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PEONAGE DISCLOSED IN MISSOURI WANT TO OUST GOVERNOR DORSEY 7c PER COPY EVERYWHERE PEON WANT "Show Me" Rivals Peo "Show Me" State Rivals Georgia In Peonage Cases (Special Correspondent.) Hali, Mo.—There are some ought to be corrected. The system instances, no doubt, borrowed from ber of cases never get a just will be remembered it was in Cayes ago where a number of p is believed that now there are so Near here there is a farm ki something like 300 acres of land believed, and they come from farm, the work bell is rung at day's work is $1.00, but the wow 11 a. m. the women are called fry and at 1 p. m. they return to their husbands. Workers are m, ens, etc., the reason, presum the store; the foreman gives as help to have chickens, cows and t up with his. Haiti, Mo.—There are some conditions in this section which ought to be corrected. The system of working Negroes is in some instances, no doubt, borrowed from states farther south, in a number of cases never get a just settlement for their labor, and it will be remembered it was in Cape Girardeau County a number of years ago where a number of peonage cases were uncovered. It is believed that now there are some such cases in this section. Near here there is a farm known as Taylor farm, comprising something like 300 acres of land. If reports hereabouts are to be believed, and they come from good sources, on this particular farm, the work bell is rung at 4 a. m. and the wage paid for a day's work is $1.00, but the workers never get a settlement. At 11 a. m., the women are called from the field to work in the house, and at 1 p. m. they return to the fields to finish the day with their husbands. Workers are not permitted to have hogs, chickens, etc., and the reason, presumably, is to force them to patronize the store; the foreman gives as his reason for not allowing the help to have chickens, cows and the like is that they will get mixed up with his. Joining this farm is one owned by Dr. Ferris and rented to a man by the name of W. H. Mullenicks. This white man is said to also contract for workers on the levee. These men are said to be secured from Arkansas, where they are treated for the most part and given a promise of $2 a day for their labor. However, they never get a settlement. A colored man by the name of McKnight, whose wife and daughter are the children of his children, picked 22 bales of cotton. Mullenicks refused to make a satisfactory settlement. McKnight afterwards bought of him 3 small iron beds, 3 small cane bottom chairs, 3 small wooden chairs, 2 mattresses, 2 comforts, 1 quilt, 1 pine table and paid $13.60 for them; but Mullenicks refused to give him a receipt. He later asked McKnight to pay $13.60 for driving from the place, and the "junk" for which he had paid $13.60 was confiscated. It appears from reports that McKnight was feared to some extent by Mullenicks who regarded him as a man last heard was in Cape Girardeau. Some Mayor at Commerce. the mayors of our municipalities are usually chosen to represent all the people. This is not true at Commerce, Missouri. Mayor Anderson does not permit Negroes board or light from Iron Mountain trains in his domain ahead of white people. A story is told of him on one occasion, a colored woman boarded a train ahead of some white people. Mayor Anderson simply pulled her off, and told her husband who was standing nearby that if he did not teach his wife some manners he would beat him—"Residents of the town stated to your correspondent, that if a Negro servant went home the man would be wished by the player wished, if the matter was only called to the attention of his lordship Mayor Anderson, the recurrent servant would immediately be returned to his work to stay until given his liberty of action by his white employer. This state of affairs has become possible because the Negroes of this section, in many places have become cowed. It was from near here that a Von Mayes came and introduced his infamous ```markdown ``` VOL. III. THE HOUSTON INFORMER conditions in this section which stem of working Negroes is in some states farther south, in a nummettirement for their labor, and if he Girardeau County a number of onage cases were uncovered. I une such cases in this section. Down as Taylor farm, comprising. If reports hereabouts are to be good sources, on this particular a. m. and the wage paid for workers never get a settlement. A from the field to work in the house he fields to finish the day with it permitted to have, hogs chick, is to force them to patronize his reason for not allowing the he like is that they will get mixed "Jim Crow" bill in the state legislature not so long ago, to the utter disgust and shame of the other legislators. Other Jim Crow Landmarks In this town of Haiti, the Negroes are Jim-Crowned in buying railroad tickets by the Prisco agent. They are not permitted to purchase tickets at the same window as whites and they may feel long in a waiting room. At Carrutherville about the same condition of affairs obtains for which the Prisco agent is to blame as much and more than anyone else. The defense team in the case of the Negroes newly arrived from the South started it; but here in Missouri there are some white people, especially in this section, who gladly keep it up in Charleston, the agent goes still further for the Iron Mountain and the other Negroes in the wired w. room, notwithstanding the sent. *at* of the state on these matters is strongly against segregation. It is likely the public service commission under the Hyde's administration lays waste for all those lions will cease for all time. Can Neither Buy Nor Rent. A peculiar condition exists in Sikhon, which is settled by a class of white people in fairly good circumstances. It is stated on authority which can not be doubled, that Negroes can neither buy nor rent property and that only places available for them to live in the town is in quarters on premises back of the "white falls." At Dishitaff and Bldgott, Negroes are not permitted to stop. Race Intrigues. For a long time practices have existed on the Prisco going out of Cape Cape can within their power to do much to remedy, of putting up "Jim Crow" signs as soon as they leave Cape, preparatory to entering Arkansas, which they are at the time miles away in supposedly good free MIssouri. It is difficult to believe that in intelligent race-loving Negro men would subscribe to such a condition, but they not only do it, but abet it. On the Race Ingrates HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. To the Public:— Yellow journalistic reports and street gossip concerning me "feeling the city for keeps," "forfitting a $2,000 appearance bond." "receiving warning to leave city," etc., are akin to the words of the lamented Mark Twain, when his death was reported and friends wired for the truth, he replied: "Reports of my death greatly exaggerated." So many lies and rumors have been put in circulation concerning me, most of them with malicious intent, that I am taking this method to inform the public that I am still doing business at the same old stand and believe that I am fully able to handle my own business. The statement that I fled from jury call in Wharton County has not the least semblance of truth in it and is simply in line with the average "rot" published in white newspapers about members of our race. It is the policy of the average Southern white paper to always misrepresent the colored race and those who are conversant with this journalistic custom in "Bam" should not be surprised at any wild-eyed news item in certain "yellow" and sensational sheets. On Saturday, May 14, I received a subpoena to appear before the grand jury of Wharton County as a witness on Wednesday, May 18, and the following Monday, May 16, I was placed under a $2,000 appearance bond, to assure my presence in Wharton on the aforementioned date. I had a reason to believe then and am of the same opinion yet, that the entire thing was a "frame-up" originated in Harris County by certain exponents of Hunish kultur who are opposed to my editorial policy in denouncing lawnessness and gang-rule. I could not see where my life would be safe in said county, knowing the situation there as I do and knowing what remarks have often been made there concerning me; so through my at- Gulf road, coming into the Cape "Jim Clim" sign, are frequently displayed, seen in the cars of the Prison when down as soon as the cars strike the Missouri state line. People have not lost faith and believe Governor Hyde will give every possible relief in such cases as are brought to the attention of PROF. STAMPS JOINS STANDARD Pro. J. E. Stamps, for several years, a member of the faculty of Prairie College, received a recognition and accepted a position as agency director for the Standard Life Insurance Company, with headquarters in Chicago, where the race's most accomplished young men and the Standard was indeed fortune to secure his services, while P. V. CHICAGO BOMBING ORGANIZATION TO FEEL STRONG ARM OF LAW; ONE RING-LEADER UNDER ARREST torney, Lawyer L, V. Allen, a quiet investigation was conducted, which terminated in recalling the subpoena on Tuesday afternoon, May 17, when the county attorney of Wharton County, by long distance telephone, informed me that the grand jury had adjourned and that it would be unnecessary for me to come down there. In addition to the message he deputized a representative to bring me the message in person and in the late afternoon of Tuesday he reached my office and told me the same thing that the county attorney had telephoned me earlier in the day and remarked that they didn't want to see me going to the expense and trouble making the trip with the grand jury having adjourned on that day, which was Tuesday, May 17. (Smiles! Looks funny, don't it?) The Harris County officials were also notified and my bondmen, through the activity of Attorney Allen, were immediately released. All of this could have been easily ascertained, if certain yellow sheets and chartered me-'bers of the gossipers' union had desired to give circulation to the truth, but no! lies always out-travel and out-sell the truth, and thus these journalistic scavengers and gossip-mongers availed themselves of the supposed opportunity of trying to place a law-abiding and peaceful citizen in bad with the public; reciting and giving circulation to reports calculated to injure one's business standing and hurling the community into a state of uncalled for and unnecessary excitement. My only reason for requesting ex-Judge H. J. Dannenbaum to look after the matter for me was due to the fact that I knew a colored lawyer would probably have met death in going to Wharton on such a mission and thus a white lawyer was the proper person to look after the matter from that and other angles. He had handled no legal matters for (By the Associated Negro Press). Chicago, Ill.—The perpetrators of bomb outrages on the homes of Negro citizens are in the clutches of the law. At least this is the opinion of the commission of people who have been watching the developments of the campaign recently launched to capture the persons and events of the bombings. me and was not and is not my attorney. My attorney is Lawyer L. V. Allen, a race barrister of no mean ability, with offices at 411 Milam Street. My people talk entirely too much and I wish to inform all these wind-jammers and gossipers that nothing is a duck but his bill; and then, too, give other people credit for having enough sense to look after their own affairs and manage their own business. When one's business gets to be everybody's business, then it nobody's business. I have received no order. to leave Houston; no threat has been made openly on my life, and so far as my past conduct warrants, I have nothing to be afraid of or apologize for, either from an editorial, elvic or religious standpoint. I wish to thank the numberless friends, well-wishers and others for their interest in me in the Wharton matter and especially those three citizens who signed my bond. Many offers of financial assistance were refused, as we did not need it, but I appreciated the spirit and willingness of my people to come to my aid in what they considered a time of trouble and a crucial situation. As I see it, most of this erroneous dose was printed for its news value and the wish was father to the thought; for when a request was made to correct the report, these yellow and sensational journals refused to do so. This is the kind of damnable and diabolical propaganda that is being printed throughout the South to misrepresent colored people, and yet we have some individuals within our race who boast that they do not read colored newspapers, but in the same breath tell you that they subversive and misrepresent their race, let us hope that these racial impediments will stop fattening fries for snakes! Selah (Signed) C. F. RICHARDSON, Editor Houston Informer, Houston Tex., May 23, 1921. reign of terror for the past several years throughout the city. Andrew Kerr, a member of a local union labor organization, was arrested in the early part of the week as a bomb suspect. Mr. Kerr, feeling that the police had the goods on him, again to talk with refusal, then to the police had in the final who bombed the Georgia Mobocrats Sore With Governor; Demand His Scalp Atlanta, Ga.