT AS CMENL NAL NOWILS ; [fits kept in drug stores you will find it at HUFF’S. } Call him up. He delivers goods. He will send for your > prescriptions and deliver your medicines. His prices are right. Wm. H. HUFF oevécist® , 4118 So. State Street - - Tel. Boulevard 295 and 289 ; "Ask doctor to telephone your prescription to Huff. ; 3 Cut this out and paste it by your telephone. Kersey, McGowan & Morsell CHICAGO'S REPRESENTATIVE *Main Establishment, 3515 Indiana Avenue North Side Branch, 863 Orleans Street Sto een rinsed: BeOMaN Courtesy, Fair Prices Reprint from CHICAGO TRIBUNE. San Antonio, Tex., Jan 17,—Jack Johnson, once heavyweight boxing champion, has acquired a certain so- cial status in Mexico, C. L. Gardner of Hot Springs, Ark., today told the senate subcommittee investigating the Magieen situation, Johnson did it with he assistance of a group of armed Carranza army officers, the witness explained. Johnson, who, the witness said, is now something of a hero in Mexico City, one day in July, 1919, entered an American owned drug store and demanded service in the café divi- sion. ‘The American woman serving at the table he sat at refused to take his order. Johnson, according to the witness, was told is was against the ‘orders of the place to serve Negroes. Johnson Makes Trouble. | Johngon left with the threat he would return and “make trouble” He did, and was accompanied by Me- ‘xican women and army officers, A. gain he gave an order, and the of. ficers compelled the attendant to fil te : | One of the owners of the store was ‘called to the table by the officers Gardner said, who, with pistols dis: played, made him shake hands with Johnson and then embrace him. flashlight photograph of Johnson and ‘his party was taken to “prove he wa: there.” ‘The order placed by Johnson a mounted to more than $1,000, the witness said, who added Johnson paid it with the declaration “he paid for what he got”, and he was “able to pay.” © Cabrera Waxes Sarcastic. 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TELEPHONE DREXEL 424 | which it was sent, that is to say, a really sincere and candid invitation that you would visit and see our country. “Your telegram declining my invi- tation is nevertheless the most illu- minating document that could have been written, since it gives us the op- portunity of knowing the purpose of the investigation that you are carry- ing on. Could Not See Rebels. “The fact is, that the government of Mexico could not invite you to come and have conferences with the rebels, but we invited you to travel and see the country and I ean assure you that there is not a railway line here you could not go in a special car under the protection of our troops. “If you consider it essential to know what the opinion is of such and such a group of rebels, and if you think that the best way of ascer- ‘taining the real conditions of our ‘country is to listen to reports instead ‘of really and actually seeing the way ‘the nation is living and working, I do ‘not believe we can be useful to you. | “I do not think, being as you are 4 man of very independent eriterion, that you would not be able to see the truth even though you were our guest. Sees Purpose of Coming. “I am very sorry that I cannot ac- cept your invitation to go to San Antonio, and, in fact, I do not see any purpose to my trip, since my opinion has been perfectly consistent on the point that the investigation that the senate is carrying on is con- trary to international principles, and ‘to the respect due to the sovereignty of my country. “T welcome ,the opportunity you have given me to exchange a few words and of knowing the true object of the investigation. Hoping to meet you personally some time in the future, I am, most cordially yours, Luis Cabrera.” Ohe Perfection Bakery 4700 So. State St. For your healiié sake use our high class bread, rolls, pies, cakes or doughnuts. Some- thing hot every hour. See our display booth at Bethe! Church, 30th and Dearborn Sts. 3% On Savings R. W. Woodfolk & Co. ‘. 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Riley, Manager Sales Department Ee i ee Ee This space reserved for BERT’S BOOTERY 3433 South State Street | Le THE = 4 <S Pale, x ~~ SHOES ‘ ee ADVANCES IN WAGE SCALES Figures for Eight of the Country's Leading Industries Just Made Public. FROM 74 TO 112 PER CENT Increases Greater Than Corresponding Percentages in Cost of Living, Though That Comparison is Not Altogether Trustworthy. Increases in the average wages of men in eight leading industries, as measured by average hourly earnings, ranged from 74 to 112 per cent, from September, 1914, to March, 1919, according to a report on "Wartime Changes in Wages," issued by the national industrial conference board. Increases in the earnings of women workers were found to be similar, with a somewhat wider range. The eight industries included were metal, cotton, wool, silk, boot and shoe, paper, rubber, and chemical manufacturing. The average results are based on payroll data for one week, usually the third week of September, for the years 1914 to 1918, and for the first week of March, 1919. A noteworthy feature of the results is that the highest percentage increases in earnings often were recorded in cases where the absolute earnings were relatively low, or vice versa. Thus hourly earnings of male workers in cotton manufacturing increased over 100 per cent as against an increase of about 70 per cent for male workers in the metal manufacturing industries. Actual hourly earnings of the latter, however, were 50.2 cents in March, 1919, as compared with 38.9 cents for male cotton operatives. In the case of male workers in the rubber manufacturing industry, a high actual hourly average was accompanied by a high percentage rate of increase. The increases shown were in most cases greater than the corresponding percentage increase in cost of living, which was placed by a previous report of the board at 61.3 per cent for the period from July, 1914, to March 1919. "This fact indicates," says the report, "that these workers were in general able to maintain and even to improve their standard of living prevailing in 1914." The report emphasizes, however, that "comparisons of relative values afford no means whereby the adequacy of wages or living standards prevailing in either period can be determined. The comparisons simply afford an approximate idea of the extent to which the relationship between wages and living costs existing at the opening of the war was maintained or changed during the succeeding 4½ years." The report does not purport to discuss the question whether or to what extent wages should vary with changes in the cost of living. Forty-Four-Hour Week. A largely attended meeting of the employers' organizations representing the main branches of industry, and convened by the National Federation of Employers organization was held at London recently for the purpose of considering the application which has been made in the building trades for the 44-hour week. Sir Allan M. Smith, chairman of the management committee of the Engineering Employers' federation, presided. It was decided that in view of the urgent necessity of increasing national output, and until evidence is available that the reductions in hours which have been made in certain industries are economically sound, any further reduction in hours should be strongly resisted. The meeting further resolved to give every possible support to the employers concerned in resisting the demand for a 44-hour week. Union Store Makes Cut in Prices. A commissary store operated for and by striking union men opened at San Francisco Oct. 21. At noon those in charge estimated $6,000 worth of business had been done. All products were brought in by unions in the state. Other stores, it was announced, are to be opened. Grapes were sold three pounds for 10 cents. Grapes were 10 cents a pound in the open market. Apples were sold for $1.55 a box, against the regular market price of $2 or more. Potatoes were sold at 2 cents a pound. The open market price is seven pounds for 25 cents. Sugar was sold for 10 cents and rice 11 cents, the open market prices being 11 and 14 cents, respectively. Labor Agreements Scored. A statement asserting that "collective agreements are nonoperative," was issued by the Ladies' Hat Manufacturers' association, at New York, in view of reports that the main question before the Industrial conference at Washington is the collective agreement. The statement asserted that for four years agreements which the association had made with the Cap and Hat Makers' Union of North America had been broken at will by their employees and that the union leaders who signed the agreements asserted they had no control over the workers. A general strike is now in progress in the