Gary American
Friday, March 30, 1928
Gary, Indiana
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"The Public Be Served"
An Independent Weekly Devoted To the Best Interests of All
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High School for Girls presented the President
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human students of the public schools. The pres-
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ance Committee.
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Doll For Mrs. Coolidge Brought To White House By Phila. Honor Girl
THE WEEKLY NEWS
FAHINGTON, D. C.-Philadelphia Ipcitate President and Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Ross Norwood (right) of the Citizens School Attendance Committee and Miss Gertrude Allen, honor student of the Philadelphia High School for Girls presented the President with a Declaration of Friendship and Mrs. Coolidge a Negro doll on behalf of the youth and honor students of the public schools. The presentation was a feature of "Friendship Week" observed under the auspices of Citizens School Attenance Committee.
DARROW RAPS RACE PREJUDICE IN SPEECH; ASKS TOLERATION
Noted Criminal Lawyer Declares There Is But One Human Race; "Color Is Only Result of Environment," He Tells Audience
AKRON, Ohio, March 29.—Speaking under the auspices of the local chapter of the N. A. A. C. P., Clarence Darrow declared that, "there is no race but the all-inclusive human race, and color is only a result of environment."
The noted lawyer was introduced to the large audience in the auditorium of the Centra high school as "the master of the American bar, and friend of the weak and helpless," by City Law Director, A. B. Underwood, scored race prejudice in all forms and declared:
"The big handicap of the American Negro today is his proximity to the era of slavery. While the white man has been free thousands of years, the Negro has not yet had his freedom a century.
"Complexes originating in the slave-master relation of black and white men are the principal causes of friction between dark and light-skinned American today.
"The white man's treatment of the Negro often is amusing," he continued, "to an unbiased observer. He will not eat at the same table with a Negro, but the Negro prepares his food."
"A Negro woman is not good enough to mingle socially with white women, but can move in the 'best white society circles' if she be the nurse of a white child.
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FIRST YEAR. NO. 2.
JOURNAL LAUDS ANTI-LYNCH LAW
Richmond Times-Dispatch Says Virginia Bill Shows Revulsion
(By Associated Negro Press)
RICHMOND, Va., March 29.—In an editorial, "Our Anti-Lynching Bill," the Richmond Times-Dispatch characterizes the passage of the anti-lynching bill by the State Senate, "reveals a growing revulsion against the stain of mob violence."
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The editorial further points out that "the measure when it will have become a law, will in itself have little or no effect in wiping out the back of mob violence," but "the important phase of this legislation is the proof it affords of the attitude in Virginia toward lynching.
"Passage of the pending bill is nothing more than a public declaration by the lawmaking body of Virginia agains' a practice which heretofore has brought shame to the community."
BLAST KILLS
WALL FARMER
Resident of Mississippi Town Horribly Mangled When 12 Sticks of Dynamite Fire
WALL. Miss., March 29.-Fatally mangled when 12 sticks of dynamite exploded, George Smith, aged 72, a prominent farmer near here, died at the general hospital in Memphis. Penn., Tuesday night. The accident happened on one of Smith's farms near Walls. Smith was blowing up stumpe with the explosive. He attempted, it is said, to flee to safety when the charge exploded, but due to his age was unable to get far enough away from the charge.
(By Associated Negro Press)
"White" Wife Denies She Is Colored LOCAL WOMAN SAYS HUBBY'S CHARGE FALSE CRIME HIGH ON S. SIDE
MUSIC BETTER THAN MEDICINE IN SOME CASES, SAYS DOCTOR (Copyright: 1928: By Gary American, Inc. How music relieves the sick and acts as a cure for many forms of illness, is explained in an article by Dr. Dennis A. Bethea on the editorial page of this issue of The American
Gary Housewife In Register of Emphatic Denial To Mate's Accusation
An emphatic denial that she is a colored woman and that she fooled her husband when they were married was made by Mrs. George Makrillas, 537 East Fifth avenue, in commenting upon a suit for divorce brought against her by her husband, in which she is charged with dissimulating regarding her color.
"I have merely liked colored people, and that's the reason I go among them," Mrs. Makrillas stated in answering her husband's charge.
The husband, an employee of the American Sheet and Tin Plate company, filed suit in Gary supervise court charging her with making him believe she was a white woman. He emphatically asserts that her true racial identity is that of a colored woman in the suit.
He declares that shortly after they were married his wife started a program of inviting colored people into their home, and of going among them. When he theratenated to leave her, she declared she would kill him, he charges.
Mrs. Makrillas was of the belief, when interview late today, that she would be successful in convincing him that she is not of the colored race.
Students Told of
Urgging them to take a greater interest in the affairs of their city and the work of the various city departments, Chauncey Townsend, executive editor of The Gary American, spoke to two classes at Virginia street school last week on the subject of "Municipal Government." How the mayor, city council, board of public works function together in the maintenance of the city and in the development of Gary was explained to the assembled students.
After giving the students an idea of what constituted good city government, the speaker devoted part of his talk answering questions put to him by the classes.
Students at the school have organized themselves into self-government clubs for the purpose of studying municipal government. Each week, they are addressed by some, prominent speaker on this question.
Gary Beauty Shop Mecca for the Elite
One of the places where Gary's most elect society women are gathering in increasing numbers is Polly's beauty shop, 1745 Broadway, which was opened several days ago under the supervision of Mrs. Marguerite Powell.
Mrs. Powell, a society matron in Gary for eight years, is the wife of Eugene Powell, well known mall carrier. Only first-class equipment is used in the shop.
NEW YORK, March 22.—Mrs. Beatrice Harper, an attractive woman apparently in her thirties, was found Thursday with her skull crushed in the basement of an apartment house in the 1000 block Bryant avenue, of which she was janitress. Police detained Norman Lee, wo is said to have been a close friend of the dead woman, for questioning.
MUSIC BETTER THAN IN SOME CASE
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How music relieves the sick of illness, is explained in an article editorial page of this issue of Th
Writing on the subject of "clares that "music has been a powerful medium for the expressions of the emotions of love and religion, but we have never regarded it as a health builder."
Cure For Many Ills
"Sometimes an old melody sung over and over, or some familiar record played on the Victrola will soothe like a salve," he adds. "Victrolas have saved more lives than rivers of patent medicines."
That these statements are true and have been borne out by the experience of many people was proved when an "American" reporter called upon Rolland C. Susinger, manager of Simon Bros.' Seventeenth avenue store, and asked for an opinion.
Asked if he thought IVictrola music was a good cure for many
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Feeling a need for representation on the school board. Negro residents of Baltimore are grooming Dr. Francis Cardoza, physician, for a place one the Baltimore board of education.
HEALTH WEEK TO BE HELD
By DENNIS A. BETHEA, M. D. Health Editor
When Booker T. Washington instituted Negro Health Week, some 18 years ago, he set in motion a force that has been of untold benefit to the race. This year, the first week in April has been set aside for this observance, beginning April 1 and ending April 8.
This year the National Business league and the Tuskegee Negro conference, have taken the lead in putting the propoganda across. Of course, they have had the co-operation of the public health service of the U. S., the state and city boards of health, together with such organizations as the National Medical association, and the Inter-racial commission.
Last year, Health Week was observed in twenty-one states, and in most of the communities where the Negro lives in great numbers. This year the indications are that it will even be more widely celebrated. In Chicago, it is being observed throughout the month. Talks are being made by dentists, physicians, nurses and welfare workers. In churches, halls and at various meeting places, something like four minute talks during the war.
In the Calumet district, the physicians and dentists and pharmacists' organization is sponsoring the movement as was done last year. The Gary Noonday business club appointed a committee to cooperate with the medical men in this work. The committee is as follows: Dr. C. R. Woods, Dr. D. W. Turner, and Dr. R. W. Grubbs of Gary; Dr. Johnson
Music As a Tonic," Dr. Bethea dellis, Mr. Slusinger declared it was. "We have sold many Victrolas to people who have testified to their magic and mysterious power in bringing relief to the sick; and many sick persons, to whom we have sold Victrolas, have told us that Victrola music has proved a born to them in their illness."
An advertisement, explaining the medical benefits of Victrola music, is carried in this issue of The American by Simon Bros.
The "ad" may be found in this issue on the special health week; which is carried in connection with the nineteenth anniversary of National Negro Health Week, while Dr. Bethea's complete article may be found on the editorial page of this issue.
POLICE ARREST TWICE AS MANY COLORED AS WHITES DURING PAST YEAR, CLAIM
1927 Report Cites High Percentage of Crime Among Negroes In Gary As Against Only Half the Number of Caucasians
Negroes in Gary committed twice as many crimes last year as American white people, according to the annual survey of crime conditions made public today by the police department.
According to the report, there were 954 American white people arrested for various crimes and offenses in Gary during 1927. There were 1,924 colored people arrested during the year or nearly twice that number.
Arrests among the fifty different nationalities which constitute the "Steel City's" foreign population amounted to 3,800.
Total arrests for the year were 6,678, which were distributed among the various nationalities and foreign-born element as follows:
White Americans ... 954
American Negroes ... 1,924
Other Races ... 3,600
According to the report there were twelve murders among colored people in Gary during last year. A large percentage were also arrested for gambling, drunkenness violation of the state liquor law, and prostitution.
Church Workers Alarmed
Sunday was the close of the drive launched February 12 by the pastor and members of Bethlehem A. M. E Zion church.
The members of the church were divided into small groups and raised the sum of $400. That was the beginning.
The members were then divided into four clubs known as the east side, west side, central and south side. The clubs were in a contest and were putting forth every effort to win. The members of the club rais-
Church Workers Alarmed
The figures have caused much alarm and anxiety among welfare agencies in the "Steel City" who regard the crime problem among Gary colored people as a big one.
Much concern over the matter has been expressed by Gary ministers, who have denounced lawlessness from their pulpit. A program to end crime, according to police, ought to be undertaken by every colored minister in Gary whose combined influence and disapproval of lawlessness would do much to lower the crime wave, it is believed.
of Indiana Harbor, and Dr. Bethea of Hammond.
The ministers have given the committee their cooperation and they will give places in their various meetings for short talks by a physician, dentist, welfare worker or whoever is designated to give the talk.
Woman Acquitted On Murder Charge
LITTLE ROCK. March 29—Ruth Stewart was acquitted by a jury in first division Circuit Court Wednesday, following her trial for the killing of Marshall Thomas. Her trial required the entire afternoon. She said that Thomas was shot while she and another woman were struggling over a pistol and she was holding the barrel.
Workers Here Form Welfare Society
Laboring men in Cary will be given assistance in finding work and ingraining damages in times of accident, owing to the organization here of the MidWest Labor association, for which incorporation papers have been granted by the state, according to an announcement made to The American today by Roy Carr, president.
According to Mr. Carr, the new association was organized to assist laboring men and their families when unemployed, and to find employment for them, to see that the working man is rightly compensated when injured and to protect him from "credit sharks."
According to the incorporation papers, Roy Carr is president, Thomas J. Loving, secretary, and Ralph Carr, treasurer. Temporary headquarters have been established in Hod Carrier's hall, at 21st and Washington street, it was announced.
CHURCH DRIVE IS A SUCCESS
Sunday was the close of the drive launched February 12 by the pastor and members of Bethlehem A. M. E. Zion church.
The members of the church were divided into small groups and raised the sum of $400. That was the beginning.
The members were then divided into four clubs known as the east side, west side, central and south side. The clubs were in a contest and were putting forth every effort to win. The members of the club raising the largest amount of money were to be known as the most popular members of the church.
On the second Sunday of the drive was known as "pray, weigh and pay day." Each club weighted its members and had some money to be credited to them on the last Sunday. The following is a report of the clubs:
The south side club with Mr. W. Spligner as captain raised $121.52; the east side club of which Mr. H. Hutcherson is captain brought in $257.97; central under the leadership of Mr. Charles Jones cached in with $300.29; the west side, Mr. A. Byman captain, raised $326.21. Raised the 12th of February $400, and with a few dollars received from another source, made a grand total of $1445.
Alderman A. B. Whitlock, Mr. W. W. Cooke and Rev. Newcom of Trinity Baptist church were visitors. They received and counted all the money turned in by the clubs. Each made very encouraging and helpful remarks. The members of Bethlehem were assured that if they could work a little longer and put forth their very best efforts, that the victory would be theirs, because the race is not given to the swift, neither to the strong, but to those who endureth to the end.
The pastor, members and friends of the Bethlehem A. M. E. Zion church feel that they have taken on new life and that some time in the very near future, they like others, will not have to worship in the basement, but will have built an edifice in which to worship, where they can give glory and honor to God with praise and thanksgiving.
According to Mrs. Clara Jones, church reporter, the members appreciate to no small degree the value of their pastor and even though they be small in number, not a membership of 200, they will follow where he leads and will follow him each step of the way.
The pastor and members wish to thank the friends, both white and colored who helped them so wonderfully in this drive. Rev. W. T. Paulk is pastor.
STAUNTON, Va., March 29.—The Southern sanitarium for Negroes, incorporated, was granted a charter Saturday to establish and maintain a tuberculosis sanitarium at Staunton, with the following officers: J. H. Peters, R. H. Lindsay and E. D. McCreary. The company which is of the "non stock type" will begin immediately upon the erection of the hospital building.
Asked To Again Sing Over Radio
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So great was the success of his recent radio concert that Harry T. Burleigh, noted composer, has been asked again to sing over a national broadcasting chain of radios next month. Mr. Burleigh, composer of "Deep River," recently sang in a nation-wide link-up of thirty broadcasting chains scattered in different parts of the country. He is a baritone soloist
CONTROL OF COMMUNITY HOUSE
BY WHITE Y. M. C. A. IS OPPOSED
SOUTH BEND, March 28.—Through a resolution, which was unanimously adopted, the Negro people of South Bend, at a mass meeting here tonight, let it be known that they will not approve of the proposed action to give the white Y. M. C. A. the supervision and control of Hering community house, a community service house which has been running here for three years under the control of colored people. Aroused by an address by Chauney Townsend, editor of The Gary American, who had been invited down to speak against the proposal to turn over the community house to the Y. M. C. A., more than 300 people, assembled in meeting, entered a protest to the proposed action to give over the control of the community house o the white Y. M. C. A.
Claimed Poor Policy
A poor and dangerous policy would result in the proposal to turn over the Hering community house to the Y. M. C. A., the Gary editor declared in his address.
He declared that the Y. M. C. A. could not operate a program for both sexes, and stated that the colored people of South Bend should have an opportunity to demonstrate their own ability to manage their own affairs.
Following his address, a resolution declaring that a majority of the citizens of South Bend were opposed to the proposed action, was adopted. E. S. Findley, prominent resident of South Bend, then further entered a general objection to the proposal by a rousing speech in which he
declared that the colored people of South Bend should not allow the Y. M. C. A. to tear down the leadership of a Negro and place in its place the leadership of a Jew, in the control and management of Hering community house.
Others who spoke against the proposal were Miss Juanta Gorham, of Stewart House, Gary, who declared that the Y. M. C. A. cannot operate a suitable program for the benefit of the whole community.
