Gary American
Saturday, November 29, 1930
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VOL. IV. No. 2 EIGHT PAGES GARY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1930. ~~ EIGHT PAGES ~—~—~~—”—~—~SO””COB ree SC
Coolidge Treats Request of
Southern Group With Silence
Lawyer Makes
Move to Save
Ulysses Mack
Will a - Petition
To Leslie Asking a
Life Term in Pen
Convicted Ax Man
Innocent, Belief
Robinson Visits Mack;
Killer Slated to Die
in Electric Chair
With only four months separat-
ing him from a miserable death in
the electric chair for crimes which
many hold that he did not commit,
friends of Ulysses Mack, convicted
hatchet slayer, plan to go before
Governor Leslie and petition the
state's chief executive to commute
the sentence to life Imprisonment.
Mack was convicted last spring
for the slaying of Josephine Odir-
ozz0, and Mary Gigily, white, and
the murder of William Welch.
He protested his _ innocence
throughout his trial which many
claim was conducted in an atmos-
phere of prejudice and hostility.
Sentenced to die in the electric
chair, date of his execution was
set for March of the coming year,
following the refusal of the Su-
preme court to overrule the con-
viction of Judge Grant Crumppack-
er in Valparaiso circuit court.
Attorney Is Skeptical
Attorney John W. Robinson,
prominent Gary lawyer, went to
Michigan City last Tuesday and
while there interviewed Mack. He
declared that Mack still claims he
knows nothing about the crimes for
which he was convicted.
As a result of his interview, Rob-
inson declared that he too, is con-
vinced that Mack is innocent. He
eaid he would prepare a_ petition
asking the governor to commute
the death sentence to life imprison-
ment.
Drafting of the petition, he said,
will be done immediately. It will
be circulated throughout the coun-
ty.
“The local white ‘daily paper de-
seribed Mack as a giant, but my
first contact with him today gave
me a different impression,” Attor-
ney Robinson declared.
“Mack is a man of only normal
stature and since the state sought
to show during the trial that only
a man-of great size and strength
cbuld have committed those crimes,
it is pertinent to point out that
Mack is not what you would call a
giant.
“LT talked with Mack for fully fif-
teen minutes in the death house at
Michigan City, and from what he
told me I am convinced that he is
innocent,’ Robinson concluded.
S. C. Governor Appoints
Unemployment Group
COLUMBIA, S. C. — (ANP) —
Governor Richards announced
‘Thursday morning that he had ap-
pointed a committee of twelve
prominent Negro citizens to serve
with the state unemployment com-
mission.
Members of the committee are:
Dr. R. S. Wilkerson, Orangeburg,
chairman; Prof. J. E. Blanton,
Den:naik, Dr. D. H. Sims, Colum-
bia, Mvs. Rebecca Walton, Colum-
bia, Rev. E. L. Baskerville, Charles-
ton, Mrs. Alice M. LeSine, Prof. C.
A. Johnson, Columbia, A. A. Sims,
Union, E.'W. Biggs, Greenville,
Rev. S. H. Lewis, Spartanburg, W.
M. McGhee, Aiken, and Prof. J. 8.
Shanklin, Beaufort.
MEERES AGREE TO DISAGREE
NEW YORK - (ANP) — News
Is published in this city that Paul
and Thelma Meeres, regarded as
\the leading colored adagio team,
hve separated, with Mrs. Merees
bejng granted an interlocutory de-
erde of divorce. The Meeres have
twd& children. They were featured
danders in Connie’s “Hot Choco-
jatese’
WASHINGTON — (CNS)— The
United Daughters of the Confeder-
acy who met in annual convention
at Asheville, North Carolina last
week, were told by their president
that former President Coolidge
when requested to use the phrase
“War Between the States” instead
of the “Civil War’, in a recent
speech, did not reply to the letter
from the U. D. C.
Delegates to the annual conven-
tion of the United Daughters of
the Confederacy wer told by their
president, Mrs. L. M. Bashinsky, of
Troy, Ala., that “age-old walls be-
tween the north and_ south are
slowly but surely crumbling.”
Reproaching southerners for what
she terms their failure in the past
to give adequate attention to the
preservation of letters, diaries, pa-
pers and other documents of his-
torical interest, Mrs. Bashinsky
said southern libraries should cre-
s
Negroes and Aliens Chosen as Issues
. .
In Fight to Reapportion Lower House
WASHINGTON, D. C. —(CNS)— jsure by amendment adopted in the
The 12,000,000 Negroes of this coun- jhouse. House Jeaders finally agreed
try and aliens have been chosen as |to wipe out both amendments and
the issues of the forthcoming dis- |the bill then was passed.
pute in Congress over reapportion-| One Southern paper says, how-
ment of representation, it was an-jever: “Those people who would
nounced here this week. prevent a reapportionment in Con-
Under the recent apportionment |gressional representation by exclud-
figures made public by President |ing Negroes and aliens are running
Hoover, many of the Southerners |in rabbit paths. The Congress has
are seeking to bar gains in Cali-|for ten years violated the Consti-
fornia, Michigan, Texas, New York /tution by refusing to make a reap-
and New Jersey. Alabama, Tennes-|portionment. This had denied Cal-
see and several other Southern |ifornia, Michigan and other states
states have been slated to lose |increesed representation to which
some seats in the house. they are entitled. The attempt to
It was these issues that almost |further postpone by raisig side is-
brought defeat to the existing re-|sues ought not to permit further
apportionment act in June, 1929.|violation of a constitutional man-
They were injected into the mea- | date.”
Watson Looks
For Speed on
Nominations
Wants Digodilions in
Cases Made Before
Holidays Begin
| WASHINGTON — (CNS) — Sen-
ator Jemes E. Watson of Indiana,
republican leader of the senate, dis-
cussing the program for the com-
ing short session of congress is
quoted as saying he was in favor
of having the Senate consider ear-
ly in the session the list of nomina-
tions before it and if possible dis-
pose of these before the Christmas
holiday.
This will be welcome news to
many and especially the newly ap-
pointed Recorder of Deeds, Jeffer-
son S. Coage; Charles E. Mitchell,
recently designated as Minister
Resident and Consul General to Li-
beria; end their friends. '
The appointment of Coage and
the resignation of Arthur G. Froe,
of West Virginia as Recorder of
Deeds, came as a bombshell to lo-
cal politicians. Froe came into of-
ice under President Harding and
jwas able to maintain the post un-
der three different presidents. It
jhas been intimated in Republican
circles that Froe and Coage are not
lon such good terms ana that the
former probably will use his pow-
ler to block the confirmation by the
|Senate.
Mitchell, who was named as a
candidate for the post to Liberia
before the election of Hoover, was
busines manager of West Virginia
State college. Following the death
of W. T. Francis, who was named
to the Liberia post by former Pres-
dent Coolidge the position became
a gamble, with several white can-
didates in line. When Clifford
|Wharton, secretary of the Ameri-
\can Legation at Monrovia was re-
called here several months ago, it
[was heenly felt throughout the na
|tion that President Hoover was go-
|ing to send a white minister to the
|Black Republic.
Washington Now Houses
132,068 Aframericans
WASHINGTON, — (CNS) — The
Negro population of the District of
Columbia increased from 109,966 in
1920 to 132,068 in 1930, a gain of
20.1 per cent.
The percentage of gain in the
white population in the same per-
iod was only 8.3 per cent, giving a
white population of 353,914 as
against 326,860 in 1920.
The Negro population which tot-
aled 25.1 per cent of the total in
1920 increased to 27.1 per cent in
1930 with the gain of 22,102 over
1920.
Women lead men in the District
254,986 to 231,883; and of the Ne-
gro population 62,255 are males and
69,843 females. Of the 341,465 per-
sons over 21 years of age in the
District, 88,388 are colored — div-
ided as to sex as follows:
41,584 males and 46,804 females.
Talking picture equipment will
be insatlled aboard every ship in
ate a bibliography of all source ma-
terial in southern history.
In her report she deplored the
failure of efforts to have Congress
enact legislation officially designat-
ing the War of 1861-65 as the “War
Between the States,” instead of the
“Civil War.”
Former President Coolidge was
asked, she said, to employ the ap-
proved phrase in a speech he made
in South Dakota, but did not re-
ply to the leter from the U. D. C.
Mrs. Bashinsky all forgetful of
the fact that the war of 1861-65 was
a war to put down rebellion and
rightly called at the time and since
the “War of the Rebellion” says:
“The keystone of our organiza-
tion is loyalty to the truth in
southern history.”
The change to term “Civil War”
does not suit their fancy now,
hence the effort to have the phrase
“War Between the States” was
adopted.
sure by amendment adopted in the
house. House Jeaders finally agreed
to wipe out both amendments and
the bill then was passed.
| One Southern paper says, how-
ever: “Those people who would
prevent a reapportionment in Con-
gressional representation by exclud-
ing Nogroes and aliens are running
in rabbit paths. The Congress has
for ten years violated the Consti-
tution by refusing to make a reap-
portionment. This had denied Cal-
{fornia, Michigan and other states
increased representation to which
they are entitled. The attempt to
further postpone by raising side is-
sues ought not to permit further
violation of a constitutional man-
date.”
Here’s Second
Chance to Get
Coin from Ads
Several Win Prizes in
First Questionnaire;
Heres’ 2nd List
| Read the ads and win a prize!
It's easy—nothing hard bout it
at all.
At least, that's what a lot of folks
found out last week by reading the
advertisements in The Gary Amer-
ican and winning cash prizes and
free tickets to the Roosevelt thea-
tre.
| Of the number of housewives
‘who scnt in answers to questions
‘asked about the ads in this paper,
‘three of them won cash prizes of
$1 each and three others won free
tickets to the Roosevelt theatre.
Wins A Cash Award
) “I'm a habitual reader of the ads
‘in The American,” says Mrs. Mary
‘Sewell, 1542 Jefferson, who won a
‘cash prize of $1. “It was easy for
me to answer all those questions
by heart,” Mrs. Sewell stated.
Mrs. Sewell ahswered every ne
of the ten questions and received
a brand new dollar bill.
| Two other Gary housewives also
‘won a cash prize. They are: Mrs.
Irene Devoe, 2389 Broadway and
Mary Wojiwoda, 2556 Connecticut.
Free tickets to the Roosevelt
theatre were won by: Mary L. Bow-
‘man, 2265 Madison; Miss Juanita
‘Durham, 1824 Washington, and
Mrs. Lugrash Lairy, 1548 Broad-
way. :
This week's contest is open only
to women. No men can enter the
contest . All that’s required of the
contestant is that she is eighteen
years of age or older and a resident
of Gary.
To win one of the three cash
prizes of $1 or one of the three
, tickets to the Roosevelt theatre,
‘again offered this week, the con-
|testant must carefully read the
advertisements in this issue of
The American. Note carefully the
names and address of the adver-
tiser and pay particular attention
to what he is advertising and to
how much it costs.
Ten Questions This Week
Then send in your answers to
the questions given below. An-
swers should be mailed in not lat.
er than Tuesday to the Contest
Editor.
Here are the questions:
1. Name the three different
|grades of printing, and give the
|name and address, and telephone
|number of the firm which does the
|best of the three.
| 2. What is the name of the bus
company which offers comfortable
and convenient transportation tc
Chicago for 35¢?
3. How wide is Sears-Roebuck ad:
vertisement? How long is it?
4. What is the name of the ex
pert watch repairer at 548 Broad.
way, and what is his name?
| ». What is the name of the store
}located at 17 West Sixteenth ave.
nue?
6. Where can you borrow money
and what is the address of the
place?
7. Give the names and addresse:
of all the beauty shops which car
ry an ad in this issue.
| 8. In which advertisement is the
address wrong? Give the correct
address.
9. In which advertisement may
be found three misspelled words?
10. What is the name of the res
taurant which serves “tasty anc
weell-cooked food?”
Answers to these question:
should be mailed in by Tuesday t«
the Contest Editor.
Try it. You may win a prize!
Pickens Will Present
DePriest at Meeting
CAMDEN, N. J.—(ANP)—Oscar
DePriest, congressman from the
First district, Illinois, will be pre-
sented in Convention hall here Sun-
day afternoon, November 30, by
William Pickens, field secretary
for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People as
the climax to the association drive
for membership in this territory.
Convention hall is said to seat
12,000 persons.
The president of the local branch
of the N. A. A. C. P. is Attorney
Irving T. Nutt. The band of Bor-
dentown institute, containing 45
pieces, will furnish the music for
the meeting.
White Youths
Attack Negro
Woman; Fined
City Prosecutor Bretsch
Praises Calmness of
Youths’ Captor
Largest Fine Law
Permits, Imposed
Judge Key Scores Youth
of Today Who Prey on
Unescorted Women
Declaring vehemently that “if the
situation had been reversed, and
two colored men had assaulted a
white woman in a white neighbor-
hood, there is not a white man un-
der the sound of my voice who
would not have resorted to physical
vielene ¢nd we woult have a dif-
fexeat story to tell in avy today,”
City Prosecutor Clarence Bretsch
ended his argument before Judge
Herman Key, Tuesday morning, in
an assault and battery case involv-
ing two white youths and a Negro
housewife. The two men ,Albert C.
Huber, 19, 2500 Burr and Claude
Olingan, 21, 837 Pierce, were charg-
ed with assault and battery on Mrs.
Bertha Roby, 1806 Massachusetts,
on November 9.
Plead Mistaken Identity
Attorneys for the defendants
pleaded mistaken identity in the
arrest of the two youths. But the
fact was shown, and admitted by
the youths, that they were in the
immediate neighborhood of 18th
and Massachusetts at the time of
the assault. Positive identification
on the part of the defendants by
George Holland, 1816 Massachusetts,
proved the basis of the state’s case,
according to Judge Key when he
found the young men guilty of as-
sault and imposed the maximum
penalty of the law, $25 and costs
each.
