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NEW ORLEANS SEGREGATION STATUTE DECLARED INVALID BY SUPREME COURT 'BLACK CATS' NITE,'Odd Fellows' Temple, Monday Night, Mar.28, 8:15 P.M. BY BOOKERT. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. HOME EDITION VOL. VIII NEW DE THE MIRROR BY G. E. RICHARDSON QUITE REVOLTING PRACTICE! The Informer has been informed that certain members of our race are unduly and unethically active in behalf of a local undertaking establishment, employing tactics and practices that are both shocking, revolting and ill-timed, to say the least. According to the information conveyed to this paper, some of these members are in particular: in a community of some hundred, critically or dangerously ill, whose life has about been despaired of, and flatly important the family to turn the body of the sick person over to "So and So" when the end comes. It is also stated that one of these agents will "sit up" with such sick persons, and constantly urge them to turn their back on the world and hasten on to meet their Maker, under the guise of handing out spiritual advice to the sick person. In the same way, the sufferer relieved of some of the pain and misery incident to such illness. The Informer is loath to believe that any undertaking firm would resort to such tactics and practices, giving such person a nice commission for every "body" landed for said morticians, as is currently reported and rumored in local undertaking circles. Truly we need ethics just as much as possible. The business of any other business or profession, and if any undertaking firm is guilty of hiring business "drummers," who begin "drumming" business weeks and days before death overtakes any sick person, then that business will sooner or later become a "dead" business, both literally and actually. To say that such practices are employed by undertakers in other cities, do not justify the local employment of such procedure, and the practice should be repulsive and repugnant to every red-blooded American citizen, without regard to color, creed or class. HUGE BOND ISSUES PROPOSED. (Continued On Page Five) 'BLACK O BY BOO THE HOUSTON INFORMER Atlanta Life Managers Meet Here 7241 Industrious Farmer Made Penniless By Southern Injustices At a meeting of the district managers of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, Atlanta, Ga., held here last week they are: top row (reading left to right) J. H. C. Brooker, representative; V. L. S. Brooker, Waco, district manager; H. P. Hace, district manager; P. H. Wilson, district manager; B. Beumont, district manager; L. J. Lard, district manager; bottom row (left to right), Joseph T. Johnson, Houston, district manager; J. M. Neal, state director; Barbara D. Pease, by the district clerk; L. H. Haywood, New York City—Sam, Lowman, father of Demon and Bertha Lowman and uncle of Clarence Lowman, the father of a mob which took them from the Alken County jail, has been freed from prison to live with the four surviving memphis reports received by the reports received by the Advancement of Colored People. A. A. C. P. has received from N. J. Frederick, the colored law enforcement state M. Myers, by the clipping from the Columbia Record of February 24, telling something of Sam Lowman's story. The local newspaper states that M. Myers, a hard-working, industrious man, leaves Alken without a cent, his home in Atlanta. M. Myers, by the Lumbia Record. "He hand," said Lowman, and a big jump moved up and down in his tears and tears on his mother's face, my son and daughter and nephew. Lowman said he had never been in trouble before in his life. He never was in trouble. Myers, by the God-fearing man. For two years he ATS' NITE KERT. WASHINGTON HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1927 Atlanta, Ga., general director of agencies; S. G. Chase, Galveston, district manager. The statewide conference of Atlanta Life district managers was presided over by Mr. Haywood, who brought the men an official message from the home office, and urged them and their being forced to be publicly behind the wonderful program now being carried forward by the company. He stressed the value and importance of teamwork, and the need to showcase the quality of working that no organization, concern or corporation is stronger than its weakest representative; and that cut-off of the time is necessary. Farmer mileage had lived in Alken County, and they were bad farm years, but he averaged eighteen bales of cotton a year, as a tenant farmer. Sam Lowman was given two years in a year, but he was the first to have a farm training a little liquor were found in the yard of his home after the shooting of his wife and the death of the shepherd son of his father. His attorney says it was probably a record sentence for such a case. Lowman stated today that he did not bury that liquor and liquor was never kept in the house. Lowman served 17 months on the Alken County chalgang and the last three months in the state penitentiary, and he was the first to have a farm keeping after the lynching of the three members of his family. The Columba Record states that the guard on the chalgang did not care of the酒. Lowman said that he deserved it, though he deserved it, for fear of the mobiiats in Horse Creek Valley. Lowman said he was in the Alken county, where he was the only person to have heard the mob come to the jail door, and heard the door open and the many feet pass through. He heard the men have to go to the cellar of his daughter when her brother was 'Odd Fello IN HIGH SCHOOL ST ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL, NEGRO, TRIES BIG GOVERNMENT CASES ws'Temple Mr. Johnson, manager of the Houston district, served as host to the visitation of the man left no stone unturned to make the conference a success from all angles. Mr. Johnson left Houston with an ambition to produce more business for their company during the 1980s and to own the books in this state during 1988. It was Mr. Haywood's first trip to Houston to meet the impressed with the city and the wonderful opportunities afforded our people growing city in the entire Southwest. ATTORNEY EGRO, FRES MENT CASES northern district grew out of the fact that 600 residents of the land through the city have been invited to Creek passes diverted the water for use in the irrigation of their lands. Some of them have been taken somewhat in the nature of a tree case will have a bearing on their rights or not. The case of Borden via Mead arrose from the overflowing of the Colorado River, which the recent heavy rains throughout the state. The Borden interests aim to get the river back and dykes which broke during the recent war so will哭泣. Mr. Matthews in highest esteem in national affairs, and local citizens alike are involved in the records show that this is the first time a Negro has been assigned CHORAL CLUB TO GALVESTON. Rev. J. B. Butler, pastor. Ready Chapel A. M. E. Church of Galveston, was in the city this week making ar- twork for the California Music Choral Club. South's premier musical organization, to render their musical festival at the City addition (Gal- veston), Friday night, April 1. Vicious Measure Again Outlawed By Highest Body Legal Tribunal of Last Resort Reaffirms Decision Handed Down in Celebrated Louisville Case—Chief Justice Taft Amused at Arguments of New Orleans City Attorney—Another Notable Victory for American Negroes. Special to The Informer. Washington, D. C., March 15, 1927—The American Negro still has some constitutional rights, according to the position assumed by the United States supreme court in an order handed down here Monday, the highest legal tribunal merely reaffirming his position of 1917, when it declared the segregation ordinance of Louisville, Kentucky, invalid and unconstitutional. The case decided came up on appeal from Louisiana, and had to do with the constitutionality of a segregation ordinance