—The publication by Governor Hugh Dorsey of his booklet on "The Negro in Georgia," in which he relates 135 cases of alleged peonage, lynchings or organized or individual cruelty to Negroes, and suggests remedies, has stirred up a hornet's nest in Georgia. The latest development came with the announcement from Macon of a call for a mass meeting of citizens for next Sunday at which the important of the governor will be discussed. The call is issued by the local branch of the Guardians of Liberty and reads as follows: "Unless Mr. Dorsey is impeached every Georgian will be participes criminis in his crime of blackening, while history lasts, the character of the fairest mother we ever had—Georgia. No living man will stand by while a villain defiles his mother. Georgia—our mother—is being defiled before the world. And, by the help of the eternal God, he shall answer for it." From many sections of the state are coming demands that Governor Dorsey give the names of his investigators and information. Three attacks on the governor for his peonage booklet were published today—one in a speech made by Governor-elect Thomas Hardwick, at the centennial anniversary celebration in Henry County, a second by home of ex-Almerian DePriest as well as another member who is alleged to have been the principal in a large number of instances of labor disputes in which the bomb used as an instrument of quita unengent烈誓. It was not long after the arrest that the Hyde Park Improvement Association, the organization which has been accused of being behind the numerous bombing of colored people's homes, would be hopelessly involved in the attack. The other three others under arrest, was hired to do bombing, Negroes' homes were among the places bombed by this nefarious gang. It follows, many people declare, that the gang was hired to bomb the homes of colored people by the work. It is definitely known that the Hyde Park Anti-Negro Association possessed a fund acknowledged by its members of more than $200,000 with the help of the crowd out and the occupation of certain territory by the cult families. In the DePriest bombing, Kerr flatly declares that he and his companion were the expert knowledge of the game 7c PER COPY EVERYWHERE NO. 2. SOUR ORSEY abocrats in Governor; d His Scalp NO.2. Judge William E. H. Searcy, of the Flint Circuit, who was the judge in one of the cases Dorsey referred to, and the third by Sam L. Oliver, president of the senate. In all three statements Dorsey was bitterly excoriated and his charges declared false or grossly exaggerated. "This demonstration here today," said Mr. Hardwick, "has convinced me that these are not a bad people nor Georgia a bar burious state, as he been charged. I deny these charges. I brand as an infamous slander on the state these statements that have been sent broadcast over the country." Judge Searcy has been demanding the names of the investigators and informants in the case of Ed. White, a Negro under arrest in Upson. This case is referred to at length in the booklet, the governor charging that only his removal from Upson County prevented lynching. The judge asserts, "The conduct of your investigator and you as governor of the state beggars my contempt." Mr. Oliver says in his statement that the governor has made "an awful mistake" and should remedy it as far as he is able. He charges misrepresentation of the facts, and winds up with the assertion that the only way to bring about a cessation of lynching is by and through a cessation of assault. Of bombing. Up to the present he has declined to tell who were the parties behind him in this instance. The police express the opinion that he is not through talking, that when he becomes hard pressed he will then open his mouth very wide and tell all he knows about the recent bombings. Then the fur is expected to fly with a vengeance. If the opinions of the people who have been alert to follow all the clues that have been unearthened in the past year are worth anything, the group of associations has held of these burgles and police anti-Negro prepaganda. In our city have good reason to quake with fear. Two gangs of expert bombers are under arrest. It is now confidently expected that within a few days that bombing of the burgles and police will also be in the toils. 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He uses newspaper advertising because through the newspapers he covers completely the matters which he knows, upon careful investigation, to be right places for his product to flourish. Advertising in The Informer Sells the Goods We Sell the Best for Less. Groceries, Cigars, Tobaccos, Candies and Gum. Everything Fresh. Corner Pierce and Velasco. J. H. ROBERTSON, Pro DORFMAN & SIGEL LOAN OFFICE 418 TRAVIS STREET MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL VALUABLE Corner Pierce and Velasco. J. H. ROBERTSON, Prop. 2 DORFMAN & SIGEL LOAN OFFICE 418 TRAVIS STREET MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL VALUABLES We Have a Complete Line of DIAMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY Special Sale on All Trunks and Leather Goods Also Musical Instruments. Will sell the above articles on Special Sale below our cost, as we are overstocked on them. EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING will hold any article on sale and you may as to suit your convenience. 418 TRAVIS STREET FEDERAL MARKET AND BAKERY from St. CLARK & STEPHEN w w and Steak ast in Steak ops ak ops ark Sausage ast will appreciate your patronage. be poor boys and a long ways from home; A deposit will hold any article on sale and you may pay in pay ments to suit your convenience. 418 TRAVIS STREET ```markdown ``` FEDERAL MARKET AND BAKERY We are poor boys and a long ways from home; need your help. CLARK & STEPHENS --- THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. To Win the Love of Philip Utard BY DORA MOLLAN (b) by Michael Newspaper graduate) That "A woman with fair opportunity and without an absolute bump may nurry when she shears." And the writer, who is the week's English lesson for the senior class at the Pitman high, it came naturally about that this frog may nurry when she shears. And should the subject of discussion by a group of girl students gathered in a corner of the big assembly room be nurry when she shears? That Professor Bauer's taupe? This calm statement by Susan Belenlden ought to have settled the question forever—that Nurry when she shears in the group nurtured, soo tove "her mother feeds me"! This drew smoother goggles. But it was Anne Tyson, the writer of the book who did the humor, qualify the dictum of the class he can win a mom,杀 him by the trick. But you can't keep him by the method—not if he won't it. Came a day when this shaft, sped at a fair mark, was worn at the opening of the Fate seems to have her own inscritible reasons for requiring certain pairs of individuals to "fall in" side by side and march in step, even when there is no particular sympathy, or even liking. It was that way at school—and afterward—with Sue Belden, daughter of the proprietor of the town's one little department store, and Anne Tyson, whose father was the town's leading physician. They lived on the same street, played in the same group as children, were members of the same class in "high," both graduated from the commercial course—and then obtained positions in the same office—that of a big chair factory, which was Pitman's leading industry. And to top it off fate carried her fantasy so far as to plunge them both in love with the same man at the same time. Philip Utard, son of the senior member of the firm, had been transferred from the Boston headquarters to the Pitman plant to learn the details of production. And gossip speculated as to whether he would not follow the example of his father and of an elder brother—and acquire also a life partner from among the establishment's female personnel. That was getting to be quite the Utard way. If Philip did meditate any such step it was soon apparent enough—to the watchful gossips—that his choice lay between Anne Tyson and Susan Belden, for Philip divided his leisure very evenly between the Tyson and Belden homes, or escorting the girls alternately to such entertainments as the town afforded. Perhaps he enjoyed the company of Anne's father, for Doctor Tyson was a man of broad and genital culture. And it was still said of Sue's mother that she "fed 'em." Anyway, on a certain day in January it would have been necessary for Phil Utard himself to toss up a pony had he been planned down to a decision there and then. It was on this day that Susan took close note of Anne's heightened colors as Uhtard passed close to their desks. She learned slightly toward Anne, and with a laugh that was just a little machine made, required whether she remembered the schoolroom discussion on the Thackerayism. "What excuses little idiots we were," she exclaimed. "Who men change their minds, don't they, Anne—and wise women?" There was a challenge in the girl's voice. But from the well-poised Anne it got no response beyond a non-commercial "sometimes." Yet the thoughts of Anne were "long long thoughts" in the hour interviewing between her arrival home and the house, the loss of the Tyson mongoose. This hour Anne habitually spent before the fire in the living room awaiting the return from his afternoon round of calls. It was here that Anne confessed to herself that she had never conceived trying with all her night and main—like the nursery rhyme man of the bramble bush—to win the love of Philip Uardt. And had she, like the bramble bush, out both her eyes in the proceeding? Just because she considered herself a more it wife than Sidney Beden for a man of Philip's mortality, did it fail her to be a bramble bush for him huppier? Suppose that, with deliberate effort, she won him—would he be very likely to discover later that he chose, instead of her being the woman of his? And would that make for happiness for either? There was nothing "or her to do but jump That evening Philip came to call and departed vainly trying to recall her name. She was so change Anee toward him. Not once and she responded to work or pathetically to her mother, but pathetically interested way. And when her father asked her to respond herself said she was going to retire. So it happened the next time—and again. She had been Philip the more desirable she became to him, but try as he would he could unke up no progress toward finding the right man. She even the satisfaction of his instinctive social qualities. Utured turned more often to Susan Bainn for comfort. She was more persistently his thoughts were occupied with Anne. It was a cold, sullied February Saturday that he could come to Philip that he could stand this state of affairs no longer, and he set out for the Tyson home, determined to corner Anne and get the truth from her if possible. From her window Anne caught sight of Philip as he toiled up the hill to retrieve the carriage that he was into her fur out and tum and running down the back stairs. In the kitchen she successfully dosed the vast bulk of Lactation, who couldn't understand what she was such a day—and was on her way down the back road, which led straight out into the open country, at the moment. Lacinia, with a wave of her purity black hand, pointed out the direction of Anna's head, and asked of her wry head how my respect for "soo foodish creatures." There was a grim, do-or-die look about Phil's head and set it aside on his neck and set it down in pursuit. Anne looked back from the first rise in the read and saw with Phil striding forward. She turned her notched again from the summit of the second rise he was first tipping the. The wind whipped her short sleeves and she was hard going. It was hard going. It began to snow, fine light fakes, forerunner of a real storm. Hut to Anna the pursuit had not been slighted. It was slighted enough to turn back. If Phil really wanted to see her-to be with her-but enough to not give up to test him to the utmost of her strength And Philip—it seemed to him that his very life depended on overtaking that light figure flying before him into the teeth of the storm, even as his happiness must depend on what was to transpire at the end of the chase. He was gaining fast. The snow blinded Anne's eyes, and the bite of the wind sent tears coursing down her cheeks; but still she managed, somehow, to keep putting one foot ahead of the other. He was almost up to her. Her strength was gone. But surely she could take one more step. And then—she vanished from the sight of the man behind her as though the earth had swallowed her. There was an excavation—some road work going on and the light timber barrier had been blown away by the wind. Unhurt, but exhausted, Anne lay where she fell. But a strong arm lifted her and held her tight, and Phil's voice said: "I was prepared to follow you to the ends of the earth, but not to the center of it. But we're here. And before we get out you're got to tell me why you