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SEE "GLITTERING SWORDS" AT CITY AUDITORIUM, TUESDAY NITE, FEB. 24. HOUSTON'S LEADING AND BEST EDITED RACE NEWSPAPER THE HOUSTON INFORMER IT GETS YOU TOLD NOTHING ELSE 66 PER COPY Disease, Death, Desolation and Despair Amidst Such Insanitary Conditions; Is Municipal Conscience Dormant? 1. 2. 3. 4. 1-North side of Gregory School grounds, looking southeast, and the boys' playgrounds. 2-A section of Matthews Street, looking across the southeast corner of Gregory School grounds, showing an absence of sidewalks and presence of much water. The children, going to and from school, are forced to cross this pond, and many of them have fallen into same. 3-North side of Gregory School grounds, -Rolling east on the campus, showing another section of the boys' playgrounds. 4-Section of Matthews Street adjacent to Gregory School, on southeast corner, showing an outset from Lake Gregory which falls to function. See the big pond of 1-North side of Gregory School grounds, looking southeast, and the boys' playgrounds. 2-A section of Matthews Street, looking across the southeast corner of Gregory School grounds, showing an absence of sidewalks and presence of much water. The children, going to and from school, are forced to cross this pond, and many of them have fallen into same. 3-North side of Gregory School grounds, -Rolling east on the campus, showing another section of the boys' playgrounds. 4-Section of Matthews Street adjacent to Gregory School, on southeast corner, showing an outset from Lake Gregory which falls to function. See the big pond of VOL. 1 NO.38. Disease, Deat Amid 1—North side of Gregory School ground of Gregory School grounds, showing an and many of them have fallen into sam- Section of fastshaw Street adjacent water, breeding place for disease germi At a casual glance, one would think that the above pictures were snapped in some river lowlands, especially bottoms, where overflows are common. Or, perhaps another would forthwith asserse the imagery taken from the recent ravage of Buffalo River. But all such surmises and presumptions are wrong, yea, absolutely and positively. If the pictures are productions of scenes that actually exist in the corporate limits of the city of沾蒙特利尔, coming near home and being more explicit, three of them portray very different conditions of the campus at Gregory School for colored children, Fourth Ward. Those who thought that "Ole Cimber" was kidding when he alluded to the footed can now see that there was a celebrated rambler promulgated about the mud and water in the Gregory School yard. The new picture is the condition of Matthews Street, alongside the school. If these pictures were taken several days after a rain and The Negro Year Book for 1918-1919 has just been printed in an annual publication showing the Negro best. In it he tells the good things he has encountered by individuals committed by individuals of his race. But you cannot blame the Negro for not being committed also the recital of good deeds, not kiyones. And if a race can fill 523 kiyones on progress, it deserves praise, not criticism. The wishes to go to Africa can be what the Negro was. By reading the Negro Year Book, he can learn that the Negro was a day. In 1790 there were 757,208 Negroes in the United States—19 per cent. after the community had been visited by two stiff morners and several clear, sunny days. He was a heavy taxpayer of Gregory School informed The informer that his wife was forced to wade in water up to her knees, during one of the recent heavy rains, to prevent her children drowned in the Gregory School yard or in route home. She was also a teacher in the hospital, well as two of the children, and he was well acquainted with his drug bill, to say nothing of other expenses, such as the employment of one of the editor's assist has just reentered Gregory School, having been seriously ill for two weeks, due to the flu. He was also a teacher in public school, Scores of children, as well as some of the teachers, have been ill and many of these and worse conditions. MORE TEACHERS HAVE DIEED OUT OF Gregory School THAN ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL IN HOUSTON. When such unintelligible, and inimaginable, actions are daily encountered and endured, the surprising feature is that Gregory's death case has not been larger- cent of the population. In 1910 the number had increased to 9,827,763-10,000. The number of students, education, hard labor took a medical attention and litching. The season off in immigration in 1898. In almost yearbook forsale complements information. People can do anything the white people will allow to do. They begin humbly working in the fields and in the fields they are called to teach moral standards to a Negro. But Ager slaveholders, good men but Ager cowboys, tough men of their slaves and used them as chemists, bookkeepers and medical attendants. Now there are 33 large lrg HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920. The Negro THERE HAVE MORE BREEDEN GREEN SCHOOL SURROUNDING GREEN SCHOOL DURING THE WINTER THAN AROUND ANY PUBLIC SCHOOL in BREEDEN WASHINGTON. Ask them wonder, and "you don't just say it, either." of such deplorably bad conditions, when most campuses are dry, thus affording the children an opportunity to play and develop themselves in their campus is almost entirely submerged. The university says that he does all of his duck hunting during the winter on Lake Gregory, bounded by Cleveland, Brownsburg, and St. Louis, Fourth Ward, of Houston. Another says he never purchases in fish, as Gregory Lake bounds in said relief area, and many people come into his house from Lake Gregory and line in and feed him, big messes of fish are his main source. The several San Felipe jijneymen are discussing petitioning the city council of Lake Gregory and its tribunaries. They believe such a line will beat investing in filtrums, oil wells and gold mines. insurance companies in the country, 72 banks and 653 educational institutes, have ever been to college; today 6910 hold university degrees, and 282 have been elected to Pitbill Kappa, a fraternal organization. Negro medicine in Africa was a major part of human heart- and voodoo medicine. American Negro medicine is different. In 1910 there were 470 doctors, 268 trained nurses and 777 doctors and 118 hospital and for Negro. Training schools operated for Negro. Dr. Daniel E. Williams, a Negro, was the first surgeon to perform a successful operation on human heart—which is a long step from the days when Negroes Many Big Political Doings Are Programed on 1920 Calendar; Lincoln League To Fore Next Week (By Associated Negro Press.) Chicago—Chairman Will H Hays of the national republican committee, by recent announcement, has called on the world that the republican party proposes to deal with the people of our group as a component of American political activities. By taking this step, the republican party is expected to meet the times face to face, and will reach decisions and arrive at solutions in accordance with exigencies of the hour. The assurance is given out by the Lincoln League, which is to hold its national labor and political convention here February 11 and 12, that Chairman W H Hays will Mays the keynote address, cation, and will sound the keynote for the party in the campaign of 1920 in working out the plans for "democracy at home." This information has electrified the republican convention, of which Col. Rosco Conkling Simmons is president; will be the most significant gathering of the kind ever held in the From all indications, the attendance will be remarkable, and will reach into the thousands. The delegates will be leaders from every section of the county and will be members of the troops they will be men seasoned in the campaigns of political warfare and men militant in the determination of human justice born of the great world war; there will be women of our group who will be leaders in the tasks of human justice, and who will be willing to enjoy the blessings of liberty and justice. The Chicago committee on arrangements announces that provision has been made for accommodating all of the visitors who will be present side events have been planned. 0 C. F. RICHARDSON, Editor-Publisher represent in every respect the new spirit of the people in dealing with political matters. The new spirit of the people, and will mark a new epoch in national politics. All of the persons named are prominent members of the Lincoln League, and will be at the convention in Chicago. 0 The announcement that Archibald N. Fields, one of the editors of the Chicago Defender, has been selected by the Lowden team, the members of their publicity committee, has been made. Mr. Fields has been in politics for a number of years and handled the publicity of the progressives in the city, points by, story, cartoon, algebra or geometry, concerning the availability of Governor Lowden for the office of president. The museum of General Leonard Wood whose name is on many lips, and whose picture in both civilian and military clothes has begun to occupy prominent places in thousands of well-known cities, the necessity of "getting the people know" that Leonard Wood has a record calculated to warm the red blood of Americans. Reports from Wood headquarters and the League "are being organized by our group in many sections of the country in many sections of the country. Reports from Ohio from the Cleveland Advocate and the Cincinnati Enquirer that the managers of the Harding campaign committee are ignoring the group in their campaign program, brought forth a hot reply by the Harding committee. Harding committee, Harry M. Daugherty, who states in a telegram to the Associated Negro Press, "There is no such thing in Ohio that the group in Ohio or anywhere else, that Harding or anywhere else, has been popular in Ohio, having inherited much of the cordial feeling held for the late Senator John Benson Foraker, of Cincinnati. 