Captor Praised by Prosecutor
Prosecutor Bretsch was loud it
his praise of George Holland, who
captured the assailants and held
them until police arrived. Holland,
according to his testimony, did not
see the assault, but the men were
pointed out to him by Mrs. Roper.
They had left their car parked near
the corner and when they went to
claim it, Holland detained them
forcibly until the police took them
into custody. The prosecutor prais-
ed Holland's demeanor and cool-
headedness in protecting the life of
the young men, while awaiting the
arrival of the police. The testi-
mony showed that an outraged
crowd had formed which was an-
xious to do bodily injury to the
young men for attacking Mrs. Roby.
It was only through Holland that
they were restrained from doing
so.
/ Judge Scores Impetuous Youth
| Judge Key, in passing sentences
on Huber and Olingan, declared
‘there “is no doubt in my mind con-
cerning the guilt of the two youths
and had it not been for her ficet
foutedness in escaping from them,
the charge would have been more
asrioue” The judge stated further
that “there are dozens and dozens
‘of youths of both races who find
delight in preying on defenseless
and honorable women who find it
‘necessary to be on the streets at
night, alone. The sooner the com-
‘munity is rid of that serious evil,
| the better it will be for all concern
led. I think a judge is justified in
|giving men like these the limit of
\the iaw, but because there was no
/evidence of battery, I can only fine
|them $25 each, on the assaul
charge,”
ee) 9
Jazzin’ The News
(THE WEEK’S NEWS IN VERSE)
By F. Marsha! Davis
Fire plays havoc on south side
here, 22 lose their cars
Seek to change death in chair to
life behind bars:
Whites who assaulted local house-
wife draw fines in city court
Howard beats Lincoln in oldest
classic in the world of sport
Prowler nabbed by local cops may
hold key to crimes
Contribute to The American's fund
to lessen folks’ hard times.
White Youth Kills Boy;
He Says it Wasa fight
| MULLINS, S. C. (ANP)
James Graves, 16, was stabbed to
‘death here Wednesday afternoon
‘by David Coleman, a 17-year-old
‘white youth.
The coroner's jury returned the
verdict that Graves came to his
death from knife wounds inflicted
‘by David Coleman and the white
youth was placed in the county
jail to await formal charges. Cole-
man told the coroner that he and
Graves had engaged in a fight and
the killing was in self-defense.
CELEBRATES SEVENTY-SIXTH
ANNIVERSARY
NEW ORLEANS, La. — (ANP)
The St. Mark Fourth Baptist
church at Galvez and Perdido
‘streets, will celebrate its 76th an-
niversary this week with a series
of inspirational services. The
church was founded by a slave,
Robert H. Steptoe,
e ;
South Siders Lose Thousands
° e
As Holiday Fire Burns Autos; _
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Blaze Damages Lawyer s Home
|Home of Local Attorney
Ask Contributions to $1,000 Relief Fund "pee by Ble
Ok for, Contributions iM ds Me 2.000 Jobtew on South Undetermined Fire
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This is the slogan and advice be-
ing heard in Gary this week follow-
ing the announcement of The Gary
American's $1,000 poor relief fund
to provide shoes, clothing, shelter
and food for Gary's poor colored
people.
Because of the fact that this fund
will be raised expressly to take
care of the poor and needy of the
Negro race, much interest in the
move was manifested this week by
men and women in all parts of the
city, representing all occupations.
In no section of the city has the
present employment situation
struck suhe a hard blow as it has
dealt to residents of the South
Side, declare Gary leaders, and the
need for raising a fund to provide
the necessities of life this Christ-
mas to many poor colored families
is greater in the black belt’ than
elsewhere in the township.
Think Move a Wise One
The number of colored peo
who cal! upon the township trus-
tee's office for help is twice that of
any other racial group, according
to Miss Mary Newlin, township
trustee, whose office in the County
building Tuesday was crowded with
applicants for assistance out of the
township's poor relief fund.
That the move to raise a poor re=
lief fund for Gary's colored people
is a logical one to make at this
time was voiced today by Mrs.
Julia Gross, 1913 Adams street, who
has reported many cases of suffer-
ing to The American. See
“The employment situation among
Fires On Man
Suspected As
House-Robber
Police Hold ‘Wenaiad
Man in Effort to Solve
Many Burglaries
With the capture Sunday morn-
ing of Daniel Doaks, 1932 Carolina,
police authorities believe they have
solved a number of burglaries com-
mitted during the last month.
Doaks was arrested, after being
wounded in the leg, when he was
found lurking around the home of
Louis Musgrove, 2256 West 19th.
Musgrove reported to the police
that shortly after one o'clock Sun-
day morning he noticed a man loit-
ering near his home. His suspi-
cions were aroused when the man
lay down in the grass by the side-
walk in front of his house, and
continued to watch the house. Mus-
grove said he watched the man for
nearly an hour and when he did
not leave he secured his gun and
went outside to see what the prowl-
er wanted. The youth then fled.
Musgrove fired and hit Doaks in
the left leg, inflicting a slight flesh
wound. Several neighbors gave
chase and caught the young man a
few blocks away. He is being held
for investigation by the police,
,
Walgreen Co. Pays
Honors to Workers
Five Negroes With Forty
To Get Diamond Pins
CHICAGO, IL (CNS) Among
the forty workers of the Walgreen
Drug company receiving diamond
service pins for ten or more years
of services were five colored. The
presentation was made here last
week. Those receiving pins were
Henry Osborn, 5344 Prairie avenue,
a supervisor; Earle Williams, 4908
Indiana, a clerk at the 69th and
Halsted store; John Gaither, 4711
Vincennes, clerk 199 E. Franklin
store; Joe Bradley, 5639 Wabash,
receiving clerk at the main ware
house, and Aldridge Avery, 4932
Champlain.
The Walgreen drug store employs
over 700 race members in this city.
It was this organization that was
among the first to consider Ne-
groes for high clerical positions,
MAN 61 YEARS OLD FREED ON
MURDER CHARGE
WASHINGTON (CNS) Eu-
gene Brooks, 64 years old, was
found not guilty by a District Su-
preme court jury here Thursday
for the aleged first degree murder
of Ernest Green, last July. Brooks
testified that he shot Green in self-
dcfense,
our people is worse this year than
ever,” Mrs. Gross declared, “and
the need for giving help to our
people is consequently — greater.
Hardly a day passes that the cause
of some worthy family is not
brought to my attention.”
Mrs. Gross expressed the belief
that if a fund was started now and
an extensive drive conducted from
now until the Christmas holidays
much good would accrue from the
movement.
Last year, The Gary American
made an appeal for one needy fam-
ily on 25th street and was suc-
cessful in raising a small amount
of money and securing many need-
ed articles of shoes and clothing
for the distressed group. In 1928,
a similar appeal was made for a
mother and her three children who
were driven out of their home by
a fire of incendiary origin and lost
everything they possessed.
Results of these two appeals has
convinced Gary welfare workers
that if a movement was started
now through the newspaper and
conducted along intensive — lines
much more good could be accom-
plished and a greater number aided
All of those seeking aid may
call at the office of The Gary
American, 1819 Washington
street, and register. ‘Those who
know of persons in dire straits
may call at The American office
and leave thelr names and ad-
dresses. Contributions may be
brought to, the office of this
newspaper. All cases will be
taken care of as soon as contri-
butions permit.
Geis Prison Term
After Killing Pal
Cheating in ‘Skin Game’
Leads to Siabbing
Accusing his opponent of cheat-
ing in a “Georgia skin” card game
will cost John Eskridge, 3723 Block,
East Chicago, 2 to 21 years of his
life in the Indiana state prison on
a guilty plea of manslaughter
Judge Martin Smith in Lake Crimi
nal court passed the sentence late
Tuesday afternoon.
- Eskridge and William Arnold, al
so of East Chicago, were playing
cards in a Twin City gambling re
sort on September 24. According
to the testimony, Eskridge accused
Arnold of cheating him of 20 cents
Arnold drew a pocket knife and at
tacked Lskridge, who in turn also
drew # knife and stabbed Arnoid in
the side, which resulted in his
death.
The defendant first entered a plea
of cutting in self defense, but on
account of certain angles to the
case, he changed his plea to man-
slaughter, whereupon he was sen-
tenced.
Odell Stars as Back on
Football Team of Wiley
| A son of Gary, who wai a ramb-
ling, much-to-be-respected football
lplayer when he cuavorted on the
local gridirons during the seasons
lof 1626 and '27, is now creating a
mild sensation on the football grid-
‘irons of the Texas conference, play-
‘ing a fullback for Wiley college,
‘Marshall, Texas. Elvie Odell, the
young man who at present is the
nemesis of Texas football players,
starred for two seasons with Froe-
bel high school, and later with the
Avondales, during the early part
of the present season.
| The Alumni association of Wiley
college, through the instigation of
William A. Lorden of Gary, himse!f
a member and former star quarter
back at Wiley, persuaded Odell to
attend school at the Texas collegc
this year. Since hé has been there
he has battered down all opposition
in quest of football honors. le
stepped into the shoes of Ben Cay-
il, All-American back, and is {illing
them wonderfully well, according: to
the critics. Odell also replaced
Jones, who was scheduled for an all-
conference berth on the ‘Texas ele-
ven. Teamed with “Runt” Johnson,
another member of the Wiley col-
lege backfield, the Gary lad is dim-
ming the football aspirations of
many conference stars.
CLIVELLE TO TAKE ON
SILVERS
NEW YORK. (ANP) Angel
Clivelle, whose claim to fame is a
one-round knockout of Rene DeVos,
the hardy Belgian, is scheduled to
step ten or less rounds with Pal
Silvers at the St. Nicholas arena
next Tuesday night. Although Cli-
velle felied DeVos, there are many
who do not take his victory as any
indication of his fighting ability,
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2.000 Jobless on South
Side Provide a Need
for Quick Relief
and given relief than in previous
years.
© With snow already here and pros-
‘pects for a severe winter in the
offing, Gary welfare workers point
out that there are approximately
2.000 colored men and women with
no work to do or very little to do
at all,
| Negroes have been the “the first
‘to be fired and the last to be hired”
fat the steel mills, observers point
ont, As a result, many men and
women have been unable to do
enough work to suport their fami-
lies.
A number of these cases were re-
ported to The American this week,
‘and will be investigated by. this
‘newspaper. <A full description of
‘the cases and circumstances will
be given. Readers of the newspap-
er are asked to report any other
‘cases that they know of, so that
‘they may also be investigated.
| What is needed to provide prop-
er relief for the distressed ones,
‘welfare workers explained, are not
‘only cash contributions, but shoes,
clothing and groceries. Any contri-
bution will be appreciated and
acknowledged.
| They may be sent to the Poor
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Howard Beats
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in 27th Game
Blocked Punt Results
in Safety for Only
Score of Game —
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Before
a crowd of several thousand in
Griffith stadium Thanksgiving day,
the Howard Bisons turned back the
Lincoln grid team, favoritse to win,
by the score of 2 to 0.
This game, which: still remains
the classic of the Negro football
world, marked the 27th time the
two schools have met
‘The only score of the game came
in the third period when Walker,
159 pound center playing his first
year of college football, broke
through the slurdy Lincoln line
and blocked a punt by Morris. It
was recovered by Lincoln behind
their own goal line for a safety
which eventually meant victory for
the Howard team.
Marshall, left halfback, was the
outstanding star of the Bison team,
The former Newark, N. J., high
school player performed. brilliantly
on both offense and defense, La-
Marr, halfback of Lincoln, was the
outstanding player for the visitors.
Lincoln, however, outplayed the
Bisons and registered eight first
downs to Howard's three.
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Home of Local Attorney
Damaged by Blaze
In Ash-Pit
Undetermined Fire
Demolishes Garage
['wenty-two Automobiles
Desiroyed; 8 Still
Unidentified
Two fires, one of underetmined
origin early Thursday morning at
the South Side Garage, 2593 Wash+
ington, and another Friday morn-
ing at the home of Attornty Fritz
W. Alexander, 2600 Harrison, caus-
ed by an inflamable ash receptacle,
entailed serious losses to Garyites
over the holidays.
In the fire which occurred Friday
morning about 9:30 in the home of
Mr. Alexander, the blaze was con-
fined mostly to the basement but
considerable damage was done
throughout the house by water and
smoke. Firemen investigating the
cause of the damage claimed that
it was started from an inflamable
ash receptacle.
Mrs. Alexander and their young
son, Fritz, Jr., werethe only persong
at home at the time of the fire . Ale
though they were asleep, they awak-
ened in time to escape before suf-
fering any injuries, except from ex-
posure to the extreme cold.
Mr. Alexander, when interviewed
concerning the damages to his
home, estimated them to be more
than $1200. Damage from the ace
tual fire amounted to $400, and
from smoke and water $700. Every-
thing is completely.covered by in-
surance.
22 Cars Burn in Garaze
The South Side garage was tot-
ally destroyed by fire which gutted.
it early Thanksgiving morning, also
destroying 22 cars stored there for
the night. The fire, of undetermin-
ed origin, started about 4:30 a. m,
but Thomas Walker, proprietor,
who lived with his family in the
rear of the building, was awakened
\by the roar of, the blaze in ample
time to escape uninjured, although
‘many of their belongings were de
stroyed. :
| “Many south side residents anu
‘business houses lost automobiles im
the fire which destroyed the South
Side garage . A partial list of the
cars burned and their owners in-
cluded:
M. C. Mickens, 2525 Adams, Ford
Coupe
John Wilson, 2560 Washington,
Cadillac Sedan. -
B. F. Corneal, 1905 Broadway,
Ford truck.
J. E, McCoughtry, 2593 Connecti-
cut, Rickenbacker sedan. .