have frozen me; why you have avoided me; why you run away from me just now." Anne was too tired to lift her head from that brand shoulder. "It was because," she said—because I didn't have an absolute hump. Phil let it go at that, then. But a hundred times since, over ice, or he has tried to find out what she meant. But Anne only lingues. Irish Had "Mayflower" Adventure. Students of Anglo-America also learned the fact that Ireland also had her "Mayflower." This was the Eagle win, which no later than 1630, set up the first American colonies. The United States for the American colonies. There were 10 passengers, among whom were four ministers, ill-hit men who drove the vessel for the United States to drive the vessel to the Scottish coast. A boat then held the ship in the "Kyles of Bute." Starting again, she achieved success, she did such damage and caused such general discouragement that finally the Irish pilgrims made up their minds that Procrustes was the man who turned their vessel back to Ireland. A Close Race. In Texas they tell how, years ago an Englishman there imported a woollen waffle from Europe. In oceans of wolves, wolves by reason of the scaup money offered by one of the state authorities—$10 each. The wool Texas were invited to witness the first chase. They followed many miles through the pine grass, but without getting sight of other wolf or bount. Finally they found a dog, where native was chasing. "Did you see a wolf and a bount pass just now?" crisped the British. "How was the race?" passed. "How was the race?" "Pretty hot—nip not. but the dog was a little ahead." A Suspicious Nature. "I don't like Mr. Duwatte's new stenographer," said Mrs. Duwatte. "Why not, my deed?" asked Mr. Duwatte. "She has a dreamy look in her eyes." "Oh, well, she may not be mediated." Perhaps not; but when a girl is young and pretty and indulges in dreams, with a susceptible old fool like Mr. Duwatte understand, some of them tried to burglarize true—Birmingham Age-Herald. THE TRAIL BLAZERS J. B. Grigsby, Pres., N. Dudley, Jr., V. Pres., Wm. Nickerson, Jr., Secy., W. B. Cogle, Treas. REALTY BARGAINS. One five-room house, all sanitary, on Edwards Street. One six-room house on Hickory Street. One two-story house, eight rooms, on Liberty Street. Two five-room, one four-room, and one three-room houses, on Providence Street. Two five-room and one four-room houses on Mills Street. Two two-story houses on Hutchins Street. One four-room house on Schwartz Street. One eight-room two-story house on Liberty. One four-room and one three-room houses, brand new, on High Street. Two houses on Holman Avenue. Two houses on St. Emanuel, and two houses on Clark Street. Two houses on Capitol Avenue. Three houses on Hardcastle and five houses on Arthur Street. Two houses on Cedar Street. Several vacant lots; we will build houses on to suit you. I will loan money on reals estate. Come in and see me. BOB ROBER1. Hours: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays by appointment. Office phone Preston 4181. DR. C. M. NICHOLS Physician and Surgeon Office: Tahoe Hospital Suite 220, 8071% Prairie Ave. Houston, Tex. LANE CUT RATE GROCERY "The Best for Less" Phone Preston 8687 1307 Clark St. Many colored people in Houston carry no insurance their thirties or forties to excuse "I will insure them in the Western Mutual Fire Insurance Company, E. O. S. Smith, local agent, Phone Hadley 1982. B. R. Peters, Optometrist 815 Prairie Avenue Wear Kryptok Invisible Lenses Phone Preston 6256 A. S. ROSS TAILOR PHONE PRESTON 5491 PRICES ALL SLASHED To Meet Demands of a Falling Market. Perfect Material and Perfect Fit. Over 500 Styles Sanitary Cleaning and Press- ing Alterations of All Kinds. 4181/2 Travis St. HOUSTON, TEXAS Hadley 2011; Store, Preston 2834 BENN'S PHARMACY DUSS A. WILSON, Prop. To any Part of the City Uses Carefully Compounded Sundries and Toilet Articles E. HOUSTON, TEXAS A. W. E. TAYLOR Physician and Surgeon Residence: Phone Hadley 107 Residence 3101 Dowling Street E: TABORIAN BUILDING Quick Service FRENCH CAFE C. HARVEY, Prop. ooking, Cakes, Pies, Fish and Gold Drinks, Ice Cream, fruits and Cigars. PHONE PRESTON 81 Place to Bring Your Family Table's Relief Stores Company MEAT MARKET AND MILK We that sells the KIND of goods at the KIND of a man who earns his LIVI Your KIND of a store. Auto deliver Phone Preston 381 TISER: Set upon a hill can not be hid. Like of advertisements inserted in a news and ginger. Arrant the people to see your ad, the Phones: Res. Hadley 2011; Store, Preston 2334 WILSON'S PHARMACY CAUCIOUS A. WILSON, Prop. We Deliver to any Part of the City Prescriptions Carefully Compounded Pure Drugs, Sundries and Toilet Articles 2421 McKINNEY AVE. HOUSTON, TEXAS DR. W. E. TAYLOR Physician and Surgeon Office Phone Preston 1419 Residence: Phone Hadley 1078 Residence 3101 Drawing Room OFFICE: TABORIAN BUILDING Quick Service THE FRENCH CAFE D. C. HARVEY, Prop. Fine Home Cooking, Cakes, Pies, Fish and Oysters, Cold Drinks, Ice Cream, Fruits and Cigars. 2712 ODIN AVENUE PHONE PRESTON 8572 A Quiet Place to Bring Your Family The People's Relief Stores Company The KIND of a store that sells the KIND of goods at the KIND of prices the KIND of a man who earns his LIVING can afford to pay. Your KIND of a store. Auto delivery. 1018 Schwartz St. Phone Preston 3872 MR. ADVERTISER: A city that is set upon a hill can n wise is this true of advertisement's ins paper roll of pep and ginger. If you do not want the people to se do not insert it in If you do not want the people to see your ad, then do not insert it in THE HOUSTON INFORMER The paper that goes into more local than all the other race journals combine more people than any daily newspaper. There is hardly a home in this commun paper does not go. Men, women and children grab it licky, thereby prove conclusively the goes into more local colored homes press journals combined; that reaches any daily newspaper in the city. home in this community where this children grab it like a baby does conclusively that it is The paper that goes into more local colored homes than all the other race journals combined; that reaches more people than any daily newspaper in the city. Men, women and children grab it like a baby does candy, thereby proving conclusively that it is THE PEOPLE'S PAPER read The Houston Inform AIL BLAZERS Houston Inform BLAZERS Blazing the way Preaching race pride Teaching race solidarity Taking obstacles from the path Making places for the boys and girls of today that you educate for tomorrow. Blaze The The Way AL BENEFIT ION PAGE THREE Boston 2834 Y y ed cicles Boston, TEXAS ne Hadley 1076 ish and team, PRESTON 8572 Stores AND MILK of goods at the his LIVING Auto delivery. Preston 3872 be hid. Like- id in a news- our ad, then colored homes that reaches the city. where this a baby does is former Way BENEFIT PAGE FOUR THE HOUSTON INFORMER SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER "It Gets You Told—Nothing Else!" THE HOUSTON INFORMER SOUTH'S GREATEST RACE NEWSPAPER "It Gets You Told—Nothing Else!" Published every Saturday at 410 Milam Street, Houston, Texas. Entered as second class May 28, 1919, at the postoffice at Houston, Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLIPTON F. RICHARDSON Editor/Publisher E. B. WILLIAMS City Editor NEW SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One year ..... $2.50 Nine months ..... $2.00 Six months ..... $1.50 (No subscription taken for less than six months, either in or out of the city All subscriptions must be paid in advance.) TELEPHONE: TELEPHONE8: Crisis, B. 00 a. m. to 7 p. m. Nights and Sundays Preston 1245 Capitol 1405 Preston 1405 IMPORTANT Make all checks, drafts, money orders, etc., payable to and address all communications to The Houston Informer, 410 Milam Street, Houston, Texas NOTICE TO ALL SUBSCRIBERS: Always demand a receipt when paying your subscription to The Houston informer and pay no subscriptions to unauthorized representatives. All duly appointed agents will have receipt books. Protect your in. crests, as well as ours, by insisting upon a receipt and then keep it. MILBER OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MINO PEACE FIRST IN SERVICE THE INFORMER'S PLATFORM: 1. Democracy, both domestic and foreign. 2. Playgrounds for colored children. 3. Better educational facilities, both teachers and physical properties, for colored youths. 4. Educated, consecrated ministry. 5. Development of the Houston Ship Channel, thereby making Houston the South's premier city. 6. Co-operation between the white and colored races on all important issues and less racial animosity and antagonism. 7. Good streets, better drainage and sanitary toilets for entire urban population. 8. Federal investigation of, and Federal legislation to suppress, lynching. 9. Equality before the law for all men and equal railway factions for all passengers. 10. Racial co-operation, teamwork, advancement, bettermart and solidarity. ANY MAN WHO IS GOOD ENOUGH TO SHED HIS BLOOD FOR HIS COUNTRY WHICH IS GOOD ENOUGH TO BE GIVEN A SQUARE DEAL AFTERWARDS. NO MAN IS ENTITLED TO MORE AND NO MAN BHOULD RECEIVE LESS. — ROOSEVELT. HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. SOME STARTLING HEALTH FACTS. A few months ago Mr. Louis I. Dublin, statistician of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, delivered an able address, "The Reduction in Mortality Among Colored Policyholders," before the annual conference of the National Urban League in Newark, New Jersey. In the course of his remarks, which have been printed in pamphlet form and scattered broadcast over the country, this statistical expert disclosed some startling facts concerning mortality among our race. From figures extending over 60 years, Mr. Dublin states that "the death rate of colored persons is about 60 per cent in excess of that for whites" in their company, basing his argument on about 1,750,000 colored policyholders in his company. According to his remarks, "The death rate of white policyholders is about 10 per thousand, and that of the group of insured Negroes about 16 per thousand. The average length of life of a white male in the industrial department is 46 years; that of a white female 52 years. The colored male has an expectation of only 37 years, a colored female only 39 years." These statistics are compiled from records in the company's possession and applicants must pass a rigid physical examination to become a policyholder in the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. These facts and figures deal with members of the race considered and regarded as good insurance risks and does not take into consideration the many who are physically unfit to be accepted by the company. Tuberculosis or the "white plague" claims the greatest number of deaths, the death rate being twice as high among colored insurers as among white policyholders; and "it is a veritable scourge among young Negroes." Going further the statistician said: At the age between 10 and 14 years, the tuberculosis death rate among colored boys is eleven times as high as it is among white boys of the same age. Colored girls at the same age period show a tuberculosis death rate eight times greater than that of white girls. Tuberculosis is pre-eminently a disease of young persons, but it is especially so among colored people. In fact, the great excess of tuberculosis mortality among Negroes is almost entirely limited to the early years of life. After age 35, there is not much difference in the effect of the disease in the two races. The disease runs a more rapid course among Negroes, perhaps, because the power of resistance to the disease is much lower among these people THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 than among the whites. More than five years could be added to the life span of colored people if tuberculosis were brought under control. Other diseases and conditions are also very prevalent among Negroes. Malaria, typhoid fever, typhus, hookworm infection, have particularly high sickness and death rates among Negroes. Whether we look at the records of the draft examinations or the figures of mortality among the policymakers of the Metropolitan, we find the name of Negroes is very common among persons from those diseases and conditions which reflect the sanitary conditions of their environment. It is very likely that this fact is partly responsible for the high tuberculosis rate among them; for such diseases as malaria, typhoid fever, and the others named help in daily life by very much higher rates among the tubercle bacillus. The death rates from the chronic diseases which are particularly prevalent at the older ages, such as organic heart disease and Bright's disease are also excessive among Negroes. These, perhaps, reflect lower standards of personal hygiene among the mass of Negroes and the effects of the infectious diseases so prevalent at the younger ages. Infant mortality is also a serious problem among colored people. In some cities, the death rate is as high as 200 infant deaths per 1,000 colored births. And, the mortality of Negro mothers in child birth is also much above that of white women. No group of people can afford the