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SIMMON AFTER SEAT IN CONGRESS U. S. DROPS RUM CASE! GAY PUBLIC LIBRARY 5TH AVE JEFFERSON WILBUR APPOINTS BOND TO POST IN DEPT. OF INTERIOR Kentuckian Becomes Specialist in Negro Education; Will Study Secondary Work WASHINGTON, Dec. 113—Secretary Wilbur today announced the appointment of James A. Bond, of Kentucky, Dean of the Kentucky Normal and Industrial institute, as a "specialist in Negro education." He will be attached to the office of education, Department of the Interior. He will be temporarily stationed in Cincinnati but later will serve in Washington. His work will be a part of the survey of secondary education that is being made by the Federal office of education under an authorization by Congress and will have to do particularly with those phases of it relating to the Negro race. Dean Bond is 38 years old and has been engaged in educational activities in behalf of his race for 15 years. He served for three years as principal of the Middlesboro high school, in Kentucky; three years as instructor of English in Swift college, Rogersville, Tennessee; two years as dean of Seldens institute, Brunswick, Georgia; three years as head of the education department, state college, Frankfort, Kentucky; three years as dean of that college and one year as its acting president. Ri oGrande Filmed In Taking Film CHICAGO—Heralded as one of the most gripping dramas of the west ever produced, "Romance of the Rio Grande," the all-talking production now playing at the Roosevelt theatre is something unusual in motion picture entertainment. Most of the scenes of this dynamic cinema were filmed on the actual locations amid some of the scenary scenery in the west. Massive panoramas of the Rio Grande region, plains dotted with enormous herds of cattle, and the rare grandeur of the old Mexican estates, give pictorial testimony to the gigantic scale on which this production was filmed NAACP TO REVIEW YEAR'S ACTIVITIES Association to Meet Here Sunday to Check on Years Activities With many notable accomplishments to their credit, members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, will hold their final meeting of the year Sunday afternoon at 3:30 p. m., according to an announcement made today. A review of the year's work will be the chief topic of the discussion, and all committees of the organization will make their reports. Officers for the next year have already been elected. They are: Joseph Pitts, president, the Rev. J. W. Kittrell, vice-president, A. J. Butler, treasurer. While the association has been on the job in many ways during the year, the files of The Gary American, considered an accurate index, reveal that 1929 was one of the least active of the years which the organization has seen, it was learned today. Out of 51 issues of The American, the following short resume of the association's activities in 1929 is revealed: Feb. 1—Hold meeting in celebration of 20th anniversary. Feb. 15—Took part in agitating against bill to limit township trustee funds. March 29.—Held mass meeting and announced membership campaign. June 14.—Pledged to support Gary American in fight to get white merchants to employ Negroes as clerks. (This, however, the association, did not carry thru.) Editor). Aug. 30.—Appointed a committee to interview merchants and see why they do not employ Negro clerks. Sept. 6.—Filed appeal in the State Supreme court contesting a decision handed down in the Gary school case. Sept. 20.—Received word from national office that legal fees for attorneys in Gary school case would be paid by national office. Sept. 13.—Announced meeting to protest failure of school board to re-appoint Coach Wm. Lane as physical instructor, but later called off the meeting. Oct. 25.—Announced meeting of all branches in state at Indianapolis to discuss civil rights. In 1928, the association was very active in trying to secure a reversal of the Gary school case decision. In 1927, it was exceedingly active in protesting the Gary school strike and seeking to prevent the permanent removal of Negro students from Emerson to Virginia school, aside from per SIMMO The VOLUME III, NUMBER FOUR U. S. SIMMONS SURE HE WILL TAKE PLACE OF REP. DE PRIEST Starts Active Campaign to Oust Illinois Solon From Seat In U. S. Congress MONTGOMERY, ALA. — (ANP) — "I will win my seat in congress," was the declaration made by Roscoe Conklin Simmons of Chicago, in an address here at the Old Ship Baptist Church, during which he discussed his forthcoming race against Congressman Oscar DePriest from the First Congressional District of Illinois. "I left Alabama when a boy bound for congress," said Simmons. "I wanted to take the spirit of Booker T. Washington into the arena of government. I seek to bring the Negro into his government and have him see country above race. In no other way can life or peace be found for him. He can be no stranger to the genius of our government and hope to enter in. "By speech and act, by knowledge of my government and devotion to it and to the men who guide it and by the eloquence of voiceless patience, I wanted the North and South to say: 'Hear him, this is the son of the great conflict and now he arises to serve all alike, the North of Grant and the South of Lee, and likewise the sons of the slave, around and about whom these matchless captains fought this nation into the indissoluble comradeship of liberty and union." "Let reports be what they may, the Chicago Negro outranks all our race in vision and native steadfastness, and I seek to be an apostle of his works and to loose him from all false teachers." Germans Learn of Harlem Negroes NEW YORK—Photographs made in the National Offices of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and of colored people in various places in Harlem, are published in the illustrated rotogravure section of a German newspaper, with lengthy text, under the title, "The Black City In White New York." Clipping from the German publication, the "World Mirror" which has just reached the N.A.A.C.P. shows two full illustrated pages devoted to the article. The photographer, Miss Kathe Wittkower, through the assistance rendered her by William Pickens, N.A.A.C.P. Field Secretary, was enabled to photograph a Hirlem restaurant, a hospital scene with colored surgeon operating on a patient the playground of the Durbar Apartments, the 135th Street branch of the library, and the dressing room of a Harlem musical revue. NOTICE TO THE UNIA All members of the Universal Negro Improvement association will please take notice that the only organized branch of the Universal Negro Improvement association is the one known as the Division No. 185, located at 2123 Washington st., in this city. There has been no authority given to anybody to organize any other branch. Members are asked to forward to the office of the association the names of anyone who approaches them on the subject other than the constitutional officers known as Charles L. James, president; Jella B. Whitmore, secretary; and A. Sayers, treasurer. Anything to the contrary will be prosecuted according to law. forming many other notable acts in behalf of civil rights. Aid Asked For Mother And 5 Children Here In a dingy house in the central district, an invalid mother and her five dependent children are without food, fire and sufficient clothing, and, unless aid is given them, their prospects for a joyous Christmas are very slim. These facts were brought today to the attention of The Gary American which has been asked to send out an SOS to see if someone, out of a generous heart, will not contribute something to the welfare and comfort of the crippled mother and her children. An investigation of the case has brought to light the following facts: 1. That the mother is an invalid and cannot properly get around in the house to care for the children whose ages range from one to fourteen. 2. That the father of the children and husband of the woman has been out of work for several months. In addition to this, the children are in serious need of clothing and food, and there is no fire in the house. Anyone who wishes to contribute something to this family to aid them in their distress, may call or get in touch with Mrs. Julia Gross, 1913 Adams street, phone 5837, who reported the case to The American, or they may send any contribution they wish to make towards the relief of the family in care of The Gary American. Any article of clothing, food, fuel or money for the mother and children will be accepted. ACHIEVEMENTS IN NEGRO ART TOLD McFarlane Sees Colored Man As Creator and Character, Traces Developments BY W. A. LORDEN In a manner that lacked everything that savored of apology, but was at once scholarly, exalting and conviving, yet offensive to none, Negro thinkers presented the achievements and future of the Negro in the finer arts to the committee on interracial relations at the Sixth avenue Y. W. C. A. Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Thyra Edwards, to whom the committee and visitors were greatly indebted for her efforts in presenting the program, prefaced the introduction of each speaker with interesting account of the social and economical conditions of people in far-off lands as observed by her while on her recent tour through Europe and parts in Africa. Mrs. Edward pointed out that while the people in many of the lands have discarded some of their habits and traditions and have accepted the ideals of invaders, they have nevertheless held fast to their fundamental ideals. Mrs. Edwards gave as the inspirational motive for the presentation of this program the following reasons: First—the lack of knowledge of the achievements in the Finer Arts by Negroes on the part of Negro children; and second—the lack of the proper appreciation of these achievements on the part of other racial groups. Prof. Frederick McFarlane, reviewed, in a masterly fashion, the Negro in literature. He took a backward glance upon the poetic traditions of the Negro and assured his attentive audience that the Negro has a heritage of songs and that he bids fair to make a great contribution in this field. The Negro he said has proved to be a fit character for subject matter and GARY, INDIANA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 NEED MORE MEN LIKE GARVEY SAYS U.N.I.A. PRESIDENT James Praises Martyrdom of Mass Leader in His Impassioned Plea The Negro race is in need of more men of the type of Mareus Garvey if it is to continue to make substantial progress, according to Charles L. James, president of the Universal Negro Improvement association, Gary branch. Declaring that pessimism is a danger to progress, James stated the Negro must be firm and radical in his demands and must have confidence in his ability to perform any given task. "Those who have no determined will power will oppose any movement of resolute measures," he said. "They opposed Marcus Garvey and scoffed at him, jailed and deported him, but Garvey is still a determined genius. "He has seen no failure, and we need Garvey and more Garveys. The Universal Improvement association has raised an agitated cry all over the world for resolute action on the part of Negroes." The Negro must dispel his fears and have more confidence in his own ability, he declared. COURT TO PASS ON VA. ELECTION LAW Validity of Law Which Forbids Negroes From Voting To Be Determined NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—The United States Circuit Court of Appeals will pass on the Virginia election law, which makes it possible for state party committees to bar Negroes from state primary elections. This information is contained in a letter sent to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People by Alfred E. Cohen, attorney, of Richmond, Virginia, who with Joseph R. Pollard, has been in charge of the case through the lower courts. A decision by Judge D. Lawrence Groner has held that the Virginia law is unconstitutional in that provision, but arrangement has been perfected to obtain a ruling on it by a higher court. Should this case come before the United States Supreme court, as is planned, and a favorable decision be obtained; it will complete the circle begun in the Texas white primary case, in which it was held that no state could enact a law specifically barring Negroes from primary elections. The present case concerns the attempt to accomplish the same end not by state law, but through voters qualifications set up by party committees. DEACON JONES COMING Girls, don't miss hearing Deacon Jones talk on "How to Get Married." At Rosemont Hall, Friday evening Dec. 20, at 8 p. m. Admission 