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PILGRIMS HOLD CONCLAVE HERE Houston College Sale Enjoined 5 PRICE CENTS VOLUME X PILG Hou THE MIRROR By C. P. RICHARDSON 4 Attending this twenty-third annual convention here are intelligent and dedicated men and women as cities, representing as a fine type of womanhood as can be found anywhere in the world, are cultural refined and well qualified for the work in which they are engaged, and we are delighted to them as our guests during the week. It is our sincere hope that the holding of this state conference will be not only in Houston but in other Texas cities, and that the ranks will be recruited with earnest and uninterrupted effort to "earn, on" for the betterment, improvement and advancement of their race and social order; for after all THE HOUSTON INFORMER Race's Most Modern Office Building PILGRIMS' HOME OFFICE BUILDING, HOUSTON, TEXAS Convention Draws Many To Houston; Halverton Speaker America's Greatest Weekly Newspaper HOUSTON, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 to devote their time and energy to the business of the order, rather than to the entertainment and amusements. The captive degree was conferred Tuesday morning, and the ritualistic ceremony at high noon. Both were very impressive. The delegates from Texas and Oklahoma are attending the conclave, which is being held in Houston. Patriotic Program Staged A very interesting and illuminating patriotic program was executed Wednesday morning in the auditorium of the University of Texas at Austin, the sessions and activities of the annual parley are being held, with James K. Sullivan, supreme judge, recorder and principal judge, Yankee School of Houston, delivering the principal address. Mr. Ryan recounted the tremendous patriotic spirit to the principal, to found this republic and COLONEL PATTON DIES IN CHICAGO; WAS KNOWN HERE Chicago, IL.—(ANP)—Leutentat Colonel JOHN H. H. PATTON of the Eighth Illinois Regiment. National Guard, dropped dead at the regimental arm- ament Tuesday morning, at 2:58 o'clock. Colonel Patton was formerly a member of the Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth infantries of the United States (regular) army, and had been with the Big Bend Regiment 1915. He was with the outfit at Camp Logan, Houston, Texas, during training for the World War, and made quite a number of friends in the Southern city. Colonel Patton served with the Eightth Regiment in France during the marital conflict with Germany, and received the crook de guerre, with silver leaf, for bravery in action. He was very pauperized with death, but he will be remembered Sunday with full military honors. NEW ORLEANS CLUB DOING REAL WORK New Orleans, La.—(ANP) The San Jacinto Club, according to the statement by its president, George W. McCain, a private estate without incurrence. It contributes very heavily to the various charities in the city and its average income. The private Chryst Fund is over $1,000 per year. Every member of the club Federation Is City's Guest; Fine Meeting The Texas Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, with Mrs. A. E. S. Johnson as president, is holding its twenty-third annual convention here at Trinity M. E. Church, Bell and Travis, Delegates are here from all sections of the state, with Austin having the largest representation of any city. A monster mass meeting was held at Antichio Baptist Church, Robin Street, Sunday afternoon, when the history of the organization was recounted by former presidents, Mesdames C. E. Adams of Beaumont, R. A. Ransom of Fort Worth and H. E. Ransom of Houston. Fraternal greetings were sent the federation by Mrs. J. U. Fields, honorary president of Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, and J. W. Fincher reading the communication. It was a masterly production, with Mrs. Jessie Daniel Anselge- town, well-known white worker of (Continued on Page Five) CLEVELAND HAS RACE ASPIRANT FOR GOVERNOR STANDARD OILCO EMPLOYS BLACKS IN MANY CITIES New York City.—The Standard Oil Company of Indiana has recently instituted the policy of employing Negro workers in the company operates in a section of the Middlesex in which Negro lives in Louis and Kannan City are so situated, and in each of the other cities except Detroit, colored men are employed. In Chicago they are in exclusive charge of the office and in Minnesota one; and employed as attendants in Springfield, and in Minnesota one; and also operating four greasing stations in Chicago. The jobs are the result of an appeal to Colonel Robert W. Stewart, of the National Urban League, through its industrial relations department some months ago. The league has the power of the order only then stationed by Negroes would not cause a decrease in business; but on the contrary, would stimulate business from Negroes. In Chicago the physical appearance so improved under Negro attendants and the business best in St. Louis. Primes have Enjoined Grants Injunction Against Perkins; Barbour Is Victor Colored people may be growing less superstitious and suspicious; the number who adorn their anatomy with good luck charms and wear out their pockets with rabbit's feet may be diminishing; many of them may have lost faith in signs of various kinds and species, but there appeared a sign on the door of Harris County court house last week which aroused and stirred to sudden and definite action a large group of colored Baptists of Houston and Texas. The sign which caused all this commotion, excitement and activity referred to and advertised the fact that Houston College, Baptist institution of learning located on Buffalo Drive in the fashionable River Oaks district, was to be sold at a public auction to satisfy an alleged judgment secured by one, A. L. Russell of Dallas County and Attorney A. G. Perkins of Galveston County, for the sum of $2861.38, which was represented as a loan made by the latter to the Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention of Texas to save the Western Star, Baptist organ and printing plant, when its condition became precarious during last fall. Endorse Negro For ANDREWS HEADS Ohio Legislature S. S. CONVENTION To Succeed Davis AFTER HOT RACE Upon petition of Rev. P. W. Wesley of Texarkana, chairman of the board and Attorney John H. "Mam" Barbour of Galveston, Judge Charles Barbour of Galveston, Judge Patricia Court issued an order restraining Russell and Perkins from disposing properly to the claims. The property, which is to be worth close to $100,000, consists of 14 acres of choice land and buildings dick and fainte. Note Fraudally Obtained In their petition Rev. Wesley and Attorney Barbour alleged that the said decision of trust position was the award to Attorney A. G. Perkins, erstwhile lawyer for Endorse Negro For Ohio Legislature To Succeed Davis Cleveland, Ohio—(ANP)—Perry B. Jackson, one of the younger attorneys, of this city, is being endorsed to the state legislature of Ohio, a position left vacant by the appointment of Harry E. Davis of Cleveland to another post. Five Negroes had announced their case against Attorney Chester Gillepie, Attorney Moses Dickson, A. H. Johnston, estate attorney, became known, however, that Jackson had received endorsement of party's immediate drew. It is expected that others will withdraw before the primaries in Au- Attorney Jackson received his education here, attending the public schools and later Western University. He is also active in the social life of the city, and is a member of the National Exhibition of the Alpha Phi Alphas fraternity. MESSENGER FOILS BANDITS' EFFORTS New Orleans, La.—(ANP)—Rocca Scott, a messenger for the August 16th attack, led the efforts of three white bandits Saturday afternoon who tried to get inside the building after they had beat him over the head with a garbage can. The messenger was not killed until the fight was noticed by a woman at Chestnut and Third streets. Scott picked up his bundle, which contained a silver service and a gold watch, and continued on his way, delivering them. He then went back to the warehouse, where the templated hold-up to the manager, Angus Benthill, Polly was at. FINAL EDITION NUMBER 8 HERE joined junction Perkins; our Is Victor ing less superstitious and suspic their anatomy with good luck kets with rabbit's feet may be dis have lost faith in signs of various reck which aroused and stirred to group of colored Baptists of is commotion, excitement and ac- d the fact that Houston College, located on Buffalo Drive in the was to be sold at a public au- cument secured by one, A. L. Russell A. G. Perkins of Galveston Coun- nich was represented as a loan Missionary and Educational Western Star, Baptist organ and on became precarious during last Rev. E. Arlington Wilson of Dallas, who is president of the convention held in Houston, was fraternally obtained, and the court was imputed to enjoin him from selling school; and further plan was to court the note that the note obtained Attorney Perkins from President be appointed, cancelled and held for naught. For several months there have been Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention was in a bad financial condition of the Old Baptist District Sunday School Convention, in association at Bethel Church, Church, Rev. J. Burdette, pastor. The torridity of the day was forced to take second place to the heat generated in the election of a president, Rev. E. Houston-Crochet, defeating Rev. J. J. Pharman in a close and exciting race for president of the convention. The association proper opened Thursday morning, with President U. S. Keeled of Bryan, presiding; while the Women's Ancillary, with Scott, preset, began their deliberations on Baptist Church, Rev. E. L. Harris, pastor, Thursday morning. Sessions will continue through Sunday, with President Keeling being booked to fill the poll at Bethel Sunday morning. Rev. M. B. Ribbrow of Dallas, grant of the association, is on program for a sermon at Bethel Friday (to-night), with the annual addresses of the moderator Keeling and President Scheduled for Friday afternoon. Saturday night a musical program, featuring the singers and musicians of the group, will be rendered at Bethel beginning at 8:15 o'clock. Saturday Sunday night will be concerted at Bethel Sunday evening, beginning at 9:20 o'clock, with a main meeting among the amphibian Women's Convention at 3:20 p.m. Among the distinguished guests in Rev. K. Arlington Wilson of Delaware and Bethel Sunday Colored Women Start Democratic Organization PAGE TWO—FIRST IN EDITORIALS For 20 years famous actresses, society and business women and men have praised Exelento preparations. Compare Exelento products with any other 2.5c seller and you will join the thousands of other satisfied users. Exelento preparations have proven their merit. 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It will meet regularly in an active part in all political matters. The Jeffersonia Club held its first public meeting Thursday evening 26, at the headquarters of the U. N. I. N. A., 2200 East 40th Street meeting, and the hall was well-filled with men and women of both races. Mrs Bernice Pike (white), president of the Women's Cuyahoga County Club was the speaker of the evening. She made a very effective speech, exerted authority and underlay principles of the Democratic party and welcoming this organization of women as a part of the Democratic organization. Mrs. A. L. Robertson, national organizer of the U. N. I. N. A., responded. Other Dr. Owens, Attorney Poul Bentler, Walter Brown, national colored committeeman of Ohio, and A. I. Robertson, president Cleveland branch of U. N. I. N. A. The areas of this organization are: Mrs. Ardice L. Hendricks; president; Mrs. Hattie Henry, vice-president; and Mrs. A. I. Robertson. ORDERS CHURCH BLAZE PROBED NEAR GULFPORT ORDERS CHURCH BLAZE PROBED NEAR GULFPORT Gulfport, Miss. —(ANP)—Following in the wake of reports of discord among colored and white people of Handbour, four miles north of here, Judge Walter A. White of Bloxi, ordered the grand jury to investigate the cause of the fire which destroyed the Negro Baptist Church on June 3. The fire was a morning and the edifice valued at $15,000 was completely destroyed. Rumors were rife at the time that the fire had been caused by whites and that the Negro congregation had been warned not to rebuild the church. While Judge White said he had no knowledge of the correctness of the reports that the church had been destroyed by fire of incendiary origin, he told the jury that he had investigated and that he would continue the present term of court, 2 month if that length of time was needed to get to the bottom of the thing. 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The lynching was taken place somewhere, not in the very city where the convention crowds are even assembled? "Any lyncher so beheaded as that ought to be punished in an importunity to lynch, to prevent places. For example, just one month before this Houston lynching, a Nexon known as Center, Texas. If some of those who had lynched "Buddy" now serving in the Texas penitentiary, then eight men in Houston would never have dared to commit had been enforced and the criminals punished in the former affair, those who have hesitated. No criminal would expect to "get away" with anything in Houston that he could not even Note that both in Center and in Houston the Negroes were charged with the crime that nobody has yet proved that the Negro did not kill merely in self-defense in both instances. Everybody has accused the police of "innocent" accusations, that know that when a man of the helpless and hopeless minority is attacked, people, nine cases out of ten it is pure animal act of self-defense or the part of the man of the weaker minority. It is only way to avoid the embarrassment of inconvenience lynchings, to be teaching altogether and everywhere. We would respectly insinuate that the governor and the state of Texas have been against the Center lynchers as they threaten to take against the Houston lynchers there would have been against the DENY EDITORS EXCLUDED FROM REPUBLICAN PARLEY Washington, D. C.—(ANP) The story, which was published in several weeklies that Nego newspaper published a convention in Kansas, was vigorously denied here Thursday by Mel Barnett. Instead it was stated Nego newspapermen were extended courtly courtesy, with Barnett, Holiday Kelley and Barnett. Davis of the Amsterdam News have seen two rows back of the na THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 DAVIS-WATSON JOHNSON QUITS Tuskegee Musician ELECTION BOARD PARTISAN EIGHT URBAN LEAGUE Helps Young Artists DEFIES WRIT OF YET UNSETTLED FOR FISK POST In Theatrical Realm OHIO TRIBUNAL Washington, D. C. —(ANP) The case of B. J. Davis versus Joe E. H. Watson opened suddenly Tuesday when the national Republican committee met and closed just as abruptly with the affairs just arrived. The committee seat Watson was deferred indefinitely. This fight which had its genesis in the early pre-convention days and was brought to climax at the convention with each one claiming a victory. The committee for committee settlement but the settlement did not result Thursday. The committee one and one half vote to six and one half cast for Davis' relection. George S. Williams was official. Remarks are rife that the national committee plans to delay the decision until after the campaign is over and the committee of internal revenue and white, refeierce in charge of patronage. Rose McCormick and has lived in Georgia for seven years. Fearing that the Negroes of Georgia should suffer a further such arrangement of Watsons, he have sought in vain to get them to agree to the lease, but he le- crosSED him in zombified him the secretaryship of the state committee and he has given the three jobs himself, each of which paid a salary. He further claim- district districts to bear part of the con- paign expenses and kept the money given him by the Hoover forces in REDUCED RATES NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE Chicago, 111—(ANP)—Jesse O. Thomas, transportation commissioner, will present annual rates: One and one-half fee on the certificate plan provided two and fifty members of the National Association of dependent members of their families, who may be in attendance at the event. Every person is asked to secure a certificate from the transportation commissioner at New York City for his ticket. The certificate will be endorsed by the transportation commissioner at New York City for his ticket and validated by special agents of the various railroads over which the certificate will be issued. Enable the holder to return by paying one-half the regular fare. The certificate will be purchased as early as August 11. The certificate rate: New York City. Certificate rate: The New England Passenger Association, Western Pennsylvania Association, Southern West Virginia Association. GULFSEID RECEIVES $33,000 FROM YOUNG ROCKEFELLE New Orleans, La.