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Establishment of a Bureau of Negro Work with a Negro executive secretary who will have complete charge of all interests and activities of Negro members of the Methodist Episcopal church, has been effected, according to information church extension of that denominacy the Board of Home Missions and reaching here today. The Rev. Mr. W. A. C. Hughes, D. D., formerly area secretary of New Orleans, has been elected to head the bureau. He will have supervision over all the Negro conferences of the church and interpret the peculiar problems and needs of his people to the board. This bureau will have equal standing in the organization with the bureau of city work, the bureau of rural work, the bureau of foreign-speaking work, and other bureaus of the board of home missions and church extension.
Secretary Hughes received many votes at the Methodist general conference at Des Moines, Iowa, May last, when two Negro bishops were elected to full rank in the Methodist Episcopal church. The importance of his present position may be understood when it is pointed out that during 1920 the program for Negro activities of the Methodist Board of Home Missions and
Washington, March 18.—Publication of the names of about 160,000 draft evaders will be started by the War Department about April 1. The number of cases reported originally to Major General Crowder, when he was serving as provost marshal general in Chicago was 489,003. By various processes of examinations and checking, intended to do no one an injustice the list has now been scaled down to about 100,000.
Most of the lists are now in the hands of the local draft boards of the districts throughout the country in which the selective draft machinery was in operation during the war. The war and navy departments have completed their re-checks of the lists, and further re-checking is in progress by the draft boards. Having exhausted every means at its disposal for correcting the lists the War department feels that after the local boards have made their reports therein nothing more that can be done except to make the list public in response to demands from various parts of the country.
"In order to assist all peace officers and others in apprehending deserters, we are now authorized to state officials to postmasters for posting on the post office bulletin boards; to postmasters for its field agents; to detect agents; the American Legion, and other patriotic societies in the state; and to include reimbursement for the amount actually expended, but not to include the cost of civil or officer citations for the apprehension and delivery to military control of deserters from the select
the reason for this modification of regulations relating to payment of loans for delivery of deserts is lack of funds, however, it is the intention of the secretary of war, however, to the convenience in order to appropriate sufficient funds to enable the department to pay the full reward of $50 for the apprehension and delivery of draft dodgers.
NEGRO BALKS TWO ROBBERS
HOLDING UP LOAN BANK
Hammond, Ind., March 21—William Cole, a Negro prevented the escape of two robbers who had held up loan bank today and taken thousands in money and jewel. He saw the robbers at work and called two policemen. He said they were John M. Browne and they were John M. Browne. 103 West One Hundred and Thirteenth street, Roseland and Earl Webb, 1414 Stevens avenue, Roseland.
If you have paid your subscription and did not see your name in the Honor Roll call Walnut 899 and ask for Mr.
Church Extension involved the expenditure of $124,587 on 138 building projects in the south and $86,640 for maintenance in assisting 500 preachers and social workers; and in the north $96,733 was spent on twenty-six building projects and $47,875 in assisting workers. The total expenditures aggregated $355,915. In the rural program three summer schools of rural methods fro Negro pastors with an attendance of 300 ministers, were held. Agriculture was taught, as a means of promoting more scientific farming among the Negroes of rural communities.
Dr. Hughes is a native of Maryland, whose father and grandfather were ministers, and was educated at Morgan college and Taylor university. He has been a prominent pastor in the Washington conference, serving as district superintendent of t hatdistrict and as field secretary of the Board of Home Missions and church extension. He has been twice elected to sit as a member of the quadrennial general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. His program for his new place includes all manner of aid for the Negro race gained from his study of its problems for many years.
Population of Omaha is 151,601
Washington, D. C., March 16.—The Negro population of Omaha, Neb., in 1920, was 10,514, an increase of 5,888, or 133 per cent, the census bureau announced today. The white population was 181,047, an increase of 61,467, or 51.4 per cent, and all others 240.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 29.—The Negro population of Columbus, O., in 1920, was announced today by the census bureau as 22,091, an increase of 9,352, or 73.4 per cent. The white population was 214,809, an increase of 46,100, or 27.3 per cent, and all others 131.
The white population of Alabama in 1920 was 1,447,032, and the Negro population 900,652. The white population showed an increase of 118,200, or 17.8 per cent, and the Negro population decreased 7,630, or 8 per cent.
White House Grounds Open To The Public
"Normalcy" was not long delayed at the White House within a few hours after President Harding took up his residence there he announced that the public would be welcome within the White House grounds and ordered the gates opened wide.
opponent since the declaration of war the White House gates have been closed. During the war the executive mansion was guarded continually by armed soldiers.
tunely by the President's orders will allow the public to inspect the gurunds and during certain hours, to enter certain rooms on the first and second floor of the White House, as in the old days of normalcy.
One hundred books of stenographic notes dictated by President Wilson were taken to Chicago by Charles Swen, who was President Wilson's private stenographer for the last nine years. They contain nearly 10,000,000 words. This material will be used by Mr. Swen in writing a book.
Easter is the festival of life. As the desire for life is the strongest human passion both for this world and the world beyond, so Easter is the climax of the Christian year. Celebrated early in Christian history, it grew in popularity until it surpassed in interest every other of the holy days. The joy-bells rang on Christmas because the Holy Child was born, but Christmas was only the day of promise, not of fulfillment. Lent brought the dark days, when the promise of life went into eclipse; and at its close the dirge displaced the hymn of joy, as darkness shrouded the cross and the neighboring city.
Suppose That Had Been the Last.
If the day of crucifixion had been the end of the career of Jesus, no matter how beautiful his life had been, the Christian faith would not have made its way the length of the Mediterranean, penetrated the forest of the north, and passed in triumphal progress around the world. Mankind must have a religion of hope. The Italian peasants in their paganism kindled fires on the hilltops to the sun, when, in spring the triumph over the gloom of winter. The German forest folk had their festivals of joy and laughter, when the Easter sun broke the fetters of the cold. Not for them could be a religion that had no resurrection hope.
It is because the story of Jesus did not end at Calvary, that it has attracted pagans. It is because Jesus rose triumphant over death, that the hope of life eternal rekindles in the human heart, and steadies the faith that sometimes staggers in the gloom of experience. The Christian gospel found its way to the heart of the Italian, and he kindled his fires in honor of the living Christ instead of to the distant sun. It entered the heart of the children of the North, and took the name of the German festival for its own. When the season of resurrection came to the earth, there would be the reminder that personality can no more perish than the life that it husbanded in seed and root can fail to spring into bloom when the vernal sun calls it to the light.
We must not lose the significance of the Easter festival. It marks the triumph of life over death. These are the two great mysteries that baffle our profoundest thought; but we cannot escape them. They enter into the experience of every human being. Always death soon comes home in every eve. Personal affection touches every heart, he gives home to home in every eve. Class strife and national conflicts he gives home to home in every eve. Class strife and national conflicts he gives home to home in every eve. Civilization has reeled under the blows after century, as it reeling now. But as often as comes the Easter dawn, there comes a renewal of hope and a regridding of the heart for better days ahead.
