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The Negro Should Be Proud of His Race THE NEGRO'S WORTH "WE MUST COME TO SOME DEFINITE DECISION WITH REGARDS TO THE RIGHTS OF ALL MEN ESPECIALLY HERE IN AMERICA"-Harvey Ingham FOR THE BAD YOU DO READ OTHER PAPERS FOR THE GOOD YOU DO READ THE BYSTANDER VOL. XXVIII NO. 18 THE N “WE MUST COME TO SO RIGHTS OF ALL MEN ES --- THE LEGEND OF THE WORLD'S FIRST WORLD WAR FREDERICK DOUGLASS, THE FOREMOST ORATOR AND SCHOLAR OF HIS DAY. NEGRO INVENTIONS. In the practical application of scientific principles as embodied in useful inventions, the Negro has long held an important place. The publications of Henry E. Baker of the United States patent office set forth a record altogether and comparatively favorable. These inventions run the whole gamut, from Banneker's clock in 1754 to Forten's invention of apparatus, for managing sails, including Lewis' invention of a machine for picking oakum; Henry Blair's patents on a corn harvester; William B. Purvis' patents on electric railways, a fountain pen, magnetic car-balancing device, etc.; Dickinson's patents for playing the piano; Ferrell's patents for the improvement in valves for steam engines; Benjamin F. Jackson's inventions of different improvements in heating and lighting devices, and a controller for a trolley wheel; Charles V. Richey's inventions, including a device for registering the calls on a telephone and detecting the unauthorized use of that instrument; Granville Wood's inventions; the Elijab McCoy inventions; and the inventions of John Ernest Mantzeliger, including the first machine that performed automatically the operations involved in attacking soles to shoes. Then there are the latter-day and war-time inventions, including the war-bombs, machine, and aircraft guns, explosive bullets, submarines, and diving suits. DES MOINES, IOWA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1921. EGRO'S OME DEFINITE DECISION SPECIALLY HERE IN AMERICA The Colored American--His Tracts As we turn back the dusty pages of history and attempt to read the story of the black man's morn, we find the Egyptians lighting the torch of civilization that has come down throughout the ever increasing luminosity and is still burning with never decreasing flame. Even though history begins here beneath the turn of the archaeologist's spade, we can look back into the age when the morning stars first sang together. God spoke into being the blue canopy of heaven; arched the rainbow, hung it in the skies and with its matchless colors laid the foundation of the hills; poured around them all the mighty waters of the deep, caused the sun to come forth like the bridegroom from his chamber, or as a strong man to run a race, girded this race and warmed it and fructified it that it might bring forth fruit in its season, given seed to the sower and bread to the eater; and find a trace of the black man as he begins to make footprints upon the primeval sands of time and weave as it were, from without the chaotic root, the first glistening strand f civilization. At the close of the civil war, the Agrogo was indeed in a sorry plight. The foxes had holes, the birds of the air had the nest, but the black man had no place to lay his head. Besides these conditions he was ignorant, superstitious; thrust into a labyrinth of privileges and duties, he stood bewildered. But a free man can not long remain an ignorant man. Out of the melting pot of slavery has come a race that has progressed in fifty years beyond the expectation of a dreamer. We do not say these things in a boastful manner. We say it because everyone should know the truth as it is. DID YOU KNOW:----? THE NEGRO SHOULD BE PROUD OF HIS RACE. The first blood for American Independence was shed by a Negro—Crispus Attucks at Boston. The first vessel to make the return voyage across the Pacific from the West Indies to Mexico was steered by a Negro pilot in 1568. John E. Matzelinger, a Negro, is the inventor of the first machine that performed automatically all the operations involved in attaching soles to shoes. There are nearly a hundred towns and settlements in the United States populated and governed entirely or almost entirely by Negroes. Many free Negroes held slaves during slavery—more than 18,000 slaves were owned by Negroes. Negroes own twenty-five million acres of land, an area equal to that of Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. We bought more Liberty Bonds in proportion to our wealth than any other elements of American Citizenship. Negro soldiers were the first American soldiers to receive the Croix de Guerre. The first champion in American pugilism was a Negro slave, Tom Molineaux, of Richmond, Va., who in the first part of the eighteenth century won his freedom by winning a $100,000 stake for his master. That there are 202 Negroes engaged in stock raising. That there are 206 Negro jewelers in the United States. There are over two hundred Negroes in the dairying and farming business. That there are 208 Negro ice dealers. That there are 219 Negro saw and planing mill proprietors in the U. S. And that there are 241 Negro wholesale merchants and dealers. That there are 280 Negro fancy goods, dry goods, and notions, stores run by Negroes. That there are 310 Negro manufacturers and proprietors of clothing factories. In the United States we have 316 fruit growers in the Negro race. That there are 357 Negroes engaged in buying and selling grain, live stock, That there are 326 livery stable keepers. That there are 384 Negroes running candy and confectionery stores. That there are 632 proprietors of transfer companies. That there are 695 druggists and pharmacists. That there are 736 general stores owned by colored people. Seven hundred fifty-six Negroes selling produce and provisions. That there are 762 Negroes engaged in the real estate business. That there are 794 junk dealers among the Negroes. We have 875 billiard and pool room keepers. That there are 953 undertakers in the United States. That there are 973 hotel keepers and managers. That there are 1,155 coal and wool dealers. We have 2,957 butchers and meat dealers in the Negro race. We have 3,107 builders and contractors. That we have 2,434 hucksters and peddlers. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Statue of Booker T. Washington UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD This clay model of a statue of Dr. Booker T. Washington, which will be unveiled at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama next spring, is the work of Charles Kech, who is seen standing beside the monument. That we have 4,466 Negro truck gardeners. That we have 5,550 grocers. That we have 6,369 restaurant and lunch room keepers. THE CIVIL WAR. More than 178,000 Negroes were employed in the Civil war. 5,000 of that number were enlisted soldiers. WORLD WAR. More than 2,000,000 Negroes registered for service in the recent world war. The number inducted into service was 367,710. A. J. Webster of Iowa broke the record driving rivits. He earned $225 in fourteen days. Did you know that Negroes contributed more than $2,000,000 for Liberty bonds, etc. Did you know that Needham Roberts and Henry Johnson, Negro soldiers, were the first to be decorated with the Croix de Guerre in the world war 74.60 per cent of Negroes examined were accepted and 69.71 per cent of whites. One of the brightest chapters in the world war was the Negroes' unparalleled loyalty. Did you know that the Negro race has been honored by having had many members of Congress: Two senators and twenty-one representatives. COLORED FEDERAL OFFICE HOLDERS Judge, one; diplomats, two; consular, five; war, seven. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR. Did you know that 3,000 Negro soldiers fought in the Revolutionary war. STATISTICAL FACTS—ECONOMIC PROGRESS. Homes owned, 600,000; farms operated, 1,000,000; businesses conducted, 50,000; wealth accumulated, 1,100,000,000. Educational Progress. Per cent literate, 80; colleges and normal schools, 500; students in public schools, 1,800,000; teachers in all schools, 38,000; property for higher education, 22,000,000; annual expenditures for education, 15,000,000; raised by Negroes-1,700,000; forty-two Negroes hold the Phi Beta Kappa degree; more than 5,000 Negro college graduates in the U. S. A. Religious Progress. Number of churches, 43,000; number of communicants, 4,800,000; number of Sunday schools, 46,000; Sunday school pupils, 2,250,000; value of church property, 85,900,000. Negroes operate 100 bakeries, forty department stores, seventy-five furniture stores, 150 plumbing establishments and publish 500 periodicals, establishments, and Negroes publish 500 periodicals. (2013) Mrs. Sarah J. Walker, founder of the Mme. C. J. Walker Manufacturing company. Mme. Walker was an achievement and one of the wealthiest of the colored race, she died and left an estate with more than a million dollars. THE NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ART THE NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ART. The above is a view of Poro college, an institution for teaching beauty culture. It is an exponent of the ability of Mme, A. E. Malone. This building Organized 1909 under a cedar tree by the present principal, Laurence C. Jones, with faith, honesty and energy as capital stock. First tangible help was given by Edward Nelson Taylor, consisting of forty acres of land and fifty dollars. Plant free from debt now consists of 1,414 acres of land, live large buildings and several smaller ones, three hundred students. Faculty eighteen, twelve department assistants, modern farm machinery and apparatus for teaching the following: Printing, broom making, blacksmithing, carpentry, laundrying, weaving, cooking, sewing, gardening, wheelwrighting, basket making and millinery. Valuation of property $100,000. The school is in operation the entire twelve months of the year for those who are working their way. In this way they earn not only their education, but clothing and a little cash for necessary expenses. Location: Twenty-five miles south of Jackson. P. O., Braxton. Freight and passenger stop, Belpine. Reference: Braxton Bank, Braxton, Miss. --- FamousTreatment FREE I do not ask for a single penny. I lend it to you without cost, so you can prove what it will do in the future. 