industry. Massachusetts State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration Announces Award at Brockton. The largest wage increase ever given a labor organization of Brockton, Mass., was announced in an award to shoe workers by the state board of conciliation and arbitration. The prices given by the board are $43.20 a week for shoe cutters, shoe sorters and leather sorters, $38.20 for cloth lining cutters and $32.50 for top cutters. The former prices were $35, $30 and $26 respectively. The demand was made for $48 a week. The decision will affect 1,100 cutters in Brockton and later will extend throughout the district, affecting 3,000. GENERAL LABOR NEWS Hotel employees in Washington, D.C., are contending for the eight-hour day. Nine states now have in force health insurance which must be paid to wage workers. Philadelphia bricklayers are now commanding $1.10 per hour for eight hours' work. A general strike has been declared at Huelva, Spain. Rioting has occurred at the mines. Soap making, which is dependent upon the olive oil industry, is the principal industry in Tunis. Chile has made more progress in manufacturing than any other west coast country of South America. From $6,000 to $12,000 a year is the average wage being earned by peddlers throughout the United States. Shipping and transport workers at Dresden went on strike recently. Food supplies of the city were cut off. Roilers employed by the United States Steel corporation earn as high as $80 a day, with an average of $30. The output of Japanese coal mines during 1918 amounted to 20,835,254 tons, an increase of about 35 per cent. During the last weeks of the warthe pay roll at Hog Island shipyard amounted to over $1,000,000 each week. Coal miners in Great Britain decided to reject the plan of the government to put the mines on a profit-sharing basis. The suspension of work by miners in Germany caused many of the mining companies in that country to go bankrupt. Trolley workers in Connellsville, Pa., who have been working steadily since May 1 last, will receive about $70 in back pay. Scranton (Pa.) trolley men have been granted an increase in wages of 4 cents an hour, making their hourly wage 50 cents. Labor employers in Beaumont, Texas, have organized an open-shop association, incorporated to meet labor-union demands. The proposed enforcement of an eight-hour day, it is estimated, will lessen the output of spinning mills in Japan by 40 per cent. More than 27,000 employees of the federal and municipal governments in the District of Columbia are receiving less than $90 a month. The upper chamber of the Holland parliament unanimously passed a bill establishing an eight-hour workday and a forty-five-hour week. Under a recognition plan, employees of the Larkin Soap company, at Buffalo, N. Y., will be able to become stockholders in the concern. The general strike called by the German metal workers has collapsed. Troops have occupied the headquarters of the Independent Socialist. Throughout the London & Northwestern Railway system all women employees, except the salaried staff, have received notice to leave. In Canada the bricklayers, masons, plasterers, marble setters and tile setters are under one charter and affiliated with the International Bricklayers' union. More than 350 striking Chicago butchers have returned to work at shops where the union scale has been granted. About 1,300 men are still out, and hundreds will be called out from day to day. Settlement of the strike is predicted soon. Government workers on the Hana (Honolulu) wharf struck for more pay. The law requires employment of citizens on government jobs when they can be hired. But non-citizens may be hired when citizens will not work. So noncitizens are on the job now. Union drug store employees, from registered pharmacists to soda clerks and porters, struck in Greater New York to enforce demands for higher wages and shorter hours. The strikers are enrolled in the United Drug Clerks' local, which claims a membership of 4,000. Hope of early settlement of the strike of nearly 8,000 New Orleans longshoremen went glimmering, when the leaders of the strikers reiterated that they would not return to work until they are granted $1 an hour, with $2 an hour overtime and $3 an hour on Sundays. An Englishman has adapted a brick making machine for forming plastic clay tamping plugs to be used for blasting in mines. In an effort to forestall a union of hawkers, extra efforts are being made to attract as many workers as possible to the trimmed hat industry. The building trades strike, which has been in progress at Lille, France, has been settled, the employers agreeing to pay higher rates provisionally for the months of November and December. This will mean an additional expenditure by the employees for the two months of 33,000,000 francs. Another new chapter was added to the Household when Mrs. Lou Ellie Young, D. G. R. N. G. 5556 Forest Ave., together with many other officers and members, organized Household 5525 at Joliet, Ill., Monday, Jan. 12. The committee, members and friends were served a dainty lunch before leaving Chiengo. The officers of Execsior Circle 1028 will be installed at Bailey's hall, 3638 State St., Feb. 6 by Dr. D. J. Williams, supreme medical director, Royal Circle of Friends of The World. The meeting of The Baptist Women's Congress on last Thursday was very largely attended and proved a great success. Rev. Boston J. Prince made an interesting address. Several good reports were read. The next meeting of the Congress will e held at Mr. Carmel Baptist Church, Oak Park, Ill. Thursday, Feb. 19. Mrs. Effis Terrell, 41tt St., & Cottage Grove Ave., left the city for Alabama with the remains of her deceased husband, M. Terrell, for interment. Mrs. Terrell will remain for some time in the south. The Pyramid Building & Loan Association, 3539 State St., under the management of members of the Rise finished a successful year and are looking forward to a prosperous future. A special meeting will be held Saturday evening, Feb. 7 at Johnson's hall, 3518 State St., when they will elect the board of directors and tell of the promising future ahead. All stockholders are requested to attend this meeting. M. T. Bailey, pres., Bailey Realty Co., 3638 State St., spent several days in suburban towns planning deals for clients. Dr. D. J. Williams, Supreme Medical Director, Royal Circle of Friends will install the officers of Excelsior Circle 1028 Feb. 6 at Bailey's hall, 3638 State St. Mrs. Ella Thompson-Harris of Morgan Park was in the city during the week on business. An old and highly respected resident for many years on the west side is lost in the passing of Mr. Robert Harris better known as "Dad Harris" who was buried from St. Stephens A. M. E church last Tuesday by the C. Fellows. After an illness of several weeks, Mrs. Leona Dixon, 3752 Rhodes Ave. most excellent quenn, Leona Council 109, A. U. K. D. of A. is slowly in proving. The current number of the Southern Workman (published by Hampton Institute) contains valuable evidences of increasing racial harmony in certain sections of the South. The adoption in Atlanta of the plan of inter-racial committees, already in operation in other Southern cities, is described by a prominent Negro clergyman, and his statement is supplemented by strong pronouncements by prominent white Southerners in favor of strict justice to the Negro. Along similar lines is the account of racial educational cooperation in Virginia on the part of a Southern white state supervisor and colored supervising teachers. This number contains also a most significant "Message" from Virginia Negroes in regard to what they stand for and their position on race relations. Illustrated articles describe, for the first time in detail, the work of Negro Y. M. C. A. secretaries overseas, and an adventurous trip by a Canadian missionary to the "Blond Eskimos" of the Arctic region. An interesting editorial tells of the reception given Negro music at a recent concert in Carnegie Hall, New York, of the Musical Art Society. Strike Too Costly a Weapon. That the recent metal workers' strike in Germany financially paralyzed the union to such an extent that it is unable to indulge in further celebrations is indicated in an announcement made by the union's new leaders. The document admits "the strike consumed millions of marks and thoroughly cleaned out the treasury," and urges that the strike weapon be used with the greatest economy in future. The announcement, which is signed by the newly appointed board, of which the majority are radicals, recommends that labor disputes be adjusted through arbitration. To Pay Workers During Sickness. An insurance plan to cover all cases of disability for sickness or accident, whether sustained in the course of employment