care of women in child birth and to the preservation of infant life. AMON YOU Jerusalem E. REV. G. PORTER Superintendent Walt hircum of teachers at the day school. A day school. A glorious sermon met at the usual school. At 8:30 p.m. the pulpit again. The pulpit drama for the Noble Outcast, Wed June 8, at 7:30 spices of the B. Y. P. Brown, president; I will all to this beautiful dress miss a dress if you fail to band every Friday ni Another condition producing excessive mortality among Negroes is homicide. The crime of homicide has assumed alarming proportions among the colored male population of the United States. From 15 to 35 years of age, Negro males have a rate approximately ten times that of white males. At these ages, homicide ranks third as a cause of death, being excused only by the figures for tuberculosis and the acute respiratory diseases. These facts and figures are gathered from an unbiased, impartial and authoritative source and should concern all public spirited citizens; in fact all humanity, for "self-preservation is nature's first law" and where communities are menaced by contagious and communicable diseases, the life of no one is safe. Much of this illness and mortality among our racial unit, so noticeable in the South, is due to the living conditions of our people; the insanitary environments and unwholesome conditions under which we are forced to live. Most Southern communities are noted for their utter absence of those modern conveniences that tend to prolong life and render happy and contented its colored citizens. Colored residential sections are generally located in the lowest parts of the city; poor drainage and in most instances no drainage at all; no sanitary toilets, only surface privies; no paved or hard-surfaced streets and in not a few cases no streets at all. In countless colored residential sections in this part of the country cesspools and ponds of slimy and scummy water enjoy an "open season" throughout the year, which in themselves are excellent breeding places and incubators of pestiferous insects and other disease-producing vermin, such as flies, mosquitoes, et cetera. Then on top of this insanitary situation, which is almost universal in Southern communities, our people do not take the proper care of their bodies as they ought to do and as they are able to do; for there is much that we can do to render and maintain our sorry lot better and more conducive to longer life. As a people, we are trying to live too fast a life, presumably trying to imitate other races who have been blessed with superior advantages and more healthful and hygienic environments for hundreds of years. We do not pay enough attention to our physical bodies, and consequently we fall easy victims to all kinds of maladies, diseases and complaints. By employing a little soap and water on our body, a little elbow grease and lime or some other disinfectant around our premises, we can do much to alter our present health status and add many years to our premature lives. Our death rate is entirely too high and while candor compels us to admit that we are forced to live amidt intolerable and insatiable conditions, on a whole, yet our redemption lies largely in our own efforts along this and other lines. Running in high gear all the time will shorten the life of any automobile, and this is no less true of an individual. To insure longevity of life to any piece of machinery it is quite imperative to oil it regularly and see that it is kept in excellent working condition and that it functions smoothly and properly. This is likewise true of the human anatomy and a person can not neglect and mistreat his or her body and then expect to enjoy good health and long life. SOURCE OF SUPPORT. In two previous issues of The Informer there was an editorial discussion concerning a department store owned and operated by our group in the city of Houston; the initial article being labeled "Department Store Greatly Needed," while the last article was under the caption of "How It Can Be Done." These two former editorials dealt largely and chiefly with the need of such a store here and how the capital stock could be realized. This effort shall deal briefly with another phase of the matter, that of patronage and support. The masses of our people, everywhere, are thinking and ready to act in terms of racial growth, progress, solidarity and success, if the right men lead out in the various undertakings—men who will "tote fairly and squarely" with every person and give an honest and accurate account of their stewardship. Wherever colored enterprises of merit are now operated, they do not want for patronage on the part of the race. All our people now ask is, that the goods be delivered and that business enterprises be operated and conducted along business lines and not along racial, religious or fraternal lines. Suppose a department store was launched here and stock was sold to 500 or more stockholders; this number would form the nucleus for the store's support and if only they and their families patronized the store, its success would be assured. If these 500 stockholders and patrons spend only $10 per month with the store, the monthly receipts would be $5000 or $60,000 for the year. If 1000 persons spent on an average of $10 per month, the gross income would be $10,000 per month or $120,000 per annum. The gross income would be $120,000 per annum. AMONG THE CHURCHES YOU ARE WELCOME Jerusalem Baptist. REV. G. PORTER, Pastor Superintendent Walter Harris and his corps of teachers had a live Sunday school. At 11 a.m. pastor preach at the school, where he met at the usual hour with a good lesson. At 8:30 p. m. pastor filled the pulpit again. There will be a patriotic drama given here entitled "The Battle of the Bulge." June 8, at 7:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the B. Y. P. U. Bro. J. W. Brown, president; B. Bro. Dave Tilman, manager. We cordially invite one and all to the celebration. May miss a treat if you fail to see. Bible Band every Friday night under the leadership of Sister N. D. Brown. We have several sick members. We wish you a happy holiday. HARVEY J. EDWARDS, Reporter WATT'S CHAPEL To the Pastors and Their Congregations. We, the officers and members of Watts Chapel Missionary Baptist Church corner dwellings Street and invite you to visit us, inviting you to assist us in our great struggle. Our church stands badly in need of repair and at the same time a heavy mortgage debt hones our head. Therefore we appeal to our good friends to come to our rescue Sundays, May 29 and June 6, which are the day when every pastor and his congregation and all the business enterprises. Barber shops invited, managers and forces. We desire them to represent in a body, undertakers, managers and their forces; physicians, M. Y. C. A., carpenters, fraternal societies, American Wooden church societies and drugstores. Ministers and their congregations: Rev. H. R. Johnson, pastor of St. John on Dowling; Rev. E. W. Haworthy, D. D. pastor St. John on Dowling; Rev. W. S. pastor of Antioch; Rev. S. W. John population) spent only on an average of $5 per month, the monthly gross receipts would amount to $50,000 or $600,000 for the year. Some will hastily believe these figures exaggerated, but a careful and close study and an analysis of the present local situation will readily reveal the feasibility and workability of this much-needed department store. If a decent and first-class store were opened, handling goods that our people want and wear (cheap and shoddy merchandise would be a quick way to hasten the store's demise), with courteous and polite attention, colored citizens would consider it a rare privilege to patronize one such store and ere long it would, under proper management, outstrip any store of its kind in the South. We have the money, brains and the people, but while these abound on all sides, the "nerve" seems to be lacking; and "nerve" is the main thing in any undertaking, even in trying to make love to an old maid or pretty damsel. The realty holdings of the colored citizens of Houston denote wonderful progress; but as long as the race must purchase all its merchandise from the race's bitterest enemies, it is not to be marveled at when our women are insulted, assaulted and manhandled in the local stores operated by other races for their own race, and such realty holdings become as mere sounding brass and tinkling cymbals. Have we no race pride? no self-respect? Can't we ever learn how to resent insults by removing the cause for such insults? Don't the mercantile and commercial accomplishments of other great races mean anything to us? Do we think that we can reach the goal of success and make a civic touchdown without adhering rigidly and strictly 'to the rules and regulations of the grand old game of life? Are we content to forever serve in the "Sambo," "Uncle Ned," "Aunt Dinah" and "Sally Am" role both from a political, commercial and civic viewpoint? What good does a man's money do him stored up in some bank or invested in real estate when his wife, daughter, sister or mother can not enter certain local stores without being made to feel bad, either by some epithets applied at her or a gratuitous insults hurled at her? Our actions really have the other folks laughing at us and they consider us a "Soke." They realize our strength and note how we fail to utilize it to our own advantage and thus our failure to do what we are able and capable of doing begets the contempt and disdain of other races. Our people should learn a lesson from the Jews, who are persecuted in the old world worse than the black man is treated in the South and who are hated and despised in the United States for no plausible reason—yet in the face of it all the Jews stick together and by pooling their money and combining their interests, they dominate the financial and commercial world. When a man gets hold of some of this world's goods, he forces recognition and his former knockers are among the first to acclaim him honor. So it is with races and our group in Houston should get busy and turn something. One of our most crying needs is a department store, where our women (God bless them) can go and purchase merchandise without being insulted, battered and almost murdered because of their color. SOUTH'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER son, D. D., pastor of Boynton Chapel Rev. E. H. Branch, D. D., pastor of Mt. Zion, Rev. A. A. Gordon. D. D. pastor Mr. Calvary, Rev. G. Porter. D. D., pastor of Jerusalem, Rev. W. H. Snow, D. D., pastor of St. Mark Rev. J. L. Lamley, D. D., pastor of Mt. Corinth, Rev. C. K. Brown, D. D. pastor of Trinity; Rev. W. M. Clark D. D., pastor of Shiloh; Rev. J. Brantford, D. D., pastor of Mt. Olive; Rev. J. S. Scott, D. D., pastor of East Trinity; Rev. B. W. Whitfield, D. D., In dependence Heights; Rev. L. C. Cryer. D. D., pastor of Pleasant Grove; Rev. C. H. Hund, D. D., pastor Good Hope Rev. J. C. Butler, D. D. A. M. E. Church; Rev. H. L. Body, D. D., pastor of Galilee Baptist Church; Rev. N. P. Pullum, D. D., pastor Friendship. Rev. R. D. Rutledge, D. D., pastor Lively Hope; Rev. W. E. Perry, D. D., pastor Mt. Neho; Rev. W. L. Williams, D. D. pastor Little Zion; Rev. H. R. Klin, D. D., pastor Macedonia; Rev. J. James, Br. D. D., pastor of Mt. Pleasant; Rev. J. W. Edwards, D. D. pastor Macedonia; Rev. J. H. Douglass, D. D., pastor Bebee Tabernacle. Rev. P. D. Saddler, D. D., pastor Brown Chapel; Rev. J. R. Burdett, D. D., pastor Bethel; Rev. G. B. Young, D. D., pastor Wesley; Chapel; Rev. J. H. Sherman, D. D., pastor Mt. Pillow Rev. W. M. Jones, D. D., pastor Lilly; Rev. W. M. Jones, D. D., pastor Berman Church; Rev. J. J. Jones, D. D., pastor Mt. Olive. Y. W. C. A. NOTES. On Sunday meet you are in invited to meet the recreation director of color* work, Miss Clyda Willis at the friendly hour, 5 to 10 a.m. at the recreation center, guest of the branch May 29 to June 1 at the *Mothers' Church* will hold its own concert. The finance committee, Medanes Ars I, Jordan, Hafnorth, McCoy and L. B. M. Cantz, will hold a meeting with the music department Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at excellent musical program under the guidance of given at Bethel. The admission will be free; the Y. W. C. A. work will be presented; the WILLIAMS JOURNALS will be NOTICE! CIMBEE'S RAMBLINGS Welli, Gue, I dun kunsinted fer Madam Gimbee ter took er short visit up tar Dallia, an' now sense she's dun wint, its kinder 'grettin my rash 'sik hun. What's wurryin me is, whether she'll be up dere long eruff fer dem Dallia wimmers ter gin her nuff 'strucksmain in de yue uv ortmach- ticks mahrin it notecerry fer me ter leave me wu liik erruce Yu no sum fokes knie learn miyerk, quick' an, I haint step' nary er nite sinse she left', wer furwinden' e I fumd an erm graid m' granist. it's funny 2 dat she picked out Dallis from uw avd euther little town, in de deam class dun erm graid m' granist. it dinked think u Marin, Rosenberg e Thinkon. W, well, taint no yuse in cryin' over split milk, but I kin tell u wun thing. Gus, that lady dum do cumb back she's ginner f琴尔 h erubdy dun clean frog how ter 'spute er wille's wrime. Innity