President Harding Appoints Howard University Trustee
Washington, D. C., March 21. President Warren G. Harding has just appointed two new commissioners of the District of Columbia, namely, Hon. Cuno H. Rudolph, president of the Second National bank, Washington D. C., and Captain James F. Oyster. Both have served as commissioners before. Mr. Rudolph is a trustee of Howard University, being a valued member of the Finance and Executive Committees. For many years he has been deeply interested in the work of this important institution for the education of colored youth at the national capital. Serving as a member of the Executive and Finance Committees, he has been of very great help to the university administration in the management of its financial affairs. Officers, teachers, students, and members of the alumni of the Howard University very greatly appreciate the high recognition which has come to a member of its Board of Trustees.
French Legislators Fight
Paris, March 15.—Two Negroes who happened to be members of the French parliament entertained the crowds on their way to the chamber this afternoon with a brisk fist fight.
In the recent elections Senator M. Emery, of Martinique, were on opposite sides and said harsh things of each other. They met on the sidewalk in front of the Palais Bourbon at about 3 o'clock. Engaging in a lively conversation, they gathered a group about them which rapidly grew when the senator and deputy went at each other with savage blows.
Three policemen pulled them apart and they went on their way separately to hear Premier Briand discuss Gedman reparations and other affairs of weight.
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Easter is the festival of life, and the world beyond, so Easter
N.A.A.C.P. Seeks Pardon of Condemned Soldiers
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
New York, N. Y., March 21.—The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People recently announced that a petition was being circulated to which it was hoped to obtain 100,000 signatures, asking President Harding to pardon sixty-one members of the 24th infantry who are still in prison for their connection with the Houston riot of 1917.
The petition which will be backed up by country-wide massmeetings of N. A. A. C. P. branches, one of which was held in Newark, N. J., on Sunday, March 13th, recites that thirteen members of the Twenty-fourth infantry were hanged after the riot without right of appeal to the secretary of war or to the president and that local animosity had been shown the troopers before the riot occurred.
Many of the sixty-one men in prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, are serving life terms and the remainder for the most part long sentences. It is claimed by these men that they were convicted in some cases without pride of their directly being involved in the Houston disorders.
Marcus Garvey
Makes Tour of
The West
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
New York, March 19.—"Will Marcus Garvey get back into the United States?" is a question that has been asked in many quarters here. Garvey is now making a tour of the West Indies, and officials of his organization states that he is expected to return to this country in April. However, there is a report which has not been substantiated, that government officials will refuse to permit Mr. Garvey to enter the country on the grounds that he is an undesirable alien.
Water Valley, Miss., March 19.—Adolphus Ross, a young Negro who was charged with attacking an aged white woman yesterday, was taken from the jail here by a mob early today and hanged to a tree. His body was then riddled with bullets.
By Rev. G. W. Robinson, D. 9.
As the desire for life is the strongest of the climax of the Christian year. Celebs possessed in interest every other of the hats was born, but Christmas was only the one the promise of life went into eclipse; ousted the cross and the neighboring city.
Suppose That Had Been the Last.
I been the end of the career of Jesus, not have made its way the length of the triumphal progress around the world, their paganism kindled fires on the altar.
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ush Ne Negro Given Third Degree In Cemetery
Negro Ac third Cemetery Party of Mississippi Alleged Slaye 7. At mid-
Eric, Pa., March 17.—At midnight, during a severe thunder strom, Eddie Williams and Fred Maxwell, Negros, were taken to a vault in the cemetery here and made to stand over the body of George Mauerm, night watchman, whom they are charged with having beaten to death.
They were put through a hideous third degree by District Attorney Arthur C. B. Lass in a effort to get questioned. They continually denied knowing of the slaying. After the third degree William kissed the dead man's body, but the Negroes were held on a first degree murder charge.
The body was exhumed for the ceremony. With only flashes of lightning for light the men were confessions from them, Lass admitted today.
Manner was clubbed to death in a factory a week ago by robbers who took a few dollars from the time-keeper's desk. The slayers pitched the body through the glass of the sixth story window to the ground.
Segregation Bill Meets Defeat
(By The Associated Negro Press.) Seattle, Washington, March 17. —A bill providing against the inter-marriage between blacks and whites has been defeated in the state legislature. Through the efforts of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. the measure was indefinitely tabled.
Negro Startles The City
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Comaniche, Texas, March 19.—This town was t'urned topsy thirvv last Tuesday when a Negro stepped off of an inbound train and announced that he would have to stay in our midst until he could make enough money to pay his fare to Teague, a place about 100 miles south of here. He is the first Negro to be seen in this burg since 1887. He was a genuine curiosity to many of Comaniche's citizens.
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Charles Gilphin In Washington
Washington, D. C.—The Washington public is being stirred to great enthusiasm over the announcement that Charles S. Gilpin, whose marvelous acting in Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones." at "The Princess Theatre," New York City, has made him the sensation of the season, will appear in the stellar role in that play in Washington at the Belasco Theater, Monday, March 28, supported by the well known Howard University Players. Mr. Gilpin's triumphal appearance at the Drama League banquet at the Hotel McAlpin as one of the four greatest actors in America, marked one of the greatest achievements ever won by a Negro. His unprecedented rise in a few weeks to a foremost place on the American Stage marks an epoch in the progress of the Colored people and should be an inspiration to the youth of the race.
The play will be staked at the Belasco Theater, one of Washington's finest show places, Easter Monday March 28, at eleven o'clock. Additional performances will be given at Miner Normal School, April 1 and 2, and will feature a new star as The Emperor Jones in the person of George Williams, a Howard University student.
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Louisville, Ky., March 16.—The Louisville Y, W. C. A. held its annual meeting last week. Elaborate provisions were made for work among the colored women. Delegates from fifty-eight association branches were present at the sessions.
Sumrail, Miss., March 16.—Three white superintendents were fined $10,750.00 by a jury here last week for maltreatment Negro laborers. This is the first instance in the history of the state where white men have been punished for this character of offense.
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Washington, March 12.—President C. B. D. King, of the Republic of Liberia, has reached Washington from New York City. He was met at Union Station by a deputation of leading colored citizens. President King was accompanied to Washington by F. E. R. Johnston, of the Liberian Supreme Court; John Lewis Morris, former Liberian secretary of the treasury, and Gibriel L. Dennis, secretary of the commission. President King is here to work out with the state department final details in connection with the credit established by the American government for Liberia in 1918.
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RAID JAIL AND HAXG NEGRO
Methodist’s Bureau To Push Negro Activities
Dr. W.A.C. Hughes, Progressive
Negro Minister, Is Chief.
Establishment of a Bureau of Ne-
gro Work with a Negro executive
secretary who will have complete
charge of all interests and activities
of Negro members of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has been effected
tion, according to information
church extension of that denomina-
by the Board of Home Missions and
reaching here today. The Rev. Mr.
‘W. A. C. Hughes, D, D., formerly
area secretary of New Orleans, has
been elected to head the bureau. He
will have supervision over all the
Negro conferences of the church
and interpret the peculiar problems
and needs of his people to the
board. This bureau will have equal
standing in the organization with
the bureau of city work, the bureau
of rural work, the bureau of for-
eign-speaking work, and other
bureaus of the board of home mis-
sions and church extension.