Mrs. A. T. Stanley, president of the Booker T. Washington community service, and under whose leadership the colored people of South Bend have managed the affairs of the community house for three successful years, presided at the meeting. Atty. Charles H. Wilks read the resolution.
Hering house is the gift of Mrs. Frank E. Hering, a white philanthropist of South Bend. The institution has been under the control of the colored people since its opening.
Several weeks ago, however, a group of ministers of South Bend asked that the Y. M. C. A. take over the house. Tonight's meeting was to oppose this move.
The Plaza theatre, 1130 Broadway, one of a chain of theatres operated by the Blhos brothers, owners of the Roosevelt, will formally open Saturday with an entertaining moving picture drama and comedy program, it was announced today. The theatre was closed for a short time while undergoing reserve
PULLMA
BRIBE ACT FALLS FLAT IN ATTEMPT
NEW YORK, March 29.—How the Pullman company attempted to bribe officials of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Oor Porters was revealed by Brother Roy Lancaster at a meeting of the Brotherhood at St. Luke's hall, last night.
Brother Lancaster told how P. A. Sample, instructor of porters for his company, came to him and asked for a private interview. When this had been granted, Sample indicated that he came from F. J. Mitchel, District Superintendent of Ne York, and that even higher officials were backing him.
The proposition which Sample offered was a simple one. He must merely pick a quarrel with the union and use that as a pretext to quit. For this, the Pullman company offered him a lump sum of from thirty-five to fifty thousand dollars, and $250 a month for the rest of his life.
He would have to work for the company for a few months in order not to raise too much noise, but after that he could retire. Moreover, Sample said that a little trip to Europe could be arranged in order to get him out of the way during the first publicity which might arise.
Brother Lancaster listened to this proposition with interest, as did the two other brothers whom he had smuggled in, unknown to Sample, to listen privately to the conversation.
He then demanded an interview with Mitchell himself, and that too was arranged. But Mitchell, after appearing on the scene twice, each time got cold feet and never turned up for the interview. Lancaster had arranged a reception committee for him consisting of Arthur Garfield Hays, two other witnesses and two stepgraphers.
The principal speaker of the evening was A. Philip Randolph, general organizer of the Brotherhood. He urged the members to strengthen their organization, pointing out that five million ews in this country, although also an oppressed race, had more power than the 15 million negroes, because the ews were organized. Brother W. H. Des Verney reported on the progress of the organization throughout the South. Brother Grain announced a dance for Mach 11 and urged the support of the brothers to the union. About five hundred members of the union were present.
Jury Asks Prayer In Returning a Verdict
(By Associated Negro Press)
AUGUSTA, Ga., March 29—According to the jurors who last week freed Mrs. Lillian McKie of the charge of killing her husband in 1926, the verdict was influenced by the appeal for divine guidance made by Rev. J. H. Williams, one of two Negroes who served on the jury.
When the jury went out to assemble a verdict, Rev. Williams was asked to pray.
He responded to the call, and the jurymen who heard the petition declared it was a fervent appeal for guidance in a case where society and souls of humanity were invoked.
Spanish War Vet Dies In Carolina
DURHAM, N. C., March 29.—Captain Peyton H. Smith died here at his home Sunday afternoon after an illness of three weeks following an automobile accident. Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon.
No Tricks
The American does not give away Insurance Policies in order to get people to subscribe to the paper.
It does not have to use any artificial means to build up a mighty circulation. Readers of The American find the paper clean enough, good enough and interesting enough to buy and read, without such inducements.
Thus, the quality of the circulation of The American is not impaired one bit by the use of tricks and artifices in attaining subscribers.
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Stung! She's a He
The cute little girl at the top is the tough looking guy at the bottom in disguise. Both are Raymond Crawford, demon Baltimore prohibition agent, in the posture he wears while catching liquor violators.
2 ARE GRANTED STAY OF DEATH
Two Condemned To Die In
Memphis Given Respite By
Criminal Court
(By Preston News Service)
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MEMPHIS, March 29.—Clarence Roser and Jeane Johnson, will not face trial for the murder of Robert H. Calvery, Hollywood street car motorman, until March 31, it was decided in second tribunal court Wednesday.
Both defendants were slated to face the bar, with the state demanding death for their alleged crime, but a respite was granted by Judge Tom W. Marsh, who is now sitting in judgment in another murder case.
The men are said to have confessed the purported murder and the state is convinced that it will be able to send both to the electric chair. Calvery was killed during an attempted robbery last Dec. 22.
FARMERS TOLD MOW TO FARM
Associated Negro Press
BRICKS, N. C. March 29—More than two thousand farmers and their wives, who gathered at the Bricks Junior college to attend the annual farmers' conference, were told how to farm at a profit and how to make farm life more attractive.
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Jeweler Rewards Bravery of Memphis Physician In Jailing Thieves
(By Preston News Service)
Memphis, Tenn. 201.—A Negro doctor practicing in the country in Arkansas went to Memphis Friday and heard himself proclaimed a hero, and incidentally was presented with a $120 watch.
When four men stopped at the office of Dr. J. E. Hart, near West Memphis, Ark. Wednesday to have one of the party treated for pistol wounds, he called officers. The men confessed they had attempted to hold up a Memphis jewelry store but were frustrated when a clerk fired on them. The store proprietor's son was wounded in the return fire.
The proprietor of the jewelry store donated the watch and it was formally presented to Dr. Hart by Clifford Davis, fire police commissioner, at a meeting of the city commission.
MOCK CONFAB
RAISES $1,340
The four "mock annual confer-
annual conferences" of the Community Center church proved to be the event of the season Sunday morning and evening. March 25. As usual the choir under the directorship of Dr. R. O. Mundin were in their seats at ten forty-five a.m. and they sang to the delight of all who were present.
Center church proved to be the event of the season Sunday morning and evening. March 25. As usual the choir under the directorship of Dr. R. O. Mundin were in their seats at ten forty-five a.m and they sang to the delight of all who were present.
Evangelist C. S. Swaine, of Chicago, prescheduled a most excellent seren man suited to the occasion. His subject was "Why the church fails in many of its required duties." Dr Swaine proved himself to be master of the evangelistic profession.
The "conference" of Jones' Community church began work February 2.
The results of this effort under four presiding "bishops," their "presiding elders," "pastors" and members are as follows:
The Arkansas "conference" under the leadership of "Bishop" Elizabeth Curry raised $344.56; the illinois "conference" under the leadership of "Bishop" Mary M. Stokes cashed out $320.60; the Kentucky "conference" under the leadership of "Bishop" Mollie Ferguson raised $325.80 and the Louisiana "conference" under the leadership of "Bishop" Luther J. Moore brought in $350. Total for the four presiding "bishops" and conferences was $1340.86.
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Bankers Received
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President of the National Negro Bankers Association, the White House, Saturday. They are Judge Edward Henry, President Cool
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THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN, N.Y., WAS IN AWARD OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN, N.Y., FOR THE EXCELLENCE OF HIS JOB. HE WAS IN AWARD OF THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN, N.Y., FOR THE EXCELLENCE OF HIS JOB.
WASHINGTON, D. C.—President Coolidge received representatives of the National Negro Bankers Association and other prominent citizens at the White House, Saturday. They are from left to right, S. W. Rutherford, Judge Edward Henry, President Coolidge, John R. Hawkins.
Carry Out Wish By Citizens
MELDRIM, Ga., March 29—Following a request signed by a large number of white citizens that the body of Miss Marie G. Underwood, a colored woman, be removed from the white burying ground, a group of unknown parties here Monday night removed the body and reinterred it in the cemetery for Negroes.
The body of Miss Underwood was buried in the white cemetery in compliance with a dying request that she be buried in the lot of the Mattox family for whom she had worked twenty-two years. A petition that he requeste be granted was circulated and generally signed by white citizens.
The funeral services were hed in a white church, with a white pastor officiating and a white chair furnishing the music. Only a few Negroes attended the services.
After the body had remained in the white cemetery for five years, a petition appeared asking that it be removed.
The request was not granted, and Tuesday morning an open grave was found on the Mattox lot and a new grave was found in the Negro ceme-
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WHY
- One out of every four, in fact!
SO MANY SMOKERS HAVE CHANGED TO CHESTERFIELD
WE STATE it as our honest belief that the tobaccos used in Chesterfield cigarettes are of finer quality and hence of better taste than in any other cigarette at the price.
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BRIBE
By Pres. Coolidge
Coolidge received representatives of nation and other prominent citizens at from left to right, S. W. Rutherford, bridge, John R. Hawkins.
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fery. Police are endeavoring to learn the Identity of the grave robbers and promise to indict them if apprehended. The whole affair presents a mystery which is the topic of discussion here.
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Police Before Slain
CHICAGO. March 29.—An unidentified 'drink-crazed man shot and killed one policeman and was engaged in a hand-to-hand battle with another when a third officer shot and killed him.
The slain officer is Edward McGuire, aged 47, a veteran of 22 years' service. The officers responded to a call from South Side residents who reported that a man was running through the streets flourishing a revolver.
WALKER HEAD IS SPEAKER AT OHIO COLLEGE
Ransom Tells Wilberforce Audience Negro Should Learn Self-Reliance
(By Preston News Service)
WILBERFORCE, Ohio, March 29.
-Atty. F. B. Ransom, president of the Madam C. J. Walker Manufacturing company of Indianapolis, Ind., was the principal speaker at the annual founders' day exercises held at the university Thursday and Friday of last week.
Mr. Ransom's address dealt largely with the necessity of the Negro creating openings for qualified members of the race, as well as urging the students to qualify thoroughly for the places that present day Negro business organizations have open to them.
Mr. Ransom let it be known that Negro business enterprises today have places for trained Negroes and cannot find Negroes qualified to fill them.
The yearly financial rally held during the exercises is said to have netted splendid results. Wilberforce university was founded in 1856 by Bishop Daniel A. Payne and ably assisted by Bishop James A. Shorter and Dr. John T. Mitchell, all of the A. M. E. church. Dr. Gilbert Haven Jones, a graduate of Jena university of Germany and holding degrees from Ohio State university, Carlisle university, and other American universities and colleges, is president of Wilberforce.
Joy Riders Smash Into Truck;1 Hurt
(By Preston News Service)
Doldsir, N. C., March 29. J.-D. Samerlin was painfully injured and his truck completely demolished Wednesday when an automobile occupied by several persons smashed into his truck.
Samerlin told officers that he had driven to the side of the road when the boisterous party came speeding down the highway.
Their machine skidded and the driver trying to right the car lost control and it crashed into him. He said that the party was evidently under the influence of liquor. They stopped and after seeing that he was alive drove away.
Indict Two for Burglary in Md.
(By Preston News Service)
BALTIMORE, Md., March 29.
Charles A. Warner and Ruby A. Warner, Alias James P. Peters, were indicted by the grand jury Thursday on charges of burglarizing the home of wealthy residents here on February 5. They were charged with obtaining property valued at $21,985 in one home and $225 in another.
One of the men is under arrest in Philadelphia and the other in New Jersey. Extradition proceedings have been instituted.
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Miss Leona Emons, Baltimore girl formerly of Winston-Salem, N. C. is a member of the Croatan Indian tribe. She would rather be colored than Indian she says. Photo by Victor Wright
HOLD TWO FOR MURDER IN ARK.
Found Dead In Home; Police Charge Pair With the Killing
(BY ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS)
LITTLE ROCK, ARK. March 29.—Matthew Jones and Wiley Halston are being held, charged with the murder of Mrs. Alene Garrett, who was found dead in her home about five o'clock Monday afternoon. The woman's juglar vein and windpipe had be severed with a knife which was found near the body.
A brother of Mrs. Garrett found the body when he returned from work. He notified the police at once and an investigation followed. The officers learned from neighbors that Jones and Halston had been at the woman's home during the afternoon and that Jones left hurriedly.
When the two men were confronted with the story, they denied any knowledge of the crime, but police are of the opinion that they know something about it.
The Mary Gruptuist chapter of the Eastern Star lodge met Monday night. The attendance was very good.
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CONFESSED TO MURDER TO GET FREE TRIP HOME
Police Believe Man Made U
Story of Killing Just
To Be Taken Home
(By Preston News Service)
Jonesboro, N. C. Mar. 29.—LOS
authorities are low of the opi
that Charles Minter got homest
while he was out of work in an
Ohio town and told the Ohio auth
ities that he was wanted in North
Carolina on a murder charge that
was 10 years old.
The Ohio sheriff immediately get
in touch with the North Carolina
officials and in the course of two
days Minter was on its way South
to answer to the charge of muni
in connection with the death of
Thomas Waddell.
Officials now find that consider
able difficulty surrounds their ef
forts to definitely lay the crime of
murder at the door of Minter.
appears to them that Minter has
"worked" them for a trip back home.
Youth Poses As Kin and Wins 'Con' Game
(CAMDEN, Ark. March 1.—A painful tale has been brought to the sheriff's office by Mrs. Lucy Lynn, an aged woman, who says that she has been defrauded of all her money and belongings. She put too much faith in a young man going by the name of Willie Lynn and who said he was her grandson. The man went to the aged woman's home, she says, and told her that he was grandson and that he was living in California. He pictured this western state in glowing terms and finally persuaded the old woman to sell her home place and furniture. She turned over the monsyt o him. He deposited the money in a local bank under the name of Willie Williams. Officers say that later she drew out the money and left. His departure left the aged Aged Mrs Lynn without funds and she appalled to the sheriff for aid in apprehending the man.
Fire Burns Three Homes In Orleans
(By Preston News Service)
NEW ORLEANS, March 29.—Fired originated Wednesday morning in the home of Chedrick Johnson spread to the homes of William McGaskill and John McGaskill caused a loss estimated to exceed $8,500. It is said that the loss was practically covered by insurance.
Fire department officials following a thorough investigation on report that the fire was of undetermined origin.
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‘FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1928
NASHVILLE, Teun, March 29, «
Upole Alex Vaighn Ia'one who does
weet put ny credence in the Osler
‘theory, nor does he believe that men
over thirty are Incapable of Tove.
Saturday morn Uncle Ate,
who fe a mere rip of «lad, and
‘ho bas recently paceed his eighty
fret birthday, appested at the court
Bouse here with Stas Ura Williams,
who Is Just eighteen,
He wocured marriage license and
(2 due time they were "Mr, ad
‘Mrs. Alexander Vaughn.”
Legal Notices
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN: That on
he gor ear of March, 1928, the Bowed ot
Feblie Works of the Chey of Gary. hake
Ggesty tadlane sdopeed DECLARATORY
RESOLUTION NUMBER 6344 for the 16:
FRovenaN? OF LINCOLN ‘sTKEET
SECTION 9, trom the Genter Line of itd
fee JORNSON PERRET, SecriOn 16
from ihe Center Line of 43rd. Avenue
fie, Genter “Line “ol” {6in Avenue. BU:
CHANAN OTREET, SECTION from the
Enter wine of 43rd. Avenue tothe Center
Tineof 4th Avenue. 4aTH AVENUE,
BECTION 1) from the Center Line of
Grant Btreet, to"the Center Line of Bux
chnpao Street. in the oid City of Cary,
by'the constriction thereon of 1 rela:
forced comerete pavement 28" in width In:
Eleding’ ligt or eheet "aaphalt, saphalic
copereie, faa slag or tine basa: or shee
tephaltdephaitic concrete: brick or aod
Bleek gp “concrete, foundation 24° im whith
ith 6 corps: sad ny of the thow'e. Pave:
repte zi gratin with a combined tush
End atta SoC ide tater wih al
Cordance’ with the plant and apecitications
ow oo Mle in the office of the City Howl.