thing she sees, gues I hignw琴 took no chaneses. Gus. I kni hearin' her e rubdy cud lokes dit it have' bequ么精 er problem fme, but me哎 sum aiwite think'in' a recallin' I has cum tern dis kunklushion: We haint no wuss off den er hof heep heep in disie in plea filled filled, wint' an we is powerful lots better off in disie in plea filled filled, wint' an in other拂 uw de globe. I sum times wunder, Gus, ef we woodent be jus as hard on ermuth, wrat whuz in our power, an 'helples, es we is wye tsu say' inher' yt腥, es we is wye tsu say' inher' yt腥, jantr尹 awh ad dw murehnehyu government in our hans'. Yu caint awways sumtimes tell, till you de h apperchivity ter try it out. Yu no prejudis doant lv in de burmness. No, Gue, I马 chang mine my. No, Gue, I马 chang mine my. I马 gaint wine背 back ter Afriker jy, I马 is kinder skered at dem full bluded Afrika mought be prejudis ergde bruthers from Ermeriker, i'm ought makt it malker unkumfurer me out dere in dem wildennesses. But wun thing I will'is will'er do, an'dat is ter gin my nick forerin mishun, hopin' dat mishunrines wont try kurtunver dhemher de Erermikin kine uv Krischianm. I'm is rite now periaren' per pet洲ent de chefs uf sevral uv de wideles tribes in de jungles ter piease up en ur fu prayer ts he hisatin gods ford redimspaun uv po' Krischerman Er Say, Gus, I'm is thinkin' uv runnin' er big Bathin' Revue out on San Felipe Street, so dat de yung an' ole ladies 2 kin git er chanst ter sho' off sum uv de latest stiles in bathin' sutes. I noes yu gwineter say dat dere aint no water out on San Felipe, but yu no yu doant need no water ter hole er sho lack dat, cause noboddy puts on dem purty filmsy, fluffy things ter git 'em wet. Now es soon es I kin git in tech wid de wether man an' fine out er good day on what we kin depend on it not rainin' I'm is sho' gwineter pull off sum sho. So git yo ole goggles fixed up at Dr. B. R., Peters', 815 Prairie, an' git reddy. PORT ARTHUR Rev. E. C. Morris, president of the National Baptist Convention (incorporated) and Prof. J. D. Crenshaw, an associate of Nashville, Tennessee, will be visiting the Street Church Monday night. An elaborate feast was served by Home Mission Sisters at the residence of Mrs. J. W. Harrington. A magnificent pipe organ has been installed at Sixth Street Church, Nashville. Z. Salee, Houston, former resident was guest of his son, Mr. Harrington Sailer, for the week end. Mrs. W. H. Herring, Houston, was here Saturday. Mr. Wm. McKay of the I. L. A. and Domestic Workers Union were delegates last week to the State Federation of Labor, which met in Galveston, Mrs. B. Togans is visiting Galveston for five weeks. Mrs. T. C. Bracken, for five weeks. Mrs. W. William continues very ill. Miss Mazie William, who has been attending Bishop College after nearly constant confinement during the term, will be visiting them very ill at their church. 1014 Proctor, Dr. T. C. Bracken is now attending 1921 Oakland "Stable Bride." SOUTH'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER HOUSTON COLORED Y. M. C. A. WILL RUN ON INDEPENDENT BASIS; OLD BOARD WILL PUSH THE CAUSE The following constitute the board | Since the local Y work will be up of directors: I. J. R. Burdett, J. H. released exclusively and wholly by our Branch, Rev. C. K. Brown, Attorney, vice race-running man should do the work. II. J. Burdett, Director, the movement to a De Walt, Rev. D. M. Greene, "on the top." INFORMER FIELD REPRESENTATIVE VISITS MANY POINTS IN TEXAS At a special called meeting of the board of the Colored Young Men Christian Association in the Lincoln theater building Wednesday afternoon it was unanimously decided to operate the local Y work on an independent basis. Assistant Secretary Hertli Latt was appointed secretary pro tem on production, and the first task assisted into his hands will be collecting the vienna dreser earlier in the vienna when the big drive was (Salt Correspondent.) Terrell, Texas—He just left one of the livest bunch of race professional and business men, to say nothing of public spirted citizenship, to be found anywhere in this country, and while in their midst he was royally entertained, and in order to inform our readers about these live wires of North Texas, I am writing this letter en route to Bates and the commander of the programs of Biblical College and Wiley University. I have just left Dallas and Fort Worth and while in these two North Texas burgs ye old correspondent had one glorious time. In Fort Worth he was the guest of Prof. and Mrs. W. F. Bledsoe, Jr., in their lovely home on East Third Street, meeting and greeting Drs. Wallis, Borders, Sims, Crosby, Prof. T. H. Tabb, Rev. W. G. Upshaw et al. The writer interviewed the old Roman, Wm. M. ("Gooseneck Bill") McDonald, in his bank and discussed the political situation or rather, ye correspondent sat and listened to an able dissertation on political economy by Prof. McDonald. (Perhaps thousands of our readers did not know that "Bill" used to teach school as a side line, while following politics as a profession.) In Dallas the correspondent spent several days advancing, the cause of The Informer, taking in the sights of the metropolis of Texas and observing the progress of our race in that city. Dallas suffered an irreparable loss in Houston last week, when Prof. M. M. Rodgers, well-known fraternals and Baptist laity, expired suddenly. His body lay in state at his former residence on Thomas A. Ames, who it was viewed as a thousand years old. He occurred Sunday at Maceen dba Baptist Church, of which Rev E. Arlington Bishop is pastor. The funeral sermon was delivered by Rev L. K. Williams, pastor of Olivet Baptist Church, Chicago, Ill., the largest evangelical church in the world in point of membership, and president of Maceen and Educational Convention, of which the deceased was the secretary for many years. Interment occurred in La Grange Monday. The Python Temple is the mecca for all visitors and homefolks and thus while hanging around the room, you will edifice the environment. A. H. Dyson, G. W. White, E. E. Ward, Frank J. Hawkey, Cooper and Hooper; also attorney A. S. Wells, T. E. Tolan of the Golden Chain of the World; Revs. C. C. Harper and William Johnson, both former Houston pastors, at whose homes you scribe some real eating and almost ate his fool food off; T. B. Madison, head of the Exor of Charles, head of the Mutual; Charles Breckins, who recently organized another mutual insurance company in Dallas. The lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. L. Franks, Thomas Avenue, was yer selleh the headquarters, and Mr. Franks, who is superintendent of the Dallas district of the American Airlines ftt. Association of John-on-the-河. He was the Vesiks and aired out in all parts of his big city. His spouse is there in the kitchen and the inner man never went wanting while in the city. A fishing trip was arranged by him on the 1erm fork, and while the fish refused to bite (i.e., the outing Jonah was on the river) one of Mrs. Franks carrying off the honors with her fishing pole. Mr. Franks has made good in Dallas and his agency staff is one of the best in the state. I ran across Prof. G. W. Williams a former resident of Houston, who is making quite a reputation as a musical tutor here. He has promised me to push the cause of The Informer! R. E. H. Holden, Frank L. Lane, Prof. R. G. Lockett, Prof. D. J. Ryan, C. E. Richardson, Dr. E. Stone, G. H. Webster, J. W. Hubert, T. M. Fairbairn, H. P. Carter, Rev. G. R. Young, Rev. G. R. Young, monthly meetings on the last Monday evening in each month at 6 acknowlion Nei meeting will be held Monday, May 19, at 6 p.m. officers, Rev. E. H. Holden, chairman, C. E. Richardson, vice chairman, Prof. R. G. Lockett, record secretary Formerly it was the custom to have undertaking parls dark, eloquence and diplom. This situation does not obtain in the modern parlor of i. People Understaking Co., of which Mr. Williams has one of the prettiest and most nearly appointed undertaking parls among our people in this country. And to see his exquisite array of caskets and coffins, one feel like doing like Bryant suggested in his "Thanatopatis" about "wrapping drapery of his roach around the caskets of dreams." Things were so inviting that we made our visit brief at Ewing's place where we ran across that East Texas insurance wizard, Hon. L. H. Williams of Marshall and Texas, who has under his charge the state for the Standard Life Insurance Company of Texas, the greatest concern of its kind in the world. Perhaps two of the most noteworthy achievements in Dallas are the cooperative grocery store, of which Reed W. Johnson, pastor of Emanuel Baptist Church, is the moving spirit; and the St. Johns Institutional Church, the child of Emanuel Harper and St. Johns Baptist Church. It is singularly interesting to note that both of these marvelous undertakings are the products of former Houston passers. In a subsequent article we shall discuss the later project more fully while the former vulture is already declaring dividends and the promoters plan to open another store, probably to off, to be followed by a dry goods store. Prosperity is everywhere evident in Dallas and there is a real metropolitan vibe. The city is that one seldom finds in a Southern municipality. East Texas the "once over" you correspondent intends to return to North Texas and continue to push the cause of The Houston informer, the South's greatest weekly ABILENE The Civic Association will give a "Fest in the Wilderness" June 2, on lawn of Bethel A. M. E. Church for the purpose of the work for the colored population of Abilene. There will be booths on the lawn and a program rendered in the church. Admission charged: Suppon to the work of the church of the church of the school children. The concert at Macedonia Baptist Church was a very pleasing affair. Many of the little choir choir were the need of aلil to germinating in them. We are glad to note that Rev. Pope, pastor of C. M. E. Church, is much improved. There was a rally at St. Paul M. E. Church last year. The Mass Hailton, the first of the white missionary minister who preached at Macedonia Baptist Church on last Sunday night, gave its congregation a soul-stirring sermon. Miss E. E. Church was a very well-known city visit to grandparents in Sealy. The Rev. Mrs. Pope's daughter, Miss Jennie C. King, DeKalb, is visiting parents during the reverend's illness. The Rev. Mrs. E. Church of the church of the church for the purpose of the service to the public school. His sermon was very high and pleasing. It's the most important to be a good-lotted and enjoyed it at the C. M. E. Church. Mr. Ed Mayberry has opened up and is conducting a garage business on North Eighth. The Mesquita is the most popular house of all. Miss Lucille LaRue has suspended the business of her beauty parlor. Mrs. Sarah Lee is ill. Those who are not carrying any insurance and others are not in the new and olds would be well to insure in the Western Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Texas. Eugenia Pickard, Agent, Phone 551. We are glad to be a free Rider person on his day. He has been having been badly wrenched a few days ago. OFFICIAL NOTICE. We regret very much to announce the appointment of Dr. Gruder, grand secretary of U. B. F. and S. M. T., to be present at an annual meeting of the Association, who accepted invitation elsewhere. Respectfully submitted. MRS. V. N. A. BELL, Pres. MISS P. W. WILLIAMS, Secy Houston, Tex. May 23, 1921. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921. MONUMENT TO THE HEROIC DEAD UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Beautiful Arlington amphitheater was used for the first time since its dedication, in Washington's 1920 Memorial excercles. General John J. Parishing is shown making the principal address to an audience which overflowed the space. Heroes of Today Salute Heroes of Yesterday Who Sleep in National Cemetery Superb National Memorial Just across the historic Potomac overlooking the capital of the nation from a commanding bluff is the noble of American memorials, and the best friend of the nation, factored in the morning sunlight a wonderful edifice of snow-white marble. It is the new Memorial amphitheater, the most splendid monument to the heroes of the Civil War, beautiful Arlington it buried more than 28,000 men. Union soldiers and sailors of the Civil war, from private and seaman to general and admiral, Spanish war and soldiers and sailors of the regular army, navy and marines who have died in times of peace. It is the highest of honors to be eligible to burial in Arlington and while mortal, the nation will be buried by side near the men they commanded in time, not one civilian, no matter what his influence, may find buried within its confinement. Nor could it be more beautiful surroundings. Over every foot of the slopes and vales of this magnificent reservation the national government has planted green and cut the grass is kept green and cut the bushes and shrubs cared for in a royal park, while near the old Lee mansion the governor has planted trellis where the Memorial day exercises have always been held, on all sides flowering shrubs contributing their living beauty and perfume to the national park. The nation's remembrance. Every President of the United States since the Civil war has accepted a has felt at home as a speaker at Annapolis on Memorial day. Worthy of the Dead. For many years, however, this wizardia-covered temple has been entirely inadequate for the rapidly growing thrombs attending the services, and some of the people in the city of the Republic appealed to congress for a building fitting the great ness of the nation's Vallatha. The white marble belfire, completed at a cost of $85,000, is the magnificent rear chamber with a seating capacity of 5,000. The marble is from the famous quarries at Denby, VL, and is a dazzling snowy white. The location of the amphitheatre is occupied by the historic Lee enclosure with its huge white plains, but the former is located some distance apart, just outside of the heavily wooded portion of the cemetery. As years pass and the young trees surround the amphitheatre grow the --- By Alice Williams Brotherham. Wave the garlands, scatter the flow. Over these sacred mounds of eur, Lily and rose and laurel spread Over the graves of those long dead, Dead on the Field of Honor. By each headmistress the aid Flags wave. But know ye not these are empty graves? Each man rose from the dust to fight In the latest struggle of Right and Might. To fight on the Field of Haven. Forth in shadowy ranks they threnged To answer the call of a people wrenged. Washburn, Lincoln, Grant and Sherman, Ay, and many a loyal German, Roscarens, Schurz and deught Sigel. Who bore our Stripes and Stripe "Stonewall" the stern, and chivalrous Lee; With our first troopship cross the sea! These are the great Reservoirs who Today at the back of our fighting band. Women of France, 'tis years to spread Flowers on the坡 of our newly We, while we strew these empty graves, Weep for our dead across the waves On the red Field of Honor! place will increase in beauty and majesty. The first national cemetery was established at Gettysburg to make an honored resting place for those who on that great battlefield gave their lives. The cemetery then came the inspiration to make at Arlington a cemetery that would be national in its widest sense. To protect the cemetery from the enemy's dead, the government paid to the heirs of Gen. Robert E. Lee's wife, $150,000 for property which had been seized by the enemy. The Arlington National cemetery embraces 418 acres and since its establishment the government has spared the cemetery from any harmful and attractive city of the dead upon which the sun shines. Over $1,000,000 have been thus expended in the cemetery to enhance the natural beauty of the spot. World Winds Nothing Like the Wind. It is a difficult edition which constitutes Arlington the most magnificent of cemeteries. There is nothing like it in the whole world, except the one in Arlington. It is to successful generals, admiraals and statesmen. They have provided famous places of sepulture, as Westminster, the Temple, the Temple of the themen, and the Pyramids of Egypt. But Westminster abbey is reserved for men of the highest distinction in any walk through the city. In science, letters, philanthropy, and war it is. The same is with Pere La Chaise, while the Pyramids were tombes for kings and queens in the city; the same is with the cemetery. Here equality of service and sacrifice dominates. Commanding general and humble pieces are on the same level; the aim is to preserve the memory of the same; yet it is iron-road. Wealth, birth, social station and political immune, without military service, try At Arlington have gathered during the past generation the greatest of the nation's military colleges and tributes to their silent comrades all encamped about, and here each year in ever-increasing numbers of these same heroes of the wars. Every year see a multitude of new graves in Arlington and every minute a new grave is raised in the ranks of the participants in the tremendous conflict of half a century age which has contributed the greatest majority of the members of this Silent War. "Gunsaulus Mystery" Big Super-Feature For Lincoln Theatre The theater goers will have a chance to witness Oscar Micheaux's latest production and pronounced everywhere theatrical, when "The Gunsalus Mystery" comes to the Lincoln theater Sunday, Sunday and Tuesday, May 29, 20 and 30, 2015. The colored stars and contains such movie celebrities as petite and charming actresses at petite and charming Abrams, Lawrence Chenault and a galaxy of lesser lights. In the picture, Gusanthes was murdered mysteriously murdered in the basement of a factory by Arthur Glinp, the Negro night witchman, who is arrested and sent to Weyth, a young Negro lawyer, who had once been in love with his sister, but who, through an error, had got the wrong engagement. 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LESSON FOR MAY 29 CHRIST PICTURES A REAL NEIGHBOR LESSON 10-1 Law 10-2-3; Acts 10-4-4; GREEN TEXT-Lex. workbook 10-5-6; GREEN TEXT-Lex. love therefore is the fulfillment of the law. Horn. 11-10. CHRIST PICTURES A REAL NEIGHBOR ment of the work - Nov. 15, 1818. REFERENCE MATERIAL - Prov. 5:18- Matt. 5:19-40; Rom. 15:3-10; 15:1, 2; Eph. 6:26-32. PRIMARY TOPIC "The Story of a Man" JUNKER TOPIC "The Good Samaritan" INTERMEDIATE AND NEGATIVE TOPIC "Hone a Good Neighbor" ADULT TOPIC "Who Is My Neighbor?" 1. Christ Questioned (Lake 10:25, 25) 1. By whom (v. 25), a certain lawyer. He was not a lawyer in the modern sense of that term; most merely proposed to our theological proponents. 2. The purpose of (v. 25). It was to tempt Jesus as to whether He was really born in the world. He promised Him to show Him to be heterosexual. 3. The question (v. 25) "What shall do to inherit eternal life?" Though He was wise, his life was defective. He thought eternal life was to be obtained by doing. The very words he used involve a contradiction. An inheritance is not obtained by doing. 4. Jesus' reply (vv. 26-28). He cited him to the law. This is the proper place to send one who is expecting to be saved, and he answered well, for supreme love to God and love to one's neighbor as he loves himself is the sum total of human obligation. But this is the very thing he did. But this is the very thing he does. Man needs God's enabling grave to love at all, so he stood condemned by his own enlightened conscience to jump into the trap Jesus, and now he is caught in a trap, and in order to justify himself he said to Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?" The question is answered in the 1. Playing the Neighbor (vv. 39,37) In this story of the good Samaritan the question is shifted so as to make clear that the clear question is not "Who is my neighbor?" but "What is my neighbor?" To be a neighbor is 1. To see those about us who need help (v. 33). We should be on the lookout for those in need of help; and we should have compassion on them. 2. Have compassion on the need (v. 33). Since Christ is the compassionate One, all who have His nature will be helped. 3. Go to those in need (v. 34). The personal touch many times is more important than material aid. It is easier to help those in need. The preacher gives both. 4. Bind un wounds (v. 34). 5. Set the helenes on our beaches while we walk (v. 34). Willingness to deity ourselves in order to help others is a virtue. 6. Bring to the tim and take care of the unfortunate (v. 34). The true neighbor is not apasible in his gifts. 7. Give money (v. 35). It costs much to be a neighbor. Love is the most expensive of his gifts. His life cost Jesus Christ his life. May we go and do likewise! 8. The Behavior of the Early Church. 9. We were together (v. 44). They were together because they were baptized into the one body of which Christ is one. 10. They were regenerated by the Holy Ghost. To get unity, therefore, in the neighborhood we must get people to be saved. This is done by the Holy Spirit. 44, 45). They sold their possessions and goods and parted them to all men as every man had need. This is the true meaning of the Holy Spirit, that is that the supernatural was being manifest; for it is not natural abandon one's 3. They were filled with gladness and singleness of heart (v. 46). Those who were really born again have no ulterior motive. What they seem to be, they really are. Unsaved men and women are controlled by selfish motives; they seek their own, not another's good. This they do while feigning love for others. 4. Praising God and having favor with all the people (v. 47). Such unselfishness gained the attention of the people and induced them to yield themselves to God, who added daily such as were being saved. Deal Not Treacherously. The Lord, the God of Israel, saith that He hath putting away; for one covereth violence with his garment, saith the Lord of hosts; therefore take heed to your spirit, that ye deal not treacherously.—Malachi 2:16. Let the Power of My Lord Be Great. And, I beeseeth thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, the Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving inquity and transgression.—Numbers 14:17, 18 The Power of an Endless Life BY REV. GRANT STROH Correspondence Department, Moynihan Institute, Chicago TEXT — Who is made at birth an endless life. for thirteenth, though Thou after the order of Machete—Hie T more than five thousand cataloged books have been published upon the subject of the future life. A disaffected father, his sister once said that if the word "heaven" in the title of a book in it was almost a seller, everybody has a personal interest in the mysteries of the life beyond the grave. ture life. A distinguished publisher once said that if the word "heaven" was in the title of a book it was almost sure to be a good seller. Everybody has a personal interest in the mysteries of the life beyond the grave. "Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchisedec." Not of the order of Arnon, or after the law of a carnal commandment. Christ's priestly work was not completed when He offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin upon the cross. His intercessory work for us is continued in heaven. It is going on now. The Aeronic priesthood was earthly, temporary and imperceptible. It came to an end. Not so the priesthood of Christ. He is a priest forever, after the power of an endless life. In Christ there is neither changing nor aging. Unceasingly His work continues for us within the veil whither He has gone. "He ever liveth to make intercession for us." In the power of His resurrection life Christ continues to intercede and to work for us, in our behalf, and also within us. Salvation Not Separate from the Savior. Salvation is not outward, objective thing or possession. Eternal life is our only because Christ is a living savior. He made atonement for our sins and is now seated in the high priest, but he also abides within us in the person and the power of the Holy Spirit. Only this can he meet our needs. Christ more abundant, the life that is strong and victorious. Through Christ may life be as endless as life that is as endless as life. This implies, for us, future and endless development. We never attain unto immortality life. It is for those who are in Christ a life is in store that is limitless in its unfolded possibilities. Christ will give us life that will have unlimited possibilities of knowledge. In this life our knowledge is limited upon every side. Over time we will have natural and physical barriers will all be removed. Present knowledge will be added to indeterminacy and boundlessness. Every quality and capacity of the soul is capable of measureless development. The endless life will afford the opportunity. We carry with us beyond the grave only memory, character and capacity. Gifts that have lain dormant here will be freed there. Opportunities that have been denied us here will be granted us there. Ample scope in the heavenly sphere for every heaven-born longing or ambition! No present life seems complete. Think too, of all the inequalities of all the hedged-in lives, of all of those just beginning and suddenly cut off. Their chance is wholly in the future. If right with God and Christ here they will have abundant opportunity in the life to come. God is a just God. There will be a great evening up in the next life. A young woman who was giving abundantly of her meals, her time and her strength to help a little mission church, was remonstrated with. She rejected: "It is my Investment. My brother is a business man; works day and night. Every cent goes into his business. He thinks, eats, and sleeps business. Why? He says that some day it will pay him big dividends. And that is what I am doing," she said, "putting my life into that life the mission." Don't you suppose that she, too, will some day draw big dividends? The Present Life Resembles a Studio. The present life has been likened to a studio, with its artist's materials. We have seen that the studio offers more suggestions of the finished product. We must visit the picture gallery to reality judge the artist. People who visit the gallery will be impressed by his unfinished specimens of redemption which they see here. Walt and visit the beautiful gallery, where benignizing processes will have abolished. It pays to do the right, to live nively, to suffer wretchedly, to endure hardship. It would pay if there is, and we are encouraged to see it. In view and to we its light. It will up each hour with what will last. But up the moments as they go. In the ripe fruit of life below. Jesus Christ was crucified in the studio. In the ripe fruit of life below. In the power of an endless life. All who know Him and his Resurrection must also know the fellowship of his sufferings. We must walk the hard road. We too are raped up into glory. WOMEN OF TODAY Must have a beautiful skin. There can be no real beauty if the skin is not clear, fine and smooth. Look your skin with care. Have lipstick, pumps, lipstick, liver spots, freckles or is thick and coarse, and AT once for jar of Paramount Bleaching and Saline. You can have a beautiful skin. Price 10 cents. For sale at: Ace, 1200 N. 10th Ave., phones Preston 4752 8568; phones Pharmacy 419 Miamis, phones YATES PRINTING CO. In the Rear Lincoln Theatre Building Ready to Efficient Service Phone Preston 4245 713 $ _{1/2} $ Prairie Ave. Houston, Tex. Specialties Diseases of Heart and Lungs Five years practical experience in Medicine and Surgery. Specialized in Surgery and Diseases Women Freed J. H. RIERAS Civil Engineer and Architect Modern Homes and Public Build ings, Plats and Maps, Machines designed; patent draw ings. Mail orders solicited. 