Secretary Hughes received many
votes at the Methodist general con-
ferenee at Des aoe Pa May
last, when two Negro bishops were
elected to full rank ia the Matho-
dist Episcopal church. The import-
ance of his present position may be
understood when it is pointed out
that during 1920 the program for
Negro activities of the Methodist
Board of Home Missions and
pn eae eeeea
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To Publish Names
_ OF Draft Evaders
, Washington, March 18.—F ublica-
tion of the names of about 160,000
draft evaders will be started by the
‘War Department about April 1.
‘The number of eases reported orig-
inally to Major General Crowder,
when he was serving as provost
marshal general in Chicago was
489,003. By various processes of
examinations and checking, intend-
ed to do no one an injustice the list
has néw been sealed down to about
160,000,
‘Most of the lists are now in the
hands of the local draft boards. of
the districts throughout the country
in which the selective draft machin-
ery was in operation during the
war. The war and navy depart-
ments have completed their re-
checks of the lists, and further re-
checking is in progress by the draft
boards. Having exhausted every
means at its disposal for correcting
the lists the War department feels
that after the local boards have
made their reports thereis nothing
more that ean be done except to
make the list public in response to
demands from various parts of the
country. ica
there Srapprehanding Mat, Bhelnt, wl
SEREIRMEPEo'eity and county oftelale sat
Sadie SS pouimaaters for yoting, oe the
Portomce ‘bulletin. boards; (0 the, department
vere, Yau diietpation to ike Asld sEen
deetie eure Stes tetera
be sm ee AEE to,
coimbaveanent for the amount actually —
deeds, Saou ty el gsr
Eigen or the eppranention and, delivery
sella ontvt"al dosertere trom te sie
tea are aon for this modifeation of, rep
Iatont elaine to papseat of renarts
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ISzP tie however, Go the intention o
ihe steely gh eee o> aria aun
SERIES eaaBE the department to "pay thy
fans cap aso for the apvrebension an
fall reward. of $50 (oy
NEGRO BALES TWO ROBBERS
BAe Up LOAN BANK
ctanelt eee
in money and jewels. ‘He saw'the rob-
Gaia ated ierace
‘11416 Stevens avenue, ‘Roseland.
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¥ Honor Roll {
Oe owas
Tf you have paid your subscription
= ‘did not see your name in the Honor
: sil call Walnut 899 and ask for ‘Mr.
‘Shedd.
Chureh Extension involved the ex.
|penditure of $124,587 on 138 biuld
ing projects in the south and $86,
640 for maintenance in assisting
500 preachers and social workers
and in the north $96,733 was spent
‘on twenty-six building projects an¢
$47,875 in assisting workers, The
total expenditures aggregated
$355,915. In the rural program
three summer schools of rural meth-
ods fro Negro pastors with an at-
tendance of 300 ministers, were
held. Agriculture was taught, asa
means of promoting more scientific
farming among the Negroes of rural
communities. ,
Dr. Hughes is a native of Mary-
land, whose father and grandfather
were ministers, and was educated at
Morgan college and Taylor univer-
sity. He has been a prominent pas-
tor in the Washington conference,
serving as district superintendent
of t hatdistrict and as field secre-
tary of the Board of Home Missions
and chureh extension. He has been
twice elected to sit as a member of
the quadrennial general conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church.
His program for his new place in-
cludes all manner of aid for the
Negro race gained from his study of
its problems for many years.
Population of
Omaha is 151,601
‘Washington, D. C., March 16.—
The Negro population of Omaha,
Neb., in 1920, was 10,514, an in.
crease of 5,888, or 133 per cent, the
census bureau announced today
‘The white population was 181,047,
an increase of 61,467, or 51.4 per
cent, and all others 240.
‘Washington, D. C., Feb. 29—
‘The Negro population of Colum.
bus, O., in 1920, was arnounced to.
day by the census bureau as 22,091,
an increase of 9,352, or 73.4 per
cent. ‘The white population - was
214,809, an increase of 46,100, or
27.8 per cent, and all others 131.
‘The white population of Ale.
bama in 1920 was 1,447,032, and
the Negro population: 900,652. ‘The
white population showed an in-
crease of 118,200, or 17.8 per cent,
and the Negro. population de.
creased 7,630, or 8 per cent.
White House
Grounds Open
To The Public
“'Normaley’’ was not long de-
layed at the ‘White House within a
few hours after President Harding
took up his residence there he an-
nounced that the public would be
welcome within the White House
grounds and ordered the gates
‘opened wide.
‘iver since the declaration of war
‘the White House gates have been
closed. During the war the exeeu-
tive mansion was guarded contin-
ually by. sumed soldiers.
‘The president’s orders will allow
the public to inspect the gorunds
and during certain hours, to enter
certain rooms on the first and see-
Gnd floor of the White House, as
in the old days of normaley.
One hundred books of _steno-
graphic notes dictated by President
‘Wilson were taken to Chieago by
Charles Swen, who was President
Wilson's private stenographer for
the last nine years. ‘They contain
nearly. 10,000,000 words. This ma.
terial will be used by Mr. Swen ix
writing a book.
By Rev, G. W. Robinson, D.*D,
Easter is the festival of life, As the desire for life ia the strongest, human passion beth for this world
and the world beyond, #0 Easter ip the climax of the Chriatian year. Celebrated early in Christian history,
iCgrow jn populacity*until it surpassed in interest every other of the holy days. ‘The joy-bells rang on
Gngisrmas Ucewuan the Holy Child was born, but Christmas was only the day of promise, not of fulfilment.
sae tshght the dark days, when the promise of life went into eclipse; and at its close the dirgo displaced
the hymn of joy, as darkness ahrouded tho cross and the neighboring city.
Suppose That Had Boen the Last,
If the day of crucifixion had been the end of the earoor of Jesus, no matter how beautiful his life had
been, the Christian faith would not have made its way the length of tho Mediterranean, penetrated the
Poreste of the north, and passed in triomphal progress around the world, Mankind must have a religion of
Ione the Ttatlan peasadte in their paganism kindled fires on the hilléops to the sun, whén, in spring the
taumaphed over the gloom of winter. ‘The German forest folk had their festivals of joy and laughter, when
the Buster on broke the fetters of the cold, Not for thom could be a religion that had no resurrection
hope. :
It is because the story of Jesus did not end at Calvary, that it has attracted pagans. It is because Jesus
rose triumphant over death, Hint the hope of life eternal akindion in the oman, het and stony the fps
That sometimes singgers inthe gloom of experience.” ‘The Chrletian gospel found its way to the heart of the
aliae and he kindled. hig fires in honor of the living Christ instend ef to the distant sun. It entered the
| heare of the chiliren of the North, and took the name of the German festival for its own. | Henceforth,
Aiten the season of resureeetion came to the earth, there would be the reminder that personality can no more
Perish than the life that it husbanded in sced and root can fail to spring into bloom when the vernal sun
| Ralls it to the light. :
R ‘Wo must not lose the significance of the Easter fostival, It marks the triumph of life over death.
| hese are the two great mysteries that baffle our profoundest thought; but we cannot eseape them. They
sere ato the caperience of every human being. “Always death soon or Inte interrupts }ife, Porsousl offic:
| Hon touches every heart sometimes. Grief and desolation enter every home in every clime. Class strife and
| ational confiete and racial wars harrass ond maim and. kill, and civilization tas reeled under the blows
seen! after century, as IPs reeling now. But as often as comes the Easter dawn, thore cames a renewal
| Se hope anda regirding of the heart for hetter days ahead.