"The Board of Public Works will meet
en, the 16th ay of, April 1825, at "ten
STelock ath. in itn office ih the Gity Hal
ig irecet and hear somonrirances (rom
thetber the tenefite to. the property" te
Bitar apaeneed for ateh, Pnpronzmen
tqgual the eetimated cont thereat and
Yill Sereafter confirm. modity" or reacint
fin Preliminary “Resoladion,
By order of the Hourd of, Public. Works
CHESTER J. DUNN
JOHN At RENN AN
AREY L. ARNOLD
Board ot Dubie Works
ATTEST: ANNA BARNETT, Clerk
home 3s
NOTICE I8 HEREBY GIVEN: That on
the 20th day of March, 1928, the Bourd of
Publie Works of thy Cy of Gary Lake
County, Indiana, adMited DECLARATORY
RESOLUTION NUMBER 6343 for the IM-
PROVEMENT OF BUCHANAN’ STREET,
SECTION 5, trom the Center Line. of Sth
‘Avot fe the Center Line of fut ACen
thereon of a 7” teldfonced ‘concrete pave:
ent on sund foundation 20 and 38" fn
Width or sheet asphalt, sepbaitie concrete
Se agp macadam on sie or none bane
or sheet ‘aepbaltle concrete, bris
ft Sood Blocks Gn concrete foundation st
iy width with «combined curb and mutter
Su" wide:"also ‘6 sidewalk ‘on each ste of
tthe street, towether with ail necessary ap-
Vurteaanecs and ail in secordance with the
lane aud epectficatione ‘now on fie in the
bifize of the City Engineer”
‘The ‘Board of’ Public Works will meet
on ther Téth “day of Apri, 2024, at "ten
Feloek’ a.m, ip ita offlee in the Gy Hal
ig) teeeve ‘and. ear remonateances from
hether the Senefite te the property lin
Sie" torbe masested for such Improvement
wit ‘saaal the estimated cont thereof, and
Wel thereafter confirm, meadicy or reacind
Ral Preliminary “Resolution
‘By ‘order of the Board of Pablie. Works,
CHESTER 3) DUNN
SOHN AY BRENNAN
HARRY 1 ARNOLD
Board of Publle ‘Works
ATTEsT: ANNA BARRETT, Clerk.
Somes
Spee
cond an Publis Weta ue tee ee
Board of Public Works of the City of
Gary, Lake County” Indiana, wil ment om
the an Gay ot April, 1928, inite ctfice I
tbe Gtty “Batt to ‘receive. and’ consider Sida
for the , IMPROVEMENT. OF HOvEY
STREET & OTHERS fo tnld City of Cary
SiN accordance with the biane'and: a3
Eientions pow on filets the office ef" the
Board of Pot Works.
he gout of sald iirovemeat hall be
Une asd Senetited property, Bidders mt
Peretod of tha Beincer's eatimate at
othe a eatimate of the
Sent ot said improvement “which will ‘bs
Yevarned "to. auegeeceatal bidsers, und ts
the waceennfal bidder when a caviraet and
bond'bawe bean executed for the work. Ne
ertified beck” willbe received tn’ tes
fount, than’ Oce Hundred (4100.00) Dol
sere et fa Tenerved to retect any
Sha’ all bide Bide must be on file in the
Hoarty Ottoe of atid City by ten oon
me og the 8th day of hori, i08
By’ order of the Board of Publte Works
‘GRESTER’. DUNN.
SOHN AL BRENNAN
HARRY. ARNOLD
Board ot Public Works
ATTEST: ANNA BARRETT, Clerk
Shomer
een ae aoc
nee wakia Miaka Gn the tate ae
Board of Pablio Works of the City. of
Gary, Lake County, Indiana, will meet on
re Gah day of Ave. 8 itn sie‘
the City “Hail to receive aid" conider: hide
ee the CONSTRUCTION OF istRICT
SEwak No. 16 in sald City of Gary. al
in necordance ‘with (he plant und specifi:
satlone now son fle. in the ‘office ef the
Soard of Public Works.
‘The Gost of sald improvement, shall he
aasensed ms ‘apceial henetita othe abut
fine aad benefitted property. Bidders must
Ble aveertified. cheek for at lease 21
percent of the Engineer's estimate ‘of the
Ect Of sald improvement which will he
Fpinmmed to) untcercef iors, ott
Sond’ have been execuled for the work. "No
Gertified check’ willy be received. jn)’ tran
Smount chan’ One Hundeed (4100.00) Dole
Gira "The ight ie renerved to reject nny
tnd’ all Wide." Bide must be on file In the
Board's Office of anid City by tem 'elock
Ome om the, 9th May of Apt, 132%
By order of the Heard of Pubic Works,
‘CHESTER J. DUNN
SOUN AY BRENNAN
HARRY. L ARNOLD
Toned of Pubile Works
ATTEST: ANNA BARRETT, Clerk.
Shona
eaiisibn an Goee cn
ard of Public Works of the City of
Board sof Fable Werks ‘of the Cliy
the “dnd day of April. 182%, In. ite office
ie un a eae
ene ie butte Bh MEY
i irene tata Ear dee
bo cea das
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te ahi Be
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BO tea ats
foe eens aes
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dhaktee ieee iene
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ict cli pee, ate
Berea ieee
SP Remener eatin ee
or"sald Improvemeny which wile retoraed
feenful bidder when a contract and bond
Rave been excented or the. work. No' ters
Btied ‘cheek will be received ins lene
amount than One Hundred ($100.00), Dole
Sed all Bae Bide uses om Fe in IRE
Board's Otfice of anid City by tea o'elock
sme on the 2nd day of Atl, 1925.
BY order’ of the Moatd ot Public Work.
CHESTER. J. DUNN
SOUR AY DRENNAN
WAwRY 1 AWNOLD.
BOARD OF DUH: IG WORKS,
Artest: ANNA BARRETT, CLERK.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
NOTICE 1S HERFIY CISEN: That on
the teh day. of Mareh, 1928, ihe) Board
of Pubite, Warks of the tiiy af Gary, Lace
County, Iodine, ndcpied DECLARATORY
RESOLUTION NUMUEW 302 for the TM~
PROVEMENT OF TWENTY-FibeHt AVE:
NUE, SECTION &, from Ihe Center Line
ot Hinerioon ‘Sitect (othe Center Line of
Grant rect. in the nal Cy of Gary. By
the Uonavrarijon therton of @ coment car
tnd Ceutter. twomtyctoar, inchen 21) in
‘icin and a puvement tbirep-five (88)
Foot in" width, toin seventeen feet. six
inch (AF iG) lon'each aide ot ah ight
sen foot (18) macstam ‘center “atriny to
BS" conatedsted fersunder, with a "wearing
farjace ‘of one of the. folowing” kinds of
fmodern ety "pavements, ail on ‘onerate
Been atiet, aphais nephaltie coneretss
Brick of wood Block: oft reinforeed. on:
crete Pavement. thlriyetive feet. (38'). fy
width, being "seventcen fort ain. inchen
Tits") om each aide of n center strip to
Ne" paved "with woscadam hereunder, to.
Seuner with” sidewsika five” feet (5) “th
Sidth' where necersury. an all the (socos”
tary catch basins, pulier inlets, and’ other
urtenancer, and all th accordance wich
the plans. and tbecifications for said "ime
Pike Board of Public Works will mect
on. the Sth. day of April, "1928" at "ean
prelock a.m. Mts office in the City Hill
tor recelve aid Roar remenstrancey from-all
persone intorested and will decide whether
ihe" Renita ta the. propery ible to oe
ussensed for tach improccmon’ will saul
the tetimated cost thereof, nnd will there-
ifter ‘confirm. modify. or xescing its Prec
Himinasy” Hesgtation
By order of the Hoard of Pubile Works:
CHESTER J) DUNN
SOUR AL URENNAN
HAPRY. L ARNOLD
ROAMD OF PUBLIC WORKS,
ATTEST: ANNA BARRETT, CLERK,
pase
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN: That on
tho tbth day ot Murch, 1928. the Board
at rable Wants of the Citylof Gary. Uns
Goanty, indians, adopted VECLARATOR,
RESOLUTION NUMMER. 6384 for the
IMPROVEMENT OF" FIERCE. STREET.
SECTION ®, fram the North Line of 4rd
Avene ko the uth Line gt Ath Avene
thereon of wpetenicht 28" in width with
fg wearing surface of one of the following
Kini of modern city. pavefentas sheet ats
Piale Saaphalie “concrete, bithullhis “or
ick’ on ‘present ‘pavement "regraded; or
sheet gaphalty mephatvic concrets, brick or
{rood block Gn" concrete foundation’ oF
e"reinforeed "concrete pavement ‘on sand
Foutiation "together with mil necenaney
pparcenances ‘and ll Tn accordance wi
the plane and specifications now on tle in
the bffize ot the Clty" Engineer:
‘ihe Boord ‘of Puviie ‘Works’ will_ meet
on ithe Sth. day of Apel W928) at ep
Sreloek a. min its office in the City Mal
forreeeive amd Rear remonatrancan {rom al
Persone interested and will decide whether
the Bentitss to. the property liable to "be
tteated for auch improvement will equal
The“eetimated cont thereof, and will there-
ffter ‘confirm, ‘modify or rescind ite Pre
Timaoary” Resglution,
By order of the Board of Public Works.
CHESTER J” DUNN
TOuN A) BRERNAN
HARRY Be ARNOLD.
ROAKD OF PUBLIC WORKS.
ATTEST: ANNA BARRETT, CLERK.
eater
NOTICE 18 HEREBY GIVEN: That on
wpe Vais ay at Marek, G02e, the Bowed
SPrpablle Wants of the Cityeat Gary. Late
County, Indiana, adopted DECLARATORY
SGUOE VON NUMER abba Yor he Ta
Bheveuent Vor stipe - SEVENTH
AVENUE! Shoriow ‘from the Center
ee’ of “Broadway. No the Center" ine of
Fidge"Rond Ie aid City of Gacy. hy the
oatraclon thereon afk Pavement 87g
Saathr*Eetsy 18S facinding pon cach
Tas'seSSiM acaaa center sri to be
Tongatectea netsonder wth” swearing
Sorface“eft one the tolgwing Minds af
frecer, ky "pavemenies AU" on ‘cmeree
EEE PS tts: or'Beruintonted con:
EEGs Guvtmone, Noscehee” with liv neers
Skep ebpurtcrasces and al" arcordance
with, the plane and specifications now on
Tile in the office of the Clty. Engineer.
RLar hoagie a
Stock a.'m.. in ite office in the City Hal
SoieSiSa Sal bent ceotattanees tae
Pengaeintreted ah wi dog het
Tet Wenlte So the "propery Uabie toot
ptentel for auch igpravemsent mi saan
Uevetlnatea" Sine REvsoeand ges
tilot'eontens, malty oe resend he es
Tinfnaty” Messiaen
Wo" order of the board ot Publ Works
‘cHisraw 0 BRE
Sous AY alien
HARRY Le ARNO,
GARD OF POBEIC WORKS.
arrest: ARK BARRET®, GLEN
NOTICE 18 MEREBY GIVEM: That he
Board of Hublie Works of the ‘City. of
Besse rahe Coasts" foal wil esto
iene oF Apel NEN, Tain oi
Irene Cits” au Nta rate and Sons
Mast tor She MeROvEMENT OF VT
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HW. anderton wepples 010: eds
Jehprigne Grocer. upnles: > HELE
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CPi Peete Co, tapples: $801
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Peerless Germicide & "Disinfect.
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Albert BIER" Co. Yood wack’: 19880
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cables“ Siedcise & Surgery,
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Standard "Blectrie™" Co, “Shetrie
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JUDGE SMITH
CANDIDATE TO
SUCCEED SELF
At the primary election to be held on May 8, the voters of Lake county will nominate a candidate for Judge of the Criminal Court. I am a candidate for that nomination to succeed myself in this office for another term.
The record and standing of the Criminal court is a matter of gen-
MARTIN J. SMITH
eral knowledge among the citizens of this county. The policy upon which this record rests and is maintained is the fair, firm and fearless administration of public justice in accordance with the laws of this state, free from any other influence except the facts and circumstances in each case, as they are presented. This assures to every person and to society, honest justice and a fair deal based on an honest and correct interpretation of every principle of law governing trials of criminal cases. More than this, no one can ask, and no judge who regards his oath and respects the law, can do anything different than this. The fact that more than seventy-five per cent of the persons tried in the criminal court waive a jury and submit their cases to me for trial without a jury beam: witness to that fact. To all who believe in this policy and wish it to continue, I respectfully submit my candidacy and solicit your earnest and active support.
The duties of this important office which must be performed will not permit me to take the time to call on the voters in person, as I shall continue to discharge the duties of the office during the campaign, but will meet personally as many of my friends and supporters as my limited time will permit. To all of you w. m I will not be able to meet personally I wish to hereby extend my sincere appreciation and thanks for your loyalty and support in the past and again respectfully solicit your active support in my behalf in this campaign.
Respectfully.
respectivity,
MARTIN J. SMITH,
Judge Criminal Court
of Lake County
Yes, He Must Have Had His Eyes Shut
Yes, He Must Have Had His Eyes Shut
(By Preston News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 28—James Pendleton got his fliver from theurb Wednesday morning and drove a girl friend to wr. On the way, thecouple exchanged kisses over a half mile stretch of highway, the machinedoing the shimmy to the queen's taste and narrowly missing severalother cars.
Then the had of the law stepped in and Policeman R. B. Jenkins took the swain before Judge Mattingly in Police court. His honor finedPendleton $25 and warned him to to his kissing elsewhere.
WASHINGTON, March 29—Charged with having robbed twenty-one homes of jewelry worth $5,000. Theodore Crutchfield, a 17-year-old youth, is in jail and penniless.
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Kinky Head Causes Arrest of Bellboy
(By Associated Negro Press)
MONROE, N. C., March 22—Having a "kinky head" caused Jean Polk, a 3°-year-old bell boy at the Monroe hotel to be arrested here Monday morning on a charge of first degree burglary.
The arrest, grew out of the statement of Florence McGinnis that she had been awakened by a burglar in her home early Monday morning. She grappled with him and tried to detain him for the officers, but was unable to do so. The ony mark of identification given was the burglar had "kinky hair" and Polk was arrested. Police found a hat and pair of shoes which they believe to belong to Polk.