passed by the City Court, which sought to exclude Negroes from living in white residential sections. The case was appealed by Benjamin Harmon, colored American, who had met with failure in an attempt to convert his house, located in a white neighborhood, into a duplex apartment and rent the addition to colored tenants. Permission to do this was refused Mr. Harmon on the grounds that he failed to comply with municipal laws. The court ruled that white residents of the community in which he sought to make the improvements and rent same to colored tenants. Special to The Informer. Washington, D.C., March 15, 1927. has some constitutional rights, accord by the United States supreme court here Monday, the highest legal tribunal in the country. Louisville, Kentucky, invalid and once cured came up on appeal from Louisiana constitutionality of a segregation ord of New Orleans, which sought to excl white residential sections. The case was appealed by Benjamin cated in a white neighborhood, into a the addition to colored tenants. Permit Mr. Harmon on the grounds that he niepal and state laws, requiring con white residents of the community in the city to be married, he resorted to court proceedings in Mr. ace an effort to test the legality and validity of this segregation ordinance, with the result that he naturally lost his case in all the courts of Louisiana. Amo law courts hold the marriage during No Written Opinion Given. Without a written decision, the supreme court simply reaffirmed its opinion in the Louisville case, handed down in 1917, contending that there was no essential difference in the two ordinances. Legal counsel for New Orleans and Louisiana contended that changing conditions warranted a broader interpretation of such legislation for the preservation of peace and order; and the supreme court gave this "broader interpretation" to the effect that race segregation ordinances, either in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi or Texas, are discriminatory, invalid and unconstitutional. Counsel for proponents of this vicious type of class legislation argued that Negro migration had made the segregation issue one of national import and scope, and that a modified opinion by the supreme court of America would tend to promote better relations between the white and black races by permitting segregation of their residences. N. A. A. C. P. Fought Measure. The New Orleans branch of the New Orleans National College of Colored People, Dr. G. W. Lueca, president, was instrumental in carrying this case to the highest court of the United States, where a legal counsel to contend the case represented national rights of colored Americans in that city, throughout the state and the country. Frank B. 8.mith represented the Palacen city branch. Based on its apposition to the New Orleans aggregation ordinance upon the Louisville branch (Buchan and v. Warley) of 1917, to which the Taft Shows Interest in Case. Both Chief Justice Taft and Justice McReyona pointed asked the New Orleans judge to be separated from the Louisiana decision. The reply was that whereas the New Orleans judge had to legislate segregation, the New Orleans ordinance left segregation to the neighborhood. This answer apparently amuse Chief Justice Taft, for he was a Republican. RED HOT STUNT! PRICE: 5 CENTS TE COURT Measure Outlawed Chest Body Art Reaffirms Decision Handed ville Case—Chief Justice Taft New Orleans City Attorney— for American Negroes. 1927—The American Negro will according to the position assumed court in an order handed down tribunal merely reaffirming its treated the segregation ordinance and unconstitutional. The case deoussiana, and had to do with the ordinance passed by the City no exclude Negroes from living in Jamin Harmon, colored American, attempt to convert his house, le- ninate a duplex apartment and re- Permission to do this was retu- reled to fail to comply with规 consent of a majority of the city in which he sought to make to colored tenants. Mr. Charbonnet showed the prejudice animating the New Orleans city that had been criticized and stated that products of mixed races were not allowed. Among the prominent colored people in attendance at the supreme court were the lawyer of the secretary of the Washington branch of the NAACP, the lawyer of Woodson; Dean and Mr. George W. Cook, Dr. Price Hurst, Dr. William H. Hancock. Second Important Ruling. This was the second important case decided in favor of colored Americans by the supreme court within a week. The court also denied holding that colored Americans have the same constitutional rights to vote, and thus as well as general elections, thus inviolating the "white man" democratic primary election statute of 1876. LOS ANGELES ASSAULT CASE PROVES MYTH (By The Associated Negro Press) Los Angeles, Cal.—The report that a white woman “has escaped from worse than death at the hands of a burly Negro” as headlined by a local daily here last week, has caused quite a furore in police and press circles. 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It is a very remote, very many impossible for any but the smallest craft, but all made as serviceable as natural difficulties permit. It is a lovely little sea, whence came those picturesque stage pirates that made tuneful our youth. The coast is more remote than elsewhere to east or west; not so rugged or so wild as on Corinth's northern shore, but the curve of the coast is lovely, the sun shines warmly; the roses bloom; every baby ripple mum a sea story; every tiny breeze that blows over the place not only for what it is, but what it was. Little Mousehole, on her right, beyond Newly-lowly Newly, of fishermen and artists, Mousehole ("Mouse," in local speech) was an important port before London As for Marathon, to her left, she will measure her years. According to her, the island is called Ezekiel the prophet" it was already an important city, to which Phoenician merchants came for them. For a while, the island was clan and giant and has looked for centuries at a casted island floating in a marvellous sea. Marathon is located on the island, except to visit the island which gives the bay its name. It is Mount St. Michael's Mount, St. Michael's Mount, little brother to Mont St. Michel on the Breton coast, in a rocky islet 220 feet high. It is the most beautiful island which it is connected by a natural causeway uncovered for about three hours at ordinary tide. Widespan canals lead to the main an island for weeks, and with a main sea beinacessed even to boats. It is a most picturesque place, with a time yellow with a million daffodils, crowned with the irregular jumble of chapel and castle and ringed by a It has much history. Like the other St. Michael, it stood once in a forest where it has been tamed by saint and sinner, sinner, monk, and knight. Dearest to the heart, perhaps, is the Glint-Killer, the glint of the Glint-Killer, the dearest perhaps because of the memories of lilies who loved the story long ago. We may follow the coast eastline on the coast of Falmouth, a way passing the great wireless station on Poldon, or cut across the little neck of land to Falmouth, a way passing the great wireless station but a fishing port, where pilchards sometimes become sardines; but a considerable past importance and present pride. One of the great seas of the kingdom, Boats from Fowley called by scores to the Crusaders to the sea or Calans, to the sea or Crusaders to the sea or Calans' swaggered on all the then known seas, and when not busy with training their rivals near home, they accused of piracy and Edward II confessed their ships and gave them Eastward from Fowey on the coast, in a cleft so narrow, so laughed, that he could walk on it for a home, less Palpero, the most picturequeen, the most unpossessed of Cornish fishing ports, retaining all its beauty and all its uninterrupted by the summer when new beginning to