or not, will be operative in addition to the provisions of state compensation acts and the group life insurance already provided by the American Wooden company. The amounts in all cases will be dependent on length of service, no employee to receive less than $8 nor more than $30. More Jobs Than Men to Fill Them. There were more applications by employers for help than could be furnished by the free employment offices of the state of Wisconsin during October, according to the state industrial commission. There were 10,634 people placed in positions, of which 8,583 were men and 1,951 women. The number of applications for help filed by prospective employers was 15,025 for men and 3,611 women. THE CHICAGO WHIP The New Emancipation By Gas. G. Coter. Treatment of the Negro Soldier in the Late War. 367,000 black men crossed the ocean in the late war for "democracy" and fought under the American flag. From reliable sources, French and otherwise, we learn that Negro soldiers were jim-crowed, segregated, slandered and even beaten by white American officers. It appears that the American whites had a well organized propaganda of color prejudice against American Negroes. They circulated pamphlets addressed to the French public in which they declared that the American Negro were a subject people and that they were treated as subjects in the United States, and that it was understood that such treatment was to continue; that it would therefore be very embarrassing to the American whites in France if the Negro should be treated as an equal by the French. To this end American Army officers urged the French officers to prohibit the association of all whites and blacks upon terms of equality and to provide separate mess tables for Negro Army officers apart from the whites. Neither the American Y. M. C. A. nor the American Red Cross allowed Negro soldiers the privilege of association with the whites. Moreover, French civilians were advised that the American Negro is a rapist—that he is unfit to be received into the homes of the French—that in the United States they were segregated among themselves and forced to live apart to themselves. And, had the French people acted in accordance with this propaganda of race hatred, the soldiers of our race would have no doubt been obliged to sleep in the trenches and in the open fields and in the forests of France upon the ground like beasts of the woods. It is further reported that white American officers deliberately sent a whole Negro division into a German death trap. They ordered this division forward despite the fact that they had hardly any equipment with which to fight; that they discovered the scheme just in time to save themselves from massacre at the hands of the Germans; that while these men were marching forward unto a certain death at the front, a certain white regiment was firing shots into their backs from the rear; that in order to "get away with it" the white officers in command charged the Negro regiment with cowardice under fire. But, when somebody had been threatened with exposure of the real facts the Secretary of War announced through the press that this regiment had not been guilty of cowardice and that they had well discharged their duties as soldiers and that many had been decorated for bravery under fire. And, when they were returning home from fields of glory to the land of their birth, they were jim-crowed in mid ocean by white Southerners whose homes they had fought to protect. In the face of all such persecution and oppression, is it any wonder that out of the seared hearts and souls of men who fought on bloody battlefields to make other men free, that there has been born a "New Negro" under the American flag? From the day United States entered the war up to the signing of the Armistice, some 94 Negroes including 2 Negro women, have been murdered by mobs; and on the very day the war ceased a Negro was lynched in the State of Alabama. Some 20 more have been murdered since the Armistice by mobs, excluding those killed in the recent race riots. And, finally the race riots occurred and we know the results. Mr. Chas. Edward Russell, writing in the "Reconstruction" of October, sized the race riots up as follows: "The Negro did not run in Washington; he did not run in Longview, Texas; he did not run in Chicago; he did not run in Knoxville, Tenn.; and he will not run anywhere". In every riot the Negroes were fighting for their own lives and property in self defense. It is the first time in the history of this country that fy race took a stand and held their own in a conflict of arms between whites and blacks. But, their backs were to the wall—they were holding the Hindenburg Line—and every man was saying in the language of the immortal French General: "They Shall Not Pass." And so my friends, it was in Washington, in Longview, Texas, in Knoxville, Tenn., and in Chicago, Ill., that the spirit of the New Negro was born; and we thus and now henceforth realize the beginning of the struggle for the "New Emancipation". The attitude of the New Negro. Under the old Emancipation the Negro in the U. S. finds himself a race within a nation. Although under the Constitution he is part and parcel of the nation, yet in the operation of this principle he is treated as a being separate and distinct from all other race groups in the great melting pot of the motion. They have established for him what is known as the unwritten law and there is a tacit understanding between the powers that the Negro must be subject to the authority of the unwritten law. He has met every test of citizenship; he has been loyal to the Republican party, that party which has not protected him against his enemies; but he now serves notice—final notice—on he Republican Party that unless they deliver to us forthwith full citizenship and equal protection of the law of the land we shall henceforth deal hereafter with some other party which will be the instrumentality of justice, liberty, freedom and equal opportunity for the peoples of all the world. He has been loyal to the flag of his country but he has not been given protection under the flag. And he has learned in the hard school of bitter experience that there is no protection like self protection; and so he now serves notice upon the National Administration that he demands forthwith the full benefit of his constitutional right to equal protection under the law of the land against mob violence and mob murder; and that unless he receives immediate relief from this distressful condition of outrage and infamy he must take a stand for his own protection and for the preservation of his liberties, and die, if need be, to the last man for his own sacred honor. There are some people however, who say that this is a white man's country; but the new Negro answers this and says, That this is our country—the land of our forefathers—the land of our birth; that we are here to stay until every wrong has been righted—until every barrier has been broken down—until every door of opportunity has been opened wide—until every chain has been broken from or fettered limbs—until there shall be but one law for all—one standard of citizenship for all; until every man, black or white, may stand up on his feet and look in admiration upon Old Glory as it flutters in majesty upon the soft winds of the morning and shout, the refrain, "My Country 'tis of Thee, sweet land of Liberty". What is the Race Problem? It has been urged by certain voluble individuals and prejudiced yellow journals like the Chicago Tribune, that the mere presence of the Negro in this country has created the race problem. I challenge the authority of this statement and I maintain that if there is a problem it is not due to his presence in this country but rather to his development and growth. When the four millions of Negroes were here as slaves there was no competition between the whites and the blacks because the blacks were in abject subjugation, mind as well as body to the will of the whites; consequently, there was no race friction, and therefore no race problem. But, now that the Negro has been emancipated and has made definite progress in every line of human activity there is a menace for the white man who feels himself superior and a problem for the Negro who feels himself inferior—the question of development. If friction and feeling between the races has increased laterly and become more acute it is because the Negro race has developed in education, in wealth, and in economic position; it is because the mind of the New Negro is free from the mental domination of the whites and from the traditions of slavery; and so, my friends, the thing which has been designated heretofore as the race problem is no problem at all but it is simply an issue between the races, and it