35 cents. "In China husbands and wives seldom see each other before marriage. In America some seldom see each other afterward," says the Florence (Ala.) Herald. Clear Blackwell With Whitlock DEPLORES LACK OF ENTERPRISE AMONG GARY COLORED FOLK President of Peoples Mutual Industrial Association Asks Cooperation By Andrew Jackson President People's Mutual Industrial Association We are calling attention to the death of business enterprises conducted by our group in this our home city. In the commercial world of our race we are second to the tail-enders. We have nothing in the way of financial development. Absolutely nothing. What is wrong? Our population is sufficiently large to justify a greater activity in business affairs. The race shows little developed aptitude or disposition to enter into city business and thus create and direct his own opportunity. We are practically self-excluded from the vast field of opportunity. We seldom buy and sell commodities with a view of gaining a livelihood on the marginal profit. Not a race, man or woman could outfit himself with wearing apparel or equip his household with furniture and utensils by dealing direct with a member of his own race. I am not now dealing with theories, but indisputable facts, which seriously limit the Negro's field as a competitor in the sphere of city industries. The race will more likely overcome its present commercial disability by earning to practice self-reliance. To put over successfully the financial development that the race needs we must consider the great factor of cooperation. Not only in one thing must we be cooperative but in all things which are for the progress of the race. It is true that we have a number of race enterprises, but not a sufficient sum. We need a larger variety and more of the kind which we already have. Let's huddle together our means, our labor, our wits and whatever else is necessary to put into operation more business enterprises, so that we may see more independence. We have now among us groceries, drug stores, dry goods stores, a filling station, a hospital, blacksmith shops and perhaps a number of others but not enough enterprises to be independent among ourselves. It should not be impossible for us to see the necessity of getting up and doing something for ourselves. When we learn to ask ourselves for what we need, and not until then, will we be a progressive people and considered by others worth while. NOTICE Atty. C. L. Carroll wishes to an nounce the removal of his office from 1745 Broadway to 1622 Broadway Phone 2-5169. LEGAL NOTICE I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by anybody other than myself. PUBLIC LIBRARY CARY, INDIANA NGRESS CASE! ckwell hitlock Of ing nite BLAME MOSES FOR TROUBLE AS THEY ARE GIVEN RELEASE s in Gary --- Business Men Of City In Meeting Seek To Unite Problems of Negro business in Gary was the important subject discussed Sunday afternoon at a meeting of the Business and Professional league at Rosemont hall. With more than a half dozen Gary business and professional men and women as speakers, the meeting brought local merchants and others together to analyze their ills and suggest remedies. Better methods of handling business, developing employment and other topics were discussed by the speakers, among whom were James P. Crawford, well known local business man, S. L. Stacker, contractor and builder, J. H. Taylor, district manager of the Mammoth Life Insurance company, N. A. Porter, Hammond merchant and William Porter. Greetings from the Gary Noonlay Business club were expressed by the Rev. F. S. Delaney. Members and officers of the league were introduced by the Rev. G. W. Portis, president and Atty. Adelbert Moore. Short talks were also made by Atty C. L. Howard, Mrs. Georgia Caudie and Mrs. A. T. Calhoun. A composition of his own was rendered by Mr. Calhoun. Chaucersey Townsend presided. The meeting was the first of a series to be held by the league in its effort to promote Negro business, according to the Rev. Portis. STATE COMPLETES ITS 1929 PROGRAM STATE COMPLETES ITS 1929 PROGRAM INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 13. (Special)—Less than 10 miles of pavement contracted by the state highway commission for completion in 1929 will remain unfinished when building for this season shuts down. It is the most remarkable record ever made by the commission in 10 1-2 years of road paving. This statement was made by Albert J. Wedeking, commission chairman, before the sixth annual session of the Indiana Highway Constructors' Association meeting in Indianapolis. Chairman Wedeking complimented contractors on state work for their speed this year, and made it plain the commission considered it more desirable that state paving be done by firms properly equipped and skillful enough to complete contracts on time. A definite program of legislation to protect $120,000,000 Indiana has invested in state roads should be forthcoming in the next General Assembly, declared John J. Brown, department director. "I am unilaterally opposed to legislation that would restrict the truck and bus business, but I am insistent that legislation is needed to regulate size and weight of these vehicles in order to protect the state." HOME EDITION PRICE FIVE CENTS Sperling, Woodfolk, Crawford, Wirt and Bolden Get Their Freedom Ending a period of suspense and reestablishing confidence in Negro leadership in Gary, the Whitlock conspiracy case, involving charges against two colored aldermen, a sergeant of of detectives, two prominent lawyers, and two well known business men of the city, was nole proposed by the government in Hammond Federal district court Wednesday afternoon, on a motion by District Attorney Oliver Loomis. By the act, freedom was given to all the defendants and an opportunity was made possible for them to return to their work and pursue their careers, unharmed by the thought of indictments in the future, and untainted by the experience thru which they had gone. Decision of the government to enter a nole prosecuil to the charges was suddenly made by the district attorney shortly after noon Wednesday. He gave his reason "a fatal proof of variance from charges in the indictment." Case Collapses Thus came the collapse of the government's case against seven of Gary's most prominent colored men. Those cleared of the charges, as a result, are: Arthur B. Whitlock, councilman of the Fifth ward, who had been indicted for conspiracy to violate the national prohibition law by a Federal Grand Jury in South Bend on October Fourth ward, indicted on the same ber 9, last. Dr. S. R. Blackwell, councilman of charge on October 11, last. John Bolden, detective sergeant, "nightmare of Washington street," one of Gary's most efficient police officers, who had been indicted on October 1. Roger W. Woodfokel, prominent attorney-at-law, also indicted for conspiracy. Louis Sperling, former state fire marshal, and learned attorney at law, indicted for conspiracy. James P. Crawford, pool hall proprietor indicted for conspiracy. Russel Wirt, local business man, also indicted for conspiracy. The charges made against all of them were believed to be the result of testimony given to the Grand Jury by other Negroes, notably among whom, it is alleged, was Dave Moses, former county office holder and many times a candidate and applicant for public offices in the city and county. So convinced were they that Moses So convinced were they that Moses had played the paramount part in (Continued on page 2) investment, likewise to make safer the motor ways. 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In Alexander's hands, Whitlock placed his frust, relying solely upon the skill and knowledge of the former, a com paratively young man with less ex Perience than most of the others asso: ciated with the defense counsel, but man who, realizing the seriousness of the charges, studied day and night from the day of his client’s indictment t o his acquittal, to overthrow the governments cave The confidence he had in his atorney was well justified, Whitlock stated in aif interview with The American to- Gay. “Alexander proved himeelf as good as Clarence Darrow might have been,” Whitlock said. Bolden, Crawford and Woodfolk had as their counsel, Judge W. C. Hucston, an attorney of 35 years experience a: @ practioner in all the courts of the country. When it is considered that Hyeston has had far more experience than ‘Alexander, Whitlock's faith in Alexander was ‘the most courageous of all. 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Both ar members of the ciiy council whose terms end December 16, ican music and poctry their color, The|vhould have his sacred Spirituals re] ————_ se speaker deplorl certsin types in| ferred to as “darky spirituals” a Sas cena “social documents” and have doubt-\easting stations in Chicago, any mort lessly served their purpose han the Chinaman would have you | | Mr. McFarlane concluded this phase | call his compositions “chin songs” ov 1 ‘of his lecture with the reflection that che Russians their compositions ||} : it is very unfortunate that many w musi¢ | Jers have not made “Men” of the The last speaker of the aftern | Negro character: i tr, Charles Dawson, artist, of || He then presented the Negro as cago. He presented the achi ! creator of verse and prose, With n ts of the Negro in painting and Seas A discredit to Jupiter Hammon, the first | sculptural work | Negro poet of whom any record ex-| After reviewing the Negro’ heri-| ists, the speaker began with the works | tage in these fields by referring to] , lof Phillis Wheatley and concluded this| the aacient Sphinx and other im-| first period of creation with the works | mortal works of art that are unn of Dunbar. The speaker found it |takzble creations of black people, Mr | strikingly amusing that the fa Dawson explained that the Negro ir these creations are magnified as at-| America has not achieved mu rs tested proof of the Negro's inability to {hese lines for the following reasor achieve catholicity of taste in his p First: His environment has not heen try, yet Dunbar’s ercations ‘ jucive to that kind of inspiration | the best in any land, as Braithwaite | for this fin | Banas and Dett and ‘Taylor and Cullen and| Second: He has not had the benefits Phone 2-4984 others. of training in general through our Before rendering three touching| high schools led the timely protest that the Negro] Read the Professional Directory. || THE GARY AMERICAN hould have his sacred Spirituals re. ferred to as “darky spirituals” as is frequently done over certain broad- casting stations in Chicago, any more than the Chinaman would have you call his compositions “chin songs” or he Russians their great composition “honky music.” ‘The last speaker of the afternoon was Mr. Charles Dawson, artist, of Chicago. He presented the achieve- ments of the Negro in painting and culptural works. After reviewing the Negro’sheri- tage in these fields by referring to the ancient Sphinx and other im- mortal works of art that are unmis- takable creations of black people, Mr. Dawson explained that the Negro in America has not achieved much along hese lines for the following reasons: First: His environment has not heen onducive to that kind of inspiration for this finer art. Second: He has not had the benefits of training in general through our high schools, Read the Professional Directory. Oe eT | aes TP A SAE 8 A ARIS AV CONDENS: SORE, TE SD RR K i rause Packing Co. 1932 BROADWAY Phone 2-4984 FREE DELIVERY Phone 2-4984 TC WE SELL FOR LESS BUT WE WANT THE CASH! 