YOUTH ADMITS SLAYING CHUM
Boy Confesses Part In the Slaying of Friend In Violent Altercation
(By Associated Negro Press)
WASHINGTON. March 29—Ace
WASHINGTON, March 29 — According to the police, Martin L. Roulac, age 21, has confessed to the murder of Westley Gill, age 24, who was shot to death Saturday night.
The men were engaged in shooting craps when an argument over $1.25 resulted in a fight. Gill was shot through the abdomen four times.
Following the shooting, Roulac made his escape but was arrested in Baltimore as he alighted from a W. B. and A. train there Sunday morning.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" Hailed In London
(By Cable & Associated Negro Press)
LONDON, March 22. — James B. Lowe, star of Carl Laemmle's elaborate production, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which is showing at the London Pavilion in connection with "South Before the War", a great colored ensemble of artists which Lowe heads, is the real sensation of London. Packed audiences greet Lowe at every appearance.
His popularity on the stage is rivalled by that in the social life of this city. Saturday Lowe, with her grace the Countess Lindsay of the Byrnes was the guest of honor at Clapham Drill Hall, a community center for poor children. Lady Simon has taken an unusual interest in the movie star and has asked him to give her facts of inhuman treatment of Negroes in America.
As Jimmie Smith, Lowe's manager puts it when questioned as to when they would leave for the states, "Lowe does not know when he is going to return to America. We have been banqueted in the finest west-end hotels and cafes in London and so far we have not met with any prejudice whatever. Mr. Lowe has been received so cordially on and off the stage."
The newspapers have been unanimous in claiming Lowe's work as really artistic and above criticism.
Quits Legion; Sore Because of Laws
(By Preston News Service)
BOSTON, Mass., March 29.—Brig. Gen. John H. H. Sherburne, war-time commander of Negro artillery units in France, has resigned from the Honorary Society of the American Legion, in protest, he said, against the clause in the national constitution of the organization which prohibited membership of Negro veterans.
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Negro Democrats In New York Accuse Party of Straddling Fence On Question of Negro Delegates At Houston
NEW YORK, March 29—When Dr. Collins, the only Negro delegate to the democratic national convention in 1824, was asked about the position taken by Tammanites on the question of naming a Negro delegate, he said: "I was the only delegate in 1824, but I do not expect to go this year. Judge Olvany and Mr. Ferinand Q. Morton will be able to say whether there will be a Negro delegate."
Civil Service Commissioner F. Q. Morton, Negro Tammany Leader in Harlem would make no comment.
Other Negroes, lesser lights in the Tammany ring were free to voice disapproval of the action taken by the leaders and openly declared that in order to gain the sup;ort of the Ku Klux Klan elements in the south for the presidential nomination of Governor Al Smith, Tammany hall has promised the southernners not to send a Negro delegate to the convention in Houston, Tex.
Mayor Jimmy Walker, Judge Olvany and other prominent white members of Tammany hall are in the south conferring with southern democratic leaders about best steps to take in order to hold the Negro democratic vote. Southern democratic leaders, said to be favorable to the candidacy of Governor Al Smith, it is learned, have notified George E. Brennan, of Chicago, that he must not send Negro delegates to the national convention as it would seriously handicap the interests of Smith through out the South. Brennan is understood to favor the nomination of Governor Smith.
Boy,3, Runs Away from Home, Claim
(By Preston News Service)
BIRMINGHAM, March 23.—Like seasoned veterans of the road, Roy C. Bates, Jr., aged 3 (colored) and and John Melton, aged 5 (white) started out in the world together Wednesday to seek their fortunes.
When an officer accosted the couple and questioned them young Bates said, "Officer, you needn't search me. I didn't got any whiskey and I didn't got any gun." The white boy chimed in, saying "we're looking for a job."
Police then took charge of the little grownups and returned them to their respective anxious parents.
Claim Low Wages Cause Death Rate
(By Preston News Service)
ST. LOUIS, March 29—Death rate figures released by the American Health Association here show that the death rate among Negroes of this city in 1926 was 25 per 1,000 as against 13.49 among the whites. Housing and general living conditions among the poverty stricken Negroes, due to the low wages paid them, was held responsible for the great difference.
The Negro death rate has gradually increased since 1921, when it was 17 per 1,000. The death rate among Negro babies was 115 per 1000 in 1926.
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WOMAN DIES ON AUTO CAR BUS
Washingtonian S u c c u m b s On Way From Visit To Friends, Say
(By Preston News Service)
WASHINGTON, March 29—Mrs. Marry A. Keats, aged 53 years, died suddenly Thursday afternoon while returning in a motor bus from a visit to friends in Virginia, about the time the bus reached the north end of the Key Bridge. Heart failure was given as the cause of death.
Fight Is Waged On Jim Crow Library
NEW YORK, March 22.—Because a western oil magnate, named Humphrey, donated money to the public library in Charleston, West Virginia, with the stipulation that Negroes should not be permitted to use the building, the Charleston school board passed an order recently, excluding Negroes from the building. T. G. Nutter, president of the Charleston branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, informs the national office that he has written a formal letter to the president of the Charleston board of education, pointing out the illegality of the board's action. Mr. Nutter states that unless the board rescinds its action the N. A. A. C. P. will commence legal action to compel it to do so.
Mr. Nutter points out in his letter to the president of the board of education the absurdity of trying to justify the board in using "its power of taxation to establish and support a public library and then permit an insignificant gift to deprive those who are taxed to support the library from the use of the same."
NEGROES WIN DAMAGES
(By Associated Negro Press)
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 29.—Damages to the amount of $750 were awarded to three colored people who were riding in an automobile which was struck by the car of P. E. Stevens, a wealthy white man. The awards were as follows: Miss Alice Brown, whose injuries were most serious, receives $400, Robert Garner, $150, and Milton Allen will collect $200.
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COOK MEETING IN HAMMOND
To set the ball rolling among the people of Hammond, a rousing meeting will be held at St. John A. M. E. Zion church, Hammond, Tuesday night, April 3, in the interest of the candidacy for William W. Cook, candidate for the state legislature.
The meeting will be under the supervision of Dr. Dennis A. Bethea, and a rousing delegation of residents from Gary are expected to travel over to lend their support to the architect's candidacy.
SALARIES INCREASED
(By Associated Negro Press)
RICHMOND, March 29.—Increases in salary were granted elementary and high school teachers at a meeting of the city's school board here Friday night. These increases have been under discussion for sometime and will be effective March 1st.
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JOHN D. GETS PRIZE FOR HIS SERVICE TO US
Multi-Millionaire Given Award for Building Homes for Negroes
(By Preston News Service)
NEW YORK, March 29.—Because of the marked improvement in housing conditions brought about by the clever designing of John D. Rockefeller in the modern apartment houses recently elected by him in New York city for Negroes covering an entire block on the upper West Side, formed the basis for the award.
Thursday night John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was awarded the medal of honor of the New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects for the most outstanding development of apartment house designing in 1927.
For a number of years Mr. Rockefeller made a special study of the housing conditions faced by Negroes living in New York and he conceived an idea whereby modern living conditions could be had for the Negro tenants at a moderate rental. Three years ago he began the project in 1827 the apartments were ready for occupancy and hundreds of Negro families found relief from the exhuberant rentals they had been forced to pay in the past. It is said that Mr. Rockefeller's accomplishment has shown great possibilities and a movement is on foot by other financiers to further aid renters in the metropolis.
Workers Organize Club In New York
NEW YORK, March 22.—A Negro workers' club was formed here Wednesday night with a nucleus of nearly 100 men and women at a meeting in Graham avenue. The danger of war and a comparison between workers' living conditions in the United States and the Soviet Union were the subjects of the short talks made by various speakers.
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NEW ORLEANS—Bishop Robert Elijah Jones celebrates his 66th birthday Sunday, February 19. He has been since 1920 one of the two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Born in Greensboro, N. C., educated at Bennett College and Gammon Theological Seminary, his path to the bishopric lay through years of the S. W. Christian Board, and 16 years as editor of the S. W. Christian Advocate.
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GIRL LOSES IN WISH TO HANG DIXIE SLAYERS
Sheriff Denies Murdered Man's Daughter Right To Spring Death Trap
MERIDIAN, Miss., March 29.
With prayer on their lips asking Divine forgiveness of those who sent them to the gallows, Marion, Walton, and Eugene Haggins, convicted for the killing of J. J. McCarthy, a white man, went to their death here early Friday morning.
The request of Ruth McCarthy daughter of the murdered white man that she be given the privilege of springing the trap which would send the men to their denied by the sheriff, but the girl and two other women friends attended 'the execution.
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BY PAULINE H. BYRD
Mr. Geoffrey Mabone of Chicago
visited Miss Geneva Viscount of 2433
Jefferson street Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Baker of 1236
19th avenue entertained at dinner.
Sunday, Dr. C. E. Hawkins and
Dr. and Mr. O. Jenkins and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Ward of 2652
Jefferson street spent Sunday afternoon in Chicago, Illinois.
Plans are being perfected for the organization of an athletic club with headquarters at the Stewart house.
All young people interested in this movement are invited to attend a meeting. The time will be announced in the next issue of this paper.
The Alma Art club was entertained by Mrs. Bessie Cummings at the lounge of the president, Mrs. Daisey Garnett of 223 Washington street. A very pleasant meeting was enjoyed. A easy box was conducted by the chairman of the program committee, Mrs. Alice Bigga, Mrs. Lena Hurria, Mrs. Evelyn Bates and Mrs. Lillian Barlow were visitors. The hostess served a delicious two-course luncheon. The next meeting of the club will be at the residence of Mrs. McWorther of 2817 Jefferson street. All members are urged to b present. The City federation met Wednesday at Stewart House. The attendance was very good. Plans were completed for a dinner and bazaar to be given at the Blair seat, 2174 Broadway on April 10 and 11. There will be a program each night. The public is cordially invited to this affair, Mrs. Daisey Garnett is president.
The Sunshine Social club was entertained at the home of Mr. Thomas Wells of 1901 Delaware street, Monday night.
After the regular business was carried out the club adjourned for the social period. There were several visitors among whom were Miss Robert Mae Edwards, Mrs. Sybil Portima, Mr. Donald Harris, Mr. House Vincent and Mr. Mahone of Chicago.
A dainty luncheon was served by the host assisted by Miss Eugia Wells.
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The Fifth Ward Civic league will meet in regular monthly meeting Thursday night, at the Roosevelt school. All members, citizens and friends in the Fifth ward are cordially invited. Mr. Thos. Wilson is president.
Household of Bush, No. 5306 most last Tuesday night at the Hod Carriers hall, Twenty-first and Washington street. Mrs. Leona Walls is most noble governor.
The Silver Star club will have a program at the home of Mrs. Raymond Rankins of 2278 Washington street, Friday night, March 30. The public is cordially invited to be present and refreshments will be served. Mrs. Raymond Rankins is
CANDIDATES ARE MANY, CAMPAIGN LACKS E
Primary Race To Be Run By 8, But Contests Lack Much of the Old S
By ALFRED PERRY
A plethora of candidates, but a noticeable and campaign energy, has marked the primal publican party in Lake county thus far, whose fluence is still an unknown quantity and that
A plethora of candidates, but a noticeable lack of enthusiasm and campaign energy, has marked the primary election of the Republican party in Lake county thus far, while the Democratic influence is still an unknown quantity and that organization appears
to lack leadership equal or greater than division of leadership shown in Republican ranks.
With the shadow of state revelations hanging over it and factionalism in almost every city in Lake county, candidates are confronted with a situation that is appalling and can be met only by determined campaigning and proper publicity.
However there appears to be many "willing victims" in the ranks of the Republican organization in Lake county and before the end, May 8, it is quite likely that some strong contenders will develop.
The field appears to be open but many who started have already fallen by the wayide, while others are still coming forward. Hammond and Gary appear to be determined, to put out complete county tickets. While East Chicago is contended to stay out of the fight largely, save for its one contender for re-election, Hazel Groves, treasurer, and thus this village is expected to be the center of a wild campaign for votes.
There seems to be a feeling generally over Indiana that Lake county, which saved the ticket last election, should be represented upon the state ticket.
Otto Fifield, former country treasurer, and well known all over Indiana, will seek nomination for secretary of state at the state convention, and it now appears probable that he will be unopposed.
Attorney L. L. Bomberger, who has been mentioned widely as a candidate for Governor, has announced that in view of the fact that Lake county could probably get only one ticket he would not ap
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The next meeting of the Silver Star club will be April 5 at the residence of Mrs. Beatrice Harrison of 2076 Washington street, first apartment.
United Knights and Ladies of Honor of the World will meet April 3 at Smith's hall. 2293 Washington street. All members are requested to be present as they is business of importance. Mrs. Nellie Matthews is protector.
The American Woodmen will meet at Smith's hall, Wednesday night. April 4. J. D. Smith is commander and Mrs. Irens White is secretary.
Magic City Court, No. 29, Court of Calanifa will meet at Smith's hall, Monday night. April 12. All members are urged to be present. Mrs. Nancy Carter is worthy chancellor.
Emma L. Cherry temple of L. B. P. O. E. of W. met Friday night at the Elk's rest. 2174 Broadway. Mrs. Mary Stokes is daughter ruler.
Mr. James Lewis, W. M. of St. Luke's lodge, No. 43. F. and A. M. announces the regular meeting of the lodge at Hod Carriers hall, Twenty-first and Washington street, Wednesday night. April 4 Thomas Hightower is secretary.
Rev. Byrd, pastor of the St. James A. M. E. church with his choir and congregation will be guests of the First A. M. E. church, Sunday April 1 and 3 p. m.
The object of this meeting is to raise funds for Miss Fredonia Gates one of the contestants in the spring coat contest. The proceeds of this contest will go o the Trustee's building fund.
The public is cordially invited to attend this meeting.
The Interdenominational Ministers alliance will hold their installation service at Trinity Baptist church, April 2nd at 7 p. m. Rev. M. Coleman is pastor.
Devotional service will be conducted by Brother Gaston Bell, captain of the Alabama club and Sister L. Sanders, Introduction of the master of ceremony by Rev. D. H. Byrd. Selection by St. Paul Baptist choir. Scripture lesson by Rev. F. S. Delaney. Prayer by Rev. A. T. Allen. Selection by the choir. Sermon by Rev. David Johnson. Prayer by Rev. W. T. Barnett. Offering by Rev. W. F: Polk and Rev. M. McHenry. Installation of officers by Dr. C. E. Hawkins. Benediction and refreshments.
The public is invited to attend this meeting in large numbers.
The evening was spent in playing cards, after which the hostess served a lovely two course luncheon. There were several visitors present among whom were the Mesdames Nellie Lane, D. W. Turner, R. M. Hedrick, C. L. Carroll, Carrie B. Fuller, Ann Smith, Winbush and Della Davis.
MANY, BUT HACKS ENTHUSIASM
Run By Many On May's Lack Fire and the Old Spirit
ED PERRY
It a noticeable lack of enthusiasm and the primary election of the Rehus far, while the Democratic inity and that organization appears appear on the list of gubernatorial candidates.