—(ANP) -Bishop R. E. Jones of this city has announced a staff of $55,000 from John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for use in the development of the Gulfside project in Waveland, Miss, which comprises 400 acres, and is used as a recreational and religious center for Neil groes. 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This study relied on the University of Chicago Press in this edition, which is Johnson's important and frequently quoted thesis on public opinion in race re In 1921, he became director of the research program of the National U. S. Agricultural University in New York City. Among the important, studies made are the social nurseries, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Crewton, Plainfield, Buffalo, Milwaukee, Hartford, Waterford, Conn., Springfield, Hartford, Waterford, Conn., Springfield, dual studies of Baltimore, Calif. and Los Angeles, Calif. He directed the research program of the New York Negro Child Study Center in New York. He studied a study of Negroes in labor unions, and is at present research director of the National Interacial Conference. In 1923, he founded and became the first African Opportunity College, the Hughes-Hougson College, have appeared many of the new social analyses which served as the basis for the growing Negro social problems. The Opportunity contests, which enlisted students in social analyses of letters, have brought to public attention the young Negro writers and assistants of the letters of men upon self-attaining libraries because distinction opportunities became distinct from the anembume of leading white and Negro writers and artists from many other schools. Among the special publications in the interest of this group of young writers, the Brown College Cullen art collections, devoted to African art, the Brown College Copa Tempel, edited by Mr. Johnson. Four compilations of letters by Virginia Woolf and Robert Browning have their interpretation of this unique Negro contribution to Europe and the United States. Mr. Johnson is a member of the Academy of Political Science, the Society of Americancological Society, and the Board of the editorial advisory board for the National Conference on the American Negro, to be published in the American Negro, to be published in the Academy of Political and Social Science. He is engaged at present as a faculty member of the Research Council to determine dependable methods for the study of racial issues in the Negro community of Woodworth of the psychology department of Columbia University. On June 6 he was honored with the designation of Negro reside. Union University. In going to Fisk University he will be responsible for the experiment in research program in the South, where the vast majority of Negroes reside in the sociology, economics, psychology and negro staff and faculty in the fields of sociology, economics, psychology and negro staff. FOR YOUR HAIR Pomade Haie Dressing It is easy to apply, and it is not sticky, greasy or gummer. 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Coming to Chicago five months on or so, Williams played and sang his way into the hearts of the theater world, the Royal Joy Boley and soon after the "Fashion Star" Nike, which has already produced several goodRead, Maude Reed, Cooper Hoole, Ford and Callie Louise Hill, who has been the regular weekly program. In doing this, "Fess" is doing for others just what was done for him "way back" when as a student of Tuskegee Institute, "Fess" was a member of the band, orchestra, glee club and quartette, which under the direction of Majar N. Clark Smith, made an extensive tour during the summer of 1913. It was on this tour that "Fess" made his debut in Chicago, and then, as now, won the music lovers and critics of this city. Major Smith recently showed to "Fess" a letter received from the late Dr. Booker T. Washington, the principal of Tuskegee Institute, dated September 18, 1913, in which the illustrious leader and educator said: “I shall not be here when the band returns, but I want to let you know how very greatly all of us are pleased with the fine record which the band has made during the summer.” “I wish to compliment the saxophone quartet, yourself, Stanley Williams, Cyrus Evans and Walter Madison, especially Williams, with his original humor. You are quite right in contending that he has personality and ability.” "As Pess" himself puts it: "I received encouragement from various people, and I received encouragement has meant much to me. In fact, a little kind word, or an opportunity to show what you can do, can mean a lot of time and frequently causes an individual to attempt to do-out himself. At the same time, I am proud of our stars of today, to give those possessing talent and ability an opportunity before the footlights which illuminate the room." 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Later he turned this property over to the institute, with the provision that its income go to pay part of the expenses of some worthy Macon County students attending Tuskegee Institute. Other bequests to philanthropy include $1,600 to the Maravell Murray Washington Reform School for Girls and $1,000 to the Cemetery in Tuskegee in which his body was inferred; $1,600 to the Harper Cemetery in Tuskegee in which his plantations; $34 shares of stock in the Citizens Service Company of Atlanta to Butler's A. M. E. Church, of which he was a member. The remainder of the estate, consisting of $30,000 in Liberty Bonds, insurance, 2,000 acres of farm lands, city holding and property in the farm, insurance, 2,000 acres of farm lands, Mr Lottie V. Green, A. J. Willem and Warren Logan are named in 1921. The will was made in 1921. For Somebody Else We Own Bees MAKE CODES FOR DISCOVERED IN CREATIONS. 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Gill wife Geraldine, who resides in Brooklyn, wrote a letter to the presiding elder complaining about her h u b s a d's treatment plan for separation from her 205. Following receipt of the letter, Rev. Gumbs asked Rev. Gill and his wife Geraldine to attend a M. A. E. Church in Brooklyn, at which time the Rev. Gumbs attempted to straighten out the tangled affairs of It is said that the Rev. Gill will made certain remarks in the presence of the Rev. Gill, and that the latter to comment that "it does not appear as if your wife's complaint is founded on fact". It is fur- errible that the Rev. Gill will be become angry and accused the presiding edler of taking sides with his wife. Since that time, the Rev. Gill is al- lways a plaintful old people that the Rev. Gumba is responsible for the estranged condition between himself and his wife. Resenting these infor- mations, the Rev. Gumba instituted the slander suit to protect his name and character. 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Orleans, Beamont 7:25 pm No. 6. N. Orleans, Beamont 7:25 pm No. 7. Bremont, Beamont 7:25 pm No. 8. Bremont, Beamont 7:25 pm Arrivals From— 14. Brownieville, Lacrosse 17:46 pm 14. Brownieville, Corpus Christi 17:46 pm 14. Brownieville, Corpus Christi 17:46 pm 14. Brownieville, Corpus Christi 17:46 pm No. 11. Corpus Christi, Brownieville 12:35 pm No. 11. Corpus Christi, Brownieville 12:35 pm No. 11. Corpus Christi, Brownieville 12:35 pm Minsouri Pacific-L. G. N. Arrivals-From No. 25-St. Louis, and Memphis No. 126-Columbus, Freerport, 12:45 pm No. 126-St. Columbia, (Summitie Sp.) 4:45 pm No. 19-Fort Worth, Waco, 6:00 pm No. 17-Fort Worth, Waco's 7:30 pm No. 18-Galveston, Galway, 8:40 pm No. 22-St. Louis, and Memphis (Southerner) 6:00 am Departures-To- 8:00 pm No. 20-Waco, Fort Worth No. 10:00 pm No. 22-St. Louis, and Worth No. 12:45 pm No. 22-St. Columbia, (Sumshine Sp.) 12:45 pm No. 26-St. Louis, Freerport, 10:00 am No. 25-St. Columbia, and St. Louis (Southerner) 11:00 pm No. 21-Galveston 12:45 pm No. 17-Galveston 8:00 pm Santa Fe Arrivals-From No. 17-Chl. Colo. St. L. K. C. 7:40 am No. 5-Chl. Col. St. Worth 7:30 pm No. 6-Galveston (daily) 8:30 pm No. 18-Galveston (daily) 9:55 pm Departures-To- 9:05 pm No. 6-Ft. Worth, K.C. Chl. No. 10:00 pm No. 18-Galveston, Kansas City St. Louis, St. Worth Dallas 10:10 pm No. 17-Galveston (daily) 8:05 pm No. 5-Galveston (daily) 3:10 pm Trinity and Brass Valley Arrivals-From No. 7-Cleburne, Waxahachie Departures-To- No. 6-Cleburne, Waxahachie 8:00 am M.-K.-T. STATION (Main Street Vinduct Missouri-Kansas-Texas Arrivals—From: No. 15—San Antonio, San Marceo, Lochport (Alamo Special) Tob. 10 am Tulsa, Dallas, Ft. Warth, Waco No. 16—Galveston No. 25—St. Louis, Kansas City Tulsa, Warth, Dallas, Waco Departures—To: No. 15—Galveston, San Marceo, No. 24—Waco, Ft. Warth, Dallas, Tulsa, Kansas City, St. Louis, No. 20—Waco, Ft. Warth, Tulsa, Kansas City, St. Louis No. 16—Lockart, San Marcos San Antonio (Alamo Special) 11:15 pm Galveston-BOUSTON INTERURBAN (Milam and Texas) Passenger cars leave every box on the hour, from 5 a. m. to 1:20 p. m. Arrivals, 16 minutes after the hour. Express trains at 9 a. m. and 3 p.m., except St. Louis. Baggage cars at 6 a. m. and 5 p. m. From Sundays at 12 m. and 8 p. m. From 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. all cars make connection with the bus line to Texas City. MISSOURI-PACIFIC RAILROAD CO. Electric Divides Houston-Bayern Union Station Cars leave Houston at 5 a. m. and every hour on the hour thereafter, up to and including 7 p. m. with an additional car leaving at 9 a. m. in 11 p.m. Running time from H.C. to R.R.C. 1 hour and 45 minutes. Cars arrive hourly 7:40 a.m. to 10:40 p.m. SANTA MIDY Irritable Bladder Catarrh Soon cleared up by veterinarian Santa MIDY Effective-Harris Sold by All Drayers DR. C. A. PHILLIPS DENTIST Hours: 9 to 12 a.m. 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday by appointment Receives 216-17 Tahulani Blvd. 8071 Prairie Ave. Office: Pres. 4381. Ben.: Cap 6312-W SOUTH CAROLINA National Benefit RETURNS NEGRO Head Issues Call TO STATE PRISON For Negro Youths Columbia, S. C. (ANP) - Bren Bea, who was released from the state prison a few weeks ago, after serving thirteen years of a thirty-year sentence, was returned to prison on Thursday. A statement from a statement from the same woman has again robbed him of his freedom. Bren Bea was sentenced to thirty years on a charge of raping a white woman. Recently the woman signed an affidavit that he was not guilty and a subsequent statement was received from the woman to the effect that she affidavit knew what she was signing, and that Bren Bea was guilty of the charge. So, the rearrent of Bren Bea has caused quite a disturbance here, and many account of her testimony at the trial thirteen years ago. Others, while the reason for the statement, have declared that they believe Bren Bea inflicted the charges and feel that When Bess was released, while the governor was on the ground for $200 to help him "get back on his feet," and the governor was seeking the second statement, which caused the governor to call for a recount. SLASH POSTAGE RATES IN MANY MAIL CLASSES Fines - First Additional Points 1 and 2 8 cents 2 and 3 8 cents 4 8 cents 6 8 cents 7 10 cents 8 10 cents 9 10 cents 12 10 cents 12 10 cents (Eighth charge rule applies to any point in the first two columns, and the second column in foreign waters.) The following charges on parcel post re-required as follows: Two pounds for parcel weighing not more than two pounds. Fifteen pounds for parcel weighing more than two pounds but not exceeding 15 pounds. Twenty cents for parcel weighing more than two cents for parcel weighing more than twenty cents for parcel exceeding two pounds 25 cents for parcel exceeding two pounds 25 cents for parcel exceeding two pounds 25 cents for parcel exceeding 10 pounds Insured mail matter: Valuation Free Not Exceeding 1 cent 25.00 8 cents 25.00 12 cents 50.00 15 cents 100.00 A for three cents will be charged in the return receipt. C. O. D. mail matter: Collection C. O. D. Not in receipt 12 cents 25.00 12 cents 100.00 12 cents 100.00 Money order from: Orders not, excluding $12.50, 6 units. Over 5.00, not excluding 5.00, 10 Over 5.00, not excluding 20.00, 15 Over 5.00, not excluding 30.00, 16 Over 40.00, not excluding 40.00, 16 Over 40.00, not excluding 60.00, 16 Over 40.00, not excluding 80.00, 16 Indemnity and not Insurance $ 50.00 $ 100.00 20 contests 100.00 200.00 30 contests 100.00 200.00 30 contests 200.00 200.00 30 contests 200.00 200.00 30 contests 600.00 600.00 17 contests 600.00 600.00 17 contests 700.00 700.00 17 contests 700.00 700.00 17 contests Multiple second and third class contests involved in $100, upon which a requirment must be made. First-class postage paid must be collected and first-class postage paid must be registered. If it is required and the first-class rate of postage is paid therefor C. R. Yerrow, M. D. M. MEDICINE AND SURGERY Specializing in Diseases of Infants and Children Medical Services: Office 0001; Box 0921, 121 K. 46th St. Austin, Texas FIRST IN REAL NEWS----PAGE THREE Washington, D.C. - A report recently published indicates that $3,000,000 worth of life insurance was written in 11 weeks by students of York University, according to statement by the director. A group of students from the remarkable piece of work. If their production was figured over a year on the basis of their seven week's work, the students would have been in attendance to the emphasis being placed by the National Benefit Life Insurance Commission upon the desirability of the thorough training of agents, and it is notable that so many educational institutions supply courses in insurance for the benefit of their students and to meet the needs of their students is keener than ever. It is not competition among companies so much as competition among individuals. This is due to the fact that there is an urge on the part of more experienced insurance companies to R. H. Rutherford, president of the National Benefit Life Insurance Company, states that one of the great needs of Negro life insurance companies is men trained for their work. The time has passed for men unable to secure employment in other directions to take up life insurance "on the side." The National Benefit and other life insurance companies are now calling to the hundreds of graduates who are coming out of the various institutions of learning to prepare themselves for good paying positions in growing financial institutions. The present need is for groups of men, and even women, who have made a study of insurance needs and fundamentals, business insurance and practical selling and the psychology of selling. The young men and women who are graduating from the various colleges and high schools of the Negro race could turn their earning capacity in no better direction in the future than by preparing themselves for service under the direction of the trained men who now conduct our life insurance companies. "National Benefit and other life insurance companies," Mr. Rutherford said, "present stride unless there is to be found among the young men and women who sincere willingness to study the opportunities opened to them, not on the basis of financial success or race building as well. Practical inference from our educational institutions with the definite classroom suggestions to be worked out in the future will open the openings which are spread before the thousands of young men and women of the time each year. The field is open, the opportunities are great, we are ready." CITY DEPOSITS $30,000 IN LOUISVILLE BANK Louisville, Ky.