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Our Coal is HEAT COAL that burns slowly and lasts longer, leaving so little ash that the furnace need not be cleaned out once every two weeks. A sootless coal, too. Less dusting for the housewife in consequence. You'll be surprised at the results you will get after using our coal. We are prepared to fill orders today, tomorrow or at any time. Friday, December 13, 1929 Personals Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Ramsey and Miss Veronica Trent motored to Indianapolis, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey visited their sister and Miss Trent visited her sister. Mrs. Amanda Thompson of Union Town, Penn., was the guest of Dr. Kelley Greene over the week end. Monday night Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Greene accompanied Mrs. Dane Patton, Mr. Aaron Malone of Quincy, Illinois, Mrs. Roberts of Chicago, and Dr. Lyts of Chicago to hear Paul Robeson at Orchestra hall. Mr. Vance D. Smith, 1812 Connecticut is confined to his bed on account of illness. Riots of laughter for every member of the family. Hear Deacon Jones on "How to Get Married." Rosemont hall, Dec. 20. Admission 35 cents. Miss Margaret Steptoe spent the week end in Chicago visiting Mrs. Idell Umble formerly of Gary. Mr. Hugh Cunningham and sister, Virginia and Nellie, spent the week end in Chicago visiting friends and schoolmates of Mary Homes seminary. Clubs The Avondale club met Sunday in its club room on 2449 Broadway. The visitors were Miss Harriet Baker, Mr. Elwood Shaw, Miss Louise Shutt, Mr. George Currey, Miss Luela Carlton, Mr. Theodore Glover, Mr. Joe Ratclife, Mr. Tracey Smith, Mr. Logan Ivory, Mrs. Williams, Mr. Hutton of Gary, and Miss Carry Shayne visiting from Tennessee. Refreshments were served. The Owls club will meet Saturday with Mrs. T. J. Patton. The K.F.A. club is sponsoring a play the first of next month for the benefit of the Hunton branch Y.M.C.A. The Mission society met at Stewart house Monday. Plans were made for making contributions to the Friendship home in Chicago. The contributions will consist of can goods. The public is invited to give as freely as possible. Rebekah Chapter No. 39, of Eastern Stars met Thursday at Masonic temple hall, 2100 Washington. Entertainments Saturday night, Mrs. Olga Tatum and Mrs. Florence Alexander entertained at a shower in honor of Mrs. Beulah Woods of Chicago. The guests gathered at the home of Mrs. Alexander where the gifts to Mrs. Woods were on display. They were both numerous and costly. The evening was spent in playing bridge. Prize winners were Mrs. Alberta Newsome, Mrs. Carrie Hockaday and Mrs. Corinne Semmers. The Lotus club gave a surprise shower for Mrs. Willa Brown Hardaway at the home of Mrs. Leota Sims of 2354 Washington. Church News Girls, don't miss hearing Deacon Jones talk on "How to Get Married." At Rosemont Hall, Friday evening, Dec. 20, at 8 p. m. Admission 35 cents. A box social given by class-leaders, stewards and sterwardesses of St. James A.M.E. church was quite a success. The ladies of the church prepared lunch boxes which were purchased by the men. Church games were played by the young people, and everyone enjoyed a pleasant evening. Mrs. Belle Caldwell was chairman. The election of Officers of Emma L. Cherry temple was held Wednesday night by Mrs. Rochele McMemor Mrs. Hattie Lewis was elected financial secretary, Mrs. Margie Woodfolk, daughter ruler, Mrs. Anna Bishop, vice-daughter ruler, Mrs. Mary Gary, treasurer, and Mrs. Mary J. Campbell, trustee. A Sunday school drama entitled, "Tuning in at the Wedding" will be presented by the young girls of St. James A.M.E. church tonight. These girls are under the supervision and instruction of Mrs. Palma Dickerson. The affair promises to be a very pretty one. The King and Queen rally which was held at the St. James A.M.E. last Sunday proved to be worthwhile. The church raised $150. The Thanksgiving dinner given towards this amount which was $53. The rally will be continued throughout December. At the beginning of the New Year. S. I. PRINCE SHOE REPAIR SHOP BEST MATERIALS GOOD WORKMANSHIP at 23 West 22nd Avenue OF THE AMERICAN! FOREMAN'S 561 BROADWAY IS YOUR CLOTHING STORE You're welcome to come into Foreman's at any time and look over our complete stocks of Men's Overcoats, 2-Pants Suits, Hats, Caps, Shoes and Furnishings. REMEMBER You Can Always Buy a Good 2-Pants Suit or Overcoat at Foreman's for $30----$35----$40 MALLORY HATS SMITH SMART SHOES WILSON BROS. FURNISHINGS Hammond News There was a special mass meeting held last Sunday at the Mt. Zion Baptist hospital in interest the St. John hospital, Gary, in interest the address were delivered by Dr. R. M. Hedrick and Dr. Royal W. Grubbs of Gary: Dr. Arthur Lynne and Dr. Sydney L. Martin of East Yorkshire, Dr. Evan G. E. Harwell, and W. M. McClendon of Hammond, Dr. Dennis A. Bethea was chairman of the Mrs. Gid McDonald who has been ill for some time is very much improved. Mrs. John Lewis of Merrill ave., is ill at home. Bethea M. E. church on Plummer ave., is preparing for an interesting Christmas program. There will be a union religious service on at St. John's A. M. E. Zion church. The Rev. W. M. Davis will preach the sermon. Mrs. John Keys of Michigan Ave., was cared for on epm. last week on account of the death her father Mrs. Clara Prentup, Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Head spent the week-end in Chicago, visiting friends. Mrs. Lawrence is ill at his home, 168 Michigan ave. Col. Roscoe Conklin Simmons, will lecture at the open Forum at the Beth-Eli Temple, on Hohman street. Tuesday the 17th, he will speak annually has at least one colored speaker year, DuBois and James Weldon Johnson have spoken in previous years. Col Simmons is very popular in these parts, is expected to draw a tremendous crowd. Mrs. Cellesteen Grace of 121st LaSalle states to taken to St. Margaret hospital last Tuesday. Rev. Frank S. Delaney of Gary, was circulating around among his Hammond field. Queen Elizabeth of Larned avenue has returned from a visit to Memphis. Mr. Ed. Alexander of Larned avenue has returned from a visit to Memphis. Mrs. Sim Davis of Fields ave. who has been ill for some time is out again. Church Gets Minister The Rev. Edward E. Lewis of Chicago and Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is now pastor of the Grace Presbyterian church near Twenty-third and Washington. Rev. Lewis is also connected with the staff of the Neighborhood house. The present value of the French franc is approximately $.0392. Rev. Coleman states that a financial plan will be put into operation to reach each member. A Christmas program is now under practice with Mrs. Clara A. Webster in charge. The Sunday school will present a pageant on Christmas eve night entitled "All Missions on to Bethlehem." Shopping With MARY ANN THE GARY AMERICAN Shoppin MARY The Gary American Drug Store, 1839 Broadway, fills prescriptions with pure drugs. Try our sandwiches and hot coffee. Personal Holiday Greeting Cards. Many beautiful designs Your name in Old English or Script type. Box containing fifteen cards with envelopes, $1.00. Small quantities ten cents each card Bolar Printing Co. 2176 Washington street Phone 2-4947 Visit the Colonial Barber Shop, 2W. 25th avenue, for first class service. Our barbers are efficient and courteous. Segregation Loses in Columbus, Phio NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Victory is reported from Columbus, Ohio, to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, of a colored woman resident against segregation by white property owners' covenant. The case was won by Alexander H. Martin, of Cleveland, acting as attorney for Mrs. Daisy Hall Rice, a life-long resident of Columbus. The case originated in an action to oust Mrs. Rice from possession of a lot she had purchased, on the basis of a white property owners' covenant which would prevent sale to and ownership by Negroes. Judge Cowan sitting in Franklin County sustained a motion by Mr. Martin for a directed verdict in favor of Mrs. Rice. . The angeant. "All About 1,200,000 copies of the song hit, "Sonny Boy," have been sold since the song first appeared in this country. Telling more means selling more. It is worth while to give all important facts in your items for this department. Bicycles. Good as new, $15. New bicycles, $23. Wheel toys at low prices. Motorcycle Mike, 1973 Broadway, dial 2-6132. A directory of wants and offers which is strictly brought up-to-date each day—that's what this department is. Look after the home—first. Before spending a lot of money buying useless presents, why not furnish the home with those needed articles of furniture. American Furniture Co. 1710 Broadway. For first class work, call Ace Cleaners, Phone 2-6889. Yes, we do remodeling and repairing. Phone your items for this column to Mary Ann, no matter what you have to offer. What could be more appreciated as a Christmas gift than a box of Martha Washington's delicious candies. They are famed for deliciousness. Martha Washington Candy Store, Gary Hotel Bldg. HOW TO GET MARRIED Riots of laughter for every member of the family. Hear Deacon Jones on "How to Get Married." Rosemont hall, Dec. 20. Admission 35 cents. LUMP AND EGG COAL—Clean, reforked, $6.50; nut, $6; mine run, $5.50; Sinclair, Roxana Oil Coke, $5.75 per ton. Isaac Bloom, "pointer coal man," 945 Broadway, phone 2-2530. OUR COAL IS SUPERIOR We sell only the finest grade of coal and coke obtainable in the county. Coal that gives heat quickly, lasts longer, and leaves no disagreeable odor. Place your order today for your winter's supply. Let us serve as we have served hundreds of others for many years. JOHN STOWE COAL COKE and WOOD 2404 Pierce Phone 4-3681 A store owned and controlled by Progressive Negroes of Gary We handle the Best and Our Prices Suit Your Pocketbook. Just Call 2-7503 We Serve You With a Smile and Deliver FREE. Let The Laundry Do It Don't Have a wash day in your home "The Laundry That Does Its Best" Professional Directory PHYSICIANS -- SURGEONS Hours 9 to 11 a.m. - 1 to 2:30 p.m. 5:30 to 9 p.m. DR. WM. F. BROWN Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women a Specialty 25 Years in Practice 2182 Broadway Gary, Indiana Phone 2-1087 HAMMOND, IND. Phone Hammond 3945-W Dennis A. Bethea, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 530 Kenwood Hammond ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Dr. Dan B. Taylor Diseases of Children and Chest 1803 BROADWAY Phone 2-6418 Reginald O. Mundin M. D. Physician and Surgeon Medico y Cirujano 1715 BROADWAY Phone Gary 2-2159 Dr. Charles R. Wood Physician and Surgeon 1512 BROADWAY Over Woolworth's Gary, Ind. Phone 2-1374 Dr. S. R. Blackwell Physician and Surgeon 1609 BROADWAY Dr. Lucretia A. Carter Physician and Surgeon 1709 BROADWAY ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Phone Gary 2-3865 Fritz W. Alexander Attorney at Law Notary Public Page Three SUPERIOR of coal and coke obtainable us heat quickly, lasts longer, our winter's supply. Let us s of others for many years. STOWE and WOOD Phone 4-3681 Grocery Exchange hington St. and controlled by groes of Gary and Our Prices Suit ketbook. 2-7503 a Smile and Deliver E. Laundry Do It a wash day home ary-7571 Laundry Co. assachusetts t Does Its Best" HAMMOND, IND. Phone Hammond 3945-W Dennis A. Bethea, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 530 Kenwood Hammond ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW Phone 2-4250 C. L. Howard Attorney at Law 1438 BROADWAY Phone 2-2870 Edward McKinley Bacoyn LAWYER 2089 BROADWAY F. Louis Sperling Attorney at Law Suite 2, Room 2 American Bldg 1901 Broadway Phone 2-1860 Adelbert S. Moore Attorney at Law Suite 2, Room 4 1901 BROADWAY Phone 9411 Milo C. Murray Attorney at Law Suite 1 1901 BROADWAY CHRIOPRACTORS Phone 2-2870 Dr. Frank S. Rudolph Licensed Drugless Physician Specialist in Chronic Diseases 2089 BROADWAY : a i "4 BHAT 1 Fecal eT 3 > Se tle’ IS soto eee et ‘< Published every Friday morning in the year by The Gary American Pal ‘Carapany, Incorporated, American Building, 7 Es ft Ninete uae os pany, Incorporated, American Building, 7 East Nine enth TELEPHONE, GARY 2.4060 — IF BUSY CALL GARY 2-1865 Saree ‘second-class mail matter at the post-office at Gary, Indiana, the Act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1929, by The Gary American Rpblishing Company, Incorporated. CHAUNCEY NSEND BOOKER T. THOMAS <"__ Executive Gditor Business Manager WF Subscription price $1.50 « year in advance. For six months, $1. Singh 2 ton price $1.59 a year in advance, For six $1. Single Te Whe Wary Americar enters the field without malice or envy, toward qigone._ Te es no are to grind. Neither does it have anyone to punish; it has gt one aim, to which it will cling with pion devotion, and that is to stand dquanthpsinetonse of the rights of the black American,’—Prospectus of The Gary American No. 1, November 10, 1927. a x NET it FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1929 ne The Small Town’s Opportunity Aided by a comprehensive city building plan, Gary has a better opportunity for sane growth and healthful living than the metropolitan centers. One of the main features of a “comprehensive plan’ must be a street system that provides for future growth. In many small Amer- ican cities and towns streets are narrow and poorly surfaced. Few of them can be used as through routes. Upkeep is costly and a contin- ual drain on the city’s finances. Gary has the advantage of being able to correct deficiencies in its street system without exhorbitant expense. By beginning now it can avoid pitfalls of traffic