0 The democrats, particularly of the North, are taking advantage of the feeling of unrest that is underway in the United States, and are encouraging organization among the voters. Probably one of the strongest organizations of the group in the country is in Kansas, where they are led by William J. Thompkins. Recently at an old fashioned "possum feast and dinner at Lyric Hall, more than 2000 guests more than fifty of the leading white officials of the city. publication of the department of police has this ta say: "The gathering could not but impress one with the fact that Kansas citizens, as a rule, are unacquainted with the fact that thou art Nigerog citizens have tain high ideals and are striving earnestly, in season and out, to pass these ideals on to others of the fraternity." "It is a fact worthy of comment that while other cities have had more than a friction between the Kansas and Nigerog citizens, this life in this respect because of the character of the men in the force of the military, in the ship. These men have always worked willingly with the police department in keeping down strife and turmoil, asking only a square deal in support that party. That is a very significant statement, indeed, coming from the source that it does, and inspired by a gathering of colored democrats in a city where there are between them and 8000 who support that party. It is remarkable to note that, more than a score of the leading newspapers of the country, including such well known publications of the group as the St. Luke Herald, New Jersey Observer, of the country, the Boston Chronicle, Birmingham Reporter, St. Louis Argus, Dallas Express, Fort Worth Hornet, Los Angeles New Age, Florida Palmieri and others, have sounded out certain information to uncertain terms that the "hour for action has struck" and the people are demanding to know, not maybe so but yes, "Where can we come in?" Someone has to answer that question just right. INSURANCE HEAD BACK IN THE CITY FROM EAST TEXAS INSURANCE HEAD BACK IN THE CITY FROM EAST TEXAS Hon. A. K. Hoepeen, president of the True Love Purity Mutual Benefit Association, with state headquarters at 1021 Palm Street, Houston, houston. He is also director of the East Texas and Northern Louisiana in the interest of his institution and reports a very successful itinerary. When seen by an informer representative Tuesday, Mr. Hoepeen, who is a professor of history at East Texas, said the "silent insurance wizard," was wearing a smile that would not come off and stated that the association is making great inroads in East Texas. This includes the sickness, accident or death, and pays all claims promptly. It is helping to solve the problem of affording decent and profitable employment to the youth of the rice and sugar industries. Now Negroes want a few of the privileges they deserve. They want universal welfare, better schools in the South, their name spelled with a capital "N" equality in the courtroom, and for labor, reforms in their prisons, an equal wage scale for white workers and more fair play in America. They do not want any more discrimination on the basis of race or religion, anything in the United States, who reside the Negro year Book, cruel admit that they have a black man in their lives. This page of the United States cannot consistently ask free or any other expressed pleasures until they give it to the 10,000,000 San Francisco Calif. Post-Winter. SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER "Go rope your horse; he must be sold tomorrow," whispered the old man, as he handed the horse to his other side on the back. The boy to whom he spoke sat in the center of the teepee gaze out, with unnerving eyes, at the distant snowy mountains. "I want to weep, an Indian whose muscles and nerve tress lest the tears should come; it would never do him," he said. "I songs without a quiver; but the horse was his only companion, his hand across his infamed lids. "Look out, Pepe," he said. "It there never creea a cove in sight! My old man was a creea every bone in my body cries out for food. The evil one, my enemy, presses his teeth into my heart, and it bursa. "Nothing, replied the boy, "Wait; I see a partridge." He put his gun. Pepe through the opening and sped through the soft clover. "I must go far," he said to himself, "although grandfather can no longer see." He ran down to the little stream that came from somewhere in the mountains, and he climbed the air. He crept slowly, as softly as a cat, to a tree, a few yards from the teepers, where he scraped the leaves, and uncovered a barn-yard hen. Cautiously he retreated to the stream, where he gave a triumphant shout, then ran up the hill, where he breathed a cool, refreshing breathe for excitement, and crooned like a child over his share; but Pope did not eat, for his heart was heavy. He cut the grass, and the withered Indian, who was no longer able to tell the difference between the withered Indian, who was no longer able to tell the difference between the soft evening came, and the sun gazed for the last time that day at his reflection in the little pools of the river. His horse came loping toward the solitary teepee among the pine trees. He shook his manhole from his eyes, and behind him. Throwing back his head, he called with shrill cries that echoed against the foothills. Pope stood erect; a joyful light shone on his face. "The horse has come," he said. "I need not rope him. He must be sold the old man asleep; the clean-picked bones of the chicken lay beside him. A low, coaxing, whiny came from the entrance flaps. The boy rose and kissed the man, the nostril of the horse, the grandfather had not slept in many hours. Then, together, boy and horse walked out under the murmuring pants. He jumped to a Canadian tribe that had no right to expect aid from the United States government. He and his grandfather, the old man, had been following up the game, but the old man's feebleness and blindness so increased that he could not travel; and the others, compelled to follow the old man, were being taken to the old warrior but the boy and the horse. He was courageous, strong and agile as an alpheus. At first he managed to find scattered game, but it gradually became more difficult; the wolf of starvation approached very near the pointed doorway; then Pepe He did not like to steal, for he belonged to a race of chiefs, and it was a secret he held only to the horse, the white boy that hunted and flashed through the woods, with whom he often talked, would not think it right. He had a secret to his face for his gun, and had shown him his dog, but he had no horse like his, and had enlisted the Indian boy. This sunshine can run faster than you can run, and the stream gazing at the stars. "The white-faced boy with the hair sunshine can run faster than you can run," he says. "You can hear it many times." The white boy had spoken no longer in Pem, when they had met, but the man had been a horse. In his ears kept ringing the old man's words, "He must be sold tomorrow," and Pem knew that, although it was not a big part of his party, could not be many days off. If the white boy would only buy him. He would never be cruel to him; he would never see him sometimes见 his old companion. Several days after this, Pepe, on his horse, rode down the canon. His beautiful springtime song, and Pepe thought he said, "Kakiyotum, titilum" "Good-by, friend." But the calmness of his face, people In the roadway lay an eagle's feather. Pepe curved over, and defy seized it with his little red hand; then he wright it tightly in the strong black mame of the horse. "Is so you will not forget me," he said. The days went by, and the horse ceased to call; but every night he barked upward, and the cow upward toward the canoe. The great yellow lilies were blooming on the mountainside, while the red berries hung in the branches. The lilies rippled and all Pepe did not come. Jack do you think is the reason, Jack? "Take the little sister. You don't suppose he has starved to death, or has been killed, do you?" "Maybe the officers are little. Jack is the one who has been a Cree, and they are being rounded up and sent back to Canada. They are killing all the game. They are ripening and the boy did not come. As the weeks passed on, all the Cree to be found on the western side of the river, and all the animals gathered at a nearby military post, a poor, huddled mass of sick and starving humanity, with dill, desquamation, and the possible punishment awaiting them for past midwives across the border. The band was guarded by colored soldiers stationed there, under a white commander. Stretched on his face, near one of the soldiers, lay an encyclopedia. "He been that way ever since he came, shah. Think he think, shah." As he entered the room, across the sage-brace flat, that stretches between the town and fort, a party of gay young people on horseback. In a race one con-chief horse ran across the sage-brace on his back proudly tussled her head. The horse stopped, trembling in every limb. His shining black coat was a bit more fluffy than the fort. Then he gave a call, high shrill and piercing; back through the clear air came as shrill an answer. He was a man of color, sage-brace he flew like a bird, and here his rider into the midst of the camp, past guard, past commander, and he did not stop until he reached the boy. He did not stop until he reached the boy. He rider understood, and slinned from his saddle to the ground. "He has been expecting you ever since the robesries ripened," she said. "Why did you not come for your bounties hunt, and I bade in the mountains," he replied. That night he told the horse all about it; how the old man had died suddenly, and gone to the happy hunt several days after this, escorted by the troop, the Creees were marched away. And the train came a band of horses, the ponies belonging to the Indiana. The dust flew into the eyes of the driver, but he did not care. His face bared with happiness, and he held back his straight black hair, while he cracked his whip at the drove in front. The horse he rode tossed his head; his tail swept the sage-brush, and he held back his eagle's twisted in his mouth. First Silk Hose in Ireland. Women who have done so much knitting within the last few years will no doubt be interested to know that the Scottish coat is made by and by the Scotch it was introduced into Ireland, where, in the 16th century, the gallants of Galway sported a white coat called a pantoude. In those days Galway was the center of a thriving trade with Spain and it was through this trade that the gallants stockings, worn on special occasions, that no doubt were of Spanish manufacture. About that time, possibly, the gallants pastime for the ladies of Ireland and it is well known that its hosiery trade is carried on most extensively, the stockings being known the world over. All Right. 