crowd the cliffs above its head. Palpero is a charming Piece. Palpero is a fishing town but it did not always depend upon fish for a living. In the days when snugwelling fishermen had few snails, and reading old tales, one sees quite clearly why men chose these clefts for habitations. Conveniently near are coves and caves, undiscoverable by the keenest customs officers, and boatmen could sail in and out of these narrow rock-bound harbors fearing no pursuit. Let us look attentively at Polperro, at its closely huddled houses, built on and in and of the rock; its roses and fuchsias and clematis, which bloom as luxuriantly as in southern climes; for these rock clefts are sheltered from winter winds and warmed by the southern sun; at its little rock-bound gleaming harbor, where at high tide the boats rock lastly and at low water a thousand silvery gulls pick up their dainty feet discreetly in the ozone; at its steep, slippery cliffs, whence one has such glorious breezy views of sea and rock and headland, and of the warm sheltered valley at one's feet. Polperro attends to its own business, and that does not include catering to tourists. There are always artists at Polperro. They and the fishermen observe each other, become friends, perhaps; but business is not mentioned, between them. Covely fills a rock cleft on the north Devon shore as Pollofer does in the south. There are all comparisons end. Covely may be still an earnest fishing village, but her looks beats it. "The most beautiful place I have ever called her, and the deserves the title." From the coach-road where, at the Devon coast, she lives, Covely one stands to the sea; or if you come by boat, from the harbor to Hobby Drive, and the public road, you can see the kind, groomed to impossible perfection. No whitewash gleams white or blues or more delicately yellow in the sun. Covely, clematis, nor blooms in more protraction; no trees are richer and greener, no vines more luxurious than the hedge, paper litters that one stony street, more staircase than roadway; no speck of dust marsh hiding windows or spotless windows, no frost on the trolley cars, of traffic, breaks the soft stiffness of the village de of Devon, the procession of tourists arriving by coach from Bideford or Bocastane, stopping at every house to "OR!" or to eat strawberries and cream. Tintagel of Arthurican Legend. At Tintagel more than at any place, perhaps, what we bring measures what we take away. Come of the past, we will have a house with, as with Hawker, with Mailer, and in spite of "modern critism," you will save nought but romance. You will go about your life about you; across the chasm the yet more formidless remains of Terrabil, the earliest Corrale earl. Roman, Saxon, Norman has built here; but it is not for architecture, but for the landscape. It is a roar running Tintagel is not a port. Occasionally a boat comes in the cliff with the coast; there are few and there is little fishing. Port Iasca, farther down the coast, is a village rigead descends to Port Iasca; and the little stone houses of the village cling to the sides of the ravine. As a harbor we should not approve of it, yet it has served a fiskett fleet of boats, and we should not approve of a summer day, but in spring or autumn storm, when the waves come hurting in with appalling weight and pressure, and would drag the village into the depths, when the fleet lockers for hours in the trough of a vicissim water, unable to move, would cliff, if yet in constant peril of the surf, one can but wonder why men made a home there. The sea is a smooth circle of sea into which a tongue of rocky land thrusts a bold curving headland, including an inner harbor in land, and the sea is by the sea devells the "real" St. Ives, close-pressed, low-cropped, stone-built to withstand the worst conditions. At St. Ives we teach "modern conveniences" once more and can take a train—very reluctant, no doubt— Improved Uniform International SundaySchool Lesson (RE) BYV. P. B. PITWATER, D.D. Dean, of the Evening School, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.) (B. 1977, Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for March 20 THE CHRISTIAN'S HOPE LEBRON JEREMY - JEAN-11-14 II: Cor. 2 PRIMARY TOTIC — Our Heavenly JUNIOR TOTIC — Christ Preserving and Preaching INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP- IC-One-Hossack's Home IC- Our Heavenly Home (10.14.13) IC- Beauty and Power of the Christ- I. Assurance of a Heavenly Home (10.14.13) The announcement concerning the death of Christ, accompanied with the shaping of events which pointed to a great need for Him, shattered the disciples' hope. The Lord told them that He was going away and that they could not follow Him. He told them their hearts. They perhaps began to doubt His Messiahship, but He did not leave them comforted or believe and trust in Him as God (v. 1). "To believe in God, believe also in God. In faith in the God-man, Christ Jesus, how great the sorrow or intense the grief. If we will but place the cares and burdens of life upon Him, how our despondency transformed into a radiant hope. If we will go to place them that He was going to prepare a place for them in His Father's house (v. 2). He assured us that he would have an angel in His Father's house "in the mansion" in His Father's house. We should learn from this that heaven is not an imaginary place. It is a prepared place for a prepared 3. He assured them that He would come again and escort them to heaven (v. 3). Jesus will not wait for His own to come to Him, but will personally come back to the earth and call forth from the graves those who have died in the faith (I Thesa. 4:18, 17), and transform living believers and take them all to be with Himself in the heavenly home for evermore. When He said, "I will come again," He no doubt meant His personal, bodily and literal return to this earth. 11. Assurance of the Resurrection of the Body (II Cor. 5:1-10). That which nerved Paul for his conflict even when physical death threatened was the assurance that even such violence would but hasten his presence with the Lord. As he faced the uncertain future he was sure: 1. That his present body was only a taberriacle, a tent in which he lived temporarily (v. 1). Though this tent were destroyed he had nothing to fear, as there was a building to take its place. This house which is to take the place of the tent is (1) From God. (2) Not made with hands. (3) It is eternal. Our natural body at best crumbles to dust in about three score and ten years, but the resurrection body shall abide forever. (4) It is to be "in the heavens." (2) He earnestly longed for the children of the earth, personality instinctively shrunks from a state of disembodiment, but the intelligent Christian earnestly longed for the exalted earth. He longed for spiritual. We long to put off the perilable and take on the imperishable. (3) This plan was wrought by God (v. 68). God did not fashion the body for death, but for life. God is not the God of the dead but of the living. We should be of good courage (vv. 68). While we live in this body we are absent from the Lord, but because of our weakness we can confess to be confidently walk by faith, being more anxious to be absent from the body and present with the Lord. We children of the earth should be to please the Lord (vv. 10). Nothing matters—health, sickness, strength, or insufficiency at the end of the journey we hear the Lord's "well done, good and faithful servant." I. Glorified With the Lord (T. 236). We are new God's children, but the change which awaits the resurrection will be even more spectacular when it comes it will reveal our wonderful future. When the Son of God shall be manifest we shall be like Him in glory. When the Son of God shall share his glory this gloomy hope will transform the life. The one who has it will keep himself pure even as he is pure. Overcoming Temptation Every time we allow a temptation to overcome us we are weaker. Every time we allow a temptation we are stronger—Living Message. Should Not Serve Sin That bountiful we should not serve sin. There is no necessity to have even a single will thought—Echoes. The Peace of God The peace of God will keep us under every trying circumstance—Echoes. 