congestion that are an apparently insoluble problem in many of our great centers of population. By using low cost paving materials it can, at a reasonable figure, salvage old streets and secure maximum service from them at a minimum of upkeep ex- pense. The cities of the future are the small towns of today. They should begin now to provide for their development. Certainty of Punishment Deters Crime Crime has its place in the front row of American life today. This is evidenced by the fact that gang warfare forms the basis of the plots in many current “talkies” and “movies,” where not so long ago historical incidents and frontier episodes were the basis of stirring scenes around which the play revolved. “Big business crime” has created a new vocabulary which is be- coming a part of our daily word usage as was evidenced during recent tariff hearings when interrogators expressed themselves in words tak- en from the latest vernacular of gangland. The more important crime becomes as a big business, the more difficult it is to control. Not the severity of punishment but the certainty is the best de- terrent for crime. declares E. Roy Calvert, crime statistician of Eng- land. England's greater success in dealing with its crime problem is largely due, he says, to the success of the police and courts in bring- ing a greater number of law-breakers to conviction. Professors and policemen who recently met in Chicago for a con- ference on crime and traffic and how to control both brought out one basic fact, namely, that we have inadequate crime and trafhe records from which to draw conclusions and formulate constructive programs for betterment. SEL WE re, i . Should We Imitate The White Man? The second of w serics of articles bu W. A. Lorden on the subject of as- (milating white culture is here presented today by The Gury Atterican: Bu W. A. Loren Any close observer notes the incon sistency of Negro editers who protest the identification ef a criminal in while news papers with the added deveription that the criminal is a Ne- gro—yet the moment amafficial who Happens to be of our group is honor. ed at a banquet, an X is placed over Wis head to which the attention of “Southern Crackers” is culled. Why should we think of segregation or dis. ctimination in things purely social religious or educational? — A mar cannot he segregated. If a fool place: a screen between you and_ himself Weeause he thinks that he is better than you are—you are a bigger fool than he if you allow the act to make you at all uncomfortable. We have really exhausted our wort out arguments in futile attempts tc Support our contentions in regards t segregation. There is really no mor. al or legal reason why any mar should not determine who should visit his theatre, you might say that the concern serves the public and eact person should be accorded the same courtesy. That is true, but why no label the man ax one who is withou' an essential code of business ethic and move on? We Talk Too Much The greatest blessing that coul possibily come to the Negroes 0 America would be a sudden cease discussion of segregation and it evils. We could save our children 0 the burden of the complex that tha social hoax develops. This writer does not believe in de manding any and everything on th grounds that it is your “right.” H Velieves in demanding only thos things that will be of advantage t you. We should not be of the opinion tha is preached by Lothorp Stoddard an others. We do not know this, if w do not know what we do want—tha we do not want to marry the whit man’s daughter. It is of no use t argue with Mr. Stoddard. He canno know us. He argues that the “racia line” will never be broken for ther is something in the white man tha tnakes him fight to ward off the dread ful back wash of amalgamation an ‘its dreadful consequence. We knot ‘that'there is no sincere desire in th PareFour. white man te curb amalgamation. ‘The white man has been as careles: with his precious blood and heritage as he has been with fire and ropes. A. Negro ean marry a white man" daughter any day that he chooves in Georgia, Texas or New York, and there is ne protest by the white man— yes he can—providing the mother of the daughter is # colored woman. This proves Mr. Stoddard’s explanation of the white man’s fitful fever to pre- serve his race. We are a great people for projec- tion. A very learned man of this city said to me that the one unques- tionable good that comes from mixed schools’is the understanding and good will that is created between the groups. He further stated that this is the last and only thrust at the great nightmare of racial strife that would darken and destroy our coun- try. All very true. But, why would we be more anxious than’ the Ameri. can whites in saving our country when we have nothing relatively to lose? Alain Locke strikes it. He is not satisfied with the peculiar posi- tion in which he finds himself (which is doubtlessly true of countless oth- ers). There is not the proper appre ciation for his soul and brain cells within our group, so he suggests a conspiracy with the white man to create a horrible caste system with its attendant economic evils. Dis- satisfaction without that revengeful spirit to remedy explains the major- ity of us. We need the courage to roll up our sleeves and get down to the worth while task of lifting our masses. It is only in this way that any of us may be lifted to universal respect. We grow so tall and then must depend upon the elevated shoulders of the masses to enable us to reach higher, Whose respect do we wish to win? Why not our own! Enable me to de- velop my “I am” and you wil! have a man who is hard to defeat. Enable me to develop this “I am” by encour- aging me to be conscious of my privi- lege of being black, Souvenir: | One hundred years from now in: stead of saying with apology; “I was mistreated because I am black” —I shall say with awe; “Ie mistieated me though J am Black.” THE GARY AMERICAN y Lesson In English Our Weekly Lesson In English You Will Appreciate the High ; Quality of Our Food Everybody, who insists upon food of taste makes Bolton’s restaurant a habit. When you want to be served promptly with good, well-cooked and appetizing food and drink, you ought to come to Bolton’s, too. Our best advertisements are our satisfied customers who return day after day and go out smiling—and satisfied. BOLTON’S (Formerly Tungstol’s Cafe) . 24 West 17th Avenue Have Them Cleaned Now! Gary is having a price war among its cleaners and dyers. To meet the competition, we have cut our prices. Have all your clothes cleaned now. Suits Cleaned and Pressed ........$1.00 (Called For and Delivered) Suits Cleaned and Pressed ..........70¢ (If You Bring It In) Ladies’ Dresses and Coats ........ .$1.25 HOME DYERS and CLEANERS Work Called For and Delivered 20 East 20th Place Phone 2-1332 Our Weekly Lesson in English By W. L. Gordon Words Often. Misused Do not confuse “hence” (from this place), with “thence” (from that place); and do not use “from” with either word. Say, “Hence we shall go to Detroit.” Do not say, “Walking is healthy.” Say, “heathful." “Healthy” means possessing health, as, “The boy is healthy.” Do not say, “Every person has cer- tain distinguished traits.” Say, “has certain distinctive traits.” Do not say, “He was shot in the fight.” Say, “During the fight he was shot,” or, “He was shot in the abdo- men during the fight.” Do not say, “My salary has been raised.” Say, “has heen increased.” Do not confuse “ingenious” (tal- ented, clever), with “ingenaous” (free from reserve, open, frank.) Words Often Mixpronounced Avenue. Pronounce av-e-new, a as in “at,” ¢ as in “me,” accent first syllable, not av-e-noo. Smith’s Auto Body Works Fifth and Vermont Streets Phone 2-3319 First Class Body & Fender Work Automobile Glass Painting and Trimming ~ | Frames and Axles Straightened FIRST CLASS WORKMANSHIP. We Re-build Auto Bodies Linguist. “Pronounce _lin-gwist, both is as in “it.” _ Egg. Pronounce the e as in “beg,” ‘not as a in “vague.” | Bona fide. Pronounce bo-na-fide (four syllables), 0 as ‘in “no,” a as in “sofa,” i as in “tice,” e as in “me,” accent grst and third syllables. Lithesome. Pronounce the th as in “this,” not as in “thin.” Remediable. Pronounce re-me-dia- bl, both e's as in “me,” i as in “it,” SAM’S LOAN SHOP JEWELER & PAWNBROKER Unredeemed Jewelry, Watches, Diamonds, Clothing ‘and Shot Guns for Sale 1604 BROADWAY ANAAAKANVSATAASNA ANNAN GANS Z You can Always he Assured Z of the Best in ¢ Fruits and Z Vegetables Z When You Buy Here | John Rompotis 1702 Broadway | be es WRBARBRAARARBARABAARBAARBARARS a gas Suits Cleaned | ; and Pressed | g MONDAY - TUESDAY | ; , 4 , 69c | , , If brought in. Service and Sat- 5 j isfaction Guaranteed : ; * ; Superior | ; ; Remodelers | Z “THE LITTLE PLACE” { Z 2136-38 BROADWAY | ee ae a ee EELS ee Nm ie a EE _|\WNG a A | . i i i ee TTS | IE GE , Itc ” til ase 2 | overs =e | ZZ s = LS Allof Gary aa |. BZ == JT in of eM Merehant ees = AST think of It er Menus = A = Copies of each issue of the— P2449 — GARY AMERICAN ZY SS —so into 6,500 homes in Gary. Aaa" Were it physically possible to open SEE —— up those copies, lay their pages —— edge to edge, there'd be enough ——E—— paper to practically “roof” the == — community. 4 =, 6 \3=4 — =o With an average of 3 per- &, LH 3 ——— | sons reading it in each a SS — | home, imagine what a ‘>= —— vast audience of prospec- ry —— tive buyers you can reach ri SSS through use of its— _— oe e Bio y Advertising Columns! -\ VWs Give Th IVa a em A Test a | RAW, ROTA TITY. Nis WAAR AG a. GAVIA IIA NATH = 7 : accent second ‘syllable. Words Utten Misspelled Garnishee, “garnished, garnishee- ing; each word retains’ the double e. Real (genuine) reel (to stagger), reel (a windlass), reel (a dance.) Melancholy. Note the h, also. the single 1 before the y. Aquatic, not acq. Topsy-turvy; not sey and vey. Photogravure. Synonyms RB cee eee (one netene ae ee Deacon Jones 3 I e ? s Coming! Deacon Jones is coming to town to entertain all who come to hear him. He will speak on, ry : ; HOW TO GET | MARRIED” — : An entertaining lec | ture given for the first | time in Gary by the well- | t known writer and speak- eer faeaneacnes: It is educational, en- | : tertaining and instruc- tive. Don't miss it. ; ; | FORONE | : NIGHT ONLY | Avail yourself of the | ; opportunity to near this | + famous lecture. : ; Admission 35 cents : Doors open at 8 p. m. : : Program starts at 8:30 : opm: ae e Friday Night | | Dec. 20th © | 19th and Broadway ie ' gC C MENS) W~ ANT ‘hier dinineNOu | ig i. t ae | \ | ia S gil, | al 3 Am ae | fw i i Ls y kx PN | DSW \ a WR ‘y \ yy 7 | a a | F_qutlin Sa \ Dy fp TMEIERS «|. eee his __Teveami 4 USUS SS os enemuersg i DON’T BE FOOLED! 4 i wiiCE BALD—ALWAYS BALD! | — DON’T GUESS AT IT — f | con 'ene wanes Keeps bait in placer sue. gitwy ond neti ieee. Grates the scalp and promotes the growth.” Frice 80 cante par Jen PYRAMID PRODUCTS. COMPANY ! 2 se PEO DE CTS COMP ANT x Sat a PwAAsAaAs DAAAAADAL Finest To Chicag Ride fast, comfortable Shore Line motor coaches to Chicago. Luxurious parlor-type coaches in regular daily service. Service trom 462 Broadway Gary, to 63rd and South Park, Chicago (White City Tower) every 15 minutes—every ten minutes in the busy hours. Handy connections with clevated train to all parts of Chicago at 68rd Street. Shore Line Motor Coach Company SERRRRRRABBAASSARASANARCAAA GS WARAA AA 04 4400 ec combat, conflict; contest, fight. New, novel, fresh, late, recent, mod- ern. Passive, impassive, stoical, apathe- tie, stolid. z Have, ‘hold, own, possess. Friday, December 13, 1929 | Alleviate, mitigate, diminish, mod- od-|erate, abate, soothe, assuage, allay. Nice, ‘fastidious, discriminating, he-| particular, finical. 1 = Read the Professional Directory € Friday, December 13, 1929 Gives Advice On Starting Car In Winter Set of Rules of Making it Easy Given by Motor Club; Facts Given During the recent subzero blast which swept over the greater part of the country, many thousands of automobiles could not be started after being parked in the open. The mechanical first aid department of the Chicago Motor Club offers the following aids to starting in frigid temperature. 1. Ask the agency of your car or a reliable filling station to place the lightest lubricants, compatible with safe lubrication, in the crank case and gear box. 2. Before stepping on the starter, see to it that the gear shift lever is in neutral and depress the clutch pedal. Open the hand feel throttle one-quarter of the way or more. 3. Step on the starter and use the choke sparingly. 