80 Far. Father was hanging pictures and little Father was watching him. Press on, little Father boy sought his mother in the kitchen. "Oh, mother," he asked, after the cat had stopped playing with him, "did you hear the stepfather when it turned on?" "No, dear," replied the mother. "I hope father didn't fall too." "Not yet," the youngest son to the gun bracket. "London Answers." THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 EASY TO JUDGE CHARACTER Make a Study of the Handwriting of Those of Whom Doubt is Entertained. Handwriting indicates a good deal more than appers on the surface, if what Loutie Riese says in People's Magazine "Want a good, kind woman to live in your widowed home and take care of Willy and your building?" she asks, and her capital 'A' amps up the word. If she will devote herself to you, for she is the gentle, tender, mother (type, and will be contented with little play) she will devote herself to the week and small. I said, she that type of mother, because there are many different kinds of mothers, all good in their way. I have often asked her to tell me that we'd have special mothers for infants, for half-grown children, for lads and lasses, and some wonderful babies. And the people who really need them most of all. What This Year Is It is not only the year 1920 Anno Domini; but it's also: the year 144 of American Independence; the year 149 of the French Revolution; the year 1919 by the old Russian calendar (by which New Year's Day comes on Jan. 14 of our calendar); the year 1838 by the Mohammedan calendar, and the 1839 by the Coptic calendar, which used in parts of Egypt and Ethiopia. It is an interesting and little known fact, by the way, that our calendar was used in the year of Christ's birth; but from the fourth year after his birth. Christ was born in the year 4 B. C., according to the majority of authorities on such matters. Somewhere, sometime, a mistake in reckoning the years was made, which became so firmly established that it was impossible to correct the calendar to the discovery of the mistake was made. Teach Boys Art of Fishing A fishing school, the first in Italy, has been opened at Naglea, with an attendance of eighty enthusiastic and amphibian fisheries. Extended trip rods and a large motor boat, the gift of the Junior Red Cross of America, and instruction will be given in the practice of fishing. The students will deal with the possible use of fish for canning, the nature and extent of oil in fish, and its extraction and preservation. The school will do much good here, as a large part of the population earns its livelihood by fishing, but still employs old-fashioned methods. Several other schools are involved, one of them exclusively for girls. "Be Sure You Are Right." The vital thing in achievement is a fixed goal backed up by a loyal will. It's easy to do because of its justice. Half the battle is finding out just what you ought to do, and making up your mind what you ought to do. A task you feel no peace until you have gone your limit toward its achievement. The wise thing to do is to make sure you are doing what adds to the general progress you intend to make. "Be sure you are right" is more than a commonplace phrase. You should, while, make haste as fast as you can, but continually remind yourself that you are headed—Exchange. Bolson Gas to Rout Robbers Polson gas foils would be robbes who blow open safes or vaults equipped with a new protective device. The foam is a fine, fine sine. A thin glass bottle, filled with chemicals placed in a metal holder inside the doors. When an explosive material is placed inside the cushion shatters the flask and releases its contents. Exposed to the air, the chemical form a gas which suffocates and causes temporary blindness. Uncertain Experiment "Do you think it will help matters to change the name of wood alcohol?" "dunno!" answered Ucill Hill But he didn't do that, does it best work in an alliax THE GHOST AT THE PHONE BY GERTSON SCHAFFER CONTENTS The end of the busy day had come at last, and H. Miller Viry found the headache still with him. During the rush hours of the day, he made assignments and ideas develop into stories under the deft work of the reporters, he had waited for this hour. When he came home, never quite quieted by the thousands of ideas that whirled through the streets of his mind, there had been the one thought that whirlwind day was over he would write a letter. But about the headache—literally it had never left him. The malady seemed seated in the very done of his head. Now it was time to write. It was Saturday evening, and he was alone. A furry look came into Viry's room. He erased the paper looked behind a door that was standing open. Somehow it did not seem strange to him that he should do that. He walked over to the police report's desk. The typewriter there was the best in the office. Michael adamal The steady hum that rose from the adwalk told him that it was six o'clock. He brought of the letter he would write came forward and waved away that other consciousness—that he had not eaten since breakfast—and he seated himself at the typewriter. He drummed with his long fingers contemplatively, looked about the room a moment with a nervous glance, and then begin writing, using his index fingers only, as they write who are坐 here. "The Town Where You Are Not. " "The Day When I Miss You Most. " "The Girl Whom I Love. " "The Town Where. " "Sweetheart. " That cracking sound made him jump again. He began writing: "This letter, sweetheart, will help you be more trouble to put into it that you will hardly be able to read it. I'm hardly able to write it. He jumped from his chair and hurried to the door. " "Hello, he said. " "Hello-hello. " He was annoyed, but courteous. He listened a moment. "Why, I don't want any number. " "Why, I don't want all Right Center." He returned to his letter. "Sometimes I think perhaps you know all about it. Then it seems sensible for me to want to write to me." "At other times it seems as if you had forgotten all about me. Then I yearn to tell you, perhaps, you can almost look over my shoulder now and see me writing. That wouldn't be senseless, though—would it, miffily, be a good idea? Old times that we both knew all about, but love to hear each other mention. If you don't know me," he told the telephone again. "Hello, be said in his businessman manner. He was always a note of expectancy in Tyrus's phone. 'Hello,' the ring of a telephone in a newspaper office may mean a great sensation. His left hand was on the top of his desk. "I didn't see it," I didn't ring, he heard Central say. A padded expression came over his face, and he went back to the typewriter. "I would be interested to read this I thought. "I've been thinking about every day at Saturday nights I am lonely." "When I first met you, we used to have six o'clock Saturday dinner at the cafes; didn't we? And then I "After a while, I used to come to your home every Saturday night. You said you liked that evening nights have passed since I last saw you." passed since I last saw you." He smiled. As he drew away from the door and the sound of his chair on the floor and the sound of the room sounded through the room. Long ago the presses had stopped their vibration, and the building was deserted. His letter had been written slowly, for it required much thinking—a letter he'd send to you is taken down the receiver. "Why—why—why!" There was an autobiography in his voice, and he wrote: "This can't be you—Central, keep off, please. I do, dear—sweetheart—what's the matter? I need not a number! Now she's off the line! Quick, Central! Get her for me. I'll give you mattein passes, if you do. What's that? No, that's not what I need. Can't get her? No one to get? You didn't run! You can't get the receiver and hurried to the trumpeter, with a smile on his face. You have just called me, but something was the matter with the phone on with the letter and hand it to you as soon as I see you. I was writing the lonely Lady. Somehow I didn't see so lonely since I began to write to louise. She had decided to write, anyhow. Now, as I write, I feel happier— cause me, Telephone again. Hope it is "central." he fairly roamed this country. "That girl is on the line again." "You tell me the girl has voice. I know her voice. Yes, dear, this is I. Sweetheart, where are you? Tell me quickly. I'll come right there. Tell me I will. Hurt, before she shuts us off!" He spoke so rapidly that his words formed one long, inedible yell that sounded like "Central, that number that!" I want that girl who was talking! God! I must talk to her! Get her! Some woman heard her voice. Now, there she in—Yes, now I can hear you, daring. "Now, Central, steady a moment until she asks her name, dare? Where? Where! Ladder? She's gone. Central! She's gone! She's gone!" but suddenly he was talking over a dead wire. At the other end, a badly frightened little telephone girl was reporting to the chief operator the calls from the Telegraph office. Virry walked back the typewriter and wrote: "If you was you again, but I couldn't hear you." I only knew where you were. I came to you right away. If I only knew you, but I couldn't. But perhaps you'll call again, and so I'll go on with my letter. "There are other nights than Satur- "Hello," he said. "Now, Central, be more careful this time. If you only wear a mask, you'll beWhy—I'll. Why, Viry, the city editor? Keep off the line, sir! "Yes, dear. I hear you. I'll talk to when this man gets off the line. He'll come before he bothers us again. I'll come right to you—The chief. Yes. But keep off the line, chief. Tell to him "What am I