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President Harding
Appoints Howard
University Trustee
Comminer of The District of
Columbia
Washington, D. C., March 21.—
President Warren G. Harding has
just appointed two new commis-
sioners of the District of Columbia,
namely, Hon, Cuno H. Rudolph,
president of the Second National
bank, Washington, D. C., and Cap-
tain James F. Oyster. Both have
served as commissioners before. Mr.
Rudolph is a trustee of Howard
University, being a valued member
of the Finance and Executive Com-
mittees. For many years he has
been deeply interested in the work
of this important institution for
the education of colored youth at
the national eapital. Serving as a
ember of the Executive and Finance
Committees, he has been of very
great help to the university admin-
istration in the management of its
financial affairs. Offieers, teachers,
students, and members of the alum-
ni of the Howard University very
greatly appreciate the high recog-
nition which has ome to a member
of its Board of Trustees.
French Legislators
Paris, March 15.—Two Negroes
who happened to be members of the
French parliament ehtertained the
erowds on their way to the chamber
this afternoon with a brisk fist
fight.
In the recent elections Senator
pM. Emery, of Martinique, were on
opposite sides and sqid harsh thing
of each other. They met on the
sidewalk in front of the Palais
Bourbon at about 3 o’clock. En-
gaging in a lively conversation,
they gathered a group about them
which rapidly grew when the sen-
ator and deputy went at each other
with savage blows.
Three policemen pulled them
apart and they went on their way
separately to hear Premier Briand
discuss Gedman reparations and
other aifaire-of weisht,
|N.A.A.C.P. Par-
don of €ondemned
Soldiers
(By The jae Negro Press.)
New York, N. ¥., Mareh 21.—
‘The National Assgciation for the
Advancement of Colored People re-
‘eently announced: that a petition
was being circulated to which it was
hoped to-obtain 100,000 signatures,
asking President Harding to par-
don sixty-one members of the 24th
infantry who are still in prison for
their connection with the Houston
riot of 1917.
The petition whieh will be backed
up by country-wide massmeetings
of N. A. A.C. P.-branches, one of
which was held in Newark, N, J.,
on Sunday, March 18th, recites that
thirteen’ members‘of the Twenty-
fourth infantry were hanged after
the riot without right of appeal to
the secretary of war or to the presi-
dent and that Iocal animosity had
been shown the before the
riot oceurred.
Many of the sigfy-one men in pri-
son at Leavenw@eth, Kansas, are
serviny apd the remaind-
BF ROCF tong ocrtonces
It is claimed by these men that they
were convieted in some cases with-
out pride of their direetly being in-
volved in the Houstom disorders.
Marcus Garvey
Makes Tour of
The West
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
New York, Mareh: 19.—‘‘Will
Mareus Garvey get back into the
United States?’’ is a question that
has been asked in many, quarters
here. Garvey is now making’a tour
of the West Indies, and officials of
his organization states that he is
expected to return to this country
in April. However, there is a re-
port which has not been sub-
stantiated, that government officials
will refuse to permit Mr. Garvey to
enter the country on the grounds
that he is an undesirable alien.
‘Water Valley, Miss., March 19.—
Adolphus Ross, a young Negro who
was charged with attacking an aged
white woman yesterday, was taken
from the jail here by a mob early
today and hanged to a tree. His
‘body was then riddled with bullets.
‘By Rev. G. W. Robinson, D.“D,
Negro Given Third
Degree In Cemetery
Erie, Pa, March 17— At mid
night, ‘during a_ severe thunder
strom, Eddie Williams and Fred
Maxwell, Negros, were taken to a
vault in the cemetery here and
made to stand over the body of
George Mauerm, night watchman,
whom they are charged with have:
ing beaten to death.
They were put through a hideous
third degree by District Attorney
‘Athur C. B, Lass in a effort to get
questioned. They continually de-
nied knowing of the slaying. After
the third degree William kissed the
dead man’s body, but the Negroes
were held on a first degree murder
charge.
‘The body was exhumed for the
ceremony. With only flashes of
lightning for light the men were
confessions from them, Lass ad-
mitted today.
‘Maner was clubbed to death in a
factory a week ago by robbers who
took few dollars aoe the time-
cceper’s e slayers pitched
the body through the fee of the
sixth story window to the ground.
Segregation Bill
. Meets Defeat
(By. The Associdted Negro Press.)
Seattle, Washington., March 17.
—A bill providing against the in-
ter-marriage between. blacks and
whites has been defeated in tNe
state legislature. Through the ef.
forts of the Iocal branch of the N.
A. A. C. P. the measure was indefi-
nitely tabled.
Negro Startles The City
(By The ‘Associated Negro Press.)
‘Comanche, Texas, March 19.—
This town wast urned topsy tfirvy
last Tuesday when a Negro stepped
off of an inbound train and an-
nounced that he would have to stay
in our midst until he could make
‘enough money to pay his fare to
Teague,a place about 100 miles
south of here. He is the first Negro
to be seen in this burg since 1887.
He was a genuine curiosity to many
‘of Comanche’s citizens.
Party of Mississippians Hang
Alleged Slayer of Necro Woman
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March 28, supported by the well
known Howard University Players.
‘Mr. Gilpin’s triumphal appearance
at the Drama League banquet at the
Hotel MeAlpin as one of the four
greatest actors in America, marked
one of the greatest achievements
ever won by a Negro, His unpre-
cedented rise ina few weeks to 2
Se place on the American
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should be an inspiration to the
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The play will be stakea at the
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Press News
Kansas City, Mo, Mareh 19.—
Clarenee Gregg, a Negro, has re-
cently perfected and patented 2
new model machine gun which has
several novel features. ‘The gun
will carry 1,400 cartridges and can
be fired without the immediate at-
tention of the operator. Grege is
making arrangements to take the
gun to Washington, where it will
be inspected by army officials and
if it meets the requirements will be
adopted for army use.
Newark, N. J., March 16—James
Alexander, a Negro highwayman,
held up and robbed a Chinaman, re-
Tieved him of $40.00, shot a police-
inan in the leg and then ran amuck
through a number of city streets,
creating consternation and wide.
spread fear, was apprehended last
Tuesday night by the police and
lodged in the city jail. Efforts are
being made to give a speedy trial
and punishment for his offenses.
(By The Associated Negro Press.)
Detroit, Mich, March 19. —
Harry Cook, a young Negro athlete
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Hattiesburg, Miss. March 20.—
Held on a charge of killing a
Negro woman, Arthur ennings,
Negro, was taken from the county
Jail here early today by a mamber
of armed men. Later his body was
found, hanging in s tree on the out-
skirts of the city. Jennings be-
fore submitting to arrest fired sev-
eral shots at policemen and feeling
against him has been bitter.
‘Aceording to Deputy Jailer Her-
ring, fifteen men came to the jail
about 1:30 o’elock this morning,
covered _ Jailer McKenzie with:
guns, ordered him to turn out the
jail lights and taking his keys, pro-
ceeded to the Negro ward and in-
formed Jennings they were ‘from
Columbia and hed come for him."?