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FOR the lady who lived at Hillcrest, mistress of that splendid estate, Albion Weare had always fortified the highest respect and something more. She was thirty, the bloom on her cheek a trifle faded, but his ideal still. How he reverenced her! He did not know it, in his blind humility, but Miss Helen Tyrell respected him infinitely. Whenever she had a party of close friends at a social function at the elaborate old mansion, Albion was honored with an invitation. He was master complete of the violin, she a mistress of song and piano. Those hours of mutual music bewithincident neither would ever forget. He was thinking of Miss Tyrell now, and very seriously. She was rich, he was poor. It was his humble trend of mind—ever descanting his real ability—that kept him back. As chemist of the great drug factory located at the edge of the town he was of valde, but it was the policy of the company to take advantage of him. Now he had made a discovery of importance. He had some across it quite by chance and in his own private laboratory at home. In it his employers had no part or parcel. It involved a new process for securing from illuminating oils over 50 per cent additional power. "I if I tell them up at the works about it they will simply appropriate about it," Albon said, with his iabor "solluquidem Albon." "No, I feel certain my discovery is important and valuable. I have written to you about it," Albon said to thousand dollars advance fees and organization money. I have a thousand. If I could only borrow an addition to my account, I would not! I cannot bring myself to ask her for it. however, how quickly, how should he have accommodated him! And he knew that this was so. He feared, however, to disturb her cherished harmonious relations. Business was not the impatient of the impatient of the pure and tender friendship. So Albon put the suggestion of borrowing from Miss Tyrrell there was a last resource, but Albon hesitated for a long time before he was driven to employ it. This was not the impatient of the impatient of the pure and not very valuable homestead in the village that had been left to him by his dead mother. He felt it almost necessary to a mortgage for one thousand dollars, but there was no way out of it if he expected to exploit his Albion did not inform Miss Tyrrell of his plans. He secured a leave of absence and simply told her that he would probably be absent most of that time in the city. She missed him before he left, and simply letters showing that she esteemed him, and they were sweet balm to his anxious soul at the most trying moment. For Albion, inexperienced in the ways of the professional promoter and financier, was suddenly confronted with the challenge of testing all his faith and nerve. The broker had proceeded to develop his formula by organizing a stock company, and expensive advertising, there were large fees to pay to expert chemists and engineers. The money was soon gone. "A thousand more and we shall see daylight," promised the broker. "Impossible!" groomed Albion. "I shall absolutely exhaust my last resource." "Too bad to fall now, when a few weeks' further negotiations will place him in the position you willing to borrow the new thousand." I have no security to give, "groomed Albion smoothly." "Oh, yes, you have," insisted the gib and resource promoter, "to not hurt your business." "It isn't worth its face—" began Albena. "No, yet but, you will be some time declared the optimistic broker, " if you will be putting up a controlling block of the stock as collateral I can get you the loan," according Albena, though not hopefully. So, following devons ways, the broker financed the proposition along with the debtors who personed the money demanded its return, with exorbitant interest as due, and threatened to seize and compel the work of Albena for a mere song. "I will go back to home office" declared the promoter, and crumpled and almost ruined of raising any more capital. How long have the creditors given us to pay the amount? "Days." "The try," said Albon, but weakly, and he really ill and arrived at the little house, prostrated with a dangerous fever. Of what reason was this? Albon saw little, and that during brief loadd moments. In one of these he smiled fairly as if to say, "I am ill." she had been sent by Miss Tyrrell. Then within an hour Albon was back in the grasp of the wasting fever, and she was taken to the hospital days of grace, the end of which would see him bereft of his great discovery. At times, however, his delirious nature appeals to the woman to help never told his love. And in the adjoining room Helen Tyrrell hid her blushing face in her hands, and her tears told of the deep, heartfelt interest she felt in this lonely man, but befused so cruelly by the adverse tides. One evening Miss Tyrrell was visited by a stranger. He was the broker, who had vainly awaited the promised return of his client to the city. It was a story disclosing the negotiations of Albon. In the wealthy helix he found a willing and sympathetic assistant. The nurse attending Albon hastened into the sick room one beautiful June morning at the unexpected call of her patient. Her bright light, forbidden to the crisis she had passed and the promise of convalescence in the wanted face. He was arriving his eyes toward him. He motioned to the nurse weekly. "Tell me," he spoke heartily—"the day of the month." He is a deep groan man from the tips of the sleeve man and he fell back prostrated, with the words: "too late! I have lost everything." Then he was awake and sensible for the rest of the day, but there was a set, hopeless expression to his face that the experienced nurse Tyrell came she folded her of the incident. In a moment Heen read the situation and its remedy. He was glad, greatly, almost tenderly, as she approached the bedside of the patient. His eager soul in his wasted face, Albon took her hand in a fervent posture. "Are you strong enough to business a little, a very little about business?" she interrogated, "with business left," he sighed, but a weak assistant to her proposition. And then she told of the broker company, just in time, of her supplying capital—and the company was a success! You did this all for me," he checked out "because." "Because you are my dearest friend," she said, and her eyewear were not made for her. "I don't tell me of your need for money! Alas! I can help you no further, for your discovery has made you very rich." What come of it all? Great wealth for faithful, patient Albion Wear—who rents the law of a true woman. No Workable Scheme Perpetual motion has been the dream of inventors for many centuries. By perpetual motion is usually meant a mechanical device which will operate indefinitely, and which, in the case of a thermal aids as wind, gas, steam or any other element of force. Some have come very near to attaining a kind of perpetual motion; balances; also by the use of quicksilver, but while these machines will operate for a time, they are unable in practice to work in the same way to work machinery or be of any real benefit. In the town of Minneapolis, Man, an old gentleman had for some years a machine by which he operated by a series of weights by which he was said to have run a small lathe. A scientist named Strutt invented a machine that advantage of radium enamements upon a gold leaf electroscope. This perhaps comes near to an endless motion, but in the case of a perpetual motion the molecular energy of the radium. The Sleeping Sentry A family moved from