doing here? It's eleven o'clock. What well that—get off the line, sir? By God, get off the line! come down here, come down here, come down here—Walt a moment, sweet—You'll send somebody up. Well. I don't want to be bothered. A dogged tone was creeping into Vivy's voice. Somehow I didn't seem strange that the chief of police should be asking him to come down to the place. He was determined to stay at the telephone until he talked with the pain in his head suddenly become sharper; he thrust his long fingers through his hair, right over the place where the ache seemed the greatest—If she could only hear "Sweetheart!" Sweetheart" he shouted frantically. Suddenly he became silent, doors that opened into the hallway. Suddenly he rushed toward the door, his arms extended. "During" he叫ed. All the longing of his man's heart sounded in that pleading, ecstatic cry, struck his arms, and enclosed—nothing! His right hand went to the top of his head. He sugered and fell, fell, struck the glass, which, breaking, made a rattle and crash that echoed and recheed through the halways of his head. He struck the glass, which, Virry fell to the floor, miraculously uncut. But he did not try to rise. A big polygon carefully broke down the glass, so that they might not fall on the prostrate form within. Then Heen surgeon, embedded through the aperture. "Hemorrhage of the brain," he said shortly. "He stopped on the street when he heard that his head never stopped aching. "I told him we was working too hard. But that wasn't it. He stopped stopped worrying since his girl died." Bought a Town for $10,000 The entire town of Mooseau, Wyo. on the Chicago & Northeastern railroad, is owned by one man, who paid $10,000 for it. SOLD AT HERBERT'S DRUG STORE LUCIUS W. LOMAX ORGE T 803 PRAIRIE ROBT. PHONE PRESTON 365 W. LOMAX ROBT. ORGEN BARBER SHOP "THROUGH THE BLOCK" 803 PRAIRIE AVENUE-418 MILAM STREET 2-ENTRANCES-2 15-CHAIRS-15 ROBT. S. 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We are confident Company Phone Preston 3379 Life Co. $ 125,000.00 143,305.22 478,781.02 8,208,720.00 839,327.77 79,738.47 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 THE HOUSTON INFORMER SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER "It Gets You Told—Nothing Else!" Published every Saturday at 807½ Prairie Avenue (Room 208, Taborian Temple, Houston, Texas. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1919, at the postoffice at Houston, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLIFTON F. RICHARDSON ..... Editor-Publisher S. B. WILLIAMS ..... City Editor C. A. PAILLET ..... City Circulator SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Make all checks, drafts, money orders, etc. payable to and address all communications to the Houston Informer, 801% Prairie Avenue, Houston, Texas NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS: Always demand a receipt when paying your-subscript to The Houston Informer and pay no subscriptions to unauthorized representatives. All duly authorized agents will receive your interest, as well as ours, by insisting upon a receipt and then keep it. MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED NEGRO PRESS. (All Matter Copyrighted) HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920. THEORETICAL OR PRACTICAL DEMOCRACY. THEORETICAL OR PRACTICAL DEMOCRACY. In its issue of Wednesday, January 21, the Houston Chronicle, one of the South's leading white daily newspapers, discussing minims and living wages, said editorially: "OF COURSE, IN A DEMOCRACY, WHAT IS JUST FOR ONE IS JUST FOR ALL, AND WHAT CAN NOT BE GUARANTEED EVERYBODY SHOULD NOT BE GUARANTEED ANYBODY." Splendid doctrine, as it comes from a Southern white daily, and that at a time when the colored press of the country is making the same contentions, editorially. That is the trouble with America today, especially the South, which maintains two standards—one for whites and one for blacks, and yet proclaims to the world that she (the South) believes in and practices the fundamental principles of democracy. NO COUNTRY IS A TRUE DEMOCRACY WHERE MOBLAW, DISFRANCISHEMENT, SEGREGATION, JIM-CROWISM AND OTHER INJUSTICES ARE METED OUT TO A CERTAIN PART OF ITS POPULATION WITH IMPUNITY. DEMOCRACIES ARE CONSTRUCTED ON CHARACTER—NOT COLOR; ON MERIT—NOT MONEY. In a democracy, THE PEOPLE rule—not A PEOPLE; and any authority in a democracy, legislative or customary, deny anyone people within a democracy their inalienable and sacred rights, privileges and opportunities is transcending the bounds of decency, fair play and good government. Such actions turn a pseudo-democracy into either an autocracy, plutocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, and totalitarianism. The Chronicle is eminently correct in its viewpoint and it spoke truer than it least thought or knew. If it is "just" in democracy to report the vital statistics and issuance of marriage license of one race without titles affixed, it is also "just" to publish name of "other races" in the same form. It is "just" in a democracy for a superintendent of public school schools, not a priest or a Christian name or surname only, both male and female without the title given them, then it is "just" to address all teachers similarly, both in the schoolroom, institutes and in publishing their names in the newspapers. If it is "just" in a democracy to regard the descendants of the criminals and treat them accordingly, despite the commitment of no crime, it is also "just" to regard and treat descendants of free men the same way. If it is "just" in a democracy to always remind one race of its color with signs and placards, "keeping em in their place," (amies!) it is also "just" to give other races a dose of the same medicine and make them take it according to directions. It is "just" to throw one set of citizens in jail, break their knee caps by tripping them, then the use of the telephone or refusing to give them medical treatment, it is also "just" to such Hunnish and hellish "kultur" upon the "other citizens." Maybe (and here's the rub!) we have been conducting affairs in democratic "America, particularly Dixie, on the wrong basis. One of the reasons for this is that the "democracy," either theoretically or practically, (Let us pray!) THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 AMONG THE CHURCHES YOU ARE WELCOME Bebee Tabernacle C. M. E. REV. J., H. DOUGLAS, Pastor. Sunday services were well attend ed. Superintendent had his school on Sunday and had to have early service. P pastor emphasized the surety of God's promised blessings, and was very appropriate for the occasion: "Communion Now and Communion Then." P pastor said Sunday services in E. Church in the Heights. Quarterly Sunday services in E. Church in the Heights. Sunday night services, splendid, being communion day. Many partook of the Holy Eucharist. The 8th Sunday service was mencing the 8th. Dr. G. H. Harille Dallas, is one of the principal speak Brown Chapel A. M. E. REV. P. D. SADLER, Pastor. The largest attendance in history for one day in church services here were 1,100. But did it outlure it can be seen as an indication of a greater improved moral character in the people in both remote and immediate communities of the entire country, between the hours of 9:30 and 10:45 showed improved admirability and in 10:45 at 11 o'clock, m. were very normal. Evening services opened at 7:30 E. F. Washington, in size to the house's capacity. A sermon outlined and discussed by Rev. F. W. Washington, in size to 2 persons to the church in less than two hours. Accessions for the day, 10, contribution Christian Church. Odd Fellows Hall, Fifth Ward, 1218 Meadows Street. Damascus Baptist. REV. D. H. RANKIN, Pastor Jerusalem Baptist. (Tuam and Hutchins). REV. G. PORTER, Pastor Mt. Rose Baptist. REV. LUT WILLIAMS. Pastor Sunday school conducted by Sept. 14. The 11 a.m. in-service workshop on Sunday evening. Come out and help with the doorstep stand daisers to welcome all its visitors. The visitors capitalize are a boy, a girl, a woman, a boy to be given a dinner. April 18 Mt. Sinai Baptist. Rev. WM. JONES, Pastor Sunday school was conducted by the school officers at their posts. The other Ghose was in our evening services and every body was happy. The chair endured the challenge of leading the leadership of Mrs. Sarah Waltons to join this club? Rev. L. W. Rever. Seumin, is born the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Waltons was showed over the death of Mrs. Annie Mills. Her funeral was well at the service. Rev. Saddar and Rev. W. M. Residers were mourned by Mr. A. M. A. Bossier, Sister V. Thompson, Mrs. White—MRS. L. C. DE DOSE, REVER Mount Zion Baptist. (Canal St.) Rev. E. H. Branch Pastor Sunday school was well attended by many students. His staff of teachers delivered the day school organist Ms. Bessie Williams is a pro. Miller, extrema- tly well-versed in music. tournament treasurer $19.80. Rev. I. S. Groves, Oakland, oakwood, will be delivered at a great discourse. A charity fund was raised for the event. The speaking meeting was a religious forest, all that failed to be present. P. U. solicits your presence every Sunday, intending topics are easy to discuss. Stock: Stater Chalk Chapel, A. L. Dowell. Payne Chapel A. M. E. REV. J. C. BUTLER, Pastor. Rev. Butler preached two able seminars Sunday and administered the Sacrament at 11 a.m and at night. We had Rev. McDonald at 11 a.m. and Rev. Kenneth at 11 a.m. and Rev. Ramsey at night. Monday night leaders. Ireff Jacker is still No. 1 leader. The longue will render an address to the 19th anniversary in the 25th anniversary and 16th birthday of Bishop Richard Allen. Friends and visitors welcome -MIS Pleasant Grove Baptist. Fifth Ward, Clark and Opelusas Sts DR, F, H, COOK, Pastor. Sunday was a real service day. The morning service was grand—a great people. Iro. Simpson is delivering the goods. Iro. Page, Cincinnati, Ohio delivered an excellent sermon or first class class day. The evening service was filled with good news and congregation were present and gave us excellent aid. Pastor delivered two sermons. He is indeed a pulpit orator, and the crowds grew at each service. The