It is believed that the decision of Mr. Bomberger will insure Flefield's position on the state ballot.
At least one other well known Lake county man was urged early to be a candidate for Governor, but in view of the unsettled condition of state affairs he refused to let his name be used.
The office of sheriff is, as usual, attemting the largest list of candidates. No one can predict just how
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many will appear in this field before it is closed.
Former county chairman, Joseph B. Kyle, has resigned his position in order to campaign for his nomination for sheriff. He claims to have certain strong influence pledged for his support and is expected to prove a strong contender.
Former Sheriff William ("Hut") Olds, is seeking election to this office again and is making a hard campaign. He claims that if there is no rule any more in Lake county that a man should have two terms, there is no reason why he should not run for a third term after stepping aside for a man two terms.
Deputy Sheriff Henry Reitz of Hammond, is attracting considerable attention by his campaign of dances, social meetings and pledge cards. He claims that he is perfecting an organization that will give him undoubted strength in the primaries.
Putting up a whirlwind fight, Tom Hale, court bailiff of Hammond, is opposing Reitz in his home bailiwick and is getting around over the country in strong style. He is winning considerable support, his friends say.
Bill Bailey, former court bailiff of Gary and well known realtor, has been in the race for a long time and has made many friends, although his campaign is not of the spectacular style.
A recent announcement that caused some surprise and considerable comment was that of Moses Atkins, chief of the police at the Universal Portland Cement plant. Captain Atkins, like many of his opponents has an enviable war record and is considered a highly efficient officer. George Angell, the Indiana Harbor tailor has decided that with a great field he stands as good a chance as any and is putting up a notable fight for the nomination.
There may be many other candidates but we have not heard about them yet, and even some of those enumerated above have not called upon The Gary American for any assistance in their campaign, or for any support in East Chicago-Indiana Harbor.
So far Oliver Starr, prosecuting attorney, who defeated August Bremer for his second term in the election two years ago and must run again now, has not had any opposition listed but there are rumors of a contest and it is quite likely that he will have to fight for his second term.
Mr. Bremer is anxious to, run against Mr. Starr and may do so although the protection of the atter have ulrged him to keep out of the fight in order to et another candidate, formerly associated with him, win without the necessity of a line-up.
There is also talk of another candidate for the office from Hammond, which city seems determined to put a full list of candidates in the field. Some elements that contributed to Mr. Starr's success two years ago may not be with him this time, it is hinted and this would give an opposition candidate some strength. However, Mr. Starr appears not at all alarmed regarding the rumors of opposition but continues in the even tenor of his way in the duties of the prosecutor's office.
But one county judge is to be nominated at this primary and that is the judge of the criminal court, now administered by Martin Smith.
Mr. Smith will, of course, be a candidate for re-election, but at least one candidate will appear in the field against him, it is claimed. That is former City Attorney James A. Patterson of Gary, who for years practiced law in Indiana Harbor.
Mr. Patterson is of the opinion that there is enough dissatisfaction with the criminal court and that he has enough friends and potential friends to secure for him the nomination, it is said.
Judge Smith has not taken official cognizance of any contemptulated opposition and so far has not even appended his own candidacy, which he will probably do in sufficient
Commissioners Bill Linton and Jim Black will both have opposition for renomination according to the stories that have been going the rounds, but who these opponents will be have not been indicated. Both men have made good records and have a host of friends in Lake county who will rally to their support. Opposition must come from their own districts and there will not be any chance of the larger cities providing candidates in this race. The office of county commissioner in Lake county has gradually taken on great importance as the commissioners administer the business of this great and growing business institution. William J. Fulton of Gary is the holdover commissioner who is not compelled to run for re-election at this time. With the election of commissioners is raised the idea of redistrict-
ing the county so that two of them come from the northern end instead of two from the south end as at present. However, there will be no change before this election.
Swift changes have been made in the race for county recorder which has, so far, attracted the greatest interest in the campaign. John Vincent, who was defeated for county commissioner by W. J. Fulton a couple of years ago, has come back strong and is making an intensive campaign for recorder.
Mayor Ed. C. Glover of Crown Point, was chosen by certain powers to oppose Vincent, but a legal technicality arose which caused him to cancel his announcement and other candidates began to take notice.
Roswell O. Johnson, former mayor of Gary, was next to announce, and immediately after his announcement there were other changes. Mary Newlin, township trustee at Gary, who had expected to run, decided no to do so. Then Arnold H. Kunert of Hammond, decided to run. Since then it is hinted that Besiede Ross, of Gary, who made the race once before, may again be a candidate.
It now seems likely that Hazel K. Groves, who has just entered upon his first term as county treasurer, would be unopposed in the primaries. William E. Whistaker, who is also completing his first term as auditor, may be without on opponent.
Both of these men are splendid officials and there is still some regard given to the second term idea in the Republican party, it will be a tribute to them if they manage to go over without having to make a primary fight.
On the township ticket a trustee must be nominated in North township. Eric Lund, present trustee, faces some probable opposition in the coming primary, it is said.
Most of this opposition seems to center in East Chicago, but the number of aspirants here may make the outcome safe for Lund unless a Hammond candidate develops.
Clyde Beldinger of East Chicago is said to have ambitions to succeed Mr. Lund and Mrs. Selma Pawers, police matron of East Chicago has also been making plans toward that end, it is reported.
Candidates will be seeking election, with some necessary changes in the line-up and some other possible changes because of new candidates.
State Senator James J. Neidl, who had been mentioned for Governor, will again seek re-election as senator. Neidl was president protem of the senate last session. State Senator Oliver Holmes, has again announced his candidacy, in which he stated that he would not be candidate for lieutenant governor, as urged, but would be content with his same office again. Opposed to these two gentlemen will be at least one well known figure in Lake county political life. Attorney W. E. Roe, of East Chicago, who has served in the house, has decided upon a promotion for himself and will seek election to the senate, he announces in a formal statement.
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and
WILLIAM FAIRBANKS
in
"One Change in a
Million"
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STARTED by Booker T. Washington 18 years ago, National Negro Health Week has become a significant movement in the lives of members of our race. During the week, Gary will join in, like other wide-awake cities, in sponsoring health programs in the churches and schools.
DR. C. V. DIXON Dentist
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MW ilisg!SHORT ROMANCES OF EVER
i Sane neem, WipOG BET Gyes
M and replaced her gold-
rimmed spectacles.
“It’s pretty hard on an old one like
me to be giving up my home and all
ba furniture, Jim, but 1 s'pose I've
to, With the mf’ shut down, 1
don't have‘any ‘indrey from the stock
I. own,’ - "Pwadn't “mtich, Dut’ tt kept
‘we going.”
iJim, her grandnephew, helped
Miss Tabitha {nto the palpitating
altto.
“Well, cheer up, Aunt Tabitha. 71
tend to everything all right.” The
car lurched over the rutted road.
Jim went on; “I'll stay right through
the auction and see that everything
goes all right. Course it’s hard, and
Ym ag-sorry as you. If I had the
money, you can bet I'd buy it, I'l
Jeave you with Marms, and you can
stay ‘till it’s over.”
Miss Tabitha lamented as they
Passed telegraph poles and fences
}HE dark, eager young man was
T fascinated by the weaving
hands and eloquent lips of
the girl seated or, more Hterally,
Perched, opposite him at the table.
“She's a bird!” he thought awed
ly, “Has filtted all over the world
and born to the purple, too.”
“And now,” Nancy wound up her
travelogue, her moleskin toque
shadowing her thrilling eyes and tip-
Ulted nose, “this old town seems
pretty poky to Aunt Joo and me.”
Feeling pretty poky ‘himself, Jim-
my paid the check, adding a Itberal
tip. Girls of Nancy's calibre didn't
come his way every day. Steve
Bender, a college mate didn’t intro-
dice him to many of his new crowd.
Bteve was riding up in the world.
He hailed a taxi, tucked her into tt
and demanded her address.
“Put me down at Gordon's,” she
decided grantily. “I'm shopping this
stternoon, Jimmy prevailed upon
her to lunch with him again of the
morrow.
Something must be done, he decid-
ed on his way back to the office.
James Arlington Drew must best{r
himself and catch up with the great
Procession, in which the white finger
bf Nancy Fern beckoned.
After a week of expensive lunch-
SRILA
CIRCUS woman's son play
with my Timmy? Never!”
> Mrs Tarr set her lips.
Pe nee ee ene ae
“You're too hard on the boy,” his
grandmother replied. “Of course
he'll play with his next door neigh-
bor. And Alvin seems like a nice lit-
‘Me chap.”
Mrs. Tarr shook her head. “Heaven
knows what things that creature
would teach my little Timmy!”
Grandma knit in discreet silence.
She had been with her daughter long
enough to be a trifle suspicious of
golden-haired Timmy, with his
“angel's face and heavenly voice.
Secretly she hoped he was too good
togbe true. ¢
“There he comes now,” she ob-
served, an obscure satisfaction in
her voice, Mrs, Tarr looked up with
avstartled cry.
“Timmy, precious, whatever has
happened?" she cried.
Timmy wiped an arm across his
FFICER BANGS had traced the
Oo contraband goods as far as
Freetown. From there on he
was stumped. Without success he
had interviewed all suspicious char-
acters in the village and carefully
searched their premises. Still, Off
cer Bangs knew the “stuff” had been
landed in Freetown, so he could not
well give up the chase.
“Get a soap-box, Tim,” he ordered
his deputy, Jocosely but with deter-
mination, “and when the movies let
out next Tuesday night, stand out
in the square and offer a reward for
any information that will lead to the
arrest and conviction of these law-
breakers. This rum-running has got
to be stopped!”
Most of the movie patrons who lis-
tened to the deputy's Jerky little
speech regarded it as an amusing in-
tident—a humorous bit of comedy
trom real life after the rather har-
rowing melodrama they had just
witnessed on the screen. Among
those who took the offer of reward
erlously was the impoverished
‘Widow Ward.
Mrs. Ward was a gaunt, gray
woman—her skin and hair were gray
yom worry and toll, her clothing
wea gray and threadbare, and her
Antiques Are Sold
OT SAO PET STEP IETS
OXI
The Angel Child
__ TRIS IIGNEIS AINE
Plastered with the notice of the im-
pending disaster:
“AUCTION TODAY
RAMBLER ROSE FARM”
“I s'pose I'll ‘get used to being
without it, I was setting store by
laying out some new borders of
‘sweet alyssum and heliotrope along
the ‘front walk, next Spring, and
moving the pink rambler to the trel-
lis over the door. And I was aiming
to give the house a good cleaning. 1
sure will feel Ike a ship without a
rudder.”
‘The little car reeled into Marm's
¢ooryard. Jim's mother Cele at
the shed door, wiping her hands on
an ample apron.
“Whatever do you think! Capt'n
Alden’s house over to Four Corners
burned flat last night, ao Ira Tasker
said, when he left the mail this
morning. Nice house it was, too.”
“Yes,” sympathized Miss Tabitha,
“‘tyas a mighty fine house. 'Tain't
eons, Jimmy was no longer an in-
surance man, but a globe trotter.
He sailed tropic seas in the wake of
& small white shallpp, trailing a sil-
ver rudder fn the shape of a lunch-
eon fork. True, he made calls on
“prospects” during the forenoons.
But the late afternoon found him
penciling whirligigs on the dafly
memo, waiting for the muezzin’s
call, and brushing the desert sand of
failure from his eyes,
‘The odd thing about {t was that
he knew as little of the girl at oye
end of the week as he had-at the fe-
ginning. She simply kept him in
foreign lands, carrying her trav-
elogue with a lake or an ocean, an
Alp or a chasm.
And here she left him—alone In a
chasm. He couldn't invite her again.
His exchequer was flat. The wails
of finance seemed high and slippery
indeed, the insurance business hov-
ering above him lfke a wet blanket
of for. Jimmy was young.
‘Was he in love with her? he asked
Dimself. Hanged if he knew!
At this depressing moment, a
Junfor partner rounded on Jimmy
and “ate him alive.” Tingling with
resentment. Jimmy went forth to
call on “Old Man” Crockett. All the
chaps had labored to sell Silas
mouth, leaving a dark smear, anc
edged away. “Nothing, Mother,” hi
replied, his sweet, clear voice some
what thickened by the loss of «
tooth. His mother caught his arn
in growing horror.
“Who you been fighting, Timmy?"
asked his grandmother with interest,
He shot her a swift side glance
“Alvin and I had—words,” he an-
swered with an intonation so like
his father's that his grandmother
laughed aloud.
Mrs. Tarr colored angrily. “Don't
laugh at him, please, Mother,” she
bexged. “Sweetheart, tell me what
that dreadful boy did to you.”
‘Timmy wriggled from her grasp
“It ain't what he done to me,” he
cried, suddenly forgetting his moth-
er's careful schooling in grammar
“It’s what I done to him!”
“What did you fight about?” Grand-
ma’s interest was genuine.
“He said I couldn't stand on my
life itself was gray and cheerless.
Extra money to her meant a sturdy
pair of shoes upon her tired feet, 1
new hat for Sunday wear, and a
cholce cut of meat once in awhile,
Before retiring that night, Mrs.
Ward made a mental list of the peo-
ple of her acquaintance who might
be guilty of liquor smuggling. Many
of these folks she had known for
years, and there was not one upon
whom she could cast suspicion.
“If there 1s a guilty one in town,
it must be a newcomer,” she re-
flected thoughtfully. ‘The folks in
Freetown are all good, law-abiding
citizens. I wonder if it could pos-
sibly be that girl who moved in
across the street last month? She Is
Such a young and pretty creature, I
hate to think of her as being un-
derhanded. But the papers say that
lady-crooks are getting more com-
mon every day, and the pretty ones
are the most daring.”
Marjorie Harland was indeed a
“young and pretty creature.” Her
manners were those of a patrician,
and her clothes represented the lat-
est ideas of artistic designers, Mrs.
Ward, who loved youth and beauty
often watched her from behind the
shades in her living-room. Secret-
At the Sign of the Geranium
as though he couldn't afford to bufld
another, but as {t was the plac
where he was born, he wanted to set
tle in it after being away most o
his life. You don't have trouble of
your own but what you can always
find someone who has worse. Fven
if T’ have to sell the house, at least
it ain't burned to the ground, I can
ko and look at it once n a while.”
Having uttered this _philophy,
‘Miss Tabitha climbed out of the now
docile auto and warmly embraced
her nfece, who hospitably pushed her
into the house.
Jim cranked the car and returned
to “Rambler Rose Farm.”
There was already a crowd on the
front lawn, some interested, others
merely curious. The auctioneer ar-
rived, nailed a red flag with the
word “Auction” on it to a maple tree,
and followed him into the house,
He tipped his derby at an angle
and jerked his vest down over an ex-
PRALENMARAT UN
ee
Crockett, a “hopeless” prospect wha
wasn't so very old, but made up for
it tigerishly.
It was almost closing time when
he gained admittance to the lair of
the Toughest Proposition. A cold
stare and a grumpy nod greeted him.