the city into a suburban district, and were told to go to the dog to guard the premises at night. So they bought the largest dog that happened to be for sale in the kennels. But, unfortunately, the house was burglarized shortly after and the dog slept peacefully through the procedure. Then, the owner reviewed the dealer about the animal. "Well," said the dealer on hearing the news, "you'd better buy a little dog I've got that will waken the big Cherry Time Many years ago in a small New Hampshire city the cotton mills worked on most holidays, and on February 22 as two Englishmen were going to their dinner, one remarked to the other: “I say, old boy, why are the bells ringing, what's the hullaballoo about?” His companion replied scathingly. "You blooming idiot, don't you know it was Charlie Washington's birthday." Traced to Middle Ages John Philip Sousa said that recording to historical records the beginning of the modern wind band was a key element in the Middle Ages. Traveling mixtesting gathering at great fair, church festivals and state occasions often organized impromptu bands. These, Composed by the first of the modern bands. Just a Little Smile A CLEAN SLATE "Here's dat it' bucks I owe ya, Spike," volunteered Second Story Store. "Ianks, Steve, but dree was no hurry," replied his friend. "Nah, but it's like die. I gotta dang-geous job on tonight. I got a contrac-t in a suit of blues and I want go into de job wilt a clear connec-tion." -American Legion Monthly. PERFECTLY CLEAN FOOD Perfectly in it, waiter? "Walter, so, str. no, sir—there's nothing in our food. You'll find everything perfectly clean." A Stolen Kiss To steel a kiss is not amiss, But why become the titular of biter. But when you can merely borrow? **Appropriate Sentiment** She was sending off a wedding present, a silver butterdish. She wrote on the card, John? she asked. "Oh, just the usual dope, I suppose," said her husband. "Anything you want." A few minutes spent in thought and she handed him the card. In neatly rounded letters he read the words: One Thing Necessary The first day of kindergarten the teacher explained to the children that they wanted to stay. William wanted to stay. On his return home, William mother asked he be liked it. "Wal," replied the boy, "We're sure got to behold ourselves, all right." A Type Study Our new stenographer left a practice sheet in the machine the other day. "Now is the time for all good men this machine in dir 2154780j880 just to get it out." I win! I wish I had a pin also. Schuetchkah Schuetchkah Schuetchkah Schuetchkah NOT A PERMANENT PLACE "He says he expects to find a home in Itell. Metaphorically speaking, I think he'll find that organ is only a wayside lim." Back Seat Driver Adelaide was prone to ride In any car that's made. Brake it stumps and got a bump. Adelaide, where Adelaide. Easy "You are coming to my party, aren't you? How can I when I'm in half mourning? Oh, well, come and stay half the evening." **Handy Caller** The Brown are coming after dinner, Henry, Henry. Then I would have to take my sleeping powders tonight."—Bryden Bulletin. A. Modern Plea The motti-milionaire was discourced on his philosophy of life. "We need to pick and choose the words in taking place as we I find it." "Still, you might leave a little of it," he suggested the blunt to the consumer. In Difficulties "Been playing bridge?" "You don't play 18 holes at bridge." "I was in fully that many." Rheumatism Rheumatism Pain Quickly Relieved With Red Cross Plaster Relief from the sharp, knife-like paths, the dull, never-ending sashes of the skin, the scars that want. And you can have it. 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It explains a critical reader of the above a different advice he would give today: 'Have a liver that never hardens, a tire that never punctures and something—'Boston Transcript." Highway Need Highway traffic calls for fewer of the handcaws and more of the long bead. *Wall Street Journal.* **Food for the Mind** Let every man, if possible, gather some good books under his roof— High-Brow Hair "And some upon good The Sower, in the to the winds of heaven That which landed thorns and in the bar Only the seeds wh ground had a chance The modern advertise seed of salesmanship He plants it carefully in the places where conditions it has a ch of consumer results He uses newspaper through the newspaperly the markets which ful investigation, to b product to flourish. A wealth of glorious hair Over 4,000,000 boxes of H. Brown Hair Grower sold year. An evidence of quail that cannot be disputed. at all drugs. 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Mitchell "Life's Twilight" Carlina—(From the opera "Unknown") Nathaniel Hughes All saints received—$10.00; parquet and dress circle, 75c; balcony, 80c. All children furnished by courtesy of Black Furniture. Coffee. Notice—Persons coming after the show begins will not be seated until the end of act. Play produced and given under the auspices of Antich Baptist Church—Mines. Plea Wrayt, Lucille Burleigh and R. T. Andrews. Rev. E. W. Andrews. Coming soon: The greatest of all love dramas, "Bought and Paid For." Here's Good News for Skinny Men Who Need More Strength, Energy and Vitality HERE'S BARGAIN FOR YOU. Bring this $10 coupon and $10 to JACKSON STANLEY, 210 Housen Luxury Guarantee building, a caret treat in WASHINGTON ACRES premium credit provided with $10 balance payable $1 per week with caret interest. Acre tracts from us are $10. 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Mr. Westmoreland states that he has turned over all his business affairs to his daughter, Mrs. Amie Williams, who is now living after. Having resided here since 1868 in the village to the leading city of the Southwest, he considers himself a native of the SOUTH'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER U.B.F.-S.M.T.BRASSBAND AT WESLEY ON MARCH 23 The following program will be given at Wesley A. M. E. Church, Wednesday, March 25, 1927, by the U. B. of F. and S. M. (Silverton) band No. 320. March—T, O. H. Band (P. S. Mitchell, H. C. Miller). March—"Tundra" (Souza). Walz—"Marjorie" (I. S. Loose). Overture—"The Iron Count" (K. L. King). Descriptive March—"Napoleon's Last Charge Waltz—"Remembrance of Papa." Sax N-Somble—James K. Urbanek (Jackson, Sax Solo—"Saxarella" (Rudy Weldoft), S. March—"The Poet, Peasant and Light Caw" This concert is given for the benefit of the raise funds for the building department of sal appearance of this organization after a strenuous J. C. Armstead is manager, and Solon Bran Descriptive March—"Napoleon's Last Charge" (Ellis & Paulu). Waltz—"Remembrance of Papa." Sax-N-Somble—James K. Urbanek (Jackson, Robinson, Prophet, Collins). Sax Solo—"Saxarella" (Rudy Wudeloft). S. Brandon. March—"The Poet, Peasant and Light Cavalryman" (Henry Fillmore). This concert is given for the benefit of the church in a special effort to raise funds for the building department of said church; also is the initial appearance of this organization after a strenuous period of rehearsal. TRANS National Air—"America" (Henry Carey). Waltz—"Marjorie" (I. S. Loose). Dangotto—"Dainty Mald" M. H. Ribble HOUSTON DENTIST6 WILL EXAMINE PUPILS' TEETH The Chas. A George Dental Society held its semi-monthly meeting at the office of Dr. W. J. Howard. The newly organized quiz club was clubed with the students of Pathology, was discussed with an business by those present. The papers on dentistry were very much enjoyed and save much food for thought. The examination of all the school children of the city, beginning March 12, a PORO AGENTS ENTERTAINED. The local Poro Club met with Mr. C. L. Lees, 2418 Leland, last Monday, when he demonstrated by a clearly demonstrated by Mrs. H. M. Lees, who all and all stated that they were benefited. Mrs. Lees served hot chocolate and milk to the agents. Mrs. King, who entered her office with much cash, with much money, were next meeting will be held at W. Y. C. A., as follows: DENTIST'S TEMPORARY OFFICE. Dr. C. L. Barnes, local dentist, deserves his patients to call at office of Dr. T. Barnes; 807/515; Prairie Ave. (Tabernet) 807/515; repair of his office which was damaged by fire March 14. He plans to visit the office on April 1. phone 4831 Y. W. C. A. Cateraie birthday week is going over big. Elk's Club Tuesdays night is full of activities and clubs are planning their celebrations. 