2619 Tuam Ave. SUBSCRIBERS, TAKE NOTICE! SUBSCRIBERS, TAKE NOTICE! Whenever a blue X appears on your paper or wrapper, it means you are subscribing, and unless you remit at once your paper will be discontinued. This is a postal rule and you must comply. If you ask us to continue sending the paper when you uwe us for some, it takes money to make our wheel turn. If you don't ask us to put you fume on our subscription list with that "I pay-you-in-a-few days" stuff, all subscriptions must be paid. HARRY ASTOLFO BIG TREE SHOE REPAIR SHOP Shoe repairing our specialty. Let us tend to your sole and get you heel-ed. 2816 1/2 NANCE ST. FOR MEN ONLY MARC WILSON at Johnson's Silk Top 700 Riverside Ave. Maryland, MD JOHNSON'S SILK TOP DIRECTORS Geneva, New York. The silk top is made from silk and cotton. It is a versatile piece of clothing that can be worn in a variety of settings. The silk top is available in a variety of colors and sizes. The price is $1.00. We will straighten your hair for $1.50. Johnson's Hair Dressing is excellent for dandruff. It softens the hair and gives it a glossy color. Give it a trial wash, wonderful results, 500 per box. We carry a full line of Cigars, Cigarettes, Tobacco, Chewing Gum; also Jewelry. J. JOHNSON, Prop. Phone Preston 2662 REAL ESTATE AND RENTALS, LOANS NOTARY PUBLIC Fifteen Years Experience ST. HOUSTON, TEXAS OTTOS LOAN OFFICE is strictly confidential. Watches and Jewelry re- arguins in unredeemed pledges. Money loaned on Clothes, Pistols, Sewing Machines and Diamonds. Boston Ave. Phone Preston 348 All loans strictly confidential. Watches and Jewelry repaired. Bargains in unredeemed leagues. Money loaned on Watches, Clothes, Pistols, Sewing Machines and Diamonds. 818 Preston Ave. Phone Preston 348 REAL ESTATE LOANS AND INVESTMENTS I Handle Bargains Only Milam Street HOUSTON, TEXAS RANCH'S BUSINESS COLLEGE BRANCH'S BUSINESS COLLEGE for Modern Business. Subjects taught: Shorthand, Touch Business English, Commercial Arithmetic, Civil Services, Male, Bookkeeping and Accountant. The race needs train- namen and women. Comfortable dormitory. 1417 St. Charles C. L. Mimm, Principal; J. C. E. Branch, President. HOUSTON, TEXAS G POLISHING GREASING REPAIRING Trains you for Modern Business. Subjects taught: Shorthand, Touch Typewriting, Business English, Commercial Arithmetic, Civil Service, Spanish, Music, Bookkeeping and Accountant. The race needs trained business men and women. Comfortable dormitory. 1417 St. Charles Street. Miss C. L. Mimms, Principal; J. C. E. Branch, President. PHONE PRESTON 8149 HOUSTON, TEXAS Corner Odin and McMillan Streets PARKER and F. PARKER, Proprietors Clinical Work a Specialty. Rent Cars Day and Night Work Guaranteed. Filling Station in Connection ESTON 4736 HOUSTON, TEXAS +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Corner Odin and McMillan Streets E. PARKER and F. PARKER, Proprietors Mechanical Work & Specialty. Rent Cars Day and Night All Work Guaranteed. Filling Station in Connection PHONE PRESTON 4736 HOUSTON, TEXAS The Place to Get First Class Confectionery, Soda Water, Cigars, Candies, Tobacco. R. C. A. GEORGE DENTIST For High Class Dental Service Work Done by Appointment. Lincoln Theatre Bldg. Preston 5128 711 Prairie Avenue HOUSTON, TEXA8 Houston College SUMMER SCHOOL AND SUMMER NORMAL begins June 8th and Closes August 12, 1921 instructions in all courses necessary for cer- tates of all grades, including permanents, an efficient corps of teachers. credit will also be given for work done hard building on certificates. Dr. C. A. George, D. D. S. Rea. Phone Had. 3556 For High Class Dental Service Work Done by Appointment. Suite 201-4 Lincoln Theatre Bldg. 711 Prairie Avenue Phone Preston 5128 HOUSTON, TEXAS Houston College Term Begins June 8th and Closes August 12, 1921 Instructions in all courses necessary for certificates of all grades, including permanents, by an efficient corps of teachers. Credit will also be given for work done toward building on certificates. --- 94091 MILAM ST. All loans strict paired. Bargaim Watches, Clothe 818 Preston A Phone Preston 1459 PAGE SEVEN J. J. HARDEWAY HOUSTON, TEXAS Res. Phone Hadley 3282 S. R. GREEN 1417 ST. CHARLES STREET OKAY GARAGE MRS. F. LOVE GIVE ME A CALL 2907 NANCE STREET E. D. PIERSON, Conductor, Phone Preston 2118. M. J. JOHNSON, Principal. I. M. TERRELL, President, Phone H. 1887 or H. 2842. City Happenings Mr. T. G. Walker, former resident is here from Boley, Okla., where he is editing the Boley Elevator. Permished room for rent to gentle man only, 1719 Nelson St., Sixth Ward. Mrs. S. B. Williams, 1412 Cleveland Street, left for Dallas Monday night for a two-weeks' visit. Mrs. Fannie Sanders, 620 Sawyer, is gradually improving after six months illness. Don't fail to see Little Velma Johnson as "Spring Time" in Blackshear School closing exercises. Friday night, June 3rd, at Emancipation Park. The style show at Wesley Chapel A.M.E. Church, Tuesday night, is the talk of the town and was witnessed by a large crowd. ROOMS FOLT RENT—All modern conveniences—on one car line; near another, Third Ward. Men preferred. Phone Hadley 6474. Manager O. P. DeWalt of the Lincoln is testing out the recuperative qualities of the medicinal waters at Hot Springs, Ark. FOR SALE—22 acre—tract of land, unimproved, just outside city limits of Houston. Address M. LEMONS, 4423 Iniana Ave., Chicago, IL (528) Prof W. L. Davis, manager of the Western Star, accompanied the remains of Prof M. M. Kodgers to Dallas; also LaGrange. LINC INCOL LINCOLN "Your Family Theatre" EXTEN "The Gunsault" Oscar Mire GREATEST ACE All Star Con Sunday, Mon, May 29, Feature Evelyn Preer, Dick Abrams, Chenault, Eddie NOTABLE COLORED Also "FANTOMAS" EXTRA! The Gunsaulus Mystery Oscar Micheaux's GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT Star Colored On Friday, Monday, Tuesday May 29, 30, 31 Featuring Peer, Dick Abrams, L. De Bugler, Chenault, Eddie Brown and a BLE COLORED SUPPORTING Also "FANTOMAS" NO. 13 EXTRA! "The Gunsaulus Mystery" Oscar Micheaux's GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT All Star Colored Cast Sunday, Monday, Tuesday May 29, 30, 31 Featuring Evelyn Preer, Dick Abrams, L. De Bugler, Lawrence Chenault, Eddie Brown and a NOTABLE COLORED SUPPORTING CAST Also “FANTOMAS” NO. 13 Wednesday, June 1 “AVENGING ARROW” NO. 10 With Ruth Roland “The OUTLAW” Universal Western, Also Comedy “DANDY LIONS” Thursday and Friday, June 2-3 William Russell In “CHEATER REFORMED” Also Snub Pollard and Little Sambo In “RUSH ORDERS” “SKY RANGER” NO. 3 Saturday, "DIAMOND QUE "ACROSS THE BORN "LIONS ON PARADE, SNAP SHOT Com Sunday and Monda Saturday, June 4 "DIAMOND QUEEN" NO. 17 ACROSS THE BORDER" (Western ONS ON PARADE," Sunshine Con SNAP SHOTS NO. 12 Coming and Monday, June 5 Saturday, June 4 “DIAMOND QUEEN” NO. 17 “ACROSS THE BORDER” (Western) “LIONS ON PARADE,” Sunshine Comedy SNAP SHOTS NO. 12 PHONE PRESTON 1995 O. P. DeWALT, Prop-Mgr. While beautifying your hair and complexion, you at the same time are invited to participate in an iterative employment, at Mine N. A. Franklin's 805 Brattle Ave. The Western Mutual Fire Insurance Company has a guaranty capital for the fire insurance of its policy B. W. Moseley, Agent, Preston 1700. Prof W. L. D. Johnson invites the public to the closing exercises of Blackshear School Friday night, June 3rd at Enumeration Park. Admission is free. Get your groceries from R. L. ANDEWKS, 408 Milam St., where real business methods are used and where you are not hesitated because of color. Hon. H. L. Lehring was called to Victim not Friday on account of the death of his mother, who had been ill for several weeks. The bereaved have the sympathy of The Informer. Houses for rent or sale by owner on easy terms; also hall for rent on Monday. The office of the Third Ward, Phone Dr. Harlow, Preston 4657 (ff). Revs. T. W. Daily, Terrell and C. B. Cafedr. Tyler, who attended the C.A. Foreign Mission convention here last week, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harlow. Madame Franklin is now producing ten high grade toilet articles, and when you buy any one of them you are helping to make postpots for members of our race. RA! "Plus Mystery" Micheaux's ACHIEVEMENT Colored Cast day, Tuesday 30, 31 wing L. De Bugler, Lawrence Brown and a SUPPORTING CAST NO. "NO. 13 June 4 "BEEN" NO. 17 "DER" (Western) "Sunshine Comedy S NO. 12 ing new June 5 and 6 THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1921 Gilman's Cafe, 707 San Pellejo, Mr. William Gilman, proprietor, has recently been remodeled and renovated and coordinates to give the high school protection your home and homebound goods by a policy with the Western Mutual Fire Insurance Co. W. B. Mosey, Agent, Lincoln Theatre Club Mosey, M. S. L. Rose, Mrs. L. S. Love, secretary of the W. Y. C. W. A. colored branch, scout Sunday in Beautyco with the W. Y. C. A. Club. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. D. Sleiming. Branch's Business College is now located at 1417 St. Charles Street in Beautyco with the W. Y. C. A. Club. She was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. D. Sleiming. Here Papa Sid tides' full band at Blackhawk School closing at Friday. Renascimento Come early and stay in hotel and host "hestate." FOR RENT Nearly furnished rooms for modern conferences at Blackhawk School or plaza 29 640. For Gladstone女士 as "Queen of flowers" in a pagan staged by Blackhawk School Friday night June 16. The Modern Americans is a traf- rical industrial and oldtime insurer and insurance agent. We have days dispensation, entree fees $2.50 Lel Jas A. Reynolds explain Call 258 Franklin Mansion will do the work. A 90-minute contribute you. For sale at Mod- ern Franklin's parlor, 805 Priory Ave. and by Franklin agents. GENTS WANTED! It requires no negligible experience or man- agement business of your own. way, write Mrs. M. Meyers, Room 4, Memphis, Tennessee. for free information. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Aubert, 1194 Wood Street, accompanied by their neice, Miss Anita Taylor, arrived home this week from Corpus Christi, where she will be teaching for the last nine months. Mrs. S. C. Sparks wishes her many friends to know that she is now one of the Mudder Her Bachelor, 2001, and she is bowling, and she will be glad to have them her a visit at her new stand. Bay View Park open for the season, an ideal location on the bay for picnics and outings. Park in better condition for further information, write FLORA PIER, La Porte, Texas. Mrs. T. J. Holloway Corden is an attending the commencement exercise at Guildhuppe, College, where her daughter, Miss Florence C. Holloway, will graduate, being valedictorian of her class. And you know that the Modern American $500 and $1000 policies mature in one and two years, respectively? One hundred dollars funeral and 45 per week sick and accident benefits. Can you beat it? If so, where? The Home of Better Moving IDEAL T 541 M The Home of Better Movies and Best Projection IDEAL THEATRE 514 MILAM We Show Only the Best That Money Can Buy. OUR WEEKLY PROGRAM. We are now entering upon our location. During the first year give the public only the very buy and as cheap as possible compiled our aim and start with added zeal to better done in the past. The coming with us and we have one for the occasion ever shown in list: SATURDAY—Alice Joyce in, graph special production, Sais in "Thunderbolt Jack." SUNDAY—Helen Holmes in "a special drama." MONDAY—The Tiger Band" feature with a good comedy. TUESDAY—"Pink Tights," Hoot Gibson in a good Weddy. WEDNESDAY—"Half a Chance and Lillian Rich"; also "The Jack Sherrill and Ruth Cliff." A SPECIAL feature for THURS. tonio next Saturday est five-reel thriller. COMING SOON—"Outside the and Once to Every Woman lips." NOTICE—Nearly all of our opes have been installed and We are now entering upon our second year in our present location. During the first year it has been our desire to give the public only the very best pictures that money can buy and as cheap as possible. We feel that so far we have accomplished our aim and start forth into our second year with added zeal to do better in the future than we have already done. We will week will be anniversary week with us and we have one of the best line of pictures for the occasion even shown in the city. Below is a brief list: SATURDAY—Alice Joyce in, "The Prey," a 6-reel Vita-graph special production, and Jack Hoxie with Marin Sais in "Thunderbolt Jack." SUNDAY—Helen Holmes in, "The Tiger Band" No. 2, and a special drama. MONDAY—"The Tiger Band" No. 2 again and an added feature with a good comedy. TUESDAY—"Pink Tights," a 5-reel Universal feature; Hoot Gibson in a good Western and a Universal Comedy. WEDNESDAY—"Lilah a Chance," with Mahlon Hamilton and Lillian Hard; also "The Invisible Ray" No. 5 with Jack Sherrill and Ruth Clifford. A SPECIAL feature for THURSDAY and FRIDAY and Antonio Moreno next Saturday in "Three Sevens," his latest five-reel thriller. COMING SOON—"Outside the Law," with Priscilla Dean and "Once to Every Woman," with Dorothy Philips. NOTICE—Nearly all of our opera chairs have arrived and have been installed and the rest will soon be here. Cool, Clean and Comfortable Admission Always 10c, 15c and 20c ELMO MARTIN, Prop.