But Jimmy wasn’t bothering about
vither, He was gazing, fascinated, at
@ pale finger of sun, receding, like a
gleaming sail, from the expanse of
feacbiue rug.
“Mr. Crockett,” he recklessly mon-
otoned, “you have a young dauchter,
and some day she'll want to travel.
She'll want to see this whole God's
country; to peer down the awesome
canon and take winding trail over
mountain ranges, where \mert-
can eagle screams a welcom.. She'll
want to sail through the Golden
Gate to China, and watch the bare-
foot cooltes loading silks and tea and
rice. She'll climb the crooked streets
of cities, thousands of years old, and
liken { te: temple. pelle: of Auta
head!” cried the boy, and bolted
from the room. .
“Stand on his head!” cried Mrs.
Tarr. “And my son a descendant of
Governor Bradford!” She drew a
deep breath. “Well, now they've
quarrelled, Timmy will give up that
boy.”
“Not till he can stand on his head,”
remarked Grandma, but her daughter
ald not hear.
Timmy mentioned Alvin no more,
and Mrs. Tarr’s fears were lulled. It
was, therefore, with a distinct sense
of shock, two months later, that she
came suddenly upon the two boys in
close converse.
“Timmy,” she called, “I want you.”
The boy came reluctantly. “Don't
forget Greta’s party this afternoon,”
she admonished him. “And Timmy,
you mustn't associate with that boy.
He is not the sort of person we care
to know.”
‘Jimmy's eyes were wide. “But,
ly she adored the, girl as she would
4 daughter, and yet she was forced
to admit that Marjorie did “act
queer” at times. She always sat on
the porch alone and never attended
any of the local social functions. 1
she was the person that Officer Bangs
was after, Mrs, Ward intended to
collect the money before anyone
else had a chance.
‘Then, one day, Mrs. Ward made
what she considered a startling dis-
covery. Trembling with excitement
she hastened to headquarters and
cautiously divulged her information
to Officer: Bangs.
“T've found your rum-runner, Mr
Bangs,” she announced breathlessly.
“It's the girl who lives opposite me!
Every afternoon, at 3 o'clock, she
puts a red geranium in the window
to indicate that the coast 1s clear.
‘This afternoon three men watched
the window until they saw the plant,
then they went in, without knocking.
By Clyde, Weldon
| pansive waistline, while he surveyed
) the furnishings with » practiced eye.
By this time the audience had fol-
t lowed and filled the little house.
| “Now, ladies and ge'm'n; How
} much am I offered? Here's @ fine
antique mahogany low boy—dandy
curved legs, carved feet, original
| brasses,” he glibly recited. “Do I
hear thirty-five? Can't let it go at
that. Who'll give more?”
Competition in biddizg continued
| until $160 had been offered.
“One hundred and fifty!” eried the
auctioneer. Who'll give me one hun-
dred seventy-five?”
‘There was a murmur from the bid-
ders, and then silence. No one was
/ willing to part with this amount.
“One hundred seventy-five,” finally
offered a resonant voice.
“Sold, at one hundred seventy-
five," concluded the auctioneer.
The purchaser was a man with
gray hatr and blue eyes, of kindly
Around. th
Around the. World
round. the. Wor
She'll ride a camel, plowing the she'll tramp the deck and listen to But a
desert sands, and vistt the bazaars snatches of music from the city, need. A
of Indian towns, seated on a swaying while dark ships with yellow ports on the {
elephant—Jupiter! Where am 1,” slip silently by against the Hehts on “Old 1
Rasped Jimmy, inwardly. But the the waterfront. Her ship sails for address,
silence and growing dimness encour- home at midnight—" Jimmy's voice “How
aged him. «died, “Neve
He shamelessly abandoned the un- Suddenly the place seemed to “The:
certain beast with its precious crackle with life. The lights were "No, J
freight and took a long jump to the on. Snapping out of his self-hyp- “Oh, }
“clean, flowered streets of Geneva” nosts, Jimmy confronted a strange “Wher
where ho tellingly lingered. After glare from under bushy brows. The “Righ
Nightly stressing Rome and Venice, eyes were glistening. “what
he moved on to Paris, then London, “She'll need a lot of ready cash Bende
where he breathed quite freely. Here for all that," gasped “Old Man" “You'l
he bolstered his weak narrative com: Crockett. you?” b
siderably. With an odd feeling at the pit of the stric
Nancy had rhapsodied over Lon- his stomach, Jimmy hitched his was squ
don, Hadn't she dabbled her Ily- chair forward and plunged into the friend.
white fingers in the muddy Thames? opening. He emerged with a whack- “Sir lov
Now he had “Daughter” on the ing big policy. Calmer now, he ap- “‘Sis!”
broad Atlantic. praised the rigged man. her awa
“She'll be entranced by the indigo “I'm sound,” growled Crockett. Nancy
sea dashing to white and green .“You certainly look it,” agreed lapel: |
spray on Moro Castle in the harbor Jimmy hastily. However, the doctor where.
of Havana. Under the warm stars, would sound his heart. Seer ties
By Monte Darrell
Mother, I've taught him a lot of
things. He says himself he's im-
Grandma choked. Mrs. Tarr felt
a sudden rush of pride. The little
darling!
“Dearest”—she stroked his yellow
curls—“when you are older I hope
you will do lots of good. But just
now, dear, it might be misunder-
stood.” With loving hands she
clothed a long-suffering Timmy in
brown velvet and ruffles for the
party.
party and Timmy was anxious that
he should be a success. He stepped
in for a word with his grandmother
“Thanks for the cakes, Gram,” he
remembered his birthday, Wish you
were coming today,” he added re-
gretfully.
Sign of tl
‘Mr. Bangs!"
Fifteen minutes later a delegation
composed of Mrs. Ward, Officer
Bangs and his deputy, and two of the
town {dlers (who were looking for
excitement), burst unceremoniously
{nto Marjorie Harland’s kitchen. They
found three young men seated at a
table and Marjorie was serving them
with sandwiches and tea.
“Young lady," said Mr. Bangs, dls-
playing his badge, “you are under ar-
rest. Who are these men you are
entertaining?”
“Why, my husband and brothers,”
answered the astonished girl. “But
I don't understand you."
“You will directly,” continued the
officer. “Is it true that you put a
plant {n your window every after-
noon—as a signal?”
Marjorie laughed, and glanced
nervously toward the front of the
house. ‘Yes, a red geranium,” she
aid, lowering her vote. “You sce, I
mien and had the bearing of one whe
had faced the gale of the sea. It
was Captain Alden, whose homestead
had burned the previous day.
All through the day, he was not to
be outdone in bidding. He became
the owner of it all, including the
house, much to the disappointment
of those who Wanted to buy the love-
Jy antiques, Gradually the gather-
ing dispersed. The auctioneer took
down his flag and departed, leaving
the Captain and Jim slone.
“I reckon this will make me a fine,
comfortable home,” said the captain.
“Well, I do feel it quite a loss on
account of it's being my boyhood
‘home, and all the furniture had been
in the family a long time. I've been
away many years, but now I'd hoped
to settle on the old place. That's
why I was determined to buy every-
thing here—so many antiques simt-
Jar to what I've lost—about the near-
est I can get to replace them.”
she'll tramp the deck and listen to
snatches of music from the city,
while dark ships with yellow ports
slip silently by against the Ights on
the waterfront. Her ship sails for
home at midnight—" Jimmy's voice
died.
Suddenly the place seemed to
crackle with life. The lights were
on. Snapping out of his self-hyp-
nosts, Jimmy confronted a strange
zlare from under bushy brows. The
eyes were glistening.
“She'll need a lot of ready cash
for all that,” gasped “Old Man’
Crockett.
With an odd feeling at the pit of
his stomach, Jimmy hitched his
chair forward and plunged into the
opening. He emerged with a whack-
ing big policy. Calmer now, he ap-
pratsed the rugged man.
“I'm sound,” growled Crockett.
“You certainly look {t.” agreed
MMmmy hastily, However, the doctor
would sound his heart.
‘
ot Grandma pondered over that part.
m- ing sentence, She never asked fo1
confidences. Timmy trusted her, an¢
felt had asked her for a miscellaneous
tle assortment of articles, knowing that
she would provide them without ask-
ow ing for explanations, But something
pe was inthe air today, and she had an
ust inkling that was soon due to find out
er- what those hoys had been up to.
he Greta’s party was about halt over
in when her mother telephoned to Mrs,
he Tarr. “It's a children's party, of
course,” she explained, “but I wish
Al- that you and your mother could come
he over. ‘There's something rather un-
hat usual going on.”
ed She had not exaggerated, as Mrs.
wet Tarr discovered to her horror. The
party, which had begun as the usual
he pink tea, had been taken out of
ou Greta’s hands entirely. Timmy and
‘ou Alvin had captured the center of the
re- floor and were staging a creditable
one-ring circus, Before Mrs. Tarr's
RO ABER EEO
live with my aunt, who is a man-
on hater and won't allow @ man in the
er house. I have recently been married,
he and am afrald that when Auntie
or hears of it she will disinherit me.
1¥ I don't care about losing money; it's
ey what will happen to her when 1
© leave that worries me. She positive-
m ly refuses to hire a companfon.
Auntie takes a nap every afternoon |
8 at 3, and then I signal to my hus-
r- band and brothers, and we discuss
re her welfare and try to make arrange-
ments for my future.”
.” "But" eoneluded the irl, grow-
ut ing angry, “I don't know why I am.
telling you all this—it's no coneern
ne of yours. You have no right to ques-
@ ton me like this; you have no right
r- to be here at all!” '
Suddenly, a winsome old lady, her
ed hungry eyes denoting a life of Afstl-
ne lusfon and sorrow, appeared in the
ne doorway. “Don't you worry about |
.I your old auntie, honey,” she chirped,
“My Aunt Tabitha will be glad to
know that you own it,” said Jim, and
left the captain walking about, look.
ing over bis purchases,
“Tabitha, Oh, yes, Tabitha Fen:
wick, A mighty pretty girl she was
too.” He went on musing. “I can
see her now, fluttering around at the
church festivals. Hm-m, who can
tell now what might have happened
{tI hadnt gone to sea so young?”
The captain emiled.
Jim returned home, satisfied with
the unexpected outcome of the auc-
tion, and glad that he could tell Aunt
‘Tabitha that her home had an appre-
lative owner, only to find his moth-
er much agitated.
“Aunt Tabitha’s gone, and where
I don't know," Marms wrung her
hands. “I went out to feed the hens
and stayed longer than I meant to,
and when I came back sho was gone.
I'm afraid this upset’s too much for
her.”
“Don't worry, she's around here
somewhere,” reassured Jim.
“No, she's not, for I've looked ev-
erywhere,” wailed Marms.
Jim telephoned to the nearest
nelghbors. No one had seen her.
With the sun setting and the cold
dusk dropping over the countryside,
By Joella Johnson
But a doctor was not Jimmy's
need. After some delay he got Steve
on the telephone,
“Old man, let me have Miss Fern’s
address,”
“How come, James, m’boy?"
“Never mind; let me have it."
“The old heart stuff, eh?”
“No, Just @ business matter.”
“Oh, ho! Come along out.”
“Where?”
“Right here.”
“What do you mean?”
Bender had rung off.
“You'll forgive me, old chap, won't
you?” begged Steve Bender later of
the stricken Jimmy. Jimmy's Nancy
was squirming in the arms of his
friend. “However,” Steve went on,
“Sir loves the mystry stuff.”
“Sis!" shoutd Jimmy, snatching
her away from him.
Nancy Fern Bender gasped on his
lapel: “I—I've never travelled any-
where. I--I saw it all in the movien
Steve thought you needed my—my
stratled gaze were three chair:
grouped on top of a table, with Alvi
balanced on them, and above Alvin
his head almost against the ceiling
her angel Timmy.
Mrs. Tarr, shaking with indigna:
tion, turned to her hostess to pro
test, but in the eyes of Greta's moth
er shone only admiration.
“Those boys are so clever,” she
cried. “I'm so glad Timmy persuad
ed me to invite Alvin. We're font
of him already.”
The protest died on Mrs. Tarr's
lips. No use making a fuss here
But to herself she vowed that her
‘Timmy should not suffer one mor
day of contamination from that clr
cus woman's son, whatever Greta’
mother said.
The performance, practiced daily
fn Alvin's barn with painstakins
care, was a huge success, and the
children swarmed excitedly torwaré
when Alvin made his final sweep
ing bow. Timmy, with a aldelons
glance toward his mother, bexan tc
speak hastily, but Alvin turned ox
him with an injured glance.
“I ain't. through yet,” he an.
nounced, and proceeded to conclude
his performance, while his hearers
sat in stunned silence. Such a
By Hazel Courtney
“I've heard your conversation, and
everything's going to be all right—
money and all! If there's one thing
I admire in a person it's spunk, and
you have it, Margie.”
“And, now, she added with consid-
erable fire for one of, her age, “now,
you busybodies, get out of my house
and give us a chance to attend to our
own affairs in peace!”
Mrs. Ward managed to stay after
the others had gone. Her eyes
were misty and she was sorely
ashamed. “I am to blame for all
that happened,” she said brokenly.
“I needed the money so much, and
I was too hasty and thoughtless, I
guess, and I judged you too quickly.
Won't you please forgive me? I am
terribly sorry.”
It was Marjorie’s aunt who an-
awered her. “You needn't be sorry,”
she said kindly, “because you have
really done us all a great service.
You have brought Marjorie and her
Jim was now alarmed himself.
Cranking the already overworked
auto, he went to find Aunt Tabitha.
His searching brought him on the
road to Tabitha’s house. In the
Dlinking Ughts of his car he saw a
dark object. He jerked his brake,
wot out and picked up Aunt Tabitha’s
pathetically flat handbag.
She must have come this way,” he
thought, “Probably couldn't resist
the old place!”
He left the auto and continued to
look for her. Reaching her former
homo, he walked up the front path.
There, through the open window, he
‘saw Captain Alden standing, ailhou-
etted against the light of the ofl
lamp. Miss Tabitha was sitting in
her old rocker, dabbing her eyes
with an Inadequate handkerchief.
‘The captain was speaking:
“Everything {s yours again—the
house and all your beloved antiques.
And, Tabitha, I'm thinking I'm an
antique, so won't you have me, too?”
“Have you evér laughed until you
erted ?”
‘Willfe—“Yes I did this morning.”
“How?”
‘Father stepped on a tack. I
laughed, He saw me. Then I cried.”
‘
+ imagination,” she ended in a wall.
fo “He's blamed right well, I did,”
kasped Jimmy in turn, then en-
'S wrapped her.
“In her heart sound?” asked Steve,
sardonically, as an elderly woman
entered and stood aghast. “Don't
worry, Aunt Jo,” he continued,
“Jimmy's just talking business.”
Jimmy setzed this second opening
‘assuring himself of Nancy for life,
Sald the mistress to the new sery-
ant who sang at early morn:
‘t “Jane, I wish you would not sing
ot that frivolous song any more,”
Y “Bless your heart, ma'am,” replied
8 Jane, “it ain't frivolous. That's
A, what I cook the eggs by—two verses
for soft and four for hard.”