756, at all Druggists. Our Shampoos are wonderful for tetter, Excema and $100,000 of this she left for various charities. She was a woman come up from a washwoman to business magnet—millionaire and died with a clean record. THE BANK OF NEW YORK was erected at the cost of $300,000. Mme. Malone, like many Negro business stars, came from lowly beginning. Poro college is one of the if not the A view of the settlement in the late 19th century, showing a few buildings surrounded by dense forest. The settlement appears to be a small rural community with a few houses and a few outbuildings. The landscape is characterized by a mix of wooded areas and open fields, with a few trees visible in the background. A BIRDSEYE VIEW OF THE BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS OF TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE Tuskegee Institute a sunbeam of the work of Booker T. Washington is the greatest institution of its kind in the world. Asthma Cured By Simple Remedy Famous Drugstress Discovers Simple Remedy for Asthma and Makes Thirty years ago Mr. C. Leavengood, a widely known Kansas druggist, discovered a simple, easy to take prescription for Asthma—he gave it to the people who had suffered for years and, to their amazement, they say they were easily cured—these people told their friends, and in this way thousands have found the sure way to cure Asthma. Mr. Leavengood feels so confident that his prescription will cure in all cases that he generously offers to send a big bottle on 10 days' Free Trial to any reader of this paper who will write for it. If it cures pay $1.25, otherwise you owe nothing. Send no money—just write to C. LEAVENGOOD, 1675 S. W. Blvd., Rosedale, Kansas, and the big bottle will be THE MILITARY AIR FORCE IN THE WESTERN UNION. biggest institutions in the country. The idea of Poro college was born in the head of a Negro woman. Rooster City Federated Cubs The Iowa Federation of Colored Women's club was organized in June, 1902 at Ottumwa, Iowa. Mrs. Nolena Downey was the first president. Among the Social and Intellectual clubs of the city there are twelve clubs that belong to the state federation. The City Federation of Women's club is presided over by Mrs. Gus Nichols. The name of the club, its purpose, and the president in the city of Des Moines is as follows: 1. Callanan Industrial Club—President, Mrs. Warden. Purpose—Charity work and thorough study of the Bible. 2. Harriet Beecher Stowe Club—President, Mrs. Mattie Warricks. Purpose—Reading history and good literature. 3. Intellectual Improvement Club President, Mrs. A. F. Brooks. Purpose To foster a broader intellect among the Negroes. 4. Phyllis Wheat Club—President, Clara Crawford. Purpose—Help pay for the colored girls home in Iowa City. 5. Mary Chureh Terrell Club President, Mrs. E. Willis. Purpose Art and literature and to promote a better feeling or understanding among the young people. 6. Mary B. Talbott Club—President, Mrs. G. Raymond. Purpose—A literary and social club. Aim—Charity work. To help pay for the home for colored girls in Iowa City. 7. St. Mary's Home Society. President, Mrs. Clara Crawford. Purpose—Create social ability among the members. Take care of the sick and promote art. 8. Arts and Crafts Club—President, unknown. Mamme Miles, secretary. 9. D. Y. W. Y. K. Art Club—President, Mrs. Helena Wilkerson. Purpose—Study of art. 10. N. C. and D. Club—President, Mrs. John Mayweather. "A NATION SAVED BY AMERICA," SAYS CLEVELAND H. DODGE New York Business Man Describes Vast Armenian Work of Near East Relief. Cleveland H. Dodge, New York banker and business man, director of the National City Bank, and treasurer of The Russell Sage Foundation and of the Near East Relief, declares that "a nation has been saved by American philanthropy, and the generosity of the American people through the Near East Relief, in its work for the Armenians. "The lowest official estimate indicates that one million persons are living today who would not be alive had it not been for this relief." Mr. Dodge continued, "I have an autograph letter from Dr. H. Obandjanian, president of the Armenian Republic, in which he writes: 'America literally saved us from starvation.' "Wholly aside from adults who have been saved from starvation, we today CLEVELAND H. DODGE. have in orphanages and elsewhere under our care 110,000 homeless, fatherless or motherless children who are absolutely dependent upon us. This is exclusive of 65 hospitals with 6,552 beds, 123 clinics, rescue homes for girls and unnumbered thousands of refugees who are being helped through our industrial relief and in other ways. "The Near East Relief has during the last four or five years commissioned and sent to the Near East more than 1,000 American relief workers, of whom 500 are still in the field, all of them working at great financial sacrifice—the standard of salary being $50 per month and maintenance—and many of them facing great personal danger and hardship in the performance of their life-saving service. A score of them have died from typhus or other diseases more or less related to their faithfulness in the performance of relief service. "Nor is that all. We have raised and disbursed during war times and in a war-torn area, in large measure under enemy area, more than $41,000,000 in cash, and, including flour, Red Cross and other supplies administered by our agents, a total of cash and supplies in excess of $50,000,000. The official reports show that on June 30, 1920, we had in orphanages 54,000 children, and that we are partially supporting outside of the orphanages 56,009 children, making a total of 110,000 boys and girls now under the care of the Near East Relief." Mr. Dodge considers the work of the Near East Relief one of the most stupendous undertakings of disinterested philanthropy the world has ever seen. "In countries whose population totals more than 30,000,000 souls, American idealism exemplified by the work of the Near East Relief constitutes today a torch of enlightenment and an influence for peace throughout the whole Near East," he maintains. "Our American ideal of liberty, industry and helpfulness has brought us as a people happiness, prosperity and fulfillment. Out of the fullness of this heritage we are furnishing a faithful and unmaunted Christi:n people the brotherly aid which will enable them to reach the same fulfillment that God has given us. "It is an achievement of which every American may well be proud." Why? Suffer? Monthly pains,—neuralgic, sciatic and rheumatic pains, headache, backache and all other aches are quickly relieved by Dr. Miles' Anti-Pain Pills Contain no dangerous habit- forming drugs. Why don't you try them? Ask your druggist ASK YOUR NEIGHBOR PIZARO IRONTONE LIQUID PUT IRON IN YOUR BLOOD System Builder—Ideal Tonic—Blood— Stomach—Liver—Kidneys At Your Druggists. PIZARO MEDICINE CO. 404 West Third Street. Des Moines, Iowa WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY A splendid offer for the ambitious woman to do residence work in homes of the wealthy and earn from $5.00 to $10.00 per day by learning Educational Beauty Culture through our correspondence course. Music, medicine and law are successfully taught through your mail box, why not beauty? Terms most reasonable. We teach scalp cure, facial massage, face bleaching, maree waving, water waving, manicuring and all secret recipes of a profession that has a big future before it. Write for our free literature. California Sun Parlor and School of Beauty Culture, 521 North Thirty-third street, Omaha, Nebraska. DO YOU WANT A ROOM? I have first class rooms for first class people. Call Walnut 584. 1011 West Crocker street. Cleaning, Pressing, Altering, Repairing Work Called for and Delivered. We do first class work. Ph. Wal. 7374 1108 Center St. Dee Moine, Iowa 18 — ROOMS — 18 For rent with all modern equipment. H. D. WILLIAMS Phone Walnut 2322 DROPSY TREATED ONE WEEK FREE Short breathing relieved in a few hours; swelling reduced in a few days; regulates the liver, kidneys, stomach and heat; purifies the blood, strengthens the entire system. Write for Free Trial Treatment. COLLUM DROPSY REMEDY CO., Dept. X-17, ATLANTA, GA. Colored Hotel When in Des Moines call at 215-217 Chestnut street or phone Walnut 2322. H. D. Williams Nelson's New and Old Book Store. Books on everything and subject, at half price and less. FOR RENT 5-room house in Highland Park. E. JACKSON Black 1405. FOR RENT. A three room apartment furnished at $14.00 per month. Red 4392 evenings. 