4. If the starter cannot spin the motor, set the spark at full retard and pull sharply upward with the crank. This quick motion will frequently start motors when the starter fails. 5. When it is expected that the car will remain parked in the open Gary Shoe Mart W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES First Choice Millions of men wear W. L. Douglas Shoes year after year in preference to all other makes because they know Douglas Shoes are the greatest dollar for dollar value to be found anywhere. We have a complete stock of these quality shoes. $6.50 60 Styles Queen Quality shoes for the women who care. $6.50 Ladies' Russia Boots, an ideal Christmas gift. Gary Shoe Mart 1104 BROADWAY The Best Gift of All YOUR PHOTOGRAPH It's something that money cannot buy — your picture — and it is a gift that should be reserved for those dearest to you. Baslyan Photo Studio has been a creator of artistic photographs for many years. Or do now your Christmas photographs. BASLYAN PHOTO STUDIO Phone 2-3507 2105 Broadway for a long period, it is wise, when shutting the motor off, to speed it slightly and then shut off the ignition and choke it at the same time. This procedure causes a gasoline vapor to be present in the cylinders when the motor is next started. This practice should be used infrequently, however, as the gasoline drawn into the cylinders tends to seep past the pistons into the crank case, where it dilutes the oil. The oil should be changed frequently if this trick is resorted to repeatedly. 6. The ignition system and carburator adjustment must be correct in order to enjoy easy starting. —The length of the longest snake in the New York Zoo is $261\frac{1}{2}$ feet. Financial Advisory Service What New York Stock Exchange Issues will you buy now for In- come, and for an Advance? We make no charge unless you realize a profit on our recommendations, based on the advance. Write for details. William McMahon's Market Digest, Inc. 82 Wall Street New York Colonial Barber Shop 20 W. 25th Street Sanitary Equipment Haircut 40c Shave 20c Shoe Shine 10 To Chicago —The MIDWEST WAY Is The BEST WAY Comfortable Coaches Manned By Careful Competent Drivers Service From 462 Broadway to 63rd and South Park, Chicago at 10 and 15 Minute Intervals From Morning Till Midnight MIDWEST MOTOR COACH COMPANY 462 Broadway Phone 2-1648 THE GARY AMERICAN -There are six times as many plumbers in the United States as there were in 1906. 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With an average of three persons read- ing it in each home, a vast audience of pros- pective buyers can be reached through the use of its advertising columns. More and more, merchants who have something to sell to the colored people of Gary, are ad- vertising in The Gary American. The MYSTERY OF THE VERMILION RAY Still Unsolved! After a gruesome tragedy the Haunted Rock sheds a blinding light which science has not explained. THIRTY years ago a Negro preacher was riding a mule along the Whitewater road. It was a dark, somber day, and a flying mist filled the air. There was a hint of a heavy rain, and the preacher, Moss Anderson, was in a hurry to reach shelter. It had been misting rain since early morning, and the increasing dampness was against the comfortable travel of the wayfarer. Moss was humming a little song as his mule slowly picked his way over the uncertain road. True Stories Achievement Stories W. B. Ziff Co., 608 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Foreign Advertising Representatives The M VERM Still U After a gru Haunted Rock which science By DO THIRTY years ago a New Whitewater road. It filled the air. There w er, Moss Anderson, was in a hu rain since early morning, and comfortable travel of the way as his mule slowly picked his When he came to the place where the bluff ran straight up in the air to a dizzy height, Moss suddenly heard a deep rumbling sound, so he quickly brought his mount to a stop. The mule braced his front feet, the instinct of the animal showing in this sudden movement. This, of course, told Moss that something extraordinary was about to take place. And as the mule stopped, there came, almost before the rider had time to realize it, a deafening crash. But before the enormous rock above had let go of the side of the bluff and cascaded to the earth, Moss Anderson had seen something that stilled his heart. Directly beneath the falling rock stood a Negro woman who clutched the hand of a small child in each of her own. Moss needed no second flash of thought to assure him that the woman and the two little children had been buried beneath the gigantic rock, and without waiting to investigate, he leaped from the mule, left him standing there in the wagon road that wound around the side of the precipitous bluff, and rushed headlong in the direction of a large white house that stood not more than three hundred yards away. That was the beginning of the trouble at that particular spot a mile out of Dutchtown, Missouri, and that was when the big rock got its present name: "The Rock of the Haunting Woman." For, as a matter of fact, the remains of the woman and the two little children were never recovered. The rock weighed approximately sixty tons, and there was no way of blasting it, without completely destroying all trace of the human bodies that lay mangled beneath it. Men gathered, women came there and fainted at the horrible tragedy. Men tried to agree upon some sensible course of action to follow, but there was obviously no reasonable tactics to be adopted. The remains of the victims of the enormous rock would have to stay where they were. Come what may they could not be removed. Moss Anderson preached a sermon about it the following Sunday Billie Bailey, who because of his acquaintance with the hills, acted as a guide for the author and a number of investigators. He led the author to a vantage point where the red ray could be seen with remarkable clear-ness. The Gary American ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—December 14, 1929 Pictures and do ```markdown ``` The Haunted Rock—the source of the Vermillion Ray. This rock crushed the woman and children. By DORAN JOHNSON to a Negro preacher was riding a mule road. It was a dark, somber day, and there was a hint of a heavy rain, and in a hurry to reach shelter. It had fog, and the increasing dampness was the wayfarer. Moss was humming and his way over the uncertain road. The Haunted Rock—the sound morning at his miniature church in Piper's Glen, and he told his congregation that he had witnessed a sight that he would never forget as long as he lived; and the old settlers around Dutchtown remember how Moss was a nervous wreck for the balance of his life. It must have been terrible when Moss looked up to see the woman helpless there in the path of the rock and her two small girls holding to her hands for protection. Such a thing as that, once seen, is never easy to erase from the human mind. Since this tragedy, on each Friday night of every week, for the past twenty-five years, the ghost light of the Rock of the Haunting Woman has never ceased to put in appearance, regardless of other conditions, regardless of everything. The light seems to be upon the rock, in the center of it, and the light resembles in some measure a lantern with a red globe such as is used to warn the careless motorist of an excavation on the highway. Many attempts have been made to solve the mystery of the light, but all these efforts have resulted in failure on the part of the many investigators. There seems to be positively no explanation for the existence of the light with the vermilion ray. Sometimes the ray can be seen for as far as three hundred yards, while at a distance of a hundred yards the ray is almost blinding. Mrs. Roy Cain, wife of a prominent white hunter and sportsman, almost ran her car to its utter destruction one night when she was on her way to visit her parents. In fact, it is said that Mrs. Cain actually did run her coupe over the edge of a steep embankment, and succeeded in stopping it only when the front wheels hung over the side. It was a close call, in- OF THE AY ing through the night. but when the smoke cleared away, the light was still there. Now Cain thought this pert rifle shot. To tell the truth he thought it so strange that when he lifted the rifle a second time, to get another shot at the light, he felt his hands tremble slightly. Nervousness! For the first time in his life he felt nervous when about to fire a gun. He hesitated, called his two dogs, and made them crouch down at his feet. There was something comforting in their presence. He wasn't afraid, and he would not have been nervous had he been dealing with something more natural. Men or animals would not have troubled him the way the mysterious light bothered him; and he felt increasingly queer with that vermilion ray beating against his face. It had a somewhat warm glow. He knew that if he had been asked to describe how the ray felt against his flesh, he would have failed miserably. Then, from that moment on, he had the certainty that he was dealing with something supernatural. He lifted the rifle and fired again. This was followed by a third and a fourth shot; but the light did not vanish. He kept on shooting, and all the time he was getting more nervous. Ultimately, however, he ceased to fire, straightened himself up to his full height, and went striding toward the rock. There he climbed up on the top of it, and made an examination of its surface, rubbing his hands over it; but without result. He imagined the rock felt warm there on top, yet there was no evidence of there having ever been a light of any sort there. deed. And then, there is the investigation of her husband carried on to prove that there was positively nothing supernatural in the existence of the ghost light. Cain did not believe in ghosts, so he set out to bring home a solution to the mystery of the vermilion ray. He couldn't tolerate the stories that had been kept alive by the ancient residents of the village of Dutchtown for twenty years. He thought that somebody was having a barrel of fun by perpetrating a practical joke. He was sure some grim joker had started the light business twenty years before, and kept it up. There would be, when he had completed his minute investigation, nothing left to point to the theory of the ghost light, and then he would make all the fanciful stories that had been believed, seem as fabrications of an over imaginative brain. Consequently, when he launched his attack against the ghost light, he did it with steady and persistent determination. He approached the rock at nine o'clock on a clear Friday evening. It was in the summer time, and there was a full moon. The air was still. And the creatures of the wild places evidently had hidden away at the first sign of his coming. He parked his car at the bend in the road where his wife had almost gone to her death, took his two bird dogs, his rifle and a belt of cartridges and began slowly and cautiously to move in direction of the rock. When he had rounded the bend, the vermilion ray which looked as if it had been dipped in human blood, struck him squarely in the eyes. But he did not let this stop him. He moved to a position close enough to get a good shot, lifted his rifle and fired point-blank at the light. The bullet went whang-strange inasmuch as he is an ex- He approached the rock at nine o'clock on a clear Friday evening. . . The air was still . . . He . . . began slowly and cautiously to move in the direction of the rock. When he had rounded the bend, the vermilion ray which looked as though it had been dipped in human blood, struck him squarely in the eyes. But he did not let this stop him. The house near the Haunted Rock, a historical landmark Clean Fiction Human Interest Features ed the rock at nine o'clock on a clear ing. The air was still. He . . . and cautiously to move in the di- e rock. When he had rounded the million ray which looked as though it apped in human blood, struck him the eyes. But he did not let this stop him. for the Haunted Rock, a historical landmark. ```markdown ``` "Koke," this young colored fellow, a well-known figure about town, had his eyes severely burned by the mysterious ray. Chagrined, he climbed down off the rock and walked completely around it. Still, there was no evidence of there being anything out of the way. So he retreated to his former position, and whirling round, with the two dogs at his heels, he shot an inquiring glance at the rock. The light was there and the warm vermillion ray was (Continued on page 7) A Suffering Love Does Not Pay Have you a puzzling love affair on which you need friendly advice? 