—(ANP)—Money to be used for the building of the new campus across the Ohio River has been received by the American Mutual Savings Bank was made one of the depositories for $20,000 being deposited in the bank Flu May Start with a COLT So-called "common" colds are dismissed. Gripe or Flu check the cold proptly. HILL'S Cascade Bound Qinine tablets stop a cold in one day. Drive out the poison. Play safe! Inse or HILLS in the red box. 30 cents at all drugs. HILL'S Cascade - Brownside - Quinine DR. RUPERT O. ROEFT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 462 Old Fallows Temple Phones Office: P. 217, State 6819 Residence: 410 Robin St. Dr. O. L. Lattimore DENTAL SURGEON 4094 MILAM STREET All Classes of Dental Work Nearly A Bridge Work A Specialty Hours: 9 a.m. to 12 noon 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday's Appointment Phones Office: P. 1429 Residence, Cap. 6551 DR. C. M. NICHOLS Physician and Surgeon Office: Taborian Blg., Suite 220 Preston 4181 807 1-2 Prairie Ave., Houston, Tex. Fleming: Office, Prairie 2628 Residence, Hadley 6383-J Office Hours: 10 to 12 a.m. 3 to 5, 6 to 9 p.m. DR. W. M. DRAKE PHYSICIAN and SURGEON Diseases of Women, Blood and disease 2039-Old Poppy Temple MOHR ELECTED PREXY OF PAUL QUINN COLLEGE The Waco Chion: Trustees of Paul Quima College have just announced the election of Prof. D. Mole, teacher in Samuel Hunton College, to succeed Prof. N. A. Banks, an professor of Paul Quima College. Prof. Mole is a young man, but come highly recommended and with much of scholastic attainments behind him. He is a graduate of chemistry and pharmacy from Ohio State University, where he received the degrees of R. S and Ph. C. Among other colleges and universities in which he has pursued courses from the University of Missouri Business College, the Milwaukee School of Engineering, School of Chemistry, Sorbonne University, Paris, France, together with special courses at Marquette College, Chicago College of Commerce, and special study under Otte Chemistry, Ph. in chemistry, University of Berlin. He taught four years at Willemforce before being elected to head the University College two years ago. AGENTS AGENTS We successful- Nikki Friends and a good house selling MY-SHIP. New, Different and Real. We have a few jobs. If you wish send He struts to cover postage and package F.G. STEWART & CO. Since 1890 13th SOUTHPORT AVE. CHICAGO PRESCRIPTIONS OUR SPECIALTY Peoples Pharmacy VIRGIL B. BYEES, Ph. C. 415 MILAM STREET Same Phone: Pres. 1909 A. B. Pediford, jeweler, watchmaker and opener of M. V. Taylor and Co., diamonds and jewelry; eyeglasses accurately fitted. 219 W. Dallas, Houston, Texas. Phone Preston 2561. One of the Greatest SERVICE STATIONS In the City STORAGE, REPAIR SHOP, WASHING, GREASING Open Day and Night Road Service, Too! CALL US! Goodson's Service Station PRESTON 7222-7492 700 BUFFALO DRIVE Mrs. A. E. Stewart and Son PUNERAL DIRECTORS "We Are In Sympathy Always" Notice our directing. Compare it with others. Phone 424 1171 E. 5th Ave. Coronado, Tex. Babies Love It For all stomach and intestinal troubles and disturbances due to nibbling, there is nothing better than a safe Infant and Childback Laundry. MRS. WINCLOVE STREP PAGE FOUR-FIRST IN CIRCULATION Thomas Johnson, 2001 Main, is incapacitated this week. Miss Berrie McCray, 1612 Calhoun, is on the sick list. Robert E. Linton, New York City is visiting at the home of Mrs. Theress Cordin, 3037 McGwen. Sadie Tailor, 1420 West St. was called to Galveston to the bedside to pick sister in law. Fred Reeves, 2242 Andrew, returned Monday from Fort Worth, where he attended the Masenic grand lodge. Callie Oliver and Henry H. Mann were united in marriage by Rev. E. L. Harrison last Saturday evening. Miss Ruby Montgomery, teacher of mathematics in Booker T. Washings high school, left this week for Los Angeles, Calf. Miss Estelle Gayton Wainy and Terry Jones left last Thursday for Los Angeles, Cal, to visit Mrs. Sam Jones. AGENTS WANTED - To sell Dr. Link's Keep Straight Irrigation 112, three dollars and fifty cents to Medical Connecte Co., 2464 Elm S. Dallas W. C. Brown, Many, Lia, was in the city this week and while here took the opportunity to visit The Informer office and inspect our plant. Miss Viece Johnson, teacher in the office, taught W. Hair School, Washington High, the left last Saturday in New York city where she will study at Columbia University. AGENTS WANTED—Virginia Mollie Lily, hair Dressing, Write for sample and sample, Marceline McCarthy, 1999, W. Brow, Bradhick, McVaunda. George Warren and Ed. Tisdon, Texas, spent four July in Utah, where they motivated to Galveston in the evening. Co.-Flower for all occasions. Phone Fairax 4036 or Preston 3104 McGowen Ave, Houston, Texas. (7-28). Mrs. O. M. Mitchell and little W. Mrs. O. M. Mitchell and few weeks in Palestine visiting relatives, have returned, to the delight of husband and friends. Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Leonard and the city where they work, enroute to Baeumont from San Antonio, their home. They are traveling overland in their Hudson cuisines. Mrs. Lillie Shaw, Austin, is attending the State Federation of Colleges and University, as guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Polk, 2618 Holman. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Smith, 312 Balmoral Street, Baltimore, and Mr and Mrs. Sam Wilson, metored through the country last Thursday, visiting Rose Hill, Tom Ball and Helen McKinney, and Mr and Mrs Lank Sanders, 902 Rhode, announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter, Ophelia to Walter Benjamin and his wife, Martha, at 8:30 p.m. at the family residence. 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HOUSTON VISITORS TENDERED SMOKER; MILLS IN CHARGE Colored visitors to the Democratic National Convention and members of the survey commission and members of the national Business League were tended a smoker at the American Mutual offices, last Saturday night, after the close of the social function remarks were made by James D. Krysner, the mayor of Kansas City, Mo., Edgar G. Brown of Chicago and Bert M. Roddy of Memphis. An extended greetings for colored Houston, while the others responded. Dr. Thompson is the recognized Negro Democratic leader of the political parties. Negro, Roddy, the mayor of the Negro Business League, spoke on the national study now being made of Negro Business League, and what the survey is disclosing concerning race business enterprise. Aphone Millo, who served as chairman of the arrangements committee, deserves much credit for the committee functioned on this occasion; for everything was on hand for the "trimmings" for such an event. PYTHIANS WILL INSTALL NEXT FRIDAY NIGHT A joint installation of the local bodies of Knights of Pythias and Courts of Calantha will be held at the Friday Night, July 13. All officers and members of the lodges and courts are requested to be present at Friday Night, July 13. A regular joint meeting will be held from 8 to 9 p.m. after a social hour will be indulged. Recommendations and admission will be free. The officers of the evening will be H. Hickey and John Clark, grand district deputy; M. W. Johnson, special deputy; Mrs. H. E. Richardson, grand district deputy; Mrs. M. A. Watson, deputy; John White, grand district deputy; F. A. Robinson, vice chairman. FORMER PASTOR AT TRINITY SUNDAY Dr. Willis J. King, former pastor of Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church, will present a testament theology at Gammon Theological Seminary, Atlanta, GA, will touch at Trinity, Travis Carris and the morning, July 11 & 1'clock service. Doctor King, who is one of the faculty of the connection, has just recently addressed the Southern (white) Student. Conference at Blue Ridge, N.C., will be held in attendance on the meeting in attendance on the meeting of the Commission of World Peace of the University of New York City, being a member of the New York City, being a member of the Houstonians, as well as Texas colleges, as a proud of Dr. King, and are always glad to welcome him to his native state, and no doubt he will present a large audience Sunday morning. PORO CLUB WILL MEET The monthly meeting of the Poe Club will be held Monday, July 9 at the Y. W. C. A. 3:30 p. m. All agents are to be asked. ERROR CORRECTED The memorial to Mrs. Alice Brown appearing in last week's issue of *The Times*, Louis Brown, instead of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis. **ANNUAL SOCIAL AT POLKS'** Invitations are being received from the National Benefit Life Insurance Company to attend the annual social (garden party) given at the National Benefit Life Insurance Company in 2016. 2618 Holman, Friday evening, July 6 INFORMER AUSTIN AGENT Among numerous Auxintines here, Ms. Bauer was the president of Women's Club, in Mrs. A. M. Bauer, informer representative in the office, and Ms. Bauer visited the office and inspected the building. RETURNS TO CALIFORNIA Mrs. Bessie Walls Murray, formerly of this city, has returned to her home with her mother and sister, Miss Elise and her recipients of courtesy cards acknowledging their liberal hospitality to her while visiting the old home. DALLASITES IN HOUSTON Among the visitors to the city this week are: Mrs. Edgar Ward, guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Fairchild, 19th-century missionary who are domiciled at the "Y" residence, and Medames Johnnie Sparks and Robert Sholers. The entire party paid The Informer a visit, being from "Big London" (Dallas). CENTENARIAN ENJOYS PROGRAMS OVER RADIO Baltimore, Md.—(ANP)—Had Mrs. Rebecca Greene died when she sheared the age of one hundred years, she also enjoyed the enjoyments of the age. 'Anyway, that is the opinion of the 112-year-old woman, who finds the music interesting,' Mrs. Greene reached her 112th birthday recently and in discussing it declared: 'If I didn't know when I knew about the radio. While I enjoy listening to the music coming out of the air, I think its mighty fine to be around to see it.' THE HOUSTON INFORMER. SATURDAY. JULY 7. 1928 DALLAS' ENTRY JUDGED QUEEN PYTHIAN REVUE DALLAS' ENTRY JUDGED QUEEN PYTHIAN REVUE To the Members of the Order of Knights of Pythias and Court of Calanthe of Texas: Because of the general dissatisfaction occasioned by the decision of the judiciary, the principal princess revive which took place in connection with our grand lodge held in Houston, Texas, during the month of June; and because of the fact that on the night of the contest, the decision was rendered, Sir A. S. Jackson informed us that one of the judges had failed to carry out the instructions given by the judges to the contestants, which instructions were the same as those that had been previously published in the press and re-stated by us to the audience before the content began; and believing that who enter these content should be a square judge to re-check the report of each of the judges who acted in the Houston princess revive contest and to re-verify the This committee met, and after carefully going over all of the papers and judges on the night of the content, found that all of the judges had followed instructions given them except that all of the judges were to be judged in the village, Texas. It was found that she did not mark each contestant on the night of the contest, and some were to be judged as required, except in the case of the Fort Worth contest, where some contestants on three points, two points and others on only one point. This was manifestly unfair, and the committee was to the disadvantage of all contestants, except the one from Ft. Worth Fortwaince, it was found that Mrs. Worth was the only one of the slips on which she made her returns, as was required and made her returns, after giving the matter careful consideration the committee unanimously voted to in view of the lack of follow instructions, that in justice to all, her marks should be thrown out, and the contest decided on the marks to be judged, and that the contestants had strictly followed instructions. In keeping with this decision, the committee checked that the contestants in the Houston princess revoiced as follows, and made the 1. Dallas 952 2. Ft. Worth 891 3. Houston 891 4. San Antonio 891 5. Waco 841 6. Austin 831 7. Colorado 831 8. Richmond 806 9. El Paso 791 10. temple 769 11. Brentwood 769 12. Sherman 691 13. Bryan 671 14. Port 671 15. Brenham 641 16. Georgetown 641 17. Longview 641 18. San Diego 671 19. Martin 631 In view of the findings of the committee, the decision rendered at Houston declaring the princess entered by Fort Worth winner of the contest is now rescinded, and Mrs. Blanche Barnes, the princess entered by Dallas, is hereby declared winner of the contest and the queen of the Texas Pythian jurisdiction for 1928. The princess revue of the Knights of Pythias of Texas is for the sole purpose of glorifying the woman of our race, and of showing to the world that they are as graceful and as beautiful as the women of any race on God's green earth. It is a permanent feature of our grand lodge and we intend to make it more interesting each year. The decision of the judges must be fair and above suspicion; and as far as it is in our power to make them so, we are determined to do. Therefore, we have decided that in future revues, the judges will be composed of disinterested persons, well qualified in every respect to render a fair and unbiased judgment in such a contest. They will be brought to the grand lodge at the expense of the grand lodge and every safeguard will be taken to see that each contestant is treated fairly. (Signed) W S. Willis, Grand Chancellor Mrs. F. K. McPherson, G. W. C. L. B. Kinchon, V. G. C. J. E. Smith, G. K. or R. & S. J. A. Jackson, Pres, of Direct's R. E. Revis, Director of Rerea EXCURSION TO GALVESTON EXCURSION O-GALVESTON School Excursion — Antoinon School Excursion — Antoinon School Excursion — Antoinon July, 1928 Interurban, Monday, July, 1928 Dance, $1.50, round trip, include. Dance, $1.50, round trip, include. Jammer's Park, where the Fun Feast will hold forth. All friends of education are requested to join in the outing of the above named school. Y. W. C. A. NOTES Monday evening, July 9, 8 p.m. mrs. T. Mrs. M. Fairchild will make a rep- tition to the social ball. All members and the social ball. All members and the invite to attend the Phyllis Wylie outdoor box party at Emanication outdoor box party at Emanication bunday evening, July 10. Best of bunday evening, July 10. Benefit of bunday evening, July 10. Benefit of the conference fund. Come and a morning in the Early Morning at the Taylor ranch. Bring eggs, bacon to be prepared in the wood. Wooden bench to be prepared in the wood. 11. Girl Reserves purchase and sell or the picture, "Whirldish of Youth," and Thursday, July 11 and 12, benefit your conference. Call Me. Your own experience tells more in a minute than a carload of claims do in a year. Try PURITAN MALT EXTRACT. You'll be surprised at the difference. THE MIRROR (Continued from Page One) bettering our condition and changing our racial status is our own job, and if we fall down on the task, it will be just too hard for our racial group. While the White Caucasian Association and its auxiliaries, the Sunday School and Baptist Young People's Union conventions and the Women's religious conventions, its sphere of activity is not necessarily limited to the annotational boundaries. It is one of the leading religious bodies of its kind in Texas, and numbers among its clergy and laymen some of the leading men and women of the state. Its field of activity has to do with missions and education and the symposiums of the Association. The moderator of the association, Rev. U. S. Keeling, of Bryan, is recipient of prizes and religious leaders of Texas; while the secretary is our own E. W. Miller, principal Booker T. W. Walker, the author authority and expert, who takes unusual delight in keeping figures in an intelligent To these religious workers and kingdom builders we extend a cordial greeting to them, that their sessions here will be both pleasant and profitable. The semi-annual report of the standing of clubs in Judge Lynch's kingdom, which he relied on every July and January by the records of records and research at Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., undoubted papers of the country before June and expired. While the Tuskegee resort records on the records of the months of 1929, giving Louisiana 2 Texas 2 and Missouri 1, no mention of the final day was staged in Mississippi, the final day of the first half of the split season. During five lynchings organized during the half-year period, were seven and all the victims were Southern Negroes! This startling sport on the part of the lynchman lynchocratic loop put Mississippi in a tie with Texas and Louisiana for place during the first half of the Since it seems to be against the policy of mississippi to trail any other state, the only lynching bee has already been staged during July, giving Mississippi might lead over Texas and Louisiana. Hereafter Dr. Moton and Dr. Tuskegue will do well to publish of Tuskeguee's December have expired before attempting to publish the standing of Dr. in Judge Lynch's (in)famous league. NEGRO'S FUTURE TO BE DEBATED HERE TONIGHT NEGRO'S FUTURE TO BE DEBATED HERE TONIGHT Has the Negro used good judgment in continuing to vote the Republican in the 2016 election so? Would an alliance with another party help us to get our rights? The Negro follow in the future? These and many other questions, especially concerning the principles that party help us to get our rights, will be answered Friday night, when the debating teams of Antioch Democrat John B. McCarthy discuss the question, "Resolved, That the Negro Should Cause Voting the Republican Ticket Weekly, represent the Negro in the House, support B. U. Lort, supports the affirmative, white Antioch, represented by B. U. McCarthy, and Mr. Denon, supports the negative. This being a presidential campaign year, much interest is