Women's Home Mission is yet on the crescent of the grevest work. Two wedding ceremonies took place at this church. We live in the live workers, John Kep, $15; Eliza Dolson, $14; L. Evans, $14; G. Harris, $14; L. Johnson, $15; S. Hudson, $44; M. Biles, $27.5; R. Simpson, $10; M. Lewin $10.25. Our collections total approx. $12,000. The Sunday will be covenant meeting all requested to be present; visitors—MRS. ANNIE M. MACK, R. St. John Baptist. (Broadway Street). REV. W. M. CLARK. Pastor St. John Baptist. (Dowling Street) REV. H. R. JOHNSON, Pastor Sunday was another banner day for St. John in all departments. Without the different departments were as follows: Sunday school, $8 R. Y. P. U. Monday school, $8 R. Y. P. U. night the house was crowded to its capacity. The debate came off at last week. Black down in throat, a worn shirt and a long sleeve, several weeks of sickness. Mrs. Sims took the banner Sunday, will water the house with a bottle of water for his daughter Sunday, who is here on a visit. Other distinguished visitors were Wymanine. The pastor urged every member to pay $5 on the third Sunday to the church Sunday was Mrs. Els Wilk Johnson. "chickens will peck one of our old times was pecking around the garden dawn Sunday night." Y. M. C. A. Notes. The boys had one of the largest crowds on record last Tuesday night. Henn. Mison H. Griffin of the A. M. School, the best boys have ever listened to "Our Kids of sandwiches were young men under W. Emma. The young men under W. Emma. The young men under W. Emma. are making things come to the school. Rev. H. D. Greene who has been on the team for some time will be the first to attend the 17th and 18th first. Several National Y workers will be here. Several to be in the program. The bible class is growing. O.P. DE WALT MANAGER The above is a photographic reproduction of the Lincoln Theatre, 711 Prairie Avenue, the heart of the South, where over 1000 colored citizens qualified as voters by paying their poll tax or securing their exemption certificate. This group was the auxes of the Lincoln League, Houston branch, of which Mr. J. B. Griggs is temporary chairman. Mr. Griggs is a popular manager of the Lincoln Theatre and the showing made was indeed gratifying. Much praise is also due Hoe. The popular manager of the Lincoln Theatre appears on the insert above, for his great spirit manifested in tendering the use of the lobby of the theatre free of cost to the students. He employed on the screen boosting the poll tax payment. The colored citizens set a new record for the race in this country. The band is working hard. Bel Erat champ is having some nice rehearsal with the male quartet. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. We know those who are interested in the W. Y. C. A. work and those who stimed for it will be glad to hear that the work has been made permanent here. Mrs Judge Linda White (white) has daintily clad the chair in a white coat and is sitting in that all the women will prove to her the interest they have in the work. In March we go out for our work and we will spend liberally to same. We plan to make such improvements as will be beneficial to the community. OFFER DE RIDDER DOTS. Bishop College News. SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER in paying the poll tax, over 9900 qualifying to cast a ballot this year. Several hundred colored women also qualified and expect to be very much present in the political meetings of the year. It will be several weeks before the exact number of colored voters will be known, but the "wise-acres" declare that fully 9900 colored voters will the poll tax, together with fully 3500 colored soldiers honorably discharged from the service being eligible to vote with said discharge certificate, all of which will give the colored citizenry of its Court district between 7000 and 7500 or 1290. This is a splendid showing and our next big task will be in getting these voters out to the various conventions to be held during May, when delegates will be elected to the county, state and national republican conventions. LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! At These New Bargains. Eleven houses on Arthur St. between Crushy and Hardcastle. One 24sty 14room house. One 12room house and two 6room houses. Three 5room houses and four 4room houses, prices ranging from $150 to $350, and $500 and all equipped with electric lights and a one 5room house on Palmer St. $1700, $250 down. One 5room house and two 2room houses on Jefferson Ave. $250 down. One 5room house on Mason St. and half sanitary, $200 down. One 5room house on Mason St. Ward, brand new, all sanitary counter, garage and gas, $200 down. One 5room houses on Providence for $450 down. BOB IREBERT'S REAL ESTATE OFFICE. Office 1818 St. Phone Platinum 8372. Proniel 3941 CINEMA PROP. I. M. TERRELL, president of Robert J. Halloway and an education school for all it is worth, both day and night, for a great drive for an administration, building, which will, like charity, be held on May 15, at the City Auditorium, the Houston public will be given an opportunity to maintain and maintain a greater Houston campus and to serve as the foremost pulpiters of the race, will deliver the chief address on this CIMBEE'S RAMBLINGS My, chief dons tol me he is goin' ter take a vasehun next week; goin' up ter of Chi to hobom wid dem big politahuns in a meeting of the Link tom Lege to run him colfyn and mine too, so you kin look out for a hundering next week. Week 1aint gin't have you gin' den jdn rabbit when he gin' bake, cause I gin' do some tall editin. Been wantin' this eritter opportunity for lo these Well, it got to rise from here because it's time to be at the Linkham. The good seats is took, and I can't hardly see begetin' I low and squat. But you got my angrya. I cried 'till my coat sleeve was swept away. wip the wet the shirt. Walt sho' do 'min' spend' money Walt sho' do preshose 'min' our culpluk she does preshose 'min' Well so long, honey. I got to skid Well so long, George Webster done my seat now. BEAUMONT. Mt. Zion School were well attended. Sunday school opened on time. Rev. J. W. Jiamson delivered a forceful speech at 11 a.m. at 4:30 p.m. and the school was readied. The Sunday school and P. Y. P. u. cloit, under the direction of Mr. J. D. is doing nicely. At 2:30 p. J. T. Darts preached an excellent lesson, missionary of the Trinity Valley District Assn. made a splendid address. Precinct primary conventions, Saturday, May 1, 1920. County conventions, Tuesday, May 4, 1920. State convention, Tuesday, May 25, 1920. (NATIONAL.) Republican national convention, Tuesday, June 8, 1920, Chicago, III. TEXAS DELEGATES TO LINCOLN LEAGUE ARE ANNOUNCED BY STATE CHAIRMAN M'DONALD OTTO'S LO. All loans strictly confident paired. Bargains in unredeen Watches, Clothes, Pistols, Sev 818 Preston Ave. OTTO'S LOAN OFFICE Laws strictly confidential. Watches and Bargains in unredeemed pledges. Money Clothes, Pistols, Sewing Machines and Preston Ave. Phone Pre OTTOS' LOAN OFFICE All loans strictly confidential. Watches and Jewelry repaired. Bargains in unredeemed pledges. Money loaned on Watches, Clothes, Pistols, Sewing Machines and Diamonds. 818 Preston Ave. Phone Preston 348 EAT AT WAFF'S CAFE Fresh Home-Made DINNERS SERVED FROM 11:30 PHONE PRESTON 7261 WILL MAY Dealer Staple and Fancy Groceries, Country Producer MEAT M FREE DE 3401 McGowen Avenue Fresh Home-Made Plain a Specialty. RS SERVED FROM 11:30 A.M. M. TO 1:30 P. M. PRESTON 7261 1017 S WILL MAXWELL Dealer in and Fancy Groceries, Wood, Charcoal, Country Produce. Prices Right. MEAT MARKET Staple and Fancy Groceries, Wood, Charcoal, Feed and Country Produce. Prices Right. 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Upshaw, Fort Worth. This is to be one of the most important meetings of the real leaders of the race since the days of Frederick Douglass. Hays, chairman of the national republican committee, will address the convention on the first day of the convention and may find it impossible to attend he will appoint some one as his alternate who will attend. WM. MADISON McDONALD, President Texas Lincoln League of America. Shape Street to be reminded of home and over the hot stove, come in orders served by competent port progressive race enter- CAFE Nature—Quick Service Fine Floor for Parties Cold Drinks J. H. DORN, PROP. first grade of Groceries EZ for he keeps the EZ, Prop. primer He still the judge Chique of the bis most come de tureque mimporter. The m the disc ginnings sarily in manal in and saul in nature of it is alright Henry V important nation's It the po noteworker nast was built along west coast and San farne on land. P pretective works, th for instaer. Th Corner Jefferson ing, using the Poro system. and Massaging. diplomas awarded. B. HOLT Dealer In Phone Hadley 2654 THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 Walmer Castle Walmer Castle. MONG the numerous historical structures which the British cherish because in them, they feel in visible inconspicuous for cannon near the upper part of the bastions. The entrance from the landward side was by a drawbridge and storm window located on the south. the prestige of England, not the least picturesque and interesting is Walmer castle, on the coast of Kent, the office of the lord warden of the Clare ports. The lord wardenship is an older and more picturesque monument than Walmer Castle, and its height is far more ancient than his dwelling. About that office are gathered the earliest activities out of Walmer, including the Martin Conway in Country Life. The present functions of the lord warden may not be of any executive value as was the case in the past, as long as there is a lord warden living at Walmer, the small beginnings of the navy in a remote past remain vivid. Nothing more vivid than the amount of their indebtedness to those from whom they desend than a living ceremonial recurrently performed in accordance with an ancient tradition. No one knows when the lord war- deship was founded or by whom earliest stages it came into being. New England was the southernmost coast of England, and to that end the small maritime forces of the little ports