666 WILL BREAK A COLD, FEVEE AND GRIPPE QUICKER THAN ANY. THING WE KNOW, PREVENTING PNEUMONIA. Gertrude E. Bush Mayme E. Miles Business property for sale on Center between Tenth and Twelfth streets. No. 1 price $8,000. Terms to suit buyer. No. 2, $3,000, also terms reasonable. Call Walnut 1664. OUT RATE DEUG CO. Willis Wolfe., Ph. G. Prop. Very Best Drugs in City 1000 Center St. Des Moines, Iowa NEW CENTER CAFE Where everybody goes, has changed hands and open from 6 a. m, until 2 a. m. Breakfast at 6. Good music and first class meals all day. Mrs. Portia Robinson and Mr. Ralph Rogers, Proprietors. 666 WILL BREAK A COLD, FEVER AND GRIPPE QUICKER THAN ANYTHING WE KNOW, PREVENTING PNEUMONIA. --- Special Fried Chicken on Sunday, 40c and 50c Dinner. 208 West Third Street. Des Moines, Iowa. THE SILVER MOON CAFE Soft Drinks and Groceries at Shilla- man and Bates Street. Y. B. SIMPSON, Prop. Waterloo, Iowa. Congressman McDowell Promises The Bystander his support For AntiLynching Bill age. Will you as our representative stand by us by supporting the Anti-Lynching Bill? Help wipe from the banners of free America the barbarious stan of lynching. Yours for America—Justice, liberty first, last and eternally. I am in receipt of your favor and carefully note what you say about the Federal Anti-Lynching bill now pending in Congress, and I assure you I will be pleased to be of any assistance I can in the passage of this legislation. There is no place in this country for mob law or for organizations taking the law into their own hands. Our Government has established courts and peace officers for the maintenance of law and order, and I am opposed to any organizations in any manner in conflict with this American method of interpreting and enforcing our laws. With my best wishes, I am Yours very truly, Des Moines, Iowa. October 5, 1921. Hon. C. C. Dowell, Congressman, Washington, D. C. Honorable Sir: The axiom "They serve who only stand and wait" is true of 20,000 or more liberty loving Colored people of Iowa today. Their eyes are clinging to the great American flag. They hunger for the abolition of lynching, burning and mob-violence. They seem to say with one voice "Justice, hath thou forsaken—" and our voices trail into silence. Sincerely, ROBT, D. DURR, The Bystander. Washington, D. C., October 12, 1921. The diabolical practice of lynchings, mobbing, and burning has stained, embarrassed and disgraced America before the world. Of all this nefarious savagery the helpless Negro race has been the victims. Their inimitable patriotism seems to have been of very little avail in the suppressing this form of outlawry. Robert D. Durr, The Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. My dear Durr:— Congress will soon convene at which time the Dyer Federal Anti-lynching Bill will be up for passage—be made a law of the land. We implore you in the simple justice and a square deal liberty and our love for Americanism to support this bill to the limit. We can't but believe that you will, and in your doing so will be doing one of the noblest deeds of this age. We have stood by America in war and in peace. In no conflict in which the destiny of great America has been involved has the Negro been found to be a slacker—their patriotism in unquestionable and far above the aver- WHY PAY HIGH RENT WHEN YOU CAN BUY OF ILL DAVIDSON OUT OF THE HIGH RENT DISTRICT Suits Overcoats New All-Wool Suits, $10 up. Best colors, latest styles. Used Suits, $5 up. Good styles, big assortment. New All-Wool Overcoats $10 up. Newest styles and colors. Leather coats, fur collars, plain used coats, $5 up. A Small Deposit Will Hold Any Purchase in the House. Iowa's Only Colored Theatre Colored Management, Operator and Ticket Seller C CLIP THIS COUPON GOOD FOR ONE ADMISSION Present this coupon at the box office on or before Saturday, Nov. 12 and pay government war tax. Bring the family Cleaning Pressing Dyeing Phone Maple 462 E. 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Miss Montague was gowned in the dress worn by her mother at her nuptial over sixty years ago. Also the cameo pin and the cameo earrings presented her mother by her father before their marriage. After the ceremony a course dinner was served the relatives in the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. Crawford in East Fourteenth street by Mesdames Chas. Warden, Wm. Robinson, J. W. Campbell, B. Reynolds and M. Crawford. Hon. and Mrs. Woodson will be at home after December 1 at 1622 Walker street. TAILORING BUSINESS FOR SALE. Located in a real live College Town. Good business with modern equipment. Easy payment plan for right kind of man. Write The Bystander, Des Moines, Iowa. Where you get good service Bundles called for and delivered. First Class Work and Moderate Prices. Phone Walnut 3146, 1010 Center Street. ASK 'KURF'. HE KNOWS FOR SALE 4-room house, partly modern, fruit trees, beautiful lawn $1,750, $500 down; $14 per month. 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Morris, Attorney NORTH DES MOINES DRESS CLUB JOE STONE & O. L. GLASS, Proprietors French Dry Cleaning and Pressing Dyeing and Repair Work 1908 Sidney St. 2140 MODERN ROOMS MEALS MRS. J. T. JOHNSON Phone Market 584 1011 Crocker St. FIRST CLASS MODERN ROOMS MRS. ALICE McDOWELL Phone Walnut 7250 1211 Center St. MRS. W. H. HUMBURD, Cateress Formerly with E. T. Meredith, U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Phone Walnut 1291 1047 Fifth Street MRS. MARGARET M. LOWRY FASHIONABLE DRESSMAKING Phone Market 986 778 W. 10th St Steam Heat By the Day or and Bath By the Week BRADFORD'S HOTEL MRS. MARGRETT BRADFORD, Prop. Phone Walnut 8240 757 W. 9th St. Phone Walnut 2691 "We Have It" BOWLES CUT RATE GROCERY L. L. BOWLES, PROP. Proving the fact that YOU CAN buy here at Money Saving Prices—ASK MY CUSTOMERS 1106 Center Street Phone Maple 2548 Res. Ph. Drake 2788-J REAL ESTATE M. F. JOHNSON Embalmer and Funeral Director 117 East Walnut St. Des Moines, Iowa DR. W. H. LOWRY DENTIST Phone Market 986 778 Tenth Street Office Hours—9 A. M. to 5 P. M. DR. LINFORD R. WILLIS, Dentist Office 907 Walnut St. Phone Wal. 718 Res. 1416 Maryland Ave. Phone Wal. 4200 DR. A. J. BOOKER 907 Walnut Street. Phone Walnut 6135 DR. J. A. JEFFERSON Tenth and Center Streets Office Hours—11-12 A.M., 3 to 5 P.M. 7 to 8 P.M. Office Phone Market 1145. Residence 1825 Washington Avenue Office Hours: Phone Maple 10 to 12 M. 2 to 4 P.M. 4000 Sunday, 1 to 3 P.M. Black 4344 7 to 8 P.M. Residence Phone C. A. ADAMS, M. D. Physician and Surgeon Suite 22, Shope Building Corner East Fifth and Locust Sts. ROACH & SWEENEY Our motto is: "Good Service and Courtesy to All" First Class Work 1207 Center Street Phone Walnut 5712 MRS. C. C. JOHNSON, R. N. Trained Nurse 825 Thirteenth Street MRS. CLORA MARSHALL Graduate Chantauqua Nurse and Social Service Worker from the Public Health Center. 1026 14th St. New York, New York 1005 W MISS LORAINE CRAWFORD PIANISTE AND TEACHER Phone Maple 1566 1362 E. 19th St. DOROTHY A. HUGHES Instructor of Interpretive and Latest Ball Room Dancing Terms Reasonable 1016 Thirteenth St. Phone Drake 6730-W MISS VIRGINIA V. STEWART Stenographic Work Drake 5562-J. C. W. SMITH Carpentering, Electrical Work and Painting 1134 Thirty-First Street Residence 1058 5th St. Phone Wal. 6157 Special Attention to Tax Matters and Real Estate. JAMES B. MORRIS Attorney at Law and Notary Public Phones Prompt Attention Walnut 1163 and Drake 6184 to all Cases LEE E. BLAGBURN, Soda Dispenser LTON PHARMACY 1200 Center Street Loans Made on Real and Personal Property N & REALTY CO. INC. Stock $10,000 10,000 Each All Net You Returns the First Year information call or see A. A. Alexander, Director J. W. Mitchell, Director G. A. Lee, Director E. C. Stevens, Director Irving Bestor, Director Eas Pe LEE EE laos a ee (ioe a) oe eae oN aga ca pe i. ae at ee st ieee a ere aoe . 