W. Smith, 2254 Madison, Ford
coupe
Rey. Green, 2377 Washington,
Buick coupe.
Alhambra Grocery, 2601 Wash
ington, Ford truck.
J. Hertrezo, 2593 Washington,’
Oidsmobile. “sa
J. Fuller, 2516 Connecticut, Stue
debaker.
W. Muckelry, 2272 Broadway,
Hupmobile.
Four cars, a Ford, Buick, Oak
land and a Studebaker wrecker, be-
longing to the garage and valued
at $800 were burned.
The police department was hold-
ing four unclaimed automobiles at
the garage. They included a Jew:
ett, Buick, Chevrolet and Over:
land.
Mr. Hertrezo, owner of the build:
ing, claimed it was partially cover-
ed by insurance, The equipment in
the garage was also partially cover
ed by insurance. [t is not known
what the losses will be on the other
cars, including the few yet uniden-
tifled.
Head of Rosenwald Fund Says Negro's Best Friend in South
PAGE TWO
Head of Rosenv
Negro's Best I
Speaks at Dedication
of 5,000th School
in Virginia
HAMPTON INSTITUTE, V
(ANP) — An event of great
fascence for both the Negro
white races took place on F
morning, November 21, when
Greenbriar school, between H
ton and Newport News, Viru
was dedicated. This school
5,000th to whose construction
Rosenwald, the Chicago
chant and philanthropist, has
tributed.
On a platform constructed on one side of the school were seated the speakers and many other distinguished guests. Before the platform were grouped the children of the Greenbriar and the Union schools and several hundred parents and friends. The chairman of the meeting was Robert M. Newton, superintendent of schools for Elizabeth City county.
After the invocation had been pronounced by the Re. S. Arthun Devan, the chaplain of Hampton Institute, S. L. Smith, director for Southern Schools of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, presented the key of the Greenbriar Schools to Mr. Newton. Mr. Smith pointed out that the 5,000 "Rosenwald Schools" situated in more than 630 counties of the south cared for more than 600,000 Negro boys and girls.
In responding to Mr. Smith's presentation, Mr. Newton, commenting on the kindness and courtesy, which, he pointed out, are characteristic of Elizabeth City county, traced the progress of the free school system in the county. He showed the rapid advance which had been made in educational facilities. He emphasized the great help which had been given to the county by the patrons and friends of the school, by the Rosenwald fund, and especially by Hampton institute, which, he said, had always given inspiration and encouragement and sympathetic help. He reminded the audience of the agreement with the Institute by which, beginning with 1831, all Negro pupils in the county will receive their high school instruction in a new building on the Hampton institute campus. He paid tribute to Mr. Rosenwadi, who, he said, has inspired ideals of complete living among rural folk of the south by helping hospitals, museums, and schools. Mr. Newton concluded by saying that the school was being dedicated for educational purposes and whid serve as a community center with its excellent library and playground facilities.
The Hon. John R. Saunders, Attorney General of Virginia, emphasized the importance of education in training good citizens and pointed out that Virginia is going to be a better place because the colored people are taking interest in the education of their children. He then introduced Edwin R. Embree, the president of the Julius Rosenwald fund, who came as the personal representative of Mr. Rosenwald. Mr. Embree first addressed the children of the school grouped before the platform and said they are the ones who count; that white they want to happen in life will hap-
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STATE OF INDIANA
LAKE COUNTY 13
No. 2704.
Lake Superior Court, September
Term, 1930.
Mutual Savings & Loon Association, a corporation, vs. N. Guy Ayers, et al.
By virtue of an Order of Sale, to be directed from the Clark of the Lake Superior Court, I will expose to public sale to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the east door of the Court House in Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana, on Friday, the 19th day of December, 1880, between the hours of ten o'clock A.M. and four o'clock P.M., the rents and profits for a period not exceeding seven years of the following described real estate to wit:
Lot No. Seven (7) in Block One (1) as marked and laid down on the recorded plat of Ridge Subdivision, being a subdivision of Block Five (5) Original Town of Miller in the Southeast quarter of Section Six (6) Township Thirty-six (30) Range Seven (7) West of the 2nd P. M. in Lake County, Indiana.
sell for a sufficient sum to satisfy said decree, interest and costs. I will at the same time and place offer for sale the fee simple in one to the said real estate, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to satisfy said judgment, interest, costs and accruing costs. Said sale will be made without relief from valuation or appraisement laws.
Taken as the property of N. Guy Ayars, et al, at the sale of Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation.
GEORGE B. SHEEDER,
Atty for Plaintiff.
JOSEPH B. KYLE,
Sheriff Lake County, Indiana
(11-22-29 and 12-6-30)
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pen. He conveyed Mr. Rosenwald's regrets that the latter could not be present because of illness. He stressed the necessity for the cooperation of both races in the South and said that he best friend of the Negro is in spite of much opinion to the contrary, the southern white man.
iday. He reminded his listeners, that it was not easy for men who were once masters to help support, with their own tax money, Hospitals and the schools for people who were once their slaves. He said that the men schools should not be called: "Rocotenwald" Schools but southern schools, for of the $25,000 given
64,500,000, more than $1,000,000 was contributed by white friends and more than $14,000,000 was appropriated out of tax money. Mr. Embree then commented on the advance of education in the South and called attention to the increased number of Negro children in high schools, normal schools, and colleges. He said that the days of low standards in Negro schools and colleges have gone. He called to mind the achievements of general outstanding Negro young men and concluded by emphasizing the fact that the Negro race itself must be conscious of its responsibility to be educated and healthy.
Thompson Fails to Appoint a Member
Negroes Become Angry
At Mayor's Action
CHICAGO — (AND) — Failure on the part of Mayor William Hale Thompson to name a Negro to one of the three vacancies on the school board in Chicago drew protests from Negroes here last week. The mayor named two members and announced that the Polish people were to be permitted to name a third.
A delegation of colored people among whom were B. F. Turner, president of the local N. A. A. C. P., Earl B. Dickerson, until recently regarded as a new Thompson political attaché, ed. by Pearl, E. G. Brown, and Alys. Eddie Sampson. The committee put into circulation a petition at campaign meeting of the N. A. A. C. P. held at Poro college Sunday afternoon under the leadership of Mrs. Daisy Lampkin in which they accused Thompson of attempting to satisfy all elements of the population except the Negro. Thompson told the committee that the time is not ripe. The committee branded his exceme as an impetu.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Justice of the Peace Casimir J. Welch, who, with the support of the Negro vote, was placed to that office for the sixth time in the past election, will show his "gratitude" for that vote on Thanksgiving day. He will provide a turkey dinner for all of the unemployed.
The dinner will be served at four restaurants on the east side, and it is expected that more than 1,500 persons will be fed in the four places. Every "side dish" and delicacy that should be included with a holiday dinner will be served, according to Judge Welch.
Judge Welch, who has been justice of the peace in his district for the past ten years, was bitterly opposed in the last election by Chester A. Franklin, editor of the Kansas City Call. He defeated James A. Weisson, Negro, the candidate for the office supported by The Call, and had the support of the Kansas City American.
Winnie Lightner in A New Talkie Hit
Winnie Lightner in her latest and most hilarious all-talking, all-color picture, "The Life of the Party," is now playing at the Roosevelt theatre, Chicago. In this production Miss Lightner is seen as a typical music-snop song plugger who inspires to successful gold digging. Her adventures carry her to Havana where she becomes involved with a bogus mill lionaire and through a series of amusing events rides a race horse to near victory and almost lands in jail. Irene Delrog, who recently appeared in "Oh Sailor Behave," plays the role of Winnie's accomplice.
Others in the all star cast are Charles Butterworth, comedy star of "Sweet Adeline," now playing in the loop, who displays his comical "dead pain" on the screen for the first time; Jack Whiting, Charles Jufelski, also of "Oh Sailor Behave," and a host of other celebrated comedians.
Arthur Cuzar, king of Broadway who crackers, wrote the screen adaptation and dialogue.
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Janitor Finds Time to Write Songs of Dixie
Latest Composition Is Heard on Radio Over Fort Wayne's WOWO
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A composer who dreams of melodies in the daytime while portering in a downtown hotel here and who sets his compositions to music at night was discovered here recently in the person of Kimball R. Black, Jr.
Mr. Black who is 27, attracted attention when his latest composition, "Mother, Kentucky and You," was played by an organist over radio station WOWO. The piece has received much favorable comment. The writer is expecting to have it published in the near future and has already obtained a copyright on both the words and music, both of which he wrote.
The words of the chorus are as follows:
"I'm going back to old Kentucky
To the place where I was born;
To the cottage on the hilltop
There's a welcome there for me,
The birds singing of my returning,
Both night and day I've been
worning for you."
I'm going back to old Kentucky To Mother, Kentucky, and you." The young composer has been in Fort Wayne 16 years. He was born in Kentucky and other pieces composed by him show a strong yearning for the land of his youth. Mr. Black modestly attributes his ability to compose to his natural love of music as he has never had the opportunity to study music. He
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Haitian Oath Of President Given Vincent
Editor and Diplomat Is Now President of the Negro Democracy
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Stenlo Vincent, editor of the Haiti Journal, who was elected president of the republic at last Tuesday's election, was inaugurated Sunday morning amid pomp and dignity. His election marked the first regularly conducted election in the republic since 1916. The government ban which has been on street parades for the past few months was lifted so that the people could celebrate the inauguration of the new administration. Parading began early Saturday morning, but was all free from disorder.
Announce Cabinet
The president announced Saturday that his cabinet would be composed of the following: Percival Thobby, minister of public works and finance; Dr. Victor Carre, public instruction; Paulius Sannon, foreign affairs; Adhemar Auguste, justice; Arthur Furnier, interior; Lelio Mallebranche, chief of cabinet, and Leon Alfred, undersecretary of state.
The new president, in addition to
attended Central high school for two years and since that time has been working and singing. He sang for five years in the Palmetto quartet and has a tenor voice. He is married and is the father of two children.
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Term, 1930.
Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation, vs. William Murdock, et al.
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Pet Monkey Hurts Child; Man Fined
SHREVEPORT, La. — Kager Ogilvey was found guilty in city court Saturday morning of violating the city ordinance prohibiting vicious animals from running the streets without muzzles. He was charged with having a monkey in his possession, and allowing him on the streets unmuzzled.
The charge against Ogilvey was filed on complaint of Mrs. L. A. Grafton, white, who said that her small son had been attacked and bitten by a monkey owned by Ogilvey. The monkey, Mrs. Grafton said, leaped from the man's back and attacked her child on the streets.
The man was fined $10 and costs of court, and told by Judge D. C. Scarborough to keep the monkey off the streets without a muzzle.
being editor of the Haiti Journal, published in Port-Au-Prince, has served his country as representative in foreign countries. He was formerly minister to France and Germany.
President Vincent is also a bitter foe to administrative heads of the United States.
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Taken as the property of William Murdock, et al at the suit of Mutual Savings & Loan Association, a corporation.
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Not Difficult To Find Gifts For the Male
Jewelry for Christmas In Wide Variety of Styles, Modes
By Helia Trope
Since scarf pins are back again in many patterns, making it easier to buy for the man of the family, we are told that rings with a square stone setting are having a wave of popularity just now, and there is a real flair for having them carved with a coat of arms or club insignia. These are of yellow gold with a sardonyx and are quite conservative.
Another ring seen recently was of platinum, heavy and severely plain, set with a cabachon star saphire, and most unique and interesting. This was an exception, for yellow gold is being used largely for men's rings just now. For men who like the unusual will be found most attractive rings set with quaintly carved lapis. Cuff-links of lapis will suit the man with a liking for color, and afford a nice contrast when worn with delicate soft blue, or gray shirts.
There are cuff-links for more dressy wear, too, which are of platinum or white gold with a frosted finish. Some are plain, some have a small diamond in the center, but the swanky ones have a row of tiny diamonds set in a straight line across them, and they are appealing indeed.
One might wonder with all the flair in feminine fashions for the romantic things of years ago, if men wouldn't succumb to a bit more of sentiment, too. There are some, bless their hearts, who still carry with them a picture in a locket. A gift suggestion for a man of this type is a small square gold case for the end of his watch chain. The picture inside is of metal, and won't fade with years and wear, so much more satisfactory than the old ones which were always in need of first aid. There are lovely pen knives, too, for the end of watch chains, in precious metals, plain or with as elaborate designs as could be desired.
For the man who prefers a timepiece on his wrist, the new gold chains in square links are worth considering. They have an air of stability and wear that most men like, and are light and easily cared for.
Caucasian Is "Fired" From D.C. Hospital
Engineer Insults Nurse At Freedmen's; Will Resign Dec. 1
WASHINGTON, D. C. —(CNS)— Alleged to have attempted to assault Miss Evangeline Renfro, young dietician at Freedmen's hospital, Henderson Cornett, white, chief engineer of the institution, was asked to resign by Dr. W. A. Warfield, superintendent of the hospital, it was learned early last week.
The alleged assault was reported to Dr. Warfield by the young dietician, when Cornett's attention toward her became unbearable. Cornett, who has placed his resignation with Dr. Warfield, effective December 1, is said to have entered the room of Miss Renfro under guise of repairing a radiator. While in the room he made several advances toward the young lady. She left the room and went into the next room of a girl friend, leaving the door open. Upon her return Cornett was still there. He still made advances and started to touch Miss Renfro, and at this time her screams brought other student nurses and occupants of the quarters to her room. Cornet made his exit.
The matter was reported to Dr. Warfield, who upon investigation, asked Cornet to resign. Cornett, who has been at the hospital for seven years is said to have made similar advances on the young women of the institution. Before coming to Freedmens' from the Interior Department, similar occurrences were reported to have taken place at that building. Cornett lives with his wife and three children at 2540 Fourteenth Street N. W. Dr. Warfield stated that a colored chief engineer would be sought to take the place vacated by Cornett.