expected on the candidates for the two parties. A number of local leaders of both parties, white and colored, are appointed, and a large crowd is expected. MASTERING YOUR TONGUE By Georgia Donglas Johnson Who has not suffered from garrisoning? You will have many things best left untouched. We often break our own necks by the words "I'll be back." However, talkativeness can be cunning. Resolve firstly by day that you will not reveal to a single soul what you think is important by it. If you fail, try again and even again. Persistence is bound to work. LOCAL CITIZENS LAUD INFORMER FOR EDITORIAL Houston, Texas, July 3, 1928. Editor Houston Informer: In your last editorial commenting on the write-up by the Chicago Defender, on the regrettable lynching, which took place in Houston prior to the shooting, in which you set forth the facts in the case, and scourged the editor of that "red sheet" for either jumping at conclusions or handling the truth carelessly, allow us to say that the community a great and good service, for which you ought to be commended and your constituents highly applaud. In this period of racial relationship, when the evils on both sides are stupid and criminal for an editor, in either group, to sell unsavory books, to break the school which believes that Negroes ought to be immune to insults, but believe that Negroes is no greater but better and better racial relationship than self-appointed journalistic radio host to sensitize humanity to presidence. For we believe that the Negro's development, his belief in the Negro's development, his pence on heaving the other fellow doing right. Keep up the good gram to live by. Help deliver us from this vain, conceived, verbose condition to be styled and heralded an our defender. He said, "He is our friend who helps us to be our best and to do our best," and we fail to understand community who is not honest enough to take into consideration the expediency of his journalistic effort. The efforts and results in the work were sufficient to warrant the praise they received for our civil officers. They should give heart to every genuine friend and to help them be exceedingly thankful that they had no part in a tragedy which involved him, himself, and the injustice of law and justice, and the injustice of city's noble record. In this word of praise, we call upon you and every citizen to lend their effort to broadcast prudence and good judgment in our reflections on man. Herein is a great field of service. Little men will not dare enter. You very truly, R. E. GROVEY, JNO. E. ROBINSON, CHAS. CROUCH, CHARLES WARD. 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CARD OF THANKS In the passing of Mrs. Bertha Sessums Fedford, our hearts are comforted in our darkest hours of sorrow, through your kind expressions of sympathy and tender words of conolation. Flowers shall forever live in our memory; kind words and hearts will be remembered. We are grateful to our many friends who helped to lighten our dark hours with beautiful flowers and to our many private cars—we thank you. We also wish to thank the ministers of our church, and we deep into our hearts. To Mr. Fairchild and his efficient assistants we are deeply grateful for courtesies. To the patrons and pupils of the E.E. Avenue School, we too, are grateful. (Signed) A. B. Fedford, husband; A. Sessums, father; Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Fedford, mother and sister; nephews and nieces. HAPPY HARRY "I'll tell the world that no man can have too many friends. I mean real, honest-to-goodness, dyed-in-the-wool, true blue friends. 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He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and is trained in this city about eight years. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha University and the Royal Vagabond Church. NEGRO STUDENTS OFFERED AWARDS BY GILPIN GROUP Cleveland, Ohio.—(ANP)—To give worthy Negro students an education in art the Gilpin Players of this city have decided to establish an annual performance from the proceeds of the performances given by the aggregation of the Gilpin Players will be awarded through a committee. The Gilpin Players playst of being the only organist in the continent's Little Playhouse which continues period of years and has given regular performances. The players were played periodically the last of which was "In Abraham's Boom," the program will be used as the first scholarship. udge de of real barley—all barley. best, strongest, best by every use Puritan spells purity and mighty unusual. sweetening is required in AMERICA'S GREATEST WEEKLY NEWSPAPER extolled their spirit which has brought into formation the contendant, the unarmed, the unspeakable, the speaker urged his hearses to stand ready to defend the honor and their lives in accord and with keeping the fundamentals of Christianity and the faith. Recites Early Struggles Referring to the Pilgrims, Mr. Ryan recited some of the early struggle, seemingly innumerable barriers, and imperable handicaps had only seemed insurmountable barriers, solidity and strength of the fraternity. "We must learn that brethren must be patient, pardon and paint word and flashing eyes, and put the bandit out of the cried, but it has a deeper and far more significant meaning than that; it behoves us to stay on brother's knees, and that in this capacity, it behoves us to stay on brother's knees, and that in this all conditions. The Holy Writ declares that greatness only comes when we can no fraternity or brotherhood where love does not abound and where always be assuming that hollow-thin attitude, for as the laureated Lincoln often said, of us, and so much in the bad in the best of us, that doesn't all of us to talk about the rest of us. Returning to the Declaration of Inclusion, we note that the more writing of a document could not liberate and free men, unless the document was maintained for maintaining their freedom and liberty. Reports Submitted Wednesday At the conclusion of the patriotic feature of the program, R. H. Grimes, the chief executive, his annual message, which recounted the achievements and accomplishments of Mr. Grimes stated that the order in a healthy condition, numerically superior, and strides were being made by the fraternity. Mr. Grimes also stated that the list of honors of 1898. The financial report of Sugarem order Recorder Reyna revealed that $376,611.07, with assets in excess of liabilities amounting to $189,397.24, were organized during the grand lodge year, and $189,397.24 were organized during the death rage. Other supreme officers to submit to the grand lodge were Richard C. Locker of Honore, Dr. H. E. Locker (treasurer), and Dr. H. E. Locker (miner and chief of staff of the Houston Negro Hospital, who directed the order to the order of merit. Deceased Members Honored The ark of condidence, honoring all members of the order who deed to the ark, was held Wednesday afternoon. A very appropriate program was rendered, and a video of the visit was staged Wednesday night, and this was one of the gala events of the annual conclave, being large and grand, of harmony and tripping the light fantastic toe. The ark was laid and their imitation Thursday afternoon, when they were afforded a chance to render a program, which was a very creditable Be Street Parade Friday The exhibition drill of the drill corps was held Thursday night, and the street parade will be staged today (Friday), 5:30 p.m. The line of march is as follows: Pilgrims' building to Louisiana, Louisiana to Congress, Congress to Milan, Milan to West Dallas, to starting point. The Pilgrims' brass band, directed by A. D. Ewell, will head the pro-cension. Other bands booked for the parade are Odd Fellows and U. B. F. The final event of the conclave will be the public installation Friday building. Committees Function Well The local committees functioned their duties, including the delegates and visitors. Hearing the general committee was R. E. Browne, chairman; H. H. Pour, secretary; Mrs. Roe L. Easter, assistant ce- ganist; R. J. Grigley and E. Aguirre, associate finance; The following biased committees: Arrangement, J. R. Grigley and E. Aguirre, associate finance; Agency finance, J. W. Foll; an- nouncement, Miss Lucille Erans; program, John Scott; appointee, Mrs. Blanche BLOUNT VISITING CHICAGO John L. Blount, teacher of mechanical drawing in the Booster T. Ward Lagoon High School, accompanied by his nephew, Percy and Rennell McDavid, left the city last week, overland, for Chicago. Mr. Blount enters the Armour Institute of Technology, while the McDavidis will enter school this fall. Pilgrims' Leaders [Name] B. H. GRIMES, Houston Supreme Worthy Shepherd M. B. M. B. JAMES D. RYAN, Houston Supreme Worthy Recorder RICHARD G. LOCKETT, Houston Supreme Worthy Locker [Name] DR. H. E. LEE, Houston Supreme Medical Examiner THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 Improved Uniform International SundaySchool Lesson (By NRY in EITWATER U.S.A. Moody's Institute of Chicago.1 (1928, Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 8 SAUL AND STEPHEN **LESSON TEXT-Acta** 22.3.14.193 BICLESIS 84.13.14.18-19 He will believe in death and I will give them a life PRIMARY TOPIC* Topic-He will believe in death and I will give them a life PRIMARY TOPIC* Topic-He will believe in death and I will give them a life TOPIC-How to Love Saint Perseus and Others TOPIC-How to Love Saint Perseus and Others TOPIC-How to Love Saint Perseus and Others 1. **Saint's Training** (22.3, 4; 25.4, 5-11) 1. Taught to love his own nation (v. 5) he declared, a new 'Jew' was 'Saint' were the nationalists of their day being a strict Pharisee he was there were the nationalists of their day being a strict Pharisee he was there were the nationalists of their day being a strict Pharisee he was there 2. Taught to love gods (v. 3) 3. Taught to love gods (v. 3) 4. Taught to love gods (v. 3) The mother of the law of the fathers' Love for the Bible is a valuable asset in Life. To be devotee of love and life, to be devoted to the life of one's ocean without chart or compass He was zeen讼ions of God (v. 3) His heart and soul went out toward God with great enthusiasm. The mother of the law is 'to boll'. It means a passion for God and His work. It was zeen of God that made Saints of and plan H. Saul Hear the Voice of Jesus (Acts 22, 10, 3) H. Saul hows on to Dura- mus with authority to arrest and imp- rison Christ's disciples that he heard a voice from heaven saying, "The Lord is my shepherd, I will follow the sight of the living Christ that wrought the change in Saul. In his conciences humiliates he opposed Jeus for he regarded Him as an imp- risoner. He responded that he responded to his conscience, but he condemned for his attitude the importance of life for every man, but it needs to be regulated by God's Word. IV. Stephens' History (4, 15) V. Stephens' History (4, 15) the significance of Stephen's martyrdom, a authetic view should be obtained of his life. I. Chosen as a son (6, 1:17) He was one of the seven men appointed to look after the temporaries of the 2. Why Stephen was opposed (G3-15). In his work of charity he was accused of being a Holy Spirit wrought angel. These mighty deeds aroused the people. The following features characterized him as a holy spirit: (1) He was monse sense. (2) Grace. He had a beautiful character. (3) Power. He had the ability to do wonders and great works. (4) He was a perfective. The men who opposed him were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke. (5) He was arrested and brought him before the great council. Even here they could not silence him by argument, so they sent him to prison. V. Stephen's Martyrdom (7:54-100) Stephen made a magnificent defiance of the enemy by tracing the history of Israel from the call of Abraham to the crucification of Christ. His aim was to show that God did not want the temple to be a small part of God's plan. He did not speak against the temple, but showed that God did not want the temple to be a small part of God's plan. This concession he proved from Scripture (Isaiah 61:1, 2; Kings 8:57) in his conclusion he declared that the God of God was the Spirit. Now their stubbornness had reached its culmination in the betrayal, rejection and murder of the Son of God. His arguments were unanswerable. In this hour of trial God gave him a wonderful vision. He was permitted to be the Lord of the Temple, the glorified Lord of man standing at the right hand of God. VI. Saul Consenting Unto Stephen's Martyrdom The very ringered in this persecution was Saul. Stephen's death is described as falling asleep. Devout men buried him, making great images of him. Prayer More things are wrought by prayer than this word dreams of. —Tennyson The Bible is a Window The Bible is a window in this grit onword, through which we may look into eternity. —Timothy Delight. A Trustful Soul The praying life cannot be an anxious life. Patience in prayer media a trustful soul.-John Timothy St-oe Happiness Real happiness comes from within Outside things can also create it Happiness is a gift FIREMAN RISKS LIFE TO Los Angeles, CA—(ANP)—At the risk of his own life, William M. Dickson, a fireman of the city's crack colored company N.A.M., was injured by a fire at 420 S. San Pedro, and subdued a maniac who had run amuck with a fire brigade by Regional Manager Bordun and L. J. Scott, chief of the fire (Continued From Page One) the race's and the denomination's possession. President Wilson Speaks An informer report interviewed Rev. E. Arlington Wilson of Dallas, president of the convention and pastor of Attorney Perkins (the Island Baptist Church at Dallas when he was employed last year as Rev. Wilson's attorney in the many legal trials involving the convention), at the University of Texas, and was told that Judge Perkins' services as convention or personal attorney had been dispensed with that Macedonia church of Dallas had withdrawn the right hand of fellow members of the church that persons having any legal business with the convention should be apprised of the fact that Mr. Perkins no longer represents the body in any shaggy manner. "While the situation is serious, it also has its humorous side; but the pain to auction off Houston College has apparently had the effect of undermining force of this house-guest of Rev. E. L. Hari, who afforded to continue an internal fight when the very life of the house-haven from the Baptist World Alliance at Toronto, Canada, in order to hone some of the禹ized sale of Houston College." Federation--- (Continued from Page One) the Texas Commission on Interracial Cooperation, delivered a very intuitive and inspirational address; while music was furnished by the splendid singer, M. W. D. Sledge, directress, M. W. D. Sledge, directress, Formal Opening At Trinity The formal opening was held at Trinity Church, Monday night, with C. H. Christian of Austin, first vice-president, presiding. Welcome addresses were delivered by Rev. S. A. Pleasants pastor St. John Baptist Church (Dowling), Editor C. F. Richardson and Mrs. J. R. Grigsby, with Mrs. E. M. Fowler of Tyler, responding. The feature of this program was the annual address of President Johnson, which dealt with some of the achievements and aims of the organization, some of which are to secure better training, accommodations for the colored women of Texas, to obtain better pay for colored teachers in rural communities and smaller towns, and to firmly establish and maintain a training school for delinquent colored girls of Texas. At the conclusions of her address, Mrs. Johnson was the recipient of two lovely bouquets of flowers, one from the Dallas federation and the other from the state organization. Music was rendered by the male quartet and choir of St. John Baptist Church (Dowling), the latter under the direction of Mrs. Gertrude Brooks, with V. L. Pleasant directing the quartet. Some very interesting sessions were held during the meet here, which ended Thursday, the federation being the guest of the Nautilus Club at Prairie View State College, Friday. 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Moore pastor of First Baptist Church, began a revival last Sunday night and is expecting Rev. C. C. Harper to arrive Thursday to assist him. Rev. R. C. Rocker, pastor of Wesley Chapel C. M. E. church, is in the second week of his revival. Mrs. Y. Nix, on the talented soprano, was river many compliments last Sunday when she sang a number of spirituals; both white and colored praised her highly. Mrs. Nixon is pinnist at the Sixth Avenue Baptist church. Miss L. M. Hardee is at home again after a visit of several weeks in San Antonio. Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Davis, Des Moines, La., motored here to see their aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Applewhite, who was at the first church. Mr. Thomas, Pelham, spent the weekend with Miss W. D. Dellums. Mrs. Annie Brooks died June 30 and was buried July 2, at Blooming Grove. Mr. Fair died June 30, and was buried July 1, at Powell. R. E. Stewart and Son had charge of both funerals. Mrs. Amy Bluitt, aged 72, died Monday night. July 2. She had lived here the past six years with a daughter, Mrs. Wilfrid, a son of Flore. Mrs. Wilfrid leaves seven children, seventeen grand children and four great grandchildren. The Klover Leaf Klub met with Mrs. S. Burnett in a social meeting. Covers were HOSPITAL DRIVE NETTED RESULTS; 3RD WARD LEADS The recent campaign conducted here to secure membership for the Houston Negro Hospital, which came to an official termination July 1, met with more than usual success, and some of the divisional commanders and workers deserve special mention for the part they played in this drive. The best work was done by the Third Ward division, Mrs. R. T. Andrews, commander, which easily led the field; the Fourth Ward group, with Miss Virginia B. Miller, ranking second, and Fifth Ward team, Mrs. P. C. Colvin, commander, finishing third. Several hundred colored homes were visited during the effort and many new memberships added to the hospital, and the directors are well pleased with results, and at the same time wish to thank all the workers who assisted in the drive. laid for sixteen ladies. Mrs. Artope had the high score; Mrs. Harris won the "booby," and Mrs. Bunn had the high score for the guest prize. The club meets with Miss Cora Harris next week. PAGE SIX—FIRST IN COMPLETENESS Mississippi Adventures (By ROGER DIDIER) (Continued From Last Issue) How do the races get along in Mississippi? Answers to that question are difficult to determine to the differences in the background and points of view of the observers might radically diverge, and economic phenomena, the interpretations of these incidents by two observers might radically diverge and the observers would appear bad to another. For example, I listened, a few weeks ago, to a minister interpreter an experience which occurred in a smoky compartment of the coach, after the minister had entered the smoking compartment of the coach, after the minister he was a Negro, and the conductor busy in there checking on tickets on the coach, only two seats in the smoking compartment. Now this minister is sure he had entered the compartment because he conductor in a buffe that he conducted to be in there with a Negro. It has not occurred to the minister that because he thought he was taking up too much of the compartment in the North. In Mississippi I entered one of those "jim-crow" smoking compartments, where both the news butcher and the chef were seated with the same dutty seat with the news butcher, smoked cigarettes with him and talked at the news butcher and peared to hope that he would have a cigarette with him. My experience was indicative of a certain friendliness and cordiality between members of the two races in the compartment. There is no question in anybody's mind about the distinct improvement in education of many Negroes. Race relations in the South to demand that much larger extent than is suspect interesting to recall in this connection that the hackers of the Cotton States, 1865, were facing financial failure until it was suggested that someone exposition the exposition. What these hackers did was to invite the immortal Dr. Booker T. Washington to make a speech marked the beginning of a new era of growth for Washington white folks' exposition. Now, ashes, white Southerners are making an effort along the line in the face of economic crisis. Mississippi will offer many theories to contour our pet theories of And it seems that, even among Mississippi, there is a difference in point of view let us consider a different industrial and Industrial Institute, at the Southern Christian Institute, and at At Utica, from three to five hundred students are cared for for thirty teachers. These two whites are women, one elderly, the other in her early twenties. These two women, with no other white man or woman about. When they have occluded the room, with no other white man or woman about. When they have occluded the room, with no other white man or woman about. At the school, they mingle freely with them at the same table in the same dining room where teachers and about this, although it is clearly two white women living alone and mingling, socializing and otherwise interacting. Forty miles from Utica there is the Southern Christian Institute where he has been in this beautiful spot since thirty-three years, he and his wife, a graduate student, have about Negroes and whites. His ideas of others doing the same work ideas of them to Nerwees and whites and though they do not exist at Southern Christian Institute, exist in classrooms. There is a separate school to the school, no matter how distinguished, are brought from the rear under the school, refused to eat under the school, refused to eat and it is a subject of wide discussion among under the throughout the school, sharp lines drawn by Lehman are necessary, especially in view of the arrangement all around him. Principal of Tongue College, principal of distinction there. White and colored teachers eat together Holmes and warm hospitality and spirit of fairness. The greatest friend at the school. William Holtzclaw is principal at Whitehill, a college in Lehman. Holtzclaw, in their program of no distinctions, are doing what is the norm, man, just as honest, who says that if he had his life to live all over the world, work, employs irksome distinctions between the races, which are a source of racism, does Lehman represent the spirit of Mississippi? Who kno'wa? Holtzclaw and Holmes prove, however, that race is not a source of racial distinction such as that of Lehman. Mississippi communities are small. In most of them everybody knows everybody, you know everybody, the community, that will know; if you don't mean anything, that will be known also. Your treatment of people about you, about known about you. If there are two buildings in a town and your account of either to respect you, TODAY'S RECIPE BY BETTY BARCLAY SUMMER Fruit CUP 1 cup white grape 1 cup orange sections 1 cup pineapple dice 1 cup pineapple juice 1 cup pineapple syrup Sugar Fresh grains salt Remove skins and seeds from white grape and membrane from orange sections. Mix in pineapple juice or pineapple syrup or fresh pineapple juice; salt and sugar to sweeten. Put in a bowl and stir occasionally until juice begins to freeze. Serve in champagne glaze or ice cream. Make 8 small or 6 large servings. HOME-MADE CAKE FLOUR To use ordinary flour in a cake recipe, from each cup of sifted flour remove 2 tablespoons of flour and put in a bowl with 2 cups of corn starch; tilt twice. **STEAMED CHEESE SOUFFLE** 2 tbps, butter 3 tbps, flour 1 cup milk 1 cup flour Speck Cayenne 1 cup grated cheese 2 egg yolks Make cream sauce of first five ingredients. Add cheese, remove from add, yelks, cut and fold in the cream sauce. Put in to the well-battered top of a double-boiler, cover, and cook at a low temperature until firm. **NUT AND DATE BREAD** 2 cups flour 11 cups graham flour 1 tsp, salt 4 tps, baking powder Mix and sift together dry ingredients, add milk, butter, dates and pine nuts in a well-battered bread or load-cake pan. Let stand for 20 minutes. Bake in a moderate oven 45 minutes. FILLETS OF HADDOCK, LEMON SAUCE 1 sand haddock 1 tablespoons butter 1 cup water 2 tablespoons lemon juice 2 slices onion 1 teaspoon flour 1 cup cream 1 egg yolk Salt Pepper Skin and bone the haddock, and put in buttered pan; cover with three layers of parchment paper around the water, to which has been added the lemon juice and onion. Melt two tablespoons butter, add the flour, and when smooth, the liquor from the pan, and stir it until it bells. Melt two tablespoons butter, and stir into the sauce, just before serving. Season with salt and pepper. Mix in grindles with parsley and lemon. CAMINO FRUIT PUNCH 1 cup lemon juice 1 cup orange juice 1 cup sugar syrup 1 cup syrup 2 cups ice-water using the syrup drained in a mug strain over a piece of ice. Serve in high, narrow tumblers which have a quickly into lemon juice and then in course sugar. Place a small slice of canned pineapple on top and a sprig of lemon juice, where hollowed out, add a large cherry or strawberry, and serve. Will make 4 glasses, 12 punch glasses. cause both want your money. The colored men and women who are as careful as you are to do get the same treatment as do those who are not assets. It seemed to be that he was treated politely in most of the places. Clerks thank you for being and were just courted in making them they were to whites. "Sir was added to responses to ques Traveling hundreds of miles by automobile, I found that when you board a train, you are usually just aside like anybody else. Sometimes they would race with you, but you would pass their shanties and cabins, would wave at you, if they didn't return the greeting. If whites find themselves in a train from town, they will ask you if you want to ride. If you have trouble with your car, you will stop to get a ride. Of course, deep down under all this surface, you suppose we wait until next week to consider some of the circumstances which result in lynchings. WORLD WAR VETERAN WINS SUIT AGAINST L. & N. RY New Orleans, LA.—(ANP)—AanB. A. B. Chaters, former head of the New Orleans team, and an veteran, and one of the new Negro gates to the A. E. F. convention, Paris has been awarded damage of the Nassau Railroad. Mr. Chaters was traveling into Washington several days before coach in which he was riding fell, the glass from the shatter pane entered, and nearly destroying his eyesight. INJURED BY MOTORIST Louisville, Ky.—(ANP) Last Saturday while waiting at 10th and Chester for the traffic to pass, Elian knocked down by a truck, he was rushed to a physician's office in his face, and he was in his heck better, though confined at his home being also slightly insecure. THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 ILLINOIS MAID CROWNED QUEEN IN BEAUTY RACE New York City.—One of the most interesting of the gala occasions in Harlem was the presentation ceremony at the Alhambra Theatre, recently, when Marie Ferguson of N.Y. won the prize for "Queen of Beauty," following her selection as the "Nelson Girl" for 1922. Celestine Holt of Rochester, N.Y. winner of the second prize, was an enthusiastic ovation was accepted. The two beautiful girls who smiled their thanks and accepted their honors with petals were recorded by the Nelson beauty contest were selected from hundreds of beautiful girls from all parts of the country. The Nelson beauty graphs to the Nelson Manufacturing Company of Richmond, Va., manufacturers of Nelson's Hair Dressing. The prizes were selected from the New York News, who was introduced by Milton Godofor, manager of the Alhambra Theatre, presented the prizes to the two best winners. Marie Ferguson, first prize winner, while Celestine Holt presented a two week's contract to appear on the stage of the Alhambra Theatre, while Celestine Holt presented a $100 gift. Because of pressure of social engagements in the West, Marie Ferreira monally relinquished her right to the theatrical engagement and this honor was conferred upon the second prize winner. A cash prize of $50 has been sent to Luelie J. Phelpe of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, winner of the third prize. More than a hundred prize medals were awarded to prize winners in local units. The Nelson beauty contest has been one of the most successful efforts of the country. While it has its value and value to the race in the tremendous interest it has aroused in the part of better appearance, and the part that has been developed of personal charm. RURAL PASTORS WILL STUDY AT WILEY COLLEGE RURAL PASTORS WILL STUDY AT WILEY COLLEGE Marsall, Tex.—"Wiley welcomes the rural pastors school to be held at this institution July 2-12." These were the words in which President Bush called the pastors school, Morris, dean of the school of practical methods for town and rural communities, of the co-operation that may be expected from the entire Wiley summer school school for pastors a success. Wiley was the original school, but for apparently good reasons it was transferred to Austin. While the institution there did everything within its purposes of the movement, the governing body of the town and rural pastors school was transferred to Wiley, possibly because of the superior facilities and natural conditions of such an undertaking. Wiley is now in position to help push this religious education department firmly established on a systematic basis of the religious education worker. Wiley stands in a position to be of great help to the pastors analyzing their community problem. Every convenience will be furnished who come to this summer school program. The best faculty will be made available for teaching the prescribed courses: addition, the department of sociology, the department of school may be correlated for duty in providing lectures on the educational needs as a background for the application. Dr. R. G. Morris and his corps of teachers have been especially trained in this field and are prepared to give them useful information for their various needs. LEAVES CHURCH $5,000 Louisville, Ky.—(ANP) A very rious white city in recently leav- ing Kentucky, it is home to of a new Congregational Church at which Rev. E. G. Harris is the pastor. 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A DESCRIPTION OF INVESTMENTS AS DEFERring FROM WILD CAT SPECULATION FROM THE PEN OF A WILD CAT Wall Street, symbolic of the investment and speculative market of the country is emerging from what appears to be the final stage of a great metamorphosis. The press and the radio have endowed with an almost domesticated flavor, such words as federal reserve, redistrict rate, call money, convertible mortgage bonds, General Electric, General Motors, Curtis Airplane, brothers loans and a myriad of others. Ten years ago, the scientists who created the Internet, the man and the man of wealth. Today it appears as though every Tom, Dick and Harry in creation were "in the street," one way or another. Probably the most important factor which contributed to the present situation had its inception during our participation in the World War, at which time the enormous distribution of liberty bonds in small amounts took place. Thousands upon thousands of individuals of all creeds colors, races and occupations who had previously regarded a bond as some peculiarly interesting and valuable asset, gave their savings in "liberties." That was their first plunge into the cold waters of finance. From there on the swimming came naturally. They collected coupons which were regularly paid twice a year, possibly bought another bond, and as time went on, ventured away from government issues into railroad, industrial or public utility bonds, finally arriving at preferred and common stocks. The tendency of large industrial companies, such as the United Steel and American Telephone and Telegraph corporations, to educate and encourage their employees to purchase securities in the company which employs them. A number of small fortunes have accrued from their small beginning. Intensive campaigns have been waged by the electric power companies for the sale of their own bonds and stocks on what is termed the "Customer Ownership Plan." This plan, which in effect has eliminated a good deal of utility financing through Wall Street houses, has been used to finance the construction of new consumers of electric power and light, or gas and water, the opportunity to invest in and become part owners of the corporation supplying them. Suffice to say, then, that within the past decade important changes have taken place in the distribution of securities, and the investment demands of the wage carrier or man in moderate circumstances have changed simultaneously. The fact that the investment demands about the present situation—the purchasing of bonds and stocks by the butcher, the baker and the candle-stick maker*! Three reasons appear logical: Fear, lack of financial education and inertin. (In the reality, the first two are practically identical, for in nine cases out of ten, in this, as in every case, fear is based on ignorance.) Fear was caused by the repeated failure of the butcher to invest in the worthless oil, mining and other securities. In other words their first attempt to invest had ended in disaster—savings wiped out, confidence undermined. They had mistaken gambling for investing. Who had not been caught themselves in this manner, were cautioned by friends who had invested in the butcher. They had not unfortunate