-Mgr. 19TH MASS-MEETING FOR MONDAY NIGHT To the Citizens of Houston and Harris County: You are hereby notified that a mass meeting of the citizenship of Houston and Harris County, under the auspices of the City of Houston, will be called to assemble Monday, May 30 at the colored Carnegie Library. It is very urgent that this meeting be largely attended. On this occasion the board will add forth its general purpose of the City of Houston, to make suitable arrangements for the proper observance of the June 19th celebration, which will include the financing of the "Old Parks Dinner" as well as the land. The election of the grand officers of the City and the selection of the different officers on their charges will obtain. Respectfully, J. W. HUBERT, President J. B. GRIGHSY, Vice President W. E. JONES, Park Mgr J. D. RYAN, Treasurer W. E. MILLER, Secretary Not in the South Jas. A. Reynolds will be told. Call Hail. 2544 Dr. G. A. Milton, member of the 192 graduation class of Methany Medical (college) probably Penn, is in the city of New York, where he took the examination before the fall. [ Loan Money on Anything ] If you want to make money, see me. If you want to lose money, see me. I own four chairs. T. H. SIMMONS Promoter, Financial and Adviser, Phone Pres. 3941 4195; Milam St. UNION SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC. Six churches have decided to unite in pulling off a big Sunday school prize at Dickinson. The churches interested are Wesley Chapel, Pilgrim Congregational, Brown's Chapel, Bobes Tabercure, St. Paul and Pineau's chapel. The chapels will be sold at 5 acknowledge Tuesday afternoon at Ovetton's Drug Store by Prof. E. O. Smith. Came and with us. Bristol trip. $1.25 EXPRESSION OF APPRECIATION. We wish to heartily thank our many friends for their sympathy and loyalty for our family. Death may be recent illness and death of my nephew, Douglas O'Nell, who died May 5th 1945. South Taubenade Nade 255, and Mr. I. S. Lewis, undertaker, for beautiful floral offerings. MIS. P. R. THOMPSON. vies and Best Projection THEATRE WILAM our second year in our present car it has been our desire to best pictures that money can We feel that so far we have forth into our second year in the future than we have week will be anniversary of the best line of pictures in the city. Below is a brief "The Prey," a 4-reel Vita- and Jack Hoxie with Marin "The Tiger Band" No. 2, and No. 2 again and an added y. a 5-reel Universal feature; eastern and a Universal Com- tice" with Mahon Hamilton the Invisible Ray" No. 5 with Ford. "FRIDAY and FRIDAY" and An- y in "Three Sevens," his lat- Law," with Priscilla Dean with Dorothy Phil- era chairs have arrived and rest will soon be here. E N The Black Buffs are now on their first full swing of the northern end of the circuit and will pay their respects to every club in that part of the state. The Last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday they chipped with the Dallas Black Glants at Gardner Park, losing the first and last games by the scores of 3.2 ten innings and 9.2 respectively. The Sabbath day set to one of those thrillers that you read about the Buffs playing errorless ball and compelling the Glants to exert their skills in an extra innings to cop the ball. Monday the Buffs hung on the terms of Pichers Johnson and Calhoun and accumulated a galaxy of hits and a 'baker's dozen' of scores. Exams and Alexander worked on the Buffs, while fines did the revival. Tuesday the Giants came back fighting mad and won the rubber game, hitting the pellet viciously and violently. The Buffs have been reinforced by the addition of "Georgetown" Williams, catcher and last season as a P. X. Cox player. "Billy hoops" Curtis, former first sacker, has joined the Black Olters. "Big" Hines is now playing the initial sack and is in rare form while playing in Dallas. After concluding the series in Fort Worth, our Buffs travel east to Shreveport and back to Dallas. Gassers in a three-game series, returning to Fort Worth before beating a strategic retreat to Houston. Secretary Homer E. McCoy accompanied the team to Dallas and witnessed the Sunday engagement and while the Buffs lost a hard-fought game, he was well pleased with the game, which was on foreign field by the local bach. BLACK ATHLETE WINS TRIUMPHS FOR HARVARD One of the few great, if not the greatest, college athletes of the year is the versatile colored Harvard College athlete, Gourdin. In the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harvard盘dy track man practically elicited the victory for the Crimson by his performances. On last Saturday he repeated his great feat of winning two firsts and being placed second in a third event. In each dual meet in which America's greatest institution has been the greatest success, he has the greatest score for his team. He has more than justified the stand Harvard has taken this year as always before in refusing to compete with a rival institution that sought to draw the color line. Nearly a hundred years ago Moineaux, the greatest athlete of Harvard, the main art of self-defense to Harvard students. For a quarter of a century colored Harvard men on track, field and diamond have covered themselves and their college with glory "Bill Lewis in football, Matthew "Cable and A. L. J. Kennedy now Gourdin, have been high lights in each successive generation of Harvard men during that time. Colored athletes have been high lights in the athletic institutions of other great Northern institutions, like Pearson at College, Matthews at Caldwell at Washburn College, Howard Drew at Drake University and Johnson at Columbia, but not in such splendid numbers as at Harvard, because Harvard has encouraged ambitious youth as it has encouraged ambitious white youths and has encouraged ambitious black youths to each an absolute equal opportunity. Such would be the result in the broad field of American life if colored citizens were given an equal opportunity. They would not only achieve more for their personal and racial progress, but they would add in ever more prestige and glory of America, the desegregating ority which keeps colored athletes from professional baseball and sports the color line which estops black boxers in prize fighting and then runs the gamut of the nation's industrial life, not only hurts the black race, but lowers the morale of the American people and makes a mackery of the American nation. The nation may well take its lesson from fair old Harvard—New York News. SOUTH'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER HIGH SCHOOL COMMENCEMENT AUDITORIUM, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8; SERMON AT BETHEL SUNDAY. 29 The baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the Houston Colored High School will be delivered Sunday morning, May 29, 11 o'clock, at Bethel Baptist Church by the pastor, Dr. J. R. Burdett. The graduating exercises will be held in the City Auditorium, June 8, 8:30 o'clock P. M., and following is the program to be rendered on that occasion, together with a roster of the class. 1. Chorus, "Over the Fields of Clover" ..... Ghebil 2. Invocation, Dr. John W. Freeman, Priest in charge St. Clement's Chapel 3. Chorus, "Country Fair Waltz Song" ..... Abt 4. Salutator, "The Power of Little Things" ..... Miss Erma Loan Miller 5. Oration, "Lift Your Own Weight" ..... James Lane Thomas 6. Four Part Song, "Bella Napal" ..... Boscovitz 7. Oration, "Efficiency, a factor in Success" ..... William Alexander 8. Valedictory, "The Educative Value of Success" ..... Miss Jeniela Vayna Heshtant Nerto, March School "Walking Together, Children" ..... Johnson 9. Presentation of Diplomats, Hon. A. S. Cleveland, President of Johnson 10. Part Song for Mixed Voes (With Tenor Solo) "Parting" ..... Ryber CLASS ROSTER William Alexander, Bernard Leo Dillingham, Bennett Young Fonsworth, Benjamin Harold McLin Joseph Leon Ponceck, Cecile Jerome Sturgis Lucile Burrette Brown, Georgia Edwards, Irwin Earne, Annette Arrows, Sarah Mae Hill, Cornelia Howard, Ethel Hudson, Cheerlis Johnson Lilia Jones, Lela Alice Jordan Katherine Ursula McNeill, Erma Leona Miller Susie Moore, Alma Alberdaorn Stewart Ara Mae Williams SPRING CLASS: JUNE 8, 1921. Emery Lee Cattley, Emmett Phypha Harwood, Jr. Herbert Randolph Kilpinarp, Victor Edison Porter Mark Anthony Smith, James Lane Thomas, Robert Langton Minkey, Robert McKinley Turner, Jeanette Vival Alexox, Helen Hedst Tena Maybele Carr, Earna Bernda Davis, Beatrice Vernice Griffin, Hazel Anne Hainesworth, Jennie Velma Hayes, Eudora Marie Holmes, Ethel Maxine Jackson, Jessie Alberta Jones, Ivory Smith, Ethel Sturgis, Stella Mae Winnick, William Payre Bryant, Jewel Bernice Griffin, Willie Mae Ingram, Vicie Jones Johnson. DOUGLASS SCHOOL PUPILS WILL STAGE PAGEANT UNDER DIRECTION OF PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION The pageant "America, Yesterday and Today," will be presented by a cast of 200 pupils of the Douglass School at the City Museum, a school under direction of the Parent-Teacher Association of the school, and the occasion is hoped to be as instructive as it will be entertaining. The pageant is historical and patriotic in character and will be produced by the school. The occasion is the Spirit of Indian Days." The Spirit of Wilderness," and "The Spirit of Today," covering the development of Christianity, education, community and welfare activities and "The Spirit of Indian Days." The school is made up of field business, Indian dances, folk dances and solo dances with music and elaborate costumes that are musical, artistic and well known. Mrs. Fannie Brown Burr, president of the association, is general director; Mrs. Eddie BlackshearSmith, with Miss Hazel Davis, director of music; Mrs. Anderson, director of folk and solo dances. The teachers who are involved in the pageant miss Linda Lewis and Lillian Subscribers, Take Notice! The subscriptions of all those who subscribed with the first issue of The Informer, May 24, 1919, and who renewed same during the same period of last year, expired with last week's issue and pending the mailing of statements for renewals and collections by our agents—all who so desire can remit by check or phone Preston 1243 for our collector to call or the subscriber can call in person at the office and pay up. The Informer is YOUR newspaper and while the race has supported the paper very liberally and unstintedly in the past, it is our earnest desire to see "The People's Paper" in every colored home in Houston. Cash, not complements, is necessary to operate a real live, newsy and straight-forward newspaper. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, Circulation Dept., 410 Milam Street, Houston, Texas, Reeves, Indian dances; Misses McGuire and King, dances bake; butteries dance and tree nymph drill; Misses Snell and Clay, roses dance and mist maidens drill; Misses Tolbert and Crafton and Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Price, town and community interests. The following cast will take the leading parts in the presentation: "Spirae" by Spirae; "Spirit of the Wilderness," Leodell Armstrong; "Spirae of Patriotism," Beulah Gibson; "Spirae of State," Junita Toliver; "Education," Varrie John; "Pioneers" Lena Phulp and Fred Williams; "Play," Helen Turner. Presentation of certificates of promotion to about forty pupils will conclude the program. The public is cordially invited. In keeping with its established reputation, Douglass School always puts over the course of the program a W. S. Francis and his able assistants have worked and labored hard with their charges to see that the program next Wednesday night equals. If it does not surpass, all previous comments. ---