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JAIL PREACHER FOR $40,000 SWINDLE "The Public Be Served" An Independent Weekly Devoted To the Best Interests of All Mrs. Bethune Voices Need For Help In Florida Flood Area FIRST YEAR. NO. 43. BEGIN TASK OF BUILDING BACK HOMES Says the Red Cross Treats Alike Both Black and White By Mary McLEOOD BETHUNE (By Associated Negro Press) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla.—Arriving again in the section where the recent hurricane-storm left such devastation, suffering and death in its wake, I found that first air had been successfully administered to the storm suffers. Memorial services for the dead were held in the white and colored cemeteries of West Palm Beach at three o'clock Sunday—the most impressive ever witnessed by the thousands of people who attended. Our hearts were torn at the sight of the one large mound containing the hundreds of bodies of men, women, and children. Those who had been spared, stood with tear-stained cheeks, wringing their hands, because many of them had lost entire families, or many, many members of their families had been taken. The sadness of this scene fell upon us like a pall. The sorrow and grief were heart-rending. Thousands of people came into West Palm Beach to pay their tribute of love and respect to the heroes who gave us their lives in the turbulent waters of the Everglades, and divided themselves to go, a part to the white cemetery and a part to the colored cemetery. City officials were represented by commissioners at each cemetery. The ceremony for the Negro victims was presided over by Dr. J. H. Thompson, assisted by the ministers of the county. Both white and Negro women placed wreaths of flowers upon the tombs of the unknown dead. Thousands, whose bodies had to be cremated where they fell, and those whose bodies have not yet been delivered from their watery graves, were tenderly and sorrowfully included in the memorial services. Such a service has never been witnessed in the state before. Many have been taken, but we are bowing in submission to the Will of our Father, who does all things well. The spirit of self-help is evident all over the stricken areas. At Jupiter, a Mrs. Ashley, a colored school teacher who has given wonderful service to her people, gave valuable help in the recent catastrophe. The schoolhouse where she taught was destroyed, and her own house and furniture swept away. In this little town also Harvey Boker, a truck grower, although he had his packing house swept away, and his own house moved from its pillars, housed and fed some 25 of his less fortunate neighbors, nine of whom were sick or injured. Kelsey City Worst It is generally felt that the most unsatisfactory place along the line of stricken cities is Kelsey City. The survivors from the storm there were, at first, housed in box cars, but were later released to go back to their shanties at Indian Lumber company. In most instances the 'shanties' were almost demolished, and the mill, having been closed and practically crushed, did not furnish them with work. Therefore they have no funds to rebuild their houses. The water which is being used in this city is not safe; the people have been instructed to boil it, but, in many instances they have no facilities with which to do this. In Pleasant City, the people are being cared for in a school building which is in better condition than any left standing. Finds Fair Play The first stage of the relief work is ended. Hundreds of refugees have been sent to their several friends and homes that have been provided for them over the country. Negro people are being well cared for, by our physicians, nurses, and welfare workers in that area. Able-bodied men are being given work, receiving from $2.50 to $3.00 and $4.00 per day, according to the work they are doing. Women and children are being fed and cared for. Within the next few days, tent colonies will be established in order that the families may be together and perma (Continued on Page Five) The GARY AMERICAN INDIANA'S GREATEST COLORED NEWSPAPER Enters University of Berlin Copyrighted, 1928, by the National Feature Service. When Edward Murrell, Jr. graduated from Ohio State University last fall and told his mother and father he wanted to complete his medical education at the University of Berlin, they just said "yes" and smiled. They smiled again last week when the nineteen-year-old youth wrote back telling them of the splendor and grandeur of it all. Edward is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Murrell, of Cleveland, Ohio. His sojourn at the German "U" will be for a period of four years. Pastor Is Nabbed As "Con" Man DALLAS, Tex.-Rev. L. R. Maye, for many years pastor of the Plymouth Congregational church and head of a day nursery and kindergarten school, has been brought back here from Wilmington, N. C. by police and is being held in jail as one of the heads of a loan company swindle ring which is alleged to have defrauded local colored citizens out of more than $40,000. Two white men, also implicated in the case, are at liberty on bonds of $5,000 awaiting trial. Rev. Maye has confessed to his part in the swindle, explaining also the part taken by the white men. Gives Version According to the minister, one of the white men devoted all of his time to operating the loan agency. The other was a lawyer. Rev. Maye was taken into the firm to aid in making loans to colored people. Because of the prominence of the preacher, he was expected to act as a magnet to the money of colored folk. Forty per cent interest was charged on loans. Through the white men's efforts, Rev. Maye was made a notary public. Then the "get-rich-quick" program was inaugurated. The owners, although operating successfully and at a profit on a small capital, were not satisfied. Accordingly, the three partners got their friends to invest heavily in the business with the prospect of sharing huge profits. Misuse Money The money taken in was not used for loans, but notes were drawn, acknowledged by Rev. Maye as notary public, after which they were used to show as security to those persons who had invested money. When one of the men who had put his money into the loan company went to the offices, demanded some of the interest due him, and failed to get it, he started an investigation. Detective John Henderson, who arrested the minister on the Atlantic coast, said the preacher told him the two white men had ordered him to get out of town. It was only after several weeks work by city detectives that Rev. Maye was found to be in Wilmington. Police have refused to make public the names of any of the Dallas colored folk who were victims of the swindle ring. It is rumored, however, that most of the prominent citizens had invested money in the loan company. HOLD CONTEST OF CHOIRS (By Associated Names, Pruse) MACON, Miss.—A feature of entertainment that is a yearly number on the program of the Noxubee county fair was the contest in singing by the different colored choirs of the county. A packed grandstand heard this interesting contest. The choirs winning were Mt. Moriah first, and Friendship, second. A se parate prize was also won by a quintet made up of Macon singers. MRS. WARD GIVEN LIFE IN PEN FOR MURDER OF HUSBAND IS FIRST GARY WOMAN GIVEN LIFE IN JAIL Lester Brown Also Sentenced for Manslaughter Pleading guilty to second degree murder through her attorney, C. J. Mason, and asking the mercy of the court, Mrs. Anna Ward, 1716 Massachusetts street, was sentenced to life imprisonment by Judge Martin Smith in Crown Point Criminal court Friday. Mrs. Ward is the first Negro woman in Lake county to receive the life sentence for murder, and is the third woman of any race in the county to receive that sentence. While it was at first thought that Mrs. Ward would put up a stiff legal battle, it was learned that she and Attorney Mason had decided to plead guilty to the charge. State's Attorney Oliver Starr had planned to ask the death penalty. However, Mrs. Ward's plea was accepted by the counsel for the state and the case dispensed with without the formality of a jury trial. Slew Husband It was several months ago that Mrs. Ward shot and killed her husband. Mrs. Ward was jealous of the attentions her husband had showered upon other women. The night before the fatal shooting, the Wards had argued. The wife accused her mate of infidelity. He went to bed while his wife talked. When he swoke the next morning, it was to face a renewal of the argument. His wife was drunk then, it is said. When the domestic altercation became heated, Mrs. Ward got a gun and shot her husband. He died from a bullet wound in the abdomen a few hours after he had been taken to St. Antoine's hospital. Sentence Man Lester Brown, 42, of 2558 Garfield street, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Martin Smith in Crown Point Criminal court to serve from two to 21 years in jail for voluntary manslaughter. He was charged with the killing on August 14 of Andrew Maxwell, preacher-carpenter, in a fit of jealous rage. Brown shot and killed Maxwell as he saw the latter sitting on the front porch of his wife's home. Brown had been estranged from his wife and thought Maxwell was the cause of the alienation of his wife's affections. After the shooting, Brown walked away but was captured later in the evening at the home of his sister, Bertha Harper, at 1825 Madison street. Start Sunday Open Meet At "Y" The first of the Sunday afternoon meetings of the Hunton Branch Y. M. C. A. will open Sunday afternoon, October 14 with an address by H. D. Jones, of the Neighborhood house. Mr. Jones will speak of his trip abroad during the summer and in this connection will use as his principal subject: "Some social problems as I saw them in Europe." Mr. Jones is quite an interesting speaker and his address will have much to attract the attention of his hearers. This meeting, according to Secretary Gordon, will be opened to women. It is the purpose of the committee of management to give to the public from time to time an opportunity to hear eminent speakers with a message and in keeping with this policy, the meeting which begins at 3:30 Sunday will be the first of a series of addresses that will be held every two weeks. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928 INDIANA REPUBLICAN LEADERS Members of the bureau of the Republican state committee, who are rapidly organizing political clubs throughout the state. The photograph shows Mrs. Viola Lewis, secretary; Wm. H. Jackson, member of state speakers' bureau; Mrs. Ida Liston, in charge of work among women; Ernest G. Tidrington, chairman; Ald. A. B. Whitlock of Gary, assistant chairman; Frank R. Bockwilt, speakers' bureau, and Miss Reba Gordon, stenographer. FIND SEGREGATION IN MANY CAPITAL FEDERAL BUREAUS N. A. A. C. P. Lists Jim-Crow Tactics In Six State Departments At Washington; No Separation Found In Three NEW YORK CITY.