is this: Shall THE BLACK RACE IN A NATION CONTROLLED BY THE WHITE SOUTH BE PERMITTED TO DEVELOP ITSELF ALONG CONSTRUCTIVE LINES, AS OTHER AMERICAN CITIZENS? The New Negro takes the affirmative of the issue and says yes, we shall develop ourselves upon the same principles as other citizens of the United States. There is another matter of importance which adds to the feeling between the races which is this: After Reconstruction had been accomplished the South believed that the color line would finally eliminate the Negro as a factor of social progress in a white nation—that he would die out and become extinct in much the same manner as did the American Indian. But when it was fully realized that he met every test, overcame every handicap and broke down every barrier and lived through it all, they then began to adopt different methods of dealing with the rising race. They tried to induce the Negro o remain within the industrial field—they tried to persuade him to raise cotton and corn, and to become an agricultural people; but they soon discovered that he had aspirations the same as other people for higher forms of usefulness and that he insisted upon his right to explore the field of Liberal Arts of the sciences and the professions, and of commerce and to engage in any occupation within the domain of human endenvor, in the same manner as Are You Asleep? For Home Cooking—Pure Coffee You must visit the home of pure food. I have been with you for 6 years HOT BISCUITS ALL DAY Mrs. S. Poynor 14 W. 35th St. WITHIN OUR GATES—Pure Home Cooking Good Coffee Home Made Pies OPEN DAY AND NIGHT TABLES FOR LADIES Hot Biscuits Quick Service Mrs. J. H. Black 23 W. 35th Street CHRISTMAS BARGAINS $500 down buys a three flat building, stone front, 6—6—7 rooms. Price $6,750. Terms to suit. $250 down buys a seven room house, newly decorated. Price $2,450. 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State St., CHICAGO, ILL. other people, and so this is one of the elements of race friction and race feeling in the United States. As an example of how this issue is becoming acute I call your attention to the fact that recently a Negro school principal was ordered by the whites of a South Carolina town to sell his property and leave town because he was the president of a branch of the N. A. A. C. P. There are those among our people even, who say that the Negro ought to be patient and that he ought to travel along the line of least resistance in order to allay race friction. But they belong to the Old Crowd Negro and they are living under the influence of the old Emancipation. But the answer to that is this: Just as long as the Negro reads the same books—as long as he is taught the same lessons in school—as long as he breathes the same air—as long as he reads the same bible and worships the same God—as long as in every call to battle he wraps the same flag of his country around his bleeding body and gives his life on yonder battle field in his country's cause, he will have the same aspirations, the same ambitions for progress—the same ideals—the same common fortunes, and, by he help of God and his own strong right arm, some day he will have the same treatment, and the same protection as any other race group under the stars and stripes. (To be continued). "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. I am looking forward to big things from The Treadwell Business College with the co-operation of the Chicago public. I have been a member of the Chicago Business League from its organization because I believe this means progress." Results Count The Whip Brings Results A USEFUL ORGANIZATION By JAMES WELDON JOHNSON There is in Washington an organization which does not make much noise and is not very well known outside of that city, but which is doing an important work in a quiet and effective way. This organization is known as "The Correspondents Club". Perhaps the best way in which to give an idea of its purpose will be to reproduce its statement of principles. The statement is as follows: "Holding ourselves bound together by a common impulse to resent and resist all efforts in public or private, by speech or writings, to misrepresent, defame or discredit our race, we have organized "The Correspondents' Club" in order the more effectively to carry out the purposes above stated. "And it is also our purpose to note with equal promptness every favorable comment upon the achievements or character of our race, every generous defense of our rights, and every helpful suggestion for our guidance. "We propose to accomplish our object through letters addressed to individuals, organizations and publications, protesting with firmness against wrongs, and appreciating with gratitude what appears in our favor. "We hold ourselves bound by considerations of a common interest to keep ourselves informed on the history of our race, on our Achievements and bestemptions, and to read what is said of us by others, so that we may thereby be prepared with accurate information to take prompt defense against any or all misrepresentations. "It will be ourpose not only to carry on this work ourselves, but to inspire others of like mind to do the same thing with a view to bringing as many as possible, here and elsewhere, within the general plan of our operation. "Finally, it will be our purpose to collect accurate statistics of the record made by our race in every line of worthy endeavor, and to be prepared to furnish these facts promptly whenever needed in our defense. "The ultimate result of the successful operation of the plan above outlined will be to unite the intelligent element of our race in the common project equally to resent misrepresentation by our enemies and to appreciate commendation by our friends". The Club meets once a month, and at every meeting each member makes a report on the letters and articles he has written during the month. The meetings are held in rotation, according to alphabetical order, at the houses of the various members, and are concluded with a little supper, which allows good opportunity for general discussion. It does not take a second thought to realize what a splendid thing it would be to have a club of this kind in every community in the country. Not only in the newspapers and magazines of the South, but of the North and West as well there are constantly appearing articles which make erroneous and unjust statements about the Negro and his cause; these statements should never be allowed to go unchallenged and unanswered; but the most of them will go unchallenged and unanswered unless there are persons making it their special business to keep on the lookout for these attacks and reply to them. There are also articles which appear speaking for fair play and justice to the race; these as well as the articles of the opposite kind should be answered. Nothing is more pleasing to editors than to receive letters of appreciation for something they have published. It will greatly encourage the editor of any periodical to continue to publish articles fair to the Negro if he receives letters of appreciation from a number of people in the community when he does publish such articles. It is needless to say that a Correspondent's Club should be made up as largely as possible of people who can write clear and correct English, who like to write, and who keep themselves informed on all matters pertaining to the race. This is necessary, because a poor reply might be worse than no reply at all. This is the age of propaganda, propaganda through publicity. One of the most effective means the Negro can use in his fight is propaganda of this sort. He should use it to the utmost to change and form public opinion regarding himself. We can think of no quicker, simpler and cheaper method of doing this than through Correspondents' Clubs. The writer had the pleasure of attending recently a meeting of the Club in Washington. The reports made by the members of what they had done during the month made far more interesting proceedings than what one hears in the average "literary society". The subjects were all so live; and in addition, those taking part were getting the best sort of literary training. They were not merely reading what somebody else had written, nor were they writing on some already dead and hackneyed literary subject; they were improving and developing their own literary ability by handling a great, vital question which is involved in the making of history to-day. The little social feature at the end added to the zest of the meeting. We should like to see a Correspondents' Club organized in every city and town in the United States. People's Movement Makes First Annual Report Organization shows rapid growth, and much good accomplished. A copy of the first annual report of the People's Movement