experiences and lack of simple, but essential information, led them to the unwarranted assumption that "stocks and bonds were the bank," and that Wall Street harbored a den of thieves. Inertin (perhaps not the most accurate) was the firm that started the growth of things. Most folks are conservatives at heart. They like to continue doing things as they and their forebears have done in the past. They are not the ones who admit the virtues of the new—perhaps nothing more than too much of a change from one to the other. Whatever money they accumulated in investment, they are not the custodian and perhaps life insurance. To these institutions they temporarily lost. The Negro can draw a simple analogy from this sketch of conditions of health. The surplus health is accumulating which seeks an outlet. He, too, suffers a surplus health of sufficient financial enlargement. He, too, has been unumerically taken care of by his own business, and being right on his right and left, in consequence of which, and being newer at gaining than his white brothers, his money has become extremely timid. It fears to be taken care of by his own business. Its product will one will question the right or wisdom of the Negro in building up own industries with his own money. However, by the judicious investment of the United States, of which he is just as an industry of the United States, of which he is just as any of the other varied states, a surplus fund of absolute health will be accumulated, our country grown, will go a long way towards putting the race on its own track. PUTTING SYSTEM INTO BUSINESS .. Trice already has the writer visited Louisville since the Hotel Allen has been open to the public. On the first visit it was but natural for one to go to the public table. On the second visit it was but natural for one to visit it, it was as natural that one with an inquiring mind should seek to know how the institution seems to function so smoothly as it does. Thereby hange the building on the other side of the home. Managers or pursuing some other commercial enterprise. Whether the Allen is having one of its few quiet periods of casual business, he is filled to capacity with convention visitors. If there is a dance room he resided on what not; the office organization remains calm, and charming little Mrs. Allen, who manages the place while her husband de-directs the meeting. The other was the other house. And the time is to change the place a day of parole officer's duty for the city, more about with no evidence of being perturbed. And there is a reassure. Behind every activity of the place is an unseen space. It is a pleasing something to behold—and it works. There is a blank form for every sort of information about the business. In those forms are we: Mimeographed sheets are provided for record-making purposes. When the business is in which stock is attached, the stock passing from the responsibility of one to the other is made. Another blank reports every activity of the clerk who is retiring from duty. Cash is paid. At the close of each meal those charged with handling dining room and kitchen make report of supplies used, on hand, and explanations for any unusual circumstances. Linen and laundry, clothes set for guests and a host of other services are in the same place. In fact, so thorough is this system that the writer of these lines asked for copies of the blank forms originated by L. W. Allen for the double purpose of submitting them to the National Association of Hotel Allen in process. The same process is the same as the other business. The evidence of good business on file in the Small Business Section of the Domestic Commerce Bureau for the benefit of any business men who may want to know fully understand their usefulness. Usefully, Mrs. Allen has given over to general benefit that which each year's year of careful study is not an experience to evolve. All of which proves the Allen are big people. Inquiry as to where and how they became so devoted to system disclosed the information that for a number of years they traveled for the Royal Banking Powder Company, one of the foremost business concerns of the country, and they were the sort of people who took advantage of their contact with big business and its principles. An abundance of native intelligence forbade their doing otherwise. Either of them would be an asset to the program of the National Negro Business League convention program, for they are smart people, both young enough to warrant their doing much more for Negro business than has been shown already, great as that is, for the THE HOUSTON INFORMER, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928 1. Michael Hoover's father, settling in Iowa, wrested a blacksmith shop from the soil as a business venture. 2. His animal friend for machinery asserted itself, and he guarded a blacksmith shop, and sold farm machinery. 4. Grandfather Mitchell, on his mother's side, was a polite farmer, who used to read as he rode horseback. 4. Moover's mother was a great reader and a self-minded critic of such literature as reached the farm. Crime Against God's and Man's Laws BY REV. PHILIP WHELLEIN Pastor Church of the Redeemer (write, Eastside, Community Church) Houston Chronicle: The occasion of this address is well known to you all. Before dawn, early Wednesday, kidnappers carried from his sick bed in the Jefferson Davis building, charged with slaying City Detective A. W. Davis, and hanged him to a post under a bridge six miles from the city on the Post Oak Road. The Negro was accused of daring demonstration of murdering a hawker in the discharge of his duty. But more dastardly and cowardly by far were these lurkers in the night, who took the murderer a hawker hands and murdered a sack man. It is not my intention to linger on the details of this case. The papers of Houston have done this thoroughly, and I honor the high-minded I am aware that some of our Northern friends have the idea that lynching is a practice to be found solely in the South, but that matter is that every state in the union has had one or more lynchings. New Hampshire, Vermont and Rhode Island. And some of the lynchings of the North have been of the most horrific. Unparalleled Brutality In July, 1919, a race war broke out in East St. Louis, just across the river in Illinois from St. Louis, Mo. "Then hell broke loose," said a writer in Public Opinion. "For the greater part of 36 hours Negroes were hunted through the streets like wild animals. A black skin became a death warrant. Man after man, with upraised hands, pleading for his life was surrounded by groups of men who were found to see him before, and knew nothing about him except that he was black, and, tosted to death... an aged Negro, tottering from weakness, was seized and hanged to a pole. Three million dollars worth of property was destroyed." A writer in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote, "I do not believe that M osle m fanaticism or Prussian frightfulness could perpetrate murders of a man who's a库尔III. The case which saw committed in daylight by citizens of the state of Abraham Lincoln." The casualties of the Illinois race riot were 38 persons killed, 537 injured, and 1000 rendered homeless. Oh, no, the Northern states as well as the Southern are sharers in the stigma of being part of a union which alone among the nations of the world tolerates and practices the frightful spectacle of lynching—sharred. The stigma not only has reason of being a part of the union of geography, a political, but a reason of actual guilt. Lychning is the direct blot on our union, not because of its inexpediency, but because of its inaction in so-called heathen India, China, Slovakia or Russian in warfare, Africa or not. Lychning is pointed at the community where such barbarity is persecuted, but the community is not the fundamental laws of God and man. First of all, it is all far removed from the realities of the West. It is atavism pure and simple - humans being returned to the faction. His natural bent for machinery asserted itself, and he opened a blacksmith shop, and sold farm machinery. 4. Hoover's mother was a great reader and a self-minded critic of such literature as reached the far ment fled* to british beasts and men denrived of their reason. Acouitted. Then Hanged In December, 1925, in the town of Clarkdale, Miss., a Negro who has been arrested for murder was put on trial. It is a case acquitted. It is a safe precaution that the man was innocent. Immediately upon his release, however, the mob and has happened in scores of cases. This represents the spirit of the mob and has happened in scores of cases. And yet there are those who condone this sort of thing. Lynching does not prevent the Negro from being deprived of the Negro; it only shows the depths of degradation to which he can desend, reaching as low a level as possible. The colored race. True superiority must be one of intellect, of understanding, of attainment, of tolerance and big Using Slylock's Words I can well imagine a member of that race using the words of Shylock in relation to his own people: "I am a Negro. Hath not a Negro hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions." Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tick us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? Oh, yes, the Negro is human; just as human as the white man, despite the color of his skin. But even if the Negro were on the level of an animal, as his slanderers maintain, that is no reason why he should be treated more severely than the white man. On the contrary, that is an argument for less severe punishment, for of him that hath, of him shall much be required, but of him that hath little of him little shall be required. The Negro, however, does not seek for more lenient treatment, he only asks that he be shown the same justice that is meted out to the white man. Honor of Womanhood That is all very well, somebody chimes in lyrically in an order to describe the lyrical lyrics of womanhood, and to protect them by the very horror of the example, Statistics, however, do not bear that our, our entire records of lyrical lyrics of women, are known victims were even accused of the violation of the honor of womanhood, something far different from proof. A historical accusation, later recounted, that a recent man to his death, a death by burning at the火柱, accompanied by burnout in public, Statistics tell us (and I am quoting from a pamphlet issued in the other prominent Missions管理局) that all the mob violence against the mob violence 202 more with murderous assault; 60 with rays and eight-two with attempted murder; 62 with insults to white women. Eight hundred and eight-two h. m a woman such trifling actions as throwing stones, turning state's evidence, being drunkenness, and being a 'bad woman'. Of course, even 18 per cent charged with the violation of the honor of our womanhood must need give us a reason to believe lyping is any more of a deterrent to this brutishness than the two swift carrying out of the law? In Brittany, the attacks are malattitudes hardly outnumber the whites, attacks by Negroes on white men, and there is practically no lyping. It might be well to hear what some of our Southern women say on the sub- What White Women Say Listen to what the women members of the Georgia State Committee have said: "I believe that no false appeal can be made to Southern manhood that had mob violence is necessary for the brutal practice of lynching and burning of human beings is an expression of human suffering." The methods are no protection to anything or anybody, but that they jeopardize the power and every security that we possess. I pass over the obvious fact that lynching is a crime against the state of Georgia. I believe that masterful charge of the grand jury by Judge Hamm, well-known Mississippi lawyer, is necessary. "If men may take the law in their own hands; if they may withhold the justice of the suspect or, even know them to be guilty of crimes; if they may themselves the right of revenge; if they may be guilty of the law, and of all lawful authority, and of all government. There will be no law of security for the rights of property; for there will be no rule of real property; for there will be no rule of security such a rule. The law of the mob and the rule of revenge will be the same scene of anarchy and violence; the mob will paralize every heart and render valueless every right; and a real scene of anarchy and violence will bloodybeated and death will be the inevitable and melancholy result." What Crime Against God And, finally, lynching is a crime against the God of Christianity. We believe that God is a God of justice and righteousness, and as such that He requires these attributes on the part of human beings. "What does the Lord require of thee but to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God?" Can we imagine, then, God's reaction to the injustice and inhumanity of lynching? Surely, it is something for which we all must answer some day at his final judgment seat. But God is more than a God of righteousness and justice; he is a God of love; he is the father of our Savior, Jesus Christ, he who bung on the cross that he might draw all men unto him, not just men of the white race, but men of every creed and race and nationality. And we are the followers of such a God. It is time after we are beginning to show that we are his followers. Let the ministers of churches that claim to be Christian now speak out; let their people not be silent. For here in the church's supreme challenge Let them make known to the world that their patience is exhausted, that they are going to root out from this country hence and for all this abomination of desolation, this foul blossom on the fairyland. The church can do it, if it will. It can arouse such a sentiment in this Southland that the officials responsible to the people will understand that they must enforce the law even may God have given them the law May God haken that day! FIRST IN INFLUENCE—PAGE SEVEN Oligar POLITICAL POWER DIS DISFRANCHISEMENT IN SOUTHERN CO garchy OWER DISTORTED BY HISEMENT OF BLACKS THERN COMMONWEALTHS POLITICAL POWER DISTORTED BY DISFRANCHISEMENT OF BLACKS IN SOUTHERN COMMONWEALTHS Los Angeles, Cal.-Disfairness the Negro in the Southern states has been a major tortition of political power in these United States that a small white oligarchy in the South is the dictor of the nation, declared Dr. W. E. R. DuBois, editor of the Crisis of the South, in a speech here which opened the 19th annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His points pointed out that the barring of Negro citizens from the polls in Southern states had trans- ferred political power into the hands of a small group of whites, as many as from 80 to 90 per cent of voters in far southern states refraining from participation in the polls. Among the states where this abstention from use of the ballot was most common in the following states and their percentage of non-voters: South Carolina, 9.9%; Louisiana, 88%; Texas, 82%; Arkansas, 79%; Alabama, 79%; Florida, Republican The consequence in political distortion, continued Dr. DuBois, was that whiteness it took 85,759 votes to represent a majority from California, and 91,788 from Ohio, citizens in Southern states envisioned more causes, ten times as much political power as citizens in the North, as follows: **South** **State** Votes per Rep. **State** Carolina 9,449 Mississippi 10,654 Georgia 12,894 Louisiana 15,733 Texas 22,973 Washington 29,100 Alabama 24,107 "The barring of Negroes from the land in the South" said Dr. DuBga, 67, who has been clique to mullify not simply the 14th and 14th amendments but the 19th, 20th and 21st. And, finally, it entirely vites the normal distribution of voting power "it accomplishes this not simply the disfranchising Negroes in the population." Granady's Slayer, Italian Gangster, Placed In Prison Chicago, Ill.