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IT's time to get down to business—time for executives to get back to their desks—time for salesmen to get back into harness—time for all of us to pay more attention to our own business. Now, more than ever, we should tell people what we have to sell.
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THE SOCIETY NEWS DEPARTMENT
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By Florida J. Leeke
Tatums Spend Thanksgiving
In Chicago
Mr. and Mrs. H. Theo Tatum and
family are spending the holidays
in Chicago as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. L. Lewis, 4829 St. Lawrence
avenue. On Wednesday evening
they attended the annual Thanksgiving Eve dance of the Appomatox
club.
Miss Melissa Vanzy of 5236 Wabash avenue, Chicago, is the house guest of her uncle and aunt, Dr. and Mrs. R. W. Grubbs of 2308 Connecticut street.
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Miss Thyra Edwards
Returns To Gary
The many friends of Miss Thyra Edwards welcome her home again after her very interesting vacation. Her trip included stops at New York City, Washington Greensboro, North Carolina, Atlanta, Talladega, Tuskegee and Montgomery, Alabama, and Nashville.
Holds Celebration
One of the prettiest affairs of the season was the "pot-luck" dinner given by the Modern Priscilla club, Monday afternoon, in the home of Mrs. Sarah Robinson, 1917 Washington street, when fourteen officers and members met for their annual Thanksgiving celebration. After the general business routine, six baskets were filled with groceries and distributed to six needy families.
The afternoon was completed with a lavish Thanksgiving dinner.
Mrs. E. L. Brooks, pres.
Mrs. M. L. Tuck, secv.
A Thought For Sunday
By Amos R. Wells
WHOSE "PERSONAL LIBERTY"
IS MOST IMPORTANT?
A certain society woman, prominent and wealthy, is suing the United States to recover a quarter of a million dollars paid in income taxes for three years, alleging losses through the closing of hotel bars which she owned before the passage of the Prohibition law. She will not get her money back, it is safe to say, because the Supreme Court has decided that national Prohibition is not confiscation of a legitimate industry, but abolition of a business hurtful to the people.
No one has a right to do wrong, yet evil-doers are constantly acting as if any interference with their wickedness were an offense against "personal liberty." That much vaunted term is constantly used as a cloak for personal iniquity.
No one has a right to make profit from preying on others. The dope-seller and the bootlegger and the high-society bar-owner, stand on the same level of social infamy, while the defenders of such creatures stand with them.
"In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued, let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived."
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Question 1—My fiance and I were invited to dinner by his brother and his brother's bride, who were spending part of their honeymoon in our city. We went to a cafe, where there was dancing. When the music started, to my surprise and vexation, my fiance asked his new sister-in-law to dance the first number. The bridegroom (who does not dance) was left sitting with me. Now isn't it the duty of my fiance to see to my happiness first of all? I've been so miserable about this that I've thought of breaking the engagement.
ALIXE.
Question2—What should a girl say when a young man thanks her for the pleasure of dancing with him? Does she thank him also?
Answer 1—The fliance was following social tradition in asking the bride for the first dance. That she was his hostess, too, added an obligation. When Alixie is married, she, also, will receive the first attentions due to a bride from time immemorial.
Answer2—A girl does not thank a man for a dance. She may say casually, "I enjoyed it, too."
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Ostrich feathers are returning to favor—one inverted plume often trims the right side of a close-fitting hat, or small tips are curled about its edge.
Tricornes with narrow cuffs are chic when worn off the forehead. They are usually black and often bordered with Persian lamb.
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Chili Con Carne Suggests Good Dinner Menu
As it is made in Texas and Mexico, chili con carne is a winter dish that appeals to many persons. It is suggested as the meat course in the menu given below, together with the recipe:
DINNER MENU
Chili Con Carne
Potato Croquettes
Molded Spinach
Coleslaw
Coffee
I pound round stead—ground Onions—to taste.
Brown onion in butter . Add ground meat and brown. Then add finely cut green peppers and the two cans of soup. (The amount of liquid may be increased by rinsing out can after emptying the contents with a half can of water.) Cook all together until peppers are done. Then add beans and heat thoroughly. Red or chili pepper may be added, according to taste. Served on buttered bread or white rice, this proves a satisfying main dish.
Molden Spinach
Wash one peek of spinach thoroughly and cook in boiling salted water for 20 minutes. Drain, add a third cupful of melted butter and a scant teaspoonful of salt and reheat. Put through sieve, place in buttered mold and keep warm until ready to serve. Unmold onto a hot serving dish and sprinkle over the surface several teaspoonfuls of French dressing. Cover the whole with hard-boiled egg pressed through a sieve and sprinkle with paprika.
Coleslaw
Select a small, solid head of cabbage and remove outside leaves. Cut in quarters and shave very thin. Soak in cold water until crisp. Drain and mix with cream salad dressing.
Cream Salad Dressing
2 eggs.
2 teaspoonsful milk.
1 cupful heavy cream.
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Purdue Frat Gives Bids to Negro Studes
Chicagoan Talks About Racial Relations to Indiana Students
LAFAYETTE, Ind. — (ANP) — Alexander L. Jackson of Chicago, spoke in Eliza Fowler hall at Purdue university here Thursday night as a guest of the religious council. Speaking on the subject "What It Means to be a Problem," Mr. Jackson told the students, that what the Negro of today wanted was the same chance which the white man had. The speaker added that the Negro in order to make a position on the football field or track team must be superior to the mixture thickens, stirring constantly. Cool and add stiffly beaten cream.
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best talent which the white race can offer. He emphasized that segregation means degradation. In other words, separate schools, restrictions as to where to live and false impressions held by whites tend to place Negroes in a second class, thereby lowering the ideals of the race. In concluding Jackson pleaded with the audience to raise the coming generation to respect the black race; to give it the same rights as any other American and to treat Negroes as Christian brothers so that the coming generation of Negroes might have an equal chance to live.
At the end of the lecture, the meeting was turned into an open discussion. Many questions were asked concerning inter-racial marriages and similar problems. So effective was the interest engendered that one of the fraternities has extended dance bids to the three Negro students who are in attendance at the university as a contribution toward solving the race problem in the school.
Persian lamb is one of the fur successes of the year—the all-black coat with high collar and revers of Persian lamb being very much in evidence.
Channel's novelty cape coat and alternating bands of fur and stitching has proven one of the hits of the season.
Dr. Sweet Asks NAACP to Aid in Damage Suit
But Group Declines to Aid Detroit Man in His Latest Case
DETROIT. — (ANP) — The N. A. A. C. P. is being asked again to assist Dr. Ossain H. Sweet who is now defendant in the $150,000 damage suit brought on by Mrs. Leon Breiner, white, whose husband was killed in front of the home of Dr. Sweet when a mob attacked the Sweet home in September, 1925. The famous "Sweet trials" which are now history, closed in April, 1926, when Dr. Sweet and ten others were freed from the charges
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VOL. IV. No. 2
Look Out, Brow
Look Out, Brown Man!
By Sherwood Anderson
(Note: This article, by who is probably An of stories, appeared in the Nation for November been editing a newspaper in Virginia.)
(Note: This article, by who is probably America's foremost writer of stories, appeared in the Nation for November 26. Mr. Anderson has been editing a newspaper in Virginia.)
In Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Mississippi and even in Indiana and Ohio, the big shuffle-footed Negroes' Negro man, the so-called "bad one," goes about on the alert now. He has to be careful. These aren't good times for a Negro man to be too proud, step too high. Ther are a lot of white men hard up. There are a lot of white men out of work. They won't be wanting to see a big proud black man getting along. There'll be lynchings now.
Tse in trouble, Mr. White," he said.
"You are, eh?"
"Yessah, Mr. White."
"Well then, where is your white-man friend? Why don't you go to him?"
"Because, sah, I ain't got no white-man friend."
"You ain't, eh? Well, then I'll tell something—the Southern white man who hasn't a Negro-man friend and the Southern Negro man who hasn't a white-man friend isn't any good . . . You get out of here. You make yourself scarce."
Such a Negroes' Negro man doesn't always remember to be polite and courteous to whites. He isn't slick and fawning. He's not a white man's Negro. There are wenches like that, too — thick blood in them, heads held high. You'll see one of that kind occasionally on a country road in Georgia, a fine proud one. Such a carriage she's got, such a swing to her hips.
That is about the attitude of the intelligent white or brown man or woman in both the old and new South, as far as I have been able to get at it. The trouble is there are not enough intelligent whites and browns. Which race has the best of it in that, I don't know. That's one of the things you can't shades to intelligence. You don't find it all in books. I know that. You have to think or-what the Negro has done in his position, how well he has handled it, both in the North and in the South.
You'd think, if you listened to Northern people talk, or to professional Southernners in the North, that all Negroes were alike. I've heard them say, "Why, I can't tell one Negro from another." Might as well say, "I can't tell one field from another, one mountain from another, one river from another." Some can't.
Then you have to remember also that there are Negroes who are not white men's Negroes. I dare say there were proud men, fierce men, fighters and strutters among the tribes in the forests over there in Africa, too. The blood of these men must have come down, some of it, into some of our blacks, some of our browns.
They say, "It's different down South. The Negro knows his place down there." They mean to say he always goes fawning, taking off his hat to any kind of low-grade white, getting off the sidewalks. Why you'd think, to hear them talk, that Southern Negroes, particularly in the far South, were just dogs. Not very high-class dogs at that. There is a kind of dog that always goes about like that, his tail always between his legs.
J, for one, can imagine how such a man feels sometimes, when he has to knuckle under. I'm a white man and I've had to knuckle under to second-rate white men myself. I've had to laugh when such a one laughed, listen to his dull yarns, pretend to be impressed when he talked like a fool. I've done it. I've sat in advertising conferences, out in Chicago, for hours at a time, listening to some big windy man talking nonsense. I've sat there smiling, being polite, nodding my head, looking impressed.
As though any decent Northern or Southern white man, woman, would want a Negro man, or woman, to be like that.
There are whites that do want it. Second, third, and fourth-rate whites they are. They are in the ascendency ever since the Civil War. Before that they were there of course, but they were kept under. Why you can find as many loose-lipped, boastful, black-eyed, second-rate whites in the American South as in any place on earth. Who do you suppose does the lynching down there, in the dreadful ugly little towns?
I remember one such advertising conference when I sat like that for four hours. I was fingering a heavy inkwell that happened to be on the table before me. I wanted particularly, I remember, to bounce it off the head of a certain vulgar fat man who kept several of us there the four hours that day while he talked about himself. He was telling us what a big man he was, but he wasn't a big man he was, just as I thought it would. What he wanted us to do for him, and what we did, over our protest, broke him. I'm glad it did.
The cheap ones got into power a lot of places in the South after the Civil War because the whites with class to them got killed in the war. Or they lost all they had. The first-rate families in the far South are surprisingly feminine now. I mean there aren't any men left in some of the families, just a few high-class women hanging on. They don't do any loud talking about killing Negroes — the Southern people, of the old South, always did understand the position of the Negro pretty well. There was a situation. The *South had something on its hands — "our peculiar institution," the statesmen from down there called it. It was peculiar, all right.
The whites in America have got the Negro into a certain position in our civilization. We present-day whites don't put him there. We are in rather tight times. The Negro, because of his long subjugation, because he has known, has been taught by the circumstances of his position, a lot about sliding through such times, will get through the present situation better than a lot of whites. He will know how, will have been taught by life how to do it.
You had to assume that all Negroes were natural servants, that they liked being in a subordinate position in life. They gave love and devotion to the whites, expecting nothing.
That will make a lot of second-, third-, and fourth-rate whites jealous and sore. There'll be lynchings now. You watch. There'll be women insulted.
You'll be surprised, if you watch it, how few first-class white women will be insulted. Most of the women insulted will be the slack wives or daughters of slack second-rate whites, and in this situation the fawning, polite white man's Negro will get through all right.
I can't see why a Negro should be any different than any other man about all that. A man does what he has to do. How many whites are there in subordinate positions in life, doing what they don't like to do, being pretty polite about it too?
The fellow who has to look out now is the Negroes' Negro. Don't strut much these days, big
I can't see this sharp difference between the impulses and desires of Negroes and myself. I think decent Negro men and women have the same feelings I have. They have, under the circumstances, the same thought, the same impulses. I've been about Negroes a lot. I've watched them — that's my specialty, watching people — I've talked to them.
Don't strut much these days, big boy.
Walk carefully now.
Some of us understand how you like to strut, how it is. In your blood. A good many of us don't mind an occasional strut ourselves. Why, most of the strutting songs, to which we strut, when we do strut, we got from you.
"But you can't understand the thoughts and feelings of a Negro," men say. I've asked a good many Negroes about that. "If you can get on to yourself a little I guess you can get on to me," the Negro
We'll be your friend, if we can, big boy, but it's going to be rough going. There'll be lynchings now. It is time to walk softly. If you have any intelligence, brown boy, Negroes' Negro, remember that it has been by remaining friends with the intelligent people among the whites, by having an understanding with them, that the browns have got along with the whites as well as they have.
says.
"Why," someone says, "you've got something primitive here."
Sure you have. You've got the differences of a few thousand years out of the caves and forests. How old is the human race anyway? How much difference do a few thousand years make? And any way we haven't any pure-blooded Africans here — not any more.
Why, I am talking to Negroes now.
Bear this in mind, Negroes' Negro. There are a good many of us whites who are, more than we like to admit, in the same position as you. If your people have been slaves, so have ours: if you have been in a subordinate position in life, so have we.
I know this — that the people with some class to them, both men and women of the South, never have talked so big about the difference. These people always did recognize a certain position they were in and that the brown men and women about them were in. It was a difficult position. Slavery never was any god. It wasn't any good for the whites or the blacks either. Most of those who talked so big about the glories of slavery never did have any slaves. The intelligent, human white man of the old South did the best he could with life there, as he found it, and the intelligent brown man did the same.