comes to the editors desk and shows much has been accomplished by the organization since it came into existence about 2 years ago. Mr. Oscar DePriest, dissatisfied with the political condition of the second ward, with a small following crystalized their sentiment into the potential existence of the People's movement, which has since been incorporated and has a large and constantly growing membership. In the President's report, Mr. De Priest states, the "People's Movement stands as a potent agency for community uplift along industrial, civic, and educational and political lines." The Sunday Meetings of the People's Movement have become a permanent institution, many distinguished orators of both races have spoken on topics of interest to the welfare of the race. Chas. Klein Co. 4706-4708 S. STATE ST. JANUARY CLEARING SALE Their musical Department of which Prof. B. Emanuel Johnson is the director is an important feature. The Employment Bureau of which Mrs. Jennie E. Lawrence is Supt., has accomplished a very good and necessary work in the way of making labor conditions in the community better and lending advise and assistance to many young men and women in adjusting themselves to positions etc. The People's Movement claims the honor of being the cause of the race having two delegates, in the persons of Hon. E. H. Wright, and Dr. A. J. Cary, in the Constitutional Convention. The political success of the organization owes much of its success to the assistance of many of its loyal Women workers, among whom are, Mesdames E. Lindsay Davis, Hettie Joslin, Mary Daily and Lizzie Morris. The Bundy case received something over $2000.00 from the efforts of the organization, and many other things of interest particular to the race received financial and much personal assistance. Especially was this true during time of riot. In the organization of such a club Mr. DePries, Pres., James A. Scott, First Vice Pres., Morris Lewis, Sec., James H. Johnson, Treasurer, with other good officers and a well chosen board of directors, much has been accomplished and much credit is due Mr. DePriest for the launching of such a successful and necessary work. Chicago is a big city and there is plenty of room for much work to be done such as has been undertaken by the People's Movement. 8th Regiment Notes Now that official orders have been received it is hoped that the general public will lend their active support to the regiment and send to the armory for enlistment their sons, husbands and sweet-hearts to be a part of the only regiment in existence officered throut by Colored men. Every religious, fraternal, civic, political, social, patriotic, charitable, athletic on other organization should be represented in the 8th Regiment, and we ask each of these organizations to send us as many recruits from their organizations as possible. SEND THEM IN AT ONCE. We are asking this in order that the 8th Regiment may be a representative regiment, capable of preserving the traditions of the "Old 8th", for which so many men have gallantly and heroically given up their lives and that our men may be prepared for future wars. We enlist them from ages of 18 to 45. During our service in the late war, 76 enlisted men of the regiment received commissions as First and Second Lieutenants, thus proving that service in this regiment and the training received in the regiment under our own officers, was sufficient for the commissioning of these officers without examination and with simply the recommendation of the regimental commander. 9. Iru—to have a wise 10. Your regiment Vario taken up the car nown as "Share 19. "N. January Day"; Day"; dustry Budget Your B DR. S. The Regimental Basket Ball Team is now in the City League and games are being played weekly at the 8th Regiment Armory and elsewhere with other League Teams. The games at the 8th Regiment Armory have hereforeo been free to the public and no admission fee will be charged unless published beforehand. On Wednesday night, the 21st instant, there will be a double header. The 8th Regiment will play the Austin Mercuries and after this game there will be a special match game between the Hebrew Institute and the Homeos, both white teams, for a purse of $200.00. Admission to these games will be 25c. All other games will be free to the public. Come out and bring the ladies. The Annual Military Ball of the "Old 8th" will be revived this year after a lapse of several years on account of the war, and will take place at the 8th Regiment Armory on Lincoln's Birthday Night, February 12th, 1920. This affair is and has always been the only distinctively military affair given in the city and on account of there being so many ex-soldiers in the city, promises to be of more than passing interest this season. All former officers and soldiers as well as men in the service at the present time will be present in uniform and many acquaintances made in the camps and overseas will be renewed. When your friends visit the city, bring them over to the 8th Regiment Armory to inspect the building. It is one of the show places of the city and was erected at a cost of more than $250,000.00. There is not a finer armory in the country and we will take pride in showing visitors through the building at any time from 11:00 a. m., to 10:00 p. m. New York "Y" News New York. — The hour has struck for preparation and action in the National Thrift Week Campaign which begins on Saturday, January 17. The holiday season is over. It was characterized by liberal giving, much money was spent, some no doubt wisely and a great deal otherwise. It should be the aim of every one now to begin replenishing his depleted purse. In the coming campaign the Young Men's Christian Association will take a leading part. The Colored Men's Department of the International Committee is keyed up for action and it commissions the officials and members of every branch of the Y. M. C. A. to go forward, teach thrift, talk thrift and practice thrift every day of the campaign. In this great movement for economic development, the conservation of what one has and the cultivation of the habit of saving for a definite purpose, the pastors of our churches, Sunday school superintendents and leaders in other activities are requested to cooperate. This is a campaign of education in which the members of every household is a pupil. The school room space is unlimited, it encircles the country. Here is the Y. M. C. A's program and everybody is asked to take part. The basis of the week's program is expressed in the 'ten commandments' issued by the directors of the coming campaign. These follows: 1. Work and earn—to help increase the world's goods and decrease cost of living. 2. Make a budget—to ascertain how you should dispose of your income. 3. Keep a record of expenditures—to see how close you come to your estimates. 4. Have a bank account—to keep your money in a safe place and help you to save. 5. Carry life insurance—to protect your loved ones in case of your death. 6. Make a will—to insure your resources going quickly to those you desire. 7. Own your own home—to secure the greatest satisfaction in your home life. *8. Pay your bills promptly — to meet the moral obligation you have to your creditors. 9. Invest in government securities —to help your country and make a wise investment. 10. Share with others—to fulfill your religious duty of stewardship. Various elements of thrift will be taken up on succeeding days during the campaign. January 17 will be nown as "Bank Day"; January 18 as "Share With Others Day"; January 19, "National Life Insurance Day"; January 20, "Own Your Own Home Day"; January 21, "Make a Will Day"; January 22, "Thrift in Industry Day"; January 23, "Family Budget Day", and January 24, "Pay Your Bills Promptly Day." 3102 Indiana Ave., CHICAGO C. BURTON LABOR AGENCY Phone Calumet 3932 We have work for every body — Both men and women, in town and out of town. We are open daily from 8.00 A. M. to 6 P. M. CALL IN TO SEE US. THE PRIDE OF SOUTH SIDE Illinois Sanitary Cut Rate GROCERY and MARKET —All we ask is a trial— We carry a full line of VEGETABLES Our motto: Best quality—less profit 3738 So. State Street Phone: Boulevard 8144. JOIN THE SUPREME ROYAL CIRCLE OF FRIENDS R C 09 T A Modern and Progressive Secret Order with Insurance Benefits, operating in all the States and District of Columbia. Full Compliance with the Insurance Laws of Illinois. Death Benefits from $100 to $1,000. 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PORTER We do a legitimate, clean business and enjoy the confidence fo our leading physicians. We solicit both mail and telephone orders for anything in the drug line. Money orders, parcel post, registered letters and postage. Four telephones. General information. Nearly Everybody Goes to DREAMLAND Seating Capacity 500 ctric Fans Make T CHICAGO'S COOLEST SPOT 20 So. State St WM. BOTTOM'S Phones: Douglas 8383 and 2496 CHICAGO, ILL. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CHICAGO WHIP THE CHICAGO wai Se REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ON SEDITION AMOMG NEGROES By JAMES WELDON JOHNSON We have a copy of the report of the Department of Justice on “Radi- ealism and Sedition Among the Ne- groes as Reflected in Their Publica- tions". The report occupies twenty- seven pages of the report of the in- vestigation against “Persons Advising Anarehy, Sedition, and the Forcible Overthrow of the Government”. The pages devoted to the Negro come at the end of the report; and, judging from what was the evident purpose of the report, these pages make the most ludicrous anticlimax that could be imagined. We don't know how good a case the report makes out against the people discus- sed in the first one hundred and sixty pages, for we have not yet had the time to read that portion; but we are prepared to say that if it doesn’t make out a better case than it makes out against the Negro, the Depart- ment of Justice has wasted a good deal of time and a considerable amount of Uncle Sam's cash. If any jury of fair-minded persons can find in the twenty-seven pages devoted to the Negro anything which justifies those pages being made a part of a report against “persons ad- vising anarchy, sedition, and the fore- ible overthrow of the Government”, the writer will agree to eat a bundle of these reports without taking water. Whoever got out the report filled it with extracts of both prose and poctry from the radical Negro press. But what do all of these extracts amount to when boiled down. They amount to a demand not for anarchy, not for the overthrow of the Govern- ment, but to a demand for the strict and impartial enforcement of law, and to an expression of the deter- mination of the Negro to defend himself when and where the law re- fuses or fails to protect him against the mob. Indeed, the main note run- ning through all the quotations from the Negro publications mentioned in the report is a demand for luw and order, but law and order based on the recognition of the equal rights of every American citizen. Of course, the chief thing in these radical periodicals on which the ac- cusing finger rests is the open or implied endorsement of the action of Negroes who in the recent “race riots” defended themselves and pro- tected their homes against the mobs because the law refused or failed to protect them, Well, what about it? Can any sane man say that these Ne- groes did not act within their legal and moral rights? More than that can any sane man say that these Ne- groes did not perform what was their obvious duty? Will any white man say that white men would not have been expected to act likewise under like conditions? Let those who are holding up their’ hands in holy horror at the mere thought of lawlessness on the part of Negroes stop and consider that in not one of these outbreaks were Ne- groes the original aggressors. All of the “race riots” which occurred last summer were started by lawless white men. Then let the holy horror against lawlessness be directed against white mobbists and not against Negroes de-| fending their lives and their homes| when the law shows itself unable or unwilling to do so. THE NEGRO AND CHICAGO PAST AND PRESENT By LIEUT. J. E. HAWKINS ARTICLE 2. ‘The author has experienced con- siderable difficulty in his attempt to arrange the biography of the many characters appearing in these ar- ticles, but thru the kindness of the many living survivors or descendants has been able to collect authentic data which from time to time has come under observation. Up to the present writing there seems to be a lapse of about thirty years between the passing of Jean D'Sable (Better known to historians as Point De Sa- ble), and the coming of Lewis Isu- belle. Lewis Isabelle, was born in Kentucky, and came to Illinois in 1824, and to Chicago in 1828, and until the time of his death in 1907 was known as the oldest living in- habitant of the State and City. Isa- belle was a barber and was accred. ited with being the first colored man to operate a barbershop in the state and worked at his trade until a very few years before his death; he was a very familiar figure to the oldest inhabitants ‘and was on intimate terms with Mr. Ferdinand Jones, the The Chicago Whip Aa Independ er * TPubttited Every Week a Vol. 2 JANUARY 24th, 1920 No. 4 Orr Published by ‘TH CHICAGO PUBLISHING COMPANY (Not Incorporated) cancagd OFFice. sasr SUATE STREET, PHONE: DOUGLAS 1623 Cepia eee af eo RR iNTON ee aimee tei let All unsolicited ticles, manuscripts, letters and pictures sent to the CHICAGO cosh actiaaieial oracle, memento GG OM WATE expronsly tesudlates any Nie Mek cnet a atl aatta ae ea A comranleetbas mse be Tee een MC HCAUO. WHliPe No aeacntion whatever Owld to wasigned mater Roya Tes Terms of Subscription (Payable in advance): gue Year Pet ime ra ret spree fA ~—Famitied av seund class matter, Oct. 21, "19, at the Port Office at Chicago, Ik, ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION a erie tes eis ceaiceheenimnaniatpicebaamanconciesicnn, W ITH DUE REGARD FOR RIGHT, WITH PURITY OF MO- i : TIVE IN OUR EXPRESSION, WITH CONSCIENTIOUS ~ COMPASSION FOR STRICKEN HUMANITY, WITH UN- ) STINTE!! CREDIT TO THOSE WHO MERIT, WITH TRUTH AS | | OUR GUIDE POST AND LOVE AS OUR INSPIRATION, WE t HAVE COMMITTED OURSELVES TO THE WORLD OF JOUR- — | NALISM. WE HAVE DEDICATED OURSELVES TO PUBLIC ~ t SERVICE. 4 PMMA sn MRM i a im sl en eee |) eee: eee ee ee ‘The world does not want a disgruntled class, complaining of the weather, the high cost of living and the loss of liquor. The world does not respect the eternal pessimist who sees the clouds behind every sun. The world and humanity does want those who are disatisfied and who are seeking to eliminate the ever-present evils that retard the progress of civilization and the betterment of humanity in general. Out of the darkness, out of the night, primeval man was led by those individuals that had the indomitable courage and far-reaching vision of leadership, through the different periods of evolutionary life. The spirit of those immemorable leaders and captains of mankind has played a paramount part. THE EXISTING STATUS OF THAT ISOLATED AND DESPISED GROUP OF MANKIND, KNOWN AS THE NEGRO IS DEPLORABLE. IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE AND IN THE UNITED STATES IN PARTICULAR. THE CLANK AND RATTLE OF SLAVE CHAINS AND SHACKLES CAN STILL BE HEARD IN THE DIM ECHOES OF THE NEAR PAST. FROM SLAVERY TO THE ECSTATIC JOY OF FREE- DOM AND LIBERTY, WE CAN TRACE THE INTERNAL ACTIVITIES OF THAT UNFORTUNATE PEOPLE. We found them emotional, credulous and trusting to the ene leaders. We now find them existing in nical hondagé, Wage slavery, political serfdom, shunned, cursed, isolated and avoided. We find their ranks disordered, ‘we see mutiny in the air. We find them tattered and torn,’ distrustful and scornful of their “leaders.” FROM THE MASS OF THE PEOPLE, THE STENTORIAN AND CLARION CRY CAN BE HEARD, “GIVE US A NEW REPRESENTATION.” FROM THE SOULS OF THE STRICKEN THE CHORD HAS BEEN SOUNDED. THE HEART STRINGS OF THE CRUSHED ARE QUIVERING. FOR THIS REASON, WE SAY, “TEAR DOWN THE FOSSILIZED LEADERS OF THE OPPRESSED.” WE CHANT THE PAEANS OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND BEG FOR MEN TO CHAMPION THEIR CAUSES WITH COURAGE AND STRENGTH, MEN THAT CAN REASON INTELLIGENTLY THROUGH THE PRESENT LABYRINTH OF PRESENT DIFFICULTIES. We are not constitutional disgruntles. We merely wish the inherent, inchoate and God-given rights of the American Negro to be plated above the auction block of the crooked pol- iticians and beyond the citadel of selfish, ignorant “leaders’t that misrepresent the desires of the people and confuse with their meagre understanding; the all-important issues that are daily involved. We all know how the educational progam of the so-called “leaders” in education have made it almost im- possible to get a donation or even a hearing for the higher! education of the race. WE ALL KNOW HOW THE POLITI- CAL STOOL PIGEON “LEADERS” HAVE DUPED, FOILED, FOOLED AND EXPLOITED THE RACE. We know that it is extremely difficult to place clean-cut men in office and how the misrepresentation of the people has been made the laugh of the country. WE KNOW HOW THE BUSINESS “LEADERS” OF THE RACE HAVE DRIPPED THE FINANCIAL BLOOD OF THE RACE FROM THE VEINS OF BLACK FOLKS AND AFTER THE TRANSFUSION OF THE 20TH CENTURY LIFE STREAM, THAT THEY HAVE TURNED A COLD SHOULDER AND A STONY HEART TO THEIR UNDER BROTHER. .. . WE KNOW FULL WELL. Out of the shell hole of war, out of the classic walls of learning, out of the turbulent womb