—(ANP) John-Hyman an, alledged Italian gangster and poller worker, has been lodged in Chicago to death on primary election day. April 10, of Octavius Granady, a colorful member of the Jewish leader, the Jewish elder of the 20th Ward, for the post of Republican ward commissioner for whom a true bill was voted by the special grand jury which is investigating political crimes and crimes against the police. Night by Patrolman Henry Miles, a colored member of the Chicago police department, investigators who are operating in the direction of Sheridan A. Brusseaux, principal of the Keystone Nine. Five persons were located by Mr. Brusseaux who identified Armando a, a pursuit of a mile and a half through the streets. One of these was Eukilie Taylor, who was driving the car in which Grandpa was riding when the murder occurred Taylor was shot three times, but his Armondo is being held without bail and will be given a hearing on July 18. He will be appointed for a wholesale investigation of election crimes under the auspices of $150,000 was sought from the county to pay for the inquiry, but this was denied by certain members of the county by a public subscription. There were more than twenty bills charging to commit murder, and various other felonies, involving big politician, have been voted against. Senator Leonardo, against whom bonds totaling $75,000 were placed, started the start of the inquiry in getting witnesses to take Investigator Brusso special sum placed at his disposal for the protection of witnesses, of whom sought together nearly two hundred. Grandy's death might be said to have come from the flip of a coin. For C. Jones lived together at the home of C. Jones lived together with the four men observed the population of the 20th Ward until they learned that there was no evidence that Republican votes. These black votes they reasoned, gave to Morris Kline not believe Eller was giving the Negro a fair return for his support. They, therefore, determined to form an independent Republican organization. doubled and by reason of woman suffrage, the population ought to have increased by more than a matter of fact, the voting population has increased less than 50 per cent and the number of people in two million Negroes been diffrenchenced but more than two million Dr. DuBois quoted from an ad by the Democratic senator, a white politician of Wisconsin, who said that in Southern states the qualification to vote is not limited that government officials are "sometimes elected by less than ten per cent of the population of voters." At the event of a presidential continued Dr. D. Buehle "singular concern" Democrats can start out assuming the votes of Southern states with more than 407 electoral votes. They need to fight therefore the majority of the voters to have the majority of the votes on the other hand the Republicans out of account 142 electoral votes to have another 407 electoral votes they can have. But if this in the night of the Republicans, what can be said of any third party? It has no chance As sure as fate some day there is coming in the United States a political controversy with social and economic roots which is going to open suddenly the question as to what the south three times the political power of the West and the New England, with its disfranchised foreign workers, has more political voice than the West. The protest is not coming simply from Northerners or 'friends' of the Negro. It is even coming from the South itself. This is no mere question of parish or section or race. It is a vast and pressing problem of democracy and civilization. We must be a solid and decide-soon, what persons, what public opinion in the United States shall rule. Shall it be the public opinion of a small select group of persons of Nordic descent? Shall it be the public opinion of the rich controllers of capital? Shall it be the public opinion of all adult Americans except Negros. Not at all and Latins? Or shall we try to make it the public opinion of all intelligent adults? Whatever public opinion rules in the United States, it must rule freely and clearly without a system of rotten burroughs and without discrimination and cheating. The clearing up and settling of this great question is the vastest problem that faces America today and we must begin. It is not. Retail Merchants To Get Much Data At Business Meet New York City—(ANP)—One of the features of the meeting of the National Negro Business League, which will be held in New York City, is a discussion of the problems of "Belt Merchandising," according to an announcement made Tuesday by Alon L. Holsey, secretary. "Most of our merchants," said Mr. Holsey, "are engaged in the retail business of various sorts. To aid them in solving these problems, Dr. Robert R. Moton, president of the retail business, will speak at the meeting and to hold conferences with the merchants." One of the features of the meeting. One of the most progressive programs in the history of the organization is being presented to the business men who will invade this city to attend the meeting will find much to appreciate. Plans are being carried forward at a rapid clip and a successful and It is the purpose of the National Association of the New York meeting to present an enrollment of members since the establishment at the New York meeting and to the association a special membership is being conducted. Secretary Holley is being appointed at Tinkerquee Hall by membership of various cities through branches of various cities through membership of individuals and local organizations of various cities through membership desired will be furnished immediately." One of the active organizers at preliminary meetings was H. E. Cress. The three principal positions in the organization were those of president, Taylor, the young lawyer, Taylor, the young lawyer, was made president of the organization were left to Cress and Grammond, two decided to toss a coin to see if Grammond won, and Cress became president of the ward organization. Grammond won, and Cress became president with the formation of the Republican party. Cadillac Hall was established. It was not long however, before the organizers were unable to terrify them. Although of an apparently serious nature were made up the night before and the day of the The Houston Informer MEMBER NATIONAL YAHOO PRESS Published every Saturday by the Webster-Richardson Publishing Company, Inc. 409-411 Smith Street, Houston, Texas. Entered as second class matter May 28, 1919, at the post office at Houston, Texas, under the Act of Congress, March 3, 1879. C. F. RICHARDSON Editor-President R. H. WEBSTER General Manager-Treasurer ALSTON ATKINS Secretary CARTER W. WESLEY Auditor SUBSCRIPTION RATES (Cash in Advance): One Year, $2.00; 9 months, $1.50; 6 months, $1 single copy, $6 (No paper mailed for less than 6 months) TELEPHONES: Office, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. PRESTON 1243-7560 HOUSTON, TEXAS (SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1928) OUR POSITION STILL UNCHANGED It appears that the article in last week's Informer, captioned "Democrats Cage Negroes," rather incensed and infuriated one or two of the ebony-hued brothers who voluntarily submitted to this most pernicious and damnable species of jim-crowm and segregation in order to attend some of the sessions of the Democratic National Convention for "ferocious" and "caged blacks" has attempted to justify his acceptance of such arrangement by citing the fact that he has been in Houston and the South all his days; that he and every sensible Negro knows the Southern method of separating the white and colored races at such public affairs; that he does not care to be considered a "radical" and subject to be run out of town for objecting to "bull pen" contraption for the few races in the United States; that he is cruel and harbantic seating arrangement in order to get a glimpse at the convention activities—where they really were not wanted nor desired. When one beholds the puny, weak and footwearing attitude of so many of our would-be and so-called race leaders, he can readily discern why it is so difficult for Southern Negroes to get the type and character of consideration and recognition they are entitled to as American citizens! The woman we have seen and is not here contending that blacks and whites should have sat in the same section at the Democratic National Convention, for no self-respecting and rationally minded Negro desires to intrude or force himself upon white people; but this paper grants that, in keeping with Dixie's custom and policy, a special section should have been set aside for the blacks who were anxious to attend the convention, but there was no interest in the Negroes and the wire cage as if Negroes were so dangerous, violent and savage as to warrant and make imperative this type of enclosure. When it comes to railroad trains and common carriers, where the Negroes are compelled to endure the diabolical and despicable jim-crow arrangement and inferior accommodations, they pay the same fare as other races who get the best type of service, the acceptance of such jim-crowism and proscription, if one would want to be free from the restrictions but where it is merely a matter of pleasure and entertainment, The Informer reiterates that any Negro who voluntarily submits to this species of reprehensible jim-crowism, and then attempts to justify his actions, is either deficient in some of the finer and nobler attributes which constitute red-blooded men and races, or he is an elephantine hypocrite or a monumental prevaricator! The Negro who has met the endorsement and approval of all right-thinking, sensible and many Negroes, many of whom admitted that they attended only one session of the Democratic National Convention after observing and enduring the wired-off "bull pen" so magnanimously arranged by the local committees for the "convenience" and "protection" of the few "black Democrats" and colored spectators. The stage in their racial career when it is necessary to herd them into a wire cage in a public building like criminals and violently insane persons, then the race has reverted to a worse condition than before leaving the shores of Africa; and if our white people are so mean and prejudicial that they deem it proper and expedient to "cage" Negroes at such public meetings, then their vaunted Native civilization has been an utter failure and their boasted Christianity is nothing more than a hollow mockery and raucous noise. Finally, the Informer did not and is not registering any objection or complaint against a special section for the lew "black Democrats" and colored spectators at the recent Democratic national parley here, but this paper did and is voicing its strenuous objections to the heavy wire cage which enclosed the "Negro roost," giving it the appearance of a jail, insane asylum or bull pen. THERE IS ONE NEGRO IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, OR THE SOUTH, WHO CAN JUSTIFY AND ENDORSE URGE DUMBABLE AND DIABOLIC ARRANGEMENT. YOU PLEASE STEP FORTH AND PERMIT THE PUBLIC TO GAZE ON THE MOST ASININE AND PUSILLANIMOUS JACKASS EXTANT! SELLAH! DEMOCRAT AND MOBOCRAT? The Democratic National Convention, which convened in Houston last week and nominated Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York as presidential standard-bearer and Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas as vice-presidential candidate, truly lived up to the mantle, the Democrats chose two men of radically divergent views, though both are regarded as true representatives of their party! For president, the Democrats are offering a Catholic, a wet and a strong advocate of the nullification of the eighteenth amendment; while their vice-presidential candidate is a Protestant, dry water is the only substance they use in the tenth and fifteenth amendments to the American constitution. No sooner had the convention nominated him than Governor Smith wired the conclave that his views had not changed one whit on the prohibition question, and that he favored modification of the Vollead act. The Democratic presidential candidate will seek to modify or repeal one constitutional amendment which does not suit his fancy; in taking this position Mr. Smith is fair and honest, apparently, for he avers he will support the entire constitution as long as it is the written law of the republic. Not so with Senator Joe Robinson from our sister state, who halls from a state which believes that certain American citizens, because of creed, color or class, have no rights, either under the constitution or under the law, to be a dark day for this country, if the Democratic party could be returned to national power with this present ticket and the chief magistrate should pass away and the Arkansas become president! When the party leaders decided last winter to hold their quadrennial parley in Houston, The Informer took the position then in an editorial that it was a wise move on the part of the Smith party to take the initiative to make the emphasis feeling in this section, and then nominate their man in the most arid and Protestant section of the country. That prophecy came true on the first ballot, and Mr. Smith was nominated without the Southern states jumping on the band wagon, and with many of the Dixie Democrats in the predicament of the dead Irishman who did not believe in either hell or heaven, and whose friend laughingly remarked: "Poor Pat, there he lay dressed up and nowhere to go!" In order to give the Southern inner dose of political part and patriotism, overcome the Southern opposition and bitterness to the head of the national Democratic ticket, the party leaders selected, for the first time in more than 60 years, a Southerner for second place on the ticket; and while this supposed trick might keep the "solid South" solid (it does not require much effort or political bargaining to do this, as evidenced by the South blindly following the donkey party since 1860, without one candidate having any influence on the one who being held below the Mason and Dixon line prior to 1928). The Informer wonders what will be the reaction of Northern Democrats, particularly those of African descent, to a national ticket with a Southern mobocratic representative for vice-president! There must have been much rejoicing at Tammany Hall and the vatican when the Democrats nominated their presidential candidate here last week, and the Dixie mobocratic, nullificationists, and the right-wing, and the selection of the Arkansas solon for second place on their ticket. Contrasted with the Republican party, which is a party of performance and "points with pride" to its accomplishments, the Democratic party is a party of protest and "views with alarm" the achievements of the "grand old party." Furthermore, the Democratic party is a mongrel political organization, having within its ranks all types, forms and species of professed Democrat; and, because its main strength lies in the use of the right to vote, it devise ways and means to override, ignore and nullify the American constitution, the American people do not have much confidence in nor respect for the Democratic party when its comes to administering national affairs. No man should be placed on the presidential ticket of any political party, whether for president or vice-president, who does not believe in the free and full rights of all American citizens under the provisions of the constitution; and to elevate such a man to the second highest office within the gift of the American electorate, would prove calamitous and disastrous not only to the party, but to the perpetuation and permanency of American ideals and institutions. For presidential campaign slogans, the Informer submits these: "Hover—Harmony—Happiness!" and "Democrat and Mocator!" LYNCHING LEAGUE'S HECTIC RACE! Judging from recent outbreaks of mobocracy, savagery and barbarism in various Southern communities, it appears that Judge Lynch's League is in for a hectic race, and that the fight for the 1928 pennant will continue nip and tuck until the final day of the season. Surveying that Texas has already become one of the contenders for titular honors in the 1928 gonfalon chase of the lynchocratic loop, with two mobbing outrages already on the records for the present season—one at Center and the other in "Heavenly (?) Houston"—Mississippi's entry in the circuit became jealous of its reputation and prestige gained in this national pastime during the past years, and proceeded to outdo its Texas rival by staging a double lynching bee last week, and another humiliate outrage this week, thereby assuming the lead in this noilous organization. The state's efforts to prevent the lynchings South, its promoters, exponents, defenders and adherents contended that such an organization was necessary and imperative to protect white women (note the racial identity of the women to be thus protected by this species of savagery and humnish kultur) from the criminal attacks of "black, braly brures"; that such summary and mobocratic handling of the accused culprit (even though not been established) would save the complaining witness much easier. The police attitude on the proof of any effort has been made before legislatures of Southern states to have an anti-lynching measure passed, some of these Dixie defenders of Nordic womanhood have killed the proposed legislation, many of them arguing that they would willingly and unhesitatingly lead a mob to lych "any nigger" accused of an attack upon a white woman. The police attitude on the part of law-making and law-enforcing agencies and agents, and even of white citizens in most of the mobocratic communities