—A fact-finding survey of the extent of segregation in Washington government bureaus has been completed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, through two investigators, William T. Andrews, special legal assistant, and Walter White, assistant secretary. A summary of their findings, made public today by the N. A. A. C. P., is as follows: The instances of Segregation in various degrees found in the Washington bureaus are summarized as follows: Treasury Department: 30 Negro clerks in Liberty Loan checking division under a Negro section chief segregated in Room 308. Five Negro clerks stating accounts, in Room 341, whites doing same work being assigned elsewhere. CRIME RATE HIGH AMONG GARY NEGRO 213 of 643 Arrests In September of Colored Folk Although Gary's colored population is generally considered to be just slightly more than one sixth of Interior Department: Miss Gretheen McRae, colored stenographer, set apart from stenographic pool. Five Negro clerks grouped at south end of room on fifth floor, white clerks being at the other end. Post Office Department: Preferred routes said to be given to white carriers in Washington city post office, Negroes not assigned to window duty and unable to rise in the service beyond the rating of "Special Clerk." Negroes never made foremen or assistant foremen. Veterans Bureau: 16 Negro clerks in Room 219 under a colored section chief. Government Printing Office: Separate rest rooms and lavatories for white and colored girls, colored girls obliged to go from 4th to 3rd floor, not allowed to use accommodations on 4th floor. Navy Department: White clerks in front. Negroes in rear of Room 3747-3750. Cafeterias in which segregation is practiced are as follows: Bureau of Printing and Engraving: tables in rear of room used solely by Negroes though both races use same steam tables. Government Printing Office: separate steam tables and separate eating tables. Navy Department: Negroes assigned three tables in rear. Cafeterias Operated by Concea- CRIME RATE HIGH AMONG GARY NEGRO 213 of 643 Arrests In September of Colored Folk Although Gary's colored population is generally considered to be just slightly more than one sixth of the city's number of 110,000 inhabitants, one third of the arrests made by the Gary police department during September were those of Negroes. Of a total of 643 arrests, 213 were of Aframericans. The Gary bureau of identification lists 58 different charges that can be placed against those arrested. Negroes were charged with 35 of them. For 14 of these, more Negroes were arrested than any of the other 31 races listed as having committed crimes in September. Fifty Negroes were arrested as suspects. Forty-five were arrested for gambling. There were 25 alleged liquor law violators. For this offence, there were arrested also eight Irish, Polish and Slavish. Eleven Negroes were arrested for maintaining a liquor nuisance. Twenty were charged with drunkenness. There were 12 Irish drunks. Two arrests were made for murder during September. Both of these were colored. Six were charged with assault and battery. Three were charged with carrying concealed weapons. The only three women jailed as prostitutes were of Negro descent. No Negro was charged with robbery, although there were three jailed for larceny and three arrested for disposing of mortgaged property. Announcement of the opening of a branch office in Gary and northern Indiana of the Citizens Life Insurance company of Indiana was made Wednesday by R. W. Chamblee, president of the company, which has its home offices in Indianapolis. C. W. Weber will head the district branch. He has already met out a call for 15 or 20 local young men and women to act as branch representatives and agents here in Gary. So far he has obtained the services of C. H. Hutler, W. C. Howard, and C. L. Baker. Applications will be received in care of THE GARY AMERICAN pending the obtaining of a suitable office here. The Citizens Life Insurance company is the only life insurance company organized under the laws of Indiana. It is a Negro institution. It specializes in industrial life insurance up to $1,000. It gives policies on people from the ages of six months to 60 years. Premiums range from five cents a week on up. Mr. Chamblee, president, has had wide experience in the insurance field, having followed that line of work for 20 years. He was at one time vice-president and general manager of the Atlanta Life Insurance company of Atlanta, Ga., and executive vice-president of the Century Life Insurance company of Little Rock, Ark., before organizing the company he is now connected with. Atty. Guy Conducts A Legal Column Milton W. Guy, well known attorney and justice of the peace, living in East Chicago, Ind., has consented to conduct a column of legal advice for the readers of THE GARY AMERICAN. As a lawyer, Mr. Guy has been quite successful and is considered to be qualified as an adviser. Said Attorney Guy, "Legal columns in colored newspapers are something that is very much needed among our people. I shall be more than willing to conduct such a department." Lawyer Guy will answer, through the columns of THE AMERICAN those legal questions the readers and those interested send by mail to him. No fee will be charged. Mail should be addressed in care of THE GARY AMERICAN, 7 East 19th street, Gary, Ind. SWIND Why We Support Hoover Be not dismayed by the reports of ranks and going Democratic. Negroes rely for the Democrats and a few of them and voting the straight Republican option. Politics is a way of earning folk. Pew Negroes are real Democrats. John McCutcheon's cartoon Wednesday the Chicago Tribune gave one of the publican in the face of so much bad title, "Not Likely to Desert." Two signs which bears the legend, "The R. Negro voters the full rights are another legend: "The Democratic Negroes in the exercise of their citizenship"—and yet the Democrats try to persuade and vote for them!" As individuals we are morally ticket in the November elections. We true that the treatment accorded black administrations has been deplorable offer? They ask the black voters to accept original thought in his political life. Permit Negro Harlem to have a Negro let down—so that foreigners or jobs now by black men. He wages will be lowered, as it was taken to the United States' entry into the diplomacy. In his speech two weeks as a nigger in the wood-pile. They ask the black voters to accept Robinson despises all Negroes. He can be disfranchised. He refused to vote because he said it would "enfranchise" He fought with all his might and so the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. As victim of the senate, a powerful position the end of his term, we would have lost office of the land. Yet the Democrat. The Democrats, as a party, could control of Southern boobs whose number Negroes instead of naming rule, would face the Nordic supreme Blessed Heffin, and all that bunch of We do not sanction the recent in the Negro. We do not claim that I treated the black man as he should, the Negro still owes a debt to the '60's. We can also see the strategy on the presidential issue when the in southern Democrats is so clear cut a leser of two exills. Furthermore, Hoover as a manifications than does Al Smith. Smith has depended entirely on Tammany. While Al was running errands for the ing into affairs of both national and upon affairs of the day is sane, balance Prosperity has come to be consistent—both big and little—is for Hoover tariff and his opposition to unrest future national prosperity if elected Negro. What Hoover accomplishes with his broad humanitarianism and lenis, will be accomplished for the N of this nation. Hoover is opposed to tion it because the lynchings are healed Again we say vote for Hoover. Al Smith with Arkansas Joe Robinson. REENACT SLAVERY LINCOLN, D demayed by the reports of black men deserting begging Democratic. Negroes have a habit of work countryside and a few of their dollars, then go straight Republican ticket. November 6 w wishes is a way of earning bread and butter the negroes are real Democrats. Butchson's cartoon Wednesday morning on the tribune gave one of the reasons why black people face of so much ballyhoo from Democra- tics likely to Desert." Two African Americans are shot the legend, "The Republican North has a servers the full rights and privileges of citi- gend: "The Democratic South has always exercise of their citizenship." Says one Negro Democrats try to persuade us to DESERT them!" We are morally bound to support the November elections. We cannot logically do treatment accorded black voters by the Hardi- s has been deplorable. But what have th the black voters to accept Al Smith, who ha bout in his political life. Recently in New York Harlem to have a Negro judge. He wants so that foreigners can come in freely and by black men. He wants a low tariff, will lowered, as it was threatened in 1917 by W. W. State's entry into the Weird War. He has his speech two weeks ago in Oklahoma City, wood-pile." The black voters to accept Senator Joe Robin- dies all Negroes. He comes from a state whe need. He refused to vote for the passage of it would "enfranchise 300,000 black wench in all his night and so far has been success Lynching Bill. As vice-president, Robinson mate, a powerful position. Should Smith be term, we would have a Negro-hating Arkan- e land. Yet the Democrats ask to usc acrats, as a party, could give us nothing. The Northern boobs whose thoughts are pro-em- as instead of naming them. The country, in once the Nordic supremacy policies that are and all that bunch of flies-minded Democra- tics sanction the recent treatment by the Rep- sident do not claim that Hoover, as an individual cook man as he should. We would be the last owes a debt to the G.O.P. for what Lincoln also see the strategy of the Negro splitting initial issue when the line between northern cracers is so clear cut and definite. We believ levels. Here, Hoover as a man possesses unquestion- able Al Smith. Smith has been governor of doors on Tammy Hall to make his durning errands for the Tammy Tiger. He is of both national and world wide signific of the day is sane, balanced, and not machi- has come to be considered a Republican and little—is for Hoover. His pledge to un- opposition to unrestricted immigration are prosperity if elected. This should be of th Hoover accomplishes for the nation as its humanitarianism and his keen insight into accomplished for the Negro as an integral, Hoover is opposed to mob law. The Democ the lynchings are held in Democratic terris say vote for Hoover. He is a better man for Arkansas Joe Robinson. CT SLAVERY DEBATE LINCOLN, DOUGLAS AT Be not dismayed by the reports of black men deserting the Republican ranks and going Democratic. Negroes have a habit of working strenuously for the Democrats and a few of their dollars, then going to the polls and voting the straight Republican ticket. November 6 will prove no exception. Politics is a way of earning bread and butter to many colored folk. Few Negroes are real Democrats. John McCutcheon's cartoon Wednesday morning on the front page of the Chicago Tribune gave one of the reasons why black men remain Republican in the face of so much ballyhoo from Democratic camps. It is titled, "Not Likely to Desert." Two Aframericans are shown gazing at a sign which bears the legend, "The Republican North has always accorded the Negro voters the full rights and privileges of citizenship." Below is another legend: "The Democratic South has always restricted the Negroes in the exercise of their citizenship." Says one Negro to the other, "and yet the Democrats try to persuade us to DESERT the Republicans and vote for them." As individuals we are morally bound to support the Hoover-Curtis ticket in the November elections. We cannot logically do otherwise. It is true that the treatment accorded black voices by the Harding and Collidge administrations has been deplorable. But what have the Democrats to offer? They ask he black voters to accept Al Smith, who has never had an original thought in his political life. Recently in New York he refused to permit Negro Harlem to have a Negro judge. He wants the immigration bars let down—so that foreigners can come in freely and take away the jobs now held by black men. He wants a low tariff, which means that wages will be lowered, as it was threatened in 1917 by Wilson just prior to the United States' entry into the World War. He has neither tact nor diplomacy. In his speech two weeks ago in Oklahoma City, he said, "there's a nigger in the wood-pile." They ask the black voters to accept Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas. Robinson despises all Negroes. He comes from a state where black citizens are disfranchised. He refused to vote for the passage of Amendment 19, because he said it would "enfranchise 300,000 black women in Arkansas." He fought with all his might and so far has been successful in defeating the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill. As vice-president, Robinson would be chairman of the senate, a powerful position. Should Smith he removed before the end of his term, we would have a Negro-hating Arkman in the highest office of the land. Yet the Democrats ask us to accept him. The Democrats, as a party, could give us nothing. They are under the control of Southern boobs whose thoughts are pre-emancipation. They number Negroes instead of naming them. The country, under Democratic rule, would face the Nordic supremacy policies that are a part of Cole Blease Hefflin, and all that bunch of free-minded Democratic statesmen." We do not sanction the recent treatment by the Republican party of the Negro. We do not claim that Hoover, as an individual, has always treated the black man as he should. We would be the last one to say that the Negro still owes a debt to the G.O.P. for what Lincoln did back in the '60s. We can also see the strategy of the Negro splitting his vote—but not on the presidential issue when the line between northern Republicans and southern Democrats is so clear cut and definite. We believe Hoover is the lesser of two evils. Furthermore, Hoover as a man processes unquestionably more qualifications than does Al Smith. Smith has been governor of New York and has depended entirely on Tammany Hall to make his decision for him. While Al was running errands for the Tammany Tiger, Hoover was delving into affairs of both national and world significance. His outlook upon affairs of the day is sane, balanced, and not machine-made. Prosperity has come to be considered a Republican by-product Business—both big and little—is for Hoover. His pledge to uphold the G.O.P. tariff and his opposition to unrestricted immigration are guarantees of future national prosperity if elected. This should be of interest to every Negro. What Hoover accomplishes for the nation as its chief executive, with his broad humanitarianism and his keen insight into economic problems, will be accomplished for the Negro as an integral, indissoluble part of this nation. Hoover is opposed to mob law. The Democrats must sanction it because the lynchings are held in Democratic territory. Again we say vote for Hoover. He is a better man for president than Al Smith with Arkansas Joe Robinson. REENACT SLAVERY DEBATE OF LINCOLN, DOUGLAS AT KNOX GALESBURG, III.