5 2 :
“I can't use your play, sir. It's
is too long for the stage.”
y- Amateur Playwright—“But, I say
8. —-aw-look where—aw! Can't yor
y lengthen the stage, you know?”
smooth and lurid flow of profanity
had never before been heard by th
guests, And Alvin spoke with prid
in his accomplishment, as if he ha¢
spent hours in learning his lessor
‘and had it letter pertect.
Mrs. ‘Tarr rose grimly, triumph a
last in her eye. This settled it,
“Come home, Timmy,” she said
authoritatively, “and try to forge
those terrible words.” Sho colldly
ignored the rest of the assembly,
Of the company, Alvin alone was
at ease, and he laughed aloud now,
“Terrible? Say, Mrs. Tarr, that's
nothing at all. Timmy's saving up
the best words to teach me after I
show him my trapeze stunts.”
“I ought to have something to say
about the expenditure in this house,”
said the angry husband. “I make the
money—don't 12"
“Yes,” retorted his wife. “You
make the money; but, remember, I
make tt stretch!”
Tn front of a dark house he
stopped his ear to light his pipe. Two
strange men camo out and loaded in
A case of bottled goods. “Now get
away quick,” they whispered. So he
did.
My
f
i
eal]
husband together, and you have also
made a seifish, unreasonable old
Woman seo things in a new . light!
And, furthermore, 11. need someone
to care for me after Margie goes,
and If you would like to come over,
you need never worry about money
Again. Is ft a bargain?”
The photographer was taking a
Picture of newly-engaged pair, and
there was some difficulty in getting
the right expression,
“To strained,” he sald, “too
strained. Don’t think of each other
all the time. Just look pleasant.”
“Did you see the pleased expres-
sion on Mrs, Brown's face when I
told her she doesn't look any older
than her daughter?" asked Mr.
Jones, after the reception.
“No,” sald Mrs. Jones; “I was
looking at the expression on her
daughter's face.”
Certain
Signs
By Claire Wesson
IDN'T I say ft was going ta
storm?” Seth watched the
few white Milica | Goniins
wae } hon cen one ee
was,” he added, an his wite, tntent om
frying doughnuts, made no comment,
“ ‘twas the last Friday in the month,
and I told you what to expect, Thal
shows all your old radio knows about
at"
Placing the last doughnut carefully
among the others to drain on the
brown paper in the pan, his wife
looked out the window to appraise
the weather for herself.
“Tain't storming much,” she said.
“Besides, the radio didn't say it
wouldn't. He just sald ‘increasing
cloudiness and warmer."
“Warmer—uhi" the olf man
chuckled deristvely, “warmer, and
it’s snowing!”
“Look here, Pa"—his wife shook
her head disapprovingly—“don't it
always up and get warmer before ft
‘snows, after a cold snap like we've
just had? Besides, you never say
anything when the radio's right,
and ‘tis, most times, Everybody
makes some mistakes. You wat
mighty proud when John had tt set
up for us 'n we heard his vetca
And tonight he's going to speal
again.” She took a white envelope
from her pocket and handed it to her
husband. “You were out in the barn
when it came.”
Tho old man, whose son had ifved
to walk in high places, opened the
envelope eagerly. He had finally
grown to like the radio because i
enabled him to hear his boy's votes,
Yet, having waged a battle with Na«
ture all his life, he was rather opin
fonated. His years of struggle with
the soll had made him distrustful of
the weather. He did not enjoy hay-
ing his prophecies turn out wrong.
Hence the hint of triumph in his
voice as, having read John's letter
carofully, he glanced out the window
and exclaimed, “There, Marthy, jest
look now.”
“I ucss you're right, Pa," she ad-
mitted with a sigh.
Seth's eyes moved from the storm
outside to his wife's figure in the
window, rigid in the effort to, con-
trol her grief and. disappotritment.
‘The triumph faded from his eyes.
The correctness of his prediction
was leaving a bitter taste,
“Marthy,” he safd, quite humbly,
“don't worry. You know everybody
—I—make mistakes sometimes, Re
member that big storm last Summer
in hayin’? I eald—'n we never got a
drop of rain, we were just on the
fringe—" His volce quavered slightly,
Seth watched the snow piling about
the shed door in the afternoon as he
chopped wood. Several trips to the
house were merely excuses to
glimpse his wife's face as she sat
near the radio with her mending
Once he was sure he had seen tears
For a few moments after that he
chopped savagely. Finally he reach.
for the snow shovel hanging on a
nail and shovelled a path from the
house to the barn. The snow was
not deep yet.
He stepped through a small door
cut in the larger one and entered the
barn, The sweet fragrance’ of hay,
the soft lowing of his cattle always
filled his farmer's heart with delight.
Today he beeded neither. His fore-
head was creased in deep Inee of
care. Climbing a ladder into the
loft, he walked toward a small win-
dow and looked in the direction of
the house, Suddenly his expres-
sion changed: to one of relief.
“Sure’s preachin’" he murmured,
joyfully, “the smoke's going strafght
up from the chimney.” After a few
minutes he returned to the ground,
inhaling the sweetness of the hay
happily as he fed his cattle. “I')
bide my time, though,” he continue:
to himself. “Don't want to raise
poor Marthy’s hopes too high. Seem:
like all signs fail sometimes.”
After supper he stood for nearly
half an hour and watched appre:
hensively out of the window. Sud
denly he left the kitchen and wen
into the sitting room where his wife
sat near the radio, crocheting, now
and again glancing at the clock on
the mantle. Seth picked up the two
pairs of headphones from the stand
“Stars are shining, Marthy," be
said quietly, passing a pair to her,
His wife started and the color flew
into her cheeks.
“Oh, Pa, you was right, after all
‘n now the storm’s over.”
And in the little house by the
country road, while the world list-
ened in, the old couple with proud
and loving hearts heard thelr boy's
voice.
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A NEW LITERARY TYPE
Speaking at the City club in Chicago last Monday, Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, editor of The Crisis magazine, told a large group of book lovers that a new type of Negro, undiscovered by writers and novelists, has yet to find a way into books and novels on current Negro life.
In his speech to the assemblage, the eminent editor declared that white writers don't know much about this type, and are compelled, therefore, to confine themselves to drawing characters which are not representative of the Negro race. He mentioned the types who frequent cabarets, slums, and dens of vice and iniquity, as the type exploited at present, while the well-to-do middle-class is never pictured in contemporary Negro fiction.
"There remains," he said, "a stratum of Negro life which has been discovered, but that is about all. The professional and business man, and the middle class Negro who is not a gambler and a thief is rarely dealt with in the white man's literature of the Negro."
In literature, as in everything else, the Negro has had his worst faults, foibles and stupidities portrayed and exaggerated, while his better side and nature have been systematically ignored and disregarded. This tendency has been a strong one in American letters since Thomas Dixon wrote "The Leopard's Spots" and "The Klansman." It is being continued today in the short-stories of Octavius Roy Cohen and the novels of Carl Van Vetchen.
American writers are prone to select the worst types of colored people as characters in books, and plays and novels, and it is only now and then that one can witness a sympathetic and really representative portrayal of Negro life from the pen of a white writer. This is mostly because white writers have been too busy to go into the circles of the better class of Negroes for material.
The cases of VanVetchen and Octavius Roy Cohen are cases in point. The former, to draw types for his novel, "Nigger Heaven," frequented New York black and tan cabarets; the latter, in quest for material for short-stories, visits the slums of the black belt of Birmingham.
In such environments, how can American writers, who seek to portray Negro life in literature, ever expect to find the really representative type of Negro! One would do just as well as to go into a Jewish market in quest of hammer or into a Mexican cantina in search for oysters as to expect to find the better element of the Negro race within the portals of dens of idleness and vice.
But, if American writers will seek admission into the circles of the better class of Negroes, they will most certainly discover the elusive, though representative type, which the Crisis editor had in mind.
DR. DELANEY ENDS HIS TERM
The eighth year in fruitful labors in Gary of Dr. Frank S. Delaney, pastor of Trinity M. E. church, will end this week, and the final chapter in a period of marked achievement in community building by an individual will be written.
Community building is what Dr. Delaney has accomplished during his residence in Gary. By his influence as a Christian leader and by his efforts as a social worker, he has been instrumental in the promotion of the welfare and happiness of unnumbered thousands.
Not only has he been an important factor in helping those of his own race, but he has contributed much to the development of greater good will and harmony between both races of the city.
Among his achievements may be mentioned the payment of all indebtedness on Stewart Settlement House, which is sufficient alone to make everyone wish to have him returned to Gary to carry on his work. Dr. Delaney has earned the respect and admiration of many, who will no doubt seek his reappointment here for another year.
NEGRO HEALTH WEEK
Thanks to the splendid program worked out by the Noonday Business club, Negro Health Week, from April 1 to April 8, is to be variously observed in Gary. According to announcements, the observance of Health Week will be carried on in the schools, churches and public forums of the community.
Speakers will address school children and parents on the theme of "Good Health" and warnings will be sounded from many pulpits to take better care of the body in the attainment of perfect health.
The celebration of Health Week, although started by the late Dr. Washington, eighteen years ago, is just now receiving the attention it deserves.
In its broad aspects and implications, Negro Health Week will prove an earmous factor in the promotion of good health for the race. Most of the maladies and diseases peculiar to the Negro are not hereditary, but environmental.
Each year, tuberculosis, typhoid fever, pneumonia and influenza take heavy toll of lives, and deplete the population of the colored race. Bad housing conditions, unemployment and other factors play the major parts in causing these; and it is up to our doctors and medical advisors to contribute to a decline through the city-wide observation of Negro Health Week.
Let everyone join in to make the week a week of prayer, study and admonition along the lines of better health.
Editorial of the Day
AMERICAN NEGROES AND LIBERIA
(Chicago Tribune)
Arthur Sewell, a Negro of Chicago, recently visited Liberia, the Negro republic on the African west coast. He had gone there in the belief that the solution of the race problem in America lay in the return of his people to Africa. An interview with him disclosed his disappointment. He found Liberia primitive not only materially but also in the structure of its society. Slavery, he found, had been left behind there, but not far behind.
Mr. Sewell's testimony must be discouraging to those who have cherished the notion that a solution of the race problem in America is at hand at any time the Negro people choose to take advantage of it. Colonization seems to offer much, but in reality it offers little or nothing. The Negro population of the United States does not want to move to Africa. It never did, even in the days of slavery.
The American Colonization society began sending free Negroes from the United States to Liberia as early as 1820. In the next twenty-five years only 4,500 colonists could be found who would leave the United States for Liberia, where they could hope for equality as well as liberty. Currently it is estimated that in a total Liberian population exceeding 1,500,000, only 20,000 are colonists or the descendants of colonists from America. There are at least ten times that many Negroes in Chicago.
The fact must be faced that the Negro population of America is here and is going to stay here, and with it the Negro problem, because the lot of the American Negro, though it leaves much to be desired, is preferable to anything, else he is likely to find elsewhere. He is securely rooted in America and to talk of his "return" to Africa as if he had just arrived is mere sentimentality. It is well over a century since the last Negro immigrant from Africa came to our shores. The Negroes of this country rightly pay no attention to those who advise them to move en masse somewhere else. They will not go willingly and the government of the United States has neither the power nor the will to force them to leave.
American Negroes suffer many discriminations. There are many things in this country they may not do, places they may not go, positions they may not hold. The fact must be faced that these discriminations are, for the most part, not being removed. The race problem in America, like many other problems, appears to have no ideal solution and no end. What hope there is in the situation lies in the power of both races to face the facts honestly and with as much good will as they can command. Frankness and good-will will not solve the problem, but can ameliorate some of the symptoms.
HE SHOULD GET IT (Chicago Defender)
President Coolidge has asked congress to increase the salary of the minister to Liberia from $5,000 to $10,000. It should be done with the least possible delay. The American consular service is not the highest salaried department at best, and Liberia, although an important country to America in the protection of her interests in Africa, is lowest on the list. Placed in a position where the greatest tact and diplomacy are required; where it is necessary to watch every movement of European powers interested in Africa without arousing their irre, where it is necessary to be ever on the alert, the minister. William B. Francis, is given the lowest salary paid any American minister. Even the Islands and Central American states are better provided for than is Liberia.
IT HAPPENED IN GEORGIA
(Chicago Evening Post)
It happened in Charlton county, Georgia, a few weeks ago—an extraordinary happening all things considered, and revealing, perhaps, what may be called the new South, a South growing in tolerance, escaping from its prejudices.
There was an election for tax collector, and several candidates, among who was one who suffered from three handicaps—sex, natal geography and religion.
A woman, born and reared in the north, by birth a Catholic, had the courage—or should we call it nerve?—to challenge the traditional sentiments and antipathies of the voters.
And she was elected.
She defeated a man, Georgia-born and protestant.
Some things about this woman candidate and her male opponent may not be disclosed in the dispatch.
Were they known they would perhaps help to explain this remarkable phenomenon, but whatever they may be, the phenomenon would remain remarkable.
Of course, if she had been either one of two other things—Republican or Negro—her case would have hopeless. These are disabilities which are likely to continue for some time to come.
But the South is progressing
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The Neroe Vote In Lake County
By F. L. BROWN
The Negro voters in Lake county have been sold an usual to some of the various candidates for public office, who cannot deliver, never could and never will, until they to deal for the Negro and not themselves as individuals.
If the office seeker, year after year, is satisfied to do this type of individual and he gets stung, they should not the group, but rather the peddler. We will not be whipping line for certain candidates by threats and scares.
The campaign has formally opened and we are going nominate for public office, everything from precinct committees to the highest public office. We are all going to vote ever have to walk to the polls.
We do not propose to be rushed off our feet at the first of the band wagon drums. It is gratifying to go up with a but being with a winner is secondary. To be right is the object. We hope that the winner will be in our gang, but win, lose or draw, our forces are going to be concentrated extent that we are going to elect one of our group to the assembly because we are going to offer the best material we will be delivered only to the candidates that stand best interests, their character, conduct in public office and performances taken carefully into consideration.
The Negro voters in Lake county have been sold again as usual to some of the various candidates for public office, by men who cannot deliver, never could and never will, until they learn to deal for the Negro and not themselves as individuals.
If the office seeker, year after year, is satisfied to deal with this type of individual and he gets stung, they should not blame the group, but rather the peddler. We will not be whipped into line for certain candidates by threats and scares.
The campaign has formally opened and we are going to nominate for public office, everything from precinct committeeman to the highest public office. We are all going to vote even if we have to walk to the polls.
We do not propose to be rushed off our feet at the first sound of the band wagon drums. It is gratifying to go up with a winner, but being with a winner is secondary. To be right is the primary object. We hope that the winner will be in our gang, but gang, win, lose or draw, our forces are going to be concentrated to the extent that we are going to elect one of our group to the general assembly because we are going to offer the best material we have. We will be delivered only to the candidates that stand for the best interests, their character, conduct in public office and past performances taken carefully into consideration. We have been sold, but we still hold the bill of sale.