and states? Just as no earthly force can control the raging and turbulent waters of some powerful streams when it reaches or passes the flood stage, just so it has been impossible to confine lynching to the flood stage, it must be done that of attack on womanhood. Furthermore, if attacks on womanhood are to be avenged and protected by mob-violence, why are white women to be thus protected from "black brutes"? Why not employ the same hellish and heathenish methods upon white men guilty of criminal outrages upon white women and white women to be protected and "honored" by such reversals to barbarism and cannibalism, why not include all women in the avenging and protecting program? Judge Lynch's League is not maintained merely to punish those guilty or accused of criminal outrages upon white women, but the reason for the express purpose of trying to frighten, terrify and intimidate women is consequently, we find mobs lynching blacks because said blacks are in a fight with white men, as was the recent case in Mississippi; or for shooting a white man in self-defense; or in protecting and safeguarding the honor and sacredness of his home; or for "sassing" some white man, or for any imaginary wrong or evil-doing; or for killing a woman in the community participate in these mobocratic orgies, with the result that a small part of the mob; and the officers putting forth no effort to stop the players in Judge Lynch's League by firing a few shots into the crowd. Most mobsters are cowards, and a few shots fired into the avengers, a party would send them to shelter faster than the speed made by St. Louis as Colonel Lindbergh made his trans-Atlantic flight! Unless this lynchocratic loop is outlawed by the several states and the national government, this country is going to witness some domestic and internecine disturbances which will cause every patriotic citizen to blush with shame; for no country or nation can survive part democratic, part mobocratic and part "hellocrit!" Mob-violence not only gnaws at the vitals of a democratic republic, but it undermines and overthrows the bulwarks and uproots the foundation on which a republican democracy is supposed to rest. More Lynch's League is a greater and more deadly menace to the life and peace of this country than alcoholic beverages, the national government spends millions annually in a welfare and futile effort to control the appetites of men through the force- OPINIONS Cimbee's Ramblings THE NEGRO AT KANSAS CITY ```markdown ``` BY KELLY MILLER, Howard University, Washington, D. C. There were fifty Negro delegates and ten alternates at the recent Renaissance Forum, a thread which the political fate are ready to clip. A goodly proportion came from Northern districts. Their interests were mainly segregated and racial. The dominant issues of prohibition and farm relief did not arouse their emotions, nor stir their enthusiasm. After the Negro representatives were shut into themselves by domiciliary segregation. The great Methodist Episcopal conference had met in the same fifty several weeks previous that state functioning Republican party now yearly state of the union. The Negro leadership, certainly not the day of Wright Cuney of the state, which states and as thrives more vicious of. Neither politics nor religion runs as deep as the color line in the purpose of the Nordic to set a social separatrix which shall open access to the North. The arithmetic. The basic question is what power he to alter or affect national elections, even under the fairness alike in education, religion, politics and social procedure, all of our bombardment does the Republic Rosevelt in his Presidency, adopted the political placing in the South. *trestechness of the "grand old party"* He is now holding on only by a tenuous thread which the scissors of fate are ready to clip. There is little likelihood that this power will be restored. The great Republican party is a practical body and, excepting the Roman Catholic Church, is the most efficient organization on earth. It has no sentiment that will stand in the way of efficiency. It desires to build up a functioning Republican party in every state of the nation. Nowhere has this yet been accomplished under Negro leadership, certainly not since the days of Wright Cuney of Texas. The party in such states as North Carolina, Virginia, Florida and Texas as thrives much more vigorously under white sponsorship. Negro leaders, for the most part, seem satisfied to traffic in delegates rather than build up strong local organizations which will induce every publician to vote in general as well as national elections, even under restrictions by revised constitutions. Theodore Roosevelt in his Progressive campaign, adopted the policy of placing in power in the Southern states the men who could best command the situation, regardless of race. But he found that they were mostly white men of local standing, courage and influence and wealth. The leader for the would-be Negro leader to hark back to the semi-timetainment of a by-gone age. In politics as elsewhere, it is a case of the survival of the fittest. Deer Gun: *Lar wreak dis oile town wun fall uv* *Lar wreak dis oile town wun fall uv* *wurz observ off ter de side lice.* Awl瑟 dem dat mat in dat hage bale kuwimchun hain. An sence fu is on dat unlück. Fu is im minded in dver ether dday hain. An sence u vtickt tiger gin in dat kuwimchun an. An dats sumpn' dai I hain. An dazzin callen' mwd hole wint holes full er tickt tiger dat hail. Cose dai u dew wint wint holes longe de ui u dew wint wint holes longe de ui outen it. Wun prunernt cinder elder mee he mi'n, dat lad canny wint he wint dwe wint dwe wint dwe wint he wint dwe wint dwe wint dwe wint wurz observ off ter de side lice.* Gun, dat I specked ther heer awl gun, dat I specked ther heer awl gun, dat I specked ther heer awl gun, dat I specked ther heer awl The Negro delegates did not seem to figure in any effective way in the general procedure of the convention. In the main, they were lined up on the winning side long in advance. The Afro-American has an instinct for picking the winning and getting on the right. The Negro against the government held its own racial caucus. It constituted only five per cent of the enrollment of the convention. The chief concern of the colored political leaders was to secure the insertion of a plank insisting upon the enforcement of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The colored troops fought nobly, but to no other. The Union was able to have these amendments bracketed with the eighteenth whose enforcement was especially stressed as a party policy. But true to the verbal traditions of the party some slight reference must needs be made to the Negro and his claims. Cerebus must have his sop. The insertion of the splinter of a plank on lyneing was only to a preliminary procedure, so to remind the race that the "grand old party" has not altogether forgotten the black ally who was formerly held in such high regard and esteem. The insertion will not be without indirect benefit. It serves to keep afresh in the mind of the American people the enormity of the evil of lyning. It is not believed that a single American will be derived thereby. It will certainly not be stressed as a campaign issue. The loss in the South is partially due by gains in the North. The North must delegate must needs speak with a party of minority in every state and must follow the fortune of party bounties. There is little or no latitude for raids. Dis bizness uv seggergashus aint never had much terrer fer me, Gus, kase I aint never wantid ter put myseY in getherins whare I node I wuzent wantid. I kinder fines it hard ter maik up my mine ter go ter places whare I wux evun vited by sum big fokes, jis kase I node dat I'd cum inter kuntack wid sum uv de lil fokes dat wood gaze at me wid sich kuntimp dat I'd feal lack crawl- in inter er hole an pullle de hole in hine me. I's bis in dis ele town ever sence it wuz er lil village, an I's hin in er wite church bout 2 times, an on dem 2 times I wuz vited by de big dogs in de church. But I aint lack sum fokes dat blains de cullud fokes fer axis dere wite frins ter dere meetings an savin de bes seets in de house fer em. EF de wite fokes doan no it, I does; dese cullud fokes what does dis vitin an so on, has got er pint ter karry in it. Wensiver yu see sum cullud indervidual runnin roun huntin up er big wite ordince, he's got sump'n up his sleave. He's out fer de jits, an dat in big mounts. An uv cose ef yu is out ter hole up er feller fer what he's got an doan feal lack Loddin him wid er gun, de next bes' thing ter do is ter put him up on de top she'l. And so, now we face the coming campaign with wives wide open and men with guns. We have a new set of reasons and arguments for racial support of Hoover and the Democrats, for the colon or Sunset and Grant will and away Negro votes as it did afterevolution. Extravagant prophecy of what will happen in the campaign to do for the Negro has been done to death in previous campaigns with wives who will be able to paint will be at that hate. Democracies for the Democrats and dread of South Carolina, will no longer frighten the simple. The Southern fire eaters are under Republican umbrella under Democratic umbrella. There are sufficient sound reasons to believe that he should, in this campaign, preface Republican to the Democratic party with a message that he is no longer than Smith. But the Ngo spelled well, and he was a good leader. The one which he has used for the past forty years has lost its spell. A colored delegate was assigned to make one of the four or five minutes of secretary Novayer. This he did credibly. I believe that this is the only instance when a Negro minister had to feed the seeding. The race undoubtedly impressed less influence upon the Kankan-like session since enfranchisement. We can hardly believe that in 1884, Hon. John L. Rynch was chosen teammate for the late Henry Lincoln Johnson had the fate of the convention in the hollow and unswerving attitude of this bold black leader that determined the tie between Roosevelt and Taft. He was the only one of luck for the ensuing eight years. What a swift descent from the poorest level of the days to the low level of this day! But its rer low down dury shalm, Gat, dat our fokes haint, git outen fokes for eer all wint fokes for fokes fer ever dtl day dwt want teril pull off. Ever time I heers wum inv our big nen tawkin best how we how we aisit yit got you so we klan stand on our ane fectes. Wy, Gus, Wan our dren down give down el bll list he an groom an heg Maw'Tm an his fokes ter dante fer dunc fie fishs. We how we aisit yit got you el bll list fokes what gis on er beggin fih ter dante fer er dinner fer de尔 wite fokes her Er down rdite dury slain. A FIGHTING NEGRO PAPER Down in Houston, Tex., there are two colored men, C. F. Richardson and G. H Webster, editor and secretary-treasurer, respectively of The Houston Informer, who are to be warmly commended on the stand they have taken for the fight against wrong in the Lone Star State. Floyd J. Calvin, special feature writer for for the Pittsburgh Courier, says of Richardson: “This is the man who for three years was a marked man by the Ku Klux Klan, but they never got him. Richardson told the Texas whites what he thought of them to their face. They beat him up but they didn't kill him. They couldn't even run him out of town. He stood his ground flat-footed right in Houston and talked back, and got away with it. Through his newspaper, The Houston Informer, he was one of the first men, white or colored, to attack the Klan. When the Klan was breaking up, a former Klansman, who was suing the order, testified that there were three plans by which they intended killing Richardson.” How in de wurl does we ever speck fer iny旱 other race ter hav iyn speck for us w'en we is allns got ours mits out. But there is a darker semblance of responsibility exhibited as a dominant force in the states. Walter Cohen, the little war hero here, was dethroned in 2012 by a former personally allowed to retain his seat as a delegate may save the regime, but out of a leading colored man without courtesy or consideration. Beret lost the committeemanship in Iowa, but even his victory, but even his success in the no assurance of permanence of the situation would have relegated him to the company he forfeited to the state. South Theil-whiteies are in the ascendency. In Virginia, North Carolina, and Texas, the voice of the Negro delegates used to be heard at the Texas, where the voice of the Negro politician has given up the ghost, with no hope of resurrection. I wush de w'ite fokes wud quintwik how dy hone de black tinkwik by how dy hone de black by sum black man dat mats his livin by wunkin de w'ite fokes. Jis his' weak er ole calth older dat elder my can my auspanular mullige, wun tellin me he how he灵卧仑 de w'ite fokes. I yunster think dat think der w'ite fokes. I yunster wun dat der w'ite dut, dat w'ite he wun dav de heuges hun, but dense yung hus can how dey tic ter wun on Mavns der dey ter wun on Mavns der enrytune yng net er leckees. There's spunk, determination and gift for you. And all in the hotbed of racial hatred and prejudice. De w'ite fokes zint never gwinter siddler us es nathin hat er set av beggers es long es we has ter beg em fer our chuches, our skools, our ole fokes hoams, our labor orgina shuns, our orfun hoams, an our lil dinners an suppers. Ef I wux er hig w'ite man, I'd run ever time I seed er black man cummin toards me wid his hat un'er his ahm an er lis' in his han'. I sumtimes wish dat sum er dem po' worked-on w'ite fokes cood be hid roun sumwhares an Leer sum er dese saim beggers tawkin bout "We's free an inderpindint. We's pawt an pawsil uv dis grate Ermerikin guvernint," dey'd lurn er lessun dat wood maik em set up an tuck notiss. This city needs a good live, wive- nake Negro newspaper. We have to make a very conservative esti- mate, and we must be able to lumbus, many of whom are in busi- ness and the professions and out of this vast number it does appear to me that there ought to be enough people to support it, to support a good colored paper. The race owes President Harding an unrecognized political debt of $100 million lost to the Negro. When Judge Johnson nominated the national committee by Lincoln Johnson, was not a single Negro representative in that august box, he nominated a chief justicehip. But when President Harding was to turn over to Negro control the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, the national committee, Cohen who, by abnegation, gave it to the Negro, brought about his unhershing. Such is political gratitude. But the outstanding fact remains, the Negro has not brought about his unhershing. We have no Negro newspaper in Columbus now with the exception of F. W. Oakfield, 223 N. Twenty-seventh Street, on the paper on a small scale, hoping to grow into a large metroropolitan newspaper. His sincerely hop that we will measure up to it, in time, will measure up to the Chicago Defender or the Pittsburgh Now, Gus, jis think, who wants ter be settin down side uv er begger, an sidderin him es yo' eknl? Dis race er mine nint never gwinter be abul ter git de speck uv uther races twell dey gits ter de pint whare dey kin be seY-specktin fokes, makin dere oan livin, an livin on what dey kin maik, an quit playin de duhbal gaim wid de w'ite fokes. Let's do himess wid dem jis lack ither peepul. Sell 'em er good day's work fer good day's pay. Quit sellin 'em awl de nues an gossip bout our felter culnd man fer his ale wore out close an unearned jits. Louisiana. The national committee ship in the long run is to be a producer of an art and an industry. But when he abnegated the land, he was to the very white man who has brought about his unhorsiness. Such a place among the other nations shall never be able to take our rightful place among the other nations standing fact remains, the Negro has been practically eliminated from ment of the Volstead act; while not one penny is appropriated or expended for protecting and safeguarding the life and liberty of American citizens from the ravages and outbursts of the hellish and heathenish huns who compose the teams in the lynchocratic I started out ter say, dat hak week de wite dumerkats had dis die ole wite dumerkats had dis die ole heer di week in big week, heer di week in big week, weller in our mids久 week, weller sitterern, Gus, de Pilgrams, de winn sitterern, de de stal, de de Baptis, de de nubam, an Ocle Climbes wahuw en ea esp, dewly wahuwen, Gal In the face of this widespread evil, the American Needs needs to wake up and take such actions as to counteract and nullify these howling and hungry mobs, and to safeguard and protect race's rights as stipulated in the organic laws of this republic.