along it had to be coordinated. The original five ports were the Port of Boston and Sandwich; to these others were added, as well as inland localities which had to contribute financial aid. Ultimately the jurisdiction extended to Sussex to near Margate in Kent. Importance of the Cinque Ports. Throughout the Middle Ages down to the Renaissance, ports such as enlarged and organized had to furnish the crown with nearly all the ships and men needed for naval purposes. The oldest existing chartered ports were the older documents as far back as the time of Edward the Confessor. Duties and corresponding privileges went on accumulating. Such an organization of the office was of correspondently gradual growth. At one time it was an office of great power and importance. It was generally coupled with the governor of the port, who was wardened as admiral of the ports. He had his court of chancery at Dower. He still retains the duty of appointing the judge of the admiralty court of the ports. He was warden of the peace in the same areas; but his most important functions have become decorative, monumental and picturesque, not, however, as aforesaid, The maritime activity which led to the discovery of America and the beginnings of a world commerce necessitated naval warfare. Local liaisons of ships and sailors were bound to be replaced by naval warfare of a national nature. The change is already apparent in the days of Heavl III V, and from that time the naval warfare of a national nation's naval base declined and with it the power of the lord warden. It is noteworthy that the erection of Warl III V was built in the reign of Heavl III V along with other canies round the coast, such as the neighbouring Deck II V, which was built in the reign of Heavl III V on Holy Island in Northumberland. Previously the coast had been protected by a succession of earthworks, and the naval base for instance within the parish of Wahmer. They had embassures for guns, and were connected by communication Bullet by Henry Killen The Killen bullet by Henry VIII were completed about 1540 and placed under the control of the lord warden. The following description of the bullet is given: The center is the keep—a circular tower containing a bomb-proof magazine for ammunition. It is surrounded by a wall, a fence, and a low, commanding the encompassing most. Tunnels or chinneys were contrived to carry off the smoke of the bullet. A Walmer Castle. Additions by Lord Wardens. The first lord warden to make Wakefield a town of Dorset, appointed in 1078 and again in 1727. About 1730 he made various alterations and additions to the old structure to provide the necessary accommodation for a household, further extending the town to the east. Mr. Pitt, the Pitt of Liverpool, and Earl Granville. Apart from certain chambers belonging to the original military work and since merely adaptations were made to the oldest parts of the existing mansion are the chambers built by the duke of Dorset. Buck's view, dated 1753, shows the general aspect of this building, which is the castle and follows the outlines of its walls. There is nothing remarkable about the architecture or the decoration of the rooms. A sand central wall, with a large window with others branching off as convenience dictated—these are the elements of the plan. The plain stone wall is pierced by olding sash-writing and crest of the wall is battlemented. The duke of Dorset's additions were mainly on the sea front, which remains much as he would. I believe he was a sunny chumber—but Lord Granville added to it. Mr. Pitt built the rooms over the southern rampart. Finely, in 1853, Lord Granville added a story gate-house bastion. He also built the tower. The stone employed came from the demolition of Sandown castle. He moved the house to a cove, the little room in which it was asserted that Nelson and Pitt used *confer*. There is nothing stately or impressive about the aspect of the interior, but the irregularity of the plan adds to the effect of domestic comfort and privacy which pervades the house. One can easily understand how successive additions have been made. Externally there are several quite impressive points of view, chiefly those which command the massive and precipitous walls rising from the mound. The occasion of Queen Victoria's visit to make a new dining room, was soon afterward rebuilt. Tailleyrand when he first insisted on sleeping in Pit's room. Bolting used on machinery in the Russian petroleum fields is made of emulsified hair, which is said to resist better than rubber, cotton, or leather. **Poor Worm!** Hack: "My wife contradicts me continually." Peek: "My wife acts as if my ideas weren't worth discussing—Boston Transcript" **Disappearing.** "I notice the present of majesty and glory have gone from our outlook on the world just now." "Yes; a lot of second lieutenants have been misteried out." **Changed Positions.** "Alas! feet are no longer on the wall." "Perhaps, not but tongues are." Camel-Hair Belting Poor Worm! Disappearing. --- WICK THE LIGHT FROM Your Common Lens. Using one owl. 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WAR HAS CEASED WAR HAS CEASED But the price of leather is advancing. Economy is the watchword. Have your old shoes repaired now by THE LIGHTNING SHOP REPAIR SHOP 417 Milam Street Equiped with the best machinery purchasable and experienced workmen. If your work is not satisfactory, return it and we will make it all right. American Mutual Benefit Ass'n Phones: Preston 3288 Had. 1517 BIG TAG DAY FOR UNION HOSPITAL'S CHARITY WARD MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23 Monday, February 23, will be officially celebrated as George Washington's birthday, as his natal days falls upon Sunday. Consequently the promoters of the charity ward of the United Hospital Log and Howard streets, Fourth Ward, will observe the day as a tag day, the funds to be employed for the equipping and manufolding of charitable feature of the hospital. Our people are urged to assist this landable effort. THE STATE LIKE THE MORE THE GRAND COUNCIL OF THE Purity Mutual Benefit Takes Care of You MAKE THE MORNING BACIL OF THE Mutual Benefit Care of You In Takes Care of You In The Event of Sickness, Accident or Death, and Positively PAYS ALL CLAIMS PROMPTLY Are You A Member? IF NOT, JOIN NOW! Energetic Solicitors Wanted--Liberal Terms. P. O. Box 1241 Houston, Texas Phone Preston 4430 M. H. GRIFFIN Travis and Main Streets Service Predominates" D. G. President HELI MARKS, Cashier F. E. HOOD, Asst Cashier D. S. CROWLEY, Asst Cashier JACKSON AND FUNERAL DIRECTOR S CEASED ing. Economy is the watchword. by JOE REPAIR SHOP Street very purchasable and experienced retailer, return it and we will Boston 5378. Phone Capitol 1701 Worked Call for and Delivered JOHN HENRY'S PLACE Cleaning and Pressing SUITS MADE TO MEASURE Men's Clothing Our Specialty JOE HENRY, Prop. 609 Odin Avenue, Texas Princess Curling Irons FOR PRESSING THE HAIR for sale at MADAME FRANKLIN'S BEAUTY PARLOR 805 Prairie Avenue HOWARD DUGAS Painter and Paperhanger Phone Hadley 4244 Res. 1603 Jackson St. MORNING DEW" benefit Ass'n. You In The 1010 San Felipe TUBERCULOSIS It was when physicians J. M. Miller, Ohio Drugsist to survive the ravages of Tuberculosis, he began experimenting on himself, using a treatment, known as Treatment, known as Anyone with couchs showing symptoms. Send your name and address to Send your name and address to SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER THE GLORY OF A WOMAN IS HER HAIR THE GLORY OF A WOMAN IS HER HAIR Why waste time, money and energy? Why admire straight hair and neglect the scalp treatment? Why not try a good scientific scalp treatment? We guarantee the growth as well as beauty. 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Phone Capitol 3019, Preston 3783 CLEANING AND PRESSING SUITS MADE TO ORDER FELIPE STREET HOUSTON Micro System of scalp treatment and hair dres- tion ALL MODERN EQUIPMENTS Eric Dyer. Massage. Pressers and Manicure MRS. CARRIE MINOR POPE. HOWLING ST. PHONE HADLEY 3516 Special Road DON'T THROW AWAY YOUR OLD THR rebuild them by our special process and 2000 more miles out of them. The Poro System of scalp treatment and hair dressing at THE IDEAL BEAUTY SHOP ALL MODERN EQUIPMENTS Electric Dryer. Massage. Pressers and Manicuring. MRS. CARRIE MINOR POPE 1810 DOWLING ST. PHONE HADLEY 5642 Phone P. 3516 Special Road Service DONT THROW AWAY YOUR OLD TIRES Let us rebuild them by our special process and get from 1500 to 2000 more miles out of them. U. S. VULCANIZER CO. WILL MARTIN, Prop. Complete Line of New, Rebuilt and Doubletread Tires and Accessories. Mail Orders Given Special Attention 405 San Jacinto Street Houston, Texas GIRLS. DON'T BE DECEIVED THE KAP-O-LINE WAY TO MAKE KNOTTY, KINKY HAIR STRAIGHT AGENTS WANTED—We are the largest manufacturing laboratory of toilets in the Southeastern United States and provide allotted toilets to select from. We write for booklet and print materials. STONE & CO., PERFUMERS DALLAS, TEXAS. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 W. M. C. DICKSON, A. B., J. B., J. M. Attorney and Counselor at Law. For honesty and ability in all matters pertaining to the law you should see him. Office 409½ Milam Street HOUSTON, TEXAS Phone Preston 1459 Mrs. M. H. Page, 2817 Jefferson gives manicuring and electric massages. Hair treated Poro Syst m. Phone Hadley 4979. (ft) LANE CUT RATE GROCERY "The Best for Less." Phor e Preston 8687 1307 Clark St. DR.G.W. ANTOINE Physician and Surgeon Office 419* Millan Residence 2418 Dowling Office Phone Preston 5501 Res. Phone Hadley 3282 Phone: Office: Taborian Bidgid Res. P, 722 807% Principle Ave. Office P, 3558 Hours: 10 to 12 to 7. Sundays by Appointment. DR. RIVERNE BETT Physician and Surgeon Specialist Diseases of Heart and Lungs Five years practice of experience in Surgery, and Practice of Surgery, Surgery and Diseases of Women Freed- ward, and Diseases of Women Freed- ward. My Tooth Doctor DR. W. J. HOWARD DENTIST Has Reopened in Taborian Bldg. 807% Prairie Avenue Suite 822 Office Phone Preston 8350 Residence Phone Capitol 2253 Hours: 9 a. m. to 1 p. m., 4 to 6 p. m. Sundays by appointment. Office phone Preston 4181. DR. C. M. NICHOLS Physician and Surgeon Office: Taborian Bldg., Suite 220, 807% Prairie Ave., Houston, Tex. FAIRCHILD UNDERTAKING COMPANY Funeral Directors, Embalmers Phone Preston 1835 2518 McKinney Ave. Stove Wood and Chunks Richard L. Jones 25c to Carload Lots. Phone Hade. 662 Golf Park STOP THAT COUGH! By Using 555 COUGH SYRUP For Sale at All Drug Stores. W. L. McCOY For All Kids of Notary Work See At Mme. Franklin's Beauty Piar 805 Prairie Avenue B. R. PETERS, Optomerist 815 Prairie Avenue WEAR PHONE INVISIBLE LENSES Phore Presson 6256 IMPORTANT NOTICE! AGENTS AND READERS. All matter intended for insertion in the current issue must reach our office NOT LAST THAN WEDNESDAY NOON OF EACH WEEK. All persons desiring to get news into the South's greatest newspaper, THE HOUSTON INFORMER, will please govern themselves accordingly. RUMOR HAS IT THAT HUGH JENNINGS IS READY TO QUIT AS LEADER OF TIGERS JACK Manager Hugh Jennings and Jack Coombs, Who Has Been Engaged to Coach the Detroit Pitchers. Manager Hugh Jennings and Jack Coombs, Who Has Been Engaged to Coach the Detroit Pitchers. MANAGER HUGH JENNINNGS It would not be a surprise if Detroit's signing Jack Coonbs as assistant manager to Hughie Jennings from Maine manager of the Tigers in another year. Jennings has been active as a ball player for 20 years or more, and it is rumored he plims to purchase a substantial block of the stock of the Detroit club now held by the William Yawley estate and being the vice president, writes Henry P. Edmunds in Cleveland Plain Deal. In that case, he would merely supervise the team about as Comsik does at Chicago. Hughey is Forty-Nine. Hughey is nearly forty-nine, and has been identified with the national team by the league, a member of the Louisville National league club in 1891. He remained a player and one of the games's greatest moments after a few seasons as manager of the Baltimore Eastern league team, he came to the American league as manager of the Detroit team. As manager of the team he proceeded to win three pennants. He suffered two accidents in the off-season that would have crippled his career, and he was able to train each spring with his BOXING ON BROADER LINES AT OLD YALE Undergraduates Are to Don Gloves in Competition. Plan Discussed for Two or Three Round Bouts as Intermission Events — Moses King Will Have Charge of Classes. The popularity which boxing enjoyed in both the array and the navy during the world war has led to decision by the Yale faculty to allow the organization to bring broader lines than beforeoff. A boxing association will be formed and bouts will be held by the undergraduate at the different weights. An uncertain whether matches with representatives of other colleges will be allowed or not, as the sport is not organized among the Eastern universities, but a plim which has been discussed is that of having two or three rounds of intermission events during the winter season. For instance, if a Yale-Princeton basketball game is scheduled, it has been suggested that, during the interminate games, between boxers of the two universities. Moses King, the former Connecticut lightweight champion, will have charge of the boxing as well as his teammate, Kevin Connolly, been boxing instructor at Yale for nearly 20 years, but no undergraduate championships have been held before, and no hosts with other colleges have been permitted to compete. Connolly received during the world war, and also had charge of the mitt instruction of Yale under graduates as members of the Reserve Officers Training corps. The Yale airfield Freshman coach, was athletic director at the Great Lakes naval station, and regards boxing as a fine training for football and other major sports. Eddie Engan, winner of the middle-west boxing tournament, which was held at Paris, of the American expeditionary this spring, will probably be chosen head of the proposed team, and will be back on the Yale eleventh fall and will be on the track team next spring. He headed the Yale delegation to the student volunteer congress in Dos Moines, Iowa, during the holiday players and got out every day of the season and hit groundners in batting practice. He still is so splendid health and would be a promotion and relieve him of the wear and tear of traveling all season and the strain of sitting on a bench. He would be a promotion and relieve him of the wear and tear of traveling all season and the strain of sitting on a bench. Strength as it may seem, Jennings never has been able to get as much out of his pitchers as the baseball world believed could be extracted. Hughey realized that and did his best to hire someone who could. He had Jim McGuire catching the pitchers. There was no improvement. He had Jim McGuire catching the results. He tried Jim Burke and then Dan Howley, but was not satisfied. In Coombs he thinks he has the Jack did wonders with the Brooklyn pitchers in 1916 and, while he did not have wonderful success as manager of the Phillies last season, he never because he was handed no material. When he Joins Jennings at Macon, Gn, in March, Camhins last season, he can be improved, Boland, Douss, Leonard, Ehluke, Love, Cunningham and Ayers are good pitchers, but under the coaching of Coombs they MIKE WOULD FIGHT GEORGES Middleweight Champion Annow Anxious to Secure Bout With Joe Beck-tt's Conqueror. Mike O'Dwyer, middleweight champion, wants a match with Georgette Carpenter, Europe's champion. O'Dwyer could have had a bout with Georgette Carpenter in Paris months ago if he hadn't been balky. General Porsing and other American forces wanted, O'Dwyer in the Underwood & Underwood Mike O'Dowd. A. E. F. tourney and then, if he won, to fight on through the interitted games. O'Dowd was told that if he would do this the army would consent to let him meet Carpenter in Paris while he still was in service. But Mike would fight in the tourney. MAY LAND CATCHER SNYDER Brooklyn Club Figures on Filling Place of Outfielder Griffith--Also Wants Backstop. President Ehberts of the Brooklyn club says Outfielder Tom Griffin never has told him he intends to retire from baseball, but the club head thinks that he should intends to fill his place unless he hears to the contrary. The Brooklyn club also is seeking a catcher, which two catchers, and there is a story that it may snag Skinger from the New York Giants. PRESTON 8472 - PHONES - Preston 7568 CORRESPONDENCE BOLICITED DR. JAS. D. DAVISS Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty Office and Residence 1105 Schwartz Street HOUSTON TEXA8 DRS GEORGE & JONES DENTISTS For High Class Dental Service Work Done by Appointment. Suite 201-4 Lincoln Theatre Bldg., 711 Prairie Avenue Phone Preston 5128 HOUSTON, TEXAS TALOR PANTS MADE ON 10 HOURS' NOTICE SUITS MADE TO ORDER Cleaning and pressing done with Hoffman Sanitary Steam Presser. HOUSTON, TEXAS GUARANTEE SERVICE STATION LEE BLACKMAN, PROP. MONS' DRY GOODS S Fly all your wants in the Dry Goods Our Goods and Notions ALWAYS on h solicited. J. H. HARMON, PROP. Ellipe St. House O. V. TOBEY & CO. SHOE HOSPITAL Shoe Repairing Done While You Wait. Shoe and Delivered. Our Prices Can't Be Beat. Ellipe Street Phone All makes of cars repaired. Vulcanizing, casings and tubes. Oil and auto accessories, filling station. Free air and water. HARMONS' DRY GOODS STORE Can satisfy all your wants in the Dry Goods line. A full patronage solution and Notions ALWAYS on hand. Your patronage First-Class Shoe Repairing Done While You Wait. Shoes Called for and Delivered. Prompt delivery to all parts of the city. Country orders given special attention. Our reputation is our best advertiser. Cor Wall & Lawrence PHONE HADLEY 3130 HOUSTON, TEXAS ************************************************************** YOU CAN LEARN A LOT FROM ADVERTISING main thing an advertisers wants to do in to that location and what their audience are worthy of attention. You can learn a great deal for because many things you see advertised as you buy and use in your regular daily life the advertisements, you can learn the name descriptions of the things that are best and mo The main thing an advertiser wants to do is to tell you plainly just how and why his goods are worthy of your consideration. You can learn a great deal from that alone, because many things you see advertised are the things you buy and use in your regular daily life. By reading the advertisements, you can learn the names and read descriptions of the things that are best and most satisfactory. But advertising teachers more than that. All advertisers try to make their advertisements themselves valuable to you. A good many people have learned a whole lot about good music, good books, good food, good clothes, ways to keep healthy, ways to live comfortably, ways to keep the house and grounds looking well—they've learned all these things and many other things just by reading advertisements. Read the advertisements right along, and you will learn a great deal that will be helpful and valuable to you as you go through life. B-8 BOLICITED Preston 7563 DAVISS Marsgeon Children a Specialty Schwartz Street TEXAS 5 p. m. Dr. Irwin L. Jones, D. D. S. Res. Phone Had. 920 818½ Travis St. & JONES STS Dental Service Appointment. 711 Prairie Avenue HOUSTON, TEXAS 418½ Travis St. ROSS R HOURS' NOTICE NO ORDER Nich Hoffman Sanitary Steam TEXAS VICE STATION AND AUTO REPAIR SHOP 710 SAN FELIPE STREET AN, PROP. GOODS STORE the Dry Goods line. A full ALWAYS on hand. Your AN, PROP. Y & CO. HOSPITAL While You Wait. Shoes Called for dried. 