There are a good many kinds of slavery in this life.
More brains, white man and brown man, for God's sake, more brains!
Look out, big brown boy, the lynchers are loose.
NOTICE
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They got to a kind of friendship, too. Don't think they didn't. Once I was walking with such a white man in a city of the far South when a loose-lipped, cunning-eyed brown man came shuffling up to
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McGuire Made Only 7 Trips to Crown Point
Original Statement of
77 Incorrect in Suit
For Added Fees
Only seven trips to Crown Point,
preparatory to taking up the case
of Ulysses Mack, convicted hatchet
slayer, were made by Attorney Chester
C. McGuire, according to a suit
filed in Lake Superior court two
weeks ago.
In an article which appeared in
The American November 15, the
statement of McGuire's services
listed 77 trips. This was incorrect.
McGuire made only seven
trips for which he demands a fee
of $130 in his suit against the rela-
tives of Mack for an additional fee
of $1,751.97
The rest of the article, based upon McGuire's complaint, was, however, substantially correct. McGuire was defense attorney for Mack, awaiting execution at Michigan City for the slaying of Josephine Odiozzo, Mary Gigil and William Welch. He received $268 in cash for his services, in addition to two promissory notes totaling $1,000 and two lots in the city valued at $400. Feeling that his compensation is inadequate, McGuire asks the court to award him the additional fee of $1,751.97.
Negro's Home Bombed; Five Whites Held
Bombing Thought to Be Union Action Against Non-Union Labor
DANVILLE, Va. — Five white men were arrested here early this week in connection with the bombing of a Negro's home, said to be a union reprisal against the textile industries employing non-union Negro workers to break a textile workers' strike. The explosion was near the home of Jim Swann, non-union worker in the Schoolfield textile mill, but did no serious damage to the house.
Those arrested were R. I. Cook; J. B. Barrow, L. L. Yetos, Floyd Sutliff and Dan Sutliff. All five were said by Chief of Police Cole to be union workers. According to the police report of the arrests, agitation had been going on concerning the employing of Negroes in the textile industries during a strike. Detective J. C. Lewis was assigned to the case, and he is said to have hidden in a hardware store in Danville and witnessed Dan Sutliff purchasing six sticks of dynamite. The detective said he followed Sutliff to Schoolfield and pointed him out to the Schoolfield police as the man who purchased the dynamite.
Big Stage Show at Broadway Theatre
With the added attraction of "Gibson's Chocolate Box Revue" the Broadway theatre will offer to the patrons a monster bill of singing, dancing and talking screen at tractions next week. This group of entertainers will appear Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, December 1, 2 and 3.
"Gibson's Chocolate Box Revue" is a company of 22 people, including a 5-piece band known as the "Red Hot Peppers." They have beautiful girls, funny comedians and fast dancers. The feature performers include Baby Corinne Gibson, Albert Gibson and Brown, Margaret and Brown, three which wind dancers.
The talking screen attractions for Sunday, November 30, will be "The Sea God," a Paramount picture starring Richard Arlen and Fay Wray. This picture is the first of the talking pictures made at the bottom of the sea. The last half of the week will find Ruth Chatterton and Clive Brook, co-starred in one of Miss Chatterton's best pictures, "Anybody's Woman."
Three Admit Part In Futile Holdup
Within twelve hours after a hold-up was attempted, James Jackson, 22, 1641 Madison, Colonel Jones, 48, 1739 Washington, and Charles Campbell, 30, 1809 Madison, were in police custody with robbery charges filed against them in Crown Point.
The three men were arrested Sunday by defective John Boldan on complaint of Abe Pool, this Madison. They confessed to the attempted holdup. According to the confession the three men tried to get Pool drunk an drob him of his winnings in a card game the three had engaged in earlier in the day. They attacked Pool in an alley near 15th and Jefferson, but he screamed and fled. They did not obtain any loot, and Pool reported the attack to the police.
GARY, INDIANA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930
Amaze a Minute
Scientifics by Arnold
IMPRISONMENT SAVES LIFE.
ALL BUT TWO OF ST. PIERRE'S, MARINIQUE,
50,000 INHABITANTS WERE ANNULATED ON
MAY 6, 1902, WHEN MOUNT PELEE, ITS CRATER
CLOUGED, DURST ITS SIDES AND THREW INTO
THE AIR A BLANKET OF FIVE DUST HEATED
TO INCANDESCENCE, SUFFOCATING AND
SOORCHING THE LUNGS OF EVERY INHABITANT WITH EXCEPTION OF TWO,
ONE OF WHOM WAS CONFINED IN AN
UNDERGROUND DUNGEON.
CONTRARY TO COMMON BELIEF,
BATS NEVER ENTANGLE THEM-
SELVES IN HUMAN HAIR, THEIR
SENSES ARE SO ACUTE THAT
THEY CAN AVOID INTRICATE
WIRE OR THREAD MESH SET
TO DECEIVE OR TAP THEM.
IF INTER-STELLAR TRAVEL
WERE POSSIBLE,
TODAY'S FASTEST AEROPLANE
IF DRIVER STRADILY AT TOP
SPEED IN A STRAIGHT LINE
Would REQUIRE 8,000,000
YEARS TO REACH THE
NEAREST STAR, TO
REACH THE BRIGHTEST
STAR IN THE SKY,
SIRIUS WOULD TAKE
TWICE AS LONG.
THE SURINAM MOTHER
TOAD GIVES BIRTH TO
HER YOUNG
HATCHING THEM OUT OF LITTLE
POCKETS ON HER BACK.
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HELLO, EVERYBODY! Little Dickie Dishwater, the office post, has been reading in the newspapers a daily feature entitled, "How It Began." "Eme," says Dickie, "I can do just as good myself." So he prepared a list of beginnings for the dead public. It reads like this: HOW THE DANDELION GOT ITS NAME
Once a professor had a cross-eyed son. The proof was interested in all sorts of plants and never lot a chance pass to investigate new ones. In fact, he was so much interested in plants he never combed his hair and once a near-sighted teacher from another school mistook his dome for a growth of unfeuiful blackberry vines — but that is being the point.
One day the professor took his cross-eyed ron to the goo. Just as they got in front of the lion's cage, the pappy became interested in a strange plant growing therey. "Say, pop," began the son. Pop looked up and thought his young offspring was looking at the plant when he was really looking at the lion. "Say, pop," the lad continued, "ain't that a dandy lion?" And it's called that to this very day.
WHY WE HAVE LISTERINE
A cook named Khon had charge of all the groceries in a boarding place. You know, one of those places where the man with the longest arm gets the most food and the chickens served got mixed up and grew two necks and only one leg.
Anyhow, there were four boarders and the landlady. On Sunday all five sat down to their dinner and finished up all but the dessert.
"Today you may have your choice of desserts. We have pie and bread pudding. Which will you have?"
The first wanted pie and so did the second and third. The fourth wanted pudding but the landlady herself wanted pie. So, turning to the cook she said:
"Four out of five will have pie,
Risen."
A FICK TOWN IS A PLACE
WHERE A MAN STAYS WITH
HIS OWN WIFE AT NIGHT.
The sand of life run low; good-bye
To birds mad blossom, sky and sun
I am not ready yet to die —
So much to do; so little done
So many merry songs unsung;
So many adding hearts to cheer
So many valiant thoughts my
tongue
Could speak, in words that soothe
and scar;
So many hopes, like heralds
dressed
In livery, chiffre to be dispatched;
Like eggs in a forsaken nest.
THE WISEST CRACKS IN AMERICA
LANENT
So many fragile dreams unhatchd!
—Carl B. Adams.
HALITOSIS HELEN SAYS LIN-
COLN FREED THE SLAVES
AND HOOVER FREED THE
WORKING MAN.
A dispatch from Baltimore says
a class in journalism has been
opened in the Maryland State pen-
tentiary. Eleven convicts, includ-
ing one murderer, are studying to
be newspaper men.
Which proves that one sinks
deeper and deeper into a life of
crime.
Well you've got that cool weath-
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COLUMBUS, Ga. — Joseph H. Douglass, noted violinist and grandson of Frederick Douglass, appeared in concert at the First African Baptist church here Thursday night. A large crowd heard his program of nine numbers, which included spiritual, classical and popular sentimental selections. Douglass is given credit by critics as being one of the most promising violinists of the Negro race. He has studied many years, both in the United States and European cities. Recently, while on a tour of Europe, he played before royalty in England and Spain.
The local concert was sponsored by the Negro branch of the Y. M. C. A., and according to O. R. Bryant, executive secretary, many similar concerts will be offered to the public during the winter season.
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Employed to Catch Naked White Girls
LOS ANGELES — (ANP) According to Pete Edwards, a large well-known movie "extra", he was engaged a few days ago by white promoters unknown to him to make a picture on location in one of the remote canyons near the city. At tended by a great deal of secrecy the party included a number of white girls repaired to a large cave. Pete dressed only in a loin cloth was stationed in the mouth of the cave.
White girls absolutely naked, supposedly fleeing from white men, also naked, were to pass this cave. As they did so the wild man of the hills was to leap out and capture them herding them all into his cave home. Other scenes which could not be shown on any public screen were filmed according to Edwards. They are usually made by private cameramen, for sale at high prices for risque parties and stages.
Negro Concert Musicians To Start Season
Baltimore Symphony Group Now Rehearsing For Second Season
BALTIMORE, Md. — Plans now are nearing completion and rehearsals are being held for the second annual concert in February by the Negro Symphony Orchestra, the only organization of its kind in this country. The concert will be held in the auditorium of the Douglass high school. Will Seek City Aid Although not under municipal control, the orchestra is seeking $1,500 in the city's music budget. The money would be used to defray expenses of concerts to be given at assemblies in the colored schools throughout the city.
These concert, beginnig at 9 a.m., and continuing an hour, would be recognized as a major activity in the school course. Similar concerts are given in the white schools by the Baltimore Symphony orchestra.
Organized Last Year
The orchestra, under the baton of Charles L. Harris, Negro, was organized last year when attention of white music patrons was called to the support given the white orchestra by Negroes.
A Baltimorean contributed $1,000 to finance the Negro orchestra in its infant strides and promised more, if needed.
American Bankers Open Subsidiary in Liberia
MONROVIA, Liberia — (CNS) Establishment of the first American bank in this country was announced last week by the Harvey S. Firestone Tire and Rubber people at Akron, Ohio. The bank has been designated by President King of Liberia, as the official depository of the republic. The institution will be managed by Peter Davidson, who for 20 years has been connected with the foreign service department of the National City Bank of New York.
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Hill Added to U.S. Comish on Unemployment
Urban League Official To Care for Negroes Interests Now
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Expressing his appreciation to Eugene Kinckle Jones, executive secretary, National Urban league, of the readiness of the Urban league to assist the President's Emergency committee for employment through its Department of Industrial Relations and its branch organizations in forty industrial centers, Colonel Arthur Woods, chairman of the president's committee has appointed T. Arnold Hill of the National Urban league as "laison officer between the committee and the interests of the colored people in the present emergency."
The Department of Industrial Relations of the National Urban league of which Mr. Hill is the director, has been engaged in a heroic effort to stem the tide of unemployment among Negroes. Through the nation-wide organization of the Urban league, it has maintained a persistent and intensive campaign even before the present unemployment crisis occurred to improve the condition of Negro workers. Through the department of research, headed by Ira De A. Reid, it has been able to tabulate the amount of unemployment among Negroes and to launch a constructive program for its relief. The appointment of T. Arnold Hill to assist the president's committee is a timely recognition of the Negro worker on the part of the president's committee for employment and should be a surety against discrimination in the relief measures which the committee has inaugurated.
DePriest Will Rename Parham To West Point
WASHINGTON, D. C. —(CNS) Alonzo Parham, Chicago youth dismissed from West Point Military Academy last year because of failure in mathematics, will be reappointed to the military school by Representative DePriest, of Illinois, who is quoted as saying: "Parham showed such fine spirit when he was discharged that I am going to send him back." The Congressman also plans to name another candidate for the Military Academy and three for the Naval Academy. Parham, it is learned, is now studying mathematics at the University of Chicago.
Stabed With Ice-Pick; Drives Car to Hospital
INDIANAPOLIS. — Although suffering from three severe wounds in his chest and shoulders, resulting from being stabbed with an ice-pick, Royce Wharton, 26 years old, was able to drive his own car to the City hospital, before collapsing from loss of blood last Monday afternoon. Wharton said he had been stabbed by Henry Vaultx who is being sought by the police. Wharton is in a serious condition in the hospital.
Before killing himself with a shotgun in a Vancouver (B. C.) hotel, Alex. Nyberg wrote a note of apology to which he pinned a $10 bill to pay for damage to the room.
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Hand Phillips 6-0 Drubbing; To Louisville
Hand Phillips 6-0 Drubbing; To Louisville
Roosevelt Reserves Win Game; Team Plays '29 Prep Champions
Starting his shock troops against the football team from Wendell Phillips high school in a charity game played last Saturday afternoon at Gleason field, Coach Cooke had the game sewed up in the first quarter when Smith plunged across from the two yard line for the game's only score.
The score came as the result of a 60 yard march. Smith and trailer bore the brunt of the attack. The Phillips boys were momentarily weakened and tightened only after the six points had been made by the local boys.
A third quarter drive by the visitors brought Roosevelts' regulars into the game and they successfully halted Phillips' scoring threat. In the last few seconds of play, Trailer intercepted an enemy pass and ran to the one yard line where he stumbled and fell. The game ended before Roosevelt could lug the ball across for an additional touchdown.
The local grid team left Wednesday for Louisville where they were to play the high school of that city Thanksgiving. Last year the Kentuckians claimed the national prep title. This year they have been defeated only by Crispus Attuucks of Indianapolis, who held them scoreless while doing so.