7 (Be Ne ae ae BR i | = 6S es tae oni ol ee edits re eae eee 2 Lae Bi ee 7 ) ee er” iy a es 2 F/ Vy eS ie y Ses de ey ; <a e ee. fee & £9 ee Les 180 mor Hi nbi See cry sees MES, ALICE DUNEAER NELSON. On last Monday morsing Mrs, Alice Denbar-Neison of Wilmington, Di_the surviving widow of America’s greatest Begro pect, Paxil Lentence Dunbar, ar- vived in our city, avd was met by 0 Selegation of Des Moines representa- tives citizens and was taken directly o Franklin sebool where she afiressed an swemibly of students. and om the eamee afternoon an assembly at Cooper schovi, avd thet evening she spoke be fore a mometer andicsce st St. Paul's A. ME, church at which time she re- Viewed the life and works of the great Jamented post, and was greeted with rounds of applause A special ehoros of Sfty voices unier the direction of Mrs, G. G. Nichols, president of the Gy Feteretion of Colored Women’s Ciubs furzished music for this vecacion featuring the folk lore melodics which were well received. Mrs, 8. Joe Brown who hed arranged the mecting was mis ————— ITTLE aches grow into big paias ales ded off i Lis ret oy on spiee neurzigia, stiff joints, lame back won't fight long against Slosn’s Liniment. For more than forty years Sloan's Lisiment has beiped thousands, the ‘world over. You won't be an excep- tion, It certainly does produce results. It penetrates without rubbing. od tants: heel Cane hae for instant use. Ask your neighbor. At all druggists—35c, 70c, $1.40, Sloan. Sloans ‘TENTH STREET Y. W. C. A. NOTES The Halloween season hae brought many parties to the Center. Saturday night, October 22, the East Bigh school corps had a Halloween eve party, The room was beautifully Aecorated and the girls came masked for the occasion. Many ghosts were seen and the evening was spent in mak- ing merry, Saturday afternoon, Oct. 29, trom 2 to 6 Sunset and the Sunbeam Club tad a Halloween party. . They had redecorated the rooms making the appearance more ghostlike, The club came masked, ‘The classes open for regfstration: Gym class, 8 to 9 every Wednesday; hand work, 8 to 9 every Tuesday; charm school, 7:0 to 8:15 Friday. Oth- er classes will be formed, ‘Vesper services for the month have een very interesting. Sunday, Oct. 16 Mrs, 5. A. Jefferson had charge of the program. The following persons participated: Miss E, Warrick rendered ‘a piano selection, Master Bernard Ma- son and Luther E. Clarke gave violin selections, Miss Hortense Woods gave ‘a voeal rendition, Oct, 23 Mrs. John Mayweather con- ducted services. The program was vital and full of interest, and Mrs. May- weather’s presence was thoroughly en- joyed. Mrs, Bostwick, Mrs, Harriet Jones and Mrs, Tomlin gave recitations. Mrs, Carey and Miss Tomlin gave a piano duet, Master Melvin Sanders, a drum selection, Oct. 30—Mrs. N, C, Marshall conduct. ed services and a number of girls took a hike. During vesper service ‘Seeing the beautiful out of doors.’? Nov. 6—Miss E, Curtias wil speak at our vesper service. Miss Curtiss is a central field representative and especial- ly interested in girls, The public is in- vited, Developing Seif-Comwa. Belf-contpol may be develoged we precisely the same manner as we tons up a weak muscle—by little exercises fay by day. Let us exch day do, as mere exercises of discipline in morel gymnastics, a fow acts that are dis agreeable to us, the doing of whick will help ws in instant setion to ow hanr od nead-—W G Jorden. @& ane oo: Sress of ceremonies. At the conclusion of the lecture 2 public reception was tentered Mrs. Nelson in the lecture mom below whith was iz charge of Mrs, Fannie Tomlin. Ox Tuesdsy morn- ing Mre Nelson addressed an aseembiy at Amce Hiett Junior High sebool, aud the same afternoon am assembly at Mit- fheisille before the Iowa State Train- ing Sebool for girls’? On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Neisoz ‘wus presented to a representative gath- cling of club (white) women at tthe Plymouth Congregational chureh and on ‘Thursday evening before the State ‘Teachers association which was in ect sion an audience of more than ten thousand at the Coliseum. _ After being motored over the city by Mrs J. A. Wilson im his big Max- well ear Mra, Nelo left tDes Moines with showers of praise for the citizens the was the guest of Attty. and Mrs of this commanity. While in the city 8, Joe Brown. -« GTPSON-BESTOR WEDDING. The wedding of Deseon Irvin Bes- tor to Miss Rosa Gibson took place at the Corinthian Baptist church Thursday ovening. October 20. - The wedding marked the big event of the season, The bridal pasty came to the church from the bride’s home in a ¢lessy limousine ear. The groom and his “attendants were dressed in full dress milts while the bride and her at- tendants were beantifully. gowned in white silk and the bride carrying bridal roses. Rev. Geo. W. Robinson officiated, while Mrs, Delza Hammit presided at the piano. The newlyweds left the following Saturday for Cist:ago where they spent a few days on their honeymoon. The St, Paul Bell Club gave a Hal- Joween social Thursday, Oct. 7. H. B. ¥, club met at the home of Mrs) Hardy Brown, Thursday evening. The annual meeting of the N. A. A. C, PB, will be held November 7 at 8:20 p. m, at Tenth street ‘*Y’-eenter for the purpose of electing officers. All members ar@ urged to be present. ‘Mrs, Jackson wishes to announce the engagement of her daughter Alberta to Mr. Norman Vincent Allen of Chi- cago, Ill, son of Mrs. W. E. Allen. The wedding announcement will be made later. B. ¥. W. ¥. K. met October 25 with Mrs, C. H. Simmons ywoaA NOTES. ‘The charm school is open every Fri- day at 7:30 at the center. Gym for young girls Monday at 4:45 to 5:45 p. m. Mrs. Stella Hyde was hostess to the Mary Church Terrill elub last Mon- day evening. Miss Nellie Johnson will be the next hostess, Quotations from ‘«Bulver Lytten,”? R, N. Hyde is on the sick list at this writing. Mrs, Sarah Lewis of Marshall, Mo., and daughter, Miss Maud Leo of Kan- sas City were in the eity visiting her brother, R, N. Hyde, and son, Arthur Lee, rises Callahan Industria] elub met with do, a8 | Mrs, Tillie Lee, October 26, moored ¢ dis | Jamies Wilber Fraser of South Caro- whict | lina and Jessio R, Otis of Carson, Miss. io em | Were in the city, The young men are students at Ames. i Face Treatment TNE || 7 Fanious Treatment TEE || 7 SOCIETY SECTION 1 ay eee can eee oe eect oats I, Mist Helen Hagen of New York who rendraed w recital at the Usien Coe gregutional Church, Nov. 2, agsiz Freted without a shadow of doxit thet she is an artist of frst magnitod: ix ber Ene. A very appreciative andience greeted her, aming them being white musical teachers from the Conservatory of Mx tie of Drake Usiversity. | ‘The committee who mazaged the sf fair is to be eongratalste’ upon having beez able to tring exch renowned tz!- ext to the city. ; Criticioms Tt was again evidenced that this Program was vot reoperiy bandied, 2s has been seex om many occasions at v2- ‘tious places when the Negro was om ex- ‘Ribit, so far as carrying things out emoct hig "At frequent intervals people were go- ing in and out of the room, makizz ausouncemente It showed that proper arrangements had not been made before ‘hand. | It greatly @etracts from am occasion ‘of this kind to have things of that sort happen. We think that as we grow older the easberrasements that such things cause will prompt better management. er. PAUL A MB SUNDAY SCHOOL KOTES For the past three Sundsys our at- tendavee kas been above the average considerably, We are pleased to note the increased interest since cool weath- e set in. We have bad numerous visitors since our last notes appeared. Al of whom e hope will eall again soon. Dr. W. H. Lowers gave us an inspir- ing temperance lecture om the 30th. We are prond of the interest mani- fested in the normal department, regu- lar attendance ie very essential to the success of a pupil in that department. We are delighted with the war ix which Lucile Simmons bas served us as reporter to the Bell, our local paper. We are petting a lot of fine young men in our senool, We bope to bave a spe isl room for their class in the near fu- ‘ture. | Arrangements for our fall festival are ucaring completion. There will be a variety sale in eonjunction therewith | Teachers meet every Friday evening 7:20 to 8:20 at the church. | While the orange and the erimsor |are seen o’er the hill and vale, the birds sre flecting southward and the breeze bellows a gale | Qur thonghts go on excursions in the | woods we love to roam. But we'll never shirk onr dnty till we shout the harves | home to the boys and girls of our schoo! ¥, MC. A NOTES. Everybody goes to the ‘/¥’? Sunday afternoons. You hear good musie. You join in good singing You hear a great message and you mect your friends. It’s every Sunday from 4 to 5 p. m. Don't miss it. We have had some of the best speakers in the city to bring us messages. Rev, 8. Bates will speak next Sunday. The eight piece orchestra of the Y. ‘M. C. A, is making wonderful progress They will soon be giving us good musie. ‘The male chorus of the Y. M.C. A. is on the line for success. Wateh ‘em. JAMES-ASHTORD WEDDING. The home of Mrs. Lucy James, 127 Regart street was the sitting Wednes- day evening at 7:45 o’clock for the ‘marriage of her daughter, Miss Willa James and Mr. V. Ashford of Chicago, ‘Ili., preceding the ring service read by Rev. Geo. W. Robinson, Miss Anna Mae Griffith, the bride’s cousin, sang ‘‘O Promise Me,’? and ‘‘O Berfect Love.’? During the service Miss Griffith played in subdued tones ‘(The Rosary.’? The bride wore a byue monyseue suit with corsage boquet of American beauty ‘roses. The bridesmaid, Miss Fay Ash- ford, the sister of the groom, carried pink and red carnations. Miss James is a graduate of North High school, where she was loved very much by her teachers and school friends. She re- jecived flowers and useful gifts from ‘her teachers, The Corinthian choir wil] miss Wiila more than words ean express. She as sung in the choir, taking the lead in the alto seetion for more than ten years, beginning quite young. Her life has been a_ constant ‘stream of worshipping in and around ‘all the different departments of the church and state, holding a state offiee in the Sunday school and B. Y. P, U. conventions for five years, Seventy- five guests were present. Among them being Mrs. Ashford of Bedford, Iowa, The groom’s mother and his ’ sister, Miss Fay. The wedding march played hy Miss Anna Mae Griffith was ‘At Dawning?’ in march time, Miss At- wood, a student at Drake presided at the piano as Miss Griffith sang. Many useful presents were received. ‘After a ten day honeymoon in Bed- ford, Towa, and Omaha, Neb., Mr. and Mrs. Ashford will return to Chicago, Ill, where Mr. Ashford is employed ‘as mail shipping clerk, Mr. Ashford also was @ student at Ames, Iowa. Mang the Expense! ‘As George folded the falr young ¢reatare to his heart m dull, cracking sound smote his ear. “Ah! It's good- dy to thore cigars in my yest pocket,” he sald grimly; “but bang the expensr 2 wemuc Uke thin” seer rete | wees Taras are ran eee, nee) be, at all Draggists, Our Shampoos ‘be, at all. Draggists, Onr Shampoos $1” On $15” purchase WE are pleased CREDIT Don't Wait! ; Come in Now! f MEN’S Sto AND y sa FOES YOUNG fra RY / MEN’S ee) SUITS a Our stock is eo latest fa11 iu euite. Have it : charged. SFY, | o po oh) | ae | Q\\) | LN ASE | : Winter 3 ik | Frocks i i | Women’s jj i ae Coats rate | Dresses KI jae satet oe ef A ees 17) pcenutere it a | sar ok aa i ot Oe Gea tae ates ak See > Po an oy Zs ee insite — EE PZ | = A eh \ eS i EERE} A | alt k. } p= EE 8 0 ee 5 S OP EES t ‘YOU SHOULD HEAR THESE 1 If . New Victor Records for November | Make a note of any or all of them. We'll enjoy playing for you any you ask to hear. ‘ RED SEAL RECORDS Mother of My Heart (Mootsyne Grey) Frances Alda 64988 10 Etudein G it Major, 10, No. 5 Black Keys) (b) Etude in G Flat Major, Op. 25, No. 9 ee Beseaty) « pa Piano Alfred Cortot 64989 10 Mattinata (( i-Fatuo) ian Giuseppe De Luca 64990 10 Quartet in A Major—Assai agitato (Schumann) Flonzaley Quartet 74710 12 Love’s Messenger Waltz (Messagero Amoroso) Italian Amelita Galli-Curci 6499} 10. Mefistofele—Giunio sul passo sesreme (Nar=s the End of Life) Italian Beniamino Gigli 64942 10 Sérénade Masscolque: (Techaikowsky) Violin Jascha Heifetz 74711 12 To Spring (Grieg) Violin Fritz Kreisler 64993 10 Eugene Onégin—Air di Lenski (Faint Echo of My Youth) Italian Giovanni Martinelli 74712 12- Little Town in the Quid County Down (Pascoe-Carlo-Sanders) John McCormack 64994 10 i Pathétique—March-Scherzo (Tschaikowsky) Philadelphia Orchestra 74713 12 Specks (Etincalles) (loatowat) Piss ‘Olga Samarof 64995. 10 DANCE RECORDS Dangerous Blues—Fox Trot Original Dixieland J: Band i: Royal Garden BlueeFox Trot Original Dixieland Jazz Band}!®798 IC South Sea Isles—Medley Fox Trot Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra| 18801 10 Rosy Cheeke—Fox Trot All Star Trio and Their Orchestra; 1 Ain’t Nobody’s Darling—Medley Fox Trot All Star Trio and Their Orchestral 18802 10 Yoo-Hoo—Fox Trot Hackel-Bergé Orchestra; Sweet Lady—Medley Fox Trot Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra| 18803 10 Sey it With Music—Fox Trot Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra; It Must Be Someone Like You—Fox Trot Benson Orchestra of Chicago\ 5804 10 When the Sun Goes Down—Fox Trot Shilking Orchestra : POPULAR RECORDS i The Old Road Merle Alcock Ship o’ Dreams Merle Alcock} #5254 10 | Saturday (Snap Shots of 1921") Piane Duet Victor Arden and Phil Ohman 3599 19 Oh Joy! Victor Arder. and Phil Ohman; Within a Mile of Edinboro’ Town Lucy Isabelle Marsh! 5253 10 cee lag Lucy saab Marsh; eon 7 “ Strut Mise Lizsie i American Quarter} 879910 When the Honeymoon Was Over Hen: Burr\ 0 Jealous of You : William Robyn} !®805. 1 1 Wonder If You Still Care For Me? Charles Hart} Remember the Rose Elliott Shaw} /£806 10 ‘Tuck Me to Sleep Vernon Dalhart and Criterion Trio| 18807. 10 Plantation Lullaby Charles Hart-Elliott Shaw} ‘Some Blessed Day Criterion Quartet\ jag 19 ‘The Wayside Cross itty orterion Quartet ; In tho Old Town Hall. (-Zicgfeld Follice, 1921" 2ST ly Marrag} 2810. 10 @) Badinage (Herbert) Piccolo Solo (2) Legend of the Bells (Planquett<) Bells © Humoresque (Dvotik) Violin Solo (4) Scherzo, Third crebont ae) 7 10 Sctor Orchestra}!8500 (2) Menuett (Paderemk)) Viola Solo (2) Gavotte (Poppa) Violin Solo (3) Manone ce Gatbores Carine bos G) Sarabande Gat) Chee yn DA LARCIST PULNITURE STO Ai2-414-410-418 -WALNUT-ST. zz Va | White’s 506 Walnut St. 7 | Oxfords andOne Strap P | , ‘fords andOne Strap Fumps Splendid, well made shoes—latest stries—$10 and $11.50-vaines—s qompite asscrtmest at ome price. Make 2 substantial saving and from these— : Bisck and Brown Sale OneStrap 95 : Eowpe, Best Sack acd Brows Or —_—~ Pam: 22 - fake wh Lows, Baby Louis or o— Cuban heels. | Boots for Women Special ‘Typical of White’s—serviecable stylish boots st unusually low ees. Range includes Brown Kid Boot and Black Kia Boot with Cuban hecls. Good flexible solee— 5 95 extra special at— ° News of the Busy Basement Here’s am exclusive Children’s Department—a department where experienced foot-Stters devote special care to the little tots, the bors SiGe, What brings greater pleasure to the childish heart than a ew pair of shoes? And what can have more practical value as the weather turns colder! ; Ss CHILDEEN’S SHOES q GROWING GIELS’ SHOES "A real special for the week- {j Light or dark shades of end sizes 4 to S—brown kid, i ealf-skin—two special lots— black kid, patents with mat i mee Toes eae the thing kid t id turned i . girls— Mea 1.95 | free at 598 ana 4,95 MISSES’ SCHOOL SHOES 1 BOYS’ SCHOOL SHOES Boss’ school shoes in tan Tan leather school shoes | ra 5 for Misses ana growing girls } eee peepee ee ra re He Gat hes, sea 3 9 - 11% to 2 at. 265; i ae Ee eh a ee te eles 95 | Over Twenty-Ore—Tio you think women should propove?” Young Thing — "I don't know. Eave sou tried erything elve?"—Fuck M. F. JOHNSON, EMBALMER AND PUNEBAL DIRECTOR Native of Lexington, Mo., educated at Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City. Mo. Graduate of Hohenshoe-Carpenter college of Embalming class of July 1920, Passed state board with honors Three years experience in embalming and funeral directing. In bisiness for self at 117 East Walnut street with lady assistant. Beal estate in connection. Rentals for sale, and to buy. a Vacum Cleaner removes every particle of ast Reser ‘That Was the Reason “te paper states that you pleased a Big aadience ac the banquet last aight.” “The paper is wrong. 3 dia act appear.” “Um, I guess the paper io right” 4 | Put the Boflar to Work | When a manufacturer or other pee ducer of real wealt': does a profi’abie business and turns his profits ack into. the business, he gives em ployment to inen and creates more real wealth as he progresses yeer by year. He does more real good for hrs jfeHlowmen than he would if he gave jalt his profits in charity, because {t ts ‘better to make peopie self-supporting and independent than it is to give em something for nothing no matier bow warthy ‘he motives ms be THE NEW YORK TIMES YOU can have soft, silky hair that can be easily dressed. EXELENTO has made happy thousands of women who had coarse, nappy hair. It will do the same for you. If your hair is brittle and lifeless or if you have dandruff and itching scalp, try a box of EXELENTO QUININE POMADE. THE NEGRO IN THE ECONOMIC FIELD (Robert R. Moton.) Every Negro is or of a right should be, proud of the progress which the race has made in its short period of citizenship in America. This pride is aroused by the advancement along all lines of endeavor but especially is this true in the direction of economic progress. It was in this field of endeavor, perhaps, that the struggle has been the most difficult. With comparatively no capital in the beginning, the Negro has had to meet with the strongest competition in the commercial world. That, in spite of this handicap, he has succeeded to a large extent, is fully proved by the more than 50,000 flourishing business enterprises owned and conducted by Negroes today, among which are some eighty-one banks, one of which is presided over by a woman. Great Opportunity for Development. Notwithstanding, what has been termed by many as "the phenomenal economic progress" of the Negro, there are yet many avenues of business to be opened and others needing further development. There are today about one hundred bakeries operated by Negroes. At the Negroes' full share of bread consumption there is room for at least five hundred. There are today some forty Negro department stores; with the purchasing power and utilization of such goods carried by such encares, of Negroes, there should be more than eight hundred. More than one-fourth of the entire Negro population own their homes and the other three-fourths or less, rent homes which must be furnished; yet there are only about seventy-five furniture stores operated by Negroes. The one hundred and fifty plumbing establishments conducted by members of the race are wholly inadequate to supply the demand which should come from the large number of homes and buildings owned by Negroes. In like manner the entire field of business could be covered and each pursuit enumerated and room for development shown. There are also scores of opportunities waiting fr shoe shining parlor, saw mills, farmers' exchanges, news stands, hotels, coal and wood yards with many others that I do not need to mention here—all of which goes to show the wonderful chance in business P which awaits the energetic, courageous young Negro man and woman. It also brings out the need of further economic development if the race is to take its rightful place among the other races of the earth. Capital Needed In order to develop the economic field more widely and more fully, one of the prime requisites is capital. I strongly feel as I have often-said at the annual