'T Be Beat. I. WILLIAMS Wholesale and Retail Grocer Meat Market in Connection. wants to do is to tell you goods are worthy of your a great deal from that you see advertised are the our regular daily life. By can learn the names and that are best and most sat- than that. All advertisers themselves valuable to and a whole lot about good clothes, ways to keep HOUSTON, TEXAS PAGE 7 Houston, Texas. Phone Capitol 3019 ```markdown ``` GLITTERING SWORDS City Happenings W. T. Clark, insurance agent. Call Preston 3238. A. M. B. A. 419/815 Ramsey. To rent to Rent—For men only; near 2 car lines; on good street; close in and convenient. Phone Hadley 3845. Mrs. O. P. DeWalt, wife of the poplar manager of the Lincoln Theatre, was on the street when she will. Willie Green have returned from Galveston, where they spent their honeymoon. Mrs. Jessie Harper is very ill at the home of her cousin, Mrs. C. Ranson, 2693 Whitley Street. Mrs. J. Willie Green has for the last 32 years in the S. P. railway service, on a visit to his son, Mr. John J. Stevens, El Paso. Mrs. Mary Gray mother of Mrs. J. Willie Green, who was stricken needles with partial parisis, is improving very slowly. For Rent—Neatly furnished rooms, for men only. Mrs. L. Stevenson, Cleveland S. Phone Capitol 99. (41) Prof. W. L. Davis, manager of the Western Star, was called to Schulenburg, owing to the death of his father, has the sympathy of the community. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS 1555 Couch Remedy - a true and tried remedy for Coughs, Colds, Hoursness, Bronchitis, Sore Throat and all the other ailments. Each ounce contains chloroform 1 min., alcoh 2 per cent. Price 50 cents. Prescribed for the aid and fellowship of the Church of God, Third Ward, of which she was a member. Elder James Pondleton and Elfrede colored physician of Taylor, spent several days in the city this week, kept up with her duties in the funeral services. Decreased was only 28 years old and leaves a brother and a host of friends to nurse her domestics. Resolutions of condolences were read from Mrs. Robert S. Mendelson, schoolmates in Bishop College, Marshall, several years ago. 1555 Couch Remedy - A true and tried remedy for Coughs, Colds, Hoursness, Bronchitis, Sore Throat and all the other ailments. Each ounce contains chloroform 1 min., alcoh 2 per cent. Price 50 cents. Prescribed for the aid and fellowship of the Church of God, Third Ward, of which she was a member. Elder James Pondleton and Elfrede colored physician of Taylor, spent several days in the city this week, kept up with her duties in the funeral services. Decreased was only 28 years old and leaves a brother and a host of friends to nurse her domestics. Resolutions of condolences were read from Mrs. Robert S. Mendelson, schoolmates in Bishop College, Marshall, several years ago. MRS. MARY WILLIAMS, wife of Eldes C. Williams, died at Saturday at S. Joseph's Inherent, after undergoing a successful operation for the aid and fellowship of the Church of God, Third Ward, of which she was a member. Dr. T. M. Shadowws, the locating colored physician of Taylor, spent several days in the city this week, kept up with her duties in the funeral services. Decreased was only 28 years old and leaves a brother and a host of friends to nurse her domestics. Resolutions of condolences were read from Mrs. Robert S. Mendelson, schoolmates in Bishop College, Marshall, several years ago. FORSTON ANDERSEE TAYLOR When Auto Troubles Call REPAIR 1013 San Felice Street The Only Fireproof Garage Operated by Negroes. WE REPAIR, WASH, POLISH AND STORE CARS OPEN DAY AND NIGHT WE ALSO HAVE A SIDE LINE OPERATED CARS PHONE: PRESTON 5514 WE CALL FOR AND DELIVER Expert Mechanic B. E THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE "My orders to Captain Mills, at once, sir!" --- cohol 2 per cent. Price 50 cents. Prepared by the anti-Billious Medicine Co. Box 1065, Houston, Texas. If you have property you wish to sell for cash, or borrow money, on land, note, or other kinds of security. LADIES interested in the Poro System of treating the hair and scalp don't fail to give it a trial. Phone 609-255-1000, AMNEMS, Adress 608 Lons Street. Lewis W. Fairchild, national president of Protective Order of Railroad Trumben in America, will lecture at the Lons Street, February 11, 1920, 8:38 o'clock. Public is invited to bear him. Ed Cahill, public No. 12. Will Jefferson, Secretary. "My, my, Mrs. Jones, how do you manage to get such beautiful light from your kerosene lamps?" My dear, I'm madd, those wonders. White paper every week, on all my lamps now, and they are simply fine; they smoke up the paper in my smokers. You can get one for $50, or three for $125, by sending AGENTS SUPPLY CO. $80 to 212 AVE. Room 211, Houston, Texas." MRS. MARY WILLIAMS IS DEAD M. Mary Williams, wife of Elder C. Williams, died last Saturday at St. Joseph's Infirmary, after undergoing a heart transplant held at the Church of God, Third Ward, of which she was a member. Elder James Pendleton and Eldress Elizabeth Pendleton were in the funeral services. Decasued was only 26 years old and leaves a husband, brother and a host of friends to mourn her demise. Resolutions of condolences were read from Mrs. Robbins, a longtime member of the institution in College Park Cemetery. The fight is on. The Fort Worth and Houston districts of the American --- Produced by Dramatical Association for the Advancement of Negro Art and Literature. ADMISSION: General Admission, 55c; Box Seat, $1.10; School Children, 35c. (War Tax Included.) Tickets on sale at Room 211, Taborian Building, 807 1-2 Prairie Avenue. B. E. White THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 COMING FEBRUARY 15th and 16th "23 1-2 HOURS LEAVE" Coming Feb. 22 and 23----"The Vengeance of Duranu" Star Cast---Some Drama---Don't Miss It! Mutual Benefit Association will clash arms from January 8 to April 28 in the 2014 Republican primary contests waged to date, each city has won first prize, and thus resubmitted this win. Hon. W. E. C. M. Paterson will win this time. Hon. W. E. C. M. Paterson is Preston 3228, and who has nine live acts on his staff, is flashing out of O. O. in the colorful crowd of people of Preston to let us clean up with Pantherville," is his slogan. Your help will be appre AGENTS WANTED. Ha-Ba Nete. Liver Tablets are the best substitute for Calomel. Being purely vegetable, they never sicken, salivate or endanger you in any way. Send stamped envelop for terms to: Congress Avenue, Houston, Texas 30745. Harrisburg Happenings. Mesdames Dora Gray and Kate Ryan an gave a party Thursday night at the residence of Mrs. Mahalie Grays, a former teacher at the school, Mr. Essure Grays in Galveston, Mr. LINCOLN SUNDAY AND MONDAY FRANK Y ---I "The World A burning message to live better and COMING FEBRUARY "23 1-2 HOUR Coming Feb. 22 and 23---- Phone Preston 1995. ALBERT LEON MURRAY Author. Star Cast-- General Admission table at Room 211, Tom Sanders and Miss Freddie Emmerton motorized to Galveston last Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Esquire Gray. Miss Addie Sanders spent week-end in Galveston. Miss Esquire Gray visited their cousin, Mrs. Leronda McConner in Houston Sunday. The installation of the Union Guard Starship followed officers were installed: President, Mr. James Holly, vice president, Mr. Robert H. Holliday, secretary, Mr. M. Robinson, corrector, secretary, Mr. M. Robinson, grand jury, secretary, Mr. M. Robinson, grand jury, Mrs. A. Davis; chaplain, Mrs. H. Shannon; trustees, Mrs. and Mrs. S. Fred Gregory and family have moved back home from Angleton. Rev. D. W. Fred Gregory and family visited at Trinity M. E. Church Sunday night, the former preaching an able sermon. Pleasant Hill Sunday Tom Sanders taught the advanced class. Sup. Humphrey Humphrey presided over day morning. Rev. A. Bess, pastor, number of visitors were down from B. Williams, an old veteran in the cause of Christ was one of them. A. Bess will run a week's meeting be COLN DAY, FEB. 8th and 9th KEENAN IN--- "World Aflame" to all those who wish to and have more. NARY 15th and 16th "URS LEAVE" "The Vengeance of Duranu" O. P. DeWALT, Prop.-Mgr. ING MILITARY DRAM Tuesday Night Section for the Advancement This play was written, not to find the assorted facts in the world's art and literature, but to keep about the eyes and ears of the American Negro the patriotic inspiration taught him during the four years, eleven months and fifteen days of the war. It will do more good than all the songs that can be sung, than all the sermons that can be preached, than all the speeches that can be made, to summon together in a loyal and patriotic mass for Liberty and Humanity, fourteen million Negroes in the United States of America. Some Drama--Don't M ion, 55c; Box Seat, (War Tax Included.) night with Mr. and Mrs. Simmons. The day, of P. as will hold their public in the second Saturday night in the second Saturday night in February. The recital and oyster feast was success. After the musical program in the auditorium, retired retired down stairs where they were served oysters in several styles, a crunching club meet at Mrs. G. Holly laughed. EXTRA A Special Dem SUPERIOR Zindler has placed on s Wool Genuine Oswego ERA-EX Special Demonstration of FOR SUIT Fund on sale 250 Men's Swego Blue Serge Suit EXTRA-EXTRA Zindler has placed on sale 250 Men's Fine Weave All Wool Genuine Oswego Blue Serge Suits The best $45.00 values in America—as an extra special value. You can buy one of these Suits for $34.75 As there are only 250 c on hand, no more tha customer. COMPLETE OUTFITTERS TO MEN AND BOYS 1107-1109 CONGRE SWO AMA ight, Feb' ment of Negro Art and Li 250 of these Fine re than one Suit w As there are only 250 of these Fine Blue Serge Suits on hand, no more than one Suit will be sold to a customer. COMPLETE OUTFITTERS TO MEN AND BOYS BEN ZINDLER'S SON ALWAYS BE SURE YOU ARE AT ZINDLER'S BEFORE YOU BUY. 1107-1109 CONGRESS AVE. OPP. COURT HOUSE Miss It! Annot at, $1.10; School Ch ng, 807 1-2 Prairie ginning Sunday night. Ordnination will take place on the third Sunday, even. Sunday school at Gildfield Sunday was held on the second Sunday, reviewed the lesson. Rev. M. Williams will conduct a meeting for the sisters in Houston on their sister-in-law, Frank Terry attended the funeral Sunday in Houston of their sister-in-law, contractor, spent Sunday and MISS M. E. B. ISAACS, Director SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER $34.75 THE FIRST BATTLE OF THE WORLD WAR I their spring gardens. Those present: *tressa*曼娜, *Wooda*, *A. Davis*, *R. Hogan*, *C. C. C. C.* One visitor, *Mrs. Young* of Sandy Point. A letter was read from *Mrs. H. Hogan* urging the members of *Mrs. Plant* to serve hot fish and salad, ice cream and cake, peach brandy and president, Mrs. M. Hogan, secretary.