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Choral Club at the City Anderton on March 3, was a distinct and signal success, according to the well-known unanimous verdict of hundreds of auditors. It was the most outstanding and best balanced program of its kind ever. Leading musicians and music lovers of both races graced the audience, and the entire college program given principally as a benefit affair for the New Houston Negro Hospital, and which enlarged the annual fund of the institution by $500. The audience was truly a demonstration of composed of white and colored, and recruited from all ranks of life. 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While exulting and rejoicing over these recent court victories, we should resolve, dedicate and devote ourselves to the larger goal of ensuring that the rights of the people usually arise in the South, particularly, as a result of these decisions by the supreme court directly affecting the constitutional rights of the people. Entered as second-class matter May 28, 1919, at the postoffice at Houston Texas, under the Act of March 3, 1879 To combat propaganda and measures which will be introduced in various sections of the South to deny the colored American his constitutional rights—mainly as a result of the recent rulings of the highest court in the land—our people should organize their forces, raise a large defense fund, employ expert legal counsel and, if necessary, meet the foes of orderly and constitutional government at Phillipi. Paraphrasing Longfellow's "Psalm of Life," we wish to admonish our people: "Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still掌握, still pursuing, Learn to fight and not to wait!" always demand a receipt when paying your subscription to The Houston Informer and pay no subscriptions to unauthorized representatives. All duty appointed agents will have receipt books. Protect your interests, as well as, by insisting upon a receipt and then keep it OTHER ASPECTS OF TEXAS PRIMARY DECISION. HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1917 The Informer has been virtually besieged with questions and inquiries from readers and subscribers touching upon the recent ruling of the United States supreme court, which declared invalid and unconstitutional the "white man's" primary statute of Texas forbidding and excluding Negroes from participating in the democratic party primary in the Lone Star State. SEGREGATION ORDINANCE STILL INVALID. The United States supreme court, in baseball parlance, has butted 1,090 during the past two weeks, particularly in decisions and opinions affecting the constitutional rights of American citizens, the latest ruling being a reaffirmation of the decision handed down in 1917 by the highest legal tribunal in America, in which Louisville, KY., segregation ordinance was declared null and void. It seems that the oral proteotechnics which emanated from the governor's office at Austin, which broadcast the report that a way would be found to keep the Negro out of the democratic system, caused some of our people quite a bit of wry and anxiety. The recent ruling, not in the shape of a written opinion, was painful. The city of New Orleans no longer has no option for a segregation ordinance enacted and enforced in the city of New Orleans, La., which sought to designate and prescribe where colored citizens could and could not live in that city—yet the city has not. The supreme court held that the state could not enforce nor be required to enforce laws on behalf of citizens in primary or general elections because of color, and the judgment of the Texas courts was reversed, which held that the rule of the majority of the partisan electors, was political and not a judicial question. The supreme court simply called attention to the Louisville decision handed down in 1917, where similar class legislation was declared unconstitutional and invalid; and that august body merely took the high ground that what they had written previously about and concerning such legal proscription against American citizens living wherever they desired, they had written; and no one was going to be able to argue that being necessary to promote better relations between the two races, had any bearing upon their former opinion. In its decision on the Texas statute, the supreme court held such contention was merely a play upon words, and that any citizen denied such contention is guilty of vote, can sue, or damages election officials who deny and refuse said American citizen the right to vote in such primary elections. If the state is expressly forbidden, by the supreme court dictum, to deny such an act of disqualification, disfranchisement and discrimination, then it is difficult to see how the Texas legislature can legally empower political parties to over-rule and nullify the decision of the supreme court, without the state of being a party to such legislation and authorization of political power. The Southern white attorney$^8$ who sought to have the New Orleans ordinance declared valid and constitutional by the supreme court, argued that such legislation is imperative to prevent trouble between the two races, and that conditions have undergone a transformation as to warrant and make necessary such class action. The court should be followed as a matter of good and sound public policy. Here is one excerpt from the opinion of the highest court in the country on the extinct Texas statute: "The objection that the subject matter of the suit (Dr. Nixon's $5,000 damage suit against C. C. Hermed and Charles Porras, democratic primary election candidate) is also county, Texas, who would not permit a doctor to vote in the county on July 26, 1924) is political, is little more than play upon words. Of course the petition concerns political action, but it alleges and seeks to recover for private damage. That private damage may be caused by such political action (refusing and denying American citizens the right to vote in any election, primary or general) and may be recovered for in a suit at law hardly has been recognized by this court." Unmoved and undaunted by the arguments of the Southern legal geniuses, the supreme court stood adamantly for the constitutional rights of American citizens without regard to color, creed or class; and thus reaffirmed and reiterated their former rights to be free from discrimination in bounds for certain American citizens, whether they be black, red, yellow or white, is not worth the paper it is written on nor the time required to engross it on the statute books. Thus the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which supported and backed this cause before the court of Appeal, has been a strong institution, and demonstrated the value of team-play and co-operation. Thus the supreme court held that American citizens denied their constitutional rights by certain election officials, whether primary or general, have recourse in a court of equity against said officials, whether they are granted punitive and exemplary damages or not. These recent decisions of the supreme court, reassuring and guaranteeing to colored Americans their inalienable and constitutional rights and warranties, are concrete proofs that The Inalienable contentions along these lines have been sound, sane and rational. If Dr. Nixon, the colored doctor of El Paso, had a right to sue Messas. Herndon and Porras, who were merely following out the instructions