meetings of the National Negro Business League, that the Negro business men should form themselves in a strong financial organization to supply this necessity to enterprises deemed worthy of support. Such a cooperative financial enterprise would mean much to the development of Negro business. There are scores of young men and women, each year graduating from the best schools and colleges of America, highly trained and with natural business ability, who are handicapped and denied an avenue of expression of their abilities and energies on account of the lack of capital. There are also many enterprises, well organized, but going at a poor dying rate simply because they lack the necessary capital to tide them over seasons of depression. These conditions would be eradicated or remedied and at the same time an opportunity afforded for a wider development of the larger and more successful corporations, by the formation of an organization of this nature which would also yield profitable returns to the investors. Such movements have been launched to advantage by other races, among which are the Morris Plan—The Hebrew Loan Society, and societies operated by the Chinese and Japanese, where members of these races are found. These examples are cited for our encouragement and emulation. Advertising An Essential Element. Another essential to the economic advancement of the race lies in the necessity of advertising. Nothing draws the attention of the populace to an organization, movement or any endeavor, more than wide-spread, well-planned advertising. The Negro business men has in the Negro press, composed of more than five hundred publications, a splendid medium through which to display his wares. An extensive use of this medium would be of mutual benefit. It would bring to the eyes of the public the goods of the Negro business Sicily Greer Praises XELENTO QUININE POMADE Says her hair was short, coarse and nappy before using this wonderful hair grower. kxy hair that can be easily dressed. Happy thousands of women who had will do the same for you. If your be or if you have dandruff and itching LENTO QUININE POMADE. Price by mail 25c on receipt of stumps or coin. INTENDED—Write for Particulars. E COMPANY, Atlanta, Georgia AUTIFIES, an ointment for dark, sallow skins, treatment of skin troubles. man and at the same time would add to the support of those organs f the race that have struggled against terrible odds in their battles for right and justice in their efforts to urge Negroes to support Negro business enterprises and to point out that the indispensable road to progress is the opening of business avenues for the young men and young women of the race. In this connection I would like to say, parenthetically, that no group among our people has been more persistent, more patient, more far-sighted, moer self-sacrificing, than have the editors and publishers of our newspapers. We as a race must stand behind them and strengthen them with subscriptions and support as well as with advertisement. There should be at least one Negro newspaper in every Negro home in the country. Without such whole-hearted support, our newspapers and periodicals cannot expand or render the service that we expect of them. Co-operation and Support. I would also like to urge upon the members of my race, the necessity of co-operation in the commercial field and of whole-hearted support for Negro business enterprises by the race as a whole. If our corporations, mercantile, financial, real estate or what not, are to succeed and compare favorably with those if other races it will be through a co-operative spirit among the business men and through the support of the buying constituency of the race. I would like to say, relative to this, that the business men of the race must not, however, expect Negroes to deal with them simply because they are Negroes. They must strive to meet the competition of commerce so that the members of the race will deal with them because their businesses are better conducted; because their employees are more courteous; because their prices are as reasonable or better; and because their goods are equal to, or better, in quality than, any one else's. If these conditions are met, they will not only number the Negroes among their customers but will also draw, to a large extent, upon the white race. We must keep in mind at all times, that success in business in the last analysis, is not conditioned upon color but rather upon character. Business as such, comes very very near being color blind and will always meet with a hearty response to proper management. A Remarkable Home Treatment Given by One Who Had It In the Spring of 1828 I was attacked by Muscalenian Rhetorism. I suffered as only those who have it know, for over three years. I tried remediation with relief as I received was only temporary. Finally, I found a remedy that cured me completely to the number who were terribly afflicted and even bedridden with rheumatism, some of them 70 to 89 year old, and results were remarkable. I want every sufferer from any form of rheumatic trouble to send a card; simply mail your name and address and I will send it from me. After you look-looked for of means of getting rid of your rheumatism, you may send to me one dollar unless you are perfectly satisfied to send it. It isn't that fair? Why suffer any longer? I am offered you free! Don't delay. Write today. --- Old Incy, an Indian woman from whom Dr. John C. Merriam of the Carnegie institute obtains a vast amount of Indian lore, is a member of the Yosemite tribe and is somewhere between 100 and 148 years old. She had her first automobile ride recently during the Indian field days in the Yosemite National park. YANGIWOU LUNG WOOD Since last November, this genial-looking mother of nine children, three sons being service men, has visited twice a week Arlington National cemetery to place flowers on the graver of every soldier killed in the World war, who is buried there. She is Mrs. Andrew J. Campbell of Washington. Long W Knicken In all two More economical worth while money all wool fabrics, sturdy styled suits selling models with full grey mixtures at $8.25 Long Wearing Knicker Suits In our Sub all wool Fas two pair trous More economical parents are worth while money saving in the all wool fabrics, sturdy tailoring, tw ly styled suits selling at such a l models with full Belts and neat p grey mixtures at $8.95. More economical parents are learning every day that there is real worth while money saving in the Subway Suits for Boys. Imagine firm, all wool fabrics, sturdy tailoring, two pair of full lined trousers and smartly styled suits selling at such a low price. 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Woodson and Joe Williams, who is held for the murder of Miss Sarah Barbara Thorsdale, the other man to the right is Atty. C. P. Howard, who was appointed by the state to defend Joe Williams. Lowest Prices Ever Known In Iowa We absolutely guarantee every machine to be brand new and of the latest type, and come complete with a full set of steel attachments. COME TOMORROW IF POSSIBLE—PAYMENTS AS LOW AS $1 A WEEK forty-eight hours trying to reach an agreement as to the guilt or innocence of the man accused but came back three for acquittal and nine for guilty. The jury was dismissed and the trial will be had again. Atty. C. P. Howard has shown some wonderful ability in the handling of this case. Having scored a victory right off the shot in one of the most heinious crimes in the history of Polk county. His ability as one of best prospects among the young lawyers of the state is it unquestionable. Associated with Howard and Woodson for the defense was McHenry and Bowers, two white attorneys whose records as criminal lawyers are 100 per cent. THE BYSTANDER THE BYSTANDER Entered at the First Office of Des Moines, Iowa, on Second Class matter. LAURENCE C. JONES.....Fedlisher and Editor ROBERT D. DURR.....Advertising Manager CHAS. M. SHEDD.....Secretary and Treasurer Weekly news letters must be received not later than Tuesday of each week. SOCIAL INTERIOR In the jungles of Africa, bushes of Australia, forests of Australia, snow-hedges of Liberia and in the bustling hearts of civilization we find social divisions and lines of difference lightly drawn. It is strange to note and understand that the majority of Americans both white and black think the colored people are all alike, and should not be any kind of social distinction among them. It has been farently held that colored people are all alike, think alike and have the same inclination. That is utterly shared. No rebuttal is necessary—the thought of "social one-ness" of the colored people is without reason. There are three classes of colored people divided distinctly: nevertheless white and colored Americans fail to understand it. There is a colored autonomy composed of those who are educated and have succeeded in meeting some of the world's goods. This class does not want to be counted with the lower class and the riff raff. The lower class is just as much race prejudiced and race conscious as they are compelled to be. It acts in its own orbit. It is controlled by its own pride, has the reputation of the universal first class. It succeeds slowly because it is disinterested by the riddle and middle class and largely ignored