‘They: placed in an automobile and
quietly proceeded to the spot where
his body was found.
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lightweight champion Leomard. Mr,
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Jackson, Miss.—The state Y, M.
C. A. of Mississippi is organizing
students in the Negro schools with
marked success. Study elasses and
athletic clubs are formed, and
“Christian Service. and Living’?
are the club watehwords. The
“Y's” of the white agricultural
schools have become interested, and
are assisting in developing athlet-
ies in the country colored schools
of their several distriets. ‘The re-
sults are reported as excellent for
the boys of both races.
Louisville, Ky., Mareh 16.—The
Louisville Y. W. €. A. held its an-
nual meeting last week. Elaborate
provisions were made for work
among the colored womén, Dele-
gates from fifty-eight association
branches were present at the ses-
sions,
‘Sumrail, Miss, March 16.—Three
white superintendents were fined
$10,750.00 by a jury here last week
for’ maltreating Negro laborers.
This is the first instance in the his-
tory of the state where white men
have been punished for this charae-
ter’ 6f offinse..
_, Washington, March 12.—Presi-
dent C. B. D. King, of the Republic
of Liberia, has reached Washington
from New York City. He was met
at Union Station by a deputation of
leading colored citizens. President
King was accompanied to Washing-
ton by F. E. R. Johnston, of the
Liberian Supreme Court; John
Lewis Morris, former Liberian sec-
retary of the treasurey, and Gibriel
L. Dennis, secretary of the commis-
sion. President King is here to work
out with the state department final
details in connection with the eredit
established by the American gov-
exnment for Liberia in 1918.
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A mob took a Negro accused of shooting and killing a white woman—a man it fair to say who had a record as a jury criminal—from what has been called a "mob proof" jail, entry being forced with acetylene torches. Seven thousand people witnessed the burning of the accused man, who protested his innocence before the fire was lighted. After he had been roasted for ten minutes, the blaze was put out and the Negro was again asked to confess. He still protested his innocence, and kept up his protestations until they could no longer be heard.
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The thing most to be deplored in this incident, as in others like it is not so much the punishment inflicted upon the accused man, even if he were innocent, or the violation of law and justice, however serious, but for the fact that seven thousand people in an American municipality could be coasting of a human being, without protest but with apparent enjoyment. This was miscellaneous crowd of women, men and children who walked or rode several miles o the scene of the human barbecue. The Georgia newspapers relate how the highways were crowded with the automobiles of people hastening to the festal event, and indicate that a pleasant time was had by all. The brutalizing effect of such a spectacle cannot be measured.
The only legislation likely to prove effective in discouraging lynching is that which will penalize officials and local governments for failing to give every citizen accused of crime that trial by due process of law prescribed in the Fifth and Sixth amendments to the national constitution. Unless some steps are taken to enforce these amendments by appropriate legislation the crime of lynching will become much more general and widespread during the next few years. It is form of barbarism which grows on what it feeds on; even on the accounts in the newspapers. It is not a sectional question nor a ransom question, although, because of its difficult nature, it is similar to the south, it is more aggravating there than elsewhere. Because the reproach of lynching falls upon the nation, because of the national constitution undertakes to guarantee trial by justice to every citizen, the question is a national one—National Republican, March 19.
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It is true that heaven helps those who help themselves. Any man who has no hope, no grids and self-respect, no confidence in himself or his race is not worthy to be associated with by any one and should have his freedom taken away from him. Surely we have been slaves and goodies long enough. Why not get in line, stand up like men and change things in the best way—hasn't our form of neutrality ceased to be a virtue?
If Mr. Garvey was an American, French, Russian or of any other nationality crying, "Don't erine, beg, plead, we must strike from the shoulder for manhood rights and for equal liberty—the freedom that all great nations have fought and died for the members of that race would stand like a mighty wall and cry aloud "Give us liberty or give us death and do it now." One thing that is complimentary about this scheme is that he has thousands of followers—pulling together, this is a new thing—it's a great thing—it's mighty big and it will bring about something or nothing.
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Easter In History
Rev. Geo. W. Robinson D. D.
Whispers of Bursting Life.
We must not lose the symbolism of Easter, whether Easter eggs remind us of the potency of life that they contain, or Easter music whispers of the bursting life of nature, or Easter baptism typifies the resurrection of our Lord, the custum of the church, and one that is usually appropriate on Easter, to observe the ordinance of baptism on that day.
It is the symbolism of immersion that makes the form so important to Baptists. To rise from the watery grave is prophetic, as Easter is, of the resurrection that shall be. While we have no reason to restrict baptism to Easter Sunday, there is a peculiar fitness in observing it on that day.
Will Men Quarrel at His Grave?
It would seem as if nothing should be permitted to mar the observance of Easter, yet early in Christian history a dispute arose among the churches as to the proper date of Easter Jewish prejudice clashed with Gentile preference, and one more quarrel was added to the hateful controversies that have stained the history of the religion of the Prince of Peace. Strange it is that human passions have made forms that your faith and hope and doctrine of the nature of our Savior, the meaning of the atonement, the observance of the day of hope, these have stirred the ire and aroused the bitterness of those who call themselves Christians. So through centuries a bitter quarrel went on over the date of Easter.
It is not helpful to recite it.
It is better to journey here and there, and see how Easter has been observed. In the holy city of Russia it was long the custom at midnight on Easter eve for the populace to gather in the great square, and amid a blaze of light and pealing bells, to bow in worship and to rise with an Easter greeting on their lips. In the Tyroli mountains bands of musicians wound through the valleys and the people sang their Easter hymns as the musicians thummed their guitars. In America the Moravians have a beautiful way heralding the Easter dawn, while it will still rock a treasure to the town of Bethlehem playing on the instruments and singing carols to arouse the people who rise and throng the church and cemetery for the morning watch. Joyfully they join in the services that greet the day, and the cheer of those hours remains for days as a benison of hope and peace.
The custom of observing Easter has been general throughout Christendom, Roman and Eastern Catholics have celebrated it with great pomp and display. Popes issued decrees directing the detailed manner of the fasting that preceded and the rejoicing that accompanied it. Pagan customs were adapted so that they should fit into the general celebration. All secular work was laid aside. Sometimes in their abandon the day of the fasting was the naval of delights, but the church took care to see that the day did not lose its Christian significance.
Among the protestants Easter has been observed with increasing regard in recent years. In their reaction from Catholicism the Puritans did not observe the festivals of the church year, and American churches that inherited Puritan thought and ways were slow to alter their customs.
But by degrees Christian thought has come to center more and more on the Christian church to the pre-Easter weeks. We are reserving our baptisms for Easter day. We are making more of Easter music and Easter joy.
This is as it should be. To make Easter the focal point of the Christian year is the stress of our Christian hope and to strengthen our Christian faith. For a life that shall not perish is our goal. Easter is the festival of that life, and Easter is the festival of that life.
BASTER IN THE CHURCHES,
Preparations are eBing Made for Special
The stage is being cleared for Easter services by the churches in Des Moines and those in charge of the religious institutions are working to get their programs rounded into shape for the day. The stage will be presented in the various churches and the Sunday schools will be called upon to do their part in the exercises.
Palm Sunday is Observed.