—Stephen A. Douglas, the little giant with the big voice, and Abraham Lincoln, marked by destiny to be immortal, stepped from history Saturday to reenact the fifth of that series of famous debates which swept Lincoln on toward the White House and martyrdom. Just as it was three score and ten years ago, two men stepped from the high gothic windows of the old main hall of Knox college, took their places in front of a multitude gathered from miles around and debated the great issues of that past year, slavery. The little man with the big voice Saturday was Al Pierson, attorney; the gaunt figure towering at his side and speaking in a thin penetrating voice was Frank McGyran, the Lincoln impersonator. Gathered for this re-enactment was a distinguished company of men Shoots At Officer; Gets 3 Years (By Associated Negro Press) BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. — Henry Young, who on the night of June 29, shot at Chief of Police Mark Oliver as Policeman Oliver and several other officers, including Sheriff J. C. Jones, were searching an L. & N. train for holdup men wanted in Gulfoort, was tried here in circuit court, found guilty of shooting with intent to kill, and sentenced to three years in the state penitentiary. Chief of Police Oliver is the man who was wounded several weeks ago by Silas Richardson, who last week was sentenced to be hanged for the death of John Dambrino. --- INDLE ports of black men deserting the Republican negroes have a habit of working strenuously of their dollars, then going to the polisican ticket. November 6 will prove no ex-earning bread and butter to many colored democrats. Wednesday morning on the front page of of the reasons why black men remain Rehbal ballyhoo from Democratic camps. It is two Aframericans are shown gaming at a Republican North has always accorded rights and privileges of citizenship." Below South has always restricted the citizenship." Says one Negro to the other, persecute us to DESERT the Republicans rally bound to support the Hoover-Curtis law. We cannot logically do otherwise. It is black voxes by the Harding and Colldge morale. But what have the Democrats to do accept Al Smith, who has never had an life. Recently in New York he refused to a Negro judge. He wants the immigration laws can come in freely and take away the He wants a low tariff, which means that as threatened in 1817 by Wilson just prior to the World War. He has neither tacet nor weeks ago in Oklahoma City, he said, "there's no accept Senator Joe Robinson of Arkansas. He comes from a state where black citizens do vote for the passage of Amendment 19, machine 300,000 black women in Arkansas, and so far has been successful in defeating his vice president, Robinson in chair position. Should Smith be removed before a Negro-hating Arkansas in the high-Democrats ask us to accept him. could give us nothing. They are under the those thoughts are pro-emancipation. They calling them. The country, under Democratic preemption policies that are a part of Cole of the unfunded Democratic "statesman." Recent treatment by the Republican party of that Hoover, as an individual, is galvary mild. We would be the last ones in say that the G.O.P. for what Lincoln did back in the age of the Negro splitting his vote, but not the line between northern Republicans and cut and definite. We believe Hoover is the human processes unquestionably more qualified Smith has been governor of New York and many Hall to make his decision for him; for the Tammany Tiger. Hoover was deli- and world wide significance. His outlook, balanced, and not machine-made. considered a Republican by-product. Busier Hoover. His pledge to uphold the G.O.P. restricted immigration are guarantees of effect. This should be of interest to every shes for the nation as its chief executive, and his keen insight into economic prob- the Negro as an integral, indispensable part to mob law. The Democrats must sane- held in Democratic territory. Over. He is a better man for president than Robinson. EVERY DEBATE OF DOUGLAS AT KNOX and women prominent as biographers of Abraham Lincoln—Carol Sandburg, William E. Barton, Ida M. Tarbell—and a handful of the diminishing number who were present on that raw, rainy day of October 7, 1858, and heard from the Lincoln lips the words: "Judge Douglas declares that if any community wants slavery they have a right to it. He cannot logically say that anybody has a right to be wrong." Carl Sandburg, poet-biographer, put it this way: "To the campus of Knox college they came in the cold, almost frozen rain of a raw October day to stand and listen for three hours to the speakers of the day. That crowd of 20,000 people was an instrument, a factor in history, that the minds and tongues of the orators tried to control and direct. In seven years both of the great orators were dead. But the people go on and on." Soldiers To Subdue Florida Rioting (Harry American Press Service) WEST PALM BRACH, Fla.—Following a call by Red Cross and state officials for military aid in the devastated Florida region, Negro refugees have believe they will be subject to a repetition of the crimes which characterised military control of the Mississippi flooded territory last year. Officials excuse their action on the ground that Negro refugees are rioting in the devastated towns. 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Fear Trouble Fearing trouble when the two men were freed in court, the police had packed the place with detectives. 676 BROADWAY, GARY, IND. Dismiss Charges Slain By Man He Accused (By Associated Negro Press) SOUTHTOWN, ALA.-Finding that the coil from his automobile had been stolen while he was in church, Walter Teague, young farmer, accused "Sonny" Bullard of taking it. Bullard drew a knife and attacked Teague, who is dead from the wounds. The slayer escaped but was captured the next day. The murder occurred outside Mt. Zion Baptist church here. Man Captured After Eight Years Away (By Associated Negro Press) CLARKSALE, Miss. — After being at liberty for more than eight years Monroe Ellis. Negro, has been returned to the state prison farm at Parchmage. He was captured at Shelby. Ellis escaped on April 20, 1920, while serving a sentence of life imprisonment for murder. Ellis had traveled widely over the south after his escape, but finally returned to Mississippi two or three years ago. 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A money saving opportunity that is the big feature of our expansion sale. Pay $1 or $2 Weekly also $29.50 $34.50 At You Want---At No A RY, IND. RIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928 Stop Segregation In N. J. School ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.—Attempted segregation in the Pennsylvania avenue school has been stopped by the action of the state supreme court which issued a writ against the school authorities compelling them to admit students of Negro parentage into all classes on the same ground as all other children of school age. An opportunity for school authorities to show why they should disregard the order was given at Trenton on Oct. 2. Kills Sweetheart With Ice Pick (By Associated Negro Press) MEMPHIS.—After going with Andrew Davis for two weeks, Miss Alice Jones learned that he was a married man. When he came to see her again, she refused him admittance, when he broke in and in an argument which followed she seized an ice pick and stabbed him. He died. 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ON, Architect BROS., Contractors Maris & Sons Roofing Co. --- Was Done By Carl Cunningham DISTINCTIVE DECORATING THE AMERICAN The EST ERT PEARSON, T. PATTON & BRO & ny ors et The Roof On Gary's Newest Model Home Was Furnished and Laid By ROOFING CONTRACTORS 1901 West 11th Avenue Phone Gary 7332 THE PAINTING and DECORATING for Gary's Newest Model Home PAGE THREE We Furnished the Brick for Gary's Newest Model Home Gary Materials Co. SAND : STONE : CEMENT LIME AND FACE BRICK 220 West 9th Avenue Phone Gary 2-2349 Structural Iron Works for Gary's Newest Model Home Furnished By PIKE Iron Works 923 East 5th Avenue Phone Gary 2-3378 The Electric Wiring And Electric Fixtures Furnished by Gary ElectricCo. CARL HOCKER, Manager 38 West Fifth Avenue DRAWING LESSONS FOR OUR KIDDIES A LANDSCAPE and HOW to DRAW IT 574 GODD SHINN WORLD COLOR PRINTING CO. ST. LOUIS, IID It is very important to draw the main lines of your landscape first. These lines are important in three ways. They help you to place every object in its proper place; they link the picture together so that it looks complete; and they also make the picture more interesting, and attract and hold the attention of the eye. When you have your landscape all sketched in, try to color it with your crayons or water color paint. MOTHER GOOSE DOT PUZZLE What is the sunniest mile in the world? Answer The one with an before it Rosemary Sees the Fairy Queen LITTLE Rosemary had heard many tales of that queer little fellow, "Will o' the Wisp." So, when she was allowed to go to her grandfather's large farm, she made up her mind to find out more about him and even to see if she might see him one fine night. It was a lovely evening and Rosemary sat under the illac bush at the edge of the lawn and walted. The sun set and the stars came out, yet nothing happened! Suddenly from the woods nearby came a little call, clear and sweet: "Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will!" it said over and over again. "But why, what has Will done?" cried the little girl starting up. "Whip-poor-will!" came from a great brown bird with white wings. "Are you an enchanted person?" asked Rosemary. "How is it that you can talk so plainly?" But the same cry was all that came in answer. Just then, ahead of her, she saw a lively little light, dancing and beckoning. It called her into the woods and Rosemary followed. "It's Will, himself!" she cried. "It is, indeed, and I want you to see just how nice I am. I don't in the least deserve a whipping. That bird is always telling folks to whip me, and I have to be nimbile to escape it. But I can lead you to the cradle of the Fairy Queen. That's my special office. If you follow me, you will see her!" Rosemary was delighted. "I'll go if you promise to bring me back again." "Of course, it's not far. You will see how near she is! Right here, in the heart of this great oak stump she lies, all covered with moss and ferns. See her diamond dewdrop soverlet. Hush, don't wake her!" Rosemary held her breath and was A woman is being pulled down by a large cloud. She is wearing a dress with swirls and patterns. Another woman is running towards her. They are surrounded by clouds. 