by the white race. The autonomy of the colored race can not be recognized until the colored race is recognized. The manner of colored people look down upon their race because other races do—without a just cause. The development of both classes of colored people is like that of a rock—by natural forces carried on through centuries. At the present, the colored man's east system seems to stand his growth and illustrate the forces of advancement, like the system in India, has made it easily possible for the stronger races to subject him. The second class of black people is the middle class, this class seems to be the most valuable class. It is race conscious, ambitions and industrious. The middle class is formed in constructible organizations, adopting itself to changing environment. A number of colored people with wealth and refinement have identified themselves with the middlers. This class ridicules the aristocrat, is on good terms with the rabble and is always trying to correct the failures of the race. The third class is the underdog, rabble and riff raff. He has a low kind of intelligence, earns small wages or preys upon humanity as a leach or other parasites. He is a common offender socially, criminally and civilly. He has little or no refinement and is always seen to disadvantage. The rabble is racially conscious because he is religiously avoided by the other race and the aristocrat of his won race. His lack of intelligence leaves him a drift Famo Editorial ER $0.50 $25 $0.50 $10 DEMOCRACY Contri Editorial Section wood upon a sea of prejudice, ignorance and vice. He is the type that the white man invariably call "the American Negro." Social division are among the colored people as they are among the other races. They will exist until the progress of Socialistic philosophy levels all humanity. The white race must recognize the colored people are not all the same—They have among them superiors and inferiores. 75c, at all Druggists. Our Shampoos are wonderful for tetter, Excema and Dewdrops. No modestiness and absurdness can be tolerated, in the great light for race solidarity, and recognition. All must work together for the common good. Let the higher ups and the rabbids and middlers. The Kunga, wealth and education of the Negro affluent must be used to convert the mind of the world thus the rabbids must not be accepted as the standard of the race. BOLT ROLLERS Can the slang employed by the outcast of the underworld be interwoven into the preaching of people today? By this we mean—Would it be for the betterment of humanity in the church or even so called churches to shimmer, dance and employ ragtime tunes to "get Jesus" as the above named worshipper puts it? We want answers to this question from any who feels capable of answering them. By way of explanation the "Heller Hollers" who have a church on East Walnut employ such methods. We do not believe that their way of worshipping is fit to be carried on in the presence of any boy or girl, man or woman, unless the latter wants relaxation such as one would get at a first class vanderville house. If we are wrong in our criticism, we are willing to be corrected. It seems that all through history that the calm and sensible way of doing all things have been the better. The Bystander believes that if these people are right they should be let alone, and if they are wrong they should be persuaded to stop. It certainly comes short of the approval of most of the better class of people, and is apparently a first rate disgrace to the community and race. Mr. and Mrs. Gus Nichols have moved into their new residence at 1062 West Eleventh street. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Seymour were sponsors for a party in honor of their cousins, Miss Bessie and Virginia Stewart, Music and games were played. A TEACHER WANTED Lady of settled disposition to teach piano lessons and high school mathematics in southern school. If you can't teach mathematics state what you can teach in addition to music. Explain age your preparation, what you can teach and salary desired in first letter. Address "School Work" in care Bystander, Chemical Building, Des Moines. ```markdown ``` IT'S HARD TO CONCENTRE WHAT IS PLANT BY HERDOLLAY WHEN INTERFERE WITH THIS WAY. DEMOCRACY? Contribution by Men of Mouth THE NEGRO'S PROGRESS (By H. H. Burton, Mayor.) The progress made by the American Negro within his first half-century of freedom has been little short of marvine. Rising from a position of servitude in which he was without a vote and practically without property the Negro of today has risen to the position of citizenship and the duties that accompany it with remarkable ease. In America's hour of need the American Negro has always responded. His service in the late war was an outstanding thing. His loyalty was unquestioned. There was no "him" or "kyphen" to qualify his devotion. Now peace days are here again. The god of war again is slumbering and reconstruction days are here—days more complex and far reaching than war days. I am not one who devotes his time to considering the social aspects of the Negro's development. The problem of social equality is smaller than that of economic, political and educational opportunity. When the last three are solved on a basis truly fair to both races—black and white the moral question will find its own answer. Educating fundamental. I am convinced that if the solved race will devote itself to the problem of educating itself that its development the next half century will enterprize that of the one just past. I have faith in the future of the American Negro. (Austin P. Haines, Editor, The News.) It is presumptuous for one with no superficial a view of the problems which confront the Negro race as myself to offer any advice or even to express an opinion regarding the best way to find its "place in the sun." Furthermore its wonderful progress during the last few years would indicate that no suggestions are necessary. It is a far ery from the Viking and Druid forbears of the Anglo-Saxon race to the white American of today. But it is a much greater distance from the jungles of Africa to the eloquence of a Frederick Douglas, the poetry of a Paul Lawrence Dunbar, the music of a Burleigh, the rythmic prose of a DuBois, the practical philosophy of a Booker Washington, or the editorial sanctum of the Bystander. And most of this journey has been traveled not through slow, upward millennium, but in the span of comparatively few generations. Under such conditions I can not understand why some talk of "the Negro problem" as though it were something peculiar, discouraging, insoluble and hopeless. The racial problem, like the poor, we have always with us, and it is not a problem of white and colored races alone, but of all races. But that it is not one over which to despair is indicated when we consider the fact that even as great and recent a stateman as Grover Cleveland saw in it the nation's one unanswerable question, and then consider the tremendous strides we have made along the right road ever since Cleveland's day. It seems to me that the greatest hope of the Negro race, as of all other races, lies in following wise leadership. History proves that such leadership will not be lacking—that where there is the need, Providence always raises up the leader to supply it. 1 Sec GIVE WHAT IS MEANT BY DEMON INTERPRETED THIS WAY. Distribution by Men of M With my limited knowledge, I have always typed the two types of Negro leadership by Professor W. R. G. DuHuis on the one hand and Brother Washington on the other. In the former is epitomized all the tragedies of the race—his language, despair, hardships and semantics to wring—very natural feelings. But in my humble opinion it is the latter that points the sword to prostrate. Barker Washington was not immediately concerned with the question of "social equality." He was too proud, too independent, as well as too late, to allow that to bother him. He was concerned more with obligations than with rights. He knew that we all have rights—legal rights—upon which it would be fully to insist. Anything last servile, he went his way, respected by all, preaching the purge that if the Negroes make themselves economically independent, the rest would be added unto them. He was an exponent of Emerson's philosophy, that if a man make a better money trap than any other man, even though he dwell in the midst of a forest, the world will meet a beaten track to his door. And Barker Washington cherished no vain presentations. "I will not let another farm me," he said, "by letting any man make me kate him." To me Booker Washington represents the highest type of Negro leadership. His place is secure in American history. It has been well said that under the name of Washington, the historian of the future will write three names: George Washington, the Father of His Country; Bushrod T. Washington, the great American jurist; and Booker Washington, the Moses of the Negro race. I am happy to believe that Des Moines Negroes, as a class, are following the teachings of Booker Washington and that in doing so they are finding more and more an important place in our common civic life, which gains them ever increasing respect. They can well afford to ignore undiscriminating criticisms, knowing that they will have no effect on