Howard Wins 3rd Contest of Season
Reserves Star in 13-6 Win Over Virginia
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Testing his reserves for the Howard-Lincoln game at Washington on Thanksgiving day, Coach Verdell discovered potential stars in Drew and Hall, as Howard university defeated Virginia seminary here Saturday in the Municipal stadium, 13 to 6. Seminary scored on a pass and lost extra point for offside. Drew's 17-yard plunge through center and 2 yards through tackle, scored Howard's touchdown. Hall cut through tackle for Howard's second score and Drew went through the same place for extra point.
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FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Two colplayers on the Central high school football team here, Al Jennings, end, and Nathaniel Buggs, halfback, were named on the all-City grid team picked by Ben Tenny, sports editor of the News-Sentinel, and coaches of the four high schools.
Commenting on the players picked, Teny had the following to say: "Buggs was an easy choice for a halfback post. This boy has everything in the way of natural ability, speed, power and weight and used them to good advantage. He could do anything well and performed most of his duties sensationally.
We doubt if anyone would question our statement that he was the season's outstanding star and that's saying a lot.
"Jennings was the outstanding end of a fairly poor lot. He was brilliant at all times and could do everything a coach would desire of a wingman as well as carry the ball if necessary. Stauffer also stood out in a strong line and, like Jennings, was a unanimous choice."
Crispus Attucks in Another Win, 33-6
E. St. Louis Hi Scores Against Capital Boys
INDIANAPOLIS. — Crispus Attucks registered a 33 to 6 victory over Lincoln high school of East St. Louis, Ill., at Pennsy park Saturday.
Myers, Rice and Bigsby scored touchdowns for the locals on line plunges. Stratton tallied on an end run. A pass, Bigsby to Ransom, accounted for the other marker. Bigsby kicked the three extra points.
The Crispus Attucks reserves drubbed the Henderson (Ky.) eleven, 27 to 0, at the Pennsy field, before hte first team game. The Tigers had little difficulty in tallying with J. Brown, Modelyn, Dalton and Dunn scoring the points.
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Star Tackle Kept Out of Game with Grid Team from Dixie
CHICAGO — (ANP) — On the Southside of Chicago where Comiskey park, the home of the White Sox, is located, there plays a professional football team which the Negro residents have come almost to regard as their own. The team is the Chicago Cardinals, led by Ernie Nevers, which Sunday a week ago, arose in its might and trounced the championship Green Bay Packers, undefeated in three years by a league team.
But the pride of the colored fans had been swelled by the exploits of one of their own, Duke Slater, who, a few years ago, while playing in Iowa, qualified as an all-American tackle. Slater, for several years, has been a lion in attack for the Cardinals. In the game with the Green Bay Packers, he stopped the famous Bo Molenda, all-American from the University of Michigan, dead in his tracks, not once but several times, and the way in which he opened up holes for Ernie Nevers to dance his way through was a caution. Big, kindly Duke also does most of the kicking off for the Cardinal team.
Thus it was with something more than hope that the colored fans looked forward to yesterday's game with the Memphis Tigers. The Tigers are a strong, fast team, and although they represent a southern city, some of their players are from other sections. Naturally, the colored fans wanted to see what their hero was going to do against the "Big Men" from the South.
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But he didn't do "NOTHIN'." When the lineups were published in the Saturday papers, it was observed that a Nordic had been placed in the gentle, but powerful Duke's position. It might have been thought that a mistake had been made, for the Duke is a regular, and how! But there was no mistake. The Duke was just left out.
Of course, the Duke will be able to say nothing. The Tigers are not a professional league team and Duke obtains his three squares a day by tackling the league teams. He can be easily persuaded that the demolition of this outlaw team was no job of "his'n." But the fans to whom Duke is a hero and who, after all, are good old Americans, too, had a sort of sickly feeling at the stomach when they realized that here again the good old north had yielded to the rampant south and slapped a fellow citizen in his face and pride. They may say that Duke had a bum leg, but, leg or no leg, he did not play.
Incidentally, the Cardinals, through forward passes, won the game, 20-7. Mr. Nevers did the kicking off.
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'Big Blues' Bow to Fisk Team, 31 to 6
3,000 See Wiggins Run Through Bluefield
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (ANP) "The warm, the genial setting sun" did shine on Fisk's Homecoming game with Bluefield, West Virginia, on Saturday, when Fisk won with a score of 31 to 6. Three thousand students and alumni were in the Sulphur Dell bleachers to cheer for the Gold and Blue, for the visitors who came to see the home team win, for the distinguished educators who were in Nashville attending the educational and library conferences, and for Geraldine Williams of Kansas City, who was elected by the student body as "Miss Fisk" for the Homecoming game.
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Knoxville and Alabama Clash; Aggies Lose 26-2
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Long broken field runs, forward passes, and plenty of thrilling plays were seen by football fans last Saturday afternoon as Knoxville college defeated Alabama A. & M. college by a score of 26-2.
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GREENSBORO, N. C. —In a hectic contest, punctuated with thrilling open-field work, the powerful A. & T. "Aggies" and the "Golden Bulls" of Johnson C. Smith battled to a draw here Saturday, in the
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Howard Meets 17 Land Grant College Heads
Those Attending Annual Confab Introduced in University Chapel
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Seventeen land-grant college presidents here in attendance upon their annual conference, were presented to the students and faculty of Howard university at a special assembly in Andrew Rankin chapel on Tuesday.
President W. J. Hale of Tennessee State college and winner of the Harmon award for achievement in education last year acted as master of ceremonies. Each of the presidents was introduced and conveyed greetings on behalf of their respective institutions.
Education Improvement
The key note of their addresses was the improvement in educational facilities provided Negroes in the several southern states. President Mordecai W. Johnson expressed greetings to the visiting presidents on behalf of Howard university, and commended them in terms of highest praise for their remarkable achievements. Musical selections were given by Miss Ethyl B. Wise and Miss Louise Burge. The service closed with the singing of Alma Mater.
Following the chapel exercises the guests were entertained by the university at luncheon in the Trustees' dining hall with the deans and administrative officers.
The opening session of the conference was held Monday evening in Library hall, where President W. J. Hale presided. Dr. Mordecal W. Johnson delivered the address of welcome, with responses by Presidents J. H. E. Lee, J. S. Clark, John W. Davis, and R. S. Wilkinson. Reports of committees followed music by the glee club.
Those Present
Presidents who visited Howard university were: J. E. Drake, Atlanta A. & M. Institute; J. B. Watson, Arkansas State college; R. S. Crossley, Delaware State college; J. R. F. Lee, Florida A. & M. college; Benj. F. Hubert, Georgia State Industrial college; R. B. Atwood, Kentucky Normal and Industrial college; J. S. Clark, Southern university, Louisiana; T. H. Kiah, Princess Anne academy, Maryland; L. J. Rowan, Alcorn A. & M. college, Miss.; F. D. Bluford, A. & T. college, N. C.; Z. T. Hubert, Agricultural and Normal university, Oklahoma; R. S. Wilkinson, S. C. State college; W. J. Hale, Tenn. State college; W. R. Banks, Prairie View State college, Texas; John W. Davis, West Va. State college; and C. C. Richardson, Kansas Vocational school.
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur and other prominent men in the educational field addressed the conference at sessions held in the auditorium of the department of the interior.
Student Will
Begin Negro
Press Survey
Thesis on Historical and Economic Sides of
A survey of Negro newspapers as productive business enterprises is being carried on as a basis for a thesis by a senior student in the School of Journalism of the University of Wisconsin, according to information received by the United States Department of Commerce. The thesis, according to information reaching the Department, will pay some attention to the historical background of the Negro press; but will concern itself chiefly with types of papers, circulation growth, extent of distribution, physical value of newspaper properties, and value of papers as advertising media.
Send Questionnaire
The facts for the survey are being gathered through a questionnaire sent to 127 Negro weeklies and by a critical analysis and classification of the publication. Similar surveys conducted from time to time in regard to small dailles and weeklies in several parts of the country have produced a mass of facts which have subsequently been used very profitably by the individual papers. When completed this survey should be of service to those interested in the Negro market.
NOTICE OF FINAL
SETTLEMENT OF ESTATE
In the Lake Superior Court, Gary, November term, 1930. In the matter of the estate of Jake Thomas, No. 1332. Notice is hereby given to the heirs, legatees and creditors of Jake Thomas, deceased, to appear in the Lake Superior Court, held at Gary, Indiana, on the 13th day of December, 1930 and show cause, if any, why the Final Settlement Accounts with the estate of said decedent should not be approved; and said heirs are notified to then and there make proof of heirship, and receive their distributive shares. Witness the Clerk of the Lake Superior Court, at Gary, this 15th day of November, 1930.
ALVINA M. KILLIGREW
Clerk Lake Superior Court
gregation in his church every Sunday morning and in the afternoon he hops into an airplane and files on his 75-mile circuit to carry the gospel message to people who dwell in out-of-the-way communities.
Buy now and help bring prosperity back.
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The Gary U American
"The Distinguished Newspaper" Owned and published every Friday morning in the year by The American Publishing Company, Inc. an Indiana corporation. Arthur B. Whitlock, President; Chauncey Townsend, Vice-President; Fritz W. Alexander, Treasurer. Address 1819 Washington Street, Gary, Indiana.
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Subscription price: $2.00 per year in advance; for six months, $1.50. Single copies, five cents. Advertising rates upon request. Copyright, 1930, by The American Publishing Company, Inc.
CHAUNCEY TOWNSEND .....Executive Editor
BOOKER T. THOMAS .....Business Manager
Managing Editor: F. Marshall Davis; News Editor: Rudolf Jonson; Director of Advertising: William C. Hicks; Contributors: Florida J. Leeke, Dennis A. Bethea, William A. Lorden.
"The Gary American enters the field without malice or envy toward anyone; it has no axe to grind, neither has it anyone to punish; it has but one aim, to which it will cling with pious devotion, and that is to stand squarely in defense of the rights of the black American."—Prospectus of The Gary American Number One, November 10, 1927.
VOL IV. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1930 No. 2
A Time for Giving
COLD: biting and bitter. . . .
The wolf of hunger, gnawing, gnawing. . .
It's flesh and blood against the naked steel of want.
Children crying, mothers helpless, fathers desperate, the grey beasts of privation creeping into homes that never knew them before.
Who could know the terror of a home without food or fuel or clothing with the icy blasts of winter already here and not in his heart be moved to help?
The calamity of all Gary is this period of financial depression which has left 2,000 of our race facing the greatest crisis of their existence. Whether things will come out all right or whether they shall starve and freeze to death depends upon the more fortunate people here in Gary.
For many years the Negro has depended upon whites for his charity. For many years the whites have given — and have thought the Negro a dependent child. Is it not time that we grew to manhood and helped those bound to us by the ties of race?
Perhaps it may be your neighbor who is face to face with the black hopelessness of utter need. Do you know?
There are few of us with steady employment who cannot afford to give either money or clothing to help those who have neither work nor money. Imagine yourself, when you dig into your pockets to contribute to The American's Relief Fund, with neither heat nor food nor sufficient dress. Imagine yourself going from freezing air to a home which has only the warmth coming from being walled in. Imagine yourself and your family feeling the fangs of a tearing hunger and you powerless to prevent it.
And imagine, as a final evil, the prospect of freezing and starving for a whole winter with the warmth of spring and summer and the possibility of work opening up many months in the misty future. Blessed is he who will never know the naked steel of want. Twice blessed is he who gives to lessen the suffering of its victims — his fellowman.
Blocking Justice in Marion
D. CLAWSON, Circuit court judge down in Grant county, scene of last August's lynching, is perhaps the state's outstanding example of inefficiency on the bench. He has constantly attempted to block all efforts to bring those charged with guilt in the atrocious crime to trial.
In August when it was first planned to launch an investigation into the mobbing, Clawson refused to lend his aid on the ground that "the grand jury could take care of it in better fashion." That this same grand jury returned an indictment against Cameron, who escaped the death of Shipp and Smith, and exonerated Sheriff Jacob Campbell while complimenting him is now a matter of history. Their quiz on the lynching was little more than travesty.
When Attorney General James Ogden, disgusted at the grand jury's findings, filed affidavits against seven men and Sheriff Campbell several weeks ago, Judge Clawson immediately set the sheriff free on his own cognizance, stating that he did not consider charges of neglect of duty and incompetence in office a basis for criminal action. Those arrested as leaders have been held in bonds of $2,000 although they were accused in the murder of Shipp and Smith. Last week when the four arrested were arraigned before Judge Clawson, he refused to set a date for their trials, claiming that he had other cases "more important."
Judging purely from his actions, it seems as if the Grant County juror was with the lynchers in spirit if not in body on that night in August. The power of his office and position has been wielded as a bludgeon in defense of accused murderers. All of his actions thus far in the case have been calculated to hinder the steps of justice.
Clawson might go over in a big way down on the semi-civilized frontiers of Mississippi or in the mountain fastnesses of Arkansas where they still recruit young white bucks for the Civil War. There the most successful officials are those who can devise the most ways to inconvenience Negroes and pervert justice against them.
At the present time Indiana, although she has fallen mighty low, has not quite dropped to such depths. Many of the best thinking Caucasians of Marion have been leaders in the fight to bring about the punishment of the mob leaders. Clawson by his actions is merely filling his own pathway with boulders. Ogden once signified his intention of having the trial changed from Marion to a community where justice might be more nearly
rendered. It will be difficult enough to secure a conviction at best, but if Judge Clawson hears the cases as he might it will but a waste of Ogden's time.
Embree Exhumes a Fallacy
STRANGE as it may seem, Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald fund, is credited with exhuming and seeking to revive the hoary fallacy that "the best friend of the Negro is the Southern white man."