1922 J. Z. O. about to peep under the cover, when some one gently shook her. "Why, Rosemary, child, you should have been in bed an hour ago. And here you are chasing fireflies." "O, Grandma, dear, that was Will of the Wisp, and he has showed me where the Queen of the Fairies lies sleeping." "Well, come and find her tomorrow. It's time for little folks to be sleeping, too." And Rosemary was happy enough to be taken to bed, but she kissed her hand to Will, who danced before her as good as his word to bring her safely home. The Shower I can't it fun When a shower is done And every little puddle holds the sun? Not His Kind. Difficult Customer—I can't remember the name of the car I want—I think it starts with "T." Exasperated Salesman — Madam all our cars start with gasoline. LITTLE JULIUS SNEEZER Kind words and deeds are fertile seeds, That never fail to grow; PROBABLY the most fascinating and at the same time distracting enigma ever devised is that venerable but audacious place of sophistry known as the "Achilles Puzzle." It was first sprung on the world in the fifth century by Zeno, the Cleastly, and advanced by him as proving a theory that motion is an illusion. The Enigma. "Let Achilles run ten times as fast as the tortoise, yet if the tortoise has the start, Achilles may run forever without overtaking him. For if they are at first separated by 1000 feet, whilst Achilles runs these 1000 feet, the tortoise will have run 100 feet, and whilst Achilles runs those 100 feet, the tortoise will have run 10 feet, and so on forever. Therefore, Achilles can run forever without overtaking the tortoise." It is recorded that Aristotle attacked the puzzle, as did Pierre Boyle, the eminent Frenchman of letters. John Stuart Mill in his "System of Logic," said: "It has proved too hard for the ingenuity or patience of many philosophers." Sir William Hamilton considered it insoluble, and declared that it "was the only example within his knowledge of a sound argument leading to a palpable falsehood." Nobbes also tried and agreed with Mill. Naturalists tell us that a caterpillar can eat twice its own weight in leaves in 24 hours. Like dear little children with soft fingertips They gently caress you, touch cheeks, hair and lips. The Lost Fairy Bride The Lost Fairy Bride What Happened When the Cook Forgot The Story of a Hungry Little Fairy and How He Finally Got His Supper. ONE dark night, as Johnny was on his way home through the marshy ground near the dark wood he got lost in the bog. He floundered about, not knowing how to get back to the road again when, to his great relief, he saw a bright light gleaming ahead of him. "It must be a cottage," he said aloud, "though I never heard of anyone living so near the marsh." Following the light, he came not to any cottage, but right into a Fairy Ring. As soon as he had crossed the charmed circle he found himself in the midst of a numerous company of most lovely little men and women. Many a time Johnny had heard of the fairies, but never before had he seen them, and he was very much pleased to meet them now. "You are welcome, Johnny," said the Fairy Queen, "though we did not expect you; but we are always glad to have people visit us." The fairies were all most gracious and kind to Johnny, and the Queen asked him: "Do you play on that fine fiddle you carry under your arm?" "Yes, indeed!" said Johnny, who was very proud of his fiddle. "I play many beautiful airs on it." "Will you play them for us? We would like to hear some of those beautiful airs," said the Fairy Queen. "With the greatest pleasure, gracious lady!" replied Johnny, who was very polite. So he drew his bow across the strings of his violin, and as he was a good musician, he drew forth the most melodious sounds. MANY, many years ago, when the fairies lived in Ireland, there was a little fellow called Wild Beam. Some people used to think he was Leprechaun: Now, a Leprechaun was another fairy, but Wild Beam was his cousin. The Leprechaun, as you know, is the fairy cobbler. The Leprechaun lives alone and works all day mending the fairy shoes. He is a tiny, tiny, old man with a cocked hat and leather apron. Sometimes he makes a tiny pair of shoes of acorns for the fairies. One day while the Leprechaun was sitting on his tiny stool, whistling merrily, and working on a tiny pair of shoes, he thought he heard some one calling. "S-s! S-s-t," whispered someone. The Leprechaun turned. "Come in," he said. "Who are you?" He played lovely old Welsh airs and even those of Scotland and Ireland. The fairies were delighted and the Queen asked the player what they could do to reward him for entertaining them so charmingly. Now Johnny had fallen quite in love with a little golden-haired fairy, who had stayed very close to him while he was fiddling and he replied promptly: "I would like this pretty little one for my wife!" "Dear! dear!" exclaimed the Queen. "We do not like very much to have one of our band marry a mortal, but I cannot refuse you the gift you wish." The little golden-haired fairy seemed quite pleased and satisfied to become Johnny's bride, and agreed when the Queen made it a condition: "But every month, when the moon shines bright. You must come to the Fairy Ring at night." "I'll play a wedding march," said the happy Johnny, as he tucked the little hand of the fairy under his arm. Alas for Johnny and his intended bride! He had hardly played two notes of a merry wedding melody when Nan, an old witch, who was always prowling about, heard the music and appeared with one foot just on the Fairy Ring. "What's this, Johnny?" she called out. But before Johnny could answer the fairy's little hand was with- ned When the ry Little Fairy and How He F "I'm Wild Beam," answered the f voice. "Who's that?" inquired the Lepre- chaun. "Oh! I'm one of the fairies that roam over the hills and dales. I come after a new pair of shoes. These are soaking with water." "Hump!" said the Leprechaun. "How did you get wet?" "Oh, that cook at MacCarthy's for- got to put my dinner in the cellar, so I hopped into the spigot and stopped the water. My! But she was mad be- cause today was washday!" "You might have been drowned, you silly little fish," said the cobbler. But Wild Beam only laughed. The Leprechaun took his measuring stick and measured Wild Beam's foot. Then he commenced to fashion another pair of shoes for this tiny little rascal. Wild Beam was dressed in a tight- GONNIT- JUST MY CHATS THE EIGHTY- D TIME I'VE HERES A SHOOT MAKE YOUR YARD PAY JEWED Following the light, he came right into a fairy ring. drawn and with a long, wailing, sobbing cry, all the fairies disappeared. Johnty was disconsolate, and especially when he was sure he heard his lost fairy bride, in a whisper like the wind rustling the tops of the trees: "Farewell, Johnty; fare thee well; Never with thee may I dwell!" Though Johnty many times tried to find the Fairy Ring, he never did, and never again did he see any of the lovely fairies for whom he had played his Welsh melodies. Out of a corner hopped Wil and Leprechaun. "The mean, fat, old thing! ed Wild Beam. "Just look she's given me- herring and tatoes! How I hate herring Wild Beam and Leprecha eat down and ate the food, they sat quite still and wait long, long time. Then they got up and we fully up the cellar-stairs. they reached the third squeaked and made a horr! Cook Forgot Finally Got His Supper. fitting red suit and wore light blue stockings. He held in his hand a red pointed cap. He commenced to hum a merry little tune and sway his body back and forth. Then he said: "That cook is nearly starving me. What shall I do" The Leprechaun thought for a minute. "Come over here and I'll tell you." Wild Beam danced over to him. The Leprechaun whispered something in his ear. That night, while the cook was getting dinner, she heard a noise in the cellar. "Dear me!" she thought: "There must be a lot of mice downstairs. Guess I'll set a trap." She took a candle, picked up a dish with a small amount of food on it and went down into the cellar. Then she came back and locked the door. Out of a corner hopped Wild Beam and Leprechaun. "The mean, fat, old thing!" growled Wild Beam. "Just look at what she's given me—herring and cold potatoes! How I hate herring!" Wild Beam and Leprechaun both sat down and ate the food. Then they sat quite still and waited for a long, long time. Then they got up and went carefully up the cellar-stairs. When they reached the third stair it squeaked and made a horrible loud noise and scared them both. They jumped, but soon arrived at the door. "How are we going to get out? It's locked!" exclaimed Wild Beam. "Through the keyhole, dummy," answered the Leprechaun. "You go first," said Wild Beam. So the Leprechaun jumped up and disappeared through the keyhole. Then Wild Beam followed him and joined his partner. Quietly they tiptoed up the stairs to the cook's room. There she was fast asleep and snoring loudly. The Leprechaun went to her head and Wild Beam to her feet. They pulled and tugged—and tugged and pulled—until they got her to the stairs and rolled her down. The fall woke the cook up and there at the top of the stairs were the two fairy figures, singing a mocking song. She started up away they flew—she scrambling up the stairs after them. The next day she told her mistress about it, who laughed and told her that she must have been dreaming; but the cook shook her head and now she always puts a good dinner in the cellar for Wild Beam. (COURTESY PHILADELPHIA RECORD) said the Doctor, "You've had some Trouble with Andina Pectoris" "You're partly sight. Doctor, but that's not her name." 180 GAMES TO PLAY AT PICNICS AND PARTIES GAMES TO PLAY AT PICNICS AND PARTIES Couple Baseball. There should be eighteen on a team, nine men and nine boys. The diamond is very small not more than eighteen feet across—preferably very grassy. The game is played exactly like indoor baseball, except that every player is riding a "horse." the boys are the riders and the men are the horses. Horses are down on all fours with riders astride their backs. The pitcher, who is perched on his horse, begins pitching and the boy at the bat who is sitting with difficulty on a fat horse, makes a hit out toward center field. Immediately his horse starts for first base, while center field on his horse goes on a mack chase after the ball. No player is allowed to leave his horse voluntarily. This game will-prove to be a hilarious one. The writer advises either a resting time for horses or a change of them. Bottle Race. Six empty bottles are needed for a race of this kind. Any kind will do that you happen to have, but they should be easily tipped. Players or contestants should be divided into lines. A rope has been laid on the ground about 20 feet in front of these lines and six bottles have been placed there, the three for each line. At a given signal the first one of each team runs up to the rope, picks up his three bottles which are lying on the ground, places them upright and runs back to touch the hands of the next runner, who starts at once for the goal, knocks the three bottles down and hurries back to touch off the next runner. He in turn stands the bottles up again while the next runner knocks them down, and so on. If a bottle falls down the runner must go back to stand it up again before he can touch off the next runner. Each runner when he has finished off and has touched the next runner, goes to the end of the line. The side whose last runner first touches the first runner's hand wins the race. Hippity-Hop. Girls are pitted against the boys. The girls stand in one line and the boys in another, the first one in each line being about 15 feet away from a tree directly in front of that line. At a signal the first girl and the first boy start hippity-hopping, each one up to and around his tree and back to his line, touching the hand of the next runner who immediately starts to hippity-hop over the same course while those who ran first go to the end of the line. While the second runner gets back, he touches the hand of the third one and he hippity-hops to the tree and back, each one going at once to the end of the line when he has finished. This goes on till everyone has hopped and members of the team whose last runner first touches the first runner's hand wins the game and the prize. Hop Tag. All players and "I" must use only one foot in moving around. When they are standing still and resting they may have both feet on the ground; but as soon as they start to move they must use only one foot. CityNews FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1928 City By LOUISA WHITTED With the atmosphere surcharged with politics at present, it seems that the question of "Where is the next party going to be," has given way to "Who is the next party going to be." And the social world seems to be quietly awaiting the issue. However, some few are holding out with the spirit that keeps things moving, and so— The Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority is giving its second annual whist tournament Friday, October 12, at West Roosevelt Annex gymnasium. Admission 35 cents. + + + Mrs. Beasie Bowens of Los Angeles, Cal. spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Armstrong of this city. She has been in Chicago at the bedside of her mother. Mrs. Blackwell The Elite Club met Wednesday evening at the Y. M. C. A. A report of the delegates from Camp Gray was given, and an enjoyable evening was spent by all. ♣ ♠ ♣ Mr. Ernest Tidrington from the State Republican headquarters was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Whitlock last Friday. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Ida Garnett will leave Friday night for the W. C. T. U. State Convention at Kokomo, Indiana, with other delegates. ♠ ♠ ♠ Miss Thyra Edwards returned Thursday from a three day business trip out of the city. Mrs. Maxine Gonsalves has accepted a position in Chicago with the Burr Oak Cemetery Association. The City Federation meet on Wednesday, October 17, at the Steward House. A large attendance is expected. + + + Mr. F. Marshall Davis arrived last week to take a position with The Gary American as managing editor. Mr. Davis is from Kansas State college, and comes from Chicago where he has held editorial positions with the Chicago Whip, the Chicago Evening Bulletin and the Chicago Defender. Mr. Davis has contributed poems, feature articles and short stories to some of the well known magazines of the country and comes well prepared to render service to our readers. ♦ ♦ ♦ The W. C. T. U. met Monday night at the home of Ms. Florence Seaton at 2358 Adams st. They report a very interesting meeting. ♣ ♣ ♣ The Household of Ruth 5300 will meet Tuesday night. Hod Carrier's Hall, 21st & Washington sts. All members are expected to be present. ♠ ♠ ♠ Mrs. J. D. Smith spent Wednesday in Chicago. ♣ ♠ ♡ An Evil-Eye Party will be given in the lobby of Stewart House, Friday night, October 12, 1928. Ghosts and witches will be abroad. Lunch served free. ♠ ♠ ♠ On October 19, the Usher Board of Trinity M. E, church will give a Tie and Apron Social for the benefit of the Aeroplane drive. The Ladies' Aid Society of Trinity M. E, church, 15th & Mass, st. met Thursday afternoon, October 11, at 2 o'clock in the lobby of the Stewart House. ♠ ♠ ♠ Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 P. M., t beclace in Lamp Shade making will meet. All are welcome to join. The class is held in the Stewart House. ♣ ♣ ♣ The Athletic Club will meet on Thursday evenings at 7 o'clock in the recreation room of the Stewart House. ♣ ♣ ♣ There will be a bake sale of cake and pie at 1905 Broadway, Saturday, Oct. 13, all day, for the benefit of Jones' Community church. ♠ ♠ ♠ The Jones Community church will hold their first anniversary Sunday, October 14, at 3 P. M. at their present location. A splendid program has been prepared and everybody is invited to be present. ♦ ♦ ♦ A very interesting program was given Tuesday night in the Roosevelt school auditorium when a mixed chorus of 50 voices rendered a two part cantata "The Quest of the Queer Prince." The cantata was given to a crowded house and was very well rendered and much enjoyed by the listeners. Mrs. Guy was the director and Mrs. Semmes was at the plano. ♠ ♠ ♠ Tuesday evening, Oct. 16 there will be an amateur program given at the Auditorium, Roosevelt Annex. The program will consist of about 30 numbers-vocal solos, instrumental and violin. Also special features by the children. The program will start at 7:20 in East Annex auditorium. ♠ ♠ ♠ Miss Lottie Borders of Chicago is visiting Mrs. Margaret Powell for a few days. Mrs. Powell entertained Wednesday afternoon for Miss Borders in a very delightful manner. The Social Art Club last week met with Mrs. Clara Pitts, 2489 Penn. st. A delicious two course luncheon was served. The club will meet this week with Mrs. Louise Reese at 2156 Jefferson st. Mrs. Queenie Robinson, reporter. Mrs. C. L. Allen of 2489 Adams st. Complete Bath Room Outfits Consisting of one 5-ft. Bath Tub complete; one apron Wall Lavatory complete; one Toilet complete. $53.75 Special price Bring In This Coupon It will entitle you to a TOILET SEAT AND COVER, in Birch, Mahogany, or Golden Oak, $1.50 for the special price of ..... Hoosier Plumbing & Heating Supply Co. 1826 BROADWAY PHONE 2-1679 is visiting friends in Cleveland Ohio this week. Anna Shepherd, age 57 years, died Tuesday night at 2621 Washington st. The body was taken to Smith's Mortuary and will lie in state until Friday when it will be sent to St Louis for burial. + + + Curtis Ray, age 2 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Ray died Tuesday morning at their home, 2472 Mass. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 P. M. from Smith's Chapel. Burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. ♠ ♠ ♠ Wyatt Dage, age 40 years died Monday. His body was held at Smith's Funeral Home awaiting the arrival of his mother from Atlanta, Ga. + + + Harry Gatlin of 2636 Maryland et gave a surprise birthday party for his wife Mrs. Jessie Gatlin. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Smith, Mrs. A. Gatlin, Miss M. L. Hodge, Mesrs. Johnnie Ware, Frank Hodge, E. D. Robinson, A. Z. Hill and Miss Sam-Ella Taylor. A two course luncheon was served and Mrs. Gatlin received many useful and beautiful presents. Mrs. Lucille Griffith, wife of the well-known mail carrier, Hampton Griffith, is confined to her bed because of illness. Dr. Grubbs is the attending physician. CRIME RATE IS HIGH IN GARY The only rape charge of the month was lodged against a colored man. That Gary colored folk do not confine themselves to the more common and violent crimes is evidenced in the fact that two persons were arrested and jailed for attempting to beat their board bills. The only demented man found during the month was of African ancestry. Three men were also jailed as wife-beaters. It was also learned that during the month of September more people between the ages of 30 and 40 were arrested than at any other age. A total of 171 persons were arrested between these ages, with those between the years of 20 to 25 running second with 117 arrests. From the ages 16 to 20, 93 arrests were made. Only eight persons more than 60 years old were arrested. Legal Notice No. 24 NON-RESIDENT NOTICE STATE OF INDIANA LAKE COUNTY IN THE COUNTY COURT Sitting at Garry 1929 September 1929 BOSON HARRISTON JUDIA HARRISTON Cause No. 17655 Action to Diverse Now comes the plaintiff by F. L. Anderson his attorney, and files his complaint herein, together with an affidavit of a defendant person, showing that the defendant is not a resident of the State of Indiana, is not a resident of the State of Indiana. Said defendant is therefore hereby notified of the pendency of said action and that the same will stand for trial at the court. The defendant will appear and answer demur therein, at the calling of said cause, on the 5th day of December, A. D. 1282, the same being the Court to be hearn and held in the Court House at Gary, in said County and State, on the 2nd Monday of November, A. D. 1282, the same being heard and determined in her absence. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I hereby set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, at Gary, this 4th day of October A. D. 1928. JOHN KILLIGREW. Clerk L. S. C. 10.12.19-26 DEPENT Clerk 10.12.19-26 J. R. WILLIAMS, Prop. Price Right—Service Polite 1915 Mass. St. Phone: 3655 An Offer that can't be beat! Continued from page 1 nent homes may be secured for them. A fine Negro Rehabilitation committee has been organized and has connected itself with the general Red Cross officials to see after the needs of the Negroes in their rehabilitation stage. This committee is composed of Dr. J. C. Hodges, chairman, Dr. J. Henry Terrell, treasurer, Mr. U. A. Ridley, secretary, Dr. W. H. Collis, Father Lewis, and Dr. A. P. Holly. We feel that a most satisfactory understanding now exists between this committee and the National Red Cross officials. No stone will be left unturned in meting out justice to our people in the rehabilitation of their homes. Reports which have been circulated as to discrimination in the storm area have been unfounded. I have been able to find only fair play and justice and the very finest cooperative spirit being exercised in the handling of the situation up to this point. Asks For Aid We are asking that all colored people, organizations, clubs, etc., shall help in this work of rehabilitation. Send in any cash contribution to Dr. J. H. Terrell, 410 North Rosemary avenue, West Palm Beach, Florida, who will, in turn, turn the money over to the treasurer of the National Red Cross, to be distributed among the needy and suffering. This will give us a chance for a compliment of what the Negroes themselves are doing. We need large sums of money. Through the kindness of the general public, enough clothing The Golden West Lunch Room 1912 Broadway THE BEST COFFEE IN TOWN GET BUSY Refurnish That Old Home— Buy Now! Pay Later! Your Credit Is Good. Use it. EAGLE Furniture Co. 2276 Broadway Gary, Ind. 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Free Delivery To All Parts of the City copies American TAGE FIVE Phone 3905 Quaint Bridal Chests and Cotters Delight Modern Girl ```markdown ``` For Centuries Brides Have Used Chests to Hold Their Treasuries And Brides Today Follow Suit By BETSY CALLISTER How long age was it that a bride first bethought herself of gather-ing her trousseau things in a chest? Or, perhaps, a young mother first thought of packing away precious fabrics and garments in a chest to serve as her small daughter's future dowry? Nobody knows. But at all events, bridal chests have been in use for centuries. And the modern bride still finds them useful. Some brides have chests which have come down to them through many generations, and they plan to use these chests for their daughter's wedding chests. Most girls, of course, must buy their trousseau chests, unless, indeed, their mothers have bought them when the girls were in their teens. That is not such an unusual thing, either, even in this day, There's One for Everybody There are so many interesting sorts of chests to buy that you can surely find one to suit your purse and your taste. Of course, the expensive ones may be a little more attractive than the cheaper ones—the centuries-old carved chests that can be bought occasionally at the auction of some old collection. But there are many modern copies of these old chests, many modern sorts of chests, that are attractive, too. There are, for instance, all the cedar chests. Some of these are made so that they may be used as window seats and they are particularly useful for the girl who is to live in small quarters. They are also made to fasten under the bed, so that they are off the floor, and can be pulled in and out drawer fashion. These, too, are useful for the girl who will start out in a small apartment. Chinese and Lacquer Chests Please Some Then there are Chinese and Japanese laquer chests—some of them rather small, set on special stands to hold them. The trousseau chest—which used to be called a cassone, by the way, in Italy, where many of them came from, and is still called a cassone in collector's parlance—was originally big, from five to seven feet wide. But, of course, small chests are useful for holding many things, and today, when trousseaus and household supplies are not bought in such large quantities, the small chest is often ample. For charming small chests or wielding coffers you could do no better than to choose one of the very attractive painted Chinese chests. These come in carrying sizes, and you can buy a set