Views and Reviews By Glenn Frank
President of the University of Wisconsin
(EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first of a series of Articles to be written by the author. The first article is the president of the University of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank was formerly editor of The University of Wisconsin. He is adjudged one of the most liberal writers and thinkers in America. The of the series will appear next week, and will continue indefinitely thereafter.)
(EDITOR'S NOTE—This is the first of a series of articles to be written exclusively for The American by Dr. Glenn Frank, president of the University of Wisconsin. The author was former editor of the century magazine, and later Scribner. He is adjunct professor at the university where he writes. Second of the series will appear next week, and will continue indefinitely thereafter.)
EDUCATE YOUR MIND
As my son left for college I should like to say this to his religion.
Unless you are a lifeless mass of blood and bone and leg to which you are going a mere mechanism berift of spirit will leave college a changed man.
As my son left for college I should like to say this to him about religion.
Unless you are a lifeless mass of blood and bone and the college to which you are going a mere mechanism berift of spirit, you will leave college a changed man.
I hope you will be reborn for the better.
You may be reborn for the worse.
Just what college will mean for you is unpredictable, and not be guaranteed by the college, because education is a ship in which more depends upon you than upon the college. But of this much you may be sure—all that you take we will, at one time or another, suffer a sort of judgment-day ment. You will find yourself digging about the very four of life. You and your guides in the adventure of learning exploring in even the most sacrosanct quarters of your work a sort of impertinence that is inseparable from the passion to In this reassessment of the issues of life, which genuine implicies, religion cannot be exempt.
You cannot lock your spirit in quarantine for four years you educate your mind. Your religion will feel the same in inquiry and valuation that your politics and your economy feel.
You will hear it said that many students "lose their re in college. I would not, if I were you take this too serious this no one is in position to speak with much conviction or acy. The things of the spirit may elude the ready mathem the statistician, and be wholly missed by the most infernance of modern times—the questionnaire.
You may come to the end of your four years in collec ing cast aside many things commonly labeled religious, and profoundly religious.
You may come to the end of your four years of college elung to all of the things commonly labeled religious and profoundly irreligious.
Just what college will mean for you is unpredictable, and cannot be guaranteed by the college, because education is a partnership in which more depends upon you than upon the college.
But of this much you may be sure—all that you take with you will, at one time or another, suffer a sort of judgment-day assessment. You will find yourself digging about the very foundations of life. You and your guides in the adventure of learning will go exploring in even the most sacrosanct quarters of your world with a sort of impertinence that is inseparable from the passion to know.
In this reassessment of the issues of life, which genuine education implies, religion cannot be exempt.
You cannot lock your spirit in quarantine for four years while you educate your mind. Your religion will feel the same impact of inquiry and valuation that your politics and your economics will feel.
You will hear it said that many students "lose their religion" in college. I would not, if I were you take this too seriously. Of this no one is in position to speak with much conviction or accuracy. The wings of the spirit may elude the ready mathematics of the statistician, and be wholly missed by the most infernal nuisance of modern times—the questionnaire.
You may come to the end of your four years in college, having cast aside many things commonly labeled religious, and still be profoundly religious.
You may come to the end of your four years of college having clung to all of the things commonly labeled religious and still be profoundly irreligious.
Religion is inescapably personal.
"We cannot make a religion for others." Dean Inge has I speak with complete certainty of only on thing—not be able to run away from the personal challenge of it. You may lock your door against it, but it will fly on unseen through the stoutest panel, and perch itself boldly on your table or hide itself in some shy corner of your mind.
"We cannot make a religion for others." Dean Inge has said. I speak with complete certainty of only on thing—you will not be able to run away from the personal challenge of religion. You may lock your door against it, but it will fly on unseen wings through the stoutest panel, and perch itself boldly on your study table or hide itself in some shy corner of your mind.
Are Successful Negroes Selfish?
By DRUSILLA DUNJEE HOUSTON
The questions of the young man writing to The Associated Press are not easily answered; yet we must make the younger generation realize that we are able. Negatively we are their friends but they want positive sympathy. Ground down between the mill stones of injustice and unequal opportunity they need the benefits of our experience and wisdom. As he struggled up in every incidence it was a white man who came to his rescue. Shame on the race.
Lacking funds a few months of graduation, he wrote to organization after organization for a part scholarship, work, or a loan. He had been an honor student. Today he walks the streets of an eastern city begging for work. He writes and asks us why is this indifference in the successful Negro. Marcus Garvey accuses the upper Negro of this same sin. Are successful Negroes callous? Do they ignore the common back man who is climbing too? If this is true, then we will make no permanent progress in this nation.
sixty-five years ago we were thrown out upon the cold world to make a living. All these long years we have been breasting the billows of sharp competition. Thus handicapped it has become the habit of black folk to think of his own pressuring economic needs. Because of this not much development has come to us along philanthropic lines. In spite of this we have a goodly class who will feed orphans and dependants, showing what the race can do.
About the time that the first comfortable Negro homes had been paid for, when charity might have brought us untold blessings in development of soul, it became the fashion in BLACK America to live in big finely finished houses. Added to this came a craze for expensive furniture, costly clothes, automobiles, mostly bought on credit. White people realizing that they could be more happy in the smaller bungalow have moved out and their big houses have fallen into Negro hands. It remains to be seen whether we have been benefitted.
The unthinking types of Negro are grasping after every innovation of the fast failing civilization around us. With his limited wage, he seeks to imitate the life of whites of million dollar income. These successful people of our young questioner are up to their ears with unfulfilled obligations. How can he think of anything but SELF. He has made it impossible to hear or heed his brother's needs. This was why Christ warned us against heaping up worldly goods because they could become a wall between us and our brother and our God.
There is little that is cultural in these changes being made by the New Negro. I know old Negro homes which were less fine but real culture centers. On the walls were MANY books that were read.
No, my dear young man. Negroes are not naturally unsympathetic and unhelpful, but they have snared themselves into imitation of the white man's slavery to style and fashion. For some the lease will not run out in 99 years. The hope of the race now lies in the small groups that have not been caught by these bizarre follies. For the sake of the genius now languishing we MUST build up real culture centers in every community. We must salvage talent and carry these over until they can stand upon a sure practical base.
Mrs. Ella Evans of 2546 Garfield street left Saturday morning for an indefinite stay with her sister Mrs. Mellinda Weston of 344 Pine street, Buffalo, New York.
THE HEALTH QUESTION
By Dennis A. Bethea, M.D.
Health Editor of The American
was in full bloom music had expression of the emotions of my regarded it seriously as a movement was started by Eva light along with fresh air and it was only given a passing of each one of us when the breaking point. If another would snap. At a time like ever, or some familiar record I might say just here that rivers of patent medicines, one of the best exercises that the more deeply, so that the rest corners. Any man or ever fear tuberculosis of the also is helped. During the process a process of rhythmical fits poison-killing secretions, mild toxins are chased out of rest of us, to have to listen continual playing the "blues" only too glad to put up with. When some people are about dled bear. That our churches are getting and turning this part of the noir. They get a great kick listeners. Had been singing on the choir led, continued to sing. Of satisfactory, but he experiicially as he would sing for to worse until the members knew the value of sing-get more work done, but be health and spirit. In the musical organization did medical group. Embedded in the snow-capped the great general shouted to the band began to play, the le while, as if by magic, the mountains into Italy. Magazine, raised the point that good thing. He is of the are no longer wanted on jobs, near us. I would say "No" ever he is—who tells you to see things in the same light, anger" makes two of his char- to say no, when people try man. "I sho' said no! Bible that had black angels
MUSIC AS A TONIC
Ever since the Garden of Eden was in full bloom music is a powerful medium for the expression of the emotions and religion, but we have never regarded it seriously as a builder. Some years ago a movement was started by musicians to place music in a class right along with fresh air, but like many other "isms," it was only given a place.
There comes a time in the life of each one of us when we are keyed up to almost the breaking point. If a man was placed upon us, something would snap. At a time some old melody sung over and over, or some familiar one by victrola, will sooth like a salve. I might say just hereolas have saved more lives than rivers of patent medicine. New people realize that singing is one of the best exercises to take. It causes you to breathe more deeply, so that may be aerated to the furtherest corners. Any man who sings a great deal, need never fear tuberculosis.
Not only the lungs, but the liver also is helped. During mass of singing the liver undergoes a process of rhythmicizing that causes it to pour out its poison-killing secret. Its way, poisonous germs and deadly toxins are chased by a system.
Of course it is rather hard on the rest of us, to have to tune one of your singing or to your continual playing the "blow our victrola, yet your friends are only too glad to put us on, if you will only keep well. When some people are sick, they are cross as a sore headed bear.
It is to be seriously regretted that our churches are gone from the congregational singing, and turning this part of life almost entirely over to the choir. They get a great deal if it, sometimes more so than the listeners.
A man in an eastern village, who had been singing on the so many years that his voice failed, continued to sing, his work became less and less satisfactory, but he ended up a wonderful thrill himself, especially as he would singals. Things went on from bad to worse until the men threaded to have a funeral.
On southern plantations, the planters knew the value of not only that it enabled them to get more work done, but it kept the workers in better health and spirit. His War, it was often said that the musical organization to keep the men fit, than the medical group.
When the army of Napoleon was embedded in the snow-cold, hungry and discouraged, the great general should sing the French Gloria. As the band began to play up the melody, and in a little while, as if by magic was on its final march over the mountains into Italy.
Sountee Oulen, in Opportunity magazine, raised the point colored people have overdone a good thing. He is so on that we sing so much that we are no longer wanted out of that other people dislike to live near us. I would say a capital "N," to any one—whoever he is—who tells us your spirit for music.
But we all cannot be expected to see things in the same way, in his famous book: "The Nigger" makes two of his carry on the following dialogue:
"Black man don't you know how to say no, when people tell you things?" asked the first.
"Yes indeed," answered the second man. "I sho' said man what tried to sell me a Bible that had black
Ever since the Garden of Eden was in full bloom music had been a powerful medium for the expression of the emotions of love and religion, but we have never regarded it seriously as a health builder. Some years ago a movement was started by Eva Veccelius to place music in a class right along with fresh air and dry feet, but like many other "isma," it was only given a passing notice.
There comes a time in the life of each one of us when the nerves are keyed up to almost the breaking point. If another straw was placed upon us, something would snap. At a time like this, some old melody sung over and over, or some familiar record on the victrola, will sooth like a salve. I might say just here that victrolas have saved more lives than rivers of patent medicines.
Few people realize that singing is one of the best exercises that one can take. It causes you to breathe more deeply, so that the lungs may be aerated to the furtherest corners. Any man or woman who sings a great deal, need never fear tuberculosis of the lungs.
Not only the lungs, but the liver also is helped. During the process of singing the liver undergoes a process of rhythmical squeezing that causes it to pour out its poison-killing secretions. In this way, poisonous germs and deadly toxins are chased out of the system.
Of course it is rather hard on the rest of us, to have to listen to some of your singing or to your continual playing the "blues" on your victrola, yet your friends are only too glad to put up with all this, if you will only keep well. When some people are about half sick, they are cross as a sore headed bear.
It is to be seriously regretted that our churches are getting away from the congregational singing, and turning this part of the worship almost entirely over to the choir. They get a great kick out of it, sometimes more so than the listeners.
A man in an eastern village, who had been singing on the choir for so many years that his voice failed, continued to sing. Of course, his work became less and less satisfactory, but he experienced a wonderful thrill himself, especially as he would sing for funerals. Things went on from bad to worse until the members just dreaded to have a funeral.
On southern plantations, the planters knew the value of singing, not only that it enabled them to get more work done, but because it kept the workers in better health and spirit. In the World's War, it was often said that the musical organization did more to keep the men fit, than the medical group.
When the army of Napoleon was embedded in the snow-capped Alps, cold, hungry and discouraged, the great general shouted to the men to sing the French Gloria. As the band began to play, the men took up the melody, and in a little while, as if by magic, the army was on its final march over the mountains into Italy.
Countee Culen, in Opportunity magazine, raised the point that the colored people have overdone a good thing. He is of the opinion that we sing so much that we are no longer wanted on jobs, and that other people dislike to live near us. I would say "No" with a capital "N," to any one—whoever he is—who tells you to quench your spirit for music.
But we all cannot be expected to see things in the same light. Woods, in his famous book: "The Nigger" makes two of his characters carry on the following dialogue:
"Black man don't you know how to say no, when people try to sell you things?" asked the first.
"Yes indeed," answered the second man. "I sho' said no to that man what tried to sell me a Bible that had black angels in it."
DR. DELANEY'S COLUMN By Dr. Frank S. Delaney, Superintendent of Stewart House
DR. DELANEY'S COLUMN By Dr. Frank S. Delaney, Superintendent of Stewart House
Regardless of the boasted patriotism of the American people can be seen connected with the most political maneuver to sign a streak of selfishness. The unwritten law of the native klan, sustains the right or to the spoils," and this condition has prevailed among and at all times. Without victory there can be no without unity there can be no strength and without strength can be no victory. Divided forces on one side and united forces on the other the fate of Waterloo. For complete victory there is unity.
ism of the American people, most political maneuvers and lan, sustains the right of the ion has prevailed among all story there can be no spoil strength and without strength united forces on the other decomplete victory there must
Regardless of the boasted patriotism of the American people, there can be seen connected with the most political maneuvers and campaign a streak of selfishness.
The unwritten law of the native klan, sustains the right of the "victor to the spoils." and this condition has prevailed among all people and at all times. Without victory there can be no spoils and without unity there can be no strength and without strength there can be no victory.
Divided forces on one side and united forces on the other decided the fate of Waterloo. For complete victory there must be unity.
Negroes have been desirous of political victory and the spoils which follow. The charge is that too many Negro, political leaders spring up, the majority of which are incompetent and unsought.
I shall not attempt to tell you who the leaders ought to be, but I do contend that the people should not accept incompetent, self-styled leaders.
This is the only basis upon which we can have unity of action and unity is the only hope of success.
I appeal to the people, every voter of every class, every creed, craft or profession of every religion or business: Rise up, Assert yourselves! Down with the soft oily tongued hypocrites who profess, in your presence, to be working for the good of the race but, who like Dr. Jekle and Mr. Hyde, go into the dark, secret dens of vice and barter the hope of you, your children and your children's children. Down with them and let them return to their own lucrative professions, and let us pledge ourselves anew to the men who have been true to us in the time of our need and who did their duty in both public and private life.
Whoever reads the daily papers of this country, the outstanding magazines, including the Literary Digest, at the time of the recent school difficulties in Gary, will have no trouble in determining where the public places the leaderships of the Negro group in this community. Outstanding editors and public opinion have fixed the badge of our present leadership in accordance with ability and merit.
The Negro at this time must show himself capable, thoughtful, conscientious and courageous in the choice of his leadership and you, the people, must decide where the leadership shall rest.
No self-styled, grafting, would-be leader, should be tolerated at a time so fraught with possibilities.
I appeal to you again. Down with selfish, destructive, unthoughtful, prejudiced, bigoted, cringing, unchristian leadership!