of the new day comes the NEW CROWD. They cry, “Away with them!” let us change the existing order of affairs and make this a decent race to be a member of. This stand is commendable beyond a doubt. The masses of the people should see the handwriting on the wall and the rumblings from the bowels of time, telling them the day for emancipation and new freedom draws nigh, DON’T LET THE “OTHER FELLOW” DO IT! GET IN THE FIGHT YOURSELF! TEAR AWAY WITH YOUR UN- QUALIFIED SUPPORT EVERY VESTIGE OF THESE INTERNAL EVILS THAT DISSEMINATES AND DISINTE- GRATES THE VITALITY OF A POTENTIALLY GREAT PEOPLE. IN THIS FIGHT LIES THE SALVATION OF THE AMERICAN “HALF-MAN.” WILL YOU GIVE A HELPING HAND AND RALLY AROUND THE “NEW CROWD” IN THEIR EFFORT TO SEPARATE THEMSELVES FROM THE UNSAVORY PAST AND PRESENT “MISLEADERSHIP?” The new day dawns, the fringe of the future hangs heavy. The colored millenium will come when the masses of the people destroy the “old crowd” and support the new. Prepare ye the way! ‘There arecimmme triends of the Negro who ly deplore any in- dication on his to oppose with physical foree m@b violence and com- munity lawl . They feel that it will arouse still more bitter senti- ment against If, and what is worse, a great y of him might get killed, for he is so far outnum- bered. ‘These friends should not ex- pect the Negro to submit to whole- sale murder one sake of increasing his reputation for gentleness and patience; if they do, they are expect- ing too much ffm the present-day Negro. As for getting killed—that does not strike much terror to the heart of the Negro now; thousands of Negroes died in France for what has been for them @ dream, if not a lie; so the thought of dying in deferise of their own lives and property does not impart any great dread; they reason that if they ave threatened with death by wholesale murder, it is bet- ter to meet it by facing the mob than to meet it by being shot in the back while running or by having their houses burned down over their heads, Let a little of thie investigation in- to lawlessness and this indignation against lawlessness be directed against the degenerate, blood-lusting white men who make up the. mobs to whom the lynching and murdering of Negroes is a pastime, a Roman holiday sport. ¥ If the Department of Justice wants to do a job of investigating worth doing, let it not stop at the open and just discontent expressed in the Ne- gro press over the wrongs and in- justices suffered by black American citizens; let it getat the grounds and reason for that discontent. And if it wants any assistance on the job, the Negro press will gladly give it. ‘As it is, the Department has done only about one-third of what it ought to do, The third-that it has done makes out no ease of “sedition” against the sit simply shows that the Negro hes just grounds for complaint at his theatment in this country, and has’ sense enough to know it and sensé enough to say it in a clear, intelligent and forcible way. Indeed, it seems that this lat- ter is what shocks the writer of the report mofe than-anything else. He is a man-who has évidently, like many others, been asleep on the Negro; he has been thinking of the Negro in terms of twenty or thirty years ago; all at once he is ¢alled on to read a number of Negro publications, and he is amazed, overwhelmed, dumb. founded, to find that the Negro knows what he wants, knows what: he is egtitied to and knows how to state it. The thing that astonishes him most is the fact that these ar- ticles are written by Negroes who know how to use’ the English lang. uage. But, after all, this report of the Department of Justice is not so bad. So far as we know, it is the most effective step yet taken to let the whole country know just what the Negro is discontented about, to let it know what the Negro of to-day is thinking. The American Negro could wish for nothing better than that the Department of Justice would put a copy of this report in the hands of every man, woman and child in the United States, oldest living white inhabitant, and at the present writing the oldest liv- ing settler of Chicago. In his younger days he was very’ active in the local affairs and had one of the largest acquaintance list of any man of his type. Very few meetings held by the old settlers was considered com- plete unless Lewis Isabelle was pres- end and ofttimes when Ferd. Jone: was called upon to give data in ref- erence to old Chicago, he would refer his caller to Lewis Isabelle. He has, many. living» survivors, chief among them being Mrs. Theodora Lee-Parnell ,of Oakland, Calif., whe makes frequent visits to Chicago. He was a man above the average intel ligence and far above the average in edueation of that period, also active in every line for the better- ‘merit of the condition and welfare of face. Most, of the. colored ne of that day were simnaaied _ wijh._ 0 actively identified with the Chicago terminal of the Under Ground Rail. way, and Isabelle was one of the managing directors and is accredited with getting thra the lines all fugi tives intrusted to his guidance. At ‘the time of his death Mr.’ Isabelle was an octogenarian born in Floyd ‘County, Ky., in 1818, Abraham Hall, was the first col- ored man to operate a barbershop ir ‘the City of Chicago, his shop being located at Canal and Lake Streets over on the West Side, and Isabelle Lewis worked at his shop for a num. ber of years after its opening ir 1844, At that period the better class of residents high in Chicago's social life lived on the Westside, and a number of the large firms now doing business in the downtown busi ness district.were located in this sec: tion of the city, chief among them being Carson Perie Scott & Co., who were located on the S, W. corner of Madison and Peoria Streets, and di¢ not move over to the southside until early in the “90's”. Hall's shop was patronized by the bgst of Chicago's social element and When he retired from business he moved east to edu- cate his children. In the early 50's colored people commenced to get a foot-hold in the young-and thriving city and many of the families became well identi- fied with the city’s commercial ‘life. Joseph Hudlun, is known as the first colored man to own property in the city, having purchased a home on old ‘Third Avenue—now known as Ply- ‘mouth Place, In 1855 to 1857 col- ‘ored men were engaged in the follow. ing professions and business; Dr. Henry Hudson, first’ colored physi cian, Gray’s Hair dressing parlors was located on old 3rd Avenue, a candy store owned by Ruben Collins, grocery owned by J. B, Dawnson, and a restaurant owned by Ambrose Jackson. From this date on our col- ored citizens were considered to be one of the best assets of the city and were afforded the best efforts on the part of the whites to make their undertakings a suecess. Dawson sub- division and Dawson Avenue over on the Northwest side of the City are named after J. B. Dawson and his family, and many other streets of the city are named in remembrance of many others of the early colored settlers, chief among them being Platt Place over on the Westside which was named after J, F. Platt, who was a builder and contractor, also operated the only lumber yard owned by a colored man. His daugh- ter, Ida Platt, was the first colored ‘woman admitted to the bar; one of hie present day descendants is Lieut. Wm. Phillips, of the 370th Infantry, better known as the 6th Ilinois,— Lieut. Phillips is a graduate of the Armour and Harvard School of Technology. Next article: Mrs, Louis Wash- ington, the oldest living woman settler born in Chicago. Author reserves right to copy. By Lieut. J. E. H. SOME_THINGS NEGROES WANT A message from Virginia Negroes First—We want equal accommoda. tions in public carriages. We now pay first-class fares and are forced to accept third-class accommodations On railroad and street cars the quart. ers assigned to us are inadequate for the numbers and are poorly kept. Nc provision is made on steam cars for sleeping-car or dining-ear accommo: dations. At only a few of the rail- youd stations are provisions made for feeding the Negro traveling public. The toilets at most of the stations are poorly kept and on some of the trains there is only one toilet for both men and women. We deeply feel the humiliation that the ‘Jim Crow Car Law” and segregation bring upon the Negro race and urge the white people to abolish if. Second—Negroes want justice in the proper distribution of advantages in their living quarters in both city and country. Wherever we live in large numbers the streets generally are not paved; the section is not ade. quately lighted or policed; sewage is not provided; and there are neglig. ence and indifference in the general improvements. ‘Third—We want equality of wages in the economic life of the State. We feel