Fitting services for the observance of Palm Sunday, the sixth Sunday in Lent and the first day of holy week commemorating the triumphant entry of Christ into Jerusalem were held in most of the churches. In many of the churches large classes of those who were seeking admittance to the churches were given the preliminary work preparatory to full admittance into membership at the Easter day services Sunday.
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Tenth and Park streets, Rev B. F. B.
White, pastor.
The splendid weather of the past Sunday was inductive of a full attendance at both morning worship and church school. The pastor filled his pulpit both morning and evening. In the morning he spoke on the life of the Apostle Peter, at evening his subject was, What it is. The pastor is preaching a series of sermons on Sunday evenings on the genera his subject of sin. The coming Sunday his Easter theme will be the "Cross or Immortality." At the evening his subject will be, "Sin, or Huwen Handicap."
In the study of the lesson in the church school the interest and enthusiasm ran away high. There seems to be a hanging on the part of the people for knowledge of God's word. The school has recently adopted the graded system of lessons and will be fully organized to that end by April 1. In adopting this system the school is taking its place among the most progressive and up-to-date church schools of the country. The school will give its special Easter program Sunday at 12:30 p.m. A splendid program is being prepared. Parents come and hear your children.
The Christian Endeavor society has in store a great surprise for those who may be fortunate enough to secure a ticket for an April dinner dinner April 1st, and may it not be stated here that the surprise will be one of much pleasure.
The Ladies' Missionary Union is doing a fine work at its interesting and busy weekly sessions. Last Tuesday the meeting was held at the home of Mrs. W. H. Birney, 2005 Lyner street, and for almost two hours the ladies kept their fingers busy while they engaged in conversing on subjects of general interest. At the close they were served to a three course luncheon by the hostesses, Mrs. W. H. Birney and Mrs. M. Blaghura.
UNION BAPTIST CHURCH.
Griffith's subject for Easter morning will be "The Greatest Fact of All." In the evening the choir will render a musical program. Sunday school at 9:40 a. m. Sunday school program at 3 p. m. B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m.
Union's services are crowded Sunday morning and Sunday night. A warm welcome to all.
NOTES FROM THE MT.
OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH
South East Fourth street. Rev. Guy E. Sanders, pastor.
This church closed a successful revival of Sunday evening. The hand of fellowship has been extended to thirteen and there are others waiting as some were ill last Sunday and could not be baptized. On last Thursday night we had with us the Rev. G. E. Green of Shiloh and some of his members. The Rev. Green preached a short sermon that was greatly enjoyed by all, Dr. Robinson of the Corinthian Baptist church was also present and gave us a short talk which was also enjoyed.
On Friday night the closing sermon for the week was preached by the Rev. T. L. Griffith, D. D., pastor of the Union Baptist church. He also was accompanied by a large crowd of his members. We don't need to tell you what happened as Dr. Griffith was at his best. Our baptising last Sunday took place at the Maple street Baptist church. It was well attended. We wish to thank the pastor and his officers for the part which they took in the service.
ST. PAUL A. M. E. SUNDAY
SCHOOL NOTES
The twentieth was quarterly meeting day, and for some reason or no reason, the thirteenth is scheduled for much occasions, as other other Sundays. The day in question was not an exception.
The twenty-seventh is Easter Sunday, and we have arranged for an excellent program. Drop in and see how we do. Program begins at 2 p. m., in the main auditorium of the church.
A brief report of the Sunday school during the past quarter follows: Cash on hand for month of January, $113.03; expenditures for same month, $89.25; collection for month of February, $14.71; expenditures, $2.06; collection for month of March, $8.73; expenditures, $1.77; balance, treasury, at close of the quarter, $34.39. Balden, secretary and J. L. Edward, superintendent.
Mr. James L. McGuire, who has been employed as a porter at Chas. W. Rogg's drug store has been promoted to the position of clerk.
ORIGINAL NOTICE.
In the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County: May term, A. D. 1921.
Defendant.
To Ruth Jett—
You are hereby notified that the petition of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause is filed in the office of the Clerk of the District Court of the State of Iowa, in and for Polk County, Iowa, claiming of you an absolute divorce from the bond of matrimony on the ground of willful desertion.
For further particulars see petition, and unless you appear thereto and defend before noon of the second day of the term, will be the May term of said Court, which will commence at Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, on the second day of May, 1921 default will be entered against you and judgement and decree rendered thereon.
Dated this twenty-fourth day of March, 1921.
Gertrude E. Rush,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
SHILOH PAPSTIET CHURCH
Fifteenth and Scott Streets.
R. F. GREEN, Pastor.
Residence 1506 Stewart Street.
Sunday School 10:30 A. M.
Preaching 11:30 A. M.
Preaching 7:30 P. M.
B. Y. P. U. 5:30 P. M.
Rev. H. C. Claybrook, Pastor
11:00 A. M.....Morning Service
12:30 P. M.....Class Meeting
1:00 P. M.....Sunday School
6:30 P. M.....Christian Endeavor
7:30 P. M.....Evening Worship
8:00 P. M.....Prayer Meeting Wednesday
He has made his home at Ortonville, Minn., and is now suing his wife for divorce. He says he hopes to have it by April 26 or shortly after. He will be in Des Moines, Iowa, for two or three days after April 26 and will thence return to Ortonville. His post office is Box 111.
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EASTER GREETING FROM US TO YOU
"TIS Easter dawn," the lilies say,
"And Christ, our Lord, is risen to-day.
Let every heart be glad."
But in God's acre far away,
He lies, who once was blithe and gay;
My heart with dole is sad.
"What means the Easter dawn to me!"
I asked in gray despondency;
"My life is drenched and dead."
The lilies quivered as in pain.
"The one you love will live again,
And ever live," they said.
"Since Jesus lives, we cannot die,
For us He came on earth to buy
A life eternal. There,
Within a mansion safe, they too
Now live, the dearest ones we knew,
Secure from pain and care."
"O lilies, teach my heart to sing
This anthem of your risen King,
That I may learn to live."
Their fragrant censers looked at me
In love, and whispered tenderly:
"Yourself more freely give."
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The name of Jerusalem is repeated on Easter day by millions and millions of followers of the Christian religion as well as the Jewish. If one stops to think how many times the word Jerusalem has been repeated during the 2,000 years that have passed since the appearance of the Nazarene on the platform of the world history, one must admit that there is no city in the world real with Jerusalem in fame. The name of Jerusalem has become a familiar and sweet name to many a nation and many an individual.
IN RECENT reports it was mentioned that Jerusalem has been covered by a white carpet of snow 29 inches deep, and that due to the excessive snow load one of the old olive trees in Gethsemane gave way and fall. The fall of this tree has again monotonous. Jerusalem will be delivered from the hands of the Turk when one of these trees should fall.
The Easter season is by far the busiest and most interesting one of Jerusalem. The setting in of spring makes it possible as well as pleasant for tourists and visitors from all parts of the globe to gather in the Holy city and see with their eyes the place whose name is world famous and on which scenes occurred that tended to bring about decisive turning points in the history of the human race.