of their party officials and the late statute of the state, would have been prosecuted for the group's damages against said democratic primary officials, will not other American citizens of color have the same recourse, even in the legislature delegates this exclusion authority to party leaders. This paper has repeatedly contended that our group should always contend for its rights because of citizenship rather than upon color; for, while some may reasonably oppose us on the ground of color, we must fear foe-fearing person could dare on our ground of citizenship! In other words we need to stop crying so much about our color and the denial of our constitutional rights, and press our claims more as American citizens and contend manfully for the rights of all citizens and the provisions of the federal constitution and its amendments. It seems that our Texas politicians, particularly the governor and members of the state legislature, have never come into a realization of the fact that they are public servants, and not party bosses and dictators. Races and men come into this world with their color, but they often must purchase their citizenship at a great price, and they are often the most expensive of all. The state of Texas should know neither color, creed nor class in the enactment and enforcement of any statute, civil or criminal; for when the state essays and attempts to write and enforce such legislation, or grant such power to partisan organizations, it becomes a party to class legislation, and such action runs afoul of the federal constitution and its amendments. Our trouble, racially speaking, is that we too often want to enjoy and exercise all our constitutional rights without putting forth a feeble effort to secure them, where same are denied or refused us by class legislation and unconstitutional measures. We have been called upon to enforce the armor (the former was instrumental in fighting and "outlawing" the "white mans" primary statute of Texas, and the latter carried the New Orleans segregation fight to the highest court in the land), who believes that he and his race should not be discriminated against because of color, creed or class, and who believes that he knows neither color, creed nor class in the enforcement of its laws. As a matter of fact, when a man becomes the governor of a state, either on the democratic or republican ticket, he must be partisan as far as his office is concerned, and be concerned with the PEOPLE's health, rather than governor of A PEOPLE and leader of a party. This is likewise true of state legislators, but our Texas and Southern legislators waste considerable time and effort trying to pass laws to "keep the nigger" in his place during times of peace, and to prevent the nigger from being a leader, are perfectly willing for these same disfranchised and disqualified black people to become "American citizens" overnight in order that they might defend, protect and make the supreme sacrifice for a state and group of people who have never considered themselves as a PEOPLE and rights enjoyed and exercised by other American citizens. The supreme court generally decides all issues and litigation on points of law, and wherever any cause is backed by law and equity, the highest court in the republic usually stands firm and within the last two weeks the supreme court of the United States has handed down three decisions (really handed down two and restated and reaffirmed a previous opinion) that directly and vitally constituted the constitutional rights of colored Americans. The court also ruled that the exclusion colored Americans from participating in the primary elections of the party in this state; holding null and void the inquisitions "fee system"—the blight, curse and scourge of the race; and holding that New Orleans or any other city has neither the right to pass ordinances restricting the living districts of any people. The Informer takes the ground that, if our people will not sleep at the switch or become too cowardly, indifferent or apathetic, they will not be able to work in Texas, because of color, can be made very interested in orose who essay to stage this stunt; but this can only be done through concerted action and co-ordination of our forces. The Informer will have more to say on this subject in subsequent issues. Employing baseball vernacular again, the supreme court team (there are nine members constituting this August body) is on a quest to find a way to make baseball more accessible. Finally, "Let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not." The Houston Dental Society, composed of the white ethical practicing dentists of the city, voted, unanimously, to bury the remains of the Charles A. George Dental Society, composed of the colored practitioners visiting all of their meetings. This burying provided an opportunity to hear and see men of national repute. The dental society an opportunity to hear and see men of national repute. The local body, and Dr. W. J. Howard, a local member and president of the dental society, were asked by the president and other leaders of the Houston Dental Society to cooperate between the two bodies. Dr. Mitchell furnished the local body with the materials required and quotted them with the class of work being done from a national point of view. Present Tuesday evening the race dentists heard a wonderful lesson in the ethics of dental burials of America and an CHANGE IN POLICY MADE BY OFFICERS OF RETRIEVE CORP The annual meeting of the stockholders of Retrieve Oil Corporation was held in the Odd Fellows Temple, February 22, as per notice given. The secretary's report was read and approved. The following named stockholders were elected to serve as a board of directors for the ensuing year: H. L. Mims, Dr. J. A. Jackson, J. W. Huber, F. G. Burgess, J. F. Gomez, Dr. R. P. Ferrill, Mrs. C. D. Woodrouff, Walter Green, Will B. Jones, T. M. Fairchild, W. G. Standifer, Dr. B. F. Barlow. The present holdings of the company were reported and listed: Limestone County Texas—50 acres Estates farm, royalty; 10 acres Bates farm, lease; 10 acres Burney farm, lease; 7 acres Boyd farm, lease; 5 acres Estes farm, lease; 5 acres Estes farm, royalty. Southland County, Texas—40 acres Stapler farm, lease; 20 acres Dr. Proth farm, lease; 70 acres Montgomery County, Texas, Burgess farm, oil and gas lease; 40 acres, Artesia district, New Mexico, oil and gas lease; 20 acres, Zahn farm, Harris County, Texas; 20 acres, Milam County, Texas, James Allen farm, lease; block No. 7, Wortham townsite, royalty. All leases and royalties owned by the company are paid for in full. The stockholders approved the program in 2012 and are in year in year changing the policy of the company with reference to the purity of process of purchasing and buying leases in widely scattered districts and waiting on others for敷办 new policy will be to acquire holdings in well known oil territory and assist in the development of the company. To this end the company has secured holdings in Limeson County near New York and in Cypress, and development is now going forward at each place. The due process of the company is being moved in. Contracts are being at Greenbeck and drilling should be completed. P. V. PANTHERS SHOW FINE BASEBALL FORM; C L U B H OUSE READY Prairie View, Texas.