of them, if you wish, consisting of matching boxes in four or five sizes. They are so much less expensive than a good reproduction of the antique carved wooden chests that you can get a whole set of them for the price of one of the wooden chests. They're Always Useful The bride can make use of such chests long after her wedding ratment and household linens have been distributed in bureaus and cupboards, shelves and sideboards. They may be used to hold supplies of blankets—the cedar-lined ones—and winter clothes in summer. They may be used, too, to hold linens and clothes if her quarters are crowded. The bride may also use these for furnishings to home ground. It gives character to the room it graces. Potatoes Justify Frequent Use In Menu by High Diet Value POTATOES may be eaten once a day to advantage by most persons in a normal state of health. Thoroughly baked potatoes are still considered one of the best of the solid foods allowed to very young children and well cooked mashed potatoes are a valuable addition to the diet of most growing children. The important thing, however, is to avoid monotony in your manner of serving potatoes—there is something very dismal about the sight of plain boiled potatoes, day after day, on the bill of fare. For the twenty-one meals suggested for this week, potatoes are included once a day—potatoes are gratin for dinner on Monday, boiled potatoes for dinner on Tuesday, mashed potatoes for dinner on Wednesday, potatoes as the top of shepherd's pie for dinner on Thursday, creamed potatoes for fish on Friday, potato salad for luncheon on Saturday—with rice croquettes as a potato substitute for dinner—and Lyonnaise potatoes for dinner on Sunday. Whenever possible boil the potatoes with their skins on. When they are to be served plain boiled wash well without removing the skins and boil until done through a boiling water, but drain and when slightly colorful the skins and put the potatoes in a strainer or perforated dish that can be set over a kettle of boiling water. Cover and let them steam in this for ten or fifteen minutes. Monday To make potatoes an gratin cook the required number of potatoes with their skins on and when cold remove skins and slice. For every pint of potatoes you will need a cup and a half of white sauce, medium thick. Make it in this manner: Melt three level tablespoons of butter slightly in a small saucepan. Take from the fire and stir in three level tablespoons of flour. Then return to the fire and add a cup and a half of milk gradually, stirring all the time. Season with a little salt and a little sugar. Pour the bottom a layer of sliced potatoes, then a little of the sauce, then more and so on until all ingredients have been used. Grate a half cup of American cheese and grinkle over the top and bake for about half an hour. Tuesday Select rather small potatoes, wash well and cook with their skins on. Remove the skins and steam for ten minutes. Prepare some chopped parsley and put the potatoes in a vegetable dish with a little melted butter and sprinkle over the top the chopped parsley. Wednesday Cook the potatoes with the skins on, cool a little and peel. Then put through a rice. Add a tablespoon of butter and a quarter of a cup of milk for every three medium-sized potatoes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Beat until nice and creamy and serve with a little chopped parsley if desired. If any of the mashed potatoes remain they may be used for the sheep's pie on Thursday. Thursday To make the shepherd's pie look over what is left of the boiled leg of lamb used Wednesday, remove skin, bones and gristle and put through the meat chopper. Have ready some hot mashed potatoes. You will need equal quantities of the meat and potatoes, also some hot slightly thickened gravy. Season all well with salt and a little pepper. Butter a baking dish and line with some of the mashed potatoes. Mix the meat and line with some of the dip of the potato and then spread over the top the rest of the mashed potato. Dot with a little butter or with buttered fine breadcrumbs and cook in the oven for half an hour. Friday To serve six persons you will need about three cups of cold cooked potatoes. They should be thoroughly cooked but not broken. When cold cut them into dice. Melt two evel tablespoons of butter in a saucepan, take from the fire and mix in two level tablespoons of flour. Put back on the fire over a low heat and add a little at a time two cups of cold milk, stirring smoosh all the time. Let cook for five minutes over hot water. Season with salt and pepper, add the diced potatoes, heat thoroughly and serve with a little minced parsley on top or a sprinkling of pankka. Saturday There are many ways to make potato salad. The diced cooked potatoes may be mixed with mayonnaise dressing and a little chopped mild onion and served on lettuce leaves. Or you may make thin slices of the cold boiled potatoes and dress with oil, vinegar, chopped onion and pepper and salt. Chopped hard cooked egg may be added to the potatoes. A cup of colery cut into small pieces for every three cups of the Above, large Florentine wedding chest, or cassone. It is of hand carved and painted wood, the front panel showing a marriage procession, and it was made in the fifteenth century. At right, carved wooden chest which may be used for window seat. Below, cedar chest, with window seat. Above, carved used for window seat, and under that carved chest on a stand. Beneath the bride, one of the painted Chinese chests, lined with tufted pink silk. A chest of drawers. potatoes may be added, or diced raw cucumber may be used. Slice of pickled beets may be used as a parnish. Sunday To make Loymona potatoes you will need sliced cold ousted potatoes—a half cup or more for every person to be served. For three cups of potatoes you will need one good-sized onion cut into thin slices. Put some butter or beef fat in a frying pan and fry the onion carefully for about three minutes, taking care that it does not burn. Now add the potatoes and season with a little pepper and sait. Cover the frying pan and turn the heat down. If you use a gas stove cook over an asbestos mat. The potatoes should be evenly browned on one side. Turn them into a vegetable dish so that the browned surface is exposed and garnish if you like with a few spills of parsley. TWENTY-ONE MEALS A WEEK MONDAY Breakfast Apple sauce Prepared cereal Cream Hard boiled egg halves on toast with cream sauce Coffee Lunchmeat Chicken loaf from left- over chicken Lettuce sandwiches Stewed pears Oatmeal cookies Tea Dinner Chicken soup Short ribs of beef Potatoes an gratin Corn on the cob Fried tomatoes Honeydew melon TUESDAY Breakfast Sliced peaches Steamed rice Bacon Graham muffins Coffee Lunchmeat Corn fritters Brown bread Celery and apple salad Crackers and cheese Tea Dinner Celery Left-over beef balls Bolled potatoes Fried egg plant Cabbage salad Mixed fruit jelly WEDNESDAY Breakfast Baked apples Fried rice cakes Syrup Soft boiled eggs Toast Coffee Lunchmeen Toasted cheese sand- wiches Peach and cream cheese salad Wafers Dinner Bofled lamb with capes sauce Mashed potatoes Green beans Tomato salad Wine salad Breakfast Grapes Ferina Scrambled eggs Bran muffins Coffee Lunchoon Corn pudding Brown bread Celery hearts Watermelon salad Wafers Tea Dinner Cream of celery soup Shepherd's pie Summer squash Baked tomatoes Apple pie FRIDAY Breakfast Melons Prepared cereal Poached eggs Toast Coffee Lunchoon Spanish rice Brown bread Mixed cut up fruit Tea Cookies Dinner Clams on the half shell Baked stuffed fish Succotash Creamed potatoes Cucumber salad Sauce SATURDAY Breakfast Bananas Prepared cereal Fried eggs and Buttered toast Cream bacon Coffee Apple sauce Tea Luncheon Potato salad Boston brown bread Apple sauce Dinner Anchovies on toast Beef loaf Rice croquettes Oyster plant Stewed tomatoes Chocolate layer cake Cut up peaches SUNDAY Breakfast Melons Prepared cereal Cream Baked omelet Coffee cake Coffee Dinner Raw onions, celery and olives Baked duck Lyonnaise potatoes Candied sweets Buttered carrots Peach ice cream Supper Cold beef loaf Sliced tomatoes Baking powder biscuits Honey TREASURE BOX When you entertain the same people over and over again, and they entertain you in return, don't you sometimes find it difficult to think up something different? Something they don't all know about? Here it is, in the little French tea cake for which I get the recipes from a clever chef. I will gladly send it to you if you will send a stamped, self-addressed envelope for it. Sewing Kit in Kitchen Finds Many Uses in Every-Day Work SEWING kit of some kind is a great help in the kitchen. It should not be simply a big needle and a spool of coarse cotton sitting on a window sill and a pair of scissors hiding somewhere in a table drawer. It should be a well-equipped little box or bag or case of some sort, always in a known place filled with sewing materials—not to mend aprons and torn dish towels, but for use in preparing food. Incidentally a bag containing a thimble, a spool of white cotton and some needles and buttons, to use to mend kitchen towels, dining-room linen, dust cloths and aprons and caps, might be a good idea. But the sort of sewing kit that is a cook's good friend is one that is furnished with sewing materials for food. A convenient sort of kit is made by covering two squares of pastboard, which measure four or five inches each way, with cretonne and then overhanding the two together. Better still, seam the two pieces of cretonne on three sides, turn the seams on the inside and slip two pieces of pastboard in. This leaves only one side to be overhanded. Before fastening the pieces of cretonne together, fasten a strip of tape across the face of one. Leave a small loop at one side just big enough to hold a thumb. Have another flat loop of tape in which a paper of big needles can be slipped. Leave the tape loose at one end, and sew an end of tape three or four inches long at one side of the square of chits. Then the boards are slipped in place and the chits are sewed together. Put a paper of needles in the flat loop, an aluminum thumb in its loop and slip a big spool of coarse basting thread, suitable for sewing up poultry, over the loose end of the tape, tying the end of the tape in a secure loop with the other end. There should be a good pair of steel scissors hanging with this sowing kit. A pair of tiny, ten-cent scissors might be slipped in another little tape loop, and these scissors might be used to ship threads. But the good pair of scissors should be hung on a peg near the kitchen table—perhaps a peg in the end of the kitchen table. These scissors will come in for dozens of uses that any housewife will think of. For one thing, when rains are to be chopped for cakes, four the scissors and cut the rains. This will be found far more satisfactory than trying to chop them in a bowl. When most is to be cut for a stew it can often be most easily cut with scissors. Do You Believe Old Love Maxims? One always returns to one's first love. McClure Newspaper Syndicate Small Cakes for Bridge and Tea Give Hostess Chance for Variety and Individuality Small Cakes for Bridge and Tea Give Hostess Chance for Variety and Individuality We don't serve such elaborate refreshments for afternoon bridges as we used to. And we don't load our tea tables down with everything we can afford to buy or make—either when we serve tea informally every afternoon or when we give a "tea." Time was, you know, when, at "tea," women used to "serve salads and jellies, as well as cakes and candles, nuts and olives, sandwiches galore, ice, chocolate, coffee and tea. You didn't need any dinner the night after having such "tea" as that. Then there came, gradually, the fashion for lighter refreshments on the tea table. And now, for ordinary afternoon tea, by our own firesides or on our own plazas, we confine ourselves to refreshments that needn't—unless we are greedy—take away our dinner appetite. And we do the same thing when we give a tea. Perhaps we serve a little more than on the informal tea tray, but not the burdensome amount we used to. Sometimes an ice, or chocolate or coffee parfait, in addition to sandwiches and cakes. Perhaps bonbons and salted almonds. But nothing more. Little Cake Gives Right End Of course, to many people buttered