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The Wentworths are unable to pay Mamba, but Mamba is so devoted to the family that she is satisfied with her board and the opportunity of acting as maid to Polly a young lady of inherited social prominence. Folly was very apt in school, but Saint was a disappointment to everyone in the Wentworth family except Mamba, whose keen insight into human nature enabled her to see latent ability even though he did not respond creditably to the school system. Mamba alone understood Salmt. HAGAR—Mamba's giant, muscular slow-witted daughter, had an inordinate liking for strong drink, much to Mamba's distress. Two qualities she had in common with Mamba, namely, a fine contralto voice and a large body Mamba had said Hagar was 'born for trouble." LISSA—Hagar's daughter, wa. the object of Mamba's sacrifice and the cause of Mamba's constant remonstrances against Hagar's habit. Mamba leaves the Wentworths for the Atkinson's, who are also wealthy incidentally more wealthy than aristocratic—in order that she may obtain more pay. In the meantime Saint obtains a five dollar a week job as storekeeper at the mines and begins a business career. One of Hagar's escapades leads her into a brawl with a Negro, whom she belabors with so much severity that she is arrested and charged with aggravated assault. Hagar is given a two-year suspended sentence. Mamba sends her to Saint for a job at the mines. Hagar astonishes the miners by performing a man's work. She turns her earnines over to Mamba, who saves them for Lissa. At a combination church service and "Love Feast" Hagar (whose new name is Baxter) befriends Bluton, a very much despised mulatto, by carrying him to a city hospital after he has been seriously "slashed" by one of the frolickers. Under Hagar's suspended sentence, she was forbidden to within the city limits and she barely escapes prison again. The season's most exclusive social event among the white folk is the ball of the St. Cecilia society. The Atkinsons are elated over their invitation to attend this event, consequently they invite Mr. Atkinson's pretty niece, Valerie, to attend as their guest. Mamba takes Lissa, who is no about ten years of age, to the Tentworth home to see Polly's evening gown. While there, Lissa is found to be developing into a very beautiful girl. Reverend Grayson becomes persona non grata in the community. However, he succeeds in establishing a lasting friendship with Baxter and leaves his New York address with her. Saint has become a successful business man, while Valerie has been abroad and acquitted herself creditably in the service of her country during the World War. Lissa, now seventeen, has blossomed into a maiden of exotic beauty. She has become identified with an intellectual group where her voice—the deep contralto, handed down from Mamba through Baxter—has attracted much attention. Lissa is now a member of Charleston's intelligentsia, where she meets Frank North, a young Negro painter and violinist. He is very talented and worthwhile, and is interested in Lissa. Lissa is considerably disgusted with her lofty associates. One day she tells Mamba that in spite of the fact that she is told to be proud of her Negro heritage, all her associates are trying their "damndest" to be white. Gardinia Whitmore, a mulatto beauty and a true flapper type, seeks Lissa's companionship. But Lissa, because of her refined nature, is rather afraid of Gardinia's overtures. Gardinia has asked Lissa to accompany her on a "wild" party. NOW CO ON WITH THE STORY "Oh, hell, don't wonder, come along. Nothin' ain't goin' to happen that you can't get over. Meet us on the corner by the post office at half-past eight, and we'll be ready to pick you up and highball up the road." "All right. I guess I'll go. What'll I wear?" "The best you got, kid, and your dancin' shoes. And maybe you better not say anythin' round at the Broadens' to-morrow night. It ain't their stuff. But, believe me, it's got class of its own." At the next corner Gardinia bade Lissa a breezy farewell and left her to continue on her way with a chaos of contending emotions as an accompaniment of her thoughts. Saturday night found Lissa pacing slowly back and forth before the post office. All day she had vacillated between an overwhelming desire to go and a deep, premonitory fear that prompted her to stay with Mamba. When the late dark finally gathered she had dressed with a desperate speed and without telling her grandmother where she was going had kissed her passionately, then rushed out, leaving the old woman's questions unanswered. After all, she had arrived at the rendezvous ahead of time, for she had been standing several minutes when St. Michael's chimed the half hour. About her the streets were quiet, and high over her head mellow tones of the old bells ran their double trill and left the air singing. Lissa caught the faintly throbbing note and held it until the vast vibrations fluttered out and died. The corner on which the girl was waiting was one of the most beautiful and significant in the old town. Opposite her the church lifted its straight white spire out of the yellow glow of the street lamps into the cool, faint glimmer of the early stars. Diagonally across the way the clusters of lamps were aglow on the City Hall steps, with the building darkling above them like frowning brows over watchful eyes. Behind the City Hall lay the dim quietude of the park, with its stained marble busts and shafts ghost-like under the spreading trees. Under the spell of the familiar beauty the reckless mood that had finally decided Lissa to come commenced to pass. Her gaze followed the pointing finger of the steeple into the vast serenity of the summer night, and she gave an involuntary start. She was standing out at the pavement's edge, at the intersection of the two broad thoroughfares, and now, as she gazed up, she realized that they marked the sky off above her into a gigantic cross, its head and foot pointing north and south and its arms dipping east and west INSTALLMENT XI "I wonder." she whispered. ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—December 14.1929 into the two rivers. A fear that was neither superstition nor religion but a little of both assailed her, making her suddenly long to be safely at home with Mamba. What if she cut Gardinia and her crowd nov and ran home? They were late, anyway, and that would give her a good excuse. Then abruptly the moment of quiet was broken and with it the spell that it had woven upon the girl. Several automobiles approached the corner, sounding their claxons. Down the rails from the north a great double-truck trolley hummed and rattled, then passed with a series of deafening jars over the switch. Two white men came out of the post office and passed close to her, smoking and talking together. One glanced at her curiously in the half light. They sauntered on, and she heard laughter and, very distinctly, the words "high yellow." A moment later a dilapidated Ford came to an abrupt and noisy stop before her, and she heard Gardinia's husky, voluptuous voice. "Here's th' lady friend—all dressed up and bells on, eh, Lissa? Good girl. Meet my friends. This here's Charlie, and that's Slim in the back seat. Boys, this is Lissa. No Miss and Mister in this gang. Hop in there with Slim. He's going to be your feller for to-night. Look him over and see if he ain't got class." Charlie called "Hello, Lissa," from the driver's seat. Slim jumped out and shook hands. "Glad to know you," he said, and he held the door open for her to get in. Then they were seated. The machine seemed to crouch for a moment, took a spasmodic leap, then settled down into a brisk, steady gait. The couple on the front seat paid no further attention to their companions but sat close together talking in low voices that were absorbed in the rattle of the vehicle. At first Lissa could think of nothing to say, and Slim seemed to experience the same difficulty, for he sat well over on his side of the car. When they drove under the arc light Lissa took advantage of the transient illumination to appraise her partner. He was dark, a full-blooded Negro, with a receding forehead, a broad, flat nose, and a very large mouth. Once he looked up, met her scrutiny, and broke into a broad, friendly grin. She saw the whiteness of his teeth spring out against the black, and his eyes laughing shyly into her face. She was reassured and began to feel that they would get along together. There was nothing about him to make a girl afraid. Then the lights were behind them, and ahead the road, a broad gray band of concrete, plunged straight out between dense patches of woodland and nebulous distances of open field. The car, like a wild creature that has broken long captivity, flung the city behind it and leaped for the open. Gardinia's voice came back with the whistling wind to the silent couple behind her. "Hev, there, you two—what do you think this is—a funeral? What's the matter with you, Slim, you don't hold that gal in—don't you know she ain't use' to country ridin'?" Thus encouraged, Slim allowed himself to be bounced over to Lissa's side of the car and put his arm around her shoulder. For a moment the girl's body remained rigid. Then, on another bounce, the man's arm fell lower and closed firmly about her waist. A tremor shook the girl. Then suddenly she relapsed into Slim's arms and closed her eyes. "Don't you worry," he said in a low husky voice. "Ah ain't goin' to let you get thrown out." For half an hour the car drove steadily northward; then from the dense shadows of massed live oaks a row of lights eaped out. Charlie jerked the machine hard over. It left the concrete for a rough side road, executed a series of jackrabbit bounds, and brought up short before the door of a dance hall. A rush of talk, laughter, song, and instrument-tuning greeted them, shattering the peace of the night and challenging the new arrivals with a mood of wild gaiety. Slim waited with the girls while Charlie parked the car. The wide doorway was swarming like a hive; couples came and went between the tawdry brilliance of the room and the piled blackness of night under the live oaks. A group of young bucks lounged near the door, smoking and passing a flask from mouth to mouth. Charlie rejoined the party just as the music flung its unifying rhythm into the discordant battle. They elbowed their way through the press and entered the hall. The room was a-flutter with tissue-paper streamers of every shade that depended from the rafters and responded with an agitated waving to the sound and motion benea^h. There were eight men in the orchestra and Lissa noted immediately with the colour snobbery of the Broaden set that they were all full-blooded Negroes. There were two guitars, two banjos, a fiddle, a cornet, and trombone, and a man with drum and traps. The sound was unlike anything that the girl had ever heard. Strive as she might, she could not recognize the tune. As a matter of fact, it was not an orchestra in a strict interpretation of the term, but merely a collection of eight individuals who had taken some simple melody as a theme and were creating rhythm and harmony around it as they played. Her immediate sensation was one of shock at the crude and almost deafening uproar. Then, as she stood listening, a strange excitement commenced to possess her. Music had never moved her like this before. It had made her cry—and it had shaken her with delight, but this seemed to be breaking something loose deep within her—something that seethed hot through her veins and set her muscles jumping. The crowd came jamming into the room, black girls with short knappy hair, tall, long-limbed Negroes from the wharves, sailors from the Navy Yard, dark and heavy, with here and there the pallor and passivity of a Filipino. There were many couples out from town who, like themselves, had the mark of the city on them in their straightened hair and well-made clothes. Slim caught Lissa closely to him. His shyness had vanished, but to the girl that did not matter, for she was no longer afraid. The music snatched them up, and they were off into the thick of it. It is unlikely that anywhere else in America at that moment there were more and different steps being trod on a dance floor. The old fundamental rhythm of the turkey trot prevailed, but the more sophisticated were dancing a one-step or fox trot. In a corner out of the jam a group of country Negroes were dancing singly. The dance was a strange, fascinating, and wildly individual affair. They stood two