ONE of these places is the Garden of Gethsemane. As the Hebrew name indicates, Gethsemane was an olive garden, with an "oil press" on its grounds. The present garden is situated on the western slopes of the Mount of Olives, a little distance up from the Garden of Gethsemane, much reduced in size, it still contains some of the old olive trees that stood there when the Gileilian spent the night with his eleven followers before he was betrayed. The place has been turned into a beautiful flower garden and from here cards are sent
to all parts of the world with flowers from Gethamene glued on them.
On Green Thursday before Easter the vast number of visitors walk down the slopes of Mt. Mira, on which the temple stands, cross the Kidron valley near Sittit Miram, the tomb of St. Mary, and enter the garden after ascending a distance up the Mount of Olives. For lack of space to accommodate the visitors, they are allowed to remain a short time on the place, during which they can sing a hymn or read passage from the New Testament and the make room for newcomers. Hymns characteristic of all Christian nations are sung in almost every civilized tongue in the quietude of the garden.
BUT the most attended festival is the celebration of the Holy Light. The celebration is world famous and yearly attracts visitors from all parts of the world. At one o'clock in the afternoon of the Saturday before Easter, the light is given out from the front chamber of the tomb by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch and is passed on the floor by the only waiting youth of Jerusalem. Every individual who carries a candle lights it from the light next to him and in a marvelously short time the light is passed on through the different parts of the interior of the church, out into the yard, up to the visitors on the flat roofs of the church, through the city and out into the churches of the whole country.
BEFORE the war the Turkish military force used to police the occasion to prevent any disorder, but mostly to show that Islam is dominating even on the very sacred grounds of Christianity. But since the entrance of the victorious General Alenby, the policing was done by Tommies or Australians, who were participants in the celebration and whose presence was deemed essential only for preventing molestation by pick-pockets. Gordon, an English archeologist, discovered a hill outside the Damascus gate which has the shape of a skull with holes arranged as so to form two eyes, a nose and a mouth. At the foot of the hill is a garden, and on one side of the garden is a tomb hewn into the rock. The tomb corresponds to the description of the tomb mentioned in the New Testament.
THE Easter Sunday is celebrated at daybreak in the Holy Sepulchre with a very impressive service. Yet the main celebration is in the streets
of the city and the homes of the people. The children enjoy the game of trying to see how many eggs they can break by the ones they have, holding them in a vertical position. The broken egg becomes the property of the winner. Easter is the great festival of the Orient. On this occasion people have parties to which they invite friends. Greetings and good wishes are changed with cheer in writing. The best Syrian candy and sweets, as well as the best dishes, are found on the Easter meal table in Syrian homes. The Jaffa gate, which was made famous by the entry of General Allenby to Jerusalem, is the most important gate of the city. Alongside of the gate is the entrance, which was made by tearing down a piece of the ancient wall to form a suitable entrance for Wilhelm Hohenzollern in 1898. In Berlin, the gate is the Kaal kall or the Gate of the Friend, three principal streets meet, namely, the Jaffa street, David street and the road to Botheleham.
THE place in front of Bal el Kall is the busiest section of the whole city. An observer of the life during Easter time sees a mixed human stream passing in and out through the Gate of the Friend." This continuous landscape is made up of representatives of all nationalities, tongues and creeds. Bal el Kall is the center of traffic of the city. Here the vehicles stand in line ready to convey the natives, as well as the tourists, through the city and through the country. Camel caravans in their characteristic slow pace share the pavement with the modern motor-driven cars. A scene at the Jaffa gate during the Easter season has no equal in any cosmopolitan city in any part of the world, and impresses upon us the importance of the city and the face with which it owes to the occurrences of the Easter season 2,000 years ago.
CALVARY was a hill on which criminals were crucified. The crucifixion was an old Eastern habit. The historical hill of Calvary, on which the three crosses of that Good Friday stood, has disappeared. On its site the Church of the Holy Sepulchre has been built by Helena, the wife of Emperor Constantine of the Byzantine empire, in the Fourth century after the fall of this place the celebration of the foot washing and the Holy Light takes place. The foot washing is celebrated on Greek Thursday in the court of the church by the followers of the Greek Orthodox faith, reproducing the foot washing that took place in the room of Zion 2,000 years ago.
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Why All Mankind Hails the Morn of the Resurrection
Easter morning—the most joyous of all the mornings of the year, the one great day of gladness, supreme above all others on the calendar, the Morn of the Resurrection.
And why is this the gladdest day of the year?
It is the gladdest of all days because it typifies the hope that beyond the grave there is another life than this. It speaks the promise that we shall rise again from the dust of death, that we shall be reunited with those whom we have loved and lost, that we shall open our eyes in another world where there is no parting again, no sorrow, no loss. Compare this hope with all other hopes that man can have, and they sink into insignificance.
If the sons of men believed that this life were the only life they could ever know, if they believed that the grave is the end and that when they were laid away with the dust from which they came there would be no awakening, not only would the dearest
hope they could possibly have be taken then from them, but the world would then become a place unfit for habitation.
Without the hope of resurrection from the grave man would surely sink at once to the low level of the beast. But that this is not his belief, and that man has, instead, a firm and a full hope to live again, is what makes Easter the one great joyous day of all days.
Easter eggs, prayed earnestly and fervently. On the night before Easter they made a nest for the eggs they so confidently believed the morning would bring. When they awoke the next morning they ran to the nest, and nest, sure enough, lay three lovely eggs, and sitting back of them, very proud of himself, was a big white rabbit, the very rabbit that had laid the eggs.
But the Easter rabbit is far, far older than this tale, and the myths about the rabbit, many of them associating the rabbit in one way or another with eggs, are centuries older than the Easter festival. The Moon festival in China comes in the springtime and corresponds with Easter. It's a great holiday. Nobody works. Everybody puts on his best and goes out for a general jollification. The childlike enthusiasm on what is our Easter, which, as old-fashioned people will tell you, comes "on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the 22nd of March." It is on this night that "the rabbit in the moon" is best seen. The Chi-
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The Rabbit and the Easter Egg
How did the rabbit get into the nest of Easter eggs? Of all the curious legends the centuries have gathered about the Easter season none are more widely circulated than those having to do with the rabbit and the Easter eggs. Easter eggs are seen all over the Christian world on Easter Sunday, and wherever the eggs are there is the rabbit also.
Just where and how such a total abstainer from eggs, such a clearly non-producer of eggs as a rabbit, got mixed up in a nest of them the biographers of neither the hen nor the
rabbit are able to say. But there he is, and there he persists in staying, however inconsequent, irrelevant and imprecise, and presence may be.
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Myths of the Easter egg are more easily accounted for. The Ancient Egyptians, Persians, Gauls, Greeks and Romans saw in the egg an emblem of immor
tality. In it life lay dormant. An insensate thing, a mere object, it had the power to become a living being. To the early Christians the egg symbolized the resurrection. Because of this, and also because eggs were looked upon as meat, Roman Catholics of Italy, Spain and France were formerly forbidden to eat eggs during Lent. After the fasting was over, eggs were the first meat to be eaten. Every Easter table held eggs dred red, to represent the blood of Christ, and piled in pyramids at various points of vantage along the table. Before the eggs were broken they were blessed by the priest. A special blessing for the Easter egg was given out by Pope Paul V, who is in the papal chair from 1605 to 1621. The blessing, which is still used by many Roman Catholics, is: "Bless, O Lord, we beseech thee, the gift of eggs, that it may become a wholesome sustenance of thy faithful servants, eating it in thankfulness to thee on the morde of the resurrection of our Lord."