toast or cinnamon toast—if buttered with, perhaps, orange or pineapple marmaidal passed with it—makes the best accompaniment to afternoon tea. But the small cake has a definite and very good place on the tea table. It gives just a little sweet, just a nice fillip of daintiness and festivity to the refreshments. The same thing holds good of bridge refreshments. We have simplified them. And we must give some of the credit—or blame—for this simplification to the fact that women nowadays dread overweight. They don't want to eat their fill of sweets and icees two or three afternoons and as many evenings a week. They can safely indulge in a slice of buttered toast and a little cake each day with a cup of afternoon tea—in a salad and sandwiches in the evening at card parties. But they frozen on the too rich or too lavish display of refreshments No More Layer Cakes? In all this change the small cake has held its own. The rich layer cake that used to be part of the refreshments for many parties sedulously applauded now little cake takes its place. Two, even three, small cakes are not equal. And even one little cake gives a nice finish to refreshments or any kind. If you are interested in the recipe for something I had the other day in a smart restaurant, called "French tea cakes," on the menu, send me a self-addressed envelope for the recipe. You will find it is an old friend in a new guise—a new and interesting guise. Get the recipe, make some of the cakes, and have a surprise for your friends neat time you have a party. Little Tables Have Big Use In Every Room in Modern House Little Tables Have Big Use In Every Room in Modern House THE small table is so useful that it hardly needs a champion. It adds to the charm and comfort of every room—literally. IN THE HALL—the small table, placed near the door, holds a bowl of flowers, a small tray for cards, and offers space for gloves and hats. IN THE DRAWING-ROOM OR LIVING-ROOM—the small table placed conveniently at the ends of the divan, by the side of the chairs, provides a convenient location for reading lamps, a picturesque position for flowers, and a space for books and knicknacks. IN THE LIBRARY OR READING-ROOM—a place for reading lights, of course, and a place for books that are out of their shelves. And, of course, here and in every other room a compact place for smoking things. IN THE DINING-ROOM—a small table placed near a window is a charming position for flowers. IN BEDROOMS—a small table is almost essential by the bedside for lamp, books and magazines, water carafe, and other little things. EVERYWHERE—tea tables, card tables, smoking stands, magazine and book racks, console tables to break long all spaces, and tables to give the right look to a room when placed at the ends of divans and chesterfields, coffee tables, and candle tables; well, there are dozens of them, all useful, all ornamental, all welcomed by the housewife who loves to make her rooms as attractive, convenient and comfortable at possible. Old Labor-Saving Devices Seem Time Wasters to Woman of Today Old Labor-Saving Devices Seem Time Wasters to Woman of Today DID you ever hear of a needle finder? I never saw one, but in an old book of household hints I read about one the other day. To make it you get a magnet and you take a baby ribbon or tap about three or four feet long and it the curved top of the magnet I suppose you keep it in your work basket or on your sewing table. A any rate, you use it to pick up needles without having to stoop over. It really does seem like a most ingenious device, but you would have either to make sure always to drop the needle where you had the finder at hand or else be willing to go into the next room or unstairs to get it in order to save yourself the trouble of leaning over. A lot of household helps are Like that, it seems to me—very ingenious but often a lot more trouble to keep track of than they are worth. Another bright household hint I read was this: Cut off selvedge of flannelette before cutting out garment. Save it until you have a nice lot, and with two large bone knitting needles knit a blanket for baby's cot. It would take quite a while to get the "nice lot" of selvedge needed and I can imagine that it might be a bother to keep track of the ball while you were collecting it. You would have to have it on hand when time came to cut off the selvedge, which, of course, you might prefer to leave on for seam edges than to cut off. Then when you had enough you'd have to be sure you had the large bone knitting needles—and more important still—you'd have to the baly. You know the woman who said: "If we had some ham we have some ham and eggs if we had some eggs." So many of the old-time household helps seem to me just like that. We are apt to forget, however, that fifty and a hundred years ago women had to store their minds and probably their notes books full of all sorts of household helps and make shuffles that seem to us rather aboard. Salt to the modern housewife is just seasoning, nothing else. And we try to bear in mind that if we eat too much of it we will have high blood pressure. But the grandmother salt had many other uses. Bottling hot salt water was to use to flush out and sweeten drains. Salt was used to set dyes, before fast-colored materials were always to be had. Salt was thrown on the fire to keep it from blending too much when broiling was to be done. Vinegar was used for many things before cooking. It was used with warm water to sponge off feverish patients. Lactated vinegar was used over bruises to prevent discolouration. Apres were baked with water and vinegar in the days when drug stores were few and doctors were called only in really despairous cases. Vinegar and water was used as a purple. And vinegar bursed a hot shower was combed with vinegar. Vinegar was used to look on with suspicion and specially prepared disinfectants and deodorants were not to be had at every corner drug store. ```markdown ``` A word from the publisher = = about advertising The products you see consistently advertised in this paper are worthy of your confidence. It takes two things to make a consistent advertiser. 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Address all communications to The Gary American, American Building, Seven East Nineteenth Avenue, Gary, Indiana. CHAUNCEY TOWNSEND, Executive Editor F. MARSHALL DAVIS, Managing Editor TELEPHONE GARY 3865 Members Associated Negro Press, National Negro Press Association American Press Association, and Exchange Press. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Subscription price, for a limited time only, $1.00 per year in advance. Single copies, three cents. No subscriptions accepted for less than one year. If our friends who favor us with manuscripts for publication wish to have rejected articles returned they must in all cases send stamps for that purpose. Entered as second-class mail matter at the post-office at Gary, Indiana, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Copyright, 1928, by the Gary American Publishing Co., Incorporated. FOREIGN ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVES: 3. That the known bondholders, mortgages, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the mails or otherwise, to paid subscribers during the six months prior to publication shown above is: (This information may be obtained from daily publications only.) 8,000. Sewn and subscribed before me this 18th day of April, 1928. FRITZ W. ALEXANDER. My commission expires November 24, 1928. (L. S.) DE PRIEST AND THE RACE LOSE THEIR CHANCE The recent indictment by a special grand jury of Oscar De Priest of Chicago together with Dan Jackson, as the alleged heads of a $1,000,000 vice syndicate should be of interest to every Negro in America. De Priest's election to congress in November was practically conceded by white and black press alike. In Chicago, colored voters almost worship "Big Bill" Thompson. Mayor Thompson had sanctioned the choice of De Priest as candidate to replace the late Martin B. Madden. De Priest's district is 80 per cent colored. Upon advice of the mayor, these voters would have marched to the polls in a solid phalanx to place a black man in the highest tribunal in the country. And, as the only dark-skinned member of congress, the eyes of the world would focus their gaze upon him. He would represent 14,000,000 black folk and not just one Illinois district. De Priest has long been in politics. He was Chicago's pioneer Negro alderman. At present he is third ward committeeman, and an assistant Illinois state commerce commissioner. He has been up. He has been down. Chicago newspapers have praised him. Others have written editorials labeling him "Devil De Priest." He has been termed a "political jumping-jack." In 1916 he was indicted on a charge similar to the one he now faces. But he was lucky enough to go free. He lost his political power for a time. He was given kingly powers again by the "America First" machine that raised William Hale Thompson to the mayorship of Chicago in 1927. It is highly probable that De Priest has been exhumed for the last time. Most of those on Chicago's south side believed, honestly and sincerely, that De Priest was one o the heads of the vice syndicate that allowed policy wheels, gambling places, and houses of prostitution to openly corrupt the morals of a people already suffering from exploitation and the contempt of white fellow-citizens. For such and such a price, police would give these places immunity from raids. These facts, and the amounts of the protection fees, were published in two of the largest daily papers of Chicago a year ago last summer. A few unafraid Negro papers made such facts known as well. It was common knowledge that Dan Jackson headed the colossal Tia Juana policy wheel that reached its greedy paws into the pockets of laboring men and women, who, lured by the will-o'-the-wisp of quick money, hoped they would someday play that winning number. These facts were known. But no action was taken. Nobody was indicted—then. On April 10, Octavius Granady was murdered in Chicago's ill-famed "bloody 20th" ward, because he dared oppose Morris Eller, white, and incidentally a Thompson supporter, for election to office. Citizens protested. A special grand jury was formed to investigate that and other terrorisms. The investigation swung to the connection of vice and politics. It hit the south side. And, De Priest and Jackson were hardest hit. And so, De Priest's chance is gone. Possibly the chance of the Negro race in 1928. De Priest should withdraw from the congressional race. Should he, in spite of his indictments, poll enough votes to win, no thinking person can conceive of him being seated. There is no chance of him being tried before Nov. 6. It is absurd to think that congress would seat a black man facing trial for corruption. Smith, a white Illinoisan, was refused a place in the senate on even less offensive grounds. And the Negro should see to it that the first black man who goes to congress since the beginning of the twentieth century should be free of taint. The race cannot have a corrupt representative in congress. With the white haired veteran eliminated, there is little chance of a Negro representative in congress. Judge Harrison can hardly make the grade. Although a Republican, he does not have the sanction of Mayor Thompson. Negro citizens vote in Chicago as the mayor and his lieutenants dictate. It is not probable that these dictators will withdraw their support from De Priest at this late date. The candidates for congress in other districts of the country do not have the chance that De Priest had. Their chances for success are not great. Many people think De Priest's indictment is a plot to hinder him in the congress race. That is probably the truth. It came at a strategic moment. However, the fact remains that his name has long been hooked to south side vice. He should have long ago thought of that. Unless there was good evidence of his vice ring connections, he could not have been indicted. He brought it on himself. Of course, he has enemies. Powerful enemies. He is envied by his close associates who do not believe him qualified as a congressman, or who wanted the nomination themselves. But the fact remains that, as a Negro leader and prospective black member of congress for the first time in a quarter of a century, he should have watched his step. Word comes now that De Priest will be defended by Clarence Darrow, America's premier criminal lawyer, and Ed Morris, one of Chicago's greatest black barristers. Perhaps, as in 1916, he shall go free. Charges like the ones he and Dan Jackson face are hard to prove, even though it is generally believed that the defendants ar guilty. The case may peter out as it did in 1916. But this one fact remains: De Priest has lost his chance to voice the wrongs of 14,000,000 black folk before the highest law making body in America. And, as the destinies of this kaledescopic race are, for the time being at least, held in the hands of the political leaders, the Negro loses. May we soon get another chance. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, president of Bethune-Cookman college in Florida and one of America's best loved and most brilliant Negro women, writes, in this issue of THE AMERICAN, an appeal for funds to the Red Cross for aid in rehabilitating the devastated regions of Florida. She says that she finds "only fair play and justice and the very finest co-operative spirit being exercised in the handling of the situation up to this point." If what Mrs. Bethune says is the truth, then Florida has reformed overnight. In years gone by, this winter resort of the eastern rich has not been equalled in its dastardly treatment of the American black man. It would take more than a miracle to make Florida treat black and white with equal consideration. The Red Cross damaged its reputation during the time of the Mississippi floods one year ago last spring. The Red Cross then proved to be merely another cross for the Negro to bear. White refugees were provided for. Black refugees were hardly tolerated. Those folk from the north who went south at that time returned telling horrible tales of the way colored refugees were neglected and treated by cracker Red Cross nurses. They came back disillusioned. They advised that all black folk with contributions give them to the various Negro fraternal organizations or charitable societies. That should be a lesson. We have the highest regard for the Red Cross when it is in the north away from domination of colored-prejudiced southerners. But in the south, it's different. Red Cross and state officials called for military aid in Florida on the ground that "Negro refugees are rioting in devastated towns." Without debating the truth of the accusation, everyone should know what the presence means in a devastated southern area. Negroes are conscripted, made to do work for the whites. If they don't labor, they don't eat. And if some iron-nerved dark-skinned refugee objects too strenuously, he is soon found to be "missing." Mrs. Bethune undoubtedly makes her request in all sincerity. We believe that she "means well." But for the life of us we can't see why we are expected to believe the impossible. Florida has never given a black man a ghost of a chance. With thousands of white people suffering, no sensible person can conceive of Florida breaking her long established rule of keeping the black man in little better slavery, and treating him fair. Nor of the Red Cross doing so under southern domination. Mrs. Bethune may be right, but we have our doubts. THE HEALTH QUESTION By Dennis A. Bethea, M.D. Health Editor of The American When Abraham Lincoln was a young man he ran for the legislature in Illinois, and badly swamped. He next entered business, failed, and spent seventeen years of his life paying up the debts of a worthless partner. He was in love with a beautiful young woman to whom he was engaged—then she died. Later he married a woman who was a constant burden to him. Entering politics again, he ran for congress and again was badly defeated. He then tried to get an appointment in the United States Land Office, but failed. He became a candidate for the United States Senate, and was badly defeated. In 1856 he became a candidate for the vice-presidency and was again defeated. In 1858 he was defeated by Douglas. Then to add to all this misfortune, he did not feel well during a great part of his later life. He suffered with very disagreeable attacks of chronic constipation and auto-intoxication. You too have had your troubles—troubles that no one knows of but yourself. You have suffered pains and aches that you could not describe, or that others did not seem to understand. You saved up some money and put it into an enterprise only to see it go crumbling to the ground like a playhouse. During those weeks and months that you were out of work, out of money and out of friends, no one will ever know what agony you passed through. Perhaps you have felt the pangs of a broken home, or a false friend, or unrequieted love. Or it may be that you stood at the bier one cold rainy day, and saw cruel hands throw heavy black dirt upon the coffin of your best friend—the only person who could ever understand you—mother. But why let those things discourage you? Daybreak always follows the darkest night, sunshine follows the most gloomy day and springtime comes on after the most severe winter. There is nothing to be gained by sitting down nursing either, real or imaginary ills. Like Linecoln, we may overcome almost unsurmountable difficulties, if we will keep in good cheer and keep right on "carrying on." The ingeneous Kaufman sums it up this way: "Labrador Indians Terrified by Film, Explorer Reports."—Headline in the New York Herald-Tribune. Judging from that, it seems as if the "talkies" got to Labrador before they got to Gary. It has been rumored that Mrs. Mabel Willebrandt has been sent a note of thanks by Al Smith and Arkansas Joe Robinson. They say now that the Florida hurricane was caused by a Miami realtor and a native of California arguing in West Palm Beach as to which state had the best climate. ODD FOR FLORIDA Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, president of Bethune College in Florida and one of America's best loved and most Negro women, writes, in this issue of THE AMERICAN REAL for funds to the Red Cross for aid in rehabilitated regions of Florida. She says that she finds joy and justice and the very finest co-operative spirit in the handling of the situation up to this point. If what Mrs. Bethune says is the truth, then Flighted overnight. In years gone by, this winter resort which has not been equalled in its dastardly treat, American black man. It would take more than a minivan to treat black and white with equal consideration. The Red Cross damaged its reputation during the Mississippi floods one year ago last spring. The Red Cross to be merely another cross for the Negro to refugees were provided for. Black refugees were hard to see folk from the north who went south at that time. Horrible tales of the way colored refugees were treated by cracker Red Cross nurses. They came on. They advised that all black folk with control in the various Negro fraternal organizations areeties. That should be a lesson. We have the highest regard for the Red Cross which has away from domination of colored-prejudiced men in the south, it's different. Red Cross and state of military aid in Florida on the ground that "Neprioting in devastated towns." Without debating accusation, everyone should know what the present devastated southern area. Negroes are conscripted for the whites. If they don't labor, they don't be iron-nerved dark-skinned refugee objects too soon found to be "missing." Mrs. Bethune undoubtedly makes her request in believe that she "means well." But for the life of why we are expected to believe the impossible. Her given a black man a ghost of a chance. With hate people suffering, no sensible person can conceal taking her long established rule of keeping the be better slavery, and treating him fair. Nor of the long so under southern domination. Mrs. Bethune now we have our doubts. THE HEALTH QUESTION By Dennis A. Bethea, M.D. Health Editor of The American ARE YOU DISCOURAGED? When Abraham Lincoln was a young man he slature in Illinois, and badly swamped. He next entered business, failed, and spent seven life paying up the debts of a worthless partner. He was in love with a beautiful young woman engaged—then she died. Later he married a woman who was a constant by Entering politics again, he ran for congress anly defeated. He then tried to get an appointment in the United ice, but failed. He became a candidate for the United States Senly defeated. In 1856 he became a candidate for the vice-pr again defeated. In 1858 he was defeated by Douglas. Then to add to all this misfortune, he did not feel great part of his later life. He suffered with very thick of chronic constipation and auto-intoxication. If you too have had your troubles—troubles that run out yourself. You have suffered pains and aches that describe, or that others did not seem to understand. You saved up some money and put it into an envelope; it go crumbling to the ground like a playhouse weeks and months that you were out of work, out of friends, no one will ever know what agonized. Perhaps you have felt the pangs of a broken hand, and or unrequited love. Or it may be that you are one cold rainy day, and saw cruel hands throw it upon the coffin of your best friend—the only one ever understand you—mother. But why let those things discourage you? Daylight shows the darkest night, sunshine follows the most springtime comes on after the most severe wind, thing to be gained by sitting down nursing either, cry ills. Like Lincoln, we may overcome almost unselfiections, if we will keep in good cheer and keep ringing on." The ingeneous Kaufman sums it up this. "For when the One Great Score comes To write against your name, He writes not what you won or lost, But how you played the game." "Labrador Indians Terrified by Film, Explorer adline in the New York Herald-Tribune. Judging them as if the "talkies" got to Labrador before they It has been rumored that Mrs. Mabel Willebraht a note of thanks by Al Smith and Arkansas Joe They say now that the Florida hurricane was ami realtor and a native of California arguing f each as to which state had the best climate. selves. But the we black mem- a century, he THE MODE By F. Mar SMART? MY George Johnson was one of those smart birds. He made horse limbiment seem like a bottle of spring water. He was really smooth. He was as oily as three-in-one. He could take a nickle, sell it for a dollar, then make the buyer come back and plead for more. He sold ice to the natives in Africa who lived near the equator. They came back and told him it spoiled their water. It made the water cold. But it didn't bother George. He told 'em, "that's why the white folks use it." By noon the next day he had sold completely out. He went to Mexico next. He wasn't there two weeks before all toreaders had to quit bull-fighting and go into the chill business. George could throw more bull than all of them put together. George sold swimming suits at the North Pole, life preservers on the Sahara desert, fire insurance to a drowning man, and camel's hair underwear to a guy just starting out with the seven-year-itch. He even sold pictures of Al Smith and the Pope at a Ku Klux Kloun meeting in Georgia. He knew more ways to make money than a farmer can find ways to come to town in a new spring wagon. He'd show a blind man a deep point. If ideas had sold at a nickle a wagon load, George coulda been a millionaire in a week. He liked to buy everything on the installation plan. You know—where you pay a dollar down and two promises a week. He figured if he went bye-bye before he got the stuff paid for, he'd pass out with the satisfaction of knowing he'd outwitted the credit store owners. And that's really hard to do. Yep, he was one more smart joker. He wouldn't be on a job two weeks before he'd get a chance at advancement. The boss would come around and tell him he'd better take an interest in the business. He went into the dairy business once near Gary. He sold a gang of milk every day. Never missed a delivery except one day when they cut the water off. But he'd have been in business yet if it hadn't been for the government. They came around and told him he'd have to keep at least one cow. George objected. He said Q. B. S. 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