and two, facing each other, as though dancing in competition rather than together, and the basic step consisted of rising on alternate feet while the free leg was hurled outward and backward, knees touching, and toes turned in, parrot fashion. Lissa made Slim stop with her to watch, and immediately the desire to dance it possessed her. Slim laughed. "Come along," he urged, pulling at her arm. "That's nothin' but a ole country nigger dance." She would not listen. Presently she had the step and started in at the edge of the circle. When the music stopped she was angry. "Oh, I almost had it, Slim," she exclaimed. "One more try and I'll get it pat. back the Why did they have to stop just then?" you the her partner led her out of doors, then slipped his arm around her and guided her toward the automobile. Gardinia and Charlie were there already, and when the four of them were together, Gardinia handed Lissa a flask. "Hit her up, Sister," she invited. arm ment hen, arm bout girl, into Lissa hesitated. "What's it—whisky?" "Sure—go ahead, ain't goin' do you no harm." The girl lifted the flask and took a swallow, with the result that she cheated and coughed. They all burst into laughter. "My Gawd," Gardinia mocked, "can't you even take a drink o' hocch?" Lissa snatched the bottle back from Slim. "Can't, eh? I'll show you." She wasn't going to be laughed at by Gardinia, that was certain. What a night! Life with a red lining. The orchestra was at it again. That new dance. Lissa must master that if she kicked the floor boards locse. During an intermission, when they crowded to the door for air, a wicked-looking stripped Ford, painted scarlet, jerked itself into the light and stopped. Gardinia grabbed Lissa by the arm. "Here's Prince," she cried. "You got to meet him.. Hello, Prince, here's a lady friend I want you to know." The new arrival was evidently a favourite, especially with women, for a number ran forward and crowded about the car. He got languidly out and, with casual greetings to right and left came forward and joined the girls. They met where the shaft of light from the open door stabbed the darkness and splayed out on the gravel. "Lissa, this is the Prince I been tellin' you about," Gardinia introduced. "Glad to know you," he said, and took her hand, while he slid his glance over her in deliberate and frank appraisal. Then he raised his eyes to her face, and the grip on her fingers tightened. He gave a low whistle and, still gripping Lissa's hand, addressed Gardinia — "Some class, baby; where'd you find her?" A shudder of repulsion started under the man's hot, moist clasp, flashed up the girl's arm, and communicated itself to her whole being. The man sensed it with evident satisfaction, his loose, sensuous lips parted, and he gave a low, confident laugh. He bent forward, and Lissa got an impression of a light muddy complexion, heavy-lidded eyes, and a long scar across the forehead close under the hair. The air was heavy with its warning of danger; she felt her skin cheep under it. And yet, in spite of the repulsion that she felt at his touch, there was a compelling power that drew her toward him and made her pulses race. She summoned all her strength and snatched her hand away. Prince laughed again and turned toward the hall. "Me an' you's goin' to be buddies," he said. "Come on in an' let's have a drink on it." His glance included Lissa's party in the invitation, and the four of them followed him across the hall to the gaily decorated booth in the corner where soft drinks were being served. "What'll you take?" he asked largely. They made it "dopes," and when the glasses stood before them their host produced a silver flask and poured a generous drink in each tumbler. Charlie exclaimed, "Hot damn! None of dat moonshine rotgut for Prince. Nuttin' but de bes'." Lissa noticed that Slim's bashfulness had descended upon him again and that he accepted the drink from Prince with reluctance. The music crashed out, smiling the air with the flat impact of a blow, causing the fluid in the tumblers to quiver. They emptied their glasses in gulps. Prince drew his hand across his mouth and said, "All right, girlie, let's go." Slim seemed to have suffered a sort of paralysis. When Lissa looked toward him, he said nothing, but stood looking at her with wide, mournful eyes. Prince put his arm around her, and she looked into his face with a shaken, reckless little laugh. "I'm on," she said, and was snatched from the corner into the malestrom of the dance floor. They danced three dances together. Prince looked older than the boys with whom they had come, but he could dance circles around them. Lissa was delighted to find that he was an expert in the step that she had just discovered, and she made him go to a corner near the band and teach it to her. It was while they were there that the musicians broke into a medley 3 of old jazz tunes, launching from their wild, syncopated improvisations into that early ragtime classic of the Johnson brothers "Under the Bamboo Tree." In Lissa the music ceased to be a thing external, apart. It became a fire in her body, taking her suddenly like sheeting flame about a sapling, cutting her off from the others, possessing her, swaving her irresistibly forward toward the players. She did not realise that she was singing until her gaze rested on the face of the leader and over his fiddle she saw the white flash of his grin in invitation and called, "Come up, Sistuh. Up here's what yo' b'long." Then she was among the swaying bodies, the smashing harmonies of the band. Her muscles twitched to the rhythm, moving her feet and legs in the intricacies of the new dance, her arms were thrown wide with fingers snapping the time. She forgot that there would be a solo in church to-morrow and that her voice needed saving. She remembered nothing except the words and music that came in a rush cut of an old forgotten memory, beating out from lungs and throat in a torrent of song: I'd lika change your name . . ." On the floor couples were still dancing, whirling more wildly under the added excitement of the song. The drive of the music through the girl wrought in her for the first time the almost miraculous duality which is the gift of only the true artist. It seemed mysteriously to divide her into two separate entities, one of which floated over the heads of the dancers through the wide doorway to go blundering inconsequently about among the soft summer stars. This part of her was concerned only with beauty—with far, thrilling things—Mamba's love—the harbour at dawn—Battery gardens under summer moons—all of these things it must capture and prison in the music that she was making. The quest seemed suddenly more holy than her prayers. It lifted her to the point of exaltation that trembles on the brink of tears. Then there was the other part of her that followed her gaze here and there across the dance floor, cool, deliberate, detached, arresting first one couple, then another, holding them tranced and gaping where they stood. This Lissa was egotistical, supremely self-confident. "I will make them all stop and listen," it boasted. "I shall possess them all before I let them go. I can. I will." It was the personification of this second self that stood there on the dais, clad in close-fitting red silk, her sinuous body a fluid medium through which the maddening reiteration of the rhythm beat out to the listeners and forced them to respond, her voice with its deep contralto beauty the very spirit of youth, yet shading the edges of laughter with a shadow of a sob. When the song ended the leader merged it without an appreciable break into "Yip i aidy i ai i ai." The choice was an inspiration. Lissa had them all now. Out under the fluttering paper streamers the crowd stood motionless except for those who, while they held their eyes fixed upon the singer, swayed their bodies unconsciously in unison with her own. She had made good her boast. She had captured the last one. The new song with its devil-may-care note of triumph lifted over the weaving accompaniment of the band and beat against the-flimsy walls like a living thing. It said: "You are all mine—mine." It flung it at them arrogantly with a trace of indulgent contempt, then it wavered, softened, and said it again in a torrent of passionate gratitude and love. Her very own—her first audience. "Sing of joy, sing of bliss Home was never like this. Yip I aldy I ai. . . " With an intoxicating thunder of applause sounding in her ears, Lissa stepped down from the platform. Charlie was waiting there for her, and before Prince could reach her side she slipped an arm about her and elbowed a way for her through the stamping, shouting crowd. When they were finally out of doors they were joined by Gardinia, who flung her arms about Lissa in a hug that left her breathless. "Where did you get it, kid?" she asked in wonder. "Heaven knows! I guess I was as surprised as you." Gardinia gave her a second embrace, then turning to Charlie dismissed him with: "Run along. I got something to say to sister." When he had passed out of earshot she said to the girl: "Look here, bright eyes, you want to watch your step with that feller they call Prince. (Continued on page 4) ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—December 14. 1929 MAMBA'S DAUGHTERS By Du Bose Heyward Little girls with pretty hair will 4. (Continued from Page Three) Did he ask to drive you home?" "Yes, he did say something about it." "Well, I hope you told him no. After all, Slim's settin' you up to the party to-night, and he's got some rights coming to him." "All right," Lissa replied obediently. "I'll turn Prince down." "An' look here" the big girl said seriously, "don't you go losin' your head over that nigger. He's free with his money, and he's always good for a swell time, but the sky's his limit—watch your step. I ain't so sure you're his sort, anyhow. Now, me—that's a different matter." Lissa gave a confident laugh. "Don't you let that worry you, Sister," she replied. "I'm a pretty good hand at taking care of myself." Charlie and Slim came up and joined them. "All right," Gardinia warned. "just watch your step—that's all." It was well after midnight when the Ford bounced out onto the concrete road and headed south with the four revelers. Slim sat in his corner glum and silent. He evidently felt that he had been rather hardly used. Lissa made several attempts to draw him out and finally yielded to a growing exasperation. If he thought that she was going to apologise and eat humble pie, he had another think coming. Her anger rose. He ought to thank his stars that she had even gone with him, she, a member of the Reformed Church, a friend of the Broadens. She did not need to worry. There was Prince, now, ready to show her a good time. The premonition of danger that she had felt toward him at first had abated until it had left only an exciting element of mystery and adventure. She smiled at the memory of Gardinia's warning. As if she couldn't take care of herself. 