Greek Catholics believe that eggs laid on Good Friday have within them their own blessing, and that he who eats them as his first food on Easter Sunday will be blessed throughout the day, too, hold that the egg is symbolically the fruit of the earth. But all of these eggs are the fruit of the hen, she that cackles over her
cackles over her product, when every child believes that the teacher is responsible for the Easter eggs.
BABY RABBIT
Germany for a long time claimed that she was the mother of the Easter rabbit. She said that it happened, one time, that the children of a very poor peasant had been told that they could have no eggs at Easter time because their parents had no home and were too poor to buy a hen. The children grieved over this at first, and then decided that they would stop grieving and pray. They prayed for
nese, in their Moon festival, pay homage to this rabbit. Their ancient religion, Teoism, taught them that this rabbit was the slave of genii who kept him everlastingly busy pounding herbs and drugs to make them more useful. In a cassia tree to do the pounding, and if you will look at the moon any Easter Sunday evening
when the sky is clear there you'll be Brer Rabbit pounding a way. And when you see it, you will see a mixture of Taostt belief, East African mythology, southern n e gro folklore and early Christian legend
EASTER
The Japanese have a legend, doubtless passed over to them from India, that the gospel of the resurrection was first sent to the earth by the moon god, who used a rabbit and an angel. The message given to the rabbit was this: "Like as I die and rise to life again, so shall you die and rise to life again." The rabbit, however, thinking it would be a good joke on the people of the earth, reversed this gospel: What he said to the people was: "Like as I die, and live no more, so shall ye all die and be no more alive." The people took this gospel very sorrowfully, which amused the rabbit, and he went back to the moon god and boasted of what he had done. The god was so infuriated with his messenger that he drew him and split his lip wide open, and that, if you would like to know, is why the rabbit's lip is slit.
In certain parts of England, particularly at Hallaton, there was an old custom of celebrating Easter Monday with a "hare plee scramble" and "bottle kicking." This celebration began with a procession leading to the house of the rector of the parish and consisting of two men abreast, carrying sacks with cut-up ples inside; three men abreast, two carrying wooden bottles filled with beer, and the third a large dummy bottle that was to be kicked about; one man, carrying a pole on which was fastened a hare in a sitting posture, and, last of all, a band of music. The band was followed by all the people of the parish who could walk. The dummy bottle was kicked into the neighboring parish, where it was burned, or "drowned," after which
bits of it were taken home as trophies by the people.
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The custom fell into disuse about 1767. But other customs in which the hare figured were continued to a much later time, one having to hunt and hunting of a hare on Good Friday, to be eaten on Easter day, the alternative being that "he who does not eat a hare must eat a red herring." At least one mythologist has tried to account for the Easter rabbit in England by making him the creature of the Anglican goddess Eostre, whose name, *Angelic goddess Bede*, was given to the month of April, who was called Estermonach. Grimm calls this goddess Ostara, "divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspring light."
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HEROISM SHOWN BY AMERICAN WORKERS OF NEAR EAST RELIEF
Cables Reveal Appalling Armenian Need—Hundreds of Thousands Starving.
By CHARLES V. VICKREY
General Secretary, Near East Relief
Approximately 500 American men and women are standing loyalty and heirarchy at their posts In Armens, Turkey and the Near East. Many of them during the long winter of isolation are undergoing what we in America call "hardship." But these, our fellow citizens in the Near East.
Approximately 500 American men and women are standing loyally and herolaically at their posts in Armenia, Turkey and the Near East. Many of them during the time of isolation are going what we America call "hardship." But these our fellow citizens in the Near East are volunteers serving with a high purpose, and they do not recognize hardship when they meet it. They have had their opportunity to withdraw with honor from the field of famine and desolation. They have refused to leave, because they know that their departure would mean death for tens of thousands of women and children whom their efforts have kept alive and whom they are determined to save for a better future.
A dozen cables are on my desk from various centers in Armenia, Anatolia, Cilicia and Syria pleading pleasously for the lives of hundreds of thousands who are homeless: "Sixty-five thousand refugees Constantinople alone," "Refugees flicking into Aleppo," "Twenty thousand refugees at Ismid," "One hundred thousand people at Alexandropol will starve unless relief is provided," "Refugees arriving from Caucasus, escaping persecution, naked, destitute! Urgent need to save most of them from death," "Two hundred thousand starving between Kars and Alexandropol! Severe winter adding to distress," "The towers the mute appeal of the more than 100,000 little children, orphaned, homeless, whom these American relief workers have saved and whom we here at home must sustain not only through the winter and spring, but through the summer and autumn as well. If we do not provide, they perish! And with them dies the hope of a New Near East.
The Easter season is here—the season that commemorates the Great Sacrifice for mankind. America is known as a Christian nation. She is also the wealthiest nation that history has ever known. We really enjoy our wealth and claim the name of Christian if we turn a dear ear to the appeal which General Leonard Wood, in behalf of the Near East Relief, has sent forth broadcast for a Lenten Sacrifice Offering to save these little children in Bible Lands?
ASK AID FOR THE SUFFERING ARMENIANS
Distinguished Names on Lenten Sacrifice Appeal.
Major General Leonard Wood, U. S. Army, is head of a nation-wide committee making an appeal for a lenten sacrifice offering for the relief of the starving Christian populations of the Near East, in behalf of the Near East Relief, 1 Madison avenue, New York City.
Among those who Join General Wood in asking support of the work of the Near East Relief are: Andrew W. Mellon, of Pittsburgh, secretary of the treasury; ex-President William H. Taft; Frank A. Munsey; W. W. Atterbury of Pennsylvania Hilburn, president John Hilburn, University Dr. Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute; Mrs. Carrie Champman Catt, the suffrage leader; Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, sister of the late President Roosevelt; Newcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph Company; John C. Shaffer, owner of the Chicago Post and other newspapers; Dr. Henry van Dyke; Miss H. F. Samed; Miss Elizabeth Marbury; Mrs. Cornelia and Warren S. Stone, labor leader; Moorfield Storey, of the American Bar Association; Mary Garden; David Belasco; Mrs. Medill McCormick; Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs; Mrs. George Maynard Minor, head of the D. A. R. U.; Miss Anna A. Gordon, head of the W. C. T. U.; Mrs. Percy V. Pennybaker, of the League of Women Voters; Mrs. Phillip Northmore, president of the National Council; Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell; Mrs. George Hewlett Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary Rinehart, the well known novelist; Rupert Hughes and Emerson Hough, authors; Senator Reed Smoot, of Utah; Governor John M. Parker, of Louisiana; Dr. Frank M. McMurray, of Teachers' College, New York City; William C. Bobbs, of Indianapolis; J. Thomson Willing, the artist; Mrs. Cleveland H.odge; Mrs. Henry Morgenthuhn; Mrs. Emily Bishop, Bishop-elect, liam T.曼曼; Mrs. Stanley White; Mrs. William Nash Read, of Montgomery, Ala; Arthur Brisleman; John S. Drum, San Francisco; John McPearland, Labor leader.