It happened in Virginia last week at the dedication of the 5,000th Rosenwald school. Embree further said that Rosenwald had contributed $4,000,000, the Negroes $4,500,-000, and $14,000,000 had been appropriated out of tax money. He reminded his listeners that it was not easy for men who were once masters, to "help support, with their own tax money, hospitals and schools for people who were once their slaves."
We believed that such ideas had, in the minds of intelligent men, perished many years ago. The Fallacy of the Tax is ages old and has been boiled in oil many times. Now it raises its head again in company with a man who has been the great Jewish philanthropist's agent in breaking down more ignorance than any other private medium in the South.
Everybody knows that in Dixie the Negro contributes a huge portion of the tax money. If not paid in direct, he produces it for the land owners. But in either case, he is responsible. What he gets for education is only a fraction of what he pays and the few millions spent on hospitals and schools still leaves the white South the winner financially. We cannot believe that Rosenwald himself holds any such ideas. His record is one of the biggest proofs that the Southern white man is not the Negro's best friend. The Chicago millionaire stands head and shoulders above all others who have contributed financially to the advancement of the Negro.
We hope that Rosenwald himself will take note of the ancient ideas as expressed by Embree and will see that they are not aired again. It would be an insult to the Negro to aid him financially and then tell him that his best friend is the Southern white.
Other Papers Say
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE AMERICAN
(The Florida Sentinel) The Gary American of Gary, Indiana, manned largely by a competent staff of young men, has just installed a Goss CoxO-Type Newspaper press and announces that $25,000 will be spent in fully equipping a plant with machinery and other essentials necessary for the successful publication of a first-class newspaper. It also announced that an entire building has been taken over, refurnished and decorated to house the main offices of the newspaper.
It is rare that young men in their twenties have the vision and ability to go forward with such a far reaching program as the staff of the Gary American are undertaking. The staff is perhaps the youngest now operating a newspaper. Chauncey Townsend, editor, a graduate in journalism of the University of Southern California, is 26. F. Marshall Davis, managing editor, and a former student in Journalism at Kansas State College, is 24. Rudolf Jonson, 28, city Editor, is from the University of Minnesota, while Booker Thomas, business manager, is 22.
These young men, and those associated with them, have an excellent opportunity to render some useful service to the citizens of Indiana as well as to point a new course to follow for Negro journalism. The road is not strewn with flowers, and sooner or later these young men are going to learn that they may expect very little from the men who have set themselves up as leaders among the people. From among the lowly and the folk who really mean what they say and practice what they preach will come the support of the Gary American as many Negro publishers can readily testify today.
The Sentinel wishes for the Gary American a successful and serviceable journey along the highway of journalistic vicissitudes.
Need the Money
Los Angeles Times: Nowadays the success of a foreign cabinet depends upon its ability to float a loan in America or some other country that is supposed to have a few dollars left.
Many a Miss.
Boston Transcript: Automobiles caused 29,531 deaths in the United States in 1929, and any one of several million Americans can recall an incident that came near making it 29,532.
Clever, Those Chinese.
Greenville News: The government army in China is easy to recognize. It confiscates property, while the other army loots.
And Pleasanter.
Terre Haute Tribune: The wag of a yellow dog's tail is better than the shake of a false friend's hand.
Rather Shoot It Out.
Detroit Free Press: Nobody has heard any of the organized gangsters approving of Mr. Wickersham's plan for restoration of the whipping post.
THE GARY AMERICAN. GARY. INDIANA
A Diplomat at Large
A Diplomat at Large
Several Negro papers throughout the land have had a state war with Amos 'n' Andy, the two comedians most families together in the evening. These joys of the doings of the comic pair as "pernicious propaganda teaching the Pike's Peak of stupidity.
My biggest objection to Amos 'n' Andy is that he isn't rather boring. They show me little I haven't been explicit, I'm constantly hearing stuff about my musical as any America's favorite pair ever offered to me.
Perhaps this is the fault of my associates. Maybe it stale only with lawyers, doctors, preachers, schoolboers, Negro business men, and Negroes in business.
I've been in quite a few towns in this country of New York in every one with a sizeable colored population. What gave Amos 'n' Andy their ideas for the most instantly exaggerated picture they've painted with the Irish Air Taxicab Co. I could name a half dozen local names and titles no less ludicrous than the Mights of the Sea. The two comedians have not allowed the American public with any idea which is liable within the Negro race.
In the Negro press were to object on the ground that strong people were doing the broadcasting, I would them heartily. I could go around in Gary, Chicago cities and find many a place where much funnier or ugly unconsciously produced daily than Amos 'n' Andy probably ever get a chance to broadcast.
The Jew cashes in on his racial comicalities, because, and is in a position to aid less fortunate men of his race. When the Negro attempts to portray humor of his race and climbs up to a point where he stops his bread in the financial gravy, other Ethiopians him by the trousers and yank him backward. "I must dust off a few handy and hoary platitudes and skin' a fool of yourself for the white man" and "I must best to see that he starves along with them. Are of our race to get behind such comedians, and Lyles and others probably accounts for that two white men are getting almost fabulous to dish out stuff which hundreds of our race are over with even greater success.
Humor of the type propagated by Amos 'n' Andy Negro no more damage than that aimed at the Jewish. And any person with the mental age of a child that the Jews in particular are unceasingly unbias for comedy on both stage and screen. And now that there are many Hebrews rolling up more fortunes in Hollywood and New York on just such a day, the Jew is injured, it comes from the strain of care and his earnings.
If the Negro in America has produced a distinct humor, why hide it? It has a big commercial value, which blame the whites for capitalizing on something our leaders try to keep us from using to our financial advantage?
Would suggest that these newspapers spend more time to produce businesses not of the type akin to the Taxicab company. In other words, remove the idea for this type of comedy and eventually there would be comedy.
Hoping that the Negro leaders will soon quit his race's imperfections and will remove the halo of American accomplishments is
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Several Negro papers throughout the land have started a private war with Amos 'n' Andy, the two comedians who lure most families together in the evening. These journals class the doings of the comic pair as "pernicious propaganda," thus reaching the Pike's Peak of stupidity.
My biggest objection to Amos 'n' Andy is that I find them rather boring. They show me little I haven't seen. To be explicit, I'm constantly hearing stuff about me as comical as any America's favorite pair ever offered via radio.
Perhaps this is the fault of my associates. Maybe so. I associate only with lawyers, doctors, preachers, school teachers, laborers, Negro business men, and Negroes in business.
I've been in quite a few towns in this country of ours and in every one with a sizeable colored population I've seen what gave Amos 'n' Andy their ideas for the only slightly exaggerated picture they've painted with the Fresh Air Taxicab Co. I could name a half dozen lodges with names and titles no less ludicrous than the Mystic Knights of the Sea. The two comedians have not as yet amused the American public with any idea which is not sizeable within the Negro race.
If the Negro press were to object on the grounds that the wrong people were doing the broadcasting, I would agree with them heartily. I could go around in Gary, Chicago, and other cities and find many a place where much funnier comedy is being unconsciously produced daily than Amos 'n' Andy will probably ever get a chance to broadcast.
The Jew cashes in on his racial comicalities, becomes wealthy, and is in a position to aid less fortunate members of his race. When the Negro attempts to portray the humor of his race and climbs up to a point where he can sop his bread in the financial gravy, other Ethiopians seize him by the trousers and yank him backward. Then they dust off a few handy and hoary platitudes about "makin' a fool of yourself for the white man" and try their best to see that he starves along with them. This failure of our race to get behind such comedians as Miller and Lyles and others probably accounts for the fact that two white men are getting almost fabulous salaries to dish out stuff which hundreds of our race could put over with even greater success.
Humor of the type propagated by Amos 'n' Andy does the Negro no more damage than that aimed at the Jew and the Irish. And any person with the mental age of a moron knows that the Jews in particular are unceasingly used as the basis for comedy on both stage and screen. And they also know that there are many Hebrews rolling up mountainous fortunes in Hollywood and New York on just such a basis. If the Jew is injured, it comes from the strain of carrying around his earnings.
If the Negro in America has produced a distinct type of humor, why hide it? It has a big commercial value. Why blame the whites for capitalizing on something which our leaders try to keep us from using to our own financial advantage?
I would suggest that these newspapers spend more time trying to produce businesses not of the type akin to the Fresh Air Taxicab company. In other words, remove the inspiration for this type of comedy and eventually there won't be any comedy.
Hoping that the Negro leaders will soon quit hiding the race's imperfections and will remove the halo from Aframerican accomplishments is
F. MARSHALL DAVIS
The Health Question
Dr. Dennis A. Bethea (Health Editor, The Gary American)
THE PREVENTION OF HEMORRHOIDS
beorrhoids or piles is one of the most disagreeable that comes to us during our adult life. From the one pass our thirty-fifth mile stone until we are at the corner from the sixtieth, we may be on the for this health robber. When you are seized you are good, if you receive the proper treatment, but you upon mail-order medication your chances are as trying to catch the 12:50 train—ten to one miss it.
It is generally thought that women are not as great from this disease as men, but this is a mistake. They prevent many women from going to the physician for treatment. This Victorian modesty causes them to neglect themselves and become subject to observation, which is one of the main causes of hemorrhoids. In order to prevent piles, it is well to have a clear what they are. Briefly: piles are varicose or hard of the network of veins at the lower inch of the knees, and around the anal orce. One may have the condition for years and not experience any tinnitus when they become inflamed that pain occurs only when they bleed that the general health is generally speaking, there are what we call it and external piles. However there are various manifestation. For instant: there are the "itching bleeding piles", and the "attack of the piles." Overeating is one of the common causes of piles into the system more food than is required for it, and the veins become engorged. Constipation gives the veins of the lower intestines and helps with auto-intoxication. A diet should be taken to date constipation. Plenty of water should be taken in meals and an ample supply of fruits and vegetables be a part of the daily menu. Many are of the opinion that sitting a long time piles, but this is a mistake. The sitting does not double but it is the lack of exercise. Walking is best modes of exercise that one can take. One may at least three miles a day. With the street can and our own private automobiles, walking has almost a lost art, like beautiful writing and growing muscled condition which will cause prolonged strain, tools, will bring on hemorrhoids or piles. One may wear or other pelvic troubles which will set up a census. When one finds that he is suffering from affections he should undergo a thorough examination.
the most disagreeable ailment of adult life. From the time one until we are are just as we may be on the lookout you are seized you chances for treatment, but if your chances are about 500 train—ten to one you men are not as great sufferer this is a mistake. False. In going to the physician's own modesty causes many become subject to chronic pain causes of hemorrhoids. Well to have a clear idea they are varicose or knotted the lower inch of the large face. One may have this experience any trouble needed that pain occurs, and general health is under strain what we call internal there are various stages there are the "itching piles" back of the piles." Mon causes of piles. One man is required for fuel or urged. Constipation also restines and helps to genitals should be taken that will water should be taken because of fruits and vegetables. sitting a long time, pro the sitting does not cause exercise. Walking is one of the can take. One should With the street cars, the bus, walking has almost been and growing mustache. The prolonged straining and or piles. One may have such will set up a constant is suffering from any or a thorough examination.
Hehorrhoids or piles is one of the most disagreeable ailments that comes to us during our adult life. From the time that we pass our thirty-fifth mile stone until we are are just around the corner from the sixtieth, we may be on the lookout for this health robber. When you are seized you chances are good, if you receive the proper treatment, but if you depend upon mail-order medication your chances are about as good as trying to catch the 12:50 train—ten to one you will miss it. It is generally thought that women are not as great sufferers from this disease as men, but this is a mistake. False modesty prevents many women from going to the physician's office for treatment. This Victorian modesty causes many women to neglect themselves and become subject to chronic constipation, which is one of the main causes of hemorrhoids.
In order to prevent piles, it is well to have a clear idea as to what they are. Briefly: piles are varicose or knotted veins of the network of veins at the lower inch of the large intestines, and around the anal orfice. One may have this varicoe condition for years and not experience any trouble. It is only when they become inflamed that pain occurs, and it is only when they bleed that the general health is undermined.
Generally speaking, there are what we call internal piles and external piles. However there are various stages and manifestation. For instant: there are the "itching piles", the "bleeding piles", and the "attack of the piles."
Overeating is one of the common causes of piles. One takes into the system more food than is required for fuel or repair and the veins become engorged. Constipation also engorges the veins of the lower intestines and helps to generate auto-intoxication. A diet should be taken that will eliminate constipation. Plenty of water should be taken between meals and an ample supply of fruits and vegetables should be a part of the daily menu.
Many are of the opinion that sitting a long time, produces piles, but this is a mistake. The sitting does not cause the trouble but it is the lack of exercise. Walking is one of the best modes of exercise that one can take. One should walk at least three miles a day. With the street cars, the bus and our own private automobiles, walking has almost become a lost art, like beautiful writing and growing mustache.
Any condition which will cause prolonged straining at the stools, will bring on hemorrhoids or piles. One may have bladder or other pelvic troubles which will set up a constant tenesmus. When one finds that he is suffering from any of these affections he should undergo a thorough examination.
Where Was the Foolkiller?
Coston Globe: And the world's champion in the is effort, while we're on the subject, is the fellowly established an endurance record by playing golf for 146 hours.
Rent. changed their residence accepted as indicating that not than to move.
Boston Globe: And the world's champion in the field of useless effort, while we're on the subject, is the fellow who recently established an endurance record by playing miniature golf for 146 hours.
Cheaper to Pay Rent.
New York Sun: Fewer persons changed their residences in New York this year, which is accepted as indicating that in hard times it is cheaper to pay rent than to move.
New York Sun: Fewer persons changed their res New York this year, which is accepted as indicating times it is cheaper to pay rent than to move.