—Sunshine and fair weather in South Texas sent more than three score of Prairie View's Panthers to Blackshear field at Coach Law's call for baseball, to begin scratching, to hold the conference baseball shield which was won last year. Veterans of former years who reported at first call are: Parchman, captain and best all-round player in Texas's Worlds and Worlds and last season as the other, valuable player on his team; Burton, veteran shortstop and hard ritter; Harris, rated by many as the best outfielder of the conference; Rutledge, who did creditable work on third last year; Prince, veteran second baseman and hard hitter and Pink, second baseman and rated high at the bat. For pitching material prospects are not so high. Hunt and Watson, both veteran south laws with high standings, have reported and are in good condition. Turner is on duty again and showing better form than here to before. It is hoped that Mark, and Bates, both right handers, will bolster up the pitching staff. Orr and Childs are performing well in the infield and Cooper and Lawrence in the outfield. It is around this material that Coach Law himself is a former Lincoln University, a well-known build of the conference shield at the home of the Panthers for another year. Club House Completed. The Prairie View Athletic Association has purchased a 10,000-square-foot Blackhair field, for the use of the team on Blackhair field, for its training teams at the cost of $200,000. It is the only one of its kind at any its location. OPINIONS Plans for the local observance of National Negro Health Week are beaten up by the Houston Inter-Racial Commission. Rev. F. R. Barnwell of Ft. Worth, state health lecturer and supervisor of the local committee and outlined the work. The week will be observed for each day. The ministers of the city will preside special health services for the community and health talks during the week, according to Rev. S. W. Johnson, executive director of the Commission. Health week was founded several years ago by Booker T. Washington, who realized the great economic loss that our race and the environment have devastated. The movement has become nifewide and is observed in America where any number of colored citizens reside. The diffusion of the high death rate horticides existing among our race. The following local community have planned to speak—W. L. Davis, chairman; Speaker—W. L. Davis, chairman; M. S. G. Kay, J. W. Kauffman. Publicity—G. T. Stocks, chairman; Rev. J. H. Lovell, C. H. McGruder, Mrs. D. Kirkman, Mrs. B. L. Clay, Clean-up—Miss Virginia B. Miller, chairlady; members of committee will be announced later. BOYS' CONFERENCE TO CONSIDER MANY MODERN PROBLEMS The sixth annual session of the State Older Boys Conference, Y. M. Marshall, will be held on the campus of youth at Temple, Texas, April 1-3. The program is not one primary, of inspirational talks by famous lecturers, a main conferring to meet men and boys, with men and boys, through interviews to touching problems affecting the school, school church, and Among the splendid galaxy of conference speakers are Dr. W. Winfield McCormick, the Northwestern University, famous lecturer in eugenics, social ethics, home economics, standard works on social and sex education; Prof. Wm. Coleman, an alumnus of the Northwestern University, president of the Colored State Association. Prof. R. Browne, the department of Harvard at Jarvis Christian Institute, Hawkins, Texas, musical director of the following have this to say concerning the conference: Y. M. Marshall, I shall arrange my affair as so as to be with you, and will bring a nice company from Marshall. A. D. Dallas, I am working to have a nice delegation at Temple. H. Y. Club Jefferson—I see nothing in the way of representing in the conference at G. T. Stocks, secretary, Houston—"I shall be in attendance upon the Older Boys Conference. Houston will have a large representation." Prof. G. W. Jackson, Corsicana—"We shall have at least two delegates in attendance to the conference at Temple, April 1, 2, 3." Rev. J. H. Harrington, Austin—"I am pleased to state that I shall try to be present with two or more boys from our city." Rev. L. M. Sanders, Galveston—"I am in accord with the movement and will send two boys from my church to the Older Boys Conference." A. V. Smith, sponsor Hi-Y, Ft. Worth, may count on Ft. Worth to register not less than twenty delegates in the Older Boys Conference at Temple. H. B. Pemberton, Marshall—"It is my plan to attend and render such service as I may be called upon to do for the advancement of the good cause. We are planning to send six or eight young men." S. H. Fowler, Ft. Worth, executive secretary of the colored branch Y. M. C. A. W. V. Morgan, Marshall, president Wiley College is chairman of the state executive committee. All Texas should represent in this conference wherever organizations are in existence touching boy-life and lay-leadership. Conference, and it is a mark of the forward progress which college athletes have achieved in the sport, to Dr. E. I. Evans, chairman of the board of the College for the coach, equipment room, locker room with modern steel lockers, law enforcement, and structure with concrete floor and windows. CIMBEE'S RAMBLINGS Deer Gun: Gme ame you wu can be so skered ter go out in de knutry injurin uv cotton pickin' times, an make er "I'll extry munny pickin' de nice, wite, flesey stuff from de boles; dat we luv ten de, we chucke some de Vinted States cote has sint dem amifiers, "cludian sherif an ut dem, "long wid sum uv de farmers wut wuz in de habbit u vittin' our fokes out de jask tey skabs an eff b fat fine out de jask tey skabs and we orter do, put us in jale an stick er big fat fine onto our cote takes an sin ub back ter sum farmer's cotum feel ter wur out er fine dat we luen de a stal. Whut wuz reel 'muzin' 'bout dat trial down dere at Corpus, wuz dat awl uv dem fokes wuz 'dited fer dis haldin' fokes an wurkin 'em fer nuthin', ever las' wun uv 'em made lack dey dident no dat dey wuz doin' innything dat wuz 'rong. De ljea uv er groan up man tawklin 'bout he thought he wuz rite in puttin fokes in jale fer nuthin an puttin er big fine on 'em an makin 'em wurk it out, jis cause de po' priznerer wuz 'way 'way frum hoam, wid noboddy ter tuck up fer 'em, is ter laff. An aint it funny, 2, ter see er feller go 'long fer years, brakin de laws uv de lan, an gittin by wid awlmos' murder, an jis es soon es he is cotched, de fus thing he hollers is; dat sum innimy uv his'n dun put up er trick on him. 'Nuther case whut dun 'tracted my 'tentchun lately, Gus, is de wun up in de ole Buck I State, in which de s'preme cote dun 'sided dat dis bizness uv ketchin er man, lockin him up, tryin him an 'vicktin him awl by de he'p an kernivvince uv mens whut gits er fee 'fer doin' de 'restin, doin de proscutin, acktin es judge an jury, jis ter git de fees outen de po' priznerer, is got ter stop. Uv co/se dat case cum up in Onlo, but Ohio aint never had time mer enr nuff fokes ter ’rest, ter be es bad es pour oan state uv Texis. Whut has awlways got my gote, wuz dat dis fee sistum has bin abul ter liv ’sich er long an prospurs llfe. How inny man kood go inter co’te an git free is de bigges miattery uv awl. Wid de jedge, de kunstible, de proslcuter, de jury, awl ‘pindin on de prizerner bein ’foun’, in ordermints fer dem ter git dere’s, whut hopes oocorper feller hav’ uv be- lin’foun’ not guilty! _ Now, not utility case in whitch de s’pras’s do’t dune need in tones dat sounds lack thunder itsef’, aint gin me so mutch plezure, es it dun ter sum uv my friens. Uv cose l’m is mitey glad ter no dat in dis lan’ uv de free, dere is yit sum mens whut aint skeered ter tell de wurl dat dey stans fer de konstitushun. But es I sees it, dis ’aishun is oanly gwineter do us good simply es individuawils, for our fokes ain’t gwinster do no gittin’ tergether in big ennuff grupes fer ter git inny binift frum it. Ef we doan never hav’ enruther wite mans’ primarily as long es de wur stans whut goes is gwineter do o’t wif jus goes ter de soler es in dividuawils an throes in our lone l’ll voat? An ’taint no yuse in tawkin ‘bout us gittin tergether an senterin our ‘tire strinth ’pun sum wun kanderdate. It can’t be did, Gus. CHOSEN OFFICIAL UMPIRE. C. F. Richardson, Informer editor, has not been notified by Coach J. H. Law of the writs has been selected by the Board of the official of the 1927 season. The editor, Mr. Richardson, last for two seasons, will call his first class of students.