keenly the injustice of dis crimination in pay for the same work done. If a Negro bricklayer dbes the same work just as satisfactorils as a white man, he in all justice de: serves the same pay. This holds true in domestic service, in the trades on the farm, in the profession of teaching, and everywhere else. Fourth—We want the same pro- vision made for the education of our children as is made for white chil dren; we want « just distribution of public-school funds; equal high: school advantages in curriculum and equipment; a compulsory school law just as binding upon Negro childrer as upon white children; and oppor: tunities provided by the State for college training for Negro youth. —Southern Workman. /EDITORS MAIL STOCKYARDS LABOR COUNCIL APPEALS TO RACE To the Editor of the Whip! ers, may I state in reply that our en-) leavors in the past and will so cone. ‘tinue in the future, is to organize the workers in the Stockyards irrespee- ‘tive of race, creed, color or nation- ‘ality. This was the fundamental basis ‘upon which the Stockyards Labor Couneil was built on, It is one of their laws, but like a great many laws, we did not have any way to enforce it, recognizing the necessity of not only stating our attitude on the right of every worker be he black or white to join the union of his calling, 1 sub- mitted the following resolution to the Stockyards Labor Council. RESOLUTION. WHEREAS: “One of the greatest problems facing us in the Chicago Stockyards, is what might be termed the: colored problem, and whereas, It is essential to the welfare of our organization and the working class in general, that we must emphasize to our colored brothers and sisters work- ing in the Stockyards, that their in- terets are identical with ours, and whereas, r . The Stockyards Labor Council has already gone on record that there shall be no discrimination because of race, creed color or nationality. — Therefore be it resolved :— ‘That any local denying membership to any worker because of race, creed, color or nationality, shall not be al- lowed to affiliate with the Stockyars Labor Couneil, until such diserimina- tiond shall have been removed.” And then I sent the following let- {er to the locals affiliated with our Gouneil. ’ ‘To all locals affiliated with the Stockyards Labor Council. Fellow Workers:— “The Stockyards Labor Council emphasizes the fact that there shall be no discrimination because of race, creeds color or nationality, that was the principle upon which the Couneil was organized; it is one of their laws, We have some difficulty in enfore- ing thin law, because it did not pro-, vide any means by way in which ity could be enforced, so the enclosed revolution waa presented to the Stock- yards Labor Couneil by Secretary J._ W. Johnstone and was carried unani- mously. If your local is one who up to this time had barred men and women be- cause of their color, please have this resolution brought before the mem- bership, and let me know the results at the earliest possible moment, Fraternally yours, Secretary Stockyards Labor Council. We are well aware that unless some of the locals now affiliated with the Stockyards Labor Council change their attitude towards our colored workers, it will mean their expulsion from the Stockyards Labor Council; of course we will regret if forced to do so, but if men living in the twen- tieth century still insist in using eigh- teenth century tactics, we must- use! some methods enjoining them from| doing so, und if they believe in os-| stracizing workers because of their | color, then we wil retaliate. by csr | tracizing them until such times as| they have been taught a much need- ed lesson, ‘This attitude of+ course will bring us into conflict with a few interna- tional unions; we have weighed the issue very carefully, and since the Council was organized twelve years ago, we have carried on this propa- ganda; now we think the time has arrived to enforce it. To be frank, we have not had the support from the colored workers that we expected. Our method of propaganda may have | been weak somewhere; probably we donot understand the colored worker as we do ourselves. Yet it'is an ob- vious fact that the workers’ interests aye identical. Anyway, be it as it thay, the colored worker has not re-' sponded to-the call of unionism. It. is our one weak spot in the Stock- yards, Let me ask this question, and if you feel 80 disposed. to print. it in your| paper, it may start « discussion, that. might help to solve this vexing prob- lem. | Workers Join The Stockyards La- bor Council? Of course we have about 2000 col- ored workers in the union, but we ought to have 10,000. Our record on the race question is clear cut, and cannot be mistaken; we do not indulge in mere words— just investigate our stand during the race riots. When it was dangerous for colored workers to venture very far away from what is known as the Black Belt, our delegates from the south side attended our Council meet- ings over at Paulina and Forty-eight streets. President Murphy, John Kikulsky and myself representing the Stock- yards Labor Council, in company with John Fitzpatrick, President of the Chicago Federation of Labor, A. K. Foote, Robert Bedford, Frank Cus- ter and two other men representing: our South Side Local whose names | do not rember at this time, spent 3 days and 3 sleepless nights trying as best we knew how, to put a stop to that horrible carnage. I do not want to go into that nightmare at this time —still I do not want to forget it, be- cause that is one of the big mistakes the workers make, they forget too quickly. We have carried on our fight for labor, conscientiously, irrespective of color; we have not been successful so far as the negro is concerned. ‘The negro is always told to be pa- tient, not only by white politicians, but by some of the so-called race leaders. Don’t you think that they have been too damned patient, Per- sonally I prefer the mule to the sheep —-you can handle the mule but you cannot treat him in the same manner ‘4x you would a sheep; we all respect a fighter even if we do not always ‘admire him. ‘ Let the negro take his place with ‘us, join the Stockyards Labor Council and we will be a power to reckon ‘with in the City of Chicago. Our in- fluence will be felt all over the coun- try. The colored workers’ problem is ours, our problem is theirs, both interests are identical, the only dif- ference is skin deep. You are black, ‘we are white, both of us require food, clothing and shelter. We waptstyt- fat, boli, Bel orking” Cocoa ‘and a higher standard of living. We work together, we starve together, we live in the Same kind of miserable houses, we use the same dressing rooms, we are employed by the sime employer, we have the same joys und the same serrows, we breather the ‘same polluted air. Then why in the ‘name of cbmmon sense can't we or- ganize together, fight shoulder to shoulder. Carry on the fight on the industrial field for freedom and democracy, that [we were supposed to win on the bat- ‘tlefields of France; that was simply a military victory, and we must turn ‘it into its industrial, political and so- cial equivalent, and that can only be done when the workers join hands ir- respective of race, creed, color, or nationality. Is your race ready to do that? I know that we are, Fraternally yours, J. W. JOHNSTONE, Secretary Stockyards Labor Council EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS IN VIRGINIA Twelve years ago six or seven sup- ervising colored teachers were em- ployed as a very doubtful experiment in Virginia. Today there are sixty- three counties in the State with super- vising teachers. It is significant that the counties themselves now contrib- ute one-third of the expense of this work, Seven years ago there were no public county schools for Negro children doing work above the sev- enth grade. Practically no thought was given to secondary training for Negroes in the country schools. This year the State has sixteen rural junior high schools; in the past two years $100,000 from the Rosenwald Fund ‘and the white and colored people of ‘the State has gone into the building ‘of rural Negro schools; and within ‘the last eighteen months four cities have done splendid things for their eolored school population by the con- struction of new and handsome build- ings to the amount of several hun- dred thousand dollars. Let us not forget, however, that in Virginia at present less than two- thirds of the Negrayehildren of school ‘age are in the schools; that the ma- jority of rural Negro schools are still in one-room buildings; that in fifty- five counties of the State six months ‘or less has been the average of school ‘terms; and that fifty-seven per cent of Negro children at school are in the first or second grades. —Southern Workman.