By Clifford C. Mitchell
Next Monday Congress will convene in Washington to hold the short session of the Seventy-first Congress. Although the recent elections will not affect the personner of this short session, never-the-less OUR represenattive, the Honorable Oscar De Priest, will have the spotlight of the nation focused upon him, due to his recent political victory at the polls in spite of his break with the powers who were presumed to be the controlling and dominant factor in his immediate district.
From a great many sources suggestions have emanated as to just what GUR Congressman should and could do in his congressional capacity at Washington. Some of these suggestion proponents apparently forget that our representative is but one of four-hundred and thirty-five and while it may be true that when the Seventy-second Congress convenes one vote, used as a wedge to "force" legislation, may be a deciding factor, it is even then doubtful if he could accomplish, even if desirable, all that has been suggested that he should do.
Speaking from a racial viewpoint there is no evil affecting our group which can be adequately adjusted by a mere passage of a bill. There are many laws now in existence, both state and national, which have been passed as a sop to our vanity but one has only to observe conditions as they actually exist to recognize the ineffectiveness of these laws. Of course from a party stand-point it may prove a "vote-getting" gesture to advocate the passage, or even to pass, bills that may have a peculiar appeal. Their effectiveness, however, is an entirely different matter. Legislation enacted merely as a penalty for an offense does not necessarily correct the evil. As a race we shroud realize this. In certain parts of the country our activities are more curtailed and restricted than they were fifty years ago, still there are laws against the practice. In this writer's humble opinion it would seem far more expedient if OUR Congressman would use his vote and influence, if he is to "jockey" or "barter" same, to secure an alignment with those controlling the hundreds of millions of dollars which have to be appropriated at each session for annual expenditures, etc., and then with such influence see to it that our group will proportionately share in the fruits of these expenditures. It seems that along these lines there is a wonderful opportunity for real constructive and economic service and our race nationally as well as the first congressional district of Illinois will be the gainer.
Seemingly, as a race, we tolerate being starved to death by the thousands, economically speaking, and do nothing practical to combat the situation, but let them lynch one of our numbers, no matter how heinous the crime that may or may not have been committed, and we get all excited and immediately clamor for something to be done, whether it is a practical or effective solution, apparently does not matter, just as long as its action, yet, for the thousand who are being starved to death, nothing is done.
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As a race of people there are none more practical than the Jews and none has been more persecuted and to those who claim that we can't do this or can't do that because we are in the minority we would suggest that they study the methods of the Jews. Being in the minority does not mean remaining at the bottom. It is quite frequent that those in the minority hold the "whip" hand by concentrating upon the things or condition that affect the majority the greatest. The Jews apply this psychology in everything they do and they make themselves and what they possess indispensable and on this basis they can demand and receive every consideration regardless of the personal feelings or prejudices that individuals may have against them.
It is this psychology that accounts for a foreigner, regardless of his race or color of skin, who can come to this country and secure consideration and the respect of individual rights, that we, born and bred here, cannot and do not receive en masse. When we learn to effectively control that which others want, whether it is our votes, labor, dollars, good-will or whatnot, then we can demand and receive our rights accordingly and this does not mean that all we have to do is to join one political party, one labor organization or to invest in one particular finance corporation but it does mean to align ourselves with those interests that are best fitted to help us in a practical and concrete manner.
Our Congressman cannot solve all of our troubles but he can align himself with those who can render us the most useful aid in bettering our conditions of life. "Anti" legislation will bring him glaring headlines but a constructive "for" policy will gain for him power and influence.
3 Children Keep Their Mother Out of the Jail
BEAUMONT, Tex. — (ANP) — Judge Allen Cox of federal court was faced with the necessity of suspending a fine of $100 assessed against Rachel Gage, when the jailer at the police station refused to admit the defendant's three babies, ranging in ages from six months to two years. Mrs. Gage was fined for selling liquor. In lieu of the funds she was ready to begin service in jail. J. C. Abernathy, deputy United States marshal, who took the woman to jail, returned to the court room and put the question before the court, with the result that the fine was suspended.
November 29, 1936
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By Rudolf Jonson
Kelly Miller and Prohibition.
The dean of Howard university scores again when he advises the Negro to "align with prohibition" if he would wish to "get into politics." He gives out this bit of information during a recent interview in Washington, when he was asked to express himself on the plight of the Negro in politics.
It seems to me that the columnist-dean cannot remember what he has said before, long enough to make his view coincide. Shortly before the recent election, in one of his syndicated releases, Dean Miller was responsible for the statement that prohibition is not an issue in the election and especially where the Negro vote was concerned." The week after the election, when the wets had made such commanding gains in the house and senate, his release was filled with "I told you so."
Now the dean comes forward to "speak his piece" again and this time he says that prohibition is the issue, "and, of course, the wets will want the Negro vote and will pay more for it than the drys, if that is what he is after. But the Negro is supposed to be on the moral side of every issue" presumably, because "the weaker vessel is always supposed to be on the moral side."
The Howard dean is a staunch Republican. Prior to the election he could say nothing but "Republicans—Republicans—Republicans," disregarding the prohibition question. After the election he could not resist the temptation to "get on the band wagon," at least for a week. Now he is trying to defend his staid views on Republicanism by saying it is the moral side, and the Negro as the "weaker vessel" be longs on the moral side.
The dean of Howard university scores again when he advises the Negro to "align with prohibition" if he would wish to "get into politics." He gives out this bit of information during a recent interview in Washington, when he was asked to express himself on the plight of the Negro in politics.
It seems to me that the columnist-dean cannot remember what he has said before, long enough to make his views coincide. Shortly before the recent election, in one of his syndicated releases, Dean Miller was responsible for the statement that prohibition is not an issue in the election and especially where the Negro vote was concerned." The week after the election, when the wets had made such commanding gains in the house and senate, his release was filled with "I told you so."
Now the dean comes forward to "speak his piece" again and this time he says that prohibition is the issue, "and, of course, the wets will want the Negro vote and will pay more for it than the drys, if that is what he is after. But the Negro is supposed to be on the moral side of every issue," presumably, because "the weaker vessel is always supposed to be on the moral side."
The Howard dean is a staunch Republican. Prior to the election he could say nothing but "Republicans—Republicans—Republicans," disregarding the prohibition question. After the election he could not resist the temptation to "get on the band wagon," at least for a week. Now he is trying to defend his staid views on Republicanism by saying it is the moral side, and the Negro as the "weaker vessel" be longs on the moral side.
The Short Session of Congress.
The short session of the 71st congress will be called to order at noon Tuesday. The "lame ducks" will have a chance to vote on questions of public interest, even though their constituents have decided that they are wanted no more. And because of the number of changes as the last election, there will be quite a number of disgruntled "lame ducks" who will wrangle in Washington until midnight on next March 3.
There has been a resolution before congress a number of times to rid the country of that evil of legislation. It, the Norris resolution, introduced by Senator Norris of Nebraska provides that the term of office of congressmen shall automatically expire with the close of congress in the June prior to the November elections in which they are to be voted upon. And that the term of these new members shall begin with the December congress following their elections, instead of waiting until the December congress of the next year thirteen months later. Time and time again this measure has been presented, and time and time again it has been defeated.
It is a mystery to me why the legislative fathers have failed to remedy this antiquated law on the statute books. This is one idea offered as a solution: they are afraid to pass a law to curb some of their high-handedness, and then possibly be the first to feel the effects thereof. Under the present law they hold a "whip-hand" over their constituents for three months after their defeat. Pressure should be brought to bear on those prohibiting the passage of this law.
The short session of the 71st congress will be called to order at noon Tuesday. The "lame ducks" will have a chance to vote on questions of public interest, even though their constituents have decided that they are wanted no more. And because of the number of changes as the last election, there will be quite a number of disgruntled "lame ducks" who will wrangle in Washington until midnight on next March 3.
There has been a resolution before congress a number of times to rid the country of that evil of legislation. It, the Norris resolution, introduced by Senator Norris of Nebraska provides that the term of office of congressmen shall automatically expire with the close of congress in the June prior to the November elections in which they are to be voted upon. And that the term of these new members shall begin with the December congress following their elections, instead of waiting until the December congress of the next year thirteen months later. Time and time again this measure has been presented, and time and time again it has been defeated.
It is a mystery to me why the legislative fathers have failed to remedy this antiquated law on the statute books. This is one idea offered as a solution: they are afraid to pass a law to curb some of their high-handedness, and then possibly be the first to feel the effects thereof. Under the present law they hold a "whip-hand" over their constituents for three months after their defeat. Pressure should be brought to bear on those prohibiting the passage of this law.
Another Religious Investigation.
Although the National Baptist convention has reigned supreme for years in disagreeing over their finances, they seemingly are now being challenged by the Methodist Episcopal church. Last week in Cleveland, Rev. I. Garland Penn Jr., of Columbus, superintendent of the Ohio district of the Lexington conference, was suspended by a board of elders.
According to the reports of the board of elders, the Rev. Mr. Penn was suspended because of his accounts in handling $900 of building fund money belonging to the Centenary Methodist church of Youngstown, Ohio. The original complaint charged mis-appropriation, but it is reported that the Rev. Mr. Penn refunded the money.
Even though the committee appointed to investigate the affair accepted the money and sent a letter of exoneration of Rev. Mr. Penn to Bishop Clair of the Covington area, Bishop Clair is said to have recalled the committee, instituted another investigation and subsequently suspended Rev. Mr. Penn.
The last note on this trouble has not been heard. Many investigations, charges and counter charges, and even suit may result from the action taken thus far. Many inside secrets concerning the handling of the finance of the Methodist Epicopal church may be revealed, and we hope nothing serious happens; such as is thought to have happened in the Baptist denomination, in the death of Auditor Edward D. Pierson. But the thought is being driven home to the lay man each day that there is too much "churchianity" and no enough christianity.
Although the National Baptist convention has reigned supreme for years in disagreeing over their finances, the seemingly are now being challenged by the Methodist Epis copal church. Last week in Cleveland, Rev. I. Garland Penn Jr., of Columbus, superintendent of the Ohio district of the Lexington conference, was suspended by a board of elders. According to the reports of the board of elders, the Rev Mr. Penn was suspended because of his accounts in handling $900 of building fund money belonging to the Centenary Methodist church of Youngstown, Ohio. The original complaint charged mis-appropriation, but it is reported that the Rev. Mr. Penn refunded the money.
Even though the committee appointed to investigate the affair accepted the money and sent a letter of exoneration of Rev. Mr. Penn to Bishop Clair of the Covington area, Bishop Clair is said to have recalled the committee, institute another investigation and subsequently suspended Rev. Mr. Penn.
The last note on this trouble has not been heard. Many investigations, charges and counter charges, and even suit may result from the action taken thus far. Many inside secrets concerning the handling of the finance of the Methodist Epicopal church may be revealed, and we hope nothing serious happens; such as is thought to have happened in the Baptist denomination, in the death of Auditor Edward D Pierson. But the thought is being driven home to the lay man each day that there is too much "churchianity" and no enough christianity.
Our Weekly Lesson in English
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Brotherly, fraternal, kind, affectionate.
By W. L. Gordon
WORDS OFTEN MISUSED
Do not say, "I heard her state she would be there." Say, "I heard her say."
Hole, pit, excavation, hollow, de cavity.
WORD STUDY
"Use a word three times and is yours." Let us increase or vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Words for this lesson
Do not say, "She refused to accept of their hospitality." Omit "of."
Do not say, "He was so clever, he offered to help every one." Say, "He was so good-natured."
INTUITIVE; perceptive truth without conscious attention or reason. "Her mind leaped with intuitive swiftness back to the events of last year."
Do not say, "I shall come providing I am invited." Say, "provided."
EFFUSIVE; unduly emotion or demonstrative. "The worma was effusive in all her action."
Do not say, "I heard something of that effect." Say "to that effect." Do not say, "Jane is a splendid pianist." Say "accomplished" or "talented."
ALIBI; the plea of having/be elsewhere when the alleged as was committed. "The man was arrested, but he had a perfe alibi and was released.
WORDS OFTEN
MISPEONUNCED
Ethyl. Pronounce eth-il, e as in "met" (not as in "me"), i as in "ill."
ATROCIOUS; savagely brute
outreceously cruel or wicked. "I
had heard of the atrocious dee
of the enemy."
Character. Pronounce kar-akter, first a as in "care," and accent first syllable.
IMPUGN; to assail by wore or arguments; oppose as fals "Rather than hear the testimon of his wife impugned, he plead guilty."
Artiste (French.) Pronounce ar-test, a test in "arm," e as in "me," accent last syllable. Negligee. Pronounce neg-li-zha, e as in "egg," i sa in "it," a as in day," and accent last syllable or first syllable.
Noted Lawyer to Speak At Howard Universit
Sarsaparilla. Pronounce' sarsa-paril-a, first a as in "arm," all other a's as in "ask," accent fourth syllable.
WASHINGTON, D. C. — "Freedom of Residence" will be the subject of an address by Arthur Garfield Hays, New York attorney, the Howard university law school next Saturday at 10.30 a. m. M. Hays will use as the basis of his address the celebrated Sweet car of Detroit in which he was associated with Clarence Darrow
WORDS OFTEN
MISPELLED
"Every one of us is going." (Write "every one" as two words.) "It is in everyone's home. (Write "everyone" as one word.) Adjourn; note the d, not ajourn. Annul, annulment (one 1); annulling (two l's). Reciprocity; no s in the word. Advisable; no e after the s. Ammunition; two m's.
The lecture of Mr. Hays is one of a series of addresses to be delivered by him and other leady members of the American Bar during the present school year. Students are thus afforded an opportunity to receive instruction and inspiration from visiting attorney engaged in practice in the various sections of the country, these lectures augmenting the regular prescribed courses of study.
Hint (verb), imply, insinuate, intimate.
Broll, brawl, contention, tumult, altercation, dissension, discord.
Fix, determine, establish, settle, place.
Lightness, levity, buoyancy, volatility.
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