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LOUIS MUSIC CO. DEPT. St. Louis, Mo. World's Largest Distributors of Race Records By Mail --- MY GREAT EXPERIENCE IN ALL my life there has been but one great desire of my heart. I've hoped and yearned for the chance to tell to the world something about my early life. Since I am only a woman, my soul has its own secret corridors hung with pictures that only memory can unveil. In time, the drab ones fade. But those that represent my life's most vivid moments, pulse with stronger colors year by year. " "One evening, just after dinner, my husband, Charles, who appeared too extraordinarily happy . . . said to me: 'Would you like to spend about two hours out with the guns?' " "One evening, just after dinner, my husband, Charles, who appeared too extraordinarily happy . . . said to me: 'Would you like to spend about two hours out with the guns?' " Now, I am old. I have neither children nor relatives, so I feel free to relate to you the liveliest and most exciting recollection of my young life. In my life I have been much loved; I have often, myself, loved. I was very beautiful—I may say this to-day when my beauty has practically faded. But in those days love to me was a necessary thing. As air was the life of the body, so was love the light of my soul. Without its warmth I could not carry on. I would have preferred death to a life without somebody to always care for me. Many women pretend to love but once with all the strength of their hearts and souls; while for me it has often happened so violent- "One evening, just after dinner, my 'Would you like to spend about two ly that I thought it would last forever; however, like a fire without fuel, it slowly died away, leaving no mark of its presence. Now I shall tell you of my first great experience in which I was indeed very innocent, but which, in a very human way led to misunderstanding. Many years ago when I lived in Fredericksburg, the very quaint and home-loving settlement of Maryland, I was married to a man whom I did not love. True love needs, at any rate, freedom and impediment at the same time. Some people say that love which is imposed, sanctioned by law and blessed by the Divine is the only thing. And yet a legal kiss is never as good as a stolen one. My husband, a tall man with the manners of a gentleman, was elegant. But he lacked intelligence. He always spoke in a blatant inelegant fashion. It was his greatest delight to utter a foolhardy opinion that cut like the blade of a knife. He tried to create the impression that he had a mind filled full of ready-made views which had come to him through the natural channel of generations, from his mother and father who had themselves received them from their noble ancestors. When in conversation he never hesitated to make one of his narrow-minded suggestions without showing any embarrassment and without realizing that there might be other ways of looking at things. To hear him register his narrow views was to set one to thinking how sad it must be when a man car. live in as great a century as this and yet fail to adopt a single new idea. We lived in a cottage out in the rural section of the city in an almost isolated tract of country called Riley Ridge. There were many enormous melancholy trees with tufts of moss about them resembling the white beard of an old man. Just over the way the woods, a typical forest, which some referred to as a grove, was enclosed in a deep trench ILLUSTRATED FEATURE SECTION—December 14.1929 called the Maw-ray, and at the extreme end was a rustic pond full of weeds and floating grass. Far out on the edge of the woods near the stream my husband owned a small hut in which he camped during the hunting season. Aside from the ordinary line of servants, I had a chambermaid who I considered more than a servant. She was passionately attached to me. I had brought her back from the West several years before. There she was a deserted child. At first glance one would mistake her ror a gypsy with her dusky skin, her black eyes, and her thick hair, always tightly clustered to her forehead. She was at that time fifteen years old, husband, Charles, who appeared too e o hours out with the guns? " but appeared to be twenty. The fall came and we began hunting, sometimes on neighboring estates and sometimes on our own. Early in the season I had noticed a strange young man, coming around the place in the morning as well as at night. His visits were very frequent, especially at night. Then, he ceased to come. I thought no further about it, but I perceived that my husband completely changed in his demeanor toward me. He seemed rather pre-occupied and taciturn; he refused to kiss me and ceased to come to my room. I had insisted on separate rooms so I could live a little alone, but in the quiet hours of the night I could hear footsteps drawing near my room door and then withdrawing a few minutes later. And, my window being near the ground floor, I could easily hear someone prowling about in the darkness, stumbling over things at the side of the house. I asked my husband about it, and he, after looking at me intensely for a while, answered: "It's nothing. Nobody's going to disturb you." Now one evening, just after dinner, my husband, Charles, who appeared to be extraordinarily happy, with a sort of sly gavety, said to me: "Would you like to spend about two hours out with the guns? Something is stealing our hens." I was surprised. I hesitated, but as he continued staring at me with much persistence, I replied: "Why, certainly, my friend." Of course I had always hunted like a man. It was quite natural that he should suggest that to me. But his appearance had now changed from the gay and frivolous to the curiously nervous. All the evening he seemed feverish, standing around like someone intensely agitated. That night at eleven he said: "Are you ready?" I arose, and, seeing that he had fetched my gun, I asked: "Are you to load with bullet or scatter-shot?" After showing an amount of impatience, he rejoined: "Oh! only scatter-shot; don't worry about yourself! That will be enough for me." Then, in a peculiar tone he added: "You may boast of having splendid coolness." I laughed loudly: "I? Why? Coolness because I go to kill some animal that has entered our farm? What are you thinking of anyway?" He seemed restless and did not answer but turned around, and looked up and down like one searching a house for a precious jewel which he believes undiscoverable. I sat on the chair and watched his actions. All the while, I kept my eye upon him and, not my eye alone, but I watched with my heart also. I had always been very sympathetic with his childishness. To me men are but overgrown babies ever depending upon someone to idolize them as conquerors. Well, we quickly made our way extraordinarily happy . . . said to me: through the strip of woods to the edge of the forest. It was far into the night when half of the world was in slumber. Looking back at the house it was impossible to see a human form or to hear the slightest sound. The little cottage appeared most beautiful from the distance; the full moon gave it a lovely yellow tint. It made the old rusty roof sparkle in the light of the night. But, it was a cool night, and a sad melancholy numbness lay heavy all around. The night was so suggestive it reminded one of the fall when all about is slowly ebbing, giving up its life to the sum of matter. My husband and I walked on My husband and I walked on. As we stood under a tree, in the large open space, a sense of freshness came over me. I could smell the rustic odor of fallen leaves. My husband said nothing at first, he was simply browsing about in the shadows; starting in one direction like someone possessed with the passion for a chase. I thought he was going to wait for someone, but when he decided to move on I gave up the thought. When we reached the edge of the pond, it was fully one o'clock. I had begun to wonder why he should go so far away; my nerves were strained. I looked around me, everything was still. Not a breath of air caressed the tufts of rushes, save the slow movements which were scarcely perceptible upon the water. Frequently its surface was stirred and light circles gathered around like luminous wrinkles enlarging indefinitely. When we reached the hunting cabin, my husband bade me go in first; then he slowly loaded his gun, and the dry crackling of powder produced a strange effect on me. 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He had just put his foot upon my forehead when, in his turn, he was caught gripped, and knocked (Continued from Page Four) that she had been wearing like a strait-jacket. She laughed heartily her eyes looking into the old woman's and sparkling mischievously. "I bet you were a gay one yourself once," she said. "I'll bet you know what it was like to hit the ceiling on a big night—eh, Mauma?" Lissa was shocked. Mamba had taught her to treat age with great respect. But to her amazement she saw that Mamba was pleased. She answered with her surprisingly young, vital laugh: "Tings was different in dem days, an' if Ah is broke loose den dere ain't nobody libin' to tell on me now. But nowadays gals gots to beabe." "Sure," Gardinia agreed, as she took a seat and let her admiring gaze take in the cozy and tastefully furnished room, with the sunny garden showing beyond the window. "Sure, and don't you worry about Lissa. If she'll just listen to me she'll have a good time and she won't get into no trouble." She looked around for her friend, but Lissa had gone into the next room to change from her Sundy dress. At the same moment Mamba also noticed that they were alone and immediately took advantage of the opportunity. "Tell me," she begged in a lowered voice, "who dis dis yaller 'nigger' Lissa goin' roun' wid? She won't tell me nuttin' 'bout um, but Ah seen urn'tother day when he come by for she, an' Ah wouldn't trus' um far as Ah could trow um." Gardinia said, "Prince aint so bad. He's too smashed on himself to last long with anybody else. But he flings the long green high and far, and he'll show her a good time." Mamba leaned forward and said confidentially, "Ah 'fraid for my gal. She ain't like yo' an' me, Sistuh—she ain't seen nuttin' ob mens, an' dat yaller 'nigger' gots woman-chaser wrote all ober um." "Don't you worry, Mauma," Gardinia said reassuringly. "the first 5 from his feet before I could realize what had really happened. Finally, I managed to recover my senses. I stood abruptly and saw kneeling on top of him my maid, clinging like a fox with desperate energy, tearing his mustache and the skin of his face. Then, as if another idea had taken hold of her, she got up and, flinging herself on the corpse, she threw her arms around the head of the dead man, kissing his eyes and his mouth; opening his dead lips with her own, like she was trying to find in them breath and to recall the long, long kiss which lovers alone can know. Charles, getting up as carelessly as usual, gazed at me, as if he understood. Falling on his knees he said: "Dear, please forgive me; I did not understand. I had been thinking he was your lover. I had suspected you and I have killed this girl's lover. It was she who deceived me and not you." Of course it was wonderful to have him understand, but this did not scotch the anguish of my maid. As I stood leaning helplessly against the large oak I could not help looking at the dead lover. No one would have conceived of such a deep love, so free and faithful and so much stronger than death. To me, her sobs and kisses were secret expressions of that soul-grief of a stricken heart. My husband became a new man. He became more interested in me in every way. This experience has colored my entire life. It was a mere turn of fate that I, as innocent as I was and always have been, did not suffer the tragic consequences of the unfaithful wife. THE END thing I did was to put Lissa wise, and besides, she's one of them cool sisters. Ain't no danger of her losing her head." "Well, all Ah asks is dat yo' keep an eye on she for me, an' ef trouble breaks any time let me know. Ah is ole but Ah ain't no fool at takin' care ob my chillun." "That's right, old lady, I just bet you aint no fool. But there ain't goin' to be no trouble." Lissa came in then, and the three chatted for a few moments. Then Cardinia took her departure. "Dat's a good gal yo' gots fuh friend," Mamba said when the girl had gone. And Lissa stood wondering just what the definition for good could be in Mamba's lexicon. Labor Day—steaming and hot, with an opaque sky and a red sun burning through it. Underfoot the pavements streaming with condensed moisture and flinging back reflections of houses, shop windows, sky, in colours soft and wonderful to see. Summer's fag end, with its spent ardours behind it, and autumn around the next corner. And for to-day nothing for the Negroes to do but to be glad, to leave the wharves, the bakeries, the building of the house, the stoking of furnaces, and tell the world how good a thing it is to be alive, to have laboured, and now to claim a respite. September weather. 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"Hello yourself!" He stopped for a second before her and said boldly: "What boat yo' goin' on dis ebenim?" De Planter, de Pilot Boy? Lei.'s make it de same." She came to herself and glanced around sharply. Had anyone she knew seen her? But what fun they did have! A sudden pang of env assailed her. She wrenched herself out of their holiday mood and stemmed the tide in the direction of the Broaden home. Later, all through the eminently polite conversations, the excellently rendered music of the club, the artistic pronouncements of North, she kept seeing the face of the young mason and picturing him dancing on the deck of the excursion boat—eating watermelon and spitting seeds over the rail, grinning boldly at the girls. "Helio dere. Sistuh, what boat yo' goin' on dis ebenin'?" and his comical, rueful face as he passed out of sight. During supper Lissa was silent and preoccupied. Mamba studied her closely with anxiety showing in her keen old eyes. At last she asked. 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