public-spirited, intelligent people, who realize that no class in this community can reach its fullest measure of prosperity and contentment unless every other class prosperms and is contented also. None of us can live to ourselves alone. We are all our brothers' keepers, whether we wish to be or not, and the race problem in Des Moines is the white man's problem just as much as it is the colored man's. I congratulate the readers of The Bystander on the wonderful progress which their whole race has made, and upon such leadership as The Bystander affords to bigger and better things. I predict that the future will see even greater advancement toward those things which make life worth while and increase pride in a common citizenship. In accomplishing this, it will be the privilege as well as the duty of The Des Moines News to co-operate to its fullest extent with The Bystander, and its readers. (By Editor Harvy Ingham, Des Moines Register and Tribune.) If anything worth while is to come out of this time of war re-adjustment it must be a new relationship among the various races. We must come to some definite decision with regard to the rights of "all men." We must, especially here in America, define what we mean by "all men are created equal." As in every past struggle, the world has come to a little wider horizon so we may hope that out of this struggle we shall see a little more clearly face to face. The first test will come with the Asiatic races. That will be the problem of the conference at Washington. If the Japanese can succeed in forcing recognition as one of the civilized races, and if Asian can in a reasonable degree be held for the Asian, there is bound to come a new recognition for all the colored races. It would seem that this recognition must be given to Japan or we shall sooner or later have a most bloody war, probably sooner rather than later. For the American Negro is just one course, that is to deserve as much as anybody, and steadily insist on recognition based on merit. The American people are committed to the general proposition and will make the application when under trying times, but as it is better to deserve success than to win it, so will better for the American Negro to deserve recognition than to secure it—above all he should deserve it. The American Negro has made a greater advance in fifty years, than any people anywhere. He should not be discouraged. In many ways he lives under better conditions in America than the millions of people in other parts of the world, but that should not satisfy him. He should aspire to the best and steadily push for it. If the recognition is not won in a single generation it will not be a new thing in history. Not much has ever been won in one generation. (By Dr. Emmett J. Scott, Secretary, National Negro Business League, Howard University, Washington, D.C.) For sometime it has been felt that the furnishing of facilities for the education of our race in America was but one phase of our advancement. It is now realized that fundamentally we need institutions and organizations which tend toward bringing about the economic development and stabilization of all of our people. While we have successful bankers and business men among us through whose efforts, ingenuity and genius, individual institutions have been successfully created and managed as independent units, it has been realized that we are lacking in the elements of co-operation and concentration. The absence to such a large degree of the elements of co-operation and concentration in the process of our race development can be more or less attributed to the lack of constructive attention being given to the matter of spreading among the masses of our people the advantages to be derived from the co-operative effort which is the bedrock of modern economic life. No better idea of the advantages to be derived from group effort can be given than the lessons which have been taught by our national government during the recent world war. When our country was called upon to join the allied governments in making war upon Germany in order to-pre a Vacum Cleaner removes every particle of serve civilization, there was need and necessity for large expenditures to be made in connection with the building of europes constructions, and the manufacture of arms, munitions, etc. In our treasury, there were not sufficient money to meet even a small portion of the necessary expenditures. To meet this emergency, the United States government resorted to a method of insisting each and every one of her citizens supply the money needed through the issue of Liberty Bonds. War savings stamps, etc., which were sold to them. Through the sale of these bonds our government was smiled to secure the mass capital necessary to the successful conduct of the greatest war in history. She could not have done this except for the group co-operation of her citizens who made available their individual savings. As is true of a nation, so it is with a race. In order that the Negro people may secure mass capital for the development of racial industries in the various sections of our country, institutions must be created which can serve as financial reserves to undertake the financing of business and industrial activities among the colored people. First and foremost is the need of a large bank or trust company organization located in a financial center such as the city of New York which could serve as a depository for the various banking, insurance, and similar organizations of our people, which will make it possible to secure a service of a character such as is not now available. We are at the beginning of great days in the development of our race. vast movements of construction are underway in many lands. New undertakings are springing up on every side. Factories, steamship lines, places of amusement, business blocks, chain stores, department stores, etc., must be developed and established for the needs of ever-increasing millions of the human race. The colored people to embark in these enterprises with their fellowmen, and so take their place among the builders of the age must have the aid of mass capital which can come only through the establishment of institutions which will afford opportunity for a multitude of the average people to place their money where it will return its full earning power and serve their race to the best possible advantage. Thus we shall enter the industrial—economic field with such backing that "none may say us may." VALUE OF ORGANIZED EFFORT. (W. F. R. Danaus). The chief difference between the Negro in the north and the Negro in the south is the difference in opportunity. The Negro north still has the privilege of organizing his defense and his attack upon the evils that beset him, while the Negro in the south is treated as a rebel and an outlaw if he acts untidely even in defense of his life. There is no such difference as "northern Negroes," and "southern Negroes." It is the Negro in-the-north and the Negro in-the-south. If colored people in South Carolina and in Mississippi, and in the whole south, could not by organized power, what would they care about a Ku Klux Klan? There are more colored men in many of the localities than white men, and enough colored men in any southern state to defend themselves against southwash, if they dared to act organizedly. But if people must act, each one for himself alone, they can be pressed, it matters not how many of them there may be; for they are only so many individuals, whether there be one dozen or one million. There are only three and one half million Jews in the United States, but they constitute a great power, because they are not merely so many individual Jews but they are practically one power; when they strike, seven million fists make one big fist, and when they move they shake the earth. That is why the real enemy of the Negro is opposed to organized effort by Negroes. The power of organized men cannot be ignored. The greatest fury is shown against colored men when they act, even in defense of their lives, unitedly, as at Elaine, Arkansas. That is the explanation of the southern white man's attitude, that he likes a Negro" but hates "Negroes." He hates them when they cease to be individuals and become a group. The only hope for colored Americans is to cease to be individuals where the common interest is at stake. They must organize tight in the north, while they yet have the right to do so. A right like that, unexercised, may be lost anywhere in the United States. The Negro in the south must exercise so much of the right as is still left to him, in order to cultivate it and to get southern white people used to seeing colored people acting by organization. The organization that offers the best opportunity of this sort in the history of colored Americans, is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, 70 Fifth avenue, New York City. It is the most effective power that the Negro in America has yet builted for his protection, but it is not one-tenth as large as it should be. It can only be made effective by greater numbers and completer organization in all parts of the country. It is desperately necessary that the Negro in the south should maintain his right to share fully in such a national organization. Perhaps 80 per cent of the American Negroes are in the south.